What's going on? Tony Morris here, Young Hollywood with Aaron from A-Wall Nation. We're here at K-Rock, I'm going to say it AAC. That's what I've been abbreviating it.

Oh, AAC. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So, we were talking earlier about his socks. Yeah. He's got some insane sock game right now.

Yeah. Well, I looked in in my dryer because I did laundry, because I'm actually home right now, because we live here. Not at the Forum, not at AAC. Although some cool rooms to stay in up here. They live in Los Angeles, though, in San Francisco. Yes. These were the most kind of festive looking, so I went with them.

They're very festive, very festive. Oh, But enough about these socks. We don't have to talk about the socks. We're in the world-famous Forum where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson just and James Worthy and many others, of course, just roam these halls. So, I'm kind of starstruck by just the building. We're talking earlier about how, uh, Aaron has been like, I mean, he has been you did the punk scene when you were younger. I mean, and can you talk about a little bit about that when you were younger and how that's kind of like evolved? It's still with you or anything?

Sure. Yeah. It was it was great to be able to go, um, to these punk rock and hardcore shows and and learn so much about, um, you know, the whole art of putting on a show and and creating flyers. And this was before social media, of course. So, we learned how to get, you know, spread the word and get people to come to these shows to listen to our bands that weren't, you know, weren't for everyone, to say the least. Right. And, um, so it was really cool just to see how that operates on on a much smaller, intimate level. Those those times were a lot more a little bit more wild.

You were saying earlier how we were talking about he's the he's he knew a lot more he does, he's a real surfer and he also did a lot crowd surfing.

Yeah, I did. Yeah, that was really fun to do and and, you know, it was every once in a while, if if, uh, the mood strikes me, you know, I can't help myself, but, um, I lost so many nice socks, by the way, too. So, I would take off my shoes and jump into the crowd with socks and then, um, yeah, so I have a lot of one pair of sock situations at my house now. Today, a lot of people are I didn't know how to say that. No. Made no sense.

I think you knew what I meant.

I knew exactly what you mean. So, if I lose one tonight, I'll borrow yours, but it won't match.

Have you if you've ever been to a K-Rock K-Rock K-Rock Weenie Roast or, uh, AC AAC when you were younger as a fan?

No, I never got to go. I don't think I think I was just too broke to figure out how to get in, you know. Um, I snuck into the Forum to see the, uh, what was it? The Family Values Tour that had, uh, I think Ice Cube, maybe Limp Bizkit was playing as well or Korn or something like that. And anyway, so we snuck in It was a rowdy show, probably.

Successfully. That was probably really rowdy.

And snuck in here to see the Beastie Boys. Um, so I have snuck into this building twice before.

Security. Is possible, ladies and gentlemen. A lot of your songs have so many textures and that's why I was I was talking right earlier before I said textures, you thought I meant my socks. But I meant the the textures of your of your tracks and your songs. Are you involved in producing a lot of that stuff? Are you in there at the grind all night long? You can't sleep and you're like

Yeah, I I do it all alone.

Oh, wow. That's awesome.

And yeah, these songs and melodies haunt me. So, you know, when I'm working on a song, it's all I'm thinking about. It consumes me completely. And you know, often times I'll be sitting there in bed and trying to fall asleep, but some some way to maybe improve the song or the mix or or lyric or, you know, a different part of the beat or whatever, it just it just haunts me and I can't sleep. So then I have to get up and record that thought, uh, into my voice memo, like many people, I'm sure do.

Mhm.

And, um, wake up the next day and judge if it was actually a good idea or not.

You recorded your first one in the Rebel Records studio, right? Yes. Now, and then you said you said you you you aren't allowed there, you don't do it there anymore or what's the for?

No, the Yeah, uh, the the individual that is in charge of booking the artists to record at the studio decided just to not let me in there anymore. Um, but it was a blessing in disguise because I was able to find this other really cool studio that was closer to my house. And, um, and now I'm building my own. So, you know, everything happens for a reason. But at the time, I was pretty upset about it.

That's pretty awesome, you're going to build your own. So many you just walk in. You built your own studio or are you You're heavily in there now.

Yes, I'm in the I'm in the middle of, uh, designing it right now.

You actually were able to produce it and make it without having the labels or having the suits, you know, see it. I think that's something that's really cool.

Yeah, it was cool. I mean, you know, the first record I I did on my own for the most part, like 70%. I had some people come and play certain parts that were, um, that were necessary because it was out of out of my wheelhouse, so to speak. And, you know, it's it's it's a huge blessing to be able to have tunnel vision of, um, for a song or a whole record and be able to actually complete that without having anyone else tarnish that that process.

What did you say the suits did come to you? And they're like, we, this is on the Christmas spirit. They're like, Aaron, we need a Christmas EP. Let's do this. What what would you put on this EP?

I don't know. I would go to a lot of the classics, you know, and I'd probably not have any beats, try to make it mostly strings and vocals and and stay sort of traditional because I'm a huge Christmas song fan anyways, you know. So, it actually wouldn't be that disappointing to me. I mean, you'd have to come to me in the summertime because it'd take a while to do it, you know. But, um, I've been thinking about that. Best Christmas albums they must have made that in the blazing sun of the summer, you know what I mean? Which doesn't have a very nice Christmas spirit. So, who knows?

All right, man, it's awesome to chat with you. Thank you. See you next time. Thanks, Aaron.

Thanks, brother.