Jason Lytle has spoken exclusively to ClashMusic about the break up of seminal American group Grandaddy, and how he is coping working on his own.
For nearly two decades Jason Lytle led Grandaddy, one of the most acclaimed bands of their generation. Albums such as ‘The Sophtware Slump’ blended rock with country, easy listening and much more, crafting that unique Grandaddy sound in the process.
However the band split in 2006, leaving their fanatical audience distraught. After a break of three years, lead singer Jason Lytle is set to return with his first solo album and ClashMusic caught up with the cult hero to ask just where he’s been.
Asked about the break up of Grandaddy, Lytle is philosophical revealing that he learned much from the sad split. “It’s so easy to caught up with it and lose control over everything. That was a big thing with Grandaddy, the uncertainty and frustration of it all – money coming in, in droves, and going out in droves, and no one had a fucking clue what was happening…”
However after the band split, Lytle faced a number of personal problems. The group’s dissolution robbed him of some intimate friends, and led to the singer moving across the United States.
“I had to get away from it and make some sense of it all. I’ve always been the same person since school; I’m not dumb, I’m not dense, but I just couldn’t – and cant – keep pace, because I’ve always been looking for a much deeper understanding of things, to really get to the heart of it and that’s what I had to do here.”
Continuing he claimed “the only thing that was keeping me in Modesto was Grandaddy. I’d lived there my whole life so everything, from my first time experimenting with drugs or having sex, all happened there, and there were ghosts on every street corner.”
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Jason Lytle is set to release his first solo album ‘Yours Truly, The Commuter’ in May.
