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Here at Impact 89FM, our staff has the opportunity to interview a lot of bands, artists and other musicians. We're excited to be highlighting those conversations and exclusive live performances.
Live from the East Lansing Underground. This is eighty eight nine bringing you the basement, and that was Yellow House. Can we give him some snaps right off the bat? Oh my gosh. I don't think we've ever opened a show that hard.
Speaker 1:That was incredible, you guys.
Speaker 2:Actually, though. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Genuinely. So to start off us start us off, my name is Liv. I'm the host.
Speaker 2:I am Griffin, the cohost.
Speaker 1:And would you guys take a moment to introduce yourselves to our listeners?
Speaker 3:I'm Drew Jepsen, guitar player.
Speaker 1:I'm Lucy Wallace on vocals.
Speaker 4:Kyle Freeman on guitar.
Speaker 5:I'm Sam Ewingle on bass.
Speaker 2:Mick Loken on drums. Well, thank you for coming on the Basement Show.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2:All the way from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:K Zoo.
Speaker 1:Born and raised.
Speaker 2:But we have two Spartans in the band. Correct? Three. Three. Three.
Speaker 1:Three.
Speaker 2:I apologize. Okay. Guess what?
Speaker 1:Both K Zoo natives and Spartans. Yes.
Speaker 6:So
Speaker 1:it's a mixture as I understand it. Absolutely. Very nice. Yeah. If people weren't aware, we also have every night on our show a k zoo native.
Speaker 1:So Griffin is our representative in the house tonight.
Speaker 2:Yes. I am from the zoo. So, I'm happy you guys could be here. You know, I I do feel, very welcome. I it feels like I just walked in the front door of a big yellow house.
Speaker 2:Thanks. So, but I wanna, you know, get a tour
Speaker 6:a little bit. I wanna see each of your bedrooms.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I I I'm just curious. I wanna know a little bit about each other and how the band formed. Have you guys all known each other? And, like, well
Speaker 1:I'll take this one. Yeah. So Drew, Nicholas, and I were, all in KR together at the Kelms Academy of Rock back in high school. But, Drew and Sam have been buddies for a long time and have always wanted to start a band. So kind of just through who we all knew and who could kind of play what instrument, and, we just kind of all came together back in April of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1:So we've not even been together for for an entire year.
Speaker 2:Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. Yeah. Even in that short period of time, though, do you feel like you've seen some level of growth in how you play together
Speaker 6:Oh.
Speaker 1:That's, like, significant Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think I
Speaker 5:noticed, like, a lot of improvement myself. And I used to playing with drums beforehand, and when we really started playing with Nick, the drums kinda help me really perform better and, like, I really locked in recently.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Because, I mean, me and Sam, we both hadn't played in bands before. I mean, I was just a bedroom guitarist with some, like, riffs and stuff. And then, Sam, I mean, you're kinda the same way where, you know, we only person we've ever played for is ourselves. But, you know, when you get to play with other people, it's a completely different landscape.
Speaker 4:You know?
Speaker 3:Yeah. We've really become a we've really become a cohesive unit
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Since when we started. Like, it's it's a big difference for sure.
Speaker 1:Well, just listening, I'm amazed that you haven't known each other for ever, not to just, like, heap praise on for no reason. That's not really what we like to do here. But, yeah, I'm so impressed. You guys really do kinda give the energy of a family that's been, you know, cooperating for a while? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. We're all really tight. Like, it you can't we spend a lot of time together. We rehearse every week, and then with shows. So it helps when y'all like each other a little bit.
Speaker 1:You know? Yeah.
Speaker 2:So when you are rehearsing and you are coming together, is the studio a yellow house? Yes. Sure
Speaker 1:is. Yeah. Alright. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Good to know. It's a purple room in the yellow house. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay. So there is, like the lore begins with a true yellow house somewhere. It's true. Yeah. We had some yellow names going around, but that's kinda where we ended up just since we're rehearsing in a yellow house that felt fitting.
Speaker 1:So what were some of the other prototypes, and why is it yellow that's important in the equation? Honestly, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think I
Speaker 4:think Yeah.
Speaker 1:Go for it.
Speaker 5:Drew has kind of had the idea of, like, you know, you see the yellow light and you you go for it, like, you take the risk. So I think that, like, that was kind of our goal for that to be, like, yellow. And then all of a sudden, we started playing at Nick's house, and it was a yellow house. So, like,
Speaker 2:you know how awesome it is. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:I really like that. Drew, are you a scary person to be in the car with when you drive? Is that the takeaway?
Speaker 3:I don't think terribly, but, you know, sometimes I get a little impatient, I guess.
Speaker 2:Why is that?
Speaker 4:Why is that? I don't know. Probably just I'm
Speaker 3:not good at time management, and I don't give myself enough time to get places on time. So sometimes I can't stand a red light.
Speaker 1:Well, how do we hear that in your guys' music? That that impatience, the itch to go. Mhmm. I feel like we're There's never very many lulls.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We're always itching for something catchy, something that's gonna engage the audience. Like, we don't want them to have to wait for it. You know? Mhmm.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. We like the hard hitting stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. So I've
Speaker 2:been asking a lot of things. I've been trying to I've been trying to get you to tell me a lot of information, but I wanna know a little bit about the song. Tell me. Is this was this written by you, Lucy?
Speaker 1:This is actually a a song Nicholas had an idea for, but we ended up really collaborating on together, would you say? Yeah. Yeah. You brought most of the song. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I love the
Speaker 3:music part
Speaker 6:I Yeah.
Speaker 5:Up with, but I didn't have any lyrics or anything for it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And then one day, I was driving and I had it in my head, and I kinda came up with the first line, which is about, you know, it's pretty self explanatory. It's like, tell me what you are thinking. And then it was that one was a funny one because it we kind of just passed the the phone around with the notes, and it's it's a subject where everybody had, like, pretty, like, good opinions just to jot down and because I think it's, like, a thing everyone's experienced
Speaker 6:where
Speaker 3:it's like, ah, just tell me tell me what you're thinking. Don't
Speaker 1:hide it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is that the usual process for you guys?
Speaker 3:It just depends really with words.
Speaker 1:Somebody somebody has an idea and at some stage, whether it's, like, one riff or almost a full song, and then we all just kind of add our personalities, our flavor, our style to it and really collaborate to try and make it something that we're all really happy about. And, usually, there's a moment when we know we've got it, when everybody likes it. Everyone's kind of on the same page, but sometimes that can take take a while. So
Speaker 4:Yeah. And I think everyone in the band, like, we all kind of have, like, our thing and, like, what I think is really good is, like, we all are good at holding each other back going too far into that thing. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
Speaker 3:We always find a consensus that there's usually a right answer at least with what we're coming up with. Yeah. Compromises usually lead to something that we go, okay. Yeah. That that's what it has to be.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And then
Speaker 5:I think they're sort of last year Yeah.
Speaker 3:Typically.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. See. Well, I would love to hear it. Once again, this is Yellow House, and you are listening to Tell Me.
Speaker 5:Just tell me. Tell me. Just tell me. Tell me. Just tell me.
Speaker 5:Tell me. Just tell
Speaker 6:me.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm seeing it now. This is a party band.
Speaker 1:Oh oh, we like to rock.
Speaker 4:We get people moving. Yeah.
Speaker 1:We like to get the crowd dancing, the folks on their feet.
Speaker 5:Right up in front of the stage too.
Speaker 1:Speaking of which, I wanna talk about energy a little bit. Are you guys of the movie? You. Yeah. Seriously.
Speaker 1:I can see that. You can really tell. I'd love to know if you guys are of the perspective that you get energy from the crowd or your job is to be there and to bring the energy.
Speaker 5:It's it's a mix because I'm we try to show up with an energy, but we definitely if the crowd's feeling it and they're moving, we try to feed off of that and kind of, like, give it back, and it's like a conversation Yeah. As we're playing through our set. Because we have some ups and downs in the set where we try to change it up and go with different tempos and different, I guess, vibes, throughout the set order. But the whole time, it's really a conversation with the crowd.
Speaker 1:We're trying
Speaker 5:to see what what they'll give us, and they're trying to see what we'll give them and
Speaker 1:Mhmm. Yeah. Just
Speaker 2:works. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm always dancing, so I Yeah. I just try and get people dancing with me.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Lucy, I remember when I saw Yellow House for the first time in September, you were like, everybody get up. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Everybody get up. That's right. Jump. Why are you jumping?
Speaker 2:And,
Speaker 1:I got a little rowdy on
Speaker 2:this show. I liked it. I liked it. It was like it it needed it, and you got everyone jumping. And Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sometimes everyone in the back came right to the front. Right? Oh, okay. We heard her. But, yeah.
Speaker 2:No. And and one thing that that's really cool is, like, since we're both from Kalamazoo, you refresh my memory of your past, theatrical era. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Me and Lucy used to compete in forensics together.
Speaker 1:This is true.
Speaker 2:From different high schools, but she she refreshed my head. I'm like, oh my god. Like, we did.
Speaker 1:It was a a brief two years, but Can you guys give some some context for the non forensic participators? What does this entail? Competitive acting. Yeah. How do you act competitively, I might ask?
Speaker 1:So,
Speaker 2:basically, there's it's just like public speaking. There's more of a professional side, and there's more of a performance side. And we always said performance, obviously. And there was different categories, and the one we were in was storytelling. So it was our job to act out a, a book, a children's book specifically, and be all narrate it and and but, basically, you're performing it as if you're all the different characters.
Speaker 2:There was also, like, dramatic interpretation and, like, what was some other ones?
Speaker 1:Prose. Prose. Poetry.
Speaker 2:Which they took, like, from more of a serious novel or, like, just different ways of media turn into a performance. Anyways, but there was competitions in our county, and, it was a big no. In in the state, actually. It was a big deal. Like, it was, like, a lot of fun, but, I think that's interesting that we're both storytellers.
Speaker 2:Does Yeah. Does being a a storyteller, kind of translate into your stage presence? Or, like, has that given you confidence
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In in any way?
Speaker 1:Yeah. I feel like I I've honestly really always been really comfortable on a stage, and in front of people. I kinda like what Nick was saying, like, just in the sense of really trying to just engage with the people on the other side. I I think just that's that's the best part. And so when I can do that, that's great.
Speaker 1:And when our music helps with that, that's also great. And I'd like to think there's a story within each song and, honestly, even within our whole set. So, you know, there's definitely some parallels with the performance aspects and the storytelling.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Same.
Speaker 1:I think that's really true too. There's, like, this inherent give and take. Like, you can put all you got into this show, but you need other people to bring what they can to the table. And and you make something together with that. How much do you feel like you can control if it's gonna be a good show?
Speaker 1:Like, does the effort that you put in, is that able to translate to making it what you want, or is there some element of just kinda resigning that control? I think there's definitely a lot of aspects to consider when we we talk about, like, having a good show because it can feel really great or it can, you know, seem like everybody was dancing. The energy was really high, whereas, like, maybe we feel like we didn't play as well as we wanted to or something like that. But, yes. I think there's different aspects to it.
Speaker 1:What do you what do you feel, like, makes a good show? Do you know if it's gonna be a good show or not?
Speaker 3:I I feel like typically like, we set ourselves up for success in terms of, like, the energy we bring. Like, I think regardless, typically, we bring a good energy, and, yeah, usually, I think it falls on, how good we think we played. But I think so I'd say I feel like a lot of it's in our control
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Just because, you know, we're the ones who prepare for it, but we haven't run into a bad crowd yet. I'll say that.
Speaker 4:I think a big part too is, like, you know, people go to, like, see live music, you know, you're performing to have, like, a connection with the audience. And I think if you, like, are really passionate about your songs and and you spend a lot of time, like, you know, working on them and actually care about them, that's conveyed, you know, whether it's intentionally or not. You can you can feel that in the performance. So yeah. And we do that.
Speaker 2:We care
Speaker 4:a lot about our songs.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So So where do you feel that connection the best? Like, where when you perform?
Speaker 4:It's just, like, in the air. Like, you're just, like, doing it. You just feel good. And you can tell when, like, when people are feeling good too. You know, everyone's smiling, jumping around.
Speaker 4:It's like it's like it's like a nontangible
Speaker 2:thing. Specifically, like, where like, what city, like, what oh, like Kalamazoo.
Speaker 1:Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. All over. Yeah. We've been hometown
Speaker 5:Caroll. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's right. Yeah. We've been all over Kalamazoo. We have tons of family, friends from the area as well, Kalamazoo and Portage that come out all the time to support us. They've shown up.
Speaker 1:Yeah. You've had fans now.
Speaker 5:And this Lansing, we've we've played a show here not too long ago and had a lot
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. They brought the energy. Yeah.
Speaker 5:It was a fun
Speaker 1:night. Yeah. I'd say it's from a lot of our family and friends who show up, but then also the folks who kinda run into us and, like, oh, our I like their energy. So stick around.
Speaker 2:I wanted to ask any of you, specifically the people who live in Kalamazoo, does Kalamazoo is a very interesting town. I think it's a great place to grow up, but also a great place to leave. But, I mean, is there anything about it that inspires you? Or, like, is there anything, like, something special that kind of, like
Speaker 1:Nick Nick's been there the longest.
Speaker 5:So Especially the music scene in Kalamazoo, I feel like has really inspired all I said with band because, I mean, bands can be a little competitive at times, and there's a lot of really strong, really impressive bands that are coming out of Kalamazoo right now. And I feel like that has really pushed us to do better just, yeah, just in general. I feel like that's really the special thing about Kalamazoo is there's such an art community there. Mhmm. Whether it's music or painting or photography, acting, do through anything, there's just such a strong community
Speaker 1:there. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Surrounding that that it really pushes us to do the best we can do.
Speaker 1:Artists creating art.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Mhmm. Exactly. Facts.
Speaker 1:So someone earlier threw out the name June, one of your songs.
Speaker 2:I think it was
Speaker 1:in regards to, like, lyrics or what how does that come up? I think this one just has really good energy. I think we've gotten a lot of feedback that this is a crowd favorite. Mhmm. Some of our friends request it pretty often.
Speaker 1:Yeah. We like this one. Yeah. Is this one that you kinda feel reflects that that music scene in the way that you've been pushed to kind of, like, test the boundaries of of your creation? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely. I think not only with this song, but I think you'll also see later with some other ones, especially, like, macaroni western is a little different, a little heavier, but, it still all is our sound, which is really cool. So I'm excited to hear it.
Speaker 6:June.
Speaker 1:Once our evening We were staring at the clouds It gave me a feeling that I could maybe fly around. What summer evening? Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 2:That was June.
Speaker 1:Right? Like, I don't know. Really did. I love the way that you guys played with, like, like, the contrast in it and kinda jumping around. We try and lean into that on this
Speaker 4:one. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I'd love to hear a little bit more about if there are artists that you guys try and emulate. There's nothing that I'm hearing that, like, particularly sticks
Speaker 2:out. That's good.
Speaker 1:But sometimes that's the fun, you know? Yeah. I I would say we definitely don't try to emulate things. I feel like we have a lot of, like, influence, but we're definitely not trying to sound like anybody else. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:You know, kinda.
Speaker 5:But jazz influence, honestly. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'd say Hard rock. If you listen to anyone's isolated playing, you'd be able to draw influences. But what's cool is that when they all come together, they they don't clash, they meld. Because we all have very different influences that have inspired playing. But when they come together, they all kinda create something different.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. You don't have a muse or, like, who are your influences then?
Speaker 1:It's everybody give one.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 4:I'll go first. John Mayer. Okay. I know.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say if you don't
Speaker 4:say that, I'm gonna Yeah. Hit you. Okay. So if you're a guitar player, it's like his, like, his chord strut his, like the chords he plays and stuff on these pop songs is super weird and cool. So if you're a guitar player, it's, like, super cool, and it's still, like, a cool pop.
Speaker 4:He still writes, you know, like, really good pop songs.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 4:So, like, I like being able to be nerdy with the chords Yeah. But, like, have it actually still sound, like, accessible. Because sometimes you get too nerdy and people are like, what is this?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Mhmm.
Speaker 4:So you know what I mean? Like Yeah. With the harmonic, you know. So that's mainly, like, how I what I think what I base my stuff off.
Speaker 5:I think my two biggest influences are Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. Yeah. I kinda have to say too because people, you know, a
Speaker 6:lot to me. I grew up on Grateful Dead then discovered Led Zeppelin.
Speaker 5:So you know how that goes. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm smashing pumpkins all the way. Yeah.
Speaker 6:A lot
Speaker 3:of just ripping a lot of that stuff off, but I try to make it I try to mask it.
Speaker 1:Nick? I really like the
Speaker 5:jazz pianist, you know, just super melodic. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I've been listening to a lot of Willow. She's incredible vocally and also just musically. Her brain is so big. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I Well, really what is interesting there is kind of, you know, you you take all these parts and you you smash them together and it it kinda creates its own thing. Is there anything about how you play stylistically that you really feel is yours?
Speaker 5:As as in what?
Speaker 1:As in, like, kinda your thing. What feels natural to you and what you've grown and touched on your own. Songs. Like, something you can sing along to. Like, I don't know.
Speaker 5:I I was gonna say June. I think that's probably the best way to kinda describe what we are. I don't know. I feel like we have the jazz, we have the rock,
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Who mixed the masters?
Speaker 1:So we don't actually have anything out right now. We've done some, like, tracks at at our rehearsal space on, like, Nicholas's laptop, but we did just win some studio time through the Kansas State Theater.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So in 2025, we'll be recording some new music to get out on streaming platforms. Very exciting. And you actually mentioned that before we came on air tonight. That's sort of an interesting story behind that. How did you win this studio time?
Speaker 1:We, applied to auditioned. Yeah. I mean, we sent in a application for Battle of the Bands in Kalamazoo. Their first round was at Bells. There was another round at Presidential And Dormouse Theater, and then three bands played at each spot.
Speaker 1:And then whoever won that got to advance to a finale at the State Theater. We all played. We were battling it out, but, all love, they were both incredible bands, Ally Garland and Frogs and Toads.
Speaker 6:Shout out. We're we're playing with Frogs
Speaker 1:and Toads next weekend. Yeah. Dormouse, which should be really cool. So that's that was an incredible opportunity to play. That stage was so humbling and, like, just one of the highlights of my life.
Speaker 1:And we're so excited to be ringing in the new year, recording our own music. So Yeah. Lots to look forward to.
Speaker 2:That's exciting.
Speaker 1:It's very exciting. Congratulations to you guys.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I you know, just the the artist myself. I I I always like to go into a little bit more of the art direction with the bands that come on this show. I love houses. Sam, who is the landscaping?
Speaker 2:That's me. That's you? Yeah. Sick. Okay.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to ask, like, I know I asked earlier, are you more of, like, a trap house? Are you more of, like, a cottage core house? Are you more of, like, cookie cutter? Like, what's but I wanted to ask, like, if you had a brand yellow house, what would it look like? And, like, what, yeah, what kind of home?
Speaker 2:Is it like a Victorian yellow house? Is it I
Speaker 1:feel like it's, like, way more of, like, a college town.
Speaker 2:College town. 75. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. It's got it's got all those weird, like, spaces that you can't put any real furniture because it's like a, you know, custom old house.
Speaker 1:It's just like a once was a dumbwaiter, and now is a weird
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Spot where
Speaker 1:you put your vacuum. Yes. Lots of character.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Everybody's kind of.
Speaker 3:I complete amateurs most of the time. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Cool. Yeah. It
Speaker 6:has a
Speaker 4:couple joys that
Speaker 5:are missing. I don't know.
Speaker 1:So that is the yellow house.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I'd say so.
Speaker 6:I'd say yeah. That
Speaker 5:That's that's also kind of the yellow house look.
Speaker 1:Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah. That's kind of the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's fair.
Speaker 5:I love knowing what's gonna like, what's gonna the outcome. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And sometimes, like, you know, the events of the plot of one episode of a cartoon, don't relate to anything in the next episode. Right. And sometimes we have some of that going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Everyone's
Speaker 2:What's the Cartoon Network show with the blue blob?
Speaker 1:Wait. Is it for all the gumball? No. No. But he
Speaker 2:left they had a house on top of a hill. Wait. It was like a purple house, though. Is that what it is? They're just pops.
Speaker 2:Wasn't their pops?
Speaker 4:And like a tall basketball player.
Speaker 5:No. Pops is regular shit.
Speaker 2:Oh, no. Not pops. You know what I'm talking about? That blue blob?
Speaker 4:Yeah. And there's like
Speaker 2:the bowl the the purple bowl at the top of the hill. What does that show?
Speaker 5:Foster's home of imaginary friends. That's awesome. The the one kid has, like, all these imaginary friends, and he's
Speaker 6:in a foster home. So he's in
Speaker 5:a foster home.
Speaker 2:So he's Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think of. The yellow house. That'd be Yes.
Speaker 2:It's kinda defunct
Speaker 5:in that house too.
Speaker 4:It is.
Speaker 6:Yeah. That's
Speaker 2:crazy there. Anyways, what you guys like Goldfish?
Speaker 1:They're a great snack. They smiled back. I've never owned a or, like, had a Goldfish. I've actually never had any pets.
Speaker 3:I did. I had I've had a few goldfish in my time.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Drew did write this one.
Speaker 3:I did write this one. Yeah. Why? It's weird. I broke up with someone, and I didn't really care, and it felt weird.
Speaker 2:Or are they a goldfish? No.
Speaker 3:You'll kinda hear it in the lyrics, but goldfish implies that, you're happy self isolating yourself because you're just kinda like goldfish in a bowl, and you're not going anywhere, but you're comfortable with that. So it's kinda dark.
Speaker 2:Do you think it's ethical to keep a goldfish in a bowl?
Speaker 3:I I think I think, as it grows, you should, up the tank size Yeah. To keep it sanitary.
Speaker 4:Don't release it in your local pond. Don't do that.
Speaker 1:Alright. Well, with our with our metaphorical goldfish tonight in the song, Let's see. A bowl. Oh my gosh. That was such a good transition.
Speaker 1:We'll leave it at that.
Speaker 3:Hello, mate. Are you just
Speaker 6:just
Speaker 1:That was Goldfish. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 2:That was wonderful. Well and then, Drew, you wrote this?
Speaker 3:Yes. I wrote it.
Speaker 1:The third verse I wrote.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I didn't have a good third verse. But, yeah, I honestly this was a fun one because I it was just like a song I'd, like, made at one point. I got an acoustic guitar and just been like, yeah, it's, you know, something or whatever. And then I honestly I just started playing it one day, like, with, I don't know, maybe Nick, Sam, and Colin or something.
Speaker 3:I was like, yeah. This is something I made up. And they're like, oh, wow. Like, that's really cool. Let's let's do that.
Speaker 3:And I was like, oh, okay. I was not expecting this to be the one that got picked up. But yeah. So I had kind of, like, the the meat of it, and then we added all that cool spaCy stuff onto it, which, like, really kinda made it come together.
Speaker 2:I I was curious. So what does, Yellow House creative process look like? I know half of you are an hour away. So do you ever meet in the middle? Like, do a lot of FaceTimes?
Speaker 1:Actually, Sam's the only one that has to commute, but he comes over every Tuesday, and we jam
Speaker 6:Oh, really? For a
Speaker 1:few hours.
Speaker 5:They're, Nick and Drew already graduated.
Speaker 2:Oh. Congrats.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5:I drive every Tuesday to go to band practice. I think that mostly it's begun with just someone has a riff or we have something, like, to work with, and then we eventually make a song.
Speaker 3:Is popcorn the next song?
Speaker 1:I was gonna say, actually, the next one funny you brought this up now. We we wrote this next one.
Speaker 2:This one, Go
Speaker 1:for it. Yeah. I'm about to Please do.
Speaker 5:Through our creative process for a loop because for the most part, yeah, all the other songs, one of us comes with an idea or, like, a few of them we came with, like like, demos that were just kinda recorded at home. And then they, like, they get changed, and they get altered to fit everybody's personalities. But this next one, we were sitting at band practice one day, and we were all kinda
Speaker 4:I feel like we were
Speaker 5:all kinda in a mood because we had just been doing the same thing over and over for the past couple weeks. We We're just like, you know what? We're gonna write something today. And then,
Speaker 1:We figured out we had we moved down to e flat.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. Yeah. We had started playing in e flat
Speaker 3:too, which
Speaker 1:Training with the guitars. Yeah.
Speaker 5:For all the music turns out there. Yeah, we sat down, and I kinda had a melody in my head. And then I, like, hummed it out, and Drew played it. And I was like, your way of playing it so much cooler to play it like that. Yeah.
Speaker 5:And then, just kinda threw some chords around it.
Speaker 1:I just started writing
Speaker 5:Yeah. Lyrics. Writing lyrics while we were figuring out the arrangement.
Speaker 1:In the session. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. It's, like, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5:I know. Yeah. It came together. We were Really quick. Video of it after messing around with it for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5:We were like, oh, we like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think I finished the lyrics, like, later that week and then came back and Yeah. They can see in my notes app Yeah. When I'm working on stuff. Well, I feel like not just from hearing that story, but also from watching you guys play, you can kinda see that connectivity that you have.
Speaker 1:Like, the last song that you guys performed, as soon as that first chord hit, you all, like, in sync.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah. I True.
Speaker 1:I I do owe that to my my dancing a little bit. I feel like you guys would stand a little stiller if I wasn't. True. Yeah. Well, think about it too.
Speaker 1:If you're the only one on stage that, like, doesn't have an instrument, you gotta find something to do with your limbs in the meantime.
Speaker 2:Do you have experience in dancing?
Speaker 1:No. Oh. No. Alright. Well, let's, I would love some Lucy dance lessons nonetheless.
Speaker 1:How do we how do we exude your I did, use heels. Yeah. At the last show, I wore heels actually, in effort to try and get myself to stand in place a little bit more, especially on this one so I could breathe. And then I just ended up kinda going ham all over in the in the boots. I I hit, like, a little kick.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say there's kicks in the wall.
Speaker 1:There are kicks. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of just jumping. Just kind of a jumper.
Speaker 1:Jumping. Yeah. I see you, like place. Yeah. Kind of gesturing along with the guitars or the drums.
Speaker 1:I feel like I can hear it all in my head. Even though I can't, like, play it all, I feel like I can hear it and I, like, feel it all, like, super intensely, so I just have to dance it out. You know? Yeah. Well, we like the, the addition to the performance.
Speaker 1:It's, I I only wish our listeners could hear it. They'll have to wait for the YouTube to come out. Well, this one's a a really fun one. Definitely one where we like to get people dancing. So This next one popcorn?
Speaker 1:Popcorn. Yes. Alright. Well, we'd love to see it if that's the case.
Speaker 4:See? You get your I'm good.
Speaker 6:Tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I can hear the whispers fading in and out of the branch. I won't ask you to stay. I'm not making That made me pop. Woo.
Speaker 2:Okay. But why is it called popcorn? Tell me.
Speaker 1:So actually lyrics. Yeah. No. We just couldn't think of a title for it.
Speaker 6:We're working
Speaker 3:title, and we just
Speaker 4:kinda figured it fit.
Speaker 2:Is that, like, a metaphor? No.
Speaker 1:It was popcorn or soda pop.
Speaker 6:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Like, we literally just, like, didn't have a name for it. It was like, we need to, like, identify the song somehow.
Speaker 4:Yeah. We're pretty bad at song names sometimes.
Speaker 1:Yeah. They really aren't very relevant
Speaker 3:to the lyrics. It was never discussed, but I feel like it has sort of, like, a pop, like, a popcorn jumping in the bag.
Speaker 2:Pop in the name. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Exactly.
Speaker 5:Pop popcorn it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Honestly, I feel like it's a good thing that you have you struggle, titling a song because I think, like, it's more playful. I like Yeah. I love songs that don't really the titles or the names of the songs, they don't really correlate with it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that's really fun. Or, like, or at least, like, have the name match the tone or,
Speaker 1:The next one has has a name that matches the tone. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I feel like a lot of
Speaker 5:times we work backwards too with the song titles. We'll make the title and then we'll write the lyrics after it.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it'll really extend up for him the song title. Yeah. That's awesome. Depends on how cool the
Speaker 4:song title is. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's always the time. June's been June.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Because the next there are opposite, Sea Dogs and Nakaromi Western.
Speaker 1:And none of those have anything to do with the lyrics.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Saffrony westerns the vibe. Sea dog is because you're Sea dog, and you came up with it.
Speaker 4:And Yeah.
Speaker 2:Why are Sea dog? He's not
Speaker 6:so I was
Speaker 3:like, what do
Speaker 4:you name this? And he's like, well, Sea dog wrote it.
Speaker 6:And I'm
Speaker 4:like, oh, okay. And then we're like, sea dogs. I don't know. Yeah. It's honestly like
Speaker 2:really sea lion, but like Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. We changed the letter c to Instead of the ocean sea.
Speaker 1:We're just a bunch of sea dogs. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's like fun.
Speaker 4:You know?
Speaker 6:Well, I
Speaker 1:like it. You get kinda like you get like the opposite ends of the spectrum. You have your follow-up boys where they just write like a whole verse as a song title. Right. And then you get these which are like a nice little mystery present that you get to unwrap and kinda kinda figure out the name.
Speaker 3:That's a perfect way to put it.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then spend your whole rest of the day kinda puzzling like, why? What does popcorn mean? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Exactly.
Speaker 1:And it means nothing. Yeah. What does it all mean? Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I know at the moment there's nothing on streaming services, but from what we've heard so far, will this kind of be an EP album? Or
Speaker 5:Yeah. This plus a couple others that we're gonna Okay. We're gonna, release as we'll release a couple as singles before we release the full album. Okay. But, yeah, eventually, it'll all become an album.
Speaker 5:Cool.
Speaker 3:A little rollout coming? Yeah. Okay. Slow burn.
Speaker 5:Twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Shout out. La Luna Recording Studios. They're helping us out, so we're super excited to work with them.
Speaker 2:Is that the state theater?
Speaker 1:It's the it's a studio in Kalamazoo, but they partnered with that event to help us out and get some music out.
Speaker 2:So Mhmm. That's exciting.
Speaker 1:It really seems like I just keep hearing from you guys and and all these various anecdotes, how important this community is, like, this Kalamazoo community specifically, which is kind of fun. We always get to talk about our East Lansing community. But, you know, this is another one that listeners may not be as familiar with. I'd love to hear, I guess, just, like, a little bit about how that has been for you, like, having the support network to introduce you into this world and and show you, like, how it should be done.
Speaker 4:I mean, for me personally, as someone who hadn't been in a band before or any of that, I, like, I I had known some people, like, in the scene. Like, I had worked with a few guys in bands and stuff, and, like, they're just, like, so welcoming. And so I mean, it's stuff I didn't know about. You know, I didn't know about performing or anything. And he's like, you know, let's go jam, come to the show, you know.
Speaker 4:And that, like, helpfulness and openness to, you know, being friends, you know, having a good time. It's like, you you we wouldn't be here without that.
Speaker 6:You know
Speaker 4:what I mean? And everyone, it's like it goes, you know, both ways. It's like everyone helping each other. It's like it just breeds, you know, art. I mean, art, you know, because music.
Speaker 4:But I just think it's, like, it's, like, healthy. You know? It feels good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Can I answer?
Speaker 2:Does Yellow House, ever leave the house and travel together?
Speaker 1:Occasionally. To East Lansing a couple times now, but I think that's as far as we've gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed you had a show at Bell's Brewery.
Speaker 2:How was that?
Speaker 1:Incredible. That was that preliminary round for Battle of Vans. Nick, Drew, and I all got to play on that stage when we were a bit younger back in high school with the Kelms Academy Rock. But it, you know, was just really cool to be up there kind of on our own terms playing our own music. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just kind of one of those things.
Speaker 2:You're like, woah. It's a cool It's a very
Speaker 6:cool song.
Speaker 3:It's a cool place, and that was that was my only aspiration. In the starting a band up until that point, it was like, oh, if we played Bells, everything else was gravy.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And
Speaker 3:that had been quick. Yeah. So
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's been really fun.
Speaker 3:New pads.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, we're on the radio. That's cool too.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. It's all happened really quick, but it's all been really exciting. And Well,
Speaker 2:was there any shows that we could look forward to?
Speaker 1:Yes. We have Dormouse Theater, in Kalamazoo on November 16. And that's kind of what we've got right now, but Then
Speaker 5:we're prepping for the studio.
Speaker 1:Our Instagram is yellow house m I. If you're looking for any other information, that's usually how we get our details and such out. Wonderful. Well, I'll definitely be on the lookout on that front. It's cool too to see exactly, like, you guys have been telling us through all the stories tonight, sort of the progression.
Speaker 1:It's been a very fast progression because you guys aren't that old as a band. But, like, from the first video, it's like a grainy cell phone Yeah. Video from, I think, someone's, like, driveway. Yes. It's yeah.
Speaker 1:Precisely. And now you guys are here. It's been kinda like a whirlwind. What's your your perspective on it all? Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think that that video was actually from a ring camera that we didn't know. Oh, that's why. I I sent it to him, and then they were like, well, you have to fill something out, and we never got to it. But, yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1:How do you guys
Speaker 4:have to I mean, it's, like, a little overwhelming because I mean, as someone who just would fiddle around in his room and, like, some of these songs that, like, me and Drew worked on where it's, like, you know, it's, like, our songs. And, like, to have someone be like, dude, it's, like, so good. You're like you're like, really? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 4:I guess. You know? You're just kinda like, alright. I can get down with that. You know?
Speaker 4:Yeah. It's just kinda like, cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I mean, it's it's been a fast progression for sure, but I feel like it feels very natural. We I mean, we feel good playing together. The song has come together quick, and, like, I feel like everyone kind of especially over the past two months, like, have really kind of everyone's tightened up together as far as, like, being a cohesive unit. And so now everything kinda feels it feels right.
Speaker 3:You know? Like, I nothing we've done so far, we felt unprepared for, and, you know, we I think we feel good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Also, just the shows are so fun, and I think once people come out to them and see, kinda how we roll and what our shows are like, like, there's just kind of this reignition of the fun of live music, like, live bands were, you know, a five piece. So I just think it's that's a really fun vibe for people to have, and I don't know. Who have been the, the cheerleaders from the very start in your lives? Individually?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I don't know. I guess maybe a little individually. I mean, my parents probably. My buddy stole a couple of my roommates.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's probably it.
Speaker 1:We, are the founder of the Council Academy of Rock, Jeff Mitchell, was an incredible music influence for Nicholas and I. And then my dad also, does a lot of music and, was a part of the Campus Academy of Rock for a long time. And Drew and I worked with him, so did Nick. So I always think of those two names, my dad, Bob Wallace, and my, you know, teacher, Jeff Mitchell.
Speaker 3:Yeah. My girlfriend, Delaney, and my parents mostly are probably my biggest supporters, and they, you know, they're cool with everything we do, and they they always come out and they always have a good time, which makes all the all the difference for me. So
Speaker 1:I also wanna shout my mother out. She's my momager, and she always takes photos.
Speaker 3:I'd like to shout Nick's buddy out as well, whose name always I forget, but he is always head banging in the the crowd, and he's, like, he's my rock up there sometimes. Shout out, Jake.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I'd have to shout out my girlfriend, Christy, also. I don't think she's missed the show yet. Zach Farley. Yeah.
Speaker 4:My my, my family, my sister, George and Max. And they they were set they were, like, they were singing June before they had even seen it live.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So I thought that
Speaker 4:that's awesome.
Speaker 5:Yeah. That's really cool. Yeah. They they kinda are, like, some of our super fans. They wanted to I know some other people who've kinda been to, like, Yeah.
Speaker 5:Just kinda know what
Speaker 6:they want.
Speaker 3:Any Yeah. Any familiar face you see in the crowd when you're up there, like, oh, you're here. Heck, yeah. Like, I'm gonna look at you and make sure you're dancing. Like Yeah.
Speaker 3:Sometimes you gotta, like, you see someone, you're like, I'm gonna direct my energy at you for a sec to make sure you're having a good time, and then you kinda move on to the next person.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's really sweet. Shout out to all the friends and family. They're the best supporters. I love going to shows, especially, like, gritty, gross basement shows, and there's just some parents in the corner, and you're like, I see you.
Speaker 1:I know what you're here for. We love the sport. Shout out my mom. It's her birthday. Hi.
Speaker 1:It's her birthday, mom. Happy birthday, Louise.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I I just wanna say, going back to Colin said, yeah. Shout out to Christie. She's on the sideline right now.
Speaker 3:Hey. So
Speaker 1:And Tegan. Antigen. Wouldn't have this
Speaker 4:gig without Christie.
Speaker 2:So yeah. Yeah. Well, what's Opposite all about?
Speaker 1:This is another song by Drew.
Speaker 5:No. It's Kyle.
Speaker 4:No. Because I wrote the words Sam.
Speaker 3:Well, I wrote the words, but What? Yeah. So You came
Speaker 2:up with the Yeah.
Speaker 4:Me and me and Sam were just kinda screwing around in this basement. I was like, what do
Speaker 2:you think about this, man? He's like, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 4:And then,
Speaker 3:you know, showed it
Speaker 4:to Drew, and I just I mean, I knew Drew would eat it up just like the chords and stuff. It's kind of a Drew kind of thing. And then
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 4:It just kinda came together.
Speaker 3:The words are kinda it's like opposites attract.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Shout out, Julian who helped change, like, one chord in the song. I gotta get back
Speaker 3:to that.
Speaker 4:Made all the difference. All the difference. Literally.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, once again, you're listening to Yellow House on eighty eight point nine, and this is Opposite.
Speaker 1:Thank you. That was upset.
Speaker 3:Okay. Well, I I
Speaker 2:have a question for all of you. You know, there's five of you. It's pretty big band, I'd say. Yeah. When you're creating, is do you ever do all of you ever have, creative differences?
Speaker 1:And how Yes.
Speaker 2:How do you overcome them? And, like
Speaker 1:We hash it out.
Speaker 2:Okay. How? What's your Okay. Can I say okay?
Speaker 4:I'm very opinionated when it comes to musical opinions. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 4:I'll be like, it has to be this way. And especially if you wrote like, sometimes you'll come to practice, and I'll have, like, a two minute recorded thing. I'm like, guys, I got the bass line. I got the chords. I got the rhythm check.
Speaker 4:I got
Speaker 6:the lead.
Speaker 1:Don't stop.
Speaker 4:And then and then he's like, dude. No. And then and then you and you're like, my my child. You know? And but then, you know, I just you know, you have to trust that, you know, I know Nick knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean? Like Yeah. I don't get all that drum stuff. So, you know, I'm just like, okay. He's got a different perspective.
Speaker 4:I don't understand. So you just kinda, like, submit to the, changes, and then if it's bad, you'll know. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Speaker 5:It's just like everybody always comes with, like like, the songs are too much, and then they need
Speaker 3:to get dialed back a little bit. Okay.
Speaker 1:And like I said, like, I feel like there's a moment when we all agree on something that like, that's when we know that it's really good or that we've got it, when we all do reach that agreement. And because it's happened, we know that we can, like, get to a compromise again. You know?
Speaker 5:Mhmm. I believe we'll, like, try it two different ways. Yeah. And then one of them just sounds so much better than the other. Yes.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 6:It's night
Speaker 5:and day sometimes. You're like, oh my god. I love this part. And then all of a sudden, we try it in a song, and you're like, okay. Wait.
Speaker 5:That doesn't sound good.
Speaker 6:And then
Speaker 5:all of a
Speaker 2:sudden, we try it the other way that you
Speaker 5:didn't think it's gonna sound good. And it's awesome.
Speaker 2:And you're like, dang it. I was wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And we see we I mean, we still have a whiteboard list of songs that we still have disagreements on that haven't been Yeah. Ironed out yet that, you know, just there's waiting to waiting to get work done.
Speaker 2:So there's a lot in the vault. Yes.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah. And I'm a firm believer. It's like, if you had an idea once, it will have its time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you'll have, like
Speaker 1:You don't have to like it
Speaker 6:right away.
Speaker 4:Yeah. You'll have, like, a year ago memory pop up. Like, I'll I'll always record a riff because I will forget it a day after. You know, I'll have like a year of I'm like, oh, dude. I got this fire song.
Speaker 4:I forgot I wrote, like, two years ago or something, you know. So yeah. Song always comes back around.
Speaker 3:Yep. Yeah. And sometimes demos. Just take some time.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Those.
Speaker 3:New song January or something. Just just new recording.
Speaker 2:Yeah. New recording. What I love about voice memos, I don't know, at least with the Apple products, I feel like if you ever, like if you ignore that warning from iCloud, so your storage is full, and then, like, somehow, like, your phone just, like, shatters at a night out and or, like, something. I just feel like the at least personally, I've experienced, like, two things never go away is the notes and Yeah. The voice memo.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. I have scary voice memos from, like, 12
Speaker 2:year old me. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I see fear in your
Speaker 2:eyes over there too.
Speaker 3:I've got a couple of deep in the closet of, like, me trying to sing Right.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:In the eighth grade.
Speaker 2:Right. Oh.
Speaker 1:Your parents leave and you just go straight for the karaoke
Speaker 3:track. Exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:I have yeah. Never mind.
Speaker 1:Okay. Let's play this. Oh, we'll we'll find out what was there soon enough. Okay. Kind of a non sequitur, but, like, 12 year old just makes me think of this.
Speaker 1:You know what that song reminded me of? Opposite. And I, like, I couldn't tell you why. It felt like an intro song for, like, a a teen Nick show, like a Zoey one zero one or something like that.
Speaker 4:So, like, slightly nostalgic? Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. These are good. Hey. Nostalgia is definitely a good feeling to
Speaker 6:hear for
Speaker 1:us. Yeah. If you this was, like, if this was the opening song for a show, like, what would the show premise be? I think it'd be a sitcom about our band. Right?
Speaker 4:I feel like kinda like Drake and Joshy.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the stuff could be
Speaker 4:Yeah. Drake and Josh.
Speaker 1:I'm the Drake and Josh. An no. That's the Oh,
Speaker 2:yeah. You're right.
Speaker 1:Oh, Drake and Josh. It's so simple, but
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Found a way. I found
Speaker 3:a way.
Speaker 2:One thing about Nickelodeon is that they had the best intro song. I I don't care. Yes. I don't care. This something about Disney was too
Speaker 4:For you. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Copy and paste, but they put love into, the songs they produced at Nickelodeon. Especially iCarly and, like, Victoria's. Victoria's.
Speaker 1:Stuck in my head. Mhmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. That's that's a good company. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:That'd be an honor to record for one of those shows, I guess.
Speaker 1:No. Yeah. No. That's Absolutely. That's that'd be the dream.
Speaker 1:Anyone else look back at those either, and you're just like, this was a children's show? Yeah. Like, some of those scenes Oh, yeah. I don't know what was going on back there. I was just rewatching Pitch Perfect before this, and there are just so many lines that go way over my head.
Speaker 1:Oh, wet. Rather. It went way over my head.
Speaker 6:No. It's still
Speaker 2:they still do.
Speaker 6:Do you
Speaker 2:think Pitch Perfect aged well?
Speaker 1:There's definitely certain aspects. I don't think so. But there's The laughter strange that
Speaker 2:I don't think so. It's very, like it was funny for its time.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It definitely hasn't aged well, though. Like, as a kid,
Speaker 5:it was good because then you're like, you know, they're in college and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2:What was that famous line from Pitch Perfect that Fat Amy said?
Speaker 1:The was it the mermaid or the horizontal running? What is it? There's so many. Excuse me?
Speaker 2:Was it was it gonna was it oh, it was, like, let's be honest.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That one.
Speaker 6:A lot
Speaker 1:of gems. A lot of gems we're unpacking.
Speaker 2:But, yeah. Is are there any kid shows that, you know, maybe influenced you as a group? Hey.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I gotta I gotta say right off the bat
Speaker 3:Regular show.
Speaker 4:Me and Sam have watched a lot of One Piece.
Speaker 2:That's true. Yeah. I'm trying to
Speaker 5:Anime head.
Speaker 1:Is there any, like, music on those shows? Or just
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Anime music? Okay. Music that's in animes and stuff, that's like
Speaker 1:Did you say that, like, influences your
Speaker 4:Oh, dude. My whole rig, I based off of sounded like like Japanese rock. Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That is so Yeah. Interesting. I know some people that are really into Japanese rock, and it's just
Speaker 4:It's awesome.
Speaker 6:You know,
Speaker 1:it's got all these influences, like, especially funk. The Japanese funk is so fascinating to me because it's not, like you know, the whole premise of funk in my opinion is this, like
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:This liberation, this freedom. And Japanese funk, it takes that sound, and it does it with this, like, crazy precision.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just insane to listen to.
Speaker 4:Well, may yeah. I mean well, because they like, in Japan, like, when they, like, when they would hear, like, American stuff, like, they they used to think that, like, we had, like, oh, they got that rhythm and stuff. And so, like, when they would do their versions of, like, like, city pop and, like, that eighties stuff, it's, like, so cool because they do it, like I think they do it better, honestly. Yeah. A lot of those it's like because they'll be all instrumental, but it's, like, the best instrumentals you've ever heard.
Speaker 4:You're like, holy crap. I could listen to, like, this record 30 times over. Was it Casiopea? Casiopea? Yeah.
Speaker 4:That I've listened to that a bunch of times.
Speaker 5:It's really cool, like, album. I highly recommend, like, listening to it.
Speaker 6:And then I
Speaker 5:think, like, on the anime note too, like, the intros and outros for some of those are really cool. Like, again, Jojo's and Star Adventure, they'd be, like, roundabout, like, yes. Yeah. I love that song.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. Pride Rock. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:My partner is texting me right now, and I can tell you he is very excited by everything that you're saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Going back to Japan, yeah. They first of all, they do everything right. Yeah.
Speaker 2:They do. They take what they see and they make it better. Well, there's this memory I wanna share. Speaking of Japanese rock, I when I was in Japan over the summer, I, I went to a jazz club a jazz band. I saw a jazz band in a basement of this, like, small building.
Speaker 2:It was beaten up. It was, like, so underground. The only reason why I found it it was, like, on the outskirts of Tokyo. And the only reason I found
Speaker 5:it is because
Speaker 2:on it was on Reddit. And and they're like, yeah. Like, I was just trying to find, like, like, somewhere low key, like, no touristy stuff. Like, I wanna hear, like, real like, I wanna hear music from the locals. Like, I I I found this.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I found it, and we were the only tourists there. And they were, like, surprised. We're, like, how did you find us? And there was only, like, five people there, and they were have them were their friends.
Speaker 6:And it
Speaker 2:was, like, this old lady, this and they're playing oh, god. What was the one played the piano, one did the drums, and, the one one of them played the xylophone. And, what was I don't know the name of this instrument. It's a big part of their culture. I will if I remember, I'll say it.
Speaker 2:But it was like this long wooden stick or a long, like, beam, and then had, like, a
Speaker 1:Was it like a two string guitar type thing?
Speaker 2:27. It god. I had more than one string, though. It was gonna be, like, 10. It was, like, so much like a harp.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it, like, laid, like, a table.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Interesting. But, yeah, anyways,
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:It, like, it changed me, honestly. Like, because, like, it was just gorgeous. I was just there. It was, like, a Friday night. I was there with my friend.
Speaker 1:Live music in an intimate venue can be life changing.
Speaker 4:Also in another culture because, like, music is its own language in itself. You know? Yeah. Even if you can't communicate with anyone there, they're communicating something with you there. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4:Right. Yeah. Feel.
Speaker 2:But they're they're they they they had they didn't even sing. They just played music. Yeah. I'm I'm glad you mentioned that because I probably would've forgotten. No.
Speaker 2:Actually, I don't
Speaker 6:know if
Speaker 2:I would've forgotten that. But but, yeah, I just wanna share that.
Speaker 1:No. I absolutely agree. So I'm taking this further down the rabbit hole. We're not coming back to the subject at hand. Have you guys ever listened to Hailu Marjah?
Speaker 1:No. No. It's like an Ethiopian jazz singer. Oh my gosh. It just, like, it feels like redemption in your soul.
Speaker 1:It's just this, like, beautiful, beautiful music and without language. I think that's the coolest part. Yeah. Yes. Which is why I love that you guys kicked off this session with a jam instead of, like, a a song with lyrics.
Speaker 1:If you had to, like, talk about that song, is that something that was unique to this, or is that kind of, like, an arrangement you play? Definitely something we wanna, like, kind of flesh out a bit more in the future, but we just really like We have. How it sets up our yeah. We don't have lyrics for it yet, but True. We've just really kinda like that.
Speaker 1:And also, something I was thinking about earlier is just kind of we work some crowd participation or engagement into our songs. So, like, during that first one, usually, like, I'll chat with the, with the crowd and say, hey, what's up? During Goldfish, usually we vamp at the beginning and I'll introduce the band. During tell me, obviously, there's that tell me, tell me. Try and get people singing or get down.
Speaker 1:So there's also that that we try and Yeah. Work into. I kinda love though that it doesn't have words at this point. Like, just as it is, what do you feel like it's saying?
Speaker 4:I mean
Speaker 3:Welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Which, I mean, I think take it back to, like, our jazz influence. I mean, jazz is, like, the ultimate instrumental music, which all of us are pretty, like, into it. And I think, like, you know, you don't even really have to understand jazz fully to, like, you know, know how it makes you feel. And I think if you listen to it, think about that, you think, like, how can I, like, do that?
Speaker 6:How can
Speaker 4:I do what they're doing? I think that's kinda how you start off creating a good, like, instrumental track. How can you speak without saying anything?
Speaker 6:You know?
Speaker 1:That in itself is like a song title.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Will Jam be the opening track
Speaker 3:to your album?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It should be the turnstile if
Speaker 4:we finish the lyrics.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 2:Maybe an interlude?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Okay. That would be a good one. Well, I I think maybe our claim might be, like, some bonus tracks, and I think that would probably be that one. Yeah. That's why people see us play live.
Speaker 5:And then the get go where's the song after trends. Mhmm. It's finally added at the end. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, before we get into Sea Dogs, I wanna know what's on Nick's mind. You've been awfully quiet back there.
Speaker 6:I'm back
Speaker 5:in the corner
Speaker 4:back here. We're all chilling, hanging out.
Speaker 1:Yeah. For our listeners, we got this, drum shield for acoustic purposes. So Nick's, like, literally in a cage back there.
Speaker 4:We miss him.
Speaker 1:We miss you, buddy. Animal.
Speaker 2:But, Colin, you're the sea dog?
Speaker 4:I mean, yeah. I guess I guess so. I didn't I didn't give I didn't give myself that name, though.
Speaker 2:You can go ahead. Noise would a sea dog make?
Speaker 1:Oh, good question.
Speaker 3:I kinda scared
Speaker 4:of the Okay. So, like, I don't know if you guys ever, like, see, like okay. This is gonna be, like, really niche here for a second, but, like, I get a lot of, like like, seal sanctuary Instagram reels. What? And so, like, I'd be seeing a lot of seal videos, and they make they honestly kinda sound like dogs or they go like they go they go like, like, not even joking.
Speaker 4:They think, but they do it.
Speaker 1:Still act here. Not doing that. Yes.
Speaker 4:So probably like that. Oh,
Speaker 2:yeah. They do that for fish? Oh, yeah. Because do it again.
Speaker 4:Or they'll they'll, like, smack their belly. I'm like
Speaker 1:You can always call Colin for a good laugh. Oh. So these are the sea dog sounds. Yeah. Or is there, like, a I feel like a sea dog would lean more to the, like, the bow wow side than the barking side.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was really good.
Speaker 1:That was really good. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I expect in the final, in the master version to have that sound in there.
Speaker 1:Right. I'll throw
Speaker 2:that in Go master it
Speaker 1:out. We'll see you.
Speaker 4:Just turn it really low in the fader. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right at the bow, 8,000
Speaker 5:hertz.
Speaker 2:Once again, you are listening to Yellow House an 88.9, and this is Sea Dog. So
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Oh, that made the house bump.
Speaker 1:Thanks for dancing. Do you guys know I don't know if anyone else has this experience, but whenever I'm wearing headphones, I get really self conscious that I'm, like, breathing really
Speaker 6:heavily, and
Speaker 1:I can't tell.
Speaker 2:That's weird.
Speaker 1:And so then you're just, like, walking around, like, like, trying not to breathe. That's how I
Speaker 3:am in this show. I do that. So it's definitely a concern. People go, are you okay? Yeah.
Speaker 6:Sorry. I can't
Speaker 3:remember to breathe. If you're breathing really heavy, I'm out. I'll I'll try harder not to.
Speaker 1:Not for real though. And that's what happens in the show because the bands are playing, like, you have to dance. You just you can't let them just play to a room of sitting people.
Speaker 2:Right. It's helping.
Speaker 6:And
Speaker 1:then I have to get back on the microphone, and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4:And you're like
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's my that's totally my my issue with wanting to dance on stage, but then I get really out of breath for some of our tunes.
Speaker 2:Maybe. So because I remember, when you danced for Moravian, is that when the the cord got unplugged?
Speaker 1:Oh my god. Oh. Guys, this is, like Gotta be getting a little more. Yeah. We're in a very small studio, for those who aren't familiar.
Speaker 1:And sometimes you just get too into it. We had abandoned here last year. This is, like, one of those things that I lay up at night in bed thinking about. And they played an amazing set. They played an amazing set.
Speaker 1:And I was dancing. I was grooving. And I stepped on the power cord, and I unplugged the recording of their set. So it went on air, but we did not have a recording. There's no YouTube video.
Speaker 1:Moravian, I am so sorry, but they're they're doing well for themselves. They're kinda taking off, so, cheers to them.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's nightmares. Cheers to them. Cheers to them.
Speaker 1:Lesson learned never again. Very excited to have this recording of you guys. Yeah. Us
Speaker 2:too. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It is still intact at this point.
Speaker 2:Well, is there are there any socials that you would like to share to the people listening for
Speaker 1:Absolutely. We're on Instagram. That's mostly where we're giving all of our details about shows.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 6:If
Speaker 1:you wanna message us or anything about booking, whatever you need, come come chat with us if you're looking for us. Yellow house m I on Instagram.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. Wonderful.
Speaker 5:We might make a website eventually, you know, maybe release some T shirts
Speaker 6:or something on
Speaker 2:there. So sick.
Speaker 1:That sounds awesome. Yeah. Y'all got me contemplating driving down to Kalamazoo next weekend, which is so funny because, like, the bands we have in here, sometimes it's the first time I've heard them. Like, you guys, Griffin, booked you, so this is my introduction to you. And I'm like, oh, I gotta see you in a crowd, which is so funny because, like, I'm one of probably very few people who has had, like, a personal private concert with these bands.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, you seem like you put on a great show. I'm so excited to see it.
Speaker 2:Are there any wise words of wisdom that Yellow House would like to share with the world right now?
Speaker 1:Buckle up for this last one. It's we're we're gonna get a lot heavy. I'm so excited for it, guys. Next song tonight is called Macaroni. Western.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yes. And if anyone knows me, I love cowboy stuff.
Speaker 2:And I love mac and I love macaroni.
Speaker 5:Thank you and Patrick and I now found Thank you so much. We have been yellow house.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Woo.
Speaker 2:Once again, you are listening to Yellow House on The Basement Show here at eighty eight point nine. Go out and get some fresh air and.