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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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it's me Kevin with the Kevin Pell Podcast. I've been
doing this all day and I love doing it because
it's day two of incarceration.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm here with Carbon Stone. How are you guys doing.
How we feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We are feeling very good. It's been a very productive
and awesome day. How so a whole lot of people here?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's not that's a fucking understanding.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Can I curse?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah? Oh fucking hey, Okay, understatement. There are thousands and
thousands of people, how any thing?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Shit? I heard seventy five thousand overall. That's for the weekend.
There isn't Yeah, yeah, let's say about forty thousand.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I'd say it is a great energy from all the people,
Great energy from all the people, great crowd.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Just everybody is like ready to rock. I love it absolutely,
Hell are you? And I've heard that from all the
bands this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I mean, all these people are incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Now, is this your first incarceration or no? This is
our first incarceration, but not your first Danny Wimmer.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, we've been to Danny Wimmer before, but this is
our first time performing at Danny Wimmer. Oh yeah, I
feel it feels absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It feels amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, I always keep plugging Danny Wimmer because it's just
an easy topic to talk about. Yeah, especially with every band.
I mean, it's just so welcoming. It's easy, and it's
just it flows.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Lass a act man one thousand percent dude.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So if you know you have to say anything to
the other festivals out there, what would you say?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Step it up? Step? Yeah? Well you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We're playing a really cool festival next month in Wisconsin
called Northwood's Rock Rally with Escape the Fate and the
Ears Shot and Royal Bliss and twelve Stones. If anybody
remembers the band twelve Stones, wow, that's all. We'll be
with them next month in Wisconsin. End up that festivals
had a lot of praise, so I'm really excited to
see how that happens too.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I mean, hey, pressure's on, So pressure's on. I mean, yeah,
tell me about that. Is that part of like a
toward y're on? Or you just do one offs here
and there?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What's going on? So that's gonna be a one off
just like today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But in September, the entire month of September, going on
tour with our friends in Spine Shank, O, the Union
Underground and Julian Kay.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now I spoke with The Union Underground earlier and you
guys put us on with spine Shank, am I right, yes,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
How did it all?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Why did you go? I want him and I want
it spine you like, tell me about that?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I mean it just it just happened, dude.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Really, I'm really good friends with Johnny Santos spine Shank
and we are. Actually our most recent single called Standoff
is a collapse with Johnny from Spine Shank. So that's
all over Apple Music, Spotify, on YouTube name cool music video,
really dark music video that Johnny was a part of
and it's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So we got our producer here, right, yes, we do,
So tell me about, you know, behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I do have some nerds to listen and watch.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
When it comes to writing, when it comes to recording,
what's the process like with these guys, what's the process like?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know, this year, next year or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Corey comes in with the song okay, but leaves me.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's like got a rip, I got some you know,
he's got the words of heartfelt words, great belody.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
But everything's open. It's just like let's make it cool
and we do it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
All on one day.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So we shows up in the morning, we play the RAF,
we talk about it for.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Like a minute, and we just boom. We get right
into it.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
And what I love about this floam with this band
because I'm like, I like an official band member, Like
I'm in the band and play the band today. So
like it's more like we're just friends like jamming together,
but we're in a you know, a pro studio and
at the end of the day is a finished product.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So and it's whatever mood we were in that day,
whatever our recent.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Influences were coming to it, okay, Like the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
We don't argue about anything, we don't debate anything, we
don't change anything. We never do because a lot of
times the bands were like let's try this, let's try that,
and that's part that's that could be a.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Visual proper way for us. It's not. It's like that's cool,
and I'm like how about the bridge we do this?
I need like we do that, or or sometimes I'll
be like and he'll be like trust me.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'm like okay, and then we'll get out of the
studio and I listen to it days later, I'm like,
all right, Tony, you win.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That was good.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So you definitely have a producer hat.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Sometimes you just had this like years of mutual trust
of just like we like what we what each other do.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Anyone's input always works.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
We never veto any idea, like someone has an idea,
like we're just we'll make it work in the song.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
And then and then when I hear the song come out, I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Like, cool, You're like, damn, I guess that was good.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah. Like we didn't like really analyze this. We didn't
like pro tools at that, Yeah, just like we did.
You say pro tools. Yeah, his interviews over like Reaper
it's easy.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
It's really, it's really you know what, I hate pro tools.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I hate Protols.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I spend eighty maybe one hundred hours a week with
pro tools. Avid, You've had a couple of good updates.
Don't like it there, you got to do it, because
I mean, if people send me stuff to mix, it
always ind protos.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Now we're friends most of the time.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeahs an analytic sense reason real ams. Really we're recording.
It's like the recording platforms not as important. We're we
are doing real music. And so what's your go to
plug in?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No matter what, it's my analogue stuff man, right, ovsts,
you use it all.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I mean I do, of course, but I mean API
pre amps. I love API either from Promarts and Howtown
and ultimamre Coca and for plugins.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I do a lot of programming of the drums. I
like native instruments.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Battery where I can just kind of pull sample in
or make a sample lot and make samples with my
Molke Club thirty seven and that I cannipulated that, and
then we do realistic sending drums, have real drummers come
in where I've ended the real drummers, and a sim
base will use the Molke Slub thirty seven again.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
An aloed bases.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm having plugin use plugging, maybe native instruments massive.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I have a lot of native instruments stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I asked because mister Joey Surchis was here yesterday walking around,
I was like, what the hell? So, yeah, I didn't
know if you use his stiff for I'll like scl tones.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
There's neural insts, neural dsp, there's all kinds.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But you know the research you do, I have a
lot of this language is beyond me.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I just say we're moving past production stuff. We'll get
were getting a figure out, all right?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
All right? So if you have we plug into real
too bad?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Do you have like a pre show ritual before you
hit the stage?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
What is it? Oh man? Pre show ritual?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Just just a couple of beers, maybe a couple of
shots and that's it. So it's so basic, bitch man,
I don't care, right, ay man, dude, just see means cursalon.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
We do curson we do. We do use a lot
of bad words, and we do a little huddle. You
know that the cliche ass huddleshit, you know, but it
works every time. So you know, if it's not broken,
no fix. All right?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So what's coming up? After we have f s full?
And we got something in what September? You said a
tour in September? So well, we got a new music,
new albums.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
We have a new album on the way. It's called
The Absence of Self.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Okay, we were supposed to drop that this year towards
the end of the year, but again with the tour
in September.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It might be a little difficult to do that. So
we're still you know, it might happen this year, and
Tony's like, we can do it, Okay, I just found
out that it's happening sometimes tour.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Hell yeah, so maybe this year maybe latest first quarter
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Possibly it might be this to do a mixing while
you're on tour.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, that would work, That would work the best of
both worlds that happens.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We can get it done, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What can fans expect rather they saw you at Ink,
they've never seen you before. You have that tour coming up,
you have that show coming up. Whatever, someone walks in
Carbon Zone's playing. What can they expect.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
A whole ton of energy, a lot of energy, a
lot of aggression, a lot of passion on the stage.
Lyrics are really emotional, and we do a lot of
crowd and interaction. That's how you connect with your fans
as you have to interact and you know, we're nobody
up there to We're just like everybody else out there,
and that's it's important to remind everybody out there that
are fans that that's the case and that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Do you like talking between songs?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I can't remember what band we saw forever ago, but
it was really cool. But also you're like, huh where
they played a song and then nothing and then they
played the next song.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And that was like their whole set. I was like, no, no, no,
we don't do that. You interact, man, you scream at
the fans, you get them amped.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Up, and do you remember who that was? Arms Way?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Hey, no, no, they're good, even named No, they're good.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I enjoy their saying, enjoy their music.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I have a hoodie somewhere's allaying around that they oh
shade harms I know they're great.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
When you when you talk to your fans, when you
talk to any fans, new fans, whatever, that's what bridges
the gap, and that's what makes the connection, you know.
I mean, your music could suck fucking balls, but if
you make that connection with your fans, they're gonna they're
gonna remember you forever.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Sorry I curse lout.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm sorry if my community.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I was caught in Germany like really heartfelt, like like
I know when he starts saying I'm like, this is
life experience, it's real stuff. I never messed with your
sum like because as a producer sometimes to do I'm
just like, I know this is coming from deep inside,
like I know it's real. And then I look at
the crowd, I'm like, they know it's real. It's resonating
with these people. And carbon Stone fans they're special fans.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
They really are.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
They really are.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So if you had to say anything to carbon Stone fans,
what would it be?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Thank you each, every single one of you, man, because
after all these years, we just can't do that shit
without shit, uh and we cannot continue to keep doing
this shit withousk you, So thank you and we love
you man.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We are live, so all of you.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Absolutely Where can people check out your music?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Check you guys out on.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Socials you name it, oh Man, Facebook, Instagram. I'm heavily
personally active on all of our socials. So if you
make comments, I will personally respond every single one. I
can't do every single one. I can't do that eight
years ago, but I can't now.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So it's a cool. It's getting it's getting a little.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, I don't think TikTok dances but you can chase
it on TikTok and Instagram, Facebook, all that all that
fun shit and Carbonstone dot in net. We got a
merg store and we're going on tour. So you know
what I'm saying, help us check carb fan out. Yes,
check carbon Stone out. They got that new single with
sponge Shake. You know it's pretty cool. They got that
best of all coming up. They just played Egg.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
These guys are gonna rule the world sometime soon, so
one day. That's for checking us out. Thanks for carbon Stone,
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