Rishikesh Hirway

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I just felt like people would really appreciate hearing the individual pieces as well.

I sort of thought of it like when you get to try the individual ingredients that go into your favorite dish, and then you start to understand what you're actually eating.

Like here's the cooked meal.

Here's the cooked final thing.

But that little hint of this thing, that's ginger.

And here's what ginger tastes like on its own.

So you get a sense for both what went into it and how it transformed to become the thing that you're experiencing.

Yeah, well, I have been playing in bands since high school.

I was playing drums in bands.

And by the end of school, I started to learn guitar and started to try writing songs of my own.

And then when I got to college, I really wanted to find that again.

Then I did.

I found some bandmates, and we made our first album.

And I started touring, and one of the guys in the band was a year ahead.

So when we were seniors, he was gone.

And so I started just playing shows on my own, just playing under my own name, and then changed to the name The 1AM Radio.

And I did that.

That was sort of my moniker for the next 12 years.

The 1AM Radio kind of felt like it fell into a ditch or I drove it into a ditch or something.