Interview with Anchor Down - Podcast 98

hey motherfucker you're listening to sound scene revolution we're anchored down hells yes

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pretty fucking awesome microphones like i don't want to say they're really high end but like they probably cost more than any gift your parents have ever given you for your whole life um i could probably kill you and the settlement would be less than one of these microphones so we got a fancy ass windsock on this microphone and it just got dog hair all over it was kind of freaking me out kind of like it just increased the amount that it kind of looked like a penis it was like pubic hair i'm not the only one who gets pubic hair on the head of my penis right i guess it really wouldn't increase the way that it looked anyhow i don't like dog hair right up in my face long story short so thanks for coming back uh and listening this week we have a brand new interview with a fantastic band out of portland oregon they're called anchor down uh these guys are super super good uh they put out their last it was an ep called uh steel to dust on solidarity records which are solidarity recordings soldered let me pronounce that solidarity recordings good label run by a really nice guy named randy and it's a super good ep like it's it's really really really really awesome and so they were down here in the bay area and we uh snagged them for a quick interview and we got to talk about all sorts of really awesome stuff about the guys and they were super good and they have kind of a molester van like they're i don't want to say like i think they're child molesters but like i wouldn't let my kid in that van i might let your kid but not mine um it has no windows and it has a couch in the back however it does have a cooler that was filled with paps and i want to say like milwaukee's best it was cheap beer but it was awesome and they gave us some so i'm not going to complain anyhow so anchor down really really awesome guys great great music kind of like kind of like midwestern meets west coast punk i guess is the way to put it which is really fucking shitty description i feel bad saying that but you know just listen to it we're going to play some tracks off of steel to dust and then we're going to play the interview and we have some shit to give away we have because i bought one and it's not my size and i can't you can't return fucking band merchandise because you're kind of a dick if you do we have a medium t-shirt from anchor down and a uh cd only i yeah i put it on so you may see like some stretch marks and some shit on it like the neck maybe all pulled out from my giant head going through some dog hairs on it some uh no i didn't actually wear it i just saw the medium size and i was like oh yeah but uh so uh you get a anchor down t-shirt and an anchor down cd of their ep steel to dust so that's not some bad shit so listen to the songs listen to the interview and we'll tell you

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uh out front i guess of the park side uh with the guys of anchor down so yo the person yeah yeah the with two e's it's very regal i don't well it does help if you fucking google it it's the only the yeah regal premier dive bar oh it's it's nice it's pretty sweet so um yeah i don't know if you guys want to go around introduce yourself just so everyone can kind of id who's who so my name's chad i play drums my name's lucas i play guitar and sing sometimes and my name's alex i play guitar and sing sometimes my name is matt and i play bass all right fantastic um so thank you guys first of all for taking the time i know you guys are you played a show earlier today even right you were in santa rosa we were like super busy like stupid busy like we booked two shows and a recording today seriously we're going to record after this after this is done you're going to record where a place called the annex it's like a studio in menlo park i guess yeah but it should be fun let me fuck it if we're going to come this way we're going to do the work and make sure we blew our voices out in our league before we go record dude rosa was fucking awesome like i actually really like santa rosa i lived there for a little bit but uh there's some bands there that are fucking amazing and no one ever does anything about exposing santiago one of the ones here tonight that played is the new trust yeah i love that band so much i don't know they're great they were solid they blew me away last year when we played with them at the um what was that place the casbah or casbah casbah yeah rock the casbah we rocked the casbah sounds like redneck saying it hey on over to casbah yeah and then them and there's a band called santiago that is amazing out there and they're all super good people too so it makes it a lot of fun no no sure i have uh some friends who live out there and i just it's a ton of bands are over there but it just doesn't seem it never kind of translates to the actual bay area it's all north bay stuff to going anywhere outside of santa rosa but it'd be like if you were in a band from gresham in portland nobody hearing this you can't know what gresham is there's a there's a ton of lesser known area you could have gone anywhere from war again for that oh roseville roseville oh yeah oh we found him working at a gas station last time he joined the band no my parents live uh literally five miles outside so they live in sutherland so oh yeah yeah i know where that is yeah i was raised in yuba city nice king of the shitholes he actually invented the yuba tuba if you ever hear about it i have not and i'm it's a sexual move it involves if i can get through the rest of my life without hearing that i think it's like a rusty trombone but you gotta get a girl with no teeth yeah and you have to be you have to be in a trailer is not too difficult and you have to be in a trailer which and yuba is not hard to find it's it's really it's location specific when in yuba pass for the tube i'm gonna hopefully i'll pass on that so um i guess uh about the band the easiest place to start is kind of do you guys have a brief history of how you guys got started i mean the the backstory in the band is incredibly like ridiculously awesome yeah it all worked out for us yeah because from my point of view i'm you know i lived in oakland for a long time and i moved up to portland just for like a change of pace the first thing i did when i got there was like fuck i want to start a new band and like portland's cool so yeah um just threw some shit up on a craigslist ad that was like basically declared what i wanted in it was like east babe yeah midwest style punk or whatever well you just listed like the whole list of rad bands you know it's like if you like these bands like you're probably going to be into what we're doing yeah what i want to do and the first person that contacted me was alex and he basically contacted me and said hey i got tickets to a sam i am show in portland you want to go and i was like oh okay clear this guy knows what i'm talking about yeah and then he said he was playing with a couple guys which was chad and matt here and i should come out but they were doing kind of like a americana punk thing we were trying to find our way yeah it was like it was a different thing like everyone was kind of you know basically and alex and chad were doing something else before that so long story fucking short we found each other i went over there and drank a shit little beer with them like the first time i met him we were all fucking dick and fart jokes from them yeah didn't even play his guitar and we were we got done like that's it that's it he's in the band it turns out we actually like each other so it makes it really easy i would imagine so uh matt matt took off for a minute and we had you know a couple other bases kind of help like build the band but matt was always like the basis we wanted yeah so when he was able to come back it was awesome nice yeah not too bad it's not too bad i mean you know it's better than the guys who were like i don't know we just kind of like all got together in the cosmic energy like at least i don't know we were leaving the part out about the cosmic energy we got lots of that there was tons mainly revolves in we fucking met at a seance yeah we're just weird as shit or a sex club like yeah i could start sex club we met yeah figured we starts playing some music gag balls and leather man we're all we're all watching john edwards crossing over we were online outside and we were like wait this is what we were meant to do yeah this is and then we started a band called crossing over and grew goatees and when that failed we just went for anchor down so i think that good idea you know unbeknownst to us we had no fucking idea how many anchored bands there were so until after like about six months of being there was an anchor down like one word anchor down from salt lake i believe and they're like a christian band and they're really good actually they were whoa i wouldn't say really good no come on they were what they're doing yeah for what they're doing no dude those guys suck dude no they they were good they were good at what they did just what they did suck compared to everybody else doing what they're doing yeah they weren't the worst thing ever that's like saying you're good at eating my shit like you know obviously like there's tons of shit you can be good at but if what you're good at doesn't interest anybody including probably the band members since they broke up you're really good at being mediocre congratulations that's like shit you give kids on report cards when they're in kindergarten like you're really good at kind of fucking doing something eating glue yeah like you know bottom line there's way too many anchor bands we didn't know it yeah it is what it is it's working out fortunately we like most of them so yeah most of them we did the uh anchor fest at uh at the fest last year it was the anchor anchor arms and us it was awesome that's awesome i didn't even know you guys were at the fest this year yeah we didn't play an actual fest show but we played a couple of pre-fest shows okay and skate park and stuff tampa and stuff but we were hanging out i was half awake most of the time so yeah probably wouldn't matter too much uh anyhow so right on yeah why did you guys go with anchor now i mean obviously you didn't know all the other man you're just like just like anything with the band name like you name 300 things that everyone thinks they're stupid and like yeah it's kind of like the lesser of 5,000 evils yeah i think we started with anchors and then was it matt that said anchor down i think matt said anchor down i just got sick of getting text messages all day long yeah dude like 800 band names what do we have we had so many we had so many weird fucking names like like tony danza and the danzettes no i'm just kidding but that would have been awesome and we didn't really actually send those texts to anybody but chad so we didn't actually communicate between the three of us just to you he's the ultimate decider chad was the decider finally you were just like yeah we refer to him as the chad because it's like godlike you know yeah seriously with all our problems he resembles jesus and he's it's a little bit that's a pretty awesome beard you got by the way these guys have some pretty good beard i know there's really nice facial hair in this van we're pretty trimmed up right now the best shit was last night we played at fucking uh gilman this girl goes up to this dude like this fat dude with a beard and a flannel and she goes are you an anchor down he goes no why and she goes i don't know you had a beard and a flannel and it was the funniest thing about it as the guy was saying that alex is putting on his flannel shirt right behind right behind it's like we're a ska band better look the part like a ska band with like suits and shit yeah it's came with the territory they're comfortable and they're light they're like see a guy with a beard and a flannel shirt chances are here's the fucking difference and i always throw this out because beards are fucking cliche as fuck i'm sorry they are they are they're in the northwest though no dude everywhere like beards are like well the northwest has lumberjacks so beards are the new black beards are the new burpees dude you know what i mean everyone's got them everyone's doing it um but the difference is we rock beards cause it's cold as fuck you know what i mean like we don't rock beards in like southern florida where it's like beach weather and shit you know what i mean we're like hey fucking it's cold and we wear beanies and fucking rock beards and most of the time fucking drink a lot of it it's necessary to wear the beard it's kind of like par for the course you know yeah absolutely you guys uh yesterday at gilman you played with uh some uh really young man didn't you someone was telling me i was talking yeah someone was telling me you know the backstory on that no i don't someone was telling me billy joe from green days kid really yeah and they're actually he was the drummer of that band they were super good like i think was it the drummer it was the drummer they were good and by super good they meant it was alright they were 12 yeah for 12 year olds that's what i'm saying dude like if i would play music at 12 that well yeah like i'd be probably we'd be sitting in this van right now drinking beers and making fucking fart sounds and shit they did actually cover uh cheap trick which was pretty rad yeah the 12 year olds covering cheap tricks and they actually pull it off pretty well what's funny is is they had a bunch of people from their school come out to watch them play all these kids and everything and all these parents that totally that doesn't make you feel old at all no but here's the thing is these kids are watching this and the band says yeah this is our last song it's a song by cheap trick and all the kids in the crowd like were silent they were like because they don't know who cheap trick is but they don't want to stick one of you guys was saying they don't want to stick around for the old bands later yeah yeah i don't want to hear the old guy music but i'm going to listen to 12 year olds play 70s rock yeah serious yeah they were i mean they kind of sound like clashy you know yeah and for 12 year old kids it's pretty cool to see that it translates 20 fucking something years later yeah little kid the singer kid had the button up with the tie with like a big patch on the front that said right he was so joe strummer it was awesome so so i mean again it's like winning a medal at the special they're really good for being a 12 year old band i just heard how many young kids were there like they were getting picked up by their parents yeah totally there was a yellow school bus that stopped out front and there was crossing guards was it a short bus do we get all milk and shit they said i was gonna say dude with this van that is the last place i'd want like a bunch of 12 year old kids dude dude the weirdest shit was we pulled in front of a lawns to get some beer today and chad was in there waiting we ironically we pulled up in front of two very young girls just sitting there and so we just pulled up the fucking the van right in front of them and just stopped and sat there and like this is a creepy fucking van with a weird green tree on the outside and they were probably shitting their pants tattoo weird dudes they were just like strangers and just ran not to mention the beard is like the anti fucking i see some of the beards usually run you're not like ooh yeah they do like bikers that is a full beard i just want to grab onto that we talked about like beards might be able to fuse together if you get too close like you've ever heard but like someone explained to me i guess that they're you know those Venus flytrap shit apparently and i don't believe this because i haven't seen one but apparently in fucking you know in the jungle and shit there's plants that'll grab you and fucking never let go really and you'll just get you'll die from starvation and shit just grow around your legs wow and that's what the beard is yeah the beards do that too we used to be people we have this theory that if we ran by our beards we have this theory that if we if we're rocking really hard on stage and we all get really close that we'll just morph into Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top the other dude from Highway to Heaven yeah or Kenny Loggins yeah if there was anywhere to find out about beard fusing it is San Francisco because there are some there's some killer beards there's some bears up in here if ever there was beard contact that'd be yeah it's heavy can we talk about how I almost got pickpocketed today oh my god this is a shocker for Alex this is amazing I'm so like I mean okay Yuba City Sutter area California it's like growing up in Iowa I mean like it's it's old school without like the ballpark yeah yeah except for ghosts don't walk out of the corn and play catch with you but we it's not that good so we're in where are we at Berkeley we were in like Berkeley like right on telegram and I'm waiting to get a soda you got really got hip pocketed well no I didn't actually get yeah I'm waiting in line to get pizza right and this dude strolls up on me like super close and I'm going hey man like and this guy's gangster looking as fuck and like high and weird and he gets super close and I'm going alright well I don't want to be like the offensive like guy and just be like hey back the fuck up and then plus you know I'm kind of simple like that and I'm like I you know I don't want to get into fucking an altercation here and this guy starts rubbing my leg and shit and I'm like what the hell and I realize I'm like I'm about to get pickpocketed here so like he's testing me so I was like go ahead and he scooches up in front of the guy in front of me in line and tries to get his wallet and then it's just a blowout like hey motherfucker I'll kick your ass and all this shit like in the middle of this pizza place it was fucked up Chad do the impression of the guy hey motherfucker get the fuck out motherfucker what the fuck you doing motherfucker it was nasty dude it was fucked up but uh yeah so that was my that was my Berkeley experience what if he was just trying to maybe give you a handjob no he was definitely if he was trying to give me a handjob he wasn't doing a very good job and he just rolls around and gives you free handies handouts they call them that'd be the greatest website ever yeah mobilehandjobs.com already bought the name fuck you guys it's too late there's already a splash page on it we're holding it right now but uh so we're gonna take a little break pause in that interview it was a pretty good it was a pretty good sized interview so we'll give you an intermission the guys had a lot to say and they were they were really nice and really fun so and uh apologies for any screw ups in the interview uh we ran out of memory on our card so seriously like right in the middle not right in the middle probably like three-fourths of the way through so you'll catch it on this end sound guy nerman like we were right in the middle of talking about something uh i want to say uh alex was his name the singer of anchordown fuck i can't remember we'll say it was alex he was in the middle of like saying something and sound guy nerman's like fidgeting with something and he's like uh no we gotta stop for a minute and so our memory card was actually full and we had to stop

for the rest of the interview so we're sorry there's gonna be like a really awkward and obvious jump um but just assume that's where something really awesome happened and you'll never get to hear it but uh again listen all the way through at the end we'll tell you how to win a medium sized anchordown t-shirt on black t-shirt um because everybody makes black shirts and a cd copy of their ep steel to dust all right okay we'll uh play a track of steel to dust and then do the rest of the interview so check it out

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i guess we should talk a little bit about the music uh fuck the music let's talk about not in the back of this van let's talk about hands let's get five guys six guys in the back of a tiny van and talk about hand jobs quick backstory i have this buddy that used to use psychology to get laid and it was the most crazy shit he'd be like what what's this he said about threesomes like the girls and they'd be like what are you talking somehow you'd end up having a threesome with them it was like this jedi mind shit and i was like idea in their mind yeah and right oh that's the thing there's yeah there's some freak that had a tv show teaching people how to date using like psychology whatever that guy's name was i had a friend that would go up to chicks and bars and just walk up behind him and go cock and i'd be like what the fuck what are you doing dude and he's like gotta get him thinking about what i'm like so fuck that's what i'm saying and he would bang hella chicks if that worked though i wouldn't want to have sex with that chick like i'd be like you don't know this guy this guy was nice different standards unfortunately we have friends across the board some are more respectable and others are shitheads some of the guy who runs up behind a girl and yells cock we're fair and balanced you gotta keep it even we're equal opportunity losers music music right so you guys you teamed up with solidarity recordings for your full length no it's eight songs six i don't know you know what's cool it's long enough yeah we did we pretty much recorded that and got the record to solidarity in like the first six months of the band oh yeah so you know for us we were really excited because like right up the gate we had people interested yeah how'd you guys hook up with him uh brian from ole holy actually we're gonna do a split with ole holy because we're all good friends and um he was just like hey this kid randy is starting a new label and he's putting out some really good records like the honor system yeah and we all really fucking rules and then uh he's putting out the old ghost records which a band from chicago that we really liked that brian was in as well and so he basically just put us in touch and randy was super like supportive right away and that's who we want to work with like people are excited about the music like we are yeah that's cool yeah because i was gonna say he's like way down here and especially san diego i just met him for the first time like last sunday yeah we both met him for the first time and i mean it was it was great to finally see him in person yeah dude so nice legit i think mike park said it best when it's like he was talking about randy it's really fucking cool when someone starts a label and actually is excited about music and like yeah i mean he speaks in exclamation points like yeah yeah so passionate and that's so rare these days because you get so many people are just like they've heard it all they've seen it all fuck you yeah yeah and this guy like randy who's a friend of ours now was so excited about music the way we are yeah um that it just made sense you know what i mean yeah that's cool that's it right on we can put out our own records fuck and it's expensive if you really want to do yeah you know to work with a label it's obviously someone that you know shares the same ideas as you yeah right on right on yeah uh so would you guys have anything else you'd mention you were talking about maybe doing the split with all that that was something we were gonna do originally but you know things have gotten busy for both bands in different directions so like you know maybe it's something that will come up but we're doing a split right now i think we're gonna go record tonight oh yeah right in the red and bastards at nice band called drunken boat from portland oh yeah yeah we cool i mean we like all the bands so yeah very cool but yeah so you're recording tonight in menlo park yeah why why did that seem like a good idea like why we're even down here was recording yeah it was kind of just like fuck it if we're out of town and like in an area that we're not normally at yeah why not play some shows yeah hooked up with ole holy like tonight ended up playing quite a few shows yeah you know a couple shows and then recorded yeah any idea how much you're gonna be recording tonight just one or we're just finishing up one song like mix it once yeah you know we have a few new ones maybe track a couple new ones if we get a chance maybe yeah we'll see kind of see how things go but mainly just vocal tracks and mixing yeah and yeah pretty easy like we've got a bottle of whiskey I mean it's not gonna be too hard oh the bourbon we hope to eventually have a full length here really as soon as possible it's just you know writing and getting all that shit down but imagine if you guys are playing touring it's not yeah yeah not the easiest thing to work right out the gate so like it was really cool because it's almost like we don't have fucking time to write so yeah but it's awesome yeah the experience has been I think we're really in writing mode right now I mean it is it's not too difficult with Lucas living in Seattle but you know me and Alex and Matt write well together as a three piece and then Luke comes in and makes it tells everyone yeah she sucks motherfucker and makes it essentially great you know in our minds so it's and we're just really really excited and focused on that you know and with the wonders of the intermet we got email back and forth and do all that it works out it's cool like everyone in the band has such a very distinct individual role that it makes everything so easy yeah which is cool yeah very cool I just think that a part of that you know is that we've been doing it a long time and we get along so well you know like if you can hang out together and you like understand where you're coming from as far as music goes as a whole like it makes it easier it's really hard like I mean how many times have you played music with people like this is a question for all you guys in the band like how many times you played music for people or with people where you're like I really don't play music I would never hang out yeah so what I was going to talk about earlier was was the the Kermit the Frog reaction video on YouTube to the two girls one cup have you seen that shit I have not it's so funny oh I don't want to do it you gotta do it oh god damn it yeah the frog's like you see him watching the video he's in like this like dorm room with his buddy right and he's like you gotta check this out and he's watching it he's like ooh two girls oh god damn it that's gross no Ralph is showing showing him oh yeah Ralph is clearly we love the internet that's that's what it's for really if you can't look up awesome videos on it and fucking ridiculous stuff no Kermit shows it to Ralph and then Ralph's like unaffected and he's like looking at him like what the fuck and Ralph's like I don't see the big deal I eat my own shit all the time awesome and back to the poop jokes back to the poop jokes alright um I think we're gonna wrap it up sorry you had a song I gotta get another question you gotta make one up now you're the one new pause anger down forces people to interview them you're not leaving get your question you got nothing alright what do you guys got planned for the future after you record this song tonight and get some more tour in plan Mike Hale Mike Hale who's living on the road dude that guy is so awesome you know it fucking pissed me off like I saw him in Seattle and it was a low turnout show and I was like are you fucking kidding me this is like someone who fucking walks the walk that guy's a fucking lovable super sweet person has great music no one gets a fucking shit he's got this voice that just oh my god it's like very indicative of like American music you know like you can play your fucking heart out play great music and five kids show up you know but you go to Japan or the UK and they appreciate it in a different way where you're fucking playing tons of people oh yeah he's the most like genuine guy but I mean the first time I met him what was that like maybe three weeks ago yeah at the satiricon I met him and he just gave me a big hug I was like god this guy's rad I can't wait to go on tour with him you know we fully support Mike and what he's doing with his life like yeah he's doing what everyone should do which is follow their dreams it's pretty it's pretty amazing at this stage in his life that he's like I'm just gonna pack all my shit up and live on the road that's ballsy it's ballsy but it's really respectable how many of us do shit we hate all the time I fucking don't want to go to work ever again you think I like waking up and going to work and hanging out with a bunch of you love waking up it's true you wake up at like 4am every day because I'm preconditioned because of fucking work where do you work that you're up at 4am I'm not up at 4am I'm up at like 5.30 no anything before 10 is stupid ridiculous hyperbole I mean my job's cool it's a good job but it's like I mean obviously I'd much rather be able to go on the road and Mike that's what I love about Mike is like not only is he an amazing guy but he he just said fuck it I'm gonna do this and I don't give a shit I was talking to him about it when he was in Portland and he's like I just I got it down to where I have nothing but a cell phone bill shit I mean the guy was married had a house everything you know and he's like I just got it down to where I have a cell phone bill and I just roll and I'm like fuck dude I envy you it's amazing that's and you know the impact is huge you see on the internet all the responses to his blog and everything there's a ton of people that fucking get it they should fucking come out and support his ass all the time yeah that was shitty because Portland was the same thing kind of low turnout and it was like I know like 20 people at least that are like I love my KOE's great but they don't want to go support it here's the thing that obviously shows our age but we're like have you ever seen fucking gun mall motherfuckers you know what I mean like that was a huge influential punk band contemporary punk band and you know the backlash from that you should still have a ton of fucking people showing up and he does well in certain cities but we think you should do well everywhere because he's genuine as fuck hopefully I mean eventually people will just figure it out I mean he's coming through I mean every city everywhere at all times so hopefully people will eventually pick up on it and that's a good thing for the people that are into Mike Hale and gun mall and that shit they'll get to see him more frequently and in the red is fucking great too I'm really excited they got the new album and all that I just hope that more bands have the balls to do what he's doing right now in the future because there's so many good bands great music that no one's really hearing right now because they are slaves to their job and to what have they got going on but he's legit doing it you have tons of bands that offer their heads another band polar bear club they're fucking doing it polar bear club kids all of them had really good jobs and she said fuck it and went and pursued a passion and it's super admirable off of their heads too they've been on their own they're on tour for life you should just put that on their website coming somewhere soon coming everywhere you get to see them so much yeah exactly and that's the thing it is cool and it takes a lot but hopefully the people who are able to do it can't figure it out they give the opportunity it's one of those things none of us are making any fucking money at every level besides huge major label success people are just barely getting by what most people make at a fucking longs or something that's our salary for the year minus a couple thousand dollars so it's definitely a labor of love and when people are doing that you can tell how much passion they have for their music which is what

that there's guys like you all that'll take the time to interview a band like us that's why we make the big money yeah no but that that's what keeps the wheels spinning you know is you know things like this which is great yeah it's all we do what we can thank you but uh it wasn't worth that one more question I told you yeah that one question you couldn't come up with that's why I have the mic and you have the fucking sound machine you keep it that way oh he's done a show he did a show he did our he did all the audio for our best of show show number 10 we're on number 95 we have never had a second best of show we got 90 we got 85 episodes between the two I think we have enough content for something yeah let's go watch holy holy yeah and uh just to wrap it up like you know the people that are out there fucking touring need more support like economy and shit and most of the bands like ours are doing it themselves yeah we're not asking for handouts from anybody we're making our own merch and we're fucking slinging it you know it fucking sucks come out and support the bands you like even if you're fucking tired you buy the records you gotta do we all work shit jobs you buy the records go see them live it's always better and support independent labels that are putting in their own heart and money to do it you know and again preaching to the choir we all do that shit most people hopefully someone will get it

was that a show and he was really into one of the bands we played with and he goes is your shit you know available at record stores and they were like well where do you do it or whatever and the kid was like can I get it at walmart you'd rather buy the fucking record from walmart than support the fucking videos there to see and I was like what the fuck is wrong with you motherfucker there's nothing at walmart worth buying just trust me except for the springsteen record oh yeah did they put out like an official walmart release no it wasn't it wasn't official but he's like anti and his label put out the new record which is a pile at walmart and he didn't know clearly they didn't ask the boss before they made that shit it's like you asked the boss and the boss didn't know and the boss was pissed the boss whooped some fucking ass the boss was not stoked on that I've seen him in his jeans don't fucking kill him on the whole damn they're called mean jeans mean jeans old mean jeans old mean jeans ol apostrophe all right it's all good I want to thank you guys for taking the time and thank you good luck with recording and all that awesome that's so that's it whole interview I hope you liked it the guys again the band was super nice and I don't know what it is we're probably the only music based I don't know what we are podcast well we're a podcast but like anyone who interviews musicians of any sort more so I think than anyone on earth this is our most the most frequent way our interviews end is with the band apologizing for talking so much and then going I hope that doesn't suck and I don't know if that reflects poorly on us if it means we're terrible on it if we're awful interviewers but 90% of the time when we're done like the band is like oh I'm sorry we talked so much I hope that wasn't shitty and it's like we enjoy that I mean everybody from I mean the guys from Anchor Down to the guys from the Lawrence Arms to when we interviewed against me to pretty much everyone just thinks they fucked up and I have a feeling it's just because we let them talk or we're just really bad at what we do but either way at this point we have almost 100 episodes so we can be really bad as long as we're prolific that's how it works there's some movie where yeah fucking I'm not gonna quote a movie right now it'll just be bad but uh anyhow we're gonna give away a t-shirt size medium uh of Anchor Down along with their CDEP Steel to Dust to one lucky winner to enter send us an email at soundscenerevolution.com at gmail wait soundscenerevolution at gmail.com through the internets uh we'll we'll send the message through the tubes via dump truck and uh just put Anchor Down contest in the subject line and uh here is your your uh contest one of the members of Anchor Down and I'm not gonna say who because he specifically asked that we don't talk about it but one of the members of Anchor Down so I'm gonna talk about it what the fuck you can't tell me not to talk about something and then expect me to not talk about it but one of the members of Anchor Down works for an energy company and I'm not gonna say what here's how you win the prize you send us which member of Anchor Down you think works for an energy company and then what our energy drink company not energy like PG&E energy drink like fucking Red Bull or Monster or fucking uh I'm pretty sure uh Cabala had an energy drink for a while that was made of like water that had run over Madonna's titties but uh no one really wanted that it's called herpes but uh so what energy drink company it is and what member of Anchor Down you think works for them and we're not gonna give it to somebody based on if they're right we just kinda wanna check because if we gave it to whoever was right we would be going back on our promise about not talking about it so if you wanna win a t-shirt and a CD of a really really awesome band who in like literally two years all your friends are gonna be like this band is so good and you're gonna be like I heard first asshole now they suck cause they're popular fuck it and then you could I don't know throw a Molotov cocktail throw a fucking Arby's or something fuck Arby's so I hope you enjoy check out the new site check out the new logo all brand new shit it only took us like three years to get kind of official looking before that we had a fucking Geocities page four years about four years yeah fucking Geocities page with fire gifts and we had that like email us here and there was a letter going into an email but we had all that awesome shit so we've classed it up a little bit so check it out and send us comments if you want us to interview people someone actually sent us a band interview so I think they're coming through in July so we're going to try to talk to them hold on sound guy neighborhood has something to say we read everything except the stuff that's music related so send us all your penis enhancement emails you'll learn all about that Brian from OLA actually worked for a promo company and we were talking to him and he was like wait a minute I emailed you guys all sorts of shit back in the day thanks for not interviewing any of my bands and we were like sorry we're not we're not really good at that but if you're a person and you're not like like fucking Dave at entertainment dance group dot com like if you're like Steve at gmail dot com we're a lot more likely listening to you because seriously some of the weird promo shit you get in emails is really just it makes you feel kind of uncomfortable and gross and most of those bands are fucking really really shitty alright so I hope you enjoy the show enter the contest send us emails we'll be back next week with more new content bye

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