Tell us about your band.
My lead guitarist is named Rob Heskin and he is a really great guy. He is from Colorado. He is trained in classical performance – he got a degree in that from Colorado State University. He is a really, really, fun guy and he and I have actually become great friends over the years playing together. He and I just went to Butler University last week and played a show. We did an acoustic show so it was just him and I and acoustics. It was fun, I like hanging out with him a lot.
My drummer is named Jordan Hill. I actually met him about a year and a half ago here in L.A. and he is also from Illinois, my home state. We didn’t know each other back home; we met once we got to L.A. He’s a really great guy, he’s a family guy, he’s married and he’s got a kid as well. He is a great drummer. He actually wrote all the drum parts to Cohgie Never Landed. What I did, I had recorded the album in its current state to a click track, then I burned it all to a CD. So basically the same thing you have now but with a metronome in the background. And then I mailed it to him and he threw on his headphones and got on his drum set at home and just started adding really cool drum parts to it.
My bass player, his name is Jeremiah James and he is also a musician. He is a really great musician. He does a mix between Blink 182 and Foo Fighters, that kind of stuff. He is a great friend of mine. I met him out here in L.A. but he is a Minnesota boy. So literally everybody from my band is midwest or Colorado. Nobody’s from Los Angeles at all. We all just gel, we get along really good, and all go on weekend trips.
When you write a song what is your focus musically? Is it the lyrics, or the melody, the harmonies?
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