“One of the original demos (included in the box set) is ‘Elevator,’ which is emblematic of the early stuff, and it’s verse-chorus-verse-chorus. “It’s pretty easy as a musician to learn to play 12 bars, things like that,” he says. Like most young musicians, they initially wrote songs reflective of the lyrics and music of the popular genres of the time, he says. Feelgood, the punk scenes in New York City and London, and reggae and funk music, too. When King and Gill first started writing songs together, working with an acoustic guitar and a cassette recorder, they were fans of the English band Dr. “Sadly, I think the music is really relevant,” King says. King, whose lyrics typically focused on such non-traditional rock fare as politics, economics, social ills, and war, wondered whether the music would still resonate with audiences. “I think that hunger came through, and they knew the material and they wanted it to work.” Early days “I wondered how well it would work, and actually, the audience was just really hungry for the live experience. “I was a bit anxious beforehand about how it might be,” King says. tour that brings the band to the Roxy in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 19. As the pandemic lockdowns lifted, King, Burnham, Pajo and bassist Sara Lee, a former member of the group, embarked on a U.S.

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