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Christine's Our Lady Peace site
Healthy In Paranoid Times August 30, 2005 
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Site Update:
** 1 New HIPT Interview * 16 Interveiws ** News in the album update Healthy In Paranoid Times * Band Bio In Discography * Quotes(in at the bottom of Page) **Updated the Discography area forHealthy In Paranoid Times
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Questions and Answers about Our Lady Peace
Well I am HUGE Our Lady Peace fan I know everything about them, the Band(music wise)is real good to the fans they always do special stuff for us we had about six or seven chat with them and You can check it out at there page at ourladypeace.net, they also have live pictures lots of other stuff too from the band, Our Lady Peace is so good to us. Doing special things for us that they don't have to do, if they don't want to.Click here for my experience on meeting the band
Here a short Full Time line, 1992-2002 and Quotes
1992- Our Lady Peace is formed consisting of(Raine)Micheal Maida on vocals, Mike Turner on guitar, Chris Eacrett on bass and Jim Newell on drums. The band releases an independent video for a song titled "Out of Here".
1993- The band is signed by Sony Music Canada and Jim Newell is replaced by Jeremy Taggart on drums.
1994- The band releases their debut album "Naveed". The single "Starseed" becomes an international hit. OLP is also asked to cover a Neil Young song for a tribute album. The band chose to cover "The Needle and the Damage Done". They then undertake their first cross Canada club tour.
1995- Chris Eacrett is replaced on bass by Duncan Coutts. The band continues to tour in support of their debut album "Naveed" including an opening spot for Page & Plant. The band also appears on the soundtrack to The Craft covering the Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows".
1996- The band heads back into studio to record the follow up to "Naveed". They go to northern Ontario to write the album before returning to Toronto to record. They also take a break from the studio to play Edgefest that summer.
1997- The band releases their sophmore album titled "Clumsy" in late January. They begin touring the album almost immediately. They also headlineEdgefest '97. The video for the first single, Superman's Dead, wins the video of the year award at the Much Music Video Awards Ceremony.
1998- The band embarks on a cross Canada arena tour. They then tour Europe in April and May. That summer they launch their own concert festival, Summersault. They schedule 5 Summersault shows across Canada. In September they return to studio to write their 3rd album.
1999-The band spends the first half of the year recording their third album. They are invited to play Woodstock'99 where they debut the new album in front of a crows of 250,000. "Happiness is not a fish that you can catch" is released in September shattering Canadian sales records for first week sales.
The band spend the rest of the year touring the US.
2000- The early part of the year is spent touring Canada before they return to tour the US once more. They revive the Summersault festival which sells out across the country. To the suprise of many they then announce they have almost completed the recording of their fourth album "Spiritual Machines".
2001- ~Our Lady Peace's has new a album "Spiritual Machines". Does litte club tour in Canada for the hard core fans you can only get if you won tickets, goes to U.S tours to and tour with American Hi-Fi and atfer with some other bands. OLP Earn Diamond!February 28, 2001 Canadian sales of Our Lady Peace's second release "Clumsy" have just stormed past the 1,000,000 mark, earning the disc an extremely rare Diamond certification! In the field of rock, only OLP and the Barenaked Ladies have achieved sales of this magnitude. Worldwide, sales of 'Clumsy' are in excess of 2,500,000 units. November, Band heads in to the studio to make the new album. They have a new producer Bob Rock. Thats all for now on the new album. December 12, Our Lady Peace And Guitarist Mike Turner Separate, Citing musical and creative differences. A replacement guitarist has not been named at this point.
2002- April-New Album is set for release on June 18 2002, for both Canadain and U.S. and Our Lady Peace announce the addition of Steve Mazur to the band as the new guitarist. June 18, OLP's Fifth album "Gravity" is now release in stores. The Single "Somewhere Out There" is being playing on most US Radio stations and is a popular song. August-The second single is "Innocent" and the Third is "Made of steel.
Quotes"That's Our Lady (not of!) Peace, we aren't a religious band, just named after a poem by Mark Van Doren. Perhaps we weren't too bright when we overlooked the religious implications of the name, but then again, we didn't claim to be brain surgeons (or theology students)."
--Mike Turner, on the band name
"It doesn't matter how many tickets we sell, it's not about that, you know, we never want to be judged on how many record we sell, or how many arenas. We want to be judged on our body of work and that takes along time."
-Raine Maida
"(Raine)doesn't like(the sex symbol title). He's very uncomfortable with that but people perceive what they want to perceive. Raine is a good looking guy which can be a little detrimental because I think he is a brilliant lyricist and I think the message of him lyrics sometimes gets obscured by the fact that people will read them with the script of him being this sex symbol boy. Not that there's anything wrong with being a thirteen year-old girl but I'm sure some of them are missing possible meanings of a song because they want to hear it as a love song and anything that(is detrimental to)the music to us is bad."
--Mike Turner
"If you're passionate about something, then you owe it to yourself to pursue it with all of your heart...it should never be overridden by any idea of what's cool, no matter how fashionable it might seem."
~Mike Turner, on how to pursue your dreams.
"Age is not something you've got to earn, you grow older by yourself and I don't understand why a lot of people think you have to look down on youngsters. Maybe they've already fogotten that they were young once" --Raine Maida
"It's time to start thinking for yourselves and not letting yourself be inundated by the pressures of the media telling you, basically, what to wear and what television to watch and what group you should fit in".--Raine Maida
"The more general and open-ended you can leave lyrics, the more people are going to be able to take home for themselves and put their own perceptions on them, and not be so narrow-minded because someone is telling them specifically what you need to take out of a song"
--Raine Maida
"Listen, this is not my real job. I'm an air traffic controller. If you hit me in the eye, I hope it's you who gets on a plane tomorrow."
--Raine Maida, to an agitated crowd at a live show when a bottle was thrown at him
"We went back into that same studio with our producer friend and made Clumsy. Clumsy is about making decisions. There is a connection between the song Clumsy and it being the title of the album.
The lyric: I'll be waving my hand/watching you drown/ watching you scream is about seeing something, but not seeing it for what it really is. You may decide to help... or to just wave back."
Raine Maida
"Musicians are not our profession.. Its not what we do, its what we ARE."
-Raine Maida
"If you don't get depressed sometimes, there's no way you're going to be able to realize when your happy and things are great" --Raine Maida
During the story Raine tells before "Trapeze", the overhead spotlight on him went off for some reason and he looked up at the operators on the lighting truss high above the stage and said, "Hey, turn that light back on, I'm trying to tell my friends a story here."
I think sometimes the more ambiguous the lyric the better, because then it kind of washes with the music and it becomes this one piece," he says. "It's really weird because on ninety percent of the songs (the band) doesn't really know what I'm talking about, and no one's ever asked. I think they like the
lyrics and, as most of our fans do, the interpret them in different ways. That's the beauty of music. That's why I got into music and started writing songs,and especially lyrics. With all the people I admired growing up you didn't feel like you were being hit over the head with 'This is what it's about.' You could take something personal from it." -Raine Maida
"We're not a band that comes in after a gig and pats each other on the back.It's very rare when we're sitting down and go,'That was good.' Most of the time we get mad and don't talk to one another for an hour and a half." -Jeremy Taggart Click here for more quotes
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