The Bones from Las Vegas

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A Vegas rock band that proudly claims they “don’t give a shit” sounds like a disaster on paper, until you hear how The Bones turn that attitude into tight shows, fearless songwriting, and a surprisingly sustainable way to gig in 2026. We sit down with the band to talk about how they ended up in Las Vegas from all over the map, why they keep their process loose, and how they balance multiple projects without burning out. If you’re a working musician, a DIY artist, or a fan of raw live energy, this conversation hits the real stuff. 

We get into the nuts and bolts of writing original music when everyone comes from different styles, plus the simple filter that saves time: make the song, listen back, then decide if it sucks. They also share plans for new releases, including a possible dip deeper into a country-leaning rock sound, and what it means to follow what audiences actually react to without chasing trends. Along the way, we talk touring reality, dying venues, and why a band might rehearse once right before a show and still bring the house down. 

You’ll also hear our favorite “oh shit” moments from the stage, the truth about pre-show rituals, and honest advice for younger players trying to go from garage to stage without turning music into a joyless job. If you like conversations about rock bands, live music, songwriting, music production, and the future of gigging, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a musician friend, and leave us a review with the one line you’ll remember from this one.

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Transcript

Rob 0:30

Hey, welcome to Franklin's Garage to Stage. My name is Rob Wardrums, and my co-host, my bandmate, my best friend, and this week is his birthday. So happy birthday, man. Thanks. So anyway, my co-host is Dana Thunderbase Franklin. How are you doing, brother?

Dana 0:48

Doing great, great. Hey, you guys, uh, who are we who do we have today, Dan? Well, yeah, we we've got an amazing band from uh from Las Vegas. And you know, and before I introduce you guys, I gotta say, you know, a huge thank you for you know, we've had to delay the show a couple of times because my you know my brother here decided to you know cheat death a couple times. He's in and out of hospital on deathbed, and you know, it's it was uh it was a pretty scary situation, you know. Fucking shit happened. Yeah, shit did happen. You know, but when they're telling me to start filling out paperwork and the you know the priest starts coming in doing last rites and shit, that's that's a little bit too far. Enough of that. So I so I appreciate you guys uh delaying this from us for us. And um, so with us today, we have uh, like I said, band out of Vegas called The Bones. And um, so Patrick, I'll get to you first. Uh Patrick Vit Vitagliano, if I'm saying that right. You know, it sounds like a mob name. Uh, you know, Vegas, the mob, uh, is there some kind of connection there? So go ahead and introduce yourself and uh and then one by one tell us a little bit about yourself and the band, please.

Patrick 1:49

Well, it's Vitalia. She's uh ballot until I was like 17.

Rob 1:54

So speak up a little bit there, fellas.

Patrick 1:57

You almost died, is that right?

Rob 2:00

Yeah, yeah. My my old brother here, the drummer, almost died on me. So my food tube my food tube, the esophagus, it ruptured for some crazy ass reason. But this is this is about you guys, so go ahead.

Patrick 2:16

No, we want to know. What'd you have?

Rob 2:18

My esophagus ruptured. It's like the food tube.

Patrick 2:22

Does your wife punch you in the fucking throat? No, no.

Rob 2:26

Nothing like it was like nobody, the doctors can't even explain why. It just it just fucking ruptured.

Patrick 2:33

And then it's your birthday? How old are you?

Dana 2:35

Um I'm a young young 63. Damn, you're at all.

Patrick 2:46

So what do you want to know?

Meet The Bones From Vegas

Rob 2:47

Tell us about yourself and the band. Just let's let's go from there. And then one at a time, introduce yourselves.

Patrick 2:53

Well, that's Sean Punch. Stay on. Hey everybody.

Rob 2:58

Drummer over here for the bounce. How are you guys doing? Nice, good, good, good, good. So a little bit about your band.

Shon 3:06

It's raging, raging hot here in Las Vegas. Where are you guys?

Dana 3:10

We're in North Carolina. It's a little bit a little bit cooler actually today, but I hear you guys are getting a fucking heat wave going on over there and baking away.

Patrick 3:20

That's what we signed up. This is normal, yeah. We signed up for the I'll take it over North Carolina any day. It's swampy out there.

Dana 3:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So tell us a little bit uh about your band and and how it got how it got started. How did it come to fruition?

Patrick 3:39

Well, we just we just every day we try to be a little less terrible than the day before. That's uh that's really our mission in life. Nobody takes it too seriously. We just have within time and uh make terrible music for terrible people.

Rob 3:53

No, it's great music. We were just checking it out. Yeah, they seem to enjoy it, so you know, something right must be happening.

Patrick 4:01

Okay, there you go. We keep going, we keep doing it. Let's say like jokes. Yeah, it's just a rock office. Yes, there you go. Right, yes.

How The Band Came Together

Dana 4:11

Okay, now being being from Vegas, was that um I mean you've you've guys got you know, obviously international audience, people you know, go to Vegas to party and do all the stuff that they do there. And um, and with you guys being a rock band there, it's I'd imagine that you get a steady flow of uh an audience, you know, automatically. And was now was that um something in the beginning that you decided to be based out of Vegas, or is it or are you do you guys all live there? How did that come about?

Patrick 4:41

It just started out with bad directions and everybody ends up here. Here we have each other. Yeah, we're still trying to figure out how we actually all got to Vegas. I'm from uh I'm from Rhode Island. Yeah, I'm from Boston. Oh wow. We didn't know each other back then. LA.

Rob 5:03

Yeah, okay. Cool. But we don't hold that against them. All right, cool. Individually, can you tell us about your can you tell us about your like started music? I mean, what at what point did you guys like start playing your instrument?

Shon 5:20

Didn't you start like uh mid 40s? Yeah for me I started piano really young, like three years old. Is that it? That's it. That's all I got for you. Yeah, he doesn't play piano in this band, but that's what he chose to tell you for whatever reason. Yes, you think people have his islands. Yeah, this might as well be like 7 a.m. He's uh he's barely here. But you did something, right? Yes, he he was in the black hearts. I don't know, he I he doesn't feel like telling you that, but we'll out it. How about you, man? Uh yeah, uh uh Patrick found me. I was so young, I was actually playing on a schoolyard.

Dana 6:21

And we're saying Patrick, what are you doing around schoolyards?

Shon 6:25

That's yeah, right, because he basically said, Well, if you want some candy, and uh that that was the start of it. Uh I've always been playing drops. I'm I'm in my 50s now, but I've been playing since I was about uh 15. I kind of started late, actually. Yeah, because I was you know really really busy with uh you know motorcycles and go-karts. That's the thing. Yeah, so uh, but uh I've done some pretty decent gigs. I got to uh play at uh I was the music director for Bill Clinton's second inauguration. I got to play with Meatloaf. Oh wow, nice uh in 2000 in 2017. Uh I filled in for Kenny Aronov and sat in with Lita Ford. So I did a game with Lita Ford. Oh, damn. Wasn't that Meatloaf the Entertainer, or did they serve Meatloaf? No, it was the Muffay. Of course it was. Um so uh and and I own a studio, so I just do sessions and uh I own this music store that we're in. So uh, you know, Patrick and I, I forget how we were introduced. We've just uh somebody set us up to failure. Somebody set us up to failure. Yeah, and we just decided to go with it. So, you know, now it's been a while and we've been uh moving and grooving and having some fun. So it's it's a good time. Bumps is always a great show. He makes all of his stuff.

Dana 7:44

Oh nice, nice.

Patrick 7:47

Yeah, see a drummer that makes guitar. Couldn't get me uh weirder. I wanted to build wind instruments, but I'm terrible at blowing. So that's probably a good thing. I can I can attest to that. It's the worst of this.

Rob 8:05

I didn't want to go there, you know.

Patrick 8:07

I keep thinking he's gonna get better, so I think practice makes perfect, right?

Dana 8:15

That's what they say.

Shon 8:18

But it's Vegas. What happens in Vegas? Supposed to stay in Vegas, yeah.

Dana 8:22

Not here. This shit's going out public now.

Shon 8:28

Yeah, that is right. That's right. So you guys play in a band too.

Rob 8:32

Yeah, yeah, we've been playing like like you guys for uh quite a while. This is actually a new project for us.

Shon 8:39

Are you actually actually brothers? Yes, we are. Yeah, yeah.

Dana 8:42

Yeah, so and especially with being bass and drums, it's like you know, we it's we hold down the bottom end. Yeah, and it's you know, it's so tight because we've been playing together for so long, it it's it's pretty sick. We kind of automatically think you know what the other person's gonna do. So how tight are you? Yeah. No, well, no one's blowing anybody over there. Yeah, there's no blowing going on. So, you know, with you guys' uh all the different pedigrees that you guys have with different bands you've played with. And um, you know, I gotta mention there's another guitar player, you know, Jeff Duncan, that's not with you guys today. It's you know, who tours with um Armored Saint, who's another great band. Um running his ice cream stand.

Musical Roots And Past Gigs

Patrick 9:28

You make a fucking filling on ice cream spot out here. It's unbelievable. You guys should get into the ice cream.

Dana 9:36

So when it comes to when it comes to you guys like writing originals, when it comes to you guys writing originals, you know, as a band with all the different styles that you guys have played, how does that, you know, is there any you know conflict between you guys of you know how heavy it wants to be or how soft it wants to be? I mean, what's the what's the process for you guys of writing originals?

Patrick 9:57

You mean like doing fist fight and stuff? Exactly, exactly.

Dana 10:00

Let it all out. We want to hear all the stories.

Patrick 10:03

That's because you would have to really give a shit, you know. And uh we just we just don't give a shit. Like whatever comes out comes out, and that's the song. And uh we do it for us, not for you. Uh if you don't like it, that's great. We don't care. I love that. That's a that's a killer attitude. Yeah, that's a chiller attitude, actually. Yeah, Patrick pretty much locks himself in the room until the music's done, and then he shows up to the rest of the room. And I'll end up like talking about that. There you go. That's it, done. Play this. A hot chip.

Rob 10:43

Oh, it's still a being in a music store. You gotta say say hello to the East Coast over here. Welcome all together. Hey, what's going on?

Dana 10:54

All right, very cool.

Rob 10:56

Add some flavor to the show here. I like it. All right, guys. So, hey, so tell us about your plans for uh 2026. What do you got going on?

Patrick 11:06

Well, we're we're gonna try to not die. That's uh that's nice, nice good goal. Yeah, Sean's planning a band camping trip, which is all right.

Rob 11:17

I can't wait.

Patrick 11:18

Uh we're gonna make two records this year. Uh, do you guys even know that? No, I'm learning I'm hearing about it now. Him and I are writing a new bonus record, and I'm also working on a new country record, which may or may not be a bonus record, but it probably will, because you know, I'm a one-trick pony. Uh, but so there may or may not be anywhere from zero to two full albums by the end of this year. That is the loose plan.

Speaker 3 11:46

Country records?

Speaker 2 11:47

Yeah, you know, I think it's country. That's a launcher, so yeah. You know, let's see no issues with that. We haven't done polka, uh country's new, the last single, actually, which sort of delved into the Bonjo V spectrum of country. My kind of crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's and it's doing fucking great. So we're like, oh, okay, well, people like that. So uh, you know, maybe we'll maybe we'll dip our whole foot in that water. I don't know. We'll see what happens. You gotta go in and you gotta you gotta make a song and then you gotta hear it, and you gotta say, that doesn't suck, or that does suck. And that's that that that's what determines whether you ever hear it or not.

Dana 12:28

All right.

Speaker 2 12:28

If we hate it, yeah, it goes in the fucking toilet.

Dana 12:33

Cool, cool. Now, are are most of your shows in Vegas? Or do you guys actually tour out on the road too, or is it pretty much just Vegas bound?

Speaker 2 12:43

It's mostly Vegas and only because uh We're banned everywhere else. Yeah.

Rob 12:49

We just manned them.

Writing Originals Without Ego

Speaker 2 12:53

Like a real band would would you know care and put time into things like that? But you're in what, nine bands, three or four projects. So the bones when we got when we got together, the thought was what is the least amount of time we could put into something and never rehearse and still you know not suck too badly. So everything, and because because live music, you know, Gene Simmons will tell you it's dead, I won't say it's dead, uh, but uh it's it's definitely dying. The venues are all dying. So you have to be in you have to be in 65 projects here in order to in order to work all the time. Therefore, no one project can get all of your time. So this is this is what we do when four with three out of four guys are at the same town at the same time.

Rob 13:46

All right, makes sense.

Speaker 2 13:47

Yeah, and we stay pretty busy enough. I mean, how many shows did we do? About a show a month last year? Yeah, about about yeah, about a show a month. So this there's always something when the book's coming up, which I usually get the set list for like two dates.

Rob 14:05

Yeah. Well, you said you don't practice, but I mean, realistically, you have to get together and rehearse a little bit, right? And if so, how and where do you do that? I mean, not an address, you know, just like I mean, do you do it online or do you like physically get together?

Speaker 2 14:19

No, we get together. So uh if if it's the regular lineup, depending on the show, uh, if there's not if there's no new ground to cover either, if you haven't seen each other for a month, you know, we may or may not run that set. But Jeff is busy halfway here. So Stony Curtis builds in uh for Jeff when he's down the road. Uh so if if we're if we're playing with somebody new, we'll get together and run the set one time, like a night or two before that show. Uh, because everybody's focused on what they got coming up this weekend, you know. So uh if if if if somebody's in three or four different projects, they're learning other music for this weekend, you don't bog that shit down with uh with our stuff if we're three weeks out. You wait till we talk and then you focus on it.

Dana 15:36

Now with uh with with all that that's got to go on with you guys all getting together. Do you have a manager that puts that together? Or is it just you guys talking back and forth like hey, I'll be available this time, I'll be available then? I mean, how how do you how do you how do you do that?

Speaker 2 15:50

That's all. Just uh, hey, who's available, man? Okay, it's just it's uh it's just a text thread, and it doesn't happen until we go.

Dana 15:59

Yeah, cool.

Speaker 2 16:01

Um pre-show. I think it's I think it's funny that like all your questions are are based on you know, four guys in a room, hopefully we make it, man. You know, it's well no no the exact opposite of you know sunset strip in the fucking 80s.

Speaker 3 16:19

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 16:23

He's got a punk band. I I played with them a couple of weeks ago, and I had you know charts in front of me on the floor. Like going on the fly, that's it. But that's what makes it raw and fun. We don't we don't know what's gonna happen. And it it fits with our mantra of don't work too hard. Yes, just go out with energy and play and rock it. And and the audiences seem to like it. You know, we do real well here in town. I mean, it's kind of a revolving door, but of the same people, you know, the fans that come in and know the band. And uh, you know, we're we're still trying to sell the records to like the same 11 people. So the joke, I mean, have you heard the records?

Dana 17:00

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been listening to a lot of your stuff, watching the videos, and definitely a lot of lot of raw energy going into those shows. We love it.

Speaker 2 17:08

Also, the the joke within the joke is as nonchalant as we get into here, and it really is, but it actually doesn't suck, which is pretty cool. It's terrible. We wouldn't we wouldn't do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, I feel like I feel like we put the least amount of energy into something, and it's actually pretty good most of the time, and that's why we do it.

Dana 17:31

Nice, nice. You know, we we always ask a lot of other bands, you know, if if they still get like nervous before they go on stage and shit like that. But I'm assuming you guys don't because just with that overall attitude you have, it's like, you know shit, whatever happens, happens.

Speaker 2 17:44

We get we get we get more nervous off stage.

Dana 17:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:51

Like you're making us very nervous.

Rob 17:53

Oh shit. Come on. Well, speaking of which, we have a moment that's called, oh shit. It's basically something that's happened on stage or you know, during recording that you know, called called, you know, just shit. Do you have those moments individually or as a band?

Speaker 2 18:12

I'm sure, I'm sure everybody has their own individual story. Uh I'll tell you one that happened a couple of weeks ago, and I only found out about it because uh I watched a playback later on. So I sort of get people down, like most people in their auditors don't want to hear little you and little you and you know get a whole mix. I I'm not that guy. I only want to hear me. I only want to know that I'm nailing my part, and I just sort of take it on faith that everybody else is nailing their part. And most of the time they are. So I see you go into a zone. So apparently, I had my eyes closed for half the set last time on my show. He, I saw this later, I didn't even know that you were doing it. He went out into the audience and he got velvet rope stance dance, and he stanced he stanched off the stage, so I couldn't get near him. And he got bored of it after three or four songs. He moved him around, he set up you know blockades. I never fucking noticed it. So and you were just sort of in your own world. But yeah, there's that you find out later because you don't pay attention to what these assholes are doing. Yes. Yeah, I I kind of hope you're not paying attention to what I'm doing. Which is clothing optional in uh Montego Bay, uh Jamaica. And I was talking with some people last night at dinner, and they go, it must be weird seeing everybody naked. I gotta, I gotta, I'll tell you something. When you see a man naked playing tennis, it'll never be the same.

Rob 19:48

Oh damn. No, no. No, yeah, I don't want to see that shit.

Speaker 2 19:55

So make a make a note of that.

Dana 20:01

Well, the whole premise of our show, um, you know, called Franklin's Garage is a stage, you know, we like to hear from people on how they, you know, how they actually got from their garage to, you know, say the level that you guys are at on stage, you know, all the time. And you know, big names. So how did that for each each one of you individually, how did that at what moment did you know that, you know, what not only is this what I want to do for a career, but the a moment where you knew it's like, okay, shit, I'm getting out of the garage and this is going to turn into something. When when did that moment come for you guys?

Plans For 2026 And New Records

Speaker 2 20:34

So when when when you start playing an instrument in you know in junior high school, and somebody wants to suck your dick for it, you're like, I want to do it. I think I speak for everybody. That's why we got it. I don't know if that's why you played piano at three years old, but that's eventually why you continue. I still feel like everyone in the boats is still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. So uh that's that's my feeling. Um the only thing I've had that that happened really weird, uh you get all the normal stuff that happens, like you break a drum head in the first song, or you bring extra sticks. You broke a stick, right? You know, that stuff. But I actually play a little guitar too with my punk grant band, and in very little guitar. I play a little, I play little beating this day. So you played it, you almost almost wear it around your neck, like flavorful. You did say little guitar, so I was I was playing in uh New Hampshire with my punk band, and I tried to do one of those Jack Blackman slides, you know. I was like, I'm gonna do it. The stage was really slippery, you can't do it. It was like vinyl tiles, and I said, This is the perfect stage, I'm gonna try it. And literally, I think it was like third song. I I did it, and I went way too far, and I bowled over most of the drunk. Just like bam! It was like on the same level as the stage, and literally just like took out they take it on most of the stands. Like there was a stool on a stand drawn left one full by so yeah, they they have to take. I think we lost a full song while they reset. Well, you literally took it out. I literally took it out, yeah. Literally took it out.

Rob 22:20

Well, speaking of kits, uh, what kind of kit do you play?

Speaker 2 22:25

Um I play DWs right now. Nice, yeah.

Rob 22:28

All right, yeah. I have turtles, so it's like right the right turn.

Speaker 2 22:32

That's pretty much what I use for the fronts, except that wherever we go, they have drums. So I have to I'm forced to play usually whatever's there unless I'm bringing a kit. A lot of the little venues in town here will have, you know, they'll back line it, which is it's actually good. You know, just as far as the fronts go. It's less good, but it's less work. Yes. Yeah, it's less good. Yeah.

Rob 22:52

Yeah, but playing somebody else's kit would suck.

Speaker 2 22:54

Oh yeah, it's generally something like you know, that uh club owner hit he bought for his. Yeah. Yes, yeah, exactly. It's like my first Muppet.

Speaker 3 23:05

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 23:06

Like first act or something like that. Yes. Yeah. Very, very good. But uh yeah, the gigs are are fun as long as people keep coming, I guess we'll keep playing. Yeah, I guess one of us dies. I'm gonna know what's happening to you. Exactly, exactly.

Rob 23:28

Actually, good shape. Good shape being a drummer, you know. I thought I'd be I'd be cool, but yeah, shit happens. So, like Dana said, we are called, you know, garage to stage. So and we have a like a lot of young and just beginning musicians. What would be individually, what would be your advice and how to get to the level where you're at now?

Speaker 2 23:50

Well, don't don't try. Well, I'm not sure. That's a good idea. What I mean is the people that take it too seriously uh are the people that get very frustrated and always want, you know, that next thing. But it's like uh, oh you know, the guy who the guy who was alone all of his life until he stopped looking and all of a sudden at the girl at the speech. Uh what's what's that old what's that old uh adage? If you if you love what you're doing in networking, yeah. So yeah, so like if if we were if we were trying to get famous, it would be laughable. We do this because we'd like to do it. And I think that might I think that comes out either way that people respond to and all of a sudden it works. It seems more natural. I mean, if I was giving a young musician uh advice today who was just starting out and said, I want to be a professional musician, I would say go to medical school. Exactly. But if you keep pressed on, then I would say, uh, listen, you know, you don't need to see the end of the river. Just start paddling. Yeah, you have to just do it. I gotta start. I I can't wake up. Well welcome to the party then. People don't want to hear this, but uh, I think it's in your blood or it's not.

Dana 25:20

Yeah, fucking email you right now.

Touring Reality And Rehearsal Strategy

Speaker 2 25:23

It's in your blood, or you can push push attitude. What's the list that they say you can't push your rope? Can't push your rope. But you can add yourself as David Cardy. Yes, auto erotic asphyxiation. Is that what you call that?

Rob 25:44

Oh damn.

Speaker 2 25:46

Yeah, yeah. I guess you gotta do it first because you love it, and having some natural talent helps, but you know, you can't stop. If you love it, you just do it because you love it, right? It's just sort of like making a painting. You don't have to be a Picasso, but if you enjoy painting, you're gonna paint, you know. So I enjoy making music, you know, whatever instrument I can find. So I'm thankful that there's someone in front of me who lets me do it. And if and if you write, if you write songs, you don't sit down. You'll never be good at it if you sit down and say, Today, I'm gonna write it on. I'm going to play it. That shit doesn't work. It doesn't work. I agree. It's if it's if it's in you, it comes out. If you decide you don't want to do it anymore, it's still in you, and you will still do it because it still has to come out.

Dana 26:33

Yeah. I agree 100% with that. I mean, I can't tell you how many times we wrote songs. Just coming into the room and just jamming. It's like, you know, it's the shit comes natural. If you it's like you said, if the if the passion's there, it comes out into you. And it's you know, if you have to it's like I think a lot of what you're saying is, you know, if you have to work at it that much, then you know it becomes a job and it's not it's not a labor of love.

Speaker 3 26:56

It's not natural. It's not natural, yeah.

Speaker 2 26:59

No, yeah, even if you didn't want to do it before, it's still in it, it will still work. Yeah, or otherwise. Yes, yeah, or collapsed esophagus.

Rob 27:16

We have we've come all the way back. I know. What's happening here?

Dana 27:23

So with uh with before the shows, do you guys have any pre-ritual party things you do or after show rituals? Let's hear some stories. I mean, only things that we can actually really talk about and not get you know bleaked out during the broadcast.

Speaker 2 27:43

So I so we don't pay a lot of attention to each other, but uh I've sort of noticed offhand that you are uh a helpless alcoholic and a degenerate gambler.

Rob 27:53

So you know everybody everybody's got a voice or he's always looking at me.

Speaker 2 28:00

You know, if we go a little long, you know, I got gambling. If there's a if there's a video program, he's gotta go. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. We don't really talk until we get on state. I think we don't talk either. We just put we're fairly friends.

Speaker 3 28:14

Yeah.

Rob 28:15

That was my next question, actually. Actually, a lot of bands. That's uh you know, a common scenario.

Speaker 3 28:21

Yeah, they don't even know where I live.

Speaker 2 28:26

So that's by design. We keep trying to find his house. That is by design as a sound. So no, nothing really before stage. We kind of get there and we need to kind of you know set up and do our thing. Uh you know, I just assume that Shomas will load by the time he gets on stage. Uh on him to test the waters, but uh I I do love a couple of three james before that's your ritual? Yes. I've ordered it like a can I get like uh you know a like a like a salad bowl of cake? Do you want do you want a double? No, like a like a mop bottle. I'm the only one like drinking ginger ale. See the shit we learn when we hang out for the first time in ten years. I forget the what?

Rob 29:27

Oh what? We're gonna hear about this.

Speaker 2 29:30

We we asked no one watching if she had yeah, to smoke cocaine. Usually, usually a hot latina. They've got connections. Yes, they've got connections. Where are you from? Colombia?

Speaker 3 29:46

No.

Dana 29:50

Let's get you on camera.

Speaker 2 29:54

I was trying to tie her to a cartel in the studio. Puerto Rican. Puerto Rican. You know, it's one of the photos.

Dana 30:06

So have you guys ever had issues with with the drugs or alcohol while playing? Like on stage. Is there any better any any problems where somebody's just uh gone off the deep end?

Speaker 2 30:17

Well, so we go I haven't done drugs since uh 1996. Well, 30 years. They still make them, you know. They don't make them the same. They don't make them the same. I've never I've never done drugs. I've never even smoked weed, never even, never done anything. Just uh why why are you looking at drugs? Like moving out of the brand. I mean, I gotta be honest, I'm just kind of disgusted with these fans that are all all sober and shit. Yeah, you gotta gotta you gotta get on the level with your audience. It's irritating, isn't it? It's irritating fucking amateurs. I know I know a singer here in town. He he's trying, he tells you I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life.

Rob 31:01

Oh, liar.

Speaker 2 31:02

Liar believe me, he he's he's it's through. Oh, you can tell. Wow, even Jesus.

Rob 31:11

Well, I guess kudos to him, you know, whatever.

Speaker 2 31:14

So should we out in? Who's that? Because I want to know if you put an unprend on Facebook. I don't think so. But it's it's sick. Sick.

Rob 31:22

So fellas, so fellas, you set up some killer swag, some album CDs and shirts, which Dana's gonna show you here.

Dana 31:29

Well, I mean, I can't you guys are like, oh, we got we got shirts with the killer logo. I love that. It's sick. Then we got you know, we got some we've got some fucking albums. We all appreciate appreciate all that. The CDs, I mean tons. So nice listeners, go ahead and tell them, Rob.

Rob 31:50

Okay, so our loyal listeners, if you respond to when this uh episode is is published, if you're the first first through fifth response, we will send you some swag. And we really appreciate you guys. And amazing ladies showed up the same day as this pod. So that was that's good. Good to you. Appreciate it. So in closing, in closing, for new musicians, what would be your what would be your like uh advice to didn't you already fucking ask that? Wait a minute, wait a second. This one's a serious question. Dina, what do you got in closing?

Nerves And Onstage Oh Shit Stories

Speaker 2 32:31

Uh you know, I think the music thing's run its course, it's over. Yeah, sorry, DJ. We're the we're the last of a dying creed. You, us, and then after we die, it's all over. It's all it's all technology's gonna take over now, man. Do it! That's that's my that's my advice. Do it because you're in, do it because you're wrong.

Rob 32:49

Just get going, just get out there and do it. And sadly, you're I mean, you're right, sadly, because kids are all exposed to like hip-hop and rap and shit. I mean, that's all they hear all day. So unfortunately, that's I think you're actually spot on.

Dana 33:02

Like I said, live live menus. I mean, they're shit, they're they're closing all over the place, and it's it's it's tough to even well don't go to don't go to school for it.

Speaker 2 33:10

Just fucking uh younger musicians coming up. I think that uh the mindset's pretty much uh for kids today that music is made on the computer. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much it. We didn't even go down that road, but uh that's a terrible thing. Uh if you're if if if you're having AI make your songs, kill yourself.

Rob 33:33

Yeah, just in fact, if I hear somebody say they played to a drum machine, I just want to punch them in the face.

Speaker 2 33:40

Except if you're from I I I was gonna I started a bad advice. Uh I'll be with you in a second. I started with bad advice on my stage, and that was my advice to everybody. Please. And they kicked me off. Did Tom kick you off too? I don't know if it was off. No, just do it. Sorry. Oh, I got you.

Dana 34:06

We got you. All right, guys, we appreciate we appreciate having you. Appreciate having you on. Oh, there we are. There we are. Appreciate having you on the show. It's been a pleasure. We're like Rob said, we're gonna get this swag out to you guys. Uh the episode will come out, and this is no joke, fucking April 1st. April 1st. Yes, April Fool's Day. We're planning on scheduling the show out. So April Fool's Day. Yeah, so listeners out there, you know, hit us up and we'll send shit to you. Nice.

Speaker 2 34:33

I want I want some swag too.

Dana 34:35

Well, you're next to them.

Speaker 2 34:40

Um, so how many listeners do you have? Because we've we've got three or four. You guys have that.

Rob 34:44

Uh we're up to a hundred thousand right now, so we're we're doing pretty good. 32 countries and 230 something cities.

Speaker 3 34:52

Yeah, translate this into another language.

Speaker 2 34:55

So uh we we only speak this language, though. How many how many different languages do you do you broadcast to? Uh we always do one.

Rob 35:03

Yeah, just one.

Dana 35:04

But if they don't know our language, then they're screwed.

Rob 35:06

They gotta translate it themselves.

Speaker 2 35:13

We're all speaking back the way that would be awesome. We're like one of those for the deaf people on the side. Yeah, no.

Dana 35:19

Appreciate, appreciate you guys. Appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 35:23

He's trying to get off, but we're just gonna keep talking.

Dana 35:25

Remember, remember. Oh, yeah, we got this magic stop button. We can stop you anytime.

Speaker 2 35:29

So that's Garrett Lawrence translating for the deaf.

Speaker 3 35:34

Translating for the deaf!

Dana 35:38

Once again, that's the bones from Vegas, and we appreciate you guys' time and um look forward to hearing more stuff from you. Appreciate it, guys.

Rob 35:47

Hey Dana, that was an interesting conversation with the band The Bones from Las Vegas. Uh, we've got some killer swag from these guys, but first we want to thank you for being a listener, number one, but we could use your support. So if you could click on the support the show link, we'd really appreciate it. As low as $3, you can do it one time or monthly. I mean, however you want to do it. And also, please feel free to leave comments, whether it's positive, negative. We you know, we want any kind of response from you guys. Hey, thank you. And Dana's gonna close out.

Dana 36:22

All right, yeah, that was uh that was an interesting show. Um, colorful characters. I love their energy and their their attitude about the hoaxing. Um, but like Rob said, we got all kinds of swag to give away. We got CDs, we got albums, we got shirts. Um, not only from the Bones, but we got some from other bands that we've talked to, and we've got more coming in from other bands. So hit us up, and you can do that with you know any of the platforms that you get on, whatever you listen to your podcast on, whether it be Apple, Spotify, you know, what whatever venue you get onto. Um, just click on it and there'll be something that comes up that says you know, text us or or hit us up. Um that'll be April 1st. You know, this show will come out April 1st, and we will take the first, like Rob said, five to ten people, leave us a comment, anything, and you are getting some swag. Uh thank you everybody for continued support and peace out. Thanks. Bye.