Mastodon's Troy Sanders - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?

hello everybody my name is Troy Sanders I'm here with gone is gone I'm from Mastodon as well you're watching Loudwire you ever do one of these daily I'm doing that right now because I'm with Troy Sanders they love Mastodon and gone is gone and this is a Wikipedia affection so yes scoured through your Wikipedia page Mastodon etc okay pulled out some stuff you can confirm or deny and elaborate if you so choose all right mr. Troy Jason Sanders racing with a local why born in Atlanta Georgia correct that's correct okay they do get that wrong sometimes it says that your major base influences include cliff burton gene simmons and phil lynott from timothy yeah first two influences was when I entered the awkward age of 13 grab our elder brothers bass guitar left-handed little awkward but I flipped it around and basically closed my door for a couple years and tried to learn every Metallica song short and as much kiss as I could possibly learn the kiss was much easier good place to start it was great and gene Simmons scared me and Cliff Burton wowed me so yeah looking back that those two you know the first 30 songs that I ever learned with this and also learning with the ear would be Cliff Burton in jimson and you go fingers though instead of pick fingers interesting because you know Jane Simmons I don't think he does no no he does not know but that's a so the first played bass sin Lizzie came in mama and into my life much later much later than that okay but still a major influence no because I was I was a late bloomer in the world of sin Lizzie and my guitar player Brent Hinds is a huge Thin Lizzy fan and he turned me on as we met in the early 90s okay so an influence to a degree yes but the the but not initially gotcha so as you said you picked up your older brothers bass even though the bass was strung for a lefty a few months later you talked to your dad into buying yourself a bass I did I was a good kid I mowed the grass when I was told I had to do my own laundry which I'm cool with and had to back alright every Saturday before cartoons so the nice balance of strict you know parenting and just to know my duties and also very loose because they embraced us pursuing whatever we kind of naturally would gravitate towards so they're very encouraging on the music front good hand I was a good kid and and my dad said yes you'll take me to the store and got myself a Charvel fostering righty bass I always love hearing the first bass that people yell he's all about very sure mellow and a little practice amp so you know a lovely relationship was born awesome says Brent Hinds lived in his van for five years while a member of your band for our fogger yeah he would live in vans boat sheds over command and abhorrence various at the clocks cars the train station I can picture it and when I befriended Brent he was currently living in Birmingham Alabama and he said he was wanted to move to Atlanta for a bigger music scene yeah and I said well you know this is my address I wrote it down and shortly within days he was there's a knock on the door and he just moved all the stuff into his van perhaps he stole the van I don't know and knocked on my door and we became dear friends and been mates so was he just a harsh outside of your place like 80 or higher dark in an alley part in it that's great I can still picture him actually doing that living in a band yeah his van is now a bit of a nicer house but he probably still treats it like a man saw the contradiction that I see all the time on Wikipedia it says that it was either depending on which page that you believe it was either 1999 or 2000 that you and Brent meant Braun and Bill at a high on fire show in a friend's basement it was wary of mm mm okay the y2k thing did not happen nope so we felt we had a new lease on life and went to a high on fire show as they were in their beginning stages met these two other guys we knew who they were because they're in a band called today yesterday it's great and we said hey guys what are you doing here you're from the Northland they said well we just moved down because we want to start from scratch and we're looking for second guitar player and a bass player so Brent and I just raised our hands and said well I think we could be your guys yeah so we actually formed in our first band practice was January 13th 2000 there you go okay perfect and being inspired by just the ridge of Matt pike yeah beautiful yeah you were like oh my god the gnarliest of riff Lords it says that when Mastodon was formed the band members were all working 40-hour weeks and committed to the band in their spare time yeah I think that's why yeah you know the music was very aggressive and angry you say we really wanted to make a band happen so we were working construction and I was framing the frame shop the other guys were working late night restaurants or all day restaurant we all had just you know the day jobs and so when we would convene for band practice were all fueled up fired up a bit angry and a lot of that came through in those first couple records of course the legendary story that the first time Brent Hinds attended practice at Mastodon he was so wasted that he couldn't play correct that is correct i I've always wanted to ask us about that obviously he couldn't play a saying you guys like sends him home or whatever what made you bring him back we've seen as other this was the other I had been in a band with him for seven years at that moment yeah a different band well the other guys were like really know if they had already seen him around town with his other bands we all got crazy psycho surfer Billy music and his country-western is pickin with the pantyhose on they knew the talent was there but what kind of form this thing's like I got this great idea we're going to go like this morning well you know like so like that's not what we want to do I wanted to be but we know that you've got this vast pool of talent cuz we've seen it so it just took you know 24 hours later to come back and like check this out one of them on the way over pulling on the Randall but of the Randall all the life's blood EP samples at the beginning of we built this come death and battle at sea are believed to be taken from recordings of the Nuremberg trial true that is true yeah all right turtling at the time and we wanted to incorporate some samples is to use a segways and they were dark and disturbing and real all right crack this guy the album follows a quadriplegic who learns astral projection on his journey he flies too close to the Sun burning his umbilical cord which connects them to his body and he flies into oblivion at the same time in Czarist Russia Rasputin is called more channel in spirits and brought the quadriplegic to their time he explains his situation report Elfie assassination arrest unit inevitably Rasputin is assassinated and Rasputin guides him back to his body it's kind of a boring storyline I understand the Jonah Hex soundtrack yes film director Jimmy Hayward contacted the band expressing how much listening to blood Mountain had helped his creative process while finishing the screenplay correct that's true that is very true very cool so when he came to you was he like I need Mastodon or I need something else he came and said that he was writing a writing a script for this movie and listening to Blood Mountain non-stop and he and he was very inspired by that and he invited us to New Orleans to see well some filming was happening and only one or two of the guys went they befriended Jimmy I said this guy's great we should work with him so he flew us to Los Angeles to put music to screen which is something Macedon had never done before yes so basically they show some scenes and I say it's a blank canvas try to match a musical emotion to what you're seeing up there and that was a really cool challenge we've never been apart of anything like that so we appreciate Jimmy Hayward giving us the opportunity and it really blossomed into a great friendship friendship and we're still pretty damn close to the very day the hunter does not deal with an entire concept like earlier works but does have an attachment to the Chinese classical element of wood songs like spectral light and black tongue seemed to have no meaning related to the theme but songs like dry bone valley especially and octopus has no friends are seemingly cut from a concept album I'm not quite sure what that means I don't understand that at all I don't really understand the sentence I just hit like maybe dry bone valine octopus had no friends where what is this is this someone's thought or opinion is desert rate on it it's a written it's written so it must be true it's true right so it's like dry bones valley and octopus are both from a concept album spectra light and black done not from the caste concept Alvin is that signed by the writer I don't see it in tribute this it says dry bone Valley especially and I believe jihad it how do what happened you ever you ever order a coffee and they bring you a beer it's confusing that's what this is is that one off Ian's beer so that's statement so you send back the coffee to get the beer no I'd like I was really one to get coffee no you only having a beer but the door was locked so you don't have anywhere to go you're forced are you thirsty yes do you want to beer instead I suppose so okay just coffee and beer that statement it doesn't make sense at first but it's quenching and okay in the end all right everybody out there go buy the new gone has gone on record echolocation it's out now new Mastodon coming soon Troy Sanders everybody [Music] and running [Music]

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Length: 10min 36sec (636 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2017