Is there any chance of incorporating violin playing into the bands sound at any point?
Definitely. I just think that once we get to the point, God willing, where we’re, say, headlining large theaters on a regular basis or playing to 1,000 people or more on a regular basis, I think we can start doing those three-set shows, where we’d be doing an acoustic set and then two electric sets, and I think it would fit very nicely in that scenario. However, I think down the road, some of our more prog type of stuff: I can definitely see composing stuff like that, like a prog rock kind of song where I’m doing violin instead of guitar, not all the time but maybe a couple of songs here and there. I just think right now our formula’s working pretty well, although I will say I do play violin on the new album that we’re recording right now. Can you tell me a bit about that record? This album is two CDs long; it’s a concept album. It’s a story, so there are instrumentals on the album, but the entire album is basically a journey. It’s like searching for enlightenment. It’s a very heavily
