What are the plans for the future of Blues Traveler?
I know you have a concept album Popper: Yeah, that’s gonna happen. We’ve been working so hard on a career for the last ten years. There were the weddings, and we’re all buying houses now. We’re trying to explore the idea of roots and look into our lives a little more. We’re gonna do Red Rocks, and then we’re gonna go to Europe. Europe, to us, is the one we haven’t conquered yet. We’ve sold over seven million records in the States alone. About nine million total records. We’ve sold 14,000 records in Europe. Every time we’ve gone there, they just didn’t know who the hell we were. We never played in Italy, but I looked in an Italian paper and they said the main feature of the band is the lead singer looks like John Belushi. When we’ve played [Europe], the reaction has been uniform. They get really shocked, and then they start to come around. But this is several years ago, so I think they’re starting to come around to our way of thinking. I rely heavily on the gimmickry of the harmonica, a
