April 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Pelle from The Hives Joins Booker and Stryker from ALT 987. They talk about the NEW album "The Hives Forever Forever The Hives" and NEW song "Enough is Enough". Pele also chats about collaborating with a Beatie Boys Member!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Booker Striker Pala of the band The Hives.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nice to see him, Thank you, nicee you guys too,
Thanks for being here. I'm glad we wore collared shirts
today because you look way better. But we feel like
we're not too far off right now.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, all right, hey, so.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good for being on the radio and all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, on a scale of one to ten, rate
us on our faces for radio.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I mean, it's kind of awkward because you look really good.
I mean I thought our face for radio would supposed
to be bad or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, that's how we see ourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, irrelevant. I guess it's radio.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
With social media, you know, everyone everything.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
There's it's impulsible these days, like you can't You're going
to radio stoce and play some music and then you've
got to perform for people, and then what you perform
sounds worse, but it looks better. Right. They hard to
do both at the same time. That's why they only
let me do it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The end of August, the New Hives album comes out.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I'm as surprised as you are.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is it dark by the way?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Completely finished? Yeah? Completely finished?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, why you asked, why is it taking so long
to come out? Right?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Why is it taking so long? Because it's not even
what month is?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
April?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But why do we wait for.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So long that you'd have to ask the record comedy
people are hiding behind the car. Oh, yes, you've got
to make people excited about it before putting it out.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm excited now you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so am I?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Enough is enough? And I saw the name Mike D
produce Mike D. Wait? What so how did Mike D
Beastie Boys end up on your radar and then more
important working on the full length album?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah? I mean we've known him for a while. We
did a tour with Beastie Boys in like two thousand
and four or something, and in nineteen ninety four or
so when we started our band, the Beastie voice was
the coolest sounding thing we'd ever heard, and it kind
of still is. And we were making a record and
we're like, who has the coolest sounding records? And the
answer is kind of always the Beastie Boys. So we
(01:54):
figured we'd call him, ask him if you want to
get involved with a little corner of our record, and
he was sent some like we sent some songs over
he did to them what he wanted to, and then
he came over to Stockholm for a few days to
fidd live on him in the studio, which was fun.
He made like all our other like the engineer and
the other producer and stuff, really starstruck. They started stumbling
(02:17):
over cables and stuff that he was there.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Does he do does did he do anything differently to
you that kind of blew your mind that you went, oh,
I never thought of trying that before.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well mostly I mean the yeah in in a few ways,
but mostly it was like he he sang a line
on one song called o CD o D or Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder overdose, and as soon as we heard his
voice is like, that's a beasty boy, right, and he
was going to play organ on a thing and he
(02:49):
started just like to try to sound the organized or
to tell like an iconic Beastie Boys intro got good,
So I'm standing too. It's really fun. I guess that's
what he plays when he sees an organ.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Josh Hame is part of the record, and we know
that you've worked with him before, but I want to
stick with Mike d for just a second more. When
you're bringing a guy that you have loved so much.
Were you at all have any nerves inside that you
know it may not go well or I mean, or
it could go amazingly well.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, I mean there's things he wanted us to do
on the record that we didn't want to do, so
we end up not doing them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, easy to say no, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, you know, it's like some ideas we thought were great.
Some idea we thought our idea was better. Like it's
it's easier than you think. You can't be too nervous,
like we're gonna have to live with the record and
all that stuff. But it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Bring it back to Josh. I guess Josh is just
a fun guy. Like he's awesome to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Be in a studio.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He used to have a studio here in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh yeah, we recorded there a coule you did okay?
So kind Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I've seen him work before and it's just laid back
and kind of fun. Did he bring that to the
project or is he?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, we're really on laid back as a band, Like
we work only with negativity, like we complain about everything.
It's good. We know how to do it, like we
just complain at each other until we're only there's only
a diamond left. But Josh is like such a great cheerleader.
So I'd call him and like send him the songs
(04:18):
and we talk about the songs, and he'd be really
supportive and like, why do you want to do that?
It's already great, Like I just put it out, which
was amazing, you know. I just really like talking to
him about creative stuff and about anything. Really, He's a
good friend.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
How did you first meet him? Because I love hearing
the Beastie Boys thing you said, when did Josh or
Queens appear on your radar years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The first time we met them was probably, like I
think it was the first corchella we both played, like
they played with Queens. We played with Hives and our
old bass players dig Queens of the Stone in fan
and kind of an out there guy, and I just
saw him walk up to Josh and start talking to him,
and for while it looked like because you're just like
a big dude and all that gang kind of felt
(05:04):
so like masculine and muscle Cory and all that stuff,
which he tried. Our basse player is such a like
sweetheart and totally like innocent, but I thought you could tell,
like I was kind of far away and I saw
him walk over just start talking to him like they
were barbecuing or whatever. And you can tell George thought
that he was making fun of him for a while
or like he wasn't sure what is this person, but
(05:27):
he's just like he's like a cartoon character. And after
a while you could just tell like, oh, I get
it now, and just like start hugging around stuff. So
I think that's when we first.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Met you guys veterans in the rock music scene. And
I you know, we saw you at our Wet Legs
show young and yet so young. But we saw you
at our wet Legs show the other day a younger
band they are, so do you as the you know,
someone that's done this for quite some time, versus a
band that's sort of getting into it. You go out
of your way to see these young bands and introduce yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How does something like that come down?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah? Sure, I mean if I if I I like him,
it's kind of collegial, like courteousy. I guess fun to
see wet leg good band. You know, it's not. Most
things are less complicated than you think. If you just
stop paying attention to what people think or feel, you
can just walk up to him and say hi, and
it's usually fine.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, enough is enough. We're going to play that on
our show. Can you give us a nugget on where
this one came about? When making all of the new songs.
The seventh full length album Again comes out in August,
tell us about this one, then let's press play and
hit it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, I mean it was kind of an early idea.
Actually recorded the first version with completely different people in
LA like a decade ago, and I just realized when
we put it out, and a friend of mine who
like played on that first kind of session, just hey,
that's that song we record, but it was very different.
Then it's gone through many many changes, kind of same thing,
(06:53):
distilled it into a little nugget. It was cold, became
a diamond and kind of along an artist process. But
then we've decided a long time ago that we're not
picking singles because we picked the wrong one, the one
that was our big breakthrough. It takes our totals. We're like,
that's not the single, totally different song, and since then
(07:14):
we're very humble, so we let other people pick and
they picked up really early on because like it's got
like a big riff, and people are going to go
to the show, want to go to the shows if
you play him this one and yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
What is the I'm thinking back to my first show
that I saw, you guys. I think it was like
Irving Plaza, maybe in New York City in ninety something.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Maybe I don't know too that.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't know what it was, but it was a
rock and roll show and it was this you know,
almost you don't care, You're just having fun, kicking ass.
What do you think the state of like rock and
roll rock music is? Because look, you're still dressed up,
you look cool. Yeah, it's a different day and it
looks a lot different. What's your take on all of it?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, I mean, there's always amazing rock and roll if
you just scratch the surface a bit find it. But
the state of like mainstream rock to us has always
been a little bit shit. So you got to kind
of scratch a little bit. But I mean, I don't
really know how it's different. I'm so in hives world
that I don't kind of see what's going on outside.
It wet leg you know, whatever, there's there's tons of
(08:17):
good bands and it's always a live if you just
look for it. I think I don't want to be
one of those guys like there's no good bands anymore,
you know, Yeah, because I know that's wrong, but maybe
I haven't heard them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But the best band is the Hives. And if you're
looking for you, I know you're always do that for
a cover bands book or and I right, justice wonderful.
But we're available to go to any city maybe like
Upland or Bakersfield to do a Hives cover show or something.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like that that would be wonderful. I mean, we we
did like and we wanted to support the idea of
the tribute band, right we started sending them stuff and
kind of helping out booking shows for him and stuff.
So whenever we did like a UK tour and we
had a tribute band play a bar nearby after us
all the time. So if you don't get enough Hives
you can, Yeah you'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Did some of them really blow you away?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Like my god, these was one with like a nine
year old kid on vocals that was pretty pretty great. Yeah,
that was probably the most accurate to me energy wise.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
All Right, we're going to see you play at the
Palladium in twenty twenty five. The new album comes out
in August, and man, we really appreciate you coming to
ninety eighty seven and hanging out with Booker and Striker here.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's been wonderful. Yeah, everybody's got to go to that show.
By the way, they'll be there.
Booker Striker Pala of the band The Hives.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nice to see him, Thank you, nicee you guys too,
Thanks for being here. I'm glad we wore collared shirts
today because you look way better. But we feel like
we're not too far off right now.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, all right, hey, so.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good for being on the radio and all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, on a scale of one to ten, rate
us on our faces for radio.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I mean, it's kind of awkward because you look really good.
I mean I thought our face for radio would supposed
to be bad or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, that's how we see ourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, irrelevant. I guess it's radio.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
With social media, you know, everyone everything.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
There's it's impulsible these days, like you can't You're going
to radio stoce and play some music and then you've
got to perform for people, and then what you perform
sounds worse, but it looks better. Right. They hard to
do both at the same time. That's why they only
let me do it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The end of August, the New Hives album comes out.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I'm as surprised as you are.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is it dark by the way?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Completely finished? Yeah? Completely finished?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, why you asked, why is it taking so long
to come out? Right?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Why is it taking so long? Because it's not even
what month is?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
April?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But why do we wait for.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So long that you'd have to ask the record comedy
people are hiding behind the car. Oh, yes, you've got
to make people excited about it before putting it out.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm excited now you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so am I?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Enough is enough? And I saw the name Mike D
produce Mike D. Wait? What so how did Mike D
Beastie Boys end up on your radar and then more
important working on the full length album?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah? I mean we've known him for a while. We
did a tour with Beastie Boys in like two thousand
and four or something, and in nineteen ninety four or
so when we started our band, the Beastie voice was
the coolest sounding thing we'd ever heard, and it kind
of still is. And we were making a record and
we're like, who has the coolest sounding records? And the
answer is kind of always the Beastie Boys. So we
(01:54):
figured we'd call him, ask him if you want to
get involved with a little corner of our record, and
he was sent some like we sent some songs over
he did to them what he wanted to, and then
he came over to Stockholm for a few days to
fidd live on him in the studio, which was fun.
He made like all our other like the engineer and
the other producer and stuff, really starstruck. They started stumbling
(02:17):
over cables and stuff that he was there.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Does he do does did he do anything differently to
you that kind of blew your mind that you went, oh,
I never thought of trying that before.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well mostly I mean the yeah in in a few ways,
but mostly it was like he he sang a line
on one song called o CD o D or Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder overdose, and as soon as we heard his
voice is like, that's a beasty boy, right, and he
was going to play organ on a thing and he
(02:49):
started just like to try to sound the organized or
to tell like an iconic Beastie Boys intro got good,
So I'm standing too. It's really fun. I guess that's
what he plays when he sees an organ.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Josh Hame is part of the record, and we know
that you've worked with him before, but I want to
stick with Mike d for just a second more. When
you're bringing a guy that you have loved so much.
Were you at all have any nerves inside that you
know it may not go well or I mean, or
it could go amazingly well.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, I mean there's things he wanted us to do
on the record that we didn't want to do, so
we end up not doing them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, easy to say no, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, you know, it's like some ideas we thought were great.
Some idea we thought our idea was better. Like it's
it's easier than you think. You can't be too nervous,
like we're gonna have to live with the record and
all that stuff. But it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Bring it back to Josh. I guess Josh is just
a fun guy. Like he's awesome to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Be in a studio.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He used to have a studio here in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh yeah, we recorded there a coule you did okay?
So kind Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I've seen him work before and it's just laid back
and kind of fun. Did he bring that to the
project or is he?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, we're really on laid back as a band, Like
we work only with negativity, like we complain about everything.
It's good. We know how to do it, like we
just complain at each other until we're only there's only
a diamond left. But Josh is like such a great cheerleader.
So I'd call him and like send him the songs
(04:18):
and we talk about the songs, and he'd be really
supportive and like, why do you want to do that?
It's already great, Like I just put it out, which
was amazing, you know. I just really like talking to
him about creative stuff and about anything. Really, He's a
good friend.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
How did you first meet him? Because I love hearing
the Beastie Boys thing you said, when did Josh or
Queens appear on your radar years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The first time we met them was probably, like I
think it was the first corchella we both played, like
they played with Queens. We played with Hives and our
old bass players dig Queens of the Stone in fan
and kind of an out there guy, and I just
saw him walk up to Josh and start talking to him,
and for while it looked like because you're just like
a big dude and all that gang kind of felt
(05:04):
so like masculine and muscle Cory and all that stuff,
which he tried. Our basse player is such a like
sweetheart and totally like innocent, but I thought you could tell,
like I was kind of far away and I saw
him walk over just start talking to him like they
were barbecuing or whatever. And you can tell George thought
that he was making fun of him for a while
or like he wasn't sure what is this person, but
(05:27):
he's just like he's like a cartoon character. And after
a while you could just tell like, oh, I get
it now, and just like start hugging around stuff. So
I think that's when we first.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Met you guys veterans in the rock music scene. And
I you know, we saw you at our Wet Legs
show young and yet so young. But we saw you
at our wet Legs show the other day a younger
band they are, so do you as the you know,
someone that's done this for quite some time, versus a
band that's sort of getting into it. You go out
of your way to see these young bands and introduce yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How does something like that come down?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah? Sure, I mean if I if I I like him,
it's kind of collegial, like courteousy. I guess fun to
see wet leg good band. You know, it's not. Most
things are less complicated than you think. If you just
stop paying attention to what people think or feel, you
can just walk up to him and say hi, and
it's usually fine.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, enough is enough. We're going to play that on
our show. Can you give us a nugget on where
this one came about? When making all of the new songs.
The seventh full length album Again comes out in August,
tell us about this one, then let's press play and
hit it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, I mean it was kind of an early idea.
Actually recorded the first version with completely different people in
LA like a decade ago, and I just realized when
we put it out, and a friend of mine who
like played on that first kind of session, just hey,
that's that song we record, but it was very different.
Then it's gone through many many changes, kind of same thing,
(06:53):
distilled it into a little nugget. It was cold, became
a diamond and kind of along an artist process. But
then we've decided a long time ago that we're not
picking singles because we picked the wrong one, the one
that was our big breakthrough. It takes our totals. We're like,
that's not the single, totally different song, and since then
(07:14):
we're very humble, so we let other people pick and
they picked up really early on because like it's got
like a big riff, and people are going to go
to the show, want to go to the shows if
you play him this one and yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
What is the I'm thinking back to my first show
that I saw, you guys. I think it was like
Irving Plaza, maybe in New York City in ninety something.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Maybe I don't know too that.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't know what it was, but it was a
rock and roll show and it was this you know,
almost you don't care, You're just having fun, kicking ass.
What do you think the state of like rock and
roll rock music is? Because look, you're still dressed up,
you look cool. Yeah, it's a different day and it
looks a lot different. What's your take on all of it?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, I mean, there's always amazing rock and roll if
you just scratch the surface a bit find it. But
the state of like mainstream rock to us has always
been a little bit shit. So you got to kind
of scratch a little bit. But I mean, I don't
really know how it's different. I'm so in hives world
that I don't kind of see what's going on outside.
It wet leg you know, whatever, there's there's tons of
(08:17):
good bands and it's always a live if you just
look for it. I think I don't want to be
one of those guys like there's no good bands anymore,
you know, Yeah, because I know that's wrong, but maybe
I haven't heard them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But the best band is the Hives. And if you're
looking for you, I know you're always do that for
a cover bands book or and I right, justice wonderful.
But we're available to go to any city maybe like
Upland or Bakersfield to do a Hives cover show or something.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like that that would be wonderful. I mean, we we
did like and we wanted to support the idea of
the tribute band, right we started sending them stuff and
kind of helping out booking shows for him and stuff.
So whenever we did like a UK tour and we
had a tribute band play a bar nearby after us
all the time. So if you don't get enough Hives
you can, Yeah you'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Did some of them really blow you away?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Like my god, these was one with like a nine
year old kid on vocals that was pretty pretty great. Yeah,
that was probably the most accurate to me energy wise.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
All Right, we're going to see you play at the
Palladium in twenty twenty five. The new album comes out
in August, and man, we really appreciate you coming to
ninety eighty seven and hanging out with Booker and Striker here.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's been wonderful. Yeah, everybody's got to go to that show.
By the way, they'll be there.
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