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Hitman Talks to Cody Hanson of Hinder · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Hey, what's going on? It is hit Man with you and I've got
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  Cody Hanson, the drummer of Hinder, on the phone right now. Hinder,
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  of course, is going to be at the House of Rock this Sunday.
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  Tickets are still on sale right now. You can get them at Texas
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  House of Rock dot com. Cody, what's going on? I love it?
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  How are you? I'm doing good? But you guys are I'm going
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  to say, I set it off the phone. You guys are a touring
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  machine. You guys have been literally everywhere right Yeah. Man, things have
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  really picked up this year. We've we've been really busy and it's good to
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  be out, that's for sure. So if so, tell people what can
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  they expect at a Hinder show. You know, I think we've always just
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  tried to make things a big party, you know. We just we want
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  everybody to come out and have a good time and and you know, sing
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  along to tell the songs that they know. You know, we try to
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  bring a good mix of like, you know, all those older songs that
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  were popular, and then a few new treats here and there. So we'll
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  be playing some new stuff that nobody's heard before. So that'll be cool.
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  But yeah, man, just just a big party and everybody having a good
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  time. Yeah. If you want to find out more details, you can
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  always go to their website called hendermusic dot com. They got lots of great
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  stuff up there, a lot of good YouTube videos and much more. I
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  find a lot of your stuff on Facebook. You guys do a lot of
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  reels. Do you do a lot of social media for the band? I
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  do, I do some. Yeah, we do have a guy that that
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  we we have kind of do some of the posting and stuff for us and
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  some of the maintenance and things like that. But you know, we're I
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  don't know, as we've gotten a little bit older, we kind of,
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  I don't know, grow tired of social media a little bit. So I
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  do not have to have somebody take it over. I am with you on
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  that also, But you know, in this type of business, if you're
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  not doing social media, you're not going anywhere. So it's like, I
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  know exactly how you feel, man, So yeah, man, it's very
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  evil, I guess so. Hender. Of course, we know for your
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  for some of your great rock music, but I hear that some of your
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  music now is across between a little bit of rock, maybe a little bit
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  of pop, a little bit of country. Yeah, yeah, we're we're
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  just wrapping up or just finished a new album actually, and yeah, it's
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  kind of it's really all over the place. You know. We have we
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  have some songs that sound like a little more current, you know, heavy
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  rock, and then we have some that are you know, kind of the
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  old school throwback sounding hinder type tracks. And then you know, we have
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  some some that we've you know, kind of experimented with a little bit and
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  gone, you know, just taking some some pop elements and country elements,
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  like you just said, and it's kind of kind of, I don't know,
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  it made a really cool blend and a really cool, interesting body of
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  work, I guess. Yeah. I saw actually on your Facebook page around
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  March that you guys were in the studios. Uh, do you have a
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  name for the new album yet? We do, Actually, I think we're
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  going to call it back to Life A nice nice So there there is a
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  new a new song that has a similar title, and that's kind of where
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  it came from that we're actually playing live. So we were actually getting together
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  today to run over a track that we haven't played yet. So hopefully we'll
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  have at least two in the set. Wow. Wow, we're talking with
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  Cody Hanson, the drummer of Hinder, where this Sunday they're going to be
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  playing over at the House of Rock. Tickets are still available if you go
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  to Texas House of Rock dot com to get your tickets. They also have
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  special guest res and eighteen Hours are going to be opening up for him.
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  Now, tell me a little bit about Marshall. Now, I saw this
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  one reel that you guys had on social media where there's two sides of Marshall.
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  At one point he's a mechanic, then the next point he's your lead
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  singer. Is he like a jack of all trades? What's he doing?
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  Yeah, that's kind of since we decided to buy our own our own tour
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  bus, so the two of us kind of get together and we do the
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  mechanic ing as well. So it's kind of a full it's like a full
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  time job, to be honest with you, It's like a whole second,
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  second thing, a whole different part of the band. You know, we
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  the two of the seem to you know, we mechanic together, we produce
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  music and write music together, and we kind of just kind of try to
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  take on as much as we can. That is so cool. Yeah,
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  we're talking with Cody from Henderman. He's going to be here on Sunday with
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  the House of Rock. Uh, it's it's it's so cool that you guys.
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  It's almost sounds like you guys are almost a family atmosphere. I mean
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  you guys literally are brothers, right, Yeah, I mean that's kind of
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  how it's how it's always been, you know. You know, we try
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  to, I don't know, try to keep everything as tight knit as we
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  can. And uh, you know, I think that's kind of the secret
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  to I don't know, having a long successful career is you know, keeping
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  everybody tight and you know, kind of being on the same page and marching
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  forward. Well, it's going to be a great show. I know that
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  for a fact. I've already heard word that the show is almost completely sold
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  out. They've only got a handful of tickets left. So if you want
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  to get your tickets, Texas, House of Rock dot com makes you get
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  them for this Sunday. Since you guys are a touring monster, what's the
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  craziest thing that's happened to you guys while on tour. Oh man, I
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  don't even think I could. I don't even think I could ten point that.
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  You know, there is one story that I don't know why, it
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  just seems to be the one that stands out to me because it was just
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  really funny at the time. But you know, we liked, you know,
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  to drink on stage and like I said, make it a party atmosphere.
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  And I remember we were up in a ski down and under this big,
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  giant heated tint. It was really hot inside the tent, and there
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  was a guy that had a prosthetic leg and he took it off and he
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  threw it up on the stage and you can imagine there was a lot of
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  stuff in this leg, right, you know, and whatever. This was
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  really gross. But so one of the guys picked it up. Bass player
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  picked it up and was gonna was gonna hit Blower with it, and instead
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  he takes it from him for as his vibe could drink down inside that leg
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  and then just chokes it. Oh man, Yeah, that's a story you
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  got to tell your kids down the road. I can tell you that much.
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  That's crazy. Wow. So it should be a great show. Looking
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  forward to seeing you guys coming into town. Where are you at? Actually
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  today today we're in Oklahoma City. We just came home from a flight eight
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  up in Washington and we jump on the bus tonight and head to Amarillo.
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  That's where we start the rest of the tour. So oh wow. Yeah,
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  it's like I said, you guys are a touring monster. If you
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  want to find out more details, go check out some of the reels that
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  are on their Facebook page, and of course go to their website hindermusic dot
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  com. Lots of great stuffs out there, so we could expect some of
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  the some of the classics Hinder classics, but also some great new music.
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  And I'm actually looking forward to seeing Marshall singing some great songs there. And
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  one last question. I asked this to all the bands all the time.
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  You know, there's a lot of bands that are up and coming and they
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  want to you know, break break out, you know what I mean.
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  So what advice can you give to these up and coming bands to make it
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  in this type of business? I would say to learn as many skills as
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  you can, you know, throughout the years. Like I said, we
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  try to keep everything in house, you know, learning you know, music
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  production, learning how to mix, and master learning how to do graphic design,
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  learning how to you know, like do your own merch do your own
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  set design, do your own lighting design. You know that it's just it
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  doesn't cut it to just be a musician and walk up on stage and play
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  play your songs anymore. You got to do learn how to do everything behind
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  the scenes as well to save money and make sure it's done right. Wow,
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  that's actually great advice. It's the best advice I've heard so far.
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  Thanks a lot, Cody for calling in today, and we'll looking forward to
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  seeing you guys on Sunday at the House of Rock and any last thing you
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  want to see to your fans. No, just can't. We can't wait
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  to get back down there. It's been a long time. And then we're
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  definitely looking forward to it.