Episode Transcript
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Hey, Tailgate beers here. Thanks for joining us. We're at Tailgate and Tall Boys. Bloomington, Illinois, Day two.
[00:00:29] Speaker A: We're.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: We're hanging out with Fox and VEED here at our mobile set. Austin and I are here as usual.
Hey, thank you guys for joining us. Thanks for coming over.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: Thank you guys so much.
[00:00:38] Speaker C: We're gonna have to go around the table and everybody state your name, what your role is, and your biggest fear.
I know.
[00:00:46] Speaker D: My name's Landon. I play the bass, and I am terrified of spiders.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Spiders.
[00:00:52] Speaker E: All right. My name's Christian VEED. I sing and play guitar. And my worst fear is to walk in into a bathroom while somebody's taking.
[00:01:02] Speaker F: I'm Logan Fox.
I sing and play guitar. My worst fear, probably heights. Terrified heights.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: My name is Ashton Red. I play drums, and I'm deathly scared of a warm beer.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: So we were talking on the walk up. You guys are all from North Carolina?
[00:01:21] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: How did this come about? I mean, you guys all know each other? You guys high school buddies?
How'd this being come out? Craigslist.
[00:01:29] Speaker F: Yeah, me and Landon were high school buddies, but I knew. I guess I knew Landon first, but I knew Ashton. Me and him played in a cover band probably four or five years ago, and we met then. And then that cover band split up because I went to college and some complicated stuff happened.
And then I came back because I dropped out of college and then VEED was my replacement. So we started writing songs together. And then when we went to record our first song, I just thought of the best drummer and bass player I could think of. And so Ashton and Landon were there. They kind of just all formed together. Our first practice was a ass. Very bad.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Awful.
[00:02:07] Speaker F: We kind of. We had to put our egos aside a little bit because we were all like, I want to do this. But yeah, we had to blend it together, I guess.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: But we all just kind of. We come from, like, different music styles and stuff, so we had to find a way to blend it all together, you know, because just like, I'm more like punk rock. He's blues, he's pretty country, but like 90s rock. He likes alternative rock. We just. We had a lot of stuff going on, so we just had to figure out a way to put it together. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just clapped in there, like.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: No, I was going to say it's obvious. Obviously it's working. I mean, you're out here at Tailgate and tall boys here in Bloomington, Illinois. You talking about, you know, being on stage, sharing a stage with all 60. And I think you said Gavin too. I heard just a few minutes ago. But I mean, what's it like just to be out and traveling, hitting up festivals? I mean, with some. With some big names as well.
Camera just probably got a little wet.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: I mean, it's a dream come true, dude. We're very thankful to be out here. I think all of us kind of.
You know, when you're starting a band, you go, like, I hope I can reach the level of getting to play nicer shows and bigger shows and get out of these little tiny shithole bars. The hometown, right? So in reality, dude, we're just thankful to be here. We're thankful for all the people that we've met and the. The connections we've made, people who are starting to know who we are, you know, and yeah, we're just thankful. I always, like, always thankful to be here. That's what I tell people.
[00:03:31] Speaker D: Go around.
[00:03:32] Speaker C: Yeah, for sure.
[00:03:32] Speaker E: We went on the road with Gavin for six weeks. We did a west coast tour, and we smoked all the weed and drank all the beer on the whole west Coast.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: I think.
[00:03:42] Speaker D: It was a dispensary.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Thankful for Gavin Adcock and for old 60 and a bunch of people.
[00:03:50] Speaker E: Cameron Marlowe.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: Cameron Marlowe, Bradley Gilbert. These people who have Cameron, they've just. They've taken us in and they really have kind of mentored us and helped us get to where we are.
[00:03:59] Speaker F: And they.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: They saw the vision.
[00:04:00] Speaker C: So, you know, Cameron's played the festival a couple. A couple times, and he's played Cruising. So our bar or not our bar, Wayne's Bar, Cruisen's Bar, Club. Cameron played, man, his voice, he's about.
[00:04:14] Speaker E: As good as it gets.
[00:04:15] Speaker C: Cameron, he blew that room out of the water.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Cameron is. Is the first person who. Who saw the vision with us because.
[00:04:22] Speaker F: We'Re kind of from the same hometown.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: We're from the same hometown, relatively. And like, he.
Before. Before we even had an agent or anything like that, he. He found out about us and was like, yeah, let me put you boys on like a. Like a real show. And dude, I mean, like, we were. We were on cloud nine. We were floating because we. We didn't. We been playing little bars, playing cover gigs, and then he brought us out, and that was where people sparked and we were like, holy. Like, we gotta do this, dude. We gotta do this. So.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: I know, I know. Raised Rowdy, I think is the one. At least with me anyway. You might have before, but Raised Rowdy shared some of your. Your guys stuff with us.
[00:04:56] Speaker C: Shout out to Rady because Jackson Grove and nothing fancy. He's the one that. He started sending me you guys stuff. And I was like, who is this Fox? And what I'm like, huh?
[00:05:04] Speaker A: We wouldn't be here without race. Rowdy. They gave us the opportunity to play in Nashville and we played one show like a free.
[00:05:13] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: We did their showcase and. And we did it one time. And then we. We contacted. Was like, yo, can we do that again? And they were like, you're the first people that's ever asked to do it a second.
[00:05:23] Speaker E: And then that's Riley Greens.
We played the last, like, week when it was still winners before return to Riley Greens Bar.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: And then we found. We found our agent there. And it's been. It's been awesome since Shout Out.
[00:05:34] Speaker D: Braden.
[00:05:35] Speaker G: Yeah, Surfside's got real vodka, real iced tea, and real lemonade. You know what's not real? That excuse you gave to skip the tailgate, grab a Surfside and redeem yourself, champ.
Now back to your regular programming.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: So what's the moment that you guys feel like, holy shit, man, this is. This is more than just a hobby. This is more than just us being a garage van.
[00:05:57] Speaker F: What's the moment?
[00:05:58] Speaker D: I think it was whenever I had to tell my mom I was quitting my job.
I got yelled at a lot. But that was. That was kind of one of the moments where I realized I was like, you know what if I'm having to quit? The things that kind of keep me on my feet in order to pursue something new. Like that's kind of what triggered the wire in the brain where I was.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Like, okay, what were the jobs? Or what was the jobs you guys were gonna do or what were you doing?
[00:06:21] Speaker D: I worked in automotive.
I was an auto technician.
[00:06:25] Speaker C: Like at a dealership, not a tire place. Okay.
[00:06:28] Speaker E: I worked at Hendrick Kiev Concord for a few years working on cars and then I worked on trailers at a place called Wallace Industrial. This like an industrial company doing.
Doing whatever the hell. And I work on a ranch still like now a farm. Like on the. Whenever I'm home, whenever we're not doing, just make a little side money. So we're still doing. Say we're still holding it down.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I. I own a fiberglass business at home, so I fix people's bathtubs and boats and.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Oh, that's a unique business.
That's a niche business.
[00:06:58] Speaker F: I worked on a farm for a little bit and then I was at M K Cashier at a grocery store. Cuz my mom worked at like the headquarters. So she got me a damn job.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: We all, we all work just regular old jobs.
[00:07:10] Speaker F: And then, yeah, we.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: I don't know, man, we just, we just. We had such a drive to get somewhere that we just, we were like, dude, these jobs. We all, we all dropped out of college. I know us three did. Christian didn't go.
[00:07:23] Speaker E: And then just a black sheep of the family.
[00:07:29] Speaker C: Just never even made the attempt. You know what?
[00:07:31] Speaker E: I hated school.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: The hey, you miss every shot you don't take. Yeah, you're just like, screw it, I.
[00:07:37] Speaker E: Didn'T, I didn't want to shoot.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: As long as. I mean, as long as you work really hard at what you want to do, I feel like you don't need school anymore. It's just, it's all about the.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: Just drive D. Good for you guys. Cuz to me, like, as you guys grow up, don't forget those moments of like, your fans are the same people that are working that 9 to 5, they're working that job.
Literally come out and spend every dollar that they have. They're grinding, you know, just to be like, I gotta go this weekend. I gotta take this time off to come see. I'm gonna travel three hours, four hours. And that's what's crazy for me, being in this, Getting to know more people going, you guys travel how far to come to this?
[00:08:11] Speaker A: People.
[00:08:11] Speaker D: People out there today. And they drove about as far as we did, so that's probably about 10 hours, 11 hours. So, you know, like seeing, seeing people that come out from far distances, that's just a. It's a mind boggling respect.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Yeah, well, just a lot of shout out to everybody that's still, you know, works and, and, and does military and everything like that. Because we just, we appreciate everybody because we're right there with you.
[00:08:34] Speaker C: Hey, we might as well just get cheers just for it.
I mean, might as well just have a USA chant just off that one.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Really good, really good. First time I've had it.
[00:08:45] Speaker E: Drunk off Surfside tonight.
[00:08:46] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: I want to talk about music.
[00:08:48] Speaker C: Your.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Your music.
[00:08:49] Speaker G: Right?
[00:08:49] Speaker B: So who's doing a lot of the writing? Is all, all of you involved in the writing? Is it, is it primarily one or two of you or what is it?
[00:08:55] Speaker F: Me and Christian, we started off writing most of the stuff, but then we would write some songs and bring it to the rest of the band and try and form it to everybody's taste. And we've had songs that completely did a 180 on what they were going to sound like and kind of everybody Puts their influences on it. But me and VEED will have, like, an idea to start it or maybe we'll just jam.
[00:09:16] Speaker E: We're kind of doing it all now.
[00:09:17] Speaker F: Yeah, we all kind of. We all have an influence on how things sound, how they turn out. It's took a while. Taking a while to kind of work things out. Yeah. Get everybody's influence on it now. But that's awesome.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: What about. What about the traveling? So you guys are all, you. You can put music together, you can do all this stuff. The one funny thing is, is we've run into people, be like, man, then we get to traveling, and we all got different personalities. We all got different habits. We all got stuff.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: We're. We're best friends.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Yeah, we.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: It's. We're all. We're all childish as shit, and we make stupid shit jokes, and we keep each other happy. So, you know, we fart in the van. We get.
If there's ever any, like, tension, it's weird. We just laugh about it. Yeah, it's all good, dude. We're all friends. We're just happy to be here, like we said. You know, I do take a lot.
[00:10:05] Speaker D: Of pride in the fact that whenever people ask us, they're like, man, does y' all ever get tired of each other on the road? Like, you're always together. And I don't. I tell them, I'm like, I don't even think we've ever had a true argument.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: Like, we all. We're always just.
[00:10:16] Speaker D: As soon as something pops up, we.
[00:10:17] Speaker E: Figure it out, we'll chop it up.
[00:10:20] Speaker F: We know there's something more important. Important than a stupid argument.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Right?
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Right.
[00:10:24] Speaker F: We try bigger than that. Try and keep our heads, like, pointed straight.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: We'll be on the road for a month and a half. And then I get home, I'm like, I miss those guys, dude.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: So what's up?
[00:10:34] Speaker C: Coming.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: What do you guys got coming up after.
[00:10:35] Speaker F: After the festival today?
[00:10:37] Speaker A: We got a Bulls, Bands and Barrels show, actually, in my hometown, Winston Salem, with Cameron Marlowe. It's gonna be so sick. And then we've got some shows we're open for Dexter and the Moon Rocks.
[00:10:50] Speaker E: We haven't announced some of these, but we'll tell them we're opening for Dexter and the Moon Rocks in the fall for Austin Snow. And I believe we're doing some dates.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: With Tanner ursary and old 60s.
[00:11:01] Speaker F: Shout.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Out to show with Gavin next week.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: Yeah, Austin Snell's our boy, too.
[00:11:05] Speaker E: I love Austin.
[00:11:06] Speaker C: Yeah, I love Austin.
[00:11:08] Speaker E: Austin's a G, dude.
[00:11:10] Speaker C: This week's the Old Foxconn.
[00:11:11] Speaker E: Yeah, we're playing in Brandon, Mississippi. We're playing first, and it's old 60, and then Gavin and at the Brandon Amphitheater. And we played last time, like a month or two ago, and the show got rained out in the middle of our set, so nobody got to play. So we hung out that night. We actually ended up writing a song with Gavin that night, so it turned out pretty, pretty cool. But we just drank whiskey and smoked so much pot.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: Them old 60 boys will burn it.
[00:11:35] Speaker E: Down Boys smoke like a freight.
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Did you do any Cold Plunges with Gavin?
[00:11:43] Speaker A: We were in Arizona, and I wanted to do more, but we couldn't. It always never lined up. But, dude, they are so awesome. I did one, and it was the best show I played on that whole tour. I was locked in, dude.
[00:11:56] Speaker E: Have y' all met Gavin? Have y'.
[00:11:57] Speaker D: All.
[00:11:57] Speaker E: Oh, y' all know him pretty well.
[00:11:58] Speaker C: You know the leg lamp, the lake lamp, the leg lamp on the street?
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's it.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: Yes. Cruising the office.
[00:12:06] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: So at last weekend show at Iowa, he gifted Wayne another leg lamp autographed from the whole band back to. But kept the one he took.
That's from the. That's from Cruising. Cruising. Cruisings is this place. Lil Wayne has played there. I mean, Bone Thugs and Harmony's played there. Morgan Wall, you can see Morgan Wallen in 2018 for 15 there. I mean, we've had. Everybody's played that. Gavin played it and sold that thing out, and it was a party.
But Cruises is one of those places. And if, you know, I don't know. There's a band that was. They said it the best.
They're like, every single time we're on the interstate and we see that Peoria exit, they're like, every person in the band has a different feeling. There's somebody trying to get off the bus, trying to get there. There's somebody vomiting in the corner. There's somebody praying about it. There's somebody like. He's like. Everybody has different feelings because they did back to back nights there. I'm trying to. I'm drawing a.
[00:13:08] Speaker E: Grab a drink.
[00:13:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:09] Speaker F: Drink break.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: This intermission is brought to you by Surfside. Surfside.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Wonderful drink.
[00:13:16] Speaker G: I love.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: We've got. They've got iced tea, lemonade, vodka. It's two grams of sugar.
[00:13:22] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:13:24] Speaker C: 100 calories.
100 calories.
I'm good. I'm also one of our other. One of our other local sponsors is White Oak Brewery, so they also bride the beer for this it's pretty good. Shout out, yo. Shout out, shout out, dude, say what.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: You want about Gavin Atcock. He's a genuine ass dude, and he took really good care of us.
[00:13:47] Speaker F: He's a very nice and humble dude.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Appreciate the hell out was here last night and put on a hell of a show. We saw him last week in Clinton, too.
[00:13:53] Speaker F: He's one thing about him, that boy puts on a. He knows that people come there to see him, and he puts in 110% every single time, no matter what.
[00:14:04] Speaker E: Tell him about him coming off the stage and, like, giving us advice. Gavin's a comedian.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Gavin would come off stage, dude, and he would spit game to us in the middle of his show. We'd be sitting off the side of the stage and he.
He'd come walking off for like a little intermission and he'd be like. We'd be like, man, you sound good tonight, dude. Hell, yeah. And he'd be like, boys, you got four people in your band. You need to be posting you on your TikTok four times a day.
And then he would walk right back.
[00:14:31] Speaker E: Not miss a beat, and hit into.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: The next lyric, and he would spit game every time.
[00:14:35] Speaker C: That shit was legendary.
Yeah, he's one of those guys that I think you.
I think people from the outside look at him and go. And he doesn't have a clue of what's going. But then he details in which he really does.
He knows every single thing that is happening.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: And. And I said it before, like, not necessarily GMs. I'm not putting on Gavin Adcock getting in my truck going every day. But I watched his performance last week.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Great.
[00:14:59] Speaker E: I'm like, what?
[00:15:00] Speaker C: Ears are out and just singing three songs, just not listening to anything, just going off his gut.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: He'd be like, yeah, I gotta keep them ears and I'm gonna lose my hair.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: That's pressure. He does a good.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Let's see. Come on.
[00:15:16] Speaker C: Let's hear the.
[00:15:17] Speaker E: This is Gavin aog. When he releases a song, take one.
[00:15:20] Speaker F: He's like, man, guys, we just put out this new song. It just released out my backyard.
It'll be hitting Spotify this Friday. Y' all go listen to it.
[00:15:32] Speaker C: That's a good out.
So we appreciate you guys doing this, but before we do it, I've never done with this many people to ask, but I kind of want to know. Yeah, so you guys, not very long from now, you're going to have a private jet. Fox and V jet.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: It'll be.
[00:15:48] Speaker C: It'll have some badass Drake or something.
[00:15:51] Speaker F: I'm hoping we get a tour bus sometime, so.
[00:15:54] Speaker C: Well, yeah. This. You're going to go straight from this to jets, I'm assuming.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Okay. So the tour bus.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: So all of a sudden, though, somebody cut corners, didn't pay bills, whatever. Plane starts going down, maintenance wasn't done. You take five albums with you for the rest of your life, what five albums are you taking?
And this is an urgency thing. You got the planes going down. We're 20,000ft.
[00:16:17] Speaker D: I don't know album names.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: I'm screwed. I've got.
I've got Nevermind, Nirvana. Yeah. I've got Slipknot, Self titled. I've got anything. I've got Turnstile's new album that got me locked in. I've got Too Fast for Love by Motley Cruel. Ah, I need one more.
I need. Get. Dude, give me some. Give me. Give me some Tyler chillers out there too.
[00:16:43] Speaker C: Let's go. All right. We're like skimming water damn near. So he took all the time.
[00:16:48] Speaker F: Never mind for sure. The Black Album from Metallica. Yes.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:16:56] Speaker F: Probably. The Stranger by Billy Joel.
Live at The Regal by B.B. king.
[00:17:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:03] Speaker F: And Texas flood. CB rebound.
[00:17:07] Speaker E: I'm going Jar Flies. Allison Chains. Dirt Allison Chains.
I'm going Leonard Skynyrd, the Survivor. Whatever.
[00:17:16] Speaker D: The what?
[00:17:16] Speaker E: It one's got all the bangers on it.
[00:17:18] Speaker C: That one.
[00:17:19] Speaker E: I'm going J. Cole, the four.
[00:17:22] Speaker D: Whatever.
[00:17:22] Speaker A: 2014.
[00:17:23] Speaker E: Sitting on the thing.
[00:17:24] Speaker F: 2014, yeah.
[00:17:26] Speaker E: Going that one.
And then whatever that crossfade album is that has like cold colors and all that.
[00:17:31] Speaker F: Oh, yeah, that one.
[00:17:33] Speaker G: That is.
[00:17:34] Speaker E: I'm gonna go.
[00:17:34] Speaker D: Any Super Heaven album. I love Super Heaven. They're badass.
I'm also gonna go self titled, but Slipknot.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: Shout out to Devils.
[00:17:43] Speaker D: Motley Crue.
Oh, this is where I'm gonna struggle. Yeah, I copied you a little bit. But I love. I love that album.
[00:17:51] Speaker E: Oh, God, I'm blinking.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Three's good.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: It.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: All right.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: It's all good. I mean, you can have ass. It's all good.
[00:18:02] Speaker D: I just never pay attention to the names. I'm just like.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: I like the songs.
[00:18:06] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:18:06] Speaker C: I love albums.
[00:18:07] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:18:10] Speaker F: Whatever. Yeah.
[00:18:11] Speaker D: Whatever that album is, that one's hard. And any Soundgarden album, I love it too.
[00:18:14] Speaker F: There you go.
[00:18:15] Speaker G: There you go.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: You got any more burning questions?
[00:18:18] Speaker B: No, I'm feeling. I'm good. Hey, we appreciate you guys taking the time out to join us here on Tailgate Beers podcast.
[00:18:25] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Cheers.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: Cheers. Cheers to Surfside. Cheers.
