Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. She has garnered acclaim for her technical skill and tapping style of guitar play. Stern is also a current member of The 8G Band from the show Late Night with Seth Meyers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth18 March 1976
CountryUnited States of America
mean artist thank-god
When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me...
people
People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.
explore less looser nature playing tight
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
dress people stage
For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.
certain entirely help lean listen motivate music thinking towards
Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.
bands bolt tapping
Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
bands figure finger lots messing realized stuff type
I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.
brought everybody loves
I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.
I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.
mean opinion
You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.
males female
I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.
together band goes-on
When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.
teenager people band
People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.