This Band Didn’t Die After College and Here’s Why (ft. Bad Guru)
S2:E16

This Band Didn’t Die After College and Here’s Why (ft. Bad Guru)

Tyler:

Some of the few graduated people we have or not college students we have on the show. Do you guys feel like you were like the elderly coming to show?

Ethan:

Yes. Us us children?

Quinn:

Yeah. I was trying to

Ethan:

find this this podcast studio and Sierra and Quinn would not answer their phones. I'm just I'm just like, I hope somebody doesn't come up to me like and just be like, what are you

Tyler:

doing here?

Sierra:

What are you doing, creep?

Ethan:

I'm curious, yeah. I feel like creepy old guy.

Tyler:

Sorry, I think you took a wrong turn at the nursing home. I'm kidding. I'm

Ethan:

joking. No, but for real.

Tyler:

Are you a professor here? Bro, mean, taught my economics class. No, I'm kidding.

Sierra:

We feed off of you guys' energy, so it's fine.

Tyler:

I really don't see you guys, like, I really feel like I could find twenty year old college students who look just like you guys.

Sierra:

Like, yoga is Perfect.

Tyler:

I feel like if you guys told me you were college students, I would believe you.

Ethan:

We're pretty fit, We're you in pretty good shape as a band.

Quinn:

Yeah. We all work out. You guys are very youthful. Thank you. Thanks.

Sierra:

The music keeps us young.

Tyler:

Right, right, right. That's fair. So do you guys interact with a lot of college bands? I'm like kind of curious about that.

Ethan:

I think so, yeah.

Quinn:

That's a good question. We're trying to like, yeah, find more and we love playing in like college towns.

Sierra:

Right.

Tyler:

Right.

Quinn:

So I'd love to hear more about the KSU music scene actually.

Tyler:

Yeah. I will hook you up with people. We'll you guys on board with these people, mentor them, perhaps. Sure. You know, you guys we've had like shoot a couple of names.

Tyler:

You heard of Dogwood? You ever heard

Quinn:

of Dogwood? I've heard of them.

Tyler:

Okay, we've had them on. Dogwood was a lot of fun. You guys might not have heard of Colo because they're I think they're in like West Virginia. Right.

Quinn:

Oh, that's cool.

Tyler:

They came down. That was our first recording here, actually, was they came down from West Virginia. Not for the recording, but they came here and did that as well. Cool. So that was fun.

Tyler:

Yeah. But, anyways, I'll go and introduce. Welcome everybody. This is the Creator Show podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Watson.

Tyler:

We're here in the Owl Radio station, and I'm joined here with Bad Guru.

Quinn:

Give a little round of applause, guys.

Tyler:

We got Bad Guru. So we got Sierra.

Quinn:

Quinn.

Tyler:

Quinn and I, I had it. Ethan.

Ethan:

There you go.

Tyler:

Boom. Yay. Sarah, Quinn and Ethan. How are you guys doing today?

Quinn:

Great. Doing great. Happy to be here.

Tyler:

You guys wanna introduce yourselves, let us know who you are, what you do?

Sierra:

Sure, I'm Sierra Crow, I'm the vocalist of Bad Guru.

Quinn:

My name's Quinn Brophy, I play drums for Bad Guru.

Tyler:

Okay. Ethan Belkert, guitar. Guitar. Just guitar.

Quinn:

For who?

Ethan:

Bad Guru.

Tyler:

Okay, okay.

Ethan:

For the abundance of doubt.

Sierra:

You have to put as many Bad Guru seeds in these people's minds

Quinn:

so that Bad Guru, Bad Guru, Bad Guru. Perfect.

Tyler:

Manifest. I had to, okay, have to point this out. Your last name is Brophy.

Quinn:

Correct.

Tyler:

Do people ever like make jokes with your last name?

Quinn:

All the time.

Tyler:

Yeah. I tagged, I clocked that second you said it. I was like, oh yeah, Brophy.

Quinn:

That was like, basically my first name in high school was Brophy, basically.

Tyler:

So who started the band? Or is it ever, was this a collective like we all got together and just formed at the same time? Or was there like one person who's like, I've got an idea?

Quinn:

It's a great question.

Sierra:

It was a mix.

Quinn:

Kiera, do you wanna?

Sierra:

Yeah, we so the legend tells. We were in college, all for various reasons decided to take a guitar class for funsies. Love guitar classes. Had a few extra credits, so why not? And then we were there, it was our other guitarist, Quinn and I, and just kind of picked up that they were, maybe one of them already knew the guitar and maybe was looking for an easy A potentially.

Sierra:

Yeah, it was not me

Quinn:

or Sara.

Tyler:

Perhaps Ethan?

Quinn:

Was actually, so it was Joey, our other guitarist who wasn't here.

Tyler:

Two guitarists, okay.

Quinn:

Joey and I were friends and we went to Georgia College together.

Tyler:

Oh, okay.

Quinn:

And we were playing music together a lot at the time. We were like, we're gonna take a beginner guitar class. And then we met Sierra, who was interested in like forming a band.

Sierra:

Yeah. Found him outside after one day and was like, we started talking about what kind of music we like and one thing led to another and I'm jamming at their house the next week. So, it's divine coming together. And then Ethan.

Ethan:

But that was prior iteration, not Bad Guru, it was Yes. Midnight

Quinn:

That was our college band. So that was Sierra and I and Joey and a couple other guys at Georgia College.

Ethan:

So reverse it back even further a And couple Quinn and Joey and I were in high school. Quinn and I went to the same high school. Joey went to Blessed Trinity, same area.

Tyler:

Know exactly what you're talking about.

Ethan:

Yep. So Quinn was the new guy. He got some clout because his last name was Brophy.

Tyler:

Of course.

Ethan:

So naturally he got integrated into the high school pretty quickly.

Tyler:

I was going to ask if that helped you get into the band. Now I feel like that's actually true.

Quinn:

I don't think it hurt. But I was like the new guy sophomore year high school.

Ethan:

It was a talking point.

Quinn:

Yeah.

Ethan:

And people like, Oh, who's this brofy kid?

Tyler:

He's a bro. He's

Sierra:

definitely a bro.

Ethan:

So I don't know how exactly Quinn and I met, but I knew Quinn. Quinn and I knew Tyler. Tyler's this big guy, big personality, who got me into guitar and he knew Quinn, just mutual connection. Guess we started jamming at one point at Quinn's house and Quinn's family, they're great because they have a drummer in the basement and they let everybody come over to jam. So we started jamming that and then Yeah, needed a this high school.

Ethan:

So we needed a bassist. And then we had a mutual friend who was like, I know this guy who goes to Blazdet Trinity, who's really into music and plays bass. And so that's when we met Joey. So Joey played bass in the high school band. That was a distraction.

Quinn:

You know what else though? Apparently Joey did not play bass. He just played guitar, but our mutual friend thought he played bass and he just kind of went along with it to play in our in the band with us.

Tyler:

Did he when did you find out he didn't play bass?

Quinn:

Very recently.

Tyler:

Recently?

Quinn:

Yes. I've he was like, oh, by the way, know, I've never really played much bass. Think he

Ethan:

just owned a bass.

Quinn:

Yeah. He just owned a bass.

Tyler:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like having a guitar in your wall. Yeah, play guitar.

Quinn:

But let's be honest.

Sierra:

The first step at least.

Tyler:

Right.

Quinn:

Yeah. It's a bass, though. Let's be honest. Yeah. No, I'm kidding.

Tyler:

Yeah. I was like, let's trash on basses right now.

Quinn:

No, I got a lot of respect for bass as a drummer rhythm section. Hold it down. But anyway,

Ethan:

bring it full circle. So we were all in Atlanta, we'd all graduated from college at this point and then I think it was just like I was bored like corporate job.

Sierra:

It's

Ethan:

like I gotta do something like with my friends. I just texted Quinn, I was like hey do you you've been interested in jamming, getting the band together, whatever right and that I think one just thing just kind of led to another and I don't know we sort of formed bad gear at Ormsby's on the West Side six years ago?

Tyler:

Yeah. Six years. Wow, Yeah. So I guess that leads me to my next question. You know, obviously, like, how many okay.

Tyler:

First poll, how many bands and this can be a we said we're gonna make a band and we played for one show and then disband or we literally just performed in the garage. How many bands were you each in before you were actually in in Bad Guru? Zero. Zero?

Quinn:

So I've been playing in bands. So I started playing drums in middle school. Right. And I was in a band like ever since middle school, through high school, through college. So I was at Georgia College, played with Sierra.

Quinn:

I transferred to UGA. And in UGA, I was in like three or four different bands.

Ethan:

Oh, there

Quinn:

you Including our

Ethan:

Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band with Tyler.

Tyler:

Awesome. We did

Ethan:

like the high school days.

Quinn:

Yeah, but I've been playing in bands like for a long time. I've probably been in like 10 bands, but Bad Guru. 10 bands. It's been my favorite by far.

Sierra:

A hoe.

Tyler:

Exactly, a band hoe. That's what I was gonna say.

Quinn:

That's what everyone says.

Tyler:

And Ethan, are you a band

Ethan:

hoe or did you? I, let's see, we had high school bands and then the college band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band and I think that's about it.

Quinn:

Yeah, you you kind of seem to get the itch Ethan once we graduated college. We were like let's let's do this.

Ethan:

Yeah, didn't play guitar for like I don't know, four years probably.

Tyler:

Yeah. Well, I guess that that that the reason I asked is because, like, there's obviously, like, and when you're, like, a beginning musician or musician, you're kinda, like, traveling between bands. Maybe you do like, little things are happening, but to get a group together who are, you know, dedicated to the mission for one band, that's a little bit rare. Mhmm. So like what made Bad Guru different in this group to where you guys were dedicated to it, practicing, and going to shows?

Tyler:

What made this a legit thing for you guys?

Quinn:

I would just say, like, it really helps that we're all really good friends. Right. I feel like it could be tough to get together with some people you don't really know. I mean, of course, that happens, but we're all really good friends. And I think we're all, like, passionate about playing music, which keeps us wanting to come back and continue to do it.

Quinn:

You know, weekly practices, you know, can be a bit of a burden sometimes. But we love it so much, so it doesn't feel like a burden at all.

Tyler:

Right, right.

Sierra:

Just go hang out with your friends. Sometimes when I'm not feeling motivated to go to practice, I'm like, we're just gonna go hang out and then Yeah, just be

Ethan:

I think it's like the reprieve from the everyday. Because we started this when all of us had graduated, know post grad life it's good but the first couple years are different and I think that because we've we all have a thing like this the band is you know one element of our lives but at the same time it's not your lives are as fluid as they were when we were younger in the sense of like you know when you're going through high school you form a high school band it's like everyone's going to a different college or has different plans for after college and then when you when you're in college, you move every like two years or one year, right?

Tyler:

Right, right.

Ethan:

And you might transfer schools. And so I think for us, it was like, you know, we all have friends and family here in general. I don't think anybody had ever had plans to like move to a different city or anything. So we're all local here and you know, I think because of that, like you know, we started this at a point when we were all, you know, had some sort of stability to a degree in our own lives. Like that I think has boded well for continuity over time.

Tyler:

Right. Right. And that's a good thing to point out. Was like, the fact that you guys are, you know, went through high school, went through college, and now are living adult lives with professional careers, right? That the fact that you're still able to dedicate time to do this.

Tyler:

Like, I think that's really cool. Because the college, like, it's it's easy. I mean, like, you're on campus 20 fourseven if you're living on campus, and you just find music people, you join a club or something like that, and then boom. It's like, well, yeah, you might as well might as well start a band. You're spending all your time together.

Tyler:

Right? So tell us about the music you have out there and kind of yeah, what do you have out there? What music do you have out there to offer to the people?

Sierra:

We got two albums.

Tyler:

Okay.

Sierra:

Our first one's self titled by Guru, and our second one's called Love and Fear Me. We released that last year. What, I don't remember what month it was. And now we're working on our third.

Tyler:

Okay. So three

Sierra:

albums total. We're in in the midst of the third.

Ethan:

Two plus.

Sierra:

So just two.

Ethan:

But we

Quinn:

do have two full albums, yep, on Spotify. Yeah. You can find it on every streaming service.

Tyler:

Were talking about this a little bit before, because I asked you what your genre was, and I asked you what I described it. So tell me what tell me what you said your description was to your genre, like the sound?

Sierra:

Well, we love that you said cinematic. That was your guess. That that totally makes us feel good. We've kind of settled on psychedelic grunge.

Tyler:

I think that's accurate.

Quinn:

Yeah. I don't really

Tyler:

know what psychedelic means, but I know it's usually associated with, and I'm like, that sounds right.

Quinn:

Yeah. It's like a vibe. Yeah. Psychedelic. It's kind of, it's just

Ethan:

like the soundscape of the music.

Tyler:

Yeah. The psychedelic

Quinn:

We laughed.

Tyler:

Have something to do with, like, being high? You

Quinn:

could say that, yeah.

Tyler:

Okay. So are people high when they're enjoying your music? I'm kidding.

Quinn:

Well, want Can't

Sierra:

they wanna be. Hopefully

Quinn:

our music makes them feel a certain type of way.

Tyler:

Yeah, right. Right. With no extra stuff, just Right. Pure

Sierra:

Okay.

Quinn:

Yeah, absolutely. Do feel like it's kind of hard to describe your own genre. Like I feel like a lot of bands probably

Tyler:

struggle And with I have the bad tendency, because I don't like doing this. Like I say this and then I like cringe, and I'm like, because sometimes I'll ask people like, who would you compare yourself to? And as much as I think it's good if you're trying to explain to somebody who maybe doesn't know anything about music, what you are. Like, maybe you say psychedelic grunge and they're like, I have no idea what that means. Mhmm.

Tyler:

And I could ask you guys, like, who would you associate yourself with? But again, you're not the cover band for another band. You're your own unique thing. Yeah. So it's kinda like, I don't know, like do you get asked a lot like what would you say you're similar to?

Sierra:

It's not a bad question I feel Not bad question. Because we joke about it a lot because people always make parallels just because I'm a female vocalist that I sound like every other rock female vocalist even though we definitely don't.

Quinn:

Evanescence, yeah.

Tyler:

Yes. You know, do, okay.

Sierra:

Yes. Every girl singers Evanescence and Paramore in a lot of people's eyes, which is cute. It's funny. Wow. What a compliment.

Sierra:

But

Tyler:

That's really funny that y'all say that. Because, like, I was listening to y'all to you guys, and I didn't necessarily like, I wasn't necessarily saying, like, this is paramour. But I was, like, I wonder if people make that connection. Because I yeah. I guess the dynamic, I guess, does have a little bit of similarities.

Tyler:

Yeah. But you don't you don't sound like

Quinn:

Well at time. Be fair, it is a compliment. Mean, Paramore super good.

Sierra:

It's an undeserved compliment. Yeah.

Tyler:

Yeah. I guess in theory, we could just pick out a terrible band and be like, you sound like them.

Quinn:

Then you're just like That would be worse.

Sierra:

We get to a lot.

Quinn:

To a lot. And what I've been doing more is asking some people in the crowd after we play, like, oh, like, do what you think? Like, what do you think we kind of sounded like? Because it's a hard question for us to answer. Like, if you listen to us, like, I want to know what you think.

Quinn:

I asked someone after we played at the Athens Porch Fest, and they said Soundgarden.

Sierra:

Yeah.

Quinn:

Which I really liked that. Yeah. Which is female fronted Soundgarden, of course. But I thought that was a huge compliment.

Tyler:

I think maybe where they're making a correlation with that is more of like the what you add to your music instead of just vocals and and just kind of the regular guitar or the regular rock music where it's just instruments, drums. Right? We're seeing that you guys are adding a lot of stuff to it. I can tell you exactly what you're adding, but it sounds like there's a little bit of like extra added to it.

Sierra:

And people are like commenting on what that extra spice they're noticing.

Tyler:

Right. And that's where Soundgarden kind of I guess is that similarity I guess.

Quinn:

Yeah. I I we've been told, like, we have a really unique sound too, which I think is a huge compliment.

Sierra:

Right. Yeah.

Tyler:

And you guys said I commented. I said you guys sounded cinematic. It does sound cinematic. And you guys were kinda like, oh, we're that's what we're looking for. What do you guys mean by that?

Tyler:

Is there like are you guys would you guys do a movie soundtrack? Would you guys do that?

Ethan:

We would definitely do one.

Quinn:

I love that idea.

Sierra:

We've been dying to get on a a truck commercial. Any truck Yes. Okay.

Tyler:

Like like a Ford truck commercial? Like, Like,

Sierra:

just driving in the desert and it's like, I don't know.

Quinn:

Just Chevy we have chicken enchilada. Well, we made our own actually on Instagram.

Tyler:

Oh, wait.

Sierra:

Like With

Quinn:

one of our songs. Oh. Yeah.

Sierra:

Yeah. I could

Tyler:

find this.

Sierra:

Oh my gosh.

Tyler:

How did I miss that?

Quinn:

Yeah. It's probably a little buried in the other reels. But

Tyler:

Can we put this in the video? Sure. Yeah. Just like

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Ethan:

But the yeah. I mean, so the second album cinematic was really the goal, and it was just the way that it flows and it fits together, and it was meant to be listened to top to bottom in a way that ebbs and flows like you're watching a movie.

Sierra:

Tells a Yeah. And anybody that's passionate about something I think has this experience. But you know, hyper fixated on your project and then you have a story, not only the story that you wrote the songs about, but you have the vibe of what the instruments are giving and that turns into a greater story with movie level intricacies and complexities. So yeah, and we tried to weave our album one story that we have in our minds with our album two story. So yeah.

Tyler:

I listened to one of your songs and I'm listening to it and it has such a hype up melody to it for almost the first half of the song. And you and you get to it, and I was like, wow. This is like so it is very cinematic. Mhmm. And because you guys add a lot to it.

Tyler:

My question is, because you're talking about, like, how you're inspired by stories and how you have what you're where do you guys start? Because I know some people start with a beat, some people start with a melody, some people start with the lyrics. Some people start with a story, some people start with a message. Where do you guys start?

Ethan:

Riffs. Jams.

Sierra:

Yeah. The jam. Birth from the jam always.

Tyler:

Yeah. And are these just as kinda like you're just playing around and you're like, boom. We got one.

Ethan:

It's a very like no.

Quinn:

Yeah. No. It's a I

Sierra:

feel like it is. Like, we know pretty instantly if that jam has potential

Ethan:

to become a It takes a long time to get from jam with potential to finish song though. Yeah. It's like, I don't know, I feel like there was like a Tame Impala podcast or quote, don't know, Parker was talking about his songwriting process. He's like, you know, sometimes it can take years for you to just be like in the right headspace to just like finish the song and then it's done.

Tyler:

Right.

Ethan:

And I feel like that's kind of how it's worked with us a lot in the past is we had some stuff forever, and then at some point we play together, and it just clicks, then like it's all all of

Quinn:

a sudden it's just done.

Tyler:

Who winds you guys together? Who's the glue? Who's the guy who's kind of like going off on tangents the whole time? And who's the one who's kind of like, just like tell me what to do? Who's locked in on the mission?

Sierra:

I know the first two. I feel like you're the glue, Quinn. Yeah. He's where we practice. His wife does all of our social media and photography, and they do and they apply to like all the shows and stuff.

Sierra:

So they do that very necessary, very appreciated organizing and planning and reminding and hyping up and keeps us grounded when we have disagreements and stuff. So I would say that would be my vote, and then we all know who the tangent person is, right?

Tyler:

You? Oh, wow.

Sierra:

No. I would say Joey.

Quinn:

Yeah. Joey,

Tyler:

if you're listening to this, they're they're

Ethan:

Depends on how you define tangent. I mean, do you what does that mean?

Quinn:

I don't even know what that means.

Tyler:

Tangent is like it's like, hey. It's like the glue, the guy who's like, hey.

Quinn:

I have this great idea. What do you think? Can you try this?

Tyler:

And he's just over here, like, scrolling. He's, like, cracking jokes. He's, like, he's he's a member of the band that you need, but you're, like, okay, we gotta focus.

Quinn:

That's fair. We we need Joey. He's a riff he's a he's a great guitarist, writes tons of our riffs. I mean, honestly, I think we're all kind of in our own way, like a glue person for the band. We all kind of bring something to the And we all rely on each other to do what we do.

Quinn:

But, yeah, shout out to my wife, Olivia, for Yeah. Running our socials and applying to places for us and

Tyler:

Shout out, Olivia. Yeah. Shout out. Now another question I have. You guys have performed in a lot of shows probably at this point, six years.

Tyler:

So you guys have you guys are well versed. What's your favorite place you've gone? And like, what's your favorite moment from one of the shows? Maybe a defining moment of you guys' band career. Oof.

Tyler:

That's a tough one.

Quinn:

Good question. Think about it.

Sierra:

First one that comes to my mind would be hitting the trifecta masquerade.

Tyler:

Oh, I've heard so much about the masquerade.

Quinn:

That's the best.

Tyler:

That's all I hear about when we interview bands because it is like the pinnacle in my eyes of of rock music in the Atlanta area.

Quinn:

Yeah. So

Tyler:

tell us about about your experience in the masquerade.

Sierra:

Oh, we love it. We have a pretty good relationship. It was kind of like our home pad, so to speak. So, we're in a position where they kind of reach out to us if there's some really cool, you know bigger bands coming through that they think we'd be a good match to open for. So, makes it really easy for

Quinn:

us to just say yes. You know, they've

Sierra:

got the lights and they've got the great sound which we really, really need. Our band in particular is extremely loud. We got a lot going on with pedals and all sorts of stuff. So a good sound guy or a

Ethan:

good Girl, the cinematic point too. It's like you don't want to watch a movie on like a small iPhone screen, right? Certain movies, right? And I feel like that's us. It's just when you have the whole experience and bigger stage and the lighting.

Tyler:

Yeah. You want that stage. You want that place where you can give people the full experience.

Quinn:

For sure. Yeah. Because that's

Tyler:

where I was gonna lead to my next question was, how do you think your music is best digested? Do you think it's best over the radio or over headphones, in person? What do you think?

Quinn:

Live. Definitely live for sure. Live at

Ethan:

the masquerade. Live at the masquerade.

Tyler:

You're not there, it's like, okay.

Quinn:

Yeah. I wanna Yeah. I'll say one thing too. Like for me personally being able to open for one of my favorite bands, Slow Moza.

Tyler:

Have you ever

Quinn:

heard of Slow Moza?

Tyler:

I haven't, but I will listen to them immediately.

Quinn:

Check them out. They're from Norway. Okay. They're actually coming to the masquerade.

Tyler:

Oh, really?

Quinn:

April, but we were able to open for them last year, which was like, I've been listening to them for a while. Like, all of us in the band were listening to them and, masquerade emailed us about opening for them as like, just incredible.

Tyler:

They went to the Masquerade from Norway.

Quinn:

It was their first U. S. Tour. First time in The U. S.

Quinn:

For them. But it was just amazing, like being able to talk to them, like some of your some of my music idols right now, like, you know, who I'm into currently. That's my own personal highlight.

Sierra:

And don't forget, maybe for the listeners, if anybody's in music and listening to this, Quinn, we had to do a little convincing but Quinn messaged them on, he DM'd them on Instagram.

Quinn:

True.

Tyler:

You slid into their DMs.

Sierra:

Yeah, we totally slid and it actually worked. We sealed the deal so to speak.

Quinn:

Yeah, I would recommend any band like if you are, you know, maybe if there's some smaller bands you're into that will look at the DMs because, know, if you're maybe messaging, you know, Chaparron or something, she might not see it, but I messaged them. Hey, like, let us know. And they, like, like the message. Like, oh, we'll let you know, blah blah blah. So it was it was just really amazing.

Tyler:

I slide into a lot of bands' DMs. I do that a lot. And I like sometimes I mean, I should not phrase it like that. That sounds so strange.

Ethan:

Well, honestly, though, mean, it feels like the best way to go about Yeah. Networking with other I mean, we we you book you book I don't book shows, but you book shows, like, all the time Yeah, just from

Quinn:

oh yeah.

Tyler:

It's like, it's a good tool. Like, and you think you're like, oh, well they're not gonna respond. Mean, they're like a profesh show.

Sierra:

That's what we thought.

Tyler:

Right. We

Sierra:

were wrong in the best way.

Tyler:

Yeah. A lot of people like, especially with this, they feel like some people like, it's cool. I really I really like what we get to do here because it's kinda like what you mentioned with the smaller bands. Mhmm. It's like, don't know if you guys vision yourself as a smaller band, because I don't.

Tyler:

Like, from my perspective, I mean I mean, y'all guys might not be, like, the biggest band of all time, but you guys are a professional seeming band. You guys walk the walk. I mean, guess what you guys seem like. And because you guys seem very professional, very put together. You prepared for the questions before they came.

Tyler:

What the heck? And does but then I get I get to have a lot of interaction where there's real very small beginner artists on here, and then artists who are like, who are who are again, I would say six year band, you guys see put together and then to hear you guys having your own little, what you guys would phrase as like a small band to big band experience like Yeah. I I think

Sierra:

That's not offensive at all. I mean it's less about the size and more about experience maybe.

Tyler:

Right.

Sierra:

So, And that way maybe we're a huge band.

Tyler:

Well, you guys have fans. You guys have fans.

Quinn:

Yes. Do you have some fans?

Tyler:

Tell us about your fans.

Sierra:

That's also a good, that is another moment that stands out to me in our thing is like when we have gotten real fans that like organically found us that came to our show for the first time, like drove an hour to come see us, bought some merch. That feels so epic.

Quinn:

Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

Ethan:

Yeah. When it goes beyond just like your friends and family show up to shows like that was an interesting

Sierra:

The same six people become seven. Right, right.

Quinn:

Feel kind of bad, like bugging your friends all the time and family. Hey, can you please come to

Sierra:

our show?

Tyler:

Mom, got another show. We need you.

Quinn:

Yeah, it's a necessary stage. But yeah, it's nice to get out of that. Shout out to one of our big fans, Akim, as well. He's awesome. He helps us get shows and look at the camera.

Quinn:

Kiam, shout out to you. We love you. And he he does photo shoots for us and things. He's awesome.

Tyler:

Yeah. You guys have good photos. I was about to say, like, the photos, that's another thing. That is a big thing. Social media looks great.

Tyler:

I was like looking at was like, I'm a little envious. Not gonna lie. All the photos look great. It makes it seem like this is like, you know, they're good photos, honestly.

Sierra:

Thank you. Yeah. She does a great job.

Quinn:

Yeah. It's my wife, and she does have a photography business.

Tyler:

Olivia? Yes. Shout out Olivia.

Quinn:

Shout out Olivia.

Sierra:

Shout out her Instagram.

Quinn:

It's Obro Photography.

Tyler:

Okay. Dang. Alright. Do we need to have do we need to have her on the podcast? Probably.

Sierra:

Yeah. You should. Yeah.

Tyler:

I haven't had enough photographers. Yeah. I would like I like talking to photographers.

Quinn:

Yeah. She'd be great. And she like, she does our booking basically too.

Tyler:

So Okay. Mhmm. Know, was so do you guys besides the masquerade, have you guys traveled any distances to go to to shows? And what's your furthest distance you've

Quinn:

gone? Furthest. I would need to see a map for that. Memphis. Yeah.

Tyler:

Where's the map?

Quinn:

No, just kidding. Memphis was pretty good. We've done North Carolina. So that's been like probably my favorite to go to. So we've done Charlotte, Boone, North Carolina, which is

Tyler:

That's a very North Carolina

Ethan:

sound It's a long way for one night.

Sierra:

It was an epic show.

Quinn:

Boone is a have you all heard of App State? Yep. So that's the college town associated with it. Yep. App State's in Boone.

Tyler:

That sounds so on par for App State. Oh, my gosh. Okay.

Quinn:

Awesome. I would recommend like anyone go check it out. But we played at this place called Betsy's Barn. Shout out Betsy's Barn.

Tyler:

And then another. App State absolutely on par.

Quinn:

So we did that last it was like the beginning of the school year last year. August. Yeah, August. Yeah. We play at this place called Betsy's Barn.

Quinn:

It's literally a barn that this guy basically turned into a music venue.

Tyler:

That's awesome.

Quinn:

It's an amazing sound and they have this other guy shout out Splat Daddy. Does the lights like he does lights at a lot of different places, but he did it for this show for us. But basically, we had a bunch of college students come out there and see us play. And it was like an amazing show. Then we camped.

Quinn:

So we had tents. We camped the night.

Sierra:

And it was

Tyler:

a bunch

Quinn:

of out the barn?

Sierra:

Kids and students. And they definitely blew the stereotype of Gen Zers not dancing out of the water.

Ethan:

They brought their energy.

Quinn:

They were going hard.

Tyler:

Yeah. Really?

Quinn:

Yeah.

Ethan:

Yeah. They were rocking.

Sierra:

Is that

Quinn:

a Gen

Tyler:

Z stereotype? Really?

Sierra:

Yeah, it is.

Tyler:

One thing you have to identify to the audio listeners, these are millennials. So I know you're probably thinking, alright, I gotta turn this off. That's crazy. No, I'm joking.

Ethan:

I'm see, do you consider yourself a millennial?

Quinn:

Yes.

Ethan:

Gen X over there?

Sierra:

Yes, I am definitely a millennial. Are you Gen X?

Quinn:

Why the No.

Tyler:

Oh, okay. Was like, what was this? I don't know. No. Barn sounds awesome.

Quinn:

It was the best show. And then we done Knoxville, which was cool.

Tyler:

Okay. Like like like University of Tennessee? Yeah. Yeah.

Quinn:

And then we done Nashville.

Tyler:

Vanderbilt.

Quinn:

Very cool too. Yeah. Okay. All the college towns. No, we are trying to do like college towns and stuff.

Quinn:

Yeah. Am missing in Birmingham?

Sierra:

Alabama.

Tyler:

Talk about Birmingham.

Quinn:

Birmingham. Yeah. What is that? Alabama? University of Alabama.

Ethan:

It's Tuscaloosa? UAB?

Quinn:

No, UAB.

Tyler:

Oh, yeah. UAB. Yeah.

Quinn:

Blazers or I don't even know.

Ethan:

Shout out to the Nick in Birmingham. Yeah.

Quinn:

Shout out to Nick. Okay. But yeah, we try to do like Southeast and like try to go to the same cities to try to like build a following there. Right. So we'll probably go back to these places and then, you know, maybe we'll branch out maybe later this summer.

Sierra:

Tell them our new plans.

Tyler:

Well, plans.

Quinn:

It's new to you too, Ethan. But we've discussed maybe trying to do a show in New York City.

Ethan:

What? That would be sick,

Quinn:

wouldn't it? That'd be sick. Actually played with a band. Shout out King Falcon. They're from Buffalo.

Quinn:

We played with them at Smith's Old Bar. You all ever go to Smith's? No. Shout out to Smith's Bar.

Sierra:

Great venue as well.

Quinn:

That's, yeah, one of the top Atlanta venues too, I would say. But they're from New York. You know, we get we networked with them basically, and hopefully we could play a show with them up there too.

Sierra:

And we want to do a Florida tour

Quinn:

this year as well.

Tyler:

Mhmm. Yeah. Do that in the summer. Mhmm. Yeah.

Tyler:

Go like Panama City and stuff like that.

Quinn:

Oh. That'd be fun.

Tyler:

Yeah. Though the problem is there's be a lot of old people. Yeah. Old retirees. We might

Quinn:

fit right in.

Sierra:

We'll take them all.

Tyler:

What's your favorite audience? Because you go to lot of college towns. Do you guys like providing college students?

Sierra:

College students have the most energy and the most you guys are bright eyed and bushy tailed and like full of opportunity and spice for life and

Tyler:

And mirth

Sierra:

and And youth.

Tyler:

Youth. Just like you guys.

Quinn:

Thank you.

Sierra:

Slowly drain out of you with every conversation.

Quinn:

But then there's the old, like the

Ethan:

older dads who will just like chill in the back

Quinn:

and then they come up to you and at the

Ethan:

stage afterwards and you're like, guys are sick and then they're like, you're, they're your fans forever.

Sierra:

Yes, they give like very genuine compliments. Like they pay a lot of attention and they probably heard a lot of crappy bands in their life.

Tyler:

I think one of my favorite things is dads, like 40 to 50 year old dads who like rock music. Mhmm. Probably one of my favorite things ever. Yeah. What are looking at?

Tyler:

Discovered my dad likes rock music more, like, recently. Shout out to my dad if you're listening. We'll get in the car every time. Because most of time it's just like prime country. Right?

Tyler:

My parents are southern. They like country music. And then every now and then, you'll get in, and it's like Weezer playing and a lot of nineties alternative. I'm like, this rocks.

Quinn:

Heck yeah.

Tyler:

And my mom's like, this sucks. But I'm like, I'm enjoying it. I'm loving it. I've gotten into some of the most music tastes from my dad.

Quinn:

Agreed. Me Me

Tyler:

So I do just imagine some like 40, 50 year old dude with a long beard, maybe a beer belly sitting in the back holding a beer, maybe sunglasses and a trucker hat on just watching, and he just sits there the whole show, and then he's like, you guys are pretty good. You know, there's one place correct me if I'm wrong. You have not played at KSU yet.

Quinn:

Noah and I were very curious to know. I saw like

Sierra:

We did pigs and peaches. That doesn't count, but

Quinn:

Yeah. Was in the same We did pigs and peaches.

Ethan:

Do all even know what that is?

Tyler:

No. What is that? Explain. Let's dive into this.

Quinn:

How do you not know?

Ethan:

It's like a Kennesaw barbecue festival. Right?

Tyler:

Yeah. It's like a Oh,

Ethan:

Oh, they probably They're going like this.

Sierra:

Yeah. You have? Okay.

Quinn:

Producers know.

Sierra:

It's fun.

Tyler:

I know. I have a confession. I'm actually not from Kennesaw. I'm from Wollesca, Georgia. Oh.

Tyler:

You guys know where that is?

Quinn:

Yeah. Seen it on a

Sierra:

map. Okay.

Ethan:

It's like South Of Dalton.

Tyler:

That's a start. Is it Yeah.

Ethan:

Just south of the is it Rome? Is it

Tyler:

up by Rome or no? No. No. I'm gonna be honest now. It's really there's not really anything close to it by besides Canton.

Tyler:

You know where

Quinn:

Canton is? Yeah. Yeah.

Tyler:

Then it's close to Canton.

Ethan:

Alright. Yeah.

Tyler:

Right. Just North of Canton. Anyways, enough about where I live because I'm not about to dox myself on this Yeah. We care. This is why I'm not trying to make enemies.

Tyler:

Anemones. Okay. But we're gonna get you guys on the show here. I work my butt off to make that happen.

Quinn:

That'd be great.

Tyler:

100%

Sierra:

this We would love to.

Quinn:

I actually saw a video on Instagram, like, maybe a couple of months ago at this point, but but there was, like, a crazy show

Ethan:

Yes.

Quinn:

Going on on KSU's campus.

Tyler:

Again, shout out to Owl Radio if I haven't said Owl Radio enough. They had we had our final battle of the bands at Hootie Harvest because we're the Owls course, Hootie everything. Mhmm. And, yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy.

Tyler:

You know, the other battle of the bands, they performed pretty well, you know, but this one was, like, outrageous. Nice. People everywhere.

Quinn:

So what how would y'all how would y'all describe the KSU music scene?

Tyler:

I honestly, I I feel I feel not in the right place to really honestly explain it, but I'm gonna do my best to represent the Kennesaw music scene. It's honestly, like, there's a lot of mixtures of everybody here. I mean, I only know the KSU. I'm only gonna say KSU. Mhmm.

Tyler:

Because there's a lot there's a lot of of bands like that. There's a lot of punk, but of course, I only interact. There's a lot of punk, especially with the Owl Radio group and a lot of grunge. Mhmm. A lot of rock alternatives, stuff like that.

Tyler:

We did have a jazz group perform. Shout out to them. If they're listening to this, please, we want you on the podcast. I want you on the podcast. Anyways, though.

Tyler:

But I think you guys would fit in perfect, like genuinely.

Quinn:

Thank you. Yeah. That'd be great. Yeah.

Tyler:

Mhmm. And you guys found out about us just purely out of did I reach out to you guys or did you guys reach out to me? I don't actually remember.

Quinn:

I have to text my wife and ask her.

Tyler:

Let's get her on the

Ethan:

phone right now. I

Quinn:

think y'all might have reached out, but I think we had followed you and we had seen your interviews on Instagram and stuff.

Tyler:

Yeah. I kind of want you to call her right now. I'm going be honest.

Quinn:

Do you think if you

Tyler:

called right now, she'd answer?

Quinn:

I think she's actually in a class right now. She does a lot of fitness classes. Yeah. She probably can't.

Tyler:

Tell her to quit the fitness class for like ten minutes. Yeah. I'm okay. I'm okay. Yeah.

Tyler:

When you guys leave, please go up to the scrappy statue. Maybe give him a hug. He needs it. Scrappy? Scrappy.

Tyler:

Scrappy. You don't know Scrappy?

Ethan:

I don't know Scrappy. Is it the owl?

Tyler:

Yes, the owl.

Sierra:

Okay. We doing it to help Scrappy's mental health or is there some sort of power you gain from doing that?

Tyler:

I'm sure there's a little bit of both. I'm sure you'll be like blessed in some way from the experience.

Sierra:

Okay.

Tyler:

And you talk about mental health because I do know a little bit about your career. Do you want to talk about your career? Because you guys are you guys have jobs outside of outside of this.

Quinn:

Don't do it. Don't don't get a job.

Sierra:

Well their jobs

Ethan:

We're talking about Sierra.

Sierra:

Their jobs are really boring, we'll skip that part.

Quinn:

Got

Sierra:

it. They work with numbers. Ew.

Tyler:

Are you both accountants?

Quinn:

Correct.

Ethan:

Wow. We do different things, though.

Tyler:

Okay. Different accounting. But for you, since we're talking about mental health, you want to talk about your Yeah,

Quinn:

I love.

Sierra:

I'm a therapist by day, good guru by day, bad guru by night.

Tyler:

Okay.

Quinn:

Good guru by day. That kind of helps. Yeah. Impact It the

Sierra:

inspires my music lyrically a lot.

Tyler:

Yeah. I was gonna say, I was like, maybe we should switch this up. Maybe I need to get like a long chair and you have like an armchair. Yeah. And we'll have a little therapy session.

Tyler:

Shin lid thing. Prone.

Ethan:

What's on your mind? Your mommy issues. Yeah.

Quinn:

My mommy. She bills by the hour, though. So Yeah. Okay.

Sierra:

We're already one fifty deep.

Tyler:

Sheesh. Okay. Well, cut that right out of the the club budget. Yeah. Tyler had therapy.

Tyler:

Okay? School should cut this.

Quinn:

But that that did help inspire the band name, right? Bad Guru?

Tyler:

I was gonna ask about the

Sierra:

band name. Yeah. Yeah, the band name, I was reading Sod Guru, inner not inner alchemy, inner engineering is the book. And we were trying to think of names. Wasn't loving all of our options like Spaghetti Junction.

Sierra:

Spaghetti Junction. I do see it.

Ethan:

See That's it

Quinn:

good, right? I got it.

Sierra:

I wasn't satisfied, so yeah. It's more of like a spiritual book than necessarily psychological, but sad guru. It's like not a sad guru, like a bad guru. Sad guru. Yeah.

Sierra:

But the concept is like, at least for me, it means a lot of things of course, but I do kind of feel like a split sometimes between how I operate during the day versus night, even though I'm kind of talking about the same things. But when I'm with bad guru, I can kind of say those things without a lot of tact, you know? Right. You could just kinda say it.

Tyler:

Well, you go from two completely different environments and jobs in in one day. I mean, you go, like, in the day, you're like, maybe you've got a suit, maybe you've got, like, a night. You got your more professional clothes, your business clothes, and then you're like switching like, okay, now it's time for like my creative expression time, I And guess, you're a therapist, know, you're talking to people, they talk about them, and then you get to go on stage and express you.

Sierra:

Yeah, or express the insights that they've helped me come to by just being themselves, being vulnerable. Yeah. I write a lot of lyrics about like the shadow self, so like Jungian type stuff. So it's kind of toying with paradoxes of humanity, trying to empathize with like the nastiest thing that it like darkness, gross things, whatever in a human's heart, but I try and kind of wax on those and then obviously the other side of that too. Yeah.

Quinn:

Yeah. Encourage everyone to like look at our lyrics on Spotify because Sierra is a amazing lyricist. Very

Ethan:

juicy I

Quinn:

don't know how she does it.

Tyler:

I could never do that. So you're mainly lyrics. Mhmm. If I'm getting that right. Yeah.

Tyler:

Yeah, I would be honest, I was listening and that was another thing I tagged. As I was listening, was like, okay, this isn't just like basic, not to say it's bad, but it's like a lot of bandstanders are more like, woke up this morning. I don't know. Like, it's very just kinda like, not very deep into the story, very simple vocabulary, but it seems very, like, thought out, and it almost feels like you ever done writing? You're write a book at some point perhaps?

Tyler:

Or poetry?

Sierra:

If if I could complete projects, my life would be a lot easier. So I don't know about a book. We'll start with album three lyrics Keep and go from

Tyler:

her locked in. One thing at

Sierra:

a time, cowboy.

Quinn:

Focus. I would also kind of say like in terms of, you know, we have we're in a band, we have jobs, but we're in a band. And I just encourage like college students, you know, when you graduate, you're going to get a job and stuff. But try to hang on to your passions and do what you love to do, you know, outside of your job. Just, you know, I encourage everyone to really follow whatever that is.

Quinn:

Like for me, for us, it's music, but it could be other forms of art. It could be playing some sports or maybe you love to cook, but I just encourage y'all like, hey, don't, you know, keep following what you want to do, even if it's not your full time job. Like just keep following whatever that is.

Sierra:

Can, you can do both. You really can.

Quinn:

It just takes effort really.

Sierra:

Your passion is not a coincidence in my opinion. Right. Find a way, get yourself in the right circles, take whatever risk you can, have a witness to. Like first, we were talking about how like what our inspiration for getting into music was last night and he was saying like rock bands.

Quinn:

Well yeah, I was always into music, right? But rock band came out when I was in middle school and my buddy already played guitar. So he's like, gonna play guitar and rock band. I was like, okay, I'll play the drums. I was like, wait, I'm actually like kind of good at the rock band drums.

Quinn:

I'm gonna try actual drums, which is really cool

Sierra:

for I feel like that's really relatable because I had that experience too. Although all my friends were fighting over the singing part because we're all thespians.

Ethan:

Guitar Hero got me into guitar.

Tyler:

I was gonna

Sierra:

ask. There you

Quinn:

It inspired you, So do

Tyler:

think Guitar Hero and actually playing guitar though are, like, very similar or just kind of similar?

Ethan:

They're not similar at all.

Tyler:

That's what I was gonna say.

Quinn:

Yeah. I mean

Sierra:

But it starts you to, like

Ethan:

It gets you thinking and it, like you're like, oh, this is, like, this is fun. I I had a blast playing Guitar Hero.

Sierra:

Right.

Ethan:

And then when Tyler was like, hey, you want to borrow one of my guitars and come over and jam? I was like, yeah. That was the primer.

Quinn:

Yeah. Inspires you. Honestly, rock band drums, not completely different. Because the thing about drumming, it's like separating all your limbs and you do have to do that on rock band drums. So it's not a big drum kit, but it's still the same movements.

Sierra:

It helps you to start opening up to the possibility that you could, like, why not? Why not you? You have amazing at

Ethan:

rock band. Be like, I like this feeling.

Quinn:

Then you And you

Sierra:

have your witnesses too, which I feel like are two really important steps to get, getting into something that's just like an idea versus something that you do or an identity that you take. Open up to the possibility, have somebody witness it, see what happens, get yourself in the right circle. Right, right. Get around it more.

Ethan:

Do fun stuff with your friends. Yeah.

Tyler:

Yeah. Have friends.

Ethan:

Retweet. Retweet. The effort Yeah. To hang out with your

Quinn:

For real, though. You know, you can get caught up in your life and your job and stuff. I see people do that, you know. But, you know, don't lose sight of what you really want to do and what's important in life.

Sierra:

Right. Yeah, don't let the system

Tyler:

grip you. Fight back against the man.

Sierra:

Yes. You know

Quinn:

what mean?

Sierra:

Consider it your Right. That's your life force energy, know, creative things. It's like, it's a lot more than just being creative, it's your energy throughout the And that's

Tyler:

what the show is all about. It's like when I started the show, I was like, okay, I always feel like I don't have time to go actually like do the stuff I wanna do, Right? I always feel like, you know, there's always the limitations. Oh, I can't do this because I don't have the money. Oh, I don't do this because I don't have the time.

Tyler:

But the one thing about that I felt at the show was like, what if everybody had a place to where I could just hype up their ego so so much to where they didn't even consider the fact of quitting. Right? And that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna say, you guys are the greatest band of all time. Just calling it now.

Tyler:

So when you guys have reached, like, 5,000,000 followers on Instagram, don't forget about me.

Ethan:

You're the greatest host of all time.

Quinn:

Yeah. Thank you so much.

Tyler:

Jimmy Fallon And the greatest team

Quinn:

of all time.

Tyler:

This is a great team. Thanks to the team. Thanks to the team.

Quinn:

Shout out

Ethan:

to the team.

Tyler:

And it's 2026, guys. It's a new year, new you. You know? What do you guys what's the goal for the 2026? What do you what's your plan?

Sierra:

Got you in in Florida.

Ethan:

Got you the album.

Tyler:

Finish the album.

Quinn:

Finish I the would say, like, just keep going. Like

Sierra:

Keep on getting reinvent ourselves.

Quinn:

Don't give up. Right. Like, keep doing what we love to do.

Tyler:

Right. You kind of already gave inspiration already. You kind of already gave us a little bit of inspiration, honestly. But is there any other inspirational message you would give to the people listening and watching?

Quinn:

Kind of like I already said, but like just figure out whatever your passion is, you know, and just do that.

Tyler:

Right. Yeah.

Ethan:

Woah. Get a plan.

Sierra:

Woah. So deep.

Tyler:

And work out.

Quinn:

Cut that out. Cut that out.

Tyler:

Maybe. That

Quinn:

was good. That was good.

Tyler:

Was That was good. The You

Quinn:

said than done, okay? Just

Sierra:

do it. To build off of that, anything that you can do to even get yourself microscopically closer to that thing that feels a little bit out of touch or intangible for you. Like for what we were saying earlier, just taking like that I got all my classes done and had an extra few credits turned into me using that for guitar, turned into me talking to them, taking a risk, being a little awkward, whatever, going over to the band practice, jamming hella vulnerable. But I don't know just a 100 little tiny things that got me closer and closer to this window of music which turned into Bad Guru. So don't minimize anything that you do that brings you even inches closer to that and I really do believe that those little things.

Sierra:

So a lot of people spend most of their time doing very urgent not important things or like very urgent important things. That's where we spend so much of our time. But that little box, that little box which is not urgent but very important to you, that's to me what brings people fulfillment. So that's stuff like your hobbies or music, creativity. And it is hard to create a practice of it, for sure.

Sierra:

That's one that I feel like, a resource that might be good if you haven't heard of it. I think a lot of people talk about it, but The Artist's Sway by Julia Cameron, I believe, something like that. That has a lot of good practical exercises and stuff that you can go through to kind of help that practice. Because it's not just about being creative, right? Then it becomes kind of difficult if not writing lyrics or something.

Sierra:

Oh, am I not a creative? Am I not what I thought I was? But I think you always are. Being creative is your birthright? And so that book helps me get into the practice of just being a prolific creator, right?

Sierra:

It's not about the thing I have to work on a lot is like perfection, perfectionism, killing creative drive. So that's, maybe that's one of my 2026 goals to keep working on as well.

Tyler:

Yeah. I think you summed that up the right way. I think you did that right. Anything else you guys want to say? This is maybe shout out time if you want.

Tyler:

Any shout outs you like to give?

Quinn:

I feel like I've given a bunch. Do you guys have any?

Tyler:

Memaw, grandma.

Quinn:

I've got Pee paw. Shout outs for our next shows. Next show is January 24 in Milledgeville.

Tyler:

Okay.

Quinn:

Are you all familiar with the Bobcat Nation?

Ethan:

The Bobcat Nation.

Quinn:

Georgia College and State University. Oh, no. We're playing at their Bobcat Fest. It's like a it's an all day event with multiple bands and karaoke. So Milledgeville is a short drive from here, so come on out.

Quinn:

It's like two and a half hours, I think.

Tyler:

But I feel bad to burst your bubble here. This might not be out by then. But you know what?

Quinn:

That's fine. If Next it's not

Tyler:

year, if you're listening to this, next year, there's probably gonna be another one.

Quinn:

Well, do have one in Atlanta. It's Friday, February 27.

Tyler:

That yeah. It will be

Quinn:

on That'll my be Smith's Bar. Thank you. Smith's Old Bar. Shout out to Smith's. We're playing with a band.

Quinn:

We're playing with a band called Hooked Like Helen. Okay. So we're opening for them. We've opened for them before. They're awesome.

Quinn:

They're a pretty big band, I would say. And they're pretty supportive of us. Like, they're always liking our stuff on Instagram, and they'll message us. But, yeah, come to that February 27. Smith Sold Bar.

Tyler:

Well, I want to thank you guys again. Thank you so much for being a part of this. Okay? Because you are now part of the Creator's Table network. You have a are now our official member of the Creator's Table.

Tyler:

Woah. So congratulations. Wow.

Ethan:

Let's go. Are we gonna be able to, like, like, draw our name on it? Like, that

Sierra:

your Does that mean we literally say hoodie nice? With full confidence?

Tyler:

Who do you you gotta do this to the camera. Go, who do you? Yeah. You do this. It's like allies.

Tyler:

Yeah. Who? I can't explain it. It's just people that

Sierra:

do Yeah. That

Quinn:

I don't

Sierra:

allies. Right?

Tyler:

And they're little It's cool allies and then whatever that is.

Sierra:

Owl is actually my spirit animal.

Tyler:

So So this is meant to

Quinn:

be. Yeah.

Tyler:

That's what I

Ethan:

am saying, guys. Wow.

Tyler:

Well, guys, thank you guys for listening to the listeners and future listeners and people on YouTube. If you're looking for any, you know, links anywhere you can find their music, their links will be in the description below, their Instagram, stuff like that. And, yeah, you guys wanna say goodbye to listeners with me. Goodbye, everybody.

Quinn:

Thank you for listening. Goodbye, listeners. Thank

Ethan:

you. Bye. Goodbye.

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Creators and Guests

Tyler Watson
Host
Tyler Watson
Founder of The Creators Table Podcast
Bad Guru
Guest
Bad Guru
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Bad Guru is a genre-bending rock band that channels life’s extremes into a sound that walks the razor’s edge between chaos and order. Drawing from influences like Tool, King Buffalo, Highly Suspect, and Soundgarden, the band fuses stoner rock with psychedelic soundscapes. They have put out two albums with their latest being “Love and Fear Me”. Bad Guru’s music dives headfirst into the tension between light and shadow, masculinity and femininity, control and surrender. Soul-searching melodies intertwine with raw, haunting vocals that explore the darker corners of the human condition.