00:00God, the crowd is hot for these guys.
00:01They recently released their album's sound system,
00:04which is amazing.
00:04If you have an opportunity to see them live, check it out.
00:07Please welcome Nick Hexham and S.A. Martinez from 311.
00:15Welcome.
00:17Nice to see you.
00:18S.A.?
00:19Very good to see you.
00:22Welcome to our little show.
00:25Always nice to have you.
00:26Now, you were out giving some love to the fans outside.
00:30Yeah, that's a brave thing out there.
00:31We've got to look at them all out there.
00:33They're out there all cold.
00:34They've been out there all day waiting for you.
00:37Arnold Schwarzenegger, you're in good company.
00:39Arnold Schwarzenegger also braved the crowds last Friday.
00:42So you're risking life and limb.
00:43You like to give back to the people.
00:45I got cold out there.
00:48We've got a fan in here,
00:49and the poor thing has just been crying our eyes out this whole time.
00:53Don over there is such a huge fan, so say hello to Don.
00:56Hi, Don.
00:56What's up, Don?
00:58Nice shirt.
01:00That's a rare shirt you got there.
01:02That's dope.
01:03Yeah, that is a very cool shirt.
01:04Very cool indeed.
01:05So how was the show last night?
01:06You just played Irving Plaza here last night.
01:08The place went off.
01:08That was good.
01:09It's nice to get back in the old, like, smaller clubs
01:12and really just feel the sweat, feel the heat.
01:15It was good.
01:16That's what you're doing with this tour.
01:17You've been playing huge venues now.
01:18You're playing smaller ones,
01:19bringing it to, like, the hardcore fans, right?
01:21Yeah.
01:22Different vibe, obviously.
01:23Yeah, it's just much more immediate, you know?
01:25I mean, it's like when you're...
01:27It's more of a participatory thing
01:29when everyone's, you know, all that close together,
01:31whereas when it's seats in a big outdoor place,
01:34it's more like people are just watching.
01:35Right.
01:36But they're much more involved
01:37when they're a small place like that.
01:39Everybody's a part of the show, right?
01:40Definitely.
01:41Did you get a chance to preview
01:42any of the sound system material before a live audience?
01:45Do you generally do that
01:46with new stuff that you're going to record?
01:48This time around, we didn't.
01:50We just were...
01:51We were just rehearsing it a lot.
01:52We built our own studio
01:53so we could just practice a lot at whatever was...
01:56We could tell what was going to be rocking live
01:58just by if we were rocking hard to it.
02:01So since we rehearsed it for so long
02:03that we knew it was going to be a good album
02:05to play the songs live.
02:06Yeah.
02:07Yeah, and it's an amazing, amazing album.
02:09I want to talk a little bit more about it,
02:10but right now we've got to get back into the countdown.
02:12Lip Biscuit.
02:12You big fans of The Biscuit?
02:14Yeah, those friends bars.
02:15Yeah, they're a nice bunch of guys.
02:16They are here with Method Man at number four today
02:19in Together Animal, too.
02:23Now, I'm still here with Nick and Essay from 311.
02:25I want to check out a little bit of Come Original,
02:27which has been on TRL a few times.
02:29I don't know if you knew that.
02:30But let's get this up on the monitor here.
02:32Right on.
02:33Now, tell us about the making of this video.
02:36This looks like just like this massive party
02:37that you got dropped in the middle of.
02:38Yeah, it's...
02:40Skaters in L.A.
02:40It's a high-energy song,
02:41so we wanted to have, like, skaters and dancers
02:44and just make it, you know,
02:46try and capture some energy,
02:47like how we were playing live.
02:49Right.
02:50That wall of speakers is like
02:53four semi-loads full of speakers,
02:55and they were working.
02:56Really?
02:57So the bass was just booming that day.
02:58Blowing the hell out of the dancers and skaters
03:00and whatnot.
03:01Now, whose idea was this?
03:02Was it the director coming to you with this?
03:04Yeah, Kevin Kerslake.
03:05He came up with the concept.
03:07Now, how do you...
03:09That's me on the board.
03:11Oh, man, don't you wish.
03:13Now, how has your sound changed since Transistor?
03:15You took a little bit longer
03:16with this album, putting it all together.
03:19It's more of a rock album.
03:20Transistor is more like a stony,
03:23sort of trippy dub kind of experience.
03:25Progressive.
03:25And this is more of a hard, fast, short song.
03:31It's an amazing, amazing album.
03:33Flush the Prozac down the toilet
03:34and go pick up Sound System.
03:35It's an amazing, amazing album.
03:37It'll make you very happy.
03:38Do you want to...
03:38While you've got the floor,
03:39do you want to plead for coming to the original
03:40and come back onto TRL?
03:42You've got their attention now.
03:44Vote for it because we wrote it ourselves, you know.
03:47We produce our own stuff.
03:49It's rare.
03:50It's rare on this show, let's just say.
03:53It's an amazing video and an amazing band.
03:55Super nice, guys.
03:55Thank you so much for stopping by.
03:56Nick and Essay, we very love it.
03:58Go get Sound System.
04:00Let's continue with the requests.
04:02Blink-182 is the number three
04:03with all the small things.
