My brother and I got in a huge fight that ended up with me in the hospital. Can you point back to one event that led you out of that dark period? You’ve said before that your previous album came from a dark place.
We weren’t scared to put some program drums on there or some sort of synth or weird patches. How do we make this early ‘70s soul stuff?’ The stuff that I feel like my voice fits the best on with modern elements.
But then once we got a couple demos together we realized, ‘Hey this is gonna be an angle to what we’re doing. I can’t explain why besides the stuff that we were listening to. The first demos we did were all sort of synth-based and beat-driven-which is a really new direction for us. This record didn’t have that feel at all. We were going through a dark time when we made that record and that’s what we were capable of. It was pretty laid back, acoustic, very straightforward. There was definitely a natural reaction to the last record. When you guys went into the studio, was that a conscious decision or did you guys go in with a clean slate and just let it happen? This new album, H A R D L O V E, has a very distinctive sound. We recently talked with frontman Bear Rinehart about the season that shaped band’s new project. You’ll hear a new sound, in part, because this project came from a different, darker place than NEEDTOBREATHE’s previous albums. And it offers a whole new sound from one of the most popular Christian bands of the past decade. Even if you walk in on a casino and some crappy band are playing it, it still has something different.Today, the Grammy-nominated band NEEDTOBREATHE officially releases their sixth album, H A R D L O V E. It’s non-religious, but people feel reverent about it. Purple Rain is like a Stairway To Heaven. And then the strings pull your heartstrings. You’ve got agility and spins and pirouettes in the guitar solo. It’s repetitive, and it keeps saying, ‘I’m here with you.’ And then his guitar solo is pleading, ‘Please be here.’” “You’ve got this dirge or ballad beat behind it,” Bobby Z reflects. And then, at the end vamp, where they’re going down and he’s going up, maybe it’s keeping it from flying away completely. He liked the strings coming in slowly, and their warmth. “The verses are so intimate and personal, like he’s trying to talk to you. “It is that contrary motion that made it cool,” Coleman considers. Coleman’s string arrangement – played on her Obie FX keyboard on the night, with a string quartet added in the studio – has a classical, calming quality, as Prince’s voice and guitar clamber for the heights. There’s as much tension as release in this atypical rock epic (nearly nine minutes long on the album, after Prince cut a verse). “Just keep playing your part! Pay attention…”
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Plus I was having this emotional reaction to the beauty of the music,” she laughs. And then when the ‘woo-hoo-hoo-hoo’ part came in, and we got the crowd to sing it, that was mind-blowing. “I remember Prince’s guitar solo affected me. It was like a kid seeing Santa Claus.”Ĭoleman knew how they felt. I always kept my eyes on Prince, in case he needed something, but I could see the faces and wide eyes in the front. But it got to them by the end, and his guitar solo was so beautiful. It was just so different for Prince, almost a country song. “That night it was on fire,” says Coleman, “and nobody’s singing along. He was in the moment, and you’re in it with him, and it was a special place to be. Because the room is silent except for the pattern you’re playing. “It’s just a back-beat and him from his guts,” Bobby says. They’d also be playing music the crowd hadn’t heard.Īfter Melvoin’s opening acoustic chords, Bobby Z’s drums – mostly acoustic, and triggering Linn drums later added to in the mix – accompanied Prince’s singing for the first two minutes. The band were exhausted from the album and film, adding to the heightened atmosphere. “It was a toxic environment.” Coleman remembers the club being “packed with people”. “It was pushing 90 degrees Fahrenheit and dense with cigarette smoke,” Bobby Z explains. A Record Plant mobile recording truck was outside First Avenue when they turned up that August.
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