Awesome interview SRJ With Nik/Kin from TFN. For those of you who read comments, Nik is my vocal coach. And in this interview, what you see is what you get. Not only is he great teacher and mentor, but he is the "real" thing. So supportive, so encouraging, a great listener and communicator. He tailors his session to YOU, the individual on YOUR journey. Yes, I happen to be a huge TFN fan, but dealing with Nik is like talking to an old mate with a wealth of Knowledge and understanding, not only about the craft of singing, but an understanding of the human psyche when it comes to the voice as an instrument. Great choice of artist to highlight Sterling. Sub. 🤘
Can second this. I bumped into him at my local train station once as he lives near me and we chatted while waiting for a train. Super friendly, down-to-earth and loved just talking music.
@@scottclare7502 I live about ten minutes away myself. After five zoom sessions with him, I feel like I've known him for years. Oh, bonus, my voice and confidence has improved ten fold! 🤘
@@Brosafex-VoiceOvers nice one! They're such good musicians I'm sure they have lots to teach and wisdom to impart. I know Ro does guitar lessons too. It's funny reading comments here from people though saying they never got to see TFN live. I've seen Stevic at Aldi! 🤣🤣
Great interview. Being an Aussie, I absolutely enjoy TFNs music. The vocals have always been an inspiration. Plus the shuriken guitars changing tuning mid song is just amazing. Thanks :)
FNM was my favorite band in my teens. I discovered TFN in my middle 30's, and fell in love with them immediately. It would have been amazing to see hem do a tour together!
A truly beautiful & in-depth interview. i was able to relate on so many levels as a person who has experienced similar trials & tribulations growing up as an aspiring musician and artist. Thank you gentlemen.
…this is a fantastic interview. This is the first I’ve seen of your channel, and I’ll definitely be back for more! Very much a TFN fan. I can thank RUclips for dropping them into the line for me, and I loved them instantly. So grateful for the incredible music they’ve shared with us 🥰
Met Kin at a show in Little Rock Arkansas. He was just standing by the sound booth checking out the other bands. Seemed like the real thing, gracious and cool to talk to for those few minutes. Oh and the show was killer.
Nik seems to be a great introspective guy. Wish him the best. Yes i am sad the band is no longer but TFN is and will always be on my playlist. Great interview Mr.Jackson. The acoustic album is a wonderful end to a epic adventure that was TwelveFootNinja
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos. I'm truly blown away with this interview. When I saw the the thumbnail I was like "OH COOL I love KIN I'll watch this." But then seeing how deep y'all went completely shocked me. So basically what I'm getting at is this has to be the best interviews I've seen by far. You really don't see this level of depth in interviews today. Definitely getting a sub! Keep this up bud!
This was a superb interview. Nik is such an underrated vocalist. Incredible tone and phrasing. Not to make this about myself, but my band and I (The Parallax Method) supported Twelve Foot Ninja at Rock City in Nottingham UK a few years back. Nik was so kind and cool to be around. Great to hear more about his life and mindset. Thanks again. 🙏
Absolutely great interview. It brought me back to my own school days, and being an Artist, and getting the "effeminate" tag. Which was terrible during Junior High and High School. And it just strikes me that it's crazy that being "creative" or "artistic" gets assigned a gender. It brings up the very question "What is Art. What is that creative process." Well my belief is, is that it is a very spiritual process. I'm not sure if it's that for Taylor Swift, but I know for me, it's not "ME" doing it. It comes through me. Whether that makes me appear to have more or less testosterone than other men I don't know. But I know it makes me more "sensitive" than most? But do I know that? Because men are taught from an early age DON'T CRY. DON'T SHOW ANYONE YOU'RE WEAK. So it's drilled into us to not show any emotion whatsoever to anyone, because it's dog eat dog out there. And then we learn that some women like men who are .... or who are ....... all these criteria have to be ticked, before you qualify as a Man. It's just looney. And when you're a teenager, and you have no clue who you are yet, this can be, as Nik put it. "Harrowing." I remember one of my first days of Junior High, where one of the 9th graders pointed out to EVERYONE that was outside, what kind of jeans I was wearing, and laughing. Everyone laughed. I was horrified. And I think of people out there who shrink back into themselves after this kind of embarrassment amongst your peers, who only the year before thought you were cool. Or never did, and you've always had this treatment in school from others. You see people who remain virgins all their lives. People who never made any other friends. I told my Mum that evening that we were going out to get me some new jeans, because no one was ever going to make fun of me again for this. Cuz I already had enough problems being one of only 3 mixed race people in my entire town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this was America, not England where it was a bit more accepted!
I would also like to add that I wish Nik all the best in his future endeavours. If I could have, I would have said to Stevic that you can't do this without Nik. It's not going to work. But that's what they said about Genesis when Peter Gabriel left. And I think it was truly only accepted because Phil Collins was already in the band, and was already very much a vocal presence in it. It wasn't a hard switch, and they both sound similar in ways. Kind of like when Greg Lake briefly replaced John Wetton in Asia. But Wetton had kinda replaced him in King Crimson. And they sounded a little similar. Stevic would have to find someone who sounded enough like Nik to get away with that, and I'm sorry, but after listening to this interview, he's one of a kind. All that experience has made him sing the way he does. He is so identifiable by that voice, and especially associated with a band that jumps genres in seconds. And he makes all those genres work, he's the bridge. He makes Stevic's visions work. And that's the problem sometimes when someone in a band assumes control. Yes, there has to be a leader. Everyone but Paul McCartney knows John Lennon was the leader of The Beatles. It's just the way it is. And some become leaders just because a lot of the song ideas come from them. And if those songs become success, the other members of the band that don't contribute as much become seen as "employees". (see McCartney again). And it's not that they don't have anything to contribute (see George Harrison). It's that they have to fight to get it considered "band worthy", it's a battle. (see Steve Hackett in Genesis after Gabriel left). And they're forced to go solo in a band situation, where they want to stay in the band, because they've dedicated themselves to it. And the relationships they have in that band. The experiences shared. But they're miserable being in it. So I do wish Nik the best. I honestly was sad he left, because I knew it was over, just when it was starting to get really good!!!! But I could feel with "Vengeance" that some of the heart had gone. And things got ever so much stranger and hard to connect to. Still funny, but very out there. Some of the "fun" had gone. Because the LYRICS of the songs is where are all the seriousness was. Which is probably how they struck that balance between goofy but not being corny. Because the lyrics were really strong. There's no jokes in their lyrics. Very empowering.
The micromanagement I sensed from what was said about Stevic translates to the ‘sick’ & ‘ain’t that a bitch’ videos, was gutted they broke up before a chance to see them in Brighton, but glad I didn’t have to see Kin perform under duress
This is heartbreaking Twelve Foot Ninja is the best band hands down in the world today.....I am a huge Mr. Bungle/FNM fan TFN just brought the musical world full circle
Very in depth interview. I wasn’t expecting it. I heard TFN for the first time about 7 years ago and was intrigued from the first listen. Kin’s voice is irreplaceable and they will never be the same without him. I am surprised, though, by his current disdain towards the “Christian” religion. We all have experiences growing up which we didn’t/don’t fully understand. Sometimes, we keep those perceptions without facing them again only to hold on to a basal concept which is never given the chance to be revealed to us. If I never revisited my understanding of scripture, I would have remained anxious, depressed and an addict and probably dead. The truth is not what it seems from an outside perspective. It is a lesson in teaching who the real “I am” is and the battles which take place in the consciousness of us. Just because many churches follow their own dogma does not mean there is not THE truth within its teaching. Not many, even within the “church”, truly understand. It’s not anything like the real oppression I came out of. Thanks for the interview.
Wow, well said! Yeah I'm sad to hear how the core message of the Bible was lost to him due to his poor experiences with the Church. I hope he can find himself in a place someday where he can give the Bible a fresh look - one that isn't tainted with dogma, pomp and circumstance, excessive tradition, etc. There is strong evidence that Jesus is God and that He died and rose again. Josh McDowell's 'More Than a Carpenter' cuts through the crap and presents good reasons to trust what the Bible is saying.
@@kylejohnson6279 I disagree. I've read the Bible, I didn't like it. I have however, read 'Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity' by Neil Van Leeuwen, 'The Satan: How God's Executioner Became the Enemy' by John J. Collins, ' The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature' by E. Theodore Mullen Jr, and 'God: An Anatomy' by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, and found them to be great reads, as I am interested in Biblial solarship, I just don't adhere to the dogmatism of organised religion, and the presupposition of inherent meaning, where there is none.
@@KiNiNjAzZ Don't matter if I like the Bible or not. Also, there's dictionaries of information in your simplest cells, so I can't look at that and say it's meaningless. Props to you for reading all that material, and I agree with you about the dogmatism of organized religion. The religions that have the community basically decide if a person is saved or not are the worst imo(Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, perhaps Catholics and needing to be forgiven by a priest). Lets do without the manmade, legalistic bs. With that said, Jesus did rock the world. Witnesses claimed to have seen him perform miracles. His disciples could have reverted after Jesus' death so they wouldn't be killed, but they doubled down after the resurrection. Jews converted to Christianity after the resurrection, like Paul - the biggest persecutor of Christians at the time. You don't have to agree, but I find those reasons compelling.
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The whole band is amazing. It's hard to imagine them without you Nik. Monsters. I wish it would have continued. Can't wait for your next project.
Awesome interview SRJ With Nik/Kin from TFN. For those of you who read comments, Nik is my vocal coach. And in this interview, what you see is what you get. Not only is he great teacher and mentor, but he is the "real" thing. So supportive, so encouraging, a great listener and communicator. He tailors his session to YOU, the individual on YOUR journey. Yes, I happen to be a huge TFN fan, but dealing with Nik is like talking to an old mate with a wealth of Knowledge and understanding, not only about the craft of singing, but an understanding of the human psyche when it comes to the voice as an instrument.
Great choice of artist to highlight Sterling. Sub. 🤘
Can second this. I bumped into him at my local train station once as he lives near me and we chatted while waiting for a train. Super friendly, down-to-earth and loved just talking music.
@@scottclare7502 I live about ten minutes away myself. After five zoom sessions with him, I feel like I've known him for years. Oh, bonus, my voice and confidence has improved ten fold! 🤘
@@Brosafex-VoiceOvers nice one! They're such good musicians I'm sure they have lots to teach and wisdom to impart. I know Ro does guitar lessons too. It's funny reading comments here from people though saying they never got to see TFN live. I've seen Stevic at Aldi! 🤣🤣
@@scottclare7502 Yeah, I have most of Ro's playlist going whilst I'm working on my other channel (not this dead one)
Great interview. Being an Aussie, I absolutely enjoy TFNs music. The vocals have always been an inspiration. Plus the shuriken guitars changing tuning mid song is just amazing. Thanks :)
Man tfn the best band of all time. Stevic, only graduated from the best guitar school in the world.
FNM was my favorite band in my teens. I discovered TFN in my middle 30's, and fell in love with them immediately. It would have been amazing to see hem do a tour together!
What a real guy. I love Kin. Such a talented and humble dude!
I miss them before i knew them. Come back!!!! Just found them abt a year ago :(
i wish i couldve seen them live. My all time fav band and i don't think itll ever change.
A truly beautiful & in-depth interview. i was able to relate on so many levels as a person who has experienced similar trials & tribulations growing up as an aspiring musician and artist. Thank you gentlemen.
Great interview. What a cool guy. Huge tfn fan. Grateful for what they've given us.
…this is a fantastic interview. This is the first I’ve seen of your channel, and I’ll definitely be back for more!
Very much a TFN fan. I can thank RUclips for dropping them into the line for me, and I loved them instantly.
So grateful for the incredible music they’ve shared with us 🥰
Met Kin at a show in Little Rock Arkansas. He was just standing by the sound booth checking out the other bands. Seemed like the real thing, gracious and cool to talk to for those few minutes. Oh and the show was killer.
Omg this is amazing!! Loved the interview ❤
Nik seems to be a great introspective guy. Wish him the best. Yes i am sad the band is no longer but TFN is and will always be on my playlist. Great interview Mr.Jackson. The acoustic album is a wonderful end to a epic adventure that was TwelveFootNinja
A Very Epic Band.
TFN will be greatly missed but never forgotten!!!😢
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos. I'm truly blown away with this interview. When I saw the the thumbnail I was like "OH COOL I love KIN I'll watch this." But then seeing how deep y'all went completely shocked me. So basically
what I'm getting at is this has to be the best interviews I've seen by far. You really don't see this level of depth in interviews today. Definitely getting a sub! Keep this up bud!
Thanks 😊
Been busy doin interviews, 'av ya, mate?
I’ve been watching the bloody paint dry
Let this man live his life, people. There is no need for negative comments. He put in the work and the music will live on.
He gets hate? 🤷♂️
I don't see negative comments
This was absolutely fantastic! Thank you for getting this together!
Awesome interview, awesome band.
Oh damn. What a treat. He's one of my all time favorite artists.
Wish there was more from their acoustic stuff! Watching the live stuff from slay at home was great especially listening to the blend of the vocals.
Great interview. Glad to see the arm grew back.
Clearly he learned his lesson.
This was a superb interview. Nik is such an underrated vocalist. Incredible tone and phrasing.
Not to make this about myself, but my band and I (The Parallax Method) supported Twelve Foot Ninja at Rock City in Nottingham UK a few years back. Nik was so kind and cool to be around.
Great to hear more about his life and mindset.
Thanks again. 🙏
IMO it'll be hard to replace him. He may have audible influences but he still has his thing. And that thing is distinct.
Absolutely great interview. It brought me back to my own school days, and being an Artist, and getting the "effeminate" tag. Which was terrible during Junior High and High School. And it just strikes me that it's crazy that being "creative" or "artistic" gets assigned a gender. It brings up the very question "What is Art. What is that creative process." Well my belief is, is that it is a very spiritual process. I'm not sure if it's that for Taylor Swift, but I know for me, it's not "ME" doing it. It comes through me. Whether that makes me appear to have more or less testosterone than other men I don't know. But I know it makes me more "sensitive" than most? But do I know that? Because men are taught from an early age DON'T CRY. DON'T SHOW ANYONE YOU'RE WEAK. So it's drilled into us to not show any emotion whatsoever to anyone, because it's dog eat dog out there. And then we learn that some women like men who are .... or who are ....... all these criteria have to be ticked, before you qualify as a Man.
It's just looney. And when you're a teenager, and you have no clue who you are yet, this can be, as Nik put it. "Harrowing." I remember one of my first days of Junior High, where one of the 9th graders pointed out to EVERYONE that was outside, what kind of jeans I was wearing, and laughing. Everyone laughed. I was horrified.
And I think of people out there who shrink back into themselves after this kind of embarrassment amongst your peers, who only the year before thought you were cool. Or never did, and you've always had this treatment in school from others. You see people who remain virgins all their lives. People who never made any other friends.
I told my Mum that evening that we were going out to get me some new jeans, because no one was ever going to make fun of me again for this.
Cuz I already had enough problems being one of only 3 mixed race people in my entire town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this was America, not England where it was a bit more accepted!
I would also like to add that I wish Nik all the best in his future endeavours.
If I could have, I would have said to Stevic that you can't do this without Nik. It's not going to work. But that's what they said about Genesis when Peter Gabriel left. And I think it was truly only accepted because Phil Collins was already in the band, and was already very much a vocal presence in it. It wasn't a hard switch, and they both sound similar in ways. Kind of like when Greg Lake briefly replaced John Wetton in Asia. But Wetton had kinda replaced him in King Crimson. And they sounded a little similar.
Stevic would have to find someone who sounded enough like Nik to get away with that, and I'm sorry, but after listening to this interview, he's one of a kind. All that experience has made him sing the way he does. He is so identifiable by that voice, and especially associated with a band that jumps genres in seconds. And he makes all those genres work, he's the bridge. He makes Stevic's visions work.
And that's the problem sometimes when someone in a band assumes control. Yes, there has to be a leader. Everyone but Paul McCartney knows John Lennon was the leader of The Beatles. It's just the way it is. And some become leaders just because a lot of the song ideas come from them. And if those songs become success, the other members of the band that don't contribute as much become seen as "employees". (see McCartney again). And it's not that they don't have anything to contribute (see George Harrison). It's that they have to fight to get it considered "band worthy", it's a battle. (see Steve Hackett in Genesis after Gabriel left). And they're forced to go solo in a band situation, where they want to stay in the band, because they've dedicated themselves to it. And the relationships they have in that band. The experiences shared.
But they're miserable being in it.
So I do wish Nik the best. I honestly was sad he left, because I knew it was over, just when it was starting to get really good!!!! But I could feel with "Vengeance" that some of the heart had gone. And things got ever so much stranger and hard to connect to. Still funny, but very out there. Some of the "fun" had gone. Because the LYRICS of the songs is where are all the seriousness was. Which is probably how they struck that balance between goofy but not being corny. Because the lyrics were really strong. There's no jokes in their lyrics. Very empowering.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS GUY
The micromanagement I sensed from what was said about Stevic translates to the ‘sick’ & ‘ain’t that a bitch’ videos, was gutted they broke up before a chance to see them in Brighton, but glad I didn’t have to see Kin perform under duress
This is heartbreaking Twelve Foot Ninja is the best band hands down in the world today.....I am a huge Mr. Bungle/FNM fan TFN just brought the musical world full circle
No sabía que no está en la banda 😢
Well I didn't expect to sit through the whole thing but here I am. 3AM and totally worth it
Same
Ex vocalist?! When did this happen? Oh man. No more "have ya been busy?!".
Or judging by the poster behind you, Johnny Hawkins
I always thought he has a Mike patton vibe to his voice... don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he's copying patton, but you can hear it in his voice.
Very in depth interview. I wasn’t expecting it.
I heard TFN for the first time about 7 years ago and was intrigued from the first listen. Kin’s voice is irreplaceable and they will never be the same without him.
I am surprised, though, by his current disdain towards the “Christian” religion. We all have experiences growing up which we didn’t/don’t fully understand. Sometimes, we keep those perceptions without facing them again only to hold on to a basal concept which is never given the chance to be revealed to us. If I never revisited my understanding of scripture, I would have remained anxious, depressed and an addict and probably dead. The truth is not what it seems from an outside perspective. It is a lesson in teaching who the real “I am” is and the battles which take place in the consciousness of us. Just because many churches follow their own dogma does not mean there is not THE truth within its teaching. Not many, even within the “church”, truly understand.
It’s not anything like the real oppression I came out of.
Thanks for the interview.
Wow, well said! Yeah I'm sad to hear how the core message of the Bible was lost to him due to his poor experiences with the Church. I hope he can find himself in a place someday where he can give the Bible a fresh look - one that isn't tainted with dogma, pomp and circumstance, excessive tradition, etc.
There is strong evidence that Jesus is God and that He died and rose again. Josh McDowell's 'More Than a Carpenter' cuts through the crap and presents good reasons to trust what the Bible is saying.
@@kylejohnson6279 I disagree. I've read the Bible, I didn't like it.
I have however, read 'Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity' by Neil Van Leeuwen, 'The Satan: How God's Executioner Became the Enemy' by John J. Collins, ' The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature' by E. Theodore Mullen Jr, and 'God: An Anatomy' by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, and found them to be great reads, as I am interested in Biblial solarship, I just don't adhere to the dogmatism of organised religion, and the presupposition of inherent meaning, where there is none.
@@KiNiNjAzZ Don't matter if I like the Bible or not. Also, there's dictionaries of information in your simplest cells, so I can't look at that and say it's meaningless.
Props to you for reading all that material, and I agree with you about the dogmatism of organized religion. The religions that have the community basically decide if a person is saved or not are the worst imo(Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, perhaps Catholics and needing to be forgiven by a priest). Lets do without the manmade, legalistic bs. With that said, Jesus did rock the world. Witnesses claimed to have seen him perform miracles. His disciples could have reverted after Jesus' death so they wouldn't be killed, but they doubled down after the resurrection. Jews converted to Christianity after the resurrection, like Paul - the biggest persecutor of Christians at the time. You don't have to agree, but I find those reasons compelling.
@@kylejohnson6279 Then we can agree to disagree. Good.
Sounds much better than Patton !
Ex member…I thought the whole band split? 😂🤷♂️😂
That still makes him an Ex-member, like all other members.
Yep, they're all ex-members. That makes them free to start a new band together. It could be a TFN tribute band
@@reezlawthat would be fucking hilarious and totally something they would do.
@@reezlawya, and they could do stuff like cover TFN songs!
Colton Holliday
Great vocalist! Still has to learn to growl .. ;-) (I'm joking ..)
Noooo!!...
Ex?!??? Nooooooo!!!!!!!
Omg, when does he say it? Im skipping around. Nvm don’t tell me! I don’t wanna hear that shit.
19 minutes and 22 seconds in and already rolling my eyes. 🤮
It's not all oppressive man..
Agreed - I’m confident people aren’t thinking deeply enough when they say that.