October 14, 2024 • 15 mins
Do you think the 80's had the best music? If so, this band might be one of your new favorites.
Emery talks with The Midnight's lead singer Tyler Lyle ahead of their show at the Steelhouse this Wednesday, October 16th.
Emery talks with The Midnight's lead singer Tyler Lyle ahead of their show at the Steelhouse this Wednesday, October 16th.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back here on eleven ten kfab. My name is Emery Songer.
One of the things that we do on this show
is we talk a lot about music. One of the
things that is kind of a reoccurring theme is my
love for kind of vintage music, a lot of classic rock,
classic hits. But I've also intertwined in our show some
sounds from a band called The Midnight, which is a
(00:22):
new band, a band that is currently going right now
that has a perfectly vintage sound. And we are honored
to be joined by the lead singer and a guy
who makes a lot of that music from the Midnight.
He's the lead singer of the band. His name is
Tyler Lyle, and he's joining us on the phone line. Tyler,
it's an honor man, thanks for being on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Honored to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, So we play a few different things on the show.
Kind We have some bumpers that have some Midnight sounds
to them. We have an open that has River of Darkness,
which is one of my favorite songs that you have
a little snippet of that in there. I'm just in
love with your guys. A sound I didn't know this
(01:02):
genre of like eighty sounding synth wave. Retro wave was
a thing until I kind of ran into a song
called Days of Thunder, which landed in one of my playlists.
That's one of my favorites from you guys. So how
does one get into a sound like this and what
(01:22):
was the inspiration for you guys to start making music?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, the primary band is a guy named Tim McEwan
who is the producer and myself and we met in
North Hollywood, gosh, about a decade ago, and we just
really liked working with each other. We were both trying
to make it in the industry, him as a producer
in Hollywood and me as a songwriter, and The Midnight
(01:49):
became just kind of this playground for us to experiment
with things that we thought somebody else would hear. This
was kind of our guilty pleasure project. We brought in
saxophones pretty early on. We had, you know, meandering seven
minute long songs. We have a a song called Vampires
and we don't actually mention vampires and instead of a chorus,
(02:11):
we have saxophones. So it really this was just our
kind of guilty pleasure project to kind of do for
fun on the side, and we just love the feelings
that are evoked when you hear a you know, a
d X seven synthesizer or a gated snare or a
lin drum sample or these these in the tapestry of
(02:33):
what I would have heard as a kid in Kmart,
you know, without realizing it back in the nineteen eighties.
These sounds have names, and they've been buried for a
long time, and we thought it would just be really
fun to resurrect them. So that's what we've been doing
for the past almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The I mentioned Days of Thunder that there is some
incredible influences, and I listen to a lot of eighties
music already, so I am able to kind of pick
up on some of the stuff that you guys have
intertwined into the music. What were some of those artists
(03:12):
that kind of stayed with you as you decided you
wanted to start making music and that truly inspired your
guys A sound?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sure, yeah, dass, Thunder definitely has kind of a Don
Henley Boys of Summer vibe to it. You know, it's
it's not we're not making eighties music, you know, we're
using some of the tools that are available today a
little bit higher fidelity sounds, and we're just writing classic, classic,
what we think are classic kind of pop songs that
(03:42):
that you know, our decade loss. But no, we're listening
to you know, Genesis and depeche Mode and Bruce Springsteen
and gosh, Paul Simon run the gamut. Nostalgia is a
pretty pretty vast palette, and you know, the good artists
(04:04):
borrow great artists steel we're just trying to steal from
the best and the ones they kind of light our fire.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Speaking with Tyler Lyle, he's from a band called The Midnight.
They're actually playing in Omaha this week and on Wednesday
at the Steelhouse Omaha. And I mentioned kind of a
couple of my gateway songs to you guys, but I'm
sure as you're creating, like like you mentioned right, like
it's an inspiration of nostalgia, but it really is. You
(04:30):
guys kind of have to find this this genre in
a way, especially because of the vocals. There's a lot
of you know, I have a lot of great playlists
that have great synth wave artists that I'm sure you
guys have been in contact with, but so many of
them is very much just very vibey, but there's not
a lot of lyrics. There's not a lot of you know,
(04:52):
vocals in general in their music, and that's such a
key piece to what you guys do, the storytelling and
the way that you deliver the lyrics. Where do you
find that inspiration because it really feels also timeless but
also incredibly relatable a lot of the lyrics in your
guys's songs.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's very nice of me to say, thank you. My
dad is a songwriter. I grew up in West Georgia
to a dad who was trying to make it as
a as a Nashville songwriter. At the time, he was
a teacher for a songwriting organization called n s AI,
And I just kind of grew up under this umbrella
that the song was the most important thing, you know,
(05:31):
everything else came second. And I'm very grateful to have
a partner in this band, Tim, who thinks that the
production is the most important thing. So somewhere in the
middle we meet and make a make a fun project.
But now I've been a songwriter for a long time.
I kind of started in the in the singer songwriter
world with an acoustic guitar in coffee shops across the country.
(05:53):
So you know what what last I think is a
good story, and yeah, good songwriting is what I value most.
I appreciate that you're picking up on it. You know,
still have a lot of work to do in a
lot of great songs to write. But yeah, I think
it was my growing up in the South, just just
(06:15):
kind of knowing how important the Nashville songwriter sort of
archetype was as a child.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's a great point too, because so many people tie
great musical storytelling to kind of that Nashville or that
you know, older country sound, and a lot of timeless
music came out of that as well. I think the
other thing when we talk about, you know, kind of
your guys project is the live performance, which I'll be honest,
(06:44):
when I first heard the Midnight and I heard some
you know, kind of use that as a gateway into
some of the other great synth wave artists. I'm not
thinking to myself, I'm a musician too. I play the drums,
so I'm incredibly attached to drumming. I find myself very
into the sounds that drums make or the percussion of
(07:04):
different instruments. But I'm just like, I'm not sure a
band like this would sound very good live. And then
you dropped an album called Red, White, and Bruised, which
was a live album of you guys playing some of
your biggest songs, and I was incredibly blown away by
what it sounded like. There were real drums along with
the drums sounds, there were real guitars that I was hearing,
(07:26):
and then the saxophone, which speaks for itself, and then
your live vocals. So what about the live part of
your guys's you know project here? Have you prioritized because
you guys really are it sounds like I haven't seen
you live yet. I'm excited to do so. But is
there a was there something that it was important to
(07:47):
you to make this a real experience for people to
see live instead of, you know, maybe what people might
think of kind of more electronic music.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah. Absolutely. The fun thing about the sound of the
eighties was that this was new technology at the time,
and now forty years later, we have the benefit of
digital audio workstations and high sample rate digital instruments. We're
able to kind of take what was the seed of
(08:17):
a vision that wasn't technologically possible, you know, forty years ago,
and put it in today's world, so we want all
the simp We usually have nine synthesizers on stage. We
were a five piece band. We have saxophone. Our saxophonist,
(08:38):
Justin Klunk, is a virtuo so he's in the kind
of a smooth jazz world. Our drummer he plays the
massive drum kit, but he's using a hybrid setup with
samples as well. He kind of comes from the gospel
hip hop world and it's just an absolute killer. Our
guitarist is a metal head and at it from from
(09:01):
that angle, so it really kind of feels like a
supergroup live. It's a it's a really virtuosic hour and
a half of music. And and to to translate the
synth wave thing live is really difficult. We had a
lot of trial and error trying to get all of
those sounds, uh, rather than just being you know, played
(09:22):
on the track where you press play and you're just
playing the record, to try and translate all of those
sounds live, and and we we almost get there. We
still have a couple of you know, synth pads that
we we don't have enough hands for it. But yeah,
it's been incredibly fun trying to figure out how to
translate that into the most kind of authentic version that
(09:44):
feels like like a rock band. That's that's that's how
we want to perform, That's how we want the audience
to feel it. Otherwise it's just a just a DJ,
you know, pressing a button right.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, And that was kind of what I thought was
going to happen, Like, for yeah, let's go to the
EDM concert where there's a DJ up there and everybody's
you know, kind of raven, which is still fun in
its own way. But as a musician myself, when I
heard that album, I was like, Okay, this is not
that this is a completely different experience. We're speaking with
Tyler Lyle. He is one of the chief songwriters and
also the lead singer for The Midnight. They're coming to
(10:19):
Omaha playing at the Steelhouse this coming Wednesday. So I
mentioned a couple of the songs that I just love,
the River of Darkness being one, but Days of Thunder
was my first introduction to you guys as a band,
and I've been following along the last three or four
years since I knew of your guys' existence. Do you
have favorite songs? I know it's kind of like asking
(10:39):
somebody about their favorite kids, But are there songs that like,
once you completed them, you heard them back with the
completed production, you were just like, oh man, that is
one of the best things that I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's so funny. There was a song called Comeback Kid
that we finished incredibly quickly. It was kind of a
last minute addition to the album Endless Summer in twenty sixteen,
and it was a song that I really had no
connection to. It's about loss, it's about you know, getting
getting back up when you've been down, and it was
written I had. I had no emotional connection to that
(11:14):
song at all. And then then I had a kid
and COVID happened, and my wife had a whole cancer
battle that she's thankfully over. But all of the little
lines of that song just kind of come back like
a time machine doing no. This is actually what it's
been about. So I just appreciate how, you know, I
can take credit for having written those words, but there's
(11:36):
still something magical about music that is just much bigger
than any one person. We love that song, We love Shadows,
We love a song called Los Angeles, which is how
we end our set. Just just a moment to kind
of put everybody's hands in the air and just look
around the room and remind yourself that this is a
(11:57):
once in a lifetime moment that will never be repeat
with this group of people in this place again, and
to try and to try and capture that pure, essential,
distilled magic of what live music is, to try and
be aware of that that's that's yeah, that's that's where
we like to go when we play live. So yeah,
(12:18):
those are some special songs that we have.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well that is incredible, and you know, I feel like
the interpretation is different for every person. You know, you
you make a song and you know, my name is
not Jason, but you have a song called Jason, and
I listen to that song, and first of all, it's
just it's a song that's so good in terms of
its musicality that it almost physically hurts me listening to it.
(12:41):
I just like, this is such a classic song. But
the whole the message of that song is is to me,
I interpret it's just like, Okay, that's my life, and
you're right, yeah, it's like, I'm never going to be
happy unless I kind of adjust the way that I
look at the world. Is that something that for you,
You know, you lean on your own personal Like you
mentioned the Comeback Kid, It's almost like you foretold the
(13:03):
future of what you were going to deal with when
you were writing those lyrics. But how much of your
life or you and Tim's life do you kind of
draw on for that inspiration or do you kind of
go to the Phil Collins school of kind of like
I can tell a story from any angle, I just
kind of need to have that inspiration even inside my
head or in a movie or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I was always a kid who liked big, thick, deep books,
and in my early twenties second into depth psychology like
the Carl Jung talks about archetypes, so the archetypes of
the Mother of the Child of the Lovers. My position
is that you can tell a story from any angle,
(13:47):
and if you tell it correctly, it's got that human
element in it. And I spent ten years as a
confessional singer songwriter getting my feelings out on stage, telling
very you know, singing personal songs about my life and
loss and all of that, and it never felt quite
as good as being able to write in this kind
of archetypal sandbox where you know that the fem Fatale
(14:11):
is a you know, crystalline or Jason's kind of your
your desperado life in the fast lane. You know, these
are stories that have been told throughout time. You know
what is Jason chasing? You know? So I think it's
much better to tell these universal stories because I connect
my own life with these stories, and other people out
in the audience are connecting their lives. It's almost like
(14:33):
a symbol or myth. I think that's the most fertile
ground to kind of write to, rather than this confessional
song writing where I feel like it needs to be
about me or I'm just imagining some syrupy pop song.
I think the symbolic and the mythic is a much
better place to build the imagination.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, it is powerful, especially when presented in a way
where it feels like, you know, your guys. Music is
kind of just a mood in general. You know, people
put it on and they just kind of experience the
entire sound. So I want to wrap up with the
live performance coming to Omaha, coming to Steelhouse. Have you
been to Omaha before?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Absolutely? Yeah, I've played Omaha individually, and we've played once
as the Midnight before. Come on but we're excited to
come back some great, great steakhouses, good breakfast spots. I
love being in Omaha.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, So for those who are listening, you know, you're
playing with a band named Chromeo, which again I you
know it was you guys through you guys that are
kind of like, oh, I better check.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This band out very funky and they've been at it
for a long time. They kind of pioneers in that sound.
What can you tell people to experience between the Midnight
and Chromeo on the Steelhouse stage, This is the.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Most fun show. If you haven't heard of Promeo and
you've heard of us, Promo is the cherry on top.
They are the dance party. We're gonna play first. We
have kind of a moody rock show vibe and promo
is just pure undistilled fun and it's a it's the
(16:05):
total masters at the party. These guys were making music
in kind of the mid auts when I was turning
twenty one and getting into bars, and this is the
time of like Justice and daft punk and Mia and
and Chromia was in that in that fold. So I've
been a huge fan of their music for decades and
am just over the moon when I get to peep
(16:27):
my head up and get to watch them perform night
after night. So it's gonna be an amazing show. It's
a good, good co headline build.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. And I will
be there because I was not going to miss sing
the Midnight when they come through Omaha, they'll be at
the Steel House, Amaha, incredible venue. Just celebrated a birthday
earlier this year. It is just a year old, so
it's going to be an awesome time. We're very excited
to see you guys there. Tyler Lyle he is the
lead singer and one of the songwriters for The Midnight. Tyler,
(16:54):
this is truly a real treat for me to get
a chance to chat with you about this. Your your guys,
music has been very very important to me over the
last few years, and I really appreciate you giving us
some time ahead of your show on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Thank you guys so much. Thanks for everything that you
do keeping live music alive. It's one of it's one
of those rare things that can go away. So I
appreciate everything that you guys are doing on your end.
And to shake your hand
Back here on eleven ten kfab. My name is Emery Songer.
One of the things that we do on this show
is we talk a lot about music. One of the
things that is kind of a reoccurring theme is my
love for kind of vintage music, a lot of classic rock,
classic hits. But I've also intertwined in our show some
sounds from a band called The Midnight, which is a
(00:22):
new band, a band that is currently going right now
that has a perfectly vintage sound. And we are honored
to be joined by the lead singer and a guy
who makes a lot of that music from the Midnight.
He's the lead singer of the band. His name is
Tyler Lyle, and he's joining us on the phone line. Tyler,
it's an honor man, thanks for being on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Honored to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, So we play a few different things on the show.
Kind We have some bumpers that have some Midnight sounds
to them. We have an open that has River of Darkness,
which is one of my favorite songs that you have
a little snippet of that in there. I'm just in
love with your guys. A sound I didn't know this
(01:02):
genre of like eighty sounding synth wave. Retro wave was
a thing until I kind of ran into a song
called Days of Thunder, which landed in one of my playlists.
That's one of my favorites from you guys. So how
does one get into a sound like this and what
(01:22):
was the inspiration for you guys to start making music?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, the primary band is a guy named Tim McEwan
who is the producer and myself and we met in
North Hollywood, gosh, about a decade ago, and we just
really liked working with each other. We were both trying
to make it in the industry, him as a producer
in Hollywood and me as a songwriter, and The Midnight
(01:49):
became just kind of this playground for us to experiment
with things that we thought somebody else would hear. This
was kind of our guilty pleasure project. We brought in
saxophones pretty early on. We had, you know, meandering seven
minute long songs. We have a a song called Vampires
and we don't actually mention vampires and instead of a chorus,
(02:11):
we have saxophones. So it really this was just our
kind of guilty pleasure project to kind of do for
fun on the side, and we just love the feelings
that are evoked when you hear a you know, a
d X seven synthesizer or a gated snare or a
lin drum sample or these these in the tapestry of
(02:33):
what I would have heard as a kid in Kmart,
you know, without realizing it back in the nineteen eighties.
These sounds have names, and they've been buried for a
long time, and we thought it would just be really
fun to resurrect them. So that's what we've been doing
for the past almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The I mentioned Days of Thunder that there is some
incredible influences, and I listen to a lot of eighties
music already, so I am able to kind of pick
up on some of the stuff that you guys have
intertwined into the music. What were some of those artists
(03:12):
that kind of stayed with you as you decided you
wanted to start making music and that truly inspired your
guys A sound?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sure, yeah, dass, Thunder definitely has kind of a Don
Henley Boys of Summer vibe to it. You know, it's
it's not we're not making eighties music, you know, we're
using some of the tools that are available today a
little bit higher fidelity sounds, and we're just writing classic, classic,
what we think are classic kind of pop songs that
(03:42):
that you know, our decade loss. But no, we're listening
to you know, Genesis and depeche Mode and Bruce Springsteen
and gosh, Paul Simon run the gamut. Nostalgia is a
pretty pretty vast palette, and you know, the good artists
(04:04):
borrow great artists steel we're just trying to steal from
the best and the ones they kind of light our fire.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Speaking with Tyler Lyle, he's from a band called The Midnight.
They're actually playing in Omaha this week and on Wednesday
at the Steelhouse Omaha. And I mentioned kind of a
couple of my gateway songs to you guys, but I'm
sure as you're creating, like like you mentioned right, like
it's an inspiration of nostalgia, but it really is. You
(04:30):
guys kind of have to find this this genre in
a way, especially because of the vocals. There's a lot
of you know, I have a lot of great playlists
that have great synth wave artists that I'm sure you
guys have been in contact with, but so many of
them is very much just very vibey, but there's not
a lot of lyrics. There's not a lot of you know,
(04:52):
vocals in general in their music, and that's such a
key piece to what you guys do, the storytelling and
the way that you deliver the lyrics. Where do you
find that inspiration because it really feels also timeless but
also incredibly relatable a lot of the lyrics in your
guys's songs.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's very nice of me to say, thank you. My
dad is a songwriter. I grew up in West Georgia
to a dad who was trying to make it as
a as a Nashville songwriter. At the time, he was
a teacher for a songwriting organization called n s AI,
And I just kind of grew up under this umbrella
that the song was the most important thing, you know,
(05:31):
everything else came second. And I'm very grateful to have
a partner in this band, Tim, who thinks that the
production is the most important thing. So somewhere in the
middle we meet and make a make a fun project.
But now I've been a songwriter for a long time.
I kind of started in the in the singer songwriter
world with an acoustic guitar in coffee shops across the country.
(05:53):
So you know what what last I think is a
good story, and yeah, good songwriting is what I value most.
I appreciate that you're picking up on it. You know,
still have a lot of work to do in a
lot of great songs to write. But yeah, I think
it was my growing up in the South, just just
(06:15):
kind of knowing how important the Nashville songwriter sort of
archetype was as a child.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's a great point too, because so many people tie
great musical storytelling to kind of that Nashville or that
you know, older country sound, and a lot of timeless
music came out of that as well. I think the
other thing when we talk about, you know, kind of
your guys project is the live performance, which I'll be honest,
(06:44):
when I first heard the Midnight and I heard some
you know, kind of use that as a gateway into
some of the other great synth wave artists. I'm not
thinking to myself, I'm a musician too. I play the drums,
so I'm incredibly attached to drumming. I find myself very
into the sounds that drums make or the percussion of
(07:04):
different instruments. But I'm just like, I'm not sure a
band like this would sound very good live. And then
you dropped an album called Red, White, and Bruised, which
was a live album of you guys playing some of
your biggest songs, and I was incredibly blown away by
what it sounded like. There were real drums along with
the drums sounds, there were real guitars that I was hearing,
(07:26):
and then the saxophone, which speaks for itself, and then
your live vocals. So what about the live part of
your guys's you know project here? Have you prioritized because
you guys really are it sounds like I haven't seen
you live yet. I'm excited to do so. But is
there a was there something that it was important to
(07:47):
you to make this a real experience for people to
see live instead of, you know, maybe what people might
think of kind of more electronic music.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah. Absolutely. The fun thing about the sound of the
eighties was that this was new technology at the time,
and now forty years later, we have the benefit of
digital audio workstations and high sample rate digital instruments. We're
able to kind of take what was the seed of
(08:17):
a vision that wasn't technologically possible, you know, forty years ago,
and put it in today's world, so we want all
the simp We usually have nine synthesizers on stage. We
were a five piece band. We have saxophone. Our saxophonist,
(08:38):
Justin Klunk, is a virtuo so he's in the kind
of a smooth jazz world. Our drummer he plays the
massive drum kit, but he's using a hybrid setup with
samples as well. He kind of comes from the gospel
hip hop world and it's just an absolute killer. Our
guitarist is a metal head and at it from from
(09:01):
that angle, so it really kind of feels like a
supergroup live. It's a it's a really virtuosic hour and
a half of music. And and to to translate the
synth wave thing live is really difficult. We had a
lot of trial and error trying to get all of
those sounds, uh, rather than just being you know, played
(09:22):
on the track where you press play and you're just
playing the record, to try and translate all of those
sounds live, and and we we almost get there. We
still have a couple of you know, synth pads that
we we don't have enough hands for it. But yeah,
it's been incredibly fun trying to figure out how to
translate that into the most kind of authentic version that
(09:44):
feels like like a rock band. That's that's that's how
we want to perform, That's how we want the audience
to feel it. Otherwise it's just a just a DJ,
you know, pressing a button right.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, And that was kind of what I thought was
going to happen, Like, for yeah, let's go to the
EDM concert where there's a DJ up there and everybody's
you know, kind of raven, which is still fun in
its own way. But as a musician myself, when I
heard that album, I was like, Okay, this is not
that this is a completely different experience. We're speaking with
Tyler Lyle. He is one of the chief songwriters and
also the lead singer for The Midnight. They're coming to
(10:19):
Omaha playing at the Steelhouse this coming Wednesday. So I
mentioned a couple of the songs that I just love,
the River of Darkness being one, but Days of Thunder
was my first introduction to you guys as a band,
and I've been following along the last three or four
years since I knew of your guys' existence. Do you
have favorite songs? I know it's kind of like asking
(10:39):
somebody about their favorite kids, But are there songs that like,
once you completed them, you heard them back with the
completed production, you were just like, oh man, that is
one of the best things that I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's so funny. There was a song called Comeback Kid
that we finished incredibly quickly. It was kind of a
last minute addition to the album Endless Summer in twenty sixteen,
and it was a song that I really had no
connection to. It's about loss, it's about you know, getting
getting back up when you've been down, and it was
written I had. I had no emotional connection to that
(11:14):
song at all. And then then I had a kid
and COVID happened, and my wife had a whole cancer
battle that she's thankfully over. But all of the little
lines of that song just kind of come back like
a time machine doing no. This is actually what it's
been about. So I just appreciate how, you know, I
can take credit for having written those words, but there's
(11:36):
still something magical about music that is just much bigger
than any one person. We love that song, We love Shadows,
We love a song called Los Angeles, which is how
we end our set. Just just a moment to kind
of put everybody's hands in the air and just look
around the room and remind yourself that this is a
(11:57):
once in a lifetime moment that will never be repeat
with this group of people in this place again, and
to try and to try and capture that pure, essential,
distilled magic of what live music is, to try and
be aware of that that's that's yeah, that's that's where
we like to go when we play live. So yeah,
(12:18):
those are some special songs that we have.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well that is incredible, and you know, I feel like
the interpretation is different for every person. You know, you
you make a song and you know, my name is
not Jason, but you have a song called Jason, and
I listen to that song, and first of all, it's
just it's a song that's so good in terms of
its musicality that it almost physically hurts me listening to it.
(12:41):
I just like, this is such a classic song. But
the whole the message of that song is is to me,
I interpret it's just like, Okay, that's my life, and
you're right, yeah, it's like, I'm never going to be
happy unless I kind of adjust the way that I
look at the world. Is that something that for you,
You know, you lean on your own personal Like you
mentioned the Comeback Kid, It's almost like you foretold the
(13:03):
future of what you were going to deal with when
you were writing those lyrics. But how much of your
life or you and Tim's life do you kind of
draw on for that inspiration or do you kind of
go to the Phil Collins school of kind of like
I can tell a story from any angle, I just
kind of need to have that inspiration even inside my
head or in a movie or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I was always a kid who liked big, thick, deep books,
and in my early twenties second into depth psychology like
the Carl Jung talks about archetypes, so the archetypes of
the Mother of the Child of the Lovers. My position
is that you can tell a story from any angle,
(13:47):
and if you tell it correctly, it's got that human
element in it. And I spent ten years as a
confessional singer songwriter getting my feelings out on stage, telling
very you know, singing personal songs about my life and
loss and all of that, and it never felt quite
as good as being able to write in this kind
of archetypal sandbox where you know that the fem Fatale
(14:11):
is a you know, crystalline or Jason's kind of your
your desperado life in the fast lane. You know, these
are stories that have been told throughout time. You know
what is Jason chasing? You know? So I think it's
much better to tell these universal stories because I connect
my own life with these stories, and other people out
in the audience are connecting their lives. It's almost like
(14:33):
a symbol or myth. I think that's the most fertile
ground to kind of write to, rather than this confessional
song writing where I feel like it needs to be
about me or I'm just imagining some syrupy pop song.
I think the symbolic and the mythic is a much
better place to build the imagination.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, it is powerful, especially when presented in a way
where it feels like, you know, your guys. Music is
kind of just a mood in general. You know, people
put it on and they just kind of experience the
entire sound. So I want to wrap up with the
live performance coming to Omaha, coming to Steelhouse. Have you
been to Omaha before?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Absolutely? Yeah, I've played Omaha individually, and we've played once
as the Midnight before. Come on but we're excited to
come back some great, great steakhouses, good breakfast spots. I
love being in Omaha.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, So for those who are listening, you know, you're
playing with a band named Chromeo, which again I you
know it was you guys through you guys that are
kind of like, oh, I better check.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This band out very funky and they've been at it
for a long time. They kind of pioneers in that sound.
What can you tell people to experience between the Midnight
and Chromeo on the Steelhouse stage, This is the.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Most fun show. If you haven't heard of Promeo and
you've heard of us, Promo is the cherry on top.
They are the dance party. We're gonna play first. We
have kind of a moody rock show vibe and promo
is just pure undistilled fun and it's a it's the
(16:05):
total masters at the party. These guys were making music
in kind of the mid auts when I was turning
twenty one and getting into bars, and this is the
time of like Justice and daft punk and Mia and
and Chromia was in that in that fold. So I've
been a huge fan of their music for decades and
am just over the moon when I get to peep
(16:27):
my head up and get to watch them perform night
after night. So it's gonna be an amazing show. It's
a good, good co headline build.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. And I will
be there because I was not going to miss sing
the Midnight when they come through Omaha, they'll be at
the Steel House, Amaha, incredible venue. Just celebrated a birthday
earlier this year. It is just a year old, so
it's going to be an awesome time. We're very excited
to see you guys there. Tyler Lyle he is the
lead singer and one of the songwriters for The Midnight. Tyler,
(16:54):
this is truly a real treat for me to get
a chance to chat with you about this. Your your guys,
music has been very very important to me over the
last few years, and I really appreciate you giving us
some time ahead of your show on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Thank you guys so much. Thanks for everything that you
do keeping live music alive. It's one of it's one
of those rare things that can go away. So I
appreciate everything that you guys are doing on your end.
And to shake your hand
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