I’m not going to overthink it and I’ll give it to the universe and we’ll just see what happens. What I want do in the future is, when I have a song, I’m going to write it, record it, post it.
No, what I meant by that is I’m not going to make anymore LPs. So supporting the store and meeting the people-it’s just kind of a tradition.Ī couple of years ago you said that this would be your last studio album. It’s the one album I look at that makes me the happiest. This album cover for Dopamine is my favorite we’ve done. We’re going to put this album out on vinyl. We wanted to do it and we want to support record stores. Why is it important for you to stop by a record store like Sound Garden and sweat it out with your fans for a couple hours? You guys could have just come to town and played Pier Six. But Pier Six is a really awesome venue, so I’m looking forward to it.
Mostly when I’m here, we’re playing, so there isn’t a lot of downtime. There are a couple of dive bars we go to, none of which I’m going to reveal, so we can keep going to them. I usually stay right up the street and I go running along the water, which I really like.
What are some of your favorite things to do? You’ve come through Baltimore a lot over the years. They’ve never done a record signing before, so this is a bit crazy for them. This has got to be so exciting for the other members of the band, who are a little newer to this whole process. Every night when I play, there’s something a little different. But I do get to change them all the time. And I know what that means because when I listen to it, I hear other things I might want to change. Steven Spielberg said that he never finishes a film, he just releases them. You hem and haw over records for a long time and then you release them. What kind of emotions were you going through today? We got a chance to sit down with Jenkins (the band’s only original member drummer Brad Hargreaves came long in 1995) to discuss the importance of record stores, his favorite places in Baltimore, and the future of the band.Ĭongrats on the album. Tonight, along with Dashboard Confessional, Third Eye Blind will play for an even larger crowd at Pier Six Pavilion. The band made a stop at Sound Garden in Fells Point last night to celebrate the release of its album and frontman Stephan Jenkins strummed a few acoustic songs in the packed, humid store. For many, Third Eye Blind conjures up late-’90s images of shaggy hair and skateboards and a soundtrack full of “Doo, doo, doos” and “Can I graduate?” But since then the band, in some form or another, has enjoyed a storied 20-year career that was most recently capped off by the release of its fifth studio album yesterday (and first in six years), Dopamine.
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