Interview with Fake Problems - Podcast 78

Posted by Rich on May 6, 2008

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Alright, I get it, I suck! How can we honestly have these interviews in the can and yet not post them? Is it life? Work? Women? Stomach Flu? Probably not. I just can't think of new and funny stuff to write. So I bail.

Regardless, we soldier on like soldiers soldiering through something. This week we have our friendly little brothers Fake Problems on the show. We spoke with these kids a while back but figure that after a full length and a 7" release since we last spoke it would be a good idea to touch base. We spoke with guitarist/vocalist Chris and guitarist/owner of Good Friends Records, Casey. These kids have a future so bright they gotta wear shades (or is that to hide the red eyes?) and it doesn't hurt that Chris dresses like a tiny Mr. Rogers.

Also, we have a brand new ENTER TO WIN!!! where you can land a copy of the Fake Problems first 7", Spurs and Spokes, on white vinyl. This shit is rare and out of print as a muthafucka so don't miss out. Also, send us some love or spam at SoundSceneRevolution@gmail.com, on Myspace or right here on our comments.
Sidenote: John McCain finished in the bottom 5 of his graduating class. Moral? Study or the Vietcong will whoop your ass.
-Rich

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

Hey, this is Fake Problems. Suit, suit, suit, suit, sound scene revolution.

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Thank you for tuning back in again after how much we are probably pretty terrible or mediocre. But we have a brand new interview here on sound scene revolution. We've kind of tapped the well, so we're kind of rehashing. Not plain old interviews, but we're interviewing bands again. And part of that is because we really like some of these bands, and part of it is because we just genuinely don't have shit else to do. But this week we got an interview with Fake Problems. We actually interviewed them probably over a year ago when they were on tour with Riverboat Gamblers and Against Me. And that was the whole band. It was actually before their LP, How Far Our Bodies Go. So it was put out. And so since then they've put out a full length.

They've done a bunch of touring. They put out a 7-inch. The guitarist of the band, Casey, what's his last name? Casey Lee, I'll say. It's not Casey Lee, but I'll say it is. Casey started a label. So they've done a lot of stuff. And so we wanted to come back and touch base with the guys. Plus they're really fun kids, and they're just genuinely good dudes. So we busted out a little interview with those guys, talked to them, and thought maybe you'd like to hear it. So we got a new interview with Fake Problems, and we have a new contest where this is actually a turn of luck. Their 7-inch record, Spurs and Spokes, which was long out of print on white vinyl. A box was found recently. And so we actually have a copy of that to give away.

It's gone on eBay for like 30-something bucks. Not a lot of money, but more money than I'd want to spend on anything. So this is your chance to win one at the end of the interview. All right, so we sit down with Casey and Chris Farron from the band Fake Problems, and we talk to them about what it means to be in the band. Somewhere in the middle, Derek calls on cell phone to interrupt the interview. But it's a good time. I think it's fun. So check it out. We're going to play a song by Fake Problems, and then we're going to jump into the interview like that.

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Yeah. If you guys would like to introduce yourself. My name is Chris Farron. And I'm Casey Lee. All right. So how's the tour been going thus far with the guys from Anti-Flag? Pretty awesome. Pretty cool. We are rocking and rolling. Yeah, it's cool. It's going good. It's fun to play in big rooms, I should say. Large spaces. Yeah. Are there people in them? Yeah. Yeah, they're totally people. Yeah, it's cool. It's definitely a crowd that we've never played for before. Yeah. Like people who would never have heard of us otherwise. Yeah. It's definitely, it's definitely a good thing. You guys aren't the Mohawk Spike, Liberty Spike kind of. No, you can't see. The listeners can't see. No. Right now, we both have Mohawks. And butt flaps.

Chris has a green one. Mine's red. Christmas punks. It's a little late for the season, but spread the joy. Early. Early. Never late. All right. So, you guys, I'm trying to think we talked to you. A year ago. That's all. It's over a year now. Over a year ago. This was before How Far Our Bodies Go came out. Yeah. So, what have you guys been up to since that point? Since How Far Our Bodies Go came out, we have gone on a bunch of tours. We went on tour with the Gaslight Anthem, Look Mexico, Nothington, Anti-Flag, Smoke or Fire, Mess of Sweet Tours. Writing songs in general. We released a 7-inch. Casey started a record label called GoodFriendsRecords.com. And we released a 7-inch on that called Liking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies, which does not contain all Blink-182 covers.

Despite. Despite the titles. Despite the titles and the album. Yeah. But, yeah, we had a lot of, I'm not going to say a lot of disappointed people, but a lot of confused people. But they seemed happy in the end anyway. Well, you guys put the songs up for free. Yeah. So, it's hard to complain with that. Up the punks. Is that the business motto for GoodFriends? Up the punks. Up those punks. Get them out of here. Upload the punks. Upload the punks.com. Upload the punks.de. The German website? Yeah. Not as popular. Still very good. High quality website. So, you guys put out How Far Our Bodies Go. Is that your first full length officially? Let's say officially it is. Yeah. Our career starts at Spurs and Spokes. Let's just pretend.

No, no, no. Don't go on inner punk. Don't go on. Yeah, because I've found you guys have some older stuff and I've heard most of it's like a lot different. It's totally. It's what are you trying to say? I'm not saying. No, it's totally different. It was a long time ago. Pretty much completely different members of the band. You don't play any of that stuff anymore? No. No. Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. I'm just saying. Yeah. There's no reason to be ashamed. No, I mean, no, we're not ashamed. It's ashamed is a strong word. It's just a totally different band. Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. So, this kind of being the first full length, as you guys are, it's pretty ambitious. It has a lot of themes. It has a lot of different instrumentation.

A lot of reprises of parts of the songs. Was that something you guys really felt like, you know, you really wanted to go at this? Or was it just kind of as you guys were writing it? Kind of a little bit of both. I mean, the way we laid out the record is just the way we like records to be. Like, all the records we love are pretty much, we just modeled it after, like, what we really like. Like, The Good Life and Cursive and, like, bands like that do just really neat things, I feel like. And Look Mexico does a lot of, like, kind of, like, instrumental stuff, and we just wanted to make something that we like. That's cool. And we modeled it after that, and lyrically, it pretty much, it's... Can you get the mic a little...

Sorry, I'm not trying. That's all, I just want to make sure we can hear it all. Yeah, lyrically, it didn't really start as a concept album, but in the end, it just, it was definitely. Like, all the songs were pretty much about the same kind of things and used the same kind of themes. Cool, cool. Do you guys have a favorite track off the album? I always, I kind of hate that question, but it's kind of interesting to see the people who wrote it, what they think of it. I really like... I feel like it's a song we never play either. I like, I really like Busy Bees, and I really like Heck Yes Summer. That's pretty good. And we never, ever play either of those songs. Why is that? Well, we play Heck Yes Summer sometimes.

I don't know, they, well, Busy Bees is, on the record, it's just very orchestral and everything. It doesn't really translate live as well. It'd be difficult. Good use of the word orchestral. That's, not a song, just wanted to comment. But yeah, I'd say, maybe Maestro. Yeah, Maestro's a good rock. It's a rock. It's a rockin' number. It is. That's pretty good. So, I want to touch on the 7-inch that you guys did. Obviously, there's, what the shit? My phone just went off. I apologize.

Unprofessional! I can't talk, you're interviewing me. It's Derek.

Normally, I wouldn't even check, but as it's Derek, I feel I should kind of, oh, Derek says heart you. Aw. I don't think Derek really likes me. I think it's all facade. I don't know. I'm sure he loves you. I'm sure he loves you. That's a good answer. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. He hasn't said anything to me about it. Let's talk about, let's talk about me and Derek here. Let's change the focus of the interview here. Anyhow. So, you guys released the 7-inch that is very, it has a lot of Blink-182 themes through it. Was there a purpose behind that or just something you wanted to do for fun? Well, we had talked about always making like a 7-inch and just using Blink-182 titles. Like, we talked about that for like a while.

And then when we, but we were still trying to figure out what to call it. And then we were, I don't remember how we really learned of Viking, Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies. I think we were just on Wikipedia. Because Enema of the State is our favorite punk album ever, I would say. It's a bold statement, being on tour with Anti-Flag. That's as punk as we go. That's pretty much as punk, yeah. As punk as we get. Yeah. That's fair. So, I think we were just like Wikipedia-ing Enema of the State. And saw that they were going to call it that. And I was just like, why didn't they call it that? And then we called it that. That's such a good name. We should use that. Yeah, exactly. And you did. And then when we were trying to figure out the song titles, I'm not going to tell you.

I can tell you that one of them, Wendy Clear, because the chorus in our song is something, something, moving on. And then the chorus in the Blink-182 song of Wendy Clear is also something, something. Moving on. Moving on and on and on.

Yeah. I had something. I had something really good to say. It was going to revolutionize the interview. It's going to blow your idea on the war.

Casey's not big on the short-term memory.

We can wait if you want for you to remember. I got nothing but time. We can edit it. We'll just put the Jeopardy theme song. I don't think I'm going to be able to remember. It was good, though. All right. It was something. Oh, I remember. Okay. My biggest. One of the. One of my biggest. Why I was a huge advocate of the entire idea was hopefully Good Friends Records will get sued by Geffen. That's what I really want. That'd get you guys a lot of promotions. I know. A lot of publicity. Hey. There's no such thing as bad press. That's like a hundred comments on Punk News. That is. And that equates to five album sales. Yes. Right there. Which equates to, I think, two dollars. And thousands of illegal downloads. Yes. There's more.

That's where the fame comes in. That's where I get all my records. The internet. Goodfriendsrecords.com. Goodfriendsrecords. Found on the internet. So, I want to, real quick, while we're talking about Good Friends, you guys have, what, like three releases on that? Yeah. You have the Look Mexico LP, the Frank Turner 10-inch, and then you guys, right? Yeah. Now, that's all. Are you guys exclusively doing Final Three Good Friends, or? Well, the opportunity. I mean, I think I would do a CD. Dude, what the fuck? I hope it's Derek, if it's funny. It's Derek. Should we talk to him? I don't know. Does he have a speakerphone? Hold on.

Derek?

What the fuck? Derek, what are you doing? No, we lost. I'm going to turn this phone off, because I think Derek's going to just. Richard? Or, I mean, Dante? No. By the way, I want to thank you. I'm pretty sure it was at the Fest that you shouted that out, and I was pretty sure that's where I was going to get stabbed to death. I was like, I'm going to die at a fake problem and show at the Fest. Fantastic. So, anyhow. Good friends. Yeah, I think in the future, if the opportunity, like, if there was a band, like, that I, that didn't have a CD out or anything that I thought was, like, good enough, I would do that, but I don't think right now. Right now. You're just happy doing the vinyl end of it? Yeah, and I don't have, I mean, I have a lot of time.

I guess I'm, I'm pretty lazy, too. But, I mean, I wouldn't want to take on the responsibility of, like, really trying to work for a band. And sole responsibility for. Yeah, like, and then just being an idiot and not helping them as much as I should. Aw. So. That would be terrible. Yeah. So, I, yeah, so I am for, yeah, I get it. I'm for going. I'm for going. That was subtle. Trying to do that. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Until, you know, I get, like, someone to play my guitar parts every night or something. I like that you, not until I can get someone to run the label, until you can get someone to play guitar for you. That's the option. I didn't even think of that. I didn't think of that at all. Good, good.

Well. Well, I'd still, I'd still write the guitar parts. Just, you wouldn't play them. Just be some guy. Just sitting next to them on a laptop. Yeah. Yeah. That's good, though. Priorities, I guess, of some sort. Well, I'm still going to write them. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to be totally lazy. He'll probably, he or she, will be better looking, taller, and smarter. Faster. Faster. We're going to make them great. Or her. I'd say the taller part wouldn't be too hard, but the other ones, I don't know. Smarter? I don't know. Thank you. All right. I have a lot of respect for you. I like this. Keep them coming. I'm just saying, you put out the Frank Turner 10-inch. You like my eyes? They're a little squinty, but, you know.

You do have squinty eyes. No one's perfect. Don't feel bad. Okay. Okay. I want to ask about, I had this actually written out, and I can't remember now, because they took my questions.

On the 7-inch, in the middle, you have a mock-up of the Blink-182 logo, except it says fake problems, and there's a number. And I can't. Is Derek calling you now?

Trying to do an interview, Derek. What?

We're doing an interview.

You are on speakerphone. Derek, you're on speakerphone. It's a revolution, and Sean and I are backstage with a fucking joint stuck up our ass, and no one to smoke it with. Vanessa told us to do the interview.

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I asked you a question. Why don't you come to the van?

Yeah, we're at the van. We'll be there in a second. But it's not our van. It's Richard's van. It's by the parking garage. No.

Yeah. Yeah, no windows. And an ice cream whistle.

Isn't that what they sell? Ice cream whistle. What?

Let's get this over with before he gets here. Before Eric goes up and beats me to death. All right. So, yeah, it has the mock-up of the Blink-182 logo. I'm curious what the numbers are. Were they just random numbers? 239 is the Naples area code. Oh. All right. So you learn something new every day. Yeah. All right. We don't really have to wrap it up. I was just joking. No, I'm really afraid he's going to come here and, like, try and kill me. He's sounding belligerent. And he's all of 145 pounds. Yeah. He's furious. All right. So we're going to take a quick break in the interview to play you some more fake problems music, which I haven't determined at this point in time. It will be decided at a later date, but chances are it will be awesome, and you will thank me for selecting said music.

Um, but, uh, just so you remember, we have a chance to win a white copy of their 7-inch Spurs and Spokes, which is out of print and fairly sought after by fans. I, uh, did have a European tour edition of their LP, but, uh, the band, uh, gave that to me, and so I'd feel like a dick if I gave it away. So, I'm not going to give that away. But, uh, if you're really into the European type shit, uh, Gunner Records is working out a distribution deal. The Gunner Records, the label that put it out in Europe, working out a distro deal with the United States distributor for just a few copies of it, but they should be up in America hopefully sometime in May. So, if you really want to buy one, and you're okay with losing money because the dollar is eating shit in the, uh, the EU, uh, global economy.

I was going to say the European economy, but it's not just Europe. The dollar is eating shit everywhere. But, uh, if you're okay with that, you can pick up a copy retail, hopefully somewhere in May. All right, uh, but we're going to jump back into the interview, uh, right after we play some more Fake Problems music. Enjoy that and stay tuned to learn how to enter to win, uh, at the end of the interview.

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So, um, I wanted to ask, you guys were recently featured in the April Fool's joke on Punk News. Yes, very good. Now, did they come up to you guys before that? Yeah, Chris, Chris called us and, uh, was just like, hey, we're doing an April Fool's thing. Do you think it'd be cool if we used you guys? And, and we, we kind of, we ran it by anti-flag to, to make sure we, you know, okay. And, and it, and it was, they thought it was pretty funny and, um, and it went over pretty funnily. Funnily. And a lot of people actually really fell for it to the point where like, oh man, I was going to come see you. Now I don't know what I'm going to do with this ticket and stuff like that. And we're just like, no, it's April Fool's day.

Did you stay through the rest of the stories? The rest of the rules when he celebrates Christmas too.

Oh, they're, that's all right. It's the mic cord. But yeah, it was very fun. It was. I thought that went over well. Yeah. And Chris wrote that one? Yep. Wow. That's a genius. I'm impressed. I'm not, uh, yeah. I thought he would have gone with the, uh, the Gaslight Anthem one, so. Oh. I think he did both of them. Did he? Yeah. Wow. Pulling overtime. Yeah. That's what, I guess he can do that in Virginia. We don't have much. In Virginia. Much. I don't know what he does over there. All I know is he does something. He dresses really nice in the morning. The morning. He does. That is the oddest statement I've made in the morning. Afternoon he starts to look like ass. And whenever we stay with him, he wakes up and he's all, like, dressed up really nice.

What does he have, like, a silk smoking jacket and, like, loafers and shit? No. I know he works for a non-profit. What? I think they do. You said org and he was going to say lol. Orgol? Yeah. Orgols. I think they do, like, um. Orgols? Maybe they do student loans, I think. Maybe. Nonprofit.org. NPO. NPR. Mm. This is fun. No, this is going remarkably well. Skibby, skibby, skibby. Oh, we did an interview that was being transcribed. Oh, my God. And we just, we rocked it. Oh, yeah? We were just going.

You know, that all went down in the transcription as inaudible. Like, half your interview is dot, dot, dot. 15 minutes later. But, uh, anyhow. So, are you guys working on anything new? Any new album? Yes, we are. As a matter of fact. Yeah? We are, um. We just finished, um. Demoing all of the songs that are going to be on the next record. We demoed them with Rob McGregor. Who did our, recorded our last record. And we're going to record them. Um, should I, can I say anything again?

We got confirmation. Yeah. By the way, Eric from, uh, Oh Pioneers told me to ask what the album's coming out on. I can't, we can't tell you that. Yeah. He told me to ask. But we don't, we don't even know. Yeah. He's like, ask him. And I'm like, I don't, okay. But he seemed to, it was pressing. Hmm. Anyhow. Yeah. Eventually. When we were talking to Sony VMG, um, Warner, Epitaph. Yeah. I don't. Punk the, up the punks records. Up the punks records. That's the E.

Um. It'd be rad if he came out on Epitaph. That'd be funny. That would be, yeah. It'd be something. It'd be something. Um. We, uh. Yeah, we, we, we demoed all the songs. And then we're going to record them. In, at, right after this tour, actually. In June. Mm-hmm. The month of June in Omaha. Okay. So you're hoping sometime. When would it come out? Um. Hopefully, either the end of this year or the beginning of Easter. Early next year? Yeah. It's not too bad. Yeah. I mean, we, we, we try to stay as consistent as possible, I guess. Because How Far Our Bodies Go came out in 07. And then we at least came out with that EP in 08, right? That was 08? Was that 08? That was 08. So, okay. And you guys, there had been talk about, uh, an O Maria 7-inch.

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. If you, you could email JordanCleeman at gmail.com. Wooden Shoe. Wooden Shoe Zero Zero at hotmail.com. Yahoo. Oh, Yahoo. Yahoo. Dot com. Okay. Gonna ask him about that? Ask him about that. He's waiting for the paper. Yeah. For the, uh, 7-inch. It's gotta be good paper. Yes. That guy doesn't fucking cut corners. Mm-mm. Oh, I hope he doesn't. No one listens. I was gonna be like, I hope he doesn't. No one listens. I was gonna be like, I hope he doesn't listen. Well, he'd be at least one. My mom listened. My mom listened to the last one we did. Did she? And she said she didn't like it. She said, I don't like it. You, you guys were just goofing around the whole time. Where was the, where was the information?

I don't know. There was no one. We were just slapping each other with spoons. The guy sounded like a pedophile. Were you guys safe? You need a rape whistle? Were you alone with him?

Without windows. Don't worry. And the ice cream whistle. But don't worry. What?

I don't think there is. I was thinking I was going with the little noisemaker that they have that plays the music, but I don't know what the fuck that is. Ice cream speaker? Yeah, but there's like the music. I don't know what the term is. Ice cream bells. Bells, yeah.

Hey, do you know what the Harlem Globetrotters theme is? Can you whistle? Yeah, that's, oh, I can't whistle it. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. No, I think that's Mario, brother, isn't it? No, it's, oh. It's, uh. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That is it. That's pretty good. Okay. I want to believe it's. I can remember this afternoon. I don't know. I believe it's called Sweet Georgia May, if you ever have to look it up. Sweet Georgia May, okay. That's, I believe. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Why did you need to know the Harlem Globetrotters? We were talking about my shoulders for some reason. And I said I could do the Harlem shake or whatever, and then we started to try to sing that song, and then we couldn't think of it.

And then you forgot. Yeah. And that's how we got here today. All right.

All right. I guess before we wrap up is, well, let me make sure. What are we looking at like was? Okay. So I don't like them. I'm not like, so we wrap it up at like five and a half minutes. That one, I'm not talking about anything. Yeah? Got all night. All right. Well, I didn't. What's playing right now? I don't know. I got a list of questions that people had asked me to ask you guys. People actually asked you to ask us questions? Short list, yeah. People we know? No, probably not people you know. I don't know. I don't think we don't know. It was in my car. I know pretty much everyone. I know everyone. You know everyone? I know everyone. That's impressive. Anyone who would have a question, I think I might know. One of the questions, two of the questions actually, was from one person.

He asked, A, what was your favorite release thus far of this year? Of anything? Of this year, yeah. Any genre. This year? This year. What happened this year? Yeah, I don't like. Wednesday.

Let me look in my phone.

That was last year. She and Him. Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward came out of this CD. That's really good. I like that. That's all I have on my phone. That's from this year. From this year? Yeah. See, everyone's into like painted black. Did that Gaslight 7-inch come out this year? That, yeah. Well, was it supposed to come out this year? It was. It was supposed to come out. It was supposed to come out like January 29th. Okay. So that. That came out. You like that? I love that. That's good. Hopscotch boys. Wine trio. What? They just make it up. Releases of 2008. People are going to be looking for the red wine trio. They're going to be like. It is the fucking jam. All right. The second part they wanted me to ask is you guys, a lot of your stuff seems to come out on vinyl.

Do you guys collect vinyl? Are you into it at all? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It makes it much more special. I think CDs get scratched very easily. I feel like I get a CD, and I just fucking throw it on the ground over my hand. If I have a record, put it somewhere safe. Take care of that record. And then I go home, and I listen to it. That's all right. And you have to flip it. Yeah. You like the flippy hang. It's much more interactive. Yeah, it's fun. I believe that. It's like a laser disc. The art looks so much bigger. Yeah. True. That's why I like laser discs. Do you guys punch those at home as well?

Yes. Do you guys have a personal favorite record of yours? Of our own? Yeah, of your own, like, that you purchased or got attained somehow. Oh. Hmm. I have a lot of records from a band called The Microphones that I really like. It's hard to choose one. They're also crazy and weird. I have this Bob Dylan box set called Biograph, which is like a bunch of B-sides or, like, alternate recordings of a lot of his songs. I had it on CD for a very long time, and then I found it online. I really like that. I like the Vampire Weekend record a lot. That came out this year. I've heard a lot about that. I haven't actually heard it yet, though. Gets your seal of approval? Yeah, it's awesome. Seal of dance approval. The seal dance.

Seal dance approval. He's got a crazy face. He's got, like, a disease. No, I'm not paying attention. I've lost. What if Seal listens to this? Oh, you were talking about. Oh. I thought you meant, like, seals. I didn't know you meant. No, Seal. Seal. The guy. Oh, great. Heidi Gloom's wife. Husband and husband.

Kiss from a rose on a red. I think that might have been, I think. The biggest song in the world. No, I think when I was, when I was, when I was from the ages of 13 to 16, I think that was my favorite song. Kiss from a rose. For three years. You guys should cover that. It's a good song. It was in the Batman Forever. Forever. I was going to say Returns. Batman Forever is also the first CD I ever bought. Really? And then second was Space Jam. I think that explains a lot. I think we're shedding a lot of light on this. Yeah. With the U2 song. Hold me, throw me, kiss me, kill me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You two fucker sucks. Now, Bono does listen. Seal doesn't, but Bono. Hey, Bono. You got a fucking stupid sunglasses. You got a fucking stupid hat and a stupid face.

Dude, he's so bummed right now. You get a skater scar. What? You got a skater scar? I don't know what it said. I said take us on tour. Oh. I'll do best of, best of, or not best of, first of, first of, first of, first of. Best of three. First of. Big Problems versus U2, best out of three. The edge is going down.

Hello. Whoa. Briggs. Briggs, man. The Briggs van is behind us now. I thought they were parked, and now they're parking again. Or moving. No, they're three-pointering. I don't know what they're doing. Anyhow. All right. So, I think we're good. I feel pretty good. Yeah. Made a lot of progress there. Do you guys have anything else you want to add before we wrap it up?

No. That's it. That's good. All right. Thank you guys for taking the time. All right. So, that's the end of the interview with Casey and Chris Farron from the Miraculous Fake Problems. Really, really good guys. Like, super, super nice guys. I mean, I met them, like I said, probably over a year ago. And every time I've run into them since then, they've been really nice, and they've remembered who I am. And, you know, they're just super good guys. So, if you get the chance, check them out. Support them. Buy their stuff. See them live. Buy them a meal. A shower. I don't know. I think they're all over 21, or they're pretty close to it. So, maybe you can buy them a beer. Other than that, like I said, we have a chance to win a copy of Spurs and Spokes on white vinyl.

I was, there were a couple of different fake problems, things I was thinking of giving away, but they're part of my collection, and I actually do collect records. So, I'm not going to give away all of them. But, for the free copy of Spurs and Spokes on white vinyl, send your name, address, pertinent information to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com, put fake problems contest as the subject line of your email, and answer the following question. For their latest release, Viking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies, the fake problems crew basically ripped off, not ripped off, but paid homage, if you will, to a bunch of Blink-182 stuff. Every song was named after a Blink-182 song. The album was originally supposed to be the title of Blink-182's Enema of the State.

They used a faux Blink-182 logo with fake problems. What band would you make an album that would be an homage to? And if you're feeling super productive, you could put Y as well. But, basically, what band would you do if it would be like Menudo or, I don't know, The Commodores, something like that, Lionel Richie? He's not a band, but he's really more of a, he's an entity, a musical experiment, if you will. But, uh, so, if you would do something like that, speaking of Lionel Richie, if anyone ever watched the Fantastic Four, the movie, the first one, did anyone notice that that thing with Ben Grimm, the thing, when he met the blind artist, was a complete rip-off of Lionel Richie's video for Hello? Think about it.

Anyhow. Uh, send that all to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. Little, little detour there. And, uh, we'll get you a copy, hopefully. Uh, we'll have more interviews up next week. Enjoy it. We're gonna leave you guys with some music from Fake Problems. Uh, any questions, comments, concerns, email us, soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. We are more than happy to answer any questions or address any concerns. Have a good one.

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