Hey everybody, I am Monkey from the Bancorne and you're watching Talk To Me.
I like a lot of music. I have a large collection, a library of music. I don't like reggaeton.
I don't like it. Sorry reggaeton people. I don't think corn and reggaeton will ever
collaborate.
A lot of people say, you know, you saved my life. Thank you very much. I want to thank
you for doing the music that you do because it's helped me through a lot of ups and downs
and growing up and difficult times.
From the personal experience, this band has changed my life. It saved my life and Jonathan.
This band has given us an outlet to really get rid of a lot of garbage that can turn
into creative fuel to keep creating albums and making record songs.
I was driving to the studio in Los Angeles and I pulled up to a light and this high school
had just let out and so there's these kids walking across the street and the guys were
like, hey, there's the guy from POD, the singer. We had dreadlocks and I was like, hey, and
then I just waved to them.
But you know what? When we're internationally, I get a lot of people go, Jake Sparrow. It's
kind of annoying, but at the same time it's like, he's a good looking guy. I'll take that.
There was one guy, I think we were doing it in store, where you sell records and everybody
sets up a table and there was a guy he brought, a dead raccoon and he said it on the table.
He's like, sign my dead raccoon. I'm like, what? Get this guy out of here. And then later
we had a show and that guy was in the front row holding up the dead raccoon. So that was
pretty weird.
I knew I wanted to play music, but it was really, there was a movie called Crossroads
and at the end of the movie there's supposed to be this guy who was Steve Vai in the movie
and plays this character called Jack Butler. He's playing guitar and it's supposed to
be the devil. And the way he performed on the end of that movie really made me want
to play guitar like he did and pursue it as a career.
What was your best moment on stage ever?
There was a moment, we played a festival with the Cure. We play, we do a version of Another
Break in the Wall by H. Floyd and during the guitar solo in the middle of the song, they
had one of those, you know, those kind of ramped runways that go out and it was probably
40,000 people. And so, you know, they're like, you got to go out there during the guitar
solo. I was like, no, I'm not, like I'm too nervous. I did, I went out there and right
before the, right during the song, it was just pouring rain. So I walked out there in
the middle of the rain and played the guitar solo. It was a very slash moment, I guess.
Yeah, it was really cool. What is your favorite city for strip clubs?
Good one.
Yeah, you know, kind of puts people in the spot.
Thank you.
I'm not telling you because that's a question for them.
Thank you.
