The Best of Show - Podcast 10

Welcome back to Sound Scene Revolution, and as you've probably noticed by now, I'm not Rich, I'm Nariman, I'm the producer, and this week we're bringing you a best-of show of the past nine interviews that we've done with all the different bands and whatnot. Don't worry, next week we have a new show for you, it's a pretty good one too. We're going to start off with a little bit of Arno Core, we've got a little intro clip showing you what they do, and we're going to follow that with a track off their album, the greatest band of all time, the track's called Total Recall, so we'll jump right into that. All right, so what's up, we're standing I guess to hear today, here with Arno Core, so how are you guys doing?

Come on, let's do it, let's do it, come on! I heard you get some questions for us, I'm glad to hear that, so if we can just introduce yourself, tell us what you do in the band one by one. Hey, hey, hey, let me tell you something, my name is Holt Sfoia, and I do the lead vocals for Arno Core, let me tell you, and I get a whole dynamic range that I learned in the Vienna Boys Choir. For example, I could do the highs like this, go! And I could do the lows like this, go! And right in the mid-range, maybe right around here, go! All right, I love the range this guy has! Can you believe it? I absolutely love it! I love it!

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next, we're going to talk to them about their shtick, and what they do during their shows and whatnot, we're going to follow that with the track off their demo, God Made You Woman Because He Hates You, then we're going to follow that with some Mike Park interview, he's going to talk about racism, and how he's dealt with it during his shows and whatnot, and we're going to hear a track from him, called From Korea, so here you go! Judging by your history, why shouldn't I believe this band will break up in a week? Feel that! Because we're really good! Because each of the other bands lasted at least a few years before I went to shtick! Because we have a shtick, which brings me to my next point! Hey Rich, ask us how we got our shtick!

So, um, how did you guys get me? That's funny, you should ask, um, basically, uh, you don't know, uh, I'm really glad you asked that, I never thought you would, uh, we were, uh, just a normal band who played really, really, uh, heavy music that everybody seemed to love, but, um, but we seemed to be missing something, so, uh, and then we, I don't know if you've heard Arno Core, but they're like, they're, like, you know, they act like Arnold Schwarzenegger dressed up the greatest band of all time. Yeah, they're pretty much the greatest band ever, and then they, what was, what's the show called? The Great Deadliest Band? Is it Will's Deadliest Band, right? And they needed another band, and they said, and then there was another band opening up called Count Dante.

The Chunky Rockabilly Broads couldn't play, so. Yeah, yeah. The Mike to your face. Yeah, the Chunky Rockabilly Broads couldn't play, so we got to play. Basically, they needed another band that was like a shtick or whatever, like, if you want to play, you gotta come up with something. And so, Alex had this idea, like, well, we're Meat Hammer, why don't we be, like, why don't we be butchers instead of, but we don't kill animals. Alex voted for Vikings. We worked in a, we worked in a people factory, you'd kill people all day. And, of course, Greg thought that was a great idea, so, I went along with it. Yeah. And now I love it. I didn't think it was a great idea, I thought of the entire damn idea. Oh, you did?

And I thought of the band's name. And you guys are scared. I don't recall you, I don't recall him thinking of the whole idea with the butchers thing, I mean, I just recall I did all the work. I didn't recall hating you. I didn't come up, I didn't come up with anything, but I just played in the band. So, anyway, we played the show, we played the show, and it went up really well. It was almost sold out, and, like, and everybody went, I would say, crazy. Yeah, and then we, like, never played again. Yeah, and now we played, but we really want to play again. Yeah. But, so, yeah, I think we're pretty committed to that. So, we're coming up with our gay character names and all that stuff, so we can be a full-on shtick.

You're the gay character? That was great. I thought with a name, like, Meat Hammer was implied. Yeah. It's my take.

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like, how people seem to, like, really to focus on the differences, whether they're racial or ethnic, anything like that. Have you ever, like, in your life, have you encountered any of that growing up or just trying to be a musician? Have I encountered overt racism? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, I've been, we've, I've been on stage half a dozen times where I've had boneheads sig-heiling me. I had a show in Miami in the early 90s where Skank and Pickle was playing, and there's 600 kids and eight skinheads up front sig-heiling me, and riot broke out, and I had to actually pull the Nazi skinheads over the states to save their lives. So, the irony right there is I saved them. Yeah. From there, racist bullshit. Did they even thank you for it?

They were just freaked out because, I mean, it was going to be, it was chaos. You know, people were just, people just started punching, and it was just like, you're just watching insanity unfold in front of you. And that's just like, a lot of that stuff, I mean, especially music-wise, when I play, I don't see that, first of all, because my music has changed a lot, and also because I think the audience have changed a lot. Early, late 80s, early 90s, it was so skinhead-oriented, especially with Ska. Ska has turned, complete 180-degree turn in terms of the type of people it draws. It used to be all just like skinheads, mods, and punks, and now it's like, just like nice, happy kids. And so that, that danger is gone, and I, it was every day, it was like, every day we're on tour, we're wondering, you know, how many skinheads are going to show up, and are they going to be good skinheads or bad skinheads?

Yeah. So we dealt with a lot of problems with skinheads throughout the years. Wow. And just the racism, you see it, I experienced it on such subtle teases, like going to the gym and playing basketball, and someone going, hey, Yao Ming, Yao Ming. It's like, you know, they don't know. It's just the ignorance of society. That's, yeah. A new acquaintance I met last week. Used the word nigger in casual speak. He said, don't worry, you're not like them. You may be Chinese, but you're just like me. Screw this, I'm leaving. Well, I don't need a racist friend, and I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. Your eyes are closed, and I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. Your eyes are closed.

Another day, another emotion. Playing a game, he called me a fag. I said, don't be an ignorant fool. You must be gay, your prejudice rules. Screw this, I'm leaving. And I don't need a racist friend, and I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. Your eyes are closed, and I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. Your eyes are closed. Quake the words. Express yourself, lift up your arms today. Start another, this ain't no fabled story here now. And I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. With your eyes are closed, and I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. With your eyes are closed.

And I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. With your eyes are closed. And I'm not like you. And I'm from Korea, my eyes are small. With your eyes are closed. So now we got Western Addiction coming up and our first ever phone call into the podcast. We're going to play Poor Recipe for Civil Cohesion by Western Addiction. And then we got Greg McPherson, the Canadian, talking about how Canadians lie and two-footed kickball, which is interesting. And we're going to play Slow Stroke by the Greg McPherson band. So here you go. Callers? Yeah, can we get a call? Yeah, can we take a call? Yeah. Can we take a call? Can we take a call to your podcast? But no one's listening. Yeah, we got Jeff from Ohio here.

Oh, yeah. Is this Jason? Western Addiction? It's me, Jeff. Go ahead. My friend Bob is having a birthday party next week. I was wondering if you guys could come out and play it, man. I love punk bands. You guys could go out a little Sun 4 to 1. I'll start a Blink 1 and 2 on TRL. I was wondering if you guys could come out and play my party, man. I don't know how these people are calling in. This isn't even out. It's a call-in show. Bobby, we'd love to come play your show. If you get a hold of our booking agent, Ken Yamazaki, at gmail.com, that would be awesome. Okay, guys, see you in the pit.

See you in the pit. Yeah, do we have an agent or anyone else? All right, yeah. I think. No more callers. Yeah, I think that's going to be it for our call-in section. That's the first one ever. Yeah, thanks for calling, Bobby. Yeah, good looking out, man. Thanks. Make sure you tune in next week. That guy just called in because this isn't even live. I don't know. He just felt like it. Yeah, that's weird. You should very much go and play that guy's show because I'd be very afraid. I'm all about it. We're there. That's what I'm doing. I'm all about it. It's probably watching right now. Anyhow.

Wrestling is very popular in Canada. It would be. I don't know. Yeah, have you done that leg wrestling? It would be totally different. I would imagine leg wrestling being big. Yeah, we do the two-legged kick up there a lot, too, where you hang like there's a ball on a string about five and a half feet off the ground. You have to kick it with two legs. Are you kidding me? No, it's a great game. I would break my ass if I tried to play that. People hurt themselves often. Yeah, it's a tough one. I'm a regional champion in that game, actually. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I've competed. You're putting me on, right? Yeah. Okay.

And task. Canadians are liars. All of them. Yeah. See, we picture you. We're like, Canadian, oh, they're all quaint and they have their taxes. And really, you're just putting us on. It's all live. Our taxes. You're high taxes. Is that what Canadians are known for? We're known for our high taxes. In America, we look at you. We're like, oh, they have health insurance and high taxes. And the funny $2 coin that they must throw at strippers. It's got to be hard. Yeah, it's true. It's a pain in the ass. But we have a dollar coin that we can put in our parking meters, which is awesome. We have dollar coins, too. We just don't use them. Really? Yeah. We have like... What do you call them here? They're silver dollars. And then we have the Sacagawea dollar, which is named after the Indian who helped Lewis and Clark, I believe, explore the West.

And then we raped and pillaged your tribe or something. So we're like, here's a coin. That's yours now. She probably actually explored the West for them. Yeah, and they just kind of made sure they didn't die. They hung out in Denver and just asked her to write reports. Yeah, let us know how that goes. Yeah. We'll give you a coin when you get back. It'll be awesome. I don't really remember. They just hung out at the hot springs drinking something. Whatever they drank back then.

My mama look like Carol Channing. She watched the sunset on 80s, black and white TV. You got a sister in Toronto.

You got a long man out and call me when you're drunk, BC. Well, it's the king of Corona. Dark glasses and a reason not to go back home. She fell in love with the night time. In love with his fists and his cheap cologne.

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All the trouble of living sits somewhere over... So that was our best of show this week. If you like those clips, we have so many more in our past shows. You could download them right off our site or stream them. Or you could subscribe to the feed. Listen in your iTunes. If you got any questions or comments, bands that we should interview, hit us up at soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. You can be our friends on MySpace. MySpace.com slash soundscenerevolution. If you want Rich back, email us or wait until next week. We're going to end the show the same way we started it, with some ArnoCore. They're going to enlighten us about the pump. And we're going to go out with Last Action Hero. This is Sound Scene Revolution.

You just talked about the pump real quick. Now, I've heard about the pump. How would you guys describe the pump? Again, to those who haven't experienced it. I can describe the pump very easily for you here. Okay, go for it. All right, the most closest thing the pump is like in the world, ever, is like an orgasm. That's right. Right? Everybody out here, the pump, it's like an orgasm. Exactly. So let me tell you, we're rocking up here for you people. We're coming the entire time. That's why we want to just keep playing and playing all night. You can't get us off the stage. We love it up here. Again, awesome. We like to share the pump with everybody in the audience. That's a good thing to share. That's right. All the lovely ladies out here.

I like to share my pump with you. I like to always say that, you know, Totten, Arnold Kaur has brought to Totten Adler many experiences of the pump and probably many children that he doesn't know about. You know, because the ladies, they're close to the front of the stage up there. He doesn't acknowledge those children. Those are not his. Absolutely not.

That's right. I just share the pump with people. What they do with it is dear business. We don't judge you.

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