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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Hello, Hey Benny, Yo, who do I have? How
many guys? I don't have the whole band? Do I?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You have three of us right now? You have Andrew
who's our drummer. You have Alex, our singer, and Darren's
is speaking as the guitar.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Player, Darren, how are you? Thanks for coming on and
hey guys and looking forward to the show coming off
later on this week at the space Ballroom. It's Phantom Planet.
You know. I caught you guys good lord over, but
it's about twenty years ago. You came through. You played
(00:34):
Toad's Place in New Haven. I saw you at Toad's
Place twice. I don't know if those are memorable shows
for you guys. Perhaps they are, Yeah, of course, Alex,
I would think it would be memorable to you because
one of the Toad's Place shows, like you climbed up,
Do you requote what I'm about to say? Like you were,
I do? Yeah, you were like hanging from pipes and yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I climbed up into the ceiling and just hanging upside
down the pipes.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, show show you were just scaling your you were
kind of dangling over the people too, and it was great.
Souf you know. Great to have you guys on the
Vindie Penn Project. Thanks for coming on. Big fan, been
a big fan for a long time. I think the
first one was you were touring the record the guest. Yeah,
And it was interesting because there was a big difference
(01:23):
between that first show and that second show. The show
where you were like hanging from pipes, and that second show,
I felt like the band you guys had it was
a much more a harder rocking record. It was very
cheap trick. I felt like you might have even covered
some cheap trick? Am I onto something?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's possible during that period of time?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean tell me about five records, most
recent ones five years ago. Right, what do you what
music are you guys touring right now?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We're just playing a couple of new songs with a
bunch of our other catalogs.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What does the set list look like? Are there some
covers in there? Maybe we'll get some cheap trick into space,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What, We'll have a meeting about this, but we love
cheap trick, so maybe we'll yeah question.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, I don't know where that comes from. I honestly
feel like some took place that night. I mean, you're
known largely for California. You're not gonna have a piano
on stage though at the Space Ballroom, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You guys still? I mean it's keyboard still a big
part of the band.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Keyboard has been an off and on again thing. Right now,
we're sort of in our rock and roll cheap trick territory.
I guess you could say, yeah, yeah, the way we're
just doing four pieces turned up as loud and wild
as possible, and and yeah, I mean we're excited to
play the show.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, I love this. I love the sound. It's
so interesting. I think when people, you know, even hear
this audience, if I were to play California and then
go into like Bally Song, you think it was two
different bands in a lot of ways. Texture wise, Well, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean, I feel like what's excited us most about
making music and Phantom Planet, and I think what's kept
us making music for this amount of time is I
guess that's just having fun, like challenging ourselves a dude,
something that makes us excited when we're doing it, and
usually that changes, as you know, being a fellow human being,
(03:22):
that things affect us differently as we passed through this
crazy thing called life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah. Yeah, speaking of which, I went to do my
homework on you guys because it had been while I
was excited to see you come to town. I got
a nineteen year old son who's a big Phantom Planet
fan too, But I mean, yeah, that's thanks to me.
I had a shirt that didn't fit anymore from one
of those Toads shows, so I gave it to him.
So then he went and did his homework and he's
(03:48):
like that they rock, so we're going to be out
of the show. Can't wait to see you. But I
went to do my homework and I saw that devastator.
There's an interesting story as far as the last record
is concerned. That's five years ago got COVID kind of
yet another great artistic endeavor like put on hold for
a little bit thanks to COVID.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I'm sure nobody was really that stoked about that
period of time, true, but for us definitely, it was like, Okay, well,
we're used to rehearsing, we're used to playing shows in
front of people, we're used to writing music in the
same room together, and all of a sudden, just everybody's
separated and We tried our best to communicate via zoom
(04:31):
or over the phone, send each other music files, anything
to sort of keep us communicating through the artistic means
the medium of music. Yeah, but yeah, we had to
delay Devastator a bit, and we delayed as long as
we could, and we still came out during lockdown, and
(04:54):
so there wasn't it wasn't really a chance to tour it.
And yeah, we always think maybe, you know, maybe did
the tenure it's always already five years ago. Let's do
a ten year anniversary of the album and tour that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that would be the way you get it out
to the out to the public, because you started doing
side projects too, didn't all Did all three of you
start doing side projects?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I feel like we've we've had over the years
two or three different bands. Maybe each of us have
been in and either dabbled in or try full time
for a couple of months here and there. Yeah, I
think it's only just made our understanding of music and
(05:35):
where each of us as individuals fit into it, giving
us new perspective and widened our horizons.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think you guys should also at one point just
tour as the Blood Farts. You guys should go tour. Yeah,
you know, and because whoever shows up for that show,
they're fans, they're ship fans. I'm a huge bad news
bearer guy, bad news beers guy. So I mean, I
just watched that movie all the time. I saw the
(06:05):
original when I was ten, I took that nineteen year
old I was just telling you about. Actually it was
his sister when that movie came out. You guys were
in a lot of doing a lot of appearances back
in the early two thousands, lending some great music to
some great projects at that time. You know, you got
into a Spider Man movie. My man Luke, that's my son.
(06:28):
He brought that up to me. You were doing a
lot of your songs were being used in that way.
Anything on the horizon in that sense.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know what, I'd beat the wrong ask. But there's
probably going to be some stuff in some shows here
and there. And right now we're just concentrating on slowly
but surely writing, rehearsing, recording of music.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's it. How far along are you? Have you gotten
into the studio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yet a little bit? Yeah, And we're even going to
go to a studio today around and we definitely have
a lot of songs, I think they just have to
get really hammered out and streamlined. This it's like one
song live recently that will be Alex. You also say,
(07:16):
you know writing, but Alex has probably I mean literally
thousands of songs that have already been written. Yeah, but
like three of them are good. That's not that is
absolutely not at all. And yeah, we've been playing a
song called Friction that's new during these shows that we're
playing out here, which has gotten over amazingly. For a
(07:40):
new song, most people are like, Okay, we'll listen to
a new song. But we came here to sing a
lot of the things that we know, and this one
just seems like it's it's making its deeper connections pretty immediately,
which we're psyched about.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And have you ever played the space before. It's a
it's a great venue, a small room. As far as
scaling any pipes or I don't think you're going to
be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, well, you know, we kind of like you were
saying that first or the two times you saw us,
one with me climbing around the other was just more
of a rock and rock show. It's because we discovered
indoor bolder climbing. Yes, we got we got all that
stuff out of our system for the show coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's a great venue. I mean, I mean you're going
to be right in everyone's face and you're going to
be able to gauge reaction to new material too. I
can't wait to see you guys on on on Thursday night.
Who are you? Who are you touring with? Is it like,
uh yeah, someone else on the bill every night or
they just plug it in someone local when you get here.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, we're playing. We're playing with a band called Range Life,
who we met a couple of years ago, and they're
just great dudes, great music, fun to hang out with.
Kind of ideal for you're going to bring anybody out
on tour with you.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, where the where are they from? Range Life? Where
are they from?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
From? Here? From here in Jersey?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, from Jersey. I do judge, don't you, guys? I
judge a rock band on where they're from a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I get it, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And Jersey's good. I mean, that's a great locale to drop.
I'm looking. I can't wait Thursday night. It's the spaceball Room,
It's Phantom Planet. Hopefully I'll get to say hello to
you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely, I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Thanks again, yeah, of course, thanks for having us see
you guys,
Hello, Hello, Hey Benny, Yo, who do I have? How
many guys? I don't have the whole band? Do I?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You have three of us right now? You have Andrew
who's our drummer. You have Alex, our singer, and Darren's
is speaking as the guitar.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Player, Darren, how are you? Thanks for coming on and
hey guys and looking forward to the show coming off
later on this week at the space Ballroom. It's Phantom Planet.
You know. I caught you guys good lord over, but
it's about twenty years ago. You came through. You played
(00:34):
Toad's Place in New Haven. I saw you at Toad's
Place twice. I don't know if those are memorable shows
for you guys. Perhaps they are, Yeah, of course, Alex,
I would think it would be memorable to you because
one of the Toad's Place shows, like you climbed up,
Do you requote what I'm about to say? Like you were,
I do? Yeah, you were like hanging from pipes and yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I climbed up into the ceiling and just hanging upside
down the pipes.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, show show you were just scaling your you were
kind of dangling over the people too, and it was great.
Souf you know. Great to have you guys on the
Vindie Penn Project. Thanks for coming on. Big fan, been
a big fan for a long time. I think the
first one was you were touring the record the guest. Yeah,
And it was interesting because there was a big difference
(01:23):
between that first show and that second show. The show
where you were like hanging from pipes, and that second show,
I felt like the band you guys had it was
a much more a harder rocking record. It was very
cheap trick. I felt like you might have even covered
some cheap trick? Am I onto something?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's possible during that period of time?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean tell me about five records, most
recent ones five years ago. Right, what do you what
music are you guys touring right now?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We're just playing a couple of new songs with a
bunch of our other catalogs.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What does the set list look like? Are there some
covers in there? Maybe we'll get some cheap trick into space,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What, We'll have a meeting about this, but we love
cheap trick, so maybe we'll yeah question.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, I don't know where that comes from. I honestly
feel like some took place that night. I mean, you're
known largely for California. You're not gonna have a piano
on stage though at the Space Ballroom, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You guys still? I mean it's keyboard still a big
part of the band.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Keyboard has been an off and on again thing. Right now,
we're sort of in our rock and roll cheap trick territory.
I guess you could say, yeah, yeah, the way we're
just doing four pieces turned up as loud and wild
as possible, and and yeah, I mean we're excited to
play the show.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, I love this. I love the sound. It's
so interesting. I think when people, you know, even hear
this audience, if I were to play California and then
go into like Bally Song, you think it was two
different bands in a lot of ways. Texture wise, Well, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean, I feel like what's excited us most about
making music and Phantom Planet, and I think what's kept
us making music for this amount of time is I
guess that's just having fun, like challenging ourselves a dude,
something that makes us excited when we're doing it, and
usually that changes, as you know, being a fellow human being,
(03:22):
that things affect us differently as we passed through this
crazy thing called life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah. Yeah, speaking of which, I went to do my
homework on you guys because it had been while I
was excited to see you come to town. I got
a nineteen year old son who's a big Phantom Planet
fan too, But I mean, yeah, that's thanks to me.
I had a shirt that didn't fit anymore from one
of those Toads shows, so I gave it to him.
So then he went and did his homework and he's
(03:48):
like that they rock, so we're going to be out
of the show. Can't wait to see you. But I
went to do my homework and I saw that devastator.
There's an interesting story as far as the last record
is concerned. That's five years ago got COVID kind of
yet another great artistic endeavor like put on hold for
a little bit thanks to COVID.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I'm sure nobody was really that stoked about that
period of time, true, but for us definitely, it was like, Okay, well,
we're used to rehearsing, we're used to playing shows in
front of people, we're used to writing music in the
same room together, and all of a sudden, just everybody's
separated and We tried our best to communicate via zoom
(04:31):
or over the phone, send each other music files, anything
to sort of keep us communicating through the artistic means
the medium of music. Yeah, but yeah, we had to
delay Devastator a bit, and we delayed as long as
we could, and we still came out during lockdown, and
(04:54):
so there wasn't it wasn't really a chance to tour it.
And yeah, we always think maybe, you know, maybe did
the tenure it's always already five years ago. Let's do
a ten year anniversary of the album and tour that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that would be the way you get it out
to the out to the public, because you started doing
side projects too, didn't all Did all three of you
start doing side projects?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I feel like we've we've had over the years
two or three different bands. Maybe each of us have
been in and either dabbled in or try full time
for a couple of months here and there. Yeah, I
think it's only just made our understanding of music and
(05:35):
where each of us as individuals fit into it, giving
us new perspective and widened our horizons.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think you guys should also at one point just
tour as the Blood Farts. You guys should go tour. Yeah,
you know, and because whoever shows up for that show,
they're fans, they're ship fans. I'm a huge bad news
bearer guy, bad news beers guy. So I mean, I
just watched that movie all the time. I saw the
(06:05):
original when I was ten, I took that nineteen year
old I was just telling you about. Actually it was
his sister when that movie came out. You guys were
in a lot of doing a lot of appearances back
in the early two thousands, lending some great music to
some great projects at that time. You know, you got
into a Spider Man movie. My man Luke, that's my son.
(06:28):
He brought that up to me. You were doing a
lot of your songs were being used in that way.
Anything on the horizon in that sense.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know what, I'd beat the wrong ask. But there's
probably going to be some stuff in some shows here
and there. And right now we're just concentrating on slowly
but surely writing, rehearsing, recording of music.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's it. How far along are you? Have you gotten
into the studio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yet a little bit? Yeah, And we're even going to
go to a studio today around and we definitely have
a lot of songs, I think they just have to
get really hammered out and streamlined. This it's like one
song live recently that will be Alex. You also say,
(07:16):
you know writing, but Alex has probably I mean literally
thousands of songs that have already been written. Yeah, but
like three of them are good. That's not that is
absolutely not at all. And yeah, we've been playing a
song called Friction that's new during these shows that we're
playing out here, which has gotten over amazingly. For a
(07:40):
new song, most people are like, Okay, we'll listen to
a new song. But we came here to sing a
lot of the things that we know, and this one
just seems like it's it's making its deeper connections pretty immediately,
which we're psyched about.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And have you ever played the space before. It's a
it's a great venue, a small room. As far as
scaling any pipes or I don't think you're going to
be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, well, you know, we kind of like you were
saying that first or the two times you saw us,
one with me climbing around the other was just more
of a rock and rock show. It's because we discovered
indoor bolder climbing. Yes, we got we got all that
stuff out of our system for the show coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's a great venue. I mean, I mean you're going
to be right in everyone's face and you're going to
be able to gauge reaction to new material too. I
can't wait to see you guys on on on Thursday night.
Who are you? Who are you touring with? Is it like,
uh yeah, someone else on the bill every night or
they just plug it in someone local when you get here.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, we're playing. We're playing with a band called Range Life,
who we met a couple of years ago, and they're
just great dudes, great music, fun to hang out with.
Kind of ideal for you're going to bring anybody out
on tour with you.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, where the where are they from? Range Life? Where
are they from?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
From? Here? From here in Jersey?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, from Jersey. I do judge, don't you, guys? I
judge a rock band on where they're from a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I get it, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And Jersey's good. I mean, that's a great locale to drop.
I'm looking. I can't wait Thursday night. It's the spaceball Room,
It's Phantom Planet. Hopefully I'll get to say hello to
you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely, I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Thanks again, yeah, of course, thanks for having us see
you guys,
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