Here’s another of our Suite Salutations to the departing Audio Adrenaline. Today’s story on the origins of your favorite Audio A songs is from bassist Will McGinniss.
Will shares the following tale of "Beautiful"
"We were jamming at a rehearsal, getting ready for a show at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, and came up with a beat, rhythm and guitar parts. Then Mark came in and liked it and he started thinking of things. The great thing about this song is when we play it live on stage every night we always call up about five or six people on stage to just kind of go crazy with that song. That's really fun for us because we never know what to expect. Sometimes there's a really timid 15-year-old girl that is shy and doesn't want to go up and sing, and then she gets up there and belts it perfectly like Kelly Clarkson. Every once in a while there's a kid that will take the mic from Mark and run around like he's Mick Jagger. So that's a fun song that's taken off as a little highlight from an Audio Adrenaline show."
"Blaze of Glory"
"'Blaze Of Glory' is a song by the Alarm and it's so funny because when Mark first walked into my room after my mom had said, 'Hey, my son plays bass, you should go get him to be in your band,' he saw posters all over my walls of my favorite bands. The Alarm was one of the posters that was up and it was from a record called 'Declaration.' I listened to that record like nonstop forever. I was just blown away by the power and passion and the honesty of the lyrics. We actually thought about recording the song for 'Worldwide,' but it just didn't seem to fit what we were doing with that record, so we put it on the back burner. Then, when we were getting ready to write again two new songs for this Greatest Hits, I was like, 'why don't we look at 'Blaze of Glory' again?' It just blew me away. The energy of it lined up perfectly on how we would want to go out as a band--almost like it's better to burn out than to fade away kind of thing. So we thought it was very appropriate for us."
Click here for the Suite review of "Adios."
