What's up, Inland Empire?

My name is Manny Sandoval, and I'm your host.

Welcome to Rhythm Lounge, where we spotlight the top musical talent from across the Inland Empire.

Today, we're going to introduce you to a band that specializes in alternative rock and soul.

Ladies and gentlemen.

And to everyone watching, give it up for Jared Rose.

All right, guys.

This is called Growth Today is for my mental heatlh I don't have the time or no one else I get a look that kills my drive don't wanna hangout all the time I won't be there always you need time to function on your own Don't you ever worry I don't hate you but I have to focus on my growth I won't be there always you need time to function on your own Don't you ever worry I don't hate you but I have to focus on my growth Today is for my mental health don't have the time for no one else I get a look that kills my drive don't wanna hangout all the time I won't be there always you need time to function on your own Don't you ever worry I don't hate you but I have to focus on my growth I won't be there always you need time to function on your own Don't you ever worry I don't hate you but I have to focus on my growth Thank you This one's called Coming Down You get the attention you think you deserve when I'm not around I'll give you some answers tonight all hope is lost when I find my desires I've had enough of all the lust that just turn me to a fiend Keep getting lost Admit the truth But I'm gonna find my way back Maybe then you get a lot from me but I keep coming down Hard to see, predict catastrophes I'll still keep coming down I lose you to find the truth it's not what you thought it would be I'll bite my tongue to hear you speak There's things that you need to hear now Maybe then you get a lot from me but I keep coming down Hard to see, predict catastrophes I'll still keep coming down Maybe then you get a lot from me but I keep coming down Hard to see, predict catastrophes I'll still keep coming down Welcome back Inland Empire.

My name is Manny and this is Rhythm Lounge.

We are here with Jared Rose.

Jared, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Let's go ahead and take a second to introduce the band My name is Benjamin.

I'm the lead guitarist.

How's it going?

Tony, I play drums.

My name's Christian.

I played the bass.

I'm Jared, I play guitar, and I sing awesome, guys.

Well, thank you so much for joining us today.

And so you guys just played a couple of songs off of your EP titled Recovery.

Can you tell me a little bit about the inspiration and development of that, EP?

Oh man.

Well, I wrote and recorded the whole thing in, a span of like three years.

I think.

And honestly, that took I had like half was new songs and half was like old songs.

And I know people like to, like, cut old songs off and I thought it was, you know, when the time comes, it'll be good.

And it was golden.

I was just kind of working on the album for, like, that whole time, like the whole pandemic and stuff, and I just, I mean, I just decided that time when I dropped, which was last year, I was kind of, it felt like Recovery is kind of like it was it's like a mental recovery or like healing.

you know, when you're down and out, you know, and that was kind of like me.

Recovery, Just if you listen to what I say, it is catchy.

But if like you listen to it's kind of like it's like it kind of tricks people's brain.

But if you listen to it like, I actually really say stuff that's like pretty deep, that kind of like tricks people's brains.

But that was pretty much like the inspiration, I would say.

But I wrote and recorded and produced everything myself.

God, it's a very introspective but probably therapeutic.

You said coming out of the pandemic.

So yeah, yeah.

So when you were, you know, thinking of this performance today, what what's the formula in terms of that you use specifically to put the songs in that sequence, to make it flow in a live performance?

I think we all kind of have like a contribution.

I think, Christian had a, had a good idea to put Growth first on it.

So we thought of doing Growth first as a way to get like a tune.

Yeah.

And it's like bringing the whole crowd in gets energy.

And then once the energies into it, you, we play coming down, it slows down a little, probably get like a, like a curiosity, but some sort of curiosity.

Yeah.

Feel like.

I I feel the same because it's kind of like it just, Yeah.

you know, start off strong and just, just start and then coming down is, you know, no pun intended, but it's coming down, you know, but, but come down, you know, come down and then yeah.

Because I think it should be at least in like performance wise, I think the way I see it is not necessarily all the time, like, expect like an expected like, you know, roller coaster, but I think it should be like, you know, a surprise, you know, surprise.

And it should, like, flow throughout.

Like, either, like if I can connect the songs to make, like, some sort of like story, I can do that.

But, yeah, there's some sort of explanation for that.

Got it.

No, that's awesome to hear.

And so when it comes to your guys's influence and or influences, when it comes to alternative rock and soul and everything in between and genres not in between, who are some of your guys's biggest musical inspirations and influences, would you say individually and collectively?

So just go down the line that we'll go down the line and just give like a few?

Yeah, I like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Deftones, The Cure, The Smiths singing wise or like R & B wise, I would say, we have a, I have a Stevie Wonder tattoo.

It's, songs in the Key of Life.

I have that and, yeah, yeah.

Songs in the key of Life.

D'Angelo.

The Isley Brothers.

The Isley brothers are, like, probably going to go down as, like, the best R & B, like soul band because they're every rapper samples, every everybody.

They're everywhere.

I think they're amazing.

But, for me, I'm more in the well in between, like you said, I had my biggest influences from when I was like, is I started playing guitar when I was about 12.

Would be Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead, all the, you know, I'm really big on 70s, what's called proto metal, because at the time, they didn't even know what they were doing.

They just kind of were like, let's make something really heavy and hope it sticks.

And a lot of those bands never got to shed their life.

But a lot of that influences me.

But I'm across the board to like, you know, with soul.

I'm with him on Isley Brothers for sure.

Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, a lot of the 70s stuff, but I spent anywhere between like late 60s to late 90s.

Alice in Chains is a big one for me, too, for alternative.

I mean, grunge alternative, I suppose.

Jerry Cantrell is a master, but, I'd have to say like Black Sabbath, Alice in Chains, for the most part, at least for this kind of influence.

For me, I listen to metal, and that's where I get like my influences Gotcha.

for drumming and my favorite bands are Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold, because I always like, like their fast double pedal system.

That's a very vast difference.

You said, all the way to Avenged Sevenfold.

That's very.

I feel like, you know, the, the music television, scene of like the early 2000s almost.

So that's awesome.

Yeah.

Definitely innovative.

And.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well you know, for me The frogs, you know, the Power Rangers theme song.

All right.

I rock with that hard.

Yes, yes.

That's for us as a collective.

Like, I guess we all really walk with rock with Deftones.

Yeah, yeah, that is, I only listen to like, four songs, but at the very least, I listen to for the honesty.

I love it like I can't live in.

And you mentioned one of those four is a High School Musical soundtrack.

Is that what you had?

No, I'm just kidding.

I was like, wait, did they do that?

No, I don't think so.

That's exciting.

So where have you guys played live?

Have you guys, done any live shows as of late or in the past year?

Yeah.

We were, we had.

Yeah, we had one, Bernardino, it's this cafe called Birdcage Cafe.

in San And, that was like two weeks ago, I believe that was our our first show together.

Like our first show together.

And that was two weeks ago.

So when you guys are basically planning and, you know, And that was two weeks ago.

coordinating everything and playing as a band collectively, what do you guys start off with for you guys?

Does it start off with the instruments as a start off with the vocals, what do you bring in first, like in terms of like the live performance?

Yes, like the entirety of it.

I think, since at least like for like the writing or like, like teaching process, I think I sat down with them and we kind of just like sat down, like, and just went down, went through the tempo.

And then I would like play the chords and stuff.

And then I would go down like the root notes and stuff and just and we'd figure out that part.

And once we have that steady, steady tempo and the chords are right and tones all right, and then now we focus on dynamics and like where we stop and where, you know, everyone stops.

And yeah, that's kind of how it goes.

And for Ben, we, I mean, he, he used to play with me.

So like, if he.

Yeah, it's been a few years, like.

Yeah, I had my, I had a, another set of, of people that helped me played, my songs and, but everyone moved away, but it was still the same, like, music.

But Ben was a part of that as well.

And, thanks to Chris and Tony for for joining us on this and big time became amazing now.

So I have a question about the, you know, these knobs and pads down here at the bottom, because I seen you kind of made some changes between song one and song two.

Tell us exactly and walk us through what exactly you're doing and what sort of elements in terms of sound, changes when you make those adjustments.

So the green pedal, which is a Tube Screamer, that one's, it's a gain pedal.

Yeah.

A lot of blues artists use it, but obviously with time, people become like, you know, like they started doing new things.

They want to, like, try out new genres exist, you know, new things.

So at least for this, the, the clean sound that comes out from my amp, I kind of just like it kind of boosts a little bit more.

And like, I could figure out, like, more volume with that.

And, so that helps out with, like, my dynamic if I want to take that off to like the calmer parts, it'll, it'll like, you know, comment down a little bit and that's that, that's for that.

So I use that one a lot because I like dynamics and stuff.

And then for the chorus pedal, by bass, that one is like, to, to make it like simple.

It's kind of like, it's like an underwatery kind of noise, but it's like, it's almost like if, like hence the name chorus.

It's kind of like chorus, you know, choir, chorus.

So it's like, yeah, it's like a wave.

So it's like a wave.

Imagine if there was like two people singing.

It's like one person singing.

Singing slightly like imperfect.

But it's like still enough to like where you can tell.

It's like, you know, the same, but it's like slightly imperfect, but it's like it's like two people underwater, almost.

You're sounding like a mad scientist over here, right?

Gotcha.

No, no, I'm just kidding.

It's honestly, I like to consider half of what we do.

Sound science.

I mean, everything is an experiment musically, so that's not an inaccurate statement to me.

Yeah.

No, really.

And so next I want to mention is, you guys as a group.

So are you guys going to be writing new music together since you guys just kind of did your first show, what do you guys have coming on?

Coming up in the near future?

It's going to be fun.

Yeah, I think I think that's a possibility, honestly.

We we kind of just jammer.

We jam a lot of different things when we're practicing.

We, practice at Rad Pro in downtown Ontario because that's where we're from.

And, shout out to Rad Pro there.

They're amazing.

They always shout out to us.

They're white.

Hockey helps us out with everything.

So we kind of just always jam there.

What are those, locations?

Are they like, studios or it's studio rehearsal rooms?

Yeah, yeah.

So we rehearse there all the time.

I've been rehearsing there since I was like, yes, like 18 years since our first location.

Yeah.

White Hawk is the name of the gentleman that runs the place.

So, yeah, he's a sensational human being.

And so, Yeah, I mean, I think we're going to probably start Yeah.

maybe just trying to write maybe new stuff or I have stuff that I have recorded or, you know, and that I'm kind of working on right now.

And it's kind of like that, you know, about you.

I want to take a second to dive into the world of AI because I think I in general, across the board from field to field, especially even in music, is really taking off for the good, but also for the bad.

And so what are your guys's individual stances on AI being integrated into music, into music from a local perspective, but then into music from a commercial perspective as well?

Yes.

You go first.

I'm honestly, I'm, I'm I'm extremely leery about it.

I mean, there's a there it's throughout the last just couple of decades, I mean, there's been all kinds of, controversy over, you know, music, like copyrights, royalties.

There's the whole Metallica thing with LimeWire, I think.

Right.

But over time, I think it's It comes to a point where it might be a little bit excessive.

there.

I mean, in AI these days, it truth be told, it scares me a little bit.

So if anybody can essentially put anybody on any AI platform and essentially manipulate and utilize that for their own personal gain, it's it's a little it's a little bit much, at least in my opinion.

It's a bit much.

Gotcha.

Well, guys, where can we find more about you guys individually and collectively?

If you want to take a second to shout out your handles for social.

Yeah.

I have my Instagram is @jaredisrose Rose is, not necessarily my last name, but it, Jared my first name translates to rose in like Hebrew, the flower and so, really, Jared is Rose, if you that that he connects.

If you go on, you know, all streaming platforms.

Jared rose and.

Yeah, I mean, for me, you can find me on Instagram.

It would be Papa.Zuddha, but but it's like p a p a .

z u d d h a actually, there was originally been Zudaism, like Zen Buddhism.

I just flip B with the Z, but yeah, Papa.Zuddha And then you can find my, I have another band that you can check the handle out on.

My bio for that too, but.

Yeah.

Papa.Zuddha.

Perfect.

You can find me on Instagram.

Tonytwoss_ Christian trivet.

All my stuff is on private so you can find us on jaredisrose on Instagram So I love this.

Truth be told, I love that.

Well everybody watching at home.

Thank you so much for joining us here on Rhythm Lounge.

Again.

My name is Manny and Jared Rose has one more song to perform for us after the break.

This is our last song.

It's called Excuses Alright.

Thank you so much.

You give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here You never reply You always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool, but I'm just trying to keep it real words you don't condone You give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here You never reply You always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool just tryna keep it real words you don't condone Say it's over when you're sober Say it's over when you're sober Say it's over when you're sober Say it's over when you're sober Trying to keep my peace on the down low never have my back when I stumble Putting in the work but I'm humble Calling up my phone with a bold tone I don't know what you've been thinking haven't heard your voice in a minute Only see you on the weekends leave me in the gutter I'm alright But I miss those nights when we used to ghost write devoting to love write a co-sign Alright but I miss those nights when we used to ghost write devoting to love Give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here you never reply you always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool but I'm just tryna keep it real words you don't condone You give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here You never reply you always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool, but I'm just tryna keep it real words you don't condone Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Press play, my thoughts displayed My head is in the ceiling, But I'm focused on my healing When you cross my mind I look both ways If I get hit you might scream like ghostface Serotonin is real dangerous temporary vacant lust deadlier than angel dust never find the truth in us simpin' in Los Angeles complicated to adjust You give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here You never reply, you always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool, but I'm just tryna keep it real words you don't condone You give me excuses when I'm trying to get you here You never reply, you always keep your DMs sealed I'm actin' a fool, but I'm just tryna keep it real words you don't condone Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're- Here we go!

Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over, when you're sober Say it's over Thank you guys so much.

I'm Jared Rose, and this is my band Thank you.