Brandan Narrell Of anchored checks in from Las Vegas

RN: What’s up man? How have you been?

Brandan Narrell: I have been good man. And you?

RN: All is good over here. So what’s up? It’s been a while since I had a chance to talk to you.

Brandan Narrell: It’s been a while, I think the last time was on our bus on during the Adler’s Appetite Tour in Philly.

RN: What’s going on in Vegas?

Brandan Narrell: We are opening up for Steal Panther and than, that’s it for a few days.

RN: Than you guys have the Uranium Tour with Black Label Society right?

Brandan Narrell: Yeah, that’s going to be a great tour. It’s Black Label Society, All That Remains Hail The Villain and us.

RN: When does that start?

Brandan Narrell: That starts May 4^th thru June 5^th

RN: I read that you guys just finished up working on a live DVD.

Brandan Narrell: We just finished shooting in Spokane Washington. It will be about two and a half hours long. It’s about and hour and ten minutes of the show and you get both videos, the making of “Last Night” an hour of road footage and sit downs with each band member, backstage stuff and you get a live CD that will come with it as well.

　We also did a medley Of AC/DC, Toby Keith, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Areosmith and that goes out to the policemen, firemen and soldiers and we also did Buck Cherry’s “Crazy Bitch” You will be able to watch them for free on Youtube.

RN: Is there anything else you guys are working on?

Brandan Narrell: Right now we are working on the theme song for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s our song “Dirty In Texas” but we have to change it to “Rowdy In Texas” because someone said that the word “Dirty” is a drug reference.

RN: How did that come about?

Brandan Narrell: Well, they had been playing “Dirty in Texas” ten to fifteen times a game at Cowboy’s Stadium. So they said “if you could re write the lyrics we would like to talk about using it as our theme song”.

RN: Are you guys working on any new material for your follow up to “Listen To This“?

Brandan Narrell: We would like to have the album done before next summer. We have not started the song writing process yet. But that goes pretty fast with us. We are locked on a bus with each other and we have all the time in the world to write. We will be in high gear on that soon. But right now we are just concentrating on the tours that are coming up.

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Josey Scott Of Saliva Talks New CD

RN: Lets talk about the new Saliva CD “Under Your Skin”. I noticed there are a few ballads on the disc. Was that intentional?

Josey Scott: Being guys from Memphis and being surrounded by different music growing up from Elvis to Al Green to the Beale Street Blues sound and growing up around gospel music and having all different music being breed into us, as a young band we were never afraid to go any where musically on our albums. We never wanted to label our selves or box our selves in. We always have gone to where the sprit of the music takes us.

RN: What was the recording process like for this CD.? Was it just time to record another record or did you have a game plan going into it?

Josey Scott: We had a game plan definitely. We like every aspect of the business from playing live to touring to recording and giving back to the fans. We like being ahead of the curve and being prepared for it. Paul and Dave had been writing with a friend of theirs and had prepared some songs. We have trouble getting together because we live in four different states. When we do have time, we spin our ideas and we use a lot of technology to get it done. We got some demos together and got in touch with Howard Benson. It was a dream of ours to work with him. He loved the songs we had been working on. He is just an amazing man and it ended up being an unbelievable experience. Very seldom in life things turn out the way you see them in your head. But this definitely came out the way I seen it in my head. He is an amazing song and album guy. He is a vast ocean of knowledge. He knows his craft. He focuses his energy on the bass, the drums, the guitars and vocals. He takes you aside and spends time with you to get your parts, your bag of tricks together. And he makes you a better musician.

RN: How would you describe this record opposed to your last record?

Josey Scott: I think it’s a straight up Saliva record. This one is a lot more laid out. We had more time to prepare for it and it was slowly taken. It is less rushed and less anxiety ridden. It’s honest straight from our heart.

RN: What is the hardest thing about being on the road?

Josey Scott: The hardest thing about rock n roll is being away from your family. You try and take it day by day. They try and get out on the road and I try to get home so we can spend as much time with each other as we can.

RN: Tell us about the hard drive tour when does it start?

Josey Scott: We are going to be in Nashville rehearsing for a few days then we are going out on tour. It starts April 13^th in Broussard, LA at The Station and runs thru the middle of May. It’s going to be us Rev Theory, Emphatic, Madam Adam and Seven Day Sonnet. It’s going to be a great tour.

RN: What was it that inspired you to be in band?

Josey Scott: Kiss was my favorite band growing up and the first record I ever bought with my allowance was Destroyer. And I remember being six or seven years old, I brought the record to school for show and tell and the teacher ask the kids “what do you want to be when you grow up” and some kids said “I want to be a doctor and I want to be a fireman” and the teacher looked at me and ask me. I just held up the record and said “I want to be this. Whatever this is, this is what I want to be”. She said “they are performers” and I said “than that’s what I want to be”.



RN: That’s cool and you got to open for them. How did that feel, buying a Kiss record at six years old and as an adult had the chance to tour with them?

Josey Scott: It was a rock n roll fantasy come true. Back in 2003 we were fortunate enough to be able to do 2 months with Areosmith and Kiss. We opened the show at seven or eight o’clock and at nine sharp Kiss went on stage and played for 2 hours and then the stage would literally turn around and Areosmith would come on and do their show. I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I was going to explode before going on stage every night. It was crazy. I literally could not believe my eyes looking at the things around me. I look to the left side of the stage and I see Gene Simmons watching me and I look to the right I see Steven Taylor watching me. It was unbelievable.

RN: How did you guys get the Kiss tour?

Josey Scott: We threw our names in a hat just like buying a lottery ticket. Thinking we are never going to win but why not try. You can’t win if you don’t play. A few months later they came back to us saying it was down to us and Billy Idol. They told us that they wanted to go with a full retro package or have a newer band on the tour. And from what I was told they had the final meeting and Gene Simmons was at the table and Gene’s son (Nick) was there. If I ever see his son I’m going to hug and kiss this kid. And as they started talking he over heard the two choices and he said “Saliva, dad I love that band” and that was it. We got the tour.

RN: Any other great shows that stick out?

Josey Scott: One time we had played this festival show, and we were really excited about opening for Twister Sister and they were about to go on stage and Wayne and I was standing in back of the arena like little kids waiting for them to go on. And three black vans and a black suburban with blacked out windows pulled up and the door to the suburban opened up and I seen these big black boots step out and I was like “wow dude that’s Dee” and he look at me and pointed at me, just a quick second and rushed though with their body guards and went right on stage. And I seen Dee say something to one of the road guys and he come over to me and Wayne and said “that Dee wants to invite you to sit beside the stage and watch the show. It was amazing they turned the place on its end.

RN: Is there any thing you want to add before we wrap this up?

Josey Scott: We appreciate your support, Pick up the album and come see us on this tour I’ll be coming out and meeting everyone after the show.

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Shaun McCoy of Bobaflex Interviewed Talks New CD Hell In My Heart

RN: Tell me about your new CD.

Shaun McCoy: The new record is called “Hell In My Heart”. We are looking at a summer release. We are still deciding if we want to go with a distribution company, if we want to put it in stores at this stage or what. These things are going to be decided in the next few weeks. We are tired of the fans not being able to get the record. So we want to look at our options.

RN: Is the CD finished?

Shaun McCoy: The album is done. We may add a track or two and may be a video for an added incentive for the people that may have downloaded it already. Right now the album is 15 tracks long maybe 17 when it comes out.

RN: Over what period of time was “Hell In My Heart” recorded?

Shaun McCoy: It basically encompasses the time when we left TVT Records. We couldn’t sign with anybody because we were owned by the bank due to the label going bankrupt. So we fought tooth and nail for about a year and a half just to be able to record freely. So we  just toured on tee-shirts. That’s why this record is called “hell in my heart” because you have to have hell in your heart to be able to pull this off. It came down to stubbornness and fury to get it done and a lot of the songs are about that.

RN: Can you tell us a few song tittles and what they may be about?

Shaun McCoy: “Bury Me With My Guns” is the first single and is being played on radio now. It’s sort of inspired by a comic book creature who wants to be buried with his guns so he can take them to heaven. He has a problem with god and he wants to have a shoot out with him.

    “Chemical Valley” It’s about a guy with a family who has a good job that gets board with his rural setting and gets turned on to drugs and loses everything in his life. He loses his family his job and ends up with nothing. This is a true story for us. We know multiple people that we have seen coming back from being on tour and when we run into them and they lost everything from drugs. And we are like “what the hell happen”? And there is a video for this as well. It was just posted.

    “Low Life” that’s about a good friend of ours that grew up with us. She got gang raped on the river bank where we live. She spiraled out. Ran away from home and became a stripper. And actually caught one of the guys while prostituting and cut him, but didn’t kill, just fucked him up pretty bad. And we thought that was worthy of a song.

    “Vampire” is about dating a woman that drains you of everything. Everything you got, everything you think, everything you love. It’s kind of a metaphor about a demanding relationship

RN: I wanted to ask you about the song “Home”.

Shaun McCoy: Go for it

RN: I read one of your interviews. You said in that interview how great the road is. The song “Home” says the opposite. Was this just a song or was there a personal meaning behind it?

Shaun McCoy: The road is great when you don’t have anyone. You don’t have a lady or kids. But now everyone in the band is attached to somebody. There also comes a point when you just get burnt out. We go pretty hard on the road. We stay after the shows. We get pretty drunk after the shows. You’re driving 12 to 16 hours and some times you are so tired it takes a shot of Jack Daniels to get you going before a show. And afterwards you have the excitement and just to sleep you have to have a drink. It works both ways. There comes a point when the beer starts to taste like water. And the party isn’t so great. And the girls are hot but you’re just too tired. And all the perks of the road starts to become empty.

    The song was written at a time my daughter was born and I flew home for 2 or 3 days and flew back to get on tour and I just wanted to be home with my kid. So I got back and I knew we had to finish the gigs. And I didn’t want to be bothered fixing my hair or have any drinks. At that point I was just done. Because that’s where I wanted to be but I had to do what I had to do.

RN: What are some of the most memorable tours you have been on? Are there any that stick out the most?

Shaun McCoy: Gigantour, we played with Megadeth, Anthrax, and Life Of Agony. Dave Mustaine picked us to be on the tour. He really pushed us. He asked us to sing back up vocals for one of their songs on the tour. It was just a magical experience. The Mudvayne tour was a great. We just toured with a band called Royal Bliss from Salt Lake City Utah. We raised hell all over the country. That was a great tour.

RN: Is there anything you want to add before we wrap it up?

Shaun McCoy: Come out and see Bobaflex on tour.

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