Review Fix Exclusive: Pullman Standard’s Timothy Daniels Talks ‘Starting Static’ and More

Review Fix chats with Pullman Standard’s Timothy Daniels, who discusses the band’s origin and new single, “Starting Static.”

Breaking down the band’s influences and goals for the future, Daniels lets us know exactly what makes the band a special one.

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Listen to Starting Static Below:

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Timothy Daniels: Pullman Standard had it official beginning in the summer of 2008.    With the original lineup performing its first show as Pullman Standard in August of that year. I had been living out of my car in Los Angeles for a little bit and writing the songs that would become home and standard all throughout 2007 into 2008.

Review Fix: What inspires you guys?

Daniels: Lyrically is the main writer I find that anything and everything life brings you a lot of great lyrical content when you keep your eyes and ears open for musically I find that we are inspired by a lot of top 40 melodies and popular rock music from the 80s, 90s and the early 2000s . But sometimes you’ll hear a brand-new song on the radio and be incredibly inspired to write something that sounds in that vein.

Review Fix: How was “Starting Static” written? Is there a story behind it?

Daniels: We had been heavily Touring since the beginning of 2014 and being on the road so much we listened to a lot of radio on our tour vans sound system and when you’re driving across the country a lot of the radio stations are either top 40 radio or country music stations. By the time July had rolled around there was so many melodies running through my head it would become second nature in writing new material to write more pop-oriented music.  But I think starting static came about when we were doing final production on our “edge of the clouds” EP and A lot of our fans took a huge liking to our song alleycat which was very synthpop heavy but a little bit more aggressive.  I felt like I wanted to have a song that was synthpop heavy but something that made you feel really good listening to it like anybody could pop it in their car or if it came on the radio and they would just want to keep listening to a song like “Starting Static”

Review Fix: What makes this band special?

Daniels:I think this band puts on an amazing life show and present the music with all of its heart talk to any of our fans and they will say that they enjoy music on record but they enjoy it even more when it’s presented live. It seems as though our music is relatable across many different ages of music fans although we have been through a few lineup changes through the years anybody who is ever been in this band I always encourage them to give everything they’ve got 100% no matter how big the crowd no matter what the venue.  That show may be the first time or the last time someone sees Pullman standard.

Review Fix: Who do you think will enjoy your work the most?

Daniels:I’d like to say that anybody can enjoy Pullman Standard’s music.  Although this newest song seems to relate heavily with teens through adults in their mid-30s I would hope that any person that comes across our music to find a common ground and at least one of our tunes.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Daniels: Well we are definitely looking for management and agent possibly a record deal but we’ve never let any of that hold us back before from continuing our career.

We’ve been writing so much material out on the road that we are excited to record a new EP from that material.  We are setting off across the country September 23 through November 21 on our aptly titled “starting static tour”  we are really excited to keep presenting fresh new material as well as performing older songs from our catalog that our fans don’t normally get to hear.  Looking into the new year- like I said excited to record a new EP and release it hopefully in the early spring and just continue touring, touring, touring.

 

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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