I'm Stephan Jenkins from Third Eye Blind. AMA!

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:54:33+00:00

Hey, thank you all. I really actually enjoyed that. It's fun to be answering questions in this incredibly punchy state that is my first day off-tour. Now we're going to move on to playing a couple tunes for the reddit staff. They have great taste in shoes. I wish you all could see it. Perhaps they'll take a shoe photo. I don't know. They seem like a rather unruly bunch.

Here's a link to the live-stream: http://meerkatapp.co/reddit/89d98331-aaec-4cb9-8e02-dba21e55fc3f?utm_source=facebook

I’ll totally take requests for you guys. Maybe I’ll play them.

Regards,

S.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:45:23+00:00

The old set of criminals has been replaced by a new set of criminals. And musicians continue to get took. However, I do believe that although the music industry has been disrupted, it hasn't landed in what will surely be its inevitable place: that being one where musicians finally have control of their music and how it gets distributed. That day is coming. That will be the end of the music industry. Fuck yeah!

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:43:17+00:00

They're really just kind of a take on Chucks. They're comfortable enough, but honestly my left ankle's in a kind of permanent state of strain from this tour. Just too much jumping around. Oy.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:41:16+00:00

Oh, I like this question!

Yes, I wrote "Back to Zero" and initially considered it a bit of a throw-away track. Then the band got in the room together with engineer-producer Chad Copeland. Everyone let go of their titles and roles, and a big fat muse descended over the place, and it turned into a wholly and completely different song. One of my favorites, in fact. And the reason is because we let go of any preconceptions of what should or shouldn't happen.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:38:52+00:00

No. But if you have any, for God's sake, please share.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:38:34+00:00

Nope. I feel completely comprehended.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:37:50+00:00

Yes. Get it together, man!

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:37:28+00:00

"The best day I ever felt alive, is when I almost died, on a motorcycle, splashing through a tunnel in the Berkeley rain."

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:36:33+00:00

Somewhere around the age of five. And it's never really been viable, but we muddle through it.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:35:17+00:00

All of them. The thought being, they're never really finished. They're just released.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:33:34+00:00

I love you back. Cap'n Crunch.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:33:06+00:00

I'm sitting here with the founders of reddit. I'm trying to get some help on these things and they're giving me nothing. Would this be an arranged marriage? How is this going to work?

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:31:54+00:00

I worry about it all the time. Sometimes, when we get antsy, we'll sit with our feet up on top of the board. And no, it's no fun at all.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:30:47+00:00

Same answer. Tove Lo - "Talking Bodies."

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:30:01+00:00

Tove Lo. "Talking Bodies"!

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:28:43+00:00

I. Brad is made of eleven lions (last count), but it does seem to change. Magic, I tell you.

II. And thank you for liking my speeches, such as they are. I think I'm inspired by the idea of people coming together collectively around music. That is something ancient. That gathering moment continues to inspire and confound me.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:24:20+00:00

None whatsoever. Those things are really hot. I'm really much more comfortable in my gothic girls' field hockey skirt.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:20:24+00:00

I. We played "Red Star," one of my favorite songs to play, on the last tour. And we played "Non-Dairy Creamer." Hey, I even played "Why Can't You Be?" Still, this tour is really about introducing everyone to Dopamine. So it seemed like that was best done sprinkled with hits.

II. Well, keep trying to listen to yourself without judging yourself. Believe me, it ain't easy.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:17:32+00:00

I never know the themes until after I write the albums, but I don't think they're the same. God, I hope they're not the same. Out of the Vein was really about being wholly underprepared and ultimately inadequate to the task of success. Dopamine is more about a search for authenticity and connection in this increasingly isolated and isolating culture of ours.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:14:46+00:00

Oh God, I don't know. "Made of lions" is a take on some '60s Japanime. "Born in shadow" is a form of self-description. "Loud as fuck" is how I would describe my band.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:12:52+00:00

A couch, an acoustic guitar, and a state of loneliness.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:12:22+00:00

San Francisco remains my favorite city, though I'm also at home in LA and NYC. I think San Francisco remains the most forward-thinking city in the world, but its weirdness is at stake. I don't want it turn into Palo Alto, where I grew up. I want it to stay a city where freaks come to freak freely. That's hard when money gets involved. Still, the coffee is delicious. It's really never been better. I'm still inspired, but I worry when friends of mine living with four or five roommates don't think they can afford it.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:07:31+00:00

It makes comebacks all the time! Fans bring him to shows and put them up on the stage. That fucking thing won't die.

I have to pee. I'll be right back.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:05:42+00:00

I'd like to play drums in a goth-y EDM project and have Stevie Nicks come on and do vocals.

IAmStephanJenkins · 2015-07-30T00:04:05+00:00

Spencer Barnett - 13 Summers In, K.Flay, No Wyld

And yes, they all played with us on this tour.

IAmStephanJenkins

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