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Yeah. Rocking local band Bastards of Soul features a base player by the name
of one Danny Bayless. Incredible band. Check out the first two records.
The first one's called spinning. Second one is called Corners Outstanding Records, And
Danny, you guys went through quite a bit over the last five years from
becoming a huge thing on the scene quite frankly, a band, whether you'll
say this or not, a band that had, in my opinion, high
potential to turn into a big time national act. I mean that. I'm
not saying this because I've known you. I agree this thing had had a
lot of buzz, had a lot of juice. I think it was cool,
it was unique, It had a great name, which matters. M
h. Yeah, that thing was full steam in the right direction. And
you know, Danny, you're more qualified to talk about any of this than
I am. But obviously, the front man, Chadwick Murray, passed away
September of twenty twenty one at the age of forty five. Yeah. I
can't believe it's been two years. Jeez, crazy man. I remember.
I don't know if we talk about this here, but we were working together
the day after either filling in like hosting together, I think maybe even hardline
Gosh, is that right? Yeah? And I walked into the little Blur.
Yeah, not that I'm cool, but I was one of the first
people to hear about it, because I worked with you and we met and
you just looked at me and said that Chadwick died last night. And I
just didn't register that made no sense, you know, as I Maybe you
were, I wouldn't say less shocked by it, but you knew about his
conditions that he'd had. But I just I just cried immediately. And I
mean, I know Chadwick, but not sure you know, met him half
dozen times and seen him perform that many or almost that many, But god,
that was rough. I don't even know if you had known that he
was in the hospital for I didn't. Yeah. So, yeah, he
had a pre existing lung disorder disease. I can't think of the name of
it, the medical term for it. But this was during the height of
COVID. You know, he was diabetic as well, so he was super
safe about you know, avoiding COVID and he did. He's one of the
first eligible to get the vaccine because of you know the fact that he was
diabetic and he was you know, we didn't really rehearse at all during that
time. We wrote this entire record remotely, you know, individually, was
sharing demos back and forth our second album, and then, you know,
once things got better and that pandemic seemed to kind of dissipate, where people
were kind of resuming basically normal activities, were able to get together and record
an album, and we were in the middle of mixing it, like we
were about to wrap put put the nail on the head on mixing this album
and he call He texted us and said, man, I am not feeling
great. I'm having a hard time breathing. I'm going to go into the
hospital. And we were like, whoa, oh dude, Okay, what
do you think this is. He goes, I don't know, I just
don't feel right. I'm gonna just go in, and we're thinking, good
for you, dude, Yeah, go to the doctor. Don't don't put
this off. Because we had known that he had had a little bit of
problems with sinuses or allergies and we had had to cancel the session a recording
session because he was having a hard time getting enough wind to sing. We
just always chalked it up to, you know, whatever whatever you normally would,
you don't think the worst when it comes to something that just appears to
be symptomatic of the flu or a cold or maybe not getting enough sleep or
whatever, and he went into the hospital and I think within a couple of
days he was in a coma and they were feverishly trying to figure out what
the hell was wrong with him, and his condition just deteriorated and deteriorated over
the next two and a half weeks. And I didn't even know the severity
of it. Now I think this is in that article. I don't know
what your plan is with this, with this article. You know, we
I didn't really understand the severity of it. We couldn't visit him, you
know, visitors weren't allowed during during that time and in uh in COVID's tour,
but his best friend Max was and he was able to see him.
And uh, you know, the the crazy thing about it all is,
you know his wife was in the hospital too, but not just to see
Chadwick, but because she was having their first child, and she had the
baby that Chadwick never got to consciously meet because he was in a coma,
and a week later, you know, after the child was born, he
passed away on September first, And uh, it's just it's you can't you
can't write a tragedy. You can't make up a tragedy like that. It
would take a really dark creative mind to come up with something that is just
that awful. And I didn't really like says in the article. I didn't
really learn how severe it was until basically the night before, where I called
Max's best friend and said, dude, what is going on? Come clean?
You know, everybody was trying to be hopeful. We were getting fragments
of information. I think we were also the friends and bandmates were kind of
somewhat being protected by what the vibe must have been like if you were there,
because it's different. You can probably get a different read of what's going
on with a patient when you're able to talk to doctors, see the look
on nurses faces, kind of read body language, assess the situation with a
more bigger picture rather than just getting well did this happened today? And they
put him on this medication and they're you know, all of the technical stuff.
You're just kind of like, okay, what does this really mean?
Then finally Max came, you know, talk to me the night before he
passed away, and said it's going to take a miracle for him to survive,
and I was like, WHOA. I didn't think it was that bad
because we'd all been hopeful, you know, with the news, with what
the news that we were getting. So that was when I first started really
kind of processing what life would be like without him and that this was probably
not going to end well. And if he's saying it's going to take a
miracle, then that means this is most likely inevitable, and you hope for
a miracle, but plan for the worst. And then the next night,
twenty four hours later, I get the phone call and that's where it all
stopped. Years old, one week old son did he never got to meet?
I know, I know, say that again. I'm not sit here,
and I know it just absolutely smashes your heart into a million pieces.
Reset real quick if you can't wait, because the Chadwick story and how he
got to be the singer and bassard is amazing, and he was a kind
of a lifer musician that never got an opportunity whatever. Because if you ever
saw Bastards or you'll hear him singing hopefully here in a second, we play
this song that was just released yesterday. He's like the most natural, perfect
singer and showman. I can't imagine anyone else was like born to do this
more than Chadwick was. Yeah, but he didn't do it forever, right,
No, No, No, he was. I'd been a friend of
mine for almost twenty years, but maybe fifteen years at the time, and
I'd known him in other bands. He was a bass player, and he
kind of bounced around town and we were good buds, you know, we
were mates. We hung out and partied together and hung out together. He
got sober a good while back, stopped drinking, stop, you know,
pretty much everything. And you know, we we were putting this project together,
putting this band together, and we wanted to play some kind of really
authentic old school soul music. But I mean, where do you find the
singer to do that. They don't, you know, they're not just out
there. It takes a very specific style of voice, an approach. And
he was recommended to us by our buddy Max, the guy that I mentioned,
you know, that was kind of his with him during his hospital's stay
before he passed away. And we never really even had considered that because we
didn't know him as a vocalist. But apparently he Max is No, he's
got a great voice. You know, he just plays bass in my band
because I'm the singer. But the guy sings his ass off. We hear
him all the time. He'll hit hit karaoke and just bring people to their
knees doing Sam Cook or Otis Redding. We're like, what, okay,
well, let's call Chadwick. Hey, dude, you want to maybe come
to a rehearsal and here's some covers. Learn these and we'll just hang out
and see what it sounds like. And that's how it all started. And
you know, then we started writing our own material and I want to picture
that. So he walks in and starts singing some covers and are you guys
eyes darting around? Yeah, it was dude, very much like that,
so very much what you're saying. Somebody you've known for twenty years. Yeah,
and you never seen him like that. Yeah. And you kind of
hear him warm it up a little bit in the rehearsal and doing these little
vocal exercises and we're kind of like, all right, that's promising, and
then you go into mister Pitiful by Otis Redding, you know, and then
he just hits the mic and it's like they come in mister Pittifil, But
it's doesn't sound like me. It sounds good, it sounds real, it
sounds black, it sounds awesome. And we're all just these white dudes looking
around the room and going, holy crap. You know, we've got our
singer. This is great. And you know, and the fact that we
all knew each other for years, it just had like together like this.
This puzzle absolutely well. I think I want to we want to play the
song. But and I will say this, and I'm pretty sure you'll take
this very respectfully that I've seen bastards a bunch and as good as all you
guys are, he's the focal point you get lost in. This guy is
singing in his performance. And one thing to keep it owns the damn stage
and to think about it thinking in these terms. I saw on Facebook that
our first gig ever was six years ago. So we're about to come out
with our third album posthumously for him. But our third record comes out I
believe next month. It's coming out in November, November seventeenth or something like
that, and we've got a big thing. We'll talk about it maybe a
little bit more at the at Alamo Draft house. But he was you know,
you think of the other guys in the band, you know, chadstocks
Lager, Chris Holt, Matt Trimble and myself. You know, we've been
playing our instruments and practicing and dedicating ourselves to our instruments since we were teenagers.
Chadwick was dedicating himself to being a frontman, lead singer, fronting a
band, working a crowd, starting six years ago as a forty year old
man. So the learning curve for him was just starting, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, So for him, you say how good he was
and how magnetic he was, and you can't take your eyes off of him.
We all looked at him as this is unrefined, this needs work.
It's the raw energy. The talent is there, but we knew that he
was going to get so much better, like he was so at the beginning
of his journey, and I really felt like he was one of those guys
that could be doing this and his fifties and to his sixties and to his
seventies, kind of like you know Lee Fields or Charles Bradley or these guys
that kind of discover their you know, gets get some success in that field
of music in that genre a little bit later in life, and he could
have taken that wherever he wanted for the rest of his life and been doing
freaking gigs as a seventy year old man. You know. I fully believe
that about him, and he was just going to get better and better and
better and better. So what you're hearing right now was basically a guy that
was pretty new to his instrument you know, but still really good at it.
So you have a third album coming out in November, and you know,
he's on some of these recordings, some of most of them, some
of them. There are a couple of that he's not on. But there's
a new single and video that dropped yesterday and you can get it out on
your all of your digital streaming platforms and whatever. You can pre order the
album now. But People magazine did a write up with it, posted a
link to the video on YouTube, and I think in that video on YouTube
there's some from a bigger film that's coming. Yeah, there's a documentary that
is being done on the band. I believe it's an editing now and it's
going to come out, you know, some sometime soon. I think they're
trying to get it into some festivals and whatnot. So yeah, that will
you know. We happened in our final recording session which this song came from.
And by the way, the song you're going to play is entirely live.
There's no overdubs. This is all of us in a room together with
a horn section, with an extra organ player, you know, an auxiliary
hamm and player sitting in. But we happen to have a film crew there
and they shot that weekend of sessions and that ended up being enough footage cobbled
together with some other live stuff and some interviews and some b roll stuff.
They've made a full length documentary and it's going to be basically about kind of
Chadwick and how this thing started and how it all ended, and the clips
that I've seen so far it's it's not just some local a guy with a
video camera. This is going to look absolutely pro like Netflix doc Badass,
Amazon Prime kind of stuff that it's gonna be really cool, Like I remeber
be watching this thing on the Big streer and going, holy crap, this
is weird. Yeah, so this is you let me down again from the
Bastards of Soul And check out that article in People magazine with with Danny you
know, quoted in it a lot. Yeah, real quick that this article
happened so fast. I think I was on the phone with the really cool
lady that called me and did this interview with me. I think, what
is today, Thursday? Yeah, I believe I talked to her on the
phone Monday and this dropped yesterday. Incredible. Yeah, yeah, she turned
it around really quick. But it's a great, great article. And she
was really knowledgeable about the band and was a fan of the band or had
become one, you know, when she got this assignment. She hadn't heard
about the story of Chadwick two years ago, but never just saw it as
a news story, didn't really deep dig deep into the music or anything.
But she said once she got the assignment, she at her homework and she
was delighted to talk to me. It was really cool. So it was
not People magazine. Yes, that's a pretty big outstand, pretty big publication.
Yeah, all right, here is you let me down again by the
bastards of Soul. Let me down again? Here, I though you were
more special brand. Now you gotta be wondering we have a love again?
Let me go? Did you have to wait gimbular moving on, why do
you have as a tape You're saying home with party soon baby? You and
launted God did you waiting? Said they loved the loing? How you left
me standing? Want somebody nothing? I wasn't hang it all? How to
what we knew? How to june it on? We can't talk about that
thing on? We can hang it all? You say your how you understand
and not some old at the sun and Bob understand. Just want your hearts
about so hang on you not to do now we can't talk about only can
it hang it old? We can't talk about you. That's what fantastic,
that's great. That's a barn Burner man. Is that jordash On Yeah,
jordash on Oregon. He sat in with his Jordash Grant, who is just
incredible. He's awesome. He plays for everyone. Yeah, he's out touring
with Abraham Alexander as we speak, his wild Weapon, Jordish Plate. He
played Paul Coughin for a while and he goes on touring with all these bands.
Yeah. For me, it's big guys like Jordashes Instagram. He's hanging
out with Dave Matthews and I'm like, that's that's Jordash. It's a guy
I know hanging out with Dave. You're number one. Oh my god,
you know, but that's that's awesome. Danny and everyone checked out this search
People magazine and Bastards of Seul. You get a read the article and helps
you do that. He'll triangle me for saying it, But I don't know.
If you only know Danny is a guy who jack's around on the radio
with us and reads Dingo's morning news and tells you a joke every day.
Don't discount that, dude. I mean, you're a bad MFR man and
done a lot of cool stuff and sweet man, Bastards of Soul. I'm
so glad we got what we got. Yeah, no doubt. Three albums
and the new one I am super excited about. It's really cool and comes
out next month. Outstanding. All right, give it right back. Well
you'll be hearing more about that here on the Downbeat and the station you also
follow at ninety seven on the Freak. I know I tweeted it out from
the station account the article yesterday as well, so you can check that out
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