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Cyrus Bolooki
(July 2005 Issue)
The Commander Returns Cyrus Bolooki and his bandmates in New Found Glory have successfully climbed over the hump of their
2002 sophomore release Sticks And Stones, returning with their third major-label recording, Catalyst. It's a very
confident-sounding record, due mostly to the fact that the band feels more confident as a group this time
around.
"Being home for a while before, during, and even after this recording
was really good," Cyrus says. "We
spent a lot of time playing these
songs and practicing. We'd done some of that on our earlier records,
but we never took
this much time to develop our ideas."
Cyrus says he used a different drum setup on every song of
Catalyst.
"For instance," he explains, "we recorded the track 'Failure Is Not
Flattering' in an isolation booth
so we could have an extremely tight
drum sound, kind of a throwback to the '80s. The second we finished
recording that
tune we all said, "this song is going to be fun to play
live, it's going to translate so well to the
stage."
Recently Cyrus teamed with Vater drumsticks to come up with his own
signature model, called The
Commander. "First off," Cyrus says, "I want
to say how much of an honor it is to be asked to do this. Vater was the
first
company to offer me an endorsement way back when we were still
touring in a van. As for the design of The Commander, we
found a middle
ground between all of the different Vater models I'd been using over
the years. These sticks feel great."
Billy Amendola
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