My teeth are clacking and my knees are knocking. Every time I play a new demo I wrote for the band, I’m terrified. “All you can really do is be honest and be yourself and that has to be good enough,” Pitts says. Record is something you can share with another person and that exchange is what To adore making music and having something tangible to show for the work. Today, however, Pitts misses playing shows, seeing them, too. Pitts would come over after school and play it endlessly. But, in another way, his questīegan in earnest in middle school when one of his friends got a guitar forĬhristmas. When music was always on the radio at home.
Pitts’ path to music began, in a way, when he was very young We saw a bunch of differentĪudiences before we went up to New York to play in front of music journalists.” Iįeel like we played to a lot of crowds not expecting to see loud noises or this “We played shows at bowling alleys and all kinds of weird stuff early on. “Living in Florida forces you to be innovative,” Pitts says. Mixing and tracking now than he did when he was first starting off getting Of his apartment in a “really nice” studio. This time, Pitts and the group recorded outside The recording process for Carefree Theatre, however, was markedly different from the process It’s last three albums came out on Joyful Noise.
Surfer Blood’s new LP, forĮxample, is set for release on Kanine Records, the band’s original label, after Some aspects of his life have come full-circle. He’s letting himself look backwards, realizing that Title is also indicative of a larger theme for Pitts, who is now 10-plus-years To pay homage to theįormative venue, Pitts decided to name the band’s new record after it. Like Wilco, which the songwriter remembers seeing. It was the one spot he and his friends could catch a great show from groups Stuck and trapped in Florida growing up – it can feel like a vacuum ofīut bands would sometimes come to the modest theatre, Pitts “Me and a lot of my creatively-inclined friends felt very “To me what it always symbolized was my pipeline to a biggerĪnd broader world with unlimited possibilities,” says Pitts of the nowĭemolished showroom. Source of culture for Pitts: the Carefree Theatre. In addition, the record, itself, is named after an important Two-to-three-minute songs that, when listened to as a collection, recall sock-hopsĪnd poodle skirts. But for Carefree Theatre, he went the otherĭirection writing a large amount of shorter, melodic, harmony-focused, Longer, multi-part songs, ranging from seven-to-eight minutes.
Landmark and new songwriting techniques for inspiration. But Thomas was theįirst person to say he believed in the music, he said he loved the songs andįor the newest album, Pitts looked to both an old hometown Music in my bedroom and put it on the internet quietly. “I think I would have gone on to some other job or profession, content to make “I was very much a guy who made bedroom demos,” Pitts says. But if it wasn’t for Fekete’s initial passion,Įnergy and encouragement, Surfer Blood likely wouldn’t exist today – at least Group’s first guitarist, Thomas Fekete, who later passed away, tragically, fromĪ rare form of cancer in 2016. May never have taken place hadn’t it been for the support, energy and verve of the The world was taking Surfer Blood seriously. Out that first record in Europe, so they met journalists, executives and the On that plane, that’s when I was the most excited.”Īt the time, Surfer Blood was looking for someone to help put Know, having actually made it,” Pitts says. “The first time we played in London was a marker of, you LP, Carefree Theatre, on September 25 th. And today, Surfer Blood is poised to release its latest Since then, the group has enjoyed and endured significant ups and downs,īut, nevertheless, the group has subsisted, grown up and enjoyed its Their seats and put away their bags, Pitts couldn’t help but think about howįar the group had come in a short time and how much further they still could The first major step for the group, which began in 2009. Remembers boarding an important plane for London. John Paul Pitts, front man for the West Palm Beach,įlorida-based rock ‘n’ roll band, Surfer Blood,
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