Happy 311day to all 🤘 We're taking a look back at our feature with the genre-fusing stoners, who reflect on 30 years as rock’s perennial optimists
“There have been a lot of things that’ve gotten us here — including luck, including things that were out of our control,” Sexton tells, surveying the band’s career. “Some credit goes to us members, but some of it was just kind of luck and magic, in a way. I think, ultimately, our love of music has kept us together. Your passion for music really matters. So do the relationships that you build within the band.
The short-lived Eds called it quits when Hexum graduated from high school a year early and moved to L.A. to pursue music on his own. When he returned to Omaha the following year to attend Mahoney’s and Sexton’s graduation, the three friends got together to jam. Hexum, feeling a spark, stayed. Sexton managed to lure Hexum back home months later, and the two decided to revive Unity — but with P-Nut playing bass and Watson on second guitar. In 1989, they recorded the coverless, the band’s first full-length and second independent set, the band officially changed its name to 311 — a reference to Watson’s infamous streaking arrest in the late ‘80s.
On the long drive out to L.A., 311 took a little detour to Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, just outside of Denver, soaking up the venue’s natural majesty. “It’s a park, and you can actually go down and stand on that stage, which we did,” Hexum reminisces. “It’s a magical place. One of us said, ‘One day, we’re gonna rock this place,’ and then it was only three or four years later, in 1995 or 1996, and we got to headline there. That was a big, triumphant moment for us.
311 caught fire on that tour — in multiple ways. On July 24, 1993, passing through Bois D’Arc, Missouri en route to a gig in Kansas City, the gas tank of 311’s RV ignited. Noting the smoke and flames in the vehicle’s side mirror, Hexum pulled over, and, as the band’s members scrambled to safety, the RV exploded — destroying the van it was towing, all the band’s equipment, and their personal effects.
However, while they were recording that 1994 album, 311’s relationship with both Offord and Capricorn Records started souring. “That second one, that was a little different, but we won’t go into that,” explains Sexton., which they promoted with an extensive and successful U.S. tour that expanded their fanbase. On the road, they wrote the majority of the self-titled “Blue Album,” which they recorded with producer Ron Saint Germain in 1995.
The success of “Down” even attracted the attention of producers for David Letterman’s nightly show in 1996.
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