FAQs

• It seems like your songs are a prism for looking at things that are bigger, outside yourself. Even in your more personal songs, your lyrics are not self-involved but rather look out into the world, which is so refreshing!
  Erika Steckl WRUW 91.1 FM 'Kill Cupid' show 9.24.07

Weber: Songs are often a way of integrating different parts of your life. If part of it is living in a world that seems to be completely out of your control and you let that world into your song -- maybe it's just ordering a little piece of the chaos.

• What inspires your music?
  Ray Leonardi Cleveland Free Times 9.19.07

Weber: That blip of perception that sits just beneath conscious thought, like a dream that you almost can't remember. It's all about isolating that fragment of consciousness and figuring out what is sounds like.

• Many singer-songwriters boast a raucous and electric past in rock 'n' roll bands before mellowing out into the acoustic guitar realm. Your path was different -- how so?
  John Benson Cleveland Plain Dealer 9.28.07

Weber: I went the other way around. This feels more native to me than any other kind of music. There's a quality to rock music that is unapologetically large and free -- you can make a big sound and have a positive voice. The electric guitar pulled out more poetry, more passion.

• What are the benefits of performing in a band?
  Chris Glaser Scene 1.18.06

Weber: What the band does is intensify emotion over the arc of a show because there's so much sonic energy to work with. Lyrics climb out on a strong emotional wave. That's intimate stuff to share with an audience.

• Tell me more about working with this band.
  Anastasia Pantsios Cleveland Free Times 9.26.07

Weber: Walt's got this immense palette: he listens to all kinds of music. Trees went to Berklee and he's into musical theater and Jazz. We have really good chemistry and love creating.