If we did a normal tour, it would be like spinning our wheels. We wanted to get in front of a different audience. Just doing 30-minute sets and not knowing when you are going on each day. Both are the future of music.īH: Was the Warped Tour as bad as everyone says it was? PN: I have always wanted to get back on the road with the Deftones on like a co-headlined bill. All of us would rather tour with our friends. We wanted a bunch of different bands, and not that we didn’t want these guys, but they are so new and you can’t really have an opinion about them. PN: This was another part of the chaos that lead up to the tour. I mean throw your lesson plan right out the window.īH: Talk about your touring mates, One Side Zero? I couldn’t imagine being a teacher at this time. If you are creative, it’s going to stop that. PN: It definitely puts a blanket on everybody’s mind. Even though it is going to be weird to get up on stage, you see the kids in the audience having a good time, even though you know what is in their mind.īH: Does the depressing nature of these events suppress your creativity? We are trying to accept it and see what we can do to make sure that it never happens again.
It makes you see how important the little words change everything. And to change everything, and the way everyone is being careful about the jargon that they are using, it’s weird.
And it is a little weird, but if anyone has ever heard our lyrics, they won’t be suspect.
PN: Well the laminate that we came up with for the tour is a burning building. P-Nut: We have always been a positive group, so it feels like now is our chance to show people the difference between bitching about problems in the world that don’t mean anything and then actually dealing with big, huge problems that do mean something.īH: Have you thought about changing the theme of your tour (from chaos) after the events, be it your merch or laminates or stage banners? How does this relate to the recent events on the East Coast? Recently, bassist P-Nut spoke to The Badger Herald about Bad Brains, Punisher War Journal and Shaq’s lyrical talents.īadger Herald: You use the credo “from chaos comes clarity” as seemingly the overall theme of your latest album. Germain, who, along with crafting From Chaos into the group’s most superior work to date, unified the often Nick Hexum-centric creative process. The past two records, Transistor and Soundsystem, allowed each member to stake a musical claim individually, with a post-production “assembling.” Both albums tanked, and 311’s future looked bleak. With the release of From Chaos this summer, the Los-Angeles-based, Omaha-bred, five-piece stepped back into studio “together” for the first time since 1995’s “self-titled” gem. A sonic stew with a watered-down stock of pop, heavy peppering of reggae and punk with just a sprinkling of hip hop, or more specifically “rhyming over beats,” that screams the aesthetics of Limp Bizkit with lyrics that fail to objectify the female form a la the mook-rock stalwarts. It’s hard to peg, yet easy to pigeonhole, 311’s sound.