Chords for Highly Suspect Interview At Rock On The Range

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_ _ _ [Em] Hey, my name is Rich.
[A] I'm Johnny.
_ We're Highly Suspect.
Thank you [E] guys so much for joining me here at a rainy Rock on the Range this year.
How are you enjoying [Em] the day so far?
It's great.
It's wonderful to be here, [E] rain or shine.
_ _ So, you know, does your approach to festival [A] shows, any different [E] to smaller [G] club shows?
Do you kind of [C] have a_
I know they're different animals.
[B] Yeah, I guess usually we have to play early on the [A] festivals because we're the baby band.
So the approach is try to wake up. _
That's pretty important.
When we played yesterday, [E] we had only been awake for like two hours. _
_ [E] _ _ So, I mean, what's it like from your perspective to kind of look out from the stage?
And, you know, I think back in the day we would see a sea of lighters up in the air.
And now it's like a sea of cell phone [Em] screens.
I'm always curious [G#] what it's like from the band's perspective to [B] look out [C#] and see that.
Yeah, I don't know.
Put your phones down.
[A] _ _
[Am] No, [N] I used to think that.
Now it's like, cool, if you want to put your phone up.
I have a phone.
I take pictures of things.
So, _ _ yeah, you don't see lighters as much as you see phones.
_ It's okay.
It's cool.
It's 2015.
Whatever.
And we're also still playing during the day.
So, like, lighters _ [B] and phones are harder to see.
[F#] _
That's very [C] true.
If people are putting up lighters, that means they're waving [C#] them around and, you know, it's a moment.
[D] And if they're putting up _ [B] cell phones at the same time in the same manner, [D] then that'd be still pretty cool, right?
But [A] they're all into it.
They're waving.
There's like a sea [B] of_
It's just blue instead of_
Or filming, is I think what she's saying. _ _
_ _ [F#] Filming.
I'm wondering how many actually go back and watch the videos later.
You never [B] know.
I always do. _
If I see a band [C#] that's killing it and I love them, I'll take my camera out and film them.
It's 2015.
_ [A] _ So what can you share with me about what you [C#] guys are currently working on right now?
[C#m] Right now we are [N] on tour with Scott Weiland.
We're finishing that up.
And then we're gonna head out with Catfish and the Bottlemen from the UK.
_ We're gonna hit up Bonnaroo and we're gonna release our album, finally, July 17th this year.
Can you talk about the album a little bit?
[E] Maybe one or two songs in particular [F] during the recording [F] process and tell me what the mindset was [F#] like. _ _
_ [D#] Well, the title track of the album is called [N] Mr.
Asylum.
_ _ _ And Johnny wrote the song about anxiety, anxiety [Em] attacks, which is actually the source for a lot of our [F#] music.
It's why it's kind of like, got a _ darker, _ _ _ [C#] heavier vibe than our music had four years [N] ago.
When we were playing on beaches _ and in bars and stuff like that.
We've definitely evolved recently.
_ I'm trying to think of another good album.
I mean, another good song off the album that would be _ Mom.
It was a [D] really hard one for me to record because it's very exposing.
More so than the song Lydia, even.
So when that was being recorded, I _ struggled with it.
But [E] I think that shows and I think in the right way.
_ Is it ever hard to get yourself out of that mindset again?
I've heard that you write your feeling a certain way when you put everything together and then [E] you're performing these songs.
And it's like reliving the moment.
Is it hard to [Am] kind of, I don't know, find a separation or a point of balance there?
[N] It completely depends on the day or the night.
Sometimes it's easy to separate them and sometimes it's not.
It all depends.
Is there anything that's particularly misunderstood about the band?
Is there anything people tend to get wrong?
_ _ _ I don't think so.
I think we're pretty easy to read.
It's a pretty open book.
We're very forward with how we feel on our social media networks.
And there's no true mystery _ here.
I don't think we're misunderstood at all.
[C] That's good.
Usually there's [E] always something on the internet.
It's like where did they get that from or [C] where did they find that particular piece of information?
_ So on a [F] personal level, I look at music as a [E] universal language.
We can all speak and understand if we take a different message away.
[D#m] When did music first begin [N] speaking to each one of you? _
As long as I can remember, I've always enjoyed music.
And I've also always tried to play it too for as long as I can remember. _ _
Since I was a baby.
_ _ _ Yeah, the same.
_ Memories of dancing around the house in diapers listening to whatever song my dad really likes.
Those memories were from last week. _ _
It's just so much easier than going to the bathroom. _ _ _
Well guys, I want to thank you so much for taking a few minutes to speak with me today.
_ Is there any final comments you'd like to share with our [D#] site audience?
_ _ _ _ Rock lives! _
_ _ _ That sums it up I think.
So [N] we're good.
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