June 26, 2025 • 21 mins
The band Nerv is a story as old as rock and roll itself. The lead singer has a band that implodes, another band needs a singer, and it's like they were soulmates. 8 years ago, Dillon and the rest of the band Nerv experienced that exact story. Then, a few years ago, their song "Bad Habits" blew up everywhere. But this band is doing it their way; they are writing their own story. A piece of that story gets told here on Cutter's Rockcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Attention please and no cutters. Rock Cast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dylan from the band Nerve joining us this week for
the cutting Ness Countown and Cutters rod Cast. Dude, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Nothing much, man, just getting some sleep after these random
tours and hanging out at home and having a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Random tours, random tours. I like that.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No, they're not random, they're just they're they're just it
feels random because we go all over the place.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know, you're never in the same place.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So oh, that's two reads. All about man, get it out,
get to get your music out in front of the masses.
That's the best first of all, because again, as most
people do, you were joining me via zoom uh for
the show, and I just have to make comment about
your wear and attire as it seems to be the
case because Wayne's World, Wayne's World. Party time. It's excellent.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, the best. It's like my favorite movie
growing up. I don't know why, but when I was
little I watched it over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's a fantastic favorite movie.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, I know, and it kind of fits with what
I do now.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So I was just gonna say, if that was your
favorite movie growing up and now you're in a rock band,
you're playing rock music. You're on too. I would gouner
to say, you've made the new version of cable access television. Yeah, dude,
I wish what we do now. I think the new
version is this. I think YouTube and you know, having
(01:22):
our having our silly little podcasts and things. I think
that's the new version of cable access television.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
True. I mean because they did interview people and do
all that stuff, So that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I just need I got the right let's do this
on it. Let's need this on a Davenport next time.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And you need to suck cutting all the funny things
like we need to. I need to bring a product
to you to try to sell.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You're not cuttings. Are not cutting my hair.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It sucks. It certainly does suck.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh I love it. Man. Look give me some background
on your band, Nerve. You know, we just kind of
started hearing about you guys a little bit ago.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We've been a band for a long time. And uh,
I so I was in an old band long time ago.
Twenty twelve we released our album and that band did okay.
You know, we we were like it was my first
band was called Incredible Me. We signed the deal. You know,
we toured with Dance Gavin. Dance was probably the bass
band we toured with. And we yeah, and it was
(02:20):
great and we had a good time, but we had
a falling out.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Everybody left, everybody quit, you know, as they do. First band.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think I was twenty one, and you know, I
still we started when we were younger, but that got
my name out there. So this band, a couple of
the guys from Nerve messaged me and we're like, hey,
you know, you want to come to the studio and
record some vocals for these.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Songs we got. And I was at a time I was.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Just working for like the park District fixing trucks and stuff,
and I was just.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Like, I'm down, I'll make it happen. What's what day,
you know?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And so I drove down to La not knowing these guys,
kind of hearing some demos and stuff, and then we
ended up writing our first three songs down there together
and it kind of clicked and they all went back home.
They were from Dallas, Texas area and Georgia. So we're
from California, Texas, Georgia, right, So we stay in touch.
(03:10):
We pay all this money to this producer and everything
out of pocket, and then we we wrote we wrote
bad Habits, Enough and Enemy, and I was like, yeah,
I love these songs.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They can't give them up. We got a try, let's
do this right, let's come up with a good name.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Let's use social media, try to launch this thing big,
and we I think for about a year we were
just doing things behind the scenes, getting content, getting music videos,
taking pictures, doing all that jazz, and we eventually came
up with the name Nerves. We had the full name
with the eight end, and they were like, oh, let's
cut off the E because it's easier to market.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's easier, it looks.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Kind of cool, it's you know, probably not as hard
to copyright it, and you know, thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That's a really fair point. As hard to come, I.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Thought about, yeah, because there's a movie called Nerve coming out,
so we're like, shit, that's going to that's going to collateral,
you know, be Collateral davers on accident.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But anyways, we launched a band.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It did really well in the beginning, and we were
able to essentially fund the band from the internet, and
all these guys were you know, we would have weeks
where they would come out and they would stay with
me and we would do you know, four music videos
in the day, or we would just kill ourselves for
content for this little short burst of them coming to California.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then eventually it got to the point where they're like, oh,
maybe we should move out there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And I mean, low and behold, it's been almost seven
eight years we've been a band and been talking and
they all live out here now, we all do music
full time. Now. We are super static to be working
with who we work with. We have a great manager,
we have a great label that we're working with right now.
(04:55):
We have you know, obviously the marketing guys and everybody
Gary and all that stuff that help us out with
to get to where we are. But yeah, we we
slowly grinded. We did tours, booked tours by ourself with friends,
We jumped onto a thing, we played local shows.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We've just been grinding for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I feel like this release has done us right
with who we've we we've you know, garnered connections with
and we're very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And it's it's been a long.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Long, long journey of working I think I've had what
four or five different jobs been starting nerve, So it's.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Been it's been a ride. It's been a ride.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, all kinds of stuff. I did welding, I did
automotive repair and did a crazy ship. Yeah, anything to
make her.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Work, all the all the blue collar stuff, all that
just sure you don't have to work anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Right, right, exactly, That was the goals.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's like, no matter what, like I would, I would
start these jobs and be like, if music something happens
with music, I'm quitting.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And all the bosses and everybody've ever had is always
like mile means love your dreams. So that's we're trying.
We're still taking steps towards it, but we're we're seeing,
we're seeing things.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Now sitting closer. The release you mentioned, are you talking
about Lost? That's the new EP?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, I Lost the new EP that This is the
first time we've ever gotten you know, like a full
team behind it, Like the last releases were all done independently,
and this one's done with the label.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
SPG. Standing is a great guy.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He's the guy that runs it, and we have a
lot of great people over there that help us. And yeah,
so it's the first time we've launched the label, and
you know, it's been great. He's helped us a lot.
Can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's awesome. The Chaos is the course of the song
that you know we're good at Crank Up. I'll ask
you about another one in the second, but first tell it.
Tell me about this song, because when I'm listening to
the to the music and I'm listening to this EP,
there is definitely and I know there's a new vibe
of new metal type artists down there. I don't want
(06:55):
to quantify that you're that, but there is that under
tone and Chaos definitely hits that sort of new wave
of that aspect, you.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Know, right right, it's a it's heavy for us as
far as the song goes, and we've kind of leaned
into heavy because I feel like as you get older,
you get angrier, you get angrier at people, at things.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And you know, you just get wiser and why.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, you realize more of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But Chaos is a song like when I was writing it,
it's just like mental health and how you you know,
it's nice to have somebody to like lean on and
everything like that, being a friend be at whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But you know, like that that just the mentality I
went in going writing the song.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I try to be very loose with lyrics because music,
to me is something I'd like to connect with people with. Yeah,
so if I if I'm too specific, I feel like
it's just like, oh, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Dylan wrote a cool story about himself, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But then if you're loose enough with it and you
and you take it to the point where you can
connect with somebody that you make some magical connections and
you help people the way that helped me. Music helped
me a lot, So I like to try to give
back with fat things but also releasing what I feel
is great.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But chaos is definitely a.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Mental health mental health vibe, but in a big, I
don't know, radio rock new rock way, Like you said, you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Know what has that you that's just it? Maybe it's
that it's almost that uh, I don't know. Well corn
seven does type chorus right where it's that big that yeah,
it's open, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's very slow and open.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
When when I first like presented the melodies and stuff,
everybody's like, yeah, that's like an octane song.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's like radio it's got that good kicker rock music,
and we're.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Just like, yeah, let's octange that Octane doesn't air my show,
so therefore they don't exist exist.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We're not talking about them. Yes, yes, all the cool
rock stations will. We'll cuss them out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
But but uh, most definitely getting a lot of love
from all, Like this is our first time touching any radio,
be you be anybody else.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Like, it's it's been unreal. You know. When we get
a message an email and it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Says, oh, yeah, you guys, are you know one of
the most added songs of the genre, We're just like,
holy cow, you know, it's it's just like terrestrial radio
or this or that whatever area. But like hearing a
stat that you're one of the most added on anything,
even if it's a freaking college station is incredible. So
the fact that we're actually touching real rock and roll
radio that people listen to that you know, a different,
(09:29):
different type of fan or group that that could would
have never found us before, is able to I just
think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Hey man. Way back in the day, I was in
a band and we got added at college radio and
I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
It is. I was working in commercial radio and I'm like,
threw that, look at this, this is going to go somewhere,
and it didn't. But it's still that feeling, you know,
that feeling.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, it's like it's like somebody said yes, you know,
somebody said yes, I'm gonna play this song.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yes, I like this song. And you know they hear
I mean, how many songs do you hear? Day?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Like, how many songs is anybody that works and your
guys is saying, you hear so much music? So for
you know, you got it. You can't say yes to
every song, but you have to, you know, have to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I will say this, I think, and this is why
I think when we get into especially when we get
into it more. You know here on the podcast version
of This and Cutters Broadcast, is we hear a lot
of music. Sure, but because of that, it all tends
to blend together. Yeah, you know, and when it starts
blending together, you don't hear it, right, you know. So
(10:31):
if you're listening to music, I like, just turn and
I'll turn on new music playlist in the background because
if something if something makes me stop what I'm doing
and go, what's that? What am I listening to right now?
Then I know then I know there's something. You know, well,
if it just blends in, then that's the point, right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's a good way to put it. You know, here
you stand out above the crowd in a way. You know,
that got my attention right.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And it could be for all It could be for
any reason. It could be because it's a silly It
could be because it's a word that meant something to me.
It could be you know, I'm a guitar player, so
it could be a tasty guitar like that made me go,
oh yeah, yeah, my son's learning how to play drums.
Maybe it was a film. Maybe that's that's something he
can do. You know. But the way when music does that,
(11:17):
then you know then there's something there. Yeah, that connection
and it seems like you know again, you're you're connecting somehow,
some way with someone, and that's that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's all I've ever wanted with music. I don't I like,
I just I connected with music. You know, whenever I
was sad or down about something, I would always be
able to just turn on one of my favorite albums
or whatever I'm listening to at the.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Time, and it just helps. You know, it gets somewhere
in your body or your brain.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That nothing else can, even if it's an instrumental, even
if it's just like whatever, you know, there's something there.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh yeah, it can be anything, could be any genre.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It could be any language. Were saying, I'm just like, wow,
that's the there's something there. I don't know whatever, whatever
that I felt, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Man, hey man, I'll be honest with you. My my wife,
My wife are Lautina and we're listening to the new
Carrol g album over the weekend. There are a couple
of songs I don't I know some words, but I
definitely do not speak Spanish, and I'm like, right, and
I'm like, is she what? Why? Why do I feel
the need to take my clothes off right now? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Got some sort of way right now?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm feel in some sort of way.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's right, right, that's really cool, And that's the power
of music.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It really is. So with the Lost DP, obviously Chaos
is the single what is There? What's another song from
this that would like if that you have sort of
doesn't have to be a single, doesn't have to just
mean something to you, just you know what stands out.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So the song lost, that's a big, a big, a
big stand out. I recently lost my mom and it
was sudden, and it was like a health thing. You know,
her she she had an affection in her blood and
it came and went and came and went, and I.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Just watched it happen. But as I was driving to
and from the hospital, I was writing this song. So
I voiced memos with me, like breaking like down and
singing the chorus and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And I remember when I presented that, like normally, when
you're writing music with a group like us, we do
everything together, like all four of us write all the
songs kind of thing. And you know, we've worked with producers,
we've worked with other people, but we worked with us
four and you know, I'll write my vocals and my
lyrics and then you know, drummer Tyler Wright drums, and
Scott and Jordan will get together in my guitars and
(13:33):
then the thing is like I love opinions. I love
to hear what they have to say about stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And with loss.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
They knew what it meant, they knew everything about it,
and I started like showing them the song, and all
of them are just like yep. There was no like
I think you can do better there, or no, that's
not the best one or anything like that. So that's
always something that stuck out to me. It was just
like I wrote that song, I was so confident in that.
I didn't expect them to be as easy to like
(14:00):
let them like you know what I mean they because
I mean, as a band, you have an opinion. I
expect to be like, hey, you know you can do
better there, But there was none of that, And that's
that's why that song will always be like really powerful
on top of the meaning of the song. So you know,
losing someone is never easy, and that song is kind
of about like how you know you spiral and you're
(14:20):
real angry and you know, it's just it's about.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Loss, so kind of in the way in the words.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, and the exclamation points were funny because I was like,
what if we just have all the songs be like,
you know, very just a loss, chaos, pain, all this.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I was going to ask you about that because I'm like,
are they are they trying to make some sort of
statement here with this what's happening?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No, not really a statement, just but that's just the vibe,
you know, that's the thing of the of the songs.
They're all the meanings in the in the title and
the static. You know, it's very exclaimed.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, ye, get it right, right right. So I'm gonna
go back to something you touched on earlier when you
said you were forming that when you guys are kind
of forming and those games were in you know, Georgia,
and I forget where else you said, Alabama, Texas. That's
what it was. Yeah, you know, and obviously you're in
California and you guys decided to this is gonna be it.
This is the band, this is the thing, and you know,
(15:18):
here we are years later, and it's it seems seemingly
is working and heading down that path. What was it?
What was it about you know, you've met in other bands.
What was it about you four specifically that you thought
that made go, you know what, I'd give up jobs
for this. I think this will work.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like it was just like the quality of the music
that we came up with so effortlessly, like you know
what I mean, Like when you're together with with musicians
and stuff, you really got to try or you're really
rewriting stuff over and over and over again. You wreck
you could probably get a good song. We're gonna get
a good song. But with nerve, it's just like we
always just write good songs. We have songs that we
didn't release that I think should be released because they're
(15:56):
so good. We have, you know, b sides of songs
that I feel like, are you know, amazing? And and
I think that that that's a big reason. Why is
we all felt that confidence and then not only feeling
that confidence, but being able to post songs on YouTube
and everything like that, and like I mean, bad habits
absolutely exploded randomly and it was awesome and it was
(16:17):
all natural, and I feel like that that's special.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, you can't do that with the Internet.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A lot of the times we didn't know what we
were doing with it. We you know, we tried to
run ad we tried to do this, we tried to
do that, but eventually it just took itself and did
what it needs to do. And now that song, I
mean collectively probably has seventy million views. Wow, it's got Yeah,
it's it's hit some I think it hit like twenty
on just Spotify the other day, and that's like one
(16:44):
of the first songs we've.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Ever really that high.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That's yeah, that's that so I can check that song that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Was right it is now I'm on it right now.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It Yeah, that song changed our life, like genuinely, and
like YouTube went went super crazy and and like I'm
sure YouTube's another crazy amount and all the other all
the other avenues.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, it adds up. We've played our first show.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like we played so we won a contest on Twitch,
before we had a manager, before we had a booking
music or we have anything for It was their public
space Zebra. They worked for a dating Wimer Presents, which
does like Incarceration all stuff, and.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Uh, we won a contest. People voted for our song
low to win.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And I think originally there was like some show with
nothing more and we were stoked.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Whatever they let us do, we were down.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And eventually it came to like they're like, Okay, you
guys are going to play the smaller stage at Incarceration
and that's in Ohio. We're in California, and we're in California,
and so we we scattered around looking for tours. My
friends in a band called Secrets. They're like, oh, we'll
take you out on tour, and like perfect, you know
what time is it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It ended up being kind of kind of a wash
with the timing, but we had to stay.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Out in Ohio for like a couple of days and
then we played Incarceration. So we played in Garceration on
the far off beaten path, little teeny tiny stage. First
time we've ever played Ohio, first time we've been, you know,
at a festival, a couple of thousand miles away from home.
And we go to play our last song, just bad Habits,
and the whole front row, like you know, all the
(18:16):
way across this big ass stage is every single person
is singing every single word, and on the last, on
the last chorus, we drop out all of the things
and I just sing.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But then I just put the mic down and they
all sang. I had my phone out and record it.
I'll show you the video. I'll tell you where it is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But uh yeah, first time ever and they all started singing,
and that was like, okay, we need to kick this
into higher gear. You know, like we're so far away
from home and all these people know every word.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
That's crazy. And even the people that worked that were like,
holy cow, like you get.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The heck, why aren't you headlining this little stage And
we're just like, we don't know anything, you know, we're
just here for fun.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But yeah, that was kind of like an eye opener.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But then after that, like a booking agent started coming knocking,
and you know, there's everybody.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Kind of just it gave us, you know, it gave
us a place to stand and we're like, yep, let's talk,
and we picked our.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Agents and we picked everybody, and now here we are.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We're excited.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's amazing. What was the rest of this year look
like for Nerve?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We've got a couple more tours planned, ones announced. We're
out with Catch Your Breath and color Blind. It's a
little short, short and sweet run. It starts in Alabama,
but it's it's not very long. I think it's something
like eight shows total, but it's going to be a
fun one there. We Catch Your Breath guys are our
friends and Colorblind guys are our friends.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So you know, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Going out on tour and you don't have to have
that awkward first couple of days where you don't know
anybody and you're kind of just like working and you
don't want to be you know, you don't know how
they are, how you are around that ny.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So the difference of a newer band finding their way
versus the old veterans, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, toured together all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm sure if you've toured with a band
a bunch of time, was like, if we went back
out on tour with anybody, we would it would be
amazing because you know, you have that camaraderie you developed
over the course of the tour. Like we just toured
with ten Years, and I love those guys. Those guys
are absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That is how it was not the song bad Habits,
it is ten Years. That is how I found you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I know, Jesse, I know those guys. Brian, Like I
just I love the band ten Years. I'm a huge
fan of the band ten Years.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Obviously the the you know, the collaboration and then the
tour and you know, talked to Jesse about it and
you know it's, uh, he is a good guy, Yeah,
very much. So. So when garytt this, I'm like, oh,
I know who that is and here's why you know.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, so perfect. Well, good luck with it, man, I
hope everything goes well. It's awesome to meet you and
to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I'm sure we'll run in New So where are you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Based out of again, I'm actually in just south of
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Was saying I was like a Wisconsin, but I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, yeah, I'm just south of Bay the airs nationally,
but yeah, this is where I am.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I read I think I read like what whatever city
it was, and I was just like, I think I
know where that is, but never I never do. That's okay,
I never do, but I know I know the general
areas where that is.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
All right, whenever we play up there, I'd love to
have you come out. It would be fun to. I
know we're I know we're probably gonna hit head over.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
There towards the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I believe I can double check, but yeah, I believe
sometimes towards the end of the year we'll be over
there and playing some.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Songs sing along.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Awesome. Well, I appreciate you, man, thank you for having
me on Here's Rock Cast.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Don't forget to tune in exactly
Attention please and no cutters. Rock Cast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dylan from the band Nerve joining us this week for
the cutting Ness Countown and Cutters rod Cast. Dude, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Nothing much, man, just getting some sleep after these random
tours and hanging out at home and having a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Random tours, random tours. I like that.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No, they're not random, they're just they're they're just it
feels random because we go all over the place.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know, you're never in the same place.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So oh, that's two reads. All about man, get it out,
get to get your music out in front of the masses.
That's the best first of all, because again, as most
people do, you were joining me via zoom uh for
the show, and I just have to make comment about
your wear and attire as it seems to be the
case because Wayne's World, Wayne's World. Party time. It's excellent.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, the best. It's like my favorite movie
growing up. I don't know why, but when I was
little I watched it over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's a fantastic favorite movie.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, I know, and it kind of fits with what
I do now.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So I was just gonna say, if that was your
favorite movie growing up and now you're in a rock band,
you're playing rock music. You're on too. I would gouner
to say, you've made the new version of cable access television. Yeah, dude,
I wish what we do now. I think the new
version is this. I think YouTube and you know, having
(01:22):
our having our silly little podcasts and things. I think
that's the new version of cable access television.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
True. I mean because they did interview people and do
all that stuff, So that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I just need I got the right let's do this
on it. Let's need this on a Davenport next time.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And you need to suck cutting all the funny things
like we need to. I need to bring a product
to you to try to sell.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You're not cuttings. Are not cutting my hair.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It sucks. It certainly does suck.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh I love it. Man. Look give me some background
on your band, Nerve. You know, we just kind of
started hearing about you guys a little bit ago.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We've been a band for a long time. And uh,
I so I was in an old band long time ago.
Twenty twelve we released our album and that band did okay.
You know, we we were like it was my first
band was called Incredible Me. We signed the deal. You know,
we toured with Dance Gavin. Dance was probably the bass
band we toured with. And we yeah, and it was
(02:20):
great and we had a good time, but we had
a falling out.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Everybody left, everybody quit, you know, as they do. First band.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think I was twenty one, and you know, I
still we started when we were younger, but that got
my name out there. So this band, a couple of
the guys from Nerve messaged me and we're like, hey,
you know, you want to come to the studio and
record some vocals for these.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Songs we got. And I was at a time I was.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Just working for like the park District fixing trucks and stuff,
and I was just.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Like, I'm down, I'll make it happen. What's what day,
you know?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And so I drove down to La not knowing these guys,
kind of hearing some demos and stuff, and then we
ended up writing our first three songs down there together
and it kind of clicked and they all went back home.
They were from Dallas, Texas area and Georgia. So we're
from California, Texas, Georgia, right, So we stay in touch.
(03:10):
We pay all this money to this producer and everything
out of pocket, and then we we wrote we wrote
bad Habits, Enough and Enemy, and I was like, yeah,
I love these songs.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They can't give them up. We got a try, let's
do this right, let's come up with a good name.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Let's use social media, try to launch this thing big,
and we I think for about a year we were
just doing things behind the scenes, getting content, getting music videos,
taking pictures, doing all that jazz, and we eventually came
up with the name Nerves. We had the full name
with the eight end, and they were like, oh, let's
cut off the E because it's easier to market.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's easier, it looks.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Kind of cool, it's you know, probably not as hard
to copyright it, and you know, thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That's a really fair point. As hard to come, I.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Thought about, yeah, because there's a movie called Nerve coming out,
so we're like, shit, that's going to that's going to collateral,
you know, be Collateral davers on accident.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But anyways, we launched a band.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It did really well in the beginning, and we were
able to essentially fund the band from the internet, and
all these guys were you know, we would have weeks
where they would come out and they would stay with
me and we would do you know, four music videos
in the day, or we would just kill ourselves for
content for this little short burst of them coming to California.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then eventually it got to the point where they're like, oh,
maybe we should move out there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And I mean, low and behold, it's been almost seven
eight years we've been a band and been talking and
they all live out here now, we all do music
full time. Now. We are super static to be working
with who we work with. We have a great manager,
we have a great label that we're working with right now.
(04:55):
We have you know, obviously the marketing guys and everybody
Gary and all that stuff that help us out with
to get to where we are. But yeah, we we
slowly grinded. We did tours, booked tours by ourself with friends,
We jumped onto a thing, we played local shows.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We've just been grinding for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I feel like this release has done us right
with who we've we we've you know, garnered connections with
and we're very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And it's it's been a long.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Long, long journey of working I think I've had what
four or five different jobs been starting nerve, So it's.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Been it's been a ride. It's been a ride.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, all kinds of stuff. I did welding, I did
automotive repair and did a crazy ship. Yeah, anything to
make her.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Work, all the all the blue collar stuff, all that
just sure you don't have to work anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Right, right, exactly, That was the goals.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's like, no matter what, like I would, I would
start these jobs and be like, if music something happens
with music, I'm quitting.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And all the bosses and everybody've ever had is always
like mile means love your dreams. So that's we're trying.
We're still taking steps towards it, but we're we're seeing,
we're seeing things.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Now sitting closer. The release you mentioned, are you talking
about Lost? That's the new EP?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, I Lost the new EP that This is the
first time we've ever gotten you know, like a full
team behind it, Like the last releases were all done independently,
and this one's done with the label.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
SPG. Standing is a great guy.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He's the guy that runs it, and we have a
lot of great people over there that help us. And yeah,
so it's the first time we've launched the label, and
you know, it's been great. He's helped us a lot.
Can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's awesome. The Chaos is the course of the song
that you know we're good at Crank Up. I'll ask
you about another one in the second, but first tell it.
Tell me about this song, because when I'm listening to
the to the music and I'm listening to this EP,
there is definitely and I know there's a new vibe
of new metal type artists down there. I don't want
(06:55):
to quantify that you're that, but there is that under
tone and Chaos definitely hits that sort of new wave
of that aspect, you.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Know, right right, it's a it's heavy for us as
far as the song goes, and we've kind of leaned
into heavy because I feel like as you get older,
you get angrier, you get angrier at people, at things.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And you know, you just get wiser and why.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, you realize more of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But Chaos is a song like when I was writing it,
it's just like mental health and how you you know,
it's nice to have somebody to like lean on and
everything like that, being a friend be at whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But you know, like that that just the mentality I
went in going writing the song.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I try to be very loose with lyrics because music,
to me is something I'd like to connect with people with. Yeah,
so if I if I'm too specific, I feel like
it's just like, oh, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Dylan wrote a cool story about himself, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But then if you're loose enough with it and you
and you take it to the point where you can
connect with somebody that you make some magical connections and
you help people the way that helped me. Music helped
me a lot, So I like to try to give
back with fat things but also releasing what I feel
is great.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But chaos is definitely a.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Mental health mental health vibe, but in a big, I
don't know, radio rock new rock way, Like you said, you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Know what has that you that's just it? Maybe it's
that it's almost that uh, I don't know. Well corn
seven does type chorus right where it's that big that yeah,
it's open, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's very slow and open.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
When when I first like presented the melodies and stuff,
everybody's like, yeah, that's like an octane song.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's like radio it's got that good kicker rock music,
and we're.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Just like, yeah, let's octange that Octane doesn't air my show,
so therefore they don't exist exist.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We're not talking about them. Yes, yes, all the cool
rock stations will. We'll cuss them out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
But but uh, most definitely getting a lot of love
from all, Like this is our first time touching any radio,
be you be anybody else.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Like, it's it's been unreal. You know. When we get
a message an email and it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Says, oh, yeah, you guys, are you know one of
the most added songs of the genre, We're just like,
holy cow, you know, it's it's just like terrestrial radio
or this or that whatever area. But like hearing a
stat that you're one of the most added on anything,
even if it's a freaking college station is incredible. So
the fact that we're actually touching real rock and roll
radio that people listen to that you know, a different,
(09:29):
different type of fan or group that that could would
have never found us before, is able to I just
think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Hey man. Way back in the day, I was in
a band and we got added at college radio and
I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
It is. I was working in commercial radio and I'm like,
threw that, look at this, this is going to go somewhere,
and it didn't. But it's still that feeling, you know,
that feeling.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, it's like it's like somebody said yes, you know,
somebody said yes, I'm gonna play this song.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yes, I like this song. And you know they hear
I mean, how many songs do you hear? Day?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Like, how many songs is anybody that works and your
guys is saying, you hear so much music? So for
you know, you got it. You can't say yes to
every song, but you have to, you know, have to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I will say this, I think, and this is why
I think when we get into especially when we get
into it more. You know here on the podcast version
of This and Cutters Broadcast, is we hear a lot
of music. Sure, but because of that, it all tends
to blend together. Yeah, you know, and when it starts
blending together, you don't hear it, right, you know. So
(10:31):
if you're listening to music, I like, just turn and
I'll turn on new music playlist in the background because
if something if something makes me stop what I'm doing
and go, what's that? What am I listening to right now?
Then I know then I know there's something. You know, well,
if it just blends in, then that's the point, right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's a good way to put it. You know, here
you stand out above the crowd in a way. You know,
that got my attention right.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And it could be for all It could be for
any reason. It could be because it's a silly It
could be because it's a word that meant something to me.
It could be you know, I'm a guitar player, so
it could be a tasty guitar like that made me go,
oh yeah, yeah, my son's learning how to play drums.
Maybe it was a film. Maybe that's that's something he
can do. You know. But the way when music does that,
(11:17):
then you know then there's something there. Yeah, that connection
and it seems like you know again, you're you're connecting somehow,
some way with someone, and that's that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's all I've ever wanted with music. I don't I like,
I just I connected with music. You know, whenever I
was sad or down about something, I would always be
able to just turn on one of my favorite albums
or whatever I'm listening to at the.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Time, and it just helps. You know, it gets somewhere
in your body or your brain.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That nothing else can, even if it's an instrumental, even
if it's just like whatever, you know, there's something there.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh yeah, it can be anything, could be any genre.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It could be any language. Were saying, I'm just like, wow,
that's the there's something there. I don't know whatever, whatever
that I felt, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Man, hey man, I'll be honest with you. My my wife,
My wife are Lautina and we're listening to the new
Carrol g album over the weekend. There are a couple
of songs I don't I know some words, but I
definitely do not speak Spanish, and I'm like, right, and
I'm like, is she what? Why? Why do I feel
the need to take my clothes off right now? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Got some sort of way right now?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm feel in some sort of way.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's right, right, that's really cool, And that's the power
of music.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It really is. So with the Lost DP, obviously Chaos
is the single what is There? What's another song from
this that would like if that you have sort of
doesn't have to be a single, doesn't have to just
mean something to you, just you know what stands out.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So the song lost, that's a big, a big, a
big stand out. I recently lost my mom and it
was sudden, and it was like a health thing. You know,
her she she had an affection in her blood and
it came and went and came and went, and I.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Just watched it happen. But as I was driving to
and from the hospital, I was writing this song. So
I voiced memos with me, like breaking like down and
singing the chorus and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And I remember when I presented that, like normally, when
you're writing music with a group like us, we do
everything together, like all four of us write all the
songs kind of thing. And you know, we've worked with producers,
we've worked with other people, but we worked with us
four and you know, I'll write my vocals and my
lyrics and then you know, drummer Tyler Wright drums, and
Scott and Jordan will get together in my guitars and
(13:33):
then the thing is like I love opinions. I love
to hear what they have to say about stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And with loss.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
They knew what it meant, they knew everything about it,
and I started like showing them the song, and all
of them are just like yep. There was no like
I think you can do better there, or no, that's
not the best one or anything like that. So that's
always something that stuck out to me. It was just
like I wrote that song, I was so confident in that.
I didn't expect them to be as easy to like
(14:00):
let them like you know what I mean they because
I mean, as a band, you have an opinion. I
expect to be like, hey, you know you can do
better there, But there was none of that, And that's
that's why that song will always be like really powerful
on top of the meaning of the song. So you know,
losing someone is never easy, and that song is kind
of about like how you know you spiral and you're
(14:20):
real angry and you know, it's just it's about.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Loss, so kind of in the way in the words.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, and the exclamation points were funny because I was like,
what if we just have all the songs be like,
you know, very just a loss, chaos, pain, all this.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I was going to ask you about that because I'm like,
are they are they trying to make some sort of
statement here with this what's happening?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No, not really a statement, just but that's just the vibe,
you know, that's the thing of the of the songs.
They're all the meanings in the in the title and
the static. You know, it's very exclaimed.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, ye, get it right, right right. So I'm gonna
go back to something you touched on earlier when you
said you were forming that when you guys are kind
of forming and those games were in you know, Georgia,
and I forget where else you said, Alabama, Texas. That's
what it was. Yeah, you know, and obviously you're in
California and you guys decided to this is gonna be it.
This is the band, this is the thing, and you know,
(15:18):
here we are years later, and it's it seems seemingly
is working and heading down that path. What was it?
What was it about you know, you've met in other bands.
What was it about you four specifically that you thought
that made go, you know what, I'd give up jobs
for this. I think this will work.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like it was just like the quality of the music
that we came up with so effortlessly, like you know
what I mean, Like when you're together with with musicians
and stuff, you really got to try or you're really
rewriting stuff over and over and over again. You wreck
you could probably get a good song. We're gonna get
a good song. But with nerve, it's just like we
always just write good songs. We have songs that we
didn't release that I think should be released because they're
(15:56):
so good. We have, you know, b sides of songs
that I feel like, are you know, amazing? And and
I think that that that's a big reason. Why is
we all felt that confidence and then not only feeling
that confidence, but being able to post songs on YouTube
and everything like that, and like I mean, bad habits
absolutely exploded randomly and it was awesome and it was
(16:17):
all natural, and I feel like that that's special.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, you can't do that with the Internet.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A lot of the times we didn't know what we
were doing with it. We you know, we tried to
run ad we tried to do this, we tried to
do that, but eventually it just took itself and did
what it needs to do. And now that song, I
mean collectively probably has seventy million views. Wow, it's got Yeah,
it's it's hit some I think it hit like twenty
on just Spotify the other day, and that's like one
(16:44):
of the first songs we've.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Ever really that high.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That's yeah, that's that so I can check that song that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Was right it is now I'm on it right now.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It Yeah, that song changed our life, like genuinely, and
like YouTube went went super crazy and and like I'm
sure YouTube's another crazy amount and all the other all
the other avenues.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, it adds up. We've played our first show.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like we played so we won a contest on Twitch,
before we had a manager, before we had a booking
music or we have anything for It was their public
space Zebra. They worked for a dating Wimer Presents, which
does like Incarceration all stuff, and.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Uh, we won a contest. People voted for our song
low to win.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And I think originally there was like some show with
nothing more and we were stoked.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Whatever they let us do, we were down.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And eventually it came to like they're like, Okay, you
guys are going to play the smaller stage at Incarceration
and that's in Ohio. We're in California, and we're in California,
and so we we scattered around looking for tours. My
friends in a band called Secrets. They're like, oh, we'll
take you out on tour, and like perfect, you know
what time is it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It ended up being kind of kind of a wash
with the timing, but we had to stay.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Out in Ohio for like a couple of days and
then we played Incarceration. So we played in Garceration on
the far off beaten path, little teeny tiny stage. First
time we've ever played Ohio, first time we've been, you know,
at a festival, a couple of thousand miles away from home.
And we go to play our last song, just bad Habits,
and the whole front row, like you know, all the
(18:16):
way across this big ass stage is every single person
is singing every single word, and on the last, on
the last chorus, we drop out all of the things
and I just sing.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But then I just put the mic down and they
all sang. I had my phone out and record it.
I'll show you the video. I'll tell you where it is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But uh yeah, first time ever and they all started singing,
and that was like, okay, we need to kick this
into higher gear. You know, like we're so far away
from home and all these people know every word.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
That's crazy. And even the people that worked that were like,
holy cow, like you get.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The heck, why aren't you headlining this little stage And
we're just like, we don't know anything, you know, we're
just here for fun.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But yeah, that was kind of like an eye opener.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But then after that, like a booking agent started coming knocking,
and you know, there's everybody.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Kind of just it gave us, you know, it gave
us a place to stand and we're like, yep, let's talk,
and we picked our.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Agents and we picked everybody, and now here we are.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We're excited.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's amazing. What was the rest of this year look
like for Nerve?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We've got a couple more tours planned, ones announced. We're
out with Catch Your Breath and color Blind. It's a
little short, short and sweet run. It starts in Alabama,
but it's it's not very long. I think it's something
like eight shows total, but it's going to be a
fun one there. We Catch Your Breath guys are our
friends and Colorblind guys are our friends.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So you know, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Going out on tour and you don't have to have
that awkward first couple of days where you don't know
anybody and you're kind of just like working and you
don't want to be you know, you don't know how
they are, how you are around that ny.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So the difference of a newer band finding their way
versus the old veterans, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, toured together all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm sure if you've toured with a band
a bunch of time, was like, if we went back
out on tour with anybody, we would it would be
amazing because you know, you have that camaraderie you developed
over the course of the tour. Like we just toured
with ten Years, and I love those guys. Those guys
are absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That is how it was not the song bad Habits,
it is ten Years. That is how I found you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I know, Jesse, I know those guys. Brian, Like I
just I love the band ten Years. I'm a huge
fan of the band ten Years.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Obviously the the you know, the collaboration and then the
tour and you know, talked to Jesse about it and
you know it's, uh, he is a good guy, Yeah,
very much. So. So when garytt this, I'm like, oh,
I know who that is and here's why you know.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, so perfect. Well, good luck with it, man, I
hope everything goes well. It's awesome to meet you and
to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I'm sure we'll run in New So where are you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Based out of again, I'm actually in just south of
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Was saying I was like a Wisconsin, but I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, yeah, I'm just south of Bay the airs nationally,
but yeah, this is where I am.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I read I think I read like what whatever city
it was, and I was just like, I think I
know where that is, but never I never do. That's okay,
I never do, but I know I know the general
areas where that is.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
All right, whenever we play up there, I'd love to
have you come out. It would be fun to. I
know we're I know we're probably gonna hit head over.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
There towards the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I believe I can double check, but yeah, I believe
sometimes towards the end of the year we'll be over
there and playing some.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Songs sing along.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Awesome. Well, I appreciate you, man, thank you for having
me on Here's Rock Cast.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
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