Chris mabbitt11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() So, I get to do cool things and release new songs that they only get to hear – and I don’t know man – it’s fun! It’s a good time. They’re not just seeing you for an hour on a stage – they’re kind of hanging out with you there on that platform every day. It’s just being creative and it’s a lot of fun – and you even have a closer connection with the fans pretty much. I2I (Eye To Eye) from the Goofy Movie was one of the songs I covered. People are like “You should cover this” and I’ll be like “Screw it! I’ll cover it!” And then I just drop it and release it. I’ve had the ability to go on with Eric and do some other cover songs for my Twitch streams. Me and him also did a cover of Let It Go – the James Bay song – and we dropped that on Twitch for Valentine’s Day. I sing some vocals for a Red Jumpsuit song. ![]() Ronnie from Red Jumpsuit Apparatus just sent me some vocals – he’s guesting on a Dead Rabbitts track. The other cool thing is that so many musicians are just wanting to be creative right now – so not only do we have a bunch of Dead Rabbitts tracks, but Mikey from Islander got down and sang on one of the songs. We’ve got almost an album’s worth of songs put together. But he’s been on a Twitch grind as well, so whenever we have time, and he shows me some demos he’s working on – and I just pop in the vocal booth and lay some stuff down. He’s got a studio that he’s built in this house and he lives like 20 minutes down the I write with Eric who plays guitar in that band – and he also plays bass with us in ETF. And what is going on with Dead Rabbitts right now? So right now, I have the ability to work on more music. I’ve got new Dead Rabbitts stuff coming out – and probably a solo album as well. I got all the free time in the world right now and nobody’s talking about getting back on the road for at least another year – so that year is going to see Chemical Warfare drop and it’s probably going to see another ETF album at least being promoted – we’re probably going to track another album. I’ll just put it up on Soundcloud and put like a download link.” It’s not like it had an official release or anything, but I just put it out there and people seemed to like it – so now I’m even more interested in getting involved with some solo stuff and really working on it and releasing an album. ![]() And when the pandemic happened and when I started streaming on Twitch literally every day, I’m like “You know, this might be cool to drop. I’ve always wanted to do solo music, but I never really knew what I wanted it to sound like. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with it. And I’m like, “Oh that’s sick! I’ll sing on that!” And I put that song together and it just got kind of put on the backburner. And the guy who put the song together – he wanted to show me some other things that he had. I had someone hit me up wanting me to do some guest vocals – and so they got me a plane ticket and I flew out to Staten Island and kind of did the guest vocals for him. Tell me about that song and will there be any other solo material? Yeah, so that’s something I worked on just randomly. In addition to the new Escape The Fate album, you released a solo song called Never Be. So, it just felt really good, and I felt like I could open up and really get involved. So back in the studio with him – it felt like I was getting back to my roots – I felt comfortable, and I was back at home. He was a huge helping hand in helping us find our new sound which was when I joined the band in 2007 and when we worked on This War Is Ours. Not playing with us live, but in the studio for sure. What was it like working with John this time around and what does he contribute to the overall recording process? You know, I would say that John IS a member of Escape The Fate – or he always should have been. The opening song Lightning Strikes is a big burst of en. I’d love to drum on it.” And everybody’s that’s asked about Travis, I just tell ‘em “If Travis Barker tells you he’s down to play drums on your song, you let Travis Barker play drums on your song!” And that’s what you do. And Feldy’s like “I’ve got Escape The Fate in here if you want to listen to a few of the tracks.” And he’s like, “Yeah, let me hear it.” And he’s like “I love that one. And Feldy works with Travis a lot with the new Blink stuff and same thing – he was just hanging around the studio and working on a bunch of stuff – and everybody’s trying to figure out what’s going on with the Covid thing. So Not My Problem – the inspiration behind that was actually somebody’s roommate – like hey, do you ever have somebody in your life or a roommate or what have you that’s just kind of like a Debbie Downer – just always in the dumps? And that was inspiration behind that track. Tell me about that song Not My Problem and how Travis became involved. Another guest on the album was Travis Barker from Blink 182. Silver lining to the whole pandemic, I guess. ![]()
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