The Click Five - August 27, 2007

Here are some of the highlights from the Interview.

Tommy: Hey it’s Tommy2 and today were backstage with The Click Five at Target Center! You’ve got a new album out, Modern Minds and Pastimes. Why don’t you tell us what that’s all about?

Ben Romans: Modern Minds and Pastimes is just kind of like a thing of where we come from. Ya know there’s a lot of different bands that we look up to. A lot of them starting in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and the present and so we just wanted to give a nod to some of the great things that happened and there’s a lot of timeless songs that have been created in the last half of a century and we’re products of 2007 and we wanted to bring that concept to this generation and just try to do some really good songs and put them out.

Tommy: The direction of Modern Minds musically takes on a different sound than you’re debut, but in reality some of these songs pre-date Greetings From Imrie House right?

Ben Romans: Yeah, some of were written before even Imrie House came out. It’s crazy, there’s a couple of them in there that did.

Joey Zehr: I think as far as the sound, I think a lot changed because we were touring the world together for three years and really honing in on our collective sound and we grew a lot as musicians and obviously the introduction of Kyle in the band changed a lot of things, so I think it was just a natural growth into more of a of what we would call a more developed sound, something that we were all more confident about.

Tommy: Now you all attended the Berklee College of Music which is one of the top music schools in the country. Does that ever bother you when people dismiss your talent for the type of music you play?

Ben Romans: See what people are forgetting is that musicianship isn’t all about how many notes you can play. Musicianship comes with tastefulness and what we’re trying to do is communicate and I think when we met each other at Berklee that’s one thing that set each other, you know we met each other cause we were interested in communicating, we were interested in making music that connected with people. I think if you look at any artist that really did anything was trying to do that over anything else no matter how musical they were. So, ya know we could just be playing our dejembe's and playing jazz all night as we do on the bus at night – but nobody needs to see that. This is about people more than anything.

Tommy: What did you guys think of your education there and was that a good choice?

Kyle Patrick: It was a good choice. I think the biggest thing and we’ve all talked about this before is the biggest thing about Berklee is the community there and everyone is there to do the same thing and be serious about what they’re doing and be serious about their musical career and you know not to knock the school at all but I don’t feel the classes took me to a different level. It was more just playing with people that were there doing the same thing and everybody growing together was a big thing. Berklee is definitely an awesome place.

Tommy: So it was more the mindset it put you in to further your career.

Kyle Patrick: Exactly, exactly.

Tommy: Now you just joined Hilary Duff on her Dignity tour. Have you been enjoying that and has Hilary treating you well?

Ben Romans: The crew and Hilary and everybody else on this tour has been exceptionally kind to us which is great and we’re very lucky one of out guys who is running our sound we already knew in advance - so we lucked out and he’s doing sound for us and he kind of already got to give everyone the heads up. So yeah, they’ve been very welcoming to us which is always a plus

Kyle Patrick: We’re happy to be out in front of new people and get new fans and play in front of nice crowds. But yeah, the whole crew like Ben said the whole crew and staff and everybody has been amazing to us.

Tommy: Now this is actually a little different for you guys then where we were just talking about Berklee as I think the percentile is like one out of every four students was a girl, where now it’s like 95% of your audience…

Ben Romans: When I was there it was one out of ten man. One out of ten. Yeah, it’s a bit different I guess ya know I think everything comes around. What goes around comes around. I went to college and I go oh, okay maybe I’m gonna have to take a break from talking to girls and now I’m experiencing what I didn’t experience in college now. But no, I think with this band we want to encourage all sexes and all ages to check out this music – particularly this album.We really made this album for a broad group of people.