{"id":1955,"date":"2012-01-12T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2012-01-16T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:29:43","slug":"web-exclusive-dreams-become-reality-for-vancouver%e2%80%99s-boom-booms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/01\/12\/web-exclusive-dreams-become-reality-for-vancouver%e2%80%99s-boom-booms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams become reality for Vancouver\u2019s Boom Booms"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Boom Boom\u2019s vocalist Aaron Ross and bassist Geordie Hart were in their early 20s, they went on a road trip from Vancouver to Panama. After purchasing a van, they drove down and had countless amazing experiences\u2014but one thought kept recurring: that it would be great to bring a video camera on their next trip to document the experience.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward a few years, and the life-long friends (and founding members of the Boom Booms) are bringing that dream to life: after the band plays their upcoming show at Sugar, the six-piece is hopping on a plane and heading to Brazil. It\u2019s a trip made possible by the second-place finish at last year\u2019s Peak Performance Project (and the $75,000 prize that entailed).<\/p>\n

For Ross, traveling to Brazil and filming a documentary is part of building a heightened, richer experience\u2014a far different goal than previous travels. Ross sums up his trips to Latin America easily.<\/p>\n

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The Boom Booms (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe had some amazing experiences,\u201d he says. \u201cWe played shows all over, got robbed, hooked up with women, and swam in beautiful places.\u201d<\/p>\n

But none of those reasons are why he\u2019ll be making the trip to Brazil with five of his closest friends. They\u2019re collectively a bit older now, and their dreams have evolved from goals to plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we\u2019re less infatuated with just partying and roaming\u2014we just get off more on some kind of organized experience,\u201d he muses from his home in East Vancouver. \u201cYou\u2019re kind of looking for lessons and growing. It\u2019s something that you never stop doing, you just learn that to get the most out of your time you do need to be kind of organized.\u201d Ross chuckles and catches himself, saying, \u201cI never thought I\u2019d say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s clear that there are at least a half-dozen genres encompassed in the sound of the Boom Booms, calling your music latin\/soul\/funk\/rock\/reggae doesn\u2019t exactly roll off the tongue. With a bit of a nudge, Ross comes up with an answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s soul music with world influence,\u201d he says. \u201cBecause soul is from the heart\u2014like love songs with a certain amount of soulness to it\u2014and we bring that, but with our love of different grooves from dancehall and reggae and Latin stuff. I think the overall drive, I\u2019d call it soul music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Boom Booms with Carmanah and Mike Edel
\nJanuary 14
\n$12-$15
\nSugar
\ntheboombooms.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Boom Boom\u2019s vocalist Aaron Ross and bassist Geordie Hart were in their early 20s, they went on a road trip from Vancouver to Panama. After purchasing a van, they drove down and had countless amazing experiences\u2014but one thought kept recurring: that it would be great to bring a video camera on their next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}