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So, all right. Thank you guys for tuning in to Sound Scene Revolution. I am Rich, here with the infamous sound guy, Nairman, who only drops in on occasion to say things, but they're all pretty good. We're here. We took a week or two off. I think it was just shit came up. But we're back, and we have a new interview with Kyle Knight, who is also known as the Emotron. You may or may not have heard of. He's really kind of an interesting dude. And I say that because it's very much like a performance piece. The Emotron is very much like an alter ego of Kyle. Kyle, from all I've ever heard of him and through our dealings with him, totally nice, really fun guy, totally polite. And the Emotron, his alter ego performance piece, if you will, has a super shaved skullet, you know, where it's long, but only around the fray, like a Fryer Tuck haircut, but really like Hulk Hogan has.
But it's intentional, so he shaves the top of his head, drinks you who tell he vomits, urinates on stage, drinks his own urine, lights his genitals on fire, mops up his own urine with his t-shirt. He's an interesting guy, so I really didn't know what I was going to get into in this interview, but it turns out Kyle's a completely rad guy. And so I'm all the more excited to hopefully see him again at Fest and talk to him because I've seen the Emotron, but I've never tried to talk to Kyle because I've always been like, yeah, the guy who mopped up his own piss with his shirt, I'm not going to talk to that guy, but so he sounds pretty rad. So if you meet him, feel free to talk to him. We have a couple of tracks from the Emotron's upcoming album, which is, oh shit, I'm going to mess it up.
I believe it's called Lunch Lady Witch Tits. I'll Google that to make sure so the next break we'll have it right, but if not. So we're going to play a track off of that, then we're going to play some of the interview, play another track, play some interview, the standard format. So check it out, enjoy, and we'll be back.
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You've gone through two pounds in a day? Fair enough. I was going to ask you, what was it, last night you guys did the opening for, or the CD release show for the Adam and his Package tribute?
Yeah, really? Oh, that's right. That was the first interview we were supposed to do that got moved back. Yeah, yeah. How'd that go?
Probably a little bit more than his has been through. Like, what do you tell the people at the repair shop when you bring it in? Are they just like, you're like, uh, that's urine. So, just so you know.
Probably, they might be a little less understanding if they knew that it was piss, but you never know. Maybe they'd be cool with it. I would hope. But, uh, was that your first time you got a meet, Adam?
No, this year. Yeah, that's a meet, right. Yeah. Oh my god.
So you guys, you guys have bonded over the years. It's kind of, it's come full circle now.
I mean, we can, we, which is. I was gonna say, it doesn't, it doesn't strike me as something a lot of bands would utilize nowadays, so. I think you should make some. I think it's time that happened. Yeah, I, I, I, I think they could be useful. I mean, you already got videos on YouTube. I mean, this, this might be a little out of the, the norm for the realm of your normal videos, but.
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The ones about the thing that they eat people, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, the most. Yeah, they form, like, a giant ball in, like, the second one or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. I shouldn't know that.
In the second one. Understandable. Well, I mean, if you enjoy doing it, that's what matters. I mean, that's, 90% of the shit on YouTube is that, and then the other 10% is pirated TV content, so. Hell yeah, man. Works out pretty well. Um, going back to, uh, I want to talk about Fest, because you're, you're playing this year, right? Oh, yeah, definitely, yeah. So, it's coming up. Um, do you ever feel like, when you're doing the, the Emotron bit at the Fest, I guess this is kind of twofold. First of all, for people who don't know, kind of like, what should they expect to show, and my understanding from what I've seen and heard about the Fest shows is every year they've gotten a little more insane on your end.
Do you ever feel the need to kind of like, one-up your previous performances? If you figured it out in advance? Yeah. I was going to say, if it's fruit punch flavored, wouldn't it have been colored red? Like, shouldn't the firemen have been more concerned? Yeah. I'll take your word on that. I don't think I'm going to run out and try that right away, but, uh.
No, it's, it's, it's a very niche market, but, uh. You never know. So maybe, maybe it'll catch on. All right. Uh, taking a quick break here to give you some more of the Emotron's music before we jump back into our interview with, uh, Kyle slash the Emotron. Um, we're going to play another track off of his album, and it's called Vampire Lunch Lady Tits. I was wrong. Well, I think I said Lunch Lady Witch Tits, but, like, it matters. Like, they're, like, they're, um, foiling some great art in that title. I don't know. I, I, I, I, it's not like a, you know, a poem or something. Just playing the song. We're going to play a track off of Vampire Lunch Lady Tits. And, uh, yeah, I'm going to stop saying that. I'm sure my, my mom's going to be thrilled.
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I don't even know what's going to happen, but probably going to be. No, I don't even know what's going to happen. Probably going to be interesting.
Straightforward. I don't, I don't know if, I'm not saying I distrust you, but I don't know if I'd, uh, bake one of the cookies that you, or eat one of the cookies you brought into an Emotron show, but, you know. Oh, yeah? Okay. That's just, I'm, I'm not trying to pass judgment here, so.
Well, it's really, uh. Mm-hmm. No, definitely. Well, no, everyone I've talked to who's met you, I mean, has always said that you're totally the nicest guy, from Kyle William to Matt Flood. They all say, they're like, there's definitely a distinct separation between, you know, Kyle and then when you're the Emotron on stage. So, hopefully more people won't, like, just expect that of you 24-7. They won't run up to you or something in the street, or be afraid you're going to kiss someone. That's right, I guess it's kind of fun, but, I don't know, but.
At any given moment.
Fair enough. Um, I wanted to ask, Matt Flood, uh, actually asked me to ask you about this. Um, he said you had made some scat videos at some point? Yeah, yeah. So, your job was to, like, shit? For, just, like, on film? Yeah, pretty much.
That's a phrase I never thought I'd hear. Do what? That's a phrase I was not, I don't think I was gonna hear, but, uh, sorry. Well, I mean. For, for something you're gonna do anyway, you know? Well, I imagine it wouldn't be the kind of thing you'd want to have a ton of copies hanging out there for, like, just in case. I mean, especially if you're trying to sell it.
Well, I mean.
Oh, I mean, you know, people have done a ton of weird shit to make money to pay for bands, so I'm sure. Oh, yeah. I, I recently, uh, I was hanging out with those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jeez. I thought that. That's dedication, man. I, I can respect that. You definitely, you love what you do if you're willing to do that. But, uh. Oh, yeah, man. Nice, nice. Well, I think we're gonna wrap up coming up here, but, uh, before we do so, is there anything else, uh, you wanna plug? I know you said you have an album coming out in October?
What are you testing? I, I think it does, in context.
Very cool, very cool. Well, hopefully that'll get, I mean, you get the money from all that, and that'll come out, and hopefully you'll have it in time for the Fest, so. Oh, hell yeah, man. Oh, I'll be at the Fest, for sure. Okay. All right, well, I'll be here. Oh, definitely. I mean, I know enough people who know you that I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet, but I'll make a point of it this year. Yeah. I am not in bands. I do a podcast, and then I do interviews for punk news, so. I'm not talented in any way musically, so I try and I get involved the best I can. Yeah. Uh, Sound Scene Revolution? Yeah, definitely. I mean, we're going to do the, we're going to type the interview up, and we're going to have it on there, and then we're going to have it on Sound Scene as well, so.
There's going to be, it's going to be out there in all sorts of different ways, man. Yeah. Oh, definitely I will, and yeah, I'm sorry we had to bounce around the times and everything. I know I was like, oh yeah, we could do it anytime, and I was like, except Mondays through Fridays, and most evenings. So. Oh, well. Yeah, so dude, I'm, I'm pretty stoked on it, and you know, definitely we can, uh, want to hang out at the fest, and if you're around, we can talk about 80s alt rock, because I've heard, in fact, I think you told me you were big into 80s, or 90s alt rock.
Nice. I might have to, I might have to check that out, I've just recently started to get back into the 90s music, like, there was a time where I was like, nah, I'm older than that, and I'm cooler than that now, but like, now, I think it was probably like last year we went and saw the Jen Blossoms, and I was like, this shit is awesome, we need to own all of these CDs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I have their, uh, album, and I can't think of the name of it now, it's, uh, the, well, the big album at the time. You were? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice, dude. Well, we can definitely, I'm gonna look for that if it's still up there on Pirates Bay, I'll take a look. Yeah, uh.
Oh, for sure. I just actually got into, I got BitTorrent, like, a week ago, because I'd never downloaded music, and now I'm like, oh, this is why no one buys music anymore. It's fucking awesome. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. All right, dude. All right, man. I'm gonna take off. Well, you keep it strong. All right, man, later, Kyle, thanks. Bye. All right, that's all of the interview. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you learned something, uh, if not about Kyle and the Emotron, then possibly about unique ways to make money on the internet, um, things I never, ever would have thought of in my wildest dreams all this time, I've been, you know, like a, I've been a sucker shitting for free in the privacy of my own house when I could have, like, been paid money, not like a lot of money, but money nonetheless, to shit.
Like, every dollar he has made off of that is more than I have made, so, off of shit, yeah. I wonder, yeah, I wonder if they charge, like, for different shit, like, nah, anyway. So, there you go, um, if you, if you really, really want to make money, there's always going to be someone, I'm, you can sell plasma, you can make videos of yourself selling plasma, I don't know. Kyle is a little more resourceful than I am, but I hope you guys enjoyed it, I hope you guys come back next week, we have a new interview, new shows, um, hopefully we'll have some free shit to give away, you know, oh, yeah, that Attica Attica contest, good call, Sound guy near him, an Attica Attica contest for a shit ton of stuff, um, given to us by Aaron Scott, who's going to be playing Fest, he texted me, like, the other day, such a, he's a fucking sweetheart, he texted me, and he's like, I'm going to be playing Fest, and I was like, that's awesome, I'm totally going to see you play, he's like, don't come see me play if there's a better band playing.
Like, he straight up, he was like, I don't want you to miss a better band to come see me play, but, I liked him, I thought he was totally good, so, um, anyhow, the Attica Attica contest, uh, two marathon CDs, the Attica Attica CD, the Red Leader, uh, 10-inch cake record where it's, let's see if I can remember, Attica Attica, The New Dress, Nakatami Plaza, and Scream Hello, all covering other bands' songs, and, uh, a t-shirt, and some stickers, and some other shit, so it's a ton of stuff, you can check that out by, uh, checking out the Attica Attica interview, and send us emails, uh, soundscenerevolution at gmail.com, uh, we're on MySpace, though, I check that embarrassingly little, we should get a Facebook or a Twitter where we can actually check it, because, fucking, for real, MySpace is terrible.
Alright, well, we'll be back next week, I hope you guys have a good time, and, uh, enjoy.
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