Mother Mother

0:04I love the like the cities on this tour. It's such a great place like is this your first major US tour? Yeah, absolutely How did you manage to get those headlining shows in the States? I was talking to Tyler from said the way all the other day and you know they put out the documentary a few years ago about Winning America. How were you guys able to to to transform that being a big Canadian act and moving that down south?

0:52No, it sounds like you guys are doing a lot better than than a lot of Canadian bands that head down south in in the indie

2:14World if you want to classify it as something but it seems you guys are doing It's working for you. Whereas it doesn't seem to for a lot of other Canadian bands And I don't know why that is but congratulations nonetheless, and I don't think I have a question to go with that It was just an interesting thought. Will you ever be satisfied though? Like I find myself

3:09I don't think I'll ever be fully satisfied with something there's always more to strive to though. Yeah, it's like

4:09No, absolutely It's about people enjoying your art and and and being the opposite I guess of what the record talks about it being in a in a Environment with a lot of people and enjoying it as a community as opposed to everyone in their own little niche social Many worlds that we've all created for ourselves nowadays So so maybe we'll talk about like not being satisfied and talking about music. How do you know when a song is done? How are you satisfied saying? You know what this song that started with me? I don't know how you write maybe on a guitar by yourself with a demo machine and You bring it to the band it it blows up to it So what it becomes and how do you know when a song is done as a producer and as and as the artist in the band?

4:58You start with lyrics first typically?

5:58Or do you have do you have mail? That's a great quote. I like that. That's good Where do you write like I feel like the sticks would have had to have been written on the road I don't know when you would have had time to write the record like Like you must have recorded it mid-cycle for Eureka. I would think was that was that a first for you?

6:48You find it easy to write on the road Yeah I just talked to a lot of songwriters and and some can write on the road Some some say exactly what you're saying and some say they just need that silence that there's always too many people around And they just need to be by themselves if they're gonna write it. Maybe it's a self-conscious thing

7:34Maybe it's just a thing that they're used to so they continue it But it sounds like you don't you don't gravitate towards that stream of thought So let's see Wikipedia calls it a concept record. I don't know if you call it a concept record or not Would you call the sticks a con?

8:22Do you get that? Okay, so is there is there a certain? Was there a certain song that that was the catalyst to bring forward those ideas or was an idea you had and thought I

9:50Feel like writing songs about these kind of topics for this record or did it just come to you and then you figured? Well shit, that's a good theme. Let's let's go with that. That's interesting

11:23Kind of want to move back to back to the road just because you guys are on tour now and Something I forgot to ask you at the beginning at the top when we were talking with the tour Is about set lists and creating set lists down in the States? Because it's a different market. You've got the hit songs up here that you I don't know if you do play what your philosophy is I'm playing shows up here But if you need to play those songs every night whereas in the States you can kind of Play whatever you want because people are being turned on to the music. So how do you guys? Create sets for a show down down south That's really cool

13:25So do you change things up from night to night song a song if it's this one big? Track essentially as a show or does it need to be the same set in order to pull that? 30 minutes non-stop music thing going on hmm

14:22What kind of energy was in New Orleans? I heard you had a night off the other day. It's one of my favorite cities in the world Yeah Yeah, does a night like that in such a like it's a romantic city

15:17It's it's it's just there's there's a quality to it I think as you touched upon does visiting a city like that and having time to actually experience it which you don't typically get on tour Make you in or does it inspire writing does it inspire ideas for a song? Or could it? Does it does working on someone else's record like I had one of my favorite people in the world Hannah Doris

16:26We were talking about the record and she's saying that you were playing on it This does working with with other people inform the way your records might sound is there stuff you take away from those kind of sessions? How do I get I've taken up a lot of your time. So before I let you go

17:46We do something called five questions five quick questions one word answers one word Road or studio road or studio? Leonard or McCartney when you hear a song what usually hits you first lyrics melody or rhythm song you've written you're most proud of Doesn't need to be one word and in one word mother mother Okay, all right as a vegetarian that's an interesting thing to say I'll take it though. That's cool

18:40That's great, man. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it Have fun in Florida enjoy the beach Yeah, okay. Take it easy, Ryan. No barking