Interviews at Warped Tour 2008 (Part 2) - Podcast 83

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we're back after another week we're actually kind of sort of on time so i'm pretty proud of ourselves assuming i get everything on my end like the blog and everything off that hitch it's a true story we've done i would guess no less than 20 interviews where the actual posting has been held up by me having to write the blog like nerman has the whole thing edited and we're good to go and he's like just send that to me whenever you get it and i'm like oh i'm totally gonna write it right now and it'll be off to you and fucking five days later he gets it so i apologize this is if it's delayed it's my fault but we are uh we're back doing our second of three rounds of warp tour interviews and uh again this con this week we are running a contest for the next week this week and next week we're going to be wrapping up our contest with against me for the uh for the uh copy of against me self-titled 12 inch ep there's 500 of these there's some shit in circulation we got one we're giving it away it's like 200 fucking dollars if you bought it off ebay or you'd have to like sell your mother's unused bodily organs on the black market or some shit but we're giving it to you for free because we like you guys and uh basically we're gonna be uh interviewing this week we're going to get agri-lites the story of the year and cobra starship and uh because i'm a little concerned about bands like story of the year and cobra starship in terms of them tracking us down and getting the uh recording artists or the recording industry artists association to jam a red hot poker in my ass that we're pretty much just going to play agri-lites music that and out of the three bands they're the best so just kind of keep that you know don't don't tell story of the year cobra starship we said that but it's true it's they probably know so we're going to kick it off with our agri-lites interview and from there we're going to go to story of the year and cobra starship here's some music from the agri-lites um i don't know what we're going to play right now like i do have a couple agri-lites albums to pull from but i don't know so i'll surprise you guys but it'll be pretty good so get excited enjoy the interview uh we'll see

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uh the agri-lites if you guys want to introduce yourselves real quick yeah you got uh roger here i'm the organ player brian guitar player fantastic so uh real quick is this your guys first chant first time on warp tour have you guys played before yeah it's our first time on warp tour pretty stoked about it we're getting used to the whole platform of it yeah it's so far so good it's really dope it's really cool fantastic news so you guys i mean are obviously a little bit different than some of the bands who are out here you got a lot of the newer screamo i don't know what they're called bass bands how's that been for you guys how's i mean it's the second show so it's kind of hard to gauge thus far but yeah we we stick out a little bit yeah yeah but uh it's cool you know because a lot of people that are into that kind of music uh into punk rock and uh hardcore and stuff can uh dig the reggae too you know absolutely i mean you guys have a you guys have a pretty unique sound i mean when it comes to even just the the sound the style in general so right right it's uh real real aggressive you know we do do our own take on it so it like fits in with what you know a lot of the kids are into i mean i kind of wish it was a little bit later in the tour so we can get a better gauge but i mean it's the second show so we get what we can i mean how has the first show been for you guys as far as a little was it weird was their kids coming out who kind of didn't expect it it was cool you know we really get to kind of observe the new fans and the old fans we got fans that uh have followed the band all around and they continue to follow just coming to the warp tour and then you got a whole group of new fans that are kind of like all right getting used to it they're like i like this this is new this is fresh and um so it's a mixture of everything and we're that's one of the main reasons why we love playing the uh doing the warp tours because you get to play for kids that are just they don't you know they think reggae's bob marley they don't know there's other outlets and other forms of reggae out there yeah exactly now you guys have a style that you classify i believe as dirty reggae is that correct right right right now what would you say differentiates that what makes it kind of like the dirty style of reggae yeah you know it's like our our kind of our own take because uh we play like specifically like late 60s jamaican music yeah and uh most people know it's like bob marley's legend album or sublime yeah exactly and that ain't what was going on back in jamaica yeah you know in the late 60s i mean bob marley was no question about it but not what he's kind of known for yeah so anyway they were like uh playing real heavy american funk and soul influence that's what we grew up with and so it's kind of uh was easy for us to play that kind of that dirty gritty raw sound which i think is what a lot of people really pick up on you know it's kind of cool absolutely now you guys are based out of la correct yeah los angeles pretty much spread out but los angeles be the nucleus of it you know the area the area i mean our drummer lives out there you know past orange county at the marietta you know brian lives in silver lake so is our bass player so are a lot of people surprised to hear that you guys come from just like socal or they're expecting you guys to come from like somewhere else well it's a trip because uh yeah sometimes i hear you know oh you guys pretty lucky living all close you know pretty close together semi-close together and i mean it's kind of cool because we we kind of were brought together through like the los angeles reggae jamaican kind of you know circuit you know musicians so it's kind of a uh a cool story you know kind of that we were based in los angeles and kind of meant like that yeah absolutely and we talked to you guys are on uh hellcat right yeah yeah okay i got that right we talked to uh another band new to hellcat well sort of new to hellcat the street dogs oh yeah they got they're our boys oh yeah yeah yeah oh no they got nothing good but good things to say about the label has it been good to you guys i mean like do they just more or less let you guys kind of knew what you want oh they're great it's like total family you know tim tim armstrong from rancid you know it's his label and uh you know he signed us not because we were some big huge famous band he just loved what love what we do yeah and that's why he uh hired us to back him on his solo record that's right that's right you guys did uh the poets live right yeah yeah yeah and so i'm sure i mean there are people who were into tim armstrong because of rancid and all that who heard you guys on that new who came out afterwards and was like we know these guys are really good i like what they do and have checked you out have you guys seen anything from that or is it no it was huge it was it was a big deal for us and uh you know it was an honor for tim it was like one of the greatest honors uh that we've gotten was when we went in the studio with him you know he calls up us to record some tracks we walked in and he said here's the chords do what you guys do that's awesome and i swear and i'll never forget he said you know i don't i'm not going to tell you guys how to play reggae nobody can tell you guys how to play reggae here's the here's my chords here's my song you guys play it you know your way it was a great honor it was a and just what it did for us exposure was awesome i mean he just let you guys pretty much run with it however you guys wanted to do it yeah and he would tell us you know i like this i like that but you know for the most part he was just do your thing that's cool was it all nerve-wracking for you because it's like i mean no it was fun because we we when we started we were like a backing band for some old school jamaican uh singers from like early 60s old men you know like one guy derek morgan he's like blind and comes up on stage and he's got a walker you know it was funny that's awesome so we were like kind of into like the backing band thing that's cool though but i mean he's obviously he's done some touring on that i mean not an extensive amount but he's played some solo shows do you guys play on those or did he like we did one show with him at the uh weenie roast oh yeah and um k-rock yeah that was the one show and that was it i mean i kind of heard that there might have been other offers to do other stuff but i i don't know the full story on that i think he was busy with other things or whatnot but you guys have obviously had kind of your own thing a little bit here and right right right i mean we keep busy ourselves you know we're like constantly on tour yeah constantly writing music so yeah absolutely one of the things uh you guys done uh recently that i kind of noticed is you were on uh gabba gabba hey right yeah yo gabba gabba the um yeah yo gabba gabba sorry christian jacobs from the aquabats that's his show exactly man i mean talk about talk about a great idea that finally happened i mean yeah you you create a show that not only the kids love but the parents and the it's for every single person that can that's on this earth that show is and so it's really cool i mean i mean um brian and christian are pretty good friends brian can explain it a little better uh-huh he just uh there's a song called banana it's like old old school calypso song originally it was done during the late 60s by this group called simmer up anyway uh it's like this classic like dance hall old school thing anyway it's very pretty rare but like the people that know are like in the know you know they're like hip so we we started we'd cover that song right from the beginning yeah and his younger brother's band started covering called gogo 13 yeah started doing it too at the same time they started the same time started just happened to be doing it so when uh aquabats we played with the aquabats a few times and and we played that song they were like oh you guys know that too oh so uh they got the kids show going and uh he wanted us to have the let's do the song about bananas that's that's awesome yeah no i mean obviously because some of your stuff has more adult material i mean was it weird at all or were you guys worried about like alienating anyone or you're like you know what this is a fun idea this is a chance to kind of go with it you know you know it's it's something that we've always the song that we've been playing the longest and it people that it's a weird thing because people that know the song yeah when they see us on the video they freak they're like oh my gosh a band is doing this on tv and you know yeah it's a cover and then you guys are obviously paying homage yeah i mean it's like a it's like it's an absolute classic song for people that know and people that people that know like freak and if they're older people that grew up with that kind of music they got kids and their kids are dancing to it you know and they're stoked yeah so it was funny when that show aired also we started having parents bringing their children to our shows and like it was great and then they're like the parents are bringing their kids up to the stage and handing them off to our singer and our singer's like grabbing the little children and having them sing along this is great that's cool though i mean that's one of those opportunities really i mean how often you get to reach out to an audience that wide right right right totally exactly very few so uh real quick before we wrap up um are you guys on the whole tour i don't remember the whole yeah the whole tour we're gonna be every single show oh my god you're rocking out that's gonna be intense dude i mean for the first couple of days i mean it's not too bad but i imagine come the end you guys are gonna be tired oh man we're loving it we're loving it we're like you know once that that first note you know hits on stage we're we're loving it awesome awesome uh you guys got anything planned after you guys wrap up on warped tour you're just gonna take some time off well a couple more uh european i think we're going to europe right for twice oh my god scandinavia all the scandinavian countries oh wow dude and uh new album we're writing right now we're gonna write some more so look look for a new album you know on how cat awesome dude i'm sure a ton of people are stoked for that i mean especially here you guys getting a whole new audience so hopefully they'll be all stoked for that when it comes out man for sure awesome i want to thank you guys for taking the time and uh all the best as you guys go on on warped tour right on thank you thanks man all right well i hope you guys enjoyed our interview with uh the agrilytes they're pretty good guys and they put on a really really good show i was kind of bummed um when we went and saw them there was some band playing kind of close nearby that a lot of the like kids were into so there wasn't a huge crowd for the agrilytes but they put on a really really good show so i'd highly recommend you check them out if you get the opportunity uh next up is god smacks favorite band story of the year if you don't know the story behind that google story of the year god smack and you'll get a ton of laughs as the kids would say it's epic lols oh yeah that's right if this was a lolcat it would be on the front page of i can't has cheeseburger that's how funny that story is i shouldn't say that because uh story of the year probably doesn't think it's a funny story but it was it really it really was so uh this is our interview story of the year again stay tuned at the end if you didn't hear last week on how to enter our contest to win a copy of against me self-titled 12 inch and uh yeah we'll be back after this we're gonna play some music from the agrilytes get to the story of the interview story of the year interview then come back some uh cobra

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warp tour we are here with uh story of the year well one member of that's dan you want to know what you do in the band my name is dan i sing occasionally sometimes i just yell at people sometimes just scream whatever whatever i feel like doing whatever fits the mood all right so this is the second date on this warp tour have you guys played before yeah uh we did all of 2003 all of 2004 um two weeks in 2005 and yeah we've been off for the last couple years of this tour we've been we've been around a few times yeah all right now the first question because we got a lot of there are a lot of bands we interviewed who it's kind of the first time second time on warp tour what would you recommend what's the main thing you would kind of uh if you have a bus don't leave your bus no leave stay in until the sun is almost down and then it's a little bit cooler yeah seriously that goes to the stage i play i go to the bus and then on a day like this you can hang out but you know it's not too bad most days like yesterday was like seriously 110 degrees and it was just like it was when you're in phoenix you're not really phoenix is not a good day to hang out at all i would imagine 110 degrees windy dusty not very rough so all right the first question is you guys have new album out epitaph records correct yes now what how did that happen how did epitaph approach you guys after you did two albums was it with maverick yeah uh well maverick folded after the second record so uh um then uh some warner brothers picked up some of the maverick bands because they were under warner brothers but uh you know it didn't work out with us so we uh were labelists for a little while and you know we just started shopping demos out to labels and uh brett from epitaph yeah like uh he immediately called back and he was like he's like wow i've been been watching you guys for the last like five years you know he originally wanted to sign us in like 2002 but we had just signed with maverick and uh so so he was you know immediately on it as soon as he had the opportunity and uh yeah it was a great worked out great and we've been completely happy so far it's a great great label so that's cool yeah because i had mentioned i had read somewhere that he had wanted to sign you uh about five six years ago but that was right when you guys had signed with maverick so yes pretty good opportunity for him to sign you now yeah it worked out great and you know we're all big fans of epitaph a lot of the bands that have been on epitaph over the years so yeah absolutely worked out good for both of us so what would you guys say is the major difference between working with a label like maverick and working like a label because you can say kind of what you want now they're not around yeah not not just not to smear mud on anybody but um well maverick was always really cool to us i mean since they were like a smaller major label it was it was under warner brothers so it was uh you know we had we had the freedom to do whatever we wanted usually i mean um on the first record they were like really hands-on like really pushing it and like really getting it out there they had the money behind everything and it was awesome you know the second record they were kind of dying out and they they weren't promoting anything and uh now do what you want we don't care yeah it's it's weird like on a bigger label like if we would have went to warner brothers it would have been it would have been a little rough because there's like so many bands and it's like so many artists all around it's not just bands it's pop and rap and you know rock and it's so hard to get lost in the shuffle so label like epitaph you know it's strictly pretty much rock music and you know they they know how to promote like you know smaller rock bands touring rock bands you know so absolutely so yeah it's definitely a better environment all around cool now have you guys uh have you guys done more touring or whatever since then i mean obviously on the label like epitaph it's more of uh it's a day-to-day kind of a label you know not so much like you got bands who are on universal or whatever who never tour never play anything you know yeah or never talk to their label because they're just like i hope they're pushing us i don't know i don't know what's happening we sent it to somebody's working on it i don't know but yeah epitaph it's like a small group of people and like you know everybody and it's like a nice family organization going on so it's really cool that's cool cool what would you guys say i mean for your for yourself obviously each band every band i don't think there's ever been a band who said our new album's terrible we don't want to promote it every band says their new album is the best but i mean what would you guys say personally for you is the biggest difference between your previous work and what you guys would say on your new album um well i mean we grow with every record you know everybody you know learns a little bit more of what they like what they don't like and uh you know first record uh was like it was a really polished sounding record the second record we kind of wanted to get away from that we went to like a more raw organic sound just kind of made it heavy and just straight ahead and uh this time around we wanted to try to balance the two you know like keep it raw and heavy and uh but at the same time have the the you know the production value of the first record in and just get a good good balance of everything and uh that was our main goal and uh and still just write music that we love to write you know that's always the main thing is just write music that makes us happy but but yeah i think we kind of accomplished mixing the the production at least and uh kind of the style of music as well on both of our first couple records you know good balance while still progressing at the same time you know keeping a you know kind of what what you liked of the first two but at the same time yeah not just maintaining on kind of moving forward exactly that's all right that was the goal i mean i hate asking but like is there one track that you would say on the new album that you're you're the most happy with that you feel really kind of surmises what you've been working on it changes all the time but uh i think the last track welcome to our new war um is my favorite uh like mainly lyrically it's one of my favorite and uh um like just musically it it's like it's got a lot of fast heavy stuff then it kind of breaks down changes time signatures it's just kind of takes you on a lot of it yeah a big ride you know so it's like basically what you guys can do yeah it's got a lot of uh dynamics and you know that's always fun in a song oh absolutely absolutely now one thing uh whatever i've read about you guys people who love you people who hate you they all say i mean they always say whether you're a fan whether you dislike them live show is absolutely phenomenal your live show is supposed to be one of the most energetic one of the most off the hook live shows that people can see we try we try is that something that you guys have always aimed for is it just kind of like you guys that's how you've always been you always feel like um yeah definitely like from the beginning like even we were barely could write songs and we were like okay well we're kind of good and it's like we we knew we had to be good live you know just growing up going to shows it was like that was always what i cared about when i watched the band you know um yeah and it just kind of progressed over the years you know we would just put all anything into it we could you know as much energy and as much interaction and uh it turned into jumping off things and doing backflips and all kinds of stupid stuff but but yeah we're always trying to push it to the next level and you know that's just there's something that if the band looks like they're at least having fun and into their music i mean that's that's key to me you know that's that's what i like to see so yeah absolutely has there ever been anything you've done live where you're like whoa that could have been dangerous probably shouldn't do that one again yeah real we've had many injuries uh usually jumping off something way too tall or something it's like it's like it didn't look that tall whenever i was looking at it from from down there but yeah i get hit with a guitar many times in the head and everywhere else and yeah but we've been lucky we never had too many bad injuries nothing too awful nothing too bad i can imagine when you're looking into the ground you're like 15 feet ain't that bad when you're up at 15 feet you're like oh yeah it's a little bit higher than it's weird during the show nothing hurts really because like you got all the adrenaline going and like after the show i'm like i can't walk what did i do what happened it's weird what happened i got to see the video i got to see the photos of it oh yeah that's what i did it's weird how that works yeah i mean you guys had a much publicized incident i mean not to dig up old but you had much publicized incident with godsmack where you guys it was a radio concert correct yeah where you guys kind of like torn up and as a result the bunch of fans rushed the stage and their people were not happy about it so yeah i kind of it was in indianapolis yeah a few years ago yeah it's i don't know it's two three years ago like 2004 or something i don't know but uh yeah i basically told everybody to jump over the barricade and come down not the barricade but it was like an amphitheater thing all of our fans were way in the back right in the front it wasn't even full at all everybody was just staring at us and i was like this is this is stupid so i need to do something to make this more exciting and uh yeah everybody came down and the show was great everything was exciting and yeah god smacks crew uh thought that they were headlining they were technically playing last but it's a radio show so nobody's a head no one's it's like warped or nobody headlines yeah exactly so they got all mad said oh you could have hurt somebody blah blah and they were just looking to fight somebody and you know it turned into a little brawl and then we made fun of them as much as we could and they made fun of us whenever given the possibility yes i would always say if possible leave it to making fun of people i mean that's that's right there's no reason at this level i mean if you're not playing a bar with like three people and you're fighting for those three people's attention just let it you know yeah it was weird yeah yeah but you know i imagine you hear it's a little different environment i mean everyone seems very supportive here you talk to bands i mean who who are playing you know the the third stage at you know 10 in the morning or the bands who are playing six at night on the what is it route 66 stage yeah main stages yeah that's the thing it's like it switches every day nobody knows what time you play ever and like we woke up today and it's like you play at one i was like okay cool um yeah so nobody has an ego on this tour and it's usually only like radio shows where people have a lot of egos and they're like i get played on the radio more than you you know we're cooler than you so here it's like everybody's just same goal we just want to play shows and have fun and it's always been awesome on the work i was gonna say here at warp tour nobody knows when do you find out when you're playing are they like 11 o'clock they're like go now no it's like 8 a.m usually i think that's whenever production sets everything up and our tour manager has to go and then i wake wake up at like i usually don't get up to like one or two but on warp tour i have to get up at like 10 or 11 just and just in case you play at noon it's like you don't want to be like straight on the stage asleep so hey what's going on everybody we're fucking it's rough it's rough i would have to imagine i mean it's a little different environment you're not playing in a club it's not eight o'clock at night it's true it's sunlight and uh there's no hiding you just you're just there it's a show you can't duck behind there's no people are in the sun they're hot and they're like impress me now please do something really cool and you're like it's it's it's a different type of tour definitely absolutely i mean from what i've heard from everyone it's the ultimate kind of like put up or shut up you can either play or you can't and if you can't play yeah everybody knows yeah there's no hiding behind light shows and you know special effects it's like you just go out and you rock and that's all you do is there any band who you're particularly excited for this year who you're really looking forward to seeing um we have a lot of friends on the tour actually uh that we've toured with in the past uh friends and berlin they played real early today they played first i think um yeah then every time i die another band we tour with great guys um yeah just a whole lot of good bands i mean i have never seen angels and airwaves and i'm you know i'm kind of excited to watch them one of these days but well we're trying to get an interview with them but that's not going so well so yeah you know it's hopefully we'll see them at least you know tom along is a famous man yeah it's kind of yeah that's the thing is it's like no matter who you want if you want to interview adam the drummer it's still it's tom along's band yeah yeah but hopefully yeah you get to see them at least yeah we'll see they're they're a good band so we'll see yeah that's cool though right on so uh you guys are doing are you on the whole warp tour part of it we are every day oh my god all summer see that's the thing we got you right now your fresh face i know second day second day i'm like yeah cool tour come the end of august you're gonna be like oh yeah oh yeah it's always real fun like during the middle you just become numb and you're just like okay i'm going to the stage okay but then yeah the last two weeks you're like i want to go home this just sucks it's so hot but you know i would have to imagine that's no offense to anyone who gets the last two weeks but yeah some of these guys have been out for two or three months in a row so it's uh i mean it's all worth it because it's a great tour but yeah it's definitely it wears you down definitely i would absolutely imagine so after warp tour do you guys got any plans are you just going to take some downtime um we're taking like a month off uh because we've been on the road a couple months before this straight and uh we're gonna take a month off then we're gonna do uh international taste of chaos actually we're gonna do a bunch of that's right one of kevin lyman's other seven kevin lyman yeah he likes us he keeps keeps on you know bringing us out that's a good person to have impressed by your stuff if there's very good press kevin lyman's one of them he's a good man and uh um yeah and then after that we should be doing more headlining in the u.s sometime either late this year or early next year so so more or less you'll have some time off but more or less on and off till 2010 we'll say yeah pretty well probably tour most of next year as well so yeah well i mean that's cool though that's how you gotta do it nowadays rock bands got a tour in order to make money because nobody buys records anymore so it's like we have done what how many five interviews today five interviews every band has said i mean we like playing we love doing the music but records aren't selling so you do shows you sell vinyl you do whatever you can because cds aren't the ones pulling the music so definitely yeah this is the way to live your life now yeah which is awesome because we play music every day you know it's not a bad thing but oh absolutely i think it will it will definitely in five years it will definitely separate the bands who are in it because they want to make music and the bands who are like oh this is a quick paycheck this will be fantastic definitely yeah yeah you have to love what you're doing now in order to succeed yeah kind of for the most part so yeah i mean maybe you get really really lucky but yeah that's not really gonna happen there's always gonna be a couple bands that mysteriously get real big and sell records no one understands why it's just sex tape mostly yeah but uh anyhow so we want to thank you guys for being on uh anything you guys want to promote right before or well you personally want to promote right before we cut off um no i mean the new record's out yeah it's been out for a couple months if nobody has it go get it yeah we're very very proud of it so cool cool well i want to thank you for taking the time good luck on the rest of the tour and good luck with the rest of the year then thank you very much fantastic so that was it for the uh story of the year interview i thought it was pretty good for a band i know like fucking that much about like maybe half an inch of knowledge they were just there and warp tour how it works basically is you show up uh you wait out in line with fucking four thousand kids one half your age and then you go inside and then you go backstage into this tent area and in this tent they have a fucking list with all the bands who are doing interviews and the times that they're coming out normally they have a list this year they had like a sign-up sheet because they're going green so they didn't want to waste the 10 sheets of paper a day that they'd be handing out to the press so they had like a big sign-up sheet where it was like signing up for camp activities or some shit and so the bands put their name down and when they're going to come out to do interviews so you really don't know who you're going to get you may get you know angels and airwaves you may get stuck getting swayze or katie perry or someone else you genuinely don't give a shit about but um so we just kind of show up and you can't really prepare unless you prepare for all the bands you can request interviews but there's no guarantee that band is going to be doing interviews for example against me was not supposed to be doing interviews the day where we were there but we got lucky so you can't prepare so you just kind of fucking you mad grab at whatever band comes out and so cobra starship or in story of the year were signed up and i was like oh shit i'm totally gonna talk to cobra starship and story of the year and it's gonna be totally good and then they come out and you're just like oh dude i don't have shit to ask this guy so you end up asking questions like we asked like what's your favorite soft drink and what dude in the band gets the most ass and it's really a little it's a little degrading for everybody involved i think i'd like to think afterwards they feel a little dehumanized as well but that's the process and uh i i make no apologies for the awfulness of these interviews i just want you to kind of understand where i'm coming from and uh really just understand how much i wish our interview with kevin lyman came out good enough that we could have used it because uh that that's another story i'll save that one for next week i will i will bring that up um but so we're gonna wrap it up we have uh the against me contest here's how you enter if you didn't enter last week against me contest yeah we're gonna get to that we're gonna get to but i want to give because we're not this is the end we're doing this then we're doing the interview then we're out so uh against me contest here's how you enter send uh to sound scene revolution at gmail.com uh in the subject line against me self-titled contest against me whatever 12 inch uh don't put put your 12 inch against me because uh that's a totally different contest and everybody wins in that one so uh send uh the against me 12 inch contest or whatever uh name pertinent information and then your favorite memory of sound scene revolution something you really liked or just found really memorable uh kind of stroking my own ego but i'm giving you a 200 fucking record so uh just stroke me a little bit on this one okay um now we're coming on to the cobra starship portion of the interview and then we're gonna get out of here before we get into cobra starship some agrilites music enjoy it have a good week um just so you're aware in case you didn't catch it this week keith olberman's getting taken off of political commentary on msnbc i think it's kind of some bullshit look into it if you care about politics if you don't uh just enjoy the music we'll catch

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warp tour edition with uh members of cobra starship we got suarez here representing the four string kid so uh this is what for you guys the second day of the warp tour second day too this is actually my second actual warp tour experience i've never been before really yesterday was day one uh i'm not really an outdoorsy kind of guy don't love the heat but i'm here and i'm living it and i'm loving it how is it about me because it's hot as hell right now oh yesterday was like 112 degrees where were you guys yesterday uh pomona california southern cali that's not so good yeah it was hot today's beautiful out dude i'm loving it dude it's all right i mean if you get in the shade it's not too bad directly in the sun maybe all bad yeah i'm gonna go check out my boys academy's in a little bit killing it on the main stage yeah right on so uh i want to ask the first question about cobra starship that i get a lot from people a lot of people are like oh well they were a fake band formed for the fucking uh snakes on a plane soundtrack and all that like just what do you guys say to that i mean well here's what happened man uh so gabe was in midtown right and then um you know the midtown was kind of like you know on their path wherever they were going whatever direction they were doing and gabe was like i want to start a side project so he wrote a bunch of songs and then the opportunity for snakes on a plane came along and he's like yo he's like let me get my friends to help me like guest appearance on the song william travis and then you know maya from the sounds came from new line uh records yeah new line cinemas had done the movie so they're like let's throw her in the mix too so it's like make it this big grandiose event and it was awesome it was a great big success um and after that you know uh field barama was like make a record let's put it out let's do cobra starship straight up so uh you know gabe put together a band he's like you know i want to start a band i want to get my friends to play with me so he got me and ryle and nate and victoria and uh you know we all started playing together he had written a record while the process of getting

we just toured our asses off and here we are yeah how long you know you guys have been together for a while and you've been pretty pretty active the entire time you've been we haven't stopped yeah i think we go about nine and a half months out of the year oh my god we're on we're on our second year right now almost done with it oh my god how's that because you have two albums out right two albums yeah we did an album uh it came out 20 days after the first year release of our first record oh my god dude so it's been a pretty busy time all together it's been really busy we try to stay busy you know i mean uh you just got to keep up in the mix you know i got to keep the gears roll and keep everything lubricated if you know what i'm saying so how has this been i mean like warp tour obviously it's your singing day so it's hard to compare but compared to playing like club shows and things like that when you have 26 000 kids out in the sun it's awesome man festival life is a whole different experience you can't really compare it you know clubs you know we just did a last headliner was like real small clubs like 500 seaters whatever it's a lot more intimate this is like this is cool because you have such a diverse crowd coming to see all these different bands and everybody's like oh let me go check these guys out i've heard of them but like you know they're not going to go pay 15 20 bucks to see us at a show that we're headlining yeah so they get to check us out for the first time so it's like you know let's try and impress everybody all at once and just put on an awesome show and have a good time that's cool now if you guys you haven't played yet today have you no we're going at 5 p.m 5 p.m on what stage uh main stage route one okay i know this won't make it out by then but just for my own information no problem please come check it out oh absolutely so uh obviously snakes on the plane was the biggest kind of push for you guys a lot of people found out from you guys did the head song for that you guys also did a week of spots on mtv kind of yeah artist of the week artist of the week on mtv now you guys filmed a bunch of stuff for that right now yeah we actually got to go out they rented out a mansion in long island somewhere it was such a blast mtv did that they're just like hey we rented this mansion well they were doing that for all these bands you know like uh they're like hey listen like uh you know we like your guys's personality we think you guys are really creative because they've seen a bunch of stuff that we had done in the past because we like making videos and all that kind of content so they uh they were like hey how about we do a fake reality show where you guys just fight about the stupidest shit ever so we're like that's awesome dude so they gave us like that it wasn't like scripted at all they'd be like okay so we're gonna do this shot in this like in this room in the family or whatever uh gabe's got a goldfish and he loses his goldfish and he thinks it ran away go and we're just like riffing on it did a couple takes done next scene like bam bam we did it all in a day and a half or something like that and it was just awesome it was such a good time for that's fantastic and it got you guys pretty much a week of like your commercial spots and all that yeah that's a really good uh that's really good thing for that's insane was it weird at all to like see that and just be like oh my god i didn't really get to see a lot of it man yeah unfortunately i saw i saw it online i was like that's awesome but like all my friends would be texting me because i haven't spoken to in high school you know since high school whatever like dude you're on mtv it's like what the fuck i was like dude i don't know man you're like if only i could see that that would be really awesome yeah i thought they came out really great though i think they did a great job uh editing and all that stuff but that was really funny in the end that's cool dude that's gotta be i mean that's gotta be killer exciting because i mean there's a lot of bands that would kill to have that kind of time for sure no uh we're extremely grateful that we we got that opportunity and uh it helped us tremendously and uh we're glad we got to be a part of it awesome awesome so what do you guys have lined up in the future you guys i mean you're obviously are you on the entire warp tour we are on the entire okay i always ask that question because i don't know yeah it happens you know changes a lot i guess we're doing the whole thing uh still trying to figure out we're gonna do in the fall maybe another record early next year you know we're just trying to trying to see how things are going right now you know play the cards as they're kind of being dealt to us you know all right so i want to ask a favor i'm putting this out to bands because we're only interviewing a few bands today um be your own pet is going to be on warp tour at some point i don't remember and uh they're talking a lot of shit because i guess they're saying their label's making them do it and they're only doing one or two dates and they're really like upset about it be your own pet a band i'm sure yes they're not even heard of them i'm trying to see if i can get people to punch them uh i don't fight man i'm a lover not a fighter dude because they basically they're like oh warp pure is like shitty and it's a bunch of kids in rancid t-shirts who don't know what's up and i mean it's fine if you have your own opinion but if your label's making you do it don't fucking i just i'm upset about that you know like i don't love being out in the sun all day i don't like to sweat but i'm here and i'm loving it dude you know you just got to be positive and keep up a good attitude i hear it's a lot like a summer camp out here dude it is summer camp yeah yeah i've never even been a summer camp but i'm assuming it's like this so this is this is the summer camp of your dream going out my basement playing video games dude you know like i wish i had that kind of summer i didn't have a video game system so uh yeah you're a little better off than i would yeah i had my nintendo my and then genesis came out and it was all over you know sonic 94 yeah sonic you know all that shit altered beast very nice so uh we're gonna wrap this up anything else you guys want to kick out before uh you wrap it up here uh we just want to say thank you for everybody's support you know hopefully you get to come out and check us out and we'll see you guys soon all right fantastic thank you so much have a good one man thank you