The Lost Trailers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=665269" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#AAAAAA" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c467d1euxmic.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kristi Singer</b></FONT><B>     </b><B>|     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kristi Singer"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tammy Cochran"><U>Tammy Cochran</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ted Nugent"><U>Ted Nugent</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id213.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Black Eyed Peas"><U>The Black Eyed Peas</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Damned"><U>The Damned</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The David Nelson Band"><U>The David Nelson Band</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The GoGos"><U>The Go-Go's</U></A>   |   <B>The Lost Trailers</b>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Mudhens"><U>The Mudhens</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Neville Brothers"><U>The Neville Brothers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Vivians"><U>The Vivians</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id106.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Wilmington All Star Players"><U>The Wilmington All Star Players</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Third Day"><U>Third Day</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="38 Special"><U>38 Special</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="311"><U>311</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tonic"><U>Tonic</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id233.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Topaz"><U>Topaz</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing Samples"><U><B>Back to Articles</b></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> The Lost Trailers</div> <bR> <div> <B>Trailers' members want to do their own thing</b></div> <div> By Kristi Singer</div> <div> <I>Star-News Correspondent</I></div> <div> July 12, 2002</div> <bR> <div> The Lost Trailers want to rekindle the flame for good, old American rock 'n' roll.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want to sound like everybody else. We want to be The Lost Trailers, and if people say you don't sound like anybody who's out there right now, we say 'Hell, yeah,' " said vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Geoffrey Stokes Nielson.</div> <bR> <div> With help from its idol, country music legend Willie Nelson, the band just might have its chance.</div> <bR> <div> The Washington, D.C.-based band received encouragement from Mr. Nelson early in 2001 when he heard a demo by Mr. Nielson and keyboardist/vocalist Ryder Lee.</div> <bR> <div> The demo included a track called Fairweather Queen that featured Mr. Nelson's harmonica player. The harmonica player passed the demo along to Mr. Nelson, who invited the band, known at the time as The Trailers, to play his Fourth of July picnic in Austin, Texas.</div> <bR> <div> "When I talked to Willie, he's like, 'Obviously your music is a lot different. You're not a country band; you're more of a rock band.' But the one thing that he said was there's always two kinds of music – good music and bad music. And if you're playing good music then you're on the right path. So we feel lucky that we're doing things right," Mr. Nielson said.</div> <bR> <div> After the picnic, The Lost Trailers supported Mr. Nelson on the road before booking its own gigs across the country.</div> <bR> <div> Receiving en-couragement from a musical hero was a turning point for the band. The members decided to pursue a music career whole-heartedly after performing with Mr. Nelson.</div> <bR> <div> "It was wonderful that the initial support he gave us affirmed the fact that we thought we were making important music," Mr. Nielson said.</div> <bR> <div> The rock band with Southern roots quickly gained acceptance in hard-to-break-into markets such as Boston and New York and recently signed with the former manager of Tenacious D and Blind Melon.</div> <bR> <div> "These are all people who are looking at us and seeing the potential of a rock act based in the South that has some tendencies to take on Southern style music. When you listen to (our) CD, you're hearing urban music, but you're also hearing southern. It's good to hear that, because I think that's something that's missing in modern rock music today," Mr. Nielson said.</div> <bR> <div> The members of The Lost Trailers were all born in the south – Mr. Lee grew up in eastern North Carolina, bassist Cam McElroy in New Orleans, drummer Jeff Potter in Maryland and Mr. Nielson in Albany, Ga.</div> <bR> <div> The musicians met while attending high school in Alexandria, Va.</div> <bR> <div> "Since we're from different parts of the country, you get this new blend of music where we can do any kind of song that we want to and pull it off," Mr. Nielson said.</div> <bR> <div> The Lost Trailers got its name because the band has had two trailers full of equipment stolen while it was on tour.</div> <bR> <div> The most recent incident happened in November when the band performed in Boston and woke up to find $40,000 worth of equipment missing.</div> <bR> <div> "It was a setback, but we played a show three days later with borrowed stuff, and I think it's really a testament as to how strong the band is and how close we are to bounce back after something like that," Mr. Lee said.</div> <bR> <div> The Lost Trailers is currently on the summer leg of its Nationwide 2002 Summer Passport Tour in support of its debut, Passport, a 20-song recording.</div> <bR> <div> The tour, which will include over 100 concerts in less than five months, began in June in New York City and will extend through September when the band returns to the studio.</div> <bR> <div> This fall, the band will release a 10-track concept album, Where Are We Now?.</div> <bR> <div> For more on The Lost Trailers, log on to www.thelosttrailers.com.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>