Just Cause It Never Happened Dont Mean It Wont_音乐专辑
Just Cause It Never Happened Dont Mean It Wont
表演者: The Crash Motive
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2008-08-26
出版者: Screaming Cat Records
专辑简介
The Crash Motive, a five-man outfit creating a refreshing and memorable sound, is poised to explode i
nto the national consciousness in much the same way it has in its native Delaware. That's where local
radio jumped all over "Waiting (Save Your Life)", while the band was still finishing their degrees at
the University of Delaware. On October 9th, 2007 the band released their first album CONSEQUENCE natio
nally with Wind-up Records. The band's first single "Not Giving Up" has been featured as a promotional
song for NBC's hit television show "Friday Night Lights". The song first received attention last year
as a featured track on EA sports Madden 2007 video game. It has gone on to be used on ESPN's NFL Live,
as well as being played for millions of fans in professional sports stadiums and arenas across the US.
Prior to arriving at the University of Delaware, singer Derek Fuhrmann had no idea that in four years
he would be fronting a band with a worldwide recording contract. The college experience exposed him to
classic rock acts like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, as well as guitar-centric bands including Radiohe
ad and the Dave Matthews Band. “Napster opened my ears to a whole new world of music. Primarily, musi
c of substance, which was right there at my fingertips. Getting to know these artists and their music
is what inspired me to start writing my own songs.” By his sophomore year he’d begun playing guitar
and decided that he wanted to surround himself with people who were more advanced musically than he was
Fuhrmann went online and started searching profiles for “University of Delaware students; drums” and
so on, and collected an immediate database of potential partners. “That way I was able to cherry-pick
the type of band I wanted to create. Jamie Orlando (keyboards) was the only one who actually was willi
ng to meet with me and explore the possibilities. Everybody else,” he chuckles, “kind of ignored my
instant messages.”Orlando is a self-taught musician who’d experimented with everything from jazz to
electronica before that fateful first meeting with Fuhrmann. He recalls, “When I first met Derek he h
ad only been playing guitar for a couple of months – I wasn’t sure what to think, but then he starte
d singing and I realized that this was something I should stick with.” Fuhrmann counters, “I didn’t
know what to think when I first met Jamie. Here is a guy with hair below his shoulders, a black Metall
ica shirt on, and he’s asking me to jam with him to a book of jazz standards.” What transpired was a
n impromptu session where Orlando improvised over Fuhrmann’s guitar and vocals. Fuhrmann concludes, “
I figured if he didn’t want to do that, he was not the guy for me.”In the meantime, fellow Delawar
e students Josh Berger (bass) and Tyler Ingersoll (drums) had been playing together in a number of b
ands. Berger recalls, “I’d met Tyler during our freshman year, when I was still playing guitar. He
came over to my place one day and we just played all day and into the night. The police finally came
and shut us down.”The pair was eventually drafted into The Crash Motive, to be joined a short time af
terwards by guitarist and college buddy Shawn Manigly. “I was really the one to introduce electric gu
itar into the band,” he shares. “When I joined, our sound became much more rock-oriented.”
Ironically, the largest common bond between the five members wasn’t their musical influences, but t
heir drive and determination to make music their first priority and somehow survive doing it. Berger
recalls, “We would come up with a list of goals every six months, and we were usually able to chec
k each of them off at the end of that period. One of the very first goals was to build a fan base of
at least 25 people who’d come to every show – not counting people the group already knew. We thou
ght that would be impossible, but we blew that number away pretty quickly.” Manigly adds, “There is
a business aspect to what we do, which we take very seriously. We know that if we want to achieve our
goals and build a long career, we have to do things right.”
In the spring of 2007, the band hit the studio with producer Don Gilmore (Linkin Park) to record “No
Tomorrow, Just Tonight”, the lead track from their debut Consequence. Fuhrmann says, “This is a son
g about living in the moment, which I believe is essential for everyone if they want to live life to
the fullest. It’s a concept that has helped me get through some of the hardest times and to truly en
joy the best times.”
The album title Consequence draws from an experience in Fuhrmann’s life, and the lyrics written abo
ut it in the song “Believe It”. He tells the story, “I was home one evening working on a new song
, but all I had demoed was the backing tracks which I felt had a raw emotion. I had no melodies or ly
rics to paint the canvas with. Suddenly, I realized I was late for an appointment. I was rushing dow
n the road when a nasty motorcycle accident occurred about fifty yards ahead of me. Myself and a numb
er of other drivers rushed to assist the victim. He was holding his bloody head in his hands as if th
inking to himself, ‘How did I get here? What could I have done differently to avoid this nightmare?
’ As soon as I got home that night, the song wrote itself.”
Berger offered, “Our career choice has provided us with a lot of experiences that we wouldn’t have h
ad otherwise, we feel very honored each time we play for a crowd.” Fuhrmann added, “I hope that pe
ople will relate to this album, and to the five of us. That’s what makes playing music so rewarding.”
曲目
1. Walk All Over Me
2. Between Us, You & I
3. You Can't Know It All
4. The Sound Of Our Lies
5. Heavy
6. Don't Shut Your Eyes
