switchfoot

Playing with the band, composing songs for everyone

Dumb and Dumber

Songs from our album: Oh! gravity, Nothing is sound, Beautiful Letdown, Learning to breathe, New way to be human and Legend of Chin.. The police, the beatles, U2, James Taylor, Keith Green, elliot smith, and Heavy Vegetable. Christian music by: Matt redman, Delirious, Five Iron, Michelle Tumes, Nicole Nordeman, Jennifer Knapp, Sarah Masen, Third Day, Earthsuit

Libra

Switchfoot is a surfing term. We all love to surf and have been surfing all our lives so to us, the name made sense. To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

Jon Foreman: Vocals, songwriter, guitar
Tim Foreman: Bass, backing vocals
Jerome Fontamillas: Guitar, keys, backing vocals
Drew Shirley: Guitar
Chad Butler: Drums

Howdy, my name is jon. I play guitar and sing in a San Diego band called Switchfoot. We started out as a three piece: Tim (my brother) playing the bass, Chad, (my college buddy) playing the drums, and myself writing the tunes. Our first record came out the week after my brother graduated from high school. We called it: The Legend of Chin, naming it after my best friend. Willis. We traveled around that summer and went back to school in the fall. A few years later we put out a record called New Way to be Human and I dropped out of college. We decided to really give music a go and started touring a bit more seriously.

After that, we put out a record called Learning to Breathe. My friend jerome called and told me he had just quit his day job. Our band had been playing shows with jerome's old band for years so we joined forces with jerome and now he plays the keyboards and guitars with us every night. We made a record called The Beautiful Letdown a few years later. Then our friend Drew's band broke up. He plays the guitar in our band now. Then we made a record called Nothing is Sound and decided a five piece was enough to accomplish what we wanted to do live. So we decided not to enlist any more of our friends for help on stage.

So thanks for reading. Thanks for singing along. Thanks for making theses songs your own.

everyone whom we could share our musics with..