Charleez Hill | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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0:17 Speaker 1: contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday,

0:21 Speaker 1: December twentieth, two thousand twenty five, and we have joining

0:24 Speaker 1: us in studio and I've been looking forward to this

0:27 Speaker 1: because they're from a venue that comes up a lot

0:30 Speaker 1: on the show. So let's see. Let me make sure

0:34 Speaker 1: we got the camera on here. So we've got at

0:37 Speaker 1: the news table as we like to call it her

0:38 Speaker 1: in the Newstable area. Mike Hill is here from Charlie Hill.

0:42 Speaker 1: Hey Mike, good morning, welcome to the program.

0:44 Speaker 2: Thank you and thanks for having us.

0:46 Speaker 1: And then yes, and speaking of us, so please introduce

0:48 Speaker 1: these other fine people that you brought with you.

0:50 Speaker 3: I brought Lloyd the sound engineer. How you doing, hi, Lloyd, welcome,

0:55 Speaker 3: brought the boss, my wife Terry okay, Hi, Terry. She said,

0:59 Speaker 3: I'm Boston, I can say so.

1:01 Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, well very good, very good. So

1:06 Speaker 1: we were talking off air about this the reason I'm

1:09 Speaker 1: excited to have you here so Charlie Hill. So, just

1:11 Speaker 1: for clarification, Charlie Hill is not a band. Charlie Hill

1:15 Speaker 1: is a venue. And I'm not blowing smoke when I

1:19 Speaker 1: say this. Of all the obviously, you know, when musicians

1:21 Speaker 1: come on the show, we talk about various places to

1:23 Speaker 1: play in the area. Charlie Hill comes up more than

1:27 Speaker 1: any other venue that we talk about on the show.

1:29 Speaker 1: I hear about Charlie Hill all the time. Have been

1:32 Speaker 1: for how long have you been opening? It's been a

1:34 Speaker 1: couple at least a couple of years, right.

1:36 Speaker 2: The first show was in twenty fourteen.

1:38 Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen, and oh wow, longer than I realized.

1:41 Speaker 2: It's been growing like crazy.

1:43 Speaker 1: Oh wow wow.

1:44 Speaker 4: It started with annual event the third weekend in August,

1:50 Speaker 4: a Live Love Laugh Festival, and went from a once

1:53 Speaker 4: a year, three day weekend event to the doors were

1:56 Speaker 4: open every Saturday night at seven o'clock.

1:58 Speaker 1: Okay, wow, So what's the live LAF I live laugh.

2:03 Speaker 1: I'm sorry they live Love Laugh, Live Love laugh, what

2:07 Speaker 1: is that?

2:08 Speaker 4: That is a festival Charlie still is in memory of

2:11 Speaker 4: my daughter, Charlie, who helped me do the first festival

2:14 Speaker 4: in twenty fourteen, okay, And she loved music. She loved

2:18 Speaker 4: all the music, all the people, red and yellow, black

2:22 Speaker 4: and white. She is just all about a safe place

2:24 Speaker 4: to enjoy music for the musicians and the spectators and

2:29 Speaker 4: the flow artists and all of it. Yeah, so that's

2:34 Speaker 4: why we do what we do.

2:36 Speaker 1: So that that's how the festival started because of her, yes, okay, Yeah.

2:40 Speaker 4: Well the first the first festival was done celebrating the

2:46 Speaker 4: legalization of medicinal marijuana and educating the public on how

2:50 Speaker 4: they could become law abiding citizens. We had a doctor

2:53 Speaker 4: there that did consultations, issued medical cards caregivers and that's

3:00 Speaker 4: how it was started. And then I lost Charlie ten

3:05 Speaker 4: days before Christmas that year, and so this is all

3:09 Speaker 4: done in memory of Charlie. And I think that's one

3:11 Speaker 4: of the reasons we stand out from other venues is

3:14 Speaker 4: it's about the bands and the musicians and the people

3:17 Speaker 4: who love them and support them. Any event we do

3:20 Speaker 4: always has free camping, probably not recommended this time of year.

3:23 Speaker 1: Obviously, unless masochist.

3:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, people ask you'd be surprised, really, Oh yeah, die

3:32 Speaker 4: Hard New England. But all the events we do are

3:37 Speaker 4: always free. Camping very few events, most most of the

3:42 Speaker 4: shows are always free. And we don't We're not a bar,

3:48 Speaker 4: we're not a restaurant. We're there for the bands and

3:51 Speaker 4: the spectators and and you know that when you walk

3:54 Speaker 4: in the door, places like a giant, oversized living room

3:57 Speaker 4: with a really nice stage and incredible sounds. Okay, so

4:01 Speaker 4: it's like home away from home.

4:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what everyone says.

4:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fancy. We got Yeah.

4:08 Speaker 2: We decided that making the stage sound.

4:13 Speaker 5: Better than front of the house, it's probably better for

4:17 Speaker 5: the band's experience.

4:18 Speaker 1: Oh definitely.

4:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's basically that's what it's about.

4:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more about having that what you would get

4:26 Speaker 5: if you went to an arena, you know, yeah, and

4:29 Speaker 5: actually had you know, expensive production behind you. Instead of

4:33 Speaker 5: get in and get out, we got to close the doors.

4:35 Speaker 2: Right right, you know.

4:37 Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't make that much money at the door.

4:39 Speaker 5: Sorry kid, we already tell him sorry.

4:42 Speaker 2: On the way in.

4:43 Speaker 5: Yeah, by donation, buddy, Yeah, yeah.

4:46 Speaker 4: I was trying to explain our relationship with between Terry

4:49 Speaker 4: and Lloyd. I believe we met in nineteen eighty one

4:53 Speaker 4: at Noble High School? Is that right about nineteen eighty one.

4:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that, Okay, okay, so.

5:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've known each other a long time.

5:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:02 Speaker 4: And it started with the outdoor stage and I had

5:06 Speaker 4: stored people's stuff for free in the back of the

5:08 Speaker 4: big fifty by one hundred and twenty five foot barn

5:11 Speaker 4: and we got rained out I think it was twenty sixteen,

5:15 Speaker 4: and we had to push a bunch of the junk

5:17 Speaker 4: out of the way at one of the back doors,

5:18 Speaker 4: and Boyd said, you know, who's stuff is this? When's

5:21 Speaker 4: the last time we talked to any of these people?

5:23 Speaker 4: You know, we could put a stage in here and

5:24 Speaker 4: have a nice indoor place too, mm hmm. And so

5:27 Speaker 4: we had to be done. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah, yeah,

5:33 Speaker 4: one step at a time.

5:35 Speaker 1: So then when did so that festival though? That so

5:37 Speaker 1: that's what started it, and then and then from there,

5:40 Speaker 1: like what was the transition because now is every Saturday?

5:43 Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I guess Saturday?

5:44 Speaker 1: Every Saturday.

5:46 Speaker 4: Some a few people came to me in twenty fifteen

5:49 Speaker 4: and asked me if I was going to do the

5:50 Speaker 4: really cool event again, like I said I would every year. Well,

5:53 Speaker 4: I guess you have to go back to Charlie started

5:56 Speaker 4: going to festivals at harry Chill when she was fourteen,

6:01 Speaker 4: you know, fibbing to mom about where she was going

6:03 Speaker 4: to the leak again, and she said, I'll help you

6:06 Speaker 4: do the festival. Mom, it's the coolest thing ever to

6:09 Speaker 4: have a festival at my house in our field. But

6:12 Speaker 4: you're just doing it because you're mad because you got

6:14 Speaker 4: in trouble from that sheriff. So you have to promise

6:17 Speaker 4: that you'll do this every year and I'll help you

6:19 Speaker 4: do it, and you have to put it in writing.

6:21 Speaker 4: So she made me put it on the T shirts

6:24 Speaker 4: that year that it was our first annual event. And

6:26 Speaker 4: even the graphics people, the graphics coop lady that used

6:29 Speaker 4: to do our race cars and stuff, she's like, Terry.

6:33 Speaker 4: She goes, you don't put the first annual or something,

6:35 Speaker 4: And I said, it's a deal I had with Charlie.

6:38 Speaker 4: So come twenty fifteen, couple of people ask you're going

6:42 Speaker 4: to do the festival again, and I said, I'll never

6:44 Speaker 4: have another party again in my life as long as

6:45 Speaker 4: I live. And then I remember the promise to Charlie

6:50 Speaker 4: that it was in writing on the shirts, and so

6:53 Speaker 4: the kids put it together because I didn't have it,

6:55 Speaker 4: I mean to do anything, and I said, well, open

6:58 Speaker 4: the field. Of course there was no open doors except

7:01 Speaker 4: for the office, and then I let them do that

7:07 Speaker 4: the twenty fifteen showing memory Charlie. And then somebody said, well, Terry,

7:11 Speaker 4: if it's all about marijuana, you really need to have

7:13 Speaker 4: something in the end of October where everybody can play

7:16 Speaker 4: like show and tell with their home grows. So they

7:19 Speaker 4: put something together the third weekend in October. Typically a

7:23 Speaker 4: Charlie's Hill event will be on the third weekend of

7:25 Speaker 4: the month, and other shows that the bands put together

7:29 Speaker 4: is other weekends of the month. So twenty fifteen we

7:34 Speaker 4: added the Hallow Harvest, which is an annual event that

7:37 Speaker 4: we do, and then the next year it just was

7:41 Speaker 4: more and more and more and more, and as it

7:44 Speaker 4: it's the way we do things. The way we do it.

7:46 Speaker 4: We didn't all get together one day and say, hey,

7:48 Speaker 4: this is what we're gonna do and this is how

7:50 Speaker 4: we're gonna do it. We pay attention to what the

7:54 Speaker 4: needs are of the people and what's gonna make everybody

7:57 Speaker 4: happy and work, you know. I mean, you can't make

7:59 Speaker 4: everybody happy all the time, no matter how hard you try,

8:02 Speaker 4: but we definitely try hard.

8:04 Speaker 1: Yeah it sounds like it.

8:06 Speaker 4: So now here we are, and I guess one of

8:08 Speaker 4: the things that happened several years ago was we do

8:11 Speaker 4: a lot of shows in the summer, and then we

8:12 Speaker 4: don't do a lot of shows in the winter, so

8:14 Speaker 4: the local guys would come and jam pretty much all

8:16 Speaker 4: winter except for the random shows that we would have,

8:20 Speaker 4: and then come summertime we would have six, six or

8:24 Speaker 4: seven weeks of shows in a row, and then the

8:26 Speaker 4: local jam guys we, oh, you don't love us anymore

8:28 Speaker 4: in the summer. So I was like okay. So then

8:32 Speaker 4: now that's where the open Jam night, the first Saturday

8:35 Speaker 4: every month came into play. So no matter what time

8:39 Speaker 4: of year it is, everyone knows the first Saturday of

8:42 Speaker 4: the month is always open jam. So if anybody wants

8:45 Speaker 4: the opportunity to come play on the Charlie Hill stage

8:49 Speaker 4: and enjoy the you know, because Lloyd's a wizard, he's

8:54 Speaker 4: a madman. Yeah, he's a wizard, so.

9:00 Speaker 2: Work.

9:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, So once he perfected the front of house, then

9:07 Speaker 4: he's like, now I gotta get the stage monitors as good,

9:11 Speaker 4: if not better than the front of house, because if

9:13 Speaker 4: anybody deserves to have quality sound, it's the bands, right.

9:16 Speaker 4: So we kind of have a joke at Charlie till

9:19 Speaker 4: when a new band comes and they get set up

9:21 Speaker 4: on the stage and then they see the experience on

9:24 Speaker 4: the stage for them, they poop their pants. So we

9:26 Speaker 4: actually have a pair of emergency underwear on the stage,

9:31 Speaker 4: like it was a joke along side and then wouldn't

9:33 Speaker 4: you know, you come across you know, two dollars that's

9:36 Speaker 4: on flea market, this pair of emergency understands. So just

9:40 Speaker 4: kind of fell in with a joke.

9:42 Speaker 5: Yeah, we're probably one of the only venues right now

9:45 Speaker 5: that are I have a set of Servo drive Yeah,

9:48 Speaker 5: Servo Tech seven. Yeah, they're a subs run by a

9:52 Speaker 5: Servo motor. Oh really no, yeah, they all way down

9:55 Speaker 5: to twenty Oh wow, I cut them off at forty

9:58 Speaker 5: Yeah under the drum rise here and it's just the

10:00 Speaker 5: drum production microphones.

10:02 Speaker 2: That picked that up.

10:02 Speaker 5: No getting the stage presence and drums forty and below

10:06 Speaker 5: is right under your feet.

10:07 Speaker 2: Okay, it's like a kick in the foot.

10:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice.

10:11 Speaker 2: It's more of a feeling than it sounds.

10:13 Speaker 1: You know when you started that sentence that I thought

10:15 Speaker 1: you were going to say, you're you're the only venue

10:17 Speaker 1: that has emergency underwear for.

10:18 Speaker 2: The Yeah, probably that you probably are, probably not.

10:27 Speaker 1: As a journalist, I have to ask you going back

10:30 Speaker 1: to something that Charlie had said to you. What the

10:32 Speaker 1: thing about getting in trouble with the sheriff? I have

10:34 Speaker 1: to I have to circle back to that.

10:41 Speaker 4: Stories about carry the rebels.

10:44 Speaker 2: He's the reader.

10:46 Speaker 4: I do not have a criminal record at all, whatsoever. Okay,

10:50 Speaker 4: no speeding tickets, clean driver's license. Yeah. So in twenty fourteen,

10:55 Speaker 4: when I decided to do this crazy thing because I

10:57 Speaker 4: knew it was a lot of people don't break the law.

11:01 Speaker 4: And the only thing we did to break the law

11:03 Speaker 4: was we smoked a little weed. So I got pulled

11:06 Speaker 4: over by the sheriff, York County sheriff in Waterborough. And

11:11 Speaker 4: I hope he hears this because he wasn't not nice.

11:13 Speaker 1: And where where is water Water?

11:15 Speaker 4: Water Borough?

11:16 Speaker 1: Is that in New.

11:17 Speaker 4: Hampshire, York County?

11:19 Speaker 2: Means gotcha?

11:20 Speaker 1: Okay? Okay.

11:24 Speaker 4: A friend of a friend of a friend was actually

11:27 Speaker 4: a caregiver and had the opportunity to take a ride

11:31 Speaker 4: all the way up to like you know, almost Augustaye

11:35 Speaker 4: and go to a caregivers and get that quality bud

11:38 Speaker 4: that everybody looked for. But I didn't have my medical card,

11:42 Speaker 4: so like on a down law like it was like

11:45 Speaker 4: a half.

11:45 Speaker 1: Hour just for clarification. You didn't have it on you here.

11:48 Speaker 1: You didn't have it at all.

11:48 Speaker 4: You know, I have a medical marijuana card, gotcha? Okay,

11:51 Speaker 4: I was a lawbreaker?

11:57 Speaker 1: You criminal?

12:00 Speaker 4: Yeah?

12:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

12:02 Speaker 4: He pulls me over. You know, you'd be past each

12:04 Speaker 4: other in the opposite direction and then all of a sudden,

12:06 Speaker 4: the blues come on. He whips it around. I'm like, well,

12:08 Speaker 4: he's obviously not pulling me over, so I'm not breaking

12:10 Speaker 4: the law. Yeah, and oh yeah, slides in right behind me.

12:12 Speaker 4: I'm like okay. So he comes up, put the window down.

12:15 Speaker 4: This is in February. I have a great big tahoe.

12:19 Speaker 4: I have wood equipment, like the haul firewood out of

12:22 Speaker 4: the forest. Yeah, and then I have all my janitor

12:25 Speaker 4: buckets in the back seat, so got a lot of

12:27 Speaker 4: work equipment in there. And uh, and there's snow off

12:31 Speaker 4: in the woods and he comes up and he goes, uh,

12:33 Speaker 4: I pulled you or for going thirty nine and into

12:35 Speaker 4: thirty five, and I'm looking at the thirty five mile

12:38 Speaker 4: an hour sign. I'm not even in the thirty five

12:41 Speaker 4: mile and hours long, so I just knew he was

12:43 Speaker 4: not Most police officers are righteous dudes, okay and women,

12:47 Speaker 4: but I knew this was not one of them right off,

12:50 Speaker 4: because I'm not even in thirty five. So he pulled

12:52 Speaker 4: me over for going thirty nine to thirty five. I

12:54 Speaker 4: knew I was going anyway.

12:56 Speaker 1: Even if you were in a thirty five and it couldn't.

12:59 Speaker 4: Get a warning, a verbal warning for thirty nine and

13:03 Speaker 4: thirty five. But I distinctly smell your room of marijuana

13:06 Speaker 4: emanating from your vehicle, and I'm like the other day

13:09 Speaker 4: and I yeah, right, So I'm usually pretty respectful that

13:13 Speaker 4: you know, my dad's thirty five years retired Air Force

13:15 Speaker 4: ye sergeant.

13:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm.

13:17 Speaker 4: Pretty respectful to authority. But I'm like, really, I just

13:20 Speaker 4: looked right at the copp Like, really, I'm forty six

13:23 Speaker 4: years old. I'm thinking I don't have a speeding ticket

13:25 Speaker 4: or nothing, and he's gonna bust my chops because my

13:27 Speaker 4: vehicle smells like marijuana. So oz Bratt, I go, oh, well,

13:31 Speaker 4: I love my twenty two year old daughter borrow it sometimes,

13:34 Speaker 4: you know, And he's like, I'm gonna have to do

13:37 Speaker 4: a seven twenty nine search of your vehicle. So I

13:40 Speaker 4: knew he was gonna toss my truck through everything, over

13:42 Speaker 4: the snow banking in the woods. So I just reached

13:44 Speaker 4: in the console because he was right. I smoked the

13:47 Speaker 4: first time when I was twelve. It was the stinkiest

13:48 Speaker 4: grass that I ever had in my life. Yeah, it was

13:51 Speaker 4: emanating from my vehicle, the aroma. So I just hand

13:54 Speaker 4: him the bag weed and then he goes, oh, what

13:56 Speaker 4: am I supposed to do with us? Now, I'm gonna

13:57 Speaker 4: have to fill up paperwork and do a report and everything.

13:59 Speaker 4: And I said, well, I guess you should have thought

14:01 Speaker 4: of that or you busted my jaws. So I was embarrassed,

14:05 Speaker 4: right bottom line, I always thought it should be legalized. Yes,

14:10 Speaker 4: Indians smoked it in their peace pipes before we started

14:13 Speaker 4: making alcohol. So I'm in a state where you could

14:17 Speaker 4: have a medical card not get in trouble for it.

14:19 Speaker 4: I were getting in trouble for it, So I was embarrassed.

14:21 Speaker 4: They didn't have my medical card. Now, if I knew

14:24 Speaker 4: then at the time, and this is for anybody who

14:27 Speaker 4: doesn't live in Maine or whatever. If you have a

14:31 Speaker 4: medical marijuana card, you're protected by the hippolaws. So if

14:35 Speaker 4: a law enforcement officer asks you do you have your

14:38 Speaker 4: medical marijuana card and you say yes, that's the end

14:42 Speaker 4: of the conversation. Do you not have to show or

14:45 Speaker 4: produce that medical marijuana card because it's against hippolize and

14:48 Speaker 4: violates your hippowrite if they demand to see it. So,

14:53 Speaker 4: but you should never lie, to lie to a law

14:55 Speaker 4: enforcement officer. So but anyway, so that's I decided to

15:00 Speaker 4: have the festival because there's so many other people like

15:03 Speaker 4: me who don't break the law except they smoke weed

15:06 Speaker 4: or eat it or drink it or whatever. Right, because

15:09 Speaker 4: it's used medically, you know, in a lot of ways too.

15:13 Speaker 4: And so that's why we did that first festival.

15:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, or about.

15:19 Speaker 4: A lot of things. So it's also home of Cannabis

15:21 Speaker 4: Charlie Silo is also home of Cannabis Church of New England.

15:24 Speaker 1: Okay, what that's come up on the show before too,

15:28 Speaker 1: but refresh my memory. What is that Cannabis Church of

15:31 Speaker 1: New England.

15:31 Speaker 4: The church doors are open every Saturday seven o'clock.

15:34 Speaker 3: No matter what, we celebrate and you can weed, you

15:38 Speaker 3: can celebrate music. It's all about the musicians. The state

15:42 Speaker 3: is built. We built the venue for the musicians mostly. Yeah,

15:47 Speaker 3: we have we have so much power on the floor

15:51 Speaker 3: and the kick on drum riser. Yeah, we can plug

15:55 Speaker 3: amps and foot pedals and everything. We don't have to

15:57 Speaker 3: worry about running chords. Stage is on its own one

16:01 Speaker 3: hundred amp service so that it's isolated. Nothing on a

16:06 Speaker 3: stage is unshielded or ungrounded. Yea. All our amps have

16:10 Speaker 3: a sister ramp under them, so if we have a

16:13 Speaker 3: problem during the show, Lloyd's slides under, switches to the

16:16 Speaker 3: new amp.

16:17 Speaker 2: We're good to go.

16:18 Speaker 1: Okay.

16:19 Speaker 3: It's all designed for the musicians to get the best

16:24 Speaker 3: experience they can get.

16:25 Speaker 2: On a stage.

16:26 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:27 Speaker 3: I love seeing the new kids come. Yeah, first timers

16:31 Speaker 3: when they come off of that stage, they're just high

16:34 Speaker 3: on on the feeling of it, right. And we get

16:37 Speaker 3: a lot of bands while that's say, well, we've never

16:40 Speaker 3: played this song out before, so we're going to try

16:43 Speaker 3: it here.

16:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I hear a lot of first first It's

16:47 Speaker 2: very cool.

16:47 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's probably one of my favorite. Really, you know,

16:53 Speaker 5: we're gonna try it.

16:54 Speaker 2: Hell it you guys want to know the song? Sure? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah.

16:58 Speaker 5: They never asked the sound guy if they got time

17:00 Speaker 5: for one more because I'm like all night.

17:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we don't.

17:05 Speaker 5: Walk to the band coming up after you. They might

17:07 Speaker 5: want to go home tonight, right.

17:10 Speaker 3: We don't have to shut down at one o'clock. We're

17:12 Speaker 3: not beholding Tenny loss. We don't serve food, we don't.

17:17 Speaker 2: Our Saturday night. Yeah yeah, okay, we're all yeah, I

17:21 Speaker 2: don't want to go out.

17:22 Speaker 1: We have a.

17:23 Speaker 4: Few neighbors who don't appreciate out of state license plates

17:27 Speaker 4: parked on the one side of the road safely.

17:30 Speaker 1: Oh really, such things.

17:31 Speaker 4: And so it came up in a meeting, I believe

17:34 Speaker 4: it was last summer. Every once in a while, group

17:37 Speaker 4: of you know, four or five of them will get

17:39 Speaker 4: together and go to the Selectmens meeting and really and

17:41 Speaker 4: raise their complaints. And I try to be concerned, and

17:45 Speaker 4: you know, I mean I do because they might actually

17:49 Speaker 4: have a legitimate thing, you know what I mean. So yeah,

17:52 Speaker 4: so I try to blow them off, you know, the

17:53 Speaker 4: first couple of times, and then when they get all

17:55 Speaker 4: really hot and bothered that I'll go to the selectmans

17:57 Speaker 4: meeting and we'll discuss it.

17:59 Speaker 1: And but what are they what are they complaining? You said,

18:03 Speaker 1: out of state? We should clarify to where where where

18:06 Speaker 1: is Charlie So exactly Lebanon, Maine, Lebanon, Maine.

18:10 Speaker 4: More Center Road, Lebanon, Maine, not Lebanon, New Hampshire right there.

18:16 Speaker 1: Holy crap, so so so in Lebanon, Maine. So you've

18:20 Speaker 1: got neighbors effectively who they don't like out of state plates.

18:23 Speaker 1: They get what they.

18:26 Speaker 3: They counted one hundred and sixty cars parked along the

18:29 Speaker 3: side of the road. Yeah, for the New England death

18:31 Speaker 3: metal bonanza.

18:33 Speaker 2: Yeahs. And they were all.

18:37 Speaker 4: Island and Texas and Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.

18:43 Speaker 1: Yeah.

18:44 Speaker 5: I refused to disclose the exact number of people that

18:48 Speaker 5: may have came to visit us that weekend.

18:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's okay that the voters approved to have a

18:53 Speaker 4: ridiculous amount of uh recreational marijuana retail businesses up down

19:00 Speaker 4: the road, you know. But we're not going to discuss

19:03 Speaker 4: the ridiculousness of the known as the lawless town of Lebanon,

19:06 Speaker 4: because approximately twenty years ago. You can't make this up onney, Okay,

19:11 Speaker 4: I'm just saying they accidentally voted out their local police departments.

19:18 Speaker 2: Wording is everything, especially Yeah, and.

19:21 Speaker 4: They still twenty years zalor they still can't get like

19:23 Speaker 4: if they put up a new ordinance or something for

19:25 Speaker 4: the for them to vote for the town to vote on. Yeah,

19:28 Speaker 4: they still can't get the wording right. Real like they

19:30 Speaker 4: actually legalized oh gosh, this a whole other thing. But

19:34 Speaker 4: they put the fourth to the voters whether or not.

19:36 Speaker 4: Because if you get approve to get approved by the

19:39 Speaker 4: state of meane to have a recknot medical, we're talking

19:41 Speaker 4: the recreational thing now, So you have to have town approval,

19:46 Speaker 4: and if you don't have town approval, the state won't

19:49 Speaker 4: give you state approval. So in the town of Lebanon,

19:52 Speaker 4: which is one of the reasons I bought the property

19:54 Speaker 4: in Lebanon twenty plus years ago, is there's no zoning.

19:58 Speaker 4: So you can use your acreage which residentially, agriculturally, commercially,

20:02 Speaker 4: or a combination of the three. We have no comprehensive plan.

20:06 Speaker 4: We have no zoning because we have no comprehensive plan,

20:08 Speaker 4: we don't have a town charter. Okay, so it's ridiculous.

20:12 Speaker 4: So they want to make up new rules about no

20:14 Speaker 4: campingness and no freaking parking on the side of the

20:17 Speaker 4: road and no loud music ever anytime, and you know whatever.

20:24 Speaker 4: But but they have no zoning, so they can't even

20:28 Speaker 4: make up these rooks like oh, well, do you vote

20:30 Speaker 4: to let the recreational pot stores be on only two

20:33 Speaker 4: o two and not you know, off of two oh two,

20:36 Speaker 4: And it's like, you can't do that because we have

20:38 Speaker 4: no zoning. They did it anyway, like they voted on it, yes,

20:41 Speaker 4: we'll let it happen, and then they didn't write it

20:44 Speaker 4: correctly so they couldn't enforce it, so they had to

20:46 Speaker 4: vote on it again. And then the people voted no

20:49 Speaker 4: because it was just a three ring circus, you know,

20:51 Speaker 4: it was ridiculousness. They figured that out. So they vote no.

20:54 Speaker 4: So then they have the third vote, they vote no again,

20:57 Speaker 4: and then this particular select man okay, who love me?

21:00 Speaker 4: You know you love me, Chuck okay, and you hate

21:03 Speaker 4: to love me and you love to hate me. Okay,

21:06 Speaker 4: So anyway with this.

21:07 Speaker 1: Passion one way or another.

21:09 Speaker 2: So he's like, oh, well, going to authorize.

21:12 Speaker 4: It anyway, and he's like, okay, so we authorises all

21:15 Speaker 4: the recreational stores on the side of two O two,

21:19 Speaker 4: so they're there, you know, and of course anybody in

21:21 Speaker 4: the town of Elebanon can have it because we have

21:23 Speaker 4: no zoning. Yeah, and it's just ridiculous. Yeah, it's insane.

21:28 Speaker 4: So that's all cool, all right, But having one hundred

21:30 Speaker 4: and sixty cars parked safely on only one side of

21:33 Speaker 4: the road and not near intersections and not blocking driveways,

21:36 Speaker 4: and every time they call the police, you know, like

21:38 Speaker 4: a little boy that cried wolf, they waste the sheriff's

21:41 Speaker 4: time when he should be out. You know, he's got

21:44 Speaker 4: to drive all the way out to Lebanon, to the

21:46 Speaker 4: very edge of York County. It's got to cover all

21:48 Speaker 4: of York County to come out and say, oh yeah,

21:51 Speaker 4: once again, the cars are all part safely on the

21:53 Speaker 4: side of the road and there's no problems. Yeah, you

21:55 Speaker 4: know what I mean from their perspective, I've been doing

21:58 Speaker 4: this over ten years and we've had no problems. Yeah,

22:01 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, what if we heard out

22:02 Speaker 4: of their mouth, geez, we wish all the other venues

22:04 Speaker 4: and mud runs and whatever else goes on in you

22:07 Speaker 4: York County, you know, had it together enough because you

22:10 Speaker 4: guys give us no trouble. You take care of yourself

22:12 Speaker 4: and we have no problem except for the Cairns of

22:14 Speaker 4: the neighborhood.

22:16 Speaker 1: So why does it why does the sheriff have to

22:17 Speaker 1: come to that? Is that because there's still no there's

22:19 Speaker 1: no police, no local police. That's incredible.

22:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a lot of tiny town police department

22:27 Speaker 4: and the budget was X amount of dollars and the

22:29 Speaker 4: police department requested in considerable increase in the budget. Yeah,

22:34 Speaker 4: so they put it on the next year's vote. You know,

22:36 Speaker 4: do we approve this higher, way higher budget than the

22:40 Speaker 4: one last year? And they didn't say or resort to

22:43 Speaker 4: last year's budget. They like left that part out of it.

22:46 Speaker 4: True story, man, So then you voted all the people

22:51 Speaker 4: that like campaigned against the new budget. They don't need

22:54 Speaker 4: no more money, we don't need no more cruises, you know.

22:57 Speaker 4: And uh. And then they voted on it. It's like,

22:59 Speaker 4: don't we voted budget no, no, and no. And then

23:01 Speaker 4: they're like, what they didn't mean to vote out their

23:04 Speaker 4: police department. They didn't, Okay, but they did. And then

23:08 Speaker 4: and then once once after that, it was like so

23:11 Speaker 4: much of your tax money goes to the state police

23:14 Speaker 4: and goes to the sheriff's apartment. So from a taxpayer's perspective,

23:18 Speaker 4: I already have to pay for two policing agencies. Why

23:21 Speaker 4: do I want to pay for a third one? You

23:23 Speaker 4: know when all they do is go around and pick

23:25 Speaker 4: on the local and question you all, that's the whole

23:27 Speaker 4: other thing. So it puts a bigger straight on the

23:29 Speaker 4: state Police and the sheriff's department. It's not fair, and

23:32 Speaker 4: it's spent a three ring circus because you know, like

23:35 Speaker 4: at one point in time, it was the Sheriff's department

23:37 Speaker 4: this month and then the State Police the next month,

23:40 Speaker 4: so their alternated, like rival football team, community commit this

23:47 Speaker 4: crime every other month. You know, it was insane. You

23:50 Speaker 4: get all this nonsense going on on the thirtieth and

23:53 Speaker 4: the thirty first of the month, and then the next

23:55 Speaker 4: patience he takes over and they have no idea what

23:58 Speaker 4: the other agency was dealing with two days years ago.

24:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible.

24:04 Speaker 4: You want to know, Okay, So I'm sorry response to Arlie,

24:07 Speaker 4: this is very interesting.

24:11 Speaker 5: I haven't learned that people who don't want to be

24:14 Speaker 5: told what to do can't tell people what to do

24:17 Speaker 5: right right.

24:18 Speaker 2: See, if you if you.

24:19 Speaker 5: Set up a town so that nobody can tell me

24:21 Speaker 5: what to do with my property and nobody can interfere

24:25 Speaker 5: with my stuff. Well, when you don't like what your

24:27 Speaker 5: neighbor's doing, guess what You've got no laws.

24:31 Speaker 2: All you got is what the state guidelines are.

24:33 Speaker 5: When the state says it's legal to park the cars

24:36 Speaker 5: on one side of the road, well guess what, I

24:38 Speaker 5: don't care if they drove here from Taiwan.

24:43 Speaker 4: Okay, appropriate, All right, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna quote

24:47 Speaker 4: Chuck Russell, Chairman Chuck Russell of the Select Oh yeah,

24:52 Speaker 4: because this is what he said recently this summer. The

24:56 Speaker 4: problem is she knows the rules.

25:01 Speaker 2: That's a fact.

25:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, we did use it. We did use it to

25:04 Speaker 3: our advantage. At the New England Death Metals Show this year,

25:08 Speaker 3: we had mortician came out of retirement to play kidding

25:13 Speaker 3: and we knew it would take him. The neighbors would

25:16 Speaker 3: start complaining exactly at one o'clock, so we noticed and

25:19 Speaker 3: take the sheriff half hour at least to get there.

25:23 Speaker 3: So we let mortician run and then when the sheriff

25:26 Speaker 3: did come, we turned down front of house and ran

25:29 Speaker 3: it off, just the monitors out. Yeah, everybody got a

25:34 Speaker 3: good dose of death metal nice right before bed.

25:37 Speaker 2: Nice.

25:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I understand this. In twenty fourteen, before I

25:43 Speaker 4: did this very edgy, controversial celebrating legalization of medicinal marijuana thing. Yes,

25:48 Speaker 4: I did my homework first. I don't like to do homework.

25:51 Speaker 4: I don't like to study, but I can if I

25:53 Speaker 4: want to.

25:54 Speaker 2: Yeah.

25:54 Speaker 4: So I researched every statute, every law, every rule that

25:57 Speaker 4: anybody could possibly apply my three day camping weekend event.

26:02 Speaker 1: Smart.

26:03 Speaker 4: So when they came at me, I was like, well, actually, officer,

26:06 Speaker 4: the statute says blah blah blah blah blah, and they

26:10 Speaker 4: don't know what to say because they don't know what

26:11 Speaker 4: it says. Yeah, so I know the rules, and and

26:17 Speaker 4: that is the thing is when they try to like

26:19 Speaker 4: throw something at me, I'm like, well, the rule is this,

26:23 Speaker 4: and I will go right to the edge of the

26:26 Speaker 4: rule and stay on the legal side of it. But

26:29 Speaker 4: I was standing there with my tippytoes and going and

26:32 Speaker 4: here I am on the edge of the rolls. And

26:34 Speaker 4: because this is the United States of America, it's a

26:36 Speaker 4: free country and freedom of speech. And so back to

26:41 Speaker 4: the meeting. I was telling you about one of the

26:42 Speaker 4: ladies down the road. He goes, well, I see the

26:45 Speaker 4: burner in their building out there. This is there some

26:47 Speaker 4: sort of kind of church, says Cannabis Church of New England.

26:51 Speaker 4: And are they actually church? Do they pay taxes? And

26:55 Speaker 4: so that was it. So when we named it Cannabis

27:01 Speaker 4: Church in New England, many many, many many years ago,

27:03 Speaker 4: I looked into registering the church with the state of Maine.

27:06 Speaker 4: You pay five dollars to reserve the name, and then

27:08 Speaker 4: you get yourself a nonprofit EI N number, right, so

27:13 Speaker 4: you give meet a nonprofit. Well, my experience, what I've

27:16 Speaker 4: learned about nonprofits is kind of hide a lot of

27:19 Speaker 4: money behind nonprofits. So I didn't want everybody going, oh,

27:23 Speaker 4: it was making all kinds of money over there. That's

27:25 Speaker 4: why she saw. I was like, no, mall set pay

27:27 Speaker 4: the five dollars, register the name. That's the end of it.

27:30 Speaker 4: So when I went to the meeting again at the

27:32 Speaker 4: end of the summer, I thank the lady and I said,

27:34 Speaker 4: thank you for reminding me about the church thing. I

27:36 Speaker 4: now have a federal EI, I have an ei N number,

27:39 Speaker 4: I'm a registered church. So now I'm not going to

27:42 Speaker 4: pay property taxes and we're not going to pay sales

27:45 Speaker 4: tax on anything we buy for the church and thank

27:47 Speaker 4: you for that, you know what I mean. And so

27:49 Speaker 4: she's like, oh you know, and yeah, peace and law,

27:55 Speaker 4: Peace and law read them or religion.

27:57 Speaker 1: Fantastic.

27:58 Speaker 4: We don't hurt anybody. We have no accidents. Speaking of which,

28:03 Speaker 4: one of the reasons that Mike's become the face of

28:07 Speaker 4: Charlie So is because of his greeting magic.

28:13 Speaker 2: Yeah.

28:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, explain curious riway. Yeah, explain the driveway thing, please.

28:19 Speaker 3: Crass parking is an issue, and I like to meet

28:24 Speaker 3: everybody in the driveway. I have a system to park

28:28 Speaker 3: bands and and and people for the show. But I

28:32 Speaker 3: always ask him if they've ever been at the hill before?

28:35 Speaker 4: Okay, as soon as they pull on the driveway theyre I.

28:38 Speaker 3: Always ask if they're first time is and I tell

28:41 Speaker 3: them I have some simple rules. The simple rules are,

28:45 Speaker 3: it's the cannabis church, eat drinks, Smoke all the weed

28:48 Speaker 3: you want. I encourage it. If you drink, don't drive

28:51 Speaker 3: out of here with a buzz, either the sheriff of

28:54 Speaker 3: the deer or going to get you. But the one

28:56 Speaker 3: thing I cannot and will not have is hard drugs. Yeah,

28:59 Speaker 3: we can't have that. Kind of stuff going on. I

29:02 Speaker 3: can't have people O d and into porta parties and right,

29:05 Speaker 3: that's the end of that.

29:07 Speaker 2: I just and and.

29:08 Speaker 3: Believe it or not, A lot of people are relieved

29:10 Speaker 3: when they hear that because they know they don't have

29:13 Speaker 3: to worry now, right right. And the people who come

29:16 Speaker 3: a lot, they keep an eye out as well. So yeah,

29:19 Speaker 3: if there's not a lot that goes on that we

29:21 Speaker 3: don't see, yeah, you know it. It's we police ourselves.

29:25 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I get a lot of people with a

29:27 Speaker 2: lot of eyes that watch.

29:29 Speaker 3: Yeah. We got regulars that come all the time.

29:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

29:33 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeah, you must have a lot

29:34 Speaker 1: of regulars.

29:35 Speaker 5: Well it's a church, so yeah. Yeah, we have a

29:38 Speaker 5: group of locals that come all the time. Yeah, almost

29:42 Speaker 5: every Saturday night. Yeah, walk of tables. Yeah, they watch

29:46 Speaker 5: out for us.

29:47 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah that's good.

29:48 Speaker 2: Well that's their place to go to see music.

29:50 Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, so that makes sense.

29:52 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of our We call it the band cave,

29:56 Speaker 5: but it's basically a big giant man cave.

30:00 Speaker 3: Yeah that's great, Yeah, it's great. We have we have

30:03 Speaker 3: the secret weapon. That's Lloyd on the soundboard. Yeah, he's

30:07 Speaker 3: our secret weapon.

30:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, we just we

30:12 Speaker 2: just got a new donation.

30:14 Speaker 5: They called me a secret weapon. It's kind of funny.

30:17 Speaker 5: I really never went to school for any of this crap. Yeah,

30:23 Speaker 5: I just started building stereos.

30:26 Speaker 4: When you took your first speaker apart, Lloyd, uh.

30:30 Speaker 2: Probably seven? Wow.

30:32 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been I've always been building cabinets and speakers,

30:37 Speaker 5: and you know on that end of it, the engineering

30:40 Speaker 5: end of the building stuff, you know. And uh, I

30:44 Speaker 5: had a lot of friends in bands and they can

30:47 Speaker 5: never seem to get the sound right. Yeah. And you know,

30:52 Speaker 5: again a lot of it's just hands on by a

30:57 Speaker 5: compressor because what it does.

31:00 Speaker 2: You read the book, you wire it in and you

31:04 Speaker 2: use it. You know.

31:05 Speaker 5: I need to go to school to take the tips

31:09 Speaker 5: from the book right right and apply them.

31:12 Speaker 2: Yeah you know.

31:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, at seven years old, I had a twenty band

31:18 Speaker 5: equalizer and a component system.

31:21 Speaker 2: Wow no kttle. Oh yeah.

31:24 Speaker 5: My parents weren't scared for me to be playing with

31:27 Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean electronics. Yeah, you know yeah.

31:32 Speaker 5: Radio shack, Yeah.

31:33 Speaker 2: Radio shack. That was my favorite story.

31:36 Speaker 4: It was sound. Build a barricade behind the control booth

31:44 Speaker 4: and you want to talk to nobody. He don't want

31:46 Speaker 4: to see nobody really, Yeah, he just wanted to do

31:49 Speaker 4: the sound. Yeah, it wasn't there a socialized to make

31:52 Speaker 4: crowd guy very serious about the sound thing. So I

31:55 Speaker 4: have him here on your show. Yeah, yeah, come a

31:59 Speaker 4: long way.

32:00 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm glad.

32:00 Speaker 4: I've actually found out people aren't so bad.

32:04 Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. Well, I'm very glad. I'm very glad.

32:08 Speaker 1: What's the what's the what's the most challenging show that

32:12 Speaker 1: you've that you've done there, maybe in terms of logistics

32:15 Speaker 1: or running sound or like.

32:16 Speaker 4: I don't I think that that's an unfair question, Matt.

32:19 Speaker 4: I feel that you've assaulted me with a trick question

32:24 Speaker 4: because you can't judge one person's show by anothers you

32:31 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, because they're all they're all great shows.

32:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say forty three bands in three days?

32:37 Speaker 4: Was that?

32:38 Speaker 1: Was that? The death metal Festival?

32:40 Speaker 2: It was? Yeah? One band dropped out.

32:43 Speaker 5: Yeah, and they were from all around the country, around

32:46 Speaker 5: the world.

32:47 Speaker 4: That's that's the one. The neighbors get there, undise the

32:49 Speaker 4: biggest twisted about Yeah, the New England death Metal fun

32:52 Speaker 4: Time Bonanza.

32:53 Speaker 2: They start rolling.

32:55 Speaker 1: I love I love the name, by the way, the

32:57 Speaker 1: New Time Bonanza.

33:00 Speaker 4: Just a young guy out of the New York City

33:03 Speaker 4: area and they all went to you know, they all

33:06 Speaker 4: went to school. He's incredible, absolutely incredible young man. A

33:11 Speaker 4: band by the name of Bonginator, and Bonginator showed up

33:14 Speaker 4: with somebody else. They did a show, then they put

33:16 Speaker 4: on another show. They put on a couple of shows,

33:19 Speaker 4: and he did this. He didn't call it that, I

33:22 Speaker 4: don't think in the beginning, but he did this annual

33:26 Speaker 4: thing a couple of times somewhere else, and then there

33:29 Speaker 4: was a last minute glitch with the location and their

33:32 Speaker 4: local Karen's, and he kind of hit me up and

33:35 Speaker 4: he's like, hey, Tyry, I got this three day weekend

33:38 Speaker 4: thing and like we got bounced out of whatever supposed

33:40 Speaker 4: to do it. What do you think? And I'm like,

33:42 Speaker 4: all right, bring it, you know what. So, because we're

33:45 Speaker 4: there for the bands, and you know, we've there's been

33:48 Speaker 4: a couple of times that weekend events were last minute canceled,

33:53 Speaker 4: and it was a shame somebody didn't hit us up

33:55 Speaker 4: because we weren't doing anything that weekend and we would

33:57 Speaker 4: have happily shared our dirt.

33:59 Speaker 2: You know.

34:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

34:01 Speaker 4: But yeah, so he's made it bigger and better every year.

34:04 Speaker 2: Wow.

34:04 Speaker 4: And you know it's nothing we like to admit to.

34:06 Speaker 4: But there was probably like three thousand people there this week,

34:10 Speaker 4: just this year.

34:12 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, we can't. We think about the.

34:16 Speaker 4: Accounted accounted what was it? One hundred and one hundred

34:19 Speaker 4: and something tents in the backside and sixty tents on

34:23 Speaker 4: the front side.

34:24 Speaker 3: Just mentioned the vendors tent. I was straight up that

34:27 Speaker 3: was just oh wow. And not not counting car campers yet.

34:32 Speaker 4: He had a guy from Australia to bob log. Yeah, oh,

34:36 Speaker 4: blob blog was something else. Let me tell you it

34:37 Speaker 4: was great. He said he'd come from Australia again to

34:40 Speaker 4: play there. Wow on the outside stage.

34:43 Speaker 1: So that must have been the most challenging, right, I mean,

34:45 Speaker 1: that's a lot to handle that.

34:47 Speaker 2: That's the funny thing, you know.

34:49 Speaker 5: I used to I started with Terry and I took

34:52 Speaker 5: off and did a little bit of traveling.

34:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.

34:55 Speaker 4: Wanted to go to the travel and they wanted.

34:59 Speaker 2: Me because I have I run the Wall of sown.

35:02 Speaker 5: So yeah, you ain't gonna find one of those anywhere anymore, right,

35:06 Speaker 5: I got one, except oh my guys don't want to

35:08 Speaker 5: move it anymore.

35:09 Speaker 2: Yeah.

35:10 Speaker 5: But what I'll say is, out of all the festivals

35:15 Speaker 5: that I've done, the people that came to the Death

35:18 Speaker 5: Metal Festival were the most polite, the most controlled, I believe,

35:24 Speaker 5: and the cleanest people I've ever had. I'm serious grateful

35:31 Speaker 5: dead Festival.

35:34 Speaker 2: Ground.

35:35 Speaker 4: Yeah, and that PENT agree with on the most respectable

35:38 Speaker 4: group of people. When you have the biggest head count

35:41 Speaker 4: at an event and everybody's respectful and we actually have

35:46 Speaker 4: a lost and found instead of ground scores, you know,

35:49 Speaker 4: it's kind of an unspoken ruler too little ground score. No,

35:52 Speaker 4: there's no such ground score. It's called lost and found.

35:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, look that I found. Yeah, why don't you put

35:59 Speaker 5: it the Yeah.

36:01 Speaker 4: We lot people leave like five thousand dollars set of cymbals. Okay,

36:05 Speaker 4: I'll packaged up and then they'll call me. You know,

36:07 Speaker 4: they'll hit us up five six days later they're like, oh,

36:11 Speaker 4: I'm jistry. Yeah, your stuff is still right here. And

36:14 Speaker 4: that's one of the I think that's one of the

36:16 Speaker 4: reasons Charlie still gets to love is because, yeah, if

36:19 Speaker 4: you leave it there, it'll still be there.

36:20 Speaker 1: Right, That's really cool.

36:22 Speaker 4: Yeah. Rarely do we have stuff disappear. Yeah, honestly, God,

36:26 Speaker 4: do you know what disappears? What super little two dollars trinkets?

36:29 Speaker 4: And my dogs get fresh dog blankets and I get

36:33 Speaker 4: them from the Salvation Army. Okay, so I'll go in

36:36 Speaker 4: and they'll be these beautiful afgans that somebody hand knit

36:38 Speaker 4: it or crocheted, and they're like three bucks four bucks.

36:42 Speaker 4: So I buy them and I bring them out to

36:44 Speaker 4: the venue and throw them on the couches in the chairs,

36:47 Speaker 4: you know, and the respliners. That's what disappears, man, is

36:50 Speaker 4: my Afian. Somebody comes in and goes that look just

36:56 Speaker 4: like old Aunt. I'm as Daffian, doesn't it or dreeamas

36:59 Speaker 4: own so? And so they take it home and that.

37:02 Speaker 1: You know, you.

37:06 Speaker 4: Still be there, go figure out.

37:07 Speaker 3: Yeah. Lately we've been, uh, we've been getting people that

37:11 Speaker 3: bring things in and hide them amongst the other stuff, okay,

37:16 Speaker 3: just to see if it will be there the next

37:18 Speaker 3: time they come back. Yeah, I've been noticed, and I

37:20 Speaker 3: find little little things that I didn't know we're here.

37:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, because even though it's full of.

37:25 Speaker 3: Stuff, you know, you're there all the time. You know

37:29 Speaker 3: what's what and what belongs where. Yeah, and we're reaching

37:33 Speaker 3: the point where our ceilings probably won't hold very many

37:36 Speaker 3: more shirts.

37:37 Speaker 4: Oh no, gidding, selection a T shirts hanging from the

37:40 Speaker 4: ceiling from all the bands there.

37:42 Speaker 1: That's cool. That's something I've never seen too that.

37:44 Speaker 2: That's I meant to do it, like the Boston Garden,

37:47 Speaker 2: you know.

37:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a great concept. I've never seen that

37:50 Speaker 1: T shirts hanging in a venue like that. That's a

37:52 Speaker 1: great idea.

37:53 Speaker 4: It's somebody asked, why why you get all the tapestries

38:00 Speaker 4: Charlie Hill Museum and Events venue, So people like, why

38:04 Speaker 4: is this a museum that's kind of weird? And as

38:07 Speaker 4: soon as they walk in the door and they see

38:09 Speaker 4: like all the stuff, they're like, oh, yeah, damn.

38:12 Speaker 1: That's a great idea. That's a really great idea. Yeah.

38:15 Speaker 4: But when you have a building that's fifty one and

38:18 Speaker 4: twenty five feet and it's all moisture, mildew, fire commercial

38:23 Speaker 4: fireboard and everything, yeah, I'm sorry. Now, Lloyd don't take

38:26 Speaker 4: his soult to this because he's a painter. He paints.

38:29 Speaker 4: He doesn't like money taping. He's a professional, very professional

38:32 Speaker 4: painter to okay on a ceiling that's not perfect like

38:39 Speaker 4: it sound. He's a perfectionist. Yeah, So I'm looking at

38:42 Speaker 4: the ceiling, it's like yuck, you know what I mean

38:44 Speaker 4: seriously because it was a garage. The other end of

38:47 Speaker 4: the building is a garage. My automotive business was there. Oh okay,

38:51 Speaker 4: So I mean put all the rock up all the

38:53 Speaker 4: way down, so it's far from perfect. Yeah yeah, So

38:57 Speaker 4: how do you take care of all those? You know,

38:58 Speaker 4: no matter what you do is all is going to

39:00 Speaker 4: be imperfect. So that's where I started putting up the

39:03 Speaker 4: tapestries and all the stuff on the ceiling is to

39:05 Speaker 4: hide the imperfections with other imperfections. And then the t

39:09 Speaker 4: shirts and it baffles you know, it kind of keeps

39:12 Speaker 4: the down and.

39:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, keeps my face cancelation down. Yeah, that in active crossover.

39:20 Speaker 1: So tonight I was going to ask you, what do

39:23 Speaker 1: you have? What do you have tonight?

39:24 Speaker 4: We got we have Every show is great, no show

39:27 Speaker 4: is better, worse than any show.

39:28 Speaker 2: We got some local Boys.

39:29 Speaker 1: We got the.

39:30 Speaker 4: Local boys at excellent. So we got Down Boys. Down

39:35 Speaker 4: Boys is one of the newest up and coming bands. Okay,

39:39 Speaker 4: very very good bunch of people.

39:40 Speaker 1: They were here last week. Love them for the show.

39:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then and then we got uh day to attend,

39:48 Speaker 4: so we got Data attend and Down Boys tonight and

39:51 Speaker 4: day to attend, we had the pleasure of going to

39:54 Speaker 4: the Aura in Portland. They opened for Ace Fraley remember

39:58 Speaker 4: that show. Yeah, yeah, and so we got to go in,

40:01 Speaker 4: you know, on the coat tails of Jeff and Data

40:05 Speaker 4: ten yeah and enjoy the Ace Freely show and check

40:09 Speaker 4: out the Aura. So that was a great experience. Made

40:11 Speaker 4: friends with their security crew up there. Yeah, Taylor's security,

40:15 Speaker 4: I believe it was.

40:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So that's so that's tonight. So day

40:20 Speaker 1: to attending Down Boys, anybody else just the two or two,

40:23 Speaker 1: just the two, excellent two.

40:24 Speaker 2: It's going to be a nice night. I think there's

40:26 Speaker 2: a surprise.

40:27 Speaker 4: Sometimes we just have two bands. It's kind of nice, yeah,

40:32 Speaker 4: because a lot of them have quite a repert for

40:35 Speaker 4: our songs. Oh yeah, but when you do one set,

40:38 Speaker 4: they never get the chance to play all the songs, right,

40:41 Speaker 4: So when you only have two bands, they'll do like

40:44 Speaker 4: a set and then they'll take a break and then

40:46 Speaker 4: they'll go up and do all those other songs they

40:48 Speaker 4: never have a chance to do, right yeah, yeah, and

40:51 Speaker 4: then break down and then the other band will go up.

40:53 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's very cool. That's very cool.

40:56 Speaker 3: We don't rush people on and off the stages, no

40:58 Speaker 3: need to. Yeah, we're not beholding any curfews.

41:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellente.

41:04 Speaker 3: Janet Mills did send her troopers down during COVID oh no, yeah,

41:08 Speaker 3: we were doing a metal show. We had around one

41:11 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty people. Yeah, and she sent a letter

41:14 Speaker 3: from her desk. Oh and that we were breaking COVID restrictions.

41:18 Speaker 3: Oh okay, we should see some desists, right, and we didn't.

41:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, we just went on with it, right right.

41:25 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That was one of those nights where

41:27 Speaker 4: we felt really bad for the state police because they

41:29 Speaker 4: never never come yeah in the wintertime, you know. Yeah,

41:34 Speaker 4: and they're like said, Terry, were really sorry, but we

41:37 Speaker 4: came here first because we knew that you would be

41:38 Speaker 4: the most understanding.

41:40 Speaker 2: Yeah.

41:40 Speaker 4: Gena Mills gave us a whole list of businesses that

41:44 Speaker 4: we have to go pull licenses from. We all know

41:47 Speaker 4: that you don't care about your temporary events, campground camping

41:50 Speaker 4: license in February, right, But yeah, they had to go

41:53 Speaker 4: pull a bunch of restaurants and bars and taverns because

41:56 Speaker 4: they were still leaving their doors open when it was

41:59 Speaker 4: ordered that it was sad. You know, I felt bad

42:02 Speaker 4: for that whole situation. Oh yeah, yeah, but sometimes, as

42:07 Speaker 4: Jeff Day with tend, you get a fight, you're right

42:12 Speaker 4: to a party.

42:13 Speaker 2: The Beastie Boys were prophets.

42:16 Speaker 1: Well we are so before we run out of time?

42:19 Speaker 1: So where should people go online to keep up with

42:21 Speaker 1: everything that's happening at Charlie Sell because you got I mean,

42:24 Speaker 1: do you ever is there ever a Saturday that you

42:26 Speaker 1: don't have a show? Do you ever take a Saturday off?

42:28 Speaker 1: Or is there a show?

42:29 Speaker 2: Rare? Is it fifty damn rare?

42:32 Speaker 1: Really?

42:32 Speaker 4: Doors are open every Saturday at seven o'clock, no matter what. Okay,

42:38 Speaker 4: once in a while we give Lloyd to Saturday off

42:41 Speaker 4: and show up and it's acoustic only. Oh okay, yeah

42:45 Speaker 4: he's a alkoholic. Yeah yeah, So first Saturday of the

42:48 Speaker 4: month is always open GM night. Okay, how do you

42:53 Speaker 4: get a chance to play at Charlie Cell? Show up

42:55 Speaker 4: at open GM? Everybody gets their own twenty minutes. So

42:59 Speaker 4: you got three guys in a band? All right?

43:02 Speaker 1: Oh?

43:03 Speaker 4: Got three guys in a band? Each person?

43:06 Speaker 1: The Hey, that's not the sheriff Colin is it?

43:08 Speaker 4: It could bes been on your show too. Oh yeah, yeah,

43:13 Speaker 4: Alys Valen yea, yeah, yeah, he's calling.

43:15 Speaker 1: Out to a bunch of times. Yeah, ignore you're talking now,

43:18 Speaker 1: he's probably listening.

43:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, I love you, buddy.

43:22 Speaker 1: Yeah.

43:23 Speaker 4: So three person band shows up, Each gets their twenty minutes,

43:26 Speaker 4: they share their twenty minutes with each other, and they

43:28 Speaker 4: just got themselves the forty five minutes set.

43:31 Speaker 1: Okay on the stage.

43:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to play there to schedule a show there,

43:36 Speaker 4: prove that your lyrics aren't, you know, vulgar and yep, inappropriate,

43:41 Speaker 4: and and then that's how you can put together a show,

43:44 Speaker 4: because the bands put the shows together.

43:46 Speaker 2: Yeah.

43:46 Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic.

43:47 Speaker 2: Charlie's killed me. The event's venue.

43:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess, I guess you want to say this.

43:53 Speaker 4: We're not a business. We're not a bar, We're not

43:56 Speaker 4: a restaurant. You gotta bring your own beverages. You're responsible

43:59 Speaker 4: for your own alcohol consumption. We got couches and chairs.

44:03 Speaker 4: You know, you can sleep in your car when the

44:05 Speaker 4: weather's appropriate. We do, we do. We do take donations cash.

44:13 Speaker 4: We also take Venmo PayPal. I just did recently. This

44:17 Speaker 4: is the all only to stuff to me. Charlie made

44:19 Speaker 4: me do the the Facebook or I wouldn't know a

44:21 Speaker 4: thing about it.

44:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's what I was gonna ask.

44:26 Speaker 4: Terry's, Terry's Church, t E R I s C H

44:30 Speaker 4: U R C H Terry's Church and terryer my paypals

44:35 Speaker 4: and all that.

44:35 Speaker 1: Stuff, and that's on that's on Facebook.

44:42 Speaker 4: That's the best Facebook. And you can two O seven

44:51 Speaker 4: four three two five one six three. That's my personal

44:55 Speaker 4: phone number. If you call, it will not answer the phone.

44:58 Speaker 4: You have to send me a text message. Okay, okay,

45:00 Speaker 4: thinking not on Facebook. Those are the digits, okay, but

45:05 Speaker 4: Facebook is definitely the way to message to see.

45:08 Speaker 5: A band, and they want to see the schedule, they

45:10 Speaker 5: probably want to go to what Charlie shi page.

45:13 Speaker 4: They got to go to the Charlie shillpage.

45:15 Speaker 1: It's all right, I answer that.

45:21 Speaker 4: On the Facebook.

45:22 Speaker 2: The Book of Face right right, Yes, you'll have to

45:25 Speaker 2: use the Facebook if you come.

45:27 Speaker 4: Check out the show tonight.

45:28 Speaker 1: Well very good. Well we're running out of time, but

45:31 Speaker 1: I want to thank all three of you for coming.

45:32 Speaker 1: Of course, Mike, Terry, you for having us, absolutely having

45:36 Speaker 1: thanks for having us. This has been wonderful because, like

45:38 Speaker 1: I said, the venue comes up on the show more

45:40 Speaker 1: than the name of any other venue. So it's wonderful

45:43 Speaker 1: to and to learn all about Charlie Sill, the history

45:45 Speaker 1: of it and everything.

45:46 Speaker 2: We're looking forward to having you and Gen down for

45:49 Speaker 2: a show.

45:49 Speaker 1: Absolutely, count on it. Count on it.

45:51 Speaker 2: You'd love to have you guys down.

45:52 Speaker 4: All about the music, all about the bands, peace and love,

45:55 Speaker 4: and I think, uh, real quick man, everybody's giving you

45:59 Speaker 4: stuff Christmas. Yeah, okay, so I brought you Eastery for Christmas.

46:03 Speaker 1: Wow? All right, well, thank you very good. Here, I'm

46:06 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna for people watching online. I'm gonna hold

46:09 Speaker 1: it up there you go. Well, thank you very much.

46:11 Speaker 4: Never got for Christmas? Did you?

46:14 Speaker 1: No, can't say.

46:15 Speaker 4: I want to make sure I got you saw me

46:16 Speaker 4: you didn't already.

46:17 Speaker 1: That's perfect, Thank you, I appreciate it. I appreciate it

46:20 Speaker 1: very much. And we're gonna close out the segment with

46:23 Speaker 1: a Day to Attend song. I think that's appropriate since

46:25 Speaker 1: they're playing tonight, my personal favorite not coming back. And

46:29 Speaker 1: for those of you listening live stick around in the

46:31 Speaker 1: third hour. Tombstones in Their Eyes is going to be

46:33 Speaker 1: joining us via Microsoft Teams. They're on the West Coast.

46:36 Speaker 1: Really looking forward to them. But again, thank you all

46:39 Speaker 1: three of you for coming. This has been absolutely wonderful.

46:42 Speaker 1: Check out Charlie Hill and here it is. This is

46:44 Speaker 1: not coming back by day to attend