← Takin' A Walk - Music History with Buzz Knight
Takin' A Walk - Music History with Buzz Knight
Join Buzz Knight and Bryce Vine as They Walk Through Music History and Discuss Authenticity in Today's Sound
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Buzz Knight
Taking a Walk I'm Buzz Knight and this is the Taking a Walk podcast. Now, hey, I want to hear from you. Open the iHeart app, hit the talkback button, leave me a voice message, tell me what you think of the show. Or better yet, tell me who your dream walk would be with. Living or dead. I want to know. Leave it right there in the app. From punk kid to platinum artist and now back to his roots. My guest today started fronting bands at age 13. He built a massive following with his double platinum hits Drew Barrymore in La La Land and he's accumulated over 5 billion global streams. But rather than play it safe, he's done something bold and we love stories like that. He's gone back to where it all began. His brand new album is called let's Do Something Stupid out now on Big Noise Music Group and it's a full throttle dive into pop, punk and scar territory. Produced by John Feldman, the man behind Blink 182, Avril Lavigne and the Used, the record features collaborations with Tony Hawk, Goldfinger state champs, Dickey Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones and more. He's also been confirmed for the 2026 bands Warped Tour, which feels like the perfect home for this record. We are in Boston where he closed out his let's Do Something Stupid tour at the amazing Brighton Music Hall. Coming up next on the Taking a Walk podcast, we're joined by Bryce. This is an iHeart podcast.
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Bryce Vine
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Buzz Knight
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Bryce Vine
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Robert Smigel
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Bryce Vine
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Jonas Brothers
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Bryce Vine
I'm Joe.
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Jonas Brothers
I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called hey Jonas. Jonas.
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Bryce Vine
We invented a podcast.
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Jonas Brothers
Well, we didn't invent it.
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Buzz Knight
We.
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Jonas Brothers
We just contributed to it. First people to do podcasts.
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Bryce Vine
We get to ask other people questions
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Jonas Brothers
because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen.
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Bryce Vine
We don't care where you hear it.
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Buzz Knight
Fine.
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Bryce Vine
Taking a Walk.
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Buzz Knight
This is very cool. Bryce Vine. Welcome to Taking a Walk.
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Bryce Vine
Thanks. I feel. Welcome. A very easing voice. Have you been told that before?
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Buzz Knight
I have been. And I don't know how it stayed with me all this time due to all the ragged behavior I put it through.
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Bryce Vine
Yeah, honestly, same. I feel like I've been told that I should read audiobooks and I might even do it at some point, but I would listen to yours for sure.
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Buzz Knight
You're very. You're very kind. Well, tell me the first moment that you remember in your life where music had a deep connection with you.
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Bryce Vine
There were two. One was watching a comedy special with my mom. We used to love to watch Comedy Central. Used to have like 30 minute episodes of just promoting comedians that you hadn't heard of before. And there was a guy called Stephen lynch, and he had. I don't know what it was, but he would play the guitar and he had a beautiful voice. But every song that he sang was. It would twist your emotions on a dime because it would sound pretty and then you would realize what it's about, and they would always be some kind of darkly funny thing. And we watched this comedy special. I mean, I had it saved for years and would just re watch it because it was one of my favorites. I loved the idea that you could just do that, that this guy could just pick up a guitar, write these funny songs and play them in front of a crowd. And I don't know why it struck, but I was like, oh, I just want the ability to do that. And then I went to the local teen center in my hometown and I saw this metal band that consisted of three members, no singer, and they just shred for 45 minutes. Didn't even talk to the crowd, really. And they were so dialed in and couldn't have been older than 16 years old. And I was like, oh, I want that too. I don't know where I'm going to be on this stage, but I want whatever is happening here.
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Buzz Knight
What a great memory. So you started as a 13 year old fronting a, A punk band?
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Bryce Vine
Yeah, I, I guess I was. Yeah, probably a sophomore in High School, so 15. And I, I'd been, Listen, you know, it was like the time of Tony Hawk, pro skater and punk rock and, and culture was all wrapped together with skateboard culture and, and I just fell in love with bands like Rancid and Real Big Fish and, and Street Light Manifesto and, you know, and then some 41 came around and Blink 182 was crushing it already, so it just. I wanted to write that kind of music first and it seemed like really fun to perform and I met a girl in a journalism class that played drums and I could kind of play the guitar, so we had a band.
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Buzz Knight
So dissecting though, the various influences that you have, you've got pop influences, you've got punk influences, and you've got ska influences as well. Where did the ska part come from?
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Bryce Vine
It started when I watched the movie Basketball. Real Big Fish performs in that movie. They perform a song called Beer and you know, it's just whenever something makes you feel good, whatever's aligned with that, you kind of love it all. Like, even when I watched Clueless for the first time and Mighty Mighty Boss Stones is playing in a scene. I love this movie. I love this song that they're playing. I love this scene. And then it all just. I. That's kind of even how I write songs. Like, I think of a scene in my head now, how I want people to experience the song or how they feel about it.
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Buzz Knight
Do you see a future where you're creating music for movies or television? Yeah.
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Bryce Vine
You know, it's funny, when I, when I first auditioned for Berkeley College of Music, I, I thought that's the path I wanted to go into was. Was film scoring and all that. And I still would like to do it at some point. Nobody's asked me, but I definitely would want to because it would be so fun and scores set the tone for so many films. You know, there's a lot of stuff I want to do. I started a novel a couple years ago with a really cool concept. I want a podcast, but I feel like there's so many already and so many people are better at it and they have time for it, so I don't know. We'll see.
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Buzz Knight
Well, never say never, right? Never say no, no, no.
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Bryce Vine
I'm open to everything, man. You know, it's and more so now than. Than ever because when I was coming up, all I had time for was to work odd jobs and make music, to strive for, you know, kind of what I've been able to achieve now. And then you have free time again as an adult, and it's like I have hobbies again. I just played paddle this morning with some investor guys that I met a couple months ago, and I played. I played a game of poker with Timothy Chalamet and a bunch of people like two weeks ago. I'm not even good at poker. I mean, I lost every hand. But it's still a cool story, you know.
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Buzz Knight
He took you for your money, that. That rat bastard, didn't he?
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Bryce Vine
Dude, It. It was so just for the novelty, you know, and he was very nice guy. But now I have time finally, you know, for the first time in my life, to try things and see what new thing I started learning how to dj because DJ culture is so huge here in Miami. But a lot of times I hear things that I feel like, oh, this doesn't really add to the room that much. You know, it's. There's no words, so there's nothing for people to sing along to. It's repetitive, it's loud. And at the risk of sounding old, like, I miss the connection to music in a party scene that. That kind of enhances it. And I don't. Sometimes I don't feel like it does. A lot of times it does, but. So I started writing more DJ songs that I want to hear in the club. That's all I'm really ever trying to do is if I have a. A wonderful situation or a great memory or I've met really cool people. What's like, how could I make a new soundtrack for this moment?
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Buzz Knight
You got a lot of history in the Boston area. The let's Do Something Stupid tour concluded at the Brighton Music Hall. Obviously you mentioned your time at Berkeley. Congratulations on let's Do Something Stupid. Tell me about your experience in the Boston area. Tell me what you loved about it and what some of your favorite things to do while you were. While you were around. And tell me what you didn't like about it too. I'm outside of Boston, so what, where,
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Bryce Vine
what part I'm out in.
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Buzz Knight
They call it the Metro west. Next to Concord, Mass. Out there.
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Bryce Vine
Okay, let me think. The best things about Boston is there's so much to do and there's so many cool little areas. Like, I love the North End. I love Seaport now I even love Brighton. It really does feel like a melting pot of so many people. Young people too, because there's so many schools around there. The hard, the hard part about Boston when I went to school there is that at least when I was kind of coming up making rap music, when I started doing that in college, there wasn't a lot of places to play that like it was a very rock forward town. I remember we would reach out to multiple venues and they would just be like, sorry, we don't do rap. So there was that part of it. But other than that, it was a. I mean, I have really fond memories
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Buzz Knight
of Boston, you know, and Berkeley's pretty amazing, isn't it?
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Bryce Vine
Berkeley? I mean, I only know one way to be. I just got to be honest about stuff. But Berkeley is an amazing melting pot. Amazing melting pot of people who are going to be doing something magical involving music. And you get to meet them and see them early on and you could tell the people that are going to be, you know, somebody. I remember sitting in John Ryan, his apartment just watching him produce and I'm like, oh, this guy's to be huge. And now he's one of the, you know, arguably one of the biggest and greatest songwriters ever. And we work together as adults and it's fun, you know, having that history and familiarity with people and then, you know, executives that go to labels, blah, blah, blah. So that's part of Berkeley is worth it on its own. You know, I met, my whole band went there, my manager, my producer I met freshman year, one of the producers I work with. But I feel like they've never, the school itself has never been able to create this community that it could be, you know, we, we've never been invited back. When I say we, you know, me and my team to do anything at Berkeley, to speak there, they're, they're not great at actively seeking out the people that are examples of, of why this is worthwhile, which is surprising.
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Buzz Knight
Well, I think that's true of a lot of schools. They are too either selective about this. I feel like many times when they do it, there's like a monetary reason that they're picking people for some reason and they ought to just celebrate the successes and bring those people back, like yourself and your crew, to celebrate. So I, I see that elsewhere and I, I think this is where the money making machine of these places can
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Bryce Vine
be a negative, you know, And I'm curious now what it would be like to be in school there now that AI has such a big presence in our lives. And you could pretty Much, you know, hum a. Hum a song and, and have it be fully produced using something like Suno. You know, I'm curious if they've kept up with the times, you know.
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Buzz Knight
Yep, yep. I agree. This is a, this is a challenge for the whole side of things. Do you ever get, as an artist concerned about that at all?
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Bryce Vine
Yeah, it's a concern, I think when anything is new and undeniable, I mean, it's here, you know, I know some people swear by trying to fight against it, but how many times in history has that happened and didn't work? You know, when Henry Ford asked people what they wanted out of a vehicle, they just said a faster horse. And that's kind of how we always are until we get used to using it as a tool, which is what I try to do. You know, I've never been able to, because of it, create music as quickly and efficiently as I can now on my own, by myself. Granted, you know, the more tools that you add to your own repertoire, like I, I spent the last year in LA before I moved to Miami, going to a school in Hollywood to learn how to use Ableton because I had only ever learned logic and you got to keep up with the times. Ableton's the one that people use. So I, you know, I went into a classroom again for the first time in 15 years and, and relearned something and it's been super helpful, you know, and it's kind of the same thing with AI it's not just magical. You still have to know what you're doing and you can' by taste. So at the very, at least not yet, you know. So at the very least, I still feel confident that good songwriting and good music will be human born and AI will be tools for it. I don't know how, I can't speak for it in other realms of business, but that's how I see it.
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Buzz Knight
Very well stated, because I think it's often looked as a budgetary shortcut. Hey, we don't need this many people for something. But I always have maintained with AI you need to have the human touch as part of it. You know, there's nothing like the intellect and the passion of someone's brain to be able to use the tools and then allow it to enhance their work, you know.
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Bryce Vine
Yeah. And you know, the people are the only ones, as far as I know, that listen to music, so they want to feel related to. And I think especially now because we have so much access to excess, people don't like being. Feeling like they're being dumbed down to or. Or condescended to, you know, so like they hear songs, they hear, they see an artist, they get a feel for them, they comment on Instagram, you know, they, they're quick to judge, but they're also like less easy to deceive than ever before. So they could tell when something's authentic, you know, or if it came from Chachi Beatty.
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Buzz Knight
Your album title feels like a mission statement. When did you decide to throw caution to the wind and make this record?
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Bryce Vine
I wasn't really planning to because I had just released an album less than a year before when we started working on. On let's Do Something Stupid. And I wasn't really planning on doing a punk album. I had done a collection of punk songs with John Feldman and it was so much fun. And I had them for a few years and I guess their label, Big Noise heard them kind of randomly and then hit us up and we're like, let's do a full album of this. And I was really hesitant because it felt almost like, oh, but is this is going to be too confusing? Like why? This isn't really what my artistry is next, you know, I want to, I want to have time also to work on the new stuff. But then my mom sent me a photo that ended up being the album cover of me as a 13 year old kid with all this shit all over my face wearing a birdhouse sweater. And I was like, oh, I just got to do this for that kid. Like this is just one of those things because I love this music. I always wanted to have enough money or the someone to promote an album with this style of music and get up and coming artists in that genre and work with someone like John Feldman and have Tony Hawk on a song. It was just like my 13 year old me would have been ecstatic. So I just had to do that for him and then just not take it too seriously. We'll be right back with more of the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Buzz Knight
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Bryce Vine
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Bryce Vine
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Jonas Brothers
Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called hey Jonas.
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Bryce Vine
We invented a podcast.
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Jonas Brothers
Well, we didn't invent it.
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Bryce Vine
We.
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Jonas Brothers
We just contributed to it. First people to do podcasts. Pretty. Yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts, but this one's extra special.
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Buzz Knight
So how did we.
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Jonas Brothers
How do we actually come up with the name hey Jonas? Guys, I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it and, well, we were thinking. I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes, I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing a bit for the podcast. People could call in and say, hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, hey Jonas. And offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that. Guys, listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen.
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Bryce Vine
We don't care where you hear it.
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Robert Smigel
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Bryce Vine
Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes.
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Robert Smigel
Those people are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bryce Vine
Welcome back to the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Buzz Knight
It's a pretty incredible cast on the album. Like you said, Tony Hawk, Goldfinger, Dickey Barrett from the Boss Tones, State champs. Where did you first learn the importance of collaboration as a skill?
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Bryce Vine
High school for sure. Being with my punk band. You know, it really. It's a different kind of family. You have to. You have to go into songwriting without an ego, which is difficult to do it. You know, you have to make sure everyone else is having fun too. And I, and I always liked the idea of what would happen if, you know, what would happen if gorillas and Blink 182 were drunk in a studio. What would they come up with? And the only way that you can get something unique or fun like that is by being open to other people's ideas. You know, of How a song can go and everybody's got different specialties and every songwriter I work with has a different way of going about it. And I was not a fast writer on my own, so it really helped just help pick it up, you know. And it's just. Oh, it's just kind of always been there since I was a kid, I guess, just wanting to make stuff and, and hear other people's ideas. As long as you can just make a song as good as it can
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Buzz Knight
be, you know, I love the song Superman with, with Tony Hawk and Goldfinger. Kind of reimagining of the song most people know from Pro Skater, right?
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Bryce Vine
Hell yeah.
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Buzz Knight
What was it like bringing that song back to life? And, and what did Tony bring to this? Kind of a dopey question. What did Tony bring to the room?
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Bryce Vine
It. I, I almost like was a little. I was a little hesitant about it even when I brought it up to John because it's his song, you know, just because it's such a good song, you know, covering something is fun, but I wanted to give it, you know, something new, something of me. And he was like, well, let's do a rap verse. And it took us 20 minutes to write one of my. I had so much fun recording that and it fit into the song well. And Tony's a gem. Just like the nicest dude. I actually didn't meet him until we had to do some content for Warf tour. He helped me with. It was really. It's funny, you know, the things that are childhood dreams. As you. When you get older, you realize, okay, wait a second, maybe he. He was trying to teach me how to drop in to some huge barrel. He, he owns this warehouse near San Diego where, you know, he's got this huge ramp and he's explaining to me how to drop into it. And I'm like 13 year old me would be freaking out right now that Tony Hawk is showing me how to drop in. But at 37, it's not gonna happen. I'm not doing this. I'm gonna get hurt. It's just. I'm gonna break something and I have to tour it a month. It's not gonna happen. But it was all fun, man. You know, it's just sometimes you just got to do things because they are fun and it's like a little side quest.
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Buzz Knight
Well, you went from major label to full independence. Now a lot of people talk about that and they want that freedom, but they never jump off the curb. What was the moment that you knew this was the right move?
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Bryce Vine
Well, I guess it just really depends on what you want out of it. And I can only speak from my own perspective, but for me it was just. I wanted to own my songs, you know, and I wanted them to have a life and see an audience and the, the major label system helped me tremendously. Don't get me wrong, there's a many great people there. I don't like when people completely slander the major label system because they're also slandering people that help them. But it is a business again, so. And I'm an artist, so if it, if it feels like I'm writing songs that I love and you guys don't love them or feel like promoting them that much, but then you also get to own them, then I'd rather just give this a shot on my own. I have fans now. People show up to the shows. So it was kind of a no brainer at first, but it's hard. It's definitely harder. You know, it's not, it's not an easy road, but the fans help.
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Buzz Knight
You know, You've blended hip hop and pop and alt rock and ska punk over your career. Does genre feel like a bit of a. Like a cage to you or more like a playground?
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Bryce Vine
Oh, I love that question. Definitely a playground. But that's always the first thing still that people ask is, oh, what kind of music do you make? And I really don't know what to say. And I should have a good answer for it. I've done enough interviews. I just kind of make what I think sounds good or what I think is missing, you know, something that I want to listen to. And I like so many different kinds of music that to be limited to just rapping. Like it also felt like the label wanted me to just repeat what was working, you know, which is cool. I get it from a business sense, but I get bored easily and it becomes less inspiring. So it's like, why not have a really great DJ song with loud luxury? Why not have a country song with Train? My mom loves Drops of Jupiter and, and it just expands what you're capable of. And, and I don't think anyone really cares about genre anymore. If you look at the songs on New Music Friday, it's all over the place. Like my catalog, you know, I think
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Buzz Knight
that's becoming so exciting. That genre is being kind of tossed aside and just something being good and quality is the, the first priority that, that matters.
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Bryce Vine
Yeah. And it's, it's really cool. This is the first time in years where it doesn't feel like there's a certain genre or a certain sound that is dominating the radio, people's eardrums. It reminds me of the 90s a little bit because there was a while where it was all dance forward, hip hop songs like Feel this Moment and the Wanted in like the early 2000s, mid 2, 2000s. And then trap beats, rappers, some of which you couldn't understand or differentiate, had a long run and now it's kind of everything. It's great.
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Buzz Knight
You must be really excited to be heading to the. The Van's Warp tour. For someone who grew up in that world, what does that stage mean to you, going back to it?
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Bryce Vine
It's funny. My best friend from high school, because we used to go every year, he called me when he, you know, when I told him that I was going to be playing last year for the first time, he's like, do you have any idea how cool it is that the festival that we used to go to and dream of you playing when you were a kid died, came back to, to life and now you're playing in Long beach with all, with. Alongside all these great bands that we spent so many summers singing the words to. And it's always nice to be reminded of those things and then when people actually show up, because I have this thing where I just am convinced that this will be the time that nobody's there, you know, so it's always exciting when they do show up. And it was a packed crowd and the energy was electric and it was fun to play punk songs mixed with my other stuff and have it all work. And then I, you know, my, my high school band also, we had said whoever. If we ended up breaking up one day, whoever of us got to play Warp tour had to bring the band. So I did. So they were all on stage with me. It was. Yeah, it was really special.
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Buzz Knight
That's so cool. Your live shows have this great reputation. Fans talk about the energy, the connection and the fact that you, you stay and, and you meet everyone. Where does all that come from? Who instilled all that in you?
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Bryce Vine
My parents are. Have always been. They, they. They choose to love people. I know it seems like there's a lot of divisiveness between people, but I was raised by people that actually like people. My father was super easy. He is super charismatic and has a ton of friends and was always good at working a room and making everyone feel welcome. And my mom had basically an open house since I was her only child. Any time of day my friends were welcome to be There. So that's just, you know, I was, I was lucky to be raised by those two people separately too. You know, it wasn't the same household. So, yeah, you gotta, you gotta like people and your audience and want them to walk away feeling relieved from whatever it is that they're currently dealing with. You know, I think that's why a lot of people go to the shows it sweat it out. That's why I did as a kid. And, and from personal experience, I've had times where I met certain artists or, or were in the same rooms with people that didn't treat me like that. And it makes you go, okay, I'm gonna try to remember this moment so that I don't become that or do that or, or forget what this shit's about at some point.
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Buzz Knight
So, yeah, people read through it, you know, People read it.
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Bryce Vine
Yeah, some people are better at hiding it. I know some people that have great reputations and then I meet them and I was like, that was awful.
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Buzz Knight
Bryce, are there some particular causes that are important to you?
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Bryce Vine
Yeah, you know, I've worked along side of cancer. I've done a couple events for them. It's always great. The people that, that work with that company are, are awesome. And everyone, it's just one of those things that it defies how you feel about anything else. Everyone knows someone that's been affected by it. I lost a friend a year ago who I was paying for his cancer treatments for three years prior. And I knew that he was going to be okay. And then when he wasn't and passed, you know, it rocked me back into reality and I'm like, oh my God. People experience this personally every single day. So it's just something easy to align with. You know, I don't, I don't get into politics. I don't talk about those kinds of things outside of my personal friend groups. So I, I look for things that, that we can kind of all agree on at least a little bit. And I broke my neck when I was 16 and spent a year in a neck brace. And you, when that happens, you learn how often these things happen. Diving into the ocean or a pool and people losing all capability of their limbs. And I can't think of anything worse as someone that can't stop moving around. So I'm looking to align with a new charity that works with research into paraplegicism. Paraplegicism. I don't even know what the word is.
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Buzz Knight
So in closing, we do call this little podcast Taking a Walk. And I have to ask The. We call it the dream walk question. Bryce Vine. If you could take a walk with somebody, living or dead, who would you take a walk with, and where would you take that walk with them and what would you talk about?
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Bryce Vine
One of them is the author, Michael Crichton. Have you heard of him?
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Buzz Knight
Yes, I have.
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Bryce Vine
He wrote Jurassic Park, a bunch of other things that got turned into movies. Fascinating guy. Not. I guess not a lot of people know that. He was in the medical field before. He was a successful movie director. Author. Then wrote a book about what he did after that. Traveled around the world, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He went to Thailand, went to retreats, natural medicine retreats, and. And psycho psychedelic retreats before that was even really a thing. Just a super interesting, clearly intelligent guy. And he died in 2006, and I looked all over the Internet to ask him a question about one chapter in a book of his. That travels book about one patient that he had that he describes. And I've never been able to find anything about it. So probably I would probably walk around Central park with him and ask him more details about what he already kind of explains in his travels book. And then another author, there's a guy called Iceberg Slim. I believe he was out of New York or no, Chicago. Famous underground black author, semi famous, but he was a pimp for many, many years who transitioned to writing super brutal, truthful, dark stories about those times after the Great Migration and how what a struggle life was for black people. And some of them are brutal. There's a book specifically called Mama Black Widow that he tells about a transvestite story. And I want to. I want to know more. And I wish I could ask him, and I would just walk around anywhere with Chicago, with him. I know those are very random answers, but those are the first two that came to my mind.
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Buzz Knight
Those are amazing. And by the way, the backdrop of where you talked about those walks is fantastic. Central park, obviously one of the great places to take a walk. And anywhere in Chicago is also fantastic
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Bryce Vine
to walk in the summer.
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Buzz Knight
In the summer, yeah.
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Bryce Vine
Very, very true.
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Jonas Brothers
Yeah.
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Buzz Knight
So how'd we do, Bryce?
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Bryce Vine
Dude, I gotta tell you, I've never been asked some of those questions. I've never gotten a chance to think about it. And you get asked a lot of the same things, you know, which is fine, but never been asked any of those questions that are all interesting. So appreciate that.
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Buzz Knight
Oh, man, I appreciate you being on. Congratulations on everything. And it's just the beginning, and I hope someday you'll come back on.
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Bryce Vine
Dude, Let me know. I'm super down. Perfect.
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Buzz Knight
Thanks, Bryce. I appreciate it.
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Bryce Vine
This was a blast. Yeah, much love, man.
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Buzz Knight
I'm Buzz Knight. And thanks for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast. Now please check out our companion podcasts produced by Buzz Night Media Productions with your host Lynn Hoffman. Music Save Me. Showcasing the healing power of music and comedy. Save Me. Shining a light on how laughter is the best medicine. All shows are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and are part of the iHeart podcast network.
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Buzz Knight
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Bryce Vine
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Jonas Brothers
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Bryce Vine
I'm Joe.
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Jonas Brothers
I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called hey Jonas.
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Bryce Vine
We invented a podcast.
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Jonas Brothers
Well, we didn't invent it, we just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts.
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Bryce Vine
We get to ask other people questions
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Jonas Brothers
cause we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen.
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Bryce Vine
We don't care where you hear it.
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Robert Smigel
Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week. My guests SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter.
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Bryce Vine
Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes.
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Robert Smigel
Those people are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.