KCM: When you do that, when you watch videos of your own performance that night, do you ever say "Oh we should have done this, or maybe we shouldn't have done that. Or are you pretty much ya know, "it is what it is, that's how it happened" and just let it go? Jonny: Ahh ya know, we're our worst critics of course, and there's always room for improvement. You want your guitar being in tune, you want your vocals to be ya know never stray from the pitch. Like my drummer always gives me critiques like you can lay back here, you're rushing there, you're leaning forward too much with the vocals and we're all open to that. We'll all do the same for each other. That's what a live band is. Like I definitely don't want to hear the same thing every night and if something amazing happens in the audience and we're really excited, we might just lose it and play a little faster. Or if we're down on our night, or having a bad day hopefully it wouldn't affect the show, but if it did you'd know why maybe start off with something a little slower. But we are out here with Shinedown right now on this amazing tour and it's like, we're feeling it every night, cause every night is another sold-out show and an amazing vibe. KCM: Well you pretty much may have answered the next question I had for you. You know, you're currently on this ample tour with Shinedown, so how is the tour going, and what's the best thing about this tour? Jonny: It's amazing ya know it's Shinedown, Adelitas Way and us so it's a really good group of people, and you know it's the Avalanche Tour which we played last year with Stone Sour, Theory Of A Dead man, Skillet and Halestorm so this year it's a few less bands, but it's just still pretty amazing. And just for the record, we're the only band to ever play back to back Avalanche Tours. KCM: Really? wow. Jonny: Well but....*laughs*
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KCM: *laughs* Ok fair enough. Jonny: But that's still good right? *laughs* KCM: *laughs* Yeah, definitely. Absolutely. Ok, so everyone in the band is from Canada, correct?
Jonny: Yes KCM: Ok, well how is your fan base in your neck of the woods compared to outside Canada? Jonny: You know we spent years as an independent band in Canada. So we toured a lot starting at home in Vancouver played in small bars, and played in the bigger bars, and just played all over the place. It was just a great experience to build up a really awesome Canadian following, and so we feel really great at home. Now we are signed to Warner Bros. So all of a sudden we're on a bigger stage we're world wide and it's amazing to be in the States, and we love...we just love America and we love touring here, being here. I think people here are just naturally, really fully excited about music and it just gets us really fired up. Even if we're just gassing up at a gas station and people get really excited about who are these five guys in this crazy bus and we just feed off that excitement and I love America for that. I think it's just a sensational place. KCM: Well we are more than happy to have you here. *Intermission convo about the band not coming MY way* KCM: How has Art of Dying since 2005 grown musically? Jonny: You know I think we grow musically with every experience, every show. Especially when we're recording. I find that when you go into the studio and you have this opportunity to really nail it like do it until you're happy and work with the producers and engineers and gain their experience and their knowledge. You just keep taking these mental notes constantly and you know we just stepped out of the studio with Dan Donnigan, the guitar player from Disturbed and he produced an acoustic version of our current single "Sorry". So now when we play "Sorry" on stage, it's different to me because of that experience. I think really we've grown so much because every time we get together, every time we sing, every time we play we grow a little bit more. KCM: I think you might have some type of hidden camera here or something looking at my questions, because you pretty much went right into my next question...again. *laughs*