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The Struts Interview At WDHA's Rock The Rock Fest 2024
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4/23/2025
Terrie Carr and Mike Anthony interview The Struts at WDHA's Rock The Rock Fest 2024
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We are live from WDHA's Rock the Rock Fest 2024 and we are here with the struts when I see the
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struts coming I think Mike stop me if I'm wrong because I know you think the same thing yeah go
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ahead here come the rock stars oh yeah here come the rock stars from somebody who came from a
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generation of rock stars and of just loving to see and hear the music together and feel the music
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um you guys are total rock radio rock stars and we love that because I think we need that in music
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thank you yeah thank you kindly Mike and I were just talking about um seeing you guys at Madison
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Square Garden I guess uh for opening for foos was it foo fighters yeah you guys at the garden a couple
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years back I guess maybe it was 2018 um when you wow the crowd at Madison Square Garden and it's an
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unforgettable show for the opening band that right then and there kind of tells me like bam like
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these guys are are going to be the next rock radio star so talk to me about you know you're opening
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at Madison Square Garden for someone um you know what is what has that been like for you guys the
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last couple of years on the rock radio train especially has has been pretty impactful for
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the band yeah I mean uh speaking of sort of like opening up for people we just did like two and a
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bit weeks for Queens of the Stone Age uh up in Canada which was in some ways like a very similar
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experience where you kind of just have to get out there and um do almost like a festival set kind of on
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steroids and and it's kind of like a challenge where you have to get everyone up and jumping
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and on your side by by the end of it that's that's the challenge but yeah it's a good challenge to
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have yeah absolutely and Luke you do it so well when I think of you know this new generation of you
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know rock stars and front men who are out there just killing it with a crowd we don't really get
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that many we have bands that have great catalogs of music but you are you are that generation of of
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rock star that's bringing it to the fans and we need it we need it we need it so there's such a
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buzz around your set tonight and I think any uh festival or any show that you play on there's kind
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of this cool factor when the struts are on the bill oh totally it's like people want to people flock to
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see you guys and it's like when this lineup was announced you guys were one of the names that stuck
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out as wow we got to check out the struts oh wow yeah absolutely absolutely um to get it raised in
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hell the first song that we got from pretty vicious I think was kind of like that great anthem
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for 2023 and 2024 did that did some of that come out of you know a period of us just being kind of
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like in like womp womp womp womp ville you know for for a couple of years you know that was a lovely
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voice um you know and then we we get this like amazing I remember the first time I heard it and I
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thought man this is like a perfect incredible rock anthem it's got everything it's got those great
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guitar riffs it's got that phenomenal hooky chorus um a little bit of pop sensibility but still rocks
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was that your idea to come out with something like that first and just tell everybody you know
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life is great let's have a good time I'm not necessarily wasn't saying that life was great
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particularly uh but I think the real the real goal with that song in particular compared to everything
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else on on the record um just felt like it was the perfect song to just show everyone who had been
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following the band for a number of years now like oh we're back with something that dare say sounds like
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a bit familiar and upbeat and has a lot of like struts quality to it but still was like a little
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a little bit different um and we felt like it was a good way to set up a song like pretty vicious for
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instance which is a which is way different from way to most things that we've done so it was kind of
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the it was the warm-up tact it was it was the I love struts at madison sky garden I love I love that
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I absolutely love that well I think that you've been a band and I think is the band is the personalities
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of the band are so big on stage people always want to box people into something what are they
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are there an alternative band are they this band do they have that sound do they have and I just think
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sometimes we just have to look at bands and say no they're a rock and roll band man you go out when I
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when I see like I wouldn't go to a stretch show and wear like just my hoodie like I think there are
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bands you go to an experience you know when I'm watching like say the rolling stones like rock and
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roll circus or something the next day I'm feeling a little bit cooler and I think that you guys are
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one of those bands that kind of bring that to the fans I think there's definitely this kind of super
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coolness factor uh to the struts and that's so needed in music I mean is that is that a conscious
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thing or is it just who you guys all are I don't know Adam and Jed like tell me
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I don't think we're cool I think we're cool I think you've got a yeah I mean because I mean look
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at Luke he's got what he's got like an ass guy yeah like he just looks like a he looks like a rock
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star man yeah or an Austin Poe's could be like think of me and then think of the polar opposite
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like I look at you and you're the guy I don't look like after I watch the rolling
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rock and roll circus these are the guys I want to look like after I watch the rock and roll
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I think when we started the band like there was a lot of bands doing making music and they just
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looked a bit you know nothing exciting to watch on stage and I think we when we were playing the
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early festivals and stuff we wanted to be the band that you know yes yes yeah look I'm a girl
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in the crowd I'm a girl who grew up looking at Bowie and Jagger and all these amazing artists who I
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felt so privileged and honored to have been able to see so I want to go out and I want to see somebody
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who's bigger than life you know I think sometimes we want to see people who are cooler than us
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definitely you guys are cooler than us and that's the beauty of a strut set no you look pretty cool
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right now I like the outfit oh thank you thank you very much I might borrow that for this stage
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tonight I'm not cool enough for a cat suit for me it's more like a kitten suit you know like I'm
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and you guys are also coming back to Jersey doing a headlining show with the stone pony summer stage
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stone pony summer stage loves you guys so I'll look for that date in August I want to make sure
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that everybody knows that if you're here to see the struts tonight and they're on the bill and you want
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to see them doing their headlining show they're going to be at the stone pony summer stage
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and Luke you've also talked about yourself as kind of almost like a psychotic songwriter
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um I remember reading like a little quote like where you know um and I love I love that because
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it's kind of like you know the mind is all over the place talk to me about your songwriting process
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too because you always seem like an upbeat guy yeah oh no I get terribly miserable really yeah you
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don't look like a miserable person yeah you got that big smile on and you just it's all an act
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it's an act okay I got that I got that um no but I guess the the process with a lot of the lyrics
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especially with the last couple of albums were mainly uh drawn from like a lot of true experiences
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and I think the psychotic uh reference and or or the way I've been kind of described or I've described
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myself is uh it's something that you can't really turn off from time to time so it can I can be inspired in
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in very odd situations inappropriate situations where I shouldn't be and and I've had to sort of
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step away and be like no I have to write this down otherwise I won't forget it right that's the only
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psychotic part of myself I think I hope so I think that makes for a great song though it makes it does
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it does makes for great songwriting and there always seems to be such a great synergy with you guys you
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know when you're on stage performing live there's a great chemistry are you guys as good friends uh uh
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uh on stage and off stage as as you appear to be yeah I think so I would we all live in LA and
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to be honest we spend so much time together we tour a lot you know we're we don't really stop so when we
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do have the time off tour I guess we if it's a we might go a week without seeing each other but that
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doesn't feel like a week is it you know we've been in each other's pockets for so long right right um
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yeah no one takes it personal yeah that's the thing we're not like where's everyone if you need a little
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down time nobody takes it yeah we know if we want you know we all live like within half an hour of
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each other so we can just get you know pick it up where we left off so it's cool you know we we've
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been doing this for so long now and I don't think we could do it for this long if we weren't friends
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yeah absolutely we've seen so many bands come and go for many different reasons but I think it is a
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testimony to how well like a unit can work together because there's some we say there's
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so much there's so much more to being in a band than just being good at your instrument or being
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a good vocalist like it's such a holistic picture for anything long term yeah so I think that's kind
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of like how the four of us yeah you're married to three other people like that's exactly what it's
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like I see more of these two than I do my wife no question about it absolutely no question about it
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you know and you've got those days where you don't want to see anybody and yet you've got
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a jive with everybody and it's it's it's not it's not an easy thing but man you guys are just killing
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it out there an amazing band of rock stars music needs it radio needs it and uh we are so psyched to
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have you on our thank you no we appreciate you guys thanks for the support yeah thank you absolutely
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7 15 tonight get here for the struts I don't want to hear anybody call me tomorrow when I'm on the air
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and be like I missed them we've been giving you set times we've been letting you know and the struts
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are definitely one of those bands that everybody wants to see tonight they bring it live if you've
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not seen them yet you will be blown away guys thanks so much for stopping by thank you very much
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so appreciate it the struts on the rock the rockfest stage and let's play the band on the rock of new
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