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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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how we're starting.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love it. What row start.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm here with Bobo Canna Bless the Fall and Eric Laberg.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So bless the Ful. Also and what season is it?
What season?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What season is it?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're season twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hell, it's fall. It's because we're Blessed the Fall during
the fall, and there's like a tour that you guys
are on right.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, we're in the middle of our headliner and you're
on with We're out with Miss may I, Dark Divine
and color Blind.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So yeah, I talked to Tim from Color Blooded Ink
and here and we were chatting you guys up talking
about the tour, getting ready for it, and now you're
doing the tour. Yeah, it's the fall and you're Blessed
the Fall. That's the joke that we had with sim So.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I like to shout out the time tour of the
Fall really is. Yeah, we power up a little bit,
but we watch you have tour in the new album Gallows. Yes,
what's going on with this?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
What's going on. It's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, Now it's cool. It's our first of seven years.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We just kind of took some time off, had a
little bit of an impromptu hiatus, and just kind of
slowly came back to it just to kind of scratch
that itch. And we weren't really planning on putting out
another album, but you know, the songs came together and
we just the feelings came back, you know, an old
relationship just like yeah, and then we were like, damn,
(01:24):
this this is a special thing.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
We should we should share it, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So it was cool.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We let the metal cores flow through us naturally, of course,
and that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Now, do you guys remember what moment or what day,
or what feeling it was it made you want to
let's try this again.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Eric was the first one to get the ball rolling,
So how did that feel?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, we were I was riding with a buddy hire
and ended up doing our record. One of our friends
kind of said you should write with this dude, Like
he lived in Phoenix at the time, so he's like,
he's a middle core dude. Like I think you guys
would just have fun writing some risks together. So I
went over to his house one day and we ended
up writing one of the tracks that's on the album.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And this was back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
It's almost five while.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, it was a y sab on our track. I
remember writing that song and it was just like a
freaking you know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, you can say whatever you want. I was like
about to say it Butt.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Beeter, but we can't say it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But yeah, so we we wrote that.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I said it to the guys. They're like, Okay, this
is cool, Like, you know, just keep going and we'll see,
you know, We'll just see what happens. And then eventually
I started writing some some pretty good ones and then
Bo's like, okay, maybe I'll come down to LA and
you know, share share my.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
My talent talents, brought my talents to southern California. Yeah,
it was awesome, like just him sending me something to
listen to you. I was like, oh, what the hell, Like,
oh okay, this.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
This is sick all right.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And then the next you know, the next track got
sent and I was like, dude, this is actually really
fucking awesome. I want to like, we should start actually
doing this thing. So then I started coming to California,
and then it was just a natural progression of whenever
we kind of whenever we had time or like you said,
like whenever we had that itch to scratch, We're like, Hiram,
do you have any time next month?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Then I would fly in.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Do some vocals a record like that, like usually like
Boxer sells in for six weeks. You know, you write
the record, you record the record. We've never been a
fast writing band, like we we always cut a lot
of crap before we even put this. I know pretty
quickly if the song is gonna make it or not,
so we don't waste We just won't waste any time
on something I know that's not going to go to
(03:32):
the record. So you know, it just it took years
to kind of piece it together, but you know, and
we didn't really know what we were piecing together until
we got like five or six in, you know, and
then and then we were like, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Like maybe we have an album.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We didn't know, maybe we're gonna release a single and
maybe do just a Hallow Bodies tour. And then we
just ended up being like, man, we've probably got like
ten pretty cool, so we could make we put an
album together.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
This is an album I think, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't remember who we were talking to yesterday because
I tell me bands right life this year?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do you believe how many do you guys get to
walk around this yet?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
We drove from our stage to hear and it took
it took like fifteen minutes to drive from.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Our stages to back yourself. It's a huge, huge, huge
footprint here. Yeah, it's very, very fucking cool.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So we're at ten am. I'm like, that's insane, that's
that's early.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
For a past we were. I'm a big merch fanatic.
I love good merch. I like looking at and see
what they have. I hate waiting in line all day.
I have to sit around it was right, all right,
see someone who knows? All right, So basically as you
if you don't know, or if you haven't checked out
the main merch table thing yet. It's inside, which is great,
and it's like all plastered up. But some of the
bands are a little bit lower and you have to
(04:38):
like either harsh line. Probably. I don't like cutting line.
I don't like saying like, hey, immedius. You know I'm
not that guy. But sometimes it's hard to see. So
you go wait and you're gonna go all the way
up there. And then some of the bands that are
either on tour the next day and bring their stuff early,
so you're like, wet shoot, I guess I'll try to
get tomorrow. So to day three, I'm gonna go again later. Anyways,
I don't even know where I'm going with this merch sing.
Oh the band, So they were talking about them. Yeah,
(04:59):
there was talking about how if they were in the
writing recording process and they had a session open and
they're all hanging out together and doing it and they're
like they descriped that start over.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, we've done that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean, we've never really had a B side, you know,
so we're pretty much everything we write we have to
love and that will make the album. The time we
had a B side, we ended up giving it to
a DJ and he remixed a caseo whoa.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
So it's like.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
The only legitimate Well, we had one other B side
that just has never seen the light of day.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It would never will it, that'd be crazy. So yeah,
I remember the song we tried to write to but
typically yeah, so working title, the working title was Dark
Mountain College. So you know kind of what that would
sound like.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, And there's also seven stages of this thing,
and there's like two stages I still haven't found.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's day three, Like I haven't found our stage. You're like,
where are we were stage? Like the Forgotten step Child.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
It's like Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Tyler over here just called theage, like all the way
over there.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's like a cool stage. It's like just a little
bit under.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We call it exclusive, an exclusive, it's a limited exclusive.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
After this, we're gonna go see Spirit World. And he
was like, yeah, we're gonna go to the Bob Evan stage.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I don't know we are stage? How is there not
a Bucky stage? Damn, there's not buggies around here. I
thought there was.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Oh there isn't no but Lee Jennings this year he
likes waffle House stage.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
There is waffle House.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's around here.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Anyways, let's get back to you guys. They're just talking
about random restaurants. What do you guys do so you're
on tour? What do you guys do to prepare for
tour and prepare for a festival this size?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You know, typically this year we've done a lot of
flying so every month we've flown in Okay and we
will go to a good Arizona we'll do like a
couple of days of rehearsal.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
But this time we're actually.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
In the middle of our headlining tour, so we feel
like we're like, we're in shape.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We got got this feeling good.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Like on stage a couple of times, so it's like,
you know, you're not just like coming off.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's a one off. Yeah, you know, you're.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Actually kind of okay doing the one offs, Like after
doing like four of them, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
We need at least two of them two rehearsals at least.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But yeah, this is dope just being already sort of
in the headspace of playing a show, because the shows
we've played, like we did Incarceration, we did the two
Warped tours so far, we did Welcome to Rockville are
just fucking massive. We're like walking out there like all right, knock.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The rust off a little bit, here you go.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So it takes it, honestly for me, it takes like
a couple songs to be like, oh fuck, we're on stage, Okay, like, oh,
here we go. But now it's kind of like we're
in the mix. We've been doing it, so hopefully we
won't fuck up too bad. You got this, Yeah, not
too bad? Well, Dudley, that's right.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
If you do.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It's an exclusive experience here with plus the ful.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If you guys had to give advice to newer, up
and coming bands, what would it be and why.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Use AI as much as possible?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, no downsides, dude.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That's a I mean, it's way different than the advice
I would have given like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
It's just a whole different climate.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And you know, I would say just still, just be
true to who you are and write the music you
like because at the end of the day, you have
to play those songs.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
And I've heard there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Was talk about band was that I don't want to
name the band anyway. There's bands that have been known
for like that one track and they hate it. And
I know a Portugal de man specifically is like, won't
play their like big song because I'm like, dude, right
ship you like, I know, you want to get big
but right things you like and if you get huge
(08:25):
off that, it's fucking the you're doing. It's so much
more gratifying being able like our biggest song, I love
and I love playing it and it's fucking awesome and
we'll play it forever. We don't have a problem playing it.
There's some bands that just take that song out the setlist.
Fuck you know, it's like, this is just right what
you like, like, enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Have fun.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't know, Eric might have a different some different
advice perseverance.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
That's you know, there's just a lot of you get
a lot of curve balls into this industry. And like,
like to the overs on our tour right now, they
both one of them crash their van and trailer and
the other one's fan for down. Both of them have
like jumped through hoops to make sure they haven't missed
the show and they yeah, like the colorblind dudes like
they And that's to me. I talked to both of them, like, guys, dad,
is the difference between you and everyone else? Is that
(09:12):
a lot of bands let that stuff break them. I
was like, you, guys, problem solved. You didn't, you know,
let it go over your heads?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You burn it out.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And I was like, and that you can apply that
anywhere in your career. I was like, this isn't going
to be the only time your van, you know, breaks down.
On you, or you bump them round with your label,
or maybe a record doesn't do as well as you
know the last one d I was like, you just
got to keep pushing through.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I was like, that's how you have.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I mean, we've been a band for almost twenty years
and we've had our wave. So it's just you just
got to keep riding it. And you know, and like
you said, as long as you keep writing shit that
you like, you know, it's like it will come back around,
you know. So like we didn't know Metalport was going
to come back around.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You are Age Love House, Stage three forty five. Yes, yeah,
well I'm excited to see you guys. We have a
great rest of you touray, thanks for having us. Let's
not have another seven years in between the albums, all.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Right, we'll do our best, that's try.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I'll be sixty four years old if we take another seven.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Years off any fine awards for fans.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
If you're watching this, you're a fan, Thank you for
supporting us all these years. And yeah we've got a
little gas left in the tank here, so let's let's party.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Hell yeah, hell all.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right, great cheers Thanks guys, We'll see you next time.
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