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Unsigned518 - Episode 174 - Four Dead Kings · Unsigned518

• 0:01
  Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in 73 he loves punk rock music fighting the 13 cabin in the dazzle Jazz rock Now on the beats Guitar with a short wind Radio bass His motherfucking envy scrolling look at motherfucker cuz here he comes Andy Sculling wearing his orange.
• 0:26
  Speaker B: Hat welcome to unsigned 518. I am here with four dead kings. How's it going, guys?
• 0:32
  Speaker C: Good. Thanks for having us.
• 0:34
  Speaker D: Thank you.
• 0:35
  Speaker B: Now, I guess what we're going to do to start, you know, even though I say it every time, it's not a visual. Nobody knows. But we'll start to my left and just introduce yourself, what you do in the band and we'll. We'll go around the room.
• 0:46
  Speaker D: All right.
• 0:47
  Speaker E: Hey, I'm Dave White and. Or Ziz Gorlin, depending on who you're talking to. I play bass and do all the recording and mixing. So.
• 0:56
  Speaker D: My name is Randy Wharton. I am the drummer. I also play a little bit of guitar and do help with a lot of the songwriting.
• 1:03
  Speaker C: Eric Capron, lead guitar, obviously. Some rhythms here and there, some backup vocals and songwriting with everybody.
• 1:12
  Speaker F: What's up? Greg Myers. I sing lead vocals. I do some rhythm guitar and some of the writing as well.
• 1:19
  Speaker B: Nice. And, you know, I, you know, mentioned when you guys got here that, like, I was listening to your music in here before you showed up. But that's. That's what I refer to as my research. I just, you know, smoke a bowl, put on some music. But I guess what I want to do is go to the origin story of Ford, Ed Kings, whoever wants to take the lead, and just kind of bring us up to. Up to speed on the band.
• 1:46
  Speaker D: Yeah, this is Randy. So basically I would say. I would say the. The band kind of started about six months into the pandemic when I decided to kind of learn guitar. And I basically wasn't getting together with, like, bands or anything at that time, so I basically just started writing. And I basically wrote about like 12 or 15 songs in like a year. And then I decided, all right, it's time to put together a band. And then I put out like a Craigslist ad and a Facebook ad. And then that's when Greg here responded. This was like March of 22. And we jammed for like six or eight months, just kind of writing like, acoustic stuff, him and the old. The old guitarist. And basically we did that for like seven or eight months. And then we started looking for bass. And that's when Dave here came on and we played for another, like, year and a half with our Old guitarist. And then he left. And my buddy Eric here joined us in October of last year. You guys recorded an album, too? We recorded an album with. Yep. With. With the old guitarist. And then so Eric joined in October and is basically, like, learned the new album. The old album. And we've written, like, six songs since then now.
• 3:14
  Speaker B: So you were saying it started, like, in the beginning of the Pandemic, and you were learning to play guitar. So, like, you didn't play guitar, you were starting from scratch.
• 3:23
  Speaker E: Yes.
• 3:24
  Speaker B: And then in that amount of time, you learned to play guitar, learned to write songs, formed a band.
• 3:29
  Speaker C: He's still learning.
• 3:30
  Speaker B: Well, I mean, we all are.
• 3:32
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 3:32
  Speaker F: Yeah, we're all still learning.
• 3:33
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 3:33
  Speaker B: Really?
• 3:33
  Speaker D: We.
• 3:34
  Speaker B: We definitely all are.
• 3:35
  Speaker D: Yeah. I was only a drummer up until that point. I just decided to.
• 3:39
  Speaker B: So, like, the music was in you, like, but you. Yeah. Weren't a guitar player.
• 3:43
  Speaker D: I write a lot of the melodies and the lyrics for music. So, like, that part came natural to me. So it was like I just picked up a guitar. I literally just had a cheat sheet. The top of the cheat sheet was 20 chords I thought I could play, and the bottom of it was just, like, 40 chord progressions. And I just started writing. I didn't learn a cover song or anything. I literally just started writing.
• 4:03
  Speaker B: And that's interesting because, like, I always say. And I mean, you know, whatever my view, but I always think that the COVID songs. A very important step to writing your own songs because it shows you, like, the. It's almost like a tutorial in a video game. Like, it's, like, cool to watch, but it's giving you information. Like, if you're trying to write songs and you're listening to all these songs and learning covers, it gives you, like, some ammo. So I guess how was it to write songs without the influenza covers?
• 4:36
  Speaker D: Well, I definitely have, like, a certain style, let's put it that way. And actually, after writing, like, 15 or 20 songs now, I see the need to actually, like, start learning covers because I kind of repeating the same patterns that, like, I just developed writing my own stuff. You know what I mean?
• 4:52
  Speaker C: Right.
• 4:52
  Speaker B: Well, I mean, again, everybody does.
• 4:55
  Speaker F: That's what I told them to do. I told them to start learning covers because that's how you. That's how. That's what I did, too. I. I played bass for, like, I don't know, two decades. I didn't start playing guitar until maybe eight years ago.
• 5:07
  Speaker B: I did the. I did the opposite. Acoustic guitar was my instrument. You know, I'm 52 now. I started playing acoustic guitar at 18 and started playing the bass at 48.
• 5:16
  Speaker F: Yeah, it's probably. It's probably a. A little bit of an easier switch that direction.
• 5:20
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:21
  Speaker F: The other direction. I played fingered bass and I had to learn how to use a pick and all that.
• 5:25
  Speaker B: See, I'm trying. I'm. I play with a pick and I'm trying to learn how to use, you know, the fingered stuff because. And like you said how he's still learning, like, I'm like, there's normal techniques that everybody else already fucking knows that I'm like, I don't know.
• 5:40
  Speaker F: I told Randy. Yeah, I told him. I told him. That's how I learned. I started playing. Trying to play Nirvana songs.
• 5:46
  Speaker E: Right.
• 5:46
  Speaker B: And even if you don't play them out necessarily, although I always think it's good to have cover songs as a band in your quiver. But like. But learning them, it like you pulled little teeny things that you like, and it's just like cooking, you know, little ingredients here and there. It's not cheating. It's not like, oh, I used flour, sugar, and eggs, so I must. I stole the recipe. You know what I mean? There's little things you can take and make your own shit.
• 6:14
  Speaker C: And it's funny with the guitar and bass switching back and forth, you understand between those two instruments how important your picking or fingering hands really are and, like, what that brings with the dynamic of the sound and everything else.
• 6:27
  Speaker B: Yeah. And a lot of the time, you know, bass gets a rep for being like, an easy instrument or whatever. And it's because people are always focusing on the. The left hand. I mean, there's a lot of difficulty here, but, like, the right hand can do some wild shit.
• 6:42
  Speaker C: That's where a lot of the magic happens.
• 6:44
  Speaker B: Absolutely. So, you know, first album was. It was what, you three and a different guitar player, you said.
• 6:55
  Speaker C: Correct.
• 6:55
  Speaker B: And now you've caught. You've been caught up to speed and you've got like, that. All those songs and.
• 7:01
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 7:01
  Speaker B: So other than the song, you know, I heard one that came out super recently, like.
• 7:08
  Speaker D: Oh, just a week or two ago.
• 7:09
  Speaker B: Yeah. What was it like? Yeah, yeah.
• 7:10
  Speaker C: Memorial Day.
• 7:11
  Speaker B: And that's you on that one.
• 7:13
  Speaker D: Yep.
• 7:13
  Speaker B: Then. Sweet. And, you know, we were in the same situation with our band where we had some songs that we recorded before the band was final form. You know what I mean? And now, like, it's like moving forward. So I guess we want to talk a little bit about, you know, or we will want to play a song, like, down the road or a couple of songs later on in the episode. But I. I want to talk about playing out live as. Like you said, you had kind of learned guitar and learned songwriting, formed the band. Have you done live shows up to now?
• 7:51
  Speaker D: This band has done well, just the four of us. We've done an open mic at the Rustic Barn, but we've all played in bands for. I've played in bands for 30 years. Eric is my best friend. We grew up across the street. We've been in bands together for 30 years, so.
• 8:08
  Speaker B: But this iteration is new enough where it's. It's not the circuit yet.
• 8:13
  Speaker E: Yeah, no. Still definitely working on the live thing, I think. Coming up in. Was it next Thursday in June in Albany is going to be like our first big one.
• 8:23
  Speaker C: June 12th, we're opening up for the. For the Soap Girls at Empire Underground.
• 8:27
  Speaker B: Oh, that's dope. That's a. That's a good venue. But. So what do you. What do you think? What are your plans, I guess, for the band playing live? Like, jumping into the scene, like, with all that experience, like, are you looking to, I guess, elevate out of the scene or, like, what are the plans for the band? I guess, is what I'm trying to say. My stoned brain.
• 8:52
  Speaker C: I think. I think what we're starting off with is like, let's get our live act, you know, up to snuff, where we want it. Let's try to, you know, get a good following on the local circuit around here, you know, Local circuit, capital region, whatever you like to call it. Up to Glens Falls, you know, maybe down towards, you know, Woodstock. Something on there, like closer to where Dave lives, but still at the same time, just like, you know, get some following. It's not easy being a local original rock band back in previous. Back in previous lives, like, we mentioned, we were in other bands and stuff like that. It took quite a bit of work to. And a lot of gigs and not much money and that type of stuff to get that following. So I, you know, we know we're gonna have to put the work in. We know we're gonna have to take some. Some gigs that aren't gonna be, you know, the most sexy gig, but we're gonna. We're gonna put the work in. We're gonna keep on perfecting.
• 9:43
  Speaker B: Well, we have a gig. We have a gig together. And what? That's October 12th? Yeah, 12th. I was gonna say 10th, but that's gonna be sexy.
• 9:51
  Speaker C: That's. That's gonna be a sexy gig.
• 9:52
  Speaker E: I was gonna say you just make it as sexy as you can.
• 9:55
  Speaker B: Yeah, y. Definitely played some. Some unsexy gigs. We've the. The ones where you're only playing to the other band. Exactly that. We've had some of those. And then, you know, we got to say that, like, technically the other band played to more people because we're a five piece and they're only three, so it's like, well, we only played to three people, but you guys got to play for five, so.
• 10:19
  Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we played some other. A bunch of open mics and a couple gigs. A couple, you know, a year ago with our old guitarist. But, I mean, like, we just want to get back out there again now that he's, you know, ready to go. And we got 16 songs and a ton of new material.
• 10:36
  Speaker B: I'd like. It took us like, five years to get 16 songs. I don't even know if we have that many.
• 10:43
  Speaker C: We just drilled out six brand new ones, like, in kind of short order, like, last six months.
• 10:49
  Speaker B: And, you know, you mentioned, like, the acoustic guitars. Is that how a lot of the songs start or you're shaking your head?
• 10:54
  Speaker D: No, it varies widely.
• 10:57
  Speaker E: I've been slowly edging the band to just get, like, a little harder and heavier as time goes on, and I am winning the battle.
• 11:03
  Speaker F: Yeah. Which I agree with. I agree with. I switched because I was playing acoustic, and originally I just wanted to do an acoustic thing. And then Randy just plays too heavy, so he hits the drums too hard. And it wasn't working with acoustic. So then we decided to get a bassist and then snowball from there. And then I just recently switched from acoustic to electric. So now we're just. Someday maybe we'll bring acoustic back for certain songs.
• 11:28
  Speaker E: We'll make it special again.
• 11:30
  Speaker B: Yeah, but so you're kind of writing them with the full composition in mind rather than.
• 11:36
  Speaker F: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:37
  Speaker B: The acoustic approach and then turning it into something.
• 11:40
  Speaker F: Yeah, I still. With everything I write, I write on my acoustic and then figure it out later on, you know, as it were.
• 11:47
  Speaker D: We have too much material as our problem. We have. We have hundreds of ideas. It's just like, which ones do we want to do as a band? You know what I mean?
• 11:54
  Speaker B: So do you think that's going to take playing them in front of people to figure out, like, you know, are you going to kind of play all the songs and see what the reactions are, or are you going to try to curate them more yourself?
• 12:09
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, our. The set we're going to do is, like, all of our Newest stuff. Like, the stuff you have the highest chance to fuck up. But, you know, it's the most exciting of the material so far, so you got to get into that.
• 12:26
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's the scariest, like, part. And, like, the most exhilarating part, I think, is, like, playing new shit for people, you know, and, like, deciding if it's even going to stick around. Oh, and by the way, Calvin's a big wimp. Nothing, probably. He will. He will back. Sometimes he backs into the coffee table, and just bumping into the coffee table will scare him enough where he cries as if he's hurt. So. Oh, he's the dog that runs away from everything unless it's, like, on the other side of the field and he's looking out the window. Then he'll act real tough.
• 13:03
  Speaker E: But my bud, he's like, I'm being complimented.
• 13:07
  Speaker D: I appreciate it.
• 13:07
  Speaker B: Yeah, you're not, pal. We're saying you're not.
• 13:10
  Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. We. We all kind of write and then think about, like, what. Which one of my ideas would fit this band? And those are the ones we kind of like, you know, that will kind of show each other. And that's kind of. We got a big list of, like, all songs that, you know, four or five of mine, four or five of his, and then we just kind of settle on one or two.
• 13:27
  Speaker B: Right.
• 13:28
  Speaker D: And just work on the. You know.
• 13:30
  Speaker B: I will. I think we should probably hear one now. So what do we. What do we want to play?
• 13:39
  Speaker F: The one that we just released. It's called Never Going Back. I kind of got the idea. My uncle passed away 20, 23, and he's a Vietnam veteran. And I remember hearing some stories.
• 13:55
  Speaker B: He.
• 13:55
  Speaker F: He volunteered to go to Vietnam, which is kind of unusual. And he. He did a tour. He came back and he wasn't treated so well. So it was back then when, you know, they were getting a lot of flack coming home, and he decided to volunteer for a second tour just because. Just because he came home and he wasn't comfortable and he wasn't getting treated very well. And so that's what the song's about. After he passed away, I was just. I was looking for a topic. I had some ideas, some musical ideas, and that's what we came up with.
• 14:33
  Speaker B: All right, so let's check out Never Going Back, Four Dead Kings, and we'll be right back.
• 14:45
  Speaker A: We don't really. Then there's no turning back Tonight we're singing about the stormy sticking feeling Our reason on my way so deceiving they won't Let me stay right so much twisting I tonight know where to run Coming undone Celebrating love and this war will take me Feeling unreason On my way here so deceive and never let me stay I been see them My mind's not breathing no, I can't see them I want to go home.
• 16:47
  Speaker D: I've.
• 16:47
  Speaker A: Been se My mind's not breathing I can see them this is not my home Presence Green now and the sound they loud they run down not allowed to be proud Nowhere to run we're coming undone Severing up and this war will save me Feeling our reason on my way here Some deceiving They won't let me stay I'll never be the same I'll never see the day I'll never be that way.
• 18:04
  Speaker B: That was never going back for Dead Kings. And that one has, you know, just a. A little, I guess, heavier edge than. Than some of the. The stuff that I heard before. And, you know, we've said that that's definitely something that you're leaning into. So how is that affecting the songwriting?
• 18:24
  Speaker D: Yeah, I definitely think we're doing that. I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, Eric, the guitarist, is, you know, inspired by much more of the heavier, you know, Black Sabbath type of stuff. So I just think that the material we're writing now is incorporating that and.
• 18:43
  Speaker C: In the dynamic shift of Greg. Originally, when. When we first started jamming and, you know, seeing if it was going to work, he was playing acoustic. He's transferred over to the electric. We got a little crunch on him now, so it's like helping fill out where there was acoustic with a little bit of distortion. Dave's doing a little more extra chunking and funky stuff on the bass. So we're. Like, these next few songs that we release outside of the new one that we just released, I think it's going to kind of show you that path on kind of where we're heading. It's. It's kind of developing a little bit more with each song that we create.
• 19:24
  Speaker B: And do you think, like, moving in kind of like, that newer direction, it's gonna be something that you'll keep running with, or are you just kind of shifting ever so slightly to include, like, a little more of a crunch? And then that's your.
• 19:39
  Speaker C: We're gonna do a ukulele album next. We're gonna completely change the dynamic. And Randy. Randy's. Now that Randy's mastered the. The guitar, he's gonna take up trumpet, saxophone, nova. To your point.
• 19:58
  Speaker B: The bassoon, there's going.
• 20:01
  Speaker D: To be a lot of whistle solos too.
• 20:02
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker B: Whistle pan flutes.
• 20:07
  Speaker E: I'd still put some grit on. It doesn't matter. You can, you can saturate any signal.
• 20:11
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Throw anything through a distortion pedal and it'll sound. Sound heavy as. So like with the first, you know that first single is out now. Are like, are there plans to write an album or. I know you've got like a shitload of songs like written. Like are you. Are you planning on recording and putting them into an album?
• 20:32
  Speaker E: Yeah, I think what we're sort of going for probably is I guess maybe like every other month or something releasing a single.
• 20:39
  Speaker B: Nice.
• 20:40
  Speaker E: And then I guess it's hard to navigate how the best way it is to like albums aren't super cool anymore. We want to be super cool. I don't know. We all still like listening to albums, so we still kind of want to be doing that. So you kind of take a middle ground where you just kind of release a couple songs here and there and then probably release those in addition to like another five, six songs and have a full album or an ep.
• 21:03
  Speaker B: I mean, I've even seen the. And like they call it like the waterfall method where you release an album but you basically you release a single and then, you know, the next month you release another single that has that first single on it. And then the next month you release a single that has those two singles on it.
• 21:21
  Speaker E: Yeah, all those streaming platforms roll over ye re released songs into the same views.
• 21:27
  Speaker B: Yeah. And we did that like how we released the album because we'd never released like an album like that before, but we released like the single. And then when we released the album, it does like roll those streams, you know, because it's the same identifying number. But basically I. I've heard of a bunch of bands doing that. You release one single and like every time you. You basically release the album over the course of a year. So by the time, you know, by the time the year is done, you have a full album, but you get it one song at a time. Oh, there we go. Now Calvin's happy. If you, if, if you want to push him off, you can.
• 22:04
  Speaker E: He's gonna snug in. I need some, I need some lumbar support.
• 22:06
  Speaker D: I'm pretty, pretty sure my dog Shadow.
• 22:08
  Speaker B: Obviously, because it's an audio only, you know, Calvin was, was crying and being whiny, but apparently he just wanted to squeeze in on the couch with the four dead kings. Now he's happy. Right, bud?
• 22:21
  Speaker F: Give him A tambourine?
• 22:22
  Speaker B: Yeah, he's probably pretty good at it. So, you know, taking those songs and releasing them as a single, I'm not sure if I got this right, but you were saying you record.
• 22:34
  Speaker E: So I live a couple hours down south in Germantown, I guess, just across the river from Kingston.
• 22:40
  Speaker B: Okay. We're playing in Kingston next weekend.
• 22:44
  Speaker E: Oh, nice. We're at like Keegan Dales or something.
• 22:45
  Speaker B: No, it's called Avalon.
• 22:47
  Speaker E: Okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think. I think it's Kingston and I think it's the Avalon. Yeah, we're playing anyway. Go ahead.
• 22:54
  Speaker E: But yeah, no, my room looks a little bit like this. Just like even more stuff piled up everywhere. So I got a reasonable little studio in Germantown, New York. So I'm just sitting in front of Rack ear and stuff all day. So as many times as I can get them down there to record is as fast as we can do stuff because they're all a bunch of busy guys.
• 23:13
  Speaker B: Right, Right.
• 23:14
  Speaker C: And I'll tell you, it was the most. We. We previously recorded two different albums previously. And recording in a studio, it was like the most chilled, relaxed way that I've ever recorded a song. And I believe we're gonna be doing the same thing, like come up with that click track. And it was just like. It was just. There was like no stress. There was no anything you're not hiding behind glass with and you're also not.
• 23:41
  Speaker B: Paying a ridiculous amount of money.
• 23:43
  Speaker C: It was just. It was just a great experience. So.
• 23:46
  Speaker B: Yeah, because that's got to bring out different. Different final product for bands. Whether you're under the fucking gun. Like you feel like there's a literal gun at you and you've got to get shit done now because you don't have the money to not, you know, like. Or if you could take your time.
• 24:01
  Speaker C: In that balance of it not canning the music. Right. And like over compressing like all that other stuff.
• 24:07
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. That I don't know anything about. Like. Like, I have no idea. I don't know. It's like mixing and mastering and is like. It's like a black arts as far as I'm concerned. I'm like, I don't know what you're doing, but whatever.
• 24:24
  Speaker C: That's whatever magic.
• 24:25
  Speaker B: Yeah, I'm like, whatever magic it is, it's awesome.
• 24:29
  Speaker E: You're recording the drums and Randy's like, you can edit those up. I'm like, in like three hours if you want to sit and watch me.
• 24:36
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker F: That's kind of the weird thing. He's. He's a Band member. And it also ends up being the mixer, the mixing engineer, and the producer. So we go down there. If he says, you got to do that again. That sucked.
• 24:51
  Speaker B: Right.
• 24:51
  Speaker F: Do it again or do it this way. You have to listen to him.
• 24:55
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker F: You can't with my art.
• 24:57
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 24:58
  Speaker F: But you got to do it because he's a producer. So. Yeah, he takes on a different role, which is good because in the studio.
• 25:05
  Speaker B: You need somebody that's.
• 25:06
  Speaker F: You have to have somebody. Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker B: Driving you, you know, because if you have a fucking yes man in the studio.
• 25:12
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker B: It doesn't work.
• 25:13
  Speaker E: It doesn't work out. It's. Everybody's got like a different trick. You get them to think that they did a really good take on one of them and you're like, we got it already. Now let's just do like two or three more for fun.
• 25:23
  Speaker B: For fun.
• 25:24
  Speaker E: And then they slay it.
• 25:25
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's a really solid. Like, I, I've done. I do, like, not music related stuff, but I do. For my job, I do audio editing and. And I have non actors doing things. I'm going to use that. Yeah, we. We got it. But let's just do it one more time.
• 25:41
  Speaker F: It definitely. It definitely works.
• 25:43
  Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna use that. All right, well, we should hear another song. So what's the song that we're gonna hear now?
• 25:51
  Speaker F: What do we say?
• 25:53
  Speaker D: A Good Life.
• 25:55
  Speaker B: All right, you want to. Anything you want to add?
• 25:57
  Speaker D: Yeah, this is a song we wrote off the first album. It was a guitar idea that our old guitarist had that he kind of mocked up into like a good structure, just the guitar. And he sent it to me and I basically wrote a bunch of lyrics and vocal patterns around. You know, at the time, my nephew was just about to graduate. My, my. I have, you know, two sons that are seniors and juniors in high school, and they're, you know, getting ready to go off to college. So I was just kind of thinking about that, and it was right after my son's birthday. So I basically kind of wrote this idea about, you know, just watching your kids grow up and move out and, you know, go off to college type of stuff. And then I kind of send that idea to Greg. And Greg, you know, we. We kind of messed around with some other ideas. He kind of changed a little bit. And then we put it out. You know, we. We work really well together. A lot of times I'll come up with ideas and send it to him and we'll, you know, we'll change stuff around and we all kind of write as a group like that, we're all, like, really open minded. Like, best idea should win, right? You know, whatever serves the song. Whatever serves the song. So it's like, it's fun to write in that environment, but that's basically what what this song's about.
• 27:12
  Speaker B: All right, well, let's check out A good life, Four dead kings, and then we'll be right back. Wrap it up.
• 27:29
  Speaker A: Fly away sweet wo don't get too close to the sun Fly away sweet.
• 27:41
  Speaker B: W.
• 27:45
  Speaker A: I'll be here when you're done World be what you want to be See what you want to see yeah Keep moving on until your next song yeah Keep running strong Want me to be gone Hope I gave you a good life we all want a good life don't forget what you love Fly away sweet and cold I'll be here when you get burned choose what you got to choose Lose what you got to lose Moving now until your next song yeah Keep running strong morning you be gone all I gave you a good life we all want a good life Sam sa Don't let this world get you down Fly away sweet wo I'll be here when you come round do what you wanna do Prove what you wanna prove yeah Keep moving on until your dead song yeah Keep running morning you be gone I hope I gave you a good life we all want a good life yeah Keep moving on until your next Keep running strong morning you be gone I hope I gave you a good life we all want a good life A good life A good lie A good lie.
• 32:48
  Speaker F: That.
• 32:48
  Speaker B: Was a good life for dead kings. And I want to thank you guys so much for taking time out of your day to come up here and do this with me. I really appreciate it. And before we go, like I do with all my guests, want to give you a chance to say your gratitude. So Dave will start with. With you.
• 33:02
  Speaker E: Yeah, man. Thank you specifically for having us and the gang for being so easy to work with even when I'm making them slave away in the studio. Do it again, do it again. And yeah. Come see US on Thursday, June 12, at Empire Live for the soap girls. We are not as thin or attractive, but.
• 33:23
  Speaker B: Or soapy.
• 33:26
  Speaker E: Might be soapy, I don't know. Yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker D: Yeah. Thank you for. For having us. We really appreciate, you know, the opportunity and looking forward to playing, you know, with you guys in October. Yeah. And I just like to thank, you know, these guys for getting together, you know, on a weekly basis and doing this. It's just, you know, it's a passion of mine. I really enjoy it. I'm glad we're doing it. And obviously thank you to all the, you know, my wife and all the, the ladies for letting us make noise once a week and getting out and do you know what we love to do?
• 34:00
  Speaker C: All right, Andy, thanks for making such an awesome, you know, easy experience. So thank you, obviously to my three brothers right here, like, taking me in, making it very, you know, easy to get caught up to speed with the new tunes that I was learning and writing the new tunes and being open to me bringing my material in, you know, having no opinions, just working together and we're just, you know, knocking things out. Obviously, thank you to my family and stuff. Obviously, this takes, takes me away. Thanks to Greg's wife for allowing us to jam there once a week and raise holy hell in the basement and that type of stuff. So special thanks to them and yeah, I guess that's all I got.
• 34:44
  Speaker F: Yeah, basically the same thing. Thanks for having us. Really appreciate it it. I, I, I thank these guys for, you know, maybe not directly, but they're, they're pushing me, you know, indirectly, but they, they're, they're pushing me, pushing my writing and my playing skills and all that. So I appreciate them for that. And, and all three of them are dedicated. They're there every week unless there's an actual issue or a practice. Yeah, yeah. Some kind of breeder thing. But other than that, that's what I, I don't have any kids, so they're breeders.
• 35:21
  Speaker B: Same.
• 35:22
  Speaker F: And yeah, and, and I have to thank my, my lady, Leslie, because she, she deals with it every week and never always supports me in music, so I have to thank her as well. So y.
• 35:36
  Speaker B: All right, so they are four dead kings. I, Andy Scullin, this is unsigned 518. See you on the road. Unsigned 518 is produced and hosted by me, Andy Scullin. 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 unsigned 518 if you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email@unsigned518mail.com and to be a guest on the show, reach out to me through Instagram at unsigned518. Take care of one another and I'll see you next week.