The New Amsterdams

The star-maker machinery behind pop music would have you believe that the only family rock stars have are their bands and that a wild life on the road is the ultimate goal.

Pryor, however, has purposely removed himself from the artifice that attends life in the star-fucking meccas of N.Y. and L.A. (see track 11, "Silverlake"); he's settled down in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife and kids and bandmates Dustin Kinsey (guitar), Eric McCann (bass) and Bill Belzer (drums), "trying to be away less, trying to find balance," no longer the "prodigal son by trade" he calls himself in "Lost Long Shot." "Trying to capitalize on something you used to be " an adult pretending to be a kid for the money " would mean failure to me," he says.