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Wow.
Wow.
I love that song, man.
That is seven ways to sundown.
And that is the cold stairs.
Of course, the cold stairs is coming to Atwood Fest on, uh, let's see here.
A sun Saturday.
No, wait, Sunday, July 26th.
They'll be on the Luther stage coming up, uh, 4pm.
And of course, before that, we heard Danny Garwood.
Danny guitar would Garwood Danny guitar Danny Garwood and the company will be playing on the Luther stage Opening closing the Luther stage at 6 p.m.
Well, I gotta get my stuff straight here.
That was up your sleeve We kicked it off.
We are just playing at one fest bands tonight.
I've ditched the whole double dip idea And we have some great
interviews with bands tonight who are also playing at what fest.
It's of course another at what fest show.
It's the last one that you have to endure until next year because of course at what fest is this coming Saturday and Sunday, July 25th and 26th, which we will start referring to as Atwood Saturday and Atwood Sunday throughout the rest of this broadcast because we're going to be talking about where the bands are playing.
And of course you can go to at what fest.com.
to find out where all the bands are playing, what stages, what times, fact, every detail you can think of about Atwood Fest.
Tonight on the show, we have some great stuff coming up.
Warner E. Hodges from the Warner E. Hodges International All Stars.
They're playing the Sugar Maple Stage 815 on Saturday.
And Warner Hodges, he was in Jason and the Scorchers, one of the founding members of that, driving and crying.
And he's played with Dan Baird.
his solo band, which is Dan Baird was of course the singer from the Georgia Satellites and local drummer here for Generation Jones and also for the Georgia Satellites.
Moral Magellan joins him on drums and tonight we'll talk to Warner from his home out in Nashville about him coming in for the show.
That'll be really awesome.
And also tonight, Tyler Armstrong, guitarist and songwriter for the band Feel.
We are gonna talk to them there out on tour.
And they will be at Atwood Fest next Sunday.
Atwood Fest Sunday, 6 p.m.
They're going to close out the festival on the Clyde Stubblefield stage.
And I have some really good questions for him.
We're going to be talking about his history.
He's into vintage guitars.
And of course, I had the little bet with my daughter.
about whether he sings on one of the verses of a particular song.
It's like trivia.
And we get to clarify that tonight.
And it's about a t-shirt, right?
If
I
win, she's got to buy me a t-shirt at the merch booth.
And of course, if I lose, I get her a t-shirt.
We'll probably end up getting two t-shirts for the booth.
I'm sure we'll both want one.
And tonight we are going to be at 8 p.m.
We'll be repeating Live from the Mad City when we had Barbie Lane just a few months back, March 14th.
We had Barbie Lane in the studio.
Of course, that's Edem Tess Faye on guitar and singing, Mike Haifner on drums, Rich Stannick on guitar, and Michael Summer on bass.
They're right here in our studio for a live performance Live from the Mad City, and that was really good.
And I figured that'd be a great AdWords Fest preview.
since we don't have a band tonight.
So let's keep it moving.
Becca Murray and the Wildflowers, you know, she is playing tonight.
That's probably the most Midwestern thing you could have said right now, Rocker.
What's that?
Keep her moving.
Keep her moving.
Yeah.
Because Becca Murray and the Wildflowers are playing tonight at the Gamma Ray bar.
So let's get to some Becca Murray.
This is the title track from her latest album, Skating By.
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They always say another day, another dollar I should probably see my mom, maybe I'll call home
I'm petrified to walk this road alone Nobody told me that a harder life would find me I always thought that I would find someone to guide me But I'm living on my own Inside a home I'm borrowing for now At least I can say I got me
2nd place in the rock break is I'm always stuck between a rock and a hard play is nothing less than pure perfection will I ever find my peace?
I know that no one ever told me it was easy but they never seem to see the world
all Beckham Murray and the wildflowers boy I was gonna say the all-stars wildflowers and the all-stars and that was her title track from her album skating by she will be on the Luther stage coming up at Wood Sunday and that's of course this coming Sunday the 26th at 2 p.m.
And so you can always check atwoodfest.com for the full live music schedule, get all the times and stages.
Of course, there are three stages, 30 bands over two days.
So it's a lot of stuff to remember, you know?
Yeah.
It's best if you go to the website.
15 bands per day is quite a bit, I gotta say.
It really is.
And we have another band that's coming to the Sugar Maple stage.
These guys are really good.
From Milwaukee, they're kind of an acoustic Americana band, really special.
They're called Listening Party.
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Absolutely, that is the Warren E. Hodges International All-Stars, and they are playing at Atwood Fest coming up on Saturday, July 25th on the Sugar Maple Stage.
They're the Saturday Night Headliner on that stage, and that's gonna happen at 8.15 p.m.
And I'm Rocker, here with Jane in the studio.
And if you've ever wondered where punk country and pure guitar fire collide, look no further than Warren E. Hodges, a founding member of Jason and the Scorchers, Warner helped pioneer the sound that would become known as Americana and Alt Country, earning the band the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for performance.
And he's also shared his talents with Driven and Cryin', Dan Baird and Homemade Sin, and his own band.
Warner E. Hodges International Outstars comes to Atwood Fest on Saturday, July 25th, headlining the Sugar Maple stage.
And tonight he joins us on Max Ink Radio.
Warner E. Hodges, welcome to Max Ink Radio.
Hey, y'all, how you doing?
We're doing great, man.
We're excited to have you come up here to the Mad City.
Have you, have you played up here in Madison in the past?
I have played Madison, but it's been years.
It was back with the scorters.
I did.
We did Madison, but it would probably be 90s or early 2000s the last time I played there.
Oh, wow.
Fun.
But yeah, we used to do it all the time.
It was on the tour schedule in the old days.
Oh, great.
Well, we're glad to bring you back here to Madison.
Warner, before we hear about some of your legendary career, tell us about your backstory.
I mean, how did you get started playing
music?
My parents were musicians.
My mom was a country singer.
I mean, hardcore 50s, crying to beer country music.
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette kind of stuff.
And my dad was a player.
And my dad was in the US military.
And when he retired in 1973, they moved to Nashville to pursue a record deal for my mother.
They were still pretty young.
My dad was 43.
My mom was 36.
and I had been playing drums in their band for a couple of years at the time.
I
started playing drums with them when I was 10 years old professionally.
It didn't work out for them, but it put me and I could not have been in a better town in the 70s for music.
You know, Nashville was a powder keg, but it was still a little sleepy town that just hadn't blown up yet.
And I was, I was in the right place at the right time in the mid to late seventies.
Well, that's, uh, that's pretty cool.
So you've been in music pretty much all your life at this point.
Yeah.
It's a weird one thinking about it.
I was thinking about it today.
It's 57 years, dude.
Wow.
Yeah.
has a long time.
Wow, that's pretty crazy.
Well, now tell us about your early career with Jason and the Scorchers.
I mean, you're one of the founding members and that band was, as we said, recognized for the Americana Music Association's lifetime achievement award.
Tell us about that.
Well, when we started, I had went to school with a guy named Perry Bags, our drummer.
Perry was a couple of years younger than me.
We went to high school together and we ended up hooking up with
East National Bay a friend of ours named Jeff Johnson Who played bass and we kind of put together our own little band and When Jason moved town he met Jeff Jeff brought me in I brought Perry in and boom we were off and running Wow, it was kind of a weird band though because everybody was on a different instrument Perry was a keyboard player and singer playing drums I was a drummer playing guitar
and Jeff was a guitar player playing bass.
So it was a, it was a different dynamic.
Oh, that's pretty interesting how it all happened.
And
tell us, and tell us about, you know, that being kind of rose to some modern fame as well.
Yeah, we lucked up.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
I shouldn't say lucked up.
We worked very hard.
We, uh,
We spent a couple of years riding around in Jason's board and kind of line band and we got ourselves to the point where we could go to almost any place in the continental us and play to a couple hundred people in the night of the week
and EMI records uh liked that we managed to sell 30 000 EPs out of our manager's garage pre-internet
yo that's a big feat you know and uh
We, uh, we lucked up EMI records like this signed us.
We added a Bob Dylan cover to that record and remixed it and reissued it.
And it had already won the New York Times E.P.
of the year in 83, but it won it in 84.
And somebody told me they wanted to give it to us in 85 too, but we were like, we've already won it.
Let's move along.
We're going to have all the other bands hate
us.
Right.
Well, let's give the drummer some.
How did you meet Georgia Satellites and current generation Jones drummer from Madison, Morrow Magellan?
Oh, I love me some Morrow Magellan.
The guy that basically did all of the Georgia Satellites demos and all that, a guy named Kevin Jennings that kind of
You
he was there.
He wasn't their manager, but he was there, you know guidance trying to help them get a foot in the door He was the drum tech for Jason and the squirters and and he Played Jason and I a song called keep your hands to yourself.
on a cassette and Jason actually Jason actually took that cassette to our managers
And I mean, those guys went from playing to 10 or 12 people to in 90 days, they were playing Arrowhead Stadium opening up for Bob Seeker.
Wow.
But I lucked up their first record when it come out.
They were on tour with us.
We did like three months together, them opening for the scorchers.
And I met, I had known Dan and Ricky, but I met Mauro at the time.
So I've known Mauro since like 1985.
Quite honestly, my Mount Rushmore of rock and roll drummers, Mauro Magellan is one of them.
I've been very fortunate that I also played in Dan's later band, Dan Bearden Homemade Sin, with Mauro for 13, 14 years.
And when the spot came open in my band, he was my first call.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Well, that's how I found out about you more gave me an email and he said, Hey, rocker man, you got to check out this band I play with.
And what do you
know?
I'm glad he hooked us up.
I really am.
We're so looking forward to coming up there.
Oh, that's going to be fun.
And Warren, Warner E. Hodges, International Isle Stars is coming to Madison to perform at Atwood Fest, headlining the Sugar Maple Stage on Saturday, July 25th at 8.15 p.m.
They'll go to 10 p.m.
And tell us about the band that you're bringing in and what kind of show this will be.
Excuse me.
Well, we'll have Mauro Magellan, of course, on drums.
Bassist or bass who also the absolute you track you just played that's Maro playing on that record.
Oh,
I was
wondering
that.
Oh, yeah, that's Maro The bar bassist is a guy named King Vogueley.
Yeah, Vogueley.
He played with the bottle rockets.
Oh, sure Marshall Crenshaw.
He's an ungodly bass player and even better singer.
He's a great singer myself on guitar and
I'm bringing my buddy Joe Blanton from Nashville who has produced my last World Records, I guess he's gonna be the other guitar player other singer, which is gonna be great
Wow, and you know what happens at a Warnery Hodges I mean you guys seem you know sometimes almost country but sometimes you know almost hard rock and roll and sometimes boogie woogie I mean
It's a little
bit of all of it.
My dad used to say there's two kinds of music, good and bad.
Yeah.
Which I love that, you know, there's my dad's who he turned me on to Parliament, Funkadelic and the Rolling Stones, you know, my father even saw the good in the sex pistol.
So he was like, the boy can't sing, but he's got good lyrics.
I don't know about that bass player them.
Yeah, yeah
We we try to start a little fire between us and then if if things get off and running right it just becomes a okay Who can add another log to the fire?
That's the plan.
You know,
you know, I was I was I was reading online about when you joined up with driving and crying Yeah for some touring and stuff and they seemed
You know, really inspired by you and your playing when you joined that band.
Talk about your time playing with a drive and cry.
And that, that was, uh, I love the driving and crying guys.
They've been friends of mine for 35, 40 years.
Um, I played with them for about six years.
Um, and.
the first night when I played with him I knew one song which played like a five six thousand seat outdoor thing I knew one song Kevin the Kevin Kenny the singer is he's gonna make me a set list I'm still waiting on that set list so it was I've always been able to kind of
Just get up and make it work and that one was a really difficult one to do but I found that That's what they were looking for.
They wanted me to bring new stuff to their songs.
They didn't want anything planned out and It was it was a load of fun playing because they had a hundred seventy five hundred eighty songs and I knew one
That's a heck of a repertoire
That's a lot of songs to learn.
It was a pretty scary thing at first.
Once I realized what they were after out of me, it become quite a bit easier.
And I, I love playing with them.
I do it at the drop of a hat again now.
Wow.
That sounds so fun.
Um, you know, true to your name, you're heading out in the fall for another Euro tour.
Oh
yeah.
What do you love about the European audiences?
Cause you know, I, I mean,
when I was booking you and talking to you before I would fast here, most of the time it seemed like you were over in Europe playing shows.
Well, I kind of looked up via Dan's, uh, Dan Baird's situation when Dan retired his, he started talking about retiring four or five years before he did.
When he started talking about it, when I put together a solo band.
Cause I knew Dan was going to walk in one day to a show and go, okay, that's it.
And it happened, but it was about five years.
I didn't want to be at point zero.
I was five years into it, had a couple of records under my belt and was slowly starting to get a following from my solo stuff.
But his whole organization, you know, the manager of the record, everything fell in my lap.
When Dan quit, all of that just kind of fell into my lap.
Places that wouldn't hire me the year before one to know if I'd come that year, you know So it It's kind of my whole organization is over there as crazy as it sounds and I got to where I had up until Morrow and Keith joined my band a year ago.
I had all British musicians
and trying to come back here and work with those guys, you know, work papers are ridiculous.
That's challenging.
Yeah, it was very challenging.
So I just, you know, now that we've got three Americans in the band, counting myself, it makes it a lot easier to look at doing some American shows.
been getting offers for American shows for years, but just not being able to do them, you know?
Well, we're sure glad you could take this one.
Oh, dude, me too.
What's coming up for you in the future?
And how do we keep track you online?
WarneryHodges.com is where everything is.
We're doing the fatwood fest thing Saturday the 25th.
I can't wait.
And then we go to Europe September 9th or 10th for a couple of months.
And then I'm going to have my left knee replaced when I get back.
Really looking forward to that.
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's I got a decent hole and then I do outlaw current.
We do outlaw country careers 11 in March next year.
Nice Warner.
Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us tonight on maxing radio.
We really appreciate it.
Can't wait to see it at what fest.
Thank you, Rocker.
Find all the music schedule, the full music schedule, videos, social media links and Spotify playlists for all the bands playing at Atwoodfest this year at www.atwoodfest.com.
Right now, let's keep it up with a little more Warner E Hodges.
This is Gunslinger.
You're listening to Max Inc Radio.
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Gunslinger, that is Warren E. Hodges band.
And I'll tell you that Saturday night at Atwood Fest is going to be amazing.
You're going to have Warner E. Hodges international all stars over on the sugar maple stage.
Vio five will be on the Clyde stubble field stage.
And at that very same time, we'll have the retrograde from Tallahassee.
We had them on a couple of weeks ago who those guys are touring with Blackberry smoke and the band feel.
and they're gonna be hanging out.
I think they're gonna even be staying around on Sunday to check out the shows and their buddies, the band Field Play.
So Saturday night of Atwood Fest, gonna be absolutely amazing.
I mean, plan out your whole weekend at atwoodfest.com.
You can find the full schedule.
Click on the band names, you get videos, social links, Spotify lists, and we even have it at www.atwoodfest.com.
We have a whole Spotify playlist where you can literally listen to almost every band that's playing at Atwood Fest coming up.
And by the way, when you see the schedule, there is a change.
A band had to cancel on us this year for a voice-related issue.
Brent Newski needs some rest on his voice, so he...
and his band had to cancel this because they're getting ready, I think, to go over to Europe.
And so in their stead, we went out and we found Feed the Dog from Appleton.
And Feed the Dog is a great jam band, kind of blue grassy, Americana, kind of funny humorous.
They're going to be, I think they're going to be really, really good.
They mostly play festivals around the area.
They're from Appleton, but
a lot of their guys live around the Midwest.
So they kind of get together, um, you know, only, only for these tours and stuff, right?
So they were off the weekend of Atwood Fest.
They planned to have off in the weekend at Atwood Fest.
We, we called them up and we said, the spot just opened.
They're like, hell yeah, we're going to be at Atwood Fest.
So they're coming in.
We're going to see them.
They're a really cool band.
This is feed the dog.
And this song is called salmon man.
And you're listening to Max Sync Radio.
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And they're swimming mighty fast.
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That is Louie and the flash bombs out of Milwaukee.
And that is brand, that's a brand new song.
I think we played it for the first time last week.
So we're just getting used to that song.
Louie, of course, he is going to be playing at Atwood Fest coming on Saturday, July 25th, 545.
And he will be over on the Sugar Maple stage.
And that's going to be a really good show.
It's going to be just before the Warner E Hodges All Stars.
uh, international all stars are playing over on that stage.
And before that, we heard Kelly Baker band, uh, and that is Dr. Feelgood.
Love is a serious business.
And Kelly Baker, you know, this is going to be a really special show for her.
She's going to be flying in with the band and playing this show and flying out on Sunday.
She's already going to be playing in New York city again.
So it's a lot of fun.
Kelly Baker, just an amazing singer.
We talked to her a couple of weeks ago on MaxingGradio and her show is just going to be stellar.
Of course, she opens up for VO5 on the Clyde Stubblefield stage that's coming Saturday.
And wow, check out atwoodfest.com for all the bands, the schedules and everything.
Tonight, thanks so much for Warner E. Hodges coming on the show from his home in Nashville.
Tell us about him coming up.
to Atwood Fest and the Band Feel.
They're gonna be coming to Atwood Fest too, and tonight we'll be speaking with Tyler Armstrong.
He's the guitarist, a songwriter for the Band Feel and-
Yeah, we've got lots of interesting questions for him.
We do have lots of interesting questions for him.
They will be headlining the Clyde Stubblefield stage Sunday at 6 p.m.
closing out the festival.
I can't think of a better way to close out the festival.
Then the band feel and then later we'll have a live from the Mad City Barbie Lane from when they played here back in March and they'll be Saturday July 25th 6 45 p.m.
Just before the retrograde over on the Luther stage right now Let's check out a little bit of horse Horace Green Then Horace will be playing actually just before Kelly Baker band just before view five So that's gonna be a stunning lineup.
This is brand new from Horace Green.
They are from the Fox Valley.
This is cosmic
bodies, you're listening to Maxing Radio, we are Local
Music.
Horace Green, that is Cosmic Bodies.
You're listening to Maxing Radio.
We are local music.
I'm Rocker here with Jane in the studio.
And wow, Horace Green, man.
I love that band.
And they'll be playing the Clyde stage Saturday at 345.
Check at woodfest.com for all the full schedules.
And I am really psyched to also bring in Taranzo Cannon.
Taranzo Cannon is a traditional Chicago bluesman, right?
Great band.
He's going to be driving in here from Chicago, just newly married.
So it's going to be a lot of fun.
And he's just a great guitar player, great singer.
And I think he's going to have a three piece band for us.
And he is going to be over on the Luther stage Saturday, 5pm.
You know, he's got a ton of stuff on Spotify.
So if you go to atwoodfest.com, click on Toronzo Cannon right on his profile there.
We have a link to his Spotify page.
And of course, at woodfest.com, you can get links to all the bands that are on Spotify by clicking on their name, checking out their profile, find their social media links.
I mean, all the information is really there that you need to find.
And we also have the Spotify list, the master one, right?
Put that baby on shuffle and you'll hear just search at woodfest 2026 on Spotify and you'll be able to cycle through our
of the bands that are playing at Advocator Fest.
Right now, let's check out some Taranzo Canon.
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Goodbye, Virginia.
That is the band feel.
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I'm rocker here with Jane in the studio.
You can say that again.
I have been tracking the band feel for a few years now.
And and when I saw a Facebook post.
that the band was in Illinois the night before Atwood Fest.
I reached out to their management to see if I could get them here to headline the Clyde's double field stage to close out Atwood Fest 2026.
And it took me some doing and our efforts paid off and the band field is coming to play.
in Madison for Atwood Fest 2026.
After releasing a successful EP last year, the band Feel has amassed over 100 million views and more than 500,000 followers across social platforms and are releasing their new album, What of Now, produced by five-time Grammy-nominated producer Paul Moke on August 21st.
Tonight on the phone with us is guitarist, songwriter, and sometimes singer for the band Feel.
Tyler, welcome to Max Inc Radio.
Hey glad to be on what's up guys?
Oh, man We are really enjoying the band feel and you know you guys played the rave One of the coldest nights of the year Like I think it was like 25 below out in Milwaukee and you played Appleton and here in Madison at the high noon snow How excited are you come back to play Wisconsin in the summertime?
Well, yeah, we've always had fun in Wisconsin We're excited to come back when it's not so cold that's for sure.
That was a very that was a brutal night.
I mean it was You know all the people that came out we were so thankful because it was it was bad But yeah, we're looking forward to getting up to Madison pretty soon here
Now Tyler before we get to know about your band tell us your backstory up to field.
How did you get started playing music?
Oh, I mean
As far as guitar playing goes, I started in middle school.
I'd always been into music, like listening to my parents that play some music when I was growing up.
And I was just attracted to the guitar for some reason.
I can remember my dad singing classic rock songs when I was younger, like Kansas and things like that.
And just as I grew up,
became more interested in it and when I got in the middle school I was in band playing percussion and I think it was basically one of the biggest things as I saw Wayne's world and the Bohemian Rhapsody scene
made me want to play
and uh yeah really yeah it's kind of cliche but it's what did it for me at least part of it and yeah it was um that he just kind of took off from there and you know taught myself and learned by
Ear and by eyes and all that and here we are now
and now I saw that she I mean you really have a passion for vintage guitars and You play a lot of them and bring a lot of them on tour.
I'll talk about your passion for vintage guitars
Yeah, well, you know One of my true passions is history and it just so happens to be that music
You know, it's so it's not rude in history.
It is history, you know, and yeah, it is So much of it is revolved around these instruments that Changed the world and so it you know Whether it's you know, American history or European history or you know instrument history I'm just so into it and just so happens to be with this one.
I am Can do it for a career and I can play them and you know
They vary with a wide range of values and stuff like that, but I like ones that are rare and expensive.
I like ones that are not.
It just goes hand in hand with it, which everyone speaks to me.
But yeah, I bring a lot of them out, and it's kind of what I'm kind of being known for in some circles, but they all do something different.
New guitars are great too.
I got plenty of them.
PRS is...
recently sent me some guitars that are just amazing and you know new ones can be great too but yeah they all do something different that's just like the human voice they all sound a little different you know
well on that song we just heard goodbye virginia you're using a rickenbacher 12 string um you know you don't see that often in the rock and roll world anymore talk about that
well yeah i mean we're you know influenced by some
you know, so much music.
We're a rock band, but you know, especially with the stuff we have coming out, coming up, and you know, some of the singles we just released, you know, it's pretty diverse, it's pretty dynamic, you know, I'm just as much into, you know, Joni Mitchell as I am Sabbath, I'm just as much into R.E.M.
as I am, you know, like Peter Gabriel era Genesis, you know, so.
Yeah,
right on.
That's one of my favorite, too, actually.
Is the Genesis stuff?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
That's that's my those are my boys.
But so, yeah, yeah, the Rickenbacker stuff, you know, probably stems mostly from like the birds and, you know, the sunset strip, sunset strip bands, rather, you know, 60s with love and, of course, the Beatles and
just all those bands.
Um, but yeah, a lot of the birds and it's just something I'm drawn to.
And, uh, that's what the song called for.
And that's what I, that's what I did.
It's perfect.
I love it.
Now tell us about the band feel.
Uh, currently you're based in St.
Louis.
Um, but you guys are from the Midwest and then you bring in Garrett, your singer from California and the band takes off.
Give me some backstory highlights.
Yeah.
I mean, TJ and I, the drummer, TJ and I, we've been in groups for a while and, you know, COVID happened and a group we earned kind of the precursor to feel kind of was lying dormant for a while.
And then during that period of time, we were kind of putting some stuff together and eventually Garrett came around because his friend tipped us off to him.
And then Kaden came around and
You know, we had been doing some stuff before all of that, but not to a degree of, um, you know, anything too, too serious.
We were serious, but nothing major was happening.
But, uh, um, yeah, it just all clicked.
You know, we're Midwest guys, Garrett's from California, but you know, we're all human beings.
It all, you know, it all matches up pretty well.
Well, Garrett, he must have, he must have been pretty surprised when he got to the rave last December.
during that
cold spell.
Totally.
I mean, he, um, he spent a lot of time in the Pacific Northwest, so it can get cold there, you know, but not quite like that.
Um, you know, TJ, Kate and I and our crew were mostly Midwest.
What was really crazy is a friend of ours was, that was from San Diego and lives in Florida.
And that was out with us.
And, uh, he, he refused to go.
to, um, our mode of transportation until everything was packed up.
He was not stepping foot outside.
It was, it was really cool.
I mean, even for us,
it was very, very cool.
I think it was like 25 below that night of the
wind.
It felt like it was brutal.
It was very bitey.
Ah, we were all wearing shorts that night.
We're, we're from Wisconsin.
Oh yeah.
Now,
of
course.
Let's talk about some of your influences.
And, you know, I think that a lot of people are, you know, see Led Zeppelin and Black Crows in your music.
But I sometimes hear influences like Old Bad Company from songs like Brother.
Talk about your influences.
I know that even Leonard Skinner is a big one for you.
Yeah, I mean, like I said, we just love music and it really depends what generation you're from.
It really depends what you like.
Based on you know based on that what you hear from us You know a lot of surface things You know level things you you can hear Zeppelin course or a rock band, you know, it's
Yeah, not to you know, but there's there's so much in it and not to keep saying but the stuff coming up But you know without them coming up it really expands on our expounds on rather what we're into and you know Yeah, so I mean growing up
I was really in the classic rock and then when I got into the Beatles, I became interested in everything.
So after that, I was getting into all of the psychedelic pop stuff and I was already into like 40s and 50s blues and then eventually I got pretty deep into jazz and I'm still there and I'm really liking the bands like the very early U2 stuff and just everything.
We listen to a lot of stuff in the van.
We'll go from Hank Williams to Fallout Boy.
We're just into music, man.
And what comes out, what comes out.
And we feel like the older folks of an older generation, which is very cool, not bashing that, they'll say, oh man, this is what it was like.
And the younger generation goes, wow, we haven't experienced something like this.
They're going to hear something completely different than an older head might.
but I often say that, you know, because of that, we are, you know, unlocking nostalgia for an older generation and we're helping create it for a younger.
So, you know, we're in a really interesting, you know, place where we're playing our music and luckily it comes out sounding unique and like us, but you can hear a lot of things and I'll wrap this question up by saying like, that's what I liked a lot about this band is
You could say bad company.
Somebody else can say, you know, Zeppelin, somebody else can, he might hear you two are already in a minute.
Yeah.
And it's kind of hard to pinpoint us, which makes me feel good because it gives something for everybody to enjoy, you know?
Well, you know what?
It's authentic.
Cool.
Now, let's give the drummer some TJ your drummer.
He literally calls the very spirit of John Bonham every show.
Tell us about writing with a drummer who puts that kind of feeling of precision to orchestrate your music.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I know what TJ is capable of.
And in a lot of ways, I've, you know, there's foreshadowing with TJ or hindsight, whatever, however you want to look at it, I've known him for a long, long time.
And
I know it to expect of them and I know what I can expect from him in the future because he's such a hard worker and he's dedicated to his craft.
Just like a lot of drummers nowadays, but especially, you know, in the 60s and early 70s and throughout the 70s, they were, you know, that kind of sound was fresh to a rock listener or a younger person.
But those sounds have been around for a while.
You know, something like
Mitch Mitchell was Hendrix and you know John Baum and you know ginger you know all all those drummers back then were jazz drummers or they wanted to be so TJ is the same in a lot of ways where started with the rock he loves country music too and that very very studio tight sounds but where he's really drawn from live is um you know someone like elvin jones um you know who played with all those great cold train records and and miles and stuff like that and
you know through that and the kind of rock music that we're playing that you might hear that style of drumming it goes oh there's that bottom but bottom is just trying to be elvin jones too
what
i
mean and max roach and tony williams so you know tj is amazing and
forget purdy oh yeah brunette bernard purdy yeah of course man but uh yeah i have no doubt that tj will be um as this thing continues he's going to be seen as
one of the dudes internationally, you know, and he's pretty much on his way with it already.
I'd say, I mean, he really knows when to rest.
That's, that's really key for a
drummer.
Dynamics is a really big thing with our band.
It's up and down.
It's up and down.
Oh
yeah.
There's very few bands that can just hit it hard all the time and we're not one of them.
Now we got to talk quickly about your album.
What of now?
Yeah.
And it's coming out on August 21st.
How excited are you to put out your, you know, first LP this summer?
Yeah, we're really excited man.
You know, it's a pretty big deal for a rock band, you know, especially so, you know, we've put out some music prior and it's kind of been like a little tease a little warm-up if you will but Yeah, we're really excited about the album.
It's it's long.
It's 51 minutes long, but it's got so much music on it's very dynamic It's got something for everyone
and produced by a five-time Grammy-nominated producer palm
oak
Yeah, Paul's a very good friend and we we feel at home Smokes back his studio down in Berry Hill and Nashville and you know, it's he's he has an interesting approach with a band like us He knows that we know what we want and where we're going So he's pretty hands-off and he'll speak up at the perfect moments when it's needed and he backs off when he knows you know what we're doing so it's very much a collaboration in the sense of
He gets the best out of us and we just present the rest.
Now, Tyler, I have to settle a bet with my daughter, Lizzie, about the song Goodbye Virginia.
Lizzie discovered that the band feel while she was creating social media for Edward Fest this year.
And now a few months later, according to stats FM, she is the 27th listener of all time with 735 minutes listening to the
band
feel.
And so the winner of our bet has to buy a t-shirt for the other at your merch table at Atwood Fest.
So here's where the question lies.
In the video of Goodbye, Virginia, during the second verse of the song, it appears Garrett is singing that verse.
But I saw a video live where it's you singing that verse.
And so our bet is that on the studio recording that's used for the official video, that the voice of the second verse is still you.
Even though Garrett is singing in on the video, my daughter believes it's Garrett.
I believe it's you.
Set us straight on that piece of Banfield trivia.
Well, I do have to say you have a very smart and insightful daughter because it isn't it's in fact not me singing on the record.
Yeah, I
wrote that.
You are a T shirt.
That's lyrically, melodically, my part that I wrote of it, and I sing it live.
But I'm pretty sure what happened is that I was sick when we were tracking that.
And Garrett did it, but Garrett's a far better singer than I anyhow.
So it worked out that way.
But yeah, Lizzie's right.
Tell her to come by, and I'll congratulate her on her incitfulness.
Oh man, I gotta go put my head in the sand here.
Well, the band field performs at Atwood Fest on Sunday, July 26th at 6pm on the Clyde Stubblefield stage to close out at Atwood Fest.
What can people expect to see you guys next week?
Yeah, man.
A lot of energy, a lot of passion, a lot of dynamics.
You know, just a good time.
You see four dudes that are really passionate and you'll see a team that's
you know, just as passionate about the music as the band and, you know, it'll be a good time.
We'll bring it to Madison.
Well, Tyler Armstrong from the band Field.
Tyler, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us on MaxingGradio.
We really appreciate
it.
Of course, man.
Thank you.
And right now, we're going to actually listen to a song that's coming up on your new album.
This song is called Twice Alive.
Tell us just a little bit about this before we hear this song.
Twice Alive is kind of what I call a transition song where it's a little bit closer to the stuff we've released prior and it's kind of edging the into the kind of new era that we're in now and set you up for the new songs like summer song that we also released in better days.
But Twice Alive is a rocker, there's no doubt about it.
That is killer.
I can't wait to see you guys next week and we'll see you at Atwood Fest right now.
Let's check out the band field.
This is their brand new song, Twice Alive.
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Their new album comes out August 21st and of course they are gonna be closing out Atwood Fest.
I'm gonna be really excited for the show and well, I'm probably gonna have to buy a couple of t-shirts.
Of course.
At the merch booth.
Oh, I can't believe that.
Well, you know, that's what happens, right?
Atwoodfest.com man, that's where you can go check out all the live music schedule.
social links for the bands, profiles.
You know what else you can get there which is totally amazing?
What?
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Welcome
back to Max Inc Radio everybody.
My name is Rocker James here in the studio and we are gonna give up tonight to a Recorded version of live from the Mad City that we did with Barbie Lane back in March on March 14th And of course Barbie Lane they will be playing at Atwood Fest coming up on the Luther
The Luther Allison stage, that's going to be Saturday, July 25th at 6.45 p.m.
Right now, let's go to Barbie Lane, live from the Man City on Max Inc Radio.
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Madison has always been a place where collaboration of local music scene stirs seems commonplace.
A breeding ground for creativity and original music.
And a new collaboration is underway between members of Black Poet Society, Magic 7, the leading zeroes, just to mention a few.
And Barbie Lane is here in the studio with us tonight to talk about their new band and perform live from the Mad City, singer and guitarist Demtesfay, drummer Michael Hafner, guitarist Richard Stanek, and bassist Michael Sommer.
Welcome to Maxink Radio.
Yo, yo.
Hey guys, we'll make sure those mics work, right?
Get up there.
Test test.
We get everybody in here.
Oh, everything is working fine.
I'm guessing your rehearsal studio is on Barbie Lane.
Is that on, are you guys Northside Man?
Yes.
Before we get to find out how Barbie Lane came together as a band, we need to find out more about the pieces of this collaboration puzzle.
Adam, let's get your backstory.
I mean, how did you get started playing music?
I grew
up in a very musical family.
My uncles inspired me.
They were dancers and performers at a young age.
And I was influenced by hip hop.
So I started rapping first.
So I spent the first 27 years of my life being an MC, rhyming.
I lived in Seattle, had a hip hop jazz group out there for a while.
Then I came back to Madison because Seattle introduced the guitar to me, hanging out with all those rockers out there.
And so that's when I picked up the guitar and I came back here and did the soul rap movement for a few years.
And I landed in New York City for 15 years and got into more rock with my man John Coda.
out in Brooklyn.
You went out there for Black Poets Society?
No, Black Poets Society was like right after high school.
Oh, I see.
That's it started in high school.
And that's when we did all the we were we got the exposure with all the up and coming.
That's when hip hop was at like the biggest bubble, right?
was like, we got to play with the daylight souls and the red man method man's and everybody when they were coming up.
So I got to meet all those great musicians at a time when hip hop was very
you know, special and, um, still is special, but it's, uh, I feel like it's an era, not necessarily a genre, you know, but I, you know, but yeah, that's what I did.
And your uncle, uh, he's the bass player in your band, right?
Yes.
You had
them test fade
band.
Yep.
My uncle, the core.
And, uh, he's also the co-founder of the black board society.
So, you know, we grew up doing hip hop together or being hip hop.
cultured people, you know, we
shirts together, we danced together, we rapped together, and his older brothers were big influences on that they brought in the music.
My grandmother was a great seamstress, so she would always, like, mic her clothes for us, and, you know, there was always something.
My mom did it, and, like, so, wow, you know.
Family affair.
Well, you know, the Jacksons were the thing, you know, and, you know, in black culture, that was a big deal.
So, like, you know, Michael Jackson was, like, the first artist to, well, the second artist on MTV, so that's when you really get to see...
the big exposure of the music.
But then once hip hop started, I got seducted into the rapping.
That was my jam.
I was like, oh man, these guys are, wow, look at these lyrics.
I've done my lyrics down a little bit now, but.
Back in the day was about versus, you know, that's all I did.
Wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap through my sleep, wrap in the morning, wrap at night.
I used to walk around as a kid with a boom box on my shoulder, go to the pool.
You know, I was, I was just, what was on
your boom box back then?
No, man.
LL Cool J is my guy.
Run here on BMC.
LL Cool J. You got a, I didn't realize those heavy rock wrists were getting in me.
You know, they were getting in there and I didn't know what it was, you know, but like, um, they were in there.
If you think like, Oh, J is hard.
It's, you know, those, those stabs.
Oh yeah.
Um, you know, rock the bells and.
And I'm the king of rock that is none higher.
Sucker MC.
You know,
like a little improv.
Well, let's get to some live music from the man city with Barbie Lane, presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song that you have for us tonight is called The City.
Tell us about this song before you play.
Well, this is funny when we came together.
They kind of had some names for some songs and I came with the lyrics and I felt like the New York City vibe.
So we kind of just kind of took it and ran with it and really just kind of leaned into like making it the story of what it means to show up to a new place and want to be accepted but still have to earn your way.
It's just a fun song.
It's kind of like a journey.
Cool.
Just a journey.
Let's hear it.
This is Barbie Lane, the city you're listening to Maxync Radio.
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Man, this shit is possible.
That was really good as funky.
That is good stuff, man.
First time I've ever heard it.
Dem having served 15 years in New York City pursuing a career in music.
What can you tell us about the experience from jumping to like Madison's music scene to the Big Apple's music scene?
What was the change like?
Wow, it was a long, long journey, but it was, you know, it was a lot of.
Technology changes at the time.
When I got there, there wasn't smartphones.
So you have to be on the street.
But the music is just pouring out everywhere.
You go from the subway to hearing music to seeing musicians on the street to, you know, trying to get into clubs and walking around and networking and meeting people.
And there was actually specific scenes like you could go to this club and, you know, there'd be rock music that night or you can go to this club and.
know, there'd be jazz music that night or what so have.
But it's just such a monster to navigate.
You got to be very, very clear on what you want to do.
I can imagine,
you know, and
be scary coming from.
I mean, we're a pretty close knit scene here in Madison.
Well, yeah.
And but, you know, you can't be intimidated by it.
It's just they're just people.
There's a lot of shitty bands in New York, too.
You know, like just like is just like the shitty bands everywhere.
Sorry.
Well, on that note, let's meet guitarist Rich Danick.
Rich, how do you get started playing music?
What's your
backstory?
Nice to see you again, Rocker.
Backstory, that's not that exciting.
So I was a fine young Catholic boy, and then, you know, doing my thing, and then all of a sudden, ACDC came up, my brother bought an album.
So that was probably, if you're going to point a point on that, is this cool enough?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Then that would probably be a point of time in musical.
Desire
what was your parents role in your musical upbringing?
um forced piano lessons
Do you know that's that's interesting because um, you know, I was gonna bring up your son.
Yeah, he went to MCDS over there with my son and one of the things that they do Yes, right.
It's fortunate you take piano first.
They do up until like fifth grade.
They do but so how did you feel about?
You know now, how do you feel about forced piano lessons?
I
think that
your
parents gave you yep
Yep.
Good question.
I can answer that.
So what I mean by that is forced piano lessons is they forced us to play music that wasn't that fun.
So in his case, he got to do music that was fun and great teachers and putting the fun into it versus just, you know, it's sort of the drudgery of it.
You know, and so they did a great job at MCDS.
I take my head off to him and I'll put the plug out to John Shipper, right?
Yeah, John
Shipper.
Absolutely.
Mr. Shipper, right?
Well, now, you know, one thing you are as a father, right?
Yes, I brought up your son, Tierney.
Thank you.
And he's a drummer.
Yes.
And he's out there doing stuff.
Tell us
about Tierney.
He's in Nashville and he's doing good.
Sorry.
He graduated from Belmont College,
which
is a music school.
And he's been around some great, great drummers and some great influences.
And of course he was.
He was you know, he hung around the music scene that I was when I was in bands as a kids We picked up a lot so over the first drum sets and to him this is kind of funny stories since we were on so many musicians He was so used to going places with the drum sets that when he got to a place He's like, where's the drum set?
Just like a house would have a TV.
He's like, where's the drum set?
There must
be one.
Yeah, there must be
a drum set here
somewhere right in fact Let me give you props because I think the first drum set he played
was that little one that was your sons.
Oh, yeah.
In the garage.
Oh, sure.
That one, seriously.
That's
right.
Because we always encouraged him beating on things with spatulas or whatever and had percussion instruments.
But like an organized drum set, I think, was actually your sons.
It was the first one that he actually played.
Well, that's funny.
Yeah, that little mini drum set.
Well, it's, you know, I mean, all the musicians that I talked to, I'd say a large percent of them always credit their parents.
Yeah.
with some kind of start, some kind of support, some kind of, you know, impetus into the music.
So we love to hear that.
And I'm glad that your son is out there playing and finding some success as well.
Thank you.
Well, let's get back to live music from the Man City with Barbie Lane presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Good Excuse.
Adam, is there ever a good excuse?
Yeah, there's a good excuse to do nothing.
Like, you know, we
in a... That's what this song is about.
We live in a world where
you know, production is very highly rewarded.
And this song is about making time to just enjoy your life and just be in the moment with the people you love.
That is a good excuse.
Well, let's listen to it right now.
This is Barbie Lane.
Lime from the Man City on Max Inc Radio.
Dem test V with his new band Barbie Lane That song was called good excuse and man We've had your band in here yourself three times previously and this is just Amazing to have this whole band in here.
I really like this brand new band that you have
Well, it's not me.
It's it's rich brought us together actually
We're gonna we're gonna find all about that for sure
But thank you.
They're great guys.
Adam, Barbie Lane is coming up with new original songs.
Are these songs you bring to the band or do these songs originate in the rehearsal studio?
It's a combination of the two.
Like what you've heard is the stuff that we've worked on together.
Rich came up with most of the original hooks, well, core progressions and they worked together and then they brought me in and I added the guitar riffs and the vocals.
So it's kind of been a collaborative thing.
And it's been great.
We've had a lot of fun.
We like click right from the beginning.
The first time I came down and played with him, it was like, oh, wow, this is cool.
You know, I'm playing with guys that I can vibe with immediately.
We is like frictionless for me personally.
I don't know if they do the same way, but it
seems that way to me.
Well, let's get back to live music from the Mad City with Barbie Lane presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Loose Control.
Is this a song about Perestroika?
Charles, but verify?
No, it's just a song about someone who likes to let it go and get into their vibe.
You know, I love dancers and people who express themselves really well.
And this is our, I think this is the first song that we actually wrote together as a group where we all were like contributing to like the inception of it.
you know before people bring in different licks but this is the one where we were like okay this is a this is our one of our one of our identities
nice a true collaboration well let's check it out this is loose control you're listening to barbie lane live from the mad city on max inc radio
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All right, everybody, here we are back to live from the Mad City on Max Inc Radio.
My name is Rocker, and I am here with Jane in the control room.
And we are here with Barbie Lane.
And what an incredible band.
But right now, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to meet Mike.
and Mike.
The mikes are born one day apart and have been besties since childhood.
Let's start with bassist Michael Summer.
I think you might be the metalhead of the group playing with bands like Driver Thirteen, Skitch and Powder Monkey.
Mike, how did
you get your start playing music?
My parents were very musical.
Mother was an organist in the church and sang.
My dad was in several college bands, played guitar, sang and played harmonica.
Drums was just a natural thing for me.
a staircase that sounded like Neilpert's Toms.
They finally decided to get me a drum kit to keep me from falling down and breaking my neck.
And then I joined drum corps Madison Scouts for
four
years.
And then I met Michael in high school.
I kind of transitioned from the drums to the bass guitar to cover for a bass player they had that was sort of not showing up all the time.
And yeah, I developed a love for the bass guitar then.
Oh man, you know, there's nothing better than a bass player that used to be a drummer, right?
They, you know, as a drummer, that's a dream because they always hit your pocket.
They're right in tune with your bass and snare.
That's what makes it, I think.
Well, you know, talk about, you know, as iconic as other band members of Led Zeppelin where bassist John Paul Jones, he was epic.
What made him such a unique bass player from your perspective and briefly?
I think he was the master at bridging percussion with rhythm.
and melody.
Those things all came together.
He hooked up with Bonham incredibly well, but developed these beautiful bass lines that really drove the songs.
And now let's give the drummer some.
Michael Haefner.
Mike, you've been in huge bands like Magic 7, Muzzy Luckton.
How did you get your start playing drums?
And what's your backstory?
Man, you know what?
I started out probably like nine years old.
I want to play Ace Freely.
I want to play guitar, man.
I love kiss, you know, and I want to play guitar and Unfortunately, nobody in my family knew how to do that It's very supportive parents anything I got into and I just remember like going to a garage sale with my dad Yeah, it was probably 10 and convinced him to buy this $75 Gold metal flake sparkly disgusting drum kit, you know and
I told him I would know how to play it, you know, and, um, yeah, and that was about it, you know, and I just started really listening to music and I could understand the drums far more in the guitar.
Um, and then Rush, you know, Rush comes along and changes my world and in Primus and bands like that, or, you know, drummers like those guys kind of, you know, maybe what I am here today, I guess, really.
And, uh, you know, what I was going to say is since you guys are besties, right?
And now you're bass player and drummer.
How does that affect your rhythm team?
Man, I Think it really makes it effortless.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I mean we've been I mean, yeah, we've been best friends since we were 14 and and in and out of bands Always together But I think collectively we've probably played at least 25 years together.
Yeah, so it's just like
It's like
the back of your hand.
Exactly.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Well, let's get back to some live music from the Mad City with Barbie Lane presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song that you have for us tonight is your brand new single, and it's called Meet You There.
Tell us about your newest release.
This is the first song that we wrote together as a collective.
It's about...
taking the journey together with people you care about and asking yourself the question if you're willing to go on the journey.
And it's a pretty simple song, but it's about love.
It's about traveling the road.
You know, Barbie Lane is about getting in your lane and traveling the road.
Sweet.
Well, let's check it out.
This is Meet You There.
We're listening to Barbie Lane, live from the Mad City on Max Inc Radio.
We're going to get a backup guitar here quick.
And maybe we can get a stand in here to tell us, you know, we've met you the band now.
We know who you guys are.
But let's talk about the Barbie Lane origin story.
How did you guys come together to collaborate as Barbie Lane?
Rick Stannock.
Rich Stannock.
He's the glue.
Well, you're going to have to tell us because he's off getting another guitar.
Well,
Mike has a good story, too.
They were there before I was there.
One of the mics could probably tell you before I could.
I'm running around doing... You're the latecomer to the band, huh?
Well, okay, this is my side of the story.
So Rich, I've known Rich for a little while, and he would come around, and I'd know him through a buddy of ours, Jim.
And he was like, hey, man, you should come hang out with me and the mics.
They're an amazing rhythm section.
They're great guys and whatnot.
I was like, yeah, man, whatever, man.
Just being kind of passive because I was getting my hands full and the other projects that I was doing at the time.
And then one day I was like, sure, let's do it.
He was real cool.
He was always being nice and just a genuine, cool cat with me.
And I was like, sure, I'll put my mind to something different because you just, like when you're in your own little vacuum is what I would call, I can get myself into just my own journeys.
And that's my version of it.
And then I show up and meet you there happen.
Nice.
That was the first thing we ever played together.
And so that's why we thought that was appropriate for us to release it as a single because it was our first culmination of unity as a team.
And now where did you record the single that we just heard is released now?
Where did you record these?
Do you remember the name of the studio?
The Scottish.
The Scottish?
I mean,
Scottish cottage.
A friend of mine, Scott Liseman, Lee Liseman is how you say that?
Liseman, he recorded my last EP and we were trying to figure out a place we wanted to record and I was like, Scott will do us well.
And he came in for us and we tracked in like two days, man.
We were just totally in a vibe.
Um, we just knocked it out.
We knocked out like 10 songs or something like that.
Well, I can't wait to hear more.
Uh, let's get back to live music from the Mad City with Barbie Lane presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song that you have for us tonight is called the after boy.
That's on spooky.
Tell us about this song quickly before you play.
Well, okay, I'm going to take a crack at this.
Um, the after, uh,
Well, it's gone in a couple different directions and it's still evolving in it.
I think it's really that's what's kind of really exciting about the thing We had this rhythm basic rhythm going myself and the mics and then Dem came in and put a nice rhythm track and the clicking you hear and it was we're doing in a good time And we got an evolving story, which is really awesome.
So we're getting the storytelling and the songs going and It's not rough draft.
I wouldn't say that I think it's pretty much Close to finish, but I'll let the listener decide what it's about your lane.
It would be a Barbie Land was standing in a lane, you know and
Yeah,
let's check it out.
This is called the after you're listening to Barbie Lane live from the man city on max inc radio
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Adam Rich, Mike and Mike, thank you so much for coming down to play for us tonight on Max Inc Radio.
We really appreciate it.
And you know, we only have a few minutes left, so we got one more song, and it's called Free Wheeling.
All I have to say is free is when you don't have to pay for nothing or do nothing, we want to be free.
Just hit it and play that song, and we'll play it right out, all right?
Let's do it.
Thanks, guys.
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And if you've ever wondered where punk country and pure guitar fire collide, look no further than Warren E. Hodges, a founding member of
And member of Jason and the Scorchers, Warner helped pioneer the sound that would become known as Americana and Alt Country, earning the band the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for performance.
And he's also shared his talents with Driving and Crying, Dan Baird and Homemade Sin and his own band.
Warner E. Hodges International Outstars comes to Atwood Fest on Saturday, July 25th, headlining the Sugar Maple stage and tonight he joins us on Max Inc Radio.
Hodges, welcome to Max Inc Radio.
Hey, y'all, how you doing?
We're doing great, man.
We're excited to have you come up here to the Mad City.
Have you have you played up here in Madison in the past?
I have played Madison, but it's been years.
It was back with the scorchers.
I did.
We did Madison, but it would probably be 90s or early 2000s.
The last time I played there.
Oh,
wow.
Fun.
But yeah.
We used to do it all the time.
It was on the tour schedule in the old days.
Oh, great.
Well, we're glad to bring you back here to Madison.
Warner, before we hear about some of your legendary career, tell us about your backstory.
I mean, how did you get started playing music?
Well, my parents were musicians.
My mom was a country singer.
I mean, hardcore 50s, crying your beer country music.
Yeah.
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette kind of stuff.
And my dad was a player.
And my dad was in the US military and when he retired in 1973, they moved to Nashville to pursue a record deal for my mother.
They were still pretty young.
My dad was 43.
My mom was 36.
And I had been playing drums in their band for a couple of years at the time.
I started playing drums with them when I was 10 years old professionally.
And, you know, it just, it didn't work out for them, but it put me in, I could not have been in a better town in the 70s for music.
You know, Nashville was a powder keg, but it was still a little sleepy town that just hadn't blown up
yet.
And I was in the right place at the right time in the mid to late 70s.
Well, that's pretty cool.
So you've been in music pretty much all your life at this point.
Yeah, it's a weird one thinking about it.
I was thinking about it today.
It's 57 years, dude.
That's a long time.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's a long time.
Wow.
That's pretty crazy.
Well, now tell us about your early career with Jason and the Scorchers.
I mean, you're one of the founding members and that band was, as we said, recognized for the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tell us about that.
Well, when we started, I had went to school with a guy named Perry Bags, our drummer.
Perry was a couple of years younger than me.
We went to high school together and we ended up hooking up with a friend of ours named Jeff Johnson who played bass and we kind of put together our own little band.
And when Jason moved town, he met Jeff.
Jeff brought me in.
I brought Perry in and boom, we were off and running.
Wow.
It was kind of a weird band though, because everybody was on a different instrument.
Perry was a keyboard player and singer playing drums.
I was a drummer playing guitar and Jeff was a guitar player playing bass.
So it was a, it was a different dynamic.
Oh, that's pretty interesting how it all happened.
And tell us, and tell us about, you know, that being kind of rose to some modern fame as well.
Yeah.
We lucked up.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
I shouldn't say lucked up.
We worked very hard.
We, uh,
We spent a couple of years riding around in Jason's board and kind of line band and we got ourselves to the point where we could go to almost any place in the continental US and play to a couple hundred people any night of the week.
Yeah.
And EMI records, uh, liked that.
We managed to sell 30,000 EPs out of our manager's garage, pre-internet.
That's a big
feat.
Yo, that's a big feat, you know.
And, uh,
We we lucked up EMI records like this signed us.
We added a Bob Dylan cover to that record remixed it and reissued it and It had already won the New York Times EP of the year in 83 But it wanted an 84 and somebody told me they wanted to give it to us an 85 too, but we were like we've already won it right Let's move along.
We'll have all the other bands hate us,
right?
Well, let's give the drummer some.
How did you meet Georgia satellites and current generation Jones drummer from Madison Moro Magellan?
Oh, I love me some more Magellan the the Guy that basically did all of the Georgia satellites demos and all that a guy named Kevin Jennings that kind of
You know, he was there he wasn't their manager, but he was there, you know guidance trying to help them get a foot in the door He was the drum tech for Jason and the squirters and and he Played and Jason and I a song called keep your hands to yourself.
Yeah
on a cassette and Jason actually Jason actually took that cassette to our managers
And I mean, those guys went from playing to 10 or 12 people to in 90 days, they were playing Arrowhead Stadium opening up for Bob Seeker.
Wow.
But I locked up their first record when it come out.
They were on tour with us.
We did like three months together, them opening for the scorters.
And I met, I had known Dan and Ricky, but I met Mauro at the time.
So I've known Mauro since like 1985.
Quite honestly, my Mount Rushmore of Rock and Roll Drummers, Mauro Magellan, is one of them.
Wow.
I've been very fortunate that I also played in Dan's later band, Dan Bear and Homemade Sin, with Mauro for 13, 14 years.
Oh, wow.
And when the spot came open in my band, he was my first call.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Well, that's how I found out about you more gave me an email and he said hey rocker man You got to check out this band I play with And what
do you know?
I'm glad he hooked us up.
I really am I'm we're so looking forward to coming up there
Oh, that's going to be fun.
And Warren, Warner E. Hodges, International Isle Stars is coming to Madison to perform at Atwood Fest, headlining the sugar maple stage on Saturday, July 25th at 815 PM.
They'll go to 10 PM and tell us about the band that you're bringing in and what kind of show this will be.
Um, well, we'll have Maro Magellan, of course, on drums.
Um,
Bassist are basic who also the absolute you practice.
You just played that's Maro playing on that record.
Oh, I was wondering
that.
Oh, yeah, that's Maro The our bassist is a guy named King Vogueley.
Yeah, Vogueley.
He played with the bottle rockets.
Oh, sure Marshall Crenshaw.
He's an ungodly bass player and even better singer.
He's a great singer myself on guitar and
I'm bringing up my buddy Joe Blanton from Nashville, who has produced my last four records, I guess he's going to be the other guitar player, other singer, which is going to be great.
Wow.
And, uh, you know, what happens at a Warnery Hodges?
I mean, you guys seem, you know, sometimes almost country, but sometimes, you know, almost hard rock and roll and sometimes boogie woogie.
I mean,
a little bit of all of it.
My dad used to say there's two kinds of music, good and bad, which I love that.
You know, there's my dad's who turned me on to parliament, Funkadelic and the Rolling Stones, you know, my father even saw the good in the sex pistol.
So he was like, the boy can't sing, but he's got good lyrics.
I don't know about that bass player though.
Yeah,
but we try to start a little fire between us and then if things get off and running right, it just becomes a, okay, who can add another log to the fire?
That's the plan, you know.
I
was reading online about when you joined up with driving and crying.
Um, for, for some touring and stuff.
And they seemed, you know, really inspired, um, by you and your playing when you joined that band.
Talk about your time playing with a drive
and cry.
And that, that was, uh, I love the driving and crying guys.
They've been friends of mine for 35, 40 years.
Um, I played with them for about six years.
Um, and.
The first night when I played with him I knew one song which played like a five six thousand feet outdoor thing.
I knew one song Kevin the Kevin Kenny the singer is he's gonna make me a set list.
I'm still waiting on that set list So it was I've always been able to kind of
Just get up and make it work and that one was a really difficult one to do but I found that That's what they were looking for.
They wanted me to bring new stuff to their songs.
They didn't want anything planned out and It was it was a load of fun playing because they had a hundred seventy five hundred eighty songs and I knew one
That's, that's a heck of a repertoire.
That's
a lot of songs to learn.
It was a pretty scary thing at first.
But once I realized what they were after out of me, it become quite a bit easier.
And I, I love playing with them.
I do it in the drop of a hat again now.
Wow.
That sounds so fun.
Um, you know, true to your name, you're heading out in the fall for another Euro tour.
Oh yeah.
What do you love about the European audiences?
Cause you know, I, I mean,
when I was booking you and, and talking to you before I would fast here, most of the time it seemed like you were over in Europe playing shows.
Well, I, I've kind of looked up via Dan's, uh, Dan Baird's situation when Dan retired his, he started talking about retiring four or five years before he did.
When he started talking about it, when I put together a solo band,
because I knew Dan was going to walk in one day to a show and go, okay, that's it.
And it happened, but it was about five years.
I didn't want to be at point zero.
I was five years into it, had a couple of records under my belt and that was slowly starting to get a following from my solo stuff.
But his whole organization, the manager of the record, everything fell in my lap.
When Dan quit, all of that just kind of fell into my lap.
Places that wouldn't hire me the year before one to know if I'd come that year, you know So it It's a kind of my whole organization is over there as crazy as it sounds and I got to where I had up until Tomorrow and Keith joined my band a year ago.
I had all British musicians
and trying to come back here and work with those guys, you know, work papers are ridiculous.
That's
challenging.
Yeah, it was very challenging.
So I just, you know, now that we've got three Americans in the band accounting myself, it makes it a lot easier to look at doing some American shows.
I've been getting offers for American shows for years, but just not being able to do them, you know.
Well, we're sure glad you could take this one.
What dude me too
what's coming up for you in the future?
And how do we keep track you online?
Warnery Hodges comm is where everything is we will we're doing the fatwood fest thing Saturday the 25th.
I can't wait and then we go to Europe September 9th or 10th for a couple of months and Then what I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a
But my left knee replaced when I get back.
Really looking forward to that.
Yeah.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
Oh yeah.
Well, I got a decent hole and then I do outlaw.
We do outlaw country cruise 11 and March next year.
Nice.
Warner, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us tonight on max inc radio.
We really appreciate it and can't wait to see it at what fest.
Thank you, rocker.
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I've been tracking the band feel for a few years now.
And when I saw a Facebook post that the band was in Illinois the night before Atwood Fest,
I reached out to their management to see if I could get them here to headline the Clyde Stubblefield stage to close out AdWords Fest 2026.
And it took me some doing and our efforts paid off and the Banfield is coming to play in Madison for AdWords Fest 2026.
After releasing a successful EP last year, the Banfield has amassed over 100 million views and more than 500,000 followers across social platforms and are releasing their new album, What of Now?
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Tonight on the phone with us is guitarist, songwriter, and sometimes singer for the band Field.
Tyler, welcome to Max Inc Radio.
Hey,
glad to be on.
What's up, guys?
Oh, man, we are really enjoying the band feel.
And, you know, you guys played The Rave, one of the coldest nights of the year.
Like I think it was like 25 below out in Milwaukee.
And you played Appleton and here in Madison at the High Noons.
How excited are you to come back to play Wisconsin in the summertime?
Well, yeah, we've always had fun in Wisconsin.
We're excited to come back when it's not so cold.
That's for sure.
That was a very
That was a brutal night.
I mean, it was, you know, all the people that came out, we were so thankful because it was bad.
But yeah, we're looking forward to getting up to Madison pretty soon here.
Now, Tyler, before we get to know about your band, tell us your backstory up to field.
How did you get started playing music?
Oh, I mean, as far as guitar playing goes, I started in middle school.
I'd always been into music, like listening to my parents that play some music when I was growing up.
And I was just attracted to the guitar for some reason.
I can remember my dad singing classic rock songs when I was younger, like Kansas and things like that.
And just as I grew up, you know, became more interested in it.
And when I got into middle school, I was in band playing percussion.
And I think it was basically one of the biggest things I saw Wayne's World and the Bohemian Rhapsody scene
kind of
made me want to play.
Classic.
Yeah, really, yeah, it's kind of cliche, but it's what did it for me, at least part of it.
And yeah, it was that it just kind of took off from there and, you know, taught myself and learned by ear and by eyes and all that.
And
here we are
now.
And now I saw that you, I mean, you really have a passion for vintage guitars and you play a lot of them and bring a lot of them on tour.
Talk about your passion for vintage guitars.
Yeah, well, you know, one of my true passions is history and it just so happens to be that music, you know, so it's not rude in history, it is history, you know, and it just,
So much of it is revolved around these instruments that change the world.
And so, you know, whether it's, you know, American history or European history or, you know, instrument history, I'm just so into it.
And just so happens to be with this one, I can do it for a career and I can play them.
And, you know, it's a, they, they, they vary with it.
you know, a wide range of values and stuff like that, but I like ones that are rare and expensive.
I like ones that are not, you know, it just goes hand in hand with it, you know, which everyone speaks to me.
But yeah, I bring a lot of them out and it's kind of what I'm kind of being known for in some circles, but they all do something different.
New guitars are great too.
I got plenty of them, you know.
PRS has recently sent me some guitars that are just amazing and
You know, new ones can be great too, but yeah, they all do something different.
That's just like the human voice.
They all sound a little different, you know
Well on that song we just heard goodbye, Virginia.
You're using a rickenbagger 12 string You know, you don't see that often in the rock and roll world anymore talk about that
Well, yeah, I mean We're you know influenced by some you know so much music We're a rock band, but you know, especially with the stuff we
have coming out coming up and you know some of the singles we just released you know it's pretty diverse it's pretty dynamic you know I'm just as much into you know Joni Mitchell as I am Sabbath I'm just as much into REM as I am you know like Peter Gabriel era Genesis you know so you know
that's one of my favorite too actually is
the Genesis stuff yeah
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I yeah, that's that's my those are my boys, but um, so yeah Yeah, the rick and bocker stuff, you know Probably stems mostly from like the birds and you know the sunset strip sunset strip bands rather, you know, yeah with love and of course the Beatles and just all those bands But yeah a lot of the birds and it's just something I'm drawn to and that's what the song called for and
That's what I that's what I did
It's perfect.
I love it now.
Tell us about the band feel Currently you're based in st.
Louis But you guys are from the Midwest and then you bring in Garrett your singer from California and the band takes off give me some backstory highlights
Yeah, I mean TJ and I the drummer TJ and I we've been in groups for a while and
you know, COVID happened in a group rear and kind of the precursor to feel kind of was lying dormant for a while.
And then during that period of time, we were kind of putting some stuff together and eventually Garrett came around because his friend tipped us off to him.
And then Caden came around and, you know, we had been doing some stuff before all of that, but not to a degree of, you know, anything.
We were serious, but nothing major was happening.
Yeah, it just all clicked.
We're Midwest guys, Garrison, California, but we're all human beings.
It all, you know, it all matches up pretty well.
Well, Garrett, he must have been pretty surprised when he got to the rave last December during that
cold spell.
Totally.
I mean, he spent a lot of time at the Pacific Northwest, so it can get cold there, you know, but not quite like that.
TJ, Kate, and I and our crew were mostly Midwest.
What was really crazy is a friend of ours was from San Diego and lives in Florida, and that was out with us.
He, he refused to go to, um, our mode of transportation until everything was packed up.
He was not stepping foot outside.
It was, it was really cool.
I mean, even for us,
I think it was like 25 below that night of the
wind.
It felt like it was brutal.
It was very bitey.
Ah, we were all wearing shorts that night.
We're from Wisconsin.
Oh, yeah.
Now, of course, buddy, let's talk about some of your influences.
And, you know, I think that a lot of people are, you know, see Led Zeppelin and black crows in your music.
But I sometimes hear influences like Old Bad Company from songs like Brother.
Talk about your influences.
I know that even Leonard Skinner is a big one for you.
Yeah, I mean like I said, we just love music and it really depends what generation you're from it really depends what you like Based on you know based on that what you hear from us You know a lot of surface things You know level things you you can hear Zeppelin course or a rock band, you know, yeah impossible.
Yeah
Not to you know, but there's there's so much in it and not to keep saying with the stuff coming up But you know what the album coming up it really expands on our expounds on rather what?
We're into and you know Yeah, so I mean growing up I was really in the classic rock and then when I got into the Beatles I became interested in everything, you know So after that, you know, I was getting into all of the
you know psychedelic pop stuff and I was already into like 40s and 50s blues and then eventually I got in pretty deep into jazz and I'm still there and um I'm really liking the bands like the very early U2 stuff and it's you know just everything and you know we we listen to a lot of stuff in the band you know we'll go from and you know Hank Williams to Fallout Boy you know it just
We're just into music man and what comes out what comes out and you know we feel like You know the older folks have an older generation, which is very cool not bashing that they'll say oh man This is what it was like in the our younger generation goes Wow, we haven't experienced something like this They're gonna hear something completely different than an older head might but I often say that you know because of that we are
you know unlocking nostalgia for another generation
and we're helping
create it for a younger.
So you know we're in a really interesting you know place where we're playing our music and luckily it comes out sounding unique and like us but you can hear a lot of things and I'll wrap this question up by saying like that's what I like a lot about this band is you could say bad company
somebody else can say, you know, Zeppelin, somebody else can might hear you two are in a minute.
Yeah.
And it's kind of hard to pinpoint us, which makes me feel good because it gives something for everybody to enjoy, you know.
Well, you know what?
It's authentic.
Cool.
Now, let's give the drummer some TJ, your drummer, he literally calls the very spirit of John Bonham every show.
Tell us about writing with a drummer who puts that kind of feeling of precision to orchestra your music.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I know what TJ is capable of and in a lot of ways I've, you know, there's foreshadowing with TJ or hindsight, whatever, however you want to look at it.
I've known him for a long, long time and I know what to expect of him and I know what I can expect from him in the future because he's such a hard worker and he's dedicated to his craft.
Just like a lot of drummers,
nowadays, but especially, you know, in the 60s and early 70s and throughout the 70s, they were, um, you know, that kind of sound was fresh to a rock listener or a younger person.
But those sounds have been around for a while.
You know, something like Mitch Mitchell was Hendrix and, uh, you know, John Baum and, you know, ginger, you know, all, all those drummers back then were jazz drummers or they wanted to be.
So TJ is the same in a lot of ways where started with the rock,
He loves country music too and that very very studio tight sounds but where he's really drawn from live is um you know someone like elvin jones um you know who played with all those great cold train records and and miles and stuff like that and you know through that and the kind of rock music that we're playing that you might hear that style of drumming it goes oh there's that bottom but bottom is just trying to be elvin jones too
you know what i
mean and max roach and tony williams
So, you know, TJ is amazing and don't forget Purdy.
Oh, yeah, but yeah, but not Purdy.
Yeah, of course, man.
But yeah, I have no doubt that TJ will be as this thing continues, he's going to be seen as one of the dudes internationally.
You know what?
And he's pretty much on his way with it already.
I'd say, I mean, he really knows when to rest.
That's that's really key for a
drummer.
Dynamics is a really big thing with our band.
It's up and down.
It's up and down.
Oh,
yeah.
You know, it's there's very few bands that can just hit it hard all the time and we're not one of them
Now we got to talk quickly about your album.
What of now?
Yeah, and it's coming out on August 21st How excited are you to put out your you know first LP this summer?
Yeah, we're really excited man.
You know, it's a pretty big deal for a rock bands, you know, especially so, you know We put out some music prior and it's kind of been like a little tease a little warm-up if you will but um
Yeah, we're really excited about the album.
It's it's long.
It's 51 minutes long, but it's got so much music on it's very dynamic It's got something for everyone and
produced by a five-time Grammy-nominated producer Paul Moke
Yeah, Paul's a very good friend and we we fill at home Smokes back his studio down in Berry Hill in Nashville and you know, it's He's he has an interesting approach with a band like us.
He knows that we know
what we want and where we're going.
So he's pretty hands off and he'll speak up at the perfect moments when it's needed and he backs off when he knows, you know, what we're doing.
So it's very much a collaboration in the sense of he gets the best out of us and we
just present the rest.
Now, Tyler, I have to settle a bet with my daughter, Lizzie, about the song Goodbye, Virginia.
Lizzie discovered that the band feel while she was creating social media for Edward Fest this year.
And now a few months later, according to stats FM, she is the 27th listener of all time with 735 minutes listening to the band feel.
And so the winner of our bet has to buy a t-shirt for the other at your merch table at Atwood Fest.
So here's where the question lies.
In the video of Goodbye, Virginia, during the second verse of the song, it appears Garrett is singing that verse, but I saw a video where live where it's you singing that verse.
And so our bet is that on the studio recording that's used for the official video, that the voice of the second verse is still you, even though Garrett is singing in on the video,
My daughter believes it's Garrett.
I believe it's you set us straight on that piece of Banfield trivia
Well, I do have to say you have a very smart and insightful daughter because uh, it isn't it's in fact not me singing on the record Yeah, I wrote her a t-shirt That's lyrically melodically my part that I wrote of it and I sing it live But I'm pretty sure what happened is that I was sick
Um, when we were tracking that and Garrett did it, but Garrett's a far better singer than I anyhow.
But so worked out that way.
But yeah, Lizzie's right.
And tell her, tell her to come by and I'll congratulate her on her.
Oh man, I gotta go put my head in the sand here.
Well, the band feel performs at Atwood Fest on Sunday, July 26th at 6pm on the client's double field stage to close out at Wood Fest.
What can people expect to see you guys next week?
yeah man a lot of energy a lot of passion a lot of dynamics you know just a good time you see four dudes that are really passionate and you'll see a team that's you know just as passionate about the music as the band and you know it'll be a good time we'll bring it to Madison
well Tyler Armstrong from the band field Tyler thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us on maxync radio we really appreciate it
of course man thank
you
And right now we're going to actually listen to a song that's coming up on your new album.
This song is called Twice Alive.
Tell us just a little bit about this before we hear this song.
Twice Alive is kind of what I call a transition song where it's a little bit closer to the stuff we've released prior.
And it's kind of edgingy into the kind of new era that we're in now and set you up for the new songs like Summer Song that we also released in Better Days.
But
Twice Alive of the Rocker, there's no doubt about
it.
That is killer.
I can't wait to see you guys next week and we'll see you at Atwood Fest right now.
Let's check out the Banfield.
This is their brand new song, Twice Alive.
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