Garza Podcast - 145 - Guitar Collecting Problem, Music Theory Thoughts & Mayhem Surprise

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

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or you're just falling asleep. I do that. I'll put on something on YouTube and I'll just pass out. I try not to be on my phone right before I pass out, but it's just after a long day, like your willpower

is just it's just not there. You know, it's like, fuck. I know I shouldn't be on my phone right now looking at YouTube. videos but uh here we are it's funny our phones turn into the new uh the new tv yeah but anyway uh what's up everyone welcome to the solo episode i timed this on purpose just so you know that i want to be here um it's saturday that's when we're recording this it's uh let's see

It's 928. Corn is my favorite band. They have been for, since I was a child and they're playing not too far from here. I know their set started at 9.15, so I wanted to kind of plan on. Like when they're playing, I'm like, why am I doing this? And maybe kind of has some, some energy to it.

And, listen, I want to be here. And what's stopping me from having a, being in a bad mood is that, for some reason, all my favorite bands played here the past two months. Corn, Slipknot, Lambiscuit, Stained is going to be playing here next week, literally next week. and I didn't obviously I'm on the corn show I'm here I did not attend Slopnot

um they played in L.A. I had tickets but I couldn't go I didn't attend Limp Bizkit and I will not be attending stained that show is

the day after mayhem so probably gonna be hungover But, yeah, it's just, I'm just at a weird point in my life. Not bad. You know, we, we have these moments in our life. It's not, it's not necessarily bad. It's just, we're just in a, in a transition period.

And I feel like a hypocrite saying this, I'm always telling you and telling people, hey, like, when your favorite band's in town, you have to see them, don't know when it's uh that could be the last time here but also i'm also saying it's okay we don't see him so uh sorry if i sound confusing but uh yeah just the way timing has panned out the past couple months has been where it's not it's not unfortunate it's just uh you know it's we like we like seeing our our favorite bands they make us feel good they make us uh

They kind of Just this just hit me They kind of like Press reset You know we've been working for I don't know how long Months months months And then we When we've got to see our favorite band

It's kind of our time and like let loose And forget about shit And yeah It's just weird It's just The way things have been paying out Um I guess what I'm trying to say

I'm trying to put into words my feelings and thoughts right now but uh sorry i'm already i'm what five minutes in oh wait we're already going into the first rant so uh that's just what's happening right now as corn is currently playing um which congrats to that band for being a band for 30 years pretty pretty sick um but yeah just uh the timing hasn't worked out and um what kept me from what is keeping me not from being disappointed or bummed out or sad at this is how things are panning out right now um is that uh oh well i'm trying not to get weird now uh um how do i say this i'm sorry i'm processing thoughts literally um as i'm speaking to you but um yeah so october is a weird month

for me personally October beginning of November I'm gonna start writing a new record kind of touched on it last time maybe but so I made it out a weird just had a weird again it's not bad it's just a weird time in my life where I think anyone that's older can understand when you're in your 30s you're just there's a need to process certain things and anyway yeah you know I always used to go to shows More so for the favorite bands, like the corns and the slept knots. I always go to like get inspiration. Get some juice.

Get some, oh shit, that's fucking cool. And then it makes you want to play. It gets you in a creative, creative state, creative way of being and thinking. And something is just telling me straight to my face. that's like this is not the time and that's okay because

this is just not a time to be inspired and I think I think we all struggle with that I'm literally currently dealing with it is uh I think we always search to be inspired search for like we look for that quote on Instagram we look for that something like oh yeah that

that's how I'm feeling and but um you know we I forget that, you know, sometimes it's just, the answer is within. And I had a friend help me process this. And it's just not a time for me to go to shows and to be inspired by outside. And I think life is telling me.

And it's just funny, like the timing is just so weird. this is a time in my life where I need to look within because it's already there the inspiration is there the creativity is there the experiences the trauma the unprocessed

life experiences of death and losing people and etc etc and and what have you so it's already there it's already there and yeah so that that's what's kind of keeping me

you know sane you know it's you know because we're I mean we're also human we just we're always like a case of FOMO

oh yeah I want to be there and all these people are posting pictures and videos and I've kind of just been looking at all of them the past couple months and like well that's cool I'm not meant to be there and that's okay that is okay it's just is this kind of added like

because my first show ever was corn, rob zombie and video drone at the Glen Helen Amphitheater which back then was called Black Pustle Pavilion

and that's where Limpiscuit played. So there's like this there's these deep childhood attachments to these venues and this band damn I'm going to miss Lumbeskit there fuck and then

stained it's playing the Honda Center which is literally down the street from here at the time 99 I think we're talking my second show ever was corn stained

at the time was called Arrowhead Pond and it would have been really cool to fucking just kind of see stained the same band in the same venue like fuck how many years later 99

09, 19 She was that 25 fucking years? No It wouldn't be really cool To have those experiences But then again You know it's just not It's just not any cards right now

Oh yeah and a cannibal Cannibal played a highness soon I wanted to go but time it did in line And it was hard to get in the show And I didn't want to be that guy I don't want to be a fucking, I don't know, like a moocher and smoother. Because that's what these shows tend to turn into. Yeah, that's cool.

I always remind myself that I'm lucky to be in a spot that I'm in. You know, it's just life. Sometimes it's funny, I ask for this. But, uh, see, that's what's going on right now currently. We have a corn is playing. in SoCal and literally right now as to speak I really wanted to time it just kind of get the let's get the full experience

and hopefully that feeling and a vibe translates to YouTube but yeah just you know it's funny like we like we see these quotes I'm gonna close off the subject right now but we see them all the time like the quotes and the videos

and you know the answer's already there that's answers already inside of you but you know i'm not listening so life is really forcing me to force me to really look inside but yeah anyway i thank you for listening to my first rant we're already 12 minutes in and i'm already ranting about stuff uh i haven't seen the raccoons in a minute they're there i hear him i hear him swimming so obviously i can't do these cell episodes without having a raccoon update um again i don't know the gender so i don't want to piss

anybody off so I don't know I don't want to misgender the raccoon or anything but yeah if I don't hear them I know they're there because before I let Leo out I had the while making the coffee that beautiful

beautiful liquid of the gods you know I'll go in the backyard just kind of look around the what's that word the vicinity you know I'm trying to

I just look behind bushes and it's dark outside because it's fucking by 3 a.m. And I'm like, okay, so I turn a light and let them out and then you, it's funny how like we

we could, if we're aware of it, we could kind of access that like, we all have it, we all have it. That we kind of access that like awareness, that primal awareness and that you could connect dots with like

for me it's like you know just simple shit like you know i have i have a pool which is probably the main reason why they kind of gather in my backyard uh so i'll see like i'll know when how far if they're far away when how much water is around the pool so okay it looks pretty dry so they're i mean they've been gone for a while if it's like if it's fresh like looks like someone just got out like okay maybe i need i need to keep a close eye you know Especially animals, like, shit changes quick. Like, I could be, because I'll read, you know, I'll read outside with Leo. He's, you know, he's munching up flowers and grass and shit.

It's being a cat. And literally, oh, fucking change in a second. And then look down, look up, everything's cool, look down again. And he'll fucking this hill. He'll just like, and then he goes, he runs up the hill and chases. And he saw like, he saw that like, raccoon once and then you chase it up up a fence like oh shit and you really got a animal's you really have to fucking keep an eye on them but um yeah that's kind of crazy how we

have that like instinct you know it doesn't go away you know even when you try to fucking push it away but uh anyway cheers have a little slammer yeah i have a um weird a loud outfit Readist listening You know Slaughter Pavelle gave me A hockey jersey Pretty sick So I'm wearing it

I want to wear There's something about jerseys, right? I want to wear this in public But I don't want to be approached by anybody You know I have a basketball jersey I'm very lucky we When we were on tour with the Lamb of God

fucking crazy for us We played in Jacksonville We played the Everbanks No what uh It's an amphitheater It's literally attached to the Everbank Stadium

And that's where the Jacksonville Jaguar's play And it was cool Like they fucking give you jerseys If you're playing Which is fucking sick I wore it that show proudly And the moment I put that thing on

I got it I got also this is what people wear This is exactly This is exactly why people wear jerseys. It's super comfortable. It's super comfortable. And you look cool to be honest. You look cool.

And I was, oh shit, this is why people wear... Sorry, this is why people wear jerseys. You know? It's so just comfortable and... It's cool, but I haven't worn it since. And I'll see it in my closet. And I'm like, dang, I want to wear it. I want to wear it.

go to the brewery, but I don't because I don't want to go to the brewery with my hot girlfriend and be approached by a random person. Because one, I don't know, like when I don't know anything about football, I don't want

to talk about football. And maybe I don't want it to say like, hey, I don't know anything. I just want to wear it's one with a fucking jersey. It's cool. And it's, I guess, because I have a memory attached to it. You know? but I get it

I get why people wear jerseys and it sucks I just don't want to be approached you know yeah this is this is different times where sometimes I'm in a mood to be approached and sometimes I'm not

but uh and then that's a good segue to my next little story um I hope you enjoy the conversation with undeth a really cool tap and old band uh from New York based out of like the Rochester

area really really cool guys um i wanted to show by myself which i've grown to actually enjoy and uh i was hoping you know what and the way the venue is the observatory there's like a whole outside patio you could sit outside of like plenty of like room like a whole open area you you collect chill um so you know what you what i want to i want to i want to experience a definitely I'm gonna drink a beer and smoke a cigarette. So I brought my first time I brought my pack of cigarettes. You know what? I'm gonna have a cigarette

outside. It's gonna be sick. And that was a whole experience. Yeah, that was a... Yeah. Yeah. And that was... You know, perfect... Perfect scenario.

Like I thought I got my beer and then I go to the first bench I see. Jared, a guitar player for a death. Oh, it's perfect. I'll hang on with him for a little bit. Sit down and then we're approached by a very drunk older woman when she was with her family.

And then she kept interrupting us from her right when we got into like a conversation like she kept interrupting him like fuck. I don't want to be like, you know, if it's a guy you could kind of like say fuck off but when it's a female it kind of a kind of It makes a little bit more difficult. Luckily, Jared said something.

I was hoping he would because I don't want to. And then I felt this energy over to my right side. And then it's, I don't know they were with each other, but it's... And then she's like, hey, can I have one of your cigarettes? Is that a menthol? First of all, I don't know what a menthol is. I just had a pack of cigarettes. I don't know anything about cigarettes

I don't look cool smoking them I was like uh sure and she's like oh they're not they're not menthols in my head in my head I want to say well fuck off I'm alone I want to be alone I'm talking to my friend fuck off but of course we're older we're patient

and we have our filter and I said kindly know these aren't menthol's and I proceeded to have the conversation I was like, oh, this is what, and then people are borrowing your lighter. I was like, oh, this is a different experience for a poor show. People were trying to bum your cigarettes. Usually they're drunk. Which again, I have to be in kind of like a mood, I guess.

So yeah, that was fun. It was kind of like, it was kind of like having like a, it was kind of like having like a first show, you know. I'm not sure if I'll do it again, but But I'm not a smoker, you know I have the same pack I don't know how long I've had that same pack I'll have an average A part of it's late at my part of been smoking one cigarette a month

It seems to be So it's not like a I don't... It's funny how a substance will just affect you so differently than somebody else Nicotine just I I get it, But also, because when you smoke, like, you do get that, like, that little head change.

And there is, like, some science behind nicotine and focus. There is. Um, as far as, like, the addiction quality of it, I just don't. Like, man, people are addicted to this shit. They are addicted to it. And I'm very lucky that I'm not. So, fuck, yeah, that was cool. people trying to bum your cigarettes

and to me I'm like to you I spent some money on this I don't even know you get away from cigarettes and we uh that was a cool show that was a very

a very sick show I'm trying to think of I should go into some uh trying and let the energy kind of follow me or guide me you know if I should go into questions right now or my first subject here

to uh Let's do the subject. What's up with the... Actually, you know what? I changed my mind. And that is the beauty. That's the beauty of doing these solo episodes. I'm not under the extreme pressure of keeping the conversation going.

But I'm going to go into our first question. This is from... I'm going to do a few. Just keep this. shit flowing. First question is from Daniel. Looks like a handsome young man. I'm on my phone right now but

if you're watching you actually you'll be up. We'll put it in the video edits. So yeah here's our first question from Daniel. So my question to you is did you ever take time to learn music theory? And if there's any pointers on music theory, and if it even matters in metal music, I mean, besides knowing what key you're in, stuff like that. Thanks, man.

Fuck yeah, dude. Thank you for your question. This is actually, this is an interesting one. Music theory, especially when you're talking metal. I mean, well, all forms of metal. All forms of it. So, surprise, surprise. You know, I don't know any music theory. I know

a scale or two with I know my chords, like the G and the A and the minors. The majors, the flats. but it's funny I think like the most I knew about music theory probably was when I was a child like when I first started I remember I mentioned already like the you know I took lessons for

the first year and then I you know played Maryhead of the Lamb so I kind of read the music but didn't I just memorized it but yeah I think there is a again that there's no right or wrong way it's just you know there's just your way you know I found my way. It's funny because the older I get, the more I'm actually drawn to learn some theory, just to have like an added tool. I look at music theory for me personally,

and I think other players can relate that just don't want to learn theory, but do you have a desire to play music? Is that, you know, I look at music theory as like maybe having another art tool in your arsenal of, of rockin. So, me personally, you know, I'm trying to make this not sound braggy,

but, you know, I play guitar in a band. I guess you could say we're successful, so that proves that you don't need to know theory. I think a lot of guitar players and massive bands have expressed that, not knowing any music theory that tends to piss a lot of. of people off. And it's like, okay, well, I always go by again.

Like, you can say whatever you want about me. You cannot take away of my experiences. No one could take away your experience. I mean, there's, there's opinions and stuff like that and ideas that you can share and debates and agrees, things that you could agree and disagree on. But your experience is your experience. And, you know, I was always drawn to what sounds cool, what feels and sounds cool. What feels and sounds cool

I don't know what this I don't know what key this is in I have no idea what key this is in But this sounds cool and Or other guitar player will play something I'm playing something under it No idea what keys in but just okay I kind of navigate myself

On the fretboard So I was never drawn to it Again is it right or wrong To know music theory no and I think the other way to view it is

I guess because people people will just assume you know music theory if you play music you know it's just but it turns out to be the complete um it's a complete opposite you know

do you need to know it I don't think so just based on my experience you know uh but uh I would say you have to be drawn to it and that's what you really want to learn and

pursue that's fucking sick that's awesome you shouldn't feel obligated to you know and I'll say something that's my you know people again people might not like but

you can know so much about music theory so much that doesn't mean you could write a song and it should just you know, what do you want to do? You know, especially when talking

bands or instruments or music, I mean, there's there's so many there's so many things to, there's so many roads that you could take to get to where you want to go.

I guess that's what I was trying to say. So, again, like the long story short, is that you don't need to learn it. You don't need to, learn it. You don't need to It's funny because, like, I call it the rational mind. The rational mind always tries to, like, make sense of things that don't need, you know, things don't need to make sense sometimes, you know, especially when talking song,

writing your songs. I'm like, I still try to do to be honest. You know, I'm 38, you know, we have seven records. And I try to make sense of some stuff and just years later. It's like you don't really need, you know, as they say, you know, the universe doesn't have to explain why. But yeah, it's just whatever you want to do. It's whatever you want to do. And I was lucky early on that I knew what I wanted to do.

I was more drawn to rhythm. I was more drawn to songwriting. I was more drawn to rocking out. Always more drawn to simple and effective, heavy shit. Um, is that better than music theory? No. It's not. Is a guitar player that could do that knows everything about music theory that could shred right beside me? Is he better than me or is she better than me? No. And I think that's what that's what really breaks people's minds. You know, like let's say there's a guitar player right next to me. And like we're having like a like a riff off, you know, and a, a, you know, and a. And then all these solos and all these crazy shit. And now I just do like, dun, dumb. People be like, oh, he crushed you.

Like, like, it's like, okay. Like this, it's, it's just impossible to gauge what's better. It's this, uh, you know, this personal preference. And knowing, knowing the road you want to travel. I mean, that's way harder than music theory. I mean, I think I could confidently say that. So now you're establishing what, you want you know

it's hard to know what you want sometimes you know it's uh not everyone knows and I was lucky to know at a very young age and uh I go back and forth like it's cool sometimes to say but also embarrassing

sometimes where it's like shit how old was I when I started playing 11 11? 11 so 21 31 fucking 27 years probably it's 27 or something So it sounds cool

I'm saying my man I should be like a lot better than where I'm at right now But uh But yeah That's my uh That's my short take On music theory And yeah I'm I'm just

I'm the same guitar player I was when I was a kid Simple riffs songwriting It's funny how you could Something's so simple Something's so fucking simple You can re-learn it And get better at it it. Like for me

it's uh, it's downpicking. Like I could practice the same thing. Get it to a point where like, oh, it's, this sounds really cool. You know, I could go out and fucking play this in front of people and it sounds, you know, decent. But man, I could do the same thing. I get better at it. And that's just one movement. That's just one technique.

And you could learn it again and again and relearn it. And it's kind of cool. So that's, uh, that's kind of like the. the good news about learning shit. But anyway, Daniel, thank you for your question. That was actually a really good question because the whole thing with like,

I mean, for a while, which now, I found this being accepted recently where like rhythm guitar players didn't really get much respect. Like if you weren't a lead player, it was like you pretty much sucked. Like when suicide silence first came out

and it was like, all they do is this, all they do is that. all all just is this well if this that's that's what it is and how about you do it and shut the fuck up but uh yeah

it's uh I've definitely seen like the obvious change like how a rhythm it's more like accepted now and it's more like apparent I guess maybe maybe because there's more information out there more interviews with uh players and

and that's fucking that's fucking cool yeah I'm um I apologize but uh currently opening up it on the can of Slammer. I'm just imagining myself at the corn show. That's pretty much what I'm doing.

Okay. Sorry, next question. Let's see, which one should I do? Couch.allon, what kind of coffee are you drinking? Do you want to trade some for a painting? That's a pretty cool trade. Yeah, Alan, I was looking at some of your paintings, man. They're pretty fucking sick.

If you're curious about his paintings, I'm going to put his link, this IG link. He has some pretty cool paintings up there. But, yeah, I drink shameless self-plug. I'm not worse at plugging me on my own shit. I need to, like, really, for real, I need to step up on that stuff. I'm just so involved with the podcast itself. I need to really start. But yeah, I drink our own coffee.

Garza podcast coffee. I'll put a link in the description. It's a Java and Mexico blend. It's like music, you know, taking two things and combining them. Drink that shit every morning, hang out with Leo, read a fucking book, and that leaves my day up to deal with four idiots on married, too. So, yeah, that's what I do.

That's a coffee I drink. Since I'm already here. So these episodes drop on Monday. If you don't want to wait, uh, join our YouTube memberships. Uh,

I post them. I post it episode Sunday, maybe even, even sooner. Uh, all the stuff that comes with memberships. It's only two bucks. Uh,

I try to make it affordable, uh, for people that just might want the episode earlier. Um, there's other perks up there. I'll put the link in the description as well. But, Alan,

thank you for your question. Again, do you, pain, painish are sick. If I'm going to take a guess, guess? I don't know much about painy. I probably

they look like oil panions. Are they? I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but they kind of look like oil panes. Again, sick as fuck. Maybe I'll do one one more

question. Let's see. Okay. How many? Okay, last one. How many guitars do you own that you didn't destroy? Do you still have your monkey apex as well? So I'm not like, this ties into the first solo EP we did.

So yeah, I destroyed a lot of my gear for many reasons. But I don't own a lot of. of guitars. I'm not a guitar collector. Really. It's just not, um, at least right now, it might change when I get a lot, a lot of money. But, uh, yeah, I just got rid of like, if it's like if I don't play it, I don't want to have it. And I'm not that with gear too. It's just if I, if I'm not playing his head like almost every day, like I just don't want it. Pedals too. I have like a little box of pedals. I should have more. But yeah, I'm just not, I'm not a guitar collector

To be honest I'm also still kind of Trying to change my opinion Other guitar players That just do the collecting thing Massive bands do it Massive bands Do it

I think it's Again I'm working on it Maybe I'm wrong But I think it's so fucking lame Just to collect a bunch of wood And it sits there I think it's super lame But anyway

That I That opinion could change in time but um so yeah obviously i have this guy i i've the og 7 number one um their first free guitar i got from fender so that has some like some value to it's uh i forgot to put it next to me actually it's my six string it's actually in the room i'm looking at it right now it's right behind the camera it's a six string it's really cool uh it's a sunburst with uh black pickard exactly what you expect

three, you know, single coils as a fender and it sounds really, it's funny, like, when I get that guitar, 2017, I think, and it's, I don't know why, but it's been really sounding different

this year. Maybe because I'm playing different. I don't know, it sounds, guitars take a long time to become a guitar, and there's sound changes for, I mean,

for the better, something about, but the, wood it just ages or just something happens but uh see that guitar has been sounding and sick as fuck and um i'm lucky you know i got i got i got a i got a little hookup offenders so they gave me like some hound uh what you say handwound uh pickups say that five times fast but uh see those pickups sound fucking incredible um what is what have i have a six string Yamaha acoustic

In the other room here What else do I have And that's it I don't know I have the K-7 here But I don't only play it For obvious reasons Is that only four guitars

Do I have anything Anything else? Oh no And oh How can I forget this one? I have a six-string Fender from the 80s that's in my room

that I play all the time through my line 6 and I got it through my friend Alex Zimmer he let me borrow it but it's like a borrow slash have it's really cool has like this like steel rusted steel pit guard I have a tune to a C right now drop C just fucking super

fender just like damn I don't know I really love playing playing that I play it every day play pretty much every day um It's in my room I'll have to play a little bit when like You know the day it started after breakfast

Before breakfast Before I come here Or start today I like to You know get a riff out or two on that On that guitar and hopefully Transpose it to To this guy A drop-bake guitar

So that's one Do you count the K-7 Because it's more of like a You know It's more like a, not decoration. It's just a piece of memorabilia. I guess we could count it because I, I've been playing it. So one, two, three, so five.

I have five. I guess we could go into it now, actually. The unveiling might be this Saturday. They say it's going to happen, but I won't believe it until it's in my hand. I'm on the stage, but it looks like the other Fender 7 will be done by the show. To be honest, I have two coming. And this week, I test the next. The next were all done, and I get the halve it in my hand.

I'm like this, like, fuck. Oh, man, it feels fucking sick. It's sick, so hopefully that'll be done in time for it mayhem. We're to unveil the next one. and so then I'll probably unbilled the other one the next month or some but they're pretty much done

they're out of paint already and the next are done the frets are done all that shit the pickups showed up also this week they came from England so that was like the scary part all the pickups

pickups to me done in time but they're there so it's being worked on and I'll believe it when it's in my hands and I'm playing it on the fucking stage you know, hopefully, you know, I'm trying not to get excited about it. But, you know, it's fucking cool, man. It's a long time coming.

I kept thinking about that. This week more, like a lot. Like, how long have I been talking to Fender? I think it was 2017. I think it was 2017. And I didn't get this guy, the first seven until the pandemic. It was 2020. So 18.19.

That took three years. And now we're 2004. Basically 2025. So you're talking under four, five years to get two more. So whenever I need music gear, I always go to sweetwater.com.

If it's mics, headphones, or studio and recording gear, Sweetwater has you covered. Next time you need any music gear, support the podcast by using the link in the description and comment section below. Man, I'm just glad.

Again, like, I'm not like a, I'm not a guitar collector. And I just really, I, I truly believe, like, that, uh, guitars are meant to be played. And, uh, I knew, I knew what I wanted.

I'm like, I saw it in my mind. Like, 2016, I had it in my brain. It was like, I don't want to play anything else Nothing else I'd rather have one Fender Cemetery

behind me Rather than 20 of anything And I'm gonna do what it takes To get it And it's just fucking crazy To just to be To be where we're at now

I'm super fucking lucky man But man Those necks Just just having let the neck in your hand It was like fuck Sick And they're both different Like

they're different thickness which is cool you know you could kind of like have two different flavors and they're also different they're different

neck shapes a neck shape I never heard of but for some reason I just it just works this works sorry yeah last part of your question I'm sorry

remind myself Do you still have your Monkey Apex? Dude, I'm I'm thinking, where is that guitar? Where's that guitar? I'm pretty sure

I gave it away. I'm pretty positive. I gave the Apex away. I want to say fully intact. Like, uh, oh,

shit. I think it's last show was in Mexico. I think it was a Notfest Mexico. I never thought about this in a long time. I think that's where it's at. Someone in Mexico has it. It was intact.

I know that me and Alex were playing baseball with his kick drum for a little bit, but I remember throwing it out in the crowd fully intact. That's probably where it is. That's a sick guitar. The monkey

Apex is a sick guitar. But yeah, it's, uh, it's out there. It's out there in the world somewhere. I wonder what they did with it. I wonder if they, uh, it's probably so playable. It had to be so playable. It's got to restring it and fucking start rocking. But, uh, but yeah, everyone, uh, thank you for your questions.

Um, I guess we could, uh, we could move forward as corn is probably rocking a stage right now. They're probably playing fucking, part of playing fucking, part of playing. blind right now. I'm fucking here chilling. That's cool. That's cool. I'm thinking I'm like, do I have FOMO right now? I don't know. I'm not quite sure what I'm feeling right now. That's cool. But yeah, I was

scrolling YouTube the past couple days and my good friend Mike Caputo posted a video on YouTube and I said I watched it. Sometimes, you know, you know, you don't want something that pops up on YouTube, you just click on it for no point reason. that's what uh that that that's what i did um and he touched on something that's been happening but

no one's been talking about it and that's like what his video was called up a uh fake drummer epidemic which uh it's i mean yeah it is something so uh i washed it uh shout out to mike caputo uh he's a phenomenal drummer i believe he's looking for a band I didn't for some reason it is a problem but I didn't put too much thought into it and actually today again on YouTube I came across a thumbnail from from from from Craig uh host a downbeat drummer straight from the path

shout out to downbeat I was like oh shit cool uh I clicked on it I started watching I was like oh shit it's the second video I'm coming across about like the drummer thing I was like, uh-oh. So I watched Craig's video, which

It's edited, awesome. I was like, oh shit. So there is There is an issue where People will see This also goes beyond I was thinking how I was going to approach this Because I think it's unfair of me

To kind of sing a lot of people When it's been going on for a while And it's still going on. It's so I'm just going to go I'm just going to go with a stream of consciousness and say it and then it's

it is what it is but uh So they were pointing out Because the drummer will say It's not edited It's raw And then when you do some digging Like you can't

Like there's guys like Mike Caputo out there They're phenomenal drummers That will do their research Like you can't get past people like that Like you fucking can't And so they'll post a video Saying that it's One take play through

unedited but as it turns out it is edited and um which it which is fine i mean all the records we love are edited like this mixed uh it's so it sounds good and then we love them but uh i think i think i think the issue is that uh you you can't don't say that it's not edited don't say that it's like raw don't say like it's a one take you know you know know, that's where, that's what the issue is. And, uh, with singers, guitar players, bass players, drummers, I do think the people that are under the most pressure are drummers where like they, where they, they kind of have to have, like, they have to be the craziest and fastest and like, most perfect sounding.

So I do kind of, I do kind of feel for them where they're kind of under. like a little bit more pressure than the rest of us. But there's definitely no excuse for that, you know. And this isn't just drummers. Like, it's with other instruments as well. Like, you know, we're on a street is, like, sometimes, like, you'll, you have, like, I'm not sure where it became a thing, but it was like, oh, one take play through

focal thing focal song once a play through guitar once a tape play through so it kind of became a thing and uh I guess I'll go backwards a little bit and then we'll arrive what we're going to arrive so so we were talking

uh suicide silence was talking and then we started walking we said okay we saw so suicide silence a few months ago um We recorded a lot of play-throughs. Drums, bass, vocal guitars.

A lot of stuff. And this was right before, or right when we started the Sucson's podcast. If you don't, if you don't know, we have a podcast, follow it, listen to it, it's there for you. And, uh,

because we're getting, we're slowly getting into just, uh, just putting out stuff. And, through firsthand experience the playthroughs it really exposed a lot

a lot where it's okay let the the easiest was the drums because Ernie is a great drummer um bass sounded great because I mean it's you know it's a few notes but uh when it came to guitar it was like wait a minute this

it's like this is going to take more than one take to get the sound a certain way. Especially when we're talking solos and overdubbing. It's like what? It's like what, what are we doing here? And I, we saw the issue. I don't think this is possible to do a one take playthrough and sound a certain way. So, so the issue became, came up with the guitars.

Then we started, we started doing it playthinks with Eddie. this all around like a span of a few days we we uh kind of set a block of days we're gonna drums, bass, vocal you know, etc. And uh we're quoting Eddie and like

dude this is not possible to do one take this is not and uh obviously you haven't seen it we don't put anything out we're not gonna put it out um

and we learned a lot and then we started doing some digging because we start asking around you know oh how do you do this how do you make it sound like this and asking for help and you know there's some rumors that some of these one take

playthroughs aren't one takes and again it's fine if you want to mix it or edit it I mean totally fucking sick but don't call it that don't call it that and I think

and I think that it's always kind of been weird to me what people react to it's like the way people react to things has always been strange to me like uh for example we could i have nothing against backing tracks that's that's the sound of your band live cool do it but uh we don't use backing tracks suicide sounds does not use backing tracks uh we're we are love lucky to have a drummer like Ernie. I call him the...

This is going to be a rare thing. A rare, rare, rare thing. But I'm going to say something nice about him. His timing is impeccable. The best in the scene. The best in the entire metal genre. For real. Like, his timing is this

probably the years of being a marching band or something. I don't know. Like, his timing is, we don't... If we had a click, it would actually do a... disservice. I call him the

human clock, so we don't really need a click because we're fucking on time. But this is, you know, other things. I might play a little more slapping than usual. That's just my tone. When Eddie's singing, that's his fucking voice. When you hear us live, that's literally Eddie's voice going through the mic

going on to the speakers. And you're probably like, uh, duh. No. because bands that you listen to, a lot have backing tracks on their vocals, straight up. Again, nothing wrong with that. It's cool, but it's weird when people think

that there's no backing tracks, but there is. And then when they hear something, oh, that sounds so good, he's fucking, he's the new king, what the fuck it is. And then they hear five guys actually playing their instruments we're not the best but you know like oh Eddie

you know if Eddie has a great day he has a great day you to hear it and it's a fucking sick ass show if he misses a few notes you're like oh he fucking sucks I'm like it's like you react to something real negatively but you will react to a backing track positively which is oh it's just strange to me

it's just fucking strange you know and same with the play-through stuff like the people react to something you're slightly lied to and people eat it up is just I always find that kind of weird and disingenuous

but that's you know that's the music industry that's the music industry it's funny I was just thinking about like the one playthrough I have not not play through but I have like a you know last guitar video I posted a few months ago like I was playing a

dystopier riff, you know, it's like, well, this is how it sounds. I played it sloppy. They didn't sound good, and I posted it. I was like, people don't mind it. You just got to fucking, it's got to fucking accept it.

You know, it's what sounds like, and that's what it is. But, yeah, there's just like this social media pressure. I think some people are under more than others. You know, I personally don't feel that pressure.

You know, we're lucky. um but some people are I think it's mostly probably torsie drummers uh then the singers are a very close second but uh but I

how do you say this but the supply and demand like people crave it or like react to it so you makes you believe this is what you should do that's why that's why I read in comments this is not fucking good for you

it's just not because you if if you'll if you'll if you believe the positive you're fucked if you read the negative you go psycho

you know I got that prettyer I got that pretty quickly 2012 so oh if you read this you go crazy you truly go crazy seeing how fucking

nasty and soul as people can be it's like okay that I mean it's fine you know okay oh or if i read it it's very like it's very uh detached you know it's like the matter what it's said it doesn't reflect who i am as far as my bones and my heart and what my family thinks about me and if you don't have that you should not read the comments however that's not how it works you know musicians are very inherently

insecure people and they see validation wherever they can, whether it's stupid free gear or comments or a show. But, uh, but, uh, but then again, what, what am I even talking about? You know, I was, I was that same way when I was a kid, you know, seeking validation from places I shouldn't be seeking validation from, but yeah, it is an issue. Like the whole one take play through thing. I mean, it is what it is. it is what it is and uh probably continue to happen and again i don't mind backing tracks if it's done right and then that's fucking cool but you shouldn't bash a band that's literally real but yeah and that's all i'm going to say about that what else what else do we have here

and we just went on a and that's also that's the that's the short rant too i could have went off But, uh, it's, yeah, there's no, there's no reason for that. See, I'm here. I didn't shave. I'm a shave in a while. I probably, this is probably the long time I've gone without trimming or doing anything. I'm not sure how I feel about it. If I don't shave, it makes me look fat. But that's okay. Um, having some, uh, some diet issues, which I think we all struggle with, right?

these fucking damn it the ice cream the bread I'm pretty sure pretty sure sane himself fucking made bread pretty sure

because when you eat it's so sinful it's full of sin I'm kidding but yeah it's been hard to it's been hard to keep up with the diet man I'm not doing the best right now but I am hitting the gym tomorrow's gonna suck

I got I got leg day leg day is the worst whoever I've been in leg day sucks leg day oh god but you gotta do it you need to do it

don't skip it because we all know because we all see that person that skips it and I have skinny legs so that sucks I hate we all have that

we all have the exercise that we hate doing for me it's lunges goodness I don't know what it is. I don't like a bite. I just suck. Because, uh,

I can't do, uh, I can't do squats or deadlifts. I stopped like three months ago. So it's pretty recent. So I've, I mean, I've had lower back issues for a while.

Even, like, my spine's pretty fucking sick. It's solid from what the chiropractor said a while ago. But, uh, my lower back has been giving me a lot of issues. And, like,

it's funny, It's funny like when you have like a gut feeling like, oh, you just stop doing that, man. So yeah, stop doing both. Stop doing both. And I started doing those, what are you called? Hip thrusts.

They have like that hip thrust machine. It's like a seatbelt. So you put on a seatbelt. It's like, right, we're going for a ride right now. We're on the road to get in a fucking, that getting that man ass going You know You gotta get

You gotta get a little bit of curves You know You have switching to the hip thrusts And the lunges has Done a lot I notice a A big change A big change

As far as like Lower back health Um Because with the hip thrust You could really like isolate Um Your ass

You know Um I get You know I get people are trying to be professional When they say glutes but it's not it's it's it's your ass why why are we seeing glutes it's nass but the thing is uh

again uh i am not a scientist or anything so don't so take what i'm about to say with nothing but uh from what i've heard and read is that uh sometimes a a pain on your body or in your body could stem from an imbalance from something else so uh it's been known for a while like a lower back could be well you're overcompensating for a weak ass that's very true you know so it's like with the hip thrust you really isolate that part of your body and get that strong and the in the and the lunges too it's just like a you you you you you You could really isolate certain parts of your body To build that up

So your other parts of your body are not overcompensating But yeah, I'm talking about Boring stuff right now I know you don't want to hear about lunges and gym And all that stupid shit But, uh Yeah, what's coming up this week? It's a fucking cool week, man

We got a So I'm going to see Well yeah, speaking of not going to shows You know, I'm really, I'll be going to a, two. We've seen internal bleeding, legendary slam band in the 90s. We've seen them.

She'd be going to that Lona Shore Watch Chapel show, which is not too far from here. So that'll be cool. Really cool fucking tour package. You know? And yeah, that's what we got coming up.

Let's see what time is it 1036 Corn is still a plane I saw this set is an hour 30 so they're probably done in literally eight minutes from now so anyway

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It's pretty gnarly from people that aren't, don't understand what's really going on. So, yeah, I do my best to give you some insight and some real life experiences, and I will continue to do so. What number is this? It was the first one on the side. this is the fourth one right it's the fourth one I'm already I'm already

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that's what I'm that's that's my North Star currently I'm gonna continue to do this and uh if you listen to it you share it I appreciate it um still very new to it but uh who gives

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If you're in SoCal, or even if you're not. We're playing the Mayhem Festival this Saturday, October 12th. It's October 12th, October 12th. October 12th. A bunch of cool bands. might have a unveiling of something sick.

It's a really big celebration for our band. Really big for us financially and spiritually and a lot of things we work for in the dark. We'll hopefully show lights on that on that day. So if you already have your tickets, fucking sick, you don't get them if you're in Southern California it'll be a fun show it looks like the weather's going to be perfect from what I see it looks like it's going to be sick our set time I just saw it found out this week it's going to be I think 520 530 around there

so we got prime slot pretty sick so yeah that's going to be a good time and Yep, thank you for, thank you for listening and watching. You're probably, what do you do right now? What would I be doing? I'll either be like, I'll either be, I'm listening to a podcast. I'll either be like washing dishes, making breakfast, driving home from the gym. You're probably doing anything. You're probably on the way to work right now because you got to, you know, you're probably,

very well be in traffic right now and that's cool I do the same thing I'll put in a podcast in traffic and just listen and vibe out so if you're in traffic right now about to go into work

that's fucking sick you're either you're either single trying to pay rent or or you have a family or a kid to to support or you're at the gym try to clear your

mind just to try to be a better person or um or you're just about to go to bed and you're trying to pass out and you're using all garza this guy's boring as fuck so i'll listen to his podcast and fall asleep so it's all the same stuff it's all you know i'm honored to uh to be a part of your day uh be a part of your week yeah it's it's fucking cool anyway uh yeah there's a guest next week obviously uh i've learned i learned through the past i really i can't say it's It just puts, it's bad luck when you say the guest. If it's not recorded, then I won't say the guest because people cancel and put someone all the time. So anyway, have a good week.

And yeah, I will see you next Monday. Later.