On Saturday, Nov. 9, the Exies will play their second reunion present of the yr at probably the most beloved music venues within the nation, the Machine Store in Flint, Michigan.
Forward of that present, frontman Scott Stevens joined Loudwire Nights (Nov. 5) to replicate on the band’s historical past and what lies forward.
“It was our house away from house,” Stevens advised host Chuck Armstrong in regards to the Exies’ connection to the Machine Store.
“I do not know what number of instances we performed that place, perhaps 15. There’s this hallway and it has all these footage of all of the bands that performed there and it extends out of that hallway and goes and begins to cowl the partitions, however we had been the very first band to ever take {a photograph} in that hallway. We had been the primary ones.”
Through the years, bands taking images in that hallway has grow to be considerably iconic; even when somebody has by no means been contained in the Machine Store, there isn’t any doubt they’ve possible seen the legendary hallway.
“We began it and I did not know that we began it both till [owner] Kevin Zink advised me … I had no thought.”
The Exies’ Return to the Stage and the Studio in 2024
Earlier this yr, the Exies reunited for his or her first stay live performance in almost 15 years at an equally legendary venue, the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Along with these two main reunion reveals, the Exies celebrated their first launch of latest music, the Closure EP, since 2007’s A Fashionable Means of Dwelling With the Reality.
“Had COVID not occurred, I do not know that I’d have ever launched any music,” Stevens admitted.
“Producing and writing for others at the moment that shut down the world, I simply began to attempt to fill the time — how do I address my existence now, and that is how these songs had been born.”
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As Stevens has described these songs earlier than, he refers to them as “diary songs” that described his day-to-day, year-to-year existence as he tried to determine tips on how to get again to actuality.
“I believe I bought snug sufficient to say, ‘Do you are feeling like I do? Please let me know that you simply accomplish that that I am not insane.’ And what? I believe all of us want that. We will stand on our personal and have our personal footing on issues, however when individuals relate or after we relate to one thing, that actually makes connection occur.”
What Else Did the Exies’ Scott Stevens Talk about on Loudwire Nights?
- How he ended up changing into a prolific and sought-after co-writer and producer following the Exies’ hiatus in 2009 and the way working with Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee helped with that: “I at all times had one thing within me that loved being within the studio and creating from the bottom up.”
- What it was like working with Dorothy on her new music, “Mud”: “It was simply a kind of wild card songs … I used to be a bit bit nervous that she may not prefer it as a result of it form of had this slight nation aptitude in the way in which the melody labored.”
- How the Exies ended up becoming a member of Creed’s Summer season of ’99 cruise lineup for 2025: “[Scott Stapp] referred to as me and goes, ‘Do you actually wish to do it?’ I mentioned, ‘Yeah,’ and he goes, ‘Okay, you are in.'”
Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Under
Scott Stevens joined Loudwire Nights on Tuesday, Nov. 5; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in stay each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you too can see if the present is on the market in your native radio station and hearken to interviews on-demand.
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