Joe Hottinger

So he started introducing me to people in the music industry.

And that's how he connected me to Joe Hottinger, who's the guitar player for Hellstorm.

And so Joe and I, we, you know, we hit it off, liked his work and he, he has good work.

He's just not somebody who just wants to shoot and say, Oh yeah, I'm a photographer too.

Everyone's taking all their stuff out here, but so like, if you can see, like here's the condo bunks, and then this is like a regular size bunk here.

So this is what, be regular so everyone took all their stuff out because we've got a gig today but we put all of our you know extras in there so it's not all over the floor you know although every now and again things end up all over the floor and then we gotta put it back but yeah it's it's kind of it's great like we're uh we're all rolling on this pirate ship together what happens after a little while since our life is on the road is we don't just kind of pick random bunks anymore so up front here is kind of us this is Josh's bunk Joe's bunk This is my bunk.

I'm kind of a minimalist, but you can just kind of pack all your stuff in there.

And I do bring my own pillow.

It's like you're around everybody all the time, so it's kind of nice.

And then we got our back lounge here.

Hey, look, it's Joe.

Can I help you? How's it going?

He's like, "Hey, have you heard these guys?" And I'm like, "I don't even know who the hell you're talking about." And w- heard, uh, saw the Love Bites video, total homer ever since, top 10 band for me all time.

Uh, personnel here, we got Arejay Hale's on drums, Joe Hottinger's on guitar, got Josh Smith on bass, and you got Lzzy on vocals and guitar.

The original, um, release only had 11 tracks.

Uh, the deluxe has 14 tracks, so we're gonna talk about all 14.