{"id":1987,"date":"2011-09-14T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2014-07-30T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T05:28:40","slug":"x-fest-preview-theory-of-a-deadman-interview-with-dave-brenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"X-Fest Preview- Theory of a Deadman Interview with Dave Brenner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Theory of a Deadman is a hard rock band that has made a notch in popular music with their catchy hooks and sounds that appeal to the heartbroken everywhere. Being together for over ten years, they became hit-makers with their third album Scars and Souvenirs<\/em> with the number one hit \u201cBad Girlfriend\u201d along with other popular features \u201cHate My Life\u201d and \u201cNot Meant to Be.\u201d Their fourth album The Truth Is<\/em> was released last month with the current number one single \u201cLowlife\u201d lighting up air waves on rock and pop stations across the country.<\/p>\n

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Amy spoke with guitarist Dave Brenner prior to their set at the Kentucky State Fair on the Carnival of Madness tour. They discussed the new record and hobbies on the road. You can catch Theory of a Deadman and the Carnival of Madness in Dayton at X-Fest on Spetember 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I talked to Tyler two years ago at Rock on the Range. I was looking back at that interview today. He made a comment to me that, \u201cIt is impossible to have a good marriage on the road in a rock n roll band.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave: He is divorced.<\/p>\n

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Amy: That is very apparent now in the new album. I think it is the most cynical album I have heard in quite a long time.<\/p>\n

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Dave: I think he has some good material to write with.<\/p>\n

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Amy: We have \u201cBitch Came Back\u201d in addition to \u201cBad Girlfriend\u201d from before and \u201cThe Truth Is\u201d and \u201cLove is Hell,\u201d lines like \u201cI\u2019d rather be hit by a truck.\u201d\u00a0 Really crazy shit.<\/p>\n

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Dave: I think sometimes you use stuff like that to prove a point. You probably wouldn\u2019t actually want to be hit by a truck or sprayed by mace.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: He told me some crazy stories about girls on your bus last time too.<\/p>\n

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Dave: About girls on our bus?<\/p>\n

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Amy: You don\u2019t allow girls on your bus anymore because of certain activities.<\/p>\n

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Dave: We have seen some crazy shit. One girl wouldn\u2019t leave the bus.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Like laid under the tire? That\u2019s how rules come about.<\/p>\n

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Dave: Well, you know, it\u2019s your home. We have been on the Hinder bus and there is a party every night.<\/p>\n

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Amy: They don\u2019t treat it well.<\/p>\n

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Dave: They don\u2019t. Like your home. We live there more than we live at home.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I love Hinder though.<\/p>\n

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Dave: We do too.<\/p>\n

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Amy: They are super fun to have around. It\u2019s always good to have the party at someone else\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

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Dave: That\u2019s exactly what I say. Any time I talk to any girl, they are like, \u201cWhere\u2019s the party at?\u201d I say, \u201cHinder bus\u201d because I am so happy to invite them to their bus.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You guys are coming up on ten years together. Where do you see yourself in ten more?<\/p>\n

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Dave: Dead.<\/p>\n

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Amy: No!<\/p>\n

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Dave: I don\u2019t know. I try not to think about it. Lately we have been sitting here reminiscing going, \u201cI can\u2019t believe how fast this time has gone by.\u201d It\u2019s Tyler\u2019s birthday today and Dean\u2019s birthday was a couple days ago. I\u2019m 33 now, I was 22 when we started playing in this band.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: Do you feel like you have aged?<\/p>\n

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Dave: Yeah, but I am a kid too. This job has allowed me to not have to grow up which is weird. I notice it more when I go on tour with Motley Crue and you start hanging out with Tommy Lee and you are like, \u2018Ok, this is what it is actually like to not grow up.\u201d I still have to go home and feel like I have responsibilities and take care of things. But when I come here I am like a kid that plays for six weeks straight nothing to do but have a good time and goof off with everybody. I\u2019m not complaining. Ten years from now though, I don\u2019t know, 43, holy shit, I don\u2019t think I can picture myself doing this. It\u2019s not cool to be a 45 year old rocker trying to rock on stage. You have to change it up. It can\u2019t be the same. You can\u2019t be 45 playing \u201cBad Girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: You could be Nikki Sixx at 52 or 50 however the hell old he is.<\/p>\n

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Dave: I think I\u2019ll just go and get into photography or work in a studio or something. At some point my life has to carry on from 22 what I left behind. I hit the \u201cto be continued\u201d button and now I have ten more years before I can unpause it and go on with life. What happened everyone is married with kids? Everybody grows up and I just keep growing the same.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You guys have been on the road a lot with Alter Bridge and Black Stone Cherry too, you like each other I guess.<\/p>\n

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Dave: We haven\u2019t done a ton of touring with Alter Bridge actually. We have with Black Stone Cherry. We are starting to do a lot with Alter Bridge. We are doing a UK thing with Alter Bridge after.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I hope you like them.<\/p>\n

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Dave: We do like them. This tour is full of people I like.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Have you pulled any practical jokes yet?<\/p>\n

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Dave: We haven\u2019t really yet. Usually that stuff happens at the end of the tour. We\u2019ll fuck around with the Emphatic boys soon.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: I just talked to their guitar player. He just jumps and twirls the shit out of his guitar.<\/p>\n

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Dave: Not me. I\u2019ll be looking at my feet and you\u2019ll be able to see my face. That\u2019s how I roll. That\u2019s the kind of guy I am. I love being on stage. I love playing. I love performing. As soon as I realize there are people looking at me, I\u2019m like, \u201cOh shit! They are looking at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: Well I guess my two favorite songs on the album are \u201cWhat was I Thinking?\u201d and \u201cHead Above Water.\u201d \u00a0Do you know the story there?<\/p>\n

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Dave: Cool. \u201cWhat was I Thinking?\u201d I have no idea. For me to learn the thought process behind the song I need to hear Tyler answer it in an interview. I am so new to this record, I haven\u2019t learned all of his little stories. He would probably know the actual answer to this. I don\u2019t know personally either of those songs. I know he wrote \u201cHead Above Water\u201d with the singer of The Exies. Tyler and he wrote a song not thinking they were writing it for our band just getting together in L.A. and writing. I guess they started recording it and Tyler thought it turned out great and wanted to use it for us. He would rather us use it than give it to some other band. I always loved that song right out of the gate too. When I first heard the demos of it, I thought this song sounds great.<\/p>\n

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Amy: So \u201cLowlife\u201d has been a hit.<\/p>\n

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Dave: Number one now three weeks in a row. That\u2019s exciting. You never know what is going to happen.<\/p>\n

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Amy: The song isn\u2019t bad. I don\u2019t \u201cnot\u201d like the song but I was so shocked at the reaction to that song. We have \u201cWhite Trash Millionaire,\u201d \u201cLowlife,\u201d Kid Rock has \u201cLowlife.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave: It\u2019s not my favorite either. I didn\u2019t know Kid Rock had that song. I just heard that for the first time but apparently we ripped him off. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Amy: There\u2019s a lot of these right now with this theme.<\/p>\n

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Dave: I think what everyone is realizing the people still into rock music are the people that could be described as lowlifes, not in a negative connotation, but because they are the working class people, people that want to have fun and party and drink and listen to rock music. There are so few of those people left in this world and the economy is so shitty. It seems like people are looking at what\u2019s happening in the world today and \u00a0I think it\u2019s why all the singers and songwriters are writing about the same shit because we are all on tour seeing the same situations. It sort of makes sense. I am pleasantly surprised about \u201cLowlife\u201d going number one. We really wanted to be coming out of the gate with a number one. It feels good. We feel like we have better songs on the record.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: I know you do. I always like to try to pick the next one.<\/p>\n

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Dave: Well the next one is going to be \u201cBitch Came Back\u201d for rock and for top 40 or pop it\u2019s going to be \u201cOut of My Head\u201d which is not in your top two. \u201cHurricane\u201d is the one I am looking forward to. I think that will be our biggest song. \u201cHurricane\u201d and \u201cWe Were Men.\u201d I like \u201cWe Were Men\u201d because I think it\u2019s fresh because it is not about a failed relationship. It\u2019s about something different.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I wanted something different after the many songs on failed love.<\/p>\n

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Dave: For singers, they write about the stuff that is playing in their lives. I could see it. \u201cWe Were Men\u201d was something we worked on during Scars and Souvenirs<\/em> very briefly and so when we started jamming, we recorded eight or nine songs and then we started writing more and I said, let\u2019s bring \u201cWe Were Men\u201d back because I have a feeling there is something with this song that could be really awesome , let\u2019s jam it. I was trying to get something else that was trying to get him off of thinking\u00a0about all that bad shit that was happening in his personal life. I thought it turned out great. \u201cWe Were Men\u201d and \u201cHurricane\u201d and \u201cGentleman\u201d are my other favorites.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I just had a reaction to this one.<\/p>\n

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Dave: \u201cHurricane\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Amy: Yeah<\/p>\n

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Dave: It\u2019s, for me, just a relief. It\u2019s really almost theatrical. It\u2019s heavy but emotional.<\/p>\n

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Amy: What\u2019s been the highlight or best moment of the Carnival of Madness tour?<\/p>\n

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Dave: Every day is a new best moment.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Nobody has given me any good stories. I have now talked to every band on this tour.<\/p>\n

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Dave: Well, it\u2019s because everyone is afraid that people are going to read the shit that you write about them and people are going to find out about all the secrets of the bad shit that we do on the road. Well last night a bunch of us did magic mushrooms and smoked mad amounts of weed and played the sandbag game. Is that a good story? You don\u2019t believe it though. You\u2019re not buying it. It\u2019s all true.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You are right I am not buying it.\u00a0You are\u00a0in Kentucky so I assume you could get some magic mushrooms.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Any fond memories of Cincinnati or Dayton in Ohio?<\/p>\n

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Dave: What\u2019s that, Bogart\u2019s in Cincinnati. I remember playing there a few times and always likeing it. I like dirty rock clubs.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: They painted it, they painted the back room. It looks like a different place.<\/p>\n

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Dave: I\u2019ll have to go back there. I have fond memories of everywhere I go. There is nothing better for me to be doing with my time. I have fond memories. I just have no actual memories I can draw right now because it is so much harder to come up with great answers on the spot. What are you asking for, great memories? The first night of this tour, we had a big barbecue with all the bands. That was a good time. We are going to do Frisbee football tonight. It\u2019s like a good party, at the end of the night everybody hangs out and drinks and does drugs and parties, just like 1977. There\u2019s a lot of man love going on except for today because all the Black Stone Cherry guys brought out all the girlfriends and wives out ruining our fun. The bromance is over for one night.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I know you are a photographer as well. What do you take pictures of?<\/p>\n

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Dave: That\u2019s part of my problem. I haven\u2019t really discovered what I want to do. I don\u2019t want to shoot bands. That\u2019s not really my interest. I think my interest is, right now, I am sort of shooting everything in the hopes of figuring out and just learn how to do it. I haven\u2019t really decided 100%. I just picked it up while on tour as another hobby. I felt like my last hobby was playing guitar and that became my job I love people and I love architecture. I love seeing old, I love Europe and the UK. It\u2019s a cool hobby. It’s fun to do different artistic forms of expression. I try to challenge myself. I try to capture a shot. I try not to crop shots. Part of me is like, I think cropping is cheating. You take this great picture and all you really want is this little piece. I feel like I should be able to see it before I am taking it. I should be able to know what I want in my frame and now it is all digital and changed and different. I still cheat a lot too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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