The new album is a lot more stoic than Gordon was, but your live show is still as wacky as it ever was. The band has grown as a group and changed a lot, but still, at essence, we're five guys who like to have a good time. We like to go on stage, have fun, yuk it up and still have the serious moments in the night. But we've always approached playing live as a conversation-we want to keep it interesting, and we want to move the topics around. When you have an interesting conversation with someone, it's going to run the gamut from ice cream flavors to abortion rights.
People talk about that stuff, and it makes sense to do it as a band, too.
Essentially, the patter that goes on on-stage is between the band members. But the audience is there, and you respond to them, too. It's kind of a neat combination of engaging the audience and letting them eavesdrop on a conversation between the band. There's more to the band. But there's more to us as musicians, writers and performers.