STADIUM DR. | Bar Songs & Stories from Eagles Hideout in Fort Dodge

Stadium Dr.(Drive) consist of the best friend duo Alex Trevino and Jefferson Fossbender! They both are of Fort Dodge, Iowa and attended  St. Edmonds High School. Alex is a master of all things music, he is an incredible guitar player, he produces, and mixes many work from other local talent, tours with a handful of bands and in my mind a pivotal piece to The Fort Dodge scene. Jefferson is also a gifted artist, writer, and master of his craft. That combined with their entertaining stage presence which has been noted before as even partially a comic act it is no wonder these 2 are life long best friends. Their work under Stadium Dr. is just one piece of what I imagine to be a forever collaboration between the pair. 

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

A new episode of Bar Songs and Stories being brought to you and helped by Crave Tattoo, located in Fort Dodge. You can find their details, artists, lists, and past work on their Facebook page at Crave Tattoo. Nate and I travel to one of our favorite hangouts. It's Eagles Hideout in Fort Dodge, where we feature longtime best friends Stadium Drive. I think everybody has had one point with their best friend saying, dude, we should start a band. And Jefferson Fossfender and Alex Trevino came through with that promise and they have delivered big. These two work so well together, producing a sound that is mixed with folk, rock, psychedelic, new wave mixtures, and a whole bunch of other fantastic things put into a bowling pot of what I think makes everything good about Iowa music. So uh let's talk about Stadium Drive. You guys are good friends, have known each other for quite a while, I assume.

SPEAKER_07 0:53

Long time. How long do we go back, Jeff? Through like preschool? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

Easily, yeah. Easily the the elementary or pre-elementary days. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Yeah. And you guys are gals and as opposed to Dodgers. Is that a rivalry that you guys really care about? No. Yeah. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:12

You don't see a Dodger on in the street and you're like, I actually grew up playing in a band with a bunch of Dodgers, so I you know, I've been friends with Dodger kids since I was a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Yeah, and it's funny, I grew up in Colville, so it's like, you know, the the it's like ten minutes away, right? But it's like I'm out of town, and so most of my friends out there um in the summers, like before I could drive, were all folks from senior high. So I was like, yeah, but the that's not been the like a hard, hard and fast line. But yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

And by the way, this scene is so crazy. I know you guys play in a variety of bands, Alex yourself, and you produce so many, which it's so incredible. You bounce between so many different genres, and uh you guys really do a great job, and I know you guys are definitely a trademark in the community for music.

SPEAKER_07 1:55

Thank you. Yeah, no, it's fun. I'd feel lucky to be involved with so much. Uh I love the variety too. I uh I would get bored just doing one thing. I'd be very kind of ADD when it especially musically, so it's I need to have my hand in a lot of different projects.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

What are the different uh artists that you produce and the genres that uh people may hear you in?

SPEAKER_07 2:14

Yeah, so I've uh out of my studio, Jared Benson, uh country artist, has has done his record and is working on a new EP with me. Um I've worked uh I play bass in a band called Brutal Republic. Uh we're about to put out another album. Uh that was all recorded at my place. That's more on like the I don't know, what would you say, like kind of like rock and roll side of things. Um that's really fun. That's been a really great project. Um but then I play in a variety of other bands from you know Brazilian jazz to I mean Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears type stuff to, you know, um I've recently hard rock bands and stuff like that, but yeah, not as recently, I mean, but yeah, it's there's a wide variety of things for sure.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

You just get all over the place.

SPEAKER_07 3:00

Yeah, I love it. You know, I like I said, I've got AD musical ADD, so I gotta I gotta do a little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

So you guys have been friends for a long time, but Stadium Drive, I think, is somewhat recent, at least recording your original music, is that right?

SPEAKER_03 3:12

Yeah. Yeah. It started out as kind of a recording project, honestly. I uh I was in a band with Alex, um, actually the band that brought me back to Iowa uh after living in Chicago, and and yeah, it was kind of one of those things where I think I had been working on a few songs and he had been working on some songs.

SPEAKER_07 3:31

We shouldn't gloss over this. It's a funny story how you kind of came back and joined this country band because Jeff had a nice cushy job in Chicago. He was living his life, you know. Um and uh he came back, I think it was Christmas or New Year's one year.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Mm-hmm It was like New Year's of 2020. 2020 like covet like COVID, depending on where you were. Yeah, the whole thing.

SPEAKER_07 3:53

Yeah. But uh we he came over one night and uh another artist I worked with, Tank Anthony, was over and we were just singing, playing songs, having a good time. And Tank and him kind of hit it off. They they were harmonizing just like kind of beautifully right off the gate. Jeff was you know, didn't know half these songs. Um but uh it was like Jeff, you're kind of a natural, you want to come do this gig with us in two days? And he did. And I think we all had so much fun. I think it was two weeks later I called and was like, Hey, we kind of want you to come back and join this band. Like if you are sick of Chicago, you know, everything was shut down anyways with COVID. Yeah. So it's like you couldn't even enjoy the city. I think the timing couldn't have been better.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Yeah, the timing and um Alex says cushy job, but like I was basically breaking even, like uh breaking even even in Chicago was pretty nice. Yeah, cost of living was a little bit different than it is here, and but yeah, no, and and so I I'm a very like pragmatic person, and so I had started like kind of crunching the numbers and I was like, holy cow, you can be an you can be a musician in Iowa, and like it actually kind of makes sense. And and and at the time, again, we were we were doing um you know, just with the projects we were part of, uh it it really did make sense. So yeah, in in the the spring or like the s the winter of 2021, we did a couple shows and it was awesome. I ended up moving back in like May of the 21. So yeah, almost almost five years.

SPEAKER_07 5:19

And then it was probably about a year into that project that we that project kind of wasn't putting out any original music at the time, and so we were we kind of we both have always written music and we're like, eh, let's we're friends, let's let's get something else rolling, you know. We had some spare time.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Yeah, it helped that you had already had some concepts of some things you had already been kind of putting together. Uh again, with all of Alex's influences, there might be songs that he puts out on his own or songs that he pitches to Tank or to Brutal or um, but there was kind of this like bank of songs that you were like, I don't really know what to do with these. And um and similarly I had some songs too, and it just so happened that those songs kind of had the same energy and the same vibe. And um so it started out as a project where we were going we didn't really even intend to play live. We just were gonna start recording and um and then yeah, it was it was Ronlee King one day who came up to me. It was actually the jam night. Yeah, uh yeah, so uh um the hideout or excuse me, we're in the hideout, the ballroom above us, uh they used to have Sunday afternoon jams. Yeah, and I ran into Ronley and he goes, he goes, Hey, uh I talked to Ron at Riverhops um before it changed hands, and he's like, You're playing a solo show there. And and I'm like, I'm like, no, I'm like I'm not. I I don't I don't play solo shows. Yeah. And Ron's like, Ronley was like, Yeah, you're doing it. And uh Ron Grebner walks in, he's like, Yeah, we got you on the books. And I was like, so they kind of like push me over the edge. And so from then on, I was like, well, maybe this does become a like a live thing too. And so yeah, just kind of built as we were writing songs and recording, we kind of started to get into the live music scene.

SPEAKER_07 7:05

And I was gonna say it hopes we have a lot of shared musical background. You know, we both grew up on classic rock and all that stuff, so immediately for the live shows, there was uh kind of a repertoire there that we could kind of pull on real quickly. It's not like we had to go and like workshop three or four hours of material. We kind of just like, hey, we know a good amount of songs, but I think we can just start doing gigs and it worked out.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Yeah, it kind of furthers the point being like music is just another language, I think, and the way you were able to ease right back into it, especially into the Fort Dodge music scene, which is huge. I think it's one of the best in Iowa in the Midwest, right?

SPEAKER_07 7:42

To your point, it's one of the best, and I think that makes it all the easier to kind of get your hands into like everyone's so welcoming, so accommodating, so helpful. Um, yeah, I mean, once we kind of decided this was gonna be a thing that we were actually gonna gig on, um, we we've not ever been short of opportunities to get out and do it. So yeah, thanks to the Fort Dodge scene, they keep us busy.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

We're gonna get to your guys' first song today, Teacher's Pet, is what we're gonna get started with. Sweet. And I know it's uh one of the songs, one of the singles on the record you're uh working on right now and releasing, as of this recording anyway. We'll talk more about that upcoming record once we come back, but let's get to the first song.

SPEAKER_05 8:39

Learn how to use those boys like a step to step. Teaching the class like a spot on one that's in the crew, that you kids have breaking just not again that has a QBS that has a QB. What is never told that you get by not yet? She's got no map to go back to, she's got no middle thing. She can't make love with the lights on, she can't make sense of the game. What is it not to get? Well, I'm a teacher's pay, and as a kill me, that can kill me, that hasn't kill me, and that's the kill me, that kill me, that's kill me, kill me, kill me.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Coming out of Teacher's Pet with Stadium Drive on Bar Songs and Stories right online. You know, I love your guys' artwork. Who designed these? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

Yeah, um, our buddy Isaiah uh painted that this is actually a real painting. Um one of our very first shows together, um, Alex and I, our buddy Isaiah live painted uh this this painting next to us. Um it's a thing he still does pretty regularly, but I think after he was done, I was like, I'm not walking out of here without this painting. And the fact that he the fact that he did it out of show made it a pretty easy choice to make shows, too.

SPEAKER_07 12:50

I think yeah, it has to be in the first like three or four shows we did.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Yeah, so I so that's a real painting that exists. Uh and then the um our our our other good buddy Austin Hansen, he um he does all of the like the digital design, so he's the one that actually took the photo of the painting, kind of plugged it in. Um on the back of the record, you'll see like a bunch of of uh graphic design things that he all he did, he was on the ones and twos. I'm like, I can't do the technical stuff.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

No, you guys got great artwork, and uh I know with every single you release leading up to this upcoming record, you've had a new painting. I think all of them have been from Theo. From Crave.

SPEAKER_07 13:30

The most recent one that is not out yet is gonna be a new artist. Okay. My friend Brady uh did a really cool little I don't even know what you would call the style of painting. Um it's just it's sweet. You you just have to look at it. It's it's really cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

So I'd also like to bring up this is your guys' first record.

SPEAKER_07 13:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

I want to know some of the differences between record one and record two because I've heard some of the singles on the upcoming record, and I know there's gonna be some different sounds.

SPEAKER_07 13:57

Oh, big time. Yeah. Uh the second record is gonna be way more electric, uh, kind of in every regard. I think really with the first record, and the the idea behind this project initially was to I think keep things about as simple as we could. You know, we were just trying to write nice simple little pulp music, not we weren't trying to break any, you know, break any new ground, really. Um but uh this this next album, we're definitely leaning into all of the uh kind of tools we have at our at our use.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

You were talking about your ADAD ADD and music.

SPEAKER_07 14:29

Yeah, I think that probably drives to it's like I just want to keep adding more guitars and more keyboards. Honestly, that's why I think this the inception of this project was so good for me because it was like, hey, no, we're gonna just keep it real simple. And I like I like having kind of some limits that way. But we definitely have removed some of those limits for this next record. You're gonna hear a lot more instruments, a lot more dirty sounds. Um yeah, it's just gonna be very different.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

And what are s who are some of the uh artists that you've used, maybe from around the area, maybe not so from so close to the area on the upcoming record.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

Yeah. Yeah, we had um our really good friend Claudia is gonna make another appearance on this. Um she's on one of the tracks on the first record, and so she's coming back.

SPEAKER_07 15:14

It'll be in the next single, Haley Mayor. It's one you'll hear later. Um you know. Yeah, we'll hear that in a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

Yeah. And then um and then actually our third single that came out uh just about a month ago is uh we brought in all of Alex mentioned Brutal Republic earlier, so that's Jeremy Ober, Gail Perry, and Alex. And so that that one's where we really cranked the dial quite a bit. And so we we knew we wanted to have a much bigger sound, and so we called the guys that we knew could answer the call.

SPEAKER_07 15:46

So And not to mention uh cold smothers on drums throughout this record, we kind of managed all the drums on the first record ourselves. You know, again, we were keeping it simple. We Jeff was a actually a pretty handy drummer, believe it or not. I even played drums as a kid, so between the two of us, we figured we could do it, and we we did for the first record. We didn't it wasn't rocket science, but I the drum beats on this next record are already just so much more involved. You know, it's not like I'm not I don't mean in like a choppy way either. They're just uh they're a little um atypical, but in a very catchy, cool way, I think.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:23

Yeah, I think it'll be enjoyable for most people.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Well awesome. And one thing I'd like to point out is you guys are Stadium Drive, but it's DR period online. Because some Stadium Drive band already from wherever again, what state? Some rivals. Yeah, who knows? Come on, man.

SPEAKER_07 16:40

I think they're from Georgia or something. Yeah, or Kentucky. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Not cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:45

So yeah, we're we're we just yeah, we fake doctors now. We're stadium doctors, technically.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

Someone actually someone messaged me on Facebook the other day, and they were like, I uh I was playing your stuff on Shuffle, and the car, you know how sometimes a car like says what song's coming up, like XYZ song from the band name, and it was like uh make a scene by Stadium Doctor. Gang it AI has failed us again. If you ask for Stadium Drive and we're not coming up, just ask Alexa for Stadium Doctor. Yeah, Stadium Doctor will be right there.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Wow, find them online. I know you guys are really active on Instagram, social media, and streaming services.

SPEAKER_07 17:22

With all this guy, I I stay away from all that stuff as best as I can.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

It's fun, like we love to we obviously don't take ourselves too seriously. I think you'll get that from this thing. Yeah, we'll tell you my shorts. Yeah. But like what's funny is we um even people will make comments like, yeah, you guys are just like even the photos we post or like whatever, it's like oh you guys like are actually those guys. It's just like, yeah, I mean we're just we're just hanging out. Like, how could you not have fun? Or so yeah, Instagram's kind of a fun medium where we can kind of show off what we're up to and um just a lot of cat photos too.

SPEAKER_07 17:59

Yeah, mostly my cats, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

That's cool too.

SPEAKER_07 18:02

Yeah, they're executive producers on every record.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Have you recorded any purse?

SPEAKER_07 18:08

I've definitely captured candid meows. Yeah. Not many of them make the cut, but there have you a song, I can't remember, I think it was a Rural Republic song we were working on. And I would I could swear I heard a cat meow and I I could never find it. But I was like, every like I wouldn't hear it every time I'd listen to the song, but every now and then I was like, I swear I just heard a cat meow. And it I could never find it in one of the isolated tracks, but I s I'm I'm pretty sure that one of the cats is on that track.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

And what are your cats' names?

SPEAKER_07 18:38

Pablo and Gustavo, after the Escobars. Oh I was watching a lot of narcos when I got them. Cool. Yeah, yeah. Why not? Cats need to be named after devious people. They're devious creatures. They're devious creatures, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Yeah, there you go. And uh, we're gonna be playing Haley May, I think, next. We've been talking about it. Uh what else do we need to know about the sound before you guys play it for us?

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Yeah, no, this kind of goes back to our our folk roots. Uh, you mentioned that the new record's gonna have a lot of very new sounds. I think this one is one of the first ones that kind of gets back to just heavy acoustics.

SPEAKER_07 19:11

It's a r I I was just gonna say it's like very like acoustic folk driven song, but uh I think it's also a great example of how we start adding a lot more colors than we had before.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

So let's go back to the first Haley May, Stadium Drive.

SPEAKER_05 19:46

Yeah, I've been judged more by Christians and by girls who judge a Christian by the moon. Yeah, the moon changes only it's just a fame as a goody hoodie moon. My favorite hoodie lives in Tampa. That goes name, she claimed I never knew She said that's don't hurt her down. All she's had to do is a pastor and a two Oh Haley May Just doing what you told O'Haley May. We have a lot of kitty by my top of my mama, love my Haley May. She's a walk in red flag in mixed bag, in motion of martial art. I'ma happy at I'm giving back an undivided heart I'm not sure I'll find an answer. I'll do it even too far. I'm gonna have to play the glass, I read the book of Matthew, but I miss the mark. Oh Hailey May watch a total Hailey May We had a lot to get him by my top of my love, my Hailey May.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

You guys still working on that next record name title?

SPEAKER_07 22:38

I think we decided. Oh yeah, the last time we've got to be a little bit more. You guys want to share it to you or no? No, no, no. You don't have to. You don't have to. It's okay. No, it's fine. It's uh it's it's it's Where the Rain All Goes, which is a song I wrote. Um I thought I think if you once you see the album cover, I think it's especially fitting. I think that was, at least for me, kind of what the straw because we were between a couple things. The straw that broke the camel's back is it's it's a very similar concept as the artwork for our first record, but it's a lot darker in tone. It looks kind of like post or pre-storm to me. Okay. And I thought, you know, I had a song Where the Rain All Goes, entitled Where the Rain All Goes, and I thought it I think that works pretty nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Something I love that you guys also do Stadium Drive Podcast, where you break down each of the singles. You've done a great job with that. I've loved watching those.

SPEAKER_07 23:23

Yeah, those are fun. We actually did every track on the first record. Uh and we've thought we're we're tossing around the idea of doing it again. So we'll see, you know. Yeah, it's been fun. This time, if we do it, I think we want to get to it a little quicker because uh we we recorded it so after the fact of the recording of the record that uh I think there's just some details were missed in retrospect. We kind of were like listening to that, it's like, oh man, we forgot to talk about this or that. I think uh having it be a little more immediate would be better for us this time around. So we might if we're gonna do it, we're gonna do it soon.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

I love how passionate you guys are about music and your craft. Do you guys uh have any other artists that you just absolutely love that you draw inspiration from?

SPEAKER_07 24:07

Don't get me started, Jeff. You want to take this one?

SPEAKER_03 24:10

Yeah, no, it's it's definitely a pretty big, big spectrum, but I mean I I always point to like Tom Petty, Eagles, Steve Miller, like that's kind of the stuff that I grew up on, and I think all the stuff that I wrote has kind of uh a bit of those threads. Um yeah, no, it's it's funny, because then there's even like like you have like Bonivare and like fleet boxes where there's like just like these big um kind of like choral sounding vocal accompaniments, and so there's some stuff where we we'd kind of get after it on harmonies and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_07 24:48

Yes. Um I think they they're kind of an inspiration to at least kind of the some of the lighter side of the things that we do. Um but yeah, yeah, don't get me started on this because I'll I'll talk about a bunch of stuff I don't want to hear.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

So I know we're talking about inspirations, but I'm curious about your guys' writing. Is it hard to write for two singers? Have you guys wrote a song that maybe was intended for another to sing or back and forth?

SPEAKER_07 25:12

Well, that's a great question because um on the first record, one of the songs that wound up on it was a tune I wrote called Pale Moon, and I was it was a tune I personally kind of was I enjoyed it, but it it didn't feel like it had enough weight when it was just me. Um but yeah, the concept of introducing a sec a second voice and all of a sudden having it be this song that kind of was almost like two sides of a coin where you're having like uh uh uh you're talking about the same experience but from two different perspectives. Uh it for me that like justified the song. So it was like it wasn't something that I intended, but it wound up being kind of a happy accident. And then that had that has happened again on the this next record. There's a song I wrote where Jeff sings the whole first half of it and then I come in on the back end. And then um Decades, which you'll hear uh eventually, um is one that I had written a lot of the music for, and then Jeff kind of like gave it some lyrics and brought a new life to it. And it's yeah, so no, I would say it's not hard. It's been very natural actually, and that's probably a side a byproduct of us being just good friends and having a lot of you know mutual respect and trust.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

I think because it could be hard. Like you Yeah, I there are a lot of projects where you have to like lead two four or like two front men where they both contribute and it almost sounds like two completely different bands every time it goes from one to the other. But I think we're just lucky in the sense that I think our our energies are so matched that it it it seamlessly kind of blends together.

SPEAKER_07 26:47

And I would also say we're like-minded enough and we're coming at it with uh I think a shared enough common cause. I write a lot of different weird stuff too that would not be appropriate for this project at all. Um so it's like having some self-censorship and like knowing what is gonna contribute to the project and what's not, you know, not just like trying to insert yourself at every moment and just having some um bigger picture, you know, wherewithal, like just not getting overbearing. You know, I think a lot of frontmen, like you said, like they kind of want it to be all about them, and I think neither of us are that way. We're just trying to make the best possible thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

That's what I wanted to dive more into, because so you guys are really good friends. Yeah. Great bandmates, make music, play live together. Uh do you guys have time to hang out, and do you find that to be a priority to get away from music, or do you think like do you guys have a certain mindset like, okay, we need to just hang out instead of just be focused on music today?

SPEAKER_03 27:45

I I would be lying if if I said there weren't days that felt like kind of work. Like like the um Alex always describes this perfectly where it's like there's the fun part where you know you you get to or it it always starts with the not fun part where it's like okay, you're starting with a blank audio file and you just gotta do the first guitar part or you just you know boring acoustic part that's just gonna be the basis of everything else. And and yeah, that can be almost like, hey, let's you know, we we always set it aside a time every week to just be like we gotta get in, even if it's just for a couple hours, like this isn't gonna make us.

SPEAKER_07 28:30

Do one thing. Yeah, if it's just one thing.

SPEAKER_03 28:33

But uh, and I'll let Alex talk about like but we I feel like every time we get together, we always set aside a time to be like, hey, before we like dive in, yeah, you know, to just kind of center, like figure out, you know, I was just gonna say anytime Jeff comes over, usually I've already gotten a few things pulled up and I've kind of gotten the at least the ball rolling in my mind, you know, getting myself in that headspace.

SPEAKER_07 28:56

But anytime as soon as Jeff shows up, for at least 20 to 30 minutes, we're gonna just gonna talk, you know, and catch up. Because like oftentimes I haven't seen him for a week or longer, you know. He's a busy man, I'm a busy man. Uh so sometimes we're catching up. It's like, how's your week been? You know, it's just like I think it's so important to it do that, do that first before you actually start working. Because it's just like, all right, we're recentered, we're on the same page. It's like within 20 minutes or 30 minutes of talking, I can tell, you know, if you're in a good mood, bad mood, or what. And then it's like that helps gauge what work might be done that night, you know. Um and yeah, you know, it's like we're busy. Like to your point, it's like we do have to kind of like actively make some time to like just hey, we're friends first, like let's chat and just catch up before we get to grinding, you know.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Which is also kind of fun when we have our like three show weekends where we actually travel because you know, at that point we're like away from home, we're you know, all our stuff's jammed into a car, yeah, and it's like the show starts at six. We wake up at the hotel and we're like, we got from now until like 5 p.m. to just chill, and so we hit up breweries and easy, I think. Yeah, easy.

SPEAKER_07 30:08

I was just joking about this to uh uh Riley um last night. I was like, there are days or there's sometimes the drive backs are hilarious because you know Jeff and I are best friends because we can sit in a car on a Sunday hungover is all hell, and we won't talk for like three hours. Like we'll be in this car for so long, and mate, like the m-the like the most conversation will be like, uh, traffic's kind of busy. And Jeff might go, Yeah, and that's the cop like that's all we'll say to each other for three hours. Like, so there's a there's a definitely you know a spectrum of just being friends where it's like, yes, we do fun things together, but we're also we're such good friends we can have that those times where we don't have to say anything and we can both just be in misery together.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

You're like, hey, uh if we can uh pull off at the next stop, I kinda gotta pee. After like an hour of silence. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

I think everybody needs a friend like that. I definitely when you describe that. I have a friend that came to mind right away where I'm like, I have a friend that I you know I can play video games with or whatever and be in the same party or Discord with. Yeah. And we don't have to chat for like three hours. Nope. Don't have to say a word to each other. Yeah, but it's not like weird, it's just comfortable, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 31:21

Also, you guys drink the same beer, so I think that also shows like this is mostly out of solidarity for our uh friends across the street at Riverhops. Candid candid promo. You're gonna owe me for this later, guys. I'm sending you an invoice, thousands of dollars of marketing right here.

SPEAKER_03 31:39

It is funny because you know, you you joke about it, but again, I I mentioned you know, let's say we're in Wisconsin and our show doesn't start till seven and we have all day to kill. It is kind of nice that we have a similar entry.

SPEAKER_07 31:53

Like, oh dude, we talk football so much. Like one of the last times we were in Wisconsin, we went up to a Madison Wisconsin Badgers game. And uh we just like killed the afternoon at a football game because we didn't have to be anywhere until the next day. And uh yeah, those it's those dumb pro moments.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

You know, sometimes when you're with someone who you're like you're like, hey, do you just want to hang out today? And the other person, you know, the other person's not like, oh, I wish I would have done, I wish we could have done this instead. It's like, yeah, let's just hang out at a brewery and figure it out. Maybe we'll get hungry, maybe we'll go somewhere for food, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:25

We that just reminds me of that pizza place in Mason City we walked into. I won't name it. I won't name names, but wow, it was one of the worst experiences at a restaurant I've ever had. You just kept handing us pizzas, being like, Is this your pizza?

SPEAKER_04 32:40

Did you order this? It was almost like a magic trick that was going wrong. Like, is this your card? Like by the four times, like we didn't, we we already got our food. Let's order this pizza.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Last question before we get to the next song. So we we've gone over, you guys are good friends. So, and we know you guys work so well, sing so well with music. I'm curious to know, do you guys think you'd be good pairing up doing anything else? Like you think you could be co-crocheters together or something?

SPEAKER_07 33:08

And I just I so I was going, I was cleaning out my basement the other day, and I forgot I won this at a gig we did about a year ago, but we have an escape room thing and aims that we need to do together. Okay, it's like I it's like a free coupon for an escape room. So I'm I think Jeff and I would be really good at solving an escape room together.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Also, I think we would I weirdly think we would run like a really good diner together. Oh, definitely or a pizza shop or something like that. Yeah, like a diner or pizza, like if you and I like had like had the reins to just like have like the best breakfast.

SPEAKER_07 33:40

Yeah, we would have that place popping. That would be cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Okay, well maybe stay tuned for a possible pizza adventure. That's great. Hey, let's uh get to uh Sydney. How about?

SPEAKER_06 33:53

Sounds good, Sydney. Did you leave the party last night? Feeling far apart from the scene? Did you even think to look up at the starry sky so serene? So tell me, did you leave your body outside? To tell it to somebody but me. Did you float up to the heavens? So that everybody could see real light comes for it now, but parting me making me weep. Could it be that they don't see you with the same intensity? Sweet Sydney, you make me see extra, extraspect Sydney Sydney. Did you even notice that I spotted you amongst the stars? Soaring through the sky like a comet, comet to crash right into my heart Or are you out an orbit circle and some less your body bigger than me? Maybe I'll meant to see you only every other century radio like comes for an output planting me making me real Could it be that they don't see you with the same intensity? You make me say extra extras back, truly extra extras back truly extra extras back truly black on what didn't we make it be? Could it be that they don't stay with the same intensity? Extra extraspectrally red, blue, green, no not me. Extra extrospectrally, extra extrospectrally, extra extrospectrally, we got one song to go before we go.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

Yeah, yeah. But before we go, I think we should uh plug uh everything you guys are working on. So a new record coming out, we already know about that. Yeah. But doctor. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:04

Yeah, I think Instagram will come up as stadium.drive.music, like all spelled out. Okay. But yeah, Stadium DR period. Um that's kind of the the distinguishing factor.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

We'll link it below. Yep. Now before you go, we do have another song to be played. And as of this recording, by the time this is out, I would imagine that's probably out. It's unreleased.

SPEAKER_07 38:25

Yeah, new song.

SPEAKER_03 38:26

Yeah, decades is uh one of the B sides. Like we we wanted uh for this project, and y'all have done such an awesome job, but like thank you. We wanted to do something that was kind of uh off of the off of the A side, not something that everyone gets to like you know, you put out the singles, they're kind of more of the poppy, kind of the upbeat stuff. And yeah, um, this is one of my favorite songs we've ever done.

SPEAKER_07 38:50

I think it's one of the most different songs we've definitely lending, like it's definitely borrowing more ideas from like R and B and Soul as opposed to the traditional like folk, you know, rock elements that we we bring to the table. So and it's the first like truly 50-50 co-write, basically, where I kind of came to Jeff with uh a chord progression that I didn't know what to do with and he made it a song. So kind of one of those cool things too.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

Well, let's go ahead and hear it before we go. Alright. Thanks for having us, dude. Always a pleasure. Thank you guys. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 39:40

Made up of memories she can't erase. She prays to the guy that built the garden, sweet red wine in the sound of rain. Plays his guitar to a barful, puts his convictions on display. Sees that left down full of memories, sweet red wine and saving grace. How did this decade get away? Heartbreak's an act that's hard to follow. She just turned thirty end a day. Stands in the front door to tomorrow to watch her stand up to the space. Someday he'll show her all the sorrow, and she'll decide that she can't stay. Worn down to a skipping stone, he leaves without a trace. When her months are all she's ever known. Ten years in the bitter cold, he can see it on her face. Memories flutter around her hand. Time's not for keeps, it's ours to borrow. Time's not a debt you can repay. In time's an act, it's hard to follow. Fill it with memories you can erase.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

And that'll wrap up another round of bar songs and stories. We'd like to thank both Crave Tattoo for sponsoring this episode as well as the Eagles Hideout Lounge, your home of Third Thursday Jam Night in Fort Dodge for hosting us in Stadium Drive today. And of course, thank you to Stadium Drive. You can find their music by going online and searching social media at Stadium Drive. Drive, just like the sign, is DR period. For ways to support Bar Songs and Stories and to possibly jump on board and become a sponsor to help fuel our mission. You can send us an email at barsongsandstories at gmail.com or message us through Facebook.