Q: What is your favorite part of being in a band?
Adam: The feeling that I get when I connect with the crowd on stage!
Charlie: Playing the Music I love with my best friends!!
Dave: Meeting people and sharing with them the music I love!
Britton: Doing What I love with People I love & Creating something that people can connect with!
Q: What got you started in music?
Adam: When I was 8 years old I had an huge Boombox attached to my bike…I would ride around and listen to the oldies stations! I’ve been in love ever since!
Charlie: When I was a young kid…I would always admire my Uncles Huge Guitar Collection and loved watching him play…I wanted to be able to do it myself one day!!
Dave: I just always knew at a very young age that music was something I wanted to do, at the age of four..I started by playing the drums, joined the church worship band at age 5, and started experimenting with different instruments from there!
Britton: Well my family has always been pretty musical…so I suppose that has something to do with it! I always knew I wanted to be an entertainer of some sort…and when I officially fell in love with Music…I decide “This is It..I wanna PLAY music!” I started on a Violin and then Moved around from there…Finally finding my place behind the drums!
Q: Where does the band name come from?
Adam: my noggin!
Britton: Yeah….Adam came up with the name! And it’s a pretty good one I think…It describes us well (for anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing us live) and it wraps up everything we’re about in so many words! Energy…Positive Energy!! You Get Out what You put in! :)
Q: Who writes the songs?
Britton: Adam does the Majority of the song writing….he’ll bring to us a pretty much already finished demo of the song…and we’ll polish it off from there!
Q: Where does the inspiration come from?
Adam: There’s soo many things…things that have happened in my life…or in my friends lives…lately my inspiration has been from thinking about the near future…where we are going…what we are doing…and how amazing its going to feel when the world over knows our songs!!! Its an Incredible feeling!!
Q: If you could record a song with anyone who would it be?
Adam: Sting! I’ve always been a fan from the Police to his solo stuff! He’s so unique in the way he writes which is something I shoot for myself!! I hope he’s nice when we record together!
Dave: John Petrucci! When I was first starting guitar, Dream Theatre helped me a lot to progress!! I love his style and the way he lives what he plays!! I Can’t wait to meet him someday!
Charlie: Rob Cavallo!! He’s done some of my favorite records…and his recordings always sound amazing!!
Britton: I would love to record with Butch Vig…..the dudes legendary….and he produced one of the records that Influenced me most when I very first started drumming…Nirvana’s “Nevermind”
Q: Who would you most like to tour with?
Charlie: Coldplay! Their live shows are incredible and so Is their music!!! It would be a dream!
Adam: U2! We just wanna play castles like them! Haha!
Dave: John Mayer!
Britton: Everyone took my answer!!! Haha! Um..I think Green Day or the Foo Fighters would be pretty cool!
Q: What is the most played song on your IPod?
Adam: My Vocal Warm up track! Haha
Dave: Rage Against the Machine “Guerilla Radio”
Charlie: Mat Kearney “Fire and Rain”
Britton: All my Sigur Ros stuff is the most played thing in my Ipod….but that’s because I listen to it all on repeat every night to go to sleep!
Q: If you could have a theme song for any TV show what would it be?
Charlie: To Young to Kill
Adam: That show with Steven Segal…”Lawman”?
Dave: PrisonBreak
Britton: I would like to be the Theme for the Fox News Network!!