City Weekly's music editor, Jamie Gadette, presents Salt Lake's Cub Country's newest album, Smile.Jamie's Music Forecast is every Wednesday at 8am and 1pm, here on KRCL 90.9FM.Salt Lake City, UT"I get these wild ideas like, 'I'm going to go on tour!' And I can't go on tour—I own a house and I have a kid. I can barely play on weekends," Jeremy Chatelain says with a grin. The Utah native doesn't much miss life on the road, though if circumstance allowed he wouldn't mind taking his family out for a few solo gigs. Chatelain spent the better part of his career playing in metal and hardcore bands, tasting success early on in local groups whose popularity motivated him to pursue music full-time.
"I remember back in '88, my first 7-inch came out," he says. "We got like 10 of them in the mail and I was freaking out, thinking, 'This means I'm legit.'" In Brooklyn, Chatelain went for broke and realized the often-elusive goal of playing in several notable bands including so-called "emo supergroup" Jets to Brazil with whom he enjoyed major-label success. After several years, the dream began to fizzle. "It's sort of like a love affair—in the beginning you're doing this thing and you totally have a crush on it. When you get paid, it's like icing on the cake. Then you get used to getting paid and it's not so shiny anymore—you get into the daily grind of it," he says. "I have to strip it back to where I'm playing for the sheer enjoyment."
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