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
bands bolt tapping
Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
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.
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.
Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
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 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...
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.