Spring Break
Saliva works hard to please fans
By: Dave Goncalves
Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
Originally published: 3/9/07 at 7:04 AM EST
Last update: 3/9/07 at 7:03 AM EST
Originally published: 3/9/07 at 7:04 AM EST
Last update: 3/9/07 at 7:03 AM EST
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With their latest album, Blood Stained Love Story, making an appearance on the Billboard 200, Saliva showcases what they've done over the past 10 years. Starting from Texas, Saliva took to the road with Crossfade in order to promote Blood Stained Love Story.
The new album takes elements from previous albums and tries to develop them more, a sort of melding of what the band has already done.
"I think it's our best record yet," says Paul Crosby, Saliva's drummer. "We make sure that this record has something for any fan of any of the rest of our records. Some people like the first one better, some people like the second one, some like the third … but we tried to make everybody happy on this one."
Jon Montoya, the band's new guitarist, calls this new album Saliva's potential Back in Black.
"You get the best of each record, turn it into one. Why not?"
The new album is heavier in content and subject, Montoya says, but is sonically softer. Each member contributed equally to the process of the whole album, however, each doing their own thing and then bringing it together to create the best album they could.
Now on tour, the band has their work cut out for them as they bring their work to live audiences.
"You try to give everybody their money's worth.," Montoya says. "All I got to do is work for an hour and ten minutes? I may be out of breath and winded, but you'll never hear me say, 'Man, I'm not playing no more for these people,'" He called touring "a constant state of exhaustion."
Though it is draining, the band is still ecstatic about doing the tour. Crosby describes the feeling.
"I'd have to compare it to… if you did a lot of cocaine and came at the time after you did a lot of girls… and you won the lottery. It might compare to going on stage… maybe. But that stuff will make you tired because it's such an adrenaline rush, such a heavy fucking feeling of a high that I've never done a drug like it, never fucked a girl like it."
You can catch Saliva playing with Crossroads at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J., March 10.
The new album takes elements from previous albums and tries to develop them more, a sort of melding of what the band has already done.
"I think it's our best record yet," says Paul Crosby, Saliva's drummer. "We make sure that this record has something for any fan of any of the rest of our records. Some people like the first one better, some people like the second one, some like the third … but we tried to make everybody happy on this one."
Jon Montoya, the band's new guitarist, calls this new album Saliva's potential Back in Black.
"You get the best of each record, turn it into one. Why not?"
The new album is heavier in content and subject, Montoya says, but is sonically softer. Each member contributed equally to the process of the whole album, however, each doing their own thing and then bringing it together to create the best album they could.
Now on tour, the band has their work cut out for them as they bring their work to live audiences.
"You try to give everybody their money's worth.," Montoya says. "All I got to do is work for an hour and ten minutes? I may be out of breath and winded, but you'll never hear me say, 'Man, I'm not playing no more for these people,'" He called touring "a constant state of exhaustion."
Though it is draining, the band is still ecstatic about doing the tour. Crosby describes the feeling.
"I'd have to compare it to… if you did a lot of cocaine and came at the time after you did a lot of girls… and you won the lottery. It might compare to going on stage… maybe. But that stuff will make you tired because it's such an adrenaline rush, such a heavy fucking feeling of a high that I've never done a drug like it, never fucked a girl like it."
You can catch Saliva playing with Crossroads at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J., March 10.
