From the water-cooler to the stage: a local band’s cute-meet sounds mundane by rock n’ roll’s standards. But now, blueslawyer is turning up the volume.
Before they met and formed the power pop group Blues Lawyer, Rob Miller and Elyse Schrock were veterans of the local scene, playing in various bands in typical Bay Area musician fashion.
Their band name, a reference to divorced- dad types who blow $5,000 on a classic guitar that then sits idly on display, was a product of that short-term thinking. “If we thought we’d be around longer, we’d probably pick a more mature-sounding band name,” said Miller. “Power pop is what I’ve always wanted to play, but I never thought I was a good enough musician to pursue that path, to be honest,” said Schrock, who is also the drummer for Blues Lawyer. “But for the third album, I thought we were at the point where we could do this high-production thing. I love that sound. I love, you know, slick licks, so I think we all really leaned into it.”
“I actually think it was really good for us,” said Miller, who lives in the East Bay town of Albany. “Before, we were constantly trying to carve out time to do the things that we really wanted to do. And the pandemic did afford us some space to really take our time and zero in on our songwriting. Obviously, it would have been great to all be in the same rehearsal space, but being able to record demos and share them was the next best thing.
Much of the album focuses on the concept of time — how hours can be stretched endlessly by the daily drudgery of an office job or how certain points in one’s life run parallel with specific and stifling expectations — a theme made all the more prescient by the amorphous nature of life under the pandemic.
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