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You This fucking camera won't work.
What's wrong with it?
Piece of shit.
Can you see?
There we go.
I found this camera.
It's a Coolpix camera.
It's a Nikon, I think.
It's not that cool.
Yeah.
It's not my fix.
All right, I want to welcome everybody here to the Pinhata Hour.
I'm your host, Lee, here at SkillRootStudios.com.
I have two bands tonight, right?
Yes, sir.
What's the name of the first band here?
Wild Pack of Canaries.
Wild Pack of what?
Of Canaries.
Canaries.
Oh, it's the Little Birds, right?
Yeah.
Are you guys Little Birds?
Little Yellow.
Very Yellow Birds.
There's only Yellow?
Sometimes they're Big Birds.
I mean, they're different colors, but I'm pretty sure we're Big Birds.
Big Yellow Bird.
Canary Yellow?
Oh.
Oh, this sounds sexy.
And also, I got Frank Lopal.
Hola.
Hey, tonight.
Tonight's a busy night.
Those balloons, right?
Yeah, we're going to play at Los Balloons, a.k.a.
Los Globos.
Yeah.
We're going to have a throw party there.
You guys are welcome to come.
Everybody that's sitting at the piñata, our lounge out there.
Yeah.
We got Geronimo out there hanging out.
Sipping on some Ticatis.
Hey, yo.
Yeah.
We're going to play some of their music in a little bit.
So, what we're going to do is I'm just going to do a little intro.
Who do we have here tonight?
Well, I'm Aaron.
Aaron.
Matt.
Alfred.
Alfred.
Miguel.
And what about the guy that just left?
JP.
JP.
JP?
Yeah, he went to the other room.
So, where's, what is Rudy at?
Rudy right now is in seven dimensions.
Santiago, Chile.
Santiago, Chile.
Chile.
What the hell was happening?
What's going on over there?
I have no clue.
He went out there to soul search.
Soul search?
To find El Guincho.
Yeah.
To go see El Guincho perform.
That's crazy.
All the way there to see El Guincho?
I don't know.
That's insane.
He's a pretty determined man.
And the Chilean ladies, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what really brought him over.
Yeah.
It's just one big lie.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah.
Everybody's welcome to come to Los Globos tonight.
It's free for you guys.
Thank you.
If anybody's listening to the show right now here at Piñata Hour, if you want to get inside for free, go ahead and call us here at 1-800-893-9562.
We're going to take your call, write down your number, and come down.
There's going to be a patio party.
We're going to have a party.
We're going to have a bunch of piñatas.
We're going to be loaded with...
It's going to be a surprise.
All right.
Once they hit the floor, people are going to go, what is this?
Dildos, vibrators.
Maybe.
Masturbating sleeves and whatnot.
That's too much.
Dildos with my face in it.
Right at the end.
Right on the tip.
All right.
Or a flashlight.
Flashlight.
There you go.
Oh, in the background right now.
I'm playing Todd Terji, Inspector Norse.
That's the name of the song.
It's a pretty cool song.
Been in my head all day.
All day.
All day.
All day.
I probably play it like five times.
Once I play it five times, I'm like, I think I'm going to play...
It's an intro.
All the way to the end.
I thought you were going to start off with some monkeys since Davy Jones died today.
You know.
I'm not a big monkeys fan.
Nah.
Really?
I like monkeys, though.
Yeah.
Monkeys are cool.
I went to the zoo.
Yeah.
I went to the zoo.
I went to the zoo the other day.
Yeah, that's great, man.
That's a sad place, dude.
I don't like going there.
Really?
Why?
I used to go in and visit somebody in jail or something.
It's awful.
I know it was raw bummed out.
You get more than an hour to see them.
Yeah.
Except the monkeys.
I think the monkeys are having fun.
Everything else is just depressing.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I took the family.
It was great.
We had a great time over there, man.
Yeah.
That's cool, man.
A lot of people.
Yeah.
Surprise, man.
Wow.
So what's going on for you guys?
Do you guys find this studios okay?
I mean.
You get lost, right?
You get lost.
What about parking?
Actually, we had some trouble in the elevator.
Yeah, I know.
Me too.
There was no one there when we first got here.
Oh, shit.
What's up with the security?
He's not doing his job.
He wasn't there when I got there right now.
He was there.
He was bitching about, hey, don't leave any cervezas down here, homie.
I was like, I'm not going to do it.
That was the hip hop.
That was the hip hop.
That was the hip hop.
That was the hip hop, dudes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We used to have a show here, but they're not here any longer.
But anyways, I'll go ahead and take some of those stickers here.
Oh, yeah.
Here at Studio Stickers.
Stickers.
Stickers in their lans.
Slap tags.
I like stickers.
Nice.
Yeah.
Sticky things.
Sticky times.
I'm going to kill that son.
He's going to get nervous already.
That's the eighth time already.
Makes me want to take off my clothes or something.
I kind of want to turn on the.
Turn on the.
Turn off already.
I want to turn on the.
The disco ball.
The disco ball right here.
Lines of coke.
What else?
Yeah.
Set the moves.
Oh, man.
It's all the coke right now.
Disco balls.
What a show would that be?
Hey, so did you get the music set up with?
Well.
Yeah.
That music?
Yeah.
There it goes.
Oh, hey.
What's up, guys?
What's up over there?
Do you want a disco right now?
Of course.
Turn the disco ball on.
I'm sorry, man.
Go ahead.
Oh, no problem.
Oh, you got it?
Yeah, I think it's over here.
It's plugged into the.
Oh, shit.
What is this here?
That's a hard drive.
It's a hard drive?
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
It's a high-tech brick.
I feel like I can do pancakes with this.
It's actually, yeah.
Waffle maker.
It's a waffle maker.
Is it?
Wow.
It's a futuristic waffle maker.
Interesting.
It's what robots eat.
Yeah, you drop that thing, it ain't breaking you.
It's.
No?
Yeah.
It's drop.
Amazing.
It's a great machine.
Anyway, so we're going to have Frank Lepore.
He's going to play a couple of hits.
Yeah.
What do you have in mind today, man?
You guys were talking about a linguine show.
I'm going to start off with that.
Yes.
Yeah, I like guincho.
Yeah, man.
All right, this is Frank Lepore here at Piñata.
We're going to come back more of.
Wild pack of canaries.
Yes.
Little birds here.
All right, this is Frank Lepore.
Let's go man.
Let's go man.
Let's go man.
You have to be You have to be strong You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my You are my Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Venga, señora.
Venga, señora.
Yo mismo la voy a acompañar hasta su casa.
Muy amable.
Qué ricura.
Qué ricura.
Venga, señora.
Qué ricura.
Venga, señora.
Muy amable.
Qué ricura.
Caramelito, ¿no eres casada?
Venga, señora.
Yo mismo la voy a acompañar hasta su casa.
Muy amable.
Qué ricura.
Caramelito, ¿no eres casada?
Sí.
Y quiero advertirle, además, que mi marido es boxeador.
Entonces, sácate la chingada de las tetes ahora como fue la pinche vieja.
Qué lástima que algunos oficiales de la policía sean así.
Pues, qué lástima. ¿Qué pasa aquí? ¿Qué viejo quieres, perranito?
Nada, mi negro. ¿Qué?
Gracias a él, no me ha...
Ay, cabrón. ¿Ya viste qué chicharronzote?
Carajo, me siento a toda madre. ¿Sabes qué?
Me siento hasta cachondo. ¡Cachondo!
Carajo, me siento a toda madre.
Me siento hasta cachondo.
Carajo, me siento a toda madre.
Carajo, me siento a toda madre.
Come on, ladies, I'll go with you to your house.
Oh, my God, how delicious.
How delicious.
I'll take it.
Come on, guys.
I feel so hot.
Oh, man.
Come on, ladies, I'll go with you to your house.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Chiquity chick, we're back.
We're inside of SkidRoadStudios.com in beautiful downtown LA.
And we ran out of beers.
Already.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Already?
I didn't know the wild pack of pajaros was going to bring 20 guys in here.
It's all good.
So anyway, so we have also now in studios, Rod Geronimo.
How you doing, guys?
Hello.
Hello.
Nice.
Thank you for coming to Piñata Hour.
I'm glad you guys made it.
Thank you.
You got lovely eyes.
Whoa, thanks.
Look at your eyes.
I'm like, I want to go to sleep.
What?
Well, my roommate's a hypnotist, so maybe she's teaching me.
What?
Really?
Do you exist then?
Certified.
Really?
How do you get certified?
By who?
There's a school in Tarzana.
Really?
It's underground.
I thought you just go to any pot shop.
There's a school for clowns, too.
That's a great misconnection.
I'm pretty sure it's connected.
There it is.
Why do you have to bring clowns, man?
That's great.
So we got Rod Geronimo here.
Thank you guys for coming down.
Thank you for having us.
So all the bands that we have here tonight.
Yeah.
We're going to Pinhata Hour.
They're all going to Southwest.
Southwest.
Outstand Texas.
Woohoo!
Well, you guys don't know what is Southwest.
It's about a little town that went out of their way to put these events in, maybe officially, right, for all the bands.
At first it was music, but then they do film, too, right?
Oh, they do?
They do a lot of film.
I've never been, so they do some film.
It's like everything now.
I mean, it's a huge festival.
It's like a week long.
They take over Austin.
The streets are closed.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
Thousands and thousands of bands.
Yeah.
Thousands.
Thousands.
It's awesome.
But it is intense.
I think it's one way, a good way to socialize with other artists.
Yeah.
It's kind of like some kind of retreat for musicians.
Right.
It's like you just get to go and like hang out.
I guess you're surrounded by people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You get everybody pretty much doing what you're doing here, too.
You're just doing it out here in LA, right?
That's right.
Yeah, it's guns from all over the country at this time.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool to see.
Pretty damn.
Well, here at Pinata we also have- JP?
JP from Wild cervical canaries and also we've got three members here from Raw Geronimos.
Let's start here on my left here.
What do we have here?
Hi, I'm Andrew.
Andrew?
What do you play, Andrew?
I play guitar.
I'm Lena and I sing and I'm kind of a conductor of sorts.
A conductor?
Conductor, composer maybe.
Right.
You write the songs?
I do.
Don't look away.
I write the song and she looks away.
And then what do you have here?
I'm Michael.
Michael?
That's my name.
Okay.
And I play the drums.
Are you sure it's your name?
I think so.
Yeah.
I've been working on it.
It is.
I've been practicing.
Okay, great.
Hey, listen.
You guys, in LA right now, I mean, I go see shows and I put some shows together.
And I hear a lot about you guys.
And then I heard your music too as well.
And I saw you, I saw like two songs.
You guys played at Los Globos?
Yeah.
Maybe two, three weeks ago?
We did.
Yeah, that was our role play shot on the Spot 7-inch release show.
Nice.
And I was like, wow, this band is great.
Really, you guys are...
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
That's when we showed the video.
That was a really fun show.
Role play.
Felt good all around.
You too.
Yeah, role play.
Everyone that came out was just awesome.
Well, some of the members are not here.
Who are we missing?
We are missing Shannon Marie Lay, who plays guitar and keyboards.
Her and Andrew actually take on a lot of backing vocals as well.
You guys been together for about what?
A couple years?
One year.
Actually, like today.
Yeah, like to the day.
One year, basically.
Basically.
That's nice.
Happy anniversary, guys.
We started practicing in early March 2011, and we had our first show on March 20th.
What about you guys, PJ?
What about you guys then?
We have been a band probably since late 2009.
Oh, okay.
But it didn't really solidify as a real band until...
Oh?
Yeah.
No, I just wanted to see if you...
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
Okay.
There we go.
Yeah, we weren't really a real band until late 2010, I think.
Right.
You want to call it that?
I mean, we didn't take it seriously until our friends were like, hey, we'll put out your record.
And we were like...
What did a band think is seriously?
When they go like side by side with maybe?
Depends, I guess.
No, I mean...
We've been pretty serious.
When do you guys think a band...
I mean, I've been in a few bands.
Yeah.
But when do you think it's like, okay, I think this is good.
It feels like it's good sound and we're going to take it.
I think you can hear when musicians are familiar with playing with one another.
Mm-hmm.
And like, it kind of just reaches a point where you work the songs and just like the way that everyone plays together where it just kind of, everything clicks sort of.
Right.
And you know, that's, you always hope for that.
Do you guys believe in chemistry?
Of course.
I do.
Hell yeah.
Right?
It's a science.
It is.
Science of the soul.
We're missing two other members too that I don't want to gloss over.
Tim, Tim Orr, who plays bass and Lauren Feather Faye, who is our lovely percussionist.
Extraordinary.
Yeah.
That sounds pretty cool in your band.
That's really cool.
Yeah, she's awesome.
That's really, really cool.
That's right.
I think when we got together, we took it seriously right away just because we're all in other bands and we've all been doing this for so long.
Are you guys in other bands?
You still doing that?
Like a side project or?
Yeah.
I mean, it's almost like a, it's like a weird amalgam of a bunch of different bands.
You know, there's.
It's just a bunch of people who are obsessed with playing music.
So we all just play music constantly with all kinds of different people.
You know, it's just fun.
Nice.
Yeah, you got to see it like that.
I mean, I'm doing this show right here.
We all doing it because it's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
I would, I would rather be practicing with a band than like.
Sometimes I'll be driving in my car and I'm doing.
And I'm doing shows like, why am I doing this?
What am I doing?
I reach my pocket and it's like nothing, but it's fun.
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
Yeah.
Cheers to that one.
Yeah, here.
Nice.
All right.
Listen, we're going to play some of you guys track.
Do we have, do we have their music ready?
Yeah.
All right.
So we're going to play, we're going to play and then we're going to come back to you guys a little bit.
And then we also going to play some of Roger Animo's tracks here.
We got two songs, right?
Yeah.
We got the A and B side off of our latest seven inch.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
So we're going to go ahead and play that.
And this is Pinhata.
Awesome.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
All these times and crowds You will see Hey, baby Hey, baby Hey, baby All these times and crowds You will see You'll never Remember You'll never Remember You'll never Hey, hey, hey, hey There's a good maker on your business Oh, hey, hey, hey You're in the way Hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey You're in the way You're in the way You're in the way You're in the way Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo What are you seeing at the end of the record?
nice What are two beautiful tracks here by Wild Park of Canaries Thank you And I have three members here in the studio hanging out with us So tell us about a little bit of you guys Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hmm.
We formed about, what, four years ago?
Oh, three, maybe.
Three and a half going on four.
We were all in other bands at the time, so it was always the fun, you know, the fun band.
Go play with your friends at a bar, you know, because you can and want to and chill.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't really too serious in the beginning.
I mean, we like to refer to the band as the band that wasn't supposed to last this long.
But I think all that fun just, like, made it happen.
It's even more fun, you know.
More people, more fun.
Yeah.
That's about that.
That's about that.
That's about that.
That's all that matters, man.
Don't you guys get happy if you see more people at your gigs?
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah, more recurring faces, too.
We like friends.
We just, like, you know, the more friends.
New friends, old friends.
New friends.
In between friends.
Blue friends.
Do you guys have an account in MySpace?
What's that?
Yeah, you know, we got the MySpace.
I gotta check the Facebook.
You get more friends.
Connect with your friends.
Be into it.
Yeah, we talked to Justin Timberlake.
He owns MySpace now, so.
Who?
What?
Who owns MySpace now?
Justin Timberlake, man, our friend.
Really?
On MySpace.
He's our friend.
How did that happen?
I have no clue.
He's our friend.
I have no clue.
What's going on with his social media?
He must be in sync with a few things.
Yeah.
Business.
You guys remember MySpace, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys ever thought?
Something like Facebook will come around the corner?
I mean, right?
Facebook, it seemed like it was just for nerds, but now everyone's a nerd.
Something else will come up eventually.
Yeah.
I mean, you know.
That's how it is.
Like real life.
I'm hoping that'll come up with me.
Thanks.
You guys have videos also on YouTube?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we have too many, actually.
We have quite a few on YouTube.
Yeah.
I'm going to put that chip right there.
Yeah, save it for later.
Mm-hmm.
Getting tired of it.
Yeah.
Anyway, so, okay, so you guys are going to the Saba Sawas.
How many shows do you guys have over there?
So far, we have two shows on the way out there in Tempe and El Paso, and then we have two shows in Austin during the week of South by Southwest.
Also, I noticed you guys also released our, are you guys taking like a 45 or, is that a 45 or 7-inch?
The first track that was just played by us was just, it was the A-side off of our new 7-inch, which just came out.
Right.
When did it come out?
Came out, I think it came out officially January 15th.
Right.
On our friend's record label, Mountain Man Records.
It's a DIY label based out of Long Beach, and a bunch of great guys, great bands.
Long Beach, in the house.
Mm-hmm.
LBC.
LBC.
Where you guys from?
Long Beach.
Yeah, are you guys from Long Beach?
Yeah.
Majority.
Yeah, majority.
JP is originally from?
I'm from Seattle originally, and then I've lived here for about four years, and then Miguel, our bass player, is from Oxnard.
Oh, okay.
Right.
Oxnard?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
We're all pretty much homegrown Long Beach.
Right.
So.
Nice.
Have you guys been to some piece of real before?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's where I'm from.
Oh, nice.
Just a bridge over there.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Real close.
Just a terminal island.
My teenage beautiful days, I spent it at SMP, too.
Jammin' Econo.
The what?
Jammin' Econo.
The what?
You know?
No.
Jammin' Econo?
Jammin' Econo?
Damn.
We got to go downstairs.
It's AP, man.
We got to go downstairs.
Get a break.
Yeah.
Have you guys played at Speak Easy in Long Beach?
Yeah.
We played there fairly recently.
A few times.
Yeah.
It's not too bad.
It's a cool spot.
I just met the drummer from The Versperteens, I think.
Oh, yeah.
Chris Walker.
Chris Walker.
Yeah.
Chris.
He set in for us.
Chris P.
Walker.
He came on our first tour with us, actually.
Yeah.
I couldn't make it.
Oh, yeah?
You couldn't make it?
Couldn't make it.
Wow.
Wow.
I was in jail.
That's a pretty good reason.
Yeah, it's not like Monopoly, you know.
What happened?
Domestic violence.
No, no, no.
Drugs.
Not domestic violence.
Movie violence.
I punched a clown at my nephew's party.
Really?
It was just really bad.
I look at you and I think, this guy's peaceful.
I don't think he's going to punch a clown in the face.
It was one of those things where I had to do community service and I didn't do it.
So slap on the wrist.
Fuck your ass up.
They got me up.
They locked my ass up.
You became all of a sudden the coolest drummer in the band.
Well, every drummer needs a record.
It's true.
I don't know.
I guess by default, but in my opinion, I wish I would have been there, but it's cool.
We found the right guy to fill in the shoes for.
Wow.
Mr. Chris P.
Walker.
How was that?
Were your bandmates mad at you?
They're like, this fucking ass.
Surprisingly, they weren't so mad, which I appreciate.
But, you know, I called them up and they were like, I mean, I contacted them on the phone all the time.
And it was cool.
Much support.
Much support.
Nice.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah, there's some stories.
Just don't try to get arrested again.
How long were you in there?
I was in there for 90 days.
Jesus Christ.
Oh, 90 days?
90 days.
I ain't going to bail this motherfucker out.
I stayed a good time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And I know it was awful.
It was one of those things.
It was pretty lame.
Yeah.
It was pretty lame.
But I did get some time alone for 90 days.
And I did write some songs in there.
It's cool.
Oh, like Tupac.
Yeah, just like Tupac.
Just like Tupac.
Tell them about jail.
You started writing songs.
Yeah, my cellmate looked like Tupac.
I have plenty of time.
Too much time.
Too much.
You know.
You guys like Tupac?
Yeah.
Who doesn't?
Right?
How can you not?
How can you not, man?
A couple of metalheads.
He's in Cuba.
He's in Cuba?
He's in Cuba, man.
He's alive somewhere, huh?
I just don't want to pay taxes.
He's in Cuba.
That's what they all do.
I'm going to write songs and release them just in Facebook.
All right.
So how many days are you guys playing over there?
Like two, three days?
In Austin, we're playing two.
Are you guys playing in El Paso as well?
Yeah, we're playing in El Paso, actually.
Where at?
At the Lowbrow Palace.
Okay.
And we're going to be playing that night with our friends Crystal Antlers from Long Beach as well.
Crystal Antlers.
Nice.
And another band from California called Sleepy Son.
Okay.
We're going to be playing that show as well.
All right.
Crystal Antlers.
You guys know those guys?
Yeah.
Yeah, those guys.
I think I saw a show of them playing at South by Southwest, I think.
I went to South by Southwest and I think I saw them playing at some warehouse.
Like behind a warehouse.
Oh, yeah.
They've been there.
They've been there a few times.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
So, okay.
So we play over two tracks.
Can you tell me a little bit of those tracks?
Yeah.
The first one was Rainbrain.
Right.
That's one of the songs off the new 7.
Yeah.
It's one of my favorite songs.
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
Yeah.
That was written by our own Miguel Angel Vasquez, the bass player.
And then the last track was Hitchhiker's Guide to Insanity, which was off of our first full length, The Coroner Can Wait.
Well, I know you guys have a guy that's always like, what?
How many pedals does he have?
Oh, yeah.
That's Matt.
He's over there in the other room.
It's amazing.
He's doing a great job there, too.
There's a lot of bands that they have that.
Yeah.
You know, that much of pedals and gadgets.
But they don't do much with it.
He's a good manipulator.
Sounds all stupid, but you guys doing it right.
I like it.
He does a great job.
It's that guy.
He's the mastermind, you know?
Right.
So who's the writer of the song?
Who's the writer?
Who's the one that writes the song?
For the most part, Rudy writes a lot of the songs, lyrically and composition-wise.
But we are passing the hot potato around a lot.
We are getting involved in the writing.
Miguel's written a couple.
JP's writing.
Aaron's constantly writing.
Myself as well.
Nice.
But the majority of what we released has been either co-written by everybody or Rudy's idea.
Nice.
Nice.
Do you guys have a website or Facebook?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's wildpackofcanaries.com.
Yeah.
We're actually launching a new website.
It's going to be up and about maybe even tonight when we go back.
Oh, really?
Are you guys excited about that or what?
Yeah.
We're pretty excited about it.
I mean...
That's crazy.
You know, we have a friend that lives downstairs from us.
And threw something for us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're gonna do something together real quick.
Nice.
You know, you need a website.
There's a band from Long Beach called The Vivits.
Yeah.
We played with them a couple of times.
We've played with them.
Yeah.
We had them here at the show too.
It's a great band.
Oh, yeah.
They're awesome.
Something about Long Beach right now.
It's just like...
A lot happening.
It's a good community.
Good bands.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It's about people...
Bands helping the bands out.
It's not a competitive thing.
I just read an article where it says Highland Park is the new Echo Park now.
Wow.
Where'd you read that?
I read it, I think it was at LA Weekly.
Some dude blogged.
I think I'm subscribed to it and I saw it.
And I read it and I was like, yeah, it is.
And they got cool shops.
You guys play there, remember?
Yeah.
We play at the Hermosillo Club.
Yeah.
I think some dude came and bought the club.
Really?
Yeah, I started doing shows there and he's like, I think I'm just going to buy the club.
And then the lady, it's a Mexican lady, she's like, okay, cuánto?
How much?
And she sold it and then she ended up buying another club, Sand Valley, maybe about 40 minutes from here.
Yeah, that's up north, like North Hollywood?
Yeah, up north, North Hollywood.
Yeah, okay.
It's a little cool venue.
So, hey, I want to thank you guys for coming down.
Thank you.
Thank you for having us.
So do you guys have any gigs coming up before heading out to the Salva Sawa?
Yes.
We do not.
Unfortunately, we don't.
Our next show is March 10th at Long Wong's in Tempe, Arizona.
Well, I definitely want to have you guys come back and play maybe a piñata or a party at Los Globos maybe someday.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, definitely.
We're always down for that.
We have one tonight.
We'll see what's up with everyone.
Maybe we'll make it out for a drink or something.
Yeah, at least one.
Just hang out for a little bit.
Yeah.
All right.
I want to thank you guys for coming down once again.
And up next, we're going to have Rod Geronimo.
That's another great...
Great band.
Not so great.
I believe they're from L.A.
And we're going to have Frank Lopolo.
He's going to drop a little set here.
And also, he's going to be tonight here at Los Globos, tonight on Sunset.
We're going to have The Commons afterglom and the Zoo Foundation tonight at Los Globos.
And smashing piñatas.
And we're going to smash...
Yeah, I went to downtown and got some piñatas tonight.
Pretty cool piñatas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hello Kitty piñata.
Oh, really?
Good guy kitty.
Good guy kitty now.
They have a Lakers piñata.
Yeah.
You should have gotten a Pikachu.
No, I don't got Pikachu.
Oh, okay.
But we can talk about it.
We can talk about it.
Para la otra.
Next time.
All right.
So this is Frank Lopolo here at Piñata Hour at the Skidwood Studios.
Take care.
Take care.
Take care.
Take care.
Take care.
Take care.
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Great.
Fantastic.
Nice.
It's like when Wayne leaves Garth.
Oh.
Hey, guys.
Sorry.
You guys want some...
We got some chips here.
Chips.
Yeah, brilliant.
I love that noise.
I love that noise.
Oh, yeah.
Let's just crinkle the bag.
That's amazing.
Yeah, huh?
Sounds so good.
It's my favorite part.
And then you got to wash it down.
Is this like a chips commercial?
It should be.
We should get a sponsor.
Hi, and welcome to the podcast where we try every Wednesday a different bag of chips.
Did you have last week Doritos or something?
Oh, man.
No.
Gotta get the Tapatio Ruffles.
Those are my favorite.
We should sample the crunch sounds.
Like have people vote.
Right.
Which is the best crunch.
I think I'm just going to have...
Before you guys go, we can do a...
You're going to go like this.
I'm eating chips at Piña Tower.
That's kind of gross.
I don't know.
Right?
Anyway, we have Roger on the one here.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing all right.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine, I think.
Yeah.
Good.
Can't complain.
Good.
So you guys going to Basava Waste?
I was talking to the other brands as well.
Going over there.
Is this your first time going there?
As Roger Animo, yes.
First time with this band.
It's actually kind of like our one year anniversary today.
It is.
Pretty much.
Champagne.
Pop it.
So I don't know.
I mean, we played our first show last year, March 20th.
So it's kind of exciting.
We'll be coming back from South by Southwest that day.
Are you guys from LA as well?
Yeah.
All from LA?
Yep.
We live in a park, actually.
Yeah.
Where?
Echo Park.
Echo Park.
Well, Shannon lives in Hollywood and Tim lives in Santa Monica.
Yeah.
We're holding it down.
Four out of six of us are in Echo Park.
What came up with that name, Roger Animo?
What does that mean?
I did.
Oh, you did?
Well, okay.
Like my name is Lena Geronimo as a performer and stuff, you know?
Okay.
Apparently, if I had been born a boy, my mom wanted to name me, Geronimo.
Yeah.
So, you know, I kind of just decided to go with that at some point.
Are you the only girl or?
What?
Are you the only girl in the family?
Yes.
Okay.
But yeah, and then I've played in a lot of bands.
I've always been a musician.
Right.
You know, since I...
You've been writing music?
Oh, since you were...
Well, I play violin and bass and guitar and I've played in other bands and toured and stuff.
Depends what age you've been playing.
I've been playing violin since I was 10, but my parents are both musicians.
And so there were always like guitars and drums and my mom sings and stuff.
So...
You guys have the same background as well?
Yeah.
I guess so.
My dad was a session player out here in the 60s.
Yeah.
He was a guitar player.
So I was kind of raised with a guitar in my hand.
All of our parents were musicians actually.
I didn't officially play until I was 14.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My dad was a drummer too.
Right.
Yeah.
It's weird how it goes like that.
It's in the house.
So you're like, yeah.
You guys were...
Since little, we're like...
Yeah.
Having instruments around the house.
That's good.
Banging on things.
Parents playing records, right?
It's like predetermination.
Yeah.
Did they play John Byers?
You will be a musician.
Me and my mom danced around to a lot of like Romanian traditional music.
She's probably doing that right now actually.
Kate Bush.
Romanian music?
How does that sound?
It's actually really awesome.
There's no drums actually.
So maybe accordions?
It's a lot of strings.
And there's like the...
Middles.
Middles maybe.
Basically the percussion is like the cymbala.
Okay.
And a lot of the songs start out slow and really sad and then they like pick up speed and become these crazy frenzies and it's...
Now do they do that Russian dance with the one leg thingy?
No.
No?
Is there a name for that?
I don't know.
I'm not Russian.
We'll Google that one later.
I know what you're thinking.
Yeah.
We'll Google it.
We'll Google it later.
The one where they like crouching sort of and then one leg.
Yeah.
Crouching.
Yeah.
You know he used to do that?
The Fonz.
Yeah.
That's right.
The Fonz did do that.
He used to do that shit.
The Fonz can do anything.
The Fonz.
That's right he can.
Do you think the Fonz is listening to this show right now?
I hope he is.
I'm probably sure he is.
I hope he is.
I'm probably sure he is.
Well if he is he can call here on 1-800-893-9562.
Yeah.
If you guys want to get inside for free tonight on Los Globos.
We have an opinion other party tonight on Los Globos.
Right there on Sunset.
Yeah.
Silver Lake.
Los Globos.
Good times.
Love it.
Los Globos, by the way.
I love Los Globos.
I love Los Globos.
Yeah?
I think they need a cheaper beer, but other than that, I love it there.
Yeah.
All right.
We've played there twice now.
Sounds good.
We've had really fun times there.
We played there on Halloween.
That was crazy.
That's right, we did.
Yeah.
At like two in the morning or something crazy.
I was dressed as Spock.
He was a panda.
Did they close it down a tour?
Mike was a panda bear.
It was like an after hours party.
Drew was a monk.
Yeah.
I was a monk.
What about you?
Who were you?
I was Spock.
That's right.
Yeah.
You guys have pictures of that?
I got to see that.
You know what?
Apparently, a bunch of people took pictures, but none of them have been actually sent in.
Everybody was not asking in the audience.
I keep on getting messages from people who are like, we have awesome pictures, but I can't give them to you yet.
So it's a big tease.
Yeah.
I can't believe how many people stayed.
At some point, there will be awesome pictures.
You know, they stopped serving beer and anything.
I wish it was Halloween right now.
It's true.
What is the best venues you guys play around here in LA?
I love The Echo.
Yep.
I love The Echo.
It's a good spot.
Good town?
It sounds good.
It feels good.
The people who work there are nice.
Like, it's, I don't know.
It's just, it feels good there.
It's also for us.
It's like our local.
My friend right here, Frank LePaul, he played there too a few times.
He still does.
Yeah, yeah.
We actually, last, the last Wednesday we were there was our last, you know, night.
What do you like about it?
It's like, they have a great sound?
The people around there?
I don't know.
They got a smoky patio.
Yeah.
Great drinks.
Nice.
Yeah, it's a smoky patio.
It's cool, dude.
I don't know.
Smoky patio is nice.
You know, my favorite, my favorite is those warehouse spots, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are the ones that feel free, really.
The thing with that, though, is that, like, one of them opens, one closes.
It's like, you name one and then a year from now it's gone.
Well, that's a good thing because he, people can't go to a club anytime.
It's like, oh, I know where The Echo is and I know how much and this and that.
I know my, everybody knows here Monday's free.
So they go, right?
That's it.
But something about warehouse is like.
I love.
Those are the funnest shows.
This could be the next one.
Those are the funnest shows.
What's it going to look like?
Those are the funnest shows.
That McWorld place is pretty rad that Black Apple's played at recently.
Oh, McWorld?
Yeah.
Yeah, we played there.
Yeah.
Yeah, we played there.
Is that Central?
La Brea next to the gas station.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, the Speakeasy in Long Beach is really cool.
That's right.
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot of things about that.
Those guys from here, they were, the band that was here before.
Mm-hmm.
Well, they're from Long Beach, so.
Long Beach Brothers.
The Bender.
Yeah.
It's a good spot.
I actually got crowd surfed like 50 feet after that show.
It was one of the most amazing shows of moments of my life.
You know, it was kind of fun.
We're like smoking on stage, like, yeah.
How was the sound?
How was the sound there?
It was great.
I don't know.
I wasn't in the audience.
Who knows?
It was fine.
You know, the great thing about those shows is that it's just more about the energy, you know?
Yeah.
Right.
Just the way.
Yeah, just everyone.
What do you guys got invited or you guys put it together?
It was with the Vivids for their record release party.
The Vivids.
Here we go again.
So you guys played with them a few times?
It was super fun.
We had those shows here, those guys here before.
Oh, cool.
Sam and all them?
Really nice guys.
Only Sam.
Only he.
He only wants.
He's the only one to show up, yeah.
But yeah.
Cool.
Great guys.
What do you guys practice out here in LA?
You guys do it from home.
We practice at, it's part of the Sunset Sound.
Yeah.
So we're like right next door to Los Globos, actually.
We got a little lockout.
Solutions.
Solutions.
Right, right, right, right.
It's a good spot.
On Sunset.
Like jail weddings and a la las practice there too.
Cactus pricks.
Cactus pricks.
Yeah.
So if I put a flyer over there, I'll become famous or something maybe?
Pretty sure that'll happen, yeah.
There's a lot of homeless people that live in the alleys that you park on.
Those are the best fans.
Those are my favorite fans.
Seriously, they will be at your show if it's free.
There's a few black widows.
If you say that there's free booze, they'll figure it out, man.
Nice.
All right, so we're going to play some of your music right now.
We're going to come back to you and ask you a few questions.
Okay.
Okay.
And if you want us plugging anything, let me know.
Cool.
Do it here.
All right, so we got that set up.
This is Raw Geronimo.
What's the name of the first song we're going to play?
Role Play.
Role Play.
It's the A side.
Nice.
We have a video for it too.
All right, look it up on Facebook.
YouTube.
YouTube.
It's everywhere.
Raw Geronimo, Role Play.
All over.
Here at Piñata Hour, this is Raw Geronimo.
Hey, you.
You've got such a nice life.
Hey, you.
You've got such a nice life.
I'll sit in my computer while I wait for yours.
Pretend that I am here for whom I am yours.
I love you.
I love you.
I want to be you.
My life, I want your life.
My hands, I want your hands.
My face, I want your face.
My life, give me your life.
It's okay, it's just again.
It's okay, it's just again.
You can pretend to be me, just ROLE PLAY!
It's okay, you don't have a say I can pretend to be you, just roleplay Roleplay Hey, you, you've got such a nice life Hey, you, you've got such a nice life I'll spend all my time scanning pics of you online Making up stories of you like they were mine Oh!
I love you I love you I want to be you My life, I want your life My friends, I want your friends My hair, I wish I had your hair My life, give me your love It's okay, it's just a game It's okay It's just roleplay It's okay, you don't have a say I can pretend to be you, just roleplay Hey, you, you've got such a nice life Roleplay Hey, you, you've got such a nice life Hey, you, you've got such a nice life It's okay, it's just a wrestler It's okay, it's just a roleplay It's okay, it's just a roleplay It's okay, it's just Roleplay Oh yes, we're bringing all our faces to the edge of life Just to see how far we've fallen from the sky But every single sense we've got's been smothered in hot wax So we stand around, shrug our shoulders, turn back on our tracks Take these pills just to relax Everybody's got their secrets, dark ships in the night The deep fog will be gone, the dark clouds will be gone The horn from which we are born teaches us how to fight And then it's on your own and on with the show Come on, let's see what you got Make sure to keep that good, best foot in front Or you've just lost your shot Shut right off You're on the spot Let it all go Pick up the slack Roll to the front Roll to the back Dress it all up And then make a good face Maintain the charade It's part of the race Ooh Oh, you've just lost your shot That's a really nice song here.
What's the name of this song here?
This song's called Shot on the Spot.
We just shot it.
We did a video for it.
It's totally crazily cinematic.
Cinematic and epic.
It looks beautiful.
It's like from the 30s.
It's a weird theatrical play.
It's a nice voice as well.
Thank you.
Really nice voice.
Thanks a lot.
Nice eyes, nice voice.
Oh my goodness.
These are eyes.
You all right, Lee?
You got a pretty mouth.
I'm gonna keep it pretty all night.
All the way to 2 a.m.
I like the way you smell.
I can smell you from across.
Lauren and Shannon needed to be here too.
I can smell you from across.
I can smell you from across.
We're talking like this.
I don't know why.
I can talk like that too.
Hey, have any of you guys seen this documentary called The Wonderful Family of the Whites?
It's about a hillbilly white family that lives in Connecticut.
You know what?
I don't know if you told me.
Somebody told me about that.
Anyway, you can see it on Netflix.
That's a great documentary.
It's really funny.
Really, really, really funny.
I think I see a lot of humor in it.
I think it's a great documentary.
I think it's a great documentary.
I think it's a great documentary.
I think it's a great documentary.
I didn't know there were hillbillies in Connecticut.
I'm from New York.
I mean, that's like a rich state.
I forgot the name of the county.
I think there are hillbillies everywhere.
There are.
They're everywhere.
Riverside.
Maybe I'm getting it wrong.
Somewhere over there.
Desert people.
But anyways.
Anyways.
So great music, guys.
Great music.
Tuscan Raiders.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Great music.
Yeah, that was a fun one.
Did you guys like the other band that was here earlier?
I did.
I did.
I did like that.
I think that they're really talented.
They were cracking me up too.
Yeah, outside.
Yeah.
Cool kids, man.
Charismatic chaps.
Yeah, they were good.
Awesome.
Charismatic chaps.
Little birdies.
Yeah.
So you guys are playing at the smell.
You guys have been playing at the smell a few times before, right?
We have.
Yeah.
We actually shot the role play video.
All the live action.
Well, how long ago did you guys start playing at the smell?
I don't know.
How long ago did you guys start playing at the smell?
With this band or without the other?
I've played, I don't even know how many times I've played at the smell.
I love the smell.
Jim is a friend of mine and I really support what they do and I believe in an awesome all ages club.
You guys going to be on part of the CalXU- Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm really excited about that.
I'm so happy that- It's going to be a great show.
That's going to be what?
March what?
19 or?
That's actually March 16th.
March 16th.
Friday.
You ready?
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
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to play violin with Devin Williams.
Oh, okay.
We played and it was really fun.
It was just like a field.
Mika Miko played back when they were a band and it was just like Thurston Moore played secretly with the Noise Project.
It was really cool.
So, I don't know.
That's fun.
It's exciting.
We're actually now Wild Pack of Canaries just let us hop on a show they've got on Saturday the 17th at the pool party.
Did it just happen right here?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Awesome.
What's the name of the show again?
It's called Pool Party.
It's on St. Patrick's Day though.
We're going swimming.
Hopefully the water will be green.
We're going to have a really fun time.
And on Thursday we've got a show in Denton, Texas with Black Apples which is Andrew's project.
I'm actually playing bass.
He's here.
And Dead Dawn who are awesome too.
We're actually going in a band wagon of bands with the Hear Gallery.
So, it's pretty awesome.
Nice.
So, the songs we just played, who did the work for it?
What did you guys record at?
We recorded them at the Hobby Shop with Mud Rock aka Andrew Murdoch.
He's got an awesome studio in Highland Park.
Is it analog, digital?
He does digital, but he's got a really good concept of making music.
And things sound amazing.
He's got a real knack for it and knows how to mic things really well.
If people want to see you before you go to South West, where can they see you before?
Are you guys playing anything?
We are playing on Friday.
In 48 hours.
At the Smell.
This Friday.
It's going to be a really fun show.
Black Apples are playing too.
Yeah, Black Apples are playing and Dead Dawn and New Life which is my friend Scott's new project which I'm really excited about.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be a fun show.
Yeah, and it's for a good cause.
We're trying to raise some gas money to get out to South by Southwest.
Oh, it's a good cause.
It's a great cause.
There she goes again.
She looks away.
Laser eyes.
Nice.
Well, that's good.
Yeah, yeah.
That's going to be a fun one.
But I mean, it's still only $7 so it's not like we're...
We're not trying to swindle anyone.
Yeah, if 10 people give us money we'll get maybe one tank of gas.
That's like two 24-packs.
Maybe.
One tank of gas.
That's expensive right now.
Gas money to Mike means beer.
That's my guess.
That's my fuel.
You're having a show at the Smell this Friday?
Yeah.
Nice.
Okay.
Day after tomorrow.
All right.
I'm down.
We're finishing off the night but all the bands are awesome so I'll be there hanging out the whole time.
Also for those who are not going or planning to go...
It's all ages.
If you want to do something on March there's also the Boogie...
by the River Festival.
It's going to be happening on Saturday, March the 10th.
There's going to be a lot of bands.
Astellan, Underground, Sketch Monster, LA After Hours, Raheem Cohen, maybe?
Animal Games.
A bunch of bands.
Where's this at?
It's going to be here but...
Wait a minute.
I can't...
At a space camp.
It's over...
What was that?
Space camp.
Space camp.
Man.
1726 North Spring Street.
It's in Florida.
Space camp.
Space camp.
Space.
Formerly known as Catnap.
There we go.
Okay.
You guys been there before maybe?
No, but this sounds very intriguing.
Oh, yeah.
And Catnap.
A family of FMLY.
Uh-huh.
They threw a show there.
Hey, Lee.
You can tell people to go to skidrowstudios.com and check on their events.
Oh, there we go.
All the details.
From Boogie by the River.
Yeah, we have a banner for that.
It says the voice of God.
There's going to be a lot of good bands.
Ventures, live artists.
And also we're going to...
Oh, next week here, Piñata, we're going to have Rody Redation from The Specials.
Whoa.
Cool.
Yeah, we're going to have a pretty cool dude coming down all the way from UK.
He's going to play a few shows here in LA as well.
That's exciting.
I'm going to be posting that.
Where?
I think they're playing one at The Mint.
The Mint?
No, no.
Oh.
Yeah.
It's coming up, right?
Yeah, it's coming up.
Yeah.
He's touring right now.
He has a website.
Yeah.
You can go to Rody Redation.com.
And that's Scott Willis.
Scott Willis.
They're going to play here.
I've been playing a lot of sketch shows.
I mean, specials.
Videos lately.
Yeah.
They're pretty cool.
Oh, that's my favorite thing is shows, man.
I love shows.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, who's this?
Is this Turtle?
No.
This isn't Turtle.
Oh.
Who's this?
Who is this?
I'm just playing, man.
I know.
I know.
It's me.
What's up, man?
I just wanted to call in and say I'm listening and I'm looking forward to the event tonight and enjoying life, you know?
Yeah, man.
Got a couple of piñatas lighting up tonight.
Oh, man.
You know I love piñatas.
We're all like, where are those?
I want to hit a piñata right now.
Yes.
Oh, man.
I should have brought...
I was going to bring one.
I would beat the shit out of a piñata right now.
I got about six of them.
Turtle.
So what's going on, Turtle?
What's going on?
What do you got for us?
Oh, man.
I just have, you know, the best vibes I can send out.
Just, you know, enjoy life every minute you can.
You know, don't take any minute for granted, you know?
It's just...
Yeah.
It's just...
It's just a whirlwind, you know?
Don't forget your shell tonight, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm bringing my safety shell tonight.
Please.
Please.
I'm going to be...
I'm going to be...
That was good.
All right.
But, yeah, I'm just enjoying the show, Lee, and I wish I could be there and, you know, big up to Frank, big up to Big Chain, and all the events going on.
Nice.
Thanks, dude.
Thanks for the good vibes, man.
All right, man.
You guys have a good night, and I'll see you later.
All right.
Thank you for everything.
Yeah, very soon.
Very soon.
Okay.
All right.
Crazy.
Tortuga.
That was Tortuga.
This dude has a warehouse, too.
Oh, cool.
A warehouse where they do what?
He just break dances all day long.
It's a huge warehouse.
They train ninjas.
We had a piñata party, and we did food, no bombs.
We were raising money for that, yeah.
Cool.
You guys have had shows there?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, me and this guy, well, he has a few warehouses before, back in the days, and he always been putting warehouse shows.
Nice.
I used to do that food, no bombs.
Skid Row Festival.
I used to do that in college.
We used to do that a lot.
Yeah.
Good times.
Yeah, digging people.
Hey, I want to thank you guys for coming down to the show.
It was really cool.
Great music, by the way.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We're just happy that other people like it.
Yeah.
It makes us really happy.
You guys play good music.
Good vibes here.
This is awesome.
I like your art.
Good choice.
Yeah.
The art in here is incredible.
Yeah, that was all the art chosen here by Big Chen, a.k.a.
Jeremy Hansen, right there.
You win, Jeremy.
He's wearing a tuxedo right now.
You painted this stuff?
You look very handsome.
Well, no.
No, we hired an artist.
But you told them what to paint?
Well, I guess he probably gave them the ideas, like, hey, you know what?
Something like this, something like that.
Skid Row, actually.
I feel LA.
Some Skid Row in there.
Some Skid Row.
Well, yeah, that's the thing.
Krabby Joe's.
The concept is amazing.
I like that one a lot.
Some red and black.
Right.
Did you guys see the picture?
Of Wachowski?
It's over on that side, right?
Yeah.
He's smoking.
I didn't know that was supposed to be Wachowski.
Dirty man.
I don't know if you guys like Wachowski.
I love him.
I'm a fan.
I'm a, yeah.
Dirty guy.
Dirty old man.
Alcoholic.
Crazy man.
Crazy alcoholic.
That's right.
Booze.
Going to the racetrack.
That's where I go.
If he was alive, he should have a podcast.
He's like, he's my hero.
Paced my life on him.
I have a problem.
Well, I guess.
I guess it's a guy who puts it down on the paper, like, simple like it is.
Yeah.
To the point.
No bullshit here.
That's how it is.
I appreciate that about him, definitely.
Keep it real.
He's not going to, like, go around the bushes and be like, hey.
Nah.
Nah.
Right.
He was a dick.
Straight up.
Yeah, but you know what?
The Santa guy over there in front of, like, the factory painting, and he's got, like, the rock and roll fingers in the air.
Rock and roll hobo Santa?
Amazing.
I like how we're talking about visual art.
Audio format.
That's right.
Imagination.
So, you can't see this.
Imagination.
Nor were you probably ever.
I was trying to describe it.
But you can't describe the sunset.
You can try.
You can't describe the sunset?
I do with my guitar.
I'm like, yellow and orange.
There's a color.
Let's try.
Let's hear it.
Half of it orange.
They blend together.
From a distance.
I don't know.
Jordan LaFord.
Good.
That's right.
Go on.
Turn your headphones around so they're covering your eyes like a little visor.
No, then they'll turn off.
Hey, if anybody out there knows how to describe a sunset, call us here at 1-800-893-9562.
We can take your calls.
Yeah.
Or if you want to get inside tonight for free, all those gloves, go ahead and give us a call.
Or if not, just show up there before 10 and you go inside for free.
There you go.
I said it.
I said it.
Nice.
Yeah.
There's no password.
You don't need a password.
Oh, yeah.
The password is going to be Roger Alamos in the house.
That's the password.
That's too long, man.
That is a lot of passwords.
Okay.
How about RG then?
RG.
All right.
RG sunset.
How about S-X-S-W?
Yeah.
Hey.
Anything you type, it will work.
Just yell freedom really loud.
You'll get right in.
Make it so.
Freedom.
What is your guys' favorite band out there right now?
Oh, gosh.
What do you have on your iPod right now?
It's like maybe- I don't have an iPod.
Oh, whatever you have on your SoundCloud or favorite.
I don't know.
Let's go first.
I got the Monkees, dude.
I'll give you 20 seconds.
The Monkees?
Yeah.
They're all right.
I think the Kinks are better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys like the Wipers?
Yes.
I do like the Wipers.
New Zealand?
I've been listening to a lot of African music.
That's right.
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
You like African music?
It's a good drummer.
Yeah.
Punky reggae on Fridays.
Yeah.
La Cita.
La Cita.
Punky reggae party.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
La Cita.
La Cita.
La Cita.
Fede Coutet.
It's like right down here.
Fede.
Yeah.
We threw a few shows there.
That's where we saw Guincho, right?
No.
Right.
Guincho was there, yeah.
He was on the Jada CD record a lot.
I have been.
Brass Tax.
Our friend Jada just released a record.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
I've been loving it.
So does the Agrolytes have something to do with that?
No, right?
The Agrolytes with Jada or?
There we go.
That was some punk reggae right there.
Do it.
Oh, yeah.
I've been listening to a lot of Chris Isaac recently.
Mostly.
Mostly.
Just that one song.
Okay.
So what?
Can you guys give me one?
Maybe one name or?
Fede Coutet.
Fede Coutet.
F-E-L-A.
Can I have that one?
You can definitely go for it, man.
How about Zombie?
You guys like that song?
Zombie.
Yes.
How about No Gay Enemy?
Oh, also a good one.
Okay.
Which one then?
Zombies are fun to play with.
Let's see if we can get this.
Have you ever seen the documentary about Fede Coutet?
I saw a little bit on Netflix.
Yeah.
Changed my life.
We all went and saw Sweetin' Coutet, his son, downtown.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Changed my life.
At the California Center.
At the Cali Center.
We were all outside.
I mean, so many people and they all was telling me about Fede Coutet.
Gotta listen to it, man.
I was like, his son Sweetin' is carrying on the torch, man.
That's right.
That's awesome.
I'm about to say it.
Sweetin' Sean.
In such a different way, though.
Isn't it soon?
All right.
We're gonna go out with this show.
We're gonna go out big time with, we're gonna play some Fede Coutet.
How about that?
Thank you.
I want to thank you guys for coming down to Pinyata Hour.
You guys are welcome.
Anytime.
Thank you.
This place is awesome.
Thank you.
And as soon as, as soon as you guys something release, something, you know, just let me know.
I can play here.
Totally.
Nice.
I mean, we have that, we have two seven inches out already.
And, What can they get?
You just go to a website, your website?
Well, we're, we're on Neurotic Yell Records.
I'm stuttering.
Neurotic Yell.
Neurotic Yell.
Neurotic Yell Records.
Neurotic Yell.
Really good bands on there.
Yeah.
It's an amazing new label that just started last year.
So it's kind of just now starting to pick up speed, but it's just awesome.
Nicole Turley is awesome.
And if you go on Bandcamp, like Neurotic Yell Records, Bandcamp or whatever, there's links to where you can get the music.
But we have a record that's going to come out in September.
So, we're busy.
We're busy.
We got to clock in.
All right, guys.
I want to thank you one more time for coming down to the Piña Tower.
This is Tskero Studios.
And we're going to play some Fela Kuti.
We're going to say goodnight to all of you guys.
And we're going to head out to the Los Globos tonight.
We're going to play this party tonight.
We're going to broadcast that live tonight.
So, if you guys are listening to the show, yeah.
Also, I'll be at the Down and Out Saturday.
Oh, yeah.
Frank LePauw, live.
Live.
Down and Out, right here.
15th in the spring.
15th in the spring.
With who?
No, that's...
Okay.
I'll be there.
All right.
So, this is Fela Kuti.
And I want to thank everybody for listening to the Piña Tower here at Tskero Studios.com.
Goodbye, guys.
Bye, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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