Vents MagaZine Music and Entertainment Magazine
Related Articles
How would you classify your music?
Please type all responses in Blue. Answer as a band or spokesman for the band. (Note: Answers given By Anthony “Train” Caruso Lead singer/songwriter for 308 GHOST TRAIN)
Our music is an original sound based in the best of rock’s past with uplifting and inspiring messages for the people of today. We call it “Message Oriented Rock with a Classic Vibe”
Who are some of your top 5 musical influences?
The Beatles, CCR, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp and Matchbox Twenty
What do you want fans to take from your music?
It’s a very humble message we have for our fans, “We invite you to get to know us and our music. We hope that we can transcend cultural boundaries and have listeners worldwide, regardless of their belief system, unite together in our songs creating an oneness, therefore leading them to their seats and riding with the 308 GHOST TRAIN into the future.”
How’s the music scene in your locale?
Its horrible every musician we know is out of work due to COVID 19’s wrath
What is the best concert you have been to? What do you like most about playing live?
I don’t go to concerts but have seen a few on TV. I’m always amazed at how Garth Brooks draws a tremendous crowd I like his songs.
What do you like most about playing live?
I love the energy that is traded with the crowd during a live performance It’s probably the closest thing to euphoria I’ve ever experienced.
Is there a song on your latest CD release here that stands out as your personal favorite, and why?
Yes Bleed Over Me because it’s fresh and because of how it came to be finally finding true love. I think it may go down as one of the most unique ways to say I love you. The truth be told it was written “All because a guy (me) fell for a girl”
How have you evolved as an artist over the last year?
If you listen to the Born in the Wild EP the passion in my writing came from a “searching for” perspective In the New EP Train Of Thought all of the songs come from a “I finally found it” perspective
If you could meet, play a gig, co-write a song, have dinner, have a drink with any band or artist (dead or alive) who would it be?
Ok bear with me here. I’d like to meet Paul McCartney, play a gig with Matchbox Twenty and AC/DC, Co write a song with Paul McCartney and Rob Thomas, Have a drink with Jon Bon Jovi and John Mellencamp. Have dinner with John Fogerty. Whew! they are some lofty wishes. Maybe I’ll have the honor of fulfilling some of them.
What’s next for you?
Well “Rockin the world” as an opener on a world tour is on top of the list. We’re ready to go but we may have a while to wait for that goal; due to the pandemic. I’m optimistic that things will return to normal soon, it may be a new normal but anyway a world that can function without social boundaries and paralyzing fear.
