Whereas, now there is no panic, and we stay calm and keep trying things and you have this faith that it’s gonna work out.” “It’s almost like that with music in the beginning you think you’re safe and then you get lost and think you’re gonna die. “It’s almost like you were backpacking and you got lost a number of times, and now you know how to get yourself back safely to home,” says Schultz. Schultz and his bandmates have become more confident in their musicianship, which has allowed them to feel comfortable throughout the songwriting and recording process. For us it’s our favorite record we have made.” It’s cool to do something new and have it go well. I wish we would have done that with every album, but in order to do that you have to have a lot of trust in your ability, and I don’t think we had that in the past to be frank. I believe that energy made it onto the record in a really positive way. “That’s what we did in the past, and BRIGHTSIDE was more spontaneous. “Imagine someone rehearsing something a thousand times and then going into the studio, and knowing every part and executing it,” says Schultz. Schultz believes the approach that the Lumineers took with BRIGHTSIDE paid off that it allowed the group to create a unique, spotanoues, energetic sound on the album. We got a much more authentic and raw recording of the songs because we didn’t really know them by heart because these songs were brand new to us.’’ “We only had voice memos to go off of instead of full on demos. “We made this album differently than albums we have made before,” explains Schultz. The making of BRIGHTSIDE was different from what the band, now based in Boulder, Colorado, was used to doing in the past. The Lumineers will be coming home this summer with shows in Holmdel and Camden, touring in support of their fourth album BRIGHTSIDE. I got to see where all the artists want to play and have their best shows at.” “It was an amazing opportunity, and some of the first shows I saw were in New York. Now some of the isolation of small-town living is mitigated by being next to a city, as is the case with Ramsey and New York City-“Once it became time to play gigs I knew I could play New York and cut my teeth,” explains Schultz. The small town thing can work when you are starting out because there are only so many of us and we’re supporting each other.” Like I remember playing an open mic at our high school and thinking, ‘I was alright.’ It gave me confidence. Sometimes I feel like if you grow up in a city you have a feeling about being a tiny drop in a large ocean. “You could feel special in such a small community, if that makes sense. “It was a really positive experience,” says Schultz. Ramsey, as it turned out, was the perfect place to foster Schultz’ early music career. I would also listen to Naughty By Nature, and it’s funny to think how they have ‘Hip Hip Hooray,’ which goes ‘Hey Oh, Hey Oh,’ and we have, ‘Ho Hey.’ My dad also had a select collection of CDs in his car, which included The Cars, Billy Joel and the Talking Heads.”Īs a student at Ramsey High School, Schultz spent a lot of time writing lyrics in his notebook: “I really loved words and poetry, and I was always writing,” he says. Come to think of it, it was a decent soundtrack. “My sister had this Dirty Dancing soundtrack, and I would spend a lot of time listening to it. I would sing along to it and my dad would get a kick out of that,” he says. “We would go to Yankees games once or twice a year, and when the Yankees win, ‘New York, New York’ by Sinatra gets played. The Bergen County native immersed himself in music, finding it all around him. What was next turned out far better than Schultz’ hoop dreams. “…I had to think to myself, ‘What’s next?'” I left in the second round of tryouts, and I knew I wasn’t going to make the team… Between middle school and high school I tried out for a traveling team, and I remember getting a drink of water and heard that whistle blowing, and someone pulled me out of the game. “I really wanted it desperately, and I got good at shooting, but that was about it and I wasn’t really athletic enough. “My dreams of becoming an NBA player were thrown out,” says Schultz. The Lumineers’ Wesley Schultz still remembers hearing the whistle that shattered his dreams of one day playing for his beloved New Jersey Nets, or being the next Michael Jordan.
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