February 17, 2025 • 31 mins
I was able to sit down and chat with Shannon Wilson from the Dayton/Cincinnati, OH based band, Bandages, to chat about their new S/T record and single, "Perfect Hit" featuring Joe Gittleman from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
They are definitely in the rock and punk spectrum but don't fall in any particular sub-genre nor try to align to any specific sound. I personally love that about this band.
If you've been paying attention to the politics in the United States of America at all, you'll clearly understand what "Perfect Hit" is all about, intuitively. That said, Shannon and I had a great conversation about their band, politics, health care, and all the good things they have in front of them.
You can keep up with them at:
Bandages:
https://www.instagram.com/bandages_music/
https://www.bandagesmerch.com
https://bandages1.bandcamp.com/
Thank you for your continued support!
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They are definitely in the rock and punk spectrum but don't fall in any particular sub-genre nor try to align to any specific sound. I personally love that about this band.
If you've been paying attention to the politics in the United States of America at all, you'll clearly understand what "Perfect Hit" is all about, intuitively. That said, Shannon and I had a great conversation about their band, politics, health care, and all the good things they have in front of them.
You can keep up with them at:
Bandages:
https://www.instagram.com/bandages_music/
https://www.bandagesmerch.com
https://bandages1.bandcamp.com/
Thank you for your continued support!
Brett Johnson
Host of B-Side Breakdown
https://www.instagram.com/bsidebreakdown
https://www.instagram.com/threecrowsclub
https://www.instagram.com/brettjamesjohnson
https://linktr.ee/brettjohnson
#Bandages #PerfectHit #ShannonWilson #JoelGittleman #MightyMightyBosstones #bsidebreakdown #threecrowsclub #brettjamesjohnson #musicpodcast
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Free tros B Side Breakdown. Hey everyone, welcome to the
B Side Breakdown. My name is Brett Johnson and I'm
your host. This is episode thirty one of a podcast
where I talk with other artists, musicians and songwriters about
a song they've written that's meaningful to them and then
ideally we have a chat and get deep into the
why behind it. Part of that is they give me
(00:22):
permission to play the song in its entirety on this episode,
so you the listener can hear it all and then
have an idea of what we're talking about. So today
I'm gonna be talking with Shannon Wilson from the band
Bandages about their song Perfect Hit. So let's get into it.
Here is Perfect Hit by Bandages.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
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power hungry coats that killed Pasu kissing up to people
and put him out on the steam poles and what
the fuck up into our safe It's just showing bo
(01:16):
as my hand. Luck to do a statis frass, got
a found my hand a bed place and so.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm looking for a time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, what's too many topics. I'm said, now I'll shine
through that ship getting I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hemming all the time again, missed the tutor, ridamn wheat
and all the perfect ginger press the spectrum, and never
one is cool with us and never want us up
to be loved. Not the heel looks in the blacking rooms,
(01:52):
and you all got some home a botes your metal
Christians in cold clogs or the summing didn't tie, it
was always in two should laughingels.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think they'll luck.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Lose that son, so it'll keep making the raging crocket's
fun against Potts, showing American dreams down.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'll talk to my guns and I'm looking for a
time again.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I wat too many.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Top pis something that shine through the ship, and I'm
it's all the tie again. Listen to the right back
when all the ffect and killing way the car crashes
too close and way too bright for Canada.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Take me email, I'll to s.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So I'm looking for a time again, by too many time,
making up looking all the time again.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
To any top.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Looking for a time, an't wait.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Too many time?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Pick something that shine through that ship, all right, and
(03:24):
that was perfect hit by the band bandages. We're gonna
take a quick break and come back and talk with
Shannon Wilson. Stay with us, all right, and we're back.
Let's bring in Shannon from the band Bandages to talk
about their song Perfect Hit. Hey, Shannon, thank you so
much for taking some time tonight to talk with me
about the song. And I really apologize for all the
(03:46):
technical difficulties we had getting up and running here.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It is all good. Thank you for having me be here.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Absolutely yeah, I'm super stoked about the song. It's so
much fun and the I've been trying to decipher them
as best I can and looking for them online too,
just to see because there's a lot of heavy stuff
going on in there, which is just right up my alley.
But I love everything that this song is talking about
(04:14):
the energy of it. It's just super grabs me and
I want to go see you guys live, so I
really just want to turn it over to you to
tell me, you know, and the listeners, what why is
this song particularly meaningful to you? Why did you want
to talk about it today?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right? So, perfect Hit?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You know, initially off the title and I think like
we did some of the art with it on Spotify
and other streaming that you know, kind of look like
shattered glass, kind of like a bullet hole. So your
brain kind of instantly goes to that, you know, missed
it to the right a bit, aiming for the perfect hit,
like you know, that kind of terminology. But really the
(04:50):
song is about seeing so much bad that's happening, and
it just it's everywhere you look like we just have
gone down this path of like nothing feels like it
has improved, you know, over the past twenty years or so.
We're kind of tumbling down the state of affairs. And
it's that that realizing even if I want to make
(05:14):
a difference, where do I concentrate my energy, what is
the perfect hit?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
What can I improve on?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And then when you do make those changes, or you volunteer,
or you start doing things like that, or you use
your voice, you protest, whatever, you start to feel kind
of overwhelmed by the other things that you're not making
an impact in and it just becomes, you know, kind
of overwhelming, and then you get the sense like kind of,
you know, fuck it, I'll give up and move to.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Canada, because it's just where have we gone so wrong?
You know? And where do we even begin? And That's
what the perfect hit is all about.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's about, you know, where can you focus your energy
and where can you make the biggest change and the
most difference.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, that's that makes a lot of sense, and all
that like one resonates with me on so many levels.
Like yeah, I'm very aware of right, you know, just
I mean, I living where I live now. I live
in Orlando. I'm originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And you know, like you're in a nice, nice red state,
you know, like.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Right, I'm in Ohio, right, right, And so you know,
like first first Gulf War, I knew exactly where to
go protest and why I was protesting, and I knew
what you know, what my what my issue was, why
it was an issue for me and how me and
you know, my peers were going to be directly impacted
by some of the decisions that were being made, as
(06:43):
well as just the nature.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Of it all.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, Like I had a whole lot of whole lot
of ideology and reason and passion and drive and fire
behind it, and I knew exactly where to go. And
now it's I mean, obviously thirty some odd years later,
here I am thinking, Yeah, I mean, I feel what
saying it's like there's there's only there's the directions that
I know I can go. There's I know, there's a
lot of the you know you protest or vote with
(07:09):
your money kind of a thing, Like there's that dynamic
and and all of those things. But still it's it's
nice to hear that just plainly said in the overwhelming
nature of it, as you described it, just from this song.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So thank you for being great, and even you know,
with with recent elections, like you feel like, you know,
like I know what party I need to be voting for,
and I do vote, you know, in that direction, But
do I feel like that party represents me anymore? Absolutely not,
you know, like I feel like it's so far beyond
what any of us want. You know, none of us
(07:42):
want these none of us want corporations to continue making
billions and billions and billions of dollars. Yet we have
no party that is standing up for the middle class
and the working class.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You know. So even even your vote these days feels
like ugh, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, And I felt that for a long time too,
just even on some and not trying to evolve into
this being a political discussion necessarily because I really want
to talk about the song, but oh, for.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Sure, political band. You know, it's I'm not afraid of
any of these conversations.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Could get good. Yeah, I mean, but I felt that
for years, Like in various elections, I'm like, I can't
tell if I'm actually voting, Like, am I voting for
somebody or am I voting you know, taking a vote
away from somebody, yes, rather than voting for someone but
then on the same breath, or am I voting my conscience?
(08:35):
Because I can't stand either. And there's an independent that
I know I'm I know in my heart, I'm throwing
away my vote, Like this is a throwaway vote that
isn't helping, But damn it, that's that's what I support.
So yeah, you know, and that gets really frustrating.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'd really like my friends that have trans kids, you know,
for them to be able to get the health care
that they need. You know, like we are totally vote
on the most basic things, like the most basic human
rights and having to hold our nose over a bunch
of things that should matter, but we're like, you know,
we're so hung up on these very basic things that
(09:11):
we just have to It's like I'm voting for human rights,
the most basic thing out there. You know, it comes up,
you know with the CEO that just got shot and
killed with with United how have we been talking about healthcare?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
How many years have we had this conversation? And it's
gotten worse and worse and worse, and you know, now
it's brought back.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Up to the to the public again, and it's like
this has been a twenty year thing that people have
been angry about, you know, like what when is something
going to break?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
When is something going to give?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, when are people going to see what the
workers need and what the middle class needs and you
know the lower class or the you know, the people
that are underserved.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like it's it's the same conversation we're having over and
over and over.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And when we had it originally not to go off
on a rant about healthcare, but when we had it originally,
you know, the argument was, well, the American healthcare system
is really good. You get really good you know services,
we have state of the art technology. But we can't
even say that anymore. Like we've literally gone backwards, and
our life expectancy is worse than other modernized countries.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yet we're paying more than anybody you know, and it's like,
how many times can you scream at this wall before
you give up?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yep, No, absolutely, I certainly feel all of that. Yeah, no,
I really do. And I'm glad that again. I'm just
glad that you all have put this out there and
you reached out so we could have a chat about
it because it's it's such a good song and that too,
and that just was that fires me up and that
(10:54):
that is really fun. So I'm gonna just ask, because
I'm just gonna asky, are youamiliar with the Iron Roses? Yes, yeah, okay,
I would just would be one of my favorite shows
would be to see both playings.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Right, So you're not the first person that said that.
Somebody else that we know was like, you really need
to hook up with these guys and play, you know,
some shows with them?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah for real. Yeah, they're so amazing. But yeah, no,
this is great. So tell me about Okay, you're the
band's based in Cincinnati, is that right?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah? Well, Cincinnati and Dayton, which if you're familiar with
the area, it's a very close distance, like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know, I am familiar with Dayton. I've spent more
time in Dayton, I think than Cincinnati, but I am
familiar with it. The uh what So I know that
you all come from kind of a host of different bands,
which I love that about music scenes when it's just like, yep,
we were all doing these things respectively and other things,
and now we've come together to make this powerhouse of
a new thing, which is awesome. How long has Bandages
(11:56):
now been together?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
A little over a year? Okay, so we formed not
this last July, but the July before that. Our first
show was not you know, a month ago to November,
but November twenty twenty three was our first show.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So we are fresh, we are very.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
New, good cool. So how many then? This part I
wasn't able to fully get but I thought I saw
four different releases on your band camp. Is that are
those singles or is there a full length in there?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Is?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What's kind of what do you got going on with that?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, we kind of dropped singles leading up to the
full length being released. Which the full length is released,
it's on all streaming platforms. And then actually this Friday
we are having our vinyl release show, so we have
physical records pressed for sale.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, thank you. That's the only thing I cared about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I was like, I, no, right, it's always about is
it on a record? I want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Come on, I just want it on a record. That's
you know. That was like the one goal.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And so we do have the records. If somebody wants
to buy them, it's Bandages merch dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You can go on there. We have a few t
shirts and stickers and then the records for sale.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool. Cool. So that's awesome. So what is the name
of the full length record?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Then Bandages? We are uncreative and.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Just went with the title.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, it's perfect, perfect Yeah. So tell me about the
featuring Joe Gettleman. Part is that how did you get
connected with Joe and what did he have to do?
How is he involved in the writing process or was
it just more here's the song, it's completely written. We
just want you to come in and play on it.
How did that all work?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So our very good friend Sammy Kay, who lives in
Cincinnati right now, I'm not sure if you're familiar with
his work. He's done a lot of solo stuff. He
has a.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Project happening right now that's called The Kilograms and that
is with Joe Gittleman. Okay, so with them, our bassist
has had a musical crush on Joe Goodleman since he
was like a young young teenager. So he was, you know,
chatting with Joe, and Joe was just a standout, phenomenally
(14:14):
nice person.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And when we were doing when we were recording Perfect Hit,
we were trying to figure out that backing vocal section
and the kind of like you know, Bridge and Wade said,
you know, I've just always loved Joe Goodleman's voice, and
I'm like, well, we have a contact, you know, Like
so he reached out to Joe, and Joe just he
was like, yeah, I'll do that for you.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
So just exceptionally nice guy just laid down the backing
vocals for us. He didn't have any hand in writing
the song other than just doing the backing.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So yeah, that's great, That's that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So how many songs then are on your new record?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Eleven?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay? And if Yeah, I love the ambitiousness of your
band already, Like to me, that's it seems and sounds
and feels like you played your first show a year ago.
You've been a band about a year. So you probably
sounds like you weren't a band for very long when
you played your first show.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We were not, no, but we do have a background
of all of us being in bands. Like you said,
I was in a street punk band in the early
two thousands called The Messengers. We were on Punk Coore Records.
We did some touring and had a record out, and
then Wade was in five Hundred Miles to Memphis, which had,
you know, a pretty pretty marked degree of success. Our
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drummer is in like twenty five different bands because he's
a drummer drummer.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, So I had been in in a very long
term relationship.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I moved away from Cincinnati for several years, basically went
through a divorce, moved back, and and our bassist, Wade,
I've known him since I was eighteen years old, and
he was like, do you want to do music again?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And I was like, yeah, let's do it. So we
all kind of met up.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Wade and Brandon are bassis and guitars, have known each
other their childhood friends. Brandon had like a stock pile
of songs that he had just been sitting on. Yeah,
and we got together and it just really clicked. Like
all of us just really clicked, you know, and really
importantly we had the same ideologies.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, we have very similar beliefs. You know, no
lyrics that I've written, Brandon's written, anybody's written, none of
us have been put off or offended or you know,
we have some songs that get pretty pretty raw politically,
I would say. But yeah, so it's just it was
just a really good match between all of us, which
(16:48):
you know how rare that can be.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yep, I sure do. The way you described that reminds
me of this band that I found. There's a local
rag in Minneapolis called The City Pay that used to exist.
It's not around anymore, but it was like their music weekly,
you know, and they posted an ad in the back
that they're looking for like a post hardcore bass player,
and they were fans of like Quicksand and Helmet. I'm like, okay, yes,
(17:12):
like that that's my thing, So let's go hang out
with these dudes. And yeah, it was just like an
immediate thing. They had kind of a volume of stuff
that they had together, and I had some ideas and
next thing, you know, like in three months, we had
an EP recorded, we released it, we booked our national
tour starting in August that year. You know, it was
just like this insane intensity that just galvanized and showed
(17:34):
up when we all finally came together and we had
all been a bunch of different bands, so I totally
understand that sentiment. And yeah, that's like lightning in a bottle,
like when you find that that is so precious and
so rare that Yes, I'm just so stoked for you
all that you have that. Like again, I mean, and
you're putting out a record, so I mean, yeah, you
got vital coming out and you have this connection together,
(17:55):
so that's all really amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's been really cool. It's been really fun. And that
was the thing, like we're all our our drummer is.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Almost in his forties, he's not quite there yet, but
all of us are in our forties. It was like,
let's do this fun side project that we'll play, you know,
one weekend a month, and it'll be just a fun
way to like get emotions out and vent.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And then people were like, Wow, you guys are really good.
Like you're really good.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So it's kind of taken off even beyond what we
intentionally like set out for it to be.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know, yeah, and I think you know, I've said
this before. It's we went into it with no guardrails.
We didn't say, you know, post hardcore, we didn't say
street punk, we didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We said we're gonna write what we write and do
what we like. And having all of those guardrails gone,
I think has made just a really fun record. Perfect
hit comes off as very pop punk in my opinion.
We have other songs that do sound a little bit
more post hardcore. We have some songs that sound a
little bit more grunge. We don't really have a you know,
(19:06):
it's not like a set sound that we're going after.
It's kind of whatever falls on the table and works.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And sounds good.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's awesome. I'm super stoked to listen out to your
entire record. Yeah, I mean, I really am, so I'm
gonna make this. I don't know if this is embarrassing
for me or not, and I don't really care. I
really love the Billie Joel record Glass Houses, just from
when I was a kid. But that whole album is
like every song is so entirely different from it the
(19:34):
other one, and that's I love records like that where
it really just shows the depth and the direction that
artists will take just kind of naturally and just let
it be what it is instead of no, we have
to fit this completely specific thing, you know, just like
you said, you know, so I celebrate that in y'all
as well. And again I'm super stoked for your record.
(19:55):
So that's bandages merch dot Com. Did I get that right? Yes? Okay? Cool?
And that's where I can buy the vinyl when the
vinyl comes out, or should I get it?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Or we can just send you a vinyl for having
us on though.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh wow, that'd be right. Yep, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, you can get email address, we'll get one sent
out please.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's amazing cool. So is there anything else specifically about
the song, the recording process, who you recorded with, or
any of that stuff that you want to get into
and talk about and know is perfectly acceptable. Just curious?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh yeah, No, I definitely want to give a shout out.
Ryan Malott, who was the singer of five hundred Miles
to Memphis. He came and saw us at our first show.
I mean, I think his exact words to Wade were, like,
you didn't tell me that you guys were really fucking good.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So he was like, let's record an EP. Let's do
three four songs. He's like, I'm really into it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We were like cool.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
We did it at our practice space. Ryan came up,
brought a bunch of equipment. We did three or four songs,
and Ryan immediately was like, this is not enough. It
needs to be a full album. He's like, you guys
just need to do it. So he honestly like he
volunteered so much time and so much energy. He did
a lot of production on it as well. I'm good
(21:13):
at hearing melody. I'm not good at hearing vocal harmonies
because once I get stuck in that melody, it's hard
for me to think outside it. So Ryan is really
good at writing harmony. So a lot of the harmonies
are his credit on the entire album. Yea, and yeah,
he just added a few things in the background that
I never would have thought, you know, to add. And
(21:34):
I spent so much time, spent so much time doing
this for us, and we are like internally eternally grateful.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
To him for taking the time to do that. He's
been just awesome to work with and a super good guy.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's awesome. And yeah, this just feels appropriate. I just
I have to detour for one second and just give
a shout out to Jeff Halland from the band Houston Minneapolis,
who is exactly that guy for so many bands, Yeah,
in the Twin Cities area, where he just is so
generous with his time and talent and ability and yeah,
(22:10):
can find magical vocal harmonies that you're like what wait
what and then he records them for you and oh,
let's add some additional instrumentation you didn't ask about, and
just is a brilliant dude. Like I just I love
that you're giving that, you know, all the credit that
you are. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
He literally he has a label called Sad Cowboy Bands
on it, you know in the Cincinnati area. Get Wreck
does another one who they're just awesome people. Veronica grim
is on the label. But he literally started the label
to record songs from a deceased.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Bandmate, got it. He just he thought that they needed
to be put out, you know, the songs needed to
be made.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
So I mean it already comes from like a genuine
great place.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And then he has just continued that general and has
really helped out several local bands.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's amazing. That is awesome. Yeah, awesome, Sad Cowboy Records.
That's the label that it's coming on. Okay, cool, that's
what we're on. Yeah, absolutely awesome. Well cool, well let's
do this. Let's take a quick break and come back
and find out what is happening with you all post
your vinyl release and get into that cool.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Cool, all right, everybody hang out. We'll be back in
just a minute. Thanks. All right, and we are here
with Shannon Wilson from the band Bandages talking about the
song perfect hit or we were so Shannon, thank you
so much. This has been such a fun, awesome, just
(23:45):
good conversation for me to have after just again the
technical crap I was just going through trying to get
this episode going tonight. So I feel really good about
all of this and I want to hear so much
more about what you all are working on now that
you got your record coming out, you have your LP
release show coming up. What is the date of that
and where is it at?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So it'll be twelve to twenty literally this Friday at
Blind Bob's in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So if you haven't seen a show at Blind Bob's.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
It is every bit of the traditional, like amazing grassroots
venue that you can imagine. Their food is phenomenal. They've
been really good to us. Another venue I have to
stop and give a shout out to is the Southgatehouse
Revival in Newport, Kentucky. Marilla that owns it is an
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absolute gem. She's been amazing to us.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
If you ever get a chance to see a show
at Southgatehouse, definitely do it. It's an old church, probably
early nineteen hundred's, with three rooms, three stages. The sanctuary
is a whole stage. Yeah, it's just an incredible venue.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
No, that's awesome. Unfortunately, all you listeners, this is probably
coming after Friday, so you missed their LP release show.
But go look them up, Go look up the venue.
If you're in the regional area, check it out. So
both of those venues, so that you know, go see
shows and go support your local music. So then what
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happens after December twentieth, I mean, I get we're at
the end of the year, So twenty twenty five, do
y'all have like a plan of or some kind of
something sketched out about what you're trying to do? Is
there a tour in the works. Do you ever come
into Orlando to play Will's Pub? Because you should? Or
are you going to try to play Fest next fall?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You know, you would love to be on Fest if
if anybody can get us hooked up there, we would gladly,
gladly come down to Florida to play. I know, we
have a little mini tour coming up in April with
Take the Reins, okay, which would be another great band
if you've never spoken to them, great band out of Chicago,
really really fun, really great people. So we're gonna do
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a little little mini tour with them, just around the Midwest.
We're trying to book you know, like.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Little few day tours here and there.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Luckily, Ohio is centrally located and we hit a lot
of cities, you know, pretty quickly. So yeah, if anybody's
looking for booking or anything, you know, in and around
the Midwest, even towards the East coast a little bit,
we are. We're definitely game. We do all have you know,
grown up jobs, and everybody else has families.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Not me. I just have dogs, so you get it,
you know, we got to work around that.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
It's it's a lot different touring as an adult than
it was, you know, when I was in eighteen.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So sure is it? Sure is?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's different when you're like, eh, I'll slip on your floor,
like that's cool, you know, just like just rolling out
for a month and like we're gonna come back broke
and you know that doesn't fly so much. I gotta
buy cat food for my cats.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
We we our first show.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We went on at twelve forty five am, right, and like,
literally the rest of the weekend, I was wrecked. It's
like I used to stay up till five am, sleep
for two hours.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then go to work.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You know, Yeah, how did I ever do this?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now I'm like it's late guys, I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh that's funny. Yeah, I was thinking about I was
reflecting on that recently. I'm like, wait a minute. There
was a point in my life where I think I
had BAM practice on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturdays, I worked
a full time job, worked a night job as a bartender,
and opened a coffee shop on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
And I'm like, I just give me one of those
and I'm exhausted. Yeah, but it's funny. Just now things
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change to like stare at the wall and do nothing right,
just like reabsorb the energy again and then refocus and
here we go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, getting old is you know? It's incredible?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's fun. Well, no, that's awesome. So where are the
best places for all our listeners that are super stoked
to come find you? Where should they go? So? Is
it is the best spot to keep track of you
on Instagram? Or is it just following you on bank
or the bandages merch dot Com.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We have be in camp.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Instagram is probably where you're going to get most of
our show posting. So we are bandages underscore music cool
on Instagram. We've been trying to blow it up on TikTok.
I don't know how many days we have left of
TikTok now, maybe a month if it if they do
pull the plug. But I think we're bandages music on TikTok.
But yeah, we're on Facebook too. I know nobody uses
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Facebook anymore, but probably Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's the best cool Okay, Well, I'll be sure to
make sure that everybody knows where to go find you guys,
and where to go get your record. But yeah, I'm
super stoked to hear it. I'm super excited for your
LP release show. I'm super excited for your mini tour
next year. Hopefully see you down at you know fest
and Gainsville next fall. That'd be awesome if.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We'd love it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, get that cooked up. But you know, Shannon, thank
you so much for taking the time to come again
and talk to me about this, because it's such a surprise.
Like I love hearing from bands that I may not
beamiliar with and then just to get blindsided by their
music and just fall in love with it right away.
It's like it's such a beautiful thing. And and just
thanks again for being so open and out there.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
All we can hope for in these politically turbulent times
is for really good punk rock to come back.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And that's that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I hear it, I hear it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
If anything, if anything, if we can get anything, at
least we can have really good punk rock.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That would be That would be amazing. Yeah, that would
be amazing. Well awesome, Well, thank you again, and uh yeah,
and next time you guys, uh put something out. If
you want to come back and talk about it, hit
me up and we'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Definitely sounds great.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Free Cross Sad Breakdown. All right, and that wraps up
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another episode of the B Side Breakdown. I want to
thank Shannon Wilson from the band Bandages for coming along
to talk about their song perfect Hit. I also want
to thank Adam Coolong and Carrie Bosel for helping me
put together the jingle you hear at the beginning and
the end of this episode. In the background, you're hearing
a song from a band called Via Sky called Lullaby.
If you dig it, go listen to the previous episode,
because that's what it was all about. Up next, I
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got John Snodgrass coming along to talk about his trio
of songs called Ghost Trilogy. Really looking forward to talking
to John. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you get
your podcasts. I can't thank you enough for your ongoing support,
and I'll give you a taste of Ghost Trilogy from
John Snodgrass here in a second, be say while you're
out there, we'll catch in the next one. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You called them bad times, They was the best time.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I really missed that friend man. I want to see
him shine
Free tros B Side Breakdown. Hey everyone, welcome to the
B Side Breakdown. My name is Brett Johnson and I'm
your host. This is episode thirty one of a podcast
where I talk with other artists, musicians and songwriters about
a song they've written that's meaningful to them and then
ideally we have a chat and get deep into the
why behind it. Part of that is they give me
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permission to play the song in its entirety on this episode,
so you the listener can hear it all and then
have an idea of what we're talking about. So today
I'm gonna be talking with Shannon Wilson from the band
Bandages about their song Perfect Hit. So let's get into it.
Here is Perfect Hit by Bandages.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Feel just funny, Dang Glen. These countries do too, fell
a waiting gender rolls and up fitting riches, all the
power hungry coats that killed Pasu kissing up to people
and put him out on the steam poles and what
the fuck up into our safe It's just showing bo
(01:16):
as my hand. Luck to do a statis frass, got
a found my hand a bed place and so.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm looking for a time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, what's too many topics. I'm said, now I'll shine
through that ship getting I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hemming all the time again, missed the tutor, ridamn wheat
and all the perfect ginger press the spectrum, and never
one is cool with us and never want us up
to be loved. Not the heel looks in the blacking rooms,
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and you all got some home a botes your metal
Christians in cold clogs or the summing didn't tie, it
was always in two should laughingels.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think they'll luck.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Lose that son, so it'll keep making the raging crocket's
fun against Potts, showing American dreams down.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'll talk to my guns and I'm looking for a
time again.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I wat too many.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Top pis something that shine through the ship, and I'm
it's all the tie again. Listen to the right back
when all the ffect and killing way the car crashes
too close and way too bright for Canada.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Take me email, I'll to s.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So I'm looking for a time again, by too many time,
making up looking all the time again.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
To any top.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Looking for a time, an't wait.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Too many time?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Pick something that shine through that ship, all right, and
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that was perfect hit by the band bandages. We're gonna
take a quick break and come back and talk with
Shannon Wilson. Stay with us, all right, and we're back.
Let's bring in Shannon from the band Bandages to talk
about their song Perfect Hit. Hey, Shannon, thank you so
much for taking some time tonight to talk with me
about the song. And I really apologize for all the
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technical difficulties we had getting up and running here.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It is all good. Thank you for having me be here.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Absolutely yeah, I'm super stoked about the song. It's so
much fun and the I've been trying to decipher them
as best I can and looking for them online too,
just to see because there's a lot of heavy stuff
going on in there, which is just right up my alley.
But I love everything that this song is talking about
(04:14):
the energy of it. It's just super grabs me and
I want to go see you guys live, so I
really just want to turn it over to you to
tell me, you know, and the listeners, what why is
this song particularly meaningful to you? Why did you want
to talk about it today?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right? So, perfect Hit?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You know, initially off the title and I think like
we did some of the art with it on Spotify
and other streaming that you know, kind of look like
shattered glass, kind of like a bullet hole. So your
brain kind of instantly goes to that, you know, missed
it to the right a bit, aiming for the perfect hit,
like you know, that kind of terminology. But really the
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song is about seeing so much bad that's happening, and
it just it's everywhere you look like we just have
gone down this path of like nothing feels like it
has improved, you know, over the past twenty years or so.
We're kind of tumbling down the state of affairs. And
it's that that realizing even if I want to make
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a difference, where do I concentrate my energy, what is
the perfect hit?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
What can I improve on?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And then when you do make those changes, or you volunteer,
or you start doing things like that, or you use
your voice, you protest, whatever, you start to feel kind
of overwhelmed by the other things that you're not making
an impact in and it just becomes, you know, kind
of overwhelming, and then you get the sense like kind of,
you know, fuck it, I'll give up and move to.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Canada, because it's just where have we gone so wrong?
You know? And where do we even begin? And That's
what the perfect hit is all about.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's about, you know, where can you focus your energy
and where can you make the biggest change and the
most difference.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, that's that makes a lot of sense, and all
that like one resonates with me on so many levels.
Like yeah, I'm very aware of right, you know, just
I mean, I living where I live now. I live
in Orlando. I'm originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And you know, like you're in a nice, nice red state,
you know, like.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Right, I'm in Ohio, right, right, And so you know,
like first first Gulf War, I knew exactly where to
go protest and why I was protesting, and I knew
what you know, what my what my issue was, why
it was an issue for me and how me and
you know, my peers were going to be directly impacted
by some of the decisions that were being made, as
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well as just the nature.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Of it all.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, Like I had a whole lot of whole lot
of ideology and reason and passion and drive and fire
behind it, and I knew exactly where to go. And
now it's I mean, obviously thirty some odd years later,
here I am thinking, Yeah, I mean, I feel what
saying it's like there's there's only there's the directions that
I know I can go. There's I know, there's a
lot of the you know you protest or vote with
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your money kind of a thing, Like there's that dynamic
and and all of those things. But still it's it's
nice to hear that just plainly said in the overwhelming
nature of it, as you described it, just from this song.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So thank you for being great, and even you know,
with with recent elections, like you feel like, you know,
like I know what party I need to be voting for,
and I do vote, you know, in that direction, But
do I feel like that party represents me anymore? Absolutely not,
you know, like I feel like it's so far beyond
what any of us want. You know, none of us
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want these none of us want corporations to continue making
billions and billions and billions of dollars. Yet we have
no party that is standing up for the middle class
and the working class.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You know. So even even your vote these days feels
like ugh, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, And I felt that for a long time too,
just even on some and not trying to evolve into
this being a political discussion necessarily because I really want
to talk about the song, but oh, for.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Sure, political band. You know, it's I'm not afraid of
any of these conversations.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Could get good. Yeah, I mean, but I felt that
for years, Like in various elections, I'm like, I can't
tell if I'm actually voting, Like, am I voting for
somebody or am I voting you know, taking a vote
away from somebody, yes, rather than voting for someone but
then on the same breath, or am I voting my conscience?
(08:35):
Because I can't stand either. And there's an independent that
I know I'm I know in my heart, I'm throwing
away my vote, Like this is a throwaway vote that
isn't helping, But damn it, that's that's what I support.
So yeah, you know, and that gets really frustrating.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'd really like my friends that have trans kids, you know,
for them to be able to get the health care
that they need. You know, like we are totally vote
on the most basic things, like the most basic human
rights and having to hold our nose over a bunch
of things that should matter, but we're like, you know,
we're so hung up on these very basic things that
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we just have to It's like I'm voting for human rights,
the most basic thing out there. You know, it comes up,
you know with the CEO that just got shot and
killed with with United how have we been talking about healthcare?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
How many years have we had this conversation? And it's
gotten worse and worse and worse, and you know, now
it's brought back.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Up to the to the public again, and it's like
this has been a twenty year thing that people have
been angry about, you know, like what when is something
going to break?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
When is something going to give?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, when are people going to see what the
workers need and what the middle class needs and you
know the lower class or the you know, the people
that are underserved.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like it's it's the same conversation we're having over and
over and over.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And when we had it originally not to go off
on a rant about healthcare, but when we had it originally,
you know, the argument was, well, the American healthcare system
is really good. You get really good you know services,
we have state of the art technology. But we can't
even say that anymore. Like we've literally gone backwards, and
our life expectancy is worse than other modernized countries.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yet we're paying more than anybody you know, and it's like,
how many times can you scream at this wall before
you give up?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yep, No, absolutely, I certainly feel all of that. Yeah, no,
I really do. And I'm glad that again. I'm just
glad that you all have put this out there and
you reached out so we could have a chat about
it because it's it's such a good song and that too,
and that just was that fires me up and that
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that is really fun. So I'm gonna just ask, because
I'm just gonna asky, are youamiliar with the Iron Roses? Yes, yeah, okay,
I would just would be one of my favorite shows
would be to see both playings.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Right, So you're not the first person that said that.
Somebody else that we know was like, you really need
to hook up with these guys and play, you know,
some shows with them?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah for real. Yeah, they're so amazing. But yeah, no,
this is great. So tell me about Okay, you're the
band's based in Cincinnati, is that right?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah? Well, Cincinnati and Dayton, which if you're familiar with
the area, it's a very close distance, like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know, I am familiar with Dayton. I've spent more
time in Dayton, I think than Cincinnati, but I am
familiar with it. The uh what So I know that
you all come from kind of a host of different bands,
which I love that about music scenes when it's just like, yep,
we were all doing these things respectively and other things,
and now we've come together to make this powerhouse of
a new thing, which is awesome. How long has Bandages
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now been together?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
A little over a year? Okay, so we formed not
this last July, but the July before that. Our first
show was not you know, a month ago to November,
but November twenty twenty three was our first show.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So we are fresh, we are very.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
New, good cool. So how many then? This part I
wasn't able to fully get but I thought I saw
four different releases on your band camp. Is that are
those singles or is there a full length in there?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Is?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What's kind of what do you got going on with that?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, we kind of dropped singles leading up to the
full length being released. Which the full length is released,
it's on all streaming platforms. And then actually this Friday
we are having our vinyl release show, so we have
physical records pressed for sale.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, thank you. That's the only thing I cared about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I was like, I, no, right, it's always about is
it on a record? I want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Come on, I just want it on a record. That's
you know. That was like the one goal.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And so we do have the records. If somebody wants
to buy them, it's Bandages merch dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You can go on there. We have a few t
shirts and stickers and then the records for sale.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool. Cool. So that's awesome. So what is the name
of the full length record?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Then Bandages? We are uncreative and.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Just went with the title.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, it's perfect, perfect Yeah. So tell me about the
featuring Joe Gettleman. Part is that how did you get
connected with Joe and what did he have to do?
How is he involved in the writing process or was
it just more here's the song, it's completely written. We
just want you to come in and play on it.
How did that all work?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So our very good friend Sammy Kay, who lives in
Cincinnati right now, I'm not sure if you're familiar with
his work. He's done a lot of solo stuff. He
has a.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Project happening right now that's called The Kilograms and that
is with Joe Gittleman. Okay, so with them, our bassist
has had a musical crush on Joe Goodleman since he
was like a young young teenager. So he was, you know,
chatting with Joe, and Joe was just a standout, phenomenally
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nice person.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And when we were doing when we were recording Perfect Hit,
we were trying to figure out that backing vocal section
and the kind of like you know, Bridge and Wade said,
you know, I've just always loved Joe Goodleman's voice, and
I'm like, well, we have a contact, you know, Like
so he reached out to Joe, and Joe just he
was like, yeah, I'll do that for you.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
So just exceptionally nice guy just laid down the backing
vocals for us. He didn't have any hand in writing
the song other than just doing the backing.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So yeah, that's great, That's that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So how many songs then are on your new record?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Eleven?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay? And if Yeah, I love the ambitiousness of your
band already, Like to me, that's it seems and sounds
and feels like you played your first show a year ago.
You've been a band about a year. So you probably
sounds like you weren't a band for very long when
you played your first show.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We were not, no, but we do have a background
of all of us being in bands. Like you said,
I was in a street punk band in the early
two thousands called The Messengers. We were on Punk Coore Records.
We did some touring and had a record out, and
then Wade was in five Hundred Miles to Memphis, which had,
you know, a pretty pretty marked degree of success. Our
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drummer is in like twenty five different bands because he's
a drummer drummer.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, So I had been in in a very long
term relationship.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I moved away from Cincinnati for several years, basically went
through a divorce, moved back, and and our bassist, Wade,
I've known him since I was eighteen years old, and
he was like, do you want to do music again?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And I was like, yeah, let's do it. So we
all kind of met up.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Wade and Brandon are bassis and guitars, have known each
other their childhood friends. Brandon had like a stock pile
of songs that he had just been sitting on. Yeah,
and we got together and it just really clicked. Like
all of us just really clicked, you know, and really
importantly we had the same ideologies.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know, we have very similar beliefs. You know, no
lyrics that I've written, Brandon's written, anybody's written, none of
us have been put off or offended or you know,
we have some songs that get pretty pretty raw politically,
I would say. But yeah, so it's just it was
just a really good match between all of us, which
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you know how rare that can be.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yep, I sure do. The way you described that reminds
me of this band that I found. There's a local
rag in Minneapolis called The City Pay that used to exist.
It's not around anymore, but it was like their music weekly,
you know, and they posted an ad in the back
that they're looking for like a post hardcore bass player,
and they were fans of like Quicksand and Helmet. I'm like, okay, yes,
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like that that's my thing, So let's go hang out
with these dudes. And yeah, it was just like an
immediate thing. They had kind of a volume of stuff
that they had together, and I had some ideas and
next thing, you know, like in three months, we had
an EP recorded, we released it, we booked our national
tour starting in August that year. You know, it was
just like this insane intensity that just galvanized and showed
(17:34):
up when we all finally came together and we had
all been a bunch of different bands, so I totally
understand that sentiment. And yeah, that's like lightning in a bottle,
like when you find that that is so precious and
so rare that Yes, I'm just so stoked for you
all that you have that. Like again, I mean, and
you're putting out a record, so I mean, yeah, you
got vital coming out and you have this connection together,
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so that's all really amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's been really cool. It's been really fun. And that
was the thing, like we're all our our drummer is.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Almost in his forties, he's not quite there yet, but
all of us are in our forties. It was like,
let's do this fun side project that we'll play, you know,
one weekend a month, and it'll be just a fun
way to like get emotions out and vent.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And then people were like, Wow, you guys are really good.
Like you're really good.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So it's kind of taken off even beyond what we
intentionally like set out for it to be.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know, yeah, and I think you know, I've said
this before. It's we went into it with no guardrails.
We didn't say, you know, post hardcore, we didn't say
street punk, we didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We said we're gonna write what we write and do
what we like. And having all of those guardrails gone,
I think has made just a really fun record. Perfect
hit comes off as very pop punk in my opinion.
We have other songs that do sound a little bit
more post hardcore. We have some songs that sound a
little bit more grunge. We don't really have a you know,
(19:06):
it's not like a set sound that we're going after.
It's kind of whatever falls on the table and works.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And sounds good.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's awesome. I'm super stoked to listen out to your
entire record. Yeah, I mean, I really am, so I'm
gonna make this. I don't know if this is embarrassing
for me or not, and I don't really care. I
really love the Billie Joel record Glass Houses, just from
when I was a kid. But that whole album is
like every song is so entirely different from it the
(19:34):
other one, and that's I love records like that where
it really just shows the depth and the direction that
artists will take just kind of naturally and just let
it be what it is instead of no, we have
to fit this completely specific thing, you know, just like
you said, you know, so I celebrate that in y'all
as well. And again I'm super stoked for your record.
(19:55):
So that's bandages merch dot Com. Did I get that right? Yes? Okay? Cool?
And that's where I can buy the vinyl when the
vinyl comes out, or should I get it?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Or we can just send you a vinyl for having
us on though.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh wow, that'd be right. Yep, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, you can get email address, we'll get one sent
out please.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's amazing cool. So is there anything else specifically about
the song, the recording process, who you recorded with, or
any of that stuff that you want to get into
and talk about and know is perfectly acceptable. Just curious?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh yeah, No, I definitely want to give a shout out.
Ryan Malott, who was the singer of five hundred Miles
to Memphis. He came and saw us at our first show.
I mean, I think his exact words to Wade were, like,
you didn't tell me that you guys were really fucking good.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So he was like, let's record an EP. Let's do
three four songs. He's like, I'm really into it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We were like cool.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
We did it at our practice space. Ryan came up,
brought a bunch of equipment. We did three or four songs,
and Ryan immediately was like, this is not enough. It
needs to be a full album. He's like, you guys
just need to do it. So he honestly like he
volunteered so much time and so much energy. He did
a lot of production on it as well. I'm good
(21:13):
at hearing melody. I'm not good at hearing vocal harmonies
because once I get stuck in that melody, it's hard
for me to think outside it. So Ryan is really
good at writing harmony. So a lot of the harmonies
are his credit on the entire album. Yea, and yeah,
he just added a few things in the background that
I never would have thought, you know, to add. And
(21:34):
I spent so much time, spent so much time doing
this for us, and we are like internally eternally grateful.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
To him for taking the time to do that. He's
been just awesome to work with and a super good guy.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's awesome. And yeah, this just feels appropriate. I just
I have to detour for one second and just give
a shout out to Jeff Halland from the band Houston Minneapolis,
who is exactly that guy for so many bands, Yeah,
in the Twin Cities area, where he just is so
generous with his time and talent and ability and yeah,
(22:10):
can find magical vocal harmonies that you're like what wait
what and then he records them for you and oh,
let's add some additional instrumentation you didn't ask about, and
just is a brilliant dude. Like I just I love
that you're giving that, you know, all the credit that
you are. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
He literally he has a label called Sad Cowboy Bands
on it, you know in the Cincinnati area. Get Wreck
does another one who they're just awesome people. Veronica grim
is on the label. But he literally started the label
to record songs from a deceased.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Bandmate, got it. He just he thought that they needed
to be put out, you know, the songs needed to
be made.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
So I mean it already comes from like a genuine
great place.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And then he has just continued that general and has
really helped out several local bands.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's amazing. That is awesome. Yeah, awesome, Sad Cowboy Records.
That's the label that it's coming on. Okay, cool, that's
what we're on. Yeah, absolutely awesome. Well cool, well let's
do this. Let's take a quick break and come back
and find out what is happening with you all post
your vinyl release and get into that cool.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Cool, all right, everybody hang out. We'll be back in
just a minute. Thanks. All right, and we are here
with Shannon Wilson from the band Bandages talking about the
song perfect hit or we were so Shannon, thank you
so much. This has been such a fun, awesome, just
(23:45):
good conversation for me to have after just again the
technical crap I was just going through trying to get
this episode going tonight. So I feel really good about
all of this and I want to hear so much
more about what you all are working on now that
you got your record coming out, you have your LP
release show coming up. What is the date of that
and where is it at?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So it'll be twelve to twenty literally this Friday at
Blind Bob's in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So if you haven't seen a show at Blind Bob's.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
It is every bit of the traditional, like amazing grassroots
venue that you can imagine. Their food is phenomenal. They've
been really good to us. Another venue I have to
stop and give a shout out to is the Southgatehouse
Revival in Newport, Kentucky. Marilla that owns it is an
(24:37):
absolute gem. She's been amazing to us.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
If you ever get a chance to see a show
at Southgatehouse, definitely do it. It's an old church, probably
early nineteen hundred's, with three rooms, three stages. The sanctuary
is a whole stage. Yeah, it's just an incredible venue.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
No, that's awesome. Unfortunately, all you listeners, this is probably
coming after Friday, so you missed their LP release show.
But go look them up, Go look up the venue.
If you're in the regional area, check it out. So
both of those venues, so that you know, go see
shows and go support your local music. So then what
(25:16):
happens after December twentieth, I mean, I get we're at
the end of the year, So twenty twenty five, do
y'all have like a plan of or some kind of
something sketched out about what you're trying to do? Is
there a tour in the works. Do you ever come
into Orlando to play Will's Pub? Because you should? Or
are you going to try to play Fest next fall?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You know, you would love to be on Fest if
if anybody can get us hooked up there, we would gladly,
gladly come down to Florida to play. I know, we
have a little mini tour coming up in April with
Take the Reins, okay, which would be another great band
if you've never spoken to them, great band out of Chicago,
really really fun, really great people. So we're gonna do
(25:55):
a little little mini tour with them, just around the Midwest.
We're trying to book you know, like.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Little few day tours here and there.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Luckily, Ohio is centrally located and we hit a lot
of cities, you know, pretty quickly. So yeah, if anybody's
looking for booking or anything, you know, in and around
the Midwest, even towards the East coast a little bit,
we are. We're definitely game. We do all have you know,
grown up jobs, and everybody else has families.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Not me. I just have dogs, so you get it,
you know, we got to work around that.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
It's it's a lot different touring as an adult than
it was, you know, when I was in eighteen.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So sure is it? Sure is?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's different when you're like, eh, I'll slip on your floor,
like that's cool, you know, just like just rolling out
for a month and like we're gonna come back broke
and you know that doesn't fly so much. I gotta
buy cat food for my cats.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
We we our first show.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We went on at twelve forty five am, right, and like,
literally the rest of the weekend, I was wrecked. It's
like I used to stay up till five am, sleep
for two hours.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then go to work.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You know, Yeah, how did I ever do this?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now I'm like it's late guys, I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh that's funny. Yeah, I was thinking about I was
reflecting on that recently. I'm like, wait a minute. There
was a point in my life where I think I
had BAM practice on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturdays, I worked
a full time job, worked a night job as a bartender,
and opened a coffee shop on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
And I'm like, I just give me one of those
and I'm exhausted. Yeah, but it's funny. Just now things
(27:34):
change to like stare at the wall and do nothing right,
just like reabsorb the energy again and then refocus and
here we go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, getting old is you know? It's incredible?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's fun. Well, no, that's awesome. So where are the
best places for all our listeners that are super stoked
to come find you? Where should they go? So? Is
it is the best spot to keep track of you
on Instagram? Or is it just following you on bank
or the bandages merch dot Com.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We have be in camp.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Instagram is probably where you're going to get most of
our show posting. So we are bandages underscore music cool
on Instagram. We've been trying to blow it up on TikTok.
I don't know how many days we have left of
TikTok now, maybe a month if it if they do
pull the plug. But I think we're bandages music on TikTok.
But yeah, we're on Facebook too. I know nobody uses
(28:25):
Facebook anymore, but probably Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's the best cool Okay, Well, I'll be sure to
make sure that everybody knows where to go find you guys,
and where to go get your record. But yeah, I'm
super stoked to hear it. I'm super excited for your
LP release show. I'm super excited for your mini tour
next year. Hopefully see you down at you know fest
and Gainsville next fall. That'd be awesome if.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We'd love it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, get that cooked up. But you know, Shannon, thank
you so much for taking the time to come again
and talk to me about this, because it's such a surprise.
Like I love hearing from bands that I may not
beamiliar with and then just to get blindsided by their
music and just fall in love with it right away.
It's like it's such a beautiful thing. And and just
thanks again for being so open and out there.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
All we can hope for in these politically turbulent times
is for really good punk rock to come back.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And that's that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I hear it, I hear it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
If anything, if anything, if we can get anything, at
least we can have really good punk rock.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That would be That would be amazing. Yeah, that would
be amazing. Well awesome, Well, thank you again, and uh yeah,
and next time you guys, uh put something out. If
you want to come back and talk about it, hit
me up and we'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Definitely sounds great.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Free Cross Sad Breakdown. All right, and that wraps up
(30:21):
another episode of the B Side Breakdown. I want to
thank Shannon Wilson from the band Bandages for coming along
to talk about their song perfect Hit. I also want
to thank Adam Coolong and Carrie Bosel for helping me
put together the jingle you hear at the beginning and
the end of this episode. In the background, you're hearing
a song from a band called Via Sky called Lullaby.
If you dig it, go listen to the previous episode,
because that's what it was all about. Up next, I
(30:43):
got John Snodgrass coming along to talk about his trio
of songs called Ghost Trilogy. Really looking forward to talking
to John. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you get
your podcasts. I can't thank you enough for your ongoing support,
and I'll give you a taste of Ghost Trilogy from
John Snodgrass here in a second, be say while you're
out there, we'll catch in the next one. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You called them bad times, They was the best time.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I really missed that friend man. I want to see
him shine
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