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Are you a studio rat? Do you like
hanging out in the studio?
JAKE: I never used to be studio savvy whatsoever. I think it was
just what was accessible in our lives. It’s like two completely
different worlds. The studio being one, and the live performance
being another. I think that we’ll always be a live band and per-
forming musicians, and that’s where our heart and soul is so far.
We’ve come a long way as far as being studio musicians and
understanding how to write a song, arrange a song , track, mix,
master, things like that. I think it’s been about 3.5 years. That
process is entirely different. It’s super fun, there’s so many differ-
ent things you can do, and that’s the point of experimentation.
You can pull out so many different things and play with weird
instruments, you know, whatever the song calls for.
What are some of the differences
sonically between From The Fires
and Anthem?
JAKE: I think there is quite a bit of continuity as far as the
sonic approach to it. I think the differences lie in the approach
to the writing and the technical performances. We used a
different studio to record these than we did to record From The
Fires Black Smoke Rising. We went to Nashville to record at a
studio called Black Bird Studio. I guess sonically, that does have
a lot of input on that. It was very large and I think that the ap-
proach with this album was to all get in the room together with
instruments and capture that live emotion and that way that we
play on stage. So I think that room in itself, and just the different
Studio all together had an effect on the sonic properties of the
album, but it’s not too far off from the previous EPs.
working on, and your throwing your colors at it and your painting
something. That’s very much the recording process. Utilizing all
of these different elements and instruments that weave different
ideas captures something on the recording. If you feel it and you
play with that true emotion and your in that moment, that sonical-
ly does translate to that blank canvas and you can hear it. Often
times if you hear something and you don’t feel it, it’s because it’s
not being played with the right emotion.
How Much do you feel that the live
situation, Especially live recording in
the studio, is essential in capturing
the moment in a song, which I think
has gotten lost a lot in todays music? A few years ago your playing the cir-
cuit, your in the studio getting ready
to do an EP, and then all of the sud-
den your the Most talked about band
out there, the hottest name going.
How are you absorbing all of this? ?
JAKE: Yeah, absolutely. That’s a really important aspect to
translating emotion on tracks, and that you can hear the truth
of the matter. It’s pretty initial when your listening to any song.
It’s not a dead art form yet either, because there are many bands
that utilize that system to record. We’ve always thought of it like
you have this open canvas, this blank piece of material that your JAKE: I don’t know that any of us expected this immediate atten-
tion to what we were doing. In that sense it is overwhelming and
fascinating to see certain things play out the way they do. On the
other hand I think it’s something we were mentally and physically
in many ways prepared for. Overall it’s a very humbling feeling
that people are coming in the quantity that they are to experience
the shows, to share the moment. One of the most beauti-
ful things that we see everyday, one of the things that sus-
tains us, is that you look out into the audience and you see
this mass of people, all unified for a shared experience, all
brought there for one purpose, and that the power of music
can do that. That makes every single night mind-blowing.
It’s amazing
Do you think the mystique in rock and
roll is gone becuase of social media?
JAKE: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that there are
so many bands, so many Acts and there’s so much going on.
Social Media has become such a globally accessible thing to
keep you in the public. Even politicians have been using it. So-
cially and politically its a large part os of what connects us. Its
interesting because there a lot of bands that are able to reach a
larger audience and I think that it is used a lot , but there comes
a point when I think it’s over saturation. You don’t want to over
expose yourself either because then your not really working
too creatively. I think There certainly factors why a lot of the
mystique in music has become dominated by over exposure.