So I know y'all had an early set today I was there. Headlined Tito’s.
Yes. We headlined the 12:45 PM slot at the Tito’s stage. They offered us to Mc the rest of the day, keep things moving and hype, but we are busy. Flea wanted to actually join us on stage. Right. He asked me for a bass lesson, but I said I was busy, so.
How's this festival treating you off so far?
We have been knocking through press interviews like Albert Pujols has been knocking them out of the park this year. I feel like I'm hitting home runs every minute. I haven't said anything that's not funny this entire time. It's been.. Honestly, to be serious for two seconds. This is a dream come true. I couldn't imagine a better moment, you know, to live through. So I'm just so related. I really am. I'm not being sarcastic.
And y’all are from Austin
Yeah, so I think what Vince is trying to say is that, you know, we're born and raised here. We've been coming to this festival forever and we've worked this festival for other bands. We've driven golf carts and taken out the trash. I've never worked here. And to finally to be on the stage is a nice new kind of job to have at the festival and we really enjoyed it. Seems like the best job at the festival is to play it. So here we are and we did the best job.
How do y'all feel being from here playing at one of the biggest festivals in this town?
It really is like a bucket list, life experience. I think Adam could tell you how it came about because he was relentless in trying to get us here and he never stopped until they let us play. They barely let us play, but you know, they did let us play at one o'clock at the Tito stage. So there you have it. No we seriously, thank you so much to ACL festival having us out. It really means the world to us. So much to us. Yeah, it's a lot for this band and the only thing that made it a little better was that I had a few shots of still Austin whiskey in me when I got up there. Yeah, I had Still Austin. I was carrying the bottle around for 30 minutes prior to the show and just thinking about how much shitty whiskey there is in this world and how good Still Austin whiskey is. I just, I think to myself, I say, oh my God, how did they make this whiskey? And then they took me on a tour and I went through the factory and I was like, oh my God, this is real whiskey. And Willy Wonka was there. Stillery the Whiskey factory. That's the name of our country album. Whiskey factory.
Y'all were recently toured with The Killers
Yes. I mean, well that sounds, who wouldn't want the hottest band in Austin to open for them at The Moody Center? You know what I mean? That's true. All real statements
What is y'all's songwriting process?
Songwriting processes… There's a couple ways it works. We try to write a good one. First we think about whether the song will or will not be good and then we stop and don't write a song. No. What we do is either Adam has like some sort of crappy idea that I have to fix or I have a great beat that he tries to ruin and that's usually how it goes. Yep. Then we land somewhere in the middle of that. Yeah. And then we figure out somewhere right down the middle path.
I know y'all have a very unique sound. So how would y'all describe it?
What would you call it? Trash Wave. We invented in it. First band ever. You know, everybody likes all kinds of music, but most people just play, you know, rock one kind of music even though they like it all. We like it all and we just play it all cause we like it. Especially jazz. We're working on a new cover of Autumn Leaves. I thought we were doing Cantaloupe Bound. No, we're doing Mr. Pc. This is a really deep, deep and stupid jazz joke. We can move on now.
Are there any other bands that y'all would like to tour with in the future?
Yeah, we were really bummed out when Blink 182 didn't announce that we were opening for them. They had advanced that, but they changed their mind last second.
If y'all were in charge of booking ACL headliners, who would be y'alls top three, top five headliners?
It would be Me Nd Adam. Three sets in a row. I would do Me Nd Adam, Sean Paul and Terror Squad. I would do Polo G, Me Nd Adam and Blink 182.
We wanna say we are Me Nd Adam, Austin Texas's, American Rock Band.