

There's such an ego involved that it just amplifies when you get people together. In that sense we're really fortunate, because a lot of bands we meet and hear about are either put together by a label or audition or something. Riding around the country, do you guys ever get sick of spending so much time together? of a revolution," so Marc (lead singer Marc Roberge) came down into the basement one day and said, "Of a Revolution, that's going to be our name." And we said all right, because this music we're making is our own musical revolution.įour of the guys in the band, including you, were high school buddies. We wrote some songs based on a short story called "The Wanderer." There was a line in that story that said ".

We hadn't loved, we hadn't lived and all that stuff, so we wrote songs based on books. So we got together and formed a band called Exposed Youth. In 1992, we saw Pearl Jam Unplugged on MTV and we recorded it and watched it every day. We started our first band in the eighth grade. (Of a Revolution)? Were there any other contenders? Woodstock kinda epitomizes what the summer concert season is - friends getting together and sometimes traveling very far because they have a love for music. The whole concert experience has kinda been passed down through the generations. There's no way you cannot be influenced by that. Obviously, Woodstock is probably the most legendary concert that ever happened. Did Woodstock have any influence on your band? You're going to be playing at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival on almost the exact day of its 40-year anniversary. drummer Chris Culos chatted with the Times Herald-Record. will play Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Starting in a band member's basement, the group moved through the local pub circuit in Maryland and Ohio and eventually landed on the charts with huge hits and album sales. Rock-pop band O.A.R., perhaps best known for its recent hit, "Shattered," has made the dream journey through music.
