No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: Army of Anyone

Episode Date: April 6, 2020

Three years after the dissolution of Stone Temple Pilots, Dean and Robert DeLeo joined forces with Filter frontman Richard Patrick in 2005 to form the short-lived supergroup Army of Anyone. The band's debut single "Goodbye" peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart, but ultimately the veterans of 90s era grunge and alt rock didn't have the staying power against the nu-metal groups that then dominated the charts. Tracklist Army of Anyone - "Goodbye" Army of Anyone - "Stop Look and Listen" El Ten Eleven - "With Report" Exmag - Low Tide This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network Visit our sponsor Adam & Eve for 50% off almost any item, get tons of free gifts AND receive free shipping. Just go to adamandeve.com and type “NOFILLER” at checkout. 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. Last week, we covered Stone Temple Pilots Purple. And this week we're covering a band called Army of Anyone, which consists of the DeLeo brothers who play guitar and bass in Stone Temple Pilots. Is that right, Trapp? That's right, Q. That's Dean and Robert DeLio.

Dean of the guitar variety and Robert of the bass variety of the DeLeo varietals, if you will. I will do that, dude. I will do that. And so technically this is a super group, Q because not only does it feature guitar and bass player of Stone's Topo Pilots, it also features the frontman of the band Filter. His name is Richard. Richard Patrick. And some of us may remember, take a picture. Hey, man, nice shot.

Some of their mega hits from the 90s. So. I really like to take a picture. Yeah, that was one of those, you know, it, and when you listen to their first record, they're talking about filter right now, when you listen to their short record, it's called short bus.

Their first record called short bus. It's a little bit heavier. It's got some like industrial qualities. to it. And then you listen to a song like Take a Picture, and it kind of shows both sides of this guy, Richard Patrick, who sounds to me like he was kind of the brains behind all things filter related, so much so that, from what I understand, he was basically putting together a record, like another filter record by himself with just his computer when he reached out to the DeLeo brothers just to help him with the songwriting.

So they didn't plan on doing like a side project together, like a group. He just brought them in and basically, you know, when they came into the studio, they're like, hey, where is everybody, you know? Because they didn't realize he was trying to, you know, he was making all these songs by himself, you know. And yeah, so this was 2006 when this record came out. So that was kind of the thing, right? bands were starting to really rely heavily on the computer by this point, right?

Anyway, basically, he kind of says that the, you know, the two worlds collided, right? Because the DeLeo brothers were very much used to, you know, walking into a studio and just jamming it out. Right. Working it out as a band. And they came out with this record called Army of Anyone. Well, that was the name of the band. Also the name of the record. It was self-title.

So, you know, we've been in the 90s the last three weeks. This album did not technically come out in the 90s, but it felt like a good side track because it involves two of the guys from Stone Tip of Pilots. Oops. What was that? That was the microphone falling over. Two of the guys from Stone Tipal Pilots and another well-known 90s band filter. So I don't know anything about Army of Anyone. Were you aware of them before looking into this?

No, not at all. But I mean, apparently they had a single that peaked at number three on the charts. So the intro song was Goodbye, which is one of the singles. Another one from this album is called Father Figure. So which one was it? Goodbye. Goodbye, yeah. So I was curious because if this is,

hits number three on the charts, what else was on the charts in 2006, right? Yeah. Let me see if I can find one here because I've got, these are year-end charts. So I have a year-end rock chart for 2006. So yeah, this kind of says it all, dude. I'm looking right now. Well, okay, so this came out in July. Yeah.

That single. So. Yeah. So by the end of the year, this at least gives you an idea of the landscape of rock music back in 2006. I guess you and I were not, we were into bands that didn't make it on the radio by this point. I mean, by this time you've got the strokes, you've got Spoon doing their thing. But on the rock charts, on the Billboard Rock Charts at least, at number one, you've got a band that I have almost zero knowledge of, a band called Three Days Grace.

I don't know why, but every time I hear that name, I just, My face kind of scrunches up. Yeah. And then you've got Godsmack in number two. Oh. Red hot chili peppers, number three. Mm-hmm. So, there you go.

And, oh, here we go. You ready? I'm ready. Nickelback number four. Oh. With a song named Animals, which I've never heard. It probably sounds exactly like whatever that other song is. Yeah, dude, it's every song was the same formula for those dudes.

So coming in at number seven is corn with a song called Coming Undone. And- Well, dude, I'm glad you mentioned, to corn because we didn't give a shout out to the drummer of Army of anyone, a guy named Ray Lusier, Lusier, I don't fucking know. Lusia, Lusia. Yeah, and he plays drums in corn now, is that correct? He went on, yeah, I don't know if he's the current, is he the current drummer?

I don't know. According to Wikipedia, maybe. Yeah, just look to see if he, is he listed under past members? Nope, he's still in there. He's the current drummer. Okay, yeah, I don't, I don't think he, he's not the original drummer. But yeah, apparently this guy, Ray, played in David Lee Roth's band prior to joining Army of Anyone.

So he kind of, you know, bounced around. And you're not talking Van Halen. I couldn't tell you if this was just a separate. No, I guess it wasn't. It wasn't. Of course it wasn't. Shame on me. Yeah, so David Lee Roth obviously had long since left Van Halen by that point.

Anyway, let's just get into it, man. this is again like I'm kind of coming to this group purely because of the connection to Stone Tip of Pilots I thought about playing some Velvet Revolver which is Scott Whelan's side project but basically that's what was happening with Stone Tip of Pilots at this time they had split apart essentially around 2000 2002 around 2002 and yeah did you read did you see what what the breakup was due to. Some sort of a fight between DeLeo, one of the DeLio's and Scott Wayland. Yeah, and that was because of Wayland's issues with substance abuse.

Okay. So, but so then Scott went on to play in Velvet Revolver around that time as well? Yeah, I think it's around the same time. So they all kind of split and sort of did their own projects, basically. And, you know, Q, as you know, the brothers had to stick together because that's what brothers do. That's what brothers do. Exactly. And I've got to say, I liked what I heard from goodbye in that intro.

That's the first time I heard it. I liked it. Yeah. So the song I picked was actually a little bit softer than the one you heard. So we're going to listen to a track here called Stop, Look, and Listen. I like that. It's good. Yeah.

Pretty neutral, safe song, right? If you want to put it that way. Yeah. Yeah, but still good. It was catchy. I like to when it got nice and quiet towards the end there before we faded it out. So this song is about nuclear proliferation, Q. Whoa.

So, you know, 2006, I guess we're five years into the war in the Middle East, right? Still in Afghanistan, obviously. Oh, yeah. So I think, you and I, we just graduated college, not college, we graduated high school in 2006. So I don't know if it was as much on my radar as it probably should have been or could have been if I was a little bit older. But, you know, that's what's on the minds of everybody is like, you know, the potential for nuclear war, I guess was on people's minds. So always looming. Always looming.

So, yeah, part of the lyrics here. I'm quoting a interview that he did with a band called, or not a band. with a magazine called Glide Magazine and he says the lyrics in just a blink we could shrink to something that might not make it back he says when you have a nuclear war there's not much that's going to be left

more than one-silled organisms so there you go I gotta start all over yeah well dude I gotta say man if you don't pay attention to the lyrics it's got some you know some good like

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All right, dude. So we got another song to play or is that we're just going to make it short and sweetest time? That's it, man. We're going back to our roots. Cool. To the old school side track where we was, you know, the idea literally. We called it side track, not side tracks, right? Yeah, dude.

20 minutes or last, man. Yeah, that's right. So yeah. Anyway, so with regard to this record, they were interviewed by MTV. me. And what they said here, I've got a quote from Robert DeLeo, the bass player. He says, it's the fifth record that you're really going to want to pay attention to. The fifth record?

Yeah. So basically they were asked, hey, it's your first record, yada, yada. They were sort of saying this about the STP record that, you know, they got some criticism. And we talked about this a little bit with Core. you know, they had the grunge haters out there that didn't accept anything that wasn't produced in Seattle kind of thing, right? Right. And so they had the same idea with STP. Like, you know, why don't you wait until we come up with our fifth record, then you can judge us, right? And he said that he thinks the idea applies to this project as well.

He says it's our first record, our first attempt at getting something together. So why don't you wait until the fifth one? So obviously they had lofty girls because. this was the end of army of anyone. They came out with this one record and that was it. And they're going around saying, why don't you wait till we come up with our fifth record, dudes? He was probably just trying to be like, fuck off, dude.

Probably, because, you know, you know how it is, especially if you're a super group, all you're going to get is comparisons to the groups that you came from, you know what I mean? Right, right. So if you're... That's annoying. Yeah, if you're the two key musicians behind Stone Tipa Pilots,

one of the biggest grunge bands of the 90s. And then somebody like Robert Patrick who had some success with filter, yeah, obviously people are going to super be interested and pay attention to your first record and like judge the hell of it. So, you know, basically the way they're phrasing it is like, yeah, you know, this is us coming together. It's our first attempt of putting music together, wait until our fifth record. And then they didn't even put a second record out.

So they had plans and are still, it sounds like it's still up in the air about like, oh, you know, we might get together again and put another record together if the schedules permit and all that kind of stuff. Obviously, Stuntable Pilots has, you know, regrouped. Scott Whalen, obviously he passed away a few years back. But anyway, so that's that. Check out the record. It's not bad. It was 2006.

Maybe it was one of those things where it's like, well, this is formed of bands from the 90s. and you've got Gadsmack and Cedar and all these kind of bands that are dominating the airwaves. Those are strange times for rock, dude. Yeah, it was kind of the weird post-grunge, new metal. And clearly, you know, I'm a big fan of corn. But other than that, there's not too many bands that I kind of relate to or enjoy listening to from that era. bands that were on the radio, rock bands in the mid to late 2000s, you and I weren't into. We were obsessed with indie rock, where you had to sort of stumble upon the MySpace page,

right, back then at least. More obscure record labels and the kind of bands that they were putting out. So maybe that's why they didn't see any success, you know. This was kind of the next generation of rockers had already sort of taken over at that point, you know. So anyway, check it out. It's not a bad listen. It's not going to blow your skirt up, as they say. It's not going to set off of nuclear bomb in your pants.

No, it's not. It's not Adameneave.com. promo code, no filler. But anyway. Well, you know, I was saying we should try to keep this under 20, but we got to squeeze in our watch your heads, man. Yes, yes, we do. Okay, so I was very tempted to pick a song off of Pearl Jam's new record

that they just put out last week. Because did it come out last week or the week before? Other way. I don't know. Very new. Because we're going to talk about Pearl Jam next week. We're going to talk about their record 10. But we're going to save all that for next week.

I've got an even better song, Q. So I know that you're not really a fan of these guys, but I'm a fan of them. I'm pretty sure I've had them in the past as a sidetrack. So now they're going to come in. for twice now on my, on my, my, my, uh, my, my, uh, my, my, what you heard list. But they keep putting on new music. So, these guys, uh, of course, are called L 1011. Of course. Do you know what? They're all right. Okay. Um, but yeah, they just put out a double record. So they've been busy. They've been busy with those, uh, finger tapping, huh?

Finger tapping all day long. Well, and then stepping on the pedal and, and looping it, looping it around. Well, you're right. And that's what makes. makes them interesting. It's two guys. It's a drummer and a guitar player who basically makes music by looping over himself. It's all instrumental, and that's what I like about it. The guy's very innovative with his effect pedals and stuff to get these songs put together. Because again, it's just one guy, and then the drummer. Drummer's really good, too. So anyway, let me just say the only reason I ever give pause to listen to these guys is because I just feel like a lot of the music sounds exactly the same. And that's probably just because I'm not paying attention. Yeah, I mean, that's a fair assessment. But what I like about this song is that I think it actually sounds a little bit different than a lot of their songs. We're talking about the single here that just got out. Yeah, it is a single. So forgive me for, you know, breaking the no-filler rule here. But, dude, you know, I'll always forgive me. Yeah, this is not a, this is not an episode. This is a segment at the end here. So. Something that you heard.

Reservid. Yeah, exactly. This is what I heard. One more do you want? Yeah. All right. This song is called With Report. Dude, that was heavy, man.

That's what I was saying. Have they ever gotten that heavy before? I think maybe flirted with heaviness a little bit here and there, but... I liked it. Yeah. That was cool. I like the drumbeat and the change up there towards the end of that clip. That's good.

So I actually misspoke. It's not a double LP. It's a triple LP. and what's interesting is they're kind of spacing it out, at least digitally. You can get the full record, I believe. Actually, oh, September. My goodness. So, yeah, they're doing something really interesting because, like, I just pre-ordered the record, actually,

because it's, like I said, it's three records. And I'm not going to get it until September. But so, yeah, it's called tautology. Clearly they've been pretty prolific since their last record came out in 2018 called Bankers Hill. Two years later they've got enough music for, well, let's face it, it's only like 21 tracks. Anyway, this is kind of cool. The artwork is pretty dope for it. Like if you look at the LP itself, the three LPs, and of course you can get, clear vinyl, you know,

limited edition presses and stuff. All the goods. All the good stuff. That's cool, man. I wonder if it's going to be like a complete piece. You know, like I wonder if it's going to be, you can listen to all three of the records as one piece or if they're wanting them to be three separate ideas.

Well, shit, I'm not able to get the limited edition colored vinyl. I guess I have to settle. For the clear vinyl. This is not fair. Oh. $40 for three records. It's not bad. Not a bad price.

Well, dude, I got to watch it heard for you if you want to hear. Oh, yeah, that's right. Q, what you've been heard in lately? So this is a band that, so my wife and I have this playlist that we've been adding songs to forever. Q, is it a spicy playlist? It's not that one. Okay. I heard this song for the first time last week because my wife just recently added it.

So it was news to me. But this is a band called X-Mag. All In Word. It is an electronic soul and funk band. So a couple of the dudes, I think there's two guys that are the main songwriters. Eric Mendelssohn and Dennis, not even going to try his last name, but he also goes by grammatic. Have you heard of grammatic?

Yes, I have heard of them. Yeah. Yep, that's one guy. He's names Dennis. Okay. They got a couple more players in the band. So they actually do perform live. They don't have a drummer, so they, you know, they do drum beats on synthesizers.

But they kind of fall into the like retro synth wave, future synth kind of stuff. I think you'll like it, dude. It's instrumental. This is a song from an EP of theirs that they came out with last year. The EP is called The Walls That Divide Us. This is the last track on the album. It's called Low Tide. Yeah, it's hard not to like that.

That's great, man. Everything I've heard from them is like that. Definitely a lot of 70s in there, you know, all through that. 70s and 80s. When it pops off, you know, if that's the word it is. When it really starts to pop. And it's cool, man. I love when people get that electric guitar sound out of their keyboard.

Yeah. Like, I couldn't even tell if that was. a keyboard or a guitar. Well, I also love that, like the air siren, like the horn in the background. That sounds like an air raid's going off. Yeah, it's good stuff. Their latest full-length album came out in 2017. It's called Part 1.

Check out that album, aren't dude? Are they going to put out a part, too? I don't know. Good stuff. Again, that band's called X-Mag. That was a song off of their EP, The Walls, That Dividus. All right, man. So that's it. Let's wrap it up. So yeah, next week we will talk about Pearl Jam's 1991 record 10. I'm excited about that, man. I think that's, Pearl Jam is a whole different

flavor of grunge, you know, I think largely due to his singing. Yeah. And for me, you know, I'm going to spend a lot of time with this record over the next week because I really don't know that much about the songs that weren't singles on this one. So, I'm excited to dive into those and pick out a few, you know, a handful that we like. I will say that Even Flow is probably one of my favorite 90s rock tracks. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I'm so good. So good.

Pumped to dive into this. Me too. All right. So you can find us if you want to know more information on our website, no fillerpodcast.com, where you will find all of our show notes and all of our previous episodes going all. the way back to episode one. Show Notes page has track lists and sources that we cite for every single episode. And you can also find us on our home, the Pantheon Podcast Network.

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