WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Tank (of Tank & The Bangas) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.400 Question. 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.080 Love Supreme is a production of iHeart Radio. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.480 Take We we don't like that girl. I am in 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.440 a vein and it is the real hard outre. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:18.680 Our. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.680 Oh lord, it is so dark. Take an iPhone, somebody 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.319 take their phone and just give you the I'm to 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:26.040 do something like this. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.640 It really looked like goosebone, like a little all your bread. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:32.280 In the darkness. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.880 But okay, this is it is. Do you have a 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.240 You don't have a pair of headphones with the microphone, right. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.320 I don't because Tom went away from me, so fad. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.479 I was up in the grocery store and then and. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.080 Then a woman still out at the grocery store, and 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.320 then I was calling the police for her and stuff. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.959 It kind of like left with the time and I. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.720 Was loveposed to be home and on my headphones. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.600 Ran about the Walgreens and bought some blue two heads. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.839 Like not the wal. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.399 All right, this is time we started the episode. I 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.440 can tell I can tell this already my favorite episode. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.039 I had to do a lot of trade, you know, 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.440 I had to do a lot of things. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.520 We appreciate you being I did save somebody likes. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.360 Wait all right, man, I'm throwing up the whole format 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.839 out the door, forget to forget the band and the album. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.000 All right, So what just happened? 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:33.880 All right? 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:34.760 This what happened? 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.199 I mad rouses, you know, getting a couple of groceries. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.360 I just see a lady. I just hear like a 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.120 white woman squeez yeah, And I said, whoa, what's going on? 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.000 And there's an old black lady on the floor, and 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.960 so everybody trying to, you know, help up, but they're 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.480 scared to touch her because COVID going on. So somebody 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.040 was braving up to pick up, you know, and she 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.320 she was like at like she was all good and stuff. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.640 Then a couple of minutes later go back when she 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.960 saw out again. And so that's when it's time, you know, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.600 And I'm like, this is nobody gonna call the police. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.080 So that's when you call the ambulance. And the ambulance 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.760 has so many questions. No, after I give you that address, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.240 I'm just hoping you come. But no, they won't know 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.280 what color shirt she got, what kind of weeks she 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:16.640 got on. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:18.960 It's just there was so much. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.440 But finally they came through. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.120 But by the time they came through, she was ready 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.400 to leave. She really was. She was ready to go 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:27.440 just like. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.400 It's real. Are you in New Orleans right now? 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.680 I'm in New Orleans right now? 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.000 Wow, man, these days weren't sided in mind today. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.919 That's the greatest storytelling I've heard since Sweet Brown and I. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.080 Ran from my life? 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.680 Didn't nobody got time for that? 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.040 That was a great story to tak Thank you, thank 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.560 you so much. I would signed up for that podcast. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.080 Tan't tell Stories? 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.240 Are you? Are you currently behind the wheel right now? 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.640 Oh lord No, I'm in the bank of the tour bank. Okay, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.440 I'm in a call with my best friend driving the 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.520 bank because that's how I mean. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.000 The transportation now and her mom. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:24.440 And this is a first. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.600 This works for me, y'all. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.360 All right, well, welcome to the Kamikaze episode of Quest 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.799 Love Supreme. Tank Tank out here saving somebody's life in 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.520 the first three minutes of the episode. Yeah, well, okay, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.120 I I gotta ask, how does how does one how 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:48.080 does one even create in this environment, especially when you're 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.800 in an outfit that requires other people to help you 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.920 bring your vision towards Oh with the. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.560 Type of band, that's not the best. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.360 Day traveling on the road, Do a show, do the 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.520 sound check, go get dressed, and then go in the room. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.000 Nobody's ever gonna save anybody want to come to my 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.200 room and create a song. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:08.840 You know, it really don't road like that. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.000 So everybody's sleeping, they going, you know, somebody about to 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.000 go to the pall to catch a DJ or go 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:14.760 smoke something. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.839 So on the road is not where a bunch of 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:19.960 creation happens. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.960 So we needed this time to chill and build some 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.360 indoors studio, actually make music and have it recorded because 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.200 you know, we can't obviously go to nobody's studio. So 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.920 it was it was a it was needed time for 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.760 tank in the base. Tank before we continue, and let 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.760 me ask you real quick, are you on your way somewhere? 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.160 Because I'm scared that y'all might go through a bad 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.800 area or something like that. I'm very afraid. The Blue 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 School just says it's on ten percent, very afree. I'm 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:48.800 all the way home. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:50.480 How close are you to? 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:57.840 Your gonna take to me about about twelve minutes to get. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.440 Home, right's let's wait till he get home. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:03.440 So I really. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.520 Yeah, this is just a preview. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:12.480 Out late. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.320 Oh okay, let they'd. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:25.000 Be like made it safety fa okay, So I feel 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.839 like you do even though I really want to start 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.279 with that. That's our that's going to be our cold open. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:36.600 I will do the official introduction anyway, Ladies and gentlemen 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:44.040 are Grammy nominated guest today has been rocking across the globe, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.520 leading one of the most dangerous army. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.320 Of musicians for the past decade. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.520 I myself was fortunate enough to catch them and twenty 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.920 thirteen Brooklyn Bowl performance and I watch with my my 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.159 drawers job, I'm sorry. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:09.320 Your jaw Oh yeah. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.200 My jaws dropped. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.520 No, seriously, not for the first time since. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:19.360 I gotta say, since the prime days of Fishbone, I've 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:25.040 seen a band and a black band at that exude 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.400 so much energy from the gate, like going zero to 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.400 one hundred with the quickness, So you know, I became 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.840 obsessed with them. I was fortunate enough to book them 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.800 on the Roots Picnic, just to see if the lightning 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.880 could strike twice. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.600 And I'm happy to say that indeed it did. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.760 I mean, since then, I've seen them about six, seven, eight, nine, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:52.120 fifty eleven times across months, across across multiple countries, and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:58.880 you know, to watch them convert newbies into like lifelong 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.480 fans is really a beautiful thing. To see they come. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.839 Highly recommend that you won't be sorry. Uh so, please 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.520 welcome from the city of New Orleans. All right, Triana 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:12.800 tank bell. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.320 Ball yes dark, sorry. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.679 Dude, please welcome to the City of New Orleans. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:27.960 Triana tank ball hero at that hero, Yes, yes, today, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.920 that was law. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.200 That was an introduction. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.960 I wish my last name was Belle because growing up 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.720 it was very hard with the last name Ball. They 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:45.120 gave me Triana balls, Triana testicles. You know, I thought 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.440 the testical was a good one though. I said, that's 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.119 a good one. Yeah, that was a good one. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.280 In your altar, in your alter foreign life, that would 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:56.400 be the name for you, Tarrian. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:06.320 Yeah, that's your only fan site. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:06.760 Only fans. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.960 Jail made at home. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:12.880 I'm very happy I made at home. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:14.560 Y'all should have saw me her up and putting the 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.280 groceries in the house real quick and just setting up 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.280 all the little boxes to sort of yeah, I did 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:20.720 that quick. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.680 What's it like in New Orleans in terms of like 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.280 COVID and stuff like, how is is people still loud? 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.760 Is it scaled back? What's it like? 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.320 It really depends on to day. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.920 We got a mayor that makes sure that you can't 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.640 walk in no store without your mask on, so that 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.960 part is all serious. And then you got every now 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.760 and then people still partying, acting like nothing going on, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.160 chilling in the French quarters, you know, still having their 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.559 little family gatherings. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.640 So they found it very hard to live his life. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.400 Are they doing? Are they still? I saw they canceled 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:54.680 the parades from Mardi Grass. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.040 Yes, dang you was you was in tune? 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.520 Listen New Orleans, dude. New Orleans is one of my 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.880 favorite cities. Like I love New Orleans is. New Orleans 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.600 is like another country within the United States. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:10.600 It's another world. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.920 I'm very happy that you notice. It's very true, and 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.160 I feel the same exact way. Even when I travel 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.760 and I see Spain and I see parents, I say, oh, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.080 the know, these are like the windows in New Orleans, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.640 or when I'm in a the pah, this must be 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.920 where they got jumped alaa from. You know, you get 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.560 to see everybody that's settled in your city and made 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:29.240 it what it is. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.280 I love. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:35.439 I think it's so special and beautifuls and those beautiful accents. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.120 They're just regular to me. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.480 I don't know, girlfriend, occasion to the creek. It's all 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.840 beauty it's all beautiful to me. I just love you're singing. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.320 Your very much. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.320 Yeah, I know you'll know you're a Hambling Grad girl too. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.400 Oh you know I got to serve I got the shirt. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.080 Did you get the letter when they sent it to you? 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.120 Like they got the letter like you? 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.960 Yes, they said yes, yes, acceptance. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.000 Letter, yes, yes, can Helm and Grad. The people who 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.679 make these the T shirts like that. I have the 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.920 Huxtable on one right now. But like from my Shirley 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.280 Chisholm to my Maxine Seaw to my Freaknick of ninety eight. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.400 Yeah, they make some really dope T shirts, all of them. Sure. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.400 I love that they give you that acceptance letter. You'd 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.959 be like, oh, I love it and maybe think I'm like, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.280 should I send my fans like a letter when it 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.079 gets some merchan you know the way I mean? 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.079 I felt special? 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.400 Yeah, but send one of them T shirts with it 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:36.480 that you got on because damn merches all the controls. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.840 I want to sweater too. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.959 Oh you know I got you. It's about to get cold. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.360 You about you about in the L now, ain't you? 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.160 Or you're in an excel? 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.640 I'm still and I'm into XL. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.280 I'm probably do excel, but I'm staying in my comfort zone. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.120 But can I ask we on the topic of fashion 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.600 and style, because Tank, I know you're like you are 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.360 the band leader of this situation. Please tell me like 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.480 the initial thoughts behind what y'all were gonna look like, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.040 because tanking the bang is the visual of y'all is 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.040 so important along with like. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.080 The audience. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.440 Here, because you guys are like real life muppets. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.559 Yeah, I mean, how did y'all get to what y'all start? 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.040 And how did y'all get to the point where it's 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:24.600 just perfection? 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.160 One of our one of our members, one of our members, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.880 uh unpaid Bill Is he kind of runs Sesame Street 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.280 and I was really excited for him to interview you guys, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.480 because you guys would be perfect band for Sesame Street. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.200 You really, we're very into that. We're very into that. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.920 I mean, you can still make that happen. Just go 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.640 you know, of course, let let them know very into it. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.400 So what happened is I started out in slam poetry, right, 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.800 and I realized that in slam poetry that the audience 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.760 would judge me before they before I ever said a word. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.680 So I knew that I would have to look a 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.800 certain way so that y'all could see me first before 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.040 you heard me. And so my team, my slam My 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.920 slam team would just swam New Orleans at the time, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.720 Team Snow, we always just dressed kind of, you know, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.120 we want to be a little stylish, and you know, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.160 being Southern, you already got an auction block little mindset, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.640 so you're always trying to look a little extra damper. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.160 But and then when I got in this group, it 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.080 just became, it just became the norm. And and now 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.720 these days I just send wardrobe. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.760 I just say dressing colors. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.160 And uh, and they hate when I say that sometimes 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.320 because uh, the colors in my head, I'm like purples, greens, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.360 orange as yellows, and somebody come up in here and 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.120 you know, some brown and red. I'd be looking at 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.040 them a little crazy, and they would say, tank, you 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.760 said dressing colors. I say, not those colors. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.680 That it's like joy bringing colors. You understand what I'm saying. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.680 So I've been told I'm I'm I'm a little babe. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:53.800 I've been told. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.800 Wait a minute, so you leave. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.240 You leave the wardrobe up to their discretion because I 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.400 haven't seen y'all about five or six times. Like you 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.240 guys seem pretty coordinated on your your your stage get up, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.719 Like you guys were a very unusual green, like a 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:13.640 coordinated green. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.480 H we did a green for a while. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:17.920 I told him to buy a lot of green because 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.480 we put out that elpen green Believe, and I was 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:20.080 green balloon. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.520 I said, green Belie, Green, green balloon. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.880 And I'm like, we're gonna wear a lot of so 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.600 about the green every now and then, you know, I 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.719 tell everybody what Neon colors. Every now and then it's highlighted. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.719 Then every now and then it's blow up suits, it's 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.600 blow up suits tonight, hill tonight, it's the animal print. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.160 How much time do they have to prepare for this? 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.000 They have the night before? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:46.760 Wow? 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:47.840 Yeah? 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:48.840 Yeah. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.920 If you guys are traveling on the road, I mean, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:57.760 how many I would think that the wardrobe is just 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.440 as important as you know, everything else. Like how many 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.040 change of outfits should one bring if they were in 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.160 a princess going on the tour? 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:07.959 Yeah, whoa. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.800 If we're going on tour and we're gonna be gone 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.320 for a month, you need to bring about two weeks 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.920 of close and then while we're on the road, you're 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.960 gonna shop anyway, Yeah, so bring about two weeks so 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:20.720 you can switch them out. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:21.160 Now. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.640 It wasn't always that smart. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.320 I mean when we first went to go move to 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.000 London and we was gonna stay out there for three months, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.400 and when I tell you, everybody literally bought three months 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.040 to close. We'll never made that a mistake again. You 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.720 know it's supposed to do like that. But we didn't 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:34.960 know we was We didn't know what. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:35.560 We was doing. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.560 I mean, Lord, the suitcases, y'all, the suitcase and then 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.480 oh man, and then you know the pounds, the conversion. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.600 Yeah, everybody had over there was overweight. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.200 The nigga was thrown away clothes at the at the airport. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.160 At the airport, Oh I don't need this, I don't 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.680 need this case, I don't need this, a pair of shoes, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 I oh this seventeen times. Yeah, it was throwing away 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.960 clothes at the airport because them pounds was expensive and 0:14:59.000 --> 0:14:59.880 we ain't make no money. 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.040 We though it was gonna make so much money in London. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.440 Baby, What year was that? 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.400 When was that? When was the first time y'all hit 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:06.760 over there? 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.200 What time? What year was that? Lord? It was about 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.360 maybe about maybe about maybe about four five years ago? 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.520 Maybe, oh wow, show five years ago? 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.080 I think? So did did y'all know about them? 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.440 Y'all did three months in London as a hub and 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:25.760 then traveled throughout Europe. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.240 Yes, with no money. They you and me. I told 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.200 you these are your babies, and we. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:37.160 Bought and we bought an eighteen year old Japanese van. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.520 And did you. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.360 Guys know the story of like the roots and how 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.720 they lived in London as well when they first got started. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.040 No, I didn't know that. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.040 Wow, we did the same thing. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.320 We we took all our money, uh, we got we 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.920 got a flat and then we just told our agent 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.000 anywhere in Europe will play. So like from nineteen ninety 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:13.440 four until about ninety seven ninety eight, like between ninety 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.600 three to ninety eight, I think that we split Europe 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.600 in American half by like six months. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.160 So damn summer tour. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.760 The thing is, if you live in London and get 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.320 a cheap spot, you don't have to squander on hotels 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.600 throughout Europe. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:37.560 And make that make that your hub. You know, so wow, okay, we. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.400 I wouldn't live out that that long down you that long? 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.680 That was that was a long, long, long, time. That's 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:47.640 like he I think. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:53.080 I think I crawled to y'all could walk you. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:17:00.040 You love Europe. You guys probably have like a good time. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.080 Europe in ninety five, I could imagine. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.040 I mean even you're like when we would go, like 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.280 when we was touring like Europe in O five. I 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.760 mean this is before you know our message and FaceTime, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:15.920 so we. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:16.720 Were doing Europe. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.680 I mean that's like doing a bid. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.359 Yeah, you're gone like niggas new songs on the radio, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.440 nigga hat like damn building up? 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.920 You heard seen this sidekick. I can't imagine it. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.159 I can't think, y'all. I can't came home and like, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.200 who shot you? Was like already like four months old. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.120 We didn't know about it and like. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.520 Yeah, like it was way different in nineteen ninety five. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.280 I can't imagine it. Oh that's so cool. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.320 With no Internet, so you're forced to listen to songs 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:58.280 like Scatman eighteen times a day. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:57.000 You know. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.480 Macarna many times, Like that's so cool. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.280 What extreem man? 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.000 The moments that changed your whole band life though, those those. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.000 Little moments and I had so that's when I wrote 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.040 the album over there because I felt like we could 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.640 tell everybody, yeah we're in London, Yeah we're in London. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:19.440 But I had so many days of just sitting around 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.360 the house like I was in New Orleans, and I 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:26.520 hated that. I hated those unproductive ass moments, and I 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.320 would write about it. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.040 I had journal entries. One of my journal entries was 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.560 all they do is late. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.359 They lay all day, you know, because it was so 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.639 much to catch the train and you need all this money, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.960 you know, I Japanese vand going around the rind the 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.000 bat it eats something. We broke something on a vand 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.199 we couldn't get it fixed for nothing, so we constantly 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.080 went through tires and the tires over there like fifty 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.480 pounds so much so we caught the train a lot. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.080 Sometimes you have no money. London. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.840 They so serious about their open mics. You missed signing up, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.159 you can't even perform. So it was a lot of 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:00.960 struggle days every day was it was. It was a 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.359 lovely struggle because you knew it wasn't forever, but it 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:03.960 was a struggle. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.399 It was struggle days for sure. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.879 Well wait this, this is what I want to tell you, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.399 you know, thank God for my my good memory. But 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:19.040 take it from me. I want you to document everything. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.040 I want you to journal everything. I mean, you gotta 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.320 way easier. Now you can. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.320 You can just go on your iPhone and rant for 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:27.080 five minutes. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.600 I know, you know it seem weird now, like, well, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.879 you know what's special about May of twenty twenty, But 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.760 come your twentieth year, like around twenty thirty, and you 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.680 revisit this stuff like thank god, like in the beginning 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.480 I was journaling, like at least you know this is 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.399 pre Twitter like journaling and my notebooks and all that stuff, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.840 Like I just found this stuff, like, man, I'm quitting 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.639 the group today. Fucking I'm home, Malie just left. I 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.119 missed da da da. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:08.760 I beg of you keeping document collect everything. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.760 They're my songs, they're my poems later on, they're my interludes. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.320 And I'm happy you reminded me of it because I've 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.760 been feeling a lot, but lately I ain't been really 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.240 writing it down, so so so thank you. It reminded 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.520 me to because I tell people that I said, generally 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:24.600 you're happy and sad, all of it. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.240 Just just keep a document of your feelings. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.359 One day is gonna make you laugh, probably even quiet, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:30.760