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Thanks for tuning in today at Sound Scene Revolution on a day in the Bay Area that is hotter than hell for us. If you live in, like, the east or the south, it's probably way cooler to you, but it's like 93, and I'm sweating my balls off. So that's how the weather here is. Where I was born and raised, we had the climate best by government test. So, I don't know what the fuck that means, but the climate was awesome, and it's cool and comfortable, and so I'm not used to this hot shit. But we have a new show for you guys today. We have a couple of important updates. First of all, a new show featuring the band Two Cow Garage. They are on Suburban Home Records, and they're really, really awesome guys, and I'm really, really excited about that.
The second news is that we have a really, really awesome contest lined up by Virgil at Suburban Home Records. This is a two-parter. One, it's a really awesome contest, and two, you don't have to worry about waiting for your shit, because Virgil's going to mail it out for you instead of us, because we're pretty terrible at that. But, so, in the contest, there's going to be three winners. So, the first prize is a Speaking Incursive prize pack, or deluxe prize pack, which includes the CD of Speaking Incursive, which is Two Cow Garage's latest album, the vinyl copy, a t-shirt, and a pint glass. So, you get, like, a ton of stuff, and it's pretty cool. And the pint glasses are all really high-quality stuff.
You can throw them at your friends and get drunk and just smash it off the end of a table and stab a hooker with it if you got to. I'm just, these are just random things you can do with a pint glass if you don't drink with them. So, the second prize gets a CD and vinyl of Speaking Incursive, the latest album by Two Cow Garage, and third prize gets a CD of Speaking Incursive by Two Cow Garage, all supplied by Virgil and the fine folks at Suburban Homes slash Vinyl Collective. So, that's going on. Also, we have some updates on our site, because we got tired of feeling like it was 1985, and having the gifs of, like, the letter going into the mailbox, and it's like, email us here, and, like, the fire or the skull that spins around and shit.
So, Sound Guy and Airman is going to do what is his first love, web design. That's what I'm going to say his first love was. And, uh, masturbating was his first love. Second love was crime and illegal activities. Third love, web design. Somewhere in there is his wife. We're going to say fourth. Comic book. Comic book. Fifth. Oh.
You're lucky she doesn't listen. You're lucky no one listens. But, um, so, he's going to be working on the site. So, actually, this weekend, which, uh, the dates are, uh, what the hell is this weekend? Uh, it's going to be the 25th, 26th, maybe 27th. I don't want to, I don't want to rush him. So, it could take a, you know, it could take a couple of days, but hopefully by next week we'll be back up. But, uh, we'll be up through Friday, and then we'll be down for a couple days, and then hopefully we'll be back up by Tuesday with a new redesigned site. So, you could actually find our old episodes, and I don't know what happened, man. Fucking WordPress has taken a shit on us in a huge way, and so he's going to work on that.
I have no idea how it works, and he's going to get that updated. So, I'm pretty excited. Um, but anyhow, on to the interview, on to the songs, on to getting you guys some prizes that you actually care about. So, first up, we're going to play a track by 2 Cow Garage, off speaking in cursive. Um, going to start with Folk Singer's Heart. This is one of my favorite songs off the album. I hope you guys like it. Hope you enjoy the interview. Uh, we'll be back in just a minute. Bye.
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If you guys want to introduce yourselves, go around real quick. I'm Shane Sweeney. My name is Cody Smith. I'm Andy Schell. I'm Micah Schnabel. Alright, fair enough. Do you guys, I guess the easiest place to start, anyone want to give a brief history of the band? How you guys got started? How you got where you're at now? Uh, seven, about seven years ago, uh, we started, uh, September 4th of 2001, I believe was our first practice, uh, and, uh, we started touring shortly thereafter with not enough songs and not even a record under our belt. And, uh, we've been going and no money and we've, uh, been going since, um, two years ago about, we added Andy Schell on, uh, piano and organ and about a year and a half ago.
And now we added, uh, Cody Smith, uh, on the drums. Fair enough, fair enough. Now, uh, so you were originally a trio when you started out? We were, we were originally a trio. And, uh, what motivated you guys to add, uh, Andy on keys? We've always had keys on all of our records. Uh, and, uh, you know, it just made sense. And when it fiscally made sense to finally do it, uh, it was just a natural selection to choose Andy. He grew up with Micah and, uh, they've been really great friends since they were little. It just gives us the songs a little more room to breathe and, uh, it gives me a little more room to breathe as being, you know, the guitar player. Uh, and it just kind of, as songwriters, gives us more room to kind of stretch our legs, you know?
Fair enough, fair enough. Cool, cool. So, uh, your last album, Speaking in Cursive, uh, came out on Suburban Home. How did you guys, uh, hook up with them? How'd that, uh, come about?
Huh? Um, we met them through, uh, Drag the River. Okay. I have some good friends of ours that we accidentally opened up for one night in, uh, Denver about five years ago. And, uh, yeah, those guys really pushed Virgil pretty hard. And, uh, he ended up kind of adopting us off of the third record and, uh, just started pushing us everywhere that he could. And then, um, yeah, it just kind of made sense with the fourth record and he's a great guy. He treats us really well. And, uh, yeah, man, he, he just, he just treats us really well and, uh, he's a great guy and it's a wonderful, it's a killer label that's, uh, been around for like 13 years and he's doing great things right now. So everything we've always tried to do is, is a family, try to have a family environment with everything and everybody working together for a common goal.
And, uh, that just fell right in to exactly what we were trying to do. And when I emailed the label to get something done, I emailed the head of the label and he's like, okay, let's do something. It's really fun. Very cool. Very cool. Um, what do you mean? You mentioned you accidentally opened up for Drag the River. Or we, we just rolled into town and, uh, we had no idea of what we were, we were just rolling into another show and, uh, we were, we ended up playing second of three bands and they were the third band and, uh, we both, we just kind of fell in love with each other there. So you had no idea you guys were open in for them. Not a clue. Not a clue. Didn't even know who they were. They had no idea who we were.
And, uh, it was a love at first sight, very romantic, ideal situation. Sounds like it worked out, uh, pretty well. Yeah. It worked out very well.
I have nothing to say. Just passing the mic off. I wasn't present for that. I'm just switching the microphone. If you were there, what would it have been? I, I, I love that band. Uh, I didn't know of them at, at that time, but now I, I, I do love that band. Definitely in the last couple of years, big years for Drag the River, even though they've been, I guess, broken up the last year, but yeah, they don't do it too well. So, uh, Mr. John Snodgrass was kind of an acquaintance of mine and he kind of got a hold of Micah and then, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that's why I'm here now. So praise, praise be John Snodgrass.
That's, I don't think he's ever been put in that kind of life. He might perform, but I'm sure he appreciates it. He's a god like Deity.
J. S. D. What would John Snodgrass do? Be a good shirt. Um, so I want to ask on the last album, uh, is it, is it officially three? Is that the title of the last album? Um, well, it started out, we wanted to do a completely white record so that people would have to call it the white album. Um, that's, uh, settle. Oh, at the end, it just kind of, they ended up having to put some artwork together. Uh, so we tried to do it as minimal as possible, right? Because people were calling our last record, the red record. So, I wanted to just, I just wanted reviewers and everything as much as they would hate us for doing it to have to call it the white album. But the replacements didn't let it be, right? Yeah. So, F that, why can't we do the white album?
So we want it to be called the white album. I still call it the white album. We put it, everybody calls it the white album. But we put a three on there. So. All right. So, uh, in future reference, we should call that the white album. If you would, that would be awesome. I will try. If somebody will come up and ask for the white album, that would be great. If at all possible, I'll try and continue that in the future. But, uh, so on the, the white album, the last one, there's a, there's a bunch of references to, um, how difficult it is to keep playing music. And I mean, the second guessing of the whole thing, uh, is it, is that something you guys have actually like, is it something you deal with? Cause I mean, you've been on tour, I mean, pretty consistently for the past couple of years.
It doesn't seem like you don't must have any second guessing on that. Uh, you know, it's yeah, man, you tour for seven years, six years at that five years, six years at that point. And, uh, you know, you're beating your head against the wall, trying to get people to come out to shows. And, uh, I think like anybody, if you're doing something like this and artistic doing something artistic, you're going to have, uh, doubts, you know, when you're, you're getting evicted from apartments and you're, you know, and when you're in the apartments, your gas and electric are being turned off and, uh, you know, you're sleeping in the van and I think any artist is going to come up with why, why am I doing this? And you have to kind of reaffirm that you do it because you love it, not because money has anything to do with it.
If money had anything to do with it, we wouldn't be standing here right now. Wouldn't be outside of the caravan. Yeah, exactly. It's that moment. Like a lot of people deal with it and they come to, you have to come to grips with the fact that you're either going to do something that you love for the rest of your life or you're going to, you know, go get a job. And I wasn't cut out for a job, man.
Yeah. Yeah. You guys right now, I mean, you're doing as good as most of America right now. We were recession proof, baby. Yeah. We're talking about, we're going to teach classes, uh, and it's going to be called how to be poor and we're going to teach people how to live like on very mere $3 a day. It can be done. I guess it can be done. So when you guys are off tour, I mean, do you have permanent homes or is it just kind of, you find places to stay in between touring? Yeah, we all have, uh, places to stay. Some, some live with our girlfriends, some live with our boyfriends, uh, you know, so yeah, it's, it's cool. I think we all work, uh, well, we don't all work jobs, but sometimes we work a door job or this and that, but yeah, we have residences.
Yeah. So you guys got, uh, what do you do in between all of this to try and just make ends meet? Um, we mostly just hang out. I got like, I eat my cake and I have my cake and I eat it too, man. I got a family. I got a family. It's great. I do have a family. We're lucky enough to just kind of, when we're home, we can just kind of hang out. And, uh, I, I kind of work at a bar once or twice a week working the door, but you know, I wouldn't barely, I would barely call that a job and, uh, yeah, we're lucky enough. We can just kind of hang out when we're at home and not bad. That's not, uh, we're taking a break here really quick, um, to bring you guys some more music, kind of pace out the interview so you don't get all overloaded with information all at once.
Um, so yeah, we're going to play a song, uh, again, just reminding you, listen all the way to the end. We'll tell you how to enter to win one of three awesome prizes from two cow garage. Um, it's all centered around their latest album, speaking in cursive and you can get the deluxe prize pack, which is the CD, the vinyl, the t-shirt, a button and a fucking, uh, pint glass, all two cow garage labeled. You can get a copy of the CD and the vinyl or just a copy of the CD. So these are pretty rad prize packs. So be, be excited about that. We'll tell you how to win those at the end. Uh, in the meantime, we're going to go to another song from two cow garage. We're going to play, Oh, skinny legged girl, uh, off of their latest album, speaking in cursive, uh, get excited and, uh, enjoy.
And we'll wrap up the rest of the interview and then tell you how to win free shit.
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I mean, fairly recently, it says that you guys are going to have a blog coming. Is that ever coming to fruition? Here's the thing. All right. I like to remember things the way I remember them. So I don't keep a journal. Yeah. So when I go home, I'm going to look at all the dates and remember every single one of those shows and remember it the way I remember it and then write it up. And that's what's the way I remember it. It's the beautiful self editing. If you write every night after a show, it might be, it's going to be a completely different version than when you get home and you're comfortable and, uh, you're not, you know, it's not 4am and you're not, haven't been on the road for three weeks and you're tired and drunk.
Yeah. You can kind of sit back and look at it and take it for what it was and really appreciate it. I think so kind of more as a whole piece instead of, you know, every night at a time. Fair enough. Um, so I wanted to ask, uh, you guys actually had this for sale at your booth, uh, the walls against wall against our backs, which is relatively, I mean, I don't know. Outside of, I guess, at your show is pretty hard to find. Yeah. And even hard to, yeah, we're down to promo copies. Yeah, I know. I was excited. I have not been able to find it. I think I told you that, uh, if you go on Amazon, they're selling used copies for $40 up to a hundred dollars, which that's awesome. I had no, well, actually, uh, I think the real story there is we'll let you in is, uh, it's from our label in the Netherlands who, um, we didn't end on completely friendly terms.
I don't think. And, uh, I think they're trying to recoup their money. Ah, so they're trying to sell them on Amazon. Yeah. So there's some arm wrestling going on right now. But I think they only made 40 of them over there. Yeah, they only pressed like 40 of them up. So that's why they think that they're such hot items. Maybe someone will pay for it. Yeah, I was going to ask. I mean, you guys, the police from the gas back on was recently reissued by Suburban Home. Do you think there'll be any plans to reissue that, uh, in the future? Yeah, I think there's, uh, I, I think I can say pretty surely that, uh, Suburban Home is going to be re-releasing, uh, the wall against our back, which is why we haven't repressed it.
They're going to be re-releasing it this year. Oh, okay. So, uh. And I think also the White Album is going to be re-released on vinyl, so. Ha ha ha. The White Album. I mean, that's, I mean, it sounds like a joke, but it's totally true. Ha ha. No, because I know, well, I know Virgil was talking about repressing it, and he was just seeing if people are interested, but the new album seems to have done pretty well, so. Yeah, man, it's doing pretty well. I was going to mention, um, what was it, uh, Nine Bullets? Yeah. The webpage, they gave it, like, number two or three of the year? Something like that. Yeah, is that, I mean, how does, that's got to feel pretty good. I mean, you're up there with, like, these, you know, pretty well-known bands.
Yeah, it's totally radical. But, like, man, that's awesome. That's really radical. It is, I mean. No, it really is, like, I mean, we can joke about it all day long, but, like, the fact that people even care, I mean, we're from Columbus, Ohio. Yeah. Come on. We've worked our ass off, but in the end, like, it's all about people caring about the songs we have and what we have to say, and, like, that means, I mean, that's a, I mean, I know that dude. I met that dude. Yeah. That's out of Florida. Yeah. Really? That's. That's not bad. That's super far away from where we're from. And I've heard of some actual, some European zines and online blogs and all that that have actually rated our record, like, some good acclaim, some up there on some charts and, you know, whatever, some top tens and whatnot.
Yeah. That's a good album. So that's pretty cool. I mean, we have fun in Europe. I think we have some fans over there. So I guess that means a lot, too, that people over there are kind of digging the record. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So you guys, you're not all from, you're all from Ohio, right? Correct. But not all from Columbus. Is that correct? Well, we essentially all live in Columbus. Okay. But we all grew up, Micah and Andy grew up in a small town called Osiris, which is about 90 miles north of Columbus. Oh, wow. Cuddy grew up in the arch rival town of Marion, Ohio.
And I grew up southeast of Columbus. Okay, okay. But now you all kind of gather and reside there. Yeah. So I actually, I was talking with Micah earlier and a lot of the misconceptions of the band that, you know, because of the name Two Cow Garage, a lot of people assume you guys are country. What are some common misconceptions you think people have about, like, Columbus, Ohio, about where you guys are from? But, you know, the really funny thing about it is nobody knows a damn thing about Columbus, Ohio. So you can pretty much tell them anything? The only misconception is they don't even know where it is. They have no idea. They think it's Cleveland. They think it's Cincinnati. They've heard of Dayton. Got to buy voices from Dayton.
It's country music, dude. But they do. It's rock and roll, folks. But the thing is, Columbus is an amazing town with, it's like a cold Austin. There's amazing art. And there's amazing music being made there. It's a really great town, but nobody knows a damn thing about it. Which is actually kind of great because our rents are really cheap. Yeah. You don't find much about that around here. Maybe not after this. I don't know. After this, everyone's going to want to move to Columbus. It's going to be where it's at. I'm telling you. See, you've gentrified your neighborhood right there. Yeah. Congratulations. Well, that was going to happen regardless. So, I know you guys, it's late. And I think actually today is the last day of Daylight Savings Time, so it's even later.
Yeah. But before we wrap it up here, anything you guys want to throw out, anything you guys want to plug, anything you're up to, website, I don't know, whatever you guys are doing. We're just out here on the West Coast for another two weeks. And we're touring with Mike D and the Loyal Bastards. Yeah. Those who are amazing. And we'll be doing some shows with Junior Juggernaut. Oh, nice, nice. Yeah, man. Go check out Suburban Home. And, yeah, check out Suburban Home. Hotleathers.com. And Hotleathers.com. Yeah, I noticed that was on the side of your van. Yeah, that is a... It's a shiny machine. Yeah, man. That's a... It's Hot Leathers. It's a... It's her big day today. Kind of a motorcycle company out of... They're not out of Providence, but that's where, yeah, we go.
Out of Connecticut. Out of Connecticut. And they sponsored us and they make our t-shirts for us. Dude. It's a killer company. And, yeah, hello, Andy, if you hear this. That is not a bad deal. No, they're amazing to us and they treat us unbelievably. Tell you what, it's the best business decision we've ever made. We're not very good business people. But out of all of them, that's... I tell you what, man. That was a king move right there. Yep. All right, well, I want to thank you guys so much for being on and taking the time. Thank you so much for having us, man. And thank you for putting up with my missing your phone calls. Oh, no worries, no worries. Sorry. It's a bearish shirt you're wearing. Yes, it is. That's awesome.
Big, big fan. He's actually coming through at the end of March. With Austin? Yeah, with Austin. And Josh Small. With Austin, too. Going to see him then. Suburban home. Yeah. Check it out. Everyone's on Suburban home nowadays. So thank you guys so much. Thank you, man. And good luck with the rest of the tour. Thanks, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. That's the whole interview. I hope you guys enjoyed it. It was a ton of fun doing. The guys from 2Gyro Garage, Micah especially, just incredibly nice dudes. They got, the interview got a little thrown around because the bar was like, you guys are going to play at 10 o'clock. And so like 10 o'clock came and went and the bar was like, not yet. And so they eventually went on literally at like 11.30.
And so immediately afterwards, it was like 12.20. They had to load up all their gear. They're trying to clear out. And then Micah was like, fuck, we never did the interview. And I was like, no, we didn't. And he was really cool. And he took, you know, we went outside and the guys were all tired and drunk and half asleep. And they were really nice enough to hook us up with the interview. So I was excited for that. Plus they were at a bar that had no PBR, which if you ever go to downtown San Jose, the Caravan, total fucking excuse for a dive bar. No, any dive bar that doesn't have Pabst Blue Ribbon does not count. They do have Miller High Life, which is an equally shitty beer, but it's, it's the champagne of fucking shitty beers.
I, whoever wrote that for marketing, I guess back in the day, you could just kind of say whatever you wanted. Like High Life is a champagne and beer. Oh, Pabst Blue Ribbon. What fucking beer carnival did Pabst win a Blue Ribbon at? Were they literally, was it like them and Hog Piss were the only fucking entrants? I love Pabst, but I'm not pretending it's anything special. It was like them and Steel Reserve. Steel Reserve, the Steel Reserve of beer. God, that, that shit's awesome. Anyhow, so they were great. Here's what you guys want to know, the contest. Here's how to enter. Two Cow Garage, uh, contest. Three prizes, all centered around Two Cow Garage's latest full-length album, speaking in cursive, available on Suburban Home Records.
Three prize packs. The deluxe prize pack, giving you the rundown. First place, CD, vinyl, 12-inch, um, t-shirt, buttons, and a, uh, pint glass. Second place, gets a CD and a vinyl copy of the record. And then third place, gets a CD copy of the record. So, how to enter? Uh, send us an email at soundscenerevolution at gmail dot com. And, uh, title it Two Cow Garage, or Two Cow Garage Contest. And, uh, then, here's what you're gonna do. The folks at Two Cow Garage, I was talking to him, uh, Mike, a little bit beforehand. And he says they have a lot of trouble, like, booking tours and shit, because everyone thinks they're a country band. And they're really, like, more rock and roll. But the name, you know, he admits, the name Two Cow Garage does not assist them in shaking the country image.
So, your goal is to name a band that would be more country-sounding than Two Cow Garage. That's it. Just something to prove that you paid attention. We'll be picking three winners at random, shipping the names off to Virgil, and then Virgil will be sending you your prizes. So, you don't gotta wait for us to get off our ass. That's really, uh, pretty good. Um, other updates, really quick. Again, the site is going to be down this weekend, probably starting this Friday, which is, uh, the 24th, maybe late Friday, early Saturday. It'll be down the 25th and the 26th of April, probably the 27th as well. Hopefully by the 28th next week. We'll be up, brand new site. It'll be functioning. And you can find our shit.
And, uh, be excited about that. Also, um, our interview with Brett from the riot before, um, the, this is why I'm telling you to email us for the contest and don't use MySpace. I don't check MySpace if I don't update it. And Brett sent us this really nice MySpace message about how the folks at These Numbers Have Faces wanted to use our audio for the interview, uh, of our interview with Brett and post it on their website. And it was a really nice message. He sent it to us at the beginning of March and I got it in the middle of April because if I don't update our MySpace, I don't check it. So, I mean, if you want to send us MySpace messages, feel free. But if I don't get back to you for a week, check the law, the last time we logged in, because sometimes I just don't remember shit, but always email us at soundcenerevolution at gmail.com.
Nerman gets that shit. And so he's, he's way more on top of it than I am. He always sends me like updates of people who ask questions and stuff. And I never, I don't ever check that shit. I hate human beings. I'm a misanthrope. I think I used that word right. If not, don't correct me. That's, that's my new motto. Uh, anyhow, end of the show. Thanks for listening. Be sure to enter the contest. We're going to run it for a few weeks, uh, so that Virgil gets proper support. Uh, anyhow, last track is Funeral Drag off of Two Cow Garage's album, Speaking in Cursive. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you entered the contest. As always, hit us up, soundcenerevolution at gmail.com or in the comments section, or if you want to wait six to eight weeks, MySpace.
Uh, have a good one. We'll see you guys next week and, uh, try to, uh, survive the heat. Bye.
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