Children Of The Revolution.

Tremolo just had a fantastic show the other night in San Francisco. The mood was right. The sound was right. The club was right. And, the people were right.

It reminds me of why I write songs to begin with. Songs are meant to be shared. Like bubble gum.

Being in the studio is amazing in its own right. But the creativity and challenges are totally different to playing live. In the studio you usually start with very little. You have some ideas and you begin to go after them. Maybe its a lyric. Maybe its a beat or a guitar riff. You see something in these raw elements and your work to refine them. You see if they have a life of their own. You end end with dozens maybe hundreds of little threads in the studio. And you keep pulling to see if they will hold. The mystery and creativity is seeing where each of these threads lead to.

Playing live has its own mode of creativity. A studio exists as the same room, with the same gear, and pretty much the same people. But a show is a different room, with a different history, in a different town, with different people. You never KNOW what you will get.

You bring the same songs every night, and they can have a completely different life of their own. Maybe one night there is an energy in the room that pushes songs further than they have been before. Maybe one night there is a heavier vibe in the room where songs operate as healing agents. The point is, we never really know until we start playing.

By song three or four we start to feel what everyone else in the room is feeling. In fact, when everything is right, we start to feel something together. The whole room belongs to everyone in it. When everything is right we start to feel this collective efforvesense. A feeling that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. You can't manufacture that. You can spend a million dollars on a stage show, and still not get anyone to feel anything. For me, when you stand on stage and give away songs, you are sharing your life with people you have never met....and they are sharing their lives with you.

We are so looking forward to sharing these songs in rooms we have never been in with people we are yet to meet.


Love with a capital L
Justin