♪ Let's start at the seven.

♪ ♪ Come on, you guys.

♪ What's up, party people?

My name is Manny, and today we are live from KVCR studios in San Bernardino.

This is Rhythm Lounge, where we spotlight the top musical talent from across the Inland Empire.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for The Dangers.

One, two, three.

♪ Morning is just like heaven ♪ ♪ Softly footsteps down ♪ ♪ into the hills and the trees ♪ ♪ pouring down like heaven.

♪ ♪ Yellow kindness.

♪ ♪ We'll get there eventually.

♪ ♪ Who sets the stage for, the way it should be ♪ ♪ Pushed the button marked reality?♪ ♪ Hoping, wishing, praying, missing ♪ ♪ Hoping, wishing, praying, missing ♪ ♪ Perchance to Dream ♪ ♪ Sunset is like heaven, softly ♪ Seven ♪ ♪ Rolling ‘cross the hills and the trees ♪ ♪ Yellow sky like heaven softly driven.

♪ ♪ And we'll get there eventually ♪ Who sets the stage for the way it should be?

♪ ♪ pushed the button marked reality ♪ ♪ Hoping, wishing, praying, missing ♪ ♪ Perchance to dream?

♪ ♪ Perchance to Dream ♪ ♪ An evening fit for heaven ♪ ♪ Stars say, eleven ♪ ♪ Rolling ‘cross the hills and the trees ♪ ♪ Morning sky to heaven, slowly driven ♪ ♪ And well get back eventually ♪ Who sets the stage for the way it should be?

♪ ♪ Pushed the button marked reality?

♪ ♪ Hoping, wishing, praying, missing, ♪ ♪ Perchance to dream ♪ ♪ Perchance to dream ♪ ♪ Heaven, heaven, heaven ♪ ♪ Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven.

♪ ♪ Heaven, heaven, heaven.

♪ ♪ Heaven ♪ ♪ Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven ♪ ♪ Heaven, heaven, heaven.

♪ Alright we going to the next one Sure.

This is called Dream for Days.

Hello Matt ♪ I remember you.

♪ ♪ Youre my distant star.

♪ ♪ Deep into your blue ♪ ♪ Back where you are ♪ ♪ I cant hear you words ♪ ♪ Cant you hear my song?

♪ ♪ deep into your blue ♪ ♪ Back where we belong ♪ ♪ Might be only sleeping ♪ ♪ You can hear me count the ways ♪ ♪ Cause I can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ I remember you ♪ ♪ Walking through the rain ♪ ♪ Across the fields of gold ♪ ♪ Never back again ♪ ♪ Maybe Im still sleeping ♪ ♪ You can hear me count the ways ♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ Hold on secret heart ♪ ♪ Words that we could make ring true ♪ ♪ Wish that I could start again with you ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I remember you.

♪ ♪ Standing torn and frayed ♪ ♪ Never let you go ♪ ♪ Never be afraid ♪ ♪ And in my golden slumber ♪ ♪ You can help me count the ways ♪ ♪ And I can dream for... ♪ ♪ Maybe were just sleeping ♪ ♪ We can take it all the way ♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Days♪ ♪ We can dream for days ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ ♪ Days ♪ Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, this is Rhythm Lounge.

My name is Manny, and we have with us The Dangers.

You guys, thank you so much for taking the time out of your day.

I know you're all busy, so thank you for being with us, sharing your music, your talent with us.

And so I have a ton of questions for you all.

But first we're going to introduce ourselves.

And before we get started, some of you guys might recognize a couple of the guys from The Dangers, and that's because they were here last week, but they're part of multiple bands.

So let's give it up in a we'll start with Ralph.

Hi, my name is Ralph and I play piano.

My name is Matt and I play the bass.

My name is Mike and I play guitar and I also sing.

This is Mad Brad Vaughn on drums.

He's mad because he only brought his snare today, forgot the rest of the stuff.

And my name is Chris Leroy.

I play guitar and keyboards and I write some songs.

So I understand yall just released an album called Heaven.

You guys played some music for us today.

The lead single Perchance to Dream.

And what inspired that song?

And in the lyrics?

And who wrote that?

I wrote Perchance to Dream.

I was, I was messing around with a Dusty Springfield song, wishing and hoping and praying that song.

And because it has some beautiful chord changes and I thought, if I alter this enough, no one will know.

Just don't get on TV and say anything about it.

Right.

But I just went off that riff of that sound.

And then, as was a lot of my songs, I'll I'll just get kind of a melody flowing in my head and these words pop out and whatever the four most interesting words.

And I'll start putting a... Wow.

...song together.

So Perchance to Dream and it's from a Shakespeare line, but it really, as a band, we really got excited about the little guitar riff and started playing it, putting it together as an album track.

We just got excited about it and and it found its own energy and its own juice.

There's, there's the songwriting era.

And then there's a is the band how the band pulls it together for a song, right?

That's awesome.

So I see there's about somewhere around ten songs.

How long did it take you guys to produce this entire album?

Jeez.

Well, we did it over the course of maybe six, seven months.

Yeah, guys, it was.

It was, you know, coming out of the pandemic as though we're out of the pandemic.

Right.

We did an album a year before, and that was right in the heart of it.

We started before the pandemic, started it, finished the album.

This one, we we started getting going.

And then it just took a while to get into the flow.

But it.

We've had an album a year for about 14 years in a row.

So we're on a treadmill.

Yeah.

You guys are giving some of the biggest pop acts a run for their money, pushing those albums out that quick?

That's right.

We're going to hold their feet to the fire.

You guys are raising the bar, that's for sure.

So what was the album title Heaven Inspired By?

What would you guys say?

What's the meaning behind that?

I think I think for me for me, it's the it's doing this, it's playing music.

It's, you know, sharing sharing tunes with our friends.

It's when when when we learn Christmas songs.

I mean, we all get together, learn them, and we cut them, right?

You know, and there's just it's just something, you know, in the middle of everything going on right now.

We're really, really fortunate to have music, you know, to have our friends with us.

Exactly.

And for me, for me, that's what it means.

For me.

It's it's well, it's the lead single off the album.

And that's not the name of the song is perchance to dream.

But the heaven.

Right is the.

Hook.

Got you.

Yeah.

That was when Chris was trying to weigh what would be a better album title.

That one just kept coming up to the fore, so.

And.

Yeah.

Well, and I understand, too, Ralph was telling me earlier today that you guys produced this entire album, recorded the entire album in Redlands.

Is that where you guys predominantly record most?

You have a studio called Studio or Lo Fi Studio, a.k.a.. And we operate there's our bass operations.

So we do shows from there, we record material from there.

So it's wonderful to have that as a facility.

And when I can then going back to the having questions is it's very similar that that was sort of our centerpiece, you know, when there were tough times for everybody having a kind of a safe place or safe zones to have that be a creative space.

Right.

It was very, very powerful.

So when I was even thinking of the album cover, I was actually in my garage.

And those are my albums there on the on the cover.

Wow.

What?

What what do we have that sort of represents this feeling that we have about music?

And so it's right in some way.

So my version of having in Oasis, this is very music filled.

Wow.

Gotcha.

And that's amazing to hear.

So I know you guys have been around since the seventies.

How was the dangers, the name of the dangers?

How was that formulated?

What was the idea behind that mistake?

We were going to be we were I.

Love I love a sentence that starts with it was a mistake.

Songs but we were we were going to play in a show.

We'd just been together for two weeks.

We were playing a show place called My Place Yours really groovy name.

Wow.

And when we got to the phone and they said, Well, what's the name of your band?

And hadn't really thought of it.

So my friend Bob Jarvis, who helped found the band, he goes, Well, we're the outsiders.

And then I held up a single.

I go, We can't be the outsiders.

We do a cover of just Let Me Write.

And and so he just oh, no, we're not the outsiders.

We're the dangers.

And he hung up.

So that's how much thought went into that name.

It seems sort of.

Layered right now.

So sometimes really serendipity is helpful and it's stuck since 1978.

So.

So speaking of danger, keeping it PG 13, what's the most dangerous thing that has happened to you guys while you've been performing a show or recording music or just out in the world that you can think of?

Wow, dangerous thing.

Back in the seventies when we we starting, you know, new new wave era punk era, right.

But we weren't a punk band.

And so we'd always be in a show where there'd be, you know, four punk bands and then the dangers and former punk bands.

Right.

And so at the very beginning, you know, punks thought that we were we were like a sixties band and that we weren't cool or something.

And so it would be folks would come up and try to harass us.

I remember there's this guy who came up and kept trying to hit the microphone, so, you know, oh, sheesh, I'm sure that helped inside.

Was that I'm assuming that might have been at a brewery or?

Well, it was just it was at the Ritz, which might as well the row over in Riverside.

And so he hit a microphone once.

He hit it twice because he's trying to make it hit me in the face.

Right?

But just, you know, it's a punk attitude it was cool And then I saw him coming up for like the fourth time and he's sidestepping Eurostep, like in basketball Eurostep.

And I just he was stages of like this and he jumped up and I hit him right in the throat.

Oh, and he just went back and it was just a beautiful image.

She was just like, Oh, and it's like looking back over and and, you know, I know.

So I feel better.

I hurt this guy, and then I saw the other punks just like You're one of us, man.

You guys are cool.

You're.

You're you're you're.

And that was the day you got inducted, too, for other punk bands.

Oh, well, after that, you guys, you're not.

You're so not punk.

You're punk.

Yeah.

So speaking of punk, you just mentioned that you guys aren't a punk band or weren't a punk band, but you played in a lot of venues where punk bands were also playing.

So how do you guys describe your music now and how did you describe it then?

Well, Ralph saw us a lot, way back when Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, well, back in the day I was in another band and I'd go to see the dangers all the time.

They were my favorite local band and they were very much I mean, for me, you know, they represented like a power pop thing.

Yeah.

You know, I'm a big pop guy, big song guy.

And Chris was writing these great songs with his partner at the time, Johnny Hickman.

Gotcha.

And yeah, yeah.

I mean, it was it was it was loud and fast, but very melodic.

Gotcha.

And a lot of hooks, stuff to hold on to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think over time the what's been interesting, just stay together as a band is that we are very eclectic, right?

I think today we played dream for days is that a country song is in a country rock thing.

It kind of moves between genres.

Yeah.

And I think that's what we enjoy so much is, you know, there's a little bit of punk in our hearts too.

And so depending on the song, we kind of come back with our history and background music and we kind of recreate it.

Yeah, make something new.

Yeah.

Some older sound.

What would you say is your guys's favorite cover song to perform?

That's been or also maybe you're the cover song has been performed the most from you guys throughout the years.

Well, so a song ours, the people other bands play or identify with us.

This song called Radio City Guns, we did it in 1980 and it's just it's a dance song and people always get up and dance around, right.

As far as a cover songs, what do you think?

What do you think, gentlemen?

Because we're really don't have a whole lot of cover songs.

Yeah, but we just did Elvis Costello's peace, love and understanding.

Yeah.

So with the band was starting.

We were, we were a cover band for one show that my place is yours.

Right?

Yeah.

We were doing, you know, the police and Tom Petty.

Fun, The.

Clash.

We were doing all these things that we heard in Live and loved and we snuck one of my songs in as just another song.

And it was going on this assault.

It was called She's All Right or Something.

And the we were playing it and right in the middle of the song, I realized the people out there, I didn't know the difference.

They thought it was just another cover song.

So I went to my friend John and he looked at me and we just said, Hmm, yeah, we have to get more into the songwriting.

So that's all we love.

Also, matter of fact, we're going to be doing an EP of covers.

Okay.

Yeah, I think may be that the next thing we do that.

We'll come back and play those.

Pretty rock n. Yeah, yeah.

That would be amazing.

I was going to ask too.

I know one of you guys is involved with a music show.

Can you tell me a little bit about that and show the name of that music show?

Okay.

So I call Lo Fi Lounge and actually all of us are involved with it, but it's a weekly show that's happened in the middle of the pandemic.

And other people were kind of going online on Facebook and, you know, playing a song and the camera looking up their nose.

And I just wanted to try to do something different.

Matt Wyckoff told me, whatever it is, don't make it too long.

People have short attention spans.

And so we it's evolved to like a 30 minute piece.

Every Friday, 530 on our Facebook page, we have a show that honors the Inland Empire music.

That is awesome.

Know from here we know.

Something about.

That there's there's all sorts it's kind of a multi art central spot.

Only episodes of this Friday will be the 92nd episode.

Wow.

99, 90 seconds.

92 in a row so count back.

Wow I'm not good at math but count back 92 and whatever that was I've been doing ever since.

Sounds like it might have been May or June of 2020.

Something like, you're a very good mathematician.

I failed math three times in college, so I'm improved.

You guys go right on Valley College.

I was going to also mention that.

So speaking of live shows, you mentioned live shows a couple of times.

Where have you guys played?

What are some of the biggest venues you've played and what venues do you guys still want to play in?

Wow, very good question.

In the old days we played were were, you know, we saw was the pinnacle we felt like at the Troubadour.

Yeah.

Or that's a big venue.

That's a it's pretty historic, honestly.

It was.

Yeah.

You know, on a Wednesday night where you're not a known band, you'd have to drag 200 people out to a place in L.A.

Very hard to do.

That's when you're dragging.

You're like 60 year old parents to.

One.

Another place.

Yeah, count my mom twice.

Sit over there and I'm moving, sir.

But you know what was nice about man?

And so, you know, is that if you played on a Wednesday night and there was any kind of a crowd, new people would hear you.

I remember at the Troubadour, the the bartender, he got all happened.

He was dancing on the bar.

Yeah.

And I'd say that's rock and roll, you know?

So any place we play is fine, even at our studio, right in Redlands, we do a lot of events there and do a lot of shows.

We do really great Christmas show.

We have, you know, lots of bands come and play.

So we'll play wherever we enjoy, any place we play.

That's awesome.

What's the name of your guys's studio and what's the location?

Just so whenever you guys have future events.

Is it is 522 amigos in Redlands in this big industrial complex, but it's called Studio a lo fi studio.

And you know, I'll be on my Facebook.

We sent out as an event.

Gotcha.

So, guys, thank you so much for coming.

And where can we find more out about the dangers?

You could go to the dangers.net, correct?

Thank you, Maria.

Thank you.

And then all our albums are there.

This is our 13th album?

13th album So all the albums are there and people can download it buy a CD or....Got it.

Well, thank you guys so much for stopping by sharing your talent.

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Manny.

This is Rhythm Lounge.

Thank you so much for tuning in.

We will see yall next week.

♪ With the last band this evenin we brought our own power ♪ ♪ We play, Orange Blossom ♪ ♪ Lastly for this hour ♪ ♪ No force higher than ♪ ♪ Meteor Showers ♪ ♪ hung over ♪ ♪ this circus is fleeing .♪ ♪ Day timing out ♪ ♪ Let us in the sky like an electric collide ♪ ♪ Come and be with us ♪ ♪ Shine ♪ ♪Please shine ♪ ♪ Leaves become fireflies they spin through the towers ♪ ♪ They play sugar melting ♪ ♪ Hey thats late for this hour ♪ ♪ Won't you play for us?

♪ Come spend the day with us ♪ ♪ Come spend the day ♪ ♪ Im done with this circus, its late ♪ ♪ Late telling album ♪ ♪ Pass through ♪ ♪ The skyline, electrical everytime ♪ ♪ Come on you let us shine♪ ♪ Please shine ♪ ♪ You got your memories ♪ ♪ Your cameras not down ♪ ♪ Cross sugar mountain ♪ ♪ Takes more than an hour ♪ ♪ Come wont you play for us ♪ ♪ Come spend the day with us ♪ ♪ Come spend the day ♪ ♪ Im done with the circus, its late ♪ ♪ late ♪ ♪ Late telling hour ♪