Todd Kerns

0:05I'm at you my house. I'm just playing some tunes. Yeah, I got the Sloan crank. Hey, there you go. You might have moved down there, but you're still playing the Canadian bands. You can take the boy out of Canada. So what are you doing in Vegas? Why are you down there now? Well, I, um, that's such a long story. I actually don't even know that long story. It's just, I'm going to Canadian Mafia down here. There's the, uh, I came down to record. Which studio is it?

0:54Okay. Right.

2:00You have to tell them now, you know, it's one of those strange. Yeah, you're like the in-demand player. Uh, well, that's nice. Uh, you know, I think it's, you know, I've become frustrated by the player. You say that like it's a bad thing, though. Not at all, no. You know, honestly, it's like when I think about when I was a kid and I think, you know, all they really were everyone to do was just play music. Right. And like, they didn't really give a, um, training. All, not even a cowboy four-hour gig, although it's never 24 hours really, but it's, you know.

2:55Right. I didn't know you were a slush. Were you just here then with him, like, a month ago? Yeah. Where are you at? Edmonton. Edmonton. Yeah, we were just there at the mall there. Whatever the big gig is there. Yeah, the event center. Yeah, I think it's huge. Yeah, it's a nice room. They just redid it like a year ago. Yeah, I played there before, um, back in the day. Right. How did the slush thing happen? Um, well, similar, you know, thing. I mean, just being down here as we, you know, but, uh, Brent fit through the dead man.

4:08Oh, yeah. They had a guy in Flash the band and he wasn't working out. Oh, really? Yeah, of course. I'm surprised you hadn't done them before.

4:54You know, it, it came close to many times, but we just don't use it. But, um, with some degree, flash that is. So what's next for you? It's been sort of intermittent, but it has been, uh, what's next? Um, well, I'm back in Vegas. I got a band here called the Sin City Centers. And we, uh, we in here.

5:57Right. That's interesting that you say the webisodes think, because you've been in the industry a long time long enough to remember, you know, before there was bonus content on a disc. Dude, I remember going, why do we need it? I don't remember having a conversation. Why do we need a, uh, a website? Yeah. Tell me about the, you know, you haven't really had an official website. We were like, what? You know, kind of like totally oblivious. How different is it on your end then nowadays than back then? Well, the fascinating thing is how small the world is now, you know, I mean, I really

6:47like the industry had changed so much and they became what it is now or whatever.

7:42Yeah. Yeah. They're basically just a marketing company, really. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's a big, it's a big sort of, you know, conclamity.

8:31No. Yeah. It's funny that that word has a negative connotation though to it. Yeah. I think it's more like a, you know, profit sharing kind of thing. If you want to give me that type of thing, which, you know, I suppose, you know, I see like things like, you know, but. No. No. It's almost like you need to sell your soul nowadays. And maybe you always did. And it's just more prominent now. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, honestly, I think it's just a different form of soul selling really. You know, probably what they're doing in the 90s.

9:17I see it now. Like the sister playing it alone. Right. Whatever the two. Yeah. So true. So true. Can I get you to give me a couple of sound clips, just some old tunes that we play? Absolutely. Ugly. Go for it. You want to talk about it or spew?

10:02Yeah. Ugly. Geez. You know, we record. He did it. Which is rural control, I assume. Yes, of course. And go ahead. Speak on that one if you could. Sure. Well, remote control was recorded at mushrooms.

11:20Are you and Ryan okay? Do you guys ever talk? We talked just today, actually. Oh, there you go. Well, I think that's a myth that's now been debunked then. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was always one of the funniest things that we would always kind of laugh at together.

12:05With a musician, you usually end up kind of Brett Puths now guitar songs. Yeah. Well, I'd love to hear something someday. Maybe you also would. I was one of those people who is a bigger fan of it. Oh, no. Yeah, fair enough. Mm-hmm.

12:58Well, I think you got plenty of time then. Yes, exactly. We do something in the show called Five Questions, Five Quick Questions, one word answers. Oh boy. Roder Studio. Leonard McCartney. I did more. Don't elaborate then. I'm curious. Well, the funny thing about it is, you know, I always have this theory because to me it's like major factors.

13:45I think of the young, you think, but then you listen to like, oh, that's a big part of it, too. It's an important thing in a song. Lyrics, melody or rhythm. Word answers. Yeah. You can elaborate a little bit. It's always interesting.

14:30I will say, you know, it's just a marriage of all those things, but many times, like the most B-A-S-E based on it. Right. You know, you just feel it all. You don't usually go to a concert. Yeah, fair enough.

15:21Song you've written you're most proud of. The song at the end of, uh, The Beatles title, too. Kind of. What's that? The Beatles title. Yes, exactly. Dolan. Yeah. The Beatles title. Does it ever cross your mind, though, when you do write a song and you have a title like that, it'd be like, oh, it's been used before. You know, I do, but I'm such a like, uh, uh, I'll deal with Linnin' when I get up there.

16:14Yeah, exactly. And, uh, in one word, Todd Kearns. You know, it's funny. I've done like 300, 400 of these. No one's ever said music. That's awesome. You know, it's funny because my brother always said to me, you know, you really end a kid for all the machine. And it'll be Johnny Cash on the wall.

17:05Yeah.