Interview with Akimbo - Podcast 29

This is Nat, and Aaron, and John, of Akimbo, of Akimbo, of Akimbo, you're listening to Sound

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We have a brand new episode for you guys today, because we try hard to strive above mediocrity, though we fail pretty often. First off, we've got a show this week with Akimbo, got some music from them that I think you guys will like. Before we get into the interview, I would like to announce the winners of the Theo and the Skyscrapers Contest. One is Rian, I believe is the name, and this person has won before, but they can win again. So for those of you who have entered, this is an incentive to enter again and win this time, because we've got a new contest, which I'll explain in two minutes. The other winner is a person by the name of Daniel R., who hails from San Francisco, who I have reason to believe is either bisexual or attracted to animals and blind people.

I don't know how that one works out, but that's just how it is. Now, moving forward, this week's contest. Like I said, we've got Akimbo, and we've got a very special contest this week. We have a chance for you to win, we have two separate Akimbo CDs. We have their latest, which is called Forging Steel and Laying Stone, which is available on Alternative Tentacles. That came out, I want to say 2006, maybe it came out 2005. But we have one copy of that, and then we have one copy of their CD, City of Stars, which was released on 7th Rule Recordings. And so we have one of each of these. So you have a chance to win one or both of these, depending. We'll explain the rules at the end, so you want to listen to like the last five minutes of the broadcast.

Now, before we do that, we're going to have the interview, which is awesome. The first half, we talk all about the band's history, how they got hooked up with Alternative Tentacles, and even Tycho Bry, who is written about in City of Stars. This dude was crazy. He had a gold nose, and had a fucking drunk reindeer that fell down stairs, and a midget that he thought was clairvoyant. So this dude is totally awesome. You want to hear about him. And it's a pretty good interview, I think. Maybe you'll agree. Before we do that, we're going to jump into some music. We're going to play a track off of City of Stars, the Tycho Bry-influenced album. And we're going to start off with the opening track called Circle of Hair.

And then we're going to jump into the interview, so check it out.

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So thanks for tuning in to Sound Scene Revolution. We are today standing outside of the back of the lovely store club here in Oakland. with Akimbo, if you guys could all say hello.

That was good. Three-fourths of the band, I guess. Are you guys... No, this is all of us. This is all you? You're all just doing the three-piece deal this time? Yeah. All right. So... Yeah. All right. So yeah, if we can just go around and introduce yourself, what you do in the band, and the last movie that you guys saw.

We saw The Fifth Element last night. Oh, bummer. I know, it was kind of a bummer to say that, but... What a terrible answer that one. Well, it was like 5 a.m., so give me a break. All right, it happens. All right, so... But my name is Nat, and I play drums. I'm Aaron, and I play guitar. What was the last movie you saw when you were watching? Well, that's already been established. Right. My name's John, and I play bass, and the last movie I saw was The Fifth Element. No, no, you guys don't sound too stoked on watching. I actually did not want to watch it. It was just on. Our host just kind of put it on for us. Now I have a shitty answer to your question. I saw The Da Vinci Code a little while ago. It was pretty bad.

Yeah. We watched the movie before The Fifth Element, though. Half that movie. What was that? Find Me Guilty. Oh, that was the Vin Diesel where he was like... He had hair, actually. Yeah, it was good. Was it all right? I was thinking it would be horrible, but it wasn't. I only saw half of it, so... Better than The Fifth Element, though? All right. I didn't watch it. Pabst helped a lot. I think that helps every bad movie along. It's helping by now. All right, so moving on. Can you guys give us just a brief history of the band? I don't know if there's a brief history. Yeah, I was going to say, you guys have had like, what, a dozen different members? It's been a long, painful fight through hell. Evidently, I'm guitarist number 11.

Yes. Oh, my goodness. That's got to be exciting for you. It is. It's quite an auspicious position I'm in. Yeah, I don't know. As brief as you can, kind of, without, I don't know, naming every person who's ever played. Yeah, right. Which would be impossible.

I don't know. Well, we just kind of started and wrote a lot of songs, recorded some albums, decided we wanted to tour a lot. And then, you know, unfortunately, Nat and I were the only ones who agreed on touring a lot. And then everyone else was kind of like dropped off and came in and out. And we were forced to sort of pick up subs here and there. And it's just been, it's been really hectic, but really fun. That's cool. We had a guitar player who was a stockbroker or a financial advisor. Wow. I know, it's pretty amazing and he's a great guy. But because he did that for a living, they weren't really willing to let him leave for, like, months at a time. So touring became difficult and we still wanted to tour, so we found people who were available.

Wanted to do it? That's cool. Now, what do you guys do that allows you to go on tour? Should I ask? I'm a poster designer. I make rock posters. Oh, that's cool. And I have a laptop, so I can do that from the road. And it's homeless. Yeah, it was, until very recently, I taught little kids how to rock on, you know, guitar. And drums and stuff. It's crazy. He got this job as a substitute teacher at this elementary school. And he didn't know the curriculum, so he just, like, taught these kids how to play rock and roll. Well, I stole my roommate's name. Sounds like a movie. Yeah, you guys should seriously make a movie out of that. It's a fantastic idea. Straight to VHS, right? Soundgarden Airmen with the, uh, I think they could probably make Betamax.

How many photos do you plan on taking? All right, is that one? All right, we'll just pretend that never happened. John, what do you do? I, um, I play video games and drink beer. That's a fantastic job. What's that pay? I gotta get that one. Uh, not bad, actually. Yeah. Wow. We gotta talk after this and get you guys to figure out how to get that one. Um, all right, just real quick, I'm sure you guys get this question a lot. You guys have released a couple of different albums. Your last one was on Alternative Tentacles. The shirt. That's what my shirt says. Sporting the label. Uh, how, that's so going on the cover, uh, on our website. Uh, how did it come to me that you guys got hooked up with Alternative Tentacles?

Uh, we opened for Jello and the Melvins. Oh, wow. And, uh, he, he was down. He asked, he asked us at the show after the show. That's really cool. There's, I mean, there's a little bit more history to that, like, you know, we, we opened for them another time, and, uh, and, uh, he was stoked and asked for records. Yeah. And we were like, oh my god, Jello asked us for records. And then, months later, we got a call from a club in Seattle saying that he had asked us to, uh, open the Melvins and Jello show. Oh, wow. And afterwards, he asked us to put out a record. That's pretty sweet, dude. It was fucking good. Were you guys nervous about opening for the show? No. No. No? It was, it was awesome. It was, what was that club called?

I forget. It was in, oh, in Pittsburgh? Yeah. So, it was an old church that was converted into a bar. It was pretty awesome. Mr. Smalls or something like that. Yeah, something like that. Biggie Smalls, I think it was. Biggie Smalls. Oh, yeah. We didn't know that he was going to be there. We, I mean, we walked in, and they were sound checking to, like, California Ubralis, and I was like, oh my god. That ought to be funny. It's like, who's that old guy? Oh, shit. They're like, never mind, never mind. Take it back. That's rad, dude. Was the crowd, like, responsive? I mean, I don't know. No, because we got, we got shoved on that show, like, super early. Oh, yeah. And so, we played before the doors were advertised. So, there was, like, three people out there.

Yes, they were receptive, but, I mean, it was, like, we were playing to, seriously, a fifth of who was there at the end of the night, so. I imagine some of the crowd at that show could be dick, so it may, may have worked out better that way. They didn't throw anything. Always. At the bed. Always nice. Only their love. That's all they threw. Whenever you, the term throwing love doesn't, didn't sound so good. Anyhow. Man love. Yeah, throw their man love at you guys. All right. Excuse me. Yeah. Nice. Wah, wah. One of the things I was bringing up, a lot of people have noticed that your last album, Forging Steel, Wayne Stone, I'm getting that right, right? Yep. Yes. Okay, good. I was totally afraid I was going to fuck that up.

They said that the production was a lot cleaner. Was that something you guys have always kind of, like, shot for, or did it just happen, or was it, like, something kind of pushed on you where they're like, maybe you should go for better production value. Cleaner? I haven't heard that. I don't know. They said that. Everything, I have a terrible ear on music, but everyone's saying there's better production value on it and stuff. I think it just sounds better. Better than the previous record. Yeah? Yeah, we have four full lengths, and the second full length, Elephantine, was recorded by an awesome guy named Joel Brown from Seattle, and he was unavailable for recording our third album, so we couldn't rock with him, and there was some communication issues with how we wanted to make it sound.

So the record, in my eyes, didn't really come out the way I wanted it to, but with Forging Steel, we used Joel again, and he made it sound buttery, so that's it. Buttery? Buttery. Yeah. His real name is Joel Butter Brown. Sounds like you guys would be delicious with, like, toast, or some sort of breakfast of some sort. That should be on your new, like, new poster. Kimbo, delicious with toast. I'm just going to throw that out there. We'll credit you for that, guy. Yeah. Yeah. Credit me with that one, sure.

Okay. I'll just go, I think I'm just going to go backwards here with your albums, because that's how my notes were typed out. Okay. But, um, on City of the Stars, you had a couple things that were, oh god, I'm going to fuck the guy's name up. Tycho Brahe? Tycho Brahe. Tycho Brahe, yeah. Bra. Nope. Yeah. Uh, okay, first off, does anyone know where that name, like, name is originated from? John did it. You did? Where the what? Where his name's from, like? He's the astronomy buff. He's Danish. Yeah, like, where he's from, like, Danish? I imagine his mother. Or his father. A vagina.

Like, nationality or anything like that. No, I, yeah, he's, I know that. He was Danish. Yeah, he was definitely employed by the king of Denmark, which leads us to believe. Yeah, so, yeah, okay, there you go. Oh, I don't know. Certain people are employed by whoever can get the money. Oh my god, I have a huge hole in my armpit. That's beautiful. That is awesome. That's punk rock, though. Yeah. But, um, do you have any, like, were there ever, like, problems with, like, people understanding it? Like, have people been like, what the fuck was this all about? And they can have the gold nose on the cover. Uh, I think if people had problems understanding it, they didn't vocalize it to me. Google. They just Googled it.

Yeah, there's been a few people who have, who have recognized it and have been pretty stoked that, like, we chose that as a subject to write songs about it. Yeah, how did that come, that's not really, in terms of, like, thematic music, that's never really, well, I'll tell you. If you know about it, I mean, it's fucking awesome. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I've been reading up on it. All right. I believe it. I used to work at a video store, and we were writing that album, and I was writing lyrics, and I was using an old notebook I had found, and it was, like, really old. I just found it in a drawer, and I was, like, just needed some blank paper, so I was writing lyrics at my job at the video store, and I couldn't think of anything, so I was flipping through the pages of this notebook, and it was my old astronomy notebook from community college, and I just saw all these old notes I took on Tycho Brahe, and I couldn't believe I had forgotten about that guy.

All the crazy shit that he did? Yeah, he's just, like, the craziest dude in the world, and it just sort of hit me at work. I was like, oh, my God. This guy's incredible. This guy needs songs written about. Yeah, he's just, yeah, he's a... That's awesome. He's a fountain. He really was. A fountain of ideas. Like, going over, I read through some of the stuff about him. Like, some of the stories about him were just, like, fucking ridiculous. Do you have, like, one that you read that was, like, your personal favorite? Yeah, my personal favorite is his death. Oh, man. He died eating dinner with the king. He had been drinking all day, and his bladder was full when he started drinking, or started eating dinner, and he continued drinking through dinner, and he felt it would be rude to excuse himself in front of the king to get up and use the restroom.

So, his bladder ruptured, and as a result, he died. Yeah, it was supposed to be, like, 14 days later, just this horribly painful death of just, like, fucking... He was also rumored to be insane, because he was self-medicating himself with Mercury, I believe. Mercury based. Yeah, yeah. So, he wasn't... He was a few beers short of a six-pack. Yeah. Just, I mean, I was reading through all of it, and I'm like, there's enough for, like, seven albums on this guy. Yeah. He had a dwarf that he... I guess he owned the dwarf. Yeah. He thought that it was clairvoyant. Dancing bears as well.

Ditter parties. Seriously, that's the kind of guy... I would have a round today. Kim Jong-il. Pretty close. There you go. Maybe, maybe I don't. Maybe I don't. I don't know. I don't sing it. It sounds cool. Kim Jong-il insists that he has the best memory of anyone in the world. He doesn't have any of his staff write anything down. Really? Because he tells them that they should be able to remember everything. What? Yeah. That's, like, the sure as far away that everyone's going to forget your shit, dude. Don't write any of this down. Just remember it. It's going to be important. It comes when I forget his birthday. Oh, dude. If you forget Kim Jong-il's birthday... They'll fire some missiles. It's your ass. Yeah, it's a lot funnier, like, oh, dancing bears and shit, when it's not, oh, and he has nuclear capacity.

Right, right. That kind of fucks... You know, makes things a little weird. Yeah. Anyhow, again, moving backwards, I'm actually skipping one of your albums, so I'm sorry. Okay, skip away. But talking about Harshi or Harshi and Your Mellow. Yeah. One of the things that, again, kept coming up is that, like, there's a lot of, like, it transitioned, like, really well. There was, like, in between, like, nearly every fucking song on it. Now, was that, like, again, was that planned, or did it just kind of... We recorded the entire album in one take, so... Seriously? No. Oh, damn it! Again! Gotcha. Again!

Oh... No, but... Yeah, no, it was just a bunch of noise and samples that we kind of put together and threw between the tracks. And it was all deliberate, like, you know, just had some noise stuff, had some movie samples, had some illegal samples from other people's albums. Yeah, but you probably didn't make enough money off that for anyone, really. I didn't make any money off that. Yeah, if that album started to make any money off... Do we still owe up money on that? I sure didn't. Probably. Yeah. You guys are sitting here, like, make money? Yeah. A lot. Do we do that? Yeah, no. You don't? No. No. That's all right, though. But that's... Was there a reason, like, you kind of drifted away from using that, or was it, like, you just didn't want to become, like, the gimmick band where every album has albums?

Yeah, no, the reason we drifted away was time and money. Yeah. So we didn't have any... Was it a lot of work to, like, put that shit together? No, it was all just stuff that just kind of we threw together, like... Didn't we record and mix that record in, like, five days or four days? Yeah, well, we mastered it later, and that's where we put all the stuff on it. You were on tour with the Type Bros at the time. Yeah, yeah. And I think that actually probably had a lot to do with it, too, because we weren't actively playing, because Nat was on tour with another band at the time. So I kind of had some free time to just sort of, like, screw around and play with... Yeah, find some samples I liked and do that kind of thing.

All right, so we're going to take a quick little break here from that interview. Before we jump back into it, I want to remind you that, again, we have a contest that I will give the rules for at the end of the broadcast, where you can win one or both of Akimbo's last two most recent CDs, City of Stars and Forging Steel and Laying Stone. And we'll tell you how to do that at the end. Before we jump back into the interview, where we talk about things such as their lyrical content, which is pretty awesome. And, of course, the Foosball Challenge, which you guys are going to want to pay attention to, because that is very important. In fact, I would say it is the cornerstone of the temple that is Akimbo, personally.

Before we do that, we're going to play a track off of their latest CD, available on Alternative Tentacles. Again, Forging Steel and Laying Stone. We're going to be playing the track, Spooning with Disaster, because that sounds erotic. And that's how we do it here on Silent St. Revolution. So, check out the track, and enjoy the rest of the interview.

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There's no segue in that one. That was just kind of a jump, but anyhow. You guys sound has been, like... You guys start off, like, kind of... People would say, like, really traditional kind of hardcore, and it's kind of ventured more into the metal realm of stuff. Have you found... Has that, like, helped you guys? Has that, like, gotten you more fans? Or do you think, like, the variations in sound has kind of alienated people, whereas they'd want kind of a more nailed-down sound? Who knows, man. It's kind of what made me want to be part of the band. I mean, just the, you know, cool variety of influences and stuff. The wide variety of sound. Really neato. Cool. Neato. Neato? Sorry, dude. I don't think I've ever...

So, we've got... You guys have been described as buttery and neato during this interview. I like that. That about sums it up, you know. That's really all you need to know about Akimbo, is that they're buttery and neato. Right on. Oh. That was nice. You can edit that out later. Yeah. No, we're gonna... We're keeping that. That's an echo to it. Whatever. I don't know why we act like we edit shit. We don't. It's a waste of time to lie to you guys about that, honestly. We pretty much just take this and put it up the next day. Awesome. With a few... We have snare drum sounds that we could throw in now. Yeah. We got a drum machine. We're pretty stoked on that. Bicycle horn. Yeah. We have no idea. Cowbell. We have no idea what we're doing with that, but we got one, so we thought we'd use it.

You should make it play breakbeats every time I say something. Just in the background. It's like, oh, that's how we know he's talking. That's how we know John's talking. The breakbeat's going. But, okay. Again, I just think you guys alienate people, so I'm going to ask you this. A lot of the lyrics... Fuck you, man. I just assume that nobody likes your music. Yeah. So, like, a lot of the lyrical content is, like, real heavy on, like, kind of, like, biblical and almost, like, mythology-type terms. How's that come about? I mean, not many hardcore metal bands. I mean, maybe you could say Mastodon, but not a lot of them. It's just more... To me, it's more entertaining than talking about how the world is fucked up or, you know, talking about your personal problems.

It's just... It's cool shit. I like it. Yeah? It's, you know, it's more inspiring to me than a lot of other stuff. Oh, yeah, definitely. You ever feel, like, pressured that, like, the next album or the next thing that you record has to have a similar theme, or does it just... If it happens, it happens? No, because my approach to lyrics has always just been whatever I like, whatever I feel like writing about, and that tends to be a common theme, but, I mean, if you examine each individual song, it's all over the place. Oh, yeah. So, I... Oh, yeah, you may find a couple... There's definitely no pressure to... Yeah. There's a couple of themes here and there, but definitely, I mean, each album has its own tracks on it, so...

You got, yeah, the Prehistoric Sharks, right? Yeah. That song's about... There's, what, three set on that? Yeah, there's a trilogy of songs about Prehistoric Sharks. What's it called, John? What's the name of the shark? It's called Carcharodon Megalodon. Or Megalodon, depending on how you want to pronounce it. That's the actual... You know the scientific name for that? Yes, I do. It's Latin, dude. Wow. Yeah, fucking Latin. That's fantastic. But you could drive a school bus through its mouth and it ate whales, right? A VW bug. Well... You could drive through its mouth. Maybe a really long bug. It's got the size of a school bus. A stretch bug. Still, though. Still, yeah. Yeah, like, you're like, only a VW bug could fit in its mouth.

Nothing like insane. Let's not go crazy. No. It's just a giant prehistoric shark. It's actually tattooed on my arm. Is it? Check it out. Can we get the photo of the giant prehistoric shark? That's fucking awesome. Now, did you get that before or after the trilogy? After. After? Yeah, this is very recent, actually. Oh, really? How recent? That shit costs a lot of money. It's still in process. We've got a little chunk back here that's not in it. That's nice, though. Yeah, it's coming together. I was going to say it's buttery. It's buttery tattooed. It's also neato. It's very neato. Yes. How long does something like that take, dude? Because, like, you could see. It's been. He did it in one long session. Yeah. Just like, uh, harshing your mellow.

So, we're going to do the tattoo talk now? He was in there for 24 straight hours. It was amazing. It was asleep getting tattooed. Four sessions now. Mm-hmm. Each one has cost me around $300, $400, including tip. So, like. Over the course of, like, six months, though. Right on, right on. So, people got to buy your shit so that you guys can fucking get more tattoos. Yeah. Finish the job. Buy your merch. I need more ink. I have none. Yeah. But, yeah. You have no tattoo? No, I'm pristine. Excellent. And now is it just because you're a sissy? Virginal, you could say. No, it's because I'm broke. That's kind of my reasoning, too, is I'm like, I could get this tattoo or I could eat lunch. I was actually going in to get a tattoo while he was on the table getting a tattoo.

You know, I saw him and, you know, they couldn't find an appointment for me or anything. But, you know, I got to see him kind of weeping like a baby. Yeah. I didn't notice Aaron because I was crying. And yet, taking it like a man at the same time. It's a strange juxtaposition of emotions. I was in there like, sorry, we got to tattoo this prehistoric shark and this guy for the next 24 hours. Aaron stormed out because that was the tattoo that he was going to get. Well, I'm still getting it. You've got to get it somewhere else so it doesn't look like you're copying him. Just get it on your back or something. On your base. On my bottom. Get it on your face, just a big shark. Like going to bite your eye. Coming out of your mouth, man.

Oh, that would be sweet. Good idea. I would pay. I would finance that if you got a shark on your face. The VW bus is going on the other cheek. Yeah, exactly. Look me up and we'll get that handled. One of the things I want to ask is, I was reading up on you guys, what is the foosball challenge that I have read about? John and I are the power team. I've got a foosball table at my work where I drink beer and play video games. You've got beer, video games, and a foosball table. This is a fucking phenomenal job. It is. It's the best job ever. Game Instinct, Redmond Washington. Check it out. Nice. We have a foosball table at work, and it started out as this casual thing that every now and then somebody would play a game.

It was a little table when we first got it. And then we started playing a little bit more, and if you're playing a foosball table pretty hard, it tends to fall apart if it's not professional. So we broke the first one, and then we got another one in there. I don't think I've ever heard anyone break it. How do you break it? Yeah, well, if it's not a professional table, it's going to fall apart. Someone, like, flipped it over. I was like, fuck, just flip the table. Dude, I'll get in matches with this one guy in particular there. I'm not going to name his name because it's a friend of mine. Like, he's going to listen, dude. Yeah, true. It's all right, though. Danny Olsen, the boss of Game Instinct. When I beat him at foosball, he gets so mad.

Nice. And he screams, and he punches the table as hard as he can, and he'll kick garbage cans over. And keep in mind, he's the director of operations. Like, he's the boss. He's coming out of his big office. He's like, you're taking a week without pay. Go. Yeah. Nice. And I'll kill him. And he fucking yells, and he screams, and he hits stuff. And I've seen him, like, break the skin on his knuckles, punching the table, and he'll walk out of the room. Wow. And then, like, 20 minutes later, I'll be, like, getting coffee at the coffee machine, and he'll come out, and he's got an ice bag on his hand. Good game, man. Good game. Yeah. Nice. So that's why you need the pro foosball table, because he fucked the old one up.

Like, one time I beat him, and he goes back to his office. He just didn't say anything. He just, like, storms back into his office. And then I get an instant message that says, there are not words to describe how angry I am right now. Wow. Wow. But, yeah, so we have a foosball table at the office, and we play a lot, and I enjoy it very much. And I thought it would be a fun thing to do on tour, just to, you know, sort of test my ability nationally. Against the world. See if anyone's got what it takes to take down the new ski. Do you think you're the best in your office, then? No. No? I'm currently ranked number two in the tournament. That's not too bad, though. This other guy's a wizard, though. I suppose he's got magic or something.

So, how I was reading through, the rules are that it has to be, the foosball table has to be a couple minutes from the venue, like, within, because you guys can't, obviously. Yeah. I can't be like, I got a foosball table in New Mexico, let's go right now. Come on. Right, right. Yeah. It's at my mom's house. Yeah. It has to be a couple of minutes away. If it's a pay table, they've got to handle the bill for the pay table. Now, what do they get if they beat you? One item for free from my merch table. Now, is that like any item? Like, you guys have sweatshirts and shit? Record, CD, shirt. A kiss from our roadie? Yeah, a kiss from the roadie. Free back massage, you know, shit like that. No, we don't have that for sale.

Oh, you guys need that. Now, if they lose and you win, what do they got to do? They got to buy me a beer. My choice. That's pretty fair, I think. That's an even bet. We'll find out. But see, the problem is, I would just come to you like, around like, end of the show, 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, be like, because I'm assuming you've won one or two games. You've got some beer in you. And I'm like, now I'm going to win. Yeah, well, but that's the mistake you're making. Beer makes you better at foosball. Beer makes you better at everything? It's very easy to play well while you're drunk. I don't know. I remember I played one game, well, I don't really remember playing one game of foosball drunk. I was told I played a game of foosball drunk, and I was fucking, apparently horrible when I got hit in the balls with the other guy's thing, because he did, like, the slam, and it just hit me in the fucking balls.

Bush league, man. Yes. That's intentional. It was not okay. So, moving on from that, again, when I was reading up on you guys, I was checking out your MySpace page, and I was just going to ask, is that a dragon fucking a dude on your MySpace page? It is. It's on our shirt. $10. You have a shirt? Yeah, $10, dragon porn. He was willing. He's stoked on it. The guy was like, all right, I'm going to fuck a dragon. He dropped his Christian urn. So, did you guys, did you find that, or did you make that, or? I found it. It's actually a, it's, it's from Rome, I believe. Of course. Where else? Yeah. I saw it, and I was like, holy shit, I have to use that. Now, is the original image supposed to be a dragon fucking a guy, or is that just what it really looks like?

That is, yeah. I have a book on that. It's pretty obvious if you look at it. Well, it's obvious, but like, I'm looking at it, and I'm like, the dragon's fucking the guy, right? And I'm like, that can't be. There's no real artist that would have a dragon fucking a guy, but, the Romans. I'm sure there's something there. It's supposed to be just some sort of submissive posture or something. You don't actually see dragon penis. You don't see dragon penis. That's because he's fully in there. You could say he's balls deep. You have said he's balls deep. He is balls deep. Now, now that it's been said. That's Bushley. That's the kind of interview we're conducting, and John just fucking picked up his phone because we're not important.

Hold on. Man, this is really important. Oh, is it? Oh, yeah. Priorities. It's a girl. I bet. Okay. Scream something. Yeah. Wrong end. All right, bye. That was the right end. Huh. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't hear it, though? Sound got airman? Oh, well. Oh, well. I don't think... I didn't... Yeah, she's too cool to scream anything. Yeah. It's all right. They probably... If it's a woman, they wouldn't want to talk to us anyhow. We've decided that podcast, terrible way to meet women. You think? But it's wrong. Anyhow, so before I ramble anymore, I want to ask one last question, and it's really interesting to me. It's kind of two-part. First of all, you guys are from Seattle, thereabouts. Yep. Yeah, Seattle. Yeah, Seattle, exactly.

I don't know. You get bands who are from Olympia and shit, and they're like, we're from Seattle, because no one knows. Right, because Olympia sucks balls.

So, what's the music scene like in Seattle? Better than Olympia's. Take that, Olympia. It goes up and down. I mean, there's a natural ebb and flow to clubs opening and closing, houses being shut down, and new houses opening up, and good bands starting or moving away. You know? That's the end. That's fair enough. Seems to improve whenever we come back from tour. Whenever you guys come back, all of a sudden everything gets a little bit better. That's cool. How does it feel being from the same area as Aiden? Do you guys have any... Do you even know who Aiden is? You have no idea? Wait, I've seen them on a magazine, I think. Yeah, they're on, like, Victory Records. They wear guyliner and shit, don't they? Yeah, big eyeliner, big black hair and shit.

I got to show you guys a photo, because I was, like, researching, and it's like, other bands from the area, Aiden, and I'm like, oh, that's fucking awesome. Because they're, like, exactly 180 degrees apart from, like, where you guys are. They live in... I thought they live in Portland or some shit. I don't know, but... Are they, like, some, like, Christian hardcore band or something? Probably. They're not, like, Christian, like, goth, Michael Roman. Yeah. They're pretty, aren't they? I don't know. Yeah, they're... Pretty boys. They're gorgeous men. They're, that's the thing is, they're really ugly, but they wear a lot of makeup. Ah. It's kind of like that drunk chick. And they have those haircuts that cover their faces.

Yeah. So, I just thought I would see, because you guys seem pretty straightforward, normal people, and they are not. So, with that, I think we're going to wrap it up. You guys got any plugs, websites, things you'd like to push, causes? No. No, no. No website, nothing, no shows. Come to the store club right now. Actually, they'd probably, like, come to the store club a week ago, but... Yeah. If anyone does listen to this and wants to play me foosball, fucking bring it. That's all I got to say. Thanks for doing the interview. Oh, no problem. Thank you guys for taking the time. It's a pleasure. Cool. All right, so I hope you guys enjoyed the interview. And now, for the part you've all been waiting for, the contest.

But, before we get into the contest, my girlfriend, who's listening, would like me to include a disclaimer about the winner, Daniel R. from San Francisco, who I mentioned was attracted to animals and blind people. It's not that being attracted to blind people is bad. It's just that Daniel's horribly unattractive, so blind people are the only humans who will have sex with him. I hope you understand. Now, moving forward, this week's contest. You can win a copy of Akimbo CD, Forging Steel and Laying Stone, and a copy of City of Stars, or both. Here's how it works. You send us an email to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com with your pertinent information, shipping address, all of that, age, sex, location, height, photos, all of that.

And what you do is you tell us if you want one or both of the CDs. First person who we pull out, if they want one of the CDs, we'll give the other one to the next winner. If they want both of the CDs, meaning they don't have either one, we will give them both. So there's a chance to win two CDs here. It's a big contest, so you better fucking pay attention and follow up. So please, email us at soundscenerevolution at gmail.com and tell us which one of the CDs you want, whether Forging Steel or Laying Stone, or if you want City of Stars, or if you want them both. And we will do that, and we will get them out to you. So that wraps up this week's show. Before we take off, I want to give a big thanks to Akimbo for helping us out with this.

They were really great guys. If you guys see them on tour, their live show is rocking, and their music's pretty good. So help them out. Make sure they have gas to get to the next city. Before we close out, we're going to play one last track off Forging Steel and Laying Stone. It is called Sci-Fi Monster Violence, and it is by Akimbo. So I hope you guys enjoy, and be sure to tune in next week when you bring you, I believe we're going to play Warped Tour Part 2. So that includes interviews with The Living End, and, uh, who the hell else did we interview? It was The Living End and Every Time I Die. That is correct. So it will be a good time. Enjoy, and we'll hopefully see you guys next week.

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