Field Dispatch
EverFelt | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I love it. Appropriately titled Epic One,
Speaker 1: that is ever Felt from their brand new album Stirring Awake,
Speaker 1: and we've got Adam Seglitch with us. Let me get
Speaker 1: that mic up there. Hello Adam, Hey.
Speaker 2: What's up man? How you doing? Man?
Speaker 1: Good good, Welcome back to the show. It's good to
Speaker 1: talk to you. I love the new album. I was,
Speaker 1: I was in the whole thing really really good. And
Speaker 1: that is a that is a great way to open
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that song, Uh, that was the song that
Speaker 2: we we were working on even when we released the
Speaker 2: ep That's something that's been with us for a little
Speaker 2: while now. And uh, you know, Corey really brought that
Speaker 2: that whole that that rift, that that opening rift there.
Speaker 2: It actually originally began with the the intro and the
Speaker 2: outro music with the beautiful there, Yeah, and it became
Speaker 2: what it became. But uh, you know, the song Epic
Speaker 2: One really is about the idea. You know, Confucius said
Speaker 2: the greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising
Speaker 2: every time you fall. And so the concept behind this
Speaker 2: song is that you must be willing to fall in
Speaker 2: order to learn to rise. Okay, and so and and
Speaker 2: and then also it talks about the idea of of
Speaker 2: you know, braving the unknown within yourself in order to
Speaker 2: do so in the gray area of what you don't
Speaker 2: know about you, And so that's the that's the premise
Speaker 2: of the song anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like it. Uh So, what is the
Speaker 1: premise of the album? Because in listening to the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and I listened to it all at once, all the
Speaker 1: way through, and I felt like there's a there's a theme,
Speaker 1: there's a story. But I but I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about that. Am I? Am I reading into it?
Speaker 1: Or or is there something?
Speaker 2: You're exactly right? The Stirring to Wake really the entire
Speaker 2: album in a nutshell is really every single song is philosophically,
Speaker 2: philosophically driven with the ideal of Stirring to Wake one
Speaker 2: soul where our band, you know, we're all about soul metal,
Speaker 2: and for us it's more about you know, the world
Speaker 2: will teach you mind body soul, but really it should
Speaker 2: be soul mind body, and because for us we believe
Speaker 2: in the eternal soul. Though we're not religious, but we
Speaker 2: do believe in the eternal soul and we think that
Speaker 2: that's the one thing neglected by most of the world,
Speaker 2: even ourselves. And uh so the idea is that, you know,
Speaker 2: the stirring to wait concept came from you know that
Speaker 2: that that that place between dreaming and waking, where like
Speaker 2: even the greatest minds from the past, like Tesla and
Speaker 2: Einstein and all they they would even like try to
Speaker 2: induce themselves into that place in order to find answers
Speaker 2: to to the inventions or whatever they were doing in
Speaker 2: actual reality. And it's kind of like, you know, going
Speaker 2: to that place within yourself, being willing to take that
Speaker 2: journey within.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up about you know,
Speaker 1: that that place between you know, sort of being asleep
Speaker 1: and awake, when you're sort of almost it's like you're
Speaker 1: you're sort of dreaming a little bit sometimes but you
Speaker 1: kind of know you're dreaming because you're kind of still
Speaker 1: half awake. And right, I I talk about that a lot,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you know this about me.
Speaker 1: I'm also a hypnotherapist and I tell all my plot
Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, okay, we did talk about that, and
Speaker 1: I tell all my clients. I said, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're in that that state, you're highly suggestible. So that's
Speaker 1: a great, Like if you're someone who falls asleep slow, len,
Speaker 1: that's a great time to give yourself, you know, hypnotics
Speaker 1: suggestions that you know you're you're in a wake up
Speaker 1: feeling great and motivated or whatever it is your your
Speaker 1: goal is. But it it's but I'm glad you brought
Speaker 1: it up because it's such a powerful That is a
Speaker 1: powerful state to be in, that state between right right
Speaker 1: between being asleep and being awake. And unfortunately, I don't
Speaker 1: think everyone gets to experience it the same way, because
Speaker 1: some people, you know, fall asleep quickly wake up quickly.
Speaker 1: But but for those of us who do get to
Speaker 1: experience it, yeah, that's that's it's it's very powerful and
Speaker 1: and it's so interesting to me that that maybe that's
Speaker 1: part of why in listening to this I connected with it, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I listened to the whole thing all
Speaker 1: the way through and I was just so so drawn
Speaker 1: into it. And uh and and and absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean when we when we wrote the album in
Speaker 2: and then we were trying to decide strong order, I
Speaker 2: I purposefully put the songs in order the way that
Speaker 2: they are on the album M so that they kind
Speaker 2: of give you almost a ride almost like a roller coaster,
Speaker 2: you know, go from spoken word oapen word, spoken word
Speaker 2: poetry to epic one and then we hit you in
Speaker 2: the face with sludge, you know. So it's like it's
Speaker 2: a it's this whole and each song has you know,
Speaker 2: each song has its own way. I'm sure you notice
Speaker 2: that in the album. Even though it's a cohesive album,
Speaker 2: every song is not like the last one, you know, right,
Speaker 2: and each have their own story in a way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, who is in the who's in the band?
Speaker 2: Is it the same?
Speaker 1: Is it the same lineup as the last time we talked?
Speaker 2: It is not? So since the last time you and I, So,
Speaker 2: I think it's been like almost two years now, probably
Speaker 2: since we released the EP in twenty four. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: it's been almost two years. But but yeah, since the
Speaker 2: last time we talked. We right after we released the EP,
Speaker 2: we actually lost three members of our band. At that time,
Speaker 2: Corey and I were the only ones left. Oh wow, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: and uh we didn't miss any shows either. We were
Speaker 2: able to find Danny Danny Furlong's our percussion now and
Speaker 2: then Ryan Moore we call him Momo. He's our rhythm
Speaker 2: based plus our sound and tech guy. He's he makes
Speaker 2: it possible. Momo makes it possible for us to have
Speaker 2: one guitarist, where Corey took over both rhythm and lead
Speaker 2: for this for our band now, so there's only one guitarist.
Speaker 2: Oh but uh but yeah, with Momo's ability on the
Speaker 2: rhythm bass, you know, he really brought the song Silhouette
Speaker 2: to the table for us with his ability, he really
Speaker 2: gives us a fullness where even when we're playing live,
Speaker 2: Corey is still able to hit all his leads and
Speaker 2: it still sounds really full because Momo don't just play
Speaker 2: reef root notes. You know, he's very very influenced by
Speaker 2: Justin Chancellor so from tools. So he's, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: that's perfect for our sounds.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, absolutely, is it? So you lost three
Speaker 1: people at once in the band? I mean that's a
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big shakeout. Was that? I mean how
Speaker 1: was that? Was that? Was that hard? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was difficult because and and and the main
Speaker 2: reason that that has so so originally we lost the
Speaker 2: bass player because he didn't basically, we were booking a
Speaker 2: lot of shows and he just wanted to play like,
Speaker 2: you know, places around local and he didn't want to travel,
Speaker 2: So that's really the reason he left the band. And
Speaker 2: then and then we lost the drummer because he was
Speaker 2: moving away, and then we lost the guitarists because his
Speaker 2: woman got pregnant didn't want him in the band anymore.
Speaker 2: So it was all happened in like a two week period,
Speaker 2: and it was like, what is happening. We just recorded
Speaker 2: the EP, we had all these shows. So what happened
Speaker 2: was is we ended up I found Momo. Momo actually
Speaker 2: works with me, but and I didn't know he was
Speaker 2: as good as he is, but but we you know,
Speaker 2: we got him on when Jason left the bass player,
Speaker 2: we got Momo, and the moment was with us with
Speaker 2: the other guys too, and then the other guys left
Speaker 2: like a week later, and and so what we ended
Speaker 2: up doing was we had like a three week period,
Speaker 2: but we had two shows still happening, so I didn't
Speaker 2: I don't really like canceling. So yeah, we ended up
Speaker 2: playing me Momo and Corey ended up playing those two
Speaker 2: shows in the interim when we were looking for a drummer.
Speaker 2: Just we did an acoustic set of our metal metal
Speaker 2: show and and uh, and yeah it was it was awesome,
Speaker 2: but uh, but yeah, and then we found Danny and
Speaker 2: Danny as a well you heard him on the album.
Speaker 2: He's he's amazing, you know, and you know, you know Cory, So.
Speaker 1: When when you when that happened? When when all this
Speaker 1: tumult is happening. I mean, what was ever a moment
Speaker 1: where you thought, maybe, you know, maybe this is it,
Speaker 1: maybe we do something new, or or were you determined
Speaker 1: right right through that whole period. Now we're gonna keep determined.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was there was no way we were going
Speaker 2: to let go they ever felt sound what what Corey
Speaker 2: and I had, you know, because him and I, even
Speaker 2: though we had the other three members, him and I
Speaker 2: were really the you know, the core of what we
Speaker 2: were doing. The sound. You know, Corey really brings that
Speaker 2: psychedelic He's like the gay David Gilmore. Metal to me
Speaker 2: reminds me kind of reminds me of Randy Roads a
Speaker 2: little bit too, and and with that Black Sabbath influence
Speaker 2: and also painful. And then also you know he's a
Speaker 2: big on Slayer and stuff like that, and and uh, well,
Speaker 2: Corey's ability to bring that to the table and then
Speaker 2: you know what I'm already naturally doing. So as long
Speaker 2: as we had Corey and I we were able to build,
Speaker 2: you know, but if I lost Corey too, I probably
Speaker 2: would have been starting a new band.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, were you and Corey in a band together
Speaker 1: prior to Ever Felt or or no?
Speaker 2: No, okay, no, I've met Corey in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: We actually I found out about the band him and
Speaker 2: this our old old old drummer was trying to put
Speaker 2: together on Craiglist of all places, and yeah, man, and
Speaker 2: and so I went over there, and you know, from
Speaker 2: the very first practice where I just went over there
Speaker 2: just freestyle vocals just to just to try to you know,
Speaker 2: basically trying out to be their vocalist. You know, from
Speaker 2: then on, him and I just hit it up. The
Speaker 2: song Medici was one of the first songs we played.
Speaker 2: It became Medicaid, but at the time, you know, it
Speaker 2: was just it was just a diddy. It was just
Speaker 2: a little riff, you know. Yeah, And and even Epic
Speaker 2: one stranger on the album was originally created back then,
Speaker 2: back in when we first met. So some of the
Speaker 2: songs that are on this this album are actually some
Speaker 2: of our original stuff we were working on that just
Speaker 2: didn't make it on the epeaks. It was wasn't ready yet.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, gotcha. And so this came out in December.
Speaker 2: Correct, yeah, December fifteenth.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And it's on all the platforms and everything obviously.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's everywhere. Man, even band Camp. We
Speaker 2: got it on there too.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Band Camp is great. I always encourage people
Speaker 1: to check out band camp because not only is it
Speaker 1: a great resource for new music, but what a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize is the files that you get
Speaker 1: from band camp are superior to what you would get.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're just streaming it on YouTube for example, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got you keep.
Speaker 2: Like one hundred percent pin on. When the person buys
Speaker 2: your your discography, your album, you get, you get like
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the purchase. Yep, there's there's so much.
Speaker 2: It's more artists driven, yes, than other platforms. And you
Speaker 2: know what's crazy is I was working with Metal Devastation
Speaker 2: PR with this album, working with another promo company too,
Speaker 2: but I was working with him and he was like, man,
Speaker 2: you guys aren't own band camping. And I thought, I
Speaker 2: don't know why I thought this, but I thought that
Speaker 2: if we were on all you that we had to
Speaker 2: choose either Oh Moodifi or band Camp and that wasn't
Speaker 2: the case at all. And I'm really glad that he
Speaker 2: hit you know, made me hip to that because yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been awesome since we've been on there.
Speaker 1: So oh absolutely, yeah, very good. What's what's the response been, like?
Speaker 1: I mean, are obviously you have longtime fans who are
Speaker 1: probably U are enjoying the I feel like this is
Speaker 1: your best work that I've heard so far of this album.
Speaker 1: I mean, has that kind of been what the response
Speaker 1: is overall?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, it's been overwhelming. The response has been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: We we you know, not only do we. I mean
Speaker 2: we're booking into August of next year. Now that's how
Speaker 2: I mean, we really booked. I mean, we are definitely
Speaker 2: booking up. But also you know, the response on on
Speaker 2: the different radio station is different, different. The reviews that
Speaker 2: have been done of the album have been just super unbelievable. Man. Uh,
Speaker 2: we feel like this is the best work we've ever
Speaker 2: done as artists so far, and and we we feel
Speaker 2: that way. We felt it when we were recording it
Speaker 2: and when we were creating it. But you know, when
Speaker 2: we hear that from other people when when a lot
Speaker 2: of the responses like this is none like anything they've
Speaker 2: heard before. No one's doing what you're doing. That kind
Speaker 2: of thing that matters to us because we we to us,
Speaker 2: it's all about staying true to the sound and and
Speaker 2: what whatever felt is and making sure that we capture
Speaker 2: that psychedelic groove metal as we are. And I think that,
Speaker 2: you know, there's not a whole lot of people out
Speaker 2: there doing what we do, and so I'm really proud
Speaker 2: of that because you know, as a band, we really
Speaker 2: allow the music to happen to us more than just
Speaker 2: trying to. We don't ever get in the studio and say, oh,
Speaker 2: we're going to go for a sound or let's sound
Speaker 2: like this. It's it's never like that. It's always it's
Speaker 2: always we're all willing to be the channel for the
Speaker 2: music together. And I think that that's why it's fluid
Speaker 2: as it is, because even now we have the we
Speaker 2: have all of the song ideas for the next album.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we're yeah, we're working on those now. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be releasing another one at the end of this year.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, excellent, Wow, Yeah, you guys are crand
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, sure, Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: record where did you record this album? Because it sounds
Speaker 1: so good, I mean sonically it's it's just outstanding. Did
Speaker 1: you record this the same way you did your previous
Speaker 1: work or somewhere new?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yeah, that was with Shelby Brucless at Loud
Speaker 2: and Clear Studios in Paduca, Kentucky. Okay, he is the
Speaker 2: guy who also did our EP. And he's amazing because
Speaker 2: not only is as obviously as you can hear, he's obvious, amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing engineer and knows what he's doing, but he is
Speaker 2: he makes the experience just so comfortable. Like when we
Speaker 2: go there, we stay the whole weekend at the studio,
Speaker 2: the whole band, and we you know, it's like we're
Speaker 2: at practice, it's like we're at home. And so it's
Speaker 2: it's just such a comfortable experience, the way that he
Speaker 2: has a set up, the way we do the crash tracks,
Speaker 2: and and he's so so awesome because for him, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think all engineers and producers are
Speaker 2: like this, but for him, he wants to make sure
Speaker 2: more than anything, that what we want to hear on
Speaker 2: the album is what's there, not what he thinks should
Speaker 2: be there, and uh, I think that that's you know,
Speaker 2: you don't find that everywhere and uh and it's affordable.
Speaker 2: So we were super stoked. And even if even if
Speaker 2: somehow someday we end up, you know, really going somewhere
Speaker 2: with this, you know, and they offer us to you know,
Speaker 2: to go to a state of the art studio to record,
Speaker 2: we're bringing Shelby with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't blame you. Clearly the results are there.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned so he's in Kentucky. Where are you guys?
Speaker 2: Look again, Uh, southern Illinois.
Speaker 1: Southern Illinois, that's what I thought. Yeah, I'm sure we
Speaker 1: talked about this before. But I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in Illinois growing up because my uh when my
Speaker 1: parents split up and my mother moved back to Illinois,
Speaker 1: I would spend the summers out there. So I love Illinois.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, great, great, great state. What's the music scene
Speaker 1: like where you guys are, because you mentioned that there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of people in your area who are
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing right, the psychedelic groove metal like like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, tell me about the scene there.
Speaker 2: Well for us, we uh in southern Illinois. It's uh,
Speaker 2: it's hit and miss. But to be honest, we are
Speaker 2: actually even if you google us today, we're considered a
Speaker 2: Saint Louis based band. Okay, we play all of our
Speaker 2: music in Saint Louis pretty much. We have a couple
Speaker 2: of shows locally, but almost everything we do now is
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. Yeah, we have some of the biggest
Speaker 2: shows we ever boked we were about to play. We're
Speaker 2: playing Pops twice in Saint Louis on January twenty third
Speaker 2: and February thirteenth, and then we're going to play the
Speaker 2: Contrarian Concert Hall and Fastest Missouri right outside Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: But the big show that I'm super extoked about. I
Speaker 2: may almost stoked about all of our shows, but the
Speaker 2: one I really am very proud of is the Sovereign.
Speaker 2: It's a brand new it's a nineteen hundred capacity down
Speaker 2: downtown Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Arts District, and the
Speaker 2: owner you know, got a hold of me to build
Speaker 2: the entire show. So yeah, pretty odd. I mean, we
Speaker 2: got to build and it's it's gonna be amazing. But
Speaker 2: but yeah, so so really Saint Louis Is and the
Speaker 2: scene is amazing in Saint Louis. I mean, the amount
Speaker 2: of venues to play, the amount of genres of music
Speaker 2: is you know, there's a plethora, and and we love
Speaker 2: that because you know, like for instance, like we're playing
Speaker 2: the Road to Point Fest at Pops again. We played
Speaker 2: last year, we're playing again. But then we had the
Speaker 2: metal bands in Saint Louis actually invite us to play
Speaker 2: back at Pops, not not for a contest, but for
Speaker 2: a metal showcase on February thirteenth. And you know, there's
Speaker 2: a bunch of bands they could have asked to come
Speaker 2: do that, you know, for that, and they asked us,
Speaker 2: and you know, it means everything to us. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Saint Louis is really where we play all of our music.
Speaker 2: It's really we're considered a Saint Louis band, but we
Speaker 2: you know, we live about two hours from there, to
Speaker 2: be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. Obviously Saint Louis is
Speaker 1: a great city. And no, it's good to be associated
Speaker 1: with that scene. Uh, no doubt. So you're so you're
Speaker 1: actually closer to Saint Louis than uh than Chicago, right.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, man, we are. Do you know where Carbondell is?
Speaker 1: I I have a vague idea.
Speaker 2: Mary in Illinois, Okay, so there, Yeah, yeah, I work
Speaker 2: in Marion. Oh okay, Yeah, so I'm about I'm about
Speaker 2: forty minutes. I'll live in Murphy'sboro, Illinois, Okay. And then
Speaker 2: the other guys they live in Benton and West Frankfurt.
Speaker 2: So we're about forty minutes apart. But we practice every Sunday.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think works with me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, that's that's cool. It's funny too that
Speaker 1: you know, you guys work together and then but then
Speaker 1: you didn't know until recently just how good of a
Speaker 1: musician he like, prior to that, prior to him becoming
Speaker 1: a part of the band, or or or coming to
Speaker 1: UH audition or however it worked. I mean, did did
Speaker 1: did you guys talk about the band at like? Was
Speaker 1: he already aware of the band?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He knew about us, because you know, he would,
Speaker 2: you know, he would we were still playing, he would,
Speaker 2: you know, know about the shows I'd be talking about.
Speaker 2: I'd play the EP, you know, at the store, and yeah,
Speaker 2: and he would tell me he's a bass player, and
Speaker 2: he showed me some of his stuff because he you know,
Speaker 2: he played in a few bands. He got to open
Speaker 2: for Ozzie one time. Oh wow, yeah, he got to
Speaker 2: open for who was it Warrant Warrant, He got to
Speaker 2: play with them once. Yeah, I'm a little jealous of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: He would tell me those stories and everything. And then
Speaker 2: when Jason, are former bass player, started you know, being
Speaker 2: real flaky and acting like like not responding, not wanting
Speaker 2: to play shows, and acting like he was kind of
Speaker 2: stepping away. I told him, I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I was like, there might be an opportunity here for
Speaker 2: you to join the band if you want. Audition, and
Speaker 2: and then you know, he played our song the Lie
Speaker 2: in the audition and he tore it apart. I mean
Speaker 2: not not not to you know, say anything negative about Jason,
Speaker 2: but he was more of a root note guy. And
Speaker 2: when when Momo stepped up like all over that base,
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, so yeah, And not only is
Speaker 2: Momo an amazing bass player, but he is the most
Speaker 2: genius soundtag guy. We finally got a rack system. We
Speaker 2: can control our own sound on stage nice, and it's
Speaker 2: all due to him. I wouldn't know, I wouldn't begin
Speaker 2: to know how to make any of that happen.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's and he's hilarious. He's the I mean, he
Speaker 2: is the comic relief of the band.
Speaker 1: So oh that's cool too. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta have that.
Speaker 1: That's really good. When do you play live, do you
Speaker 1: play the whole album?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it depends on the show. So, like today
Speaker 2: we have a show. We're playing a show for a
Speaker 2: fundraiser event for a guy biker had lost his life
Speaker 2: for his family, raising money for his family, and then
Speaker 2: for a couple of dispensaries we're raising money for them,
Speaker 2: and so that so for instance, just to explain, so
Speaker 2: that's like five or six bands playing that. So we're
Speaker 2: only going to do a forty five minute set there,
Speaker 2: and it's an all day event, but we're playing at
Speaker 2: like six thirty. But next weekend when we play at
Speaker 2: the Road to Point Fest, it pops. It's a thirty
Speaker 2: minute sets only doing five songs, you know, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: it's concept and so it depends on the venue and
Speaker 2: how many bands. But but yeah, what normally happens when
Speaker 2: we get a forty five minute set, we get to
Speaker 2: play the entire album plus Reach from the EP Okay,
Speaker 2: and then whenever we have our May twenty third album
Speaker 2: release show and we're going to be playing our entire discography.
Speaker 2: We really love when we're able to do that because
Speaker 2: it's like two hours of music. Yeah, and and yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's fun because you know, we get to let
Speaker 2: loose and just play.
Speaker 1: Reach is a great song too. I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 1: it because I love that song because we I remember
Speaker 1: we played that. I believe it was the last time
Speaker 1: you're on the show. We played that because I think
Speaker 1: that had just come out. That's such a great track too. Absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Oh and also too. I mean, obviously I've asked you
Speaker 1: this before, but I don't remember what the answer was.
Speaker 1: And for newer listeners who aren't familiar, where where does
Speaker 1: the name ever Felt come from? And what does it mean?
Speaker 2: So the name ever Felt was originally came from So
Speaker 2: I have a best friend named Charles linger Felt that
Speaker 2: I did my first album with him when I was nineteen,
Speaker 2: called Clinch. We had just me and him. He did
Speaker 2: all the music. I did the vocals and lyrics, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know at all what I was doing then.
Speaker 2: And over the years, you know, we wrote many much
Speaker 2: music together and became like brothers. And he passed away
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one from cancer and all suddenly. Actually
Speaker 2: we had a project going called anger Felt when that happened.
Speaker 2: And so when he passed away, we actually just went
Speaker 2: to Florida to play music. We came back and I
Speaker 2: literally had to drop him off at the UK hospital
Speaker 2: and he didn't make it. I didn't see him again.
Speaker 2: He went to a coma his first treatment of chemotherapy.
Speaker 2: And yeah, the last time I talked to him was
Speaker 2: a thirty minute like interview, I mean thirty minute conversational messenger.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so when he passed, you know, with his
Speaker 2: last name being linger Felt, and with us having the
Speaker 2: project anger Felt, I wanted him to be forever Felt
Speaker 2: and any music that I ever do from the moment
Speaker 2: from now on. And and so the name ever Felt
Speaker 2: was born. Okay, that's how it became that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, yeah, I do, I do recall you and now.
Speaker 2: You know, and now it's like, you know, although that
Speaker 2: was the original of the origin of how the name
Speaker 2: became what it is now, it's it's more about as
Speaker 2: a band, it's more about have you ever felt music?
Speaker 2: Like this before. Okay, you know, have you ever felt
Speaker 2: like you know, lyrics and so so really it's a
Speaker 2: it's a play on words, but also it originally became
Speaker 2: you know, I wanted I wanted Charlie to be forever
Speaker 2: felt in the music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right. I do remember now, I do
Speaker 1: remember you talking about that and uh yeah, wow, No,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great that's a great way to
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, carry on his his memory. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously he was somebody very important in your life,
Speaker 1: you know, being there at kind of the beginning of
Speaker 1: your music career and being such a big part of it.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's that's terrible. What happened to him?
Speaker 2: He taught me so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it taught me a lot. Yeah. Okay, wow.
Speaker 1: By the way, so is any of the the original
Speaker 1: the Anger Felt or or or the first the first
Speaker 1: things that you recorded with him? Is any of that
Speaker 1: online still.
Speaker 2: Or it's not online? I do have some of that
Speaker 2: those recordings, but we never we never post we never
Speaker 2: like published, like, we never released it or anything. We
Speaker 2: had just finished the album Anger for the Engerfelt album
Speaker 2: and we were we went to Florida to play a
Speaker 2: couple of shows down there. Yeah, and then when we
Speaker 2: came back he you know, and that was it. And
Speaker 2: uh and and honestly, I have a couple of actually,
Speaker 2: I have a couple of songs from when we had
Speaker 2: a band called Chaotic Harmony years ago when I was
Speaker 2: like thirty and uh, and we had that band, and
Speaker 2: so I've got some music from before. But the anger
Speaker 2: felt music is I don't know. I think his daughter
Speaker 2: has some of it still, but that's not out there
Speaker 2: anywhere unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I will say our song River, that's only
Speaker 2: the song River on the EP was original melody by Charlie.
Speaker 2: That song was a song that was his that I
Speaker 2: brought to when we first started this this band.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, oh interesting, very good. Now so what
Speaker 1: uh what what do you guys have? So you have
Speaker 1: a show tonight, right, you said? And you are you
Speaker 1: playing in Saint Louis tonight?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's actually it's Martha'sville, Missouri. It's like
Speaker 2: right outside Saint Louis. But yeah, yeah, we're playing. We're
Speaker 2: playing at Corey Gables and it's gonna be a it's
Speaker 2: for a originally was a dispensary show. And then it
Speaker 2: became a dual show where it's a biker had lost
Speaker 2: his life so they're doing a fundraiser and they moved
Speaker 2: the show to the bar where the fundraiser is, so
Speaker 2: it's kind of a dual thing. But but yeah, we're
Speaker 2: we're stoked to do it. Man. You know, they they've
Speaker 2: already I mean, they already sent us everything we need
Speaker 2: to get there and get back before we even played
Speaker 2: any music, which I thought was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, no, that's good. You know, it's going
Speaker 1: to be able to do things like that and and
Speaker 1: do you know, do things that are that are positive
Speaker 1: and helping people and uh, you know, that's that's what
Speaker 1: it's all about. And uh no, I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's great. So Adam or yeah, man, absolutely, Oh
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, sorry, I thought I thought we lost it
Speaker 1: there for a second. I think we have I think
Speaker 1: we have a slight delay. No, you were, you were
Speaker 1: you were starting to say something and I think I
Speaker 1: I interrupted you or maybe not.
Speaker 2: No, No you didn't. You didn't interrupt me.
Speaker 1: You're good brother, Okay, cool, Yeah, No, I think we
Speaker 1: have a slight delay on the that happens online, but
Speaker 1: no big deal. No where where where should people go
Speaker 1: online to keep up with everything that I ever Felt
Speaker 1: is doing and and to get the get the album
Speaker 1: and everything? What? What where should people know about where
Speaker 1: to go online?
Speaker 2: So the easiest thing to do is just to go
Speaker 2: to everfelt dot net. Okay, website where you can access
Speaker 2: all of our all of our social media platforms are
Speaker 2: on the on there. You can go to our Spotify,
Speaker 2: our bank, everything ever felt is on ever felt dot net.
Speaker 2: So you can find all our shows, everything you want
Speaker 2: to know about us there. But if you want to
Speaker 2: purchase the album or you want to listen to it,
Speaker 2: it's on all the streamings, band camp everywhere. But you
Speaker 2: can access that through the website. So it's so much
Speaker 2: easier just to go to that one place and not
Speaker 2: have a bunch of you know, a bunch of links
Speaker 2: to try to remember anything. So yeah, ever felt dot net.
Speaker 1: Did somebody else already have ever felt dot com?
Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, I don't know if they I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's I don't know if they have it
Speaker 2: or not. But it was that that was just the
Speaker 2: domain that band zoogle offered me when I created the website.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha, But I don't know why it's not a
Speaker 1: dot com. Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if there's like
Speaker 1: a company that makes pool tables or something called ever
Speaker 1: Felt and maybe they have ever felt dot com or something.
Speaker 2: That's probably true.
Speaker 1: Probably probably no. But it's good that you have a sound.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny a lot of bands don't don't have websites anymore.
Speaker 1: They just rely on Instagram or whatever, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you still got to have a website. So I think
Speaker 1: it's great that you guys have a website and it is,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's a great central hub for everything
Speaker 1: that you're looking for, all things ever felt. Just go
Speaker 1: to everfelt dot net. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: So I agree, yes, sir. In a moment, Adam, we'll
Speaker 1: let you go. You've been generous with your time this morning,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate it. Always great to talk with you.
Speaker 1: I do want to play though, at the end of
Speaker 1: our conversation. I'm gonna play another track from the album,
Speaker 1: but gonna kind of put you on the spot. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you pick this one. I opened with epic one,
Speaker 1: But what would you suggest that we play at the
Speaker 1: end of the segment.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll play my favorite song from the album and
Speaker 2: that is Stranger.
Speaker 1: Stranger. Okay, that's a good choice. Okay, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: I'm gonna queue that up and we'll play that and wonderful. Well,
Speaker 1: Adam again, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 1: It's it's been great. And are you Are you in
Speaker 1: the same time zone as us or are you an
Speaker 1: hour behind?
Speaker 2: I think I'm an hour behind. It's nine thirty here.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, your Central time. Yeah, I wasn't sure because
Speaker 1: I'm never sure where the where the line is for
Speaker 1: the you know, down the middle of the midwest of
Speaker 1: the country. I know that Chicago because when I would
Speaker 1: spend the summers in Chicago with my mom, it was
Speaker 1: Central time. What's that, I said me.
Speaker 2: Either, I don't know. I don't ever know either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly where that line is? Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna hit this track Stranger again. This is
Speaker 1: from the new Ever Felt release Stirring to Wake, which
Speaker 1: I love. But we'll let you go for now, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk again in the future. Adam. Congratulations
Speaker 1: again on the album. It's wonderful and uh and I
Speaker 1: look for and you did mention you're going to be
Speaker 1: doing one a year, so we'll definitely, but we won't
Speaker 1: let a whole year go by before we have you back.
Speaker 1: I promise, because I love talking to you, man, And
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. You two brother,
Speaker 1: all right, Adam, take care.
Speaker 2: Thank you man. Thank you for everything, Matt that you
Speaker 2: do for the music community.
Speaker 1: Man. Oh yeah, glad to do it. I love it.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. We'll talk to you soon, man,
Speaker 1: take care, bye bye. All right. That is Adam Seglitz
Speaker 1: from the band Ever Felt, and we are going to
Speaker 1: close out the segment with this. This is another great
Speaker 1: track from the brand new release Stirring to Wake and
Speaker 1: this is called a Stranger
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