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NEEDTOBREATHE - Rivers In the Wasteland
According to a recent interview with Billboard, the new album and subsequent tour almost never happened. After two years of touring for The Reckoning and losing their drummer, the band came close to breaking up. Frontman Bear Rinehard said, "It was a combination of a lot of things. We'd been doing this for a long time and we hadn't really had enough rest to be honest. It had been probably eight or nine years since we'd taken a few weeks off and it makes it really easy to get your priorities messed up. Ambition had really taken hold of us a little bit. You start to value that more than the people around you, and that's really dangerous."
The exhaustion started to really hit when they got into the studio. The music was there, but they just couldn't make it work in the booth. They felt beat up and beat down. A break from each other had to happen or the whole band was going to implode so they took six weeks off. During their time apart, the Rinehart brothers didn't even speak to each other.
Bear said, "When we got back together we said, 'We can't do it the way we've been doing it and, if something doesn't change, then I don't want to do it anymore.' It's funny after that six week period of time both of us felt the same way. When we got together, it was like instantly putting it back into perspective, like, 'Hey we could give this up. We love each other. We're brothers and that's not going to change. This thing is something we do and it was given to us as a gift and not something we own or control or have to have.'"
NEEDTOBREATHE 2014 TOUR DATES:
May 1 - Springfield, MO - Gillioz Theatre *
May 2 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater *
May 3-4 - Plano, TX - Suburbia Music Festival
May 5 - Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theatre
May 6 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
May 7 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore *
May 10 - Seattle, WA - The Neptune
May 11 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre *
May 14 - Denver, CO - The Fillmore *
May 15 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater *
May 16-18 - Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Festival
May 31 - June 1 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle *
June 3 - 4 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
June 5 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues *
June 8 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
June 10 - Des Moines, IA - Simon Estes
June 12 - Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theatre *
June 13 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
June 14 - 15 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues *
June 17 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom *
June 19 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Theatre
June 20 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore *
June 21 - Grand Rapids, MI - Meijer Gardens *
June 25 - Mt. Union, PA - Creation NE
August 2 - Kennewick, WA - Creation NW
August 16 - Great Falls, MT - DownPour Festival
August 20-21 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre
August 22 - Charlotte, NC - The Uptown Amphitheatre
August 23 - Lynchburg, VA - Liberty University
August 24 - Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
* With Foy Vance
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