Hot Hot Heat

0:03How's the tour going? How's it been? It's been great. We did we did some warm-up dates and kind of got the kinks out and then By the time we did our first block party well by our second show. We were yeah Has it been a while? The last time you guys played was it the killers tour a while ago? Because I was lost in my I saw you we actually did some dates in Australia like a couple weeks there like Some festival stuff with like Queens of the Stone Age and that's cool and modest most and then just some separate dates With modest most and other than that we've just been Wrapping up a record so can we hear it soon? What do I think I have the entire thing on my phone right now, but I'm but I we haven't even like given it to anybody yet because we did it ourselves like built a little studio in Vancouver and that's cool and

0:53It's it's actually super cool I we spent about the sixth of the amount that you would spend to make a record normally yeah To buy all the gear to permanently make records ourselves So that's amazing and then you get all the fun of being in a studio on your own and creating whenever you want Not a majority of people's time schedules. I honestly like I love it. It's like the most fun Possible I think I literally I wake up and soon as I remember that I have a studio I'm like like I don't forget. Yeah like rarely shower anymore as a result, but I can smell it. Thanks. Yeah But Yeah, and so we're just kind of there to like literally 6 a.m. Often that's awesome. It's crazy and so we just made a ton of songs But I feel like this this record. It's definitely

1:40Sounds like a band that wanted to do their like let loose You know and for the first time officer nobody's there We only let one person in on it actually this our buddy of ours Ryan doll other than then then him It was all like self engineered self produced everything Ryan doll like age of electric Ryan doll. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so we kind of like about nine months into it. I Played him like it's like six songs I think and he like was the only person I really played anything to and he kind of flipped out and was like I need to be a part of this and so we kind of just combined our toys and And we've just been just we're just wrapping up the mixing right now And it's like it's just like you know a couple of kids in a candy store

2:26But but like a huge can't like expensive candy So the song you're gonna play for us now is one of those new tracks maybe not sounding what the record will sound like though I wouldn't think oh, yeah the the got it. We're playing goddess on the prairie and that one we We recorded it like a demo of it and then we recorded it for real and then we did all like these like weird Tom Overdubs and made it like really kind of like Adam in the an style and and then we thought We would rewrite it and re-record it like so we did it again just because we can yeah And now it's like this crazy This crazy rocker, but it started like really mellow so we kind of just are playing the really mellow kind of I Don't know initial idea of the song but the album version is actually like a crazy rocker

3:18Cool, so I like we're gonna strip it down a little bit give people a taste of what how he's gonna sound like a new record But not really not really it's it's probably the polar opposite of what now the new album is like really heavy and fast and simply and Like really spazzy and this is probably the most mellow song we can Parker's in the band now. Yeah, yeah, new member. Yeah, how did you how did you meet him and where that'll come from? He was there's like our studios in downtown Vancouver kind of on the east side and It's across the street from this sleazy little bar called pub 340 and he was always every time I saw him there He was like really loud and obnoxious and I was like who is this guy's got crazy energy and then and then I saw his band fake shark real zombie they

4:03I've heard of them. Yeah, they're all amazing and I saw them play and It's like man these guys are crazy. I mean you stole more well No, we actually just did some shows with them and he's doing double duties and stuff Oh wow, so he's been he's he's definitely still a key member of them as well, but Yeah, and then so we just started jamming and he was working double shifts at the Italian kitchen in Vancouver and jamming with two bands and sleeping like an hour and I was like I was just On top of being like the best bass player I've ever witnessed him I'm like he just has a awesome Attitude about music he just wants to do a 24 seven So you think you finally found the band that you were looking for there's been a lot of lineup changes over the years Um, yeah, actually this This fit like this feels by far the best band of I mean I could never put together a better band

4:56Even if I tried so it's it's kind of creepy. It's a lot of responsibility. It's like I can't screw up Because it's like I always feel like I'm like just trying to like live up to their expectations, you know That's a good thing. Yeah keeps everyone on their toes and it's like the 10 10 year anniversary now. I would think yeah, actually it is Yeah, that's what it's a big I guess the record would be the big plans actually what's the date today April 30th? Yeah Yeah, this I guess it was end of April 1999 that we started so this is probably like about exactly that's crazy. Yeah We're actually playing a lot of new stuff live which normally would sound like a bad thing freedom though on an opening slot Yeah, and also also the new songs just stand out as crazy rockers like they're all like

5:43Just really fast and heavy so it's kind of like I Just kept saying because we were always debating like oh no don't play You know you don't want to play too much new stuff, but I'm like just pretend nobody's ever seen us or heard of us and you know There's been plenty of times when you've gone to a show and see the band for the first time and If it was like tight and heavy and you could tell they were like super psyched You know then it didn't really didn't matter if it was new or old yeah exactly And plus then we play a few singles and it's fine. Yeah, and the people like oh yeah that tune right? Yeah, you can't always play what people want and that's just how life goes Yeah, fair enough speaking of songs people want I guess people want to hear you do middle and nor and you're gonna kind of strip it down as well for us Yeah, yeah, I don't this is kind of a weird configuration. It's just like an

6:28old Marshall cabinet that was in a fire. Oh They wasn't a fire. Yeah looks really beat. Yeah, no, it was literally in a fire and a silver tone had Made by Sears from the 60s With some reverb and tremolo and that my vocals through another little 60 silver tone Amp that I got in Craigslist last week. So last week. Yeah be careful that killer. Oh what killer the craigslist killer Dude like stalking girls on Craigslist. Oh well Just saying you're more like my listeners to be weary. I'm sure if you worked out the odds you'd be more likely to die in a car accident Yes true very true, especially being up in Canada and I'm sure that's more answers ask everybody that comes in rotor studio For me definitely studio

7:18Lennon or McCartney Lennon most important thing in a song melody cadence or lyrics I'm I like that you say cadence because I'm a massive fan of cadence. All right. Yeah, oh, it's got to have a crazy cadence Okay, John K. Sampson told me cadence the other day. I would I would I would probably say melody and I'm not sure everybody says melody but I will say that cadence is Like 49 51 with my favorite part to figure out for a song. Yeah, like all I usually do like the rhythm Before the melody and lyrics or you almost always last cool, I wish I would I could just write lyrics That have a crazy cadence, but I think it's way easier just to write a weird rhythm to your vocal and then try and write words that

8:05You know cool. We got a little in depth in the running process there. Yeah, and song you've written your most proud of God, I don't know there's a new song on our album called 21 at midnight That's that's really I'm I think it's really really cool. I can say that And that's are that people would know I don't know I really have no that's cool a new one A lot of people say new ones. Yeah, I mean and now people be looking forward to hearing that song when I come up I mean I was I was we had a song on our first Full-length oh god damn it and that one was just like me on a computer and like me kind of learning to sing and

8:55And then and then so like and then I like kind of like casually played it for the guys at some point and they're like oh, this is actually pretty good and that was like before I had Like sung in a band Playing drums At this point I was yeah, I was still playing playing drums and bands Oh actually no at this point I was just playing keyboards on the band because originally I just played keyboards and it was like It was just you know heavy synth rock prog stuff and then That oh god damn it was the first time when the guys were kind of like oh actually Like I kind of like having a bit of melody and it's kind of cool when it's like a little bit, you know more melodic You miss playing drums at all you still pick up totally I mean explain drums like I don't like to I always want to jump on on the drum kit, you know, yeah, and I like with block party

9:43I'm always like they have two drum kits up sometimes. Oh really checking them like ah It's fun to go jump on I'm sure again trouble. It's okay one word hot hot heat What do you mean first thing that comes to your mommy think you're banned oh fun