“We always say I was more famous than she thought I was, and less famous than I thought I was.”
It’s not your usual husband-wife chat, but then this is Rob Thomas describing the state of play when he met Marisol Maldonado at the onset of his career, one album along the road of three Grammy Awards and an exalted position on the high plinth of American popular rock.
Rob Thomas with his wife Marisol Maldonado
Today in London, Thomas is mock-angsting because his wife has texted him ‘good morning’ from the Us and then promptly disappeared. “Why do women do that?” he asks the room. His Matchbox Twenty bandmate Paul Doucette offers sagely, “Because they have things to do?”
It’s immediately clear that, between these two parts of the band, there is no hierarchy, an achievement in itself, because Thomas – he of the legendary Carlos Santa collaboration on Smooth – is equally famous,...
It’s not your usual husband-wife chat, but then this is Rob Thomas describing the state of play when he met Marisol Maldonado at the onset of his career, one album along the road of three Grammy Awards and an exalted position on the high plinth of American popular rock.
Rob Thomas with his wife Marisol Maldonado
Today in London, Thomas is mock-angsting because his wife has texted him ‘good morning’ from the Us and then promptly disappeared. “Why do women do that?” he asks the room. His Matchbox Twenty bandmate Paul Doucette offers sagely, “Because they have things to do?”
It’s immediately clear that, between these two parts of the band, there is no hierarchy, an achievement in itself, because Thomas – he of the legendary Carlos Santa collaboration on Smooth – is equally famous,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
New York — The recording process for Matchbox Twenty's new album was somewhat like living in a frat house – with tons of red wine instead of beer.
While creating "North" – and living together in Nashville – lead singer Rob Thomas jokes that the foursome "spent, like, $40,000 on wine. Just on the wine."
"At 5, 6 o'clock, we'd break for dinner and things would just go south," Thomas, 40, said in a recent interview. "And we would think it was awesome, everything we were doing was awesome, and we'd come back in and we would meet some new band out in the middle of Nashville and bring them back to the studio ... and play all this crap. I know they walked away going, `Dude, the new Matchbox Twenty record is going to suck!'"
None of those songs made it on the album "North" – which may be part of the reason it debuted at No.
While creating "North" – and living together in Nashville – lead singer Rob Thomas jokes that the foursome "spent, like, $40,000 on wine. Just on the wine."
"At 5, 6 o'clock, we'd break for dinner and things would just go south," Thomas, 40, said in a recent interview. "And we would think it was awesome, everything we were doing was awesome, and we'd come back in and we would meet some new band out in the middle of Nashville and bring them back to the studio ... and play all this crap. I know they walked away going, `Dude, the new Matchbox Twenty record is going to suck!'"
None of those songs made it on the album "North" – which may be part of the reason it debuted at No.
- 9/17/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Matchbox Twenty are back. The group has announced the release of their new studio album "North," scheduled to be released September 4 on Atlantic. Here's a factoid to make you feel old: “North,” their fourth, is the band's first all-new album in a decade. Band mates Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Kyle Cook and Brian Yale wrote the album together last summer in Nashville before relocating to Calabasas, CA to record with Grammy-winning producer Matt Serletic. “The title refers to us finding our way,” says Matchbox Twenty’s Doucette in a release. “We went into this record with a lot of material. Many...
- 5/18/2012
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
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