Interview with Shannon Saint Ryan of The T4 Project - Podcast 81

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shannon saint ryan the kind of founder and creator behind the t4 project uh the story-based concept album which features members from let's see circle dirks bad religion strung out uh the buzz cox pretty much a ton of different bands and i'm sure i'm missing a couple at least but uh we did this interview and we typed it up i typed it up nerman didn't do shit he sat there sound guy nerman because he does sound and not the typing though he's actually typing right now if you can hear him in the background but uh he he didn't type this up he can't listen and type he can only do one thing at a time but uh so i typed it up and it actually appeared in punknews.org but if you're lazy and you don't like to read and there were a lot of fucking words in this maybe you'll like this one this was done over the phone a few months back and uh we're digging it up and putting it together and kicking it out for you guys so before we get into that we're gonna play some uh a track or something off the story-based concept album i haven't decided which one i'll probably just play one of the commercials and dick with you guys but uh check it out enjoy it and uh yeah here's the track and then we'll get into the interview listen to it

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the easiest place to begin i guess is you know how did the how did the t4 project come about how do you guys get started all that they're good now absolutely why uh i mean i guess the main question is why the approach like why incorporate you know so many different artists uh as opposed to just i don't know doing like a studio album or even starting another band i i recorded bands for you i mean like you said the lineup is you know artists that are really fairly new to artists you know from the late 70s how did you compile that list was it just kind of you know whoever you thought you could get or was there people you had picked out in particular it was um it's a bit and i just figured that kind of know someone that knows someone uh so i just had an honest approach and tell you what was uh probably the hardest part about getting the whole recording was the funding or just kind of finding time to get people together to do it yeah yeah absolutely i mean was there ever a point i mean you talk about having to take out a loan just to you know fly to record the rhythm section were you ever like just like you know maybe it's not worth it or did it oh you know always just kind of had faith that it would work out no because well it is the deal i mean we know people

well it seemed to work out all right um i want to talk a little bit uh you know about the album stuff more less so about how it came to be but uh it's uh basically it kind of says it's a story based concept album is it one of those things where i mean there isn't a lot pre-printed and press releases about you know the story and all that do you kind of want to leave that up for people or you know do you think they'll get it when they get the artwork and they read everything about it oh yeah i mean it should be clear but yeah absolutely i mean if you just want to you know because give people a little oh you know i'll give people a little overhead on that so they can kind of see just get the feel for it yeah i think you will have you know unfortunately all right so we're going to take a quick break in the middle of this uh to play more music from the t4 project off their album a story based concept album uh which is a story concept album it's based in a story it's an album it's not really a story so i think it it explains it pretty well you'll get it all right and then we'll go back into the interview with uh shannon saint ryan founder creator mastermind

was that originally part of the concept or was it one of those things where it just as as it progressed you felt like it would kind of fit in and how did you kind of decide which ones you were going to go with did you have more than the eight that made the album um yeah i mean i wrote them out for the learning annex it was really not the point i guess at the end of the day very cool was there one when you were doing the research one that like kind of stood out or was there was it you know did you go through kind of like the basic concept albums that most people know about or was there like some that you dug up yeah it's a nice enjoyable talk basically nowadays absolutely if you got it you can persevere um i wanted to ask real quick you are the album is going to be released on it's got a official cd release coming up right that's april is it uh this cd comes out march 13th which is tuesday oh okay it'll be in the stores more recently than i thought yeah oh no shit sorry i said march i mean may may okay okay yeah may 13th are you guys going to be doing like a vinyl release for it i'd love to do it yeah um it's like nine dollars it's it's definitely it's one of those things where i what i've read on the business end of vinyls it's a much bigger investment it's a much more upfront investment so yeah like they call it and yeah and that's funny too learning like stuff instead of saving money you know yeah i've been having a good time learning wouldn't change it for anything cool cool now is there ever a chance that there'd be a live version of this i mean i don't know if you can get you obviously wouldn't be able to get everyone together to do a tour but you know maybe get certain artists to play this stuff live i mean any chance for that i might help and then yeah and then we do the two shows i definitely think there'd be a number of people i mean you know even if they're not you know they haven't really heard too much about it just to see that kind of a lineup in one place there'd be a ton of people would be into that yeah you know it's been asked for hopefully we get to see that happen um before we wrap it up here's there anything else you want to talk about any uh other projects you got going on anything like that that you just want to kind of touch on um let's see i do have i do have uh another concept that's being cool that's fantastic i mean so it sounds at least though that you got things going and so you know people should keep an eye out for what's going on in the future on that yeah yeah hopefully you can keep at it um i want to thank you for taking the time and you know all the best to you and future projects man yeah thanks richard oh no problem thank you for taking the time i appreciate it and hopefully this all turns out to be you know hopefully other kids will read it when we get it posted yeah so is it um are you um hopefully before that i'm gonna get it typed up as soon as possible and then it's kind of up to uh the editor at punk news for when it goes up so we'll uh we'll keep you informed um i think i got uh i was talking to ray or i was talking to ray and so i'll let ray know for sure when it goes up so he could probably keep you posted on that yeah i appreciate that that's terrific oh no problem i'm i'm super stoked to get to do the interview and you know get everything up there yeah yeah yeah well i'm just yeah uh yeah if you ever want to do oh absolutely well hopefully we like to do a lot more in person you know and so hopefully maybe we'll get down there sometime i mean i'll be big on it we just got to make sure we can keep it within typing range you know yeah yeah right up around there yeah even if i i travel every now and again oh yeah for sure just contact you yeah i mean if you got my number from i mean if you got the number on your uh my caller id feel free to give me a call or just let ray know either way yeah cool cool man well it's been great talking to you man uh have a good uh rest of the day and you know we'll let you know soon all right thanks very much richard thank you for taking the time sharon you're welcome later bye all right well that wraps up our interview with shannon st ryan of the t4 project i hope that you enjoyed it and you had a good time and uh maybe you learned something maybe you're a little bit better person now but with the uh interview wrapped up we don't have any contest because for the longest time this was a digital only album and now he i think it's released on an actual cd and they're discussing vinyl but at the moment it's just uh cd and digital download and we didn't really feel like begging a guy over the phone for free stuff so suck it um we'll be back next week if you got any questions comments concerns thoughts suggestions political ideals um want to donate money send us a line to sound scene revolution at gmail.com or our myspace or in the comments section and we'll get right back to you because we don't really have anything else to do uh i 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