Interview with Dead to Me - Podcast 107

Hey everybody, what's up? This is Dead to Me. You are listening to Sound Scene Revolution with my cousin Ian. Stay punk. And my best friend Nathan. Stay punk. Please cancel. I stole your... You stole my...

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You guys may remember we were out last week. We're going to say that's because that's when we took Labor Day and not that I didn't have the show together by then. And so this week we have a new episode which features the fantastic band Dead to Me. This episode also should be transcribed for Punk News. Like 80% of it was typed up because there's no way I was going through this whole thing to get it all. But so I think that'll either be up, I don't know, sometime this week. If you're listening to this after this week, this all doesn't matter to you. But if you're listening to it the day of, it's really important. And it's important you listen to this the day of because I know there's a lot of people who are taking their kids out of school today because of Barack Obama's address to the children in elementary school.

So if you're one of those assholes who took your kid out of school because you're afraid the president's going to indoctrinate them by telling them how good education is, have your kid listen to this show instead. Because if there's anything that's the exact antithesis of a black, educated lawyer who happens to be president, it's this shit right here. And there you go, middle America. Enjoy. We got a winner for the Attica Attica contest, so that is officially closed. I think his name was Scott. I think he's out of Texas. So if your name is Scott and you live in Texas, you may or may not have won. So don't get your hopes up. If you get an email, you're the guy who won. If you didn't get an email, you didn't win, especially if you didn't send in an email.

We don't just magically figure out who you are. All right? So yeah, Attica Attica contest is closed. We don't get a new one this week. We should have one in the coming weeks. But it's a really good interview. Chicken, Nathan, Ian, the three active members of Dead to Me, all really good guys, really fun people. They met us in their practice space. And we got to hear some new songs off the album that they practiced. And it was a lot of fun. And I think if you were into the band before, you will probably continue to enjoy their new stuff. And if you just only like Jack, then you're probably going to be pretty bummed out. But enjoy the interview. We're going to play some tracks. Nothing off the new album because it doesn't come out until October, which means we probably won't get it until like late September at the earliest.

And I didn't want to hold off like four more weeks. So enjoy, and we'll catch you guys in a few minutes.

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if you guys want to go around and introduce yourselves, say hello, what you do in the band, all that. Hey, what's up? My name is Ian. I play drums. I am Nathan Grice, and I play guitar and sing. I'm Chicken. I play the bass and sing. You use the finger quotes on sing. Yeah, and then I realized that no one can see my finger quotes. We're going to bring it up, though. I want to make sure. We've got to express, you know, the intention. So for about the last year or so, you guys have been a little bit dormant. What have you all been up to in that period of time?

Practicing every day? Good question, yeah. I guess from where you guys are sitting, we've been dormant. Well, yeah. Right, but from where we're sitting, we've been busier than we've been in a real long time. It's been awesome. We've been practicing a ton and riding a bunch, and, like, you know, obviously there's a lot of stuff to figure out. So we figured it all out, and we did what we could do, which was come here and practice all the time. And that's what we've been doing. It's been really fun for me. Like, it's been awesome to just be playing a ton. And I feel like a happy kid again playing this much music. So we've basically just been riding and stuff, man, you know? Yeah. Not to mention life throws you some curveballs.

Yeah. And they all happen real rapidly. Just about everything that could happen in youth's lives. Just everything in our own personal lives is happening in this country. Literally, yeah, you name it. It's been crazy. Yeah. Well, I know one of the things that obviously people are going to want to know about is Jack right now, he's taking time to be a father with his kid and everything. Was that a hard choice for you guys to move on from that, to kind of let him do that? Or was it just, let me try that again. Would he have wanted you to guys get him? He wouldn't take us not playing. That was never an option. I mean, there's very few dudes that I realistically have a fear of physical violence from. And he's one of them, for sure, because he's like our big brother, man.

Sometimes your big brother has to kick your ass. You know, that's all there is to it. And he definitely made it very clear to me that not playing anymore was not even an option. That Dead to Me had to be a band forever and always. And that he's going to be around when he can be around. But right now, it's an obvious choice for him. And from where we're all sitting again, I know that there's people that aren't in the band and don't live in the same city as us. And they probably wonder. But for us, it's all been relatively normal as far as that type of situation can go. It's one of our best friends having a kid. And he was just going to go live with his family and do that for a while. So it's like, cool. Yeah, do your thing.

And he definitely wants us to keep doing ours. And, you know, all three of us would get a punch in the face from Jack Dalrymple if we tried to not be in Dead to Me. That's for sure. For real. Yeah. I think that would be interesting to see. I don't know. I'm sure there's a lot of people that'd like to see that. Yeah. I don't know. He doesn't strike me as the violent type, but I don't know him as well. He's probably seen that. Yeah. I mean, he's got to either like really, really, really, really hate you or like love you enough to kick your ass. To beat you down. And I'd like to say that each one of us in this band who loves enough to break our knows if that's what it came down to. Yeah, that's what it came down to.

Right on. So you guys have you written and recorded the new album, which is what roughly slated for October release? Yeah. Okay. How was the writing process going on that? I know you wrote most of the new songs or they were a few of the new songs. I don't know. The blog post said you wrote a lot of them. Yeah. It did say a lot. Did you say a lot? And then you said most. I'm coming in my practice. I was making sure that I wasn't saying most. After I said that I wasn't going to put words in your mouth. After he said he wasn't going to. And what does he do? He's changing my words already. See what I mean? He's got an easy job. He's out there interviewing these fucking guys out there. You know what I'm saying? You got to get up real early to get one by dead to me.

I'll tell you that much. You got to get up real early. Yesterday. Yeah. Like yesterday early. I don't know. I was not up yesterday.

Anyways. New album. The writing process. I did write a lot of songs. Yeah. And they're also.

They're like the first songs I've ever written. Yeah. To be honest. I've never sang for a band. I've never been. I've played in shit tons of bands. But never been a singer or writing a song. Mm-hmm. For the band. Like you know. Make them to a band song. Yeah. Yeah. Never done it. Wow. So were you just like working on some. Like all collectively one day. Or did you just have some that. It was more. That you kind of wanted to bring in. I feel like it was just more or less. At a. The fact that. We were all. You know. Jack was doing his thing. We were all doing all kinds of stuff. Mm-hmm. And working a ton. Things. You know. All these things. But. All of us I think were kind of miserable. Mm-hmm. Doing normal things like that. And.

The day to day kind of stuff. So we just. We started going to practice every day. And then. That just got. You know.

And then again you got to come up with. Dude's got to come up with songs. And he came up with a lot of fucking awesome songs. And it was just like. Hit right when it should. I feel like I was finally put in a position. In my own. My own personal. Like. You know. Playing music. Mm-hmm. Or whatever. That I had to do it. Mm-hmm. I had to do something. You know. Like. If I wasn't going to do it. It was on one. Two dudes. You know. Yeah. So you have to carry a third of the weight. Yeah. So I got to. I had. You know. Right. I had to. And I couldn't be more happy that I had to. You do that well. But sometimes like that. I mean. Dudes like us. Like. Sometimes that's what it takes. Is like. You know what I mean. And. If that's what it took.

Then that's what it fucking took. And I couldn't be happier. You know what I mean. Yeah. And I'm. I'm. I'm luckiest kid ever. Man. As soon as the other guy in my band. That was like. My. Like. Favorite singer dude. Failed. And then I get this kid. You know what I mean. It's fucking amazing. I'm lucky as shit. Well. I think. I thank my bandmates. For giving me the opportunity. To even try. Very cool. Is it nerve wracking at all? I mean. Considering this is the first. Songs that you guys are going to have out. I mean. Obviously there's going to be. Regardless of how good it is. People who are like. I don't know. I liked it better when the other guy was in the band. Is that like. That's just inevitable. Yeah. Yeah. You know. I mean.

I don't. I mean. If we honestly cared with. Like. You know. I mean. I don't. I don't want to. I don't want to bump. Necessarily bum anyone out. But at the same time. If that's the only reason. They're not going to like. Yeah. Like it. Then. There's nothing you can really do about it. I suppose. Yeah. That was just like. Our hard work. Yeah. Yeah. My grandmother liked one of our songs. And that's the first time. That I've ever been in a band. That my grandmother liked one of our songs. Your grandmother? That might make people think. That's weird. That my grandmother liked the song. But. That's a good song. That just made me. That just made me happy. That I did so. It has universal appeal. So. If someone doesn't like it. For whatever reason.

How many songs do you demo to your grandmother? His grandma's a total punk. She wears a leather jacket. And has a bihawk. Little known fat. It's true. She's the most punk rock person out there. She's been in it actually. Yeah. She's a badass. Very cool. Very cool. So. You guys have the estimated release date. Of October. On that one. Mm-hmm. And is that going to be coming out on Fat again? Or. Yeah. Yes. That'll be out on Fat Records. On Fat in time for the best. Yeah. Oh. Fantastic. Our favorite weekend of the year as a band for sure. I can't wait. Definitely. You guys. So you're playing this year. It's all set and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Very exciting. Our other band Bad Friends is playing too. Oh yeah? Yeah. So you guys are going to be playing Double Duty on that?

Well I think it's going to be different. No. Actually each band is just going to play one show Dante.

Dante Dante. Yeah. We're not. There's a whole logic path in this. But anyhow. All right. So regardless. So you don't know when the set times are or any of that. No. You just you're fucked up the whole. You threw it all off. It's fine. It's fun. I'm watching. I'm learning. I should know by now. I've talked to you enough. You'd think. I would hope. But no. No man. I don't even know if the fest has our set time yet for the Dead to Me show. The Bad Friends show I've heard. I've got some information about. But honestly I don't know off the top of my head. Oh yeah. Yeah. So but you're hoping they're not playing at the same time. Because that could be hard for you guys. That would be hard. But Tony. I think you could do it. I'm guessing if he can figure it out with like all the other 600 bands he'll probably figure out a way to get our two bands that you know not have the same set time.

And worst case I got two fucking hands my man. Okay. And I'll do them at once. I would. I would. I would pay good money to see that. But that's pretty. That's going to be pretty rad. Anyone you're excited to see that you know is playing this year at fest? I mean everybody. It's always so much fun. I know some. Do it. Go for it. To be honest I'm not exactly positive they're playing but I'm pretty sure they are. They may or may not be. There's a good chance. There's this band called Pygmy Lush. It's from Virginia. They're absolutely incredible. My boy Josh Small. Oh yeah. I think he's probably going to be playing. Oh I think he is. Yeah. Maybe my friend Liza Kate. She may be playing also. And if they're not people should check them out regardless.

Yeah. She's pretty good. Russian Circles is playing this year. Russian Circles is playing this year. I mean obviously there's a shit ton of bands playing. Snuff just got confirmed today actually. Snuff? Yeah. Cancel it. Snuff's in town. Dude that fucking rules. I know. That's awesome. Oh my god. Doesn't the drummer sing for that band? Yeah. The drummer sings in Snuff. Don't get it. Which is unbelievable to watch. I went to a weird club in Japan with that guy. Yeah? Yeah. You went to Japan with the singer from Snuff? He was there. They're good buds. Oh. Wasn't he playing for toy dolls? He was playing with the toy dolls. Oh wow. We'll see. You guys are old friends now. It's all coming together. I might say what's up. It's like talking about Vegas or something.

But pretty much everyone ever is playing the fest. Strike Anywhere. Strike Anywhere is playing. Crime and Stereo.

I don't know. Everyone's playing the fest. It's just kind of how it goes. So you guys ended up canceling out a fest last year right? Because it was just as Jack was had at his kid. Yeah. Yeah. It was like. It was. Yeah. Because we said. Sorry I've read since the time. Yeah. It was something around the delivery date I think of the baby. It was like suspect. And we didn't want to. You know. He didn't want to end up in a spot where he's like out there. Yeah. Oh sorry. I missed your birth. You know. I was playing. But D4 killed it. You know what I mean? Son I remember the day you were born like it was yesterday. Yeah. D4 was playing. Yeah. Everyone was naked and sweaty. It was. It was the most beautiful day of my life. I got the text message that you were born.

It was awesome. It couldn't have been any better. That crowns were for you. So.

Yeah. That was a bummer. And you know. It's not. We hate saying we're going to do something and then not doing it. You know what I mean? And that was a bummer for sure. And it was. It was torture to get text messages from our friends. You know. Telling us what they were doing and stuff up there. Ian went. He had a good time. He said fuck dead to me. I'm gone. Ian. Yeah. I had a good old time. He was like. It was really nice for you guys. I got stuck in an elevator with about 60 kids. Oh. You were there that night? I had pretty much a panic attack. It's on tape. At the. The one at the fest hotel. We're like. It's on tape in the. In the elevator. It's a running video. It says. No. You can hear me. Do not do this. It's just Ian freaking.

It's from the hallway outside and you can hear me and they're just going. Oh fuck. Like. You got to get me out of here. Like. Totally freaking out. And then the door's open and I just like push everyone out. There's like a pregnant woman. You're like. Get down. Yeah. Beat it. It's like when there's a fire at the house when George just stands in Seinfeld. Knocks all the kids out of the way. Just to get out of the place. But. That was. That was the. What? The Sunday night where it was like. Var and Virgil from suburban home. And like. Everybody and their fucking mom was in that elevator at one time. Pretty bad. That's got to be exciting right. There's probably like. Like triple the amount of beers as there was people. Which is good.

Just because we were stuck in there for like. For like a long time. If you were going to be stuck in an elevator. That's definitely the beer to person ratio you want. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good. Well as the condensation starts to build up on the walls and shit. Oh. Yeah. Virgil like. I was supposed to talk to Virgil that night. And he was like. No. He like texted me the next day. He's like. Sorry. I got stuck in an elevator. And I was like. What? You got stuck in an elevator. So then what did he say? What? I know. What did he say then? What did he say then?

I actually texted him back. I said that sounds sexy. No shit dude.

Oh my god. I was just messing with you dude. Why do I put up with you? I don't know. I don't know. I get abused by you constantly. It's when you've earned my disrespect man. You know what I'm saying? Like I feel like I only disrespect people that I've seen. It's like Jack. You know. It's like that's the way it is with big families and stuff. Well being sarcastic and funny isn't necessarily disrespect. Yeah exactly. I mean disrespect is a word for it. You know. Totally hilarious is another content. So go ahead and look that up. I appreciate that. I'll remember that when people are like. So you meant dead to me. I'm like oh yeah. Chicken totally disrespects me. But don't worry. It's awesome. That's totally rad. Yeah. It's good to them.

Taking a little break here from the interview to give you guys a little more music by Dead To Me. Be sure to listen all the way through to the interview and all that. We'll be playing more music and answering more questions. I don't remember what all happened in the second half of the interview. I know we compare Nathan to Lincecum from the Giants. I know Chicken makes fun of me for some stuff. Lots of that. If you like hearing Chicken belittle me. Totally stay tuned. Totally worth your time. Alright. We'll see you guys in a little bit. Here's another track by Dead To Me. And we'll jump back to the interview.

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So talking. Going back to the music. That you guys are working on. A lot of your stuff has always had kind of a duality in the balance of. Kind of like the personal history that each of you has had. And kind of like the politics that you have. In terms of. They overlap on occasion. But it tends to be kind of more one or the other. How has it been for the new album? Has that been constant? Or has it been kind of changing up a little bit? I guess it's changed a little bit. Because I tried to make. Like. I became interested in making the political stories. Or the political songs like personal stories. You know what I mean? Like there's some stuff on the new record about these two. Well. A team of German physicists.

And they had some help from an Austrian physicist. And about. You know. Nuclear fission and stuff like that. And it's definitely a political song. If you know about it and stuff. But it's also a personal song. About like relationships. Like their relationship with each other. And like what ultimately like you know the which physicists chose their science. And which which physicists chose you know like love. And not wanting to be a part of making bombs that will kill millions of people. And stuff like that. So. I was kind of interested in stuff like that. There's also another song in there about Charles Darwin. And some native folks. That he was stuck on a boat with there for a while. While he was sailing around the world.

Figuring some stuff out. And I don't know. It just was like a kind of try to make it. There's. I've become fascinated with how personal history is. You know what I mean. And like behind every historical story. And lesson we're taught. There's always a personal story. And like people are people. And they do what they do for a reason. So it's really interesting for me to read about them. And try to find out why they're doing what they do. And so that showed up a lot on this record. Well look at you being all well read and shit. It's a lot. Unemployed. I've been unemployed. So I've just been reading. But. Seems to have worked out well. Yeah. I mean. You know. It helps with lyrical content. That's for sure. It helps with lyrical ideas and stuff.

Keeps the brain moving. Yeah. It keeps the brain. Keeps the brain moving. But there's always going to be personal stuff on there too. You know. And like. Nathan's got a really rad way of writing personal lyrics. That are like. A lot of my favorite authors. And my favorite lyricists. I say this all the time. But they have a way of wrapping like really complex ideas up. And just hitting it with one or two sentences. And Nathan does that. And I love the way he does that. And like. They'll have a really pretty song. And like. But it's just weird fucked up lyrics. And you're like. Whoa. It's like. It's awesome. It just plays really well together. And I. I'm. I love his songs. And I'm really stoked. That's a chick. On the record.

Yeah. Nice. It's awesome. And I like. I got. I'm a stickler for fucking lyrics. Dude. I hate shitty lyrics. There's so many bands that you can. Dudes are listening to out there. That just have terrible lyrics. And I'm stoked. I'm not saying ours are rad or good or anything. But I. I'm proud of them. And I'm happy. That you write awesome lyrics. A lot of weight on you now, Nathan. You too. Well, Chicken and I force each other to be. You know. As good as we can try to be. Yeah. Absolutely. So that's always nice too. To have. That person. Yeah. I mean. Really. The only people I ever want to like. Have. Make sure that they like the song. Is Ian and Nathan. So that's it. If it passes that test. Then I'm. I'm happy. At the end of the day.

Like. Those are the dudes in my band. Yeah. It's about playing music together. And having phony shit. You know. And if those guys love it. And it means. It's something meaningful for them to play it. And fuck dude. That's it. You know. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. Actually. Touching on that. There were a few. Kind of. Referenced bands. I suppose. In the blog post. When you guys were talking about the new album coming out. And. I've been more. I've been asked to ask you guys about this. But you make reference to bands who. Idolize. I believe it was Bruce Springsteen. That comes up. That's a lot of bands. That's the thing. There is a lot of bands. Well a lot of people took it super personal. I guess so. And I'm surprised. I mean.

That's their own guilty conscience. I guess. But. I got a lot of comments about that. And I'm surprised. I love Bruce Springsteen. Wasn't talking about. I. One band. You know. Nate went and saw Bruce. Yeah. Me and Ian went and saw Bruce. Yeah. Nathan and Ian like Bruce Springsteen. I miss the whole Bruce Springsteen book. I don't. I didn't. My friend Eric Kane. The drummer of Strike Anywhere is the one that got me into him. He's absolutely. He's been obsessed with him for. Really. I've known him for a long time. So the next time people are talking about punk bands need to quit listening to Bruce Springsteen. No. They don't need to quit listening to him. That's the thing. They need to quit like. I guess. Quit ruining him for me.

Like ruining it for people that like actually like. I really love Bruce Springsteen. I'm okay with that. You know. I don't know. It's hard. I'm not here. I'm just here to give you a platform. I just don't even know what bands you're talking about. Yeah. We were talking about bands up. You know what I mean? Multiple. Definitely like multiple bands. Like it's. I'm serious. Like I feel like it's kind of around. It's always something though man. And I like to talk shit. You know that. Like the last time when Cuban came out I was talking shit about kids with MySpace haircuts and fucking. You know what I mean? Screamo bands and shit like that man. I'm always going to be talking a little bit of shit just because it's fun.

And like when I was a kid reading Maximum Rock and Roll that's what bands did. Ben Weasel had a column and it was like about a dress code. It was like punks wear white high tops. Like nobody does that anymore. You know what I mean? Like someone's got to stir this shit up. You know it gets stale dude. And not like I'm like fucking edgy like or anything like that. I'm not saying that. I just mean like it shouldn't be such a big surprise that like bands fucking like you know take the piss out of each other every once in a while. I'm like fucking talking shit like that. Plus everyone's so worried about being nice to each other. I got no reason to be nice to no one dude. I'm not competing against anyone. Again like I said I got fucking Ian and Nathan.

That's really all I need man. You know? Well it does feel a lot more bands are thinking like long term. They're like oh I really don't want to upset these guys because maybe one day we'll end up on a tour together like Warped Tour where you tour with like 40 other bands and maybe you hate fucking 38 of them. We can still make fun of their band but you can still like them as people. Yeah totally. Because sometimes bands don't necessarily reflect everything about a person. Yeah. You can try and I think more bands should try to do that. But it's hard to do that so you can still like people in the band. I know people talk shit about it. Sure constantly. Not you guys. It's just high school over and over and over again.

It's your life. But you know I feel like it's like where it should be though. You know what I mean? Like there should be people. You know like as long as we're paying attention. Someone's got to be calling bullshit on people. Like you said people call bullshit on us and like it'll all even itself out. You know what I mean? Like punk's fine dude. There's still tons of fucking amazing bands that are underground doing shit for the right reasons and everything fucking. It's alive and well everywhere. You know there's always going to be some shitty kids out there keeping that shit rad. Know that. You know what I mean? I have no fears about it ever getting terribly terribly shitty. But you know like I said sometimes I can't resist it.

I know the fucking microphone's on and I like to talk some shit sometimes. What can I say? You know? Has there ever been and just as we're on it has there ever been anything you've said that like ended up getting someone like super pissed where they like came up to you? Yeah dude I got punched. You got punched? I got tapped him on his shoulder. Socked him in the face dude. And the chicken turned around and he just punched him in the face. The kids punch the chicken and then just run. Yeah. That's terrible. What did you say? There was this huge blowout out front and they were like please keep it down to the neighbors. This little kid. He had a rat tail. Chicken went in the face but he was like saying that's fucking awesome you got a rat tail.

Kid didn't get it. That's what a rat tail. Yeah I was going to say what? He thought chicken was talking shit. And it just like ruined his night. Yeah. I was rocking out. We were listening to the fucking riverboat. And I was like I look at him and we had a moment like yeah dude riverboat Mike running crazy. Yeah. It's awesome. And then I look forward and I'm still rocking and then I get a tap on my shoulder and that was and then it was just you know. Then I met guy at the show after the party after he took a fucking bag of peas on his face. Oh hey he's like yeah oh yeah this record's cool man. Yeah like oh cool show bro fuck me. You know what I mean? It's just a bummer. But sometimes you talk some shit and dude was like 16.

He was young. Because you had a rat. Because you made fun of his rat. Well you mentioned his rat. I was going to say didn't he see. I think I might have come on to him and I think that's where the anger came from. It wasn't the rat tail. We were in Wisconsin. I get pretty pissed if someone came on me. No. Nice. Oh my god. No it's always that guy. He's nowhere. He's the money. He's the good part of the show. He's so good. Man can you get a little. He's like Andy dude. You're like Andy Richter but even more ninja. You know like more low profile. That was well done. What do you say? How do you follow that? It's done. We're wrapping it up.

There's not. I'm out of questions. So I'm going to ask you guys real quick. Anything else you guys want to plug. Talk about really quick that we didn't cover. I want to give you a chance to the open forum section. Is there anything we want to do? If you ask me that at any other time in the day I'd be able to think. Thank you. We're playing tomorrow and half of the day. We are playing tomorrow. You're playing sort of like a fest. Yes. If by that you mean kind of like a fest. Kind of whatever dude. It's sort of. Yes we are playing. It's sort of kind of like a fest. It's in Half Moon Bay dude. Really like. It's fucking awesome. Oh man. The details of it aren't specific. You just lost both your fans in Half Moon Bay. We don't have two fans in Half Moon Bay.

We don't have two fans. Dude that's fucking. I grew up. Where do you go to shows at Slim's and shit? I grew up in Half Moon Bay. Oh okay. Yeah. I spent a good amount of my time there. You're a little uneducated on that one chick. He grew up there. I was going to give him the whole like oh you're a big city. Where do you go to show Slim's fancy boy? Like why don't you come to the youth center? And Half Moon Bay's like I grew up there. I grew up in Half Moon Bay. We didn't have a DIY scene when I was there. Like someone was like no we've been doing these for like five or six years. And I'm like I moved out like nine years ago. That's funny. That's what we're talking about is the DIY scene and the Y stands for yourself.

You're like there wasn't a. Nobody else was doing a DIY scene. No one else either. You know what I mean? They weren't doing it themselves. Yeah. You were looking for a DIT scene. I had my own scene. Everyone else was into the DIY. You're like where's a good DIT scene around here? Do it themselves. I need a bunch of fuckers that do it themselves. You know? You guys are really doing it themselves. Man. Do it yourself. Dante. I'm busy. I got shit to do. I'm doing this myself. Yeah. Actually you guys are doing most of the work. I'm just here. I'm glad you're here. I like your interviews. They're funny man. I can tell. That's no joke. With the level of reverence I'm given dude. Like that's dead dude. You've earned our distance.

No no no. So yeah. You guys are playing tomorrow. Playing tomorrow. Anything else? Bad Friends is playing on Friday the 14th at Annie's. Social web? It's a Madden A show. We play at 6. So what's it benefit for? It's like a maximum rock and roll. And Thrill House Records. Thrill House Records. All age. Venue. Benefit thing. Awesome. Oh is that like you're doing like the five day type of thing or that? I don't know. Alright. I think that's coming up and Thrill House is involved. I don't know the details. I think I've heard something about that scene. It's actually one thing that's being involved. And you're in the band. Wait. You guys don't work at Thrill House? My friend volunteers there. We're going to. Pretty close. Yeah.

That show is going to be rad. You guys got to come to that one. That one's going to be fun. And there'll be punks there. I don't go to shows. I think we've established that at this point. This kid. Alright. So and then the album's coming out in October. I'll come back in October. And you'll be playing fest. Yeah. We'll be touring. Touring out to fest. Touring out to fest. Touring back to fest. We're doing Japan after that. Oh wow. We're going to be all over touring basically non-stop from here on out as soon as the record comes out. Like Nathan. I think I'm getting rid of my apartment. I just made a decision that I'm over it. You're done with the apartment? I'm sick of going to work and making money to pay for this little room that there's spiders there.

I just got over a really bad spider bite on my knee. That's exciting. And it swelled up huge and was fucked up and I've been laying down for like two days. It was terrible. Holy shit. So I'm over it. I've had a lot of time to think the past few days. Yeah. Because you've been laying on your back because you're a spider bite. Miserable pain. So I decided. Yeah. Fair enough. No more apartment. We're going to go and I'm not coming home. No more spider in the apartment. Yeah. Fair enough. Kill that guy.

Did you see it or did you just wake up? It's the third time it's happened where I've like some on my hip, one on my ass, one on my knee and it was just like. Dude, that spider is all over the right side of your body. I know, right? He's just moving around. Yeah. It's going to go. My mom would say it's because you're so sweet. That's why they bite you. Your mom doesn't know a lot about spiders. I don't think. What the fuck did you just say? Your mom's spider professor. At least you reacted quickly, Chick. Yeah. He was. Did you see what he did though? I definitely just got up and charged Dante and he went like this. Just looked at me and laughed. That's how threatening I am. Well, I'm like four times your weight. I know, but dude, I'm telling you.

That's not a diss on you. I'm just much larger. Chick's got so much pent up aggression that it's just weight bursting. It's being held in with one core. It's being held in in his pants. I can tell they're just, they're busting at the seams right now. Man, this guy. He's a fan of my legs, dude. Like I'm fucking Dennis Eckersley over here. It's the Bulls. I'm trying. I'm really working hard not to see it. Look, man, it worked for Dennis Eckersley, man. Okay. And he won a Cy Young award. That's, no. Okay. And he wore long, tight pants. That's more than I won. And he had very muscular, handsome man legs. And so do I, Dante. You do. He got a Cy Young. That means I'll get something too. Is Cy Young, is that football? That's the best pitcher.

Or baseball. Best pitcher. I'm the best pitcher. I'm the pitcher of the Giants. Yeah, he's at Lincecum. My name's Tim Lincecum. You do. He actually, yeah. Well, that's because they're brothers, so. Well, I think you've got a Halloween costume lined up. Just setting you up over here if you want to throw in another one. I'd get to Cy Young too if I came on Lince's, what the.

Ian. That's your Halloween costume right there. You're set. I'm going to go to a fancy restaurant. I'm going to rent a fancy car. I'm going to dress up and go to the restaurant and just say my name. And then get a. And be like, charge to the Giants. Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? I'm fucking. Okay. Like the beginning of Goodfellas. When they carry the table in and they set it up. Yeah. I'm going to roll in like Tim Lincecum or whatever his name is. It'll be badass, dude. You'll see. Until someone asks you to throw a baseball. Yeah, ask me anything about baseball. Yeah, then you just run. No, dude, that's when he looks him in the face and be like, dude, do you have any idea how much I get paid to throw baseballs?

Do you think I'm just going to walk in your fucking restaurant and throw a baseball? I'll be like, buy a ticket, kid. I'll see you at the game. Yeah, buy a ticket, kid. When you come see a game, do I tell you to make me dinner? Now get out of my face. Yeah, buy a ticket, kid. I look forward to seeing that. So, as I said, I guess we're going to wrap up now. Thank you very much for the interview. I really, really appreciate it. Thanks for coming all the way out here. I appreciate it. Oh, no problem. Thank you guys for taking the time and good luck with fucking the tour and the album release. Yeah, come hang out with us, kids of the world. Big ups to Little V. Yeah, Veronica, what's up? Hi, we miss you. We'll come back to San Francisco someday.

All right, cool. Thanks. All right, that's the interview. Thank you guys so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you enjoyed listening to Chicken Insult Me. I hope you enjoyed Sound Guy Nairman's little shot in there. He keeps it to a minimal. I have to do like 95% of the talking, so most of what I do sucks. But he only has to come in once in a great while. And when he does, it's golden. It's concentrate. So, he does a good job. Other than that, we'll be back next week, hopefully. We got a couple of really good shows lined up. Then we're hopefully going to jump off to Fest and pick up a whole bunch more shows there. And hopefully, last year we did an acoustic set with some bands at Fest. Brett from the Riot Before, Austin Lucas, Jay Nothington, and Kyle William of I Made This Mistake all played some songs.

And I was totally not smart enough to record it. So, hopefully this year I'll record some of it. And we'll just get that posted for you guys to enjoy and listen to. So, we'll catch you guys next week. Feel free to drop us a line. SoundSceneRevolution at gmail.com. MySpace.com backslash SoundSceneRevolution. Comments section, phone, Google me. Alright, we'll catch you guys next week. Here's another track by Dead to Me on the way out. Enjoy.

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