We like to think music is also visual and mental imagery that goes along with the sounds. Each song can create a mood and conjure an image. Combine that with the flashiest ever-changing wardrobe this side of Liberace's closet and octanal energy from a trio that sounds like much more and you have Carson Cole. More and More a sound, less and less the man.
I'm not being lazy here, but our individual backgrounds only helped form the collective chemistry we experience each and every time we play. We are less about history and more about today.
This is a tough question to condense down. Yes, we play live, all the time, wherever they'll have us (now that's starting to be outdoor festivals numbering in the thousands of patrons and places like Daytona Beach, FLA baby). Do we like it? Of course we like it, although at times one needs to be away from it to really miss it. It's about the energy, the looks and reactions of people who are getting what we're doing, that indescribable euphoria when all cylinders are firin' on stage; all of this makes playing live rewarding. It boggles my mind to think that any real musician could answer negatively to this question. The special moments... are as simple as someone taking the time to come up to us and express their sincerity of how we moved them, or helped them forget about the things in their life that don't give them satisfaction. Definite highlights: Short tour with Big Sugar and then Default. Those guys were great to open for. Opening for the Headstones at the Ontario Ride For Sight in front of 12,000 people, the infamous Horseshoe in TO, and the city of Guelph.
Stevie Wonder, anything the funk brothers laid down in the snake pit, the Police, Zep (Especially live), the beatles, Zappa, old school blues, and the car horn on the General Lee.
Little school girls in short plaid skirts make the world a better place.
