What is it like performing with your brother? It's really fun. We get along really well. We share a hotel room every night you know; we lived together when we were in college. It has been the same five guys for 12 years, so we are all literally like brothers. We know everything about each other, like what makes that person annoyed and everybody's little quirks. And what is cool is that we don't ever fight. We are also a very family-oriented band. Four of us are married, and our wives come out on the road a lot to travel with us.
I know that for Under Fire you got the funding from Kickstarter. What was that like, putting it all in Kickstarter and letting it be crowd-funded rather than studio backed? It was really neat because, at the time, we were one of the first bands that I had ever known that did Kickstarter. It was when [Kickstarter] was like a baby. Now everybody is doing a Kickstarter, which is cool. Our fans loved it because they got to be part of creating the album. It was also neat because when we were with the label we did one album in three years, and it was this very big, formulaic thing, which wasn't bad, but then, when we left, we released an acoustic CD, a full-length CD, a cover album, a Christmas album. We released all these singles, and we could just release any content we wanted. I think our fans really liked that. We just got to kind of make whatever music we wanted.
Is there anything in particular about Fort Worth that keeps you here? I mean, I think it is the greatest city in America. I freakin" love Fort Worth. Fort Worth has culture. It's also a slow way of life. People are really friendly - it's beautiful. I live right down the street in Fairmount, and everybody has big front porches. I see my neighbors every single day.
