Interview with The Rocket SummerVicky - You just released your new record right?
Bryce - Yeah. Vicky - It's really good. I got it when it came out and it's really good. Bryce - Thank you. Vicky - How's all the feedback and how's it selling? Bryce - It's actually selling really well. We're not really on MTV or radio or anything so I think it's doing pretty well. Vicky - Well you don't need MTV for that. Bryce - I think it's already in the 20,000. Vicky - How long has it been out? Bryce - Two weeks. Vicky - That's like 1,000 a day. Bryce - That's crazy. It's really weird to think about it that way. Vicky - How long did it take you to write and record the album? Bryce - I wrote it last summer and I recorded it in the fall and it was actually finished at Christmas. Vicky - Why didn't you guys decide to put it out then? Bryce - I thought it was gonna come out in March. They wanted more time to get the record ready and stuff. Vicky - Were you looking for a different sound? Bryce - I don't ever go Okay I'm gonna write like this. But I definitely wanna try to do something a little different every time. This time I definitely wanted to make a big sounding record. We spent a lot of time doing guitars and stuff. It was just cool and the record has a lot of meaning. Vicky - Did you do all the instrumentals? Bryce - Yeah I played all the instruments on it. The only instruments I didn't play were for that Stevie Wonder song. Vicky - Like I said yesterday, you're really all about your fans and your music and stuff. And you have signings like every single day right? Bryce - Yeah totally. Vicky - Do you have any like crazy fan stories? Bryce - We have some. Most of our huge fans like really get it. Like it's not really about meeting like a rockstar. It's like we're a family more to them. But some of them don't really get it like they're brand new fans. Like one girl grabbed my foot and started licking the bottom of my shoe. Stacey and Vicky - Nooo. Bryce - Yes. Like I don't understand that at all. It was disgusting. Vicky - Your fan base has really grown in the past year since the Paramore tour and everything. How do you feel about that? Bryce - It's awesome. We've been doing it for so long like I've been doing it since I was 16 and I'm 24 years old. Like I've been doing it for so long and it's good to finally see people coming out to the party. Vicky - Was it hard to start out when you were so young? Bryce - Yeah but I wasn't really touring I was just in a band. Vicky - When did you start touring? Bryce - I started touring right out of high school. Vicky - Your fan Taylor says: The name The Rocket Summer came from your friend reading a book and that was the chapter name. Do you wish your name had more meaning to it? Bryce - Hahaha. Vicky - That's how she put it. Bryce - I was only 16 years old and I actually really loved the name. And I'm just thankful that I still like the name. Vicky - It's a pretty good name. How long have you been on Warped Tour so far? Bryce - We started like a week and a half ago. Vicky - How do you like it so far? Bryce - It's been incredible. So so awesome. Vicky - What bands have you been watching? Bryce - Paramore, Boys Like Girls, I've seen a lot of bands. Vicky - Would you do it again next year if they asked you back? Bryce - Maybe (His cell phone goes off) Oh that's my mom. Vicky - What are you doing after Warped Tour? Bryce - We're going on a 3 month tour with The Academy Is... Vicky - Yeah I knew that I'm going to like 10 dates. Bryce - Really? Vicky - Yeah. How did you get on that? Bryce - I honestly don't know. Vicky - Yeah I was talking to The Butcher and I was trying to get the bands out of him and he's like well how do you like The Rocket Summer? And I was like that's awesome. Bryce - Yeah we're so happy that we're gonna be on tour with them. They seem like really cool guys. Vicky - Are you excited for it? Bryce - Yeah. Vicky - You're gonna get so many more fans from it. Bryce - I hope we'll see. I'm planning to get some fashion tips. They seem like they got good style. Vicky - Do you have a favorite place to play? Bryce - It used to be Orange County just because our shows were so massive there for some reason. Detroit's really sweet. New York is really cool. Atlanta. Vicky - The New York City show is already sold out. Bryce - It's already sold out? Vicky - Yeah and that holds like over 2,000 people. We just learned that today. Are you gonna do another music video? Bryce - Yeah I'm sure we will. We'll see but there's this stupid thing between Universal Records and Fuse. Have you heard about that? Stacey and Vicky - No. Bryce - It's stupid. I don't know what it is but all I know is we can't be on Fuse because Universal the company has a feud with Fuse. So no bands on Universal can be played on Fuse. Vicky - I never even noticed that. Bryce - Like have you seen the new Fall Out Boy videos on Fuse? Vicky - No. Bryce - Yeah they play old ones. Vicky - Yeah I was in their new video. Bryce - You were in their video? Vicky - Yeah. Bryce - That's pretty cool. Vicky - Yeah they didn't play it on Fuse. Stacey - That's really weird. Bryce - Yeah there's something weird going on. I don't know. Whatever. I really hope that they work out their differences cause I wanna be on Fuse really bad. Vicky - I think that Fuse is better than MTV because when you go to their studio they let you do whatever you want and MTV they make you clap. They're like Okay clap now, don't get up, don't be too loud, you can't talk, you can't chew gum, you can't wear white, and you can't tie your hair up (sarcastically speaking about the hair thing). Bryce - That's so funny. Vicky - Like at Fuse you can do whatever you want, you can sit wherever you want and you can talk to the band during commercials. Bryce - That's awesome. Vicky - And TRL makes the bands get off the set when there's a commercial and like hide them. Bryce - Well we'll see what happens. Vicky - I can definitely see you on them. Bryce - I would just be really grateful if that ever happened to us. Vicky - Yeah it'll probably happen cause you're pretty big already I think. Bryce - Yeah I guess we are but not in like a big way haha. But you know what? To be honest, I don't really care. Vicky - Do you want to add anything? Bryce - Thank you guys so much for interviewing me and I had fun last night. Vicky - Yeah last night was fun. Stacey - Thank you. (just for the record we cut out about 10 min of the interview because it turned into a big conversation haha if you are interested in hearing the whole thing head over to our site just for the audios of our interviews: web.mac.com/fueledbyphotography)
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