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final fantastic installment of the Warped Tour interviews and the final installment of our Against Me self-titled EP contest. This week we're going to have interviews with the dude from Gym Class Heroes. I don't know his name, but he's Travis. Wow. Sound Guy Nairman. All over fucking Gym Class Heroes balls. You don't know. Sound Guy Nairman. Chronic liar. But Travis, I guess, we'll say Travis from Gym Class Heroes and the guys from Street Dogs. Like I mentioned, these are our Warped Tour interviews and I was going to get into a little story this week because we got time to kill about our interview with Kevin Lyman that never occurred. So we show up and we're doing the whole fucking signing up to interview bands and they were like, we were like, oh, we were wondering if we could talk to Kevin Lyman because they said, you know, if you want to interview Kevin Lyman, send us an email. And we were like, yeah, we'd love to interview Kevin Lyman. Founder of fucking Warped Tour. Founder of Monster Rockstar's Taste of Chaos Tour and Monsters fucking emo gods of Norway Tour. I don't know. He does like 40 fucking tours. And so we were like, we'd love to do that. And so they reply and they're like, excellent. We'll put you on the list. And so we show up and we were like, hey, we were told we were put on the list to interview Kevin Lyman. And they were like, hey, we don't know what the fuck you're talking about. They were like, list to interview Kevin Lyman. Well, he may be doing a group interview. And so we were like, fuck it. Let's do a group interview with Kevin Lyman. So we kind of sat around and waited for that to happen. And so finally they're like, who wants to interview Kevin? Like, like it was a fucking kid show. And they were like, who wants cookies? It was like, who wants to interview Kevin Lyman in 40 fucking mouth breathers with fucking glasses and turtlenecks. We're like, I want to interview Kevin Lyman. So they take all fucking like 400 of us loaded. This number is getting bigger as I go. It was 40. Now it's 400. Soon it's going to be all of Warped Tour. But they load all 400 of us on a fucking Kevin Lyman's bus, which is incredibly awkward because it's kind of like his living quarters. So it's like we're sitting in Kevin Lyman's living room with fucking 40 mouth breathers. And the guy next to me, you can feel him on the back of my neck through it. Oh, sound guy never was breathing through his retainer on my neck. It was, it was erotic. I was a little turned on. I'm not going to lie. But, uh, so we're sitting there and Kevin Lyman comes out and I, I didn't really have too much ass, the guy. So I thought I'd see where it would go. Oh my God. You never heard so much ass kissing in your entire fucking life. I'm amazed these kids could ask questions with how far their tongues were up his asshole.
It was like, so I heard Warped Tour is going green this year. What led you guys to be so economically responsible in these hard times? And it's like, what? Fucking ask a question of interest. I'm sure you could find a 40 page press release on why the fuck they're going green. And so finally he was like, Oh, and like, I couldn't get a question in edge wise. Cause he'd be like, Oh, so, uh, anyone else have a quote? Oh, I have a question. How do you guys pick such a fantastically diverse lineup of old school and new school punk bands? And I was like, Oh my God, shut the fuck up. So finally, after all the nerds asked him out fucking world of Warcraft or fucking star Wars, he was like, anyone got any questions?
And it was quiet for a minute. And so I was like, I got a question. And he was like, you weird tall guy who looks like he's molesting half of the 12 year olds at Warped Tour. And I'm like, here's my question, Kevin. There were bands such as like Lawrence Arms and Tree Fort who got kicked off of Warped Tour. Would you ever consider having them back now? Especially since like Lawrence Arms are more popular than they used to be. And he like pauses kind of like thinks kind of like laughs a little bit. He's like, Oh, I've never even heard of those bands. And I don't even know if they're saying they've gotten kicked off Warped Tour. It's, it's something they're making up for publicity purposes. And you know, that never happened. And besides the fact that I know for fucking positive, I know people who run the labels that had those bands on them that they got kicked the fuck off Warped Tour. Anyhow. And he's like, that never happened. You know, they're just saying that. And he goes, does anyone, you know, any other questions? And not only is the room dead fucking silent, you could hear a pin drop.
Everybody in the room turns and looks at me to ask the next fucking question. And I'm like, I, I, what the fuck are you guys looking at? And they're like, well, you all seem to have the questions. And so that's how I killed the Kevin Lyman interview. Not only did my question become incredibly awkward because of Lyman's refusal to answer it, but then everyone else pretty much went way to ruin the interview, dickhead. So that was good times. And the best part was the audio was so shitty. We couldn't even use it. So fun. Anyhow, uh, we're wrapping up our against me contest. Yeah. Back to the interviews. We have gym class heroes and street dogs, the gym class heroes interview. Uh, I was kind of drunk at that point. So, uh, hopefully it's better than I remember it. It's probably not. And, uh, we're going to play music by street dogs because gym class heroes are on decadence. And I'm pretty sure if Pete Wentz could fuck Ashley Simpson, he could probably fuck me if he really wanted to. So, uh, I'm not going to be using any of the, uh, gym class heroes music. So, uh, enjoy this. Uh, this is going to be the street dogs and then we're going to get into our gym class heroes interview and be sure to listen to the
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We are hanging out with Travis from gym class heroes. Yes, sir. All right. So how are you doing today, man? I'm doing great. I'm doing actually really awesome. Um, I just watched my girlfriend's set and she did really good. And now we're excited to do our set. What now? Who is she with? Uh, you saw her set. I'm sorry. Who was your girlfriend that you saw Katie Perry? Oh no. Yeah. She plays on, she played on. We were bummed. We missed her set cause we were back here doing interviews. Yeah. Yeah. She killed it. Maybe she, I think she'll be back here. I don't know. They said she might be, but like there's a ton of people want to talk to her. So it's probably going to be difficult, but yeah, yeah, for sure. We'll work it out one way we can. So first things first, I gotta say you are fucking big as hell, man. A lot of people think I'm a tiny guy, but I'm actually very, very big. Yeah. I gotta say, man, like you six foot five, six foot five, 250 pounds. I don't want to be rude. I saw you on TV. I'm like, I can fuck that guy up. Now I'm like, now I'm kind of like, hold up. I think a lot of people have that misconception until they meet me and realize that I probably eat their face. Yeah. For real dude. In case anyone's like coming, thinking of coming up on you, you're like six foot five twice and drinking Budweiser. So you're not, you're big fucking new. So first off, what are you guys going on today? Uh, six 30. Is this your first time on Warped tour? You guys are like our fourth time on Warped tour. Fourth time. It's our second time doing the entire tour though. Nice, nice, nice. So what would you say to bands who haven't played before? What would your big recommendation be? Bands that haven't played Warped tour?
Yeah. Uh, who would want to just, I mean, stay consistent, you know, stay work hard at it. Like Kevin recognizes talent. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of bands that have played Warped tour and have gone on to do huge things, you know, like the gym class Warped tour is huge for gym class heroes. It was huge for fallout boys, huge for all those bands. You know what I mean? So, um, it's a huge stepping stone and, and I mean, there's a lot of stages. So, and a lot of, a lot of stages need to be filled. So if you're in a band, I would just say, just keep, keep at it. You know what I mean? Right. Make a lot of noise. All right. So I want to ask, I mean, you guys are obviously, you're a little bit different. I mean, you got a lot of, a lot of, I don't know, screamo bands kind of on Warped tour this year. Yeah. We're, we're a refreshing glass of lemonade away from all that. Yeah. I mean, not that that's a bad thing. No, no, no, no, no. There's enough of it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So you guys got a little bit of different sound and whatnot. Yeah. No, I mean, imagine at this point you guys have your own fans. There are people who come specifically to see you. Yeah. But I mean, two, three years ago, obviously kind of the first time on it was, is it's obviously different. I mean, it's been ever since we started the band, you know, we've been, we've been a band for 11 years. It's kind of been weird. Like when we come out, kids are like, what, what the hell is this?
You know what I mean? So we've always had to like win crowds over. And I think that's kind of grounded us and made us humble. Like, you know, like when we do have a decent crowd that's there to see us, you know, like we appreciate it a hundred percent because I mean, it's been an uphill battle, you know, like we've toured with all kinds of bands from, you know, like emo screamo bands to death metal bands, to reggae bands, to feminist slam poets, to comedians. Like we've always had to like work hard to win a crowd over, but it paid off. You know what I mean? Absolutely, man. I mean, obviously from you guys, recent popularity is done pretty well by you guys. So I want to ask you guys are on a decadence records, right? Which is Pete Wentz records label record and label as it was. Now is it weird to kind of be, I mean, you're a little bit different sound than fallout boy. I mean, was it something you were a little hesitant on or was like, you know what? Not at all. I think our main concern when we put, when we first started talking about signing, um, was getting a van and a trailer and getting a tour. That's all you're looking for. And that's all we want.
And they were like, sure. So we signed, we weren't concerned with getting a huge advance or, you know, like getting a ton of money or, you know what I mean? We just wanted to tour and, and, and get outside of the upstate New York area and see if our music worked as well around the country as it did, you know, where we're from and it worked out. Yeah. I mean, it's turned out all right for you guys. I mean, a lot of people are fans of your stuff. Can't complain, cannot complain. So I want to ask a couple of questions real quick. Uh, we talked to, I don't remember the dude from Snakes on a Plane or not Snakes on a Plane. Oh, Cobra Starship. Yeah, yeah. And so you had done a song with them, correct? Yeah, yeah. But it was only one and it didn't turn out to be on the whole album. Would you do, I mean, would you be interested in doing stuff again with them or was it just kind of- That's family, man. We're on the same label. You know what I mean? Like we, me and Gabe came up together, you know, he was in a band called Midtown. We toured with them way back in the day. And so we, me and Gabe have been friends forever. We're actually, they call us the twin towers. Cause if you met him, he's a pretty big guy too. So for real. Yeah. That's another one of those things like no one expects Gabe to be that big. And then he came to like, dude, have you ever had that? I mean, just, this is my own curiosity. This isn't a real good interview question, but have you ever had someone who was like, I'm going to fuck this guy. And they meet you and they're like, Hey, what's up? I mean, no one's ever really, you know, like you get, I don't know. No one's ever really, there's been times when we played in the UK, you know, and like been heckled from like kids way in the back who can't really see how tall I am. And after the show, they see me and they're kind of like, uh, running around, hiding behind bushes and shit. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a nice dude. You know what I mean? Like, but I'll hold my own if I have to. You can do, you can handle yourself. Yeah. I can handle myself. You don't want to, but I don't want to hurt anybody. If the position presents itself, I might have to say, I might have to handle some shit. Well, so, uh, you guys obviously, you MC, right? Yes. Yes. So I try to sing. You do. All right. You do. All right. So it's a little different than what some of these kids are used to. What would you guys, I mean, if you would recommend some other hip hop acts that some kids here could check out? I'm a big fan of, uh, MC producer from New York. His name's LP. Um, chaos from Toronto is amazing. Oh, absolutely. Um, this is all kinds of cool shit out there. A lot of kids don't get a chance to listen to. You know what I mean? Um, Lewis logic. Cause I'm a really big fan of is that he actually used to be my landlord. All right. Uh, so you got to promote him. You're like, he didn't kick me out. He's a good dude. He's a good dude. There's a lot of good hip hop out there, man. You just got to look for those days of, uh, you know, going to record stores and picking up a record on a whim and just to check it out. Those days are over. It's sad, you know? So you just got to go out there and dig and just look for new music. You know, there's a lot more out there than what you think, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Well, that's one of those things. I think the more you get into it, even though you're, if you're in a hip hop or a punk rock state of mind, the more stuff you find, there's obviously stuff out there worth finding. Sure. For sure.
Yes, sir. Yeah. He's on me. He's on me. Oh, sorry. Sorry. The entire time. No, your two manners probably want us to wrap this up. You guys are busy. Of course. Yeah. I want to thank you. Uh, anything you want to push before we wrap this up? Yeah. Pick up our new record, the quilt September 9th. It's amazing. September 9th is good. Yeah. No, my little cousin Tiger's record. It just came out June 10th called no introduction. Make sure you get that as well. All right. Fantastic. Well, I want to thank you for taking the time. Thank you for having all the best. Uh, good luck on your set dog. Thank you, sir. Okay. That was the gym class heroes or one of the dudes from gym class heroes. It was the dude who's banging Katie Perry. So he's really the only one you care about. Like who cares about the fucking drummer? You compare about the guy who's banging the chick who sang, I kissed a girl who's likely going to be culturally irrelevant and fucking five months. His name is Travis. Yeah, dude. Way to go. Sound guy Nerman on that one. So Travis having sex with Katie Perry. So good for him. And, uh, you know, hats off, but not Jimmy hats. Cause, uh, if you're not abstaining, you got to practice that as we've learned from Sarah Palin, abstinence is really the only way to avoid having a retarded child. All right. Uh, moving forward. Like I said, we're wrapping up our against me contest. Listen at the end, as we go over the final details for that, we're going to go into the street dogs. We're going to play some music by them. We're going to do the interview by them, and then we're going to wrap this up. And that'll be the end of the painfully
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sound scene revolution at the warp tour this year. We are hanging out with the street dogs. If you guys want to introduce yourselves real quick, say hello. Hi, I'm Mike from the street dogs. I sing songs. Johnny Rio. I'm Marcus. All right. Fantastic. And if it had any time and you guys want to grab my mic, just rip it out of my hand. It's not that important. Okay. All right. Fantastic. So this is what the second day of the tour for you guys? Yeah. Yesterday we started in Pomona and today we're in San Francisco and we're going to go on three o'clock on the highway one stage. And we just want to rip it up and get it, you know, kicked off and ripped up and we're going to have a good show. There'll be dust and circle pits and mayhem. Marcus. No, it's Mike. He was just pointing at you.
I don't know what's going on. He's a singer, but he does this job. When it comes to interviews, I'm horrible. It's all right. Just kind of keep it real close. I should pretend like I'm singing. There you go. Yeah. Just like, yeah, you know, punk rock pose. Perfect. All right. So you guys just got off tour. I mean, you guys did a tour not that long ago with anti-fly, correct? Correct. So you guys have been on tour for a long time now, right? Probably the last four years. It's been about five years, yeah. About five years of solid tour. I'm not good at mouth. We have a, we're about to release a new record, which in the business they call a record cycle. But our record cycle has actually been about three records long, encompassing the last four or five years. So it's perennial cycle.
The wife loves this record cycle, as they call it. Yeah. I imagine you guys, you're from Boston, area, correct? Correct. Yeah. So you guys probably aren't home a hell of a lot right now, right? No, I, I, I don't think, I think the last time I was home was probably about a year ago. Oh my gosh. Do you guys have like a steady residence or is it just once you get home, you find somewhere to live? Well, yeah, I have a, I have a steady residence. I actually live in Los Angeles with my wife now. I've been out there since 2004 and, you know, in between tours and things like that. I mean, I find my way back there and, you know, it makes it easier on her because we're gone usually eight, nine months out of the year. I think my steady residence is the road.
Yeah. Yeah. I actually, I live on a compound in Texas. I have about three or four wives and that, and several illegitimate children. And it's a far cry from Boston, Massachusetts, but they don't allow any kind of weird religious sex in Boston. So I went with, I went with Richmond, Texas. Richmond, Texas. That's where you want to go. If you want to have crazy religious sex. Absolutely. I'll keep that one in mind. That's right. You guys have the new album coming out on Hellcat, correct? July 8th, State of Grace, a new release will be coming out on Hellcat. Yeah. Now this is your first release on Hellcat. The others have been on, if I can remember, DTR and I can't, DRT. I'm sorry. Nobody gets that right. So don't feel bad.
All right. Good. As long as I'm not the first person to fuck it up. And the one before that was cross check records. On cross check. Either one of those. I've never actually seen a logo or a, or a logo attached to a check from either one of those companies. It's coming. It's in the mail. It's been lost. Sure it is. All right. So this is your first one on Hellcat. How did you guys start to work with them? How are you approached by them? Well, Johnny made a good point yesterday when we were talking. He said, we've always unofficially been on Hellcat. When we started this group, I think that was kind of the unspoken goal. Yeah. Was to be over there because we, we've always figured that Hellcat is a label that gets us.
And all the artists on the label, we respect. Yeah. And when I was in Dropkick Murphys before, and I had sung on the Do A Die record, it's where I had actually started. So in a way, it's sort of all come full circle. And it's a label that gets us. They don't get in our way. We make the music we want to make and we're happy as a result of that. Fantastic. Yeah. One sweet home. Fantastic. Now, obviously you mentioned you used to sing in Dropkick Murphys. The inevitable comparisons, I mean, it's been going on for probably as long as you guys have been together. Is it one of those things at this point you just like roll off your back, you know? You know, we were sort of apprehensive when we started. Like, how should we put our group together and all this stuff. But I think ultimately we just said, you know what, we're going to play, say, and do whatever we want on our own accord to our own, you know, devices. And the groups clearly are always going to be, you know, A and B'd and, you know, put up against each other by outside people, fans, and press and media. But the groups have always been close.
Yeah. Our first record, Savin' Hill, we had a track stand-up with Al Barr and Ken Casey came in and sang. Yeah. So, much to people's chagrin and the press's chagrin, the bands have always been close. Yeah. And we get along well. And we take care of each other below and above the radar screen. So, there's no friction. Yeah, absolutely. I think surprisingly, too, we've never really, we always thought when we started, we thought, oh, man, the kids are going to be calling out do or die songs. Yeah. And we've actually haven't come across that. And, in fact, it got to a point where it was like, we played for a long time. And we decided, you know, let's unleash a couple of do or die songs for the hardcore fans. And then once we did that for a couple of tours, and it was kind of to the point where our songs, kids were coming to see us, and our songs were getting the response. And that was kind of yesterday's news as far as, you know, Mike was concerned, obviously.
Yeah, absolutely. Where your stuff started to get a more positive response than when you guys would cover old Dropkick and Murphy stuff. And I think we've been around long enough now, too, where that's all starting to kind of wear off. Yeah. The comparisons and the ex-Dropkick singer thing. Yeah. I think the group has clearly proved that it's a group. Yeah. And each member's important. Absolutely. And it can't happen without each individual member's contribution and input. And that collectively makes Street Dogs not some crazy, like, ex-Dropkick singer who runs around like a jackass and sings. It's a sum of all its parts. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, I mean, everybody is important. And, you know, Street Dogs is, you know, everybody's involved. Everybody has a say. And the music and what we do, it all encompasses that.
Absolutely. Well, you guys, I mean, you're working on this one coming out. It's going to be your fourth album in, what, like five years or something like that? Yeah. Some ridiculous number like that? We've always, I think, as a group, we've always looked and humbly said sort of what would the Clash do? And the Clash has always been sort of this overriding influence in our lives, politically, socially, how to treat our fans, how to write a song. You've got the Clash shirt going very nice. So, it's kind of, and the way that they did it, and obviously they burned out a little bit too quickly, so we don't want to do that. But they released a record every year and accompanied it with touring and stuff. So, we've always really been, a lot of bands nowadays really kind of release a record maybe two or three years once. And we've been like, you know, let's just pump them out. Let's, let's, every phase of the group, let's put out a record, you know.
Fantastic. Well, I mean, it seems to have worked well for you. Everyone that I've heard has gotten positive responses, and people are really excited for the new one. So, that should be good. You guys got, are you on the, I'm trying to remember, you're on the entire Warped Tour this year, correct? Yes. You got anything coming up after that, or are you hoping to maybe take a few hours of downtime? September 11th, we start a headlining tour in the United States. Oh my God. Which takes us up to, I believe, mid-October, early November, we start a tour of Europe. That takes us up to early December. Then we'll probably do our annual Wreck the Hall show in Boston, Massachusetts. Yeah. And I think we might take a little bit of a break in January, and then maybe look at touring Japan and Australia in February.
Oh. I think we have enough time to where I could maybe make some more babies. Marcus and Toby both are going to get married and divorced in that amount of time. And then, I don't know, it should be good. We have that, we have just enough time to accomplish those goals. To get those done. We got to fit some controversy in there. Well, it's good to see that you have everything planned out. That it's not just touring. Detox, bankruptcy, divorce. All the different things. All right. Well, I think you're gone for a couple of days somewhere. No one knows where you're at. Someone's got to go to rehab. We're never going to really get good coverage or get big unless one of us goes to rehab. That's a part of music these days. Yeah. You're on the fast track there. Read it on punknews.org, but you're hearing it here first. That's, yeah. They'll report on it next. We'll expect to hear from them, no doubt. Someone's going to die or come close to dying for us to really break through and get gigantic. Well, I hope all of that comes true for you guys. That's kind of an odd thing to, you know, support, but all the best.
Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Trying to outline the realistic stuff. Yeah. That's, that's what it takes for a record label nowadays. You got to be willing to die for them. All right. It was all right. Fantastic. Good luck. The new album comes out July 8th. All right. Thank you guys so much for taking time. All the best. So that's it. That's all the Warped Tour interviews. I actually, I enjoy talking to the street dogs. I don't know a ton about them, but they, you know, I own two of their albums and I really liked their music and I'm really happy that they're on, you know, Hellcat and they're following closely in Dropkick Murphy's footsteps. So good for them. They're really good dudes and go buy, uh, I think it's called State of Grace is their newest album. I haven't bought it, but that's because I'm kind of poor and haven't been buying new albums lately, but, uh, check it out. And hopefully by the time this airs, I'll have it cause there's a slight delay due to the magic of internets. Uh, the dump truck that carries this show is a slower than the other dump truck when it travels down the tube. So it takes a little while longer getting there, but I digress. This is the last week of our against me contest for the against me self title 12 inch EP. Uh, I want to give a shout out to the against me message board. It's like against me.net backslash board forward slash friends of internet web people slash walking is still honest.org. Um, but the against me message board, apparently they picked up that we were giving away the 12 inch and they posted about it and, uh, it's cool. It generated some interest and it's really nice to hear that people found out about this through listening to the show. Uh, however, little side note, and I just want to put this out there cause I love, you know, you kids who support us. They posted, uh, the rules on how to enter online so that people didn't have to listen to the shows. That's whatever. That's fine. The best part. And I want to give this out because this is the last week of the contest and next week we'll be announcing the winners. Uh, they fucked up on the rules. And so we can tell everybody who entered by reading that and who didn't actually listen to the show. So, um, good times. Good job on that one. Yeah. It's we appreciate the effort where we wish you were a little more thorough in your reporting, but, uh, your heart was in the right place. And so everyone who did enter, um, following the against me message board post, not following the actual rules that we set out, we'll be getting a autographed photo of my dong. So, uh, good luck with that. Enjoy the dong photo. Uh, if you want to enter again, send your name, address, pertinent information and your memory, your favorite sound scene revolution memory. Uh, it could just be a favorite interview. It could be a favorite moment. It could be a favorite person who we interviewed any shit like that. We're not too particular, but, uh, better stories do increase the likelihood that we'll, yeah, we'll randomly pick you. It will increase the likelihood that we will enjoy your email. So, uh, have fun with that. You know, fucking go nuts. Uh, send it to sound scene revolution at gmail.com against me contest in the subject line, some shit like that. And, uh, that'll be that. And next week we will announce the winner of the fucking $200 one of 500 record that will probably only go up in value. Cause against me is retardedly popular right now. And by retardedly popular, I mean like Sarah Palin's retarded baby. Like they're that big. If that baby held a concert, it would sell out.
True story. True story. Uh, I heard the kids were actually named after characters in Willow. I don't know if that's, I don't know if that's true. If that's true, I'm not doing the podcast.
We got to find this out. I'm going to Google that afterwards, but good times, but that's the end of the interviews warp tour. Is one of the kids named Doc Gomer? Yes.
Actually it's, uh, it's nevermind. I was going to make a George Clooney Batman joke, but fuck it. So that's the end of our warp tour interviews. We're going to play a song by the street dogs to wrap it all up. Enjoy the show. Uh, we'll catch you guys next week. We got new interviews. We're hopefully going to try and keep this going as long as we can going into the holiday season. We're of course, probably going to take some time off for Christmas so I can take my annual pilgrimage to the North pole to fucking try and hunt down Santa Claus, but, uh, we'll be back. So enjoy and send us an email, send us my space message, add us to your friends, all that shit. So we can seem really popular. All right. Have a good one.
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