7/7/2012 7:00PM, Alpine Valley Music Theatre
Recently, we had the
opportunity to sit down with Boyd Tinsley before he hit the stage at Alpine
Valley to ask a few fan questions and discuss his upcoming film, Faces in the
Mirror. Here is what happen:
DMBTattoo.com:
So tell us the gist of the movie, we have seen the previews
and the BT behind the scenes video on YouTube, but just talk about the movie a
little bit.
Boyd Tinsley: It's
just an idea that sort of hit me one night to do this movie. Making a movie was something I've wanted to
do for about 15 years and I have thought about the way I was going to go about
it over that time. The way I really
wanted to do it was have it based around music.
So we started off with music, we had a story about this guy named Ben,
whose Dad had passed. He came back for
the funeral, but he and his Dad had a falling out. When he was small his Dad was a workaholic
and was away a lot so he didn't see him.
So he became bitter and when he grew up he never saw his father until on
his father's death bed. On the day of that
funeral he goes through this dreamlike odyssey where he meets a lot of people,
very interesting people that are sort of like guides to him. It takes course of one night, one complete
day. It's a journey. I won't go beyond that, but it's a complete dream. It was a joy to make, it's a beautiful movie,
beautifully shot. It has great actors,
the lead Ryan Orr, [he is] just really expressive. The movie doesn't have a lot of dialog in it.
For me the most important thing about a movie is the feeling, I love the
feeling I get from a movie. Just the way
the scenes make me feel, like in Star Wars when the ship comes out in the very
beginning, you know this is going to be good and you feel it. I love that ship. You had great music in that movie too, John Williams
is a great composer. You had great
music and you had great movie. When you
put those things together its huge and that's what I wanted to happen. I wanted to have great music and a great
movie put that together and I wanted to get those chills. That's what we did. That was my guide post for making this movie,
every scene I have to get the chills and it has to have big moments when things
really burst into this huge explosion of emotion. So that's where I come from as a film
maker. We made this film, it took a lot
of belief and a lot of faith to a make a film where we did not know how it was
going to turn out. To me like in music I
like taking one idea and just sort of expanding on it and seeing where it
goes. Like creating a story and ride it
and see where it goes. Just like in this
movie, I didn't want to have the complete story, I wanted only part of the
story and just let it start. I knew as
it went along we would figure out what the story was. It was a 3 year process to make this movie
but all through this time we were all thinking about it. The major players, me, the directors, the
producers, everybody was thinking about this, this whole time and we were like
yes this and we knew exactly what do .
It was cool and was really a cool thing for us to discover what this
movie was in the end.
DMBTattoo: What did you feel producing/acting, what was the biggest
challenge for you in each of the roles?
BT: I did have to
learn a lot. The music producing I had
done before at least on one occasion. I
was exposed to that to a degree, but then, producing a movie, of course I had
never done that before but like you said I had to learn as we went along. I
never really studied film making in the sense of how you make a film. I just knew what I wanted to get out of the
film and I knew a way to get that. So I
just followed that. The challenge was
everything to a degree, but honestly the biggest challenge was because I pretty
much had to spent every day. Every day
off, sometimes days we were on, You know I have a gig, I was editing music or
doing some aspect of the film and have to be away from my kids. Honestly that's the hardest thing, I work so
much with the band and with this movie so I am away a lot so honestly missing
my kids is the hardest thing. Everything
is else is, yes its hard work but I love what I do and I don't mind that.
DMBTattoo: Looking
forward, assuming the success of this film, where do you want to take this? Do
you want to produce more? What do you
want to do next?
BT: I absolutely want
to do more. What we are going to do with
this movie after the premiere. This is
an idea I first had was take it into music venues and theatres. I wanted to do it a few scenes maybe every
week or so, and have a band play. Then
have this music film thing going on and introduce a new scenes every time and
then show the entire movie. We are going
to do that after this. We are going to
take the movie on tour. Show the movie
and have a band playing as well. We will
probably have musicians from the soundtrack as well. We will take it directly to the fans. I guess I always knew I would have to make a
movie myself but also I didn't want to have to have a third party to get it to people.
What's the wait, put it in music venues,
that's my home and bring in bands and then that's the way we will do it. So we will do that and beyond that I think if
enough mass appeal happens on this grass roots level, I would love for it to be
in theatres. It's a movie that's made
for the big screen. We had this event in
Philly and I saw it on the biggest screen that I saw so far and I was like holy
cow, I couldn't believe! It was really cool man.
DMBTattoo: We can't wait to see it, you have leaked a little
but about a Chicago date on August 2?
BT: It's going to
premier in Seattle on August 30. We are going
to have an event where we show a scene from the movie, like this bonfire scene,
then the trailer. A question and answer
and a band. I'll bring somebody from DMB
with me, we had Rashawn in NY and we have Jeff this time. We are still working on plans for Chicago.
But it's definitely going to happen. I
am looking forward to that.
DMBTattoo: Can you tell us which venue it will be at for
Chicago?
BT: We are still
nailing down those plans, we will have that all sorted out by the beginning of
next week but we are all really excited about that.
DMBTattoo: Being a
new twitter member, how has your experience been? The amount of interaction you have had with
fans has had to be overwhelming, but what do you think?
BT: Its really cool
man. I love talking to fans. Like in the early days I used to spend a lot
of time outside kicking it with fans and talking to them. So the bigger you get, you get more removed
from fans sometimes in the way you could kick and talk. So it's really cool to have the opportunity
again to talk to the fans and get to know them and them to get to know me. It's fun, it's just like I interact with them
and people ask a lot of questions and I love answering them when I can. I send out some birthdays and it's just fun,
everybody has been really nice.
DMBTattoo: Being a twitter user for several years now, with
fans and friends, everyone appreciates it.
Being able to talk to BT, even with questions your answering, people
love it, being able to see a little bit inside to who BT its very nice, we
encourage you to keep it up, we really appreciate it.
BT : Thank you, thanks man I appreciate that.
DMBTattoo: We have a few fan questions as well, not related
to the movie. Are you a vegetarian?
BT: Yeah
DMBTattoo: Related to that, working out as much as you do,
what do you eat for protein being a vegetarian?
BT: The trick is, I drink a lot of protein shakes. As a vegetarian, to work out and build muscle
you have to drink protein shakes. There's
no way we can eat enough Boca burgers you know you can't do it. The secret is
protein shakes [laughing] It was a
problem for a long time till I figured out to do the shakes, it was you have to
sit there and stuff down tofu and Boca burgers to get that protein. That's the toughest thing being a vegetarian
is getting enough protein.
DMBTattoo: As a vegetarian, what's your favorite meal?
BT: I like batter fried tofu and tofurkey, a lot. I like anything that just tastes good. I'm not a vegan so I also eat eggs.
Boca burgers, veggie burgers, my diet is pretty simple when it comes to
that. I'm not a gourmet veggie eater, I
eat to survive mostly.
DMBTattoo: We have
had a few fans send in questions and have also been dying to know, what is the
hardest song for you to play?
BT: I'm going to tell
you what, they are all tough to play.
There isn't a single easy song in Dave Matthews Band repertoire, trust
me. I mean I have sat in with other
bands and I've never sat in with a band with songs like ours. It's like a whole different world man, but it's
cool. There's not one in particular, all
of them are hard, but all of them are a lot of fun. That's just the way we roll I guess, it's the
way that is There's not one song that I
sit there and say oh wow this is going to be hard. I just look at it like one song at a time.
DMBTattoo: We were
wondering, do you know anything about the Mardi Gras mask that is on the
speaker stack next to you?
BT: There's a Mardi Gras mask? I never even noticed it? I
had no idea, I had nothing to do with it at all. It's really bad, honestly I didn't even
notice it. Is it right next to me?
DMBTattoo: It's right
on the stack next to you, we thought it might have a meaning?
BT: Oh I gotchya, I
never noticed it man. [laughing] I'm going to look for it tonight though.
DMBTattoo: Finally, if you weren't playing with DMB, as a
world renown musician, what would you be doing?
When you were a kid, did you have a career that you wanted to do?
BT: I don't know man, something different. I wanted to be a
musician, a guitar player, but I wanted to rock like I rock now. I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do except I'm
playing the violin instead of the guitar.
So I am living my childhood dream.
DMBTattoo: That is
something very few people can say and is absolutely amazing. We are very happy for you and we love you rocking
out! Last night was a great show and looking forward to tonight. Really appreciate taking the time to chat
with us. It's been a pleasure.
BT: Absolute, Thanks
for coming. Thank you very much.
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