T3M: What do you think about the fans in the United States?

BF: The fans are great. In Canada we have 19-years-old as the legal age to drink, and we never get kids into the bar. This doesn't happen in Canada. You either play a bar, or you play an all-ages show with no liquor license. We tend to play to nineteen and over bar crowds. So this is nice to play for the younger kids. It's also nice not to have to travel... we travel like 10 to 12 hours to get to the next city… it's not very populated in Canada. Here we can travel like 3 or 4 hours to get to another big city.

T3M: It's like a trip to the store for you guys.

BF: Yeah

ZB: Especially on the West Coast... the cities are so far apart from each other.

BF: We're staying in Boston right now for five days. We got a place to stay and setup there. We'll travel an hour to two hours per day. It's really nice.

ZB: We have five dates in the Boston area. So we're gonna have our headquarters in Boston, and we'll go to each show then come back.

BF: We're going to be in Canada in the next couple weeks. I'm really looking forward to that. It's good because people over there know us way more than in the United States. Every fan is awesome.

T3M: Is this your first U.S. tour?

BF: Pretty much. We probably did ten dates in the U.S. before this.

T3M: Was that on the West Coast?

BF: Yeah.

T3M: How would you describe your music for people who haven't had a chance to hear you yet?

BF: We're influenced by classic rock, and music from the sixties and seventies... but we try not to be a retro band. We don't like to wear bell-bottoms and all that kind of thing. It's obvious that's the kind of music we listen... but, we try to be ourselves, with our own sound.

ZB: You don't find this kind of music a lot around because young people don't play it. All these great bands were in the seventies... what would they do today? What kind of music would they play today? The seventies are the most influential for us.

T3M: I like how you guys went from one song to the next and kept the energy going. You guys kicked-butt.

ZB: It's like kind of stealing fans from these great bands. They come to see Finger Eleven or Sick Puppies... then they hear us and kind of get interested.

T3M: There's always enough room for more music.

ZB: Totally.

BF: Ten people at a time is what we're trying to do (laughs). Playing with these bands you gotta work really fast. You gotta be on the stage and off the stage really fast because you only have a half an hour window, and you want to put as much energy into that time slot as you can.

T3M: Have a great tour.

BF: Thank you so much. Hopefully we'll be back.

ZB: Go Canada, go!

| 10.20.2007 | Interview by Kristen Pierson |