It is going to have 11 songs on it, I think, and it will be released hopefully June or July. We are still trying to pick out a single so it is based on when the single is ready to go out—the album usually comes out about a month later. So it should be June or July, and it is really energetic. It is the real 12 Stones. Because the first record we wrote in the first month we all knew each other. We were not friends before the band. We all just kind of met one day and started jammin'. We have actually had time to get to know each other and to learn how to play with each other. And now we have the new record so hopefully it should work out.
Paul McCoy

Yes. Kevin had a lot of things he needed to get straight with himself—personal issues back home that he needed to attend to before he could come back out. It was very sudden and it was very unfortunate but we luckily found Clint who is from Connecticut. He came down and auditioned—he played three songs. We gave him the record and said, "You have two days to learn this." And he came back on to the tour. We rehearsed three times through the actual 45 minute sets. So we gave him about 2½ hours of rehearsal time before we did this major tour. And he has pulled it off amazingly. Hopefully we'll be able to work in some new material.
Paul McCoy

I am hoping that Three Doors Down comes out with something new. I am really good friends with those guys. They always deliver really good stuff so I look forward to them. There are just so many bands that are working on records. I think it is going to be a good year. I think the music industry will hopefully take a step back to where they were originally going.
Paul McCoy

It is hard to say. For 12 Stones it has always been about trying to be a good role model and trying to be positive. There are bands out there that don't agree with being positive. They want to release all their frustrations and tell how they were beaten when they were little. That is cool because that creates a balance. I think that if music was all positive and all excessive, there would be nothing unique about positive music. And if music was completely negative, then there would be nothing special about negative music. I think that life as a whole is all about balance, and it is all about unity and you have to have the good and the bad in order to make things accomplish. There has to be some kind of disagreement for progress to be made a lot of time. If every band were up here signing positive, people would get sick of being positive and I think it would have a total opposite affect. I am definitely not agreeing with a lot of things that bands are saying today, but I am happy that we can be out here and at least be a band that is all about believing in yourself. If a person listens to 12 Stones and it helps them on a spiritual level, and they feel like they can relate on a spiritual level, then that is what we enjoy. If there is another person who has never been to church and doesn't know anything about spirituality, but hears a 12 Stones song and it affects them and they enjoy it, then that is just as important to us as the people who are reached on a spiritual level.
Paul McCoy