My name is Bo Hodges and I am the lead singer of Theory of Flight.
The reason I got into music, the reason that I really began to pursue that with my whole
heart, I grew up around this thing and my grandpa was a tour musician, my mom and dad
both sang.
It's just something, it's one of the only things in my entire life that just comes natural.
I don't have to try, I don't have to put out a whole lot of effort, it's just, it's easy
to sing because it's something that comes from a deep, deep place inside of me.
My name is Tyler and I'm the drummer at Theory of Flight.
My favorite part of being a musician is the fact that it's a ton of fun, I get to do what
I love to do and not a lot of people can say that, I don't think.
I think a lot of people want to do something else but can't do what they love to do and
ever since I was eight years old all I dreamed about was playing music full time, playing
the drums.
And that's what I love to do, I've never tried to play another instrument or do something
else even though I can, it's like I'm stuck on the drums because the drums are legit.
My name is Vince Costas, I am the lead guitarist and songwriter and background vocalist for
Theory of Flight.
I do a lot of the producing and a lot of the behind the scenes technical aspects and a
lot of the development of songs and a lot of the songwriting itself.
Where I went to school everybody was a musician and I was probably in the lower tenth percentile
of musicians there at the school.
So I actually faced a lot of challenges my first couple years and I think through the
competition between students, through the feeling of the only way I'm going to make
it is if I really find my passion in songwriting, through all that, through a lot of heartache
in the process, it's where I kind of found me, where I really found my gifting and really
how I write music.
And then I also found a lot of how to really just play guitar with emotion and with raw
energy and that's really my development happening in college and ever since then it's just been
living it out.
My name is John Columbo and I play keyboards for Theory of Flight.
I was a classically trained pianist when I was a kid and when I graduated high school
I moved out to Nashville and became a professional studio engineer and student musician and then
Bo gave me a call and asked me to come back to Vegas and play keyboards for Theory of
Flight.
So he had this great new project with all these guys and he really wanted my input.
What inspires me to play the music that I play in Theory of Flight, all the parts and
everything is, I mean Vince really writes great music and to be able to come up with
my own parts to play for that, it's awesome, it's a lot of fun and I really like to move
people to, whether it's a slower song to move them emotionally or a faster song to really
get everybody up and moving around and excited, I like to touch people and have them really
feel the music.
My name is Steven Goodrum and I play rhythm guitar for Theory of Flight.
I think one of the biggest inspirations for me when I'm actually playing, not necessarily
when I write but when I'm playing and performing, a huge inspiration is I remember what it was
like to be a kid, jamming an air guitar in my bedroom and I really like performing and
being on stage and just showing kids to just keep dreaming bigger than they are.
I'm Joey McMahon, I play bass for Theory of Flight.
Basically where I started with music was when I was 17 years old, I never played an instrument
before but I really liked music.
When I was in junior high I listened to a lot of rap and R&B, it was kind of my thing
I guess back then, when I was about 16, 17 got more interested in rock music and how
music works and all that and started playing the bass.
I actually wanted to play the drums but where I was at, I was already a drummer so I was
told to play the bass and I don't know, it just worked out perfect for me, I love it
and I've been playing ever since.
I want to see people moved.
I want to see them like radically affected by the music, whether a song might make them
sad or angry or it might challenge them on a deep emotional level where their thoughts
are and what they believe is even questioned, I'm looking for a response.
I don't care what that response is, I don't really have a box of what it should look like
or feel like but I want to see that connection, that response, I want to see a movement take
place between an individual that I'm singing to or a crowd that I'm singing to and myself
and the music and the band.
