guys in the band will say ‘I thought about
doing this in this particular song’ So it never
remains stagnant. It’s always changing
just a little bit, not to the point where you
can’t recognize the song. I’ve seen a lot of
famous acts that I was two thirds into the
song I was trying to think ‘What song is
this?’ ‘I don’t know this song.’ Because they
change it so much to their own benefit that
nobody can recognize it, and I just think
that people that come and see you, they
want to hear songs the way they remember
them as much as you can do that for them.
You know we change things up and around,
but I would hate to go to a band or an artist
that I really love and be disappointed trying
to figure out what they’re playing.
You’ve got a new album coming out. What
can you tell me about it?
It’s in the process of being completed now.
We’re doing the artwork for it and Brian
flew to Prague and recorded with the
Prague Symphony, and basically it’s a live
show with string arrangements. Big ones.
So it sounds spectacular I mean the songs
in there “Lost In Love”, “Here I Am”, and
“Sweet dreams” - songs I mentioned before
- set to an orchestral background. First of
all, the songs lend themselves to that kind
of arrangements, and the early recordings
that we made in Australia were all very lush
string sounds, string oriented. So I think
it’s going to be a very pleasant surprise to
people. The ones who have heard us before
in the past obviously will be thrilled with
it I think, and I hope that the new record
excites people because it will be something
they’ve never heard before.
People all over the world have connected
INSIGHT
with your music. What’s it like to give your
fans that opportunity to experience your
music in a live setting?
It’s very gratifying. And even more deeply
we get a lot of fan mail, and some of the
mail has been very touching. We get the
obvious ones like “We fell in love to your
song.” “We got married to this song.” “During
my breakup I played this song over and
over.” We’ve had people written us saying
they were contemplating ending their lives
and our music was on in the background
somehow. We had a lady that - we did a
video of a concert in Hawaii in the 80s - and
when she was giving birth to her first child
she wanted the video played in the delivery
room because she wanted her child to be
exposed to our music when he came into
the world. So those kind of things are really
super touching.
We know that our songs are simple. We
know that the melodies are memorable. We
know that the lyrics are very heart felt. So
the fact that they do touch so many people
in every country in the world that we’ve
played is quite amazing. We’ve had people
in some Asian countries that they learned
some basic English from listening to our
music. So there’s so many great things that
have happened because of the music that
we’ve produced and continue to do so. I
love it.
With full calendar of touring what do you
do to relax?
We don’t have time on the road. I’m lazy
and I watch a lot of television. And when
the football season is on, if im home on a
Sunday, I try to watch every game I can. ✽
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