Guitarist Talks About The Next All-American Rejects Album
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.01.2008
Nick Wheeler talks about the new AAR album and playing with Bon Jovi...
The All-American Rejects are a year-and-a-half and 30 songs deep into their third album, but guitarist Nick Wheeler admits "we're still writing and recording. We've got our hands full right now."
"We've been writing our asses off. We've written more songs that we've ever written for an album before," reports Wheeler. AAR has been recording in Los Angeles and Atlanta with producer Eric Valentine (Smash Mouth, Taking Back Sunday, Queens of the Stone Age).
"We definitely want this to be perfect," he says. "We're scrutinizing every little bit and thinking real hard about everything that goes into it and making sure it captures what we're feeling, 'cause there's so much to say and so much to give to these songs and these recordings. It's all there; we just have to capture it."
Of their upcoming supporting dates, Wheeler says, "Bon Jovi is a dream come true, so you don't want to turn those down. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing."
Fans in attendance will hear the the new AAR cut "Mona Lisa. "It's a really cool, just intimate little acoustic song," Wheeler says. "It kinda started that way and it just stuck and it's gonna be a really cool moment on the record. And it's a cool moment in the set, too. When a band plays a new song it's always, y'know, pee break or beer break, like 'I need a refill. I'll be back for all the hits.' But even though this is new, it's been capturing attention."
