{"id":883,"date":"2011-10-19T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:16:58","slug":"sam-roberts-broken-teeth-and-tamed-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2011\/10\/19\/sam-roberts-broken-teeth-and-tamed-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Roberts: broken teeth and tamed records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes Sam Roberts wonders whether or not he\u2019s tamed his music. The Montreal-based singer\/songwriter and six-time Juno-award winner recently released his latest album, Collider,<\/em>and then set upon the task of taming the album.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have to break the record – like a horse – and then you can let it run wild,\u201d says Roberts. \u201cCause, otherwise, if it\u2019s the opposite way, you\u2019d never get it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Roberts, once you\u2019ve been scared off a record it can be difficult to get back on. After initial performances of a song don\u2019t go well, a band can develop a kind of phobia or superstition and then avoid the song for possibly years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s happened to us on just about every record,\u201d he says. \u201cYou work on these records, you spend a couple of months in the studio, but then the reality is you spend the next year and a half on the road, and that\u2019s where you really start getting to know each other in terms of you and the songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a complex relationship between musician and music. Roberts feels like the first few shows of any tour can be something of a crapshoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no idea how it\u2019s going to go over,\u201d he says. \u201cNot just how it\u2019s going to go over with people, but what will it do to you? Are you going to be in control of the music, or is it going to take you for a ride?\u201d<\/p>\n

After taming the song, Roberts says it\u2019s time to rein it in and see how it works with the show. Once that process is complete, he lets the song go free. The band released Collider<\/em> in May, and only now does Roberts feel like the band has begun to relax and loosen up on the reins.<\/p>\n

Taming music hasn\u2019t left Roberts without scars – he\u2019s lost several teeth during performances over the band\u2019s 11-year career. Okay, just one tooth, several times. A tooth he lost, initially, playing hockey; after that tooth was fixed it became prone to shattering easily.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes that mic hits you pretty hard,\u201d he laughs. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t, because you\u2019re not supposed to smash your face into it, but for some reason I keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Roberts Band<\/strong>
\n7pm, Saturday October 22
\nRoyal Theatre
\n$29.50-$39.50
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Sometimes Sam Roberts wonders whether or not he\u2019s tamed his music. The Montreal-based singer\/songwriter and six-time Juno-award winner recently released his latest album, Collider,and then set upon the task of taming the album. \u201cYou have to break the record – like a horse – and then you can let it run wild,\u201d says Roberts. \u201cCause, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":884,"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":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october192011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}