Considering, I just got back from Alaska, I thought it was interesting to come across Alaskan band Portugal. The Man. Spinner.com of AOL reported the recent recovery of the band's van and gear that were stolen in Chicago, while on tour for their new album Mountain In The Cloud. Fitting title for the record, since frontman John Gourlet grew up in Wasilla, AK in a cabin with a rustic lifestyle. He admits that they the band issues in creating the album and turned to his roots to help. In the article he claims, "I still write about Alaksa. That's all I write about because it's what I really know...More than anything, I relate everything [I write] to Alaska rather than as new experiences." The band obviously has an interesting name, so AngelFire.com started off an interview with Portugal. The Man asking what it means. According to Gourlet, they wanted a name that represented a timelessness of being part of the big leagues of music. In his own words to explain the definitive Portugal,"
We wanted to give the band a person's name without necessarily giving it one of our names so we wanted to kinda have that David Bowie is Ziggy Stardust, The Beatles are Sgt. Peppers, we wanted that kinda feel to it, like that bigger than life, like back when you knew those people by name. We wanted to give it that name & still have it represent the group of people because we always knew it was going to be a group project. It started with the bass player Zakk & I, & we knew we were going to play together from then on, so a country was just the best way of going about representing a group of people & "The Man" just stated it was a person & not just a country." Glad you guys got most of your stuff back! Check out their radio song, "People Say" here:
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