WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.660 Okay, I want you to picture something. You walk 00:00:02.660 --> 00:00:06.400 into a music venue. The lights go down, the crowd 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:08.900 hushes, and you're waiting for the band. And 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:11.279 you're expecting, I don't know, a standard rock 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.519 band, right? Jeans, t -shirts, the usual. Sure, 00:00:14.539 --> 00:00:17.519 the standard setup. But instead, four men walk 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:21.280 out on stage. And they are dressed impeccably. 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:24.660 We're talking identical, sharp, black suits. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.019 Very clean. gold Aztec medallions around their 00:00:28.019 --> 00:00:31.280 necks, and then you look up at their faces. And 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:32.719 you can't see them. Because they're completely 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.280 covered. Their heads are fully encased in these 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.140 elaborate Mexican wrestling masks. Lucha Libre 00:00:38.140 --> 00:00:40.820 masks. The kind you'd see in Mexico City, not, 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:42.820 you know, a rock club in the Midwest. Exactly. 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:45.060 And my first thought, and I think anyone's first 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:47.240 thought, would be, OK, this is a joke. This is 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.079 a bit. Right, like a comedy sketch. But then 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.219 they plug in. They don't say a single word. They 00:00:51.219 --> 00:00:54.539 just launch into this incredibly tight, ferocious, 00:00:54.619 --> 00:00:57.020 instrumental rock music. And that's the band 00:00:57.020 --> 00:00:59.939 we're unpacking today. That is Lost Straightjackets. 00:01:00.250 --> 00:01:02.369 We've got a whole stack of material here, articles, 00:01:02.649 --> 00:01:05.689 interviews, album histories, because this whole 00:01:05.689 --> 00:01:09.370 thing on paper, it just shouldn't work. It really 00:01:09.370 --> 00:01:12.090 shouldn't. An instrumental surf band that got 00:01:12.090 --> 00:01:15.969 big in the 90s, wearing masks. It sounds like 00:01:15.969 --> 00:01:17.909 a novelty act that should have lasted, what, 00:01:17.989 --> 00:01:21.120 a year? And yet here we are in February of 2026. 00:01:21.379 --> 00:01:23.959 And they are, I mean, they're basically an American 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.560 musical institution. They are still touring, 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:28.700 still putting out records. So our mission for 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:31.159 this deep dive is to figure out how this happened. 00:01:31.379 --> 00:01:34.980 How did a whim, a joke become a decades long 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:38.280 legacy? How do you survive for 30 years hiding 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.500 your face? That's the core question. And I think 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:42.120 the answer is that the gimmick was never really 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.420 the point. It was like a Trojan horse for some 00:01:45.420 --> 00:01:47.000 of the most serious musicianship you'll ever 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.430 find. Okay, let's start at the beginning. When 00:01:48.430 --> 00:01:51.209 I hear surf rock, my mind immediately goes to 00:01:51.209 --> 00:01:54.790 California, the beach, the sun. Of course. Dick 00:01:54.790 --> 00:01:57.129 Dale, the Beach Boys. So I'm assuming these guys 00:01:57.129 --> 00:01:59.989 formed in like a garage in L .A. or maybe San 00:01:59.989 --> 00:02:02.469 Diego. And that is. Wait, Nashville, Tennessee, 00:02:02.709 --> 00:02:05.450 the capital of country music. The very one. But 00:02:05.450 --> 00:02:07.250 you have to remember, Nashville is music city. 00:02:07.329 --> 00:02:09.650 It's not just country. It's a magnet for the 00:02:09.650 --> 00:02:12.289 best professional musicians on the planet. The 00:02:12.289 --> 00:02:14.689 session players. So these guys weren't surf bums. 00:02:14.729 --> 00:02:17.599 They were pros. Total pros. We have to go back 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.639 to 1988 to find the original members. First, 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.099 you've got a guitarist named Eddie Angel. Which 00:02:23.099 --> 00:02:25.400 is already just a perfect rock and roll name. 00:02:25.580 --> 00:02:28.039 Isn't it? He was a rockabilly guy. Okay, let's 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.159 pause on that. For anyone who doesn't know, what 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.139 exactly is rockabilly? Think early Elvis, Carl 00:02:34.139 --> 00:02:37.139 Perkins. It's that blend of rock and roll and 00:02:37.139 --> 00:02:39.419 country. It's got that fast guitar picking, a 00:02:39.419 --> 00:02:41.979 little bit of echo, a real swing to it. Got it. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.580 So Eddie Angel. Right. He's in Nashville playing 00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:46.620 with a band called the Planet Rockers. Then you 00:02:46.620 --> 00:02:48.960 got Danny Amos. He was a sound engineer, also 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.659 a guitarist from a band called the Raybeats. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.620 And the final piece was the drummer, Jimmy L 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:57.099 .J. Lester. A session guy. A heavy hitter. Yeah. 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.000 He toured with people like Robert Gordon. These 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.199 were serious musicians. They weren't kids figuring 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.979 it out. So 1988, the three of them get together. 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.139 Do the masks show up right away? No masks. And 00:03:10.139 --> 00:03:12.379 interestingly, no laws in the name either. They 00:03:12.379 --> 00:03:15.060 were just. The straitjackets. Just the straitjackets. 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:17.000 And here's the first real twist in the story. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.060 They play a few shows in the summer of 88, and 00:03:21.060 --> 00:03:24.020 they immediately break up. Really? That's it? 00:03:24.099 --> 00:03:26.680 One summer? It was over before it started. I 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.099 mean, you think of the year 1988. Hair metal 00:03:29.099 --> 00:03:32.240 was still huge. Synths were everywhere. This 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.840 clean, instrumental, 60s throwback sound. It 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.360 just didn't connect? Nobody cared. It just didn't 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.250 land at all. Uh -huh. So they all went their 00:03:40.250 --> 00:03:42.289 separate ways. But obviously the story doesn't 00:03:42.289 --> 00:03:45.009 end there. No. It actually took six years. They 00:03:45.009 --> 00:03:47.370 didn't get back together until 1994. And what 00:03:47.370 --> 00:03:49.129 changed? Well, they brought back the original 00:03:49.129 --> 00:03:51.490 three, added a bassist, Eastcott Esbeck, and 00:03:51.490 --> 00:03:53.830 rebranded themselves Lost Stray Jackets. But 00:03:53.830 --> 00:03:56.750 the biggest change was the culture. Right. 1994. 00:03:56.949 --> 00:03:59.409 What movie came out that year and changed everything 00:03:59.409 --> 00:04:02.500 for guitar music? Oh, Pulp Fiction. Bingo. Quentin 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:05.360 Tarantino puts Mr. Lou by Dick Dale right at 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.439 the beginning of that movie, and all of a sudden, 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:11.280 that twangy, aggressive surf sound wasn't oldies 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.419 music anymore. It was cool. It was dangerous. 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.000 It was incredibly cool. And that's the wave they 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.279 rode. Can we talk about that sound for a second? 00:04:18.420 --> 00:04:20.879 Because it's not just a normal guitar. It sounds 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.660 wet. Is that the right word? Wet is the perfect 00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:26.379 word. That's reverb. Yeah. specifically spring 00:04:26.379 --> 00:04:28.720 reverb. Okay, explain that to me like I'm a total 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.259 novice. So back in the 60s, Fender made these 00:04:32.259 --> 00:04:35.819 units with actual metal springs in a box. The 00:04:35.819 --> 00:04:38.819 guitar signal literally shakes the springs, and 00:04:38.819 --> 00:04:41.600 that creates this splashy, drippy echo. It's 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.100 the quintessential surf sound. The drip. That's 00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:46.339 the one. But what Lost Strait Jackets did was 00:04:46.339 --> 00:04:48.100 take that sound and play it with the intensity 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:50.740 of, like, punk rock. They had the right gear 00:04:50.740 --> 00:04:53.040 for it, too. A lot of dipinto guitars, Fender 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.339 Stratocasters. And why do those guitars matter? 00:04:55.699 --> 00:04:58.060 It's the pickups. They're single -coil pickups, 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.540 which gives them this really bright, sharp, cutting 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:03.319 sound. It's not muddy. You can hear every single 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:04.779 note, even when they're playing a million miles 00:05:04.779 --> 00:05:07.040 an hour. Okay, so they have the skills, they 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.839 have the gear, they have the cultural moment, 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.560 thanks to Tarantino. But there's still just four 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.279 guys on a stage. When do the masks finally appear? 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:17.959 And this is maybe my favorite part of their whole 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.420 story because it wasn't a marketing plan. It 00:05:20.420 --> 00:05:23.079 was just a complete accident. Really? Totally. 00:05:23.740 --> 00:05:27.000 Danny Amos, the guitarist, was a huge fan of 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.279 Mexican culture, especially lucha libre. The 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.800 wrestling. Right, which in Mexico is, I mean, 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.600 it's more than just wrestling. It's like mythology. 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.279 The luchadors, the wrestlers, wear these sacred 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.300 masks and they almost never take them off. The 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:44.209 mask is their identity. So Amos was just into 00:05:44.209 --> 00:05:46.670 this. Obsessed. He had bought a bunch of masks 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:49.389 in Mexico just as souvenirs. And at their first 00:05:49.389 --> 00:05:52.769 gig back in 1994, on a total whim, he just said 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:54.629 to the other guys, hey, why don't we wear these 00:05:54.629 --> 00:05:56.529 tonight? I feel like most musicians would say 00:05:56.529 --> 00:05:59.430 no, you know? I want people to see my face. I 00:05:59.430 --> 00:06:01.449 want to be famous. That's the ego, right? But 00:06:01.449 --> 00:06:03.370 these guys were session players. Their job was 00:06:03.370 --> 00:06:05.410 to be in the background. So they just went, yeah, 00:06:05.509 --> 00:06:07.750 sure, why not? They just put them on. They put 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:10.370 them on. And the crowd's reaction was immediate. 00:06:10.860 --> 00:06:13.300 It changed the whole vibe. Completely. You went 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:15.939 from watching four guys play guitar to watching 00:06:15.939 --> 00:06:18.980 these mysterious figures from another world. 00:06:19.139 --> 00:06:22.779 It added a layer of theater. The band knew right 00:06:22.779 --> 00:06:25.379 there in that moment, we can never play without 00:06:25.379 --> 00:06:28.100 these masks again. It makes sense because watching 00:06:28.100 --> 00:06:30.300 an instrumental band can sometimes be a little 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:33.459 static, you know, if there's no singer to watch. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.370 Exactly. The masks gave you a focal point. And 00:06:36.370 --> 00:06:38.350 Danny Amos took it a step further. He created 00:06:38.350 --> 00:06:41.689 a whole persona. He became Daddy O' Grande. Daddy 00:06:41.689 --> 00:06:44.089 O' Grande. I love it. And since they didn't have 00:06:44.089 --> 00:06:46.629 a singer to talk between songs, he became their 00:06:46.629 --> 00:06:49.209 spokesperson. But he would only speak in this 00:06:49.209 --> 00:06:52.470 super fast, heavily accented Spanish. So you 00:06:52.470 --> 00:06:54.949 have these guys from Nashville, probably with 00:06:54.949 --> 00:06:57.569 Southern accents, pretending to be Mexican wrestlers 00:06:57.569 --> 00:07:01.170 on stage. It's pure theater. It's absurd. But... 00:07:01.389 --> 00:07:03.069 And this is the most important part. It only 00:07:03.069 --> 00:07:04.829 worked because the music was so good. Right. 00:07:04.889 --> 00:07:06.410 If they were a sloppy band, it would have been 00:07:06.410 --> 00:07:09.389 a joke. A bad one. But because they played with 00:07:09.389 --> 00:07:13.269 this just surgical precision, the masks became 00:07:13.269 --> 00:07:15.730 the cherry on top. Not the whole Sunday. It's 00:07:15.730 --> 00:07:18.550 the Alice Cooper rule. You can have all the stagecraft 00:07:18.550 --> 00:07:20.329 you want, but you better have the songs to back 00:07:20.329 --> 00:07:23.009 it up. Precisely. And they leaned into it. They 00:07:23.009 --> 00:07:24.889 got the matching suits. They developed choreography 00:07:24.889 --> 00:07:27.649 like swinging their guitar necks in unison. It 00:07:27.649 --> 00:07:29.689 became a whole show. So they established this 00:07:29.689 --> 00:07:32.000 whole identity. They put out their first album, 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:33.779 which has one of the greatest titles ever, the 00:07:33.779 --> 00:07:37.199 utterly fantastic and totally unbelievable sound 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.519 of Lost Straightjackets. It really is an amazing 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.060 title. But how do you sustain that? How do you 00:07:42.060 --> 00:07:45.100 grow from being a cult club act when you don't 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:46.920 have a singer? You can't get a radio hit without 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.220 lyrics. It's tough. So they found a clever way 00:07:50.220 --> 00:07:53.100 around it. They realized that their instrumental 00:07:53.100 --> 00:07:56.470 nature made them the perfect backing band. For 00:07:56.470 --> 00:07:59.449 anyone. Like a musical chameleon. Exactly. A 00:07:59.449 --> 00:08:01.769 band with a singer is often fighting for space, 00:08:01.910 --> 00:08:04.730 sonically. But Lost Stray Jackets had all this 00:08:04.730 --> 00:08:07.610 room for a vocalist to shine. So they started 00:08:07.610 --> 00:08:10.089 collaborating. One of the first big ones was 00:08:10.089 --> 00:08:12.709 with the bluesman Eddie Clearwater. The Chicago 00:08:12.709 --> 00:08:15.810 blues legend? The one and only. They recorded 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:18.269 an entire album with him, Rock and Roll City. 00:08:18.850 --> 00:08:21.829 And it wasn't just some side project. That record 00:08:21.829 --> 00:08:24.470 got nominated for a Grammy. A Grammy nomination. 00:08:25.420 --> 00:08:28.240 for a masked surf band. It just proved their 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.660 versatility. They weren't just a surf band. They 00:08:30.660 --> 00:08:33.799 could play deep blues. They also toured with 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.120 a burlesque group, the world -famous Pontani 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.740 Sisters. They did Christmas albums. I remember 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:41.039 seeing them on Conan O 'Brien's show all the 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.240 time around Christmas in the late 90s. They were 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.320 Conan's favorite. That exposure was huge. It 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.220 sort of cemented them as this go -to sound for 00:08:48.220 --> 00:08:51.460 anything retro, cool, and a little bit weird. 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.919 They even did the music for the movie Psycho 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.899 Beach Party. So everything's going great. They've 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:59.019 got the Grammy nod, the TV appearances. But every 00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:01.600 band hits a roadblock eventually. And theirs 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.940 was a big one. It was real life. In 2010, Danny 00:09:04.940 --> 00:09:07.200 Amos' Daddy O 'Grande, the founder, the voice 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.019 of the band, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.059 Wow. That's a very serious cancer. It was devastating. 00:09:13.139 --> 00:09:15.019 He had to stop everything and focus on treatment. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.539 And for most bands, if you lose your founder 00:09:17.539 --> 00:09:20.029 and your frontman, that's the end. Especially 00:09:20.029 --> 00:09:23.370 when his persona is so central to the whole act. 00:09:23.590 --> 00:09:25.529 Right. But this is where the masks might have 00:09:25.529 --> 00:09:28.549 actually saved them. The image of the band, the 00:09:28.549 --> 00:09:31.250 concept, was bigger than any one person's face. 00:09:31.429 --> 00:09:33.490 They were able to bring in another guitarist, 00:09:33.549 --> 00:09:35.929 Greg Townsend, and he just put on a mask. And 00:09:35.929 --> 00:09:38.870 became part of the entity. He became Gregorio 00:09:38.870 --> 00:09:42.000 El Grande. They kept the Grande name going. It 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:43.919 allowed the band to keep working, keep touring, 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:46.139 while Danny was fighting his illness. That's 00:09:46.139 --> 00:09:48.320 amazing. Did he ever come back to the band? He 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.860 did, for a time. In 2012, he announced his cancer 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:54.379 was under control. He even recorded on the album 00:09:54.379 --> 00:09:57.379 Jet Set. He actually moved to Mexico City, which 00:09:57.379 --> 00:09:59.659 is the ultimate commitment to the character. 00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:02.299 You went full method. You really did. But the 00:10:02.299 --> 00:10:04.600 demands of touring were just too much, and he 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.759 had to permanently step away around 2017. By 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.750 then, though... The band had already evolved. 00:10:10.169 --> 00:10:13.269 They brought in a new drummer in 2012, Chris 00:10:13.269 --> 00:10:15.669 Sprague. I have to stop you. I saw his nickname 00:10:15.669 --> 00:10:17.529 in our notes and you have to say it. Of course. 00:10:18.149 --> 00:10:21.009 Chris Sugarball Sprague. Sugarballs! You just 00:10:21.009 --> 00:10:23.710 can't make this stuff up. You really can't. And 00:10:23.710 --> 00:10:25.830 their bassist, Pete Curry, he'd been in the band 00:10:25.830 --> 00:10:28.950 since 1998. So the lineup was solid, even with 00:10:28.950 --> 00:10:31.289 the changes. The entity of Lost Stray Jackets 00:10:31.289 --> 00:10:33.629 was intact. Which brings us to what I think is 00:10:33.629 --> 00:10:35.629 maybe the most surprising chapter of their whole 00:10:35.629 --> 00:10:39.070 career. This very American, Nashville -based 00:10:39.070 --> 00:10:43.149 surf band finds a creative partner in a legendary 00:10:43.149 --> 00:10:46.350 British songwriter. The Nick Lowe era. It's so 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:48.509 fascinating. Yeah, Nick Lowe, the Jesus of cool, 00:10:48.610 --> 00:10:50.759 the guy who wrote What's So Funny About... peace, 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:52.980 love, and understanding. It seems like such an 00:10:52.980 --> 00:10:55.340 odd pairing. It does on the surface. He's all 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:57.419 about cover lyrics. They have no lyrics. But 00:10:57.419 --> 00:10:59.440 musically, it's a perfect match. You just have 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.120 to understand where Nick Lowe comes from, which 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.240 is pub rock. Okay, define pub rock for us. In 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.879 the UK in the mid -70s, before punk, pub rock 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.220 was a back -to -basics movement. It was a reaction 00:11:10.220 --> 00:11:12.500 against all the glam and progressive rock. It 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:15.519 was just tight, melodic, punchy rock and roll. 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.279 Which sounds a lot like what Lost Stray Jackets 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.179 do. Exactly. It's the same DNA. Simple, melodic, 00:11:20.409 --> 00:11:23.330 played with passion so in 2017 the band records 00:11:23.330 --> 00:11:26.549 a tribute album of instrumental nick lowe songs 00:11:26.549 --> 00:11:30.370 and he hears it he hears it loves it and hires 00:11:30.370 --> 00:11:33.389 them to be his touring band what a visual that 00:11:33.389 --> 00:11:36.389 must have been nick lowe in his suit and glasses 00:11:36.389 --> 00:11:39.629 with four luchadors behind him it was incredible 00:11:39.629 --> 00:11:43.210 and the critics loved it rolling stone praised 00:11:43.210 --> 00:11:45.830 them and nicolo himself said something really 00:11:45.830 --> 00:11:48.470 insightful he said that lost straight jackets 00:11:48.470 --> 00:11:51.500 can play Tons of different styles. He said they 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:53.980 could play a complex Burt Bacharach song if they 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:56.179 had to. That goes back to the Nashville session 00:11:56.179 --> 00:11:58.240 player thing. They're not just rock and rollers. 00:11:58.340 --> 00:12:01.899 They're trained musicians. 100%. And this collaboration 00:12:01.899 --> 00:12:04.399 just kept growing. We look back from here in 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.720 2026. We can see that in September of 2024. They 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:10.919 released a full album together, Indoor Safari. 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.179 Right. Nick Lowe and Lost Straightjackets. They 00:12:13.179 --> 00:12:14.600 were actually co -writing by then. They were 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.440 creative partners. And then just last year, September 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.879 2025, the band released their own album. Somas 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.259 Lost Straightjackets. Which means we are Lost 00:12:23.259 --> 00:12:25.399 Straightjackets. What a declaration. It's a statement 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.039 of identity. Even after all the changes, with 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.120 Eddie Angel as the last original performing member, 00:12:30.299 --> 00:12:32.960 they're saying, this thing we created is alive 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.919 and well. It's such an incredible story of resilience. 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:39.580 I mean, most bands from the 90s are just doing 00:12:39.580 --> 00:12:41.799 nostalgia tours. These guys are still putting 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.039 out vital new music. And I think it's because 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.899 they never broke the spell. They took the gimmick 00:12:46.899 --> 00:12:49.179 seriously, which allowed everyone else to as 00:12:49.179 --> 00:12:51.580 well. I want to leave our listeners with a final 00:12:51.580 --> 00:12:53.720 thought, circling back to those masks. Okay. 00:12:54.019 --> 00:12:57.120 In this era of celebrity oversharing, where we 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.519 know everything about our favorite artists, maybe 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:03.429 too much. Did the masks give them their longevity? 00:13:03.830 --> 00:13:06.509 That's the big question, isn't it? By hiding 00:13:06.509 --> 00:13:09.110 their faces, they kind of remove their egos from 00:13:09.110 --> 00:13:11.730 the equation. A mask doesn't get old. A mask 00:13:11.730 --> 00:13:14.049 doesn't get into Twitter fights. It's just the 00:13:14.049 --> 00:13:16.210 music. It's like Daft Punk or the Blue Man Group. 00:13:16.350 --> 00:13:19.049 The concept can outlive the people. Exactly. 00:13:19.250 --> 00:13:21.610 So here's the thought for you to chew on. Did 00:13:21.610 --> 00:13:24.570 that anonymity allow the music to be the true 00:13:24.570 --> 00:13:27.110 face of the band? Or does it ultimately make 00:13:27.110 --> 00:13:29.169 the members seem replaceable? A real puzzle. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.799 But for Lost Stray Jackets, it seems like it 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.399 allowed them to just be humble servants to rock 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.480 and roll. Hiding the self to let the sound come 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.960 through. Well, the takeaway is, if you ever see 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.639 four guys in wrestling masks on stage, don't 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:43.820 run. You might be about to hear the tightest 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:45.840 band on the planet. And definitely go listen 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:47.759 to Some Most Lost Stray Jackets. It's a fantastic 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:51.080 record. I will. Thanks for taking us behind the 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:53.360 mask on this one. Anytime. We'll catch you on 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.259 the next Deep Dive.