Music Art Culture Roundup September 2019 Volume. 1, Issue 8 Sirsy Melanie and Rich Give us a page from 22 their touring travelogue. Moriah Formica Having found acclaim, Moriah strikes 26 out to forge her own path. 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Katy Cole and Last Daze From the halls of music school to the road signs to Muscle Shoals, Moriah Formica Katy Cole and Last Daze are woven into the tapestry of hard blues After amazing crowds on ‘The Voice,’ this singer and and rock and roll. rocker is making it on her forget you. Not to mention other RRX: Let’s start with grow- own. Page 26 By Ralph Renna battles, challenges and obstacles ing up & music, your story, will rear their greedy head and influences? n some cases, it takes bands you will possibly lose a friend or KC: My love for music has many years to develop a two in the process. Welcome to been lifelong. My mom swears sound or make it to a point I the music business. that I was singing James Taylor of solid recognition. Hard work, Katy Cole has survived most songs at 13 months old. I used touring, recording and giving up Tales from the and maybe more of the above to demand Motley Crue before Door .........................34 your life as you know it is a good mentioned. She is still taking her bedtime at three years old, and start. Sometimes, it means leav- Observations and band as seriously as the day she pretended I was the lead singer Ramblings ................41 ing loved ones behind and hitting and guitarist Chris Schempp got of the Misfits from Gem and the the road. On tour, moving fast Sassy Says ...............44 together. Introducing Last Daze Holograms by four. My dad is a and slow, forgetting which town from Upstate N.Y., a harder edged musician, so he taught me guitar Liar’s Almanac .........46 you’re in, all the while trying to blues, a real rock band with soul at the age of 8, and I was writ- stay clear from the demons that and beautiful melodies. Vocals ing songs by the time I was 9. I may possess your soul, the life that demand attention at first started playing with JJ Raymond can chew you up, spit you out and command. Continued on Page 4... Page 4 September 2019 Music Art Culture Revolution when I was 14, and we became couple of lesser known and not bus for promo photos for VIP thinking there was no chance Decadence, a female acoustic duo. released albums as the Katy Cole fans. We jumped in and made in hell. But instead, he asked to That was my first taste of really Band, where I started playing jokes with him. He was very chill. hear our music. I sent him 4 of performing for a living. We start- with Chris Schempp, and that Fast forward 6 months and we our best, and he was immediately ed in bars and clubs, then even- was where the hunger to be an are looking to record again, and excited. He then asked us to come tually decided to write our own original artist was fed. Decadence scouting out Spooner Oldham to L.A. instead of Muscle Shoals stuff and make a go at it. went from acoustic duo to full to record at Muscle Shoals, and so he could fit us in between tour RRX: Give us a little history band, doing original music, and we got asked, “Who is produc- legs. It was a dream. I was broke. of your musical career leading up we started traveling to places like ing you?” It was a pipe dream I mean, dead ass. Rent was late, to Last Daze? Nashville and Florida promoting and Shooter got brought up. He I was in a dead-end job, and not KC: I have had a twisted path. our music. Last Daze happened coincidentally had just been in making ends meet, so I was leav- Ha. I started with Decadence, when Decadence went to LA and news for starting a label (fate, ing for 10 days, and flying 3000 which had a few periods of hia- essentially parted ways. right?). We had nothing to lose, miles away from home with less tus. During one of them, I got a RRX: Last Daze was touring so I gambled on an email address than 200 bucks to my name. music degree, and studied clas- and working with Shooter Jen- reaching out to his manager, Jon Sounds reasonable, right? We had sical vocal pedagogy and music nings. How did you connect and Hensley. He got back to me with- an incredible time with him. I am education. I kept playing and where has that led the band? in 15 minutes, gently letting me so proud of the record we made. writing and recording through all KC: We met Shooter in Mon- down that they weren’t signing We never expected it to be a hit, of it, but nothing was serious, or roe, Louisiana, when Decadence new bands and they were relying but hoped it would open doors, as serious as a lucrative teaching was opening for him and Chase on Waylon’s catalog, plus projects which it definitely did. Shooter career. Having a classical back- Rice. We had VIP access, so we Shooter was involved in. I came is now in a golden age. He just ground made me stronger on all were living our best lives back asking about him produc- won a Grammy, and just co-pro- stage and off stage. I recorded a haha, and Shooter came off the ing our record in Muscle Shoals, duced Tanya Tucker’s new record EAT IN TAKE OUT DELIVERY 49 3rd Street Troy NY 12180 (518) 326-0630 September 2019 Page 5 Music Art Culture Revolution with Brandi Carlile. The fact we the time I spend working away, finish it. I was determined to are even mentioned in a sentence whether it be on stage or in the finish recording before I had my with him seems surreal. studio. My teaching job is quite baby. So a lot of the vocals were perience RRX: You recently took some demanding of my time, but I’m recorded when I was super preg- time off to have a child. Congrat- essentially growing a crop of mu- nant, or just after I delivered. Da- Monthly ulations! Will you pass down mu- sicians every day, and the impact vid Spreng, who mastered “Sym- sical knowledge to your children? I make on the students’ lives is so bols and Snares,” did this album KC: Thank you! Absolutely. important to me and them. The too, so we were psyched to have Art Fredette I mean, I’m not forcing them in reward of that is so much more his talents on the post production Publisher any way, but my daughter is al- powerful than anything I’ve felt front, after Jeff Britton did all the Liam Sweeny ready a force on the stage and she doing anything else. in house production. We are hap- Editor-In-Chief loves musical theater. The baby RRX: This year Last Daze re- py with how it all turned out. Creative Director plays drums all day, every day. leased “Monsters in the River”. RRX: What Does the future Never a dull, or quiet moment in Shed some light on writing and hold for Last Daze? Any plans for Ralph Renna the house. It’s the best feeling, recording this record? 2020? Music Editor connecting with your kids over a KC: The songs feel ancient to KC: We are still unrolling song. me! I wrote a lot of the songs fol- singles from the new album, but Dick Beach RRX: Let’s talk about your ca- lowing my divorce, during a very have started writing new music, Staff Geek reer motherhood juggling those tumultuous time. I love them, and will hopefully end up record- with being a rock musician. but they bring me back to a time ing some new tunes, and get back KC: It certainly isn’t easy. when I was not really okay. We to a regular touring schedule next Contributors I’m not the only one juggling took a long time to make the re- year. the responsibility. I’m thankful cord. There was a time when we www.lastdazeband.com Rob Smittix that my family is supportive of almost thought we would never Debora Bump Katy Cole Sassy Auburn Photo provided. 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