If you’re going to call your latest CD “The Baddest Band in the Land,” you’d better be able to back it up.
That’s the goal for Sam Weber of the Weber Brothers, who is looking forward to returning to Lethbridge, Oct. 29 to play the Slice.
“We’ve got a brand new show. We’ve toured all over the place doing what we do,” said guitarist/ vocalist Sam Weber, four days into the latest tour after just pulling into Saskatoon.
“We’ve got a brand new CD and we‘ve got a crew traveling with us. So we have new visuals, new lights and a new gymnastics routine, figuratively speaking. But it’s been real good so far,” said Weber, who along with brother, bassist Ryan Weber, keyboardist Shai Cookie Peer and drummer Emmet Corndog Van Etten, make up the trimmed down Weber Brothers band.
“ When we’ve called our CD “the Baddest Band in the Land,” we have to go out and prove it every night, it can’t just be a run of the mill gig,” he continued.
Changing up the tour keeps it fresh for a band which spends most of their waking lives on the road.
They are excited about their latest CD, which they recorded over two days in April at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg.
“We all live in different parts of the country, and come together for the band. So we had two days off and rented Bedside Studios and did what we do best— play live,” he continued.
“We wanted to capture the energy of our live show, so we went in and recorded live off the floor,” he said.
He noted they had played the new songs hundreds of time before recording them.
“ A lot of them had been played a couple hundred times before in the live shows when we’ve honed them. Every part of every song has been taken apart,” he said.
Sam and Ryan Weber have been playing music professionally since they were in their teens. among other things they learned at the feet at one of the greats- Ronnie Hawkins— and have spent their lives on the road ever since. He is really pleased with the new CD, noting it captures their live energy.
“We’re a band of four people. We’ve been through our share of ups and downs. We’ve had a lot happen to us. It has really taken us a long time to get the band to the level we want it to be— to be the best we can be,” he said.
“It’s not just fun. there is a lot of fun involved, but it has been a lot of hard work,” he continued.
For this tour they have decided to get their live show to the calibre of a stadium show.
“We’re bringing the biggest production we ever have. I don’t think this has been done at this level,” Weber observed.
“I think it’s every band’s dream to play a stadium, so we’re trying to bring a stadium show to the bars,” he said.
“We’re feeling really good about playing live and making people believe what I believe,” he said.
There is a $10 cover for the Oct. 29 show which begins at 9:30 p.m.
