Jamie: "We have a website, it's www.shadedred.com.  I always forget how many w's, but I know there's three w's [laughs and holds up three fingers].  One of the things that's so cool about the internet is, you know, it's a distribution of information.  You can find out anything you want to find out in a matter of seconds.  I mean, if you wanted extra code for James Bond on your little video game, you can go there.  You can find anything you want, from James Bond to about what's going on with Fox's Book of Martyrs or whatever."  Jon: "Or Biology."  Jamie: "Or Biology.  Anything you want, Biology included, is on the internet."  The interview guy:  "The name Shaded Red, where did that come from?"  Jamie:  "Jon wrote a poem about the blood of Jesus, how it covers us of our sin, how God gives us a new start, old has become new, and when God sees us He doesn't see our sin, He sees shades of red, He sees us washed from the blood.  We needed a band name, so we decided on Shaded Red.  But my mom really wanted a couple different things.  I went to my mom and my mom said, 'I've got a name for Shaded Red.  I believe it could be...how about Sons of Thunder?' [Here Jamie and Jon start making guitar noises with their voices and Jamie yells, "Sons of Thunder!" on the beat they've created.] [Laughs] No...anyways!...sons of thunder...but we said , 'Mom, that's probably not as good as Shaded Red.'  And then she said, 'Well, what about The Roberts Singers?', which is our last name.  But even though I love my mom, we ended up with Shaded Red."  The interview guy:  "Who's your target audience?"  Jamie:  "We just had a new record come out a couple weeks ago, it's called Red Revolution, and on that record there's everything from Spanish rock to us at Abbey Road with the London Philharmonic to rock and roll.  I think it's a nice flow of rock - "  Jon:  "It's simple: we're a rock band."  Jamie:  "[Laughs] We're a rock band with lots of flares and diversity in our music."  The interview guy:  "Are you targeting anyparticular audience?"  Jon:  "We're targeting anybody that can breathe."  Jamie:  "[Laughs] Yeah, if you can breathe you can handle Shaded Red.  But, no, I think our prime people that like our music are people that have a love of originality, a love of a band that's doing something no one else is doing.  I think we are, at this point.  I think we're soing something no one else in Christian music's doing.  Young people tend to get it faster that my mom would say.  But the cool thing is my mom, my mom's age group seem to love it too, but not so much just 'cause we're rocking out but because of the heart behind it, the passion behind it, the worship behind it."  The interview guy:  "Do you feel your message is getting across to your audience?"  Jamie:  Definitely.  Last year, even doing our first record and after all the hard things we went through, like accidents and things like that, we still saw God touch a lot of young people's lives.  We had thousands of young people come to Christ.  To me, if you don't value that higher than a commercial success, as a Christian artist, then your priorities are askew.  You know what I mean?  To me, that makes us a success."  The interview guy:  "You've mentioned hardships you've gone through.  Any recent hurdles you've experienced and had to cross?" Jamie:  "Being on the road, we've had everything happen. One night, we were at Cornerstone, in Illinois I believe, and our van got stuck in the mud, and so we decided to try to push it out and the mud skipped out and hit us in our mice clothes like this.  So we deflated our tires and we finally got out.  We were driving alone, but because our tires were deflated we could only drive 35 mph, and we were just at that point out of gas.  So there was no gas station open because it was 12:00 at night.  And little did we know a cop would pull us over because we were driving so slow, so he thought we were drunk as well.  Then after that we finally found a gas station, and Davey, man of many talents, backed into a phone poll and broke the back door and window.  And that was all in one night, people!"  [Dave Villano stands up and bows...]  Jon:  "Dave had so much fun at the Cornerstone concert that he had to use the corner phone."  Jamie:  [A dramatic pause as the sentence sinks in...Jamie begins to laugh sarcastically.] "HA!  HA!  HA! But right after that (yeah, that was a good try) but then [laughs] right after that, it was three in the morning, we're gonna fly out of St. Louis to go to Seattle, and we're gonna get a hotel.  So after all this, all the hotels were sold out, so we slept in our van.  That was one night down by the river.  [Laughs...looks at camera] Hey!  We rejoice in our trials!"  The interview guy:  "Any towns in particular that stick out?  Any places with great audiences?  A great place to play?  Jamie:  "You know what's really weird?  For us, our markets are the strangest places.  We sell records off the wall in places like Grand Rapids, Philidelphia, St. Lousi, and Dallas.  We do really well in Seattle and places like that.  There's certain cities that always seem to get you more, and I think that's just the same with anybody.  Those cities tend to have a greater love for originality, to me."  The Interview guy:"Any band hobbies or pastimes?"  Jamie:  "[To Dave] What's our new band hobby?"  Dave:  "[in a nerdy voice] Crochet...oh, I mean croquet."  Jamie:  "[Talks to the camera] Not crochet, to the working ghetto person, it's "cro-quet".  [Laughing...returns to interviewer] I know that hasn't hit the inner-city yet, but it's a very cool game.  I think we should try to replace that over basketball.  It'll heal the nation.  Croquet. [Laughs].  The interview guy:  "How long have you been playing?"  Jamie:  "Actually we started playing about a week ago because my senior-citizen grandpa thought it was a great game.  He said, 'Do you want to play some croquet?'  And now he's spread it to MY generation. [To camera] And now I am passing the torch to YOU, America.  Croquet!"  Jon:  "Will you pick up the torch like THIS!?!"  [Jon leaps to his feet, arm raised Olympic-style.]  Jamie:  "I think it should be an Olympic sport, don't you?  [Laughing] I'm just kidding."  The interview guy:  "What's up next for Shaded Red?"  Jamie:  "This fall [of 1999] we're gonna be out on tour doing probably 40 cities around the country.  We're really excited just because we get to play some new music.  When you've been playing an older record for some time, it's nice when you have something fresh to say.  So we called our new record Red Revolution, and we didn't just call it that so we'd have this catchy title, you know, this RED REVOLUTION!  For us, it means something.  We think Christians should be affecting society rather than society affecting Christians.  I mean, why can't Christians go over and take over movies and music and politics and take a stand?  We look at what the world does and then we take it in and then we act by what they're doing, when God is the author of creativity.  He said, 'Hey, every place on which your foot shall tread I'll give it unto You,' so we might as well take back society for God, and that's what this record's about.  A Red Revolution."  Ben:  "Yeah...court is ajourned!"  Jamie:  "BOOM!  Enough said."

transcribed by hand, July 30, 1999                      original location on the net:                                               http://www.gloryworks.com/swc/sr.html.