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29 09 2015Local band ‘Don Juan’ opens up about the creative process and upcoming plans with member John Dodge.
John Dodge and Don Cooper have been playing music together for about three years but they are still fairly new to the music scene. At first Dodge did not believe that writing songs and playing music would amount to a career. Scared he wouldn’t make a living Dodge received his teaching degree in English.
“For a long time, I held onto the myth that, I could approach something in my life with a just-in-case attitude. That I would actually settle for something less than maybe happy.” Dodge confessed.
This new found attitude towards life carried over to their music. ‘Don Juan’ never settles with anything less than the best. This causes a lot of group arguments and more importantly advancements. “We love each other and we fight all the time. Thats the way we work” says Dodge with a smile.
‘Don Juan’ have been writing several songs in hopes to have a product on the streets and airwaves by the end of the summer.
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