One of the highest compliments 311 has ever received didn't come at an awards show or via a sterling album review. It came in a newspaper, in the classified section.
Drummer Chad Sexton says a friend told him about a want ad searching for musicians who liked jazz, rock, country, reggae and 311.
"We were the only band presented as a style of music," Sexton says. "He said he thinks we're the only band represented that way, and I think that might be true. There are a lot of other bands that can cross over and go from one style to another, but I think we take the cake in that arena."
Indeed, 311, which will play the Rolling Rock Town Fair on Saturday, is not your average band of musical alchemists. They're not hip-hop, but turntablist S.A. Martinez can lay down some slick rhymes. They're not rock, but they can bring the sound and fury like a heavy-metal band. And they're definitely not going to remind anyone of Jamaica, but 311 has played the occasional reggae festival with success.
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