00:00Hi, we're Straitjacket, and you're watching Live Minute TV. Yeah!
00:21It's our first EP and like our first release that has more than one song on it,
00:26and it's gonna have, I think, five in total, and we're really stoked for it. We all like
00:32different kinds of music and all different kinds of genres. I think we tried to incorporate that
00:36in this EP and the next EP that will come out after. We have a lot of influences and it was
00:41always hard for us to separate our sound from other bands because we all have different influences and
00:46whatnot, but alternate rock, punk rock. There's even some folk, some folky stuff in there, maybe
00:52a little new wavy. Ryan House produced it, which was so fun. We spent like a month in Canada and
00:59they put us up on a little house in like a field basically next to a forest. We were out there
01:04for about a month. We spent a week in Vancouver while we laid down the drums and the bed track
01:10for the entire album. Inspiration can kind of strike at any given point in time. When I go
01:17through hardships when I want to write, you know, personally I feel like I try to keep it real,
01:22and then when we all write together, you know, sometimes we'll just jam out and then pick a riff
01:27or someone will come up with an idea. Like the other day, Jack played like these really cool chords
01:31and I was just like noodling around on the bass. Nate was playing drums and it's very much
01:37like a cohesive thing. We kind of like came together, all three of us, during the pandemic. We met Nate
01:43at our very first show I think. Fabian and I were playing in a band before and Nate was in another
01:47band. Our drummer at the time needed to use like one of Nate's like things, like one of his...
01:53It was like a hi-hat clutch or something. So Nate like kind of had to like stick around for our set.
01:58We met there and during the pandemic we decided that we wanted to look for a different drummer
02:03and I remembered Nate from like the show that we played and so I asked him if he was interested in
02:08coming to play some songs with us and then he came to one of our practices and then we
02:13like pretty much just asked to join the band right there. And then we practiced throughout the entire
02:17pandemic not being able to play shows. Once the venue started opening up again we kind of hit the
02:22ground running. We're going to Nebraska in July to play with The Offspring and then October-ish
02:28we're doing Aftershock in Sacramento. We try to like make sure we connect with the crowd too, you
02:33know, like playing our music's pretty cool and all, but I mean at the end of the day we want to make
02:37sure every person feels like they're like 100% welcomed and a part of the band. We've never ever
02:43played shows like the shows that we have set up. We're so used to playing skate parks, small venues,
02:51or places around the bay, you know, because that's where you could play during the pandemic. So to
02:57have the opportunity to go down and play with some some of our heroes this year is very exciting and
03:04we're just really stoked for the year ahead. I hope that
03:08people who like like us and stuff will like join along for the ride and journey.
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