David Crowder Band won’t Brett Favre you

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David Crow­der Band, which will dis­band after its 7 tour, per­forms Fri­day. Oct. 13 at the Ogden The­ater. | Cour­tesy pho­to

Dig deep in you wal­let if you want to catch the David Crowder*Band’s last show at the Ogden The­atre on Fri­day, Oct. 14. The show quick­ly sold out, and after check­ing the venue’s web­site, tick­ets are being offered at $118 to $275 – and that’s for a gen­er­al admis­sion venue. The six-piece band is call­ing it quits after mak­ing Chris­t­ian con­tem­po­rary music for 11 years to “find the space” to explore oth­er inter­ests.

And the band is not going out with a whim­per. As their last project the guys decid­ed to tack­le a Mass – a Requiem to be exact.

Eliza Marie Somers: David, how is the Mass project com­ing along?

David Crow­der: It’s in the mix­ing process. Off to the engi­neer to make us sound good. (Chuck­les) It releas­es Jan. 10. The Requiem Mass is the old­est exist­ing form of church music. It’s a con­tain­er to write into. There’s a very strict for­mat, and we stuck to that strin­gent­ly. We used some of the lan­guage that was there, but we didn’t want it seem like church music — it’s an eclec­tic mix. I think it’s the best thing that we have done. No doubt. It’s 34 tracks we worked real­ly, real­ly hard on this vehi­cle. It’s such a sig­nif­i­cant con­tain­er to write to and it was a very free­ing thing to do at the same time.

EMS: Did you lis­ten to the old mas­ters for the Mass?

DC: We dug into all of that to get a good sense to the tone; Mozart has the best requiem. But we didn’t want our record to sound so bleak … dum dum da-dum. That would be a tough sell. We want­ed it to feel more like a cel­e­bra­tion as such. The title is — par­don us, but this is just what we do — “Give Us Rest (A Requiem Mass in C [The Hap­pi­est of All Keys]).” Death is sad, but for us in the church it’s also a glo­ri­ous time. We need to mourn, but there’s a lot to be excit­ed about.

EMS: Why the breakup and what’s next for you and the guys?

We’re not intend­ing to Brett Favre any­body.”

DC: It’s time to take a break after 11 years worth of music. Eleven years is a long time for a band. I feel very for­tu­nate that we last­ed that long. You know, it was the end of anoth­er con­tract and we felt like this was the per­fect time to end it. Noth­ing is on the cal­en­dar. But this gives our­selves the space to think about what’s next. And it feels good know­ing what you’re doing is right.

For me, writ­ing music for the church to sing is impor­tant to me, plus I love writ­ing and this gives me more space to be able to write more. My wife (Toni) is tak­ing this oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back to school. When we first start­ed she was book­ing shows and being our road man­ag­er. She wants to get a degree in inte­ri­or design.

EMS: How’s the tour going so far? Has it been tough emo­tion­al­ly?

DC: I was wor­ried before we start­ed this tour that it would be melan­choly, but it hasn’t been. It’s been real­ly fun. We are all real­ly present in the moment. Not a hint of… oh here we are in anoth­er city…. I’m real­ly soak­ing it all in. And the shows have been sell­ing out like crazy. It also has allowed us to be ret­ro­spec­tive. We do at least one song from every album we’ve record­ed. And it’s fun­ny how songs become attached to moments in your life. And to feel that again, that’s just been real­ly spe­cial. I’m not a wreck yet, but I can see get­ting close to the end of the tour.

EMS: Any regrets?

DC: I have no regrets. There will be some sad­ness. These are my best friends on the plan­et. We’re not intend­ing to Brett Favre any­body. I’m excit­ed to see what’s com­ing next from these guys.

EMS: A Den­ver-based band, Gun­gor, is join­ing you on this tour.

DC: That’s been my favorite part of the show. It’s Lisa and Mike and a cel­list they found on YouTube –and he also plays the beat box­es. He sounds like a whole band in one dude. It’s incred­i­ble. They do a lot of cre­ative things. It’s sparse and stripped down, but it’s heart­felt.

EMS: Any­thing else you want to tell our read­ers?

DC: I guess I have to tell you we had a Christ­mas album released yes­ter­day (Wed. Oct. 4). We’ve nev­er done one before, but we’ve always been asked to do it and nev­er got around to it. So it’s fun­ny how this just popped out. We went on tour last Jan­u­ary and we had a mobile stu­dio with us to work on the Mass. Well, we had been play­ing a lot of Christ­mas music and to get the sound dialed in we would play Christ­mas music. And the next thing out pops this Christ­mas album. It’s “Oh for Joy,” and it’s a lot of tra­di­tion­al music. It feels like the band is in the room play­ing togeth­er. It’s not a big pro­duc­tion. You feel more of the per­son­al­i­ty of the guys.

It’s a fit­ting end to the end of DC*B

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