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Cage The Elephant talk tour injuries, from cracked ribs to broken feet, their new album, and missing Foo Fighters because their tour manager threatened to burn them with lit cigarettes on "their pee pee holes", apparently.
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00:08Hey, I'm Matt. And I'm Brad. And we're at KJLFENT and I don't know where we are. Oh, well, it
00:13was the festival. We're at, um, Reading.
00:18The solo project became the album. Well, it wasn't really even, it was never a solo project. It was just
00:23like an inside joke that we kind of, because we were writing stuff that really wasn't fitting what we thought
00:29the album should say.
00:29It didn't sound like. So every time we would work on a song that was like that, we were like,
00:33oh, that would be for the solo project or for the, um, side, not solo, but side project or whatever.
00:38Just as like an inside joke.
00:39Yeah, and that actually became the record because those were the songs that we were really gravitating towards and into,
00:45opposed to the record that we were trying to make sound like we thought it should sound like, you know?
00:51Yeah, it's going to be great. Um, we actually wrote them a love letter at, um, Radio One's Big Weekend.
00:59And, um, uh, we sent them a letter. It was like, dear Foo Fighters, we're huge fans of your band.
01:04Sadly, we can't see your set because our evil tour manager is making us leave.
01:08And if we don't do everything he says, he burns us with lit cigarettes on the P-hole. We hope
01:14you understand.
01:17And, um, we ended up running into him at another festival in L.A.
01:20And Dave Grohl actually burnt Matt with a lit cigarette.
01:23On the P-hole. Now we're best friends.
01:25No, but anyways, we ran into it.
01:27It solidified the friendship.
01:28Yeah.
01:28We ran into each other in, uh, at a festival in L.A. And he said that we should do
01:33some shows together. And so now we're doing some shows. And it's going to be awesome.
01:36And then we went back to our dressing room and cried like little girls.
01:38Yeah.
01:39With the joy.
01:40Yeah.
01:41I don't know. I've separated my stern from my rib cage. I've cracked ribs. Broke my fourth metatarsal in my
01:47foot. Got in stitches.
01:49Pat sounds like he's reading this off a list.
01:51Yeah. It's like, she's like, threw my shoulder out, hyperextended my knee. Got a get ingrown hair on the bottom
01:59of my chin.
01:59Yeah, got an ingrown hair on my, uh, in my armpit.
02:02My left, my left upper dorsal fin.
02:06Um, there were some strong hands. Some strong hands.
02:10I think they just mistake it for like a, a bicorn or a clown's nose or something. I don't know.
02:17And then, yeah.
02:18Yeah. Um, yeah, we're actually taking some time off in September to work on, uh, some, some new songs that
02:27we've been flushing out. Ideas and stuff like that.
02:30Um, and we're, we plan on taking some, some serious time off after February to write and record and stuff.
02:39We don't want to force anything though, so we're just trying to let it happen naturally.
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