Interview with Comadre - Podcast 109

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for various things i was out of the country i got sick shit got busy sound guy where are you out of the country oh out of the civilized world sound guy and airman went to kentucky uh for fried chicken i hope did you actually have fried chicken when you were there bummer actually just call it fried chicken there because everything's fried nice but uh so yeah but we're back and we're gonna do uh this is our last show before the fest and then we're gonna go to the fest uh and make you all really jealous and talk to a shit ton of bands and hopefully we'll have a bunch of new shows lined up when we get back and we'll do that through the holiday season we'll take off for new years and all that and then we'll come back and you'll not remember who we are same old same old anyhow this week uh really really good show lined up for you with a camaraderie who i'm i'm i could not be more excited for this interview for two reasons one they're an amazing man um great band if you i mean they're kind of hard to classify but they're in the vein of refused kid dynamite um fugazi i guess a lot of kind of hardcore-ish type bands um i don't know whatever you want to classify it as but they're really really great i'm a big fan of their work and secondly because they are from redwood city california which is where sound guy and airman and myself were both born and for the most part raised and we've interviewed a ton of bands from the bay area a ton of bands from san francisco from oakland uh from a couple from san jose santa cruz a lot of bands from all over the area this is the very first band we have ever gotten uh who we've ever spoken with who's been from redwood city california and i am pretty goddamn stoked on that and uh it doesn't hurt that they're a really really good band it would really kind of suck if i was like we got the first band from like if i was from san jose and i was like oh it's our first interview with a band from san jose and it turned out to be smash mouth like i'd be way fucking bummed because they're terrible but camaraderie is actually really really good so we have an interview with the band and uh because one of the guys in the band runs uh the record label as it is a record label i guess it's pretty independent but it's legit uh it's called blood town records they have put together some stuff that they're going to be giving away um i don't remember all the details of it uh we'll get you all set up but they did say they're going to be giving us a copy of the burn your bones cd lp dvd ridiculous package combo set which is the last pressing of that vinyl so uh it's pretty cool and there'll be some other stuff but we'll get the details for sure but we're going to tell you how to enter that at the end and you'll be entered for a copy of that um yeah so we got the whole interview the whole band it's pretty tight they're going to be playing at the best eight coming up in like four days so if you listen to this before you go please check them out they're doing a show friday um they're playing i want to say saturday but they're also doing a show friday at a warehouse where they're going to be doing a refused cover set so that's going to be amazing so uh yeah we're going to do the interview before we do that we get a track off of their last uh album i guess eight song collection called a wolf ticket uh we're going

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silencing revolution we're hanging out outside of 924 gilman with uh the entire uh crew of comadre here if you guys want to uh go around i guess introduce yourself do the little name what you do hi i'm jack i play guitar on the on stage left i'm west i play drums center center stage bro i'm kenny i play guitar stage right uh steven on the bass guitar uh slightly off center to the stage right side and i'm on and i just sing and i'm kind of like you're in stereo in stereo i'm all around he's all right he was kind of all around dude if we were in the if we were don't cup it bro i keep thinking i'm on i feel like i'm on when i hold the mic i'm on as long as you don't jump around in the back of the van we're gonna be all right hell yeah i'm pretty chillin i pulled a hammy so yeah oh while you were out there it was a stiff it was a stiff set it looked all right i don't know it felt good but it was just like man the funny thing is as soon as i walked on the stage i pulled the hammy i'm serious and then you flat and then you flat tired flat tired me dude seriously first it's because we don't play on stage this kind of thing all right as soon as i get up bad luck no no please feel free to talk as much as you want no one wants to hear me so it's it's true um so i guess the easiest place to start a brief history of the band how you guys got started doing this it's it's the staple setup okay here we go here we go yeah this is steven again uh uh in a sentence uh jack and i were in a band we're related as well one and kenny were in a band they're related both bands broke up i got kenny's number and i was like we should start a band and then we did my dude that was it that was a march march 2004 i called ben murray the drummer former drummer of like this city and i was like current front man current current front man of heart sounds pop punk duo um and uh and asking for kenny's number we had like uh i had never like i vaguely knew wanting kenny from like going to shows and wes and i uh drummer uh had known each other since like the sixth grade and uh and actually our first show our first like public whatever you know performance was at at the last shows oh of all those bands of our other two bands oh wow yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we played all three of our songs yeah we had three songs at that point it was fun so you just left all the gear up after one of the bands yeah everyone was like what's going on yeah their band played their heart cross love or what uh our band steven and my my band played and then uh heart cross love played and then we just like yeah jumped right on we're like hey don't nobody go anywhere we're gonna do some real quick and we did it was fun nice it's been the same five of us the whole five years yeah that's true that's true since march 2004 first practice nice same dudes so it seems to have worked out pretty well yeah yeah yeah i mean we all we all hang out together as just like friends anyway so it's like if this band wasn't a band we'd probably just all be kicking it yeah yeah yeah and if one yeah and if one person was out it would be it would probably work out yeah yeah it's gonna be done it does not would not function without one of the five so i was gonna say you guys have there's two sets of brothers right you guys are brothers and you two yes uh having two sets of siblings you guys tend to fight more or less do you think than bands who don't have siblings go uh i'm gonna take this one again because i like i always respond the same is that uh having the two brothers it makes it or two sets of two brothers it makes it like there's three people instead of five it's just like it just goes it just tends to go like like jack and i always like usually are on the same page and one and kenny are usually on the same page and wes is like yeah whatever any like infighting is kind of done quietly between yeah that's true or via text messages yeah the brothers just so after the show like brother will go and like grab the other you know brother's arm like a dad will do to like his bad kid you know kind of just grab him and pull him aside listen in front of me the two brothers his family you're making me look what'd you make me do that in front of these people try to hold this last name yeah so no it's cool legacy yeah i don't know we're the last in the line it's true my aunt told me that in missouri one time we were the last shirley's and we had to breed oh it's over sorry my family has hope for our name but i was like it ends with me you're in a band that's the whole point of being in a band right close enough we make little babies all the time there are songs as close as it gets what oh shit oh no oh what yeah chris could probably just jump in on this we're doing it come on in come on in that's chris that's chris that's fine i don't mind oh yeah he is coming in he's coming in he'll he'll drop some truth bombs on you he'll drop truth bombs in the background that's yeah hey just sit back there and reiterate and agree with that so okay you guys have you recorded two lps both within about where they came out both about a year apart and then yes is the the new one is not considered an lp right you guys would say well it's i mean it's on an lp it's on an extra long ep you know i don't think we didn't really have any prerequisite for the record as to calling it full length short length ep it was just sort of like we started writing songs and it's kind of like we just kind of had this rounded out uh seven songs i don't know if you consider if you consider two of the songs full songs you know it's just it's a release it's just a release in itself that's all it is yeah people want to say like whoa fucking this new hour dude too short it's just like well then fucking don't call it a full length it's like it's like rlp it's rlp but your guys is ep so i'll uh it's like a long period i think they have i think you know dropping the name yeah it is it had been two years since we put out something new and we were doing a tour we wanted to do a release and we got to that point you're like well this like this feels done it's like we wrote a song that ended the same as the first song like all right it's finished yeah honestly i don't i don't know if we could i don't i don't know thinking about writing more for this set of songs i don't know if there would have been anything else it would have like it would have either just saturated yeah it would have been like redundant or whatever like it felt like i had a good balance and it was felt done and we did and we did do a handful of cover songs oh that's true we supplemented it yeah it's like yo if you wanted more check out our covers we had to rewrite those it's like it's like a supplement yeah it's like the it's like the reader for the textbook yeah oh yeah anyway it's a solution it's the solution manual yeah man for the stop he's he's training to be a math teacher and that's why he talks like that wow that's why he talks smart that why he knows what say good okay all right sorry enough what was the question we got way two lps and then the new one's not not unless you want it to be it's a longer l it's a longer ep i don't know to be continued yeah to be continued yeah so okay there were two questions that were brought up that i kind of want to ask so this the the last song ends the same way the first song begins was that something you guys kind of worked out or did you were just like hey that kind of fits there as well the last the last song was written first before the first intro point and then and then the idea came of we had the idea of doing like a drum vocal song and then when that was sort of getting brewed and sort of like kind of be trying to be created we're like wait a second let's take let's take the end of the last song we had just gotten stoned yeah we had just gotten wait a second wait whoa hey wait a second here man the end of that last song pretty groovy in the beginning but reversed it backwards backwards we almost actually well there was a brief talk of actually playing the whole like not playing it backwards the way we played it backwards but actually like playing the tape backwards you know what i mean so as you know like a reversed version yeah so like all the drum hits went like yeah that would be because that would have been a trippy intro but then it it was not a good idea it wouldn't have worked out are we it wasn't great it was probably like bam or weed you know what i'm saying that shit fell from the vine we didn't pick it yeah so just kind of mediocre ideas come from it yeah i don't yeah that's the people who are listening to this just came into this podcast now we didn't really smoke weed that's true we don't read when we write yeah or every except except one that's a different story i'm sorry i'm sorry okay some of us get high let's keep going can i tell a funny story i like that i didn't even ask that and you now feel the you have to justify if you do or do not smoke weed we all feel awkward amongst each other right now you want names you want names steven steven's got a funny story can i can i get like a non sequitur in here yeah go for it so like though no but this is really regimented if you if you break off at all it's gonna fuck the whole flow up make it quick we got battery life to think about all right so really batteries so juan and west smoke a lot of weed and me and me and kenny and jack have never smoked weed and except that i got married two months ago and and uh like these dudes organized this crazy bachelor party weekend we had this little like uh controlled experiment where all of our friends who were there who didn't smoke weed no okay where all of our friends who don't smoke weed or have never smoked weed smoked for the first time together yeah it was amazing we all got high together it was crazy dude the whole band was high together like like we've been to japan together we've been to europe together i think smoking weed together was probably it was like going on the top it was like we went to another planet together we went to the moon together yeah we played a show on the moon together let me tell you the next camaraderie release is a lot slower we started working on it it's tight so anyways so that's my funny story take that japan yeah not that impressive now uh-huh back to uh the music and the things you guys have been uh pretty uh fiercely diy for your entirety of the band well i mean one of your albums it has on the back diy or die on it so yes that's our record labels um logo is it that is wow yes yeah so um how how has that come like is that one of those things where you guys have just kind of you started out of necessity doing kind of all your shit by yourself and it's just carried on yes uh it did you know it did start just like that but then as it as it got uh as it kind of built up over time personally i've realized that the more other people get involved in everything the less goes right and the less gets done correctly so like uh now it's become just a preference more than anything else before it was a necessity now it's like totally a preference i mean there's because there's there have been labels there's small you know small labels even just or friends or whatever they're interested in and want to want to put something out but then as soon as any kind of control is out of our hands everything just kind of falls apart because i don't know people don't care enough yeah and we care a lot so um so yeah everything we just do it all ourselves with artwork and the recording it just works yeah perfectly for our situation having 100 control uh i'm not just artwork but everything like the record itself and you know who yeah like the production yeah the writing and the pressing and the artwork and just any every every aspect of the whole thing is important to us it's very important yeah we're particular we care and we care a lot about like what people are gonna like people are paying like to have this and it like has our name on it it's like well that's yeah i don't want them to get like a big pile of shit i gotta that's another thing yeah that's that's another reason like when we did uh when we did uh when we did the burn your bones record there was a there was a label who wanted to put it out but they didn't want to put out what we wanted we wanted some kind of elaborate packaging yeah and like we wanted to be worth like a lp with gatefold and the cd dvd somewhat elaborate yeah that's when we get creative and no one else is involved but like the we wanted to do you know like this picture disc lp and we wanted to do this 12 page full color booklet with like a cd you know o card and all this shit yeah and um and the label's like yeah we want to put the record out but we don't want to do any of that stuff yeah and so yeah like we'll do a black and white booklet and we'll make extra booklets to throw in the lps yeah it was it was total like in cut corners and we're gonna press it this place you got to get rid of all your like unlicensed audio samples that are in the songs yeah so that's when it became um more of a necessity and uh and that's when it was like for real because before it was like oh we're spray painting covers and we're kind of xeroxing stuff but it's like now we got to put up a bunch of money to like get this pressing done for the tour and everything and uh that's when it became more serious uh with that record and then yeah the re-release got even more extravagant than than all that but um couldn't be more fulfilling yeah it feels really good to like to work really hard on something everybody's involved i mean we're like everybody's got a hand in the artwork or like uh look for the that re-release um wes and kenny did a whole like dvd of uh of live footage for like four years with the live footage they edited it all down to this like hour and 45 minutes like whatever collection you know yeah um i i remixed and remastered all the audio um steven and i did the layout and uh and we used a bunch of the artwork from the old stuff and at the same time actually juan was working on all the artwork for the new record like we it was it was a full you know like collaboration of everybody to get all this stuff done and like and when you see it when it's all done it's like it's very fulfilling i feel like every day for like a couple months our brains were just we busted ass so hard on that shit like it was that that thing was happening and the new record was happening we were writing and finishing and recording and doing artwork for that and that mixtape thing was all within like a month holy all being finished at once that was insane and then we're about to leave for tour and kenny's working on booking a tour all the same time so yeah it's a it's a it's a busy schedule yeah favorite moment of that like i think i had to go to the studio to get something for the editing of the thing while you were in the studio doing the new mix while you're talking to uchu in japan on skype talking about the new release coming up so jack's like they're like mixing the new shit talking to uchu about our new release about because he's gonna help us out with the wolf yeah it was and i came out i was like yo i need this i like drove like a half hour come down there we're trying to edit this shit oh what are you doing your remix oh you're giving me this yeah there was a day there was a day where i'm working on this fucking mix and i'm remixing this thing and i'm talking to this dude on skype to japan and i'm emailing this guy in germany about all the same thing and it's like it's it's fucking a lot of fucking work goes into this it sounds like it that was just me that day like everybody else is doing all this other stuff too so um but anyway yeah do you guys have time to have other jobs you don't have time but you do yeah i was gonna say i wouldn't imagine i mean not to be insulting but that this pays for this is a labor of life yeah yeah this is this is life for us yeah this is what it is yeah it's cool yeah yeah it keeps us busy it's what we like to do fair enough fair enough um being i mean i can ask what you guys do but i mean that's kind of the uninteresting question so no offense no offense i'll pass it's not interesting yeah well you just film porn she does the porn star in my free time you know the mythos about yourselves right now yeah this is cool i'm one of you guys as a freelance skydiving ninja and the other one uh you know i don't know spends records on the ocean or i was i was gonna say this was a top secret but i'm one of the blue men he's the guy on the on the 55 gallon drum in the back there we go it's all now we know and so you never expect who it's gonna be no but um so back kind of on the diy thing do you guys feel that because you are you do it all yourself and all all of that um that you guys get measured a little more strictly than like necessarily other bands like when you go somewhere and you talk to people are they ever like so what do you do to make money and like they when you answer they're kind of like hmm like do people ever gauge you on that like they hold you to higher standards steven uh i feel like we get taken less seriously because of it like like because we don't because our name isn't attached to like death wish or bridge nine people like uh oh yeah this these these kids are like out here having fun that's cool that's cool at the same time too it's weird uh like i guess with a diy i think i think people actually expect less from you because you're doing it all yourself you know i mean they don't because you have some big backing or anything like that and when they see they'll see something like some ridiculous packaging or something like that and it's like huh where'd that come from yeah they don't expect it or like um and when it comes to the money thing actually we've we've gotten like pegged as like rich kids because we have we have a van that doesn't break down like and we have decent equipment and stuff like that but truth be told we just paid this van off this year five years alone uh we're not rich kids we just have good credit because we just it took us five years and we just paid this van off finally so i shouldn't break anything this van wow but yeah you know five years ago we're doing our first u.s tour and people see us roll up in this like you know almost brand new yeah cargo van passenger van or whatever and it's like what what you're fucking you're like a daddy buy you that van it's like no the bank owns this yeah i sold my soul for this van more than we own our van totally but anyway i just called someone we don't even know what that probably doesn't even exist right now wait no no i know who's talking about yeah yeah there's anyway he's a good guy he's a good guy he just got off on the wrong foot yeah yeah you don't that's all right we're never we're not trying to expose anyone or anything so we are i love kick crash so kick crash that's all it has dudes i do low kick i love it yeah you got a new record out those guys are doing good things yeah that's true portland they're all in portland check out that real time truth bombs all right all right uh we're going to take a quick break as we do in the middle of the interview it's a long interview but it's good because not only is the interview really good but their songs are pretty short so it evens out anyhow uh we're gonna be back with more of the camaraderie interview wrap it up the last section i don't even remember everything that we talked about in the last section but the interview was a couple weeks back and i have a terrible memory but i remember it was pretty good i remember uh after the interview i came to the realization that i've met jack surely from the band before and that was really embarrassing anyhow uh we're gonna go into the singing half i don't remember what song i'm gonna play right now but it's probably gonna be pretty good i'll tell you the song i'll pick the album it'll be off of the their split with train wreck i'll pick the song later but if you like the song pick up their split with train wreck the first track was off of their album a wolf ticket this one's off of their split with train wreck it's all available at bloodtown records google it it'll come up promise uh we're gonna bust that out then we're gonna be back with more and then be sure to tune in at the end to find out how to win some free swag from camaraderie including a copy of the

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about when you're talking about being rich kids it kind of triggered something so you guys uh from redwood city when you get when you when you tour around the world do you ex take the 10 minutes to explain where it is or do you just go uh san francisco yeah san francisco well well we'll roughly say like yeah it's like 25 30 miles south san francisco yeah you know what peninsula is yeah yeah there's a city called san francisco and then there's a city 50 miles away called san jose and then there's a peninsula right in between sometimes we can throw a cupcake in the middle we actually we have this you can go dude all right you want to say something yeah i would say yeah i would say sometimes we could throw down the spaz bomb and then people understand like oh spaz yeah yeah that doesn't work all the time no no no we also have this live dvd that no one buys it has a map of the of the peninsula on it and so sometimes we'll just open that and we'll be like that's where we're from yeah actually i have friends in san francisco who don't know it's because everyone from san francisco isn't from san francisco yeah they're from ohio and have moved to san francisco yeah it's the greatest city in america best climate in america yo rich all right i'm sorry yo rich is from redwood city i'm pretty sure right yeah both born and raised so that's why it's i got excited i was like oh shit someone's from redwood city that means that that means they know we are rich kids well wait wait i lived on f street man jack and i live in epa now that's true yeah we got so much street cred that's another one of it's one of those weird peninsula things where you're like oh i live in east palo alto oh palo alto's really nice no no no no no excuse me excuse me epa yeah yeah true is it yeah dude they do not want to be associated not want to be wait what county is it in i didn't know that now that they put in the best buy in the ikea it's there's a there's safe areas for like you know middle-aged white people the government has a hand they're sneaking in there man there's still there's still no grocery store no no grocery store in the whole city there's 20 there's 20 fucking churches yeah there's a ton of there's a ton of markets if you want to go there's like a ton of little liquor stores yeah but you don't want to go adam a barnes told me he saw somebody smoking crack out in front of one of the other day uh did he get some no he's buying some this band uh this band uh with me for the last week uh make recording a full everybody should check out marrow they're really good um but actually yeah and the mixtape that came out today they have a song on it second to last song check it out yeah but anyway but they um it's always funny when people come from out of town because they kind of like go walk around east palo alto which like none of us yeah which i would not it's not really unsafe it's just kind of sketchy you know yeah it's not like you're fine but like fine i don't i don't invite trouble yeah i don't want to go to that corner store anyway yeah you know what i mean but um but it was fuck you corner store take that i always hear stories about people walking around and going to those stores it's just like there's a bunch of you know just ghetto dudes hanging out bunch of brackets kicking it well i mean who else i mean not not to say it's a bad area but i mean who's gonna hang out in epa in front of a liquor store midday that's a good point he's got a good point a crackhead kids from tacoma yeah yeah all right anyhow it's got its charm excellent so uh you were mentioning the mixtape and get this is today it came out the third one right yeah third mixtape how did that get started what did you guys motivated you to kind of put that all together uh i'm really really into hip-hop and like like the whole mixtape thing like pretty much was born in the hip-hop like scene you know and like it like usually became before albums or in between albums and it was like a cool thing because it was just like there was just all this extra like you know music that that this artist had and they're like fuck it i just want to let have it you know go to waste like fuck it put out mixtape put out like a 20 track mixtape put it out like for free and since jack over here owns a studio where we all record at um we were just like well you know we're fucking we got a goddamn studio let's record a bunch of shit or you know extra stuff we always got fucking ideas we always got time and ideas yeah so we're like all right let's do the mixtapes and then every every few months put out a mixtape uh have a theme the first one was uh pretty much all like unreleased b-sides like all camaraderie stuff um vinyl exclusive tracks that that were you know on computers uh the second one was all covers that we did of like singer songwriters yeah this third one was more of a traditional mixtape where we all chose like four songs of different bands none of our is on there and uh except that intro that that amazing intro by the way thank you oh that was that was the west got a rmb uh album little plug real quick got a rmb album coming out try well the group is tritanic tritanic of course well as far as this afternoon goes we decided on tritanic is me kenny and auto-tune yes it's a trio it's a trio it's a trio it's a trio it's a trio don't don't don't don't don't spoil it anyways so this third mixtape is this third mixtape yeah we only put three people let me put chris on there um so this third mixtape we're really stoked about one's one's tired of us he's leaving yeah go for it we were we were able to get like a bunch of like uh our buddies bands that give us like uh new unreleased like we got dead to me hour the wolf yeah it's alive we actually got rocky volatilato yeah on there yeah there's some big names on that all together pretty cool anyway and you know we even made sure to the to ask the correct person we kind of just didn't the rocky volatilato thing the dead to me thing we definitely were like hey we're not gonna get a fucking email from yeah the legal department yeah the legal department but so yeah and everyone was cool with it everyone agreed and said it was very it was awesome and you know so if you want download it for free sick drug front s-i-q-d-r-u-g we'll put a link for it up on the website it's a little bit easier but yeah well no it's it's a long url a little bit a little bit but so we'll put we'll put a link up for it and it's free music so most people download illegally anyhow so yeah yeah this is legal this is legal i don't know if that makes it more or less appealing but yeah yeah right that's true it's just super sketchy it's just super sketchy okay we didn't ask about records we just yeah we did you know what i'm saying

one person gets evicted from their house every time you download that shit it's nice a family of sixes houses house goes into foreclosure every time you download illegally that's how fucked up it is man but uh you know people really want the shit you know what i'm saying another another shitty hardcore band reunites every time

that's gonna let's be honest that'll happen regardless there's another shitty hardcore we have from 1992

so um talking about shitty hardcore um and then writes an album that can't compare all right i had a question because talking about shitty hardcore it does seem on uh the new release the new lp ep um that you guys reference kind of a little bit i try to stay away from lyrics but especially because the singer's gone but yeah but uh it does seem like there's a little bit of bashing in terms of like certain types of hardcore just you know the music scene in general how it can be uh do you guys want to talk about that at all like sure your experience with that or how you feel about it sure someone say something i mean you don't have to be specific no no no he's like sure who wants to answer yeah we'll take that did someone say something first first of all for the overall answer yo to each his own if you like it you like it okay now go ahead yeah absolutely i mean yeah yeah like what you like but i mean listen to what you want to listen to but know what you're listening to i mean no are the bands do the bands that you're listening to have anything to say like what what are the bands you're listening to all about are they playing hardcore because they're trying to make a living and they're trying to make money off of it well that's kind of weird like or when you buy your when you buy a record is it where who's the money going is it going to them is it going to their record labels you know what's what's that all about and then and aside from that it's you know what the fuck are they playing and it's like if they sound like 50 other bands like who gives you shit like i have this weird thing i do where like i hear a band that sounds like something and then i hear another band that sounds just like that band i'm like oh i don't need that i already got it and so like i already own that cd so the hardcore section of my itunes like is really small as a result of like that weird but if they're having fun then hey i guess you know but that's and that's a weird thing too it's like like after touring and stuff like that you like there's so many bands it's like it's so easy to just start a band and do a tour or do whatever you know i mean or at least on a small level yeah yeah and um at some point you just want to be like yo man have you guys like paid your dues yeah we ain't gonna say it but it's like in our heads it's like god damn there's just so many bands right now you see a lot of the exact same band you go to europe already you see a lot of you see a lot of people who like who who don't really seem to even be that excited about what they're doing you know i mean being on tour you see you see so many bands play every night and and to just sit there and watch somebody like like i'm not convinced that they're that they even want to be there you know it's just like and so i don't know that's why yeah i don't know it's like all this free downloading and stuff i love it because it keeps the fucking riffraff out you know i mean people who people who are like oh fuck i'm not i'm never gonna get to get anywhere with the way things are going right now it's like cool you know you stay in your basement you know what i mean yeah keep watching dvds and there's yeah or just like those bands yeah rollerblading dvds

would this be a bad time to ask how you feel about rollerblading oh no because i have i have a stack yeah question nine gone i don't know jk bands or bands that feel like i don't know uh being in a show with like a seeing like a big a big band play it's almost like they feel like the crowd like oh like their fans owe them something and it's just like i don't know i just hate that like that pompous stuck up per like persona that a lot of bands uh give off it's just like you would literally be nothing without all these people that support your music and it's like and i'm not and i'm not saying that we like defy all these cliches that i'm calling out i'm just i'm just aware of them and like try to my best to stay away from them like try to be creative and like try to do something different i don't know that's yeah that's something like i think it's always been important for all of us especially i mean i know it's really important to me that when i'm making something new it should either be something it should either challenge like the things that i've done before um and at the same time kind of like try and push and challenge what what else is being done or what else has been done a little progressive so yeah i mean like if because if you're not if you're not progressing in what you're doing you really there's no point you know i mean it's like we've done that we've had we've had discussions in this band where it's like we're starting to write for a new record and it's like if this record is going to sound just like the last record we can just stop you know i mean because there's really like i don't want to i don't want to be that band that just puts out the same thing over and over again because it's just like it's boring as shit drop out and make some room i heard i heard if i said that once well that's why the new record is all electronic

just kidding all right but uh so yeah you guys talking about your own music it is it definitely is a mix of different things i mean you'll have been i mean i'm not a music expert so i'm not going to pretend to be like oh you guys use this chord at this point but you know there there's there's definitely it seems like there's different influences all the way from hardcore to like almost dance like dance rock i mean we don't get us we we pull from a lot of other bands that we like but as long as it's a variety but so i mean at the same time try to try to make it our own we have this one song that is a flea wood mac song yeah yeah actually yeah yeah what is the name of that song make me believe no i know our song was the chain yeah there's a bass riff in there i'm pretty sure other people have used that bass but man how do we change a couple we change it's in a different key it's way too fast check out the end of the chain and then put on the burn your bones first track and just be like oh yeah we heard that song we were just talking about how how awesome that part in that how great with a bass it's just like boom yeah do do do do do do do and we're just like dude and then let's fucking write something with that and now you sing now it's all do do do do do do do do do do do do do you know what i'm saying check it out we generalize the shit out of that thing anyway but yeah at least it's not a converger if you know what i'm saying that's all i'm saying it's true just yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna rip somebody off you know rip somebody off it's like not so obvious and not go for it whatever you know uh done a lot of people are doing that you know yeah yeah anyway matt what you know oh yeah i don't imagine there's a lot of uh hardcore kids who would admit to listening to fleetwood mac so i think you're a little bit you're safe i love my favorite band i think there's probably some who listen but less who would admit okay sure sure sure admitting and listening are different things but um so yeah but you guys you have kind of a broad sound is it has it ever been difficult to find bands to play with live in terms of meshing audiences or has there ever been an occasion where you guys have gone on and it's been like an audience that you know just totally despises you yeah it's been it's been both actually yeah it's cool because like uh since it's kind of like i don't know okay i'm gonna people are gonna disagree with me but like if you like the emo genre music whatever like the original one it's like so it's stuck somewhere between like indie rock and punk rock and hardcore it's like it's got elements of kind of all of them you know and so uh it allows you to to potentially fit in with with way more yeah bands but at the same time um some of the more some of the more straightforward bands and crowds they uh they don't like different stuff you know we did like this tour with have heart not that long ago and it was weird man it was it was have heart shook ones rotting out in us yeah and it was a pretty diverse lineup yeah yeah big ups to have hot frasca oh yeah thanks all those bands that's the thing we super nice guys all everyone like tour it was so awesome that they would want to do a tour with with that much diversity because they're aware that the people that listen to their music are pretty like you know like the bridge night hardcore they know what's up have heart know what's up so so it's really cool so like to have a um i don't know to put something like that together but yeah it wasn't i it was successful and that like we all had fun and stuff but like there was i mean most nights everybody's just standing there with their arms crossed you know yeah watching us play um but yeah yeah i um i feel like uh we definitely have found like we've we've gained acceptance from bands of a lot of different genres i feel like we're like that uh we're like that comedian that that other comedians like but no one else likes you know like that band like that band that a bunch of other bands like he's such a funny guy but uh but like uh not to like not to toot our own horn but i think it's amazing that it this year will have played rain fest dude fest and the fest like i don't know it's just like all different festivals it's yeah but but i mean you look at the genres of bands on rain fest it's like a bunch of like tough guy hardcore type of stuff um you know barring a couple bands like broadway calls and us and whoever and then dude fest is uh i don't know what kind of bands play dude fest there's a mix there's a mix but you got like grindcore bands and more like uh like stoner jam hardcore bands and stuff and then they threw us in there and then the fest is like a bunch of punk rock and pop punk and like a little bit of hardcore and throw us in there too so i just think it's cool that we're able to like just kind of but there are occasions where it's just awkward you know where you get on yeah they don't they're they don't get it or i mean or sometimes they that's another thing too is that some sometimes people just like they might not have heard or seen a band like like this before and uh and they'll just stand there and just kind of watch it and we're just like oh man these people hate us then they'll go buy a bunch of records and it's like oh cool maybe they actually did kind of like us you know so like um so yeah i don't know it's a mixed bag yeah fair enough um i guess we're gonna wrap up because we're running out of time and batteries and all that um anything you guys want to plug before we uh wrap up yeah calls b-way calls i was reading an article and they plugged us yeah they did oh yeah broadway calls on the cover of the new amp magazine that's tight new dangers album coming out uh soon i mean we plugged a lot yeah check check out the new mixtape i mean 19 plugs oh i don't know dude rumors about some split records oh yeah there's supposed to be this record coming out soon

but it's supposed to be a three-way split can i say it yeah yeah with with uh us is you exclusive yeah it's gonna be a camaraderie punch and glasses three-way split it's gonna be out this uh spring i guess summer ish so now you me and my mom know about that split that's sick she's excited yeah it's gonna be it should be three records in a package uh glasses is from germany they're on the mixtape as well uh punch is from san francisco they're awesome they're good friends there's gonna be tours to follow so we're stoked about that yeah and if you want to know about bands we want to plug they're all on the mixtape yeah there's 19 plugs yeah everyone except broadway calls yeah yeah we'll put that on there it wouldn't give us anything yeah well fuck them love you hey well thanks uh all right no no thank you guys it's really cool that you guys do this and uh yeah thanks for having us be a part of it hey we're happy to have you guys on it's no one would listen if it was just me i promise that's how it starts man my mom starts my mom would still be still that's all right um you guys uh good luck with all that and uh 2009 truth bombs all right all right so that was the whole interview i hope you guys enjoyed it um and if you are unfamiliar with comadre i really hope that you check him out and uh if you are familiar with him uh i really hope you enjoyed it and i hope we didn't rehash too much i i it's kind of an inevitability but yeah hopefully it wasn't too bad right all right so as i mentioned we have a contest to win some comadre stuff the only thing i know for sure 100 that they said would be there because we discussed how awesome the packaging was is the cd dvd combo pack of the burn your bones album there will probably be something else in there and if they don't throw something else in there we'll mail you a fucking pack of stickers or i don't know something some of my back hair well i've waxed it we got all the strips saved up with the hair on it that'd be nice when sound guy nairman shaves his beard when he gets back from fest we'll put it in a bag we'll give it to you it's pretty epic i'm pretty impressed i gotta say if you uh see sound guy nairman at fest he's gonna totally blend in way more than i will because he'll have a fucking really good beard except he shaved it around the neck so you don't have the neck beard going you gotta rock the neck beard would cut off your circulation anyhow um as i was saying they're gonna be giving away some free stuff so to enter send us an email at sound scene revolution at gmail.com uh we'll have it posted on our website and uh put camaraderie contest in the subject line and uh when you send the email send us your pertinent information name address and all that and don't worry we're not going to do shit with it we're going to forward it to the fine folks at bloodtown records which is the fine folk rather the one dude who runs it but um and he'll uh he'll send it out to you we're not going to keep your address we're not going to sell it we don't do anything with it um you know unless you write something that says like you guys suck balls and then i'll fly to your house and kick your ass personally but uh that's it otherwise you're all set so include that and uh just to make sure you were listening and you didn't just enter for free shit uh camaraderie's from my hometown they're from redwood city california what is your hometown um and fuck it you could even lie and i don't really care just say my hometown is and then where you're from uh but if you give a really lame answer like my hometown's atlantis or narnia or like fucking well what's that place fork washington the uh place where twilight's held if you do put that i will kick you in the balls until you're dead so even if you are actually from the same place that twilight is don't fucking put it all right other than that you're all set and you can get some free stuff so uh all right camaraderie um we're gonna end with a track off of burn your bones i don't have the track listing in front of me and their names are all so weird i totally blanked on it but it'll be off burn your bones so to recount the only track that i remember that we're playing here because we put i don't know if you're aware of the magic of the internet we record this and then we edit the songs and i don't just fucking hit a button and the songs play anyhow so the song listing the first song we played was grow worms off of a wolf ticket the second song that we played will be off the train wreck split and this last song will be off the burn your bones lp i don't know the name of the last two songs i'm sorry i kind of failed in that regard but uh be sure to enter the contest send us emails soundscenerevolution.gmail.com call us email us phone us uh we'll talk to you guys soon uh have a good time if you're at fest send us an email if you plan to come to fest and uh if you want to say hi we will probably be doing a couple of really really cool things while we're there other than getting really drunk and probably shitting in the street um but that's a for sure there will be other cool stuff but that's a definite so uh send us an email please we'd love to hear from you and hopefully we can hang out so uh comandre last track off of burn your bones enjoy it we'll see you guys next week have a good time

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