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Jimmy, the super tanker has just docked and I think the crew is headed to the bar.
They've uploaded, unloaded a shipment of broiler. Broiler is the new album by Madison Rocker
Super tanker, performing at the high in saloon on Sunday, March 17th. The four piece band of friends
is fronted by vocalist Jim Brighton and bassist Jim Johnson holds up the bottom. But tonight,
guitarist Chris Paul's and drummer Windsager are here in the studio to talk about their new album
and the St. Paddy's day version of the maxing matinee concert series. Chris,
wind, welcome to maxing radio. Super tanker for the wind. Thanks for having us, Rocker.
I will say from the onset that we are up for a whammy ward. Yes, I don't think we're going to win.
Well, no, come on. You got to be more optimistic. You need help with your marketing brackets.
We definitely help with that. Chris, hey, when you're not playing guitar,
you're a writer for like the Todd Elba show and Cracked Magazine website. Tell us a little bit about
that stuff. Yeah. I work in digital media. I come up with dumb ideas that people seem to
click on and like. Is that where Todd gets those? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, we collaborate
on the on the inside. So you're taking all the credit for the Todd Elba shows. I'm saying like
Todd has a really great dumb ideas too. But most of the really dumb ones are mine.
Chris Todd, give me your heard on the civic media radio network weekdays. What is it new?
I believe. Yeah, new into two. New into two. Hey, foreign listeners who are just getting
acquainted with the idea of super tanker. Tell us a little bit about your band. What's your backstory?
Well, Chris and I played for a blues band for many years,
excelos and we had a lot of fun. It was great. It kind of fills a little fizzled out after a while
and then we just all quit and all of a sudden I get a call from a few months later, Chris saying,
hey, I'm playing with Blake, the bass player at the time. And we're just making up some
songs on our own originals. And he's like, why don't you come down with your, you know,
your set and just mess around. And I'm like, all right. Okay. And sure enough, I really enjoyed it.
It's the first I've been in cover bands. I think what you're trying to say is that you're just
really amazed with the quality and the brilliant. Well, it got there after a while. I mean, it takes
a while that it, you know, it developed and it was, it was awesome. So we fell into like one of
the best singers that I've ever played with in my life. And we did him absolutely fall. Yes.
It's amazing how that works out sometimes where this, the things just fall right in the pieces
or the people come in or a place. No, we had a bunch of songs and we kind of liked what we had.
But honestly, we were maybe thinking that a female vocals would be interesting because the whole
idea behind the band was to have kind of very loud, kind of big guitar sound, but vocals that
weren't necessarily like metal or hard rock, but had a lot of tonality and just flow to them
in a very musical way. And what want of having is like, we stumbled into the perfect guy in
Jim Brin. Well, I'd say your songs came, it came first. Yeah. The structure. Now, how did you find Jim?
I met him at a bar.
This is Wisconsin. So I guess that's pretty typical. Yeah. Friend or as Matt Fink sent me a couple
of demos that he had done that were basically part of like commercial work that he did. And he,
he basically, I think this is right. Like was paid to sing like the guy in Steely Dan and
paid to sing like Tom Petty for some sort of like commercial work. And he did it. And I listened
to it. I was like, holy moly like this guy is just a chameleon. And he obviously can do a bunch
of different stuff. So we got to get him in here. As long as you don't have to wear a mask, right?
So you know, like the mass singer, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. TV like popular culture, Jimmy. Glad
you clarified that. Thank you. Now it's funny. Oh, boy. A few singles were released early,
but after considerable time in the studio and mixing, you guys have released a full LP
broiler. It's a very refined. It's got a big sound. Tell us how you survived that process.
When they all have a big goal, Jimmy. Yeah. Well, you know, like I think our experience is
probably similar to a lot of bands during COVID where the ability to play live wasn't there. So
we had all these ideas. We actually had the album in the can prior to COVID. But we did a lot
of thinking about it during COVID. And we added some vocal parts. We changed some of the guitar
parts a little bit. And we kind of, I think, you know, if if anything, it was a bit of a blessing
for us to really kind of like turn the screwdriver completely on it and get exactly what we wanted.
Now, did you guys record this like on your own or did you go to a studio to do this?
No, we did it with Jake. Jake down it.
Paradigm. Paradigm studios, which no longer is down on West Wash because they
they built it. I mean, it was really interesting. It was like upstairs of a gas station. Yeah,
which was kind of freaky. Like just like just like, oh, wow, it's a gas station, but no.
Well, that made a convenient for recording rundown. So bad.
Potato chips beer. Supposedly they sold like more beer like on Mifflin Street.
During that day, then they did the entire year like combined. It was very like a
we got Chris. We got win from Super Tanker. They're playing the Maxing Matinee Showcase tomorrow
at the high new in saloon. Hope you can come down to join us. John and Gordy the morning show here
on WMDX. They'll be there MC in the show hosting, shaking your hand. This is a great time.
Are you guys looking forward to the show? No. Yeah, I didn't think so. No, we're absolutely.
Absolutely. We're absolutely looking forward to it. What's interesting is a year ago, there was a
benefit show at the high noon for a friend of ours who unfortunately passed away. His name is
Bill Jackson. He left behind, you know, kind of a young family and rocker and Cindy sent my
hair and fire. We're good enough to appear on that bill. So this is just basically that bill
that a lot of people came to and had a lot of fun last year about this time. We're just doing
it again. So come down. It's going to be a great time. The doors open at noon. The show starts
at one. You're out of there by four. I love the song Boiler so much. I actually use that in the
promo that we're running for the show. I appreciate it. You'll get that check sometime or
another rocker. Make sure that check happens there. Okay, Jamie. I'm on it. What else is happening
in the future for you guys? Well, we're going to be playing down at Somer Fest hopefully on
kind of a side stage. The Miami stage. The Miami stage guitar. That's the side stage. I think
you're reproducing. Yeah. Thanks, rocker. Yeah. Thanks for telling us what we're going to play.
Yeah, absolutely. And we're also going to probably be going in the studio soon to do a couple
singles. I don't know that we're going to like crank up another full length album anytime real soon.
But we are going to like keep recording. We're going to keep bringing new stuff out there. And
maybe we'll collect those into one album. I like it when bands release singles as opposed to
like a full length album seems to be the kind of thing these days. Well, it keeps you relevant.
You know, it keeps the fans engaged to what you're doing, especially if you really know how to
get it out there. I think we were just of such an era that like when we started doing this,
we're going to make an album because we like albums. Well, that's the dream, right? Yeah.
Well, an album is like a collection of singles, right? Yeah. Well, hopefully.
Well, hopefully that's not any. That's well, that's a network time killers in there.
In the old days, right? You put out a 45 with an A and a B side and there was a single. And then
once you had, you know, then they said, hey, I will just tell you a bunch of those. All the people
in listening audience tonight that broiler is just full of singles. Should listen to it.
Doesn't get all bad. Any plans real quick here? We're just under a minute here. Any plans for
a video, briefly seen in type of videos or vinyl? Uh, vinyl is definitely going to happen.
You guys would rock the vinyl. Yeah. Uh, we're looking into that right now. There's actually
poodle right now in Madison. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, definitely. And, uh, yeah, we're going to have a vinyl
pressing of broiler for sure. That's awesome. Uh, Chris,
when thank you so much for coming in tonight, really appreciate you looking forward to the Maxine
Matinee showcase happening tomorrow at the high noon saloon. Once again, the doors open at noon,
your show starts at one and you're going to be out of there at four o'clock and get home in
time for Sunday supper. I love this next song we're going to play. I absolutely love this song.
Real quick. Give me the elevator pitch for internet declaration of love. Man, Jimmy.
Like, this is where I just sound like that guy. Uh, basically, it was an idea that I had
about people on the internet that maybe kind of overshare about how much they love their
significant other or whatever. And I'm just like, why do I need to know about this?
You're that guy. Go ahead. Get it out there. Super tankers. Thanks guys. Appreciate you.
Here's their song internet declaration of love. This Maxine on Civic Media. We are local music.
