Interview with the Bacon Brothers

Kevin - For me I started out my acting career in the live theater. I love the live aspect and one of the things that I love about it is there is a certain element of danger. Because every night anything can happen live. Sometimes like at a Wednesday matinee you might have hardly nobody in the audience and then other nights you have a huge audience, which is a triumph. So sometimes you can't fall asleep because that memory of that time being up on that stage keeps running in your head. That is exactly what playing live music gives me. If something goes wrong you can't edit it, you can't stop and cut it. It is what it is. To have that in my life is very, very exciting and rewarding.

You have a New Album out "New Years Day", can you describe the music for someone who has not heard of The Bacon Bothers before?

Michael - All of the songs are originals. They sort of run the gamut from relatively hard rock, it's not heavy metal but it's some all electric, some tunes are more acoustic but there is a lot of harmony. Hopefully the listener will like the song and the quality. That's probably all we can tell you. There is a lot of music out there and the field is so competitive.

Kevin, I read that you do most of the writing of the songs that The Bacon Brothers sing, when did you realize you had a talent for writing songs?

Kevin - I started writing songs when I was very young and the first couple songs that I wrote I was like 12 or 13 and they were about love, they were romantic. I sang my songs over and over to myself and then I started bringing them to my brother who would help guide me and learn me about song structure, you know bridge, chorus and all those kinds of things.

Does being Kevin Bacon, the actor, interfere with the music or does the fame from that aspect of your life make it easier getting into the music side of things?

Kevin - I think it cuts both ways. I think certainty there is nights when people just show up, if we are going to play somewhere, a festival or something they show up to hear the actor sing. Then it becomes our job to try and turn them on to the music. We try to put on the best show that we can and hope that they like the music side of our life as well. On the other hand I think it becomes difficult because people are, or more importantly is the fact that people some times tend to lump us together with other actors, like "Oh that is another actor wanting to sing." So we go out and play and try to show them different, that it's not just another actor wanting to sing.

I think it is working. I don't know how I missed that there was a Bacon Brothers Band, but I just recently found out so the word is getting out there more and more.

Michael - I think a lot of people haven't heard of us. That is one of the challenges we face, we want to try and get the music out so people can hear it