Jon Foreman (about Switchfoot's album Nothing is Sound): What is true happiness? Is it a comfortable 4-door Sedan with tinted windows? Does it mean I have 2.3 children and a beautiful wife and live in a great neighborhood? Everyone has their own version of what happiness means, but many of the things we're going for, and I include myself in this, are absurd. There's this moment in Jewish scripture, in Ecclesiastes, where it says, "Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless." That's the place where our new record starts.
Jon Foreman: I feel like one of the reasons why U2's music has meant so much to me over the years is because of they're not afraid to talk about what's going on spiritually, and it connects with you on a spiritual level. And I guess we're attempting to do the same thing.
Tim Foreman: Whether it was Bob Dylan or Bob Marley or James Taylor, there are a lot of songs that got me through hard times growing up. To have a kid come up after a show and say, I was really contemplating suicide and I heard your song, what do you say to that? That's obviously much bigger than just four guys playing music. But it's an amazing feeling.
Jon Forman-We all love to surf and have been surfing all our lives so to us, the name made sense. To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
Tim Foreman: There's a lot of accountability involved with sharing your take on life with a million other people, but I think that's a good thing.
Jon Foreman: Whether it's divorce, or the lack of our ability to keep peace or even the partisan politics going on right now, we are constantly falling apart on a social scale. Somewhere in there is the idea that good things happen to bad people, not bad things happen to good people.
Chad Butler: I would definitely call myself a follower of Christ. I grew up in a Christian household.
Switchfoot's 2005 album Nothing is Sound debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 charts, making it their highest debut ever.
Switchfoot has released the following DVDs: 2003 - Switchfootage 2004 - Live in San Diego 2005 - Feet Don't Fail Me Now 2006 - Switchfootage 2
Their album Oh! Gravity sold 63,000 copies in its first week.
In 2003, their album The Beautiful Letdown was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.
The following are Switchfoot's singles: - "Meant to Live" (2003) - "Dare You to Move" (2004) - "This is Your Life" (2004) - "Stars" (2005) - "We Are One Tonight" (2006) - "Oh! Gravity." (2006) - "Awakening" (2007)
Their song "This Is Your Life" was played on an episode of Smallville.
"We Are One Tonight" was featured on the NBC adverts for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics.
Jon Foreman say that his main music influences are U2, The Police, and The Beatles.
The band endorses Atticus and Macbeth, which are fashionwear companies that are run by musicians.
Jon and Tim Foreman were in a Led Zeppelin cover band in junior High.
The following is Switchfoot's discography: 1997 - The Legend of Chin 1999 - New Way to Be Human 2000 - Learning to Breath 2003 - The Beautiful Letdown 2005 - Nothing is Sound 2006 - Oh! Gravity
Switchfoot is an Christian rock band.
In 1997, the band released their first album, The Legend of Chin.
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