Speaker 1: Join us on the line right now. It's Cody Canada.
Speaker 1: Hey Cody, how are you man?
Speaker 2: How good? How you doing this morning?
Speaker 1: I'm great, man, It's great to talk to you, dude.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the sold out shows over at boone Pickens.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you man. It's pretty pretty wild to me.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to ask us when we see shows
Speaker 1: get added one after another when they sell well, was
Speaker 1: it planned or did you have a contingency plan for
Speaker 1: her to add multiple days?
Speaker 2: I mean, I honestly didn't think that we would sell
Speaker 2: out even one night. And then I walked into the
Speaker 2: kitchen and my wife was on the phone with a
Speaker 2: book an agent, and she said, Okay, it looks like
Speaker 2: we're doing night too. Okay, So and then after that
Speaker 2: they added night three and four just instantly. So it
Speaker 2: was all shocked to me.
Speaker 1: Was there a debate ever to add another date? When like,
Speaker 1: were you like, all right, let's just do like two more?
Speaker 2: There was like one hundred and are two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand more people in the queue, So that was
Speaker 2: definitely you know, a plan, but we decided that let's
Speaker 2: let's just get through the first the four and uh
Speaker 2: and then we'll plan after that.
Speaker 1: You know what, what what about the because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people that never got tickets and the
Speaker 1: did like the frustration and stuff. Were you ever guys
Speaker 1: ever brought in like hey there's a problem with ticket
Speaker 1: sales or there's more demand than we expected. Was there
Speaker 1: any that business side of that that you were involved in?
Speaker 2: I I got online before everything went on sale, and
Speaker 2: I said, you know, don't buy from third party. You know,
Speaker 2: there were gonna everybody buy from the school. You know,
Speaker 2: if something happened, then you have to buy a third party,
Speaker 2: and you really want to come to the show and
Speaker 2: do that. But there was such so much internet traffic,
Speaker 2: server traffic that pe I mean, there was no way
Speaker 2: that anybody that everybody could get them. And then we
Speaker 2: found out, you know that a lot of it was
Speaker 2: like seat geek and stub hub. But I don't, I
Speaker 2: don't really think you can beat that system. I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't. If Tavid Swift can't, I damn
Speaker 2: sure can't. You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, From an artist's standpoint is what does that?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 3: You do you feel helpless?
Speaker 1: I mean, of course you feel you know, empathy for
Speaker 1: fans and stuff, because you want them to come to
Speaker 1: the shows, but where does that land with you?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's it's frustrating, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: I have people, I've been doing this for thirty thirty years,
Speaker 2: thirty one years next year, and man, I've got people
Speaker 2: all over the country that want to see the show.
Speaker 2: And then you know, on top of that, I'm only
Speaker 2: allowed so many people on a guest list. So that's
Speaker 2: definitely empathy. You know. I really felt like this is
Speaker 2: the kind of the way I'm built, though. I kind
Speaker 2: of felt like I let people down, But in the end,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing I could do about it.
Speaker 3: How did the show? Those shows in April?
Speaker 1: How did just because you thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a one day thing, but how did that come to?
Speaker 3: Fruition? Share it with us and the fans?
Speaker 1: Like how the idea of getting back together and doing
Speaker 1: this and doing that day and doing it in still
Speaker 1: are How did all that come about?
Speaker 2: So about if you got a minute, I.
Speaker 3: Got all the time you want, man.
Speaker 2: And like two years ago, my wife lost her dad,
Speaker 2: so we went to we kind of got away from everything,
Speaker 2: and I have friends up in New York and we
Speaker 2: went up there to hang out for a few days
Speaker 2: and we went to see a band called eichnine Kills.
Speaker 2: My kids and wife loved metal, and honestly I like
Speaker 2: it more than then I used to. But uh. We
Speaker 2: were underneath the Madison Square Garden at the Hulu Theater
Speaker 2: and we took the kids back to the house and
Speaker 2: then we walked to a bar and my wife was
Speaker 2: going around the table saying, Hey, let's let's talk about goals,
Speaker 2: you know, let's sitch goals. And she in to me
Speaker 2: and I was like, kind of teary eyed, and She's like,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? I said, I think it's time
Speaker 2: that we we start real man's in the idea. I
Speaker 2: would like to at least, you know, have everybody be
Speaker 2: friends again. And so there was She said to me,
Speaker 2: you know, I think that's great, but the thing I
Speaker 2: want from you is to be happy. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I kind of want everybody to be happy. I mean,
Speaker 2: just the world is so especially our country is there's
Speaker 2: everything's so divided, and people were yelling at each other
Speaker 2: all the time, and like, what's this? This is something
Speaker 2: that makes people have fun. And so it was a
Speaker 2: two year process and my book and agent, John Folk,
Speaker 2: who is I told him he told me not to
Speaker 2: say it, but I don't care what he says. He
Speaker 2: he's one the reason that this is happening. I mean it.
Speaker 2: I know it took us calling each other and talking
Speaker 2: through things, which really wasn't that big a deal. The
Speaker 2: more I lean into it, the more I realized that
Speaker 2: I think I was the one that was kind of
Speaker 2: like maybe holding a grudge, you know, and uh, for
Speaker 2: no reason. I mean my thought was nobody died, nobody's screed,
Speaker 2: nobody around. It was just, you know, we just had
Speaker 2: a disagreement fifteen years ago, and we were overworked and
Speaker 2: we were over drinking. And now everybody's grown and their
Speaker 2: kids are grown, and maybe it's time, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's think think outside of yourself, is what I tried
Speaker 2: to tell myself, you know. And what's what's There's people
Speaker 2: out there that are mad, whether it's financially or politically
Speaker 2: or whatever, and let's just kind of come together and
Speaker 2: see what we can do. And uh, John said, hey,
Speaker 2: I think we can do the football stadium. So the
Speaker 2: first thing I thought was we're going to sell half
Speaker 2: half of the stadium. That's about it. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: whatever we got to do, let's let's do it, and
Speaker 2: let's do it in still Water first, and uh, we
Speaker 2: got on the phone with each other and man, everybody
Speaker 2: just fell back in love with each other instantly, and
Speaker 2: there was a tears and joy and and you know,
Speaker 2: talking about our kids have bands and what's let's do
Speaker 2: this for them, and man, to be honest and not
Speaker 2: over sell it. I mean, it really was just a
Speaker 2: love fest. You know. It's let's get back in the saddle,
Speaker 2: not necessarily, you know, go back on tour, because that's
Speaker 2: that's what did it. You know, was working too much
Speaker 2: and you know we're not young anymore, so we just
Speaker 2: settled on, Okay, let's do a handful of shows. Well
Speaker 2: that handful of shows happened to turn out to be
Speaker 2: the same as the same town four nights in a row.
Speaker 2: And man, it just this last weekend we were in
Speaker 2: still Water for homecoming and was the first time everybody
Speaker 2: got together in fifteen years in the same room, and man,
Speaker 2: it was beautiful. We had a good time. We joked around,
Speaker 2: we talked about the good times and what's to come.
Speaker 1: You know, what is it about getting older that makes
Speaker 1: you reflect back on relationships?
Speaker 3: You had.
Speaker 1: This is more like philosophical like anyone in general, not
Speaker 1: just you specifically, but that makes you reflect back and go, man,
Speaker 1: I want to re do on that.
Speaker 2: I think it's the more behind you than there is
Speaker 2: ahead of you that I think, in my personal opinion,
Speaker 2: I think it's looking around going you know, I have
Speaker 2: something that's just pressing down on me that I would
Speaker 2: like to lift off me, you know. And my kids
Speaker 2: are nineteen in almost seventeen. You know, they told me
Speaker 2: that it was so nice to see everybody together. It
Speaker 2: was just like a weight was lifted. I think this
Speaker 2: was part of it, you know. I mean my kids
Speaker 2: never would bring up, hey, would you get the band
Speaker 2: back together? Because they knew it was, you know, a
Speaker 2: subject that I was not necessarily a sour subject, but
Speaker 2: just the subject that I was tired of talking about.
Speaker 2: But now, man, I keep going back to my family
Speaker 2: and I are metal heads and comic book nerds, and
Speaker 2: I was watching the entire world just enjoy each other
Speaker 2: because of the Deadpool Wolverine thing. And I tell my
Speaker 2: wife is like, that's what I want to do, you know.
Speaker 2: Obviously not on the scale that they're doing it, but
Speaker 2: everything they do is just positive and making everybody happy.
Speaker 2: And I want to do that on a smaller scale,
Speaker 2: and I feel like we got to do it. You know,
Speaker 2: there were people that were meant, they're upset they didn't
Speaker 2: get tickets and everything, but in the end, man, that
Speaker 2: wasn't our fault.
Speaker 1: Would just all have fun, you know, right, uh you
Speaker 1: mentioned I mean, I think historically people think that there
Speaker 1: was personal reasons to end the band to go and
Speaker 1: spend time with family, which is true, I would I
Speaker 1: would assume. But what I'm hearing you say is no,
Speaker 1: there there's more to it. And I'm not asking to
Speaker 1: spill the beans, but like you're saying, there's more to
Speaker 1: it than just that.
Speaker 2: But the thing that really the big issue was there
Speaker 2: was never any like one issue. It was we were overworked.
Speaker 2: We all had kids at the same time. I mean,
Speaker 2: all of our kids are the same age, well we
Speaker 2: all of us except Jeremy. Jeremy has four kids. They're
Speaker 2: all different ages. But Randy and Great and and I
Speaker 2: I mean our kids are all the same ages because
Speaker 2: our wives were all pregnant at the same time while
Speaker 2: we were recording the record called Garage, and that was
Speaker 2: a stressful moment. You know, because that was the year
Speaker 2: that we did two hundred and fifty shows shows that's
Speaker 2: not traveling, and so really there wasn't like a really
Speaker 2: big blowout. It was just we were just overworked, over stressed,
Speaker 2: and one night a disagreement happened, and we just didn't
Speaker 2: really recover from it, you know. Just and and I'll
Speaker 2: say this to everybody out there. Alcohol does not mix
Speaker 2: well and a stressful a stressful condition, you know. But
Speaker 2: now everybody's alcohol intake is either zero or barely. And
Speaker 2: I don't know, we just you know, when we started
Speaker 2: the band, we were hell Randy was sixteen years old,
Speaker 2: you know, I was seventeen. So I mean this is
Speaker 2: something that we were we said out as teenagers as
Speaker 2: a goal to do something, not necessarily change a scene
Speaker 2: or change the way things are done or anything like that.
Speaker 2: We just we just wanted to play music and have
Speaker 2: fun and take it as far as we could. I
Speaker 2: remember telling my wife when we just met us, like,
Speaker 2: our plan is to take this as far as we can,
Speaker 2: you know, and still have integrity without selling out whatever
Speaker 2: that is. You know, selling, it's selling. That's different to everybody,
Speaker 2: but to me, it was you know, the they pegged
Speaker 2: us as a country band. It was like, okay, but
Speaker 2: I'm not doing the national dance. I'm not We'll sign
Speaker 2: a record label with them, but I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do the dance. And it was just the label pushing us,
Speaker 2: booking agency pushing us, and then pregnant wives and then
Speaker 2: missing home and all of a sudden, everybody's just mad
Speaker 2: and there was really no way to get past them,
Speaker 2: and except put a little bit more alcohol on it,
Speaker 2: you know. And I'm not saying everybody, I'm really saying
Speaker 2: me and uh man, just one day we just w
Speaker 2: just woke up and thought, if we don't ever play
Speaker 2: a note together, at least we can you know, be
Speaker 2: civil to each other. We weren't uncivil, but it was
Speaker 2: just we just didn't talk. So it was nice to
Speaker 2: It was nice to be able to shed shed that
Speaker 2: gross skin and be able to hang out with everybody
Speaker 2: last weekend and still water and you know, the guys
Speaker 2: got up and jams a couple of tunes, and our
Speaker 2: kids got up and we all jammed together. So we
Speaker 2: had a big family thing, family jam and so it uh,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's on the right track.
Speaker 1: Is this gonna be the one? Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: a one off? Is this gonna be it? Or is
Speaker 1: there hopes to do other things.
Speaker 2: I am in the middle of never say never, because
Speaker 2: I said never for a long time. I wouldn't see
Speaker 2: why we wouldn't. I'm not going to don't. I really
Speaker 2: don't want to get back on the road full time.
Speaker 2: You know. I just did a pretty busy year What's Departed,
Speaker 2: and it was fun and everything, but it made me
Speaker 2: realize that that I need to be home more, you know,
Speaker 2: and my wife has a music school and it's nice
Speaker 2: to be home bill to help her. And my kids
Speaker 2: are in a metal band and I want to help
Speaker 2: them pursue their thing, and I think doing the Ragweed stuff,
Speaker 2: I'll be able to take more time to be on
Speaker 2: with my family. So I'm not going to say no.
Speaker 2: But it's definitely not going to be Hey, let's go
Speaker 2: out for three weeks. You know. This will be probably
Speaker 2: one office or whatever. But well, I'll be able to
Speaker 2: have a more positive answer after we see how April goes.
Speaker 3: I think people would love to see you.
Speaker 4: Guys at the King's Ballroom again, But thinking realistically about this,
Speaker 4: you guys just sold out four days at boom Picking Stadium, right,
Speaker 4: four days, you guys could sell out to be Okay
Speaker 4: Center easily. I think the same amount of four days.
Speaker 4: So I guess, Cody, what what does retirement look like
Speaker 4: for you? As you as you're kind of you know, hey,
Speaker 4: let's just do our thing and enjoy life, and you
Speaker 4: want to spend more time at home, What does retirement.
Speaker 3: Look like for you?
Speaker 2: Ed to me? Chasing my kids their dreams, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, I take them to all these concerts, all
Speaker 2: these festivals, and they're really they're really good about being
Speaker 2: social and about about networking and everything. And I know
Speaker 2: that it's a hard a hard business to really crack.
Speaker 2: And I'm just now learning the metal world and the
Speaker 2: people in it, and they're so kind. I mean, when
Speaker 2: I was a kid, my mom had me scared that,
Speaker 2: you know, I was going to go to these metal
Speaker 2: concerts and they were going to offer me free drugs,
Speaker 2: and I was gonna, you know, get in fights and everything,
Speaker 2: and and I mean the drugs thing, you know, I've
Speaker 2: kind of seen that happen. But when it comes to
Speaker 2: just the mentality of a metal crowd, there is so
Speaker 2: kind and I would I'm so glad my kids picked
Speaker 2: that genre, so chasing them around. You know, I live
Speaker 2: in South Texas now, I have for twenty like twenty
Speaker 2: three years. I think, Man, I wouldn't mind going somewhere
Speaker 2: where it's cooler, you know, Colorado and following my kids
Speaker 2: and my wife will never ever, ever be able to
Speaker 2: not work. There's no other way around that.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, I wouldn't mind just fishing and
Speaker 2: enjoying and enjoying cooler weather.
Speaker 1: Well, dude, we would love to spend more time talking
Speaker 1: with you. We've run out of time.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on those shows, dude. Everybody is so excited. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the difference between Night one and
Speaker 1: Night four and what that's like for you guys, and
Speaker 1: to see you.
Speaker 3: Enjoying it up on stage.
Speaker 1: Man, that's that's a very cool moment that not everybody
Speaker 1: gets to experience. To relive something from the past and
Speaker 1: keep it going.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Final question for you. We ask people, what's the best
Speaker 1: thing you bought on Amazon for fifty bucks? What's the
Speaker 1: best thing you bought on Amazon for under fifty bucks?
Speaker 3: Cody?
Speaker 2: For under fifty bucks, I bought a pair of black
Speaker 2: and orange parachute pants that I got to play in
Speaker 2: and still water the other night. That's the last thing
Speaker 2: I bought that was around fifty dollars pants.
Speaker 1: I love it, didde. I got great clothes on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on Amazon's close selection.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: You think Costco's got a good now Amazon has got
Speaker 1: good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The older I get, the more it's like, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna have it delivered.
Speaker 1: My poor one hundred percent. Cody, Thank you so much man.
Speaker 1: Congratulations again, and uh, there's anything we came out you
Speaker 1: can ever do for you.
Speaker 3: Make sure you're calling us to help out.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. I will say this that they did
Speaker 2: a breakdown of the ticket sales and seventy seven thousand
Speaker 2: of them. We're from Oklahoma, So thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, so cool man. Have a great day, Cody,
Speaker 1: thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Bye, guys.
Speaker 3: That's Cody, Canada.