Speaker 1: Welcome to Inside the Studio presented by I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Joe Lee. So, the country band Parmly
Speaker 1: has been pretty busy during the pandemic, and on this
Speaker 1: episode of the home edition of the show, our Quarantine
Speaker 1: correspondent Jordan run Tug talks with Parmel's singer Matt Thomas
Speaker 1: about what they've been up to. For one thing, songwriting sessions,
Speaker 1: which in Nashville often happened in writing rooms during the
Speaker 1: daylight hours, not an all night jam sessions like Fleetwood
Speaker 1: Mac in the seventies. Those have switched up to zoom,
Speaker 1: so they're less like Fleetwood Mac in the seventies than
Speaker 1: ever before. But partly has also been connecting with fans
Speaker 1: on YouTube with a stripped down performance series called The
Speaker 1: Piano Sessions that they've released as an album. And I
Speaker 1: was really interested in what Matt had to say about
Speaker 1: playing some socially distant shows, including one that involved the
Speaker 1: audience in boats. You know, we started this home edition
Speaker 1: of Inside the Studio to let you know how artists
Speaker 1: were coping with quarantine, how it's impacting their lives in
Speaker 1: the way they make their music. And I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, as a music fan. Hearing these stories and
Speaker 1: listening to the music they've been making it it really
Speaker 1: helps me keep hope alive, although this may be the
Speaker 1: first time I've ever hoped to have a boat Anyway.
Speaker 1: If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to
Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio podcast that Jordan's hosts, which is
Speaker 1: called Rivals Music's Greatest Feuds and which is available wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Hello everyone, my name is Jordan
Speaker 1: Runtalg but enough about me. My guest today is a
Speaker 1: lead singer for Parmelay, the heck country band he founded
Speaker 1: with his brother, his cousin, and his best friend. They
Speaker 1: burst onto the scene in twelve with the Morning After
Speaker 1: Party anthem must have had a good time getting a
Speaker 1: hangover just thinking about it. Then they followed it up
Speaker 1: the next year with their smash Carolina, which paid tribute
Speaker 1: to their beloved home state. In February of this year,
Speaker 1: the band released their latest single, Just the Way, a
Speaker 1: collaboration with Blanco Brown that celebrates the imperfections and indiosyncrasies
Speaker 1: of the ones we love. I'm so happy to welcome
Speaker 1: Matt Thomas. Thank you so much for being here today.
Speaker 1: So happy to be here man first and foremost, How
Speaker 1: the hell are you? How does quarantine life find you today?
Speaker 1: It's been great. Um, We've been getting a lot of
Speaker 1: work done in the middle of a house remodel, so
Speaker 1: being home is actually it's a mess. But we're we're
Speaker 1: a little bit at a time, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're doing the best we can with it. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're feeling not only creatively invigorated, but also remodeling
Speaker 1: your entire house. Yeah that's wow. Okay, Yeah, well all right,
Speaker 1: a lot ago with that. Damn. I mean, the music
Speaker 1: seed in Nashville so collaborative, Like, how is just sort
Speaker 1: of being apart from everyone impacted your process for making music?
Speaker 1: It's been crazy. Uh, we've kind of gotten back together
Speaker 1: with our co writers and I'm lucky our producer has
Speaker 1: been staying with us pretty much the whole quarantine, So
Speaker 1: we've been, uh, we've been working on stuff. Um, it's
Speaker 1: weird not being able to have that connection and get
Speaker 1: in a room and you know, just have that energy
Speaker 1: and that the access to that every day is kind
Speaker 1: of I'm missing it. But the Zoom rights have been
Speaker 1: going actually pretty good. I can't lie. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not bad. I think everybody was scared at first. I
Speaker 1: don't know about this, and then I think it's going good.
Speaker 1: You know, what is the typical writing day for you?
Speaker 1: Look like? I mean you approach it almost like going
Speaker 1: to the office. You sit down and get your guitar,
Speaker 1: go to the piano or I think, Um, it varies.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say. Now it's we're writing with a purpose,
Speaker 1: the purpose of uh, you know, follow up single for
Speaker 1: Just the Way album, that kind of thing. But I
Speaker 1: think it's it is like an office visit out here
Speaker 1: a lot, honestly, which can get kind of bored after
Speaker 1: a while. But you never know. It might be a
Speaker 1: late night jam session. It might be you know, an
Speaker 1: iPhone idea come up and then you just run grab
Speaker 1: the guitar and then you start working on it. But
Speaker 1: generally everybody has an eleven o'clock writing appointment. He goes
Speaker 1: sitting in a room and what do you got? What
Speaker 1: do you got? Had this idea? What does that sound like?
Speaker 1: Are your are you have a ton of ideas and
Speaker 1: you have guitar legs out? I mean it's just varies. Um,
Speaker 1: you'd never know, really what are you working on now
Speaker 1: that you're really excited about Oh man, I just uh,
Speaker 1: I just did about four vocals on these songs we
Speaker 1: had recorded back in December that I've been sitting around
Speaker 1: and waiting and so we're really excited brand new songs
Speaker 1: for everybody. Uh, and and writing. I gotta do a
Speaker 1: vocal this afternoon. We are going down to do another
Speaker 1: vocal tomorrow on the song. So all these songs kind
Speaker 1: of that are little work tapes of demos, are kind
Speaker 1: of getting worked worked up, you know, into songs. So
Speaker 1: I do ask you about just the way I mean,
Speaker 1: it's such a positive song, which you know, obviously we
Speaker 1: definitely need more of that in times like this. What
Speaker 1: was the genesis of that sort of loving the the
Speaker 1: imperfections of your of your partner. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think that message is so strong. It's just, uh, everybody
Speaker 1: needs to note that their love just the way God
Speaker 1: made them. You know, you're not you can't be perfect.
Speaker 1: And you know, when I heard that come up in
Speaker 1: the writing room, I was just blown away when I
Speaker 1: heard that line. You know, it's like everybody needs to
Speaker 1: hear this. Let's just go. And it's been such a
Speaker 1: cool thing to see the positivity behind it and people
Speaker 1: connecting with it, and the TikTok videos and all the
Speaker 1: stuff going on. Man, it's crazy. And the music video too.
Speaker 1: I mean, just everyone's reactions to give them the flowers
Speaker 1: was beautiful. Did they know sort of what was what
Speaker 1: they prepped in advance of what was gonna happen? Not really,
Speaker 1: and neither were we We kind of were, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's some videos where I went out and
Speaker 1: gay flowers to random girls, just out in public, and
Speaker 1: that was. That was tough. Like it, trust me, it was.
Speaker 1: It was really awesome to see the reaction for the
Speaker 1: ones who got it, but some of them didn't. They
Speaker 1: freaked out, you know, thought I was trying to sell
Speaker 1: them something. But um, that gesture was really cool. I
Speaker 1: saw a real person out in public. I was just
Speaker 1: handing random people flowers and it was It was really awesome.
Speaker 1: So they had the idea for the video, but they
Speaker 1: really didn't tell us, didn't tell the girls nor us.
Speaker 1: They were like, we're gonna get you to handle a flower,
Speaker 1: and so it was cool. Man. I think it's um,
Speaker 1: it's very surprising to see people's reaction to that, and
Speaker 1: it's just a little gesture, but it's really really cool,
Speaker 1: really meaningful. How did how did Blanco Brown get involved? Well,
Speaker 1: we met Blanco a couple of years ago at the
Speaker 1: c m A Awards, I think it was he was
Speaker 1: talking to the president of our label and the president
Speaker 1: of the company. So I looked at him. I said,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? He's talking to the top two
Speaker 1: people that I record label. I need to know this guy.
Speaker 1: Need to meet him. He's he's interesting. He looked interested. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta meet this guy. So we
Speaker 1: basically just walked up to him, Barry and I and said, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up. We're Matt Berry from Parmay, and who are you?
Speaker 1: And what do you do? You you want to write?
Speaker 1: Basically just today, let's do it. And so we exchanged
Speaker 1: numbers and I think about six months went by and
Speaker 1: he came out to the house and we just hit
Speaker 1: it off like that, became friends. And I didn't even
Speaker 1: know what he did. I said, what are you seeing?
Speaker 1: What he said, well, I do this. I got stuff
Speaker 1: called trailer Trap, and I was like, well, let's here it.
Speaker 1: So we sat in my living room, cranked it up loud,
Speaker 1: and he just played us all these songs and he
Speaker 1: animated it, saying, I was like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: this is, but it's cool and I dig it and
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna catch people, I'm telling you. So
Speaker 1: we wrote some songs and then about six months later
Speaker 1: he had to get up. I've never even heard it.
Speaker 1: This was way before we get up, when we were writing,
Speaker 1: and it came out and boom until we had been
Speaker 1: buzzed the whole time, and this song we had just
Speaker 1: the way kind of in the pocket, and and just
Speaker 1: away kept coming up. We kept playing it on the
Speaker 1: bus and everybody loved it, but it just wasn't quite right,
Speaker 1: like something's missing, the production is not quite We did
Speaker 1: like five versions of it. They're like, man, we need something.
Speaker 1: And David Fanning, our producer manager, he said, why don't
Speaker 1: you get Blanco on it? So I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I called him up. We went to Atlanta like
Speaker 1: two days later, drove down there and got a studio
Speaker 1: and he never sang it before that night the recording year.
Speaker 1: Really I sent it to him, but but our voices
Speaker 1: just missed so good, and I knew he could sing,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody else out here really hurt
Speaker 1: him sing unless they've been to a show. So it
Speaker 1: was just uh one of those things, man, just kind
Speaker 1: of fell from the sky. How it all happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know that's where all the best stuff comes from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. I mean it's just it's such a romantic song.
Speaker 1: What you call your imperfections, I call beautiful. I mean
Speaker 1: that's just such a sentiment of a true romantic which
Speaker 1: leads me to ask, what's the most romantic thing you've
Speaker 1: ever done? Oh man, that's a good one. Uh let
Speaker 1: me think for people listening right now, I see his
Speaker 1: face turning very red right now, I have to admit
Speaker 1: I'm not too good in that department. I guess um.
Speaker 1: I think probably some some roses in the bedroom kind
Speaker 1: of thing. You know, done that a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I say, hand and I roses on the street. Is like,
Speaker 1: it's pretty damn romantic too, Yeah I did say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean you know a lot of bands
Speaker 1: they described themselves like a family, which but that's you know,
Speaker 1: literally true from your case, your your your brother, your cousin,
Speaker 1: your best friend, and you started playing music with in
Speaker 1: your father's band. Was there ever a moment for you
Speaker 1: when music didn't seem like it was gonna be your future.
Speaker 1: Did you know from early on that like that was
Speaker 1: really what you're gonna be doing. I knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to do it. We didn't know how. We didn't have
Speaker 1: anybody to show us anything about. All we knew was
Speaker 1: start a band, start playing your songs, and somebody from
Speaker 1: a record that was gonna come down and pluck you
Speaker 1: up and give you a record deal, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be all gravy after that, you know. So it was
Speaker 1: nobody and my dad played in and like the local
Speaker 1: backporch scene and local you know, bars and stuff, and
Speaker 1: we played with him and that, and uh, he was
Speaker 1: really good and we we knew, but that was as
Speaker 1: far as it went. I mean, we never really went
Speaker 1: out of town with him to play maybe an hour
Speaker 1: up the road once a month maybe to good play
Speaker 1: a show somewhere. But once we decided to be Parmaly,
Speaker 1: we all kind of made a pack together. Before we Parmarily,
Speaker 1: we were cover band for about a year and a
Speaker 1: half and we were doing like the what we call
Speaker 1: menu venues where you you know, you have a menu
Speaker 1: and you have a venue. But they paid, they paid guarantees.
Speaker 1: I love that they so they were they were they
Speaker 1: paid money because they're restaurant, and but you had to
Speaker 1: play four hours and you had to play you know,
Speaker 1: at least eight percent covers, and they didn't mind if
Speaker 1: you threw in a couple of your songs. But we
Speaker 1: had a couple of songs that people started asking about,
Speaker 1: shot a video and it was exciting, and so at
Speaker 1: one point I think we were like, hey, do we
Speaker 1: want to really do this? And everybody said, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: And we decided from that moment on we were just
Speaker 1: gonna do all our own music and we're gonna not
Speaker 1: not really do mini covers. It's all to be an
Speaker 1: original band. And we went from making you know, maybe
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars a night bringing your p a in
Speaker 1: and playing three or four hours, to making maybe a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a night just a hundred total or of
Speaker 1: play for free, to to play thirty minutes or an
Speaker 1: hour of your own hour and a half of your
Speaker 1: own music. So we took that jump early on in
Speaker 1: the start of Parmaly, when we started it and we
Speaker 1: knew we wanted to do it, we just kept trying
Speaker 1: and kept doing it. Kept doing it, kept doing it.
Speaker 1: Uh ran up to credit cards. When somebody said no,
Speaker 1: we said, okay, why And if they explained why, we
Speaker 1: would go try to fix that. Why Or somebody said
Speaker 1: you should go work with this person that we thought
Speaker 1: might have a glimpse of a chance of getting us
Speaker 1: to the next level, we would go work with that person.
Speaker 1: Always try to find a positive light in any situation
Speaker 1: and chase that instead of dwelling on the negative stuff.
Speaker 1: I think that's the key to it. And you're or
Speaker 1: just being done them. I don't know. You know, well,
Speaker 1: you were working with Nikki six for a while from
Speaker 1: Motley Crewe. What was that like? I had no idea
Speaker 1: about that. Recently it was awesome, man, it was killer
Speaker 1: Um we around California working on some music just back
Speaker 1: in two thousand six. I think it's really cool. Uh.
Speaker 1: The producer had worked with Nikki Uh in his band
Speaker 1: Rides of Destruction, so there was a little relationship there
Speaker 1: and we hit him up and like, hey, man, we're
Speaker 1: in town. We want to you write and co produce
Speaker 1: with us, like two or three songs, And so he
Speaker 1: came to the student you and we wrote and produced
Speaker 1: a recorded a couple of songs. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: I mean the songs were okay looking back, I mean
Speaker 1: that it was good. It was. But the coolest part
Speaker 1: was when he walked into the studio and you're like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, there's Nicki Sis on there. And then
Speaker 1: the other cool part was he was in the middle
Speaker 1: of writing the Heroin Diaries, so we said it the
Speaker 1: mixing board and he read us his actual written note
Speaker 1: of the night he died and came back. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's like story time with Nikki Sids gather around the campfire,
Speaker 1: gather on the mixing desk. Yeah, that's cool man. He
Speaker 1: was as a band. You've you've been through so much.
Speaker 1: There was the robbery in South Carolina a decade ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's hard to imagine even coming back
Speaker 1: from that. What's been keeping you moving forward since then?
Speaker 1: And you know now in in in Corona times, Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's coming up on the tenth year anniversary
Speaker 1: of the shooting. And for those out there who don't know, Um,
Speaker 1: we were playing a club on a Monday night in
Speaker 1: a little town called rock Hill, South Carolina. I think
Speaker 1: we might have fifteen people at the show, maybe maybe twenty.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know we got paid like nothing
Speaker 1: at night fifteen. I don't know what it was. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we had an r V out back of the club
Speaker 1: at the end of the night and Scott and I
Speaker 1: are on the r V and Barry and Josh were
Speaker 1: in the club packing up, and uh, some dudes, we had,
Speaker 1: some dudes knocked on the door, came in with bandanas
Speaker 1: and uh wanted one of our cash. And we didn't
Speaker 1: really we didn't have any cash. We didn't make any
Speaker 1: of that night, you know, but they thought we were
Speaker 1: the you know, the big Rocks fan in the r Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the r V, you know, like a r V um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they had guns. They had guns pointed at
Speaker 1: me my head, demanded cash. And Scott um, he's a
Speaker 1: concealed carrier. He was in the back of the r
Speaker 1: V and he I was asking for help and so
Speaker 1: he came back and engaged that they fired on fired
Speaker 1: on us, demanding money. And Scott he had his he
Speaker 1: had his handgun with him and he got the gunfight
Speaker 1: right there in the r V, you know, five of
Speaker 1: us in a little lounge, and uh, he got shot
Speaker 1: three times, but he took he took out both the guys.
Speaker 1: One guy's not here anymore, the other guys in prison.
Speaker 1: But Scott was shot three times and almost died. He
Speaker 1: had he hit us for more r so he bled out. Um.
Speaker 1: Luckily there was a there was a police officer like
Speaker 1: right beside the club at McDonald's, so he came. I
Speaker 1: was able to get the ambulance there fast. But Scott
Speaker 1: went in and the doctor told us he said, I
Speaker 1: mean he he was just shaking his head like this.
Speaker 1: He's like most people with this injury have a five
Speaker 1: percent chance of living five percent. So uh, he had
Speaker 1: to go in and he had like three life saving surgeries.
Speaker 1: He was in the hospital for forty days, in a
Speaker 1: coma for ten days. Uh. He had They had to
Speaker 1: slice his foot open on his calf to drain the fluid.
Speaker 1: And that's his kick throwing pedal, so his leg wasn't working.
Speaker 1: I mean, we went from dialysis, not he's going to
Speaker 1: stay on the dialysis rest of his life, his foot
Speaker 1: not amputating his leg. It was all this worst case
Speaker 1: scenario stuff. And not only that, the other guys print
Speaker 1: that the other guy that he shot was on the
Speaker 1: same floor. So it's almost like we had our people there,
Speaker 1: and once his people came up, it was just a mess,
Speaker 1: you know. So luckily, somehow we pounded through it. Forty
Speaker 1: days later, he came back to came back home. He
Speaker 1: still had open wounds. We had to dress it became nurses,
Speaker 1: he did. We did double physical therapy to kid him
Speaker 1: out of there. It's like, I mean, we were a team.
Speaker 1: And and got home and and uh, about four months
Speaker 1: or we came back out to Nashville and nobody really
Speaker 1: knew how bad it was, but we were going to
Speaker 1: get that record deal. And so we did a showcase
Speaker 1: about four months later, and uh that the owner of
Speaker 1: Broken Boat Records, like, he said, you boys passed the test,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sign you. So I mean, it's crazy, man.
Speaker 1: And then, uh, you know, it's like this man, it's
Speaker 1: up and down. It's always been up and down and
Speaker 1: always gonna be up and down. But I think that
Speaker 1: made us. That just locked us in forever. And we had,
Speaker 1: you know, we had been a band that was two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten. We had already been a band for
Speaker 1: ten years at that point, still hadn't had a record deal,
Speaker 1: still riding around doing clubs and didn't get shot in
Speaker 1: the club. Yeah, but we had Nashville. That was kind
Speaker 1: of promising that. Look, Nashville was on the horizon. We
Speaker 1: knew we had to get back out to Nashville because
Speaker 1: we could get us record deal. And if you could
Speaker 1: get a record deal, we could change things, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean now to say that's ten years
Speaker 1: or you know that was ten years ago, it was crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: It's flies by. I mean, just in time when when
Speaker 1: so many musicians are really scared just about you know,
Speaker 1: how how are they gonna make it with without being
Speaker 1: able tour and stuff. I mean, that's just thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing that. Such an incredible story of just perseverance
Speaker 1: and pressing on and and just following the music too.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a good message to share at
Speaker 1: times like this too, that you can endure and you
Speaker 1: can survive. Absolutely, man, I think, Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: My dad always told us, he said, we sit, what
Speaker 1: what do we do next? We never knew, we didn't
Speaker 1: have anybody, didn't have anybody to say, well, this is
Speaker 1: the game plan, this is the map you should take.
Speaker 1: He's I just keep on plug and keep on much
Speaker 1: to us, So we just follow that motto. I guess
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I noticed that I knew a
Speaker 1: new not not a face, but a new figure in
Speaker 1: a lot of your press photos. Big Blue the pickup truck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, dude. We we used to uh that's what
Speaker 1: we drove to work in every day. We used to
Speaker 1: work with my dad in the logging woods, cutting trees,
Speaker 1: and uh that truck from the time we were We
Speaker 1: actually took that truck to our very first uh show
Speaker 1: when we were like fourteen. Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: the first uh, that was our vehicle, and every show
Speaker 1: we ever played with him and his band, we loaded
Speaker 1: a gear in the back of that truck. Was always
Speaker 1: in the gig. And so when he passed in two
Speaker 1: thousand six, we had the trucks sitting here, and sitting
Speaker 1: here about a couple of years ago, we took it
Speaker 1: into the restoration shop and it's being you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get it back out on the road so we
Speaker 1: can kind of ride in it again. Maybe take it
Speaker 1: to a show. Oh yeah, I was gonna say, you
Speaker 1: that should like that should be like your big like
Speaker 1: grand arrival, like you know, a black and you got
Speaker 1: that and maybe to see amazed. We'll take oh man,
Speaker 1: drop us off. I mean not being able to perform
Speaker 1: right now. I know it's got to be so tough,
Speaker 1: but but how are you staying connected to the fans.
Speaker 1: I've been watching the piano sessions and those have been
Speaker 1: so great. Yeah, you know, actually we did. We played
Speaker 1: a couple of shows this week. It was yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: We played some shows. We um, you know, we we
Speaker 1: went and you know, everybody's distance. Everybody wears the masks
Speaker 1: when we load in. Every crew guy wears masks when
Speaker 1: you load in the other cruise wearing. They had you know,
Speaker 1: stationed off places for people to sit. Everybody did good.
Speaker 1: They stayed away. It was outdoors. Um, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: kind of followed those social distancing rules and it went great.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean meet and Greece can't really do
Speaker 1: meet and greets, and it's a little strange, you know,
Speaker 1: when you get there, it's not the same camaraderie and
Speaker 1: nobody can come up to the front of the stage.
Speaker 1: Everybody's way. But the second show we played was the coolest.
Speaker 1: We did a a private show on a boat dock
Speaker 1: overlooking the whole lake and was the fourth of July fireworks. Um,
Speaker 1: but that was really cool man. I mean to see,
Speaker 1: I bet there was five boats out in front of us,
Speaker 1: but you know, everybody's in their own boat. We're on
Speaker 1: stage away from everybody. Um, and it worked, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think there's a way to
Speaker 1: do shows in this venue. And no it's not the same,
Speaker 1: but there's still a way to do shows. And if
Speaker 1: everybody kind of follows rules and does it correct. Driving
Speaker 1: boats show, I've never heard of that. That's a really
Speaker 1: cool idea. That was the best, man. And then the
Speaker 1: coolest part was I was able to hop on a
Speaker 1: pontoon and uh and go seeing, you know, go meander
Speaker 1: through the whole boats, you know some one. That was
Speaker 1: the best part. Man, It's great. What's been I mean
Speaker 1: that this sounds like this one was up there. But
Speaker 1: what's sort of the most incredible, bizarre and the same
Speaker 1: amazing show you've ever played? Like all different types, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Um on the on the deck of the U. S.
Speaker 1: Battleship Dewey in the middle of the Persian golf WHOA,
Speaker 1: that was the coolest, man. We did a show for
Speaker 1: the troops UH service members out in UH in a
Speaker 1: in the middle of the like said the Persian golf.
Speaker 1: They flew us from a helicopter from a aircraft carrier
Speaker 1: all the way to this battleship that was out in
Speaker 1: the middle of the water, landing on it. And man,
Speaker 1: that was a small deck to land on. Two we
Speaker 1: were coming in. I was like freaking out. But it
Speaker 1: was awesome, toy. They had all the sailors up there
Speaker 1: and they shut the boat down. It was just pure quiet,
Speaker 1: dark and we just played acoustic on the deck for
Speaker 1: you know, about fifty people. It was killer Man. And
Speaker 1: stayed the night there and then I went back to
Speaker 1: the battleship and played the show and that as well.
Speaker 1: I think that was probably the coolest experience, man, we've
Speaker 1: we've ever had. Oh yeah, that's amazing. Wow, spent the
Speaker 1: night on the boat. Yeah, the bhip the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: I think. Um, those uh, they were up there for
Speaker 1: an extended period of time for that run, they had
Speaker 1: all been up there longer than like six months. I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that you can't understand how hard everybody's
Speaker 1: working on a day to day basis unless you're actually
Speaker 1: there and you see what everybody does, and and it's, um,
Speaker 1: everybody's so happy to have you there and they want
Speaker 1: to show you what they do. So we got to
Speaker 1: see all the missiles, we got to see all the
Speaker 1: computers that run everything, we got to drive the boat.
Speaker 1: It's just a yeah, that's cool man, it's fun. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Hopefully get you back out on the road with everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to crowd surf and stuff like
Speaker 1: that soon. I know, man, it's it's a I'm feeling
Speaker 1: I really miss it. I think I know everybody is.
Speaker 1: It's just in you and you can't especially when you
Speaker 1: when something reminds you. The other day we started up
Speaker 1: hacking a trailer to do some rehearsals, and you just
Speaker 1: you have this glimpse of a memory of just being
Speaker 1: at a festival or something, and like knowing it's just
Speaker 1: those things hit you every once in a while you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: I miss being on the road. I really hate and
Speaker 1: we can't be out there, you know, doing it like that.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll get back out sooner than later. Has
Speaker 1: there been a silver lining for you throughout this whole
Speaker 1: uh quarantine lockdown or deal. You're getting this stuff done
Speaker 1: around my house and I wouldn't been able to do that.
Speaker 1: Sounds about you know, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 1: do it myself. You know, used to be on the
Speaker 1: road and you have somebody come to take care of it.
Speaker 1: But I'm here and I was like, oh, I'm not
Speaker 1: playing the show. I can go help help the guys
Speaker 1: out and just worked. Um. Other than that, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody's kind of reflecting on life
Speaker 1: and and getting closer to your loved ones and staying
Speaker 1: in contact with them and just kind of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the personal time you get to spend with everybody, and
Speaker 1: and uh, just kind of I think it's it's checking.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like Okay, this can't happen. You know. It's kind
Speaker 1: of look back on things in a different light and
Speaker 1: reflect on things in a little different way. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just changed. Man, Like we're gonna have to come
Speaker 1: out of this thing and it's never gonna be like
Speaker 1: it was. You know, think about the mask thing. You know,
Speaker 1: four months ago, if somebody told you put a mask
Speaker 1: on everybody, No, man, I can't do it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now you know, everybody's just wearing them. It's like a normal,
Speaker 1: It's like okay whatever, you know, it's not that big
Speaker 1: a deal put a mask on you know what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: So it's a new norm. But we'll we'll, we'll roll
Speaker 1: with with the punches. You know what can we look
Speaker 1: forward to? You said you're working on the new album?
Speaker 1: How far along any What are you when you think
Speaker 1: fans can expect that? Oh? Man, Well, we're just writing
Speaker 1: songs and and the best songs always win. And you
Speaker 1: never know if you put together an album or EP
Speaker 1: or just another single. Um, but we will have something. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Piano Sessions was the latest thing we put out,
Speaker 1: which was really fun. We're gonna have something coming out. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be next week. They keep pushing
Speaker 1: it back, but you have to stay tuned for the
Speaker 1: information on our socials at Parmament Music. So um, cool
Speaker 1: little thing we did. Man. Just I think right now
Speaker 1: it's just about finding and writing and and just trying
Speaker 1: to get the best possible songs we can for everybody
Speaker 1: and focusing in on that and the shows too. I
Speaker 1: mean we still we have shows books um at the
Speaker 1: in August, September, October, and hopefully everybody's figuring out how
Speaker 1: to do it, because there is a correct way to
Speaker 1: do it. I feel like we can all do it correct.
Speaker 1: If everybody kind of goes in on it and does
Speaker 1: it right, we can still do shows. I love the
Speaker 1: pianos a stud I love the cover of Drops to
Speaker 1: Jupidy Thanks man. I love that song. I remember hearing
Speaker 1: that song going, oh man, and then for the love
Speaker 1: of me, I can't understand why we haven't been covering
Speaker 1: that song since it came out. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: The light boat went off in my head. Like last year,
Speaker 1: I was like, let's do Drops the Jupiter and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I love the song. Why have you
Speaker 1: not covered as perfect? Yeah? Oh my god, it's really
Speaker 1: made it your own. It's crazy, man, Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: I love it man. It's it's it's hard finding those
Speaker 1: cover songs to do. Man. That worked for for a
Speaker 1: band for us, but that's definitely one that um, I
Speaker 1: gotta love the song before I've covered you know, that's
Speaker 1: the main thing. So I love that song. What was
Speaker 1: your favorite song to cover when you were doing uh
Speaker 1: menu venues? Oh man, one of the bankers was killing
Speaker 1: in the name of we Acoustic cootst that guy's going
Speaker 1: and then we might play let's get it on to
Speaker 1: say the same set. So that is a hell of
Speaker 1: a one too punch Wow, yeah, and all all intertwines. Man,
Speaker 1: we grew up listening to all that stuff. They are
Speaker 1: always two crowd pleasers. Well my, my, my last question.
Speaker 1: I always love to ask. This is fascinating what people
Speaker 1: to say if you could snap your fingers right now
Speaker 1: and how everything go back to normal and no more quarantine,
Speaker 1: no more virus. What's the very very first thing you
Speaker 1: would do? Person? You'd hug trip, you want to take
Speaker 1: a restaurant, you want to go to what what would
Speaker 1: you do? I'd go home to see my mom. I
Speaker 1: had seen her in six months I think I mean FaceTime,
Speaker 1: but not actually seen her. And my grandmother. I have
Speaker 1: to actually have two grandmothers that are in their eighties, uh,
Speaker 1: still living awesome, and they're they're doing well, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to think I would kiss
Speaker 1: the virus and go you know, it's tough. So I'd
Speaker 1: love to go hug their next. You know that is
Speaker 1: a good answer. Man. Thank you so much for your music.
Speaker 1: It's real pleasure. Hey, thank you so much. It's pleasure
Speaker 1: being here. We'll hope to see you soon. Absolutely. We
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