
(P-Nut: “We need to be smart about this, or it’s gonna last forever.”) We talked about making 311’s first three records. (Hexum: “Live music is an essential part of the human experience.”) We talked about responsibility. (P-Nut: “If you’ve got new music, sharing is always the right thing to do in our collective.”) We talked about how music is a necessary party of life. In the interview, we talked about making music during a pandemic. In a wide-ranging interview, I caught up with P-Nut and singer/guitarist Nick Hexum before the band was set to launch 311 Streamsystem, a trio of streaming concerts featuring the 311’s first three albums in their entirety broadcast from the band’s studio space, The Hive. “It was just bliss,” bassist P-Nut told me. After the band’s 3-11 Day celebration in March, they didn’t play another concert, and the band’s members didn’t really play together until a couple weeks ago.Īnd how did it feel to be back in the room together again? The multi-platinum rock band - whose hit songs such as Down, Amber and All Mixed Up expertly blend charging rock, rapped lyrics and head-bouncing reggae - has instead been mostly holed up at home. But like many of us, 2020 didn’t care about our plans.

They were supposed to be celebrating their 30th anniversary.

11 and their self-titled blue album on Jan. 311 will play its first three albums at three live streamed concerts - Music on Nov.
