Before the Morning interview, hamster tales, weed virgin promo

Oh, it's hot box again now. Chatty chatty people. It is Tuesday. Is this thing on? Mary. Hello. How was your weekend? My weekend was good. It was eventful. I'm finally fully unpacked. Not everything's put away, but I'm not covered in dust and garbage anymore. I heard you lost a cactus. I did. I got a tiny, tiny little housewarming present for me and my sister from our tiniest friend. Thank you, Marianne. She gave us a little pot. It was an actual pot, not like a little marijuana. Oh, my gosh. A little clay pot. A little clay pot. Those pots are cool, too. Yeah, with a little cactus in it. And it tipped over either in my car or when I was getting in my car and it was dark outside. So there may or may not be a tiny little like chode-sized cactus floating around in my car. And I don't want to find it, but I do want to find it. Yeah, because you don't want to accidentally find it. I don't want to find it the wrong way. Yeah. If you know what I mean. There's a right way to find a cactus. I agree. It just starts just stabbing it with like... Oh, man. In the grand can. In the grand canyon. I fucking walked into a cactus at the very bottom when I went to the bottom and back in one day. And it was like probably the closest I was to dying. Jesus Christ, because you had to still get back up there. It's not like they were going to helicopter you out of there. I was totally tired at the bottom. Yeah. I was so pissed I wanted to kill P. Danny, but I could only walk like maybe like 30 feet before my knees collapsed. Was that when you moved here? Like you went to the grand canyon on your way here or did you go when you were younger? That was my epic move adventure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You moved with the happily married couple, right? The power couple, didn't you? Or you drove here with them, right? I drove here with P. Danny. Oh, okay. So it's just the two of you and your drums. And my drums and everything that I decided to bring to LA. That's very, very heartfelt and poetic. Just you and your drums making your way across America. So you guys are listening to the Hotbox, which you may or may not know, but if you're listening live, oh boy. Yeah. I think you know. You can call us 800-893-9562. Yeah. Just give us, you know, give us a shout. We'll talk about crazy things. We got guests tonight. We do have guests tonight. We have Before the Morning in the house. Yes, we do. It is about to get metal. It's about to get so metal. And also we're very, very lucky to have in our midst our fellow Skid Row Studios. Compadre. Our fellow host. He's one of our little neighbors and family members. Brethren. It's the Skid Row Brethren. Welcome, Johnny. Hey, welcome. Thank you so much. Yeah. So your first Skid Row experience was us. Yes. Yes, ma'am. You popped my cherry. Oh, yeah. We've been known to do that. We've been known to do that. I think we've done it a few times. Yeah. In a few different ways. We're virginators. We're just virginating all over the place. Next week, we're totally popping cherries. We are. We have someone who has never smoked weed before ever who is going to come in here and get us giving him as much fucking weed as we can fucking get here. Yeah. I'm saving up. Yeah. Yeah. We've been saving our clippings. Take it easy on the lad. Yeah. We're going to give it a shot. On the weed? On the lad. On the... Oh, yeah. On the version. He has a designated driver. We're assuring his safety. We know animals. We know animals or humans will be harmed in the high spirit. So tell us a little bit about your show. You're one of the newer cats on the studio. Yeah. Just getting it off the ground here. The show is my name, Johnny Scott Gramercy. And it's primarily... It's kind of patterned after a traditional radio show. It's almost all wall-to-wall music. I'm the selector and the host. And, you know, I try to sort of... Some folks may call it an eclectic mix of music, but for me, it's more of a narrative. You know, just kind of... You know, buttery, dramatic... Yeah. ...selections, you know, like Nick Cave or... I love Nick Cave. Yeah. Or Honey El-Khatib. It's like up there, my favorites. Yeah. Oh, I just heard Honey El-Khatib. Yes. Recently, yeah. He's got a record coming out soon, yeah. Oh, cool, cool. Mm-hmm. Produced by Nick Auerbach from Black Keys. Oh, nice. Yeah. Brothers helping brothers help brothers. That's nice. So, yeah, every Sunday, 9 o'clock. You can listen live. Live or archived here at the Skid Row website. Yeah. They can subscribe to you on iTunes, I believe. Yes, I'm on iTunes. I don't know why that brings me so much joy, but... I think that's cool, because... Yeah. I don't even realize I'm on iTunes. Like, it doesn't feel like it. Like, really? Well, yeah, you're used to fame, I think, at this point, but... Yeah, you're a seasoned pro. I'm unfamed. For us newbies, yeah, it's still a thrill. It's still bitchiness. I just pretend no one listens. That's the way to do it, I think. Yeah, you broadcast like no one's listening. Who would want to hear this? We got a lot of people who want to hear this. Yeah, definitely. I heard a good one the other day. You know how it's always like, dance like no one's watching and, you know, all those? Somebody had posted on Facebook, dance like no one's watching, but for Christ's sake, eat like someone's watching. Like, totally, like... Yeah, I mean, there's some things you should at least try to... But, yeah, I kind of... I don't even remember that we have listeners. And then somebody will, like, quote something or, like, someone will be like, call us. I think that's why people dig your show, though, is because you're not really talking to an audience, per se. I mean, I get the vibe that, like, this is just what your normal conversation would be. And you're two funny gals. We're just so funny on the car ride here. I worry we're going to run out of funny before we get into the studio. We sometimes have to have, like, silent moments where it's like, all right, just keep it all in. Don't break the humor seal on your talent hole. I told her my weekend condom adventure. And now I can't tell anybody else. Yeah, you're like... You're like, if I had to tell anyone... I would have been funny if I hadn't already told her. That's true. Well, now you learned your lesson. You didn't tell me. Yeah, but... Yeah, but... You know what, though? There was a condom wrapper stuck to my butt, and my boyfriend was like, when did you get a butt tattoo? And it wasn't a butt tattoo. To be honest, if you got a condom, like, a whole condom, like, with the wrapper on and everything tattooed on your butt, I don't... It would just be such a weird arbitrary move that people would probably be like, oh, you were, like, really pro safe sex. Like, STD free is the way to be. Well, he was, like, pro. It was from across the room, so all they saw was this colorful square. You're pro phylactic. Hanging off my butt. Oh, Mindy. See, the reason I like you is because you're so... You're just so fucking real, man. I talk like my boyfriend never listens. That's okay. Guys aren't supposed to. I kind of, I mean... I don't encourage it, but he listens sometimes. He listens sometimes, yeah. Well, he's got to, I mean... There's probably a Laker game going on right now. Oh, we're gonna go see the Lakers. Oh, yeah? Have you seen the Lakers yet? I haven't, not live. And you love the Lakers. I guess it might be our Valentine's Day thing, because... Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean... Well, you guys both like the Lakers. To me, that would be torture. Like, he wanted to go on Valentine's Day, but the Lakers are playing the Clippers, and it's $150 a ticket. Oh, Jesus shit. So, that didn't happen for Valentine's Day. I think you would dig it, Mary. You would get caught up in it, you know, and cheer when you're supposed to cheer. I think you would have fun with it. Yeah, I guess I could. I mean, I don't know. Like, I've gotten, like, I've gone to, like, baseball games and gotten, like, Dodger games and gotten bored. Like, not bored, but restless. Like, I get restless because I'm like, I don't, I can't, I haven't attached my ego to a team. Baseball's slow, so if you're not actually playing it, it doesn't matter. That's true. Yeah. Baseball's more like running around, jumping up and down, making lay shots. Yay. Layoffs. So, hey, you should remind me, when is your show again? Oh, yes, ma'am, I'd be glad to. It's every Sunday night, 9 o'clock, right here at skidrowstudios.com. And you can also search me on the old iTunes podcast page. It's my name, Johnny Scott Gramercy. Sweet, sweet. Yeah. I like your last name. Oh, thank you. It's unique. It is. Yeah. It means gratitude. Yeah. We were gonna play a little bit of a song that is very important to our hearts. And Mary says this really like- It really is. Has changed her life in the last week. Okay. Cathartic, yeah. Drugs and tacos, tacos and drugs. Drugs and tacos, tacos and drugs. Oh, um. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got an ounce of yam, fifty pills to eat It is so hot I need a IV drip I'm holding fried beans, going past mother Tomatoes and crack, heroin and cheese Beans and rice and some sour cream I'm eating tacos and drugs I'm eating tacos and smoking drugs I'm eating tacos and drugs And I'm getting high I'm sipping on the mic and I'm about to set it real Cocaine and tacos is my combo meal Gotta mix a white coke with a little Diet Coke Mix it with some tussin', no joke Cause I'm higher than the sky And I'm ready to die Yo, my mind ain't right, but my belly beat full Frippin' lettuce and cheese, oh, it's beautiful Gotta marinate the steak and the carne asada Cause I'm puffin' on that marijuana Shootin' that sauce up in my veins Cause this mild hot fire is insane Don't try to act like you don't like my speak Don't try to act like you don't like my speak Don't try to act like you don't like my speak I'm stretchin' for some cash Cause I'm barely gettin' by Cause I'm eating fuckin' tacos and gettin' hella high I'm eating tacos and drugs I'm eating tacos and smoking drugs I'm eating tacos and drugs And I'm gettin' high I'm a downer, no You're a downer, girl? I guess Yeah, I guess I don't like that That uppity-up-up stuff It's too, you have to actually like I like to cuddle with my hamster Oh yeah, fuckin' Mindy got a hamster I got a hamster Over the weekend And I drunk it It was an impulse buy Like, I don't impulse buy shoes or anything I'm like, hamster Yeah I need something cuddly and cute With like little eyes to like stare at me Little eyes I'm like, oh Yeah, I like that So what are we, what are we calling her? Dizzy Dizzy Because I've seen her like Fall out of her wheel four times And one time she tried to like stand on the wheel And then it rolled her off And So I like, what I love is that already she's She's you, but hamster sized Oh yeah But in a hamster body And so I've been studying hamsters When I should be working on other things But I found out that they run about six miles a night Wow And that they do voluntary exercise Because they get runner's high like way more than humans So like when I'm smoking weed And she's running on her little wheel She's getting high in her own way Oh, on her wheel And you said you're going to teach her tricks Yeah, you can train hamsters She's going to jump through a hoop And not very long Wow You know what's funny is like most people I'd be like, oh, sure she is But with you, I think you have it in you To be like a hamster trainer I'm tenacious If I want my hamster jumping through a hoop Oh yeah I'll make it happen Dude, I'd jump through a hoop for you Thank you I would, you wouldn't even have to I wouldn't even take that for you Not much Well, I'd have to learn how to like land safely On the other side We'd have to get the right size of hoop Yeah, it would definitely have to be a large enough hoop To, you know, carry my circumference through it Maybe in a swimming pool That'd be a nice safe land Oh yeah, I could just dive in like a dolphin Yeah, okay, cool So this summer We should make a choreographed dolphin show, Mary And do like the music to it Yeah, I'm down And then the dolphins will rape each other Yeah, because we're all about dolphins And then they shall rape the humans And there will be none left Um Unraped by the dolphins So we do have a band Um Our band is a That's coming on with us in a minute We're gonna play one of their songs They're called Before the Morning And um Yes We figured we'd get a little metal In the middle of the In the middle of February It's time for it February month of metal Yeah Metal, feb, drive your marm Yeah So yeah, Before the Morning So this This is what it's come to After all we've been through Guess it never mattered at all But I tried To always show you How much I loved you Because everything was my fault I'm trying but it all fell to dust Hopeless, I kept on standing but my heart still falls I keep on trying but it all fell Hopeless, I keep on standing but my eyes fell Fall Dismember me Burn me underground Remember me Don't let the memories draw Dismember me All is gone Dismember me Love forever Love forever Will I hold All this ease away in you Left alone To rot and waste away by yourself I lied about everything Made you believe All the words that came from my mouth I keep on trying but it all fell Hopeless, I kept on standing but My heart still falls Dismember me All this ease away in you I keep on trying but my eyes fell Fall Dismember me Burn me underground Remember me Don't let the memories draw Dismember me All is gone Dismember me Burn me underground I am on, piece of meat Crushed up so I can breathe Horses up, blood of fate In the end we're all dead This memory Remember me Don't let the memories draw Dismember me How are we going? Dismember me Love forevermore Dismember me Dismember me Love forevermore Dismember me Love forevermore Dismember me Dismember me Love forevermore Dismember me and not just yell them like you were because like, I literally like, I'm talking and then it was like this. And like, I was like, literally like it sounded like it was hurting me. Like everybody should be like, you're getting on stage. And you sing along with it, you're just gonna come with your emotion. It's like, wait, that person actually did some sort of a technique to sing that song. Yeah, figure it out. I cannot sing at all. You probably know this. But you can play the drums really well to compensate for that. And you can rap. And you can rap. I've heard some of your raps. I'm like the angry little kid. Yeah, but that's the style all its own. I mean, like you never try to like be any, like the way that you sound, you almost sound like a little snot face like when you rap, but you like, you're mean too. Yeah, like I'm trying to be mean, but I have like middle school voice. So I sound like a little kid wanting to beat you up. Exactly. I'm totally gonna do this to you, but not right now, because I'm way too little. Yeah, I'm way too little for this. When I grow up, you're so dead. Yeah. So how did you guys start your band? Or did you guys meet and then were in other bands or? Basically, I left the band I was in and started writing music and got ahold of our guitar player, JD, who I had played, or he actually filled in for an old guitarist of mine. And we just enjoyed playing with each other. So I called him up and said, let's write some music. What? Kind of went from there, you know, it was pretty organic. And then he brought in Adam and Adam and JD, we used to play in a band called Death Pilot together. And then it became Killcore, I believe. Yeah. But yeah, so he brought him in and we just started writing and we have a studio at the house and yeah, that's pretty much it. That is so cool that you have a studio at your house. The band itself now, what, a little over a year? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much over a year. Yeah, and the thing is, is that the ashes of all these other bands that we had sort of, you know, formed out of, we've been in a scene together for a while. We've been in a scene together for like the past six years playing out here in different bands. We all knew each other. And Phil and I, at the time that this band started, the meaning of the band is just sort of remembering just the good things about bad things that have happened in your life, you know? And at the time, Phil and I were coming out of two pretty bad things. Had a pretty bad breakup. I had a girl tell me that she was gonna marry me and then a week later say no. No! And then my uncle passed away really soon right after that. So the band sort of has like a lot of meaning as far as that goes and we're- So it kind of like saved you guys from some gloom though, because you guys had something to like focus everything on. It was still a pretty gloomy year. It gave us somewhere to put it. Yeah, exactly. Somewhere to put it, exactly. It didn't take the gloom away. It just had some constructive- It had a path to the- Yeah, exactly. Makes sense. Yeah, like I kind of like, as your friend, like talking to you every day, like saw like the positives, like you like accomplishing positive goals. That's true, you see me pretty much every day, so. Yeah. So like, that was like kind of cool, you know? And it's like cool that all these positive things are happening. Like, I don't know if the listeners know, but you just put out a pretty cool music video on YouTube. Yeah, the music video dropped. It took a little while for it to come out, but you know, sometimes good things take time and the reception of the video has been really well. It's been out for about three weeks now. And for a band that we don't really, it's an up and coming band, but it's at around 17,000 views in about three weeks. So it's doing okay right now. Yeah, we're happy with it. Yeah, I was super happy with the response we're getting from the video. Yeah. Yeah, you guys like, you put a lot of like effort and energy into it. Yeah. And like, it's turned out pretty positive. Did you guys like write it or like come up with a concept yourself? Actually, no, and this is where I'm gonna plug, I'm gonna plug my friend, Jay, Jason Pagnoni, who directed the video. A lot of the actual writing- Yeah. And the concept and things like that, started as a skeleton from us, but he totally took the reins on it and really captured, you know, what this band's about, I think. Yeah, he did an amazing job. All the credit to him and his crew. And you know, it was an intense shooting and things like that, but we got it done and it came out really well. Yeah, two days. We did live one day and then we filmed the rest of it at our place. And yeah, it was a- And if anybody's listening and you wanna check it out, it's Before the Morning. It's our title track, Before the Morning. So you can look it up right on YouTube or go to our Facebook and check it out there too. Yeah, and I think we put it on our Hotbox page. Yeah, if you go to Hotbox's Facebook, I just posted it. Oh, cool. Thank you. We'll get it up on our website, surely. You're already on the page. Check it out. Figured we would, you know. Yeah. But yeah, no, I actually, I've been in kind of a, at work, I've been listening to a lot more metal than normal at work, only because, you know, it helps my filing. I have to do a lot of filing. Yeah. Metal filing? I'm not kidding. It's metal, it's either metal filing or like really, really like hateful, like gangster rap, like Brother Lynch hung, like Dr. Octagon, like Cool Keith, like horrible, hateful shit. Because it'll make me like be like, yeah, I have to file all this stuff. Don't clients ever hear it? No, because I keep it quiet enough and it's like the computer monitors and speakers are facing like the back corner of the office. So like they're facing away from, so I can get away with it. But if I try to listen to like, Radiohead or like some pussy soft shit, like I don't want to do anything. I just want to like relax. Exactly, it keeps you going. Like build a fort out of the documents. Metal makes you move. Yeah, I've been listening to Bethlehem and Sleep like all week, this week and last week. And like, it's really growly, but Sleep is fucking great. They're playing soon, but in like Austin, Texas for some festival. Dude, give a plug out to Monday nights. Eddie works at Southern Lord Records. He hosts these Los Angeles. Los Angeles Nista. Oh yeah. Eddie, our boy. Yeah, his show's doing really well. So if you're into music, you guys should check that out. Yeah, that's true. So wait, wait, the Los Angeles Nista show. Oh yeah, he's the one that's in- Monday nights. He's in It's Casual, the band. Yeah. Yeah, we've got, that's the one cool thing about this, about this studio is that we have a lot of people that have like shows that are musicians. Like you are, he is, Nick is. Like got a lot of musicians. Shout out to Nick running sound. Up in the house. He's looking at porn in the sound booth. Yeah, he is. He caught you. Good man. We can see the reflection, bro. There's no porn back here. I'm looking at pictures of burritos. Oh man. That is porn. That's pretty pornographic. Yeah. To the hot box. Just saying that the little roach crows should cross. I get pretty straight thinking about burritos. I don't know about you guys. There's a Chipotle down the block. No, you gotta go to the little roach coaches. I just said the one on the corner, rated B for the best. Yes, I agree. You know it's good when it's cooked in lard. Like, I don't give a fuck. It's just running through the plate. I was like, this is amazing. Yeah. This is the best burrito I need right now. It looks like it's gonna like slide itself across the table. Oh yeah. It was amazing. I like really greasy chorizo. Oh, go over there. It's greasy. It'll grease ya. Like when I am hungover, that's what I wanna eat for breakfast. Like chorizo and eggs. Oh, I'm all about Taco Bell when I'm hungover. That's my hangover cure. I'm just, I'm not that into Taco Bell. I don't know what it is. I can't like enjoy it very much. Just can't do that one, huh? That's like my one fast food I eat. I eat everything. It's cheap. I mean, I'll take the authentic stuff over anything. Well, of course. We are, we are Taco Bell. Yeah, you go to Taco Bell quite a bit. I do go to Taco Bell. We're connoisseurs. I celebrate the environment. How would you feel if Taco Bell like sponsored before the morning? Is that something you would ever like- I'd be down if they would put like, you know, an actual Taco Bell- Every waking moment of my life. Sponsored by Gordita. Hoping that Taco Bell will come rapping on my door saying, here, free for life. Yeah. Well, that's what you know. On the road, you want a Taco Bell backstage at every single- Like you have to be- Terrible. You have to be the Taco Bell logo on your drum set. That's the deal. How big does it have to be? Right. The whole kick drum. We're negotiating. The whole kick drum. But they'll upgrade you to like a 26. I hope somebody from Taco Bell is listening right now. No, I am 22 by 18 moment. Oh, that's why I got 22. We should just call a Taco Bell and just try to like, like try to call the corporate office. Just talk to some guy, pick someone, hello, how can I talk to you? We need to get down to brass tacks is what we need to do. Yeah. That's what we need to do. That's what we need to do. Thank you for calling Taco Bell. Yeah, really. I was once in an anal cut ripoff band. We had a song that went, thank you for calling Taco Bell or thank you for choosing Taco Bell. Can I take your order? And I was just like, duh. And then after it was over. That was the song. Awesome. Good song. Awesome. That's great. That's like the Wiener schnitzel. May I take your order please? But wait, did you drum in that band? Actually, I played bass. Ooh, changing it up. We, it was a fake band- With a bow. We played so we could get into a show for free because they needed an opener. Nice. Oh, so you just came up with a band like on the fly with your friends? Yeah. That's pretty ballsy. Yeah, right. It's really ballsy because like- No, no one was there. It was the first band. Well, there were people there. There was somebody there. No one was there. Why would you know somebody was there? I mean, we were there. Somebody had to let us in. So that guy, the janitor stuck around and he was like, this better be fucking good. I was a little young and I was 19. 19. I was young for me. I'd only been smoking for a year. I was like a toddler. Oh. Oh. That's precious. It's probably the most precious thing I've heard today. I remember the first show I played stoned. How was it? Well, my bandmates were mad that I was stoned. Oh, that's not gonna help your stoner either. It was at a skate shop and there was like a half pipe in it. And at one point I was like- Was it in Colorado? Sitting on something that rolled. It was in Sioux City. I was- Oh, okay. I played a skate shop in Colorado once. Like we played like in the half pipe. Oh, sweet. That's pretty fun. As long as nobody's trying to skate in there. So how are you- Yeah, they're trying. Tell us about touring. Do you guys have tour plans, ideas? The plan is to always tour. At the moment, we're not doing any touring right now. We're basically gonna hold off for a little while on playing any live shows until probably the end of March. Yeah. We're sort of- You're working on new material. Yeah. We're writing new stuff. We're writing new stuff. And I think our live shows are gonna be like, we're gonna have a live show and just our set and everything need a new breath of life. So we're just gonna kind of take some time off and not from working, but from- Yeah, just we're gonna revamp everything. Just to work on the band itself. Yeah. That's fun though, because then when you have, like when you start making like, or like creating some new songs after that, then you'll probably get like the, now you want everybody to hear them. Yeah, exactly. I know we sort of need that little breath. Like the first year was a building year for us and we played out the songs that we had a lot and we just need some new life. So that's what we're working on. Yep. This microphone needs to stay down. Oh, is it? Is your spring too strong over there, bro? Yeah, the spring is getting strong over there. The spring is strong in this one. And I just have to go in like this. It's fine. Just kind of follow it around. Pretty much. Well, Mindy and I have been writing stuff too, but it's not really writing. She's doing the writing. So she's doing all the work and you're just stupidizing? Yeah. I'm a producer. She's the producer, yeah. You're the vocal. Yeah, and then she like writes the- I'm like, do the talent. But she plays the- She makes the songs. Like she plays the bass or makes the beats. But we've started our new genre of music and we're calling it horrorcore. Horrorcore. Yeah. Horrorcore. And our band is Super Snatch. Yeah. Nice, nice. And our songs are horrible, but great. Really great. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. I get it. I get it. There's one with like a really awesome drum line, but then when I recorded the bass, I was drunk at the bass. I can't play bass as fast as I can drum. So it's a punk rock song with like the worst bass playing. It's just like a root note every other measure. Traditional punk. This was like the recording of a song. And she's like, just give me a number of the one. I don't care. Just play it and I'll sing. Just play it and I'll sing it. And so I like played it on the machine and she just had the mic and she was like talking for the first half, but it was awesome. And then she caught up with the music and like went into like a melody. For a second, but I sound like twisted. But like- I love trying to- Trying to make the worst music ever. Yeah. Like we literally like, we're like- It's easy to make good music. Yeah. Making shitty music, it takes a talent. Like you can make the worst stuff ever and someone out there is gonna think it's like the most epic noise art. That's true. Yeah, they'll be like, that's so different. That's so- Someone put a microphone behind the toilet. Yeah. It's so much more than that. Yeah, it's like, you guys, you guys listen to my new song. It's just ice and a glass stirring. We just stirring ice. For 45 minutes. And like reading a cookbook or something like that. Yeah, but you know what? We have fun with the shitty stuff. Yeah, that's what it's about. That's what it's about, is having fun playing music. Music in general is about having fun, so. Very true. Exactly. Yeah, it's a release and it's where to get out the aggression from the day. Makes you not run people off the road, you know? Right. Well, you know, enough talk about some shitty songs. You guys have, we had like another song- Oh yeah, we have two more songs queued up. You guys brought in like more than one track? Yes, we did write more than one song. Is it one of these songs, the song that is in your music video? The first one we played for us. Yeah, the first song, the, I think the first song that you guys played was called Dismember and that song- Oh, that was- Yeah, it was Dismember. Oh yeah, yeah. Before the Morning is- You don't even know your own song. Right, this is our EP that you guys are playing right now too, by the way, it's called Remembrance. You can download that for free from our Facebook or Reverb Nation. Yeah, do you know what, what's your Facebook? Yeah, it's facebook.com slash- Before the Morning. Check it out, they're linked to the Hotbox Facebook, which I know you guys must have added. And morning is like you mourn like the loss or something. M-O-U-R. Yeah, the morning. Cause we're sad. Yeah. We're sad. Cause we're sad. Sad. We're so sad. We're so sad. This is always about being sad. I don't know what to do. So yeah, depending about what you have queued up right now. All right, well we got two songs, number two and three off of the EP. Yeah. It's- Sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is me and you I guess that I'll give up on you I'll dance to Dance to you Being a secret Can't say what's on my mind Just let me speak it Believe in us Made you a promise I said I wouldn't fall You're such a goddess I need you after all I'm all alone How about you? I know your heart Is bleeding blue I guess that I'll give up on you I'll dance to Dance to you I'll dance to Dance to you I'll stay gone and find And others Coming home alone If I am And I'm still alive And you're the one I can't let go I'm all alone How about you? I know your heart Is beating too I guess that I'll give up I know I'll stand still Stand still, you I got to tell you I got to tell you I got to tell you I got to tell you Live every day like it's your last Cause I don't slip away so fast Make the most of what you have There won't be a second chance No second chance No second chance Next time you dream about somebody that you've lost Remember the good times and what they meant to us There's always someone that you've hurt But is it what they deserve? That was right, the time was wrong Just let them know before they're gone Before they're gone Before they're gone Next time you dream about somebody that you've lost Remember the good times and what they meant to us Those memories will end up to be all we'll ever Let go of regrets This is what happens before the morning comes So whatever you wanna think about is the one that you want But it's just a piece of that word And once you remember the answer It's a very important part of your life No! You believe in me first, so no one will believe in you You believe in me first, so no one will believe in you You believe in me, no one will believe in you You believe in me, so no one will believe in you It's not a dream about somebody that you've lost Remember the good times and what they meant to do Some memories will end up to be all we'll have left Let go of regrets And see what happens before the morning comes Let's talk about these other lads and ladies Lads and ladies who are working on other projects right now tonight So shout out to them Nicky Stringfield is our other guitar player And JD, Johnny Death, he's the other guitar player as well We are bassless at the moment Yes, we have been So you're out there and you're good at bass And you're into metal and you're good at them up Exactly Yeah If you can shred We've always had friends of ours and other bands fill in And we've got to a point, we were just talking about it earlier while the song was playing How they would, they knew we would never look for a bass player if they kept helping us out Yeah, they're giving you guys a little bit of tough love as far as That's pretty much what it was Just like I love you man, I love you guys But if I keep doing this you're never gonna find anybody else Like somewhere out there is a bass player Beneath this like little Tiny moon we have going on tonight Right It's beautiful out there It's a little tiny crescent There may be one other person out there that plays bass There's a bass player that is like subconsciously playing your riffs right now Exactly They don't even know, you guys are under the same moon They probably are in some other country that have heard it They can't even speak English to get it across to us but they'll figure out a way Yeah Over in Istanbul That's how these things usually happen I've heard Usually it goes that way We sometimes get listeners around that area Around what area? Middle East Middle East? Oh yeah, we had an Egyptian caller I often see Egypt Nice I often see Egypt A friend of ours just played in Dubai and wore our shirt so you never know Nice, it's true If there's anyone in Dubai Dude, there's this awesome kid from the Philippines who wrote Dangerously Sleazy as well Like wow, you guys are so awesome and punk rock and like Hey, that's dope You inspire our seed over here and I was like oh where's over here and he's in the Philippines I told him I'd mail him a CD You should just do a couple one-offs to Egypt and the Philippines Hey, if you're listening in the Philippines, awesome Yeah I'm glad that you have your punk rock scene going strong Me too, I'd be really really curious to hear that Like some Filipino punk rock I'll be like hey dude, what you wanna I'll go hang out in the Philippines and listen to punk rock, I got no problem with that Yeah Roll up a fucking doobie, sit on the beach, drink a drink and listen to some punk rock You should start googling it So I hear you were a punk rock drummer, you're into punk rock? Yeah, I initially started playing punk and stuff like that Me too Nice, yeah I love like NoFX and Lagwagon and Like NoFX was one of the first things I covered, like The Bruise was like one of my first punk drum songs I learned I always loved Linoleum for some reason Oh, we got a caller, someone out here, someone out there, is this their bass player? Hi Welcome caller Hi, this is, hello, how are you? Good, how are you? I'm doing well Good, what's new caller? Please introduce yourself Hi, I'm listening to you guys, this is Adam's coworker Chris, I wanna see if he's available for lunch tomorrow cause I'm gonna come down to LA Chris, what's up man? What's up buddy? Uh, bromo sapien, give me a call right now, what's going on man? Bromo sapien Obviously I'm completely bored and I'm listening to your shit online That hopefully there are a lot of other people like you completely bored and just listening right now If you're listening online then you're not bored, you are enjoying yourself right now Yeah I am, absolutely Yeah, this is the best thing you could be doing on a Tuesday Chris There's a lot of worse things I could be doing on a Tuesday A lot of worse, definitely A lot worse Bad things are fun to do Yeah, I could be doing some really bad things on a Tuesday I'm gonna plug Chris here for a second, his band, The Creek, does bluegrass breakdowns of Slayer songs in the middle of their songs That's fucking awesome So this Chris is my coworker too Yeah, he is also your coworker Oh, what's up dude You talk to him on a daily basis I do, welcome Yeah, you do Wait, who is this? This is Mindy Oh, what's up Mindy, how you doing? This is my radio show, surprise Awesome I'm a stoner Yeah Band to go party Yeah, right, right You guys are cute Yeah Band to go family Awesome Yeah If you guys wanna check us out, we do some Slayer stuff, we're called The Creek, spelled C-R-E-A-K Adam's also in a band where you have to clarify the spelling of the name Right Which is always fun It's like no, was it O-U? When you try to be witty and clever, you always have to explain Yes, yeah And you probably get C-R-E-A-K Yeah So it's like, is it C-R-I-Q-U-E? It is Oh right It's like you're super fancy Yeah, you're like, you're an asshole for asking, you know, who would spell it that way? Right I heard the stuff the other day, it was pretty awesome Did you like it? That's awesome I did, I grew up with a lot of bluegrass, my dad was a bluegrass guitar player and like played guitar nonstop around my whole life when I lived at home Very nice, that's really cool So bluegrass is in my head I met a bunch of metal dudes who started a bluegrass band so we have a lot of that influence amongst other things, but yeah Dude, that, yeah, that's really cool So great Cool, well now I just feel like I'm talking to a bunch of people from work and this is Right, yeah I'm not covering this call I'm gonna shatter, and I also don't wanna shatter your dream of sharing lunch with me tomorrow But I, you can't tell through the phone, through the radio here, but I am incredibly sick I've actually missed work for the past two days because of it, so No, I know you have been Yeah Mindy, will you be in tomorrow? Yeah Sweet, I will see you, I'm driving down in a Sprinter Oh cool, yeah, awesome Cause Chris is in San Francisco Ah Yeah Yeah, cool, thanks for calling from San Francisco Yeah, I talk to you guys on the phone all the time, so cool, I'll be there lunch, we'll have some lunch or something, TJ will be there, he's a really good buddy of mine Yeah, I've recently started hanging out with him at work We're gonna have some lunch It was cool to be on This is great, I'm loving this Oh, man, TJ's a cool dude, I miss that guy, has he brought his dog in yet? Wait, what? Has he brought his dog in yet? Who, Gio or TJ? TJ He hasn't, but he's talked about it, sounds like he really wants to, and I'm down cause I love cute, fuzzy things, I got a hamster this weekend Wait, wait until you meet his dog, please, the old time His dog, he's the ultimate sweetheart, but she's got a lot of energy Oh, yay, aww Yeah, she's like one of my favorite dogs, so you guys will be stoked to meet her I'll take her running, I like to run Yeah, you should, she needs a lot of exercise cause she's a little energetic pit bull, but she's super sweet, I really like her Oh, awesome Well, you're gonna get some lunch tomorrow, so that's cool Oh, sweet I know, totally, and I don't have to be in the office, which is also awesome, I don't have to sit on the phone all day long Yeah, I really wanted to drive to San Francisco, but I have to work here tomorrow night, so Yeah, that's the reason that I'm doing it, they don't normally let me do drives or ever leave the office It worked out great Yeah, I'm really stoked, even though I have to drive there and back in one day Anyway, I'll let you guys get back to your radio show I know both of you Chris is talking to you Good talk, buddy, good talk He's stoked about coming though, so, I mean, that's nice That's cool, cause I wanted to do it I wanted to do that, I wanted to drive to San Francisco, cause I like driving That drive is really fun, yeah I don't have a vehicle right now, so like work is like my, like yes, I get a drive time Like being 16 every day I love driving I got freedom Until you get to like the middle of the five, and it's Cowshwitz and everything smells like ass Cowshwitz is bad up there, huh? That reminds me of home though, like driving through Iowa Yeah, I had horses growing up, so I'm used to the smell of manure Cause you were in Montana for a while too, huh? Yeah, we always ended up talking about Also, my grandma's from Montana Nice, my mom moved up there when I was in my 20s, and so I would go up there and hang out in the ranch Cool Chill out with the horses Yeah She had like llamas and goats and chickens and ducks and horses I love baby goats, they're so cute and cuddly I loved watching them fight, I would just sit outside and drink beer And they would just run around and like headbutt each other and like jump in 360s and like hit each other Yeah But they, I mean, they never like hurt each other, they're just, that was like what they did Baby goat play Yeah Goats Just get some goat play on Yeah Well, do you guys, we got two minutes left, is there anything that these listeners need to do? Do they need to come check you guys out at a show coming up in March? We have a show March 28th at the Slide Bar in Fullerton? In Fullerton I know some Fullerton people, they would love this Have them roll up, it'll be a Thursday night It's actually, it's a good show, it's for a cancer benefit We're playing with a friend of mine, his band's called Domin, they're the headliners that night Got us on the show and that's sort of be our first show back after we take this little break off here to kind of re Revamp ourselves I guess Retool Retool Yeah, so that'll be a good show to go check out Yes, it'll be a lot of new songs being debuted, new stage show Like positive causes Oh, of course, of course Yeah It's just, it's a win-win-win And then I gotta remind everybody Oh yeah, you guys About what we have in store for the rest of the month Our next show is gonna be Virgin cherry poppin' The virgin, that's never, I mean We have a virgin sacrifice A virgin to smoking, yes So we're going to have a virgin sacrifice Now that was clarified We're going to have a man A man who's never smoked weed before A weed virgin Are you gonna get a weed virgin? We're gonna start with a bowl Yeah, we're gonna start with a bowl And then introduce the joint Yeah, and we're gonna have nachos We're gonna get a bong It's gonna be fun You can lie to them and tell them You don't actually get high your first time Because you do I think I did I definitely got high my second time Oh man Yeah, you know what? I'm pretty much excited only because after After the virgin, we have Dale Crover Dale Crover of the Melvins That's gonna be the last show of February Drum heaven, February 26th This is so, I'm, yeah, I'm gonna be in like Like, oh my God, let's talk about drums It's gonna be a drumming, drummery jam It's the drummer show Yeah, so stick around for the rest of the Basically come back every Tuesday Every Tuesday Because we love you in the hot box And we wanna thank you You love this Before morning for coming on, you guys Thank you for having us Awesome, awesome Thank you guys Yeah, thank you very much Hot box See you next Tuesday As always, we will miss you Bye Bye