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Keddies Resort
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Born in the sterile hills of Happy Valley Keddies Resort is breathing life into the bloated carcass of the rock world. With an ever changing sound they continue to find a unique position in the current musical landscape. Maintaining a foundation of punchy riffs, temple throbbing breakdowns and melodic intricacy, they have set themselves on a continuous crash course for musical explosion.
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:01
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You are listening to something rather than nothing. Creator and host Ken Volante. Editor and producer Peter Bauer.
00:00:17
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This is Ken Volante with the Something Rather Than Nothing podcast.
Guest Introduction: Kettie's Resort
00:00:21
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I'm super excited. I don't know if Kettie's Resort, the guest we have on, knows this, but been trying to get Kettie's Resort on this show for a bit because I've heard so much about their music and love their music and heard a bunch about the live shows. Joined here by co-host, Aidan Volante. I'm going to ask you, Aidan, to say hello. Our listeners, you might remember
00:00:45
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Aiden from the Feytooth episode. Aiden, say a word. Yo, what's up? My name is Aiden. I've co-hosted once before, so lots of experience. My pronouns are they, them, and yeah.
00:01:02
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Yeah, I'm going to have some going to have some fun here. Um, uh, Keddie's Resort. Um, you're up there in Portland. Uh, I really liked the music. Uh, you're slinging and I've heard about your shows, but, um, well, why don't you take just a moment to, uh, kind of introduce yourselves. The listeners get to know you are just your name, your role in the band and, you know, maybe like types of art you like or, you know, whatever a little bit about you.
00:01:32
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For sure.
Portland Music Scene & Band Style
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I'm Kety, singer-guitar player for Kety's Resort. I'm Shifty, and I play drums. And I'm Lefty, bass player and in-house caveman. Straight up. Also, thank you for having us on. We really appreciate it. Yeah, my absolute pleasure. We're very, very glad to have you. Our art and philosophy program, I have a lot of music. And one really cool thing about the show is
00:02:01
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A lot of Portland music, a lot of Oregon music. I've had Blackwater Holy Light, Psych Metal, Dirty Princess, a lot of folk music, singer-songwriter folk music from Portland.
00:02:19
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Tell listeners about Keddie's Resort, like, you know, what are you playing and just kind of like what you're trying to do with your art, with your project, Keddie's Resort? Yeah, we just, we hop around from bill to bill, like under a bridge or a legitimate venue with no people there. And
Live vs Studio Performances
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we just play fast.
00:02:47
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I guess melodic alternative punk shit. That's all I could say about that. Yeah. I mean, I think he hit it pretty much on the head. Like we're just pretty infatuated with playing live. And I think our music as of recently, this new album is going to reflect that. But we just want to play music that we want to listen to and hopefully put on a good show. We want to entertain too. So it's like we don't care if it's like
00:03:14
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Sometimes the worst shows you see live are like the most entertaining. So sometimes we're playing a horrible set and we're like, hey man, but they still liked it. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, no, I certainly love live music and speaking of which, uh, part of the reason, uh, that I brought Aiden on is he's seen, he's seen, uh, Katie's resort and, uh, Aiden, I just want to just want to ask you some, some, some thoughts or if you have any questions about like what Katie's is up to.
00:03:43
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Um, yeah. Um, so one of the questions that was kind of came off the top of my head is like, um, I've noticed that like, when y'all play shows, um, like compared to your studio versions, like it
00:04:00
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It comes out different, almost like it's heavier. And I'm just kind of wondering if that's kind of a deliberate thing or does that kind of come with more of the limitations of playing live or what? I think if you're recording stuff in a studio or in our sense, in a bedroom on a laptop,
00:04:23
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There's not like a crowd there to kind of like cheer you on or like reassure you to be like, no, that was good. Keep going. Cause then if you, if you're recording by yourself and it's bad and you're just going to kind of get like, it's not the same energy, but like if we play every time we play live, we just pretty much just like.
00:04:38
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It's kind of like a play date for us, man. It's fucking fun as shit. Yeah, I think when you're recording, you can take a lot of liberties with what you can do sonically. You can take a lot of time with layering things and making sure different things are highlighted. And so when you go to live, especially with only three guys, you can reach for that. But at the end of the day, it's like, how do we just deliver the biggest impact possible? And I think we sort of fell into that unintentionally. We just wanted to put on
00:05:19
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I was kind of like therapeutic to like just let all your shit out, even if it's like bad, having a terrible day. It's like just knowing like you play a fucking set and like, I don't know, just like seeing people like run around in a crowd. It's like a song that you made in like 15 minutes. It's like the coolest feeling. Dude, there's nothing better than getting fired and then like going playing a show. It's like watching a comedian and they say a joke and like they sat there for probably like a week making that joke. But then everyone gives it like a, it's like one of those jokes where it's like a round of applause.
00:05:35
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as energetic and good of a show as we can.
00:05:46
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It's like, oh, I made that in 15 minutes. And you're fucking just going ham on
Audience Engagement & Authenticity
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it. It's like the most gratifying, like, best thing, best feeling to make you crazy. Yeah. Well, one of the things, I mean, for, you know, sort of live music experiences is the audience. And I haven't been a musician despite a couple weird roads towards accordion and ukulele, but that's a whole other story. But I've always been I've always been a concert goer. And for me,
00:06:15
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for me on the on the emotions and the getting the shit out or getting fired and doing that or whatever is going on in your life i've um i listen a lot of styles of music but like for me i have a strong preference of like really intense or really heavy uh you know doom metal i'm really into but like really heavy music and um i find not only that it's like
00:06:40
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the what you get out and the energy that you need to get out. But for me, I've noticed something different when I was going to Doom shows. That shit was church. It was like, you know, it was dark.
00:06:56
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and some with the beats, and sometimes with the kind of tribal beats with it. And the community, I really like being around the Doom Metal community, at least in Pacific Northwest, that I've seen kind of cool. So it's like everybody's going to music church at the same time. And you see all the churchgoers that, so for me, it's like really not only getting the energy out, but like,
00:07:22
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the community. And I've heard that I've heard about the getting out of the energy at your shows. What do you do so that the audience feels like they can do that? Is it just the music? Is it like an attitude? It's really like all I mean, we always try to bring our best to a show, but it's really all about the audience because we've really realized in the past like few months
00:07:48
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how much that relationship between like what the crowd is giving you, you know what I mean? And like your job as a performer, you know, like how much that like impacts you, you know, and what that means. Like it's, uh, yeah. It's all in response, like a call and response, right? Like you could, like, even there's times where like, we're like feeling like low energy or whatever. And we're like, Oh, this show is going to suck. Or like,
00:08:13
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The turnout isn't what it is. And then you get on there and start playing. And there's five kids that are trying to rip each other's heads off. And it's like, oh, OK. We're in this. And it just changes. It's almost instantaneous. A lot of bands that I've seen, they kind of have, in their set list, they kind of have a swell into the energy, either at the beginning or halfway or whatever. But that's not really how we do shows. We kind of just hit it with immediate
00:08:43
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just like loudness and like energy, which I think some people are expecting and that's like what a lot of people go to shows for. So, and yeah, just us not really caring about how loud we are definitely contributes to like how much energy we bring. I think it also helps like, first of all, like being yourself, like not like you can go up and kind of like perform
00:09:11
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kind of just like play a character but you can also just like be yourself and it's always the best thing but it's also like the fact of people like hearing like unreleased music too and they only know you of like what's released so they come and see just like something that's like they've never heard before and maybe their friends like hey you have you heard this one song like plastic head like nah man I haven't heard it like oh we got to seem live to hear it all right just like
Recording Process & Influences
00:09:35
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I don't know, it's a game changer, it's completely different. All right. Kettie's songs are real singable. You know, you can go to like one or two shows and kind of get the gist of the chorus or like the catchy part, which is a lot of catchy parts. Dude, thank you. Thank you, Nirvana. Thank you. Thank you, Nirvana. And the Ramones. And the Ramones, too. Yeah, when when I first heard Atomic Live, like
00:09:59
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Like that definitely like ranged or just like how the chorus just like will stick in your head because Atomic like couldn't get out. I couldn't get out on my head for like two weeks straight. It's When I joined the band that was one of the songs that like I was asked to like play drums and I was kind of expecting some shit but um just that whole Makita album just really got me super stoked to play and it was exactly I
00:10:25
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right after I graduated and I needed just to like bash on some things, you know, just to go some direction and it was like a good decision. All that was like perfect timing too. It was super fun. It was all perfect timing. As I'm like, I don't know, if I listened back and listened to that, like compared to the new the new album, it's the new album is really good. But I
00:10:45
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I know people will like it, but I think it's just the fact we've played it so much where like now I'm kind of just like, I just want to get it the fuck out. But like Makita is like, I don't know, it kind of makes me sad listening to it in like a bitter, in like a good way though. Because it's like, it's definitely like, the album is pretty much just like, every time I listen to it, it's like a memory of me and Lefty is like,
00:11:05
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Like every time we were just like before me and him fucking moved out or had girlfriends and like fucking when we had all the time in the world to just be like, Hey man, head over. And he lived five minutes away from me. We just recorded the whole fucking thing. Like every, like every weekend, every other day, we'd be like, Hey, come over. I got this face part. And I don't know.
00:11:24
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Makita's like, it's sad. Damn, do you make me shed a tear? I know. You gotta relax, dude. It is kind of sad, though. We're too early in the podcast right now. Come on. Oh, hey. I'm not gonna lie, dude. I don't know about you, but I've been listening to our shit all the time, dude. I'm not gonna lie. I kind of had to stop posting my like Spotify top five, you know how like every January, it's like a top five. I'm always number one. It's like my own band. I'm like, I can't fucking post this. This is horrible.
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that
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to hear the deep connection, you know, in the music that you make and talking about when it was made in your relation to it. And it's really exciting to hear about, you referenced some new music coming out. Do you wanna mention a few words with what you can about like what that is? Yeah, KYST, I'll kill yourself tomorrow. It's about 11 songs.
00:12:33
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It was gonna be like 12. It's gonna be 15 songs when it was 12. And we just recorded it. The album went through like, it was recorded twice completely through. I think we're on like Mach three right now. Yeah, so this is the third round of recording because the first time we did it the hard drive failed second time it just wasn't we just weren't satisfied. And then we decided to redo it again. And now it sounds amazing. It sounds perfect to me. But like, it's just like, it's definitely every single song is pretty much just like a cover up love story of just like, just like
00:13:04
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I don't know, it's a very like toxic album, but it's like very like, every time
Inspiration Behind 'KYST'
00:13:10
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I listen to it, it's very like, like a very nostalgic listen, or listen, I don't know. Because they're already like, they're so old, they're like two year old songs. And like, we've been playing them live. And it's like, now they're finally going to be out. And now we can stop jamming the same fucking songs every time. And now we'll be able to like move on to the next chapter. So yeah, he's good, man. Yeah, since we've been like,
00:13:33
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playing these songs for so long and they haven't been out on like any streaming services. Now that that's finally coming after like our second or third round of recording them, you know, having that like, we've had high standards. And just, you know, like we're learning how to record DIY and how to, yeah, just how to play well. Which like, I'm glad that it's taken us this long so that we can have a better product. And that's like what it's all about.
00:14:02
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Um, it, the album consists of every day after work, I would just for like a nine day period, I would go to Katie's garage and record drums. Katie would record vocals, guitar by himself and, uh, lefty would do his bass parts alone. And, um, yeah, I'm lucky to say that I was, uh, I've been like producing it, learning how to mix, which, um, that's taken a bit of time, but it's definitely been worth it.
00:14:31
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But yeah, that's really good. That sounds super. I got to tell you one thing about when I do a program with musicians and then I have their music, I never want to talk too long before I play some. So that's kind of where the point we are right now. So we got listeners, we got some tracks from Kettie's Resort.
00:14:57
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And we're going to cut to a track here. KYST that's been mentioned. Ketties, do you want to say anything about this before we pop into this track? Yeah, the whole song is about I bought this fucking I was in Astoria. No, I was actually in Lincoln City.
00:15:15
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And I bought, I was in this fucking vintage antique shop and they had this whole section of like old school life magazines. And the, the, this one caught my eye and it was like a life magazine and it said, uh, the two accused and then it like, uh, the psycho biology of man or something like that. And so I kind of just looked at the cover and didn't even open it. I've never opened it. It's still in like the sealed plastic packaging, but I just kind of just based the whole song off of just like the ideas at the front cover of that magazine gave me. And so it's, it's,
00:15:44
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It's a Scooby-Doo mystery, pretty much. It's the title track off the album, but it's like, I don't know. It's something. A lot of the other songs are way better than that. Scooby-Doo if you're listening. That one's put out as the single to be like, yo, this one's I. But when it comes out, you're listening. You're like, OK, the other ones are really good, instead of doing the best ones first.
00:16:13
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Yeah, let's jump into it. Listeners, KYST, we'll be back with Kettie's in just a little bit. Well, he says that you want another wildlife. Well, he says that you got another wildlife. The bad folks said the jerk is a psycho. The bad folks said the jerk is a psycho.
00:17:16
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I'm
00:17:49
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that's great really loud over here yeah it's a loud track it's got to be normalized yeah i love how just like on the on the when i pull it up on the audio track like just you know how it shows like the the sound waves they're all just at that that's what mastering was for like uh a part of the
00:18:12
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like learning process of mixing. There's this thing called gain staging that's really important and it means that like if you don't do it, the whole track will just be clipping, which adds a lot of distortion, which is good if you want it, but there are some like negative sides to it pretty much, but that's the album. It's clipping. The whole thing is really loud. Yeah. I love that like kind of rawness when it comes to like,
00:18:42
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producing and stuff because I try to keep like some of my stuff that's like more low key like kind of just like like softer and no clipping but sometimes like if I'm getting to a really heavy part in a song I just say fuck it no soft clippers nothing just let it
00:19:00
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So I had to get loud, you know?
Live Energy in Recordings
00:19:01
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Yeah, there's ways to save that, which I had to make everything quieter. But then I didn't have that, like, extra, like, crispy, like clipping on the guitars. And it just, like, threw off the balance of the mix. But so I decided to leave it and, you know, Spotify might penalize the loudness. But no, I'm not going to Spotify. You don't know. You don't know. But like to
00:19:27
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What you said about playing live, how much heavier it sounds and then versus what KYST sounds like. Those were songs that came right after we got Mishaak in and then started playing live. And I just noticed a real difference in like...
00:19:44
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the sound change like playing live and then wanting to like almost meet that halfway like that energy just like sort of like infects you and so i think the album will like sort of be uh an example of that you know it's gonna it'll be like an auditory onslaught you know it'll sound a lot more like us live when every most of the tracks on spotify or whatever are um they were before you know recording real drums with me and uh
00:20:15
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yeah just like doing drums differently yeah i mean we've talked about this before but like the way you go crazy on the drums like you just go monkey mode it's it's insane dude monkey gorilla gorilla warfare i just wanted to ask and it's always kind of like you know kind of the group of you to make make comments but you know you're performing artists i mean what you're talking about with your art what you want to do is fucking getting people into the music and and you know that release and what it does for you but
00:20:47
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What are you trying to do with your art and do you have any influences, art influences that you think just you dive into and show up with what you do? I'd say first before everything is definitely like a
00:21:12
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Yeah, definitely first, I want this to be like my job as I'm sick of working at a fucking office, you know, it's great, you know, but that'd be cool. But second of all, I just kind of want to make we all I think it is just like, we just want to satisfy people with like, where they leave a show or like, they took time out of the day to come to a show and it's like they left and like, I like those guys. I'll definitely see him again. Just have people have like a good fucking time.
00:21:36
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And yeah, I don't know. Influences like music. Oh yeah, and then influences too, like fucking thermons. Me and you got so many like thermons, smashing pumpkins and not even just smash pumpkins, but like a fucking Billy Corgan himself, fucking Jay Retard waves, which we actually just got to fucking play with, which was like a dream come true.
00:21:56
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And yeah, there's so many of the spits, King Kong and the Barbecue Show. Beck. Beck, yeah, Beck was a big inspiration for Makita. And before the garden kind of like popped off, I saw him in like 2016 on the Mac DeMarco This Old Dog Tour and they were at the Portland Zoo Lights.
00:22:18
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I saw them do, I never heard a drum and bass before and I heard them do drum and bass and they woke up the monkeys. They're like, let's wake up the fucking monkeys. I'm a mic and all the fucking animals and all of them went off and it was so surreal. That's why there was fucking D&B songs on there. We have so many influences that at least I do that.
00:22:42
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It plays a big part, but it's not even like, there's so many artists where like, I'm so inspired by and all of us are, and I think we all have the same thing, but it's like, it's not just the music that they put up, but it's a live performance. Like it's the way they like played live. That's more inspiring to me. Like music can be amazing, but the way they play live is like, that's them themselves, you know? So it's like, yeah, the Ramones, fucking Jay Retard, all that shit, recipe's Jay Retard.
00:23:07
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You mentioned Beck. I was just recently playing for eight and some of Mellow Gold, which I adore that album because I lose my mind. Like I, you know, I'm turning 51 soon. So that came out and it blew my mind then. But I didn't know why it did. Like I'm listening to now and I'm like, holy shit. So I adore it. Like, I mean, I like other Beck as well. But like Mellow Gold is for me is like
00:23:37
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I think Beck for us hit so hard, especially right around the time of Nikita. I think that's why it sounds good. But I think for us, it was such a good synthesis of
00:23:54
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music and culture like we grew up listening to like all sorts of music like everything from Johnny Cash to like biggie like suicide boys were just coming out around that time like so all these different like genres and then so Beck was something from days prior that was like already touching on that like had somehow made it all work together and like similarly like we just would listen to it all the time it would blow our minds you know
00:24:18
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So I get it. I get it. I'll tell a quick story. I saw Beck in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was like right after Mellow Gold was released. And it was at this.
00:24:32
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probably the coolest bar name, concert place name. Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel was the name of the venue. That was the name of the venue. And Beck was the headliner, but this place is 2,000 people, maybe. And one of the coolest things was Beck was pretty amazing, particularly in that small venue. But he had this band, and I'd never seen anything like it before. It was two guys, and they were called DoRag.
00:25:00
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and they were right from the woods. The percussion was a bud returnable box, so that was the percussion that they did. And the lead singer sang through this distortion thing, and there was an oscilloscope that they wanted you to watch rather than him singing. It was
00:25:21
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the most wild thing. And I was like, that's so cool. Like, like right from the beginning, I thought I was like, man, you know, back goes to his first show, he's starting to break big and he brings in do rag that he probably found along the highway. Well, I think yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we're kind of at the point now where like, where we kyst like,
00:25:40
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was I think like a response to like playing live, you know, a lot of that. And of course, like all the other things that go into writing personal life, but that was great. And I think we're all sort of hitting a point now where like, how can we take all these other new interests that we have and like digest them and spit them back out to people, you know, which is like exciting. It's like a whole new endeavor, which I feel like Beck was a great person at doing that over and over again, you know,
00:26:08
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Have you seen the video of him playing at a festival and he just had like just like live musicians playing with him and the guy he started like playing a solo in between loser and like it was like not supposed to be like any so there's no solo and loser. There's like the solo and the fucking
00:26:26
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The drummer fucks up and just keeps playing the normal beat. And like, Beck like screams at him and shit. And he's like, you're fucking fired! You're fucking fired! Is that when he's doing the slide shit? Yeah, when he's like, we're on your own risk. Like, dude, shut up, man. Like, you're fucking five foot four, man, with a bowl cut. Shut up, man. Dude, there's a bowl cut between Beck and, uh, Beck and Manson Radiohead.
00:26:45
Speaker
Radiohead? They're junkies. Tom York. Tom York versus Beck. Beck is sober and they're junkies, dude. Yeah. I bet Tom York does like jiu
Artists' Role & Social Media
00:26:56
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-jitsu or some shit. I beat the shit out of Beck, dude. But I love Beck. But that would have to be like if he was like... Yeah. You like get him in a noogie and like kiss him on the forehead. A noogie? No, dude.
00:27:10
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Body, all of us. You know, Fred Durst, I think me and you would be such good friends with Fred Durst. Have you seen interviews with him? Probably. He's great, dude. He's good vibes.
00:27:21
Speaker
Oh man. No, um, uh, I don't know what to say. I don't know how we've been led here in this conversation, but I do tell you something about Beck. Uh, as much as I love him, he looks like the kind of California kid that makes some smug remark. That's a little bit too big for his size. Like you were referring to. And the sonic youth is not experimental. He's like,
00:27:46
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This fucking face to the face, dude. He's like, I listen to Slent, not Sonic Youth. I listen to Spiderman music.
00:27:55
Speaker
All right. So what do you think, what do you think the role of artists, right? So I asked this question and I asked this question a little bit differently now. I ask, you know, with things going on in the world, things seem like topsy turvy, climate change, or like what art is doing. Is there anything different about like, you know, you as artists make an art or making art now that actually is different, that
00:28:20
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Arts role is different nowadays. What do you think? I think arts different because you make anything and like you put it out and 99.9% of the time it's gonna go nowhere and you you're kind of forced now to do like fucking social media shit, you know, but like I Don't think it's any different in general is like like you still make music you still go to a studio make music You don't fucking do anything different in that way. Like I guess with bands is different I don't know about fucking like
00:28:49
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painters and shit like that, but like with music shit, it's just like, I think now it's all about social media and promoting and trying to beat the fucking, the outrage crowd, you know? I, I think it's, I think it's the same. It's always been, it's just taken on a new form in that like Rome, but I think we consume art all the time, like everything from like landscapers to like the designs of like cereal boxes. Like I've spent so much time at grocery stores, just like looking at that, you know, um,
00:29:19
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But I think there's that kind of art, like consumer art, and it serves its purpose. And then there's art that we and a lot of musicians or other people are trying to make where it's like, you're trying to sort of figure out something about yourself, I think at least, through the art form. And then if people gravitate towards that or sort of understand that a little bit, then that's just like,
00:29:47
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reward on top of that you're finding other common thinkers and things and Anything bigger beyond that like that's just lucky that's happenstance, you know But at the end of the day, you're just you're trying to figure out something about yourself and other people, you know it's like a certain amount of how personally you can be with yourself and like put that into your music and other people who recognize that and
00:30:13
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There's definitely like a market for being vulnerable. I don't think that's changed exactly. But like when people recognize how vulnerable you are, and maybe it's like a different way that people have accomplished that, that's what really stands out. But yeah, it's always been really personal. I think man in a band now is a lot different than being back then because back then there was like,
00:30:44
Speaker
Any show with any band with like a buzz, a fucking promoter or like a scouter would be out and they'd just find all these bands like the Vapers who did like a turn in Japanese. Those guys, they were not even a band for a full year until they got fucking signed and then turning Japanese was their biggest fucking song. But now you can start a fucking band, record it on your laptop on GarageBand and then post it on a fucking subreddit. And then next thing you know, you got a thousand monthly listeners the next day and like a thousand listens on your song. There's an audience that you could
00:31:12
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Even if they don't want your music, you could just fucking spam post some forum. And 99% of them will hate you, but then you gain so many people in different states. I promote on fucking Reddit all the time for our music. And the cities that we get through, we've never played outside of Oregon, besides Seattle one time with Waves. But we have listens in the UK.
00:31:38
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Austria like all fucking it. Yeah, a lot of in Russia and it's like the power of the internet is like so much more different now where like you can really have the shittiest music ever even have horrible music with some kid online because just because you could fucking promote it on some subreddit where there's 2 million people on the subreddit, they all see it you might get 100 likes on the subreddit, but like to like a lot of lot more people saw other than anybody would ever realize and like
00:32:06
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that's the different part of it is like now you can really just kind of get what you want if you really just try. Back then it was kind of just luck. Now it's if you just try. Yeah, that that honestly kind of reminds me of
00:32:22
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the Pachinko death metal story where there was like some guy found a this obscure like CD at like a CD record store and then someone posted it on 4chan and like
00:32:37
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And then it ended up getting like super popular. And this was after like 20 years after that it had come out. And then all of a sudden, like, like people are saying like, oh, get back together and everything from this like obscure band from like the early 2000s that no one's heard in like almost 20 years. And now they're like back together and like and doing a Latin theater show recently. I saw him like a couple of months ago.
00:33:07
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Really? A lot in theater, yeah. Can I like a little bit of a different opinion on that like to the so like internet age because I think a lot of people like
00:33:18
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think that there's a lot more, I mean, there is a lot more like, it's easier to like get in touch with people. Like that's a given, but I feel like it's still the same in the sense of like whether or not it connects with people isn't really up to the artist, you know? And like, even what you're talking about, like that's like still pretty new and like modern like story, but like Van Gogh like was never recognized for anything he did until he died, like 50 years or 30 years post his death.
00:33:47
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And so I think that could just be sort of part of the game. You know, like you just got to make your music or your art and just hope that people connect with it. If they don't, they don't. And there's the chance that they could at a later time. But I think with the idea that you can connect on the Internet, it's great that people can do that. But I think it's still just a little bit of like screaming into the void. Like you got to do it for you, you know, for you, man. I really dig that. I was
Music as a Career & Perseverance
00:34:12
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going to I'll throw the mic drop sound effect in late. No, seriously. No, seriously.
00:34:17
Speaker
No, I think that's that's really important to say because I'm an artist myself and I talk to artists all the time now and It's such a tough thing that there's no perfect answers, but I think there's something fundamental there in like You just got to do it like you can't be like oh I should be recognized within 18 months or anything like that because there's no guarantees in and I think that drive
00:34:42
Speaker
to make it is really what it comes down to. You just gotta make your shit and try to get it to people's ears because if you're making it, you think there's something to it, right? Somebody should- The reason why you identify with it and you wanted to make it, yeah. So somebody else has got to share that. There's somebody for everyone, right? Yeah. And I think there's the whole power of the internet thing, but also the biggest thing is don't say no.
00:35:13
Speaker
Like just say yes to fucking every offer. Like any show, if it's gonna be anywhere, you're still gonna gain one person that listens to you. And just don't, just play as many fucking, like stand-up comedians, like half of them work 10 years to even have like a fan base. And they go every night, every night making $10, like hey man, I could buy a hot dog and a fucking beer now. Then I'll go home. And then tomorrow I'll do the same thing and my dinner's gonna be a hot dog and a beer again. For us it's like, like dude, we're literally gonna like, just play every single show you get offered.
00:35:43
Speaker
to see what happens. You'll gain somebody. The worst case scenario, everybody hates you besides one person. You got one more listener,
Existential Reflections
00:35:50
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you know? Yeah. Yeah. The show is the reward. Yeah.
00:35:56
Speaker
It's intrinsic within itself. All right, so, Kettie's, I can't let you off the hook with that, at least throwing in the big question. It's the name of the show. So I'm obligated to ask it. And I realize this might be just really throwing it in there. I don't know what's going to happen. The name of the show is something rather than nothing. The question is, why is there something rather than nothing? Because better than something is better than nothing.
00:36:26
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That's your new single. My new single. Recipes J retard. I think, I think there's something because it's like, we were talking about like sort of like intrinsic things. I think it's intrinsic in humans to like want to create, whether it's procreation, art or whatever. Like we just, we have to build and expand and like leave our mark. So I think that's why there's always be something, you know?
00:36:49
Speaker
Humans are evil and music is of the devil. But not just like humans. Birds be like building nests and shit that'll be there for 20 years because it won't get touched by the wind or anything. Why did they do that? There's something in them that told them to do it. Yeah.
00:37:07
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No, I, I really appreciate that.
Where to Find Kettie's Resort
00:37:09
Speaker
Hey, I'm going to turn over to, uh, aid and, and, uh, recently had interviewed, uh, Marouche months, manion, who's I think might've been worked your merch table. Uh, man, that's the man. These are all of our merch.
00:37:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. But anyways, while I was doing that interview at the wonderful Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. Wonderful. Aiden was there and they kind of chuckled and were like laughing at the question, maybe annoyed with the question. I want to know, I want to know, Aiden, why is there something rather than nothing? I've
00:37:51
Speaker
I've been dreading this question for so long. I feel like I can just give it a simple answer. If there's nothing, then you're depressed. You got to make something. If you're just doing nothing all the time, then it's a fucking waste of your time. Do something. Be creative. Go outside.
00:38:21
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Take a walk.
00:38:23
Speaker
I don't know, drink a beer, whatever. That's something, that's my answer to that. No, I dig it. Aiden, with their project, Polybius, will be on a future episode. So, Aiden, we'll have a few cracks at the questions we have. Kettie's Resort, got a bunch of listeners, music lovers,
00:38:52
Speaker
aren't philosophy lovers. Where do the people find Keddie's Resort live? Or, you know, where do you bop around? And where did it find you online? Online on Instagram, Keddie's Resort 777. We're on like Bandcamp, Spotify, all that shit. And then just I think to see us live just if you follow the Instagram, Keddie's Resort 777. It's just we play everywhere. So it's hard to say where we play. We literally play at
00:39:22
Speaker
We'll play in the factory everywhere in Portland. But if you like the music, come to a show. Bring your girlfriend or your little brother, whatever you need.
00:39:34
Speaker
Definitely bring your girlfriend and girlfriends to love us. Your girlfriend is love us. All you need is your girlfriend to love us, okay? A true choice. A true comment. Hey, here's the thing, Kettie's. I'm going to eventually put together something rather than nothing festival. It's just an idea at this moment. And I certainly wouldn't be able to have a festival without Kettie's energy. So I just wanted to sink that seed.
00:40:04
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Let us
Podcast Conclusion
00:40:05
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know. We'll be there. We'll be there. Absolutely. It's so great to talk to you. Have a great conversation about art. We're recording in the summertime and I very much look forward to seeing you live. I've seen video clips and I see enough energy and what's with that.
00:40:31
Speaker
I've heard that from aid and so really appreciate what you do and just listeners check out on ketties resort and new music coming as well find them on social media and for something rather than nothing always love a review you can find something rather than nothing on instagram all
00:40:52
Speaker
podcast stations and players worldwide show. But really real heartfelt thanks to Aiden Vellante on the second co-hosting, soon to be on Polybius, which is music I just adore. And, Ketties, any final words? Final words. The band name is Polybius, right?
00:41:22
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Let's get a show. First of all, let's get a show. Let's book a show together. Second of all,
00:41:28
Speaker
Kill yourself tomorrow. Kill yourself tomorrow. That's not what I'm saying. But you know, the YST is good. But remember, if you got the KYST in you, you got the American spirit. So watch out. The man's covered in money. The Jeffersons are covered. So remember, fucking keep it real. Be yourself. Keep fucking shit up. I'm ready for the WWE match. Fuck yeah, dude. Oh, dude.
00:41:59
Speaker
Actually, we may be having a show here soon in a wrestling ring. It's at a hot dog place. It's like a hot dog restaurant or a restaurant, whatever you call that. It's just a hot dog place at that point.
00:42:12
Speaker
and they have a wrestling rink inside. This is a very pro wrestling podcast, have not had wrestlers, but I am pleased to announce a future upcoming episode. Yeah, three right now. With one of the original American gladiators from the famous show from the 1990s, Ice will be joining in the nothing in the future. So pro wrestling.
00:42:41
Speaker
Pro gladiator ketties look forward to seeing you soon. Thanks so much for coming on the program Thank you. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Thank you
00:43:20
Speaker
I just brought a gun, I'm gonna vomit, I'm staring at the sunny, I'm just kissing, I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna vomit,
00:44:45
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I'll tell you what, I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago. Yeah, I'm a topic, I just brought a gun, I brought a vomit, I'm staring at the sun, and yeah, my skin's saying green, the mountains are sweet, every verse is sweet,
00:45:30
Speaker
This is something rather than nothing.