Interviews at Warped Tour 2007 (Part 3) - Podcast 66

Posted by Rich on August 21, 2007

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Holy crap! For the two of you who might read this crap, we've finally rolled out a show on time for the first time since your mom was sober enough to pass out somewhere other than the porch. How did we manage to do this amazing feat of averageness? Mostly, because this is a Warped Tour episode and the show was recorded and edited weeks ago...BUT, also because I had a remarkably slow day at work and got to type the blog on the clock. Take that, the man!

So, the down side is that all the punctuality on Earth can't make Warped Tour interviews good but Killswitch Engage can. That's right this week we sit down with those crazy kids of metalcore to discuss the finer points of metal, punk and short shorts. Also this week has Hawaii's very own Pepper. Other than sharing their name with a popular dinner condiment I didn't/don't know anything about these guys, so don't ask me.

We'll be wrapping up all of our contests next week, but for now you have one last chance to enter our Asian Man Contests (Lawrence Arms and Dan Potthast interviews) and the Whole Wheat Bread contest. So enter now, or just shut your trap. Leave us e-cards filled with viruses at SoundSceneRevolution@gmail.com, MySpace or the comments sections.
Hurricane Rich, out.

Transcript (auto-generated, may contain errors; songs left out)

Hey, what's up? This is Mike D. And this is Adam D. from a band called Kalswashakaaj. Yeah, that's where we're from. And you're checking out Sound Scene Revolution with my boy Neriman. How's it, everybody? This is Yasad from Pepper, and you are listening to Sound Scene Revolution. All right.

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We are here, thank God, with our final week of Warped Tour interviews. I don't have anything against Warped Tour personally, like it didn't kill my father or anything like that. But man, these fucking interviews. I just want to give my hat to the Warped Tour publicity lady, who is nice enough to throw us every single effing band on the Warped Tour lineup, except for the four who we really wanted to interview. Well, excuse me, we did get Big D in the kids' table. So, three of the four bands we actually wanted to interview. But man, man, did we get that Warped Tour comedians interview down. Ooh! Fucking nailed that shit, son. Those guys were really nice. I feel bad for ragging on them, but, you know, I didn't have any chance to look up any information on the Warped Tour comedians.

But, uh, so I didn't really have any questions for them. They were nice guys, though. So, um, I'm sure they're going to be all real successful. Uh, alright. And we totally podcast. Take that. Podcast one, Warped Tour comedians zero. Uh, we make so much money, it's ridiculous. Alright, um, so this week we have two interviews. One with a couple of the dudes from Killswitch Engage, who was, uh, it was a really entertaining interview. I haven't listened to Killswitch in a little while. Uh, I know a little bit about them, a smattering, if you will. Uh, but they were great guys, and they were a really good interview. A lot of fun. So, that interview I would really check out. After that, we got Pepper. And, eh, eh, eh, there you go.

They're from Hawaii. They don't live there anymore. And their publicist was really, really big on us interviewing them. Apparently, they've sold, like, a lot of records, which means they're probably too famous to talk to us. But they're also not really that interesting. So, it's like, you're really famous, I guess, which is cool. But, we're not really into you. It's kind of like that really hot chick that you really don't want to bang because she has herpes. That's, that's kind of like how Pepper is. Think about it. Uh, alright. So, those are our two interviews. We're going to play some music.

So, uh, if it sucks, email him at SoundGuyNairman at YahooMail.com backslash ARAB. And he'll take care of that for you. Um, dot org net. Okay. So, uh, enjoy the music. And, uh, then we'll be in with the KillswitchEngage interview.

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SoundSceneRevolution. We have upgraded to the fancy press room of Warped Tour and not out in the sun. I'm, I'm excited. I wish I could show people this. It's nice. No, dude. I gotta ask, but, uh, we are. You can't touch that. That is fucking unfarmer believable. Um, but we are hanging out with, uh, KillswitchEngage. If you guys want to introduce yourselves. Hi, I'm Adam D. Mike. Alright, fantastic. And, uh, so, this is the fourth, first of all, fourth day of the tour. How did you get that already? What have you done? Is it the fourth day? Well, third day, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Um, cause we were at a pretty sweet beach yesterday. Uh-uh. And I hung out at the sweet beach without sweet sunscreen and got a sweet burn.

Sweet. Sounds like it was very sweet to us. Yeah, dude, for sure. Second of all, uh, I gotta ask about the, uh, shorts going on there. Those are, uh... Dude, this is how you do when it's summertime, man. When it's summertime. Come on. You gotta show some skin for the ladies, you know? My... And then I know there's lots of underage trim here that I'm, you know, thirsting. I might thirst, but I will not act. Thirst. It's okay to thirst. It's okay to look. You can look at the menu, you just can't order anything. Exactly. Alright, well, I was just curious, cause the boxers seem to be longer than the shorts. A little bit. That's very Henry Rollins, like, you know, Black Flag-esque. Nice, yeah. Yeah, back it, dude. Alright, uh...

Henry's sweet. I like it. Well, hopefully he'll listen to our show one day. That's my goal. He's gonna be like, you guys said I was sweet. Thanks. Nice. So, uh, it's the third day. How has the tour been going for you thus far? I don't know anything. Uh, okay. We're doing okay. It's alright. It's working out.

No, it's fun. It's actually really fun. The crowd's been amazing. Really, really good. We're actually, we were talking today, better than OzFest. We've done OzFest twice. This is the first time we've done Warped Tour, so... Yeah, I was gonna say, you guys have done OzFest more than you've done Warped Tour, correct? Yeah, well, we've been asked to do Warped Tour, like, four years in a row, but it just didn't really make sense till this year. We said, let's please not do another Metal Tour during the summer. Let's try something else for once. Oh, dude. That's why we're here. Big, hairy, fat dudes with no shirts on, not doing it? No, it's great. It's fun. That's cool. So, this year you just thought you'd go with something different and try Warped Tour instead of OzFest?

Or anything else, like, to that effect? Yes. Yes. Plus, OzFest is free this year, so... I don't think they're paying... Dude, WTF.

Nice. So, has it been weird at all? Because, I mean, I would, in my own head, associate you guys more with kind of the Metal-esque crowd, but, I mean, have there been kids who were like, I don't know if I'm listening to fucking, like, a metal band on Warped Tour? I'm all about... It hasn't been weird thus far. It's just like, yo, dude, honest, we're just gonna do our thing. We're gonna go up on stage and play riffs and be silly and squeal and point at kids and be like... You know, we're gonna do that no matter what show we're thrown on, so there you go. We hardly act like the typical metal band, full show. Yes, for sure, yeah. I was gonna say, everything I've heard about you guys, I mean, I know the music, it's fairly serious style music, but you guys, everything I've heard is that you're not at all like that.

Not like, you don't mean the music, but, you know, you seem to enjoy yourselves. You're not up there fucking, like, posing and shit. I pose. I love posing. You don't have to headbang, you can just kind of sit still for a minute and just pose. Just look good? I definitely give kids tickets to the gun show. Oh. Yep. Nice. Be careful. Do you got a lock on that? I don't want anyone getting hurt. Yo, these things are liable to go off at any minute, so watch yourself. But, like, definitely I would imagine on shit like Ozfest, a lot of the bands seem to take themselves like very fucking seriously. Yeah, they definitely do, and it's kind of gay. It's really hard to imagine being in a band that would be taking themselves so seriously.

I mean, you're on the road 24-7, things happen, you get mad at people, you know, just you have to confront every issue as it happens. If you're just lighthearted about things, it just goes a lot smoother. Like, whatever, just let it roll off. That's cool. I mean, I got to imagine, yeah, being in a fucking, especially a festival-style tour where you're surrounded by, I don't know, there's probably as much staff here as there are kids, like, coming to see the show. You got to be flexible. You can't take your shit too seriously, but I don't know. Maybe somebody does. They definitely do. It's a bummer. Now, I got to ask, you guys seem not very image conscious. I don't know. Maybe your guard is down at the moment.

You don't think this is an image right here? You don't think that took years? 42 Adam D. That took years of image tailoring to complete. Took four consultants, nine different wardrobe changes. I don't give a rat's ass about image. I'm just here to drink everybody's beer and then pee on your tires.

I'm so glad I don't have tires. But yeah, it seems strange at all because there's some, and I've been hinting at it all day, but I don't want to name names, but there are bands that are in makeup and they have their hair fucking groomed perfectly. Does that seem weird to anything? I'm sure to make fun of them on stage every day. And so at least they know. We're definitely the black sheep of the family on this tour. Every festival has their token people that try to look like the other people and all that stuff. Just stay away from them, you know? Let's see. It's early, though. It's only the third day, so I can't ask if anyone's pissed at you yet. It's funny. I was standing in line in catering yesterday, and I started talking about how I want to eat anything that's alive.

And this dude in front of me goes like, that's really weird to hear that on this tour, man. I'd be like, dude, if it was legal, I'd eat you right now, so be quiet. When you're a cannibal, every fight is a food fight. Dude, it's made of meat and protein. I'm going to ingest. You can eat it. Give me some barbecue sauce. It's going to taste good. As long as you can hold it down long enough, it's good. See, that's cool, because, I don't know, I mean, it seems- Fire plus animal equals sweet. I know Mike D's bum right now. He's a vegetarian, but- He's a little like, aw. We're making fun of you. That's cool, because, see, that's the thing, is it seems like there's a fine line between people, especially like a Warped Tour, where there's a group of people who are cool with it, like, eh, whatever you want to do, and then there's people who are militant about like the vegetarianism and shit.

Yeah, dude, the militant thing bums me out. It's like, yo, I don't care if Mikey's a vegetarian. I don't care if somebody eats children, whatever. Maybe the children. Well, as long as the parents are cool with it, I guess it's sweet. As long as they give their kid up willingly. They know. They're like, eh. I just do what I do, man. I don't care what anybody else does. Yeah, that's cool. Now, you guys do typically have a time set. Do you guys go on later in the day, earlier in the day? No. That's up to Kevin Lyman and his bottle of wine. So, pretty much, Lyman gets drunk every night and throws darts with your names on him on a dartboard to determine. We question that. We have no idea. We have no idea how the schedule is set up.

What have you guys played thus far? Have you played yet today? We headlined yesterday. We played very last, and today we played at 1.30 in the afternoon. I don't get it. He's like, let's see what they like. Okay, we'll play last. We'll headline, and then knock you fucking down a peg. You'll play at 8 in the morning. Those crowds were great, so it really doesn't matter to tell you. It doesn't matter to us as long as you get throws in front of people, and we can make some kids smile. The other thing is we can get drunk earlier the earlier we play, so it's all good, man. You don't got to worry about being bad. Last night when we had to go at 8, I was wasting. I couldn't even figure out which string to hit. We had to time it perfectly so we were drunk at just the right time.

To get on stage, it was hard. It's like a mathematical equation. If we start drinking now, we'll be drunk just after we play. I had to bring out my algebra book for that one. I was fucked up. It's like, fuck, all right. 8 o'clock times 30 beers equals what? Equals. I'm already drunk. This is too late. So I'm like fucking four years too late on this question, but I haven't talked to you guys before today. So you guys switched singers between, I know it was before the end of Heartache. What album? I can't remember. Four years ago. Yeah, four years ago? I know. It was actually the first tour on the Alive or Just Breathing record. The first record for Roadrunner, which was our second record in total. And so were people like pissed about that?

And I know like, again, it's way fucking too late. Fuck them. See, I worked at a college station and everybody was like fucking metalheads and like their worlds were crushed. They're like, I can't believe they're switching singers. It's so hard to go on. They can suck it. So I never had a chance to ask you guys. So now that it's topical, well after, you know, fucking four years since then, do you ever get people who still address it at all other than right now? Yeah, every interview. Really? There's always somebody out there that thinks your old singer or your old member did something better than the new guys. So, hey, you know, it's all good. But at the same time, you know, it's the true fans that don't care and want to support the band and their music no matter what.

Uh-oh. You know what I mean? Uh-oh, they're letting him in the noise. Oh, okay. He's opening the door. Oh, man. Wow. So the guy that just stepped in the door is our tour manager slash hero. Yeah, your tour manager just came in with two cases of beer. Did you?

Yo, did you already get beer today? Did you already get beer today? Is that the second set of 12-packs?

Oh. He's a little ferret. He goes and steals whatever he can. Right now, there's some fucking metalcore band who's pissed that their beer has gone. There's some emo band that's like, where's our beer? Someone took our two fucking 12-packs. Whatever. They're too busy doing their hair instead of thinking about beer and their rider. Instead of drinking their beer. See? Do you think I prepare this shit? Come on. I'm busy worrying about my beer. Too busy worrying about your beer to play. Too busy worrying about your beer to do your hair. I can't do my hair. I got to think about beer. Well, that's good, though. You got to have your priorities when you tour. And beer has to be up there because really... That or wet farts.

Wet farts are high in the priority. If you have one, you got to take care of it immediately. Well, if you're drinking Pabst, it's a much bigger concern. Guaranteed you can have wet farts if you're drinking Pabst. Is that like the only beer that's being provided with riders in the rider? Is Pabst? Yeah. Wow. You guys are riding high on this tour, dude. $2.99 per 12-pack style. Yeah, dude. They're not like, no, no Heineken, no Coors Light. Just straight fucking Pabst. Coors Light. I'm just saying, I'm not saying I'm a fan of Coors Light, but somehow... Man, we're in Cali. Yeah, I wanted some Widmer, some Hefeweizen, some Pyramid. Denied. Well, come on. It's not the last day. Besides, you're right. What's in fucking Mountain View?

Is there a beer place around in Mountain View? Google. Go rob Google. The Google Complex. There's a bunch of gays in their wine.

Joking. Gay people are okay, so it was wine. It's fine. I'm not mad if you're gay, and I'm not mad if you're wine. Still drink it. For all the fucking wine. All the wine drinkers are going to ride in. I'm furious that you insulted I am not gay, and I love wine. But, whoa. Fucking Heavy D just took the stage. Who the fuck has that? You guys have been on the show for three days. Who the fuck has that much bass? Because I guarantee we can hear that in the fucking interview. That's coming through. That's un-fucking-believable. Anyhow. I bet it's somebody good. No. I bet it's not. Probably not. We've talked to anyone who was good on this tour, and most of them have played this morning. But I want to ask, were you guys concerned when, going back to the whole thing about you not being an emo man, when you play Warped Tour, were you concerned like there were going to be fucking kids like every night?

You're like, fuck metal, and fuck your band, and... Absolutely not, because we'll just sucker punch kids. I don't give a shit. You guys, I would, I absolutely would support you bringing a kid on stage just to punch him. Yeah, it's warm. Nothing, son. Thank you, Jimmy. Oh, we don't give a fuck. We'll choke some kids out. God, please tell me you'll do that during this tour. Yo, if a kid's asking for it, we'll choke some kids out. Whatever, I'm spitting dudes' faces. I'll fucking hit them with guitars. It don't matter. I really, I want to pay money to see that. I would almost follow this tour just to see if you fucking knock some kid out on stage. I know, everyone's been super sweet thus far, dude. I don't think it's going to happen.

That'd be all tough all of a sudden. No, dude, come on. Like, remember the Slayer tour? I brought it. Those kids were assholes. Yeah, Slayer fans are a whole fucking different type. I don't even know why Slayer has opening bands, because I've never heard one where the opening band was like, all the fans were really nice. They're all like, fuck you. Where's Slayer? It's pretty sweet. Like, between the songs one time, I just, like, it was all quiet. And dudes were like, fuck you. This guy's in front of me. Fuck you. I just, like, walked up to him like, hey, dude, did you pay to get in the show today? He's like, yeah. I'm like, thanks for paying my salary, asshole. Thanks for hooking me up. It's been real. It's all about putting people down.

They're trying so hard to make you feel bad. It's like, nah, dude. I'm here. I'm here. I got paid regardless of whether you like me or not. I'm here. I like people must assume that Slayer only. Does that have one? Does that have? It's definitely a tampon. Wow. Where do you? Dude, how sweet is that? You're backstage at the Warped Tour. What do you find? Paps and tampons. There you go. This is the manliest tour ever in the history of mankind. We have nothing but tampons and paps. Oh. And it's the tampons getting thrown around backstage. All right. Before this turns hostile and so you guys can continue to drink your beer, free beer, nonetheless, I think we're going to wrap this up. It's sick. I want to thank you guys for taking the time to talk to us.

I'm sorry I missed your guys' show today, but we were trying to fucking figure out how the press thing worked at 11 o'clock, or at 1 o'clock, so. But all the best on the rest of the tour. You guys got anything you want to plug? Websites? All that shit? We want to plug all the nice kids for being so supportive to us. Thank you. All right. That's nice. That's kind of backhanded, I think. All right. Sounds good. All right. Yay. Yay. We just did the Killswitch Engage interview. We're going to hop into the one with Pepper. Yay, Pepper. They're from Hawaii. They had an album with a fish on a cover about having sex with your, no, your dad having sex with your girlfriend. I don't know. It was something like that. Now they sound like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Yay. So that's like six degrees from us talking to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which means if you wanted to like be a groupie, we're like that dude who once shook Anthony Kiedis' hand. So we're pretty cool. But now we have herpes. But now we have herpes. Yay. Yay. But isn't that really worth it to get, you know, close to the dude who shook Anthony Kiedis' hand? I think it is. I'd get herpes for that. I've gotten herpes for less. So, all right. So we're going to go into the Pepper interview. Hopefully you enjoy it. Chances are not. But hey, I've been wrong before. Here's some music.

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Another person. That was some emo dude. Yeah. I don't know who that was. That guy was very emo. He had the nice hair though. He looked depressed. They all have nice hair. He was confused when he came in. Hey, depressed, confused. Tomato, tomato. It's pretty much the same. So, what's going on? We are Sound Scene Revolution and we're still in the nice press room until they kick us out. So, I think we got this and then we get kicked out. Hanging out with, I totally blanked your name, bro. It's a hard one, brother. It's Yasad. Yasad? Yeah. With Pepper, right? Yeah. Correct. Yeah, I play drums for Pepper, but no worries. I butcher like John and Jeffs a lot. So, I don't even worry about it. So, you're like, yeah. It's all right.

My name's real weird. Well, I imagine with a name like that, I would just fuck up common names just to get back of people. Yeah, true. True. What's your name? Davi? It's Dave? Oh. Oh, Davi. Oh, I got it. I got it. Yeah. I got you. European tour was just good for us. Davi. Nice. So, how's the tour been thus far for you guys? It's been good. Fourth date now? Third date. Yeah. Because everyone's like, oh, some man's like, oh, there's a rehearsal. So, that's the fourth date. Yeah, you're right. We kind of bailed that, though. But, it was so close. We're from Kona, Hawaii, originally. And, we live in North County, San Diego now, like South Orange County. So, the first show's in Pomona. And, it was so close to our house. We're like, there's no way we're leaving our home tonight after we got to leave for two months.

You're like, oh, it's so close. There's no point. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see you guys in the catering line tomorrow. We'll be there, and we don't need to rehearse. Well, no, not that at all. Because, we do need to rehearse. But, you know. That's what Warped Tour is. It's all good. Yeah. Yeah. It's what a live show's all about. It's all a little bit of rehearsal. So, you guys are mainstaging this year, correct? Yeah, yeah. First year. We've been on this tour a total of three times before. We did the whole tour once before, and then the other two times were kind of just a few weeks here and there. And, this is the first time on the main stage. How's it been in comparison? Oh, it's great. I mean, it's back when we first started, we were setting up and breaking down the Volcom stage.

And, it's one of those things where on the side stages, you really got to, like, fight for your crowd and get out there and headlock people and pay them high dollar money to come watch you. And, on the main stage, they're already there. But, no, it's great. All our fans have been coming out and really representing hard for us. That's cool. Yeah, it's been super fun. Has it been neat, like, watching it grow, like, from year to year as your guys, like, fan base increased? Oh, totally. I mean, actually, both ends of that, the Warped Tour and our fan base, too. Because, last time we did this tour was about three years ago. And, I mean, just from then until now, the tour in general has just gotten so much bigger.

So, I mean, it's cool. We're sharing a stage with Bad Religion, Pennywise, and Tiger Army, and You Found Glory. Well, you guys came through here. Yeah, you didn't come through all that long ago. You played Santa Clara, correct? Yeah, the university. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Steve Nash, son. Steve Nash. No way he was there? No, but I saw that he went there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we played in, like, the basketball little arena thing. So, I saw the big thing. I didn't know until we got there. I was like, ah, Steve Nash went here? Yeah, for sure. That's cool. So, have you seen, like, I imagine you come through here, and every time, because I know, every time you come through, like, the Bay Area, it seems like you're playing a bigger venue.

Yeah, we're even stepping it up again this next time in the fall, winter. We're doing another headlining tour, and we're doing the Warfield, whereas we did the Fillmore last time. So, yeah, we're stepping it up, just letting more of the peeps get a taste of the live show. That's what we're all about is the live show. So, it's like, you haven't truly experienced the whole Pepper experience until you've come to the live show. Until you do the live show. Yeah, and in my opinion, it's like, we haven't, like, captured that total live vibe yet on CD. We're working. We're working. We're getting closer and closer with our latest CD, No Shame. I think it came the closest, but, you know, we're still trying to get there.

Yeah, you're always trying to improve. Yeah, it's these goals we set for ourselves. Like, when we first moved from Hawaii to California, we set a goal. We were like, we're going to tour, and we're going to tour until the police reunite. They reunited this summer. And you're like, oh. We went and saw them. It was amazing. And we had to set new goals. You know what I'm saying? You're like, the police have reunited, and we can't stop now. Yeah, yeah. What are we going to do? We've got a little momentum going here. We've got to, okay, new goal, new goal. We'll tour until somebody else reunites. One more emo, dude, just almost came in. It's insane. Yeah. I know. It's like a whole other deal going on. Between the emo and the transvestite, I'm a little concerned.

Have you seen? Tomato, tomato. What? The MySpace transvestite. No? No. There's a famous deal? I guess. I've heard about it. Or it's got a buzz? Everyone today has brought it up to me that there's, I guess it's like a dude, looks like a chick, pink hair, walks around MySpace transvestite, supposedly has millions and millions of MySpace fans, and I don't know. No way. Yeah, I don't know. The transvestite Tila Tequila. Yeah, pretty much. Exactly. Apparently, he is number two right under Tia Tequila. No way. Yeah, so I don't know. We're actually trying to sign Tila Tequila to our record label, Law Records. She's holding out, though. She's being tough. She does have a musical career, I hear. Yeah, call it what you want to.

She has a lot of friends on MySpace. Yeah, exactly. There is someone in that group of friends that would buy albums. Yeah, exactly. Hey, download a song, iTunes, what have you. Whatever you're going to do. Yeah, or download it for free and just buy a ticket to the show. Anything that, you know, with that many people interested, it's bound to pan out. True. With that many bulletins going out, it's bound. So, I got to ask, you guys are essentially a three-piece, correct? Yeah. Now, do you ever, when you play live, include more musicians, or when you're ever in the studio, that type of deal? No. No? No. We have, we always, we tour a lot with friends and artists from our label, Law Records, so it's always like a big family deal when we're going out.

So, we'll always have, you know, guys from other bands come on and maybe do like a horn part. Yeah, yeah. And we have a song that's got some horn on Kona Town, one of our older albums. Yeah, yeah. From the Super Villains, a band on our label, we have the trumpet player come out and play and whatnot. But, I mean, as far as the essence of Pepper, it's just, it's a three-piece. It's a three-piece. And that's what it'll always be. Like, we're, it kind of, it just kind of bums me out when like, you know, you see like Green Day, a band you've been listening to forever and, and like nothing at all against them, but they hire another guitar player. Yeah, the fourth dude. Yeah, and you're like, you're like, come on, what's up, what's up with the fourth Beatle?

Come on. Seriously. At least pay him, at least have him be on the track. At least put him behind the guitar stack so you can't see him. I have seen that before, that's why. I've seen a couple bands. Really? Yeah, hire like either a keyboard player or something just for some parts they have in their songs, and they'll just slot him right behind the guitar stack so you can't see him, which. You stay back here, no one wants to see him. Yeah, yeah, but he's like, I'm getting paid tonight, right? And they're like, yeah, he's like, I'm fine. The guitar amps in front of me are fine. Yeah. He can rock out. He doesn't have to worry about stage fright or anything. But yeah, as far as us, it's just the three-piece. I mean, there's additional parts we always do on our CDs.

I mean, we try not to. We try to keep it just to the three instruments, but we do other parts on our CDs and stuff. But I mean, I think that might add to the difference of the live show and not necessarily being better, but just the different dimensions, it's good to have, I think. Yeah, absolutely. Now, when did you guys, you mentioned you moved from Hawaii to San Diego area. When was that now? It was in 99. Yeah, May of 99. We've been a band for almost 10 years. Wow. Or actually just hit 10 years in June. Oh, wow. Yeah. Now, was that a move primarily for the band or just something new? Yeah, no, no, completely. We started the band in, like I said, 97 and just played friends' parties and some bars in Hawaii, but there's not like a huge music scene in Hawaii.

It's kind of one-dimensional, not in a bad way. Yeah. One-dimensional, but it's just kind of, I mean, self-contained actually is a better word. Yeah. And we just kind of, I don't know, wanted to just, I don't know, more than that or wanted to get out to some more people, so we moved over to... Yeah, outside of opening for like Don Ho. Yeah, yeah, yeah, or Natural Vibrations, any of the great bands out there. But it was just touring, too, you know what I mean? Just touring is not accessible on a rock, as they like to call it. Well, yeah, I mean, because like, you know, obviously you live in California, you get in a van and you can drive all the way across the country. Exactly. Once you head to Hawaii, it's like, you can only drive so far.

Exactly. You're driving in circles after a little while. I think that's what happened. We're like, hey, whoa, we're going in circles. Man, I think we've been here, man. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Last week. We got to jump on a plane. Yeah. That's cool. So it's definitely, you feel it's improved and everything. Yeah. Would you ever consider, like, moving back, like, if you guys got to the point where, I don't know, you can tour regardless, where you're like, I don't know, one of those jazz bands, would you move back? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We always say we've moved away from Hawaii just so we can get back there eventually, you know. But, I mean, as far as the band goes, it's, you know, it's the best bet to be, I think, outside right now.

But it's definitely with the sights of going back there and just chilling out and hanging out with friends and family, you know. That's cool, man. Well, we are going to wrap this up because we're actually running out of hard disk space. Yeah, no worries. No worries. Thanks for having me. Oh, absolutely. Have you guys played yet today? Yeah, yeah. We played a little bit earlier. No worries. You guys have been in here all day. I know. But I'm like, we're always talking to bands and we're like, have you guys played? And they're like, yeah, we played it too. And it's like, we've been in here all day. You guys, we're working. You guys are in here working. Yeah. And it's all good. Hopefully, when you guys come back there, you're going to be playing the Warfield.

So. Yeah. There'll be a lot of space on that show. Yeah, make sure and get in touch with the lovely Lizzie over here. Absolutely. Come hang out at the Warfield. For sure, man. Thank you guys so much for taking care. Thank you. No worries. Appreciate it. All the best, man. Nice meeting you too, brother. Yeah. Right on. So that is the conclusion of all our Warped Tour interviews for this year. Hooray! To help us celebrate, I'm going to put the mic close to a little dog. Yeah. You can hear that little dog. You hear her tail wagging in excitement. That's because she's excited. Warped Tour interviews are over. Little dog brought to you courtesy of Sound Scene Revolution. All rights, copyright, trademark, reserve, forte.

So, remember that. Yeah. God, I'm glad it's over. It's like passing a kidney stone out of your eye. So, we won't have any more Warped Tour for another year. It's nice. It's good to talk to the bands. It's just like, it's just really hard. And, like, some of the interviews don't go too well. And a lot of the kids there look like trannies. And apparently only one of them was. And that was the MySpace tranny. And he was, like, famous. And all the other kids just dress like trannies for fun. Which is fucking weird. But, uh, I don't know. There's some tranny out there right now who's listening who's totally pissed off. He's like, I'm going to write him an angry letter with a fancy letterhead. And send him a 10x9 glossy.

But, uh, so we're wrapped up this week. We'll be back next week with one-on-one interviews and more prizes. We are still running the Asian Man Contest. Listen to the Lawrence Arms interview or the Dan Podhast interview to get the info on that. And we're running the Whole Wheat Bread Contest. Listen to that interview to get info on that. We'll be back next week. We'll wrap up our contest. And we'll have a new interview and a new contest for you guys to enjoy. Check it out. And we'll see you next week. From me and the little dog smelling the microphone. This is Sound Scene Revolution. We'll see you guys next week. Little dog.

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