Episode 136: Speedbump Sally

[00:00:02] . Only 4 episodes left and then I am going to enjoy some summertime. Taking July off, get em while they're hot, Ego and Vice. Hey this is Mike, this is Ego and Vice, this is episode 136. Yes, the summertime, the beautiful warm summertime. If it's not raining, it's usually raining.

[00:02:02] But hey, what are you going to do? Yeah, I'm going to take July off just so I can step away from the screens for a little while. I find that I get kind of wrapped up in this and every once in a while I need

[00:02:12] a break just to refresh and recharge. So July's the month. But I am booking for the fall. So on the podcast today, I have a band called Speed Bump Sally. It's good to have a good punk rock band in every once in a while.

[00:02:29] I love all types of music and all types of bands and all types of artists but you know the punk rock is close to my heart so Speed Bump Sally, they really scratch that itch.

[00:02:39] On top of the whole punk rock genre idea, just wanted to remind you that the very brand new, the very brand new? Anyway, the brand new, very brand new Goat Record will be dropping June 27th everywhere. It's a labor of love.

[00:02:57] I've been working on it for about three years but it's finally coming out so check it out. Everywhere. Goat. It's called Glote. That's right. Back to Speed Bump Sally. Reg Rich, Mario and Eric swung by Southwood Studio.

[00:03:12] We had a nice talk about music, being friends, being in a band with old friends, playing shows, writing songs. You know what? Those guys got the best of both worlds. Good pals and in a band.

[00:03:27] So it really shows in the music and it also shows in the conversation. So it was a good time. So we're going to come back with Speed Bump Sally right after a song from Speed Bump Sally. This is a song called Bulletproof, Ego and Vice.

[00:06:08] Hey we're back. This is Ego and Vice. This is episode 136. My name is Mike and as promised in the intro in Southwood Studio I have supposed to be four, but three members of Speed Bump Sally. We're still waiting on somebody. I have Reg, Eric and Mario here.

[00:06:27] Rich, I think he'll be along. Will he not be along? Yep, he will. Okay good. So we'll wait on him. So how's it going guys? Good. Good. Summer. June. Good times. Thanks for coming out and I've been looking forward to talking to a good punk band from Ottawa.

[00:06:45] I find with Ego and Vice the podcast, I have an eclectic range of artists that come in, musicians that come in. It's nice to get a punk band in because that's closest to my heart. So that's great. So why don't you introduce yourselves?

[00:06:58] Eric, you've been here before but why don't you introduce yourselves, what you play in the band and answer this question when you're done. What is the greatest punk record of all time? Eric Gore, 5'11", no that's the wrong question.

[00:07:15] I play bass, I do some supporting vocals and oh the best record of all time. Greatest punk record of all time in your opinion today anyway. Might change tomorrow. Oh that's gonna hurt. Back to the Motor League from Propagandi. Cool. How about you Mario?

[00:07:38] I'm Mario the drummer, the new drummer. What was the question? What is the greatest punk record of all time? Fuck I don't know. I'll leave that to Reg. My name is Reg, I play guitar, I used to play drums then Mario joined eventually. Best punk record.

[00:07:59] Everything sucks by the descendants. Very nice. Well it's good to meet all you guys again, some of you again. So Speed Bump Sally, why don't you go back to the history of it? Because I know you used to be a three piece, now you're four piece.

[00:08:16] How did it all get started? I see that you were formed in 2022. As Eric and I were talking off mic while you guys were outside, I guess you were formed out of the pandemic. I think it was kind of in the middle of it.

[00:08:32] I'm going to go back to the start of that and say that we're a Gatineau based band, even though we play a lot on the Ottawa scene. And we have members from the Ottawa area, we're kind of half and half so there's a

[00:08:45] lot of fun discussion on that. And yeah the way we started I think, yeah 2021 Sarah destruction from what for days just before they started that project. She was living out in Canalee about five minutes from my house and she had B.A.

[00:09:03] Johnston coming over to play a show. I remember that game, yeah I wasn't there but I remember her advertising it. So she asked me if I could put something acoustic together. I got a hold of Reg, we did that right away.

[00:09:16] And Reg had been working for a while as far as I know with Rich. Reg has been working with all of us for a lot of years anyways. And that's how the idea of this came together after a little set outside at Sarah's place

[00:09:30] in Cantley briefly before she moved to Ottawa and opened the womb. The womb, absolutely. I know Sarah really well. She used to be in my band for a bunch of years. So we're close. I think that's when I met you guys actually.

[00:09:42] Yeah she's like this little sister that I have who's all grown up. I don't know, that's a weird thing to describe. So I was reading some of the bio of Speed Bump Sally and I guess one thing I came across

[00:09:55] which I thought was interesting and you had a motto of every single idea can be turned into something great. Is that towards just the band, your songwriting? Where did that come from? Well it comes from where three guys in a jam room and it's like okay we don't

[00:10:14] know any covers, let's just do something tonight. Let's try to get out of this room and have a song ready. So we just point, I basically decided okay let's take the scale of A, point it at

[00:10:28] some chord and some letters in that scale, took some chords, made a song out of it just for fun you know. And we left the room. Our first jam had kind of a song written and it sounded pretty good actually.

[00:10:44] I think that's a great way of looking at it and it's really neat. The thing that caught my eye or ear about it is because I have this little project that I'm doing now and the whole motto is just like you know how you write half songs,

[00:10:54] like you start a song and you say wow that's really good and then you leave it alone and then you go and pick it up again and you try to build around it and you end up going I hate this song and you just stop.

[00:11:03] If you would have just kept that part you liked and made that the song and not tried to frill it all up you know what I mean? I think that's great because I think if you come up with something hooky that

[00:11:13] catches you and just you make that song, who cares if it's a minute long, who cares if it's three minutes long. Yeah because the song was probably three minutes at the end but it started as a one minute song you know so yeah exactly that idea.

[00:11:26] Sometimes you just take the best part and just kind of even repeat it, play it twice, there you go it's longer you know what I mean? And it's like that's the stuff that the little hooky stuff that sits in your head.

[00:11:36] I find it's harder to write a simple song than it is to write a big long elaborate one you know what I mean? So take the best parts and just run with them that's great.

[00:11:46] So I guess punk rock is all do you, I never want to ask but do you guys consider yourself a punk rock band? Now yes. At first no because the idea was just like let's write simple songs.

[00:12:00] It might turn up as like rock songs but we turn at some point I'm like how about we play a little bit faster and we introduce some of the 90s skate punk style like the you know the fast no effects beats and so if you listen to

[00:12:16] our album you'll see there's quite a it varies a lot but. Yeah I think you can label a band whatever it is and just because it's fast doesn't mean it's punk. I like to call like drums and guitars just like you're a rock band

[00:12:30] you know what I mean? You don't really have to call yourself a punk band or like what do you do? I play in a rock band. What do you play? Rock songs. So yeah that's the simplest way to do it right?

[00:12:38] I guess there's blues there's rock there's country it's like wide sub genre I guess you can do it but it's just simple simple. Yeah and you have like all four of us we kind of listen to the same stuff

[00:12:50] but at the same time we listen to a lot of different stuff so all the influences come in you know. What are what are some of them for each of you like that kind of influence you today when you're creating your music whether it be

[00:13:03] your music in this band or in other places in your life? I know mine will be a lot more no effects and big wig and everything really angry and heavy. I kind of appreciate that not everyone here is inspired that way in the band but it

[00:13:21] that'll be my flavor what about yours? Yeah for me punk wise 80 Fingers Louie, Mellon Collin, Descendants Green Day there's tons out there you know influence wise like as a drummer Bill Stevenson for sure

[00:13:36] but other than that like I do love hip hop and Brazilian music and reggae so but my main as a drummer I'm more of a punk drummer than anything else. Lost my train of thought oh yeah your influences pardon me.

[00:13:50] Reg no use for a name for sure Lag Wagon for this project particularly I started with a lot of flatliners type mid-temple music face to face stuff like that you know Nirvana Green Day.

[00:14:08] Sure everything you guys named is very it's punk and it's rock but it's also very melodic stuff like when it comes to like vocals and hooks and harmonies and stuff like that and that's always been something that I've gravitated towards is like it's not just

[00:14:25] speed and crazy and angry it's that awesome kind of wavy harmony in there with the oohs and ahs as they put it. Hey Rich. And he shows up Rich come have a seat buddy. Have a seat.

[00:14:40] I might edit that out we'll just pretend you're here the whole time. Part of the part of the part of the act for Rich. Rich what's your what was it your favorite bands or your influences?

[00:14:53] No before we go there I'll get you to just to introduce yourself what do you do in the band and the question of the day is what's the greatest punk rock record of all time. All right so I'm a singer songwriter guitar player in the band.

[00:15:13] I'm sure they all told you right we all sing and write and compose the music together. Well we're getting there. All right as for the so the greatest punk rock record. Our album. Our album whatever you like.

[00:15:29] I asking the wrong guy about this for me you got it like you literally have to pick like a year take a guess genre it's like just my I don't know music is so fast. Well we play a misfits cover so I know he loves it.

[00:15:43] Okay yeah I'm a huge misfits fan so I'm gonna go with original misfits or that reincarnated misfits from the 90s. Both but of course the original with Glendize. Okay very good all right I guess we'll jump ahead now that Rich is here and what are your influences today?

[00:16:02] Some of them. All right well I mean you. For a Monday evening. For a Monday evening do you want like growing up or like what I listen to now. We're just we're just kind of loosely saying what influences we're at a point

[00:16:14] of everyone's influences in the band like everyone has a bit of an eclectic view on what they like and what makes Speed Bump Sally kind of sound the way it sounds. What is your contribution as far as influence? I'm a big metal guy.

[00:16:31] Oh nice yeah so for a punk rock band you know a pop punk band like Speed Bump Sally I think I may contribute in that way. I'm listening some other you know I'm a big I'm big on punk rock and blues sorry metal and blues. So riffs?

[00:16:51] Riffs I'm heavy on riffs yes you can ask these guys I'll send them riffs and it's like okay and sometimes I have to you know accept the truth that all right it sounds great but is this actually functional?

[00:17:05] Yeah well you know you say metal and blues to me and that's all guitar riffs and guitar work and stuff like that so I get it but you know what every little piece different as

[00:17:16] it is it makes a hole and that's what kind of hones your sound out right and that's how you kind of become identified you know. But I like that Rich brings a riff because I'll write like four chords stuff so you can sing

[00:17:30] on top of that and then as soon as you stop singing you got a riff going on you know. So it's like I don't know I hear that a lot in Lag Wagon for example.

[00:17:39] Yeah well you need room for everything you know one certain thing each thing can't suck the air out of the room you know what I mean you have to kind of lay out a bit and

[00:17:49] make room for everything if everyone just played their best shit over top of all your shit it'll just be one it'd be like a 12 piece orchestra four piece punk band right and it's just like what's going on up there? That's a big pile of shit.

[00:18:00] It can be you know what I mean and it's like less is more is what I'm trying to say sometimes but there's a place for everything you know just play your three chords as the vocal

[00:18:10] as the harmony use the melody as the instrument part as soon as the vocals lay out then hit your riff you know what I mean. There's a place for all that stuff so that's cool so you were talking about writing you

[00:18:21] guys all write together do you guys bring individual songs you just get in a room and say boom I know you said that one time yeah it's a lot of both sometimes I'll bring a

[00:18:30] riff sometimes we'll write together so it's all over the place and also I started with this project with the intention of like I just want to learn how to write in new ways you know because we're always stuck to our formulas and yeah you get kind of

[00:18:47] complacent let's try something new see what happens and I think we've been we've all been friends for a long time and I think it helps that we could just talk to each other if your idea sucks your idea sucks we can just move on and nobody's heart is

[00:19:02] broken honestly is the best policy there's a lot of laughter in this group and then I think it comes before the music sometimes but so it's like nobody's fretting anyone and it's kind of easy going so I don't know it's been a good recipe so far

[00:19:22] it's a constant that comes up on this show a lot where it's like you'd rather play with people who aren't like virtuosos but they're cool people then playing with like the greatest players of

[00:19:35] all time who are absolute dicks right it's just easier to all get along ego is the worst thing and in local music and if you're just trying to have fun and someone comes in with a big

[00:19:45] fucking ego it's just like the worst right because it just it's toxic and it just sucks are we working for the better of the band or your ego yeah it's kind of easy to break down when you

[00:19:54] there's another there's another good saying that I've always lived by serve the song you know what I mean if it's right for the song if it's not right for the song there's your

[00:20:02] answer right you put that big something in the middle of like a three chord thing it's like it sounds good but like you said does it need to be there but that's cool well that's

[00:20:10] a good point that's a good point sorry I don't want to catch you off there but no not at all um that's something we do when we record like we'll have let's say there's a spot where we're

[00:20:20] not sure we'll try two or three different things and at the end of the night it's what we all agreed on sounded the best right yeah and so like whoever brought what piece to that part

[00:20:31] it doesn't matter what matters at the end of the line is what sounds the best yeah and if you all agree it sounds good then that's all you need right yeah if nobody thinks other than the

[00:20:41] four of you just thinks it's good it doesn't matter you know because that's your that's that's where you are I was thinking of a like metal and like pop punk what you brought up earlier

[00:20:49] like if you think of a band a Canadian band like some 41 and their very early stuff was like the fat lip stuff yeah and there's that um guitar player Dave Braskin and he's called

[00:20:59] they call him Brown Sound and he was he is like a metal metal guy and if you listen to some 41 through the years when when he took the hiatus of the band then he came back from

[00:21:07] the band they are super riffy and metal at times right I agree the singer's voice is a little thin for that stuff but man you want good guitar work in like a pop punk band listen yeah but then as

[00:21:18] soon as the vocals kick in yeah back to the power that's right because Dave Brown Sound is a fucking really good guitar player really good guitar player um okay so once you establish your writing once you establish that you guys were actually a band when did you start

[00:21:34] recording because I noticed here that in 2023 you released a song called Bulletproof and then in the same year you released a song called I'm No Plinko and then Trigger Warning and I noticed

[00:21:46] as you released them they you kind of made an EP out of the three how did the how did the recording go where did you do it how was that all uh how was that experience that was a

[00:21:56] process all in the jam room we made sure that as soon as we wrote something cool let's let's record it as a demo at least we don't want to we want to make sure we iron out

[00:22:09] all the details we weren't really successful at it but you know you try but yeah we recorded really early on and you guys recorded your own stuff you record your own stuff all in the

[00:22:22] the jam room that's the way to do it nowadays yeah you know if you have the means to do it that way you can kind of take your time it's cheaper which is the big thing nowadays

[00:22:32] well reg is a bit of a wizard at the art as well yeah oh definitely I don't call him coach for nothing that's good that's good so uh Bulletproof I'm No Plinko and Trigger Warning

[00:22:44] were they recorded all at the same time or did you actually record them as they came out like over the course of no they were well the drums were all recorded in one shot

[00:22:53] and then we kind of like as we went in new brunswick because yeah the the drums I actually recorded in my parents basement on close to christmas when I went to visit them in new

[00:23:05] brunswick but then I brought out all the the audio files we did the vocals the guitars were pretty fast but the vocals you know we did it as we went it's like guys we need a single

[00:23:16] in a month oh yeah let's go record the vocals and it's done I'll mix it that's it and then same thing when we went to I'm No Plinko all right guys we need to do vocals were you uh were

[00:23:28] you a three piece when you did those three songs still yes prior to you joining the band no I was oh Mario Mario pardon me yeah my bad my bad so on the recording uh I'm playing

[00:23:38] drums and some guitar so it's basically like the three piece version but with two guitars going on at the same time right because I find that when you record you might as well just make it

[00:23:53] sound the best you can oh yeah if you want to put five guitars go ahead even though even if you're one guy you know I think for uh like it's okay to have to add some studio

[00:24:04] magic and some sauce and some you know what I mean but I find if you're don't record too far above what you're gonna sound like live you know add some add some sonic elements but

[00:24:17] we just don't add like a harp if there's no harp on stage you know what I mean I mean we tried to keep it as simple as possible but there's that with trigger warning for example

[00:24:26] now that's a song I just wanted to make it sound big so there's more than what we can actually play live but yeah probably guitar layering and like and yeah and even vocals

[00:24:35] like there's probably eight takes of vocals yeah that's cool but I mean a lot of who's and all it's not just people from around here that are gonna listen to that you know yeah we're

[00:24:45] not a touring band we play a few outside uh we play out of town a little bit but yeah like if somebody from Europe for example listens to our music we'd be like oh that's cool

[00:24:55] cool I like the layers well that's that's the beauty of the internet now right everybody's got it so almost everybody why don't we play a song out of those three what would you like

[00:25:06] what would you like to hear what would you like to introduce well we're talking about trigger warning so our next song is the song is called trigger warning and it was released as

[00:25:16] a single uh early April I think and then uh part of the album also that came out uh April 26 all right from from Reg's mouth this is speed bump Sally with trigger warning right here on ego and vice

[00:25:32] okay we're back um then the self-titled uh speed bump Sally seven seven seven song ep do you call that an ep or is that a is that an album an ep I guess okay um in 2024 so that

[00:29:49] came out this year yeah tried to make it an album but we cut a few songs so a few for one but yeah and that was recorded the same way with you guys did it yourselves yeah exactly

[00:30:08] we did quite a few at this a bit at the same time we kind of integrated Mario into the mix so then we side sideways to recording everything we were jamming as a new format

[00:30:20] so reg had to move up on the guitars mario jumped in on drums we're also composing new stuff or taking notes on the new stuff for composing such as whatever didn't make the cut for that

[00:30:32] release so um we've been lucky to play some shows at the same time but we've been nothing busy on a weekly basis getting shit done cool so that was my question is this is the self-titled

[00:30:45] uh seven song ep album uh the four of you guys like that's the the full band uh it's uh the three three of us and then like he was saying uh mario we were just jamming in parallels

[00:31:00] so i see okay mario was is for now just our live guy oh i see oh so but going forward he's going to be recording on drums also cool what made you guys want to add more members or

[00:31:12] more stuff just because you were you so many layers on the three-piece recording you figured you start adding more live stuff or what well two guitars mario and i were in another project

[00:31:25] on the side called uh dentry boat and uh they fell through and when he became available that's uh it was kind of a welcoming and open arms two guitars and make it sound a little better and

[00:31:38] that was a direction i'd been wanting to have this guy up front with me for a long time well with us yeah because at first me playing drums was just like i really want to play

[00:31:46] drums in a band you want to or you don't want to no i wanted oh you wanted like it was i played drums in a band once and it didn't last too long but it's just i love playing

[00:31:56] drums and it was my way to just like unleash you know but at a certain point like he's like rich said that uh especially his metal background you know i want to play double solos with you

[00:32:08] man it's ours man dueling guitars but not just that i mean this guy is like you know he can he can sing like a champ you know what i mean and he's uh just what he brings to the guitar

[00:32:19] playing and it sounds just like you said two guitars better it sounds fuller yeah what i mean i was sorry i was a three piece for years and years and when sarah joined the band it was

[00:32:30] very very different i liked it it's just i don't know it was cool you could do more you can add more depth you know you can even if you just wanted to kind of lay out and not play the

[00:32:39] guitar and just sing you know that it's covered as a three piece and the only guitar player you just kind of can't stop i guess i got to play guitar this whole song so yeah

[00:32:48] like right now we have a new song we're working on it's just like it just needs that one riff but rich he's just playing harmonics on his fretboard you know yeah just to fill the sound

[00:32:59] you know yeah and it sounds good right it sounds so cool it wouldn't be there if it wasn't for us being a four piece now yeah for sure for sure and like you said you you're adding

[00:33:07] extra stuff on the recording to make it sound bigger now you can do it like live right exactly cool um no defining lead singer is that still true do you guys all still share

[00:33:17] vocals yes like lead vocals yeah actually mario's gonna get in on the mix too i know and is that because you write your the songs that you're singing are the ones you like kind

[00:33:29] of brought in or do you sing other people's they do trade them up it's because there's so there's so much work involved in writing songs that's like hey guys i don't have time to write

[00:33:40] lyrics for this one can you do it you know i'll point at one of somebody random so yeah all right cool we've all done it we've all done it before so that that's there's a bit of a we all

[00:33:51] have a bit of a background in the songwriting so yeah songwriting and singing and we all bring something different to the table when it comes to the vocals and that's something we keep in

[00:34:04] mind when we write our stuff too it's like if we're writing something it's like hey you know what he would sound great at this part he would sound great at this part this would

[00:34:10] sound great with all of us together yeah it's one of the parts that blows my mind is to write something and then to hear them sing it their way and some of the stuff that they

[00:34:20] wrote when i started singing too just like i don't know because i wouldn't come up with it and and then it really sticks to you because it's kind of like a new yeah yeah yeah i think

[00:34:30] so i've seen rich bend some of my stuff or i'm like yeah no no just keep doing that please well that's like what rich touched on earlier too you get used to the same way of writing

[00:34:38] and it's cool to write with other people especially in vocals where you have a vocal line and you're singing it over top of the thing you wrote and you always kind of fall into that

[00:34:46] format and then you say hey can you try singing this and it's a completely different thing you didn't even think of and you're like yeah exactly man i've handed you guys texts where i was just

[00:34:56] like cut out whatever you just pick what you want yeah stay in the topic that'll stick to the glue of the song but just pick what you want in that paragraph and and you guys made it

[00:35:06] work no that's really exciting to write with people like i said i wrote the newest goat record like i wrote like 16 songs and they're all me i had a couple of friends come in and just

[00:35:15] fill in did some backing vocals and a little solo part it's my favorite part of the recording because it's not me you know what i mean i'm so sick of what i do and play so get excited about

[00:35:26] you guys all along right it's like hey that wasn't me that was really good you know because i'm i'm convinced i'm an absolute hack and i'm terrible everything i write is the biggest piece of shit on earth but when someone else plays with me it's like wow that

[00:35:39] might not be that bad now yeah you just saved that song yeah so i think we all have that moment when when we're recording and like he knows what he's doing when he's recording us you know

[00:35:50] but it's it's then you hear it when it's all put together and it's like it just blows you my mind it blows my mind every time yeah nothing kind of beats that there's two parts of

[00:35:59] of uh being in a band or making music that i really enjoyed is live shows but that time when you hear the first mix back of something you recorded you can't really beat that you know

[00:36:10] what i mean you hear you hear that shitty fucking jammed out version every time you jam and then you hear beautifully come back through the speakers for us it's a lot of uh we will record

[00:36:20] let's say uh the bass and then there's no guitars for a month and then hey guys i think we should record vocals and guitars on this one and then we layer new guitars and it's

[00:36:31] like oh all right starts sounds just like yeah every time we're just like yeah i love this i love this and then we add vocals and then we add backing vocals just like every time it just

[00:36:42] blows our mind and we'll just put it on repeat at the end of the night and listen to it like five times in a row and be like yeah and then once that when that's all done then it's like

[00:36:51] okay the little pick scratch is here and the yeah the flare yeah yeah we're stuck into our google drives all the time people people listen to their own music i don't care anyone out there

[00:37:02] who says they don't fucking throw in a song and on a playlist i don't believe you you do everybody listens to their own shit oh yeah yeah 100 percent and then they say why don't people

[00:37:13] fucking like this i'm so good yeah it's so good they just need to hear it anyway that person picking his nose has got a hundred thousand views yeah i put my heart and soul

[00:37:27] into this thing there's four people they're not hearing my genius anyway so as far as uh shows and touring you touched on it a bit what um i saw that there was some youtube stuff

[00:37:39] you guys are at the at the dom uh cafe de cuff have you played out of town much we have a plan on yeah we've played rimouski which was i think our farthest show to date by yeah sherbrooke

[00:37:54] sherbrooke st. tug yes st. tug is like 15 minutes from québec city we haven't played montreal yet so no last year we were lucky to have people have us play out of town with hardly anything online to show for what we could do um i guess good friends

[00:38:15] and good people we knew across the province um because to go play all the way out in rimouski without having i think we just had our first single out when we went out there yeah we put

[00:38:26] it up the same weekend actually um so now we've we've been and the fun times we've had out of town i mean i just can't wait to get back in the car and get out of here we've packed

[00:38:38] every as a three piece we would jump in one car yeah we uh and camp sit in one car no matter what the weather no matter what yeah yeah so yeah that's the fun part though it's like we

[00:38:49] we just camp and you know the fire and crack well we would we go way back right so it's more than the music yeah let's go have a road trip and have fun yeah cool man that's exciting and uh

[00:39:03] yeah like i said if you're doing it with your buddies um it is it's like the music is almost just like the the the icing on top or the cherry on top right you have to hang out with your buds

[00:39:14] and i get to play music with them this is fucking nuts yeah the trip is almost real life right yeah yeah so that's cool man that's really great what do you have uh planned for the

[00:39:23] future what does the rest of 2024 look like uh more shows more recording we already have basically an album's worth of new songs or ideas that could be uh and we're not stopping

[00:39:36] there because you know everybody's got their input in here but there's some good stuff to come cool man yeah and with mario yeah a friend of mine told me once he's like well if you're releasing

[00:39:49] your second album make sure you have your third and fourth one already written whoa it's just like and i kind of go with that mentality we released our first album or ep i guess

[00:40:02] and we have enough riffs to go for a second one already yeah i think i think we just released our first one but you guys are in the sweet spot too of like uh you're a fairly newer band been

[00:40:13] around for three years you still have that kind of energy to do it and it's all coming together you probably haven't even hit your peak of songwriting yet yeah you're building building building and then they're just going to start getting better and better you know

[00:40:25] it's when they start going down the other side that's when you got to worry they start going down but yeah as you're climbing to get you know every song is probably better than the last one you wrote because you guys are getting tighter you're getting to know each

[00:40:35] other better as songwriters and as a as a collaboration absolutely i'm super like don't get me wrong i'm really proud of uh of the album uh in our journey to getting there and

[00:40:47] everything but i'm super excited about the new stuff yeah uh yeah can't wait to really get that out there cool man um any shows coming up in the next little while that you want to

[00:41:01] yes uh july 10th at house of targ with a band called the wasting time from toronto i believe okay so i'm looking forward to that one i know rich is he's never played targ so yeah

[00:41:16] i'm super stoked that's like one of my bucket lists i've never played the targ so yeah it's fun it's a good place to play play some pinball eat some pierogies you could have played

[00:41:25] if he hadn't got covid yeah that's true that's true hey what are you gonna do well um i'm looking forward to new music i've been listening to your stuff all week just kind of

[00:41:38] getting ready for the the podcast and i want to i'll try and check you out uh at a show at that july show at targ yeah so what's your favorite song on our album on the album

[00:41:50] i don't know song title who the fuck knows song titles i put it i put it on my phone and i let it play song number three the one that goes right yeah and that's the one

[00:42:00] hey man haven't i proven i've done all this research actually listen to the songs too man i'll even watch your videos i was waiting for something to happen on the one with the tv

[00:42:09] that just showed like the news yeah see i knew that was a good fucking idea yeah i just kept waiting for it to fucking no no that's not out yeah that's not out yeah she's a little scoop

[00:42:23] spoiler anyway so i guess there's new stuff coming out anyway um cool man thanks for thanks for telling us about uh the band i have a uh rapid question game that i want to play with

[00:42:37] you guys rapid fire let's do it time for 13 questions with the band yes this segment's back again it's called 13 questions but i only asked six maybe five okay this is 13 questions with speed of bump sally now i'm gonna ask each of you the question and you can elaborate

[00:42:59] if you want you know we have all night no we actually don't but um yeah just answered first thing comes to your mind or whatever take a second and i'll get the answer from each of you

[00:43:10] it's called 13 questions with the band uh i have 13 questions i probably won't ask you all 13 but i ask from the 13 questions i always have to explain my 13 questions because after i asked

[00:43:21] five they said that was only five i said it was bad luck if you didn't listen to the you didn't read the fine prints fine prints okay uh very first question for eric um what was

[00:43:32] your very first concert that you oh you asked me that last time i was here seven years ago but it was the beach boys um at super x in ottawa i think it would have been

[00:43:44] 88 1988 a new beach a new beach boys movie just came out i watched it actually yeah it's pretty good okay i learned a lot of stuff i didn't know cool uh mario same question

[00:43:55] same question uh it was green day at the civic center 94 95 oh you were there i was yeah i was in a mosh pitou and i fell on my back doing uh probably maybe he saved me i don't know

[00:44:11] but i remember like i was crowd surfing and i fell right on my back but all right rich it was green day at the civic center yeah and i'm not kidding you it was like the

[00:44:19] insomniac tour or something like that i believe you i believe you it was dookie right and uh yeah he got drunk and pissed in the crowd it was fucking awesome yeah there's a uh there's a uh

[00:44:28] a pod my ego and vice question thing i love when people say same they don't answer they just go same anyway reg uh i went to see tom cochran with amanda marshall that was my first concert

[00:44:42] that's a good canadian concert with my parents i respect that was it at was it at like the carp fair or something no i'm uh i'm it wasn't monkton new brunswick oh i see i'm that's where

[00:44:53] i'm born and raised but it's funny because we went to the record store before going to the concert and i bought a a nirvana single i think it was like smell of the white like teen spirit

[00:45:03] i had the single the b-side even if in his youth i'm like i've never heard the song so the whole concert i'm just like i can't wait to get home and listen to nirvana

[00:45:12] yeah man nirvana was a big deal when that came out um eric what is your desert island record if you got stuck on a desert island for like 10 years and you can only bring one album what would

[00:45:23] it be um just the no effects decline single just 20 minutes over and over that one song for 10 years yeah it'll make me cry there's lots in there though oh yeah there's a lot

[00:45:35] i've had my friends play it live at uh club saw last what two years ago and i got emu so yeah emo all right mario a desert island record or desert desert island album the descendants album

[00:45:49] what's it called it's like a mix of all them like no with the summary the summary yeah it's like gritty sits when yeah that one yeah that's a good album okay uh rich uh it's a toss-up between the original garage days by metallica five song

[00:46:07] ep 590 598 sale that was good man yeah or uh weezer's blue album ah classic yeah i care yeah i like that that's good i never get tired of either no yeah i like that that metallica ep with uh they play all the um all the diamondhead songs yeah

[00:46:28] i well eric said the decline and it's probably the same for me but i'll say something else uh the duke uh dookie album by green day for sure another classic what a good album yeah it really

[00:46:43] is a it's like a it's like a nostalgic album i listen to that and i remember where i was almost like almost like teen spirit yeah right okay next question uh did you um

[00:46:58] what means more to you when you listen to music music or lyrics oh that's hard it's how much i want to punch air so usually it's music but sometimes it's lyrics i'll leave it at that

[00:47:14] 50 50 it's all about balance yeah i'm more of a musical person but sometimes the lyrics matter a lot but in general it's more the music and well the drums i listen to the drums and bass

[00:47:27] more but yeah lyrics always i don't know have had an impact especially i'm not a i don't songwriting i'm not a lyricist at all but sometimes it hits me hard and you know i would

[00:47:38] say 25 75 music cool uh for me it's definitely one or the other all the guitars and shitty lyrics you know go with that or you can have like some bob dylan stuff which a lyrical masterpiece and just folk music in the background you know so yeah that's fair yeah

[00:47:57] for me it's all about the music 100 yeah i don't really listen to the lyrics that much and i even see myself singing lyrics to a band i love and be like oh that's what they're saying

[00:48:10] 20 years later you know because it's just muscle memory that's all it is that's cool man would you would you say that your favorite song you could just pull the lyrics out and put some other

[00:48:21] lyrics in you wouldn't it wouldn't matter uh no because there's a certain like i don't know if i'm using the right word but cadence or you know there's something to the specific word you're using so the lyrics are important the words are not important i see what you're

[00:48:41] saying i see so the melody is part of the music yeah gotcha that's fair that's fair uh eric was so different in that perspective yeah um if you had a time machine and you could go back to

[00:48:54] any moment in music history what would you want to go back to i wouldn't go back i wouldn't no i wouldn't go back right now let's stay right now i wouldn't go back mario okay i definitely go

[00:49:10] back to see jimmy hendrix and the ramones the ramones back in they actually yeah not yeah yeah fuck yeah yeah i gotta agree though you ever seen the ramones live their live shows they're

[00:49:21] fucking better than they are on record but i wanted to see them at like cvgb's or something yeah new york yeah before i was born so born 81 so um rich honestly uh

[00:49:33] uh early day metallica like when i was a kid listening to them but like being able to appreciate it at this age and i would seeing them in their their prime i would yeah in that sense i

[00:49:43] would go to like to the first leg of the master of puppets tour before cliff got killed exactly where it was just energy and fucking awesome awesome yes yeah you're right man um

[00:49:54] reg uh that's an easy one i've thought about this a lot nirvana in montreal at foofs good choice oh i think it was in 91 and i is yeah that's where i'd go if i had a time machine

[00:50:08] cool okay a couple more questions um who would you love to open for as a band speed speed bump sally who would who would you guys like i call this could be a collective answer it's it's a

[00:50:23] funny question because i mean uh we were talking about this at the last time we were at the jam room how you know like how cool is it to have somebody you looked up to just collaborate with

[00:50:34] you on something or even open for them or you know uh but never actually thought about this for ourselves and for myself yeah i've opened a lot of bands that i like so it was to me

[00:50:48] that i'm at the point where it's like uh all right that's just part of playing a gig i don't know man but if i had to answer i'd say lag wagon 100 okay cool you guys same same same

[00:51:02] we got some same nice same things love the same okay two more questions uh for each of you what advice would you give yourself as a kid oh um knowing what you know now just it'll get

[00:51:17] better buddy it'll get better yeah me it's actually learning how to play an instrument i'm self-taught and a lot of times like i don't know i wish i would maybe have like one of these how these guys learned there's just such good musicians in them

[00:51:36] that's my canicorn uh how can i say this i uh uh had a lot of detours along the way so i think i would i would just tell myself to just keep focused on the music you hit a lot of speed bumps

[00:51:55] well played sir yes yeah i would go back and tell myself that it's okay nobody knows what they're doing that's fair because you stay i think it's home in human nature to compare yourself a little bit to others and you think everybody knows everything but no

[00:52:14] everybody's faking it yeah everybody's fucked up we still say that right now we still think fake it till you make it yeah all right the last question for speed bump sally is

[00:52:25] who is speed bump sally think about that one for a minute are we talking about like the name or us as a band i don't know i don't know what what are we talking about it's a

[00:52:41] couliqui interesting i never never went that far i'm down the rabbit hole and i'm afraid a bunch of friends with you know the same kind of passion and love for music as much listening to it as playing it as going to shows and creating it i think speed

[00:53:07] bump sally is a ghost that came out of a viol well hard to beat that answer um i really want to thank you guys for being on ego and vice it's been great getting to know you been great seeing

[00:53:20] some friends again yeah thanks and i wish you nothing but the best in the future and um look forward to coming back i think as as buds you guys have a long a long way to

[00:53:31] like a long history or in the history a long uh future in front of you yeah thank you unless you just hate each other and beat the shit out of each other on stage which i hope i'm at that show

[00:53:42] anyway take care guys thanks a lot thank you see you okay that's the end of episode 136 i'd like to thank the guys from speed bump sally coming by southwood studio good dudes good band

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[00:58:50] yeah summer is winding down i'm taking july off so get it while it's hot see you next time you got a real attitude problem McFly you're a slacker