August 6, 2024 • 32 mins
When gym life and heavy metal meet, you get a chance to interview a band you met at the gym! Red Devil Vortex joins KP on the podcast to talk about the band's beginnings, tour life, new music and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
I'm Kevin Powell. I love talking to bands. I love
getting the no bands. I love letting fans get to
know more about some of their favorite bands. And if
you haven't heard about them, well you're about two. And
I have a band that I met through working out.
It was so fun. I have the guys in Red
Devil Vortex joining me today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How you do?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Guys doing great. I am Gabriel O'Connor. I sing and
play bass. I saw im Luis Kalio. I'm the lead
guitar player and I do banking vocals here and there.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, I appreciate you guys hopping on today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gabe.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
As we got started, I saw in the background that
you have kind of your practice space. Why don't you
kind of show us your practice space for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, you want to take a look. It's kind of
empty right now, to be honest, but this is where
we rehearse. You can see, well, there's another show right there,
but you can see, you know, our drum set, some gear,
you know, some guitars, trips by l Ban for leather.
He sponsor our band and here's our guitars, all of
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our guitars. Who yeah, that's where we keep the stuff.
I'm a huge Kiss fan. So here's some Kiss stuff
and you know, cool memoriabilly jeans, Simon's boot over there,
the real deal. Some more kiss for you, and yeah,
I mean we're very into the heavy metal world and
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you know, big fans of seventies, eighties, nineties, even two
thousands heavy metal, and it's pretty much why we decided
to make music. And you know, those vendor are still
a huge influence on us.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And we'd love to have our own space, so you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Know, and you have a great space to practice, and
so thank you. So I want to just you know,
whoever wants to answer whatever questions, that's fine. Can you
tell us how Red Devil Vortex was formed and how
you came up.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
With the name. Sure.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I started the band in twenty sixteen. I actually
found the name on a label. It was like a
scrambled word label and I picked those two those three
letters read Devil Vortex, and I thought it was really interesting.
I thought it sounded great. It sounded like melodics, sounded heavy,
it had a sound to me, you know, and I
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thought it would be a great name for a band,
and I started, like, you know, noodling, drawing things, kind
of writing songs here and there, and I started the
band for You in twenty sixteen, a little like maybe
a year later after I moved to the America to
the United States in LA and the band started over there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We did.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We released the first CP in twenty eighteen called Something
Has to Die, and we had the Billboard charts for that,
which was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We got some good trashing with that album, and then
we started recording our second EPE the pandemic hit and
we had a lineup change pretty much. We are a
three piece band and the other two guys left and
then Louise joined them and we started writing the new
album during the pandemic and after that, and that is
the album we're promoting right now called Red Devil Vortex,
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which is has been out since November, and we have
four music videos, no five music videos out now of
a bad album and it's been great so far.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can't complain.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know, Louis is a great band partner and I
couldn't ask for anything anything else that's better.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You're gonna make them blush, Louise, how do you feel
after joining the band, Like, how did you get introduced
to the band? Anything at all?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So it's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
When I moved here in twenty seventeen, Gabriel was one
of the first people I met because you know, we're
both from Brazil and we had a trend in common
that introduced us. He was like, I have this these
three guys from Brazili I want to introduce you to it.
That was Red Devil Vortex at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So I come in. I was very shy at the time.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It was like literally the first few days in America,
and then we kicked off right there, you know, like
we clicked and we became good friends. So when the
pandemic hit, I think everybody got a little frustrated with
everything that was going on in music, no shows, no nothing.
So everything is about videos and you know, posts and
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social media.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Everything was online.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So he was going through a rough time and was
going through a rough time and hit him up like, hey, dude,
you want to write some songs and just see what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Time he had, you know, the fallout of the.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Other two band members at the time, the only one
we still had, the drummer, so we got together, and
I saw that we had great chemistry, you know. And
I've always liked the brand Red Devil Vortex besides everything else.
You know, of course I like the music, but the brand.
I always thought it was strong. There's the v red black.
You know, it's everything you when you first see it,
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you understand it all. You know, like bands like I
like like Maiden and you know Metallica. You look at
the logo and the pictures, you already you know, kind
of you're like halfway there already without even listening to it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So that's what I always thought of Rad Devil.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So when we started making the album, I just basically,
you know, put all my influences in there too, to
mix it up, and it just felt like it was
the right thing, you know. So you know, we've done
the album, we've done a live album, done two tours.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I actually went when he was speaking, I didn't leave,
I was I remember I had all our merch, like
the tour book that we released in the CD. Actually
I had it right here, so I just went to
pick it up. So you know, I've been you know,
very proud of what we accomplished, and you know, I
just think it's I just feel its right to be
in the band.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
M'st The felt real natural and looks like you guys
get along really well. So heck, yeah, a good job there.
I want to know a little bit about maybe the creatives,
about how you guys go about writing and recording new
music or how it went into the self titled album.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Here, okay, I'll give you like a funny quick example.
The first song I think we decided that was going
to be in the record was a song called More
Luck Than Brains and it was one of the first
songs that we started writing together. But we didn't really
write it together because he came over one day and
he showed me the song. You know, he had the riffs,
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he had the idea of the tempo and everything, and
I had the exact same song written my way, like
saying beat, sing, tempo, same everything, and I had some
lyrics for it, like mostly the chorus and a little
bit of the verses. So we took my parts, especially
the lyrics, and put on top of his song and
his rips, and it was pretty much like a you know,
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song ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We matched like that, and it was. It was pretty crazy, but.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It could happen in many different ways, you know, Like
that was just like a one off. But so times
we ease springs like pretty cool riffs and I just
you know, put lyrics on them, or we start like
building the song structure together, or it starts with it
starts with the lyric, or it starts with the title.
It could be anything, anything, you know, anything can be inspiring.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Really Yeah, it's funny because I think are some of
our best songs. You know, what what made me really
join the band was when we got together and I
saw this park of chemistry when writing. When you it's
really easy to play with someone along to something that
is already reset. But when you sit down with someone
and you play something and then you know that sparts
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a little something on the other side, and then all
of a sudden, thirty minutes later, you have this piece
of music that you know was just was not there
thirty minutes ago, that just came out of two people
that have this connection. So I think our best songs,
you know, like there's songs that he made it himself,
like open the Gates, Last Fight, but we have songs
like Silent Skills with in my opinion, so one of
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probably the most well crafted kind of song when it
comes to dynamics and he goes up and down, and
that that was both of us that you know, came
out of that friendship. So every as he said himself,
it's you know, every song is a different case, but
every every time you write something, it feels right and
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it's a very collaborative experience, I would say, and process.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You know, I love asking that question the bands because
I get a different answer every time. There's no right
or wrong way to go about writing a song. There's
so many different ways, especially now after a post COVID,
because COVID is how I learned how to record and
do all this stuff myself, I like a lot of
other people out there. Oh yeah, yeah, So it's always funny.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's funny you said that because I think like over
the time you're writing with someone, you also build a
lot of confidence in that person. Because I remember the
first time he showed me a song of his and
I was like, yeah, but I'm the guitar player. Play
can come up a better riff than you, right, And
then I tried a bunch of things and nothing works
because it's the ego. You know, you don't know that.
(09:08):
Of course I can do better because you know, I'm
well prafted in that instrument. And then sometimes, you know,
over the time, you at least I realized that there's
nothing to do with that, you know. It's it comes
down to a vision and believing in that person's vision.
Like some of his songs, I didn't even change anything,
you know, just of course I came up with, you know,
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some guitar parts and stuff like that. But when it
comes to chords, structures and the main things of the song,
you know, you've got to I think you gotta trust
your partner too, because when you the song is born
from him, from him or for me, I think whoever
came up with that first has a better vision of
where to go. Except sometimes, but I think mainly it
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works like that, at least for us.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, there's also like I used to write a lot
of guitar riffs, but ever since Louise joined the band,
I'd low down on it way more because I'm like, dude,
he is the guitar player, and he is a better
guitar player than I'll ever be. Why would I even
you know, But sometimes you have an idea. Sometimes you
have a good idea and you bring it to the table.
But when it comes to guitar risks, especially like when
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I write a song or something, I usually try to
put on the chords just to have the the basic ideas,
so Luis can also have room to do whatever he
wants to do on it, because you know, when you
have a guitar player like him, you actually need that
in the song you want you want to have that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
In this song.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So you guys have went on a couple of tours,
you have that cell titled album and a little bit
of a lineup change. What's been the most challenging part
of your journey as a band so far? And how
did you guys overcome it. It could be individual, it
could be together, however you want to go about it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think that the most challenge challenging thing for you
is to just keep going. That's the most challenging thing.
Like when you have a vision or a cool brand
or a name or something you believe in, like we do.
You know with Dread Devil Vortex. You know, it's like
band members live things that get in the way. You know,
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all of these things that you really can control because
when it comes down to your work, if you're super
honest about it, you're gonna know like where you are
in your career, and you're going to try to realize
what you need to do to change that or to
improve that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That's pretty much what Louise and I do.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I don't think, you know, any musical problems or
any music industry related problems really bothers us, because you know,
in the end of the day, we love what we
do and we kind of we usually find a way
to figure things out. But the hardest thing I would
say is to just like keep doing that over and
over and over, because it's an album cycle, it's a
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touring cycle.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's like it's always a different cycle.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And you know, you got to be able to afford it,
got to be able to create it, got to be
able to you know, put it out there, put it
in front of people, and it's a lot of work,
especially for an independent band, which you know, these days
seems to be the norm now everybody's going independent and
you've got to figure out a way to do your
own business, you know, all around, and that's pretty much yet, yeah,
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it's kind of it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Really, you guys wouldn't do it if you didn't love it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You know, one thing that I wanted to say, sorry
to cut you off, is that we always talk about it.
You know, like for most people that see it from outside,
you don't maybe you notice, maybe you don't. But RDV
is very out of sufficient. So you know, Gabriel does
all our videos. He you know, he's a master when
he comes to all your visual he creates the concept,
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he helps shooting, he edits himself, you know. Uh, and
not a lot of bands can do that. I do
all the social media part of it. So one thing
that we always talk about when he comes to challenges
and stuff like that, as you as yourself. You know,
RTV is a very self sufficient band. So Gabriel does
all our videos and you know, most of the artwork
you see, it's him. You take care of all the
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social media part of the band, and you know, promo
what we're doing. So nowadays, by the time you you know,
like I started playing when I was like in two
thousand and eight, when I was eight years old, and
by the time the world was like that and I
fell in love with what music was. By the time
I wanted to have in a career, it was something else,
like totally different, you know, and now it's even changing
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even more rapidly, you know. So it's it's always when
you have an idea, by the time you put it out,
it's like it's another thing already.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
How the world will consume that, so that that can
be very draining, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And as a band nowadays, we always ask ourselves what's
the you know, how to promote things and social media
and whatnot. I think everybody talks about it, so I
think just keeping up with everything. Besides doing all the rest,
which is playing having the art side of it, we
also got to make sure that we have the other
side of it. So I think keeping the balance between
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these booth is always, uh, you know, the hardest thing
for it not only for us, but I'm sure for
everybody else, you know, with self manage you know, no
label and independent uh. And we know some pretty big
artists that are independent as well, and they are very
hands on when it comes to all these decisions and stuff,
which we want to be to the rest of our
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careers because we like doing it too.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So I think that's the biggest challenge.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's crazy how much goes into this stuff, and a
lot of people, maybe fans or just general music listeners,
don't think about that stuff until they're thrown into it.
It's like, oh, there is social media and we have
to post on every platform however many times a week.
And there's also oh, we have to find money to
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record and unless I figure out how to record myself.
But wait, don't you know how? There's just so much
into it. So thank you for explaining.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, like it's funny you said that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
The other day we went to visit me and gave
the one on one studios in North Hollywood where the
Black Album was recorded and stuff, and we're talking with
the guys like, now that you think you can do everything,
you kind of exclude all the possibilities that you can
involve other people that because there's magic in having someone
else as well with you in the process. So another
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part of being working with somebody else in a band.
I think it's really cool nowadays because you have that
interaction with another human being, because the computer will do
whatever you tell it to do, but another human being,
if you don't have an idea that convinces that convinces
that person. You've got to fight for it or either
change your mind because it's, you know, a two way street.
So I think that's pretty cool, you know, when it
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comes to working with other people, in involving other human
beings in your art.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know.
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to Red Devil Vortex right now. These guys are based
out of California. I have a few fun questions for you,
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just to kind of break things up a little bit.
You guys had a couple of tours, You've been around
a while. What's the most memorable or crazy experience you've
had while on tour or being part of the band.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm gonna be honest, The craziest thing is that you
go through everything and you see nothing. That's the craziest thing.
What do you mean, because when you're on tour, you
don't see cities, you don't see anything. You just see
inside of your vehicle, the RV and our case, and
you see the venue and you see the road and
an occasional Walmart or Planet Phitties.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's all you see. And then you play and leave
and you keep seeing that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's pretty crazy, but crazy situ but I mean crazy situations.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's crazy because this last tour and it was Doyle,
but everything was so smooth.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Luis, do you remember anything. I mean, I think the
craziest thing. It was very cool because we have this
RV that has.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Our logo, huge logo, red levele vartics and stuff, and
sometimes we have to drive through narrow streets downtown somewhere,
and one time we were one hour outside of Dallas
and then we got a flat tire and we were
super fast on the freeway, so you could see the
marks on the floor and stuff like that for like
you know, half a mile or whatever. And you know,
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it was pretty crazy because we had like I think
one hour and a half to get to the show,
and then we had to be towed to the place.
And then there was four people in the r V
and only two could be you know inside the guy
that was towing the r V downtown Dallas, So I
think that was pretty cool. Where we went and we
found the other two found a ride to and we
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got to the narrow streets being towed away, and then
people were like, oh, what is that? What is red
double vartics? Everybody was taking pictures and asking us. And
then we out there literally thirty minutes before going on stage,
and we got there. It was fucking packed. You know,
all of a suddenly you're in the middle of this
situation that you don't know if you're gonna even gonna
be in the venue, and then all of a sudden
you see yourself on stage. And I think that was
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a memorable night because that for me was the best
show that tour.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You know, it was a great night overall. You know,
it was the trees in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I think we're like some people were friends with Pantera
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And then we went.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So there's an other bar that had Vinnie and dying
on the wall and they were telling stories about how
it was hanging out with them and when they went
there and stuff like that. So that that was pretty cool,
you know. But I think, as Gabriel said that the
craziest thing is do it all, go through all that
and fall in love with that. It's only for crazy people.
I'm sorry to say it, but it's only Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You kids at home, don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's not for the faint of heart.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Not for the fain of heart. Now, too many Walmars
for a normal person.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
We jeezh So when you were telling that story, that's
also where I'm gonna plug a picture of the thing,
because that's an easy topic starter right there. You're going
through a town and you have that RV and like, well,
what is red devil wartex And you're like, glad you asked.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The fast advertisement.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Ever, sometimes we play in places that have like these
parking lots for people who are parking outside and drinking
beers and listening to music. They see it outside and
it's like, oh, let me google that, and then we
listen to them listening to us.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So it's pretty cool, you know how people get into
what the fuck is that? You know?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, there's your social media post right there too. Yeah, okay,
so we're at the grind. We love writing, we love recording,
we love touring, we love playing music, we love meeting fans.
Away from that, how do you guys like to unwind
and relax when you're not doing this music thing.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
My life is totally revolved around music entirely. So what
I do when I'm not doing that, I'm listening to
music or like I'm playing for fun or you know,
like my wife loves dogs. She runs a dog training facility,
so you know, we have a blast with dogs sometimes.
That's really cool. That's another thing that's that's different in
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my life. But really, other than that, everything revolves around
music and making music, and it's.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Actually, it's very very overwhelming if you think about it.
But but I don't complain, you know, I just love it.
It makes me, It makes me a better person, to
be honest. Yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It like you know, when you're not on tour, you're not
you know, as Gibber said, you know, my life too
is very everything you know, is around music and stuff.
Everything that I do involves music. So it's hard to
have some time completely off you know, music. But you know,
when I see it like that, you have seasons, like
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when when you're a musician, you have a season that
you're on the road and when you're like wood chatting
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I like to practice a lot and just build what's
my playing and my musicianship is gonna be on the
next tour. I gotta step up the game. Like being
on too, you see a lot of at least I
look for a lot of flaws in my playing and
my singing and things that you can get better on.
But those things in music you don't get better on
like overnight. It's something that you gotta do every day,
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so you build up and when you go on stage.
I always say that it's like only the instincts are
gonna come out. So for that to become an instinct,
you gotta be there like every single day at least
three months doing that thing, so it's natural, you know.
So I'm in love with that process of like coming
back home and then just really playing guitar for the
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sake of playing guitar, not because you're doing a video,
not because you're gonna go through, but because you like it,
because you want to explore what's inside of what's within yourself,
and you know like that That's what I think when
it comes to like being away from from stage too
or whatever. But when it comes to personal life, you know,
I like you know, we like to go out, have
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drinks and stuff like that, have a good time, you know, together,
talk a lot. I you know, I play soccer. I
watch soccer sometimes on my downtime. That's that's something I do.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But yeah, yeah, well also like we didn't say that,
but we love to go to the gym. We work
out all the time, you know, even during the tour.
We work out during the tour, we work out at home.
It's a big part of our lives too. We like
to stay healthy and consistent on that side too, because
you know, helpings first for us, I got addicted to
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conspiracy theories on TikTok. So that's what I mostly watch now. No, no,
no Netflix for me, No, no Hulu, nothing, it's just
conspiracy theories on TikTok. I think it's awesome. It's very true.
It's very true.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah. So what's some coffee? What else do we do?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
We drink a lot of coffee, We go to the gym,
We eat well. We eat really well too. That's another
hobby we have got to watch out for that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, good good stuff, good stuff, awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What's something about each of you that the fans might
be surprised to learn.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What is your start.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
That's a hard thing, man, and I've left that as
open as you want it to be.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, I think I think finding out about this side
of the band, of the band, that we're that much
hands on on the thing, you know, I think that
that's that's probably probably surprising, even though people see from
outside and see that we're very engaged. But I think
like we're kind of extra engaged with the thing because basically.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's all we do.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Uh And you know, I think, you know, but that's
that's probably the main thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think I think that that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Would be the the first thing I can think of, you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Know, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I mean a lot of fans are surprised when we
say we're Brazilian, we're not American, even though you know,
you can you can hear the accent or whatever. They
get surprised when I say I do most of the
art work, because I guess back in the day it
was cool to have other people doing it. It's still
cool to have other people doing it. But you know,
big bands had labels and all like teams and all
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that kind of stuff. And I started my music journey
very di y. I always I've always done stuff like that,
you know, to as much as I could, to the
extent that I could, and now that I'm able to
do it better me as an artist and as a
fan of music, I think it's really cool when the
artists have a you know, when they have an input
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in the art work or visual arts or anything that
has to do with their music. You know, when the
input comes from the artist's first thing. So that's a
really cool thing that, you know, people think it's interesting. Yeah, maybe,
I don't know. Our shows are very energetic. Maybe they'll
be surprised to know how laid back we are. You know,
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we're very laid back for work hill. We don't stress
much about anything, and maybe because of that we're able
to do more.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think I think listening to our music, I don't
know if that comes up, but I could say we're
very introspective people at least I you know, like having
like deep talks and stuff like that. Maybe it's something that,
of course, in a loud bar after the show, you're
not going to talk about that with the It's almost
impossible to guess, you know, So I think you know
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that that's that's something else too.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Perfect answers. I got a couple more questions for you guys.
What can fans expect from Red Devil Vortex in the
next coming months or the rest of the year, Any
new releases, tours, anything you want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh, my god, coming up, dude, we got some cool
stuff coming up. We're working on a lot, and it's
it's something that's been very hard to do. But we're
working on two videos right now that we're super excited about.
They're gonna be off of two songs that are in
the album. So these are gonna be our two newest singles.
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We don't have dates yet. One is coming out in
the next few months for sure. The other one might
come at the end of the year or maybe early
next year. We don't know yet. We're still making plans,
but we're planning for that. We are currently writing new
music and we are also currently booking a new tour,
so that should be out soon too.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And yeah, Louis, do you remember anything else.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, we'll be playing in Orange County two in December fifth.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's something that is happening, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Besides, we plan to do an orther tour this year,
but that that'll be posted on our Instagram as soon
as it firms and stuff. So you know, just keep
an eye out on our socials and stuff because we
got lots of plans not only for music videos and stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But we want to you know, just put out more content.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We just put out this tour book right here. It's
actually sold out in our store, you know. Uh. This
basically tells the story of the band. You know, it's
like a comic book kind of thing. It was designed
by Gabriel, so it's it's pretty pretty interesting, and we'll
put out a new batch now. So one thing that
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we decided to do because when we went on the road,
lots of the items we had for sale was only
for the tour, so it was you know, just more
scarcity would sale on our online store and stuff. So
but now we're gonna definitely release more products and stuff
like that around the album, around the next releases. So
if you guys are interested, if you go to RDD
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store right now, there's plenty of stuff that you know,
are cool.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But we're we're putting some more stuff up there very
soon too.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Awesome, guys, Well, I'm looking forward to that. I'm sure
fans will as well. Get excited for that. I got
a couple of last questions for you as we wrap
things up, and I always like to end with this
kind of question. What kind of advice would you give
to up and coming bands, bands that want to start
out anything at all, that there's just a little bit
of intimidation into getting into this music stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Do it because you love it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Don't do it because the money or the fame or
anything to be you know flashing in your mind. But
if you just do it for the right reason, you're
going to do it for the rest of your life,
and you're gonna know, you know, at the end of
the day. You know, when you pick up a guitar
or a bass or drums or whatever it is that
you want to do, you know if you love it,
do it because you know, Just do it because you
love it, because you want to express yourself, not because
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somebody told you something or you know, somebody's influencing in you,
like towards something you don't want to do. Just play
the music you love, play it from your heart and
expect nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do your best and good things will come. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I think, like man, you gotta fall in love with
playing music. You know, more than anything, you gotta fall
in love with really playing guitar, singing and performing and stuff.
We're living in a time that it's it's everything is
changing constantly.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So the way you're gonna do, what.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
You're gonna do is still gonna be the same, playing
on stage and making music, but you gotta it's gotta
come from the heart because no matter what, it's gonna
be a rough road when it comes to like compared
to other things that are easier, it's it's very difficult,
in my opinion, a thing to do and to commit
to for a long time because you you keep asking yourself.
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You know, it's not as certain as being a doctor
or being a lawyer, because there's no for everyone is different,
you know, for every band, for me, for Gabriel, we
got here in the same band by different means, and
you know, our story is completely different. So I think
the first thing is accept that your story is unique
and it's not to be like the famous guy or
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that the guy that is the new big thing. It's
not going to be exactly like that because you are
you and he's another person, you know, So that's that's
the hardest thing to understand and to accept. For yourself
for who you really are. I think that's the main thing.
Accept yourself for who you really are. But keep in
mind what you want to be as an artist too,
because you know, it's important to keep growing and to have,
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you know, a specific goal that you want to achieve,
Like I want to be this kind of band, this
kind of artist, So go for that. In the middle
of the way, you can maybe change your mind, but
at least that's gonna take you somewhere.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We always talk about it, like I think having tangible goals. Now,
I'm going to do this even like me growing up. Now,
I'm gonna play the soul of ride a Lightning. After that,
I'm gonna play the software Aces High.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Then I'm gonna learn all these iron made and albums
and stuff like fall in love with that process of
getting better and just you know, working on your pref
to think that that's something that really can give you
a life in music.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Solid advice. I always ask that question at the end.
I always get different answers all the time, and that's
why I ask it. We had two minutes left, so
as quick as you can, any final words you want
to say to fans.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Guys, thank you so much for supporting us. From the
bottom of our hearts. We love the music we do
and we love when we see people that can relate
to that music when they come to our shows and
we're able to meet them, and it's always great to
meet you all. Stay tuned at Red Deevil Vortex dot
com because we have a lot of news coming soon
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and good stuff cooking. So, you know, thank you all
for the support, and we'll see you on the road soon.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And for those who don't know us, go look it
up online and make sure you check us out, and
you know, go follow us on Instagram, leave a comment
and stuff. As Gable said, we love the music we do,
but we also love when we see people enjoying it
as much as we do. And keep an eye out
or tour dates. We might come you know, all the
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us very very soon, So you know, just keep an
eye out for what we do and we'll keep you
We'll keep feeding you with stuff we promise to That.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is Red Devil Vortex. These guys rule. Okay, you gotta
check them out. They're based out of California. They got
new music on the way. I got a special guest,
his name is Max. He's my kiddie he wanted to
join anyways. Appreciate you guys tuning into the podcast. As always,
we'll see you next time.
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
I'm Kevin Powell. I love talking to bands. I love
getting the no bands. I love letting fans get to
know more about some of their favorite bands. And if
you haven't heard about them, well you're about two. And
I have a band that I met through working out.
It was so fun. I have the guys in Red
Devil Vortex joining me today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How you do?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Guys doing great. I am Gabriel O'Connor. I sing and
play bass. I saw im Luis Kalio. I'm the lead
guitar player and I do banking vocals here and there.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, I appreciate you guys hopping on today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gabe.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
As we got started, I saw in the background that
you have kind of your practice space. Why don't you
kind of show us your practice space for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, you want to take a look. It's kind of
empty right now, to be honest, but this is where
we rehearse. You can see, well, there's another show right there,
but you can see, you know, our drum set, some gear,
you know, some guitars, trips by l Ban for leather.
He sponsor our band and here's our guitars, all of
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our guitars. Who yeah, that's where we keep the stuff.
I'm a huge Kiss fan. So here's some Kiss stuff
and you know, cool memoriabilly jeans, Simon's boot over there,
the real deal. Some more kiss for you, and yeah,
I mean we're very into the heavy metal world and
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you know, big fans of seventies, eighties, nineties, even two
thousands heavy metal, and it's pretty much why we decided
to make music. And you know, those vendor are still
a huge influence on us.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And we'd love to have our own space, so you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Know, and you have a great space to practice, and
so thank you. So I want to just you know,
whoever wants to answer whatever questions, that's fine. Can you
tell us how Red Devil Vortex was formed and how
you came up.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
With the name. Sure.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I started the band in twenty sixteen. I actually
found the name on a label. It was like a
scrambled word label and I picked those two those three
letters read Devil Vortex, and I thought it was really interesting.
I thought it sounded great. It sounded like melodics, sounded heavy,
it had a sound to me, you know, and I
(02:18):
thought it would be a great name for a band,
and I started, like, you know, noodling, drawing things, kind
of writing songs here and there, and I started the
band for You in twenty sixteen, a little like maybe
a year later after I moved to the America to
the United States in LA and the band started over there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We did.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We released the first CP in twenty eighteen called Something
Has to Die, and we had the Billboard charts for that,
which was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We got some good trashing with that album, and then
we started recording our second EPE the pandemic hit and
we had a lineup change pretty much. We are a
three piece band and the other two guys left and
then Louise joined them and we started writing the new
album during the pandemic and after that, and that is
the album we're promoting right now called Red Devil Vortex,
(03:09):
which is has been out since November, and we have
four music videos, no five music videos out now of
a bad album and it's been great so far.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can't complain.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know, Louis is a great band partner and I
couldn't ask for anything anything else that's better.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You're gonna make them blush, Louise, how do you feel
after joining the band, Like, how did you get introduced
to the band? Anything at all?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So it's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
When I moved here in twenty seventeen, Gabriel was one
of the first people I met because you know, we're
both from Brazil and we had a trend in common
that introduced us. He was like, I have this these
three guys from Brazili I want to introduce you to it.
That was Red Devil Vortex at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So I come in. I was very shy at the time.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It was like literally the first few days in America,
and then we kicked off right there, you know, like
we clicked and we became good friends. So when the
pandemic hit, I think everybody got a little frustrated with
everything that was going on in music, no shows, no nothing.
So everything is about videos and you know, posts and
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social media.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Everything was online.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So he was going through a rough time and was
going through a rough time and hit him up like, hey, dude,
you want to write some songs and just see what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Time he had, you know, the fallout of the.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Other two band members at the time, the only one
we still had, the drummer, so we got together, and
I saw that we had great chemistry, you know. And
I've always liked the brand Red Devil Vortex besides everything else.
You know, of course I like the music, but the brand.
I always thought it was strong. There's the v red black.
You know, it's everything you when you first see it,
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you understand it all. You know, like bands like I
like like Maiden and you know Metallica. You look at
the logo and the pictures, you already you know, kind
of you're like halfway there already without even listening to it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So that's what I always thought of Rad Devil.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So when we started making the album, I just basically,
you know, put all my influences in there too, to
mix it up, and it just felt like it was
the right thing, you know. So you know, we've done
the album, we've done a live album, done two tours.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I actually went when he was speaking, I didn't leave,
I was I remember I had all our merch, like
the tour book that we released in the CD. Actually
I had it right here, so I just went to
pick it up. So you know, I've been you know,
very proud of what we accomplished, and you know, I
just think it's I just feel its right to be
in the band.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
M'st The felt real natural and looks like you guys
get along really well. So heck, yeah, a good job there.
I want to know a little bit about maybe the creatives,
about how you guys go about writing and recording new
music or how it went into the self titled album.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Here, okay, I'll give you like a funny quick example.
The first song I think we decided that was going
to be in the record was a song called More
Luck Than Brains and it was one of the first
songs that we started writing together. But we didn't really
write it together because he came over one day and
he showed me the song. You know, he had the riffs,
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he had the idea of the tempo and everything, and
I had the exact same song written my way, like
saying beat, sing, tempo, same everything, and I had some
lyrics for it, like mostly the chorus and a little
bit of the verses. So we took my parts, especially
the lyrics, and put on top of his song and
his rips, and it was pretty much like a you know,
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song ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We matched like that, and it was. It was pretty crazy, but.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It could happen in many different ways, you know, Like
that was just like a one off. But so times
we ease springs like pretty cool riffs and I just
you know, put lyrics on them, or we start like
building the song structure together, or it starts with it
starts with the lyric, or it starts with the title.
It could be anything, anything, you know, anything can be inspiring.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Really Yeah, it's funny because I think are some of
our best songs. You know, what what made me really
join the band was when we got together and I
saw this park of chemistry when writing. When you it's
really easy to play with someone along to something that
is already reset. But when you sit down with someone
and you play something and then you know that sparts
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a little something on the other side, and then all
of a sudden, thirty minutes later, you have this piece
of music that you know was just was not there
thirty minutes ago, that just came out of two people
that have this connection. So I think our best songs,
you know, like there's songs that he made it himself,
like open the Gates, Last Fight, but we have songs
like Silent Skills with in my opinion, so one of
(07:59):
probably the most well crafted kind of song when it
comes to dynamics and he goes up and down, and
that that was both of us that you know, came
out of that friendship. So every as he said himself,
it's you know, every song is a different case, but
every every time you write something, it feels right and
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it's a very collaborative experience, I would say, and process.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You know, I love asking that question the bands because
I get a different answer every time. There's no right
or wrong way to go about writing a song. There's
so many different ways, especially now after a post COVID,
because COVID is how I learned how to record and
do all this stuff myself, I like a lot of
other people out there. Oh yeah, yeah, So it's always funny.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's funny you said that because I think like over
the time you're writing with someone, you also build a
lot of confidence in that person. Because I remember the
first time he showed me a song of his and
I was like, yeah, but I'm the guitar player. Play
can come up a better riff than you, right, And
then I tried a bunch of things and nothing works
because it's the ego. You know, you don't know that.
(09:08):
Of course I can do better because you know, I'm
well prafted in that instrument. And then sometimes, you know,
over the time, you at least I realized that there's
nothing to do with that, you know. It's it comes
down to a vision and believing in that person's vision.
Like some of his songs, I didn't even change anything,
you know, just of course I came up with, you know,
(09:28):
some guitar parts and stuff like that. But when it
comes to chords, structures and the main things of the song,
you know, you've got to I think you gotta trust
your partner too, because when you the song is born
from him, from him or for me, I think whoever
came up with that first has a better vision of
where to go. Except sometimes, but I think mainly it
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works like that, at least for us.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, there's also like I used to write a lot
of guitar riffs, but ever since Louise joined the band,
I'd low down on it way more because I'm like, dude,
he is the guitar player, and he is a better
guitar player than I'll ever be. Why would I even
you know, But sometimes you have an idea. Sometimes you
have a good idea and you bring it to the table.
But when it comes to guitar risks, especially like when
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I write a song or something, I usually try to
put on the chords just to have the the basic ideas,
so Luis can also have room to do whatever he
wants to do on it, because you know, when you
have a guitar player like him, you actually need that
in the song you want you want to have that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
In this song.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So you guys have went on a couple of tours,
you have that cell titled album and a little bit
of a lineup change. What's been the most challenging part
of your journey as a band so far? And how
did you guys overcome it. It could be individual, it
could be together, however you want to go about it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think that the most challenge challenging thing for you
is to just keep going. That's the most challenging thing.
Like when you have a vision or a cool brand
or a name or something you believe in, like we do.
You know with Dread Devil Vortex. You know, it's like
band members live things that get in the way. You know,
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all of these things that you really can control because
when it comes down to your work, if you're super
honest about it, you're gonna know like where you are
in your career, and you're going to try to realize
what you need to do to change that or to
improve that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That's pretty much what Louise and I do.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I don't think, you know, any musical problems or
any music industry related problems really bothers us, because you know,
in the end of the day, we love what we
do and we kind of we usually find a way
to figure things out. But the hardest thing I would
say is to just like keep doing that over and
over and over, because it's an album cycle, it's a
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touring cycle.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's like it's always a different cycle.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And you know, you got to be able to afford it,
got to be able to create it, got to be
able to you know, put it out there, put it
in front of people, and it's a lot of work,
especially for an independent band, which you know, these days
seems to be the norm now everybody's going independent and
you've got to figure out a way to do your
own business, you know, all around, and that's pretty much yet, yeah,
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it's kind of it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Really, you guys wouldn't do it if you didn't love it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You know, one thing that I wanted to say, sorry
to cut you off, is that we always talk about it.
You know, like for most people that see it from outside,
you don't maybe you notice, maybe you don't. But RDV
is very out of sufficient. So you know, Gabriel does
all our videos. He you know, he's a master when
he comes to all your visual he creates the concept,
(12:46):
he helps shooting, he edits himself, you know. Uh, and
not a lot of bands can do that. I do
all the social media part of it. So one thing
that we always talk about when he comes to challenges
and stuff like that, as you as yourself. You know,
RTV is a very self sufficient band. So Gabriel does
all our videos and you know, most of the artwork
you see, it's him. You take care of all the
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social media part of the band, and you know, promo
what we're doing. So nowadays, by the time you you know,
like I started playing when I was like in two
thousand and eight, when I was eight years old, and
by the time the world was like that and I
fell in love with what music was. By the time
I wanted to have in a career, it was something else,
like totally different, you know, and now it's even changing
(13:31):
even more rapidly, you know. So it's it's always when
you have an idea, by the time you put it out,
it's like it's another thing already.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
How the world will consume that, so that that can
be very draining, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And as a band nowadays, we always ask ourselves what's
the you know, how to promote things and social media
and whatnot. I think everybody talks about it, so I
think just keeping up with everything. Besides doing all the rest,
which is playing having the art side of it, we
also got to make sure that we have the other
side of it. So I think keeping the balance between
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these booth is always, uh, you know, the hardest thing
for it not only for us, but I'm sure for
everybody else, you know, with self manage you know, no
label and independent uh. And we know some pretty big
artists that are independent as well, and they are very
hands on when it comes to all these decisions and stuff,
which we want to be to the rest of our
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careers because we like doing it too.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So I think that's the biggest challenge.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's crazy how much goes into this stuff, and a
lot of people, maybe fans or just general music listeners,
don't think about that stuff until they're thrown into it.
It's like, oh, there is social media and we have
to post on every platform however many times a week.
And there's also oh, we have to find money to
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record and unless I figure out how to record myself.
But wait, don't you know how? There's just so much
into it. So thank you for explaining.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, like it's funny you said that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
The other day we went to visit me and gave
the one on one studios in North Hollywood where the
Black Album was recorded and stuff, and we're talking with
the guys like, now that you think you can do everything,
you kind of exclude all the possibilities that you can
involve other people that because there's magic in having someone
else as well with you in the process. So another
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part of being working with somebody else in a band.
I think it's really cool nowadays because you have that
interaction with another human being, because the computer will do
whatever you tell it to do, but another human being,
if you don't have an idea that convinces that convinces
that person. You've got to fight for it or either
change your mind because it's, you know, a two way street.
So I think that's pretty cool, you know, when it
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comes to working with other people, in involving other human
beings in your art.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
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to Red Devil Vortex right now. These guys are based
out of California. I have a few fun questions for you,
(16:11):
just to kind of break things up a little bit.
You guys had a couple of tours, You've been around
a while. What's the most memorable or crazy experience you've
had while on tour or being part of the band.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm gonna be honest, The craziest thing is that you
go through everything and you see nothing. That's the craziest thing.
What do you mean, because when you're on tour, you
don't see cities, you don't see anything. You just see
inside of your vehicle, the RV and our case, and
you see the venue and you see the road and
an occasional Walmart or Planet Phitties.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's all you see. And then you play and leave
and you keep seeing that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's pretty crazy, but crazy situ but I mean crazy situations.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's crazy because this last tour and it was Doyle,
but everything was so smooth.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Luis, do you remember anything. I mean, I think the
craziest thing. It was very cool because we have this
RV that has.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Our logo, huge logo, red levele vartics and stuff, and
sometimes we have to drive through narrow streets downtown somewhere,
and one time we were one hour outside of Dallas
and then we got a flat tire and we were
super fast on the freeway, so you could see the
marks on the floor and stuff like that for like
you know, half a mile or whatever. And you know,
(17:30):
it was pretty crazy because we had like I think
one hour and a half to get to the show,
and then we had to be towed to the place.
And then there was four people in the r V
and only two could be you know inside the guy
that was towing the r V downtown Dallas, So I
think that was pretty cool. Where we went and we
found the other two found a ride to and we
(17:51):
got to the narrow streets being towed away, and then
people were like, oh, what is that? What is red
double vartics? Everybody was taking pictures and asking us. And
then we out there literally thirty minutes before going on stage,
and we got there. It was fucking packed. You know,
all of a suddenly you're in the middle of this
situation that you don't know if you're gonna even gonna
be in the venue, and then all of a sudden
you see yourself on stage. And I think that was
(18:13):
a memorable night because that for me was the best
show that tour.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You know, it was a great night overall. You know,
it was the trees in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I think we're like some people were friends with Pantera
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And then we went.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So there's an other bar that had Vinnie and dying
on the wall and they were telling stories about how
it was hanging out with them and when they went
there and stuff like that. So that that was pretty cool,
you know. But I think, as Gabriel said that the
craziest thing is do it all, go through all that
and fall in love with that. It's only for crazy people.
I'm sorry to say it, but it's only Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You kids at home, don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's not for the faint of heart.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Not for the fain of heart. Now, too many Walmars
for a normal person.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
We jeezh So when you were telling that story, that's
also where I'm gonna plug a picture of the thing,
because that's an easy topic starter right there. You're going
through a town and you have that RV and like, well,
what is red devil wartex And you're like, glad you asked.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The fast advertisement.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Ever, sometimes we play in places that have like these
parking lots for people who are parking outside and drinking
beers and listening to music. They see it outside and
it's like, oh, let me google that, and then we
listen to them listening to us.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So it's pretty cool, you know how people get into
what the fuck is that? You know?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, there's your social media post right there too. Yeah, okay,
so we're at the grind. We love writing, we love recording,
we love touring, we love playing music, we love meeting fans.
Away from that, how do you guys like to unwind
and relax when you're not doing this music thing.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
My life is totally revolved around music entirely. So what
I do when I'm not doing that, I'm listening to
music or like I'm playing for fun or you know,
like my wife loves dogs. She runs a dog training facility,
so you know, we have a blast with dogs sometimes.
That's really cool. That's another thing that's that's different in
(20:22):
my life. But really, other than that, everything revolves around
music and making music, and it's.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Actually, it's very very overwhelming if you think about it.
But but I don't complain, you know, I just love it.
It makes me, It makes me a better person, to
be honest. Yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It like you know, when you're not on tour, you're not
you know, as Gibber said, you know, my life too
is very everything you know, is around music and stuff.
Everything that I do involves music. So it's hard to
have some time completely off you know, music. But you know,
when I see it like that, you have seasons, like
(21:04):
when when you're a musician, you have a season that
you're on the road and when you're like wood chatting
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I like to practice a lot and just build what's
my playing and my musicianship is gonna be on the
next tour. I gotta step up the game. Like being
on too, you see a lot of at least I
look for a lot of flaws in my playing and
my singing and things that you can get better on.
But those things in music you don't get better on
like overnight. It's something that you gotta do every day,
(21:31):
so you build up and when you go on stage.
I always say that it's like only the instincts are
gonna come out. So for that to become an instinct,
you gotta be there like every single day at least
three months doing that thing, so it's natural, you know.
So I'm in love with that process of like coming
back home and then just really playing guitar for the
(21:52):
sake of playing guitar, not because you're doing a video,
not because you're gonna go through, but because you like it,
because you want to explore what's inside of what's within yourself,
and you know like that That's what I think when
it comes to like being away from from stage too
or whatever. But when it comes to personal life, you know,
I like you know, we like to go out, have
(22:13):
drinks and stuff like that, have a good time, you know, together,
talk a lot. I you know, I play soccer. I
watch soccer sometimes on my downtime. That's that's something I do.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But yeah, yeah, well also like we didn't say that,
but we love to go to the gym. We work
out all the time, you know, even during the tour.
We work out during the tour, we work out at home.
It's a big part of our lives too. We like
to stay healthy and consistent on that side too, because
you know, helpings first for us, I got addicted to
(22:46):
conspiracy theories on TikTok. So that's what I mostly watch now. No, no,
no Netflix for me, No, no Hulu, nothing, it's just
conspiracy theories on TikTok. I think it's awesome. It's very true.
It's very true.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah. So what's some coffee? What else do we do?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
We drink a lot of coffee, We go to the gym,
We eat well. We eat really well too. That's another
hobby we have got to watch out for that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, good good stuff, good stuff, awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What's something about each of you that the fans might
be surprised to learn.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What is your start.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
That's a hard thing, man, and I've left that as
open as you want it to be.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, I think I think finding out about this side
of the band, of the band, that we're that much
hands on on the thing, you know, I think that
that's that's probably probably surprising, even though people see from
outside and see that we're very engaged. But I think
like we're kind of extra engaged with the thing because basically.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's all we do.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Uh And you know, I think, you know, but that's
that's probably the main thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think I think that that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Would be the the first thing I can think of, you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Know, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I mean a lot of fans are surprised when we
say we're Brazilian, we're not American, even though you know,
you can you can hear the accent or whatever. They
get surprised when I say I do most of the
art work, because I guess back in the day it
was cool to have other people doing it. It's still
cool to have other people doing it. But you know,
big bands had labels and all like teams and all
(24:32):
that kind of stuff. And I started my music journey
very di y. I always I've always done stuff like that,
you know, to as much as I could, to the
extent that I could, and now that I'm able to
do it better me as an artist and as a
fan of music, I think it's really cool when the
artists have a you know, when they have an input
(24:53):
in the art work or visual arts or anything that
has to do with their music. You know, when the
input comes from the artist's first thing. So that's a
really cool thing that, you know, people think it's interesting. Yeah, maybe,
I don't know. Our shows are very energetic. Maybe they'll
be surprised to know how laid back we are. You know,
(25:14):
we're very laid back for work hill. We don't stress
much about anything, and maybe because of that we're able
to do more.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think I think listening to our music, I don't
know if that comes up, but I could say we're
very introspective people at least I you know, like having
like deep talks and stuff like that. Maybe it's something that,
of course, in a loud bar after the show, you're
not going to talk about that with the It's almost
impossible to guess, you know, So I think you know
(25:45):
that that's that's something else too.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Perfect answers. I got a couple more questions for you guys.
What can fans expect from Red Devil Vortex in the
next coming months or the rest of the year, Any
new releases, tours, anything you want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh, my god, coming up, dude, we got some cool
stuff coming up. We're working on a lot, and it's
it's something that's been very hard to do. But we're
working on two videos right now that we're super excited about.
They're gonna be off of two songs that are in
the album. So these are gonna be our two newest singles.
(26:23):
We don't have dates yet. One is coming out in
the next few months for sure. The other one might
come at the end of the year or maybe early
next year. We don't know yet. We're still making plans,
but we're planning for that. We are currently writing new
music and we are also currently booking a new tour,
so that should be out soon too.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And yeah, Louis, do you remember anything else.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, we'll be playing in Orange County two in December fifth.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's something that is happening, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Besides, we plan to do an orther tour this year,
but that that'll be posted on our Instagram as soon
as it firms and stuff. So you know, just keep
an eye out on our socials and stuff because we
got lots of plans not only for music videos and stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But we want to you know, just put out more content.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We just put out this tour book right here. It's
actually sold out in our store, you know. Uh. This
basically tells the story of the band. You know, it's
like a comic book kind of thing. It was designed
by Gabriel, so it's it's pretty pretty interesting, and we'll
put out a new batch now. So one thing that
(27:31):
we decided to do because when we went on the road,
lots of the items we had for sale was only
for the tour, so it was you know, just more
scarcity would sale on our online store and stuff. So
but now we're gonna definitely release more products and stuff
like that around the album, around the next releases. So
if you guys are interested, if you go to RDD
(27:52):
store right now, there's plenty of stuff that you know,
are cool.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But we're we're putting some more stuff up there very
soon too.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Awesome, guys, Well, I'm looking forward to that. I'm sure
fans will as well. Get excited for that. I got
a couple of last questions for you as we wrap
things up, and I always like to end with this
kind of question. What kind of advice would you give
to up and coming bands, bands that want to start
out anything at all, that there's just a little bit
of intimidation into getting into this music stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Do it because you love it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Don't do it because the money or the fame or
anything to be you know flashing in your mind. But
if you just do it for the right reason, you're
going to do it for the rest of your life,
and you're gonna know, you know, at the end of
the day. You know, when you pick up a guitar
or a bass or drums or whatever it is that
you want to do, you know if you love it,
do it because you know, Just do it because you
love it, because you want to express yourself, not because
(28:46):
somebody told you something or you know, somebody's influencing in you,
like towards something you don't want to do. Just play
the music you love, play it from your heart and
expect nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do your best and good things will come. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I think, like man, you gotta fall in love with
playing music. You know, more than anything, you gotta fall
in love with really playing guitar, singing and performing and stuff.
We're living in a time that it's it's everything is
changing constantly.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So the way you're gonna do, what.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
You're gonna do is still gonna be the same, playing
on stage and making music, but you gotta it's gotta
come from the heart because no matter what, it's gonna
be a rough road when it comes to like compared
to other things that are easier, it's it's very difficult,
in my opinion, a thing to do and to commit
to for a long time because you you keep asking yourself.
(29:41):
You know, it's not as certain as being a doctor
or being a lawyer, because there's no for everyone is different,
you know, for every band, for me, for Gabriel, we
got here in the same band by different means, and
you know, our story is completely different. So I think
the first thing is accept that your story is unique
and it's not to be like the famous guy or
(30:02):
that the guy that is the new big thing. It's
not going to be exactly like that because you are
you and he's another person, you know, So that's that's
the hardest thing to understand and to accept. For yourself
for who you really are. I think that's the main thing.
Accept yourself for who you really are. But keep in
mind what you want to be as an artist too,
because you know, it's important to keep growing and to have,
(30:26):
you know, a specific goal that you want to achieve,
Like I want to be this kind of band, this
kind of artist, So go for that. In the middle
of the way, you can maybe change your mind, but
at least that's gonna take you somewhere.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We always talk about it, like I think having tangible goals. Now,
I'm going to do this even like me growing up. Now,
I'm gonna play the soul of ride a Lightning. After that,
I'm gonna play the software Aces High.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Then I'm gonna learn all these iron made and albums
and stuff like fall in love with that process of
getting better and just you know, working on your pref
to think that that's something that really can give you
a life in music.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Solid advice. I always ask that question at the end.
I always get different answers all the time, and that's
why I ask it. We had two minutes left, so
as quick as you can, any final words you want
to say to fans.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Guys, thank you so much for supporting us. From the
bottom of our hearts. We love the music we do
and we love when we see people that can relate
to that music when they come to our shows and
we're able to meet them, and it's always great to
meet you all. Stay tuned at Red Deevil Vortex dot
com because we have a lot of news coming soon
(31:34):
and good stuff cooking. So, you know, thank you all
for the support, and we'll see you on the road soon.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And for those who don't know us, go look it
up online and make sure you check us out, and
you know, go follow us on Instagram, leave a comment
and stuff. As Gable said, we love the music we do,
but we also love when we see people enjoying it
as much as we do. And keep an eye out
or tour dates. We might come you know, all the
(32:02):
us very very soon, So you know, just keep an
eye out for what we do and we'll keep you
We'll keep feeding you with stuff we promise to That.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is Red Devil Vortex. These guys rule. Okay, you gotta
check them out. They're based out of California. They got
new music on the way. I got a special guest,
his name is Max. He's my kiddie he wanted to
join anyways. Appreciate you guys tuning into the podcast. As always,
we'll see you next time.
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