Down To The Bone Interview Page 4

Smitty:  Well, you’ve got my stamp of endorsement.  This is one fantastic project with some great band members and a super groove, and I can’t say enough about that horn section, the D.C. Horns.

SW:  D.C. Horns, yeah, in the pocket.

Smitty:  And you are working on the tour?

SW:  Well, the tour, I mean, it’s not a—we don’t really get to do full-on tours as we used to where we’d be playing solidly for three, four weeks.  It’s odd dates. But basically my manager and my agent, they fix up the dates that they can get.  Shilts, he’ll be rehearsing—I just spoke to Shilts today.  He’s actually scoring out the new tracks ‘cause we hope to feature four or five of the new tracks off of this album within the sets.

Smitty:  Oh, cool.

SW:  So he’s going out with that with the guys in L.A. at the moment and then we’ve got basically four dates that are upcoming to try to sort of push the new release.

Smitty:  Well, the audiences for those four dates are in for a treat.

SW:  Oh yes, definitely.  To be honest, with the live show we always try to make it a party vibe.  The main aim is that whatever we do on stage, it’s to just try and blow everybody away and to make sure that people are not sitting down.  We always try to get people standing up, dancing in the aisles, whatever, so that it creates this whole party atmosphere so that then the audience, I think, then feels like their contributing to it as well, so that the band can then feed off the audience and the audience can feed off the band.

Smitty:  Yeah, man.  Well, you’ve got some great grooves here to do it with.

SW:  Thanks, Smitty.

Smitty:  All right, man.  Well, I’m looking forward to hearing some comments from the audience from this great record once it’s released because this is something to definitely anticipate because it’s a great record.  All right, give me your Web site.

SW:  Well, the Web site is www.downtothebone.com.

Smitty:  All right, so they’ll get to hear about this record and see the dates that you cats have lined up for the tour and that kind of thing on your site.

SW:  Oh, yeah. And there’s also a My Space as well, which actually has even other bits of information.  It also has sound bites on the My Space and there’s a link from the Web site to the My Space page as well.

Smitty:  Oh, very cool.  Yeah, everybody loves that My Space.

SW:  Yeah, I think more bands seem to be using My Space than their own Web sites these days.

Smitty:  Yeah, exactly, and it seems to be catching on.

SW:  Yeah, yeah.

Smitty:  All right, man.  Well, Stuart, once again, man, congratulations on this great new record.

SW:  Thank you very much, Smitty.  Thanks for the interest of the interview as well.

Smitty:  Yes indeed, my friend.  It’s always a pleasure and always love to hear what you cats are up to and what you’re coming out with, so I’m sure this is something to really anticipate for all of your fans.

SW:  Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. I’m really excited about this album because it’s really getting me to the stage that I feel I’ve been trying to get to with all the past albums.

Smitty:  Absolutely, my friend.  All right, well, Stuart, hopefully I’ll see you when you come to the States, my friend.

SW:  Yeah, yeah.  Smitty.

Smitty:  All right, we’ve been talking with the fantastic Stuart Wade, representing the super band Down to the Bone.  They’re great new record is called Supercharged, and the name certainly fits the project.  You’ve gotta check out this new record, it drops in the States June 19th, and this is one to have for your jazz collection.  Stuart, once again, thanks, my friend, and we’ll speak with you soon.

SW:  Thanks a lot, Smitty.  It was a pleasure.

Baldwin “Smitty” Smith

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