Today, we sat down with The Trousers to discuss their inspiration to write music, heroes, and much more!
Interview:
What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your
surroundings?
A lot of things… First of all another people’s music. Music, just like other forms of art is not fully self-expression: you also imitate your heroes, to do something good like them. It’s not copying, it’s influence… A necessary thing! And of course experiences, relationships, love, death, emotions like fear, awe and anger. Searching for meaning.
What type of music did you listen to growing up?
Mostly classic rock. My father showed us The Beatles, The Stones, Hendrix, Animals, Yardbirds, Kinks.. Then me ad my brother went on discovering our own stuff: Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Whitesnake, ZZ Top, Lynyrd, Allmans, AC/DC, Priest, Maiden, Aerosmith, GnR, The Cult, Metallica, The Black Crowes…
Is there someone you looked up as a hero?
My childhood hero was Malcolm Young from AC/DC. Nowadays I admire guitarists who have a distinctive style and write outstanding songs. I would mention Tony Iommi from Sabbath and Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains. I have just seen Jerry in Zagreb, Croatia, it was insane.
If you weren’t a musician, would you be doing today?
The fact is that the members of The Trousers all have daytime jobs. Our guitarist Peter is a professional driver, bassist Bandi is a sales manager, drummer Sam is a graphic designer, and myself is a professor of psychology at a university.
What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create
music?
Listen to and learn as much valuable music as they can. As every band has made their unique mixture of influences, don’t follow just ONE band. For example Red Hot Chili Peppers created their style mixing Hendrix with Funkadelic and hip-hop, but if you copy just RHCP you will become ridiculous. Or look at the Black Crowes: they combined a lot of influences from Faces to Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, country rock and Sly and the Family Stone. That’s why I find Greta van Fleet problematic: they imitate just ONE band and that’s so poor. Real good bands are not imitations: they are unique mixture of their sometimes diverse influences.
