Jamdemic | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: All right, that has live for live music. The band

0:02 Speaker 1: is jam Demic and we've got the guys in studio

0:05 Speaker 1: with us. We're going to speak with them in just

0:07 Speaker 1: a moment.

0:07 Speaker 2: But welcome everybody.

0:08 Speaker 1: We have entered our number three New Marrow trace of

0:11 Speaker 1: Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of

0:15 Speaker 1: wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester,

0:18 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. If you are listening live today is Saturday,

0:21 Speaker 1: August sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here as well

0:25 Speaker 1: at the news table, present and accountball and let's see.

0:28 Speaker 1: Let me get these mics up here, because we got

0:30 Speaker 1: the guys here, we got a got a full room here,

0:32 Speaker 1: we got all five guys here. I think we should

0:35 Speaker 1: let's do this first. Let's start in the corner and

0:38 Speaker 1: we'll go around and have you each introduce yourselves and

0:41 Speaker 1: tell us what you do in the band, and we'll

0:43 Speaker 1: start with you over here.

0:44 Speaker 3: Sir, Hi, my name's Chris Volpi Elvin Hollis and I'm

0:47 Speaker 3: keys and blues harp.

0:50 Speaker 2: Okay, welcome Chris, and you.

0:52 Speaker 3: Rob McAlpine, Chester, New Hampshire, drums, vocals, percussion.

0:56 Speaker 2: Okay, welcome, and you. Hey, do what.

0:58 Speaker 4: I'm Joe Birch and I play lead guitar and the

1:01 Speaker 4: only guitar.

1:02 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, very good?

1:04 Speaker 1: And you, oh Eric, hang on, I'm sorry. For some

1:07 Speaker 1: reason I cannot hear you. Uh, what's mike? Let me

1:11 Speaker 1: turn this up? No, I gotcha, I guess got it.

1:14 Speaker 1: Why is this so quiet? We planned it that way.

1:17 Speaker 2: This is quieter than usual. Oh, I think I found you.

1:22 Speaker 2: Check one too, I gotcha. There we go, there you

1:24 Speaker 2: are all right. I'm Eric McIntyre.

1:25 Speaker 5: I'm also from Hollis, New Hampshire, and I play bass,

1:28 Speaker 5: lead singer and kind of band manager.

1:31 Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, you got your hands full.

1:34 Speaker 6: And you, sir Arthur, I play the tenor sacks and

1:37 Speaker 6: also alto and baritone.

1:39 Speaker 1: Okay, and from Hollis as well. So your name again,

1:41 Speaker 1: I didn't quite have Drew Arthur. Drew Arthur, all right,

1:44 Speaker 1: welcome Drew?

1:44 Speaker 7: All right?

1:45 Speaker 2: So well it was wonderful that. Now is there anybody

1:46 Speaker 2: else who's who participates in the band who isn't here?

1:49 Speaker 5: Or is it because we have a sound guy, Kevin

1:50 Speaker 5: Kirsted Okay, so he comes with us and helps produce

1:54 Speaker 5: our sound, comes to our practice every now and then

1:57 Speaker 5: typically in our rehearsal space at Big Bear Come Down

2:00 Speaker 5: in Brookline, we do most of our own mixing, yeah,

2:03 Speaker 5: while we're practicing and rehearsing. But for gigs, it's nice

2:06 Speaker 5: to have somebody out in the field.

2:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's something a lot of

2:11 Speaker 1: bands don't have, is kind of a dedicated sound guy,

2:14 Speaker 1: because you know, you're you got to play. You go

2:16 Speaker 1: to play these places, especially if you're playing a new place,

2:19 Speaker 1: right you're kind of at the mercy of whoever's there.

2:23 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we do, like obviously we prefer to

2:25 Speaker 5: play places that have a dedicated sound system and a

2:29 Speaker 5: sound engineer to so we don't have to lug our pa.

2:32 Speaker 2: I mean, I think every band's dream.

2:34 Speaker 5: So as we grow, it's obviously one of the things

2:37 Speaker 5: that we like to do. But there's also gigs like

2:40 Speaker 5: Panucci's Alehouse in Nashaware where we have to bring our

2:44 Speaker 5: own stuff and we want to pay homage to that

2:46 Speaker 5: were the first ones to give us a gig back

2:48 Speaker 5: in the day, so we always make we always circle

2:51 Speaker 5: back there every year or two at least to play

2:54 Speaker 5: one Gigah. We just love playing downtown Nashville as well.

2:57 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely no, it's wonderful there, very good. So

3:00 Speaker 1: now tell us about that song Live for Live Music.

3:03 Speaker 1: How long has that been out?

3:05 Speaker 2: Well, we really oh well it's actually been out.

3:09 Speaker 5: It got released on June twenty eighth out into the

3:11 Speaker 5: streaming web, so it's pretty much available.

3:14 Speaker 2: Okay.

3:15 Speaker 5: We we wrote it this winter. I think we started

3:17 Speaker 5: on it in February, and it was really Dru's kind

3:20 Speaker 5: of vision to come up with it, and he wrote

3:23 Speaker 5: kind of really the chord progression and what we're gonna do,

3:27 Speaker 5: although it's I think it's a two chord song, so

3:29 Speaker 5: it's not a huge progression.

3:30 Speaker 6: Well, okay, it's it's started off as kind of a

3:32 Speaker 6: play for if if you ask Alexa to play a

3:35 Speaker 6: song on Spotify, yeah, if you ask her to play

3:37 Speaker 6: Jimmy Hendrix, it'll say live at Fillmore East. And so

3:41 Speaker 6: I kept feeling like, I love that play on Live

3:43 Speaker 6: for Live for Yeah, and so kind of we're riffing

3:46 Speaker 6: on that a little bit and then and then you know,

3:48 Speaker 6: this is the great thing about playing with this band

3:49 Speaker 6: is you come with just a couple of chords and

3:52 Speaker 6: it's there's really no predefined Hey, you've got to play

3:55 Speaker 6: this part, or you got to play that part. It's

3:57 Speaker 6: let's just see what comes out of it, starting with

3:59 Speaker 6: a riff, and so we we did that once and

4:01 Speaker 6: then then Eric and I just kind of hooked up

4:02 Speaker 6: on some of the lyrics and next thing I know,

4:04 Speaker 6: we had we had the full song.

4:05 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.

4:06 Speaker 1: I always say, too, when when it when it comes

4:08 Speaker 1: easy like that, right, that's how you know you've really

4:09 Speaker 1: got something.

4:10 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

4:12 Speaker 5: The music just tells me what to write, because I

4:15 Speaker 5: wrote the lyrics in this song with some of Drew's foundation,

4:19 Speaker 5: and the other guys really produced a lot of the music.

4:22 Speaker 2: Side of it. Yeah, we wrote it.

4:24 Speaker 5: It's actually a love story about uh, kind of our

4:27 Speaker 5: cheating rock and roll love story. I should say, Oh,

4:31 Speaker 5: if you listen to what I go to the show

4:33 Speaker 5: with my girlfriend, then I end up meeting this girl

4:35 Speaker 5: behind the stages in the band and then having kids

4:37 Speaker 5: and coming back in the circle. So my girlfriend, I

4:40 Speaker 5: didn't think, is very impressed with the song. But I

4:43 Speaker 5: didn't even realize that when I was writing it.

4:45 Speaker 2: It just flowed.

4:46 Speaker 5: The music told me what to put on paper, and

4:48 Speaker 5: we kicked it around at a rehearsal and practice a

4:50 Speaker 5: few times and realized, yeah, let's let's get this in the.

4:53 Speaker 2: Studio, kind of like your own version of uh love

4:55 Speaker 2: the one you're with right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

4:58 Speaker 5: We like the Isisley Brothers version of Alwa's Got Killer

5:02 Speaker 5: groove to it right right? But yeah, speaking coming back

5:05 Speaker 5: to the Range, that's I don't know if you guys

5:06 Speaker 5: have ever been there before, but it's an outdoor venue

5:08 Speaker 5: in Mason, New Hampshire.

5:09 Speaker 2: I've heard a lot about it.

5:11 Speaker 5: It's just the place is magical. It's family run and

5:15 Speaker 5: we love playing there for their cruise nights.

5:18 Speaker 2: Yea.

5:18 Speaker 5: Our date this year got rained out, but we've been

5:20 Speaker 5: there a couple times in the past few years and

5:22 Speaker 5: I go to shows there a lot, and it's right

5:24 Speaker 5: down the road from my house in Hollis and it's

5:26 Speaker 5: in the middle of the woods. And like I said,

5:29 Speaker 5: it's magical. So we wanted to write a story. Yeah,

5:33 Speaker 5: I love story about it, and that's that's what came out.

5:36 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, very cool.

5:38 Speaker 1: So how long has jam Demick been around cause I

5:41 Speaker 1: assume it hasn't been the same line up the entire

5:43 Speaker 1: time the band is or maybe it has, I don't know.

5:45 Speaker 5: We've had a couple different iterations. We had a previous drummer,

5:49 Speaker 5: Chris McCartney, that kind of got us started. I think

5:51 Speaker 5: we started shortly before COVID. It was probably twenty nineteen

5:56 Speaker 5: and of twenty nineteen around. I always have parties at

5:58 Speaker 5: my house because I live on the lake in Hollis, Yeah,

6:01 Speaker 5: and I've always you know, Joe's played there several times

6:04 Speaker 5: with his band, So I was always hiring bands to

6:06 Speaker 5: come and play and selling tickets and having people in

6:08 Speaker 5: the backyard, yeah, tents and food trucks and it was just,

6:12 Speaker 5: you know, a big event. And every time I'd go

6:14 Speaker 5: to hire a band, it's more and more money for

6:16 Speaker 5: a PA. And I figured, you know what, wouldn't it

6:18 Speaker 5: be great to have my own PA and my own band.

6:21 Speaker 5: And I had dabbled with bass a little bit. And

6:23 Speaker 5: then after one of the open mics that we did

6:26 Speaker 5: kind of at my house gym parties during a Halloween,

6:29 Speaker 5: I think Chris came down and played some harp, Joe

6:32 Speaker 5: was playing guitar, there was the electronic drum kit in

6:35 Speaker 5: the corner, yeah, And I think that started the juices flowing.

6:39 Speaker 5: And then Chris's wife sent a message to me and said, hey,

6:42 Speaker 5: Chris had a great time playing music. You guys should

6:45 Speaker 5: start a band.

6:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the end. That was the beginning of it.

6:47 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

6:48 Speaker 5: Yeah, and then Covid hit and you know, we really

6:52 Speaker 5: kind of had to take a year off.

6:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, talked a lot about what to do, but maybe

6:56 Speaker 2: not a year.

6:57 Speaker 5: But we we would separate in the backyard by fifty

7:00 Speaker 5: feet with you know, fifty foot XLR cables.

7:04 Speaker 2: It was a little ridiculous, and that's where the name came.

7:09 Speaker 2: So yeah, so I wondered about that. Yeah, to play on.

7:11 Speaker 5: The pandemic And our first actual band name was Covid

7:16 Speaker 5: Operations and that lasted about ten minutes and then we

7:20 Speaker 5: realized that's not something we ever want to have in

7:23 Speaker 5: a band, you know how band practices go.

7:25 Speaker 2: There were other influences in the room. I love I

7:28 Speaker 2: love hearing about rejected band names. That's allry. So yeah,

7:31 Speaker 2: that was it.

7:31 Speaker 5: That one that we thought that was pretty pretty catchy.

7:35 Speaker 5: And then our old keyboard player, Nick George's came up

7:39 Speaker 5: with jam Demic. We're just kicking ideas around one night

7:41 Speaker 5: and that was just in passing and I jumped on

7:45 Speaker 5: it and Facebook slash Jamdemic was available jamdemic dot com

7:49 Speaker 5: was available, so we just embraced it. And the nice

7:52 Speaker 5: thing about that is we're the only band in the

7:54 Speaker 5: world Jamdemic. You we show up no matter where you are,

7:57 Speaker 5: and it's nice to have something original like that.

8:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's important when picking a band name, is

8:03 Speaker 1: you know, coming up with something that's that's you're not

8:05 Speaker 1: gonna find out, Oh, you know, ten other bands already

8:08 Speaker 1: have this name.

8:09 Speaker 5: And yeah, I think the key to finding a band

8:12 Speaker 5: name now is to buy one of those magnetic poetry

8:14 Speaker 5: kits and you throw it on the fridge and you

8:16 Speaker 5: take all the connecting words off, and you put all

8:18 Speaker 5: the nouns on and you just pick three of them

8:20 Speaker 5: and run together, and there's your band names lying to Well,

8:25 Speaker 5: that's what Tom Petty did. I heard they wrote a

8:26 Speaker 5: whole album based on one of those magnetic kits.

8:30 Speaker 2: Relliant.

8:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what album it was, but I

8:32 Speaker 5: read that somewhere recently online that they wrote a whole

8:34 Speaker 5: album based on one of those kits. Every song is

8:37 Speaker 5: based on one of those magnetic kits. Just by taking

8:40 Speaker 5: them interest shows goes to show you how much of

8:44 Speaker 5: a master Tom Petty was as a lyricist right to

8:47 Speaker 5: be able to write all.

8:48 Speaker 2: That, right, that's impressive.

8:51 Speaker 1: So when you guys you probably these songs, I would

8:55 Speaker 1: imagine they do they change when you play them live.

8:57 Speaker 1: Like a song like live for live music, if I

8:59 Speaker 1: were to hear you live, it's not gonna sound exactly

9:02 Speaker 1: like that, right, because it seems like it kind of

9:04 Speaker 1: gives you some freedom to you know, if you want

9:06 Speaker 1: to play it longer, if you want to extend the

9:08 Speaker 1: solo or something.

9:09 Speaker 4: Yeah, a song like that, definitely it has some space

9:12 Speaker 4: in the middle where you can take off and just

9:14 Speaker 4: kind of bring it to somewhere else. And that's what

9:16 Speaker 4: we like to do, kind of like as the name, like,

9:19 Speaker 4: you know, jam resembles, but we can just jam and

9:23 Speaker 4: see where it goes.

9:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of improv I can imagine. Yeah, yeah,

9:27 Speaker 1: I can imagine. So a song like that. So obviously

9:33 Speaker 1: you know, the length that it is the studio version

9:35 Speaker 1: is good for radio, but I mean can that's like

9:37 Speaker 1: how long does a song like that get when you

9:39 Speaker 1: play it live?

9:40 Speaker 2: Does Does it pass like six seven minutes? Or it can?

9:44 Speaker 5: I mean I would say some of our extended cuts

9:46 Speaker 5: of different things can go up to ten minutes. Yeah,

9:50 Speaker 5: like we like a lot of Jerry band stuff as well. Yeah,

9:53 Speaker 5: like what that's what Leve will make you do, and

9:55 Speaker 5: that can just go solo after solo and just change

9:59 Speaker 5: your tone a little it on, you know, like Jerry

10:01 Speaker 5: used to do, or Drew will change his tone on

10:03 Speaker 5: the sacks and yeah, Chris will go round on keys

10:07 Speaker 5: and then he'll pick up the harmonica.

10:09 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:10 Speaker 5: I just sit back and watch, yeah, and it's it's nice.

10:14 Speaker 5: But yeah, I would say it depends on also the

10:16 Speaker 5: gig that we're doing, Yeah, and looking at the crowd

10:20 Speaker 5: and kind of I guess that's all decisions that we

10:22 Speaker 5: make on the fly.

10:23 Speaker 2: Sure, sure, so you really know.

10:25 Speaker 5: It's it's kind of an open book.

10:28 Speaker 1: But it's important right to play with people who you

10:30 Speaker 1: kind of have. It becomes kind of intuitive right when

10:33 Speaker 1: you're I'm fascinated by it because I've been in a

10:35 Speaker 1: lot of bands, but I was never in a band

10:36 Speaker 1: where you kind of had that sort of freedom.

10:40 Speaker 8: To Yeah, so that's that's the tricky thing, right.

10:43 Speaker 3: It's it's this opportunity to express yourself and and to

10:47 Speaker 3: go on flights, but you have to do coordination too.

10:50 Speaker 3: You've got to be able to communicate, and I think

10:53 Speaker 3: it's something that a lot of bands probably aspire to,

10:56 Speaker 3: and I know we are constantly aspiring to be a

10:59 Speaker 3: better jam band. Yeah, it's not something that necessarily just happens.

11:03 Speaker 3: You have to You kind of have to plan for

11:05 Speaker 3: it and then sort of step away and let it happen.

11:08 Speaker 3: It's tricky. So yeah, you know, so writing a writing

11:12 Speaker 3: song like like like lib A live music, we we

11:17 Speaker 3: we knew that. Okay, we want this to be a

11:19 Speaker 3: jam song. We want to we want to build in

11:21 Speaker 3: areas where this can just take we can just take

11:24 Speaker 3: it for a ride. Yeah, and what Eric talking about

11:27 Speaker 3: passing around solos is great. But then sometimes there'll be

11:30 Speaker 3: a synergy and two guys will lock onto something and

11:34 Speaker 3: it starts. You can start taking it somewhere else. Yeah,

11:36 Speaker 3: and that's when it gets really fun.

11:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine. So does it ever go wrong?

11:44 Speaker 2: Does it? Yeah? Yeah?

11:45 Speaker 8: It takes a lot of fine tuning.

11:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, but without taking that chance, you can't, you know,

11:49 Speaker 4: maybe come up with something great, right, right, And it's

11:52 Speaker 4: nice when it pays off and something really walks in.

11:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just fun too. It's kind of like

11:57 Speaker 3: what when it when it crash. If it crashes, you're

11:59 Speaker 3: kind of like, oh, well, it didn't work, but that

12:01 Speaker 3: was really fun trying, right, you know, Yeah, it's not

12:04 Speaker 3: the end of the world.

12:04 Speaker 8: Yeah, the song doesn't stop.

12:06 Speaker 2: Bob Ross's a happy accident, right, right, right.

12:10 Speaker 1: And if you're and if you're playing original music in

12:12 Speaker 1: front of a crowd, I mean, they don't they don't

12:13 Speaker 1: necessarily know, right exactly, they don't know. They don't know

12:17 Speaker 1: that didn't quite work.

12:18 Speaker 5: It is one of the best things about original music

12:20 Speaker 5: when you're paying playing a cover, you know, I mean

12:22 Speaker 5: I like to play covers the way they should be played,

12:25 Speaker 5: and Chris likes to add a personal flare to it,

12:28 Speaker 5: and I always like to stick somewhat rigid, so you know,

12:31 Speaker 5: we we bounce back and forth on that.

12:33 Speaker 2: But I think some of the covers we.

12:34 Speaker 5: Do, you know, people expect it to be that way,

12:37 Speaker 5: and any mistake is a glaring mistake. Usually you know,

12:40 Speaker 5: that was only a half away from the right note, right,

12:44 Speaker 5: you know, things like that. It just people will notice it.

12:46 Speaker 5: But then again, as a musician, most people.

12:49 Speaker 2: Don't notice it. In the crowd, right.

12:50 Speaker 5: They're drinking, they're chatting, right, You shouldn't worry about that

12:54 Speaker 5: stuff because it happens everybody.

12:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just feel like with covers too, I see,

12:59 Speaker 1: I like it if it's not exactly you know. My

13:02 Speaker 1: thing is if I want to listen to the original,

13:04 Speaker 1: I can go listen to the original, like I want

13:06 Speaker 1: to hear your interpretation of it, you know what I mean?

13:09 Speaker 8: More interesting?

13:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

13:11 Speaker 5: Sometimes I think as a as the lead singer or

13:13 Speaker 5: a singer, I want to sing it that way. Yeah,

13:17 Speaker 5: And it's it's because it's locked in my head. It

13:19 Speaker 5: allows me to produce it better because I've I've got that.

13:22 Speaker 5: And then the reason I like the song is because

13:24 Speaker 5: of the way they sang it. That little bass riff

13:28 Speaker 5: or whatever riff was in there, so I think paying

13:31 Speaker 5: make sure make sure some of that's in there for me.

13:33 Speaker 5: But again that's kind of what's nice about it. Chris

13:35 Speaker 5: is the the ying and I'm the yang.

13:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, and just the way it is.

13:40 Speaker 5: And then there's a compromise. We're a democratic band, so

13:43 Speaker 5: we vote on a lot of stuff. Right, is nobody's decision.

13:47 Speaker 5: You know, I might lay an idea out there, but

13:49 Speaker 5: we will vote on it and majority wins. Yeah.

13:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, something we're working on him, you know, he's coming along.

13:58 Speaker 1: Right, right? What what what do you guys do for covers?

14:02 Speaker 1: Because I always think, you know, you can kind of

14:04 Speaker 1: figure out about someone's influences by what they cover, right, Like,

14:08 Speaker 1: what do you guys?

14:08 Speaker 2: What do you guys do for covers?

14:09 Speaker 8: All right?

14:10 Speaker 3: My favorite cover is the other one by Grateful Dead.

14:13 Speaker 3: I just love that thing because it's so it's you

14:17 Speaker 3: can take that anywhere. Yeah, So that's my favorite cover

14:21 Speaker 3: to play.

14:21 Speaker 2: Well, what's yours one of my favorites as well. That

14:24 Speaker 2: has a lot of decent drums in it. Yeah, like

14:26 Speaker 2: that one.

14:28 Speaker 4: This is Joe speaking, but that one's way out in

14:30 Speaker 4: you know, left field. But which is which is fine

14:33 Speaker 4: to do that? So but I sometimes tried to ground

14:36 Speaker 4: it a little bit. My influences were like Hendrix and

14:39 Speaker 4: you know, bluesy guitarist things. But but you also use

14:43 Speaker 4: that type of style on top of a like a

14:46 Speaker 4: psychedelic groove like like that one. Yeah, and I think

14:50 Speaker 4: it kind of like homes honds it in a little

14:52 Speaker 4: bit and grounds it. Yeah, And but I can I

14:56 Speaker 4: could get out there too, you know, which is.

14:58 Speaker 2: A lot of fun.

14:58 Speaker 5: Sure, sure, Yeah, we play a lot of Dead covers.

15:01 Speaker 5: I mean I love trucking and things. But I think

15:04 Speaker 5: some of our favorite new recent ones that we've been

15:06 Speaker 5: doing is Light Up or Leave Me Alone by Traffic.

15:09 Speaker 5: Really enjoy that one. Yeah, it's just such a great

15:11 Speaker 5: song and I love to sing it. It's just something

15:13 Speaker 5: about Jim Vivaldi's voice on that. A lot of people

15:17 Speaker 5: think it was Steven Wynwood singing it, but it's not.

15:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

15:21 Speaker 5: I don't think I even realized, Yeah it's Vivaldi, it's

15:23 Speaker 5: the other guy in the band, and it's just, uh,

15:27 Speaker 5: I love singing that song.

15:29 Speaker 2: Something about it, you know, you get to really get

15:31 Speaker 2: in on it. Yeah. We do A long Way to

15:33 Speaker 2: the Top by a c D. I mean, that's a

15:35 Speaker 2: lot of fun. We didn't played that in a year

15:37 Speaker 2: or two.

15:37 Speaker 5: I also really like one of the songs Joe brought

15:39 Speaker 5: in them Changes by Buddy Miles with you know, made

15:42 Speaker 5: famous by Jimmy Hendricks. Of course, it's just he's just

15:46 Speaker 5: such a good front front man, showman on that and

15:49 Speaker 5: great guitar work. It's just a lot of fun to play.

15:54 Speaker 2: Now.

15:54 Speaker 1: When you so, when you guys play out, do you

15:56 Speaker 1: do you probably do long shows right like you'll do

15:59 Speaker 1: I could right you play a long set probably like

16:02 Speaker 1: you you don't seem like a band that's gonna get

16:04 Speaker 1: up and do a thirty minute.

16:06 Speaker 5: You know, No, we'll go over an hour, hour and

16:08 Speaker 5: up to an hour and a half yeah, ye minute

16:10 Speaker 5: break usually play, Yeah, two long sets yeah, for the

16:13 Speaker 5: most part. Depends on really what the venue wants as well. Yeah,

16:16 Speaker 5: they'll dictate. Or we're doing a private party, we could

16:20 Speaker 5: play for two two and a half hours straight.

16:22 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:23 Speaker 4: That's one thing. When I go in and see a band,

16:25 Speaker 4: it's just always inevitable that I walk in and the

16:28 Speaker 4: band takes a break right away. Yeah, and it's like

16:30 Speaker 4: they don't you don't see him for like twenty five minutes, yeah,

16:33 Speaker 4: and you know, and then then it's time, you know,

16:36 Speaker 4: we'll go on somewhere else. But it's nice when yeah,

16:39 Speaker 4: a band is there to play and they just yeah,

16:41 Speaker 4: deliver the oh absolutely in music, because when bands take

16:45 Speaker 4: breaks to it's never as long as uh, you know,

16:47 Speaker 4: it always ends up being much longer than what it's

16:49 Speaker 4: supposed to be. Yeah, you know, like, oh, we're going

16:51 Speaker 4: to take a ten minute break, and then you know,

16:53 Speaker 4: a half hour later, they're finally.

16:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're getting back up, there. Yeah, now tell us

17:00 Speaker 2: about this.

17:01 Speaker 1: So this other track, So we we played Live for

17:04 Speaker 1: Live Music to ope in the show. But you've got

17:06 Speaker 1: this other song that that I think we should play

17:09 Speaker 1: in a moment. But this is already getting some airplay

17:11 Speaker 1: on radio. You're already get in traction with this one.

17:13 Speaker 5: Well, we got traction with Live for Leve Music. As

17:16 Speaker 5: I said, it was played on another major station on Boston.

17:21 Speaker 5: But the new one has not been played. This will

17:23 Speaker 5: be a world radio premiere if you choose to play

17:25 Speaker 5: Took Me Down. And that's ironically, that's another love story.

17:29 Speaker 5: I think that's a whole nother story in itself, because

17:32 Speaker 5: I tend to write lyrics that are based on tragic

17:34 Speaker 5: love stories or just maybe how much I had to

17:39 Speaker 5: drink the night before old college, you know, just more

17:42 Speaker 5: drug sex and rock and roll. And Chris is the

17:45 Speaker 5: other writer, and he tends to write songs that are

17:48 Speaker 5: just much more in depth and thoughtful. Or you know

17:53 Speaker 5: how many mushrooms it takes to get to the fifth dimension.

17:56 Speaker 2: Right, how many?

17:59 Speaker 7: We don't know.

18:00 Speaker 5: We're still researching, okay, But so I think it's just

18:04 Speaker 5: it's an interesting difference, and that's I think also adds

18:07 Speaker 5: some variety, but took me down as a is a

18:10 Speaker 5: reggae themed jam love story that I wrote as well. Okay,

18:14 Speaker 5: these guys wrote the music I wrote.

18:16 Speaker 2: I wrote the.

18:16 Speaker 6: Lyrics, and you'll hear it in the song, right this,

18:18 Speaker 6: This is one of those songs when you hear you go, Okay,

18:20 Speaker 6: I can see where this this band can go in

18:22 Speaker 6: a lot of different directions on anyone given night. There's

18:25 Speaker 6: there's a lot of different places this one can take

18:27 Speaker 6: off or come back to. And and yeah, I think

18:30 Speaker 6: it's a it's a showcase for us of of like

18:33 Speaker 6: I said, Eric's Eric's writing of being able to come

18:35 Speaker 6: up with with lyrics to two different jams we do.

18:37 Speaker 6: I mean this was again one that we literally CHRISTI goes,

18:41 Speaker 6: why are we even thinking about covering another song? Like,

18:43 Speaker 6: let's make our own original? And within within I think

18:46 Speaker 6: five minutes, we had a good groove going going, we

18:49 Speaker 6: had we had a hook we wanted to do, and

18:51 Speaker 6: within another practice it was okay, we've got something.

18:53 Speaker 2: We've got something here. Yeah, Oh very cool.

18:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta ask you, is there is there an

18:57 Speaker 1: actual band named Tweezer?

18:59 Speaker 2: No, No, this is a fish reference.

19:00 Speaker 6: Oh, this is the you know, the infamous Tweezer Oh

19:04 Speaker 6: okay encore song.

19:06 Speaker 1: I don't know if there was a Weeezer covers that ask.

19:11 Speaker 5: Somewhere in the world a band is writing that down

19:13 Speaker 5: right now.

19:13 Speaker 1: That's right, I hope, so, I hope. So all right,

19:16 Speaker 1: so let's give this a spin. And so this is

19:19 Speaker 1: a World Radio Premiere, which means you get the special

19:22 Speaker 1: World Radio Premiere bumper, which I will use any excuse

19:25 Speaker 1: to play that.

19:28 Speaker 2: But let me make sure I got the track pulled

19:30 Speaker 2: up here? Where did it go? Where did it go?

19:33 Speaker 2: I had it?

19:34 Speaker 1: Oh ummm, took me down, took me down? There it

19:38 Speaker 1: is found it okay, So here we go. So this

19:42 Speaker 1: is the World Radio Premiere.

19:45 Speaker 2: I'm having trouble loading it up. There we go. I

19:47 Speaker 2: got it.

19:48 Speaker 1: This is the World Radio Premiere first time ever. You'll

19:50 Speaker 1: be hearing this on the radio on Matt connorton Unleashed

19:53 Speaker 1: here on WM and H ninety five point three FM.

19:55 Speaker 1: This is Jandemic with took me Down.

20:31 Speaker 9: Surely I was darling his beauty at the beast.

20:37 Speaker 8: He gave you a lave.

20:38 Speaker 9: It took me down to stole my heart with esil

20:54 Speaker 9: drag me in gear will hut opened.

20:57 Speaker 2: Up my eyes.

20:59 Speaker 7: You're my partner in this world. My heart is hypnotis

21:04 Speaker 7: for you. It tucked me.

21:19 Speaker 10: Down and tubbed me down.

21:29 Speaker 7: It tuk me down and turned me down. Don't it

21:50 Speaker 7: happened with you? It is the joy of my life.

21:55 Speaker 7: I love you so much, baby, I love you.

21:58 Speaker 11: When all my midel build this, join together the honey

22:15 Speaker 11: on this path of life.

22:17 Speaker 9: Take this ring, my darling girl, won't you say my wife?

22:22 Speaker 10: He tuk me down, the tongue me down, then turned

22:48 Speaker 10: me down, then tue me.

22:53 Speaker 12: Down, surely almost darning.

24:06 Speaker 9: He's mute at the beast. You gave your love, took

24:11 Speaker 9: me down, stole my heart with easel you here, wrap

24:26 Speaker 9: your arms around me listening and oom me also type

24:31 Speaker 9: wrapped your arms around me, dun and move.

24:34 Speaker 7: Me up through my life for years it took me down,

24:55 Speaker 7: had me don something told me.

26:02 Speaker 1: I love that I didn't even want to talk over

26:04 Speaker 1: the fade. That is called took me Down. The band

26:06 Speaker 1: is Jam Demick and we've got Jan Jam Demic here

26:09 Speaker 1: in the studio with us. And that is called took

26:12 Speaker 1: Me Down. And that is a world radio premiere here

26:15 Speaker 1: on Matt Connorton Unleashed very honored to play that, be

26:18 Speaker 1: the first ones to play that on the radio.

26:19 Speaker 2: So now a great job, guys. I love that song.

26:21 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. You really really good.

26:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, So tell us we're talking off here about where

26:25 Speaker 1: there was recorded and you mentioned a name that comes

26:28 Speaker 1: up a lot on the show.

26:29 Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, Boardhouse Productions out of Brookline. So Pete, Mick

26:34 Speaker 5: and Blake are the guys that head that place up

26:37 Speaker 5: and he's you know, in Brookline, New Hampshire. And you know,

26:42 Speaker 5: we are the resident band at a place called Big

26:45 Speaker 5: Bear Lodge, which is part of Andrea's Art Institute. It's

26:48 Speaker 5: an outdoor sculpture park and they have an event center

26:50 Speaker 5: up there and we've had an opportunity to come in

26:53 Speaker 5: and help them with their concerts, okay, and they're like, hey,

26:56 Speaker 5: you can use the stage every week for your rehearsal.

26:59 Speaker 2: So we it was great.

27:00 Speaker 5: We got all the gear out of my house and

27:02 Speaker 5: moved it up over there so we get to rehearse

27:04 Speaker 5: on a stage. And just turns out Pete lives right

27:07 Speaker 5: down the road from that and Joe's played there before.

27:11 Speaker 5: Aerosmith that apparently has played there. We're not quite sure.

27:14 Speaker 5: Roots of creation just a bunch of Jay Giles band,

27:17 Speaker 5: A bunch of different people have played there.

27:19 Speaker 2: Yeah.

27:20 Speaker 5: So having having that connection, Pete came in to help

27:23 Speaker 5: us with sound initially and donated a console, a newer

27:28 Speaker 5: console and all the rolland console to help the room

27:30 Speaker 5: kind of get a kick. We used our Pa gear

27:33 Speaker 5: for the band as the house stuff. Yeah, And it

27:38 Speaker 5: was just that relationship with Pete developed, and then when

27:40 Speaker 5: we were ready to start producing these originals, that logical

27:44 Speaker 5: choice was to go down the road to Pete's studio,

27:46 Speaker 5: Boardhouse Productions.

27:47 Speaker 2: Yeah.

27:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, Boardhouse, that name comes up a lot on the show.

27:50 Speaker 1: And you mentioned a couple again when we were talking

27:53 Speaker 1: off air, A Fox of the Flamingos have recorded there, right, and.

27:56 Speaker 5: Yeah, Cosmic Blosso he also does the sound for Bad Fish,

28:01 Speaker 5: which is a Sublime tribute band. He also does all

28:04 Speaker 5: their productions, or the majority of the man does sound

28:07 Speaker 5: on the road for Roots of Creation, which is a

28:10 Speaker 5: real popular and grateful dub God bless those guys have

28:14 Speaker 5: really made a big name for themselves and in this

28:17 Speaker 5: area and nationwide. Yeah, really making a difference out there.

28:20 Speaker 5: So I think what Cosmic Blossom, there's a bunch of

28:22 Speaker 5: other bands that have come in and out of there.

28:24 Speaker 5: That my apologies for not remembering them all. Sure, Pete

28:27 Speaker 5: has also worked I think with Peter Frampton, he did

28:29 Speaker 5: some stuff with He worked with Warren Haynes. Yeah, a

28:32 Speaker 5: long list of people, Yeah, Skinner and there's a long

28:35 Speaker 5: list of people that Pete's worked with. Wow, that's you know,

28:39 Speaker 5: it's just a logical choice to go there. And as

28:41 Speaker 5: you've heard it, we love it. Yeah, he really is

28:44 Speaker 5: a master engineer.

28:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, and tell us about that song and what happens

28:47 Speaker 1: towards the end there is that that's pretty cool, the.

28:50 Speaker 2: Little Gnome dance. Yeah, thank you Peter for inventing that.

28:53 Speaker 8: So, yeah, there's this is I think I'm guilty of

28:55 Speaker 8: the Dane I am.

28:57 Speaker 3: I always at least I love those like kind of

29:00 Speaker 3: psychedelic little like ditties that you sometimes hear old old

29:04 Speaker 3: psychedelic songs like some Floyd songs like for instance, you know,

29:08 Speaker 3: see Emily play there's that weird little harpsichord thing that.

29:12 Speaker 8: Goes on if you familiar with that too.

29:14 Speaker 3: But anyway, so I don't know that's part of like

29:16 Speaker 3: my musical DNA's these weird like renaissanceyse psychedelic things, and

29:20 Speaker 3: so I started doing that and Joe immediately hurt and

29:26 Speaker 3: fell in with that.

29:27 Speaker 8: And that's the magic that I loved.

29:29 Speaker 3: What happens when especially Joe Joel jo key into something

29:35 Speaker 3: and it becomes more than just a passing thought that

29:38 Speaker 3: I might have had.

29:38 Speaker 8: It suddenly becomes part of the song.

29:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it fits, you know, it fits a little

29:43 Speaker 4: breakdown fits perfectly.

29:44 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah.

29:46 Speaker 5: So in the studio when we played that, Pete got

29:49 Speaker 5: up from behind the console and did this little call.

29:51 Speaker 5: It called it the fairy Gnome Dance because it sounds

29:54 Speaker 5: a little you know, medieval, yeah, psychedelic, and it's it's

29:58 Speaker 5: a it's just a different on mix right into the

30:01 Speaker 5: reggae song.

30:02 Speaker 2: You know, it's weird, but it works totally.

30:04 Speaker 5: So it's just kind of funny. We talk about a

30:06 Speaker 5: week it's called the Nome Dance, part of the Fairy Dance.

30:09 Speaker 2: It's just funny. Yeah, that's awesome.

30:12 Speaker 1: I love it And you should tell us you more

30:13 Speaker 1: about your involvement at Big Bear.

30:16 Speaker 5: Yeah, so, as I said, with a resident band over

30:18 Speaker 5: there and we helped produce the shows. I mean, I'm

30:20 Speaker 5: the one of the audio engineers, if you want to

30:23 Speaker 5: use that term loosely. I'm fairly new to all this

30:25 Speaker 5: stuff really obviously mix it all with my band, so

30:28 Speaker 5: I understand how to get the best sound out. My

30:30 Speaker 5: ears tell me what to do, but Pete has shown

30:33 Speaker 5: me a ton Also Willie Walker from a band called

30:36 Speaker 5: the Mighty Colors. They've played with us at Big Bear.

30:40 Speaker 5: So we started an annual benefit over there for Earth Day.

30:44 Speaker 5: So we go in, we played for free. We pulled

30:46 Speaker 5: in the Mighty Colors, they played for free, and we

30:48 Speaker 5: sold tickets to the event and packed the room and

30:51 Speaker 5: made you know, Andrea's Institute, the nonprofit, a couple thousand

30:56 Speaker 5: dollars and beaver Brook as well made a little bit

30:58 Speaker 5: of money, which is an environment mental cause. So that

31:01 Speaker 5: was our goal, is to raise and we just wanted

31:03 Speaker 5: to play in the room. That opportunity of us setting

31:07 Speaker 5: that benefit up now was a yearly opportunity. So last

31:10 Speaker 5: year we pulled in a morphous band with one of

31:13 Speaker 5: the original New England jam band guys, Peter Prince and

31:17 Speaker 5: Peter Prince in.

31:18 Speaker 7: Moon Boot Lover.

31:18 Speaker 5: Moon Boot Lover wasn't there, but Peter was just an

31:22 Speaker 5: amazing guitar player, singer, just unbelievable stage presence, total rock star,

31:28 Speaker 5: and his list of accolades just goes on and on

31:30 Speaker 5: and on. So having us being able to pull that

31:33 Speaker 5: show off, we ended up being asked to, hey, do

31:37 Speaker 5: you want to help run shows and produce? So all

31:40 Speaker 5: we've done is try to help you push the technology

31:43 Speaker 5: over there, get better, get better console, better equipment, better lighting.

31:47 Speaker 5: So I install all DMX lighting, concert lighting, did all

31:51 Speaker 5: the got new parts of the stage really kind of

31:53 Speaker 5: the stage and sound manager and lighting guy over there,

31:57 Speaker 5: and it's been wonderful for networking the network with you know,

32:02 Speaker 5: the Soggy Pool boys. We're just st in there recently

32:04 Speaker 5: rely I have put you know, a feather in my

32:05 Speaker 5: cap from mixing them. And thank god for Willy from

32:08 Speaker 5: the Mighty Colors came in and helped me out.

32:11 Speaker 2: So he was lead.

32:11 Speaker 5: And I'll take a one engineer or stage hand that day.

32:14 Speaker 5: And yeah, there's other guys that are willing to help,

32:17 Speaker 5: so they come in and I'll either have them be

32:19 Speaker 5: lead on the console or or I'll be lead and

32:22 Speaker 5: they'll it's just a great relationship. No one gets paid,

32:25 Speaker 5: but being able to have the room and what it's

32:28 Speaker 5: done for just our stage presence and everything has been

32:32 Speaker 5: it's been instrumental.

32:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an old ski lodge actually from oh really, Yeah,

32:36 Speaker 4: he's been Musket Mountain or Big Bear, really been a

32:39 Speaker 4: couple of different names. But I remember skiing there when

32:41 Speaker 4: I was a kid, and yeah, it's like an old

32:44 Speaker 4: you know, cathedral ceiling. It's a great hall, great sound

32:47 Speaker 4: in there and just a you know, very vintage feel too.

32:50 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:51 Speaker 5: Probably one of the best sounding rooms in New Hampshire

32:54 Speaker 5: without a doubt, just because of all the wood. And

32:57 Speaker 5: we're looking at upgrading the PA equipment pretty soon so

32:59 Speaker 5: I can get my stuff out of there and getting

33:02 Speaker 5: a really really nice system that's going to arrival almost

33:04 Speaker 5: any PA in southern New Hampshire.

33:06 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

33:07 Speaker 5: So we have a really also close relationship with Metronome Studios.

33:11 Speaker 5: They're right in Brookline as well. We don't record there,

33:14 Speaker 5: but they also produce all the lighting and video up

33:17 Speaker 5: at Guildford for Bank of New Hampshire. Oh so having

33:21 Speaker 5: those guys and they've been coming to help us out

33:23 Speaker 5: with a little bit of sound. We just put a

33:25 Speaker 5: brand new Barringer Wing forty eight channel console in and

33:28 Speaker 5: digital snakes really upgrading everything, so it's got the best

33:31 Speaker 5: sound and they've come in and helped me configure it.

33:34 Speaker 5: Pete came in for five or six hours the other

33:36 Speaker 5: day on no charge at all to help us configure

33:38 Speaker 5: this stuff. So it's kind of like a family atmosphere.

33:42 Speaker 5: And it's because this place is in a nonprofit and

33:45 Speaker 5: it's a free outdoor sculpture park that anybody can come

33:48 Speaker 5: at any time, open three hundred and sixty five days

33:51 Speaker 5: a year. But the Welcome Center has this amazing performance

33:55 Speaker 5: venue and they run concerts to try to get funds

33:58 Speaker 5: in to raise money for their nonprofit. So it's a

34:00 Speaker 5: good yin yang relationship.

34:01 Speaker 7: I love it.

34:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, it really helped the band out.

34:04 Speaker 8: Yeah it has, and and.

34:07 Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know about it because it

34:10 Speaker 3: went from being this skilage and this entertainment, you know

34:14 Speaker 3: kind of venue that then switched to a more nonprofit

34:20 Speaker 3: and the artistic side the sculpture park is amazing. It's

34:25 Speaker 3: all outdoors on these trails and mountains on the mountain,

34:30 Speaker 3: and they have a residency program where these sculptures come

34:35 Speaker 3: from all over the world and spend whatever what like

34:38 Speaker 3: six weeks three weeks, and they're given a stone right

34:42 Speaker 3: or whatever medium they don't metal, and they create work

34:46 Speaker 3: that then lives at the site. And so what Eric's

34:50 Speaker 3: done is kind of brought this closer to the community

34:55 Speaker 3: by reviving the sort of local connection that Big Bear

34:59 Speaker 3: used to have for like local music and people just

35:02 Speaker 3: going there to enjoy music. So it's kind of a

35:05 Speaker 3: new a symbiotic relationship. I think it's been great for

35:09 Speaker 3: both parties.

35:10 Speaker 2: It really has. Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, that's great.

35:13 Speaker 2: That's great. And where's that?

35:14 Speaker 5: So that's in Brookline, Yeah, Brookline, New Hampshire, right across

35:17 Speaker 5: from the Alamo, which is a little barbecue restaurant thirteen.

35:20 Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, okay cool.

35:22 Speaker 8: Eric's done a great job decking the place out with

35:24 Speaker 8: video also, Oh.

35:25 Speaker 2: Really, uh yeah, it's really nice.

35:27 Speaker 5: So we have we just put in a ten ADP

35:28 Speaker 5: stage camera very much like yours there, so coming in

35:32 Speaker 5: the ceiling, and we Dave Peas, who's a volunteer over

35:36 Speaker 5: there also works for Pepper Community Media. He's our video guy.

35:40 Speaker 5: He comes in has four ten ADP cameras or three

35:43 Speaker 5: ten ADP plus the stage camera that I just installed,

35:46 Speaker 5: and we have a video aggregator. So for shows we'll

35:49 Speaker 5: actually record all the stems on the digital console, all

35:54 Speaker 5: the wave files from every every channel, and we'll also

35:58 Speaker 5: have all this awesome video and then we're pitching that

36:02 Speaker 5: back to the bands because it's great for promo, having

36:06 Speaker 5: really good quality all the different cuts, and that helps

36:10 Speaker 5: us defer our costs from every concert make a little

36:13 Speaker 5: bit of money back, so it's you know, really reasonable

36:16 Speaker 5: and it's so far it's been good. Some of the

36:18 Speaker 5: bands have wanted to do that for us. Every practice

36:21 Speaker 5: we get it for free, so I'm sticking the the

36:23 Speaker 5: SD card in we can record every practice. I then

36:26 Speaker 5: bring it home, pulled into to reaper our daw and

36:29 Speaker 5: then we put it up on Google Drive so we

36:31 Speaker 5: can hear our progress every week and our whole history

36:34 Speaker 5: is up there that we can go back on and

36:37 Speaker 5: look at our catalog.

36:38 Speaker 2: And run a spreadsheet of everything. It's you know, I'm

36:41 Speaker 2: I'm pretty anal about that.

36:43 Speaker 4: The technical guy.

36:44 Speaker 5: I do all the social media, I do all the booking,

36:48 Speaker 5: all the promo, everything that that is frontward facing is

36:53 Speaker 5: me because that's what I do for a living. I'm

36:56 Speaker 5: you know, I do digital marketing and SKO and websites

36:59 Speaker 5: and stuff.

36:59 Speaker 6: So if you've ever seen Semi Pro with Will Ferrell.

37:03 Speaker 6: He's a character in that called Jackie Moon. Jackie Moon

37:06 Speaker 6: is you know, the he's the he's the you know,

37:08 Speaker 6: star player, he's the coach, he's the owner. And so

37:12 Speaker 6: a lot of times I refer to Eric as our

37:14 Speaker 6: Jackie Moon because you know, he's in the band, he's

37:17 Speaker 6: our manager, he's you know, the number one the sound engineer.

37:21 Speaker 2: Right.

37:22 Speaker 6: But but you know, honestly that the breakthrough for us,

37:25 Speaker 6: right having that access to that space at Big Bear,

37:27 Speaker 6: having that as a space you know, set up and

37:29 Speaker 6: dedicated for us to be able to utilize that was

37:32 Speaker 6: I think a big breakthrough for us, and being able

37:34 Speaker 6: to work on original material because like we talked about, right,

37:37 Speaker 6: it's it's it's not the first idea that's the best idea, right,

37:40 Speaker 6: It's like Chris said, he puts that you know, idea out,

37:43 Speaker 6: Joe latches onto it, Drew latches onto it, Rob and

37:46 Speaker 6: it becomes something you didn't ever intend to in the beginning.

37:48 Speaker 6: And so just you know, by virtue of having some

37:51 Speaker 6: time and space in our calendars over the winter, Eric

37:54 Speaker 6: will always.

37:54 Speaker 8: Make sure everything we do is recorded.

37:56 Speaker 6: I hear it from him if I turn off that

37:57 Speaker 6: mic for ten seconds. I hear about it the next game,

38:00 Speaker 6: but then allows us to go back through and go, oh,

38:02 Speaker 6: that really worked.

38:02 Speaker 2: Oh we could piece these together. Hey, let's work on

38:04 Speaker 2: developing this one a little bit more.

38:06 Speaker 6: And you make progress in a really, you know, much

38:08 Speaker 6: quicker fashion than if you just try to you know,

38:10 Speaker 6: go in and hammer it out over over five to

38:12 Speaker 6: six hours, right, just kind of organically, let it build,

38:15 Speaker 6: come back to it each week and see what see

38:17 Speaker 6: what comes comes naturally too.

38:19 Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, No, that's great. That's that's

38:21 Speaker 1: really cool that you guys have that. Now, what's what's

38:24 Speaker 1: kind of the Are you playing a lot of shows?

38:26 Speaker 1: Have you been playing a lot of shows over the summer,

38:28 Speaker 1: or what's kind of.

38:29 Speaker 5: Been Usually take a break in June July or really

38:32 Speaker 5: I think the end of June was our last show.

38:34 Speaker 5: Oh and then we usually take July off. Everybody's on vacation.

38:38 Speaker 5: It's a nightmare. Try to do all our booking in February, March,

38:42 Speaker 5: and April. Oh a year, oh really, and then we'll

38:45 Speaker 5: leave a couple of weekends open and some benefit or

38:49 Speaker 5: festival or something might come up. And we've done like last.

38:51 Speaker 2: Year we had a wedding and I think I can

38:54 Speaker 2: show this. This is the Camp Paul poster. So yeah,

38:57 Speaker 2: yeah we do.

38:58 Speaker 5: We do custom posters and stuf for special events. And

39:02 Speaker 5: these people wanted to have a jam wedding, isn't it,

39:06 Speaker 5: So they ended up hiring hiring us to play this

39:09 Speaker 5: wedding festival.

39:10 Speaker 2: Feel did you draw it yourself?

39:12 Speaker 6: But you.

39:14 Speaker 5: Guys talking about AI, right, I don't have a graphic artist,

39:17 Speaker 5: so we end up using some AI and then I'm

39:19 Speaker 5: a little bit I'm dangerous with the graphic arts. So

39:22 Speaker 5: I'll get in there and I'll do I'll touch up

39:24 Speaker 5: and obviously make all of the the.

39:26 Speaker 2: Wording and the lettering.

39:28 Speaker 8: I really do like how that.

39:30 Speaker 5: You can tell AI is amazing for drawing stuff, but

39:33 Speaker 5: it can't spell at all, Like it'll take me a

39:36 Speaker 5: hundred times to get it to spell this, even though

39:38 Speaker 5: I put it in quotes and tell it what to do.

39:41 Speaker 5: You know, obviously this is a Chris is an artist, right,

39:44 Speaker 5: so that we have this discussion all the time, you know,

39:47 Speaker 5: it is his art getting stolen and then if I

39:51 Speaker 5: ask it to paint a tar painting or something, is

39:54 Speaker 5: his art going to show up one day? On a poster.

39:57 Speaker 5: But yet for a band it we don't You don't know.

39:59 Speaker 5: We don't have any to put much towards this week.

40:02 Speaker 5: We have an expensive PA and we put everything we

40:04 Speaker 5: have in our time. But I can't hire a graphic

40:06 Speaker 5: artist at our small size forever doing Northlands or something

40:10 Speaker 5: we get picked for the side stage. Yeah, I'll hire

40:12 Speaker 5: somebody to actually draw a real poster. But AI has

40:15 Speaker 5: helped us out tremendously to get that promo out there.

40:18 Speaker 3: Okay, oh cool, all right, No, no shame, man. I

40:22 Speaker 3: think that AI is great for stuff like that. It's perfect,

40:25 Speaker 3: you know, because you're not asking it to replace, you know,

40:28 Speaker 3: a great artist. You just want an awesome marketing image.

40:32 Speaker 3: That's what he is freaking great at exactly.

40:35 Speaker 5: But who originally drew this, No, nobody, it's probably I

40:39 Speaker 5: don't know.

40:40 Speaker 8: No, it's a composite, man.

40:41 Speaker 2: So that's what I don't know if we know.

40:43 Speaker 8: No it is. It's not just taken from somebody.

40:45 Speaker 3: It's a composite that's been taken from many places.

40:48 Speaker 2: I hope.

40:49 Speaker 5: So that's the only thing that I worry about.

40:51 Speaker 2: What it will take everything eventually.

40:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, but here's the thing, It'll never be as creative

40:59 Speaker 3: as human beings out.

41:00 Speaker 2: Right, right, Yeah, no, that's true, that's true.

41:03 Speaker 3: You know, if it comes down to it taking my

41:07 Speaker 3: image and putting it on something, why does that bother me?

41:11 Speaker 8: Because I think I'm owed something for that image? I

41:15 Speaker 8: personally don't feel that way. Yeah, that's business. That's not art.

41:18 Speaker 3: That's what you do as a you know, for a job.

41:23 Speaker 3: I make images, But that's not really that's not great art.

41:26 Speaker 3: That's not pulling something from your soul. And AI doesn't

41:29 Speaker 3: have a soul to pull from, right, If anything, I

41:32 Speaker 3: wouldn't see it's not going to And what I would

41:33 Speaker 3: always see is that stuff's advertisement for my art. Like

41:37 Speaker 3: even people like putting their pictures of their paintings online

41:41 Speaker 3: and they put big copyright signs and stuff. Who cares, Right,

41:44 Speaker 3: that's somebody who wasn't going to see or buy your

41:46 Speaker 3: art anyway, And you're onto the next painting and you know,

41:50 Speaker 3: guess what, you've actually got free advertising? Right, I don't

41:54 Speaker 3: see a problem.

41:54 Speaker 2: That's you're an artist too, so you know what I mean?

41:57 Speaker 5: That means a lot, it does, Yeah, it does. I

42:00 Speaker 5: just don't want to steal anybody stuff. Yeah right right,

42:03 Speaker 5: I did plenty of that when I was a kid

42:04 Speaker 5: stealing from Microsoft and all all.

42:07 Speaker 2: Those downloads, those games. Oh didn't we all?

42:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't we all? Well, so we are running out

42:15 Speaker 1: of time. I do want to make sure. So now

42:17 Speaker 1: do you have anything coming up? And we do.

42:19 Speaker 5: We have two gigs next weekend. We're doing the rout

42:23 Speaker 5: and Bush Community Block Party in Westford, Massachusetts.

42:26 Speaker 2: Okay.

42:27 Speaker 5: That's kind of a public event for the folks, the

42:29 Speaker 5: fine folks of Westford, mass Okay. And that's a benefits

42:32 Speaker 5: show that we're going to help them do. And then

42:34 Speaker 5: we're playing the Tiki Bar at Nashoba Valley on the

42:38 Speaker 5: twenty third from eight to eleven. And then we are

42:42 Speaker 5: the next show after that, I believe is Pinucci's on

42:44 Speaker 5: September fourteenth, excellent, and that's on the deck right downtown,

42:48 Speaker 5: which is going to be a fun show.

42:49 Speaker 9: Yeah.

42:50 Speaker 2: I play a lot of Grateful Day.

42:51 Speaker 4: We got a Manchester cuts concered, cockered, we do, yeah.

42:56 Speaker 5: H the Old Thursday's Underground Music Stage.

42:58 Speaker 2: It used to be a Manchester one yea.

43:00 Speaker 5: And then we're also playing Old Home Days in Hollis

43:03 Speaker 5: on September twentieth, and then I think October tenth we're

43:08 Speaker 5: doing a private party in Milford October eleventh. We're playing

43:10 Speaker 5: Milford Pumpkin Fest along with you know, Fox and the Flamingo, Yeah,

43:13 Speaker 5: and all these other bands that are local out of

43:16 Speaker 5: the area. Cosmic Blossom, I think is also playing excellent.

43:19 Speaker 5: It's just a great lineup that weekend of really good music.

43:24 Speaker 2: Yeah.

43:25 Speaker 5: And then I think Old Home Days that one good

43:27 Speaker 5: Thing Took Me Down. That's the release date for that song.

43:29 Speaker 2: It's perfect. It's kind of going to be your release party. Yeah.

43:32 Speaker 5: And there'll be a couple thousand people in the field,

43:35 Speaker 5: and we're getting the sound professionally, professionally produced by AE Events,

43:38 Speaker 5: so that's great. We don't have to lug our pa.

43:40 Speaker 5: We'll have a professional stage, professional sound.

43:43 Speaker 2: Yeah. But I was here here right. Yeah, we appreciate it.

43:49 Speaker 5: And again we appreciate everybody that's kind of given us

43:51 Speaker 5: the support, and Pete for helping us get to that

43:53 Speaker 5: next level, andres and Big Bear for giving us a

43:56 Speaker 5: little opportunity as well, and for you right for having

43:59 Speaker 5: us in.

44:00 Speaker 2: Oh, hey, wonderful. We're honored, happy to do it.

44:02 Speaker 1: It's great to meet you guys, and I love what

44:04 Speaker 1: you're doing so absolutely so much.

44:06 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

44:07 Speaker 5: We'll keep you informed with any new releases we have.

44:09 Speaker 5: They're coming out soon. We got two more in the works,

44:10 Speaker 5: so you do, Okayeah, So we'll be releasing two more

44:13 Speaker 5: probably in the next few weeks.

44:14 Speaker 2: Oh wonderful. Yeah, send them to us.

44:16 Speaker 1: We'll play well, we definitely will. We'll give them the

44:17 Speaker 1: world radio premiere treatment. Awesome, absolutely, one hundred percent. One

44:21 Speaker 1: other thing, where's the best place for people to go

44:23 Speaker 1: online keep up with everything that you're doing.

44:25 Speaker 5: You go to jamdemic dot com, okay, and that's pretty

44:28 Speaker 5: much the hub of all of our stuff. We'll be

44:30 Speaker 5: doing a new website for that pretty soon because now

44:33 Speaker 5: that we're out there on the streaming.

44:35 Speaker 2: Web, we've got to really re.

44:36 Speaker 5: Rethink everything with these you know, the radio shows and

44:40 Speaker 5: the radio event the other day.

44:42 Speaker 2: There's a lot of new stuff that we've got to

44:43 Speaker 2: put up there. Yeah.

44:45 Speaker 8: Of course, we do have a pretty active Facebook page though.

44:47 Speaker 2: We do, and we're on Instagram.

44:49 Speaker 5: We're on band camp and jam base and bands in

44:53 Speaker 5: Town pretty much everywhere. Yeah, you know, you got to

44:56 Speaker 5: keep up on all that stuff.

44:57 Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, it's a lot to keep up with, Yeah,

45:00 Speaker 2: but yeah, you gotta do it. You got to It's

45:03 Speaker 2: part of the deal.

45:04 Speaker 5: If you want to grow and you want to get

45:05 Speaker 5: better gigs, and you want to market yourself, you've got

45:08 Speaker 5: to market it. And I think that's that's something that

45:10 Speaker 5: I'm starting to get into helping other bands out with

45:12 Speaker 5: my digital marketing experience. Yeah, and seeing how we've grown this. Yeah,

45:18 Speaker 5: there's a lot of opportunity for me to help other

45:20 Speaker 5: bands that just don't have a guy in the band

45:22 Speaker 5: that can do this right, So I encourage them to

45:24 Speaker 5: reach out to me. I'm more happy to guide them

45:27 Speaker 5: and give them some free advice or hook them up

45:29 Speaker 5: with an invoice if they want me to help them out.

45:31 Speaker 8: Yeah, seriously, it's it's makes all the difference. You know.

45:34 Speaker 8: We've come very far.

45:36 Speaker 3: We feel in three years, you know, yeah, or three

45:39 Speaker 3: to five years, you know that we never expected. And

45:42 Speaker 3: a lot of it's Eric's talent and dedication to getting

45:47 Speaker 3: the word out and to collaboration. He's kind of a

45:49 Speaker 3: collaborative marketer. He doesn't try to shove anything down your throat,

45:51 Speaker 3: but he finds the sweet spot where everybody benefits.

45:54 Speaker 2: Yeah.

45:54 Speaker 1: That's good, worth, excellent, excellent, Well guys, thank you so much,

46:00 Speaker 1: jam Demiic This has been wonderful and we'll definitely do

46:02 Speaker 1: this again in the future. And like I said, you know,

46:05 Speaker 1: send us your music as you got and we'll play it.

46:06 Speaker 2: Thanks Matt, thanks Jen, thank you and