Lit To Preview New Songs At San Diego Show

07/12/2001 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss

(7/12/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Lit will step out from mixing the follow-up to its 1999 hit album, A Place In The Sun, for a gig Friday (July 13) at a radio show at the Coors Amphitheater in the southern San Diego city of Chula Vista, California. Performing on a bill with Offspring, Social Distortion, Lifehouse, and Sprung Monkey, the Orange County rockers will use the opportunity to test drive songs from the yet-to-be-named album, due October 9 from RCA Records.

Lit has been rehearsing the songs in a practice space directly across the street from the mixing studio in North Hollywood, California, but frontman A.J. Popoff tells LAUNCH that the new tunes "still feel pretty rough. It's weird, I mean, we've never played these songs as a band--I mean, in a live environment--so it's trippy hearing them come together. And when we first tried to play the songs we were like, 'Oh, sh-t, these sound like sh-t!' But they're starting to sound like songs now."

The Popoff brothers--Jeremy and A.J.--admit to LAUNCH that the San Diego show might not be their best performance ever. "Put it this way, if you come to the show and you see us, we promise that when you see us again in six months we're gonna be a lot tighter and a lot better," Jeremy says.

A.J. adds, "The cool thing is, no one has the album yet so they won't be able to tell if we f--k up, you know?"

Lit has recorded more than a dozen songs for possible inclusion on the album, including a cover of Aretha Franklin's "Chain Of Fools." A cover of the Kinks' anti-holiday classic "Father Christmas" has also been put to tape, for possible use later this year as "a little Christmas nugget," says Jeremy.

The album is being produced by Don Gilmore, who oversaw A Place In The Sun and recent hits like Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, Eve 6's Horrorscope, and Sugar Ray's current self-titled release.

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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