The Artist Interrogations podcast. Hey. Is it Gary? Hey, Shane. I can hear you.
How's it going? Okay. Cool. Yeah. Sorry.
My service is kinda bad in here, and I'm like, there's, like, some background music. I'm in a hotel lobby. It's not the best. I know that's a problem. That's that's okay.
I know you're in the middle of a tour right now, the twenty five years of noise tour, man. You're you were just in Salt Lake City last night, weren't you? Yeah. Are we going? Are we on?
Yeah. We're going, man. We just we can just chat it up. It's not like an official, like, hey, everybody. Like, that type of wacky radio interview.
It's just, hey. How's it going? Okay. Cool. I just let me let me get in a little bit of a better position here.
Just like, maybe you can't hear the background music, but I can, and it's like It's driving you nuts? Kind of it kinda sucks. Yeah. Sorry, man. I, It's okay.
Because I'm a little more prepared than this. I know you're a podcast host yourself, so I know I'm I'm sure you know everything there is to know about interviews and such and all that. Yes. Everything there is to know. It's really funny.
I don't know. Over here, there's some people talking. Just Just tell them to be quiet. You know, you're doing an interview. Yeah.
Yeah. Come on. This is more important than whatever you got going on. That's right. Alright.
I think I just found a little corner. It's a little better here. Alright. Mister Peaches. Yeah.
Yeah. It's funny. I was this this is the first time I'm ever doing an interview with these, like, lights on on here because we sort of revamped the studio. And I don't know how you do it on stage, man. Because I have two lights on me.
I'm sitting here, and I'm about to, like, break out sweating. I can't imagine moving around on stage, singing, doing your thing. I'd be dead on stage. Man, I tell you, the light technology has improved. Back in the day, they had these the Oh, he disconnected.
Well, we're off to a great start, Shane. We're doing well. We're doing well. So what's what's going on? I just got disconnected?
Yeah. Just it just all of a sudden went, and then you just got kicked out. Hey, guys. Let me, let me jump them back on. I'm just gonna get on a better Wi Fi connection.
Okay. Yeah. Sounds good. Back in. Sounds good.
Yeah. Thanks. No problem. That's funny. That's really funny.
Alright. There we go. I'm on the Hyatt I'm on the Hyatt Wi Fi now. I think this is gonna be good. Okay.
Awesome. No worries. It happens, man. And when I interviewed Lizzie Hale of Hailstorm, right as I joined the Zoom call, the whole thing crashed. And I was in here freaking out and ended up sounding like that guy, like, we'll do it live.
You know, that type of thing. Oh, good. I love Lizzie. She's the best. Oh, the the she's one of the nicest people, and I it's it's funny how everyone in this genre, incredibly nice.
I have not met one single bad person or one single mean person, I should say. No. I think, you know, it's a hard road, you know, to get to I don't wanna say the top, but, like, you know, somewhere up the mountain. And I think burning the bridges along the way doesn't get you too far. And, people that do that, those kinda are, are, they don't get very far.
Right. Right. And I was, doing my research, of course, in preparing for this interview. And, I heard you say something about, like, how you recorded Discovering the Waterfront in a walk in closet, and, like, you had two guys in the band sleeping in the same bed? Yeah.
We well, we didn't we didn't record it, in a closet, but we did, I did live in a walk in closet. Yeah. We it was our first record we made away from home in California and we were just excited to be there, you know? And we were like, Oh yeah, it's fine. We didn't really check the specs on the, Airbnb or whatever.
I mean, it wasn't Airbnb in those days, but, you know, the apartment. And, yeah, we had, we the guitar players got their own bed. The rhythm section shared a bed, And I had a cot in a walk in closet that I lived in for for, like, nearly two months. And I wrote some great lyrics in that walk in closet, though. I I was gonna say, you just you made one of the best, best albums of all time in that closet, which is funny because, like, you always hear these stories about different artists with some of their first albums.
Like Panic at the Disco had barely any money to fund that first album, and, of course, that's one of the classics now. And it's it's crazy to think that you're almost wanting to go back to those type of conditions in order to make some magic again, I guess, you know, that type of thing. Yeah. I mean, you know, we've made so many albums. And we, you know, we we did the the second album, Discovering the Waterfront, and the third album, we did both of those in California.
And then for a really long stretch of time, we made records at home in Canada. And, for this last record that is coming out in just a couple of weeks, with some of the songs that you've been playing, we went back to California again, and we hadn't done that since 02/2007. And I think it did feel kinda like the bold days, you know, of of living remotely and and all living living together, kinda being a unit, and then really being in a remote place, you know, away from from your friends, family. You know? You you don't have you don't go home after the studio, and then, like, your girlfriend's like, are you gonna do the laundry or am I?
What's going on here? You know, those kinds of, like, distractions, which, which I don't think, you know, add much to the creative process. So this record, out in in Joshua Tree, California was, was terrific, a terrific experience. And it did feel in some ways, kinda like those early early records we made in in California. I mean, touring now compared to before.
I mean, clearly, the the vehicle situation must be different. Right? I'm hoping you're not stuck in, like, some crappy old van going from place to place, you know, that type of thing. No. Yeah.
We've we've, we've graduated to a bus. Nice. So that's nice. We even have a truck this time because we have so much production that we have a full on semi truck. And it's kinda funny.
We figured, okay. We can get a semi truck, and then we don't have to worry about, like, a trailer on the bus either, you know, so that we don't have to worry about it. And and then we loaded all the stuff in the truck, and there was so much stuff that even the truck's full. So we still needed a trailer to to put our merchant and stuff in. So, yeah, this this tour we're doing right now has been has been pretty extensive, pretty wild, and, really just awesome.
And, yeah, it's the biggest tour we've ever done. So it feels pretty good, you know, twenty five years in to to be at our peak, you know. It's it's pretty it's pretty cool. Right. Yeah.
Twenty five years of being together. I bet that has just flown by, hasn't it? Like, it's just it's wild to think that, you know, it's gone, it's done, and you're still going type thing. Yeah. It feels like one big long day, man.
I don't know what to tell you. Like, you know, because our our band like, you know, a lot of bands that that reach this milestone, you know, they had their time off. You know, maybe they broke up for a while or they took a hiatus or even even just, like, six months off. We never did that. It's it's been record.
Like like, we we write a record. We record a record. We go on tour, rinse, repeat, you know, like 12 times or however many albums we've done. So it's, yeah, it does it really does feel like just kind of, one big long day. I don't feel too much different, a little grayer, you know, and, I don't know.
A lot older. But I feel but I still feel great about it, and, and and I do feel very, privileged to to be, you know, be able to do this, for this long at this level, and, and I I really do enjoy it. Yeah. One thing, I was gonna mention because I know you guys have written a lot of great songs. You're about to do not one, but two albums this year.
And I'm just thinking, like, you know, back when you guys first started, I think you said you were 19 years old. And I I the the emotions because we we talk about it on the air how bands, you know, can pull put everything into their their first album because they've had years of, like, this years of this creative process versus, you know, continuing as a band and continuing to make music that you might lose that emotional edge almost or, like, that feeling almost. So, like Yeah. Trying to make songs now compared to back then, do you have to put yourself in weird situations in your head to kind of, like, have those feelings come back up into the songwriting? It's a good question.
Yeah. I I I they they do say that. Right? You have your whole life to make your first record. And, you know, our first record was kind of a compilation of all the material, the best material that we'd written up to that point.
And, you know, and then we were kind of a little freaked out when we made the second record because it was like, oh, we got a we're writing all these songs in like three months and then here's the record, you know. But honestly, for us, I think that our second record was much better than our first because we had a more sort of, what's the word, zoomed in look approach snapshot in time, a cohesive sort of feeling and sound to it. And I think that that taught us a lot that you don't necessarily need a lot of time to make a record. You just need to be inspired. You need to, work hard on it, take the amount of time that you need and, and just really nose to the grindstone, make it happen.
And I think a lot of things, a lot of bands, I should say, they sort of get lazy, I think, as they go. And that's why sometimes the records get worse and worse and worse and worse until maybe it starts to get a little sad. And we can say that our records have gotten better, over time. And really, it's it's no secret. You just have to put in the time, put in the work, you know, and and just just not get lazy about it.
So, this time around, we worked so hard that we had 25 completed songs. And I don't mean, like, 25, like, I I little ditties or little ideas. I mean, like, 25 dumb songs that we already liked. And when when it came time to say, oh, man, we're gonna have to pair this down to, like, 12, it started to get we started to have a few issues in the band because people were like, what do you mean we're cutting this song? What do you mean we're cutting this song?
So that that's when we decided to turn it into two albums, and and two shorter albums, mind you. But, but we we wanted to to do something with a little more songs because the idea of cutting it down to 12 was, like, painful for us. No kidding. And the first two singles, I think yeah. The confession, when I first heard it, I had it on repeat.
Actually, it ended up being, like, one of my most played songs of last year just because I I just loved that beginning part, and then the chorus comes in. It was great. That's why I chose it as my pick of the day, that one week that it came out. And then Thank you. I saw Don't Let Me Get Too Low, and then I watched that music video.
And that one was even just as good as Confession. I was like, dude, these guys will not, you know, will not put out any bad songs. Like, it's just, you know, anything like this. They're both great tracks. And the music video for Don't Let Me Get Too Low is funny because I heard you talk about how you went to the Vegas Desert because you currently reside in Vegas, and you went to the desert just by yourself.
And you decided to dig a hole, and I'm thinking, like, the other guys in the band were probably happy about that. But then also whose idea was it in the first place to go to the desert and and, you know, really embrace the Vegas heat and record that video? Yeah. Well, it wasn't it wasn't too hot because it was, it was October. So it was kinda still it wasn't too cold.
It wasn't too hot. It was kinda perfect weather. But it was actually our guitar player, Paul Mark. It was kinda his, vision for that video along with our longtime, director, Wyatt Clough. So they kinda teamed up on the the treatment of the video.
And, yeah, the rest of the band was like, sweet. We don't have to be in a video? Great. So, Paul Mark did fly down with Wyatt, and the three of us kind of, worked on the video. And then my friend Patrick was my, my body double.
So there's a there's a couple points where, you know, you there had to be two two Shanes. So so that was a lot of fun to make. But I gotta say, man, we we filmed that video in the Vegas Desert. Then the next day, we filmed a second video for an upcoming song. And if you see at the very end of the don't let me get too low video, there's I'm wearing, like, a detective costume, and I'm I take a picture real quick.
That's a little bit of a, that's showing what's coming in the next video. Oh, very cool. And that video is even even more fun, I think, than, the Don't Get Low, Let Me Get Too Low. And that song is a banger too. So people are gonna have to wait a little while for that one because it's on the second album.
But, but there's lots in the meantime with, with Antibloom coming out in just a couple weeks. And, yeah. And, yeah, these singles have all been been really, really well received, which which feels great. My favorite part of the video too is when there's a camera on the shovel. Like, it just makes me laugh every time.
It's just I'm like, there's just the camera on the shovel of you singing there digging, and it's it's it's great. Reminds me of the movie Holes, you know? That's that's what Yeah. Well, Well, we we we kept saying we kept saying, quoting that movie on on set. But, yeah, that that was funny because, yeah, that we had this special clamp to clamp the camera to the shovel, and it had to be, like, in a specific way where I could, you know, use the shovel, but the but the camera mount was pretty heavy.
So it kinda kept throwing me off when I was trying to use the shovel, but it was, yeah, it's funny that you noticed that. It was it was cool. Yeah. Where did you guys do the, confession music video? It looked really cool on that one too.
We shot that one in Toronto, and then the cutscenes were were in Japan, actually. Wow. Okay. So, Wyatt our director, Wyatt, lives, lives in Japan. So he's, so he was able to do some some pretty cool, shots out there, with that with that actress and everything in that video.
Yeah. That's a that's a great music video too. I've been hooked onto that song. And with don't get me to, don't let me get too low, I was I was just scrolling Instagram and I saw on one of the stories, I followed John from Point North. And he was like, yeah.
I worked with Silverstein on Don't Let Me Get Too Low. I'm like, what? Do you work them with them on that track? Because John and the rest of Point North, we've talked to them plenty of times. They're awesome dudes.
And I feel like John has been has done stuff with, like, every band. It's weird how, like, I'm discovering that. He's amazing. Yeah. Dude, and can I'm I'm an interviewer myself, and I pride myself on my research.
And you are, like, you are beyond me, dude. You're doing great. So, yeah, we we, Paul, Mark, and I went out to LA. We we did a little bit of writing, with some people that that we admire, and John is one of them. And it was great because we we wrote two songs, Don't Let Me Get Too Low, and the song that I was talking about the other video for, actually.
We wrote those two songs in, like, a day, and then we were like, cool. Let's go play golf. And then we played golf, and, it just, like, hung out. It was super, like, low key. It didn't feel like a lot of pressure.
It was just fun. But we we came up with maybe two of the best songs, on on both records. One's on one and one's on the other. And, yeah, John's John's an absolute, genius, man. He's got great ideas, and and he's just a nice person.
So Definitely. It was really, really, really great to hang out with him. He's one of the nicest dudes. Same with, his other friend Cody from Set It Off. Like, those those two bands.
Oh, yeah. It's incredibly nice. And then there even Cody from Wage War, I've noticed. Like, I interviewed him, and he knows he's a part of, like, everything too. Like, he just produces stuff.
And how did you guys write those two songs in, like, a day? Do you just know the basic formula by now and you're like, okay. We need all we need the verse, the chorus, the bridge, everything, and is that it? Or, like, how do you guys dive into the songwriting process? It's a good question.
Every song is different, man. Like, you know, there's no there's no, like, magical secret recipe that that, you know, goes into it. And I think with those ones, I think it sort of started with the riff, I guess, and then sort of just coming up with a melody to it and sort of finding out, like, what kind of tempo we're looking for. But they happen relatively quickly. And yeah, the only thing with Don't Let The Only Get Too Low is we didn't have a bridge at all for that one, and we wrote that in the studio later on.
And I kind of feel like that's one of my favorite parts of the songs too. It kind of like embraces sort of, like, a a hardcore modern hardcore breakdown, like, similar to maybe, like, a band like Turnstile Mhmm. Or something like that, which which I think is a really fun, part of that song. Don't let me get don't let me get too low as well. But, yeah, man.
If I knew if I had the secret of of how to just write a song every time and have it be a hit, no offense. I probably wouldn't be talking to you right now. I'd be, like, hanging out with Paul McCartney and, Right. You know, and and Elton John or whoever. You know?
The guys that maybe have figured it out. You know? But, but, no, man. Every every song is different. I think it should be.
And every song is a has its own journey. You know? And I think if you if you try to turn it into a formula, I think that's when things get stale, and and, I think that's when bands start failing because the the truth is there is no formula. Yeah. It's funny because we we talk about it on the air too from time to time about how every song now has a breakdown.
It could be a ballad, and all of a sudden, a breakdown happens, and you're like, there's no more guitar solos anymore. Like, what's going on? Bust the guitar out or something. Yeah. We've we've had a few guitar solos in our in our time.
But, I mean, sometimes, you know, I think when you start playing live, you realize, how much more excited the crowd is when there's a breakdown than when it's some dude wanking off on a guitar. You know? Yeah. For sure. I mean, depending on the style of music.
Right? But for us, at least so I think that that, for us, the the breakdown tends to win. But I do love a big soaring sing along bridge as well. I am a fan of that. So, you know, we we switch it up, and it's just kinda what what the song calls for.
I could not imagine what it's like, the feeling of being on stage, doing a breakdown like that, especially in, like, you know, death corps and extreme metal, that type of thing, and watching everyone just try to kill each other from up there too. It'd be fun time. Like, I call it I call it the hospital part because someone's going to the hospital. Oh, yeah. No.
When I was at Wage War in Boise, it you can tell, like, the crowd was somewhat into the openers, which I was shocked that they weren't really moving for Throne because Throne is, like, the perfect band to Yeah. Really throw somebody. But then Wage War, I'm in the front. And of of course, I'm I somehow end up where the pit is happening. And I I I'm trying to take photos for our social media pages, and I'm I'm head and shoulders above everyone else because I'm six foot nine.
You can't tell, but I'm sitting down. But Yeah. I'm I'm sitting there, and I'm gonna get my phone out, and people are bumping into me. And I turn around like the Undertaker, and they just all, like, leave. Dude, so you're six foot nine, and you're standing in the front.
Man, people must have hated you. Oh, yeah. They they they, they hate me at every show. You know? I I always go to the front no matter what.
And, well, every show every show I've ever been to, I'm behind you. So, yeah, that's just the way it works out. I always like I'm like, okay. How is it what are the odds that the tall sky in the room is right in front of me? It seems like every show it happens to me, but I went to.
Can you dunk? Must be able to dunk. Yeah. I I played, basketball for Cal State not Cal State Fullerton. Fullerton College then transferred to Cal State Fullerton.
So, yeah, I did see on your Instagram that you're heavily into sports. I had, like, a sports question too. I was like, what sports is he into? I'm assuming I I was gonna be really bad and be like, oh, he's from Canada, so I'm assuming hockey. But it could be anything, really.
Dude, I'm I'm a pretty massive sports. You name it, I'm I'm pretty way into it. That's awesome. I would say hockey is not like, I never played hockey, which is a big surprise because I'm from Canada. Right.
I played basketball, and I played baseball. But, and those those might be my two favorite sports. But it changes, man. Like, I I gotta say, like, you know, as a sports fan, like, watching sports, there are certain times in a in a in any sport when it's like that that moment when you're like, oh, it doesn't get any better than this. You know?
Like, I think, end of a football game, you know, when there's a team when there's a team down by, like, you know, three points and they gotta get down the field to try to kick a field goal, like, that is pretty exciting. You know? But also, like, when you're when you're talking about watching golf and it's a playoff and it's the masters, all the pressures on one guy to to, you know, he's gotta hit the green and make a putt to to win the tournament. You know, that that stuff is, is super exciting too. So for me, like, I just love sports.
I love games. And, so I like them all. But yes. Yeah. I was gonna ask if if you knew about the whole Luka Doncic trade, what you thought about that.
Yeah. Because that because I'm a I'm I'm originally from Southern California, so I've been a born and raised a Lakers fan. And You must love it. No. No.
I was kind of indifferent about it because it was shocking to me that they just got rid of Anthony Davis. And, I think there was some internal stuff with that. But, because I I know the the politics behind everything is crazy, especially when it comes to collegiate basketball too and how many people get recruited to these different places and how many people, like, will go someplace or spend, like, seven years instead of, like, four in college just trying to make it to play basketball even though they should go move on to accounting or something. But, you know, I knew I knew my time was up when I just hated practice. I was like, I'm done with this.
Yeah. I I mean, yeah, I guess, you know, the knock on on Lucas is defense, maybe isn't up to par, but he's like a absolute insane insanely talented offensive player. Most definitely. It's like they it's like they've got two Lebron's practically now, you know, with the way those guys are magicians on the offensive side of the of the ball. So, you know, I I I'm really excited to see them play together.
But, yeah, I mean, are we gonna have, like you know, are the scores gonna be, like, a 40 to a 35 games? It it's too much. Playing defense? Yeah. I don't know.
Right. See, man. It's I know the people in in Dallas are pretty are pretty hurt because he's, like, their guy, you know? Oh, no kidding. Yeah.
That was, like, their main dude, and it it was weird to see them just toss him like that. But it was really funny looking at the people saying, like, oh, now he can't make $350,000,000 in a super max extension. He can now only make, like, $2.25. And I'm like, what? Boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo to play a game.
Yeah. I know. It's it's, not to I mean, the other the other side of that too, and I'm sure your listeners love hearing us talk about basketball. But, is you know, you gotta figure the opportunities playing for the Lakers. Oh, yeah.
You know, financially and and with all the, the endorsements that he's gonna be able to get now too. Especially once LeBron retires and he's the man in LA, it's gonna be crazy. That's gonna be way more than a hundred and $50,000,000 or whatever he's losing. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It's it's nuts. And I also saw that you were, into pinball as well. And I was thinking, like, did you did you did you start collecting machines? Did you start collecting pinball machines, or do you just kinda, like, admire them when you go to certain places? Well, both.
I have, I have eight machines. Awesome. So cool. So I've got a little a pretty pretty decent collection. But, yeah, every pretty much every, like, off day.
Like, today, I'm in Denver. I would poke around down at the arcade and see what they got, if they got anything rare they haven't played in a while or whatever. But it's funny. You know? The thing I love about pinball is it's like it's such a great escape, man, from life.
Like, following around that little silver ball and having it not drain down the middle, it's it's kinda like it takes your mind off of everything else going on in your life at that moment. You know, some people get that from video games too, I guess. But the thing about pinball, it's it's so random. No game is the same. You know?
You don't know where the ball's gonna go, you know? And, and there's just a physical aspect of it, you know, pushing the game around, moving the machine around, and then just the challenge of, you know, of topping your previous score or beating your friend or whatever. And, yeah, it's just something that I've gotten into pretty heavily in the last few years, and I made a lot of good friends, through the hobby too. So it's, yeah, it's something something I enjoy. I can't imagine going to an arcade somewhere and then running into you playing the game, like, just viciously trying to get the high score.
It's like, oh, there's the lead singer of Silverstein just so you know. It comes in here from time to time. Well, that's what I say. It's like, it's no secret, man. If we're if we're in a city, that day and there's, like, a pinball bar with a good number of machines machines pretty close, it's probably a good way to find me and say hi.
You know? It's, it's probably where I'll be. That's awesome. Well, I appreciate it big time, Shane. Thank you so much for joining me today, really, man.
I'm just, excited for the upcoming album. And then the other one, there's no there's no set date for the second album of the year, is there? It just says later this year. Yeah. I think we haven't we haven't exactly come up with a date, but it it's gonna come up quick.
Mhmm. It will it is definitely coming out in 2025. And, you know, I know our our first one hasn't even come out yet, but our second one, it might even be better than the first. So I'm just excited that we're able to give our fans so much music this year, both recorded music and also live music because we are announcing new tour dates all the time. We're playing all over the place, and, and it's it's really exciting to to celebrate a quarter of a century of Silverstein.
It's it's it's worse to say it like that. If you just say twenty five years, it's okay. If you say quarter of a century, that's when it's like, okay. Like, that's bad. No.
I know. You start you start thinking, like, I don't know why my when I say that, my mind goes back to, like, the eighteen hundreds or something. And Me too. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's it's funny because I I I was thinking about it. I'm like, all these questions that I have for Shane are, like, all about it's been twenty five years. How does it feel to be the old guy in the scene now? Like, that type of thing. Like and I'm just like, that's not he's not old.
He's it's like it's it's funny. It's it's, and you see a lot of the people who are younger than me going back to late nineties fashion, and it's like a full circle moment almost because it's like Dude, they know. Yeah. It's like I go down to you know, you know, you see kids, like, hanging out at the mall or whatever. And it's like, when I was in high school and I hung out at the mall, it's the same clothes that I wore.
It's like the nineties are just back. It's super, super weird. And, you know, we started the band in, like, in the year February. So it's like, that was still the fashion then. So it's really funny that twenty five years has just come come back full circle.
But I I don't know, man. It's it's it's an exciting time, kind of in the world, both good and bad. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
So we'll we'll see, man. Yeah. Definitely. And and it's it's funny, dude. I was talking to Mark Tremonti of Creed, and I'm like, dude, how does it feel to be, like, a meme band now to where, like, people my age and younger and older, they're all coming together to go see Creed when they expected, like, a nostalgic audience, essentially.
And I can imagine what, like, Silverstein as well, like, you know, twenty five years, you got people who have been there since the beginning versus people who have just now discovered you with the new music, and I bet it's weird seeing people the difference in people in the audience in front of you. Yeah. It it it's it's really cool to see so many young people coming out on this tour, I think more than more than before. And I don't know if they've found out about us in the last, you know, couple of years or if they just the the our scene and the emo movement has has grown, you know, due to due to, you know, bands like My Chemical Romance, coming back and Blink one eighty two coming back with Tom and all that. If that's just kind of, like, put a lot of a a big spotlight on on the whole scene, but it's great.
And it's really, really awesome to look out and see somebody and be like, wow. They were, like, not born when we started the band. Like, not even close to born. You know? And that's it's great, man.
I mean, to to for our music to transcend generations like that, that is that is pretty crazy. And, you know, I've always said, like, I just wanna be the bad religion of emo. And that's pretty much what's happening, I think, at this point because, you know, when I got into bad religion, they were already pretty old and and on on I don't know how many albums they'd put out at that point. You know, so I think it's really cool when when people are still discovering our band and that those old records still hold up, to them, you know, based on it's probably not the recordings. It's probably the songs, and it's probably the lyrics.
So Definitely. I think we can be pretty we can be pretty proud of, proud of that. That's funny you brought up bad religion because I I got into bad religion as they were much older too. And Brooks Brook Wack is it Brooks Wackerman? Brooks Wackerman.
Yeah. Yeah. His dad was a teacher, the music teacher at my at my middle school, and it was just like the he's an old he was like a 95 year old guy teaching music. Chuck Wackerman, he was a as a teacher. And I'm like, that's so weird how, like, you know, the he's the lead he's the dad of the drummer of Bad Religion, now Avenged Sevenfold.
And I was like for some reason, I felt like I knew him even though I've never talked to him. I was like I always felt like, you know, I know his dad, so somehow I know him type of situation. But That's cool, man. Yeah. That's cool.
And it's it's a beautiful thing, man, how music is music just can be something forever. Definitely. You know? And there's there's other there's a lot of things people do that are like that. But the fact that I'm a part of something that could be forever, that long after I'm gone will still exist and people will still remember, that's pretty that's pretty special.
So, that I I don't wanna lose sight of that. You know? Definitely. And one last thing here before I I gotta get going here. But, for Warped Tour, I mean, you know, that coming back and you seeing these bands get announced, could Silverstein be a part of that, or is that top secret?
Well, we could. You know? You're right. We could. Nothing's been announced yet.
They I've been seeing the, the lineup and them filling in the filling in the blanks there with the lineups and some pretty cool cool videos. So, yeah, you know, I will say we we are I think we're the top we're in the top three, bands that have done the most Warped Tour dates, and we're the number one international, band because we're Canadian. That counts as international. Right. To have to have played.
So I think it would be a little bit odd if they didn't include us, but nothing's been announced yet. So That's what I was speculation at this point. Right. Right. I saw Point North got announced for the Long Beach date, and I'm like, you know, that's the neighboring city of my hometown.
Maybe I should go fly out and, you know, go see those guys again and go see the, you know, the everybody, the Left to Suffer as well and all the the other bands that have been announced for it. It's pretty cool to see everyone get excited for the whole thing again. I think you should make it out. Yes. Yeah.
Absolutely. I think, yeah. And for everything I've read about it, with, you know, Kevin Lyman still being involved, it seems like it's going to have the, the essence of even though it'll be a little different now, I think the essence of Warped Tour and what makes it special, I think, will still be there. So, so so I'm I'm excited to, to see how that all unfolds. Well, appreciate it, Shane, for all the time today.
I really do, man. It's it's been great to get the chance to talk to you. And, yeah, I've been like I said, I've been really, really digging confession and don't let me get too low and skin and bones and all the songs that have been put out and all that stuff. So I'm excited. Well, you know you know, man, I I really do wanna say thank you and that we really appreciate you playing our music on the radio because we're not, like, a radio band historically.
You know, we've never had, like, a big radio hit. And, you know, so every time we get somebody that gets behind one of our songs and can, you know, show it off to some people listening on the radios, that really does mean a lot to us. So thank you, Brendon Peach, for, for for all that. Do you go by Brendon Peach or Peaches? What's your handle?
I go by Peaches on the air just because it's it's funny to it's funny to see this giant dude come out of the car and, you know, I scared that Ice Nine kills his drummer when I I had to pick him up from the the stadium that's, like, right down the street here and bring him to the studio and interview him. And then they told him, Peaches is gonna come pick you up. And, though, there he's probably expecting, you know, the complete opposite of what is what is me coming out of that car. Like, hey, Patrick. How's it going?
And that type of thing. Peaches like Peaches like the female pop star with the F the Painaway song? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I I do have I'd love to meet her. I I do have an excerpt of one of her songs in one of my show intros. It's like it's like what else is in the Peaches of Peaches? I heard that in, like, a Nicholas Cage movie.
I forgot it's I forgot is it driving something? I forgot what it was called. But, yeah, I I heard that. I'm like, that has to be included. And then every person I know sent me that Bowser song from the Super Mario Bros movie.
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