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Hey, and thanks for tuning in to Sound Scene Revolution. What's up? I am Rich. Before we get started this week, we've got some amazing news for a couple of lucky listeners or just people who wanted free crap. We've got some winners. First, I want to announce the winners of our Teenage Bottle Rocket Red Scare Contest. We've got, I think it's pronounced Ryan A out of Westerville, Ohio, and Nicholas O out of Lynn, Massachusetts, I believe. So, those two won for the Teenage Bottle Rocket Red Scare Contest. Whenever Toby gets back from Germany, from the World Cup, we'll make sure to let him know to send you out your free crap. Winner of our Cougars Contest was Chris Kay out of Chicago, Illinois. So, I'm just really hoping that Chris isn't in Cougars as they are also from Chicago.
So, congratulations. You guys are going to get an email and you should get your stuff sent out fairly soon here. Now, on to this week, we've got an interview with local boys out of Oakland. Their names are, the name of the band is Dessa. Maybe you've heard of them. Formerly Link 80. Started a new band. Cooler band. Better band. So I say. And we're going to play a track off of that before we get into the interview. By the way, boys from Dessa, four, three or four of them, all live in one apartment complex across from possibly the scariest group of homeless crack addicts I've ever seen before in my life. It was terrifying. But, uh, they're good guys. So, check them out. First, we're going to play off of their LP, The Red, or A Year in the Red Room.
We're going to play track number two, which is called Five Year Reunion. So be sure to listen to that and enjoy it, and, uh, yeah, listen to the interview. And, oh yeah, at the end, we got a chance to win some stuff from Dessa, so be sure to listen to that to find out how to win free stuff from Dessa right here.
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We are sitting today in, what, the living room, I guess, uh, of Dessa. And so, if we can just go around real quick, if you guys can just introduce yourself and give a fact about, I don't know, yourself or something you like. I don't know. Uh, my name is Ryan, and, uh, I sing in Dessa, and, I don't know, I have a job. What do you do for a living? Um, I'm a manager at an art supply store in Oakland, across the street from, uh, CCA, the art college. It's a great job. So, if anyone wants to meet you, we can call together. Yeah, you can go, you can go in there. The people that work there are really nice. Right on. Uh, my name is Aaron. I play guitar in Dessa. Uh, I live downstairs. And I work downstairs. All right, what do you, you work downstairs?
Do you deal drugs out of your living room? I do design design and web design. Oh, right on. So, I don't, I don't leave much. Stay in there. Yo, if you need some shit, just call us, though. Uh, I'm Adam. Um, I play the other guitar in Dessa, and, uh, I work at a law firm, and I just told my boss that I'm leaving for tour. Did you just hold him? When are you, you guys are leaving in June or something? Yeah. How, how'd that one go? Um, I don't really know yet. Um, my boss, I think, will be cool with it. I don't know if my boss's boss will be cool with it. All right. But, whatever. I was gonna ask that later, but, I mean, as long as we're on it, I mean, you guys are all, you know, pretty much grown up now. Is, is it difficult or different to be in a, you know, touring and working, like, rock band now, as opposed to when you were in high school and stuff?
Well, since we all toured with Link 80 for a lot of years, and we've been doing Dessa for four now, and we actually haven't done a U.S. tour yet. But, we, we toured in England once, but we, we, it's gonna be new to go back out on the road for two months. Yeah, because you've got different kind of living situations now. We tried to do a tour a couple years ago with a band called The Matches from England, and it ended up just going really, really bad, and we ended up leaving the tour early, because it just, it was just too hard to make ends meet. Oh, okay. It's not because The Matches were awesome. We didn't get to, we didn't even really get to play, we got to play with them at one show, I think. Oh, wow.
It just wasn't put together, ideally. Possibly two shows, I can't remember. Like, you guys just couldn't get everybody together one place, or? No, it was, it was set up a little funkily by, by their people. It, it, it just, it just didn't, it just wasn't a very fully functioning tour, so we kind of, let's go in this mail. With the exception of, uh, going to, uh, Europe and England, which was about two years ago, this was going to be our first proper tour, even though we've been a band for almost four years now. So how do you make it to Europe and England, but not like the East Coast? Like, you gotta have friends, I guess. Yeah. England's, uh, like, smaller than California, really, so, I mean, you can play a lot of shows in a pretty small space, and you don't really have to travel too far, and you just have to, we all came out of pocket to buy plane tickets.
We had, we, Link 80 did a lot of tours over there, and we had, um, sometimes do better over there than we did over here, so we had the, we had the hookups necessary to, like, make it really easy. And Rx, Rx Bandit's really helped us out too, they have provided us with a lot of really cool opportunities, like, to travel and stuff where, um, stuff that we could have got, you know, on our own, but it's just, they just happened to invite us, and we thought it was, you know, good opportunities, and they're, like, really great band and really cool people, so we wouldn't probably ever turn down an opportunity to go on the road with them. Cool. Have you guys found, like, because of being in Link 80 and the fact that you've been in bands since, I don't know, how old were you guys when you guys started playing?
Uh, I was 15. Yeah. When the game started. Now. I was 19 when I joined Link 80. 19. Have you guys found that that's, like, really helped you guys out now, because more people, you know, you've met a lot of people, and a lot of those bands have kind of, like, grown up and are willing to help you guys out? We haven't really found that out yet. I mean, we played with a lot of bands, um, that have kind of gone on to bigger and better things, or people who used to be in other bands that are in more popular bands now. Um, the, the recycle factor is pretty high. Yeah. So you keep, you keep running into the same people. In some form. So maybe, maybe we'll find out soon if, if, uh, it'll be beneficial knowing those people.
You guys never called in any favors from somebody you used to tour with? No. I feel pretty uncomfortable doing something. I don't even know if we have any phone numbers or anything on there. We might, we might, you know, we certainly remember a lot of the people that we met and that helped us, but, um, I don't know. It's kind of, it's kind of sketchy trying to play the Link 80 card too hard. Yeah. You know, cause we want, or we have enough, we have faith that Dessa is a strong enough force to be its own thing. So, you know, the Link 80 reputation has helped us, but it's not like we, you know, we rely on that card. Yeah. You don't want to be known as Dessa, the guys from Link 80. You don't want to be known as Dessa.
Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people in the next year that find out about us, who probably won't even know that we were from Link 80. The biggest advantage is, is just that we've already done the band thing. Yeah. So it's, so we have, we just have that experience when we're doing this. It's not like a, it's a brand new band, but it's not like we're just doing this. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to go out and do it again. You kind of have an idea of how things go. But at the same time, it does have a new type of feeling, kind of like new shoes or something or like a new, a new car. Cause yeah, it's like, you know, we've driven lots of cars and now we have this brand new one to drive and it's really exciting.
That's awesome. Now I talked, uh, Communique had a similar kind of instance. They used to be American Steel and we talked to them about it and they said when they first started, they had a lot of people who were really pissed and kept calling for American Steel songs. And in recent years, that's kind of like tapered off. Have you guys had that kind of experience at all when you were playing? Not American Steel songs, obviously. More like a joking way. A lot of, a lot of kids yell out, verbal can't. It shows. Jagged thoughts. I don't think any of them are, I don't think any of them are, uh, serious. Hopefully it hasn't, it hasn't been even close to the point where it's gotten like annoying. Yeah. And it's, I mean, it's, it's still nice for us and flattering that people like remember the band and we're into it enough to like mention it to us.
Yeah. So, uh, yeah, it definitely hasn't, you know, been, it's more like a message boards and things that we see that kind of stuff. Yeah, like I think like the people that freak out about that, that would freak out about that and like hold it against us in a negative way. Like you guys blew it cause you're not link, link it anymore. Like those aren't the people that we really need on our team now anyway. But I think like American Steel and communicate is a very similar thing to what happened with link 80 and Desso where it's like the band was good and they had a really good sound and then it became something else that's totally different. And, you know, some people who are into A are necessarily going to be into B as much.
And I bet some people like, I bet actually a lot, a lot of people like communicate more than they did American Steel. And I think hopefully the same thing happens with Dessa. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely a really different sound. And I was going to ask you guys, did it come about, was it like one day you guys were all sitting down and you were just like, we need to scrap, you know, not scrap, but like what we've done with like 80 is wrapped up and we're going to start new or was it just kind of like you were writing these songs and they didn't really seem to fit in what you had been doing? Actually, some of the songs that we play now is Dessa. We had already started playing as Link 80 probably on the last UK tour.
Voltaire's Fable was a Link 80 song originally and originally had a horn line.
Didn't like the horn line? No, the horn line was cool. It worked out good. Yeah. I think, I think our songwriting, I mean, if you, if you go and listen to like the last three songs that we recorded for a Link 80 demo, it basically just sounds a lot like Dessa. I mean, there's not, not really any like a ska guitar or anything. It's more rock. And I think that the, the, the lineup of Link 80 had changed so much that it was like, you know, I think Aaron and Joey were the only, they were the only ones who were there at the conception of the songs. And so it's not that we couldn't relate to them, but we couldn't relate to them as much. Yeah. And, uh, you know, I think those, those songs that, you know, that we were playing were almost best personified and played by the original people that wrote them.
Yeah. Like, I think the Nick Traynor, Link 80 songs sound perfect with him. And then with, you know, Stoney or I singing, it's just like not quite the same. And I'm like, so it was time to do something else. I think we were just. It came about cause Steve had left to, or Steve was going to go play with our expandants who was our sax player. And we'd had a ton of lineup changes over like an eight year span of time. So it was just kind of a good opportunity to do. And we weren't really like mega stoked on the whole Link 80 career as it was. We were touring all the time. We couldn't really get a record together and it just seemed like a good, uh, opportunity to just like start over and do everything different.
Are you guys happier with the way you've been doing it now? You guys, has it been more by your own terms for this time? Most definitely. Uh, yeah. I mean, it was more by our own terms last time too. We're just doing it with different people. Like we're not, you know, different. The, the approach with Link 80 was tour all the time and then record whenever when you got together, yeah, which wasn't that often. And with that, we've kind of spent a lot of years just being home. Working on songs and getting our shit together. Yeah. Before we take it on the road and introduce all that stress into the whole, the whole situation. Cool, cool. Um, getting back, you were talking about, um, the songs and how, um, the original songs that were written by Link 80 just didn't seem kind of right.
You know, they seemed better suited for the original people. So, who does, uh, most of the songwriting for Dessa? Uh, that's, uh, that answer has many facets. House. It's a jewel with me. We got time. Go for it. It's pretty communal. That's the, like, the default. There's, there's, there's like way number, there's like way letter A. Yeah. Which would be Ryan writes a song in his bedroom on his acoustic guitar singing. Um, and then he brings it to us and then we kind of deconstruct the music side of it and he keeps the vocals how they are. Um, or Aaron will write a riff or a bunch of riffs and then, you know, we'll all kind of work on those together and then, uh, Ryan will write lyrics afterwards or we'll all just set up in a space.
I wasn't going to say that. Um, we're going to set up in the, or sometimes we just set up in the space and, uh, just kind of start riffing out and, uh, start hammering it together. And I mean, some songs, you know, come out really cool like that. Um, I think Arden Anthem was one song where we just recorded it or we wrote it all kind of together and kind of had to force ourselves to make it come together pretty quick. So we had to record it, um, for a split. So that was kind of an interesting way to write. We, we always write different. It's always, it's, it's never, nobody ever brings in an entire song like from start to Yeah, it just doesn't happen. And even if they do it, it gets taken apart so everybody can.
They think it's really good. You're like, no, no, hold on. We all play and write pretty differently. We all listen to different music for the most part. So we, you know, we can take the song and then divide it up into how everybody would interpret it. Yeah. I would imagine that if you probably put it under a microscope, you could eventually discover some kind of a pattern or like a rhyme and reason to it. But from a distance, it's just pretty mutant. It's just like, as it goes, like, it's just like, we just wait, we can't wait for that minute where it's like, it's done. When it, when we get that thing, like, okay, it's on the record. That's like, I like almost get that feeling. Like when I listened to the new record that we just finished, like, which I've only done a few times.
Like I had it, like, it's almost like finally a feeling of relief from like two years ago when we first started writing, like, you know, self-surgery or like any of those other songs we've been playing for like a long time. Yeah. Now finally I can say it, I feel like, all right, now we're done. Now they're wrapped up. Before they're recorded, we have a not so good tendency to just keep working on them. Yeah. Change them a thousand times. Yeah, which you can end up with just this like a messy, notey, kind of like masturbatory song. It kind of messes with, with your brain too. Cause I mean, we, we made a lot of demo recordings of some of the earlier versions of these songs. And now when, when we're playing the actual version of the song, I'll start thinking that the next part is a part that we've, you know, completely scrapped out of the song.
It gets really confusing. These are probably like versions like nine or versions 13 of, you know, like any of these songs that are on the records. Have you guys ever just reworked something to the point where you're like, okay, and then we're not going to do it. Yeah. We could probably have like two whole albums worth of songs that we just discarded. Just like overly like virtuose type shit. Yeah. It's kind of, it's kind of unfortunate cause we may have been able to finish two albums in the time that we did one. As long as you can make one good one, I think you'll be all right. Yeah, that's, that's what, yeah. That's true. That's cool. Um, one of the things I was going to ask is, uh, the artwork for the album.
What do you, doesn't what do you do the artwork for? Yeah, I did that. How does, uh, have you done it for all the albums or just this one? Um, no, I mean, I, uh, I did the, some of the art direction, I guess, for the last album. Um, it was all graphic design stuff. So it wasn't, it wasn't too, um, detailed design wise. I was going to say, this one looks more like an oil painting. It is an oil painting. Awesome, I got it. Yes, good call, Betty. Yeah, uh, I did, I ended up doing, uh, the cover for the Rx Bandits last album and then the one, the one that's going to come out. And so, uh, it just ended up working really well. There's not a lot of bands that kind of use fine art now that Photoshop is so. It's so easy to use.
So, yeah, totally. Embossed. So we pulled out, we pulled out Photoshop on the internal foldouts though, but. Yeah, no, we definitely did. So, and I, I do some layout work for other bands, so it's, it's kind of nice for me to be able to work on my stuff. Yeah, definitely. Now, is there, is it like, when you went in to do this, was there like a design that you had in mind or was it just something that you happened to have done that you thought, Yeah, that you thought worked really well. We, uh, we brainstormed about it. We had talked about using a painting and, um, that I'd already done and I think that everybody felt that we should do something for the album specifically. Mm-hmm. Um, and we kind of just came up with the idea of who to use for the model, for the girl, and then everybody just let me kind of go from there.
Mm-hmm. That's cool. Yeah, the, um, the girl in the picture is Sylvia Hurtado. She's a friend of, friend of ours and, um, my girl, well, yeah, no, my, no, yeah, she's, uh, definitely spoken for her, but she's, um, my, but she plays in a band with my girlfriend who's in a band, there's these four girls, they're in a band called the Hot Totties. We have heard of that. Yeah. You'll probably meet them, or if you haven't already, you'll probably meet them. We'll probably meet them. They're a really great band. Excellent. And they're, they like to get really drunk. They're all hot, too. Yeah. Uh, producer Matt Nerman over here has been pushing for us to interview the Hot Totties because we don't have nearly enough women on the show.
I don't think we've, have we ever spoken? We've never spoken with a single woman before. Well, you guys do that. I could be the, uh, I could be the, uh, middleman for a small fee. I'm pretty sure we could get a hold of them on our own, maybe. But, yeah, this, this show is way too filled with penis. I think the closest we got is there was, like, a chick in the room during one of the interviews and we were like, yes. Nice. Yeah. If anyone's interested, totally, uh, podcast not the way to meet women at all. And we're going to take a little break right there from the interview because I want to give you guys a chance to hear a little bit more of this band, a little bit of their music. They got a new album coming out, or I think it's, you can get it at their shows and you can order it from them, but it's not in stores yet.
I believe it's called Arriving Alive. And as much as I hate to say it, it, like, dwarfs everything that we're playing for you today because it's, everything I've heard off of that album is really good, but we don't have a hard copy, so we're not going to play that for you. So, if you like what you hear today, everything on their new album is, like, ten times better than that. So, you should check out their new album. But, we're going to play Voltaire's Fable, which is off of their LP, A Year in the Red Room, and then we're going to get back to the interview. And, if you like it, at the end, we got a chance for you to win their new album and a t-shirt, which will be sent to you from the guys in Dessa. So, uh, if you enjoy it, be sure to stay tuned to the end and we'll tell you how to enter that contest.
Until then, this is Voltaire's Fable, and then, back to the interview.
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Um, back to you guys because you're way more interesting than no one cares about us. Um, you guys recently had to cancel a bunch of shows and everything because your drummer actually went to join Streets to Nowhere, was it? Or Street to Nowhere, rather. Or Streets. Yeah. It's, Streets seems to, like, roll off the tongue better, but it's not. It's a single street. Um, how do you guys feel about that? That was, like, really hard to take, or do you guys kind of expect it? Should I not ask? I'd be the wrong person to answer. I can edit and post. I mean, I think everybody feels differently about the situation. It wasn't handled in the most ideal way. Mm-hmm. It, it, it, I mean, it's a sensitive thing. Yeah. I've been playing with Joey for, like, 11 years.
Yeah. So, like, there's not really, like, a great way to go about doing that. Yeah. Because it's going to be hard, regardless. Mm-hmm. But, I think behind all the, like, you know, shit that everybody feels, there's, like, it's probably best for both parties in the long run, which makes the whole thing a little bit easier. Yeah. Or it's kind of like, ultimately, if someone really wants to leave, there's no point really trying to hold them there. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's, it's definitely the best, like, on a lot of different sides of things. Okay. So. I, I kind of had the feeling that he was leaning that way. He had been, like, filling in some shows with them. Mm-hmm. And, uh, it's just a, it's a, it's a, it's a better, like, creative spot for him.
It's more of his, his, uh, alley. Mm-hmm. I think, like, his, his, uh, stylistic tendency, the way he plays, and his whole, like, approach toward, like, songwriting and stuff. Mm-hmm. He's not as, like, aggressive about getting into the song. Mm-hmm. I think he's, he's more content with just, you know, holding down the spine, which is a good, a good role for him. Yeah. And he must like 14-year-old girls. No, I'm not. Oh, yeah. I'm just, well, no, Joey's a married man now, so he's. I can say that, because we talked to Dave, and he's well aware of their audience, and he's younger females. Totally gonna get sued over that. Yeah, that's all right. Was it hard to find a replacement for? I mean, obviously, it wasn't real.
It was interesting. Hard, maybe not, but it was interesting. Interesting how so. Yeah, it wasn't, I, we've had other, I mean, with Link 80 especially, we've had other band positions that were much harder to, to fill. But the trying out people for band thing is, it's like real low on my school. Super uncomfortable. Yeah. Well, it's gotta be like awkward, because however many people, even if like four people try out, only maybe one of them is gonna get. And with drummers, it's really like, especially when you've played with a lot of bands, and like, we all kind of have our ideas about like, what kind of musicians we like. So, having somebody come in to play with us, we know whether we like them or not in the first like two minutes.
Yeah. So, it's just kind of weird. But then you have to stretch it to like at least half an hour. So they don't feel real bad. And it's totally awkward, because you know that the whole time there's like this, like x-ray procedure going on, and you're like trying to, you know, you, the drummer knows that all eyes and ears are on them. And, you know, it's not very stressful for us, because we, our positions are sealed. But like, we're like totally judging and nitpicking the details. But we, there's some, some really killer, killer drummers that came to play for us. And so, we were lucky enough to have some really cool people to choose from. Ryan's brother tried out. He was probably one of the best drummers.
It's got to be a little easier for your brother, because you know, you know him your whole life. Yeah, well, he, yeah. And he's also only been playing the drums for about a year. Yeah. But he, you know, he's, he's kind of been there from the get-go. Like, right when Dessa started, he's been like coming to shows. So, he was pretty familiar with the songs. Yeah. Yeah, he's a super exceptional drummer, and he was definitely a serious contender. That's cool.
Pretty clear. This was the first time we've had any kind of band auditioning where people actually flew in to do it. Wow, how many people showed up? Well, we had, I mean, we had at least probably four people offer to fly in. And we had two actually fly in. Wow. And the guy we actually have doing it is, flew in from Hawaii. Wow. So, that was, it was actually kind of flattering, like, that people would, because we don't have any money. Yeah. We didn't, you know, we didn't pay. You can't be like, yeah, we'll fly you up. So, uh. We'll get you a boat. That was nice. Like, that was, that was. That's got to be pretty cool that people did that. That's pretty cool, because I mean. But then at the same time, like, that was even more of a kind of commitment to that drummer.
Yeah. Because, you know, not, not only were we playing with them for a lot longer, because they did spend, like, 400 bucks a lot here, but we, like, you know, hung out with them for, like, three days and kind of got a feel for them that way, which is just as important when you're touring and in a band, so. Definitely. Now, did you get any, like, audio samples from them before they flew up? Yeah. Okay. So, one of them was just like, yeah, come on up, and then, like, five minutes into it. Yeah. There were times when we were sitting in front of Aaron's computer, like, you know, listening to this, like, MP3, and just, like. Oh, it, oh, it, you know, just, like, totally, like, nitpicking. Oh, did you hear that?
Did you hear that? Yeah. It was funny. Like, kind of related topic a couple, like, a month or two ago, right when Joey quit, we all went down to Seal Beach and recorded two songs with our friend who plays in Arc Spandits. Mm-hmm. And he's, he's a bro, and he's also, like, a phenomenal drummer, and we, we're all just, like, mega into the way he plays. And so, we went down, and we had two songs that we had written that we had done after the, they're writing a live stuff, and we ended up recording two songs with him. And so, we kind of used that as, like, the audition for a lot of drummers, which was kind of unfair, because. Which was super unfair. Can you destroy this drum set? But, but also, you know, a really good way to, you know, tell how people play.
I guess it could have been worse, you guys could have put on, like, some Rush or something, and been like, you gotta play that. Yeah, well, it's not that far away from that. Chris is a, a really high, a really high bar to have to judge against, and I think it really put pressure, un, unbeknownst to the contenders, like, they had a lot, they, they, they, they, they had a very high standard that they were going against. Because we all had this, like, Chris, uh, Chris's drum tracks, like, fresh in our heads, and we're just like, that's good, but it's not as good as Chris. Like, you know, it's like. Were you guys ever worried you're gonna, like, totally eliminate everybody, and just, at the end of the day, not have a drummer?
Did you guys feel. There was a, maybe a little flavor of that, but, like, once, I think, you know, what, or, at least for me, once we played with, with Reese, then I was confident that we were gonna find someone good, and then we played with Troy, and Steven, and all, all three of those guys, and Damien, and, um, there was, what was the other guy's name? I don't know. Okay, there was a couple. He was good, though. Everybody was, everybody was, at least, gonna play Joey's parts. Yeah. So, I mean, anybody could have, could have held it down, but we really wanted to, to pick somebody who was gonna take it to the next level. Yeah. And try to, try to step up, and play Chris's parts. Yeah. Because, I mean, we, we weren't really interested in just, in just, like, replacing Joey.
Yeah. We just wanted to. We were, we were being pretty picky as far as what we wanted from a drummer. If you got, yeah. If we didn't have one for this tour, we were gonna, you know, just have somebody fill in. Mm-hmm. Just to kind of take our time finding, just, because we've had a lot of experience with, like, band guys. Band dudes. Oh, yeah, if you got the chance to find someone, you know, good, who can really work with the band, you know, take your time on it, obviously. Seems like you guys got someone you're pretty happy with, so. Yeah. So, you're gonna be, uh, coming in to play, you guys are playing a couple of shows just around the area at the start of June. So, you're gonna be up here for that, or?
Yeah, yeah. He's getting out here next Wednesday, and then we're pretty much gonna live in our practice space until we leave for tour. We're planning on maybe trying to do some, um, like, free dress rehearsal type shows in our practice space. Our practice space is kind of small, though, so it'll probably be, like, 15 people at that. It'll be really packed, and we're gonna, you know, try to go off and do what we do live to give Steven kind of a feel for it. And then we have, um, a show at Nickel City down in San Jose, and a show at, uh, the Palazzo Gallery in San Francisco. Right. Before the tour. That's cool. Well, that's definitely a couple of good dates to warm up on, I mean. Yeah. Get a feel for it beforehand.
Yeah, we don't, I mean, being in the studio is one thing, and then getting on stage when we're jumping around and not really giving the drummer any kind of cues or, you know, it's, it's gonna sound totally different. Yeah, so that's cool. We're really, really excited about Steven coming, though. He is a killer drummer, and we got along really great with him. He has fists tattooed on his chest. He has fists on his chest? Like, they're kind of like, bring it on, bitch, looking fists. Whoa. But he's not like that at all. Apparently it's like a, it was like a skateboarding logo. Oh, so I can't, like, just run up and hit him, and he'd be cool with it? No, see, like, it's funny, because when I first saw him in the, in the room trying out, I didn't talk to him.
I just kind of, like, you know, wave, and he was playing, and I could see his fist tattoos, and I was like, I thought he was gonna, like, stand up and, like, you know, make some kind of, like, you know, imposing, like, threatening type handshake. But he was just the furthest thing from that, super, super chill. Awesome. And I think he's gonna, I think it's gonna be really good once he breaks into stride. I think this is gonna be definitely better than before. Excellent. All right, well, we're gonna wrap this up here. Real quick, you guys got the new album coming out. When is that? I totally blanked on that. We're gonna have it for, for mail order and on the tour. All right. We should have the CD, like, within two weeks.
Within two weeks. So, will you have them for the shows here at, like, the beginning of June? Yeah. All right. If nothing gets screwed up. Which rarely happens. I'm gonna have it for that, just because it happens all the time. But the, we should have them, for sure, by the beginning of June. Awesome. And then the official, like, release date, as far as stores are concerned, isn't going to be until September, October. Okay. Awesome. And then you guys are gonna be on tour with our Expandeds for a while? Yeah, for seven weeks. For seven weeks. Wow. So, awesome. If everybody gets a chance, check them out. You guys, uh, websites. Anything else you guys want to plug real quick?
Not really. You have, you have websites, MySpace. Yeah. Just, uh. It's all, it's all there. It's all linked. Lend your, lend your ears, everybody. All right. Fantastic. Thank you guys so much for taking the time. No, you, you don't have to put lend your ears. No, no. It's, it's going in now. There's nothing you can do. All right. Thank you guys so much for taking the time. Thank you.
Anyhow, so that's the end of the interview. We're wrapping that up. So, like I said, I want to thank Dessa. And, because of the guys at Dessa, we have a chance for you to win a copy of their new album, which is called Arriving Alive. It's not out in stores for a long ass time. But they got copies and they'll send you one. And, they said they'll also hook you up with a t-shirt. So, you got a t-shirt and a CD. So, that's a pretty sweet deal for doing nothing but sitting on your ass. So, here's what you've got to do. If you want to win a t-shirt and the CD, send us an email. SoundSceneRevolution at gmail.com. In the subject line, put Dessa Contest. That's D-E-S-A Contest, if you don't know how to spell it. And, you know, pertinent information, name, address, phone number, whatever, any of that.
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So, everybody loves that. Before we take off, we're going to play one last track off of A Year in the Red Room. We're going to play Hands at 10 and 2. Because, I like the name of the song. And, that's about all there is to it. So, enjoy the song. Enter the contest. And, hopefully, we'll see you guys all here next week. T night.
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