After nearly a five year break between albums, 3 Doors Down is back and seemingly ready to reclaim their spot on Billboard charts as they release their 6th full-length album, scheduled to drop March 11, 2016. It is set to an even more vigorous sound mixed with some flirty intentions of lust and sexual innuendo as proclaimed in their current single from the album, ‘In the Dark”. Its’ fun and suggestive chorus catches you off guard and has you rocking in your car while singing along before you even realize it. As Chris and I discussed the album and the bands’ thought process behind the recording modifications this go round, it was clear that 3DD isn’t ready to let go of their dream of music anytime soon. This time they are leaving their tried and true practices at the door as they step into a deeper realm of musicality utilizing different instrumentation while pushing through all the barriers that they may come to along the way. With a revamped lineup that includes past members Brad Arnold-lead vocals, Chris Henderson-lead and rhythm guitar, Greg Upchurch-drums, and new members Chet Roberts-lead and rhythm guitar, and Justin Biltonen-bass, they are confident that they have what it takes to withstand the tests that the music industry and all of its uncertainty throws their way. The love for what you do is a key factor in longevity and 3DD have proven that they have that and more. I’ve listened to 3DD for almost 20 years and I admit that I am extremely euphoric about the new album. I am ready to embrace the strides and changes the band continues to make to propel themselves into a better understanding of the music environment we are facing today.
Interview with Chris Henderson - guitarist, 3 Doors Down
By: Leslie Elder Rogers
Metal Exiles: Well Metal Exiles is excited about the new music coming out. How are you guys feeling about it?
Chris: It’s great. It’s really exciting for us as well. It’s been almost five years since we’ve had a full length studio record. It’s a scary environment to release music into so it’s exciting and scary at the same time but I tell you what, everyone in the band is feeling pretty good about it at the moment.
Metal Exiles: I know this is the longest hiatus you’ve taken between albums and I know this one brings a lot of change to your sound but it’s nice to have change. The pre-release hype took you to Japan for a quick tour. How was the new material received and is rock still alive and well there?
Chris: Oh yeah, if you can play an upbeat, up tempo song live in front of a crowd, they’re gonna eventually pick up on it. It may take them a second or two but you can see the wheels turning to see if they recognize it. Not everyone over there speaks English so you can tell them all day long it’s a new song and they’re like “oh, okay”, but when you start playing it they start wondering is it new or not. It takes them a moment but they pick up on it really fast so yeah, the new material was received very well over there.
Metal Exiles: Considering the atmosphere surrounding your former bassist, what was the final closure that allowed you guys to move on and kind of forget the past?
Chris: Well, we really haven’t forgotten the past. We have moved on just out of necessity, I think. Our hands were tied. He did what he did and he had to go and take care of that whole thing and it wasn’t up to us. There was no phone call that we could make, no check we could write, there was nothing we could do for him. He had to deal with that. He had to go face that. That was kind of how that went down and when we accepted the fact that he had to face his demons if you will, we were able to move on instantly from there.
Metal Exiles: It’s always a little difficult when there’s a lineup change but the new guys seemed to fit in pretty quickly, was there any type of adjustment period?
Chris: Not really. Chet, our new guitar player was our tech for a while, for about three years so he knew the material. He knew the guys in the band. He knew the touring situation. He knew everyone on the crew and had been a part of that. He’s a great player and sings background vocals very well so he was a natural fit. It happened overnight and the next day, it was like he’d been in the band for 20 years. Now Justin, there was a little adjustment period for him but the only reason I say that is because he was a guitar player, not a bass player. There’s a little bit of a difference there. A lot of people think that guitar players can instantly play basses and it’s just not true. They have to be able to adapt to the rhythm section. It was a little bit of a process for him because he liked to play like a guitar player. We’ve known him for years and years so when the opportunity came up for a new bass player, instead of trying out tons of bass players we were just like “let’s just call Justin and get him a bass and let’s stick him out there and see what happens”. So that’s what we did. It took a little bit of time though and that’s partly where the five year hiatus came from; getting these new members ready. The playing thing was one thing but to put them on the road and put a whole new unit on the road and see if it was gonna work, we didn’t want to commit to it with two guys that we were gonna have to fire or anything. We wanted to make sure that they fit the touring situation.
Metal Exiles: Us and the Night seems to lend itself to a darker theme. What were the thoughts going into this album?
Chris: A lot of fear but fear breeds action so fear is okay if you use it so that’s what we did. We were scared to release music into the environment that rock is in right now because it’s a bit different that it was five years ago and way different than it was ten years ago. We didn’t know, maybe we had missed something and all those good things but at the end of the day, like I said fear breeds action and we just to it and started working and didn’t look back. The title kind of reflects that whole mind set, like a snapshot of where the band was at the beginning of the process and kind of throughout the process until we really realized that we were getting somewhere. Writing music is not easy. Not everyone can do it. I don’t care how many people think that they can, they can’t. It’s really hard. It’s hard especially with other people. So yeah, the song title, the album title is definitely a snapshot of where we were at.
Metal Exiles: You made a comment that you guys figured out the way you are going to make records for the rest of your careers. What was that leading too?
Chris: This means more than creatively because creatively we still do the same thing. It also means financially. Financially and creatively is what I meant by that because we have the studio in Nashville that I happen to be one of the owners of. It’s just a little rinky dink studio but it sounds great and it’s cheap and it’s just a cool place to do this kind of stuff. Before, for years and years, with the other guys in the band, we never really worked there. We always wanted to go to LA. We always wanted to go to London or the Bahamas or somewhere to do records and spend all this money and throw all this money at these records and we never had to do that. That studio has always been there. This time around, Brad was like “why would we go anywhere else but Nashville? Number one because of all the great studios here”. We got downtown to the studio that we did the drums in and wondered why we were spending all this money there when we have my place up in Hendersonville. So that’s what we did. We went back to Hendersonville and shut in this little studio and didn’t have anybody bugging us. We didn’t have any of this crap. It was just us in the studio making music. Doing it the way it was supposed to be done and that’s what I meant. We are definitely gonna make records like that forever.
Metal Exiles: Another comment that stood out to me was that you guys pushed until it wasn’t comfortable? What is your comfort zone with records and what made you feel that you left it?
Chris: The comfort zone is, well, if you listen to our past records, that’s our comfort zone. We are comfortable making music in this little spot that is 3 Doors Down. In order to evolve like other bands in the past have done, you have to be able to break down those barriers. You have to be able to go left or go right, or up or down, or somewhere different in the creative process and in the recording process. At some point there’s gonna be this wall that you built over years that is there. Whether or not you can see it, you’re gonna feel it when you get there. You’ll be like “Ok cool, this is not what we do. This is not 3 Doors Down. This is not what our fans like. This is not what the label is gonna like”. You get to that point at some point no matter what if you are trying to grow. If you’re not trying to grow, you’re just gonna put music out and that’s just the way it’s gonna be. We call that the spaghetti effect, when you just slam it up against the wall and see if it sticks. Music is changing every two or three years and you have to evolve with it somehow. So, our strategy was to write differently, use different instrumentation, use the technology that was available and some regular acoustic instruments and then combine them; and write to synthetic drum beats and see what happens. We wanted to take the human factor out of it and add it back later and that’s what we did with a lot of these songs.
Metal Exiles: “Living in Hell”, you said, is about broken promises, and it seems to go right along with the darker edge of the album along with songs like “Love Is a Lie” and “Still Alive”. Was this the mood of the writing for the whole album or is there a deeper story to them?
Chris: The thing about the lyrics on a 3 Doors Down album is that they’re always open to interpretation but there’s always kind of a nudge in the direction that we seem to want you to go if that makes sense. When Brad writes lyrics, he has a pretty clear picture of what the song means to him. If you listen to it just on the surface, that’s what the song is going to mean to you but he’s a smart lyricist, so if you break down his lyrics and you follow the twists and turns with him, it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. That’s the beauty of art. I think that when you look at something, be it a painting, or you hear something like a poem or whatever, you get what you get out of it, what you’re meant to get out of it at that particular time and the person standing next to you gets something completely different out of it but it’s what they’re meant to get out of it. I think that’s the one thing, even though it’s two different meanings, that’s the tie that binds art and human together. It’s just the romance that we all have and it flows through all of us and it’s a really beautiful thing. I think Brad in some way understands that and is able to capture that with his lyrics. It’s really a cool thing.
Metal Exiles: Even though there have been some changes in the instrumentation that you use and some of the technical changes you’ve made, you still have a sinister guitar tone. What did you use as far as guitars and amps on this album?
Chris: Well, I’ve been collecting guitars and collecting amps for the last 20 years. Working with different producers and different situations we’ve learned what sounds good and how to capture the great guitar tone and we have some really cool instruments. We probably used 50 different guitars on this record. It would probably take me ten minutes just to figure out what all we used but mainly I have a bunch of amps that belong to my studio and a bunch of guitars that we’ve had modded here in Nashville because of all the great amp guys that live here. We’ve had them modded to sound impeccable. I can break it down for you if you like but it’s a lot of different things.
Metal Exiles: So just outline some favorites; some that you prefer over others.
Chris: I’m a big Hughes and Kettner fan. We all are. I have several of these Hughes and Kettner Triumph Mk 2’s and each one of them sounds a little different that the next one. I’ve had them worked on over the years. I’ve had different things done to them. You can send them back to the company and they’ll fix them for free or you can take them down to the local guy down the street from you that you trust with your amps and you can have a conversation with him about what you want the amp to sound like. That’s what I’ve done over the years. I’ve taken them to this place called Nashville Amp and just had the guy, his name is Todd Sharpe kind of tweak my amps until we really like them. We’ve become known for our guitar tone at the studio where we work and it’s really a beautiful thing so when 3 Doors recorded there we were able to really kind of finesse our guitar tone onto this record with Matt. With a different producer and a different room, they’re gonna grab mics from the studio and they’re gonna grab cables and they’re gonna put things in different places but we were able to put things where we knew it worked.
Metal Exiles: You guys first formed 20 years ago. What has it taken internally for you guys to make it this long and go as far as you have?
Chris: If you want to get technical, it’s been a little longer than that. I think the drive to succeed is one thing but the love of the game; you have to love it. You have to be that kind of person that can live in a tube with eighteen other people for three days. You have to be a special type of person; like a people in the Navy in submarines, you know. It’s not for everybody. You just can’t do it. You can put five great musicians in a room and they can write great songs. They can even be hit songs but you just can’t put those same five guys in a band and put them on the road and have it work. You just can’t do it. They’re gonna hate each other at some point. There’s gonna be some sort of personality conflict or somebody’s wife is gonna be this or that or somebody’s haircut is not gonna be right for that week or whatever. Things are gonna happen. I think that just knowing up front that those things are gonna come up, everybody, not just one or two people but everyone in the group has to realize that you’re gonna get agitated at people but it’s not the end of the world and this too shall pass. That’s the saying that we have “This too shall pass”. No matter what it is, tomorrow is gonna be different. You get a reprieve and that keeps us going longer than anything else. Personalities rub each other the wrong way from time to time but the next day, man, you’re best friends again. If you hold onto that and you love what you do, you’re gonna be around for a while. People are drawn to honesty and that’s honest.
Metal Exiles: How did you guys enjoy working with Matt Wallace as a producer?
Chris: He’s great. Matt is really a talented guy; really artsy. He’s like a science project. It’s one of those things where you never know what he’s gonna say or do and you don’t know what idea he’s gonna have but I guarantee you when he has it, you’re not gonna like it. He’s one of those guys that comes up with these quirky ideas and when you hear them you’re like “Man, what are you talking about?”, but then five minutes later you get the genius behind it and are like “Okay, I apologize. I understand what you’re trying to say now”. At first you think you’d never do that. That’s not how we would do things but you know at the end of the day, with Matt, we didn’t hire him to do it the way we did it. We didn’t pay him money to show him how we do it. We paid him to show us how he does it and that’s what he did. It was a really cool experience.
Metal Exiles: I know you’re signed up for some festival tours but is your tour planned for summer, fall, etc.?
Chris: We don’t know yet. We’re trying to put it together. Hopefully this week or next week it’ll be finalized and we can get these things on sale. We don’t know exactly what it’s gonna be yet. Summer touring is hard. Everyone kind of packages up really early and our record cycle kind of kept us out of the game until it was almost too late so instead of scrambling just to throw a tour together, we want to do it right. We want to do it smart and we want to do it fun. We want it to make sense for us and the fans and the other bands involved because it’s not just about us. It’s about everyone. It’s about the tour so we want to do it right. We’re trying to put together a package and it’s gonna be a good one when we finally do it but I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag because once I do that it jinxes it.
Metal Exiles: In your own words, what would like people to get from this album; to walk away thinking or feeling or even reminiscing about and feel once they hear this album?
Chris: I just want them to feel the body of work. I want them to think they’ve got something that they can relate to as a whole not just one song here and one song there. I want them to enjoy the record the way we recorded it as a piece of work in its entirety. That’s what I want people to get from it. If they can, great. If they can’t, I understand because the environment is single-driven at the moment like it was back in the fifties and sixties when everyone bought these little singles. That’s fine too but bands make records and we’re a band known for making records and we want people to enjoy it like that.
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Interview with Chris Henderson - guitarist, 3 Doors Down
By: Leslie Elder Rogers
Metal Exiles: Well Metal Exiles is excited about the new music coming out. How are you guys feeling about it?
Chris: It’s great. It’s really exciting for us as well. It’s been almost five years since we’ve had a full length studio record. It’s a scary environment to release music into so it’s exciting and scary at the same time but I tell you what, everyone in the band is feeling pretty good about it at the moment.
Metal Exiles: I know this is the longest hiatus you’ve taken between albums and I know this one brings a lot of change to your sound but it’s nice to have change. The pre-release hype took you to Japan for a quick tour. How was the new material received and is rock still alive and well there?
Chris: Oh yeah, if you can play an upbeat, up tempo song live in front of a crowd, they’re gonna eventually pick up on it. It may take them a second or two but you can see the wheels turning to see if they recognize it. Not everyone over there speaks English so you can tell them all day long it’s a new song and they’re like “oh, okay”, but when you start playing it they start wondering is it new or not. It takes them a moment but they pick up on it really fast so yeah, the new material was received very well over there.
Metal Exiles: Considering the atmosphere surrounding your former bassist, what was the final closure that allowed you guys to move on and kind of forget the past?
Chris: Well, we really haven’t forgotten the past. We have moved on just out of necessity, I think. Our hands were tied. He did what he did and he had to go and take care of that whole thing and it wasn’t up to us. There was no phone call that we could make, no check we could write, there was nothing we could do for him. He had to deal with that. He had to go face that. That was kind of how that went down and when we accepted the fact that he had to face his demons if you will, we were able to move on instantly from there.
Metal Exiles: It’s always a little difficult when there’s a lineup change but the new guys seemed to fit in pretty quickly, was there any type of adjustment period?
Chris: Not really. Chet, our new guitar player was our tech for a while, for about three years so he knew the material. He knew the guys in the band. He knew the touring situation. He knew everyone on the crew and had been a part of that. He’s a great player and sings background vocals very well so he was a natural fit. It happened overnight and the next day, it was like he’d been in the band for 20 years. Now Justin, there was a little adjustment period for him but the only reason I say that is because he was a guitar player, not a bass player. There’s a little bit of a difference there. A lot of people think that guitar players can instantly play basses and it’s just not true. They have to be able to adapt to the rhythm section. It was a little bit of a process for him because he liked to play like a guitar player. We’ve known him for years and years so when the opportunity came up for a new bass player, instead of trying out tons of bass players we were just like “let’s just call Justin and get him a bass and let’s stick him out there and see what happens”. So that’s what we did. It took a little bit of time though and that’s partly where the five year hiatus came from; getting these new members ready. The playing thing was one thing but to put them on the road and put a whole new unit on the road and see if it was gonna work, we didn’t want to commit to it with two guys that we were gonna have to fire or anything. We wanted to make sure that they fit the touring situation.
Metal Exiles: Us and the Night seems to lend itself to a darker theme. What were the thoughts going into this album?
Chris: A lot of fear but fear breeds action so fear is okay if you use it so that’s what we did. We were scared to release music into the environment that rock is in right now because it’s a bit different that it was five years ago and way different than it was ten years ago. We didn’t know, maybe we had missed something and all those good things but at the end of the day, like I said fear breeds action and we just to it and started working and didn’t look back. The title kind of reflects that whole mind set, like a snapshot of where the band was at the beginning of the process and kind of throughout the process until we really realized that we were getting somewhere. Writing music is not easy. Not everyone can do it. I don’t care how many people think that they can, they can’t. It’s really hard. It’s hard especially with other people. So yeah, the song title, the album title is definitely a snapshot of where we were at.
Metal Exiles: You made a comment that you guys figured out the way you are going to make records for the rest of your careers. What was that leading too?
Chris: This means more than creatively because creatively we still do the same thing. It also means financially. Financially and creatively is what I meant by that because we have the studio in Nashville that I happen to be one of the owners of. It’s just a little rinky dink studio but it sounds great and it’s cheap and it’s just a cool place to do this kind of stuff. Before, for years and years, with the other guys in the band, we never really worked there. We always wanted to go to LA. We always wanted to go to London or the Bahamas or somewhere to do records and spend all this money and throw all this money at these records and we never had to do that. That studio has always been there. This time around, Brad was like “why would we go anywhere else but Nashville? Number one because of all the great studios here”. We got downtown to the studio that we did the drums in and wondered why we were spending all this money there when we have my place up in Hendersonville. So that’s what we did. We went back to Hendersonville and shut in this little studio and didn’t have anybody bugging us. We didn’t have any of this crap. It was just us in the studio making music. Doing it the way it was supposed to be done and that’s what I meant. We are definitely gonna make records like that forever.
Metal Exiles: Another comment that stood out to me was that you guys pushed until it wasn’t comfortable? What is your comfort zone with records and what made you feel that you left it?
Chris: The comfort zone is, well, if you listen to our past records, that’s our comfort zone. We are comfortable making music in this little spot that is 3 Doors Down. In order to evolve like other bands in the past have done, you have to be able to break down those barriers. You have to be able to go left or go right, or up or down, or somewhere different in the creative process and in the recording process. At some point there’s gonna be this wall that you built over years that is there. Whether or not you can see it, you’re gonna feel it when you get there. You’ll be like “Ok cool, this is not what we do. This is not 3 Doors Down. This is not what our fans like. This is not what the label is gonna like”. You get to that point at some point no matter what if you are trying to grow. If you’re not trying to grow, you’re just gonna put music out and that’s just the way it’s gonna be. We call that the spaghetti effect, when you just slam it up against the wall and see if it sticks. Music is changing every two or three years and you have to evolve with it somehow. So, our strategy was to write differently, use different instrumentation, use the technology that was available and some regular acoustic instruments and then combine them; and write to synthetic drum beats and see what happens. We wanted to take the human factor out of it and add it back later and that’s what we did with a lot of these songs.
Metal Exiles: “Living in Hell”, you said, is about broken promises, and it seems to go right along with the darker edge of the album along with songs like “Love Is a Lie” and “Still Alive”. Was this the mood of the writing for the whole album or is there a deeper story to them?
Chris: The thing about the lyrics on a 3 Doors Down album is that they’re always open to interpretation but there’s always kind of a nudge in the direction that we seem to want you to go if that makes sense. When Brad writes lyrics, he has a pretty clear picture of what the song means to him. If you listen to it just on the surface, that’s what the song is going to mean to you but he’s a smart lyricist, so if you break down his lyrics and you follow the twists and turns with him, it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. That’s the beauty of art. I think that when you look at something, be it a painting, or you hear something like a poem or whatever, you get what you get out of it, what you’re meant to get out of it at that particular time and the person standing next to you gets something completely different out of it but it’s what they’re meant to get out of it. I think that’s the one thing, even though it’s two different meanings, that’s the tie that binds art and human together. It’s just the romance that we all have and it flows through all of us and it’s a really beautiful thing. I think Brad in some way understands that and is able to capture that with his lyrics. It’s really a cool thing.
Metal Exiles: Even though there have been some changes in the instrumentation that you use and some of the technical changes you’ve made, you still have a sinister guitar tone. What did you use as far as guitars and amps on this album?
Chris: Well, I’ve been collecting guitars and collecting amps for the last 20 years. Working with different producers and different situations we’ve learned what sounds good and how to capture the great guitar tone and we have some really cool instruments. We probably used 50 different guitars on this record. It would probably take me ten minutes just to figure out what all we used but mainly I have a bunch of amps that belong to my studio and a bunch of guitars that we’ve had modded here in Nashville because of all the great amp guys that live here. We’ve had them modded to sound impeccable. I can break it down for you if you like but it’s a lot of different things.
Metal Exiles: So just outline some favorites; some that you prefer over others.
Chris: I’m a big Hughes and Kettner fan. We all are. I have several of these Hughes and Kettner Triumph Mk 2’s and each one of them sounds a little different that the next one. I’ve had them worked on over the years. I’ve had different things done to them. You can send them back to the company and they’ll fix them for free or you can take them down to the local guy down the street from you that you trust with your amps and you can have a conversation with him about what you want the amp to sound like. That’s what I’ve done over the years. I’ve taken them to this place called Nashville Amp and just had the guy, his name is Todd Sharpe kind of tweak my amps until we really like them. We’ve become known for our guitar tone at the studio where we work and it’s really a beautiful thing so when 3 Doors recorded there we were able to really kind of finesse our guitar tone onto this record with Matt. With a different producer and a different room, they’re gonna grab mics from the studio and they’re gonna grab cables and they’re gonna put things in different places but we were able to put things where we knew it worked.
Metal Exiles: You guys first formed 20 years ago. What has it taken internally for you guys to make it this long and go as far as you have?
Chris: If you want to get technical, it’s been a little longer than that. I think the drive to succeed is one thing but the love of the game; you have to love it. You have to be that kind of person that can live in a tube with eighteen other people for three days. You have to be a special type of person; like a people in the Navy in submarines, you know. It’s not for everybody. You just can’t do it. You can put five great musicians in a room and they can write great songs. They can even be hit songs but you just can’t put those same five guys in a band and put them on the road and have it work. You just can’t do it. They’re gonna hate each other at some point. There’s gonna be some sort of personality conflict or somebody’s wife is gonna be this or that or somebody’s haircut is not gonna be right for that week or whatever. Things are gonna happen. I think that just knowing up front that those things are gonna come up, everybody, not just one or two people but everyone in the group has to realize that you’re gonna get agitated at people but it’s not the end of the world and this too shall pass. That’s the saying that we have “This too shall pass”. No matter what it is, tomorrow is gonna be different. You get a reprieve and that keeps us going longer than anything else. Personalities rub each other the wrong way from time to time but the next day, man, you’re best friends again. If you hold onto that and you love what you do, you’re gonna be around for a while. People are drawn to honesty and that’s honest.
Metal Exiles: How did you guys enjoy working with Matt Wallace as a producer?
Chris: He’s great. Matt is really a talented guy; really artsy. He’s like a science project. It’s one of those things where you never know what he’s gonna say or do and you don’t know what idea he’s gonna have but I guarantee you when he has it, you’re not gonna like it. He’s one of those guys that comes up with these quirky ideas and when you hear them you’re like “Man, what are you talking about?”, but then five minutes later you get the genius behind it and are like “Okay, I apologize. I understand what you’re trying to say now”. At first you think you’d never do that. That’s not how we would do things but you know at the end of the day, with Matt, we didn’t hire him to do it the way we did it. We didn’t pay him money to show him how we do it. We paid him to show us how he does it and that’s what he did. It was a really cool experience.
Metal Exiles: I know you’re signed up for some festival tours but is your tour planned for summer, fall, etc.?
Chris: We don’t know yet. We’re trying to put it together. Hopefully this week or next week it’ll be finalized and we can get these things on sale. We don’t know exactly what it’s gonna be yet. Summer touring is hard. Everyone kind of packages up really early and our record cycle kind of kept us out of the game until it was almost too late so instead of scrambling just to throw a tour together, we want to do it right. We want to do it smart and we want to do it fun. We want it to make sense for us and the fans and the other bands involved because it’s not just about us. It’s about everyone. It’s about the tour so we want to do it right. We’re trying to put together a package and it’s gonna be a good one when we finally do it but I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag because once I do that it jinxes it.
Metal Exiles: In your own words, what would like people to get from this album; to walk away thinking or feeling or even reminiscing about and feel once they hear this album?
Chris: I just want them to feel the body of work. I want them to think they’ve got something that they can relate to as a whole not just one song here and one song there. I want them to enjoy the record the way we recorded it as a piece of work in its entirety. That’s what I want people to get from it. If they can, great. If they can’t, I understand because the environment is single-driven at the moment like it was back in the fifties and sixties when everyone bought these little singles. That’s fine too but bands make records and we’re a band known for making records and we want people to enjoy it like that.
Band website @ www.3doorsdown.com
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