Music News Headline Answers With The Space Between's
~Maryn Pegan
June/July 2023 • 6th Edition #102
Metal Pulp And Paper: Thank you, Maryn, for taking the time once again to be part of Metal Pulp And Paper’s music news headlines feature. So, just so everyone knows if they aren't familair, we here at the Metal Pulp And Paper headquarters scoured the internet to find some of the most recent music news headlines from various media outlets out there and turned them into questions for you to answer. So, place your seat backs and tray tables in the upright position, because here we go…
1. Cliffdiver Bassist Survives Near-Fatal Accident
MPAP: Tyler Rogers, the bassist for the emo-punk band Cliffdiver, was almost killed while driving their tour van, leaving their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma on their way to a music festival being held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazingly, miraculously, Tyler survived. It’s horrendous to think you’re driving down the interstate on the way to your next show, something you’ve done repeatedly a thousand times before, and then; like thunder, out of nowhere a metal chain link comes flying through your windshield hitting you point blank in the neck. Once again, a horrendous thought! The impact from the chain link knocked Tyler unconscious, and luckily the incident didn’t happen in the middle of the night or something when everyone could have been asleep and they all could have ended up dead hitting another vehicle head-on. Fortunately, it happened around 11 in the morning with everyone being awake, and drummer Eliot Cooper, who was sitting in the passenger seat at the time, was able to move Tyler out of the driver’s seat and stop the van. And holy shit, this is something you’d expect to watch in one of the Final Destination movies, not have it happen in real life.
So, do you have any life-changing stories or almost deadly events like this one you can tell us about while out on tour?
Maryn: We haven't actually been on a tour yet! I think the most deadly situation we've been in as a band are carrying all our gear up the stairs of venues. We bring a lot. It's definitely freaky bringing up the heavy in-ear rack and all of Tom's various drums, and somehow, we always choose to play where the stairs are the smallest... In the future when we do make it on tour, hopefully in 2024, we'll be much luckier than Tyler and have everything smooth sailing.
(Editor’s Note: Just to let the readers know how gruesome Tyler Rogers’ injury was ... his carotid artery was punctured, and his jugular was lacerated. And on top of the artery and jugular injury, and losing a lot of blood, he also suffered multiple fractures in his neck. A sheriff at the scene told the band that a large steel chain link was found lodged in Rogers' neck and that it was likely that a semi-truck that was pulling a trailer that had a load-bearing chain strap that had snapped under pressure, launching the chain link across the interstate and through the van window and into Rogers' neck.)
2. Spite Robbed For A Second Time In Portland, Seeks Public’s Help
MPAP: Spite, a metal core band from Southern California has a terrible history with Portland, Oregon. Spite's trailer was broken into with personal items and equipment being stolen after they played a show in May 2018. Spite then returned to Portland for the first time since the robbery four years later and was robbed yet again! It has to be devastating both times, but to have it happen twice in the same city has to be some sort of bad luck you would think, right? Unless you’re a band like Metallica or Iron Maiden who have paid personnel to watch their gear, most bands don’t get that luxury, especially new ones. Most groups have to park their trailers in dark alleys behind the bar or venue, or somewhere in a dark parking lot. What does your band do to take extra precautions to prevent some piece of a shit person from breaking into your van or trailer?
Maryn: James tends to park the U-Haul just centimeters away from a building if he can, which has worked so far. In general, we always task one person with staying with the van while the other two are the unlucky ones who have to run gear. With the way we've been using this system, there's been no instance in which a van's been left alone with our gear inside. I think we'd definitely like to keep it that way, we're all pretty protective of our instruments.
3. Dave Mustaine: Even Days Off On Tour Are Expensive
MPAP: “I think it’s about 45 thousand dollars a day for us to just sit still,” the Megadeth frontman said on a recent episode of The Jeremy White Show. Mustaine went further into detail saying, “show days are even more expensive. There are salaries, hotel rooms, insurance, the busses, the bus drivers, the trucks, and the truck drivers.” Makes you wonder why ticket prices or fees are so outrageous lately. So, what are some things you do to save money while out on tour? Where are your penny-pinching habits? Are you taking the deli trays from the show you just played at back to the bus or the hotel room to eat for later?
Maryn: I'm sure lots of fast food is in our future. Depending on how long the tour is, I'd probably like to try meal prepping and bringing some kind of cooler so that we don't completely turn our stomachs to mush, but unfortunately that would just be one more bulky thing to bring. Definitely if there's free food though, I think we'd probably take advantage of that!
4. Taylor Swift Fans Wearing Diapers To Her Concerts
MPAP: We don’t even know where to begin to turn this headline into a question, but we try and tackle it though. Anyways, some Taylor Swift fans are going to some extreme measures so they don't miss a single song she sings at one of her shows. They can’t miss one song seems absurd when she probably sings over 30 or more that night. So, I guess while she’s singing “You Belong To Me,” they can keep screaming in excitement and pee without moving an inch in their seat because they are wearing a diaper. So, is there even a question to this news headline? Hmmmm, how about just giving us your thoughts about it instead? Or, I guess would you ever wear a diaper to one of your favorite band’s concerts, or even to a Taylor Swift show for that matter?
Maryn: I can't say I would, but I can't speak for the guys. Please, prioritize your personal hygiene! One song won't kill you to miss, and I'm sure your seatmates would thank you.
(Editor’s Note: Sometimes the porta-poddies can be over a hundred yards away, or the bathrooms are up or down a few flights of stairs, and then most of the time there is a long line to wait, and, of course; if you’re attending the Download Festival you have over 100,000 people surrounding you. So, maybe those Swifties are onto something.)
5. Fever 333 Singer Performs For Crowd From A Moving Ferris Wheel
MPAP: Jason Butler, the lead singer for Inglewood, California’s Fever 333, recently performed while riding on a moving Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany. This was far from planned by the festival or even the band. Butler is best known for his erratic stage performances, which include nonstop running around, smashing various things onstage, crowd surfing, and climbing the festival stages. In the band’s social media post about Butler’s performance on the Ferris wheel, they tagged the Guinness Book of World Records. I don’t know if they were hoping to gain a World record for the craziest place to perform a song or whatever, but it’s always worth it to try at least, right? So, where is the craziest place that you’ve performed before?
Maryn: For me personally, on the sidewalk maybe? As a band, we've only played three shows since coming out in October of 2022, which have all been at relatively normal venues. I'm sure that there's some odd ones in our future though, we'd love to play somewhere like a Ferris wheel; that'd definitely be unforgettable.
6. Paul McCartney Is Using AI To Make A ‘Final’ Beatles Song
MPAP: Artificial Intelligence, meet the Beatles a group that formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 and was a major influential part of rock music history. The Fab Four currently holds the record for Billboard’s Top Number 1 hits at 20. Unfortunately, they would disband in 1970, and 10 years later, John Lennon would be gunned down and murdered in 1980 in New York. Now, 43 years later, a new Beatles song is supposed to be released this year according to Sir Paul McCartney. So, what are your thoughts on AI being used in music technology? Using AI to create a sound or a new musical note is one thing, but should it be used to create an almost perfect life-like voice of a deceased person? Could AI be the final nail in the coffin of making ‘real’ music?
Maryn: I think that AI is a great technology, however for me, it won't ever replace the human element of making music. There's just something special about knowing someone wrote a song because they felt a certain way and being able to connect with it based on that shared human experience. As for using it to replicate someone deceased, I can see both sides; it's a cool idea to be able to hear what an artist might've sounded like or written like in present day, but it's most definitely not a true representation of their work. For that reason, I wouldn't venture too far in this direction. AI is such a neat tool to use, but music really doesn't need it quite yet; as long as people make amazing music by themselves, the music industry is set.
MPAP: Well, that wraps things up. On behalf of Metal Pulp And Paper, we’d like to thank you, Maryn, for taking the time to answer these recent music news headline questions. We look forward to what you or your band The Space Between do in 2023 and beyond. Any last words for all your fans and all the Metal Pulp And Paper readers out there?
Maryn: Thank you to all who have been supporting us! We just dropped our self-titled debut EP on June 23rd, so make sure you go give it a listen and let us know what you think. We've got tons more exciting stuff coming up soon, so stay tuned and we can't wait to see you at one of our shows!
~Maryn Pegan
June/July 2023 • 6th Edition #102
Metal Pulp And Paper: Thank you, Maryn, for taking the time once again to be part of Metal Pulp And Paper’s music news headlines feature. So, just so everyone knows if they aren't familair, we here at the Metal Pulp And Paper headquarters scoured the internet to find some of the most recent music news headlines from various media outlets out there and turned them into questions for you to answer. So, place your seat backs and tray tables in the upright position, because here we go…
1. Cliffdiver Bassist Survives Near-Fatal Accident
MPAP: Tyler Rogers, the bassist for the emo-punk band Cliffdiver, was almost killed while driving their tour van, leaving their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma on their way to a music festival being held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazingly, miraculously, Tyler survived. It’s horrendous to think you’re driving down the interstate on the way to your next show, something you’ve done repeatedly a thousand times before, and then; like thunder, out of nowhere a metal chain link comes flying through your windshield hitting you point blank in the neck. Once again, a horrendous thought! The impact from the chain link knocked Tyler unconscious, and luckily the incident didn’t happen in the middle of the night or something when everyone could have been asleep and they all could have ended up dead hitting another vehicle head-on. Fortunately, it happened around 11 in the morning with everyone being awake, and drummer Eliot Cooper, who was sitting in the passenger seat at the time, was able to move Tyler out of the driver’s seat and stop the van. And holy shit, this is something you’d expect to watch in one of the Final Destination movies, not have it happen in real life.
So, do you have any life-changing stories or almost deadly events like this one you can tell us about while out on tour?
Maryn: We haven't actually been on a tour yet! I think the most deadly situation we've been in as a band are carrying all our gear up the stairs of venues. We bring a lot. It's definitely freaky bringing up the heavy in-ear rack and all of Tom's various drums, and somehow, we always choose to play where the stairs are the smallest... In the future when we do make it on tour, hopefully in 2024, we'll be much luckier than Tyler and have everything smooth sailing.
(Editor’s Note: Just to let the readers know how gruesome Tyler Rogers’ injury was ... his carotid artery was punctured, and his jugular was lacerated. And on top of the artery and jugular injury, and losing a lot of blood, he also suffered multiple fractures in his neck. A sheriff at the scene told the band that a large steel chain link was found lodged in Rogers' neck and that it was likely that a semi-truck that was pulling a trailer that had a load-bearing chain strap that had snapped under pressure, launching the chain link across the interstate and through the van window and into Rogers' neck.)
2. Spite Robbed For A Second Time In Portland, Seeks Public’s Help
MPAP: Spite, a metal core band from Southern California has a terrible history with Portland, Oregon. Spite's trailer was broken into with personal items and equipment being stolen after they played a show in May 2018. Spite then returned to Portland for the first time since the robbery four years later and was robbed yet again! It has to be devastating both times, but to have it happen twice in the same city has to be some sort of bad luck you would think, right? Unless you’re a band like Metallica or Iron Maiden who have paid personnel to watch their gear, most bands don’t get that luxury, especially new ones. Most groups have to park their trailers in dark alleys behind the bar or venue, or somewhere in a dark parking lot. What does your band do to take extra precautions to prevent some piece of a shit person from breaking into your van or trailer?
Maryn: James tends to park the U-Haul just centimeters away from a building if he can, which has worked so far. In general, we always task one person with staying with the van while the other two are the unlucky ones who have to run gear. With the way we've been using this system, there's been no instance in which a van's been left alone with our gear inside. I think we'd definitely like to keep it that way, we're all pretty protective of our instruments.
3. Dave Mustaine: Even Days Off On Tour Are Expensive
MPAP: “I think it’s about 45 thousand dollars a day for us to just sit still,” the Megadeth frontman said on a recent episode of The Jeremy White Show. Mustaine went further into detail saying, “show days are even more expensive. There are salaries, hotel rooms, insurance, the busses, the bus drivers, the trucks, and the truck drivers.” Makes you wonder why ticket prices or fees are so outrageous lately. So, what are some things you do to save money while out on tour? Where are your penny-pinching habits? Are you taking the deli trays from the show you just played at back to the bus or the hotel room to eat for later?
Maryn: I'm sure lots of fast food is in our future. Depending on how long the tour is, I'd probably like to try meal prepping and bringing some kind of cooler so that we don't completely turn our stomachs to mush, but unfortunately that would just be one more bulky thing to bring. Definitely if there's free food though, I think we'd probably take advantage of that!
4. Taylor Swift Fans Wearing Diapers To Her Concerts
MPAP: We don’t even know where to begin to turn this headline into a question, but we try and tackle it though. Anyways, some Taylor Swift fans are going to some extreme measures so they don't miss a single song she sings at one of her shows. They can’t miss one song seems absurd when she probably sings over 30 or more that night. So, I guess while she’s singing “You Belong To Me,” they can keep screaming in excitement and pee without moving an inch in their seat because they are wearing a diaper. So, is there even a question to this news headline? Hmmmm, how about just giving us your thoughts about it instead? Or, I guess would you ever wear a diaper to one of your favorite band’s concerts, or even to a Taylor Swift show for that matter?
Maryn: I can't say I would, but I can't speak for the guys. Please, prioritize your personal hygiene! One song won't kill you to miss, and I'm sure your seatmates would thank you.
(Editor’s Note: Sometimes the porta-poddies can be over a hundred yards away, or the bathrooms are up or down a few flights of stairs, and then most of the time there is a long line to wait, and, of course; if you’re attending the Download Festival you have over 100,000 people surrounding you. So, maybe those Swifties are onto something.)
5. Fever 333 Singer Performs For Crowd From A Moving Ferris Wheel
MPAP: Jason Butler, the lead singer for Inglewood, California’s Fever 333, recently performed while riding on a moving Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany. This was far from planned by the festival or even the band. Butler is best known for his erratic stage performances, which include nonstop running around, smashing various things onstage, crowd surfing, and climbing the festival stages. In the band’s social media post about Butler’s performance on the Ferris wheel, they tagged the Guinness Book of World Records. I don’t know if they were hoping to gain a World record for the craziest place to perform a song or whatever, but it’s always worth it to try at least, right? So, where is the craziest place that you’ve performed before?
Maryn: For me personally, on the sidewalk maybe? As a band, we've only played three shows since coming out in October of 2022, which have all been at relatively normal venues. I'm sure that there's some odd ones in our future though, we'd love to play somewhere like a Ferris wheel; that'd definitely be unforgettable.
6. Paul McCartney Is Using AI To Make A ‘Final’ Beatles Song
MPAP: Artificial Intelligence, meet the Beatles a group that formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 and was a major influential part of rock music history. The Fab Four currently holds the record for Billboard’s Top Number 1 hits at 20. Unfortunately, they would disband in 1970, and 10 years later, John Lennon would be gunned down and murdered in 1980 in New York. Now, 43 years later, a new Beatles song is supposed to be released this year according to Sir Paul McCartney. So, what are your thoughts on AI being used in music technology? Using AI to create a sound or a new musical note is one thing, but should it be used to create an almost perfect life-like voice of a deceased person? Could AI be the final nail in the coffin of making ‘real’ music?
Maryn: I think that AI is a great technology, however for me, it won't ever replace the human element of making music. There's just something special about knowing someone wrote a song because they felt a certain way and being able to connect with it based on that shared human experience. As for using it to replicate someone deceased, I can see both sides; it's a cool idea to be able to hear what an artist might've sounded like or written like in present day, but it's most definitely not a true representation of their work. For that reason, I wouldn't venture too far in this direction. AI is such a neat tool to use, but music really doesn't need it quite yet; as long as people make amazing music by themselves, the music industry is set.
MPAP: Well, that wraps things up. On behalf of Metal Pulp And Paper, we’d like to thank you, Maryn, for taking the time to answer these recent music news headline questions. We look forward to what you or your band The Space Between do in 2023 and beyond. Any last words for all your fans and all the Metal Pulp And Paper readers out there?
Maryn: Thank you to all who have been supporting us! We just dropped our self-titled debut EP on June 23rd, so make sure you go give it a listen and let us know what you think. We've got tons more exciting stuff coming up soon, so stay tuned and we can't wait to see you at one of our shows!
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