October 17, 2025 • 17 mins
On this episode, I want to introduce you to a new up and coming artist Ryan Perdz! THe guy has an amazing voice, in the vein of Chris Cornell. He even pulls out a guitar to play his new single "Temporary"!
Thanks to Big Machine Rock for bringing him by.
Be sure to check out Ryan on whichever music streaming service you use and on YouTube!
Thanks for listening!
-Walt
Thanks to Big Machine Rock for bringing him by.
Be sure to check out Ryan on whichever music streaming service you use and on YouTube!
Thanks for listening!
-Walt
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why Hello, It has been a minute, hasn't it. I'm
Walt and I'm back with another cool story bro. Today,
I'm going to turn you on to this new artist
who got a foothold in the biz by doing grunge
covers on socials and then he grew his TikTok to
a million followers. His name is Ryan Purds. He just
dropped a brand new song called Temporary, which is going
(00:20):
to perform at the end of the podcast. Ryan in
the studio with me today. Good to see you, man,
Thanks for having me. I love talking to new artists
and right now I want to find out about you.
What makes you tick? So tell me where did you
where'd you come from? What, what's the music that inspired you?
And what what did you listen to grown up?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I was really young. I was really into Nirvana and
Michael Jackson. That's really what got me into music.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a really wide swath of music right there.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I mean I really liked watching Michael because he
could dance. I like to dance like him when I
was a kid. Kind of lost that ability as I
got older, though.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I don't move around as much. I
just sit with a guitar, let's play it all days
about it?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, so, but so? And then Nirvana? What was it
about Nirvana that spoke to you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I always loved his lyrics, his voice, obviously, his lyrics
always just really resonated with me growing up as a kid.
I feel like Seattle also is similar to Buffalo and away.
I'm from Buffalo, New York, by the way, but uh,
just not a lot of sun as you can tell
from my pale skin. But yeah, so I could always
relate to his lyrics. And then from Nirvana, you go
(01:30):
to Chili Peppers, you go to all the nineties stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So right, I mean the nineties was just an incredible era.
I mean still blows me away. I often have to
tell people that so many great records came out in
a few month period in nineteen ninety one. In the fall,
you had from the Black Album to never Mind, to
Pearl Jam Ten to the Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Use
Your Illusion one to two. I so many great albums
came out in like a three month period. It still
(01:54):
blows my mind set up the entire decade. So I
also think that there is actually a corel between Nirvana
and Michael Jackson. They Kerr wrote pop songs, and I mean, really,
you break it down, and those are pop songs with
maybe a few minor chords tossed in there. The messaging
is different, but musically there's still pop songs.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah. Same with the Beatles too, you could rope them
into that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So you grew up on a farm in Buffalo. What
was that? Like?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's cool? It was my grandparents' farm. It was like
the biggest dairy farm in the county a long time ago.
But it is all right. I mean I lived on
a farm and then around the area kind of turned
into like fancy houses and stuff. So I was kind
of separate from everybody else, so kind of different from
everybody else in my town.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Gotcha. So what was the first show you ever saw? Oh? Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Why why am I blanking on the name? The nineties van?
That that says Yira Shine Collective Soul, Collective Soul there
on my first.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You gotta meet Clinger when he comes in because he
is a big Collective Soul fan for sure. That's actually
another band that writes really good songs though, for real. Yeah, absolutely.
So then you found social media and you were and TikTok.
What what is Marty Music? Is that something that that's who.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I learned guitar from on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So he's a guitar player that he teaches.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Like guitar lessons got YouTube, And when I was a kid,
I used to watch him. I just learned guitar from
covers and not just kind of taught myself from there.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Right, and and YouTube was a big part of that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I watched Marty Music growing up, just learning from
his guitar tutorials.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's pretty incredible because sadly, when I was growing up,
we didn't have something as cool as YouTube, so I
just have to sit there with my records and hear
everything wrong. But it's incredib that you were able to
do that. And then you have over one million subscribers
on socials on TikTok. Yeah, I mean that. I mean
(04:11):
numbers just huge and blowing away. How did you find
how did you build that community? How did you go
about approaching social media's for that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I remember a lot of my friends were getting a
lot of views from doing dances and stuff, and I
was like, I think I could probably do better with
my scene. I mean probably, And so I was just
I just posted every day. I just thought it's bound
to work eventually. So I was posting covers every day.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Was a different cover every day.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, during COVID, so everybody was on their phones, everybody,
and no one else was really playing grunge, I think
on TikTok at the time, so I was kind of
like the one kind of doing it. I guess not
to sound like, you know whatever, but I feel like
I was. So people really resonated with people at the
time of COVID it and I feel like it had
(05:01):
a nice place.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How did you pick the covers that you that you
did during that time?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Just whatever I like to listen to, Chris Cornell, white Stripes, whatever, stained.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, if you're doing them every day, you had a
plenty to choose from that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, just whatever I liked at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So then how did that branch into doing your own music?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I always wrote my own music. I just never had
the opportunity to kind of record. Just in Buffalo, I
didn't really know anybody. But after posting on TikTok and stuff,
you make connections, and I started recording at a studio
in Buffalo, released a couple of songs and then I
just started writing and recording in my room. I just
(05:44):
read on my computer on logic.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So when you met people online, were they like local
people that were like here we can How did you like? So,
how did you release it in your first stuff? Was
it like on a label or was it just it's
just independent, independently online.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, just I just got to say probably like something
like yeah, exactly right, okay, so but yeah, and then
I stopped even going to the studio. I just like
Paradise is my top stream song. I just recorded that
in my room.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So and just you your computer with logic on their
guitar and your vocals and it. So yeah, and I
think that that's one of the first of all. Let
me tell you everybody that you have to listen to
Ryanpurt's because he's got an incredible voice. I think your
voice is very distinctive. It's more baritone than a lot
of singers, and I think that that is unique these days.
(06:38):
And not only that, but your your lyrics that you
write are extremely honest. Is that on purpose?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I guess, so I just write what whatever is on
my mind. So I guess that's as honest as it gets.
I would say yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I mean because people can like doctor things or like
make it super flowery and then like make it vague,
so people can have whatever meaning they want. But like
I always found, like in my band Stabbing Westward, our
singer is very direct, and I think that was some
of the success we had in the nineties was because
people were able to gravitate towards what he was saying, like, Oh,
(07:15):
I can identify with that. And I think if you're
direct and honest, you'll find your people. And I think
that that's one of the things that have happened to you.
Definitely check out Ryan Pird's stuff. You know, a lot
more stuff coming out, but what's up there online right
now on YouTube is definitely worth checking out. So what
is the writing process like for you? Do you start
with lyrics or do you pick up the guitar and
(07:36):
get a chord progression.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I write lyrics all the time, so on my notes app,
I have like thousands of lyrics written. But I'll just
pick up my guitar and just start making a malady
over a guitar part that I wrote, and then pick
and choose from my lyrics and put them together. Yeah,
it resonates with me.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
At the time, and you can usually string them together
and create a cohesive song.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it's better if it's not cohesive.
Sometimes leaves it up for the imagination for you the
listener to connect themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right. So how did you get hooked up with Big Machine?
Which is the newest progression in your career having a
real big time label behind you know.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I started co writing and producing with Sam Hollander. He's
a big writer, and he started producing the new album
and he kind of connected with me with everybody he
knows and eventually with Scott and Big Machine.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So how did you get hooked up with him?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
He also works with Grant Michaels. He's a really he's
like my mentor in life. But he's from Buffalo, Okay.
And I performed in high school at this band against
Blowing Thing, and he was like the celebrity judge because
he's on a bunch of famous songs. He toured with
Slena Gomez and stuff, so he was like the celebrity.
And he saw me perform in high school and he's like,
(08:55):
just keep bad it, keep writing. And then I met
him like a couple of years later. I was, yeah,
I have a million followers on TikTok Now it's cool,
stick with it. And then I was messaging about some
opportunities and is it Let me talk to Sam about it,
and Sam heard and he's like, no, let's let's just
work with them ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That's that's awesome. Well, you never know when those celebrity
judges are judging, you know, the talent contests and whatnot,
somebody something might pop through. All right, So now you've
you're on big machine. You've been putting out a couple
of singles there, and is there a full length that's
in the works, that's coming?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
There's a full album coming? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And when can we expect that?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm not sure? Actually, okay, is it done or are
you still it's done?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay? The whole thing the music business is pretty fascinating
and it's very different now than it was thirty years ago.
But like everything has to be set up right. You
have to go and do a single first, set it up,
get people interested, and then you can put out the
full thing. What's frustrated to you most about the music business?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is there a right answer to that? That's not that's
not it?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I mean really like with social media today. I mean,
I love social media, but on my my social media,
I just put out myself. But I kind of don't
like how people aren't posers because people call me a
poser all the time too. But it's almost like you
have to choose an identity today and you have to
just like beat a dead horse to make it, and
(10:26):
then the people that actually have talent that just want
to sit there and kind of just play their music,
they kind of get passed by because they don't want
to play the game. But that's not like the music business.
That's more just social media and people's attention spans today.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right, that's lame that you have to like be one
thing in a box. I know what you're saying. I
follow YouTube. I have got a YouTube channel, and like
it's and it's hard to find that niche you like,
I want to branch out, I want to do this,
I want to do that, And it's like I think
people want you just to do one thing and it's
kind of annoying.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I hear so new song is called temporary. Tell me
about that song.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Song about just kind of finding comfort and everything being temporary,
your problems, whatever it might be. You know, nothing's forever.
And it could be a sad song if you think
about relationship ending, but it also could be, you know,
a good song depending on how you look at it.
You know all your problems are temporary.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's an awesome message, actually, I really really can. I
think most people can identify with that. Like I was saying,
I say, I like the way you just phrase that,
because it could be positive, it could be negative or
you know, it's both because every most everything is temporary.
Love it all right. So when you have a band,
I'm gonna go see you play in a few hours
(11:49):
and you're gonna Is it just you and the guitar?
Do you ever play with a band? Or is it
just you?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And all my recordings it's all me playing the instruments
on them. But play with the band, I play with
other people. I'm the main guitarist though, Yeah. But I
do love just playing acoustically because Chris Cornell used to
do it. He's my he's the guy I look up too.
And it's really good just to get a hang on
entertaining by yourself and not you rely on relying on
(12:18):
other people. But it's it's two different art forms.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But I also think that it's like super honest and
in your face, and you can always tell a good
song when you strip it down. Yeah, you know it's
like you don't You're not hiding behind the production of
you know, flashy whatever studio tricks there is. It's the song.
It's the lyrics, the chord change, the vocal, and that's
that's pretty amazing. So I more more power to you.
(12:41):
Love it all right, let's wrap this up. Give me
three albums that define you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, Nirvana, nevermind? Umm, Blood Sugar Magic is it sex Magic? Yeah?
I just said that title wrong. A third one, I'd
say Mark Lanigan's The Winding Sheet album Wow. Into that
(13:10):
I just really like because kirkle Band plays some guitar
on it and some backup vocals. It was like the
before the nineties kind of happened, so it's a cool
time in history.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. He's another guy with a really cool baritone voice.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah. I kind of look up to him because I
can relate to his vocals sort of. I'm not saying
I sound like you. I can relate to. Yeah. He
comes to a song and approaches it.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's amazing. Those are good records and he can't go wrong.
With any of those, Ryan what he got planned for
the rest of.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The year, finishing out the album, rolling out the singles.
I don't know if we're going to do more singles
or the full album, and then eventually tour dates in
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean it is my dream to be a musician, obviously, So.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I mean you're in Chicago. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, best of luck to you. I can't wait to
see how you're progresses and stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
As we mentioned, Ryan has a new song just released
called Temporary, and it's been stuck in my head all
day long. We've swung a mic over to his guitar
and Ryan is gonna play it for us now. Ryan
Pird's Temporary A cool story, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I fear depression, Pull me over, lock a copy in
the heat, Oh God, sitting free, I got frustration, common
close to throwing cuffs, sounds me, sirens, sing bed, Cue
the Moon, Live in the bruise, over running wild to
(14:50):
I Black in the Blue. I'm drunk, so I'm going
out on my mind. Lock big, I'm ready to die.
Everything's temple rare, I'll be all right tomorrow, I'll see
the lights. So baby, I'm blowing my eyes. Everything's temple rare. Hey, hey,
(15:17):
everything's temple heaby. I built a wooden space ship. Lit
me sell it to the stars until I crashed the die.
Life is just a costume party, laughing in disguising out
(15:38):
myself off in whole of light with no spar kill
the moon. Let me bruise over. You sound the smile?
Do you like I do? Yeah, I'm drunk, so I'm
going out of my mind. Lock big, I'm ready to die.
(16:01):
Everything's tampoo rare. I mean, all right, some maw, I'll
see the lights, so baby eyes, everything's tampoo rare. Hey, Hey,
everything's tampoo very ah. No, it's I'm of famill No,
(16:26):
it's I'm of Fami. No, it s i'ma Fami here
everything forever, never more, forever, never more for.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Having never.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That's Ryan Purd's new song is called Temporary. You can
find it on all the music services right now, and
check out his videos to on YouTube. I'm walt subscribe
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amazing artists on upcoming episodes on Little story Bro
Why Hello, It has been a minute, hasn't it. I'm
Walt and I'm back with another cool story bro. Today,
I'm going to turn you on to this new artist
who got a foothold in the biz by doing grunge
covers on socials and then he grew his TikTok to
a million followers. His name is Ryan Purds. He just
dropped a brand new song called Temporary, which is going
(00:20):
to perform at the end of the podcast. Ryan in
the studio with me today. Good to see you, man,
Thanks for having me. I love talking to new artists
and right now I want to find out about you.
What makes you tick? So tell me where did you
where'd you come from? What, what's the music that inspired you?
And what what did you listen to grown up?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I was really young. I was really into Nirvana and
Michael Jackson. That's really what got me into music.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a really wide swath of music right there.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I mean I really liked watching Michael because he
could dance. I like to dance like him when I
was a kid. Kind of lost that ability as I
got older, though.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I don't move around as much. I
just sit with a guitar, let's play it all days
about it?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, so, but so? And then Nirvana? What was it
about Nirvana that spoke to you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I always loved his lyrics, his voice, obviously, his lyrics
always just really resonated with me growing up as a kid.
I feel like Seattle also is similar to Buffalo and away.
I'm from Buffalo, New York, by the way, but uh,
just not a lot of sun as you can tell
from my pale skin. But yeah, so I could always
relate to his lyrics. And then from Nirvana, you go
(01:30):
to Chili Peppers, you go to all the nineties stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So right, I mean the nineties was just an incredible era.
I mean still blows me away. I often have to
tell people that so many great records came out in
a few month period in nineteen ninety one. In the fall,
you had from the Black Album to never Mind, to
Pearl Jam Ten to the Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Use
Your Illusion one to two. I so many great albums
came out in like a three month period. It still
(01:54):
blows my mind set up the entire decade. So I
also think that there is actually a corel between Nirvana
and Michael Jackson. They Kerr wrote pop songs, and I mean, really,
you break it down, and those are pop songs with
maybe a few minor chords tossed in there. The messaging
is different, but musically there's still pop songs.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah. Same with the Beatles too, you could rope them
into that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So you grew up on a farm in Buffalo. What
was that? Like?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's cool? It was my grandparents' farm. It was like
the biggest dairy farm in the county a long time ago.
But it is all right. I mean I lived on
a farm and then around the area kind of turned
into like fancy houses and stuff. So I was kind
of separate from everybody else, so kind of different from
everybody else in my town.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Gotcha. So what was the first show you ever saw? Oh? Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Why why am I blanking on the name? The nineties van?
That that says Yira Shine Collective Soul, Collective Soul there
on my first.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You gotta meet Clinger when he comes in because he
is a big Collective Soul fan for sure. That's actually
another band that writes really good songs though, for real. Yeah, absolutely.
So then you found social media and you were and TikTok.
What what is Marty Music? Is that something that that's who.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I learned guitar from on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So he's a guitar player that he teaches.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Like guitar lessons got YouTube, And when I was a kid,
I used to watch him. I just learned guitar from
covers and not just kind of taught myself from there.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Right, and and YouTube was a big part of that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I watched Marty Music growing up, just learning from
his guitar tutorials.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's pretty incredible because sadly, when I was growing up,
we didn't have something as cool as YouTube, so I
just have to sit there with my records and hear
everything wrong. But it's incredib that you were able to
do that. And then you have over one million subscribers
on socials on TikTok. Yeah, I mean that. I mean
(04:11):
numbers just huge and blowing away. How did you find
how did you build that community? How did you go
about approaching social media's for that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I remember a lot of my friends were getting a
lot of views from doing dances and stuff, and I
was like, I think I could probably do better with
my scene. I mean probably, And so I was just
I just posted every day. I just thought it's bound
to work eventually. So I was posting covers every day.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Was a different cover every day.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, during COVID, so everybody was on their phones, everybody,
and no one else was really playing grunge, I think
on TikTok at the time, so I was kind of
like the one kind of doing it. I guess not
to sound like, you know whatever, but I feel like
I was. So people really resonated with people at the
time of COVID it and I feel like it had
(05:01):
a nice place.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How did you pick the covers that you that you
did during that time?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Just whatever I like to listen to, Chris Cornell, white Stripes, whatever, stained.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, if you're doing them every day, you had a
plenty to choose from that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, just whatever I liked at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So then how did that branch into doing your own music?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I always wrote my own music. I just never had
the opportunity to kind of record. Just in Buffalo, I
didn't really know anybody. But after posting on TikTok and stuff,
you make connections, and I started recording at a studio
in Buffalo, released a couple of songs and then I
just started writing and recording in my room. I just
(05:44):
read on my computer on logic.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So when you met people online, were they like local
people that were like here we can How did you like? So,
how did you release it in your first stuff? Was
it like on a label or was it just it's
just independent, independently online.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, just I just got to say probably like something
like yeah, exactly right, okay, so but yeah, and then
I stopped even going to the studio. I just like
Paradise is my top stream song. I just recorded that
in my room.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So and just you your computer with logic on their
guitar and your vocals and it. So yeah, and I
think that that's one of the first of all. Let
me tell you everybody that you have to listen to
Ryanpurt's because he's got an incredible voice. I think your
voice is very distinctive. It's more baritone than a lot
of singers, and I think that that is unique these days.
(06:38):
And not only that, but your your lyrics that you
write are extremely honest. Is that on purpose?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I guess, so I just write what whatever is on
my mind. So I guess that's as honest as it gets.
I would say yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I mean because people can like doctor things or like
make it super flowery and then like make it vague,
so people can have whatever meaning they want. But like
I always found, like in my band Stabbing Westward, our
singer is very direct, and I think that was some
of the success we had in the nineties was because
people were able to gravitate towards what he was saying, like, Oh,
(07:15):
I can identify with that. And I think if you're
direct and honest, you'll find your people. And I think
that that's one of the things that have happened to you.
Definitely check out Ryan Pird's stuff. You know, a lot
more stuff coming out, but what's up there online right
now on YouTube is definitely worth checking out. So what
is the writing process like for you? Do you start
with lyrics or do you pick up the guitar and
(07:36):
get a chord progression.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I write lyrics all the time, so on my notes app,
I have like thousands of lyrics written. But I'll just
pick up my guitar and just start making a malady
over a guitar part that I wrote, and then pick
and choose from my lyrics and put them together. Yeah,
it resonates with me.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
At the time, and you can usually string them together
and create a cohesive song.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it's better if it's not cohesive.
Sometimes leaves it up for the imagination for you the
listener to connect themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right. So how did you get hooked up with Big Machine?
Which is the newest progression in your career having a
real big time label behind you know.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I started co writing and producing with Sam Hollander. He's
a big writer, and he started producing the new album
and he kind of connected with me with everybody he
knows and eventually with Scott and Big Machine.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So how did you get hooked up with him?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
He also works with Grant Michaels. He's a really he's
like my mentor in life. But he's from Buffalo, Okay.
And I performed in high school at this band against
Blowing Thing, and he was like the celebrity judge because
he's on a bunch of famous songs. He toured with
Slena Gomez and stuff, so he was like the celebrity.
And he saw me perform in high school and he's like,
(08:55):
just keep bad it, keep writing. And then I met
him like a couple of years later. I was, yeah,
I have a million followers on TikTok Now it's cool,
stick with it. And then I was messaging about some
opportunities and is it Let me talk to Sam about it,
and Sam heard and he's like, no, let's let's just
work with them ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That's that's awesome. Well, you never know when those celebrity
judges are judging, you know, the talent contests and whatnot,
somebody something might pop through. All right, So now you've
you're on big machine. You've been putting out a couple
of singles there, and is there a full length that's
in the works, that's coming?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
There's a full album coming? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And when can we expect that?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm not sure? Actually, okay, is it done or are
you still it's done?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay? The whole thing the music business is pretty fascinating
and it's very different now than it was thirty years ago.
But like everything has to be set up right. You
have to go and do a single first, set it up,
get people interested, and then you can put out the
full thing. What's frustrated to you most about the music business?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is there a right answer to that? That's not that's
not it?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I mean really like with social media today. I mean,
I love social media, but on my my social media,
I just put out myself. But I kind of don't
like how people aren't posers because people call me a
poser all the time too. But it's almost like you
have to choose an identity today and you have to
just like beat a dead horse to make it, and
(10:26):
then the people that actually have talent that just want
to sit there and kind of just play their music,
they kind of get passed by because they don't want
to play the game. But that's not like the music business.
That's more just social media and people's attention spans today.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right, that's lame that you have to like be one
thing in a box. I know what you're saying. I
follow YouTube. I have got a YouTube channel, and like
it's and it's hard to find that niche you like,
I want to branch out, I want to do this,
I want to do that, And it's like I think
people want you just to do one thing and it's
kind of annoying.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I hear so new song is called temporary. Tell me
about that song.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Song about just kind of finding comfort and everything being temporary,
your problems, whatever it might be. You know, nothing's forever.
And it could be a sad song if you think
about relationship ending, but it also could be, you know,
a good song depending on how you look at it.
You know all your problems are temporary.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's an awesome message, actually, I really really can. I
think most people can identify with that. Like I was saying,
I say, I like the way you just phrase that,
because it could be positive, it could be negative or
you know, it's both because every most everything is temporary.
Love it all right. So when you have a band,
I'm gonna go see you play in a few hours
(11:49):
and you're gonna Is it just you and the guitar?
Do you ever play with a band? Or is it
just you?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And all my recordings it's all me playing the instruments
on them. But play with the band, I play with
other people. I'm the main guitarist though, Yeah. But I
do love just playing acoustically because Chris Cornell used to
do it. He's my he's the guy I look up too.
And it's really good just to get a hang on
entertaining by yourself and not you rely on relying on
(12:18):
other people. But it's it's two different art forms.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But I also think that it's like super honest and
in your face, and you can always tell a good
song when you strip it down. Yeah, you know it's
like you don't You're not hiding behind the production of
you know, flashy whatever studio tricks there is. It's the song.
It's the lyrics, the chord change, the vocal, and that's
that's pretty amazing. So I more more power to you.
(12:41):
Love it all right, let's wrap this up. Give me
three albums that define you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, Nirvana, nevermind? Umm, Blood Sugar Magic is it sex Magic? Yeah?
I just said that title wrong. A third one, I'd
say Mark Lanigan's The Winding Sheet album Wow. Into that
(13:10):
I just really like because kirkle Band plays some guitar
on it and some backup vocals. It was like the
before the nineties kind of happened, so it's a cool
time in history.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. He's another guy with a really cool baritone voice.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah. I kind of look up to him because I
can relate to his vocals sort of. I'm not saying
I sound like you. I can relate to. Yeah. He
comes to a song and approaches it.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's amazing. Those are good records and he can't go wrong.
With any of those, Ryan what he got planned for
the rest of.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The year, finishing out the album, rolling out the singles.
I don't know if we're going to do more singles
or the full album, and then eventually tour dates in
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean it is my dream to be a musician, obviously, So.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I mean you're in Chicago. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, best of luck to you. I can't wait to
see how you're progresses and stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
As we mentioned, Ryan has a new song just released
called Temporary, and it's been stuck in my head all
day long. We've swung a mic over to his guitar
and Ryan is gonna play it for us now. Ryan
Pird's Temporary A cool story, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I fear depression, Pull me over, lock a copy in
the heat, Oh God, sitting free, I got frustration, common
close to throwing cuffs, sounds me, sirens, sing bed, Cue
the Moon, Live in the bruise, over running wild to
(14:50):
I Black in the Blue. I'm drunk, so I'm going
out on my mind. Lock big, I'm ready to die.
Everything's temple rare, I'll be all right tomorrow, I'll see
the lights. So baby, I'm blowing my eyes. Everything's temple rare. Hey, hey,
(15:17):
everything's temple heaby. I built a wooden space ship. Lit
me sell it to the stars until I crashed the die.
Life is just a costume party, laughing in disguising out
(15:38):
myself off in whole of light with no spar kill
the moon. Let me bruise over. You sound the smile?
Do you like I do? Yeah, I'm drunk, so I'm
going out of my mind. Lock big, I'm ready to die.
(16:01):
Everything's tampoo rare. I mean, all right, some maw, I'll
see the lights, so baby eyes, everything's tampoo rare. Hey, Hey,
everything's tampoo very ah. No, it's I'm of famill No,
(16:26):
it's I'm of Fami. No, it s i'ma Fami here
everything forever, never more, forever, never more for.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Having never.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That's Ryan Purd's new song is called Temporary. You can
find it on all the music services right now, and
check out his videos to on YouTube. I'm walt subscribe
to the podcast I'm gonna be introducing you to some
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