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Sugar & Spice With JAY GORDON And CARLTON BOST From ORGY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Carlton from the band Orgy Jay will be joining shortly. We're
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  gonna be coming to Australia in October and for shows in Melbourne. Right,
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  that's for a show, is my friend. Thanks very much for joining us
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  today, Canton. Yeah, thanks for having us agree. So Augie hit
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  Australia in October for the first time ever for three shows, starting in Melbourne
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  and October twenty fifth, before hitting Melbourne the following night, sorry, Sydney
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  the following night, in Brisbane the night after. Like, so that's the
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  biggest question, mate, it's why if you neglected us for so long?
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  You know your guess is as good as mine. It's I mean, like
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  I was telling you earlier, I've been there with another band and it's amazing.
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  It's had a great time, amazing people, shows were great. So
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  I guess better late than ever for Orgie to get there. But we're totally
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  excited and it's gonna be fun. We just finished a two month run with
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  Cold Who's gonna be with us there as well, and it's a really great
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  package. It's a good show and it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  And let's face a Brella, you can never really be late for an orgy?
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  Can You probably could until the next day. Is playing bad news?
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  That's play bad news, showup on time. Really, this doesn't apply so
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  much to you, mate, because you've been here before. But there's not
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  many places, he says, that you guys wouldn't have been. So when
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  you come and play at a place like Australia for the first time, you
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  do research, right, you talk to own the bands and find out what
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  to expect, what the crowds are like and stuff. Or you're just coming
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  cold and see what happens. Yeah, sorry you dropped out. I didn't
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  hear I said. So you do the research and ask fans that have been
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  here before what it's like and what do we expect, or you're just coming
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  cold and take it as it comes. It's just yeah, you just just
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  show up and go for it. It's I mean, when I was there
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  before, everyone was just really amazing people. Everyone seems really just cool and
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  wants to hang out and have fun and have a good time. It shows
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  and it's it's just a great atmosphere. The flip side of that equation is
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  that peop by here, I know, what do we expect from you?
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  Either side us saying on what do we expect from Algie Live in twenty twenty
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  four, Well, I mean we're gonna do it well, you mean,
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  like as far as like the set list and stuff, you know, like
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  the show, like is it dynamic? Is John rand Lot is? Yeah,
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  Yeah, we got a lot of energy we bring it. It's it's
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  probably a little heavier live than than what it sounds like on the record.
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  You know, this was like the twenty fifth anniversary of the first record,
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  candy As, So we're doing a larger dose of does We're doing like half
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  the set is probably songs from that record from candy As, and then there's
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  a handful of songs from the second record, Vapor Transmissions, And then there's
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  a handful of newer songs, like even songs that you know, you guys
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  might not have heard yet. So it's it's kind of a good cross section
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  of our the whole history of the songs from the band. You're not actually
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  playing Cayos in full from front to beck, No, No, not doing
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  that, but we're doing you know, probably like at least half the songs
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  from that. When you're sort of prepared to do the run of shows in
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  bro, I guess you would have to revisit some of the tracks from that
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  album that you hadn't played for a while. So did they still resonate with
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  you as much now as what they did? I mean, you know,
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  I wasn't in the band when that record came out, so it's probably more
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  of a question for Jay. Yeah. I mean, I I've known them.
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  I've known Jay in the band since that era, since then, and
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  uh, but I just wasn't part of writing those songs. I wasn't on
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  that But I've been playing with them now for over twelve years, but it's
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  still always fun to play them, which I just joined at the right time.
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  So you can answer that one, right, right, right. So,
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  so as far as making the first record, we took a brand new
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  one hundred thousand dollars you know, two inch take machine with us up to
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  a snow capped mountain in north shore of Lake Tahoe, and uh, you
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  know, and and you know, like the first version of like you know
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  pro tools, like you know, four editing tracks or two editing tracks or
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  something like that, and uh, that's what we used to track the first
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  record. Run you're preparing for the store my life there would have been a
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  few songs that you would have to go back and relearn or revisit I guess
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  for the first time in the wall. So did I still resonate with you
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  now learning them again as much as what they did when you first write them
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  twenty five years again. You know, there's there's There's definitely gonna be some
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  that we're going to learn specifically for this Australian run, because I think we
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  should, you know, we should just do a longer set since never played
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  there before and I think it would be cool, uh, you know,
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  to flex a little bit of everything material wise. Plus we I don't know
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  if Carlton told you what, we just signed a two songs deal with Golden
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  Robot down there. I congratulations, yeah, so so so it's an Australian
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  label. We're doing two songs with them, and you know, since we're
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  coming there, you know, in November or whatever, I want to make
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  sure that we get those out and that we could play those songs as well.
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  So we're going to play a lot of new stuff, a lot of
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  old stuff. We're learning, you know, we'll be learning a bunch of
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  stuff. And it is weird sometimes when you haven't played a song like Platinum,
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  let's say, for a while, and then you like pick it up
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  and you're just like, uh, fuck, I forgot all the lyrics for
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  this song, you know. And then and then you're like, did I
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  really make my voice sound like this during that time? Like there's like a
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  really crazy breakdown that song, and it sounds like, you know, it
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  just sounds like a little strange and that and that breakdown, and it's like
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  when I do it now, it just makes me laugh, Like, you
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  know, I don't know, it's funny people keep asking me for that song.
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  So I feel like Platinum should be one of the ones we play in
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  Australia. So we were probably gonna learn that one and you know, just
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  some others random, like we might just switch it up, you know.
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  Very cool. When I go back to the beginning of the band, mate,
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  like you started Orgy and now I'm back in ninety ninety seven, So
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  what was the musical climb, like my birthed the band back then? Where
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  did you fit in in the joy? Well? I mean, you know,
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  I had my own vision as far as like what I wanted it to
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  be like, and uh, you know, I kind of stuck with that,
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  but uh, you know, like it had the elements of the heavy
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  stuff, and uh, you know, the name Orgy was really just like
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  a musical based situation where I wanted to, you know, fuse all these
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  styles because that's just the way my brain thinks. It's so adhd like,
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  you know, I can't really do it another way. So that's where the
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  name came from and everything. And but you know, I was really good
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  friends with Corn at the time, so you know you're going to hear those
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  like little you know, the influences from those guys. You know, it
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  was a lot of rage against the machine going on, which I you know,
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  I loved all that stuff. And I can't like just stick to a
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  genre. So you tell me to stay in the lane, I'm just gonna
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  tell you watch out because you know, you know what I mean, move
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  over, I don't know, or or you know, run into me.
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  I don't know, like you know what I'm saying, Like, I can't
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  stick to a lean if you if my life depended on it. So it's
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  like, oh, well, you know, so I just don't really you
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  know, I like to move around, you know what I mean. So
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  just a lot of different styles and there was just a lot of a lot
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  of testosterone going on back then, and we were just kind of like,
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  you know, trying to do something different look wise, you know what I
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  mean. And so I think we uh set out a little bit of a
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  precedence in that area, and you know, we had our own little look
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  going and then a lot of people just kind of jumped on that bandwagon,
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  you know, and uh, and I love it and it's making resurgence,
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  So no complaints. It's tough mentioned on Jonathan Dives man, like, I'm
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  probably sick of answering this, but I want to hear it from your mouth
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  because it'll have more substance. But hasn't that he actually he was that excited
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  about the bandy Creative Design label and wanted to sign you and fund the album
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  sight. Yeah. I mean they may have had aspirations to uh to do
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  a label anyway, but but that's that that was that was a way for
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  them to sign it and get it done, uh, you know, to
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  probably do both, you know what I mean. I'm sure they had like
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  an idea, like I think everybody wants to start their own label at some
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  point. So I can't say it like we were the sole reason that you
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  know, he wanted to do that, but like he definitely perpetuated it,
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  and you know, like like like fueled the fire to get it, to
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  get it stepped up so that we could do it. And uh that's what
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  they did. You're coming out of here with Cold who are also thrown astray
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  for the first time ever. Like I've had a few shows in them overseas,
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  But why why did they been so well with you guys? I mean
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  I think it's uh, you know, they're actually like it's actually hold on
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  sorry, Uh yeah, they're actually like, you know, not necessarily,
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  it's not like a fit thing. I think it's just we're just cool with
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  each other. And uh, you know, it works because you know,
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  it's it's not like, you know, to really heavily connected fan bases,
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  but they are from the same era and there's fans like both bands, so
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  that works out good for both. So yeah, so it works out.
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  But but yeah, they're really cool people and we get along with them great.
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  So we're going to keep that. We're going to keep keep that running,
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  you know if we can. Right Coxs, this is your first time.
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  I was like, yeah, you're a little bit nervous so I just
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  for the fact that you don't know how much of a fan base your body
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  or or how how people going to react because you haven't done it before.
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  Like I mean, it's definitely like you know, it's like I have no
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  idea what to expect, so it's it's kind of strange. But you know,
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  no, I'm not nervous. I think it's gonna work out good.
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  And I think if you know, the promotion is there, and I think
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  if people are excited enough, you know, the push will be there and
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  the people will be there. Right, boys all, thanks very much for
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  you Tom that I'd read a pleasure learning some actual stuff about you. Guys.
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  Thank you. But Straw is in October. Kicks off on twenty fifth
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  in Melbourne, twenty sixth in Sydney and twenty seventh in Brisbane, so there's
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  still some biggers left, so get out and get some and welcome to the
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  Boys to Australia. Thank you, man, I really appreciate you. Thanks
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  for having us and hope to see at the shows.