High Tide Low Tide Climbing The Wave to Success
by Tim Wenger
In today’s music world, artists have to go all in to even have a chance of making it. Denver’s High Tide Low Side are going balls to the wall, and their trashed out, lived in, thrashed up practice space on south Broadway is visible proof of their undying commitment to the music. Their name suggests the journey they have undergone thus far, with the attitude of each member suggesting, and reaffirming, that a new peak lie on the horizon.
The group spent their summer gigging all over town, and are currently working on their second EP. “I think it’s gonna be five songs,” says guitarist Craig Down. “We’re working with Alex Scott at Red Wall Audio. This band has reformulated it’s sound. We had a big lineup change. We separated with one of our founding members. We have an EP out, it doesn’t represent us. Everything was just coming apart at the seams.”
The guys are very anxious to get the new record out and into the hands of eager music listeners from all over the scene, and solidify the image that the band wants to present. “This, however, 120% represents every one of us,” says Down. “I’m really excited about it. I’ve never been more excited about any piece of music in my whole life. We’re really trying to nurture this thing and do it right this time, and make, hopefully, a career out of this.”
“Things are kind of financially screwed up for us at the moment,” says Down. “But we’re working two and three jobs, (drummer) Giles Cool works three jobs, to fund this thing. We’re trying to get back into the studio, but its going, and the guy that we’re working with is a close friend of ours. What we’ve recorded thus far sounds amazing to me.” They hope to have the record out by mid winter.
A video looks to precede the release of the album. “We’re working with Adam Blackford with Showdown Media,” says Down. “We’re trying to encompass the last few months of our lives because it’s been one big fucked up mess. We’re getting out of it, and it was a very interesting time in our lives.”
The video is in the line of a short documentary, covering their living situations, member transitions, and general band life. Colorado Music Buzz met up with the group in their practice studio, which has doubled as a recording spot and apartment. At the time of the interview for this story, the room is cluttered with workout equipment, party accessories, clothes and beds in addition to the band’s equipment. “Our living situations weren’t the best,” says Down. “Giles and I were living in this space. All the trials and tribulations, it was a rough time. It kind of still is, but we are getting out of it. There is a silver lining and we can see it.”
Down and Cool will be moving into an apartment soon. “We stay with our girlfriends now,” says Down. “Giles and I have an apartment, we move in in a week or two.”
The band added a new member, Caleb Gabs, to fill the void of the departed founding member, and have been working diligently to perfect their sound and live show. They feel confident about a bright future ahead, and are more than willing to put in the work necessary to ensure they get there. “I think we’re all at the peak of our game because we’ve struggled so hard,” says Down.
High Tide Low Tide are working hard to pursue their passion, with no qualms about anything, and plan to continue triumphing over anything that gets in their way to put their band where they know it needs to be. “Music is definitely why we’re living not the best,” says Down. “Everything we do that sucks is for music. You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes, especially if you’re passionate. We could all say fuck it and go get more reliable things, but a lot of people look back at their lives and regret what they could have done, and we are definitely not going to do that.”
Online: facebook.com/htltband
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