WEBVTT - Episode 30 - Brandon from LANco (1-4-17) 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:06.120 All right, welcome episode thirty to the Bobby Cast, our 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.440 first one after the break. By the way, Mike d 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:13.720 welcome back right yet before there you good, buddy, I'm good. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.600 Good to see you again extime, I see every day. Uh. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.000 Today we have brand in, the late singer of a 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.760 Lanco here. Hey, Brandon, what is up? Man? You've been 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.200 adjusting your chair. The difference in this and any other 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.200 interview that you'll ever do in your whole life. These 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.360 are the most comfortable chairs. They are. You just sit 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.640 back and relax. Wait about eighteen nineteen minutes you'll start crying. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:34.880 You won't even notice it. I know that's the problem. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.800 I feel like I'm too comfortable. All about getting comfortable, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.360 ready to watch a movie. But have a drink of this. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.080 Don't look at what I dropped inside of it. Brandon's 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.080 here from a Lanco. And before we talk about stuff, 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.720 I want to play a little bit of Lanko because 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.080 you guys are considered brand new artists. So if you 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.000 haven't heard in the Atlanto's music, there's a little long 0:00:53.040 --> 0:01:04.000 lived tonight, crazy baby baby, don't be scared. When you 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:11.760 got me, we can sit each other. There's a little 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:18.040 song called American love story the River, You go be 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:24.880 my wife. We didn't know any better. I didn't have clomb. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.800 That was what you wanted. You want to need it 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.960 and we can meet him Twain, We're gonna be the 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.640 greatest love story is t sing. That's your best song, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:46.040 by the way, And we know each other a bit. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:47.960 A lot of people can. I've never met him before. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.280 I'm just like, hey, you know, come in out of 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:54.040 your story. I guess we've met a couple of times. Yeah, briefly, yeah, briefly, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.920 but but we've met and you guys are you guys 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.440 are pretty young? Huh? We are young? Yeah? We uh 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:04.480 are each we are thirteen, Um, we're we're all twenties. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:10.200 The we range from twenty four to twenty seven, So 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.600 meeting aid somewhere mid twenties. I guess. So Lanco is 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.359 a combination of a couple of words, right, isn't it? 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:21.880 Like yeah, it's a lancastering company. Yeah. From what I remember, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.240 somebody worked there and that's where you guys like practiced 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.720 they got together. Yeah, well, why so the band name 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.800 comes from my name is Branda Lancaster. So I uh 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.000 so you know that's not like warehouse. There is a 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.200 warehouse in the story, but it's not not Lancaster. Um 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.160 my name is Branda Lancaster. So you know, early days 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.800 in Nashville, and uh, well, I'm trying to think how 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.000 far to go back. I met Tripp, who's the drummer 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.160 in Lanco and he worked at a carpet warehouse, and 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.320 uh I met him in Chattanoga, Tennessee. I was going 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.440 to school out there and we both played a music 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.720 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 --> 0:03:01.919 that is oh, I know, which is fun. I didn't 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.680 know that was rare until because when you grow up here, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.959 everyone's from here. I grew up in Smyrna South in Nashville, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.080 and uh yeah, we grew up here. Everyone's from here. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.200 And then I went to school and when I came back, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.000 you know, started making new friends and meeting people, and 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.680 everyone would ask where I was from. And that question 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.720 was so strange to me because I was like, I'm yeah, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.840 where are you from? And they're always a good from here. 0:03:21.840 --> 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, especially in the business 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.640 that we're in. Absolutely. Yeah, more like people aren't from 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.680 here from I know, I've met very few people that 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.400 are from here. Um. But yeah, but I went to 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.360 school in Chattanooga. So when I moved back, Tripp was 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.520 moving to Nashville the same week I was. So, you know, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.400 I I've been writing songs, I mean virtually in my 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.680 whole life. And uh and and so I told me 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.400 I have the slew of songs and I want to 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.160 put a band together, and kind of gave me the 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.360 idea and and so we put it to get you know, 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.120 my name is Brena Lancaster. So it started as you know, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.400 Lancaster and and something, and we thought we'd build a 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.320 band arount around. Let me ask you about that. Let 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.960 me stop you for a second, because I always thought, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.720 you know, all the guys in Dave Matthews band, m 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:16.719 Dave Matthews band, like Dave matthewss band, bon Jovi, John 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.400 bon Jovi, nobody else's name Van Halen, Yeah, I got 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.640 a couple of Van Hammon. Bro you know what, how 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.560 come is it? Because you're the one that came up 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.320 with the idea, and he was just cool with it 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.000 because the last name is not company, is it. Yeah? Uh, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.480 it actually is. No, it's not um Yeah, we were 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.800 duos Lancaskop. No. It was I think the way it started, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.880 you know, at first, like he was in a different 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.720 band and I had written a bunch of songs. It 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.120 was the thing where I could have done a solo 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.000 project if I wanted to, I could have just you know, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.039 made it mine and and hired guys out. And you know, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.719 I kind of had a revolving door, which is what 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.920 happened Nashville lot and early on that's kind of what 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.600 I thought might happen, you know, because I had these 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.280 songs and you just don't know how long you're gonna 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.159 keep a guitar player a bass player because everyone's working 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.560 and has to you know, kind of go where the 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:04.000 money is sometimes. But early on it was, you know, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.880 this thing where I I wrote these songs, but I 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.520 want to build a band around it. I did look 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.520 at Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I did look 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.960 at at Dave Matthews band where there is a primary 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.480 songwriter and there's this guy that came with the songs, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.240 but there's a band around it that makes it unique. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.240 And has its own sound. And when you keep those 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.000 same guys together, like even like a Zach Brown band, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.640 you know it has a unique sound because they've had time. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.599 The same guys have had time to craft that sound 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.680 and and and build what they're doing, and and also 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.640 go through hard time together, go through great times together, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.080 um and and so early on, I didn't know what 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.440 it would look like, you know, I didn't know if 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.400 it would be a band band or if it would 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:47.120 be this Zach Brown band or Dave Matthews band, and 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.640 guys might come in and come out, and you keep 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.400 hiring and you keep adding people. I didn't know at 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.560 all what it would look like. I just knew we 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.080 had Lancaster and then if Tripp wanted to be in 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.960 this band, we could have a company and start building it. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.120 And that was also where the name change kind of 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.159 came though, was when we shortened it. It was because 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.800 it was the same guys for for a long time, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.320 and you know, we had gone a year and then 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.000 we had just all become friends. We're all right, this 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.880 is a band, so but people know it's is Lancastering Company. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.960 But let's shorten it to more of a band name 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.159 kind of sound selfless thing because Landco does not sound 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.680 like random like guys, right, it doesn't. So it's selfless 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.600 thing to make that move to go Lanco, because if 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:26.800 it were me, I'd have been like, we're gonna call 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:31.360 ourselves brand Caster, We're gonna change the name to brand 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.160 so every but you know, I think that's uh that 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.440 you two together. Well what the other two guys come 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.200 from though? So there it's a five piece altogether. So 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.320 I so Trip and I were jamming and which one 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.599 of you guys do I not know? Then? You I've 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.400 never met all five of you at once. I don't 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.920 think it's the one that you don't like, because that's 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:54.039 the one I haven't met. Um who probably I mean 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.040 probably Tripped, like even though you've met him at now, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.680 I'm kidding Tripping. Our best friends and obviously have the 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.960 most history together. But we yeah, there's five us all together. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.600 And we had you know, Trip myself, and we literally 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.960 would just sit and he played drums and I played guitar, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.240 and it's like, man, we need more instruments. Um, and 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.360 so we Uh, I met this guys songwriting competition that 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.760 went to mts U and we start talking. I was like, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.760 I'm putting this band together, do you know any guitar players? 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.760 Let's start there, and he gave me a list guitar players. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.200 And going back to kind of the session player thing, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.400 I met one guy who was awesome and he was great, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.400 good vibe, good hanging and I was like, Oh, this 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.040 guy is awesome. I can't wait from to play with us. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.560 He was like, yeah, you know, my day rates two 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.960 fifty a day, and I immediately was like, oh, that 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.000 may not work, which means he's not investing coming in 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.080 low with the high. He just wants to pay right right, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.600 which he deserves. I mean, you know, he had done 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.000 a lot of things and play with other people, and 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.160 this is he's at that point where he's a professional 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.640 career musician. Where we were doing this thing, we were 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.559 building it from the ground up, and uh, you gotta 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.720 be poor to build from the ground de actually like, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.400 you have to be willing to be poor. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.160 And he wasn't willing to be poor, which is are 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.840 because he didn't have to be right exactly, and and 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.520 it would I don't think it would have worked because 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.080 when you're starting out, you've you've kind of all got 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.840 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 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.040 be in situations where it sounds bad and you're not 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.760 getting paid anything except for free food and drinks or 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.920 whatever it is. And if everyone's not in the same 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.880 mindset and kind of in the same place and with 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.960 the same vision, there's gonna be someone unhappy. So I 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.800 think it's important in that early stage to kind of 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.600 make sure you're on the same page with that. So 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.960 the next guy called up went to mts U and all, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.439 and we started talking and we clicked musically, and and uh, 0:08:35.679 --> 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 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.400 that was Eric was a guitar player, So Eric Trip 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.240 and I started playing, and then Eric went to school 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:48.040 with Chandler who plays bass and Jared who plays everything. Um, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.760 so he brought them along. So then we had three 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.679 mts U guys and Tripped myself. And you know that 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.280 it was funny because the first time I remember the 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.400 first rehearsal, wasn't this random living room this guy let 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.600 us use and uh, and we were playing and we 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.520 had this whole plan like I had these songs, We're 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.960 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 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.040 hanging out. We took a break just and we hung 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.000 out to like three in the morning, and then it 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.800 was like, you guys, want to do this tomorrow, Like 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.880 we'll hang out tomorrow and maybe bring our instruments and 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.800 and so it started real organically and real naturally as 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.520 as it turned into five friends hanging out who also 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.480 played music. Um, okay, so you had to become friends. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.880 It'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 --> 0:09:39.480 one I hang out with the same people every day 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.920 to a radio show, work together every day, many hours, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.079 and you learn and at first was infatuation stage. W 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.839 You're like, these are the greatest people in the world. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.720 That's like, I'm so tired of a couple of them. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.520 Then you're tired of another couple of them, and then 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.800 you just realize what everyone's faults are and how to 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.720 accept them and if you really want to be in 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.200 a long term, and so are the five people that 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.680 you started officially Lanka with it the same five now, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.800 same five So nobody switched in and out. Nope, no 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.320 one switching out. Here's the awkward question, when did you 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.280 do you get paid more everybody else? Uh no, you 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.560 guts split it five ways. Yeah, look at that, so 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.000 and look at that Yeah yeah, so we I mean, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.760 and that was another thing early on, it's it's for me. Um. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.040 Now there there are things where in the future, you know, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.920 if people you know people right, if you're right, because 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.280 but early on, honestly, early on, I was the first 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.720 one to get a publishing deal, and so I fronted 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.280 the cost for everything because we we got this RV 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.120 to tour around in um and I would pay for gas, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.760 like I just my publishing money. I looked at as 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.320 land cos money. So I was paying for everything and 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.160 I wasn't taking money for for show gigs. I would 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.319 just you know, everyone would split it because I I 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.080 I you know, I looked at it. You know, Lanco 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.080 helped me get this publishing deal, and we're all in 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.760 this together. And so now it's even doubts where yeah, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.560 we play shows, we all get paid for it. And 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.400 it's also two different jobs as a band. You guys 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.559 are playing and it's really awesome and you split it 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.280 five ways because your name is in the band, just saying, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.320 but you all do right. And if you have publishing deals, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.760 that's a whole different thing. You're paid, you have to 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.840 write certain amount of a right, and we have different 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.640 publishing deals too, you know, so like with different companies 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.000 and we write for different people. You know, we're all 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.199 over the place. So get really messy if you started 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.880 throwing that all in there. But as far as yeah, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.920 we're all on stage together, we're all sweating the same. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.640 We're all if someone buys a T shirt, we all 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.880 work to help sell that T shirt on stage. And 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:48.360 so there you go. That's interesting. Surprised with that whole 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.280 If my name was then it what I go? It's 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.560 probably not. My band is not real, so it doesn't 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.440 matter all our our stuff stuff. Right, Let me talk 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.440 about this for a second. Talk about a sleep number bead. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.200 First in my bedroom, walking in, don't lie, absolutely didn't peak. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.160 I walked in the bed actually starting TV to sleep 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.600 number bed. If you have a new year's resolution, if 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.319 it's to lose weight, exercise or have less stress, to 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.640 sleep number bed actress, what you need to have before 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.280 you start that better sleep? Better you can feel the 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.600 better you can get the resolutions done. You gotta have 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.520 seven eight hours of sleep at night and the sleep 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.000 number bed for me. Lets me sleep, let's me sleep good, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.320 Let's me sleep hard. For me, it's tough to sleep, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.480 wake up at three in the morning. My sleep number 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.720 setting is thirty. There's a sleep i Q score sleep 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.920 number Queen Mattress that started six right now. Lowest prices 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.080 of the season, say six hundred bucks on the sleep 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.120 number I eight bed. You only find sleep number into 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.080 the five hundred sleep number stores nation y eight hundred 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.319 next bed and telling you already here on the Bobby 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.120 Bones Show. So here with Brandon Lancaster of of Lanko 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.400 and so okay, you guys are a band. Um, let's 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.120 just kind of go around the circle for a second 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.200 and start with what's happening right now. You guys are 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.280 out on the road with the couple of my friends 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.000 brothers Osboe and right. Yeah, and so when you're out 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.800 on the road, how much time do you actually spend 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.760 together with the other band with them? It's been a 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.080 pretty cool situation because we hang out pretty much every night. Um. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.440 We you know, we kind of knew them before and 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.880 we got to hang out with them once before and 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.240 then I know, I know John from just the riding 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.520 circles in Nashville and his wife Lucy, and so there's 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.520 there's already kind of a connection there, and so we're 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.080 we're kind of just all buddies. And and I mean honestly, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.120 most nights after the show will walk on their bus 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.480 and hang out until bus call, and and before the show, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.160 you know, might hang out in the dressing room. It's 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.240 it's it's pretty tight community. It's really fun. They're good dudes. Yeah, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.160 and there are a lot of good people, and there 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.320 are people and it also gets busy and groups stay 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.000 in groups. But they're they're good dudes. Yeah, they're very 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.880 and they're very genuine. You know. The first time we 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.120 really hung out with them was at this festival in 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.920 a Michigan and and I knew John, but no one 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.040 really knew each other the band or you know, one 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.560 in Lanco new John or TJ. And so I talked 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.560 to John. John was like, you guys should come hang 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.600 out with us after we're done playing. So we were 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.679 in this ninety Winnebego at the time, and they invite 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.480 us onto our bus and this was three in the 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.280 afternoon and we were supposed to leave it four in 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.520 the afternoon. We ended up staying there till literally two 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.200 in the morning. And it wasn't just a good hang 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.960 like John and TJ. Like we were on their bus, 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.440 We're watching TV, um watching sports and and I mean 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.760 they're so cool. They literally like, man, we've been, We've been, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.360 We've been in a van, We've been in all kinds 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.800 of vehicles. We know what it's like to not have 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.120 a bus. If you got like, if you're tired, take 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.800 a nap. You know, you guys can hang out. You know, 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.400 we've got TVs. Like, grab yourself a beer, water, whatever 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.160 you guys need. What's ours is yours. And so we 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.800 thought that was so cool that they kind of, you know, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.880 approached it that way. And really it just seems so genuine. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.320 They didn't have you don't have to do that. You 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.080 can hang out with someone to not be that inviting 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.120 and that cool. And so we we from from day one, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.800 we've just thought the world of them, and I think 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.240 they're really genuine guys. I think that's why a lot 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.840 of the internal community roots for them to not only 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.760 are they really good, but they're really good people. And 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.560 there's a lot of people, but then they're genuine humans. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.720 Those dudes are cool. I had dinner with John a 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.920 couple of nights ago, and John Osborne is one with 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.480 the big beard and kind of the big red hair. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:20.440 T J is the clean cut guy, you know. Definitely 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.680 the vocalist, uh and John plays guitar like a madman. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.000 It's ridiculous. It's apts. I'm not kidding. They're one of 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.800 the only acts I respect, really, and we get to 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.400 be with so many acts. We've toured with so many 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.000 acts past year, and I respect all of them, and 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.280 they all have different strengths, um, but Brothers Osborne is 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.120 the only band that we've toured with that if I'm 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.840 not getting Every night, after we're done we load up 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.680 our stuff, we all either walk back out front or 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.160 side stage and just watch their set because it's so 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.920 good and and every night John brings on the guitar 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.080 and and TJ is just a great vocalist, and it's 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.400 it's such a pleasure to watch them. And it's a 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.360 story of John has been in Nashville as of right 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.440 now sixteen years and they're just now starting to be 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.760 like a thing, right, and they've always been good, but 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.120 I'm just not starting to be a thing sixteen years. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.200 It's a testament of just stay with it and grind 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.600 and if okay, if a song doesn't make it, okay, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.840 what's the next one? You get dropped from a label? Okay, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.600 what's the next one you get? What's the next one? 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.480 Keep going? And you know that's that's a great story 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.040 for young people because you know, you do things, just 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.640 don't fall into your lap, trust me, I know. So 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.920 for you, where did it start? Like when did people 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.240 start sniffing around and think, because like how guys are 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.360 pretty good? Well, you know, we got we got our start, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.480 you know in uh we would we would play in 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.120 Murphy's Broll sometimes. But really Trip worked at this warehouse 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.120 literally right down the street and uh uh at Myer's 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.240 warehouse and they've actually knocked it down since then, which 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.640 is sad. But we didn't even we couldn't even afford 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.280 a place to practice, and so Trip, you know, literally 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.760 was like I have the key to my warehouse I work, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.920 and we could sneak in there at night. So we would, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.600 you know, literally sneak in there every night and just 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.480 play and you know, there was no air, no heats 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.359 when the winners. It was freezing in the summers. Literally, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.399 there's videos going around with us like practicing in our 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.560 boxers because we're all just sweating, and but we're gonna 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.440 play and we're gonna practice. So we were doing that 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.040 and we would play. We would play wherever we could. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.480 But one thing for us was because we were a 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.159 band and we had original music, finding a place in 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.720 Nashville was always a struggle because if you go to Broadway, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.240 they want a four hour cover set because tourists they're 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.360 there and they want to hear familiar songs exactly, which 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.160 I totally get an understanding. I mean, I've had plenty 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.000 of nights on Broadway when I first moved here, and 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.120 I love singing all the classic songs. But uh, for us, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.119 you were you know, we would do covers. We have 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.119 no problem doing covers, but we really wanted to showcase 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.520 our original music and really wanted to grow as a band, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.119 growing our original music. So we would play wherever we 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.200 could get a gig. But it might be outside of Broadway. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.159 It might be on Demumbrium or in Midtown Um and 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.560 these are streets in Nashville, the country. Yeah, it's a 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.600 they're all still downtown, but they're not on that main 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.720 strip and it's it's where a little more original music 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.080 is that. So we were doing that for a while 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.600 and then but we all had odd jobs. You know, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.879 I was working at a concession stand and can you 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.960 work at bridge Stone? I worked at Bridgeton Area, which 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.720 is every town has a big arena, and Bridgetone is 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.120 where you know, like if Keith Urban played Bridgetone, it's 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.040 you know, it's the Madison Square Garden of New York. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.800 Which is funny you say, Keith Urban played bridge Stone 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.399 because this is where are a lot literally our lives 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.560 took a turn. We had been playing this music, playing gigs, 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.639 playing in bars, honestly, playing like restaurants where people are 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.399 eating montrealistics and you're trying to put on a show. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.679 And one night I'm working concessions, selling hot dogs and 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.119 burgers and and sewed all that stuff. And were already 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.160 a band at this point that you're practicing. Oh yeah, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.760 we were a band. We were playing gigs, We're doing 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.520 whatever we couldn't. This was a point where we were 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.720 sitting around, we were trying to demo songs to Nashville. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.280 We were trying to get a producer it. But going 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.840 from that band that plays some songs to a band 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.159 that has recorded music, to a band that sells, to 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.680