Well, I want to talk about I want to talk about pickle pizza. All right, let's go right out of the gate with the pickle pizza. Hello, and welcome to W and C original music episode 125, the fair youth episode. Very excited this week to have on the podcast, the death bots.
They are a punk band, which you'll hear us talk about more about what the actual genre they are, but they're definitely punk and some other stuff too. The death bots are Carl Caniram, Alex Deutsch and Brandon Askew. You can find the deathbots at the deathbots.bancamp.com and also make sure to check the show notes for their social media accounts. Had so much fun talking to these guys that we're actually going to have to do two episodes, even though we've only got six songs to talk about.
We just had so much fun talking about them that it's going to be more talking to music in this episode. But here is some music right now from the deathbots. Okay. Well, what do you want to know about Victor?
She's an upstanding member of the Genoa City community. Really brought about his cosmetics empire working from the ground up. Made a couple of enemies along the way, but, you know, when you're in position, power, everybody's out to get you. That's pretty much it.
You think that you want to know? So you're talking about Victor Newman from Young and the Wrestling? Yes. Yes.
Well, so what would we be talking about? I mean, yeah, no, this is a song. I actually, when I first picked up the ukulele a few years ago, I was like, I'm going to write a ukulele song and I learned the e minor chord. And I was like, man, the z minor chord is rad.
So all of a sudden, like I started banging out some chords. And I had this song kind of brewing for a number of years until one day when we had just started the band. I was like, okay, I'm going to get the balls to actually show a song that I wrote the Laylings. And all I had was a chorus at the time, but the guys were, I guess, desperate for some songs to happen in the band.
I mean, yeah, that's the first one to the band. It's like anything. I know you're just trying to like make a set out of something. And so I just want to go play a show.
We need like nine songs. So, but no, it was pretty much that. And I had always, uh, um, uh, intended to write about Victor because I happened to follow the young and the wrestlers for quite a number of years. And the course just kind of came about.
Um, it just kind of really just came out of me. And, uh, then it was just a matter of working the rest of the lyrics in, which, you know, once you get up to me writing personally, uh, writing a chorus is far easier than writing a verse. So. Yeah.
And I showed it to the guys. And I mean, it's pretty much like the original youth version, but I'm not a, I'm just a drummer. So I don't know really what I'm doing, but. But, uh, but, uh, Carl, like was able to pick it apart and then show our previous bass player Scott how it went and that was song number what, three.
Yeah, so I'm like, uh, so good. Good one. That's a good one. How are we?
We like, yeah, we like, we like playing that one. It's got a lot of energy to it. So I'm not like a country version of that back on the Holy crap. Contacts back in over the summer.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Many of our songs, um, it is the first part of a series that we've written one part of. But we are going to do a whole, uh, whole soap opera character series.
My personal favorite that we're going to do is, uh, about, uh, Timmy Lennox, the, uh, animate dollop for passions. The short live series on NBC. I thought I was making a joke when I said Victor Newman. I didn't realize at the time.
No, it's about Victor Newman. All right. Little did you know what you were getting into here. It's, uh, it's like crack.
It really is. It's sad. It's brain rot, but my God, it's highly entertaining and quasi predictable. Like I've been accused of actually being a secret writer because I could literally tell you what's going to happen the next day and sure as shit, it happens.
Cause I'm like, yep, they've only repeated that plot line 20,000 times. Second song we wrote and we had the, we had the, uh, we had the music for a long time before we actually put the words to it. Yeah. That was more of like a, it just kind of happened really quick and I think the most exciting part about writing that song was just kind of the big loud intro.
I think at the time I was, uh, maybe listening to a lot of the clash and, um, that just kind of had that feeling to it when we just started playing some of the parts of it. And so we really kind of amp that up and then, um, you know, we had some printed things. I was like, I just let her rank. I just let her rank.
Yeah. Just let her rank. But, uh, at some point, I think we just, we needed something and I think Scott Serti, our, our bass player at the time, he's just like, man, that's all just like really thumping. And so we just jokingly started calling it thumper and then Carl went home one night.
Came up with some Shrek a bunch of beer and watched a death wish on HBO and I was like, well, you know what it would be funny is if it were thumper in death wish. The bunny from Bambi and he came back to all this, that story and we're like, okay, let's run with that. Next thing you know, it's literally a song about a bunny seeking vengeance on hunters that's late as entire family. So sorry to have lost it.
We'll be from Disney Disney. I'm, but yeah, plus I though the video practically makes itself. The song is the storyboard for the video. So you've got it.
Not really as until he is. I mean, make it sicker too. So we got a nice one with a couple of gun. I like the songs that can inspire the good graphic image.
So what are some other bands? Cause it's a two part question. Just tell me a couple other bands that you wish people listen to more. If you have any, maybe you have some people you wish they listened to less.
I don't know, but no, we'll just go a little more. Just do more. At the end, I should listen to metallic. I think everybody should be a little bit less.
This is where the analytics is getting the ball. No, I mean, just, you know, actually music in general is pretty good. There's a ton of good bands that are out here. People are listening to more.
You know, I can answer, but you know, it's a good. Let's talk about it. Dance here. The whole trash ball scene, which we're lucky to be a part of is really awesome.
And I mean, I think about this a lot, actually, you know, it's, it's crazy. You know, that there are so many amazing bands in local scenes that people will probably outside of those scenes may never hear because of the way that the music industry is right now where everything's so fragmented. And I mean, rock is kind of dead. It's like mainstream rock.
I mean, who's left the red, how to show the peppers and the food fighters and that's the top 40. They've both kind of fallen into mediocrity. I mean, they didn't even televise like what's it last year that even televised their act category for the Grammys. You could have told me that how chili peppers broke up 10 years ago.
And I would have no kind of going back to the touch big on the self recording stuff, though, like I keep having this idea in my head bouncing around that, you know, maybe you don't need that national widespread, like notoriety, as long as the scene itself can be supported, everybody is able to record and share their music within that scene. And as long as people are getting off their asses off the couch and actually coming and supporting those bands, there's no reason why you can't have, you know, that kind of scene at your disposal, especially like Alex said, with the amount of talent around this town, like, you know, I've lived in a couple different cities and I'm sure everybody in their cities is like, yeah, yeah, we got a killer scene to show. But there's a lot of really fantastic things around here. Yeah, I mean, it's just cool to do that.
Like everybody supports these other music comes out like we just let last Friday to go see Harry Rizzo Discord and Fortesa. And man, Fortesa's new album is amazing. Yeah, I mean, it blew me away. I've been listening to it at work just through my headphones, just why right?
Psych reports, which is kind of fun. We're about to play a show with five other local bands too that I'm really excited about like an outdoor showcase with So It's gonna be us and John Kirby and new seniors who are great. Yeah, it's good too. Yeah, it's really all the songs that they've been putting out have been really good.
Fans of Maxxis playing who are really cool, smoking out in sirens. Rizzo pickup truck, who is that's Tristan from the Sorry from Turtle Solo project, also a big fan of his everything he writes is really good. Who else is playing called the next witness is playing, who are also really good too. And Kelly from called Maxxis their drummer has been the one kind of set in a solid up and I guess he's from Texas and got like a started something like small like this is a seed, then ended up being an annual two day festival there in Austin.
So I think Austin. And so he's trying to do that with this made a ABL thing and grow that into a local festival and we all contributed a song to a compilation. So like give away for free and to promote the show. So that's that song is actually McDundie.
So we can talk about that. It's not time for McDundie yet. We can make it time. All right, hold on.
Let me go ahead to cross out and do all kinds of stuff. Oops. You guys record you do your own like home recording, right? Yeah.
I mean, it's it's it's it's how you do things these days, really. It's it's, you know, I mean, we have so much there's so much power in a computer. You can track everything and do everything yourself. So we've made use of it.
We need to get into some point, but just get songs down and songs out. And it's super easy to do these days. Yeah, we started off sending some tracks back and forth when things were real bad with quarantine, but then, you know, we've been able to kind of record some stuff together. And yeah, it's been good.
Carl's really masterminded that whole thing. He's like our ace in the hole engineer. Yeah, it's been really great because Carl really knows what he's doing with the software. I think Alex and I are dangerous enough to do some some rough recording.
You know, initially it kind of started off as this kind of demo stuff. But Carl got really good and dialed in with the mixing where we're like, we're like, we can put this out there. So, and it's been cool because we were kind of on a roll for a little while with the pandemic and releasing a song like every, you know, few weeks and kind of keeping things, you know, fresh and out there for for anybody who wanted to listen. So is it ever tempting to just like if you're recording the song, you have the tracks there.
You finish the song, but and normally, you know, if you're recording in the studio, you're like, OK, that's locked in. That's our song. But now you can change it anytime. You can change it five years later.
So you ever do that or you're tempted to? Yeah, I may replace the version of Johnny and June that's up there. Yeah. They're recording the vocal, the record of the guitar is going to go out.
The same drums. Oh, then we had some fun. I don't know if you saw it up on Bandcamp, but we did the Johnny and Juneteenth pain. I did see it.
Yeah. Took the vocal line or that's the vocal line from the song. Like that's the actual vocals ran through super heavy auto tune. And then we're like, oh, that sounds funny.
And so did different drums. Brandi went through and recorded a new drum line. And I recorded some different synth-y things. But yeah, it's the exact same.
It's the exact same vocal track. I think that was kind of the funniest thing. And actually, the guys on Holy Crap Records had a really interesting podcast and talked about this. And it was kind of an interesting dialogue they're having.
But it was, I thought it was pretty cool because Carl literally recorded that auto tune vocal on a whim and sent it to us. And it just set us off where, in your point, Ron, in a traditional studio setting, you can't do that. But now you have the tools that you're disposal to really have fun and kind of explore some things that you normally wouldn't have. And we joked around, like, this is going to be our ticket, man.
Somebody's going to pick this up. And we're going to, this is our golden ticket, man. This is it. He's going to call us, man.
They're going to see us in two minutes. No, but at the very least, it will be a TikTok dance or something like that. Yeah, right. Well, it's really fun.
So now that it's not your podcast, Ron, it'll blow up. Yeah, right. I'm not going to use it. All right, more from the deathbots in just a few moments.
I want to remind you, you can find their music at thedeathbots.bancamp.com And also check the show notes for other places to find them and look for upcoming shows. When this episode first airs, I've got a show coming up in a couple of weeks. So check the show notes again for that. Also, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast.
Search WNC Original Music wherever you get your podcast or go to where you got this particular episode and hit subscribe or whatever synonym of that the particular app uses. A corrections from last week's episode with Honey Magpie. Mr. Rogers was not a Navy Seal, but he was the basis of Tom Cruise's character in Mission Impossible.
So we were both right. Hey, this is Courtney Cahill, the Netherlands genius of Modern Strangers. You're listening to WNC Original Music. Yeah, I was wondering, that was my fault.
It's just, well, I wrote it. Yeah, so I inflicted that on everyone. It just sort of, I mean, it came to, it's one of those, it's, I tend to go on walks and write and just sort of sing to myself. So I'm sure it looked like a crazy person walking down the street because I'm sitting there saying it.
Like, you know, halfway, together at LEDs and stuff. And that one sort of came out of that same process. But it was one of the time when we had a pretty front group and it sort of fragmented over some things. There was a whole divorce.
And we had to pick sides, essentially, and one of the people did not handle things particularly well. So it's a kind of screw you song in that respect, if you listen to lyrics, it kind of comes through. And meeting me, I couldn't like, you know, make it a truly good fuck off song. So I was like, you know, the last bit of the chorus is, you know, sort of a wishing them well.
So that's kind of where it came from. But yeah, the name of the song comes from, we were all supposed to go, see, a bunch of us were going to see Crocodile Lundy 2 at the Brune as you know, apparently. And we didn't invite her and didn't really think about it because it wasn't the whole group. And she got really pissed off and unfriended to everybody, all at once.
So it was like a name and after that. So they know who I'm talking about. It's hard to play some ahead when this took place, because we say Crocodile Lundy 2 at you guys all went when you were eight years old, but also there was a divorce. No, no, it's the Brune.
So it's a dope, but then there's people unfriending people because they didn't invite it to a movie. So then I'm like, I guess I was like, I guess I was like, I guess I was the second. So yeah, no, they did a good thing. I had Asheville feats in brewing.
So we all went and drank beer and watched Crocodile. And my girlfriend never seen Crocodile Lundy, which, you know. And you made a watch number two? I think it was probably the first one.
I remember it was the first one. And you tell the story over, but say it's Crocodile Lundy 1, it'll be a better story. Because I was just still going to. She might have had friended you just because you want to go see Crocodile Lundy 2, which was not terrible, but.
Yeah, it's kind of like the pull Hogan's best movie was what like Kangaroo Jack or Lightning Jack or whatever. That was one that was really bad. I really liked the structure and playability of that song, though. At the time when Carl brought that one to the table, it brought up the tempo a little bit more.
And I think playing style is a little closer to what I grew up on in the style of punk rock music. So really enjoy the energy of that song as well. Yeah, I remember this where we kind of run into a stylistic thing. So I tend to much more towards that, like mid tempo kind of funk.
I don't know, I don't write a lot of really fast songs but that one is got a lot more energy. I think Brandon and I both lean towards fast. And I'm like, let's write about our feelings into it. Let's slow it down, man.
I don't know if you guys know the band can do songs in different tempos. You can do one song, one tempo. I don't think that's true. Yeah, so anything they started.
It's just the BPM commission. Everything is up. Just say. If I play slower than 200 BPM, I will explode.
So I have to keep it going. It's like speed. Or crank. There's another rip off speed with more.
Okay, I want to thank the death bots for being on the show. As I said, we're going to have two episodes with these guys. So look for that soon. One more time, look for their music on thedeathbots.bandcamp.com.
So this episode is not over. We're going to have the closing song. But also, longtime listeners know I put just a little dumb piece of nonsense at the end of every episode. But this time, I'm going to put a very long piece of nonsense, which is us playing the guest of the lyric game.
I wanted to go ahead and get the closing song in before that part because it was a little bit long, but also kind of fun. So make sure to stick around. I'm kind of wrapping up the episode now, but it's not over. It's kind of like when you're at a party, you're not really going to leave yet, but you see someone that you know is going to be mad if you don't tell them goodbye.
So you go ahead and tell them goodbye, even though you know you're going to stay a little bit longer, just in case you leave before you see them again. Anyway, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. Wherever you get your podcast, WNC original music, you can just visit wncoriginalmusic.com and also don't forget to follow us on social media, on Facebook and Instagram. Closing song this week comes from Campbell City Blackouts.
They are a punk rock band out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. My adopted hometown for the next four years. They just released an EP titled 13, which you can find on all the streaming services. You can also find them on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube, which of course will have links to in the show notes.
Here's Campbell City Blackouts. Have a good week. Now we're going to play a real contest before we talk about those songs. This is for a, the prize for this contest is a t-shirt from Koya, who is a singer song writer from Greensboro, North Carolina.
He's actually on the podcast this week, so check him out. I think you guys will like him. Super nice guy. He's going to send one t-shirt if you guys win and then you should have a sub contest to see who actually gets a t-shirt.
The contest itself is, Alex, can you blink for me? Okay, okay. That's real. I'm just thinking really hard on.
Okay. The contest is, I'm going to tell you, I'm just to say a lyric from a song and you have to guess a song and I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You got to get five of the seven songs to win the t-shirt. First one, women think I'm tasty, but they're always trying to waste me.
I'll give you a couple of hands. It's the first line of the song. Why are you thinking? I don't know that I got contributions on these song suggestions from Andrew Thelston, find him at andrewthelston.com.
Matt Sellers at mattsellersmusic.com and also from Christian Valentino and you can find him at kpvsongs.com. I feel like I'm going to be embarrassed I didn't get this one. Yep, me too. I feel like we're being set up to be like, he's my brain's going to like 90s hip hop.
Okay. Do you guys give up? No, I've got nothing. Yeah.
I've never read that. It's tumbling dice by the Rolling Stones. Oh, it's on the top. Who?
All right. You're over one. I was trying to like adjust the Timberlake song. They did that song, paint it black, right?
Burning out his fuse up here alone. That's rocket. That's rocket man. Good.
I would not. I would have thought someone dies was easy before I missed it. Right. I should like when you hear that song, you don't know what that first line is.
You don't know what they're saying. You're just going to... Dadda. Dadda.
Dadda. Is the first line of Tumbling Dice just to Sanford something? Dadda. Dadda.
Dadda. Dadda. Dadda. It's trying.
Yeah. I like it. Holy crap. broad grav… Communist.
Time is? Alright. Next one. I always wanted to cover that.
The lyric is, I am my mother's only son. I know what that lyric is, but I'm having our time placing it. mother's only one. That's a bonavair bonavair bonavair.
Correct. Nice. Alex. Yeah.
That's all right. Well, you needed six seconds on. I need the I would have shot it. Yeah.
They the falsetto. Yeah. And little early Pearly came by in his curly worthy. Well, that has no idea.
Well, that's, well, that's just a very interesting work. It sounds so sevenies doesn't know. It's got to be sevenies. It's like an air smell.
Sevenies. We're right now. No, it's not. It's sevenies.
It's not not yours. It's not. There's no other stuff. It does sound like an air sniffler.
I don't know. Oh, is it? Wait, wait, wait. Oh, yeah.
I can tell you got it. Dig deep. Everybody shut up so car can think. It's not like, is it?
Is it blind? Yes. Blinded by the life. Wait a minute.
Sprecing version that's better. Yeah. Well, that was a spring scene version. I'm thinking about version.
Can you tell by the way I said it? I was saying the spring scene version enough to me. What is that? What is that?
They never managed to bunch of the lyrics on that one. Or at least some of them. They change deuce to douche. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm not getting the nice book. The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb. And they're only picking peppers to the pickle peppers though.
This is from here. This is from the pizza. This is the lyrics. Pickle pizza pepper.
No. Dude. You guys know this. You guys know it.
You know what? This is the one I picked this specifically for you. For you. Dude, dude, dude, it's a rock the Casba rock the Casba.
I don't know. I'd be a bear. Really? That one.
But that's like, that's like disco clash. Come on, man. You know, all your insides, fall to pieces. You just sit there wishing you could still make love.
As you can see, I'm absolutely no help in the context at all. Thank you. Next time I'll be like, Oh, here's Drums songs. No.
That's time. That's the radio head, right? Radio head. Yes.
What's the name of song? I get it. Is it no surprises or high and dry? I always get those two mixed.
I'm dry. That's cheating because Alex plays this one. There's other band. No, we don't do that one.
Alex, I've seen you perform this. Just the one just a mashup you guys do with don't let me down. Yeah, it's still in modern straight. Right?
Yeah. Okay. I mean, you like better. Yeah.
No comment. Go ahead and say it. I might cut it out. I might cut it out.
You like it. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, I can't promise.
I don't listen when I'm at this. Let's brew up a controversy. I just make sure my book. We didn't want to start a rivalry with another band.
Yeah. All right. One Alex is in. You guys do need a you guys have a rival band.
If you could have a rival rival band, it would be it doesn't have to be a local band. Well, the most of you's famous. Let's like, you know, piss off kiss or somebody. No, like, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Screw those guys make up wearing republicans. Yeah, it's to be the backstreet boys.
Last one. You guys have won the t shirt. So whoever I'm going to say I'm going to change the contest a little bit. Whoever says this first if you get it wins the t shirt of the three of you.
Okay. Cool. Okay. Uncealed on a porch a letter sat then you said I want to leave it again.
I'll give you the hand. It's the first line of the song. Is that pro jam? It's a pro jam.
You got to get the song. Well, leave it again. Give it to Carl. Oh, I'm still alive.
Yeah. No, that's not it. Oh, it's not alive. It's yellow.
It better. Yellow better. Alex got it. Okay.
It's the t shirt. Yeah. It throws you off because when he says unsealed, he says unsealed. It's really weird.
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I did not know what that first part of it. It was the second part.
Like you actually understand the whole I understand. I was reading through the lyrics as I was listening to it. And I was like, I don't know if this is right. I don't know.
I don't know if he knows the lyrics. I think he's getting wrong. I did really think it was I'm going to leave Ben against the likes. Well, it is a non-his-man and mimic because it's not a non-his restaurant.
I guess my my favorite pro jam song is when he talks about how hearts and hearts don't fade away. Yeah, which is not true. Because both of those things do think. Those will stick around, man.