Interview with No Trigger - Podcast 26

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place in the back of a van when we met tom for the first time he was shirtless i think that qualifies as a good interview so uh be sure to check it out this first half we talk about everything from salt lake city to the band marathon to uh being uh having records in japan and shit it's a good time but before we do that we're going to play a track off of their night nitro records debut the name of the record is canyoneer it's available on nitro records right now if you want and we're gonna play the first track off the album which is the not so noble purveyors of the third or fourth coming it's a fucking long name so check it out and be sure to listen to the interview oh and if you want at the end be sure to stay tuned to figure out how to enter a contest to win a copy of their new album canyoneer we'll give you the details on that and hopefully we'll give you an

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hanging out in the back of a van with uh i guess it's the no trigger van uh with a couple of guys from no trigger if you guys could uh just say hello real quick hello what's up all right excellent so um i guess the easiest way to start out so we can differentiate is uh the standard say your name what you do in the band and i guess your favorite city thus far on the tour to play oh man that's a good question all right no no my name is tom i sing in no trigger and my favorite city has been seattle because it's i don't know it's just it just blew me away i fell in love with it i really did that's cool for real listening audience i'm mike i play guitar um i would say in terms of like touristy stuff seattle was sick but for like shows salt lake city was out of control yeah that was really that was the best show even with like all the mormons and being kind of a drive there was a thousand kids there really it was ridiculous there were three-year-olds like probably 203-year-olds with uh aquabats masks wow so it was pretty intense well i'm exaggerating but this is an interview a large yeah it is an interview they gotta know yeah for for a fact and they had this um down below like the band's backstage room was actually like a basement with uh pool tables and oh my god 70s shag like uh psychedelic walls they're really there was so if there was a place to get laid no there was like in the 70s that's awesome four separate rooms with different animal fur on the wall are you kidding me what was this like this is great that's amazing it was like great see here in santa cruz we have kind of a chain link fence area and then that's it that's all you guys get in a beach well we do have the beach which is pretty good but sex on the beach isn't all it's cracked up to be you get sand and weird place guy any you've never done that any yeah oh um moving forward um being from uh massachusetts and being from boston you get a lot of people who just assume like from that area that they're like boston we're from no we're from boston they're from massachusetts not from boston being not from boston do a lot of people assume that just because you're from mass you're from boston you did i i didn't know yes you did before before i was talking about it and you're like boston right and i was like no no no dudley oh that was him no matter where you say that was sound guy there man oh shoot if you don't say boston no one knows what the hell you're talking well anyways anywhere anywhere no one's even heard of any other place but boston yeah i've you know pretty much around the country i would yeah well we interviewed teenage bottle rocket about last friday and so and they're from fucking wyoming and they're they are yeah there ain't shit in wyoming no there's not no like you think about it i didn't know they were from there though yeah that's that's cool well it's weird though you think you go like big big cities you go you know massachusetts boston you know california new york or california california san francisco or la mass or massachusetts boston fucking wyoming what casper what are you serious boom casper laramie where else we got that's because cheyenne yeah you guys you guys toured through that area wyoming i go i go cheyenne in my head boom done i got cheyenne i go cheyenne i want i want to look at the like there's like 40 grass cats in cheyenne there is well man lips i cannot believe that you actually know a city in wyoming i know like a bunch of them i may have lost a little respect no little respect you should know man tough podcast crew we are we're we're pretty much giant assholes um are there some other bands from the boston or fucking massachusetts area got that well that you would like recommend that like aren't from the boston area hmm well wilhelm scream you might know them yeah they're from new bedford and they're great time yeah they're not from boston and they don't claim to be which is which is rare which is respectable i would claim to be from boston not from here i'd be like boston california come on who else who else is good shit that's good or that exists good or that you're supposed to you know say is good lock and key yeah well they're from boston yeah they are boston that's okay but it's close they're not well known what about like worcester area worcester wasteland yeah wasteland good time great time yeah yeah good good buddies all right awesome uh speaking of that you guys were are i guess maybe are still friends with uh the guys from marathon is that correct oh my god yeah how do you guys they broke up recently right their last shows are actually i don't know when this pot is this this isn't live so no their last shows are this weekend which is probably like two weekends ago if you're listening to this probably something like that 19th yeah 19th and 20th to may and i am oh if i could do anything to go to those shows yeah i'd fly out but you know we're gonna be in california yeah we're actually gonna set up tom via satellite so he can watch the show i hope they tape it yeah i'm sure they're gonna tape or something you guys yeah i imagine you guys gotta be really bummed about that all i'm not lying they are my favorite band yeah they have been for a while too they're everything about them it's just they just got the short end of the stick like on a bunch of different levels and they shouldn't have it sucks it sucks like more than i don't know more than most things so i they played our three cd release shows and those were awesome awesome awesome they were so good and you know we're pretty pumped that they played those but yeah well at least you guys got to play with them i mean you gotta anyone listening to this deal of time with them buy the self-titled marathon album you got it right i'm not gonna i'm not gonna lie you're not gonna lie i'm not gonna bullshit you well anyone listening to this and the guy doing the interview i got a name i know i forget no no one knows my name no it's nick no it's rich right yeah it's rich he's close rick they said they said it's rick two letters no seriously it's the best album of last year yeah i'll put that because i respect you so much any other album i will check it out okay on your recommendations getting back to uh yeah more about us here yeah more about your guys's music and how fantastic you are you guys had an ep that was available in japan before you had a full length here is that correct that's correct was it weird or awkward knowing that you can get your stuff put out in japan before you can get it put out in your own like country you know it was actually awesome because at the time like we were just doing things diy like little eps and just you know burnt cds and sleeves and stuff like that and we got that opportunity was like sick so we picked you know it's actually it was more exciting because it was like japan likes us yeah what how did you guys get over to like you've never played there have you no we just kept sending our stuff everywhere wow like all around the world you know like we did it how you're supposed to you know send your demos everywhere so we did and they got back to us both times and they were like well let's put both of them together and put it out and we're like hmm okay that's cool didn't take us too long to say yes to that and we did and it's it's actually been doing very well really that one and the new one it's wow it's surprising so you guys have like fans in japan who have never seen you guys play oh they will oh yeah they got they will they better yeah we want to go with it really bad do you have plans said are you guys just you're you're promising we've had like four chances to go where like it just kind of was was like do you want to go and we're like yeah and then kind of like well we can't go right now too bad yeah we got our hopes up like probably three times yeah it sucks so we're not gonna get our hopes up anytime soon but i can we're gonna make it over there it's inevitable yeah we gotta go i mean if you're selling cds over there i mean it's it's not too hard uh a couple of bands we talked to have gone to japan and they say it's it's pretty easy once you get over there you know yeah but as i've never been to japan i don't know me yeah and for all of our we can only speculate yeah we can only imagine what it'd be like trying to play with godzilla in the background with mothra whoa no wow so much stereotype captain will be it i'm just kidding i'm just that's what i've been told that's what i've been told mothra is at every show he's at every show godzilla has to stop him mothra's looking two steps his way into oblivion all right moving um anyhow so you guys just recently hooked up with uh nitro records which is pretty good size in terms of any label i guess yeah they're i guess they're they're the owner was in a band he said something somewhere like that that's how'd that happen how'd that come about just again with the sending out of the label or the records just i think uh yeah i mean we just we got some actually some some new word on how it came about recently when we're in seattle like lost a better seems like a friend of uh the boss kind of was whispering things in his ear about us and it helped yeah and then and we also knew will hum scream and they kind of did the same yeah and you know it just worked out that's cool it was awesome now they're like i mean that's some big uh makeup cases to fill at that uh record label are you guys whoa i know what he's talking about that's two that's one year one more this interview is over no are you guys it's got to be kind of cool though to step into a label that already has a history of making like really successful bands yeah the cool thing is like all the bands that are on the roster right now we totally dig yeah in fact like two of them we've we've known for a while will hum scream and much the same yeah so it's cool because we can like and yeah now we're real good friends of crime stereo yeah yeah real good they're awesome i mean fantastic i mean that's the thing is they recently have picked up just like a crap load of really good bands and i mean i would throw you guys in with that category so in the crap load and the crap we're in there you're in that crap load but it's a good crap load it's a decent crap load it's a decent crap load of really good bands so i mean that's got to be i mean as opposed to joining a label that feels like it's inevitably sinking like if i mean well i think this is a resurgence yeah this is clear like they're clearly like kind of getting their act together as far as i can tell and signing some new young bands who will take the place of the old ones who are now on majors making a lot more money you know yeah it happens they're not listening so i don't really care if they're like everywhere i would give a thousand dollars to like have one of them write me a letter and be like we're really upset what you said about our makeup cases and i'd be like you can come talk to me about it got laptop going to my phone come come do an interview about it anyhow um more about crap load uh records crap load right um so there are a lot of bands right now who put out who typically i wouldn't say have been but have kind of put out like social or political themed albums does that like is that hard for you guys do you ever feel like now you have to like step it up even more because you have some pretty social like commentary involved in your music yeah i mean it's just kind of what is natural to me you know i just kind of write about that kind of stuff and i don't i don't know i don't really think it's like a step up match per se it's just kind of you know there's those kind of bands who write about that and there's other kind of bands who write about you know other stuff like whatever they write yeah whatever girls and cars and whatever i don't know what whatever you want so it's just personal preference and it's great i think that everyone's you know there's more that are talking about the issue oriented side of things and i don't know i like to be one of them i guess i don't know you think tom's good at writing stuff i'm good at writing no one after that i'm just gonna play that last name and no one's gonna believe you're the guy who wrote those records i don't i don't fucking know what we write about again all right yeah no seriously we're a serious band and our message is fucking way serious oh oh good times good times so uh yeah this is rich taking a little break here in our no trigger interview uh just giving you some air give you some more music uh when we jump back into it we'll talk about things such as how they get compared to other bands how uh tom lied to me about his dad being a professionally trained singer and uh basically i think they pretty much warn me if i fuck up again they'll end the interview so uh listen to hear me get verbally scolded by no trigger it's a good time so uh we're gonna play another track off of their lp canyoneer uh we're gonna play the track i'm gonna fuck the name up so bad and i'm really sorry it's a hail mary seski seski i don't know but it's a good track and it's off their lp canyoneer available on nitro records and we got a copy to give you at the end of this broadcast so stay tuned to listen how to enter but first enjoy the song hail mary seski right here

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like doom and gloom over the top but like it's pretty solid music pretty fast and hardcore but even seeing you on stage you guys seem like more interested in having fun than like this real like you gotta realize where we are first we're on the aquabats tour yeah with 30 million ska kids every night you can't not have fun yeah it's not well we're gonna go up there and be like serious dicks you know like and i mean even if we weren't playing this tour we're still pretty fun yeah we played like i think we're we've been on hardcore tours and stuff like that and you know like no matter who's in the crowd whether they're looking for like you know some respected hardcore band they have their arms folded or whatever we're still like up there smiling and kicking each other and then yeah well i don't know we don't take it over the top yeah we do a good job we do a good job yeah we keep it real keeping it real oh yeah that's there's nothing more to say to that but um like you guys said you're on the aquabats tour is it has it been like weird because you guys i mean you got one band that kind of was a ska band one band that is a ska band and then you guys who don't have any horns it's been awkward at all we don't have horns no and not yet awkward at first we were afraid it was gonna be but since the first show every like every night it like kind of besides tonight which is weird but that's what you're gonna say it was great every night not tonight though the one you saw well tonight was fine i mean tonight was great but like you know we go out there and it's packed and like first note there's like a circle pit or something and it's like whoa you don't get that every day react like the first show was we were just blown away we're like okay well let's keep going and you know you can feed off the crowd a lot better than if you can like like then you can like at a you know vfw with like 50 kids you know yeah it's definitely it's and you're playing on the floor you know like we usually do but it's it's i don't know i i don't know if it's awkward but it's it's fucking fun that's cool yeah can you swear on this yeah you can all right it's a podcast yeah free radio america it's a fucking podcast it's a fucking there every time when people find out when they're like you can swear right everyone just goes ape shit all of a sudden it's like fuck ass shit what ape shit um anyhow so oh god my train of thoughts on off the rails today but how did you guys hook up with this tour i mean again kind of an oddball group of bands well you know you just gotta know the right people you guys know the right people and we do yeah we know them all no i i don't know how did it happen we just you know we're there on nitro we're on nitro yeah it kind of has a good pairing yeah i don't know i think it just worked out you think something along the same team yeah we're on yeah we're hitting for the same team and booking agency diligence oh yeah you guys have the same booking no well our agent used to book them so i think that might have to do with it all right yeah perhaps yeah that's it you got you you're thinking maybe i'm thinking there's a chance there might have been a phone call or two that's about it no i don't know that's yeah that's that's what we'll go with in a nutshell yeah that probably helps all right uh assholes i mean whoa what nothing you're going to eat shit on us man all right um you guys want we'll we'll go from bands who you're not like like the aquabats to bands who you are like a lot of people draw comparisons to uh like strike anywhere and i guess bigwig which i don't hear but that's me um is that like frustrating or is it kind of like really motivating for you guys because those are pretty well-known well-established bands um i don't know if it's frustrating i mean i you know i like those bands a lot and i like you know tons of other types of bands too so i i don't know i think we draw off the same influences but i don't think we draw off of them yeah kind of thing yeah i like that yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean we're into those bands we've played with those bands and i don't think we sound like either of those bands but we could you know there's elements of course there's always elements there'd be no i don't even know what that would be you just looked at me so convincing i'm like yeah there's always elements there's elements dude no i think we're yeah it's we just do what we do and it's what we like and and the record is is is what we made out of what we do and the record is what you made it's actually us playing on the record we actually did that we did them all every track you guys got all 12 yeah that's fantastic that's good as opposed to having this is good radio right this is i think we're doing we're doing good radio this is breakthrough it's five star radio this is what people are going to remember when they look back 10 years of my career they're going to be like that interview that's what made him so are you going to cut this up with some songs or what yeah that's sweet god willing if you need like a segue into something no we don't let them let them we edit the whole well you know it's our job i'm not savvy i don't know oh it all gets it so this is going to get edited about the editing oh that's cool no this will really we yeah we we don't take out any audio we just like randomly abruptly cut you off a mid-sentence play a song and then slap slap the end of the sentence you should exploit us and like cut up our sentences so that we like make fun of other bands believe me that's why we were uh talking about the makeup cases that's totally that's totally coming into play later um all right let's i don't think we've we've talked about your music for like three and four minutes out of this interview but it'll work out in the end it's not all about the music man no but it's gonna be we're gonna move back okay um your vocals i noticed are like really i mean they're pretty tough to do i mean i don't think i could do it but do you ever have any problems like voice-wise with that no i mean my dad was a classical trained singer and so was my grandfather so it's kind of in my family it runs in the family no the philharmonic orchestra wait what was the question do you ever have any problem with your vocals i actually it's funny you mentioned that we uh did a week and a half out here to get to jump on the aquabats tour and uh the first like the day before we played in in denver i felt something weird going on with my my throat turns out i got full-blown strep throat first day of the tour how'd you did you guess where we stopped we so we so i yeah we pushed through denver kind of sucked it was weird pushed through went stopped in wyoming ah yeah wyoming went to a emergency room and got some medicine and uh played salt lake city that night and it was flawless really yeah wow and then the next night was pretty good so wyoming hospitals wyoming hospitals they're all right they have canadian drugs they do what's the difference between canadian drugs sound guy and airman they're cheaper no they're filled with maple syrup they did give you a bunch of free stuff yeah they gave me tons more than you'd need so it helped clear me up canadian canadian drugs yeah zyrtec i don't even know what you take zyrtec avec moi zyrtec a i don't even know what you take for a strep throat so no they gave me antibiotics and stuff and then some zyrtec and then zyrtec he had a bunch of zyrtec he's like hey we got zyrtec yeah you're like all right i'll take the zyrtec so yeah so sometimes obviously some things come up and uh vocal troubles yeah and sometimes like it's like really good like tonight i thought it was pretty damn good i thought you know i'm not kissing your ass but i thought it was good i'm not asking you to i'm kissing my own i thought it was great yeah you know some nights are like that and some nights it's weird but you know it's it's all uh you know it's all fun that's cool someone's morning well that's that's the ska tour that's one of the ska bands i'm guessing streetlight manifesto as the aquabats have whittled it down to like one horn they have one horn they play it i think one one time for like super rad they bring it out but that's all right i'm not going to begrudge them that they kept the keyboards and the costumes that's all i want um and the attitude and that's what sells the costumes those guys are punk for real they're the best people they are ever awesome they're so good that's good it's good we put some good push on this because i've bashed way too many bands in this interview yeah you have yeah i'm sorry yeah it's i mean uh i'm a little embarrassed personally what about you mike i'm not too embarrassed yeah oh i have no shame fair enough but no um moving on a little bit more you guys back to the music again we keep let's do that keep drawing back there you guys tend to tackle like issues that aren't normally even addressed even in like social punk rock music like issues such as like the not i don't want to say misogyny but kind of how women and especially like punk rock music aren't really don't have much of a voice and things like even a homophobia to a degree does that is that like stuff really important to you or is just kind of half yeah i mean it actually is and uh i those are two of my my favorite issues to kind of talk about because i think they're very important and uh i think you're right to some degree where not a lot of bands talk about it but there are a handful of bands who who do a great job at it too like marathon for instance like marathon they they really get the self-titled album killer at at what you know they they talk about and uh you know i think it's just natural and i think it just needs to kind of be said yeah kind of thing that's so why not that's cool i mean have you guys obviously it doesn't seem like you have ever gotten any backlash from people who are just like you know no we never got any backlash but you know it's it's weird too because like you think like we get a lot of like something some kind of reaction there's really people are just kind of apathetic nowadays or something that maybe maybe there's some closet lovers and haters but not that not that i've come across i think it's pretty good i'm glad it's out there but yeah that's why i'm here i'm glad it's out there too but um again talking about you were talking about you haven't gotten it's been kind of apathetic in response how has the album been response wise like have you guys read any reviews about it or you kind of steer clear of all that no i haven't i haven't read any reviews have you no i don't think any exist other than the fact that there's about 10 out there that i i'm pretty happy with all the responses you guys are bad that's what this is going down is the no it's no no no no it seriously we we probably read every review and like nitro like sends us emails with our reviews and like so like we can't even avoid them if we want do they send you like the bad ones they're like yeah they send us them all wow and you know there's really not that many bad ones that's gonna make you feel good yeah there's really you know there's a couple there's maybe i can remember one pretty shitty one and then a couple mediocres it was the person's first interview too yeah it was kind of like a weird situation the guy didn't even talk about us really he's like this band's blah blah blah but anyway this is my first interview and i'm really really pumped on hi guys no interview about me i like long walks on the beach yeah let's talk about me sandwiches they're great this band not not so much long walks on the beach and sandwiches that's what's gonna happen i just had way deja vu really yeah i did i think this happened but no you know the reviews have been actually stellar and we're pretty excited about it make you nervous for the next album you're like gotta fall next album ken ken hello easy guy whoa let's not get too far ahead yeah let's uh stick with what we know yeah your album came out like what less than a month ago yeah yeah let's let's not get too far there'll be another one but eventually god willing yeah we're at the tip of the iceberg in terms of like uh pouring the shit out of this one so you plan to play this until everybody's sick of it including yourselves it's a good way to go though you got the material use it all right so uh i think looks like we're gonna wrap it up time-wise oh time-wise wrap it up yeah well we try it we try and limit it lengthwise oh yeah i understand we gotta edit it like we uh we've had 90 minute interviews before and they're great but they're they're a pain in the ass to cut so we're gonna cut this one short so i want to thank you guys so much um real quick do you guys have uh websites or anything you'd like to plug well we have a new uh new record out you do it's called canyoneer and it's available on nitro records and it features some kind of scaly monster thing it does i don't know what i have no idea well you you're not supposed to just a beast of sorts it's for your own imagination to figure out what that guy's gonna do next he's gonna hop in the pit with mothra with mothra that's actually mothra's dad it's mothra's dad yeah that's mr blot that's what you guys just tell people because i know someone's gonna ask you like it's mothra's dad mothra's dad shut up that was i think i redlined that one why do you think we got to release that in japan yeah no but seriously we got a record out and it's you know i back it you back it i back it you've heard it right yeah oh you heard that one yeah okay good well i would like to listen to the band's quite interview it helps thank the lord i am in support of the record helps pay well i guess it really probably doesn't pay too many bills right now one day a couple bills gas bill mostly gas bill but yeah pick that up and uh yeah thanks for the interview thank you guys so much have a good rest of the tour and thank you sound guy nerman sound guy nerman all right thank you guys so much no trigger.org peace later all right so that wraps up our interview for this week thank you guys so much for listening before we go into the last track i'm going to give you guys the rules on how to enter this week's contest to win a copy of no triggers nitro debut canyoneer to enter send us an email at soundseenrevolution at gmail.com or if you're all technologically advanced hit us up at myspace.com backslash soundseenrevolution and send us a message on myspace and in the heading include no trigger contest and in the body include all your permanent permanent pertinent information name address and answer the question what does canyoneer mean it doesn't have to be right just your own definition of whatever canyoneer means so we know that you've been listening and we know you have interest in no trigger personally i'm still trying to figure out what the weird fucking monster is on the front of their album it's like meatball man or some shit but it's cool anyhow uh before we take off this week we are going to be playing the track last track off the album tundra kids off of no triggers debut canyoneer i want to get that in your head so you guys pick it up it's a good album these are some good guys and they don't make shit for money yet so help them so they can afford beer and hookers which is really all any band really fucking wants so name of the track tundra kids enjoy it tune in next week i hope you guys have a great middle of july

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