Carl Finch

Carl Finch of “Brave Combo” fame.

“The Big Question” - I have personally witnessed you numerous times on stage when you were in, what I call, “The Zone”. That place where you and the audience become one, and all your years of performing power you and your audience into a magical place that can only happen in a live performance situation. Can you comment on what it takes to be in “The Zone”? “What it takes for me to get into "The Zone" is to be as prepared as possible and to have good stage sound. Once I'm there I can project my wishes outward, which is to create that connection. I almost always have to feel like I'm going out on a limb a little bit, but it's important. I have to make the audience trust me AND remain interested. For that, timing is everything. I look for holes; places I can inject my ideas. My yelling from the stage is all pretty calculated. Once I'm in control everything starts to glide, almost float. And when several band members are in sync, the magic happens. Everything gets super easy, at that point. People (the audience) want to be led, but they have to trust the performer and we ask a lot of people who come to our shows. Many of them feel like they're going out on limbs, as well, by jumping into that conga line when they never imagined dancing in public before. Or putting their left feet out and their left feet in.”