20 Min in a Shower with Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki
An intimate interview with Rusted Root's front-man reveals tales of the bands roots and path to fame.
Eliza Sayward
Issue date: 9/17/02 Section: Arts
For periods of my life I forgot about her, and then I remembered her, and I drew pictured of her and whatever. But recently I injured my arm doing construction on my house and immediately had like a real intimate experience with her and went oh yeah and so at that point I went well okay I'll write a love song about her
T: Which album are you most proud of?
M: I like them all. It's hard for me to pick one 'cause they're all like growing stages for me. And like tonight, [I can tell you this because it's a surprise but we're going to be playing a lot of songs off Remember] we haven't played those songs in like five or six years so just playing the sound check brings out a lot of emotions for me. So tonight Remember is my favorite record but I know that they're all equal.
T: You're going to a lot of Colleges on this tour, what is different about College concerts than other venues?
M: It's a little difficult, some of the aggressive behavior at colleges. But at the same time I really do enjoy a lot more enthusiasm; as a performer you enjoy when the audience seems a lot more enthused, but at times it turns aggressive – you know people falling off of bleachers and getting hurt or doing body surfing and stuff like that. Which they do because they don't know who we are yet and they're just being introduced to us and so they're acting, like you know they might have gone and seen Pearl Jam the week before and they're acting like that. I love, I mean overall it's one of the more exciting venues and crowds to play to. I think when you do hit a college audience and it goes really well it's one of the best experiences.
T: Do you feel a big connection to your fans (on stage)?
M: Oh yeah, and you know after the shows we normally go out to the table, the merch table, and sign autographs and talk to people. There's some of the same people every night; they come and follow us. It's nice,
Rusted Root started out as sort of a ritualistic band where we would rent warehouses out in Pittsburg and all our friends would come plus other people. We would eat dinner on the dance floor and we would build our own stage, (eat our food), and then everybody would put away the food and we would get up and play.
T: Which album are you most proud of?
M: I like them all. It's hard for me to pick one 'cause they're all like growing stages for me. And like tonight, [I can tell you this because it's a surprise but we're going to be playing a lot of songs off Remember] we haven't played those songs in like five or six years so just playing the sound check brings out a lot of emotions for me. So tonight Remember is my favorite record but I know that they're all equal.
T: You're going to a lot of Colleges on this tour, what is different about College concerts than other venues?
M: It's a little difficult, some of the aggressive behavior at colleges. But at the same time I really do enjoy a lot more enthusiasm; as a performer you enjoy when the audience seems a lot more enthused, but at times it turns aggressive – you know people falling off of bleachers and getting hurt or doing body surfing and stuff like that. Which they do because they don't know who we are yet and they're just being introduced to us and so they're acting, like you know they might have gone and seen Pearl Jam the week before and they're acting like that. I love, I mean overall it's one of the more exciting venues and crowds to play to. I think when you do hit a college audience and it goes really well it's one of the best experiences.
T: Do you feel a big connection to your fans (on stage)?
M: Oh yeah, and you know after the shows we normally go out to the table, the merch table, and sign autographs and talk to people. There's some of the same people every night; they come and follow us. It's nice,
Rusted Root started out as sort of a ritualistic band where we would rent warehouses out in Pittsburg and all our friends would come plus other people. We would eat dinner on the dance floor and we would build our own stage, (eat our food), and then everybody would put away the food and we would get up and play.
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