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Unigned518 - Episode 131 - Jupiter Queen · Unsigned518

• 0:01
  Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in 73 he loves park rock music fighting the 37 in the dazzle rocky now on the Ben's guitar with a short with radio back his motherfucking Andy scolding look at motherfucker cuz here he comes.
• 0:22
  Speaker B: Andy scrolling wearing his own two unsigned 518. I am here with Jupiter Queen. How's it going?
• 0:32
  Speaker C: All right.
• 0:33
  Speaker D: It's going great.
• 0:34
  Speaker E: Going good.
• 0:35
  Speaker B: And I think what we're going to do is we're just going to start right here to my left and just introduce yourself to the folks and say what you do in the band.
• 0:43
  Speaker C: My name is Mike Langone, and I do the vocals of the band.
• 0:48
  Speaker E: My name is Michael Foot. I am the drummer.
• 0:52
  Speaker F: I'm Eric Bramer, and I play guitar for the Bandaid.
• 0:56
  Speaker D: I'm Tom, and I play bass.
• 0:58
  Speaker B: And, Tom, we actually met a couple weeks ago with your other band, and.
• 1:03
  Speaker D: I'm going to be back in a week or two. Right. Same old rat.
• 1:05
  Speaker B: Oh, wait, yeah, that's right. With another band.
• 1:08
  Speaker D: I'm going to move in.
• 1:08
  Speaker B: So Tom is very quickly becoming a regular on the show with the dozens of bands that you play with. So I guess what we want to do before we get rolling, I don't know who wants to take the lead, but just kind of, you know, give the breakdown of kind of how the band, like, came together. The Jupiter queen story in a nutshell, I guess.
• 1:31
  Speaker C: All right, so originally, we were a band called Black Bell Jones, and we had Josh Gibbons on the guitar, George Lipscomb on drums, and Loras Byrne on bass. And then eventually Josh left the band to pursue other things, and we landed Eric Bramer on guitar, who's here now with us, who's definitely not going anywhere. We will murder him. And then eventually, George left the band, and so did Lawrence. And so we ended up landing Mike foot over here on drums and Tom on bass. And due to, like, us, not being able to put music on Spotify, lineup changes, even the sound, has changed some. We decided to change the name also to Jupiter Queen. And we didn't have any problems putting. Releasing that single on Spotify, which was there.
• 2:36
  Speaker B: Was there an issue with the.
• 2:37
  Speaker C: There was an issue.
• 2:38
  Speaker B: Someone else had it.
• 2:39
  Speaker C: There was a hardcore band called Black Bo Jones in the late nineties out west a little bit. And then there's also our cover, bandaid in Chicago called Black Bell Jones also. And they also put music on Spotify. So.
• 2:55
  Speaker F: But also the name that Jupiter Queen is wholly original because it's based on a song that Mike wrote, jupiter. It's in our set right now. It's been. It was in when Josh was on guitar. And so it's an original song of Mike's bass. It's a little bit of the idea from that. And so it's very original. So it doesn't feel like something that's out there that's for the taking, because it's all his.
• 3:19
  Speaker B: So if someone else tries to be Jupiter Queen, you could be like, fuck you, it's mine.
• 3:24
  Speaker F: Publish something. We'll be doing that soon.
• 3:27
  Speaker C: Yeah. We like the name of the band. It's what it is. It sounds good and it works. It's very hard to come up with a name of a band, let me tell you. There's so many bands out there right now that have easy access to, like, social media and Spotify and other platforms that you come up with this idea. It's great. I love it. Then you go do a search and somebody has it.
• 3:51
  Speaker B: Yeah. Or, like, in our case, like, my band is shortwave radio band. And if, like, the word radio band, we made it. So it's one word, because that word doesn't exist. Because if you type in shortwave radio, bandaid, you don't. We don't come up at all. You get a bunch of shortwave radios, like, we don't come up. Not even anywhere in the fucking mix. But if you type shortwave radio band as one word, so. And I did a Google search. I believe Jupiter queen came right up.
• 4:25
  Speaker F: The mics ended up doing that.
• 4:26
  Speaker B: That's good. That's good. And I mean that, you know, search engine optimization stuff. Like, it's weird to, like, as a musician, to have the even think about that shit, but you kind of do, you know?
• 4:40
  Speaker C: Yeah. So that song is actually is recorded with George Lipscon on drums and Lawrence Byrne on bass. So we plan to go back into the studio very soon. We're going to start recording. We're going to do an extended version of that song with the new lineup, and we have a bunch of other new songs that we've been working on, and we're ready to rock and roll.
• 5:02
  Speaker B: And, like, the name change was relatively quick, right? I'm not quick, but, like, recent?
• 5:08
  Speaker C: Yes, yes, recent.
• 5:09
  Speaker B: Within, like, last couple months, the last.
• 5:11
  Speaker C: Two shows we played, we were still black bones on the flyers. Yeah. But we did change the name for the last two shows.
• 5:20
  Speaker D: For a minute, I thought it was Juniper Queen. I really thought that's what it was.
• 5:24
  Speaker B: It sounds like a lovely summertime drink or something, you know? And then. So, like, the songs was there a lot, like, songs that, you know, were with the old outfit that are carrying through, or was it kind of like some of those new writing as a four piece now or.
• 5:42
  Speaker C: Yeah. These two songs that we're gonna play today for you guys is stuff that we wrote with this. Pretty much with this lineup. Like, I. Again, we wrote long time with the other guys, but I. The new version of it is with this lineup here.
• 5:58
  Speaker B: Sweet. And how many, like, you know, so it's only been a couple of months that you've been, like, the four piece now. You Jupiter queen, you're hitting the road. Well, not hitting the road, but, like, you know, getting gigs and talking about recording. When do you think we might see something? Like, is there. Is it, like, early, early stages with a recording something, or are you, like, shit, scheduled out, you know, when it's coming?
• 6:22
  Speaker C: Like, we're not scheduled yet. We have our eyes on a couple.
• 6:27
  Speaker F: Of engineers, this engineer that we really enjoyed working with the last time. He's busy, and so he's doing some things in another state, and then he's coming back. But Mike and I are both out of town when he's coming back, and then. But he's coming back again. There's. There's him. We're talking about whether we want to wait, but we're talking to some other people, but we have, like, the pre production on a lot of the songs of done. Like, it's a lot of them ready. Like, probably have more written than we'll record. We don't. You know, we have a good amount, so we can put different ones on our set depending on our mood of the night.
• 7:01
  Speaker B: Right. And, like, me, like, I'm, like, just. I was so fascinated by the process of writing. Not only writing, but, like, you know, choosing titles of songs, choosing how they're gonna work together, choosing, you know, if you write, like, a shitload of songs being like, these are gonna be on the album. These are just gonna be live. It's always such. Do you guys think that that's, like, a.
• 7:25
  Speaker F: Everybody does it different, but it's always good to have too many songs, right? And then you got to narrow. Whittle them down. You got. Everybody's going to argue over which ones do it. That's. That's a good. That's a good problem to have. You know, we. We're in the middle of writing two or three since Tom came in. All of a sudden, we were writing the day he. The night he was here, and, like, what? Since Mike joined the band as a drummer, I mean, everything has just gone up and up and up. Like, as far as our gigs, our yemenite, our. Our vibe at practice, as far as writing, we've written stuff. Yeah, that's his fault. That's all his fault.
• 8:06
  Speaker C: Right. I say we are on a roll.
• 8:08
  Speaker F: Yeah. It just keeps going up, and this energy is great between us. It's like I'm in a band with human beings. It's, like, great. And then. Then Tom comes and it's. Anyway, it's great. Everything's great. Everything's really good. If we have you lucky, you know.
• 8:23
  Speaker C: We have, like, two songs, like, pretty much done. We haven't played them out yet, but we plan to play them out maybe at the next show. Who knows? We got to figure that part out. But, yeah, we're excited about the two new songs we just wrote. They're done.
• 8:36
  Speaker B: Then you just put out a single, right?
• 8:38
  Speaker C: We just put out a single, but that single was already recorded.
• 8:41
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 8:42
  Speaker C: Yeah. So that was already recorded. We couldn't get it on Spotify because of black belt Jones. No platform would accept it, so.
• 8:52
  Speaker B: And. Wow, that's wild.
• 8:55
  Speaker C: Right, right.
• 8:58
  Speaker F: Easy to copyright, publish.
• 9:02
  Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
• 9:04
  Speaker B: Sweet. So I. You know what we. What I want to do is we're gonna do something, like, different than I've ever done on the show. Like, you know, even Tom, when you were here with no such thing as ghosts, we did, like, a quote unquote full band performance, but it was like, acoustic instruments, cajon, you know, everything was toned down. And you guys are gonna be the friend. No matter how it sounds in the dazzle. Then you'll always at least get to be like, you're the first, because we're gonna do a fucking full on rock show in here. Full amps and drums, and we're gonna shake the house. Yeah, we're gonna shake the house. So what's the. What's the first song we're gonna do here?
• 9:43
  Speaker C: We're going to play long time first, which is right now. We just released it a few days ago, so you could listen to this on any platform on the Internet.
• 9:52
  Speaker B: Well, all right, so we're going to do, like I said, the first full rock show live on unsigned 518. And we're going to hear a long time from Jupiter Queen. We'll be right back.
• 10:52
  Speaker A: Been a long time since senior I thought it was the end been a long time since senior. Happen to have lots of new friends. Been a long time I don't miss ya been a long time I don't feel ya been a long time you didn't kill me been a long time laying here just another time just another crime just another crime just another time yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah been a long time since I lost a lot of friends just another time just another crime just another crime just another time I remember when you cried all night I would hold you so tired no one will ever love you like I do nobody won't bring it down like I do like I do just another time just another cry just another cry just another time yeah Sadeena been a long time been a long time been a long time been a long.
• 14:25
  Speaker B: Time been a long time so that was long time. Jupiter queen here in the dazzle den. Live fucking blew the walls off of my garage, and now I have to rebuild. So thanks. Thanks, guys. No. Anyway.
• 14:43
  Speaker E: I'm bleeding out of my eardrum. I think it feels good, though.
• 14:47
  Speaker F: I'll put you on the schedule. Might be a couple weeks.
• 14:48
  Speaker B: All right, sweet. No, that was. That was awesome. That was really cool. So I guess I want to go into, like, you know, obviously this isn't any of your first bands. You know, you've been doing this, I guess. Where did. Where did kind of the members come from? Is there any other musical moments or bands, the band history that you want to talk about?
• 15:10
  Speaker E: So I guess I'll start with this. You know, I'm 37 now. I started playing drums, and, you know, I was ten, and basically between then and now, it's been a lot of different stuff. You know, I lived down in Nashville. I was in Brooklyn and LA for a while. Played with a ton of different groups. You know, seoul, r and b, country, you know, rock and roll down in Nashville. And before about the past seven years, when I moved home from Los Angeles to Albany, I've been playing a lot of various situations in duos. So it's really bought a lot of interesting learning and playing out for me, one of which I still do on the side once in a while. But this is my main focus, and a lot of my influence growing up was rock and roll drumming. You know, all types, you know, I admit, you know, I grew up with the kid rocks corns and limp bizkits, and that led to all kinds of, like, hum. And I'm a huge torch fan. And, you know, the stoner metal and rock world, I just love that stuff, and it just always spoke to me. So, you know, long story short, when me and Mike live in the same neighborhood, so we kind of crossed paths, and they had been looking for a drummer, and, you know, I kind of had seen them before and I knew what the deal was about. And, you know, in my mind, I was like, hell, yeah, this is my calling. This is my kind of playing. You know, I have a little jazz funk rock background, and it just fits my playing. So I'm real happy to be playing with this group. And they gave me the opportunity and, you know, here I am, and, you know, it's cool, you know, we make a lot of magic when we play, so, you know, I can't complain.
• 17:00
  Speaker F: Okay, I'll go. It's hard for me to really get it together. I'm trying to think of my influences. They're all over the place. I slept playing music I used. I would play any kind of gigs that I had time for. But hard rock, little metal early on, but hard rock has always kind of been there. I've known Mike for sometime in the late nineties. My band was playing around Albany a lot, like a three piece hardcore kind of thing. And. And we were trying to be like the Deftones and early tool. That's kind of what we were trying to, like, get to, but we, you know, never got there. But it was okay. It was good trying. But one of the few bands we got along with during that time was Mike's band. Great day for up, and I don't know why. Just the first meeting face to face, just like, right away, it's like, okay. And we had a lot of good shows together, and Mike had, like, even more of a history with hit with bands that he can tell you about his later. Before I even met him, he comes from the city, so. But from. I could just maybe describe what influences are direct to what our influences are influencing this band that I'm in now, because otherwise I'll be all over the place and I get talking a lot. And, you know, my wife has usually got to be there next to me to shut me up, and he hasn't shut me up yet, so. So not yet. So we are. I don't know. With this, I came in as. I didn't really want a metal sound, like a metal sound. I wanted to have, like, an over driven sound instead of a distorted sound, if you know what I mean. You know, it's like. And a pushed. I wanted to learn, get into more guitar sounds that I went, that I hadn't been into before. And Mike needed a guitar player. I was in a spot where I really needed to. I really needed to be in a band at the time. You know what I mean? I was just out of a couple of bands, or they. They're on hiatus. But I did get into a spot. Some of those bands were doing well, but I got into a spot where I stopped writing. And Mike, you know, what songs you got? What songs you got? What do you got? What's next? You know, he's always like that. And even though I'm not writing like I used to for some reason, but I come out with parts and riffs and he has this magical way of, like, arranging it. But anyway, so, like, some of the musical influences, I try. I try to what? I just always try to hold on to what I've learned about Led Zeppelin. I know it's carny Led Zeppelin, but I. There's always something for me to learn from them. So, yeah, I'll quit. I'll. You know, like, my influence is playing here. I wanted to really get to what I am excited about. And some of that. Some of that Zeppelin stuff that I had, like, tuned into that I never did when I was younger, like, more than just the obvious things. But I came here with, like, I really focused on the early quicksand, the only. The only first two tool albums, not all the junks they've written afterwards for the last 20 years, those early ones where there's energy and this urgency about it and. I don't know, I just really like Radiohead and ministry. Psalm 69 to me is just. I love that album. And I just like the song that I think we're gonna play later if Mike wants to.
• 20:28
  Speaker C: The.
• 20:28
  Speaker F: Just a taste is like, um. I try to tune in just some of that. Uh, it's like a real band playing, but it's, uh. It's an industrial feel for as far as how I'm approaching it. A real repetitive, persistent sort of riff, like. Anyway, um. I don't know. I can't really tune in on, like, early. I seem to all the bands that I really like, it's only the first few albums, and then after they turn, they get rich. It turns to shit me. And, like Queens of the stone Age, I know people really love them, but there's only certain albums I like. Other ones, including the one they've just come out with, I really dislike. But anyway, some of the early ones are magic, the ones that have Dave Grohl on the drums. And I think Dave Grohl should just stay on the drums and not do anything else because I think he's a magical drummer. And the other stuff I don't care for. So I can tell you a bunch of.
• 21:24
  Speaker B: Yeah, I don't care for Foo Fighters either. And that always seems to be a fucking hot take no matter where I go.
• 21:28
  Speaker F: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker B: If I'm not. Yeah. Like, I. And it's not like I, like, hate them or, like.
• 21:33
  Speaker F: No, I just rather not hear, you know?
• 21:35
  Speaker C: Yeah. Dave Grohl in general, I hang. I met him. I met him and hung out with. Well, didn't really hang out with him, but he spoke with us for about, like, 1520 minutes, and it was like, this guy is pretty freaking cool.
• 21:47
  Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just not a huge fan.
• 21:51
  Speaker F: What?
• 21:51
  Speaker D: He just.
• 21:53
  Speaker C: He's trying to get out. Give him the mic.
• 21:56
  Speaker D: He gave me the mic. He doesn't want it.
• 21:59
  Speaker F: I. I don't really know what. I can't. I'm not really good at this kind of thing. I don't really know to say. Um. I can't think of, like, influences. I'm just trying to really tune into, like, what makes me excited after all this time of playing. 30 plus years of playing. And what's really making me excited. And it's some older stuff, but there is some new stuff that I heard the real mid rangy guitar sound wherever that, you know, bands that have that. And I know it's all maybe overdone at this time, but that I've never approached it that way. And I don't use a mesa boogie anymore. I just. I love what I'm using, and I've learned so much about sound after working with Mike, and then. So I just try to bring any. Any parts, any riffs that I have, and I'm really not sure where they're coming from at this point, so I don't know.
• 22:50
  Speaker C: They've been coming in good, that's for sure.
• 22:54
  Speaker F: So one of these guys could talk about their. Their views on these kind of things.
• 23:03
  Speaker C: Yeah. Hey, God, I think, you know, I was sitting here thinking about what I was gonna say, so I have a lot of music in my head. I was. Me and Tom, we were driving up, and I was telling him, because I was in the early hip hop days, I was a kid. I used to dj when I was, like, really young. We were too young to be in a record pool, but they used to give us records on the DL, you know? And so what's a record pool? A record pool. Back in the days, there was, like, record pools. That's how they promoted their music. Like, they gave DJ's in the area records for free, and they would spin them in clubs, and people would go by the record. I mean, that's how they made their money.
• 23:49
  Speaker D: A long, long time ago.
• 23:50
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's a long, long time ago. So this is when vinyl was it, you know what I mean? And I'm so happy it's making a comeback, actually.
• 23:58
  Speaker D: Yeah, everybody wants to be on it now.
• 24:00
  Speaker C: Yes. I love it myself, but, yeah, so I think the first time I see I didn't. Most of my friends that I know that are into rock got into it. Roulette, Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. My first rock show, I think my first real rock show was either bad brains, the CRO mags, or motorhead. And when I saw bad brain, bad brains play in the eighties, I was like, damn, that's what I want to freaking do. And the CRO mags to the original lineup, they were, like, so freaking amazing. I was like, this is it, you know? And I got to see, like, a lot of bands in those days, like Flipper and gangrene and fear and Slayer with makeup and, you know, and stuff, you know, like that. And it was just, like, amazing. And then I started getting into, like, Led Zeppelin. Somebody said, hey, well, one of the older guys that I knew was like, well, you should listen to this Led Zeppelin record. And I was like, really threw it on. I fell in love with, like, the first album. I was like, this is freaking awesome. Actually. I just picked it up on vinyl. Yeah, the other day, a few weeks ago, so, yeah. And then, I don't know, I think my first band really playing out well. I was playing drums, and I played in a band called New York Groove, and we always got, like, crappy little gigs in the city. And then I started singing for a band called the Grays, which we were an improv punk band, and with saxophone, guitar, drums, and me on the vocals. I did that for about a year. We played the CBGB's a lot in continental, and so that's the area I grew up in. So that was. We were more like a local act. And I was having, like, a lot of problems, too, with other things, with other, let's say, substances and stuff like that. That really kept me from doing, like, a lot of stuff. And I always had, like, some good leads and some good chances to do things, but nothing really came of it. I ended up coming up here upstate and meeting a man named Mike Vitale. We sat down and spoke a little bit, and then we started the band called great Day for up, which was pretty cool. We started getting, like, a lot of gigs. We did CMJ music festival. We did south by southwest. We did a small, little east coast tour, played the Stone Hannah Doom. We did a split with a band called Solace, who's back and running right now, and they're doing really well. We did a bunch of shows with Weed Eater, who's doing really good right now. And we got signs like a small label called Small Stone. And so, yeah, it was. It was great, but the band had a lot of problems and ended up. I ended up leaving, and it just. Just broke up. So I stopped doing music for a while, but I did get some experience with that band, which was pretty cool. And so I decided to start my own band during COVID nice. And I got a couple of friends and, you know, at first it was gonna. It was something different. I wanted to do, like, this experimental, like, mark Lanegan type of stuff because I really like Mark Lanegan a lot. It's one of my influences vocally. And so anyway, to make a long story short, it all evolved into what we have right now, you know, which is Jupiter queen, and I love that. And high energy stone of rock riff rock. I really. I think my vocals are better than what they were before. And I'm more involved in the writing with this unit, so musically, so. Which was really good. I think Eric actually, and Mike and Tom just joined us. They really have given me a platform. I could really express myself musically more than I did in other bands. So I really appreciate that, you know, and it's. So. It's. I think it's been a great experience, and I look forward to recording and releasing. We're gonna release some freaking vinyl for sure. You know, even if I don't make any freaking money at all on it. We're releasing vinyl. We already got the artwork ready and everything. We did it kind of backwards. But now we're going to go into the studio and record and we'll have some vinyl. We'll put some stuff on the platforms. I don't think we should even bother getting cds because people just throw them away. They end up behind people's car seats, scratched up. Probably won't waste our money on that, but, yeah, so the only cds I.
• 29:05
  Speaker D: Have are from local bandst.
• 29:07
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker D: And I don't play them.
• 29:08
  Speaker B: I don't play them either.
• 29:09
  Speaker C: I just collect that band, you know what I mean?
• 29:13
  Speaker D: People are doing cassettes.
• 29:14
  Speaker B: Yeah, I haven't seen cassettes, but, yeah, I like getting the local cds. And again, I mean, I don't even have a fucking way to play if I. I don't think I could play it. Like, my computer doesn't have a dis drive like no, so. But they're still the, you know, physical media is physical media. But I'm with you on the vinyl.
• 29:31
  Speaker C: I remember when the cds first came out, man, they told us that it was gonna be better than the vinyl and it would never, ever scratch. Yeah, that's what they said. And everybody went and bought it, you know, and they just made a whole bunch of more money on the same songs, same records.
• 29:49
  Speaker F: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker C: You know, the record companies just did it and. And I remember being my friends, having, like, the Danzig record and rage against the machine record and CD. And we. We played it on and we liked the vinyl better.
• 30:04
  Speaker D: Side by side listening.
• 30:05
  Speaker C: Yeah, there were certain things that was not coming through on the cd. We were like. We couldn't believe it, but we gave into the system just like everybody else.
• 30:18
  Speaker B: So how about you, Tom?
• 30:20
  Speaker D: About 20 years after their origin story, I was playing guitar. No, they've just been going to all my shows, follow me around, playing my band. Playing my band. Come on. And I was like, fine. After a couple months and I figured it's a numbers game being as many bands as possible, right? One of them's gonna, you know, do something, right. So it's all I'm doing.
• 30:44
  Speaker F: We'll be dead soon, so it won't be awkward for him to have to leave, you know, because he's playing with these old guys. Cuz, you know, we don't have that long anymore.
• 30:52
  Speaker B: You can tour as Jupiter queen.
• 30:54
  Speaker F: Yes.
• 30:55
  Speaker C: Yes. I used to be the queen, man. With these guys. May they rest in peace. Mike's still around the drummer.
• 31:10
  Speaker D: Gonna inherit so much equipment.
• 31:15
  Speaker B: Oh, shit. Well, we should. We should play another song. Or you should. You guys should play another song. What do you want to do now with it?
• 31:25
  Speaker C: Just the taste guys.
• 31:27
  Speaker F: Yeah, I think we mentioned. We're gonna do just a taste, that song we mentioned before, so I think we're ready to.
• 31:32
  Speaker C: This is one of our newer songs.
• 31:34
  Speaker B: Okay. So, actually, I mean, never before, never before heard, other than here.
• 31:38
  Speaker C: No, it's been her. We've played it out.
• 31:40
  Speaker B: No, never before ever. Anyway.
• 31:43
  Speaker C: Never recorded, actually.
• 31:46
  Speaker B: Well, actually, maybe. Maybe someone recorded it, so. Yeah. All right, well, whatever. We'll call it an exclusive anyway. Just because it makes me feel fucking cooler. Alright, so let's listen to just a taste Jupiter queen. And then we'll be right back to wrap it up.
• 32:42
  Speaker A: You don't leave when you're ready. You don't cry when you're done. Father through its fear and for Christ endless stories telling it all just a dream.
• 33:14
  Speaker C: Let'S erase a young mistake.
• 33:19
  Speaker A: Let'S erase a young mistake mushroom clouds in their eyes crumbling all around.
• 34:00
  Speaker E: May they.
• 34:01
  Speaker A: Don'T leave for something sake the vacancy is always down the vacancy is always out the taste is all it takes let's erase the race for your mistakes for just a taste since this day crawling for silver the bacon singers are we down? The bacon thing is always on.
• 35:21
  Speaker F: Let'S.
• 35:21
  Speaker A: Erase the young mustang let's erase your mustang just to taste the dumbest take just a taste that diamond tank just a taste of the taste that taste is all that taste it's just a taste that's all that shake it's just a taste is all that tank. Tank. Just a taste is all and taste the taste is all and taste.
• 36:57
  Speaker B: All right, so that was just a taste. Jupiter Queen live here in the dazzled end so, gentlemen, I want to thank you so much for taking your time at your day to come up here. And, you know, hopefully years from now, if someone's listening, they're not going to hear the story of the tornado that struck down the dazzle den, but we're like, we're basically in the middle of a tornado warning in the area. So rocked.
• 37:19
  Speaker C: We're going to rush home after this.
• 37:21
  Speaker B: So it was very brave for you to come out and blew the tornadoes out. But before we go, I do want to give everybody a chance to say what I refer to as your gratitude. So, Mike, we'll start with you.
• 37:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, I want to give. I want to just say I'm grateful for, like, being alive, man, at this point, you know, and able to, like, do music with these gentlemen here, you know, give a shout out to my girlfriend, Sarah Petrucci, who helps me out a lot with a lot of different things and my family and friends and, yeah, it's good to be here, man. Thank you very much.
• 38:00
  Speaker E: Yeah, Mike, I'm grateful for these guys giving me the opportunity to play my heart out, you know, and I just want to give a shout out to my mother and father who, you know, gave me the chance to play in their basement in my childhood home. You know, it kind of all got me to where I'm at now with all this. And, you know, I want to thank all my friends and my support group and everybody in that that's got me and helped me get to this point, you know, really can't do without other humans. So, you know, I'm real grateful to be here.
• 38:34
  Speaker F: I'm really grateful to my wife, Sarah. She puts up with all my bullshit, you know, and then she supports me playing like, even if it's an inconvenience to her or whatever, she'll support it in every way. Just because she knows that's one thing that makes me happy, that I get. I smile when I do it, you know? So she's, uh. I'm really grateful to her. And just. Only other thing I can think of is just playing in a band with you. I'm grateful for you having us today. That's pretty cool. I just walk into a strange room. I don't know what to think for a while. And then it turns into this, which is really. This is awesome. I can't.
• 39:10
  Speaker B: Yeah. And those who can't, I mean, obviously nobody could see, but Calvin, my dog, has. Has really taken a shine to Eric.
• 39:16
  Speaker F: Yeah, I got a spot cleared out in my truck.
• 39:19
  Speaker E: Calvin's the man right up in between.
• 39:22
  Speaker B: Mike and Eric with.
• 39:24
  Speaker F: You'll be chasing me down route four.
• 39:26
  Speaker B: Right.
• 39:26
  Speaker F: But anyway, I'm really grateful to these guys. I'm grateful to Mike for being this positive force. And I made a role with myself a while back because I always did the contrary or to say yes to everything. Pretty much every idea. To say yes to it and just to be open to stuff. And then, and it's helped because he's got musical ideas and arrangement ideas that I would never have thought of. And just being open to it. We've had some. The cool chorus and just taste. It's because of him, you know what I mean? The musical ly, that's what it is. I had some chords, but he arranged what he was doing, and I was like, what? That's not gonna work. I was like, nope, just say yes and go along, whatever the hell he says. And I'm grateful to him. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. We get this guy Mike come in and play the drums, who's, like, over the top. I mean, his skills and his just his technique. It's a real drummer's drummer. Like, I'm sorry, but, like, you know, it's like a real. When you see his strokes, they're not just simple single strokes all the time. They are. Everything's. We're just tasteful. When he settles into song, it's like, holy shit. I'm really lucky for that. And then we don't. We didn't have a bass player. I was sort of filling it in as best I could. And then this guy called comes along who's like a guitar player I saw in another band. And he's. I'm grateful to him because it's like, right away, the band goes up another couple levels because I'm able to play leads and, like, sit back and, like, relax and think about the melody, actually, the thing I'm playing instead of trying to hold it together. And he's just like, from the first practice, he slid right in there and just knows how to. He knows how to slide right in there, Mandy. You know, I mean, like. And musically, he's just like, he knows where. And then it's only gotten better. So I'm just. It might sound, again, corny, but I'm grateful, these guys, because after all this time to be playing, I'm playing better than I ever have been in a lot of ways. And so I'm grateful for that anyway.
• 41:31
  Speaker D: So you're all grateful to your wives? My wife gives me really hard time because, well, I take a shower and I dry off, and she's like, why do you put your socks on first? And it really pisses her off that I put my socks on before I put my underwear on, but I am really grateful that. Right.
• 41:49
  Speaker C: It's.
• 41:50
  Speaker D: I just, you know, gotta put socks on first. You know, you can go without underwear. You can't go without socks. But she lets me use her bass to play in this band, and I'm grateful for that.
• 42:01
  Speaker F: So I. I'll deal with the sock.
• 42:04
  Speaker D: Bitching.
• 42:06
  Speaker B: Well, they are Jupiter Queen. I am Andy Scullen. This is unsigned 518. I'll see you on the road. Unsigned 518 is produced and hosted by me, Andy Scullen. New episodes are available every week wherever you stream podcasts. If you'd like to help support the show, please like and subscribe wherever you are listening. Or you could buy me a coffee@buymeacoffee.com.com. unsigned five one eight. If you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email at unsigned 500 and be a guest on the show. Reach out to me through Instagram at Unsigned 518. Take care of one another, and I'll see you next week.