more like they are the church’s songs… that’s [WM] I loved the way you guys wove Tauren fun to watch people’s reactions. I’ll often look
how it feels. Wells’ and Pat Barrett’s songs into your set, out in the first song, and in my mind, I know
much like different worship leaders on a Sunday what’s coming, because we’ve toured this way
morning. How did that come together? for a while so having us all out at once doesn’t
So, it’s very much on purpose. Chris is a very
intentional person with these concerts, he holds
feel weird to me. When I look out and I see
them very closely. I think all of us hold them [Daniel] That’s one of the cool things about people’s faces in the crowd, watching them
with a great deal of responsibility, we really are the way Chris has structured these tours. We put two and two together is a really cool thing,
careful with how we carry it. Yes, it’s fun, and tried this a few years ago and we just really loved realizing we’re all out there together and there
it sounds good hopefully, but at the end of the the model of it. Traditional touring would be an is no opening thing. It’s been really cool, and I
day our hope is that something supernatural opening act, then this artist, then the headliner, feel like it says a lot to people. A lot about Chris
happens, you know? and that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with and about the other people, that they would
that. But Chris had a passion for getting like- all be willing to share the platform together,
[WM] The guitar player in me also enjoyed minded worship leaders together and doing a there’s humility to that. I think that speaks to
how much you ‘rocked out’ and worked the set where it’s a collective, where everyone is on the church, and to all of those out there who
stage without it feeling like you were show stage together and it’s an in- unison moment, a are worship leaders and on worship teams who
boating. Can you unpack the nuances of that, unified front. I think it’s been really powerful, it’s play at their church. I think it speaks volumes to
especially for those of us who would love to find
the right way to rock ‘the Keith Richards leg
stomp’ on a Sunday morning without it being a
distraction, or take that first step into not being
a ‘Sunday statue’?
[Daniel] So much of that is a discretion thing,
I don’t know how that would all break down
as far as X’s and O’s, but I think it’s okay for
musicians to look like they enjoy the music
they’re playing. I think it’s okay to have fun and
have joy and have passion on stage, but at the
same time still be appropriate and reverent.
You don’t make the moment about you, it’s
about what is happening in the room, and it’s
about God. Maybe it’s a scripture or a lyric that
has a lot of important things to say. Find your
moments, like if it’s a celebration song and every
body’s jumping around and having fun and it’s
not a deeply introspective moment, then you
can have some fun and run around the stage
or whatever. I wouldn’t run around the stage
probably on a Sunday morning at our church
(laughs), but that’s a different environment.
When you’re in a place where people have paid
money to come, and the space is big, and the
production is big, then I think you kind of read
the room. I would never take off running from
one side of the stage to another if I were the
only person on stage that seemed excited, you
know? You kind of have to follow your leader in
that way, and if Chris is running around having
a good time then I’m going to as well.
Who’s Counting?
May 2019
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