Chuck Shute Podcast

Cody Jasper (ex Moon Fever)

November 01, 2022 Cody Jasper Season 4 Episode 291
Chuck Shute Podcast
Cody Jasper (ex Moon Fever)
Show Notes Transcript

Cody Jasper is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.  He was previously the singer for the band Moon Fever, where he had millions of streams and opened for Buckcherry, Shooter Jennings, Eric gales, and filter. He is now a solo artist and has new album out called “Ministry of Madness.”  We discuss the new album, leaving Moon Fever, his new record label, getting a blue tick and more!

00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Abbey Road Studios
01:53 - Set List & Upcoming Record
02:25 - New Record Label
03:35 - Warren Haynes
04:25 - Moon Fever
06:30 - Cocaine Song & Sobriety
07:55 - Other Moon Fever Songs
08:45 - New Solo Stuff
10:36 - Dancing with Depression
14:10 - Eclectic Mix of Songs & Production
22:25 - Hiring a PR Agent & Getting Press
24:30 - Blue Tick & Follow Backs
26:25 - Big Shows & Practicing
27:35 - Living In Texas & Big Cities
29:40 - Upcoming Shows & Projects
31:50 - Freedom Music Project
33:10 - Outro

Cody Jasper website:
https://codyjasper.com/

Freedom Music Project website:
https://thefreedominmusicproject.com/index.html

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http://chuckshute.com/

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Chuck Shute:

Cody Jasper is back. We had him on the show back when he was in Moon Fever and I really liked some of their songs. But now he's left that band and he's focusing on his solo career. So we're gonna find out why he left Moon Fever exciting news about his solo stuff and what the future holds all this coming right up what's going on you're not in London now but you're headed there. So what's happening in London, you're going to Abbey Road Studios.

Cody Jasper:

Yes, I'm gonna be doing Abbey Road live in Abbey Road like video and a whole album pretty much. We're just gonna get in there and like go after try to get as many songs as we can we have all day. And then we'll be releasing a live at Abbey Road record as well as live Abbey Road on film. Like we're gonna have all the songs filmed and in doing a couple shows before that, which is crazy. I'm like I have to shows the bride before Abbey Road. Like I hope my voice is gonna. There's no way I can hold back at a concert not seeing my like, scream scream my baseball. So every row is gonna sound either really polished or really tired.

Chuck Shute:

But you guys don't Tinker in the studio after Do you and change things or

Cody Jasper:

No, not for this. No, we're gonna just literally we have 10 hours. So we're just gonna, you know, take the time to set up to film and stuff like that takes a while and getting sounds right and so then we're just kind of banging out songs and we'll get a mix so they can touch it up after like, you know, just EQ wise. Okay, it's gonna, it's gonna be live. I mean, it's Abbey Road. So straight off the board. I think it sounds pretty, pretty good as long as we sound good.

Chuck Shute:

So what is the setlist? Then is it all originals covers do do any old Moon Fever songs or

Cody Jasper:

now it's all originals, all new stuff. Because I have another record coming out. Then next year. That's like the good record I got in my opinion. And so we're doing a lot of songs up that record because by the time that record comes out, that stuff will be done and ready to send off. I'm doing some stuff from this stuff I just released too. But uh, yeah, that's about it.

Chuck Shute:

Cool. So yeah, so tell me about because you have a new record label. Right. So what? This is a famous record label, right?

Cody Jasper:

Well, yeah, this will be I guess this will be the first time I'll get to share it. But, so I am signing with evil teen and Hardhead which is Stephanie's tomorrow and Warren Haynes. They're, they're married together and Stephanie has managed a lot of people's humanity. The Allman Brothers, the dead. The revivalist Marcus King, and I'm her new projects. And so that's the records gonna come out on evil team. And we're gonna take it from there. We might be playing. I mean, I can't say yes, not confirmed, but we're gonna be playing. Hopefully, Warren Haynes is Xmas Jam, which is a time of the year. Yeah, it's a big deal. Pretty stoked. So yeah, but yeah, she

Chuck Shute:

must have some pretty good connections if she managed those bands.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, I it was a was a little a little terrified. meeting her. I literally went to their house in New York. And I'm just like, I'm a huge horns fan. I mean, I started playing guitar because I got my first real guitar because my dad heard me play one way out by the Allman Brothers you literally literally the night before was like you're not a good guitar was a gang getting really good I need it need a real instrument real guitar offender and he's like, I'm not gonna buy one of those until you can play one way out by the Allman Brothers so that night I learned one way out no for note on those things like 14 and and the next day before school I was like dad check this out played in one way out on Madison bottle slide and he was like you're not going to school today by me and fender Haile one strat and a Fender blues Deville that day. It forever changed is all downhill from there.

Chuck Shute:

Well, yeah. So last year, we're on we talked about I mean, you were removed fever. So what happened with that? Because I think you'd like message me one day you're like, Yeah, we I'm out of that band. I was like, Oh, I don't I don't know the whole story other than you got in a fight with the bass player or something. He broke your jaw. That sounds kind of crazy to me.

Cody Jasper:

That was that was in the beginning of the band. And bass player was like my friend from childhood. So it wasn't the first time we brought it out in the front yard after a couple of years. You know what I mean? malice, that was nothing that actually helped. I got sober after them. So it was actually a beneficial thing, but I signed an NDA. So I can't really say why I left. I just, I just wasn't happy with the way thing I had to share my songs with someone with someone who didn't write them. So that was another thing. Plus, I played guitar on the record saying I wasn't allowed to play guitar live. And so, yeah, so that was one thing that just pushed my buttons. And then I just kind of was, I was writing all this material. And then I was told that, I mean, in the best songs we had, we had recorded songs that, you know, I wrote prominently, just me and somebody else, but somebody who wasn't in the band, but everybody was gearing up to put the songs out. And then the family that financed the band was like, the sound too much like a Cody Jasper song. So we're not we they weren't, they weren't going to put out all these songs that were like, we were pretty sure gonna do the trick for us. They wanted me to write songs with their child, their son, who was in the band, who I just, I tried and tried and tried to write with a guy, but it just didn't work. And so I just said, Hey, I'm doing my own thing now. You know, whatever. So yeah, I can't say, I can't say any really thing anymore without them suing me for lots of money, which is weird, because they still collect royalties from my songs. So but

Chuck Shute:

yeah, it wasn't part of it, too. What's that?

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, go ahead.

Chuck Shute:

No, I'm just gonna say it wasn't part of it to like you got completely sober. Like, I know, you had like, I think last we talked, you were like, I'm sober for like, a few months. I'm trying it out. But now you're like, No, I'm done with everything. And then you're singing the song cocaine. And that's kind of weird, because I'm looking out and there's people that are like, yeah, cocaine. Like, I'm not really wanting to like promote cocaine anymore. Nothing you're really promoting begin with, but it was a little weird, right?

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, that was the thing. The whole thing was just a gimmick. It was like, Yeah.

Chuck Shute:

Last time, we talked about that song you like, I'm not it's just like, it's just funny, I guess is more Yeah.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, there was a, there was a couple of times where I'd be playing and just like, see kids out there or something. And I'm like, oh, you know, I didn't say it on the microphone, but I felt like inclined to be like, you guys know that. Like, we're not like promoting this. It was just these guys. Like, this is literally how the band worked. It was like, we need the manager who was getting you know, paid handsomely. And to be our manager would be like, You need to this type of stuff. It needs to be this and I'm like, How does this guy know anything about rock and roll first and foremost? But I mean, of course it was the first song we one of the first songs we recorded and for me being a writer behind it. It was like, what's an easy? Oh, drugs? Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Rock song. Do you want to have an inner rock song was singing about drugs?

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, so you won't have any Moon Fever songs like you will do like cheap thrills or payphone blues or

Cody Jasper:

cheap thrills was that was one Mitch that came up we came up with the guitar part and now but shaken off the evil and stuff like that Undertaker Undertaker, which is crazy. That's what really pushed my buttons because if you go on Spotify, it has his name under it. And I'm like, I've been playing that song for like, 10 years, people see me play that song. Like, back in Austin when I was a teenager and stuff. So stuff like that just really ticked me off. Because I'd find out about it later. You know, I'm like, why is this? Oh, well, we paid for everything. So, you know, so it's like, okay, but that doesn't you already taken royalties. Now you're going to take 50% of my writer share? Like what? So? Yeah, you might get me in trouble. This chuck? Oh, no,

Chuck Shute:

no, no, no, it's fine. I mean, look, it's all business stuff. Let's Okay, let's move on. And let's talk about the news. I liked the new stuff. Like it took me I think you put up did you put out two EPs? Is that what it is?

Cody Jasper:

Well, here's what here's the thing with the stuff I've been putting out. So I I been writing a ton of stuff, like I recorded tons of stuff. And I, a lot of it, I was just putting out like disco lemonade and all that stuff. It was just like, besides stuff that I was just that I was recording. And then I was still going to focus on Moon Fever. So I had like this batch of songs to put these out for the heck of it. Okay, because I had all my eggs in one basket. And then when that basket was not a basket, I want to put my eggs in anymore. I started recording those other songs. So I have like three. Probably by the end of the year, I'll have four full albums. So I was like, Alright, let me drop this. Besides stuff just in case one of them maybe takes off you never know. And then also because I do this a lot where I record, I'll go make a record and then I'll never put it out. I got stuff in my Dropbox that I need to just like you know, but then it because it gets old to me and then I become a better songwriter. So I'm like because I don't want to even hear that crap that I put out, you know, so I'm just put Putting out I put out this stuff to kinda like have something at the end of the year because with a new label and the new stuff that's gonna happen, you know that I just wanted something to come out before the end of the year. So I don't know, because you're not a fan the most good

Chuck Shute:

yeah, no, I'm just gonna say that smart because I feel like you gotta in this business, you got to stay relevant. Like there's so many artists that I follow that I like. And I'm like, where are you been? Like, what's going on? I haven't heard anything from you're not doing any shows. So you seems like you're doing shows you and you're putting out new music and staying fresh. But I love the song. I love some of these new songs like dancing with depression, I think is that your most popular song right now? It's really good.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, a lot of people have been in the playlist and it's been shared a lot. Which I was nervous about that song. I liked the chorus, but it was just so weird. There's so many like, I just it's like a rock ballad, I guess. But there's so much stuff in it and, and I actually was sick when I sang that record. I didn't have the time to come back or the money to book more days to do vocals. So I literally just like powered through it. My nose was stopped up.

Chuck Shute:

That's funny because it Yeah, it sounds great to me. You know what's interesting about that, I was like, there was a part in there where the chord progression. I was like, Wow, that sounds kind of familiar. And then I put it together it kind of sounds like a little bit like Weezer Say it Ain't So have you noticed that? Like that would be a good mashed up those two songs.

Cody Jasper:

I had the like we're always saying like, this is the vibe was a Weezer vibe, but okay. I don't know. I mean, you know, there's only 12 chords. You're gonna you're gonna run into a few so many of us before you know, I'm sure though, Say it ain't so it was probably taken from Tom Petty. And then you know, it just goes down the line. But, ya know, I love thinking about it. I'm like Danna, it's a little different. It's

Chuck Shute:

a little No, it is a little but it just reminded me of that. And I was like, it's reminding me of something. And then I listened. I was like, No, it's not exact, but there's a little part. And but no, I love the song. It's funny because the song's called Dancing with depression. So it almost sounds like a sad song. But it's like, it's actually the Lyric is like, I'm not dancing with depression anymore. So it's because it's a happy it to me, it feels like a happy song.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, it was kinda like, I was going through a lot after getting sober. And like, if you want to hear the definition, why, where the story came from, I guess I was going through all that stuff from from getting sober. And then, you know, I quit mountain fever. And that was like my bread and butter gig. I was getting paid to do it and like, but my heart was like, there's not you got to do something better. Like you got, I had, I just had to have like to take a leap of faith and be like, I can do this and succeed. And then, you know, reality sets in and how hard it is to do this on your own and in business, you know, when you're not from a family with very, very wealthy. And so I was bouncing with depressional thoughts, and I'm sober and I have to deal with them. And then the song was just basically like, yes. It's like being okay with like, having problems. It's like, you know, I don't really it's one of the lyrics that sometimes I wish I'm dead, but it's not true, but it's just like, sometimes. I may get depressed sometimes I you know, I have maybe I have, like, some issues or some things that haven't healed in my life, but it's okay, like, screw this. I'm gonna keep keep on going. Like, whatever.

Chuck Shute:

That's like, yeah, yeah, I mean, people, that's when you get anxious is when you expect everything to be perfect. Like, the more you fight reality, the more anxious you get, like so when you just accept go. Alright, well, things are shitshow right now or whatever, you know that there's gonna be a light at the end of the tunnel, though. I think that's the biggest thing.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it's just like, I was like, hard on myself. And I'm like, everybody gets depressed. Everybody thinks, oh, man, maybe you know this that like, whatever. I'm just gonna bask in it. Yeah, well,

Chuck Shute:

you came out with a beautiful song because of it. That's what you did. That's amazing that you can do that. You can channel that into something positive. I love it's playing that song a repeat. It's great. And then I love also the swim. That's a cool song. That's a cool riff. That's the scream a little more. It's a harder rock song. That's kind of more of us either. transition from the moon Full Moon Fever stuff, like that's kind of that vein of like hard rock. I really liked that one.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, thanks, man. Thank you. I got some more hard rock coming. I got some. I can't wait for some of this stuff. Oh,

Chuck Shute:

yeah. Because this is like and then like, you have the disco lemonade. That's like Soul funk. You're kind of all over the place, which I kind of like, it kind of reminds me not that you sound like this at all, but just how the Guns and Roses did like they use your illusion and they had just so many different styles in there and they mixed it up. I love that because I love so many different styles of music. Is that kind of how you're gonna go forward or is it like you said some of this was like leftover besides and

Cody Jasper:

that's cool that you referenced Use Your Illusion because I love that. I mean, I didn't put them together. But I've been saying that I'm trans genre. I love I love Oh, music. Like, it's so hard for me to just be like I can, I'm always you can only do this. I love playing. I write all kinds of stuff like I don't just listen to hard rock, I don't just listen to soul. And so that was the thing I was I was just recording stuff. And I was like, You know what, I like this, I'm gonna put it out. But. And I want to stick with that even though everyone's like, No, you can't do that. You got to be, you have to be this. Like, it's how the world works. The music world works. And you have to have your fan base. And I'm like, I don't know, if I want to do that thing. I want to try doing it my own way. But they all eventually I think it was just my writing. I was just trying to find out who what I wanted, because I've been writing so long towards this style. And I had all these people dictating what I was doing, like, Oh, you got to take that awesome guitar solo out of there. Like what? We had to do that all the time, I'd have to tell them what we were. Yeah, we would make the songs in the studio. be epic. And then you know, like, because I don't play online. So the person who has to play them would get like really mad, it'd be like, you know, because you couldn't do it. But it was really what it was. But But yeah, we had that. So I just had to do all this, like, stupid stuff. You know, it was just not what music was to me not rock and roll at all. Like, it was like, you know, programmed drums, programmed, everything. Everything was programmed, it was just like, not how I envisioned making rock and roll records. And so once I had got away from that I went like this whole record that I did manage your madness. There isn't one plugin, or one electronic device. On the Record. Everything is miked. Everything is made by a human being. What do you mean, it sounds like that it sounds old. You know? So it's like, now that I'm like, now that I did that, I'm like, Alright, I want to go back to technology because I'm not gonna lie. I just like records that are, you know, there's so much stuff out there that the old analog way is cool. But I like I like the new stuff. I like the mix of both. But so a lot of taking back what you're saying a lot of stuff was just me being like, I have the freedom to make music with like, a real drummer again, you know, I can like play a song was somebody it's not like, put these headphones on and play to this drum track. And then we're going to edit it move in here and blah, blah, blah. And then we're going to auto tune your voice like, oh my god, cheap thrills do. I never would have gone no, 90 last name. It is right. Yeah.

Unknown:

Okay, so that's

Cody Jasper:

that, like, I mean, I, I know like that. But these mixes, mixes would come back and I'd be like, what is that? What is that? Computer? You know, and I couldn't do anything about it. Was that hard? Okay, yeah, I would sing them live. And I was practicing a lot, but it was it made me a way better singer. But it was just the it was just the the facade of it. It was just like, I thought, I just miss doing real stuff. You know, I came from all rock and roll habits. And so it was like when I was a kid dreaming about doing this, that was not the way that I thought about doing it. Right. So

Chuck Shute:

you're, you're gonna mix it maybe there'll be some of the modern mix with the old school stuff.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, there's gonna be this new record is pretty much the new record coming out is pretty much modern. It's got huge drums, reverb dug into it, but there are real drums. There. They were made by a drummer, not by an engineer, you know. So that was a big thing for me. But so that's there's drums like that there's one song that I think it's going to be a single called dirty. It's got a big 808 bass in it. So really, I'm utilizing because now that from when I quit that band and moving on, I've done a lot of stuff on my own producing wise and so I'm learning about all these crazy gadgets and like, how to make that sound that you pay somebody for $1,000 to do and you're like, wow, it's literally just a program you buy.

Chuck Shute:

Oh, really? Wow. So did you produce this new one yourself? Or did you have help?

Cody Jasper:

Ministry man is Frenchie produced head Frenchie produced that one and in but the one coming out? Yeah, pretty simple myself. I was just like, I love Frenchie friendship. He's a great producer, but from my previous people I've worked for I was just like, Why are these people here? I mean, if I was working with Rick Rubin or somebody like that, that'd be cool. Then you're like, Yeah, I'll sit up. Yeah, but you know those guys, but a lot of times I've noticed that you get in a room with these producers and you have this thing and you want to you know your pet you by the time that they get done with it. It doesn't even He doesn't even sound like you anymore. And you're kind of like, it's kind of a bummer. And a lot of my friends they feel the same way. Sometimes they get it, you know? So I was just kind of, you know, in with tick tock and stuff these days do you got 14 year old kids out there producing, mixing and mastering their own stuff. So it's not that hard to find out how to do it, you know, so and then, when you're buying the song, like I usually when I make a song, I can hear the entire thing in my head, like, I'm at home now. And like, Here, I'll show you like, this keyboard like I can do background vocals, horn sections, Oregon's bass drum, you can do it all right there. So it's like, what what does what do I need to produce a for now I just need a really good engineer, to tell me how to make get the sounds. And to mix it properly. All the producers gonna come in and do is share his ideas and then try to put his stamp on it, you know, right. And that usually takes the art takes the artistry away from the whole thing. It's like, it's like being a painter, and having a person behind you over your shoulder the entire time telling you what to paint is. Yeah, just take completely away from the artist.

Chuck Shute:

Well, I guess Yeah, you'd have to really trust that producer. But I think like, like you said, like Rick Rubin. That might be a good fit for you or somebody like that, because he's very hands off.

Cody Jasper:

And a great fit. Yeah,

Chuck Shute:

I mean, because more hands on, he's not going to be twisting a bunch of the, he doesn't even do a lot of the, you know, the technical stuff. He's more about like, you know, inspiring you with the environment and things. I don't know if you've seen that documentary on him. But it's, it's really interesting. He just he takes these artists into this like house. And, you know, he puts all these things in there that inspire him, but he doesn't really like twist the knobs and dials like no sound, you know, turn this one up and turn that that's like, you know, the engineer does some of that, but I don't think he does a lot. He's more of like a hands off producer.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, he's I haven't seen a documentary. But I listened to his Joe Rogan podcast and oh, that was good. He gets it. He's about the vibe. Yes. Artists like Korea, he gives them a like a place to like, feel comfortable. Exactly. You know, and, and, yeah, that's a good, that's a great, that's a pretty sure I like to work with something, somebody like that. But for now, that's just I just listened to stuff like that and take their advice from things.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, that's really smart. So I mean, you're doing the producing yourself now, or you have a manager or somebody because your new single one of the I think it was disco lemonade, or one of them was getting a lot of press on a lot of those sites. What do you have to send that into them? Or how do you get that press because it was doing really well with that.

Cody Jasper:

You hire a PR agent is really how you get that stuff done. And then they have connections. So the people most likely will read their email, and then maybe they'll do a write up about it, you know, versus cold emailing these people. You know, like, yeah, like, American Songwriter on who you are, which was like a bucket list for me. And that was at Bunker. He's a great PR agent, killer guy, I just don't have the budget for him on the max on these on these last ones that I've released, and plus. Now the next step is coming on a label. So they kind of handle that stuff. So they use their people and but I will tell you,

Chuck Shute:

PR people for the next one then.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, because of the layout. Yeah, but that's really what it is. When people ask me that all the time. How are you getting all this stuff? And I'm like PR agent? Yeah. Well, that's like radio.

Chuck Shute:

Because I get those things all the time with a PR I get all these I get like 2030 emails a day from different PR people. Hey, check out this band released and there's so many artists out I can't live money bands there are that have enough to hire a PR agent that I've never heard of. That's, it's crazy to me.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, that's a crazy business. Dude. It's a pussy. That's the thing. Like you get a lot to email. So like, if you hire somebody that you worked with before, you know, you're more likely to listen to them and check out their artists and I think Ed is the same guy that got us connected when I was in movie her.

Chuck Shute:

I don't know I reached out to you. I was like, I want this guy on my show. Because I love those songs.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah,

Chuck Shute:

yeah, I love the new stuff too, though. It's great. I'm excited for the next album. There'll be a full album that's gonna be cool. But yeah, it seems like you're all everything's going in the right direction you How did you get the blue tick? Did it was out another thing to the PR agent?

Cody Jasper:

No, that was I've been trying to get one of those just as long as anybody has like I would go to the you know you can apply for one on Instagram. Just be like nothing you know and I looked him so like paying for one those all seem to be scams. Yeah. Just I think once you bought while I looked into like the logistics of it is once you get a certain amount of like press, like once so many, you know, and then I had a couple of fake accounts, I had a couple like accounts that would like message people and be like, hey, you know? And so one day I don't know, man one day it just like popped up everywhere. I just got a text from my drummer Greg and he's like, dude, how'd you get a blue checkmark? I'm like, what? And then when you open it, he doesn't even your Instagrams not different. I had to literally go to my page. And it was it was cool. It was kind of like, nothing's changed now. It's

Chuck Shute:

it makes you more official, though. I think it makes you more legit, I think. I mean, I've been trying to get one too because I feel like it. Yeah, it makes you stand out a little bit more like rather than just being one of see of musicians or podcasters. Like, okay, this guy is like, official. He's verified.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, something it's helped me get some pretty cool follower backs. Like, I'll follow people you know, that are like, like, Rob from Stone Temple Pilots. Basically, two pilots, like I'm grew up on Stone Temple Pilots. And I came across his Instagram shortly after I got my blue checkmark and followed him and he followed me back. So I'm like, There's no way that would have happened if I didn't. You know, so I'm very thankful for it.

Chuck Shute:

That's true. Yeah. Cuz they would actually see those or message to I feel like it stands out. You know, from all the other ones. That's really cool man stones. That'd be a fun show to like, open for for them maybe a tour or something.

Cody Jasper:

Wow. Yeah, that would be crazy. It would be nuts.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, cuz you've done some good ones. Did you open it you open up for Eric? Eric gales.

Cody Jasper:

Yeah, open up for Eric gales. That's pretty much solo. Lately, I haven't been doing very many shows this year at all. I've just been kind of working on the trenches, getting content and stuff and practicing. I've been really just like, I play guitar, like three or four hours a day, some days. Some days, I don't play at all, but for the most part, like, I'm just in here, like, I'm like, Alright, I'm not going to be playing any shows to be stuck. You know, not doing anything I'm gonna gonna at least like get to be as good as I possibly can be. Because if all else fails, at least if I'm really really good, you

Chuck Shute:

know, that's, that's super smart. Yeah. Because when it you know, all the PR stuff is great and everything, but like, ultimately, it comes down to the music. Like I feel like the same way with my pockets. I'm like, ultimately, like, I can play the social media game and all that. But if I don't have good interviews, like people don't care, so that's a huge. That's really smart or not, you're in Austin, right?

Cody Jasper:

Or, actually, I'm in Amarillo, my hometown like, okay, the middle of nowhere panhandle. It's the plains. Yeah, I moved here. Right. During the pandemic from LA. I just haven't left. It's been. You know, it's just been nice. I don't do much but work on music. And I know that I've been honing in but soon and probably by next year, I'm going to be moving back to a regular metropolitan city. I don't know which one yet but hmm, isn't good for me. I

Chuck Shute:

wouldn't be in Texas, would it be Austin or Houston or Dallas or could be anywhere.

Cody Jasper:

I really miss the ocean. I really like California, even though it's going through a lot of stuff. Like I just feel great in California. I love Austin too. And then I've never lived in Nashville. So I'm like, maybe I should get Nashville a shot. That's where the scene is, you know?

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, cuz Austin is cool. But Nashville is like Austin on steroids. Like it's insane. There's so much live music. But then again, it's like, you got to stand out because there's so much of it.

Cody Jasper:

And Austin is like, just not the same. Austin was like my second home. It's where I first lived out of when I first moved and started cutting my teeth. And like I say funny because I sound like one of those people. When I moved there. They asked me to stay. And now me I'm like, but it's true. Because like, the reason I would move back there isn't for the music scene. It's for like a way of life. I used to run around town lake and swim in the river. And it's like, every time I go back, and I'm like running on Town Lake, like bumping elbows with people. And then like, every little spot that I used to like go with my dog and jump in the water and there'd be like five people there maybe, you know, you get to like wait in line now. It's just like crazy the amount of people so that's the thing where I'm like, maybe I don't want to move back there. But I don't know. Yeah, I fly by the seat of my pants. So

Chuck Shute:

very cool. Do you have any upcoming shows? I mean, we're talking about the new music. Have you have any shows lined up though?

Cody Jasper:

I have some in London and then I am waiting on the confirmation to do Xmas jam and Asheville, North Carolina. We're Warren haines's festival that he does. And that's it until next year, and I don't have anything on the books right now for next year. But that's all getting getting worked on. I have to finish this Abbey Road video stuff like yours. Like we were saying it's really, if you Yeah, it's got to be about having good music. So I'm like, I don't want to make all these funny, corny, big music videos like I'd rather just get into an epic studio and play my ass off and then have that to advertise to people because that's what it's about. It's not about like, oh, sure, I can wear funny stuff and grow a mustache and you know, make a cool video. I'm like, I want people to see us. Because music is like a spiritual thing to me. So when I play it live, especially when I'm allowed to play guitar. It says when I'm allowed to like perform the music live. It's I go to a special place and I people see that I think I've seen people start now that I'm especially clear headed, sober, they can. It's like a you're actually watching something you know. And so I really want to convey that more than I want to convey anything else right now. And we got so lucky that we get to do that in studio two at Abbey Road.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, that's super cool. So it's you singing and guitar and then you just have a bassist and a drummer or another guitar player as well.

Cody Jasper:

Ah, I'm having a there's another guitar player. And there's also a keyboard player live. But yeah, there's two guitar. I gotta have a guitar player because like in dancing with depression, there's like three part guitar harmonies all over that song. So I want to do it all lives.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, cool. Well, I look forward. Hopefully I can catch a show at some point. Either of you come to Phoenix or off to do a road trip or something. But it'd be cool to see you like, like I said, get on that stunt double pilots tour or something. That'd be fun. Totally. Well put that out in the universe. Yeah, something big. Something cool. You've opened for big bands before it shouldn't be a problem. So awesome. I always end each episode promoting a charity. And I think last time we talked about the freedom music project. Is that still something that's near and dear to your heart?

Cody Jasper:

Yes, definitely. We just did a fundraiser for them in Albuquerque, like three weeks ago, and they raised money. And I think they gave away like 50 guitars to younger kids that are in like, detention centers or on probation or something. Yeah, pretty, pretty good project.

Chuck Shute:

Cool. So people can donate to that. I'll put that link in the show notes. And then they can follow me on social media. Your Bluetec now so easy to find you. Awesome, man. All right. Anything else?

Cody Jasper:

That's it, man.

Chuck Shute:

Okay. Yeah. Thanks for coming back. Well, I'll talk again. What's that? All

Cody Jasper:

right. I said I appreciate what you do. Man. I love watching all your your interviews. You got some crazy people lately, which is I feel like impostor syndrome. Legend.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, no, you're getting there. You're getting there yourself. Like I said, so it's cool to see you like on the rise. Like, I just had that guy, the singer from great way like he was in a band and Alabama. I didn't think they had any, like real recorded music when I had him on the show. And now he's like singing with great way. It's pretty cool. So Wow. Awesome. Awesome. Take it easy, Cody. Thank you. All right, by Cody Jasper, remember the name. It's like I was telling him I had Brett Carlisle on the show. He's the singer of all or nothing. And then he got the call to sing for great white. And it's fun to follow these young stars and see their careers. So make sure to follow Cody and also follow the show as well. Your likes, shares and comments will help us both out and we appreciate that. And again, make sure you subscribe to the show so you can catch all the exciting guests that we have. Even Cody said we have some great guests. So thank you so much for your support. Have a great day and shoot for the moon.