We got to ask Dark Rain a few questions on the go.
Welcome to Metal Digest!
Please describe the band in a single sentence.
Kelleigh: A CRAZY GROUP OF FRIENDS DOIN WHAT WE LOVE
Dudley: Bombastic Melodic Rock with tastes of metal,blues,and pop
Chip: MAINES ROCK BAND!
What’s your latest project and what are you working on right now?
All: new cd, The Illusion Fades working title, as well as an acoustic cd
How do you want people to feel when they listen to your music?
Kelleigh: I HOPE SOME CAN RELATE AND KNOW THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO FEEL A CERTAIN WAY
Dudley: I want them to feel like they can relate it to their own life
Chip: ENERGIZED AND HAPPY
Brian: To have people moved by their interpretation of how the music moves them and makes them feel.
Bill: Excited and want to hear more
Major influences: Who put you on this path?
Kelleigh:I DONT REALLY LET PEOPLE INFLUENCE ME…I AM WHO I AM AND I DONT KNOW…..
Dudley: Early on my uncle David and his local band, and my first guitar teachers one was Jerry Perron father of Bella Perron of Plush, he always has such a drive to be immersed in music in his life, it really inspired me to pursue my dreams.
Chip: I guess the band put me on this path in some ways
Brian: My Mother who introduced and taught me how to play piano and an uncle who gave me my first acoustic guitar at the age of 13
Bill: The music as a young kid put me on the path
If you had to flee the country as a band, where would you choose to live?
Kelleigh: SWITZERLAND POLITICALLY NEUTRAL
Dudley: Id stay and fight Live free or Die
Chip: AUSTRALIA I ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY DOWN UNDA
Brian: Australia or Scotland
Bill: England Love the accent
What’s the ‘wow factor’ that makes YOU decide which songs to keep, record and release?
Kelleigh: HONESTLY.I NEED TO BE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THE LYRICS AND VOCAL RANGES… CAN I RELATE TO ANY OF IT…
Dudley: for me it’s a birthing process it might be a certain hook a melody I can’t get out of my head or really intense lyrics
Chip: I just go with the Songs with energy that move you, have special meaning.flow
Brian: Songs with energy that move you, have special meaning
Bill: Some sound cool. Some don’t. Lol.
What’s the most hilarious band memory you can think of?
Kelleigh: I DONT KNOW… SORRY
Dudley: Kels being too modest I would say the early day stop at the Golden Banana where kel Got an eyeful
Brian: Trying to squeeze everyone into a small photo booth to take silly face pictures before taking the stage
Bill: Too many to list. Lol.
What would be the title of the band’s biography?
Kelleigh: Behind the Illusion
Chip: Walking out of hell with a handbasket
Brian: Walking out of hell..the long road home
Bill: Why am I just a misfit
What’s the next milestone you’d like to achieve as a band?
Kelleigh: Some mini-tours
Dudley: next couple of goals, Nationwide radio okay, and play the biggest two civic centers in our state even as an opening act
Chip: nonstop gigs
Brian: To share the stage with more world touring bands.
Bill: Continue to tour bigger places
Until we meet again,
Chelf
