Halestorm and Chevelle are also on the bill for the Aug. 30 performance.
Amy Lee of EvanescenceIt's called "Carnival of Madness," and the bands may be crazy on stage, but when it comes to making their music, the members of Evanescence, Halestorm, and Chevelle are serious and professional.
But the bands also provide superb rock 'n' roll theater to frame their songs, and since the music of this tour runs the gamut of alternative rock, it truly can be called a carnival, maybe even a circus. The tour will stop at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. on Aug. 30.
A few weeks ago, several key members of the three main acts–Amy Lee from Evanescence, Lzzy Hale from Halestorm, and brothers Pete and Sam Loeffler from Chevelle–took time to participate in a conference call interview and chat about the tour and their bands' legacies.
Q: Can you give us a sense of how you guys will get along together and maybe what you are excited to do together on the road?
Pete Loeffler: Yes, of course, you know, there’s nothing better than touring and actually knowing and having relationships with the other bands. When it’s really segregated, it’s not nearly as - obviously, it’s not nearly as much fun. And so, this is going to be a fun tour I think. Since we all know each other we’re going to be bumping into each other, fighting over, you know, the last Hot Pocket...
Amy Lee: The good catering, yes.
Pete Loeffler: ...and catering or the bathrooms or whatever. But, it’ll be fun.
Q: I’d like to ask everybody 100 years from now when we’re all dead and gone, what you would want your legacy to be? What do you want to be remembered for?
Sam Loeffler: You mean this is going to end. What? Wow.
Amy Lee: That’s a heavy question. That’s a hard question. There are so many things you could say here. The first thing that came to my mind right away was just the way that we love people. I’d like - if there’s anything and one thing that I’m remembered for in 100 years, I hope it was the way that I loved and treated people.
Lzzy Hale: I agree. I mean, it’s interesting. Like, we - kind of - going off of what we were talking about before about, you know, just connecting with our fans and I think we kind of have to be a people-person but I think that we all have kind of opened up ourselves to our fans and they in turn have opened themselves up to us.
Pete Loeffler: Well, I guess that leaves you and me Sam.
Sam Loeffler: Yes, I’m actually working my hardest not to leave a legacy, I don’t want to leave any prints whatsoever while I was here.
Pete Loeffler: Hopefully, on a music standpoint, you know, when people think back they think of Chevelle as a band that didn’t just write about the typicals in rock music, which are, you know, the breakups and the, you know, blah, blah, blah.
So, we have tried to branch out a lot. With my lyrics I try to touch upon very random things that, you know, maybe not everybody - not the casual rockers think about the Bernie Madoff scheme, and you know, animal cruelty, and things like this. So, as we get older, we get - hopefully we grow and get involved in other things and that in turn builds your music and it gives you other passions to write about. So, hopefully people look back and say well, you know, they grew a lot into amazing people.