EverFelt | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Oh my god. I love it. Appropriately titled Epic One,

0:03 Speaker 1: that is ever Felt from their brand new album Stirring Awake,

0:07 Speaker 1: and we've got Adam Seglitch with us. Let me get

0:09 Speaker 1: that mic up there. Hello Adam, Hey.

0:11 Speaker 2: What's up man? How you doing? Man?

0:13 Speaker 1: Good good, Welcome back to the show. It's good to

0:15 Speaker 1: talk to you. I love the new album. I was,

0:18 Speaker 1: I was in the whole thing really really good. And

0:22 Speaker 1: that is a that is a great way to open

0:24 Speaker 1: I love that.

0:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that song, Uh, that was the song that

0:30 Speaker 2: we we were working on even when we released the

0:32 Speaker 2: ep That's something that's been with us for a little

0:34 Speaker 2: while now. And uh, you know, Corey really brought that

0:37 Speaker 2: that whole that that rift, that that opening rift there.

0:40 Speaker 2: It actually originally began with the the intro and the

0:43 Speaker 2: outro music with the beautiful there, Yeah, and it became

0:47 Speaker 2: what it became. But uh, you know, the song Epic

0:49 Speaker 2: One really is about the idea. You know, Confucius said

0:52 Speaker 2: the greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising

0:54 Speaker 2: every time you fall. And so the concept behind this

0:58 Speaker 2: song is that you must be willing to fall in

1:00 Speaker 2: order to learn to rise. Okay, and so and and

1:03 Speaker 2: and then also it talks about the idea of of

1:06 Speaker 2: you know, braving the unknown within yourself in order to

1:09 Speaker 2: do so in the gray area of what you don't

1:12 Speaker 2: know about you, And so that's the that's the premise

1:16 Speaker 2: of the song anyway.

1:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like it. Uh So, what is the

1:19 Speaker 1: premise of the album? Because in listening to the whole thing,

1:21 Speaker 1: and I listened to it all at once, all the

1:23 Speaker 1: way through, and I felt like there's a there's a theme,

1:25 Speaker 1: there's a story. But I but I want to ask

1:27 Speaker 1: you about that. Am I? Am I reading into it?

1:29 Speaker 1: Or or is there something?

1:31 Speaker 2: You're exactly right? The Stirring to Wake really the entire

1:34 Speaker 2: album in a nutshell is really every single song is philosophically,

1:39 Speaker 2: philosophically driven with the ideal of Stirring to Wake one

1:43 Speaker 2: soul where our band, you know, we're all about soul metal,

1:47 Speaker 2: and for us it's more about you know, the world

1:50 Speaker 2: will teach you mind body soul, but really it should

1:52 Speaker 2: be soul mind body, and because for us we believe

1:56 Speaker 2: in the eternal soul. Though we're not religious, but we

1:58 Speaker 2: do believe in the eternal soul and we think that

2:00 Speaker 2: that's the one thing neglected by most of the world,

2:03 Speaker 2: even ourselves. And uh so the idea is that, you know,

2:06 Speaker 2: the stirring to wait concept came from you know that

2:09 Speaker 2: that that that place between dreaming and waking, where like

2:12 Speaker 2: even the greatest minds from the past, like Tesla and

2:14 Speaker 2: Einstein and all they they would even like try to

2:16 Speaker 2: induce themselves into that place in order to find answers

2:20 Speaker 2: to to the inventions or whatever they were doing in

2:22 Speaker 2: actual reality. And it's kind of like, you know, going

2:26 Speaker 2: to that place within yourself, being willing to take that

2:29 Speaker 2: journey within.

2:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up about you know,

2:33 Speaker 1: that that place between you know, sort of being asleep

2:35 Speaker 1: and awake, when you're sort of almost it's like you're

2:38 Speaker 1: you're sort of dreaming a little bit sometimes but you

2:40 Speaker 1: kind of know you're dreaming because you're kind of still

2:42 Speaker 1: half awake. And right, I I talk about that a lot,

2:45 Speaker 1: but I don't know if you know this about me.

2:47 Speaker 1: I'm also a hypnotherapist and I tell all my plot

2:50 Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, okay, we did talk about that, and

2:52 Speaker 1: I tell all my clients. I said, you know, when

2:54 Speaker 1: you're in that that state, you're highly suggestible. So that's

2:58 Speaker 1: a great, Like if you're someone who falls asleep slow, len,

3:00 Speaker 1: that's a great time to give yourself, you know, hypnotics

3:03 Speaker 1: suggestions that you know you're you're in a wake up

3:05 Speaker 1: feeling great and motivated or whatever it is your your

3:07 Speaker 1: goal is. But it it's but I'm glad you brought

3:11 Speaker 1: it up because it's such a powerful That is a

3:13 Speaker 1: powerful state to be in, that state between right right

3:17 Speaker 1: between being asleep and being awake. And unfortunately, I don't

3:20 Speaker 1: think everyone gets to experience it the same way, because

3:22 Speaker 1: some people, you know, fall asleep quickly wake up quickly.

3:25 Speaker 1: But but for those of us who do get to

3:27 Speaker 1: experience it, yeah, that's that's it's it's very powerful and

3:30 Speaker 1: and it's so interesting to me that that maybe that's

3:33 Speaker 1: part of why in listening to this I connected with it, because,

3:36 Speaker 1: like I said, I listened to the whole thing all

3:37 Speaker 1: the way through and I was just so so drawn

3:39 Speaker 1: into it. And uh and and and absolutely absolutely.

3:45 Speaker 2: I mean when we when we wrote the album in

3:49 Speaker 2: and then we were trying to decide strong order, I

3:51 Speaker 2: I purposefully put the songs in order the way that

3:54 Speaker 2: they are on the album M so that they kind

3:57 Speaker 2: of give you almost a ride almost like a roller coaster,

3:59 Speaker 2: you know, go from spoken word oapen word, spoken word

4:02 Speaker 2: poetry to epic one and then we hit you in

4:04 Speaker 2: the face with sludge, you know. So it's like it's

4:06 Speaker 2: a it's this whole and each song has you know,

4:09 Speaker 2: each song has its own way. I'm sure you notice

4:12 Speaker 2: that in the album. Even though it's a cohesive album,

4:14 Speaker 2: every song is not like the last one, you know, right,

4:16 Speaker 2: and each have their own story in a way.

4:19 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, who is in the who's in the band?

4:24 Speaker 2: Is it the same?

4:25 Speaker 1: Is it the same lineup as the last time we talked?

4:28 Speaker 2: It is not? So since the last time you and I, So,

4:31 Speaker 2: I think it's been like almost two years now, probably

4:33 Speaker 2: since we released the EP in twenty four. Yeah, so

4:36 Speaker 2: it's been almost two years. But but yeah, since the

4:39 Speaker 2: last time we talked. We right after we released the EP,

4:42 Speaker 2: we actually lost three members of our band. At that time,

4:44 Speaker 2: Corey and I were the only ones left. Oh wow, yeah, man,

4:48 Speaker 2: and uh we didn't miss any shows either. We were

4:50 Speaker 2: able to find Danny Danny Furlong's our percussion now and

4:54 Speaker 2: then Ryan Moore we call him Momo. He's our rhythm

4:58 Speaker 2: based plus our sound and tech guy. He's he makes

5:01 Speaker 2: it possible. Momo makes it possible for us to have

5:03 Speaker 2: one guitarist, where Corey took over both rhythm and lead

5:07 Speaker 2: for this for our band now, so there's only one guitarist.

5:10 Speaker 2: Oh but uh but yeah, with Momo's ability on the

5:13 Speaker 2: rhythm bass, you know, he really brought the song Silhouette

5:15 Speaker 2: to the table for us with his ability, he really

5:18 Speaker 2: gives us a fullness where even when we're playing live,

5:21 Speaker 2: Corey is still able to hit all his leads and

5:23 Speaker 2: it still sounds really full because Momo don't just play

5:26 Speaker 2: reef root notes. You know, he's very very influenced by

5:30 Speaker 2: Justin Chancellor so from tools. So he's, uh, you know,

5:33 Speaker 2: that's perfect for our sounds.

5:35 Speaker 1: So oh yeah, absolutely, is it? So you lost three

5:39 Speaker 1: people at once in the band? I mean that's a

5:41 Speaker 1: that's a pretty big shakeout. Was that? I mean how

5:44 Speaker 1: was that? Was that? Was that hard? Yeah?

5:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was difficult because and and and the main

5:50 Speaker 2: reason that that has so so originally we lost the

5:52 Speaker 2: bass player because he didn't basically, we were booking a

5:55 Speaker 2: lot of shows and he just wanted to play like,

5:57 Speaker 2: you know, places around local and he didn't want to travel,

6:01 Speaker 2: So that's really the reason he left the band. And

6:03 Speaker 2: then and then we lost the drummer because he was

6:06 Speaker 2: moving away, and then we lost the guitarists because his

6:08 Speaker 2: woman got pregnant didn't want him in the band anymore.

6:10 Speaker 2: So it was all happened in like a two week period,

6:12 Speaker 2: and it was like, what is happening. We just recorded

6:14 Speaker 2: the EP, we had all these shows. So what happened

6:17 Speaker 2: was is we ended up I found Momo. Momo actually

6:21 Speaker 2: works with me, but and I didn't know he was

6:22 Speaker 2: as good as he is, but but we you know,

6:25 Speaker 2: we got him on when Jason left the bass player,

6:28 Speaker 2: we got Momo, and the moment was with us with

6:29 Speaker 2: the other guys too, and then the other guys left

6:32 Speaker 2: like a week later, and and so what we ended

6:35 Speaker 2: up doing was we had like a three week period,

6:36 Speaker 2: but we had two shows still happening, so I didn't

6:39 Speaker 2: I don't really like canceling. So yeah, we ended up

6:41 Speaker 2: playing me Momo and Corey ended up playing those two

6:44 Speaker 2: shows in the interim when we were looking for a drummer.

6:46 Speaker 2: Just we did an acoustic set of our metal metal

6:49 Speaker 2: show and and uh, and yeah it was it was awesome,

6:53 Speaker 2: but uh, but yeah, and then we found Danny and

6:55 Speaker 2: Danny as a well you heard him on the album.

6:56 Speaker 2: He's he's amazing, you know, and you know, you know Cory, So.

7:01 Speaker 1: When when you when that happened? When when all this

7:04 Speaker 1: tumult is happening. I mean, what was ever a moment

7:06 Speaker 1: where you thought, maybe, you know, maybe this is it,

7:08 Speaker 1: maybe we do something new, or or were you determined

7:12 Speaker 1: right right through that whole period. Now we're gonna keep determined.

7:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, there was there was no way we were going

7:18 Speaker 2: to let go they ever felt sound what what Corey

7:20 Speaker 2: and I had, you know, because him and I, even

7:22 Speaker 2: though we had the other three members, him and I

7:23 Speaker 2: were really the you know, the core of what we

7:26 Speaker 2: were doing. The sound. You know, Corey really brings that

7:29 Speaker 2: psychedelic He's like the gay David Gilmore. Metal to me

7:32 Speaker 2: reminds me kind of reminds me of Randy Roads a

7:34 Speaker 2: little bit too, and and with that Black Sabbath influence

7:37 Speaker 2: and also painful. And then also you know he's a

7:39 Speaker 2: big on Slayer and stuff like that, and and uh, well,

7:42 Speaker 2: Corey's ability to bring that to the table and then

7:44 Speaker 2: you know what I'm already naturally doing. So as long

7:46 Speaker 2: as we had Corey and I we were able to build,

7:48 Speaker 2: you know, but if I lost Corey too, I probably

7:51 Speaker 2: would have been starting a new band.

7:52 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, were you and Corey in a band together

7:56 Speaker 1: prior to Ever Felt or or no?

7:59 Speaker 2: No, okay, no, I've met Corey in twenty twenty two.

8:03 Speaker 2: We actually I found out about the band him and

8:06 Speaker 2: this our old old old drummer was trying to put

8:09 Speaker 2: together on Craiglist of all places, and yeah, man, and

8:14 Speaker 2: and so I went over there, and you know, from

8:17 Speaker 2: the very first practice where I just went over there

8:19 Speaker 2: just freestyle vocals just to just to try to you know,

8:21 Speaker 2: basically trying out to be their vocalist. You know, from

8:25 Speaker 2: then on, him and I just hit it up. The

8:26 Speaker 2: song Medici was one of the first songs we played.

8:28 Speaker 2: It became Medicaid, but at the time, you know, it

8:31 Speaker 2: was just it was just a diddy. It was just

8:32 Speaker 2: a little riff, you know. Yeah, And and even Epic

8:36 Speaker 2: one stranger on the album was originally created back then,

8:39 Speaker 2: back in when we first met. So some of the

8:42 Speaker 2: songs that are on this this album are actually some

8:44 Speaker 2: of our original stuff we were working on that just

8:46 Speaker 2: didn't make it on the epeaks. It was wasn't ready yet.

8:48 Speaker 1: Oh okay, gotcha. And so this came out in December.

8:52 Speaker 2: Correct, yeah, December fifteenth.

8:54 Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And it's on all the platforms and everything obviously.

8:57 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's everywhere. Man, even band Camp. We

8:59 Speaker 2: got it on there too.

9:00 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Band Camp is great. I always encourage people

9:03 Speaker 1: to check out band camp because not only is it

9:05 Speaker 1: a great resource for new music, but what a lot

9:08 Speaker 1: of people don't realize is the files that you get

9:10 Speaker 1: from band camp are superior to what you would get.

9:13 Speaker 1: You know, if you're just streaming it on YouTube for example, Yeah,

9:16 Speaker 1: you got you keep.

9:17 Speaker 2: Like one hundred percent pin on. When the person buys

9:19 Speaker 2: your your discography, your album, you get, you get like

9:21 Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the purchase. Yep, there's there's so much.

9:25 Speaker 2: It's more artists driven, yes, than other platforms. And you

9:29 Speaker 2: know what's crazy is I was working with Metal Devastation

9:31 Speaker 2: PR with this album, working with another promo company too,

9:34 Speaker 2: but I was working with him and he was like, man,

9:36 Speaker 2: you guys aren't own band camping. And I thought, I

9:38 Speaker 2: don't know why I thought this, but I thought that

9:39 Speaker 2: if we were on all you that we had to

9:41 Speaker 2: choose either Oh Moodifi or band Camp and that wasn't

9:44 Speaker 2: the case at all. And I'm really glad that he

9:46 Speaker 2: hit you know, made me hip to that because yeah,

9:49 Speaker 2: it's been awesome since we've been on there.

9:51 Speaker 1: So oh absolutely, yeah, very good. What's what's the response been, like?

9:55 Speaker 1: I mean, are obviously you have longtime fans who are

9:58 Speaker 1: probably U are enjoying the I feel like this is

10:01 Speaker 1: your best work that I've heard so far of this album.

10:03 Speaker 1: I mean, has that kind of been what the response

10:05 Speaker 1: is overall?

10:06 Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, it's been overwhelming. The response has been phenomenal.

10:10 Speaker 2: We we you know, not only do we. I mean

10:13 Speaker 2: we're booking into August of next year. Now that's how

10:15 Speaker 2: I mean, we really booked. I mean, we are definitely

10:18 Speaker 2: booking up. But also you know, the response on on

10:21 Speaker 2: the different radio station is different, different. The reviews that

10:24 Speaker 2: have been done of the album have been just super unbelievable. Man. Uh,

10:28 Speaker 2: we feel like this is the best work we've ever

10:30 Speaker 2: done as artists so far, and and we we feel

10:34 Speaker 2: that way. We felt it when we were recording it

10:36 Speaker 2: and when we were creating it. But you know, when

10:38 Speaker 2: we hear that from other people when when a lot

10:40 Speaker 2: of the responses like this is none like anything they've

10:42 Speaker 2: heard before. No one's doing what you're doing. That kind

10:45 Speaker 2: of thing that matters to us because we we to us,

10:48 Speaker 2: it's all about staying true to the sound and and

10:50 Speaker 2: what whatever felt is and making sure that we capture

10:53 Speaker 2: that psychedelic groove metal as we are. And I think that,

10:58 Speaker 2: you know, there's not a whole lot of people out

10:59 Speaker 2: there doing what we do, and so I'm really proud

11:02 Speaker 2: of that because you know, as a band, we really

11:05 Speaker 2: allow the music to happen to us more than just

11:08 Speaker 2: trying to. We don't ever get in the studio and say, oh,

11:11 Speaker 2: we're going to go for a sound or let's sound

11:12 Speaker 2: like this. It's it's never like that. It's always it's

11:15 Speaker 2: always we're all willing to be the channel for the

11:17 Speaker 2: music together. And I think that that's why it's fluid

11:21 Speaker 2: as it is, because even now we have the we

11:24 Speaker 2: have all of the song ideas for the next album.

11:27 Speaker 2: Oh wow, we're yeah, we're working on those now. We're

11:30 Speaker 2: gonna be releasing another one at the end of this year.

11:32 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, excellent, Wow, Yeah, you guys are crand

11:35 Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, sure, Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, did you

11:39 Speaker 1: record where did you record this album? Because it sounds

11:41 Speaker 1: so good, I mean sonically it's it's just outstanding. Did

11:44 Speaker 1: you record this the same way you did your previous

11:47 Speaker 1: work or somewhere new?

11:49 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yeah, that was with Shelby Brucless at Loud

11:52 Speaker 2: and Clear Studios in Paduca, Kentucky. Okay, he is the

11:56 Speaker 2: guy who also did our EP. And he's amazing because

11:59 Speaker 2: not only is as obviously as you can hear, he's obvious, amazing,

12:02 Speaker 2: amazing engineer and knows what he's doing, but he is

12:04 Speaker 2: he makes the experience just so comfortable. Like when we

12:08 Speaker 2: go there, we stay the whole weekend at the studio,

12:10 Speaker 2: the whole band, and we you know, it's like we're

12:12 Speaker 2: at practice, it's like we're at home. And so it's

12:15 Speaker 2: it's just such a comfortable experience, the way that he

12:18 Speaker 2: has a set up, the way we do the crash tracks,

12:20 Speaker 2: and and he's so so awesome because for him, you know,

12:24 Speaker 2: I don't I don't think all engineers and producers are

12:26 Speaker 2: like this, but for him, he wants to make sure

12:29 Speaker 2: more than anything, that what we want to hear on

12:31 Speaker 2: the album is what's there, not what he thinks should

12:33 Speaker 2: be there, and uh, I think that that's you know,

12:36 Speaker 2: you don't find that everywhere and uh and it's affordable.

12:39 Speaker 2: So we were super stoked. And even if even if

12:43 Speaker 2: somehow someday we end up, you know, really going somewhere

12:45 Speaker 2: with this, you know, and they offer us to you know,

12:49 Speaker 2: to go to a state of the art studio to record,

12:51 Speaker 2: we're bringing Shelby with us.

12:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't blame you. Clearly the results are there.

12:57 Speaker 1: And you mentioned so he's in Kentucky. Where are you guys?

12:59 Speaker 2: Look again, Uh, southern Illinois.

13:02 Speaker 1: Southern Illinois, that's what I thought. Yeah, I'm sure we

13:04 Speaker 1: talked about this before. But I spent a lot of

13:06 Speaker 1: time in Illinois growing up because my uh when my

13:09 Speaker 1: parents split up and my mother moved back to Illinois,

13:11 Speaker 1: I would spend the summers out there. So I love Illinois.

13:15 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, great, great, great state. What's the music scene

13:18 Speaker 1: like where you guys are, because you mentioned that there's

13:20 Speaker 1: not a lot of people in your area who are

13:22 Speaker 1: doing what you're doing right, the psychedelic groove metal like like, yeah,

13:25 Speaker 1: well yeah, tell me about the scene there.

13:29 Speaker 2: Well for us, we uh in southern Illinois. It's uh,

13:33 Speaker 2: it's hit and miss. But to be honest, we are

13:35 Speaker 2: actually even if you google us today, we're considered a

13:37 Speaker 2: Saint Louis based band. Okay, we play all of our

13:40 Speaker 2: music in Saint Louis pretty much. We have a couple

13:42 Speaker 2: of shows locally, but almost everything we do now is

13:45 Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. Yeah, we have some of the biggest

13:48 Speaker 2: shows we ever boked we were about to play. We're

13:50 Speaker 2: playing Pops twice in Saint Louis on January twenty third

13:53 Speaker 2: and February thirteenth, and then we're going to play the

13:55 Speaker 2: Contrarian Concert Hall and Fastest Missouri right outside Saint Louis.

13:59 Speaker 2: But the big show that I'm super extoked about. I

14:01 Speaker 2: may almost stoked about all of our shows, but the

14:03 Speaker 2: one I really am very proud of is the Sovereign.

14:06 Speaker 2: It's a brand new it's a nineteen hundred capacity down

14:08 Speaker 2: downtown Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Arts District, and the

14:11 Speaker 2: owner you know, got a hold of me to build

14:13 Speaker 2: the entire show. So yeah, pretty odd. I mean, we

14:17 Speaker 2: got to build and it's it's gonna be amazing. But

14:19 Speaker 2: but yeah, so so really Saint Louis Is and the

14:21 Speaker 2: scene is amazing in Saint Louis. I mean, the amount

14:24 Speaker 2: of venues to play, the amount of genres of music

14:28 Speaker 2: is you know, there's a plethora, and and we love

14:32 Speaker 2: that because you know, like for instance, like we're playing

14:35 Speaker 2: the Road to Point Fest at Pops again. We played

14:37 Speaker 2: last year, we're playing again. But then we had the

14:39 Speaker 2: metal bands in Saint Louis actually invite us to play

14:42 Speaker 2: back at Pops, not not for a contest, but for

14:44 Speaker 2: a metal showcase on February thirteenth. And you know, there's

14:47 Speaker 2: a bunch of bands they could have asked to come

14:49 Speaker 2: do that, you know, for that, and they asked us,

14:51 Speaker 2: and you know, it means everything to us. But yeah,

14:54 Speaker 2: Saint Louis is really where we play all of our music.

14:56 Speaker 2: It's really we're considered a Saint Louis band, but we

15:00 Speaker 2: you know, we live about two hours from there, to

15:01 Speaker 2: be honest.

15:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. Obviously Saint Louis is

15:06 Speaker 1: a great city. And no, it's good to be associated

15:11 Speaker 1: with that scene. Uh, no doubt. So you're so you're

15:14 Speaker 1: actually closer to Saint Louis than uh than Chicago, right.

15:18 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, man, we are. Do you know where Carbondell is?

15:22 Speaker 1: I I have a vague idea.

15:24 Speaker 2: Mary in Illinois, Okay, so there, Yeah, yeah, I work

15:27 Speaker 2: in Marion. Oh okay, Yeah, so I'm about I'm about

15:31 Speaker 2: forty minutes. I'll live in Murphy'sboro, Illinois, Okay. And then

15:34 Speaker 2: the other guys they live in Benton and West Frankfurt.

15:36 Speaker 2: So we're about forty minutes apart. But we practice every Sunday.

15:39 Speaker 2: And yeah, I think works with me.

15:41 Speaker 1: So yeah, no, that's that's cool. It's funny too that

15:45 Speaker 1: you know, you guys work together and then but then

15:47 Speaker 1: you didn't know until recently just how good of a

15:48 Speaker 1: musician he like, prior to that, prior to him becoming

15:52 Speaker 1: a part of the band, or or or coming to

15:55 Speaker 1: UH audition or however it worked. I mean, did did

15:58 Speaker 1: did you guys talk about the band at like? Was

16:00 Speaker 1: he already aware of the band?

16:03 Speaker 2: Yeah? He knew about us, because you know, he would,

16:05 Speaker 2: you know, he would we were still playing, he would,

16:07 Speaker 2: you know, know about the shows I'd be talking about.

16:09 Speaker 2: I'd play the EP, you know, at the store, and yeah,

16:11 Speaker 2: and he would tell me he's a bass player, and

16:14 Speaker 2: he showed me some of his stuff because he you know,

16:16 Speaker 2: he played in a few bands. He got to open

16:17 Speaker 2: for Ozzie one time. Oh wow, yeah, he got to

16:21 Speaker 2: open for who was it Warrant Warrant, He got to

16:24 Speaker 2: play with them once. Yeah, I'm a little jealous of that.

16:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

16:30 Speaker 2: He would tell me those stories and everything. And then

16:32 Speaker 2: when Jason, are former bass player, started you know, being

16:34 Speaker 2: real flaky and acting like like not responding, not wanting

16:37 Speaker 2: to play shows, and acting like he was kind of

16:39 Speaker 2: stepping away. I told him, I was like, hey, man,

16:42 Speaker 2: I was like, there might be an opportunity here for

16:45 Speaker 2: you to join the band if you want. Audition, and

16:47 Speaker 2: and then you know, he played our song the Lie

16:49 Speaker 2: in the audition and he tore it apart. I mean

16:52 Speaker 2: not not not to you know, say anything negative about Jason,

16:54 Speaker 2: but he was more of a root note guy. And

16:56 Speaker 2: when when Momo stepped up like all over that base,

16:59 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, so yeah, And not only is

17:04 Speaker 2: Momo an amazing bass player, but he is the most

17:07 Speaker 2: genius soundtag guy. We finally got a rack system. We

17:10 Speaker 2: can control our own sound on stage nice, and it's

17:13 Speaker 2: all due to him. I wouldn't know, I wouldn't begin

17:15 Speaker 2: to know how to make any of that happen.

17:17 Speaker 1: But yeah, but.

17:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's and he's hilarious. He's the I mean, he

17:21 Speaker 2: is the comic relief of the band.

17:23 Speaker 1: So oh that's cool too. Yeah, that's good.

17:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta have that.

17:27 Speaker 1: That's really good. When do you play live, do you

17:29 Speaker 1: play the whole album?

17:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, So it depends on the show. So, like today

17:33 Speaker 2: we have a show. We're playing a show for a

17:36 Speaker 2: fundraiser event for a guy biker had lost his life

17:40 Speaker 2: for his family, raising money for his family, and then

17:42 Speaker 2: for a couple of dispensaries we're raising money for them,

17:45 Speaker 2: and so that so for instance, just to explain, so

17:48 Speaker 2: that's like five or six bands playing that. So we're

17:50 Speaker 2: only going to do a forty five minute set there,

17:53 Speaker 2: and it's an all day event, but we're playing at

17:55 Speaker 2: like six thirty. But next weekend when we play at

17:57 Speaker 2: the Road to Point Fest, it pops. It's a thirty

17:59 Speaker 2: minute sets only doing five songs, you know, Yeah, because

18:02 Speaker 2: it's concept and so it depends on the venue and

18:05 Speaker 2: how many bands. But but yeah, what normally happens when

18:09 Speaker 2: we get a forty five minute set, we get to

18:10 Speaker 2: play the entire album plus Reach from the EP Okay,

18:13 Speaker 2: and then whenever we have our May twenty third album

18:18 Speaker 2: release show and we're going to be playing our entire discography.

18:20 Speaker 2: We really love when we're able to do that because

18:22 Speaker 2: it's like two hours of music. Yeah, and and yeah,

18:26 Speaker 2: that's that's fun because you know, we get to let

18:29 Speaker 2: loose and just play.

18:30 Speaker 1: Reach is a great song too. I'm glad you mentioned

18:33 Speaker 1: it because I love that song because we I remember

18:35 Speaker 1: we played that. I believe it was the last time

18:36 Speaker 1: you're on the show. We played that because I think

18:38 Speaker 1: that had just come out. That's such a great track too. Absolutely, absolutely,

18:44 Speaker 1: Oh and also too. I mean, obviously I've asked you

18:46 Speaker 1: this before, but I don't remember what the answer was.

18:48 Speaker 1: And for newer listeners who aren't familiar, where where does

18:50 Speaker 1: the name ever Felt come from? And what does it mean?

18:55 Speaker 2: So the name ever Felt was originally came from So

18:58 Speaker 2: I have a best friend named Charles linger Felt that

19:01 Speaker 2: I did my first album with him when I was nineteen,

19:03 Speaker 2: called Clinch. We had just me and him. He did

19:05 Speaker 2: all the music. I did the vocals and lyrics, and

19:07 Speaker 2: I didn't know at all what I was doing then.

19:09 Speaker 2: And over the years, you know, we wrote many much

19:12 Speaker 2: music together and became like brothers. And he passed away

19:16 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one from cancer and all suddenly. Actually

19:21 Speaker 2: we had a project going called anger Felt when that happened.

19:24 Speaker 2: And so when he passed away, we actually just went

19:28 Speaker 2: to Florida to play music. We came back and I

19:30 Speaker 2: literally had to drop him off at the UK hospital

19:32 Speaker 2: and he didn't make it. I didn't see him again.

19:34 Speaker 2: He went to a coma his first treatment of chemotherapy.

19:40 Speaker 2: And yeah, the last time I talked to him was

19:42 Speaker 2: a thirty minute like interview, I mean thirty minute conversational messenger.

19:46 Speaker 2: But anyway, so when he passed, you know, with his

19:50 Speaker 2: last name being linger Felt, and with us having the

19:53 Speaker 2: project anger Felt, I wanted him to be forever Felt

19:56 Speaker 2: and any music that I ever do from the moment

19:58 Speaker 2: from now on. And and so the name ever Felt

20:02 Speaker 2: was born. Okay, that's how it became that.

20:05 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, yeah, I do, I do recall you and now.

20:09 Speaker 2: You know, and now it's like, you know, although that

20:15 Speaker 2: was the original of the origin of how the name

20:17 Speaker 2: became what it is now, it's it's more about as

20:20 Speaker 2: a band, it's more about have you ever felt music?

20:23 Speaker 2: Like this before. Okay, you know, have you ever felt

20:27 Speaker 2: like you know, lyrics and so so really it's a

20:30 Speaker 2: it's a play on words, but also it originally became

20:32 Speaker 2: you know, I wanted I wanted Charlie to be forever

20:35 Speaker 2: felt in the music.

20:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right. I do remember now, I do

20:38 Speaker 1: remember you talking about that and uh yeah, wow, No,

20:43 Speaker 1: that's a that's a great that's a great way to

20:45 Speaker 1: kind of, you know, carry on his his memory. And

20:48 Speaker 1: you know, obviously he was somebody very important in your life,

20:51 Speaker 1: you know, being there at kind of the beginning of

20:53 Speaker 1: your music career and being such a big part of it.

20:56 Speaker 1: And uh, that's that's terrible. What happened to him?

20:58 Speaker 2: He taught me so much.

21:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it taught me a lot. Yeah. Okay, wow.

21:05 Speaker 1: By the way, so is any of the the original

21:09 Speaker 1: the Anger Felt or or or the first the first

21:12 Speaker 1: things that you recorded with him? Is any of that

21:14 Speaker 1: online still.

21:15 Speaker 2: Or it's not online? I do have some of that

21:20 Speaker 2: those recordings, but we never we never post we never

21:24 Speaker 2: like published, like, we never released it or anything. We

21:27 Speaker 2: had just finished the album Anger for the Engerfelt album

21:30 Speaker 2: and we were we went to Florida to play a

21:31 Speaker 2: couple of shows down there. Yeah, and then when we

21:33 Speaker 2: came back he you know, and that was it. And

21:38 Speaker 2: uh and and honestly, I have a couple of actually,

21:41 Speaker 2: I have a couple of songs from when we had

21:42 Speaker 2: a band called Chaotic Harmony years ago when I was

21:46 Speaker 2: like thirty and uh, and we had that band, and

21:50 Speaker 2: so I've got some music from before. But the anger

21:52 Speaker 2: felt music is I don't know. I think his daughter

21:55 Speaker 2: has some of it still, but that's not out there

21:57 Speaker 2: anywhere unfortunately.

21:58 Speaker 1: Yeah.

21:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I will say our song River, that's only

22:03 Speaker 2: the song River on the EP was original melody by Charlie.

22:08 Speaker 2: That song was a song that was his that I

22:10 Speaker 2: brought to when we first started this this band.

22:13 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, oh interesting, very good. Now so what

22:18 Speaker 1: uh what what do you guys have? So you have

22:20 Speaker 1: a show tonight, right, you said? And you are you

22:22 Speaker 1: playing in Saint Louis tonight?

22:24 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's actually it's Martha'sville, Missouri. It's like

22:29 Speaker 2: right outside Saint Louis. But yeah, yeah, we're playing. We're

22:32 Speaker 2: playing at Corey Gables and it's gonna be a it's

22:35 Speaker 2: for a originally was a dispensary show. And then it

22:39 Speaker 2: became a dual show where it's a biker had lost

22:42 Speaker 2: his life so they're doing a fundraiser and they moved

22:44 Speaker 2: the show to the bar where the fundraiser is, so

22:46 Speaker 2: it's kind of a dual thing. But but yeah, we're

22:50 Speaker 2: we're stoked to do it. Man. You know, they they've

22:53 Speaker 2: already I mean, they already sent us everything we need

22:55 Speaker 2: to get there and get back before we even played

22:57 Speaker 2: any music, which I thought was pretty awesome.

22:58 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, no, that's good. You know, it's going

23:01 Speaker 1: to be able to do things like that and and

23:03 Speaker 1: do you know, do things that are that are positive

23:05 Speaker 1: and helping people and uh, you know, that's that's what

23:07 Speaker 1: it's all about. And uh no, I think that's I

23:10 Speaker 1: think that's great. So Adam or yeah, man, absolutely, Oh

23:14 Speaker 1: go ahead.

23:14 Speaker 2: Oh I didn't say anything.

23:16 Speaker 1: Oh okay, sorry, I thought I thought we lost it

23:17 Speaker 1: there for a second. I think we have I think

23:20 Speaker 1: we have a slight delay. No, you were, you were

23:21 Speaker 1: you were starting to say something and I think I

23:23 Speaker 1: I interrupted you or maybe not.

23:28 Speaker 2: No, No you didn't. You didn't interrupt me.

23:30 Speaker 1: You're good brother, Okay, cool, Yeah, No, I think we

23:32 Speaker 1: have a slight delay on the that happens online, but

23:35 Speaker 1: no big deal. No where where where should people go

23:39 Speaker 1: online to keep up with everything that I ever Felt

23:41 Speaker 1: is doing and and to get the get the album

23:43 Speaker 1: and everything? What? What where should people know about where

23:45 Speaker 1: to go online?

23:46 Speaker 2: So the easiest thing to do is just to go

23:48 Speaker 2: to everfelt dot net. Okay, website where you can access

23:51 Speaker 2: all of our all of our social media platforms are

23:54 Speaker 2: on the on there. You can go to our Spotify,

23:55 Speaker 2: our bank, everything ever felt is on ever felt dot net.

23:59 Speaker 2: So you can find all our shows, everything you want

24:01 Speaker 2: to know about us there. But if you want to

24:03 Speaker 2: purchase the album or you want to listen to it,

24:06 Speaker 2: it's on all the streamings, band camp everywhere. But you

24:09 Speaker 2: can access that through the website. So it's so much

24:11 Speaker 2: easier just to go to that one place and not

24:13 Speaker 2: have a bunch of you know, a bunch of links

24:14 Speaker 2: to try to remember anything. So yeah, ever felt dot net.

24:18 Speaker 1: Did somebody else already have ever felt dot com?

24:22 Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, I don't know if they I don't

24:25 Speaker 2: know if it's I don't know if they have it

24:27 Speaker 2: or not. But it was that that was just the

24:29 Speaker 2: domain that band zoogle offered me when I created the website.

24:33 Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha, But I don't know why it's not a

24:35 Speaker 1: dot com. Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if there's like

24:38 Speaker 1: a company that makes pool tables or something called ever

24:40 Speaker 1: Felt and maybe they have ever felt dot com or something.

24:46 Speaker 2: That's probably true.

24:47 Speaker 1: Probably probably no. But it's good that you have a sound.

24:50 Speaker 2: You know.

24:51 Speaker 1: It's funny a lot of bands don't don't have websites anymore.

24:54 Speaker 1: They just rely on Instagram or whatever, and it's like, yeah,

24:56 Speaker 1: you still got to have a website. So I think

24:58 Speaker 1: it's great that you guys have a website and it is,

25:00 Speaker 1: like you said, it's a great central hub for everything

25:02 Speaker 1: that you're looking for, all things ever felt. Just go

25:04 Speaker 1: to everfelt dot net. That's the way to do it.

25:06 Speaker 1: So I agree, yes, sir. In a moment, Adam, we'll

25:12 Speaker 1: let you go. You've been generous with your time this morning,

25:14 Speaker 1: and we appreciate it. Always great to talk with you.

25:17 Speaker 1: I do want to play though, at the end of

25:19 Speaker 1: our conversation. I'm gonna play another track from the album,

25:22 Speaker 1: but gonna kind of put you on the spot. I'm

25:23 Speaker 1: gonna let you pick this one. I opened with epic one,

25:26 Speaker 1: But what would you suggest that we play at the

25:30 Speaker 1: end of the segment.

25:33 Speaker 2: Well, we'll play my favorite song from the album and

25:36 Speaker 2: that is Stranger.

25:38 Speaker 1: Stranger. Okay, that's a good choice. Okay, I'm gonna get

25:41 Speaker 1: I'm gonna queue that up and we'll play that and wonderful. Well,

25:45 Speaker 1: Adam again, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

25:48 Speaker 1: It's it's been great. And are you Are you in

25:50 Speaker 1: the same time zone as us or are you an

25:51 Speaker 1: hour behind?

25:55 Speaker 2: I think I'm an hour behind. It's nine thirty here.

25:57 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, your Central time. Yeah, I wasn't sure because

26:00 Speaker 1: I'm never sure where the where the line is for

26:02 Speaker 1: the you know, down the middle of the midwest of

26:05 Speaker 1: the country. I know that Chicago because when I would

26:07 Speaker 1: spend the summers in Chicago with my mom, it was

26:09 Speaker 1: Central time. What's that, I said me.

26:14 Speaker 2: Either, I don't know. I don't ever know either.

26:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly where that line is? Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right,

26:21 Speaker 1: So we're gonna hit this track Stranger again. This is

26:23 Speaker 1: from the new Ever Felt release Stirring to Wake, which

26:27 Speaker 1: I love. But we'll let you go for now, but

26:29 Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk again in the future. Adam. Congratulations

26:31 Speaker 1: again on the album. It's wonderful and uh and I

26:34 Speaker 1: look for and you did mention you're going to be

26:36 Speaker 1: doing one a year, so we'll definitely, but we won't

26:38 Speaker 1: let a whole year go by before we have you back.

26:40 Speaker 1: I promise, because I love talking to you, man, And

26:43 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. You two brother,

26:46 Speaker 1: all right, Adam, take care.

26:47 Speaker 2: Thank you man. Thank you for everything, Matt that you

26:49 Speaker 2: do for the music community.

26:50 Speaker 1: Man. Oh yeah, glad to do it. I love it.

26:52 Speaker 1: All right, thank you. We'll talk to you soon, man,

26:54 Speaker 1: take care, bye bye. All right. That is Adam Seglitz

26:57 Speaker 1: from the band Ever Felt, and we are going to

26:59 Speaker 1: close out the segment with this. This is another great

27:01 Speaker 1: track from the brand new release Stirring to Wake and

27:05 Speaker 1: this is called a Stranger