Where: Steamboat Resort, 2305 Mount Werner CircleĮS: A few years ago, the band moved from Chicago to Los Angeles.

What: Bud Light Rocks the Boat presents The Main Squeeze I used to manage and book the band the first couple years when we were first starting. So before every tour, his role is making a new arrangement and a new way to perform that song live, so that when we go out there, we’re playing it a little differently so when we go out we’re still excited and it’s fresh. Our bass player, Rob (Walker), makes a lot of arrangements. Booking hotel rooms is Max (Newman) our drummer (Gingrich) is really good at making videos. When it comes to the van, Corey (Frye) is in charge of when something goes wrong. One of the things you learn over time is you step in when it’s your strength and take a step back when it’s someone else’s. When we’re on tour we have a sound guy and a light guy and a tour manager, so we’re eight married men traveling the country. I feel like I’m married to four other guys.

So, it all kind of came together at Indiana University at Bloomington.ĮS: Tell me a bit about what everyone brings to the band.īS: It’s very much a family. Eventually, we needed a singer, and he was the one. Later, I went to school at Indiana University, and he joined me, and from there, we met the rest of the guys our drummer lived on the same floor as Max during freshman year I’d met our singer, Corey, at a bar, where we separately, drunkenly hopped on stage when a dueling pianos performance was on break, then we met afterwards. The two of us were the head of the camp music department. Ben “Smiley” Silverstein: Myself and the guitar player, Max (Newman), had met at a sleep-away camp in Upstate New York, where we were playing music and teaching music to kids.

The main squeeze