May 12, 2025 • 57 mins
Jimrat
Take a walk with me down Fascination Street, as I get to know the Boston Shoegaze band Jimrat. This group of musicians got together in the Boston area after meeting in college, and various music scenes. Jimrat consists of: Sam Dvorin, Josie Arthur, Emma DeLaRosa, Elicia Benavides, and Tim Ro. In this episode, I get them to tell the story of how each of them came to be in the band. Since they each came along in a fascinating way, they tell the story 'popcorn' style. All of them have recently graduated or are still in college. They basically went to different schools. We got musicians from Boston University, Suffolk, Berkley, and Emerson. Throughout the episode, each of them explains how they came to Boston, and why most of them equate the city to living in Albuquerque! From Covid, to the cartoon Tom & Jerry, these young guns talk about everything. Finally, we discuss their new album. It's called 'Instant' and is 'an audio-visual album'. Each of the 11 tracks on the record have a corresponding video component, that all culminate in a 35-minute-long sensory experience like no other. They even let me play one of their favorite tracks from the record! Check out their audio / visual experience on YouTube by searching "Jimrat Instant", or checking out their website: WhoIsJimrat.github.io
Take a walk with me down Fascination Street, as I get to know the Boston Shoegaze band Jimrat. This group of musicians got together in the Boston area after meeting in college, and various music scenes. Jimrat consists of: Sam Dvorin, Josie Arthur, Emma DeLaRosa, Elicia Benavides, and Tim Ro. In this episode, I get them to tell the story of how each of them came to be in the band. Since they each came along in a fascinating way, they tell the story 'popcorn' style. All of them have recently graduated or are still in college. They basically went to different schools. We got musicians from Boston University, Suffolk, Berkley, and Emerson. Throughout the episode, each of them explains how they came to Boston, and why most of them equate the city to living in Albuquerque! From Covid, to the cartoon Tom & Jerry, these young guns talk about everything. Finally, we discuss their new album. It's called 'Instant' and is 'an audio-visual album'. Each of the 11 tracks on the record have a corresponding video component, that all culminate in a 35-minute-long sensory experience like no other. They even let me play one of their favorite tracks from the record! Check out their audio / visual experience on YouTube by searching "Jimrat Instant", or checking out their website: WhoIsJimrat.github.io
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Landon Bryant from Landon Talks and you're listening
to fascination Street podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's discuss it.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hey street walker's Guess what I did a thing many
of you remember roughly a year ago. In May of
twenty twenty four, I put out an episode with special
guests Landon Bryant, the creator of Landon Talks, the Southern
inspired Instagram account that has taken the world by storm.
Since then, Landon has caught fire even more. Landon is
(00:32):
a huge presence on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, all over social media,
and he wrote a book. It's called Bless Your Heart,
a Field Guide to all Things Southern. He also created
a podcast called Landon Talks with Kate. Landon Talks is
one word and Kate is his wife. And guess what
(00:54):
they interviewed little old Meat. That's right for once. I'm
the guest Landon and Kate grill me on why I
got into podcasting, What are some of the pitfalls, my
favorite parts, my least favorite parts, some cool behind the
scenes stories, and then they hold me accountable for all
things Texas. What we talked about h E. B. BUCkies,
(01:18):
and even water Burger. Check out Landon Talks with Kate
everywhere you find podcasts, and remember Landon Talks is one word.
This is one of the sweetest couples around. I guarantee
that you're going to enjoy their show. Start with my
episode and then go back and check them all out.
This is going to be your new favorite podcast. Yea,
(01:46):
the sampit you woke.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Down the most interested street in the world with my
voice d Fascination Street.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You already know, let's get it when you went for
the fastest street.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Welcome back, Street Walkers. This episode is with the shoegaze
band Jim Rat out of Boston. Jim Ratt. That's Jim
r At. Consists of Sam, Josie, Imma, Alicia, and Tim
And guess what they're all on this call. They're all
in this episode. We talked to all of them in
(02:19):
this episode. We spent a good bit of time getting
to know how all of these folks met and decided
to become Jim Rat. Each one of them has a
unique entry point into the band, which I found imminently
fascinating and I think you will too. And then we
talked about their new album. It came out April eleventh.
It's called Instant. It is an audio slash visual album.
(02:42):
It was recorded live and the reason they classify it
as a visual album is because they prefer that you
watch the album from start to finish. There's a visual component.
If you look up Jim rat Instant on YouTube, it
will come up. It's about thirty five thirty eight minutes long.
If you watch the whole thing, it's like a movie,
(03:03):
but it's one big long music video with eleven different songs.
It's complicated, but you'll check it out and you will
enjoy it. They do decide to let me play one
of the singles in this episode, so you can kind
of get an idea of what their music is like,
and then you can go check out Jim Ratt Instant
on the YouTube's They do play a bunch of live shows,
(03:25):
mostly around the Boston area, so if you're in the area,
go check them out, look them up on Instagram and
see what they are all about. Also, their website is
crazy packed and full of stuff, so definitely go check
that out as well. That link will be in the
show notes for sure. And this is my conversation with Sam, Josie, Emma, Alicia,
(03:46):
and Tim, collectively known as Jim Ratt, forgret to be fafinating,
forgrett to be fascinating, Forgretta to be pacinating. Welcome to
Fascination Street Podcasts. Jim Ratt, how's everybody doing this morning?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Audio only? So I can't do a visual reaction.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can do whatever you want and I'll just make
fun of you for it. Okay. So Jim Ratt is Sam, Josie, Emma, Alicia,
and Tim. We have everybody except Josie because Josie is
a lazybones. Actually listeners. Josie is probably trying to catch
(04:33):
up on sleep and or in a meeting. We're unclear,
but Josie is a busy, busy person. Now we're gonna
go ahead and roll without her. Josie, you can just
listen like everybody else, all right, So, Sam, Alicia, Tim, Emma.
I need everybody to all at the exact same time
so that it breaks zoom. I need you to say hello, hello,
(04:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Are the worst?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Okay? So all right, So the way we're gonna do
this is I'm going to ask each of you questions,
and then I'm going to ask all of you questions,
if that makes any sense. So Sam, since you were
first on the scene. Let's start with you, Sam. Where
are we born and raised?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, And where are you now?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm in Boston. Why I went to school here? Where
I went to school at BU and then I graduated
and I was like, I'll stay here another year, and
now we are living through the consequences of that decision.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I think that Boston is a very it's town built
around at least part where we live. It's built around college.
Is like all of the things to do are oriented
around college kids. And in my opinion, the main thing
about that is transience because every year a bunch of
kids leave and a bunch of kids come. So my
favorite example this is like my favorite restaurants are always closing.
(05:52):
Like I've been here for five years and I have
had a new favorite restaurant open and closed like five times,
although one of them burned down. Yeah, So I think
that that sort of for what I'm trying to do
and what we're trying to do. It's kind of tough
because when you have this like audience that's constantly shifting,
it's hard to build like meaningful connections with people. That
being said, the resources that we have here and like,
(06:13):
you know, we have a practice space, we know people
in the scene, Like that's really important and valuable. So
right now my focus is trying to take advantage of that.
But maybe with mistake, just because it's like really expensive
to be here, and it's like when you're on school
and you have scholarship, it sort of feels fake and
then it's like, why am I paying New York prices
to live in like Albuquerque. That's kind of what Boston feels.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Like, whoa, that's hilarious. You just equated Boston to Albuquerque.
I'm sure they're not gonna They're not gonna let you
stay another year after that one. Jesus you said, we
are living with the consequences of that decision.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I think Emma also feels that. I don't want to
speak for her, but you're right, I do.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
You can say that when you've spoken about that a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Okay, so Emma, you're in kind of the same boat, yeah,
where school's over and you're staying there and living with
the consequences of Albuquerque for.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Sure, living with the CONTs of Albuquerque, not.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That we think we're like too big. I mean, it's
not about that, it's more Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
It's not that I felt like Boston was Albuquerque for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Why Albuquerque that is the weirdest comparison.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think it's more so because like for me, the
things that I'm into and the things that I want
to go see happen in Boston like once a year.
Like I am very into classical music. It's specifically network
classical music, and like it's very disjointed because it's all
done through the schools versus like in a bigger city
where you have like arts that's happening outside of the school.
(07:38):
It's like a little bit more standardized. But here it's
like there might be a great concert, but it's like
at Brandeison. I don't have a car, so I can't
go there. But Albuquerque maybe was too mean. I think
it's more so that if you're not a college kid
and you're living in a college part of town, it's weird. Obviously,
Boston is really big, and there's tons of parts of
it that are like people go to school here. I
didn't even know that, but like where we live specifically,
(07:59):
it's like college part of time, and.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Emma, where are you from? Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
I was actually born in Boston. My family's been around
you for a while, but I grew up in Rhode Island,
and I, like my parents live in like southeastern Connecticut,
Rhode Island area.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Yeah, so we just like New England all around.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You were born in Boston but grew up in Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I spent my first the first few years of my
life in Boston and like a lot of my families
from around here, and then we moved down to Rhode
Island when I was like in elementary school or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Why did you decide to go to school in Boston?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
It's a mystery to you and me. Well, I got
really good money to go to be U. I got
great money to go there, and that was a big
reason why. And I was like, it's a pretty good school.
I have great money to go to a pretty good school.
I might as well do this.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Sure, No, that's rad as hell. We were in the
middle of talking to Sam, but I didn't welcome. Hi Jersey,
Hi Steam, good morning, thank you for joining us. I'm
sorry that Sam made it so early. He said he
did it on purpose because y'all had a show leflast
night or something. So he was mad at y'all, so
he said, let's do it real early.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
I remember it, and I naturally woke up. Thanks for waiting.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh no, no worries, Tim. Where were you born and raised?
Speaker 11 (09:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Where you grew up?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
I was born in Seoul, Korea, and then I grew
up in Canada in Vancouver.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How come he didn't grow up? And so like, why
did your whole family move to Canada?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
My whole family just left there. Like, let's take Tim
to Canada.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Dealing with the consequences of that.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I'm dealing with the consequences.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What brought you to Boston?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
I also came here for school. I went to Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh so, why what was your plan? What did you
want to be when you grew up? Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Wow, I don't I don't know. I just like I
knew I wanted to do music, so and I for
some reason always wanted to go to Berkeley when I
was younger, so I just went for it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I guess he's a cracked pianist. He's very good at piano.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
He's like cracked all right, cool? Alicia, Hello, So where
were you born and raised, and don't let your mom
answer for you.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
I was born in Boston and raised in Conquered Massa.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Juestts What did you want to be when you grew up?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Still unclear?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Good job. Don't don't let your mom hear that. She's
going to freak out if you have no direction.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We've been freaking out for the last like five years.
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Sure which of these many colleges did you go to?
Speaker 12 (10:29):
I still go to Suffolk. Actually, I think I'm the
only one still in undergrad.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So Suffolk that's a whole different third college we're mentioning now, Yes,
good lord? Why did you pick Suffolk? And I don't
even know it's Suffolk? Is it a real school? I don't.
I don't. I've never heard of it. I don't. I'm
sure Sam told me to ask that. That's why he's
making that face. Why it's a crazy on that private chat. Sam,
(10:53):
you're messing me up.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Dude, It's totally real. I think.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So what made you pick that school?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
They gave me money.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
It's a good reason, yeah, honestly, just trying to say
where I can. And I originally went in for polic
side and then they have a good law school. But
I just switched to environmental studies last year.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh nice, did that reset your whole curriculum? Now you
get a start over. You're gonna be in school for
four more years.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Basically like a year and a half hopefully still also
navigating that.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Very cool, Josie. Oh, I'm sorry, I'll wait. I'll wait
till you finish you and that's cool. No, No, we're good, Josie.
Where what are you? Where are you from? Where'd you
grew up?
Speaker 10 (11:34):
I'm from Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh my gosh, look at you.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Why Why am I from Richmond, Virginia?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Uh huh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Both my parents are from Virginia and they moved to
Richmond because it's like a chill place to live.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It's chill. Why why did you pick Boston? Wait? Wait,
are you in Boston right now? They were if you weren't.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
No, yes, I'm in Britain, which is outside of Boston.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Where I am in San Antonio Tech.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
I have a bunch of family over there.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Wow. Oh well I'll tell them that you said you
have a bunch of family in San Antonio or just
in Texas?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
In San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
What are they doing here living there?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I don't know, raising their family there?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Albuquerque is too far away?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That sounds like a disc but maybe I really like Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Head. Look, dude, we all liked Breaking Bad, which took
place in A very.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Good friend of mine is from Albuquerque. I would just
like to point that out.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, now you have to say this person's name or
it doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But I don't want to hijack Josie's thing. I'll say
it after Josey.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We got all day. Josie just woke up, so she's
bright and refreshed.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
His name is Lorenzo Galigos. He's probably the best violinist
of all time, and hopefully he's practicing right now as
we speak. I think if he pushes out, it'll be
a really great violence. Do y'all know that he's playing
in the Albuquerque Phil Like he already got a seat.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
How old is this person age?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
He's like, he's awesome, He's really.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Why am I talking to you bunch of losers?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I don't know, Josie. Yeah, we're going to own a hijacket.
I'm Sam. Why did you go to Boston?
Speaker 13 (13:14):
I applied to a bunch of different schools in different
places for theater and acting specifically like it was quarantine.
So I when I got into the schools that I
got into, I couldn't go tour. Boston was the only
city that I had actually been to. And also Emerson
was like the best school that I gotten into other
(13:35):
than I also got into Boston Conservatory, but I was
waitlisted at Emerson, and Emerson was less expensive than Boston Conservatory,
so I chose Emerson. And also I felt like the
program was better, so I chose Emerson College.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So we got Emerson, Suffolk, bu and Berkeley. Okay, now
I got to know five people four different schools. How
did y'all meet? The age old question, Sam, how'd y'all meet?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Can we do like a popcorn version?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So yes, yea, let's do a popcorn version.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I feel like we could have. We could probably make
it more interesting if we tried. But like it was
twenty twenty, it was COVID, so all my classes were
on Zoom, which is like really weird to think about
in retrospect because two defining things in like an American
young life would be like high school graduation, freshman year
of college, and I had neither one of those. Yeah,
I was in my freshman English class. We were doing
(14:32):
some sort of presentations and scrolls presenting, and she mentions
how like radio had sampled Miles Davis in something, and
I was like, whoa, that's crazy. I didn't know that.
And I was like, hey, it's in cool. Also, no
one else in this class seems cool, So.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Friend, I hope you said that on the zoom call
in class.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The other thing too, is that, like I was like,
we should be friends. Basically, what that meant is that
like once every day, who months, we would like hang
out in the grass outside of my dorm for like
five minutes, you.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Know it, six feet apart with a mask on.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Then about a year later, I was in this band
called Corporeal and we needed a new bassist. And I
remember that I had mentioned that she played guitar.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Oh so the person that you're talking about you met? Okay, cool, Okay,
very cool. I was wondering who it was. Okay, So
so then like a year later.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We needed a bassist and I remember that must say
she play guitar, but the thing about people who say
they play guitar is that a lot of people say
they play guitar, but it turns out that that's not
always the case. A lot of people say they play guitar.
I've dealt with the repercussions of this many times in
my life that you meet someone you're like, you play guitar,
and they say yes, but it turns out they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm the same way with a harmonica, So don't ask me.
I don't. I got nothing, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I asked if she wanted to be in this band,
and then she was very good and she I justly
remember that like one of the first practices, like she
had learned all the songs, and I was like, what
the fuck, Like it had taken us so long to
one of these songs that she knew them all on
a day.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Hey, Sam, I'm gonna need you to watch your language
because Aliciou's mom is right there, So just take it easy,
bro okay, anyway, popcorn, Emma.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Then I joined Corporeal.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Sam and I were friends for a bit, and then
this band Corporeal, had a show, and then there was
this mysterious, mysterious man at the show who like emerged
from the shadows and approached Sam and I after the
show and asked us to be in his band, to
which I said no, but then Sam said yes, this
(16:37):
man was Tim, and then I don't know, After like
a few months, they found another bassist for their band
and they asked me to fill in, and then they
like next to the other guy, and then I joined actually.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Who was like one of our friends. Yeah, it was no.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Still it's oh that's good. That's good.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Still is yes.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Then now Sam, Tim and I are all in a
bench together and I'm gonna popcorn to Tim because then
Tim lived in a house with Josie.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. I'm so glad, I asked.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Basically, give it away, though, like what it's he even
going to say, I feel like that's everything.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Okay, Well it's like not everything. We haven't gone to
two of the members yet.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Okay, Oh, you're right.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
So I met saven Emma through the show, and then.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
How did you find the show?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I think it was one of my other friends were
also playing, so I went to see her and oh
and they they happened to be on the same show.
I didn't know anything about them, but I really liked
their set.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I just you just emerged from the shadows and
hit these two fools up, and you're like, hey, guys,
what do you what are you doing?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
It's like, you know in The Hero's Journey when you
had there's the part where has like meeting and the
mentor or whatever, and it's like a wizard Like that
was like us meeting our wizard.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Tim's the wizard.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Yes, that was a wizard from the Shadows.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
So Tim is Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I don't know what that means, but.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You're also Jerry like Tom and Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You guys know Tom and Jerry.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Tom and Jerry is from the thirties. This is fantastic,
so good.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I feel like this is because because I wasn't allowed
to watch anything else as a kid, Like it was
like PBS and Tom and Jerry, Me too, me too.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay, well, okay, well, since since y'all like old stuff,
let me tell you this Tom and Jerry fans. I
don't know if you know this, but there is a
movie I think it's called Anchors Away and it's a
w E. I G H or something like that, and
it's a Frank Sinatra movie. But in this movie, it's
the very first time it ever happened on film. It's
(18:49):
the first time that an animated character has ever been
in a live action like that. They ever crossed pollinated
live accent and animation. You should check it out. It's
a dope at hell movie.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
Hey, street Walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hey, this is Landon from the podcast Landon Talks with
Kate y'all.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
We wrote a book, Bless your Heart.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
A Field God to All Things Southern comes out April
first of twenty twenty five. And I know that's April
Fool's Day and I do stand up comedy, but this
is not a joke. I literally wrote a book. It's
a field God to life in the South. It's a
feel God to how things go down here. It is
a hilarious adventure. It's one of those kind of books
that you can pick up at any point and read
any part of it. You don't have to read it
(19:38):
straight through because it is just a fun jaunt, a
fun little saunter down an encyclopedia of Southern life. And
I will tell y'all, it really got interesting because I
am Southern obviously, so the things I say, I understand
my editors were not. So we've got footnotes, we've got
cross references. This thing is turned educational because we had
to explain it for everybody. So if you're from the South,
(19:59):
you're gonna love it because it's hilarious the things that
we talk about and do and the way that we exist.
If you're not from the South, you're gonna love it
because it's a literal God into life down here and
all the silly things that we do and say, and
all the nostalgia as well. You can pre order your
copy now wherever books are sold, and if you want
to hear more from me, check out my podcast Land
and Talks with Kate wherever podcasts are found.
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, So Tim, I don't know what popcorning is, but
we're gonna popcorn to the next person in your story.
So you're the wizard and you're like, hey, guys, let
us do this thing. And then what happened.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
It was like that for a while, and then I
moved into this house with six other people, and Josie
was one of them.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Josie was just already there.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I think it was like all new people like we.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Yeah, we all joined the same lease cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, so there's one hundred people in this house. And
then how did Josie become part of this band?
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Tim? Are you? Are you finished?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Aren't you just supposed to say, like I popcorn over
to Josie or something. I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
He's from Canada, so he doesn't really understand.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I've been in America my whole life. I've never heard
of popcorning. I didn't. That's okay, I don't know what
that is. Okay, who's go Josie hit me?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
Like Tim's band that he was in with Sam and
em O was Video Days. That's Tim's project, but they
all were in Jim Ratt also with some other people
at the time. But I was just chilling at my house.
The reason I lived in the house is because I
was trying to get involved in the music scene in
Boston and it was like a house show house.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
It's like a punk house.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Okay. So like people who want to be an actor
they go to LA You're already in Boston, but you
wanted to be in industry, so you just moved into
a house that had a bunch of musicians.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
Yeah, like I was into theater and I wanted to
get a degree, but like, I didn't really want to
go to school for anything. I'd always done acting really
seriously ever since I was a little kid. But after
Quarantine and just like being alone for a long time
and having a lot of time to introspect, I didn't
feel as passionate about it because I wasn't doing it
(22:21):
or things related to it on my free time, which
is like, you can't really do that because it's collaborative.
But when I was when I got to school, we
had a bunch of hybrid stuff and I was hanging
out with a bunch of kids even though I wasn't
supposed to do because it was COVID. I had always
written songs for myself and like never I don't know.
My dad is also a musician, so like music was
always a part of my life, but I had never
(22:43):
taken it seriously as something I could do until Quarantine,
when I had the time to introspect. And that was
like the end of my freshman year of college when
I was like, I actually want to do this and
I want to like pursue putting out music and everything.
So I started doing that and then I just as
soon as like things opened up, I tried to go
to open mics and like house shows and stuff. I
(23:03):
would go to these house shows and try to play
these house shows. And I met the people who were
running this one house show thing, and I met Tim,
and both.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Of us I think wanted to move into this place
to just be more involved in the scene.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So so y'all knew each other before you moved into
this house.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Yeah, okay, well they were like, oh, here's this guy.
He's also moving into I remember like I had a
show and Tim was there and he and he said,
I sounded like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Oh no, did you take that as a compliment or.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
No, ament that was a compliment Taylor show is that's
the biggest artist, and no, world, that's a compliment.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I love the reactions of everybody else. When Justin told
that story.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
I did not say that.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Did I say that you did? That's something you would say,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I'm sorry. He said that is fantastic.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
I remember him being like, how do you play shows?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Like?
Speaker 10 (23:54):
I want to play shows?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Like, I don't know you wanted to play shows, Tim,
I don't know what does that mean to you.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I think this was like before all our bands were
picking up and like playing as many shows.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, because Josie's on the grind like her band
has a lot of shows all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I heard that you sound like Taylor Swift, so hit
it l la la oh, that sounds exactly like her,
jose do you want to popcorn over to Alicia?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Wait, but we didn't even get to hear how you
joined the band.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Sorry my bad.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
So I was just living at this house with Tim,
and I was I considered myself to be friends with Tim.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Even after that Taylor Shift debacle. Okay, you go Swifty, Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
But I knew that he was in video days and
i'd like seen I'd seen his band play, and like
Sam and Emma were there, so I guess like I
had met them peripherally peripherally before, but I didn't really
know them. But I was just hanging out around my
house and then like all three of them were there.
But I think they were missing symbody for the set.
(24:54):
They had like an effects guitarist that couldn't come to
the show because it was twenty one plus and she
was like twenty so they asked me if I had
any synths or anything, or Sam asked if I had
like a synth, and I said I hadn't had an
omni chord. So I played omnichord with Jim Ratt at
this show. That was really fun. And then afterwards I
was like telling Tim.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
I was like, Tim, I.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
Would love to play with Jim Ratt anytime, anytime y'all
need anything. And then I think I played like synth
with Jim Rat a couple more time or one more time,
and then somebody left the band and they needed a
rhythm guitarist, so Sam asked me to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So when you say synth, do you mean like a
synthesizer like a piano?
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Yeah, like a like a synth like a small piano.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Interesting, Tim, don't you play the piano I do for
your whole life? Yeah? All right, cool, cool, cool cool cool.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Yeah, but I'm just so much better than Tim.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, you go swifty. So you went up to the
Wizard and said, hey, mister Wizard, I want to be
in Jim Ratt And he was like, what are you
asking me for? Jim Rat's a whole bunch of people.
Now you ask everybody, how did you get into Jim Ratt.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Somebody left after what is known as Jim Ratt nine
to eleven.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Oh yeah, we have that what Jim Ratt also used
to be like there used to be like other people,
Jim what's.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Going through many cycles and forms?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
When Josie joined, it was like a it was a
fully improvisational jam band that only played covers.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Why is that true?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
How does that even work exactly?
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Like, Oh so that was a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
No, No, I'm serious, fully true, but like we would
the set would be like we had three songs that
we covered and we would just like start playing them
and we played them for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, so you would improvise in the middle of these
cover socks.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, there's a pretty cool video of one of the
sets that we played actually with Josie that like we
like covered the floor and paper and we had a
bunch of friends that were like painting the floor while
we were playing. And then that venue said you can
never play here ever.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Again, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Which actually has been said to me at three differ venues.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Oh no, dude, that's a badge of honor. That's fantastic.
I think we waited too long to popcorn over to
uh Alicia.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
And then that bounce.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
But I was like at the tail end, basically life
story is the biggest one.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
They hit me up on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And oh my gosh, that's amazing, and for some reason
you went back to mute.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That's literally it.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Oh that's the whole thing you said, so Instagram, So
what does that mean? Like they put out a call
on Instagram or you just saw them and go, hey,
I want to do that.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
No, my username is em base on Instagram and Sam
message me of like, hey, my Fani needs a base
and I'm going and I said yeah, and then we
practiced one and then practice the band and then I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was in how long have you been in in septembers,
we want to ask about jim ra at nine to eleven?
What does that mean? Who's going to tell this story?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
And Emma can split it up?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because the first tower was me, the second tower was yeah.
I would like to coveyat this by like, I don't
really know how you feel about nine to eleven jokes.
I feel like I've talked about this with a friend
of mine Easy, who's like a close collaborator of ours,
and they made a joke on nine to eleven. I
used to work at this place where I was a
security yard at a venue, and like I got the
job through easy, like we were together, and one time
(28:22):
they made a nine to eleven joke and like no
one thought it was funny except for me. But anyways,
I would just like to say that the reason it's
nine to eleven is because there are two towers, and
it fundamentally changed how the band operates. The first tower
was that I brought in this new song that I
was really excited about that was like this like very
which actually is the first song on the album. I
guess you must have heard at least the first second
(28:44):
of that song. It's that first song on the album.
I brought it in. I was really excited to play it.
It is a pretty emotional song for me, Like it's
sort of like a sardonic retelling of a very important
relationship in my life, which I guess I never was
explicitly said to the but I feel it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, congratulations, Now y'all all know what that song is about. Yeah,
we knew you're you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, but I like really excited about the song and
ment lots. Me and I like went to teach it,
and one of our guitarists at the time like couldn't
play it, and it like we like sort of escalated
into this like massive fight over it, which like ended.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
It was just like a bad scene.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I don't want to talk down on anybody's like it
wasn't it was no one in this room or now
one of the old members of the band, but it
was just like a bad scene.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
She was pretty high, did you say she was pretty high?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Like yeah, on weed, not like on like anything else.
But actually like her and I were fine now, like
we talked last night. It's cool, yeah, but it was
just like this really bad, like angry yelling match that
like just derailed the practice. Like it was like it
was like an hour over just like I don't know.
But then as soon as that, like the tail end
of that happened, which basically ended in her leaving practice.
(29:52):
So she like left practice.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The other thing is that we had to show the
next day was she did not come.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
We have a show the next day. She like storms out.
We know she's not We went to the show the
next day. We're all super upset, and.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Then I get the call that, like, my boyfriend just
got arrested and he's in jail, and then they accused
him of assaulting a police officer when he didn't and
then they put him in jail for that, and then
he was ever charged of anything because I know they
were lying, but essentially he spent the night in jail.
So Sam and I are both like having like the
worst night ever. And then Tim's just kind of there
(30:25):
and liked Tim just like my friends are so damn
bad right now.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
And then we had a show the next day and
that show and I was.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Gonna say Sam and I were super upset. The next day,
him invited Josie to the show because I think he
just needed a friend who like wasn't really depressed.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
He needed a friend, it wasn't crazy.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
And then yeah, so then that just kind of like,
I don't know, fee that was a formative night for
us where that kind of like shifted the perspective of
the bands and our perspective on each other and who's
in the band and how like the kind of like
dynamics work. And it just so happened that Jersey was
there the next day. That was kind of like foreshadowing.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
It's random thing. E. Can I talk about how I
met you? He's not listening right, Like.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
E.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Like around that time where Jim at nine to eleven
happened and then we saw that show. Was like I
had like probably already met E at that point because
we met at the Emerson Encampment. That was like when
a lot of like encampments and protests were happening. I
remember like being like, Oh, I hope I get to
play with this person sometime.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Yeah, we were in the same car because we were
doing jail support for the people that got arrested that night.
It was like five in the morning at this point,
and we were like driving to the jails that our
brother students got taken to, and like we started talking
just about ourselves because what else is there to do
At that point we had been awake for so long.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Jersey was mentioning how.
Speaker 12 (31:52):
Played, and I was like, oh, I'm playing face, Like
we should get together and play music sometimes, And it
was like crazy that that ended up actually happening.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
We're shadowing. There's a lot of lore building around this time.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
Yeah, the stars were aligning.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
This is a rising action.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Wait where are we now?
Speaker 8 (32:13):
I don't know we're.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
Like, well, we met like April last year, in my
last year.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't know. I don't think we're in or anymore.
Speaker 13 (32:22):
And then I remember like Sam was like, oh, I
hit up this person on Instagram em base and I
was like, yeah, I know them, and Sam was like
are they good? And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I don't know, but I know they play bass and
like to get people out of jail.
Speaker 14 (32:39):
Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
Pull up a chair, make a palette, or take a
knee and tune in to land In Talks with Kate,
a conversational podcast blend in humor, Southern charm, and insightful discussions.
We'll sip on some sweet tea and deep dive into
topics ranging from captans to collared greens, from art and
literature to health and wellness, to Internet trends and entertainment,
and so much more. Expect listener questions, personal stories, and
(33:05):
exciting special guests. Perfect for those y'all who love to
chat and learn something new every week. It'll be a relaxing,
good time, full of laughs and a lot of heart y'all,
come hang out with us. Everywhere Podcasts are found.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay, so we finally got the band together. I think
it's really cool that you all have a different meetup story.
Like I've talked to people where they're like, I don't know,
we just met at a party and started playing or whatever.
But I liked it. There's a whole trajectory. It's like
you're going down the highway and then more people are
getting into the car. I don't know. I just think
that's really cool. That's a cool story. Where does the
(33:42):
name Jim Ratt come from.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
It's just something that my friend Nora came up with.
That was the girl in that first band that Emma
and I were in if I remember, because Jim Ratt
used to be like a punk band with me and
my two roommates, who are these like disgusting boys. At
the time, I wanted to call the band Humongous, but.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
We kept that name.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Did you see Alicia's face?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, it's like kind of like embarrassing, dude. Yeah, I
mean I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Alicia said you should be ashamed. That's a dumb name.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
We were making dinner or something and I was like
telling Nora, I'm like, yo, I just made this band,
like you know, it's it's me, Gavin and Bratt And
she was like, that name sucks.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So we were talking about the names.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I love friends and yeah, there's a lot of rats
where we live.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
So she was like, what about Jim Rant?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Why Jay I am?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I like the idea of a fake person, you know,
like it's like a.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Sid Jim Ratt is one word.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yes, yes, yeah, I feel like yes, like yeah, changes
every week, but I feel like the final version it's like.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Me, it's like the person Jim Ratt. Yeah, oh well yeah,
but I guess Jim Ratt is the band. Jim Ratt
is the person.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Okay, all right, we're going to talk about your album.
You guys have an album. Is this your first album? Yes,
they're all nodding, this is your first album. It is
an eleven track live slash visual album. It is called
Instant and it came out April eleventh. What does that mean.
(35:11):
It's a live slash visual What does that mean, Alicia.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
Live slash visual. So we recorded it live at the
Living Gallery in New York, where we spent like a
long weekend three days basically waking up, practicing, recording, taking
a little walk and then coming back and playing a
show with those exact songs for three nights in a row.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
So what's recorded? Is the show recorded or is the
rehearsal recorded?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Which was everything? Everything, everything is recorded.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So when you guys say live, you just mean that
it was all recorded at once, not individual instruments. Okay,
I've only listened to the album twice. For the life
of me, I don't remember hearing any applause or any audience.
Is there an audience?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
People didn't like it?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
They're just too stunned we were, okay, So what is
the visual component of this album?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
The visual component of this album is similarly, we spent
like a couple of weekends by my house actually filmed
in a nature reserve behind my backyard and conquered and
we came up with this concept idea like in November
December of one video after we saw our first music
(36:29):
video for I Hate You Gase, and we started coming
up with more ideas for future films. And I presented
an idea to Sam and he was immediately on board
and got other people involved, like ours, the photographer Holden
Morgan and our other creative director, Hector, and we all
kind of started meeting over the month of December to
(36:52):
start really planning this out what we wanted it to be,
and then Sam was like, let's just do this for
the whole album and started planning the ideas for each
of the songs. And then we all got together put
our two cents in, and more than two cents, but
we each contributed our ideas and got going on a
solid plan. We started doing logistics like location, people, timing, transportation,
(37:19):
and then we put a flyer out because I know
Sam was really keen on the idea of having dancers,
so we put a flyer out for oh.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But also, just before you continue, it's a music video
for every song. Continue, I feel like you have it
actually explicitly said what you're talking about exactly.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
It is an album film.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
So we have about, what would you say, thirty five
to forty minutes a footage that goes over the entire album,
that includes interludes between songs and for every single track.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
And it was really incredible.
Speaker 12 (37:54):
To get eighteen together that quickly and that determined. It
really surprised me and really made me very grateful to
have so many great friends and great people within the
Boston arts community, like not just music, but dancers and
videographers and costume designers, like it was truly like incredible,
(38:15):
and so many people played a huge role in it.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
And here's one of them. That's Teddy. Hi, Teddy, I'm
going to put you on speaker. This is Teddy. He
helped out.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Hi Teddy, thanks for your help, Teddy.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is beautiful. It is a beautiful.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
I'm trying to shoot some stuff for social media stuff
to get more hype around the release.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Okay, so your first single you guys released Neil. How
did that play out? And when you say released it,
what does that mean? Where did you release it?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You know, music platforms, band camp, Spotify, YouTube, app music?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
How was the reception for the first single because I
would imagine, now this is like the debut single from
this band, right, No, we'.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
This is we've put out like the re EPs.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
So oh, okay, my apologies.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
No, I mean it's cool. Yeah, I think people liked it.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I don't know. I mean it's like tough to really
put a definitive answer on like how things are received
these days because on all these platforms and people's new music,
like you can see how many people are listening, which
I really don't like because even if one person listened,
maybe be their favorite song of all time. So I
don't really know how to answer. I mean people I've
talked to I really liked it and like our friends
(39:28):
that you know. I mean, there are people I think
it's good. People message just and say like it. It's
my favorite song on the record. That's why it came
off first so I could listen to it.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Really, Neil, is your favorite song on the record?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah, but I guess the single version isn't the real
version on the album. It's much better because there's like
that ending that I didn't put on the single.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Why did you decide to not share the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I feel like it'd be weird to put out a
single over the last minute is just white noise, But
like in the context of the album, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It does no white noise best.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, I know, Emma, what's your favorite song on the album.
Speaker 8 (40:03):
It's so funny.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
My favorite song actually is also Neil, but I'll give
another answer.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
I also like, know me.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
We don't really play that one live munch just so
I kind of have a gripe with Sam. But that's
my favorite song to play and actually Tim and I
were just talking about the other day how we're mad
at Sam that we don't play live.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
We can play tomorrow, we.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Should do it.
Speaker 9 (40:23):
I like them the guitar part that I have in
that song, and it doesn't let me play it.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Wow, you have to get real high and then start
a fight at practice.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Yeah, I think that might be my next move.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Josie, what's your favorite song on the album?
Speaker 10 (40:35):
Oh, my favorite song is probably Don't or I like
know Me.
Speaker 13 (40:39):
I also like Neil. I like I like all of
the songs for different reasons.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Now, when we say Neil, are we talking about Neil
before Me? Or is it just called Neil?
Speaker 10 (40:49):
Just called Neil.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
The reason I called it Neil before Me is because
the version that has the ending is called that.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Okay, gotcha, But I never.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Told the band that I did that, so blindsiding them
right now?
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah, so it was a secret gym rat tughout it. Josiet,
you were saying.
Speaker 13 (41:04):
Oh, but my favorite song, I think the song I
want to highlight is don't because I think that that
is the catchiest song on the album because everybody after
a live show, people are always like, oh, I love that,
I don't know you song they've like, people have said
that the chorus is memorable, and I really liked the
solo that Emma plays also, so I think I just
think that that's a good song. But also I helped
(41:26):
write one of the songs on the album, which is
the last track, which is Truly, So that's kind of
also my.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Favorite is that you singing on Truly as well?
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Yeah, okay, it took me a solid month of practicing
for Truly to not make me cry on.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
The squat Really what about it?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I don't know. It was just very like quiet and
I was emotional.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Okay, So is it the words or was it the
feeling of the music that makes you weepy?
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Both?
Speaker 12 (41:53):
I think it really like Josie really helped complete that song,
now that it wasn't already good, but I think that
both musically and lyrically, it really like elevated it. And
I was just at a moment in my life where
every single word was like ooh yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I think that speaks to your ability to work as
a group where you're all elevating each other. I think
that's what it's all about.
Speaker 14 (42:20):
Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Let's get back into it, Tim, what is your favorite
song on the record?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Do you want to say something?
Speaker 9 (42:34):
I was gonna say that truly also really makes I
cried the other day when Tim and I watched the
full visual album because I'm getting real reflective of my friendships,
so that song gade me cry.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Your friendships with these fools in the band? Are all
of your friendships?
Speaker 8 (42:47):
Well, primarily these ones? Primarily these ones.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Oh you'd like them all right, Tim? What you got?
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (42:54):
I think Neil and Done are like the bangers on
the album, But I don't know. I think I really
like Try. I keep going back to it. I think
it's also like when we were playing it. It's very sparse,
but it needs a lot of restrain and control for
us to play it well, and I think it overall
made us better musicians just practicing it.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
A lot of restraint. Do you mean, like to stay
in the lanes of this song and not either speed
it up or slow it down or wiggle.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
Restrain in terms of not overplaying, and like listening to
each others, listening to what everyone's doing, and making sure
you're not doing too much for us to make April
sound better.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
That makes sense? Yeah, again, The album came out April eleventh.
It is called Instant. There's eleven tracks. A lot of
you have the same favorite. What do you think is
going to be the biggest single on the album? I
know you've released three singles so far. What do you
think is going to be the biggest song on the album,
the one that everybody else is going to like the audience?
(43:56):
What do you think is going to be the crowd favorite?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
They're also all kind of jank. The only thing about
the album is that if you listen to it.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I'm going to cut out that you just called your
own music cut no.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Because, like, if you listen to it front to back,
I think it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
But what if you listen to it back to front.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Honestly, would also makes sense. I think it's more so
like the context. Like, but if you just listen to
one of the songs by themselves, they're like kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
So it's more of an album. I mean, yes, there's
individual singles, but you all agree because you were shaking
your head, that it's better consumed as a whole.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yes, in my opinion, if I had a decision, I
would say the only way to consume it would be
to watch the entire video front to back.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
So your preference is that for people to watch this
album front to back? Do you prefer them to just
watch the whole thing? Well, then that brings us to
this question where can people find the whole album? Visually?
Where can someone watch this whole album?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
If you look up on YouTube Jim Rat instance, it'll
come up.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
So is there a gym Rat channel?
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, although it's called who is Records? I also need
to change that. It's kind of dumb. But who is
Records is like it's kind of like who is Jim Rat?
And then there's like some subsidiary things that are also
on that channel, Like that channel also has like some
stuff that EM and I have done. It has some
stuff that our friends have done. So it's not just
Jim Ratt, But I might honestly rename it like Jim
(45:20):
Rat and Friends or something. For right now, I would say,
look up Jim Ratt instant, it'll.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Come up it. Look how long is the whole visual?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Like thirty five minutes?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Oh okay, and there's no pauses. It just goes straight through.
Because I noticed that, like what I'm listening to the record.
I guess just because the way tracks are put up
or whatever, there's like a like a tiny little gap
in between. It doesn't just flow through, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
It's not supposed to be like I just could like
SoundCloud as well.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Sure, yeah, but uh, I guess what I'm asking is
when you're watching it, there's no gap. It just just
one straight thing, like a long movie. Yeah, whose idea
was that?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
I feel like he had this idea of like a
series of videos that sort of had this story. And
then then we like our friend Hector, who does a
lot of the creative direction the band was involved in.
Like we have our friend Holden who shot the other
music VideA that we have. It's just like a really
incredible cinematographer, which sounds like it's such a long word,
but I don't really know what else is it. Like
he's good at filming, you know. I think we just
(46:13):
posted like a trailer of this, and like literally one
of our friends, who actually one of Emma's friends, who's
like a film person, messaged me and was like who
filmed this? Like this is shot so beautifully, And in
my mind, I'm like, it's just Holden dude, Like I
don't Olden is good, Like I don't really have a
sense of if he's good or bad, but like I
think that it's shot really great, and we knew he
(46:34):
wanted to like while Holden was still around, because I
don't know where he's going when he graduates. He's a student.
I was like, we need to make something big with Holden.
So this with the sort of e Holden Hector and
I got together and we're like, what's the best way
we can do this? And I know I feel bad
that I haven't shown you the video because we'd like
literally just finished it like last night or not quote
(46:54):
unquote finished. Is that the album has like some very
distinct themes that I want to come across that I
don't know I come across with just the music. Like
there's this theme of like paganism, of like sort of
cold nature of these forms. There's a lot of things
that unless I explicitly said, you wouldn't get from the music.
But when you watch the video, it like becomes very clear.
(47:15):
And I think also if you came to a live
show too, like the live shows I sort of had that,
but it's like we're a live band. I feel like
our best thing is how we play live. So it's like,
how can you someone who can't see the live show?
How can you still get that? Like combination of visual
and sonic. That's why the visual album is important?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Gotcha? Do you all all agree that you're better live? Yeah?
Is that why you decided to record the album quote
unquote live? Like just straight through your live recording? Is
that why you'll decided to do it that way?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Okay, great? Is there a website for Gymret.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yes, it's actually who is Jim Rat at GitHub where
I'll just send in the chat because it's honestly awesome.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
Because now were many people that go, we have lives?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
No, like this is a website.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Who is Jim Rat dot? Get hub dot?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I oh, there are like hundreds of pages on here,
Like it is a website. This is a big thing,
A part of.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
The band who put this together?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I did?
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Oh my god. And if that is not enough and
if that is not enough, and if that is not enough,
and if that is not enough, oh that's fantastic. Everybody
go check out this website. The link will be in
the show notes. And also it is who is Jim Rat?
That is Jim Rat, dot get g I T and
Jesus Christ. Just look in the show notes, folks. Okay,
(48:40):
So is that video on the website as well?
Speaker 2 (48:44):
It'll be there, It'll be there.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Okay. Cool, guys, tell everybody where they can find you
on social media? Tim, you do it, mister wizard.
Speaker 7 (48:53):
You can find us on who is Jim Rat is? Yeah,
it's who is Jim Who is Jim Rat?
Speaker 8 (49:00):
Instagram?
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Just Instagram?
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Is that the only place the website? YouTube?
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Okay? But I mean just like no Twitter, no X,
no vero, no TikTok, no blue Sky.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
We're not millennials, man, You're not?
Speaker 3 (49:14):
Wait is millennial older than you?
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Holy shit? What are y'all?
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Jim Ron Jim Ron?
Speaker 4 (49:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I think what are we?
Speaker 5 (49:23):
Gen z?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
The Jim Rat generation? All right, cool, we're gonna go
with Jim Ratt generation. Alicia told me this is the
next album gonna be called Pigeon Frisbee.
Speaker 5 (49:34):
No, the next one's a Jim Rat rock off.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Yeah, that's what's so Oh, you definitely have to come
back and talk about that. That is insane. We have
been speaking with Jim Ratt, which is Sam Josie, Emma
Alicia and tam My. Gosh, guys, this was a lot
of fun. I'm so sorry that it was hard to
wrangle all of you, because, uh, it's hard to talk
to five people and not make any one feel left out.
(50:00):
So I appreciate your patience with me, and I appreciate
you all getting up so dang early in the morning.
Some of us are still wiping the sleep from our eyeballs. Sam,
everybody again. The album came out April eleventh. It's called Instant.
They all prefer that you just watched the whole thing
from front to back. Go to YouTube, put in the
(50:22):
words Jim Rat Instant and you can check it out
there so that everybody can get a feel for what
this is gonna sound like. Is there one song that
I can play on this show on this episode to
everybody a taste? You'll want to pick a song? Can
I play a song that means no means yes?
Speaker 8 (50:41):
No, it means what song?
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Like?
Speaker 8 (50:43):
What song would we do?
Speaker 7 (50:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Ya ya, yes, okay, so yeah, either.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
Neil or know me?
Speaker 8 (50:49):
Oh do know me?
Speaker 13 (50:51):
The intro is like so long, so you'd have to
start playing like a little bit into the intro unless.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Sam's like, I don't cut up my song. Yeo, okay,
So Sam Know Me? This album version that I'm seeing
is four minutes and two seconds long. You want me
to play the four minutes and two seconds version.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah, I feel like it's pretty. It's a good song.
Like the intro. I don't even think the intro is
that long. It's about orientee the listener, you know, especially
in the context of the album, it makes a lot
of sense. I think. Okay, all of these songs have
one thing that doesn't make sense if you don't listen
to it in the context of the album. Like that's
why the Neil doesn't have that ending in the single,
because it's like that ending only makes sense after you've
heard everything that came before it.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Okay, okay, does everybody agree with what he just said?
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (51:35):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (51:35):
And is everybody okay with me playing Know Me?
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Except yes, that's.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
My favorite song and that's my favorite song.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
So yeah, you're go with it too, all right, everybody
but Jesse agrees.
Speaker 5 (51:49):
Fine, I'm want to be kicked out of her band
for this.
Speaker 6 (52:19):
In so.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
That's when she comes.
Speaker 9 (53:36):
She come, she called a.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Speech, come.
Speaker 6 (54:47):
Stretch spec.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Oh that's right. We didn't even get to the part
where y'all all play in each other's bands, which is
the weirdest thing I've ever heard. But we'll talk about
that next when y'all come out to talk about the
rock opera Pigeon Frisbee. Okay, guys, thank you so much
for taking the time out of your busy day and
you're a hectic, I don't know, playing each other's bands
schedules to hang out and let us get to know
(56:18):
you a little bit better on Fascination Street. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
You are welcome by Tim, by Emma, Bye, Alisha, Bye, Josie,
Bye Sam.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
Bye Bye, Jim Brett, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (56:41):
Opening music is the song fsp theme, written, performed and
provided by ambush Vin. Closing music is from the song
say My Name off the twenty twenty one album Underdog Anthems,
used with from from Jax Ollo. If you like the show,
(57:04):
tell a friend, subscribe and rate and review the show
on iTunes and wherever else you download podcasts. Don't forget
to subscribe to my YouTube channel. All the episodes are
available there as well. Check me out on vio at,
Fascination Street Pod and TikTok at fascination Street Pod, and
(57:24):
again thanks for listening.
This is Landon Bryant from Landon Talks and you're listening
to fascination Street podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's discuss it.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hey street walker's Guess what I did a thing many
of you remember roughly a year ago. In May of
twenty twenty four, I put out an episode with special
guests Landon Bryant, the creator of Landon Talks, the Southern
inspired Instagram account that has taken the world by storm.
Since then, Landon has caught fire even more. Landon is
(00:32):
a huge presence on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, all over social media,
and he wrote a book. It's called Bless Your Heart,
a Field Guide to all Things Southern. He also created
a podcast called Landon Talks with Kate. Landon Talks is
one word and Kate is his wife. And guess what
(00:54):
they interviewed little old Meat. That's right for once. I'm
the guest Landon and Kate grill me on why I
got into podcasting, What are some of the pitfalls, my
favorite parts, my least favorite parts, some cool behind the
scenes stories, and then they hold me accountable for all
things Texas. What we talked about h E. B. BUCkies,
(01:18):
and even water Burger. Check out Landon Talks with Kate
everywhere you find podcasts, and remember Landon Talks is one word.
This is one of the sweetest couples around. I guarantee
that you're going to enjoy their show. Start with my
episode and then go back and check them all out.
This is going to be your new favorite podcast. Yea,
(01:46):
the sampit you woke.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Down the most interested street in the world with my
voice d Fascination Street.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You already know, let's get it when you went for
the fastest street.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Welcome back, Street Walkers. This episode is with the shoegaze
band Jim Rat out of Boston. Jim Ratt. That's Jim
r At. Consists of Sam, Josie, Imma, Alicia, and Tim
And guess what they're all on this call. They're all
in this episode. We talked to all of them in
(02:19):
this episode. We spent a good bit of time getting
to know how all of these folks met and decided
to become Jim Rat. Each one of them has a
unique entry point into the band, which I found imminently
fascinating and I think you will too. And then we
talked about their new album. It came out April eleventh.
It's called Instant. It is an audio slash visual album.
(02:42):
It was recorded live and the reason they classify it
as a visual album is because they prefer that you
watch the album from start to finish. There's a visual component.
If you look up Jim rat Instant on YouTube, it
will come up. It's about thirty five thirty eight minutes long.
If you watch the whole thing, it's like a movie,
(03:03):
but it's one big long music video with eleven different songs.
It's complicated, but you'll check it out and you will
enjoy it. They do decide to let me play one
of the singles in this episode, so you can kind
of get an idea of what their music is like,
and then you can go check out Jim Ratt Instant
on the YouTube's They do play a bunch of live shows,
(03:25):
mostly around the Boston area, so if you're in the area,
go check them out, look them up on Instagram and
see what they are all about. Also, their website is
crazy packed and full of stuff, so definitely go check
that out as well. That link will be in the
show notes for sure. And this is my conversation with Sam, Josie, Emma, Alicia,
(03:46):
and Tim, collectively known as Jim Ratt, forgret to be fafinating,
forgrett to be fascinating, Forgretta to be pacinating. Welcome to
Fascination Street Podcasts. Jim Ratt, how's everybody doing this morning?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Audio only? So I can't do a visual reaction.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can do whatever you want and I'll just make
fun of you for it. Okay. So Jim Ratt is Sam, Josie, Emma, Alicia,
and Tim. We have everybody except Josie because Josie is
a lazybones. Actually listeners. Josie is probably trying to catch
(04:33):
up on sleep and or in a meeting. We're unclear,
but Josie is a busy, busy person. Now we're gonna
go ahead and roll without her. Josie, you can just
listen like everybody else, all right, So, Sam, Alicia, Tim, Emma.
I need everybody to all at the exact same time
so that it breaks zoom. I need you to say hello, hello,
(04:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Are the worst?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Okay? So all right, So the way we're gonna do
this is I'm going to ask each of you questions,
and then I'm going to ask all of you questions,
if that makes any sense. So Sam, since you were
first on the scene. Let's start with you, Sam. Where
are we born and raised?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Okay, And where are you now?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm in Boston. Why I went to school here? Where
I went to school at BU and then I graduated
and I was like, I'll stay here another year, and
now we are living through the consequences of that decision.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I think that Boston is a very it's town built
around at least part where we live. It's built around college.
Is like all of the things to do are oriented
around college kids. And in my opinion, the main thing
about that is transience because every year a bunch of
kids leave and a bunch of kids come. So my
favorite example this is like my favorite restaurants are always closing.
(05:52):
Like I've been here for five years and I have
had a new favorite restaurant open and closed like five times,
although one of them burned down. Yeah, So I think
that that sort of for what I'm trying to do
and what we're trying to do. It's kind of tough
because when you have this like audience that's constantly shifting,
it's hard to build like meaningful connections with people. That
being said, the resources that we have here and like,
(06:13):
you know, we have a practice space, we know people
in the scene, Like that's really important and valuable. So
right now my focus is trying to take advantage of that.
But maybe with mistake, just because it's like really expensive
to be here, and it's like when you're on school
and you have scholarship, it sort of feels fake and
then it's like, why am I paying New York prices
to live in like Albuquerque. That's kind of what Boston feels.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Like, whoa, that's hilarious. You just equated Boston to Albuquerque.
I'm sure they're not gonna They're not gonna let you
stay another year after that one. Jesus you said, we
are living with the consequences of that decision.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I think Emma also feels that. I don't want to
speak for her, but you're right, I do.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
You can say that when you've spoken about that a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Okay, so Emma, you're in kind of the same boat, yeah,
where school's over and you're staying there and living with
the consequences of Albuquerque for.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Sure, living with the CONTs of Albuquerque, not.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That we think we're like too big. I mean, it's
not about that, it's more Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
It's not that I felt like Boston was Albuquerque for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Why Albuquerque that is the weirdest comparison.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think it's more so because like for me, the
things that I'm into and the things that I want
to go see happen in Boston like once a year.
Like I am very into classical music. It's specifically network
classical music, and like it's very disjointed because it's all
done through the schools versus like in a bigger city
where you have like arts that's happening outside of the school.
(07:38):
It's like a little bit more standardized. But here it's
like there might be a great concert, but it's like
at Brandeison. I don't have a car, so I can't
go there. But Albuquerque maybe was too mean. I think
it's more so that if you're not a college kid
and you're living in a college part of town, it's weird. Obviously,
Boston is really big, and there's tons of parts of
it that are like people go to school here. I
didn't even know that, but like where we live specifically,
(07:59):
it's like college part of time, and.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Emma, where are you from? Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
I was actually born in Boston. My family's been around
you for a while, but I grew up in Rhode Island,
and I, like my parents live in like southeastern Connecticut,
Rhode Island area.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Yeah, so we just like New England all around.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You were born in Boston but grew up in Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I spent my first the first few years of my
life in Boston and like a lot of my families
from around here, and then we moved down to Rhode
Island when I was like in elementary school or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Why did you decide to go to school in Boston?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
It's a mystery to you and me. Well, I got
really good money to go to be U. I got
great money to go there, and that was a big
reason why. And I was like, it's a pretty good school.
I have great money to go to a pretty good school.
I might as well do this.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Sure, No, that's rad as hell. We were in the
middle of talking to Sam, but I didn't welcome. Hi Jersey,
Hi Steam, good morning, thank you for joining us. I'm
sorry that Sam made it so early. He said he
did it on purpose because y'all had a show leflast
night or something. So he was mad at y'all, so
he said, let's do it real early.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
I remember it, and I naturally woke up. Thanks for waiting.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh no, no worries, Tim. Where were you born and raised?
Speaker 11 (09:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Where you grew up?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
I was born in Seoul, Korea, and then I grew
up in Canada in Vancouver.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How come he didn't grow up? And so like, why
did your whole family move to Canada?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
My whole family just left there. Like, let's take Tim
to Canada.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Dealing with the consequences of that.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I'm dealing with the consequences.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What brought you to Boston?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
I also came here for school. I went to Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh so, why what was your plan? What did you
want to be when you grew up? Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Wow, I don't I don't know. I just like I
knew I wanted to do music, so and I for
some reason always wanted to go to Berkeley when I
was younger, so I just went for it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I guess he's a cracked pianist. He's very good at piano.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
He's like cracked all right, cool? Alicia, Hello, So where
were you born and raised, and don't let your mom
answer for you.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
I was born in Boston and raised in Conquered Massa.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Juestts What did you want to be when you grew up?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Still unclear?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Good job. Don't don't let your mom hear that. She's
going to freak out if you have no direction.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We've been freaking out for the last like five years.
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Sure which of these many colleges did you go to?
Speaker 12 (10:29):
I still go to Suffolk. Actually, I think I'm the
only one still in undergrad.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So Suffolk that's a whole different third college we're mentioning now, Yes,
good lord? Why did you pick Suffolk? And I don't
even know it's Suffolk? Is it a real school? I don't.
I don't. I've never heard of it. I don't. I'm
sure Sam told me to ask that. That's why he's
making that face. Why it's a crazy on that private chat. Sam,
(10:53):
you're messing me up.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Dude, It's totally real. I think.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So what made you pick that school?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
They gave me money.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
It's a good reason, yeah, honestly, just trying to say
where I can. And I originally went in for polic
side and then they have a good law school. But
I just switched to environmental studies last year.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh nice, did that reset your whole curriculum? Now you
get a start over. You're gonna be in school for
four more years.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Basically like a year and a half hopefully still also
navigating that.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Very cool, Josie. Oh, I'm sorry, I'll wait. I'll wait
till you finish you and that's cool. No, No, we're good, Josie.
Where what are you? Where are you from? Where'd you
grew up?
Speaker 10 (11:34):
I'm from Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh my gosh, look at you.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Why Why am I from Richmond, Virginia?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Uh huh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Both my parents are from Virginia and they moved to
Richmond because it's like a chill place to live.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It's chill. Why why did you pick Boston? Wait? Wait,
are you in Boston right now? They were if you weren't.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
No, yes, I'm in Britain, which is outside of Boston.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Where I am in San Antonio Tech.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
I have a bunch of family over there.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Wow. Oh well I'll tell them that you said you
have a bunch of family in San Antonio or just
in Texas?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
In San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
What are they doing here living there?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I don't know, raising their family there?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Albuquerque is too far away?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That sounds like a disc but maybe I really like Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Head. Look, dude, we all liked Breaking Bad, which took
place in A very.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Good friend of mine is from Albuquerque. I would just
like to point that out.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, now you have to say this person's name or
it doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But I don't want to hijack Josie's thing. I'll say
it after Josey.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We got all day. Josie just woke up, so she's
bright and refreshed.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
His name is Lorenzo Galigos. He's probably the best violinist
of all time, and hopefully he's practicing right now as
we speak. I think if he pushes out, it'll be
a really great violence. Do y'all know that he's playing
in the Albuquerque Phil Like he already got a seat.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
How old is this person age?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
He's like, he's awesome, He's really.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Why am I talking to you bunch of losers?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I don't know, Josie. Yeah, we're going to own a hijacket.
I'm Sam. Why did you go to Boston?
Speaker 13 (13:14):
I applied to a bunch of different schools in different
places for theater and acting specifically like it was quarantine.
So I when I got into the schools that I
got into, I couldn't go tour. Boston was the only
city that I had actually been to. And also Emerson
was like the best school that I gotten into other
(13:35):
than I also got into Boston Conservatory, but I was
waitlisted at Emerson, and Emerson was less expensive than Boston Conservatory,
so I chose Emerson. And also I felt like the
program was better, so I chose Emerson College.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So we got Emerson, Suffolk, bu and Berkeley. Okay, now
I got to know five people four different schools. How
did y'all meet? The age old question, Sam, how'd y'all meet?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Can we do like a popcorn version?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So yes, yea, let's do a popcorn version.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I feel like we could have. We could probably make
it more interesting if we tried. But like it was
twenty twenty, it was COVID, so all my classes were
on Zoom, which is like really weird to think about
in retrospect because two defining things in like an American
young life would be like high school graduation, freshman year
of college, and I had neither one of those. Yeah,
I was in my freshman English class. We were doing
(14:32):
some sort of presentations and scrolls presenting, and she mentions
how like radio had sampled Miles Davis in something, and
I was like, whoa, that's crazy. I didn't know that.
And I was like, hey, it's in cool. Also, no
one else in this class seems cool, So.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Friend, I hope you said that on the zoom call
in class.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The other thing too, is that, like I was like,
we should be friends. Basically, what that meant is that
like once every day, who months, we would like hang
out in the grass outside of my dorm for like
five minutes, you.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Know it, six feet apart with a mask on.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Then about a year later, I was in this band
called Corporeal and we needed a new bassist. And I
remember that I had mentioned that she played guitar.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Oh so the person that you're talking about you met? Okay, cool, Okay,
very cool. I was wondering who it was. Okay, So
so then like a year later.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We needed a bassist and I remember that must say
she play guitar, but the thing about people who say
they play guitar is that a lot of people say
they play guitar, but it turns out that that's not
always the case. A lot of people say they play guitar.
I've dealt with the repercussions of this many times in
my life that you meet someone you're like, you play guitar,
and they say yes, but it turns out they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm the same way with a harmonica, So don't ask me.
I don't. I got nothing, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I asked if she wanted to be in this band,
and then she was very good and she I justly
remember that like one of the first practices, like she
had learned all the songs, and I was like, what
the fuck, Like it had taken us so long to
one of these songs that she knew them all on
a day.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Hey, Sam, I'm gonna need you to watch your language
because Aliciou's mom is right there, So just take it easy,
bro okay, anyway, popcorn, Emma.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Then I joined Corporeal.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Sam and I were friends for a bit, and then
this band Corporeal, had a show, and then there was
this mysterious, mysterious man at the show who like emerged
from the shadows and approached Sam and I after the
show and asked us to be in his band, to
which I said no, but then Sam said yes, this
(16:37):
man was Tim, and then I don't know, After like
a few months, they found another bassist for their band
and they asked me to fill in, and then they
like next to the other guy, and then I joined actually.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Who was like one of our friends. Yeah, it was no.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Still it's oh that's good. That's good.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Still is yes.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Then now Sam, Tim and I are all in a
bench together and I'm gonna popcorn to Tim because then
Tim lived in a house with Josie.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. I'm so glad, I asked.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Basically, give it away, though, like what it's he even
going to say, I feel like that's everything.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Okay, Well it's like not everything. We haven't gone to
two of the members yet.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Okay, Oh, you're right.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
So I met saven Emma through the show, and then.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
How did you find the show?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I think it was one of my other friends were
also playing, so I went to see her and oh
and they they happened to be on the same show.
I didn't know anything about them, but I really liked
their set.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I just you just emerged from the shadows and
hit these two fools up, and you're like, hey, guys,
what do you what are you doing?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
It's like, you know in The Hero's Journey when you
had there's the part where has like meeting and the
mentor or whatever, and it's like a wizard Like that
was like us meeting our wizard.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Tim's the wizard.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Yes, that was a wizard from the Shadows.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
So Tim is Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I don't know what that means, but.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You're also Jerry like Tom and Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You guys know Tom and Jerry.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Tom and Jerry is from the thirties. This is fantastic,
so good.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I feel like this is because because I wasn't allowed
to watch anything else as a kid, Like it was
like PBS and Tom and Jerry, Me too, me too.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay, well, okay, well, since since y'all like old stuff,
let me tell you this Tom and Jerry fans. I
don't know if you know this, but there is a
movie I think it's called Anchors Away and it's a
w E. I G H or something like that, and
it's a Frank Sinatra movie. But in this movie, it's
the very first time it ever happened on film. It's
(18:49):
the first time that an animated character has ever been
in a live action like that. They ever crossed pollinated
live accent and animation. You should check it out. It's
a dope at hell movie.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
Hey, street Walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hey, this is Landon from the podcast Landon Talks with
Kate y'all.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
We wrote a book, Bless your Heart.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
A Field God to All Things Southern comes out April
first of twenty twenty five. And I know that's April
Fool's Day and I do stand up comedy, but this
is not a joke. I literally wrote a book. It's
a field God to life in the South. It's a
feel God to how things go down here. It is
a hilarious adventure. It's one of those kind of books
that you can pick up at any point and read
any part of it. You don't have to read it
(19:38):
straight through because it is just a fun jaunt, a
fun little saunter down an encyclopedia of Southern life. And
I will tell y'all, it really got interesting because I
am Southern obviously, so the things I say, I understand
my editors were not. So we've got footnotes, we've got
cross references. This thing is turned educational because we had
to explain it for everybody. So if you're from the South,
(19:59):
you're gonna love it because it's hilarious the things that
we talk about and do and the way that we exist.
If you're not from the South, you're gonna love it
because it's a literal God into life down here and
all the silly things that we do and say, and
all the nostalgia as well. You can pre order your
copy now wherever books are sold, and if you want
to hear more from me, check out my podcast Land
and Talks with Kate wherever podcasts are found.
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, So Tim, I don't know what popcorning is, but
we're gonna popcorn to the next person in your story.
So you're the wizard and you're like, hey, guys, let
us do this thing. And then what happened.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
It was like that for a while, and then I
moved into this house with six other people, and Josie
was one of them.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Josie was just already there.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I think it was like all new people like we.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Yeah, we all joined the same lease cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, so there's one hundred people in this house. And
then how did Josie become part of this band?
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Tim? Are you? Are you finished?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Aren't you just supposed to say, like I popcorn over
to Josie or something. I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
He's from Canada, so he doesn't really understand.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I've been in America my whole life. I've never heard
of popcorning. I didn't. That's okay, I don't know what
that is. Okay, who's go Josie hit me?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
Like Tim's band that he was in with Sam and
em O was Video Days. That's Tim's project, but they
all were in Jim Ratt also with some other people
at the time. But I was just chilling at my house.
The reason I lived in the house is because I
was trying to get involved in the music scene in
Boston and it was like a house show house.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
It's like a punk house.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Okay. So like people who want to be an actor
they go to LA You're already in Boston, but you
wanted to be in industry, so you just moved into
a house that had a bunch of musicians.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
Yeah, like I was into theater and I wanted to
get a degree, but like, I didn't really want to
go to school for anything. I'd always done acting really
seriously ever since I was a little kid. But after
Quarantine and just like being alone for a long time
and having a lot of time to introspect, I didn't
feel as passionate about it because I wasn't doing it
(22:21):
or things related to it on my free time, which
is like, you can't really do that because it's collaborative.
But when I was when I got to school, we
had a bunch of hybrid stuff and I was hanging
out with a bunch of kids even though I wasn't
supposed to do because it was COVID. I had always
written songs for myself and like never I don't know.
My dad is also a musician, so like music was
always a part of my life, but I had never
(22:43):
taken it seriously as something I could do until Quarantine,
when I had the time to introspect. And that was
like the end of my freshman year of college when
I was like, I actually want to do this and
I want to like pursue putting out music and everything.
So I started doing that and then I just as
soon as like things opened up, I tried to go
to open mics and like house shows and stuff. I
(23:03):
would go to these house shows and try to play
these house shows. And I met the people who were
running this one house show thing, and I met Tim,
and both.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Of us I think wanted to move into this place
to just be more involved in the scene.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So so y'all knew each other before you moved into
this house.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Yeah, okay, well they were like, oh, here's this guy.
He's also moving into I remember like I had a
show and Tim was there and he and he said,
I sounded like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Oh no, did you take that as a compliment or.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
No, ament that was a compliment Taylor show is that's
the biggest artist, and no, world, that's a compliment.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I love the reactions of everybody else. When Justin told
that story.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
I did not say that.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Did I say that you did? That's something you would say,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I'm sorry. He said that is fantastic.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
I remember him being like, how do you play shows?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Like?
Speaker 10 (23:54):
I want to play shows?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Like, I don't know you wanted to play shows, Tim,
I don't know what does that mean to you.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I think this was like before all our bands were
picking up and like playing as many shows.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, because Josie's on the grind like her band
has a lot of shows all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I heard that you sound like Taylor Swift, so hit
it l la la oh, that sounds exactly like her,
jose do you want to popcorn over to Alicia?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Wait, but we didn't even get to hear how you
joined the band.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Sorry my bad.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
So I was just living at this house with Tim,
and I was I considered myself to be friends with Tim.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Even after that Taylor Shift debacle. Okay, you go Swifty, Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
But I knew that he was in video days and
i'd like seen I'd seen his band play, and like
Sam and Emma were there, so I guess like I
had met them peripherally peripherally before, but I didn't really
know them. But I was just hanging out around my
house and then like all three of them were there.
But I think they were missing symbody for the set.
(24:54):
They had like an effects guitarist that couldn't come to
the show because it was twenty one plus and she
was like twenty so they asked me if I had
any synths or anything, or Sam asked if I had
like a synth, and I said I hadn't had an
omni chord. So I played omnichord with Jim Ratt at
this show. That was really fun. And then afterwards I
was like telling Tim.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
I was like, Tim, I.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
Would love to play with Jim Ratt anytime, anytime y'all
need anything. And then I think I played like synth
with Jim Rat a couple more time or one more time,
and then somebody left the band and they needed a
rhythm guitarist, so Sam asked me to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So when you say synth, do you mean like a
synthesizer like a piano?
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Yeah, like a like a synth like a small piano.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Interesting, Tim, don't you play the piano I do for
your whole life? Yeah? All right, cool, cool, cool cool cool.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Yeah, but I'm just so much better than Tim.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, you go swifty. So you went up to the
Wizard and said, hey, mister Wizard, I want to be
in Jim Ratt And he was like, what are you
asking me for? Jim Rat's a whole bunch of people.
Now you ask everybody, how did you get into Jim Ratt.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Somebody left after what is known as Jim Ratt nine
to eleven.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Oh yeah, we have that what Jim Ratt also used
to be like there used to be like other people,
Jim what's.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Going through many cycles and forms?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
When Josie joined, it was like a it was a
fully improvisational jam band that only played covers.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Why is that true?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
How does that even work exactly?
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Like, Oh so that was a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
No, No, I'm serious, fully true, but like we would
the set would be like we had three songs that
we covered and we would just like start playing them
and we played them for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, so you would improvise in the middle of these
cover socks.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, there's a pretty cool video of one of the
sets that we played actually with Josie that like we
like covered the floor and paper and we had a
bunch of friends that were like painting the floor while
we were playing. And then that venue said you can
never play here ever.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Again, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Which actually has been said to me at three differ venues.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Oh no, dude, that's a badge of honor. That's fantastic.
I think we waited too long to popcorn over to
uh Alicia.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
And then that bounce.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
But I was like at the tail end, basically life
story is the biggest one.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
They hit me up on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And oh my gosh, that's amazing, and for some reason
you went back to mute.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That's literally it.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Oh that's the whole thing you said, so Instagram, So
what does that mean? Like they put out a call
on Instagram or you just saw them and go, hey,
I want to do that.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
No, my username is em base on Instagram and Sam
message me of like, hey, my Fani needs a base
and I'm going and I said yeah, and then we
practiced one and then practice the band and then I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was in how long have you been in in septembers,
we want to ask about jim ra at nine to eleven?
What does that mean? Who's going to tell this story?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
And Emma can split it up?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because the first tower was me, the second tower was yeah.
I would like to coveyat this by like, I don't
really know how you feel about nine to eleven jokes.
I feel like I've talked about this with a friend
of mine Easy, who's like a close collaborator of ours,
and they made a joke on nine to eleven. I
used to work at this place where I was a
security yard at a venue, and like I got the
job through easy, like we were together, and one time
(28:22):
they made a nine to eleven joke and like no
one thought it was funny except for me. But anyways,
I would just like to say that the reason it's
nine to eleven is because there are two towers, and
it fundamentally changed how the band operates. The first tower
was that I brought in this new song that I
was really excited about that was like this like very
which actually is the first song on the album. I
guess you must have heard at least the first second
(28:44):
of that song. It's that first song on the album.
I brought it in. I was really excited to play it.
It is a pretty emotional song for me, Like it's
sort of like a sardonic retelling of a very important
relationship in my life, which I guess I never was
explicitly said to the but I feel it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, congratulations, Now y'all all know what that song is about. Yeah,
we knew you're you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, but I like really excited about the song and
ment lots. Me and I like went to teach it,
and one of our guitarists at the time like couldn't
play it, and it like we like sort of escalated
into this like massive fight over it, which like ended.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
It was just like a bad scene.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I don't want to talk down on anybody's like it
wasn't it was no one in this room or now
one of the old members of the band, but it
was just like a bad scene.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
She was pretty high, did you say she was pretty high?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Like yeah, on weed, not like on like anything else.
But actually like her and I were fine now, like
we talked last night. It's cool, yeah, but it was
just like this really bad, like angry yelling match that
like just derailed the practice. Like it was like it
was like an hour over just like I don't know.
But then as soon as that, like the tail end
of that happened, which basically ended in her leaving practice.
(29:52):
So she like left practice.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The other thing is that we had to show the
next day was she did not come.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
We have a show the next day. She like storms out.
We know she's not We went to the show the
next day. We're all super upset, and.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Then I get the call that, like, my boyfriend just
got arrested and he's in jail, and then they accused
him of assaulting a police officer when he didn't and
then they put him in jail for that, and then
he was ever charged of anything because I know they
were lying, but essentially he spent the night in jail.
So Sam and I are both like having like the
worst night ever. And then Tim's just kind of there
(30:25):
and liked Tim just like my friends are so damn
bad right now.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
And then we had a show the next day and
that show and I was.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Gonna say Sam and I were super upset. The next day,
him invited Josie to the show because I think he
just needed a friend who like wasn't really depressed.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
He needed a friend, it wasn't crazy.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
And then yeah, so then that just kind of like,
I don't know, fee that was a formative night for
us where that kind of like shifted the perspective of
the bands and our perspective on each other and who's
in the band and how like the kind of like
dynamics work. And it just so happened that Jersey was
there the next day. That was kind of like foreshadowing.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
It's random thing. E. Can I talk about how I
met you? He's not listening right, Like.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
E.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Like around that time where Jim at nine to eleven
happened and then we saw that show. Was like I
had like probably already met E at that point because
we met at the Emerson Encampment. That was like when
a lot of like encampments and protests were happening. I
remember like being like, Oh, I hope I get to
play with this person sometime.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Yeah, we were in the same car because we were
doing jail support for the people that got arrested that night.
It was like five in the morning at this point,
and we were like driving to the jails that our
brother students got taken to, and like we started talking
just about ourselves because what else is there to do
At that point we had been awake for so long.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Jersey was mentioning how.
Speaker 12 (31:52):
Played, and I was like, oh, I'm playing face, Like
we should get together and play music sometimes, And it
was like crazy that that ended up actually happening.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
We're shadowing. There's a lot of lore building around this time.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
Yeah, the stars were aligning.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
This is a rising action.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Wait where are we now?
Speaker 8 (32:13):
I don't know we're.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
Like, well, we met like April last year, in my
last year.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't know. I don't think we're in or anymore.
Speaker 13 (32:22):
And then I remember like Sam was like, oh, I
hit up this person on Instagram em base and I
was like, yeah, I know them, and Sam was like
are they good? And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I don't know, but I know they play bass and
like to get people out of jail.
Speaker 14 (32:39):
Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
Pull up a chair, make a palette, or take a
knee and tune in to land In Talks with Kate,
a conversational podcast blend in humor, Southern charm, and insightful discussions.
We'll sip on some sweet tea and deep dive into
topics ranging from captans to collared greens, from art and
literature to health and wellness, to Internet trends and entertainment,
and so much more. Expect listener questions, personal stories, and
(33:05):
exciting special guests. Perfect for those y'all who love to
chat and learn something new every week. It'll be a relaxing,
good time, full of laughs and a lot of heart y'all,
come hang out with us. Everywhere Podcasts are found.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay, so we finally got the band together. I think
it's really cool that you all have a different meetup story.
Like I've talked to people where they're like, I don't know,
we just met at a party and started playing or whatever.
But I liked it. There's a whole trajectory. It's like
you're going down the highway and then more people are
getting into the car. I don't know. I just think
that's really cool. That's a cool story. Where does the
(33:42):
name Jim Ratt come from.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
It's just something that my friend Nora came up with.
That was the girl in that first band that Emma
and I were in if I remember, because Jim Ratt
used to be like a punk band with me and
my two roommates, who are these like disgusting boys. At
the time, I wanted to call the band Humongous, but.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
We kept that name.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Did you see Alicia's face?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, it's like kind of like embarrassing, dude. Yeah, I
mean I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Alicia said you should be ashamed. That's a dumb name.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
We were making dinner or something and I was like
telling Nora, I'm like, yo, I just made this band,
like you know, it's it's me, Gavin and Bratt And
she was like, that name sucks.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So we were talking about the names.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I love friends and yeah, there's a lot of rats
where we live.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
So she was like, what about Jim Rant?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Why Jay I am?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I like the idea of a fake person, you know,
like it's like a.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Sid Jim Ratt is one word.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yes, yes, yeah, I feel like yes, like yeah, changes
every week, but I feel like the final version it's like.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Me, it's like the person Jim Ratt. Yeah, oh well yeah,
but I guess Jim Ratt is the band. Jim Ratt
is the person.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Okay, all right, we're going to talk about your album.
You guys have an album. Is this your first album? Yes,
they're all nodding, this is your first album. It is
an eleven track live slash visual album. It is called
Instant and it came out April eleventh. What does that mean.
(35:11):
It's a live slash visual What does that mean, Alicia.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
Live slash visual. So we recorded it live at the
Living Gallery in New York, where we spent like a
long weekend three days basically waking up, practicing, recording, taking
a little walk and then coming back and playing a
show with those exact songs for three nights in a row.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
So what's recorded? Is the show recorded or is the
rehearsal recorded?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Which was everything? Everything, everything is recorded.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So when you guys say live, you just mean that
it was all recorded at once, not individual instruments. Okay,
I've only listened to the album twice. For the life
of me, I don't remember hearing any applause or any audience.
Is there an audience?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
People didn't like it?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
They're just too stunned we were, okay, So what is
the visual component of this album?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
The visual component of this album is similarly, we spent
like a couple of weekends by my house actually filmed
in a nature reserve behind my backyard and conquered and
we came up with this concept idea like in November
December of one video after we saw our first music
(36:29):
video for I Hate You Gase, and we started coming
up with more ideas for future films. And I presented
an idea to Sam and he was immediately on board
and got other people involved, like ours, the photographer Holden
Morgan and our other creative director, Hector, and we all
kind of started meeting over the month of December to
(36:52):
start really planning this out what we wanted it to be,
and then Sam was like, let's just do this for
the whole album and started planning the ideas for each
of the songs. And then we all got together put
our two cents in, and more than two cents, but
we each contributed our ideas and got going on a
solid plan. We started doing logistics like location, people, timing, transportation,
(37:19):
and then we put a flyer out because I know
Sam was really keen on the idea of having dancers,
so we put a flyer out for oh.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But also, just before you continue, it's a music video
for every song. Continue, I feel like you have it
actually explicitly said what you're talking about exactly.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
It is an album film.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
So we have about, what would you say, thirty five
to forty minutes a footage that goes over the entire album,
that includes interludes between songs and for every single track.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
And it was really incredible.
Speaker 12 (37:54):
To get eighteen together that quickly and that determined. It
really surprised me and really made me very grateful to
have so many great friends and great people within the
Boston arts community, like not just music, but dancers and
videographers and costume designers, like it was truly like incredible,
(38:15):
and so many people played a huge role in it.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
And here's one of them. That's Teddy. Hi, Teddy, I'm
going to put you on speaker. This is Teddy. He
helped out.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Hi Teddy, thanks for your help, Teddy.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is beautiful. It is a beautiful.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
I'm trying to shoot some stuff for social media stuff
to get more hype around the release.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Okay, so your first single you guys released Neil. How
did that play out? And when you say released it,
what does that mean? Where did you release it?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You know, music platforms, band camp, Spotify, YouTube, app music?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
How was the reception for the first single because I
would imagine, now this is like the debut single from
this band, right, No, we'.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
This is we've put out like the re EPs.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
So oh, okay, my apologies.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
No, I mean it's cool. Yeah, I think people liked it.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I don't know. I mean it's like tough to really
put a definitive answer on like how things are received
these days because on all these platforms and people's new music,
like you can see how many people are listening, which
I really don't like because even if one person listened,
maybe be their favorite song of all time. So I
don't really know how to answer. I mean people I've
talked to I really liked it and like our friends
(39:28):
that you know. I mean, there are people I think
it's good. People message just and say like it. It's
my favorite song on the record. That's why it came
off first so I could listen to it.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Really, Neil, is your favorite song on the record?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah, but I guess the single version isn't the real
version on the album. It's much better because there's like
that ending that I didn't put on the single.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Why did you decide to not share the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I feel like it'd be weird to put out a
single over the last minute is just white noise, But
like in the context of the album, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It does no white noise best.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, I know, Emma, what's your favorite song on the album.
Speaker 8 (40:03):
It's so funny.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
My favorite song actually is also Neil, but I'll give
another answer.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
I also like, know me.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
We don't really play that one live munch just so
I kind of have a gripe with Sam. But that's
my favorite song to play and actually Tim and I
were just talking about the other day how we're mad
at Sam that we don't play live.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
We can play tomorrow, we.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Should do it.
Speaker 9 (40:23):
I like them the guitar part that I have in
that song, and it doesn't let me play it.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Wow, you have to get real high and then start
a fight at practice.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Yeah, I think that might be my next move.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Josie, what's your favorite song on the album?
Speaker 10 (40:35):
Oh, my favorite song is probably Don't or I like
know Me.
Speaker 13 (40:39):
I also like Neil. I like I like all of
the songs for different reasons.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Now, when we say Neil, are we talking about Neil
before Me? Or is it just called Neil?
Speaker 10 (40:49):
Just called Neil.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
The reason I called it Neil before Me is because
the version that has the ending is called that.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Okay, gotcha, But I never.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Told the band that I did that, so blindsiding them
right now?
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah, so it was a secret gym rat tughout it. Josiet,
you were saying.
Speaker 13 (41:04):
Oh, but my favorite song, I think the song I
want to highlight is don't because I think that that
is the catchiest song on the album because everybody after
a live show, people are always like, oh, I love that,
I don't know you song they've like, people have said
that the chorus is memorable, and I really liked the
solo that Emma plays also, so I think I just
think that that's a good song. But also I helped
(41:26):
write one of the songs on the album, which is
the last track, which is Truly, So that's kind of
also my.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Favorite is that you singing on Truly as well?
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Yeah, okay, it took me a solid month of practicing
for Truly to not make me cry on.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
The squat Really what about it?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I don't know. It was just very like quiet and
I was emotional.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Okay, So is it the words or was it the
feeling of the music that makes you weepy?
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Both?
Speaker 12 (41:53):
I think it really like Josie really helped complete that song,
now that it wasn't already good, but I think that
both musically and lyrically, it really like elevated it. And
I was just at a moment in my life where
every single word was like ooh yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I think that speaks to your ability to work as
a group where you're all elevating each other. I think
that's what it's all about.
Speaker 14 (42:20):
Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Let's get back into it, Tim, what is your favorite
song on the record?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Do you want to say something?
Speaker 9 (42:34):
I was gonna say that truly also really makes I
cried the other day when Tim and I watched the
full visual album because I'm getting real reflective of my friendships,
so that song gade me cry.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Your friendships with these fools in the band? Are all
of your friendships?
Speaker 8 (42:47):
Well, primarily these ones? Primarily these ones.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Oh you'd like them all right, Tim? What you got?
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (42:54):
I think Neil and Done are like the bangers on
the album, But I don't know. I think I really
like Try. I keep going back to it. I think
it's also like when we were playing it. It's very sparse,
but it needs a lot of restrain and control for
us to play it well, and I think it overall
made us better musicians just practicing it.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
A lot of restraint. Do you mean, like to stay
in the lanes of this song and not either speed
it up or slow it down or wiggle.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
Restrain in terms of not overplaying, and like listening to
each others, listening to what everyone's doing, and making sure
you're not doing too much for us to make April
sound better.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
That makes sense? Yeah, again, The album came out April eleventh.
It is called Instant. There's eleven tracks. A lot of
you have the same favorite. What do you think is
going to be the biggest single on the album? I
know you've released three singles so far. What do you
think is going to be the biggest song on the album,
the one that everybody else is going to like the audience?
(43:56):
What do you think is going to be the crowd favorite?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
They're also all kind of jank. The only thing about
the album is that if you listen to it.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I'm going to cut out that you just called your
own music cut no.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Because, like, if you listen to it front to back,
I think it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
But what if you listen to it back to front.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Honestly, would also makes sense. I think it's more so
like the context. Like, but if you just listen to
one of the songs by themselves, they're like kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
So it's more of an album. I mean, yes, there's
individual singles, but you all agree because you were shaking
your head, that it's better consumed as a whole.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yes, in my opinion, if I had a decision, I
would say the only way to consume it would be
to watch the entire video front to back.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
So your preference is that for people to watch this
album front to back? Do you prefer them to just
watch the whole thing? Well, then that brings us to
this question where can people find the whole album? Visually?
Where can someone watch this whole album?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
If you look up on YouTube Jim Rat instance, it'll
come up.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
So is there a gym Rat channel?
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, although it's called who is Records? I also need
to change that. It's kind of dumb. But who is
Records is like it's kind of like who is Jim Rat?
And then there's like some subsidiary things that are also
on that channel, Like that channel also has like some
stuff that EM and I have done. It has some
stuff that our friends have done. So it's not just
Jim Ratt, But I might honestly rename it like Jim
(45:20):
Rat and Friends or something. For right now, I would say,
look up Jim Ratt instant, it'll.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Come up it. Look how long is the whole visual?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Like thirty five minutes?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Oh okay, and there's no pauses. It just goes straight through.
Because I noticed that, like what I'm listening to the record.
I guess just because the way tracks are put up
or whatever, there's like a like a tiny little gap
in between. It doesn't just flow through, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
It's not supposed to be like I just could like
SoundCloud as well.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Sure, yeah, but uh, I guess what I'm asking is
when you're watching it, there's no gap. It just just
one straight thing, like a long movie. Yeah, whose idea
was that?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
I feel like he had this idea of like a
series of videos that sort of had this story. And
then then we like our friend Hector, who does a
lot of the creative direction the band was involved in.
Like we have our friend Holden who shot the other
music VideA that we have. It's just like a really
incredible cinematographer, which sounds like it's such a long word,
but I don't really know what else is it. Like
he's good at filming, you know. I think we just
(46:13):
posted like a trailer of this, and like literally one
of our friends, who actually one of Emma's friends, who's
like a film person, messaged me and was like who
filmed this? Like this is shot so beautifully, And in
my mind, I'm like, it's just Holden dude, Like I
don't Olden is good, Like I don't really have a
sense of if he's good or bad, but like I
think that it's shot really great, and we knew he
(46:34):
wanted to like while Holden was still around, because I
don't know where he's going when he graduates. He's a student.
I was like, we need to make something big with Holden.
So this with the sort of e Holden Hector and
I got together and we're like, what's the best way
we can do this? And I know I feel bad
that I haven't shown you the video because we'd like
literally just finished it like last night or not quote
(46:54):
unquote finished. Is that the album has like some very
distinct themes that I want to come across that I
don't know I come across with just the music. Like
there's this theme of like paganism, of like sort of
cold nature of these forms. There's a lot of things
that unless I explicitly said, you wouldn't get from the music.
But when you watch the video, it like becomes very clear.
(47:15):
And I think also if you came to a live
show too, like the live shows I sort of had that,
but it's like we're a live band. I feel like
our best thing is how we play live. So it's like,
how can you someone who can't see the live show?
How can you still get that? Like combination of visual
and sonic. That's why the visual album is important?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Gotcha? Do you all all agree that you're better live? Yeah?
Is that why you decided to record the album quote
unquote live? Like just straight through your live recording? Is
that why you'll decided to do it that way?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Okay, great? Is there a website for Gymret.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yes, it's actually who is Jim Rat at GitHub where
I'll just send in the chat because it's honestly awesome.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
Because now were many people that go, we have lives?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
No, like this is a website.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Who is Jim Rat dot? Get hub dot?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I oh, there are like hundreds of pages on here,
Like it is a website. This is a big thing,
A part of.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
The band who put this together?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I did?
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Oh my god. And if that is not enough and
if that is not enough, and if that is not enough,
and if that is not enough, oh that's fantastic. Everybody
go check out this website. The link will be in
the show notes. And also it is who is Jim Rat?
That is Jim Rat, dot get g I T and
Jesus Christ. Just look in the show notes, folks. Okay,
(48:40):
So is that video on the website as well?
Speaker 2 (48:44):
It'll be there, It'll be there.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Okay. Cool, guys, tell everybody where they can find you
on social media? Tim, you do it, mister wizard.
Speaker 7 (48:53):
You can find us on who is Jim Rat is? Yeah,
it's who is Jim Who is Jim Rat?
Speaker 8 (49:00):
Instagram?
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Just Instagram?
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Is that the only place the website? YouTube?
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Okay? But I mean just like no Twitter, no X,
no vero, no TikTok, no blue Sky.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
We're not millennials, man, You're not?
Speaker 3 (49:14):
Wait is millennial older than you?
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Holy shit? What are y'all?
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Jim Ron Jim Ron?
Speaker 4 (49:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I think what are we?
Speaker 5 (49:23):
Gen z?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
The Jim Rat generation? All right, cool, we're gonna go
with Jim Ratt generation. Alicia told me this is the
next album gonna be called Pigeon Frisbee.
Speaker 5 (49:34):
No, the next one's a Jim Rat rock off.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Yeah, that's what's so Oh, you definitely have to come
back and talk about that. That is insane. We have
been speaking with Jim Ratt, which is Sam Josie, Emma
Alicia and tam My. Gosh, guys, this was a lot
of fun. I'm so sorry that it was hard to
wrangle all of you, because, uh, it's hard to talk
to five people and not make any one feel left out.
(50:00):
So I appreciate your patience with me, and I appreciate
you all getting up so dang early in the morning.
Some of us are still wiping the sleep from our eyeballs. Sam,
everybody again. The album came out April eleventh. It's called Instant.
They all prefer that you just watched the whole thing
from front to back. Go to YouTube, put in the
(50:22):
words Jim Rat Instant and you can check it out
there so that everybody can get a feel for what
this is gonna sound like. Is there one song that
I can play on this show on this episode to
everybody a taste? You'll want to pick a song? Can
I play a song that means no means yes?
Speaker 8 (50:41):
No, it means what song?
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Like?
Speaker 8 (50:43):
What song would we do?
Speaker 7 (50:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Ya ya, yes, okay, so yeah, either.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
Neil or know me?
Speaker 8 (50:49):
Oh do know me?
Speaker 13 (50:51):
The intro is like so long, so you'd have to
start playing like a little bit into the intro unless.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Sam's like, I don't cut up my song. Yeo, okay,
So Sam Know Me? This album version that I'm seeing
is four minutes and two seconds long. You want me
to play the four minutes and two seconds version.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah, I feel like it's pretty. It's a good song.
Like the intro. I don't even think the intro is
that long. It's about orientee the listener, you know, especially
in the context of the album, it makes a lot
of sense. I think. Okay, all of these songs have
one thing that doesn't make sense if you don't listen
to it in the context of the album. Like that's
why the Neil doesn't have that ending in the single,
because it's like that ending only makes sense after you've
heard everything that came before it.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Okay, okay, does everybody agree with what he just said?
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (51:35):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (51:35):
And is everybody okay with me playing Know Me?
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Except yes, that's.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
My favorite song and that's my favorite song.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
So yeah, you're go with it too, all right, everybody
but Jesse agrees.
Speaker 5 (51:49):
Fine, I'm want to be kicked out of her band
for this.
Speaker 6 (52:19):
In so.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
That's when she comes.
Speaker 9 (53:36):
She come, she called a.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Speech, come.
Speaker 6 (54:47):
Stretch spec.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Oh that's right. We didn't even get to the part
where y'all all play in each other's bands, which is
the weirdest thing I've ever heard. But we'll talk about
that next when y'all come out to talk about the
rock opera Pigeon Frisbee. Okay, guys, thank you so much
for taking the time out of your busy day and
you're a hectic, I don't know, playing each other's bands
schedules to hang out and let us get to know
(56:18):
you a little bit better on Fascination Street. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
You are welcome by Tim, by Emma, Bye, Alisha, Bye, Josie,
Bye Sam.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
Bye Bye, Jim Brett, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (56:41):
Opening music is the song fsp theme, written, performed and
provided by ambush Vin. Closing music is from the song
say My Name off the twenty twenty one album Underdog Anthems,
used with from from Jax Ollo. If you like the show,
(57:04):
tell a friend, subscribe and rate and review the show
on iTunes and wherever else you download podcasts. Don't forget
to subscribe to my YouTube channel. All the episodes are
available there as well. Check me out on vio at,
Fascination Street Pod and TikTok at fascination Street Pod, and
(57:24):
again thanks for listening.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.