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PAUL COLMAN TRIO INTERVIEW
by Kim Flanders

On the afternoon of the last show with Third Day on the extended
Come Together Tour, we sat down with the all three members that make
up the Paul Colman Trio to discuss a little bit about, connection,
their music, some insights from living in Australia, the simplicity
of Jesus, and where they plan to go from here.

cMUSICWEB.COM: cMusicWeb's motto is "A different approach to music."
How does pc3 fit into this?

GRANT: I think for a lot of bands, being in a band is about the
music, or it's about making money, or it's about a whole lot of
other things. I know that a lot of bands do performances where they
are very arty about it and it's about them expressing their music as
an art form and hopefully people will appreciate it. And if people
don't people appreciate it, then it's sort of their fault. Whereas
for us the music is simply the vehicle to get to where we want to
go. It's the car that we jump in to drive somewhere. The place we
are trying to get to is connection. Connecting with people, and
connecting with the Creator of the Universe. And encouraging the
people that we are playing for to connect to the Creator of the
Universe. And that's why performing night after night, even if it is
the same songs over and over again, can be different because it is a
different bunch of people there. And God is always fresh. So it's
about connection, and not about music, and I think that's quite
different from most bands. It's a different approach to music.

PAUL: And that would be why we would have a passion for music.
Because if you work backwards from that, that means the music has
got to be good, it's got to be great. Most people start with the
music and then go, "Now are we going to perform this?" and we start
with how we are going to connect, and then we write the music.

GRANT: And we'd like as nice a car as possible to travel in, but as
long as it gets us there. If we need to do some goofy hand motions
or if we need to make a few laughs at ourselves at whatever is going
on, or if we need to be arty, then all those things are ways we can
do it. But we don't want to box ourselves at just one way of
presenting music. It's a lot more interactive and a lot more broad
and interesting and fun and than that, and serious.

PAUL: Grant is not saying anything will do as long as we connect.
It's not that at all. It's nothing haphazard about making the music.
We are fully intense about music. But it's just the purpose of it.

PHIL: And the connection is not just when we are on stage with the
people of the audience.

GRANT: Yes, like when we are on the tour bus, it's an opportunity to
connect, when you are in catering, when we are in here in the
dressing room with you, it's an opportunity to connect.

cMW: What do you think about just before you go on stage?

GRANT: Usually that we did not take enough time to pray properly.

PAUL: We always pray before we go on stage, and I guess we should
pray before we do anything. So I don't know why we don't just pray
before we eat, well we do I guess. It's called Grace and it's more
formal. I think, not a presumption in your question, but a
presumption in just about any question that you get asked as a
musician, I think is a false presumption, but it is not the fault of
the person asking the question. It's a way of thinking. And that is
that the time on stage is the really important part of your day,
it's the important part of how God works through you. And that's why
we don't tend to ask questions like, "What are you thinking before
you get up and walk out of the bus and you are about to see the
crew?" or "What are you thinking just before you get back to town
and you are about to see your wife?" or "What are you thinking in
the dressing room when there is still 5 hours to go and your bored
and you have to choose between reading the Scriptures or watching a
DVD?" We are often asked about what happens on stage, and really
what happens on stage is a direct result of all the right or wrong
decisions you made throughout your whole day. It's a result, it's
not the main focus.

I heard Rebecca St. James say that she prays before every ministry
opportunity. I don't understand that because what isn't a ministry
opportunity? I guess what she means is that she is an artist who has
grown up around the presumption that the ministry is from stage. I
think that's the easiest, if that is a ministry, that's my easiest
ministry. That's the one that requires less focus and attention than
anything I do, because I am operating with my gift, I have already
written the songs, I have already played them a thousand times each,
we've already done a thousand shows. It's part of your work. And if
God moves through people in the audience through people during that
moment, I am amazed and I love it. But when you get off stage, to
us, that's the real stage - every moment that you are not operating
in your gift.

So, what we think about is getting the songs right, praying, where
we are at, where the merchandise stand is so we can point people in
the right direction, it's business. But also, you know that God is
going to work through you because He is good and He does that. But
it's not the same intensity for me as some others talk about it.

GRANT: I also think that we will try to remind ourselves that, I
know this comes out in the prayers often, it is actually very easy
to walk on stage in front of an audience that is there to see you,
or a particularly big audience, or any audience for that matter, and
going, "Yeah, I deserve this, I rock, I have been working hard, and
these people are here because I have been working hard." What comes
out in the prayer is really trying to push that down and to remind
ourselves that without God's love in us, we are nothing. The little
image we have about that in my head is that I want to be like a
clear glass window. I know that we all do. We want to be like a
clear glass window rather than a beautiful stained glass window. You
know when you are sitting in an old church looking at a stained
glass window and the sun can be shining through and you can be
going, "Wow, what a great window!" And that to me is like looking at
a great band and singing about God, but you are actually only
looking at the band. A little image that helps me and I try to
remind myself of this before I am about to go on stage is that I
want to be a clear glass window, so people are going, "Wow. Look at
the beautiful day outside." That's the idea.

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