I've had the same thoughts about this upcoming tour just with how crazy everything continues to be. Q: Did you have any doubts about this upcoming tour and whether or not it would be delayed or canceled?Ī: For that last tour, I think a handful of us kind of had this sentiment that until we were on that plane and actually flying over there, we were still a little hesitant that it was even going to happen at all. Thankfully we actually made every single show happen but it made the past year stressful for sure. Not all at once, thankfully, but it just kind of kept happening. But, eight out of the 11 of us got COVID during that tour. If I'm not mistaken, I believe there's 11 of us between the band and crew on the road. Q: You performed some shows last year, how did it feel to get back out on the road and gig?Ī: It was incredible to be back on the road.

That versus trying to sing a song on acoustic guitar and have everyone wrap their head around what it's going to sound like as a full band. But, it's really nice to have the ability to put together a fully realized idea and really get your vision across with a demo. It's obviously shifted from that a good bit, but I think there's good and bad just things I miss about the old, organic way of just writing songs in a room together. It used to be us getting in a room and just jamming and writing songs together. Everyone's kind of doing that. It's still a collaborative process because somebody might hear something in someone else's demo and say, 'Oh, I hear this chorus' or whatever.

Sometimes I'll work on a song, record a demo of it and send it to the guys. And then it's pretty much bouncing demos around. Everyone in the band writes individually. We do tend to get together before we go in and record an album though. Q: Since you're all spread apart, how was the writing process for this one?Ī: These days, it is pretty remote.

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