DETROIT, MI  [Wednesday Apr.14.2004]  /WMQT.com/ -- Jet bassist Mark Wilson recently explained the ethos behind his Australian group.

"We used to be even more insane," Wilson says, reportedly having just returned from snorting coke with a fan. "Used to be, we'd drink ourselves to the point of collapse every night, or if we were tired, we'd buy a big bag of cheap speed. We were so excited to be touring and wanted to live every second of it. Everyone was always saying, 'Those Jet guys are a big drinking band!' and we got kind of caught up in our own myth. But we wouldn't be around for very long if we kept that up."

Guitarist Cameron Muncey chimes in with his opinion on the band's sound. "There have always been bands that sounded like the sixties, but we don't see ourselves as a band from that era,'" he says. "We don't draw a line in the sand between now and then. Maybe in 200 years, the distance people put between 1970 and 2000 won't matter. Who knows who was first, Mozart or Beethoven? Does it even matter? A good song is a good song."

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