Latest / Corpus Christi Originals Podcast / #29 | The East & The Crow

Transcript

#29 | The East & The Crow · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on y'all?
• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's Ucilari Hernandez here.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_02: This is the Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: We're live guys.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the show.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, thanks for having us.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: Hi.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate y'all coming on.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_02: So somebody reached out.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_02: Who reached out?
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_02: Was it Lee?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: It was you, right, Lee?
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was I was been looking for like the best podcasts in Corpus, and you were the top, man.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: So like it's pretty awesome.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: All right, cool.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I like to have musicians on here.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no, uh, I haven't had uh like what do y'all like Southern Rock or what do you what style are you guys?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've uh branded ourselves recently modern southern rock.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: We were kind of uh boarding on the edge of Texas country for years until we got our corpus drummer Pete Gutierrez in there, and he is he is all rock all day, man.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: We also I saw you had a shirt that said Corpitos on uh on the website there, and we've like every once in a while we use the hashtag Corpitos Rock as well.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_02: So, like yeah, that's cool.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: I saw this grunge, yeah.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Corpitos grunge, yeah.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hell yeah, man.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's pretty cool, bro.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: Saying I listened to uh a couple of y'all songs on YouTube.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: Check them out, guys, on YouTube.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and it was uh I don't know, it's for me, it was kind of like 90s, maybe like 90s uh grunge.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: That's why you call it grunge, right?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Some of it definitely can't blame it on the rain, is uh is definitely grunge, yeah.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: I could hear that the acoustic at the start, right?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that whatever it is, yeah.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah, man, that's cool.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I have like uh I had a few rap artists, but none, nothing like grunge or rock.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: I actually started out like on heavy stuff, you know, like uh I don't know, like Pantera, like stuff like that.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so I like to have musicians on here talking about their stuff, and uh this is awesome.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: So you guys are based in Corpus and Portland?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, half of us are in Portland, half of us are in Corpus.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: We uh we call it Coastal Bend home, but we practice we practice at Lee's house in Portland.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's right, that's cool, man.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so so how so how'd you guys get together?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, um did I mean where did this all start?
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_02: Like you know what I mean?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: What when uh so how did y'all start?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: How did y'all get together?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: How did y'all come together?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: What's up there?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: So uh so the the two of us that first started uh together were me and uh Wade Caps.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we were both going to the same church but didn't really know each other.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we saw an empty stage and both were thinking maybe it's time to like get out the like the music instruments and and do something finally.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so apparently on the same, I didn't even know this originally, on the same day we asked the music leader, like, do you need somebody?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because it was just like uh one lady playing guitar and she's amazing, but like just felt like she won like they wanted to have a band.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we came on the same day and we got to like really build up skills playing live every Sunday.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then I was like, Wade, we have to do like I want to play more, I want to do other stuff.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: So we did coffee shop shows as reluctant harmonies for a couple years, and then Brian wandered it off the street.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, that's not true.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's pretty close.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so yeah, so Wade and uh Brian's wife work together uh at the station, and then eventually Brian works there as well uh over at K RIS.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that's where you should get all your news.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh right.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Right on.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: So Brian done had done karaoke for years, and he's like, I want to sing with you guys.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Okay, sure, we'll give it a shot.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: And he's really awesome.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then he brought all of his notebooks of lyrics, and uh we started kind of writing on the side, and then we kind of had like a flare-out gig where we tried to do a full gig of like four hours of covers, and it was terrible.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we were like, no, let's just write our own stuff.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, and it's kind of that's been the journey of the East and the Crow since then.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: We did some recordings and we've you know had some different people roll through on drums, but uh in our current lineup, it's uh I'm on bass and keys, and and Brian writes our our awesome lyrics and does lead vocals and front man stuff.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: He runs out into the crowd with his wireless mic.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you kind of gotta do that.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: You kind of gotta do that as a front man, yeah?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, especially especially like I don't play any instruments, so it's in my opinion, it's my job to try to get the crowd hyped up, get them entertained, make sure they're into it.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of times, you know, we're playing to people who've never heard our music before, so it's not like they're hearing covers and singing along.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you know, I want them to, you know, pay attention and listen and you know, maybe know the songs next time they come or whatever.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I try my best to entertain.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: And it's kind of I it's very difficult to get your stuff out there if they don't know it, you know what I mean?
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: Very, yeah.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like you gotta throw a cover in there now and then, you know, that's just to bring them back to bring them back to the show, you know.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seems that way sometimes.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it sucks.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but so yeah, so you guys have got you guys have got uh y'all are on Spotify.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_02: Is that the main source of like getting your your stuff out there other than playing live?
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, we've got we've got our stuff on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, and um, and then a lot of our newer stuff we haven't gotten into the studio yet with.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: So that stuff you can hear on YouTube and see our live performances from like Surf Club, House of Rock, Brewster Street.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, we post all of our live videos on YouTube just so that people have access to the newer songs, because I mean we get really good responses when we play stuff out in public, and they're like, where can we hear it?
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Well, the older stuff's on, you know, at Spotify, the newer stuff you can listen to on YouTube for now.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: We've got, you know, until we can work on the new album.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we did release two new songs this year on this everywhere.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Can't blame it on the rain and punching bag, baby.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: So we recorded those out in Flower Bluff at uh yeah, check them out.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: Harvey City Sound Lab.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, great guys over there.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, dude, that's what's up, man.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_02: So so y'all do you so you're putting the singles out there?
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_02: People are you that's good, man.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: You're getting a response from the crowd and where they can hear it, man.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so is there any other things?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: Any other things?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I noticed you guys had a a sponsored uh like commercial, like on Instagram or something.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: You need what I'm saying, like uh like is that the uh another type of marketing that you're doing to get your oh yeah, no, we you know we're trying different things.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're trying to do more TikTok videos and stuff, and and we did doing more vertical video uh people because that's kind of where it's at now.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because the pandemic, right?
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we're we're good friends with Clarissa.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: She works at the station with half the guys that work over there.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um so that was a fun show that we were trying to promote.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: We're playing with that new uh Canva video editing software, so you can like go in there and we're making trying to do new stuff.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_02: Dude, that's cool, man.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_02: Good for y'all.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: Good for y'all.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so you got some you got some older members in there.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what is it, turning 40?
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: Some guys turned 40, you wanted to get in.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_02: What's up with that?
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, those are one of the prompts that I uh thrown in here.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: So like we kind of say that this is our one and only shot at being rock stars.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so that we started, you know, in 2018.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: I was in my late 20s.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the guys are on their way to 40.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Ralph, who's our lead guitarist, is is amazing.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we don't peg him at an age, he's just our uncle Ralph.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: So so we're we ranged the gamut, but this is our like we're taking this as our chance.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're putting ever all of our energy and heart and soul into you know this this band.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's good.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: It makes it work though, you know, like you talk to a lot of musicians who are in a lot of bands, and they're like, you know, my last band this, my first band that.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: And with us, it's like we started so late in life, it was like we don't have time to to mess around and go through different bands and different band members.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, we all kind of listen to each other's input and you know, try to put out the best music that we can to where we all feel like, hey, we wrote this together, like this is the East in the Crow, this is our music, you know?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: And you can hear it.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, a lot of the times, like I bring the grungy kind of lyrics and the grungy kind of voice out, and sometimes, I mean, sometimes my voice is a little twangy depending on how the guys are playing the guitars, and and Ralph, the older guy, has Uncle Ralph has a a different, you know, a different set of bands that he grew up listening to, and you can hear that come in when he plays lead sometimes too.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's really neat.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: So that so I was gonna ask y'all, so the songwriting process, I mean, do y'all do y'all write together like in a room, or do you write something and send it off?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: How do y'all do that?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, everything is in that room at least sitting in right now.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, you can uh you can see our process.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and steal our songs, even though you don't have the lyrics.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's all of our chords and stuff that we're working on, songs that we're going to that like trying to bring on stage shortly, or yeah, like uh going to be working stuff.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: So everybody's like super creative.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: So like I'll write I'll be writing lyrics when I'm at home.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: The guys will be coming up with stuff when they're at home, and then when we get together for practice, it's like, hey, check out this thing that I wrote, and it's like somebody starts playing something, and then somebody else joins in on their instrument, and then somebody else joins in on their instrument, and then I start flipping through my lyrics, and I may have like four lines written.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time you know the end of practice, we've got the whole song done.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: We just gotta put it on a piece of paper and work out the kinks to get the dynamics in, make it more interesting, stuff like that.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: But we pretty much have the bones of a new song.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cool, man.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: Almost almost every time we get together.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right on, dude.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: DJ It's really crazy though, the amount of like some songs will will sit, and like we've we've still we were just this year brought a song that we were writing like at the very beginning of being together, like uh what uh what's Glasshouse is a song that we've been playing at our current shows.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's on our like main set list, even if we have just an hour we're playing this, and the chords for that song and like the chorus have been just like around for four or five years, and now it's finally getting out.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: But then we'll write something new, like uh coming up for air, I think was on the stage within like a month of us like rehearsing it, right?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: So like it just depends, you know, it ranges back and forth.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Some songs need more work than others, some of the stuff just clicks.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right on.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you notice like a certain I mean do you do you notice a formula or a pattern that happens between the songs that are that y'all that are popular or not popular?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh usually the I in my opinion, usually the popular stuff, the bass and the drums are really loud.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: The bass and the drums, when they hit hard and they hit together, it just like the way I don't know the way Pete and and Lee play, it just draws you in.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the a lot of people don't expect the uh you know, I mean, I have a country background, Texas country background, but I grew up on rap and nirvana in the 90s.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: And um a lot of people don't they look at us on stage and they're like, oh that that looks like a rock band, but then I'm I'm wearing cowboy boots, you know, and then you don't expect the acoustic guitar to come in and be playing rock music and when the way it's like the way I don't know, man, the way it all just flows together.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's gorgeous, it's beautiful.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's us, yeah, dude.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's very interesting.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: The songwriting process is always interesting to me, especially because like like music, it's it's always like it's always the same because like there's seven notes in a scale.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, how many chords can you get out of a scale?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's why I'm asking, like, is it the same, you know what I mean?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: How do you stay away from being the same but still be catchy?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: I are uh our songs like range the genres, range the chord progressions, like like if you go through and listen, I think it's you know, because of kind of the organic writing process, like things tend to just happen.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'd say the only thing we've gotten sometimes formulated with is like the like the order of the song, like verse, verse, chorus, you know, instrumental chorus kind of thing.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: But but outside of that, like some of that comes from us not having as much experience playing out for some of the guys.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: So like if you mix the just like we don't know what the formula is, so we're gonna do what we want to do, uh, and then like take that and and apply um, you know, Pete and Ralph who've played for years, you know, and really have that experience and know what things are supposed to sound like, it just like a lot of our songs have just like I I want to hear people try to cover our songs because I think it'd be hilarious to watch them be like, Why the hell does it do that?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like there's just like a random stop in the middle of it, or it switches there's a key change, or like we just drop like the the volume entirely.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh coming up for air that I mentioned before, like it's all about the drama of like how like of uh of the volume.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: So like we we're playing loud, we're getting into it, and then right when Brian's about to start singing, we just like as quiet as you can possibly be on the stage.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like you see, but I think that brings in the dynamics of like me not playing an instrument because it helps me it helps me like show the emotion that it took for us to write those lyrics and for us to write that music, you know what I mean?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like when it drops out and I go up and like I throw my arms up and just start singing, and then like nobody else is playing, and it's just me.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: People turn and look and they're like, Whoa, what happened now?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna pay attention.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: And we may be halfway through the song, but at least I got them for the second half, you know.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: Very interesting.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, about to drink beer, and you know, it's like they may just be there for whatever.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: All of a sudden, they're coming up to you after after you finish playing a song, they're like, Hey, where can I get that at?
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: Like, what is where are you guys?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Well, we've been here for an hour with you.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's funny, bro.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm taking a break right now.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to go to the bathroom, man.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right on.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, as a reaction to those things, will be like, Man, y'all remind me of being back in Austin or whatever, or like, are you y'all from Austin or whatever?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: And we're trying to show, like, you know, especially here, we'll say it to our Corpus Christi audience, it's like, no, it doesn't have to be from Austin to be original music and have high energy and be something you want to listen to.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, really trying to promote you know, recording right here in town, writing right here in town, and then bringing that music out.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So, we just want to see everybody come out for original music and and support the community.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's almost almost like like not only music, but there's other portions of the community like where we're trying to like push it up, you know what I mean?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_02: But it's just taking time.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what it is, you know what I mean.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all sense that as well.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: The community, it took a little while, but they got behind uh like artwalk and stuff like that.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's um, you know, there's definitely a lot of artists in the area, different types of artwork and stuff like that.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I think artwalk really helped, and then you know, you're not necessarily going to Artwalk to hear the music or to see bands, but there are bands playing on every other corner, so it's like you might catch somebody out there and be like, Oh, you know what?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: I never thought about that being art.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Let me see who this is, you know.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, local musician, it's a local artist.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, for sure.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna mention that when you were talking about your lyrics, like your your voice is an instrument as well, you know.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's an art.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh for sure.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man, definitely.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_02: Music is an art.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: I've always loved music uh ever since I started playing it.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like we're underground, like not a lot of people know about the musicians in town, but there's so many of them, you know what I mean?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's the the the roster is fierce and deep, man.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you ever go out to like the exchange on jam night to hang out, or like uh singer-songwriter night at Surf Club or at the the Water Garden now.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, like it's it there's so many people that are ready to play, and it's we just got to get them up there.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, get them up there to get it out there, dude.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: For real.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome, man.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: So you guys are what five piece, five piece, right?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right now we're five.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're we're playing live with five people for sure.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's cool.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: You got a lot of different influences, man.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: We can bet Jordan.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: We've always got room for one more.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: Right on.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Stop on by.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Brian can't rap.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: We need somebody who can do that.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's funny.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you do harmonies, don't you?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Lee, yeah, I do the harmonies for sure.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: And uh Wade was always doing harmonies, and we're gonna have um, we've got for the uh what how long has George been with us for like six months now?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so George is an amazing harmony singer, but he's been so focused on being our new rhythm guitarist.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're gonna you'll hear uh George on our tracks soon enough and like and coming out there because a lot of the stuff because we wrote it the three of us, uh Wade, Brian, and I like it's designed for that for that three, three at least three vocals.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: So that's awesome.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the more the more the merrier.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: So do you find yourself doing higher harmonies or lower harmonies uh to his vocals?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it depends on if I was there when we first started writing the song.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes uh you know, for some of the things.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I want to do the higher things, but like also Brian's got a like a really good range.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of the stuff, like to keep that energy up, you want to keep it in that tenor range, uh, which makes it very challenging for the other vocalists like to uh to do harmonies above, yeah, and not end up with the uh Simon and Garfunkel kind of like kind of kind of thing.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh but you know, so for some of the songs it's it's right on there with it, but like for Embers in the Sea, which is like my favorite song to end on that we've written right now, and that's what I really want to bring into the studio right now.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: It has a very like loud and you know, higher harm.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: I just have to belt it and like back up from the microphone so that I can so that we can just blast it out.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: But then recently Ralph's been like taking that harmony when I need to switch back into what Wade's part was, and it's pretty it's pretty awesome to see, you know.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_02: So are you are you comfortable in a certain key or uh Brian?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Or or like I mean, are y'all do y'all playing the same key?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: Because you said you're a tenor range, and I don't know which which which key would be good for a tenor range, you know.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: I we're all over the board as far as keys of the song goes.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Brian's like, what's the key to a song?
• 18:43
  unknown: No.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's funny, bro.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay, because I don't know what half the words are to our songs, so we can all have our expertise.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so uh but I don't know, like it's kind of funny.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see, I think you can tell that we have a range in what our like the keys of our songs because of the capos on the rhythm guitar, because you want to stick to those like those cowboy chords that let you really have it open and get a lot of uh you know, a lot of volume and sound out of the guitar.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: So like it really varies um as far as like what the key is.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: And some of the stuff like it's it's higher and it's energy and it's scream, like more screaming type of stuff, and then we have the more country stuff that I think probably ends up being in that lower range.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have some strange stuff.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: We have stuff that's in like G sharp minor, or like I don't know, like just uh what's like there's a whole song like we're for the verse, like the keyboards hang out like on just the G sharp uh G sharp minor thing, and then go into some B stuff, which is like horrible on guitar unless you have unless you're capoed or whatever.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Cape O, yeah.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um no, so it's kind of it's all over the place, and it's and it's pretty great.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we you know, to his credit, like we don't consider too much what his key what his range is when we write.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like somebody just starts doing the chords, and then he's like, Okay, I'm gonna sing, and he like is the best for coming up with like melody lines.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's so hard.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, maybe it's because I'm a bassist, but like trying to find the melody line from chords is even like even just instrumentally without words is hard, but like he's just goes with it.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: The words and the melody line come at the same time, yeah.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Great for the for the songs that he wrote that I some of them you know uh Wade has come up with the melody line or or Ralph, but like it's majority of the time it's Brian with right on point.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, yeah, it's like how do you do that?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: How do you find it?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like, where's the first place to start?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: So you've been singing for a while then, Brian?
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a little while.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, my dad decided he wanted to start doing karaoke when I was like 20 or 21.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I would always go to the bar with my dad, so I was like, all right, I'll go with you, you know.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: And then he was like, Come on, get up here and sing.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, I don't sing.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like, huh?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then um I remember the first karaoke song I ever sang was uh by Gary Allen, which he has like a real grungy, country kind of sound, right?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: And um that just got me to where I was like, man, I really feel this music, like I really want to sing now.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I started writing my own lyrics and everything, and and that was pretty much as far as I took it for a long time.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: I just had notebooks of lyrics, and then when I met when I met Lee and Wade, it was pretty much like, hey, you know, if you guys want to, we can work on original stuff.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: And Lee and Wade were like, well, I mean, we have you know tried, we've just never really stuck with anything.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, look, I have all these notebooks, like, let's see what we can do.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: Cool.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: And we put together like two country songs and then decided we were never gonna do country again.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: The country of country songs.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you look through like the the analys of our YouTube, I think you can find it find a copy of My Old Guitar, uh, which is like Like boom, boom, boom, boom, you know.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh crazy.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard your name from my own guitar.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's like that, but that that twang, that that twang just comes natural for me.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: So we had to really like get the music away from there, which is where we wanted to be.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't want to be, you know, we didn't really want to be in that country sound, anyways.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: For me to hear it, to hear the music differently to get that like the grunge sound and the rock sound that you know I also grew up on.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_02: And so most of your lyrics, so I guess do your lyrics have like a theme to them, or everyone's different, or I mean, what's up there?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of it's different.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um when I first started writing with the band, I was pigeonholed into like heartache stuff.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then um substance abuse type of stuff, and then depression kind of stuff.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I go through phases of what I'm writing, uh what I'm writing to, and um luckily it's all diverse enough that when it mixes together, it makes for a hell of a set list.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's good, man.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty fun because you're like a lot of times there's like this huge dichotomy between the what the lyrics are and what the song is.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: So like we have songs that are crazy hard rock and it's a love song, and then we have songs that are like I am done with this life or whatever, and it's doop do do do do very happy and kind of stuff.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so like and it and it worked, no, it works though, and it's it's it's kind of like a a bonus to see if you're paying attention.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, so in like a couple of the songs where we've done music videos, like the first time I saw one of the shots in the music video, I was like, oh right, that's what that lyric means.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: I've never paid enough attention.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, we we get that a lot on uh without you.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Without you was the first music video we did, and um in the video, like I I knew when I write a song, like I can see the video in my head, whether we're making a video for it or not.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like I just know like that's how I see my lyrics, you know, like it's the story.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, without you is about this dude who's in love with this girl and she just bailed on him, and it basically turned this whole world upside down.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's drinking, he's going crazy, he's like, I don't know what to do with myself, I don't I don't know who I am without you.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: And one day he's sitting like on the floor and he puts on a pair of her shoes and he's like, I put on your favorite pair of shoes to change the angle of my point of view.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: Crazy.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: So everybody's like, Oh, that's such a cool lyric.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then when we made the video, I actually put on a dress and a pair of shoes, and I was looking in a mirror and I threw like a beer bottle at the mirror, and it was like, holy crap, like now I get it.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like other people are like, now I now I understand what that lyric meant.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, and it's it's just cool to be able to display it that way.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, dude, that is it.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_02: It reminds me of what you're saying earlier of how it's art, you know.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you you like paint a picture, but with your lyrics, it's pretty, it's pretty interesting.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, so many people knew that lyric, but to actually like watch me act it out, like my wife watching me act it out was like, oh, like I get it now.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, dude, amazing.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a different feeling, yeah, for sure.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, dude, that's awesome, man.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it even reminds me of like uh because like 90s lyrics, because I'm into I'm a 90s person, you know what I mean?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: And whenever I would listen to those guys, like I would like, what the heck does that mean?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: And and even still to this day, I'm like, dude, what does it mean?
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm out here looking it up, like, dude, what did he mean in this song?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like, like the dude from like STP or or like uh, you know, you know those guys from that era, but anyway, that's that's pretty cool, man.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_02: So you guys got a single coming out?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Punchy Bag Baby?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, we just released it, yeah.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so you just released it, it's on Spotify, uh, where everyone wants to listen to, right?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, everywhere.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want to share about that song?
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe uh songwriting process or whatever.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that one I think was started by either Lee or Ralph, because that one had a very, very different feel to it.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's meant it's start, it's uh kind of um like a walking bass blues progression kind of thing.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: And the song overall ends up being some people call it like rockability.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really, it's really um like totally different from anything else that we've released, I'd say.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so so but it but it's just it's just a lot of fun, you know.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I get to start it out on the stage and we're moving along, and it has these, you know, these stops that Brian gets to sing over that are just uh perfect, and it's got a really great um spot in there where um tell them about the bri I love how you did the bridge for this song.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just um Brian, you want to talk about that?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's super organic.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, dude, you put me on the spot.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know the bridge.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: One, two, three, four.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that was weird.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't even come up with bridge lyrics.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I was at the point to where I was like, look, dude, we don't even need a bridge.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just have like a really cool instrumental.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: And the song is about uh, you know, the song's about this couple who fights all the time and they probably shouldn't be together, but he's never gonna leave, even though he knows he should.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: So he's basically saying, like, I'll always be your punching bag, baby.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, I'll take your hits and you can wear the crown.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like he's the queen, like she won the fight, whatever.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: So we had I bet we had played this song like it was finished, like it was done.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like we would we had already hit the stage with it, with no bridge, and I was like, just accepted.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: We don't we don't need a bridge for this song.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: And one day in the practice room, like I just started singing along with the with the bridge notes, and it was I was like imagining like round one fight, like round two, like in Mortal Kombat, you know?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, we'll go a one round, two rounds, three, then four, and then one of us is gonna hit the floor.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, man, this this is cool.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I let I let the bridge go halfway through with just music, and then I come in on the second half and sing, you know, one round, two rounds, three rounds, four.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's cool.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was like yeah, parallel to the guitar solo that's in that section, which is really cool that they they've worked out on.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: So there's usually Brian gets to dance with the guitarist a little bit, yeah, only singing to that part, dance fight.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Simple set of lyrics like I've ever written, but it was something that like you couldn't force, like it just needed to come organically, and and one day during practice, I mean it just hit me.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cool.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's pretty cool.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_02: I pretty cool because people know that sometimes people know the bridge is coming, and it's like, okay, what are they gonna do this time?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh yeah.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_02: So that's that's pretty cool, man.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_02: Check them out, guys.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_02: Check it out.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_02: What is it?
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_02: The punching bag, baby.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_02: You guys had a you have you'll have it on YouTube also.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's on it's everywhere.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: We use DistroKid, it puts the music like we make sure to get the music out everywhere so like they they take care of that.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, hell yeah.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: So DistroKid, so they distribute it pretty much everywhere.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you just uh check off all the boxes and you give them the picture and the I don't I'm giving away the secret sauce.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: No, there you go.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I also get I end up having to write up Brian's lyrics, which is always interesting to see how much he's diverged from what he originally wrote.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: No, okay.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty like because you have to uh they want you to get it to where the lyrics sync up, like you can do a karaoke with it.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, okay.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: You have to like hit the spacebar as you're going through the words and have them make it like through a song.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I need to go back and fix the the lyrics originally before I can do this, uh, to have it come through.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: But it's really neat though because it's not it's not the same.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like the courses are not the same, like all the like kind of like to include that stuff in the recording.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I love that we get to perform a lot of our stuff out before we record it.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because like I think that the organic, like the pickup words into the different courses and stuff come from from being out there and really getting to feel the music.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: So like it's not just copy and paste each one of these courses, like, oh, on this one it has this little pickup, and this one it's changed to, you know, it's about me instead of about you and all that kind of stuff.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and then you feel you feel each other, you feel the energy when you're live too.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if there's anything we can bring to the stage, is energy.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know that like I can't, I am not the big like even close to the best bassist in town, let alone like around the world.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but like, and and you know, and Brian will is often down on himself about whatever.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: But like the the fact is if you come to see us live, like we leave it all there on the stage.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like we're jumping around, he's out there in the crowd, he's jumping on tables.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Pete and I are you know, we go up to Pete and we're like like if you have a free hand, you can hit a drum, and we're back, like uh Brian will be back through the drummer.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: And George now has got his wireless set up, so we're jumping around the stage and fighting through the like the instrumental choruses, and and it's fantastic.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Ralph was gonna put his back out one of these days because he'll jump off the stage too with his week or whatever, so that's our claim to fame is we look old, but we're we have a lot of energy.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's all good, man.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: Dude, it's it's all good.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like some people put some people won't go that far, you know what I mean?
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you guys are putting definitely putting in the work.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good thing.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's definitely a good thing.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so you guys have uh y'all have something live coming up today?
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_02: What shows do y'all have coming up?
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we've had a big weekend, so like unfortunately, we kind of hit this backwards.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Friday we opened for Clarissa Cern at Brewster Street.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's our second appearance over there, and did just an hour of our like kick-ass music.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like cool, was it how was it turned out?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was pretty, I'd say it was probably a hundred people there, right?
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: And that was all that was a ticketed show, it was just pretty great.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, and people were like everybody was coming out with their cell phones to record video and check it out later and stuff, which we really appreciate.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: And Clarissa was so gracious as a host, uh having us come in and then thanking us like when she started the set and like after, and we took pictures with her band and stuff, and it was just a great like showing of you know corpus music camaraderie uh or whatever.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yesterday we were in Sinton, uh completely different kind of scene.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're at like a rodeo hall kind of thing, and they were doing you know, chili cook-off and and cars and that and show and all that kind of stuff, but that was uh fun.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what do we have coming up?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: We're playing uh next month in Portland.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're helping out uh Real Men Wear Pink.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: So you know they raise money for um you know cancer research uh and that sort of thing.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: So they're gonna be doing a big event in Portland.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then we're playing for the first time at the Packery uh Bar and Grill in Corpus in November, which is gonna be a cool opportunity for us.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then the very next day, uh the 19th in November, we're playing for the first time at the Corpus Christi Wine Festival, uh, which is gonna be great.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: We're playing on the same stage as um is it proof of life?
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: And oh, who's who was the other headliner this year?
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to remember.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, have you I'll have to go back and look.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's shaping up to be a great event.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and we're all excited to get to play more.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: We've been doing some more hometown shows.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: Brian's got a young kid, uh, so we can't do it tour as much as as as we were, like, because we need to be respectful of that.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, but we've been in Dow in the past year, we've been in Dallas and San Antonio, Luckenbach, uh, Beeville.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: So, so but I mean, do y'all get good responses uh when y'all do go play out of town?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, what's up there?
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it was uh San Antonio was the best for like for like a response.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh when we played at um we played uh Yesterday Los Reyes, uh, which is you know what a party, man.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: They part they they know how to party in San Antonio, dude.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: For two weeks, it's like triple what Art Walk is.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like we played on like a on a Thursday night, and you couldn't fit another person on that street.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: And they were all like everybody had their lotes and uh and and um and and stuff, and they were and was people were buying us beers and hanging out and and checking out the rock music, and it was fantastic.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_04: Cool.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: They're passing us beers while we were singing in the middle of the songs from the back of the tent, and they were like, That person just bought this for you.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, that person just bought this for you.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Yeah, it's pretty convenient.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: The beer tent was right by the kitchen.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm driving home.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: We had to stop, we had to stop halfway home in a taco truck at a gas station just to just to eat some food.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, man.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was crazy up there.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's good.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: Probably our worst load-in experience we've had so far as well.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: That was an interesting gig.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we had to walk the whole drum set, what, like maybe half a mile because of how we had to cross the street.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's yeah.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: When they do fiesta up there, I mean they shut down the streets, they shut down the sidewalks.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: That way they can keep everybody, you know, in an orderly fashion.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: So we had to park down the road and around the blog and then carry everything over, and then we get there and we're set up, and Peter G is like, hey bro, uh I forgot my drumsticks and corpus.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh we had to like we we had to map out a music store in downtown in downtown San Antonio and walk over to it because we couldn't go over there.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: What else was that also the gig where you had to jump my car on the way there?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you broke down, you broke down.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: That was a rough day, man.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: We had a great show.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: It was 76.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, you like better make a town.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: We often ride like all together.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Brian's got an epic truck, so we kind of enjoy riding in there.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: He's even got the cooling seats.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, right on the show.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's pretty great after you've been playing outside.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: Those are the best tacos I've ever had after that show, though.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I appreciate you guys coming on the show, man.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have anything else you guys like to share?
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, just check us out on Facebook.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, we we try to update all of our social media, but Facebook, we we definitely keep up with the best.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, we're gonna be playing Surf Club, House of Rock, Bruce's Street, all in the future, probably all within the next couple of months.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, just working out the dates and stuff.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then, like Lisa, we've got a couple shows coming up in the wine festival.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a big party.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome, awesome, that's good.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_02: All right, well, um, I'll leave links in the description as well, uh, for sure, man, to get you guys uh help you guys out.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate that, man.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, thank you.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so uh man, once again, appreciate y'all coming on.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: Good luck with all your uh with all the stuff you're working on, man.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_02: For sure.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much for having us.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: We appreciate it, man.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_02: Glad you guys are here in corpus, man.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: Take it easy, oh yeah, forever.