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MB:201 with The Long Tall Texans: The Thrills of the Psychobilly Music Scene: Insights from The Long Tall Texans
The Long Tall Texans are a Psychobilly band from Brighton, UK formed in 1985. http://www.longtalltexans.co.uk/
What happens when you have over 40 years of experience in the music scene and an undying passion for your craft? You're about to find out! We get up close and personal with the renowned band from Brighton, United Kingdom – The Long Tall Texans – and they spill the beans on everything from their unique blend of psychabilly and rockabilly music, to their enduring camaraderie and the importance they place on bringing in fresh blood to keep the scene alive.
It wouldn't be a complete journey without the inclusion of our musical comrades, The Cracks and The Meteors. The Long Tall Texans give us the lowdown on their hobbies, other bands they are involved in, and the uphill battle they fight in releasing new music. The Long Tall Texans let us sneak a peek into their songwriting process, the impact of streaming on their music sales, and the pivotal role passion plays in their career. Brace yourself for a wild ride into the psychobilly world where band rivalries run high and infamous venues like the Klub Foot reign supreme!
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three, two, one, what is up? Mind buzz universe and for some of you guys that like to be called mind buzzers, I really don't agree with that.
Speaker 1:You gotta come up with a new name okay, we'll come up with a new name, but we have a special, awesome treat for you, and it's kind of weird because we're we never live streamed during the day, but this is a very special day that we have for you guys and, without further ado, I'm just going to get into today's guest all the way from Brighton, united Kingdom, the long, tall Texans. What's up, guys? Thanks for being here. How you doing? You all good? So you guys are playing a stacked weekend. You just played a show last night. You have two gigs today, right? Yeah, that's right. And then you have. You wait. What's today, sunday? So you played Friday. You guys are going to play Saturday and then today. Yeah, how you guys feeling tired.
Speaker 4:No, no, we're all good. We're all good, but get high.
Speaker 1:Put ourselves up for this afternoon oh, there you go and just from right to left mark. Can you just, can you guys just say your guys names for the people that don't know who you guys are right to left and then what?
Speaker 4:you play for the band my name's Mark. I play double bass and I try and sing my name's Theo.
Speaker 5:I play the drums and I tried to do backing vocals badly he's good at it my name's Lawrence.
Speaker 4:I play guitar and I try to sing backing vocals badly there you go, and I can hear a second note well, thank you guys for being here, for for coming out and doing this.
Speaker 1:I know you guys are on a time crunch and you guys are pretty busy, so how's the how's?
Speaker 4:the flight was the last time you guys came out here we were out here nine years ago and I think we played the Queen Mary and I'm festivals oh that's right man, I miss that festival great festivals, big festivals, yeah do? You guys do a lot of shows out in where you guys are from we play a lot in Germany, in Germany, in Europe, actually really yeah, in Europe yeah so it is.
Speaker 1:How's the the psychabilly and rock ability seen compared to to Los Angeles?
Speaker 4:how, yeah, yeah, also seen. I mean the rock ability seems very strong at home so I could be seen, so a little bit.
Speaker 1:Quite, we need a new generation at the moment what do you think that we should do for the new generation?
Speaker 4:it's a really hard thing.
Speaker 5:I think personally that mums and dads who have the next generation of children need to bombard them with psychabilly we've had a lot of kids in Germany and buy the instruments like double basses and guitars and stuff. But Gretches and stuff like that looks a bit rockabilly and and then you get a next generation of and then the music scene will hopefully lift itself up again and it'll come back again, but without any new blood there's.
Speaker 4:There's not gonna be a lot there to be honest, we've had a lot of people recently bringing their kids to the gigs, which I've noticed, and we like to encourage young ones anyway because they are the next generation we're just not having enough kids anymore, our generation wow you know what I think we should do.
Speaker 1:we should start playing psychabilly mixes inside hospitals, like inside cherry actually war to my guy there's a few more nutters inside maternity, inside maternity war. Just crank up the music. But yeah, perfect example. Get them instruments, get them double basses.
Speaker 4:How damn stied, how difficult was it during you guys started in 882 correct about 82, I mean those previous bands, before working up to the Texans. Really, for me, theo come along and obviously launches the newest boy at the moment, but that will change it so how difficult was it to get a double bass in 1982?
Speaker 1:well, my story.
Speaker 4:My story is. A good friend lent me one and I was very young. I played guitar to start with and I used to play drums or snare drum and synth would do rockabilly, and the guy that played in the band called spider Kevin McCormick. He lent me his bass and he was a really eccentric character big blonde, quiff, bright yellow suit. You'd know.
Speaker 4:He was there always taking the mickey, but in a nice way, and he drove a hearse but the sad part, he died very young on a motorcycle, about 21-22 I think, and he lent me his double bass, which back then they were quite precious things and expensive. So yeah, and it was just, that was my first innings on the double bass and then it took off from there initially played guitar, then to the double bass and then I made it up from there so, from that point on, did you think that the long, tall Texans were going to keep playing after 30 years?
Speaker 4:I mean it's not something you contemplate or think about. If it would last I mean next year is 40 years, whoa 40 years congratulations. Yeah, no, no, I even know I've done the hell we got here. Oh man, yeah, it's flown by and it really is flying by quick.
Speaker 1:Wow, that is 40 years of doing anything is crazy, especially something creative like music.
Speaker 4:It's not a ball, it's not over yet, but we enjoy it. Motivation's a little bit harder in our older age. It's the traveling and getting there for the hour on stage or the hour on 15. Traveling 11 hours on a flight, two out, three hours in the car, but when you get there you do one hour, then you're on it. Yeah, so hanging around. So hanging around is the hard bit oh, okay, I see, do you think?
Speaker 4:that that's important to hang around after oh, I mean, I think in the scene. I mean the such piece is quite unique where in England and Europe we're all mates, we've become, you know, even people you don't know what you'll be socialised with. There's no airs and graces in psychobily, we are all one. If you do it, giving people someone thinks you're good at what you do, that's great. But let's go and get a drink we can socialise. There's no, there's no.
Speaker 5:Yeah, after all these years we don't hide around backstage, we don't hide around. No, we don't go, we are it's good to talk to people and, you know, get their feet back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we like that we're sociable. Most bands are on the scene most bands are, you know, in general. That's why it's quite unique the whole scene, you know. As far as subculture goes, it's one of the most unique. Psychobily never really got famous, not like the rockabilly with your pole cats and your stray cats. Psychobily always kept a back seat. So we quite like the fact that it is subculture yeah, absolutely, and that is what it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yes, we could do a few more people and a few more numbers, but in general I'm happy of where it's at.
Speaker 3:We're not looking for world domination but a few more people will be good, hey so what do you think of the Los Angeles scene?
Speaker 1:what the scene?
Speaker 4:yeah yeah, that's good. I mean, or the music, I'm sorry. What about the music? Well, psychologically, yeah, I mean, one of our favourite bands from Los Angeles will be Gamblers Mark. Oh, yes, I mean. Wonderful couple of albums. Boy, that boy could sing, and what great songs. And it was a real contrast from 80s to rockabilly, to a little bit of Scar, and their brass on the album is very sweet very cool people and lovely people. Yeah, I hear he's not really around on the scene anymore.
Speaker 1:I've seen them. I want to say like three, three months ago, but with. So it's Dave Gambler. He has another band called the flashbacks and he plays 80s music.
Speaker 4:We've been hearing this from James over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he played a 80s. If you guys are in Pomona, he plays a club in Pomona right there on Holt Avenue. It's really good, it's really cool yeah, we like them, we're so big fans.
Speaker 4:I don't know if I said I don't think they're around, so but we're not really that familiar with a lot of the American psychoballies to be, for we kind of end up hearing it in the cars and occasionally hear a bit, and then when you hear something, you like it of course mostly the Quakes was one of the main bands that were around in the day with us and they progressed from there kind of psychobally to more kind of rockabilly, I think more now with an edge, but very melodic.
Speaker 1:I think it's a very good song, right do you feel that that happens all the time with psychobilly? They first start psychobilly music in and mellow out a little bit.
Speaker 4:I mean again, as I was saying earlier, the rockabilly scene in England is very healthy. The psychobilly scene is okay. You know we'd like it to be on the same path, but you get a lot of these rockabilly weekends and they're sold out. You know people are into it. I grew up that well, you know getting into the world of psychobally noise that we do and yeah you like Japanese psychobilly, interesting always interesting. You'll watch them and your mouth will be just kind of full wow, did I just see that?
Speaker 5:and they look great they're very keen as well.
Speaker 4:They're keen and just their image is just fantastic. I mean, it's easier to look good when you're younger when I mentioned the Japan trip, I seen the Cyclops and I was out there
Speaker 1:oh my god, it was a great show, it was crazy they're interesting as well.
Speaker 4:When you watch something, you kind of wonder what the hell is that a band called the cracks as well the cracks, the radios also the radios is a radio show heard of them. I can't think of fan, but yeah awesome stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm just in awe that you guys are like right here.
Speaker 4:You guys have no idea yeah, it's always hard to comprehend that one right for my out point of view anyway so what do you guys have?
Speaker 1:do you get? Instead of the music and playing out here, do you guys do anything else besides we work, we still work.
Speaker 4:We all play another bands too. I play in a scar band called the hotknife you'll plug there. I don't usually plug it on them. A lot of people know that I do that I've been doing that for the last 25-30 years.
Speaker 5:Yeah, theo plays in a band called Vicky Vortex and the cum shots it's a fast stroppy punk rock okay, and then, theo, you just just play with these guys.
Speaker 3:I had some more bands in the past. I still play with a band called Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers oh, okay, I've heard them yeah, they came over to London about 10 years ago.
Speaker 4:I think it's up to them.
Speaker 3:I think he's in London and if I'd have a band called Tasteless in the past it's a near rockabilly band but it's not really doing anything at the moment, all musicians besides.
Speaker 1:Whatever you guys doing, we'll work and we're busy.
Speaker 4:So every time we can come around we might be geek, we might not be. I quite enjoy it when we're not. Sometimes I've got an 8 year old so I'm happy to be at home. I'm an old dad but I'm hyperactive, so it works for me. But when we do, we're busy and myself between my both bands. I'll be flying out one weekend for shows, back Sunday night, back to work Monday, so it's been a hobby. It's been a hobby for the last 40 years. We had a slight back in the 80s. We got played on National Radio. We were in the Indie charts. In the 80s there was a flash of like it might happen. We were young and enthusiastic. But then when it didn't happen, it doesn't matter, because you're still a part of the history, of what we've been doing for all these years. I like that fact and the people we've met on the way. When do you come to?
Speaker 2:terms with, like you, okay. So you said you know your hobby and but when do you come to terms? When you're going and you're young and you're like all right, this is what I want to do, this is what I want to do. And then what was that moment that you said, okay, maybe I need to find something else, or, you know, it's going to become my hobby versus my full-time career.
Speaker 4:I don't think we ever thought it would be a full-time career, so we just played it as it was, Me and Farron the doll for many years. We didn't work for a long time.
Speaker 4:We were playing music anyway, so that subbed it a little bit. We were enjoying that and then we started working and just getting on with life, so it wasn't something we were busy to all work to help where we were going. If it would happen, it would happen. You know, we've traveled the world from doing what we do and that's the enjoyment. We're very lucky. The way I see it, Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially with something with music, like it's so I don't want to say it polluted. I'm trying to think of a different word for like, a saturation. Like there's a lot of music, there's a lot of genres, there's a lot of bands, and like to have that passion for music. I think if without that passion you wouldn't have gotten Passion's the important bit.
Speaker 4:All this way right.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, or keep playing and playing and playing without it.
Speaker 4:It's hard. There's a lot of songs that have been being turned in a long time. That used to be my favorites, but God.
Speaker 3:I hate them now.
Speaker 4:I don't really. But yeah, after 40 years your wears a little bit thin and the problem is when you I want my old songs.
Speaker 5:I want to hear the old songs. So every time you try to put some new songs in. Everybody shouts for the old songs. So eventually when you redo the set list you have to put some old songs, chat the newer songs out and eventually you end up in the same set You're like-.
Speaker 4:So when you release a new album, it takes about 10 years for people to want to hear it. So if you're doing a gig, they want to hear the old stuff and about five, 10 years later they want that because it's old. Yeah, it takes a lot of time to settle in. Let's say, 10 years, yeah, wow, maybe a little bit less, but it still takes a long time for people to want to hear it. What do you?
Speaker 1:guys, besides the music you guys are long time musicians Is there anything that you like to do that's not music related? Like, do you guys enjoy comedy, stand up music, anything like that?
Speaker 4:We're sure lots of things.
Speaker 5:Well, other than drums, my hobby. I do like Vespers and scooters, and I have one at home and I like to work on it and play around with it. Unfortunately, it's broken at the moment, so-.
Speaker 4:It broke forever, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5:That's my next job In the basement at work. I do keep it in the basement at work.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we keep it at work.
Speaker 1:There are a lot of Vespers out there, yeah.
Speaker 5:It's a big, big school. It's the same Clubs is big in England.
Speaker 1:Across the pond, as they like to say.
Speaker 5:That's right across the pond, across the pond, very big pond.
Speaker 3:Certainly it's 11 hours of it.
Speaker 4:That is crazy.
Speaker 1:Amber, do you remember how long it was for the flight to Japan?
Speaker 2:10 hours.
Speaker 1:It was 10 hours, oh, okay.
Speaker 4:How long was that for us?
Speaker 1:Longer it was even longer. It was like the other way I can't remember it's been a few years anyway, but oh yeah, because we go the other way. Yeah Right, we go across the Pacific not the Atlantic.
Speaker 4:I don't think we'll be doing Australia any time soon. Only four hours.
Speaker 2:What's the longest flight you guys have done?
Speaker 4:Japan, probably Japan B, I think yeah.
Speaker 2:The longest I've done is 15 hours.
Speaker 4:It's got to be about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:This was 11. Japan was longer your phone. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1:Anybody out in Australia. You guys could book these guys. Would, you guys do something like that Australia.
Speaker 3:Well, we haven't done it as yet, but oh no, the offer came along.
Speaker 4:If we get off, we'll come along.
Speaker 5:You'd think about it for sure, of course. Because, you know, we love to travel around.
Speaker 4:I've got a friend out there, don't we?
Speaker 5:Yeah, and without doing music, we would have never been to a lot of these countries before yeah absolutely, you know. So we've been lucky, yeah, and hopefully there's a little bit more out there.
Speaker 1:And how far is Germany from home? Hour Hour on a flight.
Speaker 4:It's easy. Oh OK, it's an easy one. Usually we get a flight If we do a mind show we'll get oh a flight. Yeah, yeah, we usually get flown in for one gig. Use all their equipment there.
Speaker 3:Which can?
Speaker 4:be hard work, obviously, and if you want to, you've got your own gear.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you guys taking gear from home to LA? It's a one-off show?
Speaker 4:no, no, so you tend to use a double bass there, the drums, you know you take a guitar, obviously. What about this weekend? We?
Speaker 1:used all the stuff here. Oh, you did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Checo right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and his basses, yeah, he sorted us out well. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And Checo, we got to get you in the studio. Buddy, we got to talk to you.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's doing some great stuff for the cycle.
Speaker 4:He's trying to keep our lives.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's exactly what he's trying to do. It's a hard job for my gigs.
Speaker 1:Is it yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1:It's got to be because, like I said before, it's just there's a lot of promoters, there's a lot of music genres, especially in LA. There's something happening every day. It's not even just the weekend, it's like Monday through Sunday. There's things happening all the time.
Speaker 4:That's good. Yeah, I want to keep it up. As we said, it's hard to get the people out yeah, I think sometimes. And plus we're spoiled for music. I think that's the problem sometimes. Yeah knife.
Speaker 1:Compared to your fans in home versus here. Is there any difference? Not really.
Speaker 4:Not really I can think of. Is there any kind of difference?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 5:No, no, no. They just put people who like music.
Speaker 1:Who like music, right, I like music.
Speaker 4:As I said, it's such a social scene and with your Facebook stuff you've got your friends on there, people from here to Japan. I always like to get a little bit involved and like something, I wish someone a happy birthday, because it's what makes you feel a part of it as well, even though if they're a fan of what you do as a game, it's like that thing of keeping it real when you finish your gig and people, someone will see you as something that we know we're not, but people see you as someone. Wow, and actually, at the end of the day, if you can do the job on stage and have a good time and you're good at what you do, you come off. You're just another person Just enjoying it and have a good night, yeah, and people pay good money to come Absolutely.
Speaker 5:And it's not cheap to travel around and kind of watch music. So you know if people turn up great. You know, we're all human beings, no matter what you think you are.
Speaker 4:One thing's for sure we all live and we all die, and there's no first class ticket when you go down there or up there. All of us, that's right. Some more than others.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the first time where you're just out and about in your hometown and somebody walks up to you and say, hey, you're that guy from the band. Don't think I can remember that. Do you remember that?
Speaker 4:I can't really remember the first time, but in a certain place, the beauty of being in the subculture being, because it's so small. When you go to a gig you can be mobbed by people who want to say hi or whatever and have a chat or a photo, and that's great. Then when you go home, you can be kind of anonymous, probably your own little town, the people that know you. So that's quite nice, because if you're on a different level of that, you wouldn't be to go out, yeah, and so we're quite lucky that we're not knowing that. Well, no, no, you can have a life.
Speaker 1:What was there a point in your career where that was a little bit more than no?
Speaker 4:no, but I mean, when someone pays you a compliment, it's nice, Take the compliment, go in one ear, out the other, don't hold it in there, so your head gets a little bit bigger. So that's that. And I think that's the rule number one, the important bit yeah, just stay humble, right, stay humble, because why not? Yeah?
Speaker 1:Simple, simple about that. Yeah, it's your fans that make People do get carried away.
Speaker 4:Yeah, people do get carried away with their own self being. I am, and I think we pride ourselves on not being that because there's no reason to be to start with, and that depends on the person, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's your fans that make you who you are right, correct, yeah, yeah so why not treat them as a human being?
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it must be tough, like how would you handle like fame, like carcass?
Speaker 4:Well, not that kind of big time fame, where you can walk down the street or go down the shop to get a pack of the cigarettes or whatever, or some milk beautiful, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1:Like, what do people do? They just stay home and have their assistants go out and do stuff.
Speaker 4:I guess on the bigger level, you have assistants to run down the road. If you're at home yourself and you're a little bit stoned or something, you wouldn't want to run outside with a paparazzi, would you Right? You've got a bag over your head Quick blah, blah, blah, blah, laughter. You know? Well, we haven't sampled that, so we're all right. I think, on that level and keeping it real is the important bit- yeah. And our little world of what we do.
Speaker 1:Wow, how's that You're just explaining to me about home.
Speaker 4:It's going to be raining for the next six months, yeah, but we're in winter season at the moment, so, but we've had a lot of rain. I think it's become the new season monsoon now at home, because we get a lot of rain, it seems, but this time of year we start getting frosty and cold. Yeah, the heat has to go on, but it's a expensive one, and we should get a bit of snow, hopefully.
Speaker 5:Really I like the snow. Ok, some people like the snow. I don't like the snow. You don't like it I live on top of a hill, so if I were to get my car out and it snowed?
Speaker 4:it's nice, it's like a slip step you can't get out.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you look like a Californian, you have your shirt your nice and tan.
Speaker 4:You're ready for you. He's got that Greek skin.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's half Greek Nice and I do like the sunshine, so as soon as it's out I'm in here.
Speaker 4:You can tell by the wrinkles you like it's the sun.
Speaker 3:It's the fastest. Laughter.
Speaker 2:We get about to like 50 here I don't know what it would be and we're freezing. We're like we don't know how to react. We don't know how to go out. We stay indoors. So our ideal Weather is about 70. We'll go out when it's 70.
Speaker 1:anything below that was saying it rained last night and I was going crazy.
Speaker 5:State, isn't it California?
Speaker 1:You got to feel like lizards out here, because it's just hot and sunny, hot and sunny, hot and sunny. Wonderful lovely someday I'm gonna grow some scales, because that's how it feels. We're lizards out here. It's too hot.
Speaker 4:We would like some of that I think we don't get.
Speaker 5:We don't get that.
Speaker 4:We get three or four months of summer, but then that can be mixed with rain. It just depends this phrase you never tell me. The British weather rich, everyone's well conception of British weather is rain.
Speaker 1:Just some of your music get into the like. Tell me about your process of writing and Coming up with different music to to maybe entice new fans or keep the older People you know happy with your music and to put the songwriter movie I've done actually right.
Speaker 4:I remember Britain stuff usually. Our old guitarist, gary Castleman, wrote quite a few songs, as did Mark Denman, and Lawrence has actually written some stuff, but we haven't got around to doing it at the moment. We're quite good at putting it all together. Let's probably maybe one more album left in this movie. I never say never. A.
Speaker 1:So how many guys do you have right now? How many yeah?
Speaker 4:How many?
Speaker 5:albums that's about five originals, but in about a thousand compilation albums.
Speaker 4:I can't count. We've done more than that. I think.
Speaker 3:Accounting, the bus is aces and aches, five things in the world in without knocking in without knocking.
Speaker 4:so busters, so busters, that's it Adventure.
Speaker 5:Six albums about six about six albums, but we've been a lot of compilation and there's a lot of my blairos, many AP. Yeah, john, on top.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm sitting on you. Yeah, I mean this one sounds. Is he? This is needs to forget us what I'm saying? It starts adding up. I've never kicked count and someone asked me that question.
Speaker 4:I couldn't tell you yeah, the countless of compilations, this and that, there's loads of things. And they kept in the 80s they kept pumping out compilations a lot of the companies because they were earning money out of it. Obviously, the bands were the last people to see any money and now these days you do a record just for a gig. Life he doesn't. You sell bitter gigs but in general. So the day of selling records and earning money up it was in the 80s but we're all ripped off. Wow, most bands, you're well we're ripped off.
Speaker 5:I think that's the general consensus in the day it was. Sign here, read it.
Speaker 4:So we're exciting.
Speaker 5:Wow, we're gonna be famous. He signed what you're doing is a sign.
Speaker 4:All your life and any money you might possibly make. Well, like, yeah, it was taking, we definitely are, we're doing okay at some point, but and then chasing the people for it? Yeah, no, it was. It was hard work.
Speaker 1:How does it? How does it feel, or like, what's your thoughts on? On Like you guys been around for a long time, you guys been in the music business for a long time. What do you? What's your thoughts on streaming?
Speaker 4:I'm Again, as we just said, when you record, now it really is the more people that can hear it, the better. Okay, even if it's streamed and it's free, because that is when you do the gigs and the people turn up. Now that is how it's kind of worked. More it seems to be. But we do sell a lot of vinyl, we do sell CDs, we do sell a lot of merch at gigs these days back home. So that's kind of the different side of it. Well, you know it's there and then, as opposed to her, for a company and the usual percentage of nothing.
Speaker 1:How did it go back in the the 80s Like, how was, how was it different from now? What?
Speaker 4:do you?
Speaker 4:mean selling so in records well, as I said, you know we did, we were selling records, we were really into charts, we were doing stuff, and that's when it was earning money and that's, but that's when you were chasing the companies to get anything, oh yeah, and then they disappeared. They were making money and now, yeah, I mean most of our stuff now is on cherry red. So it's all been sold to cherry red. Oh so, which is a good thing, because you should know where it's all that now, a little bit. So there's little bits now and then, but I've said, you see, by the statements here, yeah, it's not mega amounts you to sell these, it's not about money either.
Speaker 5:It's about enjoyment in life. It's about traveling around spot me and good people cool people, it isn't about money if it was about money, we would have given up years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's that passion right.
Speaker 4:That's good, because I've been paid. Yet I wanted to tell you that but.
Speaker 2:But it's true because when, when you do something for money, the money is that, that instant gratification, you have it at that moment and then you look back and you're like, what the how did I do with all my money? There was nothing but your experiences, your travel, your meeting people, that yeah, I like and all the people and friends, people all around the world.
Speaker 5:I'm in Europe all the travel, all the things we've seen, all the places we've been to, all the stuff we've done. And it's got nothing to do with money, it's all about enjoyment. Always get a lot of life.
Speaker 4:I'm always getting people coming up, so do you remember me from 1989? You know, obviously, if it was a good one. Not, I might remember it, but Maybe not that certain thing that reminds you of that night, or what are you done, or whatever. But yeah, we still get that 20 years. I remember yesterday, now I I.
Speaker 1:What's the craziest thing you've experienced at a at a psychabilly show.
Speaker 4:Can we talk about other bands? Would you like to hear about that Now? So back in the day we used to have played with the meet-yours quite a lot and, to mention Most people in the scene, bands that you know, we're not brothers and sisters, we all get on. Obviously, the meet-yours put themselves apart from that. There was one show we would played where I'm demented to go, used to use our bass and drums. Anyway, this particular gig the meet-yours were headlining, demented, or underneath and demented. I've gone into their dressing room and eating some of their food by mistake. Oh, so they're on stage. Sparky's on stage going. Yeah, I went into the mid-year's messing to and then all of a sudden Paul Fennick and all his crews rushed on stage, started beating markup on the monitor. I've run on and grabbed my base. Fennick's turned around With a drum, saw back to hit me, looked me, then went to someone else and it all just kicked off.
Speaker 5:Absolute mayhem. Oh, we were interested was getting our gear off.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I was grabbing a proper stampede and there was, and in that in those days you know, there's about 2,000 people at this particular show. I mean, people must have been looking on. But that wasn't the first time I'd seen that kind of thing with the meet-yours and the stampede. There was another one where it all went through one day in Germany. Do you remember it? Oh, stams, a stampede it was.
Speaker 5:It went wild, yeah it used to be a bit wild back in the days of a lot of the bands. Um, it's not so. So much anymore. All the bands get on together. We all get on, we're all from one band. Yeah, apart from one band but that's the actual say they're choice and that's up to them. Carry on.
Speaker 1:Hmm, I wonder why, like Dina, why is there?
Speaker 4:We call it. You're more important than us and Some afraid arrogance and our nasty. To me, that's what we don't possess. I'm afraid or have no interest, and most bands don't, and if I get my head kicked in, I don't care. I'm too old to worry about telling the truth.
Speaker 5:I.
Speaker 4:Wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last. Well, it might be the last day, who knows?
Speaker 1:Richie, were you the one that Was telling me about this guy getting beat up in the the parking lot because he didn't like the meet-yours?
Speaker 5:or something like that.
Speaker 1:Was it? You, was a you, or?
Speaker 4:Fabian, yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I Talk about us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, the tea shop, something like that yeah.
Speaker 5:Basist of his dear bad boyfriends wearing a torment shirt, all finnish toting ticket.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah right, he took it off, yeah, but then Paul Finnick got in his face and his girlfriend got in between them. And then Paul Finnick pushed the girl. All the basis of his diva's or boyfriend just stood there like a fucking law, just yeah.
Speaker 4:I would have been intimate. They were very intimidating, but the figure is, when they went, paul Finnick put up a statement saying I never pushed to go or done this next minute. The video was released. Oh I.
Speaker 1:Don't mind, he's like, he like Light don't lie, yeah, you can't lie now, when there's cameras everywhere. Everybody has cameras in their phone, so they get.
Speaker 4:Come on, dude, yeah no, I wasn't, it wasn't that. Don't release a statement and then I get cool. Well, right, hey boy.
Speaker 1:But in a big brawl over a sandwich. Like was the food good, like at least.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was just beyond ridiculous, I mean what was it good was the meal.
Speaker 1:At least it wasn't asking me it was, it was, it was it was demented.
Speaker 4:Yeah, time it's them. So I, yeah, I mean, I don't know every bit of the ridiculous reason. It's intimidation, it's bad bully boy. Okay yeah, but just but a bully boys, come on, we're interested. Yeah that's not what we're in it for. That's why they're divided, I'm afraid, and that's their choice. Good luck, carry on.
Speaker 1:Did you guys ever play out the the club foot?
Speaker 4:I'm trying to go there in the day, yeah is it still Is? Now.
Speaker 5:I've a situation back in the day you had to start downstairs and you started in the Clarendon yeah downstairs and upstairs was the club foot.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there's two stages. There was one down, small bit, and then the big.
Speaker 5:I'm standing on the big upstairs so you you went up there when you people, more people came along a bit bigger and you go on the stage upstairs at the club foot. Yeah, um good times yeah we're gonna die when we weren't playing, we used to go there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, can you. Can you pull up a picture of the Club foot please? It was. Great days when I started first listening to psychobrilling music, I would just Google and and go to YouTube all the time and just look up old videos.
Speaker 2:Where's it In the UK?
Speaker 4:club for KKL. Okay, I'll not club KL, you be Club.
Speaker 1:People's feet on it's just a club of. It's like a when they're inverted yet when it's inverted, that that's a club foot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got it. Imagine I would put images of it's just gonna bunch of club feet.
Speaker 1:Oh, there we go. Okay, dementia, go batmobile, look at that.
Speaker 5:Oh, there's the place there. It wasn't just Psycho Billy, a lot of bands played there. There were my own side there. Many punk bands played there back in the day. It wasn't just Psycho Billy Club, it was Psycho.
Speaker 4:Days. Yeah, it was Because it was all new and it was just like punk. When it came out it was like wow, and Psycho Billy was that version of it.
Speaker 1:I would say what were some of your guys' influences when you first started playing music?
Speaker 4:But musically I personally come from being a teddy boy I'm about 14 to into Rocko Billy and into the level of the noise that we do now. So yeah, they just progressed and I'm a scar man, so I love a lot of scar. Gotcha, but they don't have a very eclectic taste in general. Anyway, I would not put myself in one pigeonhole of any of that. You've got to take those blinkers off, eh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is that why Psycho Billy was so gravitating to you? Because it was different types of genres and mixed into one. It was new.
Speaker 5:It was new and it was exciting. A new scene starts up and you jump on it and it really is. It was just like a wow fact and we're all in our teens, and then chucking a little bit of scar in there.
Speaker 4:I think we won the first band, as it happens, to put the scar in there Because Francine from Finland started doing stuff and then everyone started doing it. We were one of the first in that respect. I think you'd be pushed to find someone else doing it then. I think with that aces and aches, that's because I was into the hot knife, that was my influence. That's cool. It's because I come up with the chords and then I write the lyrics.
Speaker 1:OK, I have a question for you. It's a, since you're. You're talking about the Teddy Boy stuff. Yeah, what are your thoughts on John Lennon? Do you like the Beatles? I mean you can't deny that they
Speaker 5:were good.
Speaker 4:And you know when they come on, I don't.
Speaker 5:I'm a big. I'm a big.
Speaker 4:You listen, but I'm not someone I'd rush out to put them on my Spotify and if I hear them I would enjoy it. Yes, but it's not something I gravitate to.
Speaker 1:Did you know that they have a? They had a new song come out, just like last week. Did you have you? I haven't heard it. I've heard it. Have you heard it? What do you? I haven't I haven't heard it.
Speaker 5:I was a bit underwhelmed, but you know, this stuff is history, this stuff is history.
Speaker 4:It was stuff that was found.
Speaker 5:you know old tapes that are found and they've tried to really record this before and it didn't work, oh really. But some new technology came along where they could clean it all up. And now they can release it, but I think it will be the last one. Yoko Ono gave it to the surviving members of the big group, yeah, she found it, she gave it to them and I was a bit underwhelmed by it. But you know, if you're a Beatles fan, of course something else.
Speaker 4:And it's a new song, and it's number one New song, and then he's not around. Is it really?
Speaker 1:Number one.
Speaker 5:Is that? Yeah, it's, yeah, that's wild the anything they ever bring out will become number one because they're so big and they're so massive that and a lot of people like them, even if you're not in your generation, they got some great music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the most good stuff it's a real trip out stuff out there, yeah, especially with all this AI stuff, all this artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4:It's amazing the future, but it could be scary at the same time. And what are your thoughts? Don't really know. I mean, until it happens it's hard to envisage any of it. To be honest with you. Yeah, but it could be good for good, but it could be bad too. Very dangerous, Dangerous could be the word.
Speaker 5:Because you know you can have words coming out of certain people's mouths that actually haven't actually happened.
Speaker 3:But different heads.
Speaker 5:Yes, well, yeah, and it's fake news.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's everywhere. Fight news is everywhere.
Speaker 5:But you could start a war.
Speaker 2:There's already a big artist, latino artist, bad Bunny, that I guess someone put it on the chart and did a song. So they came out with a song and it's all AI generated, so the entire AI did a whole song using exactly his voice, everything, and it's like trending, like it's like on the charts, and he's extremely upset, which I feel like I would too, because it's like it's not you, it's not your creativity, it's not your brain, it's this computer that's generated. Yeah, and it's taking storm right now, like through like charts, and people are playing in and they're playing it on the radio and it's not even him. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, it could get out of hand.
Speaker 3:Isn't that why all the actors and writers are on strike?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Isn't it Because they could put people in an advert, make loads of money off of them, and that they've signed something saying you can use my likeness, and they would just do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were saying that what they want to do with actors is scan their entire body, get their voice and then pay you once and then you're done and they can use your body, your voice, for thousands of movies. They can do anything with just those scans.
Speaker 3:Yeah it's frightening yeah.
Speaker 1:It's frightening. Have you seen these deep fakes on YouTube, like with the pull up the deep fakes of I don't know, just to Google so we can show these guys?
Speaker 3:Mark Hamill back in Star Wars, didn't they Something?
Speaker 1:like that.
Speaker 3:I think it looks very good.
Speaker 1:We'll pull up that one. I want to see Mark Hamill. You said yeah.
Speaker 3:Luke Skywalker in the new Star Wars.
Speaker 1:Mark Hamill.
Speaker 3:Mark or Luke.
Speaker 1:Skywalker. Yeah or Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 2:I know how to spell that one.
Speaker 1:I know how to spell that one. I know, look at that one of what's his name, from Russia.
Speaker 4:Putin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look this one. Yeah, that's the place oh. This one's not the best one. The one that came later is even better. Make the movie with it. Yeah, so he's in the new TV series.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's the original then.
Speaker 4:So that's not him though. No, that's not him. Oh, wow, that's not him. Are you a Jedi? I am. I'm a ship for himself. Maybe Maybe this time I just generated him, wow.
Speaker 1:And it's great.
Speaker 3:It looks like he's actually there.
Speaker 1:He wants your permission.
Speaker 3:He is strong with the force.
Speaker 1:It actually looks better than the original.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the deep I will give my life to protect the child but it will not be safe until the master's is like I use it in movies but start using it for precedence.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they miss trouble. Honestly, I feel like Donald Trump's whole presidency was a deep fake Was a deep fake.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you it would.
Speaker 1:If they came out 10 years later and said Donald Trump was a deep fake, the whole presidency.
Speaker 2:He's been frozen the entire time.
Speaker 1:It would have been fine. Not fine, but I mean, it would have made sense. I think that would be fine.
Speaker 2:No, but it would make sense, it would make total sense. So the name your guys' band name Toss, how did that arrive? White Texas.
Speaker 4:The band name was from the old guitarist Mark Demmon came up with it. It was an old bluegrass song and then the Beach Boys done a version of it Really, so we used it as the name of the band. It wasn't my favorite name, I have to say, to start with, but then when we started doing a few t-shirts it kind of settled in quite nicely.
Speaker 1:Okay, have you guys been to Texas?
Speaker 4:No, yeah, maybe at some point, aye.
Speaker 5:Someone last night in the crowd shouted out what part of Texas are you from? I said Bryce in England.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that's awesome. That would be a Californian thing to ask, for sure what?
Speaker 2:part of Texas. Are you from? What did you want me to look up Beach?
Speaker 5:Boys, long-tailed Texans Okay.
Speaker 1:And it's a song. Yeah, it's a song, really, I know.
Speaker 4:Then there's a bowl for us Bluegrass. There it is. It's really slow.
Speaker 2:I'm going to play a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, four, youtube kicks us out. I'm going to follow it.
Speaker 4:I love being a wild hog, be right in Texas on a big white horse. Oh, that's quite a bit of going in here. Aye, wow, I want to be a wild hog, be right in Texas on a big white horse. No, you got to.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm riding the truck.
Speaker 3:Be right in Texas on a big white horse. Oh okay. Be right in Texas on a big white horse.
Speaker 1:Look at the moves on Mike Love. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:That is funny.
Speaker 1:That is awesome. He's my least favorite beach boy. I'll tell you that much right now.
Speaker 4:My favorite is Dennis the dead one, yeah, the dead one, mine too.
Speaker 1:He actually did. Have you guys heard that on their 2020 album? There's a song on there on that album that was written by Charles Manson.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Pull that one up for them so they can hear it. I have to show this guy.
Speaker 2:How many times are we going to show it on?
Speaker 1:the mic. We're going to show it every single time. I'm trying to remember. I'm going to put a 2020 album the Beach Boys and 2020, but yeah, so it goes. The story goes. Dennis is. He's driving through. Dennis crazy Surfer guy and he be friends. Charles Manson.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they were friends and I think Charles Manson stayed at his house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good. I can see why these guys Wanted to produce one of one of his, one of his songs. Oh, learn not to love, that's what it's called, or no, I'm sorry. Yeah, learn not to love. So we're gonna play it for them and then we're gonna go to the Charles Manson version and you can take a look or you can hear it out. Can I get you guys another drink, you guys? Good, I'm right for the moment, I think good. Yeah, I have some, you guys want to try some miscat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4:Maybe not. What kind of do Bob? I'm up at the go, I Get pps syndrome.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows we don't, we don't stop recording, we keep going.
Speaker 5:No we don't oh and there's a camera in the toilet.
Speaker 2:That way you can keep going.
Speaker 4:Chucky boy.
Speaker 2:Do you guys like yeah, yeah, have you guys been to Mexico? Have you guys ever played Mexico?
Speaker 3:That's my.
Speaker 2:It is crazy he rather not say Some guys from a wall down. Yeah, that's how I was. Like it's not, it's not Mexico, because even for us that we're like Mexican and we have family in Mexico, like Tijuana, is Intimidating and it's not for me. I like to go say hi to my family that I have there, and then I'm moving moving on by yeah, yeah, I've most been like oh, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, even if you go down an hour more, like where my mom is from, from Ensenada, it's Night and day and it's amazing, it's chill, it's a Lot safer than Tijuana, and then you know, you have cancun, you have what a la Jara, you have. Mexico is just beautiful Tijuana, is not it? I'm sorry you, that was your first experience.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You could say you were there.
Speaker 1:So, miss Cal, is something that you sip? I'll see. If I was about to do the log. So you, you smell it. Yeah, there we go, we smell.
Speaker 4:Jesus.
Speaker 1:And then and you give it a what we call a besito a kiss Like a like a little taste, so you taste it. Like a burn and you just go wow there we go, and then you give it a another go. There it's smoky.
Speaker 3:It doesn't really burn that much, like there's some whiskey's and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, ah, but that's mescal.
Speaker 4:Your heart. Alright, I woke you guys right up wake.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we're gonna. We got that. You get the headphones right here. I want to show you guys this Never learnt. So this is the the Beach Boys song the first one right, the first one. Yeah, fast forwarded a little bit. All right, so that that was the Beach Boys version. Now we're gonna go to Charles Manson's version. So it's uh, seize To Exist is what he called his song. So Seize To Exist, charles Manson, and then fast forwarded a little bit, amber and God look at only a face a mother could love.
Speaker 1:This is his version.
Speaker 4:I'm your kind, oh, you're kind, I can see walk on, walk on.
Speaker 1:I love you, pretty girl.
Speaker 4:My life is yours and you can have my world.
Speaker 1:Never had a lesson I ever learned, but I know.
Speaker 4:The time is a bit funny.
Speaker 5:On that one, I think I prefer the Beach Boys version oh yeah oh yeah, it was better than you thought it'd be.
Speaker 1:He's got better music, just so you know well, richie, what do you like from Charles Manson?
Speaker 5:He didn't actually murder anyone himself. No, he was a clever one. Yeah, he was a someone else to do it for him.
Speaker 1:Look at your game Amber. He is an interesting character that guy. Yeah, so Beach Boys cover it before he there, you go.
Speaker 2:I like how it's all the same picture.
Speaker 1:It's like they didn't have another picture of him.
Speaker 5:He actually sounds pretty good. But you like the full key stuff.
Speaker 4:I mean, he's singing there.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that picture, but.
Speaker 5:Oh man, crazy stuff. It's a better picture than one with a funny little cross on his head 10 more, 10 more minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, we're getting the 10 minute warning from Richie there we go. So, besides your guys, what do you have any? What do they call them guilty pleasures?
Speaker 4:I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1:We established going to TJ as one.
Speaker 4:Guilty pleasures. I mean some music is guilty pleasures.
Speaker 2:I did my team fight.
Speaker 4:I found Tiny Tim a few years ago. I like Zany and Wacky in Gemma. I like something that when I look at someone, I think what the hell are they on? One person in the scar scene would be Mark Foggo. He's like Mr Bean on Acid. He's got these great big eyes, and do you know?
Speaker 4:what he's 73 years of age. I'm not being funny. I see a lot of bands and people at that age now. Think I'm watching Paint Dry here, mark, no, he's got that energy. He's got that. Wow. He's just one of those people. I've always liked Wacky people and he's very Wacky.
Speaker 3:Very entertaining to watch live.
Speaker 2:What's his name.
Speaker 4:Mark Foggo, he really is. All the songs are kind of tongue and cheek, bumpy, airways, dolly. If you get a live video, look at those big eyes, that's him young. But if you get a video up, wow, I mean he's fantastic. Live he's wonderful.
Speaker 2:I'd see this one I'd like.
Speaker 4:I mean, he's 73, this guy, so you have to take your hat off to him. So there he is in the coming up.
Speaker 2:You have to give him a big scaplouse, let's go.
Speaker 4:Very inspirational Foggo. Wow, it's a wow for me.
Speaker 5:Who is it?
Speaker 1:He's walking out.
Speaker 4:It's those big eyes and Paul the saxophone player. He's 73, he plays with the star band to the Hotknives. He's fantastic 73 and he's still got the blow. This guy's 73 and the sax player. They've both been together for years. The rest are the new boys.
Speaker 2:It kind of looks like Mr Bean. He is Mr Bean. Oh, it is.
Speaker 1:He's 73? No way.
Speaker 4:I mean he's brilliant, honestly not live. I mean he's fantastic and he's still got the energy. I mean inspirational is the only way to knock on his and the saxophone player Paul's 73. He might like me for saying that, but he's fantastic and he's blowing his on the money, as you can hear.
Speaker 1:People love him. I'm still shocked that this man is 73 years old. He looks really good for 73 years old.
Speaker 4:If you look at some of the other videos, I mean, that's just the opening of the set, from the beginning to the end. He does not stop and what comes out of his mouth is funny. He is Mr Bean, basically. Oh man, sorry, mark.
Speaker 2:Like that's Mr Bean.
Speaker 1:But it's actually really him. It's really him or no? No, no, he really looks like him.
Speaker 4:He's just got those big eyes on Beanstalk. He's a real character. He's such a character. If you see him now. He's just what comes out of him. He's just funny. Yeah, and it's about never heard him to moan once. We moan like anything at the age of 57.
Speaker 5:Sorry, what do you mean? We, we no, and.
Speaker 4:Mark or Paul. I've been on tour with both of them and I've never heard him moan once.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, what about you? Do you have any guilty pleasure music-wise, anything like that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, when I first got into music I don't know if it's called a guilty pleasure, but my first ever gig I went to was Shawaddiwadi.
Speaker 4:Ah, we love Shawaddiwadi.
Speaker 5:I joined the fan club because I was so out of the present.
Speaker 4:I don't know about where they're from.
Speaker 5:I was 11 years old. They're like rock and roll band A glam teddy boy band from back in the day.
Speaker 4:Glam teddy boys. Yeah, 70s to the 80s. Yeah, and they were still going to die Pull some pictures because they gotta see this.
Speaker 5:They do a lot of covers. They do the most gigs every year of any other band.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they're always on tour, but it's not him or the original singer. Now they just keep getting a new generation, keep going, people still going. Harder and harder and harder.
Speaker 3:Harder and harder and worse every year. Show, show.
Speaker 4:ADDY, shwaddiwaddi ADY, don't think they're broke America.
Speaker 3:ADD, ADD. There it is top layer.
Speaker 4:Under the moon of love.
Speaker 2:Go top of the moon of love Under the moon of love.
Speaker 4:That's the one. If you can put a video, yeah, that's the one. That was them in the late 70s. In fact, they would be called plastic teddy boys with their haircuts. That's what they would have been called. We went to see them. Look at the hat oh you have that, uh, the pink one. I mean Jesus it comes, but it's kind of acceptable they know I loved it in the day.
Speaker 5:This was my most favorite.
Speaker 1:I have a get up like this. I have a pink one.
Speaker 5:Pink one.
Speaker 4:I have a pink one. I went to see them at the Brighton Center and there's about 4,000 people, and I went to see them again later on in the 90s Look the dog. In fact is 200 people. Bizarre, oh, I like it.
Speaker 3:That's the earring, called a plastic teddy boy in the UK.
Speaker 4:I like it. I like the cover, though remember the song. They're all covers, but they actually got in the top 10 with a lot of their songs.
Speaker 5:They got a lot.
Speaker 1:Number one yeah, a lot number one I could jam to this for sure.
Speaker 4:I mean, look at that haircut.
Speaker 5:Wow, I was in the fan club as well. That's great.
Speaker 4:Right, lois, will you come up with more son? Yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 3:I don't have any guilty feelings. No, I'm not ashamed of what I like.
Speaker 5:I'm not going to be ashamed of it.
Speaker 3:People shouldn't be ashamed if they like Bon Jovi they like.
Speaker 4:Bon Jovi.
Speaker 5:It's not guilty if you enjoy it.
Speaker 3:I fucking love living on a prayer you can't deny it, what a vocal. Bad medicine fucking free. I don't feel ashamed about it.
Speaker 4:That's the idea. No, no, I don't think you should be. I think whatever you like, you should like. I have a terrible connection to music. A lot of people would agree with me, but that's what makes you what you are.
Speaker 1:But you know what, what's not a guilty pleasure, and that's the long, tall Texans. Thanks for your guys' time. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming out and doing this and talking with us.
Speaker 4:No problem at all, and everything.
Speaker 1:Thanks for coming all the way over here from Brighton.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 1:It's awesome Very much, my old son it's a pleasure to talk with you guys, so go ahead and tell us, tell us where we can find you guys.
Speaker 4:And what we guys got coming up Right here. I'm Richard, I'm my man over there. He's been very helpful. Just like to say it was great. Yeah, shout out to.
Speaker 1:Richie from the Zambiles.
Speaker 5:Also Checo For setting this up, everything so you guys are playing.
Speaker 1:You guys have one more gig today.
Speaker 4:We've got two shows today Two shows today. I don't know where. We've just been driven there. I just get in.
Speaker 1:I'm going to call you Harris Harris later on, any future dates you guys want to share. Oh, I was going to think of it, it's all next year now.
Speaker 5:These are our last shows this year.
Speaker 1:So we start again next year.
Speaker 5:Bet time on it so we could maybe watch some new material. Well, he's got the material.
Speaker 4:It's just in case we're actually rehearsing it.
Speaker 1:It's been there for about a year now Getting the time, getting the time, and is this shop still there? Still there, some of that stuff ain't on there anymore.
Speaker 4:I must take it off. There we go. I'm not very good in my old age. I'm bloody awful.
Speaker 1:You guys can click the link down in the show description For longtalltexanscouk and go to their shop. They have their vinyls up there. They're teas.
Speaker 3:They're Facebook, all that good stuff. They're MySpace.
Speaker 4:They're MySpace, very old school indeed, though, but yeah, I appreciate you guys coming out here, thank you. So it's still got a new album on there. That's how old it is.
Speaker 1:Ten years ago they still knew it was MySpace. They're my space, they're my space.
Speaker 4:They're my space. They're my space. They're my space. They're my space. They're my space.
Speaker 5:They're my space, they're my space, they're still doing it more often, and is this as they knew?
Speaker 4:It's still because it's just today. We've actually recorded since then. There's more more after that. That was the Headless. Ep For real. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2:How many more minutes?
Speaker 1:I feel like this song is getting longer and longer.
Speaker 3:It's our kind of new album, every episode, every episode.
Speaker 4:It's that outro music Okay.
Speaker 2:We're getting our listeners Hearing you guys as well.
Speaker 4:All the albums are on Spotify in general.
Speaker 1:There you go, spotify and YouTube guys Go down the show link and we'll see you guys there.
Speaker 4:Bye, marvelous Cool. We'll see you guys next week.