#green pants

[fksexymen]

[calehenituseoutfits]

[stalkersnotallowed]

Some favorite pics of Steve.

[starryapplefits]

The semester is almost over and I’m dying

[jhsharman]

"One Last Fling"

[disarmluna]

[totallyspiesoutfits]

Clover in Season 1, Episode 4, "Stuck in the Middle Ages With You"

[frankbankinternational]

it’s not often a song comes to you in one fell swoop, and it’s even less often that it all happens in front of a camera…but that is how Violet, the song, came to be. The story goes that my friend and incredible Fender rep, @mschulz83, had sent me a new guitar they had been working on for me to try out. It was a mahogany finish acoustic/electric Fender Highway series. It showed up at my door and i took it out of the box and decided to make a quick video for him as a thank you, and let him know i was indeed playing it and checking it out. But all too often i get self conscious with those types of social media video things, what the hell do you play? Do you just riff around? Am i supposed to play an original tune from one of my bands, or is Wonderwall or the beginning of Metallica’s One more appropriate? Maybe a deeper cut would be more cool? Anyway i just ended up winging it and what came out felt as if i was just kinda channeling whatever the universe wanted to hear. This is that video, and Violet, the song…or at least 90% of it, is what ended up coming out of my hands and from that guitar my good friend Michael sent me. I named the demo Violet because as i got to what i imagined would be the “chorus” i started vocalizing a melody and only one real word. (That’s how i write vocal melodies usually. Just gibberish and consonant sounds over jangly guitar into a phone or tape recorder that i can later go back and try and decipher like an EVP to a ghost hunter. That’s why the lyrics to Leviathan on Leathermouth’s LP XO are listed as EVP, but that’s another story for another time.) This is the one demo title that remained from infancy until the final recordings, and at the 11th hour also became the title of our record. A name handed down from the heavens that revealed its meaning to us as we dug deeper and deeper. I remember listening back a bunch to this recording that day and ended up finishing a more proper demo of the full arrangement later that night to send to the guys. I think i said to Tucker this might be the greatest song or the most butt rock crap i’ve ever written. When he sent the demo back the next day with his drum track attached. I had a feeling it might be the former… but nothing would prepare me for where Anthony eventually took this song. I honestly still listen back in awe. And to imagine that it’s something i had a hand in writing? That shit just blows me away. Because it’s stories like these that keep me still doing this. Music really is magick, and it’s all about that chase, hoping you get that chance to catch lightning and make the hairs stand up. Thank you Rock n Roll. Keep the Faith. 🖤 xofrnk (3/3/25 NJ)

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