Jacoby Shaddix

Um, we got this song called wake up calling.

It's about to drop in a couple of days.

Um, and this one is like, I'd say it's like somewhere in between like

Scars Papa Roach and Leave a Light on Papa Roach and so we started the song on an acoustic guitar built it from there and then built it into this really emotive rock track and then did the uh the acoustic jam we just stripped it back down to the purest form I uh

As I get older and the more we write, I love that experience of just stripping the track down and just starting from the, you know, just the nuts and bolts of acoustic guitar and a vocal.

And if you could build it from there, I feel like there's something special.

I wish I could play guitar too, man.

I'm terrible.

I'm like, I got dicks for fingers.

Yeah, so my father, Richard Kent Shaddix, he was a Vietnam veteran.

He grew, he was like, I think, the ninth child in his family.

And he was just...

dealt with a pretty raw set of cards he was drafted to vietnam went to vietnam fought a war he didn't believe in uh just trauma on trauma on trauma and uh my mom you know she's like just a sweet girl born in michigan came out to california fell in love with this wild hippie and uh

when my dad came back from Nam, he was wanting to be a recluse, you know?

So he was like, I'm gonna go live in the high country.

My parents, you know, were really poor, but I think in the seventies, it was like,

Being poor was, you know, it's not such a big thing when you're like living that hippie lifestyle.

You know, they were living in a van, you know, it's like I've lived in some very interesting places as a child.

First, I mean, the first year was in a van.

Next one was in somebody's screened in laundry porch, you know.