Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we spoke with hard rockers Between The Rain.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Victoria: Surprisingly well. I’ve been doing a lot of hiking.
2. Have you been working on new music?
BTR: We have! One of the perks of world-wide lockdown has been lots of time to finish projects we’d started. We’ve got a few tracks that we’re looking forward to recording.
5 albums that changed your life:
Tim:
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
Bush – Sixteen Stone
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
Victoria:
Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit
Chevelle’s wall of sound
Fair to Midland
Nina Simone’s attitude; though she never thought highly of herself, her perseverance was unmatched.
Lamb of God
5 favorite live albums:
Tim:
Alice in Chains – Unplugged
Peter Frampton – Comes Alive
Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous
Pearl Jam – Unplugged
Jimi Hendrix – Live at the Fillmore
Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
BTR: We once had a band member go into a Chinese buffet and accidentally knock some Jell-O into a dish of pudding. He tried to fish the Jell-O out using his hand. They threw away both trays… and were very displeased with him. That’s probably the funniest story we have.
We’ve had gear stolen, witnessed fist fights in the crowd, we’ve had band members attempt to play while completely trashed, and we were once mid-set at a house party when cops arrived to check out a noise complaint — oops!
5 favorite movies:
Victoria: With the disclaimer that I’m no movie buff:
The Departed
Uncut Gems
Wolf of Wall Street
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Mulan
Best and worst advice you ever heard:
Roddy: Treat others as yourself; conversely, don’t get involved with computers.
Strangest thing you ever autographed
Tim: I’ve only ever autographed pieces of paper as far as I can remember.
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
Roddy: Animal – from the Muppets!
