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Silversun Pickups' Nikki Monninger and Brian Aubert sit down with Miles The DJ to discuss their album 'Tenterhooks,' and their recent tour experiences with Weezer and The Shins.
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00:00it's the world famous k-rock how we doing miles the dj here uh back in february silver sun pickups
00:05dropped their seventh studio album tenderhooks it's incredible in 2027 they'll be on the road
00:10supporting said record as they've pretty much been doing since it came out several months back
00:15uh they'll be at the will turn on saturday may 22nd nikki and brian that's like next next year
00:21is that true are we gonna be at the will turn yeah that's awesome you are no i have not
00:24seen
00:25this is the announcement actually surprise everyone may 22nd 2027 did you think that we
00:31were just gonna play half an hour in a stadium for everybody yeah um i haven't seen the i i
00:40saw
00:40a mock-up of a schedule at one point sure so i do not know where we are but i
00:45am excited to hear
00:46it was revealed to me just now from you and i'm glad it's from a friendly face
00:50that we were playing the will turn that's right that's exciting yeah my daughters are excited
00:55because they have that red room up top your daughters do what you don't live at the will
01:00turn your daughters though told me there's yeah there's a red little cute room at the very top
01:06that they got to uh it's the heart of the will turn it's a lot like the haunting of hill
01:10house
01:10it's a little bit haunted it can be anything you want any memories over the years at the will turn
01:16that stand out top of mind oh my gosh we've had lots of fun parties there i mean that's a
01:22nice place
01:22to uh bring your all of your family and friends i can't remember yeah we've had so many uh just
01:29going to a show i think of my memory of the will turn my favorite memory is seeing tom waits
01:34wow when there were seats and my friend took me to see him and he was playing three nights and
01:43i
01:44was aware of tom waits but it was a little bit lost on me the show
01:49hit me like a ton of bricks but you know i i didn't realize how special of an experience that
01:55was and and because i just thought oh tom waits plays sure tours yeah and so i just remember being
02:01there and sitting there and and uh it was all seated and there's a like a walkway from in the
02:08middle you know and that's where he came down from he's singing like this came out with a song
02:12black writer wow my friend he was such a huge fan of tom waits and but i sat next to
02:19the he sat me
02:21next to the walkway so when tom waits came down i just raised my hand up and he grabbed my
02:27hand oh
02:27wow and was singing and my friend was so pissed yeah that's one thing i remember and i remember looking
02:35at the crowd thinking whoa this guy every kind of person and age and and vibe in this city is
02:44here
02:45like it's almost like the warriors like they were representate like the goth center represent
02:49right representatives you know the punks the older crew everybody was represented like some sort of
02:56galactic senate to watch tom wait so that's one of my favorite memories didn't we see nick cave there
03:01yeah i've seen the cave there bjork we've seen so many things there we're angelinos sure sure no i
03:08love that venue it's gonna be great to many nights going then you go to the hms bounty across the
03:13way
03:13yep that's right yeah it's been years since i've been there tenderhooks came out back in february
03:20how does the record feel now versus uh when you first put it out you know we it's almost like
03:28we took
03:28a little break from it with the weezer tour because we didn't have much time on stage so it was
03:34it was
03:34less of um diving into that record and more just the general silver sun world so it'll be nice to
03:43revisit it in a way um and i i feel like it will feel
03:51we'll we'll be as close to being good at playing those songs we're getting there we'll we will nail
03:59these songs this is like in like five years knowing how we act listen every band is different yeah but
04:06i think we all share the same quality where we all get great at playing these songs when it's over
04:12you know when the cycle as soon as we're done right we'll really nail this and we should have
04:16recorded it then anything about this year so far that's surprised you oh geez all of it this year
04:23go you know the nikki was in weezer for that's right it's really fun to uh sing with them every
04:30night
04:30and uh it was fun to play our our set too all five songs of it um and i enjoyed
04:37uh changing out our
04:39third song every night we would pick out a different one but uh yeah the weezer guys are
04:43great we got along really well and with the shins too and um now it's over but it was really
04:52all the
04:52touring so far has been a surprise you know yeah especially that we had to kind of you know wait
04:56because weezer and so um for everybody who's been messaging us all this time it's like okay now
05:04there's a tour i i told you there would be a promise you yeah we just had to kind of
05:08cool our
05:09jets a little bit because of the weezer tour and i understand that but the touring that we've done
05:14around all that has really been astonishing like in the beginning we played all these places which
05:19is not something alien to us we love playing places that are other people don't go to you know
05:26like jackson hole and sure but it's so played a lot of ski towns catch them i enjoyed catch them
05:33and a nice art gallery i know you did oh and i walked to the ski slopes so i'm not
05:37taking
05:37catch them to task let's not you catch them heads i enjoyed catcher k-rock is huge yeah world famous
05:44catch them you you were on the the weezer gathering tour that's what we're referencing right now yes so
05:50australia new zealand and hawaii and then the tours shows before that and then weezer
05:56whatever expectation we had for it it was it blew it out of the water it honestly
06:04somebody asked me recently if i could sum up those two months and which is a really weird thing to
06:09ask like hey just get really quickly give me two words that sums up your life but i would say
06:14like
06:15it's a new standard into the height of what touring can be the camaraderie between the shins and weezer
06:24our respect for weezer which we always we had massive respect for them and loved you know have
06:31been loved weezer since you know we saw them at teenagers and stuff like that um but being with
06:39them our respect for them has just grown so much and and we made so many friends in that tour
06:48and
06:49the the crowds and the bands and the crew the whole thing is just like i don't know how you're
06:54going to top we're going to top that one anything in particular that stood out you know talking about
06:59respecting weezer and it is just literally you know my son who's 11 came out to visit for a week
07:05it's never happened before and because of the scheduling of weezer it just was too long for me to
07:13be gone so it's just i'm going to take my school and bring him to weezer and the things that
07:18he
07:18picked up on are the things that i love about touring the things he loved it wasn't the shows
07:24and the stuff it was it was just the traveling circus of it all and he loved when we would
07:31hit a
07:31hotel and he would see the people that he's met from the crew from weezer and all the stuff and
07:38he
07:38just loved seeing them all in a different place and camaraderie on the bus and things like that
07:44that's what he loved and that was so hot big on this tour for real like i've been texting i
07:51have
07:51like a lot of text chains going on still like i don't know that was something else the shins
07:57weezer their crew all of that it was insane and they those bands watching the shins and weezer every
08:03night i mean they were so good you know they were so good we could i think i saw say
08:08it
08:08so 30 times never gets old it's hard man you got a song like that yeah no it doesn't keep
08:15playing
08:15it it doesn't get old it's just like somehow they've touched some primordial thing yeah you've
08:20referenced nikki being in weezer for two months what you're referring to is that nikki you performed
08:25three songs with the band yeah every night what was it like getting that invitation how did it feel
08:31the first night before you went up and played with them and kind of coming back to the end of
08:35the
08:35tour at crypto.com arena just got a text message and was like nikki would you like to do
08:40sing some songs with weezer i didn't even know it'd be so official i thought it'd be like sometimes i
08:44would do it sometimes it's not but it was like a part it became a part of the set that
08:48i'm like oh
08:49i'm committed to this and um they were so welcoming from the beginning and actually the first thing i did
08:54with them was um jimmy fallon so that was the first time i'd performed with them so that was
09:01nerve-wracking but they were all so welcoming it made it easy and um i just appreciate their
09:08patience and um and their kindness towards me doing that and you know i get really nervous
09:16performing and i had never performed performed without like my base in front of me so i felt
09:23exposed more okay but um they made it really as easy as it as it could be so did you
09:30get more used
09:30to it as the tour went on yeah yeah and i think that every night boy did she i think
09:35every night
09:35was different it became the mickey show for sure how could it not yeah it's pretty insane i mean come
09:40on man i'm really bad with direction so i would just like forget what to do you know like they
09:47would
09:47say you should go maybe go here and then come this way and then but i would just always forget
09:51every
09:51night so it was just like every night was different and um but their fans are so sweet and yeah
09:57their
09:57fans are very receptive and it was it was great to see have a little insight inside of weezer and
10:02how
10:02i can see how they've stayed together this long they have such respect for each other they are four
10:09weirdos that i mean that in the best way that found each other but i'm shouting out scott though
10:15oh dude scott scott's great what a musician dude he's his bass tone is so good insane he's so good
10:23there is a funny thing i was talking to rivers once and i was like he's like oh i didn't
10:28realize you go
10:28over to scott and do a little dance with him and i'm like yeah i go over during i said
10:33i go over during
10:34the bass solo he's like that's actually the guitar solo part but to me i was like yeah yeah because
10:40i was
10:40looking at him doing this really interesting part on the bass and i was just like having fun dancing
10:44around with him but i thought it was funny that he pointed out that was rivers like that's me playing
10:50i know he did great you know he's a wonderful person and i'm just glad that we had the opportunity
10:55to do
10:56it what was it like brian seeing nikki on stage with another band every night oh it was i was
11:01seeing
11:01other bands for we were like how come she doesn't sing this loud with us yeah no we kept going
11:07she's
11:08she's like up there going crazy there no it was amazing are you kidding me yeah like it was so
11:12fun we were it's uh yeah it was a blast everyone on their crew was so nice and they were
11:20teaching me
11:20how to hold the mic right and then they gave me a cold mic to be special and you know
11:25it's just like
11:25they were welcoming me into their family which was love that nikki went up and dominated it and it
11:30was awesome like she earned like she was she crushed it every night it was really fun and there was
11:35a house
11:36on stage yeah if you've seen the show the um listen and we don't need to make this i know
11:44we're
11:44gushing about weezer but like we're gonna segue yeah i mean we we just got off this tour so it's
11:49all fresh in our minds um the whole concept of the show was really cool and and weezer's having
12:00there's this resurgence of humanity that was just like so happy to be involved like people just
12:05love weezer and right now in particular people are just happy to have weezer in their lives listening
12:11to the records and the gold record and all these it's just this thing in the song on tiktok i
12:18guess
12:18i keep saying there's all these they're always thinking about what it is that how they've gotten to
12:24this place but it doesn't really matter how they they're at this place and and i would say
12:30they know that and they're meeting they're meeting the moment because they put so much effort into the
12:35show you know very intentional but i think it also goes back to the so intentional the tour is called
12:42the weezer gathering what made it work was was the bill and the shins yeah i mean even us being
12:46on the
12:46bill was part of it you know what i mean like they were really adamant about us being on the
12:51bill
12:51at a certain point um and i understood really why um so anyway on the stage is this house that
13:01rebuilt their house that they had in los angeles right and so it's up there and that's just the
13:06facade of it behind it is just like you know staging and stuff right however it's really there for nicky
13:10to wait because as soon as my name is jonas comes on she has to run around and get ready
13:14to reveal
13:15herself because she sings three songs she comes out of this house everyone there's this whole thing
13:19it grew to such a crazy degree in the house that nikki started calling it the house party
13:29nikki's house party we're just for nobody but us everybody would go in there our guests would go
13:34in there weezer's crew would go in there the shins would go in there and we would decorate the whole
13:38inside of the thing it just became like a ritual where you go to nikki's house party
13:45and sit there and dance to pink triangle and all these stuff and then we all clap to let nikki
13:52out
13:53and then we run around it would help me give me confidence oh and no one in the crowd knows
13:58what's
13:58happening no one in the crowd knows that in that house we're all partying in there and even rivers
14:04didn't know he didn't know until maybe five we had five or six shows left and he's like wait what
14:09you guys you guys have been doing this whole time yeah i was like yeah your crew comes he's like
14:13our
14:13crew comes i'm like only for a few minutes i'm like they oh yeah yeah they're working hard but
14:19then then i would give out these buttons here i'll give you this what do you got um it's a
14:25little i
14:26made a little drawing of my wand and then if you visited the house party you would get a one
14:31inch
14:31button so you can have that now this is great we'll have to do a we'll do a close-up
14:35at some point so
14:35everyone else can see that uh it was no it was nice because they would like encourage me to go
14:42out and and then i would it just became a thing that we had we had to kind of calm
14:46it down they're
14:48like we can't have that many well eventually their tour manager correctly rightly so yeah i was like
14:54there can literally be only 12 people up there and there was a lot more than that you know talking
15:01about scott and weezer he joined the band in like oh one oh two they haven't changed the lineup at
15:07all since uh carnovus turned 20 this year you've had the same lineup for quite a while as well uh
15:14what's
15:14the secret to to that i don't know what i mean that's that's what the band is you know yeah
15:21so far
15:23nobody's done anything nuts yeah that's kind of legally in trouble we all respect each other
15:29and i think we all want to do a good job for each other you know it's like we aren't
15:36all trying hard
15:37to do the best we can and that's just how our personalities are and and now we've done it for
15:45so long what else are we going to do right like i said nobody's gotten into insane legal issues yet
15:50you guys seem like you genuinely like love each other and have a yeah that comes through
15:57i'm glad it's all fake so i'm glad it's coming through and we really work hard on this facade
16:02so much history when we walked in nick and i were in different rooms that's right i was excited to
16:08see brian's been like a week and a half so much tell him about your jacket oh brian bell gave
16:17me this
16:17oh brian bell loves brian brian brian brian brian any go ahead brian yeah he gave me this jacket he
16:29goes hey this is what it was like being on a weezer tour like you'd walk by and he go
16:33hey does your
16:34son want this backpack i was like sure and i gave it to my son he actually did want the
16:41backpack which
16:42was surprising and then he goes hey i have a jacket made by that company i was like okay and
16:47i went into
16:47his room and he gave me this jacket he's like looks really good on you uh i was like okay
16:51thanks
16:51and i walked down the hall then scott saw me he was like hey man i wish i had that
16:56jacket i have an
16:56extra large they gave me an extra large i said do you want it he goes no man you know
17:00why looks good
17:01on you and i was like thanks weezer and walked down i was like that's what that store was like
17:08and and every day they're just given a bunch of stuff weezer's given everything we got
17:12jerseys though that was really we're excited about that that's awesome yeah uh there's a lot
17:16of history with uh silver sun pickups and k-rock oh yeah i mean two plus decades at this point
17:21i know
17:21that's kind of you guys any any early memories or of k-rock first memories that kind of stick out
17:27in our lives or our band's life your band's life let's go both whatever however you want to answer
17:33being on kevin and bean for the first time i remember was pretty wild you know um being at la
17:39kids and stuff that was that was a really that was a wild experience to be a part of obviously
17:46starting getting on the weenie roast too where i think those i've never been to one somehow i's
17:51never i never no i never ended up going to any weenie roast or acoustic christmases or any of those
17:57things so my first experience i mean i knew of them you know but somehow i i never made it
18:03to the
18:03radio festivals um and i think i've had a budget for like lalapalooza when i was a kid you know
18:10sure um so my first experiences with those were playing them but i was aware of them so that was
18:19that was so those are pretty crazy it's being on k-rock was just like huh what wait what what's
18:25happening you know yeah you're just sort of like we're when rodney on the rock first played kissing
18:30family oh i mean for real it feels let's get real yeah when rodney on the rock played
18:38well that was all that was it for us when you're putting together uh like a set list for a
18:43show
18:43in 2026 2027 well the weezer is easy there's only five yeah well well for a silver sun pickups
18:50headline gig um you know like yeah like like this year you have you know carnivus turning 20 but you
18:55have a new record out as well how do you can just balance the the catalog anniversary we're ignoring
19:02yeah i mean we're almost done with the year so clearly i've told people because it is people
19:09what's the number people that's what i've sort of said yeah as you have eloquently put it said many
19:15times a lot of times the bands that are doing that maybe aren't around you know so they're just
19:21kind of getting back together and like doing this album but we're around yeah like it or not um
19:29and the timing is like well we made a record and so we're gonna kind of tour on that so
19:34if you are
19:35if if the number means a lot to you then you're gonna be disappointed if it's you have to see
19:42it
19:42for after 20 years then you're gonna be sad if you don't mind it if it's 22 years old yeah
19:47or 23 years
19:49old and it keeps going to like possibly if you don't care how old it is then we we're we'll
19:56we'll
19:56get you we're working on it you know you'll hear those songs well talking about the new music and i
20:01i
20:01love the record and thanks in particular the first three songs like the one two three punch of how it
20:07how it begins is just incredible new wave into the wreckage into our revore yeah um it's just it's
20:13one of my favorite openings of a silverstone pickups wow album um our revore reservoir so how do you
20:20say it is that how you say it i mean however you are revore reservoir it's interesting because you
20:25don't want to go too french how do you spell it how do you say it no you're right like
20:28you don't want
20:28to be like like le poisson you know i mean like some people go like you don't want to do
20:35that right
20:36yeah i'm you know i'm using my natural voice and however it comes out it comes out you're doing
20:40a great job no no you're doing a great job because it is very difficult butch vigar our producer and
20:45our great friend yeah him referencing that song when we're recording uh was always hilarious because
20:52it's like or or or or or or or or or reservoir reservoir reservoir reservoir reservoir i think
20:58and then it causes a 20 minute like stop of au revoir au revoir well for me it's there's an
21:03artist
21:03au revoir simone i love them and i always want to say that i'm so used to saying that so
21:08i gotta stop
21:08myself they're good they're so good i love that they're around still i hope yeah i think they are
21:12it always reminds me of in top secret when when they're saying all right when they're saying goodbye
21:18to um i'll always love you deja vu never mind nikki what did you want to bring out of that
21:26movie
21:26though i do love that part and your vocals in that in that record on that song what did you
21:31hope
21:32to bring out um you know i'm preparing for the weezer tour it was preparing she knew in her bones
21:38the weezer tour is over for me nikki did you hear what he said the weezer tour is over oh
21:43did you
21:44hear what he said it's kaput is there more is there more coming up oh no the that that tour
21:49is over
21:50yeah nikki i just want you to know i just need you to know it's over it's uh it's okay
21:55you know
21:55weezer is playing weezer is playing almost acoustic christmas oh good there might be an opportunity
21:59for nikki to come back on stage i don't know who's to say they have my number you can play
22:05pickleball backstage um i know i miss pickleball we used to play pickleball and tour and over
22:10reservoir piano duets oh no you know what something it makes me so happy to record with butch
22:17because he makes me feel so comfortable and he has the best microphone he has all the best
22:24microphone so they they give me confidence to sing and the confidence to try anything you know and and
22:33i was trying to sing more confidently and brian's always encouraged me to sing more and butch is
22:39always encouraging me to sing more and and they don't mind if i mess up and you know i just
22:44feel
22:44i mean it's like this interview where it's pre-recorded we can change things in postage
22:52nikki if you don't nail this thing in one take i swear to god you're out bb before butch i
22:57always
22:57felt like my parts might have been okay we got to get this done we have two days like really
23:03yes
23:03like that's how i feel all the time no but i feel like we do all everything and then it's
23:09like okay
23:10nikki well let's hurry and do your stuff and i always felt pressure but then i don't with butch
23:15i'm like and then he's have you interviewed butch i've met butch you need to have butch right here
23:21so that there's like this big gap in our country i'd love to interview butch oh yeah he's the best
23:24we had we had butch and shirley on fine alley show shirley's a blast recently shirley's a blast
23:30yeah they were great and butch played garbage played almost acoustic christmas two or three years ago
23:35no way they were amazing i know they are legend there that's another band
23:41that the world is finally catching up to shirley manson yep like this is how shirley's been forever
23:47and they just get better with age they do and it's interesting talking to butch and and of course
23:53it's you know it's one of those things where they say you know the best the game of thrones or
23:58any
23:58kind of thing like the best leader is the one who doesn't want it i didn't want it um like
24:03they're
24:03just like we didn't butch is like we didn't plan on like being around like this band but it just
24:09it
24:10just it doesn't matter it got taken from them like the world wants them yeah so they continually
24:15do it yeah and and i feel like i remember seeing them at this festival see by the way this
24:23is a
24:23typical silver sun interview we love talking about every band but us we've talked guys go see
24:28kjl fit at the mix on clock we've done some no i know this is how we love it we
24:32don't like to talk
24:33about ourselves um i mean you are the subject of the conversation so i mean you're the title of the
24:38video that's true you know can we change that we can change it to someone else if you want weezer
24:45um when i saw garbage play at this festival that was really a lot of nostalgic bands you know a
24:50lot
24:50of like bands that have been around or gotten back together and but when garbage showed up it felt
24:55like a modern band yeah it didn't feel like a 90s band it felt like a now band yeah and
25:00so it's just
25:01so wonderful to see uh i don't know there's a cultural capital just so strong they earn it they
25:07there's such beautiful people yeah and the world needs shirley manson this is kind of like you either
25:12agree with her you got to reckon with her you know she's fighting the good fight and i love that
25:16100 right yeah all the time yeah you're playing um darker waves on yeah well speaking of
25:25oh we are yeah yeah let's not forget you're here man i don't know what i'd be doing yeah that's
25:30very soon damn i'm here we have to practice we've only practiced five songs we know these five maybe
25:37we'll just do them twice how long is our set probably like five more minutes we got the will
25:42turn we got the will turn in may we have darker waves coming up how do you approach what's the
25:47difference in approach for the well we'll be more prepared for the may one no darker waves
25:55um it can't be much longer than our weezer set so yeah we're gonna watch it early yeah we were
26:00switching the third song out so we know some i don't know what we're gonna do for a headline tour
26:04yet so we'll get there when we get there yeah we'll just i like to start aggressively
26:12in in if i've said if i pick the set list if nikki chooses the set list christopher has a
26:18heart
26:18attack because it's like being shot out of a cannon for an hour and then slowly going down
26:25what is it about nikki picking the set list then because she likes to do all the fast crazy ones
26:30up front and it make our drummer christopher is like dude so i have i'm going to literally collapse
26:36if you choose the set list and that would do creation lake or something to me i know david letterman
26:41would always like point out a drummer after a band performed but with him when you guys would play
26:47letterman back in the day it felt like it's for very genuine yeah it is yeah i remember he's a
26:52maniac
26:52man he's he was looking he was watching us when we were um doing our sound check and i thought
26:59that
26:59was really sweet first time we did letterman we just thought oh this must be what he is like with
27:06everybody but but everybody there kept coming up to us like after we were done everybody in that
27:12room was like wow dave loved you guys dave loved you guys and we thought okay okay and we're so
27:17happy
27:18because it went well and we felt good and then when we came back we were a little nervous like
27:22maybe it
27:23was just some sort of like special experience that we had and this one won't quite be the same
27:28but it was the same like this time we came back paul and dave were kind of there secretly to
27:33watch
27:34sound check and stuff paul was just like yeah i mean it was just as awesome and the third time
27:39they gave us the theater to do our own show and so it was this thing where i think maybe
27:45they're
27:45kind of trying to like do a jimmy kimmel kind of thing where they would do you play and then
27:50online
27:50the band would host a concert in the ed sullivan theater so we had the ed sullivan theater to do
27:55a
27:55concert and it was really insane i mean look i think christopher still keeps that symbol high up there
28:00because letterman got such a kick out of it and i think that kind of cemented that in
28:08like well letterman digs this that symbol staying high none of this surprises me i mean like if we
28:14can get serious for a second here are we not serious well i want to talk about silver sun pickups
28:19for a second okay genuinely one of one of the great live bands on the planet you know i mean
28:26it's
28:27it's paul yeah paul he's amazing okay i just wanted to point that out and give you a compliment
28:33thank you that i love your band live yeah yeah i mean you're here so sweet figured might as well
28:38have you seen uh fontaines they're good they're really we had them here recently no way you did
28:44yeah we did how was it they were amazing they were incredible what a good band yeah good band
28:48they're playing the forum next year oh let's talk about that i'm kidding that was really i'm i mean
28:53i'm happy excited but whoa they blew up like to the forum we were like what yeah that's incredible
29:01yeah um good for good for the world yeah you've talked a lot about like the early days of silver
29:07sun pickups and the silver lake community and just you know what a what a strong you know time that
29:12was
29:13do you um like where do you find that sense of musical community now i mean we i guess we've
29:18talked about you know the weezer guys and whatnot but yeah i mean locally are there that really and
29:24through through taking bands out and and we
29:30i mean we have been lucky one of the i didn't realize this but we choose our openers you know
29:38and i didn't realize other bands didn't until everybody came up to us every band and everybody
29:43was like you're so lucky you choose your own openers i was like you guys don't um
29:49when we do that it has done nothing but open our worlds up into like there's an la band that's
29:58crushing it right now called rocket that we're really close with that you'll probably be interviewing
30:02soon um that we have met through the community that we've kind of created so that with the even
30:11the weezer and the shins thing like even on the scale like that we've always kind of tried to
30:14cultivate that in our own you know uh and so we have found a through these artists we have been
30:25connected to this whole slew of other artists including hannah cole who will be touring with us which
30:31we're so excited about because she came to fill in for just a couple days and we were blown out
30:37of
30:38the water like our crew and everybody i don't know what we were expecting but we were in such shock
30:46and so things like that when on the weezer tour we had a day off in dc and she was
30:52playing a show
30:52and we secretly surprised her and then asked her at that time to tour with us and stuff like that
30:56so it's there you know i think we always remain curious we always you know wanting to learn and
31:02yeah and we remain open well we're fans of music yeah do you know what i mean like i remember
31:08uh
31:08this is first i love this guy um rick gershon oh right rick gershon who i don't know if he's
31:14still
31:14i don't know if he's still at warner he's a publicist um worked with all the cool bands at warner
31:18brothers and nicky knew him pretty well and uh he became like a friend of ours before silver sun
31:25just like in the neighborhood and such and i always admired him because he would be in the front row
31:31to
31:31robin hitchcock show or front row at two three nights at sonic youth not working you know just like
31:38fanning out yeah and i think that
31:44uh i mean i i can speak for myself i think everybody feels that way we are really big fans
31:50of music
31:51and so the magic of it is still not lost on us you know i think that's helpful like when
31:58we
31:58have bands open for us that we love which just like i can't believe i get to like watch this
32:04band
32:04every night you know just like i get to watch weezer every day we are watching weezer every
32:08night but watching the bands that play with us like sit there on the side of the stage just
32:11take it in like wow how lucky are we that we could just summon this band you know any other
32:18bands
32:18nicky like top of your head that you know you kind of have on your radar that maybe an opener
32:23down the
32:24line yeah nicky yeah nick do you remember any of the bands who were some of your favorite i guess
32:32yeah what were some of your favorite name them and name their names what have you been listening
32:36to lately um chapel roan weezer weezer sorry i can't no right offhand oh that's what don't worry
32:46about i'm not good on the spot we're sorry brian um she has a hard time remembering the names of
32:53you guys are you an eagle rock right now i am i'm in outwater you're not water okay yeah any
32:59any
32:59you guys want to know exactly where we live literally but i've been spending a lot of time
33:04in eagle rock okay humble brag love it what are you doing video for halloween vidiots and revenge
33:09of are my two spots how cool is revenge of love revenge you know i never go in there really
33:15that
33:15much but when i do i always feel like and these are some places on tour art art tristan um
33:21our tech
33:22who we work with he's like one of the best people in the world um he collects pokemon cards and
33:29he's
33:29like super into games he brought an xbox seems the shins guys it was this whole thing that's what
33:34broke brian bell brian bell was also a video game hit um i'll go out with him on tour to
33:41go find
33:41pokemon cards like i don't care about them but it's fun to go into these stores stuff like that and
33:45when
33:45you go into places like revenge of but they're out in the world yeah you know what i mean like
33:50in
33:50mobile alabama or all these places i'm always so happy for the people that are in there like this is
33:55their clubhouse this is their safe zone this place is like such a good like hangout you know
34:03what i mean and revenge of is awesome vidiots is also awesome yeah vidiots yeah yeah you know a good
34:08here can i can i let you in on a little hey los angeles hey hi it's me remember me
34:14i mean i've been
34:15in you for so long i know we haven't talked um but listen if you if you want to impress
34:21somebody
34:22and you want to take them on like a fun little extravaganza i think a fun thing to do is
34:29like
34:29go see a flick at vidiots and then walk down to the capri club and get yourself some food and
34:33then
34:33maybe walk up to waltz bar and play a little pinball and that's it and what about bob baker
34:38marrying it you'd have to get tickets for that that would be a whole different thing i'm talking
34:43about this one little block oh that you can walk capri club not too far either tacos via corona just
34:48moved in there okay you'd have to be there in the day to do that but okay nikki's got some
34:53ideas
34:54nikki's date is a whole day yeah it is it's always great to see you guys yeah you do it
35:01really is
35:01no i it's uh it's so much history and so weird that we've become such dicks huh oh you're the
35:06worst i
35:07know right terrible do you get is it weird to see us change hanging out with you guys it's weird
35:10to see
35:11us change into such assholes you're way different than you were before yeah i know yeah i know yeah it's
35:15wild but it's fun being a dick i think i'm the same nikki's the same tender hooks is the record
35:21it's fantastic and worthy of your time you're nice miles thanks so much did we talk about it
35:25what's that did we end up talking about it yeah it's out i tried to it's fine you know guys
35:30you
35:30know what it is it's an album from us if you like us go listen yeah no pressure songs there
35:35are songs
35:36songs on there it's only 40 minutes long and you know what else is going to happen you're going to
35:40play songs from a scott ackerman thing to say the tenderhooks 39 minutes 20 27 may 22nd at the
35:48will turn if we make it