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Southeast Sounds is a radio show, on-air showcase, and podcast series that celebrates and promotes Southeast Alaska singers and songwriters. It's a celebration of the rich musical heritage and diverse cultures that shape our unique part of the world. Southeast Sounds explores the heart of Southeast Alaska's music scene, featuring interviews with local musicians and live performances. As a Southeast Alaska artist, submit your songs to KINYRADIO.com for consideration and airplay on our radio stations in Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan.
Welcome to Southeast Sounds, where we dive into the heart of Southeast Alaska's music scene, bringing you interviews with local musicians, breaking down their music, and exploring what makes their sound unique. From indie vibes to rock and everything in between, we've got it all right here. Listen for fresh tracks and deep conversations. This is Southeast Sounds. Let's kick it off.
Speaker 2:And
Speaker 3:welcome to Southeast Sounds. I'm Jess Miller, and joined by always, I have
Speaker 4:Crystal Rose.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Southeast Sounds. And this is our third iteration of the program. I'm super excited to announce that we have Ocean View here in the studio. How are we doing today, guys?
Speaker 2:Good. Doing pretty Pretty good.
Speaker 3:Well, how about we start off by introducing each other, like, instrument you guys play and who who you are?
Speaker 2:I'm Ryder. I sing and play guitar.
Speaker 5:Yep. I'm Arlo. I play guitar.
Speaker 6:I'm Eleanor, and I play the bass.
Speaker 7:And I'm Elias. I'm the drummer.
Speaker 3:Right on. Right on. Right on. Well, how did we all become a band? How did how did did Ocean View happen?
Speaker 2:So it kinda started with think started with Started with me, With you, for sure. So there's this guy named Mike Moss, and he does I think it's called Nagoonberry's
Speaker 5:Music.
Speaker 2:Nagoonberry's Music. And it's just like this organization thing for kids to come together and do, like, music together. And he just teaches them how to play and, you know, he organizes stuff for them. It's really cool. And so after a couple of years of doing it, eventually, after going through a couple different guitars, Arlo joined and we were like, this feels pretty good.
Speaker 2:I think we're ready to finally move on from this and go start playing by ourselves and really commit. And that's really what happened. We started playing or practicing outside of Mike's practice around January, early January. And since then, we've just been
Speaker 3:You've been doing it. You've been rocking and rolling. Heck yeah. Well, it's really cool to hear that Mike Moss is doing that because, actually, Mike Moss was my elementary music teacher back way back in the day. And it's cool that he's still doing music and bringing youth and music to Juneau youth.
Speaker 3:So that's awesome that you guys got connected that way.
Speaker 4:Yeah. We should preface this. This is the first youth band we've ever interviewed on Southeast Sound. So you guys are all in high school. Correct?
Speaker 2:Yep. Yep. Yep.
Speaker 4:I love that. And as far as I know, although I hear there might be some competitor band out there, we won't name any names. This is the only band that plays in the youth that I've heard of. So we're really excited that you guys are here. Should And have prefaced that in the beginning because it's it's very special.
Speaker 4:And as a mom myself, I'm always jazzed when the kids come out and wanna do music in any sort of fashion. So
Speaker 3:yeah. And it's coming back. It's exciting to see because when growing up in Juneau, I think when I was in middle school and high school, there was a lot of bands in town. Like, there's obviously, they did Thunderfest, which allowed a lot of high school bands to kinda show up and perform, and sadly, that's not a thing anymore. But maybe Southeast Sounds, we could bring something back like that for the youth bands or youth performers.
Speaker 3:But it's awesome that you guys are keeping Juno music alive and kinda so let's start off with, Ryder, what kinda when did you start doing music? We could kinda go down the line as, like, what was your age that you started picking up an instrument and playing?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I started playing guitar when I was around 12. I was in charter middle school or charter school. There was this little band organization thing. Actually, I was in it with Elias before I was even in the Mike Moss band with him before.
Speaker 2:So we've actually been playing together for four years, if you really think about it. And so I started playing guitar in there and I was like, this is pretty cool. And then I think it was my grandpa's death anniversary day and he was really into music. And so I just kinda asked my mom, I was like, hey, do you think I could get a guitar? And she was like, sure.
Speaker 2:And so I got a guitar and I went home and I went Wish You Were Here, which was the song I played at his funeral pretty cool. And it just kinda inspired me to keep going. Awesome.
Speaker 5:Yeah. What about you, Arlo? Yeah. I've been playing instruments since I was, like, five. Started playing the violin at Glacier Valley with the jam program, and I've been playing violin for about ten years.
Speaker 5:And there's always been, like, guitars around, and I picked it up at a young age. You know, I got my first guitar when I was, like, seven, and it's been playing around with it. Recently, last year, we started playing in this band, so really started playing guitar a lot more.
Speaker 3:Oh, right on. Alright. Eleanor, what about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah. I started out with piano when I was five. My grandparents bought me one for my birthday and they, like, paid for my lessons. And I was pretty into that for a while. And then I heard about Mike's band, and so I switched over to bass when I was about eight and just kinda stuck with it.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Alright. Last but definitely not least, the fellow drummer in the room.
Speaker 7:Yeah. I've got a pretty similar story to Eleanor actually. I started playing piano when I was seven and I played for about eight or nine years on and off. When I was 10 or 11, me and a couple of my friends at the time were like, we should should do music because my buddy, he also played piano and then one of my other friends played bass and so we're like, this is perfect. So we my dad is is good friends with Mike Maass and so he was like, there's this excellent program that you can do.
Speaker 7:And so that's how I started off. And so I've been playing drums for five or how old is it? Five or six years, something like that. Awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 7:Yeah. It's been fun.
Speaker 3:Sweet. Alright. I love to always ask influences. Like, I guess we go back the other way about our musical influences real quick. It could be a couple.
Speaker 3:It could be a specific artist or, yeah, whatever it may be.
Speaker 7:Yeah. My parents always played a lot like a variety of music. My dad's a home cook and so he'd always turn on like some Pandora station or whatever he As was a kid, I really liked bands like Cake and kinda also like Modest Mouse, some of the not super heavy, grungy stuff. But as I grew up, my music taste went all over the place. And then now into grunge.
Speaker 3:Alrighty, what about your musical influences, Eleanor?
Speaker 6:I mean, music has always been a pretty big part of my life. I mean, my grandparents were really into music. So there was always all kinds of different stuff playing at their house. They do like Zydeco on Sundays. Played a lot of jazz.
Speaker 6:But I really got into like music when I heard Led Zeppelin. I love Led Zeppelin a lot. And like Elias said, cake, they have some pretty funny
Speaker 2:Yeah. Bass
Speaker 3:Led Zeppelin's got killer music and I wish I was more involved with Led Zeppelin. I'm a Rush guy myself, so it kinda kinda similar realm of things. So yeah. Alright. Anything else you wanna add to your influences or that's about it?
Speaker 6:No. That's about it.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Alright. Arlo, what you got?
Speaker 5:Yeah. Growing up, my dad's really into prog rock. So my favorite band's also Rush.
Speaker 3:Heck yeah.
Speaker 5:And I I love Pink Floyd too.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 5:A lot of that seventies, eighties prog rock stuff. Awesome.
Speaker 3:Alright. Writer, what did you got for influences as far as what got you what helped craft your sound?
Speaker 2:I've got quite a lot of influences. So I'm just gonna summarize it of everything under the sun from Elliott Smith to, like, Deftones or Korn, like, any in that range of music.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Out of nineties stuff.
Speaker 3:Sweet. Alright. Crystal, what shall we ask these guys next?
Speaker 4:I just wanna know if you guys well, we already know the answer to this because I've seen your social media. I've seen that you've done some shows. But have you how many have you done? And what are the upcoming shows that we need to look forward to?
Speaker 2:Let's see. So the first show that we played all together was actually, the high school talent show, if you count that.
Speaker 7:No, because Eleanor wasn't there. Oh. That wasn't all together.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that. Yeah, she was in Hawaii. So I guess the first show we played was the Alaskan almost exactly six months ago. Almost exactly six months ago. Was in May.
Speaker 2:May
Speaker 4:How did you get I just wanna know how you got involved in that. Like how how like who who said let's let's go play at the Alaskan? I mean, you guys are obviously not old enough to technically play there, but, I mean, legally, you're allowed to. But, like, what did you who was, like, knocking on your door being like, we need you to we need you to come to the Alaskan.
Speaker 2:So I used to live by Alaska Music One, Rouser Giles. Oh, okay. And so I would just go there every single day before and after work. And Alex, one of the guys at the front desk Yeah. I would just talk to him all the time about music and jam with him.
Speaker 2:And so one day we recorded this little demo thing of one of our originals and I sent it to him and he was like, dude, gotta come open up for us at the Alaskan and
Speaker 4:so
Speaker 2:we just locked in.
Speaker 4:So Bard's and Mendenhall guy, he got you in there. Okay, that makes sense now. It's all coming to me. Any upcoming performances?
Speaker 7:Today.
Speaker 3:Today, 11/01/2020
Speaker 4:Where are 20 find you?
Speaker 1:We
Speaker 7:09:00 at the Alaskan. Should be fun. We're opening for Bards again.
Speaker 4:Okay. So you're circling back. Circling back. So right where you opened for the first time with Eleanor, which is like the key player in this situation. Let's be for real.
Speaker 3:I also saw you guys played in Gustavus as well.
Speaker 2:That was pretty that was an experience. That was pretty fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Tell us a little bit about that performance.
Speaker 2:Who wants to talk about this one?
Speaker 5:Yeah. We got we invited to play at Burning Pines and Gustavus and
Speaker 2:I emailed them. Oh, no. I didn't email them. I DM'd them.
Speaker 5:Yeah. We reached out to see if we could play Burning Pines and Gustavus because the bards were also playing there.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:And chatted back and forth with them, they decided to bring us out. And we went to Gustavus in what was it? July?
Speaker 2:Yeah. July.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. In early July, and we played there. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Actually, it's pretty funny. Alex's opinion was the turning point to actually get us to play there. He was like, dude, come on guys. You have Ocean View.
Speaker 2:Nice. Alex has been a really big help for us. You know, I don't think I could thank O enough for giving us so many opportunities.
Speaker 4:I love that. Anything here. Do you guys feel intimidated being so much younger playing with the older bands or do you do you like it? Do you feel like it's inspiring Or a little bit of both?
Speaker 7:Yeah. I think it's both.
Speaker 2:Think it's a little bit of both. Yeah. I think it's a little intimidating because, you know, obviously, they can play wherever they want and we have to, like, extremely organize it. It can only play, like, certain places that know us and know our parents. Yep.
Speaker 2:And things like that.
Speaker 7:Yeah. On the other hand, it's been really great because that's kind of like one of our big selling points is, hey, we're not like 20 who wanted to do music, we're still pretty young. And so a lot of people are into that. They're into supporting the youth. Absolutely.
Speaker 7:So yeah.
Speaker 4:As they should be.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Not to toot our own horn, but we're pretty good for our age, I'd say.
Speaker 3:I like it. I like it. I like the confidence. That's what you gotta have as a band is yeah. And and, honestly, pick a pick brains.
Speaker 3:Obviously, you're involved in, like, Bards of Men in Hell. Like, I know Alex has been playing music for a long time. And, like, honestly, I'm sure he's giving you guys insight about, like, pedalboard organization or doing stuff like that, or just, like, kind of giving you those pro tips. So that's all I that's one thing I always push to young musicians or just any musician in general. Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn.
Speaker 3:Like, if you see someone else do something that's really cool, ask them like, How did you do that? How did you get that sound? How'd you get that tone? Like, What symbols are you using? It's like, yeah, always ask that.
Speaker 3:That kind of helps you craft and grow your sound, which I always like to push on folks. And I always try to remind myself that all the time as well.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah. I think in music, you can never learn enough. You never will stop learning. I'm I'm not a musician, but I'm a singer. And you never never stop learning things or practicing or, you know, getting your craft better than before.
Speaker 4:I mean, I'm almost 40 and I'm still learning things. So it's it's always gonna be that way. It's a muscle in any music and then you have to keep exercising it or you lose it. So Exactly. To to go off on that, is this something that you guys wanna continue to do as a hobby, or do you actually, like, wanna do it, like, seriously?
Speaker 4:Maybe eventually make some money or you may have already made money. But like, do you are you taking it seriously or is it just something fun you're doing or like, what's your what's your goals?
Speaker 2:Think you guys should talk about this one.
Speaker 7:I think it would be awesome to be able to do as well as we could and get that kind of get the community to really boost us. I'm a senior, so I'm graduating next year. Right now I'm planning to go off to college, which doesn't mean music is over, but it means that I'm gonna be away. And so for me, the way I look at it is my my band instructor at school, VK, mister Van Kirk, great guy, he told me basically, if you leave it and it comes back to you, then it's yours to keep. So I think that is very wise.
Speaker 7:I would love to put my full effort into the band. Perhaps when I have a stable job to do that from right now, see we're where it goes. If we can do really well and I feel like we there's a there's a path we could follow, then I'm gonna follow it. But yeah, that's how I feel about it. Awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was a good answer.
Speaker 3:A real good answer. Yeah, music is something that people put down sometimes and then they find it again, just like you're saying. But I always push, like, don't let it go. Always keep it with you. Keep working at it, whether it's a practice pad in your dorm room or whatever it may be, or a little practice kid or a e kid.
Speaker 3:And yeah, I've gone through the roller coasters of playing music of like, sometimes I'm really active and sometimes I'm not doing anything. So it's like, so music's always going to be kind of a roller coaster ride, but that's the fun thing about it. You're in it for the ride. Yeah. Alrighty.
Speaker 3:So I think coming up here shortly, we're going to hear some music from you guys. Yeah?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:What song are we going to be showing on Southeast Sounds?
Speaker 5:Oh, we're gonna do an acoustic cover of Creep by Radiohead.
Speaker 3:Oh, right on. I love that song. So we'll be right back. We're gonna let these guys get all set up, and we'll be listening to some ocean view cover of Creep over here on Southeast Sounds.
Speaker 1:You're listening to Southeast Sounds. We're back with more music and more stories from some of Southeast Alaska's finest musicians. Let's dive right back in.
Speaker 4:Crystal Rose and Justin Miller back on Southeast Sounds with Ocean View who are now going to be performing their cover, their rendition of Creep by Radiohead. Are you guys ready?
Speaker 2:Think so. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Alright. Let's get into it.
Speaker 5:Eyes.
Speaker 8:You're just like an angel. Your skin makes me cry. You float like a feather
Speaker 5:in a beautiful world.
Speaker 8:And you're so very special.
Speaker 5:I
Speaker 8:don't care if it hurts.
Speaker 5:I wanna have control. I want a perfect perfect body. I want a perfect soul.
Speaker 8:I want you to notice
Speaker 3:Had to give you guys some sort of the celebrity treatment with the big applause there at the end. But that was Ocean View's cover of Radiohead Creep,
Speaker 5:and
Speaker 3:that was such a good version of that. I love that song. It's such a good vibe. And, Ryder, you definitely nailed that high part at the end there. I'm always, like, anticipating.
Speaker 3:It's like, are they gonna hit the note? Are they gonna hit the note? And you hit the note. So I definitely dig dug that quite a bit. So for folks that wanna get in contact with you or find out, how can they do that?
Speaker 2:They can find us at our Instagram at oceanview dot official. No spaces, no capitals, no nothing. Pretty simple.
Speaker 3:Easy. And you what what's your highest, like, viewed video or liked thing that's so far on your page right now?
Speaker 2:I think we have, like, a 100 likes on this, like, livestream of our first show at the Alaskan, I think, or something around that.
Speaker 3:So that's oceanview.something.
Speaker 5:Heard it.
Speaker 7:.Official.
Speaker 3:There you go. .Official. Yeah. But, anyway, oceanview.official on Instagram. Let's get these guys' likes and follows up.
Speaker 3:And remember, shout it out at your shows. Like, hey, you guys. You could follow us on Instagram. Remember that. So
Speaker 4:I wanna talk a little bit about originals. We know that you have some. They're not recorded yet. They will be. We'll help you work on it.
Speaker 4:What is your how many originals do you have? What is your goal with your originals? And which one is your favorite?
Speaker 2:Well, I think we all have different favorites. So we have around five or six, I believe.
Speaker 7:Do you count the recent one that you that we haven't actually done?
Speaker 2:We haven't really finished have. That up yet. We Six seven. Oh, yeah. Oh,
Speaker 8:With the six seven.
Speaker 2:Watch you do it. You're 18 now. You can't be doing
Speaker 5:that. I didn't
Speaker 2:do it. Six and a half.
Speaker 5:My You walked into that.
Speaker 2:I did walk into that. Yeah. We have like around five or seven songs depending on what you count, what you don't count. Me personally, my favorite is probably our original called No More Bats. That's just my personal favorite.
Speaker 2:I don't know if everyone else would agree with that but it's about you know, wanting to protect people, wanting to protect your girlfriend, wanting to protect I was inspired by I'm not gonna name anyone, but someone had to carry around a bat in their truck to protect themselves and I don't like that. So I just wrote a song about how much I don't like that and how that shouldn't be a thing.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:And so to me, it's really important to me and it's important that I played at shows and yeah, it's important to me that that message gets shown to people and people understand.
Speaker 4:I don't okay.
Speaker 3:I don't like it. So essentially, the message is like you shouldn't be afraid and always had to look behind your back, essentially. Yeah. I like that. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3:Does anyone else have a favorite original or so?
Speaker 7:I like ice cream.
Speaker 2:Ice cream. Me too.
Speaker 3:It's our
Speaker 7:oldest original. It's the one that we showed Alex way back.
Speaker 2:It's very simple. He
Speaker 7:so at Burning Pines, we actually played two sets. I'll make it I'll make it quick. Something happened, they were like, we might need you to play another set because this other band is like and so anyway, we put the second set, which is at, like, midnight. We we start singing ice cream, and, Alex comes up on stage.
Speaker 2:No. No. No. You're missing a very important note. I was calling for Alex to come up to help me.
Speaker 2:Oh, right. But he never showed up. And then we started playing.
Speaker 7:And then he came and then he came up during the middle of the song and and he the the chorus is very simple. It's one of the yeah songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Just yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7:Anyway, also the message is really sweet. I think you wrote it about your grandpa, And lost family members is something everyone can relate to. And yeah. I don't know. It's it's very simple, but I like the simplicity.
Speaker 3:Sometimes those are the best songs. Anyone else got a favorite, or is it we kinda, like, consensus to those two songs being our top two?
Speaker 6:I'd say those are our two best songs.
Speaker 3:Okay. On. I always have to ask the process of writing originals. I know everyone has their own kinda process of doing it, but, like, some people like to do the guitar part first or some people like to do the lyrics first or kinda do the guitar and lyrics at the same time. What do you guys think is your process that fits best for how you each person gets to add their own flavor to a song?
Speaker 2:So, typically, it'll start with me playing my acoustic guitar in my room and I'll just find this cool chord progression and be like, hey, that sounds cool and then I'll write some lyrics for it. And then I'll bring it to the band and I'll just have that be the bass line and then everyone adds their own part, typically how it goes. As we've done more songs, we've started adding more personal things. Ice Cream, I basically wrote all by myself, I told everyone what parts they should do, except for Elias, he kinda did what he wanted. But everyone else, I kinda just gave him a part.
Speaker 2:But slowly, we've gotten better at doing it and I'd love to keep getting better at doing it until, you know, it's the best. It's amazing. I
Speaker 3:I always like the saying, like, with songwriters, especially like Ed Sheeran, he's like, all these artists have wrote thousands and thousands of songs. Not a lot of them don't see the live day, but the fact that you're like kind of busting out and working on all these different kinds of processes of writing music or just trying to get something out there and it's, like, trying to find that sound. I was like, oh, I like that. I put some time into it, but I don't know if it's, like, release worthy. But have you found have you kinda come across that a little bit in your own songwriting where you guys start something, but then you're kinda not feeling it as far as pushing through it more or finishing it up?
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'd say so. That's kinda like the conversation of, like, this to this because we don't really know what counts as an original still and what doesn't. Mhmm.
Speaker 9:I
Speaker 7:don't know if there's a lot of songs that we've really there's maybe been a couple where Ryder brought us a riff and he was like, don't have any lyrics for it, but this could be cool. And we voted yay or nay on it, or we forgot about it or whatever. But generally, we stick through the songs. There will be changes, but we stay on top
Speaker 2:of it.
Speaker 3:Sweet.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 3:we got a song or not a song, a show going on tonight, which right now, if you're listening back to the podcast, it's already either happened or you're might be pushing a little late, though. But 11:01 twenty twenty five, you guys are playing with the Bards of Mendenhall tonight at the Alaskan. Is there any other future shows that you have planned or, like, you wanna plan out or maybe holiday time or New Year time until you guys hit the stage again?
Speaker 2:We don't really have any shows confirmed right now. We've talked to a couple of people, but nothing really set in stone or getting worked on at the moment.
Speaker 7:No solid plans right now. I think we want to do more with the Rain Dogs and the bards, I think. Do you agree with that?
Speaker 2:I'd also like to try recording some stuff as well. I think that'd be really great to do. Anyone else want add anything? Eleanor, you haven't really talked a lot.
Speaker 9:No, don't have anything to add to that.
Speaker 4:So is your ultimate goal with these originals is to get them recorded? Yes. So you can put them on streaming platforms, maybe make a mini album, an EP of some sort. Yep.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Alright. Justin. Yeah. Send it to some
Speaker 2:people. Some people talking.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're right here in this room. We could make we could definitely make that happen as far as recording goes. And, yeah, I've I've worked with some local musicians and got their music crafted. And so, yeah, let's try to get you guys in the studio, record some stuff during this wintertime, and get some music out there.
Speaker 2:That'd be great.
Speaker 3:That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We'd love that. So
Speaker 3:I always like to ask every artist that comes on the program this question. How do you think the local music scene in Juneau can be uplifted more if it's not already where it's at already?
Speaker 5:I feel like it'd be great if there's some more venues that especially youth bands could play at. Because I I find that it's usually bars, and it's hard to coordinate that because, know, we have to have our parents there, and
Speaker 3:it's a lot
Speaker 2:of overhead. Yeah. I find that it probably constricts more youth bands being made and growing.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I just feel like a little more support for younger people to have that platform to gig.
Speaker 4:I I know it's probably not surprising for anyone to hear the youth saying that, but you might be surprised that almost everyone we've talked to, even adults, rain dogs included, have also said the exact same thing about what could be better with the music scene in town. They've said they want more places for the youth to be able to play at. And so did Quentin.
Speaker 3:Everyone said that more venues, more venues.
Speaker 4:And Taylor Vitticas said that.
Speaker 2:I don't
Speaker 4:know if you know who she is.
Speaker 7:My mom plays with Taylor Videkas.
Speaker 4:Okay. So Taylor Videkas also said that in in multiple interviews that she's done and it's like I said, I'm a singer, my band's not active right now, but I know my daughter sings too and there's just not places for you guys to do it. And it's it's heartbreaking not only for you guys, but it's also heartbreaking for adults. We do. We think about it and we care about it, especially, you know, being musicians ourselves.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So
Speaker 3:And, obviously, there's great avenues. Like, there's Sika Fine Arts Camp, which is a great camp. I don't know if any of you guys have gone to the Fine Arts Camp before. It's an awesome experience. I always encourage folks that
Speaker 2:are
Speaker 3:not serious, but they take their crafts and their art pretty personal. I always throw that out of folks. Like, go do camps. Go check things out. I went to a Seattle drum school camp one time in Seattle for a week where I would just show up every day and play drums all day, and it was like a camp for drummers.
Speaker 3:It was, like, really cool. So yeah, look into that. Think of think about going to a drum camp. They make adult camps and stuff like that. Always, you know, get in a network.
Speaker 3:That's one thing I always push to folks. Network, network, network. Like, you don't have to be best friends with someone, but if you make that connection with someone, that could open the door to another avenue and so on and so forth. And then you have one then one day you'll wake up and it's like, hey. My friend and friend told me about you and your band.
Speaker 3:We want you to go fly up to Anchorage and open up for Alice in Chains. I don't know. So those so don't know.
Speaker 2:You That'd be pretty great.
Speaker 3:You just never know. So that takes me to my next question. If you guys did have a choice of who you wanna share a stage with, who would it be?
Speaker 2:Well, I think we've all got a couple different ideas. I think the drummer should go first.
Speaker 3:Soundgarden. Soundgarden. Yeah.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Soundgarden. Awesome James.
Speaker 6:That would be great.
Speaker 5:I think Audio Slave or A Stuntable Pilots would be pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Just one thing to add, how are you guys supposed to do that?
Speaker 7:Hypothetically. Are we playing their songs? Because I cannot play.
Speaker 3:No, you gotta open up for these bands one day.
Speaker 2:Don't know. Would their lead singers be back and stuff as well?
Speaker 3:I guess so. I think that'd be yeah. Audio Slave, Allison Chains, Soundgarden, all all good bands. Definitely kind of I hear your the influences I've and your guys' sound like I was obviously looking at all your clips on social media, and it's like, guys definitely have that kinda Seattle grunge tone to you guys. So maybe that'll be the next destination, Seattle, to go perform with someone.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I got I got some underground stuff. So I would love to share a stage with this really cool new band. They're called Rocket. They've recently been opening up for Sunny Day Real Estate and Smashing Pumpkins.
Speaker 5:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:And I I think they rock. I think they're really
Speaker 3:And they're called Rocket.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Rocket.
Speaker 3:I'll to check them out.
Speaker 2:But yeah, Rocket, obviously Smashing Pumpkins might be my favorite band, if not one of my favorite bands. Yeah, I think that's it for me.
Speaker 4:What about locally? Is there any band that you haven't performed with here in town that you'd like to perform with or open for? Well,
Speaker 2:I think it'd be cool to exclusively play with Rain Dogs. We've played with Rain Dogs one time before but that was at Burning Pines and it was a lot of other bands. I think it would be really cool to just play with them
Speaker 4:at a
Speaker 2:show. That would be pretty special. You know, they they get a nice crowd going.
Speaker 4:Yeah. They do. They sure do.
Speaker 3:We've got a good I ran sound for them up at Discover Eagle Crest Day and even doing that and just in the parking lot, they still had people rocking out up, like, near them. So yeah. Bring the bring the crowd. Bring the peeps.
Speaker 2:Bring the crowd. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Anybody else? Alright.
Speaker 3:We're we're about to wrap things up here for the program. But before we wrap things up, is there any special shout outs you wanna give to family, friends, influences, whatever it may be? This is your time to shout them out and plug them.
Speaker 2:I'd like to shout out my mom and my dad, Chelsea Bremmett and Richie Buhouniak, for letting me play lad music all the time and giving me a pretty sick storage container to hold band practice in and living through the same songs two times a week, you know, four hours a
Speaker 3:week. I'd
Speaker 2:like to shout out Alex, obviously. I don't think without him we'd be anywhere near where we are right now, not even close. No?
Speaker 4:And that's Alex Kotlarz of Bards of Bend and Hall,
Speaker 2:by the way. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 5:I'd like to shout out my parents, Heather and Steve Carlton, for always giving me support with my music. And, actually, if you come to the performance at the Alaskan tonight, I'll be playing on my dad's guitar, that he gave me. So, yeah, really thankful for that.
Speaker 9:Yeah. I'd like to shout
Speaker 10:out my parents, Katie and Chad Thomas,
Speaker 6:you know, just for supporting me musically, helping me get all my gear organized. And I'd like to thank my grandparents for really getting me into music. Kent and Jenny Dawson,
Speaker 4:they were a real big part of what
Speaker 6:got me into music. Yeah.
Speaker 7:I feel like we're all saying the same thing. But, yeah, my mom and dad, my mom plays trumpet for Pet Costal Living. So I'm gonna shout out them. Not that they really need plugs, they're kinda well known. But also my dad plays bass.
Speaker 7:I forget what they're called, I think they're it's a ween band, they're like a ween cover band. But he's been in a ton of bands. Playboy Spaceman, the other one that I can't remember. But yeah, they've been musicians all of my life and grown up around that. I don't know if could have I don't know if there's a world that I'm not a musician in just because of that.
Speaker 7:So that's really awesome.
Speaker 3:That's great. Great shout outs. Oh, you got one more?
Speaker 2:I got one more. None of like, I know I said Alex, but literally none of this wouldn't have happened without Mike Moss. I know we might have had a rough relationship with him towards the end, but, yeah, I don't think without him we would have had any of this. We wouldn't have found each other.
Speaker 3:Awesome.
Speaker 2:And I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 3:Shout out Mike Monness.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Nagun Barry's music.
Speaker 3:I've heard a few of his stuff back in, like, electronic production stuff. We maybe we gotta reach out to him and bring him on the program next. There's a lot of people in town, so yeah, feel free to throw it out there if you know other fellow musicians. Hey, you guys should sit down with Crystal and Justin at Southeast Towns, and we'll make it happen.
Speaker 7:Crystal,
Speaker 3:is there anything else we need to ask this band before we let them go enjoy the rest of their afternoon and get ready for their performance this evening?
Speaker 4:Are you guys excited for tonight?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 7:Should be fun. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Alright. Alright. Well, that's it.
Speaker 3:Well, that's it. That's for Southeast Sounds. Thank you, Ocean View, so much for joining us here today in the studio and taking time out of your Saturday to come and just talk music with us. And hopefully, we have this chance and opportunity to sit down and talk more music. And then once we get some stuff recorded with you guys, throw it on the highlight.
Speaker 3:We're starting to highlight songs on KINY, and then we're gonna start kinda trickling them throughout our other stations, kinda dependent on the genre. So for you guys, it'd probably be KINY and KXJ, which we'll probably highlight your guys' music on. So until then, thank you guys so much for joining us here in the studio.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thank you for having us. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Alright. So be sure to check this episode out on your favorite stream platform. And, yeah, feel free to give us a follow, Southeast Sounds on Instagram, and, of course, follow OceanView on Instagram, oceanview.official. So I got it right. So hopefully see you guys tonight or until next time.
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