Red's Jasen Rauch reveals exciting experiences
Kyle Beall
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: Features
By KYLE BEALL
kbeall@bakersfieldcollege.edu
Opinion editor
Red released their debut album, "End of Silence," March 29, 2006. Since then, they have been riding a "wave" of success, as guitarist Jasen Rauch referred to it, and touring the country with bands like Breaking Benjamin, Flyleaf, Seether, Seven Dust, Three Days' Grace, and are currently on tour with 3 Doors Down and 12 Stones. On April 19, they rocked the Rabobank Arena.
Question: So tell me a little about the kind of music you guys play.
Answer: We've been together for about five years. We kind of grew up listening to a lot of different kinds of music. So our influences ... everybody kind of brings something different to the table, but we try and fuse some of our classical influences with a lot of the heavier music that we were big fans of and mold it into something that is attainable and acceptable to the pop audience.
Q: Is this your first tour with 3 Doors Down?
A: This is the first time we've had an opportunity to meet and play with them. We've kind of crossed paths in the past but never really done any shows together, so it's been a great tour.
Q: I was reading online that you are a Christian band, is that where your influence came from?
A: A little bit. I mean, that definition to us is kind of basically that we''re all Christians. The content is more of just things that we've been through.… We just basically write from what we know and where we come from."
Q: Do you like Bakersfield?
A: Yeah, we've been here several times. We've been here with Seven Dust, Breaking Benjamin, Seether and Three Days' Grace.
Q: What are the shows like here compared to other places?
A: They're awesome, man. It's really cool coming here. Anytime we come to California, we get stoked. The weather is great, and the crowds are great.
Q: How are you guys doing with your debut CD so far?"
A: Good, we've been very fortunate to have the doors open that we have open for us. We spent so much time working on the record and to finally release and have it kind of catch on, any amount of success at all has been wonderful and not taken for granted at all. We've been really fortunate with that. We started working on our next record just now, but we're still riding the wave from the first one. So, it's a good problem to have.
kbeall@bakersfieldcollege.edu
Opinion editor
Red released their debut album, "End of Silence," March 29, 2006. Since then, they have been riding a "wave" of success, as guitarist Jasen Rauch referred to it, and touring the country with bands like Breaking Benjamin, Flyleaf, Seether, Seven Dust, Three Days' Grace, and are currently on tour with 3 Doors Down and 12 Stones. On April 19, they rocked the Rabobank Arena.
Question: So tell me a little about the kind of music you guys play.
Answer: We've been together for about five years. We kind of grew up listening to a lot of different kinds of music. So our influences ... everybody kind of brings something different to the table, but we try and fuse some of our classical influences with a lot of the heavier music that we were big fans of and mold it into something that is attainable and acceptable to the pop audience.
Q: Is this your first tour with 3 Doors Down?
A: This is the first time we've had an opportunity to meet and play with them. We've kind of crossed paths in the past but never really done any shows together, so it's been a great tour.
Q: I was reading online that you are a Christian band, is that where your influence came from?
A: A little bit. I mean, that definition to us is kind of basically that we''re all Christians. The content is more of just things that we've been through.… We just basically write from what we know and where we come from."
Q: Do you like Bakersfield?
A: Yeah, we've been here several times. We've been here with Seven Dust, Breaking Benjamin, Seether and Three Days' Grace.
Q: What are the shows like here compared to other places?
A: They're awesome, man. It's really cool coming here. Anytime we come to California, we get stoked. The weather is great, and the crowds are great.
Q: How are you guys doing with your debut CD so far?"
A: Good, we've been very fortunate to have the doors open that we have open for us. We spent so much time working on the record and to finally release and have it kind of catch on, any amount of success at all has been wonderful and not taken for granted at all. We've been really fortunate with that. We started working on our next record just now, but we're still riding the wave from the first one. So, it's a good problem to have.
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