Arejay Hale (Halestorm) + Taylor Carroll (Lit)

Written By Ari Gold
 

INTERVIEW WITH AREJAY HALE and TAYLOR CARROLL on Hot Sticks Drum Show, transcript below.
Plus, see more about Arejay Hale of Halestorm and Taylor Carroll on the “Adventures of Power” Official Site.

Ari Gold

Hello, my name is Ari Gold. I am the director of the air drum movie Adventures of power also the Guinness Book World Guinness record holder for air drumming. It's true. And I'm honored and privileged to have two dueling drummers, drummers in different bands who are also working on a secret project together. RJ from Halestorm and Taylor from lit. Joining me today to talk about drums life. Art, passion, air drums. Welcome, guys.

Arejay Hale

We're on the air right now. So it's like… air drums

Ari Gold

Yes, exactly. We've been working on that job for a long time. Right?

Arejay Hale

I've been thinking of it for the past hour. Yes. Yeah. Taylor's like, Wait

Ari Gold

Wait a minute. I don't want to collaborate with you anymore. Ari Gold

Arejay Hale

I love doing entourage by the way. Oh, why? I can't believe that they stole your name.

Ari Gold

Yeah, they stole my name. Well, I know this is a brief story. But yes, the drummers speaking of drummers, the drummer of my band, the honey brothers was cast in entourage and his managers took my name without permission. And I was not paid. And then was the brakes

Arejay Hale

Oh now we know what Kramer feels like from Seinfeld, because they totally stole his name. And he didn't get it. Right.

Ari Gold

Exactly. Notorious. He made some money at that.

Arejay Hale

I'm sure he cashed in on so you should do the same thing. You know, real Ari Gold do real Ari Gold World Tour.

Ari Gold

Yeah. So we are we're talking about drums today we've got my movie adventures a power show in which new appeared was in. One of the sponsors of this event is Modern Drummer. The main the main sponsor and monitor drummer has a wonderful special about Neil period. It's the 2020 Modern Drummer festival. So I hope any of you who are fans of any kind of rock music, but particularly Drum Fans, please go to pierde dot air drummer.com to buy the special on Modern Drummer. The money goes to support research into brain cancer, which is what took this wonderful gentleman and the professor the greatest drummer. That we all knew so anyway, please, please check it out. It's four hours of amazing drumming and all the people honoring him. So you guys, Miller and Taylor and RJ love to hear a little bit of your rush, rush connection, either literal or spiritual.

Arejay Hale

I think that's absolutely amazing. But you guys are doing and and giving the proceeds to such a great cause, like something that affects so many people like you know, good for you guys. Thank you for doing that.

Ari Gold

Well, what you have a connection to to come to needles. Tom's right.

Arejay Hale

I can so ask for requests by my producer Nick rescue Linux, I cannot confirm nor deny. I am playing neil peart. Tom's on the in the studio right now on our new record, so Okay, well, keep the mystery alive. They're

Ari Gold

Happening. That would be amazing. And if it were happening, it would be even more amazing.

Arejay Hale

If they were Neil perch. Tom's let me just say They sound amazing. Yeah, like it true. If that were the case, it just shows the absolute genius of a musician he has a lot of people think of drummers is like a fan. And most of us are granted especially me and Taylor, but he was an artist. He was a drumming artist. He was a lyricist. He was a he dealt with his own horrible tragedies. Probably one of the biggest tragedies that any person can adore, losing losing loved ones that he did, and, and I've heard this from everybody. And of course, our producer, Nick that's doing our new record also produced the last two, I think was the last two records and couldn't say the nicest things. Yeah, I couldn't say nice things about him. And about the whole band. They're just they're Canadian, gentlemen. Well, I mean, it's are awesome. You know, every Canadian I met is super awesome. So I never got a chance to meet you, unfortunately. But um, his legacy is just an incredible artist, an incredible musician, not just a drummer but musician and lyricist and songwriter. And and just person humanitarian,

Ari Gold

You know? Yeah, people were fans are really scared of him in a way I mean, they're worshipping him, but I rush shows you would always see these guys are drumming on the side of the stage. And then when I did a collaboration with him while he was in the air drum movie, but then we also did a little promotion for where he played Tom Sawyer and I played air drums right next to him as my character power and like, there were a lot of fans who loved it, but there were a lot of people who were pissed who were like, How dare you disrespect And I'm like, you can see closer than you can see him laughing. But somehow people were like, Oh, he's a God. He doesn't have a sense of humor. Like no, no, he has a great sense of humor. No, he

Arejay Hale

From what I've heard. He was the most lighthearted, hilariously funny, and just kind kind soul. So when we lost them there was it was a great it was a big loss. Yeah, and these are

Ari Gold

Horrible. Yeah, so Taylor are the kids. You've been the silent good looking guy in the corner. I want to but yes, you who are your biggest drum influences like what what what was the first thing like, even from the aerodrome, so I know everyone I mean, large already told me there's like a lot of people like they airdrome before they drum so you probably air drums before you drum who did you airdrome to

Taylor Carroll

Tell you hertz definitely one of them. Keith Moon Yeah, Keith Moon fan.

Ari Gold

What what Keith Moon song got you as a little kid going this?

Taylor Carroll

I'll give you a hint teenage

wasteland I have to say I didn't I wasn't sure on the Phil. I was huge. Yeah, okay,

he'll if you guys know who that guy is.

Ari Gold

Yeah, I hear he's, I hear he's not as good looking as you but you know? Oh.

Arejay Hale

A lot Ari. God that is right. That is correct. That is correct. That's why That's why we have Taylor around you know he's he's the looks

Ari Gold

Yeah so so what's what? What what bonds Oh, song we are coming to when you were eight.

Taylor Carroll

Good times. Bad times is always my good shoe. I just I just love that. Yeah. Got like with this heavy foot. And yeah, it's a really interesting hand foot fills and guys I was reading

Ari Gold

Last night I was reading a blog about like someone who was who was a neil peart fan was like, I'm new to drums, and I love Neil Peart. And I am trying to figure out other people say that John Bonham is a great drummer. What's the difference? And then someone wrote this very nuanced response about you know, basically, John Bonham having this incredible pocket. His packet. That's what you know, the driving force of Led Zeppelin was his pocket. He appeared very intellectual, forceful, but it wasn't so much about like sitting back in the park. What's amazing with Bondo was like he could play really fast, but somehow it sounded super relaxed.

Arejay Hale

Yeah. Especially if you hear a song like cashmere, where it's just like, it's just like, you're falling backwards when you listen to it's amazing.

Ari Gold

Yeah, think of it like a clock. You know, there's, there's, if the beat is there, the beat is here, and each beat. I mean, each like quarter note is like this. Yeah, a really great drummer can figure out how far back they can sit on the beat. Like if this is like the metronomic Right, right, but how far they can fall back without it falling off the beat. And great Jazz. Jazz drummers have that skill. And John Bonham was trained in jazz so he had that ability to sit really far back.

Arejay Hale

I've heard Jimmy Page say that the secret to bottoms playing was rushing the kick and pulling back on the snare. That was like the secret. That's what I've heard anyway.

Ari Gold

Dude, rushing.

Taylor Carroll

I don't know about you guys.

Ari Gold

On this one show,

Taylor Carroll

You'll need his his high hat work was always what got me. He had so much going on. But it didn't sound too busy. It always had a flow to it. But he also like he was able to stay busy without it sounding like too much. The guy had a really crazy cool pocket with that. Yeah,

Ari Gold

Yeah. I mean, if the two of you were to ever collaborate on something together what how? Yeah, how would you divide that we should do that? Right, Taylor? I mean, if you guys ever you know, your friends, if you were ever to do something together, would you both play drums? Like, uh, you know, Grateful Dead, but for the modern era type of thing, or would you do different instruments?

Arejay Hale

I think there would be nothing wrong with with doing some dueling drums. I always love that there's a Foo Fighters concert from, I think it was alive in the tabernacle, where at one point in one of the songs that he was stacked actors. Dave throws the guitar and hops behind another drum set. And then him and Taylor just trade licks back and forth. And it was pretty cool. Like I've and also another band that we grew up listening to in the in the Christian world was the newsboys. And they did the same thing. They have two drummers and that was always like so mind blowing to be you know.

Ari Gold

Wow. I didn't know that. There were I mean, as I played drums on, I mean, you're a drummer more than I'm a drummer, but when I played drums, I I don't think I ever could imagine playing drums at the same time as another drummer.

Arejay Hale

It worked for the Doobie Brothers. And the Allman Brothers.

Ari Gold

I didn't know that they had two drummers, I think the bands have so many guys, I'd see like the old photographs. And it's like, a lot of guys in that band. I don't know what's going on, but there's a lot of them.

Arejay Hale

And I think if Taylor and I perhaps like do something together, then there would definitely be some dueling drumming happening. You don't put two powerhouse drummers in a project together. And and of course, I'm talking about you and Greg. You don't put you don't put you can't put him in a room together and, and not expect like two drum kits to appear somewhere. Some of you

Ari Gold

You guys play drums live on stage together. And I want Taylor to answer this because he's he's been so quiet. Taylor. Yeah. Have you ever played on stage with RJ?

Taylor Carroll

We haven't played on a stage together yet. But two drum sets? We haven't done that yet. No. But someday, perhaps we might do that. We're always doing this next to each other when we're thinking about what to say next. or coming up with a part. I mean, I just can't stop hitting our chest.

Arejay Hale

Man stop Yeah, I That would be cool. Huh?

If we ever do a show with lit and we're on the same bill together, then you can definitely expect to see one of us popping up in the other one set. You know,

Taylor Carroll

Here's a fun fact about lit AJ my singer. He was actually the original drummer for lit. He was the drummer before Alan.

Ari Gold

So do you feel that the heat? Do you feel the heat of him sort of questioning your drum choices from time to time?

Taylor Carroll

You know, I don't he has been a pretty cool team player. He you know, come on, give

Ari Gold

Give us some dirt.

Taylor Carroll

I kind of know honestly, I honestly play the parts that that are on the record yet. We haven't done like a record together yet. We're working on new stuff right now. But I haven't I'm not man eight. I even asked AJ I was like, Hey, dude, you know what, what would you do here or whatever he's like, man, it's been a while since I've been in the game. So I'd love to see AJ I think we should all vote that AJ plays drums some time. For a little bit any tries to sing at the same time. I think it'd be kind of a fun, interesting choice.

Ari Gold

But then if RJ joins AJ on drums, and then you're playing drums at three drum sets. There you go in time. Yeah, a lot of drums. Yeah. That will be something you know, I mean, Neal peered the conductor bring bringing always back to him. But you know, he, and in the, you know, last decade, he was traveling to another country traveling to Africa. And like studying how, you know, drummers worked with other drummers, who's always trying to learn more about rhythm. And I was up to him like playing with some amazing African drummers and like him just one of one of a group of people and then being amazed by him and him being amazed by them. And

Arejay Hale

It was pretty remarkable to see him in his career go from match grip to traditional grip back to match grip. I think there was a point his career where he was studying a lot of jazz studying a lot of old school, Dixieland jazz and stuff like that. And that was when he started getting into the more traditional style of playing traditional grip and all that.

Ari Gold

Yeah, he was a big Buddy Rich fanatic.

Arejay Hale

Oh, yeah, weren't we all

Taylor Carroll

Played traditional grip live with a while there. He didn't didn't. I didn't know that.

I didn't know that either.

Arejay Hale

I just remember that from he did a I used to watch this like, promotional video he put out for the album test for Echo. He did a like a thing where it was, it was a long, like a two hour documentary. But it was just him talking about musical theories, charming theories, and things like that, and breaking down each part that he wrote for that whole album. And according to that documentary, he was playing traditional grip at that time. So it's just it just shows the versatility and the artistry of his playing.

Ari Gold

Yeah, we did. I did a interview with him where we're talking about how to work the wave rhythm. They've been, they've shown that people if kids study rhythm, play drums, play instruments, but particularly if they get into rhythm, they become better at math and science. Yeah. And when we released adventure to power the first time we were raising money to support Music education for kids, and we she donated drums and we were able to raise enough money. We had a lot of great donors. I mean, Ringo Starr came in. A lot of great drummers came in but yeah, we raised enough money to open a music school, or to reopen the music school. Have a public school that had had it cut from budget cuts. And like I remember sent him this video of like all these like, you know, seven year olds opening instruments for the first time they'd been denied go when they're five and there was nothing there. And then suddenly there's all these instruments getting shipped in and the music teachers who have been, like, relegated to like custodial duties, I don't know, but they were still at the school, teaching other things. They're coming in, they're all excited. They were dramas, trombones, like fluids, everything coming out of these boxes, and the kids are like, so and you can see like, everything's getting activated. And he knew that like, you know, it's such an important part of like, being a real well rounded human. Yes, neck with rhythm.

Arejay Hale

So I've heard I've heard countless psychologists talk about not only just the benefits of mathematics and science through through music, education, but also just confidence building and and can can help later in life combat certain, you know, mental or social disorders. You know, I think just having that having the creative outlet to channel your emotions and feelings into something and, and and watch it develop and develop that confidence to be able to master something like that. Something creative, I think just does wonders for your psyche, and does nothing but help in your development in life.

Ari Gold

Quite quiet. Taylor, I want you to tell me what when you were when you were like had when you were I'm gonna just say 13 You're in eighth grade. Oh, yeah, you're in despair. Life is just maybe you're not getting the love you want something's not going right. What was the music that like made you feel like life was worth living? brought you back on track,

Taylor Carroll

My Dad revealed Led Zeppelin to me. And it's like Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull that was kind of a really helpful thing to play along with those records when I was little and then got into punk rock, you know? That's like when

Ari Gold

You say punk.. What do you mean by punk? Because punk means a lot of different things could be in the MC five I got a

Taylor Carroll

To me punk was like the casualties rancid millon Cullen, stuff like that. Okay? Like try to play along to it. And my poor parents, and I'm sure RJ parents who I've met, by the way, the first one I met RJ is with his parents to the Mall of America parking.

Ari Gold

We went to John Stuart Taylor, give us a little context here.

Taylor Carroll

Oh, the first time we met or the stuff I used to play along to?

Ari Gold

Well, no, I want to hear like how you meet his parents. The first time you meet him. You also meet his parents in a parking lot. What's going on?

Taylor Carroll

No, it was great. Um, I used to play for a band called pillar. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of those guys or not. But it was a band back in the day we we had to deal with Sony and we were out in the kind of the active rock circuit in 2008 and nine, or is it 2009? That RJ got the nine. So we were in the Mall of America parking lot. It was a day off. And we looked out of our bus window. We're like, oh, that's an RV that kind of looks like a band. A band. And so me being my outgoing, you know, self. You know, nice to meet you strangers. I knocked on their RV and they're like, Yeah, you know, I think was it you that answered? You

Arejay Hale

Think it was me that answered? Yeah. Cuz we're like, oh, we're next to a tour. But it's like this was like our we just released our first record. We were talking in a camper van. In an RV. We call it Stormin Norman storming, but it was a piece of crap. And this bus pulls up next was like, oh, big time band. And then we, you know, maybe five minutes later, you know, knock on the door, and it's like, hey, but in all fairness, he what he did, the first thing you said was like, Hey, you guys have any beer? Yeah.

Taylor Carroll

So I was just curious if they had any beer.

Ari Gold

It's like, pardon me? Pardon me. Do you have any Grey Poupon? That's like, the modern version very.

Taylor Carroll

And so we ended up hanging out and right in the Rugrats ride together in the mall. Yeah. The Rugrats cried and then you me and Lizzie and chugging monster energy drinks like they were going out of style. That's

Arejay Hale

So my dad was so in the early days of hailstorm. My parents used to tour with us my mom was our tour manager and my dad was driving the RV back in the early days because that's all we could afford. So yeah, Taylor literally met me and my parents at the same time so we we got past that hole like getting to know the parents awkward phase. You know, we just jumped right in.

Taylor Carroll

It was great. His mom like the first thing she said to me, do you need another beer honey? She says sweet.

Arejay Hale

We just got off a tour of Shinedown and they were late. They were going home but we were staying out to do more headline show. So they gave us all their overtime. dock for the riders. So we just had like, like a huge Tupperware bins full of beer and booze. And we're like a broke ass like opener opener band, like we're lucky to get maybe a 12 pack of beer and a case of water every day. And our trailer is, you know, Florida sealing stock. So he's like, You got to be, I think at the time killer like they had to drive us like nobody was trying to be sober. So you're just like, you got a beer. We're like, do we have beer? Come on in? Yeah. So

Taylor Carroll

You guys the whole night. It was it was a it was.

Arejay Hale

We've been super tight ever since it's crazy. And I remember thinking

Taylor Carroll

I was like, Dude, I really hope these guys do something huge because of how badass you were as people. And next thing I know, like a year two years later, hailstorm, hailstorm hit and I was like, yeah,

Arejay Hale

It was like right first, right before our first single came out. And, and, yeah, a couple months after that, we started doing a lot more headline tours. And yeah, it was, that was kind of the cusp of our career. So yeah, that was a cool time. And here we are. 11 years later, still is thieves. still dating?

Taylor Carroll

Yeah, they aren't going back to my parents. I used to annoy the living hell out of them all day trying to play punk music when I wasn't able to. It probably sounded like this. And like my dad, you know, but they were so cool about it. I don't know. RJ your parents are probably super cool about it too. Right? Like

Arejay Hale

Yeah, but I mean, your your dad actually is a very successful Grammy Award winning artist. So I think you probably you know, my parents were just glad that I was you know, not doing drugs or in

Taylor Carroll

Jail so Yeah, exactly.

Arejay Hale

Till I did drugs went to jail, but that's beside

Ari Gold

What drugs, aspirin?

Arejay Hale

Yeah. Tylenol. Yeah. And now that we're in our 30s That's like, that's our existence now. It's like health supplements and ibuprofen. That's, that's what makes the world go round. Yeah. Yeah.

Ari Gold

Medicinal mushrooms. From fungi. Perfect died.

Arejay Hale

Hey, can you hook us up? We should have done some before this. It would have been really interesting.

Taylor Carroll

Oh, my God. No, no.

Ari Gold

So technically, we're going to wrap up in about five minutes unless you guys want to keep chatting. And then we're going to turn on adventures of power the movie. Those of you who are watching and want to see the movie and don't have time right now you can go you can get on Amazon Prime. It's called Adventures of power Neil period is in and it's all about music. And it's a comedy about an air drummer who saves the world. And Neil period is in it. There's a lot of great rock music in it. And is there anything you guys want to say about the possibility of a collaboration in the future between the two of you know,

Taylor Carroll

Possible and it just happens? Well,

Arejay Hale

Taylor, not only is it it's credible drummer but and just incredible. He's like, a calm Swiss Army Man of music because he plays guitar, he sings, he plays everything I also sing. And, and both of us are also songwriters. So we have developed this kind of really good songwriting, creative partnership. And we're hoping that someday soon, if you just keep your ear out, there might be something cool and collaborative that we're that we've been working on that may come out sooner than you think maybe

Taylor Carroll

There might be a record or you know, that might be coming out after the new year.

Ari Gold

You know, who knows? There might be there might be something that just drops without warning. Yeah,

Arejay Hale

In true fashion, that's how we do it. I mean,

Ari Gold

Let's be honest, I mean, these days like the sort of the idea of the long lead where you like prepare a release for six months and like, people's memory is like five seconds now anyway, like just dropping on day of seems like maybe the best policy these days.

Arejay Hale

I'll tell you what kind of star creative collaboration was, in lieu of the pandemic and everything being shut down. Normally, both of us are on tour 10 months out of the year. And what

Ari Gold

We're getting some fan questions about that, like any any sense of what you guys can be doing either like actual tour or, or online tours, and you know, even just playing live online, people are asking,

Taylor Carroll

We talked about doing some online streaming work. We're kind of getting all that in order right now. We may or may not be getting all that in order.

Arejay Hale

Well, you actually did an online concert with Linden, you too, as we did, we lit.

Taylor Carroll

We did a Brooklyn Bowl thing in Nashville in October and it went really well. The sound was cool, cuz you never know like I was like, you know Can they hear everything how's the mix and those guys did a killer job yeah, but collaboration we we may or may not you know do something like that soon

Arejay Hale

Yeah same with hailstorm we're open to a lot of different ideas we're gonna try to start getting the wheels turning next year for stuff like that but because there was no touring you know, Taylor and I we don't know how to sit still and we have to do something creative and and we just started talking again and hanging out just talking on Zoom and then we just kind of developed this real good knack for writing music together and we're like, hey, like, when we put our heads together, we come up some cool stuff so uh, you know, hopefully somebody will watch it come from all this writing the melody

Ari Gold

And the lyrics and everything even though you're you're not drummers Yeah.

Taylor Carroll

Alright, we started boyband

Ari Gold

Ever question like playing with a with a sibling when I played music with my twin brother my twin brother who wrote all the music for adventures of power we I hit the music he he wrote because we got a bunch of amazing songs we got Phil Collins doing in the air tonight with God we just breathed we've got rush we've got some like big artists in there but then some stuff we didn't get we were trying to get up I'm not supposed to say but there were certain bands we tried to get through songs and we couldn't and then my brother had to write something to match the drums later and have it sound like the era of the song we were you know having my character airdrome do and he did a great job but we would want to kill each other Oh you know tour van with your sister. Yeah, like can you tell Can you share like is there a story that you've never shared before that you can that that is just like something insane brother sister like craziness that what really

Taylor Carroll

You guys seem to get along really well what really happened

Arejay Hale

You know, we just don't have the energy to fight and you know, I guess we we could but we're like you know what, we've always been super supportive of each other and like and just super just you know pretty light laid back with each other and so it's

Ari Gold

So full of it. There was one time when you screamed at each other and you wanted to quit the band I want to hear that moment. We have fans from New Zealand who were like it's in the middle of the night and they were like up to watch this so give a story to New Zealand right now from a fan that is like wants to hear crazy story about you and your sister

Arejay Hale

Was just like the Lord's the underworld in South Park where is like I'm going soon. I'll see you on famous backside and it's like Schuyler Silla project reached for the Skyler is over the opera. Now man, I got nothing juicy for it. We're just what we're maybe we're just old and tired and decrepit from constantly being on the road, but we're like, you know, what, we don't have the energy to like argue about things because like, for the most part, we're we're pretty much on the same page about everything where it's like, we get it, you know, um, but I mean that maybe that comes also with like, talking with our parents, you know, like, we never really got into like, anything to, you know, any, like serious bad habits. We're just we've always been there for each other and literally, like, having having your sibling with you on the road. Like, it really feels like there. That's that's like your main family right there. You know, like we, I mean, our parents are, we're super close with our parents, but we're always on the road. We never really get a chance to see him all that often. So, you know, like, we're just so grateful to have each other. And I'm sure Taylor, you can say the same thing about Jeremy and AJ right.

Taylor Carroll

Yeah, they never fight.

Ari Gold

Are you serious? You're so full of it.

Taylor Carroll

They might or might not have a couple or you

Ari Gold

Can say you can't say by the way, there's a fan who is just going berserk for your right here. So just early, you know, you're getting you're getting some fan love for you right here.

Taylor Carroll

Oh, my girlfriend's my hairstylist. Yes, for sure.

Ari Gold

I will say about RJ that. When the very last song that my brother rode the end of the tail credits of adventures of power. We wanted a singer who had like the chops of heart. And your sister has those kinds of chops together at the time we would have recorded it with her but like she has like ability to like, you know, there are brand new people who can do what like Ann Wilson did and yours. Yeah. Has that.

Arejay Hale

And Wilson will heart was a huge one for both of us growing up. That was a massive influence that our mom introduced us to and and if it wasn't for heart, I don't know where Halestorm would even be because at the time there really weren't a lot of female influences out there for a lot of other Are women now you see, now I'm so happy to see especially in the rock world you see more and more and more females in rock music and and not even in the bands but also in the audience you see it's so much more diverse and I love that I love that there's it's a great Haven. You know?

Ari Gold

Are you jealous that she's saying with Dream Theater?

Arejay Hale

Oh, no, no, I've known Mike for forever and I've known those guys for a long time and no, it's totally cool

Ari Gold

why I hope she'll I hope she'll watch adventures and power and listen to the very last song at the end of the tale credits which is like playing during like the bonus features. And listen to the woman who's saying that we found her from a journey cover band to sing like the final song at the end of the tale credits like a kind of emotional like hardstyle ballot and the main the Deaf character in the movie played by Shauna Stern. From supernatural she was named any after dreamboat Annie in honor of heart as well. There's also a fan question. Someone asking Taylor Have you played with Dennis Hill?

Taylor Carroll

Have I've hung out with Dennis I love Dennis Hill. You played with Dennis Hill. I've not played with him. Unless having an acoustic guitar and him having an acoustic guitar at a hotel while we're drinking counts. Does that count as playing?

Ari Gold

I think that counts. I mean it really count more for the fan if you turned on your Instagram Live or something. And like shared it, but you know next time

Taylor Carroll

I know I love Dennis I met Dennis at my second live show ever it was a New Year's show. And Dennis is like the most down to earth. Well, so is this guy right here RJ? I mean, you know, he's want to talk. I mean, this guy's a badass but no Dennis Dennis

Ari Gold

Mica. When he turns around he looks like a Karen I'm like, Oh my God, you're gonna start yelling at someone for wearing a mask.

Arejay Hale

This is what happens when you go to your girlfriend's house of hair. Like my girlfriend literally. Because I don't go to the barber shops was that

Taylor Carroll

Where did you get your hair?

Arejay Hale

Oh, yes. I got a hair from blitz from A house guy. That's right. Yeah, Jay Jay solo and his wife. And it's what dude? Yes, that's right. His wife on engineers mixers like they literally bleached this in the sink of the bathroom in the studio. Because the dance that we did a photoshoot with Kevin from lead who took photos of us and he is also an incredible photographer.

Taylor Carroll

And he is shooting my girlfriend's album cover tomorrow.

Arejay Hale

Oh, that sounds so dangerous.

Ari Gold

One other important camera catch. And speaking of album covers are fans who are just saying when it's some new stuff from from lit and hailstorm. And if you guys were to work together, you're gonna drop just just so that they know like how to fix their hair. How close are we to releases?

Taylor Carroll

When's the hailstorm stuff coming?

Arejay Hale

Oh well we're in the studio now with Nick rescue Linux and we're tracking and just writing and kind of getting the the wheels turning

Ari Gold

During the you know what that means? Give us a date.

Arejay Hale

Ah, I, I maybe hopefully at some point next year, maybe next fall at the way it is. But don't quote me on that. I don't know how these things happen. Okay, you never know what we're like there. We're really in the infancy stages of writing and tracking and recording and just kind of like getting songs together. So during the whole pandemic we just we purposely like did not get together we'd stay very safe very separated. And now we're kind of just like in a very small like what we're doing it like one person at a time and do your very safe Luckily, he's got a big studio, we can we can keep our distance and just like hang out with each other and just wave to each other from long distances. But we're in a hazmat suit. Yes, yes. You can probably find some video that online somewhere super sweated as far as

Taylor Carroll

That stuff goes we there's some demos that are happening and some new songs being written right now and I'm really loving what what they're getting what they're writing and all that stuff. So I don't know when the release is going to happen though unfortunately but a man music

Ari Gold

Diamante. This year though, sometime this year because they the rerelease will be released to the old record, right? That's right. Yeah. So okay. I so we're gonna we're gonna move to Adventures of power the movie I want to also want to say that lit is doing a full band live stream at seven o'clock. So those of you who are watching the movie might want to jump off and do that you can watch the movie at any time at adventuresofpower.com, airdrummer.com , or watch it on Amazon. If you buy it on Vimeo, we get more money and that money goes to MusiCares, which is an amazing charity that it's run by the Grammy Association and they are supporting musicians who are suffering during this time, which particularly musicians sort of like work a day musicians whose livelihood is based on gigging and can't gig right now. Super, super important. So if you watch it versus power on Amazon, or if you watch it on Vimeo, you're actually helping musicians live. And you also have a good time. And if you don't love the movie, smoke a spliff and watch it again. Then you're gonna love it. But so anyway, we're gonna play the movie now. And, you know, you sign off when you sign off, and you can watch it on Amazon later, but and we will continue to chat during the film. Is there anything that Taylor and RJ want to want to say before we switch over to, to our movie stream?

Taylor Carroll

Thank you for having us on. We're really grateful to be here. So thank you guys for thinking of us. And as far as the lit, live stream, it's seven. It's pretty cool. You might want to you know, check that out, too. It's a it's a word on the street from what I'm hearing is it's a show that was in Vegas A while back, so it's okay. Yeah. Okay.

Ari Gold

So yeah, if you watch the movie, you'll you'll, you'll want to stop the movie at seven and switch over. And if you and if you're on the live stream right now, don't worry, we'll switch it over the movies gonna cut off in the climax and you'll move over to lit which is okay, because you can watch it for free on Amazon. And even if you watch it for free, it actually, Amazon still pays us and then we send the money to music cares. So you guys, thanks. So adventures, the power check it out. And we'll be chatting. You can still chat with us on whatever channels you're on. And we'll figure out how to keep chatting back to you as much as we can. I want to say RJ and Taylor, so amazing to have you here. And I also want to give a shout out to Archie's ice cream truck that introduced us as far as I remember. I think it was RCS ice cream. The most amazing guy named Shante, who has been at every great rock show in history with his truck and inside is signed by you know everyone from from Led Zeppelin to lit and hail storm inside that truck in the best ice cream. So thank you, Shannon. Thank you Archie's ice cream for introducing us and please also sorry last shout out because Neal peered also is in the movie and brought us together watch the Neil Peart special on Modern Drummer you can go to pierde dot air drummer.com to buy the special it's four hours of all the best drummers in the world. Although you guys aren't on it yet. Yeah, almost all okay, almost all of the best drummers in the world other than two if you go to again it's peart.airdrummer.com and buy the special four hours of amazing amazing amazing stuff about drumming and life and about you know, period and everything. So thank you all and enjoy the show. This is a beautiful movie that comes from the heart about the way air drumming and really about rhythm and drumming can change the world. And it's it's funny too. So enjoy.

 
 
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