6 Minds Combined | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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2:26 Speaker 7: That is brand new from six Minds Combined. And he is here with us in studio. We're gonna talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody, Here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com, slash live, rale you're live streaming options, social media links, contact infosho, archives, et cetera, et cetera.

2:51 Speaker 7: Today is Saturday, November twenty second, two thousand and twenty five. Let me get that mic on. Rick Everhard is here and he is a six mind Combined Welcome sir, Hello, Hello, Hello, it's good to have you back on the show. It's it's been a little while.

3:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, it has been been a little while.

3:06 Speaker 7: You've been busy. That that track, of course, the sixth sonata great.

3:10 Speaker 5: I love that, Thank you, thank you so much.

3:12 Speaker 7: I got a question about that right off the top. So and I've noticed this was some of your other songs too, like is it is it difficult to because your your flow, your style is so like how do you have time to breathe while you're you know, especially like like the song starts and that first verse comes in and it's like, oh my god, like how does he even do that?

3:33 Speaker 5: Yeah?

3:33 Speaker 1: So, so first I have to write the songs, obviously, and I try to I try to write it as like a single a single verse that like the first set of time or course at a time. Yeah, And I try to try to make that as complicated as I can a.

3:58 Speaker 5: Lyrically.

3:59 Speaker 1: And then and I'll practice it over and over and over again. Yeah, find where to put the breaths. Okay, So I take a lot of really fast, sharp breaths.

4:09 Speaker 7: Yeah.

4:10 Speaker 5: Yeah. If you listen really closely, sometimes you can hear them.

4:13 Speaker 7: Oh okidding.

4:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.

4:14 Speaker 7: No, it's impressive when you're writing these, because I mean that song is is one example I've noticed. I mean, that's your style and a lot of these, like I said, when you're writing them, do you ever do you ever think, m this might be too much? I don't know, or do you just write it and then it's like Okay, now now I have to live up to the challenge that I've created for myself and I wrote it. Now I got to do it.

4:37 Speaker 5: That's that's exactly it. Yeah.

4:39 Speaker 1: I love to challenge myself. I love to to push myself past my boundaries. Yea, And I mean that's that's the reason that I've gotten this far in my musical career is because of that pushing and pushing.

4:51 Speaker 5: Yeah.

4:52 Speaker 7: Yeah. Another thing too, I've noticed about a lot of your songs is, you know, there seems to be a theme. You know, there's a lot of empowerment, positivity, but without being preachy, which is cool because you can, you know, you can beat somebody over the head with it and then and actually push them away with that stuff too. But but you presented in a way that is fun, for lack of a better word, I mean, it's just kind of fun to The songs are fun, they're fun to listen to. But also but they're not preachy.

5:19 Speaker 7: They're just more like kind of encouraging and and and unity too. That seems to be a theme too. There's a lot of you know, like in that track, in the lyrics, there's a lot of you know, we're in this together, you know.

5:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so there's there's just so much negativity and and like segregation and and division, and there's just there's so much of that apparent in every industry, and I just want to, you know, I want to bring a different message.

5:48 Speaker 5: You know.

5:49 Speaker 1: It's that we don't have to versus each other. You know, we can we can work together and work off of each other.

5:56 Speaker 5: And and I mean.

5:58 Speaker 1: Obviously I feel really strongly about those ideals. So it it's it comes through I wouldn't say easily, but but it flows into the musical creation. You know, like I'll get I'll get a basic idea and then, like I try to, I try to give myself a subject.

6:18 Speaker 5: And then.

6:21 Speaker 1: Along with that that subject, I like to keep that, you know, the togetherness and the community and the positivity and try to wrap it all up into to one, you know, nice little package.

6:34 Speaker 7: Yeah. So since the last time we talked, it sounds like, you know, we talked a little bit off air. It sounds like you've been pretty busy.

6:40 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, super super busy. I've done I've done at least two shows a month since since the since the last radio show. Yeah, and I still host an open mic once a month. Excellent through positive street art okay, And we talked about them before.

6:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're they're still going super strong too. Uh. We got big moves from making this year excellent.

7:06 Speaker 7: What else, Well, that's a lot there. Can you actually, can you tell us a little bit more about positive street art? And I know we've talked about it before, but for newer listeners who might not know, because this is a this is a great thing that a lot of people probably aren't aware of.

7:17 Speaker 1: So that's a It's a nonprofit based out of National Newmpshire. We've we've kind of spread our wings a bit and we do a bunch of stuff in Manchester, Yeah, and Excellent and and a few other places too. But it's our mission is to inspire passion for the the urban arts in a productive way through community workshops, artistic services and and community events. And we had we had this the Summer Stroll that we in Nashville and New Hampshire that we teamed up over over the summer. Yeah, and and it was the second year we did it, and it was it was a big hit.

7:54 Speaker 1: I think eventually it might uh, it'll keep expanding, you know, kind of like the Winter Stroll in in in Nashua. It you know, it started out as as whatever, and now it's grown too. You know, ten thousand or more people show up every year for it. So I'm we're we're hoping that the Summer Stroll, you know kind of it builds momentum and we can grow every year. But it's you know, it's a it's a great it's a great organization to get into. Not only for just you know, to get a mural painted on your wall or whatever, but we have tons of programs for for different communities, you know, for for painting and for for uplifting and you know, the whole community thing.

8:50 Speaker 1: I also run the I host open mics through Positive street Art and and that's you know that that part of it, it was, you know, part of it was was a way for me to to expand my my ability to get on the mic or get on a stage. Now I was I was at the beginning of the of the of the the whole music thing that I've been doing. Yeah, and uh, and I you know, I kind of decided, you know, if I don't just have random places, you know, a lot of times I went to a few open mics over the years and stuff, and and I I like the I like the feel of it and everything, and and I was like, you know, I could I could probably do something myself like this through Positive street art, you know, because it's you know, it's a music is is intertwined and and and everything, right, you know, it's just as much part of the the urban culture as anything else.

9:51 Speaker 1: Absolutely, so, so yeah, you know, I I I felt I wanted a place where I could you know, improve my craft yea, and build up my stage presence.

10:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, and smart smart way to go about it.

10:04 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

10:05 Speaker 1: And then and then at the same time, it's giving a place for other people with the same mindset as me where where they don't they're not ready for a big crowd or something like that, and they want to start, you know, honing their craft. So you know, you get on the mic in front of a very very limited crowd. You know, not a lot of people show up to it, so so a lot of times it's just, uh, it's just a six minds combined jam session.

10:30 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, Where does this happen? Where do you do?

10:33 Speaker 1: It's at Positive Shootout headquarters in Nash, New Hampshire.

10:37 Speaker 5: It's at forty eight Bridge Street, third floor, okay, oh, very cool. Yeah.

10:42 Speaker 1: If if you look us a positive shootout dot org, we're always posting different things that we're doing. We curate a bunch of like artists, and not just at our headquarters, but at different places. I know there's a couple of places in Manchester that we get things that I don't. I don't know all the names of the program. There's so much.

11:06 Speaker 7: Which is that's good. There's a lot going on there that's excellent.

11:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

11:11 Speaker 7: So, so was that was positive street art before? Like, in other words, were you doing that before Six Minds Combined became.

11:21 Speaker 5: So?

11:22 Speaker 1: So I've been I've been doing I've been making music and I had the whole Six Minds Combined Moniker for years and years and years. Okay, but I wasn't doing anything. I just made music for fun for myself, yeah, and uh and friends or whatever. And you know, I I I always had the hope that you know, someday it would become something, but but it wasn't. It wasn't the drive, you know. And then I had I had gotten into some trouble and I had to do community service. Yeah, my friend Gillian Anderson pointed me towards U positive street art and and at the time, my very good friend to this day, Tom Lopez, he was the vice president, and he kind of took me under his wing and and uh and I screamed through all the community service hours and they were like, hey, you know you you're you've been doing this.

12:18 Speaker 1: You want to continue to do this. And then shortly after that, I was like, of course I do. And then shortly after that they're like, hey, well you want to join our board.

12:27 Speaker 5: And so I've been. I've been on their board of directors for for a bunch of years now. I think it's fantastic.

12:32 Speaker 1: I think it's you know, coming on ten years part of that organization.

12:36 Speaker 5: Yeah wow.

12:37 Speaker 1: And so you know, we've we've had dance programs, we've had we've had all sorts of stuff.

12:44 Speaker 5: And I was, you know, just hit me.

12:46 Speaker 1: At one point, I was like, you know what, why don't I Why don't I, you know, introduced the musical side of this to to the to you know what, because there was dancing and you know, things like that, and I was I was like, you know, but like like at CORE, I'm a musician, and I felt like that needed to be a part of the whole positive street art thing. So yeah, so that I came up with the idea for the open mic and and.

13:13 Speaker 5: The rest of the board loved it.

13:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they jumped on it, and and we've been doing it ever since.

13:19 Speaker 7: So when you started doing the open mics, was that what kind of like did you already have the idea that if if these open mics go well and I feel confident in front of an audience, maybe I'll kind of start to do more with six minds.

13:34 Speaker 1: That's yeah, it was basically hand in hand, you know. I had the idea for the open mic, yeah, and then it was you know, facilitating the equipment to do that. Originally they were thinking about buying the stuff and I was then I I I had a conversation with the person I was making music with at the time. They wanted to go off and do a different project and sat down with me and was like, hey, you know, we've been making all this stuff together. He's like, I don't. I don't expect anything out of it, you know, I don't.

14:11 Speaker 1: I don't need to get paid, I don't need royalties or anything like that. He's like, he's like, you take this and do whatever you want. With it, do something with it. I was like, you know, that's a great idea. I should do something with it. And so I made that decision that I was going to start working on music. Then I met Eleanor and it just it just cascaded from there. And but it kind of happened at the same time, you know, I made that decision after deciding. So it was so the open mic decision came first, and then I decided to do the six months thing well to start pushing it.

14:47 Speaker 1: And then I was like, well, I'm going to need equipment for this to do my performances, So why don't I just get the equipment for the open mic and then that'll start me on my path.

14:57 Speaker 5: I'll have I'll have no excuse not to move forward.

15:01 Speaker 7: There you go, There you go, exactly. Yeah, which is a great way to motivate yourself, right, I put yourself in a position where you got to do it.

15:07 Speaker 5: Yeah.

15:07 Speaker 1: I mean I spent I spent a few thousand dollars on the on the performance equipment.

15:11 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. So once you spend that kind of money, yeah, you gotta do it.

15:15 Speaker 5: Yeah. Exactly.

15:16 Speaker 1: It's like, look looking at a big hole in my waile, like well, did I just shoot a hole in my pocket or am I going to do something with this? And and uh, it's been it's been so worth it. Yeah, you know, I've, like I said, I've, I've I've performed at least two shows a month since I've started, So it's been.

15:35 Speaker 5: Over a year now. Yeah, and just pushing and pushing.

15:38 Speaker 1: I got the released the first album with the seven songs last year September ish I think it was, and then I have three three songs released singles since then. Yeah, one I just released last last week or the week before. It was very very recently. It just it just jumped on the platforms a couple of days ago. Okay, okay, yeah, so yeah the sixth sonata.

16:04 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, we were talking off air. I can't say I've never been able to say anything with an X THH at the end sixth. I guess I can kind of do it, but I have to slow it down, like I can't say it fast. But I think a lot of people like that, like if I say it fast, I'm just going to say the sixth sonata. So I'm literally just saying six. If I slow it down, I can do it. The sixth sonata. But even that, that sounds very awkward. I sound like I'm listening. Yeah, that sounds very awkward. But yeah, I've always had trouble with that.

16:34 Speaker 7: But no, that's that's that's great. I'm curious too when you started performing live, because you write, you write these songs. You know, as we talked about a few minutes ago, the lyrics are complex. And you know, something I've always said to something that rappers never get enough credit for is the memory skills needed for that. Because any rock song, you know, unless it's something extremely worse like I don't know one week by Bare Naked Ladies, right right, But but almost any rock song, you know, it's pretty easy to learn the words, right, you know.

17:09 Speaker 7: But uh, but something like especially like what you're doing, there's some pretty serious memory skills involved there, right to remember all of that. Oh yeah, like when you started performing live, was that a challenge at all?

17:22 Speaker 1: It was definitely and it still is now. You know, I'm every every show if you pay close attention. I don't want to say every show, but but very often you'll find that I'll pause for a couple of seconds and that'll be me completely forgetting. Yeah, it happens more often than anybody notices, right right, because when you're right, when you're writ in during the performance and you just keep going, you know, nobody noticebody knows unless they really really know the song.

17:53 Speaker 7: Yeah.

17:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, my close friends that come to every single show, they're like, they give me the look like, oh, you messed up. Yeah, but yes, it's it's it's very, very difficult to remember the lyrics. I've always had memory issues ever since I was a little kid. It's really hard for me to memorize things. So so when I was a kid, I found that the easiest way for me to remember something is have a jingle to it. Okay, you know, so, so no matter what it was, you know, like if if I had to remember two plus two is for you know, things like that, it just it made it so much easier for me to retain interesting knowledge.

18:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's almost like like a sound pattern, and I practice in order in order.

18:45 Speaker 5: To to to to remember them.

18:48 Speaker 1: I practice, I won't say every single day, but pretty close to every day. I listen to my music every day. Yeah, and I try to perform them even whether I'm in.

18:57 Speaker 5: My car or at work.

19:00 Speaker 1: I try to perform them every time I listen to them, and so so that helps.

19:04 Speaker 5: But I have to I do.

19:05 Speaker 1: I have to practice every every single day, every couple of days. If I have a show coming up, I'll practice two or three times a day, just just to to create the habit. And you know what's funny is I actually find I'll be driving in my car, I'll be I'll be playing the performance track so it doesn't have all the words on it. Yeah, I'll be singing along with it, and then I'll start daydreaming and I'll start thinking about something else, and then I'll remember that I was singing and I sang every single word.

19:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, Because it's it's become a habit net, right, So so muscle memory, vocal memory, and breathing memory. It's so it's so embedded in my habits now that that I can do it without even thinking about it sometimes.

19:51 Speaker 7: Yeah, and your memory has probably improved over time because of of what you're doing. I just saw it too, a study little bit of a side street. But it does relate to what we're talking about somewhat, is about how if you make creating music, whether even if you're just practicing scales on a guitar or whatever you're doing as you get older, it actually helps to stave off things like dementia yeah and such.

20:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yep that there's been studies that prove that.

20:21 Speaker 7: Yeah.

20:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.

20:24 Speaker 1: Another thing I do to help myself with my my alertness and quick thinking, and it really helps for me waking up fully in the morning too. I have the alarms on my phone. I have to solve a math problem to turn off the alarm.

20:42 Speaker 7: Interesting.

20:42 Speaker 1: So, the first couple of weeks I did it, I would wake up super groggy, and I would get I would get heated because I couldn't think straight enough to do four plus sixteen you know.

20:53 Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, it wasn't computing.

20:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, but after those first couple of weeks, it started getting easier and easier and easier. And now years into it, my alarm goes off. I'm instantly wide awake and I can solve complicated math problems.

21:06 Speaker 5: Cool, I can.

21:07 Speaker 1: I can make the decision to get up and do my thing or go back to sleep and get a little bit more sleep.

21:12 Speaker 5: Yeah.

21:12 Speaker 1: But but there's no like groggy wake up period now, so I'm either asleep or I'm awake.

21:18 Speaker 5: Oh, that's interesting. Wow, Yeah, it is.

21:19 Speaker 1: It is in and I recommend it to people all the time, if you if you can, if you can deal with it for that first part of it, because like I said, like I was waking up and I was getting so mad, right, But yeah, that that and and uh and the the the trying to remember the songs practicing them all the time. It's also that that his uh given me motivation to do everythings. Like I'm I'm really I'm really bad at remembering people's names. So I do another vocal practice. When I meet somebody and they say their name, repeat it right away, and then I try to repeat it one more time so that I'm hearing it once and then saying it twice.

22:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's been helping, Yeah, but mostly with people that I already know, Like Matt is an easy one to remember because I know thirty thousand maths.

22:20 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, ye.

22:23 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's uh, it is a memory. It is a memory task, and I gotta constantly be on top of it or or or off all behind. I notice, like if I go three or four days without practicing my songs, yeah, and I go to practice, I'm stumbling over the like the first couple of words or or I'm getting to the complicated part of the song and then like getting all tongue twisted.

22:47 Speaker 5: Yeah. So it's it's it's.

22:48 Speaker 1: Really and not only remembering the words, but being able to say them in in in a speedy fashion, you know, because and like the breathing and everything, I have to I have to remember where all my breaths are. I have to take them at exactly the same time, exactly the same speed.

23:05 Speaker 7: Oh that's interesting. Okay, so you commit that to memory as well, exactly where you're taking Oh interesting, Okay.

23:11 Speaker 1: I do a lot of cadence change with with my lyrics as well, so I have to memorize all that as well.

23:18 Speaker 7: How long does it take you to, like, after you've written it and you're and then you have to learn it, you have to to be able to perform it, Like, how long does that take? I mean I must take some time? Right?

23:27 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yep.

23:28 Speaker 1: So I'm I have a song completely written and I've practiced it, you know, one hundred two hundred times before I even perform it in front of somebody at an open mic. Okay, yeah, so I'm and one thing I like to do as well. Is I'll make the song, I'll record it, and then I'll listen to it. Yeah, and I'll read the lyrics and that that seems to help train me to remember them. Okay, but then once I get to the point where it's memorized, if I pull out those lyrics, I just it messes me up stumbling over it.

24:04 Speaker 5: Yeah.

24:04 Speaker 1: So there's like there's like a period of time where I have to stop with the note So yeah, so I'll I'll I'll practice for a couple of weeks, I'll write the song, practice for a couple of weeks, I'll record it, and then and then, like I said, I'll sing along with it and then and then I just have to put the notebook aside and try to remember the lyrics as I'm going and then, like if I get stuck at a point, yeah, pull it out real quick, look at it.

24:35 Speaker 5: And then I tend to.

24:39 Speaker 1: My my mind tends to create like patterns. So if you if you asked me to sing any part of my song right now, like like even the start of a verse, if I didn't start at the beginning, I'll have a hard time remembering. I have to start from the beginning of this and then sing through it like ABC's You know.

25:04 Speaker 7: If you don't start from the beginning, it's hard to just pick up in the middle of the alphabet and got right.

25:08 Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, yep, yep, yep. So it's like that with my lyrics. Yeah, oh, what did you say? You're on your third verse in in halfway through you talked about this, this this I have to think about it, and I have to go, what did I talk about that? Yeah, and then and then reread it and then remember what the what the metaphor meant to me at the time, or or or what I was trying to portray with the with the uh the selection of words that I use.

25:39 Speaker 5: Yep, yeah, yeah, so it is.

25:41 Speaker 7: That makes sense. That makes sense if you're just join us, we're talking with six Minds Combined. Your real name, of course is rake Everheart. Where does the name six Minds Combined come from?

25:51 Speaker 1: So that was that was a story, you know, so way back in the day when I first started making music. I started when I was eighteen. I listened to Eminem's second album and and lost my mind. I was like this, this, this thirty year old white dude from Detroit can do this. I was like, I'll give it a try. So I tried it, and you know, and now we're here today, but repeat the question real quickly.

26:14 Speaker 7: Well the name where? Where is the name?

26:15 Speaker 5: Okay?

26:16 Speaker 7: Okay?

26:16 Speaker 1: So so I started out, I was like, oh, well, what kind of name can I use? And I was super into ICP at the time, okay, and the whole Psychopathic Records thing. So so, and I really liked the I'm gonna give you one of the names.

26:30 Speaker 5: It was.

26:31 Speaker 1: So the first name I picked was Psycho Dragon. I really like the the aspect of the dragon, the powerful, you know, uh, like the mythological power behind it.

26:42 Speaker 5: Yeah.

26:42 Speaker 1: And then and now I'm a little psycho, you know. And I was listening to that that, you know, like crazy Killing Spree all sorts of awesome, great great music. But but it's all for fun, yeah, you know, of course. And so that was a way for me to get all my aggressions out without doing things actually aggressive. I can put my thoughts and my feelings and way over exaggerate them and then put them into a song and have fun with it. So I realized in while I was making that music that that's not all I wanted to do.

27:21 Speaker 1: I wanted to make other kinds of music, and I was like, the name Psycho Dragon doesn't really work with all the stuff that I'm doing. So so I've had a couple of nicknames given to me people from people over the years, so I pulled one of those nicknames in and I was like, Oh, this can be this can be like the the younger, happier, funnier version of me. And then and then it just it just went from there, you know, and and eventually it became six different characters that I've created based on certain aspects of my personality and and and what I want to put out there.

28:05 Speaker 1: And the the really fun thing with this is I'm pushing this style and the type of music that I'm making. Now, this is it's not all I make. I'm all over the board. And eventually, you know, those other characters are going to start popping up and the fans will get to see other sides of of the whole six Minds combined. Ah, universe really will put it there. So so I don't wanna I don't want to say like I'm biting off of I C. P And their Six Jokers cards or anything like that, but but that that sparked the idea it's not six minds combined because of the Six Jokers cards, that it's not related.

28:53 Speaker 1: It just I just happened to, uh come up with the six different names and actually went with schizo for a little while, you know, like schizophrenic schitzo. I was like, that's easier than trying to tell everybody all my names.

29:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, and.

29:09 Speaker 1: Uh oh, because my friend that I was working at the time, Lunchbox, He's like, I'm sick of trying to remember all these names, dude, I'm just going to call you schizo. But at the time, there was somebody else that was going by that same name.

29:20 Speaker 7: That's it. That's the exact thought I had when he said that. It's like somebody else is already probably, isn't it anyway, I mean, it's too obviously exactly exactly.

29:28 Speaker 1: So I had actually I wrote a song and I was I was singing through the lyrics, and in the lyrics it said with these six minds combined, and it clicked right there. So I wrote the name before I ever even decided that that was going to be my new name. Interesting, and then and then it all just it all just fell together, you know, like the whole six MC thing, six Minds Combined.

29:56 Speaker 5: But then I'm an MC and oh yeah yeah, so it's so.

30:00 Speaker 1: It's all you know, it's I love multiple meanings, yes, multiple layer meanings of things, and I do that a lot with my lyrics too. Yeah. They they call them like double entendres or whatever. You take in the same word and you're using two different meanings, but you're putting it together, and it sounds it sounds good together, it sounds smooth.

30:19 Speaker 5: Yeah.

30:19 Speaker 7: The great thing about it my name, like six Minds Combined, as as opposed to something like schizo, is you know, the the chances are probably infinitesimally small that you're gonna come across somebody else who says, hey, I've already got that name, six Minds Combined.

30:31 Speaker 5: You know, exactly nobody. Nobody has that name.

30:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I actually I get complimented on it all the time. They're like, wow, that is that's a really interesting name. How'd you come up with it? Yeah, you know, and and it's it's it's so great to say that, like it just came up with itself, you know, Like I didn't choose that name.

30:50 Speaker 5: They chose me, right.

30:51 Speaker 1: You know, So it's it's really like one of those serendipitous things that you know it was it was if you believe in fate or.

30:58 Speaker 5: Whatever, it was meant to be.

30:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, now everything just just kind of happened the way it did, you know. And uh, the same thing with the music, doing something with it.

31:09 Speaker 5: You know.

31:09 Speaker 1: I met Eleanor at the perfect time when I was ready to do this, and and she was like, I need to do this with you, you know, and it's we've we've we've got a great partnership. She often asks me, are you getting your money's worth? Because I pay I pay a subscription to to New Hampshire Underground for the services, and I definitely at this moment I pay in more then I get financially out of it. Like I don't book enough shows to to get paid enough to cover that.

31:45 Speaker 5: But but that's the immediate goal.

31:47 Speaker 7: You're building, right, your building a career.

31:49 Speaker 1: And and you know, once I once I get past that that thing where I'm where I'm getting paid for every show as opposed to doing free shows often because I I to do a lot of free shows, then that'll pay for itself. You know, I spend one hundred and sixty bucks a month for the the VIP membership, and I get I get a weekly meetings. We meet for an hour or two hour, three hours. Sometimes we go over our plans, our goals. We we decide, you know, what's the next step we want to take.

32:28 Speaker 5: And and then.

32:29 Speaker 1: While we're doing all that stuff, she's she's reaching out and she's booking me shows. And like I said, I've done two shows a month, if if not more since I started working with her. And and I've gotten so much exposure. I've met so many, so many other artists good and and uh, it's just it's it's like a steady wave, dude. It keeps growing and growing and that's excellent. So I'm I'm leaps and bounds farther than I expected to be a year into into the career.

33:00 Speaker 5: Good.

33:01 Speaker 1: And if it keeps going the way it's going, I'm gonna be You're gonna be fighting with U with with like uh like Fox News on who's on Who's going to interview six? But but it's like I said, it's all about the community. It's all about you know, bringing the people that we we have in our circle up with us. You know, if if I make it I'm not the only one making it. Yeah, it's it's everybody who's had a part in in this in my life. And you know it's it's and you notice I do that all the time. I'm always plugging my friends totally, totally.

33:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's it's uh, it's an experience. Yeah, and we're going places excellent. Absolutely, let's play another track. We're gonna play Uh, let's.

33:51 Speaker 7: See intense, intense. Yeah, this is good, this is good.

33:55 Speaker 1: I actually I got something to say about this. Yeah, my sister who lives in wiscons and she wanted to do a song with me. Yeah, she's she's my younger, younger sister. I was twelve years old when she was born, and I was really into music throughout most of my adolescents and everything. So she kind of picked that up from me, and she really really got into like chorus and singing and everything like that. And she I think she's in a professional chorus right now. Oh okay, and she's I forgot how it's like twenty four to twenty five something like that.

34:26 Speaker 5: Okay, but she.

34:31 Speaker 1: Actually she might be older than that now, I don't know. Anyways, she is featured on this now song.

34:37 Speaker 7: Oh nice. All right, check this out. This is six minds combined, and the track is intense.

35:10 Speaker 1: Well where I'm barely there. I'm scared, but I can't be the bearer fairly wearing about what I'm sure, which that went back into the past, to the facts that I've been trying to change electitude.

35:18 Speaker 3: Is this not this?

35:18 Speaker 1: But you won't see me, won't see the danger change yourself, which I fitch appears and sears this stuff of both the religious here, honey, to be the fearless, be the leader that the experience derring us into the future, futures fading into memory. My enemies are me believing I'm just sleeping. Dreams are within reach, but reaching that will mean no, that will be the reason. But the seam that's bringing these unseemly demons to the breaking and change it faith, this fade, the state of state, the sticks a.

35:38 Speaker 3: Prison, no decision made, but it's a given.

35:41 Speaker 8: Take consensus, answering my questions, it's just claiming the same thing, perfection.

35:46 Speaker 3: You're breaking waves in great lakes and.

35:48 Speaker 9: Breaking the change nothing guys, and racing sairely new seas to.

35:52 Speaker 3: Please the census.

35:54 Speaker 10: Soon, we too may be doomed to trenches.

35:56 Speaker 3: So we do what we do to wend this and this vie lens it's senseless.

36:01 Speaker 10: I can't wait.

36:03 Speaker 1: Just bath those to change intensified, yestify the lens, to find defense against the sensitive that sentence, The sentence is insensitive to what they need, their suffer. Bring that suffocate those fester ring and downing, rounding up the rabble, grappling with how to get a gripping This existence in this instant, it's as sentenced by your sisters and our brothers, holding us up by the courts, connected enough, select enough to maybe start erecting collective bovey, collective clubs invested in.

36:31 Speaker 3: The next above.

36:32 Speaker 1: We're gonna make the world a better place. We're not a waste of die. We're gonna make gold the better place. We'll not a waste of dime.

36:42 Speaker 8: Take inchenses, answering my questions, ne just claiming the same thing, confection coming skinned waves in great lakes and breaking the change of thing girls and racing sailing low seas too please the senses.

36:55 Speaker 3: Soon we too may be doomed to trenches.

36:57 Speaker 10: So we do what we do to this in this violence it sense this why cat we just be the one's changing.

37:22 Speaker 7: I love it. That is intense six minds combined with his sister very cool. That is so cool. Yeah, I love that track.

37:29 Speaker 3: Hey by the Way too.

37:30 Speaker 7: Something I wanted to ask you. ID almost frolling about this and then but I was singing about it the other night when I was listening to these. Are you a fan of Nate Dog?

37:39 Speaker 5: Yes, yep.

37:40 Speaker 7: Because sometimes when you're singing, when you're not rapping, but you're doing more singing, remind me of him his case, because he had a unique way of singing. So for people who don't remember Nate Dog, because I think he's passed away, I think a while ago. Maybe I don't know, but they're like like in the nineties and early two thousands, he would he would sing the hook on a lot of hip hop songs, a lot of big hip hop songs. So even if you don't know who Nate Dog is, if you're a fan of hip hop at all, trust me you've heard him.

38:07 Speaker 7: He's on a lot of those tracks. And uh, but your your canons when you sing reminds me of him.

38:14 Speaker 5: That's cool. I appreciate that.

38:15 Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, your voice isn't as deep as his because nobody's voice was as deep as as But yeah, I was thinking about that the other night. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. So you know, the time does go quickly, and we do have one more attract to plan a couple of minutes. But I want to make sure too that everybody knows, well, first of all, when's your next show?

38:34 Speaker 5: So my next show is going to be in downtown Nashua during the Winter Stroll. Okay, I am taking over Poty's Restaurant, okay, and I think the time slot is five forty five to nine okay. I was going to be performing with a couple other acts, but they they backed out for some reason or they couldn't make it or whatever. So I was asked by the direct the director of the the Winter Stroll, yeh if I could fill the time, and I was like, yeah, I'll figure it out. So so I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a couple other artists and I'm gonna we're gonna we're gonna be there at uh at the Winter Stroll, excellent at photies from five forty five till nine.

39:19 Speaker 7: Okay, and when when is that again?

39:21 Speaker 5: That is November twenty ninth.

39:22 Speaker 7: November twenty ninth, okay, yeah, excellent, excellent, And uh oh you should remind people too about the open mic because that happens every week, right.

39:29 Speaker 1: Uh no, it's once a month, once a month, yes, sir, one them once a month that positive street art.

39:33 Speaker 5: Okay.

39:34 Speaker 1: I usually try to post something about it, but yeah, usually the the middle of the month.

39:40 Speaker 5: On a Friday. Yeah, from six to nine pm.

39:43 Speaker 1: I'm really looking for for audience for for and for uh So, if if you do perform things, yes, I would.

39:50 Speaker 5: Love to have you.

39:51 Speaker 1: But I also want your friends, yes, and your family and everything, and you know, bring everybody. It's it's it's really laid back experience. You know, there's no pressure. Sure, you know, I make mistakes all the time, and that's that's the best place to do it because because you're there with your friends, you know, and and and and everybody is going to make mistakes and that's how we learn, that's how we grow exact and uh yeah, so I I would really love for for anybody, uh any age. You know, it's an all ages thing, so and we we try to be uh age appropriate with with our content as well.

40:24 Speaker 5: So yeah, so.

40:25 Speaker 1: If you if you are a gangster rapper and you're talking about killing people and all that kind of stuff.

40:32 Speaker 5: Let's let's let's leave.

40:33 Speaker 1: Those those songs at home and we'll bring the family friendly songs.

40:38 Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, so positive Street.

40:40 Speaker 1: Art forty eight Bridge Street, third floor. Once a month we do we do the open mic there. It's called vicas Fox.

40:48 Speaker 7: Okay, very good, very good? And where should people go to find out more about about you? About six Minds combined? Where's the best place to go?

40:56 Speaker 5: You can hit up Facebook, you can hit up Instagram.

40:59 Speaker 1: I have an Instagram, I have My music is on all the platforms. I go through the distributor CD baby, and so there's over two hundred platforms that they uploaded to. You can use my music on reels, on tiktoks, on Facebook reels.

41:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, so excellent, excellent? What else? What else? Yeah?

41:23 Speaker 1: I have a six Minds Combined Facebook, but I also have a Rick everheard Facebook?

41:27 Speaker 7: Okay?

41:28 Speaker 1: And you can follow both of them. You can follow them. Reach out to me, you know, talk to me. I love I love collaborating with people. If if somebody would like to do some work with me or book me, they can contact eleanor Luna at New Hampshire Underground.

41:46 Speaker 7: Ye New Hampshire Underground dot org. This is the website.

41:49 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah.

41:51 Speaker 7: And also too, you know, if you're a musician, obviously a lot of people, a lot of musicians, a lot of people in the industry listen to the show. Yeah, check out New Hampshire Underground.

41:58 Speaker 1: Yep, oh definitely, yeah, absolutely, they're yeah, they're they're pushing great bands all the time. They have a they have a venue called Terminus. It's it's it's so great and they're expanding their their space this coming year. So so yeah, yeah, Jack, definitely check out New Hampshire Underground, check out Terminous and uh and you can find me everywhere.

42:18 Speaker 7: So yeah, absolutely, your name is very googleable combined, which is like we talked about earlier. It's important to have a name like that. Ye, very good, very good. Well, thank you so much. In a moment, so we're gonna play this track flow with who I Am?

42:32 Speaker 5: Who I Am?

42:33 Speaker 7: Friend lazy, Yeah, what can you tell us about this collaboration?

42:36 Speaker 5: So I actually I made the song.

42:39 Speaker 1: I wrote the song and there was some open spots in it and I was thinking, I was like, I was like, who would sound the best in these places?

42:47 Speaker 5: It just it just hit me.

42:49 Speaker 1: I was like, I was at a show or something listening to to Lacey perform, and I was like, just the sound in the groove, it would just sound so good in the song Flow. So so I I hit her up and she she jumped on it. She's like, yeah, I'll have some I have some keys for you and all some lyrics. Within days she came back with with with that and then we hooked up.

43:09 Speaker 5: She she came over.

43:11 Speaker 1: I recorded her stuff on my my home studio and then and then brought it to mister Goodbars at Toy Box Studios. Yeah, and he worked as magic and excellent and uh and we created we created Flow.

43:24 Speaker 5: Yeah, who I Am?

43:26 Speaker 7: Love it, Love it. So we will end the segment with this. But if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. We've got plenty more show to come. Jamie Higgs is going to be joining us at the top of the hour, uh, and we're gonna be talking with with him and uh. We we've got a We've got a lot of a lot a lot to the show today, So stick around. But we're gonna end this hour with this again. This is Flow. This is six Minds combined featuring Who I Am, love this a lot, and Rick, thank you again so.

43:51 Speaker 5: Much, Thanks so much for having me. Matt absolutely.

44:09 Speaker 6: Breaking down my mood, no faith to crown, my soul,

44:17 Speaker 6: chased around my food, in place I've found on my own. I'm getting stones so I can breathe, so i can see you around the smoke.

44:32 Speaker 3: I focus on the bees and.

44:36 Speaker 5: Let the world flow.

44:40 Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like I'm waiting for life, kneeling faking patients, while inside my mind is breaking. My light's waning, feeding breakness.

44:48 Speaker 11: Mistakes were made, chances a wasted, had sticks were wasted, chances can amen?

45:04 Speaker 3: Oh the game was staged. I had to play.

45:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, hope, spurn't the pain?

45:14 Speaker 3: You had to a way?

45:16 Speaker 7: Yeah?

45:17 Speaker 3: Yeah?

45:19 Speaker 4: We flow through light through strive through pain. We go through and we can fight the rain in spite. The rain washes all away.

45:30 Speaker 1: The water streams down the street and into the drain.

45:34 Speaker 3: But where does it go from there? And where do we go from here?

45:38 Speaker 1: And who is it that will care if we become something unclear? Who is really on the sad when the turn comes, when Mora out comes to.

45:48 Speaker 3: The end, who'll send it with us? Er? She's flowing they showing us there.

45:54 Speaker 12: Deane is growing with no light to fight back the darkness and goulfing us whole as the bricks stack these walls that we built with no seals for the knick knacks.

46:13 Speaker 9: Sit back, Listen to the sick track with the metal kidnap the sickness out you give back. Don't let them dout. You met them with that bird trap that power flowing in and tack the metal bit of cake back.

46:27 Speaker 1: Agad that look inside and try to see the lad with penners like a seed that Biden's up and the rights the tough enough to.

46:35 Speaker 3: Take the lead.

46:36 Speaker 9: I agree to believe that we can be the greatest team the way this seems all tighter dreams of feats compete with master jeep that we fall the deeper creeping sneaks inside your mind, depleting yourself worth, increasing fortunes.

46:50 Speaker 3: For the peerless.

46:51 Speaker 1: Be fearless, steer us towards the more conclusive future.

46:55 Speaker 5: Suits you up like mothern.

46:58 Speaker 3: No hell's kitchen.

46:59 Speaker 1: Dismiss sympaths, effect the violence the active side. Thats won't solve the tyrants, won't halt the virus behind the eyelids. Try this, put aside the difference assistance between the sides. For instance, your instinct sorts always in synct it's distinct thinking like an ey this link. Don't sink to depths that test the break, don't drink, they're cooler. But with the deep distinct. But where the deep distinct, don't drink, they're cool. But with the dent dist think but whether dent distinc you are.

47:27 Speaker 3: Let's takes.

47:38 Speaker 5: Coming up with nothing.

47:40 Speaker 1: I aim to become something, telling myself I'm not enough. Just take what's easy coming. But nothing was easy coming. I had to work to just be someone getting vibe by dealing pies and dreaming out the dungeons, bleeding of my thumbs when I should be pumping and elbows, draining up my funds when up not but a swelled nose from walking into walls. There stole in so my dead grows, my bank rolls non existence. I almost just let go my chest throws. I couldn't breathe. I needed to run, I needed to flee.

48:13 Speaker 1: I needed to see my family. I needed to be Disseminately, immediately, I ceased to be, and we became what you all see. Six minds alike, but not just right, combined eternal lead. We won the fight by changing the rules, the duels become a draw.

48:28 Speaker 3: We own the night.

48:29 Speaker 1: By being the light, the brightest of them all. If we scream aloud the straw well failed, we can be that piece of straw.

48:36 Speaker 3: The camel begs us over a break.

48:38 Speaker 1: Who are reached, and notither Call six