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Hoobastank's Doug Robb Hits The Roxy And Beyond · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if While creating conversation for those other
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  Speaker 1: circles we're going to be joining in a matter of moments. Whoa,
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  Speaker 1: it's a conversation starter.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: The Daily Mess. Only on Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? How are you doing today, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: How about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic. I got to tell you, before I came
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  Speaker 1: into the studio, I had to go in and visit
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  Speaker 1: my daughter's room because still in my daughter's room since
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  Speaker 1: 1995 have been your letters, your logo, because she put
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  Speaker 1: it up on the wall and I swore I was
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  Speaker 1: never going to take it down because that's all she
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  Speaker 1: ever played in that room was Hoobastank over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. And then to be here today is
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  Speaker 1: just an amazing full circle is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I'm not sure. I feel like I should apologize. No,
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  Speaker 3: not at all.
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  Speaker 1: No, because when she went to UCLA, I swear to God,
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  Speaker 1: it was because you guys had that sound out there
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  Speaker 1: and she always called you the biggest ska band that
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  Speaker 1: we were going to be introduced to. And, and, and
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  Speaker 1: it was like, you guys really filled those shoes.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: If she was talking about scoff stuff, then she was
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  Speaker 2: on early because that's kind of like the vibe.
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  Speaker 3: That we were in really early, like when we first started.
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  Speaker 3: That's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean, that's the one thing that we
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  Speaker 1: always felt about you guys and why we wanted Alternative
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  Speaker 1: Radio here in Charlotte was because you guys were making
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  Speaker 1: some really big power out there in California. And we're going, OK,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on here? that they're getting to have
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  Speaker 1: Hoobastank and we're not. So when you guys finally bridged
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  Speaker 1: the gap to be here, first of all, it was
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  Speaker 1: very fun to say Hoobastank on the air. And then
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  Speaker 1: number two, we were getting great music finally on our
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  Speaker 1: airwaves here.
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  Speaker 2: Well i appreciate it i don't i have no idea
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  Speaker 2: what we were doing whatever it was it was an accident.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah but that accident is going to be on
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  Speaker 1: a live stage here soon you're going to do the
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  Speaker 1: full album not too many people get that opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: see a live thing like that especially at the roxy
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  Speaker 1: dude um.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's a place that we we cut our teeth
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  Speaker 2: on for sure like early on uh Mid-late 90s, played
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  Speaker 2: so many times. I think it was our first Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: club show was at the Roxy. And so to be
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  Speaker 2: able to go back there and do this, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: we're all kind of laughing about it. It just feels
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  Speaker 2: like we get to do something again that we haven't
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  Speaker 2: in so long.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a lot of fun. We're excited
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I would be that guy that would buy a seat
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  Speaker 1: up there on stage just to watch the fans because
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  Speaker 1: I would love to see every single generation that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have affected because now that classic rock radio stations
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  Speaker 1: are playing Hoobastank, that even puts you into a different category.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just amazing what you guys are putting down.
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  Speaker 4: That's wild. I, my, your initial reaction is going, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's because classic rock doesn't mean what it used to be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but I have to understand that, that kids are,
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  Speaker 4: you know, younger listeners today, you know, they'll.
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  Speaker 3: Probably hear it and go, yeah, this is like, this
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  Speaker 3: is like old classic stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Being in the studio today with modern day technology, would
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  Speaker 1: you ever want to go back to the low nineties
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  Speaker 1: and do it all over again? Or would you think
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  Speaker 1: that that right there in that studio at that time,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a big chance you guys were still using analog
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  Speaker 1: at that time, but it's, it's like, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: it was such a moment. But would you go back
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  Speaker 1: with modern day technology?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, no, I wouldn't. I don't, I'm not one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys. It's like, Oh, you know, everything was better when,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this way when we, how we used to
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  Speaker 3: do it. But you're right.
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  Speaker 2: That entire first album, the one we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: playing was recorded to tape.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't recorded, uh, digitally, um, two.
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  Speaker 2: Inch tape, uh, you know, punching in and out.
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  Speaker 3: Um, uh, you know, if you didn't get it right,
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  Speaker 3: you had to do it over and over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And I would like to think that that helps me
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  Speaker 2: get better as a singer, you know, helped all of
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  Speaker 2: us get better as, as players, um, because it wasn't like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just get.
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  Speaker 3: It close and then we'll tune it. And, or just
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  Speaker 3: getting this, it was like, you had to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Like what you hear, what you heard on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you popped in the CD is, is, is what
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  Speaker 2: we had to do like authentically.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, That's not to say that you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to do it now, but it's definitely....
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  Speaker 2: Easier to to to achieve a certain sound or a
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  Speaker 2: certain something nowadays than it was back then.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that going from
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  Speaker 1: the days of the compact disc up to the earbuds
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  Speaker 1: today i feel closer with earbuds and i often wonder
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  Speaker 1: if other other uh hubestank fans are doing the same
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  Speaker 1: thing we feel like that we're listening beyond sound when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to those earbuds because it feels like we're
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  Speaker 1: right there in the studio with you now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, but that's, I think, one of those
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  Speaker 2: advantages of all the digital stuff we can do. The
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  Speaker 2: way things are mixed now, these earbuds are so good.
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  Speaker 2: And you hear so many things that you didn't hear.
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  Speaker 2: I spend a lot of time now listening to music
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  Speaker 2: that I listened to when I was younger, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in high school and even earlier that I really loved,
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  Speaker 2: that I know like the back of my hand and
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  Speaker 2: I'll sit there and I'll listen to it And I'll
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  Speaker 2: start hearing things that I never.
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  Speaker 3: Heard before, you know, 20, 30 years later.
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  Speaker 2: And it blows me away that I could still have that.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know, it's wild. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Doug Robb from Hoobastank
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. As they say it, they are back
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  Speaker 1: together again, and they've got renewed creative energy. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: back with Doug Robb from Hoobastank. And the freakiest thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is, is that every time you go to
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  Speaker 1: it now, you hear it. Whereas, you know, for many
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  Speaker 1: years before that, you know, it went right over your head.
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  Speaker 1: But now when you spot something in a song, you
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  Speaker 1: hear it every single time from that point forward.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, songs that I've listened to literally thousands of times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mostly sounding crappy car stereos, but.
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  Speaker 2: I can hear it now with such clarity and it
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  Speaker 2: gives me even more admiration for the, for the musicians
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  Speaker 2: that did it. Like, Oh my God, what a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: Like to put.
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  Speaker 3: This thing right here at this point in the song,
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  Speaker 3: I always kind of heard it before, but I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what it was. And now I actually know it's this.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, it's just, it's a really cool aspect of
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  Speaker 2: how things are done.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like for you to be on the
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  Speaker 1: Vans Warped Tour? Because that was such a fan fanatic
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  Speaker 1: place because we really got to know who the bands
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  Speaker 1: were because everybody, they would jump off the damn stage
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  Speaker 1: and just come talk to us. It was such an
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  Speaker 1: experience for the fan.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those tours that we still have
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  Speaker 2: one more to go this year in Orlando next month.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those.
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  Speaker 2: People you know this is our first time playing warp
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  Speaker 2: tour people like no that's impossible because we would get
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  Speaker 2: fans coming up to us going dude the first time
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  Speaker 2: i saw you on warp was like you know 2003
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  Speaker 2: or whatever and i would be looking at a guitar
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  Speaker 2: player going like this person is is misremembering something or
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  Speaker 2: they're so certain of it.
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  Speaker 3: Um it's a tour that like everything lined up for us.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's the type of vibe that we grew up
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  Speaker 2: in just kind of skaters in Southern California. Um, that whole,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing was, it was so perfect for us.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember early on, uh, let's say in 2000, 2001,
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  Speaker 2: before the first album came out, going, lining that up, going, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to play a warp tour, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: management and everything kind of seemed like that's what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do. Um, And then we released crawling in
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  Speaker 2: the dark, uh, in late 2001 and it blows up.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember that for better, for worse, kind of
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  Speaker 2: throwing a wrench in our Warped Tour plans. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I remember booking agents and record labels going, look, this
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  Speaker 2: song is really big. You guys can hop in a van,
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  Speaker 2: which we were at the time, you know, and, um,
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  Speaker 2: and play Warped Tour, you know, five days a week
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  Speaker 2: going from city to city, um, Or we, you can
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  Speaker 2: hop on a bus and start playing like these other tours. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I remember being convinced going like, Oh, maybe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Warped Tour will always be there.
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  Speaker 3: We'll come back and do it. Um, and, and that's
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  Speaker 3: how we honestly felt. And, and then each year it
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  Speaker 3: would be like, Oh, we, you know, we got this
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  Speaker 3: other tour and let's do it next year. Let's do
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  Speaker 3: it next year.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and then it goes away, you know, and then we,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of felt like we missed our opportunity, but then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it comes back in a slightly different format, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: we're just stoked that we get to play it now finally.
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  Speaker 2: Cause it kind of feels like the home we never
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  Speaker 2: got to live in.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And, and what you guys are doing with that video
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  Speaker 1: for how do you sleep? My God, are you guys
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  Speaker 1: must be binge watching PB people? Because I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: starts off like a, like a real good feel of
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  Speaker 1: a binge watch.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I just have always liked music videos that look
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  Speaker 3: like movies.
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  Speaker 2: Um, uh, I, I always lose the argument with, with the,
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  Speaker 2: the higher ups about the, the videos that we want
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  Speaker 2: to make because I, a, I don't ever want to
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  Speaker 2: perform in them. I don't want to necessarily be in them.
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  Speaker 2: If we do, I just want us to be characters like,
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  Speaker 2: like side characters. Um, Um, and somehow we, I always
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  Speaker 2: end up, you know, we get beaten into submission that like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you guys have to perform and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But in general, aesthetically, I always want the video to
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  Speaker 3: look like a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and, and I also want the video for the
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  Speaker 2: most part to not have anything overtly.
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  Speaker 3: Directly connected to the material. to the song.
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  Speaker 2: That's another weird fetish of mine that I like.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to come back to this show any time
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  Speaker 1: in the future, dude. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open. And if you come to Charlotte, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to have a face-to-face, man.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Well, you be brilliant today and congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on everything that you guys are bringing back to us
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  Speaker 1: because you're shaking up some memories while creating brand new paths, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome, man.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.