PipemanRadio Interviews Donella Drive About Simian Transmission

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0:53 Problem the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And here with our next guest, Andrew Salazar, who has a killer new song out with his band Danela Drive. So let's welcome to the show. How are you. What's going on man? I'm doing great, dude, doing awesome? Thank you cool. How do you like my background? I love it? You know, I want you to tell everybody about the new single Semion Transmission, like what your idea of it is, because you know, when it comes to songs, artists have one idea of what the what the message of the song is, and then other people pick something else up.

1:36 So tell us what your version is. To me personally, my brother has his own view on it. He wrote the lyrics for but my interpretation of it is essentially like having that self doubt, kind of like a being in a lost place trying to communicate and it's not getting across the way you want to get across. That's that's my point of perception. Anyway of song, it's like kind of like a trying to communicate and know what's kind of hearing you out? Know what's kind of hearing your perspective, your point of view. That's what I think it is about. And you know, I think it's kind of apropos of what we live in today because we I always say all the time, we have way more ways to communicate than ever in history, and our communication skills are the worst thanyeah ever are? You know, It's like like when it comes to everything social media, email, text, messaging, all this technology. You know we're communicating, but there's meaning that is getting you know, miscommunicated or you know there's nothing behind it except just the words and whatever that person, what's the meaning to those words?

2:49 Really? Even Like it's funny like sometimes we'll have like a band discussion we're texting each other and it could come off as like I guess passive aggressive right the whole keen peel. I don't know if you've ever seen before the Keen Peel skit where he thinks he's being aggressive and there's text each other back and forth and he's there. They meet up and he's ready to fight, and he was like, what's going on? Man? Are you okay? Like it's like a whole like a miscommunication. No doubt. And you know it's interesting because I'm sure you've done this. I do this. I'll send a text message and I'll write it out first, and then i'll read it to myself and I'll be like, hmm, I wonder what they're gonna think I'm saying. And it's probably the exact same words you'd say in real life, except the differences as you have your facial expressions, your tonality, and and so it comes across the right way and the same exact words. Somebody's got interpret totally different without those things.

3:52 Totally totally. Man, definitely agree with that. I've definitely done that too. Going back and forth is okay. Sometimes what I'll do is like I'll do it and I'll just keep it in drafts and I'll wait till like later in the day or the next day when well, maybe in a different mindset and read and go, oh fuck, I'd be pissed if I got that. Oh for sure, man, for sure. So you said your meaning is different than your brother So what would you say? Your brothers is. Pretty similar except to me, like especially during the vers it's kind of like a like a uh of rant and what's going on in his crazy mind. It's like he's very uh you know, add he's he's has like to me, like the especially the first verse is very like kind of like a a rant inside his head.

4:49 But he definitely about the song is about communication or lack thereof, and how you know, you say one thing and it could mean another thing can be interpreted another way, kind of like a archaic with communicating. I guess, well, and think about it too, okay, because you're using Simeon in the name, and of course the background here and I think of planet the apes and where humans are mute, Yeah, and they cannot communicate with with the apes, and you know there's miscommunication there too. It's like so to me, that's all relative. Yeah, And the vibe of the video, we kind of wanted this like kind of post apocalyptic kind of world, you know, kind of kind of vibe with the whole ape theme. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.

5:39 Big question. What's it like to be in a band with your brother? I couldn't be in a band with any of my brothers, I could tell you right now. I don't even if I didn't, if they weren't my brothers, I probably wouldn't even associate with them in life. Dude. You know what's crazy enough to people this before, It's like it's probably the most real band I've ever been in, because you know, we can get right to the point, like you know, other bands have been you kind of have to like eggshells tippy toe, But with me and my brother won't go right. Sometimes you got to like take a step back, like, hey, you know, we need to chill out. But there's definitely been times where like he'll have an idea or I'll have an idea and we're like, I'll do that sucks instantly, Like that's horrible, worst idea ever, Like right like that. So as far as me and him, there's definitely not a lack of We communicate pretty well, almost too well, you know.

6:41 What I mean. See that is the good news because you know each other so well and you don't have to play games, you don't have to sugar coat it, and I mean I look at it this way anyway. Okay, so if you're in a band, you have the same sibling rivalry as if you were brothers. Oh yeah, so you already have prepared all your life to be in a band, both of you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we've had family members and bands. Grandpa, my grandfather, was a musician. Nice you know my brothers because me and my brother were half brothers, but his dad was in my life a lot. He was a musician, you know what I mean. I have an uncle who is he's in a metal band right now. They're called Fleshoarder.

7:24 He's a musician, and he's the first guy I jammed with. So it's kind of like, you know, and I have other uncles who are he's a musician as well. So it's it's just there. It's in my family. It's in my kind of in my DNA, you know. And it's interesting. You know, everybody likes to talk about Texas, the and the live music scene in Austin, but I don't know. I've been to Austin. I wasn't that impressed. But what I am impressed by is I have bands that I know and like I'm friends with that are San Antonio Bay bands and they're like the coolest people ever or the coolest bands ever. Right, I think maybe Austin should be, you know, take their crown taken away and giving it to San Antonio.

8:15 I will say this, Austin is straight up. I mean, Austin has this thing for sure. San Antonio. It's definitely to me more of a metal scene, big metal scene here. The hardcore metal scene is huge here. And the brotherhood because like you probably know him, this really good friend of mine who's in even in Death Yeah Sean Nations, Oh yeah, Like he creates the impression of like all all you San Antonio bands are like all this brotherhood, which I don't think Austin has that. Maybe I don't know, I don't know. I mean it's hard to say. There's some great Austin bands right now too, but definitely the to me, maybe the scene here in San Antonio a little a little bit more smaller, so it's maybe it's a little.

9:03 More close close niche Yeah, that might be it. Yeah, And that could be it too. I think like there's definitely pockets of different scenes here and then they're all type too for sure. We're kind of in our own name. We're in this weird kind of gray area. We kind of like we'll play shows with pretty much anybody. We can honestly say, like, you know, we've played with metal bands, We've played with like indie bands, you know. Sometimes we've even played like death metal shows or death course shows. Even see I love that. Yeah, I love that too. Some promoters don't, but. I h because I come from the day where yeah, yeah, I had all the gatekeepers and you couldn't even mix the same genre. And frankly, it was stupid. Music is music, and you know, you like it or don't like it, doesn't matter what the genre is. But if you're only listening to one genre, you may miss out on a lot of music that you probably absolutely totally.

10:01 Yeah, And I've played those death metal shows and death course shows, and they've come to us, like different members of different bands, and we're like, dude, that was refreshing, you know, it gave almost like it gave like their ears of break, you know what I mean, right, because something offered we offered something different, you know, in the middle of the you know, death metal, death course stuff. And I love that, and I love death metal, and I love I grew up on it. You know, have family members that play it. So but you know, I just we just try and incorporate our own influences and do our own thing. Yeah. So I'll tell you the funniest gig I ever went to in my whole life was uh, it was at the True Badore and it was Striper opening for Slayer.

10:42 That's awesome, right right, and so fight. I remember clearly I was up at the stage and the guitarist is Striper. He was doing the lead ain't bent over and his cross was hanging down and I, I don't know, I was like fifteen, I don't remember, idiot kid, and I took his cross and I flipped it upside down and he just smiled at me like it was like, you know it was right. Then I realized, well, he is actually pretty cool because it's like he didn't react the way I expected. Yeah, that's cool, he gets I mean he knows. Well. You know, it's funny because so what you know, you have two bands that maybe are not the same, and maybe you like them both and you just have a good time live. One thing I think we've learned from COVID is I don't give a fuck if some kid where a recorder gets and gets up on stage and plays a show, I won't be at live music.

11:42 I don't care. Yeah, same man. Yeah, you know it. We took it for granted for sure. And I remember our first show was back after COVID. They're actually really crazy, Like it was like we had crazy pits and people were knocking over tables like it was like k as soon as we got to like one hundred percent capacity at the bars, like I love it, Like it was like everyone was like, yes, I love it. But yeah, he got rid of that people being bitchy and complaining about everything and realize, yeah, we need this live music. I don't care what it's like, you know. And there's still people that are gonna complain, but a lot of the people that guy wake Up Call create a much better scene. And I think, shush, I think metal's bigger than ever now after COVID.

12:33 To be honest, oh yeah, it's like I said, literally knock looses on Jimmy Kimmel, I know, with Poppy. With Poppy, I mean that was insane. And then it's like he got all kinds of backlash and the body Counts gonna be on next So it's like, you know, you can backlash all you want, but obviously the audience loved it, or else you wouldn't be bringing another band back that's going to cause chaos on there. Oh yeah, I love it, dude, that's awesome. Right, So, so you got the new album as coming out set for February. Tell us more about the album besides to me in transmission, what else we would like to know to look out for.

13:17 So the next single, it's actually called Mindless Embryonic and it was filmed by a friend of ours. We're gonna drop that in February as well. It's pretty much don't expect the same sound that you heard on Simeon. It's a totally different vibe. And I would say that's pretty much the whole theme of the record. Every song is like its own kind of in its own lane, like from track to track, and there's kind of we've added. Probably the thing we've done with this album is we've actually added like kind of like little interlews that lead into two different songs, so it's kind of like one kind of almost story.

13:57 Nice. Yeah, so we have that. There's an intro song that's gonna lead into Simeon and then uh, and then it goes into two mindless, and then I guess it's gonna be like it's gonna be a musical journey man. We've got like instrumental songs with a saxophone solo. I got probably like like the next song mindless, it's like a combination of me and my brother were saying, it's like a combination of Mega Death and and the Mars Volta. Wow. Wow, Yeah, that's definitely that's a journey right there. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely got its dynamics and peaks and it's gonna be crazy. And then we close it out with like this almost like a We closed the album out with a like a it's like almost instrumental, has like very minimal vocals. It's almost like a kind of trip hop New York style, Like uh, I don't describe it like it's funky, but it's got a vibe. So it's just it's gonna be weird. It's gonna be a journey dude, That's all I can say. It's one sad and.

15:01 See I dig that too, Like okay, So why this is why people skip tracks nowadays? Because a lot of bands, metal bands especially, like they plug in like this algebraic equation formula and it's like every song is the same song on the album. And yeah, I don't need to listen to the same song on the album every time. I want difference. And you know, we all have different parts of our mood and personality too, So like I will vibe like that. I'll be driving down the road, I'll listen to Slayer and then I'll turk on Dirty Heads right after Slayer, and then and then I'll go from Dirty Heads to like Possessed and then back to like Grateful Dead, Like.

15:50 Yeah, oh no, I'm the same. Well, like I start with like something super heavy and then I'm doing something funky and it's going, it goes all over the place. So like, we have so many influences and we want to include them all in our music. I mean, we feel we haven't even tapped into everything we could do, honestly, Like I feel like we're just getting started, honestly on where we could take it. So, like I said, don't expect one sound. There's so many different sounds and styles on this new stuff. For sure, I love it. Tell everybody how they can connect to you guys on the web, on socials, check out SIME and Transmission, pre save or or whatever they have to do for the new album coming in February. Merch the whole deal.

16:37 Okay, yeah, if you want to just look us up, we're everywhere, you know, all the social media Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. Just at don Ella Drive. We have our band camp as well that has music that's not even on Spotify. Seeing kind of like exclusive stuff, some live stuff, some stuff before we when we had a different singer, like is on band camp and we now have a big cartel that you can check out. We have some shirts for sale, stickers, flags, hats, and that's just at Donella Drive. You go. If you go to our Instagram or Facebook, go to our link tree. You can see it in our bio. You know everything at Dona Drive.

17:18 Nice. Any final words you want to leave our listeners with that we haven't covered already. Oh now, just please check us out, check out our music, stream it anywhere you stream your music. We're there. And to be on the lookout for the new music video coming out. It'll come out in February. Mindless and brianc'sn Me be the next. Single nice Well. Thanks a lot for making us some great music at San Antonio. As many, like I said, I'm digging the music scene there, so I'm glad you're part of it. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe man Adi. I appreciate you. Thank you man, Thank you for having me. You got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventure of Patement on w force u I Radio. Mm hmm