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 by Debbie Seagle
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back to part I

antiMUSIC:  Well He seems to be doing a good job in guiding yours!

SC:  Yes!

antiMUSIC:  Because you are really taking off.  Let’s talk a little bit about your new CD, “Stand.”  How long was it in the making?

SC:  That CD, to actually record the record we went in in April (2002) and I believe I was probably finished, we tracked everything from April to June.  After that, after the initial tracking was done, the band members all went home, you know, the drummer and the bassist, and I was really kind of left with doing the vocals and writing some new songs.  Oddly enough, we thought the record was finished in June and I had written some new songs between the beginning of June and the first of July.  I showed some of the new songs to our producers so they flew me back out to Canada and to L.A. to record a couple of new songs.  I believe they were “Alone” and “Free” and “Frightened” that were – those songs weren’t originally on the record at all and I had written those songs after the record had been finished.  So they flew me back out there and we got some side musicians and we played those songs.  So the record, as a whole, was probably finished about 6 months after April.

antiMUSIC:  Well, I’m glad you went back, because “Free” is one of my favorite songs on the CD.

SC:  Yeah, me too actually.

antiMUSIC:  How did you get hooked up with Redline Entertainment?  They seem to be treating you pretty well scoring your this great tour and promoting you.

SC:  Right.  Well, we did a showcase in Salt Lake City on August 8th of 2000 at the Vans Warped Tour and obviously there had been a buzz about us going on because we had played the EAT’M (Emerging Artists & Technology) conference kind of sparked a lot of interest in the music industry.  And they flew out along with a few other record labels that I don’t feel very comfortable talking about, but they flew out as well and negotiations began with some different labels and with them as well.  And at the end of the day, it was Redline that really turned us on to being the kind of company we wanted to sign with.   So, like I said, they came out August 8th, and the negotiations for them almost began immediately after that.

antiMUSIC:  Well they must have been very impressed.

SC:  They’re a good company, I love em.

antiMUSIC:  It seems like they are doing a great job with promoting you, which doesn’t always happen with new bands.  Do you have any plans of doing any videos for any of the songs on “Stand?”

SC:  Yes we do.  There’s talk of that, right now I can’t really give you an exact date.  I know that the single (“Who Is Me?”) just hit on radio on Tuesday, so I imagine we are going to see what kind of believers we develop after the single starts to take off, and then see of course, what song we want to use as a video.  So I imagine its going to be coming up in the next couple of months.

antiMUSIC:  Do you already have some ideas about what you would like to do with a video for any of your favorite songs? 

SC:  Not really, I kind of need to see.  I kind of leave those things up to the experts and then once I’ve got something to work with, I’ll definitely put in my two cents.

antiMUSIC:  Is this your first big national tour with the bus and the roadies, etc.?

SC:  It is, it is. 

antiMUSIC:  What do you like best about the tour and what, if anything, do you think is harder than you thought it would be?

SC:  Um, well there’s nothing that’s harder.  If anything, its easier than I thought it was going to be.  And the thing that I love best about touring, I think it comes down to waking up every day and going my God, I’m living my dream right now.  And I’m 24 years old and I’m playing music for a living and it’s a pretty amazing thing at the end of the day – for any one of us in the band.  Its like, everybody, when they’re kids, who ever is touring at this time probably had a dream when they were kids to go on a big tour bus and play in front of thousands of people.  You know, to be respected because they are a good player, be respected because they are playing at all.  I think my favorite part about it is that, like I said, we’re building integrity among the music business and every single day I wake up and I call my mom and I say mom, I’m still here and I’m still doing it and I love it!

antiMUSIC:  There’s just something about your mom being proud of you that nothing can replace, isn’t that true?

SC:  Yes, that’s very true. 

antiMUSIC:  You will never forget this first bus tour. 

SC:  Never!

 antiMUSIC:  These are the giddy days of your youth.  You’re just going to love it! So, I understand that you are the song writer.  Which is your favorite track on the CD?

SC:  If I had to say I had a favorite track, there’s a few that I really love.  I love “The Way.”  I love the vagueness of the lyrics and I love the desperation of the song.  I love the hope of “Tomorrow,” the last track on the record.  I just love that you could be driving down the road and you could relate to that song, no matter what kind of day you’ve had – good or bad.  You can be excited for tomorrow.  I love “Frightened.”  I really like the desperation in that song as well.  They are very honest lyrics and its got an amazing guitar line and the drum fill are incredible.  The bass line is very sexy.  So I just think that to pick one is very difficult of course, because I wrote them all, but I think those three are definitely the ones I would show a friend if I hopped into a car and said hey, here’s what it is.

antiMUSIC:  Do you have any special philosophy for song writing?  Are there topics that you steer clear from or ones that you like better than others?

SC:  I don’t really have a philosophy for song writing.  In as much as I travel everywhere I go with a little tape recorder and a pad of paper and a pen.  What I usually do is I just start playing my guitar and however the guitar line that I’m writing, it just kind of comes out of me.  Whatever emotion it makes me feel, I generally just start singing words.  You know, just kind of brain storming, if you will, vocally.  Usually I pick a few really good sentences that I like and generally I have a tape recorder on.  I kind of just piece it together after that.  Half way through the song is usually when I really know what I’m talking about.  Thankfully, I really feel like half of these song, they just come out of me and I really don’t know where they’re going to go until they’re finished.  Once they’re finished, or half way through like I said, I really have an idea of where I want to continue to go with the song, as far as lyrically, musically, the emotion of the song.  So, I have a pretty easy way of song writing.  The biggest philosophy I have is always be writing.  I never, I’ve written, my second record is probably finished right now.  I’m never going to be that writer who just says well, I’ve got a first record.  As soon as this record takes off, then I’ll start writing new songs.  For me, emotions happen every single day and things happen every day.  You might as well be writing about it if I’m sitting on the back of a bus for 19 hours.  I could watch a movie or I could spend part of that 19 hours in the back lounge and I could be having my tape recorder and playing my guitar and hopefully trying to find little bits of inspiration that will help me after this record is over.  So my biggest philosophy is just never quite, you know?

antiMUSIC:  So, no writers block yet, huh?

SC:  No, not yet, thank God.  Knock on wood!

antiMUSIC:  And the mood that you’re in kind of influences what kind of a song you’re going to write that day?

SC:  Absolutely.

antiMUSIC:  Which classic rock band do you consider as roll models and why? 

SC:  Well, I love Elvis Presley.  He’s obviously my favorite.  I think that he changed rock and roll for ever.  I loved his mannerisms.  You know, I love that he loved music so much that he could take criticism as far as it went and then turn it into something that was successful.  I love the Beatles’ brilliance.  You know, I mean, God, they changed rock and roll for ever as well.

antiMUSIC:  Their song writing was their brilliance.

SC:  Yeah they became the first song writers that really took something to the next level.  And I love Led Zeppelin.  I just love the power of Led Zeppelin.  They are the ultimate rock and roll band.  From every terrible story you’ve ever heard to every beautiful love song they ever wrote, you know, I mean they were just a classic rock band that to this day make 15 year old kids rock out and I just love that about them.

antiMUSIC:  Yeah, every generation has had the same appreciation for them really, what they had done.

SC:  Yep.

antiMUSIC:  If you could tell perspective fans one thing that’s special about your music, something that might turn them on about it, what would that be?

SC:  Like I said, I really think it comes down to we are a band that they can walk away from and understand and relate to.  We’re a band that hopefully isn’t going to be lost on the radio as far as just being another one of those bands.  But once they pick up the record, once they see us live, they can walk away and say I relate with that band.  I’ve felt those emotions before.  I understand what he’s talking about, I’m intrigued by his stories.  They’re going to walk away and they’re going to say this is something that’s different than what’s out there.  Its not necessarily ground breaking through their music but its certainly ground breaking in the fact that they’re tapping into an emotion that every body has feelings for.  And I think that the thing that could turn them on the most is really that they feel that they can relate to us.  Really that they feel like we’re not super stars sitting up on a stage singing to make money, but we’re people who are sitting up on stage singing because we want to touch people and I think that’s really what its about.

antiMUSIC:  And your music is fresh and clean as far as – even though some of the subject matter you might be talking about in the songs might be sad, its not the angst ridden type of songs that we just don’t need right now.  It is refreshing.  It’s a nice change from what a lot of people are listen to today.  And its uplifting.

SC:  Thank you.

If I’ve sufficiently wet your appetite to hear what Silvercrush has to offer, you can check them out below.  Listen to sound clips, view a short video that sums them up in a nut shell or head on over to their web site to get to know them better and let us know what you think.
 
 
 

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