That's to me still something that I wanted to do back then, that I still want to do now, which

is impact a whole lot of people with a really positive message that changes to the world,

quite frankly.

It's not a big ask, I mean, if you ask me, but you know. Welcome back to this Welcome back to the label, the stories, rumors of tooth and nail records.

I'm your host, Matt Carter.

Now, I think of acceptance as a tooth-and-nail artist a couple of decades in the making.

They've just made and released their first album on tooth and nail,

and it's called Wild Free, but it was right here in the Seattle-Tacoma area where Acceptance was

founded and right at the time that Tooth and nail was transitioning to the new sound and the

explosion of the second generation of artists that they were having. Now, Acceptance, who were first generation

tooth and nail kids, became a flagship Seattle band and teamed up with Aaron Sprinkle, but instead

of taking the indie path, they were one of the first bands to be scooped up by a major label

right off the bat, and in a lot of ways, there were guinea pigs for that whole experiment. They

created a landmark album called Phantoms that would be a legend of the scene, but the band would never truly find a groove before disbanding in 2006.

But their music would continue to rise in popularity thereafter.

The game lies.

Yeah.

Carlin' And so I got the chance to take up and so I hang out with Jason and Kaylin and Garrett and Ryan.

And we had a great conversation that I'm sure you will get a lot out of too.

Here we go.

I miss you guys.

That's a good intro.

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