His last project Zwan was odd - it was a sort of 'happy clappy' children's rock. Let's colour in with Billy and the smilie nice girl on bass. The TV promotion appearances they did were odd, there is nothing wrong with smiling, and it's a good contrast to the miserable car theif scowl we get from Oasis here in the UK - but Zwan seemed to be on some odd sort of 'happy medicine' with Zwan. It was a weird mix as the guy looks like something frighetening - like out of the Adams Familly or a grave digger.
I prefer him angsty and angry - with slabs of distorted guitars, this stuff I am listening to right now seems blandly whimsical... Someone needs to prod the monster with a stick and make him angry....
He is on record for saying that rock is dead, so that would explain why he refuses to rock.
One day he will find an old Tube Screamer pedal in the attic and will dust it off.....