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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Kevin Peell back here with Kevin Pelle Podcast
Interview six hundred and ninety four Today.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm just kidding. There's just a lot of interviews.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Six ninety five.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Right, yeah, yeah, you think so.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
I've been ready for a good no memo?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Man, how are you good? So now we're here? Who
are you guys? What are you do in the band?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I'm reach I'm not word playing drums.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
We'll reach NYC together a long time drummer dote and
I'm just sitting.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ring reach NYC. What kind of music we plan?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I would definitely say hard rock now melodic, and we've
been it's definitely been a journey.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
We've been, Uh, we've been together since ninety eight, right,
we've had.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's why, and then we came back.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's a pretty insane story.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, when did you guys start?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What year did you guys start? Night ninety eight? So
from ninety eight to now? What's going on with you guys? All?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right?
Speaker 5 (00:54):
So I'll starm this up into the fast track. We
got a record deal with the two thousand and one
with Lava Records.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Good, we get a record at Anarchy Studio. It's in
two thousand and two summer and one of my best friends.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Was Chester Anything.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
So we we planned it that we recorded the same
time the same studio.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Wow, like all summer.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So they were doing Mediora and we were doing my
first record and Chester.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Literally like, sorry, I'll send you some pictures too.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Literally like you hung out with us the whole time.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You remember when I'm like, don't you have your own
man hang out?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What do you think you can literally be with us the
whole time?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Wow? That's awesome. So twenty twenty four, you're playing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Loud in Life.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, how does it feel to well as walk me
through how it felt to get that call, get that email.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Hey, you guys are on Loud in Life.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Amazing. Hey, hey was great. You know what, it's kind
of crazy. So it's a story.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's that's what we're here for.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
What weren't doing this for a love?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
You know, we're not trying to be rocksters and we're
doing we love playing music. I work with music now,
Like he's like a sense a fucking jiu jitsu master
left too, Like I stopped playing music like ten years ago, right,
I had a job.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I was like, first just say a little left
to me.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Just so you know, the first fan I ever got
sign was is More five. Okay, Okay, So I got
them a record here, and I've gotten I've signed everyone
from I just Ate Our, the last Peo D record,
I just got the Sparing Return to Dust sign and
uh this fan lovely the bands alternative band. I got
a record deal and we want three million platinum on
the single.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
And we're the longest charting song alternative an alternative.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Wow lordest charting song I went left.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
So my day jobs, I work at this company called
am when we manage all the biggest producers in the world,
everyone from Doctor Luke to Josh Wilberg to Andy Wallace.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean everybody, right, So, so basically what happened was
what are you tell them? What happened?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Well, one of my best friends, coding Son right in
twenty seventeen. I'm a sober guy too, so I'm not,
you know, like everyone knows like all my friends, I'm
like everyone.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
From Jacoby to Marmont homies.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Right, I'm friends of Mike just we have a whole crew, right, I'd.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Like to be long friendmans. I mean, I'm a lucky man,
like I've definitely gotten made a lot of friends because
because me and Marcus basically to play open up the other, like, dude,
you gotta do this, basically gotta be heavy.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We can't go back to Deladi. We gotta be we
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I was in such a depression after Chester.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I was twenty five years so older, and I relapsed
it right, and they literally like we were like, dude, that
you're fucking band back together and we're gonna replaced them, Like.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Marcos like what do we do? Marcos like really called
me off.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
He's like, you're band back together because I just fucking
rock and started playing. And just so you know, the
last dinner we had with Chester, right, it was insane.
So we had this place full of melios in New
York City, right, so at the dinner, we want to
show your pictures after.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
This made me Chester because nig I.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Went left, Marcos from Pod, my guitarist Nick Jacoby, Toven
and attorney from hopp Roach, Matt Storem from Joe Roses
Rob and the bass player from Bhobe at General and
it was like we had.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
A long ass table that just.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Just place called Emilio's right, and if your google a
Mela is not always say Taylor SIPs favorite restaurant.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's like one of those staffs. So it was.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
It was actually at the time, remember the last Alien
movies came out twenty seventeen. To cut up, right, So
we're sitting at this long ass table right next toss
like Billy cover up, Sam rock.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, fucking what's it called?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
The guy who plays gentlemen Agneto's funny guy.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
If he didn't the funny app ball guy moms off.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
From Anyways, it was a ship ton of actors, a
ship to ship a ton of actors and all the
musicians on there. So I'm friends with all I know,
like Sam rock Well and Billy. So I turned around,
I'm like, hey, what's up? So I go over there,
I'm talking to like all that I'm on Zoey guys
comes over and.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You a chair, Si Chester board a chair. First of all,
all my friends are like, how the fuck you know?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
How the fuck do you know?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
These guys like, I don't know, I'm just fucking story.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So it's a long story.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Anyways, to get to it, they would. They were literally
kept on toasting.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You and trying to embarrass me in front of all.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It is hilarious. They're like, oh your friends, like the
fuck are you?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So we're there at a table and we're about to we're.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
About to wrap it up right and Chester throws down
his fuck. He goes, all right, I'm paying for this
is a business dinner. I'm like literally two thousand some dollars,
like it was insane. I go fucking crazy. I go,
are you crazy? He goes, I'm paying for business. Donner
like what business?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Like?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
This is a business.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I want to do a tour next year. He said
exactly what he said, and in his booking agent even
haven't written on a blue piece of paper. He's like,
I want little park corn Deathtones, say simmer Down, Pop
Rush d Yodee, and I want you to open up
reach I wrote you I'm not playing and say that
ship again?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What do you say? Literally?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Like so, just so you know, he would always like
try to get me to go back by, like I'll
put you guys on tour with with us or SVP.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Just getting vamped, like, dude, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Working right now.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So anyways, give me a long story short. I was
a mass depression. We got the van back together. We
did a few shows with Pere Dean pop runch. We
looked at each other and said, you know what, you
know how it is like when we were younger.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
There's always like.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
This pressure, like you gotta get a booking agent, we
gotta get a label.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So everything else in listen.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Honestly, we had a great time, like we had some
neber Stiles were like.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I mean right after after nine eleven we played cb
GS right and it was fucking like takes fucking in
the streets Green Day. We're at like watching us. As
soon as we got off stage, You're like, hey, man,
can we play it? It's actually on like YouTube and
solf they like asked us to use there. They played
a few hours. We said Thursday night, Thursday night, and
then he helps us pack our equipment up in the
(06:53):
car and all right, sounds a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Of history's just get yeah. So anyways, so here we are.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
We we getna we plady shows, were gonna e killed
EP deal with the Orchard, right, and then we played
Welcome to Rockville and then we get a full on
record deal with Afram Records in Germany.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So we have a new record coming out.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
It's called Rod and Dying and basically it's uh I
be honest, it's basically like you know, it's it's coming straight.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
From the heart.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
A lot of it's about, like, you know, trying to
get through my depression and my my addiction and you
know seem you know, trying to cut the turns at
my you know, some of my friends, like do my best.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Friends killed themselves?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I got to song hate Myself and basically it's about
it's gonna be a single, and then it's basically about
like we killed like that.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I wasn't there for them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I felt like shitty. Yeah, it's true, that would just
be like I was always there for him what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
But I was just felt like, fuck man, I can't
fucking like you know, I just it was hard for me.
Even here, there's a you know a lot of screwed
up things that people don't know, you know what I'm saying,
really happy, and then I mean there's like stuff I'm
telling you right now. They try to make make him
like the mental health poster more child. He was deafy,
(08:05):
and they bladed it by a lot of people that
you would think is that is close to them, and
it is screwed up all right, And I've had seven
years holding this ship.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Back, and this whole record is gonna say everything I.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Know, laying everything out on this record.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean, dude, when you're listening to the record and
when you hear the words, you're gonna know what it's about.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And you're gonna know how screwed up so many people.
I'm not even dud it man, And I.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Wish it was fucking like I really wish.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't think people are gonna.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Be too supportive of somebody's project if they know exactly
how they actually really treated trusted.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's a whole part of it.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
We know how the business has had you know, I'm
not even I'm not doing this for business.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm doing this for my friend.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And people need to know about like Yo, he was
not Yeah he had definitely you know, he was ematic
and they had you know, had depression. Right, Look, he
was really minisplayed in a lot of fucked up players.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So when's this album came out? Or can you say
that it's gonna be coming out early next year? Good?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And you know what?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Put it this way, I would take a line of
tech test.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I would take anything I got text messages.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And emails and everything is like that for your book.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
That when people are gonna definitely look people's projects that
are hot right now in a different way when they
know the truth.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
How you really should trust very well, said guys.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That fourteen songs. These songs were super stoked. That ship
we ever did? And oh that is all right?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Pressures on best ship they ever did.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
They said, yes, that's ship we have.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I actually made the record I always wanted to make. Okay,
like we've been together, we need a record.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Ask me out, Yeah, the record made.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I made it. The records. Why to die? That's the
title of the of the I'm saying that slogan there
how many.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
And that goes out to all friends here and and
and that went on the best song about Chester and
my friend Chris Logan.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
They both love for be the suicide and it's about them.
I'll always be there for we.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Are, okay, gentlemen. Absolute pleasure talking to you, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'm sure you have a lot of history behind you,
and we could talk for hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You keep you on more. I got more of the
crazy stories. You don't even know half of it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'll talk here in a little bit. Reach NYC. New
album out next year, a lot of fun, Ride or Die.
Make sure you check him out. He's wearing a mad
Ball shirt. I figured you guys would like that. All right,
We'll see you guys next time.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
All right, thank you,