Interview with This Is My Fist - Podcast 73

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This is SoundSceneRevolution. We are broadcasting from my new two-bedroom condo in beautiful Bay Area with new carpet, same little dog. So, podcast dollar, man, that we've generated from all those ads you see on our site. I've donated tens of, literally tens of dollars that have helped pay for this. And then I donated both of my kidneys. So, I probably have, with dialysis, a few good months left. Anyhow, so this week we have a new interview with Bay Area to Chicago Transplants. This Is My Fist. Not everyone went, just Seth and Annie of the band. But they're really good guys and a girl. And they make some really, really good music. So, hopefully you should check it out. We got some interviews. No contest this week.

I think I mentioned it in last week's episode. We have some big, big, big contests coming up. I mean, I'm talking over $200 in prizes for one contest. So, you should really check us out in the coming weeks. And we just want to make sure. It's such a large contest. We want to make sure we do it right. And we don't want to rush it. And we would just kind of be doing that right now. So, sorry. But keep an ear out for it. We'll let you know. Other than that, we got this interview. We got some music. We're going to be playing tracks off of their No Idea LP, A History of Rats. Only because it's the only digital format that we have of their stuff. Because I have the records and the 7 inches. But I don't have a converter.

And I'm not buying it twice on iTunes. So, tough shit. So, this is a track off of History of Rats. Enjoy that. And we'll be back with more a little bit later.

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So, what's going on? We are hanging out. K-O-I-T. We are hanging out outside of Gilman Street with This Is My Fist. If you guys say, introduce yourselves, I guess, so we can differentiate. Well, hello. My name is Jackson. Hello. My name is Seth. Hello, I'm Annie.

I'm Craig. John Spader. All right.

Annie's, do you know what it is? Or is it just like your voice is going? It's called, every time we play a show, I get sick. Oh. That's a bad sign for a band. I was remarking to Seth that I should probably not sing in bands. It's probably a good thing not to do, but I keep doing it. I don't know why. You're kind of stuck with it at this point. Yeah. It kind of sounds like I'm gargling glass, but, you know. It's not so good. Selma, what time's MacGyver on?

So, I guess the easiest place to start. Can we just get a brief history of the band, how you guys got started and all of that? Annie, would you like to field this one? Well, we started playing in, I guess, 2001. And then we got a drummer in 2002. And I guess he's a Republican fraternity fellow now. And so, he's not in the band. And then, of course. Was that the reason, or did that happen after he left? No, this is a recent thing. Oh. It is weird. I'll just, no comment on the rest of it. Yeah. And then, it kind of just goes without saying. And then, we had another bassist, Todd, who's not in it anymore. And now, it's pretty much the cast of Love Songs, the musical.

Love Songs, the movie. Oh, I'm sorry, the movie.

Um, so yeah, since, I guess, about 2002, it's the spring we've been playing. And now, it's 2008. That makes you like James Brown. Watch yourself. That reminds me, you've been fined $30 tonight, Seth. You're talking about meat and showing your stomach. Yeah, you brought Gilman rules. There goes my per diem. I don't even know what's going on now. I'm totally confused. Oh, everything we talk about is some sort of inside joke. Oh. And it's really indiscernible to anyone. That's good for the general public. Yeah. The general public loves inside jokes. We talk a lot of gobbledygook in the van. That's, yeah. That's fine. Honestly. And poopity poops in the van. No one's going to know. So, it's all right. So, you have your one full length, right?

A history of rats. Is that on No Idea? Yes. How did that, how did you guys get with No Idea? Hell if I know. Really, I don't. I think it has something to do with North Blinken. I think that they are friends of ours. Well, I mean, I know they're friends. And they were kind of, I think, playing us for them. And it just kind of fell into our hands. Oh, wow. And I can't believe it. And it's really weird. And I still kind of freak out about it sometimes. That's understandable. Now, they have on their website, like, an entire description behind the recording and all of this, of that. And it says, like, there were tapes lost. Things were remastered. Did that actually happen? Or is that just something they put on there?

Well, the album was recorded with the old lineup of our band. And at that point, we were kind of at the end of our time together. And we didn't really have a great recording time. Like, we had a couple days. And it was just, like, not going really well. And we kind of rushed it. And it didn't sound how we wanted it to sound. And then, so we kind of sat on it for a couple months. But it was with Tim Green. And we were like, oh, it's going to sound like carp. And, of course, it didn't sound like carp. Because we didn't have our shit together. So, it sounded like people don't, they're just kind of fucking around. So, we sat on it for a couple months. And then Craig has a recording studio. And we recorded with him before.

And we cajoled him with a cookie a day for a year to record us. That's a good deal you worked out there. It was good. But she sends them monthly. So, at the beginning of every month, I forget. Like, oh, I got a pay rent. Oh, I got cookies. Yeah. Hey, that's great. He was like, oh, I'll just take some cash. And we're like, no, no, no. You want cookies. Cash is no good. I don't know. I can make a mean cookie. So, and then we went back and we recorded like another guitar track that was a little beefier. And that's kind of what you hear right now. And some solo stuff that wasn't there. It was the same album. It was just a lot more muted and didn't really sound how we wanted it to sound. And we're to blame for that.

Well, it turned out all right. I mean, in the end. I'm sure Mr. Green thinks we're probably a bunch of douchebags. But it was nothing towards him. I think we just were having a hard time with each other. And it just kind of showed. That makes sense. So, about a year ago, two of you, correct? Went to Chicago? Yeah. It was Annie and Seth, correct? Yeah. Okay. Can I, okay, first of all, why did you guys move? And how has that been? Like, I mean, obviously, for the band, it's been a lot different. So, how's that? Yeah. Well, I'll field the first part, Seth. Thank you, Annie. You're welcome. We moved to Chicago because that's where I grew up. And that's where a good deal of my friends are. And I was going to go back to school to finish to do some pre-veterinary stuff.

But I also can't afford not to work. So, over the summer, I got a job while waiting for school to start and realized that I don't want to be a vet at all. So, I'm going to continue nursing. But now, Seth, the California-born guy, is stuck in the snow, and I'm not going to school. And I'll let you answer how it's going. Seth, what do you say any time when Jack and I call you? Hey, Seth, how's it going? Fantastic, Craig. I just had a dream that I was back in California. Oh, wait. I'm awake. It's going okay. There's a lot of good people, and there's a lot of good music out there. Canadian Rifle, for instance, and the comedy of Nick Donahue. Oh, man. Young up-and-comer. He's new on the circuit. He's new on the scene, but he's really going to go places.

He's a little blue. He's definitely a little blue. But it's going good. It's totally culture shock, coming from California out to the Midwest. It's just, you know, not the obvious things. Everyone really cares about sports. And everyone eats a lot of meat. A lot of meat. And a lot of guys have 52-inch waists. I'm on my way. I'm on my way. And all those people died in the meat wave. Chicago land meat wave. Meat wave? That's an Onion article. It's a really good article. You should read it. I will check that out. Have you guys noticed that whenever we see stuff, we're not making eye contact? Like, we're not just standing across from you talking. We're, like, looking over here, over there. A little creepy, but it's all right.

Yeah. Our audience is noticing that. The people listening right now, they're like, I don't really feel like they're looking at me. I'm not really interacting very well. Oh, it's all right. Internet resection's clear now. But Chicago's okay. It's just really cold. In a nutshell. And what? It's cold. In a nutshell. In a nutshell. In many ways. And I'll leave it there. Please. I'll leave it in a nutshell. I'll leave it in a nutshell, too. Hey, you know, this is not bound by FCC, so we can say cock poopy doody farts. And it's okay. I think most of those you could have said anyway. Oh, fucking farts. There we go. There we go. Now we're getting... That was mom's going to have this. Oh, your mom's like, I can say worse than that.

Hardly. She'll stick to the part. Moms are most of our audience. Mostly his and mine. That's like 75% of our audience right there. Yeah, really. And whoever your mom happens to be banging who's listening with her at the moment. Oh. Oh, Jack. Wait. I know. Jack's been listening to this program a lot, I think. How many moms have you turned on to this program? Is this mombangers.com? Is that right? Oh. Oh, that's terrible. Jackson's a hit with the older women. We drive around in the station wagon and pick up moms on the way to soccer practice. Oh. It's one of my bookmarks. It's a website, yeah. I'm noticing that the device this young man is holding, or wielding, looks a lot like a taser. I'm a little intimidated. Is that the taser MP3?

That's a taser? Every time you guys talk, it says, don't tase me, bro. And actually, it's self-defense. It's a dangerous market, the podcast world. Wait, is that really the iPod taser? No. Because that exists now. Really? Oh, you didn't know. It's not an iPod. Oh, pardon me. It's not marketed as an iPod.

iPod is your fault. Eye, bro. I'm buying 12 of those tonight. Wrong! I'm going home and getting that. How's Chicago? It's okay. Wrong. Incorrect. What's your name, Seth? Zzz. Fat Seth. Aww. Correct. It's the meat wave talking. So, that's half of the interview. I hope you really enjoy it. They're really good. They're really good folks. And it's funny. We have this effect on people that after every interview, everybody continuously apologizes. And I don't know if they think we have a real high standard of professionalism, or if we actually just bring out the worst in everybody we interview. But everybody, including Annie, several times was like, we're so sorry that we're so ridiculous and in terrible interviewing. They're not.

I think they're really good. I think. Maybe that's... Maybe I'm alone in that opinion. Maybe that's why we have five people who listen. But they're good folks. So, enjoy the rest of the interview. Like I said, hopefully I will detail... I'll try and throw out a few tidbits about our upcoming shows and prizes at the end of the episode. And so, this is some more music off of their LP, A History of Rats, available on No Idea Record. So, check it out and stay tuned for the rest of the show.

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So, since about a year ago, you guys have had a couple of splits come out, right? Yeah. Splits of an inches? What now? Who have those been? I know you have... There's one with Fifth Hour Hero. Is that correct? What? Is there one with Fifth Hour Hero? Yeah. It just came out. I want to make sure I wasn't making that up. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I own that. I haven't really seen it, but I hear it's cool. Really? The store selection, it's there. So, I might go buy one. There's a test press at the house. Oh, snap. Snap. How did you... Reckless Records on Milwaukee and Chicago. You can find it there. Yeah. How do you... How are you in this, on this, and you haven't yet heard it? I just haven't, you know... Where did the music come from?

We don't really have what you call a contract, per se. And it's a very loose agreement. And, you know, I'm not really pestering them for copies, and they're not really, you know, hurrying up and getting us some. So, you know, we're just... It works out. We have a very mellow relationship. They totally missed the boat on this tour, though. We could have sold, like, threes or fours of them. Yeah. Yeah. Five or ten, maybe. We don't want to overshoot. That's a little ambitious. Yeah. I don't know, man. We could have at least sold one. We could have given away at least ten. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Someone would have taken them. My mom was here. There's two. Your mom needs two? Of everything, doesn't she? Yeah. She's a collector.

One is all on eBay.

Wouldn't have given to Jack. Ooh.

So, now, were those already done before the move, and it was just kind of like a matter of getting in the songs? Oh, yeah. That song was supposed to be a comp. In, uh, like a, no idea, like, uh, like a lot of, what? Craig, you played the drums on that, right? Oh, yeah. And the Davey Crockett? If I remember correctly. I was. Yes. I was hanging in my head. Craig, that was his first foray. That's my introduction. Yeah. I think I was eating breakfast, actually. And then I went to work. But, oddly, it was lunchtime. Your cereal crunching actually shows up on the tape. Yeah, I like to think I, uh, played a part. The digital tape. My influence shows. Your essence was there, too. But, um, yeah, uh, it was, it, it kind of, it was supposed to be this, like, hunter band comp, and we were supposed to, that's why it's only one song.

And they asked if we wanted to do these other songs that we've used, and it was like, no. So, it's just one song. And then they split with giant haystacks. Which is, like. If I may say, killer. Totally awesome. Now. It's killed a few people. There, I said it.

You did. Now, I read, you guys said someone that was, like, three years in the making, the split with giant haystacks. Oh, yeah, dude, that was recorded so long ago. I didn't have any gray hair. That was a few years ago. Yeah. That three years ago. Yeah. Craig has changed locations several times since we did that. And, uh. Both sides of that record, actually. Yeah. In fact, on both of those records, there's absolute member changes. Yeah. Both bands on that record. Yeah. Complete and total. And, uh, Sean from the Abbeyoyos does some guest vocals. Hmm. Which I'm always grateful for. Um, yeah. It was, it was just recorded, and then never, nothing ever happened with it. It just kind of sat around for a long time. Yeah, I think, you know, uh, Max didn't have, you know, the money to put it out.

And, like I said, we're really laid back. So, we weren't pressuring him, either. What? He's just over here saying things that I can't catch, but I know are going to come up late. And, and we're like, what? He's saying dirty things. Yeah, it's like the subtitles or the footnotes. So, you can just put links to that. It's like the, uh, what is it, the director's commentary. Jack's doing hyperlinks. Hyperlinks for the audio. Right. That's good. I'm glad we have those going. Click on those to get to the 625thrash.com. Think about it really hard. Peed-a-loo-loo-loo-loo-pish.

Jack's been learning text messages lately. Is that, he's texting right now, actually. Yeah, we have a new theme song. I'm going to be honest, I'm a little insulted by that. I'll get back to you. He's texting. You're not the first. No, it's alright. So, I think that's how we should start the show. Station ID like that? Bleh! It can't be. Oh, that one. It can't honestly be worse than any of the other station IDs that we've done. So, um... K-O-I-T! Light Rock, Let's Talk, 96.5 K-O-I-T! I'm familiar with K-O-I-T, but I was not familiar with the entire K-O-I-T station ID. That's still a lot of the band.

Are you ready to light rock, motherfuckers? Another one of my book books. One of your books is my K-O-I-T. Light Rock, Let's Talk, dot com. Dot com. Probably... See, you've been waiting so long to do this interview, and now you're like, oh, God! I'm like, oh, this is a total mistake. We should have... Oh, it's okay. We've definitely... What are you going to pay to edit all this out? Edit. This is going up two hours long. There's four more bands here you can talk to after this. No. Save the evening. Well... This is actually for us. Bradley left, so... It was pretty good. We're not going to... You know, we have low standards, so... You could interview Corey Vinacava's mustache. You'll need two mics. Yeah. It's an impressive mustache.

It's very... Oh, he... Stereo. It's... Yeah. His mustache is stereo. It's large and curly. I think... Is that the... Nerman... You saw him over at the Pyramid factory? He looks like Dolly. Ah.

Quite a mustache for Fishing and Auto. 5, 6, 9 with afro. I said I had to shave because his mustache wouldn't fit on that MP3 file.

You can't compress that. Yeah. You can't. There's... Too much static. You can only do so much work with a mustache. I swear to God I had real questions. Suddenly we've gotten sidetracked on coit and mustaches. Coit a stache. Mosh-tache if you're in LA. You guys... Did you have a tour called the Mosh-tache? Mosh-tache. Yes. The shout out to Hit Me Back and the Broods. And Alex Sanchez, the founder of the Mosh-tache. And AlexSanchez.com.

So do you guys have any future plans for recording in the works or is it just kind of waiting to see how things go or... Well, we are future people, so we have future plans. Future people? Future people, future people! Oh, future people. So I don't know. You know, no idea has been getting on our jock about recording again. To be honest... I said they were getting on their case. They haven't been getting on my jock. They've been getting on mine. Oh. Okay, I'm the lucky one. Yeah. She's James Brown. Remember that. We actually do have two songs in the can. Yeah. For a split with a markman. That's industry speak. I've already laid down those tracks. Cut them. Cut them some wine. Future plans for future people. Splice them with digital tape.

Uh-oh. The pipe bombs. That was real quick. Uh-oh. All of these people that you see before you. Basically, I've been in a huge writer's block and otherwise occupied, so I just really have... I play in Chicago. Yeah. My arteries are clogged. Clogging my brain. My writing arteries are clogged with meat. Totally. Is that horrible? Yes. That's fucking gross, dude. I'm upset. So, anyway. So, someday, I don't know. I'm just kind of seeing what happens. At some point. All right. Fair enough. I want to ask you real quick. It's not really band-related, but Craigums was supposed to be on, if I can call you that, was supposed to be on America's Got Talent. Is that correct? There was a whole debacle regarding that, like, I guess you were supposed to be on, and then there was an apology because he wasn't on the show, though.

He wasn't on that night. Yeah. Me and Seth watched three separate episodes for a glimpse. To try and find that. That was the reason for the apology. That's why I can't write songs anymore. I blame ABC. I blame David Hassel dipshit. Hassel dick. I don't think anyone's ever called David Hasselhoff a dipshit. I'll tell you, there's an army of people who are waiting to call him that. Did you meet the Hoff? Kind of. He had some choice words. No, he had some very un-choice. He had the most trite words you could imagine to say to me. I can't even remember how trite they were. He was like, you're dumb. He said, come back when you get a real guitar. No, no, no. When you get a real talent. Come back when you get a real talent.

Which is apparently what he also told all the people before me. That's exactly what he had that read. When he doesn't like you, that's just what he says. Hey, we all know Kit had the real talent in that partnership. He also said after... What? Mr. Feeney. Mr. Feeney, what? Mr. Feeney was Kit. Oh, God, I'm sorry. That was totally... God. You're right, Knight Rider. Sorry, dude. I was born late 80s. Well, not late 80s. Early 80s. I remember late 80s. I feel old. What were you saying, Jack? Oh, I'm trying to remember the name of the song. There's a large black man who did a striptease to a song. Something about, don't you wish your boyfriend was hot like me? And Mr. Hasselhoff said, no, I don't wish my boyfriend was hot like you.

I'm totally straight. Not attracted to men. By the way. By the way. He is attracted to hamburgers. And alcohol. Yeah. Who isn't? Honestly? Am I the only one who has a YouTube video of himself drinking and eating a hamburger? Is that slightly pathetic? I meant attracted to hamburgers in a different way. You know, I like the Monte Carlo SS of the 80s and the 80s. Your favorite car, yes. This is my favorite car. Mine too, by the way. Really? Yeah. The kind of dark purple-y. Yeah. I know. I like the purple one. Really? Yeah. I just like them. They're learning new things about each other every day to agree about. Yeah. Like 87. But anyway, I'm with you. I was looking on the internet, just kind of reading about those cars. I liked them because they were unassuming.

Like, who's going to drive one of those? Because if you grew up in the suburbs, I didn't realize. It's like, the community out there that does drive them, you know, slams them and shoots from them. But anyway, I was looking on the internet, and I found this other guy who had had a whole community of people that really liked those cars also. And the start of it was, I know I'm not the only one who likes to have sex with their Monte Carlo SS.

I mean, in. He meant with. And he's like, there are many ways you can do this. And it's all I need to say. If you're listening to this, you're obviously on the internet already. So go ahead and track that down. The fact that he's like, I'm not the only one. Like, he's like trying to convince himself. He's like, no, no, there's totally other people who bang their cars, right? Bang your car. Come on, right? Guys. I'd be willing to guess that there's at least one website dedicated to that. Probably several print publications as well. A weekly pamphlet. It's Trinkers Anonymous. If you will.

It's a Patton Oswalt bit. Are we out of batteries? We're going to wrap that up. All right. I guess if we're almost out of batteries, I'll just ask, is there anything else you would like to add to this fine piece of documented audio? Nope. You're going to edit this, right? No. We actually used to. We gave that up.

Yeah, thanks. Yeah, we'll do some station IDs here real quick. The only editing. I'll switch batteries, but you guys have any plugs. Plugs. Like anything on the website, anything you're selling, anyone you would like to talk about. We just have the, which is my fist, sorry. This is my fist.

Dot com. There's your plug. I'd just like to apologize for my voice. It's all right. And for us talking this long. About nothing. I think, I don't know. Let's go drink in Gilman. Break the rules? No. And then talk about me some more.

Are we good? Thank you for tolerating us. Thank you. All right. So that's the entire episode. Pretty good. I thought so. Considering it was done in the freezing fucking cold outside of Gilman. It's not freezing cold like Midwest or East Coast cold where it gets snow and it's like 20 degrees. It was maybe like, I don't know, 50s. So it wasn't really that cold. But when you're not expecting it and you're out there with like no jacket, 50 degrees is pretty fucking cold. Let me tell you. It's cold enough that there was some shrinkage. And I'm not just talking for me. I'm talking about some of the people out there. Because you could see like they had those real tight scene pants going. And you can totally see the bulge going.

And if your bulge look like that, wear baggy pants. Yeah. For real. If your bulge is looking like that, wear like those mid-1990 Limp Bizkit big old baggy pants. Because seriously, you're not doing yourselves any favors. But that wraps it up. No contest this week. Really sorry. We fucked it up. We didn't even think to ask them. But if I remember correctly, they said they didn't even have any merch for this tour. Because they were only doing a couple of shows. But eh. Anyhow, check out This Is My Fist. They're a great, great band. They thought they were going to break up after the move to Chicago. Or at least going to take more of a break. And they're not. They're recently seen a lot of new stuff. And they're really, really good.

So enjoy that. Alright. Like I said, we have some big, big contests coming up in the next couple of weeks. And I'm talking like really, really huge. Like some of the items we've, we got coming up are limited. Like extremely limited quantities. Some of them have been auctioned on eBay for like literally hundreds of dollars. So I'm not fucking around. This isn't like when I'm like, oh it's a huge contest. And then Toby from Red Scare never sends anything out. Because he's kind of a fucking tard. Tard. Good intention. Well intentioned and attractive tard. But he's kind of a tard. Nonetheless. So this is a genuine contest. Check it out. It'll be coming up in the next couple of weeks. And we just want to make sure we do it right.

And we give everybody an equal opportunity to win. So enjoy. We will talk to you guys in the coming weeks. Send us any questions you got. SoundSceneRevolution at gmail.com MySpace.com backslash SoundSceneRevolution Alright. Got one more track coming up from This Is My Fist off of their LP A History of Rats. Until next week for Sound Guy Nairman and the late great Heath Ledger we are signing off. Remember. The best way to service his memory is to go see Batman when it comes out. That's for Dark Knight. That's what he would have wanted. That or to anally rape Jake Gyllenhaal. Aw. Too soon. Too soon. Alright. Have a good week.

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