Funny Stage Antics!
A.J.: I brought our percussion section down, the whole thing crashed on stage!
Kevin: In hamburg at a show, [a problem at] the airport made our mics malfunction. AT the time it stunk. But now it's kinda funny.
Brian: Once we were performing a song from the new album and... I blanked on the words! I ended up just humming along. The others were useless- they were laughing and didn't try to help me out at all!
Nick: We did a number, I dance too wild and... when we landed from the jump, my pants fell down! Swoosh! The whole audience got to see my boxers...!
Private thoughts before showtime!
Kevin: Putting on a good show...
Nick: I think about what I ate.
Howie: Being prepared. Making sure that we have our mics and all our clothes on us.
A.J.: We get excited, nervous and have lots of adrenaline.
Brian: Making sure my zipper is up and my shoes are tied!
Rituals before going on stage!
A.J." We usually sit and eat dinner together and talk about all the important details... then [we] change together...
Brian: We all join hands... its more or less a focusing point, with us saying mentally, what we have to go out there and accomplish, what we have to do.
A.J.: About an hour before we go on stage, we warm up our voices and bodies...
Kevin: Get dressed, warm up, vocal chourds, soundcheck, group prayer... show time!
The dark side of the road!
Brian: Being away from home and not having girlfriends... It takes me a while to get to know a girl...
Nick: The traveling does get kind of gruesome sometimes. I'm away from the rest of my family...
Kevin: I like trying foods from different places... but after a while I miss some good American food.
Nick: I'm always scared on planes, I hate flying. I think I get better the more often I fly though, none of the others get scared though...
A.J.: You'll be in the US, and you have to fly to Spain for one dday. You don't get enough time to sleep.
Howie: You hry jet lag a lot...Sometime when you finally catch up, you take off again...
Life on the road.
A.J. Its like living in a moving house iwth five older and younger brothers.
Kevin: A lot of fun, a lot of work, and sometimes a little lonely. Its what I've always dreamed of!
Brian: I enjoy being on the road, because we have a lot of fun and perform. I love to perform!
What they bring on the Road.
Kevin: I always bring my CD player, CD's, magazines, books, pictures of my family...
Brian: Clothes and my Basketball.
A.J.: I used to bring my blanket- the blanket I had for fourteen years! I went to a hotel in North Carolina and I think th emaid though it was a rag- because it looked like a rag- and threw it away!
Howie: A lot of clothes, books... I used to bring a Game Boy, now I bring my laptop and sometimes my guitar!
Nick: Video games, paper and pencils for drawing, clothes, car magazines and comics.