see what happens when you post a few
songs on the Internet just a few years
later you’re in a successful band hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with a rocket to the moon I can feel it
breath as she’s sleeping next to me
sharing
cold feet
so we always like to start with the
origin stories of the bands that we
interview so tell us how a rocket to the
moon first got together it started kind
of you know seven or 06 with me just
messing around my computer Conda and
making some kind of electronic sound and
that turned into me playing like by
myself doing acoustic shows and then I
went on tour with Justin’s band Brighton
and I’ve just kind of open for them and
play you know acoustic set and then that
turned into Justin and I writing songs
together and and kind of him just
playing like with me but while he met
this kid in Arizona because he was
playing bass and he was a good friend of
our first manager and so then the three
of us kind of all started playing
together with a friend back in Arizona
on drums and then we didn’t we did a
record a couple years ago after we did a
record we were looking for a drummer and
our producer at the time knew Andrew
from doing his old bands record and and
then the four of us started playing
together from there on out you know and
did we’ve been kind of touring for the
last three and a half years doing it
like this oh I know you know
how he felt
what kind of music did you guys all grow
up listening to I mean who are your
idols and icons let’s say for all of us
we usually say Tom Petty that’s a huge
one that we have in common at least and
then we have a lot of differing tastes
as well I was a little kid all I
listened to his country music until I
was like 10 and then I got into R&B
which I know he’s got a little bit of an
R&B background too i was like really
into boys to men and stuff and then I
got into rage against the machine and
deftones advanced like that and punk
rock from there so I a pretty broad
background yeah I always found that rage
against the machine was the next step
from Boy Smith yeah it’s a natural
evolution I don’t look it’s mostly in
the harmonies I think ya know I started
a just kind of on rap and hip-hop and
his parent Laurie tomorrow out I did
well for my parents it was kind of like
Christian contemporary music or like
Bonnie Raitt and stuff like that I mean
I love that but when I was like younger
I didn’t listen to rock music to apply
the seventh grade and then I covered a
raging sea machine song at a talent show
so it’s where that it was kind of like
transition to I grew up listening to
everything like my dad and my mom would
listen to like the Beatles and all that
and i remember liking the beach boys
like crazy when i was like five you know
and listening to it on family vacations
and stuff and then I grew up to listen
to like you know Slipknot a limp biscuit
and that kind of stuff in like middle
school going through your the rebellious
stage and then into like kind of punk
rock pop punk kind of thing and and now
it’s just a big smorgasbord of
everything really grew up listening to
whatever my parents were listening to
like Fleetwood Mac and pink floyd and
like tears for favors and stuff which
and then I kind of like went into the
rock phase started listening like
blink-182 and punk bands like no effects
and you know a bunch of that kind of
stuff and then kind of just I guess
branch into whatever I thought was good
a lot of indie bands or what
we’re nerds kind of to where I am now
watch your favorite
if I see
inside something different that you did
was a you covered a beyoncé song up in
the club we just broke up I’m to my own
little excuse the logical question is
why Andrea had the idea and it was kind
of a because I know like a lot of bands
cover hip hop songs whatever and they
just like rock it out but we’re like if
you pay attention to like a good song it
can be a good song no matter how it’s
played she’s kind of stripped down
acoustic folky like it’s it’s a good
song and you know it can transfer over
to a different way so once we did it we
got kind of got a clue melody for it was
like this is actually kind of Awesome
it’s fun to keep things interesting and
especially if we’re you know opening for
crowds that don’t really know us you
know people like to hear that sometimes
you can reel them in a little more when
you play a song that they know makes
them feel more comfortable it’s for the
crown we do a little like a little
Eagles and one of the end of one of our
songs and you can tell and there’s kids
in the crowd that don’t know who we are
but once we hit that part of the song
and we break out to a different lyric
they’re like wait why do I know this
part you know so that’s cool yeah they
do they do that song california next
great thanks very much guys thank you
thank you so much
songs on the Internet just a few years
later you’re in a successful band hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with a rocket to the moon I can feel it
breath as she’s sleeping next to me
sharing
cold feet
so we always like to start with the
origin stories of the bands that we
interview so tell us how a rocket to the
moon first got together it started kind
of you know seven or 06 with me just
messing around my computer Conda and
making some kind of electronic sound and
that turned into me playing like by
myself doing acoustic shows and then I
went on tour with Justin’s band Brighton
and I’ve just kind of open for them and
play you know acoustic set and then that
turned into Justin and I writing songs
together and and kind of him just
playing like with me but while he met
this kid in Arizona because he was
playing bass and he was a good friend of
our first manager and so then the three
of us kind of all started playing
together with a friend back in Arizona
on drums and then we didn’t we did a
record a couple years ago after we did a
record we were looking for a drummer and
our producer at the time knew Andrew
from doing his old bands record and and
then the four of us started playing
together from there on out you know and
did we’ve been kind of touring for the
last three and a half years doing it
like this oh I know you know
how he felt
what kind of music did you guys all grow
up listening to I mean who are your
idols and icons let’s say for all of us
we usually say Tom Petty that’s a huge
one that we have in common at least and
then we have a lot of differing tastes
as well I was a little kid all I
listened to his country music until I
was like 10 and then I got into R&B
which I know he’s got a little bit of an
R&B background too i was like really
into boys to men and stuff and then I
got into rage against the machine and
deftones advanced like that and punk
rock from there so I a pretty broad
background yeah I always found that rage
against the machine was the next step
from Boy Smith yeah it’s a natural
evolution I don’t look it’s mostly in
the harmonies I think ya know I started
a just kind of on rap and hip-hop and
his parent Laurie tomorrow out I did
well for my parents it was kind of like
Christian contemporary music or like
Bonnie Raitt and stuff like that I mean
I love that but when I was like younger
I didn’t listen to rock music to apply
the seventh grade and then I covered a
raging sea machine song at a talent show
so it’s where that it was kind of like
transition to I grew up listening to
everything like my dad and my mom would
listen to like the Beatles and all that
and i remember liking the beach boys
like crazy when i was like five you know
and listening to it on family vacations
and stuff and then I grew up to listen
to like you know Slipknot a limp biscuit
and that kind of stuff in like middle
school going through your the rebellious
stage and then into like kind of punk
rock pop punk kind of thing and and now
it’s just a big smorgasbord of
everything really grew up listening to
whatever my parents were listening to
like Fleetwood Mac and pink floyd and
like tears for favors and stuff which
and then I kind of like went into the
rock phase started listening like
blink-182 and punk bands like no effects
and you know a bunch of that kind of
stuff and then kind of just I guess
branch into whatever I thought was good
a lot of indie bands or what
we’re nerds kind of to where I am now
watch your favorite
if I see
inside something different that you did
was a you covered a beyoncé song up in
the club we just broke up I’m to my own
little excuse the logical question is
why Andrea had the idea and it was kind
of a because I know like a lot of bands
cover hip hop songs whatever and they
just like rock it out but we’re like if
you pay attention to like a good song it
can be a good song no matter how it’s
played she’s kind of stripped down
acoustic folky like it’s it’s a good
song and you know it can transfer over
to a different way so once we did it we
got kind of got a clue melody for it was
like this is actually kind of Awesome
it’s fun to keep things interesting and
especially if we’re you know opening for
crowds that don’t really know us you
know people like to hear that sometimes
you can reel them in a little more when
you play a song that they know makes
them feel more comfortable it’s for the
crown we do a little like a little
Eagles and one of the end of one of our
songs and you can tell and there’s kids
in the crowd that don’t know who we are
but once we hit that part of the song
and we break out to a different lyric
they’re like wait why do I know this
part you know so that’s cool yeah they
do they do that song california next
great thanks very much guys thank you
thank you so much
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