July 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Brendan Shane, lead singer of The Nocturnal Affair joins. Set to embark on a UK/EU tour with Buckcherry and Wednesday 13, Brendan tells how he found success without trying, passion for Guns N' Roses' music, partying with DJ Ashba, and more!
More info:
https://www.nocturnalaffair.com/
"What is Love" cover: https://youtu.be/xsxkgREE2a4?si=1bNusrgf5xUH6Qk0
WEBSITE: www.afdpod.com
More info:
https://www.nocturnalaffair.com/
"What is Love" cover: https://youtu.be/xsxkgREE2a4?si=1bNusrgf5xUH6Qk0
WEBSITE: www.afdpod.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what. Yes is Appetite for Distortion.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome to the podcast Appetite for Distortion, Episode number five
hundred and seventeen. My name is Brando. Do I call
you Brendo for today's purposes?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Brendan? What shall we do?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Why not? I could be Brendo for today?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Have you ever been called?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Actually one of our producers calls me every me it'll
be like Brendo, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right on? I forget the name.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It was a sitcom I don't know, like twenty years ago.
It sticks with me though. One of the actors was
played at Brandan and he was also on the radio
and went by Brendo, and I was Brando obviously. I
don't know if it's hard to figure out from Brandon.
But uh no, no, no, right not, I don't I was
almost was this close to being a Braiden by the way,
(01:15):
really yeah, my mom likes to tell me that story
every single year of my birthday, which is just wonderful
that I was just closed to being a Braiden.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Does that mean that she lost the name naming and
that that your father named you Brandon?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think it's just my grandma because at the time
Brandon was rare. Uh and she Everyone's like, what the
hell you guys talking about it right away? If you're
familiar with the show, you know what I'm about. Uh Snow,
I think my grandma said. I think it was like
my grandma ho lost out. They came up with Brandon
and she's like, oh, what about Braiden. My mom was like, oh,
I like that, but she had already sent in the paperwork.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
My whole life would have been different.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, it's appetite for the stortion with Braiden. No, I
don't think so we can.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Braido just doesn't have a ring to it, brand.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Exactly, brand like Marlin. All right, enough already, so Brendan
here from the Nocturnal Affair. Yes, thanks for joining us today.
Brendan Shane. We're gonna get into your band. You are
doing a little UK. I want to say little, I'm
kind of saying that facetiously UK tour with it's a
(02:19):
little tour.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It's just a week this time around. It's still we're over.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
To the well okay, sorry, then you're over to the
east as far as East coast or where the EU.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sorry, we got to figure it out because you're you're
from Vegas, but we'd be talking about the UK a little.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Bit from Boston, so East Coast you would be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, so you looking at my hat with disgust right now?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Now you know what it's a It's a funny thing
when you're when you're in the East Coast and you're
walking around the streets of the boss you see somebody
from New York. Gang you had, we're gonna have some words,
we're gonna bring each other's balls. But Nevada, right, or
as my East Coast family would call it.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nevada, That's what I say. So it's Nevada, Nevada, right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So I learned how to blend in with these with
these West Coasters very well. I grew up mostly out here,
spend a lot of summers back east. But when you
when you find an East Coaster, you hope you like
hang on to them, because people out here are just
fucking weird man flakes. They'll they'll smile at you and
then when you turn around the stabby.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
In the back. But East Coasters we kind.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Of all we stick together out here. We have our
own little thing. So whether you're from Pennsylvania, Jersey, New York,
mass anywhere, you know, Maine right on.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So well, we'll stick together here.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I mean, I spent a couple of years in Massachusetts
for my radio career in Cape Cod. But uh, it's
we're here now. We're talking about the again the UK
to bring it back around that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It is a big deal though, because one of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
My former guests, Wednesday thirteen, you'll be playing opening with him,
opening for him, and also Drowning Pool. So that's a
that's a big, awesome tour and I'm lucky that I
have listeners in New York, Nevada, Nevada, wherever, the UK.
He just did an episode with one of my good listeners, Jason.
About the review. We're doing a review of the Black
(04:08):
Sabbath show of the Ozzie's Farewell. So actually, if you
wouldn't mind, just we share a name, we share a coast,
we must share a passion for Black Sabbath and Ozzy.
Did you get a chance to watch a little bit
of it?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I did, Man, I did. It was surreal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Honestly, you know, it's it's it's it's you almost don't
want to accept it because how many times Black Sabbath
said farewell, How many times has Ozzie said, for well,
you know what I mean, it's just like kiss like
everybody else, this is our last tour. And then five
years later they're like, well you want to make more money,
so but this this is it, man, this is a
It's wild. Nothing like having Lobo host The Night.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, Yeah, Lobo Jason Momoa just see him, My God,
to see him mosh during Pantera, I'm like, just like,
that's that's what a cool guy. He just seems like
a cool to guy to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was kind of surreal seeing Panterra, but obviously with
Zach Wilde, especially the history with Zach Wilde and auzsy
so it's like, not only is he there to pay
tribute to the guy that had broke him into the scene,
but he's paying tribute to Dime at the same time.
It's just the the threads tying it all in.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't know why that didn't dawn on me that day.
I'm like because obviously because I had seen I've seen
Pantera with with Zach and I watched the entire show
and it didn't dawn on me. I'm like, yeah, he's
there with I mean, he was playing with Ozzie too,
but then he was one of those players that played
multiple you know, like hats made multiple like Jolly Bonanty
(05:41):
with Anthrax and Pantera as well.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Uh, you know, playing with everybody very cool well singing
did it again? I'm sorry I cut you off.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Ugly Kid Joe's vocalist as.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, Whitfield, Crane Whitfield. I forgot to mention him in
my review.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wow, what a used.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
To do sound checks for Ozzy?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Was that?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Is that a real thing?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Because he sounded so good, He sounded his his his
ausie was very very well done.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was it's if you know them just for you know,
I Hate Everything about You, which is an amazing song.
You underestimate how great of a singer he is, and
he showed that those two things.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That you reminded me.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I did a whole two hour review and it wasn't enough. See,
That's why I needed to bring it up and out
with you. So how did we get to the no
cournal affair?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And you, being a you know.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Such a I'm assuming a lifelong rock fan, when did
this project start? And kind of take us back a
little bit before we get to the current days.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You want the Cliff notes, or you want the long.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Story, let's do cliff notes. If you wanted Tom, we'll
have you back on for the long story. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We started as a joke band I wrote. I wrote
a song based upon a photo some friends of mine
took on vacation. It looked very, very overly emotional, very uh.
It looked like it had a lot of feel to it,
and I made an album cover out of it just
as a joke, like, oh my god, you guys are
(07:05):
in this band called The Fields. And then someone went,
you should write a song for it. So I did
in like an hour or two, and it launched into
something bigger, and for a while I was in almost
like a mock anonymous goth rock band called The Fields.
I was a big fan of ghost at the time.
It was before Ghosts really blew up, so I loved
the whole anonymity thing, and our local station ninety two
(07:27):
point three played us a little bit. House of Blues
reached out for The Fields to play a show with
some kind of Amazon event, and they had no idea
that it was. I was in another metal band at
the time. They were like, yo, we'd love to have you.
It's a Duran Duran tribute night and it's like Amazon's
going to be there, the place is sold out.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I was like, actually, it's me from this other band.
I don't have a band. I wrote this, I delivered it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I kind of bullshitted my way into getting it on
the radio just to see it would be funny. And
then I was like, so you're gonna play the show
or I'm gonna tell the station that it's actually you.
And uh so we played the show. We were bum
rushed by the crowd afterwards because they wanted merchandise, they
wanted to know who we are. It was just like,
it was an amazing response. And so that was my
(08:16):
first inkling that maybe we had something. And then flash
forward about a year later. My metal band that I
was in at the time plays Paint in the Grass
in Seattle, and we we didn't play Paint in the Grass.
I'm sorry, we played what was it called. It was
Hempfest or something, but we already made legal So it
was kind of a bust because I know Henfest was
(08:38):
around when they were trying to legalize it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah the war.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, someone reached out to us. They're like, you're playing
the famous Hemfest. It's huge every year, and we landed
and we told people about it and locals were like, yeah,
it was huge when they wanted to legalize weed, but
now that they legalized it, nobody shows up to that
party anymore. And we're like, so, they're like, you're playing
on the We're gonna hook you up with this this
metal band I was. We played in front of ten
(09:04):
people in front of the water and then we were like, yeah,
fuck it, let's get out of here because we're produced
by I've been produced by the bass player for Disturbed
for a hot minute now, and we wanted to go
support them at Painting the Grass. They're playing a breaking
Benjamin an Thrax. Our buddies in Gemini Syndrome were there,
and so we go over there. We watched the show.
(09:24):
Post show in front of my metal band, my producer
shows a few people from the industry of the music
and they go, you should really make something out of this.
So that's kind of when it became something a little
more real, and eventually I changed the name to The
Nocturnal Affair because there was fifteen other bands named the Fields's.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
That's kind of incredible story.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
There's a little bit more to an apologies, but.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No, no, no, not that at all, Not that I
wanted to just like bullet points, but I us didn't know.
Do you want the long story? Well, I know of
the long story meant an hour. I'm like, I want
to talk about all the things with you, guns and
roses and other stuff, but yeah, I don't know that that's
I like that story because it kind of says a
lot about you a the talent when you're not trying.
(10:10):
How many people try it can't do what you did,
which is just almost not fair.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Brendan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm sorry, that's unfair for someone who has no musical talent.
How dare you, sir?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Be so good?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's there's the worst this day.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I mean I sent, I jokingly sent a song to
management the other day that is a completely different genre
than what we play. And I was like, here's something
to laugh at. I got a hair cross my ass
and I wrote this song and management goes put some
fucking electric guitars to this idiot. It sounds good And
I was like, what, Like, I wasn't even serious when
I did this, so you know crazy, Yeah, if you're
(10:47):
not trying too hard, maybe that's the secret.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, I love.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Homer Simpson's advice is trying is the first step towards failure.
But I don't know, maybe maybe maybe that's this is
something there.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I mean, he says that with a crayon shoved up
his nose.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's that is, you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Look at this, we're all both bald glasses, beards almost even.
I got to ask my mom if she uh who
she was with on Nevermind?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Was kidding? So did you not want to? So what
was your goal?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I guess when you were little Brendan, did you want
to be serious? Because it seemed like you almost didn't
want to be serious about this total days like you
had to.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I've always wanted to be a front man, a singer,
a musician. My first concert ever was Little Richard Wow,
and it blew me away. And then I also other
other various first concerts were a lot of like local
local bands and local artists that eventually kind of blew
(11:52):
up out of Vegas, one of them being Frankie Perez.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
He's been on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Really yeah, I love Frankie because he tried out. He's
I mean, he's a great singer, but he tried out.
He's a great doublet revolver story, how he was almost
the singer yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He also sang for Apocalyptica. He sang with Scars on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I mean I watched him probably when I was in
the single digits, you know what I mean, eight to nine.
My sister married into a family that grew up with him.
So so I literally have been watching him play drums
and sing with various other bands since I.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Was a child.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So and I saw him singing when I was a child,
and I went, yeah, man, I'm probably gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's looks good.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That And when I saw Little Richard, I was like, yeah, like,
look like I just saw him playing the piano and singing,
getting everybody just going crazy, and I was like, that's
what I want to do to people.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So, wow, where did you see Little Richard?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, you know, I've tried to lock this down because
my mother took me when I was very young and
belief he played in Vegas a couple times, and it's
memories funny. So I either saw him at Arizona Charlie's,
which is a casino out here, or I saw him
at Sam's Town. It was one of those two casino ballrooms.
(13:09):
It was like one of those things in the very
early nineties. But I can't I can't lock down which
show it was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But you have the memory, asked my mother, and now
she's she.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Can't even remember. All I did was embarrass her.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
When she took me, I would stand up between every
song because I was just a kid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How old are you? You had a curiosity?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I mean kindergarten, first grade.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, because I have a two year old song. I'm
excited to him to get into real music other than
baby Shark. So I'm just yeah, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was definitely after the movie Casper came out okay
saying that, So I believe my mom had won tickets
and she was like, we're gonna go see the Castper guy,
and I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Love that song.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I regot her about that, thinking.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That that's what he was known for, right, not that
he inspired Elvis.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
The architect of rock and roll, the guy from.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Like So we Go, And between every damn song, I'm
standing on my chair screaming.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Like, Casper, where's that Casper song?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And uh there was a moment during the show where
he uh he tells all the big girls to get
up on stage that he loves the big ladies. Now,
me thinking he's saying big girl as a child, thinks, oh,
like an adult, like a moment, like.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
An old one. So he's like, come on, big girls,
get up on stage. It's time to dance.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We're doing our things, playing this And I look at
my mom and I stand up and I go, Mom,
that's you. And I'm like grabbing her hand, trying to
drag her to the stage, like she never lets me
get that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I can't only imagine that's that's brilliant and I love that.
That again the path that set you on. And if
you are just finding out about Brendan and the Nocturnal
Affair and you need to go watch one of his videos,
you know it's now to have this this kind of
background because they're very well done. And I don't know,
is it green screen stuff that you do and you
(15:03):
kind of look very superhero like. It's you put a
lot of effort into the videos that you have up
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
We have a team that works extremely hard on that.
It's really cutting edge technology that they're using. Its multi
camera for depth perception, it's it just it just it.
It puts you in a whole new world. And some
people think it's really cool. Other people think it's really cheesy.
I think it's really fun. I think there's nothing wrong
(15:30):
with cheese. I think there's nothing wrong with with not
taking yourself too seriously, because that's how this band fucking started.
I didn't take myself. I literally was wearing this band
when it very first started. I wore a black stringy wig,
I had a little half mask on, and i'd wear
a hood, but I would have a short sleeved shirt
(15:50):
with the hood, like that's so ridiculous. And I'd wear
this big round Ozzie glasses. And I got this band
into a major There was this a music festival out
here called the Extreme Thing, and I want to say
it was twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen before this was even
a band, just when I was making joke goth music
because I was inspired by Sisters of Mercy and throwing
(16:11):
it up on the internet. And I dressed one of
my best friends in a full suit. I wore the
ridiculous outfit, fishnets, painted fingers, everything, and I got somehow
I talked us into playing the main stage at Extreme Thing.
We never did it because I didn't have a band.
They called us on our shit and I was like,
I had to make up some excuse and cancer. But
(16:32):
I literally went to this meetup for this and it
was supposed to be a battle the bands, and I
would like whisper into the sky's ear and you go,
what my client is trying to say, is this, this, this?
And that we somehow finagled it got on the main stage,
and then when fire got under my ass, I was like, okay, wait,
we're not a real band yet we have to pull out,
so whatever bullshit reason. So we you know, I was
(16:52):
trying not to take myself too seriously and because I
think that's when the fun stops.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I think that's great advice and if anything, watching
to go back and tie everything together and the Black Sabbath,
the Ozzie farewells that rock is missing and the fun.
So many people are taking it so seriously nowadays, people
were watching it with a critical eye, and you know,
(17:17):
fan bases against each other for whatever reason, and or
again taking it seriously for whatever silly reason. It's just
it's music. It should be fun. And I like a
lot of the because I was trying to pinpoint, I'm like,
what do they sound like? But like straight up on
your your Facebook page, you were you nailed it with
bands that were fun and theatrical or are I guess
(17:40):
like nine h Nails are but Gary Numan and him
and type of negative you You sound like a baby
of that foursome, if that if such a thing was
physically possible. So your voice is very clean, but has
that growl to it when necessary. And again the the
the production of it, of the video, it's not boring.
And I appreciate because there are people who will say
(18:03):
it's cheesy, I don't like this. They want something serious,
but you're aware of that and like it's not for
you then, and you're missing out on the great music.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
If that's what stopped to people would say that, but
I guarantee you the moment somebody came up to them
with like, you know, I've got all this equipment.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I want to put you front of a green screen.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I want to make you look like a superhero or
actually here for like two seconds, like let's go have
the fun. Why don't you go like stand in a
room with your friends, rock out to a song you
wrote and just like make a video, but they would
fucking do it in a heartbeat. Man, it's a blast,
and at the end of the day people think.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
About it, so.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Nor should you when it's obviously it's working out for you.
So your latest single cross me out that you can
check out on what the video that's on your website
on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
What's the latest?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Obviously the before we pivot to gn R, So it's
that big when you are leaving, like when is it
taking place? The whole drowning pool Wednesday thirteen, Nocturnal Affair TOURY.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
We're actually using this tour to promote our upcoming single
what Is Love.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
OK.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
We've been covering hadaways what Is Love on our last
few tours. We've been closing the night with it, and
we've noticed no matter where we go, no matter who
doesn't know who the fuck we are, when we play
that song, the entire place lights up, everybody sings with us,
everybody parties. It really gets people warmed up for whoever
we're opening up for. Right So it just like we
(19:29):
had no choice but to do this. We were originally
going to release a ballad and we were like, no, man,
We've got like the song of the summer right here.
People have asked us time and time again, please record
your version of it, record your version of it. So
we did a video. We recorded a version of it.
It drops this week. I believe you're the ninth of
the tenth.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and then.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
We're gonna tour on it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We're gonna go to the UK with Wednesday thirteen for
a week, and then after that the beginning of August,
we're jumping on a drowning pool.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Nice and we're gonna main lady you for the first
I love that man.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And now I can say it's so silly because I
went to the UK once, but I once just recently.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Was it last summer? Yeah no, because my son was here.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So I feel a kinship and just such a And
again I have listeners over there, and it's such a
lot of wonderful places, great rock and metal fans, way
better than you're in America. It's just that they crave
it so much more. The audience is or so much better.
You must be chomping at the bit even though you
play Vegas and things like that, so I don't know,
(20:35):
you must be excited.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So it's I've said this to someday before the UK
has this feel to it. And I'm originally from New England,
right right, And while you're growing up, you're in New England,
you're walking around, you just you call out New England.
It's like calling you know, you know New York, New York,
or calling you know Las Vegas is Las Vegas. It's
just this what you call the area of our country.
(20:58):
But then you actually go to England, right, you actually
go to the UK. And the moment I landed, I
was like, this feels like Boston. This feels like, oh oh,
I get it, So this is England. That's like, of
course that's what they did. But it doesn't hit you
until you get off the planet. You go, this looks
like home, except the people are driving on the different
side of the road. And immediately that was my first impression.
(21:21):
So it felt like I was just coming home when
I was landing for the first time, and I've made
such good friends over there. When we played over it
didn't feel like we were making fans. It felt like
we were making friends. We were building a community. I mean,
there's we were so lucky to be playing with the
Chris Barris band because his network of fans are also
(21:42):
all friends they're a big family, and they have this
big Facebook group and they're all super supportive, and they're
super supportive of upcoming music that they like, and they
happen to like us. So they started their own Facebook
community for Nocturnal and they're always updating it.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
They're always shouting us out.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
They're always just like every time we go back, it's
like I'm going home to family, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
They welcome us with open arms.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They ask us if we need any food, if we
need any you know, it's just it's just such.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's a great experience, man, good stuff. Oh and I'd
be remiss before I forget it. At the time we're
recording this, I have not seen the video for the
Hadaway cover.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You are you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Doing the SNL thing Chris Katan headshake? That is that happening?
I mean that seems to be.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I'm not confirmed deny anything.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I will take that as an answer, but it's also not. Yeah,
that's finely the mystery of it. That's that's hey, I
prefer that over now.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The video is fun though, it's it's a bit of
an approach to our other ones recently, and I think
it's a refreshing approach and it's just something that's why
not kick off the summer with some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm excited and I wish I heard it before this,
uh this interview. Sometimes I'm privy to things, sometimes I'm not.
But I'm I'm like everybody else. Uh so like I'm
just like everybody else who happened to work in radio
who loves guns of roses and turned it into this
passion project that I'm doing since they reunited. Just crazy
crazy to me and get the interview PEA cool people
like you?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So as I.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Spoke to you, ros like Kevin Bacon man somebody now
was always connected to.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Them exactly the six degrees of GNR Bacon You know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So what's uh.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What's your do you have a connection, what's your fandom
like with with guns and roses?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I mean I've partied with Dj Ashbah quite a lot.
In fact, recently I saw him and the crew at
the last concert ever of Counts Vamped last Saturday. Counts
Vamped is a major rock club that was a staple
in Las Vegas for many, many many years. People would
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have like equated to the whiskey of Las Vegas. In fact,
I mean, it was just it was a very beautiful thing,
and unfortunately they had to close down. They sold it.
But I ran into dj Ashpa. I mean, dude, I
have so many connections to guns n' Roses that aren't
even guns n' Roses as far as like what's inspired
me as a musician. But I mean, I was listening
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to Night Train while I was getting ready today, you
know what I mean. I was listening to that whole
like as soon as you know, I was told that
we were gonna have a conversation today if I wanted
to listen to guns and Roses. And I can't tell
you it's been a while since I have, because when
I'm in songwriting mode, I try not to listen to
bands that are overly influential to me. So I can't
listen to like nine Inch Nails. I can't listen to
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like Radiohead or slip Knot or anything like that, because
I love those bands so much that I'll just start
writing music that sounds like them. Like what really gets
me is the Queen of the Damn soundtrack. That soundtrack
will never get old to me, and Jonathan Davis knocked
it out of the park with that and with Black Labyrinth,
which apparently is like the Sophomoric, the unofficial sophomore album
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for the Queen of the Damn.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Selfkay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
If I did not, I would not aware of that.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
A lot of those songs on Black Labyrinth are tracks
that he wrote while he was writing the.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Queen of the Damn record and never finished. Okay, if
you've if you've.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Listened to Black Labyrinth, it has that similar just sound,
haunting sound that it does. Anyway, Uh, not to suck
his egotistical side too much, No, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm a huge fan of corn and Jonathan Davis is
like would be a bucket list to interview.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I don't know I would. He seems so nice anything.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I've had Brian had Welch on the show and his
daughter talking about sobriety and stuff, But now I just
Jonathan Davis. Yeah, man, I don't know if I if I,
if I get.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You could ever meet? Like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I said not to sock his ego off too much,
but he doesn't have one. He's so chill, He's so
it's just like one of the coolest guys I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He did one of the those video tributes to Ozzie.
If you are watching on on this the screen, it
would have been cool to see Corn there, certainly, but
it was nice to see that. And ever Croy Ashbro Water,
by the way, I'm just got a curiosity. Ever have
of one of his Ashbro water when that was around?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
He had a lot of alcohol, oh, because.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
He had the brand of Ashtral Water.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Sometimes I I can't help it now, every time I
think of Dj Ashbron, I just think of they sold water.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I feel terrible because I've been at his compound multiple
times for like his birthday and for various other things.
And I mean it's a lot of the time spent
in the line for the open bar with various other friends,
making contacts and just like drinking way too much red
wine with Sebastian Bach and like Ashba's just he's parties man.
He just knows he knows how to throw a party.
(26:43):
It like it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
But let me think of other So I actually, so
I'll tell you how I really started listening.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
To Guns and Roses.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Okay, obviously, if you grew up in America from the
time that they started until now, it's hard to miss them.
Their music is like since in everything, whether it's a
video games, television, movies, et cetera. So you're gonna hear
Welcome to the Jungle, you're gonna hear various other stuff,
sweet child of Mine, of course, you know, especially if
it's an Adam Sandler film. I noticed and roses in
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Adam Sandler films for sure. But what really kind of
made me look into them deeper was Five Finger Death
Punch's first record. So five Finger dropped away the fist. Well,
it was two records. Actually it was five for Your
Death Punch's first record, and it was because you open
up the CD case and if you look, there's a
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cross and it's skull caricatures of every member of Five
for Your Death Punch, which.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Sounds a little familiar.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I you know that. Okay, let me.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
See if I could let me let me see if
I could pull it up five Finger Death.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Because well, I know it's in the world of rock
and roll. I follow too much blabbermouth and stuff some
people might have conflicting on them. I have no problem
with them. I like they're the covers great cover, bad
company and great covers.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Of songs.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, yeah, I see you're showing it now. Yeah, noescent
of you know, I could say that the appsite, well.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, somebody was like, that's Appetite for Destruction and I
went what And then they showed I was like, oh, well,
that's very clearly fans. And when I listened to this record,
it had to be seven so I was like, oh wait,
I was.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I was fresh out of high school as a kid.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Five hingers just dropped and I was I was falling
and even stuff from like originally Motivrator to Ghost Machine
into this. It's like, what's happened for Destruction? So I
listened to that record and I was like, oh my god,
this is great. And in my mind, I go, this
sounds just like the City of Evil record by Avenge sevenfold. Yeah,
which someone was like, actually, City of Evil sounds like this,
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and so that kind of just like it it. These
bands are what opened my eyes to guns and roses,
just based upon the generational differences.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That's what we talk about here, and that's why it's
the path of you know. Ozzy posted a picture of
him and Axel. It's the first time they met. I
had no idea and like we're.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Seeing the first they met ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The first time they met ever?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Can you believe in it's I You could say that
Ozzi forgot, but no, Axel said the same thing to
Axel would remember that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So when you go to like Guns and Roses, who
were influenced.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
By a Black Sabbath, you know, and in my age,
I had to go back because I was more of
like the Ozzy solo stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That was my era.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But now I love hearing the influence of a bank
sevenfold and a five figure death punch, going back to
Guns and Roses, and that'll take you back the Black Sabbath,
and that'll take you somewhere in there's a little Richard.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I was going to try to find like a connection
with Black Sabbath, Little Richard, but he's somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
He's the architect of at all.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Not even just that. It's it's nine each Nails, one
of my favorite bands in the world. One of their
drummers was literally the drummer for Guns N' Roses.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I've not what's his not verendous, No, I've had Yeah,
I've had Freeze on the pod. Very awesome, dude. Awesome, dude,
I can't.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Believe it in a short period of time, and it
was two.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Years before he didn't never tour with them. He wrote
the music uh for Chinese Democracy, the title track.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
And and his drumming is some of my favorite in
the realm of of of match Nails?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
What about?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What do you think about us since you're such a fan? Uh,
I don't know now. I think the reason why I'm
doing it, I'm thinking out loud because I still, even
though I've been doing this podcast for a while, I'm
getting new listeners all the time, and people ask me,
have you interviewed so and so and so and so so.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
That's why I name drop. I'm not trying to like
be cool.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Name drop doesn't bother me. That's how we connect to you.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
This is the other people.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I just don't want to be able to like one
of those people, you know, even though I respect the
hell and and you know, I wish I had the
career of Eddie Trump. You know, I'm not going to
be like you know some people or stephen A.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Smith.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If you follow sports, Hey I so and so on
my phone and act like I'm friends with people. I
don't want to be like that. So I'm just letting
you the world know I needed to say it once.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But Aaron North are you?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
He was in the podcast Too Short Lived, a touring
member of Nine in Nails. He was such a yeah,
apparently a rare interview. I don't know, I forget how
I even made it happen, but uh, but Lucky.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You see, it's all connected, all through rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
This has just been a great, very small, small world.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If we love loud guitars, man, we can make it
a small world and all feel connected.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There's a Hallmark card in there. Well, Brendon, it really
has been a pleasure getting to meet you and talk
to you. Obviously we're friends, and if we live closer
I can I can see it. We somewhat You're bigger
than me, but we basically look alike.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I mean it's glasses beard. You know you have no tattoos,
but I have one.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I have a have this bear tattoo.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, yeah, I'm looking for I need.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I want some more. I really enjoy that traditional style.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
But is that for the Bears the Bruins or no.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
No, no, it's uh, it's a whole other things personal story,
but it's.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Okay, we'll save it.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
It's for another time. But I'm hoping to get more.
It's just every time I get money, I spend it
on my career. So that's why I don't have any tattoos.
All of my other friends have, like their arms are
full of it. They're all like chefs and doctors and
lawyers in the cupboard, And I'm like, I bought this
new microphone the other day, I kind of guitar.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You know, money, well spend invest in yourself, just for
the longest time, you know. I used to joke I
get tattoos to cover up my lack of muscle.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So I have to come to the gym with me man.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
My two year old to work out. That's that's enough.
So follow You're all over social media, the Nocturnal affair,
you know, Facebook, Instagram, x, YouTube, TikTok spot. That's the
best way to keep up to date with everything that
you have going on show dates.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We've got a pretty awesome guy running our websites too.
He really is just up on point with updating everything.
And I'm not talking about myself because I don't know
how to work the damn thing. I'm not tooting my
own horn here. We really do have a great guy
that takes care of our websites. So our website nocturnalfare
dot com. Instagram is always really good. As far as
Meta and Facebook goes, I think that's kind of just
(33:28):
for old people.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Right, I'm kidding. I use Facebook a lot. I use
it a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So is forty one old? I love the Facebook.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You're not forty one.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I am forty one.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
You look younger than me. I'm thirty four. Nice, that's wild,
I know.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Uh, not a lot of manual labor.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Man, Maybe if I shaved it, I would look older,
but I don't think, oh my glasses.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Olderah yeah, man, I'm thirty four going on forty five.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So I was trying to pick that up with certain
things that you were saying about bands that you saw
for the first time and you know. But so I'm
glad we got it out of the way. A Facebook, Hey,
Meta pays me. I get some coin now for posting,
you know, stuff for all leads on this day and
guns and roses, facts and everything, all the work and
the videos they put into it. Zuckerberg's giving me some money, so.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it's I can't say posting anything on Facebook, for
if you tag a website that's outside of meta. If
you do anything outside of it, they just hide it
from all of your followers.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
It drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's very hard. That's why a lot of.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Them like link in the comments. You put that in
your posts. Now it's gone.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It's very annoying. No, it is very annoying. It's it's challenging.
But you know it's not my main source of income.
That's not why I started it, just like you did
it for fun. Didn't expect this to be a serious thing.
Talking about guns and roses, getting to interview rock stars
across the world, members of Doors or I Maiden Roses.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, that's how is that possible? It's what It's
what keeps me young, Brendon, That's what gets I love.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I love all the stuff in the background.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I love all the posters and especially the cat photo.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I love that one.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
R I p to my cats.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So you know when I started this, yeah, we had
three elder cats. One was my wife's that's uh, GB
this one and if you're listening to this on on
Just Regular podcast, platform. Going back to Facebook, she saw
these ads on Facebook, which, by the way, will probably
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pop up now that I'm talking about it, because.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I got to cover my phone up.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh my god, for real.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It shows like your cat or a picture, and so
I loved one in like an old Renaissance painting. So
I have my cat gb in in you know, some
looking very dapper in a bow tie in the suit,
and then Blackie and mister Big looking like generals in army.
And then I got my son, Harrison Rex aka Baby
(36:03):
Brownstone looking like Captain Morgan over there.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So yeah, that's I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I just started it out again as just a regular podcast,
just audio only, and then COVID being forced. You know,
everyone's doing video now building this behind me. My son
joins me sometimes, so sorry you didn't get to meet him.
Maybe next time, Brendan, because I hope we get to
do this again.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Next time. I'll tell you. I'll tell you the story
behind the name.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So that does if this episode of Appetite for Distortion
when we see the next one. In the words of
Axel Rose concerning Chinese democracy, I don't know as soon
as the word, but you'll see.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
It thanks to the lame ass security. I'm going home.
You know what. Yes is Appetite for Distortion.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome to the podcast Appetite for Distortion, Episode number five
hundred and seventeen. My name is Brando. Do I call
you Brendo for today's purposes?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Brendan? What shall we do?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Why not? I could be Brendo for today?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Have you ever been called?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Actually one of our producers calls me every me it'll
be like Brendo, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right on? I forget the name.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It was a sitcom I don't know, like twenty years ago.
It sticks with me though. One of the actors was
played at Brandan and he was also on the radio
and went by Brendo, and I was Brando obviously. I
don't know if it's hard to figure out from Brandon.
But uh no, no, no, right not, I don't I was
almost was this close to being a Braiden by the way,
(01:15):
really yeah, my mom likes to tell me that story
every single year of my birthday, which is just wonderful
that I was just closed to being a Braiden.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Does that mean that she lost the name naming and
that that your father named you Brandon?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think it's just my grandma because at the time
Brandon was rare. Uh and she Everyone's like, what the
hell you guys talking about it right away? If you're
familiar with the show, you know what I'm about. Uh Snow,
I think my grandma said. I think it was like
my grandma ho lost out. They came up with Brandon
and she's like, oh, what about Braiden. My mom was like, oh,
I like that, but she had already sent in the paperwork.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
My whole life would have been different.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, it's appetite for the stortion with Braiden. No, I
don't think so we can.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Braido just doesn't have a ring to it, brand.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Exactly, brand like Marlin. All right, enough already, so Brendan
here from the Nocturnal Affair. Yes, thanks for joining us today.
Brendan Shane. We're gonna get into your band. You are
doing a little UK. I want to say little, I'm
kind of saying that facetiously UK tour with it's a
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little tour.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It's just a week this time around. It's still we're over.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
To the well okay, sorry, then you're over to the
east as far as East coast or where the EU.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sorry, we got to figure it out because you're you're
from Vegas, but we'd be talking about the UK a little.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Bit from Boston, so East Coast you would be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, so you looking at my hat with disgust right now?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Now you know what it's a It's a funny thing
when you're when you're in the East Coast and you're
walking around the streets of the boss you see somebody
from New York. Gang you had, we're gonna have some words,
we're gonna bring each other's balls. But Nevada, right, or
as my East Coast family would call it.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nevada, That's what I say. So it's Nevada, Nevada, right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So I learned how to blend in with these with
these West Coasters very well. I grew up mostly out here,
spend a lot of summers back east. But when you
when you find an East Coaster, you hope you like
hang on to them, because people out here are just
fucking weird man flakes. They'll they'll smile at you and
then when you turn around the stabby.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
In the back. But East Coasters we kind.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Of all we stick together out here. We have our
own little thing. So whether you're from Pennsylvania, Jersey, New York,
mass anywhere, you know, Maine right on.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So well, we'll stick together here.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I mean, I spent a couple of years in Massachusetts
for my radio career in Cape Cod. But uh, it's
we're here now. We're talking about the again the UK
to bring it back around that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It is a big deal though, because one of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
My former guests, Wednesday thirteen, you'll be playing opening with him,
opening for him, and also Drowning Pool. So that's a
that's a big, awesome tour and I'm lucky that I
have listeners in New York, Nevada, Nevada, wherever, the UK.
He just did an episode with one of my good listeners, Jason.
About the review. We're doing a review of the Black
(04:08):
Sabbath show of the Ozzie's Farewell. So actually, if you
wouldn't mind, just we share a name, we share a coast,
we must share a passion for Black Sabbath and Ozzy.
Did you get a chance to watch a little bit
of it?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I did, Man, I did. It was surreal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Honestly, you know, it's it's it's it's you almost don't
want to accept it because how many times Black Sabbath
said farewell, How many times has Ozzie said, for well,
you know what I mean, it's just like kiss like
everybody else, this is our last tour. And then five
years later they're like, well you want to make more money,
so but this this is it, man, this is a
It's wild. Nothing like having Lobo host The Night.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, Yeah, Lobo Jason Momoa just see him, My God,
to see him mosh during Pantera, I'm like, just like,
that's that's what a cool guy. He just seems like
a cool to guy to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was kind of surreal seeing Panterra, but obviously with
Zach Wilde, especially the history with Zach Wilde and auzsy
so it's like, not only is he there to pay
tribute to the guy that had broke him into the scene,
but he's paying tribute to Dime at the same time.
It's just the the threads tying it all in.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't know why that didn't dawn on me that day.
I'm like because obviously because I had seen I've seen
Pantera with with Zach and I watched the entire show
and it didn't dawn on me. I'm like, yeah, he's
there with I mean, he was playing with Ozzie too,
but then he was one of those players that played
multiple you know, like hats made multiple like Jolly Bonanty
(05:41):
with Anthrax and Pantera as well.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Uh, you know, playing with everybody very cool well singing
did it again? I'm sorry I cut you off.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Ugly Kid Joe's vocalist as.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, Whitfield, Crane Whitfield. I forgot to mention him in
my review.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wow, what a used.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
To do sound checks for Ozzy?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Was that?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Is that a real thing?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Because he sounded so good, He sounded his his his
ausie was very very well done.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was it's if you know them just for you know,
I Hate Everything about You, which is an amazing song.
You underestimate how great of a singer he is, and
he showed that those two things.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That you reminded me.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I did a whole two hour review and it wasn't enough. See,
That's why I needed to bring it up and out
with you. So how did we get to the no
cournal affair?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And you, being a you know.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Such a I'm assuming a lifelong rock fan, when did
this project start? And kind of take us back a
little bit before we get to the current days.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You want the Cliff notes, or you want the long.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Story, let's do cliff notes. If you wanted Tom, we'll
have you back on for the long story. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We started as a joke band I wrote. I wrote
a song based upon a photo some friends of mine
took on vacation. It looked very, very overly emotional, very uh.
It looked like it had a lot of feel to it,
and I made an album cover out of it just
as a joke, like, oh my god, you guys are
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in this band called The Fields. And then someone went,
you should write a song for it. So I did
in like an hour or two, and it launched into
something bigger, and for a while I was in almost
like a mock anonymous goth rock band called The Fields.
I was a big fan of ghost at the time.
It was before Ghosts really blew up, so I loved
the whole anonymity thing, and our local station ninety two
(07:27):
point three played us a little bit. House of Blues
reached out for The Fields to play a show with
some kind of Amazon event, and they had no idea
that it was. I was in another metal band at
the time. They were like, yo, we'd love to have you.
It's a Duran Duran tribute night and it's like Amazon's
going to be there, the place is sold out.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I was like, actually, it's me from this other band.
I don't have a band. I wrote this, I delivered it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I kind of bullshitted my way into getting it on
the radio just to see it would be funny. And
then I was like, so you're gonna play the show
or I'm gonna tell the station that it's actually you.
And uh so we played the show. We were bum
rushed by the crowd afterwards because they wanted merchandise, they
wanted to know who we are. It was just like,
it was an amazing response. And so that was my
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first inkling that maybe we had something. And then flash
forward about a year later. My metal band that I
was in at the time plays Paint in the Grass
in Seattle, and we we didn't play Paint in the Grass.
I'm sorry, we played what was it called. It was
Hempfest or something, but we already made legal So it
was kind of a bust because I know Henfest was
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around when they were trying to legalize it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah the war.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, someone reached out to us. They're like, you're playing
the famous Hemfest. It's huge every year, and we landed
and we told people about it and locals were like, yeah,
it was huge when they wanted to legalize weed, but
now that they legalized it, nobody shows up to that
party anymore. And we're like, so, they're like, you're playing
on the We're gonna hook you up with this this
metal band I was. We played in front of ten
(09:04):
people in front of the water and then we were like, yeah,
fuck it, let's get out of here because we're produced
by I've been produced by the bass player for Disturbed
for a hot minute now, and we wanted to go
support them at Painting the Grass. They're playing a breaking
Benjamin an Thrax. Our buddies in Gemini Syndrome were there,
and so we go over there. We watched the show.
(09:24):
Post show in front of my metal band, my producer
shows a few people from the industry of the music
and they go, you should really make something out of this.
So that's kind of when it became something a little
more real, and eventually I changed the name to The
Nocturnal Affair because there was fifteen other bands named the Fields's.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
That's kind of incredible story.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
There's a little bit more to an apologies, but.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No, no, no, not that at all, Not that I
wanted to just like bullet points, but I us didn't know.
Do you want the long story? Well, I know of
the long story meant an hour. I'm like, I want
to talk about all the things with you, guns and
roses and other stuff, but yeah, I don't know that that's
I like that story because it kind of says a
lot about you a the talent when you're not trying.
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How many people try it can't do what you did,
which is just almost not fair.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Brendan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm sorry, that's unfair for someone who has no musical talent.
How dare you, sir?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Be so good?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's there's the worst this day.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I mean I sent, I jokingly sent a song to
management the other day that is a completely different genre
than what we play. And I was like, here's something
to laugh at. I got a hair cross my ass
and I wrote this song and management goes put some
fucking electric guitars to this idiot. It sounds good And
I was like, what, Like, I wasn't even serious when
I did this, so you know crazy, Yeah, if you're
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not trying too hard, maybe that's the secret.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, I love.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Homer Simpson's advice is trying is the first step towards failure.
But I don't know, maybe maybe maybe that's this is
something there.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I mean, he says that with a crayon shoved up
his nose.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's that is, you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Look at this, we're all both bald glasses, beards almost even.
I got to ask my mom if she uh who
she was with on Nevermind?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Was kidding? So did you not want to? So what
was your goal?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I guess when you were little Brendan, did you want
to be serious? Because it seemed like you almost didn't
want to be serious about this total days like you
had to.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I've always wanted to be a front man, a singer,
a musician. My first concert ever was Little Richard Wow,
and it blew me away. And then I also other
other various first concerts were a lot of like local
local bands and local artists that eventually kind of blew
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up out of Vegas, one of them being Frankie Perez.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
He's been on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Really yeah, I love Frankie because he tried out. He's
I mean, he's a great singer, but he tried out.
He's a great doublet revolver story, how he was almost
the singer yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He also sang for Apocalyptica. He sang with Scars on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I mean I watched him probably when I was in
the single digits, you know what I mean, eight to nine.
My sister married into a family that grew up with him.
So so I literally have been watching him play drums
and sing with various other bands since I.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Was a child.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So and I saw him singing when I was a child,
and I went, yeah, man, I'm probably gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's looks good.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That And when I saw Little Richard, I was like, yeah, like,
look like I just saw him playing the piano and singing,
getting everybody just going crazy, and I was like, that's
what I want to do to people.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So, wow, where did you see Little Richard?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, you know, I've tried to lock this down because
my mother took me when I was very young and
belief he played in Vegas a couple times, and it's
memories funny. So I either saw him at Arizona Charlie's,
which is a casino out here, or I saw him
at Sam's Town. It was one of those two casino ballrooms.
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It was like one of those things in the very
early nineties. But I can't I can't lock down which
show it was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But you have the memory, asked my mother, and now
she's she.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Can't even remember. All I did was embarrass her.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
When she took me, I would stand up between every
song because I was just a kid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How old are you? You had a curiosity?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I mean kindergarten, first grade.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, because I have a two year old song. I'm
excited to him to get into real music other than
baby Shark. So I'm just yeah, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was definitely after the movie Casper came out okay
saying that, So I believe my mom had won tickets
and she was like, we're gonna go see the Castper guy,
and I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Love that song.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I regot her about that, thinking.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That that's what he was known for, right, not that
he inspired Elvis.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
The architect of rock and roll, the guy from.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Like So we Go, And between every damn song, I'm
standing on my chair screaming.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Like, Casper, where's that Casper song?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And uh there was a moment during the show where
he uh he tells all the big girls to get
up on stage that he loves the big ladies. Now,
me thinking he's saying big girl as a child, thinks, oh,
like an adult, like a moment, like.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
An old one. So he's like, come on, big girls,
get up on stage. It's time to dance.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We're doing our things, playing this And I look at
my mom and I stand up and I go, Mom,
that's you. And I'm like grabbing her hand, trying to
drag her to the stage, like she never lets me
get that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I can't only imagine that's that's brilliant and I love that.
That again the path that set you on. And if
you are just finding out about Brendan and the Nocturnal
Affair and you need to go watch one of his videos,
you know it's now to have this this kind of
background because they're very well done. And I don't know,
is it green screen stuff that you do and you
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kind of look very superhero like. It's you put a
lot of effort into the videos that you have up
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
We have a team that works extremely hard on that.
It's really cutting edge technology that they're using. Its multi
camera for depth perception, it's it just it just it.
It puts you in a whole new world. And some
people think it's really cool. Other people think it's really cheesy.
I think it's really fun. I think there's nothing wrong
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with cheese. I think there's nothing wrong with with not
taking yourself too seriously, because that's how this band fucking started.
I didn't take myself. I literally was wearing this band
when it very first started. I wore a black stringy wig,
I had a little half mask on, and i'd wear
a hood, but I would have a short sleeved shirt
(15:50):
with the hood, like that's so ridiculous. And I'd wear
this big round Ozzie glasses. And I got this band
into a major There was this a music festival out
here called the Extreme Thing, and I want to say
it was twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen before this was even
a band, just when I was making joke goth music
because I was inspired by Sisters of Mercy and throwing
(16:11):
it up on the internet. And I dressed one of
my best friends in a full suit. I wore the
ridiculous outfit, fishnets, painted fingers, everything, and I got somehow
I talked us into playing the main stage at Extreme Thing.
We never did it because I didn't have a band.
They called us on our shit and I was like,
I had to make up some excuse and cancer. But
(16:32):
I literally went to this meetup for this and it
was supposed to be a battle the bands, and I
would like whisper into the sky's ear and you go,
what my client is trying to say, is this, this, this?
And that we somehow finagled it got on the main stage,
and then when fire got under my ass, I was like, okay, wait,
we're not a real band yet we have to pull out,
so whatever bullshit reason. So we you know, I was
(16:52):
trying not to take myself too seriously and because I
think that's when the fun stops.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I think that's great advice and if anything, watching
to go back and tie everything together and the Black Sabbath,
the Ozzie farewells that rock is missing and the fun.
So many people are taking it so seriously nowadays, people
were watching it with a critical eye, and you know,
(17:17):
fan bases against each other for whatever reason, and or
again taking it seriously for whatever silly reason. It's just
it's music. It should be fun. And I like a
lot of the because I was trying to pinpoint, I'm like,
what do they sound like? But like straight up on
your your Facebook page, you were you nailed it with
bands that were fun and theatrical or are I guess
(17:40):
like nine h Nails are but Gary Numan and him
and type of negative you You sound like a baby
of that foursome, if that if such a thing was
physically possible. So your voice is very clean, but has
that growl to it when necessary. And again the the
the production of it, of the video, it's not boring.
And I appreciate because there are people who will say
(18:03):
it's cheesy, I don't like this. They want something serious,
but you're aware of that and like it's not for
you then, and you're missing out on the great music.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
If that's what stopped to people would say that, but
I guarantee you the moment somebody came up to them
with like, you know, I've got all this equipment.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I want to put you front of a green screen.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I want to make you look like a superhero or
actually here for like two seconds, like let's go have
the fun. Why don't you go like stand in a
room with your friends, rock out to a song you
wrote and just like make a video, but they would
fucking do it in a heartbeat. Man, it's a blast,
and at the end of the day people think.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
About it, so.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Nor should you when it's obviously it's working out for you.
So your latest single cross me out that you can
check out on what the video that's on your website
on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
What's the latest?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Obviously the before we pivot to gn R, So it's
that big when you are leaving, like when is it
taking place? The whole drowning pool Wednesday thirteen, Nocturnal Affair TOURY.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
We're actually using this tour to promote our upcoming single
what Is Love.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
OK.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
We've been covering hadaways what Is Love on our last
few tours. We've been closing the night with it, and
we've noticed no matter where we go, no matter who
doesn't know who the fuck we are, when we play
that song, the entire place lights up, everybody sings with us,
everybody parties. It really gets people warmed up for whoever
we're opening up for. Right So it just like we
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had no choice but to do this. We were originally
going to release a ballad and we were like, no, man,
We've got like the song of the summer right here.
People have asked us time and time again, please record
your version of it, record your version of it. So
we did a video. We recorded a version of it.
It drops this week. I believe you're the ninth of
the tenth.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and then.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
We're gonna tour on it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We're gonna go to the UK with Wednesday thirteen for
a week, and then after that the beginning of August,
we're jumping on a drowning pool.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Nice and we're gonna main lady you for the first
I love that man.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And now I can say it's so silly because I
went to the UK once, but I once just recently.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Was it last summer? Yeah no, because my son was here.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So I feel a kinship and just such a And
again I have listeners over there, and it's such a
lot of wonderful places, great rock and metal fans, way
better than you're in America. It's just that they crave
it so much more. The audience is or so much better.
You must be chomping at the bit even though you
play Vegas and things like that, so I don't know,
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you must be excited.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So it's I've said this to someday before the UK
has this feel to it. And I'm originally from New England,
right right, And while you're growing up, you're in New England,
you're walking around, you just you call out New England.
It's like calling you know, you know New York, New York,
or calling you know Las Vegas is Las Vegas. It's
just this what you call the area of our country.
(20:58):
But then you actually go to England, right, you actually
go to the UK. And the moment I landed, I
was like, this feels like Boston. This feels like, oh oh,
I get it, So this is England. That's like, of
course that's what they did. But it doesn't hit you
until you get off the planet. You go, this looks
like home, except the people are driving on the different
side of the road. And immediately that was my first impression.
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So it felt like I was just coming home when
I was landing for the first time, and I've made
such good friends over there. When we played over it
didn't feel like we were making fans. It felt like
we were making friends. We were building a community. I mean,
there's we were so lucky to be playing with the
Chris Barris band because his network of fans are also
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all friends they're a big family, and they have this
big Facebook group and they're all super supportive, and they're
super supportive of upcoming music that they like, and they
happen to like us. So they started their own Facebook
community for Nocturnal and they're always updating it.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
They're always shouting us out.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
They're always just like every time we go back, it's
like I'm going home to family, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
They welcome us with open arms.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They ask us if we need any food, if we
need any you know, it's just it's just such.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's a great experience, man, good stuff. Oh and I'd
be remiss before I forget it. At the time we're
recording this, I have not seen the video for the
Hadaway cover.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You are you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Doing the SNL thing Chris Katan headshake? That is that happening?
I mean that seems to be.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I'm not confirmed deny anything.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I will take that as an answer, but it's also not. Yeah,
that's finely the mystery of it. That's that's hey, I
prefer that over now.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The video is fun though, it's it's a bit of
an approach to our other ones recently, and I think
it's a refreshing approach and it's just something that's why
not kick off the summer with some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm excited and I wish I heard it before this,
uh this interview. Sometimes I'm privy to things, sometimes I'm not.
But I'm I'm like everybody else. Uh so like I'm
just like everybody else who happened to work in radio
who loves guns of roses and turned it into this
passion project that I'm doing since they reunited. Just crazy
crazy to me and get the interview PEA cool people
like you?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So as I.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Spoke to you, ros like Kevin Bacon man somebody now
was always connected to.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Them exactly the six degrees of GNR Bacon You know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So what's uh.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What's your do you have a connection, what's your fandom
like with with guns and roses?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I mean I've partied with Dj Ashbah quite a lot.
In fact, recently I saw him and the crew at
the last concert ever of Counts Vamped last Saturday. Counts
Vamped is a major rock club that was a staple
in Las Vegas for many, many many years. People would
(23:50):
have like equated to the whiskey of Las Vegas. In fact,
I mean, it was just it was a very beautiful thing,
and unfortunately they had to close down. They sold it.
But I ran into dj Ashpa. I mean, dude, I
have so many connections to guns n' Roses that aren't
even guns n' Roses as far as like what's inspired
me as a musician. But I mean, I was listening
(24:13):
to Night Train while I was getting ready today, you
know what I mean. I was listening to that whole
like as soon as you know, I was told that
we were gonna have a conversation today if I wanted
to listen to guns and Roses. And I can't tell
you it's been a while since I have, because when
I'm in songwriting mode, I try not to listen to
bands that are overly influential to me. So I can't
listen to like nine Inch Nails. I can't listen to
(24:34):
like Radiohead or slip Knot or anything like that, because
I love those bands so much that I'll just start
writing music that sounds like them. Like what really gets
me is the Queen of the Damn soundtrack. That soundtrack
will never get old to me, and Jonathan Davis knocked
it out of the park with that and with Black Labyrinth,
which apparently is like the Sophomoric, the unofficial sophomore album
(24:56):
for the Queen of the Damn.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Selfkay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
If I did not, I would not aware of that.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
A lot of those songs on Black Labyrinth are tracks
that he wrote while he was writing the.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Queen of the Damn record and never finished. Okay, if
you've if you've.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Listened to Black Labyrinth, it has that similar just sound,
haunting sound that it does. Anyway, Uh, not to suck
his egotistical side too much, No, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm a huge fan of corn and Jonathan Davis is
like would be a bucket list to interview.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I don't know I would. He seems so nice anything.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I've had Brian had Welch on the show and his
daughter talking about sobriety and stuff, But now I just
Jonathan Davis. Yeah, man, I don't know if I if I,
if I get.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You could ever meet? Like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I said not to sock his ego off too much,
but he doesn't have one. He's so chill, He's so
it's just like one of the coolest guys I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He did one of the those video tributes to Ozzie.
If you are watching on on this the screen, it
would have been cool to see Corn there, certainly, but
it was nice to see that. And ever Croy Ashbro Water,
by the way, I'm just got a curiosity. Ever have
of one of his Ashbro water when that was around?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
He had a lot of alcohol, oh, because.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
He had the brand of Ashtral Water.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Sometimes I I can't help it now, every time I
think of Dj Ashbron, I just think of they sold water.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I feel terrible because I've been at his compound multiple
times for like his birthday and for various other things.
And I mean it's a lot of the time spent
in the line for the open bar with various other friends,
making contacts and just like drinking way too much red
wine with Sebastian Bach and like Ashba's just he's parties man.
He just knows he knows how to throw a party.
(26:43):
It like it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
But let me think of other So I actually, so
I'll tell you how I really started listening.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
To Guns and Roses.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Okay, obviously, if you grew up in America from the
time that they started until now, it's hard to miss them.
Their music is like since in everything, whether it's a
video games, television, movies, et cetera. So you're gonna hear
Welcome to the Jungle, you're gonna hear various other stuff,
sweet child of Mine, of course, you know, especially if
it's an Adam Sandler film. I noticed and roses in
(27:14):
Adam Sandler films for sure. But what really kind of
made me look into them deeper was Five Finger Death
Punch's first record. So five Finger dropped away the fist. Well,
it was two records. Actually it was five for Your
Death Punch's first record, and it was because you open
up the CD case and if you look, there's a
(27:34):
cross and it's skull caricatures of every member of Five
for Your Death Punch, which.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Sounds a little familiar.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I you know that. Okay, let me.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
See if I could let me let me see if
I could pull it up five Finger Death.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Because well, I know it's in the world of rock
and roll. I follow too much blabbermouth and stuff some
people might have conflicting on them. I have no problem
with them. I like they're the covers great cover, bad
company and great covers.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Of songs.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, yeah, I see you're showing it now. Yeah, noescent
of you know, I could say that the appsite, well.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, somebody was like, that's Appetite for Destruction and I
went what And then they showed I was like, oh, well,
that's very clearly fans. And when I listened to this record,
it had to be seven so I was like, oh wait,
I was.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I was fresh out of high school as a kid.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Five hingers just dropped and I was I was falling
and even stuff from like originally Motivrator to Ghost Machine
into this. It's like, what's happened for Destruction? So I
listened to that record and I was like, oh my god,
this is great. And in my mind, I go, this
sounds just like the City of Evil record by Avenge sevenfold. Yeah,
which someone was like, actually, City of Evil sounds like this,
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and so that kind of just like it it. These
bands are what opened my eyes to guns and roses,
just based upon the generational differences.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That's what we talk about here, and that's why it's
the path of you know. Ozzy posted a picture of
him and Axel. It's the first time they met. I
had no idea and like we're.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Seeing the first they met ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The first time they met ever?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Can you believe in it's I You could say that
Ozzi forgot, but no, Axel said the same thing to
Axel would remember that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So when you go to like Guns and Roses, who
were influenced.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
By a Black Sabbath, you know, and in my age,
I had to go back because I was more of
like the Ozzy solo stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That was my era.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But now I love hearing the influence of a bank
sevenfold and a five figure death punch, going back to
Guns and Roses, and that'll take you back the Black Sabbath,
and that'll take you somewhere in there's a little Richard.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I was going to try to find like a connection
with Black Sabbath, Little Richard, but he's somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
He's the architect of at all.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Not even just that. It's it's nine each Nails, one
of my favorite bands in the world. One of their
drummers was literally the drummer for Guns N' Roses.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I've not what's his not verendous, No, I've had Yeah,
I've had Freeze on the pod. Very awesome, dude. Awesome, dude,
I can't.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Believe it in a short period of time, and it
was two.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Years before he didn't never tour with them. He wrote
the music uh for Chinese Democracy, the title track.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
And and his drumming is some of my favorite in
the realm of of of match Nails?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
What about?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What do you think about us since you're such a fan? Uh,
I don't know now. I think the reason why I'm
doing it, I'm thinking out loud because I still, even
though I've been doing this podcast for a while, I'm
getting new listeners all the time, and people ask me,
have you interviewed so and so and so and so so.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
That's why I name drop. I'm not trying to like
be cool.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Name drop doesn't bother me. That's how we connect to you.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
This is the other people.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I just don't want to be able to like one
of those people, you know, even though I respect the
hell and and you know, I wish I had the
career of Eddie Trump. You know, I'm not going to
be like you know some people or stephen A.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Smith.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If you follow sports, Hey I so and so on
my phone and act like I'm friends with people. I
don't want to be like that. So I'm just letting
you the world know I needed to say it once.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But Aaron North are you?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
He was in the podcast Too Short Lived, a touring
member of Nine in Nails. He was such a yeah,
apparently a rare interview. I don't know, I forget how
I even made it happen, but uh, but Lucky.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You see, it's all connected, all through rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
This has just been a great, very small, small world.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If we love loud guitars, man, we can make it
a small world and all feel connected.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There's a Hallmark card in there. Well, Brendon, it really
has been a pleasure getting to meet you and talk
to you. Obviously we're friends, and if we live closer
I can I can see it. We somewhat You're bigger
than me, but we basically look alike.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I mean it's glasses beard. You know you have no tattoos,
but I have one.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I have a have this bear tattoo.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, yeah, I'm looking for I need.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I want some more. I really enjoy that traditional style.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
But is that for the Bears the Bruins or no.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
No, no, it's uh, it's a whole other things personal story,
but it's.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Okay, we'll save it.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
It's for another time. But I'm hoping to get more.
It's just every time I get money, I spend it
on my career. So that's why I don't have any tattoos.
All of my other friends have, like their arms are
full of it. They're all like chefs and doctors and
lawyers in the cupboard, And I'm like, I bought this
new microphone the other day, I kind of guitar.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You know, money, well spend invest in yourself, just for
the longest time, you know. I used to joke I
get tattoos to cover up my lack of muscle.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So I have to come to the gym with me man.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
My two year old to work out. That's that's enough.
So follow You're all over social media, the Nocturnal affair,
you know, Facebook, Instagram, x, YouTube, TikTok spot. That's the
best way to keep up to date with everything that
you have going on show dates.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We've got a pretty awesome guy running our websites too.
He really is just up on point with updating everything.
And I'm not talking about myself because I don't know
how to work the damn thing. I'm not tooting my
own horn here. We really do have a great guy
that takes care of our websites. So our website nocturnalfare
dot com. Instagram is always really good. As far as
Meta and Facebook goes, I think that's kind of just
(33:28):
for old people.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Right, I'm kidding. I use Facebook a lot. I use
it a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So is forty one old? I love the Facebook.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You're not forty one.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I am forty one.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
You look younger than me. I'm thirty four. Nice, that's wild,
I know.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Uh, not a lot of manual labor.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Man, Maybe if I shaved it, I would look older,
but I don't think, oh my glasses.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Olderah yeah, man, I'm thirty four going on forty five.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So I was trying to pick that up with certain
things that you were saying about bands that you saw
for the first time and you know. But so I'm
glad we got it out of the way. A Facebook, Hey,
Meta pays me. I get some coin now for posting,
you know, stuff for all leads on this day and
guns and roses, facts and everything, all the work and
the videos they put into it. Zuckerberg's giving me some money, so.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it's I can't say posting anything on Facebook, for
if you tag a website that's outside of meta. If
you do anything outside of it, they just hide it
from all of your followers.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
It drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's very hard. That's why a lot of.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Them like link in the comments. You put that in
your posts. Now it's gone.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It's very annoying. No, it is very annoying. It's it's challenging.
But you know it's not my main source of income.
That's not why I started it, just like you did
it for fun. Didn't expect this to be a serious thing.
Talking about guns and roses, getting to interview rock stars
across the world, members of Doors or I Maiden Roses.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, that's how is that possible? It's what It's
what keeps me young, Brendon, That's what gets I love.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I love all the stuff in the background.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I love all the posters and especially the cat photo.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I love that one.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
R I p to my cats.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So you know when I started this, yeah, we had
three elder cats. One was my wife's that's uh, GB
this one and if you're listening to this on on
Just Regular podcast, platform. Going back to Facebook, she saw
these ads on Facebook, which, by the way, will probably
(35:36):
pop up now that I'm talking about it, because.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I got to cover my phone up.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh my god, for real.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It shows like your cat or a picture, and so
I loved one in like an old Renaissance painting. So
I have my cat gb in in you know, some
looking very dapper in a bow tie in the suit,
and then Blackie and mister Big looking like generals in army.
And then I got my son, Harrison Rex aka Baby
(36:03):
Brownstone looking like Captain Morgan over there.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So yeah, that's I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I just started it out again as just a regular podcast,
just audio only, and then COVID being forced. You know,
everyone's doing video now building this behind me. My son
joins me sometimes, so sorry you didn't get to meet him.
Maybe next time, Brendan, because I hope we get to
do this again.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Next time. I'll tell you. I'll tell you the story
behind the name.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So that does if this episode of Appetite for Distortion
when we see the next one. In the words of
Axel Rose concerning Chinese democracy, I don't know as soon
as the word, but you'll see.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
It thanks to the lame ass security. I'm going home.
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