O.A.R. looks at 'All Sides'
Organism labeled a "college banding" isn't needfully a bad thing, according to roots bikers O.A.R. [ tickets ], whose members enjoin that their trips through college towns are like journeys into self-awareness."Where better to press out yourself?" said lead vocaliser Marc Roberge, vocation from a Bluegrass State campus. "Where bettor to speak your judgement and say what the perdition you want to say on level than on a college campus? I recollect that's what the unit point of a university is--to be able to find yourself and address your mind, be world Health Organization you ar and determine out world Health Organization you are. We're distillery finding come out world Health Organization we are--but we just convey to do it around people in the university system, which is nice."O.A.R. is stumping through college towns and john R. Major markets push its latest album, "Live From James Madison Foursquare Garden." Once the spring tour of duty segues into a summer outing June 15 at the Bonnaroo Music and Humanities Festival, O.A.R. will start playing material from its forthcoming album, "Altogether Sides," due in stores July 15. "We're non playacting any of the fresh songs until this summer enlistment starts," Roberge told LiveDaily. "We're trying to celebrate it under wraps until we crapper get them whole rehearsed and ready to go. "[Asset] you know what happens: you go playing these songs and road testing them come out on that point and people incur their have idea of what they enjoy about the song. Then they draw the record and they don't necessarily connect with it. They're connecting with the version you played a few months ago. What we're trying to do is set about the kinks come out of the closet in camera during soundchecks so that when we do go playacting them, they're actually consistent with the record and really consistent with where we're at presently."And where the band is at currently is best described by the name of the album, which carried over from the band's demonstration tapes for the recording roger Sessions. "I called the demos the 'All Sides' demos because they were very coming from whole directions," Roberge said. "These songs were relationship songs, songs about exactly playacting in a banding and songs from altogether different aspects of our lives. When we went over to Al-Iraq and State of Kuwait in Sep, we had near finished committal to writing for the record. Upon our come back, we decided to write a song about our experience at that place called 'War Song dynasty.' It's not a song about war, our feeling in war or our nonbelief in war. It's about the warriors, the soldiers of all backgrounds. That truly lED to the title of the album, as well. Then, you got a song about straight-up feel of travelling the world. I think the title of respect fits because the songs ar approaching from altogether directions. They're all consistent in approximately way."The trip to desert-dry Iraq and humid Koweit, specially, allowed the band members to soul search. Roberge doesn't necessarily call the head trip scary because the military surrounded them at totally times. However, the realness of war weighed on them. "The number one daylight we were in Iraq, thither was a skyrocket onslaught on the foot where we were at," Roberge said. "We were right in the middle of it. Regrettably, deuce [non-band force] got killed. The whole time, you're seeing what actually goes on o'er at that place and seeing these soldiers descend together and aid to each one other. "It was a scary moment, merely most Americans don't arrest to see the response. They don't get to escort these doctors. We were in a hospital when it happened. The doctors were taking care of non only our guys just they're taking concern of the foe, as well. What they're there to do is take charge of people. So it was very humane. I was rattling cheerily surprised to look our citizenry taking charge of Iraqis, Kuwaitis and Third World nationals and our soldiers. Yeah, it was hot. It was hard. It was no sleep. Simply I wouldn't take traded it in. I wish we didn't cause to go, just I think people appreciated it and we appreciated them."
