Stabilo

0:00Talking to the guys from Stabilos, Sarnia, Ontario, a place called Woody's Beach Bar I think. Woody's. Funny word. We just played the chubby pickle. Last night. No. Where's that, Windsor? Uh, yeah. Yeah. So we're doing a tour of phallic named bars around Ontario. You've been on the road for a while now, a couple of months? Yeah, these guys. I've been, I live in Toronto now, so I've kind of been back and forth to the home, but they've been away for two months now. You still live in BC? Yeah, Vancouver. Nice. Start the show up with a song. What do you guys want to hear? One of your tunes? Maybe something off the new record. Yeah, let's do something that doesn't get heard too often. Kidding? Kidding ourselves? Yeah, sure. Cool. Yeah, that was great.

4:46We did it with Bradwood produced it. He's got a sort of a home studio kind of set up in his backyard, a separate room and a bunch of different rooms. It was great. We're not like studio city. Yeah, it's like north Hollywood. You guys get to actually hang out in Hollywood and like check out the whole scene and stuff like that. Wow. We did a little bit, not too much. We could have, but it's just sort of, it was sort of out of our budget. Fair enough. I know. We were working. Can't really go anywhere down there without dropping, you know, a lot of money in one night. We got to drive everywhere and driving around drunk and fucking trailer. Yeah. Beautiful madness on an EP from a while ago. It comes up in the album again. How come? We recorded it and rewrote it, new chorus in it. Oh, it is. Yeah.

5:32So it's, we thought, always liked the song, but it just kind of, it was kind of like a five part song that went through each part and we're like, well, you know, let's sort of make it a bit more, you know, pop formatted and just give it a chorus and have a few parts that it comes back to and did that right before we went into the studio. And I really like how it turned out. Six, five, four, three, two, and what you want to say in the down the day, but don't just

7:07find my truth. Leave us down for me to change. It's time for hope to be. It's time for love aside. All the time to one for the time to talk for the time to love.

8:13Beautiful. My body. I'm quite well up here as the album been released out in the States.

11:24Is it? Is there plenty of. Not yet. We have some serious plans, but we're just trying to get other people to plan it as well. So yeah, very nice. Yeah. That's something you guys want to do kind of breaking the States too. I know somebody is like, Matt, good doesn't give a shit at all about doing that. I doubt that he doesn't give a shit, but you know, yeah. Very surprising. I don't doubt he doesn't give a shit, but I think we're, you know, he's kind of got it made in Canada already. And, you know, we're still that space place where we don't mind playing, you know, small bars and, you know, playing for nobody. So we'll go through it down there. I think we'd prefer to just sort of get to the rest of the world, but right now the States is, you know, much closer than Europe and everywhere over there. So it's you kind of you break in the States and it's almost a guarantee that you're going to break out there. That's true. So it's just a lot harder for us to be recognized out there before you get recognized in a bigger

12:14territory. So you guys play anywhere else other than Canada? Little bit in the States, but not too much. Just like north quarter or? Yeah, we did a small tour just, I mean, six or seven dates, just me and Chris kind of it kind of took us like quite a distance, you know, from east coast to west coast, not really the East Coast, but you know, like Denver, Tucson, I think, Arizona. And then in Detroit and all that stuff. So so that was kind of fun, but yeah, not long enough. Well, hopefully soon enough. Yeah, let's play another song. What do you guys want to hear? What do you think of yourself? No habit. It's the bill you guys both write songs you both sing.

16:04Is it like the Beatles? Are you saying what you write or is it you kind of write songs for him and you write songs for you and you just sing what you write. You're like very similar to the Beatles. Yeah, although I thought they I thought like they would sing each other's songs quite often or no, as I was wrong. I always thought, you know, McCarty would write something and he would sing that. Yeah, I guess I'm sure it happened back in the summer. Sometimes there's not many tunes. I'm sure it happened once or twice, but probably generally. Has it worked for you guys? Do you come with a guitar part and you throw something on or do you start with stuff? Usually it's come with, you know, just a acoustic guitar chords, melody, lyrics, and then everybody also throw their add their. Throw their shit on top. Very nice. And then, you know, once once we come together and jam out a song, everybody will kind of

16:51give their input and you know, maybe tell the drummer what to do. So it works for sure. John from RC Playground worked out with you guys on CUBE. How'd you hook up with them? Through, we played New Music West in Vancouver and he was, I guess he was on the panel of judges who decided to get in and to hurt our stuff, came out to the, like, invite us to come play, came out to the show and then after the show, invited us to record as a studio and for whatever we can afford. That was great. That was great. Yeah. It was much from studios in Vancouver, so it kicked ass. It was awesome. Yeah, it's just been nice. Totally. How do you guys feel about the downloading your music? I know you guys threw all the tunes on the website.

17:37You can listen to everything there, which is really cool. Do you think it's helping you harm any more at this point, the illegal stuff? The illegal stuff is probably harming. I don't think it's harming the whole industry, but whether or not, you know, it's so tough to break down on an individual band scale. You know, you never really know if it's more people downloading it and then buying it as opposed to, you know, I mean, globally with the whole industry way less records are being sold. You don't know if it comes down to Oscar, just, you know, Britney Spears kind of thing. I think most of the harm comes from people downloading it and then burning, you know, burning the whole CD and selling it, you know, and more in third world markets and stuff like that. But I think if we give people the opportunity to listen to the music before they buy the

18:26album just on a website or Myspace. And so, I mean, I think with those opportunities, nobody needs to illegally download it. Yeah. That's true. I mean, you give the option out there. I mean, kids come up to the show off the here or something on the website. They like, it's pretty cool. Do you think we're getting away from albums though? I mean, kids can just download a track now. You don't really need like a full album with artwork anymore. Seems that's the way it's going with iTunes and stuff. I think maybe we're getting away from the packaging, but you know, you still like to hope that, you know, a full album is where people are at in terms of, well, it's hard to say because an album consisted of, you know, the amount of music that you could fit on a record at one point. And so now there's really no limit with that. So where do you say an album starts and an album ends kind of thing in terms of time. So it's probably going to start to stay around the same amount.

19:15And you just kind of hope that if people hear your music, they will end up buying it. So I've heard, I can't remember exactly who it was, but I've heard of some bigger bands that are actually just releasing, you know, three or four songs every couple months on iTunes or whatever, not even putting out albums anymore. Really? See, that's what I'm scared of. You're not going to have that whole thing. I mean, I think we're- Michael, back to the day where it's, you know, singles on LPs that people are just buying. I think we're kind of getting to be old, old timers, 26, 27. We remember the time to CDs. For all I know, we're probably out of touch with, you know, other people in high school these days and they're, you know, listening and buying habits. And I know my young sister-in-law doesn't need, you know, none of her friends buy albums.

20:08You know, everything is- Everything is on line. It's on line. It's on line and scary. Yeah. I think probably what scares, you know, labels the most about downloading is that now people have the opportunity to hear the record before they buy it. And so when they hear it and they realize it's shit, they don't go buy it. Whereas before, you know, you had a couple singles on it and they tricked people into buying it and then they're like, crap, I want my money back. And so now- Which is- That's what hurt the industry in the first place. Exactly. Speaking of singles, what's your next one? Is that the choice or is it a label thing? It's going to be kidding ourselves. It's sort of, you know, it's between us and the label. It's just, it's been a long actually process to decide. But we're all happy with what's going to be next. Cool. We'll explore that right now. For sure. I think we already did. Let's try- If it was up to me, the last track on the album.

20:54Cause it's my favorite. I never looked both ways. Before crossing the street. If it was up to me, I'd never wear my seatbelt. And I'd probably still speed. And if it was up to me, I'd never would have smiled in any big, chosen eyes. Most likely sleep all day. It just relax.

21:42Oh, I'd better come quick now. Cause I'm about to sound dame as the car. I want to believe what it's not just for attention. But I also know that you. I would never swear around people that are supposed to respect.

22:37If it was up to you, I'd keep in touch with friends from the past. Even though they never last. And if it was up to you, I'd always say my prayer before I ate. And before I went to sleep, it was up to you. I'd be happy and I'd write songs for major happy. But I'd better come quick now. I'm about to do as the car would jay.

23:38Enjoy this motion. I'll go with McCartney. I'm Ian McCartney. I'm from the ball of marijuana.

24:57Marijuana. Good answer. I've sung you've written your most proud of. Coffee spills. If it was up to me. And one word. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. If it was up to me. And one word. It's the below. Boss. Music. Nice. I haven't heard that before. Weirdly enough. Band. One song close us out. What do you guys want to hear? Any song of all time. All time. You need each big one. So probably won't be the same one. Let's hear Blackbird. This is my favorite song of all time. No, just one you want to hear.

25:43All right. Well, I've just been getting into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I don't know if you've heard of them. Oh, yeah. A song called Breathless. Pretty cool. Been not addicted to that for the last day. Nice. Well, thanks guys. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

26:49Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

28:11Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But singing in the dead of night.

29:08These broken wings and learn to fly. We're waiting for this moment to arrive. Blackbird singing in the dead of night. Take these sunken eyes and learn to see. All your life. Only waiting for this moment to be free. Blackbird fly. Into the line of a dark black night.

30:00Into the dark black night. Be waiting for this moment to arrive.

31:06Be waiting for this moment to arrive. Be waiting for this moment to arrive.