“It’s like, ‘Are we a band, Kevin, or is this the Kevin show, and we’re just your session musicians?’”: Kevin Parker on how he’s learned to let his Tame Impala touring bandmates have some freedom

As we know, Kevin Parker is Tame Impala. In the studio, he plays all the instruments and writes all the songs. It’s his vision, his project. But what happens when he plays live? How much leeway do his touring musicians have?

That was one of the issues that was discussed when Parker appeared on Questlove’s podcast, er The Questlove Show. When the Roots man asked him about collaborating live with other musicians, Parker admitted: “We are amazingly on the same page these days. It took us many years to get there, and like in the early days, there was a lot of tension and a lot of friction, a lot of confusion about like what we’re doing here.