We caught up on Zoom with guitarist and vocalist Rick Mitarotonda a few days after they rocked 25,000 fans at Sweetwater 420 Festival in Atlanta with a packed second stage performance that clearly should have been main stage. The band has big things ahead, including not just the Ohio dates, but a full summer including a show at Red Rocks in Colorado that sold out shortly after going on sale.
Mitarotonda’s onstage persona is sagelike, and he lets cohort and keyboardist Peter Ansbach hold down the stage banter. Unsurprisingly given his vibe, Mitarotonda is a deep thinker who considers philosophies and approaches to music as much as he does scales and chords.
