The Fluid Quotes

As far as recording goes we�ve gotten better at materializing what we�ve always been trying to do. We haven�t really spent more money in the studio than we have in the past. It happened to be we�re just a lot better at getting the sound that we�ve always tried to get. The sound on �Glue� is what we would have tried to get all along if we knew what we were doing. The fact is, when we went to record �Punch N� Judy� none of us had really a clue as to how to really get the sound that we wanted. We just experimented and made a record out of experimentation. There�s no current rock music that�s influenced us, really. Since �Punch N� Judy� we�ve all gotten into big band a lot. We listen to a lot of big band and swing music. I can pretty safely say that�s been an influence because they really wrote songs. They�re short, they�re structured, they have really catchy melodies and those are givens for any big band song. It�s not like we try to take pieces of those songs and put them in a block form or anything, but I think somewhere in there all those melodies make us be more melodic ourselves.
John Robinson