Down Boys | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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3:08 Speaker 3: How long miss Macks.

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3:18 Speaker 3: Right here, can ride homy.

3:48 Speaker 1: That's good? Gods up that burning on the body.

3:56 Speaker 5: And to the time feed.

4:03 Speaker 1: Just can't be content?

4:06 Speaker 3: What time girl?

4:39 Speaker 6: I love it. That is the world radio premiere, the

4:43 Speaker 6: brand new single from Down Boys. It is called to

4:45 Speaker 6: whom it may concern, and we're going to talk to

4:47 Speaker 6: these guys in just a second. Welcome everybody. We have

4:50 Speaker 6: entered our number two newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton. Unleashed,

4:53 Speaker 6: and we are live from the studios of w m

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4:59 Speaker 6: New Hampshire. Today is, of course, Saturday, December thirteen, twenty

5:03 Speaker 6: twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table and

5:07 Speaker 6: a little warmer in here. Now I've actually unzipped my coat. No,

5:10 Speaker 6: it's not, it's fun. It's fine, it's starting, it's starting

5:13 Speaker 6: to warm up. It's it's almost sixty degrees. Let's get

5:18 Speaker 6: these mics on for these guys here. Welcome, gentlemen, Hey,

5:21 Speaker 6: good morning, morning morning. Let's start in the corner there.

5:24 Speaker 6: If each of you, Larry will start with you, if

5:26 Speaker 6: you can tell us who you are, what you do

5:28 Speaker 6: in the band pretty much.

5:30 Speaker 7: I'm the man, Larry Williams.

5:34 Speaker 8: I played drums, all right, very good, Welcome Larry. I'm

5:38 Speaker 8: the understudy to the man Jason Sullivan. Okay, yeah, sing

5:42 Speaker 8: and play guitar okay, okay, And you.

5:44 Speaker 9: Sir, I am John Clifford, bass player.

5:47 Speaker 6: All right, welcome John.

5:49 Speaker 10: And my name is Bruce and I play guitar and

5:50 Speaker 10: I sing backups.

5:51 Speaker 6: Bruce, I gotta get your hey, your mic up over here.

5:54 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, no, no, worries that Mike's plugged into a

5:56 Speaker 6: different board. Okay, say all that again, no worries.

6:01 Speaker 10: My name is Bruce and I play guitar and I

6:03 Speaker 10: sing backups.

6:04 Speaker 6: All right, very good. Well, it's wonderful to have you

6:05 Speaker 6: guys here.

6:06 Speaker 10: Thanks for having us.

6:07 Speaker 6: Two of you have been on the show before, right, yes,

6:10 Speaker 6: with day to attend and then, but you guys have

6:13 Speaker 6: never been on before, right, Okay, just making sure because

6:16 Speaker 6: sometimes I forget, like someone will. I've had this happen

6:18 Speaker 6: where someone will be like, well, you know I was

6:20 Speaker 6: on the show like ten years ago, and I'm like,

6:22 Speaker 6: oh wow, it's hard to keep track. But no, I

6:26 Speaker 6: love the new song, thank you. That just now that's

6:29 Speaker 6: on all the streaming platforms and everything now.

6:31 Speaker 9: I assume yeah, it comes out today.

6:32 Speaker 6: Excellent, excellent, Well congratulations on that. Now, you guys are

6:35 Speaker 6: just you're just releasing singles at this point, right, there's

6:38 Speaker 6: not an album.

6:39 Speaker 7: Or an EP yet, just over a year old.

6:41 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it is a it is kind.

6:43 Speaker 11: Of a new project, right, most people are doing it

6:45 Speaker 11: at this point. So yeah, that's where we're at.

6:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, what do you like do you think you're

6:49 Speaker 6: going to do?

6:50 Speaker 7: Do an EP?

6:50 Speaker 6: Or an album eventually.

6:52 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:52 Speaker 12: Yeah, we're working on plans now for a full album

6:54 Speaker 12: and probably by I staid by the end of twenty

6:56 Speaker 12: twenty six, oh something.

6:58 Speaker 6: Oh okay, excellent, excellent. Nowhere where do you guys record?

7:02 Speaker 6: Because everything sounds really good, but there's so many different

7:04 Speaker 6: ways to do it.

7:05 Speaker 7: Now.

7:05 Speaker 6: You can go to a studio, you can do it

7:07 Speaker 6: at home. You can what's the approach that you guys

7:10 Speaker 6: take for recording different at home?

7:11 Speaker 7: Right?

7:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, everything's been done at home, like we we took

7:14 Speaker 10: a couple of different approaches. We tried some electronic kits

7:16 Speaker 10: on the first couple of singles, and on this batch

7:18 Speaker 10: with Toma May Concern and the next single that's coming

7:21 Speaker 10: out after it. We use the live drums. But everything's

7:23 Speaker 10: just basically, I bring my laptop to a space, we

7:25 Speaker 10: set up mics or whatever and just do it to it.

7:27 Speaker 10: It's all home home brewed.

7:29 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, it's great. That's great. You did it

7:32 Speaker 6: with that way with all three You've got three total now, right,

7:35 Speaker 6: three songs that you totally you've you've recorded, Yeah, yep.

7:38 Speaker 6: And how did so how did this come about? How

7:40 Speaker 6: did down Boys? I mean, obviously you know two of

7:42 Speaker 6: you guys play together in another band. But how did

7:44 Speaker 6: how did this start?

7:45 Speaker 7: I think I put this thing together.

7:49 Speaker 11: Band with those two guys, with Bruce and John. Yeah,

7:53 Speaker 11: eventually he was going to be the singer and and

7:56 Speaker 11: the band just dissolved right after that. Yeah, really work out.

8:01 Speaker 7: I joined a lot of bands.

8:02 Speaker 11: When I joined a lot of bands, is I never

8:05 Speaker 11: really liked the band, but I always find somebody or

8:07 Speaker 11: two right. It's just like, oh man, I got to

8:10 Speaker 11: get these two guys numbers right right, And it was

8:12 Speaker 11: pretty much all three of these guys. And when the

8:15 Speaker 11: band dissolved, I says, we get all do our own thing. Yeah,

8:18 Speaker 11: do originals. That was more of a cover of thing. Yeah, yeah,

8:21 Speaker 11: with it was kind of fifty to fifty. I think

8:23 Speaker 11: when I joined it it was mostly covers though.

8:25 Speaker 7: Yeah.

8:27 Speaker 11: Yeah, So I just found these guys. I thought, you know,

8:30 Speaker 11: very cute, but I mean they know they know how

8:32 Speaker 11: to play all right.

8:33 Speaker 1: But the check claar right right, I head shot with.

8:37 Speaker 7: There was no competition. It was nice.

8:39 Speaker 6: Yeah, oh excellent. Did you guys play out a lot?

8:45 Speaker 6: Are you playing a lot of shows? It looks like

8:47 Speaker 6: you're right, Yeah, we've had a lot of shows.

8:50 Speaker 10: In this past year, and we've got a lot coming

8:52 Speaker 10: up for twenty twenty six. So yeah, we found ourselves

8:55 Speaker 10: surprisingly busy.

8:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that's great, that's great. Is it hard to

8:59 Speaker 6: juggle this with you know? Are you guys? Also? Do

9:01 Speaker 6: you have other projects also outside of this or.

9:04 Speaker 9: I have a total of three myself do Yeah?

9:06 Speaker 6: What else you have?

9:07 Speaker 7: So?

9:07 Speaker 12: I actually can't say anything yet, so unfortunately, Oh, there's

9:11 Speaker 12: things in the works.

9:12 Speaker 9: Asked to keep it down low until it's time to

9:14 Speaker 9: announce it.

9:15 Speaker 6: Okay, that's cool.

9:16 Speaker 9: This is my main priority, but I'm involved in two

9:18 Speaker 9: other projects.

9:19 Speaker 6: Oh, excellent, excellent. What about you, Jason?

9:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, I have an acoustic duo, soul Shine, and we

9:24 Speaker 8: play out once a month. Nice kind of not anywhere

9:28 Speaker 8: where it would overlap with you know what we're doing

9:30 Speaker 8: now heatistically or anything like that. But yeah, stay active,

9:33 Speaker 8: been in and out of bands and in the scene

9:35 Speaker 8: for you know, the better part of a couple of decades.

9:38 Speaker 8: So yeah, I was happy to get the call and

9:40 Speaker 8: yeah and sit here and I think the work speaks

9:43 Speaker 8: for itself, and yeah, I think we're doing great. Absolutely

9:46 Speaker 8: wanted to add to the tour thing that was going on.

9:48 Speaker 8: You said, we're playing out. We're hitting like almost every

9:51 Speaker 8: state in New England in the next like four months.

9:53 Speaker 4: Good.

9:54 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty cool, excellent. Do you guys have a

9:56 Speaker 6: favorite place that you've played? Is there is there something

9:58 Speaker 6: that stands out or anywhere in Manchester brilliant?

10:02 Speaker 11: I don't play place called Charlie. Still it's a great venue,

10:05 Speaker 11: especially for new new bands, and yeah, yeah, really good

10:09 Speaker 11: to us, And uh yeah, I think I do like

10:13 Speaker 11: it that.

10:13 Speaker 10: I love Charlie too. Yeah, it's great sound, you know,

10:15 Speaker 10: it's like you said, great people, So it's that's probably

10:18 Speaker 10: been my favorite venue. We've played there a lot, so

10:20 Speaker 10: uh yeah.

10:21 Speaker 7: They gave us a chance, and uh, I don't know,

10:24 Speaker 7: it just took off from there.

10:25 Speaker 11: They really liked us, and then we started getting other

10:27 Speaker 11: gigs and then they started calling us.

10:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, call them first. Yeah, and they've been calling us

10:31 Speaker 7: ever since.

10:32 Speaker 6: He's going to be coming on Mike Hill. He's gonna

10:34 Speaker 6: be He's gonna be on the show. So great, very soon,

10:37 Speaker 6: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's a venue that

10:39 Speaker 6: comes up a lot on the show. Everybody loves Charlie Soul.

10:42 Speaker 6: Jenny and I haven't been there yet, but that's worth

10:45 Speaker 6: the trip everything. Everything we hear about it amazing.

10:47 Speaker 1: Mike, Yeah, this sounds like a mad problem. Oops, it's amazing.

10:57 Speaker 9: I really do want to get on the suck it out.

10:59 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, absolutely absolutely. All right, So where does the

11:02 Speaker 6: name come from? If it's is it is the origin

11:05 Speaker 6: story of the name radio friendly or yeah? Okay, well

11:09 Speaker 6: it depends when you ask.

11:11 Speaker 11: I mean, honestly, I don't even know. Any think we

11:14 Speaker 11: do the down Boys song, So I don't know. It

11:16 Speaker 11: just sounded cool, Yeah, sound cool. I think Jason is

11:19 Speaker 11: the one who ended up with that. We all had

11:20 Speaker 11: a bunch of names here there.

11:23 Speaker 7: We kind of all agreed on him. He's the biggest

11:25 Speaker 7: guy in the band.

11:26 Speaker 6: Right right, he gets his way.

11:28 Speaker 7: Yeah, we all kind of didn't hate it. We got

11:33 Speaker 7: the down Boys. Yeah.

11:35 Speaker 8: I don't know if we want to reveal the origin

11:37 Speaker 8: story yet. Yeah, no, no, no, there's a bunch of

11:39 Speaker 8: theories out there. I kind of want to let it,

11:42 Speaker 8: let everybody, let everybody figure out. Yeah, all right, Larry's

11:45 Speaker 8: got two shepherds and we practice it at his place,

11:48 Speaker 8: so you know, he always says down Boys to his dogs.

11:51 Speaker 6: Okay, that could be it could be one could be

11:55 Speaker 6: one Okay, Okay.

11:57 Speaker 8: It could just be that it sounds like, you know,

12:00 Speaker 8: we're down for anything or yeah, you know in the

12:03 Speaker 8: eighties and the Warrant song and then cool cool guys, right, yeah, sure,

12:07 Speaker 8: got down sort of.

12:09 Speaker 6: You see you see that video and it's like, I

12:10 Speaker 6: don't know how cool they are, but you know what

12:13 Speaker 6: I mean the choreography and difference. Yeah, oh I thought

12:18 Speaker 6: that I actually like Warrant. I'm not even knocking the band,

12:20 Speaker 6: but I remember the first time I saw the video

12:22 Speaker 6: for Down Boys and they're they're all on their knees

12:24 Speaker 6: moving in Unison, and I was like, this is a

12:27 Speaker 6: little uh yeah, no choreography insurance isn't good enough. Yeah,

12:36 Speaker 6: and it's just to be clear, it's down Boys. It's

12:38 Speaker 6: not the down Boys. Down Boys, just down Boys. Very good,

12:41 Speaker 6: very good. And then so like this this song just

12:47 Speaker 6: came out, you're already working on the next one, because

12:48 Speaker 6: you guys probably have you know, you're all creative guys,

12:50 Speaker 6: you probably have a lot of ideas.

12:51 Speaker 11: We've got a bunch of already done, so we're working

12:54 Speaker 11: on recording them, not so much of working on the song.

12:57 Speaker 11: So yeah, yeah, little tweaks here and there for the

13:00 Speaker 11: recordings Yeah, comedies and stuff like that, which have really

13:03 Speaker 11: really took off.

13:05 Speaker 7: I think the comedies in the standard great.

13:07 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, we've actually already got our next single, Spirits Disappear,

13:11 Speaker 12: slated to come out in January.

13:12 Speaker 9: Oh wonder this one gets some time to breathe and

13:14 Speaker 9: get out there outstanding.

13:16 Speaker 12: Try to be a little bit ahead of the game

13:17 Speaker 12: and try to do maybe every thirty forty five days

13:20 Speaker 12: we'll put something new out.

13:21 Speaker 7: Yeah.

13:22 Speaker 6: It's hard to know, right, I mean, it's hard to

13:23 Speaker 6: know how how soon is too soon or you know,

13:26 Speaker 6: or too long or it's exactly.

13:28 Speaker 7: Yeah, you we're at a good pace. We got seven

13:30 Speaker 7: seven now, I think we got seven originals.

13:32 Speaker 11: Yeah, basically we wrote seven originals and then we instead

13:36 Speaker 11: of gotting to ten or twelve, let's let's go back

13:39 Speaker 11: and start recording when piece work.

13:40 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we got seven that will come out.

13:43 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, not standing.

13:45 Speaker 7: You know, we ask people which onesda they want to

13:47 Speaker 7: hear first? You know what I mean?

13:48 Speaker 11: Yeah, which one do you think? And these were some

13:52 Speaker 11: of these were voted, right, I mean yeah, yeah, this.

13:54 Speaker 10: To whom we concern. It seems like when we played

13:56 Speaker 10: this this song live, for some reason, a lot of

13:59 Speaker 10: people resonate with to whom and make concern.

14:01 Speaker 7: Almost everybody actually, Yeah.

14:03 Speaker 10: It's funny though, like depending on who comes up to you, like,

14:06 Speaker 10: someone will have a different song that they like of

14:07 Speaker 10: our so it's like, oh I rel like this one,

14:09 Speaker 10: and then another persons like, oh I really like this one.

14:10 Speaker 10: But honestly, kind of the consensus has been to whom

14:12 Speaker 10: I make concern has been a pretty a.

14:14 Speaker 11: Lot of melodies and there's still a lot of rock

14:16 Speaker 11: and roll guitar. You know, the drums are strong but

14:19 Speaker 11: not crazy. You know, it's not Metallica by any means,

14:22 Speaker 11: but isn't boring.

14:23 Speaker 7: I don't know, I love it.

14:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, this is great, great track.

14:28 Speaker 11: Everybody's writing melodies anymore. Everybody's just like I know the

14:32 Speaker 11: places we've everybody's screaming, Rellian just screaming. Everything's drum solos,

14:36 Speaker 11: everything solo, solo solo.

14:38 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really hard to understand the music, although you

14:41 Speaker 7: know the talent is that wow, those probably are those

14:44 Speaker 7: and changes.

14:45 Speaker 11: Were insane and that's great sometimes, but sometimes you have

14:48 Speaker 11: the audience and you just want to understand the song

14:50 Speaker 11: to be able to dance to it and sing to

14:52 Speaker 11: it and right right I love rock and roll by Jones.

14:54 Speaker 11: Jet wasn't the hottest song in the world, but I mean,

14:56 Speaker 11: once you hear it, you're singing it.

14:58 Speaker 1: That's true.

14:59 Speaker 6: That's absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree.

15:02 Speaker 8: The creativity in this band is off the charts. Like Uncharted,

15:06 Speaker 8: our very last practice, we wrote two more really that

15:10 Speaker 8: were there were pretty much skeletons that are gonna that

15:12 Speaker 8: are gonna be built off of and things like that.

15:14 Speaker 8: It's just like an unending conveyor belt of things that

15:17 Speaker 8: were jamming out writing recording.

15:20 Speaker 7: Yeah.

15:20 Speaker 8: So I wouldn't expect us to stop anytime.

15:23 Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, Well we should play another one?

15:26 Speaker 4: What uh?

15:27 Speaker 6: What should we uh? Which one should we play next?

15:29 Speaker 6: And then we'll we'll one of them will leave for

15:31 Speaker 6: the end of the show, I mean the end of

15:32 Speaker 6: the segment obviously, But which one should we play with now?

15:36 Speaker 7: At this point?

15:36 Speaker 9: How about My Kind of Animal?

15:37 Speaker 7: Yeah?

15:40 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and this one we did a world premiere

15:42 Speaker 6: for it.

15:42 Speaker 3: When this.

15:45 Speaker 6: Absolutely all right, let's give this a spand if you're

15:47 Speaker 6: just joining us down, boys, U here with us in

15:49 Speaker 6: studio and this track is called My Kind of Animal.

16:23 Speaker 5: Pads not.

16:25 Speaker 1: One means young maidies, mister be so boy see the race.

16:36 Speaker 1: Belive you by my sun night Joe, go off, you

16:45 Speaker 1: can have a real good time. Wall You're crazy. I'm

16:51 Speaker 1: not here.

16:52 Speaker 5: You might coming.

16:55 Speaker 13: You're crazy, I'm not You're not going black dathing song.

17:19 Speaker 13: You even brought your friend Younts.

17:23 Speaker 1: What I've been stop all o the time?

17:27 Speaker 5: Friend, I got strap shout my shot the soundful human times.

17:35 Speaker 1: You can't tell me aoun. We haven't beat you in time.

17:42 Speaker 1: You're crazy. I'm not me here. You're not leble you

17:49 Speaker 1: crazy heav. I'm not here you ma Whoba, You're crazy.

18:36 Speaker 1: I'm not he here. Dom come that.

18:42 Speaker 5: Crazy heavy among Hea You not coming?

18:48 Speaker 1: You crazy? Am not do not coming? You crazy about baby?

18:58 Speaker 1: You're not coming.

19:10 Speaker 7: There?

19:10 Speaker 6: It is That is my kind of animal. The band

19:13 Speaker 6: is Down Boys, and we've got the guys from Down

19:15 Speaker 6: Boys here in the studio with us. And uh, that's

19:18 Speaker 6: a great track. We you know you heard it here

19:19 Speaker 6: first we played that when that first came out, and

19:21 Speaker 6: love it and now what what's what's that one?

19:24 Speaker 7: Is that?

19:24 Speaker 6: Like, uh, is one of you a veterinarian or what

19:27 Speaker 6: what's that song?

19:29 Speaker 12: So that one was actually born out of a jam

19:30 Speaker 12: session up at Jason's place, either Bruce and I started

19:34 Speaker 12: playing the riff. You know, we just kind of locked

19:37 Speaker 12: onto it and said, all right, yeah, you know I

19:39 Speaker 12: I kind of feel like it has kind of early

19:41 Speaker 12: Aerosmith kind of. But one of these guys came up

19:45 Speaker 12: with the idea, why don't we just take a few

19:48 Speaker 12: examples of some personal adult history.

19:52 Speaker 6: Got yeah, yeah, yeah, well well done, well done.

20:00 Speaker 9: But that one came about pretty easily out of the gym.

20:03 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, is that? Is that how most of these happened?

20:06 Speaker 6: Because that's what these songs feel like.

20:07 Speaker 7: They feel like some of them are that way, some

20:10 Speaker 7: of them.

20:10 Speaker 11: These guys have these all three of these guys. Because

20:13 Speaker 11: I'm the drummer, I don't have much, but I have

20:15 Speaker 11: a lot to say. Guys either bring stuff to the table,

20:20 Speaker 11: or just before a break, he starts doing something.

20:25 Speaker 7: I just can't help but put a beat to it.

20:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, he has his.

20:28 Speaker 7: Bass down, he's picking it back up, and then we

20:30 Speaker 7: don't take a break. We end up just like jam

20:32 Speaker 7: it to something.

20:33 Speaker 11: He comes up some kind of words, We record it,

20:36 Speaker 11: and then next time we come in and go because

20:38 Speaker 11: if he records it, like well, I'll remember what we

20:40 Speaker 11: did because if you don't, you don't even remember something

20:42 Speaker 11: when you're jamming, you know, you having fun.

20:45 Speaker 7: He puts words to it before you know what their songs.

20:47 Speaker 11: Yeah, not all of them, but I think a few

20:51 Speaker 11: of this way, even like our genres, I think they're

20:54 Speaker 11: all different, some of them. You know, you might be

20:56 Speaker 11: like I kind to hear a little of this band

20:57 Speaker 11: and that, sure, but not in all of every one

21:00 Speaker 11: of them. We might hear something different, you know what

21:02 Speaker 11: I mean. Yeah, I do not have to sound like

21:05 Speaker 11: somebody today, you know what I mean.

21:06 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah.

21:09 Speaker 6: Do you guys have any like, is there anybody else

21:11 Speaker 6: in the scene you kind of you know what happens organically,

21:12 Speaker 6: you've kind of sort of teamed up with like for

21:15 Speaker 6: shows like that you Is there anybody who play a

21:17 Speaker 6: lot of shows.

21:17 Speaker 7: With the Mystic Angel? Yeah? Yeah, yeah they do because

21:22 Speaker 7: it's convenient.

21:23 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, cut up the drums once exactly. Yeah

21:26 Speaker 6: that makes sense.

21:27 Speaker 9: Yeah, thumbs down The.

21:29 Speaker 7: Angel dumbs down. Nathan Hills getting a little.

21:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, Nathan Hill's great. Yeah he's been on the show.

21:35 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, great guy, absolutely, Yeah, I mean we've played

21:39 Speaker 11: with everyone, Lone Wolf, James, I know, it's been down

21:42 Speaker 11: Anthony from Perching Sin nice.

21:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, excellent, very vibrant scene. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, no,

21:51 Speaker 6: it is incredible. You know, sometimes people will ask, like,

21:53 Speaker 6: you know, Jenny does a book, and people will ask,

21:55 Speaker 6: you know, where do you find all this talent to

21:57 Speaker 6: come on the show. It's like, well, it's everywhere.

22:00 Speaker 11: Collectively, we all played everywhere. Yeah, he was covering for

22:03 Speaker 11: Exception for a while, great great metal band. And this

22:08 Speaker 11: guy's doing all our recording now yeah. Yeah, this guy's

22:12 Speaker 11: writing lyrics. Well, those are all really hot at work,

22:14 Speaker 11: and I just gap for them to put it together.

22:15 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I'll tell you where to show up. You guys,

22:22 Speaker 6: do any if you made any music videos or anything

22:24 Speaker 6: for any of these songs?

22:26 Speaker 9: Not yet, we have that in the works year too.

22:28 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, because you guys are all you're you're very photogenics.

22:33 Speaker 7: That's true. Yeah, I do have a face for reading.

22:37 Speaker 7: I look like Alice Cooper a little. So yeah you

22:40 Speaker 7: think that's cute.

22:42 Speaker 6: But I say the pictures of you, you know, because

22:44 Speaker 6: most bands, you know, they just you know, kind of

22:46 Speaker 6: stand there, just look at the camera, you know, But

22:48 Speaker 6: you guys are you're very animated in your pictures.

22:51 Speaker 7: So you know, but it's an animated picture.

22:56 Speaker 6: Well there you go. Somebody, somebody drew it and it looks.

22:58 Speaker 7: Like one of them. I'm just kiping type.

23:04 Speaker 6: No, but I can just I can imagine. I can

23:06 Speaker 6: imagine you guys do it. But but there is something

23:08 Speaker 6: you might do as far as the video. Yeah, in

23:11 Speaker 6: the words, yeah, yeah.

23:11 Speaker 10: I can't see why not. I mean, I think that

23:13 Speaker 10: any video presence is kind of important for any band nowadays,

23:16 Speaker 10: Like a lot of people use Instagram or Snapchat or

23:19 Speaker 10: whatever and just getting stuff out there, even if it's

23:21 Speaker 10: not like a full fledged video. But I do think

23:22 Speaker 10: it would be cool to do a full video. I

23:23 Speaker 10: don't know what song we would do it for, but hell,

23:25 Speaker 10: it's doing for all of them.

23:26 Speaker 7: I don't really care.

23:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really is important. It's funny because

23:31 Speaker 6: like a lot of people who don't know, who don't

23:33 Speaker 6: pay attention, think that music videos are dead, like because

23:36 Speaker 6: they people have a perception that you know, once MTV,

23:41 Speaker 6: you know, stop playing videos effectively more than more than

23:43 Speaker 6: twenty years ago now, and VH one probably did as well,

23:46 Speaker 6: that you know that that the art form of the

23:48 Speaker 6: music video is dead. And what what people don't realize

23:51 Speaker 6: is it's actually I think more important than ever because

23:53 Speaker 6: of YouTube, you know, and what major artists who have, like,

23:56 Speaker 6: you know, a gazillion dollars will actually put out. I

23:59 Speaker 6: think I think Metallica did it, Beyonce has done it

24:02 Speaker 6: where they'll were released an album and literally for every

24:05 Speaker 6: single song on the album there's a video, a fully produced,

24:08 Speaker 6: high budget video, and it's you know, it just goes

24:11 Speaker 6: on social media and of course, but it helps fuel

24:13 Speaker 6: the you know, the algorithms and and and sell and

24:16 Speaker 6: sell the music and and it's really more more important

24:19 Speaker 6: than ever, I think. You know, I think you're right.

24:20 Speaker 9: I think it's just a different medium now.

24:22 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, it's it's changed. But but but a lot

24:26 Speaker 6: of these videos too, you know, the like the big

24:28 Speaker 6: budget ones. They look like something you might have seen

24:30 Speaker 6: in the you know, in the the heyday of MTV,

24:33 Speaker 6: you know. So yeah, people people like and it's easy,

24:39 Speaker 6: like you can even make you can do something very

24:41 Speaker 6: I've seen some really creative things that are actually very

24:43 Speaker 6: low budget but end up being really impactful, you know,

24:46 Speaker 6: as far as music videos. So yeah, there's really there's

24:50 Speaker 6: really no limit to what you can do with the

24:52 Speaker 6: technology now. So it's incredible.

24:55 Speaker 7: It's not everything, right, that's right.

24:57 Speaker 11: And I could buy I could buy you the best

24:59 Speaker 11: guitar in the world, right, and this guy could play

25:02 Speaker 11: the cheapest one, probably better.

25:04 Speaker 6: Right, exactly, exactly. Now, what So what's kind of the

25:11 Speaker 6: future trajectory for you guys? Do you think, like, do

25:13 Speaker 6: you have do you have kind of a long term

25:14 Speaker 6: plan or get rich?

25:16 Speaker 7: You know?

25:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, at our day.

25:18 Speaker 9: Jobs, you know, I don't know if there's really a plan.

25:20 Speaker 9: We started this really just to have some fun.

25:22 Speaker 7: Yeah.

25:23 Speaker 12: Yeah, we were doing our thing, having a good time.

25:25 Speaker 12: We'll go up to Charlie's every couple of weeks and yeah,

25:27 Speaker 12: out of nowhere, it's just when are you guys playing again?

25:29 Speaker 12: When are you guys putting stuff out? When are you

25:31 Speaker 12: doing an album? We're like, oh, okay, now what do

25:33 Speaker 12: we do?

25:34 Speaker 7: Yeah?

25:34 Speaker 9: So, I mean we have a few plans for like

25:36 Speaker 9: an album, maybe a video or two.

25:38 Speaker 12: We'll book some shows, but yeah, we're kind of just

25:40 Speaker 12: here for the ride. Let's see where it takes. Yeah.

25:42 Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be as surprise as you Yeah. Yeah, that's exciting.

25:45 Speaker 6: I mean, you know, it's a good way to approach it,

25:47 Speaker 6: I think. Yeah, yeah, And when when is your next show? Like,

25:49 Speaker 6: do you guys have anything this weekend? Or when is

25:51 Speaker 6: oh tonight? Where are you playing tonight?

25:53 Speaker 7: Right up the street here and Bad Burger. I guess

25:55 Speaker 7: oh excellent comes down a new place now.

25:59 Speaker 12: Yeah, we're doing prais Christmas party with the bottom motion,

26:02 Speaker 12: the bottom motive and thumbs down doors at eight.

26:05 Speaker 9: I think a ten dollars cover charge. Where cool Christmas costume?

26:08 Speaker 4: You mad?

26:09 Speaker 6: Oh that's cool.

26:10 Speaker 7: Yeah.

26:11 Speaker 6: Jenny and I went to Bad Burger for the first

26:12 Speaker 6: time to see Uh it was under the Horizon Vices Inc.

26:17 Speaker 6: And uh plague Dad. Yeah, that was a fun show.

26:22 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I love them.

26:25 Speaker 7: Does take place?

26:26 Speaker 6: Yeah, see I took you there. That was not that

26:30 Speaker 6: long ago. See speechless. Yeah, Florida, I drove. Yeah, we

26:43 Speaker 6: took our We were trying to figure out like, uh,

26:46 Speaker 6: we could just ask, but I would ruin the mystery

26:49 Speaker 6: the uh the giant Bad Burger truck that sits there.

26:52 Speaker 6: We were trying to figure out like does do the

26:54 Speaker 6: owners have special permission from the city to just park

26:56 Speaker 6: that there? Or do they just pay pay all the

26:59 Speaker 6: parking every single day or just pay the ten dollars

27:01 Speaker 6: parking ticket every day or whatever? Yeah, but I love that.

27:04 Speaker 6: I love that John characterizing it is. Oh yeah, it's

27:07 Speaker 6: it's perfect.

27:08 Speaker 9: Yeah, but we need be having that parking space tonight.

27:11 Speaker 9: But whatever.

27:12 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's occupied twenty four seven, right.

27:16 Speaker 7: Yeah.

27:16 Speaker 8: They seem to be a have a good strategy. You're

27:18 Speaker 8: doing a good job. They were on the billboard and

27:20 Speaker 8: the JumboTron on the way in we saw as well.

27:23 Speaker 6: Oh nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. And

27:26 Speaker 6: then so and then after this, because a lot of

27:29 Speaker 6: bands kind of go into sort of a quasi hibernation

27:32 Speaker 6: during the winter. Are you guys gonna gonna keep playing

27:34 Speaker 6: shows through the winter or.

27:35 Speaker 12: What We're gonna keep going? We have the next week,

27:37 Speaker 12: we're gonna be back up in Charlie still with day

27:39 Speaker 12: to attend.

27:40 Speaker 6: Excellent.

27:40 Speaker 9: If you check our website www.

27:42 Speaker 12: Doown Boys Rock dot com, we've already have January for

27:46 Speaker 12: January through maybook for twenty twenty six.

27:48 Speaker 6: Okay, excellent, excellent, outstanding. Who does the website, by the way,

27:52 Speaker 6: that would be me, Oh, very good. I know it's

27:55 Speaker 6: an odd question to be asked, but I do because

27:58 Speaker 6: I like the website, and I'm a web site nerd,

28:01 Speaker 6: and I see a lot of bad websites. I'm sure

28:03 Speaker 6: you have as well.

28:04 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I'm sure this is one of them.

28:06 Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, that's why I bring it up.

28:08 Speaker 6: I have no idea what I'm doing. No, it's a

28:09 Speaker 6: good it's a good site. That's why I bring it up.

28:11 Speaker 6: It's a good site. I see a lot of really

28:13 Speaker 6: bad websites, and this is a good one.

28:16 Speaker 7: That's why.

28:17 Speaker 4: No.

28:17 Speaker 6: No, if I if I didn't like it, I wouldn't

28:18 Speaker 6: have brought it up.

28:19 Speaker 9: I appreciate it. I just tried to keep it like

28:21 Speaker 9: meat and potatoes, no frills.

28:22 Speaker 6: No, it's it's good. There's there's a good amount of information,

28:25 Speaker 6: but it's not overkill, and the layout is nice and

28:29 Speaker 6: it's no, it's good. Like I said, I know, it's

28:31 Speaker 6: an odd thing to bring up, but I look, I

28:34 Speaker 6: look at a lot of websites, and I see a

28:36 Speaker 6: lot of musicians with really bad websites. So I like

28:39 Speaker 6: this one.

28:39 Speaker 9: I do the website, and I do the social media.

28:41 Speaker 9: Excellent in charge of most of the you know, music production. Okay, okay,

28:45 Speaker 9: everybody just kind of fell into a cool role. Yeah, yeah,

28:48 Speaker 9: it happened naturally.

28:49 Speaker 6: Well that's nice too. And when when that happens naturally

28:51 Speaker 6: when it's organic, when everybody just kind of finds their

28:54 Speaker 6: you know, their their role like that, and uh no,

28:56 Speaker 6: you guys are you guys are doing great. I think

28:58 Speaker 6: you're gonna I think you're gonna have very successful twenty

29:01 Speaker 6: twenty six. That's my prediction because you're you're definitely uh,

29:04 Speaker 6: you're definitely on the right track. Anything we you know,

29:07 Speaker 6: we'll we'll close out in a couple of minutes with

29:09 Speaker 6: do it Again. But any anything we didn't talk about

29:10 Speaker 6: that you want to make sure our listeners know about.

29:14 Speaker 8: Not that I can think of.

29:15 Speaker 10: Just come out to our shows. I want to have

29:16 Speaker 10: a couple of shoutouts maybe yeah, yeah to my mom. Uh,

29:20 Speaker 10: hello to my mother, Hello to my family and friends

29:22 Speaker 10: and everything, and uh yeah, thanks for thanks for having

29:25 Speaker 10: us and tuning in and all that. We really appreciate

29:27 Speaker 10: you guys.

29:28 Speaker 6: Oh, speaking of tuning in, Tom Syrah Cusa is in

29:30 Speaker 6: the chat room.

29:31 Speaker 10: Shout out to Jeff and Ed. Yeah yeah, boys, shout

29:36 Speaker 10: out to Aaron.

29:37 Speaker 7: He's the bass player from DTA.

29:39 Speaker 6: Tom said, a perfect opening song. Jason Sullivan has the

29:42 Speaker 6: perfect blues voice and tone. Great tune fellas. Congratulations, Yeah, Yanks.

29:48 Speaker 6: Very cool, very cool.

29:49 Speaker 9: Oh.

29:50 Speaker 6: Sheila Russo from paper Jam is in the chat room,

29:52 Speaker 6: says I know her. Absolutely, we love paper Jam.

29:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, we were just featuring in November December.

29:58 Speaker 6: Oh that's right, congratulations on that. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Sheila says, hey, guys,

30:02 Speaker 6: I love the song totally, uh totally down for this.

30:06 Speaker 6: I'll see what she did.

30:09 Speaker 9: I start trademarking this, right, that's right, that's right.

30:13 Speaker 5: Uh.

30:14 Speaker 6: Tom Syracusa said, down Boys baby, great new England rock

30:17 Speaker 6: and roll band, and uh, Mike Hill is a great

30:20 Speaker 6: human and a great soul. Yep, Mike's gonna be on

30:22 Speaker 6: the show soon. Really looking forward to that. And he said,

30:25 Speaker 6: love you guys, Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Tom's a great guy

30:28 Speaker 6: and we love day to attend. They're they're a great

30:31 Speaker 6: band too, so wonderful. So we'll so yeah, so go

30:36 Speaker 6: to the website uh for uh yeah, uh down Boys

30:42 Speaker 6: rock dot com right, yep, down Boys rock dot com

30:44 Speaker 6: ye for everything. Yeah, down Boys was probably taken right

30:47 Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

30:50 Speaker 7: In some fashion.

30:51 Speaker 6: Yeah, well I won't ask, uh what what you saw

30:54 Speaker 6: when you investigated the domain.

30:56 Speaker 9: Where the Down Boys can't go?

30:58 Speaker 4: Right?

30:58 Speaker 6: Right, where the Down Boys can't go? No, I like

31:03 Speaker 6: spontaneous song parodies. Guys, thank you very much. I appreciate

31:08 Speaker 6: all four of you coming in and thanks for having

31:10 Speaker 6: us absolutely and we can close out the segment with

31:13 Speaker 6: this track to do It Again? What what should we

31:14 Speaker 6: know about this one? Any anything? Anything we should know

31:17 Speaker 6: about that?

31:18 Speaker 10: So I think the song can't kind of came out

31:20 Speaker 10: from an idea John had that has been kicking around

31:22 Speaker 10: for a while and we've just kind of had different

31:24 Speaker 10: iterations of it throughout you know, the history of us collectively,

31:27 Speaker 10: and so yeah, I think we just kind of gave

31:29 Speaker 10: the music to Jason, and.

31:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, the first song might have been that metal thing

31:34 Speaker 7: that's still not together yet.

31:35 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think that might have been the first

31:37 Speaker 11: song we actually put together, right, Yeah, I think so.

31:40 Speaker 6: Oh wow, okay, all right, very cool, very cool. So

31:43 Speaker 6: we're gonna give this a spin. This is called do

31:45 Speaker 6: it Again. This is down boys and again. Guys, thank

31:47 Speaker 6: you so much, Thank you, just.

32:21 Speaker 4: Stubby shots, Giga wait for three.

32:25 Speaker 3: Hours, Leader cool on the snore, she didn't sass me

32:31 Speaker 3: the sauty.

32:35 Speaker 8: And then you while.

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32:46 Speaker 13: D be still long shoulder always been wrong, has gotten

32:51 Speaker 13: that bar and A cant.

32:54 Speaker 1: Wait to see the day she ser let my copy.

33:02 Speaker 1: We think that like somebody comes down in my head

33:08 Speaker 1: streaming no bud mud stud Stuart, come my.

33:35 Speaker 4: Bl you sell ball, you can boffing bad.

33:40 Speaker 5: You have no boot.

33:44 Speaker 1: Rookie sid zero and the ball.

33:49 Speaker 7: Then you see.

33:52 Speaker 10: Why you.

33:57 Speaker 13: Y get it still around by shoulder as long has

34:05 Speaker 13: got on.

34:07 Speaker 1: And wait to see the day reel you turn now

34:14 Speaker 1: playing my god side?

34:16 Speaker 5: What's say guys like sol le but you convertupid.

34:30 Speaker 1: Up yet the struggle is reel is struggles go. You

34:40 Speaker 1: feel like you're down and out and you can't catch

34:44 Speaker 1: a break and see your goddamn life. You gotta pick

34:50 Speaker 1: yourself up by the distress, put yourself back in the game.

34:54 Speaker 1: No one's coming God, save yourself.

34:59 Speaker 4: Love me.

35:00 Speaker 1: A ship is step from my shoulder.

35:05 Speaker 5: All these he is wrong, ass gut boutful, And then.

35:10 Speaker 1: We just see the days with the whole.

35:13 Speaker 3: Will you try to leam my cup site we'll dream

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