![]() The fact that the band is playing amphitheaters this summer with Jimmy Eat World (and Ra Ra Riot as the opener) says something about Third Eye Blind’s continued appeal. ![]() Despite having gone without a top 20 hit since the 2003 song “Blinded,” Third Eye Blind has managed to sell 12 million albums overall and remain a reliable concert draw. And the band has been somewhat sporadic in releasing new music, with only three full-length albums following “Blue” (the most recent being “Dopamine” in 2015), and four EPs interspersed between those records. Since then, however, Third Eye Blind has had its ups and downs, working through multiple lineup changes that have left Jenkins and Hargreaves as the only remaining original band members. The 1999 follow-up, “Blue,” while not as popular, still moved more than one million copies. Fueled by the hit singles “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Jumper” and “How’s It Going To Be,” “Third Eye Blind” went six times platinum. With bassist Arion Salazar and drummer Brad Hargreaves completing the original Third Eye Blind lineup, the band released its self-titled debut album in 1997. Jenkins began his journey into creating meaningful rock and roll in San Francisco in 1993, when he teamed up with songwriting collaborator and guitarist Kevin Cadogan. But it’s still mostly what I do about internal politics, the friction between, the impact human beings have on each other.” So yeah, I realize that that’s kind of like part of the energy, the narrative energy, of the record. But there’s a song called ‘The Kids Are Coming to Take You Down,’ and that song is kind of inspired by them. I only write from an emotional standpoint. So I see somebody like Emma Gonzalez (a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida and gun control advocate) or Greta Thunberg (young climate change activist), David Hogg (also a survivor of the Parkland shooting), and I’m ‘All right, all right.’ I don’t write anything political. “I see us moving into this really kind of dystopian world, but at the same time I’m so inspired by the energy of so many people, just really the young activists right now are the things that give me the most hope. “This is kind of an album about passion and friction and vitality and aliveness in the space of dystopia,” Jenkins said. The lyrics for the songs on “Screamer” seem like they should meet Jenkins’ standards for Third Eye Blind music. There has to be something where you are permeable, where you are vulnerable and that’s what rock and roll is, the courage to put that out there.” You have to have something in there, in the song, where you are telling a truth that was uncovered. ![]() ![]() One is I’m trying to create this landscape that you can live inside, but that doesn’t matter without that revelatory moment. “I’ve come to learn that I’m kind of always doing two things in songs. “But I also think I’m always looking for something that’s revelatory,” he said. It’s like the whole thing was keep the edge, keep it weird,” Jenkins said of “Screamer.” “I just feel like everything is so safe and like so much music, it sounds like artists don’t want to have their choices impugned, or, like they’re relying on something that works. “Nothing’s safe, no smoothed-out edges, nothing like that at all. ![]()
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