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| SEPTEMBER 3 2009: WTUL 91.5FM (NEW ORLEANS, LA) INTERVIEW BY DJ DRIFTWOOD Driftwood: ..get into this, start off with one of the tracks off of Jak's new album Chaos Narcotic. The name of this track is Wrecking Ball and after this we are going to come right back and get into it with him. You're tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, this is the Bipolar Local Show, I am DJ Driftwood and here we go. (Wrecking Ball plays) Driftwood: You're tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, we've got Jak Locke and Jeremy in the studio with us sitting across from me. Say hello gentlemen. Jak: Hello friends, family and those asking "Who the devil is Jak Locke?" Driftwood: Haha, you're about to find out. Would you like to tell us who Jak Locke is? Jak: Jak Locke is this guy talking right now. Driftwood: Haha, singer, songwriter, recorder, performer, mixer, producer, you're just a one-man band, man, Jesus! Jak: It's a lot cheaper that way. Driftwood: Yeah, I could figure that it would tend to be, you know? I want to start with the most ridiculous question and easiest possibly to answer: just how long have you been playing? Jak: About thirteen years. Driftwood: And you play most of the instruments on your recordings, correct? Jak: On the recordings, right. On this new album, the keyboard, the organ on that was done by Zach Dufrene. He doesn't play with us anymore, but Jeremy did--say hello Jeremy. Jeremy: Oh! How you doing. Jak: Jeremy does bass on some of the tracks, like the acoustic album that y'all been playing recently over here, Jeremy did bass on just about every single track on that but for the most part I end up doing everything on the recordings. Driftwood: Do you have like a touring group that you put together to go live or is it usually acoustic stuff or I mean... Jak: I did a lot of acoustic stuff up until about May/June which was our last tour. We went as far as Des Moines, IA and that's when we really realized, it took us five tours to realize there's really no money in acoustic music. Driftwood: Hahahaha Jak: Pretty much all of our tours, most of the stories from that is either instrument theft or gastric distress of some form or another. Driftwood: Nice! Nice, is that like everybody shoved in a van / RV trucking around the country? Jak: Right, yeah, exactly. A minivan, a minivan. Driftwood: Oh nice, the mommy van! Jak: Yeah, we travel in yuppie style all the way. And we don't have the wallets to back that up either. Driftwood: Hahaha Jak: Haha anyway you had asked, yeah, we have a band, Jeremy plays bass in both the acoustic and the rock act and I've got Alex Starr on drums and Adam Rouse on guitar for the rock stuff. With the acoustic it's usually just me and Jeremy. And I had a metal act up until April that we would do live but that just kind of...the drummer's having a kid and so everybody's kind of too busy for it and elsewhere. Driftwood: Yeah, that'll throw a wrench in things. Children and whatnot. Jak: Right. Driftwood: Yeah, to say the least. Jak: Oh and that's just the beginning for him too, I'm sure as far as wrenches being thrown into things. Driftwood: Oh lord. Let's not think about that right now. Jak: No. Driftwood: Happy thoughts. Jak: Very happy thoughts. Driftwood: Nice. So when's this new album come out, man? Jak: It's technically already out. We had an early release party over at...um, gosh, I hope I don't get in trouble for saying the name of this place but ah...Whiskey Dix On The Avenue on St. Charles. Driftwood: I'm pretty sure it's spelled D-I-X. Jak: D-I-X. Yeah. Isn't that something, you know, it's just, it's the spelling. It doesn't matter-- Driftwood: They try to get people in trouble around here, I swear. Jak: Consonants and vowels doesn't matter, it's just how it's spelled. Driftwood: Right. Exactly. Jak: Hello FCC! No, we had an early, early, people at home can't see I'm doing quotes here, "early" CD release because it's coming out on iTunes and Rhapsody and other stuff on September 23rd I believe and so...but yeah, we had the early release because I had all this stuff put together. That was this past Saturday so...yeah, I mean if you come to the shows, you can buy it. Driftwood: Nice. So are y'all, that was the CD release before like... Jak: Yeah, yeah, that was the first time it was sold I guess I could say. Yeah. Driftwood: Gotcha. And you mentioned that y'all are going on a tour pretty soon. Jak: Yeah, we're planning one for October right now. Since I handle all the booking and you know, have to do all the legwork with that, it's still kind of up in the air if it's actually going to come together, it's sort of a crap shoot with that. You know, it's like "okay, am I going to luck out with this guy" or is it gonna be like, you know "oh it's noon but I'm too drunk, call back tomorrow to book the show." Driftwood: Right. Jeremy: Or they cancel on the drive up. Jak: Or they cancel on the drive up. Or in the middle of your set like what happened in Tulsa. We got twenty minutes in-- Driftwood: What?! Jak: --in Tulsa, yeah they said "Okay, that's about enough". Apparently we were too loud for them. Driftwood: Holy schnikies. Jak: Apparently we were too loud for them doing an acoustic set. I guess Norwegian Wood was a little much for them over there. Driftwood: Hahaha, friggin' Tulsa? Jak: In Tulsa, OK, yeah. Driftwood: Maybe you should have done like Blackbird or something, I don't know. Dear Prudence, you know? Jak: Yeah. Haha, well no that may be too controversial for them out there, I don't know. To hell with Tulsa. Driftwood: Wow. Well there's, I'm kind of leading up to something before I get into this, but there are three very different things going on on these albums that you've got out, so why don't we jump into a track off of the earliest album Flower Of Flesh And Bone and talk a little bit more and then we'll do something off of the second album and go into kind of how these came to be and how they were birthed, shall we say. Jak: All right. Driftwood: All right, we're gonna hear Copperhead off of Flower Of Flesh And Bone. You are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, we are talking to Jak Locke and his bassist Jeremy here this evening on the Bipolar Lo-Cal Workout. I am DJ Driftwood and we are going ahead right now. (Copperhead plays) Driftwood: All right, we are back. WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, Jak Locke and his bassist Jeremy in the studio with us. That was something off of your first offering, correct? Is this the first disc you've ever put out or is it the first one just under your name? Jak: No, well this is, gosh that's a tough question to answer. There's a lot of early stuff that I don't have available for sale anymore. I think it's about like twenty discs or something. Driftwood: Ah, so that's where you cut your chops as far as the mixing and producing and all that stuff goes because what I noticed when I first reviewed this album actually, I was quite impressed that you had done all of it, especially the quality that was on there man. Jak: Oh well thank you. Driftwood: It was professionally done. You know, normally when you get somebody doing all that stuff there's a bit of a hum, there's a bit of a buzz, it's slightly lo-fi, you know, you can kind of tell that it's a home recording, something like that. I mean it sounds like, you know-- Jak: That is definitely the end result of many crappy albums-- Driftwood: Hahahaha Jak: --leading up to that. So I appreciate that. Driftwood: Yeah it definitely sounds quite professionally done. Once again, you know, obviously doing all that it's gonna cut off a little bit of the price tag on there for you too. Jak: Right. Driftwood: So basically the only thing you don't do is press the album it looks like, I mean-- Jak: Well I press it as well. Driftwood: Well there you go! Wowzers. Jak: That's actually the most tedious part of the whole thing so if anybody out there is interested in taking over that for me, call the station, he'll give you my number. Hahaha Driftwood: Yeah, we won't give it out over the air but we will if you call. So you know, if you want to stalk him, just get in touch. Jak: Right. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha. So all right, I'm gonna bring this up because it's hilarious to me. The first time that I listened to this album--first of all, I was blown away and it was definitely, it was different than what I was expecting. But I think we spoke about this the first time we were on the phone but I did this contest to see whether or not anybody knew whether or not you were like a different, using a pseudonym and it was Dax Riggs. Jak: Right. I've been getting that for years. Before I even knew who Dax Riggs or Acid Bath was, I was constantly, "oh you must love Acid Bath and Dax Riggs so much" and I'm like "who the hell are you talking about?" Driftwood: Hahaha Jak: It's like nine or ten years this has been going on but you know, whatever. If you're gonna be compared to somebody, it may as well be somebody good. Driftwood: Yeah, I hear that and I'm a huge Acid Bath fan. Jak: So while I am sick to death of the sentence, I do appreciate the compliment as it's intended, usually. Driftwood: Hahaha nice, well I'm glad I could make you slightly nauseated you know, it's good to go, just don't puke on the floor. Jak: Oh, no worries. Where's my bucket. Driftwood: Hahaha. Yeah it was funny that the first time I did that, I guess I only did it once actually, but I was like look, if anybody knows how to get in touch with this guy, you know, call me up. So this guy calls up and he's like "I've got his phone number here, give him a call". So I'm like "all right" you know, I took the phone number that he gave me and I gave "you", quote unquote right, air quotes, a call. Jak: Hahahahaha Driftwood: And like, I'm like nn-dodo-dodo and like this answering machine picks up dude and it sounded like Fat Albert. Jak: Hahahahaha Driftwood: And I was like, this cannot be the guy I am looking for. Hahaha Jak: Hahaha, oh I wish it was. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, I mean it was funny. It was like "HELLO! IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE A METHAGE!" It was like, what the hell? Jak: You should have left a message dude. Driftwood: I should have! Hahaha Jak: Hahaha, might have had a new fan, I don't know. Driftwood: It was great dude, it was an experience to say the least. Jak: But yeah, the guy who called you up and gave you "my number", quote unquote, he actually showed up at one of my shows. Driftwood: Oh, did he? Jak: I think at Checkpoint's. He showed up and he told me about the whole thing so-- Driftwood: Nice! Jak: Right after that, I gave you a call and-- Driftwood: Sweet. Jak: --we became pals. Driftwood: Yeah, there you go. Phone Pals. Jak: Phone Pals. Driftwood: There are no more pen pals. Jak: Why am I doing that voice for that? Jeremy: That's a good question, I don't know. Driftwood: Because it's just a nice voice to dooo, and Decadence Fest is coming up! Woo! Jak: That's right, it's in the air. Driftwood: Yes it is, the silliness, the fairiness is in the air! Jak: Oh, you know you love it big boy. Driftwood: Haha, it's all right, I'm gonna make bank this weekend. I'm banking on these people to make bank so it's getting out of summer, you know what I mean? God, the last two weeks have been terrible. I've been eating corn on the cob without the corn. Jak: Haha, mustard sandwiches, dry ramen. Driftwood: Haha exactly. Jeremy: Dry ramen? Driftwood: Yeah I don't even have the water to put it in, you know? Jak: That's right. Just pour the base on it and go to town. Driftwood: Just put it on, all you do is you take it and put it on the counter, you just pound on it til it's crushed, just pour it in your mouth. Jak: That's right, see this guy knows what's up. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, all right let's get into something off of Post-Apocalyptic Hymnal real quick. Because I know that I've done this previous but for the people who are out there listening I kind of want them to get a sense of kind of the progression of the three albums and how this last one's rounding it out and kind of, you know, we'll talk about the steps that it took and whatnot and get into that after this particular track. Any particular one you want to hear? Jak: Let's go for completely out of left field, let's go with Overdue Rent. Jeremy: Yeah! Driftwood: Existing? Jak: Yes, Jeremy's happy because he has a very featured bass part on this song. Driftwood: Overdue rent, you know that's exactly what we were just talking about. That's why I've been pounding ramen noodles and eating the corn on the cob without the corn, so yeah there you go. Good choice, it fits with me too. So this is off of Post-Apocalyptic Hymnal, the name of the track is Overdue Rent as we just mentioned. You are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM. We will be back shortly with more of Jak Locke here on the station. And I'm also gonna have a couple of announcements for you when we come back at the top, or excuse me, bottom of the hour. DJ Driftwood, this is the Bipolar Local Show. (Overdue Rent (Existing) plays) Driftwood: ...so that you're not looking at the back of a "Logs" thing, you know, which is probably good, but I'll move this one over! No. Hahaha Jak: More Logs. Driftwood: More Logs. Jak: Just like tours. Driftwood: If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? Jak: Hahaha Driftwood: That's mean. That's wrong of me, I'm sorry. They're not that tasty anyway. Maybe if cooked right, if prepared properly. Now I'm just getting off the wall. Jak: A lot of gristle. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, oh that could be said about the locals too. Jak: Oh, yeah. Driftwood: Speaking of, you're a local musician but are you born, raised in New Orleans? You mentioned you went to Nicholls. Jak: Well it depends, do you consider Marrero New Orleans? Driftwood: Yeah, close enough, you know. Ma-RRER-o. Jak: I've lived in Marrero for my entire life. Driftwood: Well there you go. Jak: And I've heard it all. Hahaha Driftwood: Haha yeah I'm sure none of it's new. "The Best Bank bra". Jak: No. Driftwood: Your inner Yat come out every now and then? I know that's the Chalmatians but still. Jak: Every now and then, either when I'm having a great time or I'm really mad. That's when it comes out. Driftwood: Yeah that's usually when my inner Laplacian comes out too. Jak: Hahaha Driftwood: Yeah I grew up in Laplace so, possibly worse than Marrero. Jak: In Marrero you learn that trash knows no color and it's the only kind of pride that you sort of shrink into yourself with. It's a bunch of dichotomies. Driftwood: Yes, yes it's prideful, uh...I'm looking for a word... Jak: I am proud to be a trashbag! Driftwood: Right, see it's pride of the terrible aspect of what you happen to be. Jak: Smell my odor! Hahaha Driftwood: Wooo! I did not wear deoderant today! (blows in armpit toward microphone) I wonder if you can smell that over the radio. Okay, so let's get back to this before I get so off track that I forget what I was talking about. Which happens often, actually. Okay, so you've got the third album was just released and is gonna be available next week? Two weeks from now? Jak: Well no, September 23rd. What's today, the 3rd. So yeah, in like 20 days or something it's gonna be on iTunes and Rhapsody and what else. AmazonMP3. Driftwood: And you can always pick them up at your shows also. Jak: Right, yeah, I mean if you go to the shows now you can get the albums from me. I've always got a bunch. You can even get them in your favorite color. Driftwood: Nice, there you go. And if you don't like them that color, we can paint them. Jak: That's right. We got hot pink for this weekend. Driftwood: Yeah! I was waiting for the chartreuse week personally. Jak: I'll make a chartreuse one just for you. I'll mail it to the station. Driftwood: Nice, excellent, excellent, yeah. Make sure it smells like licorice and gets me sick when it comes near my nose too, you know. Jak: Straight outta Marrero, so it's gonna get you sick buddy. Driftwood: Nice. Woohoo! So this is kind of a, I don't know if it's a culmination of something but it worked out to where the first album that you put out was pretty much hardcore metal. Jak: Right. Driftwood: Right, some of it you know speed metal, some of it slowed down you know, I mean some of it sludge metal, you know, what not, several different genres of metal. And then the second album was pretty much all acoustic except for a couple of spots. Jak: Right. Driftwood: Country, you know, there were some tunes that were a little bit faster and a little slower, same idea but different genre of music. Jak: Right. Driftwood: And then the new album is kind of uh...what's the word I'm looking for. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it's the least cohesive as far as the sounds go, you know? Jak: Hahahaha, right. Driftwood: It's kind of you know, there are several different, like I was saying earlier, I mean you can hear metal in there, you can hear some alternative, you know, there were a couple of parts that I was saying sounded like a few beats from The Breeders. Every now and then I felt some Phish vibe going on and then every now and then you get the New Orleans funk vibe in it too. Did you kind of start out at the beginning trying to do those three albums that way? Jak: No actually, it's funny that you say the whole cohesive thing because initially it was just going to be one incredibly bizarre album. This was like April last year. I had all these tracks and I was like, you know I'm just gonna make an album and I'm gonna call it "Jak Locke Goes Too Far" and it's gonna just be ridiculously unrelated styles of music you know all put together. And then we started-- Driftwood: I knew there was a reason that I dug you dude. Jak: Hahahaha Driftwood: I'll explain something to you in a minute, why this show is named what it's named but go ahead. Jak: Cool. So yeah it started out that way and then we started booking tours and stuff so we had a metal tour coming up in October last year and so it was like oh, well crap, I need to have an album to sell on this thing, you know. Driftwood: Right. Jak: So it was like okay, I'm going to take these songs from this, you know Hunger Is Freedom was one of them, I think Copperhead might have been another one, but yeah, had some of the songs we were doing live with that act and it was like okay, put an album together real quick, put it together in about a month or two and pressed it, burned it, went on the tour and everything, and then got back. And then decided to book another tour for December with the acoustic act and so it was the same sort of thing, it's like...well okay I need an acoustic album to sell on this stuff. Driftwood: Right. Jak: So grabbed the tracks, wrote some more, put it together and had the acoustic album. So I had all these leftover tracks that didn't get used and I still wanted to make this album so it's like okay well I guess something'll come of this and it took a little while but it did and that's what you're holding right now, Chaos Narcotic. Driftwood: Gotcha. So the other two came out fairly close to each other then because of the situation. Jak: Right. I think it was October or September was when I released the metal one and then November or December I released the acoustic one. Driftwood: Yeah I remember when I got them and they both showed up at the same time. Jak: Right. Driftwood: So I was like whoa, okay, because usually the way when we put things in the merits, especially if we dig something, you kind of try to space it out a little bit so that the artist can get as much exposure as possible. Jak: Good idea. Driftwood: Especially if you get a couple of albums in, you obviously have more material out there so there's more to work with, you know. Jak: Right. Driftwood: But one of the reasons that I decided to completely skip that is because of the extreme difference between the two albums. You know, I thought that they both merited being played at the same time because they were so different and one was so far on the metal side and one was so far on the country, or kind of acoustic side. Jak: Right, I remember when I called and told you about that too. Driftwood: Yes. Jak: And you were like "whoa, really?" Hahaha Driftwood: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah you were like "yeah, the other one's country" and I was like yeah, I haven't had a chance to listen to...wait a minute, it's what? Hahaha Jak: Hahaha obviously you haven't. But no that's cool, it worked out all right. Driftwood: And I remember when you were like "so...what'd you think about it". I was like "ah, I liked it" and you're like "really?!" Jak: Hahahaha Driftwod: Yeah, and you're like "well, that's funny because normally people like one or the other and hate the other one." Hahaha Jak: Right, hahaha. And now I'm confounding it even more with a third one. Driftwood: Haha, no, what I was gonna tell you as far as what you were talking about about "Goes Too Far". That's exactly what I based this show off of. When I got into doing a show, the end result that I had in mind was that one of the reasons I wanted to go on the radio and do a radio show was because I wanted to brickwall. The point was to brickwall, it wasn't to sit down and play one genre of music, it was to sit down and play good music from all genres. So I was gonna play Judas Priest followed up by Thelonious Monk you know, with like Zappa behind it and then like Ween and then like Leonard Cohen, you know and then like Hank III. You know just stuff that had absolutely nothing to do with each other but all of it good tunes, you know so you didn't know what you were gonna get. But whatever it was, it was gonna pique your interest you know what I mean. So it's kind of interesting that that was the direction that you were going into. Jak: We need to join forces and destroy Clear Channel then. Driftwood: Yes! Hahaha Jak: In the trash can, you found Clear Channel. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, yes. So what ended up coming out of that, and I don't even know how I came...I don't know how it came about, the name idea, I guess I just, one night I just started calling this show the Bipolar Local Show. And then it turned into the Bipolar Lo-Cal Workout, right, so I don't know, it just keeps developing into something, it's its own monster at this point you know. Jak: By this time next year it'll be a paragraph long name. Driftwood: Right, exactly. Jak: Pull a Fiona Apple. Driftwood: I'll be like you know explaining the show, The Best Local Music You Never Heard Of, you know. Jak: Well that'll fill up any future dead air, just name the show again. Driftwood: Hahaha, just keep saying the name of the show when I'm looking for something. Hahahaha nice. Well let's pull something off of the culmination of these three discs. Jak: All right. Driftwood: Go for one. Pick one. Jak: Okay, track two, Flavor Of The Week. Driftwood: Track two. Jak: Song about stuff we can't talk about on the air but strangely enough I can sing about. Driftwood: Excellent. It is the flavor of the week. All right, we are here talking with Jak Locke and his bassist Jeremy and we're gonna talk a little bit to Jeremy when we get back, see how long he's been around, whatnot and how he's digging the groove so stay tuned and we are gonna hear a track called Flavor Of The Week off of the latest release from Jak Locke, Chaos Narcotic. You are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM and in case you didn't hear thirty seconds ago, you're listening to the Bipolar Lo-Cal Workout. (Flavor Of The Week plays) Driftwood: And we are back here in the studio 91.5 FM WTUL New Orleans with Jak Locke. So your friends from Alabama want to know if you're bringing your flavor of the week their way, man. Jak: Hahaha. No, she's not going to be able to make it. She's working on her kitchen but I've always got time for you Phat, you big hunk of ginger meat. Hahahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, sounds like someone out there is loved, hahaha Jak: That's one word for it. Driftwood: Hahahaha I was trying to be you know PG here you know hahaha, generally acceptable to the listening audience. Jak: I really hope that's who called too, because if it's not, I'm screwed. Driftwood: Yeah, calling somebody out. You're gonna end up in Alabama and get the crap kicked out of you. "What'd you call me?!" Hahaha, he's gonna grab you by your guitar cord and pull you off the stage, beat you to death with your axe. Jak: "Bet you can squeal like a pig"--everybody's gotta say that when you're talking about Alabama. Driftwood: Of course. I mean, come on it's either that or cousins, one of the two, you know. Jak: Right. We approve of cliches here at WTUL. 91.5 FM. Driftwood: That's right. Haha, I was watching something the other day and this guy's like "so did you ever see Deliverance?" He's like no, and he's like "well just remember. I'm Burt Reynolds." Hahaha Jak: Hahaha Driftwood: Like damn man. You're wrong. So Jeremy, man, how long you been playing with him? Jeremy: Uh, do you know? I don't even know how long I've been playing with you. Driftwood: That long? Jak: Like a year or two. Yeah you were doing, I think you did Banjo first. Jeremy: Yes, I did start with Banjo first. Jak: Which is a whole other topic of conversation. Driftwood: Oh, please! Jak: Banjo is a side project that I put together as a birthday present for a buddy of mine about three years ago, in 2006. And it's just sort of gone on, we do one show a year. We have yet to do our 2009 show yet, but it's a band called Banjo. We do the absolutely worst possible grindcore you can imagine. We suck horribly. And just to give you an idea of what the whole point of it is, last show that we did last August, me and the guitar player got in a fistfight on stage. Driftwood: Haha! On purpose? Jak: No a legitimate one, a legitimate fistfight. He threw a glass of vodka at my head and that was that, we just started going into it and beat the crap out of each other for about twenty seconds and then started the show. Hahahaha Driftwood: Wow. Nice! So it's like GWAR but real. Jak: Right, yeah. And...well, no, can't say that. I'll pantomime it....none of that. Driftwood: Hahaha, right, right. Which by the way, Oderus was on Red Eye the other day. Jak: Really? No kidding! Driftwood: I'm flipping through the channels at 2:00 in the morning and Oderus is on Red Eye. I was like what the hell is going on here? Jak: Well I filled in on bass for this band from Mobile, good friends of mine, actually the guys who just called from Alabama. Apathy Ensues-- Driftwood: Or at least that's who we hope it is. Jak: That's who I hope it was, yeah, if not then, well it'll be an interesting Saturday in Mobile for me. Driftwood: Apathy Ensues? Jak: Apathy Ensues. They're a metal band and I fill in on bass for them whenever they need a bassist, usually when they're in town but they played at The Bar in Metairie. Driftwood: Okay. I was about to say, for some reason that name was ringing a bell. Jak: Yeah, they do pretty well around here. Driftwood: Yeah. Jak: They're not going to playing together under that name anymore but, you know, all of them are doing different projects now. Driftwood: Gotcha. Jak: But anyway this is about me, not them. Driftwood: Hahahaha Jak: No, but I filled in on bass over at The Bar for them and they were opening for Mobile Deathcamp with ah...what was his name. Beefcake the Mighty from GWAR. Driftwood: Yeah, nice. Excellent. Jak: So I got to meet him. It was like "yeah, we're openin' for Mobile Deathcamp" that's, you know, Jeremy telling me that and I was like oh, okay, cool. And then I get there and it's like dude, that's freaking Beefcake. Driftwood: Hahaha, was he in costume? Jak: No. Driftwood: Oh okay. Jak: No, he's got his own thing now, he fronts the band. Amazing band, ridiculously good guitar player. Driftwood: Same thing with Dave Brockie who's Oderus, you know. It's like when I saw him at...I want to say I saw him at One Eyed Jacks but I think it was when it was still called the Shim Sham Club. Jak: Right, right. Driftwood: Which was quite a few years back obviously because I mean that was before Katrina and whatnot but man, first of all, talk about a different looking guy, you know, when he's fronting that. He was wearing like a wifebeater and like cut-off jeans you know. But dude slayed it I mean they killed it dude it was, their playing was amazing, I was tripped out. The only thing that was really trippy about it was that he still has the same voice. Jak: Right. Driftwood: So it's like you're looking at him and you're like...you close your eyes dude, and you can see it, you know? Because he's so ridiculous, he still has that persona. Jak: It's like you're looking for the cartoon character. Driftwood: Right, but he's not there you know, when he sings it's still like, you know, really fast and gibberish kind of talking and he's got that really kind of weird n-n-n kind of accent thing that's going on and it's like what the hell am I listening to? I felt like I was on acid dude and I don't do acid anymore you know? God! Hahaha but sorry, so back to you. Hahaha Jak: Oh no, that's all I got really. Haha, lead the way Mister Driftwood. Driftwood: Haha oh we will drift this-a-way. So had you guys played together before or did you just kind of run into each other at a show or how'd that work out out of curiosity? Jeremy: My punk band had played with...did we open for y'all, you guys or did one of my friends' bands open for you? Jak: It was... Jeremy: Something like that. Jak: That's like ancient history. Jeremy: Yeah. Jak: Four or five years in the music scene is like an eternity. May as well be. But I ended up recording his punk band. Jeremy: That's when we started getting together. Jak: The Plebians, about three or four years ago. Driftwood: Gotcha. Jak: So yeah, then I put together Banjo and we went through like twenty bassists and I was like hey, you want to do this ridiculous crap? We're playing next weekend. And he's like "what are the songs? How do they go?" It's like I don't know, just detune it to D and just slap it for twenty minutes. Jeremy: One of the purposes of Banjo is never to show the bass player how the songs go. Jak: Right, pretty much. Driftwood: Hahahaha Jeremy: That's always fun. Driftwood: So basically there's absolutely no structure to the song is what you're saying. Jak: Well, there's more than you would think but yeah we leave the bass player out in the cold. Jeremy: To me there's no structure. Hahaha Jak: It just devolves into ridiculous crap nonsense anyway by the end of it. Driftwood: Well I'm just thinking I guess in jazz terms, you know, if the bassist doesn't know what's going on, unless you're following Johnny Vidacovich, you know. Jak: Right. So Banjo has half a rhythm section. He impressed me with his thud staff playing on the D enough that I was like hey, you want to play with my real career now? Driftwood: Excellent. Jak: So it's sort of like-- Driftwood: You're moving on up bro. To the east side. Jak: Sort of like Banjo is sort of the Jak Locke farm. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, like the Zephyrs are for the Mets, right? Jak: Right. Driftwood: Which by the way, God, I feel sorry for all you Mets fans out there right now. If they didn't have bad luck they wouldn't have any luck. There's like two guys on that team that were actually, started the year. I was talking to this guy at work the other night and he was like "man they should have a hospital named after that team." I'm like they do, it's called New York Metropolitan Hospital. Jeremy: Hahaha Driftwood: So there you go dude. Jak: Hahahaha Driftwood: One of our DJs just walked in with a Mets hat. Once again, like I said, I'm sorry. I am so sorry. I'm a Phillies fan so I got nothing in any way to say anything about so I'm good to go. They could lose the rest of this season and still make the playoffs so whatever. Haha he wants to hit me right now, I can see it in his eyes. Hahaha, all right what are we gonna do. We did Flavor Of The Week a minute ago. What do you want to go to? You want to do some country, you want to do-- Jak: Well I promised one of the guys that I'd play Hannah for them. Driftwood: Okay. Absolutely. At some point I also want to play The Nothing At All. Jak: Okay, cool. Driftwood: Just because when I heard it man, I was like, at first I swore it was Sean from White Zombie and Rock City Morgue playing piano. Jak: Oh, wow. Driftwood: Because it's like, you have this same kind of like not overtly dark but slightly eerie kind of sound going on. But you know still well written and you know, easy on the ears. Jak: Oh well thanks. Driftwood: So there you go, yeah. But we're gonna do Hannah right now which is track number five off of the newest offering by Jak Locke, Chaos Narcotic. Jak: Interesting story about that, I can wait til afterward if you like. Driftwood: Did you want to, someone asked you to--did you want to dedicate it to someone or anything like that? Jak: No no, actually I wrote this song because somebody had emailed me on MySpace from Arizona asking me to write a song about them that I had never met before. Driftwood: Okay. Jak: So I said all right, I'll write a song about you and so I did and that is what you're about to hear. Driftwood: This is it. Okay, have you since met this person? Jak: No. Never have, never will, don't want to. Driftwood: Hahahaha Jak: Listen to the lyrics, you'll see why. Driftwood: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Jak: Nice happy family song. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, sounds like it, yeah. Jak: Family of nihilism. Driftwood: Haha, all right. He's a nihilist. He doesn't believe in anything. Jak: No. Except myself. Haha Driftwood: Hey. Once again, if you can't believe in yourself then you can't believe in anything and if you can't talk to yourself, who can you talk to, you know? Everybody's like "you're talking to yourself?", of course I'm talking to myself. Jak: You mean there's other people here right now? Driftwood: Exactly. Me, God. All right, you're listening to the Bipolar Local Show here on WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM. We are chatting with Jak Locke. This track coming up is the fifth track off of his newest album Chaos Narcotic. The name of it is Hannah and I guess we're about to find out whom it's about. So here you go. (Hannah plays) ... (The Nothing At All plays) Driftwood: All right. You are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, we are back with Jak and Jeremy. All right, so here comes the ridiculous questions, not the ridiculously easy questions, the ridiculous questions. So aside from people randomly emailing you on MySpace to write songs about them which is pretty damn funny I gotta admit, any particular place you get inspiration for writing? Jak: I hate questions like this because they're designed to make you sound as pretentious as possible regardless of what you answer. Driftwood: Hahahaha, that wasn't my particular point but yeah, that's kind of what I was going for. Jak: Unlike most musicians, I know how useless my craft is to the world at large. I don't know-- Driftwood: Come on man, to me it's a hell of a lot better than being a lawyer so, you know I mean-- Jak: Well, make a lot more money that way though. Driftwood: Agreed. Jak: Well there you go, that's what I write about. Being broke and dealing with jerks. Driftwood: And needing a lawyer. Jak: Right. Being broke and dealing with jerks. There you go. Driftwood: Well, you know, having glasses of vodka thrown at you on stage probably helps with the writing process I would think. Jak: Right, that hasn't happened yet but it's not a bad idea, you know. That'd be fun. That'd be interesting for me I'd think. Driftwood: Well it hasn't happened with this one but with Banjo, wasn't it, didn't you-- Jak: Oh, with Banjo. No, that was my guitarist that threw it at me, so-- Driftwood: Well, I mean just because he was on stage doesn't mean you didn't have a-- Jak: Okay, yeah, I guess that counts then, yeah. Driftwood: Hahaha Jak: Something was thrown at me so it doesn't matter if it came from behind. Driftwood: Right. I mean it did come from beside rather than, or behind rather than directly in front of you, yeah. I mean, so the ability to duck it was a little difficult. Jak: Right, yeah, haha Driftwood: Yeah the worst I've ever seen that was someone get back something like that, I was watching, years ago before Tipitina's had AC, that's like '92 or '93, Dinosaur Jr. was playing Tip's and some chick threw her bra, like this pink bra or something, I think it was pink at Jay and he wrapped it around the head of his guitar, right? So this kid jumped up and grabbed the bra and he was like pulling Jay off of the stage. So Jay just like turned as hard as he could dude and caught the guy right in the side of the face with his guitar head. You know so it was like guitar keys across the mouth, it was gruesome! It was brutal. And it looked like that picture off the front of the Vulgar Display Of Power except instead of a fist it was a guitar head, you know, rough. Jak: That's one hell of a souvenir there for that. Driftwood: Without a doubt. Just don't be a jackass, that's the life lesson in that one. Hahaha, Lord. So what have you got coming up show-wise, man? Jak: We got Mobile this Saturday, we got Pascagoula, MS next, the week after that. I think the next New Orleans show I've got is...oh, we've got some doors closing here. Driftwood: Ooooh! Jak: Cool. Privacy. Next show we got is Whiskey Dix. Driftwood: Naked party starts! Woo! Jak: All right! Sausage Fest 2009. Driftwood: Hahahaha Jak: Oops. Okay, well I just said "Whiskey Dix", doesn't matter. Yeah, Whiskey Dix September 25th I think and then the very next day we're back in Pascagoula again. Driftwood: Well that sounds like a bit of a...you're going to Alabama then Mississippi then stopping here then turning around and going back to Mississippi. Jak: Well it's spread over like three or four weeks. Jeremy: Yeah, we're hitting different weeks. Driftwood: All right, gotcha. So instead of actually strolling out and staying in either of those places, it's gonna be a drive back every time. Jak: Right, yeah. Pretty much. Driftwood: Wow, that blows. Hahaha Jak: Eh, not really. We're kind of used to it after the ridiculous tours that I've booked us on for the past year. Driftwood: Tulsa and whatnot. Jak: Like, all right, it's a good idea to go from Warrensburg, MO to Des Moines, IA which is four hours one way, play the show and then go all the way back. So yeah, eight hours on a Sunday. Driftwood: Oh, that's fun. At least you didn't have to worry too much about traffic though which is total bonus. Jak: No, no. Or anything else. Scenery. I had to really look to make sure that there was even grass on the side of the road. Driftwood: Yeah, you had the amber waves of grain and that was about it, right? Jak: Right. Actually, the worst road we have ever been on was going south in Texas. Jeremy: 77? Jak: US Highway 77. Driftwood: Yes! I've been, there is nothing. There is absolutely-- Jak: You question your damn soul on that road. Driftwood: And it's like 600 miles long dude, you're on it for like nine hours. Jeremy: And it looks exactly the same the whole time. Driftwood: Yeah and every about hour and a half you'll run through a town that has a gas station and post office that are in the same building and then like right next to it is like a small grocery store and there's like three houses. Jak: Yeah, the HEB. The grocery store, the H-E-B. Yeah. Driftwood: Exactly. Jak: And then McDonald's, Burger King, Whataburger. Driftwood: Yep. Jak: Whataburger, Burger King, Whataburger. McDonald's, Whataburger, Whataburger. That's like all you see, that's your landmarks out there, it's truly depressing. Driftwood: Can't I get an IHOP? I mean, hahahaha Jak: Hahaha, it's the portal to hell out there, really. Because Harlingen, TX which is about ten minutes north of the Mexican border. This past January we were staying there and walk outside after watching this horrible crap on TV in the hotel room, walk outside to get some water or something and the window is smashed open, all the instruments are gone. Driftwood: Oh man. Jak: Which, the joke was on them for my guitar, that thing was a piece of crap anyway. Driftwood: Still, it was playable. Jak: Our keyboardist's keyboard was worth about $3000 which I'm sure will get you a lot of hashish down in Mexico. Driftwood: Somewhere. Jesus, that sucks. Jak: About I guess $5000 worth of crap all together got jacked so I cancelled the shows because nobody wants to see an air guitar performance. Driftwood: Well I don't know man, you know there are the world air guitar championships these days. Jak: True. They weren't being held anywhere that we were playing though. Driftwood: Hahaha Jak: So we cancelled all that and that was the worst thirteen hour straight drive home, January winter with no window. So go ahead and ask me what I think of Texas. But we came back in April to finish the shows we had to cancel and made all of eight dollars from that tour, so I should have taken the hint the first time. Driftwood: So you're only about $4962 bucks down, right? Jak: That's right, you know? Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, that's not that bad, I mean hey. Jak: There was one cool place in San Antonio, G.I.G. I think they called it. Jeremy: Yeah. Jak: Real tiny, I mean about the size of this studio which you can maybe fit about 25 people in this place. They were so cool over there. Driftwood: By the way, everybody out there, if you're curious as to the size of this studio, I've been in bathrooms that were bigger. Jak: Hahaha Driftwood: And I had five bands in here two weeks ago. I believe you said you were listening to that? Jak: Yeah, I remember that show. Driftwood: You should have seen that in here. And we only had one microphone on top of that. This microphone just got replaced today, so that was, it was hilarious. Jak: What, did you have the gain dimed or something? Driftwood: I had to go in and pull out an older microphone from one of the boxes in there and I had to like hang it over the loop up there and like rig it dude. Jak: Sounds like how I recorded my first demo. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, it was bad. It was retarded all around. Jak: Hang it off the lawnmower! Driftwood: Haha, wait wait no don't turn the fan on! You just destroyed the drum setup. My God. It's a mess. So, what, four or five shows in the next month? Something like that? Jak: Yeah, something like that. September 5th, September 12th, September 25th, September 26th. We don't have anything... Jeremy: Not that I know of. Jak: We might. I don't know. Jaklocke.com, just look on the calendar, all the shows are there. Driftwood: There you go. And you got a MySpace? Jak: Yeah, yeah it's linked from the website but yeah, it's myspace.com/jaklocke. J-A-K-L-O-C-K-E. Driftwood: There you go. Let's get into something off of Flower Of Flesh And Bone. Jak: All right. Driftwood: Think that sounds like a plan? Jak: Cool, cool. Driftwood: What shall we play? Pick one, I picked the last one. Jak: Ok, what you think Jeremy? Canto or Marrubium? Jeremy: What did we play last time? Driftwood: You know, I think the only track I played off of there was Copperhead. Jak: Right, yeah. Or Cambodia. You want to go heavy, heavier or ridiculous? Jeremy: I like Canto. Jak: Okay, Canto XXVIII it is. First one. Driftwood: Track numero uno. It's making some weird noises. Jak: That sounds good. Driftwood: For real. CDs are not supposed to make clicking noises. Deeeeee. Hahaha, we're taking ridiculous photos over here. Jak: That's right. Driftwood: He's gonna make a DJ Driftwood shrine on his MySpace. Jak: See if I don't. Driftwood: Hahaha which means don't go to his MySpace because when you click on the folder with my name, your screen might crack. Just letting you know, be forewarned. Jak: It's an interactive experience. Driftwood: All right so the name of this track is Canto XXVIII, it is the first track off of the first offering I guess, or most recent first offering. Jak: Most recent first, yeah, the reboot. Driftwood: The refirst. Jak: That's right. Hahaha Driftwood: Boy if I would have said that together really fast it would have come out wrong. Reefers. Anyway, you are tuned in to WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM we are coming towards the end of the local show actually. It's 9:25 here at the station. Jak Locke has been sitting in with us all evening and I'm sure he'll close out the show with us and then we'll probably go grab a drink somewhere, so you never know. All right, this is Canto XXVIII off of Flower Of Flesh And Bone and as we were talking about earlier, this is the metal album of the three. So there you have it, just to give you an idea of what you're about to hear. Anyway have at it. (Canto XXVIII plays) (Pocket Full Of Ash plays) Driftwood: You're tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, we are talking with Jak Locke and his bassist Jeremy over here at the station. What was I gonna ask you. Earlier we were talking about, when we played Goatwhore, we were talking about the fact that they were pretty much the only metal band that you listen to. Is that local or is that period anymore? Jak: Local and period, really. Yeah. Driftwood: You mentioned that it just kind of started to wear on you. Is it your own or everybody's or-- Jak: Pretty much all of the above. It's, I don't know, it's a very, it tends to be a very limiting genre. A lot of people let it become a limiting genre I guess I should say. Driftwood: Yeah. Jak: Because there's a lot of different things you can do with it but particularly down here there's a lot of people that don't stray from that sort of southern metal, you know, sludge kind of sound. Driftwood: Yeah. Jak: Which, you know, it's a good sound but you know, obviously I like a lot of variety in what I listen to. You know, you sort of hear the same songs with different singers every now and then. Driftwood: I hear you. You're absolutely right. I was wondering, it kind of piqued my curiosity because for a long time the same thing kind of happened to me. You kind of burn out on it. Every time you put something on it's like I've heard this, it's been done, there's nothing fresh going on. Jak: There's a lot of good stuff in the underground, especially down in like Houma and that area, down the bayou, that, there's a lot of good stuff happening that nobody's probably ever going to hear about. Driftwood: Which is completely unfortunate. Jak: Right. You know, like we were talking about, you have bands up here where it's the same six or seven people and it's six or seven bands, just varying arrangements of these same people. Driftwood: Yeah, they change one person, exactly, you know. Jak: I mean, I love Kirk Windstein to death but you know, that's really all that's getting most of the press around here it seems. So you know, good for him but sucks for everybody else kind of thing. Driftwood: Right, it limits what you're gonna get out of the rest of the field, yeah. Jak: Right. Driftwood: Yeah, it just kind of......now I'm lost. There was something that was going through my head and it just stopped. Jak: I have a knack for doing that to people. Driftwood: Mid-thought man, it was like do-dodo-dodo-dodo I got--oh, it went. There it went. Jak: It's because I said "Kirk Windstein". Driftwood: That's what it was, it blew it out of my head. You sank my battleship. Hahaha, Lord. Yeah, I'd like to get some of the stuff that's going on down and around, and another thing that I find interesting about that particular genre is, the metal genre, that is, is that a lot of times the shows which can be really really excellent, really good, don't translate so well to album. Jak: Right. Driftwood: You know, a lot of times the bands just don't translate as well to recorded music as well as they do live. Jak: Well it's like for every, this doesn't just apply to metal but since we're talking about metal, for every good performing band that you come across, you know, particularly on an underground local level, there's about ten that just flat out suck, stink on ice. Driftwood: Yeah. Jak: But you know, it's like if I go to see a band, what I'm looking for is something beyond the same experience I could get just listening to their CD and looking at a still picture of them. Driftwood: Without a doubt. Jak: Move around. I paid to see a show. Give me a damn show, you know? Driftwood: Hahaha, agreed. I totally agree with you. And I mean, and you're right, it's the same thing, it's like the first, second and third time I saw Bob Dylan. Because literally dude, I'm sorry for you people out there who are Bob Dylan freaks because you exist and I know you do because I've had arguments with you, he is literally the worst show I have ever seen. He is my top worst show ever seen, dude. Jak: I saw him in 2002, I saw him in winter 2002 and he literally just stood there strumming his guitar, tapping his boot-- Driftwood: He doesn't even move! Jak: --and every so often you'd see him nod at some girl in the front row and that was about it. Driftwood: Yeah, that's it. Jak: Of course, he was about this big from where I was sitting, you know. Forty dollar tickets about two miles away. Driftwood: Right, that's exactly what he did. I mean literally he like stood in front of the microphone and he would not move. Jak: But he can do that because even seeing the show and, you know, being kind of underwhelmed by it, you know, it's still the sort of thing like, I am in the same room with Bob freaking Dylan. So I think that's a lot of the ticket price there goes into that. Driftwood: Yeah. I'm not a huge Dylan fan. There are obviously tracks from him that I adore but the fact is, even if you can't stand the guy and you don't like anything by him, you cannot deny his impact on American music. On music, period. Jak: Everything up until his motorcycle wreck in '66, you know, I love all that stuff. But, hit or miss for the rest of his discography. Mostly miss. Driftwood: Some of it after was really good but yeah, for the most part a lot of it was miss. Jak: By the way, those of you playing at home, look up Empire Burlesque by Bob Dylan, it was his 1985 album if you want to see how bad bad can truly be. Driftwood: Hahaha Jak: I want my ten dollars back, Bob. Driftwood: Hahahaha give me my money back! Oh Lord, that's bad. Terrible, dude. All right, we're gonna throw something on and then I think I'm gonna get into a track from Telefon Tel Aviv, I'm gonna do a little bit of a nod to those guys. They're gonna be coming to town in September but I'm not sure if you're familiar with Telefon but one of their members just died a few months back. Jak: Oh, that sucks. Driftwood: And it was originally just two guys, so I'm actually kind of curious as to how that show's gonna go. Jak: Right, wow. That's a shame. Driftwood: So I'm gonna do a bit of a nod to them on the show since they're coming into town, I'm not gonna be here before they come into town when I'm doing my show so. But anyway, if for some reason we don't get back on air, which I don't see why we wouldn't, I want to thank you for coming in, both of you guys. Jak: Thanks for having us. Jeremy: Thank you. Driftwood: Absolutely, it's been a great evening, thanks for coming in and chatting with us and giving us a little bit of background and some insight into Jak Locke and Jeremy being silent next to you. Hahaha Jak: Hahaha, the Jeremy is silent. Driftwood: The Jeremy. What do we want to get into? Jak: Ah, may as well close out my stuff with Dreamless. Driftwood: Dreamless? Jak: Graphic novel rock there. Driftwood: That is on eleven. Jak: It spoils the ending of this thing I've been working on, but I'll probably never finish it so I can go ahead and spoil the ending. Driftwood: You know what else I wanted to ask you? It wasn't, it didn't happen on the country album. I was just thinking about this while I was rereading the review I did of the first album and I finally got to listen all the way through the newer one today. I had listened to tracks from it before but something kept coming up and I couldn't get past like track 6, I'd have to keep turning it off and running out of the house, you know? On the end of both of the albums, on the end of the first one Flower Of Flesh And Blood and the third one Chaos Narcotic, like there's kind of this spoken word kind of poetry thing going on. Was that just something you had written that didn't go to any music or is it something you kind of wanted to do, a way to round the album out? Jak: Sort of, sort of bastardizing songs from older work that I did from you know earlier albums from years ago, years and years ago that, the songs upon listening to them recently, it's like wow, this song really sucks musically but I kind of like the words of this so, you know, sort of apply it and then some other stream of consciousness crap. Driftwood: Hahaha, whatever you can throw in there? Jak: Right. Driftwood: And on top of that, speaking of older tracks and whatnot, how much do those kind of come back to influence or haunt, you know, the newer recordings? Do you try to stay away from what you've already done or go in a different direction, or-- Jak: No, no, I, a lot of it is sort of chewed up cud, you know keeps coming back a little bit better with more ideas applying to it. There was an album I did in '05 called Battery Acid and I just recently took it off of iTunes and such. You'll find stuff from the metal album, the acoustic album and the new rock album that were straight from that CD, you know, completely rerecorded of course but the same songs, same general arrangements, just, you know, since I've gotten better equipment it's sort of, may as well redo it to the point that it's actually listenable now. Hahaha Driftwood: Hahaha, no pops and hisses in the background. Jak: A bunch of cracking and, yeah. Recording through a guitar amp kinda sucks. Driftwood: Yeah, all that good stuff. Whirring in the background and you know, the taxi picking you up horn you know, hrrrn. Gotcha. Jak: Right. "The burritos are here", you know. Driftwood: Hahaha, right. Two dolla tip, what's wrong with you? Track eleven, that's what we want to go out on? Jak: Dreamless, yeah. Driftwood: If you want to call it going out. Jak: Well, whatever it ends up being, what it is, it is. Driftwood: Yeah, if we get back, we get back. We got about another eighteen minutes on the show so we should be able to play at least a couple more tracks. This is the eleventh track off of the latest offering, Chaos Narcotic. And I actually am gonna come back because there's one more question I want to ask you before we go. Jak: Oh okay, cool. Driftwood: So you are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM and we are talking with Jak Locke this evening. (Dreamless plays) Driftwood: All right. You are tuned into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM, it's 9:53, we've got a couple of minutes here. I'm gonna close the show out with one last track from Jak off of the newest album, but right before that I wanted to ask him one last question. Considering how the other two albums were produced, kind of how it just fell the way that you needed a metal album because you were doing a metal show and then you needed a country album because you were doing the acoustic show, or an acoustic album, not necessarily country album per se, was there more thought put into how this one kind of went together, what the setlist was, you know, how you put it in order, time that you took on it type thing? Because I mean, you got a lot of stuff going on, you know, I mean there's some electronic going on in there, there's a lot of different genres kind of styles going on, mish-mashing and you know and it flows pretty well from beginning to end. Jak: Thank you. Yeah definitely put a lot more work into the rock album than I really had time to do with the other two because, like I said before you know, I started putting those together, I think one and two months before the actual tour that they were needed for, so it's just like okay, do it do it do it do it do it...okay, done. Okay, next one, do it do it do it, done. And with this one it was like okay, there's no rush really for this. I can wait til this one's done before I book the next rock tour. Driftwood: Right. Kind of work on that afterwards. Jak: Right. Driftwood: So with that being said, of the three is this your, the one that you're most proud of, shall we say, or something like that? Jak: Yeah, I think so. I like, uh...I don't go back and listen to my own stuff that much except you know to make sure that it sounds good in different speaker systems and stuff like that, make sure that I mixed it well. Driftwood: Right. Jak: That's the one, Chaos Narcotic's the one that I can see myself enjoying listening to again the most out of the stuff, six months from now or something. Driftwood: Yeah, it definitely has the most changes on it. Jak: Because I'm still sick to hell of all those songs right now after listening to them literally probably 500 times. Driftwood: Hahaha each. Jak: Each. Driftwood: Yeah, absolutely. And on top of that, every little nuance of every one of them too, you know, I mean-- Jak: Right. Yeah. So you work on the album all week and then it's like all right, I get to go do a show and sing them again! Driftwood: And I mean if you're recording them, mixing them and producing them, that means that you've got to do all the levels so you're listening to not only the whole album but every instrument and whatnot, cowbells in the background and crap or whatever. Right. Jak: It's the most, uh, self-affirming hell you can put yourself through. Recording an album all by yourself. Driftwood: Hahaha excellent. Well we only got about four minutes left before the next progressive show so let's go out on a track off of the new one. We just did Dreamless. Another choice? Jak: Night Never Falls, It Crashes. Driftwood: That's actually the one I was gonna pull, so there we go, we're on the same page. We are gonna close out the Bipolar Lo-Cal Workout this evening with Night Never Falls, It Crashes off of Jak Locke's latest effort Chaos Narcotic. For more information on this guy you can find him at his website jaklocke.com and also at MySpace slash Jak Locke, well myspace.com/jaklocke. J-A-K-L-O-C-K-E for those taking score and keeping notes out there. Thank you for tuning into the show this evening, I hope everybody learned a little bit about, you know, one of the up and coming artists--well, he's already up and he's already coming but he's coming out, we're trying to help him come out a little more, you know? In town, absolutely and if you can catch him in town and, when's the next show in town? Is that Whiskey Dix, correct? Jak: Yeah, September 25th. Driftwood: And then between that he's gonna be in Alabama and Mississippi so unless you want to head out that way, you know where to find him. Thanks again for tuning into WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM and the Bipolar Local Show. I am DJ Driftwood. I will, or should I say you will hear me here again in two weeks time. Have a great evening. (Night Never Falls, It Crashes plays) |