Interview with Cobra Skulls - Podcast 60

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we're sorry uh we were gone for like a month two months we said it was only gonna be a couple of weeks but uh we lied um so i apologize for that i'm really tired by the way because i've been reorganizing my fucking cd collection uh by reorganizing i mean it was in bookshelves and drawers and cabinets all around my apartment and i'm consolidating it into one bookshelf now and it's a lot of fucking work because mostly i'm trying to alphabetize them which is really hard because they weren't in any order before so i'm beat but it was really important that we bring you guys a new episode so i'm forging ahead through my tiredness to bring you new music uh this week we have new uh interview from a band called cobra skulls you can hear my microwave maybe in the background yeah that's all right making lunch while i do the show that's how i multitask um but uh cobra skulls originally from reno nevada they now live in the san francisco bay area so uh suck on that reno uh what have you got now other than your gambling and cheap prostitutes but uh really good band they got an album coming out uh today july 10th on red scare industries it's gonna be called sitting army but uh because toby wouldn't send us a cd because he's a dick uh we're playing stuff off their old album but uh you want to check it out really good guys really good band probably gonna be one of those bands you're gonna hear about in like five years that everyone's like oh i was totally into them back in the day but they weren't because they're liars and uh if you listen to the end of the show we have a chance for you to win a copy of their ep draw muhammad it was limited to five or it was limited to thousand cds and it's out on humanitarian humanitarist which is uh basically a label that cobra skulls are involved with uh so check it out uh we're gonna play some music off that and then we're gonna jump into an interview uh the first track we're gonna play is cobra skulls at the top of your lungs

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with uh the guys from cobra skulls you guys can say hello hey yo um i guess the first place just so we can differentiate everybody just go around give me your name and uh what you do in the band i'm charlie parker i play guitar uh devon peralta i sing and play bass all right fantastic thanks uh first of all thanks for taking the time to talk to us well thank you coming down from nevada to be here we appreciate it um i guess the first question just do you guys can you give me a brief history of the band how you guys got started and how you found yourself where you are today uh yeah well we pretty much met uh at unr in reno um you know in the dorms and uh you know basically well chad and chuck had gone to school together in idaho since they were like in diapers you know well you got out of diapers before you went to school but they've known each other since back in the day and then um uh i met them both uh in reno and uh you know we're pretty much just friends first and then uh chad had played in a band before in high school i'd played in a band before and you know we just figured why not just uh start jamming for fun and that's really how it started right on and how long have you guys been together all oh what are we saying now yeah two and two and a half three years yeah we've been playing shows for like two and a half years and then i guess we played for like you know six months just fucking around before we ever played a show yeah and it's usually about how it goes and sometimes a lot longer than that so i guess the first thing is some of the stuff that you guys write and like titles of your albums and whatnot i guess can be pretty like controversial or even provoke people was that kind of one of those things you started with this in mind with this band or was it just kind of how it developed it wasn't how we started in mind with the band it's not like uh it was more like we you know had i guess our song titles are just kind of cheesy and then like but you know i definitely wanted to write lyrics that you know are meaningful and you know why you know why not um write or try and write something that's kind of thought-provoking instead of you know just like you know the i don't know something that's you know you're running the mill you know i'm playing my guitar and drinking and you know hanging out with girls i don't know you guys not hang out with a lot of girls you know yeah we're working on it trying to learn a little little bit a little bit once you start getting the popularity then the women start showing up well hanging out with girls is good but i mean like writing punk songs about them all the time it maybe gets a little redundant yeah it's not really here there there are bands that do that and there are bands that do it well not many few handful yeah descendants did it well that's true and i don't know i'm sure someone doesn't get now we'll talk somebody does we'll talk to them in a month or two and we'll be all like into them so we'll we'll we'll switch face then but for now um oh you sound good yeah i need the light sound good airman fucker um all right so i want to ask um how are we doing so far you're good good sorry it's all it's all right unless until like something breaks or you're like okay we're done and you just leave everything's going good awesome trust me i could play you some of our worst interviews but i'll spare you all that okay thanks uh one time i interviewed rich it was just me and sound guy and airman in a room that was like our first four interviews it was terrible but um so i want to ask uh you guys have the ep or it's an ep right the draw muhammad ep correct yeah we put out two eps so far and draw muhammad was the last one we did uh have you guys gotten any like response from that has anyone been like upset by that or anything that you've seen uh no one's gotten upset um to the point where they've really told us or uh you know like sent any death threats or anything which is good someone shot chad's truck in reno uh really yeah not related not related and then another bullet like went through our kitchen window but we have no idea what that was about you guys were just at home and someone started opening fire on your house it was like a real drive-by actually on our house that's insane but uh yeah visit reno no 911 makes it look so awesome and peaceful it's because they don't film it in reno but now uh you know people have been like wow you guys uh really really did that huh and like wow what made you do that or uh you know i mean uh so i mean basically the answer that was because i was thinking you know why not really uh uh oh you know we're not definitely we're not out there to try and like provoke yeah like radical religious people and like get them pissed off and and shoot at us why would we want to do that basically it was like we did it at a time um you know after the danish cartoons come out came out and everybody was you know well like really you know you should respect that religion and not draw you know a picture of and i thought that was ridiculous to even consider that like you know being afraid to draw a picture um and express you know our freedom uh you know our first amendment freedoms in this country while we're over in some other country enforcing our way of life um like with a war in their part of the world and so we're enforcing war over there and then not even like having the balls to draw a stupid picture so and no one even knows what muhammad looks like anyway because no one's been able to draw him so you know it's really a caricature of some you know saudi um prince it's kind of what it looks like yeah but uh i imagine if he looked anything like jesus he was white with blonde hair and blue eyes right so yeah i think really that's the image of muhammad we all hold in our heart and then we could like you know make little figures and sell them at mcdonald's with the happy meals and stuff oh my god i await that yeah you know like one day when the mcdonald's in baghdad or whatever it would be the mormons who would uh co-op that one with mcdonald's i think and we all we're all better people the day that happens hey let's let's stay in the moment okay over here right we're over here all right good we actually talked to them a while ago good people yeah jay apparently smells like ranch dressing apparently he had a woman in uh i want to say kentucky tell him that so wow that's uh you don't get that kind of compliment very often cool really yeah it's uh it's america's favorite condiment so it is um i want to ask a few of the songs that you sing are in spanish um i don't know just where does that come from where's the idea from that uh well my my dad's from argentina uh half my family lives in argentina uh you know basically bilingual and figured you know why not um and and i did it on that song uh basically because of the topic you know uh it's about um che Guevara t-shirts uh because i speak no spanish okay yeah well i thought you know i was getting really annoyed about che Guevara t-shirts everywhere and you know just how you know they're like turning into pop culture when he's like a symbol of you know like a revolutionary movement in south america cuba and mexico and central america and uh you know basically fought for you know labor's rights um you know you know fought for the for justice of like you know the little people who might be working in a sweatshop somewhere which are now making and now they're making you know che Guevara t-shirts down in honduras and i just thought that was fucking ridiculous a little retarded yeah but they're also making posters and patches right yeah so think about that they're multitasking it making money off of him i just did i wonder do you know i mean you probably don't know but you ever wonder if like someone owns the likeness rights that like if his family gets any of that money or if it's just you know it's um i well no i if it was anybody would it would be the photographer who took that that photo i don't remember what his name is but uh i don't know he's probably well off now yeah it's good to see he was in it for the movement uh all right i want to ask you guys uh played with against me when they came through uh the reno we had just actually true talked about that um i was gonna make some joke about them being sellouts but i think all those jokes have been made um how was that was that a probably the biggest show you guys have done thus far yeah it was one of the biggest shows we've done definitely um yeah it was fun i mean biggest in the fact that there are a big amount of people there uh so it was fun you know you know we actually look up to those guys those are you know you know uh it's a great band i mean whether or not they've sold out um you know what they're i don't know what the new album sounds like but i'm still a fan of all their yeah well a couple of new songs yeah i'm still a fan of the band so they're they're cool guys they're fun to hang out with and uh yeah yeah that's all that matters yeah they do rock hard yeah they put on a great live show regardless so yeah they're one of those bands everyone who's played with them is like i don't like no one wants to play after them except for i guess mastodon here but mastodon look like fucking pirates so i don't think i don't think anyone's about to be like no mastodon you can't play last because they probably carry knives and shit and hooks and pirates i don't know um so uh we're taking a little break uh from the middle of the interview uh to bring you more music from cobra skulls again uh if you listen at the end of the show we're going to have a chance to win a copy of their draw muhammad ep um but right now we're going to play a track off called i want bigger cobra skulls uh so uh listen to that and stay tuned

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comes out july july 10th if uh everything's running on schedule july 10th yeah definitely yeah you want to it sounds like you've had some issues and you just want no no no it's good no no no uh it's fine toby don't want to don't want to scare anybody it is coming out july 10th all right and that's going to be on uh red scare on red scare your industry whatever they turn red scare industries yeah now how did you guys get hooked up with toby he was here in san francisco now i guess he moved to chicago like a month ago right fucker so uh how did you guys get hooked up uh basically that's all chris from nothington really right yeah we were friends with chris uh uh he was friends with because of enemy you he's right with toby and everything oh yeah and uh chris has been coming our shows for forever your mic's on oh yeah is it a flip it up why don't you push the cord into your mic dog dog and then check it there you go i gotta tell that whole story again but with more feeling this time really yeah there it was now chris from chris uh good friend has been coming to our shows for a long time and friends with toby because enemy you and everything and uh always told toby about uh someone to check us out and finally did i think at the parkside one night or something v parkside v parkside yes and uh yeah so he came to our show there right yeah and then we just kind of talked to him and became friends with him since then cool yeah that was pretty much it yeah yeah does it bother you that he's a traitor and moved halfway across the country oh slightly a little bit no that's probably good for the for the label i mean he's over there with brandon now and they can you know can combine their efforts and uh bring in that falcon dollar right yeah the label the label may only have one cash cow but uh but hey hopefully he can milk it yeah exactly um so the new album's called sitting army um now i've read a lot of stuff that says uh the album art will help explain it once the album comes out um can you guys give any insight to that just kind of touch on that at all oh yeah it's just a pun off of the term standing army that you know many um leaders in our history have warned against the you know the dangers of having a sitting army you know from george what uh so sorry of having a standing army it's a pun off standing army you know um basically uh having a standing army increases the possibility of imperialism uh in a large country such as the united states and uh you know george washington warned against it um and of many presidents since then so we basically it's a pun off that and the album artwork has a tv on the front cover with a cobra skull logo on it on the back uh we're watching the tv and it's more like uh you know basically saying that you know people in this country are the sitting army i guess because you know we're all glued to our tv sets or our uh you know our t our uh computer screens right it's urban open urban urban urban it's open to interpretation and uh yeah basically we're just all you know um you know the troops of the media so to speak and really shitty media uh i don't know it's pretty uh pretty in depth i like that yeah sorry i didn't mean to that's pretty heavy i don't know i know this interview oh god you're so depressed it's about peeing in the van or something yeah yeah it's hard to follow that up with like who pulls the most chicks go for it but um he was gonna answer that for a minute so uh how would you guys compare this to the work that you have out right now like does it uh sound what better uh yeah we hope it's better um but no how would you compare it chad i think it's a good one for you i think it sounds better cool it's a full-length album that is yeah there's more than seven songs on it that's good we have i think 30 29 minutes wow how many songs all together 13 tracks is it all new material or all new no it's not there's there are three three songs that are previously recorded one is off of our eat your babies ep one's off of the drum muhammad all new besides that and one one is off of our our excuse me split seven inch uh that was on humanitarist records uh with our good friends beer can and all the rest are new there's well there's a there's a there's all sorts of stuff on there's like faster stuff and then there's slower stuff like a folk song like yeah some hippie reggae stuff on it uh and you know like folk and country i think you sing about a girl on there also i think i sing about yeah i think i sing about a girl and one one or one is all right one one or two yeah two two's it that's it just two songs about chicks when it starts hitting like four or five yeah then you're getting too many women to start writing music right you either have to start a hair metal band or uh wrap it up it's true too many women i know it's hard to believe it's hard when you're on the other side of the fence to believe there's such a thing as too many i know uh most most of the time i'm hanging out with all guys yeah one at that point would seem like too many but i don't know at what point it's like a dream come true five guys in a van it's like i wake up this is what starts my morning um these limo lights really set the mood they do i like that they just kind of yeah a little side lighting going um so how was it recording a full length as opposed to the eps other than longer it was a lot more kind of like stressful yeah like being in the studio all that much yeah but the engineer was really awesome yeah we really cool engineer but just being in there for that long we'd never really done that before and we didn't we actually hadn't played like a couple of songs live ever so we didn't exactly breeze right through them when we were tracking and so that kind of made it a little bit more difficult but we got it down and then i had like the worst flu of my life the like the days leading up into going in there so like we didn't even rehearse like the for the first you know for the five days preceding going in there and i had lost like 12 pounds and i'm like a skinny guy to start with sorry fucking phone oh in an interview uh so yeah it was it was interesting but you know it is what it is now so everybody can tell us how much it sucks everyone else will decide for you how well it went yeah that's kind of how it works um you guys plan on doing any touring promotions for the album uh yeah we you know we're gonna be playing a bunch of shows in the west coast um you know gonna get inland to the midwest a little bit i think uh we are gonna do actually uh a week tour a week of touring with mad caddies um like supporting them from you know like tempe at san diego and up to seattle so like a west coast stint with them crazy and then uh yeah that'll be awesome you know but some uh some things that's in july and then in august you know we got some stuff going on after that too cool cool just shows everywhere but a lot more west coast yeah well it's just easier when you know you live in nevada as opposed to trying to find something way the hell out in new york so exactly that's all right they get a lot of bands out there so it's about time i'm oh i'm so sick of finding bands that only go through fucking like new jersey and new york so i'm happy you guys play the west coast well we're out here yeah it's easy for us to stay out here yeah we'll be out there soon one day once uh they send out some fucking jersey bands out here we'll uh yeah gaslight anthem comes out here you guys can go out to fucking new jersey so all they have to do look us up i won't do anything but i'll happily uh oversee the exchange so um so there's a lot of bands from uh nevada who most of them get id'd from the vegas area and a lot of them that get id'd from that area really really fucking bad um are there any bands from the nevada area that you guys would like to uh give shouts out to because i don't know a lot of nevada bands we basically know like reno bands and then like you know carson city uh pretty much you know that just northern nevada is really we don't i mean our friends uh the apocalyptics in vegas they're you know good friends of ours um but you know as far as like northern nevada like we love our friends beer can and um you know there's some good younger bands coming out of reno right now uh you know uh oi boys uh the xenophobes are awesome like the psycho billy band from uh carson city or gardnerville then there's uh machine gun vendettas out of reno oh yeah yeah those guys are just you know kind of up and coming i think a few people have heard of them before yeah big in japan i don't know um so no the scene there's actually pretty cool i mean some sometimes people think you know the scene's always better in the in the big city like san francisco or la but it's always true because you know some people are like jaded on scenes in the big city and you know you go out a little ways into the you know in the little nowhere podunk towns and they you know there's a town you know fallon nevada has a really good scene it's like you know 50 000 people it's like uh a military base pretty much it's like where the top gun uh facility is a lot of pissed off kids there's like a there's like a it's like you know run by rednecks and so there's like a shitload of pissed off punks there and it's a great place to play that's cool yeah anywhere there's like angry kids and poor kids there's always going to be like music yeah i think that's just how it's going to be and i think you're right like san francisco there's a lot of places to play but there's also a lot of like just like jaded people so exactly and a lot of a lot of shitty bands here too not all there's a lot there's a lot of good ones but there's we got our fair share of shitty bands so i'm glad you guys you guys came all the way from reno to bring good music out here it means a lot to us hey but um glad you like it oh yeah i think we are going to uh start wrapping it up um you guys have anything you guys want to push i mean you got the album coming out on july 10th uh anything else shows coming up websites all that hmm website and and everything will be updated soon and album coming out and hopefully just touring a lot from there all right uh where can people find you right now if they want to get updates and all that redscore.net and uh couple schools dot com yep okay fantastic um well thank you guys for coming out cool thanks thank you so uh what's up that wraps up our interview with cobra skulls i hope you enjoyed it go check out their new cd sitting army out on red scare industries uh as i mentioned we have a uh a contest for uh the cobra skulls and uh before we get into that uh i would like to apologize to any winners of previous contests because sound guy nerman who is responsible for sending out those prizes uh those prizes uh has yet to do so he is muslim and as such was celebrating the month of douchebaggery last uh last month so uh yeah dude that's his fault uh any complaints can be sent to uh sound guy nerman at sound scene revolution at gmail.com i'd i'd give you his address but i don't know where he fucking lives he just shows up so uh yeah go bitch it fucking sound guy nerman for that don't look at me i don't use the mail all right um so yeah to get that free copy of cobra skulls ep draw muhammad uh what i want you to do is send us uh an email with cobra skulls contest in the subject line to sound scene revolution at gmail.com include your name address uh not like it matters because sound guy nerman won't mail you shit but um and all that information and answer the following question uh for the ep draw muhammad there's obviously a terrible picture of muhammad and what appears to be a dude with a big popped collar and a guitar or a penis on the cover i'm not sure but uh what religious figure would you draw on your album and make fun of for uh your cd and uh it's can't say like the pope because it's too easy nobody likes new pope darth sidious he's fucking terrible and horrifying so uh you can't say the pope uh you could say past popes like if you wanted to be like pope benedict the 13th or some shit that'd be rad but uh you know any religious figure will work and uh send that in and we'll do one drawing and somebody will get a copy of the limited cobra skulls draw muhammad ep which in like eight years all your friends are going to want it's going to be tight uh all right so we're going to be back next week as we start to bring you our special shit fest extravaganza of warp to our interviews uh so you get to suffer through those for about three weeks and uh yeah enjoy that we'll uh see you guys next week have a good uh fourth of july happy birthday america um it's it's past we're not recording this early goodbye

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