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06:27 voyager
06:27 voyager
Before it gets too serious: How are you?
I am great! I’m happy to be here and I’m sure everyone’s gonna hear about this, but we stranded at the airport in London Heathrow because of three inches of snow. (Lacht)
Well I am from Colorado where it snows two feet and the airport works still fine. We got to London, the whole city got shutdown, 800 flights were canceled, we looked out the window and there was this much snow (Brandon zeigt mit seinen Fingern einige, wenige Zentimeter) ... it didn’t make sense, but anyways, we missed Vienna but we’re here tonight for the show!
Did you know that you’ve got your own Wikipedia page?
Yes, yes ... each of us … each person (Plötzlich hört man aus dem Nebenzimmer den Sänger Tim McIlrath lautstark singen) Oh, does that ruin your thing? (Zeigt auf mein Diktiergerät)
No, no … nevermind!
Yeah, each person on the band has its own wikipedia page, which is kind of funny … to have one dedicated to any of us.
By the way, yours had an error! Something like "Cite error - <ref> tags exist, but no references found". Whatever, I fixed it.
Well, thanks!
I enjoyed that there is so much information about Rise Against on Wikipedia. You can browse through every EP, find out when it was recorded, what the music video is about or if it was used in a TV series.
It’s cool that people just take the time and put it up there! (Um die Atmosphäre authentisch einzufangen: Man hört noch immer McIlrath im Hintergrund "jaulen")
Well, the internet is not just plain good. By surfing around on YouTube you can listen to nearly every song you’ve done so far. What do you think about piracy?
The whole internet thing, like getting all the media for free, is good, you know … I mean, a lot of people went to one of these sites like YouTube, illegally download our songs and say: ok, I like the record, i like the band … so I will pay for the record to support the band“ and that’s great. I’m sure a lot of our fans have discovered us this way, but it’s also really bad because, you know, we all have kids and are trying to make money – it costs us so much money to tour – and the only way to make it back is actually through merch and CD sells.
When I was a kid, you bought the record because you wanted to support the band. You didn’t just take the record "Woah, it’s free so I’m gonna take it!", you know?
So, do you want to sue people that take your music for free?
No … no … it is like it is. I am not gonna waste my free time thinking about it. There is good and bad to it, and we don’t want to do the whole Metallica thing where they try to hunt people down and people still download their CDs. We’re not that.
Let us stay in the digital world. One of your most famous songs „Give it all“ was used for the game Rock Band 2. Did you try it out?
Yeah, but I just did the drums. You know what, the two easy levels are hard because it’s not really like playing drums – there is no base drum – but when I tried it on "expert", I did really good because it’s closer to actually playing this sound correctly on the drums. So I was scoring upper nineties! (Lacht)
Well, I’m impressed! I have no chance to move my arms like that.
Yeah, it takes a lot of time, years of practice.
I think so! Do you believe it’s a good thing to participate in games like that?
Yeah, I do! You know, when I was a kid, I was playing a lot of video games. And when kids are into music … well, it’s promoting music. You said it’s hard to coordinate … it actually starts teaching you how to play drums. Yeah, it kind of teaches you basic levels of coordination and I think if you are a young kid and you wanna learn how to play the drums, that’s kind of a helpful game.
We’re just listening to a new song aren’t we? (Tim McIlrath singt noch immer lautstark im Nebenzimmer) You know, I’m recording it!
So you’ve got a bootleg! (Wir lachen)
Are you going to play new songs?
We will play songs from our latest album, Appeal to Reason … those are still considered new songs … for us. (Brandon muss schmunzeln)
Speaking of your newest album, not everybody embraces your new sound … I know you will hate my next question and I initially did not want to ask it: Why did you change your style?
We didn’t consciously change our style. If you are a band – we are four dudes – sitting and practicing, writing record after record, after record … you kind of evolve and change, you know? I think that’s a good thing. I mean, bands that write records, one after the other, I always tend to kinda lose interest in them. You know, I just think we are all just growing up, we’re all listening to different bands … you know, the next record may be a bunch of faster songs and we go back to, like The Unraveling, our very first record… I mean, there is no conscious effort to say „Let’s write this song or that song“. We wrote twenty-some songs for our current record and only a few made it. And a lot of the other songs that didn’t make it, some were heavier and didn’t come together, they didn’t sound as good… you know? If some of the fans don’t like it … this record is for us too! We like it, we were having fun, so …
Leads us directly to the next question. A friend of mine talked to Nathan Gray, as you know former lead singer of Boy Sets Fire. He said that everything got too serious and big and started over with his new band The Casting Out to have fun writing and playing music again. Can you understand his point of view?
Maybe things in his band got serious – I can’t really comment on his situation – but I think the minute music isn’t fun to you, you probably shouldn’t be doing it. If you think it’s too serious, or you think there is something about that’s not fun, then it’s probably smart to rewind. But as far as Rise Against, we all love this and we’re playing shows to a lot of fans, we love playing music and writing, and so we’re happy with what is going on.
I think another point he was trying to make is the difference between small shows with all these hardcore fans and big shows. There is good and bad on both … smaller shows are more intimate, you’re closer to the kids … but I also like the big shows, the energy you feel, the feeling when you look at this big crowd … Yeah, I can see his point, but it’s all good to me, I love it! (Lacht)
So Rise Against will rise against forever?
Hopefully! This is what I wanted to do since I was a little kid …
Well, thank you for your time. It was a pleasure to meet you!
Alright, have fun at the show tonight!
Kleiner mat, großer Brandon Barnes!
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