Orgy – Candyass

So you guys, after Orgy you guys are doing pretty well. You took music and guitar to the next level, you got Julien-K, Adema, various musical projects. You guys are producing, you’ve done successful crowdfunding campaigns, Patreon, engaging with your fans, plus you handle legal stuff, accounting, merchandising, management. You have a production company called Framework, plus you have Restaurants. How do you guys do all this?  How do you manage your time to be able to do all this stuff? It’s pretty impressive and I have to ask this question.

You know, I wish that I could say that we had some incredible system. We don’t, to be honest with you. We really just work off of a calendar. We’re pretty careful, we share our calendar and we both kind of work off of it. And we work with a lot of really great people. I think that we’ve been kind of lucky and finding great partners and being able to put together teams. And a lot of what we do, stuff that Amir and I actually spend our time on, we kind of practice extreme ownership.

We really focus on if we’re going to put our time and energy into something like the music or whatever it is, we’re kind of, we have to be involved. We want to own all the responsibility of the project, we want to be responsible for the money, we want to be responsible for the way the product looks and feels and sounds, we want to be responsible for the lyrics, for the tones, for the production, the way it’s rolled out, everything. We don’t want to let someone else come in there and ruin any of the stuff anymore. And and a lot of artists I think, they really aren’t used to taking all the responsibility, win or lose themselves. Notice I said lose, because we don’t win all the time, you know, being an artist doesn’t mean you just wake up with piles of money every day and people tune your guitars for you and all kind of stuff. We just said, you know fuck that. We had all the success in Orgy and if we wanted stuff to continue to happen in this new environment, I think we realized that we really have to be ready to do it all ourselves.

And by having that attitude we’ve been able to start all sorts of businesses because we aren’t afraid to “sweep the floor”. We aren’t afraid to carry our own gear. We aren’t afraid to tune our own instruments. We don’t think anyone’s going to come record us. We don’t think anyone’s going to market us. We don’t think anyone’s gonna help me write a better song. No one’s gonna do that, no one’s gonna save us. We’re going to save us. Our fans are going to save us.

When you get that attitude, it becomes infectious to the people that you’re working with. And that’s how we’re able to do restaurants, how we’re able to have a production company. How we’re able to be in multiple bands, because everyone else wants to work and pull their weight when the two guys that are kind of the center of the wheel are willing to do anything to make it work and make it happen.

So that’s that concept of ownership. Just own your situation and be ready to do every job and I think that what we found out is people want to get involved and they want to help. Because they know that we’re going to be the first ones awake, the first ones working on stuff and the last ones to go to sleep. So that’s just just the way it’s been and it’s led to a lot of a lot of incredible opportunities. I mean it’s been maybe what, 15, 16 years that we’ve been engaging in business, So if you say it all at once it sounds like a lot, but to me, I actually think that I still have more time to do stuff and it’s just been a steady growth of 15 years of perfecting our craft, of learning that no one’s going to save us and continuing to get to take more control over the responsibilities of being a professional artist and business person.

Para nuestra sesión #11 tuvimos dos invitados muy especiales, Amir Derakh & Ryan Shuck, guitarristas de la banda Orgy. Músicos, compositores, productores y empresarios. Ambos fueron miembros de ORGY, DEAD BY SUNRISE (junto a Chester Bennington) y en su proyecto JULIEN-K. Individualmente han tocado en diferentes proyectos musicales, bandas como Adema, Rough Cutt, entre otras. Los dos tienen créditos en varios álbumes como ingenieros y productores como el primer album de Coal Chamber, Eels y Spineshank. Afuera de la industria musical han sido socios de diferentes clases de negocios, incluyendo restaurantes, una linea de ropa, además ayudando a crear y aterrizar una startup de comunicaciones  con el apoyo de Henry Nicholas, fundador de Broadcom.

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