May 19, 2023 • 31 mins
Josh Todd is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer of rock band Buckcherry. The band is well known for songs like “Lit Up” , “Crazy Bitch” & “Sorry.” They have a new album out June 2nd called “Vol 10” and will hit the road with Skid Row. We discuss the new album, the tour, social media, some Josh Todd trivia and more!
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - New Album "Vol 10" & Marti Fredriksen
03:10 - New Song "Feels Like Love" & Def Leppard
04:12 - New Song "One & Only" & Social Media
07:45 - Tour with Skid Row & Other Live Shows
10:10 - New Song "Pain"
15:58 - Working On New Album & Crowd Reaction
18:35 - New Songs & Marketing
20:35 - Listening to Music & Prince
23:45 - Touring With Big Bands
25:20 - Vocal Tricks
26:46 - Writing "Crazy Bitch"
28:35 - Josh Todd Trivia
30:15 - Charity
30:40 - Outro
Buckcherry website:
http://buckcherry.com/
St. Jude's website:
https://www.stjude.org/
Chuck Shute website:
https://chuckshute.com/
Thanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!
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Chuck Shute (00:00):
Hey, thank you for checking out the show if you're
(00:01):
new and if you're subscriberWelcome back. We got a great one
today Josh Todd from Buckcherryis here to tell us all about
their new album volume 10 comesout June 2, and they're touring
with one of my favorite bandsSkid Row. So we're going to talk
about the new album some oldstuff a little Josh, Chuck Todd
trivia, and more stick around.
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Ready to this interview? I'msure you've been doing a lot of
these lately.
Josh Todd (00:37):
Yeah, I've been doing a whole lot. Yeah, but it's
good. It's all good. You know,we got a great new record come
in, and this is part of it.
Chuck Shute (00:45):
Yeah, absolutely.
So let's talk about a newalbum's called volume 10. And
it's out June 2. Tell me aboutit because it's produced by
Marty Fredrickson. I'm sure heco wrote a lot of the tunes as
well talk about him because, Imean, his resume is amazing.
Aerosmith, Def Leppard MickJagger, Ozzy. I mean, he works
with these A listers. Was ithard to look him with a
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schedule?
Josh Todd (01:09):
No, you know, we've worked with him for a long time.
It goes way back to 15. We cowrote, he co wrote sorry, with
us, and he produced a couple ofrecords back then. And, and so
yeah, you know, we did hellbound with them and wrote a lot
of songs, you know, we gettogether, he's like, the six
band member, you know, it'slike, it's like you said, you
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know, he's worked with a liftguys and, and girls, and, you
know, Stevie and I, and we getin a room with him, you know,
we're always on high alert.
Because, you know, you know,we're gonna learn a lot and, and
also, you know, we want tosqueeze every, all the
information we can out of him,you know, and it's, it's really
a lot of fun. You know, we wenton a nine day songwriting
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session in Nashville, prior toactually recording the record.
And we wrote eight songs andnine days, it was incredible.
And we write really fasttogether, and we always do
what's best for the song, and wejust have this like magic, you
know, between me and Stevie andMarty, and it just works. So we
keep going back to that. Well.
Chuck Shute (02:14):
Yeah, no, it's definitely work. This is a
classic Buckcherry record. But Ithink there's also going to be
some a few surprises for fansalso the you know, some twists
and turns. Obviously, the firstcouple songs, let's get wild. I
mean, that's just like classiclike uplifting. I love the song
or the lyric adrenaline straightto my core. Yeah, it's, you
know, it's a classic Buckcherryis that that's assuming that's
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when you're gonna play live.
Josh Todd (02:38):
Yeah, we've already been playing that live and good
time and shine your light, youknow, we've been doing, we've
dropped all three of those, youknow? Yeah, it's, those are
really kind of quintessentialgood time rock and roll
Buckcherry songs, you know, butyou know, the record has a lot
of depth as well, as you weresaying, I think that's what
you're referring to. And songslike, you know, feels like love
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and pain and with you and stufflike that, you know, it's just,
it's a fun ride from beginningto end and can't wait for
everybody to hear it.
Chuck Shute (03:09):
Yeah, I was. You did my buddy's podcast, Clint
Schweitzer and he you weretalking you guys were talking
about feels like love. And Ithought it was interesting. It
was inspired by the Def Leppardhysteria. Like you're like, I
want to record his stereoversion for Buckcherry. And it
does kind of sound like that.
Josh Todd (03:25):
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what we talked about
prior to Marty and Stevie goingin and writing the music to it,
you know, I get obsessed withsongs, you know, and I was
really obsessed with hysteriafor a long time. I just thought
it was such a great song.
There's so many times that songis hit me when I'm driving. And
I just blast it in my car. AndI'm like, man, so good. I want
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one I want something like this,you know, and so I put it to
Marty and Stevie and they cameup with some great music for me
and I went to the hotel andwrote for like, two hours to get
to where it was, you know,lyrically and melodically and
actually, the melodies Martycame up with some of the
melodies in that phone and justcame together went really well.
Chuck Shute (04:12):
Yeah, that's a cool one. I think I know this one's
about but can you tell me thesong one and only because some
of the lyrics are reallypowerful in that one it's like
if we can i It's okay to readthe lyrics I don't want to give
too much yeah, yeah, but it justlike that lyric like if we just
do what we are told that talk isgetting old left me in the deep
end paralyzed with thinkingnothing can control this time is
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our one and only I was like, oh,that's that's really powerful
stuff.
Josh Todd (04:37):
Yeah, that's kind of like the sign of the times you
know, that song you know,everything really affected me.
And everybody for that matter,you know, the pandemic and
everything that was going on theUnited States and all the
fallout from everything and youknow, all this stuff, you know,
craziness on social media andnegativity and all all this
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stuff. It really He weighs onyou at times if you, you know,
give it too much power, youknow? And that's what came out,
you know, one and only?
Chuck Shute (05:07):
Yeah. Do you find yourself like I know, for me, I
feel like I have to limit mytime on watching, looking at the
news or social social mediabasically isn't news now. So I
feel like I have to, okay, Ineed to get off of that, you'd
have to do the same thing whereyou're like Tic breaker.
Josh Todd (05:21):
I do that. I'll tell you what I do. I stopped
watching the news. A few yearsago, I got a few years off the
news, which is great. You know,I do have a news feed. And my
but I only put in stuff that I'minterested in. So it's only
like, it's like, NationalGeographic and time and like the
Los Angeles Times and like stufflike that stuff. I'll just want
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to read and I'll keep up withcurrent events. But I don't
watch the news. Because it's it.
It plagues your mind. You know,I only know this from not doing
it anymore. You know, so? Yeah,so I don't do that. And then
social media, I limit to five to10 minutes a day. That's it
tops, I'm done. So Wow. Yeah,all that has really, really
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helped me and you know, onlybecause I just, you know, it was
just not healthy for me, becauseI did this, like experiment when
myself I go, I'm gonna do 30days off social media and see
how I feel, you know, and I feltgreat. You know what I mean? And
so I continued, and, you know,there's other things I do on
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social media. I, whenever I postsomething on my personal
Instagram, I turn off,commenting, you know, so, so I'm
so anyways, I'm not seekingvalidation, I'm not seeking any
of that, you know, it's strictlyto kind of let everybody know
what's going on musically. And,you know, where we're at, and,
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you know, shows or promotion.
And that's it, you know, andeverything else I'm done with,
you know, and it's really beenhealthy for me, you know, I
don't know about other people,but I dig it.
Chuck Shute (06:59):
No, that's Did you ever see that movie?
Josh Todd (07:03):
Yeah, social dilemma on Netflix. Yeah. And it was
after seeing that, too. I'mlike, Man, this is, this is
heavy, you know? And I thinkeverybody should see that, you
know, yeah, it's pretty.
Chuck Shute (07:16):
It makes me want to delete my social media. But
then, for me, it's like as apodcaster. Like, I need it.
Like, I have to have to promotemyself. I
Josh Todd (07:26):
mean, yeah, me too. I gotta do I gotta deal with it to
a certain degree for mybusiness. But you know, we also
have people that, you know, dothat and handle that and manage
that. And then I just check in,you know, very, very short
period of time, every day, makesure everything's cool.
Chuck Shute (07:43):
Oh, that's a nice.
So you do have people that kindof handle a lot of the business
side, or you can focus more onthe music? Yes. Okay. So like
with the tour, was it? Who'sobviously you in Skid Row? You
guys have the same publicist?
But was it your management thatkind of had that idea? I mean, I
love it, because Skid Row is oneof my favorite bands. So this is
like a dream tour for me.
Josh Todd (08:04):
Yeah, we're all friendly with those guys, you
know, before all this, and sothat was, that's good. That's
always good. You know, and thenwe, there was talk of it, and
the managers got together. Andso we booked a leg, you know,
like a whole month, and we wentout, we've already done it, you
know, and all like, so many ofthe shows sold out, I would say
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more than half of them sold out,you know, which is crazy. So,
you know, the promoters werefired up, the managers are fired
up, we're fired up. So Skid Row.
And so we decided to do a secondleg and a third leg we've
already booked and we're aboutto go out on the second leg
here. And, you know, a few days,like five days, six days, and
then and then we're doing athird leg already. And we're
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doing some shows in Canada withthem. And, and then there's talk
of doing a fourth leg becauseit's just selling so well. So,
you know, whenever somethinglike that happens, you just ride
a wave, you know, and right nowwe're riding the wave. They
dropped a record not too longago, and they got this great.
New singer Eric, he's, he'sawesome. And, you know, yeah,
they got a lot of momentum. Andwe got a lot of momentum with
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the new record as well. So it'sworking.
Chuck Shute (09:13):
Yeah, no, how does it work? Because you're both
great bands. And I mean, we'relooking at the levels that
you're out. I mean, how do youdecide who closes or who opens?
Or do you even care? Does itmatter as a co headlining like,
how do you
Josh Todd (09:25):
just tell headlining and they they end the night and
we're fine with that, you know,and we just we do the same
amount of time as far as settime. And that's how we do it.
Chuck Shute (09:36):
Awesome. I know, is there going to be a third like
opening bands or just YouTubeand that's it.
Josh Todd (09:41):
There is another band and I am drawing a blank right
now on who it is. But yes,there's one more that opens the
night.
Chuck Shute (09:48):
Okay, cool. And then you guys have some just
solo shows that you're doingbefore you hit the second leg or
the next leg?
Josh Todd (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, we continue to tour and they
everybody takes them away. Wecontinue but yeah, we do. We do
headlining shows in between and,and it's, it's all good.
Chuck Shute (10:07):
Yeah. Cool. So we're back to the album. The
song pain. Now was a cool one. Ifeel like that had it kind of
had like an Aerosmith dream onkind of vibe. And I'm gonna call
right now and say that song isgoing to change some lives. I
mean, I don't know about streamsor hit singles. I mean, of
course, all that stuff. So nice.
You guys gotta make a living.
But I feel like that song isgoing to change somebody's life,
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like someone's gonna be on adark path. They're gonna hear
that song. And it's gonna turnthings around. And I think it's
gonna save people. And so Iknow, you probably think a
little crazy, but I thinksomeone's gonna come up to you a
meet and greet and say, like,hey, that song changed my life.
So tell me about the processwith that, like, what inspired
it? And how did you write it?
Because that doesn't sound likea 15 minute writing session,
like with lit up or whatever?
Josh Todd (10:51):
Yeah, there's kind of a story behind pain, you know,
and thank you for all that. Imean, I really love the song as
well. And if you I'm gonna tellyou how it started, because
where it got to is like, it'scrazy, you know. So when we went
to go do our Songwriting withMarty in Nashville, we we go to
Nashville, and we go to hishouse, just to kind of powwow,
(11:14):
listen to some of the old demos,get a game plan where we want to
be, you know, how we want tostart the songwriting day, the
next day and all that. And Ilook, and he's got a piano in
his house, and I said, Hey,where'd you get the piano? He's
like, Oh, I just got that. AndI'm like, it's really cool. And
I said, Hey, I would really,like I go, can you come up with
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like, the saddest song you cancome up with on the piano, and,
and I want to have like, just apiano vocal song for like, maybe
a hidden track on this record?
And he goes, Yeah, that'd becool. And that was it. Never. We
didn't talk about it anymore. Wejust went on. And we started
writing songs, you know, rocksongs. And we, we kept writing
and kept writing, and then wegot to feels like love and, and
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so I am, I'm hammering out thelyrics to feels like love and my
hotel room, I'm exhausted, I hadsang already a whole song. In
the morning, I broke for lunch,and then they got me the music a
little later. So I'm spent, youknow, it took me about two, two
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and a half hours to write feelslike love and, and then he hits
me with this voice note, andhe's like, Hey, I got I got this
idea for that piano song. And hesends me just two parts on piano
of the song, right. And I'mlike, fuck, and we only have
like, one more day or somethinglike that. And I, so I had to
get on it. And I didn't want toeven write I had nothing left I
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thought, you know, and so I'mjust kind of in a dark place in
my head that night. And it was aperfect time for me to, to
approach the song and I'm like,fucking, I'm gonna write the
song. And, and it's really aboutme, it's about, you know, my
kind of, like, my inner selves,things I know, I don't really
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talk about, you know, public,you know, with anybody. And
that's where it came from. Itcame from a very sad place
inside of me, you know, and Ithink everybody, everybody's
everybody deals with pain.
everybody deals with mentalpain, physical pain, and, and so
it was just a really goodsubject. Anyways, I go into the
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studio the next day, I recordfeels like love. And then I
said, Hey, Marty, I got thisidea for that piano song. And so
I sing it to him. And Stevie'sin the control room as well. And
we all just kind of had thismoment, you know, after I sing
it, I'm like, damn, this is thisis cool, you know? And then
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Marty's like, Okay, listen,stop, you know, I need to work
on a song, I need to, I need toput drums to it, I got to kind
of make it a song, you know,because there's only two parts
here. And I was like, Cool. Andso we knew that we had something
and it needed to go to anotherplace. And it was going to be
bigger than just some hiddentrack on a record. And so
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anyways, I come back and he'sput drums and bass and he put
this midsection with a funk andDuncan Duncan back and the whole
midsection. He added to it thatwasn't there. And then he ended
it with this crazy chord at theend. And it was like this huge,
episodic you know, amazing rocktrack. And he's like, I was
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like, damn, Marty. This is likeso much bigger than I thought it
was gonna be. And he goes, hegoes, Yeah, I think this is
Buckcherry is November rain. AndI was like, that's cool. And so
anyways, I put a little melodyand some words to the midsection
and created a bridge, you know,and then went and sang it and
and the rest is history. Youknow, it had to be on the
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record. It was just so good, youknow? And I'm so I'm so glad we
have that song but that's how itall happen.
Chuck Shute (15:00):
That's amazing.
That's a great story. I love theteamwork there. Because it's
like you. I mean, justlyrically, you can tell that
you're singing from a place oftrue emotion. And then what
Marty did to it and made it youknow, like, tweaked all those
things. It's like a great teamwork that came out perfectly in
my opinion.
Josh Todd (15:16):
Yeah. And, you know, prior to prior to that, we had
had the only tiff we had in thestudio was that day. So it kind
of brought that, you know, wewere all tired. And we just had
a little tiff over some of someold songs from the hell balance
spillover sessions that Ithought was going to be on the
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record, and we're all thinkingit doesn't fit. And it just
pissed me off, right. And so, wehad a little tiff, I went to
lunch, I sent a text apologizingfor you know, getting, you know,
upset and, and so anyways, itkind of spiraled into pain, you
know, and so it was perfect.
Chuck Shute (15:57):
That is perfect.
Yeah. I mean, I think peopleforget about that part of that,
like, this is a job and it isworking, it is stress. And it
sounds like you're putting in alot hours with stuff like this
with a
Josh Todd (16:07):
lot of hours. Yeah, a lot of songs. We, we we had
about 25 songs to pick from, youknow, to create this 10 Song
record, you know, and we alwaysdo that we were very thorough,
you know, in order to get a toput out a record, we want it to
be, you know, we want there tobe no filler, and it to be great
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from beginning to end for us,you know, so we feel like if we
do that, then we did our duediligence, and then you see what
happens when it finally hits thestreets, you know? And that's,
that's what we always do.
Chuck Shute (16:40):
Yeah, no, I think that one, I think the pain, I
think that's going to be apopular one. It's interesting,
too, because you guys canobviously put out the singles,
you put out three songs already.
Within once you put out the fullalbum, like, people kind of
choose right, like the song thatgets streams or whatever. Okay,
this is the most popular one.
Josh Todd (16:57):
Yeah, it's over at that point. It's in the public's
hands, you know, and they decideand they dictate what goes on
and, and that's cool that welove that because we want to
know what people are reactingto, you know, because we've been
sitting on this record sinceOctober of last year, you know,
so for it to finally get to theyou know, street is like, it's
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so exciting for us. Yeah, that'sreally cool. It's like It's like
giving birth, you know, you'vebeen there you've been, you've
been marinating on it, you know,it's been building and it's
time. Yeah. Is
Chuck Shute (17:31):
it kind of like Christmas? Like is it like it
would remind me of like openinga Christmas present, getting or
maybe giving a Christmas presentgetting to see people's
reactions to this.
Josh Todd (17:41):
And sometimes it's not what you think it's gonna
be, you know, and so that'sinteresting in its own way to,
Chuck Shute (17:47):
like, give me example that What do you mean? I
mean, sometimes
Josh Todd (17:51):
you think particular songs on your record are gonna
really react and they don'treact or other songs react in a
huge way and you just never sawit coming, you know? So stuff
like that, you know, I could gointo detail on path records, but
you know, it's just bizarre whatyou know, people gravitate
towards you or you're just like,wow, I never I didn't see that
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coming you know.
Chuck Shute (18:14):
Now that's it's the same with like podcasting if I
post a clip or something, I go,Okay, this this clip this is
gonna change the world and likenobody's stupid. This is dumb. I
guess I'll do this. And thenpeople love it. I'm like wildly.
Josh Todd (18:28):
Or no, You never know what's gonna react with people.
It's it's it's so bizarre.
Chuck Shute (18:33):
It is interesting.
I love the guitar work on thisalbum too. Yeah, like the song
with you. I feel like that had areally bluesy, 70s rock but with
a heavier it kind of reminds meof the Scorpion song the zoo.
Josh Todd (18:46):
Yeah. It's because I when I came in and heard the
guitar work off that shit goingon. I'm like, fuck, man. It
sounds like Buckcherry Scorpionsong, you know, and I had a
laugh about it, you know? Andthen it started really kind of
growing on me. You know, atfirst I didn't really dig it,
you know? And then it startedgrowing on me. And now I love
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it.
Chuck Shute (19:09):
Yeah, and then like the song turned it on. There's
that's that's another bluesyriff but awesome guitar. So what
about the song? Keep on fightingbecause that's another catchy
one. Do you think that you wouldtry to get that used in like
sports or something like that? Ifeel like that could be a song
that they play at, like afootball game or something like
that.
Josh Todd (19:25):
Yeah, that would be even that or turn it on. I
always thought his turn it onthe chorus being great sports
own as well, you know? Yeah,well, we'll be visiting all
that, you know, when the recorddrops and trying to work at it,
you know, sports, and, you know,I think they're already playing
I think they're playing goodtime. We, they played it in a
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hockey game, you know, we heardso, you know, I think a lot of
them could could work that way.
If you just chop it up, youknow, but um, we'll see.
Chuck Shute (19:57):
Ya know, I feel like because that's gotta be a
big piece of getting royaltieswith the music. I don't know if
you even care about that. Butlike, I mean, you put all this
work into it. It's like,obviously, you know, it's hard
to sell albums. Now you get somemoney for streams, but I feel
like the bigger piece of the piewould be like in a, you know,
sports arenas, movies, TVs,commercials, things like that.
Josh Todd (20:17):
Yes. All that is very important. Because it just gets
the awareness out it everythingis important, you know, wherever
it's played, you know, on radio,you know, TV, movies, sporting
events, advertisements, we'reopen to all that stuff.
Chuck Shute (20:32):
Yeah. Are you What are you listening to these days?
Is there music that your any newmusic that you're introduced to
listen to music sites, it'sfascinating that I interview
some musicians are like, I don'tlisten to music.
Josh Todd (20:43):
I listen to so much music. And but it's usually in
the pop genre and hip hop.
That's what I really listened toa lot. I listened to a lot of
pop music because it's reallymelody driven and singer driven.
And it's written by the bestsongwriters in the world. And so
yeah, I just bought I still buysingles. You know, I'm kind of
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obsessed with a song calledfavorite song by by this artist.
To see to see, I don't know ifthat's how you pronounce it. I
love this song. Sure thing bythis artists, Miguel. That's a
dope ass song. I NL go back tothe old school, I got obsessed
with the Manhattan's shiningstar. Got really obsessive that
(21:28):
song. So you know, those arejust to name a few. But I'm
always when I hear a good song,I go out and buy it, you know,
and I make playlists on myphone. And, you know, I listen
to songs all the time,
Chuck Shute (21:41):
used to and you saw, or you're using your phone
to listen to music, or youlisten to on the streaming, you
don't buy the physical exam,people don't buy the physical
vinyl or CDs.
Josh Todd (21:51):
No, I buy I go to iTunes and I buy singles. You
know, and I'll if I hearsometimes I'll hear a song on
satellite radio, you know,because I have satellite radio,
or Spotify or whatever. And I'llbuy the single because I want to
I want to, I want to take thesong and put it in my library
and make playlists. And I liketo do that myself. You know,
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instead of like just putting iton some playlist and like
Spotify or some
Chuck Shute (22:17):
Yeah, when you're in your big prints fan to write
you guys because you guys talkedabout
Josh Todd (22:22):
love friends. Yeah, yeah. Did you read that I met
miss him. I miss him so much.
Did you ever meet him? I nevermet him. But Matt has people.
And you know the people who workfor him and they've been very
complimentary to Buckcherry. Andat one point, we sold out way
back in the day First Avenue.
And we got to play there and wesold it out. And that was like a
(22:45):
big thing for us and cut to someof our band members went to
what's his place? He lives Iforget what it's called Paisley
Park. They went to Paisley Parkto do the tour. And they were
being briefed by the securityguy there. And he had he had
worked with friends for a longtime and he was like telling
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them okay, this is what's goingto happen and yada yada yada.
He's like, what band he goes in.
And Stevie goes, Oh, we're andwe're in Buckcherry. And he goes
Buckcherry, we'd love butcherylike we went and saw you guys do
crazy bitch. And we went whenyou guys sold out First Avenue.
And I was like, Oh my God. Theyknow Buckcherry like, that was
(23:28):
like so huge for us, you know,to know that they they knew
about that show and they knewabout you know our songs and to
be on Prince's radar was likefucking amazing. You know what I
mean?
Chuck Shute (23:39):
That's amazing.
There must be a lot of thosekind of pinch me moments that
you've had. I mean, you'vetoured with some of the greatest
bands of all time, I think.
Josh Todd (23:46):
Yeah, we have a tour with a lot of our heroes. Very
grateful for that. You know, thelist goes on my kiss AC DC
Aerosmith. Like all those. Weeven did a show with Bon Jovi
back in the day, you know, whichwas which is classic, you know,
and then, you know, we've touredwith, you know, I mean, John
shows on stage with like, onetime we did a show in Japan and
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it was us, deep purple. And thenSlipknot was such a strange,
like lineup. Oh, yeah. Likethis. Is this amazing, you know,
Chuck Shute (24:17):
did you get interactions with because a lot
of times the bands have separatedressing rooms and stuff, right?
So you don't actually get tolike interact with them.
Josh Todd (24:24):
I met Cory Taylor a few times. Very nice guy, you
know. But yeah, we weren't. Idon't know how the the dressing
rooms are arranged. I justremember standing side stage.
Like I was really into Slipknot,so like, I'm side stage and I'd
never seen them live. And it wascrazy. You know, they when they
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get it, they gotten their shit.
And they get into full characteronce they get into that mode.
And when they were walking onstage, it was heavy, you know?
And once they started it's like,it was just amazing. I had such
a good time that day.
Chuck Shute (24:58):
That's awesome.
Yeah. Well, I'm excited for theSkid Row. That's gonna be a
great package. I think you guysare coming to Arizona and your
cars funny because you're comingto Phoenix with Skid Row, but
then you're coming to likeFlagstaff, which is funny
because that's like two hoursaway and good choice to come
there in the summer because it'shot as hell and Phoenix, so I
might drive up for that show,even though it's on like a
Wednesday.
Josh Todd (25:19):
Yeah. Work. You know, I don't know about other
singers, but I thrive in theheat. I like it hot. So that'll
be fine. Yeah, you
Chuck Shute (25:29):
have an interesting, I heard you talking
about your vocal tips and stuff.
Because I'm I'm alwaysinterested in that in those
kinds of things. Because when Ihear singers that they continue
to sound amazing. And your thingis that you don't drink any
water when you're singing,right? It's not the rule.
Josh Todd (25:47):
Yeah, I don't I don't that I haven't done that for a
long time. Now. I mean, Ihydrate a lot prior to going on
stage. But then once I, once Istart, I don't like it because
it tightens me up. You know, andI don't know why. But it just,
I'm way more flexible, and itfeels better. Without doing it,
you know. And it took me asecond to do that. Because I
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used to be in this nervous habitof always taking a sip between
every song and it was like, Isaw Steve Perry. From journey. I
saw like a live video of him andhe wasn't, he wasn't drinking
any water. And then I startedwatching a lot of artists, a lot
of pop artists, you know, just alot of singers with great vocal
technique, and they weren'tdrinking any anything, you know.
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And so I started working onthat. And it was like so much
better for me.
Chuck Shute (26:37):
Yeah, that's really fascinating, because I've done
so many of these interviews. I'dnever heard that before. But
that's a great tip for anyonelistening who wants to be a
singer? I know we've got acouple of minutes. Can you tell
the story? I thought this was sofascinating. one of your biggest
songs obviously is crazy bitch,but the way you wrote it the way
I remembered it, you called yourmom's voicemail and recorded all
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of his voicemail because youdidn't have a tape recorder.
That's
Josh Todd (27:02):
and did you know my mom and I are very close. And
she she's always been verysupportive of me. You know, I've
been I've been in bands since Iwas 15. You know, and one of the
first shows I did was a houseparty at my house. You know, my
my mother and my stepfather atthe time they left and they
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didn't know what I was doing.
But I we had gotten somebody'solder brother and sister we
pooled our money together. Wegot a keg of beer. We set it up
in the backyard. We we made thegarage like the backstage area
we set up in the living room andfucking you know. So sold
tickets set that back, you know,at the door, we made sure
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everybody came into thebackyard. So it's three bucks. I
had. We made money that night.
And we played the show and itwas like, we felt like it was
amazing. I felt like a rockstarwas like this is it. You know,
this is when all hell brokeloose. For me. It was like, I'm
never looking back. This is allI want to do. You know. So
anyways, my mom came home. Andshe's like, she kind of knew
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notice that some things werelike, you know, out of place.
And I just confess I was like,we had a party and you know, and
it was amazing. And we you know,anyways, you know, we've always
been very close. And so anyways,cut to crazy bitch. Yeah, I was
like, Mom, I don't want toforget this. I'm recording this.
Don't erase it. You know?
Chuck Shute (28:29):
That's a story. All right. I've never I've never
done this before, but I'm tryingto see if I can do the share
screen thing. I have a couple ofthings of trivia so there's
there's five pieces of triviahere I want to see if you know
which thing that I don't knowthe answer like there's got to
be one of one of these pick onethat says like, oh, there's no
way he knows that. So let's seeif this works. Let's first of
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all, see this here we go. Canyou see that?
Josh Todd (28:57):
Yes. First song you ever wrote is called bandana
Rosanna
Chuck Shute (29:05):
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, I know that song is thereany of these that you think like
oh there's no way that I there'sone of these that I don't know
the answer to
Josh Todd (29:13):
favorite breakfast place would have to be either
Chuck Shute (29:19):
I Hopper patties. I thought it was Waffle House.
Josh Todd (29:23):
Waffle House. Oh waffle house. Is it Yes.
Chuck Shute (29:28):
Yeah, the name of your dog's line and then yes,
the only one I just didn't knowwas your favorite comedian. I
think it might be Andrew DiceClay but I'm not sure.
Josh Todd (29:39):
Wait song he listened to on repeat while doing acid
was a YouTube song. Oh, no, no,that was sweating bullets. Yes.
Megadeth. Yeah, and favoritecomedian is definitely Sam
Kinison or George Carlin.
Chuck Shute (29:55):
Oh, okay. Okay. I didn't have that. That was the
one that I didn't know all theother ones. Yeah, I'd heard you
talking Don't store I was likewow this is fascinating stuff.
Josh Todd (30:02):
That's good man.
Chuck Shute (30:03):
Yeah I always in promoting a charity. Is there
any charities that you work withyou want to promote here at the
end?
Josh Todd (30:11):
I would be St. Jude's or Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of America.
Chuck Shute (30:15):
Okay, I'll put that in the show notes along with
your website and people canAwesome. Yeah album now. So
great. It's good stuff like Isaid I love our trainer
Josh Todd (30:25):
or any any local animal rescue in your area is
good too.
Chuck Shute (30:29):
Yes. Oh, I love that. Definitely. animals need
our help. Absolutely. So, thankyou so much for doing this. I
appreciate it,
Josh Todd (30:36):
man was great interview. Appreciate it. All
right. Thanks for listening.
Chuck Shute (30:40):
Absolutely. My thanks again to Josh Todd from
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new and if you're subscriberWelcome back. We got a great one
today Josh Todd from Buckcherryis here to tell us all about
their new album volume 10 comesout June 2, and they're touring
with one of my favorite bandsSkid Row. So we're going to talk
about the new album some oldstuff a little Josh, Chuck Todd
trivia, and more stick around.
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Ready to this interview? I'msure you've been doing a lot of
these lately.
Josh Todd (00:37):
Yeah, I've been doing a whole lot. Yeah, but it's
good. It's all good. You know,we got a great new record come
in, and this is part of it.
Chuck Shute (00:45):
Yeah, absolutely.
So let's talk about a newalbum's called volume 10. And
it's out June 2. Tell me aboutit because it's produced by
Marty Fredrickson. I'm sure heco wrote a lot of the tunes as
well talk about him because, Imean, his resume is amazing.
Aerosmith, Def Leppard MickJagger, Ozzy. I mean, he works
with these A listers. Was ithard to look him with a
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schedule?
Josh Todd (01:09):
No, you know, we've worked with him for a long time.
It goes way back to 15. We cowrote, he co wrote sorry, with
us, and he produced a couple ofrecords back then. And, and so
yeah, you know, we did hellbound with them and wrote a lot
of songs, you know, we gettogether, he's like, the six
band member, you know, it'slike, it's like you said, you
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know, he's worked with a liftguys and, and girls, and, you
know, Stevie and I, and we getin a room with him, you know,
we're always on high alert.
Because, you know, you know,we're gonna learn a lot and, and
also, you know, we want tosqueeze every, all the
information we can out of him,you know, and it's, it's really
a lot of fun. You know, we wenton a nine day songwriting
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session in Nashville, prior toactually recording the record.
And we wrote eight songs andnine days, it was incredible.
And we write really fasttogether, and we always do
what's best for the song, and wejust have this like magic, you
know, between me and Stevie andMarty, and it just works. So we
keep going back to that. Well.
Chuck Shute (02:14):
Yeah, no, it's definitely work. This is a
classic Buckcherry record. But Ithink there's also going to be
some a few surprises for fansalso the you know, some twists
and turns. Obviously, the firstcouple songs, let's get wild. I
mean, that's just like classiclike uplifting. I love the song
or the lyric adrenaline straightto my core. Yeah, it's, you
know, it's a classic Buckcherryis that that's assuming that's
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when you're gonna play live.
Josh Todd (02:38):
Yeah, we've already been playing that live and good
time and shine your light, youknow, we've been doing, we've
dropped all three of those, youknow? Yeah, it's, those are
really kind of quintessentialgood time rock and roll
Buckcherry songs, you know, butyou know, the record has a lot
of depth as well, as you weresaying, I think that's what
you're referring to. And songslike, you know, feels like love
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and pain and with you and stufflike that, you know, it's just,
it's a fun ride from beginningto end and can't wait for
everybody to hear it.
Chuck Shute (03:09):
Yeah, I was. You did my buddy's podcast, Clint
Schweitzer and he you weretalking you guys were talking
about feels like love. And Ithought it was interesting. It
was inspired by the Def Leppardhysteria. Like you're like, I
want to record his stereoversion for Buckcherry. And it
does kind of sound like that.
Josh Todd (03:25):
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what we talked about
prior to Marty and Stevie goingin and writing the music to it,
you know, I get obsessed withsongs, you know, and I was
really obsessed with hysteriafor a long time. I just thought
it was such a great song.
There's so many times that songis hit me when I'm driving. And
I just blast it in my car. AndI'm like, man, so good. I want
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one I want something like this,you know, and so I put it to
Marty and Stevie and they cameup with some great music for me
and I went to the hotel andwrote for like, two hours to get
to where it was, you know,lyrically and melodically and
actually, the melodies Martycame up with some of the
melodies in that phone and justcame together went really well.
Chuck Shute (04:12):
Yeah, that's a cool one. I think I know this one's
about but can you tell me thesong one and only because some
of the lyrics are reallypowerful in that one it's like
if we can i It's okay to readthe lyrics I don't want to give
too much yeah, yeah, but it justlike that lyric like if we just
do what we are told that talk isgetting old left me in the deep
end paralyzed with thinkingnothing can control this time is
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our one and only I was like, oh,that's that's really powerful
stuff.
Josh Todd (04:37):
Yeah, that's kind of like the sign of the times you
know, that song you know,everything really affected me.
And everybody for that matter,you know, the pandemic and
everything that was going on theUnited States and all the
fallout from everything and youknow, all this stuff, you know,
craziness on social media andnegativity and all all this
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stuff. It really He weighs onyou at times if you, you know,
give it too much power, youknow? And that's what came out,
you know, one and only?
Chuck Shute (05:07):
Yeah. Do you find yourself like I know, for me, I
feel like I have to limit mytime on watching, looking at the
news or social social mediabasically isn't news now. So I
feel like I have to, okay, Ineed to get off of that, you'd
have to do the same thing whereyou're like Tic breaker.
Josh Todd (05:21):
I do that. I'll tell you what I do. I stopped
watching the news. A few yearsago, I got a few years off the
news, which is great. You know,I do have a news feed. And my
but I only put in stuff that I'minterested in. So it's only
like, it's like, NationalGeographic and time and like the
Los Angeles Times and like stufflike that stuff. I'll just want
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to read and I'll keep up withcurrent events. But I don't
watch the news. Because it's it.
It plagues your mind. You know,I only know this from not doing
it anymore. You know, so? Yeah,so I don't do that. And then
social media, I limit to five to10 minutes a day. That's it
tops, I'm done. So Wow. Yeah,all that has really, really
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helped me and you know, onlybecause I just, you know, it was
just not healthy for me, becauseI did this, like experiment when
myself I go, I'm gonna do 30days off social media and see
how I feel, you know, and I feltgreat. You know what I mean? And
so I continued, and, you know,there's other things I do on
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social media. I, whenever I postsomething on my personal
Instagram, I turn off,commenting, you know, so, so I'm
so anyways, I'm not seekingvalidation, I'm not seeking any
of that, you know, it's strictlyto kind of let everybody know
what's going on musically. And,you know, where we're at, and,
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you know, shows or promotion.
And that's it, you know, andeverything else I'm done with,
you know, and it's really beenhealthy for me, you know, I
don't know about other people,but I dig it.
Chuck Shute (06:59):
No, that's Did you ever see that movie?
Josh Todd (07:03):
Yeah, social dilemma on Netflix. Yeah. And it was
after seeing that, too. I'mlike, Man, this is, this is
heavy, you know? And I thinkeverybody should see that, you
know, yeah, it's pretty.
Chuck Shute (07:16):
It makes me want to delete my social media. But
then, for me, it's like as apodcaster. Like, I need it.
Like, I have to have to promotemyself. I
Josh Todd (07:26):
mean, yeah, me too. I gotta do I gotta deal with it to
a certain degree for mybusiness. But you know, we also
have people that, you know, dothat and handle that and manage
that. And then I just check in,you know, very, very short
period of time, every day, makesure everything's cool.
Chuck Shute (07:43):
Oh, that's a nice.
So you do have people that kindof handle a lot of the business
side, or you can focus more onthe music? Yes. Okay. So like
with the tour, was it? Who'sobviously you in Skid Row? You
guys have the same publicist?
But was it your management thatkind of had that idea? I mean, I
love it, because Skid Row is oneof my favorite bands. So this is
like a dream tour for me.
Josh Todd (08:04):
Yeah, we're all friendly with those guys, you
know, before all this, and sothat was, that's good. That's
always good. You know, and thenwe, there was talk of it, and
the managers got together. Andso we booked a leg, you know,
like a whole month, and we wentout, we've already done it, you
know, and all like, so many ofthe shows sold out, I would say
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more than half of them sold out,you know, which is crazy. So,
you know, the promoters werefired up, the managers are fired
up, we're fired up. So Skid Row.
And so we decided to do a secondleg and a third leg we've
already booked and we're aboutto go out on the second leg
here. And, you know, a few days,like five days, six days, and
then and then we're doing athird leg already. And we're
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doing some shows in Canada withthem. And, and then there's talk
of doing a fourth leg becauseit's just selling so well. So,
you know, whenever somethinglike that happens, you just ride
a wave, you know, and right nowwe're riding the wave. They
dropped a record not too longago, and they got this great.
New singer Eric, he's, he'sawesome. And, you know, yeah,
they got a lot of momentum. Andwe got a lot of momentum with
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the new record as well. So it'sworking.
Chuck Shute (09:13):
Yeah, no, how does it work? Because you're both
great bands. And I mean, we'relooking at the levels that
you're out. I mean, how do youdecide who closes or who opens?
Or do you even care? Does itmatter as a co headlining like,
how do you
Josh Todd (09:25):
just tell headlining and they they end the night and
we're fine with that, you know,and we just we do the same
amount of time as far as settime. And that's how we do it.
Chuck Shute (09:36):
Awesome. I know, is there going to be a third like
opening bands or just YouTubeand that's it.
Josh Todd (09:41):
There is another band and I am drawing a blank right
now on who it is. But yes,there's one more that opens the
night.
Chuck Shute (09:48):
Okay, cool. And then you guys have some just
solo shows that you're doingbefore you hit the second leg or
the next leg?
Josh Todd (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, we continue to tour and they
everybody takes them away. Wecontinue but yeah, we do. We do
headlining shows in between and,and it's, it's all good.
Chuck Shute (10:07):
Yeah. Cool. So we're back to the album. The
song pain. Now was a cool one. Ifeel like that had it kind of
had like an Aerosmith dream onkind of vibe. And I'm gonna call
right now and say that song isgoing to change some lives. I
mean, I don't know about streamsor hit singles. I mean, of
course, all that stuff. So nice.
You guys gotta make a living.
But I feel like that song isgoing to change somebody's life,
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like someone's gonna be on adark path. They're gonna hear
that song. And it's gonna turnthings around. And I think it's
gonna save people. And so Iknow, you probably think a
little crazy, but I thinksomeone's gonna come up to you a
meet and greet and say, like,hey, that song changed my life.
So tell me about the processwith that, like, what inspired
it? And how did you write it?
Because that doesn't sound likea 15 minute writing session,
like with lit up or whatever?
Josh Todd (10:51):
Yeah, there's kind of a story behind pain, you know,
and thank you for all that. Imean, I really love the song as
well. And if you I'm gonna tellyou how it started, because
where it got to is like, it'scrazy, you know. So when we went
to go do our Songwriting withMarty in Nashville, we we go to
Nashville, and we go to hishouse, just to kind of powwow,
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listen to some of the old demos,get a game plan where we want to
be, you know, how we want tostart the songwriting day, the
next day and all that. And Ilook, and he's got a piano in
his house, and I said, Hey,where'd you get the piano? He's
like, Oh, I just got that. AndI'm like, it's really cool. And
I said, Hey, I would really,like I go, can you come up with
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like, the saddest song you cancome up with on the piano, and,
and I want to have like, just apiano vocal song for like, maybe
a hidden track on this record?
And he goes, Yeah, that'd becool. And that was it. Never. We
didn't talk about it anymore. Wejust went on. And we started
writing songs, you know, rocksongs. And we, we kept writing
and kept writing, and then wegot to feels like love and, and
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so I am, I'm hammering out thelyrics to feels like love and my
hotel room, I'm exhausted, I hadsang already a whole song. In
the morning, I broke for lunch,and then they got me the music a
little later. So I'm spent, youknow, it took me about two, two
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and a half hours to write feelslike love and, and then he hits
me with this voice note, andhe's like, Hey, I got I got this
idea for that piano song. And hesends me just two parts on piano
of the song, right. And I'mlike, fuck, and we only have
like, one more day or somethinglike that. And I, so I had to
get on it. And I didn't want toeven write I had nothing left I
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thought, you know, and so I'mjust kind of in a dark place in
my head that night. And it was aperfect time for me to, to
approach the song and I'm like,fucking, I'm gonna write the
song. And, and it's really aboutme, it's about, you know, my
kind of, like, my inner selves,things I know, I don't really
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talk about, you know, public,you know, with anybody. And
that's where it came from. Itcame from a very sad place
inside of me, you know, and Ithink everybody, everybody's
everybody deals with pain.
everybody deals with mentalpain, physical pain, and, and so
it was just a really goodsubject. Anyways, I go into the
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studio the next day, I recordfeels like love. And then I
said, Hey, Marty, I got thisidea for that piano song. And so
I sing it to him. And Stevie'sin the control room as well. And
we all just kind of had thismoment, you know, after I sing
it, I'm like, damn, this is thisis cool, you know? And then
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Marty's like, Okay, listen,stop, you know, I need to work
on a song, I need to, I need toput drums to it, I got to kind
of make it a song, you know,because there's only two parts
here. And I was like, Cool. Andso we knew that we had something
and it needed to go to anotherplace. And it was going to be
bigger than just some hiddentrack on a record. And so
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anyways, I come back and he'sput drums and bass and he put
this midsection with a funk andDuncan Duncan back and the whole
midsection. He added to it thatwasn't there. And then he ended
it with this crazy chord at theend. And it was like this huge,
episodic you know, amazing rocktrack. And he's like, I was
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like, damn, Marty. This is likeso much bigger than I thought it
was gonna be. And he goes, hegoes, Yeah, I think this is
Buckcherry is November rain. AndI was like, that's cool. And so
anyways, I put a little melodyand some words to the midsection
and created a bridge, you know,and then went and sang it and
and the rest is history. Youknow, it had to be on the
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record. It was just so good, youknow? And I'm so I'm so glad we
have that song but that's how itall happen.
Chuck Shute (15:00):
That's amazing.
That's a great story. I love theteamwork there. Because it's
like you. I mean, justlyrically, you can tell that
you're singing from a place oftrue emotion. And then what
Marty did to it and made it youknow, like, tweaked all those
things. It's like a great teamwork that came out perfectly in
my opinion.
Josh Todd (15:16):
Yeah. And, you know, prior to prior to that, we had
had the only tiff we had in thestudio was that day. So it kind
of brought that, you know, wewere all tired. And we just had
a little tiff over some of someold songs from the hell balance
spillover sessions that Ithought was going to be on the
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record, and we're all thinkingit doesn't fit. And it just
pissed me off, right. And so, wehad a little tiff, I went to
lunch, I sent a text apologizingfor you know, getting, you know,
upset and, and so anyways, itkind of spiraled into pain, you
know, and so it was perfect.
Chuck Shute (15:57):
That is perfect.
Yeah. I mean, I think peopleforget about that part of that,
like, this is a job and it isworking, it is stress. And it
sounds like you're putting in alot hours with stuff like this
with a
Josh Todd (16:07):
lot of hours. Yeah, a lot of songs. We, we we had
about 25 songs to pick from, youknow, to create this 10 Song
record, you know, and we alwaysdo that we were very thorough,
you know, in order to get a toput out a record, we want it to
be, you know, we want there tobe no filler, and it to be great
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from beginning to end for us,you know, so we feel like if we
do that, then we did our duediligence, and then you see what
happens when it finally hits thestreets, you know? And that's,
that's what we always do.
Chuck Shute (16:40):
Yeah, no, I think that one, I think the pain, I
think that's going to be apopular one. It's interesting,
too, because you guys canobviously put out the singles,
you put out three songs already.
Within once you put out the fullalbum, like, people kind of
choose right, like the song thatgets streams or whatever. Okay,
this is the most popular one.
Josh Todd (16:57):
Yeah, it's over at that point. It's in the public's
hands, you know, and they decideand they dictate what goes on
and, and that's cool that welove that because we want to
know what people are reactingto, you know, because we've been
sitting on this record sinceOctober of last year, you know,
so for it to finally get to theyou know, street is like, it's
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so exciting for us. Yeah, that'sreally cool. It's like It's like
giving birth, you know, you'vebeen there you've been, you've
been marinating on it, you know,it's been building and it's
time. Yeah. Is
Chuck Shute (17:31):
it kind of like Christmas? Like is it like it
would remind me of like openinga Christmas present, getting or
maybe giving a Christmas presentgetting to see people's
reactions to this.
Josh Todd (17:41):
And sometimes it's not what you think it's gonna
be, you know, and so that'sinteresting in its own way to,
Chuck Shute (17:47):
like, give me example that What do you mean? I
mean, sometimes
Josh Todd (17:51):
you think particular songs on your record are gonna
really react and they don'treact or other songs react in a
huge way and you just never sawit coming, you know? So stuff
like that, you know, I could gointo detail on path records, but
you know, it's just bizarre whatyou know, people gravitate
towards you or you're just like,wow, I never I didn't see that
(18:12):
coming you know.
Chuck Shute (18:14):
Now that's it's the same with like podcasting if I
post a clip or something, I go,Okay, this this clip this is
gonna change the world and likenobody's stupid. This is dumb. I
guess I'll do this. And thenpeople love it. I'm like wildly.
Josh Todd (18:28):
Or no, You never know what's gonna react with people.
It's it's it's so bizarre.
Chuck Shute (18:33):
It is interesting.
I love the guitar work on thisalbum too. Yeah, like the song
with you. I feel like that had areally bluesy, 70s rock but with
a heavier it kind of reminds meof the Scorpion song the zoo.
Josh Todd (18:46):
Yeah. It's because I when I came in and heard the
guitar work off that shit goingon. I'm like, fuck, man. It
sounds like Buckcherry Scorpionsong, you know, and I had a
laugh about it, you know? Andthen it started really kind of
growing on me. You know, atfirst I didn't really dig it,
you know? And then it startedgrowing on me. And now I love
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it.
Chuck Shute (19:09):
Yeah, and then like the song turned it on. There's
that's that's another bluesyriff but awesome guitar. So what
about the song? Keep on fightingbecause that's another catchy
one. Do you think that you wouldtry to get that used in like
sports or something like that? Ifeel like that could be a song
that they play at, like afootball game or something like
that.
Josh Todd (19:25):
Yeah, that would be even that or turn it on. I
always thought his turn it onthe chorus being great sports
own as well, you know? Yeah,well, we'll be visiting all
that, you know, when the recorddrops and trying to work at it,
you know, sports, and, you know,I think they're already playing
I think they're playing goodtime. We, they played it in a
(19:48):
hockey game, you know, we heardso, you know, I think a lot of
them could could work that way.
If you just chop it up, youknow, but um, we'll see.
Chuck Shute (19:57):
Ya know, I feel like because that's gotta be a
big piece of getting royaltieswith the music. I don't know if
you even care about that. Butlike, I mean, you put all this
work into it. It's like,obviously, you know, it's hard
to sell albums. Now you get somemoney for streams, but I feel
like the bigger piece of the piewould be like in a, you know,
sports arenas, movies, TVs,commercials, things like that.
Josh Todd (20:17):
Yes. All that is very important. Because it just gets
the awareness out it everythingis important, you know, wherever
it's played, you know, on radio,you know, TV, movies, sporting
events, advertisements, we'reopen to all that stuff.
Chuck Shute (20:32):
Yeah. Are you What are you listening to these days?
Is there music that your any newmusic that you're introduced to
listen to music sites, it'sfascinating that I interview
some musicians are like, I don'tlisten to music.
Josh Todd (20:43):
I listen to so much music. And but it's usually in
the pop genre and hip hop.
That's what I really listened toa lot. I listened to a lot of
pop music because it's reallymelody driven and singer driven.
And it's written by the bestsongwriters in the world. And so
yeah, I just bought I still buysingles. You know, I'm kind of
(21:03):
obsessed with a song calledfavorite song by by this artist.
To see to see, I don't know ifthat's how you pronounce it. I
love this song. Sure thing bythis artists, Miguel. That's a
dope ass song. I NL go back tothe old school, I got obsessed
with the Manhattan's shiningstar. Got really obsessive that
(21:28):
song. So you know, those arejust to name a few. But I'm
always when I hear a good song,I go out and buy it, you know,
and I make playlists on myphone. And, you know, I listen
to songs all the time,
Chuck Shute (21:41):
used to and you saw, or you're using your phone
to listen to music, or youlisten to on the streaming, you
don't buy the physical exam,people don't buy the physical
vinyl or CDs.
Josh Todd (21:51):
No, I buy I go to iTunes and I buy singles. You
know, and I'll if I hearsometimes I'll hear a song on
satellite radio, you know,because I have satellite radio,
or Spotify or whatever. And I'llbuy the single because I want to
I want to, I want to take thesong and put it in my library
and make playlists. And I liketo do that myself. You know,
(22:12):
instead of like just putting iton some playlist and like
Spotify or some
Chuck Shute (22:17):
Yeah, when you're in your big prints fan to write
you guys because you guys talkedabout
Josh Todd (22:22):
love friends. Yeah, yeah. Did you read that I met
miss him. I miss him so much.
Did you ever meet him? I nevermet him. But Matt has people.
And you know the people who workfor him and they've been very
complimentary to Buckcherry. Andat one point, we sold out way
back in the day First Avenue.
And we got to play there and wesold it out. And that was like a
(22:45):
big thing for us and cut to someof our band members went to
what's his place? He lives Iforget what it's called Paisley
Park. They went to Paisley Parkto do the tour. And they were
being briefed by the securityguy there. And he had he had
worked with friends for a longtime and he was like telling
(23:08):
them okay, this is what's goingto happen and yada yada yada.
He's like, what band he goes in.
And Stevie goes, Oh, we're andwe're in Buckcherry. And he goes
Buckcherry, we'd love butcherylike we went and saw you guys do
crazy bitch. And we went whenyou guys sold out First Avenue.
And I was like, Oh my God. Theyknow Buckcherry like, that was
(23:28):
like so huge for us, you know,to know that they they knew
about that show and they knewabout you know our songs and to
be on Prince's radar was likefucking amazing. You know what I
mean?
Chuck Shute (23:39):
That's amazing.
There must be a lot of thosekind of pinch me moments that
you've had. I mean, you'vetoured with some of the greatest
bands of all time, I think.
Josh Todd (23:46):
Yeah, we have a tour with a lot of our heroes. Very
grateful for that. You know, thelist goes on my kiss AC DC
Aerosmith. Like all those. Weeven did a show with Bon Jovi
back in the day, you know, whichwas which is classic, you know,
and then, you know, we've touredwith, you know, I mean, John
shows on stage with like, onetime we did a show in Japan and
(24:08):
it was us, deep purple. And thenSlipknot was such a strange,
like lineup. Oh, yeah. Likethis. Is this amazing, you know,
Chuck Shute (24:17):
did you get interactions with because a lot
of times the bands have separatedressing rooms and stuff, right?
So you don't actually get tolike interact with them.
Josh Todd (24:24):
I met Cory Taylor a few times. Very nice guy, you
know. But yeah, we weren't. Idon't know how the the dressing
rooms are arranged. I justremember standing side stage.
Like I was really into Slipknot,so like, I'm side stage and I'd
never seen them live. And it wascrazy. You know, they when they
(24:44):
get it, they gotten their shit.
And they get into full characteronce they get into that mode.
And when they were walking onstage, it was heavy, you know?
And once they started it's like,it was just amazing. I had such
a good time that day.
Chuck Shute (24:58):
That's awesome.
Yeah. Well, I'm excited for theSkid Row. That's gonna be a
great package. I think you guysare coming to Arizona and your
cars funny because you're comingto Phoenix with Skid Row, but
then you're coming to likeFlagstaff, which is funny
because that's like two hoursaway and good choice to come
there in the summer because it'shot as hell and Phoenix, so I
might drive up for that show,even though it's on like a
Wednesday.
Josh Todd (25:19):
Yeah. Work. You know, I don't know about other
singers, but I thrive in theheat. I like it hot. So that'll
be fine. Yeah, you
Chuck Shute (25:29):
have an interesting, I heard you talking
about your vocal tips and stuff.
Because I'm I'm alwaysinterested in that in those
kinds of things. Because when Ihear singers that they continue
to sound amazing. And your thingis that you don't drink any
water when you're singing,right? It's not the rule.
Josh Todd (25:47):
Yeah, I don't I don't that I haven't done that for a
long time. Now. I mean, Ihydrate a lot prior to going on
stage. But then once I, once Istart, I don't like it because
it tightens me up. You know, andI don't know why. But it just,
I'm way more flexible, and itfeels better. Without doing it,
you know. And it took me asecond to do that. Because I
(26:09):
used to be in this nervous habitof always taking a sip between
every song and it was like, Isaw Steve Perry. From journey. I
saw like a live video of him andhe wasn't, he wasn't drinking
any water. And then I startedwatching a lot of artists, a lot
of pop artists, you know, just alot of singers with great vocal
technique, and they weren'tdrinking any anything, you know.
(26:31):
And so I started working onthat. And it was like so much
better for me.
Chuck Shute (26:37):
Yeah, that's really fascinating, because I've done
so many of these interviews. I'dnever heard that before. But
that's a great tip for anyonelistening who wants to be a
singer? I know we've got acouple of minutes. Can you tell
the story? I thought this was sofascinating. one of your biggest
songs obviously is crazy bitch,but the way you wrote it the way
I remembered it, you called yourmom's voicemail and recorded all
(26:59):
of his voicemail because youdidn't have a tape recorder.
That's
Josh Todd (27:02):
and did you know my mom and I are very close. And
she she's always been verysupportive of me. You know, I've
been I've been in bands since Iwas 15. You know, and one of the
first shows I did was a houseparty at my house. You know, my
my mother and my stepfather atthe time they left and they
(27:22):
didn't know what I was doing.
But I we had gotten somebody'solder brother and sister we
pooled our money together. Wegot a keg of beer. We set it up
in the backyard. We we made thegarage like the backstage area
we set up in the living room andfucking you know. So sold
tickets set that back, you know,at the door, we made sure
(27:46):
everybody came into thebackyard. So it's three bucks. I
had. We made money that night.
And we played the show and itwas like, we felt like it was
amazing. I felt like a rockstarwas like this is it. You know,
this is when all hell brokeloose. For me. It was like, I'm
never looking back. This is allI want to do. You know. So
anyways, my mom came home. Andshe's like, she kind of knew
(28:08):
notice that some things werelike, you know, out of place.
And I just confess I was like,we had a party and you know, and
it was amazing. And we you know,anyways, you know, we've always
been very close. And so anyways,cut to crazy bitch. Yeah, I was
like, Mom, I don't want toforget this. I'm recording this.
Don't erase it. You know?
Chuck Shute (28:29):
That's a story. All right. I've never I've never
done this before, but I'm tryingto see if I can do the share
screen thing. I have a couple ofthings of trivia so there's
there's five pieces of triviahere I want to see if you know
which thing that I don't knowthe answer like there's got to
be one of one of these pick onethat says like, oh, there's no
way he knows that. So let's seeif this works. Let's first of
(28:50):
all, see this here we go. Canyou see that?
Josh Todd (28:57):
Yes. First song you ever wrote is called bandana
Rosanna
Chuck Shute (29:05):
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, I know that song is thereany of these that you think like
oh there's no way that I there'sone of these that I don't know
the answer to
Josh Todd (29:13):
favorite breakfast place would have to be either
Chuck Shute (29:19):
I Hopper patties. I thought it was Waffle House.
Josh Todd (29:23):
Waffle House. Oh waffle house. Is it Yes.
Chuck Shute (29:28):
Yeah, the name of your dog's line and then yes,
the only one I just didn't knowwas your favorite comedian. I
think it might be Andrew DiceClay but I'm not sure.
Josh Todd (29:39):
Wait song he listened to on repeat while doing acid
was a YouTube song. Oh, no, no,that was sweating bullets. Yes.
Megadeth. Yeah, and favoritecomedian is definitely Sam
Kinison or George Carlin.
Chuck Shute (29:55):
Oh, okay. Okay. I didn't have that. That was the
one that I didn't know all theother ones. Yeah, I'd heard you
talking Don't store I was likewow this is fascinating stuff.
Josh Todd (30:02):
That's good man.
Chuck Shute (30:03):
Yeah I always in promoting a charity. Is there
any charities that you work withyou want to promote here at the
end?
Josh Todd (30:11):
I would be St. Jude's or Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of America.
Chuck Shute (30:15):
Okay, I'll put that in the show notes along with
your website and people canAwesome. Yeah album now. So
great. It's good stuff like Isaid I love our trainer
Josh Todd (30:25):
or any any local animal rescue in your area is
good too.
Chuck Shute (30:29):
Yes. Oh, I love that. Definitely. animals need
our help. Absolutely. So, thankyou so much for doing this. I
appreciate it,
Josh Todd (30:36):
man was great interview. Appreciate it. All
right. Thanks for listening.
Chuck Shute (30:40):
Absolutely. My thanks again to Josh Todd from
Buckcherry new album is calledvolume 10. It's available June 2
everywhere. Check it out, andmake sure to see them live on
tour with Skid Row. To myfavorites together should be an
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