Interview with Cobra Skulls - Podcast 114

Posted by Rich on December 8, 2009

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This week we post and interview with a band I've been a fan of for sometime now.  Over two years and 50 podcasts ago we sat down with the members of Cobra Skulls.  At the time they had a couple of EP's and a split 7" under their belt and were getting ready for their first full length.  Since then the band has had a whirlwind of activity, releasing two full lengths, a 7" and a split 7" with Andrew Jackson Jihad, not to mention touring the world and giving up any permanent residency.  It's been a busy couple of years and we wanted to catch up, so we got lucky enough to nail Devon to a chair for a few minutes to chat.  It was great not only to catch up with a band I've been following over the years but also to see how much they've changed.  When I first talked to them the band seemed almost overwhelmed that anyone would even listen to them.  A couple years later they seem to have come to terms with it and used their new voice to help bring change they really believe in.  And if that doesn't do it for you, I think we also make some dick and fart jokes.

Also this week, we're opening up a new contest for a copy of the Cobra Skulls new album, American Rubicon, on a lovely 12" vinyl record.  It's some sort of colored vinyl but I don't really know which color...IT'S A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE!!!  Be sure to contact us at SoundSceneRevolution[at]Gamil[dot]Com, on Myspace and follow us at Twitter.com/SoundSceneRev.  Maybe we'll do some exclusive twitter stuff to make it pay off.  And remember "it's all part of the secular progressive agenda ... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square.  [B]ecause if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious-based, usually."
-Rich

Transcript (auto-generated, may contain errors; songs left out)

This is Devin from Cobra Skulls. You're listening to Sound Scene Revolution. Have a great night.

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And if you listened to last week's, this is not the holiday spectacular show. This is, in fact, kind of a regular show, but a good regular show. A regular show I'm really excited about. This week we have on Devin from Cobra Skulls, who you may remember we interviewed way, way, way, way, way back. Like, two years ago. And I run into him on occasion. And every time I run into him, Chad from the band would be like, you should do another interview with us. And I was like, I should, but I kind of want to wait until you guys have another full length out. And so, I believe it was earlier this year they put out American Rubicon. And I was like, we should totally do an interview now. And then they were like, fuck you, we're hella busy.

You're not getting shit. And so, it took me forever to get this interview nailed down. And I finally did. And Devin was really great. And here's a true story. Oh, wow. Sound Guy and Airman looked it up. July 2007 was our first interview. So, over two years ago. Like, two and a half years ago. Nice. But, uh, so, uh, I sat down. I was, uh, trying to get a hold of him. And I sat down with Devin finally. And then the next day, I got swine flu. Maybe you remember I was talking about that a couple episodes back. And, uh, this interview took place the day before I became severely symptomatic. And had a 102 degree temperature. And couldn't leave my house. And spent all night coughing and crying. And I looked awesome. And so, I hope Devin didn't get swine flu following the show.

But, uh, if he did, it's probably my bad. Unless he had sex with a pig. In which case, I'm totally not gonna take credit for that. Fat chick also counts. So, uh, if he had sex with a fat chick as well. Anyhow, we're gonna get on with the interview. And then, uh, be sure to listen. Oh, we, uh, two things. Two things. First of all, we have a contest. We're gonna be giving away a copy of their latest album. American Rubicon on vinyl. 12 inch, two sided, colored vinyl record. Uh, we'll tell you how to enter to win that at the end of the show. And then, number two next week is our Holiday Spectacular edition. With, it's a really exciting show. Like, it's not just our typical, like, Oh, we're celebrating a show. Here's a recap of shit you've heard already.

It's all stuff you haven't heard. That we're really excited to bring you guys. So, I hope you check it out. So, that's what we got going on. We're gonna play some music. Do the interview. And then, at the end of the show, We're gonna give away a copy of American Rubicon on 12 inch vinyl record. Sound good? Awesome. Now, since the last time we talked to Cobra Skulls, They put out three records. They put out, um, Sitting Army. They put out, uh, Never Be a Machine, 7 inch. And they put out, uh, American Rubicon. They also put out a split 7 inch with Andrew Jackson, G-Haw. But we're not talking about that at the moment. So, I'm gonna play one track off of each of those. First up, off of the album, Sitting Army. Uh, I'm going to play...

I don't know what I'm gonna play. Anyway, I'll play, uh, Faith is a Cobra. Because I liked it. I thought it was a great song. And, uh, quite frankly, they don't do the Cobra name thing anymore. So, we talk about that, too. So, listen to the interview. It's Faith is Cobra. Cobra Skulls. Offsitting Army. Enjoy.

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Um, so, Sound Scene Revolution. We're hanging out, out back of Bottom of the Hill with Devin from Cobra Skulls. I'd like to say hello, introduce yourself. Oh, yeah, I'm Devin from You Did It. Thank you. I know, I kind of, I stole your thunder. Uh, yeah. We can do the, what do you do in the band? I play bass and I sing. Yeah. Songwrite? And songwrite, yes. Interpretive dance? Sort of, I guess. Because, you know, I just let it flow through me. And whatever I do on stage is, I guess, dancing. Oh, yeah. Um, well, yeah. Also, the awesome hair of the band. Iconic at this point. Thank you. You're very welcome. It's one of those things. I don't get enough credit for it. No. You don't. I think it takes time and effort and it should be acknowledged.

All right. Thanks. Appreciate it. That's what I'm here for. Yeah. Um, so, on to the real questions. It's been, since the last time we talked, it was before you guys released, uh, Sitting Army, even. So, obviously, you guys have. I was out, we played at Annie's that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You guys have had two full lengths, a seven inch, a split seven inch since then. So. You still look handsome as ever, by the way. Hey, I look a little run down. I'm going to be honest. No, I don't think so. Thank you. I appreciate it. I like this little back and forth, the compliments we got going. It makes me feel good. Should I stop? No, no, no. Okay. It makes me feel, I like it. You're not getting too excited, are you? No, no, not yet.

Okay. I wish more fans would do that. Normally, I leave an interview feeling like shit, so this is nice. So, uh, what all have you guys been up to, uh, since that point in time? Since then, well, like, the two albums, uh, we did, like, we didn't really tour that much before then. Um, it was more like, living in Reno, we'd come down to the Bay Area, play a show or two. If we were lucky, go down to Southern California. And, you know, that was pretty much our, our domain. It was just, you know, California. We're in Nevada. Yeah. And then when we got with Toby and Red Scare and put out that first album, it was like, he really, because he knows so many people, you know, we didn't really have a booking agent and we don't, we still don't have a booking agent.

It's either just, like, I'm booking our shows through people we know around the country or we're, um, on, you know, a support act. Yeah. And so through Toby from there, right then when we got hooked up with him, it was like, we got on tour with, uh, with Mad Caddies and Against Me right after the album came out. So we just started touring right there. And, and, and since then we've been touring a lot and that's been good. And, uh, and we moved out, we, from, after Reno, for anybody who doesn't know, we moved to San Francisco, uh, and, and then Charlie, who was our first guitar player from Reno, he went to law school. And at the same time we had to move out of our, of our place in San Francisco instead of looking for a new place while we had to go on tour for four, for three months.

We're like, okay, let's just go on tour and not live anywhere. And then basically what we do is, you know, stay with friends and family when we're not on tour now, which is basically two to three months at a time. Very rarely. Yeah. Like, like from, from a year from right now, like a year ago, it's been, uh, like, like two months off, uh, no, three months off, I think. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So the past 12 months. Been busy. Yeah. Yeah. Do you just keep all your stuff in like storage? I think Offer Her Heads might be the only band that tours more than us right now. Yeah, who's playing down the road, by the way. Yeah, and they are playing down the road tonight. And I'm pretty sure Ryan is, and I don't mean this in any sort of derogatory fashion, I'm almost a hundred percent sure he's homeless when he's not on the road.

Like he doesn't have. Derogatory? Well, I'm not trying to be like, he's a homeless bum. I'm saying he, I don't think he has a stable residence and he just tours almost all the time. I think you're right. Cause I just talked to him about it before. Did you? You guys. Oh, so you know more about it than I do. Possibly. Wow. Look at that. But you'll have to wait for the next edition of Sound Scene Revolution. For the two-parter. Find out about that. The two-parter interview. Nice. So, um, on to what you guys have been recording musically. Uh, you guys did, uh, uh, Curious, the split 7-inch with, uh, Andrew Jackson Jihad for, uh, the, or, uh, Under the Influence series. Yeah. I don't normally stutter this much, I apologize.

But. That's okay. You guys picked a Bob Dylan song to do on that. Yeah. Correct? What was, uh, I mean. I guess that was my decision. Yeah. And I don't, you know, basically what I wanted to do was not cover a punk song. Yeah.

I guess, and it was like, I was just thinking of songs, and that, that was what popped into my head, and we listened to, you know, we were listening to the rhythm and the drum beat, and we figured, why not? And we had to record it. Like, we were, like, we were on tour for four months, and we had to record it the day we were off tour. Because, like, our situation is, we live in different cities right now. Now, as I said, we live with our parents, so Chad lives in Idaho, Adam and I live in California. Oh, wow. And so we, okay, what can we learn that's really easy, three chords, or something like that. And that worked out, and, and, uh, that's really the only explanation I have. It was easy, it was quick, you liked it.

Yeah. Nice, nice. You guys ever play it live? Uh, we actually have not played it live yet. Any requests for it? Yeah, definitely. So we'll play it, we'll start playing it, we'll learn it again. That's all, yeah. I figure at this point, because you guys have, you're, you're probably trying to do a lot off the new record. Yeah. You gotta relearn some stuff. That's the problem, too. We learned it the day before we recorded it, and we recorded it, and then we didn't play together for three months, and we got back together, we just got back together to practice a new album for two weeks before we went in the studio. And we were, like, you know, learning that song was not part, that was not our prerogative, you know?

Yeah. Uh, did I use that word right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah, not a priority type thing. Yeah, it was not our priority. Yeah, no, prerogative works as well. I'm pretty sure they're interchangeable. Right. The only time I really remember, yeah, that's the only time I really remember the term prerogative is from my prerogative. Okay. Which, right on. So, yeah, we, and so, you know, incidentally, we haven't picked it up since then. Yeah. Fair enough. But, I mean, you guys have a lot to play. I'd love to, yeah. Well, hopefully sometime in the not-too-distant future. Okay. So, about the new album, though, I asked people if they had any questions. One of the questions I got the most frequently is that you guys don't put Cobra Skulls in your song titles anymore.

Is that really what people still ask, even though we put a disclaimer out there on that one song? I'm not even kidding you. People were like, why don't they do it anymore? And I was like, I'll ask, I guess. I just, this is one of my two fans, the two people who listen. Like, why we didn't do it? Yeah. I felt it was a played-out joke that wasn't really funny in the first place, and it really detracted from the songs, I think. Like, you know. No, I could see that. We had people, I guess they were fans because they came to our shows and sang along and were excited about us, but they still didn't know that the chorus was Faith is a Cult. Yeah. And I could literally see people screaming, Faith is a Cobra. And I was just playing the song, I want to go, no, you're missing the point.

Stop, stop. Everybody hold on. No. So, that, you know. No, no. For an example, that's why. I could actually see how that, because it works very well. I mean. Yeah. And they were friends of ours, too. What do you say? I'm like, really? Okay. So. What do you say? That's what we say. Yeah, no more of that shit. No, fair enough. Fair enough. It doesn't make it easier or harder than title songs now, because you don't have to work it in there. That's a really weird question. It makes it easier, I think. Yeah. Because you don't have to try to work it out. I was always under the impression that titles don't really matter. Yeah. And names don't really matter. There's a lot of great bands with crappy names, and they made it. Yeah.

Cobra Skulls, we did on a whim. And we're like, it's the dumbest and the best name ever, is what we thought. It sticks with you. Cobra Skulls, that's ridiculous, and yet it's the best name ever. We were like, it's the best one. So, we stuck with it, and we didn't really think ahead. You're like, we're going with this, and we're running with it, and three years later, four years later, you're kind of like, wait a minute. Yeah. We're still using that name. Cobra Skulls? Cobra Skulls? Yeah. But, you know, it's easy to remember, at least. It sticks with you. Yeah. Plus, I don't know. With G.I. Joe, the movie coming out. Yeah. Well, it came out. On DVD. I haven't seen it. As if the Cobra Skulls. That should be your next, I'm going to put that out there right now.

Yeah. I'm going to throw that out. We didn't anticipate the G.I. Joe comeback, so. Yeah, well, I don't think the movie did that well. Did it, I don't know, maybe it sold a lot of tickets. Actually, someone came up to me the other day, did you like G.I. Joe, man? No, not really. What a strange question to ask an adult. I was more of a Voltron, He-Man guy, but, okay. Do you like G.I. Joe? Well, I do have the action figures in the van, all of them. Like, showing me his Cobra Commander tattoo and shit, and I really don't care to do that. Well, that'd be really awkward. I don't, like, what do you say if someone has, like, a G.I. Joe tattoo, and you're just like, that's probably a really terrible decision that you made.

In 10 years, not. Whatever.

It gets all the kids. Careful there. I don't think the kids are going to go for you if you have a Cobra tattoo. You have to have the G.I. Joe tattoo, maybe. But, uh, God, you're creepy. Oh, you're just horrifying. So. Snuck that in there, didn't you? I know. So, anyhow, as we mentioned, you've been living on the road, more or less. Has it been, I mean, do you think it makes it easier to do the band, or is it, are there times where you're out there and you're just like, God, I wish I could go home, have an apartment, have a 9-to-5? Definitely times where we wish we would have more of a 9-to-5 life, but, of course, when we're done with tour here in a week, we're going to get stir-crazy, and we're going to be twiddling our thumbs, and we're going to be broke, and want to be on tour, so, you know, I think every band goes through that.

Yeah, but the time it takes for you to get tired of the road is longer than the time it takes for you to get tired of being at home type of thing. Yeah, look, we're all good friends first, before we were even musicians or band members, and it's interesting because we're really good friends, yet being in such close quarters together in a van, basically 24 hours a day, we've been in each other's throats a few times. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. And it's like, under other circumstances, we would never fight, you know, but it's, you are a family in a band, and it's unavoidable, and it happens. Luckily, we're able to sober up the next day, and be able to apologize, and move on, and go to the next fucking town, because we really don't have any other choice.

Yeah, I guess that's the only option at that point. Yeah. Hey.

Sorry, I lost my train of thought. Sound Scene Revolution, middle section, here in between the two portions of the interview with Devin, where I hopefully didn't get him sick. We are going to be playing another track by Cobra Skulls. I'm going to play the track, Never Gonna Be a Machine, off there, Never Gonna Be a Machine, 7-inch. And, again, listen to the end when we're going to be doing the American Rubicon giveaway, and next week, we'll be closing up all other contests, except for this one, but we'll remind you of that at the end. Anyhow, Cobra Skulls, Never Gonna Be a Machine, Sound Scene Revolution.

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What's probably the worst fight that you guys have had, or do you wake up the next day, and you're always like, that was a dumb, dumb argument? It's hard to say, because sometimes a fight can be over something, nothing at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're like, why did we fight? One that was fun was Adam and I, where were we? We were in Cleveland the other night, and you could probably get a better story about it out of Teenage Bottle Rocket, because they were there. They were just watching the whole thing? It involved not giving my phone up, because it had our GPS when we were checking into a hotel, then someone went and got Taco Bell, and didn't get, and was, like, pretending they didn't get me Taco Bell when I asked for it.

So then, and somebody, this guy, flipped out, and then, you know, Adam may or may not have tackled me to the ground, and we were pretty much throwing blows at the time. And there was, like, a mall security guard there, too, in a cop car, and he pulls up, like, what's going on here? And I was like, I'll fucking tell you what's going on, man. I don't have any Taco Bell. He's like, calm down, or I'm going to arrest you. I'm like, all right, all right. It was a mall security guard? I don't really need to go into any more detail, but luckily, no one got arrested, and we're still good friends. Excellent. Oh, yeah. I would imagine, you guys seem to do pretty well. And you seem to like each other while on stage. It doesn't feel like the Pixies reunions.

That's good. And yeah, so you mentioned when you were on stage tonight that you'd actually, when you were here living in San Francisco for a while, you worked for the ACLU, and that was actually the motivation behind the, oh, I'm going to fuck up the name of the song. It wasn't really the motivation behind that song, Honorary Discharge Under the Influence. Thank you. But I ran into a guy who told, like, you're meeting random people every night, every day. Someone's, you're trying to get them to join some organization, and then they end up telling you their life story. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I got to move on to the next house. But he had an interesting story about how he was in Iraq, and basically, long story short, he decided it was, you know, not a worthy cause, and he wanted to get out, yet keep his money for college.

So, he found some loophole where if he got a DUI, he could still keep his money for college. So, he got, he said he just got drunk enough to where he would get a DUI, and he drove around, and some superior officer pulled him over, and he got a discharge, and got to keep his GI bill, and that was that. So, it's not a, well, I, it's not a bad idea if I was ever to be in the Army. I might actually do that sometime. Luckily, actually, I think I'm too old. Oh, yeah. No one wants you. I know. Not even the Army. Not even the Army. Even in a time of war. God. So much for the surge of troops. Dude. Whatever. I'm sorry. It's okay. I'm all right. Believe me, if there's one group of people that I'm okay not wanting me, it's the Army.

I'm all right by that. Anyhow. Me too. Yeah. I'm quite all right if they look at me, and they're like, no, we're not going to send you over. You sure? All right. You're like, I'm gay, and I've got a potbelly, dude. You don't want none of this. I'm flat-footed. I'm blind. Yeah. What was it? All the, you ever watch Arrested Development? Oh, yeah. All the excuses Buster has for, like, I don't even remember them all. I do remember at some point he says his penis is shaved like a lobster tail. I don't. I don't remember that one. Yeah. Take your word for it. These are the things that I remember. Anyhow. This can be edited. Yeah. Oh, it will. Okay. Not that, but other parts. Right. The meaningful stuff. Yeah. All the important things about song meanings and how much you care about the troops or whatnot.

That's all coming out. Hey, I care about the troops. Bring them home, right? Yeah. Hey, hey. I'm fine. Actually, they were talking about it on NPR. That may be what happens. Yeah. So, I'd be for that. That's one thing I miss about being on tour is I really have no idea what's going on right now. Yeah. Buy a New York Times here or there or a magazine. But, yeah. It's a good or bad thing, I guess. So, you're all out of the loop on, what's her name, Carrie Prejean, the runner-up for Miss America, the one who said she doesn't think gay people should get married. Oh, that was a long time ago, wasn't it? No, but she's back and she has a book.

Some American Idol girl has a porn tape, right? Sex tape? Probably. Carry underwear or whatever. Underwood. I'd be up for that. Wait, I'm sorry. That was my attempt at a joke. That makes me feel disgusting. I like it. I'm slow. Don't feel bad if I don't laugh at the jokes. But, anyhow. So, you guys got the new album. It came out how long? Not that long ago. American Rubicon? June. July, or July 7th. July 7th. How's the response been to it overall? Great. Really good, actually. Yeah? Yeah. Nice. Maybe read one initial review that was not as good and then, oh, no one's going to like this, no one likes it. But, really, for the most part, it's been great. I think we've been getting really amazing reviews from Europe. Really?

Yeah, we toured in Europe for a month and our label, Gunner Records, over there, has done some work and he's like, oh, every review is amazing. So, Europe likes it. Wow. That's cool. Have you guys been out there since it came out? Yeah, we toured there for a month in September, October. It all kind of blends together at this point? September, yeah. Okay. Yeah. We toured there before we were home for two weeks and then after the other time we were out on the road for nine months. We had two months here in the U.S. and we had five days off and we went to Europe and we had four days off and we got back and met up with Teenage Bottle Rocket. Jesus. So, that's, yeah. That's ridiculous. Yeah. When you guys are done with this, do you have plans?

For at least a little? Just working odd jobs and getting ready to go out again. Nice. Writing, whatever. Nice. What are some of the odd jobs that you guys work? I feel like I should talk about the music but these are the things that come to me as I'm talking. Yeah, no, that's great. Not really but you're going to roll with it. Before we went on tour, I worked for my uncle at our family farm. It's a citrus farm and like greenhouses, tangerines, oranges, delights and Chad, I think he's going to ski instruct. He's a great skier and he lives in Idaho. So, I'm going to go back to the farm probably, do some work on the farm, Chad's going to ski instruct, Adam, I'm not really sure. And you couldn't pick a better name for a ski instructor than Chad.

It's almost a little too stereotypical. Really? A little bit. Like, come on, you ever watch any of the 80s movies where there's like, I like Chad. I like Chad a lot. He's very nice but like, come on, if you ever watch any of the stereotypical 80s movies, there's always the nerd and then the jock always has some weird name, like, well not weird but, damn, I'm going to stop. You know what's great? This is good. What's great, we had a show in Wales or we had four shows in the UK and the talk of the town every night was, oh, your name's Chad? To our drummer. You know that chav in England means douchebag, right? What? It was our, it was the best thing that ever happened to Adam and I. And we stayed with this family and this old lady was, we stayed with these people who invited us after a show in Wales and their mom was there.

We stayed at their parents' house. She was wasted and she flipped out when she found out that our drummer's name was Chad and she just would not stop like, chav, chavie, chav. And she was really gave us all names but that's probably the best one. Chav means, like, you know Ali G, you watch the, so a chav in the UK is some guy who wears jumpsuits, like Adidas or Kappa, you know, all like, both two pieces and gold chains and shit. And that's a chav. Wow. Whereas a drive's, you know, Honda, lowered Honda. Yeah. I didn't even know, like, that is a chav. I was unaware of people actually, there was an actual culture like that. I didn't know Ali G was based on, that's embarrassing. He's not based on one individual, he's based on a bunch of, like a whole culture of people in the UK and their chavs.

That's fucking embarrassing. Wow. That sucks for Chad, especially when he's in the UK. Skiing, come on, 1980s jock ski instructor, not as bad. Not as bad. As an Ali G kind of. But, kind of, I mean, they wore, you know, Dayglo, neon, the tight one piece. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. Okay, there's nothing wrong with that. That's, believe me, when I get out of here, I got under this jacket, that's what I got going on. I got your Dayglo on. That's what I wear all the time. Makes me look amazing. So, on the new album, what are some of your favorite songs that you guys have gotten off of that? Uh, I think my favorite songs to play live are HDUI and, uh, it really depends. I feel like I like playing the older songs better live just because they're just second nature now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't got to think about them. Yeah. I like Rebel Fate and, I don't know. You guys did restart a couple of times tonight on the last one. What? No. That never happened.

Gotta start it off right. Yeah. Fair. Well, uh, you gotta get the good crowd response, I suppose. That's right. And did Cody have that fucking t-shirt? The, uh... Cody kept asking me when we were gonna play that song tonight. And I couldn't understand why. I figured he was... He had some friend he wanted to hear it. Yeah. He was gonna tell him. And then he popped... Oh, you're playing that last tonight. Yeah, we were playing last, and so he popped up on stage with his Che Guevara t-shirt. Which is pretty... And I figured it out. I was like, ah, okay. That's pretty well-timed. I was impressed by that. It was good, yeah. And if ever there was a place to buy one, it's San Francisco. They're kind of on every corner out here, which is...

Oh, yeah. It's good and bad, I suppose. As it is. Oh, the irony. Eh, yeah. But that's kind of what San Francisco's known for. Intentional and or otherwise. Well, Rich, I don't want to be dick, but can we wrap this up? Because this guy's empty right here. Whatever. And Lawrence Arms are about to go on. I wasn't even getting to my best questions. Which you didn't even mention. We were on tour with Teenage Bottle Rocket here and the Lawrence Arms. Yeah, and the Lawrence Arms. And they're about to go on. All right. Well, is there anything else you want to plug before we wrap this up so you can go watch the Lawrence Arms? Uh, no. All right. Okay. Yeah, all right. Thank you so much for taking the time. Thanks, guys. And we'll catch you guys later.

Appreciate it. All right. Thanks again to Devin from Cobra Skulls for help, for talking to us. Thanks to Toby from Red Scare for helping to set that up. And by the way, if you guys haven't heard by now, congratulations are in order to Senor Tobias Jig of Red Scare Industries, who we were told got engaged on that tour to a lady friend of his. And so now, he may not be married yet, but I think he's going to get married soon. So, he got enraged at a woman. He beat her. It was a little embarrassing to be there. But, uh, so congratulations to him. Toby has been a longtime friend of the show. He's always been really, really helpful for us. And so, we're, we always wish him the best. So, good luck. And now, it's time for you guys to get your fucking luck on when we give away a copy of American Rubicon, the latest album of the Cobra Skulls on 12-inch vinyl record.

Here's what you're going to do. Send us an email to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. Put Cobra Skulls contest in the beginning of the subject line. And, uh, then include your name, your address, all that shit, because we're going to send you a record, so we need to know where to send it to you. You can't come pick it up. You can't come to my house and pick up the record and come hang out. I don't like you. I will mail you a record with a fake return address, because I can't have you find me. I'm under witness protection. But, uh, answer the following question. The Cobra Skulls put in a series, you know, their first album, everything was Cobra this, Cobra that, and it was fun. And, uh, we, we talked about it with Devin, and they don't do it anymore, and that's fine.

But what would you name a song with Cobra and or Skulls in it? So, preferably both, if you could work it out, but, uh, I'm not going to hold you to a higher standard. But, uh, so work that out. Put that in there. Send us that email. It doesn't have to be creative. We just want to make sure you're listening, and then we'll pick a winner, and that winner will get a record. Next week, during our holiday seasonal spectacular Festivus show, uh, we'll be closing all our other contests, which will be our O Pioneers contest and our Cumadre contest. That Cumadre contest is a ton of really awesome shit that Steven Shirley has hooked us up with. The O Pioneers contest is, of course, for a copy of Black Mambas and, um, Neon Creeps.

They're two full lengths on vinyl. So, please be sure to check those shows out and enter. And again, next week, our big holiday spectacular, if you will. Um, some really exciting stuff that we're going to bring you guys. I don't want to talk about it just yet, but please tune in. It's going to be a ton of fun. We got one more track by Cobra Skulls that we're going to use to wrap this up. Uh, again, shoot us an email. SoundSceneRevolution at gmail.com. We're on MySpace. We're on twitter.com. Backslash SoundSceneRev. Um, I don't know. Maybe we have, we should start a Facebook, but I don't need another way for the internet to tell me I'm not popular. I think, I think, yeah, I think people ignoring us on MySpace and Twitter is enough.

If you demand it, we'll make it. Yeah. So, if you see, shoot. We're like Paranormal Activity. Oh. That's good. Yeah. That's good. I'd also like to make a note that when Nerman's referenced Paranormal Activity, I haven't once made fun of Twilight on this show, and it really is, it's an embarrassing-ass movie. So, SoundGuy and Nerman saw it when it came out. Opening night in theaters. In costume. Nerman was dressed up as the werewolf guy, but really, he just had a shirt off. But, um, everyone, everyone was like, Jacob! That's his name, right? Yeah. Everyone was like, it's Jacob! You really let yourself go. Anyhow, so, there, that's my one jab at Twilight. But, I'm done, uh, for the year, forever. We'll be back, uh, next week.

Check us out. We're gonna leave you guys with a song by Cobra Skulls off of their latest album, American Rubicon. I don't think I've picked out a track for this. Um, uh, you know, I'll just do Honorable Discharge Under the Influence because it's a good track. And, uh, we talk about it in the interview. So, there. Bam. That's how I make decisions. Show over.

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