Guitarwire

Oooo that's a good question. So many of them for so many reasons. I'd probably say Rule #4.. And its just because of that last line of the last verse. Indistinguishability. I had such a hard time finding EXACTLY what i wanted to say while it would still rhyme and fit within the amount of syllables. When i found that I danced around the house. It took me a week of being obsessed with that line to finally get it.

She's so good! living an amazing life. We go to the dog park almost every day for probably 2 hours. I sit there and play accordion, and she runs around with the other puppies or sits at my feet. We have a great life together and I'm so so so happy that she's around to be my buddy.

Heya Kazoo!

So. Here's the story.

Whenever I left my house as a kid my mom would always go:

"Dusty. what is Rule #1"

And I would have to reply "Safety"

Well fast forward to when I'm a young adult and my mom calls when I'm around my friend and they would all hear my sheepishly reply to my mother "Rule #1 is Safety"

And then that rule started picking up steam. My friends would ask me before I would leave "DUSTY. Whats Rule 1" and I'd go "safety."

It became a thing. Then a friend burped. very loudly and grotesquely in the studio. And i think it was cody that said "DUDE. not in front of the ladies thats just not classy." (his girlfriend was there at the time)

and so rule #2 was born. "No burping in front of the ladies in the studio. It's just not classy"

Now.. this started to get more and more ridiculous as time moved along. More and more rules. Rule #6 - Either way, F#ck it, Rule # 9 - you are the master of your own destiny, Rule #10 - There are no rules, Rule #37 - Where's the horse.. ect.

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So when I started recording songs I was like.. Maybe I should use the rules as the names of the songs. then I thought about how many swear words and inappropriate ridiculousness was in there. also that some of the rules were not written down and just lost to time. So I didn't do that. but I kept the Rules. cause why not.

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Also there is a Rule #6. Originally Either way, f#ck it.. Sung becomes F#ck it either way. And so.. because of my mom that song was not recorded for the second album and we skipped it. It'll be recorded eventually! it is a song. just not one on spotify :)

I'm very happy! I mean my work / life balance is pretty off these days because I see the success and I'm obsessed with forward momentum. But I've always been like that. I dive in 100% into things with everything I have and just work until I can't.

Which is such a good reason to have Poco my dog. her needs are my priority. So it gets me out walking several times a day, taking breaks.

And I did burn out quite hard at some point. I did a 9 month tour across the states and then decided to stream in the same way I was doing back in spain/Ireland like 6 hours a day... and I crashed SO HARD. like mental health just plummeted and I had a hard time holding myself together. But these days although I constantly am working hard, I finally found a bit more balance. Scheduling my streams on twitch made such a huge difference to my mental health.

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Thanks so much for following the journey since then! There was not a lot of listeners back then. How did you find the music? did we run into eachother?

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