Speaker 1: Said the story walking.
Speaker 2: To someone who kids.
Speaker 3: Save.
Speaker 1: You're preaching.
Speaker 2: Your rock adoptees.
Speaker 4: You come any way to say, Maybe I'm not the
work you need to say, so keep my man. I'm
never change.
Speaker 2: From cradle.
Speaker 1: On your knees.
Speaker 4: It's nothing to me. So see you're heaven and hell.
Speaker 2: For the wishing.
Speaker 4: Well you you know my time?
Speaker 3: Well well.
Speaker 4: The world you need to say, so keep you blind man.
I'm never change from cradle.
Speaker 3: Back back.
Speaker 4: Back, no way, said Mane. Not the world you need
to say, he laughing down. The change.
Speaker 2: From cradle.
Speaker 1: That is cradle to grave. The band is Lone Wolf James.
And we have Lone Wolf James here with us in studio,
and she's not on a mic, but Echo Ray is here.
She was on the show with us recently and first
introduced us to the band well technically, although well she
brought that track. But and we will play some more
from Lone Wolf James later in the show. But Jenny
and I had seen Lone Wolf James live and I
don't know if you guys realize this, but we'll talk
about it. And we really enjoyed your set. But let's
get into it. So we've got the guys here Gary James,
of course, lone Wolf James yourself. How are you, sir,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Good, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: And you are you singing? And you play guitar? Correct?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay? And what do uh? We'll get actually here, let's
start with you over here in the corner, sir. Tell
us what you do and I'm sorry, tell us who
you are rather than what you do in the band.
My name is Jeff Holmes from the bass player and
do backup vocals, all right, Jeff, welcome and you, sir.
Speaker 6: My name's Tim Evans, and I'm the lead guitarist.
Speaker 1: Lead guitarist. Okay, and you sir, oh, Sherman, I can't
hear you, and I apologize. Let me you know what,
I got to really crank that up here. All right,
let's trade that again. There we go.
Speaker 7: I'm Sherman Wilson and I'm the drummer.
Speaker 1: All right, Sorry, Sherman, you're in you're in the microphone
that we don't we'll use that one if we need
an extra mic. And but we did get it plugged in,
so we got that much figured out.
Speaker 2: Always the drummer, it's always the drummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, so, guys, welcome to the show. Jenny
and I saw you live at Swarmyfest. Oh okay, yep, yep,
that was and and I'll tell you I so, I
had not heard Lone Wolf James prior to that, and
I saw you on the schedule because we were there.
We were there as a sponsors and representing the radio show.
And I remember saying to Jenny after or during your set,
I said, they sound like a band named Lone Wolf James,
Like like you sounded like I expected you to sound
based on the name. And please take that as a
compliment because I think the name is really cool and
I really like your sound. But yeah, so have you
guys been around a while? Has the band been around
for a long time? That's my impression that I actually
I started it years ago and I was like playing
acoustic on a stool doing open mic. Oh really yeah yeah,
And that's how it all started.
Speaker 8: I had left the band and the whole I think
Echo told you this before, but when I left the band,
I was leaving all the crap behind.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: And the guy went, well, there goes Lone Wolf, and
I was like, I'm going to use that. Oh yeah,
So I use that my last name, James. I put
them together and there was the lone Wolf James. Yeah,
and the fact that I'm Partneredive American kind of fit
into so I was like, all right, I'm gonna use that.
But yeah, So I started it then, and there's been
you know, over over the years, you add people and
you do this and that. But I was I was
trying to find like the right lineup because I was
getting to the point where the band is starting to
go from regional crossing into the national border, and we'll get.
Speaker 2: Into that, you know.
Speaker 8: But as I did it, it was just like, you know,
this is this is not the lineup that is gonna
do it. So we kind of like just been with
me eleven years. So he's like my right hand guy,
and and we've all I've known Tim. We've known each
other since we were fourteen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So we were in our very.
Speaker 8: First band together. I was a drummer back then. Yeah,
so it all kind of came together, you know. I
would would fight and phone.
Speaker 2: Calls, you know what I mean, and all kind of felt.
Speaker 8: Jeff and Sherman had gone and tried out for the
same band at one time, and then they were both
like and nope, but they were friends. And then when
I told Jeff that I was going to have Sherman
come in audition, He's like, hire that guy, you know
and whatever. So it was just like it was kind
of it was faded. Yeah, but this particular lineup now
has been You've been a couple of years now, right,
and uh, we've were's like gone from the local to
the regional and now we're tipping our hat into the national.
We're playing with all national bands. Yeah yeah, because of
certain deals and connections and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, So is the band I mean, are
you the only original member technically.
Speaker 2: Or yes, from the original a yeah, because it started
with me. Yeah, and like my.
Speaker 8: First record, my first two first records were acoustic and
I added like drums and stuff to it. But I mean,
the first couple of EPs are sold out, so that
one that you played cradle off of is actually my
was like the second full album, and that's the only
one still available really other other than you know, I
have like a few of the one before that. But
but we've I've been in the studio for the last
couple of years now recording this new EP with the
guy from that works for Sony and Capital and.
Speaker 1: Oh very nice.
Speaker 8: And you know everybody has except for Sherman because it
happened right before he joined the band. But yeah, but
so he's the only one doesn't have to get yelled
at in the studio, right, But other than that, yeah,
I mean it all everybody here is.
Speaker 2: The long Wold James.
Speaker 8: Well, everybody brings something to the table, but it's it's
like you have to have the head of the the
the artpus so of course just kind of that, but yeah,
I have to do the like the business part of
it too. Yeah, you know, I take care of like
the contracts and that kind of stuff. And then as
far as like the songwriting goes. You know, I come
up with an idea and I go, I like this,
and I sometimes I just go to his house and say, hey,
this is what I got. Yeah, and he'll go, let's
do this or whatever, you know, or I just bring
it to the table and go, okay, this is like
here's the pizza dough at the topping right right, And
everybody kind of puts in their stuff and then you know,
you get ideas as it goes.
Speaker 1: But you know, is the original material that you did.
Is that available online?
Speaker 3: Some of it?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you had to like have been around.
Speaker 8: I released the first EP in two thousand, okay, so
it was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was just just coming out, just you know,
just getting out of like.
Speaker 8: The cover band situation and a couple of a couple
of local bands that weren't doing anything but garage, you know,
local maybe you know, once in a while a rock
pile or something, sure, sure, but other than that, it
was and I just wanted to get serious.
Speaker 2: And they were all about drugs and and I was
just like, I'm done with this, you know. And and
that's why he was.
Speaker 8: He was trying to chafe me by saying, oh, that
goes lone Wolf, like I'm gonna go off of my
and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's pretty cool, you know that. You know,
somebody threw that at you, trying to insult you, and
you you took that and said, oh yeah.
Speaker 8: And now they're going, oh Jesus, guys are playing with
this guys and these guys and he's really.
Speaker 2: And you know, and the like, yeah, who's laughing now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but that's that's really the way, and it's it's
it's about the hard work that you put in and stuff,
and it's about the loyalty too, you know, Like these
guys have played some I don't know, I'm surprised they
didn't and all you crazy, right, you know, but some
of the places that we've done and some of the things.
Sherman's first gig with us was in this It was
a it was a biker fast thing, but it was
in somebody's yard and it was all it rained so bad,
it was like mudfest two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. And he pulled in.
Speaker 8: I'm thinking, this kid is never coming back. Yeah, you know,
and whatever and uh and we you know, we go
from those to what we're doing now. Yeah, yeah, you know,
very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw pictures that you mentioned Ace Frehley, and
I saw pictures of you guys online with Ace. Kiss
is my favorite band, So I saw those. I was like, oh,
that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: He was awesome, was he?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard I've heard yeah, day to attend, Who've Jeff?
Yeah you know Jeff, Yeah, oh yeah, those guys are
great and uh yeah they played with a set the Aura,
I think in Portland, but I heard that Ace went on.
I haven't seen Ace solo live for a very long time,
but I've heard they went on that He went on
very very late really that night. Yeah, I know, I
guess it's kind of but your experience with him was positive.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the funny thing is, and this, I love
days to attend. They're great guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 8: We were supposed to play that show and I had
prior engagement, so I turned it down. And then I
found out that they got the opening slots. I was like,
oh great, Yeah, that's great for them. And the manager
of Ace called my agent and came back and said,
can they play the Blue Ocean since they can't.
Speaker 1: Do the Ore?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I was like, yeah, we can do that.
But no, we didn't have any any any at all.
Speaker 8: In fact, that's you know, we had played with some
other nationals, big nationals before that, and we didn't really
get them. With the exception of like a couple, we
didn't really get to meet anybody, all kind of hid
away in the so I never went into it thinking
we were going to meet Ace, you know. And we
did our show and the and the crowd loved us.
And it was a line at our echoes booth, you
know for the merch and all that stuff, and uh,
the guy come. We're doing our meet and greet because
we do what every show, signing autographs and you know,
take a pictures some stuff. And one of the guys
that owns the Blue Ocean came running up to me.
He looked kind of frazzled, really, and he's like, is
your whole band here? And I'm like yeah, I'm like
they're over there doing the met and greets.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's like, okay, you gotta come out back. Ace wants
to see you.
Speaker 8: So now I'm thinking, yeah, well, I didn't know if
it was nice or he was gonna rip us. I
didn't know if we did something wrong.
Speaker 2: So I was like, uh sure, So I go on
and grab the guys and I'm like, let's just go
out back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We passed all these VIP guys, you know, people with
VIP passes and stuff.
Speaker 8: I still don't know what's going on. And then we
get to the wall and he goes, you know, hold on,
I'm going to take a picture of you. So I'm thinking, oh,
maybe Ace takes a picture of all the opening acts
and he gets you know, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I'm still thinking this is why we're back here.
And then this door opens and here he comes at
six foot five or whatever.
Speaker 2: He's huge. He's so tall.
Speaker 1: Guy, he is he must have been wearing he was
wearing cowboy budes. Really, yeah, because I noticed in the
pictures he's towering over you guys, and I'm like, this,
isn't that tall?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: He is five eight, you know, so he but he
came out, shook our hands, said you know, he loved
what we played and thanked us. We thanked him, and
he put his arms around us, took some pictures. Yeah,
and then we went back to the things. So we
weren't expecting that. Yeah, you know, so that was very
cool of him, that is, you know, that's extremely cool.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who else have you? Who else have you opened for.
Speaker 8: As far as far as legends, Like, I, uh was
it with this present lineup?
Speaker 2: But I did ZZ Top and Skinned on the same bill.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but we've done everything from It's funny because we're
my agent now. The one thing he loves about us
is he can put us in any category from seventies
to the two thousands to whatever. So yeah, we have
literally done like eighties bands where we're playing with like
enough's enough. We've played with Jackal, I've done Cinderella, you know,
Faster pussy Cat. Then you turn around and they put
us with all the Bridge, Theory of a Dead Man,
Blackstone Cherry, Yep, you know, Buck Cherry, all these other bands,
and then you go to bands like Edema and head
Pe and you know when we played with Saliva and
so Powerman five thousand is coming up, you know what
I mean. So he loves the fact that he yeah,
we did with Lynch Bomb. So it's like nice, we
have all these different He loves the fact that we
don't have to just go hey, it can only put
you guys with this type of music, like we have
done everything from the seventies, eighties, nineties and thousands, you know.
And the good thing about that is he's just like, well,
your branch of music can go from a twenty five
year old to a seventy five year old, you know
what I mean, So you have a fifty year gap,
which a lot of bands don't have, and especially for
a younger act like us. You know, these bands that
we're playing with are all fifteen twenty years older than
we are. So it's kind of like, well, we kind
of got into a niche where it fit for us. Yeah,
you know, but a lot a lot of those bands.
I mean we've we've done a lot of nationals, from
lower nationals that like the like you know, something that
was around in the eighties, to legends like Case.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's fantastic.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you in terms of I mean, do you get
out of New England to watch for those kind of shows?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I did a couple of stints myself
in Nashville. Nice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I played the Bluebird and stuff like that.
But the band right now, the core of us is
I mean usually I hate to say it, but it
usually comes down to money and things like that. And
I mean everybody here has got you know, I'm the
only one that's really not married, you know what I mean. Yeah,
So it's just kind of like one of those type
of deals. So I what I do is I keep
it enough for everybody to go. Look, I made a
deal with them and I said we'll start We'll go
from Maine to Jersey. Yeah, you know, and I go
and anything past that, I mean, obviously I'll give plenty
of notice and all that stuff, but this way, everything's
a day away, you know, a few.
Speaker 1: Hours that makes sense, you know.
Speaker 2: That way, it's like, okay, you know.
Speaker 8: If we're playing I'm telling you in two months, we're
playing four shows and we're going from Maine to Rhode
Island at Connecticut, the to Jersey to back to I mean,
then no, you know what I mean, and they can
put in for and in that way, it's not like
I'm calling them, Hey, we're leaving for New York tomorrow, right,
you know, so we kind of you kind of have
to deal with the pros and cons of it. But
if I want the lineup that we got, you know,
and which I don't want them stuck sticking me with
people that I don't know, you know, so it's just
kind of like, all right, this is what we'll do
and and be honest with you until the gigs are
worth going past that it's it's you know what I mean, like,
unless they're gonna give me a lot of money to
go play for somebody that's in California, I mean, we'd.
Speaker 2: Love to go play the Whiskey, but how are we
going to do it, you know.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm not spending seven grand to get to California,
you know. So, I mean he's asked us, the guy
that books the whiskey's asked because twice.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, so I just it's all in time. Yeah,
it'll happen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's just gonna be when it's a
little bit more efficient to everybody, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious to if anybody has any other projects
that you're involved in, because I'm thinking of you Sherman specifically,
because every drummer that we have on the show, almost
every drummer, although Space Casino our guests in the last
hour were a rare exception, but almost every drummer we
have on the show is in like ten different bands.
Speaker 7: Nope, I I spend all my time strictly with these guys.
Speaker 1: No kidding, that's awesome. Well it's cool that you know.
I mean, you guys play enough that, you know, to
keep you busy.
Speaker 10: Right Yeah.
Speaker 5: One of the things that you know, I dabble in recording,
and because I don't have my studio set up right now.
We moved here from Houston, and once I get my
studio set up, then we can start recording our stuff
right now, I'm just recording our rehearsals. Okay, so we
kind of flushed things out and yeah, it's kind of
experiment there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But but as far as you know, I'm not opposed
to getting involved with a recording project. Yeah, but performing no, Okay,
because I've and I've been approached a few times.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just I tell them, you know, Okay, but you
know my priorities with Lone Wolf James.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so that's even on my my band Mixed
Photo is Yeah, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 7: I'm the drummer for Lone Wolf James. Yeah, this was
my first priority.
Speaker 1: I have a I have a theory that you know,
when you're when you're growing up and you first get
interested in playing a musical instrument, you got to have
the conversation with the parents. If you approach them with
either the drums or maybe the tuba, they're they're trying
to talk you out of it. And that's why drummers
are in such high demand, I think, because a lot
of parents try to talk their kids out of Now,
you don't want to play My.
Speaker 2: Parents, man, they had the trumpet and then the drums.
Speaker 4: Because you.
Speaker 1: Were a drummer. First, yeah, wow, but oh boy, you
played the trumpet.
Speaker 2: It started off. We ain't even getting into that story.
Go ahead, and Truman keep talking.
Speaker 7: About that's funny. I started on the vio did you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool. That's cool. Now, how many
how many songs do you have as a band, because
you've got you've got one full length album, right, but
you've got others have two full length albums, two full length.
Speaker 2: And there's two before that, there's three EPs.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we're a lot of material now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but we're we I mean unfortunately, on stage
you only get about forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: So we're taking with Sherman. Now we know probably let's.
Speaker 8: Say fifteen sixteen songs, okay, and we dabble in twelve
of them for the shows.
Speaker 2: We switched stuff in and out and whatever.
Speaker 8: But as a unit, like they're still Like the other day,
we were bringing up songs that I hadn't played in
fifteen years, you know, and they were just like, hey,
you know, what if what if we do this? You know,
and or hey I haven't heard that one or whatever.
So my old stuff is still brand new to them.
It's like saying, I came in with a new record, right, So,
and the good thing is is, like I said, the
first couple were acoustics. They were drums and stuff, but
there were acoustic versions of the songs. Yeah, So to
bring it in with a massive band and have that
full band sound now, I mean when I traded my
acoustic in for a marginal and Les Paul, I was like, Okay,
this is serious. We're moving forward. And and then you
add everybody and the next thing, you know, it's like, gee,
what would this like. Guess there's a song that we're
doing now that I want to record that I only
have an acoustic version of and we do play it
once in a while called Native Groove, and it's one
of my favorites. And that was strictly mean acoustic with
some drums and a little bass.
Speaker 2: That's all it was. It was. It was big sounded,
you know, and I was like, man, imagine what this
would sound like with a band.
Speaker 8: So we brought it in and now you add Sherman,
you had Jeff, you know, and you had Tim with
my guitar, and it's like, wow, this is just like
a wall of sound, you know. So this is that's
one of the first tracks I want to record after
we'd get done with this one, you know, like when
they come to us.
Speaker 2: And say, hey, I need more material, you bet write
in the studio. Because we got a couple of songs
written that we want to do, and that's high on
my list.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's good to have things that are ready
to ready to work on, you know, you know, uh,
trying to come up with that, you know.
Speaker 8: And we've written some new ones, like there's a song
that we're dabbling on right now that Jeff and I
kind of we're trying to put together. And then it
was called Showtime, and and another one I want to
Be Bad, we wrote. I wanted to do like an
a c DC bass groove, like like the Jack, you know,
and I kind of wanted to do something like that
where it's all like sexual talking instead of singing and
it's and I said, but I needed this certain.
Speaker 1: So I went.
Speaker 8: I went to his house and he's like, what do
you want me to play? And I'm like, just go
bom bom, think of like running with the Devil, you
know what I mean, you know, like type type thing,
and he did that, and uh, we kind of put
this stuff in together and Tim came in is like,
you know, what'd be great there some of this wah
guitar and all that stuff. And then you know, Sherman's
just looking at us. I'm like, just play a beat.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: He finitely gets in figure out what he wants to do.
Speaker 8: But they came together and I was like wow, and
then we were actually going to play that on these
upcoming shows.
Speaker 1: Very cool.
Speaker 2: I want to be bad. It's going to be played
on those.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you've got enoughs enough coming up. You said
you're gonna be opening for them.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, yeah, we're doing a tour leg of a
tour with them, you are, Yeah, we're doing it doing
I think it's Manchester, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're doing three nights in a row with them, Okay.
Speaker 1: In June, I always said they were underrated. Fly High, Michelle,
I think is such a great song. And it's one
of those songs you mentioned it to people now and
they don't even remember it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: It's funny toocause Chip is singing. I think now I
don't think it's the it's the original singer anymore. I
think Chip's enough to the bass player. Yeah, I think
he's the original member obviously, but I think I think
I could be wrong, but I think he's singing. Oh okay, yeah,
I think he's a singer, but he kept the name.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you mentioned lynch Mob too, You open for
lynch Mob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're done down to Webster.
Speaker 1: Oh that must have been cool. Yeah, that first Lynch
Mob album. Again, this is no one, no one even remembers,
but Wicked Sensation. Yeah, this is one of my that
would be in my top ten all time, just so
so good.
Speaker 8: Well, it was funny because this was this is where
I bring Tim in for that show. Yeah, because I
you know, George Lynch. Hello, Yeah, he's a league guitar player,
So I told I kept busting his chops. I kept saying,
do you realize in the same month you have to
open for for you know, for basically George Lynch, and
a's freely and he's just.
Speaker 2: Like, shut up. So we were going over playing.
Speaker 8: We did our set and we played Linch and then
Tim and I are on the side of the stage
and George Lynch is right there and he's just playing,
and I look over at Tim and he's just looking
up at Georgie looks at me. He's got this like
kid a Christmas look, So I'll let him take it.
Speaker 6: He even gave me a little nod because like I
tried to squeeze in just a little piece of mister,
but I didn't think he noticed. But he barely looked
at me. Off stage, but I was side stage and
he turned around and he did like a little rift
that I do.
Speaker 1: No kidding, And then I was like, cool, what was
he all buff? Too? Was his big body building phase?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He wasn't like that super buff?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Really yeah, concentrating all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so but you've got enough enough coming up.
But what was yeah, there was there was another.
Speaker 2: One power Man five thousands coming. Yeah.
Speaker 8: We got a leg of a tour with them, and
it's it's them and head Pe and things like that,
and we just got off the road head Pe because
they were on the Saliva leg that we did.
Speaker 2: We did a Saliva and you know Josie Scott.
Speaker 1: And what about what are we doing Nazareth?
Speaker 2: Oh Nazareth.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a big.
Speaker 2: H So that's what I mean.
Speaker 8: They got legends like Ace and Nazareth and then we
have you know, the power Man five thousands the Saliva's
you know. You know, we're trying to get hooked up
with a couple of things that you know, I really
I can't say any of who they are yet because
until the ink as dry as they say. But I
think this summer, later in the summer, we're gonna get
some bigger you know. The whole point if it was
to try to get in with a lot of these
bands that and in order. What people don't get is
like the management companies and the agents.
Speaker 2: Are all interacting.
Speaker 8: So if you're playing with this band, they're the same
agent as this band, and you ain't gonna play with
that band? Do you play with this band? You know,
like the or this venue without that venue and that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So the right now the contracts I'm doing the bands.
Speaker 8: It's great because you get to have a colectic of
all these Like we opened the first tour we did
was Tantric. Okay, I only knew one song from Tantric. Yeah,
you know, and now they're like the coolest guys, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like we hung out every night all weekend. We hung
out with them every night backstage or real good to us,
you know.
Speaker 8: In fact, Hugo even approached me about, you know, maybe
producing one of my next songs or something like that.
Speaker 9: OK.
Speaker 8: So we'll see what happens with that. But but you know,
in general, they were just cool guys. Yeah, they were
really you know, we were and we're looking forward to
to tour with them again.
Speaker 2: But we did that tour.
Speaker 8: I didn't know who they were other than you know,
that one song or whatever. But but then it came
out and you're like, wow, these are really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they had a few hits. Yeah, Morning
was the big ballad, which I really like that song.
I can't remember what else, but.
Speaker 2: No breakdown was that breakthrough breakdown?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there was.
Speaker 8: But I mean, you know, it's it's so rare that
you see because there's always an interconnection to like a
lot of people don't know that who goes connected into
the Betton Court family, you know and all that. So
and it's funny because I knew all those guys, so
it was kind of like, oh, okay, so we kind
of know the thame like, we're going we're going to
play a local show. We're not doing too many local shows, yeah,
and we're playing a local show at the Raven, which
is Chris Betton, Courts Club, who's Nudo's cousins.
Speaker 2: No brother, It's all connected, you know what I mean,
It's all connected. So yeah, it's you just have you
make the right friends, right places.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm curious because a lot of you know, a lot
of music industry people listen to the show. Do you
do you enjoy the business side of it? It seems
like you do the way that you talk about it.
But I know, but but maybe not the truth. I mean,
I know, I mean, obviously you'd rather not have to
do that part and focus on the creative part. I know,
But but it seems like you or you or you
seem like you understand the business part of it at least,
which is puts you ahead of a lot of musicians.
Speaker 8: Used to be very overwhelming y now it makes you
kind of a hole. But you have to be because
if you're not, they're gonna walk all over you.
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely, So like.
Speaker 8: The biggest thing I do, Like a lot of people like, oh,
you know Loan James, he named the band after him
and he's a singer. Yeah, I wish that was the case.
That would be so much easier, right, But it's like,
but I tell people all the time, and I say
this to even these guys, and it's not a downshoot
because I love them. Yeah, I said this is you
guys are part of it, and you get to walk
away and go home.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: I don't get to lead Lone Wolf James because I
am him. Right, So while everybody else is doing whatever
they're doing, I'm handling contracts and phone calls and you know,
and all this venue change this or this guy's been
like we just we were supposed to play with La
Guns right here in Manchester in October and because they
played the Tupelo last night, which Tim went to, you know,
you know when they went last night, I didn't even know. Yeah,
they pulled the show I was already contracted for. So
it's kind of like one of those like okay, well
you know, what are you gonna do? You know it
has nothing to do with me personally, right, so now
I have to wait we do it. But it's like
little things like that, or you know, you don't get
you get to a you have everything in your contract
about a venue and you get to the venue and
there's no place for the band to change or park,
and they want you to pay the park, like you
want me to pay the.
Speaker 2: Park I'm playing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: So it's kind of like that's where you go, okay,
because only so far you're gonna go, even just yourself,
you have to get an agent, you have to get
So what I did was I had an agent from
years ago, and he hooked us up like Jeff's first
show with us, like it was Jackal you know what
I mean. He put us right here at Jewels and yeah,
and it was like, you know, he booked us with that,
and so I knew him for years, and but basically
I ended up calling him and saying, how much to
hire you want as a consultant just for us, just
to do this blah blah blah, because I said, I'm
getting calls and I'm doing these things, and I'm like,
I need somebody who can haggle for me, that can
talk contracts with these people and then gives me the
contract so I understand it, you know, without all the
bull you know. So that's basically all I did. And
then with the fact that I've in the studio recording
right now, and the and the producer that is recording
us is he was huge. He he did stuff with
Ray Charles, you know, Elton John, the Franklin Guns and
Roses ac DC. So he yeah, he's he's worked with
them all and he's in the studio producing this next record.
So he's got us working on a deal, whether it's
Sony or whatever. Yea, So hopefully that comes through. But
with that happening, you get a buzz. People see who
you were recording with, See what's going on. Well, these
these guys aren't kidding you know, they're in Like you
see the studio on Man, you know, and that kind
of stuff, and people are like wow. Then you go
from that and you get the right consultant who knows
you and knows you're not just talking. And next thing
you know, he's like, well, I'll give you a chance
like his are are put our toes in the water
for him?
Speaker 2: Was I know you can play a one off. I'm
gonna put you on toe with Tan Trick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, don't disappoint us, you know what I mean, because
if it comes back and you hear all this noise,
he's gonna go any booking these guys with Sherman broke
his foot right before the tour and he looked at
me right after it happened, he goes, do not cancel
those shows?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, so it.
Speaker 1: Was my fault. Oh my god, So you have how
many show those did you have to play that way?
Speaker 9: We did?
Speaker 2: We did three or four of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I think I took the
boot off when we did Lyunch Mob because we were
shooting the video. Because I took the boot off for
that seconds. I didn't want to have this gigantic Yeah.
Speaker 8: We were like the second night in on the Tantric Show.
Oh wow, he's back there and he's you know, he's
got this big boot and all. And I'm just like,
I'm looking back at him on stage and he's playing
his heart out right. And then in the Alchemy, we
were playing this.
Speaker 2: Place called the Alchemy is a great, great venue down
in Providence, right, and it was pretty packed.
Speaker 8: I mean it was ocean all the way all the
way back for a small club. And I finally look
at him and I look at the crowd. I looked
back at him and I go and look at this,
you know, And I said, whatever I said, And I'm like,
and he said, he's played with one leg right the
whole and he lifts his foot up and the whole
place went not you know, and I was just like, wow,
that's great, you know, but that is rocket up you know.
Speaker 1: Wow, No, good for you? Wait, maybe said how many
shows did you play with?
Speaker 7: At least at least?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I assume you didn't tell your doctor about it.
Speaker 7: No, he actually knew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was all right with it.
Speaker 2: Luckily.
Speaker 7: I'm a double bass.
Speaker 5: Drummer, so it was just my high hat. Okay, but
I couldn't do I do do some sparse double bass
in our songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wouldn't. Oh wow, oh wow jo Yeah wow,
definitely pulled it off. If you're just joining us, we've
got the band Lone Wolf James here with us. Uh,
live in studio. You want to play another we can
play another track from the album. Yeah, I'll let you. Uh,
I'll let you pick. Try first brop, Jeff, I.
Speaker 2: Like that one ahead. Yeah, he's trying to get me
to bring this back into the set list.
Speaker 1: It's funny, it's a good track. Yeah, all right here
it is. This is his first breath and the band
is a Lone Wolf James.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, so lo to my say me everything go be.
Speaker 2: Just the first off.
Speaker 4: Trying to make hey me all about it is that
way of you take the first, will me?
Speaker 3: Yesterday's lover.
Speaker 4: Swears that you're not You're not the first. I guarantee
you won't be the.
Speaker 9: Some Oh, come.
Speaker 4: Now the day we'll take.
Speaker 10: First first?
Speaker 1: All right? That is uh first breath that the band
is Lone Wolf James. We've got the guys from Lone
Wolf James here in studio with us. If you are
listening live, you guys are all uh, you're you're pretty scattered.
I know we were talking about it, off are you
guys are pretty scattered right in terms of where you
all live?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Does that make it well? Actually though, although I
think you had said earlier too, you're playing so many shows,
you don't necessarily need to get together for too many rehearsals, right,
But but it must make it a little challenging, right,
But it shows It shows a level of commitment too
that you have that you're able to be be kind
of scattered and you know, live far away from each other,
but still you know, put in the time to get
together and work on the band.
Speaker 8: Sureman, actually kind of came to the rescue one that
one when when I had my studio. My dad died
years ago, and I had put built a studio, rehearsal
studio downstairs my mom. My mom lived upstairs and I
had my studio downstairs, so the band would always just
come there, and I was down a mass yeah yeah,
And unfortunately this passed Octoba she passed away. So when
she passed away, you know, I had to sell her
house and all that. Yeah, we were looking around for
places to go blah blah, and Sherman was just kind
of like, just bring it to my house, Oh okay,
And then we went up there and we you know,
he has a he has a bunch of gear and studio,
so he cleared out one of his rooms at his house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and up in Wakefield, so that's where.
Speaker 1: We rehearsed now, so excellent.
Speaker 8: And so he kind of came to the rescue on
that one because yeah, it's private and we can get there,
we can play when we want to, you know. And
but yeah, my goal was to keep us so busy.
We're not just sitting in our rehearsal room concert, right,
I mean, if we have something we want to work on, great, yeah,
you know, but like we took April off and I
think this is the most we've rehearsed, we've had like
we got today, so it'll be like the third.
Speaker 2: One in a row, you know. But then after that
we hit May and we probably won't be back in
that room till August. Yeah, so who knows, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's good to be busy. Yep, excellent, excellent?
What do you oh? Jeezu? The time goes so quick?
So I want to make sure well a couple of things.
So I want to make sure people know where to
go online to keep up with everything that you guys
are doing. Where's the best place?
Speaker 2: Reverb Nation is our main like our main page.
Speaker 8: So if you go to reverb nation dot com, slash
Lonel James, it brings up pictures, our tour dates, all
up live events, things like that. Plus each one of
us has our own Facebook page. Okay, so if you
go to Gary James or or there's a Lone Wolf
James Facebook page. Yeah yeah, but that's more of a
bulletin page. It just kind of shows the posters where
we're playing and things like that. But individually, you can
contact any of us on Facebook individually and then go
ask any questions or what do.
Speaker 1: You want okay, okay, and oh you have a couple
of videos to right or do you or maybe just one?
Do you have you have a music video?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 8: Cradle was the professional videos. Cradle was the professional video
we shot years ago. And as of right now, we're
we're going to start soon production on a song called
Freaks that we're recording in the studio and we're we're
doing that. Plus Sherman had mentioned off air in your
mind to me, thank you that when we played thench
Mob show, our engineer from the studio, Jay had come
down and brought he works for Metronome, and he had
come down with all his cameras and everything and shot
a live video of us that night opening for Lynch Mob.
So it was a huge crowd at the website there,
cool and all that. So we have the live footage,
we just don't have the concept footage yet, gotcha. So
we're going to be doing that over the summer and
then when it gets all it's called. And in fact,
I got in touch. I don't know who we're gonna
use yet, but one of the guys that contacted me
off he contacted me. He did all the Saliva videos. Yeah,
So I was like well, that's a good rep, you know,
if he's doing Salivas click click hoom and always.
Speaker 2: So I was like, that's a good guy to have
in your pocket. So I've been going back and forth
with him, and now we're discussing contract about it. So
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: Because you know the live footage from Jay and the
concept stuff that this guy's going, he's talking about me
like having some kind of weird circus tent tight looking thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So we've already kind of gone back and forth
and I'm gonna get everybody's input on what we're gonna do. Yeah,
but so it'll you know, that'll come out after the record,
after the song comes out.
Speaker 1: Okay, but okay, very cool. And what's the next show
you've got coming up?
Speaker 8: The next one is going to be the next national
show is May seventeenth, May ninth at the Blue Ocean
with Nazareth.
Speaker 1: Oh very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah cool, that's the next one. And then May seventeenth
is at Hartford with.
Speaker 1: Tim Montana outstanding, outstanding, very good, very good. Well, guys,
thank you so much for coming in, all four of you.
This has been wonderful. I really appreciate your being here.
We're gonna wrap up in a moment because we are
approaching the top of the hour, but we will. We'll
play one more track to end the show today. What
what should we play?
Speaker 2: Wickhaman. We'll end it up with Wickaman wick am Man.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool?
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Any kind of a story behind the song, not everyone knows,
not really.
Speaker 2: It's just the fact that I'm wicking, okay.
Speaker 8: And somebody once said, you know, oh my god, you're
evil and blah blah blah blah. So I kind of
I did a tongue in cheek song about you know,
the wicked man being evil, but it's kind of it's eerie,
but it's eerie in my.
Speaker 2: Book because I joked about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's There's really no like deep subject
to it or anything.
Speaker 1: No, that's a that's a perfect way to end the show.
Speaker 3: That h.
Speaker 4: Will. Then you heard the story.
Speaker 2: I'm about a place no out in Swampland.
Speaker 4: Under the moon's gloom.
Speaker 2: Well then it is restless.
Speaker 4: A town lives a fire.
Speaker 1: From a dry o women where the dams glear.
Speaker 4: You can you can side, it's just forget your can
time the side bringing get a there's no way to
find him. You can't make a stand. Nothing's gonna stop him.
Speaker 9: It's insane hands, no shaman fooddoo, no gypsy cristal ball,
no motile magic.
Speaker 2: It's gonna make a fall.
Speaker 4: You can run, you can side. Is this what gets
you can no more in the side? Wing you get
run when you get side?
Speaker 1: Is this waget You can no moti on.
Speaker 4: The side winging in You can get side. That's quick
as you can. The side way
Speaker 3: You can, Yes, it's a quick as you can the
bus the side way, yeah,