Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Breaking In A Sequence.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Rich – Been doing good. We have all just been trying to stay out of harm’s way while still trying to get together to write and rehearse. If ever anyone feels even slightly under the weather we won’t get together, but that’s only happened a few times. I try to stay busy doing cover songs for fun. I also was doing vocals for fans that reached out to me to sing over their song, but I got overwhelmed by requests and just had to cut it off and stop.
Have you been working on new music?
Rich – Yes, we try to get together to write as much as we can. We write as a whole band, it doesn’t work for us any other way. So trying to get all 5 of us together to write during a pandemic is a little tough but we have new material with more in the works.
5 albums that changed your life:
Rich – Alice In Chains – Dirt, Pantera – Far Beyond Driven, Korn – Self Titled, Korn – Follow the Leader, Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
Rich – I have way more than 5! Metallica, Pantera, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Korn, Deftones
David – Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Tim Alexander (Primus), Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews Band)
Your 5 favorite live albums:
Rich – Metallica – Binge & Purge set, Slayer – Decade of Aggression, Alice in Chains – Unplugged, Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York and Radiohead – I might be wrong
David – I don’t really listen to Live albums, just maybe a song here and there.
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:
David – Funny / Scary story – playing Irvine [Meadows], on the back side of the shed there was a kinda steep hill, and me, Munky and Abe from Deftones “borrowed” some golf carts from security and we were getting all shitty in them going down the hill. Munky flipped his, and as it went tumbling down the hill it threw him out and almost smashed on top of him, maybe like a foot away from him. Thank god none of us got hurt. Crazy story – While we were in Europe touring, crossing the border (into maybe France) our bus was pulled over at 5am by the police. They searched it and wouldn’t let anyone get dressed, They made us all stand on the side of the freeway in our underwear and socks freezing our asses off. They completely trashed our bus – and found nothing.
5 favorite movies:
David – Star Wars – Original Trilogy, Ironman, Avengers Endgame, The Notebook
Rich – Tombstone, Aliens, Robocop (1987), Inception, Interstellar
Best and worst advice you ever heard:
Rich – Best advice I ever heard was “to pursue my passions no matter what” the worst advice was “to go audition for reality singing competition shows” (only because I wouldn’t last a second on one of those shows).
Strangest thing you ever autographed:
David – Someone brought a taxidermy raccoon to a meet a greet and asked everyone to sign it.
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
David – Loser Silveria, because I’d get my ass kicked all the time.
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