As Jeff Stinco mentioned on Twitter yesterday, the lead guitarist has recently given a large number of interviews for brazilian media, hinting on the band’s return to Brazil this fall.
In one of the interviews, that has already been released, Jeff discussed a number of issues including touring and new album – but I decided to point out two of Jeff’s answers: one of which gives us a little look behind the meaning of the music video for ‘Singing In The Rain’ and the other one that includes Jeff’s excitement about visiting Brazil later this year. Check out the English translation of the excerpt of the interview here [or the original full portuguese version here]:
One of the new music videos – “Singing In The Rain”, seems to be a retelling the story of the band’s career. What exactly did you want to express through this video?
Jeff: It’s not about our career. I think some people thought it is. We’ve been through the process but it’s not as if we lived that way. It’s more about the power of music and what it does for the band. Our band is different… We have a vocalist who is a well-focused guy. He has no “crazy ego”, he is very respectful to his bandmates, so he’s complete opposite of the guy in the video. You know, we are lucky because we all have girlfriends who are not involved in our lives, so the video is about having fun being in a band. It’s about the concept of having a band and what would happen if this band had a song, how long it would last. We also have a lot of influences from bands of that time, like The Beatles. I think our reference to The Beatles there is kind of obvious (laughs). And there is also a little reference to Simple Plan. It’s about the power of five guys who hang out together, form a band, write songs and build things around it.
We miss you in Brazil! It’s been already four years since the last time you were here. Do you have any good memories of the country?
Jeff: We will be back in Brazil this fall. We have a million memories from there! We go out and we have a lot of caipirinha, listen to great music. I have fun there. And one of the most exciting things is the energy that the fans have. We always say that our fans in Brazil are the craziest fans in the world. I can tell you that at every show we do around the world, there is always one Brazilian fan … always! We are very honored to have so much success in Brazil and we love the fans there very much. We have no confirmed date, but everything indicates that we will return in the fall.
