Christian band launches tour at home.Byline: LEWIS TAYLOR The Register-Guard CADET'S FIRST LIVE performance was two years ago at a downtown Eugene coffeehouse. Thirty people showed up to hear the melodic Christian rock Christian rock (occasionally abbreviated CR) is a form of rock music played by bands whose members are Christian and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. group, which then was known as Scatterseed. After a couple of name changes, the trio settled on Cadet, a moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. that seemed to sum up everything the band was about. "A cadet is someone in training, and one of the huge things about being a Christian is that you're in training to live like Christ and be like Christ," said Ryan Smith For the hockey player see Ryan Smyth. Ryan Smith may refer to:
"We're also the freshmen of the music scene." Now a quartet, Cadet regularly plays across the country before audiences of 1,000 or more. The locally based group will kick off its upcoming Resonate Tour with a hometown performance Sunday at the Springfield Faith Center. "We're playing here to play for our friends and family," Smith said. "It's more of an intimate-type setting, and we're playing for the people of our church, but it's definitely open to everyone." Along with Smith, Cadet includes fellow Springfield High School Springfield High School may refer to:
On May 20, 1998, student Kipland "Kip" Kinkel killed his parents, William and Faith, both Spanish teachers at local high schools. graduate Matt Lenhart (keyboards, guitars, vocals, tambourine tambourine (tăm'bərēn`), musical instrument of the percussion family, having a narrow circular frame and a single parchment drumhead, with metal plates or jingles set in the frame. ). Cadet's latest release, "Observatory," is due out Sept. 24 on BEC Records, the same label that launched the Christian crossover act P.O.D. The record was produced by Chris Stevens Chris Stevens may refer to:
Although the group had recorded a demo and a religious cover album with Stevens, "Observatory" marks its first full collaboration with him. "Chris kind of ties up all the loose ends," Smith said. "He'll bring a lot of new ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. to the table, and he'll also just refine a lot of my ideas. `He was pretty much on the same page as us when it came to the sound we were going for." While Cadet's 2001 debut was a bubbly collection of surf rock songs that sounded as if the band would be more at home in Southern California, the group's new album shows off a wider range of musical influences. Smith, who grew up listening to the Beach Boys rather than the Duran Duran played on the radio, said he made a concerted effort, while writing the songs on "Observatory," to bring something new to the table. Although he wrote all of the songs, Smith worked closely with Stevens and the other members of the band in order to perfect them. "I came in with the skeletons of the songs and had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do with them," Smith said. "It's easy to feel like you know everything about music as a songwriter, but I think you make a lot more progress if you kind of put your ideas together with everyone else's." "Change My Name" is the title of the first single off "Observatory," and it shows a more emotional side to the band. The song starts off on a mellow, folk-rock note and morphs into a dramatic, guitar-driven ballad with a message. "A lot of times, in the Old and New Testaments, God would change people's names when he intervened in their lives and changed their lives," Smith said. "This song is me asking the Lord to change my name because I feel like he's made me a new person." While Cadet's first album helped the group establish an audience of mostly high school-age listeners, Smith said the band's following, like its music, is broadening. Cadet has become a regular on the Christian festival circuit, appearing at such shows as the Festival Con Dios Festival Con Dios was a Christian rock traveling music festival that began in fall 2001. The first festival was started by The Newsboys and also featured Audio Adrenaline and The O.C. Supertones. This was one of the largest CCM traveling festivals to date. tour and the Spirit West Coast gathering. Touring more has only furthered the band's development, Smith said. "You can be a spectacular musician and not know how to relate to the crowd or how to get the crowd involved. I think we've gotten way more comfortable on stage. Playing that many more shows just makes you so much more precise." CADET WHAT: Christian rock WHEN: 7 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Springfield Faith Center, 600 Hayden Bridge Way, Springfield TICKETS: $5 at the door ALSO: To hear music by Cadet call GuardLine at 485-2000 and select category 9941 CAPTION(S): Christian rock band Cadet (from left: Matt Lenhart, Ryan Smith, Chad Basom and Jason Kennedy) will play Sunday. Rock soldiers |
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