Hey, folks. Got some audio interviews here for you to listen to. About 3 of them I think....Yup, 3. One with Jon, one with Tim, and one with Tim & Chad. Don't worry, they're all worth your time.
Nuclearity.org interviewed Jon about his EP's. The interviewer was a respectable guy, and Jon had some good words to say, as usual. Listen/download here.
Lifelight.org spoke with Tim in anticipation of the band playing at their festival. Visit this page and scroll down to listen.
Oh, yeah, and I also found a fairly inspiring blog post by a guy who has come to understand more of what Switchfoot and Jon are about:
Monday night, I met Jon Foreman, the lead singer of the band Switchfoot. For the longest time, I never understood Switchfoot.
They wrote about God and Christian topics, but refused to call themselves a "Christian band." I thought that it was a cop-out to make the big bucks and play secular venues.
I saw them several times in concert while I was in college and would always scratch my head as to why they never gave an invitation to receive Christ during their concerts. I mean: no prayer, no twenty-minute sermonette in the middle of their set, and no corny Christian cliches as transitions between their songs?
Surely, Switchfoot wasn't a Christian band...
And yet, I continued to listen to their albums, while slightly judging them at their concerts, chalking up the experience to nothing more than "a good rock show." When they came out with their album Nothing Is Sound, I was sure that they had gone off the deep-end, delving into depressing, pseudo-existential lyrics about the world ending and the stupidity of yuppies. And then, one day in Arizona a few years ago, I was listening to "The Blues," and it just clicked. Jon wasn't singing "Lord, I Lift Your Name On High," but he was most definitely sharing biblical truths in a way that transcended style and culture but still communicated eternal hope.
I realized that it took a lot of depth and soul-searching to understand a song by Jon Foreman.
And in conclusion, no post is entirely complete without a video and/or photos. So how about both? Here's a clip of the beginning of American Dream from the Music Builds show in Chicago. I just liked what Jon said, especially near the end:
Also from the Chi-town show, our friend Erica shared some of her pictures with us:
I'm so stinkin guilty of judging switchfott when my son first starting listening to them. However, once I "got it" I realized this is the kind of music that moves us closer to our Creator. I love switchfoot!
So encouraging to hear from another side, from a person who didn't get what Jon and Switchfoot are all about. Probably one of the things I admire most about Switchfoot is their ability to not be so obvious. Most of their material, lyric-wise, is easily smarter than the airhead cliche material that is on Christian radio today. They are not obviously a Christian band, but in not being so, have way more depth than the majority of Christian music out today.
i liked that blog a lot.
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