May 30, 2025 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey y'all, this is Paul and Brian and we are
part of the Vegabonds and you're listening to the Backstage
Pass on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine and
on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network.
You can also stream the show on THWN dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass of course, coming up
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(01:03):
ninety nine point nine place to welcome in Paul and
Brian and always introducing you guys to new groups out there.
You gonna want to hear about this one, the Vega
Bonds to the show. What's up, guys, How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How's it going? Man?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Good to have you guys here too.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We'll tell you what I got to start right there, Paul,
we were talking a little bit before we went live
here too a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I love the fact is you guys coming together.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
This is not your first rodeo and this new EP
called Not Today across all the DSPs out there for streaming.
Tell us a little backstory of the Vega Bonds, how
you and Brian kind of got together and formed this
great group.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I love this sound.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, really, it all started back in college pretty much
an old band went the Auburn Alabama Brian and I
became friends through another group of friends at a fraternity,
and then we just slowly started the cover band in
college and then started adding member by member to the
vegabonds like from other bands, and started writing music right away,
just started playing all over college campuses, getting out touring,
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finding whatever gigs we could get at the time in Alabama.
So and here we are today, like seven albums.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Later, just sixteen years, Man, sixteen years, but that one
to six decided Brian for you. I'm sure it's been
a world wind through those years too, actually to get
to know people of the band and kind of have
this uh southern rock kind of country sound too. When
did you guys kind of discover like, you know, we
want to be this type of band, we want to
have this type of sound, This is the kind of
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music we want to make.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, actually we wanted to be exactly like the Backstreet Boys,
but none of us could dance.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
And then Paul was like I played bass, so I
was like I played drums.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, I remember the first man, the first uh first
practice we had, we did a ballad of the Movers
and Shakers. It was another song and Danny had lyrics,
and I remember the first I mean, we got done
with that song and it was like this is something good.
And of course, like we when we first started big
comparisons were like the Black Crews and Kings of Leon.
(02:56):
But we knew I think from the first practice, I
mean first note, we were like it was never like
we're going to try to be like this. We're just
a bunch of you know, dudes from Alabama that play
rock and roll, and it just turned into this sound.
And we've spent the last sixteen years trying to, you know,
really just polish it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's really morphed over the years because you're a college band.
It's really like you're what's big in college markets are
country and jam and so we had six members at
time and we're just jamming around all the time, trying
to be Black Crows all the brothers with a little
country twist. And then eventually, over the years you just
start to form I think every artist is like this.
(03:36):
You start to form your identity as a group. And
it was probably when we did what we Were Made
Of album. We had those like signature songs that made
our sound, and you know, it was like kind of
like a mix between Black Crows, Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers and this other like Kings Leon and Country Twain
five and those were like really the biggest influence. We
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kind of nailed it from Our guitar player had this
signature melody guitar playing lick. Our keyboard player bow Is
added to the band, and that really just brought a
whole new level to the sound.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's a great sound of NOUB We're gonna play some
music here in a little bit off that new EP
Centers and Saints. I got to go back a little
bit with you guys too. There was a lot of
cool songs that I can't deal was off of Their Too,
A Heartache and of Memory, really cool things. And that
title track to the record there Too tell us a
little bit about I guess the collection fall of just
the making of that album think back.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
To twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I got a chance to listen to a lot of
cool tunes off of Their Too that really I think
resonate with people of all ages.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That album was the whorld win because it was happening
during twenty twenty, which was hard for any artists to
get together. In practice, we are due for a new one.
We were about to put it out in early twenty twenty.
We did our first session and we just go into
the studio every couple of months with a new group
of songs and really like the vibe kind of changed
for that record a little bit because we were just
kind of wanting to get out out of the house
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more and the only way we're getting out of the
house was into summer hanging around on boats and being
around pool so that was really our only getaway. So
we kind of wrote an album theme more around that vibe.
But as you hear that, that yacht rock vibe, and
that was a big inspiration because bo are keyboard players
and Richard, our guitar player, are huge in yacht rock,
so they started writing parts and that's kind of what
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we're you hear, can't deal, that's that kind of vibe,
a heartache and of memory, same thing there, Centers and
Saints and those were all in the same session in
the middle of the summer. And yeah, but you know
that there's a lot of rock songs on there too,
but the whole, the whole vibe centers of Saints that
just like let's get away, let's let's start a new
it's kind of get break out of this whole pandemic
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kind of vibe.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
So well, I think it also, I think and it
turned out I love the album, but I think a
lot of like albums that were being released right in
twenty twenty, twenty twenty, they were all like sad, and
I remember we were all like, let's not release a sad.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
At like, yeah, we don't write a sad album. And
then and even when we do have a sad song,
it probably is all major keys and very happy sounding
and it's really dark behind it, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's like that. That's the way a lot of our
writing is done.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So we're trying to make people dance, have fun and
also think about the lyrics, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I gotta ask you about this. The band name.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Everybody asked me always tell you have a band onto
as well, and where they get this from. I loved
it because it was different, something I hadn't heard before
out there too. I thought I heard it before, but
I was like, yeah, I kind of know that, and
then it just comes out with a really cool like
vib So this band name, Vega Bonds. How did this
kind of start? In the conversation?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
So I yeah, So when we first uh yeah, me
and Paul were in a band called Top House, and Danny,
our singer, was in a band called Danny and the Tanks,
and we wanted to come up with yeah, and we
wanted to come up with a new name. And Alex,
he was our old guitar player. He was like, we
should be the Vagabonds, which is a wonder and a traveler.
(06:52):
That's kind of what we're doing. But Vagabonds was actually
taken by I mean, there was a couple, you know, vagabonds,
so I mean, you know we really I mean the
way we say it too, the way especially we're all
Alabama guys, so just be like vagabond. So we were like, yeah,
let's let's spell it vg, A B, O and DS,
(07:12):
which worked out for me because I probably couldn't spell
vagabond anyway, so.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
That worked out.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I can spell it now, we're good. But no, that
that was when we landed on that. It was kind
of a you know, we needed something to I think
Rich study the other day.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
We needed something to put on marquees and it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Just kind of looks better too.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, you know when you look at it, it looks
like little dancier like a rock then. But we also
needed the name really quick, and we're like, oh, we
could always change it. We don't like it, but now
next thing we know, we played like fifty or eighty.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Shows, We're like, I guess this is it?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like, and we kept rolling with it, and you know,
I don't think people loved it back then, but people
love it now. So we just you know, that's who
we are. It's got a whole ring to it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It really does too.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Like say, we're gonna talk about the album covering a
little bit off that, We've gotta play a little music
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called Not Today, It's from the Vegabonds.
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Speaker 7 (08:40):
It's been alone here pushing hard to hit dead lives,
got the feeling lock.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
I'm come between a rock and a hop please. I'm
went past due for a little bit of downtoime.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I'm gonna take a long time out of town for
a change of peace where I can live my tubles
all just play away.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Today I'm sitting on the clean liar skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my butts to lass
and take my time.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Get out on the porch, swing, sip a.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Town tan, take it easy.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
I gotta start with the beauty and my baby by
on my side, and.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Where the wear is of the world can't bring me
down to day. Now nights to day.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Kids playing on the roof, swing sticks on the grillom
out of the birds sing. I'm moving every minute, and
then I wouldn't wanna change things, Gonna close mine.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
House and the sunshine on my face.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Today, I'm sitting on the clear blue skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my boots to lass
and take my time.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Get out on the port swain, sip a town train,
take it easy.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I gotta start with the bure.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
And my baby by my side, where the wards of
the world can't bring me down to day. No night
today now today.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Today, I'm sitting on the club blues skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my boots to relax.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
And taking my time getting out on the bushway. Simple
time train take you these here.
Speaker 13 (11:46):
I gotta start with the few and my bed by
my side, where the wearers of the world can't bring
me down Today.
Speaker 14 (11:58):
No down to day, not today, no not today.
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Vega Bonds Not today. This was one that really caught
(13:53):
my attention to off the record there too, the three
song EP love this one good vibe Paul really.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Is Yeah this one, Brian? How many times did we
rework this? Come out with this? I mean, we've been
working on this song for a while and we never
found the right vibe and exactly it And then that
last studio session it just hit.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, that was that was a tempo. I remember the
first time we recorded it, I just kept I really
liked the song, and I think Danny kind of changed
the lyrics from the first time we recorded to the last,
but it was tempo. Man, it was kind of a slower,
but we went in that last time and I told Tom,
I was like, man, we got to speed it up.
And then it just said, Man, the groove locked in
(14:34):
really really well, and that's the one you hear now
and it's it's It slowly became one of my favorite
ones off the new album, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It was really when when Daniel was writing the lyrics,
it was really just about being a song where you
just kick all your worries away and just enjoyed time
with friends and family on a Sunday afternoon. And that
was the vibe, which is basically the vibe for our
whole band. We love that, that's our favorite thing to do,
and we just wanted this share that it kind of
experienced with our listeners. And I think what really kind
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of made a cool difference in the song, and I
didn't even know it until the recording was done. Our
guitar parts in the song Richard Lady's guitar parts out,
and I was like, WHOA, what song am I listening to?
Like I didn't even know at that point it was.
It was just a perfect vibe and it just made
us feel like we had to put.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
This out as one of the singles.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm glad you did too. You off this new a
three song EP too. Let's talk about the cover there
mentioned I mentioned not Today the title of this so
three song EP out there kind of a cool thing
you got to, like, I said, guy and a girl
kind of like said arm around. The guy's got this
arm around the girl too, and it's like you see
mountains in the background, you see the lake water. So
it's kind of a chill record at least the vibe
I'm getting to as a songs that, like you said,
make you feel good. I love this this artwork on
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this record.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, well it's actually a single for right now. It's
Not Today. It's the third single off the new album
coming out at the end of June twentie, yes, June twentieth,
So like did Not Today Little EP, it's just kind
of a stretch between the other two singles we just
put out, like kind of put together, but yeah, the
whole vibe of the artwork. We had a friend from
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work do it and it was like, Hey, we just
want to have two people looking out over just some water,
like just looking at pure bliss and the oblivion and
just kind of arms around each.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Other with no no care, no cares, no worries, like
just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Yeah, shout out the cat. She she did a great
job on it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I kind of coordinated with her and asked the band,
you know, asked the guys and said, you know, what
do you got to see in this single art?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
And that's kind of how and I sent it.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
To her and that she sent it back, you know,
gave me a couple of options, and I was like
that that one's it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So when it comes to kind of some fun stuff
in the band, when you guys aren't doing the music
and things like that, maybe eating together, having a little camaraderie,
little chemistry there, what do you like to do kind
of for fun out there too when not doing music?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
She kind of named it. I mean, we are a
big sports fan. There's a football game on, we will
watch every one of them.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I watched Alabama Miami game, right, but no sports sports
is a big thing.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Uh, we're huge Graves fans.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I mean if you saw our house of the band house,
it is set up for a massive projector for movies,
TV shows. Uh, you have a pool in the backyard.
We'd like to hang out grill. You know, that's kind
of our thing. We got a cagreator too, So like
all here, we drink.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
We drink responsibly though, yeah responsibly.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I love it too because remember back in the day,
I'm such a I love the Astros down here for
Houston obviously Texas down here too, so it's been my
team for a long time. So I go back to
the nineties when you had Glavin Smoltz and you had
Steve Avery and Tom Glavin and all those guys, Denny Nageles,
so it was kind of cool to see the rivalry
between them. And after the fourteen whatever it was, fifteen
division titles, and I know that the biggest thing and
kind of soret them is only the one championship. But
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it's such a dynasty there too, So I kind of
compare like the latest Astros run the last eight or
nine years, so that Braves run of that that late
early had nineties to early two thousands. So that's a
cool thing to really mix it. And that's where you know,
sports and music. I feel like Brian kind of overlap
and they're so connected between each other, you.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Know, Oh absolutely. I mean we got a song called
Tom Petty and the Braves.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, it quite like it says like, uh, Tom Levin
on the mat, like you know, it's it's referencing just
going to like, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The nineties.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It is the nineties World Series and the one that
just tappened a couple of years ago. Yeah, the whole point,
the whole point of that song was we always said
that everybody in the Southeast loves Tom Petty and they
love the Atlanta Braves, and we started thinking about, like,
oh that's really true, Like everyone that lives in this
part of the country, they just they love Braves and
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Tom Petty. And so they wrote a whole song about it,
threw in Tom Petty lyrics into a song while talking
about the Braves Baseball World Series in each first So
it's a.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Very country, twanky little tune. But yeah, you haven't heard it.
Check it out. That's speaking of.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Sports people, to go check that out out to where
do you have to be tomorrow. That's off this little
three song here ep just came out May sixteen. Tell
us all about this one.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, our keyboard player boat write that and with the
whole sense in mind of like staying up late at night,
hanging out and somebody's like, hey, how about we go
get another drink. We got a little bit more time
to kill and it's like, where do you have to
be tomorrow? You know that that whole phrase, and it's
like we can have another beer.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We can have another you know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It says in song another smoke. But it's like hang out,
take the night to another level. That's the whole vibe
of the song. He's just kind of riding, riding a
high and keeping it going.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Such a great song out there too, so well, time
to play another one here from the Vegabonds again. The
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Speaker 4 (19:45):
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Speaker 4 (20:06):
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Speaker 7 (20:10):
I keep playing that moment over in my mind. I
swear I'd do it different if I had another track,
but that don't change the fact she's gone.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
And I'm sitting on a bar stool all along.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Seeing bar tend.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
To pull me into the one just like the youd
warm Bigger Town Niggastrong.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Then I'll have another want. I don't wanna stop telling
her down on her nobod, the good all song about
it look gone wrong. I'll think about a thing about
a all nine long dude. I don't want to stop
tell her all her nobod. And I can still see
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them looking those telling them down byes when she said
I have a binger see you bye.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I still see him at the bottle heavy guys, it's
about tender.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Be ready bout ten of big. Come on, pull me
and do the wall.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Just snack the you the wall, bigger town nigga strong.
Then I'll have him do the water.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I don't want to stop till the hurt don't her,
no boy, put on something about a little gone wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I'll tybout a thing about a awnine long.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
I don't want to stop till the herd now her
look at it. Yeah, come on and pull me do
the don't just snack you.
Speaker 18 (21:58):
The barm nigger Tom it's strong. Then I'll have a
noodle one. I don't want to stop til the burd
don what all song about love?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Don't go, don't drink about it, think about it all night.
I don't want to stop.
Speaker 14 (22:15):
To the don't.
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Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey aus Ian Flanagan, Nashville Recording Artists, and now back
to the show with Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. I know
you guys would like this song right there, so the
Hurt no Hurt right there too from the Vega Bonds
here back here with Brian Paul of the group The
Vegabonds dot com you check out for more tour schedules, merchandise,
all the good stuff there too. I love this one
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because it was like a build the whole thing, like
from the start, the instrumentation. I was talking to you
guys about this before we got on the air here too,
and it just has that crescendo, that climax, and then
you start getting into it and then the drums start
hitting and this is like just a feel good song.
Riding down the highway, cranking up going seventy five eighty
miles per hour. Of course, grow the speed limit, but
at the same time, this will get you out of
(24:15):
control pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, it was. I remember so when we first recorded,
I mean it was it was.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
It was a little little different, but when I think
Tom was the first one that kind of came in
and was like, hey, y'all try a little bit like this,
So we molded it into that one.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
But yeah, it's one of those that will definitely have
you drive and really pass, so be careful.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, that's if you haven't noticed, that's a common trend
with our music. You might drive fast if you're driving.
This is it's high up tempo stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So it's a great song. It's a great tune. And
you guys heard it right here too, our affiliates across there.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Also.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I heard radio look up the podcast out there under
the backstage past one of the top search podcasts out
I heard radio out there. I gotta ask you about it.
Just a lot of things coming up for you guys.
I mean, obviously the tour is staying busy, but also
you guys have opened already for some of your heroes,
Leonard Skinner, the Almond Brothers and O'Brian was telling me
this before he goes every time you step on stage
and like, you know, do your thing in front of
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the crowd, man and just you know, really get in
front of fans and kind of do their thing, meet
them and sign autographs and you know, sell merch and
that kind of thing. It's got to be just a
fun a fun thing just being in the performing arts business,
and then you get to watch your heroes do their
thing on stage.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Just gotta be mind blown, right, Oh, I mean that's
the best part. Like especially a bit you know, a
great opening slot. You know, you get done with the
show and you just get to watch them. You know,
on those opening there's there's not a lot of pressure
of that. You just you get on, you play forty
five an hour and then you just you know, grab
your beer and go watch them play.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And especially when they play songs that you're just you know,
like the Skinner thing.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I mean, their whole set list was just a hit list,
I mean everything Freebird, Tuesday's Gone. It was fifteen twenty
songs of just everything. So I remember getting done with
that one and just like this is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, Like you said, the best part of the show
sometimes is like get the work done and then you
get the hangout.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And that's what it's like when you're having like the
big opening spots.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So that's that's no doubt the best part out there too.
And that's what we're gonna see next week there in
Nashville is interviewing all these great artists too, and then
getting a chance to get out there and watch them
do their thing in front of those live crowds. And
I love the factor is like you said, CMAF has
such a big week and then all the fans will come.
I met people on the plane from like Australia last year, England,
the UK just coming over there to do the meet
and greets and like getting an autograph. You know, it's
(26:33):
a big thing to them because obviously they're the ones,
you know, buying the tickets and going to concerts and
promoting you guys out there too and watching you do
your thing, and you know, their favorite that just draw
to the band.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That's what this music does.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Really resonates with a lot of people out there too,
So that's why it's it's a it's a fun week
and and sometimes my favorite thing is, well, yeah we
get to meet the artist, but I love just meeting
the fans just as much because they mean so much
to what you guys do in your career out there
and the reason you guys make the music. And I
love to say not everybody can be an artist to
be in the performing arts uh business out there too.
All right, Let's have a little fun as we close
(27:02):
it here too, Uh, Nashville no stranger to restaurants. Every
corner seems like something is opening up out there, Paul,
I love this. Everybody's tried this, this and this, and
I'm like, well, I love pizza, I love Italian food.
So done a few things there. I got the hot
chicken crave out of my system a while back. Hattie Bees,
that props to them too, and no pun, the ones
out there that's my favorite out there too.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I'm not free to say it, but uh.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Bar Tacoh, this place called Monel somebody turned me on
to today. It's like country cooking that's supposed to be
pretty good. Yeah, you guys are in town there too
and kind of doing your thing and in Music City.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Where do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
M depends on what kind of food really, I guess yeah.
My girlfriend kill me right now and not be on
the answer this right off the top of my head.
What's your spot, Brian.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well, I'm close.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Like there was a there was a barbecue place out
Manny I was called Fat Boys that just closed.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
But I mean like man Dley's Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Martin Barque actually prefer ed le's yeah somebody, I'm.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Not man, I'm not being a the Hot Chicken though,
like I just yeah it small love them. But yeah,
there's also it's just good to just if you're coming
just google like pop ten and man, you could go
days on that and just I mean, Nashville's got good
food anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, every kind of food is there.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean actually the place I go out to the
most is probably Virago is a sushi restaurant, and I
go there, like I try to go every Monday or so.
They do like a half off deal on some of
the things. But it is some of the best sushi
I've had in the city. And I love sushi too.
But uh, man, Nashal, like you said, there's the steakhouses
here great, but there's not a.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're all really good halls, you know, Bourbon Steak, all
those places. But else what other spots do.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
You go to?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Brian man, I man, I could I cook?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We cook actually the truth, like we're usually grilling or
making things. Germantown I think has the best restaurant. So yeah,
like Rolfing Daughters. Uh, butcher Town Hall is a really
good place.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Germany jump up with their wings tell Brown so I
can see you know, that's a good place out there. Yeah,
I gotta go to Actually this week I have finally
go to do it. I went to a Prid's game
at CRS for this year for the Country Radio seminar.
This time is gonna be a Nasville Sounds minor league game.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I heard.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They're fun, They're good. It's it's just a cool thing,
triple A. The Milwaukee Brewers want to do it. Have fun,
go with a couple of buddies of mind and just
really enjoy baseball. Would kind of calm before the storm
and uh, just get out there watching play little mind
league baseball want.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And there's there's actually if you go over in that
area in the Germantown area like Brooklyn Bowl and Third
and Home, you could go up there and watch the
game from the balconies or from the patio. So you
can do that too and then go over to the game.
But the Nashal Day, it's a fun, it's a fun experience.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So there's a block party this Saturday there.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Oh yeah, there's a block this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So it's a block party for outside the baseball stadium
in Brooklyn Ball.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, it'd be a throwdown.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I bet it is too.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like I said, it's a nice Homestand they got coming
up there too. I think they actually play the Gwinnett Strippers,
which is the Triple at the Atlanta Braves coming up
this week while in town there. So that's gonna be
a cool thing to say. Had you guys on tremendous
Brais fans, you can watch all the great talent coming
through the pharmacist from their Triple A like Guenette, that's
gonna be kind of fun to watch them play six
game homestay. Ill either go probably Wednesday night or Sunday
or somewhere I get through at the Opry and just
(30:30):
have put all the equipment away and just get out
there and enjoy America's national pastime too.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You know, we talked about the food there too, like sweets.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean sometimes my wife would be like, I got
this sweet craving. I want to go out and get
this or whatever if it's ice cream or you know,
like I said, anything out there too that could be
in a sweet category. Are you guys find yourself ever
digging on colachis or donuts.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Things like that?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Man, if I ever do donuts, I just go to
dunk and I love their eyes. I mean I'm actually
drinking one right now.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You love the mice coffees.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Man, I love's so terrible for you, And I'm always
like it's bad because every time I go through, I'm like.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
You know, give me a donut too.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Ice cream person, that's like my like any kind of
ice cream?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
What's the what's the one in town that's really good?
It's over in twelfth South.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Jenny's.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
They also have something in twelve South called Wanta Spoon
And it's like you can mix cereal and other toppings
and with ice cream and it stirs it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Up for you. It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
That's a great name too.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's like, yeah, I think that was That's cool.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I like, I love a good place with a good name.
Speaker 16 (31:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, that's a cool kid.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Rock really missed one. He could have named it bar
with the bar, like he's got a bar out here
and you miss that, man.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
That's the fun stuff right there. All right, this is
always a fun one. If you guys have never got
into this artist to business and music business thing. Uh,
we're doing music full time. What other profession would you
have gone down?
Speaker 10 (31:59):
What other road?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Occupation wise or was it just music?
Speaker 6 (32:03):
I would have been a doctor for sure. No, no music.
I was thirteen years old, man, I was like out.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Of music and I had a degree in information systems
in accounting, and I did not want to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
It actually it actually made me practice debase a lot harder.
It was like better at this, Like.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I'm nice you guys stuck with music too, and you're
you're like, yeah, the purpose of doing what you want
to do, not what you have to do, compared to
making music for a liver, that's uh.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's a good feeling, no doubt. Oh yeah, yeah. Well
two of the best out there to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It's Brian Paul, the Vega Bonds, the Vega Bonds dot
com for the tour dates, merchandise. Make sure you guys
check it out, give them a lif across all the
social media and of course the new record coming out
June twentieth, looking forward to that across all your streaming
uh platforms. Not today the current single out there with
those other two songs we talked about today. Two here
on the backstage pass again kyb in ninety eight point one,
(32:59):
You're Broadcasting network and our friends at KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine. Guys, appreciate you being with us
and looking forward to more of this to come and hey,
continued success going forward.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Hey, thanks you for having us, Brandon having us got it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Two of the best out there. Look them up the
Vegabonds dot com. That's it for us, for invading Nashville,
coming up there June twenty twenty five. Coming up June
fifth to seventh, Music City Center, doing the show live
there too. Your favorite artist is more than likely going
to be joining us there for those three days, and
of course we'll be there on Wednesday. I think there's
an American Idol event that I've got to get pulled
out to there. But it's always fun to do that
too with those great shows, And of course, thanks everybody
(33:34):
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Sports Guys podcast dot com. We'll see you in Nashville.
We'll see you at the Grand ol Opry Sunday June
eighth for the forty third annual Sunday and Morning Country.
Until then, take care, god list, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 19 (33:46):
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(01:03):
ninety nine point nine place to welcome in Paul and
Brian and always introducing you guys to new groups out there.
You gonna want to hear about this one, the Vega
Bonds to the show. What's up, guys, How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How's it going? Man?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Good to have you guys here too.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We'll tell you what I got to start right there, Paul,
we were talking a little bit before we went live
here too a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I love the fact is you guys coming together.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
This is not your first rodeo and this new EP
called Not Today across all the DSPs out there for streaming.
Tell us a little backstory of the Vega Bonds, how
you and Brian kind of got together and formed this
great group.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I love this sound.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, really, it all started back in college pretty much
an old band went the Auburn Alabama Brian and I
became friends through another group of friends at a fraternity,
and then we just slowly started the cover band in
college and then started adding member by member to the
vegabonds like from other bands, and started writing music right away,
just started playing all over college campuses, getting out touring,
(01:57):
finding whatever gigs we could get at the time in Alabama.
So and here we are today, like seven albums.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Later, just sixteen years, Man, sixteen years, but that one
to six decided Brian for you. I'm sure it's been
a world wind through those years too, actually to get
to know people of the band and kind of have
this uh southern rock kind of country sound too. When
did you guys kind of discover like, you know, we
want to be this type of band, we want to
have this type of sound, This is the kind of
(02:23):
music we want to make.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, actually we wanted to be exactly like the Backstreet Boys,
but none of us could dance.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
And then Paul was like I played bass, so I
was like I played drums.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, I remember the first man, the first uh first
practice we had, we did a ballad of the Movers
and Shakers. It was another song and Danny had lyrics,
and I remember the first I mean, we got done
with that song and it was like this is something good.
And of course, like we when we first started big
comparisons were like the Black Crews and Kings of Leon.
(02:56):
But we knew I think from the first practice, I
mean first note, we were like it was never like
we're going to try to be like this. We're just
a bunch of you know, dudes from Alabama that play
rock and roll, and it just turned into this sound.
And we've spent the last sixteen years trying to, you know,
really just polish it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's really morphed over the years because you're a college band.
It's really like you're what's big in college markets are
country and jam and so we had six members at
time and we're just jamming around all the time, trying
to be Black Crows all the brothers with a little
country twist. And then eventually, over the years you just
start to form I think every artist is like this.
(03:36):
You start to form your identity as a group. And
it was probably when we did what we Were Made
Of album. We had those like signature songs that made
our sound, and you know, it was like kind of
like a mix between Black Crows, Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers and this other like Kings Leon and Country Twain
five and those were like really the biggest influence. We
(03:57):
kind of nailed it from Our guitar player had this
signature melody guitar playing lick. Our keyboard player bow Is
added to the band, and that really just brought a
whole new level to the sound.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's a great sound of NOUB We're gonna play some
music here in a little bit off that new EP
Centers and Saints. I got to go back a little
bit with you guys too. There was a lot of
cool songs that I can't deal was off of Their Too,
A Heartache and of Memory, really cool things. And that
title track to the record there Too tell us a
little bit about I guess the collection fall of just
the making of that album think back.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
To twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I got a chance to listen to a lot of
cool tunes off of Their Too that really I think
resonate with people of all ages.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That album was the whorld win because it was happening
during twenty twenty, which was hard for any artists to
get together. In practice, we are due for a new one.
We were about to put it out in early twenty twenty.
We did our first session and we just go into
the studio every couple of months with a new group
of songs and really like the vibe kind of changed
for that record a little bit because we were just
kind of wanting to get out out of the house
(04:54):
more and the only way we're getting out of the
house was into summer hanging around on boats and being
around pool so that was really our only getaway. So
we kind of wrote an album theme more around that vibe.
But as you hear that, that yacht rock vibe, and
that was a big inspiration because bo are keyboard players
and Richard, our guitar player, are huge in yacht rock,
so they started writing parts and that's kind of what
(05:15):
we're you hear, can't deal, that's that kind of vibe,
a heartache and of memory, same thing there, Centers and
Saints and those were all in the same session in
the middle of the summer. And yeah, but you know
that there's a lot of rock songs on there too,
but the whole, the whole vibe centers of Saints that
just like let's get away, let's let's start a new
it's kind of get break out of this whole pandemic
(05:37):
kind of vibe.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
So well, I think it also, I think and it
turned out I love the album, but I think a
lot of like albums that were being released right in
twenty twenty, twenty twenty, they were all like sad, and
I remember we were all like, let's not release a sad.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
At like, yeah, we don't write a sad album. And
then and even when we do have a sad song,
it probably is all major keys and very happy sounding
and it's really dark behind it, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's like that. That's the way a lot of our
writing is done.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So we're trying to make people dance, have fun and
also think about the lyrics, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I gotta ask you about this. The band name.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Everybody asked me always tell you have a band onto
as well, and where they get this from. I loved
it because it was different, something I hadn't heard before
out there too. I thought I heard it before, but
I was like, yeah, I kind of know that, and
then it just comes out with a really cool like
vib So this band name, Vega Bonds. How did this
kind of start? In the conversation?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
So I yeah, So when we first uh yeah, me
and Paul were in a band called Top House, and Danny,
our singer, was in a band called Danny and the Tanks,
and we wanted to come up with yeah, and we
wanted to come up with a new name. And Alex,
he was our old guitar player. He was like, we
should be the Vagabonds, which is a wonder and a traveler.
(06:52):
That's kind of what we're doing. But Vagabonds was actually
taken by I mean, there was a couple, you know, vagabonds,
so I mean, you know we really I mean the
way we say it too, the way especially we're all
Alabama guys, so just be like vagabond. So we were like, yeah,
let's let's spell it vg, A B, O and DS,
(07:12):
which worked out for me because I probably couldn't spell
vagabond anyway, so.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
That worked out.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I can spell it now, we're good. But no, that
that was when we landed on that. It was kind
of a you know, we needed something to I think
Rich study the other day.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
We needed something to put on marquees and it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Just kind of looks better too.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, you know when you look at it, it looks
like little dancier like a rock then. But we also
needed the name really quick, and we're like, oh, we
could always change it. We don't like it, but now
next thing we know, we played like fifty or eighty.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Shows, We're like, I guess this is it?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like, and we kept rolling with it, and you know,
I don't think people loved it back then, but people
love it now. So we just you know, that's who
we are. It's got a whole ring to it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It really does too.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Like say, we're gonna talk about the album covering a
little bit off that, We've gotta play a little music
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Speaker 7 (08:40):
It's been alone here pushing hard to hit dead lives,
got the feeling lock.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
I'm come between a rock and a hop please. I'm
went past due for a little bit of downtoime.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I'm gonna take a long time out of town for
a change of peace where I can live my tubles
all just play away.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Today I'm sitting on the clean liar skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my butts to lass
and take my time.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Get out on the porch, swing, sip a.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Town tan, take it easy.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
I gotta start with the beauty and my baby by
on my side, and.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Where the wear is of the world can't bring me
down to day. Now nights to day.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Kids playing on the roof, swing sticks on the grillom
out of the birds sing. I'm moving every minute, and
then I wouldn't wanna change things, Gonna close mine.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
House and the sunshine on my face.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Today, I'm sitting on the clear blue skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my boots to lass
and take my time.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
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Speaker 8 (10:33):
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Speaker 11 (10:35):
And my baby by my side, where the wards of
the world can't bring me down to day. No night
today now today.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Today, I'm sitting on the club blues skies on the
top of this mountain, kicking off my boots to relax.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
And taking my time getting out on the bushway. Simple
time train take you these here.
Speaker 13 (11:46):
I gotta start with the few and my bed by
my side, where the wearers of the world can't bring
me down Today.
Speaker 14 (11:58):
No down to day, not today, no not today.
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Vega Bonds Not today. This was one that really caught
(13:53):
my attention to off the record there too, the three
song EP love this one good vibe Paul really.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Is Yeah this one, Brian? How many times did we
rework this? Come out with this? I mean, we've been
working on this song for a while and we never
found the right vibe and exactly it And then that
last studio session it just hit.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, that was that was a tempo. I remember the
first time we recorded it, I just kept I really
liked the song, and I think Danny kind of changed
the lyrics from the first time we recorded to the last,
but it was tempo. Man, it was kind of a slower,
but we went in that last time and I told Tom,
I was like, man, we got to speed it up.
And then it just said, Man, the groove locked in
(14:34):
really really well, and that's the one you hear now
and it's it's It slowly became one of my favorite
ones off the new album, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It was really when when Daniel was writing the lyrics,
it was really just about being a song where you
just kick all your worries away and just enjoyed time
with friends and family on a Sunday afternoon. And that
was the vibe, which is basically the vibe for our
whole band. We love that, that's our favorite thing to do,
and we just wanted this share that it kind of
experienced with our listeners. And I think what really kind
(15:04):
of made a cool difference in the song, and I
didn't even know it until the recording was done. Our
guitar parts in the song Richard Lady's guitar parts out,
and I was like, WHOA, what song am I listening to?
Like I didn't even know at that point it was.
It was just a perfect vibe and it just made
us feel like we had to put.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
This out as one of the singles.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm glad you did too. You off this new a
three song EP too. Let's talk about the cover there
mentioned I mentioned not Today the title of this so
three song EP out there kind of a cool thing
you got to, like, I said, guy and a girl
kind of like said arm around. The guy's got this
arm around the girl too, and it's like you see
mountains in the background, you see the lake water. So
it's kind of a chill record at least the vibe
I'm getting to as a songs that, like you said,
make you feel good. I love this this artwork on
(15:43):
this record.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, well it's actually a single for right now. It's
Not Today. It's the third single off the new album
coming out at the end of June twentie, yes, June twentieth,
So like did Not Today Little EP, it's just kind
of a stretch between the other two singles we just
put out, like kind of put together, but yeah, the
whole vibe of the artwork. We had a friend from
(16:06):
work do it and it was like, Hey, we just
want to have two people looking out over just some water,
like just looking at pure bliss and the oblivion and
just kind of arms around each.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Other with no no care, no cares, no worries, like
just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Yeah, shout out the cat. She she did a great
job on it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I kind of coordinated with her and asked the band,
you know, asked the guys and said, you know, what
do you got to see in this single art?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
And that's kind of how and I sent it.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
To her and that she sent it back, you know,
gave me a couple of options, and I was like
that that one's it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So when it comes to kind of some fun stuff
in the band, when you guys aren't doing the music
and things like that, maybe eating together, having a little camaraderie,
little chemistry there, what do you like to do kind
of for fun out there too when not doing music?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
She kind of named it. I mean, we are a
big sports fan. There's a football game on, we will
watch every one of them.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I watched Alabama Miami game, right, but no sports sports
is a big thing.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Uh, we're huge Graves fans.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I mean if you saw our house of the band house,
it is set up for a massive projector for movies,
TV shows. Uh, you have a pool in the backyard.
We'd like to hang out grill. You know, that's kind
of our thing. We got a cagreator too, So like
all here, we drink.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
We drink responsibly though, yeah responsibly.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I love it too because remember back in the day,
I'm such a I love the Astros down here for
Houston obviously Texas down here too, so it's been my
team for a long time. So I go back to
the nineties when you had Glavin Smoltz and you had
Steve Avery and Tom Glavin and all those guys, Denny Nageles,
so it was kind of cool to see the rivalry
between them. And after the fourteen whatever it was, fifteen
division titles, and I know that the biggest thing and
kind of soret them is only the one championship. But
(17:52):
it's such a dynasty there too, So I kind of
compare like the latest Astros run the last eight or
nine years, so that Braves run of that that late
early had nineties to early two thousands. So that's a
cool thing to really mix it. And that's where you know,
sports and music. I feel like Brian kind of overlap
and they're so connected between each other, you.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Know, Oh absolutely. I mean we got a song called
Tom Petty and the Braves.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, it quite like it says like, uh, Tom Levin
on the mat, like you know, it's it's referencing just
going to like, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The nineties.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It is the nineties World Series and the one that
just tappened a couple of years ago. Yeah, the whole point,
the whole point of that song was we always said
that everybody in the Southeast loves Tom Petty and they
love the Atlanta Braves, and we started thinking about, like,
oh that's really true, Like everyone that lives in this
part of the country, they just they love Braves and
(18:44):
Tom Petty. And so they wrote a whole song about it,
threw in Tom Petty lyrics into a song while talking
about the Braves Baseball World Series in each first So
it's a.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Very country, twanky little tune. But yeah, you haven't heard it.
Check it out. That's speaking of.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Sports people, to go check that out out to where
do you have to be tomorrow. That's off this little
three song here ep just came out May sixteen. Tell
us all about this one.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, our keyboard player boat write that and with the
whole sense in mind of like staying up late at night,
hanging out and somebody's like, hey, how about we go
get another drink. We got a little bit more time
to kill and it's like, where do you have to
be tomorrow? You know that that whole phrase, and it's
like we can have another beer.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We can have another you know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It says in song another smoke. But it's like hang out,
take the night to another level. That's the whole vibe
of the song. He's just kind of riding, riding a
high and keeping it going.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Such a great song out there too, so well, time
to play another one here from the Vegabonds again. The
Backstage Past, Power Vivant website, a grand slam of music
and sports, The Sports Guides podcast dot Cown Till the Hurt,
don't hurt.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You'll crack this up on your truck right here again
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Speaker 4 (20:06):
The Vegabonds were backstage doing these shows. Morning Cups stay too.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I keep playing that moment over in my mind. I
swear I'd do it different if I had another track,
but that don't change the fact she's gone.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
And I'm sitting on a bar stool all along.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Seeing bar tend.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
To pull me into the one just like the youd
warm Bigger Town Niggastrong.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Then I'll have another want. I don't wanna stop telling
her down on her nobod, the good all song about
it look gone wrong. I'll think about a thing about
a all nine long dude. I don't want to stop
tell her all her nobod. And I can still see
(20:58):
them looking those telling them down byes when she said
I have a binger see you bye.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I still see him at the bottle heavy guys, it's
about tender.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Be ready bout ten of big. Come on, pull me
and do the wall.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Just snack the you the wall, bigger town nigga strong.
Then I'll have him do the water.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I don't want to stop till the hurt don't her,
no boy, put on something about a little gone wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I'll tybout a thing about a awnine long.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
I don't want to stop till the herd now her
look at it. Yeah, come on and pull me do
the don't just snack you.
Speaker 18 (21:58):
The barm nigger Tom it's strong. Then I'll have a
noodle one. I don't want to stop til the burd
don what all song about love?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Don't go, don't drink about it, think about it all night.
I don't want to stop.
Speaker 14 (22:15):
To the don't.
Speaker 19 (23:05):
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Speaker 16 (23:18):
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Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey aus Ian Flanagan, Nashville Recording Artists, and now back
to the show with Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. I know
you guys would like this song right there, so the
Hurt no Hurt right there too from the Vega Bonds
here back here with Brian Paul of the group The
Vegabonds dot com you check out for more tour schedules, merchandise,
all the good stuff there too. I love this one
(23:55):
because it was like a build the whole thing, like
from the start, the instrumentation. I was talking to you
guys about this before we got on the air here too,
and it just has that crescendo, that climax, and then
you start getting into it and then the drums start
hitting and this is like just a feel good song.
Riding down the highway, cranking up going seventy five eighty
miles per hour. Of course, grow the speed limit, but
at the same time, this will get you out of
(24:15):
control pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, it was. I remember so when we first recorded,
I mean it was it was.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
It was a little little different, but when I think
Tom was the first one that kind of came in
and was like, hey, y'all try a little bit like this,
So we molded it into that one.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
But yeah, it's one of those that will definitely have
you drive and really pass, so be careful.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, that's if you haven't noticed, that's a common trend
with our music. You might drive fast if you're driving.
This is it's high up tempo stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So it's a great song. It's a great tune. And
you guys heard it right here too, our affiliates across there.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Also.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I heard radio look up the podcast out there under
the backstage past one of the top search podcasts out
I heard radio out there. I gotta ask you about it.
Just a lot of things coming up for you guys.
I mean, obviously the tour is staying busy, but also
you guys have opened already for some of your heroes,
Leonard Skinner, the Almond Brothers and O'Brian was telling me
this before he goes every time you step on stage
and like, you know, do your thing in front of
(25:12):
the crowd, man and just you know, really get in
front of fans and kind of do their thing, meet
them and sign autographs and you know, sell merch and
that kind of thing. It's got to be just a
fun a fun thing just being in the performing arts business,
and then you get to watch your heroes do their
thing on stage.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Just gotta be mind blown, right, Oh, I mean that's
the best part. Like especially a bit you know, a
great opening slot. You know, you get done with the
show and you just get to watch them. You know,
on those opening there's there's not a lot of pressure
of that. You just you get on, you play forty
five an hour and then you just you know, grab
your beer and go watch them play.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And especially when they play songs that you're just you know,
like the Skinner thing.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I mean, their whole set list was just a hit list,
I mean everything Freebird, Tuesday's Gone. It was fifteen twenty
songs of just everything. So I remember getting done with
that one and just like this is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, Like you said, the best part of the show
sometimes is like get the work done and then you
get the hangout.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And that's what it's like when you're having like the
big opening spots.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So that's that's no doubt the best part out there too.
And that's what we're gonna see next week there in
Nashville is interviewing all these great artists too, and then
getting a chance to get out there and watch them
do their thing in front of those live crowds. And
I love the factor is like you said, CMAF has
such a big week and then all the fans will come.
I met people on the plane from like Australia last year, England,
the UK just coming over there to do the meet
and greets and like getting an autograph. You know, it's
(26:33):
a big thing to them because obviously they're the ones,
you know, buying the tickets and going to concerts and
promoting you guys out there too and watching you do
your thing, and you know, their favorite that just draw
to the band.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That's what this music does.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Really resonates with a lot of people out there too,
So that's why it's it's a it's a fun week
and and sometimes my favorite thing is, well, yeah we
get to meet the artist, but I love just meeting
the fans just as much because they mean so much
to what you guys do in your career out there
and the reason you guys make the music. And I
love to say not everybody can be an artist to
be in the performing arts uh business out there too.
All right, Let's have a little fun as we close
(27:02):
it here too, Uh, Nashville no stranger to restaurants. Every
corner seems like something is opening up out there, Paul,
I love this. Everybody's tried this, this and this, and
I'm like, well, I love pizza, I love Italian food.
So done a few things there. I got the hot
chicken crave out of my system a while back. Hattie Bees,
that props to them too, and no pun, the ones
out there that's my favorite out there too.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I'm not free to say it, but uh.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Bar Tacoh, this place called Monel somebody turned me on
to today. It's like country cooking that's supposed to be
pretty good. Yeah, you guys are in town there too
and kind of doing your thing and in Music City.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Where do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
M depends on what kind of food really, I guess yeah.
My girlfriend kill me right now and not be on
the answer this right off the top of my head.
What's your spot, Brian.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well, I'm close.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Like there was a there was a barbecue place out
Manny I was called Fat Boys that just closed.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
But I mean like man Dley's Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Martin Barque actually prefer ed le's yeah somebody, I'm.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Not man, I'm not being a the Hot Chicken though,
like I just yeah it small love them. But yeah,
there's also it's just good to just if you're coming
just google like pop ten and man, you could go
days on that and just I mean, Nashville's got good
food anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, every kind of food is there.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean actually the place I go out to the
most is probably Virago is a sushi restaurant, and I
go there, like I try to go every Monday or so.
They do like a half off deal on some of
the things. But it is some of the best sushi
I've had in the city. And I love sushi too.
But uh, man, Nashal, like you said, there's the steakhouses
here great, but there's not a.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're all really good halls, you know, Bourbon Steak, all
those places. But else what other spots do.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
You go to?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Brian man, I man, I could I cook?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We cook actually the truth, like we're usually grilling or
making things. Germantown I think has the best restaurant. So yeah,
like Rolfing Daughters. Uh, butcher Town Hall is a really
good place.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Germany jump up with their wings tell Brown so I
can see you know, that's a good place out there. Yeah,
I gotta go to Actually this week I have finally
go to do it. I went to a Prid's game
at CRS for this year for the Country Radio seminar.
This time is gonna be a Nasville Sounds minor league game.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I heard.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They're fun, They're good. It's it's just a cool thing,
triple A. The Milwaukee Brewers want to do it. Have fun,
go with a couple of buddies of mind and just
really enjoy baseball. Would kind of calm before the storm
and uh, just get out there watching play little mind
league baseball want.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And there's there's actually if you go over in that
area in the Germantown area like Brooklyn Bowl and Third
and Home, you could go up there and watch the
game from the balconies or from the patio. So you
can do that too and then go over to the game.
But the Nashal Day, it's a fun, it's a fun experience.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So there's a block party this Saturday there.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Oh yeah, there's a block this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So it's a block party for outside the baseball stadium
in Brooklyn Ball.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, it'd be a throwdown.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I bet it is too.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like I said, it's a nice Homestand they got coming
up there too. I think they actually play the Gwinnett Strippers,
which is the Triple at the Atlanta Braves coming up
this week while in town there. So that's gonna be
a cool thing to say. Had you guys on tremendous
Brais fans, you can watch all the great talent coming
through the pharmacist from their Triple A like Guenette, that's
gonna be kind of fun to watch them play six
game homestay. Ill either go probably Wednesday night or Sunday
or somewhere I get through at the Opry and just
(30:30):
have put all the equipment away and just get out
there and enjoy America's national pastime too.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You know, we talked about the food there too, like sweets.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean sometimes my wife would be like, I got
this sweet craving. I want to go out and get
this or whatever if it's ice cream or you know,
like I said, anything out there too that could be
in a sweet category. Are you guys find yourself ever
digging on colachis or donuts.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Things like that?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Man, if I ever do donuts, I just go to
dunk and I love their eyes. I mean I'm actually
drinking one right now.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You love the mice coffees.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Man, I love's so terrible for you, And I'm always
like it's bad because every time I go through, I'm like.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
You know, give me a donut too.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Ice cream person, that's like my like any kind of
ice cream?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
What's the what's the one in town that's really good?
It's over in twelfth South.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Jenny's.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
They also have something in twelve South called Wanta Spoon
And it's like you can mix cereal and other toppings
and with ice cream and it stirs it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Up for you. It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
That's a great name too.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's like, yeah, I think that was That's cool.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I like, I love a good place with a good name.
Speaker 16 (31:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, that's a cool kid.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Rock really missed one. He could have named it bar
with the bar, like he's got a bar out here
and you miss that, man.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
That's the fun stuff right there. All right, this is
always a fun one. If you guys have never got
into this artist to business and music business thing. Uh,
we're doing music full time. What other profession would you
have gone down?
Speaker 10 (31:59):
What other road?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Occupation wise or was it just music?
Speaker 6 (32:03):
I would have been a doctor for sure. No, no music.
I was thirteen years old, man, I was like out.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Of music and I had a degree in information systems
in accounting, and I did not want to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
It actually it actually made me practice debase a lot harder.
It was like better at this, Like.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I'm nice you guys stuck with music too, and you're
you're like, yeah, the purpose of doing what you want
to do, not what you have to do, compared to
making music for a liver, that's uh.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's a good feeling, no doubt. Oh yeah, yeah. Well
two of the best out there to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It's Brian Paul, the Vega Bonds, the Vega Bonds dot
com for the tour dates, merchandise. Make sure you guys
check it out, give them a lif across all the
social media and of course the new record coming out
June twentieth, looking forward to that across all your streaming
uh platforms. Not today the current single out there with
those other two songs we talked about today. Two here
on the backstage pass again kyb in ninety eight point one,
(32:59):
You're Broadcasting network and our friends at KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine. Guys, appreciate you being with us
and looking forward to more of this to come and hey,
continued success going forward.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Hey, thanks you for having us, Brandon having us got it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Two of the best out there. Look them up the
Vegabonds dot com. That's it for us, for invading Nashville,
coming up there June twenty twenty five. Coming up June
fifth to seventh, Music City Center, doing the show live
there too. Your favorite artist is more than likely going
to be joining us there for those three days, and
of course we'll be there on Wednesday. I think there's
an American Idol event that I've got to get pulled
out to there. But it's always fun to do that
too with those great shows, And of course, thanks everybody
(33:34):
that makes the show possible here on iHeartRadio and the
Sports Guys podcast dot com. We'll see you in Nashville.
We'll see you at the Grand ol Opry Sunday June
eighth for the forty third annual Sunday and Morning Country.
Until then, take care, god list, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 19 (33:46):
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