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Hitman Talks to Bobby Ingram of Molly Hatchet · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  What's going on? It is hit Man with you and I got the pleasure
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  on the phone right now. I've got Bobby Ingram, who's with the original
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  Molly Hatchet brother. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. How
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  you doing, Jeff? Thank you for having on today, No problem.
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  You know you're coming to the post og on June fourteenth. It's going to
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  be a great show. Molly Hatchet. I still remember seeing him in nineteen
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  eighty five on South Padre Island during spring break. It was crazy and you
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  still rocket to this day. As a matter of fact, we were talking
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  off air just a little while ago. You're going back into the studio to
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  make more new music and you're doing it at Abbey Road Studios. Yeah,
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  and that's something, right, I mean, who would imagine? And what
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  a privilege and an honor to be in the studio where the Beatles recorded all
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  the original stuff back in the sixties and to have Paul McCartney's engineer this doing
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  the album. Wow, I don't know what's said same microphones. I mean,
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  that's unbelievable. We have got a lot in store coming up. We
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  released a single a few months back called firing Line right and that's that's just
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  gone crazy, and that's just a taste of what's going to happen on this
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  next album. We've been working Order for a while and we wound up over
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  at Abbey Roads because I wanted to get back to the original analog sound,
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  you know, that real gussy, you know, the hair stands up on
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  your arms when you listen to it, type analog recording, and we did,
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  and it's amazing what the difference is. You know, when you kind
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  of get away from it for a few years and you go digital stuff and
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  everything's digital digital, you can hear the difference as soon as you put the
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  track on. So I'm just really happy to do it and ready to bring
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  this everybody and hope everybody enjoys it. Yeah, you know, you're going
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  through the same route that Dave Grohl did for the Food Fighters. He actually
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  did the exact same thing and he loved every second of it. And I
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  completely agree with you. Analog to me, believe it or not, sounds
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  to me better than it does a digital. I mean, but then I'm
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  also the same person that likes to get vinyl records and still like to hear
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  the little scratch on the vinyl from the needle when you put it on the
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  record player, I still love that sound. It's crazy, absolutely absolutely,
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  and it's and when Dave Grohl went over there to Abbey Road, we're using
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  the same engineer, Paul McCartney. He's the name is Chris Bolster. Did
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  Paul McCartney, did the Food Fighters, Maroon five, he's done Elton John.
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  We said, you know, and uh, I think he just just
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  now mixed the new Eric Clapton records. Wow, So we're totally honored to
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  be working with him. And yeah, you can hear the difference. It's
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  amazing. This album will be of course is cee the of course online,
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  but for real on vinyl. It's going to be coming out. So having
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  a blast wi it and the new songs were having a great time. Got
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  a new singer, Parker Lee from North Carolina. He came in like gangbusters
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  and he's tearing up the stage. Make it Bill like twenty five years younger,
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  that's for sure, you know. Oh and I A yeah, John
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  Alvin's in the band and and uh you know Tim Lindsay And we're also we're
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  also making music. Man, that's crazy. It's like I'm really looking forward
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  to seeing you guys when you guys come to the post o g very very
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  soon. I actually found something that was kind of interesting. Uh when I
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  when I looked you up on Facebook and LinkedIn, you're also a lawyer.
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  Yeah, well yeah, I guess so, so you know listen, and
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  that was it was kind of by accident in a way. I mean,
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  I'm an intellectual property owner, you know, for the and the trademarks and
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  and worked hard for that and and yeah, so I wanted to know more
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  how to brand and how to protect the band, and how to protect the
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  music and how to protect us going forward. So I said, you know,
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  let me just you know, I just want to take a class of
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  an intellectual property. Well you go online and you see these courses for you
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  know, nineteen ninety five. I didn't want that, you know. So
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  I wound up sentpony lsat and I got accepted into law school and I graduated
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  in twenty twenty. Wow. So yeah, I've got my juris doctor.
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  And I think I started with four hundred and fifty other students from all around
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  the country, actually all around the world, and only nineteen of us graduated
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  of this four fifty, So I was one of the nineteen, so I
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  feel pretty pretty blessed about that. Yeah, But I think the main thing,
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  and this is where it kind of goes back to the educational part of
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  it. If you're a business owner, I really think that you need that
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  extra, that extra push, You need that extra in site into what the
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  new laws are and have to text your brand and your business and keep the
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  band out there, you know, and know what not to do, right
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  right, No, you're absolutely right. We're talking with Bobby Ingram from Molly
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  Hatchett. Coming to the post og very soon. You know you've been out
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  on tour with Molly Hatchett for quite some time. Now, what is the
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  craziest thing that ever happened to you on stage? Oh? My gosh.
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  Well, now this is kind of the summarize that I'm the longest standing member
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  in the history of the band NonStop right. In other words, I came
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  into the band, I never quit, I never went to another group.
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  I never did anything else. I stayed right with Molly Hatchett. I stayed
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  true to the music, to the fans, and to the legacy of this
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  band, right, and my mission was to keep it going and way back
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  before Hatchett, Danny Joe Brown and myself had our first band together. I
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  actually handed him the microphone to sing. Little did we know he was going
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  to be such a powerful singer and a powerful front man, one of the
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  top five top three in Southern rock and roll. And and yes, and
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  then went into the Daneger Brown band. From my history and my legacy with
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  it goes further back than the band itself. Wow, it's pretty weird to
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  think about that, but it's the truth. And now I'm the longest standing
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  member in the history of the band, you know, members that have passed
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  on or members that are here now, and I keep it going because of
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  the music is important. You know, it's not about the members in the
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  band. And we've changed, you know. Of course the original sixth have
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  passed on and we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them, right,
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  but many many band members along the way. Because it's forty five years into
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  it, almost a half a century into the legacy of Hatchett, So we
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  wanted to keep the music alive to us. That was the main thing,
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  is to keep the music in front of you know, in the in the
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  public, in front of fans, in front of our friends. Wants to
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  still hear Molly Hatchett's music live. Yeah, you know, no, you
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  can only put up the album so much. And you want to go out
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  and rock and roll in a concert on twelve or fourteen or fifteen. Yeah,
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  yeah, man, you know, I gotta tell you. I know
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  what you mean. It's it's it's crazy. I mean, it's it's Molly
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  Hatchett. It's it's through the years and and the thing I love is the
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  fact that you're keeping it going and the fact that you're now even doing new
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  music and it's going to be out pretty soon, a full album of course,
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  you get the first single that's out now, and looking forward to seeing
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  guys when you guys come to the post og. One last question I wanted
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  to ask you, and I asked this to every single artist that I always
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  talk to. There's always bands out there. They're like the local bands,
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  they're up and coming bands, and they want to get to that status like
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  what you are right now of course with Molly Hatchett and becoming legendary. What
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  advice would you give to up and coming bands to work to become this legendary
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  status. Don't ever give up? No, matter what, just keep going,
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  no matter how bad the road gets, no matter how many times you
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  run off the road, no matter how many highs you have and how many
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  lows, just keep going, Stay true to your music, stay true to
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  yourself, and just believe in what you're doing. That to me is the
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  biggest you know, I guess you know what I could give everybody, you
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  know, from from all my time in it. I mean, I've been
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  playing guitar fifty five years, right, play playing guitar fifty five years.
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  I was like, let's just say I was really young when I started.
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  I don't just say you can kind of do the math, but I was
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  super young when I started, you know. So I mean I've been on
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  tour, you know, since the seventies. So the main thing is just
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  to stay out and stay relevant, keep writing music, you know, keep
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  making music. You know, don't ever let it anybody tell you you can't
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  do it, because you can do it. I mean, look at what
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  has happened with Hatchett. You know, I kept this going, and so
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  did the fans. I couldn't have done it without them. You know,
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  media, yourself, I couldn't have done without you. You know, you're
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  the conduit between the between us playing live and our fans. You know,
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  you have to have all these elements to keep it going. So definitely don't
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  give up because things are going to happen. And that's what I would give
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  to the to the younger guys that are coming up and want in the rock
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  and roll and do it for a living and do it all your life.
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  Yeah, I appreciate you calling in today, Bobby. Looking forward to seeing
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  it at the post Og on June fourteenth. Tickets are on sale right now.
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  You want to find out more details, of course, go to the
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  post OG's website, and of course always go to Molly Hatch's website to find
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  out the latest on what's going on with the band. Looking forward to hearing
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  more new music from abbey Road. And it was a play, dude.
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  I'm so happy that we got a chance to talk today and hopefully I'll well
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  get to meet up with you there at the post Dog on June fourteenth.
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  Buddy, Jeff again, thank you for having me on. Everybody pick up
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  the new record. It's coming out in the fall. We did it at
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  abbey Road. I can't release the title, but that's coming out soon.
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  Jeff. Thank you so much for everything,