good evening rock fm and it's evening for our friends over in the us and it's fucking early
morning here for robo you can hear the chickens in the background there the roosters it is guys
wednesday the 7th of january 2025 and we should have a banger let Let's get the link sent. Mano, get the room retweeted.
Let me get this shared out as a post, brother.
Let's get this fucking show on the road.
Got Mr Fondue back in the house.
Hopefully he turns up this time.
Since he ghosted us the last time.
Let's just quickly give everybody a quick reminder, as you do.
As you do, brother. Hope you're well, well son i hope you had a good new year kidder
here we go let's get some invites sent out there's red eye i've got a co-host here we go
sent brother there's your invite red eye let's get the show on the road let's get going
let's get a couple of people pinged hello brother good evening
good evening to fellow americans and good morning to the thai
i've got chickens in the background mate i've got
the roosters kicking off doing the little morning salutes i don't know if you're gonna hear them or
not probably not no they're not that loud you're a bit quiet bro maybe it's uh i don't know if it's
something to do with my mic or not that's better whatever you did there i don't know if you were just closer to the mic or something yeah i just got a little closer i'm uh i'm rolling up a little blanker here
are you planning your are you planning your summer vacation to greenland the the lovely state of
greenland yet or not no no plans to go to greenland right now uh i mean i've always wanted to cross the border of mexico like go to some
border towns in mexico and party there but no uh no greenland is it there is it juarez is the one
that's just across the border that's the really bad one is it is it juarez i believe so there's also
i believe so there's also um tijuana you know on the
on the western like pacific side
juarez is the one from the movie isn't it when they're gonna capture your man
uh what movie are you talking about trying to remember the name of it man
slipped in my mind at the minute the uh benito del torio one
the mad one the crazy assassin okay i'm trying to remember its name i can't remember
its bastard name i'm sure it's warriors it's like the most one of the most dangerous places on earth
dangerous places on earth
well mate we've got the we've got the guest of the moment let's check in how your new year was
how was your new year red eye did you have a blind eye it was it was great uh was spending
time with a bunch of friends watched a lot of american football. And yeah, the weather was amazing.
I mean, it was like 75 where I was at,
like just after Christmas.
So it was a warm, warm holiday season for me.
And on the rest of the US was getting absolutely blasted,
Even fucking Cullion that was getting blasted a bit.
It seemed like it, but it was very enjoyable.
I was out in shorts on Christmas Day.
We've been getting blasted in the UK like there's been some mad get Siberian fucking Arctic Frost fucking shit
kicking off they're being right under the fucking weather they have the poor cunts should say this
little bit man it was like mine at least now I know where all the snow that's supposed to be
in Colorado went because there's basically none here.
No, it's been, I'm surprised this, we've had a decently warm winter.
The Farmer's Almanac is saying that this year we were supposed to get more than average snow,
which I would love to see for my area, but we'll see.
Aren't you supposed to get snowed in, Fawn?
Like every year in Colorado, you get snowed in where you can't even go over the mountain and not well i mean we've got pretty good we've got pretty
good uh you know plow systems and stuff so i wouldn't say you get snowed in too much but uh
yeah you definitely uh definitely do get snowed in from time to time. It's been really bad this year, though. It's I think we're still under our average snowpack by like 60 percent right now.
And it would have to snow a lot, like a lot to catch up.
I'm I'm more worried about what the summer is going to look like, because if we don't
get a really heavy amount of snow here towards the end of this season
uh we're gonna be in some major fire situations for the summer
is it is a colorado that's splitting off by the rockies is it is a colorado state is it one of
the states yeah i mean we are the we we are the rocky mountain state um so we definitely have
the rockies i i don't know if i'd call it splitting per se but yeah um you know that's i and i'm
actually on the west side of the rockies these days yeah i've heard people talk about like
either being on like one side and there's like completely different weather patterns right uh yeah i mean you know it's it's kind of crazy because we had decent snow our fruit we've been
in on the west side here in grand junction now for four years and the first year we were here
it kind of felt like a normal colorado winter you know by december we we had snow on the ground
and it stayed through pretty much the whole season.
But since that first year, we haven't had snow stay on the ground more than, like, six or eight hours.
So it's been few and far between on the west side.
Now, the mountains usually get hit pretty hard, but, like, they're getting next to nothing.
I mean, they just got six inches with this last storm but like that's just not enough you know they should be at like 25 inches by now
you know in snowpack and they're definitely not even close to that
so mate last time we were talking you'd had a pretty uh let's say like wild end to 2025 right
with all the shit you had going on uh are you hoping for a better 2026 or what what's the
story uh i mean i'm sure it's gonna be a better 2026 it's busier already you know that's for sure
um i'm working i'm working a restaurant job so like really uh you know really busy by my standards
these days but have you got some gigs lined up or what yeah yeah i have a couple uh i have one in april and
may um already lined up for a cool spot over here that does they do like a summer music um
like series kind of there's uh they have 48 dates where they have musicians from all over the
country come in i actually tried to get in it last year and you know they have like 250 musicians
that apply every year for 48 dates and didn't get one last year.
But this year I managed to secure two of them. So pretty stoked about that.
Nice one. Are you holding up on any more gigs in Chicago for now?
I mean, you know, I would love to go play in Chicago again. That was great. Actually, I see Joe down there.
i would love to go play in chicago again that was great actually i see joe down there um you know
that was a great time my you know if you just leave out the part about my card breaking down
and and having to come up with eleven thousand dollars um you know that that sucked talk about
joe i saw his uh i saw his launch he did pretty well didn't he uh the last time i thought sold
out on an ape chain fucking yeah the last time the last time i checked sold out on ape chain on ape chain fucking yeah the last time
the last time i checked in there was about 14 left or something to mint out i think right out
of like 200 right oh yeah yeah they're they're gone and he's he used that money to i actually
just saw him post that he just uh he just secured his uh his slot for the mastering that he was
trying to trying to put the money together for he's got a grammy award winner um that's going to master his new record and he's doing something
really cool i mean i don't know if you saw the videos like he is yeah but like
it's like stop motion videos it's really really fucking cool what he's doing um i wish i was as
cool as joe sometimes you know he's i saw that
i saw that i like a little storybook type of thing right yeah so he's just he's doing like
he's creating the storyboards and drawing the characters and then using uh like a style called
stop motion video where he's literally having to go in and change you know all the little pieces
I think he's booing because I said I wish I was as cool as Joe.
But so he actually goes in and adjusts the legs and the arms and all the pieces.
And that's what makes the video move.
So it's really, really cool what he's doing.
Definitely, I've never seen anything like it in web3 ever so
you know leading leading the way yeah i'm gonna have to have a look at the ape chain situation
because you remember the last time we were talking and i said to you like a music nft is dead and we
had a little chat about it right i did uh in advance of this show i decided to do a little
like deep dive with crock the other day just on like the music nfts air scene and grok wasn't very bullish at all like not not bullish whatsoever like
but that's like everything else though like rovo that's it's literally everything else you're you
know if you think you're going to just create something and drop it and it's just going to
sell out without any effort without any planning planning, without a high quality piece of work that you're putting out, that's not going to happen.
The days of NFTs just selling out for no reason, those are gone.
But there's still people who collect and there's still people who spend money, but you've got to seek it out.
You've got to build within the communities that are doing well. And then you've got to seek it out you've got to build you know build within the communities that are doing well and and then you got to take a shot you know but there there is no just like
oh i have a song i'm going to drop it you know let's go out of nowhere and then it sells out
like that's no that's not going to happen anymore you know but that's all yeah that's the music
scene though that's how it's always been you know you're not going to get radio playing you put yourself out you're not gonna get shows unless you go talk to the venues you know there
it's like half a percent of people who get lucky and get found by people who just take care of all
that for them you know the rest of us have to grind and figure it out yeah previously like
you didn't need a massive like marketing campaign right a lot of it was like being done by word of
mouth back in the early days and stuff right and things like spitter spaces etc with things like
last releases i've noticed now that you need like the typical like ada marketing campaign you know
the attention interest desire and action like we haven't done very well on the last couple of
launches because we didn't like
start like run a massive marketing campaign and man it's needed these days like you've got to
pump your shit before launch and then after launch you've got to continuously keep up and pumping it
for the whole length of the mint right yeah i mean look at what joe did right joe went into the ape chain spaces
connected with the developers connected with the community and for weeks ahead of the drop
was putting out content for the drop and even that like you know the first week i think was
a little slow and then hit the second week kind of hit the ground running.
But it's like, yeah, to sell out a massive, you know, a massive collection is extremely difficult these days, if you could even do it.
You know, I think Joe hit it right on the head at about 200 is like a pretty safe number.
And, you know, you still got to have some people who are really bullish on what you do.
You know, so it's not, again, it's like you're not going to just randomly get lucky you know you're gonna you're gonna have
to work and be there all the time you know i've it's just it's all the more impressive
it's all the more impressive actually being on a new chain as well so they actually do 200 is that
the first launch he's done on the obtain yeah uh yeah that's the first one he
did on ape chain to get 200 on a brand new chain that's a fucking result and a half that might
that's a great result yeah and you know and but he also had a purpose too right it wasn't just like
oh i want to launch this and sell out this collection so that i can make some money you
know his purpose was i need need to, I need to be
able to get this album mastered by a person who has done this and who has won major awards.
This is what I want to do. This is what this money is going to get used for. And, you know,
was able to raise it. So it's like, yeah, you're, you know, if you're like, oh, no, I just need to
make some money. Like that's, you know, that's not going to fly these days either. I think
the collectors that are still here
want to know what they're supporting beyond just the music.
They can listen to your music.
They can retweet your stuff.
They can do all that for free.
So what's the X factor that's going to get them
to actually invest in you?
And that's the piece that has to be out there.
And if it's not, then those are the artists
that are going to continue to struggle
I see we've got a few people joining,
drop a comment down below because that comments also get a little bit of
She missed you the last time.
She was a bit devastated,
but the hostess with the mostesses here.
Good evening. Good evening, B-Bands, darling.
Is your fellow little Florida Panthers fan there?
I see you down there, B-Bands, eh?
I only went to one Florida Panthers game, but it was fun and it was cool that it was
like in Florida and there was an ice rink there, you know? Well don't know if you saw they just did the uh they did the winter classic game
uh down in florida this year they it was kind of cool how they set it up like it you know
obviously there's no snow and it's not cold enough in florida for there to be ice outside
but they took the uh the florida marlins arena created an ice rink inside with the dome closed,
and then the night of the game opened up the dome so that it was sort of outdoors.
Did they have to close it really fast because it started to melt?
No, no, they left it open.
The thing is they spend so much money on the equipment to freeze the ice.
You know, if anything, the thing I always think about is like,
how much did that cost in electricity to keep the ice cold in, you know,
now it wasn't, it wasn't the hottest day in Florida.
You know, I think that it was probably in like the fifties,
the night that they did it.
And the fifties in Florida is pretty cool because of all the moisture.
So, you know, maybe not, bad as on a 90-degree day.
I don't think you get to open up the dome on a 90-degree day.
Yeah, when I went to the game, it was pretty warm.
Yeah, well, you know, the ice rink inside, you know,
they spend a ridiculous amount of money keeping that all up.
But, yeah, it's cool's cool i mean i've been playing
hockey or played hockey in south florida for the better part of 25 years um so you know it was uh
it was a great time you got to be a man to play that game like i mean yeah i don't think i've
ever seen a hockey match where they don't start like absolutely thrown down like every fucking
hockey match i watch man they're always bashing each other to bits, aren't they?
No, you should see the parents like for the hockey.
So we have hockey parents because I live in the north and there's snow everywhere.
And then we have the hockey parents and they're insane.
They will, like, scream at each other.
They will like scream at each other.
They'll, like, be, they'll get super drunk and, like, tell, like, allow their kid to beat the other kid up.
And then they'll start beating each other up.
And it's, like, it's fucking insane.
But it was enjoyable because, like, you could watch and see, like, the parents that thought they were, like, better than the other hockey parents sitting there.
It was just, it was just such a thing.
So that's like the equivalent.
That's like the British equivalent of football dads.
When the dads take the kids to the football on a Sunday morning and that,
and the dads end up fighting on the touchline and everything,
it's fucking scandalous, man.
You should have heard the language.
You've got nine and ten-year-old kids kids playing football and the dads are just on the side,
like screaming, like absolute abuse at each other.
You know, I played playing travel hockey was crazy.
Parents yelling at the referees.
That's, you know, that's my personal favorite.
I don't know why they think that yelling at the refs like
does anything but make them look like idiots but they do nonetheless tell you what fun mind we got
some really good feedback on the last show red eye had obviously never heard you before so he
was pretty much blown away but i got a few messages afterwards and uh dude you actually like
absolutely killed that last show like i think you
only did like one cover at the beginning superman right but it was really good just to like hear you
in your zone like thoroughly enjoyed it yeah i i don't remember what the set was if i'm being honest
i did i definitely did superman um you know and this one the wet brown eyes you did all of the
classics all of your original hits
oh i'll have to listen back i don't remember i don't remember doing brown eyes you sure i did
brown eyes i don't think i did that one sure mate i'm pretty sure you did how you did you did you
did superman but then you did all your own stuff and you did like a little cheeky preview like a
dude it was a banging show and i listened back fucking bang man and here i thought here i thought i was gonna be different this week and uh i was like oh i'm
gonna you know i'm gonna showcase a little more of my own stuff and apparently that you know i'm
gonna i'm gonna listen back robo i'm gonna test your memory and uh and see see if i really did
that because i thought i played more covers last time but you you're you could be right you definitely be right mate we had a banger what you're going to kick us off with today like
i'm dead excited like fun well i'm going to kick us off with the first song that i released on chain
um i've actually been i've been you know i've been trying to play some of these songs a lot
more it's like i released them and then you you know, didn't play them as much.
Historically, that's always how it was.
I released a song and then I move on to the next one
and never really give them a chance to breathe.
But, yeah, and I'm actually going to go play a little open mic after this tonight
that I found out about here local.
So this is also a nice little warm up
yeah this is brown ice Suspended regression
it's been my illusion, brought on by my seclusion. From all the places I ought to be I saw a brown night Dressed up in a tiny orange flower
With flowers, hair laced in curly slides
Kinda hope she checks me out
Walked through the playground
Just a thought, didn't think there was an answer
Down Didn't think there was an ounce of doubt
Didn't think there was an ounce of doubt I understand that my daydreaming's got to come to an end sometime
Just trying to sew myself back into my quilted wonderland
Well, is love an infection
or just a sick addiction?
Words held by the right prescription
Couldn't care what I've been missing
Brushed by some brown eyes
Dressed up in a tiny orange flower blouse
Kinda hope she checks me out
Walked through the playground
Just a thought, didn't think there was an answer. You can hold on till you're old and great
Touch my cold hands with your warm embrace
Travel a million miles in the pouring rain
Kiss your cheek, I smile, soak up every hour
Lay out by your side, reminisce in autumn days
Brushed by some brown eyes
Dressed up in a tiny orange flower blouse laced in curly slides
think I kinda hope she checks me out
walk through the playground
just a thought, didn't think there was an ounce of Tell Tell
Pushed by some brown eyes
Dressed up in a tiny orange flower blouse
Hell-faced in curly slides
Drip black, think it's kind of old
Walked through the playground
Didn't think there was an answer
Didn't think there was an ounce of doubt
Where's our sound effects, B-Bands?
Could we not have the sound effects?
Wait, what sound effects?
She's a bit rusty, you know.
Spinning up her spaces for a while.
Yeah, it's a belt of that.
I love that song. Fawn fun i've never asked you this before
and i'm really curious because i like to ask questions about things i know nothing about right
how the hell does a musician go about like writing their own stuff so do you do you think about the
tune in your head first and write to a tune or do you produce like the
song first and then create a tune to the song like how does the process work for a tune like
brown eyes um well brown eyes in particular the uh i think the initial it's weird because
the song was actually totally different uh when i first wrote it. It was a, it definitely started out as kind of like a jam on the chords first.
Me and my buddy, we used to just sit around and play a lot of music together.
And so, you know, had this kind of little riff and, you know, and then I think for most of us, we're just drawing on experience.
You know, and then I think for most of us, we're just drawing on experience.
You know, I think some people are just, you know, some people just make stuff up for the songs.
But I think most of us are just drawn from experience and kind of piecing it together in a way that it paints a picture.
You know, I always say I wrote a song called Finger Paint a long time ago.
And, you know, that's kind of what I think about playing the guitar is like we're we're painters but we're just painting with sound that's all because i can't imagine it's that
easy i mean i'm no musical expert but i can't imagine it's easy to put like a composition
like that like a kind of unique set like that's a unique sound a unique composition it's not just
your standard like four chords that loads of
songs use you know like there must be a certain amount of time in the process like this is not
something that's done overnight right you don't wake up and think i've got a class idea for a song
uh some of us do um i'll say sometimes my sometimes my songs come together in a couple hours.
And I couldn't even tell you what it depends on because it's just very in the moment.
I couldn't tell you how long it took me to write Brown Eyes,
but I can tell you I first wrote it 20 years ago. So like,
maybe well, maybe a little less than that. I don't know, maybe like 17 years ago,
something like that. So it was written a long time ago. And actually, if you go to if you go to fondue.xyz and you go and check out the EOS EP that I have up there for free,
that's the original band that I played with when I first was starting out.
And so you can listen to what the first version of Brown Eyes sounded like,
and you'll be able to tell right away.
It's completely morphed and evolved over the last 10 years.
So, yeah, you know, it became what it is now in the last three years,
kind of when I first came back to the space.
But, yeah, I mean, the words were written a long, long time ago.
I let him out of the cage
Oh sorry hi guys oh sorry I do very much
apologize I had I was going
on in the corner there and listening
and I'm sorry if I came in here a little late but like
where do you get the inspirations for your music like like how for what kind of music you play
like it's very it is soft good folky you know i think um you know a good it, it's, it's great music, but like, like,
do you have anybody that inspires you to play the kind of music that you play?
Or do you do this on your own?
Um, I don't have anybody that I listened to that makes this kind of music per
I kind of refer to this as like acoustic indie fusion kind of stuff.
And I had to put fusion in there because I really am influenced by a lot of different genres. I
listen to just about everything you can think of. And for the last, you know, I'm going to be 40 next year, or this year, I guess. And
so it's like, I've listened to a lot of music over the last 30 plus years. And it all kind
of influences me. You know, for a long time, I was like really heavily influenced by, you know,
influenced by you know bands like uh speechwriters llc and um god what was the other one um rx bandits
and you know dave matthews and jack johnson like those were all big players for me for sure for a
long time have you ever heard of mo of who mo you ever listen to Fish and Moe?
Oh, that's some jam band stuff.
But I like that Jack Johnson.
I get that feeling by the kind of music that you make.
Yeah, and it's like I've got a pretty wide catalog.
Not a lot of it's released. That song, you can actually listen to a kind of more produced version of it on wherever you like to listen to streaming.
But yeah, a lot of my music isn't released.
I'd say I probably have the better part of 50, 60 songs that are just unreleased
and kind of just making their
way through the stratosphere slowly but surely but uh yeah i appreciate that jack johnson got me
around australia on my little uh ipod nano back in the day 2006 2007 he was for massive Jack Johnson, wasn't he at the time, aye?
Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I listened to music back then as a way to cope with the times.
You know, I was really big on, like, In Between Dreams, you know, I listened to that album front to back all the time um of course
now the name of the other one that i listen to all the time it's going to slip my mind i'm really bad
with names this is also part of the problem um yeah i mean i i listened to a lot of albums cover
to cover back then and you know i used to listen there there's this artist called Imogen Heap that, you know, every time I was in a bad place, I would just spin that album, you know, her first album all the time.
So it's like, you know, I can't imagine that I'm alone in this, or I'm sure most artists, you know, dig into some stuff that kind of just gets them through whatever
they're going through um but i'm glad andrew mentioned i'm glad andrew mentioned the forksy
aspect like because like i told you before i listen i love listening to like early dylan
and i love listening to like uh bands like canned heat and that from back in the day
and i don't know that there's definitely that kind i know you said like an indie fusion there's
definitely like a forksy aspect to your voice I think that is what like Andrew was talking about
there you know 100% yeah oh yeah absolutely and a lot of that's not on purpose I don't even I
don't think of myself as super folksy funny enough um but like I definitely you know and maybe some
of it's where I am now too you know I think I think maybe being out in kind of the more rural sides of town
and kind of out in the middle of nowhere,
maybe I'm leaning into my folksy side a little more.
Because somebody actually said that on New Year's Eve we threw a party
and towards the end of the night there was like six or seven people left
and one of them was like, oh, are we going to get to hear you play it all tonight and I was like well there's
only a few people here like sure why not um and uh I played my cover of uh of what's your fantasy
and that's kind of how they described it was like a folksy like folksy almost pseudo country version
And so, you know, yeah, I don't know.
Country is one of those genres I don't listen to a lot,
but I'm told that I've got some elements in there.
Mate, I don't know if you know this, but our red-eye,
he plays the banjo, don't you, red-eye, on your porch?
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
No, I don't know how to play string instruments.
I had to take the piss you know, Fon, because he's our southern brother.
Down there in South Carolina, so we always call him the hillbilly.
Fondoo, so Erica Kirk is hosting the halftime show this year. Are you watching?
Like, not the actual halftime
show? I definitely won't be
I haven't got, like, this gay
Puerto Rican dude or something, whatever his name is.
Is it Bunny or something?
Bad Bunny. He's not gay. He's just
not speaking English, and this
is an American sport, okay?
It's all fucking nonsense.
All that shit is nonsense.
last time that I enjoyed the halftime
show was when they brought back
Dr. Dre and Eminem and 50 and Snoop.
Like when all those guys came back and played, that was a great halftime show.
Most of it is, you know, most of it is just production garbage.
Which one was the one where Janet Jackson's, you know.
God, that was, yeah, the old wardrobe malfunction.
That was a while that was a while
ago too you know it's all it's literally just all engagement farming is the way i see it
these days you know they're just everybody's engagement farming and trying to find their
their way i don't even widows i literally yeah yeah let's don't let. Let's not go this direction.
About half time still were married to a blithe.
The last one I want to talk about is Erica Kirk.
To be bad. We're going to roll back the tape.
It definitely started with you.
I'll do a cover here that it's funny
because this one also didn't start out really this way. And now lately, it's been really
becoming this. So let's see if you guys recognize it. Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars
I see this life like a swinging bite
Swing my heart across the line
Oh, in my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye shall find the old
But I'm not that old or young
I don't think the world is sold on
Just doing what we're told in I, I, I, I feel something so wrong
I, I, I, I feel something so right
I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie.
Everything that kills me makes me wanna play, play.
I've been, I've been losing sleep.
I've been, I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be.
Well, baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, said no more counting dollars, we'll be, we'll be counting stars I feel the love, and I feel it burn
Down this river, every turn
Hope is our four-letter word
Make that money and watch it burn the old
I'm not that old and young
But I'm not that bold and I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told and
I, I, I, I feel something so right
I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna
Late, late, I've been, I've been losing sleep Dreaming about the things that we could be
Well, baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars We'll be counting stars
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river, those lessons I learned, oh
Take that money, watch it burn
Sink in the river, those lessons I learned
Take that money, watch it burn Sink in the river, the lessons I learned
Take that money, watch it burn Sink in the river, the lessons I learned
Everything that kills me Makes me want to I've been late, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Well, baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars.
That was sound effect bands.
You're getting slow, darling. It just sounds like, it sounds like rain the rain sounded like the rains came down in africa
dude i absolutely love the original art song as well that's one republic right it is
that's the first time I've heard that.
you know, when you got, I used
to play cover shows for a living all
you know, so you get a little bit of a repertoire.
I don't play a ton of covers these days.
it's funny, I've been shifting back to my roots, because
when I first started playing music
live, I actually refused to play covers. I had a, I've been shifting back to my roots because when I first started playing music live, I actually refused to play covers.
I was really fortunate, though, too.
I had a venue that really supported live music, and they paid us well enough to make it make sense to be out there.
We were out there every weekend for a while, which was crazy, kind of playing a Friday or a Saturday night every weekend.
And all original shows, four hours.
Definitely some repeats in a four-hour show of all originals at that stage, too.
That was in the first year or two that I played.
Mick, you know what i think the song is
that really like indeed made your music is when you did forgot about dre like there's there's
doing a cover then there's making a cover your own like and i've never heard like a composition of a
like a rap song like i mean superman's brilliant superman's good but forgot about dre dude i must
listen to that about three or four times a week on the playlist, you know.
It's actually, that'll probably be one.
I'm going to do a hip-hop cover EP kind of release that I'll put out on streaming just for some fun.
I've had a lot of people ask about it and they always want you know they're
oh where can i listen to this it's like well you just heard it right here so that's kind of the
opportunity um but yeah it's uh you know it's it's been something i've been working on for a
little while so that'll that'll definitely be one that's on there mate i don't know if you can crank
it out today but uh i tell you what let's let's see what the audio and i know you've got probably a playlist let's see any emojis in the audience like if uh
fun was to knock out that at some stage any any emojis anybody like a bit of forgot about dre
oh i'm seeing some emojis here anybody got the thumbs up red eyes gone nuts up we've got a few
we've got a few fun i think there's a fair few people haven't heard it in here, you know?
Alright, well, we'll see.
Maybe we'll close it out with
I could probably make that happen.
play another one that you can listen to
Trying to be a good promoter of myself lately.
And I've been messing with the version of this.
It's pretty different now than what I've got on streaming,
but that's the fun of it for me.
The song's called Silhouette. I've been talking to you, standing over my left shoulder, lower down with a whisper in my ego, climbing.
Between your eyes you say hello, goodnight, sorry but don't think you're gonna take me home tonight
take me home take me home
just in time you reappear
close my eyes pitch my arm and took it there, there's two, three,
paint a picture of the day we met, in my mind, my sweet silhouette.
Catching rays, chase the wind
Send my breath across your neck
Hello, how are you, dear? I think you're gonna take me home tonight.
Take me home, take me home.
Just in time, you reappear.
Close my eyes, pinch my arm and you'll get there.
Dance till three, paint a picture of the day we met.
In my mind, my sweet silhouette
Keeps treading softly through the holes
Broken glass sinking too deep
Created in our disguises we wore them proudly, our sun is sailing.
Close my eyes, pinch my arm and show you there
Dance, two, three, paint a picture of the day we met
In my mind, my sweet silhouette
you love singing that one don't you yeah you love singing that one i can tell
i mean i like i like singing all my songs. Sometimes.
Sometimes I fucking hate singing some of them.
Was that your first or your second?
That was your second one, was it?
That was the second one that I dropped, yeah.
I was going to say, you did quite well as well.
We were talking about Joe earlier, but you did well as well, didn't you?
With your first few singles, right?
Fondu, I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you feel like sometimes people are like, jukebox, beep, play for me.
Like sometimes you just want to be like, I just want to be.
Do you ever feel like that?
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a fine line, right?
Because you want people to be excited about what you're playing.
So like, it's great that they love hearing certain things.
And there are times where it doesn't bother me and then times where it's, like, just, you know, get over yourself kind of thing.
I have somebody who likes to request the same song all the time.
And, like, some nights I'm just, like, not feeling it.
And they get all bent out of shape
when i don't play it and it's like well you know fucking get over it like you'll be fine either
enjoy the rest of my music or get lost like especially when it's a cover that they love
it's just like okay like i like playing covers i have a good time with them but there's a lot
of times nowadays where i'm just not gonna play them and that is what you know
you should you for those people you'd be like okay if you want me to play this song you can
hit my cash app real quick with a hundo crispy crisp couple hundo there and maybe maybe we'll
talk about it it's bad it's bad because sometimes sometimes they do just cash at me and I don't see it.
So like I am definitely more willing to do it when they're like paying for it.
But if I don't know that it's happening, right?
Like if I'm up here on stage, I'm not checking my cash app and I have my app set to not send me fucking alerts all the time because my phone would be going off all the time for a million reasons.
And so like I turn my notifications off.
So like I don't see that stuff come through until I kind of go through and check it later.
And so I did I did feel bad a little bit one night.
Not really because I didn't feel like playing the song anyway.
But, you know, all the when it when they've already sent the money and they clearly only
want one song and then I don't play it and then they just like thumbs down me for five minutes and then leave i'm just like all right well
that's not a lot of support either that's that's not a real that's not a real good way to like
make me excited to play that song the next time you come into the space like i'm in fact i'm kind
of more like you know just keep your money like i i'd rather not we actually it's funny you mentioned that bands we actually talked about
this on a previous space and i don't know if it's something to do with like twitter or x whatever
you want to call it do you know how people have that like a sense of anonymity uh it's different
to say like if you're face to face or you know in a little bit of like an auditorium or something
or you know in a little bit of like an auditorium or something people can be kind of demanding fun
right yeah i mean i kind of just set the tone right away and i don't know if this is a good
or a bad thing um you know i've gone to lots of shows where people are really willing to just like
take requests and and they usually either know the songs already or they're like literally willing
to pull it up on a tab site and play,
you know, like guitar tabs and learn it right there in the moment.
I often just set the tone and I'm like, yeah, I'm not that person.
So like, please feel free to request and go ahead and write it on a $20 bill.
But that also doesn't mean that I'm going to know the song and be able to play it.
So like, you know, you know, insert the cash at your own risk kind of thing.
I'm just real, you know, I'm just real forthright about it.
I'm not I'm not that kind of musician.
There was a time where I was trying to put together an app.
And now like there's various apps that exist with this same idea, which is crazy, where it's like more of like a targeted kind of jukebox style thing
where like you could be a live jukebox,
but like they're picking from the packet of songs that you already know.
So it's a little more, you know,
like people kind of get what they want, sort of.
I've done a couple times where, you know,
when the people are nice enough and it's, uh, and it's kind of a more casual show, uh, I've been willing to learn a song on the spot. I think I did Tennessee whiskey, um, not this year for New Year's Eve, but, uh, last year, New Year's Eve.
I played a show where there were some people in the lounge late,
and they just really wanted to dance to that song.
And I was like, well, I don't really know it, but I kind of know it.
I had heard it before, but there's a difference between me knowing what the song is
and me being able to play it well.
So I kind of warned them for that, but I pulled it up on tabs and played it for them.
So it's really circumstantial, usually, for him. You know, so it's, it's really circumstantial usually for me.
I see we've been joined by Twitter spaces royalty.
We're just having a few tunes with your man for anybody in the room.
There might be new to this,
make sure you're following Joe Ryan down there and make sure that you give
open mic nights uh does very very well doesn't she phone yeah yeah she's got uh she's got a great
open mic that runs pretty much every thursday i'd say like you know holiday times if it runs on a
thursday she'll uh she'll close up shop but then even sometimes she runs a pop-up like the day
before and the day after so you know if you follow her you'll definitely runs a pop-up like the day before and the day after. So, you know, if you follow her, you'll definitely find some pop-up spaces.
She's got a great little community called Drop the Mic.
And I was co-hosting it for a while.
It's just my schedule has become extremely difficult to commit to Thursdays, unfortunately.
And, you know, it's definitely a space that is
always a blast and they get a lot of great talent in there. They've got a great audience in there
all the time. Um, and some, I saw, let's see, I think I saw on, uh, it was on new year's day.
They ran the space for like 11 hours. Like they're're they're fucking insane sometimes too um you know 11
hours is a lot for a music space um but they've got that's ridiculous if you know what's the
space that rack fm has done 30 36 hours continuously jeez we did a b-band but it wasn't 36 hours of musicians playing
and stuff like that so you know it's a different that's no just people crying just banter licking
their wounds yeah exactly it was the uh it was the weekend fun of the ftx crash so you know the
crash happened at the beginning of the week when uhZ sold all his tokens, his FTT.
And if you remember, can you remember the hack happened on the Friday evening for you guys, Saturday morning here,
like the money started getting transferred out of FTX, right?
That's the weekend we did the 36 hours.
Yeah, I mean, what wild times when everything started to go down down down
it was so difficult like we ended up needing about 11 or 12 co-hosts to get us through but me
b-bans and gains the three between the three of us we were there for like i think uh gains did 15
hours slept for five came back and then did another 15 sorry it
wasn't 36 it was 35 hours that's right I did 20 hours fell asleep for five and
then did the final 10 it was fucking brutal the most brutal space I've ever
been involved in in my life like I assume it wasn't recorded, right? Correct, mate, it wasn't.
No, no, it wasn't recorded.
I think I did like 12 hours or something.
I was bored and I was sick, so I was like,
I could talk to people for 12 hours when I feel like shit.
B-Bands, it wouldn't have happened without B-Bands, actually.
She's the one that bridged the gap between me and Gaines
being able to take a couple hours sleep. Oh i was absolutely wrecked i left part of my soul on that space
yeah um you know joe used to run some 24-hour mint spaces back in the day in the early days
of the uh the music nft launches um i i i guess fortunately or unfortunately i've never been
in one of those um i've definitely come in for some 24-hour spaces and come and sat around for
a few hours but uh you know especially these days you're you're not going to catch me doing that
these days um you know five six hours is kind of my kind of where i
run out of gas and i'm like all right i'm done i'm gonna go to bed yeah we got burnt out we got
burnt out we never did that like we never did that again i think after that what was the longest
eight hours or something yeah can you remember can you remember when don and uh them were a second
on the list of all time for the longest space? They did like
58 hours. You remember Don?
Oh my god, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
That sounds really awful.
Something like you do is like one
and then you're like, nah, I'm good. I don't have to do that again.
Yeah, it was... I mean, there was a time good, I don't have to do that again. Yeah.
There was a time where that's the only way you could sell out big collections,
because you just had to be there.
You had to be able to answer questions,
you had to be able to just stick it out,
have the right team with you.
Like you said, Rack, you've got to do what you've got to do.
My alarm did just go off for reminding me that i've got this open mic so i'm thinking i'll play play a couple more i'll go i'll do an original and i'll i'll close out
with forgot about dre how's that sound oh mate i'm i'm i'm engrossed i'm sitting here shaking
let's fucking lfg let's fucking go. All right.
So this one that I'm going to do, you know, Cara in her spaces, she loves everybody.
She loves everybody's music so much that she always has a favorite that she talks about.
And I always laugh because I'm like, oh, you got too many favorites.
I think that nobody likes this many songs as, like, their favorite.
So I give her a hard time all the time.
But this one, I think I believe her.
I think I believe her that this is her favorite that I do.
It does adjust depending on the night.
Sometimes, you know, I think this one still she says is the favorite,
but then she listens to some others and it's like, oh, damn,
I actually really like that one too.
So I think she gets confused. i this one's definitely her favorite so um this one
the new this version is not out anywhere yet um but again if you go to fondue.xyz and you listen
to that eos ep that is up there for free um you can listen to the old version of the song with the band.
A little violin in there, a little everything.
It's called Platinum Frame. Bleeding night is cool, a muddy pond at my toes If I tossed a dream to the moon, would your heart know where it goes?
Sometimes I find myself fading in and out of consciousness.
Memories of a day before your name became only a dream.
You can choose to listen to
you can let your pain to rest
their own ways to let you go
if I could take you Letting go, oh, letting go, oh, oh, oh.
If I could take your painting upon my walls, I'd build a platinum frame just to hold it on.
A glimmering candlelight, the spark in your eyes
The magic I use to set myself ablaze
You wouldn't be there to put me out
Fated scenes still caress the back girls
Emerging from the shadows My regrets no longer standing here
My table's more than seven
Wishin' out for a time delay
Erasin' words I've heard you say
Sounds like a sad day for a repeat
you can choose to listen to what everyone else is
you can lay your pain to rest everyone's got to find their own ways to let me go, oh, let me go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, And candle lights that spark in your eyes
Set myself ablaze I set myself ablaze, yeah
where's that was sound effect where's our sound effect bands come on
i see car is going mad down there with the old uh heart emojis there she's enjoying that one
all these recordings at the end are gonna have robo going where's the sound effect where's the sound effect
for people who might not know uh we actually did a show with fun going way back in the day
um may 2023 it's on spotify the full show i've just put the link down in the comments so after the
show if anybody's interested in listening more finn did like a little bit of a remix with the edit
so like you hear like superman like a little teaser of superman at the beginning then you'll
hear the show uh and it's it's a very very very good show i highly recommend listening to it
And it's a very, very, very good show.
I highly recommend listening to it.
Well, appreciate you guys having me.
And are you about to serenade us out with the one?
Yeah, a little Eminem, Dr. Dre cover.
But I've been located on most these brothers with no cheese.
No wheels and no keys. No bolts, no snowm no g's no wheels no keys
no bolts, no snowmobiles, no skis
cause I can finally have a chipper
invite my family with groceries
and it's all full of tracks
back at my house, flying trophies.
Y'all think I'm gonna let my toe freeze, hopefully.
You better bow down on your knees.
Who do you think taught you to smoke a tree?
Who do you think taught you to OGs, EZEs, IceCubes, TOC's Snoop and TO double G's
And the group that said motherfucker police
So, gave you a tape full of dopey
It's a bump when you're strong doing good
When you're out there when you're doing too good
It's a fact that they told you to go see ho
Y'all better listen up closely
All your brothers have said that I'm turn flopped For the first lap told you to go see oh but it's not close
to be back Y'all gon' keep fuckin' around with me Turn me back into the old me
Motherfuckers like my day
Got a better train of days
Move that lip so much G a bunch of gibberish.
Your motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre.
So what do you say to somebody you hate?
Anyone trying to bring trouble you way?
One result, then you're in a bloody way.
We just study a tape of NWA.
One day I was walking by with a walkman on when I caught a guy.
Get awkward, I strangled him off in the parking lot of this car tonight.
I don't give a fuck if the shit is dark enough
I'm hotter than me trying to park and dive
Right next to this humongous truck in a two-car garage
Popping out with two broken legs
And them loud-ass motherfucking barking dogs call the cops, imma kill you and them loud ass motherfucking barking
When the cops came through, me and Dre, sitting next to a burned down house, with a handful
of gas and a handful of matches, still the one found out.
He'd run out, it's a chronic deal Starts the days, tomorrow's the new
And I'm still local enough to choke you to death
How do they have sevens when babies
In a Mercedes Benz with windows up
When the gym goes up to the mid-80s
Sorry doc, but I've been crazy
There's no way that you can't save me, yeah
It's okay, go with him, Haley
And nowadays, everybody wanna talk
I've got some to say, but nothing comes out
Move their lips, a bunch of jimmerish
Your motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre.
Got something to say, but nothing comes out.
Move their lips a bunch of gibberish.
Your motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre.
motherfucker stop coming up to me with your hands out looking up to me, motherfuckers stop coming up to me
With your hands out looking up to me, like you want something free
When the last CD was down, you weren't bumping me
Now that I got this little company
Everybody wanna run to me like it was some disease
But you won't get a crumb from me
Cause I'm from the streets who come
What do you think hell pulled them all?
They wanna run around and talk about guns
What do you think I sold them all?
Now I'll get a tape round all day
Saying rape at law for it
With the pinball in the back,
Tryna get this damn label off,
This is the millennium of aftermath,
Ain't gon be nothing after that.
Take me one more flat and I'm black,
And fuck rap, you can have it back.
When it's all the mad rap,
Like a jungle in this habitat
Who thought I was trapped with gas
When you were cuddling in a cabbage patch
Got something the same, but nothing comes out
Move their lips a bunch of dimmerish-
Motherfuckers act like they forgot about rain
And nowadays Body-wornin' talk Got something the same, but nothing comes out a bunch of generation motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre
in that case somebody wanted to talk, got something to say, but nothing comes out
boom, that lips a bunch of generation motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre
forgot about Dre Forgot about Trey Who needs sound effects?
I'll tell you what, Red Eye
I did it, I did it You heard it, right? Or did it not come through? See, I was front-running you. I did it.
Or did it not come through?
See, I'm hitting the sound effect button.
I don't think it's working.
The first time Red Eyes heard that.
What a banger, brother, eh?
I don't know what you usually close with, but that's a great closer closer that's one of my favorite covers of all time that's fun thanks man yeah it's a it's a
good one it's a classic do you know do you know what it reminds me of so you know the live lounge
right the bbc radio live lounge from back in the day yeah where they would bring like uh you know you had like uh
beyonce did gold digger like they'd bring in these like top grade stars and they do something that
you hadn't heard before like lily allen was doing the cooks like there were so many like really
amazing covers that you didn't think would work but then when you listen you're like
hell that is so good that's
how i feel about that that's one of my favorite covers i've ever heard like dude seriously
appreciate that it's kind of mad how you can pull off the m m bit and it like in the middle and it
just all sounds like just one track i don't know it's it's mate i'm i'm over the moon you've made an old man very happy
let's put it that way right thanks robert i appreciate it i hope you've had a nice little
warm-up for your gig brother i know you've got to go because you've got alarms going off but uh
mate you know you're a national treasure on this show right
thank you very much thank you appreciate you guys having, mate, I get to get up in the morning
I was up at 8 for the show
And it's wild that I'm waking up in the morning
I never get to enjoy shit like this
I'm normally doing evening shows, you know
Are you on mountain time, aren't you?
Yeah it's just a little after
Well mate I know you've got a crack on
Co-hosts a chance to say something
Before you jump off any comments guys
Before the legend goes to each gig
No just thank you so much for coming
On our show I really appreciate it
It's awesome listening To your music
Honestly had no idea what the
Doing tonight and this was a nice
Much more chill than our usual
So thank you for gracing us with your
Lucky I'm glad I could give you guys a break From the insanity spaces so thank you for uh gracing us with your presence and we're quite lucky i could
glad i could give you guys a break from the insanity we're quite lucky as well because we
we have actually got fun uh scheduled for later in the month as well we've been very very lucky
uh i believe it is uh the 28th of uh january so yeah i think i think it's the 24th but maybe you're right no no you're right 23 weeks no it's the
27th it's the 27th because I figure with you for you I'm on Bangkok time I yeah it's that Tuesday
so I'm like what I'm a 13 I was ahead of you I think 13 14 I was ahead of you it's like 9
8 yeah morning yeah yeah something like that
so yes peeps if you're in america stateside 27th of january uh i'll tell you what fun i'll make
sure that we'll do a bit more promo in advance bro just obviously over the christmas and new
year things have been a bit hectic right but uh three weeks three weeks today, we'll be seeing you again, right? Yeah, and I should have something new that I'm dropping.
It's starting out as something to kind of give back to the people that helped me out
in my little nightmare in Chicago.
But I'm going to make some publicly available as well,
and then it'll eventually probably end up on streaming in some capacity.
But yeah, I've been working on a new song for a few weeks here.
And I should by then have it rolled out.
I was supposed to have it rolled out by Christmas.
But, you know, anybody who's known me long enough knows that sometimes this is how it goes.
Oh, a little spoiler alert there, folks.
So you'll be tuning in now, won't you?
And yes, Cara, it is recorded, so you'll be able to catch up with it after the show.
You know you're a brother of the family.
Yeah, man. Thank you. I'll catch you guys here in a few weeks
And on that note people, it's a perfect
I'd just like to say thank you very much
And I'd like to thank the co-host with the sound effects
She's been absolutely on point this evening
This morning How about a round of applause For her too And I'd like to thank the co-host with a sound effect. She's been absolutely on point this evening this morning
How about a round of applause for her too?
And cheers to me little co-host red-eye
Shall we spin up a show guys for in the morning? Are you free in the morning or not for a typical Rack FM?
Right, I'll hit you up in the DMs
it has to be early though because I have to do
I told you I have to do inventory so it has to be early
oh we're gonna do it 8 o'clock
and then I'm already working and
you guys started the show like you can't do that
like I'm working just for
just for a little bit just for until the project's over
Because I'll spin up when you leave me on my lonesome
For like 45 minutes and I'm having a freestyle
And it gets weary at times man
You know what I'm sorry hit me up on discord
People this has been another episode of R fm 69.420 fm
coming in your ears soon five days a week again uh good night and god blessed all the people
stateside if you're in asia like me good morning to you all have a good day people and we'll catch
you soon all right peace out