For Novoselic, Eyes Adrift is a way of "getting back out into the world and playing for people. I haven't done that in a long time, just for the fun of it. That's what I do, so I'm just going to do it."

And as for what the music is, well, it's a sound that ultimately is Eyes Adrift. "After we played live for a while we realized that we kind of remind ourselves of our favorite groups," Kirkwood notes. "We just let it develop. It's a natural extension of all of our things. We've all been in the game since we were teenagers. You don't want to rest on your laurels or be held up by any of that stuff or hemmed into a corner."

"You can hear where we've all come from," observes Novoselic. "But when it's this convergence of three musicians, everybody brings their own thing to the table and it just comes out."

Even though Eyes Adrift reminds its members of the feeling you get with your first real band, where they've come from also gives them a few legs up in the music business. "We have the advantage of actually having run with the wolves and the sharks," says Kirkwood. "You've got to survive and learn how to lay the eggs and have them be filled with gunpowder."

And the gunpowder here is the music. "I'm of the opinion that nothing really matters except the music anymore," asserts Kirkwood. "I've gone through the whole thing. That's great. There's a haircut out there that somebody's going to like or whatever. But I'm just too old or whatever to think about it."

For what can these three guys do except for play in a rock 'n' roll band? As Kirkwood notes, "We all like to play music. You can't not do it. That's the thing that people don't understand. It's the same thing as when we are teenagers. What to do? You don't know what to do so you have to play."

And play is what Eyes Adrift will do for some time to come. "I feel a lot of longevity with this one," Gaugh concludes. "It's a timeless sound, and something that will span bridges between the different ages. Kid tested, mother approved." That's it - you win. No one has ever used the term "rock 'n' roll" more times in a single written statement, but that's okay - they rock.