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 much, very more understand understand no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

Wife as a space county was so tough, smell friend so much they 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.

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