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MB:195 with Héroes del Sol Riding the Musical Rollercoaster: Unity, Influence, and Unforgettable Performances
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Heroes del Sol is a chicano alternative rock band from Southern California as they entertain for the next ideas to put them back in the limelight.
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Brace yourselves! This episode is a thrilling musical rollercoaster as we engage with the sensational band Héroes del Sol. They bring us their riveting journey, insights on the power of unity among independent artists. We'll also be shedding light on fellow artists Janelle, Two Souls, and the incredible Obsidian Records. And yes, don't miss out on My Grito and The Mindbuzz for tantalizing updates.
The power of humility, respect, and knowledge sharing is the cornerstone of our chat today. Carlos and his devoted fans emphasize how these values can create a ripple effect of success, with Héroes del Sol as a shining example. The conversation heats up as we tap into the magic of the DBA Club in Pomona, California, and the pulsating energy of night-time music performances. We'll also be dissecting the nuances of playing at festivals, outdoor and indoor events, and the spectacular cinematography of Héroes del Sol's music videos.
If you're a fan of diverse music genres, you're in for a treat as drummer Guillermo shares his favorite flavors. We're introduced to his father's band Super Cuatro, and how their style influenced his own beats with Héroes del Sol. We then venture into the vibrant Rock en Espanol music scene, discussing its key influencers and the unique studio playing style. Closing the episode, the band unveils their dreams of playing at the House of Blues and their next big thing - their second album. Buckle up, as this musical journey with Héroes del Sol promises to be one you won't forget!
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Podcast Updates and Band Announcements
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Speaker 3Gets me every time.
Speaker 1I'm still gonna go for that, because I'm here for the booze. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here for the booze. Amber made me wear a colored t-shirt. I don't think, in all of the three years that we've been doing this podcast, I've never wore a colored shirt before, until today.
Speaker 3Your profession on the top.
Speaker 5It looks good on you, man. Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 3That's God speaking by the way, but welcome back.
Speaker 1We didn't have a podcast episode last week, so we're gonna hit it strong. We had a great, great. Should we even go over, like the past two weeks, or should we just get right into it?
Speaker 3I forgot what happened the past two weeks, so do I. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1All that matters is right now, this moment, and then the future. So, without further ado, it's gonna be Amber with a Mike Grito weekly.
Speaker 3Yeah, all right. So this week the rundown creeps will be performing this Sunday at Punk in the Park, alongside bands such as Pennywise, descendants, circle Jerks, goldfinger and much more. So us here at the Mike Grito family are super excited and very proud of Richard, stephen and Alan from the rundown creeps. It's a really big deal, so, yeah, so we hope to see everyone else there it's a pretty big deal, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3It is so congratulations, guys. Also, if you haven't listened to the new song called Space Time Continuum from Professor Galactico, I would suggest that, as soon as this episode is done, you go over there and you give it a listen.
Speaker 1Don't do it right now. Do it after the podcast. Don't do it now.
Speaker 3Don't pause it right now and go.
Speaker 1Really, guys Do it after.
Speaker 3Do it when it's done. So you lost her. But yeah, we have some really really great announcements coming up in the next couple of weeks from Mike Grito, so just listen in so that you can be updated and go give them a follow. Go give our family a follow. So they're called Mike Grito. Go give them a follow and go check out all the really cool bands that are part of the label.
Speaker 1All the links to.
Speaker 3No, that was it, oh, okay.
Speaker 1All the links to what Amber just talked about will be down in the show description. If you're listening to Spotify or on YouTube, go down to the podcast description and give Mike Grito a follow, and if you're not following the mind buzz on Instagram, do that before you follow Mike Grito. That's all I got to say. All right, without further ado, we're going to go ahead and introduce our guests for this evening. Amber, can you introduce them Because I am very I'm Spanish challenged? I have figured that out in the past four years that we have dated and I know nothing.
Speaker 3So go ahead and can you do that for me Please? Yeah, of course. So we have Héroes del Sol here with us, yeah.
Speaker 1And then switch the camera to them.
Speaker 3Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4Thanks, gil, for having us Appreciate this very much, and all your father. Please tune in to Gil give all the support.
Speaker 1Héroes del Sol.
Speaker 5There you go.
Speaker 1All right, I got it yeah, perfect Cool. Sounds good. So just go down from right to left, just say your name and what you do for the band.
Speaker 5Okay, my name is Carlos Lozap. I play the guitars and I'm the vocalist, and I do most of the writing.
Speaker 4My name is Albert no Diego. I'm a cousin's Carlos. I play the bass and make the band look better on stage.
Speaker 1Oh, okay.
Speaker 2My name is Guillermo Mota, I'm also a cousin and I'm the drummer.
Speaker 1Sweet guys. So how long have you guys been playing for?
Speaker 5Roughly, we've been playing kind of on and off. I would say like maybe 10 years, Probably even longer.
Speaker 1Yeah, whoa, 10 years is a long time to do anything but different projects oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5So, but this new project that we got going on roughly like since 2020, one or 20. 21.
Speaker 1Yeah, so you've been playing over 10 years. But yeah, ero Ero, ero es el sol, you're good. Yeah.
Speaker 3Del.
Speaker 1Sol, it's so. It's about a year or so About like two.
Speaker 5About two years. Yeah, about two years.
Speaker 1And you guys just played in La Mas Festival. Yeah, how did that go Festival.
Speaker 5Yeah, it was great, awesome, it was awesome. We had a great time. Shout outs to Janelle, two souls as well too, and Obsidian Mice. Record Paul. Everybody was great man, we had a great time out there. It was good to give back to the community, you know, and see people have fun, enjoy themselves, and we had a blast.
Speaker 1Paul's such a great guy. Yeah, he's really cool. So he actually sent me your guys' profile on Instagram, checked you guys out. I was like why not Anybody that he sends me over? We take a look and let's have them on the podcast for sure.
Speaker 5I appreciate that. Yeah, Of course we look out for each other and so, yeah, it's a little family that we have right now at the moment and you know, we're just, you know, trying to, you know, do something with it.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's more important, especially when we're all independent artists, all trying to create something, and when we do it together, it becomes like we all win. If one person wins, we all win.
Speaker 5Exactly.
Speaker 1So how important is like the community to you guys and the band.
Speaker 5Well, I mean it's extremely important to us. I mean we want to give back to the community. I mean for them to you know, understand and see that you know what there might be kids out there that, hey, they maybe one day want to, you know, be musicians, you know, and if you tap into that and have a little piece of it to do with it, then that's awesome.
Speaker 1Yeah, Especially yeah, especially now. Well, I guess now is a very good time for creators because it's so accessible that now, like, how accessible is podcast equipment compared to? Like 10 years ago? It was unheard of, Like nobody was doing podcasts Nobody, yeah, there was instruments and all that. But even recording like now you can record from your phone, Like with musicians there's so many different apps, right.
Speaker 5It's so much easier.
Speaker 1It's so much easier now. Yeah, the accessibility is freaking crazy right now.
Speaker 5I remember in the past, let's just say maybe 10, 15 years back, I mean, we didn't have that opportunity and nobody really wanted to show you. You know you, just if you had the passion, you were going to learn it on your own. Yeah, You're going to find out a way, You're going to poke at it until you broke your head, even download a cracked version of Pro Tools. And I remember the first time I actually was able to break through that and to be able to use it. I just couldn't believe it that I was able to get this software for free. Hopefully I don't get in trouble for that, but you know, hey, I mean to me that opened the doors.
Speaker 1I remember the first time that I actually got Pro Tools and I had no clue how to use it, because back then I didn't really remember the well, I didn't really know the concept of like Googling it and I'm pretty sure Googling it or YouTubing it back then I don't think that there was any tutorials?
Speaker 5I don't think they had any tutorials on it, yeah.
Speaker 1And this and I'm saying this is about 10 to 12 years ago, when I say and you were breaking your head just to try to figure it- out.
Speaker 1But what? But what I did? I bought it. I had the program. I took the program, the software and my laptop. I took it to the music store and I was asking the guy hey, like I don't know how to use this, can you help me out? So he, I was literally in the music store for about like two hours and this guy was setting it all up for me, he was showing me, he was giving me a tutorial.
Speaker 5Well, that's awesome, cause you don't find that many people that will actually do that for you.
Speaker 1No, he looked pretty irritated by the two hours.
Speaker 5Yeah, when was he?
Speaker 1I think he was an older European gentleman, yeah.
Speaker 5Cause I know it wasn't no Mexican person, because they're the last ones to show you. You're like come on, just show me bro. Uh, yeah, I don't know, dude, you're on your own Like oh, come on. Yeah, stop it, man.
Speaker 1Yeah, kate, keepers everyone.
Speaker 5And then it's like dude, like if you show me, then you know, it's a good thing for all of us. You know, Maybe even one day to the point to where, like, if you're trying to run a studio and you're trying to, you know, uh, make business and all that, what more better to teach someone? Just in case, if you need you can't make it, you always have a backup Right as a backup to a backup is always good to have, Do you?
Speaker 3think that I don't know if they can't hear me, but do you think that? Um like that like what you're saying, like Mexican right.
Speaker 4Or like a.
Speaker 3Latino wouldn't show you. Um, do you think that that's like kind of like old time mentality? Of just it was all for you and not for everyone, and do you think that we're?
Speaker 5at that point, at that moment.
Speaker 3Moving towards not get keeping within like Latinos or yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5Um, I know this, I know this much. I'm trying to break that cycle myself to where people need help. And I see it all the time it's like if I know all for my services and I'll be like, hey, you know, let me help you. And some people will say yes, and some people will be like I got it, I don't need your help. So, you know you, you you offer and you try to break that cycle. But I guess some people are stuck in that old mentality way of I don't need your help.
Speaker 1Carlos, have you always been like that, or is it just something that you've stumbled across and decided? You know what I'm done gate keeping. I'm going to teach the next generation. I've always been this way, Okay.
Speaker 5I've always tried like well, this gentleman right here next to me, like he used to come to my practices and we would let him get on the instrument. They didn't know what they were doing and a lot of people won't do that because they're going to fuck my bass up or, excuse me, excuse my lack of go for it. So, you know, some people are going to be like I don't want to mess up my drums or or they're going to mess my drum, my bass guitar or or anything. But we were always kind of like, yeah, go ahead, man, get on it. You know, I was, you know, proud to see the next generation kind of sort of. You know, go at it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5And to know that you know I had a little bit to do with that. I mean, maybe it wasn't a great part of it, but they were inspired by it and I gave them an opportunity to just get on the on the instruments.
Humbling Ourselves
Speaker 4That was about 20 something years ago. So you know, here we are together, you know, sharing this moment with, with Gil and his fans out there and my cousin and cousin here to the right playing shows. For you know, for the public, for the, for the people out there that want to listen and come out to shows and support that, if it's a few people, you know those are the ones that we appreciate even more. And the communities themselves. You know, if it wasn't for them and the people there, you know, we wouldn't have, you know, ears to listen to this, to our stuff, you know, to well, I mean, I honestly feel that you know what we need to break that cycle.
Speaker 5We need to get away from that, and a lot of people you know they need to start seeing that. You know, and the sooner the better. That way we can all rise up together, you know, instead of just one person, and and that's not going to work for us. We need to, we need to stay united, strengthen numbers.
Speaker 1You know what I discovered not too long ago. When you, when you, when you share information, right To say it's I don't know, just pick a subject right and you, you have this great information on how to advance in this certain subject, this certain project, right? I feel that when you share what you know, your knowledge, with a group, then it advances not only you but the group as well, but also, what I like is it sets a challenge because, say, your knowledge or your level of expertise is here and you bring your group up again. There becomes a challenge because now you guys are on the same level, right, you guys are on the same playing field. I think that people don't want to share that, because they always want to be right here and they want everybody down here.
Speaker 5It's the old way, it's exactly the traditional way of being right, that's like jealousy and envious, you know.
Speaker 1Exactly so. When you bring the entire group up to this level, it becomes challenging because you're no longer above anybody else. What I like is when you bring up everybody to your same level. It's a challenge for you to keep reaching up and it challenges everybody else to keep rising up.
Speaker 5Well, I look at it like that and at the same time, I look at it like, well, not all of us are good at everything. You know what I mean. So what I don't know, you may know Exactly, and you can teach me that, and what you don't know, I can teach you that. So guess what? We become stronger, we become better knowledge at what we're trying to accomplish. So I mean I honestly feel like, hey, if there's something that I don't know, when I reach out or say, hey, how are you doing this? Because I'm having some trouble here. You know I can do all this other stuff, but I'm having difficulties in this section of it. I think that's how we're going to get better by helping each other. What are your weaknesses? Because wherever you're having those weaknesses at, maybe I can make a difference for you.
Speaker 1I have a weakness choosing clothes. I have a weakness choosing shirts that Amber helps me at that, so I'm T-shirt challenged on that.
Speaker 5Albert can help you with that. He's really good at that.
Speaker 4We'll talk after.
Speaker 3There we go.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4But you've got a good shirt on right now.
Speaker 1Show me your seasonal. Oh yeah, there you go. What did you have on right now?
Speaker 5It's going with the theme right the Halloween's tomorrow.
Speaker 1So you know it, you're good, perfect, I think. Two months ago when he jumped in for a date for Halloween Seasonal we got to remember it's seasonal. Two months ago it wasn't.
Speaker 4And then you're going to want to put that away too.
Speaker 2Yeah, after October.
Speaker 5Tomorrow's your last day to use it. Yeah.
Speaker 1You can't use it for that one. Oh, everybody wants to come in. Oh you do. Yeah, I'm excited to not wear that. We can't wait to see it. But I mean that's the old mentality, right? I mean it's by that thought frame saying I don't know how to do X, that is, some of that takes vulnerability which most people don't want to do because they're saying I don't know how to do something.
Speaker 5So not only that, but some people have the mentality of I know everything when they don't. Yeah, they don't want to admit it. How can you know everything and you're trying to help? You're trying to help them because you see the problem. Hey, you need help right here. Let me help you and they just don't want your help. Yeah, it's unbelievable on how we're still trying to function that way and we need to wake up and try to be better and try to help each other out to become better. How we're going to do it.
Speaker 1What's the first step? If you have this magic wand and you can correct all this, what would be the first step to do?
Speaker 5Humble yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah, humble everybody.
Speaker 5Yeah, just humble everybody, and I think by humbling people then they're open to anything. If I'm humble, I'm going to be like I'm going to give you the respect of listening to you, because you're trying to help me and I see it, and so then I'm going to let myself get educated.
Speaker 2I think the number one rule is respect first. Even as a leader, you have to respect the ones below you so that way they can learn.
Speaker 4And we hold each other on an uneven platform. I've always done that with around different musicians. I've been around different musicians about 20 years, so I've always held everybody at an even platform.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4You and everybody evenly in the band.
Speaker 2I think that's why our band kind of works out, because we respect each other. We don't, you know, I joke around here and there, but we have a little bit of respect for each other and that's why I think we're doing this working.
Speaker 1I think it's a little bit harder too, because you guys are family, right?
Speaker 5Well, yeah, we're all family We've been since we were born.
Speaker 4I've known this guy too, since he was coming around Family parties on his side when I was nine 10 years old.
Speaker 1So you guys are related and you're not.
Speaker 5Oh, okay. Well, I'm the one that we all connect. So through my dad's side and my mom's side. So, guillermo's, through my dad's side and my mom's side. So, we're all connected, we're all family we're all family, yeah. So we're all cousins, you know so. Gotcha yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5It doesn't? It just dawned on me, to be honest with you, never really thought about the cousin part, not kind of mentioning it, that is kind of that is really cool actually. Yeah, that's cool, I wish my cousin could play an instrument.
Speaker 1Right, I don't even know how to do that. I wish you could play an instrument. No, you're. Yeah, hey, that's an instrument. You're using the instrument of your mouth to create cheese man.
Speaker 4And that's fine, that can be a talent.
Speaker 5That could be. Yeah, hey, not everybody can do that.
Speaker 4Yeah, everybody can do what you do here Podcasts.
Speaker 1So Just Google how to do a podcast and keep working at it and you know over time, you got to have some personality, and what you do, guillermo, is awesome, so you got to have.
Speaker 5first of all, you got to have the shirt that you got on.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5And you cannot try to do podcasts without that shirt, I would. I would say that would be the first rule After.
Speaker 1Halloween. This shirt is going to be on sale on mindbuzzorg.
Speaker 5I think you'll get a lot of money for it too. You're going to get paid a lot of money bro.
Speaker 1Born on MB195,. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be on sale, mindbuzzorg, Check it out.
Speaker 5You got to sign it and we're going to sign it.
Speaker 1I won't even wash it. I will spare you guys that it's not worth anything, because I'm not going to believe that you wore it.
Speaker 5That's the whole thing, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, you might start seeing. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 5That's why you put your cinch on one of those ghosts, like you see.
Speaker 1There you go. They're going to sell it at the Paramount Swatme at Ember, the same.
Speaker 5And you know you can get a lot of money. Paramount Swatme. You can sell anything out there, bro.
Speaker 4They're like he's there with the slash.
Speaker 5That's the fix in the right way, but they got me this See, that's why you got to sign it.
Speaker 4They told you open the box till you get home and I opened it and I was like, wait, why is the dash?
Speaker 1backwards, it's backwards. It's not a swish, it's a swish.
Speaker 5So those ghosts?
Speaker 1They get on wish. Yeah, those ghosts are going to be backwards bro, yeah, it's a bootleg, something like that, but uh.
Speaker 5I mean you got to. I mean nowadays, I mean you got to be careful, man, what you get. You don't know if you're getting the legit stuff or is it a bootleg?
Speaker 1Has that ever happened to you buying an instrument? No, no. Do you know what to look out for? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3I do.
Speaker 5I've been in this industry for a while, so I know exactly what to look for. I worked at Guitar Center, the DC, out in Rialto for a couple of years and I got to learn a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 1Really Yep Dang. That's cool. How long did you work there?
Speaker 5About a couple of years ago, maybe like four years ago, we were there for a while. Actually, oh dang and yeah, we got to see a lot of cool toys, and then for lunch breaks or our 15 minute breaks, we used to jam.
Speaker 1Really yeah, what the heck.
Speaker 5They had instruments just taking over the jam area? What?
Speaker 1No way.
Speaker 5Yeah, so like during lunchtime we would like work on stuff, Like we were just kind of sort of working our chops up.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5We were just working together.
Speaker 4Well, just me and Guillermo, if we're going to plug in our jobs. I work at Niagara Bottling. Shout out to Niagara Bottling.
Speaker 2Drink more water please Shout out to R&D Innovation. It is healthy. It's a water plug, yeah.
Speaker 5Well, I might as well throw my plug too. Yokohama Tires yeah, if you ever need good tires, yokohama Tires, bro. They're really good. I recommend them. I ran over something and my tires are still good.
Speaker 2Yeah, I ran over that railroad. That was tough.
Speaker 5Oh which one.
Speaker 2They were going really slow and I tried to go a little bit fast and it felt like I hit something hard on my tires.
Speaker 5Oh, wow.
Speaker 2Yeah, you guys experienced that on that railroad.
Speaker 3Which one?
Speaker 2Right here where you exit off the road. What was that road? You exit.
Speaker 1Oh, over here by Reservoir.
Speaker 2Yeah, the railroad tracks, train tracks.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're pretty rough over there. Yeah, they're just over there by the jack in the box and I must have been speeding it bro. Merandas or something like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was going 25, but it still felt like I had to get a flat.
Speaker 3Oh shit. Yeah, you must have been going real slow to catch it.
Speaker 5I don't know what happened there. You didn't have a cool shirt, like Gil. That's why you would have had Gil's shirt, I would have just floated right there, you would have just floated over those train tracks bro.
Speaker 1You would have ghosted the train tracks. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I'll chertrew that.
Speaker 1My fly t-shirt is making a comeback. Ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate it, but back to the music. Let's take it back to the music. So you guys say you guys play in the inland empire. What's the biggest venue that you guys played at as a?
Speaker 5group as a group, yeah.
Speaker 2I would say the biggest, the coolest one. Yeah, probably the coolest.
Speaker 1What's the coolest.
Speaker 5What was it down here in Pomona? The DBA, yeah, the DBA. How is that place, can you?
Speaker 1pull it up. I want to see it. It's a pretty cool spot. I have a friend there.
Speaker 5It's a bar, but it's like the vibe there is awesome. It's a cool spot.
Speaker 1Yeah, you have the wine cellar the. Dba like that DBA, pomona, dba and Pomona, yeah, dba club.
Speaker 4It's kind of a lounge, because they had the wine selection.
Speaker 5Really, and they got a bar there.
Speaker 4It was more of that.
Speaker 5But they had a bar, a full bar going.
Speaker 1Do they have like a nice stage?
Speaker 4area.
Speaker 1It's a lifted stage, or is it that's a lifted?
Speaker 5stage.
Speaker 4Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 5It's not like that. It looks kind of small, but when you're there it actually like it looks really cool.
Speaker 1I like that. It's a cool spot. It's just down the street too. We need to check it out, Amber.
Speaker 5Yeah, so it's a cool spot. We played there with Gets A Go, actually, and now we loved it there. Man, people loved it there as well too. When we played there, we had a great crowd response. Like the response of the crowd, it was great. We didn't know these people. It's just like out of nowhere, all these people started coming and started dancing. Really, it's just to me don't get me wrong, I like playing outdoor events Very cool, but playing indoors to me, and at night it just as a musician you thrive off of it Because it's a night scene.
Speaker 1People are right there in front of you. You can feel the energy. They're drinking, they're drinking, they're having a good time.
Speaker 5They're singing along your songs, they're dancing, so it's just a different vibe. And then when you do festivals, it's just like everybody's a little shy.
Speaker 2They want to go and dance. They're all in their own world.
Speaker 5That's why, not only that, but it's daylight and people get shy. How many people like? How many times have you wanted to get up there and go dance but you're like, oh man, no one's stopped her man, I don't want to be the first one.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's true, I never really thought about that.
Speaker 5But once you see one, two, three, then you have the courage to go up there. And so that's what I see with outdoor events, and unless it's a big old festival where people are already out and about like, for example, we played at Tacolandia, right. So this spot in Tacolandia it's like an outdoor swap meet and we played in the front, there was a lot of people. So it was cool, it was fun. That one was another fun show to play at because the people were already there. And so once you start playing, people stop and they're like ooh, and next thing you know you got a big old crowd right there just hanging out watching you.
Speaker 1Do you find that your type of music is, like it resonates with anybody? Like before you answer that, tell me about your music Like how would you describe your guys' music?
Speaker 5Well, I would say it's got like that Kind of drogue en español, but alternative vibe, so kind of you know there.
Speaker 1I watched one of your guys' videos that you have on YouTube on your website.
Speaker 2Right, pretty cool, I like that.
Speaker 1Thank you. Yeah, thanks, pretty cool, vibe. I like it and we just kind of did it ourselves. The cinematography on that is. It was really good.
Speaker 5Yeah, thank you, man yeah who did that?
Speaker 1Was it you? You?
Speaker 5Well, I put it together.
Speaker 1Collection of all of you guys.
Speaker 5Well, we all chip in, we all did our parts right, and then the in-between parts and the editing. I worked on it. We had another gentleman that was working on it, but I was not happy with his version, and so if I was to show you that version, would you never? Probably see it Never.
Speaker 1It's hard right, it's hard to. I was like no, I'm not going to release it, yeah, Of course, if it's something that doesn't fit your vision of how you want something to look, then why do it Right?
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, it was just not. It was like it was bad, really yeah, like so, at least for me it was.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5So I was like there's no way I can, did you guys? Did I show it to you guys? The original?
Speaker 2Yeah, so it's kind of like comical, comical, yeah, in a sense Like they weren't ridiculous.
Speaker 5One of the girls, like the background, seemed like they were dancing in downtown LA.
Speaker 1Did you have to redo all the shots?
Speaker 5Yeah, you had to redo all the shots. Well, not all the shots, but I'm gonna say like maybe 50% of it.
Speaker 1Well, that's still a lot 50% of it.
Speaker 5I was not happy with it. I had it like no, I'm not doing this, we're not gonna release this like that, no way.
Speaker 1How difficult was it for you to tell him that we're not gonna use this stuff, dude?
Speaker 5I just was honest with him, yeah, and I told him I'm not happy with it and I'm going to take it from here and thank you very much for your services. I paid you for it, so we're good. So he still got paid, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5Cause I still believe you know what. Like hey, he did his part Maybe Of course it wasn't in my tasting and he kind of just, instead of kind of saying like well, what did I do wrong, can I fix it? Or it was nothing like that it was more like well, whatever you want me to do, I'm gonna charge you more. And so I'm like I'm gonna charge you for my services.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5So then I was like, okay, well, thank you very much. That's cool, you know, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5And then, right then, and there, I had to learn another software, and you know, I think from Adobe.
Speaker 1Yeah, from those points. That's when you start learning different, different softwares, different types of techniques, when it comes to different artists, stuff.
Speaker 5Yeah, I think that YouTube came in well for me. I just went into YouTube and I just I need to do this.
Speaker 1You can find everything you can know how to do everything. It's all on YouTube Now.
Speaker 5It is like 10, 15 years ago there wasn't that many tutorials on there, I probably would have still been working on it.
Speaker 1Probably.
Speaker 5You know, if YouTube didn't have a tutorials like that?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5I'd probably be still editing that. We wouldn't be sitting here talking about the video I would have never saw that shirt, yeah, and I would have been like damn.
Speaker 2But here we are. That's enough, I'm taking off.
Speaker 1I know I'm taking it off Going topless, ladies and gentlemen, for the remainder of this podcast, I'm just trying to promote that shirt because I know you said you're gonna put it up there, we go yeah.
Speaker 4Let me check Amazon real quick.
Speaker 5Mindbuzzorg It'll be on sale. You gotta put your autograph on there.
Speaker 1I gotta do it.
Speaker 5Otherwise they're gonna boot like this Gotcha. Then people are gonna start to sell the fake one and it's not gonna be good. We're gonna go to Paramount Swamp Mead and there's gonna be a shit load of those shirts for sale. What's your name on it?
Speaker 1They're gonna have Ray-Ban glasses that are gonna be fake. They're gonna have bald caps. I'm gonna become a Halloween costume.
Speaker 5I'm a Halloween character you better watch out next year, and with headphones too.
Speaker 1Doesn't come with headphones and podcasting gear.
Speaker 4ladies and gentlemen, Gear with two L's, though.
Speaker 1Yeah, two L's. If it has one, that's a fake one. Dang, there we go. That's how you can tell. That's how you tell.
Speaker 5They're gonna try to save some money by putting one out, yeah, and that's how you'll know that that was a fake one.
Speaker 1Damn Paramount Swamp Mead.
Speaker 5Yeah, they got everything out there, bro. They got everything.
Speaker 1Every Tuesday. Right Once every day, but Tuesday, how do you run a Swamp Mead every day, I feel like that. I've been going on for years.
Speaker 2Geez, I would go to the Swamp Mead anymore.
Speaker 5I used to go over there after school and make money.
Speaker 2I remember I used to be like a Sunday tradition with our family. Shout out to the Swamp Mead.
Speaker 4Goers, though hey, if you need a wrench or a five millimeter. Allen you go to the Swamp Mead and you pick one up.
Speaker 1That's true. Am I the only one in the room that goes to the it might be Krasman.
Speaker 4It might be like 15 millimeter Sanofa.
Speaker 2Swamp Mead. Yeah, I used to go there a lot, Sanofa, that's where.
Speaker 1Well, because I grew up in Whittier so we used to go to Sanofa Swamp Mead all the time.
Speaker 4Never been.
Speaker 1No, it's really cool.
Speaker 4Like bands. Maybe we'll play Like bands. They do have like bands there, yeah, yeah, they do.
Speaker 1But back to the oh, you took it down. I was gonna say the DBA, we have friends of the podcast that I think they just we might have a picture of us at the DBA too, on our website. They just got like a residency there for like the month of November. Damien's band oh really yeah.
Speaker 5It's a really cool little place, man, I would love to play there again. Actually, I mean, you know, because it's just environment there and, like dude, you can bar hop it there, so people go in and out from it, you know. So it's like you Very intimate. Yeah, you get to see people and they come in and to see them not leave and actually come in and start grooving to your music.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Dude, that's awesome. What about, like when we played a cover from the cure that was?
Speaker 5like oh yeah, dude.
Speaker 1Oh really.
Speaker 5I think the crowd was singing the song Nice. Yeah, the crowd was singing and dancing to it, so it was pretty cool. It was a pretty cool spot, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1Pomona has such a good, they have potential to create something so good. I haven't been there in it's been a couple of years, but I feel that there Maybe it's happening now and I don't know what the hell I'm talking about but they got a bunch of good little spots out there, it looks cool.
Speaker 4The classic spots Mm-hmm. Glass house, glass house.
Speaker 1Fox.
Speaker 4And then these other.
Speaker 1The flyway Like the.
Speaker 4Tiki Hut or Tiki is that still there? No, it's changes, but the places are still there. But these new places come in.
Speaker 3They're a modern type of vibe but they they renovate, they hold up, yeah they renovate.
Speaker 4They adjusted the times, because times are different. Yeah 15 years ago till now, where the Fox Theater and all these places that have been around for ages. These new places come in and still add a new touch to these older plazas like that.
Speaker 1They have this thing called the basement and it's literally in a basement and that's where they have Club Rocket Right Down in the. It's really cool, like it's a really cool spot. I think it's right there underneath what is it? Thockels. It's near, it's not underneath the Thockel place, but it's the 80s club.
Speaker 5Well, you told me what the Thockels are Kind of Like. You said Thockels, I'm like dude. Where's this spot? Man, we gotta play there.
Speaker 1And the chef wears like a Santo mask. It's really cool. Oh yeah, I've been there. Yeah, what is it? Look up Luchador Thockels or something like that.
Speaker 2What is?
Speaker 1this at. It's right next to the DBA. Yeah, it's right. Oh, okay, it's right in downtown Pomona. Yeah, it's really, amber, we've been there To the Thockels, yeah, but remember they moved. They moved just around the corner from the Fox Theater. I've only been to the Fox Theater, like one time. Oh, what is it called?
Speaker 5I don't know, but those Thockels look good bro.
Speaker 1Luchador, urban Thacchiera, urban Thacchiera, thaccheria, thaccheria, is it that one? Yeah, that's it. Dang, time for that close. I'm getting hungry. There's also a brewery down the street, but yeah, downtown Pomona has such a good vibe. I was just telling Amber the other day. I was like, dang, we need a cruise by there to see what's going on, because the Fox Theater is there. The Fox Theater is a great venue. I haven't been to the Fox Theater and I think what Chicano Batman played in 2016-17 for New Year's Day that was cool.
Speaker 5Nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, but what do you guys? Are you guys working on a full length album?
Speaker 5working on singles and the process of that. At the moment we are about to start. Actually, we just got off finishing up actually playing our last gig for the year and we just kind of wanna now focus on working with the next album, which is gonna be in English. So we wanna kind of sort of switch it up and even to where we're looking, to the point, to where the third album is going to be half Spanish and half English. So there's a few things in work. Also, we got some video, like some more videos that we're gonna work on.
Speaker 5So I mean I know that the one that we released that was pretty fun, and we do have some other ones that we have lined up that we're about to work on as well too, since we kind of sort of are taking a pause. I mean I'm still open to gigs, but I do have to kind of cut it to where I need to work on the next album, right. So we've released a couple of singles, but we still gotta get into the studio and start working on this upcoming album that hopefully next year we'll release it.
Speaker 1Around this time does it take, like how is it I'm trying to figure it out like playing gigs during this time, like from after we're already in November, right now, November and December how is booking gigs during that time?
Speaker 3is it pretty difficult.
Speaker 1Yeah, we can book gigs. I'm just saying in general, like in the music industry. Say, me and Amber have a band and we're new and this is our first November and December season. Is it hard? Well?
Speaker 5it's not hard. I mean, we could invite it to like, for example, events that are happening in December and also in November as well too, but there's gotta be a point for us to kind of sort of stop and focus on going into the studio.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5And that way we really kind of just put all our efforts into the album that we'll be releasing, and that takes time. We wanna make sure we pull something good. In order for that to happen, we need to kind of stop going to that submarine and close it, and we're not coming down till we come up with a good album.
Speaker 1Generally is that how you work you just keep pounding.
Speaker 5Yeah, we keep pounding ideas. We might pound like maybe 50 ideas and not all of them are gonna make it Right kill your darlings, yeah. But we're trying to make sure that we're pushing every angle and everybody's input into it, and so once we kind of sort of push it and we keep pushing ourselves, greatness comes up, you know.
Speaker 1Guillermo, who's your favorite drummer? Did I put you on this bottom? Sorry, I think he was asleep, he was taking that.
Speaker 4I wanted to wake you up.
Speaker 1That's why no sleeping in the podcast, no sleeping in the studio, yeah what's going on, Guillermo? I'm gonna call you Artie Lang from Hi man. I mean, I've been. I'm gonna call you Artie Lang from the Howard Stern Show. Do you remember that? I don't know.
Speaker 4Who's the comedian? Nice to meet you. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1He used to be so high off of something and he used to just knock out and but he's naturally high.
Speaker 5Though, there you go, he is naturally high.
Speaker 1I seen the clip and one of the producers was hovering the microphone over his face and he was snoring and Howard Stern was just talking about his snoring. It was great. But favorite drummer, guillermo, yeah, who's your inspiration? Who inspires you?
Speaker 2Yeah, I really can't pin it like. I Mean talking to the mic, I mean like, basically I like to practice along with like a Like the cure, or okay, just depends on the vibe, you know. But when I first started I actually played with like a Like classic rock.
Speaker 1So there's that blend and John Bonham is one of the greatest drummers on this planet. You know a son I'm sorry to cut you off you know his son is a pretty badass drummer too. Yeah, it's, his son plays the drums too.
Speaker 2Nice yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1But so you say John Bonham, the drummer from the strokes on the door Is. John Denzmore.
Speaker 2You got Pink Floyd. You know those artists.
Speaker 1I don't know the drummer from Pink Floyd, I only know Roger Waters, and that's it.
Speaker 2Yeah, pretty much a lot of like rock and roll music that pretty much we're gonna be playing, so like anything alternative from the 90s, like death tones, okay, that's just really one of my biggest Inspiration.
Speaker 1so death tones. Yeah, they inspired me a lot so it's a lot of like late 70s and 80s type of bull. It's all. All drummers that you like are pretty across different genres of music, exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't just stick to one genre. It could be a mix of variety and it also has to do with, like the vibe, you know, depending how I feel the day. Like To tell the truth, like before I start work, like I I'll put on a, my, I tuned up, put a blue Monday and that's how I start off my day.
Speaker 1Is that the one that goes?
Speaker 5Okay gotcha.
Speaker 1I know that one that that's a cure song who?
Speaker 2is that.
Speaker 5Lumine, that's.
Speaker 2Pull it up every not now. I'm falling asleep over here.
Speaker 5It's nori yeah okay when you're not talking
Speaker 1already laying number two ladies and gentlemen I.
Speaker 5Think it's new order bro.
Speaker 1New order. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5Sorry about that, there was kind of drifted off a little. Yeah my brain was over here.
Speaker 3Get back you ticket at you guys are all related right or yeah, in some way Do you guys have like a background like family, other family?
Speaker 2Yeah, come from music you can find my dad on YouTube. Oh really yeah Is that he goes by the group super quatro and you hear one of his songs on there and he had like a whole, like two albums that he put out. I think it's number four. Yeah, I Think, yeah, let me see if I recognize it's like a, not the record label has like a something in the middle, or, if not, if it's probably as Is Q you.
Speaker 2I think, is he see? Yeah, there, it is right there, super four, that's my daddy. Oh, that's cool, it's gentle solo.
Speaker 5Like those freddies yeah yeah yeah, yeah well, there you go. There you go yeah, I believe they played on my wedding really.
Speaker 1Yeah, do you guys just oh yeah, so when you guys music, is it just a three piece or D? Add any other instruments.
Speaker 5We it's a three piece when we play, yeah, but occasionally we'll have a keyboard player.
Speaker 5Oh, okay this last gig and we had a Mickey sander step in shoutouts to her great keyboardist. She used to play with us back when we were in cemento that was a name of the group and you know I kind of Gave her. I gave her a call and I was like, hey, what are you doing this Sunday? Nothing, why, hey, do you want to play? And and kid you know, she was just like, well, let me see, because I do play a lot, she plays in a lot of different bands and I was kind of like, oh man, please, please, and she sure enough said yes, I send her the music. And Like we never even practiced with her until we got together on Sunday and yeah she's awesome.
Speaker 5Dang. She like that dude. She's a professional man. Yeah, she's awesome. What was that forward to actually doing more gigs with her?
Speaker 1What was plan B if she wasn't able to make it to the gig? Oh, play it without. We're like without keyboard.
Speaker 5A three-piece band. Okay, and we still rock it. Yeah so that's one of the things that people kind of sort of see us and they hear the music that we put out and they're like, well, where's the rest of the people? Mmm like it is just only you three.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5Because her fucking pad ass is like let's put it down. So yeah, I mean, we've been doing it with a three-piece band and we still do.
Speaker 1Yeah, keyboards, yeah. There's a resurgence of this, this style of music that was played in like the early 70s and late 60s, with Oregon right, I feel yeah yeah, you see. Chicano Batman.
Speaker 5They kind of have that Ender in their music. If you listen to them or like you can feel the, so who she kind of Batman. Oh, yeah, yeah, 100%, yeah you feel that you know 70s kind of keyboard. Yeah, that's awesome deep purple. Whoever their deep purples Keyboard is, is freaking amazing right, I can't remember who he is, but yeah, I wasn't wearing your shirt. No, that's for sure.
Speaker 1That's, that's why we forgot him, because he wasn't wearing the T-shirt.
Speaker 5Wearing the T-shirt, it would have been over.
Speaker 4Yeah, what size is that? Cuz I like to try it out on the show, if it was okay. Listeners and stuff.
Speaker 5Like one of the gigs or what.
Speaker 1I haven't had that much tequila to take off my shirt if not, you would. I know you, amber, you better start collecting right.
Speaker 5Where's that donation?
Speaker 1the donation bucket, Whatever the donation partner please donate to Gilles cause to the cause.
Speaker 2There we go?
Speaker 1what about bass players? Who do you, who do you like when it comes to bass playing?
Speaker 4I always resort back to the story. Started listening to stuff, so it was James Jamerson a lot of Motown. He backed up Marvin Gaye a lot and Any artists that recorded with Motown with any artists, looked him up and booked him to record bass for him. So that's why Motown was very consistent with their sound because James Jamerson was on every track, every big hit with Stevie Wonder. He worked with a lot of people in Motown Okay everybody, so it's. It's James Jamerson.
Speaker 1James Jamerson. Okay, nice, anybody in the rock and roll scene rock and roll.
Speaker 4I mean I like the Mr Verdeau wife, or earthwind of fire, it's funk. You know it's not, it's not rock, but they, I've seen them a few times and if I was like this, playing funk was One of my old passions, is what I mean I'm still big on that Rock. I mean I Lean more towards towards funk and and all these and and the old-school sound and stuff.
Speaker 1Gotcha. Yeah, okay but that has influenced in your bass playing right.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2Well, he started out with one finger. I.
Speaker 5Think everybody starts with one finger, right one finger one finger on each hand. Yeah, I mean when I started playing too.
Speaker 4It was very like one just one just for consistency and that was I mean even till now. I place faster, sometimes with my one finger.
Speaker 1Have you ever tried playing upright bass?
Speaker 4Little bit, yeah, a little bit. I love the sound, I love the. I mean shout us to deal for video and so we have some musicians that run in the family that play yeah they play stand-up bass, oh really. Chirin and a lot of that Norteño.
Speaker 5Yeah, you know we're from, but our family's from Singapore. So you know, you hear all that. You know all that style of music that you know We've grown up with trancellas and all that.
Speaker 1Do you guys know any cello? No, sanchez.
Speaker 5Well, we know, but, yeah, never attempted to play them. Oh no, I'm sure we, like you know, try to figure it out. We'll figure it out, yeah.
Spanish Rock and Music Influences
Speaker 1Yeah, another thing too. I was because he brought up pink Floyd. I'm trying to think if there's any other Spanish or Espanol music that has done a Pink Floyd song. I'm trying to think that's even a thing Like yeah, like a cover, like there's so many bands that do it. There was a whole album of Dark Side of the Moon. You remember who was at Leo?
Speaker 5from. Sure there's a lot of different groups. Yeah, because I know like I mean all groups like maybe saw the studio, they might have done some kind of.
Speaker 1I found out who they were like maybe a year ago. Oh my God, they're fucking awesome. I was like stuck in, wasn't I stuck in that for like a good one time?
Speaker 5Yeah, I like I delete singer man, the style of playing. I mean, that's to be honest with you, that's kind of sort of what did it for me.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 5So the studio, like as far as the Rokina Espanola, that's where I kind of sort of kind of gravitated and I couldn't get enough of it. And you know, there's other groups of course, like you know, the Doors, the Cure, Bajas, the guitarist from Bajas, Daniel Ash, I mean there's so many different good musicians, good guitarists. Carlos Santana, let's not forget him as well too. I mean a pioneer, right, yeah, or Giganos.
Speaker 3I think that, like in years to come, there'll be a resurgence of, like Rokina Espanola, again Cause it, like I can speak for myself, but like in the 2000s, like when you know, when I was going to school, and then 90s, like you, had all these bands.
Speaker 5How long it is you know anything that you can think of not everything, but now we kind of transition to which seems like they took the pause right, yeah, so that's what's kind of trending now right.
Speaker 3It's either the very aton or like the Largo Corrido that we listen to.
Speaker 5Well, I think that that it goes in circles right Like it's. You know, once that's over, then you know you'll see another different style of music come in, you know. But do you think that the bands still like the reemergence of new bands that are gonna play? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5I think that's still going. I mean it's still going strong. I mean it's just that right now, like, of course, the pop world, you know, I mean you got, you know reggaeton at the moment and you know Taylor Swift, how many times has that not popped up right Like it's all over the news? Football games, I mean they're everywhere. But I think that you know Roca Espanol, I mean it's still, it's still there strong. I mean there's good groups out there, like there's a band called Zoey and Dude that was the band I'm trying.
Speaker 1I was trying to think I was gonna ask you, Amber, about that, but they're awesome, oh my God yes. Yeah, the main. I started listening to the frontman. His stuff, like on his own, is really good too. I forget his name. Do you know his name, amber?
Speaker 5I can't think of one of his stuff in my head. Yeah, yeah, I can't think of it a year.
Speaker 1I seen them in concert like a few years ago and I had no idea. I had no idea until I have the flyer in my kitchen, right across from where I eat, and I was looking at the flyer just eating my breakfast and I was like what? The fuck, I seen Zoey and I had no clue. Right and Leon Lauregy, there you go. Leon Lauregy, there we go, gotcha.
Speaker 4Was that at Tropicalia Festival?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 4I was there too, and then-.
Speaker 1Oh really.
Speaker 4They had a badass set.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't remember it, but they must have had a great set.
Speaker 4So there was a few artists there that stood with rock genre and a lot of mixed genres. You can put rock and ska together. They're like siblings or cousins and stuff. My whole background is ska.
Speaker 1Oh really.
Speaker 4Been around that for the last 20 years or so, but here.
Speaker 1I am a comfort circle and get with the cousin of mine's.
Speaker 4And-.
Speaker 1Is it like bass and Like your bass playing? Does it have some kind of an influence from ska riffs into what you play now? Not really the timing's different right, I had to adjust Because it's on the offbeat. I had to adjust because a lot of reggae and traditional it's like one, two, it's like on the third.
Speaker 4And steady. It was different, yeah, so. I had to come back and learn the one instead of the two. So instead of offbeat I had to get back on beat, and it was an adjustment for sure. I talked to some of my friends. I was just like hey, man, 15, 18 years as it is. And turned around and do a little bit of rock.
Speaker 1Oh, thank you.
Speaker 4And yeah, I appreciate it and I won't talk bad about you anymore, but I'm gonna help you. Who do you like?
Speaker 3Scalbams Like Alley. Scalbams Alley.
Speaker 4Alley compas ocho calacas. You know Resistencia, we go back 20 years or so. Yeah, ronco Bacoco, they're not around anymore, but shout out to Alex from Ronco Bacoco and Suzy Q Band that was temporarily out to shout us to them they made a good impression on me. And shout us to the old Allen Theater there. And we were there jamming out and selling out that place and lots of love to the RestorBum fans and just plugging them in to them. Plugging in. Are they still playing? I play bass for them, yeah.
Speaker 5What do you do? I'm the original bass player.
Speaker 1You're the original bass player. Og bass player. No fucking way, yeah, really. Oh, that's cool. Who wrote so? So Is it so so?
Speaker 4Yeah, so, so and.
Speaker 1Bumblebee Dang so.
Speaker 4So was a so so music. The song was an old Scalabera song, different lyrics though. They called the Niño Huedo, same patterns and all that stuff. They had given it to us. They didn't play that song. And then different lyrics, same changes, same pattern and everything. I think we just did the lyrics in a different horn line. So that's the story, dang.
Speaker 1We mentioned.
Speaker 4So so that's the story from Ground Zero. I've seen you guys a lot of times when I was in high school, Right on. Yeah, those are the times I'm in school. Well, there's people still now watching us. I mean, the crowd is usually a younger crowd. You know lots of love to them.
Speaker 3That's cool, I like. Like Diem estresse.
Speaker 4Viernes. They're not around anymore, I believe, but those are the bands that I remember Quince Letras, viernes, shaoros Sua them, almalafa, la Pobresca Friends of ours too and Asael Shaoros Asael if. And he's one of the promoters I want to work with eventually with these guys and get us out to LA and you know he can plug us into you know, rock, ska show and all that Cause they go hand in hand. I mean, inspector, they can do a little bit of everything. And Pantil Rococo they've done a little bit of everything. I feel like it's, you know, it goes hand in hand at a show.
Speaker 3So I was just telling Neil, the other, day about the Ellen Theater because he passed by. My grandma always lived in the quarters. My grandma lived off Tweeting.
Speaker 4Tweeting.
Speaker 3But I was never allowed to go.
Speaker 4You missed some epic.
Speaker 3Yeah, every time that there was shows and my friends would go, my mom would be like no, you can't go. So I would try to bribe my grandma whenever I went to go to the nighter house to let me go, because it was literally a block away from her house and I never got to go. And finally, when I was like all right, this is my time. And then they closed me down. Yeah, and I was just like devastated.
Speaker 4I missed so many shows, some epic shows there with, like Cerebro, also from the Indian Empire, lavanda, scalavera not around anymore, but Cerebro's still around. There's still. There's a lot of bands that have come and gone and musicians kind of bounced around to other bands. So you know, those who have it in their heart to play as long as they can and have the opportunity to play, it's a major blessing. And then you know to share and we play for the people and we play, we do it for the fans.
Speaker 3I seen shows in South Central and then in East LA.
Speaker 1It was where I used to go to, yeah, compton gigs. I remember Compton gigs.
Speaker 4Heck, yeah, compton gigs that was a lot of those and they kind of died out and just stayed within these few places. Now there's a few venues but like in Hollywood, Roxy and all these venues, the Wix, Whiskey and a bunch of venues that we ran through, all those and I'm sure Carlos, yeah, through all those too, with the previous project, when the Key Club was open.
Speaker 5I hope you guys remember that place.
Speaker 4The Lock Talks too, the Jablain Club.
Speaker 5Key Club Whiskey the Rainbow.
Speaker 1Remember the knitting factory?
Speaker 4the knitting factory was cool, oh, man is that it the House of Blues right there off of Hollywood Boulevard too, Epic.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4Place House of. They treated you really good there and had the chance to play at all three of those at the San Diego one.
Speaker 1They had a record store next to it too, dang.
Speaker 4Southgate this street.
Speaker 1Gallant Theater, Tweety was like, really cool, they had a bunch of it was poppin' back then.
Speaker 4Yeah, it was a play theater. It was theater, right? Or was it a play theater where they did plays? It was a theater like an actual, like a, where they did plays, or no, I was there. No, it was a. It showed movies, right? Yeah, cause they still had the booth there and, oh, really, they had some stuff. Like a. You bought your popcorn in the front, you walked in and it was, and then all the seating, classic theater seating, and I'm not sure if you ran in there once or twice. Yeah, I did in there, yeah.
Speaker 1Scroll down. There's an old. Where's the sector core flyer? There we go.
Speaker 4Oh.
Speaker 1Yeah, how old is that?
Speaker 4What does it say From Colacó?
Speaker 1Where's that 1990,? Oh, look at it.
Speaker 4What is it called? Scar Scar, skok, kyve, skokor, oh, but the thing is the archive.
Speaker 1Oh, that's cool. It has like different, different years.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, let's go in 2006. Yeah, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Speaker 1There we go. Whoa, that's cool. It's an archive, guys.
Speaker 5Dang, you might see Gil's shirt in there.
Speaker 1Somebody's gonna wear it. Vietná stress Amber, go to the year that you didn't see three bad jacks, since you always talk about that incident. I wanna see the lineup on that, if you can find it, or it's just scoshos.
Speaker 4Yeah, click on that one right there.
Speaker 1Oh, the red store bums, there you go, la muerte.
Speaker 3Scoria.
Speaker 4Might have that flyer still.
Speaker 1Damn la resistencia, I'm really mean my.
Speaker 4Could you print that out for me though? Yeah, this is a cool thing. I don't know if this is yeah, can you start?
Speaker 1Can you start? Yeah, that's pretty cool so we can go back to it. Heck, yeah, but that's cool, that's.
Speaker 2That's basically his back.
Speaker 1That's a fact. Wait, so do they still play.
Speaker 4We have a show coming up with those guys with a chencha and resistencia in a few weeks like two weeks I think in LA To catch one venue.
Speaker 3They all were gone.
Speaker 4The monsters of ska or something.
Speaker 1Okay, what was that big ska festival? It was like the Does, it does, it's like Scotland, or some shit like that. Yeah.
Speaker 4There was a Scotland, there was an alien Empire, but there was one in.
Speaker 1Downtown LA. Right yeah, the scar, scar wars yeah and then everybody was here.
Speaker 4We played with my Dita yeah bands from Europe Dang really no more Did I most come. They're great and from Spain and Everybody was there. Damn to every band that was, yeah, that was the biggest.
Speaker 3When I think of Scott, I think of one show in particular.
Speaker 1Where you lost your shoe, we all lose.
Speaker 5Oh.
Speaker 3Like right in a corner and people were waiting in line to get in and it was by a bus stop and and you stepped on it.
Speaker 5Okay, it was huge.
Speaker 4That was probably the stinky. I shall be played in like that. I remember that one chop house where they stole cars and they were like chopping them up right there while we were playing. So I was just you know all the VIN numbers and taking them all that shit on. Take the doors off choppy cars damn while we're playing. We're just like it was going on back there.
Speaker 1I don't even look like don't worry about it, there's a car in half already.
Speaker 3That's crazy, that stories, stories.
Speaker 4Yeah, I got a lot, got a lot.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's, it's.
Speaker 5It's crazy how it's a full, full circle, like, like at the beginning at the beginning, we, when we're like actually doing this he was a little kid trying to just, you know, come to my practices and to see him, kind of sort of you know, go from one point to the next and and we got to play a few times with, with, with the red wrist or pumps as well too, and so that was kind of so surreal, like it was cool, you know, to see the, you know the stage, where they started and when he was at at the moment, and it was, it was awesome.
Speaker 4That's that. You know. I owe a lot to Carlos here and that was much respect and love. You know, to get to throw a A brand new bass or guitar in my hands and trust me with that, even though it dropped a few times. And, and you know, now I have my sons with instruments in their hands and I'm pushing them, you know, and you know a little tough on them, but they have their stuff and you know another generation so yeah, we're bringing the next generation.
Speaker 5There we go.
Speaker 1So, when it comes to frontmen, carlos, who's your inspiration?
Speaker 5Um well, I got a few, a couple of of, like Robert Smith from the cure. I really kind of sort of grew up a lot watching, you know, him do his thing. And there I, every concert I went to was Guy sounded like the record, like the CD, like I couldn't even believe it. Like it was there, like is this thing? Like is there a CD playing back there? So what's going on here, bro? Like. But every time, and they man, they put, they put it down and to see that it was just A driving force for me, are they still playing? Do you know? They just finished their tour.
Speaker 1Really yeah, they played out here at the.
Speaker 5Rose Bowl Mmm. Yeah, yeah, we were trying to get tickets but it was kind of hard.
Speaker 2Yeah, do they sell out really quick?
Speaker 5when you have a, a jump. You know you gotta work first.
Speaker 2Not only that, but they're having like a ticket master, yeah, they were actually really yeah.
Speaker 5And then at the end it was just kind of like you know, what Screw it? We'll watch it on youtube. Did they live stream it or something, or is it? Oh they did.
Speaker 1Yeah, they did. Did you have to pay for the live streaming?
Speaker 5Or is it.
Speaker 1Someone was doing it for free, oh, someone.
Speaker 5Yeah, someone was doing it for free.
Speaker 1Oh someone in there. Damn, that's how they do it, huh.
Speaker 5I was at the Paramount Swampy when I You're looking for my shirt.
Speaker 1How's shopping for the?
Speaker 5shirt and what do you know man? The cure at the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 1That's awesome. One more question before we get you guys out of here. So you guys are gonna be heading into the studio for the next couple of weeks months.
Speaker 5Uh, we'll say a couple months, yeah, we're gonna dive into it and start working on our second album, and this one should be a little more, I think. I think a little more exciting, because All three of us will be actually inputting it. You know we'll, we'll have everybody's input, kind of like. The first album was just kind of some stuff that I kind of wrote, and with this next Album, you know we'll all pitch into it. So it should be, you know, it should be very, uh, very great.
Speaker 1So you guys been playing for about Two years, right? So what's the? What's the goal in the next five years? Have you thought about that?
Speaker 5Um, well, I mean, I haven't really kind of sort of gone too far with it because I always try to kind of stay within, within my, you know, within my uh, how can I say it? Within my time zone, I guess, if I can make any sense of it. But you know, we, you know we want to be able to, uh, you know, continue to, you know, rock and Rock out places and and and play big venues. You know, I see something big for us coming soon. It's just, you know, I think we're in the middle of something that we need to, like, you know, um, put together with, you know, the talent that we all bring to the table and, um, it should be a very interesting, you know, next couple years for us.
Speaker 1If you can think of any venue that you would want to play in the next Three years, what venue would it be? Packed, sold out, packed, sold out Maybe House of Blues for me probably.
Speaker 4All three of them.
Speaker 5Yeah, I mean, I'm good with that too as well.
Speaker 1House of Blues. House of Blues get us in. Yeah, guillermo, are you? Are you on that one too?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I'm just making sure you're alive over there.
Speaker 5I think, uh, he was asleep there for a minute and we woke him up and he was like sure, yeah, whatever they say.
Speaker 1All right, one, one more time for me before For Hereros Jesus christ. We should have just gave you the mic Heroes, heroes Delso for you, for the no sabbles Heroes.
Speaker 3Delso Thanks guys for coming out.
Speaker 5I really appreciate it. Thank you for having us, man. Thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1Awesome, so go ahead and tell us where we can find you and what you got coming up, sure.
Speaker 5You can find us on instagram, um, on all the platforms, youtube as well too. Go check it out, um, stay tuned for our next album. Uh, it's sometime next year. And uh, shout out to obsidian rice record two souls on fire, gill the mind buzz gill shirt that, uh, he's about to uh, get ready to sell pretty soon. And remember, if it doesn't have two wells, don't buy it. There we go. So, yeah, please, follow us. Our website. Yes, uh, check out our website. Uh, it was a soul. Uh, you'll see it, you'll, you'll. You can see videos, you can see all kinds of good stuff there, and then you'll be posted on the Upcoming gigs as well too. We should have some. Well, we have some gigs out lined up for next year. I think it's a single the mile event, and then we have something in the works for, I believe, the whiskey gogo as well too, if sometime in august next year. So stay tuned and, uh, follow us.
Speaker 4It was a song. Listen up, keep your ears wide open, shout out to Alonzo and, as I love you guys.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, shout out to, uh, my beautiful wife annabelle and my beautiful kids zoe, zulema, monty or month of summa actually and shout out to my parents as well too. Love you guys.
Speaker 2Yeah, shout out to all my brothers and sisters. I love you guys and thanks for all the support cool.
Speaker 1All the links to Heddlesdale soul will be down in the show description.
Speaker 5Heroes del so will be down in the show description. There you go, you got it bro.
Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen, it took, like what? Almost an hour about an hour and some change Huh. Atta atta ways. Oh, why didn't you say that Atta ways this song there?
Speaker 5you go. You should have just said that wow, hey, all right, just silent, hey, you got it.
Speaker 1You see you guys in the next one peace.