Interview with Theo and the Skyscrapers - Podcast 27

I'm Theo, and we're the Skyscrapers, and you're listening to Sound Scene Revolution.

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We are coming at you from our home base here in Santa Clara, California, where it is currently hotter than balls. It is insane. The weather report said it was like, gonna just maybe graze 90 degrees. It grazed 90 right up on its fucking way to 96. It just touched it for a second, and then fucking shot on by. So after this, I'm probably gonna go make a fucking wet, sweaty ass print on some cold concrete or something. Thanks for taking the time to tune in. Today we have an interview with Theo and the Skyscrapers. Theo used to be Theo Corrigan, I believe was her last name. She sang for the band The Lunachicks. And now she sings with the Skyscrapers, which features Sean from the band Toilet Boys. Maybe you've heard of him. I don't know.

Anyhow, before we get into that, I want to announce we have the winners for our Phenomenauts, Did To Me, and No Trigger Contest. We're gonna do this one at a time because I don't want to go through them all. For the Phenomenauts Contest, we have two winners. We have Brad W. from Friendswood, Tejas. If you guys are familiar with that era, he used to be Mexico. Now it's just filled with Mexicans, which is why we have to reinforce our borders. And then we got Daniel S. from Manass, Virginia. Or Manassas. I don't know. Daniel S. from Manass, Vagina. Congratulations, you won a CD. It's not gonna change the fact that you're living madass. I hope you guys stay tuned. If you do stay tuned, we have a chance to win one of two copies of Theo and the Skyscrapers' debut album.

It's not only a debut album, but it's also a DVD, which features some videos, which I have checked out myself. They're pretty fucking crazy looking. So you probably want to win this. But in case you're curious what it sounds like, and what Theo and the Skyscrapers are all about, we got some interviews and whatnot. But before we do that, we're gonna play a track off their debut album. It's self-titled. It's available on Morpheus Records. And I'm gonna play the closing track, actually, to kick things off. It's called Not Alone. And then we're gonna jump into the interviews. So enjoy.

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We are hanging out today, and it's not really the back, it's kind of the top, I guess, of the Blank Club with Theo and the Skyscrapers. If you guys can all just say hello real quick. Hello. Hey, what's happening, man? Hello. We're in the honeycomb hideout of the Blank Club. Is that what that is? Yeah, that's what I like to think of it as. That's where all the action happens, man. Woo! As you can tell by the lack of any sort of light in here. Yeah. No one can tell what's going on. It's the back room at the top. So, I guess if we can just start off so we can differentiate, if you guys can just say your name, what you do with the band, and, I don't know, what albums you're listening to right now? Ooh, I'm Theo, and I am play singer, and what have I been listening to?

In the van, I end up listening to, like, a whole bunch of stuff. Like, I was listening to High on Fire, and I was listening to Sabbath, and I was listening to PJ Harvey, her last album. I'm an M.I.A. Right on. A little eclectic little mix. Sir? I am Sean Pierce. What's happening, sir? Hello, Dimitri. What's up? This is Dimitri, other skyscraper. Hey, Dimitri.

Sit down, Dimitri. Yo, um, so, we, uh, I've been listening to all kinds of dumb stuff in the band. I don't know, Percolator, who sings that song? Oh, yeah. We don't even know who it's by. It's, like, an early house song. Hmm. I don't know. I guess we can look at it. Detroit house. Yeah. Nah, I don't know. I keep wanting to hear the Arctic Monkeys, because I heard the song one time, but nobody seems to have that album, and I don't feel like paying for it. A lot of people have been talking about it, but. Yeah. There's some song that's just badass by the Arctic Monkeys.

I don't even know where they're from.

I'm Chris. I play drums. I listen to Judas Priest a lot. Three Inches of Blood's new album. It's pretty good. I know. It's lots of metal. Lots of, uh, I mix it up. Go to Blondie one day, Judas Priest the next, you know. Were you talking about you were, uh, you got some Judas Priest vinyl today or something? Yeah, I just picked up, uh, Stain Class and, uh, Heads Are Gonna Roll, like, single from Amoeba over in San Francisco. It was great. Just starting to collect. That's the best record store I've ever been to. I love that place. It's great. Dimitri, sit down and tell them what you're listening to. Come on in. Hey, uh, Dimitri, and, uh, I listen to nothing but Taken Back Sunday. And what do you play in this band?

Oh, I play bass. All right. Fair enough. Yeah. That's a good enough place to start as any, I suppose. Uh, I guess we'll just start with, uh, the general basics. Uh, how did this band come about? Uh, who formed it and, or how did it form? Well, me and Sean, um, had written, uh, an album together that we put out ourselves that was, like, my solo album. And, um, at that point I wasn't really prepared to have a band and Sean was still doing the Toilet Boys and, and then somehow time passed. And I was doing shows with, um, video projection and two dancers for a couple years. And then it just felt like time to have a band again. And Sean was ready to rock with me. And then we found these guys through a few other people.

We didn't have, like, a million auditions, which was amazing. And here we are. Now, is this, like, kind of the first incarnation of the band? Or has there been, like, other, like, bass players? And you kind of fired them? There's been, uh, two other bass players and one other drummer. But they weren't the skyscrapers. Yeah, it wasn't. This is the skyscrapers right here. You gotta have a, so you gotta be six foot five and crazy. That's hard. To qualify as a skyscraper. There's only a few people, I think, who can meet that requirement. I mean, if this band doesn't work out, you're gonna have to go to, like, the NBA or something. No, we're heightists. To meet each other across a room. Tall guy nod. Now, if anybody out there is tall, and they all know the tall guy nod.

When you walk into a club, and it's, like, over six foot four and up, usually. And you walk by and give them a little nod. It's a tall guy thing. No one else can see it. Yeah, nobody knows. But there's this inside club of tall guys. And, you know, we all party together. There's conventions. I'm allowed in just, you know, sort of by default. Well, that's husband. Heavy breathing. That's nice. That's a little creepy, but... Yeah. Now, let's, I guess, start off with this tour. Is this tour sponsored by Alternative Press? Yes. Now, how did... That's pretty big for a tour like that. How did this come about? Friends, man. Yeah? It's... We, you know, I've had a relationship with the magazine for a really long time. And Sean has, too.

And they, you know, they're really good to us. And we're really, really happy about it. That's cool. Yeah, thank God. Because this whole album and project's been, like, on duct tape and favors and shoestrings and all that kind of stuff, you know? Our label's very small. It's, like, one guy, limited budget. So, you know, we got to make things happen on our own between recording the record. Everything about this is very, like, you know, we did it all ourselves, literally, like, in our apartment, you know, in friends' apartments. And, you know, like, it's... I don't know. I put it up against anything that major label's throwing, you know, thousands and thousands of dollars at, honestly. And I think it hangs tight.

And it's just been... It's been a process of, like, friends and hard work of getting out on the road and making it happen. Very cool. Very cool. How's the response been to the album? It's been really good. Yeah? It's actually been really, really good. Yeah. It's good. It's... I think it's a little hard for people, you know, if they're really, you know, big Lunachick fans or big Toilet Boy fans to, like, kind of get their heads around new stuff. But there's a whole, like, crew of people that were, you know, never even heard of our past projects and whatever and are just jumping on it. It's been a blast. It's really... It's fun. Then do you guys get, like, any old fans at some of the shows who, like, request old songs or just...

Yeah? Do you guys... Do you just kind of, like, let that one roll or do you even address it when you play? Well, people don't usually scream it out. You know what I mean? Like, last night we had this... A guy who was taller, I think, than all these guys. Yeah, he was a skyscraper. That's gotta be terrifying. What was he... It was a little terrifying. His breath was terrifying. Yeah, yeah. And he had all these Lunachicks albums and my solo album on vinyl. And while we were playing, he was holding them up. So it was, like, kind of like, okay... Wow. Now, what am I... How do I react? You could have just, like, held them at chest level. Yeah. It was pretty fun, though. It was, like, you know, you gotta love that, you know what I mean?

Because I don't know. No, I mean, I love it and I appreciate, you know, all of the people who have been there and, you know, continue to be supportive, you know? It's just people have to sort of understand that this is a new band and it's not the old band and it's not going to be the old band, you know? So, like it or leave it, people. Yeah, it's not like we really... It's... When you see this show, I don't think anybody's sitting there thinking, like, damn, I wish they do a Lunar Chick song or a Toilet Boy song, you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, it's a full-on... We're coming to the stage with a whole experience for these people, so it's not like... You know, we don't give them a second to think about it.

Yeah. They're just so, you know, hopefully blown away by what we're doing up there that they're not, you know, going like, oh, I miss hearing... You know? Yeah. And if they are, then fuck them, because we ain't going to play that shit anyway, you know what I mean? It's like we spent years and years work. That's, you know, it's time to move on. We're moving on. We're doing it. We're really happy doing what we're doing now. It's awesome. Yeah, the tall guy asked for a Lunar Chick song after we played when I was signing all his stuff. Yeah. He was like, I thought maybe you'd play Spork or something. I was like, no. Why would we play Spork out of all the weird songs? Yeah, and then he was like, well, maybe a Van Halen cover.

And I was like, okay, yeah. Is it weird that he has all your albums and seems to know, like, nothing about where this is coming from? Yeah, it is weird. And, yeah, he had a lot of, like, sort of crossing wires of information. And, you know, he didn't know it was me on one of the album covers, yet he still had it for me to sign. I was like, that's me. Wow. Do you ever get, like, really creepy fans? Yes. Yeah? Well, tell them, I mean, the worst, the worst, I mean, publicly noted creepy fan. I don't know if you've ever seen the G.G. Allen Hate It movie. Oh, you have to do that? I'm sorry I have to bring it up. But, like, if you see that movie, Hate It, it's, the drummer for the G.G. Allen band was literally obsessed with the Lunachicks and thought that they spoke to him, you know, like, we're speaking directly to him.

Yeah, psychically connected, yeah. The naked drummer for G.G. Allen, and in the movie, there's these, like, nasty pictures of him, like, you know, basically jerking it to their record coverage. I can't believe you're even bringing this up. Wow. I'm sorry, but it's just, that's... It's the worst. Isn't he the creepiest fan? Yeah, he is. That's, come on. Yeah. He is, absolutely. You gotta tell him the real deal, man. That's probably... He's so creepy that she doesn't even like talking about how creepy he is. Well, the guy hung out, I guess, not hangs anymore, with G.G. Allen, so, you gotta figure there's something not right there. And he's a bike messenger. Is he? Yeah. I see him all over New York. Because he's in New York, and unfortunately, I do see him every so often.

He dyes his beard, like, acid yellow and orange and stuff, so you can't really miss him. Yeah. Does he ever, like, spot you or, like, any time? Yes. Yeah, one time, oh my God, one time I walked past him. We happened to be in the same office building. A guy was going to an audition or something, and he, and I walked past him, and I was like, oh, fuck. And he walked past, and he went, how do I feel? I was like, ehhh! It was so bad. Just run, whatever you're doing. Yeah, it was so scary. That's the, see, I think that's kind of a messed up double standard, because, like, there's very few, I mean, I guess, guy, guys in bands, guy rockers get it, but not, I mean, nearly as much as females. Almost every female in a band I've talked to has some weird, creepy guy about him.

I don't know, I just. Oh, there's a lot of them out there. They're called mom's basement guys. They're usually, like, guys that live in there, still live in their mom's basement. Just because I live in my mom's basement. Over 45. It doesn't mean. You live in the upstairs, though. You're not in the basement. I got top floor. You got the good view in the house? Yeah, I've just seen it. If you live in the, if you don't live in the basement, it's all right. The basement, it's kind of like, even your mom's a little embarrassed to you. That's the next step. They're usually over 40 and live in the mom's basement, and it's like they follow girl groups around, and like, it's. Collect a lot. Yeah. A lot of room in the basement to collect things.

A lot of Judas Priest vinyl. Yeah. Like chicken wings. I don't know. I'm not pointing any fingers or anything, but anyhow, let's move on from that and try and move somewhere a little. Thank you. Yeah, a little more positive direction. What is the fan makeup of these shows? I've never gotten to see you and the skyscrapers live. What's the, like, audience usually like? It's sort of a mixture of, there's definitely the, you know, Looney Chicks and Toilet Boys fans, and there's people who've discovered us recently. It's, you know, girls and boys, gays and lesbians and rockers, scoths. We're teaming up with a lot of the local, you know, it's like local support on this tour, so a lot of, like, you know, whoever they're bringing to the table, it's been a good mix of, like, young, old, crazy, like, you know, normal, it's all over the place, man.

Awesome. Is this your first tour of this size? Yeah. Yeah? How's that? That's got to be crazy. Isn't any of you guys getting on each other's nerves working out? Yes. Yeah. I'm not naming any names. I'm not going to name names. We'll point fingers. No, I feel bad for her since she went from being an all-girl, all-crew band to now she's with a bunch of smelly, crazy dudes, you know, like, and then we're all tall and we take up extra room, you know what I mean? You can't see past any of them. How is that? I never even thought about that. You went from an all-girl group like the Looney Chicks to, now it's with, what, four guys? There's five. Five? Yeah, because there were two crew guys. Oh, my God, dude. How's that work out?

It's interesting. It's, you know, I have my moments where I feel very, you know, one of these things is not like the other. Very. And then a lot of the time I feel like one of the boys and sometimes I get lonely and I have to call my girlfriends or my gays, you know? You should just take, like, a girlfriend or a gay guy. I know, that's what I, I don't know what I was thinking, like, I totally should have. Just take one crew member at least. Somebody, yeah. Future planning. Exactly. That's cool, but they all seem, you know, I don't know. They treat me well. Yeah. And I imagine you can kick them in line if you had to, so. Yeah, exactly. Just from an outside observer standpoint. All right. I hope you enjoyed a section of the interview.

I was entertained. Also, I would like to add, it was kind of hot in the back of the blank club where we did this interview. Not as hot as it is now. Let me tell you, it's so hot right now that if I sit on a toilet, like, sit down and take a dump, my balls hit the water. It's fucking hot. And I think that's probably more than you wanted to know, but eh. Now you know. So, like I said, we got the winners for our contest. I'm going to announce the winners of our Dead to Me contest, which is our most entered contest to date. We can thank punknews.org for that because they basically get all of our listeners. So, first winner is, we got a set of Justins. The first one is Justin R., who still needs to send us his fucking address.

We'll contact him for that. But Justin R., and the question we asked, what is your dream job, your Cuban ballerina, if you will. So, Justin said, what Chicken does. For those of you who don't know, what Chicken does is talk a lot and freak the hell out of me and wear really fucking tight pants. Like, Chicken's pants are really, really tight. You can see his crack through them. But, uh, he's a good man. And our second winner here in our set of Justin winners is Justin N. from San Francisco, California. So, he's, like, really close. So, he could come by and say hi sometime if he's in the area. But, uh, what Justin N. wanted to do is do David Hasselhoff's PR. Which is a pretty sweet job, if you think about it, because fucking, who doesn't love David Hasselhoff?

He is the shit. And he probably got to see Pamela Anderson's titties. Along with, like, 40,000 other human beings. But, you know. That's pretty sweet. And now he does that show with Brandy. So, that's pretty cool. Anyhow. We're going to go on to our next song of the album. Then we're going to wrap it up. And remember, at the end, we got a chance to win a CD from Theo and the Skyscrapers. It's pretty dope. You'll want to hear it. Right now, we're going to play track number eight of the album. Number ocho. The track is called Volcano. And if you don't speak English and Spanish, that would be Volcano. Oh, oh, because that's all the Spanish I know. El Volcano. Be sure to check it out. And, yeah. Tune in to the rest of the interview.

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How was the songwriting process going about for this? Well, before, like, when me and Sean were kind of putting it together, and we were writing a lot of stuff on our own. And then, now that these guys are here, we pretty much write together. And, you know, Sean and Dimitri bring riffs in. And then, Shark will bring some interesting drum parts in sometimes. And, you know, I do all the lyrics and melody and that stuff. Excellent. Yeah, it's great. This is the first band I've played in where a bass player is actually playing something different than the guitar player. Yeah, just not following the guitar player. Is the bass player sulking right now? Yeah. He's spiraling in the corner.

Speaking to the mic, Sulker. Hey.

Oh, Dimitri. Save that one. I play drums. You need double kick and dance music. Yeah. No, it's great, man. And, like, the Shark is what we call our drummers. Chris here, the Shark. He's always working on, you know, he's listening to, like, Pantera and combining it with some Clem Burke and, like, coming out with something that's all Shark and bringing it to the table. And it's a blast. It's fun. It's really, like, a good collaboration. It's just, you know, and the way we recorded the album was very instant. Like, there was no, like, write a bunch of songs, practice them, go into some expensive studio and try to rush through it. It was really, like, we'd write a song and then right there, like, hey, let's go back to the apartment and record it.

Or let's go, you know, to my friend's place and lay down the drums. Right there. Like, a couple of songs in the album, we literally wrote it and, like, went and recorded it, like, that day or, like, a week, you know, the next week. That's awesome. So, yeah, it's really fun. Different experience than I've ever really had before. Yeah, it sounds like with any of your previous bands like this, or is this all kind of, like, a new experience? Yeah, it's been a blast. It's really been cool. It's new, too, because of the technology, like, you know. Yeah, I mean, we were able to really, you know, pull some cool stuff off in the, like I said, you know, we actually put a little money towards mastering, but otherwise it was done in our apartment.

And, like, I'd put it up against anything out there and, you know, and have them, you know, tell me, like, oh, a friend of ours just laid out, like, 15 grand in a recording studio. And I'd put it up, like, you know, A, B it against their stuff. And you can't tell me whose is what and what studio, you know. As long as the kids are having fun listening to it, it doesn't really matter. Cool. We're having fun laying it down, so. And I think that's the beauty of, you know, technology now. It's like, really, pretty much anybody could go do that. And I encourage people to. Yeah. Now, was that, like, a choice of your own to do that, or was it, like, how much? It was a necessity. Yeah. Was it just, like, you guys had to do this and that was the easiest?

No, you know what? Honest to God, like, you know, because Toilet Boys were lucky enough that we got, like, a big, fat budget for a record that never, on Roadrunner that never came out. And if I could go back in time, I would have said, oh, yeah, thank you. We're going to go record it at this studio and hand them an invoice for, I would have done it the exact same way and put all that money in my pocket. And I would do it again. Like, if some label came up and was like, yeah, we want to give you, you know, here's your recording budget, it's like $75,000 and here's tour support, $73,000 would be going into our pockets. And then maybe we'd buy some outboard gear, you know, some new mics. I personally like going into the real studios, though, too.

Well, we do your part in real studio and then keep $70,000 to make you know what I mean. Honestly, like, I just think, like, you know, at this point, you can't really, I mean, you know, you can maybe tell the difference here and there, but especially for what we're doing, it's like, like, I like, like, I think I prefer a little synthetic-ness to it, a little, you know what I mean? It works with what we're doing, too. Yeah, it works for what we're doing and plus, you know, we're hitting tape, you know, it's all about the decisions you make while recording it and stuff, and we're happy with the way it came out, so I wouldn't do it any other way, you know, unless there was, you know, an opportunity to work with somebody that we really want to work with that costs a little bit of bread, but, you know.

Yeah, I'm open to anything. Yeah, we're open to that. Let's not close ourselves off to our living room. No, fuck that. We're sticking it in our pockets, though. No, but it's just funny, because we had an opportunity before to, say, work with Steve Jones. Mm-hmm. I'm talking on the phone with this guy. That was a little Toilet Boys, not us. Yeah, one of the Toilet Boys, and $150,000 this dude wants to produce a record, and he's not even an engineer. That's what he gets, you know? Yeah, yeah. And then the guy's, like, asking me where he can get birds, you know, when he gets to town. I'm like, for that kind of money, he can buy chicks, you know what I mean? Like, so... Oh, you're ripping on the Jones, man. Ah, whatever.

He's my boy. Hey, Steve. What's up, man? Sean. Toilet Boys, give me a call. Yeah. You know what? If he's listening, he'd probably get a kick out of his story, because it's a joke that we'd pay him $150,000 to come and probably tell some fucking funny stories, but at the end of the day, it's really, are we happy with the way it sounds? Yeah. You know what I mean? He's not sprinkling any magic dust on the tape, you know? So, whatever. How do you know? Yeah. I'm sorry. Do I sound bitter? Fuck that. You know. A little sugar. A little sugar on top. A little sugar on that. That's all right, though. So, Jonesy. He loves me. We got more. Yeah. There's people constantly coming up and down these stairs. Oh, this is Nate. This is our merchandise, Matt.

Party! Yeah! I think he's got the cocaine. Hey, man. No. That would explain it. He's hanging out with his parents. That would explain why he's really happy, though. His parents are here in town. That's why he's happy. Oh, are they? Well, maybe we should keep the cocaine jokes in town, then. Yeah. Just for your parents' sake. Take a little shift right now. I know, Theo, you're very outspoken politically and very pro-choice and women's rights. How do you feel? I mean, currently, right now, it's kind of getting glossed over a little bit in the media. I mean, but the administration is fairly clear on their stance on that. How are you feeling about all that? It's horrifying. I mean, you know, there's a lot, like, because I can't get online every day and I can't, you know, find out exactly what's going on.

But every time I get online, I get emails from, you know, a bunch of different pro-choice organizations and I sign whatever petitions I have to sign. And it's really, really scary. Like, it's so scary and the things that kind of get passed and happen under the radar and then, oh, wow, you know, look at this now. Now that, you know, South Dakota happened. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's terrifying. It's absolutely terrifying. But, you know, I'm ready and willing to do whatever I have to do, you know? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it just seems right now like one of the really frustrating things because everything is getting glossed over because it's kind of become a one-issue presidency ultimately and it's all about the war.

But in the meantime, everything else is going on in the background and no one really seems to be paying attention. No, no, they're not. I mean, even the thing that happened the other day where, you know, the biggest war crime since Abu Ghraib happened and it was up there for a few hours on, even just on Yahoo, the next day it was gone. And it's like, you know, all these things, it's awful. It's so shocking. America tends to find itself real easily distracted by, like, little weird shit and unfortunately kind of keeps the real politics out of whatever mainstream media. You kind of, at this point, if you care, you have to just make sure that you stay informed and keep fighting because otherwise it's, you know, we're going to be like wearing burqas here in our own way.

You know what I mean? Not that there's anything wrong with a burqa if you want to wear one, but if you're forced to, then that's not cool, you know? The difference between, yeah, some people enjoy that stuff and that's it, that's their deal, but. Ball gag? You know, hey, in the right place. Right place, right time. Everybody loves a ball gag. Right, everybody loves a ball gag. You know, that's their deal, but when someone's forced to wear one, it's a little creepy. Yeah. A little bit. All right, so let's kind of end this on a little bit lighter note, a little less doom and gloom, unfortunately, but where do you guys ultimately want to see this band in like two years, three years, four years? Any visions? Any ideas?

I mean, make no mistake, like I'm not, and I don't think any of us are like, yeah, we're going to DIY this to the end. If we have to, we will, but if we have the chance to make some money and step it up, then hey, we're there, you know what I mean? And I personally have never been, you know, I've loved being on, you know, indie labels and all that stuff, but I've never, ever said no, I wouldn't go on a major label. I'd do it, you know? If it was the right, I'd be very careful because I've seen so many friends get completely screwed, but it's like, I'm not, you know, I'm not the, I'm going to, you know, live on the streets till the end, man, you know, I've done that. I've slept on every fucking floor in the world and couches and, you know, flea bitten tops of clubs, you know, rooms like this, you know what I mean?

So it's like, I don't need to keep doing that. This is one of the nicer backrooms. Well, you know what I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely. I think as long as we, you know, maintain control of what we're doing. Yes, very important. And we're getting off on the art of what we're doing and the sounds, we're just going to keep doing it. That's also like one thing on our CD slash DVD, there's this little, little extra feature called screen test. And it's, it's kind of like our, like, it's like one foot in like, you know, in, in live music. And then we got one foot in this whole like art world with the guy that helps put our packaging together. And, you know, it's, it's like, it's hard to explain. It's something that you just kind of have to witness.

It's, it's, uh, that would be great to take on, have that whole aspect on the road with us and have it be really, really crazy experience. Yeah. If you get to check out the DVD, anybody out there, please go buy it in the stores. You're supporting us. That money is going like directly to us, not to some like asshole and executive record executive, you know what I mean? It's going to us and one guy who believes in what we're doing. And, um, if you, you know, buy it and check it out, it's just a little taste of this whole other thing that we're working on. And I think like our next album or something might kind of be like a concept a little bit with that goes hand in hand with this. It's like, it's, it's art, you know, it's, that's the only way to describe it.

It's artful, but it's like otherworldly and, you know, it takes you somewhere, you know, it's a trip. So hopefully, yeah, we can, we can incorporate elements of that into our touring live show. But until then we're just doing it like in, you know, like art, like, you know, um, in New York, like PS one 22, it's like a big art, like house. So, um, and we're going to keep doing that as well as, you know, the show that we're doing. So yeah. So I would, I would say two years from now to add more, you know, video art aspects and, and possibly more sort of dramatic show presentation and conceptual kookiness. Yeah. There's high concept going on with this thing as well as just some, you know, down and dirty, uh, you know, grooves and, and rock and roll and that and whatnot, whatever you want to call what we do.

I don't even know what we're doing. And you know, yeah. And I mean, even if we, if we get signed to a major label, it's not like we're suddenly going to be different people. It's like that, the real, the real core of shit will always be there. You guys have been at this too long, I think. Yeah. Yeah. For a major label. I mean, it's really, it doesn't really, I don't think anybody really gives a shit who's putting your record out or this or that is like, people can see through all that bullshit and there's bands that are put together almost like, you know, you can see through it, you know what I mean? And like, I don't think we ever have to worry about that because we're going to keep doing what we do and, you know, people want to give us bread, if people don't, we're just going to keep doing what we do, you know?

Cool, man. Awesome. Do you guys got any, your website, anything you'd like to plug before we close this up? Theo and the skyscrapers.com and myspace.com slash Theo. Fantastic. And what else? Anything else? Come see the show. If you're out there listening, we still got like, we're still out on tour. Check the website. Yeah. Check the website for dates near you. Go buy the record in stores. Like I said, and if the record store doesn't have a record, ask them to order it because, you know, we just, we need people to go out there and buy this record, man. Or you can get it on our website, too. Yeah, buy it from the website. Just buy it. Buy our shirts. Buy our stuff. Buy all of it somehow. Yeah, gas costs a lot of money now, so it's tough to stay on the road, man.

So the more stuff you buy, the more chances are we'll come to your town and play. Awesome. All right, well, I want to thank you guys so much for taking the time to talk to us. Thank you.

Buddy, I know I enjoyed it. I'm enjoying it right now with a cold can of cherry Coke, Coke, cherry cola pressed against my balls because it's fucking 96 degrees out here. So it's good times. But before we continue on to how to win the Theo and the Skyscrapers CD, I can't even talk. It's so hot. I'm like slurring. Before we go on on how to win that CD, the winners of the No Trigger CD. To win the No Trigger CD, you had to send them what you thought a canyoneer was because it was the title of their album. The winners are Mark F. from Charlottesville, Vagina, Virginia. Is that West Virginia? I guess it's just Virginia if you don't put West Virginia. So congratulations, slave state. And Mark said that he checked out canyoneer in Google.

And Google said, asked if he had meant can opener. And Mark said, if I had meant to put can opener, I would have put can opener, goddammit. And since Mark is much funnier than us, we decided he should win. The other one is Ben K., who I'm going to say is Ben Kingsley, because I'd like to believe he listens. So Gandhi, you won yourself a copy of canyoneer. Though I have to say, dude, blood rain was fucking horrible. I don't know what you were thinking. But Ben K.1, he's out of Centralia, Washington. So good job, Ben. And Ben said he thought it was a play on Canyon Arrow, the SUV from The Simpsons, which is like five lanes wide and runs up hills and runs on like the blood of Mexican immigrants. So congratulations.

I'm pretty stoked for you, Ben, Mr. Kingsley. Hopefully, you'll come on down sometime. So like I said, we're going to wrap it up. We got a chance to win a CD from Theo and the Skyscrapers. It's a pretty good CD. I've been listening to it a lot. Kind of new, wavy, kind of metal. How to win? What you want to do is send us an email at soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. Title line, Theo and the Skyscrapers contest, or just Theo contest. Make sure to include your name, address, pertinent information so we can get all that stuff down. And what should you do to win this one? Well, to win this one, Theo used to be a Calvin Klein model way back in the day. And what I want to do, because I think she's a good looking chick, I want you to put who you think of the opposite sex, or if you're homosexual, of the same sex is very attractive.

This could be if you happen to find, I think Jack Black is a good looking man myself. So if I was there, I'd put Jack Black, because he did Nacho Libre, and what she wore, stretchy pants. So whoever you think is attractive of the opposite or the same sex, include that so we know that you were listening. And send that with the subject line, Theo and the Skyscrapers, and all of your information to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com, and we will have that shit out in a couple of weeks. Now, moving on, the last song, we're going to play track number four off of their debut CD called Lay Em Out. And next week, we'll be back with our first round of Warped Tour interviews. Yay! Warped Tour, if you weren't there this year, was hot, and fucking long, and pretty shitty.

But we got to talk to some good bands, and I nearly got, like, some toxic sweat put on me by the guys of Under Oath. So other than that, it was a pretty good time. So be sure to come back, find out who we're going to review next week, because it's a big mystery. Like, you know, a mystery. We're out. Come back next week. Peace.

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