{"id":1164453,"date":"2018-02-07T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/?p=1164453"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:48:20","slug":"frederick-native-dave-hartley-wins-grammy-while-being-on-the-other-side-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/2018\/02\/07\/frederick-native-dave-hartley-wins-grammy-while-being-on-the-other-side-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick native Dave Hartley wins Grammy while being on the other side of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J9LgHNf2Qy0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in Adelaide, which is kind of southern Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frederick\u2019s own Dave Hartley was three numbers away. The Frederick High School graduate needed to be reached through a calling card number, a pin and a hotel number. The bassist was in Australia performing with his Philadelphia-based band, The War on Drugs, for the Laneway Festival. The traveling event takes place in locations throughout Australia and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley is used to juggling different projects. He also fronts The Nightlands, a soft rock group. Hartley\u2019s Beach Boys inspiration is heard through heavily stacked harmonies. He said he layered as many as 150 vocal parts on a single song while recording the 2017 album, \u201cI Can Feel the Night Around Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The passionate artist has been on plane after plane. But when his band\u2019s \u201cA Deeper Understanding\u201d won a Grammy for Best Rock Album last month, he was actually in an Australian record store with his bandmate, drummer Charlie Hall. \u201cA Deeper Understanding\u201d combines indie-rock, Americana and Bob Dylan leanings over wandering musical landscapes. Some songs can be as long as 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the song requires a great deal of trust in Adam Granduciel, The War On Drugs lead singer and guitarist who is the creative engine behind all the band\u2019s songs. He leads Hartley, Hall, keyboardist Robbie Bennett, guitarist Anthony Lamarca and horn player Jon Natchez in setting the tone for each album. Before the creation of \u201cA Deeper Understanding,\u201d Granduciel took on a new approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want it to be a bass player\u2019s record,\u201d Hartley remembered Granduciel saying. This meant as a bassist, Hartley had a prominent role. He was given more time to record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could play it a hundred times, I would,\u201d he said of laying down bass tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The War on Drugs\u2019 mainstream acceptance is even more significant given Granduciel\u2019s attention to detail and the band\u2019s proclivity for defying a three-minute song structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew at some point, the Grammys would be announced,\u201d Hartley said. When he returned to his hotel, he found out he had eight missed calls. He figured something really good or something really bad had happened. He was pleased to know it was the former.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really wanted to win,\u201d Hartley said while acknowledging that in some rock circles, that comes across as uncool. But Hartley added that they didn\u2019t compromise their musical identity for fame. On the contrary, Hartley didn\u2019t expect much from the group when he joined more than 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one\u2019s just for fun,\u201d Hartley first thought of the band.<\/p>\n<p>He was first drawn to Granduciel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam was this really charismatic, creatively artistic, funny persona,\u201d Hartley explained.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Hartley was in other bands who wanted to be famous. But in two years, Hartley said those bands dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley described The War On Drugs\u2019s early years as a gradual process of evolution. He noticed that each show had a larger and larger audience. By the time the group signed with Atlantic Records in 2015, The War On Drugs had an established sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you\u2019re in your late 30s and made five records, you are who you are,\u201d Hartley said.<\/p>\n<p>He calls Frederick his home, and Philadelphia the city he fell in love with after moving there 15 years ago when he was 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a gritty place. That grit brings the best out of you,\u201d Hartley said of Philadelphia. \u201cIt only accepts you if you\u2019re authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hartley describes \u201cA Deeper Understanding\u201d as having the grit of Philadelphia and the sheen of Los Angeles \u2014 which makes sense, considering how The War On Drugs recorded their album there.<\/p>\n<p>While Hartley pursues his music dreams away from Frederick, he noted he is in awe of how much downtown has grown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was home for Christmas, my wife and I were blown away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley still has fond memories of picking up the bass at age 14. Though he was a trumpet player in Frederick High\u2019s jazz band, his music instructor encouraged Hartley\u2019s decision to embrace a new instrument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was just like, cool,\u201d Hartley remembered. \u201cLet\u2019s do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Hartley\u2019s father, a musician himself, encouraged his son. Hartley would sit around the family\u2019s fireplace and strum the guitar with his dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrederick,\u201d he said, \u201cjust feels like home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in Adelaide, which is kind of southern Australia.\u201d Frederick\u2019s own Dave Hartley was three numbers away. 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