{"id":19166,"date":"2026-10-14T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:10:29","slug":"morning-song-neiked-x-portugal-the-man-some-kind-of-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2026\/10\/14\/morning-song-neiked-x-portugal-the-man-some-kind-of-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song #"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2018, the innovative rock group Portugal. The Man<\/strong> won a Grammy award for their hit single \u201cFeel It Still,\u201d for \u201cBest Pop Duo\/Group Performance.\u201d They\u2019d also scored a major hit with the infectious 2017 single \u201cLive in the Moment.\u201d They earned a reputation for being an exceptional live band, particularly when they played major festivals such as Lollapalooza. Way before all that, though, singer\/guitarist John Gourley<\/strong> and bassist Zach Carothers<\/strong> first began playing together when they were still in high school in Wasilla, Alaska. After relocating to Portland, Oregon, they quickly established Portugal. The Man as the band to watch on the scene, releasing their debut album, Waiter: \u201cYou Vultures!\u201d<\/em> in 2006. Releasing seven more studio albums (most recently in 2017, with Woodstock<\/em>), they\u2019ve established themselves as one of the more adventurous bands around. But with their latest release, Oregon City Sessions<\/em> (out on April 16), they\u2019re taking a look back: the album captures the band performing songs in their rehearsal space in 2008. They did only one take \u2013 and didn\u2019t do any re-recording or overdubs \u2013 so this is a rare glimpse of the band just before they began gaining international stardom. Calling from Portland, Zach Carothers explains what made the band, normally so forward-looking, take this rare look back \u2013 and what comes next for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, what prompted you to record this particular session that you\u2019re releasing now?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH CAROTHERS: In general, we just try to document everything. We\u2019ve got kind of a rule: no matter what\u2019s going on, if people are crying or people are naked or people are dead, keep the camera rolling, keep the mics going. We\u2019re just all about that. The whole reason we record things is just because it\u2019s a snapshot into our life at that moment. And as a music fan, I love when people put out demos or unfinished tracks. I like figuring out other people\u2019s process. So this is a little bit of our process. This one is way more intimate than most of our releases, which is really fun, actually. It\u2019s not performative in any way \u2013 it\u2019s just us playing in a room facing each other and doing what we do when we get together, and it\u2019s kind of strange, like letting somebody see your diary or something like that. Out of all the things we\u2019ve recorded, this is about the most pure that we ever were, or ever are. We\u2019re not playing for anybody. This is just what happens when we go into a room. This was a very special moment in our career. It was right before some things started taking off, and it was just a very interesting time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you were recording this, did you have some sense that you were on the verge of really making it big \u2013 that you were onto something special with this band?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH CAROTHERS: Yes and no. Every time that we would play a city that we had never played before for the first time: \u201cMan, we\u2019ve made it!\u201d First time we went to Europe: \u201cMan, we\u2019ve made it!\u201d There\u2019s been a million of those \u201cwe\u2019ve made it\u201d moments, but also, they never end, if that makes any sense. So I never thought we\u2019d have a song like \u201cFeel It Still.\u201d But in general, it also didn\u2019t really matter. We just decided a long time ago that we\u2019re going to play music together as long as people will listen \u2013 and probably pretty long after that, as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What made you want to be a musician in the first place?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH CAROTHERS: I just wanted to see the world and learn and listen. So that\u2019s how we started touring \u2013 the music was the means to go someplace. It was so fun. We got to meet so many people and see so many walks of life. We grew up, John [Gourley] and I specifically, in a small town in Alaska. And it was so special and amazing, but it was also a little isolated, so the second we found out there was a world out there, we just wanted to jump into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you know when you met John that you should be in a band with him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH CAROTHERS: We didn\u2019t really know. We were just jamming as kids. He was incredibly shy. I didn\u2019t know he could actually sing for years. I played music with him, but I did not know he could sing. And then I found out he could. We had just started a band and we lost our lead singer. Me and this other guy were singing and didn\u2019t have very good voices. We heard John singing and we couldn\u2019t believe it. First of all, we knew he was a very shy guy. It was amazing. We were like, \u201cDude, you sing way better than us.\u201d And that\u2019s kind of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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