You know, Johnny was also a bit part of helping shape the record into something that we thought was fantastic. We brought Johnny K in, who did our first album, and he was just fantastic. But at the end of the day, the focus is having fun and enjoying what we do,” said DeJesus.ĭeJesus says that the band had some help from the producer of their first album and says that he sees the move from mainstream to independent labels as being the way of the future in music. When you’re on a major label you constantly need to be on the road and have to constantly write a certain type of song and right now we know in our hearts that we have to write hit songs for the people. We don’t put pressure on ourselves for anything. We just wanna have fun and make a living. “Now we like to pick things we like to do, we like to have fun, we’re enjoying what we do instead of making it stressful. He went on to explain how the band has learned how to relax and enjoy the ride. And as long as those two things continue on, we realized that we don’t have to tour 9 to 10 months out of the year like we used to,” said DeJesus. Throughout these successes, DeJesus said that the band has gained some perspective “We’ve realized that there are two important things to us in our careers: Having fun and making money. Since Adelitas Way’s formation back in 2006, the band has experienced a number of successes in the mainstream market, as well as independently.

We had a chance to speak with Rick DeJesus, vocalist of Adelitas Way, about their recent album, the Bad Reputation tour, and their switch from a major label to the DIY approach.

The band released the EP, Deserve This, and recently followed it up with their full-length album, Getaway, via The Vegas Syn/The Fuel Music. They took control of things and designed a game-plan for Adelitas Way where they were calling the shots.

The band boldly left Virgin Records after their 2014 release Stuck didn’t get the results that the band felt it truly deserved. Their song, Invincible, was used by the WWE, ESPN, CBS Miami and other outlets. This is one lesson that Las Vegas-based hard rock band, Adelitas Way, learned the hard way during the course of their ten-year career.Īdelitas Way tasted some early mainstream success in their career with several singles getting substantial airplay back in 2009. Creating art is an extremely personal process between the artist and the work that they are creating, so it has to be tough when other people try and dictate how your art should be.

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