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This page: Looking Back & Forward
'You can't create new notes and chords. They've always been there. It's just the way you put them together.'
Looking Back & Forward
You guys have been on the road for a while now. Are you applying those experiences to your next album?
Marcos: For us, it's like this album has a lot of wings on it. Of course, we're always thinking of music together and coming up with things, but I'm not like, "Yeah, let's go in the studio tomorrow." I know we have a lot of groundwork left to accomplish and there's a lot of touring to be done. So I think that if we just continue to work our hardest right now, it's going to pay off in the long run. Then when it's time to write the album, we'll have sufficient time off and sufficient time to record the album. It's a little tough right now but I believe when it does pay off, it'll be the best for us and our families and everybody that's involved in this band.
Who are some of your musical influences?
POD's singer, Sonny
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Sonny: We get up and play [U2's] "Bullet the Blue Sky" and a lot of the kids, they think it's our song and we have to tell them it's not. A lot of people think we're 19, 20, 21. We're not, we're old-school. And we mention bands that paved the way for this style of music and a lot of kids don't know it. They know Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine; they don't know about the Bad Brains, the Police, U2, or 24/7 Spies, Living Color, all the punk stuff. It's the younger kids, the 14-year-olds, that are finding music for the first time. They're identifying themselves with a style of music, and it's not until later when they do their homework they realize they like Depeche Mode and the Cure. They start to realize that there was so much stuff ahead of it. There's nothing new under the sun, you can't create new notes and chords, it's always been there. It's just the way you put them together and stuff. For us there are so many bands we have respect for. With U2, we love their openness, the things they talk about, and the fact they weren't really flashy when they first came out with their guitar licks. They just made sounds and put them together. They played simple things and it was beautiful. That's one of the bands that we would love to meet one day. We met Sting and Santana when we were in Germany playing a fest and that just made our entire year. After that it's like who else could you meet? But if we met U2 that would be the stuff.
What advice would you have for young bands?
Marcos: I would say, "Have fun." But if you wanna do this for a living, you have to be somewhat serious and have a bit of organization, because I know a lot of bands that party too much and then they wonder why they're not playing anywhere.
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