Red
As they’re driving through my home state of Texas, I get ahold of Red’s main songwriter and guitarist Jasen Rauch, and sure enough, the reception is terrible. They’re in west Texas and when you go from small town to small town out there, you’re not going to get very lucky with the reception in between. The band is on their way to Amarillo from Dallas (according to their driver – whom I overhear Rauch call “Hollywood” – they’re about three hours away) to play a show with Puddle of Mudd.
They’ve actually been on tour with the Mudd guys before. This time, the band got the call from the Puddle of Mudd people asking if they’d like to come out again; they needed a band to play right before they go on. Of course they obliged; their audiences are awfully similar. A whole lot of radio rock tours – think Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace. “Some fans will come see Puddle of Mudd, some will only have been exposed to us based on radio airplay,” Rauch says. “Same thing with us. We have similar radio exposure. Stylistically, though, we’re a little different.”
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