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Speaker 2: a couple of guests joining me here. We signed up
Speaker 2: to chat with Mike Deviassi, but he's got some other
Speaker 2: folks with him. Mike, who do you have with you there?
Speaker 2: We're gonna chat about Yellow Snow and you got a
Speaker 2: whole crew there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, we have the original vocalist from Yellow Snow. We're
Speaker 3: getting ready for our show tonight, so we flew in
Speaker 3: from Rhode Island, some of us fresh from the Asan Asylum.
Speaker 3: We have Albas, we have Matt Bairtt, and we have
Speaker 3: Jason Burns.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. Hi, guys, how's it going there? Well?
Speaker 2: I am fantastic. I'm excited for you guys because you've
Speaker 2: got some fun stuff and I had a chance to
Speaker 2: listen to this. So we're gonna We're gonna go back
Speaker 2: with Mike. First, let's explain. For folks that have never
Speaker 2: heard of Yellow Snow, let's explain who you guys are,
Speaker 2: because it's a bunch of amazing talented people from a
Speaker 2: bunch of different bands that came together to do some
Speaker 2: really cool stuff. So tell me about Yellow Snow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we've been.
Speaker 3: Doing it for quite a while, and it started off
Speaker 3: as just a bunch of friends getting together to do
Speaker 3: Christmas music. And it started out just a small thing,
Speaker 3: and we would make songs and record them and play
Speaker 3: them and we would give them out to our friends
Speaker 3: and family for Christmas. And then over time people just
Speaker 3: would ask me to come over and play acoustically. And
Speaker 3: after I had three or four people ask me, I
Speaker 3: would say to Matt and Alls the time, I'd say, hey,
Speaker 3: why don't we just do a show, so have everybody
Speaker 3: come to us instead of us going to them, And
Speaker 3: then we would we did our first show, and after
Speaker 3: we did our first show, we did seven two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven, and we decided that we would give the
Speaker 3: money that we made from the show to charity. So
Speaker 3: we started the first show then, and then soon after
Speaker 3: that we decided, hey, we have all these songs, what
Speaker 3: are we going to do with them? So we said, hey,
Speaker 3: let's make a record. So at the time I was
Speaker 3: working with a friend of mine who I had met
Speaker 3: was my teacher at Full Sale, Mike Fiorantino, and Mike
Speaker 3: was living in Nashville at the time. So I said, hey, Mikey,
Speaker 3: I've got all these songs, I've got a band, and
Speaker 3: I want to put this thing together and let's record
Speaker 3: it for real. So he said, You've got a flight
Speaker 3: own to Nashville and worked down here and said okay.
Speaker 3: So he and Brian Kone they set up the whole thing.
Speaker 3: They got Kyle Cooke for Matchbox twenty, they got John Coleman,
Speaker 3: they got Ryan Scarborough, and we came down. We cut
Speaker 3: all the basic tracks, and then we flew back to
Speaker 3: Rhode Island, and then I recorded the vocals with Jay
Speaker 3: and Allen Matt and over time, and it did. It's
Speaker 3: not a Chinese democracy, but it's pretty pretty close. It
Speaker 3: took so long that we finally finished over time, and
Speaker 3: then I was really lucky that Jack Joseph Sweig was
Speaker 3: kind enough to work with me to mix the record,
Speaker 3: and so we got to really work with, you know,
Speaker 3: great players also in the top level, and again a
Speaker 3: couple of members of the band who aren't here today,
Speaker 3: but Kurt Ram and Billy Holloman when they arranged and
Speaker 3: played all the horns the record, and they are just
Speaker 3: there's cool guys as they are players, and it really
Speaker 3: made Yellow Snow sound the way it sounds. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean being able to play with these these guys
Speaker 3: and some it talents to crazy talented female vocalists and
Speaker 3: it just sort of grew from two thousand and really
Speaker 3: two thousand and three is when we started Double Beginnings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and again it's been the quote unquote band or everybody,
Speaker 3: and it's been thirty or so people and it's been
Speaker 3: an awesome thing. And I got to say, I asked
Speaker 3: people to play, and it doesn't matter what level they are,
Speaker 3: if they are the best of the best in the
Speaker 3: world or just you know, a garage band, I just
Speaker 3: want to come out and play. Everybody has been so
Speaker 3: kind of play and be part of this. And it's
Speaker 3: a really good cause. We're always donating money to charity
Speaker 3: and it's really cool and that's really what we're all about.
Speaker 2: I love that. And the cool thing is again it's
Speaker 2: it's fun Christmas music from a band called Yellow Snow
Speaker 2: and giddya Up. Santa Claus appeared on the hit series
Speaker 2: CW hit series Riverdale. So you guys have had fun
Speaker 2: doing this, but it's also kind of taken on a
Speaker 2: life of its own, hasn't it.
Speaker 3: You know, you kind of hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 3: Like I said, we were just doing this for fun.
Speaker 3: It was literally just Hey, Jay, you want to come
Speaker 3: out and sing for this song?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that'd be cool. And hey, Matt, I got
Speaker 3: to sighted because Matt and I used to play in
Speaker 3: a band in the nineties, were in high school and
Speaker 3: it really started that way. And then my friend who
Speaker 3: I was roommate with in high school that you know, hey,
Speaker 3: you got some songs that are pretty good and their
Speaker 3: originally you should let me see if we could license
Speaker 3: them somewhere. So we license them to the CW network,
Speaker 3: and people just over time really liked it. To be
Speaker 3: honest with you, none of us, especially me, set out
Speaker 3: to be the Christmas guy and to do this with Christmas.
Speaker 3: But it's just people like it, and we just happened
Speaker 3: to hit upon something that people really enjoy and it's
Speaker 3: something different. And yeah, I mean, we never set out
Speaker 3: to do it professionally and do it at this level,
Speaker 3: but it just kind of grew that way.
Speaker 2: I love that. I think that those are my favorite
Speaker 2: stories too, because like, if you and tended this, if
Speaker 2: you set out on here's what we're going to do,
Speaker 2: we got this plan, it probably wouldn't have worked, but
Speaker 2: the fact that you just kind of dove in here
Speaker 2: it is you know, I agree.
Speaker 3: Because it's totally like I said, I mean, I'm being honest.
Speaker 3: It was not forced, it was not intentional. It was
Speaker 3: just it was almost like, fuck, crap, we're.
Speaker 2: Really good at this, man, Now we got to do
Speaker 2: more Christmas songs?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Yellow Like, Yeah, I was like, dude, I don't want
Speaker 1: to stem you know. And I think you came to
Speaker 1: be like the very first thing you were like, I think,
Speaker 1: less like Mariah Carey. It more like very special Christmas.
Speaker 1: You know, Bruce Braingstein doing you know Christmas? Oh now
Speaker 1: the City? Yeah, I'm like, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, I think what you guys are doing is awesome. Yellowsnow,
Speaker 2: music dot Com is where you go to find this.
Speaker 2: And if there's one song for me to play on
Speaker 2: the radio right now, which song should I play? And
Speaker 2: I'm going to let you introduce it.
Speaker 3: The song is going to be The Grinch and it's
Speaker 3: sang by the Lunatic sitting next to me Al Diaz,
Speaker 3: and it's one of the best songs on the record.
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna play that one right now. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for listening to Sonny Radio. And again, yellowsnow
Speaker 2: Music dot com is where you go to find the
Speaker 2: entire album. Again here it is The Grinch from Yellow
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