Wentzel Brothers Live @ the Boondox 9-26-20 

  We played at the Boondox on the 26th of September and it was a fun time!

The lineup for the show started with the Next Door Boys and ended with us playing from 9pm - 12am.  

The Boondox is a venue that is close to where we live and it has a huge draw for attention in our area. It’s a really cool venue that you have to check out if you ever get the chance to! 

You can always expect an awesome show and great food when you come here! 

 Check out No Better Place live! 

We played our set here and had a ton of fun! You can check out a live performance of No Better Place right here to see a view of what it was like!  

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We have links to social media here if you want to support us and our music.  

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Thank you for taking the time to read this and please leave a comment down below if you have any questions or concerns!

What to Expect from The Wentzel Brothers Band

We played at Kimbros Pickin Parlor on 10-10-2020 and we had a real blast! We played our set and got a good crowd reaction to it(thank you for being awesome fans!). The night set started at 7:00pm and ended around 9:00, and the food and music was great! We always try to perform the best show we can, wherever we play so Don't hesitate to come on out! 

The Lineup for the night

We took the stage first and November Blue took the stage after around 9:30. The November Blue Band rocks by the way and you really need to check them out. Ill write a blog next week on them because we liked them so much that we already scheduled another gig with them. 

What Was I Thinking 10-10-2020

We recorded a little bit our from our show. Take a Look at What Was I Thinking Live at Kimbros 10-10-2020 here:

When is our next Show?

We will be playing next at The Boondox on 10-17-2020(1 day before my birthday!) at 9 to 11pm and November Blue will be playing with us!

Come on out to watch us if you haven't yet! And leave a comment down below if you enjoy this content and want to see more of it!

Jacob Newcomb,

Bassist of The Wentzel Brothers Band 

The Next Door Boys

We had a chance to play with this band called The Next Door Boys at one of our favorite locations to play at, The Boondox on September 24 2020.

They are a fun group and we have actually known them for awhile, but to you who are wondering, who they are, read a little further down.

Who are the Next Door Boys?

The Next Door Boys are made up of six members who are all under 18.  Matthew Skoda plays the drums, Kai Foster plays bass, Miles Morrow plays guitar, Joe Larson  plays keyboard and vocals, Ethan Kress is lead vocals and Kyle Harkins plays guitar. These kids are AMAZING! The keyboardist is 12 years old and he is one of the most solid pianists I've heard. Miles is only 13 and he is a great lead guitarist. Their drummer is pretty epic too, being trained by the drummer from Three Days Grace Neil Sanderson. Kyle Harkins and Ethan also work very well together producing a cool coordination to create a dynamic performance for the audience. And let's not forget, being a bassist myself, Kai is definitely rocking the Fender Jazz bass, he even gets a couple solos, so fellow bassists gotta watch out for that! 

Next Door Boys Live at the Boondox

Check out a preview of the Next Door Boys @ The Boondox on 09/24/20 here:

Follow These Guys!

The Next Door Boys are really young and talented, so go out and support them. They will become the next big thing for sure with time. They sell merch and will play at your venues to bring you some more people. 

Find their stuff for sale here:nextdoorboysrock.com

Thank you for reading this and I hope you liked it, please leave a comment down below if you did! 

Jacob Newcomb,

Bassist for The Wentzel Brothers Band

     Throughout my entire life I’ve been regularly confronted with the same situation. After a display of aptitude or skill in a certain area it seems to be common-place for people to respond with ”you are so talented,” or something to that effect . My immediate response is usually a simple thank you and a smile. Although I often wonder if people realize exactly what they are implying with that phrase. Merriam Webster defines talent as follows: natural aptitude or skill. This is perhaps a little more specific than many people know.

     The term “talent” only accounts for NATURAL aptitude or skill, not any skill that has been gained through education ,practice, or experience. In my particular case the latter three are just as much contributors to my skill level as talent especially when it comes to music. I am not definitely not saying that talent doesn’t exist or that the good lord hasn’t blessed me with it, however I have always had to work for it. That being said the main point that I want to get across  is that talent is only a fraction of what goes into being a great musician and performer, furthermore I was not born with an overwhelming amount talent when compared to many other people. The only thing that separates me from the average person is determination,willingness to learn and perhaps opportunity.

     The only way to get from OK or good to great is with an unbelievable amount of hard work. There are exceptions to almost any rule but in this case there are very few. I came to this conclusion after studying many of the great performers and bands that inspired me in my youth. Bands such as Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, and Grand Funk Railroad all have one thing in common, a strong work ethic and musical integrity. This has become somewhat of a lost value system and does not have enough respect within modern music industry or society as a whole.

     This is the very set of values that The Wentzel Brother Band has been built upon along with the idea that there are no shortcuts to the top. There is reason that most bands don't make it and it isn't luck. Talent alone isn’t enough to get you to the top either. One of the most important things for a successful band or business of any kind is a functional and efficient team. One in which there is a clear leader and set of rules that each member follows to the dot.

     This is one of The Wentzel Bros. biggest and most apparent strengths. Each member of the band knows his job and follows it well to create a well functioning system. Not to mention the personal sacrifice that each band member has made for the betterment of the band and for each other, has made each one of them a valuable asset for the long run.

     It’s important for me to add that I do not consider myself a “great” musician, maybe you can make an argument for “good” but just take my opinion for what it is, an opinion.         

Written By Ivan Wentzel...

Listen to Acoustic Performance by The Wentzel Brothers Band on WKOM Radio 101.7 Fm

“69 Chevelle” 

“69 Chevelle” is a song that is on the album In The Shadow of The Mountain, which was created by The Wentzel Brothers Band, and it talks about having the car of your dreams. Every member of the band thought that it was one of the coolest cars they could think of. The band knew they it could be some of the best music in Nashville. So the jam began. 

Lyrics 

I've been waiting for the last two weeks just to get paid 

Get that fifty dollar bill in my pocket and I'll have it made 

Been bone dry sense I picked up my new Chevelle 

She runs like a top and drives like a bat out of hell 

Well I ain't got the money to pay the bills ‘cause I spend it on my new wheels 

But the chicks don't dig it when you get your thrills from pickup lines and dirty deals 

Boss man's chomping at the bit just to chew me out 

But he's the man who signs the check I can't live without 

So everyday I end up punching out right around five 

Just to go find me a little queen to take for a ride 

Well I ain't got the money to pay the bills ‘cause I spent it all on my new wheels 

But the chicks don't dig it when you get your thrills from pick-up lines and dirty deals 

I've been waiting for the last two weeks just to get paid 

‘cause I'm dead broke, got nobody else to blame 

I ain't got the money to pay the bills ‘cause I spent it all on my new wheels 

The chicks don't dig it when you get your thrills from pick-up lines and dirty deals 

Production 

This song is a result of a jam session. It went on for a while before Ivan called a stop to the session and grabbed a piece of paper. About 15 minutes passed and the lyrics were complete. Naturally the band went to work on arranging the song. Keeping in mind their musical influences like ZZ Top, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath, and the best music in Nashville, Issac Wentzel added killer lead guitar work. Jacob Newcomb preceded to lay down a groovy bass line. Ivan Wentzel added some driving drums and the song began to come to life.        

The lyrics of the song focus on a man that spends all his money on his car. He's got the coolest ride in town but lives paycheck to paycheck and struggles to afford basic necessities.  He's more interested in building his persona as a cool stud opposed to settling down and going with the flow. 

This song was recorded at Sound Revival Records during the Shadow of the Mountain session. It was one of 10 other great songs tracked that day. It has become some of the best music in Nashville. This is some of the best live concert music! It rightfully earns its spot as 1st on the album. 

Concluding Statements 

In conclusion, “69 Chevelle” is an epic southern rock tune with an infectious driving rhythm and wailing lead guitar. Definitely some of the best concert music there is. This song is something any rock fan south of the Mason-Dixon line can get behind, or anyone into muscle cars.

CD LAUNCH at CITIES COLUMBIA with

The Wentzel Brothers Band:

"In The Shadow Of The Mountain"!

Come over tonight March 3, 2018 for a great afternoon and evening full of fabulous music, great food and drinks at CITIES! Columbia, TN for the release of the new CD "In The Shadow Of The Mountain" by The Wentzel Brothers Band! With: Damien Boggs, Liv Noelle, Rossi!, Uncle Dave, Recorded by Sound Revival Records, Broadcast (later) by WKOM Radio 101.7 FM and of course The Wentzel Brothers Band! No fees! Just enjoy! Starting at 6 pm ~ 10 pm ~ Doors will be open at 5.30 pm Food will be ready and served starting at 6.30 pm

Address: CITIES! at Columbia Tennessee. 105 E 6th St, Columbia, TN 38401

Getting the Final Product 

Finishing Tracking 

The Wentzel Brothers Band had got 6 of their songs done and wanted to get the rest of them knocked out the next weekend. The band tracked in order: “Bullfrog”, “No Time”, “No Turning Back” and “All The Wrong Places”. The latter two were saved to be the last ones because Ivan had ideas of where to add vocals to them to make it a more fuller sound. “Bullfrog” followed up “Broken Trust” because Jacob wanted to play the ending jam on “Broken Trust” on upright bass, as he played “Bullfrog” on standup bass as well.   “In The Shadow of The Mountain” was recorded free at the studio before they started tracking as a package deal. This song ended up needing to be redone though because the earlier mix got lost. They finished up all the tracks and hopped in a couple times a week to punch - in parts that needed fixing, but after that, the mixing process started. 

The Music 

The next couple of months that followed the recording session, were spent on mixing to get the redneck rock songs sounding better than ever. Almost every week from that point on, one day was spent going to the studio to tell them what to fix, until it got to a spot that Ivan was ok with, but the music is not all that goes into making the album. (Listen to "In The Shadow Of The Mountain Here"

The Art 

The Wentzel Brothers Band had created an album with redneck rock songs before, but were novices in the process of making albums. They pick up on more ways to improve their next album, from production to telling mixers how to get the sound they want, to even getting the art made for the cd. The cd art for this album took awhile to make because the band was going through different artists who were about to create the cd art. The band had went with an artist they were not familiar with and he did not get the job done. Rushing in getting everything ready on time; They decided to go with was proven good! The Wentzel Brothers Band contacted the artist that also had taken care for the cd art of the first album "Flatcreek Road" which worked out perfectly. From there on the entire process went smooth and the finalizing of the second cd ended in the late stages of production, printing and specially rehearsing the songs. Within a couple of weeks The Wentzel Brothers Band was ready for the launch and maybe on their way to becoming rock legends?!!

Radio Time 

Marty V from WKOM Radio 101.7 FM, called up the Wentzel’s home to schedule a day to come and meet with them and met all of them for the first time, and thought “These guys are serious about this, maybe I could turn them into rock legends, if they let me”, which Ivan graciously accepted the invite. The deal was to give the Wentzel Brothers Band some air time and commercials for the CD Launch and website on the radio, but he did not want anything in return, except a table and a couple of benches built for the radio. Ivan said “I’ll sleep on it first, but it's looking like it'll be yes!” 

The Current Situation

In January, 2018, the masters for the album finally got finished just the way Ivan wanted. It seemed like everything in the album making process was moving along smoothly with the art, guaranteed air time and hard advertising on the radio and all the redneck rock songs being complete, but the only thing that is left is getting everything rolling and see exactly where this path is going to take this band. With as hard working of a band as The Wentzel Brothers Band, they are bound to hit hard and make countless classics that people will enjoy for decades, which is their all-time goal. Radio Shows with Duck FM, KIX 96, WKOM Radio 101.7 FM and others are scheduled, (positive) Reviews of the CD are coming in from Europe, Australia and North America, gigs are line up: The Wentzel Brothers Band is ready for another step in the future!

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In The Studio 

       The studio that The Wentzel Brothers band went with to record and mix their second album, In The Shadow of The Mountain, was Sound Revival Studio, and this studio offered to go ahead and start tracking immediately, so then one of the best music bands went straight to recording in that late October of 2017. 

      The first song that the band hit in the studio was “We Ain’t Through” and it only took about 2 hours, with breaks, to complete. Ivan and jacob hopped in on the background vocals during the chorus and Joshua added background vocals to the verse, giving those spots some more “flavor” to the person hearing it. The group then decided to hit the song “69 Chevelle”, which went easy because they had already taken that song to the studio before, so they had an idea of what they wanted it to sound like. This song took 3 tries with the rhythm section and a couple of tries for the melody and lead. The only changes made to this song, in studio, were a couple of different drum fills and some different vocal changes to add diversity to the lyrics. 

         After a lunch break and some more time spent away for family reasons, they tracked one of the best southern songs that the engineers have ever heard which was “Helltrain”. The changes they did to this song were mainly in the bassline, where Jacob added a rhythm that progressively adds to the energy build-up in the song, and the guitar parts to the drop off in the song. They ended this night with those songs done and got there the next morning to get back to work. 

The Next Day 

     The Band got to the studio early to get started on the next songs for their album, and went to work proving themselves as one of the best music bands of their generation. The band started the day off with “Do It Again”, another one of their best southern songs and ran through it around 5 times to get it close to what they wanted. They ended up going back to re-track the song the next weekend because Jacob did not like the tempo problems in the song. Josh and Ivan added background vocals in the chorus while Issac spent a good while on the lead guitar parts throughout the following weeks. “Chuck Terry” followed that up, being another one of their best southern rock songs, and got completed within the hour with only the drum change to the end being the thing added to the song. Jacob commented on this song saying “The bass you hear in this song was the first run that we tried and it was just the way that I wanted it!”. 

        The next song that finished off that day was “Broken Trust” and Ivan already had the intention to put backing vocals into this since the day it was created and knew just what to put in for them with Issac starting off the song in a low voice, to himself in the mid and Josh as the higher voice. This format changed in the chorus though, because of Issac singing the main vocals, Ivan’s  and Issac’s harmonies switched to keep attention pulled on Issac’s part.

Song-Writing Process 

The Wentzel Brothers Band worked on “Broken Trust” for a short amount of time, which was around two weeks in the making and then moved onto the next song which they called “Corkscrew”. This song was a early version of the song “No Turning Back”, which sounded completely different from today's version. They could not quite get the sound right so Ivan went to create some great new music, with a blues rock revival sound which was titled “Chuck Terry”.  Issac came up with a starting riff and Ivan put it into movement making Issac sing it over and over until they got the finished riff and melody/lyrics for the song. 

They finished up the melody and brought it to the band to put the rhythm down and finish the song. The band at this point kept getting asked to play “Free Bird” so they wanted to create great new music and ended up being an early version of “Wrong Places” which sounded like a slow acoustic Guns and Roses song at the start and turned into an electric jam solo at the end. The sound changed to what is heard now after Ivan and Issac took it to the band and they put their ideas into it.   

A Good Mix of Music

The band had a good mix of blues rock revival songs, but they were itching to write a fast-paced high energy song, and started creating “Hell Train”. This song from start to finish was completely done in two practices and incorporated every part in new jammin ways that was not before used. The band kept working on their “Corkscrew” song during this time, and gigged with some bands like The River Tramps, and one of their favorite bluegrass bands, The Howlin Brothers, and got an idea for their next song which was the secret track on their album called “Bullfrog”. This is the first all acoustic song on the album and displays the musician skills and talent each of them possess.   

It was around this time when the band revisited their “Corkscrew” song, and turned it into “No Turning Back”, but not a finished version of it. This song still did not feel like the great new music they were looking for but it got finishing touches put on it in the studio just like every other song in the album.  The last two songs, “We Ain’t Through” and “69 Chevelle”, got worked on at the same time and got mostly completed before they got into the studio to add stuff to their songs. 

Finding the Right Studio 

The process of finding the right studio to record the album took longer than actually recording the music. The band had all 11 of the songs to put on the album, but needed to get into a studio to get it made, and lucky for them, they actually had a LOT of competition between studios. At one point, the band had three studios to choose from within Tennessee that were all lowering their price and trying to offer more for less; it was a hard choice to pick which one they would go to. In the end, they chose Sound Revival Studios, in Columbia, Tennessee to record their music based on a couple of reasons that the others could not offer.