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The Noon Hour Of Madness & Mayhem can be heard live on KBEAR 101 weekdays at 12pm MST. Viktor and Peaches talk about a wide variety of topics depending on the day and you never know what to expect!
The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast. It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. How's it going, Peaches? Oh, I'm doing well. I'm excited for tomorrow so I can be done.
I can I can be out of here? Oh, good for you. All I'm gonna do is work till basically Saturday at some point. I don't know when that is, but at some point. Yeah.
My friends were wanting to hang out with you. I'm like, good luck. Good luck. Yeah. That's not happening till the weekend.
You know? And probably Saturday, I'm gonna be like, I don't want any people around me. Yeah. And I'm going to Twin Falls. So Oh, okay.
Okay. So may maybe we'll get a chance. I don't know. May you you said you were gonna bring them by the, studio next week, though. Right?
Not next week. Hopefully this, this Thursday. This Thursday. Okay. Okay.
So that way they can see where I sit most of the day, especially in my free time too. Okay. Alright. Well, I think I'll be here. On Thursday?
I think. Yeah. Well, I might end up, you know, out at Snake River Landing or something. It's all kinda all over the place. Yeah.
I'll text you, see what, see what you're up to. Like, I know I'm working Thursday night at Snake River Landing. So yeah. Like I said, pretty much work until some point Saturday. What's fun for the listeners is torture for us.
Oh, we do it for the love of the community. That's right. The idol falls. Peaches because he's only got the shortest shift of all time for the whole thing. Well, most of us do besides you, Josh, and Jay.
I know. You guys are the top tier people who have been here longer than some employees have been alive looking at you, Maddie. Yeah. Actually, I have been here longer than she's been alive. No.
She's 19. You've been doing it for eighteen years. Yeah. So about her lifespan, though. Yeah.
Jade's been doing it longer That's true. Than, she's been alive. Yeah. Jade's been here, since the beginning of time, as a matter of fact. Yeah.
Yeah. Dinosaurs and then Jade Davis. He does look like a caveman. I feel like it could be pretty brutal. Put him in an outfit.
Sure. Yeah. You know, he looked like, you know, the the guy who woke up after falling asleep by a tree for many years. What what's that guy's name? Adam?
No. There's a story about the guy who falls asleep by a tree. You know what I'm talking about? I bet I bet if he made his hair all crazy and his beard all, you know, wild too, he would kinda look like Moses. Man who fell asleep.
Split the snake river down the middle. Tree for years. What's that called? Rip Van Winkle. Oh.
That's what I was looking for. Fell asleep for seventy years or maybe it was twenty years. Okay. Twenty years. That's that's the beer Jade's got going.
So, here in a few, we're gonna dive into a new band that okay. As a person who makes music, once I pulled up the Spotify and saw those numbers for myself, Peaches, I got angry as someone who, you know, has honed my craft, learned how to write music, you know, and practiced and practiced and practiced. I do have a question for you. How do you come up with the lyrics? Like, how do you how do you layer them, I should say?
Do you do it after the song is over? The way our writing process works, and it's different for every band, but here's how we do it in The Reptilians. It was a little little different in the other band, Doctor Seuss is Dead. In The Reptilians, generally, I start with riffs. So I will write the basic structure of the song, start to finish, and I'll record the riffs to a click track.
And then I'll send them to Steve, our drummer, so he can, figure out, you know, what what how the drum should go with the riffs. Then after we get that file back, you know, Steve will give me a recording with my riffs and his drums, and then I'll give that to Joey. And, like, maybe I'll record a video just showing him what I'm doing with my hands. Then Joey will work on his parts till he gets them down the way he likes them, and he just kinda spices up everything I do. Then, you know, we'll the bass could kinda go in at any point.
Usually, I'm working on the bass part, you know, while I'm writing the riffs, or we have another bass player who will do it. It just kinda depends what's going on. Who is the bass player of the reptilian stuff? Right now, it's a guy named Nick, but he lives in Boise. Oh.
So we, you know, are probably gonna try some practicing with some other people and see if we got anyone locally that clicks with us because that's what's most important is that, you know, you click. Alright. Time for me to learn the bass. Yeah. You better get on it, Peaches.
Yeah. The new songs are hard. I'm nowhere near the level of, what you guys are at. And so then at the very end, I'll start working on vocals. And to do that, usually, I either sit around at home or I drive around in my car, and I just listen to the song on loop and kinda try to come up with melodies.
So I'm not, you know, I'm not like doing real words. I'm just kinda, you know, trying to figure something out. And once I figure out the melodies, then I'll sit down and write the words. And then you figure out how to layer, you know, any backup vocals or anything. Basically, we've always done it when we're recording, you know, try different melodies.
So that's kind of the basics. Or you could do it like this band we're gonna show you on our next break. So stick around. I'll give you the detail. I'm so mad about this.
I wasn't mad about it till I saw these numbers, but now I'm mad about it. That's what everybody's getting irritated by is that it somehow snuck its way into everybody's algorithm, I would think. It's not popping it hasn't popped up on mine. Yeah. Spotify I don't I don't listen to this type of, like, easygoing rock.
I do every so often. And I haven't listened to it yet. I'm excited to check it out. But I'm guessing Spotify made this band because they don't wanna pay real bands. No.
I bet they had some sort of, like, lower tier employee at a computer. Just generate images. They had to get, like, approved by the, upper guy. Yeah. Because it it looks like a real band, but everybody it's an AI band that we're gonna talk about.
We'll give you the detail. Local bands are gonna love this. They're gonna love these numbers. All musicians should be irritated by this. They should be.
But I'm curious because I wanna hear how good it is. You know? Because I've I've heard a lot of different types of bands. And, like, we've talked about this before that the day will come when an AI artist has a big hit. You know?
It's gonna be definitely within the next year. I I've played that Boy What band before on the air, which is like it's the voice it's the voices of different SpongeBob characters, but there's a guy that's doing the the singing, the actual singing, but he's also doing the the guitar, the drums, the bass. He's kinda like what Caleb does to Beartooth, but with, you know, his own little group there. Yeah. And I'm interested.
I've got an article up about these guys so I can see. I I mean, is it a 100% AI? Everybody's speculating that, and it's very obvious with the evidence so far, but nobody has really said a confirmation. Okay. Like, nobody not nobody from Spotify said, oh, by the way, this was entirely fake.
Alright. Well, we're gonna check it out. Okay. I I should say allegedly AI, but, it's an interesting story. We'll be back with it in just a minute.
This is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm Victor. I'm Peaches, and the comments are funny because you do have some ignorant people in the comments talking about this AI generated band, allegedly AI generated band. Someone at the top said, let people listen to what they want. There's plenty of other AI generated bands on there.
Told you. Told you people are going to openly accept this. It's like the AI slop videos, you know, that, are super, super popular. Might be brainwashing us is what I'm thinking. I think AI has become, sentient and is attempting to brainwash us.
We talked about the people who were losing their mind, using chat GPT and having to be, put into psychiatric care. Like, something's getting real strange with AI already. So I I was not surprised to see that people were like, I don't care who made this. I like the songs. Well, yeah, you're gonna have the soccer moms who listen to radio stations that z one zero 3, one zero five, the hawk could play anything.
Yeah. As long as it fits their format and, like, they like the voice, the guy could be like, oh, I love Twinkies, and it it just all of a sudden becomes their favorite song. I'm guessing you know, the last break I said will have a hit song within a year. I bet it's more like within six months, we will be playing a hit AI generated song on, I would say, not only z one zero three, but I actually think before that, we'll be doing it on Hawk. Allen Iverson has the ability to do the funniest joke ever and put out a song of his own.
Alan Iverson. Because he went by AI before AI was even around. And just but even Matty Beats in this comment section says, this whole AI revolution with music reminds me of what happened with piracy. Everyone is crying about music being stolen, which is valid, but might as well embrace it and and adapt because fighting it is pointless. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. And I think there's always going to be a market for people who wanna hear human generated music. It's It's kinda like, you know, people who are into vinyl and, you know, they're vinyl purists. I won't listen to anything except vinyl.
I did see somebody in this comment section talking about, like, how they're building up their CD collection just to kinda just be to protect themselves from what's gonna happen to streaming. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna see tons of this. And this is the first time I've read about a completely AI artist.
It it from what I'm reading, it it they've gotta be completely AI. Right? Supposedly, they've put out three albums this year alone. No. This month.
This month. Not this year. This month. That's what somebody Three albums. Yeah.
Oh, Jesse Lee from Octane, by the way, he's, like, the news guy for when it comes to rock and metal music. And he is defending, like, you know, keeping it human, you know, in the music industry, which is cool. You know, he's going against those people that are saying, why why does it matter? You know? But, you know, there there are so many people who don't care.
You know, the the rock and metal scene are very, very passionate about music. The average music listener just likes something they can, you know, bop their head to. That's why I talked about the whole soccer mom with z one zero three and one zero five the hawk and class c. Like, anything could play over there. You could play the JG Wentworth jingle, and I nobody would bat an eye.
Yeah. Obviously, in the rock and metal scene, people are going to, you know, have have a different kind of perspective on this because of how, you know, how much they connect with the music, how important it is to them. This band is called the Velvet Sundown. And people are calling them the 2025 Beatles. Okay.
Now what do you mean? Section. Woah. Now I haven't listened to any of this yet. I gotta tell you, the Beatles also do have some generic sounding songs, but they're more complex than this.
Well and they created those sounds. They did. You know? They were the first. Right.
So they sound kinda generic now, but at the time, they would have been cutting edge. That's why listening to Black Sabbath now, you're like, this is not heavy. This is just this is just normal rock. But at the time seventies or even, like, late sixties, you're like, woah. Oh, yeah.
There was nothing like it before it. Rain and bells and, you know, crazy lyrics and Yeah. And just distorted guitar. Yeah. Crazy Tony Iommi riff.
So the Velvet Sundown, all your listeners that are in bands are gonna love this. This band, like Peach has said, has put out three albums in a month. Five hun as of right now, 554, 451,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. They were at 411,000, but now Maybe they're gone. Because of all the news articles.
Like, what's a what's a newer band that's still fairly, like, low tier? Like, low streaming? Nevertell? They stream pretty good. No.
They don't. Nevertell streams pretty good. Do they? Okay. Well Yeah.
I mean, you would know more than me. Sleep Theory, of course They they stream really well. Really well. I'm trying to think Throne? No.
Throne is also one of those bands that's been accused of, being, like, forced into Spotify's, or you're like, hey. If you like this band, you're gonna like Throne. K. Let me get into our system here, our, Music Master. And I wanna look at something newer that we've put in just to, you know, do do a comparison.
Try to find a newer band. Let's try President? No. Let's try Palais Royale. Oh, that's a good one.
You know? Because they're still kind of up and comers. Bill Murray. Bill Murray streams pretty good. But Does he?
Let me see. Does he have more or less than the Velvet Sundown? So Palais Royal. Okay. They've got He does more.
They've got 1,300,000.0. Bill Murray has 760,000 monthly listeners. Okay. So just to give you an example, and Bill Murray opening for Sleep token, streams very well. Sleep Token's up to, like, 8,700,000.
Let's look at Scott Stapp, just solo music. 6,500,000.0. K. Scott Stapp of Creed, solo artist. Everyone knows him.
156,000 monthly listeners. So that shows you how big this band has become, and I haven't listened to a second of this. You're you're gonna find it funny. I I feel like Are you gonna laugh? You should have done a, YouTube reaction to this.
Again, it sounds very generic. There's no substance to it. I've heard a little bit of it. I just wanna hear your reaction. Alright.
Well, since we just explained even more about it and we've talked for a long time, we're gonna make you wait again to listen to this. We'll be back in just a minute. This is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem on Victor. I'm Peaches. And the comments are funny because you do have some ignorant people in the comments talking about this AI generated band, allegedly, AI generated band.
Someone at the top said, let people listen to what they want. There's plenty of other AI generated bands on there. Told you. Told you people are going to openly accept this. It's like the AI slop videos, you know, that, are super, super popular.
Might be brainwashing us is what I'm thinking. I think AI has become, sentient and is attempting to brainwash us. We talked about the people who were losing their mind, using chat GPT and having to be, put into psychiatric care. Like, something's getting real strange with AI already. So I I was not surprised to see that people were like, I don't care who made this.
I like the songs. Well, again, you're gonna have the soccer moms who listen to radio stations that z one zero three, one zero five, the Hawk could play anything. As long as it fits their format and, like, they like the voice, the guy could be like, oh, I love Twinkies, and it it just all of a sudden becomes their favorite song. I'm guessing you know, the last break I said will have a hit song within a year. I bet it's more like within six months, we will be playing a hit AI generated song on, I would say, not only z one zero three, but I actually think before that, we'll be doing it on Hawk.
Allen Iverson has the ability to do the funniest joke ever and put out a song of his own. Allen Iverson. Because he went by AI before AI was even around. And just but even Matty Beats in this comment section says, this whole AI revolution of music reminds me of what happened with piracy. Everyone is crying about music being stolen, which is valid, but might as well embrace it and and adapt because fighting it is pointless.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And I think there's always going to be a market for people who wanna hear human generated music. It's kinda like, you know, people who are into vinyl and, you know, they're vinyl purists.
I won't listen to anything except vinyl. I did see somebody in this comment section talking about, like, how they're building up their CD collection just to kinda just be to protect themselves from what's gonna happen to streaming. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna see tons of this.
And this is the first time I've read about a completely AI artist. It it from what I'm reading, it it they've gotta be completely AI. Right? Supposedly, they've put out three albums this year alone. No.
This month. This month. Not this year. This month. That's what somebody comments.
Yeah. Oh, Jesse Lee from Octane, by the way, he's, like, the news guy for when it comes to rock and metal music. And he is defending, like, you know, keeping it human, you know, in the music industry, which is cool. You know, he's going against those people that are saying, why why does it matter? You know?
But, you know, there there are so many people who don't care. You know, the the rock and metal scene are very, very passionate about music. The average music listener just likes something they can, you know, bop their head to. That's why I talked about the whole soccer mom with z one zero three and one zero five the hawk and class c. Like, anything could play over there.
You could play the JG Wentworth jingle, and I nobody would bat an eye. Yeah. Obviously, in the rock and metal scene, people are going to, you know, have have a different kind of perspective on this because of how, you know, how much they connect with the music, how important it is to them. This band is called the Velvet Sundown. And people are calling them the 2025 Beatles.
Okay. Now In the comment section. Woah. Now I haven't listened to any of this yet. I gotta tell you, the Beatles also do have some generic sounding songs, but they're more complex than this.
Well, and they created those sounds. They did. You know? They were the first. Right.
So they sound kinda generic now, but at the time, they would have been cutting edge. That's why listening to Black Sabbath now, you're like, this is not heavy. This is just this is just normal rock. But at the time seventies or even, like, late sixties, you're like, woah. Oh, yeah.
There was nothing like it before it. Rain and bells and, you know, crazy lyrics and Yeah. And just distorted guitar. Yeah. Crazy Tony Iommi riff.
So the Velvet Sundown, all your listeners that are in bands are gonna love this. This band, like Peach has said, has put out three albums in a month. Five hun as of right now, 554, 451,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. They were at 411,000, but now they've gone on because of all the news articles. Like, what's a what's a newer band that's still fairly, like, low tier?
Oh, low tier. Nevertell? They stream pretty good. No. They don't.
Nevertell streams pretty good. Do they? Okay. Well, I mean, you would know more than me. Sleep Theory, of course They they stream really well.
I'm trying to think Thrown? No. Thrown is also one of those bands that's been accused of, being, like, forced into Spotify's, or you like hey. If you like this band, you're gonna like Thrown. K.
Let me get into our system here, our, music master. And I wanna look at something newer that we've put in just to, you know, do do a comparison. Try to find a newer band. Let's try President? No.
Let's try Palais Royale. Oh, that's a good one. You know? Because they're still kind of up and comers. Bill Murray.
Bill Murray's stream's pretty good. But Does he? Let me see. Does he have more or less than the Velvet Sundown? So Pallet Royale.
Okay. They've got He does more. They've got 1,300,000. Bill Murray has 760,000 monthly listeners. Okay.
So just to give you an example, and Bill Murray opening for Sleep Token streams very well. Sleep Token's up to, like, 8,700,000. Let's look at Scott Stapp, just solo music. 6,500,000. K.
Scott Stapp of Creed, solo artist. Everyone knows him. 156,000 monthly listeners. So that shows you how big this band has become, and I haven't listened to a second of this. You're you're gonna find it funny.
I I feel like you should have done a YouTube reaction to this. Again, it sounds very generic. There's no substance to it. I've heard a little bit of it. I just wanna hear your reaction.
Alright. Well, since we just explained even more about it and we've talked for a long time, we're gonna make you wait again to listen to this. We'll be back in just a minute. It's the noon hour of madness and mayhem. Who signed my phone number up for 07:11 rewards?
I just got a text for that. I think it's my mom. I just noticed that the Velvet Sundown is a verified artist on Spotify as well. They got the check mark. So they're they're a real AI band.
What I mean, looking at the photos of them, I checked some of that out. I mean, those are clearly AI photos. So Yeah. I I don't know about the music because I haven't heard a a bit of it yet. I'm very excited.
What's their biggest hit? Their biggest hit right now is called Dust on the Wind. Wait for my cover. Crop Dusting the Wind. Dust on the Wind.
Alright, guys. And it's got about a half million plays. Here we go. If you're just tuning in, we're checking out this very popular AI band that cat that is of right this second has 554,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Alright.
Dust on the the wind. Alright. Howdy, partner. Should I put this on one zero five Outlaw? Dust on the Very generic lyrics.
Imagine if this is a rude guy and he's just getting offended. The the the to a call. I I the name of the song is Dust on the Wind. Oh my god. Look at their look at their Instagram.
Okay. Let me pull that up. There's no there's no actual picture. It's so stupid. They recreated the Queen cover.
That's actually good. That's definitely not all. Eating food at a diner. And the image where they're eating at the diner doesn't look real. Dude, these are definitely AI.
There's no microphone in front of the lead singer, but there is in front of the keyboard player and the guitar hits. There's there's them recreating Abbey Road. Oh, yeah. And it's clearly, an AI photo. The song I did.
Make them pay. I could see people listening to this. Of course. Absolutely. If I played it as Peach's Pick of the Day to Crank It or Yank It, there would be some that would be a good idea.
Oh, we know that they were like, yeah. Let's go for it. I liked it. It's got a great classic southern rock vibe. I mean, I'm not here a big chorus.
This sounds like a movie. Look, that very beginning part of the song reminded me of, like, an opening for, like, some slow dramatic, like, film. Oh. Now we get the solo. Maybe it just broke down to, like, some crazy progressive buried alive type solo.
Five local bands, somebody sat at a computer and probably churned it churned this song out in like just a couple minutes. Just a couple minutes. Smoke will clear Like to make this whole band. Every asset. All the social media.
Every butt is. A few hours of work and I don't know what what you get for, you know, racking up 550,000 monthly listeners, but I'm I bet, you know, it's for streaming, you know, pretty decent. Oh, is this another song? This is drift beyond flame. Comfortably uncomfortable.
They clearly This is comfortably lethargic. They love the word wind. The next song's called The Wind Still Knows Our Name. Yeah. I see.
It's all like in Chad GPT give me some generic, Pink Floyd style song titles. Yeah, with Kansas kind of mixed in. Yeah, with like a, you know, very sixties vibe with, you know, throwing a lot of reverb. Dude, I get it. I get why people would listen to it.
It's better than a lot of the AI music we've heard. You know, it's funny, The Woody Show is now using AI like Suno and all those other websites to, come up with their segment intros. They're not paying that one guy anymore. They're just doing it with AI. I know.
There's so many people that are gonna go out of business, people who make jingles, voice actors. I mean you're really gonna have to be able to bring something unique to the table in order to keep a job with this type of stuff coming out and in a year or two, I mean we think like oh I've got this personality no one could duplicate me. Look how far it's already come. That's why I say outrageous things on the air. I was gonna I don't want it to know my next move.
Should I have these dude oh since I've refreshed this 634,000 monthly listeners. We started this show today at 550,000. It's only because it's getting they're getting national coverage because of these different articles on the show. I know. We're helping it.
I know. We're promote we did the whole noon hour hour about these guys. Is probably like, oh, yeah. He's a little bit I made $10. I'm gonna start making AI music.
Screw this. You know, I Oh, no. You Yeah. You either live one. You either die a hero or live love to see yourself become the villain.
That's right. I had band practice over the weekend. I felt like I sucked. Joey, Steve, Nick, you're all fired. Yeah.
I feel like I'm letting my guys down. I don't need to put effort in knowing you can rack up these kind of number musicians are doomed. They're doomed and I've heard some country music that is like spot on, you know, pop country. I'm I'm guessing within six months top forty and country radio will have a hit AI artist. And they're they're gonna sneak it in too like this band tried to snuck in.
Country might be a little bit more averse to it at first, but Top forty Radio, they'll be on it in a second. Oh, yeah. They don't care. The Sabrina Carpenter sounds so generic. Yeah.
I don't I could have AI duplicate a song of hers within a within an instant. Yeah. I I don't get the hype with her. You know? I like it.
Billie Eilish? All of them. I mean at least Billie Eilish has an original sound, I guess. And I'm not really into her, but I can have Maddie whisper into the microphone and it'll sound just like a Billie Eilish track. Watch, this is gonna now show up because we played a whole song it's gonna show up on our spins report Hey, you spun this AI band, you guys are terrible people I know Start getting messages from all these other band Why are you playing Velvet Sundown in your playlist?
Don't you know it's a fake band? We should play some obnoxious song below us at one point so it says we we spun it on the report. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For sure.
I bet that we have listeners listening right now. Who are now gonna listen to their favorites. Yeah. Yeah. They're they I I they'll call me later they'll call me later this afternoon.
Go Peaches. You guys are making fun of that band, but I gotta say, they're fun. I like them. We're gonna start getting requests. Can you play Dust on the Wind?
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