July 2, 2024 • 32 mins
What happens when a passionate musician decides to support the local music scene? Meet Jordan Schmelzer, also known as Jordan Anthony on Facebook, as he embarks on an ambitious journey with QC Booking to inject new life into the Quad Cities' music culture. From his time playing in bands like Phantom Threat and Crimson Clean Sweep to his endeavors in Texas, Jordan's story is packed with determination and a vision to create unforgettable live music experiences.
The pandemic may have silenced stages, but the local music scene is roaring back, thanks to dedicated individuals like Jordan and other community champions like wanting to see it continue and thrive. Hear how different groups are playing a crucial role in this resurgence. Jordan also sheds light on his experiences in concert lighting and his commitment to being at every possible show to support the scene. Take a trip down memory lane with mentions of Seven Dust concerts in Clinton, Iowa, and look forward to the exciting expansion plans for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. This episode is a must-listen for any band eager to join the vibrant Midwest music community.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you, we'll see you next time.
(00:51):
Hey, welcome to another episodeof Dial the Wild podcast.
I got Jordan Schmelzer, is thatright, schmelzer?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, it's Jordan Schmelzer, anthony on Facebook,
but that's my middle name,anthony on Facebook but that's
my middle name.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and I saw you had a venture that you were
jumping into, which is similarto what I'm trying to do down
here, about an hour and a halfsouth of you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And you're starting a venture called QC Booking.
Yep, yeah, it's an idea I'vehad for a little while.
I wanted to do some morebooking in the Quad Cities.
I'm not really in the QuadCities area, I'm just outside of
the Quad Cities area in a towncalled Muscatine but I wanted to
get that started and do morefor the scene.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Absolutely.
Do you yourself play in bandsor play shows, or is this
something you're just setting upto bring in bands you enjoy?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I've been in a few Quad Cities bands, so
originally I started a band acouple years ago.
It was Phantom Threat.
I started that band with a fewof my buddies and I played
around with them for a littlebit.
We got some of our shows bookedand then I ended up playing
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with this band called CrimsonClean Sweep after that, and then
I ended up moving to Texas fora little while, so I lived down
there and then I decided to moveback up and start doing this
excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, I'm very familiar with the Phantom Threat
guys.
They they came down and playedmy first DTW event and they're
they're a lot of fun, they're agood group.
Um, and then, uh, knowing aboutthe Muscatine area, you know,
I've been over to Contrary.
I've been over to Contrary,I've been over to Skinny's.
I know what you're dealing withover there, man.
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That's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's a cool spot.
I've been wanting to get someshows lined up in Muscatine like
the brew.
There's a few spots.
I was actually planning onbuying a PA system to be able to
put some shows in that redbrick building down by the river
down there.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yep, absolutely.
I think we played down there ahundred years ago when I was.
I was in a group called openthe abyss and I played with
Dustin Demitz and some of thoseguys that were that I went to
school with at the time and thenplayed with a lot of just a lot
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of local QC bands.
I love what's going on with thescene in the QC area.
So having this kind of service,you know, or this kind of you
know, this opportunity to kindof take all the pieces of what's
going on, you know, in thatscene and and and find a way to
kind of mesh it together, Ithink you're onto something
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there, just because, like I said, it's hopping.
You've got hate division,you've got Wyvern, you've got
pit Lord so many good groups upthere that you know they're not
only, they're not only killingit musically, but they're good
guys too.
They're a lot of fun to bearound.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, so I got a show booked, actually in August,
which is going to be with Necronfrom Wisconsin, so I have that
in the works.
I have a few of those guys likeHate Division, dive, first
Wyvern, like a lot of the localQCX that I'm going to be getting
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onto that show, so I'm prettyexcited for that one.
I have a few others in theworks too which I'm pretty
excited for.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But yeah, those are all pretty cool guys in the
works too, which I'm prettyexcited for.
But yeah, those are all prettycool guys.
So is it?
You've got certain venues thatare looking to bring bands in,
or you got bands that arelooking for venues?
Is it a little bit of both?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
yeah, um.
So, like I said before, I wastrying to look at buying this
big pa system so I can just putit in these halls myself and
just run it out of it, because Iwas working with I'm seeing
about Skylark putting on a fewshows there and they have the
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in-house system and everything,which is nice.
But I'd like to be able to, youknow, put them on and in like
an actual hall and just run themmyself.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Obviously, like I was looking at, uh, trying to see
about reaching out to them aswell, but yeah, because a lot of
times these connections aremade because a couple bands are
like dude, let's do a showtogether and then before you
know it, you know okay who'sgonna do sound or where are we
gonna do it, and a lot of timesthose shows come together and
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they work out just fine.
But when you have a show whereyou have a promoter or you have,
um, you have the producer, youhave you know the, everything
set in place that all these guysgot to do is come and set up
and play it's.
It's a really comfortableatmosphere for for a lot of
bands, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So yeah, and um, being in the scene long enough,
it feels nice being able to knowa lot of the people already and
, uh, being like knowing justinfrom skylark uh, he's a good guy
, just being able to set thoseshows up and be able to make
them happen.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Skylark's a good time.
I love the Hilltop Drop.
I know it was kind of a smalltight area, but I loved going in
there and seeing shows.
It just reminded me of anold-school venue, just like a
packed Legion Hall that we usedto go to shows back in the day.
Raccoon Motel is a lot of fun.
(06:47):
Just went up there not too longago.
No, it wasn't Raccoon Motel,what's the other one?
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The one in Davenport.
Yeah, they have a villagetheater as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, village theaters there.
I just saw Wyvern there not toolong ago for their EP show,
which was really good.
Um shoot, it was just up therenot too long ago to see uh god
war's last show with um rascals.
That's the one I'm thinking of.
That's a great venue too, sojust a lot of potential.
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There's a lot of talent upthere and I think if you get in
the right spot with the rightpeople and and you know, make
those connections, it takes andhe's a kenny's a pretty cool guy
from rascals too.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I talked to him quite a bit.
Um, he owns the venue.
Uh, he's a really nice guy towork with, um, so, yeah, I'm I'm
really looking forward to doingthis more in the Quad Cities.
I mean, the scene's beengetting way bigger the last
couple of years, so I'm excitedto see where that goes in the
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near future.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I think that's going to be a really big thing.
Yeah, I think it's a great idea.
Where did you start coming upwith the idea to do this?
Like you said, you were playingwith some bands, you moved away
and then when you came backyou're like this area needs
somebody to to bring these clubsand bands together and put
these shows together.
Like when did you startthinking about doing that?
And you know kind of what wasthe inspiration behind that and
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just um, how do you kind of seeit moving forward, just just
starting out uh, yeah, the pastfew years I've been booking a
lot of my uh, my unbanned showsonto um, to bills.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Like we got a few shows and, uh, I set some up in
waterloo, actually at this placecalled Octopus, which is a
pretty cool spot it's like atiny little dive bar up there
around the Cedar Valley area andIowa City.
I booked a couple shows at ElRey's and I was.
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We played a few shows at Gabe'stoo, which is a cool spot, but
so I've been doing that for awhile.
I just never have like putother bands that aren't my own
onto shows.
So I'm pretty excited to bringother bands other than my own on
, so like shows.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
To make that happen is that's something I've never
really done before is put otherbands onto shows that aren't
like my own, you know yeah, yeah, my first show, I think, was
majority of Quad City bands andthen after that I tried really
hard just pulling bands fromdifferent areas.
You know I wanted to try andget these scenes together bands
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from Quincy, bands from peoriaand springfield and in the quad
cities, and it's just a lot offun, even even with your, your
core group of bands and andvenues and stuff.
Sometimes you get those bandsfrom out of the area and you
kind of see how their scene runsand how their scene works and
just meet some really goodpeople and have a good time with
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them as well yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I've been meaning to pull some bands from like the
Chicago scene Cause I knowthere's a pretty few good bands
over there.
I was going to get try to getblind equation portals onto a
bill.
I have a bill from blindequations other band, exosphere
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on their show coming up in Julywhich I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That would be great man.
And then you just kind of buildup from there and you try not
to spend any more than you haveto and you don't promise things
you can't provide.
And then after that you justkind of build on what you have,
hoping that the show you justhad helps pay for the next one.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So, yeah, I have this flyer guy that he makes pretty
good flyers, that he actuallyhas done stuff for Gojira.
His name is Necromold onInstagram, but he's a pretty
good guy to work with too,making flyers and whatnot.
Um, it does, uh, add up alittle bit, you know, with, um,
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these professional flyers andgetting that made, which I'm I'm
sure you you know about.
But, um, I'm I'm looking to putin quite a bit to the scene.
That's what I feel like thescene has done for me.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah and uh.
Like what bands through theyears in within the Quad Cities
scene have you grown up watchingor looked up to or or really
enjoy still maybe putting on youknow, spotify or something.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Um, a Muscatine band, specifically like Divine the
Masses.
I used to listen to themthroughout like high school and
I was always just jamming theirmusic.
They're they're always prettygood.
Big influence Dustin from thatband I know he's from Muscatine,
those are all pretty cool guys.
But yeah, I grew up just goingto shows and seeing a lot of
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different bands, like exitemergency that's another band,
that was the quad cities band.
They're pretty cool and I knowthey're now all in eugene levy,
which is a pretty cool uh qcband as well, if you've heard of
them.
But uh, eugene levy, um, sleepwell is a pretty good example
too.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But yeah, those are all cool guys and then you guys
get a lot of bands from, like Isaid, outside the area to come
in and play too.
I know that hardship comes inand plays every once in a while
from waterloo love those guys,uh.
And it just seems like everytime I come up for a show, you
know, in the Quad Citiessomewhere, I usually go to see
my buddies in different bands,but then you run into like
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another band you haven't heardof, that is in the Quad Cities
or not far from, and you're like, wow, these guys are good too.
You know, they just kind of popout of the woodwork.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah yeah.
There's a lot of talent in thescene and I'm hoping to bring
more of that.
Common Choir is another example.
I want to try to bring them inthe next few months.
Just a lot of great bandsaround here that need more
exposure.
I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I feel like Absolutely, and you don't know
where it could lead.
You can start with booking andthen, before you know it, I
don't know, maybe end up with alabel or something someday or
some promotion type agency.
But this is a good place tostart, just trying to make the
connections and and bring peopleand venues and stuff together
and see you know kind of whereit goes, because you really
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don't know how well it's goingto go until you get a few shows
into it, because you reallydon't know how well it's going
to go until you get a few showsinto it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, definitely, I've actually been trying to do
more with.
There's a metalcore band that Imight be playing with soon, so
I'm trying to do more with mymusic as well, other than
booking.
Booking's always been somethingimportant to me, but as well as
the music, so I'm trying to getback into more bands and play
around with that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You're looking for chemistry.
You know with different dudesthat you play with and you find
out real quick.
You know which dudes you enjoyplaying with and which dudes you
like hanging out with but maybenot playing music with.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I've had that.
I've had that conversation witha lot of different dudes on
here about.
You know, hey, I don't mindplaying music but you know I try
not to go too close to this orthat just because I don't know.
It seems like a lot of us inthe scene now are 30, 40 year
old dads and we're just kind ofgetting back to playing music
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and, you know, checking,checking stuff out and trying to
be part of things.
And when we were younger androwdy it was about going to
shows and throwing down andcausing problems, but anymore
it's just, you know, we justwant to go and see good bands
and enjoy our buddies in thescene and hang out with the
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homies and do our thing.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know, enjoy our buddies in the scene and hang
out with the homies and and doour thing.
You know, yeah, no, um, I'm a,I'm a little younger than what
uh, those older guys in thescene, but uh, I've always, you
know, been around it and I'm I'mglad that's starting to um have
a resurgence.
Um, but, yeah, I've beenplaying with bands for a few
years now but I've uh been ableto make some good connections
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through it.
Um, I'm only 25 right now.
I'm turning 26 in a few months,but it'll uh, it's nice being
able to see how the scene isgrowing Um, because I I know
from a few of my old buddies andin my old bands that are older
than me, they said, like how thescene was so big at one point
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but they felt like it was guysstarting to die off for a little
while.
And but when we even when westarted, uh phantom I know a few
of those a couple of those guystold me that how the scene uh
kind of died for a little, butthey feel like it's coming back
pretty big right now.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, absolutely.
And you know the COVIDsituation didn't help anything.
Everybody was cooped up andkept inside.
And then, you know, it was justa matter of trying to get over
that awkwardness of, okay, whatdo I do with my hands now that I
can go outside or, you know, beable to do something.
And, um, I think once guys wereable to be like man, I really
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miss going to a club or going toa bar or to a venue and and
seeing a heavy band you know ittook that and just guys like hey
, we've been working on thismaterial, we want to get it out
and show somebody and so afterall that's said and done, then
it's like, all right, well,let's get these groups together,
let's get these venues together, let's see what we can do.
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We'll see what we can get going,and I think that it's really
it's taken off well in the quadcities.
Um, I know tim gale over in inquincy with his uh, midwest
Monster Productions.
He's killing it over there withbands.
Every month he has a productionof some sort.
And then you see what bandslike Darker Than Fiction out of
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Peoria and then bands like DarkSurface that are coming out of
Springfield, which is spreadingover into the Bloomington area
and then into the Jacksonvillearea.
And it's just cool how to seeit, how it's building itself
back up and kind of spreading.
And it takes people that likesto put together shows and want
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to maintain it and see it behealthy.
It takes that kind of person tokeep it going.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So, yeah, it uh, it really feels like out of um all
the scenes.
Like the Des Moines scene hasgrown quite a bit last couple
years, but I feel like the QC uhhas taken off lot faster, which
is pretty cool to see Becauseyou know, like Die First and
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Hate Division coming out thelast couple of years, even like
Post AD, they were playing for afew years and then they started
coming back playing a lot ofshows now too.
So that's pretty cool to seethem start playing more back in
the Quad Cities.
So I think they took a breakfor a little while but it's cool
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to see them coming back.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They're coming back, but they're one of those bands.
I've told several friends nowyou know I've had them on two of
my shows and I've gone up totwo or three shows in the Quad
Cities that they've been on thecard and they're one of those
bands.
Every time you see them theyget better.
You know they improve each timeyou see them, which is it's.
They're fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So I'm looking forward to seeing them again
soon yeah, I'm looking forwardto that uh July 27th show at uh
at Rascals that I put on, withthem on it.
I think that's going to be areally great show and has a lot
of great bands, has a Des Moinesband, has a Chicago band on it
as well, so I'm really lookingforward to seeing how the crowd
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reception of that is.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Sure.
So who's Jordan?
What do you do?
What's your, what's your dayjob?
What?
What do you enjoy doing?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
um, right now I'm, uh , working in muscatine.
I work at, uh, must go lighting, okay, um, we make stadium
lights, but I've always grown upin the muscatine area.
It's just, uh, I felt the scenehasn't been quite there is what
I would like to try to make itcoming up, because Muscatine,
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growing up, never really seemedto have that scene anymore as
what the Quad Cities has.
So that's why I feel likeputting on shows in the Quad
Cities right now.
I'm going to try to start withthat and then I'm going to try
working at the Muscatine sceneonce I can get that going.
But, yeah, right now I, I justI work at Musco, um, and I try
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to go to as many shows I can inthe night.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So, Absolutely, and I I really enjoy going up to the
Quad Cities just because it justseems like the community gets
around events.
I, you go up there to an SCWwrestling event the little place
called Bluegrass Iowa andyou'll have 200 people in that
room.
You know they absolutely loveit.
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You go up and someone's got anew beer unveiling at a brewery
or something, and then you'vegot, you know, two or 300 people
in there to check it out.
The place is always packed forSteamwheeler games.
It's always packed forSteamwheeler games.
It's always packed for hockeygames.
You know baseball does wellthere as well, and I just, you
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know I really enjoy going upthere.
I enjoy being far enough awayfrom it that I get to go up
there and enjoy it when I go upthere.
But, like you know, a neat area, it's a fun area, it's big
enough you can find whatever youwant to do, go wherever you
want to go, but it's smallenough to like you're not
overwhelmed by traffic or orchaos.
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Really.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I think it's.
Uh, it's really cool whatyou're doing for the Macomb
scene, because I know that's asmaller type town too and, um,
like is it?
Is it a little bit harder tobring those bands to Macomb, or
I didn't know how that wouldit's.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's difficult to get bands to Macomb.
It's difficult.
It's difficult to get the scenein Macomb.
I would say metal hardcore,metalcore, deathcore, whatever
you want to call it.
We've done well.
You know, maybe a hundred orfew people come into different
shows.
I've got a great venue that Iwork with that.
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You know Caleb, I've been.
It's been no secret of minethat he has been very, very
instrumental in helping with myshows.
I found sponsors to help fund,you know, the first few shows so
that you know you can try andcarry that on and keep it moving
.
Bands do fairly well in Macombbut a lot of times you're
talking about like cover bandtype stuff.
Your Captain Quirks, yourCaptain Geech Revel in Red.
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They played in Bushnell lastnight.
You know your your 80s band.
It's just bands that people cansing and dance to.
They do really well in the area, I think mostly because it's an
older crowd, but there arestill enough people around that
are interested in heavy music.
I think a big part of it islike we don't have our metal
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hardcore band in macomb area.
You know we don't have our bandthat we can draw other bands
into to come play with them.
A lot of times it's me just um,getting a hold of of three or
four bands and figuring out whocan play, what can happen, and
then you know, hey, when do youguys want to play what's?
You want to play last, you wantto play first, and then we just
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work it out.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You know, it's a lot, like I said, we're older now
and it's a lot easier to it'sharder because, you know, now I
got to see if my buddy has ababysitter for his kids or
something or I got to figure outhow he can bring his kids to
the show, but know they havethat um I know they have that
college down there as well, so Ididn't know if that usually
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brings in some of that crowd aswell, and believe it or not,
we're actually surprised that,like, a lot of the crowd isn't
isn't a whole lot of collegekids, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It's mostly just folks in the area that enjoy
metal music.
So, um, we've kind of sloweddown our productions over summer
, just because fourth of july,memorial day, heritage days, all
these towns are having theirown little, because I actually
live in bushnell and all theselittle towns have their own
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little festivals and stuff andit I don't.
I don't really want to goagainst or try to compete
against, you know, otherpeople's events.
So, um, once it starts to cooldown and people don't want to be
outside in the cold orsomething, then we'll look at
throwing a few more thingstogether.
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But yeah, you'll figure outwhile you're doing this the
logistics of what works and whatdoesn't work.
You know, my first event we puton four bands.
It went great.
My second event we tried five.
It was a mess.
The third event, we went backto four and it went pretty well
again.
So it's just the differentbattles you got to fight.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I've been trying to, you know, bring in more
alternative bands as well, notjust metal, because I want to
get the scene to be able to havea lot of diversity to it.
And I know the guys in likeHouse of Animals I'm not sure if
they're still doing muchanymore, but I put them on a
show last year actually, sothat's kind of when I started
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booking um.
Or I put it on at rascals andso we had crimson clean sweep,
um, a metal band from the qc.
Uh, this was before I joined itum, but we had those guys and
um at house of animals, so itwas a mixed bill and I was I was
real excited to bring moreinclusion, you know, to the quad
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cities, not just metal bandsand that's it um.
I've always liked bringing likealternative, uh punk bands
around, um, so I'm gonna keeptrying to do more of that, like
bringing more alternative anddifferent acts around that
aren't just metal.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Absolutely.
And we've got a I got John PCshow coming to do an event for
me here this next week andthey're kind of like a
psychedelic alternative rock,bluesy.
You know type of sweepingguitar type of group and they're
a lot of fun.
I've gotten to see them a fewtimes.
But you know type of sweepingguitar type of group and and
they're a lot of fun.
I've gotten to see them a fewtimes.
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But you know, and knowing yourcrowd's, a big part of it too.
You know, if you're going toput on a metal event, you have
to expect that you're onlydepending on the metal scene.
You bring in an alternativerock type bands.
That's something that's goingto connect with a lot more
people and you hope that you geta few more people than than uh,
than what you initially hadadvertised to, I guess, because
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yeah just putting on like afundraising event helps too.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So it seems like these past couple years mainly
these past few years I noticedthe qc has been more middle
metal driven, which is is reallycool to see.
Um, but it would definitely beawesome to see more of those
alternative bands around also.
So that's pretty cool thatyou're putting that on down
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there.
But, um, yeah, I reallydefinitely want to try to bring
more like psychedelic, uh rocktype stuff over here and see if
that goes well I think it would.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Um.
And then once you figure out,you know I don't want what crowd
is going to stick around tillnine, ten o'clock at night, what
crowd is going to stick aroundtill midnight, you know, do I
want to have it in a bar or do Ijust want to get a Legion Hall
and do most of it myself?
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You know, you start to siftthrough it, you see what
situations work best with withdifferent groups of people.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, a venue.
A venue I'm I'm trying to workwith right now.
They're out of East Moline butthey haven't really hosted shows
there in a while.
It's called Racer's Edge andthat's a cool little spot out
there.
So I'm trying to bring moreshows to that area too in East
Moline, because mainly in theQuad Cities you have like
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Village Theater or Skylark, butyou don't really hear much shows
happening around east mulling,so I'm trying to push it out
there too excellent.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No, where can, uh, where can folks find you?
What's what?
What do you got going on on thesocials?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
uh.
So my instagram, my, my main isuh, jordan anthony drums.
Uh, my qc booking is uh, atcbooking.
You can find me on Facebook atQC booking as well, or just my
main page is Jordan Anthony.
So that's mainly all my socials.
I have TikTok as well.
You can reach me on that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Okay, and if, if folks have a band or have an act
or something that they'reinterested in bringing to town,
they can get ahold of you andand see, um you know what events
you got coming up and and seewhere you can fit folks in and,
um, hopefully, keep bringing amore diverse crowd and more
diverse music to your area.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm definitely trying to branch out and get
more people over here.
So if anybody anybody you knowthat's watching this has a band,
you can always reach out to me.
I'm trying to get somethingbooked for uh, for a band and
from clinton, so I'm prettyexcited for that.
A lot more stuff is gonnaprobably be happening in august,
september, um shooting forearly next year as well.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Absolutely.
It seems like growing upClinton.
Was it just me?
Or did Seven Dust play inClinton?
Like every other month?
It seemed like growing up.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, I did see Seven Dust once, but it was out of
Cedar Rapids.
But, um, yeah, those venues upthere too.
I'm trying to get in touch with, uh, cedar Rapids, Iowa City
area.
I don't want to just stick tothe same area, so I'm definitely
trying to do more up there too.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Maybe Clinton, that would be a cool spot yeah, I
don't know why, but it justseems like every other year
growing up it's like, hey, sevenDust is in Clinton again.
I don't know if they just likedit there or whether they had a
connection there or what, butit'll be fun to see.
You know, with the differentgroups and stuff, and if you get
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into touring acts comingthrough town and finding a spot
for them to play, it'll beinteresting to see how you take
this thing and how it grows.
If anybody's looking to get upinto the Iowa area and play some
shows, get a hold of Jordan atQC Booking.
I know that it's a lot more funto have people call you and ask
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you to put on a show than it isto to call bands and beg them
to come.
So, um, you know, and you'llhave a little bit of both but,
like I said, it's fun, it'sstressful but it's rewarding in
the end and it's just fun to tosee what all the bands in this
area or I'm gonna say themidwest area see, what they've
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been able to put together andbuild, and you just want to do
what you can to try and maintainit.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, it's something I've always loved doing, just
booking.
So looking forward to doingmore of that, bringing more
regional Midwest spans into thepicture, into the QC scene.
So definitely looking forwardto all of that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, man.
Well, I'll let you go.
We'll get some links and stuffposted with this podcast and if
anybody wants to get up northand play some shows there in
Iowa, give them a shout.
You can give me a shout on Dialto Wild and I'll get it to him.
Either way you want to do it,we will try and get it going.
So thanks for coming on.
Good luck with this.
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Let me know when your shows arecoming.
We'll get them posted and we'llsee if we can't get some crowds
headed your way.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, definitely Thanks.
I appreciate you uh giving methe chance to talk.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
No, I, you know I'm I'm passionate about getting
people down here to play music,and it sounds like you're
passionate about getting peopleup here to play music and it
sounds like you're passionateabout getting people up there to
play more music.
So you know it's as long as thescene works together and folks
work together to put on goodshows of good venues with good
bands.
I you know we shouldn't see itdie off again in our lifetime,
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so yeah, well, thanks a lot, Iappreciate it no worries.
Thanks, man yep.
Well, thanks a lot.
I appreciate it no worries.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Thanks, man.
Thank you, we'll see you next time.
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Hey, welcome to another episodeof Dial the Wild podcast.
I got Jordan Schmelzer, is thatright, schmelzer?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, it's Jordan Schmelzer, anthony on Facebook,
but that's my middle name,anthony on Facebook but that's
my middle name.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and I saw you had a venture that you were
jumping into, which is similarto what I'm trying to do down
here, about an hour and a halfsouth of you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And you're starting a venture called QC Booking.
Yep, yeah, it's an idea I'vehad for a little while.
I wanted to do some morebooking in the Quad Cities.
I'm not really in the QuadCities area, I'm just outside of
the Quad Cities area in a towncalled Muscatine but I wanted to
get that started and do morefor the scene.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Absolutely.
Do you yourself play in bandsor play shows, or is this
something you're just setting upto bring in bands you enjoy?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I've been in a few Quad Cities bands, so
originally I started a band acouple years ago.
It was Phantom Threat.
I started that band with a fewof my buddies and I played
around with them for a littlebit.
We got some of our shows bookedand then I ended up playing
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with this band called CrimsonClean Sweep after that, and then
I ended up moving to Texas fora little while, so I lived down
there and then I decided to moveback up and start doing this
excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, I'm very familiar with the Phantom Threat
guys.
They they came down and playedmy first DTW event and they're
they're a lot of fun, they're agood group.
Um, and then, uh, knowing aboutthe Muscatine area, you know,
I've been over to Contrary.
I've been over to Contrary,I've been over to Skinny's.
I know what you're dealing withover there, man.
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That's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's a cool spot.
I've been wanting to get someshows lined up in Muscatine like
the brew.
There's a few spots.
I was actually planning onbuying a PA system to be able to
put some shows in that redbrick building down by the river
down there.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yep, absolutely.
I think we played down there ahundred years ago when I was.
I was in a group called openthe abyss and I played with
Dustin Demitz and some of thoseguys that were that I went to
school with at the time and thenplayed with a lot of just a lot
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of local QC bands.
I love what's going on with thescene in the QC area.
So having this kind of service,you know, or this kind of you
know, this opportunity to kindof take all the pieces of what's
going on, you know, in thatscene and and and find a way to
kind of mesh it together, Ithink you're onto something
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there, just because, like I said, it's hopping.
You've got hate division,you've got Wyvern, you've got
pit Lord so many good groups upthere that you know they're not
only, they're not only killingit musically, but they're good
guys too.
They're a lot of fun to bearound.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, so I got a show booked, actually in August,
which is going to be with Necronfrom Wisconsin, so I have that
in the works.
I have a few of those guys likeHate Division, dive, first
Wyvern, like a lot of the localQCX that I'm going to be getting
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onto that show, so I'm prettyexcited for that one.
I have a few others in theworks too which I'm pretty
excited for.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But yeah, those are all pretty cool guys in the
works too, which I'm prettyexcited for.
But yeah, those are all prettycool guys.
So is it?
You've got certain venues thatare looking to bring bands in,
or you got bands that arelooking for venues?
Is it a little bit of both?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
yeah, um.
So, like I said before, I wastrying to look at buying this
big pa system so I can just putit in these halls myself and
just run it out of it, because Iwas working with I'm seeing
about Skylark putting on a fewshows there and they have the
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in-house system and everything,which is nice.
But I'd like to be able to, youknow, put them on and in like
an actual hall and just run themmyself.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Obviously, like I was looking at, uh, trying to see
about reaching out to them aswell, but yeah, because a lot of
times these connections aremade because a couple bands are
like dude, let's do a showtogether and then before you
know it, you know okay who'sgonna do sound or where are we
gonna do it, and a lot of timesthose shows come together and
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they work out just fine.
But when you have a show whereyou have a promoter or you have,
um, you have the producer, youhave you know the, everything
set in place that all these guysgot to do is come and set up
and play it's.
It's a really comfortableatmosphere for for a lot of
bands, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So yeah, and um, being in the scene long enough,
it feels nice being able to knowa lot of the people already and
, uh, being like knowing justinfrom skylark uh, he's a good guy
, just being able to set thoseshows up and be able to make
them happen.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Skylark's a good time.
I love the Hilltop Drop.
I know it was kind of a smalltight area, but I loved going in
there and seeing shows.
It just reminded me of anold-school venue, just like a
packed Legion Hall that we usedto go to shows back in the day.
Raccoon Motel is a lot of fun.
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Just went up there not too longago.
No, it wasn't Raccoon Motel,what's the other one?
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The one in Davenport.
Yeah, they have a villagetheater as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, village theaters there.
I just saw Wyvern there not toolong ago for their EP show,
which was really good.
Um shoot, it was just up therenot too long ago to see uh god
war's last show with um rascals.
That's the one I'm thinking of.
That's a great venue too, sojust a lot of potential.
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There's a lot of talent upthere and I think if you get in
the right spot with the rightpeople and and you know, make
those connections, it takes andhe's a kenny's a pretty cool guy
from rascals too.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I talked to him quite a bit.
Um, he owns the venue.
Uh, he's a really nice guy towork with, um, so, yeah, I'm I'm
really looking forward to doingthis more in the Quad Cities.
I mean, the scene's beengetting way bigger the last
couple of years, so I'm excitedto see where that goes in the
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near future.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I think that's going to be a really big thing.
Yeah, I think it's a great idea.
Where did you start coming upwith the idea to do this?
Like you said, you were playingwith some bands, you moved away
and then when you came backyou're like this area needs
somebody to to bring these clubsand bands together and put
these shows together.
Like when did you startthinking about doing that?
And you know kind of what wasthe inspiration behind that and
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just um, how do you kind of seeit moving forward, just just
starting out uh, yeah, the pastfew years I've been booking a
lot of my uh, my unbanned showsonto um, to bills.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Like we got a few shows and, uh, I set some up in
waterloo, actually at this placecalled Octopus, which is a
pretty cool spot it's like atiny little dive bar up there
around the Cedar Valley area andIowa City.
I booked a couple shows at ElRey's and I was.
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We played a few shows at Gabe'stoo, which is a cool spot, but
so I've been doing that for awhile.
I just never have like putother bands that aren't my own
onto shows.
So I'm pretty excited to bringother bands other than my own on
, so like shows.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
To make that happen is that's something I've never
really done before is put otherbands onto shows that aren't
like my own, you know yeah, yeah, my first show, I think, was
majority of Quad City bands andthen after that I tried really
hard just pulling bands fromdifferent areas.
You know I wanted to try andget these scenes together bands
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from Quincy, bands from peoriaand springfield and in the quad
cities, and it's just a lot offun, even even with your, your
core group of bands and andvenues and stuff.
Sometimes you get those bandsfrom out of the area and you
kind of see how their scene runsand how their scene works and
just meet some really goodpeople and have a good time with
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them as well yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I've been meaning to pull some bands from like the
Chicago scene Cause I knowthere's a pretty few good bands
over there.
I was going to get try to getblind equation portals onto a
bill.
I have a bill from blindequations other band, exosphere
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on their show coming up in Julywhich I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That would be great man.
And then you just kind of buildup from there and you try not
to spend any more than you haveto and you don't promise things
you can't provide.
And then after that you justkind of build on what you have,
hoping that the show you justhad helps pay for the next one.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So, yeah, I have this flyer guy that he makes pretty
good flyers, that he actuallyhas done stuff for Gojira.
His name is Necromold onInstagram, but he's a pretty
good guy to work with too,making flyers and whatnot.
Um, it does, uh, add up alittle bit, you know, with, um,
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these professional flyers andgetting that made, which I'm I'm
sure you you know about.
But, um, I'm I'm looking to putin quite a bit to the scene.
That's what I feel like thescene has done for me.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah and uh.
Like what bands through theyears in within the Quad Cities
scene have you grown up watchingor looked up to or or really
enjoy still maybe putting on youknow, spotify or something.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Um, a Muscatine band, specifically like Divine the
Masses.
I used to listen to themthroughout like high school and
I was always just jamming theirmusic.
They're they're always prettygood.
Big influence Dustin from thatband I know he's from Muscatine,
those are all pretty cool guys.
But yeah, I grew up just goingto shows and seeing a lot of
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different bands, like exitemergency that's another band,
that was the quad cities band.
They're pretty cool and I knowthey're now all in eugene levy,
which is a pretty cool uh qcband as well, if you've heard of
them.
But uh, eugene levy, um, sleepwell is a pretty good example
too.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But yeah, those are all cool guys and then you guys
get a lot of bands from, like Isaid, outside the area to come
in and play too.
I know that hardship comes inand plays every once in a while
from waterloo love those guys,uh.
And it just seems like everytime I come up for a show, you
know, in the Quad Citiessomewhere, I usually go to see
my buddies in different bands,but then you run into like
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another band you haven't heardof, that is in the Quad Cities
or not far from, and you're like, wow, these guys are good too.
You know, they just kind of popout of the woodwork.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah yeah.
There's a lot of talent in thescene and I'm hoping to bring
more of that.
Common Choir is another example.
I want to try to bring them inthe next few months.
Just a lot of great bandsaround here that need more
exposure.
I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I feel like Absolutely, and you don't know
where it could lead.
You can start with booking andthen, before you know it, I
don't know, maybe end up with alabel or something someday or
some promotion type agency.
But this is a good place tostart, just trying to make the
connections and and bring peopleand venues and stuff together
and see you know kind of whereit goes, because you really
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don't know how well it's goingto go until you get a few shows
into it, because you reallydon't know how well it's going
to go until you get a few showsinto it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, definitely, I've actually been trying to do
more with.
There's a metalcore band that Imight be playing with soon, so
I'm trying to do more with mymusic as well, other than
booking.
Booking's always been somethingimportant to me, but as well as
the music, so I'm trying to getback into more bands and play
around with that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You're looking for chemistry.
You know with different dudesthat you play with and you find
out real quick.
You know which dudes you enjoyplaying with and which dudes you
like hanging out with but maybenot playing music with.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I've had that.
I've had that conversation witha lot of different dudes on
here about.
You know, hey, I don't mindplaying music but you know I try
not to go too close to this orthat just because I don't know.
It seems like a lot of us inthe scene now are 30, 40 year
old dads and we're just kind ofgetting back to playing music
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and, you know, checking,checking stuff out and trying to
be part of things.
And when we were younger androwdy it was about going to
shows and throwing down andcausing problems, but anymore
it's just, you know, we justwant to go and see good bands
and enjoy our buddies in thescene and hang out with the
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homies and do our thing.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know, enjoy our buddies in the scene and hang
out with the homies and and doour thing.
You know, yeah, no, um, I'm a,I'm a little younger than what
uh, those older guys in thescene, but uh, I've always, you
know, been around it and I'm I'mglad that's starting to um have
a resurgence.
Um, but, yeah, I've beenplaying with bands for a few
years now but I've uh been ableto make some good connections
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through it.
Um, I'm only 25 right now.
I'm turning 26 in a few months,but it'll uh, it's nice being
able to see how the scene isgrowing Um, because I I know
from a few of my old buddies andin my old bands that are older
than me, they said, like how thescene was so big at one point
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but they felt like it was guysstarting to die off for a little
while.
And but when we even when westarted, uh phantom I know a few
of those a couple of those guystold me that how the scene uh
kind of died for a little, butthey feel like it's coming back
pretty big right now.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, absolutely.
And you know the COVIDsituation didn't help anything.
Everybody was cooped up andkept inside.
And then, you know, it was justa matter of trying to get over
that awkwardness of, okay, whatdo I do with my hands now that I
can go outside or, you know, beable to do something.
And, um, I think once guys wereable to be like man, I really
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miss going to a club or going toa bar or to a venue and and
seeing a heavy band you know ittook that and just guys like hey
, we've been working on thismaterial, we want to get it out
and show somebody and so afterall that's said and done, then
it's like, all right, well,let's get these groups together,
let's get these venues together, let's see what we can do.
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We'll see what we can get going,and I think that it's really
it's taken off well in the quadcities.
Um, I know tim gale over in inquincy with his uh, midwest
Monster Productions.
He's killing it over there withbands.
Every month he has a productionof some sort.
And then you see what bandslike Darker Than Fiction out of
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Peoria and then bands like DarkSurface that are coming out of
Springfield, which is spreadingover into the Bloomington area
and then into the Jacksonvillearea.
And it's just cool how to seeit, how it's building itself
back up and kind of spreading.
And it takes people that likesto put together shows and want
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to maintain it and see it behealthy.
It takes that kind of person tokeep it going.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So, yeah, it uh, it really feels like out of um all
the scenes.
Like the Des Moines scene hasgrown quite a bit last couple
years, but I feel like the QC uhhas taken off lot faster, which
is pretty cool to see Becauseyou know, like Die First and
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Hate Division coming out thelast couple of years, even like
Post AD, they were playing for afew years and then they started
coming back playing a lot ofshows now too.
So that's pretty cool to seethem start playing more back in
the Quad Cities.
So I think they took a breakfor a little while but it's cool
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to see them coming back.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They're coming back, but they're one of those bands.
I've told several friends nowyou know I've had them on two of
my shows and I've gone up totwo or three shows in the Quad
Cities that they've been on thecard and they're one of those
bands.
Every time you see them theyget better.
You know they improve each timeyou see them, which is it's.
They're fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So I'm looking forward to seeing them again
soon yeah, I'm looking forwardto that uh July 27th show at uh
at Rascals that I put on, withthem on it.
I think that's going to be areally great show and has a lot
of great bands, has a Des Moinesband, has a Chicago band on it
as well, so I'm really lookingforward to seeing how the crowd
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reception of that is.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Sure.
So who's Jordan?
What do you do?
What's your, what's your dayjob?
What?
What do you enjoy doing?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
um, right now I'm, uh , working in muscatine.
I work at, uh, must go lighting, okay, um, we make stadium
lights, but I've always grown upin the muscatine area.
It's just, uh, I felt the scenehasn't been quite there is what
I would like to try to make itcoming up, because Muscatine,
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growing up, never really seemedto have that scene anymore as
what the Quad Cities has.
So that's why I feel likeputting on shows in the Quad
Cities right now.
I'm going to try to start withthat and then I'm going to try
working at the Muscatine sceneonce I can get that going.
But, yeah, right now I, I justI work at Musco, um, and I try
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to go to as many shows I can inthe night.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So, Absolutely, and I I really enjoy going up to the
Quad Cities just because it justseems like the community gets
around events.
I, you go up there to an SCWwrestling event the little place
called Bluegrass Iowa andyou'll have 200 people in that
room.
You know they absolutely loveit.
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You go up and someone's got anew beer unveiling at a brewery
or something, and then you'vegot, you know, two or 300 people
in there to check it out.
The place is always packed forSteamwheeler games.
It's always packed forSteamwheeler games.
It's always packed for hockeygames.
You know baseball does wellthere as well, and I just, you
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know I really enjoy going upthere.
I enjoy being far enough awayfrom it that I get to go up
there and enjoy it when I go upthere.
But, like you know, a neat area, it's a fun area, it's big
enough you can find whatever youwant to do, go wherever you
want to go, but it's smallenough to like you're not
overwhelmed by traffic or orchaos.
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Really.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I think it's.
Uh, it's really cool whatyou're doing for the Macomb
scene, because I know that's asmaller type town too and, um,
like is it?
Is it a little bit harder tobring those bands to Macomb, or
I didn't know how that wouldit's.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's difficult to get bands to Macomb.
It's difficult.
It's difficult to get the scenein Macomb.
I would say metal hardcore,metalcore, deathcore, whatever
you want to call it.
We've done well.
You know, maybe a hundred orfew people come into different
shows.
I've got a great venue that Iwork with that.
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You know Caleb, I've been.
It's been no secret of minethat he has been very, very
instrumental in helping with myshows.
I found sponsors to help fund,you know, the first few shows so
that you know you can try andcarry that on and keep it moving
.
Bands do fairly well in Macombbut a lot of times you're
talking about like cover bandtype stuff.
Your Captain Quirks, yourCaptain Geech Revel in Red.
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They played in Bushnell lastnight.
You know your your 80s band.
It's just bands that people cansing and dance to.
They do really well in the area, I think mostly because it's an
older crowd, but there arestill enough people around that
are interested in heavy music.
I think a big part of it islike we don't have our metal
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hardcore band in macomb area.
You know we don't have our bandthat we can draw other bands
into to come play with them.
A lot of times it's me just um,getting a hold of of three or
four bands and figuring out whocan play, what can happen, and
then you know, hey, when do youguys want to play what's?
You want to play last, you wantto play first, and then we just
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work it out.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You know, it's a lot, like I said, we're older now
and it's a lot easier to it'sharder because, you know, now I
got to see if my buddy has ababysitter for his kids or
something or I got to figure outhow he can bring his kids to
the show, but know they havethat um I know they have that
college down there as well, so Ididn't know if that usually
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brings in some of that crowd aswell, and believe it or not,
we're actually surprised that,like, a lot of the crowd isn't
isn't a whole lot of collegekids, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It's mostly just folks in the area that enjoy
metal music.
So, um, we've kind of sloweddown our productions over summer
, just because fourth of july,memorial day, heritage days, all
these towns are having theirown little, because I actually
live in bushnell and all theselittle towns have their own
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little festivals and stuff andit I don't.
I don't really want to goagainst or try to compete
against, you know, otherpeople's events.
So, um, once it starts to cooldown and people don't want to be
outside in the cold orsomething, then we'll look at
throwing a few more thingstogether.
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But yeah, you'll figure outwhile you're doing this the
logistics of what works and whatdoesn't work.
You know, my first event we puton four bands.
It went great.
My second event we tried five.
It was a mess.
The third event, we went backto four and it went pretty well
again.
So it's just the differentbattles you got to fight.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I've been trying to, you know, bring in more
alternative bands as well, notjust metal, because I want to
get the scene to be able to havea lot of diversity to it.
And I know the guys in likeHouse of Animals I'm not sure if
they're still doing muchanymore, but I put them on a
show last year actually, sothat's kind of when I started
(25:11):
booking um.
Or I put it on at rascals andso we had crimson clean sweep,
um, a metal band from the qc.
Uh, this was before I joined itum, but we had those guys and
um at house of animals, so itwas a mixed bill and I was I was
real excited to bring moreinclusion, you know, to the quad
(25:35):
cities, not just metal bandsand that's it um.
I've always liked bringing likealternative, uh punk bands
around, um, so I'm gonna keeptrying to do more of that, like
bringing more alternative anddifferent acts around that
aren't just metal.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Absolutely.
And we've got a I got John PCshow coming to do an event for
me here this next week andthey're kind of like a
psychedelic alternative rock,bluesy.
You know type of sweepingguitar type of group and they're
a lot of fun.
I've gotten to see them a fewtimes.
But you know type of sweepingguitar type of group and and
they're a lot of fun.
I've gotten to see them a fewtimes.
(26:13):
But you know, and knowing yourcrowd's, a big part of it too.
You know, if you're going toput on a metal event, you have
to expect that you're onlydepending on the metal scene.
You bring in an alternativerock type bands.
That's something that's goingto connect with a lot more
people and you hope that you geta few more people than than uh,
than what you initially hadadvertised to, I guess, because
(26:37):
yeah just putting on like afundraising event helps too.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So it seems like these past couple years mainly
these past few years I noticedthe qc has been more middle
metal driven, which is is reallycool to see.
Um, but it would definitely beawesome to see more of those
alternative bands around also.
So that's pretty cool thatyou're putting that on down
(27:03):
there.
But, um, yeah, I reallydefinitely want to try to bring
more like psychedelic, uh rocktype stuff over here and see if
that goes well I think it would.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Um.
And then once you figure out,you know I don't want what crowd
is going to stick around tillnine, ten o'clock at night, what
crowd is going to stick aroundtill midnight, you know, do I
want to have it in a bar or do Ijust want to get a Legion Hall
and do most of it myself?
(27:36):
You know, you start to siftthrough it, you see what
situations work best with withdifferent groups of people.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, a venue.
A venue I'm I'm trying to workwith right now.
They're out of East Moline butthey haven't really hosted shows
there in a while.
It's called Racer's Edge andthat's a cool little spot out
there.
So I'm trying to bring moreshows to that area too in East
Moline, because mainly in theQuad Cities you have like
(28:07):
Village Theater or Skylark, butyou don't really hear much shows
happening around east mulling,so I'm trying to push it out
there too excellent.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No, where can, uh, where can folks find you?
What's what?
What do you got going on on thesocials?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
uh.
So my instagram, my, my main isuh, jordan anthony drums.
Uh, my qc booking is uh, atcbooking.
You can find me on Facebook atQC booking as well, or just my
main page is Jordan Anthony.
So that's mainly all my socials.
I have TikTok as well.
You can reach me on that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Okay, and if, if folks have a band or have an act
or something that they'reinterested in bringing to town,
they can get ahold of you andand see, um you know what events
you got coming up and and seewhere you can fit folks in and,
um, hopefully, keep bringing amore diverse crowd and more
diverse music to your area.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm definitely trying to branch out and get
more people over here.
So if anybody anybody you knowthat's watching this has a band,
you can always reach out to me.
I'm trying to get somethingbooked for uh, for a band and
from clinton, so I'm prettyexcited for that.
A lot more stuff is gonnaprobably be happening in august,
september, um shooting forearly next year as well.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Absolutely.
It seems like growing upClinton.
Was it just me?
Or did Seven Dust play inClinton?
Like every other month?
It seemed like growing up.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, I did see Seven Dust once, but it was out of
Cedar Rapids.
But, um, yeah, those venues upthere too.
I'm trying to get in touch with, uh, cedar Rapids, Iowa City
area.
I don't want to just stick tothe same area, so I'm definitely
trying to do more up there too.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Maybe Clinton, that would be a cool spot yeah, I
don't know why, but it justseems like every other year
growing up it's like, hey, sevenDust is in Clinton again.
I don't know if they just likedit there or whether they had a
connection there or what, butit'll be fun to see.
You know, with the differentgroups and stuff, and if you get
(30:24):
into touring acts comingthrough town and finding a spot
for them to play, it'll beinteresting to see how you take
this thing and how it grows.
If anybody's looking to get upinto the Iowa area and play some
shows, get a hold of Jordan atQC Booking.
I know that it's a lot more funto have people call you and ask
(30:48):
you to put on a show than it isto to call bands and beg them
to come.
So, um, you know, and you'llhave a little bit of both but,
like I said, it's fun, it'sstressful but it's rewarding in
the end and it's just fun to tosee what all the bands in this
area or I'm gonna say themidwest area see, what they've
(31:10):
been able to put together andbuild, and you just want to do
what you can to try and maintainit.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, it's something I've always loved doing, just
booking.
So looking forward to doingmore of that, bringing more
regional Midwest spans into thepicture, into the QC scene.
So definitely looking forwardto all of that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, man.
Well, I'll let you go.
We'll get some links and stuffposted with this podcast and if
anybody wants to get up northand play some shows there in
Iowa, give them a shout.
You can give me a shout on Dialto Wild and I'll get it to him.
Either way you want to do it,we will try and get it going.
So thanks for coming on.
Good luck with this.
(31:53):
Let me know when your shows arecoming.
We'll get them posted and we'llsee if we can't get some crowds
headed your way.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, definitely Thanks.
I appreciate you uh giving methe chance to talk.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
No, I, you know I'm I'm passionate about getting
people down here to play music,and it sounds like you're
passionate about getting peopleup here to play music and it
sounds like you're passionateabout getting people up there to
play more music.
So you know it's as long as thescene works together and folks
work together to put on goodshows of good venues with good
bands.
I you know we shouldn't see itdie off again in our lifetime,
(32:24):
so yeah, well, thanks a lot, Iappreciate it no worries.
Thanks, man yep.
Well, thanks a lot.
I appreciate it no worries.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Thanks, man.
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