December 5, 2025 • 14 mins
Somebody needed to pick up the torch for hard rock and heavy metal with real grit and gusto and without a gimmick. Enter Who on Earth. The New Jersey outfit of Coosh [vocals], Pete Rizzi [bass], Johnny James Barone (guitar), Jimmy Kocha (guitar) and Howie Fallon [drums] — deliver a one-two punch of hard-hitting hooks and airtight instrumentation bolted down by pummeling grooves and piercing riffs. It all gestated from a question…“We wanted to fill in the blank of ‘Who On Earth is going to bring back good rock and metal?’,” explains Pete. “We grew up on the new wave of British heavy metal and classic rock. We went through grunge and other great genres of metal. We wanted to resurrect the melodies, hooks, and guitar solos. We returned to our roots yet upgraded everything with modern production.”The group made their bones through countless gigs across the Tristate area in every dive bar and concert hall with a stage. Along the way, Andrew and Pete tore up venues as part of MadHaus, performing marathon covers. During 2021, the longtime friends chose to forego covers, hunker down, and compose an original album. The composing came easily, and in a short time, the founding fathers had 10 songs ready to go. To bring the record to life, the band hit the studio with none other than Mike Orlando (Category 7, Adrenaline Mob). Over the next year, the guys endured numerous COVID delays as they recorded with Orlando behind the board as producer, engineer, and “stunt” guitarist. Nodding to everyone from Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica to Rush, Alice In Chains, and Tool, they placed storytelling in the spotlight.
“The New Jersey heavy rockers bring their signature grit and power to the 1979 classic, adding punchy riffs, thunderous drums, and raw energy while honoring the spirit of the original.“
Somebody needed to pick up the torch for hard rock and heavy metal with real grit and gusto without a gimmick. Enter Who On Earth. The New Jersey quintet—Andrew Couche [vocals], Pete Rizzi [bass], Howie Fallon [drums], Johnny James Barone [guitar], and Jimmy Kocha [guitar]—deliver a one-two punch of hard-hitting hooks and airtight instrumentation bolted down by pummeling grooves and piercing riffs. The band continues to pay homage to rock’s past as they usher in its future on their latest EP, Smoke & Mirrors.
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“The New Jersey heavy rockers bring their signature grit and power to the 1979 classic, adding punchy riffs, thunderous drums, and raw energy while honoring the spirit of the original.“
Somebody needed to pick up the torch for hard rock and heavy metal with real grit and gusto without a gimmick. Enter Who On Earth. The New Jersey quintet—Andrew Couche [vocals], Pete Rizzi [bass], Howie Fallon [drums], Johnny James Barone [guitar], and Jimmy Kocha [guitar]—deliver a one-two punch of hard-hitting hooks and airtight instrumentation bolted down by pummeling grooves and piercing riffs. The band continues to pay homage to rock’s past as they usher in its future on their latest EP, Smoke & Mirrors.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm not just a podcaster. I'm a podcast connoisseur. That
means I listen, I study, I pay close attention. But
when it comes to variety, how many times have you
gone to somebody's streaming website and went nope, nope, nope, nope, nope,
nope nope. Okay, now you know why we created arrow
dot net a R r OE dot net, seventeen different
(00:22):
styles of podcasts to choose from. Enjoy your exploration.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, what's up, pal? Sorry, I didn't know if you
were calling me or I was calling you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I would say they're doing the same exact thing. So
I guess we're twins.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Today we were in a good old fashioned standoff.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know what part of the country are you in today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, dude, you're getting the cold weather too thing because
I'm down here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh good for you. Which one North or South North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Right here in Charlotte?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh cool? Yeah, I've been there before. Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely one of those towns that
likes to rock, but it won't sit there and brag
about how much it loves to rock.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You're right, it's a little below the radar when it
comes to music. But although when I was there, the
cab driver told me that every no one in Charlotte
is from Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Exactly. Yeah, so true. So I mean they love music
so much. I mean the god sound is truth. Here.
The grocery stores on Thursday now feature live music. They'll
come in there with their acoustic guitars and pianos and
they'll play live music inside the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That is cool. I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And Tommy, can you get any closer to what a
community really is than when you're sitting there shopping and
you're playing music?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, no, I mean they're playing music now, thankfully while
you're shopping, you know, through the speakers. But to have
it live, I mean that is at least on the weekends,
you know, when people are doing this. I think it's
a great idea.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, speaking of music, I mean, how about this new
EP from you guys. I mean, my god, you must
have your heartbeat on where the path of music is
right now, because there's a lot of people screaming for
this sound and it's like here, you guys, it's like
we've been waiting, but now it's time to get rid
of it and let's put it out there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow. Well that's music, literally music to my ears. I mean,
that's that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to
just basically people call us retro and we're like, thank you. Yeah,
you know, we're not trying. We feel like it's all
been done and it's trying to be done differently, and
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We're just doing what
we grew up with and we're lucky enough to have
(02:27):
lived through all of the great genres of rock and metal,
except for so much the seventies. We're not that old.
It's all comes down to the good songs. The musicianship
is secondary. The lyrics and the melodies are number one.
You know, we're going to keep the guitar solo always
and we're just going to try to write good songs.
If we don't, then you're not going to hear it
(02:49):
from us. We're not going to put it out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So what do you think happened to that guitar solo,
because I mean, I've been trying to do a lot
of research on that and the only thing I can
figure out it just seems like where there should have
been a guitar solo. Somebody was rapping, and it was like,
I don't want to hear anybody rapping. Give me a
musical instrument.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know what happened. I guess people's attention spans
continue to shorter and quarter and now even when we're
we have some more music coming out later next year,
and it's like the pressure to keep things at three minutes,
three and a half minutes, it's it's annoying. And you know,
there are some I agree and not having music in
a song that's kind of unnecessary or if it's redundant,
(03:27):
but if it's good and it stands out and it's
relevant and it's part of the you know, little musical journey,
then it should be in there. And guitar solo. I mean,
that's rock and roll baby, you know, like you didn't
lose that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, man, I'll tell you what. I've had a
fun time taking your song, Jane and showing all the
the I hate to see it sound like the old
Geezer the younger generation because they're all going, god, dang,
that's a great song. I said, you do you realize
that was part of my generation too, And then to me,
it's a connection maker. It's bringing both generations together to
(04:01):
to you know, basically compare notes and have fun with
that song.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's exactly what we're trying to do with with with
everything we do, but especially with that song. You know,
we tend to write songs about serious topics, like you
mentioned the EP. On that EP, there's some serious stuff,
you know, lobotomy where we talked about fake news, the
and the you know, the some memorization and that nosis
of our phones and dogs which was outcry out against
(04:26):
you know, corporate agreed, especially a big pharma. And then
we said, let's have fun with one. Everybody's so serious,
everything's so serious out there. Let's just put on Amazon costumes.
And that's what we did. I mean, like maybe people
need to laugh a little bit. We'll go back to
the serious stuff in twenty twenty six, but let's just
(04:50):
have some fun. And that song is so great and
it's popular, but I don't think it's just popular as
it it should be, right, you know, it's and it's
oh heavy, even in its original version, it's just oh man.
I was like, we got to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well. I've been with Mickey Thomas. I'm hoping to God
that he listens to this and calls you guys up saying,
my god, you guys did it out of the park.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
We'll probably think it's spam.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But yeah, you know, that's so funny you say that,
because that that's been happening to me a lot. There
will be music that will arrive and and and it's uh,
it's a I and and and it just it's it
fools me and I just don't know how to handle
that yet.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I know, me too, me too. It's the the
innovative ways they will continue to try to fool us
and scam us and whatnot. We will probably be never ending.
But if Mickey Thomas does call, I will, I.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Will please do not move. There's more with Pete Rizzy
from the band Who on Earth coming up next. The
name of the new EP is called Smoke and Mirrors.
We're checking back in with Pete Rizzy from Who on Earth.
You touched on Lobotomy and I had to go up
there and see because I've experienced the video and I
(06:06):
actually called it. I said, this is a very scary video.
And I think it's because it's so relatable and because
I mean, we're all seeing it we're all, you know,
going through it on a daily basis, but it definitely
is very effective that video.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh thank you. Yeah, we tried to be a little
dramatic with it. It's funny. When we tried to promote
it on YouTube, the YouTube kind of shut us down.
They said we were displaying a graphic viewing of a
medical procedure. I mean, I cut Kusha's head open. It's
obviously though, didn't cut it open, and we pulled out
a bunch of spaghettios from his brain. But yeah, I
(06:41):
mean we had so much fun doing it, but we
were like at the end, we're like, this isn't a
funny video, you know. And I love the way that
one came out, because all our videos are doing yourself
and sometimes you don't know how it's going to translate.
But we have an awesome videographer who's a friend of ours,
Rob Shotwell he does pretty watch all our videos, and
(07:01):
you know, we just do it ourselves and have fun.
But yeah, it is serious, man, It is scary what's
going on. And we try to get that across with
that video. You know, we're just all we're all programmed now.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, Well, I love I love the way that you
guys are really putting a lot of focus on the melodies,
the song hooks and and and really once again those
guitar solos, because it's that one thing that people, as
we say in radio listeners, can't tell you why they
like a song. They just love a song.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, it's it's the hook, right, It's
what grabs them. It's what gives them a certain feeling,
what what catches them? You know what when you get
up in the middle of the night to go to
the bathroom, like, what's what's gonna what do you? That's
how I know it. That's a good one. We gotta
we got to use that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You've got a very powerful lyric in the song dogs
and for the listeners it's D A W G Z and.
And the thing is, I'm just I sit there and
I go, man, I would love to have something like
this on a T shirt for the murder and that
is more than death, which you hide the core. And
I thought, my god, that that is poetry. That is
something that really because you anybody can get their own interpretation.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm glad that one stuck out. It's
that's the other element that we think is important. We
talked about the hooks and the solo and the melodies,
but the lyrics. The lyrics got to be right onto,
and that's what makes it so difficult to get all
to match. But yeah, that song in particular, I mean,
you know, we tried to you know, we're angry in
(08:30):
the song, but then in the middle of the breakdown,
it's like, come on, man, don't you realize that real
lives are at stake here, that people are dying? Yeah,
and don't you have any you know, Yeah, we're mad,
but we're mad because like this is an injustice. The
people's lives are at stake. We're not just the part
of your bottom line, you know. So yeah, we try
(08:51):
to hit on all of that and get that across, like,
you know, a little bit of a plea in there,
you know, calling you out on it, but also pleading
or a change, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
See. And that's the vibe that I'm picking up on
the on the EP Smoking Mirrors is the fact that
you know, your songs are about things that we all see.
We're just not talking about it. But once you bring
it up, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna have
a conversation about it. I mean, because you can take
Yesterday's Future and I mean the video itself, I mean
it embraces an area I have talked with more Native
American families in the past two years about what's going
(09:22):
on within their households, and then for you guys to
come forward with this, I mean, it really got. It's
got that thing that people are talking about. We just
need to get vocal about it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, Like there's other things that are more important
to talk about than what we spend our time talking about,
and Yesterday's Future we wanted to use that. You know,
Yesterday's Future is very simple. It's just a song about
you know, some birth until hopefully becoming wiser and older
and everything that happens in between. But we wanted to
use the Native Americans because we felt that was the
most pure. That was like, if you had to reset,
(09:56):
what would you go back to? You know, the respect
for the earth and the land and the and the
head ends and the rain, and the and the and
the and the being caretakers and you know, respect for
animals and whatnot an each other. You know, that's what
we would want to go back to. There's a lot
of and there's a lot of animal spirits represented in
that video too. If you were a Native American, you know,
(10:17):
you'd get it. We wanted to make sure that we
really pay tribute to Native Americans and use them to
get that, you know, that whole journey from from childhood
and infancy and birth the way to you know, ultimate
hopefully ultimate wisdom.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Absolutely, well, if you were in this force that I'm
in today, which is we we put seventeen hundred trees
in this forest in nineteen ninety seven, and so through
Native American spirituality as well as you know, our prayer
tools and stuff, that's why this forest is still alive.
So maybe that's my connection to the video because it
really does speak out too, because I do love the land.
I do love the animals that are here. So, you know,
kudos to you, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Thank you, Thank you. Man. That's me and me and
Kushokush too. He's a big softy with this stuff too,
you know. So yeah, he and I sat down at
my kitchen table and wrote the lyrics that doun by line,
yeah yeah, and we scripted the video frame by frame.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Really what was now, okay, mister songwriter, what was that
like for you to do to you know, to start
working with pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, well, we have a great AI generator video guy.
His name is his name is Alien Overlord. I actually
don't even know his real name. I found it because
he had taken some Iron Maiden songs and that's like
my band, and turned their songs into these AI videos
and I was blown away. I saw like rhyme of
the ancient manner, and I found them and contacted them
and had them through a few for us. So we
(11:39):
literally went through frame by frame what we'd like to see, uh,
to represent the lyrics, and then during the various you know,
musical breakdowns, what we thought that represented in the story.
And uh, you know, we just worked great with this
guy and uh, you know, through very few iterations back
and forth, he nailed it and we got it done.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So your love for Iron Now, is this the reason
why your band's logo has my attention? Because you understand
the logo is really a member of the band.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Artwork and logo is again another element that we're bringing
back from the past. Consistency of the logo. Artwork matters,
even though we're not staring at albums anymore, you know,
having a good visual is important to us. We want
to you know, we want to give a good thought
provoking image, but we also want it to look at
when people are scrolling by the millions of things a
(12:30):
day and say, ooh, what's this. You know, the three
rabid dogs standing on a pile of money called dogs.
Let's click of that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You know, Heart Hard Rock Hour, let's talk about that
in the way of I felt a vibe from the group. Yes,
I feel some prog action going on there, Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wow? That's interesting. I mean, nobody's ever compared us in
any wady. Yes. Wow, We'll take it, man, I'll take
it because Chris warre Be I'm the bass player. He
was one of the big guys from your early when
I first started playing, especially you know Roundabout and Heart
of the Sunrise. I mean, for me, I was.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like wow, wow, wow. I mean, that's what I love
about this whole entire ep. And the thing about it
is that listeners need to understand when you hit that
last song, you're not going to realize the last song
because that player is going to start it all over again,
or if you're doing Alexa or somebody like that, it's
just going to start over again. And so that's what
I love about it. There's a continuation with no way
to get off.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I love that. Don't get off, stay on.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So where can people go to find out more about
what everybody is doing inside this band? Who's got the
greatest band name since the guess Who? And that is
who on Earth? So where can people go?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, thank you for not saying Who's on First? No,
believe it or not, it has happened, but we are.
Literally it's actually the latest show and open for a
band and an all star band, and Bobby Blitz from
Overkill was in it and he called us Who's on First? Yes,
(14:02):
you know, Bobby gets the bet. But our website is
just who on earththband dot com. We're literally all over
everywhere social media on every platform. We have a YouTube
channel we're on obviously, everything's on Spotify and uh Facebook, Instagram,
even some cheesy tiktoks. But we're trying to be and
(14:23):
we are everywhere and we're trying to be active with
our content and all that good stuff. So we should
be real easy to find. We're on bands in town,
so yeah, that's that's we should be easy to find.
Who on Earth?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wow? Dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Dude. Thank you man. We'll have some new music so
I'd love to talk about it with you, maybe you know,
later in twenty twenty six. I want to thank you
for your time too. This is been a great, great chat.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
With you, excell man. You'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, YouTube Brother
I'm not just a podcaster. I'm a podcast connoisseur. That
means I listen, I study, I pay close attention. But
when it comes to variety, how many times have you
gone to somebody's streaming website and went nope, nope, nope, nope, nope,
nope nope. Okay, now you know why we created arrow
dot net a R r OE dot net, seventeen different
(00:22):
styles of podcasts to choose from. Enjoy your exploration.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, what's up, pal? Sorry, I didn't know if you
were calling me or I was calling you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I would say they're doing the same exact thing. So
I guess we're twins.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Today we were in a good old fashioned standoff.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know what part of the country are you in today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, dude, you're getting the cold weather too thing because
I'm down here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh good for you. Which one North or South North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Right here in Charlotte?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh cool? Yeah, I've been there before. Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely one of those towns that
likes to rock, but it won't sit there and brag
about how much it loves to rock.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You're right, it's a little below the radar when it
comes to music. But although when I was there, the
cab driver told me that every no one in Charlotte
is from Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Exactly. Yeah, so true. So I mean they love music
so much. I mean the god sound is truth. Here.
The grocery stores on Thursday now feature live music. They'll
come in there with their acoustic guitars and pianos and
they'll play live music inside the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That is cool. I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And Tommy, can you get any closer to what a
community really is than when you're sitting there shopping and
you're playing music?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, no, I mean they're playing music now, thankfully while
you're shopping, you know, through the speakers. But to have
it live, I mean that is at least on the weekends,
you know, when people are doing this. I think it's
a great idea.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, speaking of music, I mean, how about this new
EP from you guys. I mean, my god, you must
have your heartbeat on where the path of music is
right now, because there's a lot of people screaming for
this sound and it's like here, you guys, it's like
we've been waiting, but now it's time to get rid
of it and let's put it out there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow. Well that's music, literally music to my ears. I mean,
that's that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to
just basically people call us retro and we're like, thank you. Yeah,
you know, we're not trying. We feel like it's all
been done and it's trying to be done differently, and
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We're just doing what
we grew up with and we're lucky enough to have
(02:27):
lived through all of the great genres of rock and metal,
except for so much the seventies. We're not that old.
It's all comes down to the good songs. The musicianship
is secondary. The lyrics and the melodies are number one.
You know, we're going to keep the guitar solo always
and we're just going to try to write good songs.
If we don't, then you're not going to hear it
(02:49):
from us. We're not going to put it out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So what do you think happened to that guitar solo,
because I mean, I've been trying to do a lot
of research on that and the only thing I can
figure out it just seems like where there should have
been a guitar solo. Somebody was rapping, and it was like,
I don't want to hear anybody rapping. Give me a
musical instrument.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know what happened. I guess people's attention spans
continue to shorter and quarter and now even when we're
we have some more music coming out later next year,
and it's like the pressure to keep things at three minutes,
three and a half minutes, it's it's annoying. And you know,
there are some I agree and not having music in
a song that's kind of unnecessary or if it's redundant,
(03:27):
but if it's good and it stands out and it's
relevant and it's part of the you know, little musical journey,
then it should be in there. And guitar solo. I mean,
that's rock and roll baby, you know, like you didn't
lose that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, man, I'll tell you what. I've had a
fun time taking your song, Jane and showing all the
the I hate to see it sound like the old
Geezer the younger generation because they're all going, god, dang,
that's a great song. I said, you do you realize
that was part of my generation too, And then to me,
it's a connection maker. It's bringing both generations together to
(04:01):
to you know, basically compare notes and have fun with
that song.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's exactly what we're trying to do with with with
everything we do, but especially with that song. You know,
we tend to write songs about serious topics, like you
mentioned the EP. On that EP, there's some serious stuff,
you know, lobotomy where we talked about fake news, the
and the you know, the some memorization and that nosis
of our phones and dogs which was outcry out against
(04:26):
you know, corporate agreed, especially a big pharma. And then
we said, let's have fun with one. Everybody's so serious,
everything's so serious out there. Let's just put on Amazon costumes.
And that's what we did. I mean, like maybe people
need to laugh a little bit. We'll go back to
the serious stuff in twenty twenty six, but let's just
(04:50):
have some fun. And that song is so great and
it's popular, but I don't think it's just popular as
it it should be, right, you know, it's and it's
oh heavy, even in its original version, it's just oh man.
I was like, we got to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well. I've been with Mickey Thomas. I'm hoping to God
that he listens to this and calls you guys up saying,
my god, you guys did it out of the park.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
We'll probably think it's spam.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But yeah, you know, that's so funny you say that,
because that that's been happening to me a lot. There
will be music that will arrive and and and it's uh,
it's a I and and and it just it's it
fools me and I just don't know how to handle
that yet.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I know, me too, me too. It's the the
innovative ways they will continue to try to fool us
and scam us and whatnot. We will probably be never ending.
But if Mickey Thomas does call, I will, I.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Will please do not move. There's more with Pete Rizzy
from the band Who on Earth coming up next. The
name of the new EP is called Smoke and Mirrors.
We're checking back in with Pete Rizzy from Who on Earth.
You touched on Lobotomy and I had to go up
there and see because I've experienced the video and I
(06:06):
actually called it. I said, this is a very scary video.
And I think it's because it's so relatable and because
I mean, we're all seeing it we're all, you know,
going through it on a daily basis, but it definitely
is very effective that video.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh thank you. Yeah, we tried to be a little
dramatic with it. It's funny. When we tried to promote
it on YouTube, the YouTube kind of shut us down.
They said we were displaying a graphic viewing of a
medical procedure. I mean, I cut Kusha's head open. It's
obviously though, didn't cut it open, and we pulled out
a bunch of spaghettios from his brain. But yeah, I
(06:41):
mean we had so much fun doing it, but we
were like at the end, we're like, this isn't a
funny video, you know. And I love the way that
one came out, because all our videos are doing yourself
and sometimes you don't know how it's going to translate.
But we have an awesome videographer who's a friend of ours,
Rob Shotwell he does pretty watch all our videos, and
(07:01):
you know, we just do it ourselves and have fun.
But yeah, it is serious, man, It is scary what's
going on. And we try to get that across with
that video. You know, we're just all we're all programmed now.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, Well, I love I love the way that you
guys are really putting a lot of focus on the melodies,
the song hooks and and and really once again those
guitar solos, because it's that one thing that people, as
we say in radio listeners, can't tell you why they
like a song. They just love a song.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, it's it's the hook, right, It's
what grabs them. It's what gives them a certain feeling,
what what catches them? You know what when you get
up in the middle of the night to go to
the bathroom, like, what's what's gonna what do you? That's
how I know it. That's a good one. We gotta
we got to use that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You've got a very powerful lyric in the song dogs
and for the listeners it's D A W G Z and.
And the thing is, I'm just I sit there and
I go, man, I would love to have something like
this on a T shirt for the murder and that
is more than death, which you hide the core. And
I thought, my god, that that is poetry. That is
something that really because you anybody can get their own interpretation.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm glad that one stuck out. It's
that's the other element that we think is important. We
talked about the hooks and the solo and the melodies,
but the lyrics. The lyrics got to be right onto,
and that's what makes it so difficult to get all
to match. But yeah, that song in particular, I mean,
you know, we tried to you know, we're angry in
(08:30):
the song, but then in the middle of the breakdown,
it's like, come on, man, don't you realize that real
lives are at stake here, that people are dying? Yeah,
and don't you have any you know, Yeah, we're mad,
but we're mad because like this is an injustice. The
people's lives are at stake. We're not just the part
of your bottom line, you know. So yeah, we try
(08:51):
to hit on all of that and get that across, like,
you know, a little bit of a plea in there,
you know, calling you out on it, but also pleading
or a change, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
See. And that's the vibe that I'm picking up on
the on the EP Smoking Mirrors is the fact that
you know, your songs are about things that we all see.
We're just not talking about it. But once you bring
it up, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna have
a conversation about it. I mean, because you can take
Yesterday's Future and I mean the video itself, I mean
it embraces an area I have talked with more Native
American families in the past two years about what's going
(09:22):
on within their households, and then for you guys to
come forward with this, I mean, it really got. It's
got that thing that people are talking about. We just
need to get vocal about it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, Like there's other things that are more important
to talk about than what we spend our time talking about,
and Yesterday's Future we wanted to use that. You know,
Yesterday's Future is very simple. It's just a song about
you know, some birth until hopefully becoming wiser and older
and everything that happens in between. But we wanted to
use the Native Americans because we felt that was the
most pure. That was like, if you had to reset,
(09:56):
what would you go back to? You know, the respect
for the earth and the land and the and the
head ends and the rain, and the and the and
the and the being caretakers and you know, respect for
animals and whatnot an each other. You know, that's what
we would want to go back to. There's a lot
of and there's a lot of animal spirits represented in
that video too. If you were a Native American, you know,
(10:17):
you'd get it. We wanted to make sure that we
really pay tribute to Native Americans and use them to
get that, you know, that whole journey from from childhood
and infancy and birth the way to you know, ultimate
hopefully ultimate wisdom.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Absolutely, well, if you were in this force that I'm
in today, which is we we put seventeen hundred trees
in this forest in nineteen ninety seven, and so through
Native American spirituality as well as you know, our prayer
tools and stuff, that's why this forest is still alive.
So maybe that's my connection to the video because it
really does speak out too, because I do love the land.
I do love the animals that are here. So, you know,
kudos to you, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Thank you, Thank you. Man. That's me and me and
Kushokush too. He's a big softy with this stuff too,
you know. So yeah, he and I sat down at
my kitchen table and wrote the lyrics that doun by line,
yeah yeah, and we scripted the video frame by frame.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Really what was now, okay, mister songwriter, what was that
like for you to do to you know, to start
working with pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, well, we have a great AI generator video guy.
His name is his name is Alien Overlord. I actually
don't even know his real name. I found it because
he had taken some Iron Maiden songs and that's like
my band, and turned their songs into these AI videos
and I was blown away. I saw like rhyme of
the ancient manner, and I found them and contacted them
and had them through a few for us. So we
(11:39):
literally went through frame by frame what we'd like to see, uh,
to represent the lyrics, and then during the various you know,
musical breakdowns, what we thought that represented in the story.
And uh, you know, we just worked great with this
guy and uh, you know, through very few iterations back
and forth, he nailed it and we got it done.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So your love for Iron Now, is this the reason
why your band's logo has my attention? Because you understand
the logo is really a member of the band.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Artwork and logo is again another element that we're bringing
back from the past. Consistency of the logo. Artwork matters,
even though we're not staring at albums anymore, you know,
having a good visual is important to us. We want
to you know, we want to give a good thought
provoking image, but we also want it to look at
when people are scrolling by the millions of things a
(12:30):
day and say, ooh, what's this. You know, the three
rabid dogs standing on a pile of money called dogs.
Let's click of that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You know, Heart Hard Rock Hour, let's talk about that
in the way of I felt a vibe from the group. Yes,
I feel some prog action going on there, Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wow? That's interesting. I mean, nobody's ever compared us in
any wady. Yes. Wow, We'll take it, man, I'll take
it because Chris warre Be I'm the bass player. He
was one of the big guys from your early when
I first started playing, especially you know Roundabout and Heart
of the Sunrise. I mean, for me, I was.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like wow, wow, wow. I mean, that's what I love
about this whole entire ep. And the thing about it
is that listeners need to understand when you hit that
last song, you're not going to realize the last song
because that player is going to start it all over again,
or if you're doing Alexa or somebody like that, it's
just going to start over again. And so that's what
I love about it. There's a continuation with no way
to get off.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I love that. Don't get off, stay on.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So where can people go to find out more about
what everybody is doing inside this band? Who's got the
greatest band name since the guess Who? And that is
who on Earth? So where can people go?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, thank you for not saying Who's on First? No,
believe it or not, it has happened, but we are.
Literally it's actually the latest show and open for a
band and an all star band, and Bobby Blitz from
Overkill was in it and he called us Who's on First? Yes,
(14:02):
you know, Bobby gets the bet. But our website is
just who on earththband dot com. We're literally all over
everywhere social media on every platform. We have a YouTube
channel we're on obviously, everything's on Spotify and uh Facebook, Instagram,
even some cheesy tiktoks. But we're trying to be and
(14:23):
we are everywhere and we're trying to be active with
our content and all that good stuff. So we should
be real easy to find. We're on bands in town,
so yeah, that's that's we should be easy to find.
Who on Earth?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wow? Dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Dude. Thank you man. We'll have some new music so
I'd love to talk about it with you, maybe you know,
later in twenty twenty six. I want to thank you
for your time too. This is been a great, great chat.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
With you, excell man. You'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, YouTube Brother
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