Why do you like switchfoot

A: I love travelling to Europe. Our European tours have been some of our most memorable. Sometimes the smaller shows are the most fun. Sometimes the smaller shows have the best energy and most connection with the audience. A: Yeah, actually. My mom taught choir and piano. She made me take both piano and choir lessons as a kid. Guitar was basically my rebellion against that. My dad was in the Navy. He travelled a lot. A: Yes!

Four daughters. It brings so much life to me. Anyone who has kids knows that children are one of the hardest and the best things. Keeps me young and on my toes.

Recently we played a show in Florida at Disney World. They think all shows are free. A: It started off as a really dark album. Number 10 seems like some kind of monumental decade album. We wanted it to be really good. I think the lyrics on this album are some of the best yet.

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Moonlight Beach, B St. For more Switchfoot, click here. In the 20 years since its inception, Switchfoot has sold millions of albums, had several major radio hits, toured the world multiple times, won a Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album in and earned nearly a dozen Gospel Music Association Dove Awards between and When: Saturday, July 9 the surf contest is 7 a.

Online: broam. After a slow start, the event has grown steadily. The 12th annual Bro-Am takes place Saturday, July 9. The album sounds unmistakably like Switchfoot but goes to some unexpected places, musically speaking.

What was the criteria used to determine the dozen selections that made the final cut? Would you fight for it? But, in many ways, this record took us a couple of decades to make. So, in some ways, this album took nine albums to make. Or you can dive into your work, or dive into a bottle, or into a relationship, or whatever.

For me, I felt like I wanted to kind of figure some things out over the course of a year. So I made a commitment to sit on a rock, down by the beach, for half an hour a day, usually in the middle of the night, because it felt appropriate. Is there a god in the face of tragedy? For me, this record came from wresting with these things out on the rock on the beach.

But, yeah, absolutely there was certainly that sort of thing going on. Thiessen also has side projects; he co-wrote a song for ex-girlfriend Katy Perry and helped produce some Owl City tracks. Still, when it comes to the mainstream, both bands now operate with a lower profile.

And both have changed since pumping out those early earnest Christian rock anthems. The world is a different place than it was in the early s. Both bands have exchanged overt mentions of Jesus for broad metaphors of horizon lines and ocean waves. For so long I answered questions of musical taste by mentioning these two groups, long past a time when it was cool to mention them — that tiny sliver of time in Maybe this Ryman show will be filled with teens, like the venue where I saw them 10 years ago was.

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