Music
OneRepublic's Zach Filkins
He's the lead guitarist for the hot rock band OneRepublic. Zach
Filkins (pictured, second from right), a one-time model, is now touring
with his band and taking questions exclusively for users of
Uinterview.com.
Q: When will your next album come out, and how will it be different from your other albums? - Cur
A: The release of the album obviously is still somewhat undefined just because of a lot of different factors. The album should be out probably the beginning of next year at some point. The first single might hopefully be out at the end of the year or early next year. The sound of it something we are obsessing over because we talk about it a lot. We’re not gonna go off into crazy-land and go over everyone’s head. Things are gonna change. There might be a lot more guitar and take the extremes of our influences like movie soundtracks, hip-hop music—take the extremes of all that. Maybe accentuate that a even more. I think it’s also going to be more—I don’t know what the word is—a little more… emotive. I don’t know if the word is all that descriptive. These are kind of the elements that we’re talking about at the moment. There’ll still be the big choruses and things like that. Ryan will still write the melodies he writes so we’re not gonna lose that side of our influence. I think it’s going to be more defined. It’s gonna be the best album in our history of that I have no doubt about that. We’re gonna experiement a little more probably and stretch ourselves a lot.
Q: What guitarists inspire you? - Trevor Barry
A: Guitarists that inspire me—David Gilmore for sure. I’m kind of blanking out but the guitarist from Portishead, Adrian Utley. You know The Edge inspires just about anyone who wants to play the guitar in a different way. I think those are the ones who inspire me the most. Q: What was the most exciting moment of the tour for you? - Kristina Kluge Kluge
A: Definitely the most exciting part of the last tour was when we were in Zermatt, Switzerland, and we all like to ski and snowboard. The promoter said we all had a day off after the show and the promoter said, “We’re gonna take you guys snowboarding and we might take you in a helicopter.” So we were expecting a short helicopter ride to the top of the hill, which was gonna be enough. But we find out the helicopter ride was a 30-40 minute ride around the Swiss Alps and literally a 360 around the top of the Matterhorn before they dropped us off on the top of the slope. By the time we got to the slope, there was no way—no matter how good the skiing or snowboarding was—there was no way that was going to top that experience—being able to fly around the Matterhorn and seeing all that and the glacier and everything from the bird’s eye
Q: When will your next album come out, and how will it be different from your other albums? - Cur
A: The release of the album obviously is still somewhat undefined just because of a lot of different factors. The album should be out probably the beginning of next year at some point. The first single might hopefully be out at the end of the year or early next year. The sound of it something we are obsessing over because we talk about it a lot. We’re not gonna go off into crazy-land and go over everyone’s head. Things are gonna change. There might be a lot more guitar and take the extremes of our influences like movie soundtracks, hip-hop music—take the extremes of all that. Maybe accentuate that a even more. I think it’s also going to be more—I don’t know what the word is—a little more… emotive. I don’t know if the word is all that descriptive. These are kind of the elements that we’re talking about at the moment. There’ll still be the big choruses and things like that. Ryan will still write the melodies he writes so we’re not gonna lose that side of our influence. I think it’s going to be more defined. It’s gonna be the best album in our history of that I have no doubt about that. We’re gonna experiement a little more probably and stretch ourselves a lot.
Q: What guitarists inspire you? - Trevor Barry
A: Guitarists that inspire me—David Gilmore for sure. I’m kind of blanking out but the guitarist from Portishead, Adrian Utley. You know The Edge inspires just about anyone who wants to play the guitar in a different way. I think those are the ones who inspire me the most. Q: What was the most exciting moment of the tour for you? - Kristina Kluge Kluge
A: Definitely the most exciting part of the last tour was when we were in Zermatt, Switzerland, and we all like to ski and snowboard. The promoter said we all had a day off after the show and the promoter said, “We’re gonna take you guys snowboarding and we might take you in a helicopter.” So we were expecting a short helicopter ride to the top of the hill, which was gonna be enough. But we find out the helicopter ride was a 30-40 minute ride around the Swiss Alps and literally a 360 around the top of the Matterhorn before they dropped us off on the top of the slope. By the time we got to the slope, there was no way—no matter how good the skiing or snowboarding was—there was no way that was going to top that experience—being able to fly around the Matterhorn and seeing all that and the glacier and everything from the bird’s eye