John Humphrey (Seether) + Ethan Gold
Transcript of INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HUMPHREY on Hot Sticks Drum Show below.
Plus, see more about John Humphrey on the “Adventures of Power” Official Site.
Ari Gold
With me is the lovely John Humphrey from Seether. And then my brother Ethan Gold is representing Modern Drummer today he did all of the music for Adventures of Power, the drum tracks the producing, and he's a producer and composer and, and drama aficionado. So thank you. Thank you both for joining this experience.
John Humphrey
Thanks for having me. It's good to meet both you guys.
Ari Gold
And me, you as well. The focus is going to be huge on because you are the star of our hearts on this fine afternoon. In Where are you sure. central time somewhere?
John Humphrey
Yeah, I'm Central Time Zone. I'm in Oklahoma. Outside Oklahoma City.
Ari Gold
And that's you're from Oklahoma. Right?
John Humphrey
I am. Yes. Born and raised. And I have two boys and they've been raised here. So this is home for me.
Ari Gold
Oh, nice. Be honest. Did you get into drums through rock or through singing Oklahoma? Be honest.
John Humphrey
Through rock. It was rock man,
Ari Gold
it was rock. So I haven't my brother suggested a very important question for an air drum themed conversation as a conversation starter, which is what is the song that you air drum to as a child before you play drums. And then now when you don't have access to your drums, so might be two different songs.
John Humphrey
Really, it's ironic and I saw the trailer for your movie. It was Tom Sawyer. I mean, when I first got my kid I had to learn, you know that that bridge sex or that middle part, you know, to actually play it live, but I was air drumming the crap out of that thing when I was 12 and 13 years old. And I still when it comes on the radio, of course I air drum to everything. My parents my wife can attest to me driving them crazy in the car I air drum in my car, you know, as well as play them actually. I'm an Air drum King and I have been since I was a kid,
Ethan Gold
at least wouldn't keep them up at night. If you were air drumming in the middle of the night
Ari Gold
while your wife is sleeping.
John Humphrey
That's true wouldn't bother than that I aerodrome and I actually do tap and make all kinds of noise with my feet, my hands and you'll be you'll be pleased
Ari Gold
to know that that Neil peered you in appearing the air drum movie, but he also told me that he like all of us was in air drummer first. And he told me that he started with pillows and magazines. So I guess it's a little bit more than air and he was hitting something. Maybe that's why he became the appear. But But yeah, so you're you're in good company. i Yeah, Tom Sawyer is the climactic song and adventures of power. So I hope you get a chance to watch it. But so you were I guess you started as a true musician. No, you could read like music. I can't read music, but you can read music. Rumor has it?
John Humphrey
Yeah, it's been a long time. So in middle school, I started I was in band. I was in jazz band, concert band marching band all through high school. I played snare usually in those cases in jazz band, of course, it played the kid. And so it's been a long time since I've actually you know, like,
Ari Gold
learn which grip did you learn snare? Which which grip?
John Humphrey
Oh, match match? Yeah, not traditional. I've never really played traditional. Yeah.
Ari Gold
Yeah. Okay. And did you know that you wanted to play rock music when you were playing jazz in high school? Or you're talking about junior high or high school where?
John Humphrey
Yeah, it was it was kind of both middle school junior high, and then high school. Really drums and in learning, you know, getting into rock music. It all happened at the same time. You know, I'm an I'm an 80s. Kid. So my mom could appreciate that. I really I loved music and showed an interest for it. As a very little kid like four or five. I had a little portable record player I used to carry around and listen to music and all the time. I just loved it. And so she, you know, trying to figure out maybe where I should go. She got me piano lessons for a few years. And I got some basic theory music theory out of that. But being a little kid in the late 70s and 80s, you know, I got into kiss as a kid. And then that
Ari Gold
did you ever. Did you ever dress in? Oh, yeah.
John Humphrey
I did Halloween. I remember seeing the movie on TV. And I mean, being a kid being seven or eight. And then that bad. And it's fantasy, you know, was just a combination of the perfect world, right rock music and fat and fantasy for a kid. But that segwayed into Van Halen band and AC DC and that whole era. So I'm like, taking piano and I'm like, I'm not interested in this man. I want to rock and in this drum sort of came naturally.
Ari Gold
Did you ever see this when he played with Rush?
John Humphrey
No, no, I I've seen old, you know, bills and posters for I can't imagine that would be me. I've seen some photos online too. And
Ari Gold
that's a strange matchup. I mean, do just knowing that they toured together and they apparently loved each other as such, right? Yeah, but
John Humphrey
lately different bands and to see and they're so young and stuff. So cool. Yeah, they like one of the first tours for both bands. I think they toured together.
Ari Gold
Yeah. And so but so you got into into hard, hard rock through the gateway drug of
John Humphrey
Kiss. That's right. That's that's a good way of putting it.
Ari Gold
You were like a Beatles type before before kiss came along? Or what was your jam? Yeah, just
John Humphrey
you know, I grew up on the radio. My parents always had music on and radio. So anything top 40 of the day and popular music I just always heard so yeah, Beatles. I mean, yeah, anything that was just sort of popular on radio at the time. But then from from my age, my friends. It was rock. It was hard rock and I got into Van Halen. ACDC and that whole thing.
Ari Gold
I mean, crazy. You've been on tour with with Seether with with Sabbath, right?
John Humphrey
Yeah, yeah, we did a hell fest overseas. Huge festival. Three or four years ago. Yeah, that was amazing. It was Soundgarden was on the bill and Black Sabbath was on the bill. And that was just like a dream come true. A friend of mine is a bass tech for Geezer Butler. So the coolest thing I got to do was to hand geezer his bass, right before one of his songs because I stood next to my tech buddy. That was was Bill Ward
Ethan Gold
on that tour. No.
John Humphrey
A different drummer, the drummer who's playing with Ozzy now, Tommy can't What's his last name? I can't remember his last name. But no, unfortunately, it wasn't bill.
Ari Gold
Ethan's representing Modern Drummer he should know that in the flesh should
Ethan Gold
know that. What yet I know that Brad will go from from Rage Against the Machine also played with Sabbath in there on their last record, but I'll I'll do some recon here.
Ari Gold
So, John, I'd love to know, you know, just drum Drum Fans and what brought you to drums? What Why are you from fraternity or the drum cult? Why, why that and guitar if you were turned on
Ethan Gold
Well, right. vadose
John Humphrey
Yes. Cool. Cool photos. Right. Right. That's right. And Brad Wilk interesting story side story. We toured with audio slaves either toured with audio slave and I got to know Brad, and he's a huge old school Van Halen fan. So we sort of clicked on that. And I had some bootlegs of old Van Halen shows and stuff so Brett Brad's awesome, great drummer and great guy. But for me, so back to so piano early on, and then I tried guitar, not electric guitar was a good acoustic guitar. My parents got me. But drums I just wanted to try it. I actually had a neighbor in the, in the neighborhood, a friend who had a kid. And I think I drove him crazy for about a year and a half after school every day going to his house asking if I could plays drums. So I was on his kit. And every day after school, drove him nuts. I was begging my parents for a drum set because I played piano I play guitar. These these are not inexpensive items. I mean, you know instruments are expensive and my parents were like look, we do a piano we've done a guitar you're not doing a drum. So they put me through a lot year and a half of agony. I drove my friend crazy. They finally relented my dad Christmas 1983 got me my first drum set.
Ari Gold
What's the relenting about? I mean, like, you have to prove something. Was there a specific hoops you had to jump through to prove that you were serious?
John Humphrey
Yeah. So I had auditioned for junior high band And then I was playing percussion there. But all I had at home was like a snare pad and a set of bells because you would play bells also early on and percussion, auxiliary percussion and stuff. And I was in, in band and doing that, and practicing and air drumming but but had a set pair of sticks and practicing in my room, playing on pillows playing on the floor. And like I said, if I wasn't doing that I was over my friend's house driving him crazy. So my dad finally figured out okay, maybe he's going to stick with this. And got me a drum set. You want
Ethan Gold
to give a shout out to your friend right now? With the name of that?
John Humphrey
Yeah, it's been a long time. His name is Barry Bell. I don't know if he'll, there'll be watching but yeah, it was a childhood friend. He had a drum set. I drove him crazy.
Ethan Gold
It's always nice to to shout out to the friends or the teachers or somebody who helped us along the way. Sure. Yeah. Actually, somebody asked me to somebody suggested that, that you give that shot up. So I Oh, that was a good idea.
John Humphrey
That's great. That's awesome. Yeah.
Ari Gold
So what what's the what's more challenge? Because a drummer playing Nixon or playing Seether?
John Humphrey
Gosh, they're both, you know, stylistically. For me, it's the same, it's still the way I play. It's just sort of the way the music sort of comes through me as far as stylistically. So really, there isn't much difference other than obviously, the music and the arrangement and in particular songs. But stylistically, I sort of played the same way with both bands.
Ari Gold
Did you get to either
Ari Gold
work directly, or what's that?
Ethan Gold
Nixon's what? Just one thing I want to, I was just thinking about, you're coming into all this through band music and through kiss, and he's kind of like really energy giving kinds of music. And both Nixon's and see there are, I would say more like kind of, angsty in different ways, kind of angsty and emotional music. And but it's interesting, like as a drummer, so you know, the writing whatever's going on in the songwriting, and the lyrics, there's this kind of dark expression of kind of emotions coming out. But you're, they're bringing this kind of, in both those bands, you're bringing, like a kind of really solid power to it, I think that's probably why they both want you, you know, even if you're splitting your time, or whatever, you know, I'm not sure how you work that out. You know, if everybody wants to talk at the same time, you can talk about that but But you bring a really solid just a kind of, like a very kind of straightforward solid, like, it makes me think of in a way like you think of Oklahoma but it's just like, you're you're there to like provide the foundation in a way that unlike kiss have that same just like straight, like they sort of goofy almost bubblegum songs, but there's this straight ACBC also famous Yeah, just like solid. And you're also that kind of just real, powerful use container for in the case of, you know, if you were playing in Kiss, that would be the container for the like, powerful Bubble, bubble gum or whatever. But you're bringing like, out or you're just like, it's like the house that all this kind of like, angst and emotion can live in your, like, the bones of the house. I don't know, I appreciate that this thing that you do, like with the guys coming in, like all this stuff I need to express and you're just gonna hold it down for them. Yeah,
John Humphrey
I mean, that's it, right? I mean, my job as a drummer is to really to be the foundation to be, you know, to be solid to do my, my job sort of, in that sense. But I do, there's an aggressiveness to both the music that I you know, it's a visceral thing, it's a physical thing. And boy, having not been on tour for, you know, a year and a half. I feel angst. You know, I do practice at home. And both my kids are also in music, my oldest is a drummer, and it's very inspiring to me, even on a daily basis to go in there and woodshed but, but it's something that is a release for me, and I get that through, you know, playing with both bands musically, it's definitely an emotional release. But thank you, I do try to be a solid, you know, Foundation to support the music to play for the music. I mean, obviously, we talked about rock but you know, as it went on, and I've always liked powerful drummers that just had a style to them, like cozy Powell or, or liberty Devito. He played for Billy Joel. He just was an amazing, powerful drummer with you know, very tasteful parts and were musical and he framed the songs because both the bands I play with, I mean will in all bands, I guess. Generally it's about the supporting the music and letting the melody kind of ran through and you want to be the solid foundation and at least that's what I tried to be you know,
Ari Gold
well, but everyone has that philosophy. So I think Ethan's right to be enough that comparison. I,
Ethan Gold
but it's yeah, it's, I mean, I hear it with you're growing up with Kiss and ACDC you mentioned those are like kind of like your first and I hear that in your in your playing, even though the bands are much more like kind of bloody sort of emotional type bands, you know. So anyway, it's one thing I'm curious about just as a working you know, as a working musician how you negotiate if you're an active member of multiple bands like does that become a thing where they can't tour or do or do they have like a understudy? You know, who when you're like, I'm sorry, how do you like how do you work that out? Like politically between between the Nixon's and cedar?
John Humphrey
Yeah, no, that's a great question. Because before the pandemic, you know, see that would be coming off a tour and then you know, the Nixon's would maybe do a few shows, and the Nixon's didn't play for like, you know, 12 or 15 years. I mean, a long time we the band, sort of, we went our separate ways, and then reunited in 2017. Suddenly, you know, the last three or four years been trying to sort of balance it out. So you mentioned understudy, my 21 year old son, Jackson, amazing drummer. He he'll fill in for the Nixons when I can't when there's a conflict in the schedule.
Ethan Gold
Work for Led Zeppelin.
John Humphrey
Yeah, right, right. I mean, that's amazing. Yeah, it's funny.
Ethan Gold
It's just a beautiful thing for you as a musician, and as a father. That's, oh, yeah, really gratifying.
John Humphrey
Absolutely. And the first time he did it, he was 15. He had only been playing maybe two years. And he got up at a huge outdoor amphitheater here in Oklahoma City. To do the last song of the sets either always, typically closes the show with a song called remedy. And I told Jackson to learn it, and you're going to get up and play with the band. And he did in front of 10,000 people. And he just, he killed it. Like he had been doing it his whole life. And he and my, my buddies are there, we're all grown men crying, and it is the sort of experience is watching my kid up there playing. But then now here, it's become a situation where, you know, see, there's going to go back on tour and Dixon's have some shows, and Jackson's already filled in on a couple and He will fill in on a couple more this year. And it works out and you know, we keep it in the family, literally. Yeah.
Ethan Gold
So that's very medieval of you.
Ari Gold
I want to there's a fan fan. Then, Melissa, who's asked what's your favorite saving cedar song? What you know, Shawn, do you song that you just love playing every time it starts your site?
John Humphrey
Well, yeah, the start the show. It's a song. For a long time that started the set. It's the first song on the first album was called gasoline. And for the longest time, it was the song that sort of set the barometer for the night. And it's a fun song for me. The first album, it's up disclaimer was the first album, Josh freeze was a studio drummer on that album, I joined after that album and have been with them ever since. So I have sort of this unique outside perspective of I'm a fan of that album, I had to learn that or I chose to learn that entire album for my audition. And I'm just a fan of of that album. And it's a different experience. It's I'm not the one who actually recorded it. So gasolines always a fun one. For me live it's always been like a set the tone for the show. And it's like one of the but yeah, recording you absolutely absolutely don't try to overplay and like do a bunch of crap that wasn't there to begin with.
Ethan Gold
It's just being the guy who got Josh freeze parts. That's a that's a that's a good position to be in. Oh, yeah. Those of you listening he's like, you know, he's one of this generation. He's like, one of the studio kind of go to guys Yeah, man.
John Humphrey
He's like our generations how Blaine or something?
Ethan Gold
Yes, exactly. Play. Yeah. Devo. Now, I think fairly consistent, right? He's just he's like on a brick. He's on many records. You've heard the Raven you know, he's one of those guys
John Humphrey
just incredible and solid tasteful drummer and we've crossed paths a few times over the years and great guy just a killer drummer. So yes, I mean, just to be able to try to replicate those parts and to have learned that album for the for the my audition even going all the way back. It was amazing. Yeah, Josh did a killer job. A new song on the new album is called wasteland is one I'll be looking forward to playing live. We haven't played it live yet. It's just a song on the new album that it's like probably my favorite song right now and I've been practicing it and just kind of getting ready and imagining what it's going to be like to be on stage and finally, play some of the songs in, in this case wasteland for the first time, you know, in front of a crowd.
Ari Gold
And you have a drum sponsor, right? Like,
John Humphrey
yeah. Yeah, so I'm with just joined W FL three, which is Bill Ludwig's company, William F. Ludwig the third. And he personally contacted me and asked me, I'd been with Ludwig for years. And anybody who's sort of familiar with Ludwig, they were, you know, the family was bought out years ago and bought the name. And so Bill started a company several years back in W FL three and he invited me to join the company. He's so amazing. Such a great guy. I'm really excited. So y'all everybody.
Ari Gold
William, actual bill.
John Humphrey
Right. Right. Because I I know him as Bill. I call him Bill, you know?
Ari Gold
Probably noncompete I'm sure Yeah.
John Humphrey
Right. Right. Ludwig. Yeah, exactly.
Ari Gold
But so. So that's, are you playing those terms on the new record?
John Humphrey
Actually, I joined him after we had recorded the album. So So yeah, I'd use my Ludwigs. And some different I have a Tom of Bill brass snare I use for the last two albums. Just sort of my buddy. It's actually my buddies bill, brass snare, that thing weighs a ton. And he's in Kansas City, and he will either drive down and give it to me, and I'll fly to Nashville or drive to Nashville with it. And it's a snare drum I've used on the last two albums, it's just a gunshot. It's an awesome snare. But, you know, we kind of have different things in the studio that we use that you know, for personick reasons. But the W FL stuff is it's amazing. Sounds great. I'll be looking forward to tracking with that that kit next time, you know, yeah.
Ethan Gold
Are there any songs that from the catalog that scare you? That that you you're like, this one's always a challenge for me to get through? Do you have do you have things that get your nerves up like that?
John Humphrey
Well, I think it's going back to disclaimer, we were it'll be the 20th anniversary of disclaimer. Next year later this year next year, claimer one year disclaimer, which again, is Josh freeze. So we were talking about maybe playing that album in its entirety. We haven't decided you know what capacity that will be. We do a live stream or maybe a show or something. But there's a song on the album I had to learn when I did my audition. It was actually the first song I did with the band. It's called pride. And it's a song that changes type signatures. It goes from a three four thing back to a 443444. It's a genius parts a great part. And Shawn played the riff when I walked in the room, we had barely shook hands and introduced and I think he had already auditioned three or four guys, it was just done with the shit. And he was like, I'm gonna play this riff. He either gets it he's gonna be on or he's not. And it was the first thing he threw out. Luckily, I stayed on. And but it's a tricky song, man. So if we do that album, again, in its entirety, I'm going to have to do some homework for sure.
Ari Gold
So that was that like your audition? Quick? Basically, can you refer to for for without without a key? Was that yeah, that
John Humphrey
was? Yeah, I mean, there were like three or four songs I was supposed to learn and I can't remember. It's again, the songs called pride. I don't know if that song was. I learned the whole album. Anyway, I was just prepared for any song they threw out and thank God, because they threw out. Obviously, Sean throughout pride, like from the get go, like, are you going to keep up? Let's see, buddy. Let's see what you can do. And that's a tricky song. So we did that song in its entirety. I mean, that album, you know, like I said, I'll have some homework to do.
Ethan Gold
You were you were like Robert Trujillo coming in, say, Hey, want to do battery. Right and to do like, maybe she can destroy or something's like exactly. I don't know if we can play battery. Exactly. You know, it's it's a case for being prepared for do the work. You show up. Like any, you know, working musician, I don't know how many people on this on this live stream are musicians or just people in their regular lives. But you know, showing up to that interview, prepared, knowing your stuff, doing your homework, and here you are, almost 20 years later. None of that happens if you don't walk into that, knowing that record backwards and forwards.
John Humphrey
right for you. Yeah, thank you. I thank you my guitar player Corys like, you know, fail to prepare, prepare to fail. You know, it's over the Yeah, you know, Mantra because you know, even do During this last album, Shawn had sent us a bunch of demos, songs for us to learn, and kind of get prepared work on parts. And because we were going to track the drums with, like, with like, it was like 21 songs and three or four days, so we were going to track like six or seven songs a day. So I had to do my homework even to track this last album. So it's things like that. Yeah, I'm very much I have to prepare. I'm OCD about that stuff. Man. I have to do my homework, and I have to be prepared. I don't like walking into situations. And now what are we doing? What's going on? You know, I just don't wing it too. Well, yeah. Yeah.
Ethan Gold
Some people you know, every people are different. There can be there are personalities that love that. Yeah. But if you're coming into a, an outfit that's already like a machine that's already operating, you know, you better walk in knowing your stuff. And then and then you can start adding your own flavor after that, but like they don't, right. They don't want to be confused when you come in.
John Humphrey
Yeah, yeah, a lot of guys can improvise on the spot. And, and I can appreciate that. And I think there's definitely music styles and bands. I mean, maybe that fits better with it. I feel, especially with Seether. You want those those parts solid, and I just like to know, you know, kind of my situation.
Ari Gold
And you, you will normally one in every year, or whatever it happened a third of the year, you'd be so rusty, we're all. So what
Ari Gold
well that like, one hour is you can get this getting feedback Hold on. That might be its downside. But you would have to do a lot of rehearsing to catch up with yourself. Because that audience pressure I think jacks up whatever you're rehearsing. It just sinks deeper into your bones when you have people watching.
John Humphrey
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's one like you said, one live show is like five rehearsals or something. And so. But again, I guess having my kids man, it's great inspiration. I mean, when you have a 21 year old in the music room, just shredding. And you just you walk in there going, Okay, now, what did you just do? Show me what you just do you know what you just did, that kind of, it's inspiring. It's, it's, you know, and again, like I said, the music is, especially with these bands, it's a physical thing. And I like to have that release, let that emotion out. And I get angsty, if I don't have it. So I've tried to keep the chops up and things are looking to slowly ramp up, we're talking about shows at the end of July, August, September. So it's, it's like coming back fast, you know, all kinds of things are starting to happen and, and I've got to get in shape. So I'm trying to get in there and woodshed and really get caught up, you know,
Ari Gold
this is where airdropping can be your friends. Anytime a day or night you can air drum and as ad so I'm going to try to back away from that door see if that stops feedback. As the trainer says in in advances of Power Air drumming is a double workout because you which is true as as, as the Guinness World Record holder, I can attest this, that you when you you don't have anything to bounce off of. So you have to use double muscle power to back up. And so like if you when I drum, I can drum you know, for a long time and not get tired but if I'm air drumming, I wiped and wiped out in 10 minutes if I'm doing like full bore, you know like double bass drum and and yeah, you know, you can you can really jack up your your workout if you take the drums away to say
John Humphrey
absolutely man and and for years my wife and I we lived in apartments, you know, we had a house, smaller house just to NAV even a music room or a place to set up my drums. So to work on music to prepare, prepare for the studio, maybe for a tour, I would have to air drum, listen to music and practice just you know air drumming or padding on my legs or, or what have you and I can work up a sweat air drumming. Absolutely. I can do it. And i i I still do it. I still do it. You know, it's just sort of habit. I listen to a song and I kind of listen to what's going on and I'm trying to work it out in my mind. And next thing I know my arms are going my feet are going you know
Ari Gold
have you ever had any My dealings with MusiCares granny organization that we're supporting with the movie. I don't know if you've known people who've been rescued by it. But for those who don't know, adventures, the power and the modern Modern Drummer connection where we are raising money for MusiCares, which is supporting musicians in need, which is really, especially right now, so much, you know, gig gig, it's having vanished over the last year and change. There's a lot of people hurting. And so I want everyone to know that anyone who watches Adventures of power on Amazon Prime, even though it's free on Amazon Prime, we get a little money and we send it over to MusiCares. So please, sports awesome. Be write it write a nice review, if you feel so inclined. And that, that helps people hear the movie, but it also helps MusiCares. So I know people whose lives have literally been saved, you know, in their, you know, getting cleaned programs. And so it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful thing.
John Humphrey
So yeah, it's awesome. That's awesome.
Ari Gold
So for me, I think we'll we'll wrap up. But I'd love to just give you an opportunity to shout out to anything that you care about on planet earth or in music that you feel that we haven't talked about. Is there anything you want to say now that you, you have all of our attention?
John Humphrey
Just just thank you for having me, man, I appreciate it. I enjoyed talking to you guys. And again, it's the power of music, this, you know, thing we've just met, and so many things that we've shared experiences in our childhood or music, talking about Tom Sawyer, or how we got into drummer how I got into drumming? It is it's the beauty of music man, it's my solace. It's I you know, listen to it, I wouldn't know what to do. If I didn't have it in my life. I don't know what would have happened to me. If I hadn't gotten into music, I have no idea. I wasn't cut out for nine to five. And you know, I honestly, I don't know what would have happened to me. Music saved my life in so many ways. And it's wonderful to see my children get caught up into it and get bitten by that bug and just have a talent for it and a passion for it. And it makes me feel proud that I guess it's in the gene somewhere. It's really legit. And my kids have gotten it. And music is a powerful thing. And it's gotten me through this last year. And I'm very blessed man to have the band that I'm with and the both bands and to be able to play music for a living and do this. And I know a lot of us have it's been a tough time this last year and a half this last year, but I'm very hopeful that shows are on their way back. And we can all once again, commune and, you know, share music live and experience that all together, you know.
Ari Gold
Yeah, Indeed, indeed. Well, thank you so much for chatting with us. And for those who want to watch the movie. In general, you can go to air drummer.com. And there's links to watch it and also to watch all the other interviews that we've done with other wonderful people. And anyone who wants to watch it right now with us. We're doing a watch party on amazon prime. So if you go to adventures to power.com/prime, that'll go to a watch party thing. And then I will hit play on my end. And then everyone wants to sit together. It's sort of the lead digital thing. But that's going to happen. So
Ethan Gold
good movie for the tour bus. Absolutely.
Ari Gold
And yeah, say hello to Oklahoma where I've never been
John Humphrey
great. Tom has just flown over it right here. It's flat. It's very flat. It's very flat. But if it
Ari Gold
and I grew up in San Francisco, so like anything less than a hill like this scene. So
John Humphrey
it's awesome. There's a lot of great people here and we love music man, a lot of especially rock music, and we always loved
Ari Gold
asking Oklahoma question because I always felt like it has a little bit of Texas and as a little bit of a, you know, the central like the heartland thing. Right? Do both of those things there or is it really more heartland? Do you do you feel the Texas you know, influence of the your southern neighbor
John Humphrey
Yeah, I think definitely. There's also obviously we're known for country music right, you know, huge country artists premiere and Garth Brooks. But, you know, there's a lot of talent here always has been, you know, Eric Clapton's band from in the 70s Leon Russell, you know from Oklahoma. They were from Tulsa Eric Clapton span. You know, Flaming Lips Absolutely. Exactly. Always been talent and not just country music, and we're right on the crossroads, you know, 35 and I feel Woody, and when I was a kid all the concerts used to come through here and and a lot of great shows and that's kind of a cool thing. And we've always supported music. And yeah, Oklahoma's great man, great people and good place to live and to grow up
Ethan Gold
Is Rival Sons from Oklahoma?
John Humphrey
I don't think so. King of Leon are from here.
Ari Gold
I can't hear you, Ethan. Oh, unmuting
Ethan Gold
because I think that was causing the feedback. So I'm muting half via words. Anyway. John, it's been great. Oh, okay, so Well, I gave a shout out to a Long Beach band, I guess. Or something. But anyway, um, John is great to meet you.
Ari Gold
Great to meet you. Yeah, we'll see you out on the road. If you're in Los Angeles. You you have you have a free coffee or tequila shot your choice. Okay. On the beach with with a surfboard as a prop. Nice.
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