![]() I suppose it was around Transistor, our ’97 tour where we had just had such a big smash with the song “Down” and then we followed it up with the album Transistor and then we took Incubus and Sugar Ray out on an on amphitheater tour. ![]() Nick Hexum: We kind of have gone back and forth. But what exactly was the jumping-off point for being a band that has a couple of hits in the clubs to playing arenas and amphitheater? 311 has been an amphitheater act for 15 to 20 years now. In the meantime, more on 311 - which also includes vocalist Doug “SA” Martinez, bassist Aaron “P-Nut” Wills, guitarist Tim Mahoney and drummer Chad Sexton - can be found online on its official website via It’s been very interesting to me when a band transitions from being a huge club band to becoming an amphitheater kind of act. ![]() The rest of this interview will be broadcast as part of a future edition of the Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz podcast. I had the pleasure of interviewing 311 singer and guitarist Nick Hexum by phone on April 30th and highlights from our chat are below. As part of Live Nation’s National Concert Week, $20 tickets for the Sounds Of Summer tour - and thousands of other Live Nation-produced shows - are available for select shows from today through May 7th. The tour kicks off in Dayton, Ohio on July 2nd and is scheduled to run through August 20th. Prior to the release of its 13th album via BMG, 311 will be hitting the road for the Sounds Of Summer tour with co-headliner Dirty Heads and special guests The Interrupters, Dreamers and Bikini Trill. 2019 will mark 20 consecutive headlining summer tours for 311, all while having 12 full-length studio albums - over nine million albums in the U.S. The band known as 311 was formed close to 30 years ago in 1990 in Omaha, Nebraska. Now based in Southern California, 311 continues to mix rock, rap, reggae and funk into its own unique hybrid sound. By Darren Paltrowitz 0 311’s Nick Hexum On The Past, Present & Future Of 311 Including Its 2019 “Sounds Of Summer” Tour ![]()
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