Review Fix chats with Broken Glow’s Garrett Deming, who discusses the band’s creative process, goals for the future and their standout song, “Sun Comes Up.”
Review Fix:Â How did the band get together?
Garrett Deming: Paul (on drums) went to high school with founding members Brenner and Jon, who then recruited me (guitar/vox) in the spring of 2008 after college. The band began in Hartford, CT and has also lived in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Savannah, GA (current home) and recruiting Sara to fill in the vacant bass slot in 2014.
Review Fix:Â What’s your creative process like?
Deming: Generally I come up with the germ of a song, then brings it to the band for complete arrangement. Some of the songs emerge from rehearsal free-form jams, which are recorded live and then tweaked based on the live organic version. Lyrics are inspired by anything from personal struggles and observations to life events, literature or the ever-changing world around us.
Review Fix:Â What’s your standout song? How was it written?
Deming: That’s hard to say, but one of the crowd favorites in “Sun Comes Up” from our 2014 release Live Like An Animal. The riff emerged during an impromptu jam between Garrett and a few other local musicians, and the verses were written long before the song was completed, salvaged from the countless notebooks full of lines and phrases that the band members keep.Â
Review Fix:Â What are your goals for 2016?
Deming: Our first goal for the year was to have a successful release for our brand new album Filament, which was realized in February as we brewed a custom beer for the release party, held at local brewery Southbound Brewing Company. We continue to play locally and regionally, and have a studio session booked for the summer at Hybrid Audio Solutions in Charleston, SC.
Review Fix:Â How do you want your music to affect people?
Deming: We hope that people feel the groove, and that our music inspires good energy from the listener. We’re not one of these aggressive, hate-fueled rock bands that get so much American radio airplay. Instead, we take inspiration from the originators of hard rock, the blues-oriented bands of the 60s and 70s who wrote about social change and love instead of self-deprication and nihilistic apathy.
Review Fix:Â What’s next?
Deming: Who can ever tell what the wind will blow their way? We just plan to keep rocking and hope people dig it.
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