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The
Everything is Awesome tour
2015 made it’s way to
Red Rocks Ampitheater in
Morrison, Colorado this past Saturday
August 1st. The tour features
Slightly Stoopid, the
Dirty Heads, and
Stick Figure.
Yolo Rum brought the
VIP party, while
Larry Ulibarri and
Producer Wign’z were there to represent Yolo Rum Studios and the Larry Ulibarri
Uncensored Podcast to interview
Miles Doughty from Slightly Stoopid.
Larry Ulibarri: "Everything is Awesome" tour, what's up with the name? Who named it and what does that stand for?
Miles Doughty: Well honestly the way it all kind of came together. The fans have really been asking for us and Dirty Heads to tour together for like a decade. Like they've just been saying "
Hey, why don't you guys?" ya know, vice-versa, their fans, our fans, "Tour together." And the pieces all fell into place, and you know, obviously we were kind of bitin' off that
Lego vibe of "Everything is Awesome", that movie that came out. And we thought it was kind of funny, ya know, a lot of us have kids now, so it was a funny thing to do.
Producer Wign'z: Now one of the pictures that you guys had was a Lego guy watching your show, and all the Lego performers on there, and like, it was awesome.
Miles:
Yeah, it was pretty cool, I mean obviously there's so much you can do with it as far as artistically, and just the vibe of the whole tour, it felt like that title really kind of
... "
Everything IS
Awesome", you know what I mean? Everything's going good, we got a new
album that just dropped on June 30th called "
Meanwhile... Back at the Lab".
Wign'z:
It's a great album by the way, even that intro and that intro to start it off...
Miles: Dabbington...
Larry:
Super cool!
Miles: We've actually been opening up our tour like that just because it kind of gives you that feel of the record. And like I said, and with the record coming out at the same time, and all this other stuff going on, the tour, you know "Everything is Awesome" really kind of is a fitting title.
Wign'z: You own your own record label though, right? It's all you guys, like from the drawings, like you said, you know, even the Lego images, that's all you guys right?
Miles: Yeah, we've had
Stoopid Records since
2000 so we've always just put out our own music, you know, whenever we can, and we've had that, luckily, we've had that availability to do it, and the resources behind it and everything so it's been great.
Larry: A lot of artists, especially new artists, get stuck in like really long contracts that they never get out of so that's kind of cool that you guys run your own stuff.
Miles: Yeah, I mean we don't really... we're not even a band that
... you don't see us doing a lot of video kind of things and weird like media stuff... We're not... We don't... that's never really been this band, you know, we've always been a band just, you know, we're some beach kids from
Ocean Beach that, you know, we make the music that we like to make for ourselves and for our fans, and you know, we've never really have exploited ourselves on that media level of just, like...
Larry: Commercialism?
Miles: Yeah, commercialism, and even just the... you know, we do posts on Instagram and stuff of like cool pictures, but we don't sit there and do videos of ourselves just talking to everyone. It's just not something... to me, that's like, fake, and not really...
Wign'z: It's not what you're about, you're about the music!
Miles: Yeah. For us we've never been that kind of band, so it's cool that we just let the music speak for itself and just that vibe that we bring from
Southern California.
Larry: One thing I like about you guys is that you really let your fans get in touch with you guys, I know you have a thing where you go in to
Mexico, and people can just buy in and hang with you guys...
Wign'z:
Closer to the Sun...
Miles: Closer to the Sun, yeah, it's at the
Sapphire Resort down there in
Puerto Morelos. It's amazing. We did it last year, and we're going to do it again this year in December, and it's honestly... I wasn't sure what to expect from it, because
I've been on cruise ships where you're just kind of like "ohhh, I'm stuck, ya know". And it's one of those things when you're there at the resort, you have the ocean, you can go in to town, you can do all these things, but it's very intimate for the people that came down there. You'll see everybody at the resort, and they only let a thousand people go, total. So it's really cool. And it's a big... And it's not like a small place, it's a gigantic resort. They have like three or four massive pools and you're right on the ocean
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- published: 10 Aug 2015
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