Tom & Tim of Plain White T's Backstage at West Of The Fest 2025 with Sean Mack

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00:00It's John back broadcasting backstage West of the Fest 2025 Tim and Tom from wet plain

00:16white tees.

00:17What's up?

00:18What's up?

00:19I must spit that out and said plain wet tees.

00:20Can I tell you a story about this?

00:21That sounds like a South by Southwest move right there.

00:23So check this out.

00:24Years ago, I was a night DJ.

00:26This was in South Carolina and we were doing like, you know, the top five countdown or

00:29whatever.

00:30And it's when Hey there, Delilah was like, number one.

00:32And this late, I was giving away like movie tickets or something.

00:35And I was like, all right, call in and like, give me the top five songs and you win the

00:39movie tickets.

00:40And this lady answers the phone when she calls in and I'm like, call her nine.

00:44Who's this?

00:45And it was obviously like someone's mom who like, you know, the kid had written down all

00:48the songs.

00:49And so she didn't know what the song was.

00:50And she was like, all right, number one was plain wet tees.

00:54And I was like, what?

00:55Plain wet tees, Austin, Texas.

00:56Let's go.

00:57That's awesome.

00:58Let's go.

00:59Let's go.

01:00That's all I could ever think of from that.

01:01Then until now.

01:02But thank you guys so much for being here.

01:05Awesome day, dude.

01:06It's been fun, right?

01:07Yeah.

01:08Yeah.

01:09Talk about you guys.

01:10Obviously, you've been to Austin before.

01:11Talk about your favorite memories of coming to this town.

01:12What do you think of when you come to Austin?

01:14Dude, last year, I fell in love in Austin, Texas for the first time for the not the first

01:21time.

01:22The last time.

01:23OK.

01:24Yeah.

01:25The most current time.

01:26The most current time.

01:27And you have since written an entire album inspired by that moment.

01:30Yeah.

01:31I wrote an entire album based on this meeting this girl in Austin, Texas.

01:34Really?

01:35Yeah.

01:36OK.

01:37Do you want to give any more details in terms of the girl or herself or details about the

01:41album?

01:42There's not many more details.

01:43This thing has not been released yet.

01:44No, it's out.

01:45It's out there.

01:46Oh, it is?

01:47OK.

01:48I've got a solo project called Million Miler.

01:49OK.

01:50And the whole album is about her.

01:53And I might see her tomorrow.

01:55I don't know.

01:56Really?

01:57Should I ask?

01:58Or is that too personal?

01:59Probably here.

02:00I don't know.

02:01OK.

02:02Look around.

02:03It's a long story, but, you know.

02:04Yeah.

02:05We'll see what happens.

02:06OK.

02:07Excellent.

02:08Austin magic, though.

02:09That's true.

02:10Austin magic.

02:11That's true.

02:12Exactly.

02:13You guys, obviously, this band has been in some form or fashion for multiple decades

02:14at this point.

02:15Is there a particular memory you guys think of, like, about the band where you're like,

02:20oh, the first thing that comes to mind about this band, my favorite memory is this.

02:24Meeting Tim for the first time.

02:27How do you feel about that?

02:29Do you feel like that is a sincere answer?

02:31Yeah, I feel puffed up.

02:32That sounds kind of erotic.

02:33He felt that same way that night, too.

02:37We all feel a bit puffed up.

02:38You know, we all do.

02:39Man, I mean, we've had a streak of amazing moments in this band.

02:46It's pretty hard to pick one.

02:47Yeah.

02:48In fact, when all the biggest stuff was happening for the band, the Grammy nods, the number

02:54one song on Billboard, all that, we were so busy that you almost didn't really realize

03:00what it was that was happening.

03:01Totally.

03:02You get a phone call from someone at the label like, hey, by the way, you're going to get

03:07an email or you're going to get hit up about, you know, you're nominated for X amount of

03:10Grammys or, you know, hey, just watch the charts tomorrow, you're going to be number

03:15one.

03:16And it's like we were so chaotically busy that you just didn't really know that it was

03:21a moment that you had to really sink, let sink in.

03:25And then you just, the grind goes on and we've been doing it ever since.

03:28Totally.

03:29And it's been filled with amazing moments.

03:30Of course.

03:31I mean, we're about to leave, we're traveling around the entire world starting on the 21st

03:36of this month.

03:37Going to the Philippines for the first time.

03:39Really?

03:40Thailand for the first time.

03:41Yeah.

03:42Nice.

03:43Australia again.

03:44Yeah.

03:45Wow.

03:46Is there any like particular town you're like, I've never been there and I can't wait to

03:47get there?

03:48I'm sure all of them are exciting.

03:49I mean, Bangkok is going to be cool.

03:50Ooh, yeah.

03:52That's going to be exciting.

03:53That's going to be exciting.

03:54Before I let you guys get out of here, we've been asking all our artists here on the couch,

03:58your first concert, your last concert, and your best concert you've ever been to.

04:03Woo!

04:04Start with first concert.

04:05That's an easy one.

04:06First concert for me was a band called Face to Face.

04:07It was a punk rock band.

04:09Okay.

04:10That was one of my favorite bands back in the day.

04:11Do you know Face to Face?

04:13I don't.

04:14Oh!

04:1515 years old, I think.

04:16Okay.

04:17Wow.

04:18Are we talking like Ramones era type music?

04:19No, no, no.

04:20It was earlier than that.

04:21It like, you know, on the come up with like Lag Wagon and Strung Out and Good Riddance.

04:26Like a Fat Records-ish.

04:27Yeah, Fat Records type band.

04:30No Effects, like that era.

04:31Oh, okay.

04:32Yeah.

04:33I know No Effects.

04:34Yep.

04:35My first concert ever was Pearl Jam.

04:36It's a solid one.

04:37That's a good one.

04:38Yeah.

04:39Yeah.

04:40I think they went on to do good things.

04:41Yeah, not bad.

04:42Yeah.

04:43Not bad.

04:44Last concert.

04:45Wait, last concert.

04:46I got to think about this.

04:47Yeah, this is one where you like went to a show like to see this specific band.

04:49You're good.

04:50It's recorded.

04:51It's not radio.

04:52Last concert.

04:53Let it fly.

04:54I was just at...

04:55Oh, okay.

04:56I mean, I would say for me, like, we just got off tour with a band called The Used.

04:57Do you remember The Used?

04:58A band called The Used.

04:59Yes.

05:00Yeah.

05:01Everybody knows The Used.

05:02Okay, good.

05:03It's familiar.

05:04Come on.

05:05It's fair to ask.

05:06Just toured with them.

05:07Yeah.

05:08And we would sit every night and listen to them warm up, and they play their whole set

05:23in their dressing room before they walk on stage.

05:25The whole set?

05:26Really?

05:27Yeah.

05:28So, we would sit just ears to the wall listening to their first show.

05:30Yeah.

05:31And we'd be geeking out, literally, singing Harmonies a lot, me and Tim's...

05:35It's like Saturday Night Live, where they do the whole rehearsal.

05:37Singing harmonies to each other in the other room and then watch the set and then became good friends with those guys

05:45So awesome tour and one of the last shows I've actually been to so, okay

05:49All right. So the final one the toughest one is the best show you've ever seen

05:53The best show. Yeah of all time like you're like the Paul McCartney

05:58That's great. I just saw a week ago the good time boys. I saw him a week ago

06:05Awesome your favorite band for your band. All right, they're a cover band in LA

06:10okay, and they they played at a place called break room 86 and

06:15Then they also played a place called good times at Davey Wayne's

06:20and real literally I played a show in in LA a few days ago with my side project and

06:27After the show we went to this dive bar

06:29And it blew my mind that my favorite band was playing at this dive bar, right?

06:34The good time boys at good times at Davey Wayne's man. We got to look this up. Yeah, I'm not familiar. It was incredible

06:40I will get familiar. It was incredible gentlemen. Thank you so much for being here. Have fun on tour. Enjoy the world literally

06:46Good to see you. Yes, you have a time for plain white t's job at Austin

06:51See you soon

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