So yeah, so we're up here at BMG big-time record label, which is rare these days talking to Wolfgang

Van Halen, which is very, very cool, and we did meet one other time before at Dream Theater,

oh my god, you're right, that was a long time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Dream Theater fan?

Yeah, no, they were a big band for me like growing up and learning how to just be a better musician,

for sure, the drumming really helped me a lot. Well, so because you play like in the new record

in Mammoth 2, which is a killer record, we're gonna talk about it, and just to jump right in,

you play everything on this record. Yeah, yeah, every Mammoth album so far, it's all me.

All two of them? All two of them. Still, I mean, dude, that's amazing. So it's bass, it's guitar,

it's drums, it's keyboards, singing. Yeah. How do you do all that? How do you record that way?

Uh, basically, we start out, you know, if I'll have like an idea or something and I'll make

like a scratch demo on my computer, and then we go up to the studio and just sort of kind of

replace everything. Start with the drums, then do bass and guitar. By the end of it, you can have

an album. Are you hard on yourself when you're laying down the tracks? Yeah, yeah, no, I'm kind of

a perfectionist, you know, I just, I need to make sure that it's something I can be

proud of before I finish it, so yeah. And you're working with Elvis? Yeah, Elvis Baskett,

he's the best. That's coming from, it's funny because we were talking about Frank Sidoras earlier

in the whole Slash camp here, they're devout Baskett, Elvis Baskett fans. Yeah, it's one big,

happy family, I think between us and the Slash camp and Alter Bridge and Mark Traumani and

everybody, it's, you know, and even Seven Dust too, it's like, Elvis is just a master, this big

family of people that trust him because he's so great. I mean, obviously you need that type of

an element when you're doing a record where you're basically in charge of everything, you got to

have somebody like, we always call it like the principal. Yeah. So our guy is Johnny Andrews.

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