Name: Albert Louis Hammond, Jr. I remember when I met everyone. I met Julian first, then Nikolai, got really drunk one night, and then I went to go try out, even though Julian told me later that in his mind I was already in the band. I was an okay player, I could play chords and stuff, but I looked awesome. Laughs I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically.
Which is what I wanted to do when I was I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing. I felt very confused by my surroundings and how people looked at the world, the wealthy people. I am not judging them and everyone has their own path, but I just felt a very strong emotion and needed to get out.
I felt like the idea of life and death and what you do, everything is kind of meaningless in the big scope of stuff and you need to create your own meaning and I definitely did not believe in god or religion or anything like that. I mean, it depends on how you look at it. In the sense that we all have a piece of cosmic dust in us from the beginning β The Big Bang β then yes.
It can be meaningless and you can do nothing, but there is something in leaving this place better than where you have left it, working on yourself, doing things with other people, there is something in that that feels right, deep in your core. I go with that. Julian wrote that. You always relate lyrics to yourself, and I even do that with him even though he is one of my friends and we lived together when he was writing it. God knows what they were truly about. When we got in the band, Julian had such a vision, he was just a strong writer, so the first three records are all his.
I already had the drive to want to do it anyways, but I found all the right people and it was just so much luck. Just cosmic luck. Oh, God,man, just being young makes things wild. Then if you add having a curiosity for being wild that makes it wilder, then if you play music it makes it wilder, then if you add money and success it makes it even crazier. But the biggest things, the biggest highs, were always shows.
