Eljer P. Sloan | Matt Connarton Unleashed

Setting the Stage for Elder P Sloan

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4:25 Speaker 10: Day day.

4:35 Speaker 11: I love it. That is very very catchy. That is called better Day.

4:39 Speaker 12: The band is Elder P Sloan and we've got the guys from the band here with us. We're gonna talk with them in just a moment. Really been looking forward to this. Welcome back everybody. We have entered our number three New Marrow trace of Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to my website Matt connorton dot com slash Unleashed for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

5:10 Speaker 12: Today is Saturday August twenty two, two one thousand, twenty six. And let me get those mics on because and yes, Elder P Sloan is not a person. It is a band. Well it could be named for a person. I don't know, we're gonna find out, but welcome guys, Thank you. So

The Band's Origins and Lineup

5:26 Speaker 12: I think what we should do is let's start in the corner here, and if you could each tell us who you are and what you do in the band.

5:33 Speaker 13: I am Dave, I am the lead singer, and I am cyclosporira sparalysis sparion free. I am cyclosprias is free.

5:44 Speaker 14: So how many days I am?

5:46 Speaker 15: I'm three days free?

5:48 Speaker 11: So congratulations. I think I'm free of that too. Yeah.

5:57 Speaker 13: If I could just real quick, I just want to say that they always teach you to eat while eat your fruits and vegetables. But yes, no one ever gets an intestinal parasite from eating a chocolate chip cookie, you know, right?

6:10 Speaker 11: I feel like I feel like, did that happen to you?

6:13 Speaker 7: No?

6:13 Speaker 13: No, But I mean I'm I'm endorsing the eating of chocolate chip cookie.

6:18 Speaker 11: Understood? Understood? Okay? Well, well fair enough, all right?

6:21 Speaker 16: And you I'm Tommy harroberta rhythm guitar and to my knowledge, I'm not contracted it cycles sporty assis because we buy local, organic.

6:35 Speaker 11: Good. Oh, love the shirt.

6:37 Speaker 12: By the way, paper Jam love paper Jam got to represent absolutely absolutely.

6:41 Speaker 10: And you, drummer, I'm a pastal tests.

6:50 Speaker 11: You don't.

6:52 Speaker 4: Right?

6:54 Speaker 11: Good? Good we're doing We're doing pretty well here so far are you?

6:58 Speaker 17: I am Sean harris On, the lead guitar player.

7:01 Speaker 11: Welcome Sean, Welcome Sean.

7:02 Speaker 17: This is awesome.

7:04 Speaker 11: And of course the.

7:04 Speaker 12: Bass Now I'm a bass player, so of course I have to give the big introduction to our our bass playing friend here who lays down the groove without you the band. I mean, you know you're the one who holds it all together, right, go ahead, sir.

7:17 Speaker 18: Yeah, I get my name, film Walker. I played bass guitar and.

7:24 Speaker 12: I feel that, you know, as bass players we have to stick together. We don't get enough love, we don't get enough recognition. And you, sir, you are, I mean you are the band really all right now, I've gone too far.

7:36 Speaker 18: But I'm not going to step on any toes.

7:37 Speaker 11: But but I assume you also are not ill with I see. I don't know how to say it eitheriasis.

7:46 Speaker 12: Cyclo whatever it's psycho something cyclo cyclo.

7:51 Speaker 14: Yeah, it sounds terrible.

7:52 Speaker 12: Whatever it is, you have yet to catch it. Good, good, how do you get that it's from Lettuce?

7:58 Speaker 8: Is it from?

7:59 Speaker 15: Yeah?

7:59 Speaker 14: Lettuce?

7:59 Speaker 15: Is have the main cause?

8:01 Speaker 12: Yeah, because Jenny and I had Taco Bell last night. But I don't think there was any lettuce in it, though, I don't think they're currently putting.

8:06 Speaker 11: Lettice in the right. Didn't they stop that because Taco Bell.

8:10 Speaker 13: I, I guess stopped putting lettuce in, So I don't. I mean, who would have thought that something, some intestinal thing problem would come from Taco Bell.

8:18 Speaker 16: There is a suspicion of Cilantro and Jlipinos too, So, oh, is it for real?

8:22 Speaker 14: You're batting? Not good with it?

8:24 Speaker 11: Wow? We have taken our lives in our hands with our our culinary choices.

8:30 Speaker 12: Well, well culinary or culinary either way, exactly exactly. I do have a Colonosky coming up. But anyway, uh, team, I apologize, but I do. I do really like the sound. I mean, I really like you know, I was talking earlier about we'll have to play it later in the show My Paris. It's my personal favorite of the songs that you sent me. But but I really like the sound.

The Unique Sound of Elder P Sloan

8:50 Speaker 12: How do you guys describe Elder p Sloan? Because you know, I couldn't think of anybody, at least from around here who really quite sounds like you guys.

8:59 Speaker 11: I mean, how do you that which compliment?

9:01 Speaker 9: You know?

9:02 Speaker 13: I like the fact that we don't particularly sound like anybody.

9:05 Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, comes to mind.

9:06 Speaker 11: Yeah, so familiar yet different.

9:09 Speaker 14: It's the favorite thing I've heard.

9:11 Speaker 11: Really.

9:12 Speaker 17: It's kind of a mixture of genres too.

9:15 Speaker 11: Yeah.

9:15 Speaker 17: We have like some fast punk songs, and we also have like a heavy tune Burned the Witch, which sounds like a thrash metal song. Yeah and yeah, so it's kind of all over the place with the genres.

9:30 Speaker 12: I feel like there's also almost like an eighties sort of sleevez rock kind of vibe to some of it.

9:35 Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it kind of fits in with that.

9:38 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's definitely, but he's involved. I wouldn't argue with that.

9:42 Speaker 12: There you go, There you go. Have you guys been around a while? Have you been around a long time?

9:46 Speaker 15: Or on earth? For the band?

9:49 Speaker 11: Well, I suppose one would follow the other that necessarily.

9:54 Speaker 13: It's actually the first inception of the band started in twenty twenty two.

9:58 Speaker 11: Okay, oh, so it is relatively.

10:00 Speaker 13: Pretty new, yes, but we've gone through some changes. Our original guitar player was diagnosed with MS in twenty twenty. Oh wow, Ron Santarella shout out to him. He's unable to play anymore, unable to walk. Great dude still follows the band still supports us. But we've gone through some changes. But this current lineup get together in what twenty twenty five?

10:23 Speaker 15: Oh wow, We're We're.

10:25 Speaker 13: Clicking on all cylinders right now. It's I'm very excited about where we're going right now.

10:30 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. What's the process like in terms of putting these songs together? Like who do you all write together? Or how does that? How does that work?

10:40 Speaker 13: Currently we're we're in the in the mode of starting to collaborate. Algepiece Moones started as a solo project of my own and then a friend of mine contacted me talked about making it a live experience, a full blank, full band experience. Yeah, and it was really hard because it needed you know, it takes a special dedication from people, not only to be in a band, but to be in an original band, because because I mean, if money is your driving force, you're you're going to be really disappointed really quickly.

11:15 Speaker 13: But but these guys, you know, you know, I put an ad up. These guys answered at the AD and I could not be more thrilled. I mean, these guys bring all different personalities to the mix, all different you know, obviously everybody has very different influences and inspirations and stuff. So I feel like it all just it gels really well. Yeah, and I feel like the energy that we have in a room is is uh is pretty evident right away.

11:45 Speaker 12: So the next question I was going to ask you about you, you might have answered it because you know the

The Origin of the Band's Name

11:48 Speaker 12: obvious one. Where does the name come from? Elder p Sloan? But it sounds like was that the so that was the name you were using as a for the solo produce?

11:55 Speaker 11: Yeah, yes, yes it is okay, but that's not your name?

12:00 Speaker 15: Correct?

12:00 Speaker 11: So where?

12:01 Speaker 12: So where does the name come from?

12:06 Speaker 15: To me? The two biggest.

12:10 Speaker 13: Motivations for me in life are driven by fear and disrespect. This happened to be a day that I felt a little disrespected at work, you know, just underappreciated and stuff like that. So I decided, in my angry state, I go use the facilities and mull over my life choices.

12:34 Speaker 14: You see where this is going.

12:36 Speaker 11: I don't know that I do Okay, I'm not sure it's good. Couple different ways.

12:43 Speaker 13: I'm in there feeling bad about myself and thinking, you know, okay, I feel completely underappreciated, disrespected for I'm where I'm working, and I'm like, what's more disrespected than a public urinal? So I'm doing my thing, and it was, it was, it was right right in front of me. I'm like, I just I took the words Elder and the words Sloan, and I added the P myself, and that it's pretty much how it's how it started. It started as a joke and then it just kind of like snowball to the point that it's funny.

13:19 Speaker 17: When I first joined the band, I'm looking it up online to see, you know, what kind of web presence they have, and it's yeah, all I find is like toiletry bare.

13:28 Speaker 12: Part what Okay, so the so to be clear, so the so the urinal, huh, it says Elder.

13:37 Speaker 15: Sloan said Elder on the porcelain part.

13:40 Speaker 11: Okay, they're getting rare.

13:41 Speaker 15: Yeah.

13:42 Speaker 17: Really it's actually owned by another company, Elder Standard as something Bottom started.

13:48 Speaker 15: The band now would be called cooler.

13:49 Speaker 11: Piece, gotcha, gotcha. So that's so that's where the name comes from.

13:57 Speaker 13: Really yeah, and it just it just it's we put an album together with with some some friends and put the name, put it out there, and it just kind of stuck.

14:07 Speaker 15: And I just rolled with it from there.

14:09 Speaker 14: And yeah, and I used.

14:11 Speaker 13: To try to say, you know, I didn't like to tell people where it came from. I kind of wanted them to figure it out themselves, right.

14:18 Speaker 12: So, but yeah, because in theory, I mean, you could make up any story you wanted, right, I.

14:23 Speaker 15: Did, and I usually do.

14:24 Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm not even sure if this one is true.

14:28 Speaker 11: So really no, I'm just kidding. Well, very good.

From Solo Project to Full Band

14:33 Speaker 11: So so that started out as.

14:34 Speaker 12: Your solo project, correct, and then did you did you perform live as doing these songs solo or waited until you had a band.

14:43 Speaker 13: It was always studio recordings. I had a drummer friend, Doyle Barnes, who you know, did all the drum parts on the last two albums that I put together. And then it was a community of musicians. Local guy Byron Marx played some guitar on. It had six or seven guitar players when I needed someone that could actually play as opposed to me, you know, and it just became it started as a solo project, and then it came became very communal. Okay, so I wanted to make clear that I am not alger piece a loane.

15:18 Speaker 15: This is just a project, right.

15:20 Speaker 13: But yeah, when when a friend Dave Castle approached me in twenty twenty two and said, hey, why don't we take these songs live and see what they sound like? And it was amazing to hear these guys come into a room and give their interpretation. The songs are different. I mean, everybody brings their own personality to what we're doing. And you compare our live shows to the studio stuff, and it's it's it's it's very different because it's like the first thing I said to everybody, I'm like, don't think of these as my songs.

15:52 Speaker 13: I want you to bring who you are to this band. And it's gonna be it's it's gonna evolve in ways we're as a group. We're probably not sure how they're gonna it's gonna happen, but it's just it's just fel every all the pieces fell into place, and uh, I could not be more thankful or grateful for for these four guys, for for what we do.

16:16 Speaker 11: Obviously, you're happy with the end result, as you should be.

16:18 Speaker 12: But was it hard for you at all to kind of to say, you know, don't think of these as my songs, you know, just bring bring whatever you're going to bring into because for some people it would be kind of hard to let go of that control. But it sounds like in your case it wasn't like maybe you were excited about it because it's it's an adventure right when that happens.

16:36 Speaker 15: I honestly I was.

16:37 Speaker 13: I was completely honored by the fact that people took interest in what I was doing. Yeah, So that to me was was, you know, all I needed to to want to move this forward.

16:48 Speaker 15: So yeah, that was that was huge.

16:49 Speaker 13: Of course we stopped making money that I'll make clear that I wrote these songs.

16:53 Speaker 11: Right right, you know you own the publishing, right, That's the That's the key that I'm out, we're done, that's the key. That's the key.

17:03 Speaker 12: Well, I think we should play another one of these studio tracks, and if you don't mind, I would like to be selfish and play my Parasite because that is my favorite of the three of the you guys and anything we should know about the song before we before we play it.

17:14 Speaker 13: It actually has nothing to do with cyclost.

17:18 Speaker 11: See, I didn't even make that connection until you said it. I didn't even I didn't even think of that, So it has nothing to do with that.

17:25 Speaker 12: Does it have to do with any kind of parasite or is it strictly a A well, I don't you know.

17:30 Speaker 13: It's funny because I hate to give away the meaning of songs because I like to have people come up with their own interpretations. But this is more, it's pretty simplified. It's about somebody not letting their self conscious thoughts keep them from being who they are, just kind of letting go. And the concept is some guy gets this this brain I'm not gonna say brain worm, because you know.

18:00 Speaker 11: Then we're then we're back to parasites, right, But.

18:04 Speaker 13: It would just just basically it was something that enabled him to all right, stop thinking twice and just live the life he wants to live and not think about consequences.

18:13 Speaker 12: Okay, okay, all right, very good. Yeah, this is my favorite. This is called My Parasite and the band is Elder p Sloan. O.

18:37 Speaker 7: No, there I go again doing things I can't comprehend.

18:41 Speaker 6: Again, that's am fit in.

18:42 Speaker 7: With my parasite. It must admit it has his youth. If I'm bad, is the good is you?

18:49 Speaker 1: So it's all right. It's sign over Dynade.

18:54 Speaker 4: They say it at the Tennessee see Way have em rain but and I'm fine.

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19:11 Speaker 9: O I used.

19:20 Speaker 4: To the got your fight with thor out?

19:23 Speaker 7: I had to say, you'll come tramp to me what other people thought about?

19:27 Speaker 4: And my brain just don't care. I'm to me, where's Romanian security out?

19:32 Speaker 19: A freend them?

19:32 Speaker 1: And where else du be it?

19:34 Speaker 4: Where's Robion's security out? Tend to repeat myself.

19:38 Speaker 1: Because they don't come to over the way, and so still can't wait to hesitate.

19:47 Speaker 7: Not me, because I know when you see that tomorrow not guarantee.

19:54 Speaker 6: I believe the paunce in the statue.

19:58 Speaker 4: I believe the guy just so they killed the vibe and he's more than the high Street. You'll live am while men has shown by room of life where I lived as a mobaw a bone thing twice down because.

20:18 Speaker 1: When in the Bickfield ride a stock bridges.

20:22 Speaker 4: Bad tomorrow but yesterday and down because the only time the cab on read and I of tamp.

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21:01 Speaker 15: I don't think I to you that I can remember.

21:14 Speaker 19: O doctent's got to operate.

21:24 Speaker 6: A must be remove before it's Julie.

21:27 Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I'm already if it's my pair of sie.

21:31 Speaker 1: There's one thing that he's talling me.

21:33 Speaker 4: I don't let I can let he three so minute.

21:36 Speaker 1: Till out, goodbye, pair of SiGe.

21:41 Speaker 4: Good things don't come so away then tomorrow my joy.

21:47 Speaker 14: I believe the.

21:48 Speaker 4: Pa shuns the statue.

21:52 Speaker 7: I believe the conscience don't make kill a because he's more.

21:57 Speaker 16: That ice feed.

21:58 Speaker 1: The fruit is the bobby and show my broo of life.

22:05 Speaker 4: Wait there a moment only twice, damn the con with the big meals ride a strange for to morrow? What yesterday?

22:18 Speaker 7: Now because the.

22:19 Speaker 4: Only time the yellow and now because he aly time the yellow man that is now.

22:36 Speaker 1: Now time. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

22:49 Speaker 12: Uh, that is so good. That is my parasite. The band is Elder p Sloan and we've got the guys from the band, the entire band here in studio with this, which is cool because very often uh not not, especially when it's a five piece, not everybody can make it. So I appreciate all you guys being here today. Uh, this is this is great. Has it always been like from the point that it became a band, has it always been a five piece.

23:09 Speaker 15: Or initially it was actually four?

23:13 Speaker 13: Okay, but but yeah, we it always sounded like there was something missing live without that second guitar, and Tommy was was missing link there. So so yeah, we're definitely a fuller rounder sound now with two guitars.

23:32 Speaker 12: Okay, okay, Yeah, And where did you guys record?

23:36 Speaker 11: Where did you record the all these songs?

23:38 Speaker 13: These were actually most of them were recording at at my house, my little portable studio, and then they were mastered by a friend used to work at a place called Super Dupes, which I don't believe exists.

23:53 Speaker 11: Oh I remember super Dupes. Yeah, they were in Salem, right, Ye.

23:58 Speaker 13: Clint Tone or Clint Ler was the one that mastered them. And so it was obviously it was like a thirteen dollars budget that I was working with.

24:07 Speaker 11: But yeah, so.

24:08 Speaker 13: I mean Better Day was actually the first one that we all got together, this this lineup and re recorded it and Shon did it all the mixing and mastering himself. And I can't wait now that now that we've got that under our belts. I can't wait to start doing the same process with it, with with everything else. Not everything, but you know, the collectively what we want to try to do and collaborating to because these guys do writing, and so I'm really excited about seeing where where we can go as a band when we start, you know, piecing things together.

24:43 Speaker 13: Ye, new stuff. So that's that's super exciting.

24:46 Speaker 11: Absolutely.

Live Performances and Upcoming Shows

24:47 Speaker 12: Now, have you guys been playing a lot of shows or like, what what's the summer been like for you guys who have you been busy.

24:52 Speaker 14: Or fairly busy?

24:55 Speaker 17: Yeah, we've had a couple of gigs that wanted term it asunderground.

24:59 Speaker 13: We played yeah, market Days, Market Days, there's a lot of funking market Days.

25:04 Speaker 14: Yep.

25:05 Speaker 17: Yeah, that was a really fun gig.

25:08 Speaker 11: Outdoors.

25:08 Speaker 17: All love playing outdoors.

25:10 Speaker 15: Oh yeah, get busy September coming up, which is exciting.

25:13 Speaker 17: Played a gig Get Charlie's Hill okay in Lebanon, mean.

25:18 Speaker 12: Oh okay, Yeah, Charlie Hill comes up on the show constantly and yeah, I've never been, but uh yeah.

25:23 Speaker 17: It's a cool place. It's off in the woods and you wouldn't expect it, but it's really nice inside it's kind of like decorated a lot, like uh, termed as Underground.

25:32 Speaker 11: Yeah.

25:33 Speaker 12: Yeah, we were talking off air about Terminus while the song was on, and uh, you know we should give a shout out because I know too sometimes they listen to Eleanor and Andre from Terminus because you guys had played there.

25:43 Speaker 15: And yep, they're awesome.

25:44 Speaker 12: They're really cool really yeah, yeah, yeah, they do so much for the scene. And you know, I've known them forever and you know, they've always been very you know, and Debt Harrison is a great band to Andrea's band, Love Dead Harrison.

25:55 Speaker 11: But yeah, they I was saying.

25:58 Speaker 12: You know, when you walk into that room at Terminus, it's like walking into a different world. It's it's really uh, it's really amazing. So anybody who hasn't been there, you definitely got to check it out. But uh so, what so, but you got a busy you said you got a busy September.

26:11 Speaker 13: Yeah, we got a show and at the Governor's In in Rochester coming up next Sunday. Then we have it's a private party the following week and then we do and music for MS and at Sean some old haunt.

26:30 Speaker 17: Yeah, Belmont High school and then to be playing. Yeah that's where I went to high school.

26:34 Speaker 13: Yeah that yeah, yeah, so yeah, and then then we got Swarmy Fats coming up.

26:43 Speaker 12: Yup, Jenny and I will be there for that. But the show is one of the we're one of the sponsors.

26:47 Speaker 11: So yeah, yeah that's awesome. Yeah, we love we love swarm.

26:50 Speaker 12: I was on there the Stepsis Show recently with Will and uh Lexi and yeah that was a lot of fun.

26:57 Speaker 11: But now we we love them. Yeah that's great. Now, well this this will be but for you guys, this will be the first time at Swarmy Fest, right because you were last Yeah. Yeah, no, it's a it's.

27:07 Speaker 12: Gonna be a yeah, that'll be a lot of fun really looking forward to that. Do you gout like, how how many of your originals you guys have as a band? Do you play a long set or like how many how many songs do you guys have at this point?

27:18 Speaker 16: Probably in iron fifteen minutes worth? Oh that's pretty good if we leave a gap or no gap?

27:24 Speaker 14: Right, yeah?

27:25 Speaker 15: Probably what'd you say r R an R.

27:29 Speaker 16: If you haven't if you don't recognize the accent, that's uh.

27:33 Speaker 14: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suburb.

27:35 Speaker 11: Oh so yeah.

27:38 Speaker 16: I'll refrain from Yenn's and all the stuff.

27:41 Speaker 12: Yes, that's what's Yes, somebody somebody else because we had a I don't know if you know grim Rock. He's from Pittsburgh and he played actually he played it well. He was coming through the area, so he was on the show. He's been on the show a bunch, but a few months ago he was on the show in person because he was in the area to play a show in Nashua at the Spa, and but he was, Yeah, he was telling me about that the Yan's.

28:05 Speaker 16: Accident, gum band Chip Chipped Ham. That's all kind of kind of stuff. There's all kinds of stuff, And a lot of people really get confused talking to me because I lived in the South for a little while and then I blend New England.

28:21 Speaker 11: See I can hear it.

28:22 Speaker 14: Yeah, heck is this guy from Yeah?

28:25 Speaker 11: Yeah, what brought you here? What brought you to New England? Yeah, it was actually a job.

28:33 Speaker 16: My wife always wanted to get up to New England. Yeah, and you know, just kind of following that hero's journey call when something calls and said you go talk a path and here I am.

28:46 Speaker 14: Yeah, would have been about twelve years now.

28:48 Speaker 11: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I love it. But yeah, do you ever do you still ever say yan's and stuff like that? Pretty much?

28:56 Speaker 16: I'll reserve it for fellow people from Pittsburgh, I think, you know, yeah, yeah, I mean the first time it was funny, short little work story Jeff and I and and recently I got really harassed out of me.

29:11 Speaker 14: This is saying something on the machine like Dow, like a dial oh, but like you know, we build machinery.

29:17 Speaker 16: It's like Dow, What the heck is that guy talking about theodorant?

29:23 Speaker 11: What what is that?

29:24 Speaker 14: It's like, well, how do you spell that?

29:26 Speaker 11: I try to spell it in the text they are.

29:30 Speaker 18: Translator.

29:31 Speaker 11: Yeah, there you go, there you go.

29:33 Speaker 14: I mean I like to think I'm not as bad as like Boom or something like that.

29:39 Speaker 11: Right right, he means that's wicked awesome.

Collaborative Songwriting Process

29:44 Speaker 12: Are you guys actively writing new material or or are you are you just kind of focused on like what you have right now?

29:52 Speaker 11: In terms of songs, I write a lot.

29:55 Speaker 17: Of riffs and I put them up on our shared drive and so Dave can listen to him and put lyrics to it. Yeah, and we're just getting starting that really, but yeah, I'm looking forward to getting getting a new album worth the material with this lineup.

30:09 Speaker 11: Oh no doubt, Yeah, no doubt.

30:11 Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, Well we should play another we should play another track. Let's see you also send us. Oh so tell us about this one wolf?

30:20 Speaker 17: Oh yeah, what.

30:22 Speaker 11: Should we know about this track before we play it?

30:26 Speaker 15: Well, real, real quickly.

30:28 Speaker 13: One of the first algbe Loan gig was at a motorcycle club in Derry for a group called Section eight. And I was intimidated, really, I mean, I hadn't played live in many years. And uh and we we played, and these guys were so receptive and so and so supportive and everything. And there was one guy in particular, Eric Russell, they call Big Worm, who right out of the blue just just gave me this big bear hug and you welcome me and everything like that. And and he he passed away in a car accident in twenty twenty four.

31:07 Speaker 13: And it's such a such a huge loss and such a big personality. But all I remember is the first time we played there. By the end of the song he was singing along with the chorus and and uh so whenever we play that now, it's it's it's definitely kind of a shout out to him. Okay, and that's where this love life hat came from. Oh this is his his mantra.

31:29 Speaker 11: Yeah, show.

31:30 Speaker 13: So I think that song is it's taken on such a such a huge life of its own when we play live, especially when it's when it's front of in front of those guys. So it's uh yeah, so it's it's it's just about It's just about, you know, persevering in regardless of who he what, what size you are, you know, male, female, doesn't matter. It's just it's just being being strong in the moment. And that's basically the idea of it.

32:00 Speaker 11: Yeah, because you've got that line in there. It's not the size of the dog in the fight. That's the size of the fight.

32:04 Speaker 13: And the dog Tommy likes to push me around on stage because he's like six foot eight with the four inch heels that.

32:10 Speaker 16: He wears, trying to get the big dog, little dog metatcha gotcha?

32:16 Speaker 15: So I've got some bruises.

32:19 Speaker 11: All right, Well, let's give this a spin. This is called Wolf and the band is Elder p Sloan.

32:53 Speaker 6: Goole ahead and show meal tea.

32:58 Speaker 1: That mine and.

32:59 Speaker 15: Tim has dade me.

33:02 Speaker 6: But don't touch me by my statue on.

33:06 Speaker 1: This mannd and the size.

33:12 Speaker 7: We see things den bro leave.

33:16 Speaker 6: Man in himself is fine with me until respect he cooks one wear streets.

33:24 Speaker 7: I guess he's everything happens for a raison, and our.

33:28 Speaker 1: Ways, my way can't have. It's not siding the dog in the fighting.

33:35 Speaker 6: Side the fighting the dog.

33:49 Speaker 4: Well, now, I hope you want a stall, but they rather no white blacks my blail.

33:58 Speaker 1: So he's your one, lad JEMs. You can cheap time here you and carry on, But if you choose the night of use, you're gonna.

34:08 Speaker 6: Get the ball. Because it's not the size of the.

34:11 Speaker 1: Dog and the fighting side the fight the dog you know your fight is cheering seven feet dast you're a lie. Dog can be asleep.

34:58 Speaker 8: I guess him everything having more reason that were reason well.

35:07 Speaker 1: Is not siding the dog in the side of the fight.

35:10 Speaker 4: The doll not siding the dog in the fighting side of the fighting.

35:15 Speaker 1: The doll not side of the dog in the.

35:18 Speaker 6: Fighting side of the fight. The doll not the side of the dog in the fight.

35:23 Speaker 7: And the size of the fight.

35:24 Speaker 14: And the doll.

35:57 Speaker 12: That is called wolf in the band is elder p sloan and we've got all five members of Elder p Sloan here with us in studio and having a great time. I love these tunes quite a bit, and uh that Yeah, I would imagine that one gets a good, good reaction, live a lot of energy to that one.

36:15 Speaker 15: Yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah, I enjoy playing that one.

36:18 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt Are there are when you because you know, you were talking earlier about how this started as a solo project. Did any of those did any of that material not make it into the band version?

36:33 Speaker 15: It's quite a bit. Definitely.

36:34 Speaker 11: I feel like.

36:37 Speaker 13: I don't like the pigeonhole us into a specific genre or feel like we have to have a certain sound. But there's it's it's undeniable that there's certain songs that I recorded that probably wouldn't work in in this in you know, in this atmosphere. But at the same time, I think it's it's it's uh, definitely, we we've found our niche. I feel like we've we've we've found our own identity, personality, And as much as I don't like to think that we can't do a certain song, there's definitely everybody has their sound, whether they you know, I want to admit it or not.

37:18 Speaker 15: Right, you know, there's a certain something.

37:21 Speaker 17: There's four CDs worth of material.

37:25 Speaker 12: Yes, wow, yeah, it's a lot. Well you got a right right now, the mic brother.

37:34 Speaker 18: Oh and there's seventeen songs ready for playing.

37:37 Speaker 11: Oh wow, okay, that's a catalog. Yeah, this is quite a bit.

37:41 Speaker 13: But it is funny when I listened to the recording a Wolf and stuff like that, Like, I like John's bass for instance, I'm like, man, because I played the bass on the recording and then I hear John play it live.

37:53 Speaker 15: I'm like, oh my.

37:54 Speaker 13: God, I'm I can't believe I did that. He's just I mean, what he brings is just you know, it's just amazing. All these guys bring so much to make these songs, just bring them to a completely new level.

38:08 Speaker 11: Yeah.

38:08 Speaker 15: So I like, that's another one.

38:10 Speaker 13: I can't wait to re record and and see what it sounds like.

38:13 Speaker 15: But yeah, I'm like I.

38:15 Speaker 13: Said, I can't say how how how grateful I am for you know, for for what we've put together.

38:21 Speaker 11: No doubt.

Favorite Venues and Collaborations

38:22 Speaker 11: Yeah.

38:22 Speaker 12: Yeah, Now, are there any bands in the area that you guys play a lot of shows with that you kind you know it happens sort of organically in my experience. Maybe you know other bands that you've kind of teamed up with unofficially where you end up playing a lot of shows or.

38:36 Speaker 15: Not a lot.

38:36 Speaker 13: I mean, I feel like, you know, Burn permitt Is one, super Bug, Nathan Hill Trio, Diamond Edge Band.

38:45 Speaker 15: Yeah nice. I feel horrible about leaving leaving bands out.

38:51 Speaker 12: But Diamond Judge they're probably the most common, right, Yeah, yeah, Diamond Judge. I saw it Swarming Fast a couple of years ago for the Yeah, they play out a lot.

39:01 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, good. Yeah.

39:03 Speaker 13: I think we're gonna be on a bill with them two weeks in a row because they're playing the Party the fifth and they're playing them music for MS.

39:13 Speaker 12: Okay, good good, Burn Permit. I feel like I've been hearing about for a long time, but I've never had them on the show. I don't actually know them. And of course super Bug they've been they were on just recently. Yeah they're amazing, yep, great great band. Yeah. You guys kind of have that sound though, too, where you can fit in with a lot of different you know, it seems like you know, you can fit in with a lot of different genres.

39:34 Speaker 13: I think That definitely helps as far as getting shows because we don't necessarily you know, it's it's not like we Yeah, I feel I feel like there's a groove to us. There's a heaviness to us. But we could play with funk bands, we could play with metal bands. We can, you know, I think that that helps. And I like a diverse lineup too.

39:54 Speaker 11: I like to know.

39:55 Speaker 13: I think most people, most music fans don't just listen to one particular genre, you know, depending on mood and stuff. So it's just it's really exciting. And we played with

40:08 Speaker 13: was that we did stone Church. It was an open mic but I mean it was a band called g Wagon that was just like a hip hop kind of they're great, but I mean Terminus.

40:19 Speaker 15: We played with.

40:22 Speaker 13: The Forum and tumble Toads, which I mean, what a diverse lineup and great great bands, you know, and it's it's so exciting to to meet new bands and bands you know that you you want to get together with and and know that that there's no competitiveness. Everybody's just all in it for the same reason. Yeah, the love music and and that's awesome. It's it's hard to put a monetary value on something like that.

40:52 Speaker 11: Absolutely.

40:54 Speaker 12: Do you guys have any favorite favorite venues that you really love to play, any any anything that really stands out.

41:00 Speaker 15: The Matt Connorton Unleashed show one of you.

41:05 Speaker 13: But no, And in all honesty, you know we're talking you know about Terminus and and what Eleanor and Andre do, but what you do for the local community and and you know, for for music and stuff, it's it's it's such a selfless thing. I'm saying with Terry and Mike and Lloyd at Charlie's.

41:25 Speaker 17: HILLI Hill, you know, playing you.

41:28 Speaker 13: Know, there's just so many people that they care about music and and and uh, you know, sometimes we focus on all the atrocities and horrible things going on in the world, but then you you, if you stop and take a breath, and you're like, you know, there's some really good people around doing some really great things. And uh, you know, we're definitely honored to be here, but honored for the fact what you do for everybody.

41:52 Speaker 12: So oh thank you. Well, you know, glad to do it. That's not that selfless. I mean I get a lot out of it, yeah, you know, but I.

42:00 Speaker 13: Mean yeah, but I mean you're given an opportunity to people that just wouldn't have that opportunity.

42:05 Speaker 11: You and Jen.

42:06 Speaker 13: You know, I'm a huge supporter of Jen and uh yeah, you know, with with her personal you know, things she's gone through and she's she's she's you know, she she makes me want to be better.

42:18 Speaker 7: What.

42:18 Speaker 11: Oh, that's awesome.

42:19 Speaker 12: Though, I hope she's I know she's getting ready for she's got a big event today. I don't know if she's still listening now or not, but I'll make sure that she goes back in your zoo. Say that if if she's not listening live, because I know that that kind of thing means a lot to her.

42:32 Speaker 13: I definitely look up to her and people that, you know, fight the good fight.

42:37 Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, exactly, Absolutely, we have time.

42:41 Speaker 11: We should play another track before.

42:43 Speaker 12: We before we have to come, you know, and then we'll come back and wrap up and remind everybody where to find you guys. But what should we You sent me those three, but I can grab one from your website. Uh, if we want to play another one?

42:55 Speaker 17: Say, oh, Jimmy.

43:01 Speaker 11: Why am I not?

43:01 Speaker 15: What what about Pythagoras?

43:07 Speaker 12: Am I looking at the right thing? I'm looking at latest music? Why don't I see uh oh, Pythagoras, I see it.

43:15 Speaker 15: You wanna play that one?

43:18 Speaker 11: Here we go.

43:40 Speaker 8: File shall.

43:43 Speaker 6: Because I know, I know.

43:50 Speaker 4: This is.

43:53 Speaker 6: So the respect.

43:59 Speaker 8: Just a mo came, it builds.

44:09 Speaker 1: There's lack of baby up, lack of time. I was three, herd, all.

44:15 Speaker 4: Of us pleaning fun of our little names get herd so much.

44:27 Speaker 1: What's the fus d the else?

44:31 Speaker 7: Is there a problem with my high pots hot? Is there a.

44:38 Speaker 6: Lack of simple tree?

44:40 Speaker 4: With my eyes on these, I you telling me I would get love to your smile Bill smiles fella for the sunshine.

44:53 Speaker 7: But I guess I got too close to the flame.

44:59 Speaker 1: Seeing our the one who did all the.

45:02 Speaker 6: Fall him, I guess I did no one to blame. But that so's in year.

45:09 Speaker 1: Home a mother cave and fills.

45:18 Speaker 4: It's lack of paper comes like the time I was three, curs all of us leaning onny house little things get her and so mush okay.

45:38 Speaker 7: In fields it's like a ben.

45:41 Speaker 4: Break, like walking baal boy to step them on a sharp step while the city.

45:49 Speaker 1: Here and went for the flood, to rug.

45:54 Speaker 4: To u.

45:57 Speaker 1: To run.

46:20 Speaker 9: Mocaine.

46:21 Speaker 20: It only hurts when I'm feeling thins. Got the cut I got reading my twins. So I'm just waiting, waiting for the blood to run.

46:35 Speaker 8: When all the fuck the roll too or the fusing b two wrong in the boll the brons row on.

46:44 Speaker 1: Row roun the mocne it bills.

46:49 Speaker 6: It's like a paper comes like the.

46:52 Speaker 4: Time I was fraid and cursed all of gum leading Bunny hid the sill thing so much. I'm okay, stamp alone shots.

47:20 Speaker 10: And way more the blood to round.

47:33 Speaker 1: Roun.

47:36 Speaker 12: What's the fuss Pythagoras. I wasn't sure I was gonna be able to say it. That is elder piece, sloan.

47:43 Speaker 11: Do you like Do you like geometry?

47:45 Speaker 19: No?

47:45 Speaker 18: Not at all?

47:46 Speaker 11: Me neither. But you did well with those? Did you you wrote the lyrics? I did.

47:51 Speaker 13: I learned enough about the Pythagorean theorem, just enough to write a birth Yeah, yeah, and then I forgot everything I learned.

47:59 Speaker 12: There was one year in high school I took up because I had to take a math class, and I picked geometry because I thought, oh, it's shapes. How hard could Because I'm bad at math, I thought, how hard could it be? It was a nightmare and I had to I had to be demoted to basic geometry, and I still barely passed. It was really really rough. But uh no, but I like the lyrics of that very very cool. Thank you absolutely before run out of time. So, guys, where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing with all things elder Piece Sloan.

48:30 Speaker 13: You're going to do elgerpisloan dot com. That would be a good start.

48:33 Speaker 17: Yeah, that would give you the links to Facebook and yep, it was it reverb Nation that we're on.

48:38 Speaker 18: Reverb Nation Nation. A lot of songs on reverb Nation. Yeah.

48:44 Speaker 16: Good, good, and would be remiss not to have people go out and check out our Facebook page.

48:50 Speaker 14: We just put that video of better Day up there and we hit.

48:53 Speaker 16: One of thousand likes as we were pulling in the parking lot.

48:56 Speaker 11: Excellent, assuming good forty.

48:58 Speaker 14: Four hundred views something like that.

49:01 Speaker 11: That's a good start to see.

49:03 Speaker 12: Definitely definitely, Oh congratulations on that. Absolutely well, very good. And I do like the website. By the way, I'm a website nerd who does the website.

49:15 Speaker 13: Currently myself, but I would like to get some some better men professional.

49:21 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, it is a good site though.

49:24 Speaker 12: Like I said, I'm a web I look at websites a lot and critique them and it's a good site.

49:29 Speaker 13: So yeah, my girlfriend Amanda shout out helped me do a lot of that because my you know, I had a had a rotary cell phone, rotary dial cell phone up till two years ago. My technological experience abilities are not super good.

49:46 Speaker 16: So you writing songs, well yeah, well on website creation that dial.

49:54 Speaker 11: No, but it's a good site, thank you. It's it's well organized.

49:57 Speaker 12: I like the layout anyway, So because I see a lot of really bad websites, so I like to shout out a good site when I see it. A lot of a lot of people come on the show and I look at their site, Oh.

50:08 Speaker 11: My god, well very good.

Wrapping Up and Final Performance

50:11 Speaker 12: Well guys, thank you so much and absolutely absolutely. Of course, today's show will be up in just a little bit, so if anyone listening, if you missed any part of it, thank you again. Of course to uh b fraid Boston's final raid for joining us JAM tomorrow was with us in.

50:28 Speaker 11: The first hour.

50:29 Speaker 12: Appreciate you, guys, And if you are looking for the archive, it'll be up at w m n H Radio dot organ of course, at my website Mattconnorton dot com.

50:39 Speaker 11: And you guys want to pick one more song to close us out.

50:43 Speaker 14: Wow, yeah, pick one Burn the Witch.

50:46 Speaker 12: Oh, that's a good one. I like that one. That's a good one.

50:50 Speaker 10: Uh.

50:50 Speaker 17: Any it's like the more heaviest, one of the heaviest songs that we play.

50:54 Speaker 14: We love stage.

50:56 Speaker 17: Yeah, it's thrashy.

50:59 Speaker 11: Okay, here we go. Yeah, this is a good choice. All right.

51:01 Speaker 12: We will close out with this, Burn the Witch and thanks everybody.

51:05 Speaker 11: We'll talk to you a little bit later.

51:06 Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you.

51:21 Speaker 1: Go get it good.

51:23 Speaker 8: Put yours bass kerosene from a camp on the other romano.

51:31 Speaker 6: Oh, burn it stays.

51:33 Speaker 1: He's turn.

51:35 Speaker 6: This harantine now sleep sires, ain't you.

51:57 Speaker 8: Tossa sneaks lassen and telling me nerve my mother games and all man hair.

52:05 Speaker 6: We live out the raw water the.

52:07 Speaker 8: City seen and turn the man in too and tomater. We can't allow that, son, Grass.

52:14 Speaker 4: P Grass.

52:15 Speaker 1: We simply have nowhere round to turn. We shall bought it off.

52:21 Speaker 8: The slave for rawl and.

52:23 Speaker 1: Where the duck ass falls.

52:26 Speaker 4: She really burned.

52:34 Speaker 1: She got to burn burn the witch.

52:44 Speaker 21: Burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the rash burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn, the witch burn.

52:59 Speaker 4: The rare shore.

53:18 Speaker 6: Changes the word that's used by those who have God lost their.

53:24 Speaker 4: Way, the hopes of God less mad than the light, looks fire.

53:31 Speaker 8: Over the mallro degain, go cat, the good dog, your experience co fi speccing from the camp out.

53:41 Speaker 1: Of the barn.

53:43 Speaker 6: We're simpler nowhere around sip time.

53:46 Speaker 1: He's wall the donns class.

53:50 Speaker 8: She really burns.

53:58 Speaker 1: She got to burn.

54:06 Speaker 4: She got you fine, fine bird.

54:10 Speaker 9: She got you fine, fine fine, She got your fine fine fine, she got you bye barn. By the witch fin the witch. Find the witch by the rash fine the witch. Find the witch.

54:30 Speaker 8: By the wrash fine, the witch fin the witch by the match find.

54:37 Speaker 9: The witch fin the witch fine the mass find the witch by the witch by the ratch fine the witch by the witch by the maratch bin the witch, by the witch by the ratch by the witch fine, the witch fin