We were halfway through recording the album when everything shut down in March 2020. A couple months later, we found ourselves upgrading our individual home studios and making the rest of the record over the Internet. Sean’s house became a drum studio, Eli’s massive guitar sounds were coming out of a tiny amp in a closet in his attic. I recorded the vocals in my basement. We did our best to keep the feeling of spontaneity and togetherness alive, even though we were thousands of miles apart… not sure exactly how we did it, but to me it feels like the best work we’ve ever done.ġ1. Describe the process of recording this album virtually - was it easier or harder than you expected it would be? The craziest thing recently that happened was a fan who jumped up onstage – not super unusual, but instead of just dancing around this guy put his arm around me almost in a headlock and it took some strength to get away from him. Fortunately our drum tech Kyle is a jujutsu blackbelt and “removed” the fan before it got too hairy.ġ0. How has the pandemic affected your creative process? Sold-out Wembley. Sweep at the Grammys. Collab and perform with artists I look up to… Annie Lennox, David Byrne, Brandon Flowers, Chris Martin, Kimbra, Miguel, to name a few. Johnny Clegg was on this list, and we wrote and performed together before he passed. Our song “Fire In Your House” is on our new record.Ĩ. If you could see any artist in concert, dead or alive, who would it be?ĩ. What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen happen in the crowd of one of your sets?
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I always looked up to artists… such as Jim Borgman the cartoonist, Frank Sinatra, Robin Williams, local actors I would meet at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company… I imagined myself being one of them and didn’t think that was out of the ordinary. It wasn’t until I saw Muse in high school that I realized I was born to ROCK.ĥ. What’s at the top of your professional bucket list? Who made you realize you could be an artist full-time? My dad was a restaurant manager and my mom was a seventh grade English teacher.Ĥ. What did your parents do for a living when you were a kid?
Kansas. My dad brought me to see them at a summer fair in Blue Ash, Ohio.ģ.
What’s the first piece of music that you bought for yourself, and what was the medium?Īstro Lounge by Smash Mouth and 14:59 by Sugar Ray, a pair of CDs.