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Thank you so much for joining us.

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Hello, welcome to this episode of the

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Today we are joined by Abby and the

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Say hello, Abby and the Arsonist.

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Hi.

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So we are joined by...

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I'm Abby.

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I'm Andrew.

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Kelsey.

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Tell me a little bit about what you guys do in

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the band, what your individual roles are.

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I sing and I play guitar.

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I play guitar and I sing a little bit,

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but I mostly play guitar.

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I play drums and cracktooks.

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And I play bass.

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So the name, just for basics,

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it's Abby and the Arsonist.

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Tell me a little bit about the band name,

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the story behind it, and how you all came to be.

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Like how you guys were introduced with each other.

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I know Abby told me that you graduated from

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Loyola, so please just tell me.

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Are you all local from here?

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No, me and Andrew are from Virginia.

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We met because we're related.

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We're brother and sister.

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And then they met because they're dating.

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We have a mutual friend who introduced us.

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I was friends with him in college.

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and we just got introduced as a group together.

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He moved away, but we stayed together.

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we were rehearsing in the tiny apartment

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that was like crammed, like head to toe with like crazy stuff.

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It was like the juggling house for two lanes juggling club

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start in Virginia while you two were living there together?

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Abby had a project in high school called Phoebe Water Shoes.

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I think if you listen to that, it's like pre-Arsonists.

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live as the Arsonists even recently.

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it was really kind of coming out of COVID.

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And it was really just a way to like the way I saw it.

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And I actually hadn't been in a band in like a few years at that point.

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Were you already dating at that point?

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What were some of the covers we were doing?

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The cranberries one.

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The cranberry song.

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So footsteps in the dark, that's actually like a throwback and a half.

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Like what, 60s, 70s?

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That's not Neville.

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No, that's not Neville Brothers.

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I was like, that's not Neville Brothers, but I knew it was somewhere.

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an argument where it was like, oh, that's Ice Cube.

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No, the size of the brothers.

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No, it's the Thundercats song.

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No, it's the Thundercats song.

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So that one was always a fun one to play.

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We should pull that out again.

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We should have for years.

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So your first single, answering machine together as a group, it dropped in 2021.

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Looking back, do you feel that it still represents the band, the energy and the sound of it represents

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the band, or do you see it as a snapshot of where you wore at the time?

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Well, it's like seven minutes long, so I'd say that's pretty arsonist-y.

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We don't write such short songs.

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You had like a six-minute song on your most recent album.

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You got a lot to say.

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I think that at the time we didn't have the equipment that we have now.

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before, because you did the whole Bean Dream thing.

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But I feel like it sounds like that's our sound.

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That's, you know.

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I'm pretty proud of it, honestly.

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We don't play it as much as it shows anymore just because we have to, we can only play so long and we can't, you know,

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which I think is a good problem to have.

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And I think the biggest difference between then and now is just that we've just continued to write songs.

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And I don't really, I know a lot of bands look at their earlier work and they can say like, oh, that's not really us anymore.

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You know, I don't feel that way about any of our songs. Like I just, I like all of them.

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We just, we just have to pick and choose what we can play.

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I mean, there's no lack of creativity in this band.

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Damn straight.

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So with that being said, what is a creative process for you guys to collect?

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Does someone take lead in the songwriting?

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Does someone start with a riff?

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Or does it kind of merge in a jam session?

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Tell me a little bit about that.

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What's cool, I think is that I think everyone at this table is at one point been like, wait, I came up with this thing.

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I don't know, we can like build something off of that.

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But normally it starts like where somebody has like an instrumental idea and then we kind of like layer from there and then add on to it, like as a group.

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Hey, vocab words.

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Well, egalitarian.

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No, but yeah, I think that part of why we've, like I think so many bands fail because people like don't feel like they can express their vision, you know, creatively.

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And I feel like we all feel like if we have an idea, it will be heard and we can, we all feel comfortable presenting our ideas and we're all, and it's not just that.

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It's like we're all stoked on each other's ideas too.

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So like it's, it's hard to find a group or that can continue for as long as we've been together for four plus years, which is cool.

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And what's nice about it is just like we all come from different musical backgrounds.

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So we each get to, yeah, we're making a song, but we each get to bring something that's our own to the table.

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Wait, we're all wearing like different band shirts.

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You got Ice Cube, you've got Yucks, you've got MJ Lunderman.

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What's your shirt?

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Oh, this is not a band actually.

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It's a TV show that I used to watch with my dad.

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What show is it?

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So it's like a, it was only on Chicago for a long time now it's everywhere, but it was this guy who would show like old horror movies from like the 50s through the 80s and then he would like make fun of them and resperse and have like jokes and stuff.

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Oh, so like it was it like, so it wasn't like a scripted show.

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How does that format work?

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Say that again?

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Have you ever seen like Mystery Science Theater 3000?

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So they would play like a full film and they have these like little dudes and it looks like you're like watching them in the theater and they're making fun of it.

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So it's as if you're like in the theater with them and they're like talking shit about whatever's on.

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Oh, that's interesting.

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About how long ago was that?

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It's still on?

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Have you guys heard of that?

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I haven't heard of it.

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We got, you got to show it to us sometime.

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I mean, that is so unlike TV now.

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Like TV is just not having shows like that.

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You know, I feel like our brains are wired for short term content now.

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That's the talk of the occasion of everything.

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That's interesting.

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But yeah, going back to the band though, the name Arsonist, I asked a question earlier, but I was jumbling on a bunch of other questions on top of it.

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Tell me about how the name Arsonist came about.

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The fifth member that...

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All Charlie.

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I get worried that I look vain because I'm like my band, I'm the front, my name's in the, I don't know, like I'm shy.

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Like the Abbey and the part?

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It's not all about me.

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Charlie came up with it and then we were all like, whee.

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That's the coolest one.

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Yeah, I mean, and the acronym as well, the triple A.

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It's pretty cool.

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Like with your signature, it does look really, really cool.

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It's also like we play with a lot of like kind of like punk and hardcore like bands, so it makes us seem like, you know...

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We make sense on the flyer, even if we don't really, aren't so heavy.

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Yeah, so when you all were introduced as a band, how was that initial chemistry and what has kept you guys together for the last, what, four years?

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For four or five years?

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Foreign change.

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Well, it, Luke and Kelsey, what has kept you guys in the band?

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I guess, like, just how we mesh together so well whenever we like played, especially like when we first started getting together at the Juggling House, because it was a little different for me because I, like, I come from like a marching band background, but I was also like playing some drum kit for some friends that would, um, used to like sing or rap behind it.

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So it was something that was very different for me, but like I said, like, it was just something cool because like me and Andy, we would all be playing and then somehow all four, all five of us would stop at the same time and look at each other and be like, Holy shit, that was really cool.

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So there was just a really good chemistry, I think, from the jump and I don't know, I just, y'all are awesome.

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And also, like, we had a lot, we did, like you said, we came from different backgrounds, but like we did have a lot of overlapping tastes, like that we talked about from the jump, like, a lot of nineties, like all rock bands that we're all into, like, I don't know, like, Nirvana, obviously, like Pearl Jam, Chili Peppers, like that kind of thing is like, we were all into that stuff, Cranberries, like, it was just easy to talk about music, like, from the start.

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How do those influences shape your sound?

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I don't know.

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I mean, I think some of the songwriting ideas from a lot of that stuff, I think at the end of the day, like, what shapes our sound, at least from my opinion on that is like, it's just stuff that, like, I like to play.

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I don't really know how else to describe it.

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I'm not saying, like, you know, I'm not sitting down and being like, let me write a Pearl Jam sounding song, or let me write a this sounding, like, I'll be like, I want a song that kind of has this energy and then moves into this, and then we kind of show it to the band, and then maybe it becomes something totally different.

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But I, every one of our songs in our set, I'm like excited to play, because I'm like, you know, this song rocks, and I have fun playing it, you know, so I'm not like breaking it down or like parsing things out, like, oh, this is going to, you know, these are my influences and next wise, you know, but, um, yeah, I don't know.

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Well, to add to that, Abby, when you're presented with a riff, what's your thought process on writing lyrics to that and creating a melody for a song?

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That always ends up being like the last thing I do, because it's like, especially when we started getting towards the end of the album, I ran out of shit to say.

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I don't know, like, I was kind of like, I was drawn from the, kind of like, I have a, like, a notes app, and I'll kind of have like a really long, like, continuous notes app where it's just like, if I have an idea, or I think of something, I'll write it down, something, something that helps me when I'm like stuck is I'll like, I'll take a song that I know, and I've been listening to a lot and rewrite the lyrics to be mine, to come up with something to say, and then I'll try to make it fit to whatever song we're working on.

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But, yeah, that's, that's often the last thing that gets finished. I never really start out where I'm like, I have this idea for the song, it's going to be about this, and then I hope we can kind of like build something around that.

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Normally it's like, we'll start jamming on something, some of it will hop a riff, and then we'll kind of try to, you know, make it a full song, and then I'm like, I gotta come up with something to say.

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So do you feel that storytelling is often very much included in your songs and a key component?

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Yeah, for sure. I think this past album, I have a few different songs that are like, about a movie or a TV show, or like a certain scene from something or something in a book that I liked.

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Yeah, for Carmella, it's like the Sopranos kind of, I saw the art for the single, what made you guys want to go with that kind of layout?

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Because the song was about, yeah, I don't know, I can't remember what season I was watching, I was watching the season where, I don't want to spoil anything, but...

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That show has been out for eight years. If you haven't seen that show, like, bruh. What are you waiting on?

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It's when they get separated and stuff, that's what I was watching at the time, and you know, it was just kind of funny because it's this really dark Bob story, and there's so much stuff going on that is not like, kind of soap opera, like over the top, like, kind of family stuff,

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but I just feel like Carmella in the way she was written, and the relationship she has with Tony is so interesting, and then there's this season where she's trying to live on her own and struggling to maintain relationships with her kids during this divorce,

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and it was just so kind of interesting to have that be in the background, meanwhile they're murdering people and throwing their body in the river and stuff.

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Just kind of the stakes of those different situations were so different, and I was thinking about that a lot, and so I wrote this song about the Sopranos, but it's really about, like, this woman who knows she's getting teared on, and she doesn't really care, because it's like, well, yeah, I'm a mob wife, you know, that's what happens,

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and then all of a sudden she's like, wait, this sucks.

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And that's the reality of that. I feel like that show really depicted mob life really well.

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Yeah, I wouldn't know from experience.

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No, so I was reading that actual Mafia bosses would call James Gandolfini, and they would call him, and they would say that a Don would never wear shorts.

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Yeah, I love that story.

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Luke's family, what is it? Your dad wanted to talk to you?

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It wasn't my dad, but okay, so when the Sopranos was out every Sunday, it would come on, like, the new episodes would come on, and my family would have family dinner and watch the Sopranos.

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Well, my dad wasn't involved in this picture, but there was a contest to where if you submitted a picture, you get to meet the cast and eat at the fancy restaurant that they always eat at throughout the show.

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So a bunch of my family got suited up and everything, and went and took a picture, submitted it, and won the contest.

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So they flew out to, I want to say it was Newark, they flew out to Newark and went to the restaurant, ate, met the entire cast, James Gandolfini included, and there's a picture somewhere where it's kind of like all of them, and they look like a picture of the Last Supper.

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And it's signed by the entire cast of the show.

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Wow, that's awesome.

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So going back on Caterpillar in the Walls, now that's in the Walls, not on the Walls.

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They're in them.

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So, like, why are they in the Walls? What is with the album name? It's awesome, it's quirky, it's funny. Tell me about the correlation with the song names and the album name.

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Well, Luke came up with that album name, he came up with our EP name too, and I think what happened both times is I made the art and then we were like, ah, what, this doesn't, what do we do?

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And then Luke comes up with something.

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Well, I was looking at it, and if you look at the outside of the cover, it's an entire Caterpillar, like the entire border of it is a Caterpillar.

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So I looked at it, I was like sending emails at work and I was listening to files and I looked at the picture and I was like, Caterpillar's in the Walls, and I sent it in the chat and it, it stuck.

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It is the best, yeah.

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It was the hardest part of the album, you know, was naming it.

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We had a lot of.

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We did everything before we named it, we were like, guys, we can't release it until we name it, whatever you're gonna name it.

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I think it fits though, because the Caterpillar is like, he's eating himself, it's supposed to be like a Oraboris, but it's a Caterpillar instead of a snake.

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And then also like, I don't know, there's a little bit of like a paranoid feeling to it, like there's bugs in the walls, but it's also like a little bit, I don't know.

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Also, I think it reminds me of like the lyric in Scarecrow, where it's like, there's something under the house, something mysterious is, you know, in this house, which I think kind of ties into the name.

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So that's a feeling that you were trying to evoke throughout the album.

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No, there's a few different songs where it's like, I was trying to be scary, kind of.

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I don't know if everybody gets scared.

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So the album, it featured a few singles that you guys water-falled as singles.

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Tell me about the strategy and why you guys went ahead with water-falling, because I see, I'm seeing that being increasingly popular.

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Especially now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, I think there's a couple of reasons why we did that.

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I think first is, you know, it took us, we started recording this album in April of last year.

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And if we just didn't do anything for a long time, it's like, I mean, I really hate that this is the way it is, but like, you kind of have to like remind people that you exist, you know?

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Right.

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And it's also like, it really stinks to like, have something that's ready and done, and then you just don't release like, what's the fun in that?

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So I think part of it is just like, we have this song, like let's just put it out there. Why would we wait?

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And then I think, yeah, I don't know.

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You know, I looked up a lot of like, you know, strategy to release your album video.

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I mean, everyone has an opinion on how to do that and a lot of some stuff that contradicts other stuff and like the right thing to do is always changing.

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But, you know, it just felt kind of right. Like, you know, we released three singles last year.

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They kind of came out as we, you know, recorded them.

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And they were, they're kind of, you know, I don't want to pick favorites, but they were definitely the three that we were like, these are like singles.

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It just kind of made sense.

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And that was Carmela Scarecrow and Lala, right?

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Yes.

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All right.

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So you're mentioning Studio Time. You've been recording that album since last April.

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Yeah.

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So you guys are a fully independent band, correct?

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No label support.

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So what, what does Studio Time look like for a fully independent band, four members, all different instruments?

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It's crazy. It's hard to, about what you guys on Luke.

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Oh, no.

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You just give me a funny look.

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No, no, no, no, no. I just, I know this is your forte, my brother.

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Well, I just, I spent a lot of time thinking about how we're going to do this.

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That is a great question. Like how do you record, because Studio Time is so expensive.

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If you're lucky enough to, you know, go to Loyola and you have access to the studios here, that's a great option.

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But if you don't, then your options are like, you know, you get on a label and they front for the Studio Time and then you're in, you know, owe them a lot of money.

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You're still paying for that anyways, you know?

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Yeah.

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With the money that you have to give back to them?

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Yeah, it takes, some bands like take their whole career to like pay back, pay off their labels.

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And so, you know, then you just look in, okay, what's, can I just get a space?

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Can I rent a space? And that gets really expensive really quick.

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Also, it's like, we were looking at a lot of different spaces when we were looking to record and a lot of them are like, funky, stinky, like, creepy,

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like creepy murdered rat fight.

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It's like 900 a month for like a shed without any plumbing or electricity.

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And it's your responsibility to fill it up with studio equipment as well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, totally.

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I don't know if that's you, Abo.

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You assumed it was, but it's not.

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Okay, cool.

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That in fact was me.

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I apologize.

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Nice.

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So good.

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Now, just, yeah, so basically, like it just kind of landed, we have a rehearsal space, I'll shout them out.

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It's spreading the music.

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Yeah.

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Some loads spreading the music.

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It's right off for Rhett, right by Mojo.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And we had been rehearsing there.

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And it was just like, let's just set up our mics in there in our rehearsal space.

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It's the most affordable like rehearsal space that we found so far that isn't like, you know, there's some places that you can rent out.

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You can rent out and share with other bands, but like it floods and like all your drums get like water damage.

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So it's just, yeah, so that's what we did.

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We would pretty much, we'd find the free time between the four of us and get together and plop our mics down and get stuff tracked.

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And it took us, you know, we, I very naively thought that we could do it in a month.

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I don't know why I thought that.

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That's always, that's always the case, man.

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Yeah.

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Always the case.

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So yeah, I wanted to take it a little longer than that, but.

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Okay.

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So for a younger band that are trying to get to the next level, trying to start recording, you know, they've been playing in the local scene.

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They're gigging.

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It's going well.

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People want to hear their music.

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What are they expecting?

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If they're going that route, what do you think in terms of actual money?

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Like what do you think it will cost to finance just one month of building your own studio and recording in your own studio or renting as you, as you used?

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It's expensive.

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Yeah.

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Very.

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It's extremely, it's like prohibitively expensive.

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So would you advise like they need to get jobs?

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You can work like, well, how, how would you advise a younger band to finance something like this?

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We have a band fund.

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So every time we have like a gig or if we sell merch or do anything like that, then we put the money in like a pool that's like, this is the band fund for the band.

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So we've, you know, use that to like fix amps by new equipment, by recording equipment.

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It goes towards the rehearsal space.

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Yeah.

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I think get a digital audio interface that's, you know, there's some that are, you know, pretty affordable.

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We bought an eight input digital audio interface for like $300.

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We use that with band money just from playing gigs.

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And that was kind of step one.

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You know, just get your hands on some XLR cables, get an SM57, you can maybe get a used one for like, you know, 70 bucks, but you can get a new $100.

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And honestly, like, you know, you can, you know, you have to make concessions with like what you have.

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Like we don't, I can't like fully soundproof like a space that we're, you know, just there for a couple hours.

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And it's just like at a certain point in a lot of this album, it's just like, this is how it is.

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This is how it sounds.

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It's not going to sound like it's recording a studio and that's okay.

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Like we're all fine with that.

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And we can, you can make music that you're proud of that you're happy with and you don't have to like spend a ton of money.

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And I was, I was, I'd never recorded like an acoustic drum kit before this album.

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And some things like, there's a really good series on YouTube.

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It's a reverb.com and they do a series where they just try to recreate the way that a drum kit was recorded on a given record.

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And they try to get it like exactly how it was.

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And one thing that really opened my eyes was on the Amy Winehouse album, the drum kit is just an SM57.

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It's one microphone.

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And so like if you're starting out as a band, put, see how sound as good as you can with one microphone and then just go from there and then play some gigs.

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And then you can get a second microphone and then build from there.

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You know what I mean?

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So start small, get really good with like one microphone and go from there.

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That would kind of be my advice.

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Did you face any challenge, any unexpected challenges I want to add while recording this album?

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When I was recording, it was the end of Old Boy.

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We were home for Christmas and so we were in my parents' basement and my mom was worried that the neighbors were going to think I was getting murdered because I was like yell a lot.

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She was embarrassed.

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So it was challenging.

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That was funny.

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So now if a record label were listening right now to this episode and listening to AAA, how would you market yourselves?

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How would you sell yourself?

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What would your elevator pitch if you had those 15 minutes?

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Whoa.

417
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Just listen to our come to a show and see if you like it.

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I don't know. I think the music is the most cliche thing ever.

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But I think it's true. It's really, really true.

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And then going back on the advice to other bands too, the music has to be the first thing.

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If you're playing stuff that you like and that makes you happy that you're excited about, that's the most important thing.

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I feel very lucky that I can say that about our band.

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I really like it and that's good enough for me.

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And if a label is interested in that, then that's awesome and that would make me very happy.

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But also, it's really for us first and foremost.

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So yeah, I'm proud of our music and I hope that others like it too.

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I like to think that people tend to like it, but I don't know.

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I mean, what's not to like?

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I was listening to the album throughout the week.

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I think Lalo was kind of the standout track for me.

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Nice.

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Really, really good lyrics, drums, instrumentals.

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So when you were getting your album on to Spotify, tell me about the distribution process and how that treated you.

434
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000
Because you guys don't have a distributor.

435
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,000
What you posted, what the distro kit, I imagine.

436
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:51,000
So talk to me about that process if a younger artist was trying to understand it.

437
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,000
Yeah, I think distro kits pretty accessible.

438
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
I think they have some plans that are pretty affordable.

439
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000
Like, I don't know, like 20 bucks a year or something like that.

440
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Yeah, I would kind of go that.

441
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,000
There's other...

442
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,000
I haven't checked the market in a while, but DistroKid at the time made the most sense.

443
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000
And yeah, it's pretty good.

444
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000
And they can...

445
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000
I honestly don't know how good it sounds, but they offer to like master your tracks.

446
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Like if you want to do that, if you have a friend that's like an audio engineer, like hit up a human being first, I would say.

447
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
But yeah, I know we're pretty happy with DistroKid.

448
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,000
We're not sponsored.

449
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Have you had any experimentation with playlist pitching?

450
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Kind of, not really.

451
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:46,000
One time we posted our EP, when we released our EP, it just got picked up on a playlist.

452
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,000
We were like, holy shit, 7000 monthly listeners?

453
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Like, whoa!

454
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,000
And then, you know, every day from then it just went down and went down and went down back to normal.

455
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
So, you know, I think...

456
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:08,000
I was saying this to you guys the other day, like, you know, DistroKid and Spotify for Artists or whatever, they have stuff where you can like pitch to labels.

457
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000
And I did that for this album and for the singles and stuff.

458
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:24,000
But I don't know, I think you can do stuff on the internet, but like play gigs and get like actual people that will show up for you.

459
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:31,000
I think that's the most important thing, because like, I don't think really anything got put on a playlist from this album.

460
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000
But I was pretty happy with the numbers after the first couple days.

461
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000
I was like, that's cool.

462
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,000
And like this didn't get put on a playlist that someone's gonna, you know, maybe listen to once and then move on.

463
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Like, these are people that, you know, over the course of like us being in a band, showed up to gigs and or found us from somewhere else.

464
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:54,000
And like, they're gonna listen to it, you know, here and there more than once, hopefully.

465
00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:01,000
But yeah, so I was actually pretty proud of how I feel like we built kind of an audience for ourself, you know, a modest audience.

466
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
But an audience is an audience.

467
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Like, I'm super... I could die happy.

468
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Like, I'm super...

469
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000
But yeah, I don't know.

470
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000
I don't want to hog the mic.

471
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:18,000
But do you guys as a band feel like streaming platforms and services are doing enough to support small and independent artists?

472
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Hell no, they're not doing enough to support big ones either.

473
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Yeah, no.

474
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Yeah, it's like famously exploitative. It sucks.

475
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,000
But you know.

476
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000
I can say how much we've made in lifetime.

477
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
I actually found this the other day I was digging around.

478
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
We've had music on there for like four years.

479
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
We've made like $93.

480
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Over the course of four years.

481
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,000
I mean, we haven't gotten that many streams, so I wasn't expecting much.

482
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000
But I was actually like, oh shit, $90. That's awesome.

483
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Yeah, that was a yes.

484
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
But hey, that is pretty cool.

485
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000
But yeah, I mean, definitely not. Absolutely not.

486
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,000
What do you think are some of the biggest flaws currently in the music industry?

487
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:04,000
I mean, I think that unfortunately the way the world works is that you have to make money to do stuff.

488
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
That's just like, you know, how things are.

489
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000
For example, if you want to make art, you do need to be making money to continue to make art.

490
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000
And so, yeah, I don't know.

491
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Just the whole thing of like when bands are trying to be like a professional indie band and have that be like their career.

492
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:32,000
You like the only real way you make money is like through, you know, like merchants and like ticket sales and stuff.

493
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:39,000
And it's like, I don't know, it's just a lot of pressure and a lot of bands like end up like barely breaking even when they go on tour and stuff.

494
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:47,000
And I don't know, it's sad. It's hard to make money this way.

495
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Yeah, I think like going into being a band, I think you should, if you want to like get the most out of it,

496
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000
I think you should be clear on like what you want to get out of it.

497
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Like, and I think you, I don't want to say like, don't follow your dreams. I think you always follow your dreams.

498
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:12,000
But I think like, like there's so many talented, so many, so many talented people that like it's just they're not going to break through and it might never happen.

499
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:22,000
And it's, it's, and if that's your goal, then it's, you're going to be disappointed, you know, but if you're like, do I want to have fun and like make music with my friends,

500
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:32,000
maybe play some gigs and you know, see where that goes, like, you know, and just as long as you're doing it for yourself, like you'll be happy, you know, and yeah, the industry is, is right.

501
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:43,000
I should not have, I'm not qualified to give advice, but what I, what I am qualified to give advice on is, you know, just do it for yourself and the rest will come, you know.

502
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Yeah.

503
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Yeah.

504
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Nice. Yeah, that's, I feel like that's the best way you can really put it.

505
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:55,000
So going back to shows, we are in New Orleans, the music playground of probably the world.

506
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000
What has been your, your most favorite venue while, while playing here?

507
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Oh, I really like Siberia because they always have like a chest full of Miller Highlights in the back rooms.

508
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Really cool.

509
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,000
I'll give a shout out to this one because this one just reopened or is going too soon.

510
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000
I'll give a shout out to Gossagoss.

511
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Yeah.

512
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000
That one's always a fun one.

513
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Glad we got another uptown spot.

514
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,000
They also have a cool green room.

515
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000
I like, I like when there's a green room.

516
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,000
The goats also really cool.

517
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
We always play at the goat and it's a lot of fun.

518
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000
I love the goat.

519
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000
I love the goat.

520
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
The goat is awesome.

521
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000
Yeah.

522
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
I like the way the room sounds.

523
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:43,000
It's not a very big room and I feel like sometimes, you know, if, if not everything's mic'd up, you can't hear, I can't hear Abbie on the other side of the stage.

524
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Sometimes, you know, but I just feel like the room sounds good.

525
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,000
I can hear everybody and you know, there's the, yeah, I like the goat a lot.

526
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Definitely want to show support to all the sound engineers throughout the city and definitely add all the venues too.

527
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000
Yeah.

528
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Shout out.

529
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Absolutely.

530
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000
What has been your most memorable show so far?

531
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
If any come to mind.

532
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Muff Prom was really fun.

533
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,000
I feel like a lot of people I know, like saw some of Promo were excited about it.

534
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Like the guy, our album release show, I met somebody.

535
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000
This was, I don't know, maybe feel really special.

536
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000
I was really excited.

537
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,000
I met somebody who has been putting early works on Genius and stuff.

538
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Oh, cool.

539
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Yeah.

540
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Just like has been doing that because I don't know.

541
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
They just wanted to do that.

542
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Abbie, do you want to tell what the good, the good people, what Muff Prom is?

543
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Yeah.

544
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Well, I was getting there.

545
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Okay.

546
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
I'm so sassy.

547
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:51,000
But he saw us at Muff Prom and then like ever since then it's been like listener music has been a fan and stuff.

548
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000
And I think I've met a few other people who said kind of similar stuff.

549
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
I didn't really know you guys, but I saw you at Muff Prom.

550
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
It was, oh my gosh, Oliver.

551
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
And this is so bad.

552
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Quinn.

553
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Yeah, it was Quinn and Oliver's movie.

554
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:17,000
And they had this big premiere party where they screened the movie and then they had, it was us and Evans band at the time.

555
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000
I think it was just Chimney, Evan, Michelle, but it was still Evan and Emma.

556
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
It was at the broadside.

557
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000
It was at the broadside.

558
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
And who else played?

559
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Bag.

560
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Bag.

561
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Yeah.

562
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
So it was this big show.

563
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
We all wore suits and that was fun.

564
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000
And it was a bunch of loyal bands and then a bunch of loyal people and everybody dressed up like it was prom.

565
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000
Because the theme was prom.

566
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
And it was really fun.

567
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
It was a very fun night and the film was awesome.

568
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,000
Super cool.

569
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Yeah.

570
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Can I just say I thought our album release show was my favorite show so far.

571
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
I thought it was awesome.

572
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,000
You can say that.

573
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Yeah.

574
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000
It was really fun.

575
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000
But was everybody's least favorite show?

576
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Wait a minute.

577
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Y'all didn't say your favorite shows yet?

578
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000
I think my favorite show, I don't know exactly what it was, but it was a Mardi Gras show when we were with Panama Papers.

579
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000
And it was at Gossagoss.

580
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000
And the whole place was completely packed.

581
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000
It was just really cool.

582
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
That sounds awesome.

583
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
It was fun.

584
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
A lot of energy in that show.

585
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Lots of energy.

586
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Nothing better.

587
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
You know there's nothing worse than a good show that no one recorded.

588
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
That's the worst.

589
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,000
I wish we had more videos and stuff from the album release show.

590
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Because people were singing along and stuff.

591
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Dancing crazy.

592
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000
I think we might have some videos.

593
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Cool.

594
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
More on that later.

595
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Don't worry about yours.

596
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:39,000
I think mine was, it's a tie between this most recent album release show and that same Gossagoss show that Kelce was just talking about.

597
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Just because the energy was different.

598
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:49,000
And for me it was crazy to hear the entire room scream lyrics back at us.

599
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000
I don't know how you feel about that.

600
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
That was so cool.

601
00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:02,000
I had goosebumps as I was playing and it was so hard for me to focus in and keep time because it was just such a cool feeling.

602
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,000
That was really neat.

603
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
That's been a little private dream of mine since we started playing together.

604
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
I was like what is one day?

605
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000
I was playing and the audience knew my words and was taking back and stuff.

606
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
What a special moment.

607
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Yeah, I've definitely, that's not so private dream of mine.

608
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
That's such a cool feeling and experience.

609
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000
It's the best thing in the world.

610
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Imagine now what's next?

611
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000
They're probably going to harmonize like the guitar parts.

612
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Shout the bass line.

613
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
I don't know about that.

614
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Someone brings their rig in the audience.

615
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
I will respect the hell out of you if you do that.

616
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
I challenge anyone to do that.

617
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,000
So now that your album is out, what's next for the band?

618
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Playing some gigs, hopefully.

619
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Jimmy Fallon, I think.

620
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Just kidding.

621
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000
We've also been like, as we were rehearsing for different shows and stuff,

622
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
sometimes we would be like, hey, we have this thing.

623
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:05,000
So we also have a couple, maybe like three or so.

624
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Three or four.

625
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Yeah, quite a few new songs that are cooking up as well.

626
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Yeah, I started to write again.

627
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,000
I really like doing that.

628
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,000
The process is definitely one of my favorites as being a band.

629
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,000
So new material in the work, are you going to be pursuing that?

630
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Are you going to take a little more time and pushing this album more?

631
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Or are you going to let the album kind of marinate?

632
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000
It's already done its thing and you're just going to get it right back to being creatives.

633
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000
I mean, I think we're probably going to be playing some shows

634
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
and trying to get people to listen to our album and stuff

635
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
and play the songs that are on the album.

636
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
We have time. We don't have to rush it anything.

637
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
I don't think we're going to start recording anytime soon.

638
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,000
God no.

639
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000
We've had enough.

640
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000
But I think that maybe next time we have a rehearsal,

641
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
we don't have a gig coming right up.

642
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
We should write again.

643
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Definitely.

644
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Nice, yeah.

645
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,000
I mean, have you guys had any tour plans played outside of the city at all yet?

646
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
We actually have not.

647
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000
We haven't been asked to play, but something always comes up

648
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000
when we maybe have an opportunity to play like Lafayette, Badm Rouge.

649
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,000
It's just never, it's always fallen through.

650
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
It's just kind of, it's going to happen at some point.

651
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
We're going to make it to Badm Rouge.

652
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000
We'll make it there.

653
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Absolutely.

654
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000
What do you see yourself in five years as a group?

655
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000
I hope we're still playing music and recording and stuff.

656
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Is there any long-term plans that you guys are anticipating and preparing for?

657
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,000
I don't really see myself as like, I don't know,

658
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000
I don't really consider, I think the music thing is very important to me

659
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
and it's like a big part of my life and I'm really glad I'm doing it,

660
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,000
but I don't really have big plans to like get signed and then, you know, go.

661
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
I know that you would love to go on tour and stuff.

662
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000
But if it were to happen, you would absolutely pursue it relentlessly.

663
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Yeah, that'd be awesome.

664
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,000
I'd be so excited, but I think for the most part, I'm in it for like,

665
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
this is kind of a fulfilling, like creative outlet.

666
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,000
But...

667
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000
How would you guys feel if I was like, hey, we got asked to go on tour?

668
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Like, what would you guys say to that?

669
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
I'd probably be down.

670
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
Do you want my honest answer or do you want my...

671
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Because I have an honest answer too.

672
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:36,000
I feel like we have a similar answer.

673
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,000
You go first.

674
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Well, I was just going to say, I mean, it's like, going on tour is like my life's bucket list item.

675
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Like, I remember being in high school, just being like, oh my God,

676
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000
like I wanted my band in high school to go on tour and like, it never worked out.

677
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
And I think the...

678
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Again, I'm not qualified to speak on this, but like, touring costs a lot of money

679
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:03,000
and we live in one of the best cities in the world for playing live music.

680
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,000
And like, you know, as soon as the calculus makes sense to go on tour,

681
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000
like that'd be great, but if we're going to lose like a ton of money

682
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,000
and be in a stinky van for like a very long time, like that might be tough.

683
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
Like, I don't know, like, I...

684
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000
And like, I have a dog and a lovely partner that I live with

685
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,000
and just like, leaving that for an extended period of time would be very, very hard.

686
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000
And, you know, I would love to go on tour.

687
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Like, if I could snap my fingers and then like, figure all that out, it'll all work out.

688
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Like, that would be awesome, but I'm not like, you know, we gotta, you know,

689
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
we gotta go on tour so then we can do this and so then we can do this.

690
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000
I'm just like, you know what, like, let's keep playing gigs and let's keep having fun

691
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
and I'm happy with that.

692
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,000
We played with enough bands that are...

693
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Like, we played with enough touring bands to kind of, the illusion of tour

694
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,000
has kind of been like a little bit shattered, which like, oh, you guys are like, so stinky.

695
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Like, you're playing to like a small, like, kind of like,

696
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,000
like an almost empty bar on like a Thursday night.

697
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:07,000
I will also say though, like, to the people that are on tour, that choose to go on tour,

698
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
I respect the hell out of you and you are living my actual dream.

699
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Yeah, and we've got to play with some really cool bands and I'm glad we got to see like,

700
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000
I don't know, bands coming at a different sense.

701
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000
This band, Yucks, was on tour and we opened for them and they were awesome

702
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,000
and they had really cool gigs.

703
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Oh, shit.

704
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,000
So, yeah.

705
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Billy Dume is dead and...

706
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,000
Yes, those guys are so cool.

707
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Oh, yeah.

708
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Young Cassidy for shout-outs.

709
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000
I think both of them are out of Florida.

710
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Yes.

711
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,000
Yeah.

712
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Full of Shrelics.

713
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000
Full of Shrelics has always been kind to us.

714
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000
Yes.

715
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Skoban.

716
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Also in Florida.

717
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000
No, it's been really cool to meet bands from other scenes and stuff and like, I don't know.

718
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:47,000
I think it's a very cool thing that people are doing, but I don't want to do it.

719
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,000
It's tough.

720
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,000
It's hard.

721
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000
I'm leaving the door open, of course.

722
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000
I would never say no to anything.

723
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Well, that's not true.

724
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,000
It's a going on tour.

725
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000
The door would definitely be open, but for the time being, I think playing gigs here

726
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,000
and it's been a blast.

727
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,000
I don't want for too much more.

728
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:18,000
I'm so excited to rehearse again with you guys this weekend or whatever it's going to be.

729
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,000
That's what I'm looking forward to.

730
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000
That was sweet, Andrew.

731
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:31,000
Definitely some takeaways there, some career highlights I was hearing, some ambition.

732
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:38,000
To wrap things up, really, if you could collaborate with any artist from the past or present, who

733
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
would that be and why?

734
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,000
I want to hear a different answer from everyone.

735
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000
Please don't make it hurt.

736
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,000
I can't think of a single musician all of a sudden.

737
00:44:52,000 --> 00:45:00,000
I would record a track with Neil Peart, the professor, the late drummer from possibly

738
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000
my favorite band, Rush.

739
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Greatest drummer of all time for you?

740
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000
I don't know that much about drumming, honestly, but he's up there.

741
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Drummers say that he's up there, so I'll take their word for it.

742
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,000
He is.

743
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,000
Damn.

744
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000
I'm trying to think.

745
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000
That's a good question.

746
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000
You stumped the arsonist.

747
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,000
I would love to.

748
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000
I've always wanted to go straight.

749
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:32,000
I think it would be really cool if I could write a song for someone who's like, oh, it's like a singer.

750
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,000
You can hit some crazy notes.

751
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Oh, interesting.

752
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000
Like take it and go crazy with it.

753
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:43,000
Like write some arsonist-style lyrics and then have Sabrina Carpenter sing it.

754
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,000
Yeah, that'd be cool if a chapel-roan type was like, I don't know.

755
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,000
Start feeding a dog, start singing about scary shit.

756
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,000
Yeah, I think that'd be super cool.

757
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000
That's a good answer.

758
00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:03,000
I don't know if I would succeed in this collaboration, but I'd love to hang out with Keller Williams.

759
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,000
Keller Williams.

760
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Yeah.

761
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,000
Well, how come?

762
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000
He's just like a really goofy guy.

763
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000
He seems like he'd be fun to hang out with.

764
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,000
He doesn't take himself too seriously.

765
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Cool.

766
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,000
We're both live things.

767
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Yes, we're both live.

768
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:26,000
I guess for me, it would be someone along the lines of like, I guess Kendrick Lamar or Tyler the creator,

769
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,000
just because I have a big love for West Coast hip-hop.

770
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,000
Yeah, I see that.

771
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,000
I've seen that.

772
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:41,000
And I would just love to play drums for like a live, like a big live thing like that.

773
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,000
So I feel like that would be pretty sick.

774
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,000
What initially got you into drums?

775
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:59,000
Really, just honestly, I would grab like whatever I could as a kid and just played pretend drums on a table.

776
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:08,000
And then soon enough around middle school, they had a pair of quad drums and like a marching band.

777
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:16,000
And I started playing those and then once I got into those, I got in the bass drum and then snare drum and then I picked up a drum kit.

778
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,000
And it just kind of like stumbled from there because I played all through high school.

779
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:27,000
I played for in college and then for a time I used to play for the New Orleans Saints.

780
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,000
I played in their drum line too.

781
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,000
Wow, that's pretty awesome.

782
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,000
Yeah, very modest.

783
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,000
You waited a long time.

784
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
I was waiting for you to drop that.

785
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,000
How did that come about?

786
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:44,000
So my instructor teaching me was the section leader for their quad section.

787
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:49,000
And they were looking for members at the time and I had just turned 18.

788
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,000
Okay, cool.

789
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:56,000
And I joined and it was very fun.

790
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,000
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

791
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:04,000
It was some of the most fun I've had ever.

792
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,000
I can imagine.

793
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,000
Would you travel with the Saints?

794
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:14,000
No, we never did travel per se, but we would always play at the two minute warning before halftime.

795
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000
We would play on the field and we would go around during home games.

796
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
We would play in like Champion Square.

797
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:25,000
We would go play at different tailgates and stuff and we would just always have a good time.

798
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,000
And what was fun was we would like, we all knew all the parts to everything.

799
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,000
We would switch instruments in the middle of a song.

800
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,000
So I would swap with somebody and be playing cymbals and going crazy on those while somebody was playing quads.

801
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,000
I just have a lot of fond memories of doing it.

802
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000
It was super duper fun.

803
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,000
That's amazing.

804
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Thank you for it.

805
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000
I'm glad I got to hear that.

806
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:53,000
I'm really glad I got to hear that at the buzzer.

807
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,000
You have your guitar here.

808
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,000
I think we mentioned something about you guys having a lot of performance in the talk.

809
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,000
This would be the first one.

810
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
I'm really looking forward to hearing this.

811
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,000
I'm going to tune my guitar.

812
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Ask Luke another question.

813
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,000
Luke sing something quick.

814
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,000
No.

815
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000
Luke has the voice of an angel actually.

816
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
We don't talk about it like that.

817
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,000
I do not have the voice of an angel.

818
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000
No, that's not true.

819
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
He's being modest.

820
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,000
It's okay, I guess.

821
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:31,000
One thing we're going to do on the next album is going to be like we're all going to sing more.

822
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Thank you.

823
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,000
I can almost guarantee that.

824
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,000
Well, Luke seems to...

825
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,000
I'm game with it, honestly.

826
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000
I'll be cool with it.

827
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,000
Sometimes just hearing myself back and recording, I'm not too fond of.

828
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,000
I feel like that's for everybody.

829
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,000
You're drop C.

830
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Should we just do mood ring instead?

831
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,000
It's like six minutes.

832
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,000
Are you like really drop C right now?

833
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,000
It's something.

834
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,000
There's something going on for sure.

835
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000
I know time limit here on the talk take as much time as you need.

836
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,000
Okay.

837
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,000
So I am in drop C.

838
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,000
We could do mood ring.

839
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000
Yeah, you're like a 12 string in drop C.

840
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000
I think we should do it.

841
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,000
Oh, good God.

842
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,000
Dude, the live chat is saying for you to sing.

843
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,000
Luke, I'm good.

844
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Come on.

845
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,000
Any upcoming gigs?

846
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Yes.

847
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,000
We're playing March 11th at the free store.

848
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,000
There's like a thing being put on by...

849
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000
Oh my gosh, is it killing records?

850
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,000
Yes, yes.

851
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,000
And it's for...

852
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,000
I think there's going to be some bands that are on the way to South by Southwest.

853
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,000
So I think we'll be playing some tunes there.

854
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,000
And maybe...

855
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,000
I think we have a couple other things that I can't remember.

856
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Cool.

857
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,000
So, wow.

858
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,000
So I have a...

859
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:02,000
12 string.

860
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000
I have a 12 string guitar.

861
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,000
So it takes a long time to tune.

862
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,000
It's also in like a weird tuning.

863
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,000
Don't mind me.

864
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,000
You're good at taking time.

865
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,000
This is cool.

866
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,000
No, this is really cool.

867
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000
This is like my prized possession.

868
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,000
It was my big graduation present when I graduated high school.

869
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,000
Nice.

870
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,000
It's a beautiful guitar.

871
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,000
It's a beautiful guitar.

872
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:34,000
But the thing about this guitar and like the...

873
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:39,000
There's one string that is very, very thin and then also has to be tuned really, really tight.

874
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:45,000
So I've broken the last like four strings I bought for it.

875
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,000
And I buy them at glue because it's just close to my house and the guy's always like,

876
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,000
Hey, you're back.

877
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000
And he's not so friendly to me, no offense to him.

878
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,000
But I was dressed super goth because I was wearing like a costume for the show.

879
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,000
And then he was like, what's up?

880
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Like what kind of guitar do you have?

881
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,000
I don't think you recognize me.

882
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,000
Which is really funny.

883
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:11,000
My 12 string story is one time I was...

884
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,000
I had a guitar...

885
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:18,000
I was teaching guitar when I was in grad school and her dad, my student's dad was like,

886
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Hey, I have this 12 string.

887
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000
It's like really old.

888
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Can you like, you know, restring it for me?

889
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
And I was like, yeah, yeah, 100% dude.

890
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000
Like I would love to help you out.

891
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:33,000
Took the 12 string home, started to restring it.

892
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:41,000
And the nut of the 12 string just like just cracked on me.

893
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
And I was like, oh no.

894
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:51,000
I mean, like they commonly break and it was on the super long one, like the G string.

895
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,000
It's like really long and has a lot of force on the, you know.

896
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,000
So it kind of was my fault, but also kind of not.

897
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,000
But I feel bad about that.

898
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,000
But he was like, hey, can you just restring this old guitar for me?

899
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000
And I came back and I was like, it's broken.

900
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,000
I'm sorry.

901
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,000
My bad.

902
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,000
Cool.

903
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Cool. I was just cool about it, but yeah.

904
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,000
Sorry, Rick.

905
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,000
You guys ready?

906
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,000
Yeah.

907
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Yeah.

908
00:53:45,000 --> 00:54:05,000
Yeah.

909
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Yeah.

910
00:54:34,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Yeah.

911
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:26,000
Yeah.

912
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:52,000
Yeah.

913
00:55:52,000 --> 00:56:18,000
Yeah.

914
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:44,000
Yeah.

915
00:56:44,000 --> 00:57:10,000
Yeah.

916
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:36,000
Yeah.

917
00:57:36,000 --> 00:58:02,000
Yeah.

918
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Yeah.

919
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Yeah.

920
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:24,000
Yeah.

921
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:34,000
Yeah.

922
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,000
Wow.

923
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Yes.

924
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,000
Thank you.

925
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,000
I mean, wow.

926
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,000
Thanks.

927
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,000
I would, I would die a very happy death listening to that.

928
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,000
Well, not soon.

929
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,000
Now, hopefully not anytime soon.

930
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,000
That was great.

931
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000
Abby and the R Sinus, thank you so much for taking the time to come out, guys.

932
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,000
This has been an absolute pleasure hosting you guys.

933
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:57,000
Thanks so much for having us.

934
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,000
And interviewing you guys.

935
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,000
Yeah, thank you.

936
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,000
This has been one of the most.

937
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,000
Thank you.

938
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,000
Any closing statements before we wrap it up?

939
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Go ahead and listen to our album if you haven't yet.

940
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:09,000
Get up and get out there and go listen to it.

941
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,000
You heard it from Abby herself.

942
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,000
Get up, get out there and go listen to it.

943
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,000
Thank you all.

944
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:16,000
Happy great night.

945
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:23,000
Thank you.