1. If I knew absolutely nothing about Saving Abel,
how would you describe the group’s music to me?
-- To Me, the music has a real sense of familiarity
that most people can relate to. Guess you could say it’s a real comfortable
sound with an edge that draws you in. Like an Eagles album, you can put
on and listen to all the way through without missing a song!
2. If I were to buy your new self-titled album,
what songs should I pay particular attention to and why?
-- Some of my favorite songs on the album…… I
Guess would be “Drowning”( Facedown ) it kind of brings
back the time frame when the song was being written. With all the stress
that was going on at that time, and with all the studio work and driving
to and from Memphis, I kind of wanted it to be a song for anyone who
has ever felt helpless, to realize that sometimes we have to look past
our pride and ask for help… I am really glad it turned out as
well as it did. Another song I would have to say is “Beautiful
Day” because it was actually the first song Jason and I had ever
written as ‘Shade Of Grace’. It has a really great storyline
and it has made it through all the cuts and onto this album. I really
enjoy listening to it…
3. When and where did the band form, and where didthe
name come from? -- Jason Null & I
started our acoustic writing days about 4 years ago. We used to sit in a
room for 3 to 4 hours a night, 5 days a week…. Just simply Writing
and playing. It actually came to a point where the only time we could hear
our songs, was when we could sit down and play them.
So eventually we just took the money we had saved from our acoustic gigs
and we went up to 747 STUDIO in Memphis, TN. There we talked with Skidd Mills
(producer of 12 Stones, Salyva, Sister Hazel, etc. ) and got a pretty good
deal on studio time. We started recording our acoustic album, & to our
surprise Skidd really liked some of the tunes. A few weeks later he called
us back to Memphis to discuss a production deal. The whole production deal
was revolved around Skidd providing and building a band around the songs
Null & I had written. From there we held studio auditions, which is when
we found Memphis natives Scott Bartlett and Daniel Dwight. Jason and I did
our part in finding drummer Blake Dixon. Blake was from our hometown and
I graduated High School with him.
Of Course, being a new band, and new to
the whole music scene, new problems and stress always come into the picture….
So after our bassist ‘Daniel’ left the band, we resorted back
to auditions, where we found his replacement ‘Eric Taylor’. We
liked Eric from the start. He was also from the same town, Corinth, as us.
So we all got along really well….. As for the name SAVING ABEL; There
was a time after finishing our EP album as a band, that we were so busy with
recording sessions, That a name was the only thing we didn’t have.
So after many, many deliberations, the story turns out that Jason Googled
the story of Cain & Abel from the bible, and one of the links that appeared
read something about “there was no saving abel”. I guess at the
time we were just a Band waiting for a name, and something about SAVING ABEL
stuck out to us all…
4.
What was your worst on stage experience? What was your
best?
-- HA! HA!… Well my worst was definitely
a learning experience. It was actually the first time Eric our new bass
player was performing with us. It was a place in Memphis called The Stage
Stop. One of my buddies, who I had not seen in a while, had just moved
back to town. He decided to come to the show and celebrate with me…LOL!
After about $250.00 worth of Jaeger, it was time for Saving Abel’s
Show….. Thank God there were not many people at the show, because
my stage performance was nothing but a drunken Stooper…HA!!!! Lets
just say I learned my limits before a show…
Then one of my best
stage shows, I would have to say was just a great experience all together.
We played the 93X Fest in Memphis at the Mud Island Amphitheater. The
greatest thing about it was we had just gotten signed with VIRGIN,
so the band was all in the best of moods. We did that show with KORN, Puddle
Of Mud, Chevelle, & Drowning Pool. So, we got to hang out with all
the guys from the bands, and to me it was a realization of was going
on at the time, and at the same time a dream come true…
5. Do you think that the Internet (whether it be Internet
radio, legal downloading, MySpace, streaming audio, etc.) is a good tool
for musicians or is it a bad thing because it hinders profits?
-- It definitely hinders profit, and as you know it
is kind of hard to get a million dollar record deal anymore. That kind of
thing is really hard to come by these days. But I also believe the internet
can be used as a great networking tool. More and more people are turned onto
the Internet everyday. I think that the record companies are picking up on
the fact that the Internet can be used as a great way to market and network
their bands and/or products. It is still kind of a gray area right now as
we are in the early stages.
