Florida Keys WeeklySee Creature is the Best Band You Haven’t Heard — But Not for Long.
See Creature is challenging the norms of Nashville as they pioneer and blend country, rock and reggae into Coastal American Alternative Music.
It’s a rare opportunity these days to chat with a band that is on the ascent to stardom — before the average fan has discovered their sound and the blizzard of downloads begins. But that’s just what we did with See Creature on the Florida Keys Weekly Podcast this past week. In town for Key West Songwriters Festival, See Creature is composed of three accomplished musicians who are challenging the norms of Nashville and Country Music. Rob Snyder, a Philly native (who has written No. 1 songs for stars like Luke Combs and performed on music’s biggest stages) joined forces with Ryan Nelson and Job Fortner to create a unique fusion that includes rock, reggae and country elements into a Coastal American Alternative genre they may very well be pioneering. Most of all, the three are as fun to chat with as they are to listen to on stage, so join us as we dig in with See Creature to discuss their anticipated new album, their plans to travel the nation and how the three juggle family, careers and friendship along the way.
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thanks again for being here. We've got a great show. I'm gonna jump right to the guys who are right here in house with me. They're looking at me and uh, yeah, songwriters week here in Key West, we got him out of bed this morning. So, uh this is a big deal and we're gonna, we're gonna get them right in here before I do that. I've got a, uh, another special guest with me who's who I think is responsible
in part for, uh, these gentlemen being in Key West and performing here. Some of, uh, there's three guys and, uh, between the three of them, some of, some of them have been here to Key West before. Some have performed here before. But, uh, all in all they are Nashville guys. Now, that's where they, that's where they hell and where they do their, their thing and in all relative when you define success,
um, they, they've all been successful. I mean, most, most musicians who have, who are out there trying to make it, uh, would define these three guys as people who have, they've written number one songs they've stood on the biggest stages. They are plugged in Nashville. Um The flip side of that is the three of them coming together and this is what's so cool about having them on here today. I feel like we have, I think they're right on the top of this wave that is about to take over and become mainstream.
Uh When I say mainstream and relative to the success, they've already had really coming into this new mainstream wave uh with a new album coming out and I think you're about to see and hear them everywhere. So I think it's pretty cool that, uh I get them here first. Now you're thinking, who are these guys? I'm not gonna tell you yet because first of all, the reason they're here is the guy beside me is David Tebow. Dave. Tebow, also known as Tebow here locally in Key West. He is one of
the owners over the local owner over at Island Dogs, Island Dogs. Of course, if you've been to Key West is a Mecca for live music throughout, not just songwriters, uh, when that week is, uh, is here, uh, just throughout the year. And Dave's been a huge part of the music that has come into Key West putting on a, putting on events, uh, bringing talented men and women, uh, into Island dogs on a consistent basis.
So David without further ado, tell us who's sitting in front of us and tell me a little bit about how, uh, your relationship with these guys came about.
So we have Rob Snyder, Ryan Nelson and Job Fortner. Um, Rob and I, um, first met back in 2015 via a mutual friend, a Texas uh songwriter David Adam Burns. Um We hit it off really well and um we just started hanging out planning events together and what we call the Island revival, which Rob is the founder of the revival. An event that happened in Nashville. I was it the first or second Tuesday of every month,
took a little every, every Tuesday and uh took a hiatus, went on the road for a year. They've played a few uh festivals, not only the Key West Songwriters Festival, but the uh was Smoke Show, Riverside Smoke Show Festival. And, and um something this, this past past month up in Saint Augustine, what was
we were doing some concerts for a cause?
Yeah, we were doing uh concerts for a cause in Saint Augustine for the uh Sea Mark ranch. It's like a kid's orphanage.
So, so
we're going to dig into this more. I wanted to give Tebow his proper do because he's a big reason they're here. And so a reason a lot of music is here. And so let's go ahead and let the cat out of the bag, the name of the band that Rob and Ryan and Joe. They've all had some in major individual success. We'll talk about that in a minute. Um Number one songs that I know Rob has written with, with Luke Combs and uh who Ryan's performed with and job what he's done. Uh uh as well. The name of the band,
Sea Creature So as you listen to this, if you want to go ahead and start pulling them up and get ready for this to unload on you, they're coming out. Um, it's gonna be huge. I mean, this is not one of those. Hey, listen, we've got, we saw this band, they sounded pretty cool. We brought them on here. This is the real deal. They're going to be huge. We're lucky to get them right now. Sea creature. And that's spelled see creature, two words. So like C as in sight, sea creature. And you can go ahead and start pulling them up. So without further ado Tebow's right here with me, you can chime in as much as you like buddy.
And uh guys, welcome to the show. It's great to have all three of you. Thank you so much for having us. Uh I'm Rob Snyder, next to me is Ryan Nelson and Joe Forner. I'll let these boys say hello.
Hey, it's Ryan Nelson. I'm the Florida man.
How y'all doing? This is Joe Fortner. I'm from uh Delone, Georgia originally. So I'm the, the mountain, the mountain hippie guy,
the Florida Georgia, Florida line, Florida, Georgia Lion joke here. And then you got your Philly boy over here. So, uh and I, and I love the jobs. Uh I went to school in Delana. Good Georgia. Not many people, most people say Talladega that, that aren't from there. So we, uh we got another, we got another Georgia boy here. Which is really cool. So, uh, now, do you? No, Joe, do you and Rob ever have any Philly? Georgia, like professional sports rivalries going on? Or? Is Philly just too good to even bother with it? Now, is that, uh,
I mean, to me it's not just, you know, it's in a different league, you know, it's like giants fighting, you know, little mice, you know, it's, it's a whole different thing, but Joe and I have a lot of common ground. He loves Philly food. Yeah. Yeah. Together we bond like he, he might not be a Philly sports guy but,
but he will come to Philly any chance he gets with me because he knows we're gonna be eating real good. I like it. I like it. Now, I'm gonna really kind of dig into you guys and let you let you do a lot of talking before I do that. I want to make sure the listeners have a really good feel. Tebow talked about why, how you guys came about, you know, with his relationship.
Um Like as I said, Rob, you, you wrote a number one song with Luke Combs. Uh She's got the best, she's got the best of me. She got the best of me, which everyone knows by heart at this point. Um And I know, uh, Ryan and Job, y'all got some incredible, uh, accolades to your name as well and y'all can talk about that. As well. I think one of the really, uh, cool things is, is not just your three Nashville guys from three different parts of the world, but one thing I want people to understand today they're thinking, ok, songwriters,
it's country music. Ok. Three country guys. I don't know that I've ever heard and I just had jelly roll on before you just a couple of days ago. So, the listeners who are listening in now just really heard us talk about jelly roll and his diversity from hip hop into more of a country genre outlaw, maybe some rock.
And I told jelly roll, I wasn't quite sure. And I, I mean, this at the time just a couple of days ago, I was like, I'm not quite sure. I know anyone as, I mean, we've had some pioneers with Lincoln Park and all these guys with some, some, some different mixes. But I told Jelly, I'm like, I'm not sure that I've seen anyone make it and kind of have a sound did what you did.
And, and I'm not even sure you could have done that 20 years ago in Nashville. And he said, yeah, and he gave some people some credit. And then I, and then Dave comes along, he introduced me to you guys a little while back and I really started listening to you. It is an incredibly different sound. We've got reggae. Uh We got like, maybe sublime sounds in there. Country sounds some rock. I don't know how to describe it. Um It is incredibly cool.
I haven't heard it before so I think that's what makes you unique. I don't know if he's even gonna pose a challenge whose country can play. You rock can play. You. Uh fans of any genre are gonna like it because it's smooth. You have great vocals. How do you guys describe your music before we start this out? Because I don't know how to describe it. What was that thing you said this morning? Joy
American, country western, cowboy, reggae music or something like that?
No, I think, you know, we all have influences and I grew up listening to tons of different stuff, Rob did, especially if you're anywhere near as old as me or Rob. You, you grew up listening to rock, you grew up listening to sublime, you grew up listening to, you know, for me, country blues. Uh my dad likes jazz, you know, so my, my brother plays in a reggae band that actually, or whatever they call them, that genre they are. Um
And they're featured on the one that's coming out Friday.
So, yeah, I like, I like a bunch of different stuff and I'm sure Joe does too. If
I, you know, when we started doing this thing, I think um
you know, we were listening to like, um you know, reggae at the time and we kind of, you know, talked about doing a band and, and, uh, it was crazy, you know, COVID happened and, and we didn't talk about it that much more and then, you know, things picked up and then Rob hit us up one day and he's like, you guys want to go up to Pennsylvania and do a record and we were like, wow, we got to write some songs and get this thing going.
No, that's interesting because here's the three of you, uh who, and you've had this all three of you? And I don't, I don't want to downplay that. I feel kind of awkward because y'all are humble dudes. I can tell you're laid back. But the success you've already had in Nashville writing songs y'all played on some of the big Grand Ole Opry, some biggest stages. I mean, y'all could go, we could do the entire show about your success already as three individual, particularly writing country. Um
Where does, how did, how did you know, hey, we're gonna get together and make a di one of you already doing a different sound. Were you all dabbling in it with country? I mean, how did you get together and say this is the thing we're gonna do. How does that happen? II, I
think, I think also we're all, uh we're all alike in Nashville as well as like we all write together for our own music as well. And so, you know, we started to, uh,
just talk about this on our own time and it just, you know, kind of blossomed into this.
You know, again, uh as, as Ryan grabs the microphone here, uh listeners, you're listening to Sea Creature with me here, see Sea Creature. And again, I'm gonna quit harping on it, but you're about to know Sea creature by heart and by name on a regular basis. So you get him here. Uh Ryan, go ahead. Yeah, I was thinking about the tweet.
I think it was Rob's Tweet in like 2018 and it was like, we're starting a reggae band and it was, he tagged me job and Brent Cobb and now Brent's singing on the record and uh he's not, he's not in the group with us but he's part of it and yeah, pretty cool. So we all, we all ended up doing that from that tweet in 2018. What were we doing at that time, Ryan? I mean, uh
uh again, I'm, I'm going back to like Luke Combs for you, Rob. I know all three of you. What were you all doing in terms of where you were heading at that point for him to reach out and say we're doing this and you're like, yeah, let's do it. You know, we were always at revival. I'm a, I was a every Tuesday guy. That's what I did on Tuesdays and as I got a little like more mature and in the scene and stuff, you know, I didn't want to go out every single night anymore. So, Tuesday night. Perfect. I'm like
going to revival. I played it a bunch. Robbie would give me a wrist band or trying to pay for beers. Yeah. Free beers and, yeah, he would never miss a free beer. Tuesday. Hell, no, I'm, I'm a Florida man. You know, that's how we go. But, uh, yeah, so I, I guess just all hanging out at that all the time and Joe pretty much lived with me. I was in his band at one point playing bass like it was, you know, so we've known each other a long time.
Um That, that's really cool. Now, you, you said you were y'all friends first or were you listening to each other? And you go, hey, man, that was pretty cool and start hanging out. How did that, how does that happen? I know Nashville is a tight circle when people start making it to that level. How did that, how did you guys kind of come about as friends and buddies? I'll answer this one and this is Rob here. And uh so again, a lot of this, the friendships and everything, a lot of things happen at Revival, which we used to host at Tin Roof. I started that thing like
in 2012. And then you know how, when did you move to town, Ryan? He moved to town. How can people keep saying revival? Make sure the listeners knows. Well, Rob how can they, if they want to look into this? Really cool, just go, go on Instagram. Look up Revival Roadshow. Um And then it's uh revival
615 dot com. Revival roadshow dot com, I believe we have two. But uh yeah, that's just, it's just a songwriters thing where we didn't necessarily care about the biggest songs and all that stuff, we cared about the best songs. So when these guys moved to town, you know, Joe asked me to play and I was like,
yeah, you can play, just don't play any, you know, sissy stuff. I didn't exactly say that. But I was like, play something like makes break somebody's heart, man. Like channing used to channing Wilson a buddy of ours. Yeah. And I put him, I put him up there with a big dog and you know what, like at first that's, that's intimidating. But all I did was make him better because I knew he had it in him. And then,
and then I watch, yeah, same thing with Ryan. He gets up with a guy named Jordan Fletcher and they're singing harmonies and the songs aren't all the way there on like right when he moved to town, but I was like the, the God given talent that this these guys have and they come in here and do it. And then once you meet your friends in your circle and you start writing
now as songwriters I could put either one of these guys in a room with anybody in Nashville, the biggest songwriters in the world and they'll come out with a great song and they'll wear the pants in the room and they'll carry the weight, which is awesome. And I've seen that happen over, you know, ever since I moved to town. So we all kind of moved there. Also. Revival is, you know, I'm a dad, I have a toddler so I don't get out a whole lot. So like my Tuesday nights, you know, it was like, that was like, all right,
that was my Friday night too. So we would have some big, big, big Tuesday nights. My Wednesday mornings were not very fun. A lot of the time you, you said something, Rob there that, um, because I read something that, uh, Tebow had sent me earlier and I think it may have come from you guys or someone close to you. And I want to elaborate on that. It says, um, you know, you're all successful in your own, right? Of course. Um, but he said, I've, I've heard it said even when you were in the forefront
and it sounds like kind of in those days particularly you, Rob y'all, y'all did all this and you started making your success without the, and I quote the confines of Music Row. What do you mean by that man? It just as far as the writing, you know, it's like when, when I'm we're, we're sitting in a room and me, me in particular, I, I do like other artists stuff where, where I put out my own songwriter, record and stuff like that release music from time to time. I did a full record in 2020.
Um But like, for me, it's when I'm going in there with, you know, say like a, a Michael Ray or, or somebody who I've never written with, I'm just using him in his example. Like a country guy. Like I know what I can and cannot say in a room. I can't say, oh, you can't say that that won't get played on radio and, and that's the confines. It's like you have to do this little form
and you can't swing for the fence, you have to do a line drive, keep every, everything safe. You can't piss anybody off on either side and you got to just say these right things and make sure you get truck and tailgate and Scold ring in there and like all that stupid stuff where this, I was, I was at a point in my career when, when we went and recorded this thing up in West Chester P A um,
that I was just so frustrated with the music business. I'm like, this blows like COVID is the worst. Now, everything is awful. I was like, I don't even want to write another country song, quote, unquote, air quotes, whatever.
And we went in there literally booked a date. We wrote songs for like a week. Went up there. Ryan just worked these songs out bass parts and everything. These, both of these guys play guitars. We recorded it at uh Castle Bam, uh which is Ben Mara's uh brothers studio, Jess Mara from the band Cky. And uh
we just knocked it out and then we mixed it over a while. We really took our time with the mixing. You know, when you first started, we got something here when you were all I noticed is I knew we had something and I was like stressed because, you know, I'm like putting money into this thing and trying to make it work. But I was also just like, I let go at one point and I was like, this is fun and it filled my cup, you know, it was like, oh that's right. Music's fun and I love music again and that's what it did for me. I don't know. What do you guys say?
Yeah. You know, I say my brother uh he was in uh by the way, what's up. So, uh and my brother is inside real is inside real. It's kind of, you know, on and off with him. But right now, but, you know, I, I listen to him play this stuff forever and I would see his shows and he'd be playing these huge shows and they had trumpets and saxophones and it was like,
dude, that is music. Like I was Dan, everyone's dancing, you know, at, at those shows and like country shows, like, I love country music but the country music, I love, people are dancing, bluegrass stuff, real, the real thing. Like, people are dancing. So
I like Dancy stuff and I always wanted to be able to put my name on some stuff that was artistically, like getting to put it out that was like dancey and fun and then, you know, kind of an ode to my brother in a way for me because I watched him do this kind of genre for a long time. Yeah, you're making me think as you say that all three of you and Joe, we can get you in here too when you're writing country. And I know you've all written Country and very successfully
to the point that anyone listening to this show, we listen, we have Sea Creature here on the Florida Keys Weekly podcast. They've heard what you've written because the best or the best of saying it now you're the best. You, you're with those guys. Um when you write the country to what you're writing now because it's such a, I can't, I wish I could, we could play a little clip here, but it's such a unique sound. You know, it's not sublime, but it's also not country, but it's this mixture that works so well. It's just such a great, you know, fusion.
Um Do you write differently than you would when you're writing country, when you're, when you're sitting down and writing stuff for these, the sound of these, does it make you write different or is, is, I mean, I know you're writing from a place because all great writers do, but does it make you write different, I
guess? Um, I, I mean, we also all three write a lot together. Um, so we, we spend, you know, a lot of time together outside of the writing room. So we, I think that's a big part of why we write so well together I think is, you know, we're really good friends. And, um,
you know, for me, I like to, I've always wanted to push myself as far as music outside of, you know what I was doing my southern rock stuff. So this is just one of those things for me where it's like, it's really cool to push ourselves outside of the box and
try something new and there's no rules, you know, do you know, do what you want? I think, be, be who you are. So, I'm, I'm glad to be part of
this for sure. Are there more rules when you're running country than there are? Well, I'm not trying to push you into something.
I've, I've always been a guy that's like, there's no rules. I'm the guy in the room that's like there's no rules but, you know, there, you know, there are people that you know, maybe
I don't wanna do that, you know. So they're formulas for everything. I
guess you guys have been up in Nashville now. Uh, your careers were there like a lot of people. It's where you have to be. Um, is Nashville pretty accepting? Are there other people kind of, you know, is there anyone else kind of doing what you're doing with this sound? Does it seem like it's pretty accepting in that town? I assume it probably is, but it's, it's changed over the years. But how's Nashville receiving?
Uh I think everyone took it as what they thought it was at first, which was a joke. Like they're like, oh, yeah, they're doing a, they're doing a reggae band, uh you know, three white boys. That's great. You know, they're doing a reggae band and then uh we put out a song and the first one we dropped, we all sang on it but it has, uh it's called, you know, it's not the most uh positive title. It's called We're All Gonna Die Someday. Um
And uh when people heard that and they were like, oh, they're not, these guys aren't messing around like this is the real deal and we're putting out songs way faster than,
you know, you're supposed to do 6 to 8 weeks or 8 to 12 weeks and roll them out on the, on the D SPS and Spotify and all that kind of stuff. We're doing it every four weeks and we're just getting it because we want to have this record out for the summer. It's like, and then people can play it on a boat. And that's a true testament of a good record. If people are playing it on the boat and you're like, ok, we're doing something right. We're at Key West. You know, people are gonna be listening to this now. So this goes everywhere. But, uh, if you all you Key Westerns and Florida keys people, this is some boat music. You don't want to miss
me. Which songs are out now. Uh It's a self-titled album, correct? That you guys have coming out. I think uh we're gonna run with the C I think Circus. I, in that song, I think we're gonna call it Circus Circus. I love um the songs out so far. Uh Is, when is this gonna come out? Do we know? Uh So we're, we're recording here for you listeners on a, on a Thursday, I think it is. And then this will come out early next week. So as you're listening to this, this will be about four or five days later.
Yeah. So, so we'll have out by then we'll have ride it out which Ryan takes the lead vocal on that one. And then we already have, I go south out where job takes the lead on that one and that's featuring Jess Mara on the drums. It's, it's awesome. It's like this southern rock soaring chorus that goes into just like tough rock, like sky. I mean, the guitars on that I absolutely love. And then we also have, uh, some day was our first one that came out. So we're gonna roll another,
we'll have another one out in June. And, uh, that'll be featuring Brent Cobb, who's, who's like, awesome. He's one of my favorites. He's a good friend too. Uh, and then the whole record's dropping the Friday before fourth of July. So this thing's gonna be out there. So, you know, you guys kind of know, I, I didn't want to put you on the spot. Do you definitely know the name of the record? You just don't want quite say it yet or is it still up for?
I was like, I was fine with it being self sorry. I, I was fine with it being self-titled because I was like, you know, the album mark the way we've been kind of setting it up with the single covers, like, looks cool. You know, you could just run with that, but circus is just like, it's a circus baby. Is it OK to let the OK to say this on the podcast? Sounds like circus is gonna be a big radio push, right?
You're about to have that or can we talk about that yet? That's, that's if it's a secret, we can, we can, there's no, again, we're doing this completely independently. So if, if those opportunities arise. I know that, you know, that takes, you know, knowing some people in that and then you have to, it's a job too. You have to get someone to work you to radio and stuff like that. Any opportunity we get to come and do a podcast or radio,
we're gonna do it and, you know, and we'll, it's gonna be very grassroots like how we do it. We're not gonna just, you know, just be like, hey, can, can you sign us to a, you know, I don't even know how it works as a radio team. I know how it works for country music. And if it's like that, I'm like, oh no, if I don't ask this question, Rob, um people will, they never reach out and say, hey, I love those questions. That's the one you don't ask. You
come. So I'll ask the cliche question. Why, why is it a sea creature seec creature who came up with that as cheesy as can be? Um I was dreaming, we were really trying to think of a name and like, I couldn't think of anything. And like, I, it was just one of those uh the guy from Creed moments when he said he, he lied and said he saw uh an Indian while he was on acid like running across a thing. Like I just, it came to me in a dream
time that happened. We all be that man. Didn't, didn't he fight 3 11, 1 time. He's done a lot of things. He actually did the theo on podcast and he was like an interesting guest. But I was like, man, I can't imagine him not being interesting. I, that's the problem. Yeah. Well, hey, you got some, you've got a big band coming up and they, they give you a shout out here on the podcast. So there you go.
Um Who, how do you decide when you're, when you're all three together and all so talented? How do you, how do you decide? And somebody can take it, uh Who's playing? What, who's got the rift? Who's got the vocals? Does it just come natural? And you say, hey, you sounded good there. How do you, every time, you know, like one time I'll have the lick and I'll have somebody else will have the, I like the thematic idea and then,
you know, sometimes it's a phrase, sometimes it's, you know, it's, it can be all different kind of stuff for this stuff. I mean, like Circus was one where it was like, it was a lick. That was a guitar lick and that was the first one.
And then, yeah, we were like writing a Southern rock song with Vinny and then we were like, dude reggae chorus. Use it for sea creature that are like, yeah. Yeah. So that was that one. And then like, his stuff is Joe's stuff is um like pretty like southern rock, like, we're listening to Blackberry Smoke all the time and, like, stuff like that. So, his, his stuff,
it's naturally kind of like that anyway. So I go south. It's like, feels like a job song and then we just get really, yeah, Sky and, and it's the, the tones are cool. We got to really play with that stuff in the studio and make it sound awesome. Unique. Yeah, the drums. Jess Marro, he hits like a freight train on the drums and it's awesome when you record like loud drums in a big room.
Well, you, you all come from some, you know, North Florida, obviously, the Georgia, North Georgia area and the Philly area has such a diverse mix of country and hip hop and rock and I don't know that people always understand that from other areas and all areas respectfully, you know, have cool sounds but those in particular Philly and Georgia and Florida have one of the most unique mixes I think uh of which is, I feel that you guys are bringing together, you guys are about to
take off here and make it and make it into the mainstream uh vocabulary of those music fans. Um When you, when you guys sit here and, and have this vision of you've all played on big stages, like where do you like, what, whether it's, you know, uh Red Rocks or Jerry Garcia Ample Theater or The Beacon? Like, where's this like with your sound. Where's that? Like that, that vision that maybe you're having that acid trip dream of yours.
Where, where do you like? Where do you, where would you love to see this sound played at? Which stage is it? I mean, selfishly. Yeah. I don't even think it's the biggest, obviously red rocks will be unreal. Um, but for me selfishly, I'm a beach bum at heart. Like, yeah, I grew up in the Philly area but I, I grew up, even when I lived in Georgia till I was like four or five years old. I was in Long Beach Island, New Jersey every summer. And then when I was in college for the better part of eight years, I was there like almost all year long. That's part part of the reason why I didn't graduate college in four years. But
I'm a beach bum, man. I just want to be, take this thing if we can go coastal both sides of the coast. I don't care. I'm happy, like, like, you know, yeah. Do the festivals. I'd love to do, like the reggae rise up festivals and, and that kind of stuff. But if we can just get a little salt air, I'm, I'm, I'm pumped. Well, I don't trust anybody that graduated college in four years. So that's cool.
I agree with you entirely. I'm being from Florida, living in Nashville. I love Nashville. I love Tennessee, but wintertime never grew up with that. Tough to deal with and I get like, dude, I just need to see home. I just need to see the beach. So, yeah, with this, we're playing this music where it goes really nice by the ocean. So I like it. I like it. Joe. What about you?
Hey, no landlock shows. You know.
What's that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we are actually, uh we're doing a show in Nashville on June 14th. It is, I believe, uh we're playing Peach Jam at the basement outdoor show.
Um So that's gonna be our first show actually pretty much
anywhere. 3 to 53 to
five songs. Yeah. But, um, yeah, man.
So Rob, I got some questions for you and the reason is, um, is not that we're choosing you over uh Ryan and job here. But, um, unfortunately for you, uh, Nicky got to us and had a couple of things she wanted us to ask you about. So, uh the first one is,
uh Rob, I'm supposed to ask you about dropping your pick on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Uh And, uh, and also ask you about making your own, congratulate, uh Tory sign for your number one hit with uh Luke Combs. She got the best on me. So you made your own sign and tell me I'm dropping the pick, right? So I dropped the pick, which is something that happens in music all the time. Luke Combs invited a bunch of songwriters to play the Grand Ole Opry
with him, which is ridiculous in its own, right. But it's even more ridiculous. And no other country artist has done that in the history of the 90 years of the Grand Ole Opry. It's like, dude, how are you doing all these first leg? It's just low hanging fruit. It's like, bring your songwriter. Give him a little love. That's awesome. But he did it, it was awesome. I brought my parents and midway through the song which my guitar probably wasn't even plugged in, but I dropped that pick
and I looked left to channing and Luke and then, like, Channing gave me the look like he's gonna do it. And I bent a knee down and then my shirt was short. So I didn't want to like, have my butt cheeks hanging out the back. So I took a, I took a Tebow. I went down and Tebow on a knee and I grabbed it and then there's a still shot somewhere with the meme of Luke and channing both looking at me in complete disgust. And it says, is this guy kidding?
Um, so that's why I did that. Um, I was in between publishing deals when, uh, she got the best of me went number one and I was like, once you get a number one, it's, it's, you can level up as far as your publishing deal as far as money, as far as your calendar, as far as um your percentage of publishing, your cop publishing that you have. It's like, it's like an unwritten law that you like. That's how you're gonna get a good deal. And once you have one, you pretty much are gonna have a publishing deal as long as they're publishing deals for most people. Um
My dad owns a signing banner company in Philly called uh Metropolitan Flag and Banner. And I was like, yo dad make me a banner. It says, uh congratulations on Rob Snyder would like to congratulate himself on his number one and I hung it right outside of the Tin Roofs, uh, marketing thing, right on 17th Avenue. So everyone had to,
to drive by it and that was not an original idea. My friend will hogue who job and I have written with a bunch. Um He did that as a middle finger to Music Row. He hung it on his East Nashville, um sign. He, he, he, he did the same thing where he congratulated himself. So
it was a borrowed idea but will approved of it too. And it was, you know, it worked. I ended up getting a deal too. All right, last one from Nicky and thank you, Nicky for, uh supplying us with some Rob questions here and as you guys get bigger and bigger, the people are gonna go back and listen to this. You're gonna be so embarrassed because you're not gonna share this stuff later. I got you now. So she says to ask you about um snuggling um uh with your friends, especially uh cha chanting and also about sleep eating. So tell us about sleeping
and snuggling with. These are the last two from, these are the last two from take you off. My lovely wife is making my face turn red, right?
So I was fishing in uh with a couple of friends uh is is an hour and a half due south of New Orleans. And, uh, we were at this fish camp and we had to share a bed channing and I are rather large people. You know, we're like, if we were on a boat that said, hey, six people or £847 max, you know, we'd be like, well, there's just two of us and we're, we're right there, you know, for those who haven't seen Rob. Yeah. And he's a guy who looks like he just ate a Volkswagen and bench press two more before he,
you've got the tattoos. Like if this guy says don't play sissy music, you're not playing sissy music. So that's, well, well, well, anyway, long story short, we both sleep with cpaps on. So, you know, it's like we tell ourselves that like the chicks dig it, you know, my wife loves it, you know. And, er, so we look like Darth
later and I was having a dream and in the dream, I was having a dream about my wife while I was like scratching his back, I guess. And I wake up to chanting, he, he has a huge neck. So I wake up to chanting and he, he quick leans over and he's like, and you know, I hear,
you know, there's air flying and I'm horrified and he made light of it. The next day I woke up and he was like, he takes this thing off. He's like, oh man. And he's like, hey, bro, what's up with that back massage? You know, we're right back to it. I've fallen asleep. Uh I'm a sleep eater. I don't eat enough during the day. And then if I have a big night or like, if I work out too hard or whatever, I just wake up and I get the munchies and around like one between one and three is a danger zone. But I've done that and then I've, I've fallen asleep, I've woken up, fallen asleep in my bed and woken up in the guest room with
Ryan, like fully clothed. So I like it. If you sleep over in my house, you might get a snuggle. Well, for those, for those who are giving Rob a hard time, keep in mind right now, beside from the number one song he's written with Luke Cols. Uh He's got a song out now with uh Ashly Krafts. It's your song, Rob. Uh You got another one that you've done with uh the Davison Brothers. Um So you've got big stuff going on as well. The three of you do before I let you go, we got about three or four minutes with you. You guys are about to hit it big, bigger. Um You're gonna be touring
together, you're gonna be on the road. So I want to do some rapid fire questions with you to see how much you know about. Maybe we'll do a follow up one day and retest you. So let's see what you know about each other now or, or what you really know about each other. So it's kind of a rapid fire real quick between the three of you. So uh as we do this, get into the microphone, let, let the listeners know which one of Sea Creature we got Sea Creature on the Florida Keys Weekly podcast right here. A lot of fun. And uh we'll do a rapid fire with you real quick as you guys get ready to launch into the atmosphere. Uh First of all,
if no cheating here, if I ask each of you and let the other two answer real quick. Each of you. What's your biggest secret or guilty pleasure of an artist or band that you might be listening to? Because I know you got this eclectic sounds and cool sublime type stuff and even probably deeper that you listen to. But who's like the secret, guilty pleasure, whether it's like Britney Spears or Bieber or Bon Jovi, like who, who's listening to? What by themselves when no one else is looking. So, go Ryan, what do you think about Rob and Job? Who are they listening to Celine Dion? And uh I'm just kidding.
Um
Joe, you got like some, some of that old R and B like peaches and cream, bro. He's on, he's on that. I know it. And Rob uh God, I could see, I could see Rob like totally banging a whole of him down or nickel back.
He he he
it's awesome. Alright. It's your turn, Rob. Hit him, hit him back. Who's Ryan and job listening to you and you back there in the bathroom with the headphones on. It's so this is the hard, this is a very hard question for me to to just to say it off the top of my head like I would say,
what is the the guilty pleasure?
Oh man,
he's a butt rock guy. So I'm gonna say like uh what is that Nickelback? Oh boy. All right. I like it.
I hit you right in between. What about, what about and for job? I'm gonna say uh
some of those Texas guys that he thinks are really awesome but they're not that good like one of those I don't know.
All right, Joe Job, you're up. It will get easier like one answer but let's let's hear jobs.
I know that it's Taylor Swift for sure. 100% Taylor Swift for for. Yeah. And then, uh, Robbie's, um,
oh, he's gonna say creed again.
Yeah, I'm going with creed.
I did listen to it when I was a junior in high school. I mean, I listen to it.
You look like we're about the same age here. Uh, maybe a little older than you. But, uh, if you didn't listen to Creed, you just weren't, you're not, you're not telling the truth. Um. Right. Rapid fire. I just want to hear you say it out loud. Kind of get in close to the microphone. Let's see which one you say first, the three of you uh you're, you're touring together. Who has the worst hygiene between the three of you? He said, man, I mean, you know, that's how I like uh who's the worst tipper, worst tipper between the three of you?
All right. I was in the restaurant business. Yeah, I was in the restaurant business too or a couple more. Uh who you three of you have a different look to you. This is pretty cool. Who gets the most looks or nods from the lady. I know you all have women married. So now that you act on this but who's the pretty boy who gets the big boys, man? Not me, not me.
He just looks, man. He does. He has gray hair. All right. So um last two here uh I feel like just by, we just talked about uh Rob here. So I feel if a book tells the story with the cover. But who's the guy who doesn't back down from anybody in a fight? Who's the tough guy in the band?
I mean, look at these guys,
I'm, I'm pretty mean, they have to, they have to calm me down because, you know, dudes that are not quite as big, we can like, actually fight and like, you know, if you're that big and you hit somebody. Yeah, you might kill them. So it's different.
Yeah. Hey, guys, have you guys gentle for a reason, man, no doubt. All right. Uh Last one or two here. Uh As we get to know Sea Creature, they're getting to know each other. They're all good buddies. Who makes the best food. Who's the cook? Who's gonna make that food on the, all, all of us? But Rob is really, really good. OK. All of us really cook. Like, if you, if, if we started a restaurant, it would be a great restaurant and I see him, I see him Martin,
the old franchise when y'all started out so cool and independent, then you're going mainstream and you're at the restaurants. Um And that's my, of course, Rob's doing those nightly sleep eating. So, uh he's got to be cooking it up. I'm working on it. So, what I'm doing is I'm doing the two protein shakes during the day that backfires every single time. I'm like, that was my breakfast that I brought in here. Then I'll have lunch. It does not work and then they're like, hey, um, you're a giant and you, that's why you just ate two pizzas at two in the morning.
Um, I'm learning slowly. What is, so, Rob, what is, what are their favorite movies? What movie are they watching?
Oh, man. I don't know, because we haven't, like, really toured at all. Um, I just, I got to show them so many movies. I know that. What would you show them? What would you have them watch? I make them watch North Shore. Yeah. 100%. Um, you know, big Wednesday, all the surfing movies from point break up, you know, I would go, I would go all in on those. He's not coming back. Right. So, uh,
all right, that's a better. So let's, let's, let's follow that lead Ryan. What movies would you make these two watch? What's the movies when you guys were touring? I mean,
I don't know. What do we watch last night? Bad Boys. Two Sick. Like I'd watch that.
Uh, anything. Yeah, I like, I like early two thousands movies. Like a ton. I just ran into Dante when I was down here from Grandma's Boy and all the Adam Sandler movies. Love those movies. Um, I feel like everyone's gonna run. You go to the Circle K, you're running into Dante, by the way, everyone is wild
boy. That's what I'm saying. We're watching Grandma's boy because we met Dante the other night. So yeah,
that's uh that's really cool. Alright guys. Hey, y'all been greatly I know you have a lot going on this week and during this busy week in Key West we have Sea Creature. Um gentlemen, one of you to take the lead on this let people know right now if they want to look you up, find you. I know you mean just Google sea creature? See, but where would you like for them to go from social media to just checking you out? Yeah, just go to Sea Creature music on Instagram or on Facebook uh Tik Tok because that's what the kids are doing these days. And then also Spotify DZ are
Apple Music, every streaming platform out there, youtube too. I mean, if you just don't want to download it, just go check out. We put out a couple of full uh videos too, so check it out. I, I am so excited to say I had you on this show. Uh We've had some big names on here before but to say that I had you guys on early. Uh I'm pumped about it and I can't be more sincere. This isn't one of those. I got to say something nice. I had got the sound is freaking awesome. The songs are awesome. It gets me pumped up. Uh You talk about people dancing to your music. I don't know how anyone is going to turn this down no matter what,
what you like. So check out sea creature. I want to thank David Tebow for making this happen. Uh You'll be listening to this after this week is over. But island dogs down in Key West, one of the meccas of music. A hidden gem used to be a hidden gem. Now it's so everyone knows it, gym, but live music in there all the time. It's one of the local places to go check people out. And uh David, thanks for making this happen as well for our listeners. Check out Sea Creature, come back here next week and I as always, really appreciate, appreciate you guys listening to the Florida Keys Weekly podcast. We'll see you next time.
