Best of Matt Connarton Unleashed volume 40

From the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in downtown

Manchester, New Hampshire. You are tuned in to the best of Matt Connerton

unleashed. That's a space content. So tough of you into this family so

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won't understands turn it was so it was so. That is space Cadet.

That is brand new from these two fine gentlemen on the couch. Dank Sinatra.

Yeah, we got Fraidl Fradl. You know what I did. I

do that sometimes I created an amalgam in your mind of in my mind of

your names. Oh yeah, so I combined Fredo and Axel and Fraxel Radel.

So there's there's a there's a third member of our band who is uh

in Massachusetts, just far away Nathan and Nate is. But it's not like

it's not like when the you know, in Spanish, when they make the

j the huh sounds. It's not Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty

sure. Okay, Okay, is it is it spelled p I E G

A R I think it's p A J A R I. Dude has a

Facebook. He does a thing, you know, he's got he's got a

big um. He's got like a he's got his own um. He's got

his own page where it's just bass players. Oh really, it's called Heckle

the Basis. Oh okay, and it's just like all these different bass players.

No, no, no, no community. He is Heckel the Basis,

but he is community. He is tyckled the Basis because like that's what

he does. But he's in this uh it's called Base Upfront, which is

a bat bass community that that you're talking about that he him, Nathan goes

by Heckel heck of the Basis has a whole story that he if he calls

in he could actually explain either which way could be him on the line,

his whole community probably, Um, it's called Base up base upfront, that

was a nationwide, if not international uh thing. That is a as I

said, a big uh base community. Okay, so so this is the

same on the line, Hello, welcome to the show. Yep, can

you guys hear me? Yeah? Yeah? What's up? Man? Is

this Nathan? Yeah, Hey you're on the air. Welcome. Oh yeah,

I totally forgot to listen. I can hear you're giving your kids a

bath? Is that what that was going on? Yep, that's what's going

on right now, getting family man? Yeah, yeah, well very good.

Yeah, go ahead. No, I'm I'm super excited. I haven't

heard what you guys been talking about. I just caught the last minute of

it. Or so you guys are talking about we were Yeah, we were

talking about your your bass group. How did you come up with that name?

Dude? Um, honestly, I'm trying to remember how I came up

with it. I can't remember it off hand really, but m it was

just kind of like I started doing live videos on Facebook all the time and

people would just kind of like heckled me in the comments. So I think

I kind of just came up with the idea off of that, like heckle

the basis because okay, player, it sounds like you got a child there

heckling you in real time. You know, good dad, I'm not crank

because I'm because your chops aren't good dad, they are all well, very

good. Well yeah quit radio. Well it does sound like you've got your

hands full, so wet. We're doing some good stuff. Yeah, don't

forget to use the baby powder at the end, you know what I mean?

So what what have have you guys played any song on the air yet?

Or yeah, a couple? Oh boy, Yeah, well we played

We just played Space Cadet and we're gonna play some more later. Oh and

I opened the show today with Live inside the Lie the instrumental bro bro Bro.

They opened up with that. Yeah, we're literally smoking to come up.

He's playing it on for us right on, you know us drop in

this like right now for people to hear this, and then we're super excited

to fully release it for everybody. Oh cool, for sure. I'm always

excited. I'm super excited to have to be a part of it with these

guys, and you know, it's it's really special to me what we're creating,

so we hope it's special for everybody else too. Yeah. Absolutely,

no, it's great stuff, man, great stuff, love it, and

we're very happy to be able to do the world radio premiere here on the

show. We're gonna do it. Yeah, I definitely am gonna hop on

the hop on the stream right now and listen, all right, very hang

up here, shout out to the fan. Man, all right, well

I got the I got the kiddos here, so there and listen. But

all right, Nathan, thanks for having me and thanks for having us,

of course, thank you man, all right, thanks for the call.

All right, bye bye. Did I say his name Ronge? He said

a good Oh okay, he was, He would have corrected you. It's

fine. Oh what does he go by? Nate Yate? Oh okay,

oh him. I call him Nate Dog, Nate Dog. I was thinking

about dog. You do not I did. I never call him. You

never call him. Look at my phone though he is in my phone.

He is Nate Dog in my phone. He is legit literally, that's what

he saved as in my phone. That's my understanding of rock and roll was

it came around in the fifties and like this guy, you know, Chuck

Berry and uh little Richard and stuff like that. Yeah, came out with

rock and roll and like it was defined by this like beat, dude,

do you know that was like yeah, that was like the traditional what made

right as so you could like that's what makes the genre, is like the

beat, because like you could do any song in a different genre, Like

happy Birthday is a folk zone, right, but you could do Happy Birthday

in a rock style, or you could do it in like a reggae you

do a reggae yeah, yeah, but um, I don't know, man,

But genres, it's all sub genres really is what it is. Yeah,

And on my way over here, I always thinking so much about what

what you would think about Dick Sinatra, Like what what would you call it?

Would you say it's rock, metal, alternative rock. Well there's the

Yeah, there's the alternative rock, short gae, sort of catch all.

It's got a to me, it's got it's got kind of a garage a

garage rock absolutely vibe. You know, it's kind of kind of raw.

The production is is raw, but you know in a good way. It's

it's I don't mean it's I don't mean it doesn't sound like it's well,

it's also a good segue because black Heart Sound here in Manchester, Here in

Manchester, Aeron Solder in his crew, I have done a phenomenal job.

I hear that name a lot. He seems like he's really has done a

lot. I think he produced Faith Anne's album, Oh okay, her first

one. He produced hers, He produced the first two Dank Sinatra EPs.

This is the first LP I know. He's done stuff for UM ten to

one, ten to one with the granted tiers. Uh, there's a bunch

of people. Yeah, strange language, strange language. There's a bunch of

people. Deed Harrison, Deed Harrison. And that's the south to top of

my head. The guy works with so many people. After after image Brandon

Christio. Oh yeah, it was the after image. We have them on

the show. Here's the engineer on this album. Oh okay, Oh no

kid. And it was a Eric and Brandon collaboration. Black Heart Sound Hampshire

is you know, it's run by Eric and he's got you know, people

working with him. And yeah, we were such pleasure to work with Brandon,

to be producing, you know, to be engineering, yeah, you

know. And then I co produced it with uh with with Eric and he's

got such a nice space right there behind the music mill. And he's got

everything state of the art like that, you know, soundproof, see through

you know doors, super super cool stuff. Yeah, he's got uh,

every toy you want to play with, man, old amps, old cabs,

big, you know, just huge, old, stuffy tons of it.

So we were experimenting and yeah, I think we uh man um over

like a three four day period. We recorded this with him that quick.

Huh yeah. Wow. Well we rehearsed with the songs. Took about a

year. Yeah, yeah to write that's just travel right, Yeah, and

then I went in and reached the vocals and and and you know there's mixing

and this post stuff. You know this, I went with a keyboard after

we were like adding some stuff. Yeah, you'll get to hear it.

Yeah, yeah, there's there's a lot of it's it's it's an adventurous thing.

We're calling it obscurity and dissonance, Okay, and it's it's uh,

it's a concept album. It's an old school concept album where uh it's about

a guy lost in space okay, and uh as he's as his spaceship is

running out of fuel and he's going further out into the into the nowhere into

the outer you know, the cosmos. Yeah, into the space. He's

uh right, like kind of searching listening for any communication that he can make

with anyone. And that's kind of like the album you're hearing is the stuff

coming in through the through the dial and as he's looking for for communication,

Okay, and uh you know it's it's it's kind of this like lost in

space type of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's I don't

know, there's I think there's a lot of people who are kind of tired

of the same old stuff. You know, everybody's like super political or super

introspective, or everything's a love song or a breakup song, and that just

gets cheesy and old, you know, or you know everyone's or like your

message. That's it's it's so hilarious when an artist has like a message for

everyone. Really, your message are you gandhi? You're just a chick with

a guitar. Man, you don't have like a message for us. You're

just you know, like, what are you gonna solve? You know,

just just just just you know, has makes sound cool, man makes sound

cool that we want to listen to again and over again. Yeah, And

I think that was like like the vibe when I hear the stuff that was

influencing me when I was listening to this stuff like a lot of Failure,

a lot of Melvin's David Bowie um where it's like, yeah, you know,

there's some love songs and stuff, but there's also just kind of cool

songs about whatever, some some cool concept man, yeah, some some literary

imagination role yea. Everything doesn't have to have a deep, you know,

message, although there is some on this album, you know here and there.

Well, that's the thing about music is ultimately it's it's the meaning of

it is up to the listener. You know, they can they can take

have you either if you want to take ourselves too seriously? No, I

get it, you know what I mean, Like I want to take ourselves

our art seriously, but I also don't. Yeah, you know, I

like, I also just want to be open to just like goofing off and

that's cool too. Have either of you guys ever had the I've never thought

to ask anybody this before, and I don't so I don't know if this

is a common experience people have or not. But have either of you ever

had had this happen where a song means something to you, the lyrics means

something to you, and then you hear the artist or whoever wrote the lyrics

talking about it and they say something completely different than what it means to you,

And there's something kind of jarring about that, Like, okay, all

right for me. For me, it's not jarring. I kind of just

expect it. I expected at this point a person that kind of like broke

that, you know, m illusion a collective person that we we that we

like is a manam James Keenan the Leaders Circle APC that like he He's the

first person that broke that illusion of like, I'm supposed to like it one

certain way because I think that that's what they meant, right, And time

after time, more often than not, whatever you're thinking is not going to

land whatever they're thinking. Right. Furthermore, furthermore, words words themselves are

inert, right, Like if I say the word love, okay, then

you hear that word and you shake your head. I'm like, okay,

like the word love and you're like okay, and I see you shake your

head. But what really happened is I said the word love and then you

went in your mind to all of your experiences or not experiences of what that

word means to you, And then you shook your head like I'm supposed to

know what you meant, you know what I mean? So yeah, I

think I think it's the same thing with art. You know, it's just

it's just going to mean different stuff, you know, crack Glynn Rose.

You know, it might be just like a whatever song, but to someone

it may mean so much. Yes, Like you know, like Forever in

Blue Jeans could be uh, you know about how I killed a drifter,

I left him in his blue jeans. But you know that's what it means

to me. Well I'm sorry to hear that in a way, but but

again, you know, it doesn't matter. Awesome, So what's the never?

Yeah, look, yeah, let's do that. Let's do one.

What do you guys want to play the one? Absolutely? Yeah? What

do you you want to do? The math song? Yeah? You know,

if you if you're a fan of Air between Us, you might,

I am you might like if there's any Dank Sinatra fans in the comments or

in the air right now, this would be a little call back to the

first album. Yeah, I was gonna say yeah, prior to prior to

the new the new stuff they were hearing today or between Us is my favorite.

Uh. Pre uh what's the name of the new album again? This

is Obscurity and Dissonance. Obscurity and Dissonance, yeah, um yeah, prior

to prior to this album, air between Us is my favorite. That was

off of Bulterior Motives, Two Birds Stoned at Once? Yeah, is that

really the name of Yes, absolutely, I didn't realize we called it Bulterial.

I didn't realize that we called it. The idea was that we were

gonna then have another album later on down the line called Bulterior Motives with another

sub title. Ye. But the first subtitle was two Birds Stoned at Once

because the first album was just us two you know. This album we added

Nate Yam and the first the album cover for the first album, the artwork

is our mugshots. Yeah. Uh, and it's just the two of us,

So, you know, adding Nate added so much depth to songwriting and

to playing in this band. Yeah and um yeah, so we we kind

of you know, went with the concept album. But you know, if

we bring back Bultier Motives, there'll be there would be another subtitle, you

know, and it would be definitely just irreverent and zany because we don't care.

Yeah, all right, cool, Well let's listen to this. So

yeah, this is one of the ones I haven't heard yet, so this

will be uh, this will be fun. So uh, this is the

Math and this is Dank Sinatra here with us in studio today. Check this

out. This is brand new stuff, the World Radio premiere of the World

of these songs, Why why Why World, World, God cannot Wild Wild

to? And we have with us on the couch the Gentleman To two thirds

of Dank Sinatra in studio with us, and today we have been featuring music

from their brand new album, the World Radio Premiere. If you will,

Obscurity and Dissonance. Yes, yes, so we have Fredo and Axel here

from the band. And the only one we're missing his Nate. But he

is in the chat room. Oh I did see him in there? Yes,

yes, very good. Melanie says. What is on the checkered shoeman's

shirt? Is that a horror movie? No? Oh no? What is

what is that? It's Wired for Sound? Yeah, our friends in another

band, amazing, great, great band, Wired for Sound. This is

one of their albums. Oh okay, awesome, awesome alternative rock band from

New Hampshire. And you can also find them in any streaming platform. Yeah,

excellent, really good stuff. Wired for Sound excellent. We will we

will check that out. Absolutely. It does kind of look like a Silent

Hill shirt though. Yeah. Yeah, it's got some like horror vibes.

I like that. Yeah, no, it does. It definitely does.

Uh. Let's see. Crystal said, by the way, during Easyg's entertainment

report, this is the shortened down version. It ain't easy that's right.

Rondo Favero says, California is in the house. Help me run. Let's

see what's a big state it is. It's like, let's say, I

want to say forty nine and a half million people? Is it forty Ask

him anything about Kelli thirty nine and a half millions. Let's ask him anything.

I forgot for a second that you used to live there, California?

Whatever? Name three songs bro Hey, Red Hutch Chili Peppers? Can those

are like thirty nine point five million? Thirty nine point five Yeah, Okay,

I want to say Jay Fat is in the chat room. Hello.

Hey, uh, let's see I thought I saw Kyle Clayton from the Morning

show we mentioned is in there. Hello Kyle, Kyle. Uh, let's

see I thought I saw Jef. Dude. Dave, my friend Dave Wally

is in the Facebook live chat. Dave is a very talented musician. I

went to high school with Dave, and uh, he's got a podcast he's

gonna be working on. I gotta talk to him more about that. I

think he wants some input from me. But yeah, very It's funny Dave.

David called the show recently and we talked about it in high school because

my favorite band is Kiss, and in high school Dave used to give me

a hard time about it, and uh so, after all, what could

be a hard time guys were in makeup and giant boots singing rockne I know,

right, But but then he's funny. He called the show one day

and we talked about it, and uh, he's he respects them now and

even even when to an audition at one point for a Kiss tribute band.

So it's kind of funny. But like all these years later to talk about

that, because I still remember what he used to give me a hard time.

It's funny. But God, bless the internet. You know, you

can connect with people from you know, decades ago. Yeah, I won't

say how many decades, but decades ago. Speaking of Kiss, I was

at a music Connection you know where music connect, you know, music music

the record store. Yeah, we have. It's like the best record store

in Manchester. I mean, you know they got that guy on Summerville.

I haven't been in there in a really long but the dude, Yeah,

Music Connection with it was like it was cheap. It was like ten bucks.

They had Kiss Alive, the double album. Yeah, I had to

get it, man, Oh no kidding. Yeah. On vinyl, the

original Nice Nice. I'm a sucker for vinyl. Yeah, dude, I

love it. I love it. Somebody told me on the show, was

someone who said this that in uh in twenty twenty two, it was the

first year that vinyl out again. Yep, it's real. It's coming back.

Yeah. I think people enjoy it. Yeah, there's something cool about

it, you know what I mean. The other day I was hanging with

my girl. We put on Master of Reality. Yeah, and um,

you know it starts off with sweet Leaf and you know, like towards you

a song. It was like the song ended, what is that? What

is that? What is that? Yeah, it's the end of we gotta

Side B, we gotta put Side B on. Yeah, someone's got so

it's cool. Yeah, it's cool to hold it in your hand and his

artwork on it. And well, I think too. Part of why vinyl

sell so well now is a lot of people just um, because I never

actually stopped. And I think a lot of people, if they're really a

fan of an artist, you know, they'll they'll buy the final and and

just never even open it. Just key to collect it because I love the

artists absolutely, you know, and they might also buy the CD to listen

to you or I have have doubles. I have a lot of I like,

I have my Sergeant Peppers only Hard Club and I have a double which

I like, I have with the one I listened to and the one I

play. Yeah, you know there's I have a few records. Yeah,

there's there's a few records. I have double Dark Side of the Moon.

Um. By the way, my Sergeant Peppers is an original Apple Records Sargeant

Peppers, which is why I don't I do not play it. Oh wow,

it's definitely over one hundred bucks worth. It's like if I try to

sell it on EBAD probably get a couple hundred bucks or at least it's got

the original pull out cut cut cut your own Sergeant Peppers uniform. Really yeah,

it was because like inside the sleeve it had this thing where like you

could you know, um, you had like little stripes and a star and

you could make it. You can make your own uniform. Yeah, I

have a sticky fingers with the original. It's got a zipper with the zipper

yeah yeah, and like you know you don't play that man, right,

Yeah, I have an unopened and Peter Frampton comes alive unopened. Yeah,

it's never it's sealed, never been open. Yeah yeah, and I can't

I can't listen to it, right, that's cool. But my record player

has bluetooth on it because it's twenty twenty three. Yeah. Yeahs my mind

that you have like something two things that should not exist together and they do.

Yeah, it's like retro retro tech man, that is. That is

kind of funny. Like if I want the pops and hisses, then yeah,

I'll put it. I'll put on a vinyl. But if I want

to listen to like h Clue, yeah, I don't understand it, Like

I'd rather listen to retro stuff all day. But then I was shocked.

I don't know if I've I've talked about it on the show. I can't

remember if I've talked about it with you guys before on the show, But

uh, was it maybe five or six years ago. I'm on bandcamp dot

com and I said, and I realized that, uh, this this cassette

tapes and now that, and now that's come back in a big I mean,

it's never gonna last. The last cassette tape I bought was a local

band called Black Hatch. Yeah, have you ever heard of Black Hatch?

Their local Manchester hard rock garage rock, hard garage rock, really good stuff

like rock and dude, if you like Kiss, check out Black Hatch.

But yeah, they were selling tapes and I was like, are they selling

tapes? And they were like it was dude. They were so cool.

They had a they had a box. It was like, I think it

was outside of um oh, what's that tattoo places chess place right there down

there down there? Anyways, Yeah, yeah, they were playing outside the

back of that. No, no, no, the other one. Oh

anyways, Uh, they're playing out behind the back of it. And they

had a box with all a bunch of tapes in it, and it was

like give us five bucks or just take a tape. Yeah, like like

taking it, you know, like you don't have to pay for it,

but we will will accept your money. Yeah, it was cool and I

definitely took put my five bucks in there. But yeah, yeah, it's

it's cool. I mean, tape tape is cool man, you know.

I mean if sometimes you know, you play something a bunch of times and

then you start you start to hearing that that hiss, you know. I

remember us. I used to make my mixes off the radio. I mean

I used to us to like wad up a piece of tissue paper and like

shove it in the little slots in the bottom part of the tape. Ye,

and I could just tape over it. Oh, you make my own

mix tapes all right off the radio. I would. I would go so

far as to, like if the tape broke, if I wore it out,

I would actually try to and a couple of times it actually worked.

I would Yeah, I'd try to tie them together. I would literally I

would tie them together. That doesn't work, Yes, it does, that

would work. You would skip, you would skip a certain part well yeah,

yeah, but you have to make sure that both of the top that

you have to make sure that thin enough. The top and the bottoms are

different and positive and negative. It's weird. Yeah, Like there were certain

ones that did pop that I would just tie because it goes to side B

from side A. That was the risk you you took. I didn't say

it was perfect, but I say you could do it, so that would

work, huh. I mean for a while, right, eventually, no

kidding. It's like if you're listening to Floyd to go from us and them

into breathe like what happened, people would never know. You'll never get to

hear the Great Break Remix miximix. Oh that's wild, that's wild. We

want to do it. We want to we want to put out a vinyl

Yeah, you know, like it's expensive. It is what I hear.

It is expensive. It's not just the expensive thing. But believe it or

not, there's a waiting list. Really, even if you have money,

good luck, there's a bad quarter. Interesting, yeah, because there's probably

not very many companies that do it. No, there isn't. There isn't.

And then you can go as you can go as few as like I

want to make ten for seventy five a pop. Or you can go from

like I want to make a thousand for ten bucks each. Oh wow,

you know what I mean. Like it's it's it gets it gets crazy.

It is expensive. It's absolutely expensive. Yeah. But you know the thing

is if you so you're not gonna if you make one or two or three,

if you make a handful, You're not doing it to make a profit.

You're doing it to like, you know, put it on the fridge

and show everyone that you made a record, right yeah, yeah, yeah,

of course of course. Um are you guys? Uh so this isn't

actually out yet write the new album or is it? We have not dropped

it man, So this is absolutely so this is a real worldwide This is

awesome. Yeah. I'm beyond stoked actually, and I just couldn't thank you

enough for having us. Yeah yeah, no, I'm happy to happy to

do it. Uh So when does the do we have an ETA on when

the album officially is released? We're looking at mid July okay, we're looking

at Midge Live for the release. And that's going to be you know,

of course, you know all all all services that you that you give your

music from. Yeah, you know, whether it's YouTube or Spotify or you

know, Apple or Amazon or wherever you get your music from. That we're

we don't want to put a exact date on it yet because we're still still

in post. Yeah, but looking at mid July. Okay, yea cool.

Are you guys playing out a lot these days or have you been focused

on getting the album done? Scribe? We uh, we are definitely Scribe,

We are definitely uh. We have definitely um taken a back seat to

performing this year. Yeah, A good chunk of this year went straight into

writing material, recording, jamming, jamming these songs out to polish and recording

and tracking and getting getting everything up to up to stuff with everything. So

like we we've, as I said, taking a back seat to it,

but we are definitely trying to hit the road quote unquote. Uh yeah.

So this this month, we're playing at Area twenty three in the seventeenth and

Conquered. I don't know the dates were deets deats. So it's gonna be

Saturday, Saturday. Yeah, it's gonna be Saturday, June seventeenth, start

at that Area twenty three, and I think the music is gonna start there

at eight and uh, then we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be in

Dover on August twenty fifth at the Strand Theater. Ah, yes, great

place. Yeah, every everything. I've never been there, everything I hear

about it. Yeah, and they put your name on the marque and everything,

which is really cool. I see, I see a lot of cool

pictures of fans in front of the marquee and it's awesome. It's really good

to say. That's something in my calendar for July twenty ninth in Nashville.

I think they got canceled. Yeah, I think there's a discreptancy with um

a particular venue in Nashville, but um over that we have one, as

I said, as I said the seventeenth of this month, we're that's like

next Friday. Yeah, well next Saturday. It's next Saturday. That's Saturday.

And then August twenty fifth, so like we're we're not We're trying to

get back into it because we've been kind of like shelling ourselves to make this

as good as possible. Yeah. Yeah, um, and you know it's

a full album, which is ambitious in this era because there's a you know,

not that many Yeah that they're really doing that. I mean, you

know, and of course we live in a time when you've got so many

different options anyway, with the internet. Like, for example, yesterday I

had on I don't know if you know Holly Brewer, Um, I've heard

the name. Yeah, yeah, she was on the show yesterday. She

called in and we actually did a world radio premiere for her new single,

Clothesline. But what she does is she she's on a regimented schedule. Every

month, she releases a new single every sing and she's been doing that since

twenty nineteen. But that's it. That like there's no big album or anything.

So every every month she releases one song and it's yeah, he's consistent,

Yeah it is. Yeah, yeah, she sticks to it. But

but it's, um, there's so many different ways to do it. Was

it important to you guys to do that, to make a make a full

album? Like did you decide from the beginning with with this one it was

gonna be a full album? Or yeah? Yeah, yeah. The first

one was an EP with a couple of covers on it. Yeah, you

know we had that was back when I was on base in the band Frank.

Uh. You know, Frank was an amazing guitarist. Yeah, but

we had a couple of covers on that, uh, and then the second

one, Uh, it was like I think like thirty four minutes total.

Yeah, it just wasn't long enough to be an album and it was just

jaxelent I and so I think we really wanted a full album. And then

we started talking about a concept and it was like, all right, you're

right now I think about it. No one is doing stuff like that.

Yeah, no one's putting out a concept album with thirteen songs and it's probably

gonna be close to like an hour long. Yeah, like that's um,

but here we are and we're doing it. I think it was important because

we we had um, we had a lot of songs with a certain vibe,

and we actually wrote we wrote a lot of songs that didn't make it

to this album really, you know, so we I think we we ended

up we started with like twenty and then we like just carved him off,

chop some way, and you cut as much fat off as you can and

you end up with kind of like the songs that you don't want to get

rid of, and that's what we ended up with, these thirteen songs.

Yeah. Yeah, it's you know, talking about what we were talking about

earlier, where it's like some of these songs are serious and some are not.

Um and I think that's uh part of just kind of the concept of

the you know, the chaos of being lost in space, you know,

like the the existential thoughts you're going to have of like you know, uh,

this right, this thing in front of me matters, but also you

know what does any of this matter? You know? Sure? So it's

like a I think there's um so many different things that we had to say,

and it couldn't have been done with less songs. We cut away with

what we could, yeah, what we had to yeah, and what we

what we kept we just couldn't get rid of. Right, right, Well,

let's um, let's play another one, because yeah, we're we're rapidly

running out of time, but I want to I'd like to get at least

one more and now, and then we'll do one more at the end of

the show. But let I'll let you defer to you guys what I should

play next. Oh, you know, since you said you liked it,

um, oh Bowser, Yeah, I like everything on here, but yeah,

Bowser, Uh, so far as my personal favorite. Um, that's

Nate. We're hoping to hear Big Sleep. Maybe we could do Big Sleep

as like the Outra I don't know, Yeah, whatever whatever you want to

do, Yeah we can do that. But all right, let's um,

yeah, this is a this is a quick one. Actually it was only

two and a half minutes. That's a short one. But let's we'll give

this a listen. We've got Danks and Outra here with us in studio to

my fadial line chain just this time it's just my en to mynd that is

Bowser Dank Sinatra. That is brand new coming off the new album. And

uh yeah, Nate said in the chat room, thanks for playing that one.

He wrote that, yeah, very very cool. Yeah that's my personal

favorite from the new album. And uh yeah banger, great stuff, great

stuff. Well guys, before we run out of time, and we are

going to play one more song, Dan Michelle, but we are we are

approaching the end of the program. So I want to make sure that everybody

knows where to find you online and so they can keep up with everything that

you're doing, and of course keep an eye out for when the album is

released in July, and all the good stuff and social media. Anything you

want us to uh make sure our listeners know about what you want to check

out Dank Sinatra the band Uh. You can like, you can YouTube Dank

Sinatra the Band. Uh. You can also look us up on Spotify or

band camp. Uh, Dank Sinatra. You can look up our album BOLTI

your motives and soon Obscurity and Dissonance will be coming out, so you can

look up Dank Sinatra ab Security and Dissonance. Um. There is more than

one Dank Sinatia out there, but we like to think that we're there.

We're the cool ones. I think the albumm says we're cool. The other

one's a hip hop artist. I think, right, isn't there there's many.

There's rock rock and roll and rock and roll ones, there's heavy metal

ones. There's a few. Yeah, we've been We've been approached by a

couple. We got stone and thought of it on our own. We we

we've been approached by a couple. Like actual Dank Sinatra pages really no season

desists, just like hey, congratulation respect. You know, from one dank

Sinata to another, really good. Okay, oh that's good. That's dank

Sinata brother from another Dank Sinatra, mother nice. I don't know if that's

not that, but it's very POSSI very positive. I think Mike Pennz will

have a heart attack thinking about that sentence. Oh yeah, no, I

think you guys are awesome. I love the music and uh, very happy

that we were able to do this today. And I'll get it cued up.

What was the song? Uh? You wanted to end with? Oh,

big Sleep, Big Sleep, Big Sleep, which we would love to

if if Deddie Gibson, if you're out there all right, guys, thank

you so much. Fredo and Axel and of course Nate in the chat room

from Dank Sinatra, We're going to close with this Big Sleep. Check this

out time, sweet my Slave. From the studios of w m n H

ninety five point three FM in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. You are tuned

in to the best of Matt Connerton Unleashed and we have some musicians here in

the studio. We've got three members the founding members of h Andrew North and

the Rangers. So we've got to Andrew North here at the news desk.

How are you. I'm great, good to be here. Yeah, it's

good to meet you welcome. And uh we got Chip and Dale on the

couch. We've got uh and they are the rhythm section of the band.

Uh. So, now Chip you're the basis Is that correct? That is

correct? Yes, I should have known from the shirt and so Dale you're

the drummer obviously. Yep. And who say, do you guys all sing

or who? Or do you do all the whale sing? Um? We

we try to spread lead singing duties around a little bit. Everybody sings some

harmony parts. I end up doing a good chunk with the lead singing.

But but we all sing. Okay, yeah, you got uh you got

some love. In the Facebook live chat while uh, while that last song

was on, Miriam Banish was commenting how much she liked it, and uh,

somebody else said they had a chicken in the backyard. Oh, Melanie

Lile Liberty from the Great State of Romash. She says, hey, I

got a chicken in the backyard too, very relatable too, Yes, yes,

yes, So Andrew North and the Rangers is here with us in studio.

You know that when I first uh started to become aware of you guys,

I had seen um Fredo from Dank Sinatra. He had. You probably

saw this he had. This was a while ago. He had posted on

social media something about he was thinking about sorry in a band called Andrew South

and the Rangers. I still hope he does. I think that would be

incredible. That would be great, and you guys could tour together. Know,

I was gonna say, I would love to be their opening act.

Yeah, there you go, there you go. Where does the name come

from? Hey, well that's that's a long story. Well we got time

Andrew. When when Andrew first met us, he was doing a solo gig,

is just Andrew of the North. Oh yeah, we were. We

were still trying to figure out how to name the rest of the band.

And the first gig we were at at True Brew, which sadly no longer

exists, and conquered um and we were Andrew of the North and Friends or

something. And Andrew introduced us to the crowd as and this is chip and

this is Dale. Yeah, some woman out there goes chipping Dale like the

Rescue Rangers. So we're like, oh, we'll be Andrew of the North

and the Rescue Rangers. Way too long. That eventually got, you know,

short to Andrew North and the Rangers. But that's where Rangers comes from

because some women screamed out rescue Rangers. Oh okay, okay, that makes

sense. Um, you guys got a bunch of live albums. I mean

it seems like, um, I mean you're really are you kind of really

just more focused on being a live band, because it looks like you've got

a lot of live stuff. We're geared towards the live show. Every every

show is different. We improvise a lot, set list is always different.

We try to keep you know, a lot of new covers, entering rotation,

that kind of stuff. And so yeah, our our model is to

share as much of that as broadly as possible. And then the new live

album we have Thanks for the Warning, Volume one is sort of a selection

of stuff that we thought was was really noteworthy from the last year. But

we also just we publish everything. So we record shows on our own and

put them up on bandcamp and on archived out organ things like that, Um,

just to just share it. I don't think there's any benefit in this

day and age to kind of keeping that stuff close. I think it's it's

nice to put out. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I opened the

show today with Infinity spinning, which was cool because I usually opened with a

long song, you know, let people get tuned in and whatnot, and

uh yeah, great stuff. Yeah. That's the challenge actually with this album

and promoting this album is every track on it is like seven or eight minutes

long. Yeah, yeah to radio shows and they're like, yes, a

little long. Yeah yeah, we don't we don't mind that here, but

we're we're unusual. Yeah, you got a couple of shorter ones. Looks

like the shortest one on this album is Thing about the Woods. That's only

four and a half minutes. That's a good radio length. But yeah,

everything else, Yeah, you're right, a lot of sucks. Now.

We are not known for our short songs. Yeah. Yeah, but when

you when you play live, does that kind of vary with these songs because

there is some improvisation, I mean, it is a lot of that,

just kind of feeling your way through it. And then yeah, it depends

on where things are at on any given night. We don't buy into the

pure jam band model where a song is gonna go like h to the left

and end up at you know, eighteen minutes or something. But there's there's

a lot of a lot of padding built in where you know, if the

vibe on a given night is to take something and you know, make it

a little weird, or explore something that we find while we're in the middle

of it, we'll just jump right into that and go with it. And

so that that puts things on the longer side because I think we all as

players really enjoy having that room to explore, and I think our audience really

likes it too. Yeah, drives crazy, So we like to do that.

I appreciate that. Does it drive interesting adventure? I mean I I

generally like it. I mean, I love the level of talent in this

band, y is. It's probably the best most talented band I've ever played

with, oh course, which is really nice. Cool. So it's a

lot of fun playing of these guys. So so it started so the band,

as far as it being a band, it started with the three of

you. But then there's there's other but you have other musicians who play with

you, right, Yeah, we're six piece, Okay, six piece?

So yeah, because I saw a couple of different pictures and I think,

yeah, I think the most reason why I had seen there were six of

you. Okay, so who else is there who's not here with us.

And by the way, I feel free to make up any crazy stories about

why they're not here because because we enjoy that, have fun with it.

If you want to, it's up to you. So I think the first

the first to bring up is Rob the Mysterious Stranger O'Brien, who is um

a saxophone player by trade, but he also plays You may have seen pictures

of it, like silver sci fi looking thing. Yeah, it's called an

aerophone, okay, and um it's been a real education for me as to

how win synths work. And so it took us a little while because he

would come in and like play a clarinet sound or something and be like,

it kind of sounds like a clarinet, but not quite and it like when

when we were were first exploring that turf, I was like, I don't

know if this is cool or not, and then it's sort of overtime has

become the coolest thing ever because it's on stage and everyone's like, I have

never seen one of those before, I have no idea what it is.

And we don't have a guitarist in our band, and so we actually have

him rip electric guitar solos on that thing. Wow, um, yeah,

it's unique. Yeah. There's always one person at the show who will come

up, you know, like either during a separaker at the end and say,

what is that thing? Oh I can imagine? Yeah yeah, well

that's cool too because it gives you, i mean, you know, to

be able to really stand out and have something that nobody else has and nobody

else does. I mean, that's that's awesome. Well, and Rob just

keeps getting better and better with it as far as the sounds he finds and

the spots he finds to fit in where it's he has, you know,

just the these unbelievable, like weird synthesizer sounds that are almost like sounds like

it's through a bunch of effects pedals, and oh wow, it's super cool.

Yeah, you'll hear it on on our songs. And now that you've

now that we've said erphone, you'll start to listen and go, yeah,

oh maybe that's that thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, oh that's cool.

Yeah you said and you you call them the mis was it the mysterious serious

stranger? I have to sounds like there's a story there, We have a

concrete story. You know. He's sort of ever evolving between uh different uh

stage attire that he chooses, the different times that he does or doesn't show

up for a show. Um, I mean initially when we got started,

I think it was more the fact that he was not able to make practice

a lot of the time because his job took him away. Yeah, and

so whenever he showed up, he was the sort of stranger who kind of

just popped in and everything. Yeah. Yeah. It would usually just roll

into a show without practicing at all, and we would, you know,

maybe send him some stuff from practice, but like, here's what we're working

on. Yeah, you show up and just slay at the show. He'd

be like, okay, cool, Like we don't know who that guy came

out on stage and I did his thing with his sci fi toaster. Yeah

that's great. And so that that, in varying degrees, has continued.

And yes, Rob is like he's a vibe. Like sometimes he'll show up

dressed like mister Rogers. Sometimes he'll show up dressed like like, I wouldn't

be surprised if he showed up in like shorts and an open leather jacket with

no shirt on underneath. Yeah that kind of thing. Yeah, Oh that's

cool. All right. So there's Rob and then uh and then who else?

And then Jillian Rourke, who plays uh baritone saxophone, and she,

like most of us in the band, is a recovering grown up. Um

yeah, okay us what two years ago now, just yeah, a little

less than two years ago. She met Rob at a Fourth of July party

and she is a pediatric dermatologist. Um, and Rob was talking about our

band and you know, playing music, and she was like, well,

I used to play baritone saxophone a long time ago and I'm dying to do

something with it. And so Rob brought her to band practice and um,

she took that opportunity and ran with it like I've never seen anybody run with

anything before, like just fall in personality, fed, absolutely perfect and just

brings the best energy that just it. It's um. They contribute so much

to what we do and so it's been amazing to have her on board.

Very cool, yeah, very cool. Um. And then we have Randy

Honeyman, who plays percussion and he's in every band and conquered, which is

kind of amazing. And uh we initial actually we had you know, a

big show at the Bank in New Hampshire, stage and conquered and we were

looking to sort of pad the sound and you know, so we brought Randy

on for that one gig and he came to a few practices and we're all

like, wow, we all really get along really well, and it's really

nice having this extra layer on the sound. And so he um, you

know, has really quickly gotten up to speed on learning all of the material

and the way that we operate with again, you know, improvising or being

ready to like take a song in a direction you might not have expected it

to go or it has never gone in practice or at a show before.

Yeah, and he's a really good sport about that as well. Yeah.

Um, so we've ended up with this group of six people who are all

very much on the same page. We all get along really well, we're

all willing to work really hard at something um that is a little bit ridiculous

and a lot of fun for us, and UM, I am so grateful

for it. It's such a cool thing to be a part of. Yeah,

And every every time we get buy in from more people, it blows

my mind a little bit because it started as like my weird little thing and

then I have you guys in on my weird little thing and now we're like

a going concern and yeah it's really cool. Yeah, that's that's great.

So with a band like this and this kind of configuration, if like like

you mentioned, Rob isn't necessarily he can't necessarily make it to every show.

So is that kind of doing the kind of music that you're doing and with

the ability to kind of improvise, does that make it easier to kind of

adapt to situations like that. I've always wondered, because you know, I'm

a musician. I've played in a bunch of bands, but I've never played

in anything where you know, you kind of had that flexibility. Maybe if

somebody isn't there, that's okay, you can kind of work around it and

still have it be really good. Is that kind of the situation with Yeah,

we do that all the time. Yeah, being we're eighty percent original,

Yeah yeah, so doing that, we can show up with anything from

a trio to any of the combination of qual odds to the full band and

put on a good show. Yeah. Yeah. Chip and I are the

only people who've played in every anter North in the Rangers show. Yeah,

okay, I missed one. Oh, really. Uh yeah in five years

was it was the other guy won't let me forget. It was the other

guy who does percussion. I forgot. We go, yeah there you go.

Yeah yeah, very cool. What about on the on the live releases,

I assume that's the full full, that's everybody on the UM. Some

of those live releases on band camp are but again by nature of publishing as

much as we can, some of those are are different configurations than we've had.

Um. You know, we had a night recently where we couldn't have

either SAX player. They weren't available, so we called in, Uh do

you know I'm at the SAX. I don't think so. Um he plays

with um super nothing. He's a great tax player. I think he's going

to be playing the national anthem at m the oh yeahs game coming up soon.

I can't remember which one, but okay, I think the fourth of

July weekend. Yeah. Yeah. He's an amazing player. And he for

years he'd come up to me be like, I want to play a gig

with you guys. Sometime I was like, here's your gig. So he

came like on extremely short notice and played the gig with us and and killed

it um and again, by nature of having a lot of improvisation, there's

a lot of room to just you know, here's where we're at tonight,

here's what we've got, and let's you know, do do something interesting with

it. Yeah. Yeah, It's really a fun place to be as a

musician to have the opportunity to do that. Oh yeah, yeah, so

you guys probably sometimes you'll fill a whole night. I would imagine, right,

like, do you could do like three hours or something? If oh

yeah, I mean we can, we can do seven hours seriously. Yeah.

Yeah. We got a couple of gigs coming up back to back where

we're gonna do two nights in a row. Yeah, no repeats, Oh

no kidding. Wow, Wow, that's cool. Yeah yeah, that's kind

of been a goal. I mean, I've been in bands all over the

country, and I've never had a band in the what forty something years that

I've been playing that could ever do that. Yeah, this is a it's

a fun milestone for me. Yeah. Whoa, we'll play two nights and

not repeat. That's very cool. That's very cool. And you said it's

like eight percent originals. Yeah, yeah, we um we add as many

covers as we can. Those tend to get second place priority in practice part

because of working on original stuff is really fun. Yeah, so we we

tend to be a little more motivated towards that. And then the covers were

always working on sort of a cover that will visit over the course of practice

until it's where it needs to be to play out, um, and so

that that, like those keep accumulating, but the original stuff tends to be

where we're motivated to move things along faster, So we're always picking up new

songs. What kind of covers do you do all anything? I think our

main like, uh influence for covers would be like the Cure and Warren Zevon,

Ben Folds. Uh, we're all fans of those types of bandage.

Yeah yeah, but we also do you know, some jazz stuff like you

know John Scofield tunes off of the Go Go, Yeah, things like that,

So we try to cover some good range. I mean that you know,

playing Scofield isn't really going to get you a lot of crowd buy in,

but yeah, I would. I would imagine there's probably something that you

do that the crowd doesn't necessarily even realize that they're covers, right, Yeah,

it's nice to have a few of those, um, like you know,

and uh, I'm a big fishhead and we do Wolfman's Brother and like,

so for a certain set of people, they're like, oh I know

that, you know you Okay, I got it. But like a lot

of people are just like, oh I like that song. Yeah. So

you know, sometimes you're you're visiting like little camps of music fans with the

way you choose covers. Yeah, and then you know, we also have

a few that are like right down the middle, like we do you know,

call me out? Really, you know everybody knows them of that song

to be Yeah, just too whatever. Yeah, we've got a weird alt

tune on our Oh I have to know what what song? Oh? Really,

it's almost a two for one cover because you get the Kinks fans.

That's true, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have we

have Andrew North and the Rangers here with us in studio. But we can

play another another song? Should we do something from Thanks for the Warning?

Volume one? This is the newest one, right, the newest album?

Yeah? Absolutely, um what should I'll let you pick? But I'm kind

of curious to hear something where Okay, So Rob's what's the name of the

instrument again? It's an aerophone. Is there a particular song where the aerophone

really stands out? Because now I want to hear something where it's prominent and

I can listen for it. Yeah. Uh, I see a song called

epiphone, but I don't see one called aerophone. Yeah. It's a very

straight up saxophone type song, is it. Yeah, I Want to Be

a Ranger's real long. But that has a lot of cynthy stuff from the

aerophone on it. Yeah. Uh, yeah, we have time we can

play that one. Cool. Yeah, well all right, let's let's do

that, all right. So this is I Want to Be a Ranger.

This is from Andrew North and the Rangers. The album is called Oh by

the way, why is it? Why is it called Thanks for the Warning?

Volume one? We're still figuring that out. The Thanks as a reference

to, um, we got a wonderful right up from Matt Whithouse at the

Hippo Yeah for the studio album we did and he likened it too. It

was like Frank Zappa meets Chicago Transit Authority slash something else. What was the

third one? Do you remember? Yeah? But anyways, those two are

enough to give you the gist of like what he mentioned, and we were

like, oh, that's amazing, Like we're really proud of that. We

made a Facebook post, you know, with that quote pulled out, and

like the first comment immediately with somebody who's like, thanks for the warning.

Oh really. I was like I could see that. That's funny. But

we'll run. We'll run with that stuff. Yeah, yeah, so that's

bring it on. Yeah, stuck with us? Yeah yeah, that's cool.

All right. Here it is this is uh, this tracks called I

want to be a ranger. M hm. This one's true. Seriously,

it's true. I know you guys believe me. I'm not sure Kyle believes

me. That's okay. We still love Kyle. It's a good guy.

I want to be arranger. Draw the forst in my truck, then poaches

out of love. I want to be arranger. A blazing skates in in

his cheek. I had drinking by score free. I wanted the arranger you

up and tell her I don't take no go. I wanted the arranging.

I'm move with powers never known. I send a reader proposal hole ranging far

line y'all less step aside, ranging far and wide y'all. Bess Upside wanted

the arranging like Chuck Norris, I could be walk with Texas Ranger free.

I wanted the arranger because I shall rangy J when I said arrange in my

Aca ranger cross the pain, c rangon amountain time aunt ranging in the sea

of sand inside, I angel about playing across the play ranging amountain time out

ranging just seemed the sand in the sky, h the rain, cross crossed

the rain, non time mounts ranged in the sea. I have been the

sky, races across the pain, across the the ranger no time in the

sea, under the s sky. I want to be a ranger playing in

the sky sky A walk could be r Oh, that is cool. That

is I want to be a ranger from Andrew North and the Rangers here and

they are with us in studio. That is from the album Thanks for the

warning. Volume one Live in twenty twenty two. Do you guys, um,

Are you guys recording anything this year as far as live live albums are

U. We're gonna sort of see what we end up with at the end

of the year. We always get as high quality recordings as we can for

everything we play and then we can sort of assess at the end of the

the year what we've got and what we want to share as far as at

a level of you know, getting it properly mixed and mastered and putting it

out as a compilation album like this. Yeah. So I don't know what

we're gonna end up with it for this year. I hope we end up

with something that we can do a volume two, yeah, for twenty three,

but that is yet to be determined. Yeah, keep threatening to work

on a new studio album, which we need to get going on. Yeah,

yeah, no, that's uh. Yeah, we did play um I

played earlier in the show one of the studio tracks there. Well yeah,

from Phosphorus. I can't say that word. Phosphores and Snackum. Is that

the only studio album so far? Everything else is live Yep, that's what

we've got so far. Okay, okay, cool cool. If you're just

joining us, we do have Andrew North and the Rangers here or half the

band, the founding members here in studio with us. We have, of

course Andrew North and uh Chip and Dale or with us? What is the

what is the songwriting process like? Because and again I've never played in a

band where there's you know, some improvisation and whatnot. I mean when when

you guys, well who writes the song? Do you guys write together or

do do you come up with individual ideas or We've worked just about every possible

way that you can approach that, and we're always open to approaching it whatever

way is gonna work in any particular time. So there's a little bit of

improvisation of that aspect too. Yeah, I just write a lot by nature,

So I bring a lot of stuff to the band and at the level

of all right, here's how I play it by myself on piano and sort

of what I'm going for, and then everybody else in the band takes that

and runs with it and we end up where we end up. So I'll

never come in and be like and the bass part should go right right like

you know. Mostly I'll come with it and be like, all right,

here's what I've got as far as you know, words and chord changes,

and usually it's in a state where it's going to end up fairly close to

where I started from, not always, And that's been a really rewarding process.

It's really good practice for me letting go of being a control freak about

some of that. It's great practice. We also do write as a group,

as some of our favorite stuff has been stuff that we all wrote together,

like Mary's Chicken, Thy Money was this weird shamble process of things that

came out of band practice, inside jokes and then we're all of a sudden

it turns into a song. Yea. And Chip writes as well, I'm

always hoping that everyone else will write Dale, I'm still waiting for your songs.

Our policy is to always have sort of a yes policy, Like when

people bring songs or covers they want to do or things like that, it's

always like, yes, we'll try it. It may not stick, and

it may be something we try and we're like, yeah, that didn't really

get to where we wanted it to be. But we're always willing to try

things. And I think that's really important in a band to give everybody space

to express themselves and to use, you know, to have it be the

same creative outlet that I'm lucky enough to have it be where I'm like,

you know, I wrote a bunch of songs and here they are and now

we play them all and to me, that's the coolest thing ever, and

I hope that the band can serve that function for everybody. Right right,

we have a call somebody wants to talk to Yeah, Hey, this is

Rob. This and that kind of plays that phone. Rob. I heard

about you. I heard You're very mysterious. I tend to be. That's

that's why I'm not there in person. I usually don't show my face unless

i'm I'm out a performance in full costume. But right, I just wanted

to thank you since I couldn't be there personally, for bringing us on the

show and you know, sharing our music with the area. Oh, happy

to do it, Happy to do it. I really like what you guys

are doing. And uh fascinated to learn about the aerophone. I'm saying that

right. You know you can search for it online. You know it's it's

gonna needed some sketchy like North Korean website, but through all of the spam

filters you'll find some document imentation on it. I guess is that Wait,

is that how you bought your aerophone? You bought it from North Korea?

Is that even legal? I thought it was legal if you're king North Korea?

Right right? I understand, So you went to North Korea to gain

I mean, you know, you're mysterious, so you can make up whatever

story about it you want. So you went to North Korea to get the

aerophone? Is that correct? It's actually it's a it's a rolling product.

It's it's really fun. It's it's what kind of got me re energized back

into music after I found these guys. Oh no, kidding, my little

toy that keeps things interesting. Yeah, yeah, no, that's very cool.

That's very cool. Yeah, I don't know if you were listening.

I don't know if you've been listening from the beginning, but yeah, I

was asking these guys for a song where you can really kind of hear the

aerophone, and uh yeah, it's fascinating. I'm gonna have to because obviously

this some live videos too, right on YouTube. Oh yeah, I'm gonna

have to look up some of those and watch some of those, and I

want to I want to see the aerophone in action. That's pretty cool.

Oh you'll you'll see some stuff. I got that impression. Yeah, thanks

again. I'll let you guys continue listening from Afar. All right, all

right, Rob, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. But

all right, very good, very good. So uh, when you when

you write something, uh, and you you know, you bring it to

the band, and you know, like you said, you don't try to

control what everyone does in terms of their parts. But do you ever find

that what you had in mind or how you heard it in your head,

what it comes out as ends up being just wildly different from what you had

envisioned. Uh. Always and to a matter of degree, it always ends

up different from where I thought it might have been going. Yeah, and

sometimes it does end up extremely different. Um. And I find that's a

big part of the fun and really a rewarding process. Uh. And that's

like I used to have a really hard time with that with bands, where

I would read something and I would be very committed to what I thought the

song should be like and everybody, you know, you you've been in bands,

you know the nature. Everybody brings what they bring to it, and

you sort of find navigate to where it's going to. And it took me

a while to appreciate that process. And you know, especially with this band,

the results are consistently so good that I really trust that process a lot

more than I have in the past, or in past bands where it's like

you know I, and sometimes it is it takes a few weeks for somebody

to really dial in the part and you have to trust you're like, all

right, I hear sort of what you're going for, and even though it's

not there yet, we'll keep working on it, and I know what's going

to get there. And that is really cool to watch every you know,

as Chip was saying that we're so lucky to have this just a phenomenal group

of musicians, and watching everybody sort of work things out in real time and

challenge themselves and get better, I think it's a big part of what keeps

us all energized as a band and keeps making those songs better. And that's

another thing is that we're never officially done with a song. Songs are always

sort of open to revision. So if you know, we can have a

song that we've been playing for two or three years and in practice we're like,

you know, let's try this or you know, change this around about

it. And that's also sort of a fun process and a nice way to

let songs move along with us as a band. Yeah, because I personally,

I get really bored playing stuff that's one on the rails exactly the same

every time, and here's the fill right after the first first. It's always

the exact same notes. And that's not how my brain works. So I'm

really glad I've found a group of other musicians who are willing to put up

with that. We're all off the rails too. There you go. Well,

it's like we were talking off air while that song was playing. I

want to be a ranger. You guys were talking about how there's multiple different

there's what three different possible endings for that song, right, and and it

kind of depends on that happens once a show Sirens every every day. I

never know when in the show it's going to happen, but it happens.

Looking forward to it, yeah yeah, yes, yes, but uh yeah,

I mean that I would imagine that helps, you know, kind of

keep it fresh and exciting when it's you know, when the songs kind of

change and evolve over time and um are there are there a lot of UM

songs that go back to when you like, pre band, pre meeting these

guys. While one a couple of those tunes go way way back epiphone on

the on the on the album goes back to uh I will say two thousand

four or five, And I actually didn't write that when a band made of

Mind named Jeff Rhodes as a guitarist wrote that one, and I always liked

it so much that we've kept it going, you know, almost twenty years

later now, which is crazy. Yeah. And then Electrostatic Chills, which

tends to be the song that we put at the end of every show.

But again, we improvise a lot, but we also play the same song

at the end of every show. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's

fun. And I wrote that one. That was a really early one when

in college I would go down to like the basement in the music department and

just like hang out of the piano rum, just noodling around for hours at

a time because I didn't know what else to do with my time, and

I was starting to write. And I wrote that song in that in that

stretch, which was almost twenty years ago that it might have been oh three

or all four, and it's it's really cool to let a song like that

keep going. I played that in my college band, in my band for

a couple of years after college, and so to be able to still be

doing it and to have added so much to it in that you know,

we have new vocal parts that we've worked up over time, and having saxophone

parts that are really specific in it, and there's sort of little things that

line up with the lyrics that have evolved over time. Is really cool to

have sort of a song that is almost old enough to drink keep getting stuff

added to it, right right, yeah, yeah, And we were also,

I think this was just off air we were talking, but it's interesting

to me Dale, you were saying that, um, uh live you're playing

electronic drums and uh, it's it's remarkable how good they sound like. And

I haven't asked you. At one point during that during that song, I

said, so this is all electronic, but that's that's pretty amazing. Yeah.

It's funny because people a lot of times we'll play in front of audience

where we've got um audience members that have not seen us play yet. Yeah,

and I can see on their face, especially if they're old school or

if they're drummers, they'll look and go yeah, yeah, electronic set.

Then by the end of the first set, they're coming up to me like,

oh my, I cannot believe that's an electronic set, you know,

And then I'm explaining about all the new Roland technology and they're just so into

it because it's it's amazing how the oh yeah technology sounds Roland since dal check

every month they do. One of the great things about an elect our drum

kit is that you can actually pick different sounds for different songs, yeah,

which is one of the you know, it's a lot of different variety there.

The other awesome thing about it is we can control our own sound level

from stage, so we can play indoor in breweries or small venues. Everything

goes through the board, no amps on stage, because that's usually dictated by

how low the drummer is. Yeah, and so we're literally mixing everything through

the monitors first and then out to the mains and whatever level the venue wants

we can do. We get a lot of compliments. Oh we can listen

to you guys and still talk. This is awesome, right right, Yeah,

No, that's very cool. Um Chips as the bass player, where

you skeptical at all at first with with about the electronic drums or well,

um it was a little bit getting used to because I hadn't played with anybody

who had played electronic drums before. Although yeah, I mean Dale and I

had played together some at one of the open mics Up and Conquered before we

actually ended up in this band together. Okay, So I mean I knew,

I knew we was talented. I knew you know, we got we

clicked very well. Yeah, and so it was interesting singing that and yeah,

I mean I got used to it pretty quickly. It was fine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, a lot of fun. Yeah,

no, it is amazing how far the technology has come. Um, what

is the gigging schedule? Like are you are you guys you play out a

lot pretty consistently or yeah we got um as Dale said, we got back

to backs coming up next week on Thursday and Friday. So Thursday, the

twenty second, we're at Panucci's Up and Conquered. It's gonna be a really

fun show. And then on the twenty third on the Friday, it's the

Market Day's Festival and Conquered this week, which is um, you know,

kind of a festival of everything. Oh yeah yeah, and it's it is

like the Conquered music scenes time to shine. So we always really look forward

to it. And if folks don't know the Bicentennial Square stage by the coffee

shop there, Uh, Brothers Quartado. That stage in there is like like

New Hampshire band Central and you can just post up and hang out there all

day and see so much incredible music. So we're playing on that stage on

Friday, UM at six thirty, which we're really looking forward to. We

did that last year on the Saturday and night and it was it was such

a good time. Yeah. And then let's see the week two weeks after

that on Saturday July first, we're a feathered Friend and conquered and is that

one week? Okay, I can't tell times? Is that new Feathered Friend?

Feathered Friend? They're pretty new. They've they've been around for a little

more in a year. But in that time they've gone from like little startup

brewery to like, all right now, we took over the back parking lot

and we're gonna have music back there, even though there's no shade and it's

a million degrees whatever. To they've built this crazy stage and patio set up

in like like sound system. It's really cool and um and even we played

there a couple of times last year and this year they've upped their game.

Really. I've seen a couple of shows there and it's um really stick to

get back there. They're really committed to doing like a live music thing there.

Yeah. Um, and their beer is really good too, so UM

recommend stop and buy that one. Um. We're in Conquered. Is that

it's in the in the South End. It's on Top Street okay, kind

of buy Vinie's Pizza. Oh yep. Yeah, and I grew up in

Conquered, so I know that area. Well, what's the data in the

Hennecker concert series is at the eleventh the eleventh, July eleventh, we're playing

at Hennecker for their summer concert series. Um. And then on UM July

fifteenth, we're playing at Litherman's Limited and Conquered the Brewery gig um and they

usually put us outside on their patio, which is another um actually surprisingly lovely

parking lot. Yeah yeah, and uh so we played there a couple of

times a year as well, and we always really look forward to it.

So summer tends to be pretty busy for us. Yeah. Um, we

have not been able to maintain a schedule that lets us get too far afield

right now, you know, we're always looking for gigs to get out of

town, but logistically it's really hard to pull off with six people. So

yeah, we we've been having a great time playing Conquered, and because every

show's different, people keep coming to see us. Yeah. So it actually

works out pretty well for us to be able to just play a lot and

have people get to know our music better and get to know our weird sense

of humor and our inside jokes and so it kind of builds on itself in

a really nice way. Yeah. So it's always the more people we can

bring in, the better. Yeah. Yeah, that's excellent. One other

thing real quick to mention that we should do is that every month, first

Wednesday of the month, we actually host the open mic at Area twenty three

up and Conquered. Okay, yeah, I mean we'll play a few songs

ourselves, but will also back up of the musicians if they ask us to.

Nice and that open mic thing has really become a thing. Like when

we first talk to Area twenty three about doing that once a month, I

figured it would be you know, pretty casual, open mic, pretty chill.

We you know, we we'd get through the list of singer songwriter our

folks and then we would have you know, a couple hours at the end

to just basically have an open band practice. Yeah, and it very quickly

ramped up to people found out we were hosting, and now in Conquered there's

like one hundred and ten people out on a Wednesday night and they're there from

you know, six thirty pm to like ten thirty pm. Yeah, and

people don't go out and Conquered, So it really like blows my mind,

right, Like we get that every month and it's so cool. And it's

a really like fun and positive community that's grown up in that. So it's

super cool. And now we're getting full bands that want to come and debut

that have never played in fun of people before our host night. Yeah.

Yeah, it's just become a really cool things. For some reason, it's

worth their time to try. Like we had a guy drive from Maine last

time to play with his band there and we're like we're like, I know,

I know it sucks, but you get three songs, Yeah, that's

it. Yeah, and like they they're all super stoked on it. Wow,

it's really cool. And I learned about a ton of bands and musicians

through that and seeing people come out of the woodwork and just blow my mind

with how talented they are. Is yeah, amazing. Yeah, Area twenty

three seems to have really caught on. Kirk was on my show. Not

he's never been on this iteration of the show. He was on the old

version of the show that I had when I did the TV show. But

yeah, it seems like they're really thriving. Just good to see. Yeah,

good to see, and you know, and it allows local music to

thrive, and uh, you know that's that's fantastic. So yeah, so

you guys. Uh and then at some point, I can't remember if we

talked about this on air or off Area at some point you might do another

studio album. Yeah, we were always working on it. We have more

songs than we know what to do with for that context. And what's really

nice is that with the electronic drums and all that, it's actually really easy

to self record without a lot of lead or things like that. So we

Phosphorus and Snack. We did you know, the basic tracking on our own,

and then got some professional help doing the mix and master to get it

you know, where it really needed to be. But that that kind of

process and again I think it's really enabled by the electronic drums allows us to

take the time that we really need to tinker with things or to to do

it in our own time, and to get to a result that we're really

excited about, which I think, you know, I've I've recorded studio albums

in studio and that I've paid for myself and things like that, and that

feeling of being under the gun, I don't feel like it's really Sometimes it's

great for the creative process. Sure, for me personally, I stress too

much and it was not I'm not happy in that process. So much happier

being like, all right, let's try this song and we can play it,

you know, fifteen times over and over and over again and sort of

see where we end up with it and not have to be watching the clock

or anything. Once we have that bundled together, then it's much easier to

take a project that's a discrete side in scope and you can go to an

engineer and be like, all right, can you help us, because I'm

not an audio engineer, can help us make this sound amazing? Yeah?

We were lucky to have folks that can do that. Oh yeah, And

we're fortunate to live in a time where you have so many different options as

far as recording, and um, you know, I've I've talked to bands

who you know, they never even were in in the same room when when

recording albums, you know, they would like during the pandemic, you know,

they would email tracks back and forth, and you know, just just

it's it's incredible what you can do now. And you know, and of

course there's still plenty of great studios around too where you can go and you

can pay the money and and uh and spend the time there. But but

you can do a lot on your own these days. It's uh, it's

changed a lot from when I was growing up, or when any of us

were growing up. Really well, definitely on some of the songs on Fuss

for Us and Snack, we'd be doing stuff and then Rob would come in

and he'd record like eight different tracks for the same song, instruments on his

erophone, a bit of an orchestra unto himself. Yeah, yeah, it's

true mysterious stranger fashion. We just gave him the tracks, he gave him

back to us and we're like, oh my god, what did you do

later? Yeah, yeah, well it's gonna have options. I guess right,

We're gonna in a in a couple of moments, we'll we'll start to

wrap up. We'll play one more track from your live album. Thanks for

the one of your live albums, I should say, thanks for the warning

volume one. But but before we begin to wrap up, I want to

make sure that everybody knows where to find you guys online, so they can

keep up with everything that you're doing, and uh, keep up with shows

and and uh it sounds like you've got a busy summer ahead and all of

it, and of course where to find your music, so anything you want

to make sure everyone knows. Oh yeah, yeah, we I mean we

we um Dale webmasters our website at under North and the Rangers dot com.

So nice, nice website. Thank you. Yeah, I'm a I'm a

website geek. So I noticed these things. And then you know, we

keep up with our Facebook, you know, keep that really maintained. So

if you want to know what's going on, that's probably a great place to

go to. Search North and the Rangers on Facebook. Yeah, you know,

on Instagram at Andrew North and the Rangers. Those are probably the primary

ones as far as keeping up with output band. Camp is a great place

to We post almost every show up there for folks to keep up with it,

and and do go to Andrew North on the Rangers dot com and go

to the contact page. We just have like a little four or five field

contact form. Yeah, and we'll get you on the email list. And

Andrew is awesome at putting out basically a monthly newsletter and a pre like calendar

session update when we have a bunch of shows lined up, and he'll get

emails out to everybody. We're cool, We're very communicative. So just go

on there and sign up for our email list. Excellent, excellent. All

right, well, gentlemen, thank you all so much. Andrew chip Dale.

I appreciate the three of you coming in. This has been wonderful.

But guys, thank you again so much Andrew North and the Rangers. This

has been cool. And uh, I'll let let you guys pick. I'm

gonna play one more track to close the show from Thanks for the warning volume

one? What should I? What should I play? First off? Thank

you so much Matt for having us. Oh yeah, thank you. That

was so much fun, my pleasure. I'd say, okay, alright,

cool, there are absent saxophone players. Gotcha? Gotcha? All right we

will close out with that. Okay, So this is epiphone from Andrew North

and the Rangers, and uh, I'll talk to you all a little bit

later. By everybody from the movie m From the studios of w m n

H ninety five point three FM in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, you are

tuned in to the best of Matt Connerton unleashed. Uh. Speaking of exciting,

I believe our friend EASYG is on the line. Hello, Hello,

Hey, Do I dare say that Kenny Dalman's song um, Season's Changed might

be a world premiere on the radio. It might be. I mean,

I know it's been on the YouTube in her her channel. Is that the

uh? I forget? Now? Is that the song you had requested for

today? Yeah? Seasons Changed? I heard yesterday on YouTube. Wow,

it's pretty good. Why wouldn't it be? You know, why wouldn't it

be? Yeah? Anyways, yeah, I don't know why, but I

was thinking Scumpy today. Remember that guy Scumpy? Um, Yes, of

course, Jeff Scumpy Lorenz. Yeah he didn't make exactly leave on the best

things, but hey, the funny by I remember one time he used to

do a game on Wednesdays, and yeah, I kind of get into it

when I talk about I talk about negative stuff on the radio by I don't

know why. I was thinking of Scumpy. Take we Oh, yeah,

we can bring on one topic number when he brought Michael Detective Mike to the

dark Side. I do remember that he tried to corrupt our friend, Texas

Mike. It was very that was funny. It was bug into another story

by saying why bother. It was both concerning and disconcerting. Yeah, he

was asked to leave. He was asked to leave. Yes, at the

Davion, I believe. I think that's how you pronounced it. Apparently,

yes, deaf con Scumpy's band was playing there, and uh, Texas Mike.

Apparently he was supposed to be a member of the club to enjoy the

festivities, and Scumpy told him to just lie and say he was a member

or something like that. And I was a terrible, terrible scandal. And

then the next time I was and that was the beginning of turning Texas Mike

to the dark side. I think the next time I saw him, he

was wearing a black leather jacket and smoking a cigarette. I couldn't believe it.

I said, oh, we've lost him. I never last I heard

the band that kind of dissolved deaf Gun, So last time I knew,

I know, I saw, I started the six six, I sawed the

bar down stairs, down the road of you folks a little bit, and

I started scumpy there for a couple of songs. But it really wasn't my

kind of a cup of tea, right, not your kind of cup of

tea, or you could just say not your cup of tea is? I

think it is the actual expression. Right, Wall was really my favorite,

fortunately right. I didn't want to hear him once, and I did hear

three songs. Would you kind of left? Would you say it was your

least favorite? No, this is not my not my favorite at all.

I hope he's not listening with he is. I told him that. Uh

he said, Oh it's okay, guy, I appreciate you coming in listening

to my Yeah he uh, he is listening. He just texted me and

he said he is devastated. Uh he said, even you and jo anyone,

didn't you go see or heard a couple of songs from him? Yes

we did, Oh yes, yes, up and conquered the White Mountains,

way up, way up, and conquered. Yes, he texted me.

He's devastated. He's very sad, he said. It's uh, it troubles

him that someone that he looks up to so much does not enjoy his art.

He's very upset. Yeah, would you like to listen? Would you

like to apologize to him? Yeah, I'm sorry. I guess you guess

what kind of apology is that? Sir? Yeah, I'm sorry. That's

a little better. How about I'm sorry Scumpy for hurting you. I'm sorry

Scumpy for hurting you. It's weird. Sometimes a name can come out of

come out you're thinking, you know, you think about somebody, and he's

like, wow, I remember I ever thought of guy in a long time.

Uh oh. Tony Petrello in the chat room says, if a band

is playing at the Davion, you don't have to be a member to go

see them, but you do have to sign in. Uh m hmmmm.

The plot thick and sign him in Scumby or Mike or I don't know.

That's the thing. It it's the whole thing just went awry. Yeah,

scandalous. What was the Katy Dobbins song you wanted? Oh I I uh

private Yeah, I sent to you with your your your Facebook private message there

about the h I sent it in that video? Yeah? What song was

this? Uh? I can't remember Peasons Change? Seasons Change? All right,

thank you. I think it's in there your private message box. All

right, well we'll we'll play that. I'm finding it out. We'll play

that at the end of your segment. Yes, yeah, no swear so

yeah, good because I know she has a bit of a potty mouth.

Not Katie, No, not Katie. I was just kidding. Oh,

by the way too, I've got down my report. So just a few

minutes. You know most people they ever short, right, Yeah, it's

only gonna be a few minutes, so before you know, they before will

be over. Hey, I found a song called when the Seasons Change by

Katie Dobbins, When Seasons Change. This is weird. There's one called when

thus Seasons Change, and there's one called when Seasons Change. But the one

that's when Seasons Change just became available yesterday, so it must be that one.

It's I send you the video of it on your Facebook measures thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. That's the one.

I think when seasons changed. When seasons change, yep, but everybody will

be out there in a few minutes. Yeah, great. Or are you

ready to do your entertainment report? Sir? You have my mini one?

Okay, let me que you up here. Like I said before, you

know, it'd be all over. I'm around the way. Easy. You

want to know about stock market crashes, COVID nineteen drive bys, celebrity gossip.

Easy, he's got you entertainment report, staff woes, saint nothing but

a jeep bank baby back. Are you ready for stoctor? Let's find out?

Ready, let's go. Yeah, I'm still here. Are you still

here? Yeah? I didn't you hear anything? That's strange? That's right?

Sometimes that Caro robri All is that problem? Oh? What's on your

own? What do you have for us? Easy? G I guess the

the music already played. I guess I didn't here, right, Apparently you

did not hear it? All? Right? What this? What'll this go

on? With the details? Oh? Yeah, first thing I dedicated to

Uh he just passed away yesterday, the iron cheek the iron cheek guy was

he passed the torch to Hulk Hogan. Well, I don't know well,

well, yeah, that's an odd way of footing it. I think usually

when passed, when you say passed the torch, it means one top guy

in the business passing the torch to the next. But yeah, he was

on the Iran guy to be a headbyweight champion and by the way, every

for a while. And by the way, the iron cheek was legit.

He was not playing an Iranian. He was Iranian. Oh yeah, yeah,

and always go online. They always have a somebody passed away. They

always have the ten bells, so I found I sent it to you like

a thirty second video oh of bells ringing. And they're not gonna do a

ten bells for him on RAA SmackDown. No, they usually only do the

ten bells salute for active competitors, shall we say, right, like Eddie

Guerrero and Hart Yes, and all that fun stuff. Yes. On a

more happy note, the auto dedic game to one of my favorite singers,

Debbie Gibson's You're gonna write down the Street from your folks, and I can

believe you can still get tickets at the box offers or you can get them

online at Pelisa dot org. Of course, remember that you gotta pay a

couple of dollars shipping and handling. But if you're going down to the ticket

box right now, you don't pay no shipping and handling overously. So I

know there's not only a few left in the orchestra, and is I think

about eighty left in the balconies used. The place fits about a little eight

hundreds, so it's not too bad luck. Yeah, I heard so.

I heard Peter White talking about that on the Morning Show. You can shake

your low. We can be talking about Debbie Gibson tonight. I was killing

time. I want to go on. But I I thought though now easy

g as our entertainment reporter, you can correct me if I was mistaken about

this. I thought she was at a certain point, not recently, but

a while ago. She was no longer Debbie Gibson, but was going by

Deborah Gibson. Is that no longer? Here the case? Yeah? I

like to know her. I like to know her, Debbie Gibson. So

you like to know it? Yes, yes, Debrah Gibson. Yes,

right by. The show is right down the street from you, folks at

seven thirty. I think it's a two hour show. According to the Morning

Show and doors are six thirty. Oh take us some pretty reasonable too.

There are thirty nine dollars for the forty nine dollars for the vole level,

and thirty nine dollars to the balcony, so that's not too bad for us.

A good artist like her is someone opening for her? Does she have

an opening act? I don't believe so No. No, arts like that

doesn't need an opening act, right, I mean she is Debrah Gibson after

all. Yeah, I started years ago in the eighties when she was Debbie

Gibson an right, pretty done good, one of the favorite shows I've ever

seen. Girls there. But so you actually probably too old to see her,

but I don't care. I went to see her. So you actually

went to see Debbie Gibson back in the eighties. Oh yeah, friend who

came with me because I didn't know how to get to the worst of Centrum.

You know, he's really going with directions. So I said, hey,

i'll pay twenty dollars by the a forty dollars ticket. He said,

all right, I'll go. He wasn't really a big fan, but right

did a favorite for me. Right, So you were Centrum oh many times?

Uh, not to see Debbie Gibson. Yeah, I've not been there

to see Debbie Gibson nor Debrah Gibson. Was it uh? Was it just?

Were you the only dudes there are the couple dudes, but most the

screaming girls. Yeah? Yeah, it was sold out. I wish he

was like eighteen. Right. What was there big hit at the time?

Do you remember? Was it Shake Your Love? Yeah? And the one

I like is only in your dreams, Only in your dreams. Yep,

ye, they they're ragging me sometimes. There was your favorite show? I

said, well, I looked back at all my favorites. I think it

had to be her. Mn't pick somebody right, all the shows you've been

to, so your favorite? I just want I want to get you on record.