Alter Bridge, Alien Ant Farm, American Head Charge, Army of Anyone, As Cities Burn, As Tall as Lions, Barenaked Ladies, Big Wreck, Catherine Wheel/Rob Dickinson, Cave In, Celebrity, Chris Cornell, The Chronicles of Israfel, Demon Hunter, Circa Survive, David Bazan/Pedro the Lion/Headphones, Deadsy, Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Disturbed, dredg, Emery, Explosions in the Sky, Fields, Finch, Glassjaw, The Helio Sequence, Incubus, Isis, John Mayer, King's X, Mad at Gravity, Metallica, Minus the Bear, Mogwai, Nothingface, Pulse Ultra, The Receiving End of Sirens, Responder, Say Anything, Sevendust, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Taproot, Third Eye Blind, Tool, White Hot Knife, Velvet Revolver
The biggest irony to Real and Rational is that it is not yet real. It is an idea. A vision. An apparition of thought masquerading as concrete substance. A psuedonymn for the man behind the curtain.
That would also make Real and Rational ironically irrational, I suppose.
But there is a rationale. To make music that is real. And rational. That speaks to someone as if they're talking to themself. Perhaps "real" and "rational" will never be achieved . . . but the journey is better than the arrival anyway. In the immortal words of Chris Cornell: "The have is not as good as the want."
