[Jessica080806]

Hey NGR fam!

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[Jessica080806]

Mushroom Murder Mob

This is one of the first ever band interviews that we did for the radio. I did ask a couple of questions along with my good friend and radio hostess Tiffany Tease. It was a very loud venue, so it is hard to hear. I did add the questions asked to the video to make it a little easier to understand. There is also a version where I added some transcription along with the video interview to help viewers to be able to understand it a bit easier. Anyway, this is the band Mushroom Murder Mob.
Thanks for watching!

What is your favorite song to play? I would say Nine Greasy Pills. We didn’t play it tonight, but it’s just a badass song.

What’s it about?

It’s about. Jimi Hendrix. When he died he took nine pills. It’s just the lyrics aren’t very good but the song is really good. It’s like a fifteen minute song. Check out the new CD. It’s called Nine Greasy Pills.

Nine Greasy Pills Produced by Wookie.

Wookie.

Big Show coming up April 11th at the old time April 11th.

How long have you been growing your hair?

Here, I’m gonna go over here.

I literally started growing this after George Bush got elected the second time. I’m not going to cut it until all the troops come home from Iraq. Serious. It literally is like a dreadlock right now.

With tons of product in it. Smells great. We use slime from the sewer to style it. We’ll start another war for that. Just to keep it going? Fuck Iran. You literally cannot. If you put a comb through it here it would break.

What do you guys have planned next?

Tell me again about your show coming up.

Do we have a show coming up? We don’t have a coming up. No show?

We’ve got new album called 9 Greasy Pills, we threw it on the intranet, the interweb, http://www.myspace.com/mushroommurdermob As opposed to mushroom murder bomb, who they love to credit us as. Right. The second time. Every time we play here they think the mushroom murder bomb, which doesn’t make any damn sense.

I mean, I guess it kind of does like a mushrooms that kill?

Like a mushroom bomb? Yeah.

We are Mushroom Murder Mob.

One other question before I go. OK,

The last time you saw you had Roger Rabbit hung by his throat. That’s right. What is up with the stuffed animals? The last one is our mascot Mushroom Murder Monkey. The last one. You traded it in for Roger Rabbit. We traded up. for Mushroom Murder Monkey? Yeah. And I guess I’m kind of creepy and I like to hurt stuffed animals.

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Lacuna Coil

Now we caught up with you guys a couple years ago when you were out on tour and promoting Karma code. Recently. Come out with Shallow Life. This is a nice piece of work. Did you know when you finished this you had something special? Well, we worked really hard. On this new album, I mean, for the first time, we actually took an entire year off from like, touring and playing live. And I think this really paid off in terms of, like, you know, the quality of the product. For the first time too, we actually worked together as a team.

While in the past, Marco the bass player was mostly riding the songs, you know. So I mean, this time everybody really brought like ideas to the table. We worked together like to to try and like put. Years together and I I think it’s really you can definitely hear like well I noticed that songwriting is credited blanketly to the entire band now is that just easier than remembering who wrote what little bit early No, I mean the idea is that everybody in the band really you know helps in doing. Something. So it, it seems only fair that everybody shares the benefits. You know, it’s we’re not one of those bands where, oh, I did this and I get like 65%, you get like 15. Somebody else gets where you know, it’s like although that leads to some interesting arguments. You might want to look into that. I know it sounds very happy family ish. I’m really looking for some dirt within the band now. Now here I hear Marcos a real prick. Is there any? No, it’s not. Well, I think the secret is that we’ve been friends even before we started the band and you guys grew up together. Well, we kind of did. I mean, especially Marco and Andrea are lead singer. They know each other since they were 13 or something, you know. So I mean, I met those guys over 15 years. Ago we used to hang out at the same metal bar in Milan, in Italy. Obviously we argue and we have our fights. You know, like every family in the world, you know, anybody living on a bus. Yeah, 12 people on the bus, though sometimes it gets messy. But I mean, the, the most important thing is that remember that we’re all working and trying to, to get somewhere together. You know, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a trip that, you know, we have to make. Now you’re traveling all over the United States. As I mentioned, last time we talked to Atheo was in Kenosha, WI. Now you’re in Libertyville, IL. So you’re really getting to see the real America. We’ve seen a lot. What’s the strangest thing you’ve encountered on the road here? We toured so much and like everywhere and we got to to see the Weirdest Place. I mean, once we played a show with the Rock Zombie and the Anthrax in Oklahoma City and it was like a State Fair, like, you know. There were flies, America. It was a great show. But I mean, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don’t like to always. Come up with the same stuff, you know, I mean, there’s bands like that that do it and, and it works very well for them. But I mean, it’s like, great. I mean, it’s good you love them because it’s easy, you know, you know what to expect. But for events like for a band like us and many other bands, I think you need to find that. That’s something that, you know, pushes you on like that gives you like more. Ideas like, you know, like you need to keep it like fun, you know, like so that you’re not bored and you’re like repeating yourself over and over, you know? Well, and it works for the listener too. The listener doesn’t get bored. This definitely is not karma code too. Now as far as the other showbiz nonsense, a lot of bands doing the reality show thing, having a camera crew following them around, What would that be like if a camera crew followed Lacuna Coil around? There would be a lot of shouting in Italian and waving our hands up in the air. Chris, I know you’ve got a show to get ready for. I want to wish you the best. We’re going to be here and again, check into the shallow life Lacuna Coil. It’s great. Lacuna Coil, it is the website. Find out all kinds of information. Check these guys out live. It’s an impressive show.

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Chuck Negron

I’m here with the heart, the soul, the voice of Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron. Chuck, welcome to Psycho Babble. Good to have you here, man. Psycho Babble. Psycho Babble. You qualify. Now, everyone is familiar with the music, but let’s set the table for some of our younger viewers who might not be quite as familiar with the legacy. Yeah, all right. But Three Dog Night. Scored 21 consecutive Top 40 hits between 1969 and 1975 and to date has sold 85,000,000 records. Right. Yeah, it’s nice. Yeah. How many of you have sold 85,000,000 records? Chuck, you guys, world famous world tours, gold records, everything. But success isn’t the entire Chuck Negron story. And let me take a quote out of your autobiography. You were a multi millionaire by the time you were 30. And then I traded a plush 5000 square foot Mediterranean style villa in the Hollywood Hills with a garage full of Mercedes.

For a corner of an abandoned building in a crime ridden Los Angeles neighborhood where I slept on a filthy mattress that was found in a vacant lot, I fought to share dull, dirty needles with a collection of lost, hopeless, pathetic junkies who are probably dead by now. That’s quite a turn of events for a nice kid from New York who went to college on a basketball scholarship. Yeah, It was a book I felt I had. I had to, I had to write, you know, concerning the perils of, of addiction and. How one can, you know, one can get into it very innocently through, you know, experimenting with peers and stuff and some of us don’t get to walk away. Because we’re more predisposed to be more, you know, more obsessive. For me, the story is that 15 years later, you know, I’m coming up on 15 years clean and sober and my life. Is is chains. You know, I have a 5 year old, a 12 year old have never seen me, you know, drunk or you know, or loaded and and my life is my life has been blessed because of the the recovery. I found the turning point came in 1991 at a place called cry help. Yes, he has a long term rehab. You know, I was in Three Dog Night. I was very young and I just come. Finished playing college basketball and so it’s kind of in training for a drug addict. I was I was in great shape. It took me quite a while because being a young, you know, a young man and the progression of you know, of the disease to social using until you know this all out addiction took you know, took a long time, but finally. You know, I, I had a probably a 10 year bottom where I, you know, I just, my life was really over and was really blessed to be able to, to go on to cry help September 17th, 1991. And that’s when my life changed and there is hope for. You know, for people out there, there is recovery. Absolutely. If anyone, it’s a cliche that I should have been dead in it by now. But if anyone should have been dead by now, some of your adventures and. Not the interesting, but the sad thing you know about that. I know you know, you’re really rolling the dice. I know a lot of just normal people use recreationally and they they die. The drugs out there and then addicts go on and on and on and on. And then of course some die. So you don’t know, you know who’s going to you know who’s going to die. You know who’s not. I mean, a lot of my peers to me, Jimi Hendrix wasn’t a drug addict. He was the guy that used socially and once in a while got a little, you know. A little too high and, you know, but you rubbed elbows with all those guys. Jimmy played together. Yeah, yeah, we all played together. Morris and I knew by the time we really hit Morrison as far as an entertainers days were over. Of course he was an icon of celebrity, but he was a very interesting thing to watch because he went from probably the most. Powerful frontman in the business to, you know, an overweight guy with a beard and and really lost, you know, drunk. Yeah. And it was like, you know, wow, that’s scary. How does that happen? And then, of course, you know, died and then there’s so many bottom. I mean, I don’t drank himself to death. Three Dog Night wasn’t to the public eye anyway, wasn’t really lumped in with all those guys. You guys weren’t viewed as a druggie band like the Stones or the Doors. You guys were kind of America’s band. You rode a float in the Rose Bowl parade in 1972. Yeah, yeah, we were a real mainstream. Band and. You know, we weren’t in that under, you know, that underground band. The band started out that way. But then this the the amount of success, you know, throws you on AM radio and it was a gift. You know, the interesting thing that people don’t don’t really know is. You know, the bands that were perceived as hipper bands were asking us how did how to get a Top 40 record, You know, I mean, played on FM, but they were, you know, you know, one or two albums were getting on the charts, but they really weren’t, you know, selling, you know, big venues, of course, stuff for the very big bands. Anyway, it was. It was an interesting time and the shame of it is it wasn’t a lesson for for kids today that you know, we don’t, some of us don’t get to walk away from drug use. I understand you were close to participating in an intervention with Kurt Cobain shortly before he died. Well, actually for years I’ve been hesitant to talk about that, but since he has passed that, you know, I have mentioned it. Yeah, I was. I was part of a group called Map Musicians Assistance Program, which was started to help. Musicians in need and actually specifically the musician behind the scene that wasn’t the star that, you know, needed the funding. And that was our initial goal, of course became big and we ended up handling a lot of. Celebrities because I could go in and talk them or I don’t want to mention names, but a lot of other celebrities could go one-on-one with these guys and yeah, they called me to go in and and, and see him. He was going to want to talk to me and, and. He left. He left and a couple of days later killed, you know, killed himself. So it’s a very overwhelming thing, you know, and I didn’t get to speak to him, so I don’t know. But but I understand the feeling where. You’re a drug addict. You’re hooked like a research monkey. But you say, hey, listen, you know, if I have a hit record, I’ll stop. You have a hit record, Well, if my album goes platinum, well, you know, if I have a child, they’ll stop. And then all of a sudden you realize you have everything you want and you can’t stop. And your life. Is hell and and then other things come in depression and all sorts ’cause these chemicals cause a lot of other other things and next thing you know your life isn’t worth anything to you and so I could see what someone would. Would take their own life, you know, because, you know, it’s kind of a a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It’s very sad. And it coming from where you come from, you have a unique perspective and ability to reach out to these people. Yeah, I think the asset, you know, I have, I mean, for me to them, my calling card was 8590. Million records sold in all success. I know that’s what the people at MAP, you know, would say. But my calling card to them was they knew I was a ******** junkie. They knew, you know, that I had hepatitis AB and C and that my life was. Over and you know I’ve won long and and I wasn’t going to make it and I made it so I gave them I gave them hope. You know, before Rick James died he called me and I went went to see him in the hospital and he was so sick and. You know, he actually said to me. You know, as long as I don’t get as bad as you and I want, I want Rick, you’re worse. I said you can’t even talk as long as really bad. And he had, we had similar physical problems, emphysema. He had, I don’t know if he was diagnosed with emphysema. He sounded like he had it and he was terrible. You know, I’m not a doctor, but he had he had lung. Stuff and he, you know, I told him he was going to, he was going to die if he didn’t. He didn’t stop. And then when he went home, his roommate would call me and ask me to come by. And then he passed away. If you could share, I heard you share a story one time about trying to con your mother while you were in the throes of addiction. Do you remember that? Well, actually, what it was was. I had three years clean and my mother finally agreed to seem, you know, welcomed me to come visit her. And I went went to visit her and my mother’s kind of a woman that kind of has to tell you. You know what she’s thinking. So she you know who? Just in the kitchen and you know, she just, I don’t know. You know what it was. You know what? You know what it was. You know what? You know what the camel was destroy. You know what it was. I mean, you know what it was. You lied. And I and I and I said, well, Mommy, I know I lied. She said, she said, but no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. You were telling me a story. And you were lying right in my face. And I said, I’m sorry. She said, no, no, no, hear me? You were lying right in my face. And I said, son, you’re lying right in my face. And you said, yeah, mom, but hear me out. Only an addict can understand that. But but your story, if nothing is a story of redemption. I mean, again, the fact that you’re alive, you’re singing, you did a great show tonight, man. Your career, you’re a testament to the fact that no one is hopeless. I mean, they’re really, I mean, it’s a spiritual recovery. No, there, there, there. There is faith. With faith and at some point what you have to do is turn your life over to the care of someone else just because you’re too insane. The only rational thing and sometimes is locked up. I was going to prison or going to cry help. That’s the only reason I was in there. Unfortunately I stayed in there long enough to to some sanity after I. Through from all the drugs, a clarity started happening where I started realizing, you know what, I feel OK today, you know, and then with a lot of support and, and from the staff and, and, and people, I started realizing that I might be able to do this. And then just with a faith that these people. Really could show me the way, in fact, we’re loving me and nurturing me in spite of the nasty person I had become. Because I was almost 50 years old and had nothing. And it was kind of ****** *** about it, you know? You know, as opposed to, you know, looking at myself, I blamed everyone else. And this is after having everything. Yeah, Yeah. And that’s that’s, you know, I mean, as a friend told me once, it very naive statement the way he said he says, man, people used to jump off of buildings because they lost their money like you. I went. I went. Thank. Oh, yeah. In the stock market, they were killing themselves. Didn’t lose near as much money as you and I. You know, I’m like, what a bright guy. Well, I know you’re a busy man. Any final words for the people out here who have followed you for a number of years? You know, anyone in trouble in any kind of in any kind of trouble, there is so much help for all of us out there. You know, we just have to seek it and kind of find the faith that with help we can we can get help. But when we’re in trouble. It’s very hard for us to help ourselves. And don’t I look good? You look marvelous, Chuck Negron. Thank you very much.

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SICK PUPPIES

Tell us how it’s been that since we’ve seen you last out on the road. Great, great. Good to be here again with you guys. Thank you for having us today. And it’s been a lot of fun. I mean, since last, I mean, you know, we always call ourselves Rd. Warriors. You are serious is the goal, is the dream that you do. And yeah, you know, we’ve just been playing, pushing the album Fury over the past year. It’s about a year old now, just just over a year old. Tell us about what’s going on now. You must still be working on. Improving your sound and writing new songs. What’s what’s happening in the in the band, in the rehearsal room? Yeah, we’re like you said, we’re writing, we’re touring. And usually it’s kind of hot, though, to write on tour because there’s a schedule going on and we’re trying to sort of. Every night, yeah. Like it’s like a, you know, going out, like doing something every day. But we’re trying to like squeeze in some writing and then I’m getting some good ideas and yeah, just try and do that. And we’re just going to be touring for the rest of the year.

That’s great, working on both. One of the things I think that makes. Makes you so exciting is that there’s a collaboration. Everybody plays a part. You can see on stage that you really sort of hand it off to each other and everybody gets a voice. How do you come to that decision on, you know, who’s going to get to say what music? Putting it and handing it, that’s kind of cool. No, no, this is actually really awesome. I’m remembering the last, the last interview you had. Sorry. On a side note and appreciate you knowing lots about the band. I remember this last time, you know, the details kind of going on. And some fans are rock’n’roll. Yeah, it is dawn. No, no, no. It’s cool. I mean, sometimes you’ll do an interview and those charges. No, yeah, that’s we, we tried to do that when we play live, you know, like Emma will talk about a song that, you know, that she wrote that that’s really important to a lot of people. And there’s a good story behind that. Mark talks too. And I mean, it’s just three of us up there. And so it’s kind of cool. And we can all have a little moment, you know, with the crowd and, you know. To get personal with everybody, how about does that give you, it does give you feedback on as you’re out there touring so much, do you find? Do you talk about what happened on stage when you go back on the Airbus? There’s a full dissection after the show really. There’s no really, yeah. I mean, we try and make it like the best thing, best thing possible for people to, you know, experience and, you know, ’cause when growing up, it was the best thing in the world to see your favorite band. And so we want, we want to kind of like be that band for people. And so, yeah, we talk about the things that, you know, stuff that we can make better and stuff that works and I don’t know, stuff like that. So you have had Fury this last album. What’s coming next? Is there a follow up? Is there what the conversation goes? There’s always a follow up. You know what, like Emma said, we’re we’re riding right now. We have started diving back into that. So about a couple months ago is when we just began that again, getting the creative juices flowing once again. And you know, we got a lot to talk about. And so, you know, like she said, with touring, there’s there’s all that good stuff. But you know, we’re going to be we’re going to be hitting it. We’ve already kind of started writing some tunes. And so there will be new music next year. Do you have? Yeah. What’s that? Do you have a process? Do you have a system? I mean, that’s how do you approach like. Giving starting new Starting a new song. It’s just, I mean, it’s where the music takes you. You can’t really ever say when you’re doing new stuff exactly when it’s going to happen. You know, so we’re already doing it and just, you see, once you get the tunes and it’s like, OK, there’s one, there’s an awesome 1, you know, this and that. That kind of, you know, sets the pathway for, for when the new stuff is going to come out. But you know, when we’re riding, we just, it just sparks. Yeah, I guess, you know, we’re just kind of we’ll be in a room and, you know, she’ll start playing something, I’ll start playing something or we’ll have a lyric idea. Just every every time it’s a little bit different. Tell us a little bit about life on the road with this tour. Has it been like. Ruling. We’d love to see like the tour buses pull up and everything that seems so glamorous. It’s not as glamorous as it no, this tour’s been great. Like I said, it’s the Make America Rock Game Tour. And the Scott staff, he’s awesome. You know, driving pool at least. Way. Yeah. Trapped. That’s cool. I know we’ve toured with all the bands before. Most of them. These are all cool bands. Yeah. Yeah. So we go way back with Elliot’s Way and. Oh, good. So everyone gets along. Yeah. Yeah. Goodbye, everyone. Everyone’s doing their thing. Yeah. So, Ryan, you were at New Addition found on Facebook or on Craigslist, essentially. March Peggs is on the Facebook. Yeah. How do you guys technology? Would you rather it’s not working out? No, it’s not working. You should have got a sectional or some furniture instead. Yeah. We got in a couch. I just want to watch out there couch singers. Oh, thank you so much.

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BUTCHER BABIES

Well, very excited to be here with Heidi and Carla of the Butcher Babies bringing the full metal assault to Racine, WI in support of Lilith. Nice album guys, very nice. Now we first caught up with you guys like five years ago when your first album Goliath had just come out, which was. Yes, really raw, raucous assault. With Lilith, you’re still bringing it. You still got the energy, but things are a little more refined, a little more melodic. Was that a? Natural progression. Well, you know, if you remember on Goliath, there is a ton of melodic songs on there as well and big harmonies. I think the main difference is we’re doing more harmonizing with our voices. So that’s a big difference. And also the whole sound overall has matured. We’ve been a band for nine years now and you know, especially with this album, we have time to. Take a year off and really spend, you know, a great deal of time working on each songs you know, throwing them out, reintroducing them, rehashing them and making the best album we could possibly make. We also have a new drummer who brought in. You know, kind of a new influence and new influences. He’s a, you know, jazz drummer. So he’s got, we’ve had just a new flair on this whole album. It’s been kind of a rebirth.

But you know, any band that’s been a band for nine years is going to grow and evolve and change and try new things. So this album should be. You can hear, as you said, that, you know, the growth of the band. When we first started this band, you know, almost a decade ago, we were young girls when we were still young girls. But we’ve developed into women. And you can definitely hear that evolution from our first album, Goliath, to our second album, Take it Like a Man to to. Lilith where you we sound like women and we’re writing about, you know, things that topics that you know we face as women and I think that that’s something that is very unique and different about Lily. Well, I’m thinking about the hooks like with something like head spin. Nobody’s going to accuse you guys of being poisoned, but if radio. Still friendly. That would be a very radio friendly song. I mean it’s instantly it grabs you like that it has been on radio. So we’re we’re pretty excited. Radio friendly, I should say. Yeah, I bet. You know, that was kind of our answer to radio in a way. You know, I when we were kids, we all dreamed of, you know, waking up in the morning or mid afternoon as we do, and hearing your song on the radio. And, you know, something that actually happened today that was really cool. We were on the way to the radio station to do an acoustic set and we heard Look What We’ve Done, our new single. So that was really cool. It is a unique thing. And that’s something that, you know, when we first started this band, we didn’t know exactly where we wanted to take it. We just wanted to play some music on the Sunset Strip with with our best friends. And, you know, as soon as it started gaining some notoriety, we started experimenting with our sound. And so that was kind of headspoon was. Answer to radio with the big and endemic chorus and, and, and. It’s fun for us to play and I love seeing our fans reaction to us doing something different. They welcome it, they’re excited about it, as are we. Yeah, well, let’s talk about look what we’ve done, the new single. What’s the process that goes into picking what’s going to be the next single sort of soon fighting over it or this one should be or this one needs to be out there. I think it’s a little bit of everything, but I think that in this case is pretty obvious that song is. Very radio friendly, more so than a song like Pomona on the album with the 5252 Fox in it. You guys keep jumping when I want to ask about Sorry sorry, we’re on the same way right here. Let’s jump to Pomona. Was there an actual incident? I want to ask you to name names, but was there an incident that inspired? Jimmy, I’m kidding. There’s no Jimmy. I think that Pomona is. As the product of many incidents in one one song, not all good incidents. We went to friends for 10 years. So, you know, we’ve had, you know, fun experiences. I’ve been over the years and they’ve got a lot of people can relate to what Pomona is about. You wake up in the morning in a parking lot and or somewhere where you’re like what happened last night and you look around and you’re just confused. You look at your friends. What happened? I mean, that was something that I think a lot of people have dealt with. And when we wanted to, when we’re writing Pomona, we wanted to do something kind of silly, kind of showcase who we are. We’re just silly kids that, you know, kids, but we’re silly, just a bunch of big dorks. And so we take our music seriously, but we also wanted to put. Are a little bit of our personality into it and if you if you listen to like institutionalized kind of storytelling, we wanted to take an instance and something that a lot of people can can relate to and turn it into an aw ****. And and it came together like this. It was so easy to write because we all sat down together and it was just like, and then this and then this and then this, and then chase our drummer. He’s just like, what if we just say the F word on the snare beat and we’re like, Oh my God, you’re a genius. Little things like that. So we can’t. And it’s so fun to look out in the crowd and everyone just has that release. I think that’s what’s beautiful, obviously about music in general, but when you just. Yeah, ’cause everyone’s had that moment. Whether it’s your tire goes flat, you missed your alarm and you’re late to work, the red light keeps hitting you, everyone has that moment. So for us, it was really fun to write. That’s very much a metal thing. You guys are bonding. You’re very much a people’s band and it’s there’s really not a lot of separation between to the stage and the audience. People are in it and that that seems kind of these days unique to metal. I think that nowadays I think it’s people need to be a little bit more accessible. I feel like, you know, when we were kids and we watched our favorite bands on MTV and they just, you know, they were so. How do I write to their fan club? And now it’s like it’s so easy to slide into the DMS or set, you know, write on someone’s Instagram. We’re easily accessible. And I just think that that’s with the times. And I think we welcomed it at a very early point in our career because. With the age of social media comes being personable with people and you know, we grew up as fans of music and music saved all of us and so hearing people. Had these stories for us about, oh, you’re this song did this for me or this song did that for me. We want to hear those things and so we want to be accessible. We want people to be able to reach out to us and tell us their stories because when we were kids, we rarely ever got to do that. You have to wait outside of a tour bus for hours and hoping someone would come out and you may and come over to the. Suicide, rather something just so you could shake their hand for a second. But well, now we talked about this, you guys have been. A band for almost a decade now, so it’s one thing to be a young kid with a lot of energy. I’m going to take on the world. I’m going to put a band together. We’re going to do this. It’s another whole other thing to ride it out and through thick and thin and take the hits. What’s been the most challenging aspect? Oh gosh, I mean, it’s I don’t think it’s so much of a challenge when you’re constantly doing new things. You know, we have new experiences together all the time, like going to the Philippines together, going to Japan together, touring through Europe, walking around the streets of Prague together for the first time. So we try to keep it fresh by. Being friends and by, you know, checking out places together, traveling and getting off the bus, enjoying the culture around us as we’re, you know, touring instead of just sitting on the bus all day waiting for the show, you know, having Groundhog’s Day every day. And we, I don’t know, you know, it’s a word. We are genuinely excited to be doing what we’re doing. Well, I was telling someone, I think it’s like at 10 years is when you’re supposed to get jaded. So I have another year left before I’m just kidding. But no, thankfully she doesn’t have a watch. No, but you know, the The thing is, is that, you know, we wake up every day and we love what we do and when we when we step on stage, it’s a new day. You know, there are days when you wake up and your bunk and you’re not feeling your best, your voice hurts or your back hurts or, you know, maybe you had a tiff with one of. Band members and here’s like, but really, when it comes down to it, we’re 5 best friends first and foremost and we’re 5 best friends. We get to tour the world and do cool **** together and we keep that in mind and. And that’s the reality of it, you know, and with Lilith here, this album. We call it kind of our rebirth because. You know, we we did took it take a year off to write and record, but we also had a member change and just kidding, we had we had a member change that brought a whole new fresh energy into the band. And I think just from. Even just looking at things from a different perspective, like slightly sometimes offers in Rebirth, like the when you’re asking that question, I kind of just had a weird flashback into. You know, when we first started this band and who we thought that 10 years later, you’ve been like, you’re a band for 10 years. How do you keep it fresh? Like I don’t, I never imagined that someone would ever ask me that question. So it is like, you know, if we keep having that idea of like, wow, like this is this is our dream. This is what we would lay in bed when we were eleven years old. And sticking our headphones and listen to whatever band we’re listening to, pretending we’re the lead singer jumping around the stage. You know, those are the, those, those are memories you don’t forget. And so when we step on stage, we’re the, our 11 year old selves again, jumping around in our brains. Well, yeah, well, there’s the power of rock’n’roll to make you young again. Now, as I mentioned, Butcher Baby’s very much a people’s band. What do the fans need to know? What’s coming up? What’s going on? I mean, gosh, we just have we have a great tour that we’re out on right now with Nonpoint Sumo Psycho and Islander is joining us in just a couple days. So from. Start to finish this package as a party, it’s got something for everybody in very, very high energy. So we’re really excited to continue this tour all the way through June 15th. We’ve got big plans for the rest of you of the year that we can’t talk about yet but always but you know make sure that you get Lilith. Our new set is very new song heavy so. Learn all the songs and we’ve got a bunch of surprises for you up. Lilith. Learn Pomona first. It’s pretty easy. There’s 52 of the same word in there if you can guess what it is. Well, I want to thank you guys for being here. We really love what you’re keeping Rock’n’roll alive for so many of us and you’re living the dream so that we can just show up and take part in. Sweet, thank you.

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RAVEN BLACK

Raven Black, a viciously sweet metal medley of feminine and masculine power harnessed through a tiny half human half doll surrounded by her misfits, tossed into a theatrical debauchery of creepy fun. And that’s just the beginning. Raven Black. Welcome to Psycho Babble. Hi, nice to see you guys. Nice to see you. This is I’m Muppet. Thank you for having us. Tell me about 1313 is our second album we’ve ever released and kind of like the soundtrack to our first comic book, The Beginning. Just kind of our journey into coming out into the world, touring and just kind of talks about different criticisms, different challenges that we have, the good and the bad, you know, the beautiful and the ugly of touring and our struggle through it, which will then lead to our third album. In the future and our second comic book issue coming out next year. So everything you do is a conceptual piece that tells a story. That’s awesome. Now, as a drummer, is that more difficult to play for something conceptual? Actually it’s easier, I found that especially with my on stage annex it comes out more natural because now instead of just drumming, now it’s like OK now I’m going to be a character and be that character while I’m playing.

Does it help cover mistakes too? Yes. Two mistakes. We don’t make mistakes. No, no. Take me through the songwriting process. Who’s writing the songs? Where the where’s the inspiration? We, we don’t have one set way of writing. I mean, it could start from a rift that the doctor sends me on iPhone or he sends it to Muppet and they lay down drums and and guitar, just hearing each other’s riffs, bass. He might come up with something and be like, oh, you know, I hear this and then, you know, either I get sent that and I hear. Melodically or I for instance, right before the tour, Chris sent me a guitar riff. It’s just first course, like a just a loop, you know, And it was exactly perfect. The the instrumental sound to it, the feel of it, the emotion of that tone was perfect for lyrics. I wrote like 2 weeks before then called Burn because it, you know, burned. The song that I wrote, I had an emotion. Everything I write lyrically has an emotion behind it in a story. So I look for music that puts me in that. Or at the same time we also write where I say here’s my lyrics and I’ll do some kind of a melody on iPhone voice memo and send it to Chris and he’ll mimic my melody and create chords around it. So many different ways that we write sticks and stones on the album. We wrote that in two hours, and that came from a voice memo that I. I recorded in my car at a while I was at getting coffee and I said sticks and stones ever broke my bones with the words I never heard me 6 and that’s all it was was recording that and we were looking for something else and and my phone and I came across and hit play. It was the wrong one but. And the Darwin Wait, wait, what was that? And I’m like, oh, play that again. And I go, no, no, no, that’s not it. And they’re like, no, no, no, don’t play that again. And then they just both started going. And next, you know, we wrote it in two hours. Do you have a stockpile of material that you can’t use because it’s not the right mood? Stuff that. This doesn’t really fit. We have over 200 songs we wrote for the first two years as a. Age wise as as a band, publicly we’re two years old as when we got together as the four of us was four years. So for two years we didn’t go out at all. All we did was write every day for two years. Working with Ulrich Wilde just to create this too fine and kind of hone in on our unique sound. Which, you know, we have a list of requirements for each song before they hit the album. So if anything is lacking from that list, it doesn’t make it to the album. OK, yeah, stitches. You ever write anything that’s too cheerful or bouncy for the band? Oh yeah, I think it’s some of the stuff I used to play guitar long ago, but I more committed to bass right now. And I do go a little more heavy ribs and a little more heavy music, more black heavy metal. Right. Well, what kind of music were you playing before this? Well, all sorts of stuff from a really super high speed metal. She’s kind of like a little bit of pop rock and a little more high rock. So all sorts of and is it, is it challenging to make that transition? Into a theatrical band where you’re not just a musician, you’re a performer. It wasn’t difficult because Maxwell, as a matter of fact, I think the transition from that to Reverend Black personally was easy because I’ve been a guy who has been dedicated to put time, energy into an image, showmanship and stage. So these guys have those things. I was looking my previous bands and these guys. We’re like, we’re all in. So it was easy for me to just go into that direction. Yeah, our audition process, the first process was me and, and, you know, Stitches talking on the phone for about 3 hours. And he, I remember him telling me. Your image and what you want to do is exactly what I’ve been looking for for a long time. Like musicians that have that common passion for theatrical performance with really heavy and, you know, instrumental, you know, music. So so it was like he was like, this is exactly what. I’ve been waiting for. So I was like, well, I’ve been looking for people who I never want somebody that is forced into it and they’re just wearing a costume because then they don’t fulfill the character from the story. And then the story itself evolves with each person’s direct walk of life. So when I write the story in the comic book, it it starts with me talking to each of them about something in their life personally and then I of course fictionalize it so. So there is some truth in some of the story writing. Now Muppet, we talked about the having the passion for the band, which you have to have these days because. The hour you spend on stage is glorious and glamorous, but the other 23 hours in the day are kind of your busting your hump traveling across the country now. Have you had any Spinal Tap adventures on the road that you can share with us? No, I’m still here. I’m still here. I’m still ******* here waiting for Muppet to explode now is there? Is there an overreaching or overarching story arc for the Raven Black Tale? Do we know where it’s going? Well, our next comic book is We Came Across the Darkness, so we’re going to a heavier album, probably the heaviest, that will probably go going through just some comparison from dark to light, good and evil. The duality of each of us, duality of society, you know, duality of being human. So it’s going to get a little darker, a little more serious. We’ll still have carnival there will always have the carnival in there. But yeah, just a little, a little darker and heavier. Yeah, and you are very much a people’s band. What do you want to say to your fans out there? Any message for them? What’s that again, Muffin? I say, what’s up, *************? I always say it. Thank you so much for your support. And, you know, just be you. Just do you. Be real. I don’t ever let anyone, you know, make you feel awkward or uncomfortable for being yourself. Thank you for all the love and support, it means everything to us. Raven Black.

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CITY OF THE WEAK

Very excited to be here with Steph from City of the Weak. Currently on tour in support of their brand new album Pulling Teeth. Step up in the Psycho Battle. Good to see you now. The band has been together for six years and this is your first full length LP. What took so long? While we’re tweepies out, so we weren’t we weren’t just chilling, you know, so right, 2013 was our first GP that we put out and then a year later 2014 we put out another EP and then we spent a lot of time touring on our second EP and then we started writing for the first full length in 2015. So we wrote for two years and then we. With Craig Owens in Michigan and then when you can make some masters for a couple months. And then we were going to put it out summer 2017, but it did get pushed back a little bit. And but we decided, you know, there’s there’s just so much that comes into play when you’re putting an album out, especially independently. And so we wanted to make sure that we had the support behind it, that we had enough money. Put in a marketing had nobody to put in advertising.

If you just drop a record and you know, this record is so great to to us and it’s so it’s, it shows who we are and we don’t want to put it out and then, you know, like have it disappear and we want to be able to hear it. And so we really spent a year preparing and making sure they got the love that we feel. It deserves, yeah. It sounds like it’s really tight now, but I’ve been listening to download, so I don’t have a lot of liner note information. Who’s writing the songs? We write the songs, the whole band as a band. Well, the first Sweet Peas were more just jamming in a room, kind of what people would think of writing is. But now we have more technology and we have. Skills to sit down and kind of demo things out one by one. Like it usually starts with Cody or bass player. He’ll play like a a guitar or bass riff and then he’ll kind of format loosely into what would be like a song or a piece of a song. And then I’ll kind of go from there and add pieces of lyrics. And I do more like the formatting of like, you know. For this, for this or whatever. And then bread will kind of play with some of Cody’s ideas. It just all works really well together. And it’s nice to be able to listen back and have the skills to be able to lay stuff down. Because our first three piece we had, I mean, we were like teenage kids. We didn’t know like, like who has? I mean, we didn’t have the skills. I didn’t, I mean, I knew what garage band was on my my Mac, but. I mean, it’s it didn’t really work that well. I can sing into the microphone a little bit. But, you know, so now that we were able to take the time and listen back, it was like, oh, OK, here’s what’s gonna sound better than just throwing it all on the track and say here we go. Are are you handling the lyrics mostly yourself or? Yeah. Yeah, That’s great. Yeah. As a public service announcement, I would advise people not to date a songwriter unless your behavior is above reproach because there’s some songs on there. Like, holy, did you call someone ******* useless? I did, yeah. I don’t write about boyfriends though, I’ll be totally honest. I mean, it’s just more of like. Relationships in the music industry so kind of back story is pulling teeth has actually written about the record and getting the record made was like point teeth and working the music industry was like pulling teeth. So basically that record is our story making the record and so every single song in there is has something to do with making the album or. Must be in the music industry. So we look back along the first, you know, four or five years of our career, and we started writing and that’s kind of what it kind of led to. And so, yeah, I mean, I did call somebody ******* useless. It feels good to hear that. Yeah. There’s a lot of, you know, you don’t have to date someone for them to be ******* useless. That’s true. That’s true. So now recording and producing a wonderful piece of music is one job. Getting out there on the road and selling it is another thing. And that’s something you have to do these days to survive as a band. Is is that lifestyle. Do you find that? Conducive to, I mean, are you enjoying being a road warrior? Yeah, we’re, we’re definitely Tory band. I mean, some bands aren’t so much touring bands. They’ll try and do more like publishing or find other ways of income. But we just like touring. I mean, that’s kind of what took so long making the record. I mean, we were out on the road all in 2014. 2015 balls, 2016 and 17. Like we just never came off the road. Most bands will take like a year off the road, maybe two years and we just didn’t. So writing a record while you’re out on the road, it’s just like a lot. So I mean it’s going to take longer when you’re playing shows every night, you have to press every day. Like it just took us a while and ’cause we didn’t want to come off the road like I. Like we’re an independent band, so the second we come off the road, we’re going to become irrelevant in, in my opinion. And I, I mean, I hope that’s not true, but I, I want to get out there and seeing people and interacting with them makes keeps you alive. I mean, hearing how they relate to music and that it actually has an effect on them. Is what has an effect on us. And I read somewhere that you guys were on schedule to perform your 400th show. Yeah, this year we’ll hit 400 at some point. What are you at now? It was like 3, some 360 something. I did a count earlier this year. And it’s we usually do between 85 to 120 shows every year. So OK, we’ll hit for something this year, but we just don’t know exactly how many shows it’ll be. I I also read that some of the band’s personal interests includes animal rights and the Waffle House. You got our Facebook page. Yeah, Yeah. You aren’t combining those, are you? No, no. No, no, we put that on there in 2012 when we when we made the Facebook pretty much because our first ever like tour, we were going down to a music conference in Atlanta and we decided to book a couple shows around it. You know, like this is before we even had ACDL. Like we were just like. And we didn’t know anything. And we basically were driving down South and I had never been down South, really. And we saw Waffle House and we’re like, what is that? Like we’d like, we didn’t know. And we’re like, let’s go there. I mean, I love waffles. I love breakfast food. And we show up and it was like insanely cheap. And it was waffles and it was delicious. And so we three meals a day, every single day we were at Waffle House and we were literally like all the employees loved us. Like we hang out with them, we sing songs with them. Like all of our Facebook videos were just us hanging out with Waffles employees. The tour video was us with all these Waffle House employees. Like all of our followers on Twitter were straight up like. 100% Waffle House employees, they would retweet us at everything, like we were famous in the Waffle House employee community. And so we just put that on there because we were like jacked on a Waffle House and we called it the Waffle House tour then. So yeah. And then we grew up and discovered this other restaurants. Mouse, But we still go there. I mean, it’s great. It’s cheap and you know, City of the week brought to you by Waffle House and you’ve got a chance to play with some of the bigwigs, some of your idols, I’m assuming any any favorites that come to mind? I think playing with Ozzy was really life changing. It’s not like I was really a huge fan growing up. I wasn’t really a fan of anybody growing up ’cause I didn’t really have a lot of music. Like I remember hearing Shania Twain on On Our Country. Station when I was like, I don’t know, 8 and that was kind of what I listened to for a couple years ’cause then my parents were listening to music. I didn’t we didn’t have the Internet really there like I’m from Montana originally. Oh wow. So we had dial up till I was like, I don’t know, mid high school. So I mean I couldn’t really use it and. So, but I remember specifically when I was like, I want to say like 7 or 8, I was watching E and he has a show on there and I remember seeing him. I was like, who’s Ozzy Osbourne? I remember asking my mom who’s Ozzy Osbourne mom and she’s like, don’t watch that. She’s very conservative. She’s like, don’t watch that. And I was always so curious. And then when I was in high school, I was in a pep band and we played some of his songs. He played Crazy Trend obviously along with a couple others. And I was like, I put 2 together. I’m like, oh that’s Ozzy Osbourne. And then I obviously then I got educated and learned the rest of the. World outside of Montana and you know my house and and, uh, realized you know he’s actually like a legend He’s he’s he’s the Prince of darkness yeah he’s the legend. And so it’s cool then getting books and playing oh like playing same stage. It was just like, you know, my first experience with rock’n’roll scene and hearing about it and here I am open like. When I was like 7 or 8 I never would have. You might ask my mom about who saw Yes for I never would have thought. Holy ****. Like I’m literally on stage with him right now. Like his production is like 2 trailers down from us. You’re told 7 year old me I would be opening for him This dude on you know, TV with this British accent or whatever. But it was it was just incredible. Well, we’re not gonna keep you much longer. You gotta show to do tonight. You wanna save those pipes? What do people need to know about City of the Weak? Check out our new record Pulling Teeth and it’s out everywhere on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, you can get. We have a couple bundles left. We put together these really cool creative bundles that we custom made for everybody and we have hoodies and T-shirts and posters and that album in there and. And coming to a show.

[Jessica080806]

BEASTO BLANCO

Very excited to be here with the boys and girls. A Bisto Blanco currently on tour in support of the wonderful new album Live from Berlin. Kids, welcome to psychopath. Guess which one of us are boys and which one of us are girls? OK, well, we know Calico. We know Chuck. Let’s introduce the rest of the band. Brother Latham. Guitar player. Guitar player. My name is Rob Zombie. I play flute. On sellers drums, yeah. Guys, great album. I’ve been describing it to people as sort of Motörhead meets the B50 twos. It’s nice. Well, it’s riff rock. You got cool riffs, you got cool. Wait till you hear the new record, man. You’re going to really love that. How do you guys describe it is just so time rock’n’roll. You know, I try not to describe it. The cool thing is is we’ve kind of let. Fans describe what we are which and I find that, you know, I find it to be a really nice compliment to be honest with you. I mean, you just brought up two scenarios that I never would have put the. I mean, whatever you guys think we sound like we we kind of go into this thing with an open canvas.

So it’s just whatever happens naturally musically. And I mean, obviously we got a sound and we’ve got an energy that we want to, you know, portray and, and things like that. But for the most part, we don’t try not to overthink it. OK, let the music kind of do the talking. No, you said. Why was the album recorded in Berlin? The Live from Berlin album was recorded while we were on tour with the band called The Birthday Uncles, which is a huge German band. They’re from Frankfurt, Germany, and they’re massive over there. They sing in German.
Jan is very aware, very aware of them. He’s, you know, he’s also very German. I was the only one that actually understood what they were saying. Well, are you the one doing the stage pattern on the live album? Because it’s not your typical Frampton. How’s everybody doing? We tried that and it was like cricket. So it’s more. Like, we’ll tell you how you’re doing, ******* it. Yeah. Well, plus, if you’re opening for a band that big, you kind of got to get the energy going. And you don’t just go like, hey, are you guys having fun? Yeah, you are having fun. We’re having it. Well, now, Kellico, you’re the most recent addition to the bank, Correct you. Yeah. I mean, yeah, lady. What made you want to throw in with this band of hooligans? Well. Well, well, I think that the idea was really solid and I don’t, I think that that sort of the concept was we wanted to do like a Natural Born Killers, but set to music. And it’s like, you don’t know which one to be more afraid of. But then like sometimes it’s like he’s more assertive. I’m more assertive and then the band gets involved. And it’s just like this cool machine. And so like, I wanted to be involved if it were going to do it and if I was going to tour again because I stopped touring with with my dad, with Dallas. So if I’m going to do it again, it’s got to be something I really can like, sink my teeth into. It’s got to be like an actor piece almost. So, you know, as as the shows developed and we’ve added, you know, we’re basically bringing the songs to life. And so that’s where that’s where I shine. That’s that’s my thing. That’s what I bring to it. So, yeah, I mean, it’s each and every one of these guys is super talented. And there’s not one person that’s like dragging ***. And that one, Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. No this gig in the world playing base with the Alice Cooper band. What made you decide I need an outside Yeah man, I what did why what was I thinking I I know I sometimes I question myself that all the time. I could be and that’s probably. You could be home watching The Simpsons. We’re doing this and that’s exactly it I mean that was sort of the thing was that I felt like. I, I, I love playing with Alice Cooper. I love the guys in the band and, and you know, I’ve been part of so many great things in his career and I’m just so happy that my name is listed as one of the guys with Alice Cooper. I mean, I’ve been there for 16 years, but I also have a dream and I have, I’m a songwriter and I have ideas and I just felt like. So was gonna be, you know, my. You know, my way to just kind of get my art out there, you know, And I’ve been listening to rock and roll since I was a little kid, you know, and that kind of that never goes away. You never become a not a fan. You never become too good. And I think that the Obisto just sort of was one of those things I had to, I had to do to, to, to to kind of fulfill the rest of my legacy. Cool. Yeah. No guys, any we love a good Horror Story because, you know, we’ve heard a few any good Spinal Tap moments from. The gosh, the list is you want one from today or yesterday or the day. Or yesterday or the day before. Well, it’s so great when things go horribly wrong. Anything come to mind? Should we talk about the customs or fire on stage? Caught on fire in the back door. The fire on stage. We’ve got a couple fires. So stupid with a flare gun. The fire we’re talking about is we’re playing a song, we’re in Italy in this club and Spain. No, it’s Italy for this story. Anyways, spittily we were there and we were in Spain and we’re playing in this club in the amp was at the amp. I just want to get it right. The monitor caught on fire and he’s singing and everybody’s like, yeah, everybody’s like really in the zone and I’m the only one that sees it. So I go up to Chuck and I kind of go like this. And he bats me away, thinks I’m playing with them. And I’m like, am I playing with you? And he bats me away again. I was like. So I go over to Chris and I’m like Chris, and he’s playing. He’s like, yeah, I’m like, no, Chris. And he’s like whoo. And I finally took the flag I was holding. I started hitting him with the flag and he turns around hitting me. Yeah, hitting him. Turns out he looks at me. He goes what? And I go. We’re on fire. And he’s like, why didn’t you say that in the 1st place? So we turn around and our, you know, the drum wedge is just, it’s, it’s on fire. And I’m wondering why the people in the audience are kind of just everybody sort of, kind of freaking out a little bit. And so, yeah, we, we cut that sucker on fire and. Thing was is that the promoter insisted that he put a cigarette out in the monitor wedge at the time and that’s why it caught on fire, he said. One of us put a cigarette out and right when we realized it’s fire, everybody just kind of effed off and we just left the stage and left the drummer up there doing a drum stage. And we both, and we closed the door too. We’re like, whatever. But they remember Drummer. He does have a name, Sean. The dude jumped up from the crowd. A guy just jumped up on stage, took the flavor and ran outside and threw it outside. We were like thank you. So I’d like to know more about where you guys come from musically, your background. I’ve been playing in a bigger punk band called Good Riddance since 1995. From where? Santa Cruz, CA OK, so I’ve spent. The last 26 years touring and punk bands actually, can I just say interject real quick how we’ve met. Sean was, you know, he was playing on our latest, our new record. Now we originally had a drummer by the name of Tim Husong. Tim had some prior arrangements and couldn’t do some tours and. And our producer Ryan Green says, hey, I got a guy that you got to have just play on your record ’cause there was some songs. These guys are in Germany. It was a little bit tough getting them over here. And he goes, I’ve got a guy that’s got to play on these songs. So he brings in Sean and and he just destroyed it. He was so great and not only that, but his personality was wonderful. And this is just a lesson for all your kids, man. You get an opportunity, go in there and go after it because Sean really came in prepared. He was a **** *** drummer, **** *** guy. And afterwards he just says hey, keep my number if you ever need me. And I think it was like. About a week or two went by and I, all the members said I need you, but he came in prepared. He’s been a great, you know, fit for the band. He’s a brother for life and we really love having him. He’s he’s just a stellar drummer, you guys. Also, you pay homage to your to your Alice roots with a cover of Feed My Frankenstein on the new album. What what was it about that song? This is the one we want to cover. Well. I always felt like that song, it was one of my favorite songs to do live with Coop and I thought the younger generation kind of got it as well. And I just kept thinking like, man, we could do a ****** cover of this song. And I really wanted to do. We were getting a lot of requests from the Alice fans like hey, you guys should cover this song or this song. And it got my. Bill Spinner, Like maybe we should cover a tune. And if we do, I’d like it to be Feed My Frankenstein. I just think it fits. It was a bit hard to convince Calico to do it ’cause she was so adamant about not. And the one thing we don’t want to do is we just don’t want to have to ride the coattails. We want to establish ourselves. Although all due respect and love for. Oh yeah. But it’s like we want to prove to ourselves and to the fans out there that we’re our own thing, our own entity. And it was very important for us to be an original band. We didn’t want to have to play covers. So if we’re going to do this, let’s make it original. And I think that’s when Calico sort of heard the idea of what? It was. She was a little bit more convinced. So does it does that preclude the concept of any Bisto Blanco concept albums coming out? Bisto Blanco goes to hell. That was another Spinal Tap moment. Yeah, yeah, we actually did go, I think a lot of our songs, I mean especially the last, the last studio record, the self-titled Bisto Blanco song and this next one coming up. You’ll hear it just being a little bit more conceptual lyrically wise and it’s not done intentionally. It just so happens that when you’re all in there riding together, it just happens. Well, we’re definitely all. Involved especially like diversified wise like now that we’re doing, you know the videos and the and we all kind of have. That artistically anyway. And so everybody’s kicking in on like, you know, outfits and videos. You know, we’re, we’re starting to write a short film around one of the songs. And so it’s like, you know, we’re really kind of branching out ’cause people kept saying you guys are like, you know, your, your characters, you’re playing these characters. You’re like a comic book up there. So we’ve got again, Chuck’s wheel spinning and he goes, you know, you’re in the film. Business because let’s let’s do that. So we’re working on that too, which I’m super excited about. Well, sonically, your vocals on the live album are kind of like the icing on the cake with this thing. All these, you know, you got a lot of rumbling. Gets all the credit for all this. Yeah. Sonically, I suppose I. So yeah, anyway, so. That’s the i’m a secretary of Chaos.

[Jessica080806]

BARB WIRE DOLLS

Very excited to be back with ISIS. Queen of Barbed Wire Dolls currently on tour in support of a wonderful new album, Rub My Mind. Welcome back. Good to have you here now. This is a great new album, kind of kind of. Defies categorization. You know you got. There’s there’s a few songs on there that put me in the mind of the New York punk scene in the 70s, but the rest of the album is songs that can only be sort of described as barbed wire Dolls music. Is there a conscious effort when you put together the song selection? To showcase the versatility is that, well, actually, I’ll just give you a little background on the album and how it was put together, and then you’ll kind of understand the whole vibe of it while we’re playing Riot Fest actually in Chicago. We got talking with members of Eagles of Death Metal and Dave Catching, which is the guitarist has a studio, a recording studio out in Joshua Tree, CA and. And it’s a historic place. It’s just amazing. You know, Caius came out of it, Queens of the Stone Age and he goes death metal. Lots of great bands have done lots of great things there and he invited us to go record this. So it was a great opportunity. At the time we only had, we just released Desperate, which is our previous album. So we really didn’t.

Have any new material? But it was such a great opportunity that of course we should, of course, you know, sure, yeah, we had like 2-3 songs. Just ideas, but we’re going to go record at the end of our tour and a week before. A week or so before the sessions were supposed to start, we closed the date with Dave over the phone and he had called us from Paris. And that was the night that he went on stage and the attacks happened at the Bataclan. And it was a very surreal experience because literally he was the last person we talked to before he went out on stage. And then all that happened and we just assumed, you know, we weren’t going to bother him. You know, he once he came back from that, he just wanted because he lives at that in the studio too. It’s his house, so. A few days later, he contacted us and said, I haven’t heard from you guys, you know, are you still coming in? And we’re like, I’m glad, you know, you’re well. We didn’t want to bother you. You know, obviously you’re alive, so we didn’t want to bother you. And we’re like, we, Are you sure you still want us to come in? And he says the music must go on. They can’t take that away from us. So that just those, that sentence alone just opened up a whole new world to us and within a couple of days we wrote that whole album before we went to the studio. So and we recorded the whole album in just two days while there and then the next day Iggy Pop came in to do post pop depression with Josh Harmony. So we only had those two days but that whole album. Was just that energy that was pulled out from us came from the events that happened during that week and you know, the social climate that’s going on nowadays. So naturally the album’s going to be diverse because it was recorded in the middle of the desert, so we naturally connected to that. Energy we recorded in the studio, which has specific equipment to capture that sound and. And we weren’t looking to write an album. The album wrote itself well lyrically. What was the inspiration for Back in the USSA? Well, even though it’s a very prophetic song, even though this is album was recorded before Trump came into power and a lot of the political situation that’s going on in America nowadays. If you open your surroundings to what’s actually going on the rest of the world, it’s very similar to everything that’s going on in the US and other countries have been going through the same political situation that America is going through right now. And you know, it was also a little bit of a fun pun to take Beatles back in the USSR and flip it around, say, back in the USSA based on the fact that America is a capitalist country. That’s just like anything, you know, that’s just a word. It’s it’s really the actions that come out of what’s going on towards the people that matters. Now, how about a song like Call Me that’s kind of a bipolar really raw sort of is that is that a draining process to put yourself out there? Like that in that song the song was written about **** ****. So it is a draining. It has draining context in it for those that are know someone or have experienced it themselves. And, umm. It’s hidden, though you don’t quite notice it because it’s such a fun up poppy, you know, twist of like, you know, 2 faced vibe going on, but you know, that’s that’s life for you. You know what I mean? It’s it’s. It’s not the situation that makes you stronger, it’s you that makes you stronger, and whether or not you can overcome something is up to you. And so you’re always fighting with your other self to. Find the beauty in. Now, I wouldn’t call you an elder statesman, but you got 3 great albums under your belt. You’ve been all over the world. You’re definitely a seasoned veteran. What do you know now that you didn’t know when you started a few years ago? That you can’t. You can’t force anything to happen, you have to just allow yourself to experience all the things that life gives you and you know be be true in what you do and love what you do and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. So what does the future hold for Barbed Wire Donald’s What’s going on? I mean, right now we should talk about Rub My Mind. Great new album. Go out and get it if you haven’t picked it up. But what else is going on? You know, more touring next year we’re going to be doing some support gigs and we’ll see what life has to offer us. I mean, we’ve already excited to write a new album, you know what I mean? So we’ll see what happens. We’ll see. Well, I want to thank you and again, keep on doing what you’re doing. You guys are keeping the Rock’n’roll alive and it’s very exciting. For all of us.

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UNLEASH THE ARCHERS

Very excited to be here with Brittany Slays of Unleashed. The Archers currently on tour in support of their new album Time Stands Still. Brittany, welcome to Psycho Babble. Good to have you here now this album. This is a nice piece of work. Metal in in non metal circles tend to get written off as sort of a low brow simplistic. Sort of music and this, this album just blows that all out of the water. Very intricate in terms of songwriting, musicianship. I’m thinking there’s got to be at least one control freak in this band. Yeah, there he is. That you? Yeah, but. I don’t know if it’s, if it’s so much about the songwriting process, we’re very free with that. We like to work together and we write everything together and someone will bring a riff and we’ll say, yeah, that’s awesome, or let’s work it this way.

Or someone will bring a whole song and it’ll be like, OK, this is good, this is good, let’s lead it into this instead of this or whatever. So it’s it’s more of. A flowing process as opposed to and a group effort. Troll. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. OK, OK, great. Well, and I’m thinking in terms of sonically, this is a really nice sounding album. Who produced this? Well, we had a couple people in on it, but Stu Mackillop did most of the behind the scenes work and he’s with Rain City Recorders in Vancouver. Bradykowski did the vocals, so he was in the studio with me the whole time, and he had a lot of input on everything as well. But for the most part it was Rain City Recorders in Vancouver. Now, lyrically, a lot of these songs are really epic, old world, big, huge. Do you ever feel like just doing a Taylor Swift and writing about what a jerk your ex-boyfriend was or how your internet’s down or anything like that? No, no, who wants to hear about that mundane crap, right? Well, I mean, I mean, lots of people do because obviously Taylor Swift is selling millions of records. But people love mundane crap. Brittany, just so. I guess so, yeah. No, I honestly, I prefer to to write about the fantastical and about things that I don’t get to experience in everyday life. So I bring that into my world through music and, well, what makes a nice little girl from Canada want to get into a metal band? When did you sell your soul to the demon? Now that’s a horrible myth that I know. And and. Satanism, R1 because that’s not true. It’s just that it was used back in the day in the 70s or whatever to deter people from listening to it because people were so close minded back then. So what’s the worst thing ever? Oh, Satanism. Let’s join the two. And then of course, Black Sabbath, all those guys, they embraced it and they said sure, yeah, we, you know. Sacrifice to Satan? Sure, let’s go with it. Whatever it was just, you know, it wasn’t something but. But even Satanism isn’t as cool as it used to be or it’s scary. So. I mean, not when you got like those movies that are out these days and things that. Yeah, just. There’s so much more. I guess our horizons have been brought in when it comes to horror, and now you guys have. A really, really cool video for Tonight We Ride. I’m understanding that was shot in the desert. What desert was shot? I can’t remember what it’s called. It’s in the middle of Nevada. It’s the same place where they do burning men every year. OK. It’s like prehistoric lake beds. So it’s just miles and miles of this silty. Fine sand everywhere. And it was actually the deal was the guy that directed it. Nathan Cox was a part of Burning Man with the death guilt Thunderdome crew. And he said, you know, if you come down to bring man and and work the Thunderdome with us, which they do, they actually set up the Thunderdome every year at Burning Man. It’s phenomenal if you work. We’ll give you some time afterwards to ride around in our cars and stuff like that because the whole campus themed like Mad Max beyond Thunderdome. So we were like, OK, that’s awesome. And we tracked on down there and worked at the Thunderdome and hung out a Burning Man for a week. And it was just like, I mean. You just think drugs and and sparklers and hippies and whatever, but it was totally, it was, yeah, fire. It was not like that. It was mind blowing. It was just one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever been a part of. We were very, I guess you could say introverted on this record. We had a lot going on behind the scenes, just with member changes and obstacles that we were trying to overcome. So it was very much about expressing ourselves and how we felt inside, as opposed to thinking about what the music video is going to look like. But on this next record, I think we’re very focused on the aesthetic. We’re going to go home after this tour and start writing right away. We’ve got a lot of ideas brewing and we’ve got a new core foundation of members that I think are going to write like a really **** *** record. Not that this other one isn’t **** ***. Take your time because this one needs to ferment. People should hear this record. This is a nice For a while. Yeah, for sure. I mean, just the fact that we’re going home and writing this record doesn’t mean it’s going to be out in January, right? Like, so. Well, tell me about the other guys in the band. I know you told me a little while ago that you’re the only important one, but. But I never said that. I know they’re over there. I’m just starting trying to start trouble. Tell me about the other guys in the band. I know you started the band with Scott in 2007. Scott Buchanan is the drummer and also my life partner, and we started the band together with a friend from university. Yeah, 2007, 2008 and of course over the years people’s lives changed, member changes. And then we brought Grant Truestelle on on guitar and he that was after Demons of the Asteroids. He did a little bit of Demons stuff on Demons, which was our second record, but. Time Sensor was where he really got to show his stuff, so that’s really awesome. And then few more member changes and we brought on Andrew Kingsley on 2nd guitar and Kyle Shepherd on bass and that’s our current lineup now. Great. And yeah, we’ve actually, Scott and I were friends with Grant and Andrew for a long time because we played in. Bands that were existing in the Victoria Medal scene at the same time. So while they were playing an Archon Legion, we were playing an unleashing. We were touring together all the time. And so when things started sort of going downhill for a few of our members and Archon Legion actually split up, we kind of snatched them up. Little amalgamation. So it’s been really fun for Takeover. We’ve always loved each other’s music and we always had a lot of fun touring together and it was a great fit because we’re friends and we’ve toured before and we all knew what one another was like, so it just kind of was the perfect well, now with the partial demise of the recording industry, it’s not like it used to be the whole landscape. Change for bands, you can’t put out an album and try and get it on radio and wait for it to sell a couple million copies. You kind of have to take to the road and bring your album to the people. Is there a mission statement for Unleash The Archers? Just oh, I don’t know, I well, after the Burning Man thing, I kind of I call this road warriors because. We’ve always felt that touring was important, even before we got the jaded mindset. That you’re never going to make money in the music business. We knew that hitting the road was the most important thing you can do. And that’s how you get your name out there and you know, call it doing it the old fashioned way or whatever, but that’s, you know, the grind is what it’s all about and you got to pay your dues, as cliche as that sounds. So we’ve always felt that it’s important to tour so. Yeah, I mean. I guess that’s what only become more and more prevalent in even the bigger bands, realizing that that’s what you have to do, so it’s a little bit easier for them and nightliners and all that sort of stuff. And we’re still grinding away in our little van and trailer and we got a little bus for this money is how you guys have made a musical master. Time stands still, this really is. If somebody wants to know what the high point of metal is, it’s this album.

[Jessica080806]

Femme Fatale

We’re good at Psycho Babbling right now. We are here at Farm Rock with some of the beautiful women from Femme Fatale. This is Athena and Lorraine. Hi, you guys rocked the house today. Thank you so much for being here. Tell us what it takes to like keep on. Rocking at this level for like a long time. We’re crazy. OK, yes, I suspect it’s crazy. That’s the bottom. Please elaborate. I mean, like. Like, how do you This is like a exhausting. It’s hot. The fans have been mobbing you and it smelled like doodoo up in here. I know it’s not. This is like farm country. So that might be like manure love blowing. Yeah, it’s really, it’s really a farm out here. It is kind of stinky, but it’s kind. We live in stinky Los Angeles. Oh, yeah, a better smell. You are not up there just looking pretty. You sounded fantastic.

We had a blast. It’s a little warm. Might be a little bit of a workout. Yeah, we have. We totally have a blast up there. I think that the bottom line is that we just like to. That’s fantastic. And you really were. And like, you know, to want to keep doing that after, you know, years and years keeping these same fans. There’s people of all ages in the audience and they’re just like, I know that’s so cool. It’s so cool. It’s like the diehards are here. You know, they still have the femme fatale record and you know, there it is. There I am 19. Oh my God, it’s amazing, right? Look at you, all sex bone. I know. I’m such a you are not a poser. You are the real deal, as is evident by your being here right now. So nice. Good to say. What? What kind of music? Do you mind if I ask? What guys? What do you guys listen to? Well, we listen to a lot. A lot of stuff. I’ll let you start. All kinds of stuff. Yeah, Not just heavy metal. No, I have a dancing background so I listen to like. Do you find yourself counting off like when you’re like running water for the coffee pot. I’m like 1234 no 67. Crazy thing. OK, that’s fair. Probably, Yeah. I listen to everything from, gosh, like I listen to Jay-Z. Still a big, huge Mötley Crüe fan, but it it all started with David Lee rock. Ohh. My gosh. Yes, yes, yes. You know, Yeah. Halen, like the real. And yeah. I was interested about every playing air guitar on the coffee table. Yeah, you did that. Yeah. Yeah. And so you were brave enough to say, you know what? I’m going to get up there. Do it. I’m gonna get up there and try. I’m sure like you must have got a couple of funny looks when you started off trying to say we’re competing at this level with these really ******** metal guys. I don’t care. That’s awesome. I don’t care. That’s awesome. Yeah. We don’t like the word no. Doesn’t really exist in my world. And I know it’s kind of like that for you, too. We just do what we do. It’s like, I can’t really help it. I’m kind of just a rock. ****. I wanted to be David Lee rock. My gosh. Princess canopy bed. Oh my gosh. Crazy from the heat. Well, you’re wild. Not to change the subject, but I don’t know if your listeners realize that there is a reality show called Ex Wives abroad. I I have heard about that and I’m sure they do know. Yes, it starts tonight. Oh my God, the stars on the show. She is an premieres tonight. Have you seen it? No. No, I have not. Feeling about it, whatever. Like I said, I really care about very little anymore. That’s, you know what, that’s the key to being happy, don’t you think? If you’re worried about what other people say or what other people side they’re on or whatever. I’m all about like I care about what I need to care about my kids. I’m all about is that you don’t. Don’t listen or don’t watch. That’s because I do the same. I don’t complain about other stuff. If I don’t like it, I just walk by it or and and you have to, you know, you have to put something out there if you want to get if you want to get anywhere, you have to be brave enough to do something, be someone, make a decision about who you’re going to be, what you want to do. And you guys discovered you love performing and you’re brave enough to get out there. And the people that want to see it, they know they liked it. With the show, it’s kind of like people were under the impression that we were just living off bank, like our exes bank. And then they’re and then they’re like, oh, wow. Really. You make your own living. I’m like, yeah, those shows, you see, it’s like the wives that were keeping the whole machine running the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. And Athena is an amazing character. I mean, as you can tell. And she’s she’s tall, she’s loud, she’s quirky, she’s awesome, confident. She’s. Really big heart. She’s a great character on the show and you know, I couldn’t be happier. You’re going to find you’re going to make like a world of people fall in love with you just for who you are. It doesn’t pay to be nice all the time. Sometimes you’re going to have to like be a little bit of a biyatch. Yeah, if anything watched so you could feel better about your own life. That is kind of the empathy. Seeing somebody elses struggle makes us feel better. I’m good that chicks would match. I’m good.

[Jessica080806]

NITA STRAUSS

Well, my guest today has been making her bones on stages all over the world in a variety of ensembles including of course the tribute act The Iron Maidens and of course alongside the legendary Alice Cooper. But she’s got a brand new debut solo album out, it’s called Controlled Chaos. We are thrilled and delighted to be here with the lovely and talented. Strauss need a welcome. Thank you so much for having me. So good to have you here now. This does not sound like a debut album. Have you been stockpiling and polishing things for a while? I haven’t. And, and really, I wanted this album to be a snapshot of who I am as a guitar player in 2018. And so I didn’t recycle a whole lot of ribs. I didn’t, you know, like maybe a lick here or if there. But really I wanted it to be like, this is who I am right now as a guitar player. And that’s kind of what we did.

Well, now, in terms of songwriting, I know you don’t want to pigeonhole anybody’s concept of where the song came to. Or how it came to you. But I know lyrically, people, it will come from an incident. This is an instrumental album. I heard the songs, the melodies just come to you. Or does an incident inspire a melody? It’s definitely more lyrical. As you said, you’re like, if someone was to write lyrics to my songs, they could like if I was a better lyric. Singer I could write lyrics to the songs, but but I’m not, I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna even attempt. But but really, each song comes from a personal experience or an emotion or a feeling. So you know, I’ll be in a happy mood, I’ll be in a more aggressive mood or whatever it is. And that’s where that song will stem from. Yeah, So like a Sonic, is it Alegria, Alegria, Alegria. It’s kind of a joyful song, kind of upbeat and frenetic at the same time, but something like a most desperate hour. It sounds almost militaristic. I could see that, you know? You know, like you said, the great thing about these songs is they can kind of mean anything. You know, like with lyrics, you’re, you’re sort of told what to think. This is what the song is about. You know, the song is about loving an elevator. Yeah. Try to get that image out. Forward, you know, but with a lyric, you’re told what the song is about. You said this is a sad song and this is a song about this and that’s why. But with these songs, it can really, it’s so subjective. It can be whatever the listener, however listen, interprets, interprets it. You also played bass on the album. And me personally, I love it when a lead guitarist plays bass because all sorts of crazy stuff. Interesting. But did you have to rein yourself in and say we don’t need a bass solo in this song or oh, no, I’m not that good of a bass player. You know, I, I really, I, I feel strongly that the base should just hold it down, like just lock it down with songs. And to be honest, if I had had more time on the record, I might have hired a bass player, you know, somebody really good. Really strong bass player to lock in. I’ve, you know, I’ve Josh playing drums. Josh Pialta, who’s my boyfriend and my manager and my drummer and a drummer. Yeah, he’s playing drummer. She doesn’t get out much. I know. I don’t know very many people what you know, It’s a quality over quantity. I have one good person then in my life and he wears more hats in the new Strauss Cam than I do, but I have such a solid rhythm section in him. I would have loved to have a really great bass player to lock in and and make it even tighter. But you know, when you have somebody have a good chemistry with, I think we locked in pretty well as it is. So is base playing a different headspace for you? Definitely. Yeah. Well, as a guitar player, it’s just sort of like, especially as an instrumental solo record, you can really, like, embrace that. Like, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Like I’m just, you know, showing off and having fun. And. And as a bass player, it really is about locking in with the rhythm and, and holding down the Fort, so to speak. And you also played acoustic guitar on one track, and I read somewhere that you had to borrow 1 because you don’t own an acoustic guitar. Yeah, I don’t even own 1. I don’t I I have never had any interest in playing acoustic guitar. And that’s just wonderful instruments, Nita. Can we start a Go Fund Me page by Nita Strauss? An acoustic acoustic guitar? Do that, I’ll get I, I have one at the house actually now because, and it’s not even mine. It’s my mom’s. Like it’s my mom had a like a sort of holdover acoustic guitar she got as a gift and she said, do you, you know, do you want this? I was like, I guess she’s not going to play it like I’m not going to play it either. But they make wonderful planters too. I wanted to ask, maybe I’ll smash it over someone’s head and I’ll hold you to that now. And these songs, as we talk about, there’s a really sweeping sort of cinematic quality to a lot of these. Have you been approached about doing any soundtracks or anything? I’ve done a lot, actually, yeah. I mean, not in not fully composed myself, but I’ve played on soundtracks, I’ve played on video. Soundtracks, which I always find really, really fun because I’m kind of at that high octane player, you know, like I like to play fast. I make music that, you know, like teenage boys could play race car games too. So so I love to do video games, soundtracks and I’d love to do more now also, I’ve been as as released the Nita Strauss signature. Got a million budding shredders out there. Why should they pick up the Nita Strauss model Avenues guitar? Because it’s easy to play. It’s easy to play. It’s it’s a stylish guitar. It’s you know, it looks rad. It plays great. You know, the, the guys in my band are, are Gibson players, the guys in the Alice Cooper band. And one of them picked up my guitar. A while ago he goes, Strauss, your guitar is so easy to play. And I was like, yeah, you know, my guitar is like a Ferrari. Their cars, like their guitar is like a classic car that doesn’t have any power steering, like, like you have to roll down the window by hand. Well, some of them are like pushing 40s. Yeah, they’re old, pushing 40s. 40 Well, that’s the other thing. I don’t even know if there’s anyone in that band. Besides me, that’s under 50. About that. It’s true. Yeah, it’s great. Cooper, 70. I think the guys were all in their late 40s, only 50s. Well, and you’ve been playing alongside Alice for what, four years now? Yeah, going on five next year. This is a guy who’s been riding this thing for five decades, so you must be thinking of the. Career thing in terms of a marathon rather than a Sprint that must impact you in some way. Always yeah, we’re always looking at the big picture you know you never want to say oh this would be great for right now but it’s you know bad idea for later you know so definitely we’re we’re always big picture planners and and not always just going through the instant gratification OK so. First solo album, What’s what’s next? Right now we’re here in Chicago and this beautiful snow. I’m wearing 4 jackets. I’m from California so I don’t do snow. I’m from here and I hate it. Really makes me feel better. This is actually Angel’s jacket. It’s not even I don’t this is. Came out here on tour and this was the warmest jacket that I had, which is just a hoodie that’s a California winter coat. Yeah. This is it is actually so Angel is from Jersey. He had to let me borrow this this like nice fuzzy coat. So we’re here just having a blast on the guitar collective tourist myself, Angel Vivaldi and Jackie Vincent just. All the notes on the whole guitar and and we’re going to wrap up this tour and and look to book some more stuff in 2019. More work with Alice. Oh, definitely. Yeah. They’re going to have to drag me out of that band. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s incredible. Well, I want to thank you. We really enjoy a pickup controlled chaos. It’s it’s a beautiful, beautiful piece of work. Won’t be sorry. And thank you, Ida Strauss. That means so much to me. Thank you so much.

[Jessica080806]

NASHVILLE PUSSY

We’re here at Ottos in DeKalb. But I’m here with half of Nashville Pussy. I’m assuming the Nashville half considering I’m the only pussy on the couch. You don’t know them very well. It goes not my breath. I don’t know what’s going on. How you guys doing this? Blaine, this is Jeremy. How are you tonight? Great. I’m glad to be in DeKalb. Did DeKalb say it? Can you say it without laughing? Well, and we live, we live in DeKalb County, and it’s spelled the same way. And in Atlantis, DeKalb County, we don’t say the old because. Takes extra effort, I guess. I don’t know how you guys were in Chicago last night. So this is kind of DeKalb is kind of culture shock coming from Chicago. We have not been here long enough to even deal with the culture. Well, we could take you and show you the tallest building in town, but you might be in it right now. So and it’s a basement, how about that? No, you, you guys, you guys are from Atlanta. But have no accents. Are you transplant?

But we’ve been in Atlanta for, I don’t know, 10 years or something. Your traffic sucks. Yeah. Yeah, it’s horrible. Your traffic is great around here. It’s the count. There is no traffic. I like it like, I like the. The toll booth had been there for the last 40 years. They charged like a dime. By the way, De Kalb here is a kind of farm country. If you guys want to go out cow tipping after this, how much do you have to tip a cow? All right, now one of you on your way. Website has a page that says if you want to talk to me you have to listen to the following recording. I just said yeah, I was like unten underrated under known like live records James Brown live, Aerosmith live. It was yeah, I was like James Brown love power and peace and explain the Neil Diamond one to me. Neil Diamond Goat is amazing. Is it really? Yeah it’s it’s him and just a band of like 3 people and it’s like live in the troubadour and. Is unreal. Yeah, obviously I like Neil Diamond a lot. So I thought is I thought maybe this was your secret shame. Is it your secret? Indulgent. Yeah. What’s your secret shame? Ah, it wouldn’t be a secret if I told you, wouldn’t that? I can’t see in the sunshine, man. Oh, I love this. See, this is the good stuff. What about a live album for Nashville *****? Actually, we’ve got a live DVD coming out which, if you turn the television off, will double as a live album. It’s pretty complicated. Is she talking down to me like. You see the TV’s got the pictures on it, and when you turn that off, it’s just music. Get technical, you can just shut your eyes. It works for idiots too. How did you come up with the Nashville ***** line? Was that the. It’s a it’s a yeah. It’s a Ted Nugent. Yeah. Bingo. And you have, do you have any trouble with people advertising you, talking about you on the radio? People with trouble, people not advertising us? Like every record company in America we’ve been on basically, you know, I’m just, you know, they keep forget fried. Nah, I better not do that. You know, like some cities will have your name up in lights on the marquee and other places. You got the asterisk and the USSY. It’s different all over the place. That’s good. You want a lot of ****** ****** freaks showing up there. Let’s build pee. I’m getting right in the front. How? How is that going to Japan? Are you guys big in Japan? I mean. Yeah, we’re ******* huge, man. Do you see those people? They like this thing. I knew that was coming, even as it was coming out of my mouth. I said why am I asking her how big she is in Japan? What are you weigh in Australia? Where did they really give it up? Where do you get most of this strange on the road? Canada, really. No law, man, no lie. Everyone gets late in Canada. That is amazing. It’s the cold weather or something. I’m not questioning it, I just enjoy it. Yeah, I’m American. Yeah. Oh, because you got to crossover to get the *****. And and the really good weed writer, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? I would be one of those trees that you like to ****. The ones with the knot holes. We’re here at Psychobabble with The Dirty Girls. Check for squirrels. That’s what my daddy taught me, anyway. Before you **** a tree broom handle in there, there’s. There’s a whole procedure. Where I hide my nuts, she’s on. Man. You guys better hit the stage soon. She’s peaking.

[Jessica080806]

LACUNA COIL

You as if you’re the hot new band a lot. And yet you’ve been together more than 10 years now, correct. Yeah. Yeah. This is actually the 10th anniversary this year. It was formed in Milan. We can go over a little of that. So you guys really are from Italy? Yeah. Yeah, We’re not from Brooklyn because everybody tends to say, oh, you’re Italian. So you’re from Brooklyn. No, we’re Italian Italy. You know, I was going to guess Wisconsin. Other side of the ocean people is like, oh, Italy, do you? How do you drive there? I mean, which is the direction like? Yeah, sure. OK, fine. Stupid people around here, so just smile and nod coming from there. Well that is very nice of you to give him credit for knowing pizza and pasta. Our crew knows Olive Garden, so hey, that’s not exactly Italian food. You tried Spaghetti Ohs, that’s the last album.

You had a song called Heavens Alive and people were like mistaking you for Satanists, isn’t it? Well, people is always mistaking everything if you think about it. So we didn’t really care about about that. I mean, this is a song that talks about freedom of ideas not connected at all with religion. I think we we are all kind of a spiritual people, but we. We don’t like to like to follow specific religion or to talk about religion in general. So you’re not Satanist? No. So if we brought a goat in right now, you wouldn’t want to kill it or anything. Oh, well, yeah, we’re going to feel like actually, we can tell you because if you discover this secret, then we have to kill you after the interview. Do it on camera, I’ll do anything for the show. And this will be covered in Depeche Mode tune. How about an ABBA song in the next album? Why not? I mean, we’ll like ABBA. We had a lot of parties on the bus with ABBA music. Yeah. Knowing me. Knowing you. Totally. No one me knowing you. Wow, that was hot. Well, now today you’re doing something little gutsy. You’re you’re playing acoustically and you’ve been doing these in store acoustic performances all across the country. Now there are metal bands that really shouldn’t even leave the house without a bucket of distortion and a bunch of reverb. So that’s kind of it’s it’s kind of exposing yourselves. Hey, those guys can play and they can sing. That’s kind of cool yeah that’s especially in this case because we play like 2 guitar, 2 acoustic guitars and two voice so it’s very basic now you can no background tracks, no other acoustic instrument, no percussion. So it’s more very stripped down and. To the basic so that means if you have a good song, you can hear that it’s a good song even in this way because it sounds good and it’s a it’s a weird feeling even when you play because it’s kind of like feeling naked in front of the people it’s a different vibe because. It’s a paradox, but when you play in front of like less people and everything, it’s more intimate. It’s it’s just a, just a warm sensation. Closer, I believe is the new single. Is that Yeah. And no, yeah, it’s been, it’s been one of our singles. And where did that song come from? From here. Is any other song better than here exactly? Not from here, but from Planner, from there. Anything you want America to know about Lacuna Coil? Anything to look for? Well, did they just have to check us out? You know, they have to come to the shows. They’re going to have fun. Because as I said before, there was always a very family vibe, which, which, I mean, it’s all about it. I mean, we’re not playing. Rock stars or stuff like that, especially on the adline around it, we’re going to have, it’s going to be our first headline around in America, so we hope we have put together a pretty interesting package with European bands, so we hope people is going to join us. It’s gonna be a lot of fun, yeah. Definitely a lot of fun. Look to Lacuna Coil guys. Thanks very much. Thank you man. Ciao, Christina. Psycho Bubbles, check it out.

[Jessica080806]

“IN THIS MOMENT” visits with PSYCHO BABBLE

I was looking over your bio. This is incredible. This band formed just two years ago, almost 3, now almost 3. But in in this three years you put together a **** *** CD, Beautiful tragedy, got a couple of really nice videos and now you’re playing Oz Fest. Pretty crazy. We’re really so grateful. I mean, I mean, we’ve been to learn for almost three years, but this is our first out. Came out March 20th. So I think for being such a new baby band, like to have the opportunity to play Ozzfest and the tours that we’ve been doing, it’s just we’re all really blown away. We’re really grateful. It’s crazy. Well, the music backs it up too. I’ve had a chance to listen to the CD and it really kicks. There’s some nice stuff on there. Very cool. And we have not stopped touring for like. Over 2 years, I really live on the road.

Well, you’re building a fan base through touring, but I understand you also have utilized the Myspace thing in a way that very few people have. Yeah, it helps. Early on, Myspace kind of played a big part in helping us book our own tours so you can get out to the people and for both the man just in general, you know? Everything that’s happening within this moment, we can. You also find your other guitar player through Myspace. I understand that our management found us through Myspace as well. Hey Chris, tell me about the other guys in the band. It’s Jeff Fab, our drummer, OK, Blake Wenzel, the guitarist, and Jesse Landry on bass, and you guys have pretty diverse musical styles. I was reading some of this stuff that you come from. Really. I mean, you’re the metal guy. I understand. Yeah pretty much main style of music that I like playing and bands and stuff and and Blake’s like a younger kid who brings in a lot more, like newer kind of stuff like the Underoath Green, those kind of vibes and brings that in. And Jesse brings in a southern influence as well. Everyone kind of has a middle ground that everyone is. And you all contribute to the songwriting, although you’re primarily writing the lyrics. Yeah, I write like all my lyrics and melody lines and things like that. But we all, yeah, contribute to the writing. And you don’t hold back at all on the lyrical content as far as personal. Trials and tribulations. I think it’s important to. To be personal and to be really real because I think people, it comes across the music and I think I’m way more emotional, which I think people can feel it more if it’s if I’m writing something that I’m really passionate about you. One thing about our band is everyone needs to be somewhat happy with everything that’s in there. Everyone really is is liking it. We really consider that one person’s feelings on it so both of the songs everybody liked to begin with subpoena democracy like that it is. But I think that’s why our songs really kind of move a lot to make our whole band happy. So we have like the solo and the song and then it goes into this really pretty acoustic part and then it goes into like the RIP and harmonies and the drummer. So I think that’s all of us making ourselves happy by throwing it all. Big thing, and it is sort of a melting pot. It’s not just straight ahead metal. I mean, there are very melodic passages in there, very acoustic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We actually like the fact that people can’t just lump us into one thing a lot like we get called metal rock. Battlecore ******** like everything you think of but. Struggling these days, the trash of the racing threat come up with new words. European metal. But I think it’s cool. People can’t just all lump us into one thing. And Speaking of being lumped into one thing, the the Chick singer is all the rage in metal these days. So you guys, it’s kind of a double edged sword. I think you’re benefiting from it in that doors have been open, but also you have to differentiate yourself from the other metal bands with a Chick singer. Do you feel that? No, I don’t feel that at all. I think there’s a million bands out there that all have male singers and they’re not walking around going, oh, I have to really make myself different than him. And he’s a guy like I am who I am. I do what I do. I don’t have to try to go. Do this because I don’t want to like her or I do want to be like her. I just am myself. Good for you now. Well, Speaking of mental moments, I understand that during the filming of your first video, you took a camera boom in the face. Yeah. We have a scar, too from that, but it’s pretty healed now. Yeah, we just got my face. I’m head banging, got too close, split my face open. And she went on to finish the video. That’s the cool part. We, like, glued it up and kept going. Very nice. Yeah. Well, now you’re touring. Right now you’re on the Ozzfest thing. That’s like winning a Grammy in the metal world. It really is an amazing opportunity. It really is. We’re so grateful. But I, I heard a rumor. I understand you’ve got another tour coming up this fall. You want to tell me about that? We’re leaving Ozzfest and we played one show in Mexico. Have two days off and start the Megadeth tour. Megadeth. Very nice. In this moment now it’s going to be amazing. Yeah. How long of a set do you play? We’re going to play a 40 minute set on that tour so it’s a nice double it from Ozzfest. That’s very cool. OK, so the CD Beautiful Tragedy on tour right now with Ozzfest. Be looking for them on tour with Megadeth in the fall. Thanks very much for being radio station. Beautiful tragedy. Very nice. There you go. Very nice. Thank you, guys.

[Jessica080806]

A Visit With Stephen Pearcy

I am back for more with the original rat ******* himself, Mr. Steven Pearcy. Stephen, welcome back to Psycho Battle. Always a pleasure. Mike and I read somewhere that you guys, in addition to playing the hits, you’re pulling some rarities out of the closet here. What sort of things? Well, when I, you know me, you know, pulling back in, you know. I just went, you know, I I like doing the Routier stuff, you know, when I was doing my solo stuff, I mean, I didn’t care if you know, if you were more into it, you know, 100 people, 1010 thousand, it’s, it’s good, you know, it’s a party. It’s all the same, you know, and. Play an Aerosmith, a Zeppelin, a priest who’d A Hooda, whatever, I’ll I’ll play our, you know, anything but with rat. I wanted to come in with the same thing. Hey man, why don’t we, you know, this time around just play different **** every night or every week or.

Play songs that you know people aren’t. And that we really didn’t make because there’s a lot of songs of ours that we’d like to, you know, would like to have been heard just, you know, fortunately for other songs and us, they became, you know, some, you know, hits or whatever and and the other ones are just as good. You know, I like the other just as good ones. You know, it’s you know, that’s there’s no B side on ACD. Come on, man, Who the **** is this? Where the *******. You know. Well, you mentioned your solo stuff. We’ve seen you out. How does it feel? Is it is it a different vibe being back at the helm with Rat than it was with your solo thing or? Oh yeah. I’m with my guys, you know what I mean? You know, even when I probably wasn’t, you know, with them, they were probably thinking the same thing. **** so many, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, it’s good, but it ain’t right. And now it’s right again. And as much as it could be, you know, without robbing. Rest in peace. And then one, you know. Now, when the VH1 behind the Music came out a couple of years ago, I was shocked to find out that sex and drugs were part of the rat legacy. I’m assuming that’s all in the past and it’s all cookies and prayer circles now. Yeah, someplace, you know, screamer and liar. We’re in public relations. I don’t lie. We’re in public relations. I mean, you know, you got to kiss the babies and sign it **** every now and then and slap my ***. I mean, it’s all the same. We go home to, you know. Significant others, be it a dog or a woman or whatever you got. Now, I understand there’s a new rat greatest hits compilation out and compilation of the videos. Yeah, there is now when you watch those videos. What goes through? Is it like a high school yearbook where you go? Who picked out that outfit or. Yeah, like, you know, I can say this again. It’s like it was so new back then, you know, and but we look back and go, yeah, man, that’s pretty funny. And and, you know, all of a sudden you became video, you know, TV stars. You gotta come and act and then, you know, and. Well, in terms of difference, your videos will forever set you apart by the fact that Milton Berle was in two of your videos. Uncle Milton? Yeah. That had to be a weird experience. I’m in a rock band. What are you doing? I’m working with Uncle Milty. Yeah. Melty pretty much took over the round and round and being our first video, you know, and. And the business was so long, you know, he just, you know, he kind of said to us, hey, man, have humor. Humor is, is, you know. You can’t lose, you know. Unless you’re silly and, you know, we’ve gotten there before. Just trying to be normal. Yeah. You guys are back on the road. You’re kicking it. All the reviews so far are very positive. Is there going to be new rap music? Yeah. Actually, Warren and I have a digital studio out here and we’ve been kind of riding some stuff recently we’ve been out here about. In seven weeks. And that’s another thing we talked about in the beginning is, is you know, we set standards for ourselves before this and he’s taking care of one end of taking care of the other collectively. We’re going to write some music and we’ve already started writing. So, you know, the first three initial song ideas or anything. It’s going to be good. We want to go dwell into the dancing, to the EP, to the cellar kind of stuff. You know, Basic thing that struck me about your solo stuff, aside from where it was, it was harder and faster. You didn’t really mellow as you went on. Oh, no, see, see, The thing is, is, you know, I do my solo stuff is because I’m, you know, I mean, I just write and and you know, rap music, you know, collectively, you know, more so with Robin and Juan and the band as writers on the previous stuff. You know that’s what made it. Rat music. So, you know, now with, you know, Warren and I as the, you know, main composites of what we’re writing, it’s going to be pretty interesting because, you know, he’s kind of from a different field, too stonish, kind of meets Hendricks meets, you know. Who else is he like, all these characters he likes? And then me, I’m just still, you know, straight ahead, 300 miles an hour. Thank you. The term OK, so we’ve got rat out on the road. You guys can still catch them. We’ve got the new greatest hits compilation out. See the DVD compilation coming out. There’s new rat in the works. What the the important nhra.com for info. And actually, I’ve been to a couple raises and tend to go to a lot more. Everyone gets in time. So we go out there and sign stuff with the drivers and hang out. And I’m on the starting line. It’s, it’s, it’s way cool, man. It’s, it’s. It’s it’s it’s what it should be. Fast, dangerous, colorful, exciting.

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