Nice interview piece with Soulive over at Jambands.com covering lots of good stuff, such as their growth from a trio to a quartet to a full out soul review and back again, the process of recording all their shows to make their next album, and the joys of playing live music. Dig this little snippet from guitarist Eric Krasno about an inpromptu jam session with the John Scofield band while on tour in Italy:
Yeah it was real late, and this place was having like an open mike thing going. One by one we’d get up there and play. It was like a revolving door, guys going in and out. This went on for a while. We were having a good time, but it was nothing serious. Just a bunch of guys messing around. It turns out that there was some hippy kid from Eastern Europe there, who recorded the whole thing. As the tour went on, some kid comes up to me with a CD of this jam. He told me that it was one of the hottest sets circulating around Europe. I was shocked. It seemed to mean a lot to so many people, and to us it was just us up there messing around. It was fun and all, but it was no a big deal. But to that kid it was like a masterpiece. Which shows that you never know.
It’s things like this that make me love love the jam band scene so. Now I have try and track this thing down….