Sevendust's Morgan Rose has opened up about playing their first virtual concert without a live audience. The band performed the live stream Sevendust: Live In Your Living Room back in October.
In an interview with Aftershocks TV, Rose said about the performance, “It was terrible. It sucked. The only thing that saved it was we hadn't seen each other in a long time. So we were excited to see each other. We were excited to be able to play together again. But there was some anxiety.”
He continued, “I hadn't played a real show, like playing hard, in probably about a year. It was wild; it was wild to do that. And the people not being there, it felt like when we were first starting out — going on tour and having three or four people out there. We had a few crew guys and a few lighting guys out there, and that was about it. So I just tried to go inside, you know, imagine. I played a lot with my eyes closed on that — I just tried to envision there being people there.”
He added, “I don't really see the people that much when we're playing live anymore either, but the response and the sound of it — that's the drug. That feeling of 'that's fulfillment.' That's the sound of you just pleased somebody. So that's what I get out of it. So to not have that, it was, like, 'Damn.'”
The band is set to perform their entire Animosity album during a livestream today (January 8th) in Orlando, Florida.