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Glick's House of Music: Who on Earth
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Tonight Glick's House of Music will be rocking out with Metal band Who On Earth are you guys ready!?!? #glickshouseofmusic #nonsensicalnetwork #interview #podcast #heavymetal #rock #musoc #follow
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Energetic Opening and Theme Introduction
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dreadful may
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fine
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The show starts in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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Let's rock. The show starts in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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We'll be right back.
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All things music, a vibrant call for one and all to give their all in this sanctuary where dreams ignite.
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Music's
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Rockin' interviews, stories shared. To hangouts, no time spared.
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Music unites on HelloGround.
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This house of music, a place to be for every heart, wild and free.
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all night long.
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In my sights Visualize
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Been called countless times, thousand years or more Lessons always change when new souls are born I can sense it, don't you wait Trust in fate now, it's your defeat Genesis started from our crying pain So much innocence to spare
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Oh, what the case? Living life without
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I can feel you, time will tell.
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How could you do that?
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Than it was Always me Who held the reins And guides you
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I would never find a way back From obstacles I should have never made Such a distance left to never gain
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It's an out-to-top Sussing for so many answers above the top
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through the fire.
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Some can sense it now to tell. You're made to see a
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As you part, the world is yours in time Now you are no longer sealed from the daunting shores For adventures are your life Don't waste your time, never mind trying to call my name You can soon know that
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I'm going to bring life along the way.
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Hell yeah, that's how you kick off a show right there, ladies and gentlemen. got fucking hair my face. God damn it. Anywho, what's going on? Long time no see,
Introducing Band Members and Discussing Influences
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guys. Man, I feel like i've been gone forever. But welcome to Glick's House of Music right here on the Nonsensical Network. You know me. I put the Glick in Glick's House of Music. I am Glick.
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You'll find all them links there. You know the drill. Give us follow. Give us a like. Give us a share. We'd appreciate that if you'd be so kind. I've got to figure out how to work my buttons. My brain's a little groggy, but nonetheless.
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ah But enough about me and enough about us. We're here tonight for those guys who kicked off the show with that kick-ass fucking song. And we have... now umnna He told me how to say his name, but I'm probably going fucking... We got... Maybe if I get my butt and smirk.
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Come on. There we go.
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I give up tonight.
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There we go. We got Cooch in the building, right? Yeah, that's me. Nice. Got him. He is the front man lead singer of Who on Earth.
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Those beautiful vocals you heard wailing at the beginning of the show. And we have the man with all the riz. The one and only Pete. Bass player, right?
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Yes, sir. yeah What's going on, guys? Welcome, welcome. Appreciate you being here. you Thanks for having us on, man. It's great to be here. Great to be here. I apologize for the technical difficulties at the start and beginning of the show.
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I didn't realize that that was a six-minute song, first and foremost. That's awesome. i Where are the days of the long-ass fucking songs have gone? That's awesome. No repeating verse, no repeating chorus either.
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Yes, I dig that. I got to tell you guys right off the bat, man, I'm an old school. I love all music. I love all the genres. But I'm a little bit of an old school metalhead, like Maiden and Dio and those guys that would just wail and tell stories.
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And I get that vibe from you guys. I hope that's not a diss or anything like that, but I get that vibe from you guys. that That same kind of... That's a great compliment.
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Yeah, that's a huge compliment. that's That's where every day, I mean, we grew up during the 80s and 90s, and then you know all those influences come out, as you just heard. when we We call that song our hallowed be thy name.
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you know we We're like, look, if we're going to do a song that sounds like Maiden, uh let's do let's do maiden you know let's lean into it and our producer mike rolando had us thinking that way and we just said yeah let's let's do it like they would do it instead of covering an iron maiden song let's do a song like they would do it like this is what we grew up with yeah this is what we missed this is what isn't really around right now and uh it's six minute single nobody does that well we're gonna do it and then i say
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give me them Give me them hour and a half long albums all day long. There you go. You know, it's it's it's a sad world that the the heavy metal industry today, I think I seen last year, like MGK won a heavy metal album of the year.
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I'm like, wasn't this dude a rapper until Eminem embarrassed him? And then he decided to paint his fingernails pink and do punk music. Like, what's going on? And his biggest song is a cover for John Denver.
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Yeah, exactly. So, but no, you guys, I'm digging your music. It's it's great gym music. It's great music to listen to on a car ride.
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You know, I love Lobotomy. Love the video. Coos, you really went all out in that video, man.
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I think Pete had the most fun, though. No, I think the guys had the most fun. The guys got to beat him up in the beginning, and then I got to cut his head open. So we had a real good time. in a that And I'll actually be playing that one at the end of the show tonight. That's when I downloaded. It's hard to pick. yeah I've gotten ah been diving into your guys' this catalog a little bit, and I'm listening to all kinds of new music, so I don't like just jump into one artist and go full bore. But there's been a few songs. I like Dogs, too. That's another one that I really like.
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So i'm still i'm still I'm still, as a new fan, I'm still learning your guys' music and whatnot. so And that's kind of the idea of this show is to introduce people to new artists that they may not have heard of and and and new music. And so far, the fans say I've been doing a pretty good job picking good music and good artists. so hopefully they Hopefully they think you kept the streak alive tonight. you know
Geographic Spread and Music Style Exploration
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yeah um I know we were talking backstage. I know a little bit. um But you guys, where are you guys all from?
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Well, everybody but me is from Jersey. I'm here in Florida.
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Yeah. oh how How do you guys come across each other if you're if they're all the way down in Jersey or up in Jersey and you're down in Florida? How do you guys meet and come together and whatnot? Well, I went up to 2013. I went up to Staten Island to work on boats and got contract to do that and And I got missed because I was always in the music scene down here in Florida. So I slipped in and found myself some bands to play with. And then finally got lucky enough and met up with Pete.
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And we did a little cover band action and stuff. and Pete came to me one day and he's like, I can't do this anymore. I want to play our own music. And I was like, I'm all in, man.
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You just point me in the direction and I'm there. Say no more. No more. No more. No more. No more. Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's awesome.
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How long have you guys been playing together? How long have guys been doing this project? Jeez, when was that, Koosh? It might have been 2019 where we made that decision to leave the bar scene and hammer out 10 originals. So I think that was, yeah, 2019. And then we started recording our first album. it might have been 2020. Yeah, 2021, recorded And 2022, we put it out. yeah, so probably early 2020 is when we started going.
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and two thousand and twenty two we put it out so yeah so probably early two thousand and twenty is when we we started going hell of a hell of a time to start a band right around the time. Yeah. We decided to fuck the entire world up. I know. Tell me about it.
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But in a way it gave us a lot of time to, uh, to work on it. And, um, But yeah, it was crazy, man. Delays. Who who might have had COVID? Who was sick? Who was in contact with somebody? Yeah, had screwed everything up. but But again, it slowed our roll, and we had a lot of time to let stuff marinate. and So it's weird. I mean, who knows? That whole time it was was so crazy. But yeah, like good shit came out of it for us. Yeah, kind of like ah a blessing and a curse all at the same time for you guys. Why'd you have to take another pandemic to write the third album?
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Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Couldn't beat those flights too, right? Those prices were great. Love those, man. Bound trips for 40 bucks. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. You know, the the flights, the the lack of traffic on the road. I mean, yeah, there was good things that came out of out of out of COVID. but Yeah, yeah. I was flying up there to do studio work, and I was on empty planes.
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Yeah, wow. yeah sit sit wherever you'd like sir anywhere you'd like this is your castle you're the king yeah yeah hell yeah no that's that's that's cool that's crazy i've talked to a couple other bands that were like yeah we started and then coveted and it really put a damper on everything i'm like yeah you know I don't know. Maybe we were jerks, Koosh, but we we didn't really buy it into any of the stuff. like We just thought so much of it was just absolutely nonsense. like It didn't make common sense to us. you know The statistics and the... I don't know.
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Call us... I guess we're very skeptical people or whatever. Yeah. we we pretty much ignored everything. And I know, unfortunately, elderly people and some some people who had some, you know, some complications passed away as, but I mean, most people, we were like, this is, this is nuts, you know? And we wrote a lot about that.
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Yeah. so yeah That's a lot of people ask have asked me, what did how did that affect your life? It didn't. I still had to go to work every day. I still lived day to day. I still went to the grocery store. i still went out. Like them we were one of those states in Ohio that just, they're like,
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and do whatever the hell you want take your it's your life you take whatever risk you want to at the end of the day you know is that right is that how ohio i know florida was like that in texas i didn't know ohio was the same yeah they tried to put restrictions and curfews and stuff on us but we were like yeah we're gonna do what we want finally they were just like the hell with it leave them alone they're not hurting So, yeah, no that's what I was telling Kush we were backstage, that we've decided here on the network that basically Ohio is just the Florida of the north.
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You know, because we have a lot of the similar idiots. Yeah, the crazies and idiots that live up here. So for all the guys... joke around and say that I live in North Florida. So I'm like, yeah, well, I mean, it is what it is. Yeah. yeah Just north of the panhandle, right? yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That's great.
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I just feel like Florida sends their stupid people up here in the summertime and we send them back in the winter. So yeah. yeah But no, um I mean, outside of outside of like obvious influences,
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Do you guys have any big influences that like steered your direction and ah to music or and any or all influencers as far as a bass player or a singer or anything like that?
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hey cool you could You could feel that one first. Well, you know, it's it's funny you say influences. They're all there. there no and They're all there simultaneously.
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Everything that we listened to growing up, everything we listened to all the time is there, you know, and it just, you know, it just comes out. There's no, nobody in like, although Pete's heavily into the Iron Maiden for me, when I go to sing, it's like, everything is there.
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The Judas priest, you know, black Sabbath, the Zeppelin, it's ever everything. It's like, we saw this, we're doing the the video for lobotomy. One of the videographers was like, I can hear all the classic bands, but you don't at the same time.
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yeah Yeah. You hear every influence, but it doesn't sound like them.
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Yeah. but yeah yeah Yeah, absolutely. And that's what I was saying, you know, about the brand new song. And by the way, guys, if you're tuning in tonight and you haven't heard it already, You're hearing it here first exclusively on Glick's House of Music.
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Yesterday's Future by Who on Earth. It just dropped just a few hours ago. You just you guys just released that. Yeah, we we put it out we put out the video just this afternoon. so yeah, and and thanks thanks for playing it. I mean, like you could hear the Maiden in that song. not Not all of our songs are that way. But like I said, we actually, and I started playing the bass because of Steve Harris.
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Oh, nice. Not a good reason. Yeah, I mean, the Maiden album covers. As a kid, I'm staring at the Maiden covers just like, what is going on? And, you know heavy metal, like, you know, look, it's heavy metals, rebellious music, you know, rock is rebellious. And growing up, you know, it was a place to find comfort and other people that were into it, especially when things that at home are like, are shitty or whatever, or,
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you know ah you find your your boys and your people and it's metal and it's uh and then you know i i picked up the bass i heard that bass and i was like what is that i was just blown away by that and the whole band and everything and um so yeah that that's a big influence but yeah sabbath zeppelin you name it just like kush said like you said a hey guys well in the beginning of the show you like i hope you don't mind but you guys sound a lot like eighty s and that's ah we That's a badge of honor for us. like That's what we want to do.
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but that's right Look, it's all been done. It's all been done. But yeah bands like Tool, who are a little more recent than the eighty s up love Tool, Alice in Chains. I mean, you name Rage Against the Machine. It's all great.
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We grew up with the best music. And it's all, like Koosh said, it's in that mix. It's like you know when you mix and paint, you know you put a little something in there and it changes the whole color. you know And you put a little but little red.
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And that's kind of what what we what we do. We don't know who we sound like, but we know we sound like everybody we grew up listening to. i sound like You guys sound like who on earth? That's who you sound like. Yeah, yeah ah that's cool. Like Koosh said, you know yeah you guys you can hear those influences in your music, but you guys have your your own unique sound at the same time. like Koosh, looking at you, man, I would not think that voice would come out of you.
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I'm expected to see you at a mall around Christmas time playing Santa with a big old deep voice. i would just But you, man, a lot. um When I had the first, I think Lobotomy was the first song that I came across.
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was like, let me check this se let me check this out. And it was like, hold on a damn minute, is this AI music? Is this a real band? I had to dive in a little bit because I was just like, oh, there's no way that voice is coming out of that, man. Let's fucking go. I was in. was digging it. Pete stuck up for me a bunch of times.
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We'd be up and the people would come up and they'll go, man, you don't look like you can sing like that. And Pete's answer is, what's he supposed to look like? Yeah.
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Yeah. What, Vince Neil? this is This is very true because I've said that a million times about Dave Mustaine. He looks like a choir boy you know at the end of the day. you know He just looks like a good old choir boy, and then he starts to sing, and it's just, whoa, hey, the voice don't match the the body.
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What's going on here? like There are guys like Tom Araya from Slayer. That's what he's supposed to look like. Yeah, right. I get it. that's That's the guy. yeah There are people like that out there, but... Yeah, sometimes you get thrown these curveballs.
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Everybody looks at a lead singer, right? Who's the singer? What does he look like? And that's what they care about. And I love that about us. so we We got no gimmicks, no nothing. I'm like, you know, when Kush plays live, there's no effects. There's no backing. It's just raw power.
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And it's it's it's cool, man, you know? i will got to say, Kush, if you can get the duster from the video, go on tour with that. I think you should really rock it on stage. that was that was a cool That was a cool jacket. I was digging it.
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and Well, that was the funny thing is, is I said, I'm going to wear this in this and the in the video shoot. And they, you know, and I showed the pictures of the guys and they were like, they were laughing like, oh, wow, that's, you know. And then the day of the shoot, I pulled the jacket out and they're like, oh, you weren't kidding.
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I don't want to get
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it. It's great. and yeah It's one of those things. that's one of those six people that got it We've talked about it and you guys have talked about it. people good Now we have to go watch that video and see what you're talking about. and I'm just saying.
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and Drive numbers. you did Drive numbers to it for you. oh and I was just sitting here and I was like getting ready to do the video you know because it was within time, or a couple of weeks from the shoot. I was like, this needs something. It doesn't need denim and a black you know white bidder.
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And it needs it moves something, right? And i I was like, first I was like trench coat. And then when I found this built-in vest that was in, i was like, oh yeah, this is it.
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sent picture to Pete. He's like, freaking awesome. stuff Like, Hellraiser is me. yeah have two Yeah. Hell yeah, man. That's awesome.
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and Do you guys do that a lot? I'm assuming as a band, I know we do it here on on the network. Do you guys feed off of each other a lot for ideas and bounce stuff off of each other's ideas?
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And are you guys going to go, now you sure about that, Koosh? You sure you want to do that? yeah we definitely kush and i talk pretty much talk about everything i mean uh and while we're always trying to do something different which is getting harder because like we don't want to do the same video we don't want to write the same song you know trying to find new topics and yeah sometimes we'll we'll be like yeah i don't know that's a little crazy yeah that's cool because like nothing's off the table you know and we'll throw some shit against the wall and be like
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but the hell are we thinking you know but but that the beauty of it is is you don't you never we never hold back so uh and it definitely feet i i i always got to run everything by koosh i don't you know i always want to have his buy-in for everything because and sometimes i'm way off and sometimes i'm spot on you're never way off make sometimes sometimes things sound fantastic in your head yeah so it leaves until it leaves your head and comes out your mouth and you hear it or somebody else hears it you know they're like whatever you're smoking on
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there is Let me get some of that. yeah I don't know how many times I've hit my phone and recorded my next, you know, number one single. And then I play it back the next day. I'm like garbage.
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Delete. What's Jameson, man? yeah and You know, my, my, my right hand guy here on the network. Hey, what's going on Arliss? How you doing brother?
00:28:21
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What's going on brother? ah but My right-hand guy here on the network, Blaze, we do that a lot. He'll be stoned out of his mind, and I might have had one too many Miller Lights, and we start bouncing ideas off of each other's head. And the next day when we're a little bit clearer, we're like, sounded fantastic last night.
00:28:42
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But how about we not do that and just keep those ideas to ourselves? No share of these. Yeah. easy so Exactly.
00:28:54
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When it comes to writing for you guys, um where do you guys where do you guys write from? do you guys write from personal experiences or is it more like, I got an idea for a kick-ass song. Listen, listen let's let's kind of go from there.
00:29:09
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you know Where do you guys write from? Geez, well, I would say for the last for the EP and yeah a lot of that, i don't know, the theme seemed to be some themes seem to develop for some reason. and And we both get with the with the theme, the the smoke and mirrors is basically about deception.
00:29:27
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You know, on every level, whether like dogs about corporations, especially like pharmaceuticals was in my head when I was thinking of that one, when I was thinking of dogs, you corporate scumbags or voodoo. Actually, Voodoo, I mean, ah you know, because we're talking to somebody from Ohio, right, Koush?
00:29:44
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Voodoo was was really we had Fauci in mind, you know, voodoo like sticking needles in a voodoo doll instead of pins. And, you know, so we do a trash talker you know about somebody talk just about people.
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having two faces or companies and, you know, just ah the underhandedness of things or people or companies. And yeah so we really like that. Like yeah those topics, because that's kind of our like, you know, fuck you. We know what you're doing and we like it. And, you know, how could you do this? Or like, you know, so yeah, that that one was easy for us. We found a big theme in that. yeah Yesterday's future was a little different. Like when I talked to Kush about it, the idea, just a title was about like thinking about your future as a young kid, you know, like,
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but Remember when you were young, they're like the things you wanted to be, you were innocent. And like yeah he fucking took that
Songwriting Themes and Personal Music Journeys
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and ran with it. I mean, he loved that idea. And we blew it up into like the story of ah person's life from birth to death and wisdom and everything in between. So, yeah, we we we we like to write about it. Like you notice we don't write songs about drinking and getting laid, stuff like that, because that's been done.
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Not that I don't want to. Yeah. Who doesn't? I mean, you know. It just doesn't have much to write about, you know. Yeah. Everybody's done it. You're right. Everybody's done it. I mean, the whole hair bands back in the day, that was the whole thing. Like, you know, let's party, let's get laid, and and and hot girls. I agree. But, yeah.
00:31:13
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I mean, it's like, well, like you guys said, everything's been done. You know what I mean? It's hard to find that, you know. and and and And I don't think a lot of times anymore, especially the younger generation,
00:31:25
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don't really think they listen to lyrics like like we used to. like um I love a storyteller. yeah It doesn't matter what genre of music it's in, I love storytellers. yeah I agree with you on that because my daughter is 20 and they are all about the lyrics.
00:31:42
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And it's not even a mine. Everything, whether it's Hozier or whoever else they're listening that stuff, they love the lyrics. i was ah i have I have a 20-year-old as well, and she was talking about something. no, I'm sorry, it was my 15-year-old. She was like, I love Fleetwood Mac.
00:32:04
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And I was like, hell yeah. yeah I mean, who doesn't? however I've had a crush on Stevie Nicks since I was a little boy, and I still do. And I love that voice. And she said, what song was it?
00:32:16
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I think it was Chains. Mm-hmm. and she's like love that song so do you know what it's about she's like no and was like never mind just enjoy just didn just enjoy it just enjoy the song but you know and i was like i was like when you get older i'll i'll i'll tell you a little bit about leewood mac and the rumors album and stuff like that and of course you know they got google at their fingertips and she came downstairs and she was like bro and i'm like yeah pretty crazy huh
00:32:46
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Well, the cool thing about Koosh is singing is like you you can understand the words, you know, like you can. I think that's a big deal. And people have said to us, I love that you can understand what he's singing. And even if they don't, we don't want to give them the exact meaning of what we wrote about. We we want them to think about it for themselves. Maybe they'll be close or maybe they'll think it's about something totally different, which is awesome.
00:33:08
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And we we try to do that intentionally, not like give it away. we love dual meanings and, you know, like like like room for interpretation. that Yeah, I was i was just going to say, unless the song comes out and smacks you directly in the face with what it's about.
00:33:23
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Yeah. You know, all about interpretation. Yeah. Yeah. How it makes you feel and stuff like that. I like I was actually go to bring that up. I do like that. You guys are heavy metal, but you're not. There's not so much going on behind Koosh when he's singing.
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You can understand him. You can hear him. He's not extra gravel. He's not screaming. you know It's just the perfect mixtures of everything when you guys come and when you guys come together. so and Kudos to you guys for that. and you know that's It's hard to find that happy me you know that that happy medium sometimes in music. sometimes that The vocals will completely kind of take the main stage and take the spotlight when you've got amazing musicians behind you or vice versa. You know, you got an amazing drummer or a bass player or a guitar player, but everybody's so focused on lead singer.
00:34:17
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You know, but you guys just go like, how does he look like that and sing like that? and That's the thing. I still can't get over that.
00:34:28
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It's just like, wow. and It's not a bad thing. It's awesome. It's awesome. because I'm just like, holy shit. I can dig i know i want to go I want to go all white or all gray even more. so but What happens to redheads when they get 55?
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yeah What's that? no did You lose all your pigment. I'm a redhead. Oh, you're a natural? oh Yeah, I'm a redhead. That's why you sing the way you can because you don't have a soul.
00:34:59
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That explains it. that explains Are you left handed too? Yeah. I am left handed. I am left handed actually. There you go. oh Yeah. No, and you know, to your point about about the the songs, it's like, you know, you can have great musicians and it's great to hear great solos, but like there are great bands out there, prog bands, but it's like, is there anything really memorable or catchy? Like we want people to walk away like humming shit or singing something.
00:35:32
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Like, if you're not doing that, then we're not that's not making the album. like ah You don't need to hear me do a Steve Harris run or, you know, our guitar players do in any way. It's got to be melodic and catchy. And if that... yeah hooks It's all about hooks, I think.
00:35:47
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it's ah it's ah it's It's about grabbing the ear. And that's I start telling you guys, because you guys asked how i found your guys' this music. And that's exactly how it happened. I was, you know, doing the doom scrolling on Instagram, mindlessly just sitting here in front of the TV, like,
00:36:02
Speaker
and and I'm scrolling on Instagram and, and I heard lobotomy and I'm like, hold on just a goddamn second. What was that? Where was it at? me go back And scroll back and find it. And it's all about, you know, snagging the year and getting there. Somebody's, you know, as we say here all the time, getting in the ear hole, man, let me get in the ear hole for a minute.
00:36:26
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I think, yeah, that's something that you guys, uh, You guys do an absolute good job of what's going on, Sergeant Modal. What's going on with you?
00:36:41
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I do want to ask, and I know you guys started you know a few years back, but how long have you guys been in music? Oh, geez. I don't know. Yeah. Personally, i started at 15, but then at some point, original is covered.
00:36:58
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Then I had like a good 10 or 12 year period where I just was married with kids, didn't pick up a base at all. oh But pretty much, other than that big hole, I mean, I had i have three boys, and when they were young and, you know, whatever, it was just, you know, sports, and it was just like a time warp, you know? Yeah, exactly. You couldn't do anything.
00:37:16
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But then as they got older, I picked picked it back up with covers, and then, you know, Koosh and I morphed into and so what's now who Who on Earth. But, yeah, pretty much, I mean, since I was 15, I started playing the bass and in and out of bands really ever since.
00:37:30
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Oh, wow. Yeah. Koosh, who she always been singing? Who's this? I've been singing it professionally for 30 years. Oh, wow. I have a karaoke company here in Florida, and I've always sang and done that.
00:37:47
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And then slid into the the cover band scene down here, and he used to we used to gig three, four nights a week.
00:37:57
Speaker
So it was karaoke and and covers. Wow. So you were that guy that would show up at karaoke and make everybody else look bad. I'm definitely that guy. yeah I'm going to ruin your night when you come in and think you're good to singer at karaoke.
00:38:15
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I got to ask you, though, because you said you did. What was your go-to karaoke? What was your go-to karaoke song? Oh, for me? Yeah. ah A song that everybody would like. It would have to be... What's the...
00:38:32
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The Audioslave song. Oh, wow ah something to live. Show me how to live. No, no. it's burden In my hand. on a po where Afternoon in a room full of emptiness Oh, come on. We should know this.
00:38:57
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I'm trying to think of it. I know that's... I'm i'm cheating. I'm going to try to find it. Like a stone. a stone. like a stone.
00:39:07
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i was I was hitting the old Google A box over here. Man, dude, I have a huge fan of Audioslave, STP, and stuff like that. How do I just get like some recordings to fall asleep to Koosh singing Audiously?
00:39:23
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He'll call you, man. Not to be weird or anything. Not to wear it. Go homo. Go homo. And then you're going to go up and do a song like that at karaoke when people already are like this motherfucker.
00:39:38
Speaker
And then you're going to go pull Audiously and do it good. Yeah. Yeah. ah god ah Uh, uncalled for. Hey, Glick, what's the scene like out there by you? Is it, is it, because around here it's original bands or, I mean, it's mostly tribute and cover bands. Is it the same out there or do you have a fair, a scene of, of good independent music out there? Metal?
00:40:04
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Um, yeah.
00:40:09
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I will say, Since I've been home, I only got to dabble just a little bit into the music scene since I came back to Ohio. um But we do have a very large music scene, especially in Columbus.
00:40:24
Speaker
And you leave them, bud? lovey Love you, man. Be careful. ah My daughter's boyfriend's going home. My oldest one's here. so But we do have a very a very good music scene.
00:40:39
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um We do have a lot of local, amazing local talent. Shout out to the local music scene in Columbus and surrounding areas that open up for the some of the big names that come around.
00:40:51
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yeah I've actually got to meet a couple and and and hang out with them personally. um Great music, great guys. oh Locally in my area where I'm at, there's one place just around the corner from me that does bring in a good selection.
00:41:09
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of, uh, what is that? Yeah, I know. Just don't worry about it. yeah Put it on the sink or something.
00:41:20
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It's damage is done. I didn't feel like firing the grill yesterday. So I took my George Foreman grill outside while I grilled her the other day and then it's storming up here. But, but, um, no, we, uh, we have a, we have a place around the corner and they, they bring in, uh, upcoming bands of all genres and, uh,
00:41:39
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and people, they don't even have to know who they are. And if there's a live band playing there, they pack it out. They fill it up. Uh, there's another new venue. I haven't got to get out there yet, but I, I'm maybe in a couple of weeks now that summer season's upon us, they've they've been an outdoor stage, uh, but everybody's raving about how great they are. So the music scene here in Ohio is, is definitely jumping.
00:42:02
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You're going to find your cover bands and stuff like that. Um, but, um, we love We love live local music, man. Yeah. See, that's our sense is like it's here ah up in Jersey and stuff. It's, it's all tribute and cover, but you know, we've been told more like Midwest, you know, South, that's where you can still go. I mean, that's where we need to be, I think, to get out there. And we did a podcast with a guy in Indianapolis and he basically said the same thing you're saying, you know, it's the same. Like you can go, like you guys, he was like, you guys got to get out here. And like,
00:42:33
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You know, you're talking about places getting packed, people coming to see independent, original music that they've never heard. Like, that's fucking music to our ears. That's just not happening here. and and good If you guys are interested, I will gladly slide some locations in just my local area.
00:42:50
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I'll send them over your way. And if you're interested in checking them out, excuse me, um Absolutely feel free to because I know though that people love local music or they love they love the music scene, man. And if you get a band up here that's going to put on a good show, put on good music, they're going to pack the house regardless just because there's live music.
00:43:12
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I was actually talking to a friend today. ah They want to get together. We were talking about getting together for drinks and his first thing was, Let's go somewhere where there's live music. Yeah, I love that.
00:43:23
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Okay. um um I'm in. like yeah I go into podcaster mode, and I'm thinking live music. they' original Even if they're a cover band, I'm going to go, what's your source? Let me hit you up. I host a podcast. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. Especially if they're good at the end of the day.
00:43:40
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Yeah, absolutely. That's good. this is Sergeant Mo Dog said Barbie girl. You know Barbie girl for good days.
00:43:52
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Ohio boy, hell yeah. Cincinnati, man. Hell yeah, Kentucky, basically. ah Yeah, no, yeah that's that's one thing I do like about Ohio. I mean, we've got, we've got a few beers.
00:44:07
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There's, in Columbus, there's actually two, they're literally side by side each other, music venues. They share the same parking lot and everything. Just one's a little bit bigger than the other And they might be owned by the same people I'm not 100% sure, don't quote me on that But, and then you go Two blocks away and there's another There's another venue So I mean, it's like, and this is downtown Columbus Oh no, never mind Sonic Temple is at the old Cruz Stadium I was going to say, if you get up into Columbus If you have time um Kimba Live is right down the road From um where Sonic Temple is
00:44:46
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yeah and I can't remember the name of the other place, but it's literally right beside it. It's in the arena district where the Blue Jackets play. jenyham yeah Give Pete a reason to get on the Harley and go. yeah you like Let me know if you're in chat. I will drive out to Columbus and and and and I'll gladly, you've got free time, I'll meet up with you. I don't know if you drink or not, but if you do, we can grab a beer or something and hang out in person. Sounds good, That'd be awesome.
00:45:13
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That'd be awesome. going to hit you up. Maybe ah hit us ah up in the chat later on in the a world with some of those venues because we got to start thinking about jumping on a bus and hitting some of those some of those areas and and just having a good time because it's uh know we you know we always shit on the us as far as you know metal not being what it should be here but that's not true because there are parts of the country and you know that is true look you go to mexico brazil uh parts of europe sweden i mean metal's number one
00:45:44
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It's not the case here. However, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio. to the Midwest still loves medals. Absolutely. Absolutely. and And they play it on the radio and it's fucking awesome. So, yeah, we got to get out there.
00:46:01
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Oh, yeah, yeah, they got a couple down on the river. ah The Newport would be cool for you guys. Oh, man, Alrosa. We've got Alrosa. I think it's Alrosa. I don't know. Remember when DimeBite, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not trying to flex on this.
00:46:17
Speaker
But DimeBad, Daryl, when he was shot, he was shot in Cologne. Excuse me, Alrosa. And that is an amazing music venue. A name, brand. they're They're big on heavy metal and rock and stuff like that. ba that's yeah That's kind of their forte at the Alrosa. Like Modog said, since he's got a couple really good concert venues, there's one down on the riverfront. What's that called, Modog? I went down there and seen a ah band that I'm a fan of five with five almost six years ago, shortly after I came back home. They were up and coming at the time. Now they're starting to blow up.
00:46:57
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Um, but they were down there in Cincinnati and I'm like, fuck it. I'm going drive two and a half hours and go see it. Plus I can go hang out in Cincinnati for the weekend.
Live Music Scene and Metal Culture
00:47:04
Speaker
ain't got nothing better to do. So, yeah, yeah. but that That's a city. i want Yeah.
00:47:12
Speaker
Since he's cool. I mean, since he used to be a shithole, I'm not going lie to you, but, uh, it's gotten better over the years. It's gotten better over the years. Uh, Cleveland's scott cle one's got, a Cleveland's got a, got a, um,
00:47:24
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ah Love for metal music heavy heavy heavy metal rock music I've interviewed a couple bands from up in Cleveland and they're killing it up there man they're they're helping you know I gotta get up. I gotta get up there and see him but yeah um But speaking of like touring and gigging and stuff Do you guys do a lot of a lot of live shows or do you get the opportunity to do a lot of live shows?
00:47:48
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I wouldn't say a lot right now. We're we're trying. We lost, you know going back to the COVID thing, around here, we lost some venues that never came back because yeah like you know we go places were shut down. And then when they did reopen, they were limiting the capacity and they were required. requiring masks and what it just got crazy and some some companies some small venues just didn't survive like like literally like three or four and then there were other venues that are there are just a little bit out of reach at times and you know if you want to get certain gigs now that it's big on that people are big on the pay to play you got to pay to be an opener and it's just like
00:48:24
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it's It's crazy. We seem to sometimes be stuck in the middle a little bit. That's why i'm I'm so intrigued. And that's why I asked you about, you know, what it's like out by you, because that that that seems like, you know, they probably would love a band from Jersey to come out there, you know, and and and check it out and play.
00:48:41
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you know, we're going to have to move. We're going to have to get more. We're going to have to get, even Pennsylvania, which is not far from us. Just getting into PA, even Delaware, Western Maryland. Like, you know, it's still just got to get out of the tri-state area. Yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker
You got to get out of your, out out out of the the hole, you know, yeah it you got to climb out. Right. Yeah. and I feel that. I get that. No, I'm always down to, I'm always down to, uh,
00:49:10
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share venues and stuff like that. and Yeah. Take a shower. Huh? Take a shower. My brain shower and my hair does this. Okay. Cool. It's not. Okay. Enjoy. ah But I will say these TikTok leggings tried quick.
00:49:29
Speaker
I love them. Cool. My 20 year old who um break middle all something yeah my twenty year old who apparently has no idea what boundaries are. but blinding a so Okay, we'll go take shower.
00:49:48
Speaker
She still lives at home, which is fine. Yeah, I could care less. I'd rather be home because then I know she's safe and she's not doing something stupid, like making me a grandfather when I'm only 43. so But ah ah but yeah, sorry. Real life over here. I'm always full-time 100% dad over here no matter what. so yeah good But I do apologize. But yeah, no, I um i have no problem.
00:50:15
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It's kind of selfishly because I'm like, man, I can get you guys closer to home, that means I can come and see a show. Definitely. Definitely. out i However, I did make the mistake one time.
00:50:30
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A good friend of ours, Arliss, who popped in earlier, he's the lead singer of the Southern Outlaws band. They were doing a benefit show, and I was like, do you ever need somebody emcee a show? I know a guy.
00:50:42
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Insert open mouth, insert foot. I ain't never been on stage before, and I have a fear of public speaking. Guess who put me on stage to emcee their show? I'm like, yep, never doing that shit again. I just want to come and watch.
00:50:53
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I just want to be a fan in the crowd. There you go. And maybe you have a few beers and hang out with the guys, you know. but But yeah, no, I have no problem. And especially, you know, not only to be able to show your guys' music to our area, but to to open the door for other bands like you guys. And they're like, holy shit, maybe we should venture outside of Ohio.
00:51:16
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And I'm not saying that they're not venturing outside of Ohio, but, or holy shit, maybe we should go ahead and dabble into this this this genre of music or these type of artists. and stuff like that. But plus, you know, people are going to show up and they're going to go, we don't know who these guys are, but it's live music and they're either going love it or they're going to hate it but they're not going to go anywhere because they're going sit there and listen and drink beer.
00:51:38
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Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and we I mean, here it's like you got you have to really try to get people to come out. And it's like, it's just you don't have that scene where like, hey, let's just go hang out and listen to live music. It's just yeah maybe in some areas where like there's like groups of guys or ah bands doing like the alternative scene, not metal, you know, like there's no where's the metal scene. You know, we got to we got to go to where it is. basically Yeah.
00:52:09
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and And that's the other, I'm just like, like I said, just in my, my and and I'm in like one of those little big towns, you know what mean? it's It's a small town vibe, but it's a lot bigger from the outside looking in than what we realize it is living here.
00:52:23
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Just right on top of my head, I can probably think of six bars that every weekend to have live music. Some of the guys are cover bands. Some of the guys are original bands. Some of the bands are ah mix of of cover and originals, you know?
00:52:39
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um but they're always drawing a crowd. It's wild to me. oh you know so i will absolutely absolutely love to slide some venues over your way and and whatnot and see if you guys can, again, selfish reasons, see if I can get you guys out this way. That'd be great, man. Yeah. Not that far to drive. No.
00:53:04
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yeah uh what's what's the drive who doesn't love it who doesn't love a road trip anyways i love it yeah yeah um when do you guys when you guys do get the opportunity and you go on the road or do you do shows or anything like that now this is this is this is always a curiosity are you guys go do the show get back to the hotel are you guys into shenanigans or anything like that or you
00:53:33
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Yeah, oh I would say we're pretty – the level of shenanigans is definitely it definitely not what it used to be. and um and we tend We tend to behave a lot more, and yeah we're that we're we're dads too, and you know so You know, but yeah, we like that. We love to hang and we love to hang out afterwards and we love to hang by the merch and talk to people and meet people. And that that's our big thing, you know.
00:54:04
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The days of doing crazy stupid shit, thankfully, are are past us, I would say, for the most part. Right, Koosh? Well, the whole sex, drugs, and rock and roll is still the drug of choice, though, is ibuprofen now. yeah Hey, I feel you, man. The joys are getting old. yeah and I'm not 20 anymore. there's There's nights where i'm like, yeah, i can still stay up all night and drink with these these kids.
00:54:32
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And then three days later, I'm still trying to recover going, somebody get the license plate on that bus? Because I am wrecked right now. I totally get that. For for you guys on stage,
00:54:48
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You know, the music is one thing, you know, put playing great music, having fun and whatever, but what is your guys' to stage presence? Like, are you guys, do you guys put on a show to go with the music?
00:55:02
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No, we we are. We're like your typical. where Our comfort zone is is the clubs. You know, we don't really do anything fancy. We just want to get out there. We like being, you know, on the same level as the fans and just be like one big thing and just having it. Yeah. Having it all be about the music.
00:55:22
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Who knows? Maybe down the road, if if things really take off, you know, I would love to have some some cool visual stuff or whatever. But like just really connecting with the music and and the these smaller to mid midsize venues. And that's what ah to me, that's that's where it's all about. Hey, listen, we'd love to play an arena. You know, we'd love to play the Madison Square Garden. But, you know, it's the the best are are the are the good, solid, well attended shows that are where everybody's up in front. You know, it's nice.
00:55:50
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I like yeah those those intimate. type settings is yeah you know you might get yeah i like that man that's where the lines aren't blurred between band and and fans it's just like yeah we are a we like kush always says that we are you hey you know we're we're just doing our thing now but chances are tomorrow we'll be in the crowd you know watching going yeah you know like that's what it's like we don't see ourselves as any different than that that's what i like We're completely wrong. you know We don't do tracks. We don't do anything. What you get, you get the live experience.
00:56:25
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and you know And if you go through our catalog of songs, you'll you see there's a community of what we write about. We don't write about just about ourselves. We write about what happens to all of us.
00:56:37
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So there might be more that's more you know in tune of what happened to us. But in general, it's the situations that everyone goes through. And some of them are good and some of them are bad.
00:56:49
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's that's that's life for you, man. You know, ah you get your ups, your downs, your highs, your lows, and, you know, you know ne it seems to never fail when things are going too good.
00:57:02
Speaker
The universe is waiting to kick you right in the dick. so Oh, yeah.
00:57:08
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and the other thing that kukush's point it's like we we don't we're not like looking it's not a self-pity thing either it's like hey shit happens and guess what it happens is to everybody you you dust off and you keep plowing through you know what it's not like uh you know i think nowadays so many songs are written about like i had a bad day and what was me and it's like listen man you better suck it up because there's gonna be a lot more of those bad days Yeah. So just like all talk about it, band together and move on and, you know, and figure out how to move on rather than, spin and it you know?
00:57:41
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Yeah. As the, as the great Rocky Balboa once said, it's not how, not how many times you get knocked down. It's about how many times you get back up again. And I live by those words, man. ah You can knock me down, but I'm going to keep getting back up at the end of the day. So, yeah, no, I, I like that. Yeah.
00:57:59
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Yeah. yeah Just not as annoying. no I can dig it. yeah ah I lost my train of thought. That always happens.
00:58:15
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yeah i know I like that. That's what I like about going to like like Sonic Temple or or Louder Than Life. Obviously, you go there for... There's the headliners. There's the big bands that you want to see.
00:58:26
Speaker
But I love going over to the stages off to the side and seeing those bands perform because they come off stage
Music Festivals and Video Production Challenges
00:58:34
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they do what they need to do and then they're in the crowd just like everybody else and they're hanging out um and then and you get to meet them and you and you hang out with them and you know chit chat you know do whatever a couple beers i like that about that's what i love about those uh music festivals like that like obviously you know there's bands that you want to see right Don't don't the don't don't fall asleep on that side stage because there's gonna be bands that absolutely fucking kill it who could potentially one day be on the big stage, you know, and you could be on that on that ground floor, right?
00:59:08
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I remember when I seen them in 2020 two thousand and twenty at Louder Than Life. and And I got to shotgun beers with the lead singer and and the guitar player puked on my boots and now they're up on the big stage. You know, they're the headliner.
00:59:24
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Yeah, everybody starts somewhere. And those festivals, man, that the the the community and the spirit at those festivals is just awesome. They're like, all right, there's hope for for yeah hard music because it's alive and well. like That's why Sonic Temple. That's why my wife and I are going back. We were there a couple of years ago. I'm like, um this is like my Disney world.
00:59:43
Speaker
You know, this is I'm like, who's playing next? I'm like, I never heard of them. And then all of a sudden I'm like, I got to download their music. And yeah I walk out of there with 10 new bands and songs. of my Like I heard of them, but I never really heard them. And it's like, wow. You know, and to see it live, it's it's just awesome.
01:00:00
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could you could you guys Could you guys see yourself doing something like that? oh definitely absolutely we love to yeah we got we got to keep cranking you know look it's funny kush and i always talk like we'll we'll hear a new band and i'll be like oh this this band is great like they're brand new but they're not brand new they have three albums already you know to me they're so there's this building process you know we told you we started in 2021 it's a good you know two to four years just to build a foundation by constantly putting out music and writing and releasing and singles and staying relevant we have to you know and then you know it's kind of like the snowball rolling downhill but you gotta you gotta keep at it so uh so yeah man we'll we hopefully we're gonna we're gonna keep cranking them out and and hopefully something like that happens if it doesn't it doesn't but we're having a we're having a damn good time in the meantime and we're putting out stuff that at least we could look in the mirror and be like
01:00:54
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yeah we we like this we're we're being true to what we came from and what we want to represent you know i gotta agree with modog there i think uh like he said more and more people have been craving getting out and being with their friends and and listening to live music and and and and there are you know unfortunately we did lose even even here in ohio we did lose some amazing venues uh due to the uh scam debit scamdemic as uh modell called it uh i agree with you but ah But, you know, some businesses, they they they rebounded, man, and they came back stronger than ever. Some businesses, you're just never going to be able to kill. We've got a couple of we've got a couple of those businesses, like I said, the Alrosa and the Newport.
01:01:39
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you're just not going to be able to, don't, you could burn them bitches to the ground today and they'll be back out tomorrow, putting live music on the stage, you know, yeah that's just, that's just because they are they are staples of of the community. They're staples of of of the music world.
01:01:53
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Um, and they're not going to go anywhere anytime soon. But, um, yeah, i think people, I think we, I think, I think us as music fans, we are craving that live entertainment. Yeah. So, um,
01:02:05
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ah you know and and and And good original stuff. And that's the other thing. Ultimately, it's that good original music. at the end yeah so
01:02:17
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And you guys are just like, okay, we're just going to do our thing. And that's the other thing. Being able to put stuff out that you can, like you just said, you can put yourself you can look at yourself in the mirror and go, Oh, yeah. We kicked ass on that album. where We kicked ass on that song.
01:02:29
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Yeah. yeah oh We like it. We knew our own reviews, so they're all 10 out of 10s. That's... yeah Another Holy shit.
01:02:44
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but of fall Greatest heavy metal band to ever walk the earth. questions ah Yeah. and Another great review by Koosh.
01:02:58
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it's not It's not having an ego. It's called being confident.
01:03:05
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That is awesome. I love it. no and you know and And you guys are having fun. And that's what it's all about. i mean yeah No B-sides and no songs that sound like any other songs we did.
01:03:18
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that's just That's kind of it. Koosh, I'm going to give you an outside review on the Duster. I give that a 10 out of 10. A-plus, my friend. Good call. Everybody likes the Duster.
01:03:33
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It's a hit. It's a hit. Yeah. yeah it's a witch it's a hit yeah i gotta I want to go get me one. I got to get me one. We didn't get to see your green sneakers, though, Cush. Green sneakers in the video, and there was one clip where you could see the sneakers, and he's like, you've got to crop out those sneakers. I was like, you're supposed to have, like, kick-ass boots or something. Yeah, you've got to have some kick-ass boots. Green sneakers. I'm like, wow. We haven't done a video where you've seen our feet.
01:04:04
Speaker
I don't mind when we can do the feet. i mean i like boots or something but I like my comfy vans. I wear my vans on stage. They're part of my whole repertoire. know she wo a barefoot don It's part of who Cush is. yeah The green shoe.
01:04:20
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That's awesome. little A little behind in the little behind the curtain, guys. Cush is green vans. My green vans and my hat. Signature.
01:04:30
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There you go, man. cow boy yeah You got to have that signature go-to, man. that's that is that makes that That makes that duster so much better to know that. please Are they like neon bright green? They're green. I'm going to send you a picture tomorrow.
01:04:48
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um megan i'm saying i'm gonna put ah i'm gonna send you a picture to more Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because that makes that duster that much better me because I've got it. I'm like, I've got, I've got a duster, not like yours. Mine's just a traditional duster.
01:05:03
Speaker
and and And I never put it on unless I wear my boots, you know, it's black, so I can go with any pair of boots and it's going to look great. But to to see the see the duster and and and green bands, that's amazing.
01:05:17
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well You got the problem when you're doing these damn video shoots, when you do 15 six-minute takes. And when you pump, you want to have good shoes on when you're doing it. Yeah. I agree.
01:05:29
Speaker
It's a workout. Those things that are a workout, man. Yeah. You see a four- to six-minute video, but it took three hours like to do it a month. i was I was talking to a guy. Well, I don't want to say former guest because he's become friends. That's cool thing about doing this show is that i actually I've actually become friends with a lot of my former guests.
01:05:50
Speaker
um But we were talking about a video excuse me that they shot. And he was like, dude, we were in this little room for five hours. I was like, man, looks like i'm I'm all about the one take.
01:06:06
Speaker
whatever it's like I told the guys here like we shoot our live we shoot our shows live our shows are live every show is live there's no editing there's no fixing if we run into technical difficulties if we run into this whatever we just go with the flow we're not editing shit and then I take the video like this portion that we're doing right now is we're live I'm gonna take the audio and I'm gonna throw it up onto the podcasting platforms so there's things that happen where people are like You almost need the visual for it.
01:06:38
Speaker
It's like, all right, well, go check this out on YouTube. And then you can see the visual part, like, so even if you just scroll. But, yeah, man, we don't edit. Nothing's pre-recorded. It's just what it is is what it is.
01:06:51
Speaker
But, yeah, we're talking to him, and he's like, yeah, dude, five hours in a little room, all these lights. It was like a million degrees in there, and it was like we'd get – everything would be going good, and then 30 seconds left in the song, and something would fuck up.
01:07:06
Speaker
you know a symbol would fall off the drum or somebody would drop a guitar or i'd trip or then we'd have to start all over again yeah yeah yeah hey man appreciate you being here sergeant modov appreciate you finding us check out everything else um for you guys when you guys release music are you guys more about um releasing this has become the new trend and this is why i asked this question The new trend is dropping singles and getting traction and everything like that. Are you guys more about dropping the singles or are you guys more like, hey, we're working on an album and we're going to do like they used to do back in the day. Like you're going to get your one or two are two or three songs for radio to get people's interest peaked. But then after that, we're going to just drop an album of kick-ass music on your face.
01:08:02
Speaker
No, we're definitely about the singles. Well, put it this way. Yes. Singles is the we feel it's the way to go. Not that we want it to be that way. I would love we would love to drop albums every year or two and have it really get listened to in order, you know, track the track order matters, the artwork matters. But like.
01:08:24
Speaker
The problem is we for a band like us, we need to stay relevant. We need to be we need to have new stuff coming out. And so when we do tens like so right now we have 10 new songs, we just put five out on Smoke and Mirrors with a cover of Hold the Line.
01:08:38
Speaker
We've got another five in our back pocket ready to go. We could release them tomorrow. What we're not going to, because if a band like us puts out 10 songs, Maybe you'll listen to the whole thing and then you're going to be on to to the next band that put out an album. And they say there's something like 50,000 songs a day that are loaded up to Spotify. A day. Now, that's not to all metal, but a lot of it is metal.
01:08:59
Speaker
So we'd rather cool artwork. Give as many songs as we can, six to eight weeks to breathe, you know, put out a cool video and then do another one and then do an EP.
01:09:13
Speaker
Okay. And then we're going to let that go. we're going to do another cover that we just finished and we're going to put out that in the summer. Then we'll put out another original in the fall. maybe another one early in january and then another ep so now you're looking at we have a year's worth of music to release and it's a slow release but over time like it's building up into an ep a good chunk that you can listen to but we found like that and that's not the way i would want to i i would prefer to do it i prefer to do a full album i like getting full albums and listening to the whole thing but for us you know it's just so competitive we gotta try to keep fresh
01:09:49
Speaker
Keeping Spotify algorithm, you know who to deal with any of that. I don't I don't want to deal with social media We used to hang flyers on telephone poles with a state guess but that's just not that way anymore. So we're gonna have to play that game if we want to, you know, stand out with all that white noise that's coming out every day.
01:10:11
Speaker
And we found and we researched that that's the best way to do it, you know, and luckily, you know, we're able to do it and and come up with new ah video ideas and get the guys together and keep keep cranking out the content. You got to be like a machine with this stuff like Metallica will drop an album every six years and we'll love it and we'll listen to it and they'll tour for five years like,
01:10:31
Speaker
Yeah, we're not there yet. So in the meantime, we're playing the singles game. We're just trying to be smart about it. You have to adapt to the way things are. And it doesn't, you know, nothing's like it was when we grew up, but that's just the way things are.
01:10:45
Speaker
So we have to adapt or die or or, you know, and that's it, you know. So that's what we that's what we do. i mean, I don't know. what do you think, Koosh? I mean, but you'd rather be putting out full albums and, you know, and...
01:10:56
Speaker
Well, I don't know. You said we're not there yet, but we're at Glick's house of music, man. yeah let's get What are you saying? We haven't made it We're there, baby.
01:11:07
Speaker
This is a big fucking move in the right direction. yeah not Me too. I'd rather go the whole album way, you know, instead of this having to just dole it out a little bit at a time.
01:11:19
Speaker
you know nice but But the whole industry has changed and you have to learn to adapt. you don't adapt, then it's not going to happen. yeah like Like Pete says, it's algorithm and content.
01:11:31
Speaker
I mean, at this point, Pete's gone through so much. of a he he's hes is the steer He steers the band. He does a phenomenal kind of work. And I tell you what, the research that's gone into everything, mean, he could write a book at this point.
01:11:46
Speaker
I mean, he may be that i I don't even know. He might be writing a book and not telling me. Well, then I might actually make, we might make money by writing a book. That's the only way we might make money.
01:11:57
Speaker
Maybe that's what I need to do. do Maybe that's the problem. Maybe that's why we're not making money on this podcast thing. I got to write a book. Pete, like you you and I will get together. We'll we'll write right a book. Yeah. i i know but ah Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of social media. I don't like it.
01:12:16
Speaker
Man. he' just man you it's so easy to to to to get derailed and and and go into an opposite direction from what you're trying to do you know you guys doing music we're doing podcasting over here and stuff like that um and it's so easy to get derailed and and and kind of go in another direction and and sometimes fall into drama uh or fall into this that the other thing um but it seems to you know like you said you you gotta to adapt man you gotta to do what i was having a conversation
01:12:49
Speaker
I can't remember who I was talking to. And they told me, they're like, you know, as much as you guys want to set yourselves apart, and as much as you want to set yourself apart as ah as an interviewer, you almost have to do what works to get that attention.
01:13:05
Speaker
Yeah. And then once you've got the attention and you've got the followers and you've got that traction, then you flip the script on them i think it was an interview i think was last week my guest last week they're like and then you flip the script on them and then you show them look i'm actually different i'm not the same as every jerk off doing a music interview out here i don't want to i i can't i can't bring myself to do that they're right they're 100 right but i can't bring myself to do that i'm just going to keep doing my thing but but the single thing you know with musicians it seems to be working though at the end of the day um people are getting you know like i said you drop a single
01:13:40
Speaker
Or you drop a song much like the new one that just dropped ah today and that's gonna cause people to go and look at Let me see what else these guys are doing. It happened to me with the bottom, you know, and and then I jumped in and was and i was listening to your guys music so And I'm still listening your guys music like I said great gym music at the end of the day because I'm always looking for something to you know because that's where I go to turn everything off is just My brain shuts down.
01:14:10
Speaker
Money, relationships, stress, everything. but That's where I shut my brain off, plug my ears into music, and and and work out. So, you know, and and I think people need that, too. Music is therapy at the end of the day, whether you're taking long rides, going to the gym, or whatever.
01:14:29
Speaker
you know, music is therapy. So you need that. And like I said, you drop one song and you let it fester and let it simmer,
01:14:39
Speaker
People get anxious. They're like Come on guys. Give me something else yeah The other thing, too, is like to to the point we were making about 80s and 90s metal and music, like there are still a lot of great things about those eras that we use now.
Album Artwork and Social Media's Role
01:14:56
Speaker
What are they? Artwork. we but we are very we take a lot of We put a lot of effort into our artwork. We think it's important. Even though we're not staring at physical albums, we want you to scroll and be like, ooh, that looks cool.
01:15:09
Speaker
and know And when you look at our Spotify, we want you to see a gallery of covers that looks cool. look you know and And it stimulates something in you. So that is important. Same thing with the videos. The other cool thing, I mean, social media, it's annoying. ah But there are things that we can do now that we couldn't do then. I can put...
01:15:27
Speaker
put up a video of one of our guitarists doing so doing one of the solos. Or I could show you every day a piece from what we did in the studio. How cool is that? How much would I want to see Steve Harris laying down the bass to you know number the beast live? We couldn't do that.
01:15:43
Speaker
Now we can't. So for all the shitty things about social media, there is a way to get out content that's really cool. And the videos and the posts that we put up that do the best are shit like that. Yeah, no. Yeah.
01:15:55
Speaker
Yeah, and people eat that. Dude, I love that stuff. i've actually had that conversation with a few different artists. I love that. The behind-the-scenes stuff. Dude, man you know what I would have done to kill to see a video of Ronnie James in the studio with no music behind him? Just just Ronnie?
01:16:11
Speaker
Just wailing? yeah or Or even like David Lee Roth back in the day? Just Take the music out. Take the instruments out. You know, like artists just... And and and and a lot of times you see just just the artists having fun when when bands do that behind the scenes stuff.
01:16:27
Speaker
ah There's couple local guys up in Cleveland and they do the silliest fucking videos. yeah But you're locked in. You know, you're... The one guy actually...
01:16:39
Speaker
the other day posted a video, he was like, so I got pulled over today coming from a photo shoot and I look like this and he's like in leather and he's got piercings everywhere and tattoos and he's got makeup on. That's great. he's like, could you imagine the cop walking up to this? Yeah, that's great. That stuff is, that that behind the scenes stuff is really cool that, you know, yeah, social media is is ah is a necessary evil and a lot of us may not like it, but it allows people to see a different side of the band. It allows people to see a different side of you guys, but also at the same time, get to see how much hard work goes into what you guys do.
01:17:21
Speaker
You know, you got somebody recording while you're doing a video shoot and they're, you know, they're commentating and it's like, this is the 47th time that we've done this exact verse today. And you guys still have that same energy about you where you're still trying to put on a but good performance.
01:17:40
Speaker
And I think the other thing that was really cool with the, with yesterday's future is you guys added a ah lot of AR, AI art into that. That was, that was really cool. yeah we did a whole ai video the guy alien his name's alien al he's a canadian dude he's done a couple videos for us and again adapt or die right ai know it's amazing things that you can do with ai like you know and uh so yeah let's use it let's check it out let's see you know and uh yeah that's just trying to stay different you know trying you got to try to get that edge
01:18:14
Speaker
What's going to make you stand out? you know like How about the time we caught Koosh, who's a lead singer, actually helping the band carry equipment? Oh, what?
01:18:27
Speaker
And we posted it, and it was like unbelievable. A lead singer helping fucking unload it. Almost threw my back out. I know, I know. Koosh was hanging out with the peasants, with the little people. you know I'll throw him a bone every once in a while.
01:18:47
Speaker
That's what makes you a good lead singer.
01:18:51
Speaker
I'm here for my people. yeah yeah Now bow before me, peasants. but got it you know It's all right to the bottom feed every once in while, but you got to keep them in line, Koosh.
01:19:04
Speaker
I run a tight ship around here. You can ask any of you guys. and What I normally do is I get off stage and I make it act like someone you know wants to talk to me as a fan. They want nothing to do with me, and I'm just talking to them, and they make it look like I'm focused on them.
01:19:20
Speaker
Get this stuff off the stage, boys. I've got to talk to the person. for i like I like your style. I like your style. You force somebody to talk to. Come here. You're my new friend. Come here. That's it.
01:19:34
Speaker
Goose always has a marker in his pocket so he can look like he's looking important and busy. Oh, Oh, yeah. We know all his tricks, man. We know all his
Fashion Statements and Quirky Travel Stories
01:19:44
Speaker
tricks. He's he's out there shaking babies and kissing hands.
01:19:47
Speaker
yeah It's the damn jacket. you It's the duster. The duster and the green tennis shoes, man. um um I'm here for it.
01:19:59
Speaker
It's a whole look. you know people people are gonna In the future, people are going to copy that look. you know Everybody wants to copy like Eddie and and and have the Eddie sound or you know have you know somebody's style. yeah Years from now, there's going to be a band that comes out and lead singers to come out on stage with green bands and ah and a duster. um my go I know who did that. I know who the originator was. I know who that was.
01:20:24
Speaker
insist we will tell our kids the stories of the duster and green shoes. that yeah and it had And it all started on this day, on this podcast. The truth came out. That's what I did.
01:20:38
Speaker
yeah yeah yeah All I know is 259 has to get edited because of my shoes. Yeah. 259 Mark. Are you wearing fucking green shoes? Yeah.
01:20:52
Speaker
Damn it, Koosh. You should have like kick-ass fucking alligator skin cowboy boots with that. Yeah, yeah you mean like oh yeah alligator, ostrich, snake something, man. Yeah, you some shitckers on it shit killers.
01:21:07
Speaker
Yeah, it wasn't in the budget. Yeah. That just wouldn't be Koosh. Come on. Let's Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. yeah See, that makes me want to come see you guys even more.
01:21:21
Speaker
they see a live show because I got to see the green shoes in person. Go see the green shoes and the mic. He's got a mic that has like brass knuckles as the handle. That's awesome.
01:21:33
Speaker
Which was a great story, Koosh, right? and you're trying to my god Trying to fly from Florida to Jersey and try to try to get that through security. Yeah. and pool at ah On a 6 a.m. flight showing up in Tampa and ah What it was, is it's actually a knife. It was a great big knife, and it had like but you know i brass knuckles on the end of where fingers go into it.
01:21:57
Speaker
And I made a bracket and everything to mount onto the the microphone, and I didn't even think about it at the time. I just threw it my damn carry-on bag, and they were like, oh, yeah, there's no way you could take this on. And I'm like, what?
01:22:13
Speaker
They're like, yeah, you're going to have to go back and check your bag. and I'm like, it's 20 minutes till the flight. Yeah. So i am so i I actually drove all the way home, came back and caught another flight, checked the bag, and then showed up.
01:22:37
Speaker
are you are so that you brought it are you Are you down in the Tampa area? Yeah, I'm just south of Tampa. I'm in Sarasota. Braden in Sarasota. Okay. All right. Nice, nice, nice.
01:22:48
Speaker
If I don't get back to Charleston, I'm going to get down. I'll probably move down to Tampa. I've got a lot of friends and and and fellow podcasters and musicians and comedians down in Tampa.
01:23:00
Speaker
So they're like, just come to Tampa, bro. I was like, i spent a tampa I spent a week in Tampa, and you sons of bitches almost killed me. like i took I went when when my ex-wife and I split a couple buddies of mine, they're podcasters, comedians and whatnot.
01:23:17
Speaker
They're like, come on, Glick, you need to clear your mind. Come down to Tampa. It'll be fun. Took a week off work. Went down to Tampa. And it was fun. Don't get me wrong. Went to went down to Ybor. Caught some custom ah live shows down in Ybor. Seen some stand-up comedy.
01:23:33
Speaker
ah Drank my fucking face off. ah But I had to come home. I got home and I had to take three days off an extra three days off of work.
01:23:45
Speaker
Wow. Because I was just smoked from a week in the Well, that's free pour in Florida. What's that? We free pour here in Florida.
01:23:56
Speaker
Yes, you do. You are very generous. Yeah.
01:24:03
Speaker
Very, very generous with the four. I actually actually listened to The Bone out of Tampa. Been listening to them for years, the radio station down there. So, big fan.
01:24:14
Speaker
um But it was a lot of fun. They weren't wrong. And there was there was some pretty good music down there. there was The live music was was kicking. Not in E-board, especially. but But, yeah, they they weren't wrong.
01:24:29
Speaker
ah Yeah. I think I'm still recovering, and it's been like seven years. I think I have think i have PTSD from Tampa. They're like, when are you coming back now, Glick? i was like, I don't know. i am yeah i am in my 40s. I am not in my 20s anymore. boy I don't know how y'all do it. You get a harsh reminder of that, right? The hard way.
01:24:57
Speaker
and yeah Absolutely, at the end of the day. So
01:25:05
Speaker
the Jersey. Okay. So I got it. I got it. I got to say this, man. Pete, I'm digging the accent. um I'm digging the Jersey accent. yeah
01:25:14
Speaker
I can't get rid of it. can't get rid of it. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, ah it's one of those things. Oh, shit. Yeah.
01:25:25
Speaker
I usually, almost died on you guys. Um,
Future Plans and International Touring Aspirations
01:25:31
Speaker
So what do you guys got? and You know, if you don't mind me asking and and feel free to tell me to shut the fuck up.
01:25:37
Speaker
But what do you guys got in store for the future as far as what's coming up? What what do you guys um obviously, you know, we're going to try to get you guys. I'm going to try to get you guys so out here on the lot.
01:25:49
Speaker
Yeah. If you guys.
01:25:52
Speaker
We'll do our podcast. Yeah, I'd love um you already. That's why i'm my I've been spinning about like how we can put together a bunch of dates and when we could do it and get out there and we're ready to do it. or We just what what what we have coming up. So we have we chuck believe it or not, we were in the studio last night. Like we told you about this pipeline and new music. I want to I love when we grew up that bands put out an album out every year.
01:26:19
Speaker
you know I want to always have new music coming out. We just did a, we're finishing a cover that we're gonna, we're gonna re, we did we're doing a remake of a song that we're gonna put out. we Like I told you, we have another five songs in our back pocket. We're gonna see those probably starting it by the end of the year, and into the new year.
01:26:37
Speaker
So the beauty of having a lot of music in our back pocket is we we have the leisure of writing in a casual way without any pressure. And we can really focus on tightening up ah set and getting on the road and getting out and playing gigs. So that's where we're at.
01:26:54
Speaker
So we'll be writing and and not so much recording so much, but really getting out and playing. And that's what we're that's what the focus is going to be. And it cemented it in this conversation with you is we have to get out of our area. We just have to. got trump Yeah, we have to keep pushing out the radius of there.
01:27:18
Speaker
and And that makes sense. You know, like, grow where planted, but, you know, get let's get a little bit more regional, you know, and let's go to where the music's appreciated, you know?
01:27:30
Speaker
So, I don't know. We're going to Germany? Germany, yeah. We're going to Mexico and Brazil. In Mexico and Brazil, you can you can't believe, they eat everything up.
01:27:41
Speaker
It's unbelievable. They love it. Yeah, they love they love they love everything, man. They love music. How does one get stuffed into your carry-on bags and get taken Germany with you? Because I don't see you guys live, but I want to go to Germany and experience German beer live. I love German beer.
01:27:59
Speaker
Well, you've been there, right, Koush? Yeah. Yeah. It's great. What do they call it? It's nothing better than going somewhere and drinking domestic beer, and it's delicious.
01:28:10
Speaker
yeah right that The Germans ah you know they may have made mistake they've They've made some mistakes in the past Like we all have But one thing they do do is make delicious beer They have some um and it phenomenal Beer Unfortunately I've had imported beer And I've gone to a couple places like Can you buy a chance to get this?
01:28:34
Speaker
Yeah, we guess Whatever dude, you're the only person asking for it The Bahamas go drink beer Oh, yeah. Bahamas got some horrible beer.
01:28:46
Speaker
ah just ah just can't imagine. and yeah When I think of the Bahamas, I'm thinking of like girly mixed drinks that are yeah or blue or yellow with umbrellas and flowers in them.
01:28:57
Speaker
I don't think of beer. Yeah.
01:29:01
Speaker
oh There's my right hand. I mentioned going to another country and drinking, and he shows up. He comes up to German beer. Blazing Blasphemer. That's awesome.
01:29:12
Speaker
That's all That's my guy. I love it. Love it. That's my guy right there. That's my right hand man here on the network. ah Shams, get that. I had something and I got sidetracked and started talking about beer and stuff like that.
01:29:27
Speaker
I was going to ask you guys about it. happens all the time. My brain's always going like 500 miles an hour and usually 27 different topics going on in my brain at the same time. guess Blake, he knows. He talks to me.
01:29:41
Speaker
But there was something I wanted to ask you guys. Oh, that's what i was going to ask. And I still got my ears in. I'm just going to my camera, just turn my camera off for a second, but I got my ears on so I can still hear you. When you guys do a live set, is it all originals or do you guys do, do you guys mix in any covers at all? And if you don't mind sharing, if you do do covers, no but we have covers.
01:30:03
Speaker
We have our cover that we have redone as in the whole, the line, that was our remake and we're doing another one now, but yeah, we do do throw, throw in a couple of,
01:30:15
Speaker
like to spice it up every once in a while. And the only reason we do that is, the main reason is so people hear a song they're familiar with and they can hear you play it well and then they listen to your music and you're like, okay, now I can listen to their stuff because I've got something that to balance it off yeah yeah like but we don't put that many in like we did do the remake of hold the line by toto and that is actually our number one stream song so that that worked out great for us and the beauty of that is it like kush is saying it it's the uh the hook to get people to listen to your other music so and especially if you're remaking it and you're not just covering it but but we we love doing nib by sabbath we've thrown in tnt by acdc
01:30:58
Speaker
um so here and there but usually one if it's a really long set you know maybe two or if we're doing a couple sets or or we have our whole night where it's just us then we'll throw in you know four or five covers but it's pretty much pretty standard and we'll throw one in um but yeah it's usually sabbath acdc or uh yeah something like that but yeah oh thanks
Critiques and Praise of Music Styles
01:31:20
Speaker
yeah So i got I don't think I've heard the Toto cover yet.
01:31:24
Speaker
I'm going to have to listen to that because yeah that's like completely out of the wheelhouse. Yeah, check it out, man. sweet We definitely made it heavier, but we didn't go crazy with it, and people love it. So it's like...
01:31:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's Yacht Rock. And who knew at the time that it was before the whole Yacht Rock explosion thing, which I can't stand.
01:31:46
Speaker
Yacht Rock used to be what we called soft soft rock or soft Yacht Rock. Like some shit that our parents listened to. Now it's like they're selling out like the Stone Pony, but like big venues around here doing Yacht Rock. I don't get it, but whatever, you know.
01:32:03
Speaker
Yeah. They don't want to come see local metal dance. They want to see somebody do, you know, Steely Dan. I can't figure it out.
01:32:15
Speaker
Oh, you son. yeah really did We're here for the devil horns. Hail Satan. Yes. My parents listen to this shit, man.
01:32:26
Speaker
you No, yeah. Yacht Rock has become, and you know, I won't lie. Being a music guy and being in a music fan. there there are some artists and there's some music out there that quote unquote got rock that'll suck me in.
01:32:40
Speaker
And then I feel dirty afterwards because I sing along to it. But, but it happens at the end of the day. What are you going to do? We all have our guilty pleasures.
01:32:50
Speaker
oh But no, I like that. I like that. You, I like that, that way of thinking where, yeah, you know, we do our original stuff, but we throw something out there that,
01:33:04
Speaker
we're going hook you. It's kind of like fishing. You're going to throw that hook out there and and you're going to throw that bait out there and then once a once they grab a hold, then going to go, he got you, fucker.
01:33:14
Speaker
Now you're going to listen to what I want you to. Oh, yeah. Yeah. and but As Blaze says, i call it the satanic paytan, but satanic paytan. I might be a blasphemer now because I just shit on Yacht Rock. I mean, that could probably get me beat up in certain places. No, they're not going to. Those people aren't going to beat anybody else. Oh, that's true. They're not going to beat anybody else. Come on, let's honest.
01:33:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they'll wag and yell. They'll do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How dare you, sir? Yeah.
01:33:51
Speaker
and Yeah, you don't know good music. Yeah. then you can Then you guys can melt their faces off with your kick-ass devil music. That's right. Yeah. yeah What up, Jedi?
01:34:02
Speaker
but but really We got the Jedi Council in the building. hill'll ah He'll agree with me. Go to hell, Yop Rock. Yeah.
01:34:12
Speaker
right yeah
01:34:15
Speaker
yeah man i would love to I would love to throw in a if you can get this man to cover some Chris Cornell. wow yeah I heard the audio slave. You done did it earlier.
01:34:29
Speaker
can get to cover some mis some more Chris Cornell. ah I will be greatly appreciative. That'll be an eye opener in the Midwest. That guy...
01:34:41
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eye am opener in the midwest then guy that guy is one of those guys in the music industry. RIP to Chris. That dude could do no wrong.
01:34:53
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That man has, and and he did ah he did a live acoustic album a few years before he passed away. was a live show, and he it was all covers.
01:35:04
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He didn't do any, ah he did like Michael Jackson and
01:35:10
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Madonna, and there's all these songs, but but he didn't cut he didn't didn't try to replicate. He just did it his own way. yeah And Koosh, man, Audioslave, which you just did a little bit of when you were embarrassing and hurting people's feelings at karaoke. Yeah.
01:35:30
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i don't I don't want to see you guys do covers or anything like that, but if you ever get the itch to do a cover, I would love to see Koosh sing some more Chris Cornell. Yeah, maybe a good Soundgarden tune would be good.
01:35:41
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Yeah, Soundgarden.
01:35:44
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Uh, was one of a kind Chris Cornell. I never missed an opportunity to see him. I will say that whether it was template, a dog sound garden, audio slave, his own solo stuff. I mean, the guy always toured and I would always go see him. I just couldn't believe that how effortless he was with his vocals. And it was just, yeah.
01:36:05
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Insane. I that's, but that's one regret I have not, not ever getting to see him live. When I first came back home to Ohio, um They had Louder Than Life down in that Suck It Blaze, Louisville, Kentucky.
01:36:22
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Blaze is a Kentuckian. ah but and and Guns N' Roses was headlining it. Axl Slash, like the original ah GNR.
01:36:35
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and I've been a fan of them since I was a kid. man since My cousin introduced me to the opening riff of Welcome to the Jungle. And I was like, I'm not missing how much it cost me.
01:36:47
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I'm going. and And it was a fantastic show. But a lot of that has to do because there are a lot of artists that I have missed out when I have the opportunities to see perform. And Cornell is one of those guys.
01:37:00
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And I would have paid anything to to to hear him live or to hear him live. just do what he does yeah but the same thing could be said about about koosh because it almost seems effortless when he sings because you say a couple times just randomly just throwing out some some some lyrics and stuff tonight just tonight on here and it's just he's chilling in the chair just like yeah i'm gonna start singing i'm that damn good he yeah well i i've been in the studio for every every single word he's saying who on earth i've been there when it's happened and it's it's awesome to watch you know um and it's like even when i'm there watching it and then i listen back i'm like i was there and it didn't and i was like i didn't really like catch that inflection or that like and it's just natural and it's just so cool like it's yeah it's i don't know i don't know what happens but
01:37:57
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It's definitely a unique voice with a unique approach and you know, whatever, however he's feeling it, man, that's it's, it's cool to witness. Yeah. With, with him being down in Florida and as the rest of the band up in Jersey with you, Pete, yup. Yeah. We're down in Florida.
01:38:15
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Like Koosh, how often do you get up there or how often do you guys try to get, uh, get studio time? Does that, does that create any obstacles or anything like that for you? Oh, really? it's I mean, the the distance kind of makes it you inconvenient,
Logistical Challenges and Real-World Sound Incorporation
01:38:30
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but whenever they go in the studio and they you know they get the tracks down and then I come up and I do the ah vocals and then they start doing all the lead work and the solos and then if I got to go back in the studio, I'll go back in the studio.
01:38:44
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know Thankfully, the Wright brothers made a great invention. Yeah. but im sure i just I just gather up my reindeer and jump in my sleigh, and I'm in New Jersey on a time flight. Ho, ho, ho, ho.
01:39:00
Speaker
Ho, ho, ho. Y'all didn't know until tonight on Glick's House of Music, Santa's a heavy metal guy. Right. That's right. He's a naughty boy. I've got gifts to give.
01:39:11
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yes, yes. yes Yeah. No, we make it happen. It's like everything else. yeah You got to make it happen. Look at this day and age. Look at COVID, all the albums that were done. Guys were never in the same room together.
01:39:23
Speaker
You know, it's always, the ideal is always to be together. I mean it mean, you know, but that can't always be. So you got to do what, you know, and it's, and you make it happen. You know, everybody, if everybody does their work at home and the way we can communicate now is swapping files or whatever.
01:39:39
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We can make it happen. You know, it's just, you do it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's like one of those things, you know, Dave Grohl, a lot of times the studio albums are are a lot of the, it's just him.
01:39:51
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He's in his personal studio, doing the drum, doing the guitar, doing the tracking, doing the singing. then it's like, oh yeah, we we actually have a live band. We have a band. and They get with me when we do live.
01:40:01
Speaker
But on the albums, a lot of the albums are just Dave. Yeah, that's true. but true mind by theness But I don't know if that's an ego thing or if it's just the fact that he's just that damn good that probably girlss To me, Dave Grohl is like one of those guys like, you know, he's earned his way.
01:40:21
Speaker
Let him do his thing. He can do no wrong. Yeah, yeah. He has the album sales to back it up. yeah Stadiums have been sold out. Yeah, yeah. yeah Like, okay, I'm going to shut up now.
01:40:34
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Yeah, yeah yeah i' always yeah. I'm always curious about that when you know when when when you have a band that's yeah and you It's a great thing about the day and age we live in, like you said, with being, you know, like like for instance, you know just doing what we do here.
01:40:50
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Coosh is the way you're out in Jersey, I know I own. Most of my guys are not local here on this. We're all from all our release, but we can come together and we can come live, and that's a great thing about the interwebs. So it allows us so many more opportunities and things to kind of play with.
01:41:11
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So, Kooj, do you have, if need be, do you have a home studio that you can send up to Pete and whatnot? My entire house is studio. I play wherever I'm going to be.
01:41:24
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Speakers up and just go at it. I somehow knew you were going to tell me that. Yeah. yeah
01:41:33
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A little behind the music, the last album, what did you know that Koosh was literally sitting in his recliner singing all those songs because he's that good. A lot of times, man, it's just singing into the phone. yeah know it's like know It doesn't have to be high-tech equipment. i mean you We've all got like audio devices. You know yeah yeah how many riffs like I can... I'll be on my motorcycle and I'll pull over and I'll sing something or hum something into the phone and you hear the bike, go, go, go, go.
01:42:02
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so and i don't have to worry about forgetting it you know and it's just like and he'll send files like yeah you know singing this and that and it's just like ah it's cool ah you can make it happen speaking of that how often do you guys say something like that when you're like holy shit that would sound fucking sick as hell in the song like you said your motorcycle in the background oh yeah like like a background noise was like How do we put this in the song? How do we incorporate this into the song? Because that would be sick as hell. Has that ever happened to you guys?
01:42:31
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um We did some of that on our first album, Blame. We did some of that. We had a song called On the Brink, and we we brought in a whole bunch of sounds, like the the the the work whistle, right, Koosh? And the anvil, full of how like the hammer hitting the anvil. and Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. The tape sounds.
01:42:51
Speaker
Huh? The... yeah Stock market bell. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How about we have a so-called watch the fires burn. We started it with the crack. We got crackling Amazon fire sounds, and we put that in, you know, like, so, yeah. warm All the protesters, and then we put in there, yeah.
01:43:08
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Yeah, ah the pro an actual riot protest sounds in. Yeah, those are fun. That's another cool thing you can add to a song that's like, yeah really you know, fuck that. So, yeah.
01:43:21
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I like that. I dig that. It adds to the the realness, kind of the rawness that, you know, yeah like this is real life. This is real life. And there were some bands back, and like you like you guys said, you know, 80s, 90s, heavy metal, 70s, heavy metal, you know, like you you catch that stuff every once in while or they would throw Queensryche was notorious for doing. Just going to say that. Yes. Yeah. Big time.
01:43:48
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yeah big time yeah yeah notorious for throwing in something at the beginning or in the middle of a song and and just like, hold the fuck on. What was that? Let me rewind that. Of course, we had to go back and back in the day. We had to we had hit the rewind button, you know, and and and listen 10 times and try to pinpoint what what is going on right there. Hold on. That's that's kind of vital to the song.
01:44:13
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No, I like that. I dig that. That's that's really cool, man. yeah Now, you guys...
Expressions of Gratitude and Support
01:44:21
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You guys, as individuals, man, you guys are awesome.
01:44:24
Speaker
You guys so cool coming up here tonight. I'm not trying to wrap anything up. I just want to throw that out there. It's so cool hanging out with you guys. I never know what to expect because you know when you send messages on Instagram or I'm just a weird dude that hosts a podcast. Let me s slide in your DMs. I'm just a weird dude that does music.
01:44:45
Speaker
yeah yeah it We're just a couple of you we were just couple weird guys. Hey, I got to go back on what Koosh said earlier, man. I appreciate the praise. He said, hey, big time. like house so you man i'm gonna find i'm gonna I'm going to find that and going to put that all over our social media. I'm actually going to pin it to the top. When we play a big venue out in Ohio or anywhere near, you're going to introduce the band.
01:45:13
Speaker
Coming out. yeah and well I will gladly do it. You're just going to to. Actually, i may not be so nervous this time. Maybe a shot or two. you'll be Yeah, a shot or two, a couple drinks. something Some pretty ladies in the front row. Yeah. ah object yeah i will i You know what? I will absolutely do that. you know if you If you guys want that, I will 100% absolutely introduce the band, man.
01:45:42
Speaker
Get the crowd pumped up. You know? If I'm not feeling it, I don't know. Show my wiener or something.
01:45:51
Speaker
It's not a comedy act. It's a heavy metal band. i don't know if I'm going to let them down or hype them i mean we could we could we could sacrifice We could sacrifice somebody before you guys come out. I don't know. Whatever you guys want. That would Yeah.
01:46:08
Speaker
and would work but Yeah, know live and I don't put you on the fucking map. Live sacrifices. Ozzy bet the head off of my back. And that became a thing. You guys are like... You got to think of something. Yeah.
01:46:22
Speaker
you got think of something quarterback that yeah Yeah. No, this is great, man. We we love talking of about it. The people who do these types these co podcasts, we've done a bunch of them, and we have a great time doing it. it yeah We're just talking amongst ourselves about, you know, music and life, and it's it's cool, you know? And, yeah hey, you never know who's what.
01:46:46
Speaker
There's never a downside. We're having a conversation. Even though we're online, it's still face-to-face. and It's just, you know. Yeah. you know I learned a little bit about the scene in Ohio, and that's cool. is that's gonna yeah we need to Like I said, we need to be thinking about this stuff at this point. so Yeah.
01:47:03
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And we will absolutely, like I said, don't you guys, as I tell this to all the bands, don't be ashamed. Anything you need, anything we can help.
01:47:17
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we're we're in We're kind of the same boat as you guys. Excuse me. We're just coming up. We're just getting started. yeah I mean, as a network, as so here the like a we're like the local upcoming podcast.
01:47:32
Speaker
and and And, you know, anything we can do promote your guys' is music, promote gigs or shows or anything like that, don't hesitate. Albums, whatever, don't hesitate. Say, hey, we got this new song coming out. Here's a video clip. Here's a statement.
01:47:49
Speaker
Can you share? I will absolutely do it. I try to do my best. Now, I've kind of ah been a little I've been a little lazy the last ah last month or so. i got a lot going on personally. But outside of that, I tried to ah try to share the hell out of the former guests and when they got new stuff coming up and everything like that. And a part of that, I'm going to ask you guys, because I always do this live, because fuck you, YouTube, and fuck you, Facebook.
01:48:16
Speaker
You're always playing with my emotions, and you always want to play games me. but And they're always trying to fucking piss with me when I play music. So I'm going to ask you guys live while we're on here. So this gives me ammo.
01:48:28
Speaker
Moving forward, obviously, we have the eight different shows. And we take breaks and we play music and stuff like that. Is it cool if we continue to play your guys' music here on the network, on the Nonsensical Network?
01:48:39
Speaker
Oh, please do. Yeah, as as often as you as you can. Yeah, man. We appreciate that big time. So, yeah. Please do. Hell yeah. So we're going to play. I'm actually going to play. i want I want to start starting tonight. Hopefully Blaze got your ears on ah Friday night. Go ahead and download yesterday's future into your break list for me, brother.
01:49:02
Speaker
yeah He's like, he's I'm going to get a message from him. He's going to go, it's six minutes. I know. I know. Six minutes. a yeah i know why know and buy you You know how much stuff you can get done in six minutes? Yeah.
01:49:19
Speaker
I know. You can play two of the songs in six minutes, right? Yeah. you Maybe give lobotomy. Maybe ease him in with lobotomy, you know, a short one. Please. There it is.
01:49:36
Speaker
Click stalking to me. He's throwing ideas at me. I have to get high. Yeah. it is. No. No. um want to play the shit out of your guys' music. We... All of our music and all of our breaks are from former guests of this show right here. That's all we play on this network.
01:49:55
Speaker
And when new music come out comes out, I love when a new song is on a Friday, gets a chance to play it first. but comes out of like A lot of lot of artists do that, like coming out Friday at midnight and they drop a song.
01:50:11
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I was like, I would drop a song at midnight at the end of the day. You know? Whatever. But then Saturday night rolls around, and we do a show on Saturday night, which is kind of our main event here on the network.
01:50:22
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and And we get a little crazy. We get little weird. And it's a six-hour show. We do so a six-hour show every Saturday night. Oof. So, yeah. but But we open the door, and we let our fans come in and hang out with us. Sometimes former guests of this show pop in and hang out a couple weeks ago.
01:50:41
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A very good friend of mine, actually, we met, I found his music, we met on here, I don' do yeah why hung out with him, hes him and I become very close, ah popped in on Saturday night, and we were getting ready to to break, and he was like, hey, i got an idea, I'm going grab my guitar.
01:50:58
Speaker
That's cool. Dude went and grabbed his guitar, and he was like, go ahead and go to break, I got you. I was like, what the fuck? Alright, cool. but So we do play a lot of music ah throughout the week on the network, so ah Cool. Yeah, that'd be great, man. we we Every spin, we would just know we appreciate it.
01:51:14
Speaker
Yeah. Thank you. I'd love to keep playing your guys' music. um Like I said, I'm a huge fan, and I'm going to force everybody who listens to our network to be a fan, because that's what I do for for you guys and and and all my former guests. You will like the music that I like.
01:51:30
Speaker
By any means, that's the way it is.
01:51:36
Speaker
fit by any means this Yes, exactly. I think I do. I think i mean i think you guys could think stand up for me. and and and and I pick pretty good music and pretty good artists to bring up on um the show. I'm looking um look at my phone battery. My phone goes dead. I didn't just leave, all right?
01:52:04
Speaker
Yeah. doesn This is late for us, man. We don't stay. yeah is it is it you guys Is it 10 o'clock there? Is it the same time zone? but Yeah, yeah we're I think we're all in the same same time zone.
01:52:19
Speaker
He's ready to take his dummies and go to sleep, right? When I walked away, I took my meds. It's two hours for my meds to take care. took my meds okay it's two hours for my men guys yeah You guys are you guys are a little bit a little bit older. That's the other cool thing about you guys.
01:52:35
Speaker
I'm not going to call you out on your age. I don't i don't need to know how old you guys are, but you guys are definitely a little bit older. A little bit older. and and And you guys are fucking killing it doing the heavy metal music.
01:52:46
Speaker
You guys should be in your age. no No offense, but to me. No, none taken. None taken. and Might be expected to do a little Yotra, a little little Crosby. Yeah.
01:53:00
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Pete's like, I'm going to come to Ohio, and we're going to fight. Yes. Christopher Cross here. Come on. I shouldn't have shit on Yacht Rock. it's It's amazing music. It's just i do think god it is it's everywhere, though. it's like it's and It really is. It's everywhere. and It doesn't matter what town you go to, what city you're in, what state you're in.
01:53:23
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Every Sunday is Yacht Rock Sunday. I know. On every fucking station. My top 40 station does Yacht Rock Sunday. It's like you should be playing Cardi B and Taylor sch Swift.
01:53:37
Speaker
I'll take a Yacht Rock over that. Well, I will too all day long. That's why I don't listen. I don't listen to terrestrial radio. Like I said, I listen to the bone, but if I'm listening to music, I'm listening to my, my, my playlist on YouTube and whatnot.
01:53:55
Speaker
So guys, and I know it's, uh, ah that time so we'll go ahead and get ready and wrap this up i do want to play lobotomy you guys are welcome to hang out through lobotomy and then uh when we come back i will allow you guys if you want to add any uh closing thoughts okay you're welcome to add anything and then uh if you want to stick around for my outro you're welcome to if you want to drop down you can uh you can drop down uh you don't have you're not expected to stay okay cool um I don't know what Yacht Rock is, but I'm going to look it up just so I can. Blaze prepared to be slightly turned slightly turned on and slightly disappointed.
01:54:36
Speaker
No, slightly turned on and a whole lot disappointed. Awkward boner time. Is Blaze like rip Van Winkle? Where has Blaze been? he he just yeah he just kind of...
01:54:51
Speaker
He comes and goes. He's always got his ears on. He's always listening. Way to go, Blaze. I'm glad he hasn't been tortured by the Yacht Rock. That's great. no yeah blaze blaze Blaze is my guy. blaze Like I said, Blaze is my right-hand man here on the network. he's he's he's he's a He's my coosh.
01:55:11
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There you make hey go. We all need a coosh. The crazy thing about it is 100% see what he's rocking some like now we're not gonna we're not gonna steal though we're not gonna steal the green vans from Koosh but I can see he's rocking some like orange or something like that a bright color parish he's gonna be like no I won't fuck youli well if i do you too but anyways I do want to say yeah we're gonna play lobotomy since I get my buttons to work here yeah so
01:55:47
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Shout out to who who on earth they've been hanging out with me tonight right here on Glick's House of Music. The guys have been awesome. Hopefully we can get them here in Ohio. Hopefully we can get them into surrounding states in the Midwest. Get them out of the the tri-state area, so to say.
01:56:02
Speaker
And you guys can see them coming to a town near you very soon. And who knows? Depending on where they are in Ohio, you might even see me hanging out with the guys. Wow.
01:56:13
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Wow, this has been great. I'm going to get matching pair of Vans. There you go. and I'm going to dye my beard white. and There you go. that I'm the long lost love child.
01:56:26
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yeah well Yeah, we'll be handsome. I'm the long lost love child of Koosh. but okay Brother from another mother. Yeah, right? But here's a little ah Who on Earth with lobotomy.
01:56:40
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Koosh, shout out to you in this video, man. You're the MVP in this video. Mm-hmm.
01:57:15
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Fractured minds believing all the words I say Destined to feel like this as my mind becomes so vague Fear of being erased without chance of being saved
01:57:53
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clay Sculpted by a random man Resisting all attempts from stealing identities Locked down, do as you're told They come and take you home
01:58:13
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We'll be right back.
01:58:47
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Insane, insane Restraint, lobotomy Insane, restraint, restraint
02:00:30
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Insane, insane Restraint
02:00:53
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in a apartment Jesus Christ. I fucking love it. yeah Nice.
02:01:07
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but I best say my goodbys before my phone shuts off and I look like I just dissed off. Yeah, Koosh, if you got any final thoughts, any final words, man, feel free to to drop it on the on the masses.
02:01:20
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But it's just, you know, I like this just natural meeting. You Instagram us, you know, you saying yes, hanging out for a couple hours, shooting the shit.
02:01:33
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This is what it's really about, you know. And hopefully there's somebody slid through here in the meantime and listened to his chat and found out that we're half decent guys and trying to make some music and they enjoy it.
02:01:48
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Speak for yourself on the half-decent guys thing. I do want tell you guys real quick before I get to peak. You guys are welcome back in time, man. I love to hang out with you guys again. If you guys happen to see us live on one of the other shows, Saturday night, man, want to pop up and say what's up?
02:02:06
Speaker
Yeah. Pop in and say hello, man. Doors open. zoom as You guys are awesome. Yeah, dude, thank you. This is great. And thanks for taking the time out. Thanks for reaching out. Thanks for, you know, digging the music and supporting it and for playing it and for spreading the word, you know, it means a lot to work. So thank you.
02:02:24
Speaker
Thank you very much, Gleick. Absolutely, guys. No, thank you guys for coming on here and and and hanging out with me, man. Definitely, definitely greatly appreciated. Fucking awesome, man. I love it.
02:02:36
Speaker
Thank you. Pete, you got anything you want to throw out there before, uh, before we drop out of here and call it a night? No, just, uh, just thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And, uh, hit me up. I want your, uh, we want to send you some, some stuff, man. We want to send you at least a t-shirt and some CD and stuff. Uh, and then, uh, and send me those venues. Cause Kusher and i are going to be talking this week. We've got to put a, put a plan together to maybe, uh,
02:03:02
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take a little road trip, but, um, not a, you and everybody listening, uh, and the guys who, who popped in, you know, the, uh, the Colonel there, the Sergeant, uh, you know, blazing bla steamer and all the other guys. Thanks for, uh, thanks for hanging with us. And, um, yeah, thanks. oh real good roll Yeah, absolutely. And, uh, on the shirt thing, I'll reach out to you guys. It might take a little bit. I got to learn how to use all the equipment.
02:03:28
Speaker
Uh, That's a little behind-the-scenes story that I could tell you guys on another time. But excuse me I'll be taking over all of our merch. I definitely want to get you guys some shirts. But um let everybody know where they can find find you guys at.
02:03:41
Speaker
Social media, where they can find music, all that. Everywhere, every platform. Who on earth? Just look. Who on earth? Look for the globe symbol. Look for the logo. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, you name it. Spotify. We're everywhere. We have all covered.
02:03:59
Speaker
Yeah. yeah you You Google who on earth, you're going to find us. And we got a website too, which, yeah. So whoonearthband.com. So yeah, we're we're easy to find out there. so And I will tell you guys, listen i nice experience yeah yeah if you type in who on earth in your Google lay box, the first the the first Google response is their website.
02:04:23
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Oh, nice. That's it. Just so you guys know. Awesome. Absolutely. Check these guys out. Show them some love. Let them know. i got to do a little same shameless plug. Don't judge me.
02:04:36
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Let them know Glick's house and music sent you. Let them know Glick sent you. Do that. Do that. Definitely. Any friend of Glick is a friend of ours, right? Hell yeah. and Vice versa vice versa. and No, you guys were great. You guys were awesome.
02:04:50
Speaker
Uh, thank you so much again. Like I said, as much as it means to you, it means just as much as me, uh, trying to create that, uh, voice as, uh, the music guy. Um, yeah, the guys on the network all tease me.
02:05:03
Speaker
You're the music guy, Glick. You should know. Yeah. so thank you guys, man. That means a lot. It was great hanging out with you guys. You guys are amazing. Uh, I'm not going to say I'm, uh, Hopefully we can get you to Ohio. I'm going to say I can't wait to see you guys here in Ohio. can't wait to meet you you guys in person and hang out with you and shake your hand.
02:05:23
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It's a matter of when, not if. yeah yeah Yeah. Thanks for a great night. Help the presence. Absolutely.
02:05:36
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ah Thank you guys so Make sure you guys tune in for the rest the shows. I don't know what's going on tomorrow because technically I'm off. Usually that's the news night. I'm off. I don't know what's going on tomorrow.
02:05:47
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um Thursday, Wally's back. Friday, Blaze and Michael are back doing nonsense and chill. Saturday, what we're back doing nonsensical nonsense open door challenge. Sunday, Unnecessary Roughness is back.
02:05:58
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And then starting next week, we are back on normal ro rotation, and I am back doing what I want to do. so
02:06:05
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I have to look at like calendar. Who do I have next week coming on?
02:06:14
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Oh, next next Tuesday, I'll have Jixi Young on. So, director, actor. We've already hung out with him once. So, guys, check us out.
02:06:25
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Come in. Jump in Hang out. Appreciate y'all listening. and Check out Who on Earth. Social media everywhere. Go show the guys some love. They were awesome tonight. ah And thank you guys for listening, man. Untrackable, love you, brother.
02:06:39
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um Thank you. Thank you, guys. Seriously. Boto.link slash nonsensicalnetwork. All them links is there. Give us a follow. Give us a like. Give us a share.
02:06:51
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I'm going to... i don't know going to do because now I'm in the mood to do stuff. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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