For 311's latest tour, the alternative rock band is getting all mixed up.
On its summer jaunt, the group played similar set lists each night.
"When you do a set list, it allows for a show," explained guitarist Tim Mahoney in a recent telephone interview.
But for the band's fall tour, which stops at Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula on Wednesday, things will be much more normal -- changing up the set list with deep cuts and the band's hits that pretty much dominated alternative rock radio for the latter half of the 1990s, including "All mixed Up," "Amber," "Down" and "Beautiful Disaster."
Mahoney doesn't mind playing the band's biggest hits night after night, either.
"I just try to find a new inspiration in the songs and try to make it better," he said.
One of the songs the band will dust off for its fall tour is "Jackolantern's Weather."
He said it can be difficult to go back and remember how to play the songs until he picks up his instrument.
"I know the part once my hands get on the guitar -- it's like muscle memory," he said.
The fall tour will also be a way for the band to warm up before its 311 Day festival on March 11 in Las Vegas. The group has played sets longer than five hours at previous incarnations.
"That's hard. It's kind of the mental Olympics for us," Mahoney said.
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