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<\/p>\nWhen playing in a legendary South Bay punk band is your day job, most people likely wouldn\u2019t have too many musical side projects. But most people aren\u2019t Pennywise bassist Randy Bradbury.<\/p>\n
Having frequently kept the door open for different bands and genres of music, Bradbury\u2019s newest project is the Huntington Beach-based 84 Days. The trio features the veteran songwriter on guitar and lead vocals, Grammy-winning rock producer Cameron Webb on bass and No Doubt\u2019s Adrian Young on drums (at least for the self-titled debut album) \u2014 and while 84 Days\u2019 sound and tempo differs significantly from Pennywise, it\u2019s still very much a punk-leaning rock band. <\/p>\n
When asked about the name, Bradbury says, \u201cThe term \u201984 Days\u2019 originally started as an inside joke back when I was a teenager, but watching the world change so much it seems to be a fitting description for how things have become \u2026 like something I read in a book once. And now we\u2019re in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though it may seem odd to launch a new band after more than a collective century of experience in the music industry, Bradbury and Webb agree that 84 Days \u201csounded like too much fun\u201d to not pursue. And if their debut show at DiPiazza\u2019s in Long Beach back in November was anything to go off of, it\u2019ll be a good time for fans too.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Randy Bradbury name is bigger than you would think,\u201d Webb says via Zoom. \u201cPeople obviously relate him to Pennywise, but he\u2019s an individual that a lot of people like \u2014 especially other musicians. Everyone knows him and thinks he\u2019s great, so people have just been really supportive of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just waiting to see what the reaction to the songs would be,\u201d Bradbury adds. \u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s been very positive so far, so I think we\u2019ll have Green Day opening for us in about a year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jokes about the new band\u2019s popularity aside, Bradbury and Webb\u2019s years in the industry have given 84 Days the kind of platform and connections most bands can only dream of. Case in point, when Young was unable to continue with his drumming duties for the band\u2019s first live shows, Bradbury was able to recruit his friend Erik \u201cSmelly\u201d Sandin from NOFX to fill in for the time being.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve both been in the Southern California music scene for decades, so I know a lot of people and made a lot of friends,\u201d Bradbury says. \u201cI\u2019ve kept note of who are the players I look up to and would love to play with; as soon as I found out Adrian wasn\u2019t going to play with us, I knew I was going to ask [Sandin].\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re friends with these people because I work with them or Randy tours with them, so we cross paths all the time in the studio or at shows,\u201d Webb says. \u201cEveryone\u2019s been really supportive of me, who doesn\u2019t do it every day. No one\u2019s like \u2018You shouldn\u2019t be doing that.\u2019 They\u2019re like, \u2018I can\u2019t wait to see this\u2019 or \u2018You\u2019re going to kill it.\u2019 So it does make me feel good to see the community be excited for us to play a show.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But as Bradbury is quick to point out, all of those connections are \u201ccontingent on if you\u2019re doing something interesting\u201d and if the music itself is actually good. Thankfully, between Bradbury\u2019s elite writing chops and Webb\u2019s tastemaking ability (as usually seen behind the scenes on other bands\u2019 albums), 84 Days\u2019 self-titled debut isn\u2019t just a fun punk jaunt but a deep look into how the songwriter views the current state of society and the world \u2014 including topics that wouldn\u2019t exactly fit ahead of \u201cBro Hymn\u201d in a Pennywise setlist.<\/p>\n
Even though 84 Days may have been founded around the idea of being a \u201cfun\u201d project for its members, none of them is interested in sticking with it if the band itself is less than stellar. While Bradbury is used to performing for a living, the looming threat of live shows encouraged Webb to genuinely practice and tighten his bass skills, having primarily only picked one up previously to help in the studio from time to time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grab instruments a lot, but now I had to learn all these songs and rehearse them,\u201d Webb says. \u201cI\u2019ve got to know my s\u2014 and play them as well as the pros that do it every single day. I want us to be a killer band, so we\u2019re going to be a killer band. That just means it\u2019s time to stop goofing around. Instead of going home and watching TV, I\u2019m practicing. I\u2019m learning parts. I\u2019m working on riffs. I\u2019m doing all of that. It\u2019s super fun because Randy makes it a great experience. We\u2019re having a good time doing it and everything\u2019s real positive, so we\u2019re going to keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just a few shows and one album into their career, it\u2019s too early to tell what the ceiling is for 84 Days. The duo could see it continuing to just play bars and small venues or growing into something much larger. In fact, Bradbury laughs at the idea of some of the bands he knows opening for them \u2014 as long as it\u2019s not his new band upstaging Pennywise.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that that tour would end with a lot of bruises on my body and a lot of smashed guitars and basses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When playing in a legendary South Bay punk band is your day job, most people likely wouldn\u2019t have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12858,54307,7,9,8,217,44539,54312,54308,54313,54309,22674,1741,4722,54311,54310,24258,25616],"class_list":["post-99601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bass","tag-bradbury","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-day","tag-debut-album","tag-debut-show","tag-different-band","tag-first-live-show","tag-friend-erik","tag-good-time","tag-lot","tag-most-people","tag-much-fun","tag-new-band","tag-pennywise","tag-webb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}