No Filler Music Podcast - Jesse Johnson & The Minneapolis Sound

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

As part of his contract with Warner Bros., Prince was able to recruit and produce his own artists. One of those bands was The Time, formed in 1981 fronted by Morris Day with Jesse Johnson on lead guitar. Based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Time's blend of funk rock with elements of synth-pop and new wave was the origin of what came to be known as the Minneapolis sound. A collection of songs written by Prince that allowed him to experiment and be a bit edgier than the music he wrote under his own name, The Time's debut is an absolute blast of a gem from that era, with Jesse Johnson shredding on the guitar in moments that rival the best of 80s glam metal. We play a couple of tracks off his solo record Jesse Johnson's Revue, where he carried the torch of The Time and continued to cultivate that unmistakable Minneapolis sound. Tracklist: Jesse Johnson - Be Your Man The Time - 777-9311 The Time - Cool The Time - Jungle Love Jesse Johnson - Just Too Much Jesse Johnson - Special Love This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 is Quentin. I've got my brother Travis with me as always. And today we are covering Jesse Johnson and his album from 1985, Jesse Johnson's review. Travis, do you have your pop filter on, brother? Yes, I do have my pop filter on cue. Thank you for checking. Just making sure, dude. Because, yeah, I think, I don't know, maybe a couple episodes ago, I went half the show without

my pop filter on. Probably the vast majority of people didn't notice, but... My ears are offended, dude, when I listen back to it. I mean... I'm just kidding, dude. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. You.

Sometimes, if you have just your standard run-of-the-meal microphone, A pop filter could go a long way. Yeah, dude, for sure. But there are companies out there that make microphones, you just plug it in and your voice sounds buttery smooth, just all of a sudden. You know what I mean? How's mine sound, dude? Is it better it today?

Well, that's what I was going to say. I mean, what I was trying to figure out Q is what is going on with your voice lately? Because it sounds amazing right now. Like, did you, I mean, what did you? get a new microphone or what? I mean, I know the answer to this question, Q. I did, man. We got the hookup.

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Yeah, dude, what more do you need to know? Our dad, if you haven't listened to some of our previous episodes where we had him on, he used to be a radio DJ. And like, what more do you need to hear, you know? That's what professional broadcasters were. lie on or AKG microphones. And you can get yourself the podcaster essential kit for a pretty affordable price. Yeah, dude.

And the kit also comes with Ableton Live Light. It comes with the latest edition, which is what I used to mix and edit our show. So like it really does come with everything you need to start a podcast. Yeah, that's cool. Amazing. It's awesome. Yeah. All right, Q, let's talk about like you said, right at the beginning, man.

And that song that you chose to play us in, I mean, if you're not stoked, I don't know what's going to stoke you, you know. Because I just love this kind of music. And it's just, it's hard not to tap your feet, you know, and just start getting into the groove here, man. So that song was Be Your Man, which is one of the singles off of Jesse Johnson's debut solo record. again, it's called Jesse Johnson's review. So before he did solo stuff, Jesse Johnson was in a band called The Time. Have you ever heard of them, dude?

I don't believe I have. Actually, we've talked about the time before. Yeah. We have. So he was in a group with Prince. No, so yeah, here's what I found out today. Because I was wrong. I thought Prince was in the time.

Okay. Prince was the guy that pulled this group together and formed the band. Okay. So here's what happened. As per a clause in Prince's contract with Warner Brothers, he was allowed to recruit and produce other artists for the label. First off, I don't know how common that is, but talk about an awesome bonus for Prince, you know? He's like, all right, I'll sign with the record label, but you got to give me freedom to bring artists that I know.

and produce albums. I mean, if you're the record label, that's a no-brainer to me. Because I'm a tastemaker, you know, I'm Prince, right? I know what I'm doing. I have a great taste for what's hot. Right. And I'm going to make you guys a bunch of money if you let me bring my friends in to record some music. I mean, yeah, if you're the record label, like that's a, that's a no-brainer, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. So something I didn't really know about. And actually, while we're at it, dude, let's talk a little bit about Detroit Techno. And I'm going to bring all this back around, dude. Okay. I'm curious how you tie these two ends together. So we had a message from a listener on Twitter a couple weeks ago when we posted our Andy Stott episode that kind of pointed us in the right direction and revealed to us that the techno genre came out of Detroit.

I could have sworn up and down that it was somewhere over in like Sweden or something that techno originated from. But it was Detroit. And it was kind of stemmed from a bunch of dance clubs around the late 70s, early 80s, started spinning a bunch of disco records. There were a few DJs in Detroit that were playing a bunch of funk alongside like synth pop, like craftwork. and stuff like that. And these young DJs in Detroit started kind of mixing and scratching disco records and kind of throwing their own beats on it. Basically, that's how techno is born.

So I didn't know about this genre of funk rock. It's called the Minneapolis Sound, which is basically pioneered by Prince. The Minneapolis Sound is funk rock mixed with synth pop. R&B and new wave. That's why the sound is so unique, you know. It's awesome, dude. So this is all around the same time, late 70s, early 80s. So in Detroit, they were mixing funk with synth pop, but like with a more disco bend.

Yeah. Minneapolis Sound with Prince and bands like The Time, Morris Day, who's the lead singer of the time. but they were all kind of throwing that funky stank on new wave. Dude, what a, that's fucking awesome. So like, I know, man, you know, I feel like the word fusion doesn't get used, or it does get used, but for a very specific, you know, fusion to me, I always think of jazz rock fusion. You know what I mean? But it's safe to say that this is a fusion of all of these genres, right?

For sure. Yeah. It is, so it is a subgenre of funk. Yeah. And so I'm going to read this straight, pulling this straight from Wikipedia, but this is a pretty great summary of it. And they were just going to jump right into our first song. So actually, you know what? No, let's play a song first.

Okay, so I'm going to play a couple songs from The Time. So Jesse Johnson played lead guitar for the time. Again, they were all brought together by Prince. Prince was longtime childhood friends with Morris Day, who's the lead singer in the time. So Jesse Johnson didn't really, he wrote a few songs, like co-wrote a few songs for the time. But really, I just want to show off this Minneapolis sound if you're not familiar with it yet. So I'm going to play a song from their second studio album called What Time Is It? Do all of their song names have the word Time in it?

No. No. But he pretty much like at least once in a lot of songs, he'll ask what time it is. I got it. I'll be like, what time is it? All right, so I've got a couple clips to play here. So this is a song again off of their second studio album. What Time Is It from 1982?

This song is called 777-9311. You just can't get just like, it's just so, it's just so smooth. It's fucking cool, man. It's just cool. And super cool, yeah. It's just, there's just so much swagger going on. You know? I'm not joking, dude.

I've been, I've been singing that all day. Who needs 8, 6, 7, 5,309 when you hear of this? All right. All right, dude. So I wasn't going to play this. But I, so I listened to their first album, self-titled, came out a year before, what time is it? And I just want to play the outro of, so number one.

Well, I don't have a number two, but they have some, like, 10 minutes. songs that are just straight up funky jams on more so in their first album. But I want to play this is a 10-minute song, dude. I just want to play a little bit of the fade-out. And, you know, I was talking about just how fucking cool these dudes are. Well, this song is called cool, and he's pretty much spending the entire time talking about how cool he is. Listen to how awesome this outro is.

All right, so this is again from the Times debut record from 81. This song is called Cool. Oh, man. I'm so awesome dude I love it yeah dude it's just having it's just having a fucking blast man

yeah man he's like asking questions to his bandmates he says band and they go what is anybody hot he's like no he's like you know why why because we're cool so awesome dude I love it yeah all right

so here's something that we got to point out Q maybe you already said this but what makes this music even more interesting or cool, as they said in that song, is that Prince wrote most of these songs, which is crazy. This was his baby. So, like, basically, so, yeah, it's not just that he,

let me think about it. From Prince's perspective, he's putting together a band, so he's going to pick only members who can play, like, his own music, right? I'm reading an article here about Jesse Johnson, And basically, you know, the way they're putting it is, you know, the Times music was an outlet for Prince to release harder funk songs that he was unable to release under his own name. And they're saying, if you're going to be playing songs that Prince wrote live, then you have to be as good as Prince. And Prince, you have to have the look, too.

You got to have this, yeah, you've got to be able to pull it off. But I guess the point that this article is trying to make, because, you know, Jesse Johnson is a guitar. player. Prince is an amazing, incredible guitar player, you know, arguably one of the most underrated guitar players of all time. Yeah, so Jesse Johnson's got the chops. Right. That's the point that this article is trying to make. But like, Prince doesn't get the attention that Eddie Van Halen got. Right. Jimmy Page. He's not up. He's not considered a guitar god, quote unquote, up with all those other guys. But he's, he's got, he's got the chops. He just didn't, he just didn't highlighted as much in his playing and stuff as some of the other guitar players did.

But, you know, anyway, so the point that this article is trying to make is that Jesse Johnson can throw down on the guitar because he has to. He's got to pull off what, you know, whatever music prints came up with for this man. I'm about to show off his guitar work a little bit. Yeah, hold on. Let me ask you this. Because this actually gives at a specific, are you going to play the guitar solo from 7779-9-3-11? I am. Okay, cool. So here's what this article says, actually. actually, says for an example of Jesse, ripping an absolutely monstrous guitar solo,

skip to eight minutes and 18 seconds. That's what we're about to do, brother. There you go, man. So, yeah, here's the guitar solo from 7779-9-311. I mean, that's what's great about this. So you faded it out, yeah. So, I mean, that's what's great about. About the Minneapolis sound, right?

Yeah, exactly. Prince's sound here that he cultivated. it's like, what else are you going to hear a guitar solo like that in a funk song, you know, or a new wave song, right? Yeah, dude. And I'm glad you say that because I'm going to read off a list here of distinguishing characteristics. So yeah, it's a form of funk, but here's what makes it the Minneapolis sound. So the synthesizers replace the horns.

And they're used more as accent than as fill or background. The rhythm is often faster and less syncopated. than traditional funk owed much to the new wave sound. Guitars, while usually played clean for rhythm parts, were frequently much louder and more aggressively processed during solos than in traditional funk. The bottom of the sound was less bass-heavy than traditional funk. Drums and keyboards filled more of the bottom, and the drums were more highly processed than in traditional funk.

It's just cool, man. It's just a cool sound. Like they were saying, dude, they had a whole song about it. They called it cool. Is anybody hot? Didn't think so because we're cool. Yeah, they didn't have to explain it to us, but in case anybody was confused, they're like, hey, we're going to spill it out for you. So the time really skyrocketed after Prince starred in the movie Purple Rain. Now, I'm going to admit my ignorance here, dude.

I'm almost afraid to admit this. I've never watched Purple Rain. Well, I haven't either, but I, so I knew that Purple Rain. was an album of princes, but I didn't realize that it was a soundtrack to a movie called Purple Rain. This is our ignorance about Prince, but did they make an album around the movie, or did they make the movie around their album? Was the music written first?

Purple Rain was supported with its soundtrack album of the same name. So Prince wrote the songs for the movie. he plays a character called The Kid, loosely based off himself. You know what, cute, let's just, let's just tell it like it is. The purpose of the film was to sell records. That's why they, for sure. They just threw all of these bands on there, all under the same label, right? Weren't these all three Warner Bros?

Yeah, it says here, dude, Purple Rain was developed to showcase Prince's talents, and the film contains several concert sequences. Yeah, and it was distributed by Warner Bros. Hala. Yeah. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, the, reason that I brought that up is because that, you know, once that this movie

came out, and it did really well, actually. The time they fucking skyrocketed. And one of the songs featured in the film by the time was co-written by Jesse Johnson. So that's the reason I bring it up, because this is a little bit of what Jesse Johnson was able to bring

to the table as far as like songwriting skills go. So we're going to play a little bit of that. And then we're going to get to Jesse Johnson's review. This song's great, dude. I don't know if you've heard it before. you may have. But again, so this is the time. This is a song that was featured in Purple Rain. It shows up in their album, Ice Cream Castle from 1984. This song is called Jungle Love. Here, there are very few certainties in life, you know. Yeah. But one of them is that this band must have been an absolute blast to see live. I mean, I can't even imagine.

Their stage presence is obviously amazing. Now, here's something that we've got to talk about. If you're a fan of Kevin Smith and any of the stuff that he does. And I think it's an understatement to say that you are a Kevin Smith fan. The funny thing about that, Q, is that I'm more of a fan of the people that, well, we don't have to get into this. His buddies? His buddies, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, the time showed up in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, doing a performance at an after party. Do they do this song? I don't know what song they do. That's cool. But all I know is like I recognize, I was looking at, I was trying to figure out how, like, why I recognized Morris Day. And it's because he shows up in that film. Yeah. Cool.

With the time. Which, I mean, that's kind of crazy because Jane Silent Bob Strike Back. came out in 2001. So like... Damn. I don't know why. Here's the thing. Kevin Smith, like, if he throws...

If he throws anybody into his film or any band or anything like that, it means that he's a fan of that group or... Right. You know what I mean? So, I mean, it's safe to say that Kevin Smith was a fan of the time. Yeah, that's cool. And that's kind of like with John Hughes, you know? If you were going to show up in a John Hughes film, chances are it's

because he's a fan of your music, which that's a great segue. Because Jesse Johnson and Jesse Johnson's review has kind of a cameo, if you will, in Pretty and Pink. We played that song in our Pretty and Pink episode. And we're going to play that song again, dude. Sorry, if you're going to hear it again. Sorry, because I just love the song. And it's a non-single, so that's fair game. But yeah, so Jesse Johnson splits.

I want to say that the time kind of splitting apart was mutual, you know, like no bad blood from when I read. But Jesse Johnson started doing his own stuff. So this is just more the same of that funky Minneapolis sound. I always want to put another in in there, dude, Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Minneapolis.

But yeah, so in the, and there's a record store that's featured quite a lot in pretty and pink that they all hang out at. Molly Ringwald's character works there. And one of the posters on the wall is the, it's a poster of the album art of Jesse Johnson's review. And you just fall out of your chair. No, that's my cat's a wrecking shit. What'd have been funny if you did, dude. Here we go, pretty big. The song, there's a Jesse Johnson song called Get to a,

to know you that is on the Pretty and Pink soundtrack. Not the biggest fan of that one. But anyways, needless to say, John Hughes was a big fan of Jesse Johnson, and he was a fan of Jesse Johnson's review. So let's dive right into a track from that album. So again, I don't have that much to say about his solo stuff other than he fucking killed it with this album. What more do you need to know?

Yeah. Dude, everything about this record, man, the cover... Oh, dude, I've got it right here, man. I've been looking at it. Yeah. Like the, you know, the aesthetic of the cover is just perfect. Yeah, man. It just oozes that, that Minneapolis cool, you know?

What? I don't know. Are they even, are they from Minneapolis? What's going on here? Well, I don't know. Because, yeah, it's not like you have to be from Minneapolis to play that style of funk, but, uh, the Minneapolis. sound originated in Minneapolis.

I know that much. All right, dude. So, again, if you listen to our Pretty and Pink, Hughes Tunes episode, this is going to sound familiar. But this is my favorite song on Jesse Johnson's review. So we're going to play it again. This is track four off the album.

It is called Just Too Much. Man, those bass lines, dude. Killer. Just that funky's bass slapping, you know? Yeah. And that's why, you know, I feel like if you If you blend any genre with funk, you know, you're going to get that great bass. It's going to be a banger.

That great bass sound. Yeah, dude. Yeah, man. I love the way, and Morris Day does this in the time, too, so I don't know if Jesse borrows this from him, but I love how either they'll shout out another bandmate before a solo is played, or they kind of do like a sing it, you know, like, or good God. Right. That's a longstanding tradition and fun.

Sure. But yeah. The intro song for this episode, Be Your Man. He does that too. He's like, drums. A lot of frontmen and women do this, you know, where they're like, you know what, we're going to pass it over to the bass player for a solo. I'm all about it.

I like it, too. A little shout out to your other bandmates. You got to, you know, these people aren't. aren't just hunks of meat up there. You know, they have names too. Yeah. And a lot of people don't know their names. Let's name them off, dude.

I got the album sleeve right here, man. Actually, you know what's funny, dude? It's got their signs in parentheses, if you guys want to know. So, Jesse Johnson's a Gemini. He's guitar and lead vocals. There are some people that definitely want to know that. I'm not one of them, but... Well, you got Mark Cardenas.

He's Aquarius. Keyboards, vocals. Bobby Vandell, also Aquarius, drums, vocals, Jerry Hubbard, he's a Leo, bass and vocals, you got Michael Baker, also a Leo, he's guitar and vocals, and you got Tim Bradley, he's a Virgo, keyboards and vocals.

That's a six-member band, dude. So is there any crossover between the time? Yep, Mark was in the time. So this is like, and I feel like this is my go-to example for bands that or collectives or whatever but this is like Queens of the Stone Age

well that's another good example I was gonna say Tame Impala or Kevin Parker and his uh you know all the the Perth musicians from oh yeah that he runs in in Perth Australia yeah but yeah and that's you know it is actually very similar

same with uh Josh Hamey right I mean you got Prince who sort of has his his band of musicians that he sort of introduced to the world by forming the time. And then you got Josh Hami and all the desert session stuff. And it makes sense, dude. If you vibe well with musicians, why not pull them into your solo stuff, you know? Sure, yeah.

All right, man. So I got one more song to play off of Jesse Johnson's review. This one's got a little bit different vibe. I'm a big fan of it. So this is track seven. it's called special love. So it's interesting that, like, he doesn't really highlight his guitar skills all that much on this solo record. He doesn't on, on this one.

Like, I feel like these are more, like, dialed in, like, pop songs. You know, like, they're way shorter than the stuff he was doing in the time. Yeah, I wonder if he was, if that was, you know, a directive from the record label. you know because i mean you think about it like prince it sounds like prince formed the time so that he could experiment more more with his music and just have this other band perform it right i mean right so i wonder if jesse was like you know if he got this record deal with the you know expectation that it would be a little bit more like packageable or whatever you know more polished and stuff he did a range and produced this record himself so he was the producer of it

but let me say I will say this uh so in 1996 he released an album called bear my naked soul and it's straight up rock dude it's so okay so a little over 10 years later he is doing uh now i think that's the only one that's like that but yeah bear bear my naked soul is straight up good solid rock um you know cranking up the distortion and um it kind of feels like that's like that's like it's kind of feels like like, I don't know who came first, but it's very, like, Linney Cravitz vibes, that kind of stuff. Okay. Now, that's someone I had known nothing about, dude. When did Lenny Kravitz, like, start his journey?

I don't know, man. You know, I've never been, I loved him in the Hunger Games. I'll say that. But I haven't really been, let's put it this way. I've never been a big fan of the singles that he put out. So I've never had any reason to dig a little deeper. Dude, he's been around since 85 as far as, like, records go. I would love to listen to some of his stuff in the 80s.

Let's do it, man. Why not? Let's do it. Maybe, yeah, maybe we'll dig into that a little bit. So, I mean, that's all I got for Jesse Johnson. Tribe, do you want to do a little sneaky peekie on who we're covering next? Because I'm pretty excited about diving into this guy. And I think it pairs really well with Jesse Johnson and the Minneapolis sound.

Yeah. So next week, we are talking about an artist that goes by the name Blood Orange. His name is Dev Hines. And this is, I mean, to me, his music is the next evolution of the Minneapolis sound. Yeah, I think so. It is exactly, there's no new wave necessarily, although there's a song that features Blondie in it, right? Which is a new wave band.

Maybe we'll play that song. But anyway, I guess I should say Debbie Harry, not blondey. But, you know what I mean? But anyway, it is R&B, funk, and electronic with sort of an indie rock sound. And he's really got, like he said, man, he's carrying the Prince torch, I think, really well. Yes, absolutely. And so, yeah, it's a perfect album and artist to cover after talking about Prince and Jesse Johnson at the time and all that stuff. Because this is it.

Like if you're looking for a modern group that sounds like these guys, this is him. It's Dev Hines, for sure. So yeah, I don't know if we're going to pick, if we're going to do one album or cover just a few songs like spread out. Because he's done, he's been doing this since 2011. I remember covering coastal grooves, or at least featuring some songs from coastal grooves, back in our music blog days when we ran No Filler. I always get the name mixed up. New Dust, which was the name of our indie music blog.

And I very distinctly remember doing some stuff from Blood Orange back in 2011. Yeah, our buddy Josh that started that blog with us was a big, probably still. a big blood orange fan. Coastal grooves, Cupid deluxe shows up on no filler as well. Damn it. I said it, dude.

A new dust, I meant to say. Well, well, it also shows up on no filler because this showed up, blood orange showed up in our, our top 100 songs of the 2010s. Oh, dude,

he makes it on the top 10 list of the 2010s. Yeah, and he also makes it on the top 100. So, you know, because I remember, if I remember correctly, our top 100 list

we could not have any singles on it. And then our top 10, we allot ourselves to do singles. But yeah, a song from, like you just said, a song from Cuba Deluxe was on our top 10 of 2010. And then a song from Freetown Sound showed up in our top 100. And we should clarify top 10 of the 20 tens that entire decade. Exactly. So we're big fans of this guy. Big fans.

And I think we'll probably do kind of that exact thing. We'll cover just a few songs, different songs. I'll try to pick different songs than what we have already played or have featured in some way or another on no filler just to sort of mix it up a little bit. But yeah, I love what he does, man. He's great. He's amazing. Anyway, so yeah, that's next week. And then we're just going to keep on going here.

Well, yeah. And then, hey, let's remind everyone, too. So after Blood Orange, a couple weeks from now, will be our second full-length, what-you-heard episode. So I guess we should bring that up again. We're no longer doing our What You Heard's at the end of each episode. That's where we bring a song each that we've heard in between recordings. For 2021, we are bringing a handful of songs each per month and doing it as an entire episode. So it's like a What You Heard format for an entire episode.

And the first one I thought was a lot of fun, dude. I think we brought some great tunes. I thought it was entertaining. So we're going to keep... It's a blast. Yeah, man. I can't wait for the next one. Yeah.

I can't wait. I mean, kind of like we said, if it's not obvious by now, we just love sharing music with people. It's what we've been doing for over a decade. Like we just mentioned, which is crazy to think about. Yeah. We covered Blood Orange on our music blog a decade ago. So we've been doing this for a long time. All right.

Yeah, so that's that. That was Mr. Jesse Johnson. and I mean between his stuff on his solar record and the stuff from the time, it's like, dude, I'm just, I'm feeling like I can just float around the room right now. It's hard not to just do a little dance in your pants when you listen to that stuff, dude. If you are listening to this podcast and you saw the time perform live in the 80s, please tell us about it on Twitter. I would love to know what that must have been like.

Because if they've got a 10-minute track on their record, they must have had some amazing jam sessions. I would imagine. I would imagine. Maybe not. Maybe they were super polished and stuck to the record. But when you have that much talent on stage, I can't imagine them not doing some improv and stuff like that.

You know what I mean? Especially when you have Jesse Johnson doing a guitar work like that. Yeah. Well, in purple rain, dude, during the jungle love performance, Morris Day asks, like, where's my mirror or something like that? And some guy just brings out a huge, like, very ornate mirror and just holds it in front of him so he can comb his hair up on stage during the song. Oh, man. See, I hope they did that kind of stuff. I mean, that could have been just a gimmick for the movie, but...

Dude, I'm sure they did. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, man. And then the guy with the mirror just turns to face the crowd and does the little... dance jig and sync with the rest of the band members along with the song. Dude. What happened to that kind of showmanship, man? Yeah. Anyway, I love it.

All right. If you want to hear more of our shows, you can find us on our website, no filler podcast.com, where you can find every episode in our catalog going back to episode one. Every episode has a show notes page, a dedicated page to the show where we have our track list. So any song that was. play it on an episode.

You'll find it on the show notes page. Any resources that we... Are you out of your fucking mind? Are you out of your mind, dude? All right, hold on. I don't know if I should leave that name, but Travis just recently got two kitties and they are confined in the room with him

while we were recording this. And I guess they must have killed Travis took him down so yeah they just knocked over an old iMac computer that we don't use it oh my gosh dude anyway well if that doesn't wreck my ears when I listen back to it I might leave all that in dude yeah I would imagine that that's going to look like a huge sound wave on my recording here now you were talking about our show notes yeah Let me take over for you. Yeah, yeah.

Let me take over. Yeah. So no fillerpodcast.com. That's where you can find our show notes. We are also on the Pantheon podcast network. It's pantheonpodcasts.com. It is a music-centered podcast network filled with dozens of awesome music podcasts within the network. We are happy to be part of the family.

Again, that's pantheonpodcasts. com. And also again, thanks to Pantheon sponsor, AKG for supporting the show. And you can also find us on Twitter at No Filler Podcast. Send us a tweet. Let us know what you've been heard in lately. Really, though. Share music that you've been listening to with us. Start a dialogue about Minneapolis Sound or other bands that you like that fall into this category. That's what we're all about sharing and listening to music with other. with other people. So jump on Twitter and get a conversation going with us. We will be

giddy as schoolboys. No joke. We'll probably jump up and down with excitement if you send us a tweet. And that's it. So again, next week, we will be jamming to some blood orange. Pretty stoked about that, dude, can't wait? That's going to be fun. And until then, thank you as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Y'all take care. Boom.