Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:13 What is up? How we doing? Welcome back to the end of the round podcast. You got Matt, you got Tyler, and you've got the Dakota Mayor, and of course the podcast episode eight with you in the round podcast. And it is crazy. We've made it so far, eight episodes. It's been awesome. We've had some great guests. It's two months now. Two months. Holy shit. Two months. Yeah. Damn. Time flies when you're having fun or when you're doing whatever it is that we do. But we have, we had two guests on for this episode because we had two members of a band, our first band that we have encountered, um, on this podcast. And they are awesome. They are wild. They are two of my favorite guys. Wild
Speaker 2 00:00:48 Is an understatement.
Speaker 1 00:00:49 Wild is an understatement. And
Speaker 2 00:00:51 We didn't even have the wildest one.
Speaker 1 00:00:52 No, we didn't have the wildest one. So two guys from a band called Shelton Road. We had Andrew Valles and we had Shawn Bellamy Andrew's the lead singer vocalist, and Shawn is the bass player also on backing vocals. And they came in, they hung out with us and they have a really cool story. I learned a lot about those two guys, Tyler, right? Oh yeah, man. You did as well. Very different backgrounds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:01:13 Me and Valles, we kind of talked, you know, at Allen Broadway, uh, smoking cigarettes late at night on Tuesday, whenever I used to work security there. But, uh, I knew a lot about him before, you know, he's a good old Alabama boy just like me.
Speaker 1 00:01:24 Oh, he is. And Sean is a, uh, a Tennessee and a native here, what we call a unicorn horns up to the unicorns. And, uh, it's a great conversation. It's a lot of fun. Probably the wildest episode that we've had so far. So sit back, enjoy this one. You wanted to say something?
Speaker 2 00:01:38 No,
Speaker 1 00:01:38 Go ahead. No, you would say,
Speaker 2 00:01:39 Say it. All I gotta say is, uh, shout out to Mason.
Speaker 1 00:01:42 Ah, yeah. Shout out to Mason. Shout out to the rest of the crew, Spencer and, uh, Michael, I think his name is right? Yeah. Mike Michael. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're great band. They're called Shelton Road. Look them up. You're definitely gonna want to after this episode. Now without further ado, let's go in the round with Shelton Road. Tyler, hit that damn music.
Speaker 0 00:02:08 What
Speaker 1 00:02:09 Is up everyone? Welcome back to the, in at the Round podcast. You got Matt, Tyler, Koda, the whole crew, and we got two of my favorite guys. One of my favorite bands that we get to see here in Music City. I love these guys. I look forward to whenever they're on playing at, uh, playing at our work place, playing anywhere downtown and midtown. Two of the guys from a band called Shelton Road. We got Sean Bellamy and Andrew Valez. Fellas, how you doing?
Speaker 3 00:02:32 Good, man. Just hanging out. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1 00:02:34 That's awesome. So, so we're recording this on a Monday. How was your guys' weekend?
Speaker 3 00:02:39 Busy, like, uh, we played a bunch Friday and Saturday and then yesterday, uh, Sunday, I guess. I don't know when this is gonna air, but yeah, no, Sunday I just grilled out and got a new dog, and so I've been like chasing after puppy pee everywhere, all weekend
Speaker 1 00:02:55 <laugh>. So
Speaker 4 00:02:57 I, I just made a bunch of adult purchases on a Saturday and then had to suit up yesterday for Easter and stuff. So that's all That's you,
Speaker 1 00:03:05 You actually went to church and did the, did the Easter
Speaker 4 00:03:07 Thing? Yeah. After being a heathen and getting home at like, almost 4:00 AM and then I had to be up at seven and actually showering, be like a productive member of society. <laugh>. That's not, that's not a usual Sunday. Hey
Speaker 1 00:03:21 Cuz something I was surprised about, this was my first, it was my first, uh, Easter Sunday down here in Nashville. I'm figuring I'm in the Bible bell. It's not gonna be busy downtown, but sure enough I'm working downtown and we have kick outs on Easter Sunday, and I'm like, welcome
Speaker 4 00:03:33 To Nashville. It
Speaker 1 00:03:34 Just doesn't stop.
Speaker 3 00:03:35 We're in the Bible belt. But the people on Broadway aren't, they're
Speaker 1 00:03:38 No, they're,
Speaker 3 00:03:39 They're traveling down there.
Speaker 1 00:03:40 No, they are from, they're from everywhere. You said adult purchases. What constitutes an adult purchase?
Speaker 4 00:03:46 I bought a tie.
Speaker 3 00:03:47 Nice.
Speaker 4 00:03:48 And a pocket square. You bought a
Speaker 1 00:03:50 Pocket square?
Speaker 4 00:03:50 Yeah. And new shoes. Shit.
Speaker 3 00:03:52 Did you fold it yourself? I
Speaker 4 00:03:53 Did.
Speaker 3 00:03:54 I have no, you gotta teach her how to do that. I have no idea. I
Speaker 4 00:03:57 Can, I can do that. Like I said, I'm an adult sometimes.
Speaker 1 00:04:01 <laugh>. Oh man. So adult purchases and the puppy. What's the, what's the dog's name? Rt. Rt?
Speaker 3 00:04:06 Yep.
Speaker 1 00:04:07 Rhett. And he's uh, what kind of dog is he? Well,
Speaker 3 00:04:09 We're not sure. You know, we, uh, got him main society, but he is, he's big. Like, he's gonna be huge. That's about all we really know about him. He's got a good nose, which is nice because my other dog can't smell anything at all. That's good. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1 00:04:24 Good. <laugh>. It's like me. So now talk about the music stuff. So you guys have been in Nashville for how long? You guys have been here for a little while. A long time.
Speaker 4 00:04:33 I was, I was born and raised here. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:04:35 You're a unicorn. Oh shit, I'm a unicorn. Oh, shit. I, I made this joke the other day. Horn's up for you. That's right. Unicorns. It's not that many. Not that many of y'all here.
Speaker 4 00:04:41 Yeah, there's, there's hardly any actual Nashville natives left in town. Everybody got out when everybody started coming in, so,
Speaker 1 00:04:49 Yeah. Sorry about that. <laugh>. Um, so you're, so where in Nashville are you from? Uh,
Speaker 4 00:04:54 I grew up on the west side in a area called Bellevue. Okay. Um, it's probably about 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown, but it's a nice little area and I'm actually moving back there next month, so. Oh, awesome.
Speaker 1 00:05:05 Cool. All right, cool.
Speaker 3 00:05:06 So yeah, I, I grew up in Alabama and then I moved, I moved to Nashville in 2010 the first time. And I was here for a few years and I went to Georgia and I've been back now almost a year now. About a year, yeah. Yeah. Coming up on a year. So.
Speaker 1 00:05:20 Awesome. So how did you guys get to be playing music together? And you guys are a five piece band at times? Sometimes even more, sometimes less. And you guys put on a great rowdy show, like one of, one of the more fun shows that Thank you man, because we step, we step back and listen to people play on Broadway all the time and play in Midtown and play all the time. But you guys are one of the ones that we really look forward to seeing when we're at work. That's
Speaker 3 00:05:41 Awesomes
Speaker 1 00:05:42 Awesome. Hey, so how'd you, how did Shelton Road come to be?
Speaker 3 00:05:44 So, well, Sean and I have been playing together going on nine years now. Um, we actually met through another friend of mine who was a guitar player from Alabama where I'm from. And, uh, he was playing in what Prague Rock, I guess you
Speaker 4 00:05:57 Could call it. Yeah. It was a prog rock rock. There was a Prague rock group called Pay the Sky. Uh, and it was me and this guitar player, our buddy Adam, and then, uh, two other guys. And then, so Adam one day said, Hey, I've got a buddy who needs a bass player. Is it cool? Like, if would you want to come to a rehearsal? I'm like, uh, sure. Uh, let me check my schedule. And I actually missed the first rehearsal and Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:06:27 That was a good way to start.
Speaker 4 00:06:28 Yeah. And then, uh, and then Adam came back. He was like, dude, I know you had stuff going on, but I really think you would enjoy this. I was like, okay, I'll be, I promise I'll be at the next one. And then I met this guy at a mellow mushroom in Murfreesboro. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:06:43 Cause he
Speaker 4 00:06:43 Came up, he came up like, I
Speaker 1 00:06:45 Forgot
Speaker 3 00:06:45 About that day cuz we were wa we were watching uh, great Barrier Reeves play, like this steel drum combo thing.
Speaker 4 00:06:52 Yeah. It was a weird group, but it's
Speaker 3 00:06:53 Very mellow. Mushroom Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:06:55 <laugh>. But, um, but yeah, so I met him, I he didn't remember that night at Mellow when I showed up to rehearsals, like, did I meet you the other day? I'm like, yeah, we are all pretty honest.
Speaker 3 00:07:07 Dude was no mushroom man.
Speaker 4 00:07:08 What is,
Speaker 3 00:07:08 We were watching a guy play a steel drum on a stage with a magical school bus behind it. You're not supposed supposed to remember those nights.
Speaker 4 00:07:15 It's true. But yeah. So then, um, I, we had like a 10 hour rehearsal and then two weeks later we played our first set of shows down in Alabama. Yeah. And, uh, then he ended up taking over a roommate of Mine's Lease for the next two months through the summer. And then we moved into a place. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:07:34 We ended up living together for three years, years, something like that. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And then, uh, some things happened and we kinda didn't talk for a little while and then now we're back playing together again. And you guys
Speaker 1 00:07:44 Are playing all over the place. You're not just a, like, there's a lot of, there's a lot of groups and a lot of artists and bands that'll just, just play Broadway. Yeah. They're, they're Broadway cover bands. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. You guys go out on the road and do your own thing.
Speaker 3 00:07:55 Yeah, man, we're trying to, we're we're doing it more this year than we ever have in the past for sure. Um, but yeah, so we do Broadway during the week and then we try as many weekends as we can kind of get away from Nashville. Cause Broadway's great for what it is. Yeah. You know, you get to play a lot in front of, front of a lot of people. You know, you get to make some new fans, meet some cool people, but if you don't find some way to get off that street every now and then you're gonna burn yourself out, you know? And we want to keep doing this, you know, I don't want this to be a one year thing that goes away cuz all this are tired of it, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, we tra we're trying to travel a lot this year and we're going to further out places. We used to just tour basically in the southeast, but this year we're going all the way up to Wisconsin. We're going out to California, we're doing Vegas, we're doing all sorts of stuff this year that we've never done before. So, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:08:43 We can't wait to see what the reaction is for your guys show out in somewhere like California or Las Vegas. Cuz you guys, you guys play a show with balls. Like you guys really get after it and get crazy. And just when I think, oh, they, they can't cover a, um, a nineties NWA song <laugh> Dr. Drake. There'll be a fucking 40 minute rap battle. I And between you and who's,
Speaker 3 00:09:04 Who's Michael Sharp? Michael Sharp
Speaker 1 00:09:06 Who is a, a talented little bastard. He is. Yeah. He's a wild man. He is awesome and very good at what he does.
Speaker 3 00:09:13 Yeah, he's awesome. Look him up online. The Michael Sharp Keys by the way. But he is an incredible keyboard player and when he does his rap thing, I just get pissed off. Cuz normally when I'm in a group, I'm the rap guy. Yeah. Like, I'm the guy who knows the rap. I go, Hey, have you heard this song? They go, what the hell is a Kanye? I don't know what you're talking about, but he knows everything and it blows my
Speaker 1 00:09:33 Mind what I love. One of the first shifts that I, I worked where I got to see you guys, I think it was like a 30 something minute rap battle somewhere around there. It might have been maybe closer to 50, I might be exaggerating. But you and him just started going back and forth and you just kept it going on the base. Shawn Yeah. And Mason's back there on the drums going, ha ha and he's just doing, he was background vocal as much as he can. And
Speaker 4 00:09:54 Yeah. The, the, uh, optimal word that Mason usually uses during that is Wu Tang. Anytime he, anytime
Speaker 3 00:10:00 He can ang
Speaker 4 00:10:01 He, he finds a place in like every four bars that he can just shout Wu Tang into his mic. Yeah. And we love it. And it like, or he just yells Yeah. That, that's Mason. He, he, he hits things and he yells
Speaker 1 00:10:12 <laugh> How did, how did, how did he get he he
Speaker 3 00:10:15 Does more than that. He does more than
Speaker 1 00:10:16 That. How did, how did the rest, how did the rest of the band get together with you guys?
Speaker 4 00:10:20 Um, was that process? Mason and I, we played for another artist, uh, coming up on four years ago. Um, and it just kind of, that eventually kind of fell through. But, uh, he, he and I just decided, you know, we're really good as a rhythm section together. Um, our style, we kind of came from similar, you know, backgrounds with our music stuff and, um, he, he's more of the rock stuff. And I grew up on a lot of rock, but I also add a little bit of my funk and jazz stuff that I've studied. And so the, like us together, we, we kind of made a pretty cool rhythm section. And, um, then once, uh, Andrew, once he moved back to town last year, uh, we, you know, we were starting to play more and more together. He'd come up from Atlanta and I would play for him here in town.
Speaker 4 00:11:15 And then, um, I had a couple other projects that I was doing last year and I lost a couple players to tours and this, that and the other. And so my buddy Brett said, Hey, you need to check out my friend Spencer on guitar. You need to put him on a couple shows. And so we got, um, we got together and he started subbing in for me whenever I didn't have guitar players. And then finally became a weekly thing where he was playing on my shifts when he wasn't out with his artist gigs and all that. And then, um, Valles and I, we started talking and we started getting more shows put on the books. And so I'm like, Hey, let's bring these guys in. Um, I already have a really good rapport with 'em. They can learn anything up and down that you need and it's just, it's taken off from there. So yeah, it's been really, and at the nice, I have all
Speaker 3 00:12:05 That at the time when I came back to Nashville and Shawn was helped me find these players. We would, and at least in my head, I don't know about you, but in my head it was not gonna be a band thing. Like I was gonna come back and do the artist thing again. And then once I started playing with those guys and actually getting to know them and seeing we were so much better when all of us are there, that's when we made the decision to make it a band. And once we did that, I felt like everybody kind of got tighter. We started playing eight, nine times a week together and then they just don't leave now. <laugh>, we just can't get rid of people. Yeah. Shelton Road, where does the name come from? <laugh>.
Speaker 4 00:12:41 That's all you Bud? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:12:42 Holy shit. All
Speaker 4 00:12:43 So
Speaker 3 00:12:45 Iss, actually it was back in high school that, uh, the guy who actually introduced me and Sean, um, Adam, we met at a theater company in Alabama where his parents owned the theater and we were both doing shows together over there. And it was on Shelton Road. And then when we moved to Nashville, cuz he went to Murfreesboro for mtsu. And then I went to Murfreesboro to pretend I went to Mtsu <laugh>. And when I got there, we started talking about, we actually put a band together 10 years ago called Shelton Road. And we just liked the way it sounded. It was where me and him met. That was Shawn was an original member in that group. And then, so when we got back together this time we're like, what do we want to call it? Like, dude, I still like that name. Like we never did anything with it. We never traveled with it. We never put any music out. Like nobody knows it's already been a band name. Why, why not use it? And so we just did it just kind of, we just liked the way it sounded and yeah, <laugh>, that's about it. There's, there's not a big crazy story to it. At
Speaker 4 00:13:41 Least to me. I think that that idea to call the current band Shelton Road, it kind of got, uh, some traction cuz we knew he was gonna be moving back to town. Uh, we knew once his wife had, uh, finished up her masters and all that, that she, you know, they were gonna be coming back here.
Speaker 3 00:14:00 That was
Speaker 4 00:14:00 Coming back. Yeah. And so it just so happened that he was gonna be here and then all of the original members of that,
Speaker 3 00:14:07 Oh, I forgot we did this,
Speaker 4 00:14:08 Uh, all the original members of that first Shelton Road band were in town because Adam, the guy who introduced us, uh, he's moved out to LA now and so he was back here to see some family, uh, last March. And I talked to the guy who books one of the clubs that we always play and
Speaker 3 00:14:26 We're like, and we used to play with him back nine years ago too. Yeah. We played, we played for that guy then. Yeah. So we called him up
Speaker 4 00:14:32 And we called him up and we're like, Hey, the original Shelton Road boys are gonna be in the same town and free on this Friday night. Can we have this stage and do a reunion show? And so we put that together and then there had been people who had kind of come in and out of the band over the years and we almost did like a timeline type deal where all the people who ever played for that band came back in and sat in and played a few songs. And it, it just kind of took legs from there. At least in my mind. That's
Speaker 3 00:15:03 Like your Yeah, I, I forgot that that, that we did that actually. But yeah, that was, that was a cool night. And I think that's when we like really made the decision, like, yeah, we need to do this as a group, you know, and do it together. Especially with me and him. And we've been together so long and then pissed each other off and left for a few years and came back. So it was kind of cool to come back to like that original band name that we started with, the original guys and like, make something happen there. Yeah. So, and Mason had kind of taken my spot in their friend group when I left too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:15:34 He kind of became my blood brother
Speaker 3 00:15:35 After. And so when I, when I came back, I didn't really have a choice in drummer at the beginning, <laugh>, they were just like, yeah, hey, the, the new you is gonna play drums. And I was like, all right, well fine. And luckily he ended up being a badass, so we, you know, yeah. He was fine.
Speaker 1 00:15:50 Some else I've been, I've been wanting to ask you guys this, uh, for a while, but when, when I first saw you guys, you, you had a t-shirt that you would bring out to the games <laugh> that said, and I, I'm guessing you got in trouble for this
Speaker 3 00:16:01 Happened. Get Trouble for We ran, we sold out, we sold out him and then the guy that was making em,
Speaker 1 00:16:06 I want one. Yeah. If they, if they're still in production, it's a shirt that says Shelton Road and it says, is it, let's get shitty in Music
Speaker 3 00:16:12 City. Yeah. Getting shitty in Music City. City. Yeah. So what we've actually done is, um, we stopped with the t-shirts for now just cuz over the winter they weren't selling. So we wanted to get some cheaper stuff. And so we got Coozies, um, that have the same slogan on it or we changed it a little bit. We say getting shitty with Music City now, so that when we go on the road we can still sell 'em. But, so we've started doing some cheaper items. They still have the same slogan, <laugh>. Um, but I think probably in the next month or so we'll get some more shirts out and everything because I just,
Speaker 1 00:16:41 When I saw that, I'm
Speaker 4 00:16:42 Like, you'll have
Speaker 1 00:16:43 One won. I'm like, I like these. Yeah. No, get one, get one for Tyler too. All
Speaker 3 00:16:47 This is, gimme your sizes and we'll get it taken care of. Sure.
Speaker 1 00:16:50 Alright. Right. Sweet, sweet. Um, cuz when I saw that and then I started hearing and just watching how the show is like, it's like a rollercoaster almost cuz like it'll start out country. Yeah. And then it'll go in the rock and then it'll go into the hip hop and then it'll go back in the rockman. You'll do your acoustic thing. Those guys will go Yeah. Do their thing outside, go get some air and then it's just all over the place. And then the drum, the fact that Mason and Spencer Switch Yeah. Man spots. That doesn't happen in bands where the guitar player goes and plays drums. The drummer goes and plays guitar. Yeah. Well while lead singer jumps off and they're both singing and you're still singing.
Speaker 3 00:17:20 Yeah. Well it definitely doesn't happen. Well, normally <laugh>, we we're very lucky in that matter. Um, but the funny thing is, we do that even when Spencer's not there, our other guitar player we use just as good a drummer. <laugh>. So they'll just, we the the show doesn't change on the few nights cuz Spencer's out with, uh, Adam Doac. Yeah. So on a lot of weekends he can't do it. And so we'll bring in Colin or or one of the other guys and they all play drums. It's like, why, when do you have time to learn a second instrument like that? Or a third or, or third or whatever. Fifth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:17:50 Yeah. And to know that many songs for when request come in mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. Broadway can be all over the place. It's not just country. Like people will think of
Speaker 3 00:17:57 It. Well, especially when with our show, like normally if the band's country, they're gonna get country requests. If they're robbing the gang rock our show still damn all over the place. That will get everything from freaking Old Town Road requests to Miley Cyrus to Loreta Lynn. Loretta Lynn, the
Speaker 1 00:18:15 Buck Cherry crazy Bitch. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:18:17 Crazy Bitch. Yeah. Yeah. We get that request every week. I don't know who gives us that one. That's,
Speaker 2 00:18:21 It's, uh, I'm just texting random people, you know, Hey, go to this bar this
Speaker 3 00:18:26 Time and request, request request the song request this song, song. Oh man. We, we had a, it was a couple nights ago, we were playing downtown somewhere and I literally had someone come up to me with a notepad that said either play Garth Brooks or she fucking hates me. <laugh>. I was like,
Speaker 1 00:18:43 What?
Speaker 3 00:18:44 How did this combination come on the same napkin? Like and you were from close to your hometown. Yeah. They're from Alabama. That's why you gave it so much thought. Yeah. You're like, I was confused. Can we play this right now? It's seven 30. No
Speaker 1 00:18:56 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:18:57 Yeah. We get in trouble for that sometimes. Or killing in the name of Yeah. Thanks
Speaker 1 00:19:02 For that. Trying to get
Speaker 3 00:19:04 Security loves us for that one. Closing the night out. Like, all right, do something to get everybody out here. Cool. Rage against machines. Perfect Dawn, let's go
Speaker 1 00:19:11 <laugh>. And then they don't wanna leave and they repeat the words that you tell 'em to repeat and it gets, it gets wild. But it's a, it's, it's a good time. For sure. Now, now this podcast, we talk a lot about writing obviously, and you guys have some originals that you've been putting out and been doing that stuff. So how, how's the writing process work for you guys as a band? And I know there's different, well there's a lot, there's a lot going on. You guys have a lot of, lot of, lot of chefs in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 00:19:33 Well, that's what we're trying to get towards. So like up until now, honestly, I've, I've done most of the writing. Okay. Um, for the group. And a lot of it, to be honest, wasn't even band songs at first. They were songs that were written for my solo thing. And then I was like, I think this would work good here. But we're starting to get to the point where we're trying to get together and write together just cuz we have so many different influences and so many different styles. Like I don't want it this sound like every other modern country record out there. Like, you know, I want it to, I want you to hear it and go, why is there a three 11 lick in the middle of that? Okay. Oh, Shawn's play base. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. You know, like I want to have those different influences. So we're working on getting together and this new stuff we got coming out later on, which hopefully will be done into the summer, something like that. Okay. We'll have a couple more songs. Um, we wanted to have more of that rock, blues, funk influence with it. Um, and that'll come from actually getting in a room with all of us and writing and we just gotta get better about scheduling time <laugh> for that. Like,
Speaker 1 00:20:30 Y'all are gigging so much and hustling, but it's, it's gotta be hard Yeah. To get all that, get all that together. I mean, even co-writes Tyler does that he's, he is a songwriter and getting co-writes just without having the schedules that y'all have. That's tough.
Speaker 3 00:20:44 Right? Yeah. I mean we've been, we've been trying to work on it. I mean I, I personally been reaching out to some different writers I know to try to write with them as well. But the other issue is like, we, we play six, six days a week, you know, and then we're trying to have a home life. Yeah. You've got a wife, everybody goes through this, but it's like, damn, you gotta, we gotta start getting better about prioritizing, I think is something we need to do so that we can get all these influences in here cuz it's gonna, it's gonna be a cool sound. Yes. You can just hear like our versions of cover songs that we do like Fishing in the Dark when we throw Uh Oh, that's rage too. That's rage. Yeah. Yeah. Throwing rage over there Or like, we'll change up the feel of stuff. You can feel it when it's our, our song as a group versus us just playing a song. And I want our originals to sound that way too, you know,
Speaker 4 00:21:33 Or the fact that we do like a Calypso version of Toads Sack Brown Band <laugh>. Yeah. And, and every time we do it just to make Velez over here just crack up at the beginning of the song, he's like, damn it. Why are you guys doing this? But yeah, like we want, we, at least from what I can tell, like whenever we do finally get to the, all of Us get together and write, it's not so much gonna be like, we're gonna sit down and like go through your, what a lot of people do for their writing sessions where they bring in an idea, it's gonna start out probably as a jam. So that way we can kind of get a feel of something down and then we may have some lyrical content ideas that we can throw into it, you know, down the line. But we want to get kind of the overall feel of the song down first and then start writing around Yeah. The music question.
Speaker 3 00:22:27 Cause I've, I've talked to them about doing that actually just literally doing a couple hour jam session recording it and just giving me the jazz. Cause I can write lyrics all day long. Okay. So you, your words guy, lyrics, lys, rics and melodies. I've got all day long. I'm not a musician. Like I'm the first one to admit it. Yeah. I'm, I'm not so having, essentially, I hate calling this cuz there would be stuff they wrote or jammed to but backing tracks to write to where it's them playing in their music. I feel like that'll bring everything together too.
Speaker 4 00:22:58 I mean that's how we've started, uh, beginning some of our shows now even. Yeah. One of us will start playing some kind of a groove or whatever, then Mason will kick in with a beat and then everyone's kind of just vamping over some kind of weird melodic thing that nobody knew before they started playing Note one and then Ezzo come in with a toast to start it all off and then we'll kick into chicken fried or something like that. You never know what's gonna happen. Yeah. But that, I mean that's kind of what we want our writing process to be because it, at least in my, um, from what, from the writing sessions that I have done similar to that, for me at least, it's a lot more beneficial to kind of start in that vein where you're like, okay, this groove is gonna be, you know, kind of more of a Latin feel or it's gonna be, you know, straight up rock and you know, all, all the distortion pedals on at once. What? Or and then, you know, after that we can kind of mold the lyric content around it. And for the writing sessions that I have done that cuz I'm not a big writer. I'm horrible with lyrics. I can write music all day though. Yeah. So, yeah,
Speaker 3 00:24:09 I think I get, it's an interesting transition cause we've all done the cover band thing for so long and this started as a straight up cover band. Yeah. That's what we're gonna do. You know, so now it's only been a few months where we've really been trying to make this transition, start doing more original shows. You know, we've done, you know, whiskey jam, bus call, stuff like that and trying to get more things going that we're, we're still figuring it out too. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:24:32 That's gotta be cool that you're all kind of figuring out together. Like you guys are all in that.
Speaker 3 00:24:37 It's cool, cool and super annoying at the same time because we all have different ideas of how to
Speaker 1 00:24:41 Do it. Right. We all come from different backgrounds too. Yeah. I mean, Mason Mason's an Ohio guy, right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, where's Spencer from? He's up New York. Upstate New York. Upstate New York. And, and you guys, I mean, you guys all bring something different Yeah. In that, in that sense. So that's pretty cool. Now for you guys, what does good music sound like? Like what kind of influences did y'all grow up with? I know this can be a loaded question based on your show. I'll let you start cuz Mine's
Speaker 4 00:25:02 Probably a longer answer.
Speaker 3 00:25:03 Yeah. So as far as it good music goes. I, I listen to all kinds of music.
Speaker 1 00:25:08 Like, like what's on your spot? Like if you're listening to Spotify or Apple Music or something, what do you, what's uh, what's
Speaker 3 00:25:13 A lot of Eric Church? Okay. Uh, a lot of, um, all of Hardy's stuff is just on repeat right?
Speaker 1 00:25:18 Constantly. I can't, we were, listen, we were listening to Hardy today and um, I actually, Dave's sitting over there, um, so I, I had to get a rental. A rental, um, yeah, rental car. And that's the, the big Chevy Silverado that's sitting upstairs. Oh. So Dave, Dave wanted it. I was
Speaker 3 00:25:31 Wondering who struck that. Yeah. So
Speaker 1 00:25:33 We don't own it. It's a, it's a, it's an enterprise vehicle until my, so my, until my little Chevy Equinox is back. But,
Speaker 3 00:25:38 Um, that's all right. We'll get you a truck one day. I
Speaker 1 00:25:40 Know Fun. Oh, one day I'll, I'll grow into it, but, um, he'll never go into it. Dave, Dave took the wheel and he's, and I'm like, so what's I'm like thinking what song to play and he's like, anything by Hardy just fucking Yeah. Bump it. And we, and we threw on, um, what do we thought? I think it was Red Redneck or it's gotta
Speaker 3 00:25:54 Be
Speaker 1 00:25:54 Redneck. Redneck or Throwback. We just play it
Speaker 3 00:25:57 Redneck or four by four is my
Speaker 1 00:25:59 Four by four is the great one. All she left was me is a good one. Every, everything that he's put out is,
Speaker 3 00:26:04 Well they look about Hardy. Like you just said, two of his songs right there. Like all She Left was Me is like a great lyrical song. Yeah. And think you turn on something like four by four and it's not the most lyrical song out there, but it's awesome
Speaker 1 00:26:17 Fucking rocks.
Speaker 3 00:26:18 It's part of your ass off to it. And he does have one really good line in there though. Uh, the boys are feeling macho in their cuatro real drive. Like, all right Hardy, I'll give you that one. I'll give you that one. Man, that was good. But like, it's just cool to see somebody like him who, at least from what I understand writes at least the majority of his own stuff.
Speaker 1 00:26:34 Oh, he's, yeah, he's,
Speaker 3 00:26:36 Yeah, he started up, but it's still so widespread. Like he'll have a beautiful ballad and then a party thumb, you know, right after it. Right after it. It's cool.
Speaker 1 00:26:43 Yeah. He's all, all over the, all over the place and had some big, um, big co-writes too and had some big cuts. I mean Yeah. Simple by fgl going out and tour with Fgl this summer tour.
Speaker 3 00:26:52 More than one. He like seven songs. Seven
Speaker 1 00:26:54 Or eight of the songs on the new FGL records. Yeah, he, that tree vibes thing that they got going right now is, there's a lot of cool, cool stuff, cool vibe things going on. So Hardy Eric Church on the Country Spectrum. I'm sure you're listening to more than Just Country right now.
Speaker 3 00:27:05 Yeah, I mean, other than that it's pretty much just whatever kinda comes on the radio. I listen, I'll just like randomly pick stations, but um, those are the only two that I go to on my Spotify. That's your go. Either that or I hate I You do it. I'm gonna admit it. Anyways. Hamilton, the freaking musical Hamilton. Really? I listen to it constantly. I know every word. Almost
Speaker 1 00:27:26 Like there's the people that love that. I
Speaker 3 00:27:28 Love that freaking show. Like, but I grew up in a musical theater background Yeah. To, but I got out of it, the
Speaker 1 00:27:34 Music, I gotta ask. I see. I just, I So what kind of mu you were doing musicals?
Speaker 3 00:27:41 Yeah, dude, that, so I was, the first place I started singing was like growing up in church, you know, you know, doing the kids stuff. And then I got to high school and it basically came down to I could either do choir or musical theater cause I wasn't gonna do band. There was no way you were gonna convince me to pick up a, you know, orchestra band instrument. Which looking back I wish I would have. Yeah. But, and I was not gonna do it. And I was like, man, I don't wanna do choir cause I'll get bored. There's a lot of girls in musical theater. I'll do, I'll go do that. That's literally how it started. And then I was like, oh man, I'm, I enjoy this. I love this. And I thought up until like, the day I moved Nashville, I thought I was moving to New York and I thought I was gonna go try to do the, the actor thing up there, like musical theater stuff. And my dad looked at me and goes, look, you're, you're a good singer. You're a good dancer. You can't act. And I was like, all right, cool. I'm in Nashville <laugh>. I was like, <laugh>. It was like, your
Speaker 1 00:28:39 Dad is the best. My dad. I gotta just put that out there.
Speaker 3 00:28:42 He's, he's one of those guys who's so nice and kind, but just, he'll just be blunt with you. But he is also a pastor. So the way that he's blunt with you is like, it, it kind of makes you feel bad, but also good at the same time as weird. It's not one of those things where he is like, yeah, he wrong. True. You like, he's like, I see what you mean son. Like I'm saying this with love. You suck. Like yeah, don't, don't
Speaker 1 00:29:03 Go
Speaker 3 00:29:03 Man. Like you're gonna be broke. The
Speaker 1 00:29:05 Whole two story. We can do a whole nother podcast on the funny things that Tom has said. Oh yeah. Oh my God. Tom Valez,
Speaker 3 00:29:12 Tom Thomas Valez. Thomas
Speaker 1 00:29:13 Valez. Good old
Speaker 3 00:29:14 Tom. So, but yeah, love that guy. But like growing up before I did that, like I wasn't allowed to listen to secular music in the house.
Speaker 1 00:29:20 Oh. So it was just Christian,
Speaker 3 00:29:21 It was all, it was a lot of like John Amato, Michael W. Smith, Carmen, all these stuff guys.
Speaker 1 00:29:27 Elvis.
Speaker 3 00:29:28 And that's the only secular artist we listened to in the house was Elvis. And
Speaker 1 00:29:32 So for me, coming from New York, I don't any of those names aside from Elvis you just named. I have no idea who they are.
Speaker 3 00:29:37 Most people don't, even if you're from here, I
Speaker 1 00:29:38 I know. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:29:40 But like, I grew up on that stuff and I thought, I thought Carmen when he came out with that Carmen three 16 album dude, which I was like that and the Kirk Franklin revolution. Kirk Franklin, man, that revelation chapter seven, verse 16 and 17, put your
Speaker 1 00:29:54 Paja. That's
Speaker 3 00:29:55 Like, how do you knock it out? P are you with man? Oh yeah. Head. So when I was in, uh, I was like, I think nine or 10 I was at church and we were doing like this like kid children's talent show type thing. And all the kids are up there singing their little songs and dances. I did freaking Kirk Franklin and all these old white people were just looking at me like, what is happening in our church right now? <laugh>. And it is funny. So it was weird growing up. Jesus. That's why I love Jesus. It was weird growing up in that. And I think that's why I like playing with these guys so much with like the harmonies and stuff we do. It reminds me of that type of stuff. Right. And, but yeah, I didn't start listening to secular stuff. So I moved up here and I literally had to ask Adam and Shawn a couple of guys, like, I need a lit, I need a song list.
Speaker 3 00:30:43 And they're like, what do you mean? Just all the parties. So I was like, I I don't know them. Like I had no idea. I didn't listen to, I had to learn friends and low places. I had to like sit down and learn the words and learn I, cause I'd never heard it before. Wow. Yeah. So I moved up here literally with the start. And now like now I love country music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it inside out. But when I moved here, it was literally because I thought I was a better singer than I was an actor. And that was it. It
Speaker 1 00:31:09 Was just the 50
Speaker 3 00:31:09 50. And so I was like, well I can, you know, if I can learn all these lines in the script, I can learn all these songs. The same thing. Well
Speaker 1 00:31:16 I gotta say thank you to Thomas Valez for, I think you made a good decision moving to Nashville. I think it worked out pretty well. The, the blunt, the bluntness of a, of a Christian father.
Speaker 3 00:31:25 Yeah. Just very, uh, very like, you're not good. And my wife likes to remind me that I'm not a real actor on an almost weekly basis <laugh>. Okay. Because
Speaker 1 00:31:33 What's the, what's the scenario? What happen?
Speaker 3 00:31:35 Man, my wife, I met her at the, it's actually the same theater we met, I met Adam at, I met my wife back in high school and she was a musical theater major. And so she's like studied and she's professionally trained and all that stuff. And I was like, oh, I could do that show. She's like, no, you're not a real actor. You couldn't do that. Show <laugh>. I was like, people like me, I can do this. Like, no, you're not real actor. No thanks. Thanks babe. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 00:31:56 Fun fact, Carmen was actually the first concert I ever went to. Dude.
Speaker 3 00:31:59 My first concert was really, yeah. My first concert was Toby Mack, bro. Toby Mack in, uh, Huntsville, Alabama at the old Huntsville Stars stadium. Yeah, it was my first, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:32:10 When was at the Georgia Dome? Cause I lived in Atlanta at the time before I moved to Alabama. Yeah. But yeah, that was it
Speaker 3 00:32:15 There. Yeah. Toby Mack and I never saw Carmen Live, but I watched all his music videos and when he was like, those were intense too, when he was j didn't he Jack a Queen song? He's like, another one Bites the Dust. But he did like a Christian version of it. Yeah, he did. Where he was like out there with like pistols that shot Christianity at you and like killed demons and stuff. It was weird. Whoa,
Speaker 1 00:32:37 Weird. That escalated quickly. No, I'm serious. It's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4 00:32:41 All we're gonna go down that YouTube spiral tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:32:45 I will. I will be going down that horrible look up. Look up Carmen, another one by Dut and it is amazing. Oh yeah. So Shawn, what did you grow up listening to <laugh>? Um,
Speaker 4 00:33:00 My, my musical journey was way the hell different. Alright. Um, basically the exact opposite of Valles. Um, so my dad raised me on like all the classic rock stuff. Um, to, to put it into perspective. My first concert ever was Kiss and Aerosmith together on tour in like 2003.
Speaker 1 00:33:25 It's a little different
Speaker 4 00:33:26 Than ours. Yeah. A little, a little different. Um, but yeah, that would, like, I picked up a bass because, um, my dad was letting me listen to old Kiss records. Like when I was tiny, I was probably 10. And, uh, then I was like, yeah, I was, I was tiny guy. Ten two feet tall. Yeah, that's about right. Um, but yeah, so we <laugh>, I I started looking at like the album covers and I picked Gene Simmons out of the album cover. I'm like, I like this guy the best. I asked my dad, what does he play in the band? And he is like, he's the bass player. I'm like, all right, I want a bass for Christmas. And so af like my mom and him had already split at this point. So they actually talked for the first time in a while and they, uh, they, my dad got me the bass, my mom got me the amp or vice versa one of the ways. And, uh, so I started learning how to play bass. Um,
Speaker 1 00:34:16 Dude, I've never heard this story.
Speaker 4 00:34:18 Yeah, dude. That's how I got into playing bass. And uh, then where Valles said he wasn't gonna go pick up an orchestral band instrument or anything, I did, uh, my whole family pretty much was in band or orchestra when they were growing up. Uh, none of them were doing anything with it. Now they're all in the medical field. So I'm definitely still the black sheep of the family <laugh>. But um, like, uh, I started off in fifth grade on trumpet. Okay. And then I moved to, uh, baritone or euphonium, if anybody knows what those are. I did. And then I moved to, uh, tuba in high school. Played that all through high school. Then I went to college for music and I started off on Tuba. I was actually on scholarship for Tuba at MTS U and then I really got bored with Tuba. I was like, you know what, I'm already playing bass. I may as well switch and play bass in college. So then I started, uh, doing upright bass, uh, and I was, uh, playing upright jazz all the time. And then, uh, in a couple of the ensemble I was playing electric Wow. Doing that. And so I got exposed to a lot of different things.
Speaker 1 00:35:25 I was not expecting this, that EZ is growing up listening to hardcore Christian rock and, and like, yo, yo, yo Power Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, and then you're, and then you're playing playing. I'm playing
Speaker 3 00:35:39 Flipping through like album covers and being like, this guy, the one with the tight clothes and all the makeup and this, I wanna be this guy
Speaker 1 00:35:46 Out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:35:46 Yeah. That's, yeah. I, yeah, I, I I wanted to be Gene Simmons on Tuba for a while, and that didn't work out. So I chose the
Speaker 3 00:35:52 So
Speaker 2 00:35:52 What's the chance that you bring a tuba out to a Selton road con?
Speaker 4 00:35:56 If anybody feels like buying me a tuba, I will totally do that.
Speaker 1 00:35:59 That are they expensive? I we're
Speaker 3 00:36:00 Gonna start a GoFundMe.
Speaker 4 00:36:03 Bye Shauna
Speaker 3 00:36:04 Out the road
Speaker 2 00:36:05 To the, you know, the used music shop. Find one in the
Speaker 4 00:36:08 Store. Oh man. I would totally do it if, um,
Speaker 1 00:36:11 I'm about to go to every pawn shop and like, look for a, there's
Speaker 4 00:36:14 Out there
Speaker 3 00:36:14 Now I feel overshadowed though. I played bugle in Boy Scouts, so, so did I. Sorry, <laugh>.
Speaker 4 00:36:20 I I did too. Uh, but yes, so, um, I did all that. And then I also played, um, I was like, one of my favorite things I did while I was in college was I was in the steel drum ensemble. And so I played bass for it. So I kind of got that reggae calypso vibe stuff going on. So I was doing a lot of, um, Caribbean inspired music for a while as well. And so three 11 became one of my favorite bands. Yeah. And, um, I've seen them probably four or five times now live and almost went on their cruise once. Really? Yeah. They have a cruise. Yeah. They, they sponsor a cruise every year in like May or April. That's
Speaker 1 00:37:01 Gotta be a wild time.
Speaker 3 00:37:02 Yeah. That's gotta be nuts.
Speaker 4 00:37:03 It's, it, it looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 00:37:05 What are the laws in international waters for like oh three? For a three 11 crowd? For three For three 11
Speaker 4 00:37:12 Crowd. If you can get it through customs,
Speaker 3 00:37:14 I mean,
Speaker 4 00:37:14 I'm sure they won't say
Speaker 1 00:37:15 Anything. Yeah, I'm sure I'm Yeah, I'm sure there's, there's,
Speaker 3 00:37:18 Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:37:19 Oh, but use, use those, use those cavities. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:37:21 Absolutely. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 2 00:37:22 Buddy.
Speaker 1 00:37:23 Been hard.
Speaker 4 00:37:24 But yeah, so all the while, you know, I'm playing all these band instruments and stuff. I'm also, you know, getting, um, into Motown music. I'm getting into more of the Hard Rock stuff. Um, my mom tried to raise me on country since, you know, since we're from Nashville. She
Speaker 1 00:37:43 Tennesseeans. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:37:44 And I rebelled against it. I hated country music until I was in college. And then I realized, you know what? Note for note, I'm gonna make way more money doing this than anything else I could play, especially in this town. So I, I started getting into country music that way. Now
Speaker 1 00:37:57 How does that make you feel with the, with the new, um, with how there's all different styles going on with country right now? Cause it's think there's so much going on that it's gotta be easier to transition to. It's not all like
Speaker 4 00:38:07 Right. It, you know, um, I think had the modern country that we have today, had it been popular whenever I was growing up learning how to play my instruments and stuff, I actually might have enjoyed country music more. But because, you know, when I was growing up it was, you know, Shania Twain Jackson
Speaker 3 00:38:27 Do, do not talk bad about Shania Jackson.
Speaker 4 00:38:29 I'm not talking bad about her. I mean, who didn't have a crushing Shania in the nineties?
Speaker 3 00:38:32 Certain you don't do. Okay.
Speaker 4 00:38:34 No, no, no. I ain't talking bad about it. I'm just saying that like, when my mom's trying to get me to have Garth Brooks be my favorite artist. Yeah. I was like, no,
Speaker 1 00:38:45 It's forced on you like that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:38:46 Right. It was forced on me and my dad was like, Hey, tell me what you think about this. And he would try and get me to listen to a bunch of eighties stuff. And I hated that because that's what he wanted me to really like. I just rebelled against my parents and I was like, no, I, I don't want to. I don't wanna like what you like. So then, you know, later on in life I'm like, oh man, eighties music is actually really cool. As you
Speaker 1 00:39:07 Wear, as you wear, I'm wearing a prince shirt as you're wearing a prince purple ring. Oh
Speaker 4 00:39:10 Yeah, sure. My, like my dad was such a huge Prince fan growing up. He has still to this day, he has all of the original, uh, 40 fives of all those prince singles Wow. From when they came out. And, um, we have 'em somewhere at his new house that he just got
Speaker 1 00:39:26 So, well, I, I think I know what would, what would buy that tube, but we're looking for Holy Yes. Yeah. Good,
Speaker 4 00:39:32 Good luck getting that out of me or my dad's Cold
Speaker 1 00:39:34 Dead. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. But that, but that's cool. So the, you said said it's somewhere at your dad's new
Speaker 4 00:39:39 House. Yeah, there's somewhere over there. I don't know where,
Speaker 1 00:39:42 What was that? What's your dad's work schedule this week? He's off for 34 days. No, he can't get the empty.
Speaker 4 00:39:48 My dad's on vacation right now. You plus you'd have to find it in that rat nest that he calls an addict. That's true. That's true. But yeah, so, um, my path was obviously a lot different than his, but then, um, you know, when we first started playing together, yeah, we were playing the country stuff, but we played a lot of classic rock tunes as well because back then we were a five piece as well. One, uh, the guy Adam that we've been talking about, he actually doubled on guitar and keys. So we were doing a bunch of the old, uh, sixties and seventies rock stuff that had cool organ parts and Yeah. All, you know, and then all the harmonized guitar riffs, they would do all that. So it kind of worked out that, you know, my rock background fused well into that original group and then this new group that we've started up, Shelton Road 2.0, I guess.
Speaker 4 00:40:40 Um, Mason and I, we feed off of the rock stuff. Spencer's a huge rock guy and then there's times where he'll just, he'll be taking his break and we'll just come up with a song that he's either A, never heard before, or b never heard us do before. He's like, did you guys go and rehearse that? We're like, no, we just, you know, we we're raised on that stuff and you know, it just, you know, we, we will, you never know what we're gonna pull out at a show between, uh, Mason Spencer and my spouse.
Speaker 2 00:41:08 So the one night that I got to run, y'all sound wise. Yeah. I remember y'all were playing and y'all did the switch mm-hmm. <affirmative> where, uh, the drummer went to guitar and guitar went to drums. Yeah. And they were playing stuff that was like hard rock, almost metal. And he's the only drummer that I see on Broadway that carries around at China. And that's like his, like actual, like he uses it <laugh>. Yeah. Very freely. Yeah. But like, y'all are doing this and you walk up to me Les and you just go, they're just having fun. I'm just gonna chill out over here, <laugh>, I'm,
Speaker 1 00:41:42 I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna sit back. Yeah. Breathing.
Speaker 2 00:41:45 They're like 40 minutes and you hadn't been on stage. It's like, are you gonna sing? And you're like, nah, they're having fun. I'm gonna let them
Speaker 1 00:41:49 Have fun. They're enjoying it. They're enjoying themselves. They're, they're enjoying themselves. And it's my second or third gig today. Like, I wanna take a little breather. Well,
Speaker 3 00:41:56 Yeah, I mean, it kind of depends too. And like obviously you're not gonna do that on a Friday night, just do it. But yeah, certain nights, man, especially bar was dead downtown.
Speaker 1 00:42:04 It was in like December probably. Yeah. It's like December, January. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:42:07 20 degrees outside. There's six people in the bar. Like that's,
Speaker 4 00:42:11 And they were loving everything that we were
Speaker 3 00:42:13 Doing. Have fun, you know? Yeah. Because what am I gonna do? I'm gonna get up on stage and stand there and stare at the crowd. Like I, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4 00:42:19 We should incorporate that into the show and just make that like a comedy bit. Like what are you doing on stage?
Speaker 3 00:42:24 I don't think we need more comedy bits in our freaking
Speaker 1 00:42:26 Show. I love when you guys play Dixieland Delight and you guys all have your, your bounce facts and Mason's screaming roll Tide sucks. And you're saying whatever you say, um,
Speaker 4 00:42:37 Till I'm done.
Speaker 1 00:42:38 Yeah. Till I'm done. And then, um, instead of by saying on a beer, you say on your mom or something like that, my
Speaker 4 00:42:44 Dollar on your mom.
Speaker 1 00:42:45 We do a lot
Speaker 3 00:42:46 Of mom jokes with this group. There's a, there's like five, five or six songs probably where somebody's mom's getting talked about something
Speaker 4 00:42:54 Or just, or people's, uh, what, what's the term I'm looking for there?
Speaker 3 00:42:59 Uh, they're, uh, the term is my parents are gonna listen to this, so we're not gonna talk about that one.
Speaker 1 00:43:03 <laugh>. Yeah. This is, this is gonna be available on Spotify. Perfect. Yeah. Apple Podcasts and Google Play. So the world moves
Speaker 2 00:43:11 And I know always whenever y'all are coming like around because all you hear is just, uh,
Speaker 1 00:43:17 Ah, <laugh> and then you knocking on the Doorknocking on Windows somebody, Spencer Mason or Sean's listen, somebody lifted up shirts lifting up their shirt, messing their man stuff on the freaking door. Like if we
Speaker 3 00:43:29 Didn't carry instruments around with us, we would not be allowed in most of the bars. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:43:33 It's true. They would see
Speaker 3 00:43:34 Us walking and be like, no, no, no, you're no
Speaker 4 00:43:37 People. You can lick windows. You we're just, and
Speaker 1 00:43:40 You guys all have, you guys all kind of look similar where you have the beards going, you're all wild dudes on stage.
Speaker 3 00:43:44 Dude, we get it like almost nightly. People ask us if we're family,
Speaker 4 00:43:48 Are you guys elated?
Speaker 1 00:43:49 Are y'all brothers? And I've seen, I've seen it happen where people ask, are you Luke Comb? Are you Luke Combs his brother? Yep.
Speaker 4 00:43:55 Yeah. And now it just kind of has rolled into the bit. It's like, yeah, it's gotta Here's a song by my big brother. Yeah. He still hadn't paid me my part of the royalties, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 00:44:04 <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:44:05 It
Speaker 4 00:44:05 Uh, I'll get him at Thanksgiving. We're, you know, we'll, we'll, yeah, we'll get that money surrounded out.
Speaker 3 00:44:09 Well I actually got in trouble for that one time downtown cuz we, like I said, we kind of made it a joke of it now because it just started happening so often. Yeah. And so I started saying it and I said it one time and apparently like this customer like complained to management saying like, I was lying about all this stuff. And I was like, dude, I'm not like, no, if you ask me, I'm gonna tell you I'm not Luke Holmes's brother. Yeah. You could also, uh, look at my name and see that, uh, Valez is probably not the same as Combs, but like, it just, it blows my mind how Coldwell people can be downtown with Oh yeah. Bits like that. Like, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 00:44:43 I get the same thing all the time and like, there's been times where I'm crossing fourth and Broadway and somebody will yell like, I'm doing the whole cross from one corner to the other and somebody's making a cross just the street and they're go look, it's Luke Combs. I'm like, shut
Speaker 3 00:44:56 Up. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 00:44:58 Well it's like,
Speaker 3 00:44:58 You're obviously joking. Like we're obviously joking about this stuff. We have lots of other bits that if you wanna get upset about something, there's a lot more to get upset out
Speaker 1 00:45:07 There in our show. Just listen to any one of Sean's toast. Yeah, just listen to name. It's
Speaker 3 00:45:11 Like there's a lot more stuff to complain about and get upset about, but whatever people can do what they want. I guess
Speaker 2 00:45:17 He, for me too, like working at the bar and stuff, like when I'm running sound, I'm wearing street clothes. I'm not trying to look like security. Cause I already get so much confusing between that. Right. Like all the time people are coming up, can you get this guy out? And I'm like, I'm wearing a pink shirt and khakis and a blue hat. Why do
Speaker 3 00:45:33 You think you shouldn't say yes and go do it anyways? I mean,
Speaker 1 00:45:36 You kick him out in the pink shirt. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:45:37 But no, like, they'll do that in the bar. Like I'll be trying to do something like get from one end of the parts to the other and somebody else stop me and go, do you know you look like Luke Combes? Like, yeah, I've heard it for the 58th time. The day. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:45:48 It's, I don't know, man, <laugh>, to me it's like any, any like hefty guy with slightly red hair automatically,
Speaker 1 00:45:56 Like beard, Luke comb
Speaker 3 00:45:57 Beard. It's like, yeah, no, dude, neither one of us looks any, anything like Luke, Luke Combs, but whatever. I mean, people gonna pay me.
Speaker 1 00:46:06 I, I see, I see it with you a little bit more than I see with Tyler. Doesn't Tyler, Tyler, when his beard gets all, all overgrown like a jungle, it can look well,
Speaker 2 00:46:13 That's why I saving it a lot of times. Tyler's
Speaker 1 00:46:15 Tired. Tired of the Tyler's also six foot four. Yeah. Combs eight. Combs eight in six four.
Speaker 2 00:46:20 I'm also a bit of a bigger guy too.
Speaker 3 00:46:22 Yeah. Yeah. Well we talked about it, uh, for Halloween this year. If we do a Halloween show, me actually like shaving my facial hair and doing everything just like him. Yeah. Wearing the fishing, wear the PFG hat, wearing the PFG hat, the fishing shirt, everything else. Yeah. Walk around with a red solo cup the entire night. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:46:37 Keep a big wa keep a finger Copenhagen. Oh yeah. If you can. Oh
Speaker 3 00:46:41 Yeah. I have to get pouches though. I can't do it. Really? I can't
Speaker 1 00:46:44 Do that. I mean, I was doing pouches recently for quite a while. We were on that trip and some of our buddies are giving, I mean, I always used to talk shit about it. I always, dude
Speaker 3 00:46:51 Spencer, Spencer doesn't use pouches and I don't understand how he can do it while he's singing. Like if I'm just sitting here. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Like you figure it out while you're singing. I don't get it, man.
Speaker 1 00:47:00 Justin Moore does that. You'll see Justin Moore just spit out on stage. He'll be playing an amphitheater show and you'll see him just belting out something and he'll, he'll be
Speaker 3 00:47:08 Sitting and then he'll turn around and Oh yeah, he was there. He was there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:47:12 See you see the drops on the ground. You see the tracks.
Speaker 3 00:47:14 Oh my god. I can't do it, man. I just dunno. It's an art form.
Speaker 1 00:47:20 Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 00:47:20 <laugh>. I need to practice more. I guess its an
Speaker 1 00:47:23 Art form. So being from Bamo, you roll Tide or Oh yeah. Born roll tide. Roll tide. So you roll Tide, not War Eagle. Oh yeah. How, how intense is that rivalry? Because Tyler's, I, I the fuck with Tyler always looked at like a war eagle or multi tide sucks or this, that, and he's like, dude, we don't joke about that. Here's the
Speaker 3 00:47:36 Thing. I'm like, damn, here's the thing. There's one week a year where you can't joke about it. Yeah. The rest of the year. I Iron Bowl week. You don't joke about it. You don't, it, it's serious shit. That week, the rest of the week, if Auburn's, yes. Rest of the year, if Auburn's playing, I'm rooting for Auburn. Really, really? Every Auburn fan. I know if Alabama's playing, they're rooting for Bama because you still want it in the state. Like if I can't have it, I want Auburn to have it. Like still
Speaker 2 00:48:02 Hometown saying you see too, like if they're in a bowl game playing somebody else, unless it's Tennessee. Like I'm, I was about to say
Speaker 1 00:48:08 Tennessee you hate, why do you hate Tennessee that much?
Speaker 4 00:48:11 It's week story. That's, that's the third week in October, man. It's,
Speaker 2 00:48:13 Yeah, that's the third week of October.
Speaker 4 00:48:15 There are people in both states that, like, they, they scheduled life events around that third week,
Speaker 3 00:48:21 October. Really? Were October. You on the, uh, were you on that wedding? We played a couple years ago, maybe it was, uh, it was the, uh, the one in Birmingham, the Alabama, Tennessee game. And we were playing, no, I don't think you were on this one. No. Wasn't. I was Alabama, Tennessee game and I was playing this wedding and it was, uh, like in this barn country wedding, whatever on that one at of the altar. I remember that now. Yeah. Front of the altar where the bride and groom were gonna stand. They had a TV on like one of the school, remember like the school stations where they'd roll the TV into your classroom? Yep. They had one of those at the front of the altar and everybody was sitting there watching the game. They postponed the ceremony until the game was over and then they pulled the TV out, dropped flowers down, and they came out and got married. Like, it's a serious thing.
Speaker 2 00:49:06 I have friends that they, uh, their initial date was the Alabama Auburn game.
Speaker 3 00:49:12 You gotta change that.
Speaker 2 00:49:12 They moved it. Oh yeah. You can't do that. The SEC game we were in the Alabama was in the s ECC championship, so they moved it two weeks because of that.
Speaker 3 00:49:20 We thought my, we thought my wedding was gonna end up being on an Alabama playoff game day. And like I had family members call me and be like, dude, if it's, if it's this day I'm not coming. Like yeah, I'm not gonna be at your
Speaker 2 00:49:32 Wedding. Like my town in Alabama, I'm from a very small town. Where are you from again? At Moore. South part of the state. So, uh,
Speaker 4 00:49:40 I've been down
Speaker 2 00:49:40 There. Yeah, there's the big casino y'all might have. Yep. I've
Speaker 4 00:49:43 Played the
Speaker 2 00:49:44 Casino. Yep. There you go. <laugh>. So if you go into like the Springs, if you go down into the, uh, downtown part of Atmore, like whenever the game is on and
Speaker 3 00:49:53 Stuff, that's where, that's where all the two story buildings are.
Speaker 2 00:49:56 Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's where they have like a little apartment above the shop, you know, <laugh>. Yeah. That's, that's those buildings. But yeah, no, literally the whole town is just a ghost town during Alabama. Oh yeah. Or Auburn games, especially Alabama versus
Speaker 3 00:50:07 Auburn. It's like Texas. It's a ghost town on Fridays in Alabama. It's ghost Town on Saturdays. Like Yeah. Damn. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:50:14 I wanna get to an s e C game. I've never been to an s e c football game. I grew up a big Virginia Tech fan. Okay. So I'd go to, I'd go to Blacksburg and jump around Fred Sandman and do all that cool
Speaker 4 00:50:22 Stuff and well, don't well don't expect your typical s e c atmosphere
Speaker 3 00:50:27 At Vandy. I know we're in Nashville, but I'm not. Yeah, no. Vandy and I thought about, I've thought about going to a Vandy game, but I mean, it's cool, but like I, if you want go to go to a Tennessee game, go a UT game or ba or Ole Miss or something like that, honestly one of my favorite states, I love going to an Auburn game. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:50:45 Like, I've been to more Auburn games than I have Alabama
Speaker 3 00:50:47 Games. I have two. Yeah. Um, I was dating a girl back a long time ago. That was her whole family was Auburn like super fans. So we would go to a lot of their games and they're just, they're pregame stuff. Everything is really cool there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:51:00 The Tiger walk in, like, yeah. There was one time I was standing in the Tiger Walk and Tim Hudson's literally like right beside me, just like talking. And so that was really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:51:10 That is, that is cool. Speaking of cool, the original music, you guys got out right now, man. You got, got single out table on Spotify, apple Music, all that stuff, right? Yes. Pretty much everywhere. Yeah. And, um, and you guys said you got more music coming hopefully by the end of the year. So hopefully talk about the single, what went into this one? So this is a song that, uh, I actually wrote with a buddy of mine named Tyler Cannon, um, who's actually used to be my roommate. But we wrote this song a few years ago, about three years ago. And, uh, it was literally, we wrote it a couple days after Valentine's Day and he had gone through like a crazy breakup and was super depressed and he was like, dude, is it just me Who's doing this stuff? So we just wrote the song and never thought anything of it.
Speaker 3 00:51:54 And then we brought it back with this group, um, to actually record it. And this is the first time it's been recorded and released, but it's just, uh, you know, you go through a breakup, you start wondering like, dude, like you go out and you're crying or you're waking up in the middle of the night, you're doing all these things. Like, is it just me? Like, is she over this? Like, is is this bothering here at all? And it's kind of just where the song came from. And then you've got some other ones that I've seen you play. So I was at the show at, uh, whiskey Jam when you guys played. That was what, like a month or two months ago? Yeah. All the days run into each other. Yeah, that, I think we did that in that in like February of February. No, that was actually on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 00:52:31 February 14th. Yeah, that's right. It was, that was the Valentine's Day jam. Yeah. Yeah. So we did that one and then, uh, we did it on a bus call, uh, last week as well. But yeah, we got, that one's the only one that's out right now. But coming out after that, we got what you think, which is kind of a, uh, party hookup song, you know, it's like, Hey, you know what you think girl, that type of thing. And wrote that with, uh, Tyler as well. And then, um, we got a couple more. We got last call, another part of song. We're gonna redo that one soon. And then we got two more that we're gonna redo that are all older ones that we're bringing back. So you're right, so you're writing all your own stuff, like Oh yeah. You're, yeah. So, so you're, you're as into it as a songwriter as you are.
Speaker 3 00:53:13 Man, I'm singing this stuff. I'm trying to be, you know, I've, I've worked hard at it. Um, honestly, it's not my, not my strongest point I don't think. Um, but it's something I'm trying to work on a lot and trying to been surrounding myself with strong writers I can learn from and work with. Cuz I'm not one of those guys that feels like I have to write all my own stuff or, or we're not real. Like, there's a job. People have jobs to all writers for a reason. Yeah. Not everybody that can sing and perform can write. Not everybody who can write can sing and perform. Yeah. Um, so I'm not opposed to bringing it out outside stuff, but right now yeah. It's, it's
Speaker 1 00:53:45 All ours. So co-writing for you is a big thing right now. Oh yeah. At this point. Oh yeah. Finding people to collab with
Speaker 3 00:53:50 And Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:53:51 Getting in a room and getting after it.
Speaker 3 00:53:52 Yeah. Yep. It's, uh, it's easier said than done sometimes you get a lot of people in Nashville like, yeah, let's do it. Let's go write, let's do this and then never hear from again. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, no, we're, we're working on uh, getting some new stuff out and, but yeah. Is it just me as a single right now? You can get it pretty much everywhere, so,
Speaker 1 00:54:10 All right, cool. You, you cool playing. Uh, which one you wanna play for us?
Speaker 3 00:54:12 Think we're gonna do the single they gonna do just me.
Speaker 1 00:54:14 Awesome. Now, where can people go to find you guys as a band yourselves, individually? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:54:19 You can, uh, find the band on shelton road.com. Uh, Facebook and Instagram. Both those, um, you find me in Instagram, Facebook, Andrew Valles music. Um,
Speaker 4 00:54:31 I'm Sean Bellamy. Music, everything is like, no, everything, Instagram, Facebook.
Speaker 3 00:54:37 Yeah. I
Speaker 4 00:54:37 Don't, I don't mess with Twitter.
Speaker 1 00:54:39 I don't mess with Twitter either. Shit gets you in trouble. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:54:42 I'm
Speaker 2 00:54:42 Like, I just go there to troll people. <laugh>. I, I have fun at three.
Speaker 4 00:54:46 He's the one with the six dark accounts that no one is like who is this guy? No one knows. Now we know.
Speaker 1 00:54:51 Yeah. Which real, which real quick a story real quick. I know Tyler gave me his producer hands where we gotta wrap up real quick, <laugh>. But um, you were talking about um, you had your first negative comment on social media. Oh, that story real
Speaker 3 00:55:02 Quick. It
Speaker 1 00:55:02 Was weird. Great
Speaker 3 00:55:03 Story. So first of all, real fast, cuz Mason couldn't be here, look him up and Mason sticks on all the socials as well. But yeah, so literally on my way over here today I got a notification on my phone. We had somebody commented on a video and I was like, okay. And you know, obviously I we're still the one doing all that right now. Yeah. And so I pull it up and normally, you know, you get a range of comments whether this is awesome or sounds good or most of the time, at least from what we've had, it's been positive. Yes. We got one, literally it was a video from Whiskey Row and it was this big party video. We shot it with my iPhone on the stage, like a 15 second clip. Obviously just showing the crowd when you're on stage you can't hear shit.
Speaker 3 00:55:45 Yeah. And he just come in and said, sounds bad. That was it. No explanation, nothing just sounds bad. And so I sent him one back immediately cuz I'm in like, I didn't want to be a jerk asshole. I wanted to be like a kind asshole, you know, because I'm a pastor's kid and that's what we do, <laugh>. And uh, so I sent him one back and said, thank you for taking the time to post your opinion. Hopefully you can come out and see us live soon so you can really hear the band. And instead of throwing iPhone on stage, see you soon. Just like this passive aggressive little comment <laugh>. And then like all of our other fans on the page stuff started like commenting on it and being like, you're being a jerk. These guys are awesome. We were at that show, it sounded great and all this stuff. I'm like, this is cool. This is cool. Yeah. Because we're just now getting into the social media stuff, the road. So it's all still new to me, but
Speaker 1 00:56:32 The roadies are coming out and having
Speaker 3 00:56:33 Cool. Yeah, it's cool being like, oh man, people actually like for every one jerk, you know, there's people who actually do enjoy it and care, you know, so it was cool.
Speaker 1 00:56:43 Yeah. So there you go. You guys jump on the social media pages for Shelton Road and uh, have their back when uh, people are, are yes. Are judging them through a little crowd shot at a video and of course come out and see a show, shelton road.com and a lot of tour dates. You guys are gonna be all over the place the summer you said. And uh, yep. New music will be coming out and now gonna be, they're gonna pick up their guitars and uh, start playing for you and whatnot. So, um, thank you guys for listening. Episode eight, right Tyler?
Speaker 3 00:57:09 Yep.
Speaker 1 00:57:10 Episode eight. Damn. We're already awesome at eight of these things and uh, you guys can follow us along in the round podcast on Instagram, in the round, on Facebook. And uh, we also got some cool stuff online and on our YouTube channel as well, you'll get to see exclusive video content of Andrew and Sean. Uh, playing. Is it just me? Awesome as well. Awesome. Awesome you guys. Thanks for listening. Make sure if you enjoyed it, you tell your friends about it. If you're a writer, hit us up on the socials. You want to come on as a guest. We'll set something up and uh, and yeah guys, y'all sit back and enjoy Shelton Road, the single, is it just me right now here on In the Round podcast?
Speaker 3 00:57:59 I woke to Stranger by my through the yes. I go out and make my rounds on show smile worthwhile so nobody knows I'm breaking down. I heard the room was around. I couldn't she come home? I wouldn't know. She never called me. And this don't seem right cause we made plans, mapped it out with no Indian sight even swore was the one, the future scene Brian and she was going to take my name. Is this been mine since she
Speaker 5 00:59:58 Wake up Middle dance?
Speaker 3 01:00:27 Does she wake up crying in the middle of night drowning memories on Heron Lights? Does she like to dance someone's touch?
Speaker 5 01:01:05 She is It just me, me.
