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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club roared out of San Francisco back in '95, when Peter Hayes and Robert Turner were high school classmates who wanted to rock. And they did on their first two albums.

But Hayes had a lot more than that going on in his head.

"I actually grew up in the countryside, in Minnesota," says the guitarist for BRMC, which plays next Thursday at Water Street Music Hall. There was a radio in the barn, and Hayes remembers it being tuned to Casey Kasem's country countdown. "It was not classic country in any sense," he says. "Besides Patsy Cline, I don't remember the radio playing stuff like Johnny Cash." But it was enough to open the door to "Sam Cooke, the Soul Stirrers, stuff like that.

"Somewhere where you could delve a little further into that Fred McDowell stuff."

When you know that, you have insight into why the band's third album, 2005's Howl, took such a different path. The snarl, the attitude and the general guitar mayhem was replaced by something completely different. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club had been compared to noisy bands linked to the English rock scene, or ones that borrowed from it. The Stone Roses, the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine. Even the English, who had plenty of crankiness to listen to, embraced BRMC, with Oasis' Noel Gallagher pursuing his new favorite band, for his new label.

Read the full interview here.

Source: www.democratandchronicle.com

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