#2337 - Oliver Anthony

Oliver Anthony (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

And we're up, my friend, how are you? Good to see you.

Oliver Anthony (0:16)

Long time to talk.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Yeah, brother, yeah. How you doing, you good?

Oliver Anthony (0:19)

Good, I, man, I remember like towards the last, the end of the last time I was here, you said, oh yeah, we'll probably see you again in a couple years, and I was just looking around like, yeah, I'll never see any of this again.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

You're back quicker than you thought.

Oliver Anthony (0:33)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Bro, that new song is fire.

Oliver Anthony (0:36)

Thanks.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

I played that song about 20 times in the green room, and the first time I played it, everybody just sat around and went, oh shit.

Oliver Anthony (0:46)

It was so funny that, yeah, I didn't expect the song, well, I wasn't the one, I guess it was Adam that sent it. I don't even know how you got a hold of the song originally.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Yeah, Adam sent it to me originally.

Oliver Anthony (0:58)

Yeah, I sent it to him, just to get his opinion of it or whatever. And he's like, I got it. He's like, do you mind if I share this around? And I was like, yeah, go ahead.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

Bro, the first time I heard it was in the green room. And the green room has a killer sound system. So we put it on the Bluetooth and cranked it. And all of us, there's like 10 dudes in that room going, oh shit, oh shit. Some of those slides like, oh shit.

Oliver Anthony (1:25)

Yeah. What makes that song different, I guess, than anything I've done or than a lot of music now is that we're, we tried to like do it the way Leonard Skinner or somebody would back in this, where we're all just in the house and there's no like, man, there's so much editing that goes into music now on the backend and stuff. And with this, we're just like in there doing it and, you know, try to keep it as real as possible. Like, you know, there's no, there's no click tracks. There's no real editing. It's just kind of like, we're all just in this house. I mean, it's, it was, is the worst timing to record. But that was that January 5th, 6th, 7th window was the only time that everybody can meet up. You know, Billy Contreras on the fiddle and everybody. And because he, he tours with Ricky Skaggs and he's kind of all over the place. So that was like our time to meet. So a couple of days before we all went to West Virginia to record in my house up there, the, this like terrible storm they were calling for is like the worst one since the 90s supposedly or that's what Draven says. But so we got all the snow, all this ice. So, so yeah, we used a side by side in the Jeep to haul everything up and down. It was like just all we could do to get up and down to the house. And then it's right as soon as we get everything plugged in, ready to go, the power knocks out.

And I was like, we were all just so discouraged. And luckily there, you know, there's a Lowe's not terribly far away and they had one, they had like a Honda Inverter Generator that was like safe to plug everything into, you know, like where the waves aren't gonna mess everything up. And so yeah, we, you know, we recorded the song while on a generator.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

So you have to worry about the waves of the generator, like the sound of the generator, is that what it is?

Oliver Anthony (3:04)

No, like the-

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Electrical pulses?

Oliver Anthony (3:06)

Yeah, like plugging all of that expensive equipment into just like a, yeah, a generator that's not an inverter, like the voltage like goes up and down, I guess, or, I don't know, that's all above my pay grade, but we had to find one that was like safe to plug all that equipment into, you know?

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Well, it- Maybe that's something in the song too, you know? Like maybe that you're trapped in a storm, but that's a scary ass song, dude. It's a scary-

Oliver Anthony (3:32)

I can't wait for the- Yeah. See, I hadn't put a lot of new music out because, well, I think back to even when I was here last time and before we did the episode and all, walking around on the sidewalk out in front of the hotel with Draven and a couple of other people arguing that I needed to just cash out from Richmond and roll and not make this into a long-term thing because I just-