Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2007-06-21


Interview:
Soular was formed in 2002 when longtime friends Marsh Shamburger (keys, guitar, tambourine, vocals) and Jared Ashcraft (bass, vocals) began a musical collaboration. Adding versatile drummer Ian Byrd in 2003 and releasing their first album, Time and Space, the band reached a new level of creativity and exposure. Around this time, guitarist Brian Lee joined the band.

How did you guys get started?

Marsh: Jared and I started the group about 6 years ago. We meet and just decided that we wanted to write songs and try to get better at song writing and just see what it was like in a completely collaborative band atmosphere. Instead of like a guy or two guys taking it, or if you got the full band together and actually wrote like a band. You know played like a band. And just let the chips fall kind of wherever they would, and that’s where it started in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


What about the name Soular? What’s the story behind that?

Marsh: Jared actually came up with the original.

Jared: Yea, I was reading The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis and the language that all coherent beings in those books speak is called Old Solar. So we came up with the idea Solar, and just added a “u”, but that’s where it originally came from.

Marsh: Yeah it came from The Space Trilogy, because both of us had read it. And I hadn’t read it in awhile. We just talked about the trilogy.

Jared: We thought Old Solar sounded like Old Yeller.

Marsh: Yeah, you can’t call a band ‘old’ something.