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Joining us right now on ninety four to five KTB
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able to Pit and the zero Hour Squared Metal Zone
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from Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the hottest acts, multifaceted
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and a dynamic bunch man, really cool band. I'm very
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happy to introduce to you Chris Walls. She is the
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guitar player for Prism Bitch and they've got a really
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cool show Sunday, July twenty sixth down over at Hotels As.
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If you haven't been there, you got to go check
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these summer shows out before summer's done. They have these parties,
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pull parties basically, and some bands play, and this Sunday's
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edition is really cool. It's Prism Bitch with Sweet Nothing,
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our good old friends there, uh, Simo and the Lovers,
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and I believe Deborah i All as well, formerly of
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Romeo Void and now she resides in New Mexico and
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has the band The ratone three. Chris, welcome man. How
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you doing.
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I'm doing good, Thanks for having me on. I'm also
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playing with Prism Bitch and Simo and the Lovers that day.
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Oh cool with those groups? Yeah, okay, who's in Simo
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and the Lovers? Just quickly because I know I've seen them.
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That's Candice Morales Semo and the Lovers is me, Kristin
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Well and James Sturges.
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Okay, very cool. All right, well, well we're not talking
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about Simo. We're talking about Prism Bitch. But you know, yeah,
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we'll definitely talk both bands. I mean, they all kind
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of cross poliny I know that again. So Debora I
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all is on this bill as well, right she is?
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Yeah, we met her last year and has become a friends.
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She lives in Raptone, New Mexico now, and you know,
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she's a major staple of the punk scene in the
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eighties from from San Francisco and Romeo Void is kind
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of one of those trailblazing bands she was in.
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All right, well, let's get into the history about Prison Bitch.
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It's a rundown the history of Prism Bitch and who's
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in the band currently?
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H Yeah, Prison bitche started with me and Laurene Pool.
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We wanted to kind of do like a theater kind
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of we wanted to do like a musical theater thing
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where it was like women in jail playing bars and
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I was kind of like a guard who took them
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out and played and then we eventually dropped the whole
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performance musical performance thing and then just became a band
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and and it was me Lauren, Teresa Escara drummer, and
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then Lilah Pool doing vocals and also keyboards. But now
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we're just a trio. It's just me, Lauren and Teresa,
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and we've released three EPs and a full length album
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and we're currently writing another, I think, full length album.
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So okay, So that's where you get the name in it.
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So it's good. It's a play on prison bitch obviously,
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but it's prism bitch. Why did you guys decide? Was
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it easier to get gigs and stuff without having prison
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in there? Or was it just something?
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Yeah? Yeah, I think once the concept kind of changed,
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it was easier to uh, it was easier to go
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by that name, and it wasn't so confusing, right.
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I think it's a great name. And I love I
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love a lot of your logos and cool stickers, and
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you guys have been hitting it hard. You tour quite
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a bit, You've recorded in Los Angeles. You're kind of
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making waves in and around different scenes. And what's cool
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about you guys is you can you don't you don't
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get lumped in with one thing. You your influences and
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the genres that you cross over are everything from you know, punk.
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You know, it's like like like Talking Heads and and
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maybe Delta five if you recall that band, kind of
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L seven maybe a little bit and and sometimes like
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even kind of Taylor Swift and in Vogue. I mean
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that sounds crazy, but it's a crazy, loud, uh very
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melodic mishmash of music. What is it in your way
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that you describe what Prison Bitch does.
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Yeah, that that you kind of described a lot of
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the bands that that have influenced us or that we
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we get compared to a lot. In fact, we're just
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learning an L seven cover right now and uh ri
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ip the basis. But yeah, we're we're we we you know,
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me and Lauren and t Teresa, we all come from
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we all have so many musical influences and so we're
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trying to smash them all in as much as we can.
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And I think at first we thought we were kind
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of like a punk band or maybe well I don't know,
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we've never really We're one genre from the beginning, and
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we've kind of explored all over the place and kind
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of whatever tickles us at the moment is kind of
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what we're into, and so it's all over the place.
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That's awesome. Yeah, you guys again encompass a lot of
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different types of genres and music, but ultimately it's a
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heavy package and it's a fun one that you deliver live.
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You guys are amazing and I'm really looking forward to
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this show coming up Sunday. Let's get into this show specifically,
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and then let's talk about some of your live performances.
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And you also have another one coming up that will
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bring up here shortly, but talk about them one Sunday
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with Deborah I Ale, Sweet Nothing and Simo and the Lovers.
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Yeah, it's going to be at the Hotel's Zazz which
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is on Central kind of in the knob Hill area,
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and it is a pool party. It starts five pm
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and Ben start playing at six and go to nine
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and the pool chance and yeah, like you said, it's
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Prison Bitch, Sweetness. You know, the bolver Il will be
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doing some songs with Sweet Nothing had up and Prison Bitch.
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And I think there's like a burlesque dancer, a go
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go dancer was by the name of Ruby Champagne and
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she will also be there so you can totally bring
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your trunks and or your swimsuits and have a good time.
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There's going to be drinks. I think the door is
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only like ten bucks.
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Yeah, doors are ten bucks according to what I saw.
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get there early so you can start having some fun.
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sunny because of you know, the afternoon. Then it'll cool
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off and you guys will still be jamming up until
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what I'm saying about ten something like that.
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I can meet them at nine.
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But the pool aop very cool, so live shows. Man Again,
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I think this comes from a large part of your
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performance artists and for a lot of people that don't
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know obviously Lauren. Lauren Poole's background is she's an actress
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and very famous for some roles here in Albuquerque, Mexico
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and things of that nature. And I noticed that in
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all of your videos over the different incarnations of you guys,
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that you have some fascinatingly very cool fun videos there.
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They all have stories, and they all got some tremendous
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acting and is primarily by you guys, and you have
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fun with it. Tell us about that aspect of this band.
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Yeah, me and Lauren were actually true before we were
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ever in a band, and so most of the theater
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acting design I went to school, Lauren went to school
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for acting. Uh So that was very much in our
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blood to begin with. We're we're very much into performance
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arts and kind of the theatrics of rock and roll,
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and so we try to we try we try to
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show that off in our videos, in our in our
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live show, and.
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We talked about the extensive turning. You guys have done
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a lot quite a bit, and I think that's kind
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of really helped me find your sound and have really
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honed in on something. What kind of reactions do you
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get in Where have you been in the United States
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as far as Torny, We've.
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Been all around. We've been to the East coast, the Midwest,
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to the West coast. We've been to Canada, We've we've
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probably touched most of the of the forty eight connected states,
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uh at least once. Nice and they love us just
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as much in the Pacific Northwest as they do here
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in aw Buquerque.
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Now, you mentioned you had some EPs, you also have
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what one or two full lengths and several singles. I
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was listening to pretty much your entire catalog today and
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it was it was great. Man, that's some really really
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killer material, very fun stuff. Tell us about what you've
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got right now and how people can get a hold
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of it.
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Yeah, So we're we have several epis, a full length,
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some singles that we've released in the last two years,
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and that's all on streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music. You
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can buy them on dan Camp. Yeah, and then we
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have some songs and the works that were were we're
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about to record and and we're writing. We're I think
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we're writing a new album basically.
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Did you say you were going to do a collaboration
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with Deborah All?
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Yeah, on Sunday we're doing some songs with her.
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Oh cool, Okay, So nothing recorded though, it's just going.
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To be stuff live, yeah, live stuff.
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Yeah. Now, I know you did something a couple of
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years ago that was very cool, the Music for Everyone,
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Volume two, which is a compilation in support of the ACLU.
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Some of the artists on there besides yourself, I mean,
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there's several, but some names that people might remember or recognize, Sparta,
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taking Back Sunday, Reblematic, really cool. Ben I saw those
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guys for one of the festivals Roman did. And then
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of course you guys and it's on Born Losers Records,
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and you did a song called Carl. Tell us about
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that song and tell us about that album.
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Carl is a song that we wrote it. It was
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actually like a kickstarter kind of perk that you got
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if you donated enough money when we were trying to
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make an album and go out on the road and
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our friend Carl needed a bunch of money, and so
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we wrote this song about him. But it's it's become
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this song about being on the road and kind of
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about some of the times that it's sometimes a little
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hairy on the road and might get a little scary,
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and so it's it's one of our most like hardcore
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punk songs, I would say. And and then the the
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album was we we met taking Back Sunday on the Road.
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They came, they strangely came to one of our shows
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in Florida, and then we developed kind of a little
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bit of a relationship with them, and they asked us
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to be on this compilation for that raised money for
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the A C.
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And so we were we were so down.
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And can you still can you still get this.
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You can still get it. Yeah, it feels uh, you
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can buy it and or stream it.
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weird or you know, one of those kind of harrowing times. Yeah. Uh.
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in the Pacific Northwest. So we were we were going
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from like Idaho or was it Spokane into like the
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west coast, like Portland or Seattle, and you have to
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go over these mountains, and as we were going over
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the mountains, it started snowing, and and then as it
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as it was snowing, the brakes kind of stopped working
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on the on the car or would not respond when
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we pressed on them because it was so slippery. And
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so we come around a curve and there was like
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a semi kind of pulled off the road, and other
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cars pulled off and we had to like stop because
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we're going to run into the car beat in front
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of us. And fortunately we were able to kind of
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beer off the road, uh and kind of like go
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into like kind of a ditch next to the road
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and not hit the car in front of us. But
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we kind of got ourselves stuck. But luckily the semi
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the guy driving the semi truck offered to help us
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get out, and he kind of like backed it, you know,
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backed it up and backed it forward until he rocked
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it out of the ditch and we were able to
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get on our wake.
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And damn man, that's crazy. Able to resume the tour
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after that or was it all kind of damage control afterwards?
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will get into snow or the band will break down.
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but luckily we haven't had any accidents where we've been
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hurt or anything like that. It just like we get
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into bummer weather and something we have to like learn
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how to drive a night. Really well, that's crazy.
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Oh, speaking of ice, I wanted to ask you also
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this kind of jumping around a little bit. But you know,
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since guys have done performing art, art, on stage, theater,
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all of that, you also are a filmographer, You've done production.
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You did a local documentary about the metal or not
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the metal scene, but about the whole music scene of Albuquerque.
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Tell us a little bit about the name of that
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project and where we can find it, check it out.
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of Southwest or the Decline of Western Civilization. And it
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was basically during the pandemic, I got some grand money
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several bands that were kind of emerging out of the
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scene in Albuquerque and kind of the DIY spots and
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venues and go into a little history of kind of
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bands that came before that. We're kind of doing the
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same thing. So it's kind of an homage to to
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all the all the di y punk bands and crazy, weird,
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weird musicians in the scene that make Albuquerque so interesting.
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the Decline of Southwestern Civilization on YouTube.
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Sunday over at Hotels As, you have another show August
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seventh over at Sister Bar with with Two Lips Yourself,
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Prisons Bitch, Prison Bitch, and Tolliver Clark and Thought Daughter
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a fascinating lineup. But tell us a little bit about
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to LA and are still living there. But they're on
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tour and coming through and it's kind of like a
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hometown homecoming for tu Whips and we've known them for
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quite a while and so this will be our first
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sister gig in a while, so we're excited to play this.
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that is the again the passing of Jennifer Finch. You
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mentioned the bass player from L seven, and they had
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a great relationship with New Mexico. They used to come
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out here quite a bit. I remember seeing them at
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the l Ray or at the Golden West and several
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other places. But again, that was influence is being L seven,
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the kind of that glorigurl punk, the just hardcoreness of
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had played with their Vanna and Nirvana was like a
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fan of them, and I was such a Nirvana fan.
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and they were they were kind of a band before
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the riot girl movement, before the grunge movement. They were
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they were like a I think they're from la and
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they were kind of like this kind of undefinable group
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as well. You know, they kind of they play metal,
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but they also are in the grunge category. A lot
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of people from them in that and so and they're
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just like an all female band that that were just
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like really heavy and and they've they've been playing since
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the eighties and you know, we're still going at it
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and up until till recently, and we we often get
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compared to them because of their heaviness and that's that
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there's majority female band. But where now that I've kind
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of discovered them, they're they're kind of like one of
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those bands that I wish I had known about my.
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Whole life.
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Because they were, you know, they were kind of just
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like paving the way for people like us.
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We'll appreciate it. The show is July twenty sixth. This Sunday,
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July twenty sixth with Prism Bitch, Sweet Nothing's and Deborah
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I All at Hotel Zaz starts at five o'clock. It's
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only ten bucks. Then you can catch Prism Bitch again Friday,
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August seventh with Two Lips, Tolliver Clark and the Thought
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Daughters at seven pm over at Sister Bar. We've been
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talking to Chris Walsh, the guitar player for Prism Bitch. Chris,
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thank you very much for joining us. Man really appreciated.
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Is there anything I didn't ask you that you would
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like to convey to the listeners about Prism Bitch.
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Oh, just be on the lookout. We're gonna we're we're
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making some moves, we're gonna be going on tour next year,
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and we're doing some writing. So hopefully we have a
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new album out soon.
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Cool and again, how do we get a hold of
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you socials all that good stuff.
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Yeah, we're on Instagram if you look up Prism Bitch,
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or you can go to our website Prismbitch dot com.
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All right, thank you again very much. Chris Walsh, guitarist
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for Prism Bitch. You have been listening to ninety four
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to five ktbl, the pit and the Zero Hour Squared
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Metal Zone. We're out.
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Joining us right now on ninety four to five KTB
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able to Pit and the zero Hour Squared Metal Zone
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from Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the hottest acts, multifaceted
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and a dynamic bunch man, really cool band. I'm very
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happy to introduce to you Chris Walls. She is the
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guitar player for Prism Bitch and they've got a really
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cool show Sunday, July twenty sixth down over at Hotels As.
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If you haven't been there, you got to go check
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these summer shows out before summer's done. They have these parties,
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pull parties basically, and some bands play, and this Sunday's
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edition is really cool. It's Prism Bitch with Sweet Nothing,
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our good old friends there, uh, Simo and the Lovers,
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and I believe Deborah i All as well, formerly of
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Romeo Void and now she resides in New Mexico and
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has the band The ratone three. Chris, welcome man. How
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you doing.
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I'm doing good, Thanks for having me on. I'm also
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playing with Prism Bitch and Simo and the Lovers that day.
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Oh cool with those groups? Yeah, okay, who's in Simo
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and the Lovers? Just quickly because I know I've seen them.
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That's Candice Morales Semo and the Lovers is me, Kristin
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Okay, very cool. All right, well, well we're not talking
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about Simo. We're talking about Prism Bitch. But you know, yeah,
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we'll definitely talk both bands. I mean, they all kind
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of cross poliny I know that again. So Debora I
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all is on this bill as well, right she is?
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She lives in Raptone, New Mexico now, and you know,
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eighties from from San Francisco and Romeo Void is kind
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of one of those trailblazing bands she was in.
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All right, well, let's get into the history about Prison Bitch.
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It's a rundown the history of Prism Bitch and who's
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H Yeah, Prison bitche started with me and Laurene Pool.
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of we wanted to do like a musical theater thing
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where it was like women in jail playing bars and
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I was kind of like a guard who took them
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out and played and then we eventually dropped the whole
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performance musical performance thing and then just became a band
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and and it was me Lauren, Teresa Escara drummer, and
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then Lilah Pool doing vocals and also keyboards. But now
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we're just a trio. It's just me, Lauren and Teresa,
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and we've released three EPs and a full length album
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and we're currently writing another, I think, full length album.
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So okay, So that's where you get the name in it.
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So it's good. It's a play on prison bitch obviously,
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but it's prism bitch. Why did you guys decide? Was
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it easier to get gigs and stuff without having prison
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in there? Or was it just something?
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it was easier to uh, it was easier to go
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by that name, and it wasn't so confusing, right.
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I think it's a great name. And I love I
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love a lot of your logos and cool stickers, and
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you guys have been hitting it hard. You tour quite
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a bit, You've recorded in Los Angeles. You're kind of
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making waves in and around different scenes. And what's cool
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about you guys is you can you don't you don't
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get lumped in with one thing. You your influences and
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the genres that you cross over are everything from you know, punk.
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maybe Delta five if you recall that band, kind of
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L seven maybe a little bit and and sometimes like
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even kind of Taylor Swift and in Vogue. I mean
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that sounds crazy, but it's a crazy, loud, uh very
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melodic mishmash of music. What is it in your way
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that you describe what Prison Bitch does.
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the bands that that have influenced us or that we
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we get compared to a lot. In fact, we're just
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learning an L seven cover right now and uh ri
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me and Lauren and t Teresa, we all come from
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trying to smash them all in as much as we can.
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of like a punk band or maybe well I don't know,
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of whatever tickles us at the moment is kind of
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what we're into, and so it's all over the place.
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That's awesome. Yeah, you guys again encompass a lot of
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different types of genres and music, but ultimately it's a
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heavy package and it's a fun one that you deliver live.
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this show coming up Sunday. Let's get into this show specifically,
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and then let's talk about some of your live performances.
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bring up here shortly, but talk about them one Sunday
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with Deborah I Ale, Sweet Nothing and Simo and the Lovers.
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and Ben start playing at six and go to nine
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Prison Bitch, Sweetness. You know, the bolver Il will be
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doing some songs with Sweet Nothing had up and Prison Bitch.
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go dancer was by the name of Ruby Champagne and
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she will also be there so you can totally bring
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your trunks and or your swimsuits and have a good time.
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only like ten bucks.
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sunny because of you know, the afternoon. Then it'll cool
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off and you guys will still be jamming up until
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what I'm saying about ten something like that.
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I can meet them at nine.
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performance artists and for a lot of people that don't
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know obviously Lauren. Lauren Poole's background is she's an actress
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and very famous for some roles here in Albuquerque, Mexico
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and things of that nature. And I noticed that in
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all of your videos over the different incarnations of you guys,
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that you have some fascinatingly very cool fun videos there.
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acting and is primarily by you guys, and you have
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fun with it. Tell us about that aspect of this band.
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ever in a band, and so most of the theater
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acting design I went to school, Lauren went to school
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for acting. Uh So that was very much in our
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blood to begin with. We're we're very much into performance
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arts and kind of the theatrics of rock and roll,
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and so we try to we try we try to
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show that off in our videos, in our in our
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live show, and.
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a lot quite a bit, and I think that's kind
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of really helped me find your sound and have really
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honed in on something. What kind of reactions do you
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get in Where have you been in the United States
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as far as Torny, We've.
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to the West coast. We've been to Canada, We've we've
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probably touched most of the of the forty eight connected states,
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uh at least once. Nice and they love us just
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as much in the Pacific Northwest as they do here
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in aw Buquerque.
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what one or two full lengths and several singles. I
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it was it was great. Man, that's some really really
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killer material, very fun stuff. Tell us about what you've
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got right now and how people can get a hold
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of it.
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Yeah, So we're we have several epis, a full length,
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some singles that we've released in the last two years,
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and that's all on streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music. You
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can buy them on dan Camp. Yeah, and then we
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have some songs and the works that were were we're
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about to record and and we're writing. We're I think
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we're writing a new album basically.
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Did you say you were going to do a collaboration
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with Deborah All?
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Yeah, on Sunday we're doing some songs with her.
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Oh cool, Okay, So nothing recorded though, it's just going.
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To be stuff live, yeah, live stuff.
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Yeah. Now, I know you did something a couple of
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years ago that was very cool, the Music for Everyone,
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Volume two, which is a compilation in support of the ACLU.
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Some of the artists on there besides yourself, I mean,
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there's several, but some names that people might remember or recognize, Sparta,
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taking Back Sunday, Reblematic, really cool. Ben I saw those
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guys for one of the festivals Roman did. And then
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of course you guys and it's on Born Losers Records,
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and you did a song called Carl. Tell us about
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that song and tell us about that album.
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Carl is a song that we wrote it. It was
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actually like a kickstarter kind of perk that you got
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if you donated enough money when we were trying to
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make an album and go out on the road and
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our friend Carl needed a bunch of money, and so
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we wrote this song about him. But it's it's become
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this song about being on the road and kind of
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about some of the times that it's sometimes a little
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hairy on the road and might get a little scary,
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and so it's it's one of our most like hardcore
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punk songs, I would say. And and then the the
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album was we we met taking Back Sunday on the Road.
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They came, they strangely came to one of our shows
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in Florida, and then we developed kind of a little
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bit of a relationship with them, and they asked us
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to be on this compilation for that raised money for
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the A C.
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And can you still can you still get this.
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You can still get it. Yeah, it feels uh, you
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can buy it and or stream it.
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weird or you know, one of those kind of harrowing times. Yeah. Uh.
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in the Pacific Northwest. So we were we were going
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from like Idaho or was it Spokane into like the
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west coast, like Portland or Seattle, and you have to
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go over these mountains, and as we were going over
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the mountains, it started snowing, and and then as it
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as it was snowing, the brakes kind of stopped working
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on the on the car or would not respond when
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we pressed on them because it was so slippery. And
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so we come around a curve and there was like
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a semi kind of pulled off the road, and other
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cars pulled off and we had to like stop because
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we're going to run into the car beat in front
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of us. And fortunately we were able to kind of
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beer off the road, uh and kind of like go
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into like kind of a ditch next to the road
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and not hit the car in front of us. But
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we kind of got ourselves stuck. But luckily the semi
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the guy driving the semi truck offered to help us
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get out, and he kind of like backed it, you know,
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backed it up and backed it forward until he rocked
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it out of the ditch and we were able to
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get on our wake.
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after that or was it all kind of damage control afterwards?
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will get into snow or the band will break down.
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hurt or anything like that. It just like we get
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into bummer weather and something we have to like learn
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how to drive a night. Really well, that's crazy.
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Oh, speaking of ice, I wanted to ask you also
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this kind of jumping around a little bit. But you know,
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since guys have done performing art, art, on stage, theater,
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all of that, you also are a filmographer, You've done production.
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You did a local documentary about the metal or not
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the metal scene, but about the whole music scene of Albuquerque.
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Tell us a little bit about the name of that
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project and where we can find it, check it out.
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kind of a play on another documentary called the Decline
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of Southwest or the Decline of Western Civilization. And it
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was basically during the pandemic, I got some grand money
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from the city and was able to kind of follow
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several bands that were kind of emerging out of the
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scene in Albuquerque and kind of the DIY spots and
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venues and go into a little history of kind of
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bands that came before that. We're kind of doing the
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same thing. So it's kind of an homage to to
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all the all the di y punk bands and crazy, weird,
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weird musicians in the scene that make Albuquerque so interesting.
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And you can get it again where it's.
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if you look that up, or you can look up
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the Decline of Southwestern Civilization on YouTube.
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Now, besides the show that you got coming up this
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Sunday over at Hotels As, you have another show August
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seventh over at Sister Bar with with Two Lips Yourself,
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Prisons Bitch, Prison Bitch, and Tolliver Clark and Thought Daughter
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And that's again at Sister bar. I've seen two Lips before.
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Very cool show they put on, and that's a that's
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a fascinating lineup. But tell us a little bit about
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that one as well.
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Yeah, Tulips was originally from Albuquerque and then they moved
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to LA and are still living there. But they're on
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tour and coming through and it's kind of like a
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hometown homecoming for tu Whips and we've known them for
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quite a while and so this will be our first
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sister gig in a while, so we're excited to play this.
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I want to go back to something earlier that we
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talked about, and that was sort of the influences, and
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that is the again the passing of Jennifer Finch. You
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mentioned the bass player from L seven, and they had
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a great relationship with New Mexico. They used to come
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out here quite a bit. I remember seeing them at
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the l Ray or at the Golden West and several
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other places. But again, that was influence is being L seven,
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the kind of that glorigurl punk, the just hardcoreness of
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what they were all of that. Can you speak a
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little bit more to.
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little late, you know, I knew them mainly because they
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had played with their Vanna and Nirvana was like a
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fan of them, and I was such a Nirvana fan.
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But uh, I've learned more and more about them recently,
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and they were they were kind of a band before
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the riot girl movement, before the grunge movement. They were
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they were like a I think they're from la and
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they were kind of like this kind of undefinable group
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as well. You know, they kind of they play metal,
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but they also are in the grunge category. A lot
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of people from them in that and so and they're
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just like an all female band that that were just
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like really heavy and and they've they've been playing since
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the eighties and you know, we're still going at it
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and up until till recently, and we we often get
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compared to them because of their heaviness and that's that
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there's majority female band. But where now that I've kind
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of discovered them, they're they're kind of like one of
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those bands that I wish I had known about my.
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Whole life.
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Because they were, you know, they were kind of just
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like paving the way for people like us.
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We'll appreciate it. The show is July twenty sixth. This Sunday,
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July twenty sixth with Prism Bitch, Sweet Nothing's and Deborah
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I All at Hotel Zaz starts at five o'clock. It's
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only ten bucks. Then you can catch Prism Bitch again Friday,
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August seventh with Two Lips, Tolliver Clark and the Thought
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Daughters at seven pm over at Sister Bar. We've been
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talking to Chris Walsh, the guitar player for Prism Bitch. Chris,
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thank you very much for joining us. Man really appreciated.
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Is there anything I didn't ask you that you would
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like to convey to the listeners about Prism Bitch.
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Oh, just be on the lookout. We're gonna we're we're
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making some moves, we're gonna be going on tour next year,
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and we're doing some writing. So hopefully we have a
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new album out soon.
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Cool and again, how do we get a hold of
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you socials all that good stuff.
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Yeah, we're on Instagram if you look up Prism Bitch,
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or you can go to our website Prismbitch dot com.
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All right, thank you again very much. Chris Walsh, guitarist
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for Prism Bitch. You have been listening to ninety four
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to five ktbl, the pit and the Zero Hour Squared
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Metal Zone. We're out.
