Jaret Reddick [Bowling For Soup] on Spotify/Streaming

[@brendanfisher]

In 2002 I found a £20 note lying on the street, went straight to the record shop and bought 'Drunk Enough to Dance' with it! That was the start of my BFS journey. Over 20 years later I still have that CD on regular rotation in my car!

[@swampjajc]

In 2002 I lost £20 on the street, "hey wait" lol I remember buying my Drunk Enough to dance album from HMV in Solihull! Seems long ago in one way and not in another.

[@jtbsax]

I remember sharing the bill with them a couple of times in the early 2000s in local Houston clubs. It was my first exposure to a recognizable band with radio airplay, touring in a crappy white van and a trailer, playing to a small room on a Wednesday night. They weren't exactly "making it" in the fantasy "I want to be a rock star" sense. I can't imagine they made much money from those shows.They really did have to bust their ass for what they got.

[@furburgur]

Bowling For Soup was my first-ever concert at my local fair. Love them for life!

[@JuvPrimervago]

Proud to say i physically bought all their cds.

[@maidenfan237]

i never heard them before till getting old sucks im 55 and i show my friends parents and they love it too

[@wea5elkicks895]

Great interview! Honest, insightful and down to earth! Long live pop punk! Its all because of Bowling For Soup that got me into pop punk a lot more but also made me want to become a more alternative guitarist and a more versatile player and songwriter. Without getting into specifics, for 2 years straight I played bowling for soup every single day and nothing else and your songs really resonated with me! So thank you to all you guys for making such fun, catchy and unforgettable songs! I still need to see you play live and I'm sure it will happen in the near future!!

[@Majinjef2099]

I saw bfa in dallas and surrounding areas over 50 times in the lare 90s. He's right, they fkn played like crazy. Sometimes we would see them at 1 place on a Thursday, another place on friday, another place on saturday, and sonetimes even on a sunday. If you were in deep ellum at that time, these local shows were more fulfilling than anything out there. They would interact with the audience with 150% energy every single nite. Beer, cigarette smoke, amps and drums and the hottest women on the planet. Thanks for everything Jared!

[@dr.fatnutz3241]

He ain't lying. I stole his songs and still have them to this day!

[@MrDreams1984]

Sadly I did too😅 but to be fair I stream his music now on Apple Music. So I guess he got his money after all😋

[@jimolin8092]

Ditto ...my computer downstairs somewhere still has limewire one it hahaha I'm almost certain I could fire it up and jam out to a few thousand songs

[@ViViDG]

I did too 😞 but I did him a solid and bought a 35 dollar shirt 🤣

[@mynnri]

I got into them because of the freaky Friday soundtrack.

[@RoosterFloyd]

That's kind of the thing about punk CDs, they fly off the shelves but they don't exactly sell.

[@joshuacoustics]

Jaret is the man!

[@LuffyTheLabrador]

He looks like he ate a man

[@mocarnydzbanerek616]

Long live pop punk! Cheers! 🥳

[@TheLucyblades]

Thanks for sharing, this is great.

[@timmyvie]

I have a cd player. I love CDs and dvds

[@Kllgg]

Don’t forget your ibuprofen for your back.

[@thystaff742]

Not everyone has a cd player but a lot have computers with disc drives that play cds.

[@chronometer9931]

They still put those in computers?

[@josepereira4071]

Miss and love you guys Bowling For Soup

[@ednetman]

You don’t need to miss them, go stream their newest album! Pop Drunk Snot Bread then sing Killin’ Em With Kindness all day like I do. 🤪

[@ednetman]

Actually, I’ve been listening to “Don’t Mind if we Do” a lot lately. Cool cover of Hey Mario, and HRSA just kinda hits different than the original.

[@Luke-sf8wh]

I'm still hoping our to catch a plectrum at one of the shows 😅 Bowling For Soup, the band that waves back. Plus still gives stuff out for free to its fans!

[@TheLucyblades]

I caught a plectrum at a BFS concert and am still proud to have it in my plec holder :D

[@leandrodavid6256]

Loved this interview, honesty always win 👏🏻

[@Candyman_Young]

Great points!

[@josepereira4071]

and thats so true if you actuelly have a physical item like WOW something on the internet just doesnt feel earned unless its physical

[@josepereira4071]

and touring and merch takes soooooo much time and money more Energy! thats why the bands are too blessed with todays ways

[@michaelhallett4110]

I still have all my signed merchandise from you guys framed and on my wall. Norwich uk. I had the pleasure of shaking all you're hands. Mc lars was i think,at the second time in Norwich to wich my son came to. Brilliant night,apart from getting wheel clamped. Lol. Bfs! Yup. Mx

[@riverhooligan8237]

Jarret I hope you’re rich as hell man! You’re awesome! And a Texas boy! I am from Missouri but lived In Oklahoma and Texas for a few years, loved it! Love Missouri more though 😂

[@LeeCaithness]

How true was that. If you brought an album out in 2004 or thereabouts no matter how many people bought it, almost certainly more of them stole it. 😂

[@nicolenutting608]

I have 4 CD players including my car..... still luv you, Jaret!!!! :p

[@slayerment]

Amen 👍

[@danielcharlton5159]

Saw you guys play at that bowling alley in vegas in summer 2022. You guys were awesome.

[@Drumm3rBo186]

Remember the cockpit in Leeds UK Jaret... Early noughties someone threw a shirt on stage with the name "splodge" took you several attempts to pronounce it xD

[@BradleyTVOfficial]

the stream the shit out of this album fuckface was from one of their livestreams where me and a few others ere saying "come to the tour fuckfaces" it was amazing.

[@petethompson721]

Proud BFS cd owner here

[@scvmbag]

I'm listening to this through a Bluetooth CD player

[@Terraducky]

OMG You are fucking brilliant

[@fromthegamethrone]

I am not a musician, and I have said this since the days of taping the radio.

[@spicydr.peppersbudgets6552]

I think people have either nostalgia or like now the physical cds as ”new vintage” which saddens me to hear in general because I don’t believe it is even close to being vintage. I saw you on tik tok came right here to see whats up

[@peanutbutterisfu]

My band was starting to make noise when pandora was a big deal. Before we got on pandora we were on Jango which you could pay to make ur music play more and we started getting fans from all over the world. Your music is the promotion to get people into your band and that’s how bands should think nowadays stop trying to sell ur music and do other things to make money. There are guitar players in bands that give lessons on zoom and what a great way to make some easy money all kinds of fan interactions like that you can make money with.

[@jeanpierre3061]

I use to steal music all the time because my friends would share USB sticks and i didn't know how to pirate music except ripping them off from KZbin videos. Despite stealing music, I always still bought CDs, merch and went to shows if they were close to me. Streaming just made access to my fav bands music more accessible. If my country still had record stores i'd still be buying cds but i can't right now.

[@DxxxLxxxxx-iw1ox]

Great honest interview & he's absolutely right. The US/Western recording contract model was broken since it was invented. Germany possibly being more fair. Artists get pennies off each sale. Now streaming companies do that.😱 He forgot to mention to always try & own your publishing. My Q is tho, now read any stream, digital data EULA, & you never actually own the song, even if you paid to download it. Same w/movies/TV. Now you're paying $12-$20? Per Month, Every Month for the right to listen to it. Unsubscribe from any platform & that download won't work & isn't legally yours to use. It's the old Cable TV model where you're locked into monthly payments for life. IMO I'd rather own the physical medium & not be dependent on 3-5 entities from net access to whichever platform. Right now Artists have pulled or had their music pulled due to contract & payment fights between label/artist & streaming service. Right now you should be able to buy a sdd stick as that's the current cheapest mobile medium.

[@Walking_squid145]

You forgot about one of the main things that most bands get their money from most bands have a patreon where you can donate

[@colinmontgomery1956]

I own a CD player. 😢

[@antony9384]

I own a cd player 😂

[@crzyces1693]

I was thinking that earlier; _"Wow, why isn't Bowling For Soup like hundreds of millionaires? They had 2 #1 hits and a bunch of other songs that may not have been critically acclaimed by the genius professional that hundreds of millions of people still love. But somehow there are people who didn't even know their name until 2010. Wth? They definitely popped off a decade too late."_ Now I'm thinking _"F it. They made it. Are they set like Prince or Jackson were? Nope. Heck, they aren't even set like Metallica; but more people know who they are now than when people were singing their songs as they played in the electronics section at Walmart in 2004. They still pack shows almost twenty years after the fact. They have 13-year-olds singing their songs because they are the _*_Phineas and Ferb_*_ band they loved when they were 3, 4, 5 etc..Yep, now that is a great life."_ It is so crazy to literally have 50-year-old dads and 13-year-old kids rocking out to the same music. Seriously, that happens with groups like The Beatles. Pink Floyd. Maybe a little Nirvana and Sublime...but Bowling For Soup? Yeah, fricken *_"Bowling For Soup."_* Unreal. You guys are an inspiration. I head this dude _"Billy Wilkins"_ doing 1985 the other day. He does YT and Twitch concerts every Sunday pretty much without fail. At a real show or in his damn bedroom or home studio. He hustles. If you can make a living playing music your life is good. If you can live comfortably making music you have made it. If you can make songs 13-year-olds and 50-year-olds are singing together, congrats, you are a *Rockstar.* PS I have a CD player, I'd just have to pull it out of the closet, grab an EIDE to SATA adapter and a whatever it is called to molex adapter and hook it up to my PC. It would look ridiculous as my case doesn't have a bay for it but ahh well. But yeah, I could still make the CD/Blu-Ray/DVD thing happen. Good call. Maybe we can get kids to start taking their computers apart again too. Kids are like terrified to open up the sides of their case to add a new NVME now. Imagine if the had to red, blue, green, black every one of their USB ports? Hehe, good fun!

[@Assenayo]

Jaret may be a pop punk guy but he just laid some gospel there! Also Jaret get your ass back to Australia and rock some shows!

[@BlueSquatchproductions]

😂🎉

[@jeanpierre3061]

Ironically, music piracy in the 2000s is what got me into bands like Bowling for Soup.

[@cpr58]

talk about telling the truth

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

Better than Weezer!

[@ryananderson1163]

He ate it all

[@arls9430]

Completely agree. Bands are lazy. Because of rap. They think they're gonna get that hit. Never about the music. And advertising.

[@josepereira4071]

damn interwebs and spotify made it tooooooooooooooooo EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes bands are just show but no grow in MUSIC ...yes they grow in their wallet but the rest of us the FANS will not follow or remember you!

[@ZombieDowneyJr]

talks about having nothing, but has a collection on his wall...

[@TheLucyblades]

he and BFS worked hard for what they have. He should be proud.

[@JamesGames101]

They'd have made money from things like touring and merch I assume, and as he's said, they're making money now. But when you're on a big label from what I understand, you don't get money from record sales, you're just lent money that then needs to be paid back.

[@kristopherdetar4346]

Practically a TED talk without the Ted. Truthful info about the current state of affairs. Look how many bands have come and gone over the years. How most all members of once famous bands work regular jobs or went back to school to learn a new career. Music is controlled by the Industry for the ones they deem will make the most money for them. Hear them today and gone next week replaced by another band of interest. So few make it really big and stay big. Personally I don’t get the whole “Stones” band longevity. They had some good songs decades ago but why people are paying thousands of dollars a ticket to see them perform is beyond me.

[@ra2alfool]

Shows that they didn't pay attention to the interview. BFS fucking Earned it while Nobody believed in Them.

[@jimmyagates]

Nobody owns a CD player....what planet is this guy living on?

[@TordenPaws]

I think he's referring to young bands trying to break into a new audience. I don't have a CD player, Very few young people have a CD player. Don't even have one in my car or my PC. I'd rather have an album on LP than CD, and it seems most people agree as Vinyl is outselling CDs for the first time since 1987. So why would anyone make a CD?

[@jimmyagates]

@@TordenPaws not worldwide. Fake news