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Today we have alternative rock band with us.

You guys are in for a treat.

Everybody watching.

Give it up for Frameways Hey.

What's up?

We're Frameways This song is called Footprints.

Tip of my tongue I bet you think it's funny, don't ya Lookin' over my shoulder I can't get enough Who called?

I haven't been around my phone And I'm not alone Who said Everything that's better for you has to taste so bad?

A night A drive The photos that we never took Your lips on mine A thought that will not come unstuck I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints Rushing back Every night like a heart attack One I'll fix myself I don't need help Don't pretend I tell myself these days that you know another way Do you know another way?

A night A drive The photos that we never took Your lips on mine A thought that will not come unstuck I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints I'll follow your footprints Do you know another way?

Do you know another way?

Didn't think that you were home, you were home Something stupid Something wrong Something dumb Promise your hand to the telephone Who's awake when you're alone If you don't know why Then I'll spill my life Why do you hurt when I don't lie Why do you hurt when I don't Do you hurt when I don't lie Who's around to hold you close hold you close When your first intinct has to let you go (let you go) Freefalling every time I think I know Who's awake when you're alone You don't know why I'll spill my life Why do you hurt when I don't lie Why do you hurt when I don't Do you hurt when I don't Why do you hurt when I don't lie Why do you hurt when I don't lie Why do you hurt when I don't lie Why do you hurt when I don't lie Everybody, welcome back to Rhythm Lounge again.

We are here with Frameways Guys, thank you so much for joining us today.

Of course.

It's a pleasure.

So let's have you guys take a second introduce yourself.

Let's start on this side and what instrument you play Alright, my name is Cristian Oropeza Pineda I play the lead guitar.

I sing a little bit.

Yeah, it's pretty much it for me.

I'm Chad Trotman, I play drums for Frameways I'm Diego Moreno and I play bass.

Awesome guys.

And of course, your lead singer who had a final, USC.

What's his name?

Cameron.

Cameron Arthur Morris.

Gotcha.

And you just found out that he had a final I heard.

Cause, I don't know, he didn't tell me last night, but, Yeah.

I guess he's got a final.

Granted, we've known for many weeks now.

Yeah, many.

Now we know which guy you are in the band, right.

I'm just kidding I gotta really keep these guys, you know, in check, bruh.

Allegedly.

So I want to discuss how you guys all met and became a band.

That's important.

So you guys are all at USC currently.

And so previously, though, you guys, haven't you guys known each other since what middle school you said?

How did that come about?

And getting started playing together.

me and Diego have known each other since middle school when we were 11 years old.

So yeah, Yeah, we're in sixth grade.

We're in the same grade, and age.

Yeah, yeah, I used to bully.

And what's funny.

Oh, yeah.

Did it was it was a crazy dynamic.

But you know, now we're here.

I knew him since sixth grade.

Two of the.

I didn't because, you know, he just knew a lot of older students at the time because his brother was older, so.

And basically, like, this band, Yeah.

consists of our old high school and middle school jazz band, pretty much.

So this is the rhythm section of the Right.

Learning Center Jazz Band, which is really, really funny to me.

And then we have Cameron, who just kind of showed up, you know, a couple of years back, I think I was, 15.

When he showed up, sophomores in high school.

Yeah.

And, he just kind of came to us really like, it was like it was like a godsend.

So.

Yeah, like.

And I guess we have to say, like, we're from South Central Los Angeles.

I live a block down from USC's campus.

So, there's, like, student housing all around my place.

And just out of pure coincidence, my house butted up against Cameron's house.

And he heard us practicing one day, and he ended up coming to the, fence like a weirdo.

Like, I don't even know who would do this.

Yeah, he's he's he's this white guy from Cleveland, Ohio.

So it's like, you know, he doesn't know how it is.

Yeah.

So he just came up on my fence, hopped it and was like, hey, are you guys a band?

And, yeah, from from then on, you know, he's been singing for us.

You said yes, and you're our lead singer.

That's basically how it went in pretty much a little bit.

We have burgers with him at first and then we, like, initiated.

Yeah, there was some process, you know.

So you mentioned that you mentioned a jazz band.

You guys, you know, sort of originated from in, in Yeah.

what was your like, what was that experience like for you guys?

Well for jazz, I was in it for about, I think two years before Chris and Diego came along.

And I remember like, seeing them in concert band and everything, but, we, we would play, a lot of shows around Beverly Hills and Hollywood, and we'd do a lot of, like, fundraising to stuff, just doing the standards.

And then two years later, we had Chris come in, already knew Andrew.

He was a great trumpets, trumpets and the jazz band.

And he came in playing guitar.

He was crazy.

So we got him in.

And then Diego, what were you playing before you switched to bass?

So, I played a flute and then, after that, like, it wasn't until high school where, we kind of, met, like Chris introduced me and Chad, and then, we wanted to start this project, and it's essentially like we wanted to start a band, you know, us too.

And we wanted to build it with, you know, a couple members, and we really needed a drummer.

So, you know, we were really scared to ask Chad because five years older, 4 or 5 years older, and we were like in eighth grade and he was about to graduate high school.

So I'm like, I don't know, I probably would have said no of like a couple eighth graders came up to me as a senior, like, dude.

And I definitely thought about it, but, but, I'm glad he said yes, because, we really wanted to start this project, and we were like, man, like we could do so much if we just wrote our own music.

And, this, like, jazz band, it, like, really brought us together more than, like, you know, it built the chemistry.

It brought us, like, best friends because we always had to do, like these jazz gigs with our band director and like, it really helped, you know, being that in high school.

Well, Chad, I'm glad you said yes, because, same I don't think many people Right.

could take that chance to have, you know, eighth grade friends.

No band members.

Yeah, exactly.

Right.

But, but, yeah.

No.

And I like the, you know, you mentioned the progression That's awesome.

of your music and starting out in jazz and whatnot.

How do you feel like that has influenced your guys's current sound?

That alternative rock sort of, niche that you guys are somewhat or, or in?

I think that affects me.

And him a lot and like it does affect, Chris a lot too.

But, there's a tighter pocket when you play jazz and, me and Chad just have had a really good relationship to, like, know when something in the song should happen or when it's going to happen.

And, like, you know, when you're playing music, you know, you obviously can't talk to each other.

So like in jazz, it's all about like, you know, here's the head, you know, go back to the top like phrases and stuff that you kind of have to know, like if you like, and stuff like when you're a soloist and turn around and like, all right, I'm done.

That's kind of what we learned.

Like we just got closer, like, as musicians, I like, know the way he plays and he knows the way I play.

it's like really all about the chemistry that jazz kind of builds, you know, Yeah, it's you said, it's is really mainly for them too, like, because the bass and the drums are what drive everything.

You know, I tell people all the time, like the lead guitar stuff is cool and all that, but like, really, if you take away my part, it doesn't really change all that much.

You know, it's really all about the foundation, you know, and that's what gets people to move and all that.

And we learned that at a very, very young age, which is something that we can't take for granted at all.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

So you guys are all deeply inclined to music.

You know, I think a lot of times musicians or just vocalists, they, you know, do what they do, but they don't have a deep understanding in knowledge.

They haven't necessarily studied music.

You got all three of you got all four of you guys have.

Correct?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean Cameron, he he's a little bit more doing his own thing when it comes to like, you know, the proper learning of music, you know, and that I kind of really like that about his role in the band.

It's like we're all tight to hold him up, you know?

And when you're not really limited with, like, knowledge of theory and knowledge of, like, the rules of music, you break all of those rules.

And that's why I think, like, you know, our music has sort of a uniqueness to it because we allow him to break those rules and we we just, you know, go with it and hold him up for it.

You know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was going to say just from seeing you guys, it's very, I would say refined at the same time, but also stepping out of those boundaries, which I think that mix probably works well for you guys as a group.

So I definitely will after the break.

Want to talk about the songs that you guys performed for us?

There was three of them.

Well, you guys performed two, one coming up at the very end and you guys going to stick around, is that correct?

Yeah, yeah, it'd be awesome.

Well everybody watching.

Thank you for joining us.

We will be right back after the break.

This next song is going to be our last song.

It's a song called Now I Know Need.

To be.

You know, I know.

Not to get my hopes too high Too fast, too slow What philosophy do you live by And I'll go where you say What you meant the other day I don't know I feel stupid, I'm deranged But seeing you left out in the rain I can't drive home Now I know What you meant when you said it was rare to be so all alone Now I know That you're hurt, that you're scared.

that I'm broke, but you don't have to be alone You beckoned me inside the gate Then sent me flying (oh-ay-oh...) Anything but anything safe So when I do start crying (oh-ay-oh...) A subtle feeling in a dream But were my thoughts mine then (oh-ay-oh...) I'll take my coffee with the cream So when do we start lying (oh-ay-oh...) You know I know You didn't have to act so nice Been too long since we talked Thought I'd send a text and roll the dice And I'll go where you say What you meant the other day I still don't know I feel stupid, I'm deranged You bore your heart, you ate your pain Do you have to go?

Now I know What you meant when you said it was rare to be so all alone Now I know That you're hurt, that you're scared, that I'm broke, but you don't have to be alone no, no, no yeah You beckoned me inside the gate Then sent me flying (oh-ay-oh...) Anything but anything safe So when I do start crying (oh-ay-oh...) A subtle feeling in a dream But were my thoughts mine then (oh-ay-oh...) I'll take my coffee with the cream So when do we start lying (oh-ay-oh...) I gave you bad advice You don't talk to me no more You beckoned me inside the gate Then sent me flying (oh-ay-oh...) Anything but anything safe So when I do start crying (oh-ay-oh...) A subtle feeling in a dream But were my thoughts mine then (oh-ay-oh...) I'll take my coffee with the cream So when do we start lying (oh-ay-oh...) Thank you, we are Frameways