(upbeat rock music) - Welcome to "11th & Grant."

I'm Eric Funk.

Tonight, Off In The Woods showcases their distinctive original music, bridging soul, funk, and reggae.

♪ From the sky ♪ (slow upbeat rock music) (bright upbeat music) - With the lyrics, Jon is a very sweet person, and they usually start off really, really sweet songs.

And then Sean and I get in there and we get a little nasty and then everybody else comes in and the real flavor comes out.

It is kinda like cooking something with us, isn't it?

- Once everybody puts their particular flavor into it, it makes a beautiful gumbo.

- That's- - I'm gettin' hungry.

- I know.

(group laughs) (dramatic upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ The fresh green shoots ♪ ♪ From the scorched earth ♪ ♪ Of my youth ♪ - Hailing from the heart of the Mission Valley on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Reservation, this band energizes and ignites the stage.

(energetic rock music) ♪ A land unburned is a land unkept ♪ ♪ Scorched earth that's made new again ♪ ♪ A land unburned is a land unkept ♪ ♪ A scorched earth that's made new again ♪ ♪ I'll burn it, burn it down ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm gonna burn it down, yeah ♪ ♪ Help me burn it down, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ (upbeat rock music) (bright lively rock music) (bright lively rock music continues) - Off In The woods next on "11th & Grant."

(energetic bright rock music) - [Announcer] "11th & Grant" was made possible by the Greater Montana Foundation, Montana State University, Office of the President, Quinn's Hot Springs Resort, Donna Spitzer-Ostrovsky, in loving memory of Jack Ostrovsky, the godfather of "11th & Grant," Gomez and Mary Routhier, "Great music will blow the dust off your soul," Iris Model, (gentle bright jazz music) Sanbell, Betty Clauson, honoring Bob and Suzy Sterling, Regina M. Wunsch and Walter G. Wunsch, Music Villa and Gibson guitar, the Utzinger Family, Bill and Jane Gum, Rob Maher and Lynn Peterson-Maher, Nancy Thompson Flikkema, and by these generous donors.

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flowers grow ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music) (slow bright bluesy rock music) ♪ Blue butterfly ♪ ♪ Have you fallen down from the sky ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music) (slow bright bluesy rock music) ♪ Now come on, let me help you ♪ ♪ Now come take shelter from that storm ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music) (slow bright bluesy rock music) ♪ And I know the fragrance on the breeze ♪ ♪ And the wildflowers tease ♪ ♪ They make you want to fly ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music) (slow bright bluesy rock music) ♪ And don't you cry ♪ ♪ And don't you cry ♪ ♪ My blue butterfly, yeah ♪ ♪ Let it be ♪ ♪ Let it be ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music) ♪ Now can't you see ♪ ♪ Can't you see that ♪ ♪ Oh, that you ♪ ♪ Help the flowers grow ♪ (dramatic bluesy rock music continues) (bright bluesy rock music) (slow bright bluesy rock music) (bright bluesy rock music) (slow bright rock music) (upbeat bluesy rock music) (upbeat bluesy rock music continues) (upbeat bluesy rock music 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(gentle rock music continues) ♪ And a hammer to the anvil ♪ ♪ A thunder rolling ♪ (gentle rock music continues) ♪ Feel it fallin' down ♪ ♪ Those early summer rains ♪ (gentle rock music continues) ♪ Feel them falling down ♪ ♪ Them early summer rains ♪ (gentle rock music continues) (gentle rock music continues) ♪ Now thunderheads building ♪ ♪ And anvil clouds coming round, yeah ♪ ♪ The lightning flashing, oh ♪ ♪ And thunder rolling ♪ ♪ With thunder in the big sky ♪ ♪ And is a rare occurrence ♪ (upbeat rock music) (gentle rock music) ♪ Feel them seasons changing round ♪ ♪ World keeps spinning round ♪ (upbeat rock music) (gentle rock music) ♪ Feel them seasons changing round ♪ ♪ World keeps spinning round ♪ ♪ Feel them seasons changing round ♪ ♪ Lord, bring them early ♪ ♪ Summer rains ♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ (upbeat rock music continues) (lively upbeat rock music) (lively upbeat rock music continues) (slow gentle rock music) (slow gentle rock music continues) (slow gentle rock music continues) ♪ And I thank Jah ♪ ♪ And I thank Jah ♪ ♪ For the tilt of the Earth ♪ ♪ For the tilt of the Earth ♪ ♪ And therefore how ♪ ♪ And therefore how ♪ ♪ The seasons come from that ♪ ♪ The seasons come from that ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ We draw a little bit closer ♪ ♪ We draw a little bit closer ♪ ♪ To the sun ♪ ♪ To the sun ♪ ♪ Oh, fall and winter come ♪ ♪ Oh, fall and winter come ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ We move farther away ♪ ♪ We move farther away ♪ (lively upbeat rock music) ♪ Moving farther away ♪ (lively upbeat rock music continues) ♪ And I thank Jah ♪ ♪ And I thank Jah ♪ ♪ For the tilt of the Earth ♪ ♪ For the tilt of the Earth ♪ ♪ And therefore how ♪ ♪ And therefore how ♪ ♪ The seasons come from that ♪ ♪ The seasons come from that ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ We draw a little bit closer ♪ ♪ We draw a little bit closer ♪ ♪ To the sun ♪ ♪ To the sun ♪ ♪ Oh, fall and winter come ♪ ♪ Oh, fall and winter come ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ And every single day ♪ ♪ We move farther away ♪ ♪ We move farther away ♪ (gentle upbeat rock music) ♪ Oh, moving farther away ♪ (dramatic rock music) (soft slow rock music) - It's about the music, but we have the music part down, it's like, it's about us getting together and- - Yeah, we're too busy to just hang out unless we have an excuse.

So we have to book gigs.

(group chuckles) - Exactly.

Exactly.

- That's the story.

- It's a beautiful system, honestly.

- It works.

(group chuckles) - I would love to get sort of a spin on the whole inception of the band and how you guys got started and got together.

You been playing together since you're in your early teens, and I mean, that's a cool story.

- Off In The Woods started initially... We were doing a talent show at our high school and Jon and I got together, and we had to get a drummer and a bass player, of course, and worked into the current lineup that we have, or at least the core four from there, after high school.

- Well, people loved it.

- Was that the one where we played "Another Brick in the Wall"?

- Yeah, and they said, on their scorecard, they said, "You do need an education."

- Right.

(Layne chuckles) This was for the high school talent show, so.

So we did Pink Floyd, "Another Brick in the Wall" and- - [Eric] Cool.

- And got disqualified, but according... But by crowd reaction, we definitely won.

- I think we clearly won.

The first day that Kyle moved to town, we were playing at this bar called Swanee's, which is now The Shoe, and there was a gnarly summer storm that hit, and it was a torrential downpour.

And so Kyle and his friend helped us literally just throw gear into the van.

No org, just trying to save gear.

- I was trying to get a job.

- Yeah, and he- (group chuckles) - As a roadie?

- I mean, it was hours after I rolled into town, not even maybe three hours after I rolled into town.

- [Sean] Do you play trombone by chance?

- [Layne] Yeah.

It was just meant to be.

Yeah, it was meant to be.

- Yeah, and then ended up joining the band that I bailed out of the monsoon.

I hadn't played the trombone for about nine years, intentionally, and maybe never would've played it again had I not met these guys, so.

- As life goes on and has its own roller coaster of complexity, oftentimes the one thing that you can look forward to that's gonna save your whole life is, "I've got a gig Friday with these guys," and that's what saves us.

- Yeah, totally.

- I mean, repeatedly.

And everybody knows, without you having to say a word, if you're going through something kinda tricky, it's just like they're all in carry mode.

- While I was in Eugene finding people to jam with, I think I was always looking for, like, the bond we had, and that never happened.

And so when I moved back, it was just perfect to come back together.

- And that's the genesis of me becoming a musician too, is coming out of middle school and reaching out to Kai, who's a year older, and being like, "I don't know, I'm a millennial.

Either I'm gonna get really into, like, screens, I don't know, video games, the technology," or, you know, I asked him to bring me camping with friends and they taught me how to play drums.

And I mean, what's less, you know, digital than a drum?

- Yeah, exactly.

Sitting around a campfire, drumming around.

- Yeah.

And- - Yeah.

- Yeah, it was all about friendships from the beginning for me, getting into music absolutely as a way to connect.

- Yeah, we played just the four of us for so long, but then every new person that's come in, now it's like, I don't wanna play a show without him.

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It's like, we've gotten so used to just, like, getting in each other's heads that we can pretty well predict and feel when somebody's about to do something or if they're in, you know, it's like, oh, like, I can tell that Seanie's fixing to wanna maybe change up the pocket groove a little bit here or something and it's- - And it's different with us 'cause a lot of us learned how to play music in general together.

I've played in other bands and you get that telepathy too, but it's kinda different with us just 'cause it's, like, so deeply ingrained.

- Totally.

- I think.

- Every single tune that you did on the show, when you nailed it, you were so proud of how well you had done it.

And it was, I mean, it was really in evidence.

You could just feel... Even if your facial affect was not revealing that.

The energy on the stage was, "These guys are just nailing tune after tune and they know they're doing it."

It was really fun, 'cause you just feel like- - I think we were surprised.

(group laughs) - It was fun.

Well, and does that say something about who you are?

'Cause what I'm sort of driving at is that even if you don't have a chance to rehearse, when you come together, you are in.

- Yeah.

- I find that we get better and better all the time, so it's like, you know, really focus and try to make each performance our best one.

And it's, you know, we'll usually walk away being pretty stoked with something about our individual performance.

- I think just playing together for so long, we can snap back into the mode.

And just us living in different towns, like, Sean and I are based outta Missoula, Kyle's outta, er, and Kia, and then Kyle's outta Lakeside, and then Nathan is variable.

Polson area, like these three are in Polson.

So when you actually come together, and sometimes we don't get much time to rehearse, but it just clicks.

It's just this feeling that, even when I play with other people, it feels like that's more work than just us coming together.

- We each step up and be a leader amongst equals in a way, and that's played out in the way that we write too.

And it's like one of us will bring a piece and it'll be like the framework for something, but we've never told each other to be like, you know, "This is what we want you to play," or "This is how..." You know, it's like, we'll bring our part and then everybody else creates their parts right then and there, and we just build on that.

And that's like when I met Kia, we were playing at the Top Hat and we were taking a set break, and he comes up and he's like, "Man," he's like, "Dude, you guys got something going on."

And he's like, "I just moved here from Southern California."

And he's like, "I play the B-3."

And I didn't believe him, to be honest.

- I was trying to get a job too.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Got his number, invited him to come sit in on some practices.

- It wasn't even a practice.

You guys were recording for a- - Oh, we- - You guys were recording for an album.

And so my addition was like, "Hey, you wanna record it?"

(group laughs) - Right.

- But it filled out the band so much when Kia joined.

It took the pressure, I think, off of a lot of us to... You just had that bed of sound with the B-3, and the horn parts became more simple and articulate.

- I think another interesting thing about us is, you know, with the lyrics, Jon is a very sweet person and, like, they usually start off really, really sweet songs, and then Sean I get in there and we get a little nasty and then everybody else comes in, and the real flavor comes out.

(group chuckles) So yeah, it is kinda like cooking something with us, isn't it?

- It really is.

And it's happened with every single one of them.

It's, you know, all, yeah, it just, once everybody puts their particular flavor into it, it makes a beautiful gumbo.

And it, and- (group chuckles) Yeah, it's- - I'm getting hungry.

- I know.

(group laughs) - I think Seanie, when he switches to guitar, I can see the leaps and bounds he's gone on guitar with the last time I heard him play on his songs and it's, it blows me away every time.

It's like, "Whoa, wait, you're a way better guitar player than I am in this band and you play bass."

So all these guys impress me.

We kinda had the Shredder of the Day Awards, the Shreddy Award.

So it's like- - The Shreddies.

- Somebody kinda gets appointed like, "Oh, you, yeah."

- I think Sean won every one of those.

(group laughs) - Why have I never heard of that?

(group laughs) - Shh!

Don't wanna say.

- You might have been nominated, but you haven't won.

- There's a closet full of Shreddies that are yours.

It's been a few years.

- So somebody will rip a solo on a gig that's like, and everybody remembers it like, "Okay, you get the Shreddy today."

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(bright upbeat rock music) (bright upbeat rock music continues) (bright upbeat rock music continues) (energetic bright upbeat rock music) (lively bright upbeat rock music) (lively bright upbeat rock music continues) (lively bright upbeat rock music continues) (lively bright upbeat rock music continues) (gentle bright upbeat rock music) (gentle bright upbeat rock music continues) (lively bright upbeat rock music) (lively bright upbeat rock music continues) (bright upbeat rock music) (bright upbeat rock music continues) (lively bright upbeat rock music) (energetic bright upbeat rock music) (lively bright upbeat rock music) (energetic bright upbeat rock music) (bright guitar music) (energetic bright upbeat rock music) (dramatic lively bright rock music) (energetic upbeat rock music) - After high school, you know, I went to audio school and eventually met Jon in Seattle to finish my internship.

And while we were over there, we wanted to reignite Off In The Woods, and so we called up Nathan and Sean and got together and started rehearsing.

We actually came back here to rehearse a little bit and then went back to Seattle and recorded our first album.

- Right, went to Robert Lang Studios and that's where, I mean, there's been a bunch of really famous albums that were recorded there.

- There was a lot of great grunge music outta there.

I think our genre was a little bit different from its repertoire.

- It wasn't us.

- It wasn't us.

Yeah.

I mean, we're not the most famous band out of there.

- Yet.

- Yeah, yet.

That's when this show comes out and then we blow up.

- That's it.

That's it.

- Right.

(Sean chuckles) - I feel like our second, like our first album was, like, really introspective and very unique in style.

And then our second album was kind of influenced by what the bar scene... It's like, in order to make money in the bar scene, you have to be, you know, upbeat, high energy, keep people in the bar, you know, it's like, you know, you gotta be that fun band.

And I feel like our second album was really influenced by that kind of necessity.

This newest album that we're hoping to record is, it has a lot of that in it, but it's also getting back to our roots.

And I feel like there's gonna be a lot more poetry and unique musicianship in it.

But now it's like we've played so many shows and we've recorded two albums, it's like, you know, just a natural progression.

We're as good a musicians as we've ever been.

And we're really excited to be able to get into the studio again.

And I think it'll, not only will it be recording at our best musicianship, but I think it's some of the material that we're most proud of too.

We've really matured in our writing.

- Yeah, I think some of the best songs Jon's ever written, we're really figuring out right now.

And there's heartbreakers that make you laugh and cry.

It's great.

- You know, coming into the band and like, with the music already kinda set, and me trying to like kind of fit in and see where things are at with the horns and with all the different parts.

We have like a little bit of keys and stuff with Kai.

It was really cool to see the inspiration where Jon got these lyrics and stuff, like the faces in the mountain.

As soon as, I swear, when I came out here to do a practice with you guys in Polson, I was like, I saw the faces in the mountain.

You know, and I just, like, a lot of these lyrics and a lot of these songs just started to like... It made so much more sense, the connection between the lyrics and the music and like, yeah, the whole vibe.

So yeah, it was just, it's cool and still, I discover new things.

- We've truly watched each other grow as human beings and as musicians and- - And decay.

(group laughs) - And decay.

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