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 Bob of One Step From Falling.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Things have definitely been different these days but we have been adapting much like the rest of the world. Collectively the band has been good, staying healthy while trying to stay sane! Personally I’ve just been trying to keep some kind of normalcy to the crazy days these have been.
2. Have you been working on new music?
We’ve all Been writing music, taking this time to experiment. Dig deeper I guess you could say. Crazy that we just released our latest album “Stuck on the Wayside” and we already have a good chunk of music written for our next project.
3. 5 albums that changed your life
Just thinking about this questions brings me down a rabbit hole!
Tool – Aenima
Deftones – Adrenaline
Limp Bizkit – 3 dollar Bill Y’all
A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
10 Years – The Autumn Effect
4. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
So many influences pop up in my head instantly. But 5 that really have influenced me would be ;
Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit
Dean DeLeo of Stone temple Pilots
Layne Staley of Alice in Chains
Adam Jones of Tool
Pete Loeffler of Chevelle
5. Your 5 favorite live albums
Almost immediately all the 90’s unplugged albums come to my head.
Stone temple Pilots Unplugged
Alice in Chains Unplugged
Nirvana unplugged
Pearl Jam Unplugged
Family Values tour ’98
6. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
This question just brings smiles and immediate laughter.
1. Blowing our first trailer tire at like 3am in the morning. The sound woke most of us up immediately, the sparks coming off the blown tire in the dead of night were crazy, totally thought it was going to catch on fire!
2. Naming a tour Stuck in the Wayside and actually getting Stuck in the South when we blew out transmission 2x that tour…
3. Walking around the crowd and camp space at Rocklahoma. I swear people that go to that Festival know how to have a great f@cking time!
4. Driving 14 hrs straight on LSD to get to the next gig. We just got done playing with the band 10 years in our hometown of Syracuse NY and booked a festival the next day early in Iowa of all places. We all looked at each other and was like this is the only way we are going to make it there over night. Probably the most hilarious ride we ever have. The next show was killer too.
5. The best thing is the places we have got to see, miles we have traveled, the venues and festivals we have gotten to play and the people we have met and shared killer times with along the way. All these memories made possible because of music. When we get places or see things or meet awesome people our motto is “Music brought us here.”
7. 5 favorite movies
The Crow
Cheech and Chong : up in smoke
Waynes World
Blow
Anything Marvel or X-men.
8. Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Best advice – “Just have Fun” Worst advice – “ To grow up”
9. Strangest thing you ever autographed
Top of a Bald mans head. Definitely threw me off when he asked us to do that!
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
The flying Jalapeño!! I Actually dressed up as a wrestler one halloween with my best friend as tag team wrestlers. My tag partner was the Ragin Cagin!
