October 7, 2024 • 12 mins
KP sits down with "The Buc-ee's guy" Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait to talk about Buc-ee's, Louder Than Life, their tour with Five Finger Death Punch and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, Kevin Pell here with Kevin Pell Podcasts at
Lower in Life, Day two, Day three, whatever you want
to call it. Day two was canceled now right, day three?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Now it's day two.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah, it's officially day something and now bands are playing again.
Who am I here?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
With Lee Jennings from The Funeral Portrait at Funeral Portrait.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, love the name that, love the BUCkies, grip black.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Dude, I got two one. Wait, I gotta show you.
I gotta show so I'm this much of a fan. Okay,
look at this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I got my own version.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, someone fan for me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Look it's me, it's you. It's so yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was like a fan made thing. And then now
we sell it as merch so perfect. Yeah, I mean,
don't sue us, you know, but you know it's it's
It's one of those things I posted about it once, okay,
that I loved BUCkies. Say it just opened one up
in Atlanta area, right, And so I went once.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And now kids are like, oh.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Bucky's Bucky's Bucky's Lee Bucky Bucky and it's.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So and I'll like, hey, listen, yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Funny you mentioned that you have and I actually have
a Bucky's tattoo.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh so you've won up me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, I'm just kidding. It's a casey astrain tattoo. That's
the suspense, right now.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right, So now we're back at the BUCkies Corner hour
for the podcast. Tell me about BUCkies? Why is it
so good? And I've never been? You've never been, I've
seen it. I'm in West Virginia. I don't I don't
have these things west Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Wait, though, not the way that you go, because there's
a few in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Few in Tennessee, a few in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, there's one like an hour and a half south
from here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So if you want to hit it on your where
I am. I go down and around.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's worked it, I brisk it. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well it's everything, right, So One cheap gas, it's always
the cheapest gas on the highway. Two extremely clean bathrooms.
Right as a touring artist, right, what do we have
to do all the time use the bathroom? Right? We
can't most of the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, we're not showers. They got showers.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They don't have showers, and there's a reason why they
don't allow truckers, so they don't do that, you know,
they don't do the trucker.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
My next question was, is it's kind of like a
truck stop.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's a family spot more so, but they have merch
It's kind of like take a cracker barrel right, the
store of the cracker barrel, put it there, right, Okay,
so you can kind of go shopping for your southern wares,
you know, and then the food is really good.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The food is really good.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It's just the experience. And listen, I'm a sucker for branding. Yeah, okay,
I love good branding, as you and I talked about
your brand, right, I love good branding. And so look
at this guy. I mean, this is the black Craft
writ right. So he's like a vampire. But like you
get it. You see it on the highway and you're like, oh,
there's a BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Amazing. Tell I'm gonna need to get real close on
this one. This is brought to you by BUCkies. We
love BUCkies. No I'm kidding. I still haven't been a BUCkies.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah you're gonna change this.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yes, we're gonna change this. Now that we've done this, Yeah,
all right, let's get back into the music side of things.
We're allowed in life, yea, as if you would be
allowed in life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Insane, life changing, weird, honestly, extremely weird. We've never done
any of these, right, this is our first one. We
do go do aftershock, after this, and okay, I guess
we'll see what happens after that. But it's weird to
be here talking to people, especially like you, and like
like people that I like listen to or like watch
(03:08):
or I've been seeing and being like, oh, you want
to talk with me?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I was just saying, how about looking at let's just say,
the original lineup. Yes, seeing that your name is part
of all these other bands, what bands made you go
oh wow?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of course you know they weren't playing the same day,
but like Slayer, of course, you know, Slap Motley Crue,
I mean, any of like the big headliners, which is great,
but for me, like Ellis Dunes, you know, I'm a
huge I mean, you can kind of probably tell I
like my Chemical.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Romance, cool, cool Merch I saw hate you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh yes, yes, I've seen them before and it's incredible,
is super fun, you know, but I'm a fan of
all those bands that they are also in, so it's
cool to be like playing with them health as well.
Health Health is playing our stage, which I was like, oh, yes,
you know what I mean. So I'm excited. I saw
them not too long ago and you know, just such
a great show. And I think for us, it's the
idea of just having our name with bands like that, Yeah,
(04:00):
is so cool to us because again I've never felt
like Wiblong, like we are always like the odd man out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like the tour that we just did, we were super
the odd man out, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And I think for us, we are finding our place
within a We're finding our place within a community where
I never thought we would find our place.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yep. So you mentioned in the tour you just got
off of, it was it was a pretty big tour.
Who'd you play with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Five Finger Deats Bunch? Which was insane? Like that was
I can't even put into words when I got the call,
you know, the owner of our label.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we're on the same.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Label as five Finger, ok So, which was how it
kind of came about. They really wanted a young new
band to open the tour, and so they reached out
and I was like, wait, you want us like the
funeral Portrait, like we just had gotten off a tour
or a fifty cap club tour. Now, great shows. Those
shows were great and you know, packed out rooms, and
I love those, and we're about to go do another
(04:59):
one of those. That's I don't know. I still I
kind of liked those better. Anyways. You know, I like
to sweat on people. I like to have their sweat
on me, even if it's disgusting. So it was definitely
a different experience. But I mean it was such a
different world. And I think the big thing is none
of the bands that we were on tour, we weren't competing.
I think that's a big thing that I was really
(05:20):
nervous about, is like not belonging again. And it was
they welcomed us in with like open arms, you know,
they wanted us there. They they they did nothing but help,
you know, along the whole entire path. So it was
it was really it was really eye opening to see
the changes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who all was on this. By bringing up a bunch
of you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I finger Manson the return of Marilyn Manson, and I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
To reveil Okay, that's what the tour I thought was.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was the wild tour, you know, yes, yes, yes,
and guess what. It was packed out every single night
and it was insane, you know, and it was It's
one of those things that you know, we got the
call and it's like all right, boys, saddle up, let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh and it but it has changed everything, yeah, you
know it has. It has brought so many new things
our way. Again, these festivals. We had this tour locked
in and then the festivals started reaching out and being like,
wait a second, we need you guys on this tour.
What now, come play the festivals now? And then radio,
I mean radio is a big thing. Like we are
number six, yeah, number six at rock radio right now.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And that's because the tour.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You know, none of these opportunities that have came our
way would have been here if it wasn't for this
Five Finger tour. And I say, I think those guys
so much for I'm not joking. They changed our lives.
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's what's crazy. I wish I had an opportunity to
talk to five Finger. That wasn't possible. Yeah, no chance,
but if I did, there was How old are you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm old?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, I'm twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Okay, I remember that, guys.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I remember when Five Finger was the newest band okay
before their first album. Yeah, I used to play BC
Rich guitars. That was my first guitar ever. Right, BC
Rich and other guitar companies back in the day used
to be kind of cool and they would say, hey,
here's the next upcoming band that's playing our music, and
then they had some It might still be on YouTube.
(07:13):
I doubt it, but it might still be there of
this young up and coming band called five Finger Death
Punch playing these BC Rich guitars and they played a
few songs from their album, maybe a couple songs that
never existed ever again. But yeah, just thinking back to
stuff like that to now asking guys like you to open.
So this is audio and video. This is what this
(07:34):
podcast is. Let's if you're watching, let's close our eyes
and imagine walking out to the stage for Marilyn Manson
Slaughter Prevail five Finger Death Punch. What are you seeing
on the crowd? You know, you start your first song
and people are reacting.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
How they're a little open, okay right?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And they The thing is is they came to rock, right,
they came to party, okay, right, So they a lot
of them since we got added to tour late. They
didn't even know there was another opener, which was surprising,
so I could see that. But really, about halfway through
I saw the light bulbs go off, not just because
we were played on the radio and stuff like that,
but it was a moment of like, oh wait a second,
(08:13):
this is kind of cool and it's wild, the amount
of like I was really nervous.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
The first show was Hershey, Pennsylvania at the Hershey Stadium YEP.
And it was like twenty five thousand people and they
opened the gates like three hours early, so the whole
crowd was there when we played, and when we got
to play twenty minutes. So it's just song, soong song,
and then I get a little spiel and the song
so but by that ending, I get everybody up off
(08:41):
the ground like we have crowdsurfers. I mean, it turned
into an actual show, not just the opening band for
these bands. Again, it made us feel the crowd made
us feel like we belonged.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
YEAP. Today it's not just about selling merch and music.
It's about numbers. Yes, tell me about numbers. Did you
see your numbers go up immediately?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh instantly? I think, not just from the tour announcement.
But first day it was boom. Every single day, something new,
something new, something new, and you know, we took full
advantage of it too, of course, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And and we.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Released our record during the time too, of course, which
was important. So but that's another thing too, is our
label kept kind of waiting for the moment, the right moment,
and that tour brought that moment to bring us that
that record, you know, and now we're kind of free
and we're doing flapping our wings, you know, and that
tour was our jumping off moment.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let's just say, now you can kind of do whatever.
Like the anxiety is like, guys, we just played with
fire around a bunch.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're ye kind of stop, you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Know, dude, and we like, I'm not joking. We literally
just got off that tour like yesterday. It's been one
of those things that it's like now we're here louder
than life, what you know, Like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What time did you roll in this morning for a
louder to life? Or were you here last night?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, we got here at like ten am.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But we drove through the night to get or through
the days last night to get here, you know, through
the hurricane, yeah, which was not fun.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, So no words on this hurricane. Yeah, there's not
enough words I can say. I can't really do much
to help. I'm sure there's a lot of places you
can donate to do anything like that. So by all means,
you'll see it on social media, all these places that
are affected. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's been it's been insane, you know. Being from Georgia, Yeah,
we get hit kind of hard. What we get hit
hard with is the rain, right, and so there's definitely
been a lot of flooding and like I know, South
Georgia got hit really hard. So it's one of those
things that you know, with us, you know, like it
was one of those moments of being like when I
heard that yesterday was canceled, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Like, oh, please don't do this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But at the same time, like, man, I just hope
people are okay, you know, and I felt I felt
like the people that were here that were camping, I'm
hoping yeah, them were okay.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You know. It was definitely what.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We're seeing the camping area I happened. So we had
to drive kind of like pass it like it was
just right there. Okay, man, I mean I mean, you
have RVs and stuff, and that's good, but then you
have actual.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like camp sites yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Louder in Life and Danny Wimber presents stuff. They they're
really good at keeping people updated to the best they can. Yeah.
I'm not trying I know, all right now, we're gonna
go on a ramp. I'm not trying to attack anybody
that commented on these posts for Louder Life, but like,
you gotta understand that this is a big deal. You
can't just play and hope for the best. I know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well that was the thing is yesterday we saw so
many people being like.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Oh, Slawyer, I drove twenty hours to see Slawyer and
all this stuff, and I'm like, brow like, do you
not understand what's happening right now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't think they do. And that's to an extent,
I get it. You're not in that world. Yeah, you
don't see these things.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And that's the same thing. It's the same deal with
us doing a five Finger Death Lunch tour. Yeah, you're
not in that world. You don't understand the millions of
things that else goes on of taking a tour like
that or whatever. It is you know, it's the same deal.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm sure I'll make a video on it. You've been
around a while, you've been doing music for a long time.
Any advice you want to give the bands maybe just
starting out.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Do it, just do it, just be you.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's I think my As soon as we started just
being us and stopped can I cuss, absolutely giving a
fuck what other fucking people thought, things started working like
and now it doesn't matter. Now I am me, I
am truly myself, and now things are happening.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And that's for anybody. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm not saying that I wasted ten years to get
to that point. Those ten years I've learned.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Ye to be you.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, absolute pleasure talking to you. I think you and
I could talk forever. And we have our own podcast.
That's it, the BUCkies Podcast sponsored by Boki. I'll talk
to you here in a second off here. Okay, thank you, Bren,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Funeral portrait. These guys are the next big thing. You
want to check them out, check out all their music,
check them out Louder in Life. If you're here, and
if you don't, well they're gonna be an after shock
next month, so get ready for more funeral portrait. Thanks
for checking this out. We'll see
Hey, guys, Kevin Pell here with Kevin Pell Podcasts at
Lower in Life, Day two, Day three, whatever you want
to call it. Day two was canceled now right, day three?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Now it's day two.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah, it's officially day something and now bands are playing again.
Who am I here?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
With Lee Jennings from The Funeral Portrait at Funeral Portrait.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, love the name that, love the BUCkies, grip black.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Dude, I got two one. Wait, I gotta show you.
I gotta show so I'm this much of a fan. Okay,
look at this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I got my own version.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, someone fan for me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Look it's me, it's you. It's so yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was like a fan made thing. And then now
we sell it as merch so perfect. Yeah, I mean,
don't sue us, you know, but you know it's it's
It's one of those things I posted about it once, okay,
that I loved BUCkies. Say it just opened one up
in Atlanta area, right, And so I went once.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And now kids are like, oh.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Bucky's Bucky's Bucky's Lee Bucky Bucky and it's.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So and I'll like, hey, listen, yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Funny you mentioned that you have and I actually have
a Bucky's tattoo.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh so you've won up me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, I'm just kidding. It's a casey astrain tattoo. That's
the suspense, right now.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right, So now we're back at the BUCkies Corner hour
for the podcast. Tell me about BUCkies? Why is it
so good? And I've never been? You've never been, I've
seen it. I'm in West Virginia. I don't I don't
have these things west Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Wait, though, not the way that you go, because there's
a few in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Few in Tennessee, a few in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, there's one like an hour and a half south
from here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So if you want to hit it on your where
I am. I go down and around.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's worked it, I brisk it. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well it's everything, right, So One cheap gas, it's always
the cheapest gas on the highway. Two extremely clean bathrooms.
Right as a touring artist, right, what do we have
to do all the time use the bathroom? Right? We
can't most of the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, we're not showers. They got showers.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They don't have showers, and there's a reason why they
don't allow truckers, so they don't do that, you know,
they don't do the trucker.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
My next question was, is it's kind of like a
truck stop.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's a family spot more so, but they have merch
It's kind of like take a cracker barrel right, the
store of the cracker barrel, put it there, right, Okay,
so you can kind of go shopping for your southern wares,
you know, and then the food is really good.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The food is really good.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It's just the experience. And listen, I'm a sucker for branding. Yeah, okay,
I love good branding, as you and I talked about
your brand, right, I love good branding. And so look
at this guy. I mean, this is the black Craft
writ right. So he's like a vampire. But like you
get it. You see it on the highway and you're like, oh,
there's a BUCkies.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Amazing. Tell I'm gonna need to get real close on
this one. This is brought to you by BUCkies. We
love BUCkies. No I'm kidding. I still haven't been a BUCkies.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah you're gonna change this.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yes, we're gonna change this. Now that we've done this, Yeah,
all right, let's get back into the music side of things.
We're allowed in life, yea, as if you would be
allowed in life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Insane, life changing, weird, honestly, extremely weird. We've never done
any of these, right, this is our first one. We
do go do aftershock, after this, and okay, I guess
we'll see what happens after that. But it's weird to
be here talking to people, especially like you, and like
like people that I like listen to or like watch
(03:08):
or I've been seeing and being like, oh, you want
to talk with me?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I was just saying, how about looking at let's just say,
the original lineup. Yes, seeing that your name is part
of all these other bands, what bands made you go
oh wow?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of course you know they weren't playing the same day,
but like Slayer, of course, you know, Slap Motley Crue,
I mean, any of like the big headliners, which is great,
but for me, like Ellis Dunes, you know, I'm a
huge I mean, you can kind of probably tell I
like my Chemical.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Romance, cool, cool Merch I saw hate you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh yes, yes, I've seen them before and it's incredible,
is super fun, you know, but I'm a fan of
all those bands that they are also in, so it's
cool to be like playing with them health as well.
Health Health is playing our stage, which I was like, oh, yes,
you know what I mean. So I'm excited. I saw
them not too long ago and you know, just such
a great show. And I think for us, it's the
idea of just having our name with bands like that, Yeah,
(04:00):
is so cool to us because again I've never felt
like Wiblong, like we are always like the odd man out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like the tour that we just did, we were super
the odd man out, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And I think for us, we are finding our place
within a We're finding our place within a community where
I never thought we would find our place.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yep. So you mentioned in the tour you just got
off of, it was it was a pretty big tour.
Who'd you play with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Five Finger Deats Bunch? Which was insane? Like that was
I can't even put into words when I got the call,
you know, the owner of our label.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we're on the same.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Label as five Finger, ok So, which was how it
kind of came about. They really wanted a young new
band to open the tour, and so they reached out
and I was like, wait, you want us like the
funeral Portrait, like we just had gotten off a tour
or a fifty cap club tour. Now, great shows. Those
shows were great and you know, packed out rooms, and
I love those, and we're about to go do another
(04:59):
one of those. That's I don't know. I still I
kind of liked those better. Anyways. You know, I like
to sweat on people. I like to have their sweat
on me, even if it's disgusting. So it was definitely
a different experience. But I mean it was such a
different world. And I think the big thing is none
of the bands that we were on tour, we weren't competing.
I think that's a big thing that I was really
(05:20):
nervous about, is like not belonging again. And it was
they welcomed us in with like open arms, you know,
they wanted us there. They they they did nothing but help,
you know, along the whole entire path. So it was
it was really it was really eye opening to see
the changes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who all was on this. By bringing up a bunch
of you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I finger Manson the return of Marilyn Manson, and I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
To reveil Okay, that's what the tour I thought was.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was the wild tour, you know, yes, yes, yes,
and guess what. It was packed out every single night
and it was insane, you know, and it was It's
one of those things that you know, we got the
call and it's like all right, boys, saddle up, let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh and it but it has changed everything, yeah, you
know it has. It has brought so many new things
our way. Again, these festivals. We had this tour locked
in and then the festivals started reaching out and being like,
wait a second, we need you guys on this tour.
What now, come play the festivals now? And then radio,
I mean radio is a big thing. Like we are
number six, yeah, number six at rock radio right now.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And that's because the tour.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You know, none of these opportunities that have came our
way would have been here if it wasn't for this
Five Finger tour. And I say, I think those guys
so much for I'm not joking. They changed our lives.
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's what's crazy. I wish I had an opportunity to
talk to five Finger. That wasn't possible. Yeah, no chance,
but if I did, there was How old are you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm old?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, I'm twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Okay, I remember that, guys.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I remember when Five Finger was the newest band okay
before their first album. Yeah, I used to play BC
Rich guitars. That was my first guitar ever. Right, BC
Rich and other guitar companies back in the day used
to be kind of cool and they would say, hey,
here's the next upcoming band that's playing our music, and
then they had some It might still be on YouTube.
(07:13):
I doubt it, but it might still be there of
this young up and coming band called five Finger Death
Punch playing these BC Rich guitars and they played a
few songs from their album, maybe a couple songs that
never existed ever again. But yeah, just thinking back to
stuff like that to now asking guys like you to open.
So this is audio and video. This is what this
(07:34):
podcast is. Let's if you're watching, let's close our eyes
and imagine walking out to the stage for Marilyn Manson
Slaughter Prevail five Finger Death Punch. What are you seeing
on the crowd? You know, you start your first song
and people are reacting.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
How they're a little open, okay right?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And they The thing is is they came to rock, right,
they came to party, okay, right, So they a lot
of them since we got added to tour late. They
didn't even know there was another opener, which was surprising,
so I could see that. But really, about halfway through
I saw the light bulbs go off, not just because
we were played on the radio and stuff like that,
but it was a moment of like, oh wait a second,
(08:13):
this is kind of cool and it's wild, the amount
of like I was really nervous.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
The first show was Hershey, Pennsylvania at the Hershey Stadium YEP.
And it was like twenty five thousand people and they
opened the gates like three hours early, so the whole
crowd was there when we played, and when we got
to play twenty minutes. So it's just song, soong song,
and then I get a little spiel and the song
so but by that ending, I get everybody up off
(08:41):
the ground like we have crowdsurfers. I mean, it turned
into an actual show, not just the opening band for
these bands. Again, it made us feel the crowd made
us feel like we belonged.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
YEAP. Today it's not just about selling merch and music.
It's about numbers. Yes, tell me about numbers. Did you
see your numbers go up immediately?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh instantly? I think, not just from the tour announcement.
But first day it was boom. Every single day, something new,
something new, something new, and you know, we took full
advantage of it too, of course, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And and we.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Released our record during the time too, of course, which
was important. So but that's another thing too, is our
label kept kind of waiting for the moment, the right moment,
and that tour brought that moment to bring us that
that record, you know, and now we're kind of free
and we're doing flapping our wings, you know, and that
tour was our jumping off moment.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let's just say, now you can kind of do whatever.
Like the anxiety is like, guys, we just played with
fire around a bunch.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're ye kind of stop, you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Know, dude, and we like, I'm not joking. We literally
just got off that tour like yesterday. It's been one
of those things that it's like now we're here louder
than life, what you know, Like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What time did you roll in this morning for a
louder to life? Or were you here last night?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, we got here at like ten am.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But we drove through the night to get or through
the days last night to get here, you know, through
the hurricane, yeah, which was not fun.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, So no words on this hurricane. Yeah, there's not
enough words I can say. I can't really do much
to help. I'm sure there's a lot of places you
can donate to do anything like that. So by all means,
you'll see it on social media, all these places that
are affected. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's been it's been insane, you know. Being from Georgia, Yeah,
we get hit kind of hard. What we get hit
hard with is the rain, right, and so there's definitely
been a lot of flooding and like I know, South
Georgia got hit really hard. So it's one of those
things that you know, with us, you know, like it
was one of those moments of being like when I
heard that yesterday was canceled, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Like, oh, please don't do this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But at the same time, like, man, I just hope
people are okay, you know, and I felt I felt
like the people that were here that were camping, I'm
hoping yeah, them were okay.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You know. It was definitely what.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We're seeing the camping area I happened. So we had
to drive kind of like pass it like it was
just right there. Okay, man, I mean I mean, you
have RVs and stuff, and that's good, but then you
have actual.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like camp sites yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Louder in Life and Danny Wimber presents stuff. They they're
really good at keeping people updated to the best they can. Yeah.
I'm not trying I know, all right now, we're gonna
go on a ramp. I'm not trying to attack anybody
that commented on these posts for Louder Life, but like,
you gotta understand that this is a big deal. You
can't just play and hope for the best. I know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well that was the thing is yesterday we saw so
many people being like.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Oh, Slawyer, I drove twenty hours to see Slawyer and
all this stuff, and I'm like, brow like, do you
not understand what's happening right now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't think they do. And that's to an extent,
I get it. You're not in that world. Yeah, you
don't see these things.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And that's the same thing. It's the same deal with
us doing a five Finger Death Lunch tour. Yeah, you're
not in that world. You don't understand the millions of
things that else goes on of taking a tour like
that or whatever. It is you know, it's the same deal.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm sure I'll make a video on it. You've been
around a while, you've been doing music for a long time.
Any advice you want to give the bands maybe just
starting out.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Do it, just do it, just be you.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's I think my As soon as we started just
being us and stopped can I cuss, absolutely giving a
fuck what other fucking people thought, things started working like
and now it doesn't matter. Now I am me, I
am truly myself, and now things are happening.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And that's for anybody. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm not saying that I wasted ten years to get
to that point. Those ten years I've learned.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Ye to be you.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, absolute pleasure talking to you. I think you and
I could talk forever. And we have our own podcast.
That's it, the BUCkies Podcast sponsored by Boki. I'll talk
to you here in a second off here. Okay, thank you, Bren,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Funeral portrait. These guys are the next big thing. You
want to check them out, check out all their music,
check them out Louder in Life. If you're here, and
if you don't, well they're gonna be an after shock
next month, so get ready for more funeral portrait. Thanks
for checking this out. We'll see
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