1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,759 Here's what we're gonna do because I see out in the hallway musicians, so 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,800 we're gonna get them in here. I'm gonna play a track of theirs. 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,240 This is called The Fall. We've got the world radio premiere their brand new 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,519 song. We're gonna hold off on that though until they're in the room, 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,719 but we're gonna play this track. It's called the Fall. I really like 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,679 this a lot. The band is Heavy America. Heavy America. Will be 7 00:00:21,719 --> 00:01:00,439 here with us live in studio, stand like a mountain to spell side me 8 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:19,000 watching and didn't dispair. Oh no, look now we've done it. Cracks 9 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:36,799 falling. There one more ship to step back, free pair for the fall? 10 00:01:48,400 --> 00:02:06,120 He stop falling? Dad done them? Uh? Con to things come? 11 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:21,199 That's well? Oh no, the system its falling. The cupboards are 12 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:38,000 bell one ball, ship to step back, three pair for the fall. 13 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:57,879 You happen like make your on STU got a thousand like the one left here, 14 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:12,080 He says something the more you and me to have not more sail. 15 00:03:14,000 --> 00:04:42,040 Oh no, look now we done cracks fall replall stand back, rebel like 16 00:04:42,199 --> 00:04:57,240 a mountain, no spell. Ah. So Scott, you who say call 17 00:04:59,360 --> 00:06:03,240 sounds wh and tell me without single they left the list you they load you. 18 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:13,319 Come on, there's so pretty. I must have them all. Let 19 00:06:13,399 --> 00:06:19,240 me free ser ull Come on, I cannot wan and I'll break them all. 20 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:38,000 They say you they let you another? Take us ring away? How 21 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:53,560 much more time you refrain? No mony, break out side lower, there's 22 00:06:53,639 --> 00:07:01,439 no time. Don't the place someday still the time you wait? I mean 23 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:09,199 the sun out of the way. I don't want to leave this place. 24 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:40,920 I always come macation. You need to have a good time. Heard you 25 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:49,279 bof be back to zoom ay and you st stice. But there's a mother 26 00:07:49,439 --> 00:08:00,759 boxes over there. Tho's not going to sell themselves, you know. Come 27 00:08:00,839 --> 00:08:20,680 back to work. No More Heavy America joins us live in studio. Welcome 28 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:24,160 guys. Hey, hey, thanks for having us. And uh yeah, 29 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,399 and uh this is special because we're gonna be doing the world radio premiere of 30 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,360 a brand new single, which we're going to talk about in a moment. 31 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,080 But uh, let's uh, Mike, let's start with you. You're at 32 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,799 the news desk. Why don't you just tell us who you are and what 33 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,200 you do in the band. My name is Mike Sieguin. I am the 34 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:48,120 lead vocalist and guitarists in heavy America. Uh. I do a lot of 35 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,919 the audio engineering for the band. Oh cool when we record excellent, Uh, 36 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:58,240 pretty much most of the managerial skills, yeah, you know, they 37 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,240 come with it. Try to be a little bit of everything. Try and 38 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,159 take care of whatever needs to get done. That's what I'll tell you all. 39 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,360 Keep it all, you know. Yeah, yeah, there you go, 40 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,080 there you go, all right. I like that, keep it small, 41 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:16,000 keep it all. I like that. And on the couch, you 42 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,440 sir, I am Dan. I am the drummer of the band. Also 43 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,320 a little bit of singing, but mostly the drummer and percussionist. Okay, 44 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,960 and you I'm Bud and I play the bass all right. I'm a bass 45 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,879 player as well. So very nice, very nice. When you guys are 46 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:35,799 from Boston. Yeah, yeah, the band's based out of Boston. Excellent. 47 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:39,320 How was your drive? It wasn't too too bad. Yeah, there 48 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:43,279 was some rough spots, but yeah, this time of day it can be 49 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:46,159 a little dicey. Yeah. And with the weather too. Oh yeah. 50 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,000 The almost two hours to get and these guys know I'm used to the guy 51 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,679 always early. So we get here with a couple of minutes. Right up 52 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,519 front, like you normally do. Really always, that's our joker gigs. 53 00:09:58,519 --> 00:10:01,440 I always get spot, I got the drums, got on equipment. I 54 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,240 always get the spot right off front of it. But we're looking for the 55 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:07,039 gig. Just look for dance cards. Yeah part of the gig. Yeah, 56 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:09,919 well with the drums. That smart? By the way, are you? 57 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,320 And this has been a trend on the show recently. It seems like 58 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,799 every band we have on the drummers in like ten different bands. Are you 59 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:18,519 in a bunch of different bands? Are you just in this one? We 60 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:20,320 are all in this one band, No kidding, we've all been in this 61 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:24,240 one band. So we're dedicated to this very cool, very cool. Yeah, 62 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:28,159 this is our band. Yep. Yeah, excellent, excellent and uh 63 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,360 everything. So we played a couple of tracks during the during the break, 64 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,639 but we're gonna play you know, a couple of your older songs. But 65 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:39,519 we have a brand new you have a brand new single, I should say, 66 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,879 yes, we do, called Pretender and uh, this is the world 67 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,360 radio premiere, right nobody's uh, nobody's heard this yet, that's correct. 68 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,639 Yep, this is the first time it's been on public years. ACT just 69 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,519 got it back from mastering last weekend. We figured what better place to show 70 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,720 it off than Yeah, yeah, oh we love it. We love it 71 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,080 great? Uh thing we should know about this before we hear it. Any 72 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,279 uh anything you want to tell us about it or uh no, no not 73 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,960 really, Just sit back and enjoy. All right, very cool? All 74 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:11,200 right, let's give you this a listen and then we'll come back and talk 75 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,399 with these guys some more. This is the brand new single from Heavy America. 76 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:50,120 This is called Pretender by Spit sell the food down but the pretender now 77 00:11:50,279 --> 00:12:11,639 they the means no surander, come come click Camp thousand one. Fine about 78 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:18,480 the room set the world of Fire told the pool with patients to spare, 79 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:33,080 but your eyes gone everywhere? Come come on not Shaygenda said, no, 80 00:12:33,360 --> 00:13:01,720 Calenda the picture Joe Jane swear sid I can on the other side. So 81 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:11,480 it all getting him, so wat up and start all over the gam Now 82 00:13:13,320 --> 00:14:46,799 that's shade. You heard it here first. Pretender. That is a brand 83 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,440 new single from Heavy America. And we have Mike, Dan and Bud here 84 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:56,480 with us live in studio and great great stuff. So uh so where do 85 00:14:56,559 --> 00:15:01,000 you record? You do this all? Mike? You said you you handle 86 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,840 the audio engineering and everything. Yeah, we do all the recording ourselves right 87 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:13,440 at our rehearsal studio and bill rick A Mass We've been there since twenty fifteen. 88 00:15:13,919 --> 00:15:16,799 Yeah, so we've done a pretty good job of you know, getting 89 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,960 the place all soundproofed and you know, cables run and everything, and it's 90 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:24,080 i mean it's a down and dirty recording studio, but it definitely gets a 91 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,279 job done. And it saves us thousands at all, oh, no doubt. 92 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,559 Yeah, you know, and we live in a time and I've talked 93 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:33,679 about this with a lot of guests on the show over the years that you 94 00:15:33,759 --> 00:15:35,039 know, we live in a time where you've got so many different options in 95 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:37,919 terms of how you approach recording. You know, you can you can go 96 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,279 to a recording studio, you can build your own, you can you have 97 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,120 a very small setup in email tracks back and forth. I mean, it's 98 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,200 amazing all the different ways you can do it now. Yeah, and before 99 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,279 we go any further, by the way, too, these guys, now 100 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:52,200 I did not open this yet or look at it for those of you watching 101 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,720 online. Oh there's a sticker too awesome, But these guys brought me a 102 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:03,120 shirt, the brand brand new Heavy America shirt oh, nice, very nice. 103 00:16:03,399 --> 00:16:07,840 Yea, we went with a tan with black this time instead of a 104 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,440 black T shirt. The last six runs of T shirts have all been black, 105 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:14,399 so no, we changed it up a little bit. I was just 106 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,200 thinking, I think that's cool because everybody does black T shirt exactly, so 107 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:19,960 that's something different. I like it. Yeah, that looks really good. 108 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,759 You can wear that to a formal event too. There you go, there 109 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:26,320 you go. No, that is awesome. Thank you guys. That is 110 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:32,000 that is fantastic. Who designed the logo? I really dig the logo we 111 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:37,240 did. What font is that? It's called Madison square in size Okay, 112 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:42,200 yeah, it took a long time to find that really. Yeah. Yeah, 113 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,279 well you want something to be original and to carry the the you know, 114 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,639 through time. So yeah, yeah. Can you guys talk to me 115 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:52,879 about influences because it's you know, we we listened to that track and then 116 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:56,360 I went and I listened to some of your others because I wanted to play 117 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:00,159 some others too, as we did during the break and hard to pin you 118 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:06,079 guys down. There's you know, you got kind of a I don't know, 119 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,519 it's it's raw, it's it's kind of you know, kind of a 120 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:12,839 stripped down sound, but the melodically it gets weird. There's twists and turns 121 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,839 you don't expect, and it's really cool, especially that track Vacation is a 122 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,759 great example of that. But can you guys just talk to me about influences 123 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:26,000 and what I assume there's a lot of diversity there. Yeah, yeah, 124 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:32,960 there is. All three of us grew up in homes that were, you 125 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,640 know, full of music. My dad, you know, grew up in 126 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,119 the late sixties, early seventies, so I had access to his album collection 127 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,880 when I started learning how to play guitar at like thirteen, Yeah, and 128 00:17:45,319 --> 00:17:51,880 so a lot of my early influences were from that late sixties early seventies. 129 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,160 I think Dan too, Yeah, And I came from a musical family and 130 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,119 my brother was always in a band ahead of me, in one of the 131 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,119 big bands and not where I grew up in Connecticut, so growing growing up 132 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,039 in all that classic rock. So it was definitely a classic rock thing. 133 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,680 The funny thing with us is we never really sit down even when we did 134 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,279 this and talked about sound influences. Yeah, it's an odd thing. We 135 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,079 just kind of brought the music and we never spent a lot of time saying 136 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:15,480 you know, what do we need to sound like? Or who? Who 137 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:18,839 really came from where? It's kind of an amalgamation, so we we tried 138 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,519 to avoid it. And yeah, you know, we're all pretty seasoned musicians. 139 00:18:23,559 --> 00:18:27,279 We've been around for a little while. And I mean it's not just 140 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:33,599 music that's an influence, you know, in your music meeting other music, 141 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,960 but it's it's everything, you know, It's all all things you come across 142 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:41,200 on a daily basis can influence you in some way. So yeah, I 143 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,160 I never liked the idea of pigeon holding yourself to one thing, you know. 144 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,440 And we a few years ago got described as every genre of rock by 145 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,000 a review that was done of us, and I saw that on your website. 146 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,359 I kind of liked it. Yeah, I was like, that's true, 147 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,759 you know, and that it's when you played theations that mentioned that that's 148 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:06,960 kind of quirky. And that song when we released it that the guy person 149 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:11,279 that did the review on that song tagged us as psychedelic, progressive hot Brad 150 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,440 and I like that too. I think that's pretty good too. But you 151 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,880 know, we do we like to we like to stretch our own talents too, 152 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,039 you know, so we we're always challenging ourselves as musicians. So if 153 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:27,160 you hear one of our songs go off on some wacky key change or time 154 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,440 signature change, just because we probably decided to challenge ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. 155 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,119 Has the sound changed over time or has it always been a little bit 156 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:41,400 Yeah, yeah, it's it's become more us. Yeah, you know, 157 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:47,039 you can still hear all of our you know, our influences, but it's 158 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,960 our sound is becoming more us, you know. I'd say in the past 159 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:53,559 probably two or three years, we've really started to get our own sound, 160 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,240 and yeah, that was the goal. Yeah, I think the other thing 161 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,559 where we've become much better at building songs. We might Mike as obviously our 162 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:03,799 our fearless leader when it comes to bringing music, but sometimes it can start 163 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:06,279 at a rehearsal. Right, we can we come up with stuff, but 164 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:07,440 a lot of times Mike comes with a couple ideas. But the three of 165 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:11,759 us really contribute. But I we you know, I think more lately now 166 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:12,880 than we did in the beginning, we spent a lot of time building a 167 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:17,720 good song. I think earlier on it's whatever came to you and you kind 168 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:19,599 of accepted that and then you you might have tweaked it, but we spent 169 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,240 a good amount of time working through songs now to make sure the parts fit. 170 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,559 It's interesting, listenable and uh yeah, and then we're proud of it. 171 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,839 Yeah. And they never really done you know, like we've gone back 172 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,119 and we just did it for a swarmy fest. We took a song that 173 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,599 was eight years old and chopped a minute and twenty seconds out of it. 174 00:20:41,759 --> 00:20:45,799 Oh yeah, just because we didn't like that part anymore. Yeah, you 175 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,559 know, but we're not you know, we're not afraid to hack up our 176 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,640 own music. And well, it keeps it interesting, right, It kind 177 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,759 of renews something. That's that's uh. You know, if you take an 178 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:57,119 old song and you kind of do it just differently, it's like it's a 179 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,640 new song. Yeah. And plus, you know, you improve as a 180 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,319 player and you want to put you know, you want your new chops in 181 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,160 your old songs, right right. Uh. Chris from the band Edgewise says, 182 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,799 I heard some big Elf in their Great Bay Side band. Do you 183 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,240 know them Big Elf? I don't. I don't think I do either. 184 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,400 I don't know. It sounds kind of familiar, but I'll have to check 185 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,039 them out. Though, I'm curious, has it always been the three of 186 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,799 you in this band? Interesting enough, we started, as we need to 187 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:29,279 start as this band as a four piece, but we were a four piece 188 00:21:29,279 --> 00:21:32,240 and we started together on a project together. These guys have known each other 189 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:34,160 forever, Okay, they knew somebody else that I'd been playing drums with. 190 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:38,400 We started out on a project to do a studio recording of old songs they 191 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,920 had done way back when. It kind of resurrects some of them. And 192 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:45,640 then after that we three wanted to stay on and continue on. That's how 193 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:49,640 you know I was born. Yeah, but we you know, at that 194 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,400 time we had it was a singer and Mike wasn't singing, and then Mike 195 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,640 said, now I'm picking up singing dudies. We're like, okay, let's 196 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,880 let's see how that goes. But we love a three piece. That's our 197 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,400 that's our bag. Yeah, it's when you can it's hard. I mean 198 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,160 you can execute and record what you know, play what you recorded, and 199 00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:07,759 like saying, singing lead and playing guitar, and it works. It's great. 200 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,039 Yeah, yeah, I imagine. I mean it's easier in some ways 201 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:15,119 too, right, if you have if there's only three of you, because 202 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,960 the bigger the band, the more you have to work around, you know, 203 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,680 the more people whose schedules you have to work around for rehearsals and for 204 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:25,440 shows, and so the three piece that must be pretty streamlined. I would 205 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,000 think, yeah, it is. Yeah, And you know, we we 206 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,839 all think the same when it comes to music, and I don't. We've 207 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,519 never had an argument. Yeah, in the eight years that we've been in 208 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,000 a band together, we've never had an argument. It's it's just it's beyond 209 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,000 that, you know. I think that's what about you know, when you're 210 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,599 talking about adding another person, has it come up like a couple of times? 211 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:48,880 Could you imagine if we had a keyboard player or something like that. 212 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,359 No, because that the relationship we have just works. So it's just not 213 00:22:53,599 --> 00:23:00,240 worth even screwing with. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, 214 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:06,319 while we're in a ye, are any of these songs difficult to to recreate 215 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,279 live? Do they change it all live? Because what you've recorded is difficult 216 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,519 with just the three of you? Or no? We we we always try 217 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,599 whatever we put on record, we we try to make sure that we can 218 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,480 replicate that live. And we and we don't use any backing tracks. When 219 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,119 you see us, it's literally you're hearing the three of us raw playing no 220 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:30,599 backing tracks. Well, we we want to make sure that we can reproduce, 221 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,599 you know, live, So there's there's a few small things like if 222 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,559 you're here in the fall, uh, there's a little piano key thing in 223 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,279 the back. But you know, there's little accents that we may do in 224 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:49,160 the recording studio, but we'd never record or use any instruments that we can't 225 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:57,400 use live. Okay. Chris from Edgewise just shared a link to Big Elf 226 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,200 in the Room. I want to see if it I'm going to have to 227 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,119 listen to that. I want to see if it loads up here. It's 228 00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:11,000 for some reason my internet here is running very slow. But yeah, I'm 229 00:24:11,039 --> 00:24:15,000 just curious to hear just a little bit of this because you guys are are 230 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,640 unique and I couldn't think of anyone you sound quite like. So it's it's 231 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:25,039 interesting that let me see here, turn this up, see what we get 232 00:24:25,079 --> 00:24:36,119 here? Reason just buy. Let me go a little further and I oh, 233 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:52,559 there we go. That's a song. That's a song called money. 234 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,519 It's pure evil. I'll have to listen to that later. It does sound 235 00:24:56,599 --> 00:25:00,599 interesting. It does sound interesting. I'd have to listen to a little more 236 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:06,119 myself to try and hear us. And yeah, do you guys, how 237 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,559 many songs do you have because you've you've been together? What what eight years? 238 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,079 Just eight years? We got right now? I think twenty eight originals? 239 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,960 Okay, okay, do you do any covers or no covers? But 240 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:22,400 we do medley of of some covers? Oh okay, yeah, but with 241 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:26,039 no vocals? Well really yeah, and it's just the hooks, yeah, 242 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,079 you know, but it's about thirteen or fourteen different songs that we just took 243 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,119 all the hooks of them and jammed them in a one six and a half 244 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,759 minute long Now it's free break, is the way Mike. You know, 245 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:40,039 we're not doing it this weekend, so it's fine. I can talk about 246 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:42,920 it, not taking away the surprise. But the way Mike always explains is, 247 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,279 you know, we could tell you what our influences is but are but 248 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,519 instead we're gonna show you. Yeah, and literally we all contributed, like 249 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:51,920 here's three songs I want to do, three I want to do. We 250 00:25:52,039 --> 00:25:56,079 kind of cobbled it together and they're all snippets and the hardest part was sewing 251 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,319 them all together and it's it's every time we get done. Everybody's it says, 252 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,200 that's freaking genius. Yeah, and it's it's a highlightment. But you 253 00:26:03,279 --> 00:26:07,559 know that's our covers, you know. Yeah, yeah, very nice. 254 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:11,559 We should, Uh I'd like to play another song. So I listened to 255 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,400 obviously, you know, we did, we premiered the new song, but 256 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,599 I also listened to a bunch of your other uh your other songs online, 257 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,759 and uh, I think we should. We should get one more in and 258 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:23,359 then we'll come back and talk. We'll come back and talk some more. 259 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:30,079 But I already played the fall that was that was pretty cool. Oh crushed 260 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,319 we Uh I like calling you Tomorrow a lot. But that is a swear 261 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,559 in it. But yeah, but it's a killer. But yeah, that 262 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,799 is a great track. If I actually, if I had time, I 263 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:42,440 would have made a radio edit of it, because uh, I'm pretty good 264 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,759 at that and that is a great track. But uh, I also really 265 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,559 like this song crushed. That song did well in Europe, did it? 266 00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:53,400 Yeah? Yeah, we got a lot of press out of London. Oh 267 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,880 no kidding with that song. Yeah, it more did way better over in 268 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,799 England than it did here in the United States. I mean, were obviously 269 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:07,160 have rock stars or anything. It got a lot more press in in online 270 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,119 play and terrestrial play in England than it did. He interesting, any idea, 271 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,319 why do you know, do you have any idea what it is about 272 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,240 it that caught on there or I don't. I mean, we released it 273 00:27:21,319 --> 00:27:23,960 in the summer, which is it does have kind of that bouncy summary type 274 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,160 feel maybe, and I guess it does have a little hint of English mixing, 275 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,160 like you know, the the tones in there are a little bit more 276 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:40,319 British than than probably didn't you'd hear it here. But yeah, we're just 277 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,880 happy people liked it. I don't know, I don't care if you're from 278 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,720 Zimbabwe. If you like that song, it's great with me. Man. 279 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,279 By the way, Melanie said in the chat room, that must be annoying 280 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:55,400 being more successful in another country. Yeah, no, it's pretty cool that. 281 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:56,319 I mean, I don't know, I think it's cool that. Uh. 282 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,880 And again it's the time that we live in too, you know, 283 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:03,839 whereas you know, pre internet, you know that that really would be pretty 284 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,319 unlikely or if something like that did happen where you have something that catches on 285 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,319 somewhere else you might not ever even know about it. You know, if 286 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:17,440 your band has a good online presence, I mean, chances have more than 287 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,720 eighty percent of your fans are going to be from somewhere else, right right, 288 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,960 you know, it's it we made. We knew the importance of that, 289 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,880 like real early. I mean, you can you can play your local 290 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,839 scene, and you should as much as you can. Yeah, but I 291 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,559 mean it's not like the nineties where that's what you were limited to, right, 292 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,079 Like you had to physically leave to get people to know you. Right, 293 00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:41,000 you can you write a song now you can the whole world can hear 294 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:45,200 it exactly. And we chose a different path. I mean, yeah, 295 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,720 we've all played out in bands and played out and done. You know, 296 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:52,400 we're more into getting our music heard now than just going out and playing clubs 297 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:56,000 around here. And Mike's done an amazing job of figuring out how to get 298 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 your music out there. So yeah, you know, Mike's got the numbers 299 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:00,839 and we were viewing some time. You're amazed where your music gets played, 300 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,839 yea. And I just think getting it out there and having people listen to 301 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,039 it is what makes us happy less than, not less than you know, 302 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,000 playing out is great and we'll do it. We'll do it whenever. But 303 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,680 knowing that people are listening, you're getting hits around the world is pretty cool. 304 00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:17,880 Yeah, yeah, that is that is well, let's let's give this 305 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,119 a listen. So this is called Crushed, and then we'll come back and 306 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,920 talk with these guys. Some more Heavy America is with us live in studio. 307 00:29:25,039 --> 00:30:06,240 But this is Crushed, caught it on a limp. Come flee jesus 308 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:18,359 On, say your word. I'll say you got a promise you come here 309 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:26,880 soon. No, lock, can't sleep, don't trot in on it to 310 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:41,039 deep it up. Flee jesus On. Wanker, wain no thing you father 311 00:30:41,559 --> 00:31:07,279 thing, no day to forget it up to s come to me. I 312 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:17,880 got something I thought you should see about the bad time. Show me your 313 00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:32,160 little show you bad birt, Sweet jesus On, what way? No thing 314 00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:57,319 about my lie in here? They didn't know, sir. Crush, Sweet 315 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:13,039 jesus On. Wish you to say crush. You're making me sell you no 316 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:36,160 company? Say you know where no company? Crush. Yeah that is catchy. 317 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,960 That is Crushed. The band is Heavy America and they are with us 318 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:44,079 live in studio. Tom Blanchard is in the chatterman says, good song, 319 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,039 cranking it up. You guys were we were talking off air, there's a 320 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:52,240 there's a video for that that you said was was pretty fun to shoot or 321 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:53,400 interesting to shoot. I haven't. I haven't seen the video yet, but 322 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,319 I guess all your singles have videos. Yeah. Yeah, every every song 323 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,960 that we published we do a video for, which is why Pretender hasn't been 324 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,039 published yet because we're doing the video for it right now. Excellent. Yeah, 325 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,359 then once that video is done, then that song will be published. 326 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,960 But yeah, we we try and shoot a video for every song. We 327 00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:15,559 work with a videographer who's a great friend of ours, does an awesome job. 328 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,880 His name is Frank Avinie. If anybody's looking for a good videographer, 329 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,720 look him up on Facebook, Frankavinie. But yeah, that the song Crush, 330 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:30,400 We actually did that video ourselves. Oh okay, and it was fun. 331 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:37,119 If if you watch the video, we're all laying on our back wearing 332 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:43,720 like white it out smart wearing white it Out costumes, and we kind of 333 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:47,440 green screened it, so there's all this activity going on like through our bodies 334 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,559 and in the background while we're playing the song, and it was It was 335 00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,880 a lot of fun to shoot, and we edited it did all the editing 336 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,920 ourselves, and so that had a learning curve, but it was fun. 337 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:02,880 Yeah, that is cool. I'm I'm looking at it now. Yeah, 338 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,319 that's pretty cool. Yeah, trying to you know, you read about green 339 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:08,960 screen that we lay down this tarp and were lying on our backs and the 340 00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:12,320 camera. You know, how do we get the camera above us and it's 341 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,519 just the three of us and you're you know, you got some help from 342 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,880 your family. We got an extension ladder with the camera tape duct taped to 343 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,199 a broomstick, you know, the funge you do a ladder hang over. 344 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,639 It was fun. Now, So what was the process like of I've never 345 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,599 worked with a green screen? Do you? How do you get You're pretty 346 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:37,199 much just in the editing software. You choose the color that you want to 347 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:43,880 mask, okay, and we wore white and we had so but the tarp 348 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,280 that we were laying on was blue, so we masked all the blue, 349 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,239 okay, and that became you know, the essentially the green screen. So 350 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,800 anything that was the color of that tart just gets replaced with whatever background image 351 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,079 you you put on it. Yeah, that is because of the suits that 352 00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:04,760 we were wearing. It kind of bleeds through the arms and legs, and 353 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,719 yeah, it was it was just kind of an anomaly we didn't plan on 354 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,519 having. Yeah, we didn't plan on it, but it just added a 355 00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:13,039 cool effect, you know. Yeah, that is really cool. Yeah, 356 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:16,000 I recommend everybody checked this out. Heavy America crushed. Look up the video 357 00:35:16,119 --> 00:35:20,519 on YouTube. Not right now, wait till after the show, but yeah, 358 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:22,599 you got to. You gotta look this up. That's pretty cool. 359 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:27,360 That's pretty cool. So you so it's interesting though you're used to working with 360 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,639 a videoographer, but when but this one, you guys did yourselves, yep, 361 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,880 and it came out pretty amazing. Yeah. Yeah, we during twenty 362 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,880 twenty when everything shut down and you know, nobody was doing gigs, we 363 00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:45,960 invested in a really good Nevo live streaming camera okay, and got you know, 364 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:52,039 some nice soft editing software to go with it. And that thing is 365 00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:55,599 shoots in four K. Yeah, but it also it's got a two hundred 366 00:35:55,599 --> 00:36:00,960 and eighty degree field of view and it actually has three different lenses in it, 367 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:07,119 so it looks like whatever you shoot was shot by three different cameras from 368 00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:10,159 three different angles. But it's only one camera. Interesting, it's really really 369 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:15,440 cool and it'll do it all on its own. You can just pre set 370 00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:19,719 for it to find faces and follow faces and really yep, you set it 371 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,599 up and just hit the top and do your thing and it it zooms in 372 00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:27,000 and out and pans and does all kinds of cool stuff. Yeah, all 373 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:29,559 by itself. Oh, that's really cool. It was. It was well 374 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:31,159 worth the money. I don't even know if they make that camera anymore. 375 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,039 Really. Yeah, it was real short lived, but it was it was, 376 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,880 you know, worth the money for sure. Wow. Hans Smith of 377 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:43,960 SIS says Heavy America. I can't wait to see you on stage. Yeah, 378 00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:49,480 we we missed you guys that live Love Laugh. You guys were playing 379 00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:52,119 Saturday. We played Friday night. But and that was where was that? 380 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:58,480 That was in eleven and Maine at the end of August, the end of 381 00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:01,920 this past August. What was the venue? Charlie Hill. Charlie Hill, 382 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,960 Okay, and a lot of people can't buy. You can do a two 383 00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:07,239 day festival there and some people stay on if we wanted to stay on till 384 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,480 sorry, we have to stay there overnight camp bout. It was raining and 385 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:14,119 muddy, so we left and the next day, I guess was beautiful. 386 00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:17,320 But uh, that's what you'res oun Yeah, I've been hearing a lot about 387 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,840 Charlie Hill. That's uh sounds like a lot. Sounds like a lot of 388 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,320 people are playing there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very good. Do 389 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,119 you guys play out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows? 390 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,639 Uh? Not really? We probably do about a half a dozen in a 391 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,599 year, okay, you know locally. If we have an opportunity to travel, 392 00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:39,000 we will, But if we're just playing locally, it's usually about you 393 00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:43,159 know, six times a year, okay, every couple of months. Yeah, 394 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,639 what's uh? Now, do you guys have a full album or do 395 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,159 you just release singles? No? We we did release a full album in 396 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:58,000 twenty seventeen called now Oh okay yeah, before that, oh here it is. 397 00:37:58,119 --> 00:38:00,360 Yeah. Yeah. Our first release was a five song or five or 398 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:05,239 six song EP, yeah, just self titled. That came out in twenty 399 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:10,000 fifteen. Okay, in twenty seventeen we released a nine song album and then 400 00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:15,400 from then on we've been releasing singles. Okay, and what goes into the 401 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,079 because that's another area too, where it's like, you know, you've got 402 00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:21,599 so many different options nowadays, you know where you know, growing up, 403 00:38:21,639 --> 00:38:22,880 it was like, you know, you put out an album and then you 404 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,760 go on tour, or you put out it or maybe an EP, although 405 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,920 I don't remember a lot of EP's grown up, but you know, somebody 406 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,519 might put out an EP and then go on tour and then make another album 407 00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:34,639 or something. But now there's so many different ways you can do it, 408 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,559 and a lot of artists, actually, I really common trend that I've noticed 409 00:38:38,639 --> 00:38:44,239 when talking to people on the show is artists will put out a series of 410 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,519 singles, like maybe one a month and then and then at a certain point, 411 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:51,159 those singles become part of an album. We did we did that? 412 00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:53,440 Did you? Yeah? But the album is only off ed well, it's 413 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,119 a it's a physical CD, so okay, you can get it on our 414 00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:04,639 website or at our shows. But it's it's just that it's nine of our 415 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,079 singles, okay, all put on one disc. Okay. We talked about 416 00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:10,719 it early on, like how should we approach it after we did those albums 417 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,239 and we and you just called out, you said, ipore, it's it's 418 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,159 a different time. So we land that on a focus on you know, 419 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,679 coming up with anytime six songs we know that are new, come up with 420 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,599 a release plan. We probably do one every two months three months now, 421 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,639 yeah, I think, and uh, and really focus on good recording and 422 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,280 good solid releases, give them some air, yeah, and then move on 423 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,639 to the next but no more big releases of album. We learned an important 424 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,519 lesson with that album. When we released it. It took us ten months 425 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:45,199 to you know, not including writing the songs, but just just for the 426 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,199 recording and the mixing and the mastering and all the artwork and you know, 427 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,840 everything that goes into releasing an album. It took us ten months. Yeah, 428 00:39:52,039 --> 00:40:00,000 and uh, what we found was we released that album six weeks later, 429 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:06,159 it was old news, you know, yeah, and ten months of 430 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,960 worse work should go a lot further than that, you know. Interesting, 431 00:40:09,079 --> 00:40:15,559 So we we we figured out real soon that it doesn't matter if it's an 432 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:20,880 EP and album or a single, it's it's got to it has a very 433 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,159 short longevity, you know, where where you have maybe six to nine weeks 434 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:31,320 like from release date to really grab people's attention with this thing. So instead 435 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:36,639 of just you know, shooting it all off on one album right away, 436 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,159 we we learned that if you just release one single, you stretch it a 437 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,559 lot further, and it keeps your band relevant a lot longer. Yeah, 438 00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:49,440 because every three months you're back in the press, right right, Yeah, 439 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,599 that makes sense, especially you know in the social media era. You know, 440 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:59,079 it's like you gotta feed that machine. Stead are so short exactly worth 441 00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:01,840 giving them every thing all at once, right a little bit? Yeah, 442 00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:07,599 no, that makes sense, that makes sense. And and the videos too, 443 00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:12,559 you know. You know what's funny too about about that is I don't 444 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,039 know if you guys ever run into this, but there are there's some people 445 00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:17,880 who, uh, if you talk to them, maybe they don't know much 446 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,599 about the maybe they don't pay much attention to the music industry or whatever. 447 00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:24,519 But some people think that there there are no more music videos because you know, 448 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:30,119 MTV v H one they haven't played videos in so long and and and 449 00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:32,280 a lot of people think it's it's kind of a dead medium, the music 450 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,840 video, and they don't realize that actually there's more music videos than ever. 451 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:42,519 I think it's we all agree it's a necessity. Yeah, I mean, 452 00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:45,760 YouTube is the number one search engine for music, yep, you know, 453 00:41:45,079 --> 00:41:52,280 and it are our publisher automatically sends our you know, posts on music to 454 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,760 our website, but it's just the audio. It's up to us to create 455 00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,719 the video content. But it's so important when you can release your song, 456 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,239 and a lot of bands do and there's nothing wrong with just a stagnant image 457 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,239 of your you know, CD artwork or a lyric video. Yeah, that 458 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,440 lyric video. But you know, we want to keep it a little more 459 00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:15,599 interesting. And you know where we we save a lot of money doing our 460 00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:19,960 own recordings, so we're able to spend a little bit of money to get 461 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,679 a good video done. Yeah yeah, but you know it's also important to 462 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,840 have a promotional budget too. Know. We we plan on any time we 463 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,800 release a song, it's anywhere between one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars. We 464 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,920 a lot for promotion of that song across a whole bunch of different mediums, 465 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:46,840 you know, YouTube, Spotify, getting press, social media boosts and advertising 466 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,800 and all this other stuff. It's you got to invest a little bit if 467 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,000 you want to get your reach right, right, So yeah, no doubt. 468 00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:01,360 How did you guys get involved with Swarmy Fast? If you did Stepsis 469 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,760 reach out to you, do you I actually reached out to them. We 470 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,360 followed each other online A couple of years back. We started following each other 471 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,280 because you know, we're same look music scene pretty much, and you know, 472 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,159 we try and support everybody we can, and I know those guys are 473 00:43:16,199 --> 00:43:21,880 phenomenal and supporting other acts. Yeah, oh yeah, and so yeah, 474 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,079 we we you know, just watching each other's bands kind of grow. And 475 00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:30,880 I saw a posting from New Hampshire Booking saying they was still looking for a 476 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,400 couple of bands for Swamy Fest. So I reached out to Melissa Yeah, 477 00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:37,280 and I asked her if he he's still looking for another band, and she 478 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,119 said, yeah, yeah, we'd love to have you. So it was 479 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,519 it was just a post I saw online. I just got there first. 480 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,000 Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. And how long is your set on 481 00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:52,480 Saturday? Do you know? Twenty five minutes? Yeah, twenty five minutes? 482 00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:57,960 Yeah yeah, cool cool. Do you guys play obviously you've been around 483 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,320 a while. You said, what eight years? Eight years? Yeah? 484 00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:02,079 Do you play songs that go all the way back to the beginning of the 485 00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:07,039 band? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we we We rehash our 486 00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,719 set list constantly at our rehearsals. We get together once a week, but 487 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,760 it's for four hours yeah, and we you know, we'll take like a 488 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:19,159 half an hour dinner break usually in the middle, but we'll plow through fifteen 489 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,519 eighteen songs in a night. Yeah, and we we try and keep it 490 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:27,440 all fresh, because just because the song's eight years old doesn't mean you don't 491 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,559 you know, you shouldn't play it anymore. It's a great song, right 492 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,239 right, Yeah. Yeah. We love curating a new set list, or 493 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:37,480 at least set list used for a period of time, and then we work 494 00:44:37,519 --> 00:44:39,159 hard on rehearsing a set list to make sure we can get through it right 495 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,800 right time, that it flows. We just enjoy doing that and then rehearsing 496 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,119 that. Yeah, literally, that's set a couple of times, you know. 497 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,079 Yeah. One of the songs we're doing that Swarmy fest Is, actually 498 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,639 was on a twenty fourteen demo Noki. Yeah, that songs you know, 499 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:00,360 nine years old. We're gonna play it. Yeah cool cool, Yeah, 500 00:45:00,519 --> 00:45:05,079 Hans says, Sepsis is about discovery. That's the most powerful thing ever. 501 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,199 Yeah, very cool. And hello to Adam Slim in the Facebook live chat 502 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:14,400 and anybody in there I might have missed. Now, what what's up next 503 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,840 for you guys? After Swarmy fest. You have another show for later this 504 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:22,159 year. We're working right now with another band trying to book some a show 505 00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:27,480 in the Austin Brighton area, but we were unsure of the of a date 506 00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,199 just yet, but that that'll be sometime probably end in November, beginning of 507 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:37,320 December. Okay, okay. And then now there's Oh, I think you 508 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:38,800 mentioned it earlier. I can't remember if it was on air or off air, 509 00:45:39,119 --> 00:45:43,119 but you guys are working as your videos for all the singles. You 510 00:45:43,159 --> 00:45:45,679 guys are working on a video now for Pretender? Is that correct? Yeah? 511 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,559 Excellent? Yeah, the song, we just got it back from mastering. 512 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,559 Yeah, so you know we've decided we're happy with it. Yeah, 513 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:59,400 so we're gonna go ahead with the video production. But we haven't even broke 514 00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:02,039 round with that yet, and that usually takes anywhere between four to five weeks 515 00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:06,199 to complete. Wow, okay, are you going to be working with the 516 00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,519 same videographer? Probably? Yeah, if we don't shoot at ourselves, we'll 517 00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:13,960 be working with Frank Evinie again. Yeah, okay, okay, I'll have 518 00:46:14,039 --> 00:46:16,519 to check out your other videos. But I don't know. When you do 519 00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:20,320 it yourselves, it does seem to work out pretty well. I don't know 520 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,320 what crushed video is awesome. I don't know if you played the song tales 521 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,320 earlier, but I know it's one of the tracks that I sent you. 522 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,400 But Frank shot that video for us back in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty. 523 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,840 That one we haven't played. We'll probably end with that one. Actually, 524 00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:42,000 that to this is still my favorite video. Yeah, oh, you got 525 00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:44,800 to watch that because I just I'm proud he did such a great job he 526 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,880 did. He did an amazing job on that Vie Mike Mike game. A 527 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,199 great storyboard and you wonder how it's going to be consumed and executed, and 528 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,079 we knew where we're going to do it, but just Frank just masterfully, 529 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:58,320 Yeah, helped us get that you know out there. He's real good at 530 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,400 pulling the idea you have it in your head out and being able to understand 531 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,800 it, you know, which is tough sometimes, you know, like you're 532 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:12,000 trying to you're trying to explain to someone a storyboard that they have no idea. 533 00:47:12,159 --> 00:47:15,199 He didn't even hear the song, you know, Okay, you know 534 00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:19,679 they're like, is what we want to do? And right away he got 535 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,320 it. When you say storyboard, what do you mean exactly for people who 536 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:29,199 don't know, well, the lyrics of a song usually tell somewhat of a 537 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,199 story, you know, and so you we try and come up with a 538 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:38,760 storyboard, h if you will, like scenes to go along with the lyrics 539 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:45,760 in in the video. Yeah, Tales is a song about desperation, you 540 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:52,000 know, and solitude and you know, just having no hope. And he 541 00:47:52,119 --> 00:48:00,119 did a great job of capturing that emotion with the video. And so like 542 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:07,400 the Crush video, obviously that's that has a long storyboard. Yeah, that 543 00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:12,639 that song. To edit that was crazy. It's because that's a whole story. 544 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,000 Yeah yeah, oh, Mike, you did, you did, You 545 00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:16,599 did a real storyboard. And we did the animated video, right, we 546 00:48:17,199 --> 00:48:22,159 hired a young animator and in Generation Lame we hired uh this, when we 547 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,760 did the video for the song Generation Lane, we actually hired a local animator 548 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,280 to do a minute in forty six or forty eight seconds worth of animation and 549 00:48:31,679 --> 00:48:37,639 that took almost three months just because it's all hand done. Yeah yeah, 550 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:42,159 and so we we really had to wait on that. Wow. And then 551 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,159 you know, on top of all the other video clips that get edited into 552 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,880 it and everything, I mean, and it's a long song. It's like 553 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,679 almost five minutes long, so it's it's like a mini movie. Yeah. 554 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,760 Wow, yeah, I'll have to check that out. That that was one 555 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,519 of the early ones, right generational. Yeah, that came out in twenty 556 00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:01,840 twenty. Okay, oh twenty twenty okay, okay, cool. Cool, 557 00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:05,760 And of course the website too for people who want to keep up on with 558 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,119 everything. You guys are doing Heavy America dot us correct, Yep, that's 559 00:49:09,199 --> 00:49:14,760 correct. You can find us on Facebook, uh, Facebook slash heavy America. 560 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,719 We're on Instagram where everywhere. By the way, where does the name 561 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,000 come from? It's a cool name. Is the name of any meaning? 562 00:49:22,119 --> 00:49:24,480 Or you know? I actually was not there when the name was conceived. 563 00:49:24,599 --> 00:49:29,039 Dan was, so Dan's going to have to tell you the story. It 564 00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,840 really comes to. We're at rehearsal at some point in Effett and uh, 565 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:37,920 it's basically the same incarnation of the band. But we went outside, sat 566 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,360 on a stoop afterwards, and some kids said, you know, I forget 567 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,880 whether he said do you have a name or whatever, and he's a kid 568 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,679 blurted out he said, you sound like like Heavy America. We're like, 569 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,239 what does that mean? Yeah? Like what does that mean. It was 570 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,400 just a joke. We just brought it back as we could never settle on 571 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:52,599 a name. And I said, this kid said that, you know. 572 00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:58,440 Yeah yeah, and uh we loved it. Yeah yeah, like that's where 573 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:04,360 it came from a kid again, that's cool and went on his way. 574 00:50:04,639 --> 00:50:08,880 Yeah, yeah, I guess it was. I guess it was meant to 575 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,920 be. It was fate. Yeah, no, it's cool. It's a 576 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,000 cool name. Is there any significance to the A at the end also being 577 00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:21,119 capitalized or is it just posthetically looks better. Yeah, no, it's cool. 578 00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:24,519 It's cool. All right, guys, thank you so much. It's 579 00:50:24,559 --> 00:50:27,719 wonderful to meet the three of you. I can't wait to see you live 580 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,960 on Saturday. Mike, Dan and Bud from Heavy America. And we will 581 00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:36,800 end with this track Tales. If you miss it again, go back and 582 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,280 listen. You'll hear the world radio premiere of Pretender from Heavy America, the 583 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,880 brand new single. But we'll end with this, gentlemen, thank you so 584 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,280 much. This has been wonder so much. Absolutely, and I will see 585 00:50:47,280 --> 00:51:16,519 you Saturday. And here it is Tales from Heavy America. Nothing any more, 586 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:24,920 never, nothing more. This is what you've waited for be you think 587 00:51:25,119 --> 00:51:42,840 back to base again. I happy you. You let the friend waiting watching 588 00:51:43,119 --> 00:52:10,280 through the trees, not the box eat the one you one heavy, reproved 589 00:52:10,519 --> 00:52:16,280 at drag my knees gotta see. I can barely breathe. So fun, 590 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:42,880 so fun. You're killing for what the count bonuing for that doesn't fall gets 591 00:52:43,039 --> 00:52:53,519 the shot off. Trouble comes intos and trees. The only one, the 592 00:52:53,719 --> 00:53:28,000 one gets the fun. You're John J jup. What is do? Se? 593 00:53:30,199 --> 00:53:32,480 I can't fairly breathe