6-29-26 TIM MONTANA on The ROCK 108 Morning Show

It's a Rock 108 morning show.

This gentleman has made his way to Eastern Iowa at least once.

It was for a birthday show a couple of years back with Bush and Jerry Cantrell and Candlebox.

And he played the McGrath amphitheater was on the stage and my friends, he's back with a brand new song called Break Me Down.

Megan is way up the charts.

Tim Montana, welcome aboard.

Hey, thanks for having

me, Brian.

Appreciate it.

A couple of weeks back.

You just sent out a thank you to Rock Radio for the success of Break Me Down, which I saw that and I was like, that's awesome.

So that's why I wanted to reach out to you.

What has this meant for the rise of this particular track for you?

Oh man, radio has been huge.

You guys have been in this thing and it took me a long time to get in the game.

So I appreciate, you know, getting, getting the airplay, right?

I didn't get on there sorry for that but I didn't get on the radio till I was 39 years old and it was a lifelong dream to get played on rock radio so I'm very appreciative and fortunate to have you guys in my corner so

some people may not realize that this wasn't an overnight deal you got your first guitar what six something like that

yeah six years old single-wide trailer Montana off-grid

Had posters of grunge bands and rock bands and and I had this before we put out a track with Billy Gibbons and slash We covered brown sugar and that came out a couple weeks ago before that happened I my mom still lives in that single wide and she has electricity now But solar power but I went there and set in that bedroom and the only original poster is a Kurt Cobain poster but it was kind of emotional for me because with slash and Cantrell on this album that means every person

associated with every band on those posters has now worked with me musically.

So it's pretty heavy, right?

I just grew up poor without a shot.

And I was like, whoa, you know, because I got to, I got to jam with Dave Grohl and go on the jet with the Foo Fighters.

And I checked the Nirvana box and then Allison Chains, they checked the guns and roses and ZZ Top.

And so it was pretty heavy, right?

Because that was like an impossible feat when I was 10 years old.

And then at 41, I sat there in that bed and got a little emotional and was like, all right, kid, you did it.

So what advice would you today give yourself that kid sitting in that bedroom way back then?

What advice would you give to get to where you're at?

Man, I just tell him it's all right, you know, because I survived a lot of adversity and rough things in my childhood that I thought life itself would be impossible for me.

And I grabbed a guitar and put my head down and charged into Hollywood, California.

I didn't know a soul down there.

I was like, I'm doing this.

I'm doing this.

Even my wrestling coach was a terrible athlete.

I was the worst wrestler on the best team in the state.

He's like, man, I remember you on the bus.

He's like, these seniors would twist you up, kick your butt.

You'd just say, I'm going to be a rock star someday.

You'll see it.

They'd be like, whatever, loser.

And he's like, I got to give it to you, dude.

You did not quit.

So you mentioned a little bit of amateur wrestling background, but I got to know because you mentioned the bedroom.

What were some of the first songs you learned on your guitars?

I think House the Rising Sun was one of the first.

I drove my mom nuts because I'd learned my favorite parts of the songs and nothing more.

And she'd be like, Timmy, will you please learn a whole song?

And I was like, 80 D boys, like there is a house.

Oh, Susie Cube.

I just do these medleys at like seven years old.

LaGrange for sure.

And everything changed when I saw the movie The Blues Brothers.

I was like, I wanted to be Steve Cropper.

By God, if I didn't go find him and write with him, record with him, R.I.P.

Steve, the soul man.

And then the Nirvana at Grunge Era started.

That came second, right?

And then I was just, if it wasn't from Seattle, Washington, I was probably 12 or 13.

And then I just started learning.

I learned every Nirvana song and it went to Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and all that stuff.

So there's different eras that started with Classic Rock.

And then it went to grunge music.

What was grunge like for you as a Montana kid?

I was well after Kurt Cobain had already gone.

So that grunge era had come.

I caught it, you know, on the tail end, you know, and I think it had already peaked, but I just discovered it in something.

It just spoke to me, man, like the lyrics.

I don't know.

A lot of ways that that genre saved my life because I was a troubled youth in an abusive home and something about the, I don't know.

Just the lyrics that Kurt would sing and this all that stuff just connected with the kid in the trailer But also I'm you know, I'm we border Idaho and Washington so I kind of felt like I was in the Northwest I mean the Northwest not the Pacific Northwest But I just really connected with that and then I'd go out and do cowboy work run barbed wire wearing car hearts

the logging boots and a Nirvana shirt.

And these ranchers were like, what the hell wrong with that?

What's he listening to?

I'd be out there just blasting grunge, running paraphrase stretchers and brandy cattle.

That's very confused.

Tim Montana on the rock.

What a white morning show.

Break me down is currently in rotation doing very well with us.

Entire state of Tim Montana, July the 31st, the new album we talked about the who's who.

I have to imagine your Rolodex or your contact list in your phone has just got to be completely ridiculous compared to some of us.

Yeah, man.

I've got some some cool buddies, um, fortunate to call friends.

And again, I've got most of the numbers from most people on the posters, single wide.

So yeah, man, it's pretty awesome.

I have a group text of Billy Gibbons and slash that is pretty, that one's pretty wild cause.

Every now and again, I'll light that one up.

But I remember I don't know slash like super, super well.

I know Billy super well.

But I saw the thing where someone put a slash his hat and like a cigarette on a tire.

And it's like, did I just slash this tire?

And I was like, should I send it to him?

Oh, God.

And then I was like, oh, I just sent it.

Right.

And he responded.

Yeah, I've seen that going around, man.

That's pretty funny.

I was so nervous.

And he did that.

I'm like, do I know him well enough to send him slash a slash meme?

It worked out.

That's fantastic.

Tim Montana with us.

I'd like to do some animal word association if you don't mind with some of your tracks.

Montana animal word association.

So I'll name the track.

You give me the animal and tell me why you selected that particular animal.

Devil you know.

Porcupine.

The porcupine and why.

because they have trashed so many of my dogs and that is the devil I know trying to pull plier get pliers and pull quills out of 140 pound bloodhounds face who is horrible because now you're dealing with that dog is mad and those quills are barbed and they just got I've got a golden retriever named rooster Allison chains and he just he just got into his first porcupine savage

Savage.

Good one.

Ah.

What is like savage?

I want to say grizzly bear, but I need I'm going to say bald eagle, dude.

They are savage.

But because they in my yard, I just watch them destroy other birds all the time.

Like another bird will come through.

And I'm always on conference calls.

My yard is wild.

There's like, there's herrings.

There's coyotes, herds of elk, moose.

Now I haven't seen a bear in my yard.

But in this yard, I've seen a bear ripping through.

So yeah, I think the bald eagle is pretty savage because they just do what they want.

Break me down.

Break me down.

Probably the coyotes because if it's, uh, if it's dead and on the ground, it's getting broken down.

The final one, brown sugar.

Got to go with the bear there.

I saw this bear the other day and he looked like brown sugar.

He didn't even care.

Some of these bears are just here, just like, messing me, dude.

I'm the king of the jungle up here, brother.

So what's the album cycle looking like for the entire state of Tim Montana going out on tour?

Who are you playing with?

I'm out with Alter Bridge and Big Rec through the fall.

I've got dates coming up with just got out into Daughtry, July 9.

Met him on the Creed cruise.

Super nice guy.

He came up and I was like, whoa, that's Daughtry.

I've never met him, never been around him.

And he's like,

Hey man, are you Tim?

And I was like, no way.

Super cool guy.

Um, then I'm out creed and bush for one off and I'm in Sturges with Jackal.

Um, man, just living the dream out here.

Super excited.

You play in the full throttle then?

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Never done that.

Have you?

No, I've done it a couple of times now.

Jesse's become a good buddy.

And I was, you know, I'm like, man, I want to play with Rob Zombie.

He's like, you're not playing Sturges unless you were Jackal.

I'm like, yes, sir captain.

Jackal is taking me under their wing.

They're like, you're you're with Jackal.

So who can handle

it?

Who can handle a chance saw better?

Is it you or is it Jesse James Dupree?

Man, I'm pretty good with the saw.

But he's he's really good with the song.

He doesn't on stage.

But where I excel is I think I've split more firework than most humans have seen.

And the other day, a buddy pulled a split and all out.

And he's like started splitting one of my bro.

You want to see some, I'll have people line logs up because at a very young age, I'd split 10 chords a year for almost two decades.

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That's it.

Thank you guys for supporting.

Thanks for spending the record.

And come see us in Montana at the world famous Wise River Club.