RSR265 - Buick Audra & Jerry Roe - Sludge Stoner Doom Rock with Friendship Commanders and Steve Albini
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are Buick Audra and Jerry Roe of Friendship Commanders, a heavy duo from Nashville TN. Their new EP - HOLD ON TO YOURSELF released in April of 2020 follows their second LP, BILL, which they made with Steve Albini Electrical Audio. HOLD ON TO YOURSELF was tracked between Fort Knockout and Sound Emporium studios in Nashville TN. It was mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity in Salem MA and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland OR.
In this body of songs, Friendship Commanders examines the world around them, their part in the problems and potential solutions, and even challenges the patriarchy. The release also gets personal and discusses what it looks like to be an adult who survived childhood trauma.
The band's primary songwriter, Buick Audra, is an abuse survivor and has chosen to dedicate this work to other survivors. Her outgoing message is summarized in the EP's title. The phrase has been a personal mantra for Audra; she has a habit of writing it down every morning as a reminder.
Buick and Jerry record and self produce their music and have created an immediately classic heavy punk rock sound. I've known Buick for years playing in other band settings and when I heard this record I knew we would want to learn more from Buick and Jerry about the process of writing, capturing, mixing, and mastering such a powerful sound.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX, and Ozone. |
| 0:24.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:26.8 | We had a short tour booked for which we couldn't have one of the few guys that was playing |
| 0:32.8 | based with us here and there to the shows. |
| 0:35.0 | And so we went by ourselves. |
| 0:36.5 | And it was like the best show ever. |
| 0:37.9 | And it was immediately different. |
| 0:39.4 | We both played up front. |
| 0:40.7 | The chemistry was completely rearranged. |
| 0:43.1 | The response from the people in the room who didn't know who we were, loved it. |
| 0:48.0 | Because the stakes are high with two people. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah. people. Welcome to recording studio rock stars. I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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