“It’s different than the record, but it’s definitely a cool experience,” he said. Schneider said the band’s live performances are more stripped down, but that variation is intended. The album is full with layered harmonies and drums. They added another Michigan native, bassist Miguel Briseno and started playing shows in 2010. Lord Huron was originally a solo project for the Michigan native Schneider, but after releasing his first EP, “Into the Sun,” Schneider recruited some childhood friends - percussionist Mark Barry and guitarist Tom Renaud - to form a live band. “I’m just a man, but I know that I’m damned,” Schneider sings on “Ghost on the Shore,” the album’s fourth track. Schneider’s fantasy transformed into music is just another vessel for those little truths most of us like to ignore: Death’s permanence. He’s kind of happy to keep writing and do his thing.” “I just imagine him as sort of an underappreciated writer who really kind of believes in what he’s doing but hasn’t necessarily received the accolades or anything,” said Schneider. He gives Schneider another set of eyes with which to examine his own songs. Schneider’s made-up pulp adventure writer, George Ranger Johnson, is a tragic figure. “I start from a personal place and then just kind of look at it through this lens of mythology or folklore.” “For me what’s interesting is to create that stuff not necessarily out of thin air, but out of things that I’ve experienced or things that people around me have experienced,” said Schneider. Schneider based “Lonesome Dreams” and all its songs on a fake writer’s catalog of fake pulp adventure stories, but all that is based on real-life experience. Sunday, July 21 at the UMS’ Main Stage at Goodwill, has a penchant for folklore. Wednesday, May 17th 2023 Home Page Close Menu
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