No Filler Music Podcast - Fuzz and Fury: Wolf People's Ruins

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

If you're a fan of guitar-driven rock music, the days of Hendrix, Page, and Halen are long gone. Nowadays, the guitar is rarely front-and-center - and if is, it's usually in the form of a reverb-drenched wall-of-sound or this week's latest grunge homage (don't get me wrong - I'm all in on the grunge revival!). But if you stumbled upon English psych rockers Wolf People and their 2016 record Ruins, you were treated to a collection of guitar riffs so beefy that I'd say guitarists Jack Sharp and Joe Hollick deserve a seat at the table amongst the greats of yesteryear. Truly a gem from the last decade, join us as we dive deep into the fuzz and fury of Wolf People. Tracklist Wolf People - Glass Wolf People - Ninth Night Wolf People - Rhine Sagas Wolf People - Thistles Wolf People - Not Me Sir Wolf People - Kingfisher This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Hey, I'm John Stewart, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. And welcome to No Filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name's Quentin, with me as always as my brother Travis. And today we're diving into Wolf People's record from 2016 ruins. Dude, I'm so stoked to get into this record today,

man. Dude, that intro song, that was some good stuff, dude. I think that was the first time I heard that, actually. So you know why? Because that's the very last song in the record. So if you haven't, If you haven't like sit down and actually listen to this record all the way through, you probably haven't heard that one. There you go, dude. You're airing out my shame all of them. Because that's what we talk about here. And I certainly have listened to tracks off this record. I think I'm pretty sure Kingfisher.

So you've definitely played a track off of this record on a what you heard or something like that. I've played at least a few of these songs on this podcast. And then we also, I know that. They showed up on our best of 2010's playlist that we made. Yeah, the end of 2019 or something like that, we put out a playlist on Spotify. It still exists, by the way. It does. Yeah, we picked 100 tracks, our favorites of the decade.

And I'm pretty sure Kingfisher was on there. You know, we've been playing a lot of bands this year that kind of like, we've joked about lava lamps and shag rugs and pecculli oil and stuff like that. I feel like this band is right up there with them, you know. Yeah, man. It's straight up like psych. It's like this weird. Okay. This album specifically.

This album specifically, yeah, because I don't really, I don't know anything else about these guys. I tried giving a listen to some of their earlier stuff. It's nothing like this record. This record's just unique for them. So is this record unique because of it? it's heavier because there's certainly some like rock as part of it elements in this so like you know we did a whole episode on sound carriers and we were talking about that like sort of like mod culture kind of like really almost like jazzy kind of lounge music kind of 60s aesthetic

but with these guys you know it's that classic psychedelic rock sound but blended with a little bit of that flower power kind of sound too you know so it's like classic rock guitar riffs and stuff like that. So is that what makes this record different? It's heavier than their other stuff? Yeah. Yep. Exactly.

Yeah. So this article from Louders Sound, I think they put it perfectly, dude. Pagan, Folk, Psych, Prague. All those words work together for what I just heard. Yeah. So that song was called Glass. Again, it's the last song on the record. And yeah, this is going to be just a song-heavy episode.

I don't, I feel like we haven't done, like a proper, like a solid just rock album, yeah, this year. This year, no, definitely not. I mean, you know, don't tell that to Dinister Jr. fans. But in terms of like, just like classic rock, riff heavy, like guitar solo heavy. Right. You know, just a solid rock album.

This is it, man. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. There's just something about this record. it's more than anything, it's the, it's the vocals that get me. So let's, let me name off the roster real quick, dude. All right.

So lead vocals is Jack Sharp. Guitar is Joe Hollick, bass is Dan Davies and drums as Tom Waite. As Tom Watt. So this is a proper four piece rock band, you know? Yeah, actually, okay, Jack and Joe both play guitar. So, yeah, so it's a proper. like lead guitarist, rhythm guitar, bass and drums. What else do you need?

You know? Nothing, dude. I like that it's just straightforward, two guitars, bass and drums and a lead vocalist. Like, they're sticking true to the, you know, the 60s. I would have liked an organ, but that's okay. There's all kinds of stuff on this record, dude. I'm going to have to like, while we're listening to the music, we're going to have to see if I can find more info on like IMDB or not IMDB.

discogs. That's like one of the same to me. It's like, you know, two sides of the same coin. All right. Here we go, dude. Let's kick things off with the first track on the record. This song is called Ninth Night. Yeah, man, it's interesting because like this song almost flirts with doom metal almost. Like there's a little bit of, there's a little bit of Sabbath in there, just a, midge the fuzz. I think the fuzz on the guitar, really heavy fuzz kind of makes me think of early Sabbath stuff. And his voice, I mean, it's a little bit, you know, it's a nicer singing voice than Ozzy, but like it's, I think it's just that really heavy, heavy fuzz on his voice

almost sounds like an Iron Man type, like the effects that, that they put on Ozzy's vocals on Iron Man and whatnot, like that era. So here's what I'll learn about those vocals, man, and that effect. So, and this is Sharp, Jack Sharp speaking here. He says, that vocal effect, someone gave me a tape machine to record stuff on that they'd found in a skip. I'm not British enough to know what a skip is. It never worked, but it came with a really terrible microphone. So I started recording stuff.

I've recorded guitars through it as well, but because it just distorts it massively, makes it sound really odd. So, yeah, so with this song, he made a demo at home and showed it to everyone. They were really into it, and we started playing it together. We're really happy playing it live now, but we never really got a recording that was as exciting as the demo. So we just went back to that and built up from there. See, that's interesting, man. That's cool, dude. if you're telling me that the rest of their records don't sound this heavy,

I love it when I hear stuff like that where it's like, it's possible that had he not been gifted this terrible microphone, that might have inspired, like that microphone sound may have inspired the entire record in terms of like, let's just shape an entire album around this sound, you know, this heavily distorted,

weird, odd kind of tone. Yeah, yeah, it says, it says that driving persuasive opening track released as an early outrider for the new album has a strikingly distorted vocal sound that almost literally came out of the garbage. But yeah, this was one of the early tracks

that they decided to put on this record. Like one of the first ones that they recorded in between albums. Yeah, dude, such an awesome opening track. And yeah, this, track just perfectly sets the tone for the rest of the record dude and we're going to dive right into the next track so this track is four minutes long and we're playing the whole song we're splitting it in two because this song is like it's like perfectly split up between two really awesome guitar

solos dude like long well thought out just killer guitar solos that you don't hear that often anymore. No. Yeah, dude. And they're just so good. I love these guitar solos, man. And I can't remember the last time I said that about a modern band. Like, I just love these guitar solos.

You got my interest peaked. Perked up, dude. I can't say enough about him, dude. I love this song. All right, here we go. So this is the next song on the record. This one's called Rhine Sagas. Q. I'm proud of you.

He needed to get this podcast back to the heavier side of the spectrum that we fall on. And that's usually coming from me, dude. I'm the one who's trying to sneak metal back into the mix every once in a while. Is that what this is, Tram? Yeah, I would put this in the realm of heavy rock for sure. I mean. Oh, oh, heavy rock for sure, dude.

Yeah, but I mean, I mean, yeah, this is metal, this is metal adjacent, man. That's, dude, that's awesome. That's awesome because of because of what this record is to me, it's like a, it's a, It's a psych rock, fulky, yeah, it's a fulky psych rock record. But to put it under the, you know, under the same umbrella as metal, that makes this record even cooler too. I would put it, like I said, metal adjacent, dude. It's getting there. And that's the thing, man.

Metal is a massive tint, dude. You know what I mean? I think you're. For sure. Yeah. I think your definition of metal, I think needs to expand a little bit, Q. I know, you've been trying to expand it for But it's, you think about it.

It's like, dude, it's a spectrum, man. Like, it's, it's fluid and shit. Like, there's no, there's not one definition of any genre, obviously. But like, you know, it's, it's a wide spectrum. So like, yeah, this is, to me, this is like getting, getting in the realm of your, you know, your stoner rock, your doom metal. This is not slowed down nearly enough to be proper, like, doom metal. but like it's it's sludgy a little bit.

Let's talk about that solo. Yeah, it was great. It's fantastic. Here's what's cool about this song, dude. Right at the beginning of this song, too, is kind of a little solo that leads into the song. This song is basically just a guitar solo. Like it's, that is front and center. The main, like, when I think about this song, when I think Ryan Saugas, I think guitar cella, which is cool.

Yeah. All right, dude, let's play the rest of this song and let's hear that that second bodacious guitar solo. That's what I said, Trev. I said bodacious. Proper. That's a proper solo, dude. There's a little bit of a wab pedal there toward the end. So like, here's another thing I wanted to mention. Like, you know, this has got kind of like a haunted vibe to it. If I could use that term. I'm just saying like what the, I'm sorry, dude. We joke about using that word.

Well, yeah, I know, I know. I didn't think you were going to say it there because you were like, you're really thinking hard about what we're doing to use. But like, here's the thing. No, but you're right. You're right. But we use that term sometimes to mean like, you know, like a song that has a quality of like a. Spokiness, dude.

Yeah, or like, but like it could also mean like, Oh, the vocals were so like, kind of like, there's pain in the vocals and shit. You know, that could be haunted. Okay. Like, what I meant by this was like, it, you know, you could, you could blast that shit at a, at a haunted house. And I'd be fucking spooked. Because I'd be like, this is some chainsaw massacre shit. It's his vocals.

They're so, like, delicate and like. Because you just said delicate vocals. Like, I was going to bring it. I was going to bring it around to Zeppelin because I feel like his, he's, he's, he's, He's kind of doing like some, you know that song, No Quarter off of Houses of the Holy, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's that, you know, kind of almost like quiet kind of like vocal styles there. And like, obviously they're drawing influence from the heavy, hard rock of the 60s and stuff, obviously.

So this, there's an article from Bandcamp. It says he, ruins is Wolf People's noisiest, most aggressive album by far. Sharpe's high, thin voice fed through a slight tinge of distortion. Slight. It's frequently, just slightly. Frequently swamped by thick, fuzzed out riffs and clattering drums. He says here, I want it to be my voice when I open my mouth, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm aware that I don't have a screechy rock voice.

I never have had. So it's an odd thing to do with the kind of music we make, especially as it gets louder. It's difficult to sail over the top of that. using a more natural tone of your voice. To me, singing should be an extension of speaking. Hmm. You think about his vocals, dude. He's not straining.

Like, he's not trying to sing over these, this heavy distorted, like, just loud. Yeah, okay. I mean, to steal, to steal from, from Shugay's wall of sound, this is a different, a different vibe, a different wall of sound. I was trying to figure out what he was trying to say that. But yeah, uh, that makes sense. So, like, if he has a, if he has his singing voice, like his, yeah, the voice that he always sings with, now that they're making more heavier, louder stuff, he still wants it to be his, his singing voice. Okay, that makes sense. Yep.

And dude, and his vocal, his vocals is my favorite part of this album. It's what makes it so different. Yeah. I think it lends to like, his voice is such a good contrast against the loud, distorted stuff. it kind of has this like off kilter kind of it feels kind of like a little i think it contributes to the haunting thing i was talking about i was like this yes there's almost like this unsettling type quality to it and that kind of goes along with like the the overall like arching theme of the record which is um it's kind of like a post like an apocalyptic kind of thing it's like a pooh okay here we go

It's a post-human England that's returned to rural existence. Interesting. Yeah. But it's not the placid rolling green hills of the popular imagination. As Sharp explains it, he was channeling a spirit akin to the primitive angry God religiosity of early Black Sabbath. Okay. He says, our record is a bit like that, but if you replace God with nature and the natural world, then that's kind of what it is, an angry and powerful, vengeful thing. I like the that's freaking awesome

I like the term angry god religiosity of early black Sabbath yeah that's cool yeah all right dude now if that's not metal cue I don't know what it all right we're going to jump to track 5

here this song's called thistles can you see can you see this big vein just put it right in this vein right here can you just inject it right in there let's make guitar is great again you know Because these guys

These guys did it It's like front and center In this album What are these guys' names again? Jack and John Jack and Joe Jack Sharp Joe-hoolic

Riff Masters Q I know man They're just like It's like It's like a second language for them Yeah It's kind of a shame If this was the only

Guitar Heavy record They put out Because it's I guess both the shame And also you know a blessing well here's the deal dude they haven't released an album they haven't released one since this record it's the last one they put out then they're fucking brilliant dude they said let's just let's just leave on top let's just write this great record and then they're like you know we can't

can't top it yeah it's it's been it's been eight years so i don't know if there's going to be anything else dude well do we know maybe if these guys kind of went off and did their own thing or I'm off to look into that Yeah, I don't know. Because these guitar Well, here's, actually, you know what? Here's the thing. Come on now.

Here's the, okay, says band members. It's like a freaking tombstone, dude. It's like they all, 2020, it says on all band members, 2005 to 2020. All of them. So I guess they disbanded. So the band ended, okay, all right. So yeah, they're done. But yeah, it's just curious.

So, I mean, if you look at their discogs at least, Joe is in several other groups Jack is in several other groups so it's possible they just went on yeah some Jack Sharp is in a band called Large Plants oh well yeah he put out

some stuff in 2022 22 23rd so he might be yeah he's doing some new stuff okay yeah so there go large plants that's exciting so yeah so no more wolf people that's kind of a bummer but that's okay though you know they gave us this great record and then they said we're out of here.

True. What I liked about that song is I like the, you can hear this plucking of like an acoustic guitar in the background during a certain part of that song, which is kind of cool. You heard a layer that had sort of an acoustic guitar that was playing alongside the electric and it just sounded cool.

Like these songs, I'm finding myself like really paying attention because they do such interesting thing. with their melodies and stuff. For sure, man. Yeah, really well thought out record. All right, man, we're going to play one more song. And you know what? I think we're just going to play.

I think we're going to split this into two and play it, play the whole song. Is this not me, sir? It's not me, sir. Yeah, I'm familiar with this one. That's probably my favorite on the record, dude. And keep an ear out for a flute by Rebecca de Winter and a saxophone. by Roger Ellingworth. A saxophone?

That's right. I didn't know there's one on here, so I need to listen up, dude. I'm ready for that. Yeah. All right, here we go. This is track eight off the record, not me, sir. Again, man, just a solid riff. The reason I'm so familiar with the song is because that riff gets stuck in my head,

and I come back and I'm listening to just that track off of the director. Yeah, dude. I just say too, like, I haven't really given a shout out to the drumming yet, but I freaking love the drums on this record, dude. What an awesome. Yeah. Freaking. That's, yeah, that's true.

It's just killer. Tom Watt, that is my jam. That's my kind of, like, drumming. Yeah, I hear you. I freaking love it, dude. And yeah, so yeah, the saxophone. It was there. Yeah, but the funny thing is, like, you might not notice it if you're not paying attention.

And so, like, I just think it's funny that they have, they have a, a flute on a few tracks in here. They've got a saxophone, but the guitar is always going to be front and center. Those things are like, just get, you know, turn the volume down on the mix because we don't, we're here for their guitars, you know, maybe it can add some nice, a nice layer, some texture

to it or something like that. Right. They bring in it, that's a good point, dude. That's a good point. They bring in a saxophone player and he's like, that's it, that's all you guys want me to do. But it's like, yeah, it really does add something to it. It's like, it's like Jason Neustad, on Injustice for All.

You're like, what? There's a bass in the song? That's, I don't know, that's a Metallica joke out there for your Metallica fans. I'm sure a lot of people, I've got to go check a lot of that. Yeah. You got to really pay attention if you want to hear his bass playing on that, on that record. You know, just in case, you know, I had to explain the joke, really. You had to break it down there.

Just in case. We've got, dude, we got Metallica fans listening to this podcast. Yes. If you're a Metallica fan, you know exactly. what I'm talking about when I say that. Mitch, I know you're listening, and I know you're a big Metallica fan. It's kind of a joke because, like, you know, he's no longer in the band for a reason, right? All right.

Well, dude, you want to just play the rest of the song? I'm here for it. Let me see if I can pick out that flute, you know. I think it's already been played. Well, I think the flute was there, dude. All right. Well, let me see if I can pick it out again here. Yeah.

All right, here we go. Here's the rest of not me. Sir. Get you open both paths. Still money. Got you owe to someone. Like I said, that is a riff that will creep inside your ear and just sort of just hang out for years. Lives rent-free, dude.

Yeah. Warming it up. I'm not charging that. You know, it can live rent-free. It can. Forever. It can leave the lights on if it wants to. You want to go through the fridge at 3 in the morning?

Dude, go for it. You know? I love the harmonies in the song. I don't know if, um... Yeah, no one else is credited for vocals. So... What's he singing with himself? I mean, he could be Bert Daniels.

Brett Daniels does it all the time. Sure, sure. Um, or they just, the other guys are like, we don't need credit for vocals, you know. Yeah, fine. We'll lend our, uh, chords. but you don't need to credit us for that. Yeah, yeah. Solid, man.

There's nothing negative to say about this record. At least the track she played, maybe there's some stinkers on here, but I doubt it. There's no stinkers, man. This is no filler for grind out of it. Well, yeah, this is a no fillet record for sure. Yeah, yeah.

So I will say, like, yeah, I wanted to kind of talk about Kingfisher briefly. Well, we can have that as the outro track if you'd like. Okay. Yeah, so Kingfisher. Fisher is like the centerpiece of the whole record. It's got a decent amount of plays. Yeah.

Yeah, it is funny. I mean, these numbers compared to mega massive pop stars is nothing. But I mean, you know, if you look at the play counts on Spotify, this record must have gotten some attention back back in the day. Yeah. I just wonder if King Fisher was featured on like a show or something. Like a proper. Yeah.

That is a massive jump in plays compared to the. the rest of the record. It's got a million, over a million plays. Almost two million. Almost two million. Now the rest of the tracks have like, you know,

in the hundred of thousands. Yeah, that's for the most part. Sometimes that is a telltale sign that, that some TV show picked it up and played it or something like that. Yeah. Yeah,

but you want to talk about riffs? Like, Kingfisher is also just a solid, I mean, let me just answer that question. I want to talk about riffs all day long. Do you want to talk about riffs, too?

We're sitting at 45 minutes here. Let's just play some Kingfisher. All right. Let's do it, dude. Fine. And this is a single. You know, we don't play singles, but we're doing it now. All right.

Here we go. Here's Kingfisher. A good song to end on cue. Yeah, and there's like a really cool outro part to this song that we'll use our outro for this episode, Jeff. Now, here's something I'd like to know. Obviously, that's not him. back in the vocals there. No, dude, that was someone else for sure.

I'm wondering if it's the flute player because the flute, the flautist was credited again, Rebecca, and that was definitely a female vocalist. I wonder if it was her. And she's on Kingfisher. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she must have been, yeah,

she must have been the back singer, the background singer. Yeah. Yeah, another just, yeah, just a solid, like, showcase of that guitar work, man. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, like I said, man, riff machines these guys. It's like, it's like, just listen to the sentence cue, because it's true. There are guitar players that go their whole lives without writing a single riff as good as one of these tracks.

Yeah, dude. That's a sad statement to say out there for guitar players who have been playing for years. But it's true. You know, to write a catchy riff, that's, I mean, that's what separates the posers. from the genuine article, Kea. For sure, man. And they got the beards to prove it. I know, dude.

And this photo. You gotta have be beards. The guy, he must be the lead singer, the guy on the, this guy with the, with the mop or whatever. It's got to be him. He looks like he tried out for Midlake and they said, why don't you go do your own thing? That's funny, dude.

I was thinking of Midlake, too. It looks a lot like the Midlake guys, the lead singer specifically. But anyway. Yeah, dude. Yeah. The cool thing about Kingfisher, I mean, they loved that riff so much. There's a Kingfisher reprise, and there's a Kingfisher reprise, too. They're like, let's just fucking milk it.

Let's just keep rolling with it. They kind of just take that riff and play with a little bit, like outside of the proper song. Yeah, well, I mean, if this is kind of a, like, a concept album in the sense that, like, it has a theme of, like, this story that they're trying to tell about, like, post-human world. Then, yeah, it's kind of cool that Kingfisher could be considered like the theme song of this story. And Kingfisher is a bird for those who don't know. That's a bird. Did you know that, Trap? I mean, I do now.

Yeah, they're often seen on lakes, I believe. Catching fish, Jeff. With a name like Kingfisher, they better be near a body of water of some type. Chab, any cartoons come to mind when you hear that word? Kingfisher? Yeah, I want to see if you remember. No, but I'm sure it'll pop up. Let me see if I can find.

Oh, yeah, okay. Oh, this is just a read. That's funny. Tommy's granddad was like, I think it was a boat or something or a fishing rod or something. Oh, man. I'm definitely going to put that clip in the episode, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. They're like trying. It was like a sweepstakes or something. They were trying to win this like it was either a boat or a fishing rod. And that's awesome. It was called the King Fisher 9,000. Oh, that's awesome, dude. Somebody out there got that reference probably before the clip was played.

Yeah, dude. 90s kids, right? Dude, Nickelodeon was at one point the greatest thing ever. At one point, it's... Just don't watch that documentary, man. You know? Yeah. But let's just put it this way, dude.

When you and I were watching Nickelodeon, those shenanigans weren't happening, dude. Wait, you're talking about the new documentary? Yeah, I'm talking about the new documentary. I'm not watching that, dude. I'm talking about the new documentary. If you want to watch a documentary that doesn't leave you with a bad taste in your mouth, watch the orange ears, because that's... That talks about kind of the golden years, the golden age of Nickelodeon.

But don't watch whatever that other one's called. If you're around our age and if you grew up with Nickelodeon at the time that we did, early 90s, early mid-90s, check out our episode on Polaris. Because we spend a lot of time talking about the orange years of Nickelodeon in that episode. And we play a bunch of clips from Pete and Pete. Yeah. And we talked about what made Nickelodeon so unique and, like, special. And I feel like it shaped a lot of my, like, I don't know, my sense of, I don't know, my style.

That grungy kind of style of the 90s in general, like, what I like about Nickelodeon is it, like, leaned into it as well, but with, like, you know, through the lens of kids, you know. Yeah, Clarissa explains it all That was a grungy-ass show Dude, we talked about this on the episode But like, it's nuts when you think about The fact that Michael Stipe was on Pete and Pete Of R-EM

I think Blondie was on it Was Michael Stipe? He was like an ice cream man or something like that? Ice cream man, yeah, yeah And then What's his name? Wasn't Iggy Pop on there too? Yes, Iggy Pop, that's what I was thinking of

But there was a bunch of well-known musicians and not to mention the soundtrack itself is a ton of like jangle pop alt rock bands from the 90s so like dude we were we were getting a heavy dose of the kind of music that we yeah we weren't thinking about the music back then dude we were just saying for for pete and pete but yeah check out that anyway i was going to say just go look at the episode yeah go listen to the episode if you enjoyed the music or you know what even if you're if you're too young to enjoy the adventure mentions of Pete and Pete, if you're a fan of this podcast, you will love Polaris and the music that was featured

on that show. And we cover it heavily on that episode. Well, and then, of course, we have to mention that the episode that came out before that one was about Miracle Legion, which was, you know, the first, you know, version of the band, I guess, if you will. Miracle Legion is the band, and then Polaris is like the fictional version of the themselves that they came up with for the band that they were going to play in the P&P universe. So, yeah.

The song Butterflies by Miracle Legion, I revisit it often and I just fucking love that song, dude. Yeah, it's, it's, it gives me the warm tinglies, dude, every time. I think in general, Polaris, the lead, let's just credit the lead singer. Mark Mulcahai, I think. Yeah. Mark Mulcahai. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Nothing better than it. But yeah, go back and listen to those episodes. You know, dude, we're knocking on episode 300's door. We got to make sure we don't let that pass us by. I was worried you were going to miss it. I think it's coming up. It might be next year when it happens. but, you know, because we're only putting on an episode or two episodes a month.

Let me check what the count is here on good old iTunes, because iTunes actually puts the episode number. It's very considerate of them. We are on episode. Oh, man, we're getting close, dude. So we are, I guess this would be 295, 296. So, yeah, well, we're going to. to do it before before we get to our

year-end episodes, our year-end wrap-up episodes. So at this pace, we will get to our 300th episode in either October or November. Dang, dude. Awesome. So we got to figure something else or something out to do

for that. We got to do a big episode. Maybe we could try to get a guest on for that. Who's it going to be? Well, we'll find out, huh? stick around it'll probably just be the two of us stalking each other

but uh you never know it'd be cool to get Mark from the record store get him back on that'd be fun yeah dude I forgot that we did an episode of them all right anyways yeah

we're going on a tangent here so that's Wolf people that's ruins that's one of my favorite albums man top 10 always in forever All right, well, that's going to wrap us up. Well, Trabb, do you have your next pick in mind?

So we've got to watch your herd coming up, but then balls in your part next, dude. What are you going to play? What's you got for us? Any idea? You know, Q, I'm going to think on that because you just brought some hard rock, some heavy rock. I would like to do something to mix it up as well because I feel like a lot of our deep dive here have been kind of in the same ballpark. Yeah, I agree.

So you just kind of mix it up a little bit with Will Parade. So maybe I could give us, you know, get another flavor in there. So we'll see. Sounds good, man. Yeah. I got some good tracks for next watcher here, June. I'm excited. All right, well, that's going to do it for us here.

Thanks for listening. I hope you got to rock out with us with some killer riffs from Wolf. Dude, I keep wanting to say Wolf Parade, which is a different band. Wolf people And also, don't confuse them with Wolf Mother Wolf Mother Yeah Remember that band?

They tried to do Like the Zeppelin Sabbath thing And they just didn't do it As well There's too many In my opinion Wolf bands dude Is Wolf Mother the one I was thinking of

From like back in the day? Yeah, they had one song Joker and a thief That was a huge single But they were Don't get me started On this kind of tangent because, you know, I just feel like...

Was Wolf Mother the band I was thinking of last time when you mentioned Wolf Parade? Probably. And it's probably Wolf Mother, dude. Anyway, wolf this, wolf that, dude. There's Sea Wolf. Remember Sea Wolf? That's our last name, Trent. That's right.

I'm not giving anything away because it's not our last name anymore. Anyway. I try to figure that out, people. Yeah, wolf people, ruins. go listen to the record because if we didn't just pique your interest enough we only played four or five tracks

there's a whole record to go listen to it's a yeah it's a beautiful record all the way through man definitely give it a listen next time we'll come at you with another what you heard episode until next time thanks for listening as always my name is Travis

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