August 8, 2025 • 5 mins
Life, controversy, losing his voice & being the "bad guy" in general.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before Avenge Sevenfold Falling in Reverse. I got a chance
to sit down with Ronnie Racky, vocalist for Falling in Reverse.
Of course, who's been around the block for a long time.
I mean he's been on the scene for about eighteen years,
but over the last couple of years, Falling in Reverse
has been what I call a slow burn, right, It's
been a slow but meteoric rise. It's crazy. We talked
about everything, including this tour and everything else. We started
(00:22):
off talking about the heats and where they had just played.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was halfway through my set and I have forty
five minutes set, and I was like, how is this
Avenge going to do this?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I couldn't believe it. It's fucking nuts.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
So you don't realize how hot it gets on that stage.
As a fan, you think it can't be that bad.
You got fans blowing on you, but you're in a
box that doesn't move, and the fans actually that heat
kind of comes to you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
My guitar player was in a full jacket and oh
my god, a double.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Mask that was coming over his face. So geez. Well,
first of all, congratulations on Syracuse the other night. Dude,
how did you guys end up having ninety eight hundred
all in really with Comps. Is that the biggest solo
show you guys have done.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Correct, And then right before that, Philadelphia was ninety two
hundred sold out at the Hershey, Hershey's.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
At Hershey, so they knee that's crazy. Yeah. Man, So
at this point in time, I mean, you know, the
vibe is good. Let me having the time of your
life right now. Yeah, it was kind of for us.
It was such a slow burn to get started, but
we felt it because there's not many bands.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That get such a huge fan pushed by social media
and everywhere else. Yeah, and it was one of those
where you go, you do not want to going to
give up on this, You just kind of want to
wreck this out.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah. Now at this point we have four or five
songs in rotation at this home my band.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So the hard part.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Now is trying to figure out where to put them all.
They're all testing the same and the roof when you
guys did not eat rock Fest here back in April
right after that, because so many people they had never
seen you before, so when they.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Saw you, it was like it was ninety eight rock
Fest with breaking Benjamin Yes, lost my voice when you
lost playing.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Sorry we did that to you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm never playing that venue again. It's Florida, right, So
Flora's human right right, it's hockey season.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The what do you think they right, what do you
think they try to do to the hockey?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Florida's to be a dry sucked it completely out and
I walk out there. We're sitting in the green room
and I'm like, I was like, oh, whatever, get on
stage and I it's like sandpaper.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's like, uh, I never thought about that before.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But yeah, it's like running on a treadmill dehydrated. Wow,
like you're you need you need some, you need some,
you need you.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Know you can have lubrication, Yeah, exactly there somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I had to cancel like a whole week and
people were mad at me and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But they don't realize how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That's the thing, because people are always well, you can
still talk, yeah, yeah, it's not singing because you had
about every vocal range.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
There is in the show.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, that's then screaming.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, and screaming.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
People don't realize when you talk, like rapping is so
hard on the vocal. People don't realize that Whispering and
talking is harder on the vocal than singing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So at this point, now you're out with the binge,
what's the next step after that? Or you're just like
I don't even know, man.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're just there's a really big thing gonna happen. I
can't it's not signed in blood yet, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I can't say I like your surprised. You've been good
at that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I like to do that, but yeah, it's really sick.
You're gonna like it. You're a radio guy, you're gonna
love it, all right. We're gonna love it for sure.
So that's all I could say. But yeah, dude, you
guys are like treating us like where the red hot
chili peppers or something.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But here's the thing. You drive that bus, not us. Yeah,
but don't play what people want to hear. No one listens,
therefore we go bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I like that you guys are playing us so much
that people are gonna hate us in a good way,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What I mean. Here's the thing. I like that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We're pretty good at pumping the brakes because we don't
want people to be overburned, because we want it to
last that's the thing that's the hardest thing, yea, because
everybody wants to take it when you're hot.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They're like strike while the iron is hot. Better to
burn out than fade away. I don't know, There's gotta
be a happy balance in there. Someone you don't need.
You only either one, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, Like Red Hot Chili Peppers are so big, but
every time they come on, I'm like, because they could,
they played so much.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But they're legends, right, I like that. So that's a
it's a good thing, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So it's weird too, because I mean, I know, do
you do you think about longevity?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Like, you know, where does this go? Because to me,
that would drive me to crazy. I've never been one
to think about the future. I just live where I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
At because I've been here now for thirty three years,
the same station that never happens, and.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I never I thought i'd be here like two years
now you're gone. I thought the same way.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I and I you know, my kind of music
doesn't not supposed to last. And I would like look
at other bands like that I looked up to, and
now I look at them differently because they didn't really
break through. And I thought they were the biggest things
ever when I was growing up, like, I thought that
breaking through was like just playing big shows.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, and then you go to another.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Level and then you're like, oh wait, wow you know
I mean so, I mean, yeah, I don't know what
the future holds, but I'm really I see children, I
see teenagers, a gen z, I see my my generation,
and I see adults in the crowd, and that gives
me so much happiness because it makes me realize that's
(04:54):
what bon Jovi has.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's like that generational thing because it does it goes
grandkids to grandparents. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Literally, I mean I have people. I'm fifty three, so
some of my buddies are ten years older than me.
Love you guys, You're like, there's it's different.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's what we grew up with.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Because like we were, we had the experimental psychedelia, just
out there music a lot of people didn't get.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, we were like the outcast. It would have eventually crossed through.
So yeah, pretty old.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, so the generational thing. And I've been around for
about eighteen years. And you know how bands when they
first blow explode, that's not a good sign to me
because they go boom and then.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And that's that's been the slow rise. So the slow
rise you build like a crazy foundation.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And now I've learned that and I never I never
planned this, you know, So you don't just opened all
with my heart, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Hell yeah? So yeah, awesome, Ronnie, thank you for time.
I appreciate it. Yeah,
Before Avenge Sevenfold Falling in Reverse. I got a chance
to sit down with Ronnie Racky, vocalist for Falling in Reverse.
Of course, who's been around the block for a long time.
I mean he's been on the scene for about eighteen years,
but over the last couple of years, Falling in Reverse
has been what I call a slow burn, right, It's
been a slow but meteoric rise. It's crazy. We talked
about everything, including this tour and everything else. We started
(00:22):
off talking about the heats and where they had just played.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was halfway through my set and I have forty
five minutes set, and I was like, how is this
Avenge going to do this?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I couldn't believe it. It's fucking nuts.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
So you don't realize how hot it gets on that stage.
As a fan, you think it can't be that bad.
You got fans blowing on you, but you're in a
box that doesn't move, and the fans actually that heat
kind of comes to you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
My guitar player was in a full jacket and oh
my god, a double.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Mask that was coming over his face. So geez. Well,
first of all, congratulations on Syracuse the other night. Dude,
how did you guys end up having ninety eight hundred
all in really with Comps. Is that the biggest solo
show you guys have done.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Correct, And then right before that, Philadelphia was ninety two
hundred sold out at the Hershey, Hershey's.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
At Hershey, so they knee that's crazy. Yeah. Man, So
at this point in time, I mean, you know, the
vibe is good. Let me having the time of your
life right now. Yeah, it was kind of for us.
It was such a slow burn to get started, but
we felt it because there's not many bands.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That get such a huge fan pushed by social media
and everywhere else. Yeah, and it was one of those
where you go, you do not want to going to
give up on this, You just kind of want to
wreck this out.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah. Now at this point we have four or five
songs in rotation at this home my band.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So the hard part.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Now is trying to figure out where to put them all.
They're all testing the same and the roof when you
guys did not eat rock Fest here back in April
right after that, because so many people they had never
seen you before, so when they.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Saw you, it was like it was ninety eight rock
Fest with breaking Benjamin Yes, lost my voice when you
lost playing.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Sorry we did that to you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm never playing that venue again. It's Florida, right, So
Flora's human right right, it's hockey season.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The what do you think they right, what do you
think they try to do to the hockey?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Florida's to be a dry sucked it completely out and
I walk out there. We're sitting in the green room
and I'm like, I was like, oh, whatever, get on
stage and I it's like sandpaper.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's like, uh, I never thought about that before.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But yeah, it's like running on a treadmill dehydrated. Wow,
like you're you need you need some, you need some,
you need you.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Know you can have lubrication, Yeah, exactly there somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I had to cancel like a whole week and
people were mad at me and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But they don't realize how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That's the thing, because people are always well, you can
still talk, yeah, yeah, it's not singing because you had
about every vocal range.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
There is in the show.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, that's then screaming.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, and screaming.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
People don't realize when you talk, like rapping is so
hard on the vocal. People don't realize that Whispering and
talking is harder on the vocal than singing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So at this point, now you're out with the binge,
what's the next step after that? Or you're just like
I don't even know, man.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're just there's a really big thing gonna happen. I
can't it's not signed in blood yet, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I can't say I like your surprised. You've been good
at that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I like to do that, but yeah, it's really sick.
You're gonna like it. You're a radio guy, you're gonna
love it, all right. We're gonna love it for sure.
So that's all I could say. But yeah, dude, you
guys are like treating us like where the red hot
chili peppers or something.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But here's the thing. You drive that bus, not us. Yeah,
but don't play what people want to hear. No one listens,
therefore we go bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I like that you guys are playing us so much
that people are gonna hate us in a good way,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What I mean. Here's the thing. I like that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We're pretty good at pumping the brakes because we don't
want people to be overburned, because we want it to
last that's the thing that's the hardest thing, yea, because
everybody wants to take it when you're hot.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They're like strike while the iron is hot. Better to
burn out than fade away. I don't know, There's gotta
be a happy balance in there. Someone you don't need.
You only either one, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, Like Red Hot Chili Peppers are so big, but
every time they come on, I'm like, because they could,
they played so much.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But they're legends, right, I like that. So that's a
it's a good thing, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So it's weird too, because I mean, I know, do
you do you think about longevity?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Like, you know, where does this go? Because to me,
that would drive me to crazy. I've never been one
to think about the future. I just live where I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
At because I've been here now for thirty three years,
the same station that never happens, and.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I never I thought i'd be here like two years
now you're gone. I thought the same way.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I and I you know, my kind of music
doesn't not supposed to last. And I would like look
at other bands like that I looked up to, and
now I look at them differently because they didn't really
break through. And I thought they were the biggest things
ever when I was growing up, like, I thought that
breaking through was like just playing big shows.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, and then you go to another.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Level and then you're like, oh wait, wow you know
I mean so, I mean, yeah, I don't know what
the future holds, but I'm really I see children, I
see teenagers, a gen z, I see my my generation,
and I see adults in the crowd, and that gives
me so much happiness because it makes me realize that's
(04:54):
what bon Jovi has.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's like that generational thing because it does it goes
grandkids to grandparents. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Literally, I mean I have people. I'm fifty three, so
some of my buddies are ten years older than me.
Love you guys, You're like, there's it's different.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's what we grew up with.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Because like we were, we had the experimental psychedelia, just
out there music a lot of people didn't get.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, we were like the outcast. It would have eventually crossed through.
So yeah, pretty old.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, so the generational thing. And I've been around for
about eighteen years. And you know how bands when they
first blow explode, that's not a good sign to me
because they go boom and then.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And that's that's been the slow rise. So the slow
rise you build like a crazy foundation.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And now I've learned that and I never I never
planned this, you know, So you don't just opened all
with my heart, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Hell yeah? So yeah, awesome, Ronnie, thank you for time.
I appreciate it. Yeah,
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