Chords for A Conversation with Dayglow

Austin.
_ _ You're crazy. _ _
This is Dayglo and you're watching Austin Underground. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Hey there, Austin [N] Underground.
This is Anna and today we're chilling with Dayglo.
How are you today?
I'm great.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
So to get [Db] started, why Dayglo?
Like the name?
Yeah.
[Dbm] I _ [N] _ got the name Dayglo from a song called Dayglo by Barazis.
_ It's spelt differently but I was really into it when I was trying to come up with the name
for the project and I didn't want to like overthink the name and come up with like some
meta like, you know, like deep meaning behind the band name so I just called it Dayglo.
That sounds very cool.
So what made you pursue music in the first place?
_ I don't know.
It's just something I've always loved to do.
When I was like 10 years old, my _ cousin showed me Garage Band _ and I just [Abm] got hooked since.
So just like [F] making and writing music has been something I've loved to [N] do.
What is your favorite thing about the music scene here?
Oh geez.
Well, I've actually only been in Austin for like a year.
Yeah, I was, I came last fall as a freshman at UT _ and I haven't really gotten my foot
in the scene yet.
But I've come to a couple shows.
I came to Stubbs for a show so it's cool to be here playing tonight.
But yeah, I'm still trying to figure it all out.
There's so much going on but yeah, I love it.
I love it here.
Cool.
So do you have any favorite venues so far?
_ _ _ Favorite venues? _
_ I like Mohawk.
_ [Bb] Mohawk's really cool.
I saw Parcels there, one of my favorite bands.
So that probably is the reason why it's my favorite but yeah, it's cool.
So what is your songwriting process like?
_ _ It kind of depends.
I _ usually write songs instrumentally first, _ just like on the computer, producing them.
And then I'll come up with lyrics later.
Sometimes it's the other way around.
I tend to kind of always be writing and looking for things to write about.
And I write a lot.
I'll write multiple songs a week.
_ Yeah, I don't know.
I just kind of try to keep writing all the time.
Is there an artist that you look up to? _ _
I mean, there's a handful.
_ _ But songwriters, I love James Taylor.
He's one of [Gb] my favorites.
I love that whole era of like 70s, like Americana, songs about hope, you [Ab] know?
_ Yeah, I love James Taylor.
I love Andrew Barber.
I love Andrew Bird, which really isn't like my style of writing.
I just love the way he tells stories.
Yeah.
Cool.
So one of my personal favorites from Fussy Brain is Heart Rot.
So how did that one come to life?
Thank you.
_ _ Yeah, I had the instrumental for that song for a really long time.
_ _ And I just felt like something was missing in the album. _ _ _
And I just ended up like working a lot on it, wrote the lyrics.
Sadly, it really kind of doesn't mean anything.
It kind of like formed a narrative, _ like as time went on.
But when I wrote it, I wasn't like, I'm going to write this about someone. _
It just kind of like came to be.
But yeah, thank you.
Cool.
Yeah, [Ab] no problem.
You have [B] this music video for Can I Call You Tonight.
So what was [N] like the inspiration behind it?
_ _ _ I don't know if it was necessarily an inspiration.
But like the reality of it was like we had no budget or I had no budget.
So I was thinking like, what is a music video that I can make that could be fun to watch that won't cost like any money? _ _
So I just got a green screen from one of my friends and put it upstairs in my [Bb] house.
And like my best friend Reese was there and we just like made a music video like in front [Ab] of it.
We took like [B] five different [Db] shots of us in like different outfits doing it.
Took [Ab] like 20 minutes.
Looked up royalty free green screen effects on YouTube.
_ And yeah, just put [N] it on the Internet.
I was like starting to look up really strange things because I had in my head something that I feel like would show up if I looked it up.
So like the two people arguing, I was like man and woman arguing green screen effects free.
Like weird Google searches.
_ _ [Bb] But they all just kind [A] of happened to be on the Internet for some reason.
I don't know who created the baby thing, but it's pretty funny.
Nice.
_ So you also have this other upload.
[G] It's, what did I say?
I'm sorry.
Fall's [Bb] Direction, but you're hiding in the bathroom during prom.
Yeah.
And what inspired you for that one?
[G] I had [E] seen a lot of those YouTube videos of like [N] Tame Impala like playing in a mall.
And like Childish Gambino, Redbone, like you know just like all these songs.
And they had this weird niche subgroup in YouTube of people that like loved those videos.
And [Abm] so I was trying to figure out like the [N] feeling I wanted the song to give people.
So how do you like balance college with like making music?
We did a lot of stuff during South by Southwest.
Oh, okay.
So how was that with like?
_ It was wild.
South by just itself is the most confusing thing.
Like I don't get what it is to be honest.
It's like so [B] crazy and chaotic, [Ab] but it was fun.
I mean a lot of late nights.
Sure.
A lot of just like weird memories.
A lot of money I spent [C] on parking. _
[C] But yeah, we had a great time.
It was so much fun.
So you're going to open for Koin later in [Gb] October.
How do you feel about that?
I'm stoked.
[Bb] I'm super stoked.
They're awesome guys and I couldn't pick a better group of dudes to like share the stage with.
Yeah, I'm pumped.
Cool.
So how did you like come to meet them?
How did [N] this happen?
_ We just kind of had some mutual friends _ just through the music industry.
And now we share a booking agent.
Wow.
That's pretty amazing.
And last question.
Are you currently working on something?
Is there anything you'd like to share with us about it?
_ I'm writing a lot.
Yeah, I'm writing [C] a lot of songs.
_ [G] But yeah, I'm just wanting to play more shows.
I think that's where my focus is.
_ You know, getting in front of [Ab] people and having fun. _
[Bb] Yeah, just kind of starting to play my [Ab] songs in the real world.
Because it [C] feels like they [A] just lived on the internet for a [Dbm] while.
I'm excited [Dm] to _ [Ab] go out and do stuff.
Cool.
I'm really excited [E] for your show tonight.
I'm pumped too.
Yeah, thank you for this interview.
So check out, I mean, can you check [Ab] him out on all the social media [B] platforms?
You want to plug him [Eb] in?
Yeah, it's Dayglo Band for both Instagram [Ab] and Twitter.
Yeah, and then Facebook, I don't know, just [F] Dayglo.
I don't get [C] Facebook.
Yeah, I know.
Almost nobody uses it now.
Anyway, but [N] don't forget to check out Austin Underground, our website, Twitter, Instagram.
Stay tuned.
_ _ _ _ _ So just to get started, why Dayglo?
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