Discovered and signed to Chad Kroe-ger's 604 Records, Mission's Faber Drive has evolved into one of Canada's most-popular emerging rock bands. Upon the release of their new CD, Can't Keep a Secret and its infectious lead single G-Get Up and Dance, Joe Leary spent 24 Seconds with lead vocalist Faber and bass guitarist Krikit.
24: What kind of thought goes into a new record? Are you consciously thinking you have to break new ground or are you just going with whatever is in your head?
Faber: We definitely do try to break new ground; especially with the new CD and the first single "G-Get Up and Dance." We wanted to go for a different sound and try something new, and at the same time we just had two band members leave - it was just me and Krikit, so we were like, "what are we going to do that we know how to do best?", and we just sat down in my barn and worked on G-Get Up and recorded it with my buddy Colin Friesen. We put a lot of time and a lot of hard work into it - we probably almost spent three months just on recording it and making that song the best that we could.
24: You got a pretty catchy song and when you perform it and the whole crowd is singing along - as an artist and composer that must be the ultimate sense of accomplishment.
Faber: Definitely. That is a rush - you get on the stage and hear the crowd sing it back to you - that gives you chills.
24: When you lose personnel, how do you find new people?
Krikit: The first thing we did was start a contest on our MySpace. We had an audition contest for drummers and they would send in videos of them playing our songs. We posted the Top 6 every week and fans could vote on them. We got all the votes and videos together and we found our drummer Andrew Stricko, and he's actually a friend of ours who played in a band called Hello Operator that opened for us on a sold-out tour we did when Seven Second Surgery was hot, so we knew him already and he was also obviously the best drummer of all the videos - so we got him to move out to B.C. to start playing with us and as far as JP (Jordan Prichett), Faber talked to his dad.
Faber: I met JP's dad (country star Aaron Prichett) a long time ago at Roosters in Maple Ridge where his dad was playing and this was when I first started getting into the industry. Then I met him in Mexico two years ago and I told him that we were looking for guitar players and he said, "My son is an amazing guitar player."
LISTEN TO JOE IN THE MORNING AT TEAM 1410
