Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "11 Sevendust Shows in 2022"

Brian Marshall in the rock 108 morning show

one Brian Marshall joined in studio by my friend Mike Jimenez.

It has been a long time since we've, well, I guess not the longest of times, but it was a Desterfield last time.

I'm excited

about a

minute.

Yeah.

How's it going?

Good.

Very good.

Uh, the reason I invited you in here is you just went on this trek that interests me to no end.

And I want to explain you follow seven dust across the country.

And sometimes even out of the country to get to

a seven dust

show, Mike, how many shows for seven dust in 2022 and

2022?

I had to add this up.

It's, I think it's about 11.

Okay.

11 shows.

My wife and I have been to, yeah.

What is it that makes you want to go out for not just one, but 11 shows for

the seven dust?

Yeah, man.

I don't know.

It's, I mean, it's kind of a long story, but I mean, you know, I've been a fan of them for a long time.

I think it probably grew a little bit during the pandemic.

There were a few events that came up that we kind of started to get involved in, get a little closer with a couple of the guys in the band and kind of made some friends, you know, associated with kind of a lot of these events and things.

And so there's kind of like, you know, they joke about it kind of being called like a family.

It's not even really a joke.

I mean, it's kind of, it is a really tight knit group of people that, you know, that follow this band and they're from all over.

And so it's kind of become this whole kind of social.

Family sort of gathering that happens at all these different shows with that family.

Is there a particular name dust heads something like that?

Actually a seven us family.

That's that's kind of yeah, yeah, no kidding So yeah, there's there's like a Facebook group and stuff and just you know over the years now We've kind of made some pretty close friends from from all over.

I mean literally, you know, New York to California Texas, Florida, I mean all over so

so 2022

Obviously, this is where you're able to see 11 shows of seven dust.

And have there been other years where you've come close to that number?

Not seven dust particularly.

I mean, my wife and I enjoy going out to see live music in general.

I mean, yeah, seven us obviously is kind of our favorite band.

We've discovered a lot of other bands that have opened for them or played with them on the same bill or whatever that we've, you know, now also begin to follow.

But yeah, I mean, I don't know if I've had if we've had 11

seven-dust shows in a different year That's kind of one of the things too is that we we're kind of new to the whole following them around going to like a bunch of different shows, too I mean I know plenty of our friends that have been to I mean literally hundreds of seven-dust shows and yeah, we don't really fit that Category yet.

I hope to some day, but we might be a little late Join in that train.

So my command as is our guest he and his wife it went to 11 seven-dust shows in 2022 I've got to know you said

There's people of the seven us family that follow the band.

Sure.

And anyone who follows any band around the country, Pearl Jam, the grateful dead back in the day, fish, that kind of stuff.

Right.

The logistics, the financing, the funding.

Yeah.

How do you make stuff like that work?

Well, you know, we're not independently wealthy necessarily, but I wish we were.

No, I mean, you have to budget for it.

I mean, just like anything else.

I mean, for us, it's a vacation.

It's a recharging of the soul.

You know, it might be physically tiring sometimes, you know, especially when there's these kind of long road trips involved and just kind of last minute changes and plans, which happened to us this last time around.

So, you know, it can kind of wear on you that way, but it is a vacation.

And, you know, just the same way that a lot of people might

Save up a good amount of money to go hang out on a white sandy beach somewhere in in a tropical place You know we we get our kick-side of following a band around and going to see all these live shows and hang out with our friends So every time VIP or what are you doing?

Not every we did every one this time.

We went to four shows on their New Year's run, uh-huh You know we pay for the VIP and it's not so much even just to meet the band I mean that's cool to kind of get a wave or something, you know But it's also a lot of these friends I'm talking about that we've made over the years and

You know, they might not all go to all the shows.

So it's, you know, for us to have been, had the, the advantage to kind of go to all four of them, you know, there's certain friends we'd see at the first show and then certain other ones you see at the second show and things like that.

So.

Do you have, do you have your sign place that you have to be for every show?

Or do you move around?

I mean, I have my favorite spots, but I mean, we typically try and stay kind of a little bit just left to center, kind of between LJ and Clint.

But I mean it just depends on the show and depends on who else who all else is on the rails And there's really not a bad spot to stand at a seven to show I mean it's this last one actually on New Year's Eve because we'd already been to three shows We just decided to kind of hang back and we stood back by the by the sound guy by front of house and

This

is incredible.

Got it from there.

Yeah.

Mike, Amanda is joining us.

He and his wife, 11, seven does shows in 2022.

We've talked a little bit about the logistics and the funding.

I want to talk about a trip that you took through Canada to get to one of those shows.

And you've told me that they've been closing with his song.

We'll have it next for throwback Thursday on rock

108.

It's throwback Thursday on the rock 108 morning show.

This one released in the late 2004 on their seasons album.

And Mike had just said that this is one of the songs that they use as their closer face to face for throwback Thursday on rock one.

Oh, I seven dust face to face for throwback Thursday on rock one.

Oh, I'm sitting with one of seven of us family.

Mike Jimenez is good to have you, man.

Hello.

Uh,

You were telling me what we were thinking about doing throwback Thursday and named off a couple of tracks.

Hey, we could do face to face.

And then it kind of cut me a little, little, uh, guff.

Cause you're like, ah, you know, there's a lot of things that just can't be in that song.

You know, that hits a certain way.

I go, yeah, well, you know, the edit, you know, it's pretty good.

No, it's a great edit for sure.

We just, we've heard that song once or twice here.

The last couple of, uh, couple of concerts here, but no, it's, it's a great song.

It's, uh, definitely I'm realizing now, I don't know if I ever listened to this early in the morning.

It helps.

It helps a guy wake up with a little air drum and I'm glad this is all radio only.

So nobody got to see me doing that.

Yeah.

Well, I caught it.

You know, we got to camp.

Oh, cams are off 11, seven does shows in 2022 with you and your wife.

You said that that was the closer.

Is there other staples within their set that they're playing, you know, constantly obviously black?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They play black this run.

I think, gosh, it's funny.

It all kind of blurts together, man.

I've definitely heard him play it live

this

year for sure.

A couple times, but no, I mean, the first half of the year they were touring off the animosity record.

So the setlist was pretty well fixed based on that.

Did you get the gold record that they were selling on their site?

I did.

You did?

Yeah, it was a little pricey, but you know what?

That album meant a lot to me.

I think it meant a lot to a lot of people.

It's pretty cool.

It's hanging up in our living room.

Yeah.

It's a really, it's a beautiful piece of work.

I mean, a piece, you know, a piece of art, something to hang on the wall and just to kind of kind of commemorate that album.

And

you've also had the chance to sit down with Morgan because of it's something called Instamix

and that's

with Jose from Three Years Hollow.

He has, does he have the studio or is he a part of one?

You know, I'm not, I think it's his.

I'm not, I guess a hundred percent sure on the, the business side of it there, but.

Yeah, so he started this thing called Instamix live.

It's based the studios in Genesee, Illinois, but it kind of you know Quad City area.

Yeah, and It kind of started out as like this sort of organic kind of songwriting clinic where people would come in With a either an idea for a song or riff.

It was kind of geared towards musicians I think it's kind of moved even away from that a little bit now where it's kind of more of just a Again sort of a family where we call that Instamix family too.

I mean there's kind of a

a group of people that are kind of regulars at it, as Sarah, my wife and I are.

And so it's almost always involved Morgan from 7S, but it's also involved a lot of other prominent musicians.

I mean, Sean Foy's from Breaking Benjamin.

Really?

Yeah, Barry Stock from Three Days Grace.

Wow.

This is all in Illinois.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

It's like this really kind of cool, just almost like best kept secret of the Midwest here, of this thing.

So we shouldn't be talking about

it.

Yeah, we ought to turn these mics

off.

Just have a

private conversation about that.

But it's really been, especially when it happened for us, I mean, it was during the pandemic, everything

was

shut down.

It was one of the few things we could do to kind of scratch that itch for live music and for creative outlets or things like that.

So, yeah.

And so, you know, we got a chance to meet Morgan and all of these rest of the guys are just named too.

And, you know, they're all just super cool down to earth, humble people.

I've always kind of been a little bit

Apprehensive to meet you never want to meet your heroes.

You know, you never

want to meet

them You just never know but you know as it turned out these are all just super top-notch cool people and Is

he different in concert mode?

Meet him being Morgan.

Yeah Morgan rose from seven dusts.

Is he different from concert mode to when he's in creative mode and he's helping out musicians?

That's a great question.

Um, I mean, I don't know it's He's he's got a persona on stage for sure when yeah performing.

Yeah,

and it's

One of the coolest personas I've ever seen in my life.

I mean, that's really one of the things that drew me into seeing them live because he's just an animal on stage, you know.

So no, he's not like that in the studio, but he's a brilliant musician, really.

I have just the utmost respect for his songwriting ability and the way he can sort of almost like picture an entire song in his mind from just like one little idea or one little spark and that just has this whole idea for this.

Brilliant song and part of this whole clinic then is they'll go through and actually create that song in real time in front of an audience of you know 15 20 people So one more time that's

Instamix and it's in Geneseo, Illinois.

Correct.

That's awesome We'll have to I have to knock on the door of a Jose haven't talked to him in quite some

time.

I should say hey He's

on down there.

I want to I want to see what's

going on.

He's a great guy, too And he's got a great thing that he's running there in that studio and he's got a

great voice.

Morgan does too, by the way.

A lot of people don't know that.

He's a fantastic singer.

I listened to his solo

stuff.

It's

pretty incredible.

You want to hang out for just a little bit longer?

Yeah, sure.

Why not?

Cool.

Benjamin, I will not bow on a rock.

What awaits Brian Marshall?

Open it up the studio door.

Mike Jimenez joining me 11 shows for seven dust in 2022 and shared with me right before we went on on the air that

I will not bow was one of the reasons why you want to play drums for a

while.

Oh, yeah.

Well, it's so I've been a guitarist most of my life and I don't know the last few years I feel like it's a common thing with with musicians if you're a guitarist

I always kind of look over at the drummer like, man, I wish I could do that.

And I feel like drummers kind of sometimes feel the same way about guitar.

And so- Man, I wish I could get the chicks.

Yeah, that's right.

So, I mean, isn't that what drives us all?

No, I'm happily

married.

Except for Troy.

That's

right.

Troy and Cedar Rap, it's playing drums for, he's getting everybody.

We love

you, Troy.

We love you, Troy.

No, but it's one of those things that, yeah, listen to a few of these songs.

Like, yeah, I will not bow as one of them.

A few, there's a few seven of songs, Shine.

comes to mind that just really I got kind of hooked on the drum grooves of those songs and really wanted to kind of put down the guitar for a little bit and learn to play drums.

I'm not very good at it.

I'm you know not even the world's best guitar player by any means but I'm definitely not you know winning any contest with my drums but I really enjoy it and it's just something that's you know a personal kind of release to

So just kind of work on and play.

So

we had mentioned earlier in the show that you'd been to the 11 seven dust shows in 2022 had done the VIP stuff.

Yeah.

What about what's going on with Clint Lowry?

You had mentioned a Patreon.

Yeah.

So he started a Patreon a couple of years ago.

We got our kind of foot in the front door with that.

I mean, I've always been a fan of his, you know, obviously through the seven dust thing over, you know, over the years, he's done a few other projects as well that I've been a fan of and

You know when he kind of opened the door to do this patreon thing we jumped at the opportunity and so what is it?

Yeah, so it's it's you know, just like I think a lot of patreon's you know, you kind of it's kind of an We call it access, you know to to these these artists these creators these You know whoever it might be And he runs like a like a discord channel discord server for like a chat deal

So he's on it, you know, there's, I don't know, a couple dozen people on it, you know, along with him.

And it's kind of, you know, really a pretty laid back, great group of people.

First of all, I mean, we've made a lot of really close friends through that.

Yeah.

But also it's just a, you know, basically direct line to chatting with Clint, you know, and I mean, we talk about all kinds of things from music to, you know, fitness.

We have a dad jokes channel.

Oh, what?

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Does Clint have dad jokes?

Oh, Clint loves dad jokes.

You gotta get him on the air, man.

Cause I'm not going to sit here and, you know,

if you've got a phone number, I'd love to talk to Clinton.

I don't have his phone number unfortunately, but I bet we can get ahold of him.

So yeah, no, that would be great.

If, if I could just, you know, with the understanding Clint, we're not going to talk anything about seven dust maybe once, but you tell nothing but dad jokes.

I bet he'd be into it.

Oh.

That would be amazing.

With that being said, you've been to these shows.

You made a quick trip through Canada to get from one show to the next.

What in the world?

Why?

What happened?

Well, a lot of things happened.

The weather happened was one thing.

So I'm from the Buffalo, New York area originally.

And so I was visiting family out there for Christmas with the intention of making it to Detroit for the first of four, seven shows for their New Year's run.

Did you bring your

snow tunneling machine?

I

should have.

Looking back, I mean, Buffalo obviously made the news here this last, it was pretty awful.

Where we were at, we didn't lose power or anything, so I don't wanna paint too bad of a picture for ourselves.

We held up just fine.

Obviously this was not the same story for a lot of other people.

We feel really bad for those who lost their lives and things like that in the storm.

But as a side effect of that storm, the airport shut down.

our flight got kind of messed up for what we were supposed to get to Detroit.

So we ended up having to rent a car and drive to Detroit.

And the fastest way to drive from Buffalo, New York to Detroit is through Canada.

And so my wife, thankfully, thank you, Sarah, if you're listening, decided to pack some our airports, our passports.

Yeah, smart.

And so, because you need those to get into Canada.

So thankfully they were current, everything was good.

So we got through into Canada.

drove through four or five hours, whatever it was, over to Detroit.

And we were late to the VIP by like 15 minutes, but it just worked out perfectly.

Everything was great.

So when they ask you the question, what brings you to Canada?

Say, I'm traveling through to go see a seven dust show.

Is that what you said?

Pretty much,

actually.

Yeah.

I don't think I said seven dust, but I think I said we're on our way to Detroit for a concert.

Yeah.

And yeah, I mean.

I'm sure they've heard similar, similar stories before, but because, you know, it is the fastest way over there.

It saved us about two, three hours versus driving on, on the South side through, uh, you know, through the South side of Lake Erie.

That's incredible.

Uh, how much Nickelback did you hear while you're listening to the

radio?

Uh, I don't remember.

Okay.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I think we had our, I think we had our phones going on

final,

final question about seven.

Since you've seen this, the band so many times, uh, who's your favorite member of the band?

Oh God, that's

an impossible question.

Is it?

It is.

Come on.

So, I mean, obviously, from what I've talked about here, I mean, I'm a huge fan of both Clint and Morgan, you know, Clint being the guitarist and Morgan being the drummer.

You know, Lejean is an awesome singer.

He's just incredibly talented, great guy.

John, the other guitarist.

Also, he's got a lot of other projects he's working on, too, that are equally awesome.

And, you know, I can't pick a favorite.

They're really are a great band.

I mean, I'll say this visually, I think Morgan makes the

the live show, maybe a little extra special, just because of his antics on stage.

I think he's probably the first person that people kind of notice when you see them playing live.

But man, I mean, Lou Brutus has said it best.

He's got kind of a, I don't know, a meme out there, whatever, about Seven Dust.

But it's about just how awesome they are to see live, and they kind of set the bar for every other band, really.

I mean, he kind of...

I don't even remember the exact wording of the meme there, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

Feel free to share it.

But yeah, they're just, they're a force to be reckoned with live.

And there is, it would not be the same without any one of those members.

So that's why it's, you can't really pick a favorite in that way.

That's interesting.

I've always found that Morgan and Vinny when they would come through were always really cool to me.

A Lejean, obviously not as accessible, but whenever he would say, hey, how you doing?

You know, he would remember.

He'd have at least some idea of what was going on.

He remembered the market.

So the old joke used to be you could set your watch by another seven does show.

And if I'm looking at my watch, that means 2023 is it's time.

Let's

get back in

the market.

Hopefully.

Yeah.

I mean, they're going to stay at your house.

They're more than invited if you guys are listening.

But no, of course, of course not.

But no, the their road dogs, man, they tour more than just about any other band that I'm aware of.

And, you know, I think they

It speaks for how much they love doing it and how much, you know, they want to make an impression on, on people will want to come see them.

That's awesome.

Well, thank you for taking the time to talk to you, talk to us about your seven dust ventures throughout 2022.

And let's see if you can double that number here

for 2023.

I don't know.

Yeah.

We'll see what we can

do.

But yeah, thanks.

Thanks

for having me, man.

It's been good catching up.