February 15, 2025 • 45 mins
Tanis, the vocalist of PA band Lives Lost, talks with Jade about his journey into music, how his band came to be, exciting announcements and much more
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What is up?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Misfit Minutes podcast.
I'm your host, of course, Jade. If you knew around here, welcome.
If you're not around here, welcome back to the chaos.
So for today's episode, I have but one special guest.
But a special guest nonetheless, I have Tannis from Lives Lost.
Welcome Tennis.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thank you for having me today, Jade. I'm super stoked
to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Absolutely, thank you so much for coming on. And we
talked a little bit off Mike or off recording or
rather I'm kind of about our day jobs and such.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, we did. We both have the funnest of
day jobs.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I mean, I like my job.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It has its days where it can be very challenging,
but overall it's it's a rewarding It's a rewarding courier, so.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
One hundred percent. And I appreciate what you do too,
without giving away what you do. You know, I think
that I don't know if I shared this. I don't
think I did, because I think we got cut off
by that scam dude in front of my house. But
I am on the spectrum. My brother severely on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So oh I got you. Yeah, I kind of found
myself in this particular line of work. I won't say
by accident, but I was working at a hospital before that,
and I just wasn't I wasn't happy. And there was
an individual in our in our department that was in
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fact on the spectrum, and I found myself. Not that
people didn't want to work with him, but they just
found it difficult because they didn't understand and that information
wasn't like out there, so people didn't know for sure,
so they speculated. So it was and this person was,
you know, open enough with me that he just straight
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up told me and I was like, oh okay, and
we worked together and had great laughs and had a
great time. Unfortunately he's not in that department, but he's
on to bigger and better things. And so Harrison, if
you're listening to this, I am very proud of you, buddy.
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
This.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah he's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He ended up going to EMT school, So yeah, him, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Amazing, I know, right, Yeah, you know, I think a
lot of people think all the spectrum right because it's
very degrees. But like you know, a lot of us,
the later in life we get the more coping skills
that we learn, you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Know, yeah, and that's that's kind of what we've got
to work on with the folks that I work with,
is teaching those those coping skills and how to handle
certain situations and being conversational and you know, different skills
like that and making them relevant to the real world
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because you can. It's almost kind of like how, you know,
how high school is where you learn a bunch of
stuff like the Pythagorean theorem and how to calculate however
many sides of a triangle or whatever it is, stuff
like that. Unless you're an architect or you're you know,
doing some kind of construction, you're not really using that
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in the everyday life. But you know, yeah, but like
stuff like, you know, how to balance a check book,
not that anyone uses checks anymore, but I digress, or
like how to take care of a household and stuff
like that. Those valuable life skills are things that you know,
people need, so leaning more towards that realm of things
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is I think what we're trying to teach most of
the folks that I work with, so well, yeah, but
enough about me, tell me a little bit about lives.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Loss favorite things to talk about. So Lives Lost is
a rock collective, if you will, although I guess you
know we're more genre specific than rock, but at this
point we combined so many different styles. It's just so
much easier to call a rock band or metal band,
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you know. And we kind of got our start because
I was in a straight up metal core band, melodic
metal core specifically. I think like, you know, a tray
you Bulry Valentine, all the remains type stuff right named Lasciata,
and COVID was around the corner but hadn't quite started yet,
and a lot of I was primary songwriter for the
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first like EP we did and subsequent releases after that,
kind of star relinquishing control the bandmates. And guitar is
my secondary instrument to my voice, but a primary instrument
in my heart. You know, a lot of my Lives
Lost songs start on guitar. So I was feeling very
like not expressed in my creative outlet as far as
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being a guitar player goes. So during like right before COVID,
a couple songs got rejected for La Chiat, my band
at the time, and I was like, these are amazing songs.
You know, even if they don't fit my medal core band. Like,
I'm just so tired of putting myself in this box.
And I began looking for members after getting some demos together,
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and lo and behold, one of my buddies from high
school slash college, Alan Thompson, texted me and he was like, hey, man,
I just want you to know I'm like moving back
into the area. I would love to play drums for
you if you got something going on outside of your
main band. And I was like, dude, you cannot believe
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how perfect this timing is. And he was just a
perfect drummer for it because he's like a primarily ironically
enough a jazz and like jam rock guy. And bringing
that style to like, you know, post hardcore, metal core,
alternative rock band, you know, whatever you want to clump
us into has made for some very unique and interesting
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songwriting parts. But Allen and I and I think like
Fall twenty nineteen started getting together and jamming in the
lives of Loss material and just really hammering it out,
and we got like three or four early early songs
done and we started chipping away, you know, parts, and
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we had a few guys lined up during Covid and
slightly after Covid to be a part of the band.
In twenty twenty, when we officially were like, this is
going to be a band. It's not just gonna be
like Tennis Pellegrini and you know backing people, right, So.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I not like Christaughtry where he's sawdry and.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Then yeah, yeah, exactly like and I love Daughtry actually,
but first example thought, no, no, I get to that
was perfect example though. Yeah, like not like Daughtry or
Breaking Ben where it's just Ben writing everything. You know,
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we wanted to make it a band, even though I
was still going to be the primary songwriter, and we
agreed very early on, like he just wanted to add
flair to drum parts or write drum parts to my
guitar and vocal parts because a lot of our songs
start on acoustic guitar with electric guitar in mind. That
makes sense. So we started looking for more people and
we got together a couple of our other friends, the
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most prominent of which and the longest tenured member of
Lives Loss outside of ally myself, was our lead guitar player,
Aaron Perry, who was my lead guitar and my metalcore band,
but more suited for this type of music honestly because
his like favorite bands are like he loves Fleetwood Mac
and the Smiths, Like he really loves like new wave
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and classic rock and alternative you know, like the nineteen
seventy five. But he also on the other side of that,
like he loves bucket Head and Slipknot and stuff. Right,
so he has a lot of different influences. But like
his bread and butter is softer stuff. I guess which
is this band From the get go, we established was
going to be like more dedicated to the clean vocal.
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So we recorded our first song Ford yesterday, and we
just have steadily released songs ever since. We had one
year that I don't think we released much. I think
it was like twenty twenty, but we were playing out
a lot right our twenty twenty two I mean sorry,
So from like twenty twenty one we dropped forward yesterday
into the present. I think we've dropped a single like
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once every three or four months.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's actually I feel like as much as I would
love for bands to release music all the time so
we can have great things to listen to, I often
find that it's almost better to wait that time period
in between, just so A people have time to learn
the new song and then b they like have Like
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I said, they have that time to learn it and
fall in love with it, and it's not overwhelming, so
they're not like having to engage with more and more
and more stuff on top of other releases as well,
and it's not overcrowded.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's that's where I was.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Going with that. That is not overcrowded by everything else.
So I think that's honestly a fairly good time frame
for releases in my in my.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Opinion ap sheet, you're saying that, you know, I yeah,
we're actually behind on release right now. Our last single
I Think dropped November twentieth. We're dropping an EP March
twenty sixth, called the Home EP. We released two singles
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off of that last year, and two non album singles
last year, and a re release of one of our
first songs like Remixed and Remastered. So last year in total,
we had five releases six Dang. We had six releases
last year, Holy Crap, two non album singles, a metal
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cover of Alex Benjamin's let Me Down Slowly so Champagne
I d Let Me Down Slowly Brighter Days Remix remaster
aka Brighter Days twenty twenty four and I'm the Pain
and chin up Kid.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Nice right on, and I was. I did listen to
a few of the songs prior to hopping on with you,
listening to some yesterday and the day before. I think
either Numb of the Pain or Champagne is probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Appreciate that those two songs like mean a lot to me.
In fact, you know, none of the Pain is about
my struggles with addiction specifically, you know, alcohol, recreational drugs,
and abusive prescription pills as well. But you know, I
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think I had a pretty crappy childhood in a lot
of ways, in other ways beautiful and filled with love,
you know, long story short, My family's got like a
lot of mental illness, which is part of what this
new album is about, and even part of what Numb
the Pains about. You know, there's a lot of rhetoric
about the war inside you know your head. That whole song,
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you know, the econverse and the breakdown, the bridge into
the breakdown is about like the conversations that were going
through my head when I was using and using right
that burned it down, burn it down home. My life
won't turn around. I'm blacking out. My feet won't touch
the ground. I'm addicted to pain. Addicted to pain. Prescribe
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me some pain. Prison In's side, my visional fade, everything, everything.
Why won't these pills set me free? You know? It's
like basically saying I will do anything to get out
of my head. Right, So, I think a lot of
our heads, a lot of creative people, maybe even a
lot of regular people honestly at this point, because the
world is a scary place, right, but a lot of creatives.
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We have these inner demons that make us creative, honestly. Like,
I think there's a lot of and maybe I'm being general,
but like in this industry specifically like rock and metal,
like there's a lot of inner turmoil that has led
us to create music like this. Like, you don't make
sad music because you had a great life, really, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Unless you're lying about it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly that. Yeah, I mean I'm sure that
happens too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, one one thousand person. I'm sure that
there are people that kind of like just copy what
they hear or listen to something that was you know,
popular or influential and we're like, huh, I should write
something similar to that. I think that would do well.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And there I wish I had that thought, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Know, honestly, and it's and I think I think, uh,
because we had this debate a long time ago when
I first started this podcast. Actually we asked our guest
at the time about like how they thought, I guess
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whether or not it's worth it for people who make
music to have gone through, you know, these awful, terrible
things because it gives us such great, honest and powerful music.
Or do you think that, you know, the music would
still be the same if they hadn't gone through those things.
And it's a really interesting juxtaposition between you know, we
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obviously don't want people to go through terrible things, but
if they didn't and we wouldn't have good music. And
then it's like, well you have to kind of work
through it and think about it deeply.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I guess, I.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Mean, you know, to me, oh, then this is tough,
right to me, I would give so much to be like,
quote unquote normal personally. You know, I just don't get
a little choked up here. I will never know what
it means to be normal. You know period, you know,
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And even if I weren't a musician, I just never know.
And I think that it's a blessing and a curse
because I think we inspire others to know that it's
okay to express themselves as okay to struggle, because I
think without music, there isn't a lot of media consumption
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that says that, you know, Like I feel like most
of the media that is positive mental attitude is from
podcasts or music. Honestly, you know, in books, I guess,
But like music is a universal language, you don't really
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have to especially now with like stuff like Google Translate.
You don't have to know the words to know the
emotion behind the instrument, you know. And I think that
that is what to me always has drawn me to
rock and metal music because even if you know, when
I was younger, I didn't really wasn't too keen on
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the screen vocals. I think screams are more like an
accent thing personally, like in the music that I really enjoy, Like,
I like them used a little more sparingly, And both
Champagne and None of the Pain are pretty reflective of that.
They both have breakdowns, but like that's the only part
where there's really screams in song, you know, or transitional
pieces if you will. It's not like the bulk of
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the material. But what I'm getting at with that anyway,
is like, even with those screams, I think the guitar,
the drums, the bass, the samples, it all tells its
own story too, you know. And to me, that's why
rock has always gravitated towards me, because even if the
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vocals aren't there, I relate to that instrument in a
way that I do not relate to a lot of
other music.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I definitely understand where you're coming from. It's interesting that
you mentioned like the screams of being an accent in
certain metal music because the first band I thought of
was Breaking Benjamin, and how there are some songs where,
if I'm being if I'm correct, I don't think he
Ben screams at all, and it still sounds just as good.
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I will preface this by saying I do love my
screaming screams. I like, you know, hardcore death for all
the chords. I love all those things, but sometimes listening
to bands like Breaking Benjamin where there's a scream here
and there, or it's not as prevalent. It almost makes
it more worth it because you're holding out to listen
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to that screamer to hear it, and as it comes on,
you're like, ah, yes, there it is, and then you
go back to the clean vocals, which are again just
as good. So I think it's that that balance, Yeah,
between the two, I think is worth giving a shot.
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And there are people that only listen to screaming vocals,
and that's fine if that's your preference, but I guess
for me, after a while I'm listening to screams back
to back to back to back, it gets a little
bit diresome and a little tiny bit like, Okay, how
many more ways can you do that? And I will
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also preface that by saying that there are plenty of
core artists that are doing what they can to excuse me,
innovate you know, screaming vocals. There are so many examples.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know I still listen to bands
that primarily scream, you know, like one of my all
time favorite bands is the Lamb of God. You know,
riff Masters, and Randy does not do clean. I mean,
I guess on maybe some of their newer stuff. There's
some what you could consider clean vocals, but it's all
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like mostly spoken word and gravelly screams. You know, there's
just so many bands I listen to that are like that,
you know, Bleed from Within, White Chapel, Yeah, you know,
like I enjoy scream music. Don't get me wrong, but
for me, I've always just been drawn to the mixture
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that too. Like I love like north Lane, the Contortionist,
Breaking Ben, Chavelle, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, the Used. You know,
I like progressive metal core, I like post hardcore, I
like hard rock. I really just love it all time
of rock and metal.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, those are the bands that got me into metal. Honestly,
those are bands like that that play in that style,
especially Breaking Ben. Probably would not be a metal fan
or as big of a metal fan if not for
Breaking Benagement. And I'm sure that a lot of people
would say that. Shout out my friend Zach, because we're
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both used Breaking Benagement fans. If you listening to this
and love you, homie, and I guess kind of so
that we don't just you know, I don't just keep
spilling my goods about all the music I like. I
was looking at your bio and I saw that we
have a couple of things in common, which I thought
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was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I love this, and I love that you looked at
our bios too. I'm glad that bios on our website
and people are like, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, fans, if you're listening to this, please put bios
on your websites. I want to know fun facts about
you and get to know you and know how many
cash you have, and whether you like Converts or Vans,
So put that on your website. Please.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
We love that. We love that, and I gotta let
people know if I like Converse or Vans better.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't. Well, I have to think about it. I
feel like I have more fans than I do Converse,
and I wear Converse a lot when I was a kid,
and now that I'm older, I wear Vans because being
able to just slip them on and slip them off
is just fantastic, especially when I'm rushing to work, because
I'm like, but anyways.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I love that my wife's Converse girly and I'm a
Vans boy.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's funny. I like that. The stuff that we have
in common, though, that I thought was interesting. I saw
that you grew up mostly singing in church. I also
grew up singing in church. We both like Bells the Green,
and we both like Conic books.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Now, of that, Marvel or DC, I'm a DC girl.
Oh god, no, I'm just kidding. So actually this is
so funny. I grew up like a Marvel kid. And
then my teens came around and I told my dad
I wanted to stop collecting all my Marvel comics except
for Deadpool, and I wanted to switch to DC. I
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wanted to start collecting Batman, Yeah, teen Titans, and he
was so pressed because he's such a Marvel guy. But
I love both honestly, even weirder and like probably significantly
less popular. I love image comics.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I there are some really good image comics out there
that more people should be invested in. Honestly, there the
indies are killing it right now. There are so many
series out that people should definitely be picking up. Something
is killing the children. Oh my gosh, what as soon
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as I've as soon as I said, I forgot Bizarker.
The comic by Keanu Reeves is great. The art's a
little scrappy, but I like it. I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I think Jim Lee did in the nineties. I loved,
you know, like wildcats. Have you ever heard of them?
They were I have.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I didn't read it, but I have. I have at
least heard of it. I've seen Jim Ly's art is
great in and of itself. He did the art on
Hush I'm not mistaken. So yea there which they're bringing
back for a part two, which is ridiculous and the
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best way possible. I'm excited about that so that it
will hopefully draw more people into wanting to read and
discover the hobby. But yeah, no, there's there are other
Oh my god, I just read a couple of weeks ago.
What was it called Do a Power Bomb by Daniel
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Warren Johnson. Phenomenal. I cry. It was great. If you
haven't read it, you should definitely check it out.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
For check out Hush now too that I just I
did not read this.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Actually, yeah, honestly, I have like three big giant shelves
full of mostly DC mostly honestly, it's mostly DC, and
then I have some Marvel and then a lot more
indie stuff. Honestly, because I feel like I gravitate more
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towards d C covers. I really like the covers of
like their bigger books, their omnibus and even their the
DC Black Label stuff is some of my favorite. Like
I'm pretty sure Daniel Warren Johnson also wrote wonder Woman
Dead Earth, which is a great story. If you have
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not read it, I highly suggest taking a look at it. Yeah,
it is really really good. I did not expect to
like it because it's this might get me canceled. But
I'm not the biggest wonder Woman fan because I didn't
know that much about her other than what was in
the movies and you know, the basic level knowledge. So
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I did some digging and I happened to come across, gosh.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
This is really really good.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I haven't more people read this.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So yeah, hell, that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Was so weird.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That was very weird. I don't know what happened. Okay,
sorry about that, folks. We had a yes, we had
a mic malfunction, so but luckily you're still with us.
So but anyway, I was yapping about comics and such like,
which I could do for hours.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So comics, so.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
It's yeah it I did not get back into I
collected when I was a kid, And do you remember
the Spider Man comics that used to come in the
newspapers like they were like reprints of like the earliest
Spider Man stories very vaguely.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I used to collect those and I had the whole set,
and then our basement flooded and they all got destroyed,
and so I swore I would never touch another comic
book ever again. And then years later my husband went
to a yard sale and he found it. He saw
some comic book or some comic books there. Him was like, hey,
I remember you saying you collected when you were a kid.
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I found these that you might like them, and then
I got the I got the collecting bug again, and
now I am many many show and you know, figures
and punko pops and all of that, pretty deep into
the hobby.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's cool that you can like get back into another
hobby after so much time passes, because it's not only
is it nostalgic for you, but it like regnites a
passion in you, right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh yeah, for sure, one thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah. It's not just the nostalgia. It's like the fact
that like it's a it's a healthy escapism, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Unless you're like me and you try to read every
Batman story in existence, which is extremely unhealthy. Please please
don't do this.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I love that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's okay though, because I'm extremely proud of my batshelf.
I've read some newer stuff that's coming out before we
before we switch gears. DC is doing a new thing
now where it's the Absolute Universe, so that you they've
started off with Absolute Batman, Absolute Superman, Absolute Wonder Woman.
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They're bringing in more absolute versions of other Justice League characters.
The art is great, the stories are good. So if
you're looking for a way to get into comics and
you've been kind of confused on DC's continuity, because I
admit it can be a little bit confusing, I highly
suggest popping onto the Absolute Universe train and read Absolute Batman.
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Read that one first, because it's the best. Okay, But
but yeah, I saw, I guess, moving right along into
the other things I saw that we have in common.
We both really like Dallas Green.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Love Dallas Green, all time favorite and all time favorite
singer of mine. You know, City in Color amazing, Alexis
on Fire even more amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I grew up listening to City and Color when I
was in middle school, and I thought it was the
coolest thing ever, and nobody knew who he was, and
I was like, why don't you guys know who this
guy is? Like, he's so great.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
As we grew up in America, Unfortunately you grew up
in Canada. Dallas. Green's a household name there, He's a
national treasurer. Gosh, darnet.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I love him. Yeah, he was very He's very influential
on a middle school me that was trying to write
music because I thought it was cool, and a more
adult me that decided to write poetry instead because poetry
is less hard.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's hilarious. I love that so much, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I mean, I've written a couple of songs within the
past like a year or so, but it's not like
a dedicated thing, mostly because A I don't have a band,
and be like I read over it and over it
and over it back to back, over and over again,
and I'm like, Nope, this sounds terrible. Nope, let me
change this word, like, let me change this verse, let
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me switch this around. And then I'm more dissatisfied with it,
and I'm like, no, what, scrap the whole big start over?
How what do you as far as your creative process
when you're writing, Do you go through anything like that
or how exactly does your your process work?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Absolutely? So, you know my first things. First, I grabbed
my guitar and I mess around try and make a riff.
And then once I get a riff, I coord out
root notes of the riff. Is that excuse me? I
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decide what core progression is gonna be better with the
riff at hand, you know, and then I start messing
around with some vocals. Sometimes I do vocals first and
then right around the vocals I have, but mostly I
like to come up with a riff and then write
around that riff to get like the chorus. I'll do
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like a main riff and a chorus. You know. I'll
figure out the main riff vocals later, but I want
to get that chorus written right away so I know
it's a viable song. That's how I do it. And
I have a lot of incomplete songs, to be honest
with you, I have like hundreds of songs on my computer.
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But of those songs, I would say only like five
percent of them are done.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I mean, that's that's well. I guess the general consensus
is from what I hear from most people is that
they have a lot of unfinished stuff, which I see
as kind of a good thing because you can always
go back in the vault and pull out like, oh,
let me pull out this unfinished song number seventy two
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from you know, the vault and see if it works
for this particular release, or maybe you pull something out
to you like had a feeling about maybe something that
that song was relating to or talking about, and you're like, huh,
I already kind of wrote this, let me see if
it fits, and then you can kind of plug in
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where things need to be plugged in and take it
from there.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Makes sense, And I think every musician has a similar
process to that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Honestly, Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sometimes it's a little bit different for everybody. That's why
I'm always curious about every ones. Ah, everyone's process, just
because it's a tiny bit.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, And I kind of I'm eclectic, right where like
I'll do what I told you I'll do, But sometimes
I'll just get an acoustic guitar and write a whole
song and be like, Okay, is this going to translate
to a live's lost song or is this something else?
You know? I really love playing and singing on an acoustic.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Nice does And so I mean ask if this is
cool just out of curiosity, and you can say past
if you don't want to talk about it. But I'm curious.
Does the the just the playing and singing, does that
stem from your background with singing in church when you
(33:49):
were younger?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
So actually no, weirdly enough, it does not. Right. I
wanted to, I think in like, like I don't know,
fifth or sixth grade, I beg my mom for a guitar.
I'd always like singing up to that point, but I
wanted to do something else because long story short, a
lot of my family members didn't like my singing voice.
(34:15):
It was raw, you know when you're young, and maybe
they weren't nice about it. You know. My an April
was always nice. She's a music teacher and she's a kind,
sweet soul. I love her, and she's definitely been like
an inspiration to me as a musician because she's just
so well versed as a musician, you know. But I
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was like, Okay, I need to figure something else out
other than vocals, you know. But I knew I wanted
to make music, and I just kind of found my
own voice while playing guitar. And singing, figuring out like
what chords my voice sounds good with you know.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I gotcha? Yeah, I relate in that. When I was
singing in church, when I was still going it was
sometimes they can be brutal, like like if you don't
sound good or if like you hit the wrong note
or something like that, like they, oh, well, it depends
(35:15):
because if you're in like fire practice, they'll they'll let
you know when heart be like that, Nope, sit down,
we'll try. We'll try that one again in a little bit.
Or and that's not to say like people weren't like
supportive and such, but again they will let you know like, nah,
(35:35):
you need to try that again, or we need to
change notes, or we need to try a different key
or something because what we're doing right now is not
not cutting it. And then you're sitting there like picture
like I don't know, eleven twelve year old me just
standing there like sweating, try to prepare for my soulo like,
(35:56):
and you can see in the front pew like my
grandparents and like my dad's here somewhere, and I'm just
like I can't read.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Probably, I feel like every church did that did chore
relates to that it'd be like that. It'd be like
that for sure, And.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Somehow I always got suckered into like doing the really
long songs too, so i'd be like out of breath,
pretty passed out by the inn pont, like.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's so awful.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, you know, it wasn't all bad. There are some
there were some good things that came out of it.
I did. Yeah, I joined the choir in middle school
and into high school, and that propelled me into being
interested in the theater. So that was that was definitely
a good thing I did get. It was the first
(36:52):
Encore I've ever gotten, and I'm pretty sure it was
the last. We were friends. We were transitioning I'm doing
one service to the next, and I finished my song
and everybody was like lapping and whatnot. It's like, yeah,
good job whatever, and then the musicians like kept playing
their instruments and I was like, what are you guys doing?
(37:14):
The song's over And I turned around and we had
guest musicians that day, so they were like they're like, yeah,
you sounded great. You got now singing the whole song
all over again. And I was like wait what And
the dude like like nudges me on the shoulder. I
was like, yeah, sing the whole song all over again.
And I was like okay, which was fine. It was
(37:36):
just really funny because I was also like really tired,
so I was like, are you sure, and they're like yeah.
I was like, ah, dang it all right, not off hookat,
I guess, but it's all good.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
So you still got one more encore than me.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I didn't even ask for it.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Has that ever happened at one of you guys's shows,
Like they were like, play another song?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
No, not actually yeah, actually yes when we did Emo
Night in twenty twenty three, we did New Year's EU
Emo Night, and people were like, one more song, that
sounds so funal cool time.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I have not been to an emo night yet, and
I really want to go. So I need to find
people that aren't working and one that is closer to
me because they're always hours away from me. And I'm like,
dang it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I get nervous about stuff like that, you.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Know, yeah, yeah, I get you. I would be nervous too.
It can be nerve wracking. And then like it's either
you go ahead and do your song or you walk
off stage. And they're like one more song and then
you have to walk back on stage yeah, and then
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be like, crap, what are we gonna play?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Literally, that's kind of what happened because we had a
longer set and I was like, and it wasn't enough
that it wasn't like everybody unanimously. It was just like
our fans that were there for us, right. The rest
of the people were like, I'm ready for Emo night karaoke,
you know. Yeah, But in that moment, I just remember
being so awkward and being like, uh, thank you, guys,
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have a good night. We've heard you know.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That's it. That's all we got.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Cringing at myself, No big deal.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
It's fine if you don't cringe at yourself a little bit,
did you really have any fun?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
That's true. Fact, you have to.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You have to cringe yourself a little bit. What's like
the most embarrassed thing that's happened as of late for
this particular band.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's been a while since something too embarrassing happened. But
our backtracks stopped working when we were doing a Hoobastank
cover set back tracks and our ims no, yeah, and
we definitely did not have the songs down as well
as we thought we did. Oh man, well we couldn't
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hear ourselves, which is even worse. Oh hey, but at
least it wasn't our own music. We were messing up, you know, true.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
True, honestly, it's like my old choir director used to say,
just wing it. I promise you. They don't know the.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Words, yes, exactly, just make something up it sounds.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I'm sure it'll sound great exactly, which, on the one hand,
might be smart, but on the other hand, might also
get you into trouble because then people are gonna be like, wait.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, exactly, But you know, we live and we learn, right,
that's what That's what rehearsals are.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
For, exactly exactly. So we hammered out and we killed
it next time, you know.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Yeah. So I'm curious about things that you guys have
coming up this year that we should be on the
lookout for, or if there any upcoming announcements that you
would like to share.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
So we're doing a weekend er here. We're gonna hit
Granny's in Winchester, Virginia, Mother Pugs Saloon in Stone Island
and New York, and Union Vapors five seven h in
Dixon City, PA. Up in Nepa. We're breaking bens from
(42:03):
like right outside of screen. So yeah, I'm excited to
be in Winchester again.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
That is so exciting. I have not been to Granny's
in quite a while. It's been probably almost years since
I've been to Grannyes, so it might have to change that.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Yeah, you gotta come out. We're playing there Friday March
twenty first.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I'll see if I can get all wark, but that
sounds great.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
I think it's gonna be a good time Friday, March
twenty first, Grannies, Saturday March twenty second, Mother Pugs Saloon,
and Sunday March twenty third at Union Vapors. Hum I apologize.
I apparently need water right now. And outside of that,
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we're working on a couple other finalizing a couple other weekends,
and we're playing Rock on the Hillfest June seventh in Handover, PA.
We have tickets available for that as well. It's gonna
be a great show until I wake and Red jumpsuit
apparatus or cohablining at festival. So it's gonna be a
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good time.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Sounds like it, dang sounds like a very fun show indeed.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
And uh, obviously like I said. The home EP drops
three twenty six, twenty twenty five, be sure to tune in.
We have very special guest on one of the songs
on the EP, mister Kellen Quinn from Sleeping with Sirens. Sure,
very excited for everything going on, and I hope you
guys tune in.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
What that's awesome? That's so cool. Yeah, you guys better
tune in. It's gonna be dope. Not y'all got the
homie Kellen on here? What instance?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, it's gonna be sick. I'll send it to you. Actually,
you can tell me what you think about the Holy EP.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
What No, No, lenking, So don't ask me, guys, don't
hit my DMS asking me for the EP. You're not
getting it, especially since the EP comes out on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
No again, thank you for having me today, Jade.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Absolutely, it has been so great talking with you and
getting to know you and hearing more about your band.
And I'm definitely excited for that EP. Cannot wait to
hear it. But that being said, listeners, you know how
we get down over here. You know, we always support
the homies to make sure you guys go like, comments, share, subscribe,
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all that good stuff. To Lives Lost. Go to show
us when they have on by merch when they have it.
You guys know the drill tennis. It has been real,
my dude, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
It has been real for me as well. Jade, thank
you for the support for Lives Loss. Be sure check
us out on the socials at Lives Lost ban and
our website Liveslost band dot com. Have a great rest
of her night musical Misfit podcast.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Enough said, l
What is up?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Misfit Minutes podcast.
I'm your host, of course, Jade. If you knew around here, welcome.
If you're not around here, welcome back to the chaos.
So for today's episode, I have but one special guest.
But a special guest nonetheless, I have Tannis from Lives Lost.
Welcome Tennis.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thank you for having me today, Jade. I'm super stoked
to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Absolutely, thank you so much for coming on. And we
talked a little bit off Mike or off recording or
rather I'm kind of about our day jobs and such.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, we did. We both have the funnest of
day jobs.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I mean, I like my job.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It has its days where it can be very challenging,
but overall it's it's a rewarding It's a rewarding courier, so.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
One hundred percent. And I appreciate what you do too,
without giving away what you do. You know, I think
that I don't know if I shared this. I don't
think I did, because I think we got cut off
by that scam dude in front of my house. But
I am on the spectrum. My brother severely on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So oh I got you. Yeah, I kind of found
myself in this particular line of work. I won't say
by accident, but I was working at a hospital before that,
and I just wasn't I wasn't happy. And there was
an individual in our in our department that was in
(01:35):
fact on the spectrum, and I found myself. Not that
people didn't want to work with him, but they just
found it difficult because they didn't understand and that information
wasn't like out there, so people didn't know for sure,
so they speculated. So it was and this person was,
you know, open enough with me that he just straight
(01:58):
up told me and I was like, oh okay, and
we worked together and had great laughs and had a
great time. Unfortunately he's not in that department, but he's
on to bigger and better things. And so Harrison, if
you're listening to this, I am very proud of you, buddy.
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
This.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah he's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He ended up going to EMT school, So yeah, him, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Amazing, I know, right, Yeah, you know, I think a
lot of people think all the spectrum right because it's
very degrees. But like you know, a lot of us,
the later in life we get the more coping skills
that we learn, you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Know, yeah, and that's that's kind of what we've got
to work on with the folks that I work with,
is teaching those those coping skills and how to handle
certain situations and being conversational and you know, different skills
like that and making them relevant to the real world
(03:04):
because you can. It's almost kind of like how, you know,
how high school is where you learn a bunch of
stuff like the Pythagorean theorem and how to calculate however
many sides of a triangle or whatever it is, stuff
like that. Unless you're an architect or you're you know,
doing some kind of construction, you're not really using that
(03:25):
in the everyday life. But you know, yeah, but like
stuff like, you know, how to balance a check book,
not that anyone uses checks anymore, but I digress, or
like how to take care of a household and stuff
like that. Those valuable life skills are things that you know,
people need, so leaning more towards that realm of things
(03:47):
is I think what we're trying to teach most of
the folks that I work with, so well, yeah, but
enough about me, tell me a little bit about lives.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Loss favorite things to talk about. So Lives Lost is
a rock collective, if you will, although I guess you
know we're more genre specific than rock, but at this
point we combined so many different styles. It's just so
much easier to call a rock band or metal band,
(04:22):
you know. And we kind of got our start because
I was in a straight up metal core band, melodic
metal core specifically. I think like, you know, a tray
you Bulry Valentine, all the remains type stuff right named Lasciata,
and COVID was around the corner but hadn't quite started yet,
and a lot of I was primary songwriter for the
(04:44):
first like EP we did and subsequent releases after that,
kind of star relinquishing control the bandmates. And guitar is
my secondary instrument to my voice, but a primary instrument
in my heart. You know, a lot of my Lives
Lost songs start on guitar. So I was feeling very
like not expressed in my creative outlet as far as
(05:09):
being a guitar player goes. So during like right before COVID,
a couple songs got rejected for La Chiat, my band
at the time, and I was like, these are amazing songs.
You know, even if they don't fit my medal core band. Like,
I'm just so tired of putting myself in this box.
And I began looking for members after getting some demos together,
(05:33):
and lo and behold, one of my buddies from high
school slash college, Alan Thompson, texted me and he was like, hey, man,
I just want you to know I'm like moving back
into the area. I would love to play drums for
you if you got something going on outside of your
main band. And I was like, dude, you cannot believe
(05:55):
how perfect this timing is. And he was just a
perfect drummer for it because he's like a primarily ironically
enough a jazz and like jam rock guy. And bringing
that style to like, you know, post hardcore, metal core,
alternative rock band, you know, whatever you want to clump
us into has made for some very unique and interesting
(06:17):
songwriting parts. But Allen and I and I think like
Fall twenty nineteen started getting together and jamming in the
lives of Loss material and just really hammering it out,
and we got like three or four early early songs
done and we started chipping away, you know, parts, and
(06:40):
we had a few guys lined up during Covid and
slightly after Covid to be a part of the band.
In twenty twenty, when we officially were like, this is
going to be a band. It's not just gonna be
like Tennis Pellegrini and you know backing people, right, So.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I not like Christaughtry where he's sawdry and.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Then yeah, yeah, exactly like and I love Daughtry actually,
but first example thought, no, no, I get to that
was perfect example though. Yeah, like not like Daughtry or
Breaking Ben where it's just Ben writing everything. You know,
(07:20):
we wanted to make it a band, even though I
was still going to be the primary songwriter, and we
agreed very early on, like he just wanted to add
flair to drum parts or write drum parts to my
guitar and vocal parts because a lot of our songs
start on acoustic guitar with electric guitar in mind. That
makes sense. So we started looking for more people and
we got together a couple of our other friends, the
(07:42):
most prominent of which and the longest tenured member of
Lives Loss outside of ally myself, was our lead guitar player,
Aaron Perry, who was my lead guitar and my metalcore band,
but more suited for this type of music honestly because
his like favorite bands are like he loves Fleetwood Mac
and the Smiths, Like he really loves like new wave
(08:04):
and classic rock and alternative you know, like the nineteen
seventy five. But he also on the other side of that,
like he loves bucket Head and Slipknot and stuff. Right,
so he has a lot of different influences. But like
his bread and butter is softer stuff. I guess which
is this band From the get go, we established was
going to be like more dedicated to the clean vocal.
(08:31):
So we recorded our first song Ford yesterday, and we
just have steadily released songs ever since. We had one
year that I don't think we released much. I think
it was like twenty twenty, but we were playing out
a lot right our twenty twenty two I mean sorry,
So from like twenty twenty one we dropped forward yesterday
into the present. I think we've dropped a single like
(08:53):
once every three or four months.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's actually I feel like as much as I would
love for bands to release music all the time so
we can have great things to listen to, I often
find that it's almost better to wait that time period
in between, just so A people have time to learn
the new song and then b they like have Like
(09:22):
I said, they have that time to learn it and
fall in love with it, and it's not overwhelming, so
they're not like having to engage with more and more
and more stuff on top of other releases as well,
and it's not overcrowded.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's that's where I was.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Going with that. That is not overcrowded by everything else.
So I think that's honestly a fairly good time frame
for releases in my in my.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Opinion ap sheet, you're saying that, you know, I yeah,
we're actually behind on release right now. Our last single
I Think dropped November twentieth. We're dropping an EP March
twenty sixth, called the Home EP. We released two singles
(10:09):
off of that last year, and two non album singles
last year, and a re release of one of our
first songs like Remixed and Remastered. So last year in total,
we had five releases six Dang. We had six releases
last year, Holy Crap, two non album singles, a metal
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cover of Alex Benjamin's let Me Down Slowly so Champagne
I d Let Me Down Slowly Brighter Days Remix remaster
aka Brighter Days twenty twenty four and I'm the Pain
and chin up Kid.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Nice right on, and I was. I did listen to
a few of the songs prior to hopping on with you,
listening to some yesterday and the day before. I think
either Numb of the Pain or Champagne is probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Appreciate that those two songs like mean a lot to me.
In fact, you know, none of the Pain is about
my struggles with addiction specifically, you know, alcohol, recreational drugs,
and abusive prescription pills as well. But you know, I
(11:32):
think I had a pretty crappy childhood in a lot
of ways, in other ways beautiful and filled with love,
you know, long story short, My family's got like a
lot of mental illness, which is part of what this
new album is about, and even part of what Numb
the Pains about. You know, there's a lot of rhetoric
about the war inside you know your head. That whole song,
(11:59):
you know, the econverse and the breakdown, the bridge into
the breakdown is about like the conversations that were going
through my head when I was using and using right
that burned it down, burn it down home. My life
won't turn around. I'm blacking out. My feet won't touch
the ground. I'm addicted to pain. Addicted to pain. Prescribe
(12:20):
me some pain. Prison In's side, my visional fade, everything, everything.
Why won't these pills set me free? You know? It's
like basically saying I will do anything to get out
of my head. Right, So, I think a lot of
our heads, a lot of creative people, maybe even a
lot of regular people honestly at this point, because the
world is a scary place, right, but a lot of creatives.
(12:43):
We have these inner demons that make us creative, honestly. Like,
I think there's a lot of and maybe I'm being general,
but like in this industry specifically like rock and metal,
like there's a lot of inner turmoil that has led
us to create music like this. Like, you don't make
sad music because you had a great life, really, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Unless you're lying about it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly that. Yeah, I mean I'm sure that
happens too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, one one thousand person. I'm sure that
there are people that kind of like just copy what
they hear or listen to something that was you know,
popular or influential and we're like, huh, I should write
something similar to that. I think that would do well.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And there I wish I had that thought, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Know, honestly, and it's and I think I think, uh,
because we had this debate a long time ago when
I first started this podcast. Actually we asked our guest
at the time about like how they thought, I guess
(14:04):
whether or not it's worth it for people who make
music to have gone through, you know, these awful, terrible
things because it gives us such great, honest and powerful music.
Or do you think that, you know, the music would
still be the same if they hadn't gone through those things.
And it's a really interesting juxtaposition between you know, we
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obviously don't want people to go through terrible things, but
if they didn't and we wouldn't have good music. And
then it's like, well you have to kind of work
through it and think about it deeply.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I guess, I.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Mean, you know, to me, oh, then this is tough,
right to me, I would give so much to be like,
quote unquote normal personally. You know, I just don't get
a little choked up here. I will never know what
it means to be normal. You know period, you know,
(15:09):
And even if I weren't a musician, I just never know.
And I think that it's a blessing and a curse
because I think we inspire others to know that it's
okay to express themselves as okay to struggle, because I
think without music, there isn't a lot of media consumption
(15:31):
that says that, you know, Like I feel like most
of the media that is positive mental attitude is from
podcasts or music. Honestly, you know, in books, I guess,
But like music is a universal language, you don't really
(15:52):
have to especially now with like stuff like Google Translate.
You don't have to know the words to know the
emotion behind the instrument, you know. And I think that
that is what to me always has drawn me to
rock and metal music because even if you know, when
I was younger, I didn't really wasn't too keen on
(16:14):
the screen vocals. I think screams are more like an
accent thing personally, like in the music that I really enjoy, Like,
I like them used a little more sparingly, And both
Champagne and None of the Pain are pretty reflective of that.
They both have breakdowns, but like that's the only part
where there's really screams in song, you know, or transitional
pieces if you will. It's not like the bulk of
(16:37):
the material. But what I'm getting at with that anyway,
is like, even with those screams, I think the guitar,
the drums, the bass, the samples, it all tells its
own story too, you know. And to me, that's why
rock has always gravitated towards me, because even if the
(16:58):
vocals aren't there, I relate to that instrument in a
way that I do not relate to a lot of
other music.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I definitely understand where you're coming from. It's interesting that
you mentioned like the screams of being an accent in
certain metal music because the first band I thought of
was Breaking Benjamin, and how there are some songs where,
if I'm being if I'm correct, I don't think he
Ben screams at all, and it still sounds just as good.
(17:30):
I will preface this by saying I do love my
screaming screams. I like, you know, hardcore death for all
the chords. I love all those things, but sometimes listening
to bands like Breaking Benjamin where there's a scream here
and there, or it's not as prevalent. It almost makes
it more worth it because you're holding out to listen
(17:51):
to that screamer to hear it, and as it comes on,
you're like, ah, yes, there it is, and then you
go back to the clean vocals, which are again just
as good. So I think it's that that balance, Yeah,
between the two, I think is worth giving a shot.
(18:13):
And there are people that only listen to screaming vocals,
and that's fine if that's your preference, but I guess
for me, after a while I'm listening to screams back
to back to back to back, it gets a little
bit diresome and a little tiny bit like, Okay, how
many more ways can you do that? And I will
(18:35):
also preface that by saying that there are plenty of
core artists that are doing what they can to excuse me,
innovate you know, screaming vocals. There are so many examples.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know I still listen to bands
that primarily scream, you know, like one of my all
time favorite bands is the Lamb of God. You know,
riff Masters, and Randy does not do clean. I mean,
I guess on maybe some of their newer stuff. There's
some what you could consider clean vocals, but it's all
(19:09):
like mostly spoken word and gravelly screams. You know, there's
just so many bands I listen to that are like that,
you know, Bleed from Within, White Chapel, Yeah, you know,
like I enjoy scream music. Don't get me wrong, but
for me, I've always just been drawn to the mixture
(19:31):
that too. Like I love like north Lane, the Contortionist,
Breaking Ben, Chavelle, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, the Used. You know,
I like progressive metal core, I like post hardcore, I
like hard rock. I really just love it all time
of rock and metal.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, those are the bands that got me into metal. Honestly,
those are bands like that that play in that style,
especially Breaking Ben. Probably would not be a metal fan
or as big of a metal fan if not for
Breaking Benagement. And I'm sure that a lot of people
would say that. Shout out my friend Zach, because we're
(20:12):
both used Breaking Benagement fans. If you listening to this
and love you, homie, and I guess kind of so
that we don't just you know, I don't just keep
spilling my goods about all the music I like. I
was looking at your bio and I saw that we
have a couple of things in common, which I thought
(20:33):
was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I love this, and I love that you looked at
our bios too. I'm glad that bios on our website
and people are like, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, fans, if you're listening to this, please put bios
on your websites. I want to know fun facts about
you and get to know you and know how many
cash you have, and whether you like Converts or Vans,
So put that on your website. Please.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
We love that. We love that, and I gotta let
people know if I like Converse or Vans better.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't. Well, I have to think about it. I
feel like I have more fans than I do Converse,
and I wear Converse a lot when I was a kid,
and now that I'm older, I wear Vans because being
able to just slip them on and slip them off
is just fantastic, especially when I'm rushing to work, because
I'm like, but anyways.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I love that my wife's Converse girly and I'm a
Vans boy.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's funny. I like that. The stuff that we have
in common, though, that I thought was interesting. I saw
that you grew up mostly singing in church. I also
grew up singing in church. We both like Bells the Green,
and we both like Conic books.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Now, of that, Marvel or DC, I'm a DC girl.
Oh god, no, I'm just kidding. So actually this is
so funny. I grew up like a Marvel kid. And
then my teens came around and I told my dad
I wanted to stop collecting all my Marvel comics except
for Deadpool, and I wanted to switch to DC. I
(22:15):
wanted to start collecting Batman, Yeah, teen Titans, and he
was so pressed because he's such a Marvel guy. But
I love both honestly, even weirder and like probably significantly
less popular. I love image comics.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I there are some really good image comics out there
that more people should be invested in. Honestly, there the
indies are killing it right now. There are so many
series out that people should definitely be picking up. Something
is killing the children. Oh my gosh, what as soon
(22:55):
as I've as soon as I said, I forgot Bizarker.
The comic by Keanu Reeves is great. The art's a
little scrappy, but I like it. I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I think Jim Lee did in the nineties. I loved,
you know, like wildcats. Have you ever heard of them?
They were I have.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I didn't read it, but I have. I have at
least heard of it. I've seen Jim Ly's art is
great in and of itself. He did the art on
Hush I'm not mistaken. So yea there which they're bringing
back for a part two, which is ridiculous and the
(23:36):
best way possible. I'm excited about that so that it
will hopefully draw more people into wanting to read and
discover the hobby. But yeah, no, there's there are other
Oh my god, I just read a couple of weeks ago.
What was it called Do a Power Bomb by Daniel
(23:57):
Warren Johnson. Phenomenal. I cry. It was great. If you
haven't read it, you should definitely check it out.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
For check out Hush now too that I just I
did not read this.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Actually, yeah, honestly, I have like three big giant shelves
full of mostly DC mostly honestly, it's mostly DC, and
then I have some Marvel and then a lot more
indie stuff. Honestly, because I feel like I gravitate more
(24:34):
towards d C covers. I really like the covers of
like their bigger books, their omnibus and even their the
DC Black Label stuff is some of my favorite. Like
I'm pretty sure Daniel Warren Johnson also wrote wonder Woman
Dead Earth, which is a great story. If you have
(24:54):
not read it, I highly suggest taking a look at it. Yeah,
it is really really good. I did not expect to
like it because it's this might get me canceled. But
I'm not the biggest wonder Woman fan because I didn't
know that much about her other than what was in
the movies and you know, the basic level knowledge. So
(25:16):
I did some digging and I happened to come across, gosh.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
This is really really good.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I haven't more people read this.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So yeah, hell, that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Was so weird.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That was very weird. I don't know what happened. Okay,
sorry about that, folks. We had a yes, we had
a mic malfunction, so but luckily you're still with us.
So but anyway, I was yapping about comics and such like,
which I could do for hours.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So comics, so.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
It's yeah it I did not get back into I
collected when I was a kid, And do you remember
the Spider Man comics that used to come in the
newspapers like they were like reprints of like the earliest
Spider Man stories very vaguely.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I used to collect those and I had the whole set,
and then our basement flooded and they all got destroyed,
and so I swore I would never touch another comic
book ever again. And then years later my husband went
to a yard sale and he found it. He saw
some comic book or some comic books there. Him was like, hey,
I remember you saying you collected when you were a kid.
(26:51):
I found these that you might like them, and then
I got the I got the collecting bug again, and
now I am many many show and you know, figures
and punko pops and all of that, pretty deep into
the hobby.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's cool that you can like get back into another
hobby after so much time passes, because it's not only
is it nostalgic for you, but it like regnites a
passion in you, right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh yeah, for sure, one thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah. It's not just the nostalgia. It's like the fact
that like it's a it's a healthy escapism, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Unless you're like me and you try to read every
Batman story in existence, which is extremely unhealthy. Please please
don't do this.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I love that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's okay though, because I'm extremely proud of my batshelf.
I've read some newer stuff that's coming out before we
before we switch gears. DC is doing a new thing
now where it's the Absolute Universe, so that you they've
started off with Absolute Batman, Absolute Superman, Absolute Wonder Woman.
(28:17):
They're bringing in more absolute versions of other Justice League characters.
The art is great, the stories are good. So if
you're looking for a way to get into comics and
you've been kind of confused on DC's continuity, because I
admit it can be a little bit confusing, I highly
suggest popping onto the Absolute Universe train and read Absolute Batman.
(28:40):
Read that one first, because it's the best. Okay, But
but yeah, I saw, I guess, moving right along into
the other things I saw that we have in common.
We both really like Dallas Green.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Love Dallas Green, all time favorite and all time favorite
singer of mine. You know, City in Color amazing, Alexis
on Fire even more amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I grew up listening to City and Color when I
was in middle school, and I thought it was the
coolest thing ever, and nobody knew who he was, and
I was like, why don't you guys know who this
guy is? Like, he's so great.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
As we grew up in America, Unfortunately you grew up
in Canada. Dallas. Green's a household name there, He's a
national treasurer. Gosh, darnet.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I love him. Yeah, he was very He's very influential
on a middle school me that was trying to write
music because I thought it was cool, and a more
adult me that decided to write poetry instead because poetry
is less hard.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's hilarious. I love that so much, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I mean, I've written a couple of songs within the
past like a year or so, but it's not like
a dedicated thing, mostly because A I don't have a band,
and be like I read over it and over it
and over it back to back, over and over again,
and I'm like, Nope, this sounds terrible. Nope, let me
change this word, like, let me change this verse, let
(30:23):
me switch this around. And then I'm more dissatisfied with it,
and I'm like, no, what, scrap the whole big start over?
How what do you as far as your creative process
when you're writing, Do you go through anything like that
or how exactly does your your process work?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Absolutely? So, you know my first things. First, I grabbed
my guitar and I mess around try and make a riff.
And then once I get a riff, I coord out
root notes of the riff. Is that excuse me? I
(31:06):
decide what core progression is gonna be better with the
riff at hand, you know, and then I start messing
around with some vocals. Sometimes I do vocals first and
then right around the vocals I have, but mostly I
like to come up with a riff and then write
around that riff to get like the chorus. I'll do
(31:29):
like a main riff and a chorus. You know. I'll
figure out the main riff vocals later, but I want
to get that chorus written right away so I know
it's a viable song. That's how I do it. And
I have a lot of incomplete songs, to be honest
with you, I have like hundreds of songs on my computer.
(31:51):
But of those songs, I would say only like five
percent of them are done.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I mean, that's that's well. I guess the general consensus
is from what I hear from most people is that
they have a lot of unfinished stuff, which I see
as kind of a good thing because you can always
go back in the vault and pull out like, oh,
let me pull out this unfinished song number seventy two
(32:18):
from you know, the vault and see if it works
for this particular release, or maybe you pull something out
to you like had a feeling about maybe something that
that song was relating to or talking about, and you're like, huh,
I already kind of wrote this, let me see if
it fits, and then you can kind of plug in
(32:39):
where things need to be plugged in and take it
from there.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Makes sense, And I think every musician has a similar
process to that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Honestly, Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sometimes it's a little bit different for everybody. That's why
I'm always curious about every ones. Ah, everyone's process, just
because it's a tiny bit.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, And I kind of I'm eclectic, right where like
I'll do what I told you I'll do, But sometimes
I'll just get an acoustic guitar and write a whole
song and be like, Okay, is this going to translate
to a live's lost song or is this something else?
You know? I really love playing and singing on an acoustic.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Nice does And so I mean ask if this is
cool just out of curiosity, and you can say past
if you don't want to talk about it. But I'm curious.
Does the the just the playing and singing, does that
stem from your background with singing in church when you
(33:49):
were younger?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
So actually no, weirdly enough, it does not. Right. I
wanted to, I think in like, like I don't know,
fifth or sixth grade, I beg my mom for a guitar.
I'd always like singing up to that point, but I
wanted to do something else because long story short, a
lot of my family members didn't like my singing voice.
(34:15):
It was raw, you know when you're young, and maybe
they weren't nice about it. You know. My an April
was always nice. She's a music teacher and she's a kind,
sweet soul. I love her, and she's definitely been like
an inspiration to me as a musician because she's just
so well versed as a musician, you know. But I
(34:37):
was like, Okay, I need to figure something else out
other than vocals, you know. But I knew I wanted
to make music, and I just kind of found my
own voice while playing guitar. And singing, figuring out like
what chords my voice sounds good with you know.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I gotcha? Yeah, I relate in that. When I was
singing in church, when I was still going it was
sometimes they can be brutal, like like if you don't
sound good or if like you hit the wrong note
or something like that, like they, oh, well, it depends
(35:15):
because if you're in like fire practice, they'll they'll let
you know when heart be like that, Nope, sit down,
we'll try. We'll try that one again in a little bit.
Or and that's not to say like people weren't like
supportive and such, but again they will let you know like, nah,
(35:35):
you need to try that again, or we need to
change notes, or we need to try a different key
or something because what we're doing right now is not
not cutting it. And then you're sitting there like picture
like I don't know, eleven twelve year old me just
standing there like sweating, try to prepare for my soulo like,
(35:56):
and you can see in the front pew like my
grandparents and like my dad's here somewhere, and I'm just
like I can't read.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Probably, I feel like every church did that did chore
relates to that it'd be like that. It'd be like
that for sure, And.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Somehow I always got suckered into like doing the really
long songs too, so i'd be like out of breath,
pretty passed out by the inn pont, like.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's so awful.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, you know, it wasn't all bad. There are some
there were some good things that came out of it.
I did. Yeah, I joined the choir in middle school
and into high school, and that propelled me into being
interested in the theater. So that was that was definitely
a good thing I did get. It was the first
(36:52):
Encore I've ever gotten, and I'm pretty sure it was
the last. We were friends. We were transitioning I'm doing
one service to the next, and I finished my song
and everybody was like lapping and whatnot. It's like, yeah,
good job whatever, and then the musicians like kept playing
their instruments and I was like, what are you guys doing?
(37:14):
The song's over And I turned around and we had
guest musicians that day, so they were like they're like, yeah,
you sounded great. You got now singing the whole song
all over again. And I was like wait what And
the dude like like nudges me on the shoulder. I
was like, yeah, sing the whole song all over again.
And I was like okay, which was fine. It was
(37:36):
just really funny because I was also like really tired,
so I was like, are you sure, and they're like yeah.
I was like, ah, dang it all right, not off hookat,
I guess, but it's all good.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
So you still got one more encore than me.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I didn't even ask for it.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Has that ever happened at one of you guys's shows,
Like they were like, play another song?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
No, not actually yeah, actually yes when we did Emo
Night in twenty twenty three, we did New Year's EU
Emo Night, and people were like, one more song, that
sounds so funal cool time.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I have not been to an emo night yet, and
I really want to go. So I need to find
people that aren't working and one that is closer to
me because they're always hours away from me. And I'm like,
dang it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I get nervous about stuff like that, you.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Know, yeah, yeah, I get you. I would be nervous too.
It can be nerve wracking. And then like it's either
you go ahead and do your song or you walk
off stage. And they're like one more song and then
you have to walk back on stage yeah, and then
(39:11):
be like, crap, what are we gonna play?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Literally, that's kind of what happened because we had a
longer set and I was like, and it wasn't enough
that it wasn't like everybody unanimously. It was just like
our fans that were there for us, right. The rest
of the people were like, I'm ready for Emo night karaoke,
you know. Yeah, But in that moment, I just remember
being so awkward and being like, uh, thank you, guys,
(39:35):
have a good night. We've heard you know.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That's it. That's all we got.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Cringing at myself, No big deal.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
It's fine if you don't cringe at yourself a little bit,
did you really have any fun?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
That's true. Fact, you have to.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You have to cringe yourself a little bit. What's like
the most embarrassed thing that's happened as of late for
this particular band.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's been a while since something too embarrassing happened. But
our backtracks stopped working when we were doing a Hoobastank
cover set back tracks and our ims no, yeah, and
we definitely did not have the songs down as well
as we thought we did. Oh man, well we couldn't
(40:26):
hear ourselves, which is even worse. Oh hey, but at
least it wasn't our own music. We were messing up, you know, true.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
True, honestly, it's like my old choir director used to say,
just wing it. I promise you. They don't know the.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Words, yes, exactly, just make something up it sounds.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I'm sure it'll sound great exactly, which, on the one hand,
might be smart, but on the other hand, might also
get you into trouble because then people are gonna be like, wait.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, exactly, But you know, we live and we learn, right,
that's what That's what rehearsals are.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
For, exactly exactly. So we hammered out and we killed
it next time, you know.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Yeah. So I'm curious about things that you guys have
coming up this year that we should be on the
lookout for, or if there any upcoming announcements that you
would like to share.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
So we're doing a weekend er here. We're gonna hit
Granny's in Winchester, Virginia, Mother Pugs Saloon in Stone Island
and New York, and Union Vapors five seven h in
Dixon City, PA. Up in Nepa. We're breaking bens from
(42:03):
like right outside of screen. So yeah, I'm excited to
be in Winchester again.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
That is so exciting. I have not been to Granny's
in quite a while. It's been probably almost years since
I've been to Grannyes, so it might have to change that.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Yeah, you gotta come out. We're playing there Friday March
twenty first.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I'll see if I can get all wark, but that
sounds great.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
I think it's gonna be a good time Friday, March
twenty first, Grannies, Saturday March twenty second, Mother Pugs Saloon,
and Sunday March twenty third at Union Vapors. Hum I apologize.
I apparently need water right now. And outside of that,
(42:56):
we're working on a couple other finalizing a couple other weekends,
and we're playing Rock on the Hillfest June seventh in Handover, PA.
We have tickets available for that as well. It's gonna
be a great show until I wake and Red jumpsuit
apparatus or cohablining at festival. So it's gonna be a
(43:17):
good time.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Sounds like it, dang sounds like a very fun show indeed.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
And uh, obviously like I said. The home EP drops
three twenty six, twenty twenty five, be sure to tune in.
We have very special guest on one of the songs
on the EP, mister Kellen Quinn from Sleeping with Sirens. Sure,
very excited for everything going on, and I hope you
guys tune in.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
What that's awesome? That's so cool. Yeah, you guys better
tune in. It's gonna be dope. Not y'all got the
homie Kellen on here? What instance?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, it's gonna be sick. I'll send it to you. Actually,
you can tell me what you think about the Holy EP.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
What No, No, lenking, So don't ask me, guys, don't
hit my DMS asking me for the EP. You're not
getting it, especially since the EP comes out on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
No again, thank you for having me today, Jade.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Absolutely, it has been so great talking with you and
getting to know you and hearing more about your band.
And I'm definitely excited for that EP. Cannot wait to
hear it. But that being said, listeners, you know how
we get down over here. You know, we always support
the homies to make sure you guys go like, comments, share, subscribe,
(44:45):
all that good stuff. To Lives Lost. Go to show
us when they have on by merch when they have it.
You guys know the drill tennis. It has been real,
my dude, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
It has been real for me as well. Jade, thank
you for the support for Lives Loss. Be sure check
us out on the socials at Lives Lost ban and
our website Liveslost band dot com. Have a great rest
of her night musical Misfit podcast.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Enough said, l
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