WMP#140: Nuke Plant Chickens: All Originals and No Concessions

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EPISODE 140

 

Welcome to a stirring episode of the Wisconsin Music Podcast featuring the distinct sounds of Kenosha-based band, Nuke Plant Chickens. Born in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown, these young music enthusiasts have grown into a seasoned band with a powerful synthesis of various music genres, offering a unique, homegrown energy with every performance.

The diverse group shares their exceptional journey, discussing their music inspirations, from King Gizzard and his Lizard Wizards to Black Sabbath. They reveal their band philosophy, revolving around enjoyment rather than strict professionalism, and the exploration of a wide variety music genres.

They delve into the challenges and triumphs of forging a path in the bustling music scenes of Chicago and Milwaukee. Get a peek into the band’s DIY recording process: a journey centered on raw, authentic music creation and problem-solving equipment issues, song selection, and balancing gig schedules.

Nukeplant Chickens not only discuss the release of their four finished singles, but also offer a glimpse into the stories imbedded in their music. They candidly share their experiences of attending influential performances and their appreciation of their supportive community. Above all, they light the beacon on their ambitious future plans.

We invite fans, fellow musicians, or those simply curious about the eclectic music scene to immerse themselves in this compelling episode. Join us as we reveal all this and more about Nuke Plant Chickens, the band that’s lighting up Wisconsin's music scene.

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Music.

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Ladies and gentlemen, music enthusiasts and podcast listeners,

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welcome to A Sonic Journey Like No Other on the Wisconsin Music Podcast.

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I'm your host, Zach Fell, and we're here to amplify Wisconsin music.

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In this episode, we're diving into the eclectic and electrifying world of Nukeplant

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Chickens, a band hailing from the charming town of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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Prizing a remarkable ensemble of talent, Nukeplant Chicken weaves a mesmerizing

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tapestry of sound, leaving no genre untouched. Get ready to immerse yourself

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in the music of Newt Plant Chickens, where every note is an adventure,

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every rhythm is a heartbeat.

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Join us in exploring the sonic landscapes crafted by this extraordinary band

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as we unravel their musical journey in this special podcast episode on the Wisconsin Music Podcast.

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me here on the podcast.

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Thank you. So why don't we get a quick synopsis of each one of your music origins story.

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How did you get started? it i'm jeff i'm the

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singer and i i started

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taking piano lessons when i was seven and i'm

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23 now so that's 16 years ago and

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yeah i i can't remember why i started doing piano lessons but yeah okay i really

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liked guitar hero as a 12 year old so who are you oh my name is uh my name is

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ethan i'm I'm a guitar player sometimes.

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Awesome. Yeah, I really liked playing Guitar Hero, and that stuff is,

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like, the first stuff I learned, so that's a working story there.

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Cool. My name is Chloe. I started on bass in middle school, actually.

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My dad convinced me to play.

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He would show me Talking Heads footage,

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and Tina Weymouth basically played for Tango, to, which I'm happy about it,

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but I started on bass and then I started guitar after bass and that would have

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been also middle school.

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And then recently, you know, drums and all of that, but like I play guitar in this group.

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But yeah, I've just been playing forever since middle school.

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And my dad wanted me to. Cool. Very cool.

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Max, I play the drums. And for my fourth birthday, I got a drum set.

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I don't know why I didn't ask.

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But yeah, I've been playing ever since. I was happy about that.

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It's never stopped. Yeah.

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Camera. Sorry. Eight. Fourth or fifth grade. when I played trumpet for Mrs.

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Ripley in the KUSD school.

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Shout out to Mrs. Ripley. Yeah, shout out to Mrs. Ripley. Hi.

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You all basically started at a young age and grew through music and decided

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on the instruments you're playing in this group.

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So what is kind of like your philosophy as a group?

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What's your goals? And what makes you guys become this group of musicians and

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going out on stage and playing these types of songs that you play?

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Well, I'll say whatever sounds good.

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Whatever sounds good. Sounds good. Get it to sound better. I don't know.

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At least that's my philosophy.

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I think we all love being able to have fun. Yeah. Goof around,

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you know, whatever feels right, I guess. A lot of goofing around on stage.

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Yeah, it's a lot. We're not very professional. No, which is what's good about

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it. Which is why, I mean, that's why I did it. You know what I mean? If I'm being real.

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If we were going anywhere, Chloe would not be here. Absolutely not.

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So, yeah. Just enjoy it. You know, it's not taking things too serious.

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You know, that whole thing. Because it's not that serious. Make sure everyone is granted.

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Oh absolutely yeah yeah like these guys they're all my brothers and

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then so much as far as

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philosophies we actually have on the wall a list

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though that i wrote a few years ago called the

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jam commandments and the the number one rule the

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most important rule of the jam commandments no assholes

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so that's maybe the philosophy gotcha excellent

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so what kind of groups out there would you

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say inspire what you guys do well i

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mean the biggest one i'd say the one collective is

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king gizzard yeah and the lizard wizard okay and

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why is it why is that have you

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heard them brother come on yeah but

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there's listeners out there that haven't so probably helps them kind of grab

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an idea of what you're you're about they've done it all and they'll continue

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to do more and that's what keeps me i'm not limited to one genre the variety

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yeah yeah and it doesn't matter how many albums they release they'll all be good.

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Okay cool well it's good that you know to

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have that kind of inspiration in your life to be able to have something that

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you can kind of follow and go these are the kind of people that we like to you

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know follow in their footsteps basically right and always like individual people

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we all have different things which is why it's hard to find collective yeah like I,

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don't I'm not into like King Giz like all of these guys are I will say I'm not a nerd but,

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yeah I'm not you know I have a much more I mean not that King Giz we're all

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into OC's yeah we do like OC's OC's are great.

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Ween to ween to the stone age Okay.

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Well, it's like Black Sabbath, but that's like in a different way.

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Pink Floyd, we all really like.

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Dice Fits, even though that's in a different realm. They're like my favorite band of all time.

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Dice Fits. Everyone looks like Chippewa. Them Crooked Vultures, too. Yeah.

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Awesome. So it's an eclectic collection of individuals plus what you all are

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together enjoying at the same time, which is what creates the difference of

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what you are from other type of bands out there.

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So what made you guys decide to have horn players in your shows as well we knew them.

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They were they were our friends maddie was the first

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and she was just a she was a a friend of

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mine from a long time ago i met her through a band

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that i used to be in and uh she just

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kind of stuck around and jammed with us and yeah yeah yeah and when she when

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she was out of town we had a couple more shows so we asked Finn to play in Kirstead

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who's basically family with us. Like literally.

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Yeah. So when you guys do a live show are they with you all the time or just for special shows?

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Whenever they can. Whenever they can. Okay, cool. How long have you guys been together as a group?

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As the five piece with everybody in here right now since February February,

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March, it would have been after the live stream.

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There's like other stuff that goes way back. Yeah. Like I'm the last to join and I.

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Okay. So why don't you give the listeners like a little bit of the history of

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how this group grew and became what it is today?

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Our show. Our very first. We got to go back to the jam. Yeah.

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First of jam. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The COVID jams.

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That's where it started was COVID. Okay. it

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was a pandemic and we were all bored and the

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old band that i was in i got kicked out

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of because i'm a i'm a bad guy and i needed a new band and well we we also can't

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forget that max ethan and cameron yeah we're in a band together a metal band

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starting in 2020 yeah 2021 21,

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24, 2020. Okay.

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Well, me, Cam, and Jeff are all blood related. So that's how far in the back of that goes.

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And the first glimpse of the new plant chickens, I guess you could say,

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was my and Max's first band. It was called Floodplain.

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And we started playing together in November of 2019 or something like that. Wow.

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Yeah, COVID hit, and we got bored and started jamming with a bunch of other people. So I don't know.

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We kind of just grabbed anyone we could and brought them in the basement.

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Just played for hours. I mean, I think we... How big was the biggest one?

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The biggest jam that we were... I don't know if you were at the biggest jam.

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I think I was. It was the one. It was David, Logan.

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That one was pretty big, but we had another one out. we

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had these jams of like the most was probably

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like 13 or 14 people in the room and like at like many many guitars sometimes

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two drum kits yeah and i think one time we had two basses hooked up and everybody

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else was like either playing wind instruments or like rapping or vocals yeah.

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And we would just i mean we would go from like 7

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p.m to mid yeah let's play and then

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this was we the people in the band are just

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the people that remained from those jams gotcha

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wanted to keep playing because everybody else kind of has a life or

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moved on right right okay so this

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is what kind of glued you guys together was this jam and you guys met each other

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i mean you said three of you are blood related but then you guys kind of became

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friends and kind of created this this group that you are so where did the name

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come from it's a simple story that i could draw out a lot but But basically, I worked at a beach,

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the Illinois State Beach in Zion,

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which is just down the road from Kenosha.

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And my boss was a very nice man, very funny guy, but he was not the most educated man.

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Okay. And at the beach, there were some sandhill cranes that were,

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you know, they hung around the water.

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And he didn't know they were sandhill cranes, though, because he didn't know

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anything about birds. And.

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Right next to the beach as well, weird detail, but it's true.

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Right next to the beach is a defunct nuclear power plant.

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Anyways, all these elements coming together. On my first day of work at the

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beach, my boss pointed to some sandhill cranes,

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and he said, guests and visitors ask me all the time what those birds are called,

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but I don't know what they're called.

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So I tell them that they are chickens who wandered too close to the nuke plant.

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And the light bulb light bulb just went off there you go there you go awesome,

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you guys perform out live what's the reaction from

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from the audience most of

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it most of them are friends so far so it's people who who even if we played

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i hope i hope we play good but people who if even if we played bad they'd be

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they still oh it's a great job at least not me I haven't gotten a lot of,

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people coming up to me who just didn't know how to I saw some people at the

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last show some strangers who were people I didn't know who were filming.

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That feels nice like a stranger who doesn't

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know us wants to look back at us later

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people want us to play rooster every single

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time every single time drunk people

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want us to play rooster that's a good reaction i feel like

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we spark a lot of curiosity people don't

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really know what what's gonna go on oh

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yeah it's gonna happen what we're gonna do right so so are you guys like mostly

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covers or do you add some originals in there on top of it we're actually like

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all it's like all we do almost no covers i mean we we we played a three hour set. Yeah. To fill time.

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There's like 26 songs. Okay.

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So where do you guys usually perform? Where's like your home base?

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I mean, you say you're in Kenosha, but like, is there a certain place that you

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play that you would call home or is you guys kind of spread it all over? Yeah.

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Rustic road definitely and let's get the kenosha

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creative space okay two places definitely one's

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a bar one's just like a community center and they're on the same block and they're

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they're right next to each other yeah so downtown kenosha basically okay and

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you guys said so you're not really taking this super serious so what are kind

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of like some of your main goals with this this group over the next maybe three to four years.

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Records. Yeah, a couple of records, probably. I mean, I personally just want

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to be able to play out and more than just downtown.

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I mean, I'm like thinking to like different live stuff for like like our first

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show of the summer that we created in space.

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That was one of the best like like times I've ever fucking heard.

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Yeah, it was just so fun. fun and it because there

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was so many people our age yeah there yeah

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and people that like maybe

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like all of us collected we didn't know and it was just

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it was really fun and it was packed and it was

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just it was so great i just want to play more shows like that but get out of

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the city too yeah i would really eventually yeah of course but you know i it's

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just this is like to be able to play that kind of stuff in Kenosha would be

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really and I know that's asking a lot. That would be really fun.

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So Wisconsin being mainly a cover band, that's usually what you're going to

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see mostly in Wisconsin bars and everything like that.

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You guys being mostly original, do you find it hard to get gigs or is it pretty

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decent to find gigs for an all original band like yourselves?

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It's not hard to get gigs because we're not a cover band.

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It was pretty hard at first. it's hard getting your foot in the door with some.

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Of these because they're busy they don't have time sometimes it's just it's hard because,

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especially in venues in Chicago and like Milwaukee where they haven't heard

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you they won't take you into consideration unless you played gigs in the area

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before you kind of gotta be there yeah you gotta be active in the scene that's

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kind of what's hardest about it,

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how is it that to get in the scene if you

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can't get into the scene right yeah so do

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you find that like it's not hard anymore really to get gigs why is that is it

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because you have now played so many shows or what's what's kind of like the

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secret for you yeah you play shows make connections yeah and we always make

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friends also go and see these venues in person because that will help a lot

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People talk, our owners talk,

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they talk among each other, really that's a great, great.

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Way to sprint yeah absolutely networking and making

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sure that you're not like you said earlier bylaws not

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to be an asshole right yeah yeah yeah so

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be kind you know be helpful be

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you know be positive so the local scene

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for you guys it seems to be a positive experience is

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there anything in the local scene of your area that

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you would wish was stronger sometimes people

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get egos i wish it wasn't that

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strong but i wish like people would build more bills together you know there

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was there was a lot of gatekeeping in the scene before yeah that's kind of coming

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down a little bit yeah a lot of people i mean like i had said people taking

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it seriously and i mean i don't mean like.

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Having boundaries within groups and like oh and you know planning out and things

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like that because Cause that's whatever, but I mean, taking things too serious

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and like professionalism are like two different things in life.

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You know, like you can be a professional and not be like an asshole. Right.

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Exactly. Which is the problem that majority of people here have because whatever.

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Yeah. It's just.

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No, that's good. That's good. Now, earlier you kind of talked about hopefully

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making some recordings.

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Have you done any of that yet? Yeah, we got a record.

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Yeah, for finished singles out there. So take them through the journey of the

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start, the process, and getting those out there to them.

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Actually, this just came up in my year ago today from Snapchat.

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We started recording. Really? Yeah.

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Like the other day. What is it? The 21st? Yep.

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So the 19th. So two days ago. We started recording because I finally got Ableton on my computer. Okay.

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And we just, I mean, we picked what songs we had, I think.

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It wasn't what ones we had. It was just, you know, what we wondered, what we felt we could do.

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Oh, yeah. But I mean, the songs mostly come from me, and Ethan writes some of them.

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But I think of the four, they're mostly like old.

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I'd like wrote them a couple years ago when

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i was in the other band and then they never wanted to play them

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okay you know i don't

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know how we picked the four singles it's the one are they the ones that just

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got one yeah yeah okay so the the first four they got finished now you you had

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mentioned that you just got ableton about a year ago on your computer so So

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I'm understanding that this is a DIY project.

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Yeah. So kind of, was this like done in like a living room?

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Did you do it at separate places? Kind of like how did the whole thing come

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together for the recording?

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Where was it done? Just my basement.

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And it's just like where I'm as I let go.

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Okay. So what are some of the things that you've learned over time when you were recording?

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If you have to EQ too much, then you need to re-record it. Okay.

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Buy guitar plugins if you don't know how to mic and amp and don't be afraid

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to spend money on equipment good it's a good investment yeah i still i still

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have a lot of stuff on this thing,

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so for better recording yeah so the

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did you like put blankets up or anything around

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the room or is it like sound bouncing off

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cylinder blocks or whatever your walls are made out

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of it's mostly just it's about

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as raw and real as you can get it i mean

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we mic up each of the each of

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the drums but there's no like for for the

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most part there's no like sound cancellation okay there's a lot of that what

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a lot of that reverb gets filtered out through these mics anyway because they're

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i don't because they're condensers which is which is really nice yep cool and

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now you guys got four four songs finished, you released them.

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Let's talk a little bit about each one of those songs and maybe pick a few that

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you would like the listeners to hear on the podcast.

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I'd go for the first one. I'd go for Police State. The first one we released

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is called Police State Disco.

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Which is not fun. Not a disco.

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It's the only one that has Maddie fully on it. Like a solo, like a feature.

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The saxophone. And it's amazing.

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And is there a certain story behind the song? Or is it just...

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You want the listeners to make their own decision about what it's about?

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Yeah, yeah. I like that. Let them decide.

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Music.

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Would be another song that you would like them to hear on the podcast for there's

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one there's one there's one for each each people

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those who like upbeat stuff there's one called

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party wazo and those who like stoner metal

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there's one called way on three and the other people

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for the other people who like guns and roses ripoffs

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yeah there's one for you cool very

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cool so of those four do you

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want me to put all four on there or do you want me to put two or three on

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the podcast for them to hear that's up to me i

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mean up to you at least why not okay so after they hear this they want to hear

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it again and not listen to the podcast again they want to actually just listen

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to the songs in row obviously you guys are probably on most streaming sites

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do you guys also have a band camp site or are you not on that yet no we're not on so no we did not okay,

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i would say spotify and are you on whether it's reverb nation i think you guys

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are on as well where else can they go and hear your music online,

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anywhere you can we have some live recordings on YouTube.

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That's on your YouTube site okay cool we

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have to watch the first show we don't

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have ever we have the

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most not the most recent show but we have Octoberfest in Bloomingdale the only

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full show we have is one we played at a place called Moose Lodge in Kenosha

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it was an event called Blue Bands yeah that was a charity it was a charity event but yeah.

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Excellent as we're coming down to the end of this when

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do you think your next single is going

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to release or are you going to do like multi-song ep release yes

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so so the the

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goal is is because we've got a couple more shows coming

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up and the big plan is because it's such a pain in the ass to set up all this

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recording and then tear down for shows it's it's such a hassle so So our plan

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is to play the shows and then for the winter,

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because we don't have any booked then, to record during the winter so that we

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can get the same sound, same sonics, same everything.

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Kind of like a regular recording process for an album. Cool. Very cool.

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But we don't have one in the pipes? We do. We do. Which one is it?

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I have a one-tone drum. So that one's finished and ready to go, basically.

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Very soon, maybe. be so soon yeah so if you guys let me know when that might

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happen we could probably coordinate where this episode comes out around the

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same time that single comes out to kind of help you promote that so yeah just

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shoot me an email when you think that's going to happen and then,

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we'll we'll try to get this all together at the same time for the last question

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i have for you guys is there any gigs that you have been at that made a major

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impression on you either as As a performer.

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Or as an audience member. Watching someone perform.

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Are you talking like local scene shows. Or just like. Overall just experience doesn't matter.

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Well I. I'm a big fan of.

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I hate this word like punk rock shit and the funny thing I'm in this band something

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that kind of stick out like slits off but I you're a girl.

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We're so right I but I went to I've gone to so many shows like that and that's where I,

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just love that environment of like

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just people playing their little hearts out that's

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just so cute and I love it so much and I

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just like loud okay and like I went to

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a band I've gone to so many shows with

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my dad we've seen a band called the circle jerks okay

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one of my favorite bands of all time um I've

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seen them twice and the way that they play

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and their entire philosophy is

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like what I want to do it's just so much they

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just never grew up and they're like an 80s punk band

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right cool cool cool anybody else

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i mean me and you went to go see king diz

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over the summer yeah man man like

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it's just just go go go the whole time it's just their stage presence is just

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unmatched the sound quality was amazing i will say though i saw we saw them

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in june in chicago and that was great and And they've put out a lot of music.

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But I saw them in 2019.

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And I didn't have any fucking clue who they were. And I had never listened.

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Or I had listened to one album called Fishing for Fishies.

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But I barely knew who they were. I didn't know anything about them. And that was better.

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I like that. I like that one better. Because that was my first.

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You saw them on the Rat's Nest tour, right?

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I saw them a week after they released Infest the Rat's Nest.

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Though I had not heard it.

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It had just come out and they were, they were finally starting to play it. Cool.

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That's that's my view.

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I would say for a show that we played, for me and you at least,

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I would say that first creative show we did in a club playing.

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Oh, you're talking about Green Park. That made a big impact.

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My bad. That made a big impact on you too. Just the rush you get from playing that.

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I mean, I've seen I saw the OCs live.

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I've seen them twice now. And again, just like the go, go, go.

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Just balls to the walls for two hours and there's

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again stage presence lights sound quality

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and i'm a big polyphia fan

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and i just i went to go see them wednesday in

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milwaukee and then thursday in chicago but just the the amount of musicianship

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and the amount of talent in that band it really inspires me and the community

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too it just inspires me to be a better person what's the last thing that you

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you want the listeners to know about like your social media,

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where can they find you and things of that nature? Find us Instagram, Spotify.

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Those are the main two that we're on and give our songs a list. Yeah.

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That's all we can really ask. Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much for being

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on the Wisconsin music podcast.

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It was cool to hear about how you guys started, what you're working on and your

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future stuff. So thank you so much for being on the show.

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Thank you. Yeah. This was fun, man. Cool. We'll be right back.

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Music.

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