WEBVTT - In Case You Missed It: #30 - Brandon from LANCO 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:06.120 All right, welcome episode thirty to the Bobby Cast, our 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.479 first one after the break. By the way, Mike d 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.319 welcome back right yet before right there? You good buddy, 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.720 I'm good. Good to see you again. I see every day. Uh. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.080 Today we have brand In, the late singer of Atlanco here. Hey, Brandon, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.959 what is up? Man? You've been adjusting your chair. The 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.000 difference in this and any other interview that you'll ever 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.360 do in your whole life. These are the most comfortable chairs. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.240 They are. You just sit back and relax. Wait about 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.800 eighteen nineteen minutes you'll start crying. You won't even notice it. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.159 I know that's the problem. I feel like I'm too comfortable. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.440 All about getting comfortable. I'm gonna watch a movie, but 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.040 have a drink of this. Don't look at what I 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.080 dropped inside of it. A Brandon's here from Lanco. And 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.720 before we talk about stuff, I want to play a 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.280 little bit of Lanko because you guys are considered brand 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.120 new artists. So if you haven't heard in the Atlanta's music, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:01:01.080 there's a little long lived tonight, crazy baby baby, don't 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:06.000 be scared when you got me. When you set each 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:13.720 other tree, there's a little song called American Love Story 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:21.040 The River you want to be my wife. We didn't 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:27.360 know any better. I didn't have coomba. That was what 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.600 you wanted, you wanted and we can meet him Twain, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:38.560 We're gonna be the greatest love story is t sing. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:44.320 That's your best song, by the way, And we know 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.440 each other a bit a lot of people. I've never 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.000 met him before. I'm just like, hey, you know, come 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.960 in out of your story. I guess we've met a 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.920 couple of times. Yeah, briefly, yeah, briefly, but but we've 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.800 met and you guys are you guys are pretty young? Huh? 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.280 We are young? Yeah, we uh are each we are thirteen, Um, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:08.120 we're we're all twenties. The we range from twenty four 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:13.160 to twenty seven, So meeting aid somewhere mid twenties. I guess. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.120 So Lanco is a combination of a couple of words, right, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.919 isn't it, Like yeah, it's a lancastering company. Yeah. From 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.520 what I remember, somebody worked there and that's where you 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.840 guys like practiced and got together. Yeah. Well, why so 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.519 the band name comes from my name is Brandon Lancaster, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.720 So I uh so, you know that's not whouse. There 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.480 is a warehouse in the story, but it's not not Lancaster. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.800 Um my name is brand Lancaster. So you know, early 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.720 days in Nashville and uh, well, I'm trying to think 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.639 how far to go back. I met Tripp, who's the 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.440 drummer in Lanco and he worked at a carpet warehouse, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.200 and uh I met him in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.200 going to school out there, and we both played a 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.680 music festival there in different bands. And I'm from Nashville. Originally, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.200 I grew up outside of Nashville that you know here 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:01.960 that is oh, I know, which is fine. I didn't 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.720 know that was rare until because when you grow up here, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.000 everyone's from here. I grew up in Smyrna South in Nashville, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.120 and uh, yeah, we you grew up here, everyone's from here. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.239 And then I went to school and when I came back, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.040 you know, started making new friends and meeting people, and 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.720 everyone would ask where I was from. And that question 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.760 was so strange to me because I was like, I'm yeah, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.840 where are you from? And they're always good from here. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.359 I'm like, yeah, where are you from? What are you doing? 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.079 More people aren't from here? Oh, essentially in the business 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.839 that we're in. Absolutely. Yeah, more like aren't from from 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.880 I know, I've met very few people that are from here. Um, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.560 but yeah, but I went to school in Chattanooga. So 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.280 when I moved back, Tripp was moving to Nashville the 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.440 same week I was. So, you know, I I've been 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.080 writing songs, I mean virtually in my whole life. And 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.040 uh and and so I told me, I'll have the 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.240 slew of songs and I want to put a band together, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.520 and kind of gave me the idea and and so 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.320 we put it to get you know, my name is 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.320 Brenda Lancaster. So it started as you know, Lancaster and 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.320 and something, and we thought we'd build a band route around. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:01.760 Let me ask you about that. Let me stop you 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.160 for a second, because I always thought, you know, all 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:10.840 the guys in Dave Matthews band, m Dave Matthews band, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.280 like Dave Matthews, his band bon Jovi, John bon Jovi, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.719 nobody else's name Van Halen. Yeah, I got a couple 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.279 of Van Hanlon. You know what, how come is it? 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.279 Because you're the one that came up with the idea 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:27.960 and he was just cool with it because the last 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.920 name is not company, is it. Yeah, Uh, it actually is. No, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.080 it's not. Um Yeah, we were duos Lancaskop. No. It 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.640 was I think the way it started, you know, at first, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.720 like he was in a different band and I had 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.360 written a bunch of songs. It was the thing where 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.279 I could have done a solo project if I wanted to. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.760 I could have just you know, made it mine and 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.600 and hired guys out and you know, kind of had 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.760 a revolving door, which is what happened Nashville lot and 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.800 early on that's kind of what I thought might happen, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.200 you know, because I had these songs, and you just 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.080 don't know how long you're gonna keep a guitar player 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.599 or a bass player because everyone's working and has to 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.599 you know, kind of go where the money is sometimes. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.599 But early on it was, you know, this thing where 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.479 I wrote these songs, but I want to build a 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.240 band around it. I did look at Tom Petty and 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.119 the Heartbreakers, and I did look at at Dave Matthews band, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.279 where there is a primary songwriter and there's this guy 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.000 that came with the songs, but there's a band around 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.400 it that makes it unique and has its own sound. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.080 And when you keep those same guys together, like even 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.000 like a Zach Brown band, you know what, it has 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.360 a unique sound because they've had time. The same guys 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.479 have had time to craft that sound and and and 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.800 build what they're doing, and and also go through hard 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.719 time together, go through great times together, um and and 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.720 so early on, I didn't know what it would look like, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.000 you know, I didn't know if it would be a 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.479 band band or if it would be this Zach Brown 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.560 band or Dave Matthews band, and guys might come in 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.839 and come out, and you keep hiring and you keep 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.039 adding people. I didn't know at all what it would 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.680 look like. I just knew we had Lancaster and then 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:58.760 if Tripp wanted to be in this band, we could 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.440 have a company and start building it. And that was 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.800 also where the name change kind of came though, was 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.279 when we shortened it. It was because it was the 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.120 same guys for for a long time, and you know, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.719 we had gone a year and then we had just 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.480 all become friends. We're like, all right, this is a band, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.240 so but people know this is Lancastering Company. But let's 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.919 shorten it to more of a band name kind of 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.640 sound selfless thing, because Landco does not sound like random 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.200 like guys. It doesn't so selfless thing to make that 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.120 move to go Lanco, because if it were me, I'd 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.159 have been like, we're gonna call ourselves brand Caster, We're 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.120 gonna change the name to brand cater soever. But you know, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.600 I think that's uh that you two together. Well what 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.800 the other two guys come from? Though? So there it's 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.200 a five piece altogether. So I so Trip and I 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.919 were jamming and which one of you guys do I 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.600 not know? Then? You I've never met all five of 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.159 you at once. I don't think it's the one that 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.800 you don't like, because that's the one I haven't met. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.360 Um who probably I mean probably Tripped, like even though 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.640 you've met him at now, I'm kidding Tripping. Our best 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.880 friends and obviously have the most history together. But we yeah, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.520 there's five us all together. And we had you know, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.599 Trip myself, and we literally would just sit and he 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.160 played drums and I played guitar, and it's like, man, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.520 we need more instruments, um, and so we Uh. I 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.960 met this guy's songwriting competition that went to MTSU and 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.760 we started talking. I was like, I'm putting this band together. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.440 Do you know any guitar players, Let's start there, and 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.680 he gave me a list of guitar players and going 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.680 back to kind of the session player thing, I met 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.119 one guy who was awesome and he was great, good vibe, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.960 good hanging. And I was like, Oh, this guy is awesome. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.600 I can't wait from the play with us. He was like, yeah, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.040 you know, my day rates two fifty a day, and 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.520 I immediately was like, oh, that may not work, which 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.200 means he's not investing coming in low with the high. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.640 He just wants to pay right right. He's a player, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.640 which he deserves. I mean, you know, he had done 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.040 a lot of things and play with other people, and 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.640 this is he's at that point where he is a 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.520 professional career musician. Where we were doing this thing, we 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.240 were building it from the ground up, and uh, you 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.600 gotta be poor to build from the ground up. Actually, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.400 like you have to be willing to be poor. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.200 And he wasn't willing to be poor, which is there 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.880 because he didn't have to be right exactly, and and 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.520 it would I don't think it would have worked because 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.080 when you're starting out, you've you've kind of all got 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.880 to be on the same page, because you're gonna play 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.120 really bad gigs and really awkward gigs, and you're gonna 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.080 be in situations where it sounds bad and you're not 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.800 getting paid anything except for free food and drinks or 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.960 whatever it is. And if everyone's not in the same 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.920 mindset and kind of in the same place and with 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.000 the same vision, there's gonna be someone unhappy. So I 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.840 think it's important in that early stage to kind of 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.640 make sure you're on the same page with that. So 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.200 the next guy called up went to mts U and 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.439 and we started talking and we clicked musically, and and uh, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.240 you know, I invited him to come out and play 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.800 with us. So the three of us started playing, and 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.440 that was Eric was a guitar player, So Eric Trip 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.280 and I started playing, and then Eric went to school 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:48.079 with Chandler who plays bass and Jared who plays everything. Um, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.760 so he brought them along. So then we had three 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.720 mts U guys and Tripped myself. And you know that 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.280 it was funny because the first time I remember the 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.400 first rehearsal, wasn't this random living room this guy let 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.600 us use and uh, and we were playing and we 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.559 had this whole plan, like I had these songs, we're 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.000 gonna practice them, and and we really probably played music 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.240 for like twenty or thirty minutes and then just started 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.040 hanging out. We took a break just and we hung 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.040 out to like three in the morning, and then it 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.839 was like, you guys, want to do this tomorrow, Like 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.920 we'll hang out tomorrow and maybe bring our instruments and 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.800 and so it started real organically and real naturally as 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.559 as it turned into five friends hanging out who also 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.480 played music. Um, okay, so you had to become friends. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.880 That's a tough thing to do. Yeah, it And five 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.319 is a lot of personalities. And I know it because 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.520 one I hang out with the same people every day 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.960 to a radio show, work together every day many hours, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.240 and you learn And at first was infatuation stage where 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.880 you're like, these are the greatest people in the world. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.760 That's like, I'm so tired of a couple of them. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.559 Then you're tired of another couple of them, and then 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.840 you just realize what everyone's faults are and how to 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.760 accept them and if you really want to be in 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.240 a long term and so are the five people that 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.440 you started officially at Lanka with at the same five 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.600 now same five so nobody switched in it out. Nope, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.240 no one switching out. Here's the awkward question, when did 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.680 you do you get paid more everybody else? Uh no, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.040 you gets split it five ways. Yeah, look at that, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:22.000 so and look at that. Yeah yeah, so we I mean, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.800 and that was another thing early on, it's it's for me. Um, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.319 you're good dude. Now there there are things where in 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.360 the future, you know, if people you know people right, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.920 if you're right, because put but early on, honestly, early on, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.440 I was the first one to get a publishing deal, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:43.480 and so I fronted the cost for everything because we 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.040 we got this RV to tour around in um and 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.080 I would pay for gas, like I just my publishing money. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.480 I looked at as land cos money. So I was 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.080 paying for everything and I wasn't taking money for for 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.040 show gigs. I would just you know, everyone want to 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.320 split it because I I I you know, I looked 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.440 at it. You know, Lanco helped me get this publishing deal, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.920 and we're all in this together. And so now it's 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.480 even doubts where yeah, we play shows, we all get 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.719 paid for it. And it's also two different jobs as 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.120 a band. You guys are playing and it's really awesome 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.199 that you split it five ways because your name is 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.520 in the band, just saying, but you all do right. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.040 And if you have publishing deals, that's a whole different thing. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.200 Paid you have to write certain amount of a right. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.120 And we have different publishing deals too, you know, so 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.040 like with different companies and we write for different people. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.200 You know, we're all over the place, So get really 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.280 messy if you started throwing that all in there. But 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.079 as far as yeah, we're all on stage together, we're 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.600 all sweating the same. We're all if someone buys a 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.800 T shirt, we all work to help sell that T 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.160 shirt on stage. And so there you go. That's interesting. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.679 Surprised with that whole If my name was then it 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.760 what I go? Even it's probably not. My band is 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.560 not real, so it doesn't matter. All our car stuff 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.200 is different. Let me talk about this for a second. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.640 Talk about a sleep number bead. First peak in my bedroom, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.880 walking in, don't lie, Absolutely didn't peak. I walked in 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.280 in the bed. Actually it's a sleep number bed. If 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.040 you have a new year's resolution, if it's to lose weight, exercise, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.960 or have less stress, to sleep number bed actress, what 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.880 you need to have before you started that better sleep 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.040 better you can feel, the better you can get the 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.680 resolutions done. 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Um, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:54.840 let's just kind of go around the circle for a 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.040 second and start with what's happening right now. You guys 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.920 are out on the road with the couple of my 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.840 friends brothers OSBO and right. Yeah, and so when you're 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.520 out on the road, how much time do you actually 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.520 spend together with the other band with them? Uh, it's 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.800 been a pretty cool situation because we hang out pretty 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.280 much every night. Um, we you know, we kind of 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.199 knew them before, and we got to hang out with 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.160 them once before, and then I know, I know John 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.320 from just the riding circles in Nashville and his wife Lucy, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.000 and so there's there's already kind of a connection there, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.679 and so we're we're kind of just all buddies and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.760 and I mean honestly, most nights after the show will 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.440 walk on their bus and hang out until a bus call, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.200 and and before the show, you know, might hang out 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.800 in the dressing room. It's it's it's pretty tight community. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.960 It's really fun. They're good dudes. Yeah, and there are 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.480 a lot of good people, and there are people and 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.600 it also gets busy and groups stay in groups. But 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.000 they're they're good dudes. Yeah, they're very and they're very genuine. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.720 You know. The first time we really hung out with 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.400 them was at this festival in a Michigan and and 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.720 I knew John, but no one really knew each other 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.480 the band or you know, and in Lanko new John 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.280 or TJ. And so I talked to John. John was like, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.920 you guys should come hang out with us after we're 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.960 done playing. So we were in this nine eight Winnebago 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.520 at the time and they invite us onto our bus. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.320 And this was three in the afternoon and we were 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.000 supposed to leave it four in the afternoon. We ended 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.600 up staying there till literally two in the morning. And 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.080 it wasn't just a good hang like John and TJ 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.280 like we were on their bus, We're watching TV, um 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.280 watching sports and and I mean they're so cool. They 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.240 literally like, man, we've been. We've been. We've been in 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.920 a van, We've been in all kinds of vehicles. We 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.520 know what it's like to not have a bus. If 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.840 you got like, if you're tired, take a nap. You know, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.880 you guys can hang out. You know, we've got TVs. Like, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.160 grab yourself a beer, water, whatever you guys need. What's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.800 ours is yours. And so we thought that was so 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.040 cool that they kind of, you know, approached it that way. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.520 And really it just seems so genuine. They didn't have 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.760 you don't have to do that you can hang out 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.640 with someone to not be that inviting and that cool. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.520 And so we we from from day one, we've just 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.320 thought the world of them, and I think they're really 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.840 genuine guys. I think that's why a lot of the 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.080 internal community roots for them to not only are they 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:04.120 really good, but they're really good people. And there's a 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.600 lot of people, but then they're genuine humans. Those dudes 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.160 are cool. I had dinner with John a couple of 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.200 nights ago, and John Osborne is one with a big 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.280 beard and kind of the big red hair. T J 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:21.120 is the clean cut guy, you know. Definitely the vocalist, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.760 uh and John plays guitar like a madman. It's ridiculous. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.560 It's acts. I'm not kidding. They're one of the only 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.200 acts I respect. Really. We get to be with so 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.160 many acts. We've toured with so many acts past year, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.360 and I respect all of them, and they all have 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:38.000 different strengths. Um, but Brothers Osborne is the only band 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.400 that we've toured with that if I'm not getting Every night, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.200 after we're done we load up our stuff, we all 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.560 either walk back out front or side stage and just 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.400 watch their set because it's so good and and every 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.160 night John brings on the guitar and and t J 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.080 just a great vocalist, and it's it's such a pleasure 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.080 to watch them. And it's a story of John has 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.440 been in Nashville as of right now sixteen years and 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.120 they're just now starting to be like a thing, right, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.560 and they've always been good, but I'm just not starting 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.240 to be a thing sixteen years. It's a testament of 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.280 just stay with it and grind and if okay, if 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.280 a song doesn't make it, okay, what's the next one? 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.560 You get dropped from a label? Okay, what's the next 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.600 one you get? What's the next one? Keep going? And 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.120 you know that's that's a great story for young people 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.840 because you know, you do things, just don't fall into 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.720 your lap, trust me, I know. So for you, where 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.800 did it start? Like when did people start sniffing around 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.640 and think because like how guys are pretty good? Well, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.680 you know, we got we got our start, you know 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.480 in uh we would we would play in Murphy's Broll sometimes. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.800 But really Trip worked at this warehouse literally right down 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.120 the street and uh uh Admier's warehouse and they've actually 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.360 knocked it down since then, which is sad. But we 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.640 didn't even we couldn't even afford a place to practice. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.760 And so Trip, you know, literally was like I have 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.160 the key to my warehouse I work, and we could 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.120 sneak in there at night. So we would, you know, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.080 literally sneak in there every night. And just play. And 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.080 you know, there was no air, no heats when the winners. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.120 It was freezing in the summers. Literally, there's videos going 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.200 around of us like practicing in our boxers because we're 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.000 all just sweating, and but we're gonna play and we're 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.640 gonna practice. So we were doing that and we would play. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.280 We would play wherever we could. But one thing for 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.320 us was because we were a band and we had 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.960 original music, finding a place in Nashville was always a 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.320 struggle because if you go to Broadway, they want a 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.639 four hour cover set because tourists, they're there and they 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.040 want to hear familiar songs exactly, which I totally get 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.600 an understanding. I mean, I've had plenty of nights on 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.640 Broadway when I first moved here, and I love singing 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.719 all the classic songs. But uh, for us, you were 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.199 you know, we're do covers. We have no problem doing covers, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.240 but we really wanted to showcase our original music and 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.720 really wanted to grow as a band, growing our original music. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.840 So we would play wherever we could get a gig. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.560 But it might be outside of Broadway, it might be 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.840 on Demumbrium or in midtown Um and these are streets 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.720 in Nashville, the country. Yeah, it's a they're all still downtown, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.359 but they're not on that main strip and it's it's 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.000 where a little more original music is that. So we 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.479 were doing that for a while and then but we 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.280 all had odd jobs. You know, I was working at 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.800 a concession stand and can you work at Bridgetone? I 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.439 worked at Bridgetone are which is every town has a 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.040 big arena, and bridge Stone is where, you know, like 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.840 if Keith Urban played Bridgestone, it's you know, it's the 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.400 Square Garden of New York. Which is funny you say, 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.120 Keith Urban played bridge Stone because this is where are 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.159 a lot literally our lives took a turn. We had 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.000 been playing this music, playing gigs, playing in bars, honestly, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.880 playing like restaurants where people are eating montrealistics and you're 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.840 trying to put on a show. And one night I'm 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.359 working concessions, selling hot dogs and burgers and and sewed 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.920 all that stuff. And we already abandoned this point that 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:47.840 we're practicing. Oh yeah, we were a band, we were 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.840 playing gigs, We're doing whatever we couldn't. This was a 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.520 point where we were sitting around, we were trying to 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.480 demo songs to Nashville. We were trying to get a 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.600 producer it. But going from that band that plays some 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.240 songs to a band that has recorded music, to a 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.520 band that sells, to a band that gets a record deal, 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.399