Jersey Calling | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love it.

0:02 Speaker 2: The track is ex Americana. The band is Jersey Calling,

0:05 Speaker 2: and they are here with us. We're gonna speak with

0:06 Speaker 2: them in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered

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0:26 Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Saturday, June twenty eight,

0:30 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course, at the

0:32 Speaker 2: news table and joining us in studio. Let me get

0:36 Speaker 2: those mics on. We've got three members of the band

0:39 Speaker 2: Jersey Calling. Welcome everybody, Good morning, good morning, good morning.

0:43 Speaker 2: Wonderful to have you here. I love, like I said,

0:45 Speaker 2: I love that song. Actually I love all of them

0:47 Speaker 2: that I've listened to. Great great stuff. Let's start with you, sir.

0:51 Speaker 2: Let's go through and each introduce yourselves and tell us

0:54 Speaker 2: who you are, what you do in the band.

0:55 Speaker 3: Hi, my name Sean, and I play lead guitar in

0:57 Speaker 3: the band, and if they're really nice to me, they

0:59 Speaker 3: let me sing.

1:00 Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, good good.

1:03 Speaker 4: I have Victoria and I am cold lead singer, and

1:08 Speaker 4: yeah it's about it. I play a little tambourine. That's

1:10 Speaker 4: range about it.

1:11 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, excellent.

1:12 Speaker 1: And you my name is Josh. I play guitar, and

1:15 Speaker 1: I also sing. I play guitar worse than Sean. I

1:19 Speaker 1: sing worse than Victoria. I also love that Sean went

1:22 Speaker 1: first because he's the shyest member. Oh no kidding, it's exciting.

1:26 Speaker 5: Just throw me into the deep end.

1:28 Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that. So what now? So you're on

1:31 Speaker 2: a big national tour, right you've been. Uh, it looks

1:34 Speaker 2: like you play a lot of shows from what I

1:36 Speaker 2: saw online.

1:37 Speaker 1: You know, we give that impression. No, this is just

1:41 Speaker 1: a weekend thing, man.

1:42 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

1:43 Speaker 1: We all have full time jobs and families, so like

1:46 Speaker 1: on the weekends sometimes we get real squirrely and we're like,

1:48 Speaker 1: let's drive as far as possible. Oh okay, okay, And

1:52 Speaker 1: that's what we did this weekend. We uh, yesterday we

1:55 Speaker 1: played in Boston, and tonight we're playing in western Massachusetts.

1:58 Speaker 2: In Westfield, Okay, excellent, excellent. Yeah, Because I was looking

2:02 Speaker 2: at at your stuff online, it looks like you've like,

2:04 Speaker 2: how how far have you gone with with this? As

2:06 Speaker 2: far as shows, like, how how far have you traveled?

2:08 Speaker 5: I think the farthest is Nashville?

2:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, nice, Okay, sure, which is a ton of fun.

2:13 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because people have misconceptions about Nashville.

2:17 Speaker 2: They think it's, you know, like it's all just country

2:18 Speaker 2: music and cowboy boots and everything. But obviously, I mean,

2:21 Speaker 2: you know, Jersey Calling played there, so there's there's a

2:24 Speaker 2: market for a lot of different kinds of stuff overall.

2:26 Speaker 5: It's just it's a music city.

2:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, we played.

2:30 Speaker 1: We played with some pretty pretty red punk bands down there,

2:33 Speaker 1: Graveyard Kids, and uh, oh my god, why did I

2:37 Speaker 1: Why did I put myself out there living living with Okay,

2:46 Speaker 1: there we go, we got there.

2:47 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

2:48 Speaker 2: How long has this band existed? How long has Jersey

2:51 Speaker 2: Calling been around?

2:52 Speaker 1: That's a complicated question, Matt.

2:55 Speaker 2: We have we have we have time. We have time,

2:57 Speaker 2: all right.

2:58 Speaker 1: So so the the shortest dancer I can give is that,

3:02 Speaker 1: like we started when we were like I don't know,

3:04 Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty. Back in two thousand and two, we

3:08 Speaker 1: played as a band. We played pretty much locally exclusively

3:13 Speaker 1: for like three years, and then after that we like

3:17 Speaker 1: kind of, you know, adult life got in the way.

3:19 Speaker 1: We all started like focusing on getting a meaningful job,

3:25 Speaker 1: starting starting a family and all that stuff. And then

3:31 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, when the pandemic hit, I wrote a

3:34 Speaker 1: bunch of new songs and I called up Sean and Randy,

3:38 Speaker 1: and Randy's our bass player, he's not with us today,

3:41 Speaker 1: and they said that they wanted to play them like

3:44 Speaker 1: they would be down to record them with me. And

3:47 Speaker 1: right around that same time, I met Victoria here and

3:51 Speaker 1: we started dating, and I thought I would try to

3:53 Speaker 1: impress her with my singing and guitar playing, and then

3:57 Speaker 1: I heard her sing and I was like, ah, I

4:03 Speaker 1: have completely overestimated my ability. Oh no, oh, that's funny. Yeah, yeah.

4:08 Speaker 4: I was excited for you to come over. And then

4:10 Speaker 4: when you brought your guitar, I'm like, cool, we'll both

4:12 Speaker 4: sing together. I already knew because I watched you on Facebook,

4:15 Speaker 4: because like you, he had like this live concert series

4:18 Speaker 4: like he was doing for twenty twenty sold that, so

4:21 Speaker 4: I knew you.

4:21 Speaker 1: You knew you were better?

4:23 Speaker 4: No, well I knew you could, and so I was excited.

4:26 Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, let's hang out and yeah. So the

4:29 Speaker 4: rest is history, man, Yeah yeah.

4:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah. Since twenty twenty we've been playing pretty

4:33 Speaker 1: pretty much NonStop. In twenty twenty three was when our

4:38 Speaker 1: newest member, John, our drummer, came on and he and

4:42 Speaker 1: Randy are together at the hotel room now taking care

4:45 Speaker 1: of a taking care of a mishap from earlier.

4:48 Speaker 2: Oh I got you, yeah, I got yeah.

4:50 Speaker 4: Travels tough man. It is especially earlier. It's just it's

4:54 Speaker 4: early morning.

4:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, the morning, Yeah, it is. It is. So, uh

5:01 Speaker 2: is your drummer? What's his name?

5:04 Speaker 1: John?

5:04 Speaker 2: John? Is he? There's been a trend on the show recently,

5:08 Speaker 2: well at least last couple of years, especially with with

5:09 Speaker 2: everybody who comes on. Everybody's drummer is in like ten

5:11 Speaker 2: different bands? Is John? And ten different bands?

5:14 Speaker 6: Yeah?

5:15 Speaker 1: I mean I I assume he's in the band that

5:17 Speaker 1: just left. I don't actually.

5:20 Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, that's funny.

5:23 Speaker 1: That could be why he left. He's like, oh, I

5:25 Speaker 1: got to go back to the hotel room. I'm like, okay, John, Yeah,

5:29 Speaker 1: he's going to his next his next gig with the

5:31 Speaker 1: other band.

5:33 Speaker 2: Yeahs, yeah, it's amazing. And you know, bass players can

5:36 Speaker 2: be hard to come by too, But but drummers especially,

5:39 Speaker 2: like everybody's everybody's drummers in all kinds of different bands.

5:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, guitarist are a diamond dozen. Like everyone plays guitar.

5:46 Speaker 2: It is true. I mean as a bass player, I

5:48 Speaker 2: say that, you know, no offense, but no, yeah, no,

5:51 Speaker 2: but it is true. Yeah, guitar players are everywhere. Yeah, yeah,

5:54 Speaker 2: what do you what do you think it is with drummers?

5:56 Speaker 2: Why are drummers so hard to Uh?

5:58 Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to play drums? No, it's it's

6:01 Speaker 1: so hard.

6:02 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because you got to use all four of

6:04 Speaker 2: your limbs. That looks like too much for me.

6:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's way too much. I can't coordinate my feet

6:08 Speaker 1: with my hands like that.

6:09 Speaker 4: No, my brain and my feet have never communicated properly.

6:12 Speaker 1: Yeah.

6:12 Speaker 2: Yeah.

6:13 Speaker 3: And you know what I think it is as the

6:14 Speaker 3: parents of a drummer, it's a very special person that

6:18 Speaker 3: allows their kid to bring a drum set.

6:20 Speaker 2: Into the house. And that's that's always. Yeah.

6:24 Speaker 3: And so just there are not a lot of people

6:26 Speaker 3: that get into it super early, and and that's why

6:30 Speaker 3: they're in such high demand. I tell my kid all

6:32 Speaker 3: the time, you will always have work if you stick

6:34 Speaker 3: with us.

6:34 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah, that and maybe

6:37 Speaker 2: the tuba. You don't necessarily want your house either, right.

6:42 Speaker 4: Unless you're a mummer, like maybe.

6:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the clarinet anything.

6:47 Speaker 1: I feel like the clarinet is way more annoying because

6:49 Speaker 1: you get that squeaky sound when they're learning. It's like

6:53 Speaker 1: nails on a chalkboard.

6:54 Speaker 4: And my sister did that.

6:55 Speaker 1: She Yeah, any read in strum and you're gonna get

7:00 Speaker 1: that squeak. Yeah.

7:02 Speaker 2: Yeah. Now I'm curious about the name Jersey Calling. Uh what?

7:06 Speaker 2: I assume it has something to do with New Jersey,

7:09 Speaker 2: but but I don't know. Maybe not.

7:11 Speaker 1: We're from Oklahoma.

7:13 Speaker 2: No, i'd be a great twist.

7:17 Speaker 1: So when when we when we formed the band, Sean

7:21 Speaker 1: and I were listening to a lot of the Clash

7:23 Speaker 1: and so we thought the Jersey Calling would be a

7:27 Speaker 1: cooler band name than the band that we were in

7:30 Speaker 1: at the time, which was called Burn Kate.

7:34 Speaker 5: Oh misbuilled a lot as Burnt Kate.

7:36 Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah yeah.

7:39 Speaker 1: Burning Burning Kate, Burning Cake. Yeah, it was No one

7:44 Speaker 1: ever got the name right.

7:45 Speaker 2: Well, now I'm curious where that name came from.

7:46 Speaker 1: What was that about, Sean? Why don't you take this one?

7:49 Speaker 7: Oh?

7:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, my my sister suggested. My sister was Kate, and

7:54 Speaker 3: uh she told us that we were gonna suck. I

7:59 Speaker 3: forget exactly what was said in response, and she said, well,

8:01 Speaker 3: why don't you just call the band burn Kate? Oh?

8:03 Speaker 5: And it stuck because we were what seventeen at the time.

8:06 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was you know, a little aggressive back

8:09 Speaker 1: and forth sibling rivalry. Yeah, thing, that's cool, good.

8:13 Speaker 2: Time, all right. So then so Jersey calling, so it

8:20 Speaker 2: just sounded it just sounded cool, and.

8:22 Speaker 5: It sounded cool, and I think we just kind of

8:24 Speaker 5: ran with it.

8:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, like we I think we made stickers and it

8:28 Speaker 3: just kind of stuck from me.

8:29 Speaker 8: Yeah.

8:30 Speaker 1: Once we had like T shirts and stickers made, We're like,

8:32 Speaker 1: all right, we're stuck with this now. Yeah, yep.

8:35 Speaker 2: I'm also so I'm curious about the lyrical themes in

8:38 Speaker 2: your songs. It seems like there's there's a slight political bent.

8:41 Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. You can never be sure because

8:45 Speaker 2: you know, it's it's kind of ambiguous, so maybe maybe

8:47 Speaker 2: maybe not. Maybe I'm reading into it. I don't know,

8:49 Speaker 2: but I'm curious about lyrical themes. It seems like it

8:53 Speaker 2: seems like the songs not just not just ex Americana,

8:55 Speaker 2: but the other ones I listened to too. There's They've

8:57 Speaker 2: got that, Well, there's that punk ethoswhear you want to

9:00 Speaker 2: appeal to people who are not uh you know to

9:05 Speaker 2: uh you know, you want to appeal to working class people.

9:07 Speaker 2: I guess is what I'm trying to say, you know

9:08 Speaker 2: what I mean? And I mean, am I am I

9:10 Speaker 2: getting the right vibe with what I'm what I'm hearing

9:12 Speaker 2: in your lyrics.

9:13 Speaker 1: Or yeah, I I I would say so. I mean

9:16 Speaker 1: I feel like ex Americana is a lot more explicitly

9:19 Speaker 1: so any song that we've done so far. But on

9:24 Speaker 1: the album Parasocial Security, I mean there there are plenty

9:27 Speaker 1: of songs with political themes, like Gods and Cowboys is

9:30 Speaker 1: about imperialism. Uh, You've got astill Auego, which is kind

9:34 Speaker 1: of a working class kind of song. Yeah got uh

9:39 Speaker 1: Queen of the Unclean, which is about trans rites social

9:45 Speaker 1: media content about social media, and then.

9:47 Speaker 4: You got a little bit of love in there. So

9:51 Speaker 4: like you know, you got you got political, you got

9:54 Speaker 4: you know, social rights, you got the you have, we

9:56 Speaker 4: run the gamut.

9:58 Speaker 9: Kind of yah.

10:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like I feel like if I tried

10:02 Speaker 1: to write only political songs, I would run out of

10:05 Speaker 1: material really quickly because I'm not smart enough to do that. Yeah.

10:11 Speaker 2: Now, I think that's what part That's part of what

10:13 Speaker 2: drew me in listening to your music, though, is is

10:16 Speaker 2: the theme the themes of because I love that stuff anyway.

10:19 Speaker 2: You know, we used to actually do politics on the

10:21 Speaker 2: show a long time ago, and we had to take

10:23 Speaker 2: it out. But now it's, you know, we we stick

10:26 Speaker 2: to interviews with musicians. But but it's but I like

10:30 Speaker 2: that kind of I like music with a message and

10:32 Speaker 2: a point of view and and all that. So I

10:34 Speaker 2: think that's that's what part of what drew me into

10:37 Speaker 2: because when I was listening because then I you know,

10:39 Speaker 2: obviously I listened to the tracks you sent, and then

10:41 Speaker 2: I went online and just listen everything I could find

10:43 Speaker 2: of of Jersey calling. Thank you, Thanks dude, absolutely absolutely, Well,

10:47 Speaker 2: do you want to play another as long as we're

10:49 Speaker 2: talking about all this great music, you want to play

10:50 Speaker 2: another studio track? And then we'll talk some more.

10:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doubt for that.

10:53 Speaker 2: What should we go with next, I'll let I'll let

10:56 Speaker 2: you all pick, assuming I don't know if you remember

10:59 Speaker 2: what you sent me. Uh no, there's a backseat driver

11:03 Speaker 2: ascoll luego. Oh maybe we should play that one because

11:06 Speaker 2: you mentioned that one.

11:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's thego sounds good. Yeah, that's a crowd pleaser.

11:10 Speaker 4: That's that's a wake up song.

11:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh definitely. I'd say these are all wake up songs. Yeah, yeah,

11:14 Speaker 2: they're all. They're all pretty pretty high energy. What should

11:17 Speaker 2: we know about this one? Anything you want to tell us?

11:19 Speaker 2: Anything special about this one? We should know before we

11:21 Speaker 2: hear it.

11:21 Speaker 1: Sure. A little fun fact about it was I wrote

11:23 Speaker 1: this song for my kindergarten class. I'm a teacher, okay

11:26 Speaker 1: during the day. Yeah, oh cool, I'm a Spanish teacher.

11:29 Speaker 1: And so I wrote the chorus Asta asta astill luego

11:32 Speaker 1: just to teach them how to say goodbye. And I

11:35 Speaker 1: was after after liszlie do it a little bit, I'm like,

11:38 Speaker 1: this will be a cool punk song. Yeah, And so

11:40 Speaker 1: I wrote a verse with a lot of a lot

11:43 Speaker 1: of the F word in it. Okay, you know that

11:45 Speaker 1: that works? The clear and clean verse you sent me.

11:48 Speaker 1: You sent me the radio edit, all right, say, man,

11:50 Speaker 1: like you're gonna get canceled for them?

11:54 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and ire I pre screen everything. I'm super

11:57 Speaker 2: I mean, granted if you if you'd sent me the

12:00 Speaker 2: the raw version. And I because sometimes people will send

12:05 Speaker 2: me stuff and it's like, oh I can't play that,

12:07 Speaker 2: but I can make Sometimes I'll make my own radio edit.

12:10 Speaker 2: I just I call it the poor man's radio edit.

12:12 Speaker 2: I just just reverse it where the swear is.

12:14 Speaker 1: It's so funny because like I never thought the Ostill aego.

12:17 Speaker 1: We get played on the air, so like we're in

12:19 Speaker 1: the studio and he's like, should we do a radio

12:22 Speaker 1: edit of this? And I was like, no, no one's

12:25 Speaker 1: gonna want to hear this song on the air. And

12:27 Speaker 1: then like we're back.

12:30 Speaker 2: You never know.

12:30 Speaker 1: Fast forward a few months and like the main radio

12:34 Speaker 1: station in our area, WMMR out of Philadelphia, they were like,

12:38 Speaker 1: we got they picked us as the local artist of

12:40 Speaker 1: the month. Yeah, and the guy's like, hey, do you

12:42 Speaker 1: have radio edits of any of the songs on them there?

12:44 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, well, this track's clean. This track's clean.

12:46 Speaker 1: I'm like, can we have a radio edit of Backseat Driver?

12:49 Speaker 1: And he's like, what about Astill aweg, I'm like, oh,

12:52 Speaker 1: come on.

12:55 Speaker 4: Sometimes it just feels good to be a little right,

12:57 Speaker 4: especially about the right thing.

12:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, you nailed it.

12:59 Speaker 4: We needed that. I was like, oh no, this is

13:01 Speaker 4: I'm like, this is gonna happen. I think yeah, yeah, yeah.

13:03 Speaker 1: So we ended up going back into our our our

13:06 Speaker 1: studio and uh and coming up with not you instead

13:10 Speaker 1: of you.

13:11 Speaker 2: Know, okay, goatcha, yeah yeah, I love it. All right,

13:18 Speaker 2: all right, let's give the suspend. This is the radio

13:20 Speaker 2: add at the clean version of ASA Luego. The band

13:22 Speaker 2: is Jersey Calling.

13:43 Speaker 5: We read you.

13:46 Speaker 10: Wait too long now one need for spending, and we

13:49 Speaker 10: read Moore Cott in our lectures rotten.

13:53 Speaker 1: From soldiers in the trenches to warners.

13:55 Speaker 10: End up feeling that one gets back together s massa

14:00 Speaker 10: treats and find us fuels, raise burning and sign right

14:03 Speaker 10: now for our great scream til we play not you,

14:07 Speaker 10: not you, not you, not you, You're going not your house.

14:11 Speaker 11: Stop stop stop stop stop strips.

14:17 Speaker 9: Stop stop stops.

14:29 Speaker 8: To sup this drake and swim.

14:33 Speaker 9: We kept on massel beIN I talk to in the machine.

14:36 Speaker 8: Now we're in shausted.

14:37 Speaker 7: We've been an accoustaed to find a.

14:40 Speaker 8: Coup of cutificating very sixty that Sat.

14:43 Speaker 11: Nighted one Me, Society.

14:46 Speaker 12: Runs up, gets a Master's Amats, Massive Stick, butting must

14:49 Speaker 12: Bear and Suka sitting on a campa.

14:53 Speaker 11: Not you, not you, not you, not you, You're going

14:55 Speaker 11: not your house? Stop stop stop?

15:49 Speaker 2: Oh I love it. Also Luego the band is Jersey Calling.

15:52 Speaker 2: That is very, very catchy, high energy. I always say

15:55 Speaker 2: when I play something like that, if it doesn't get

15:57 Speaker 2: to moving, check your pulse, you might be dead. But

16:00 Speaker 2: we've got three of the members of Jersey colleing here

16:02 Speaker 2: with us in studio. And how how much how much

16:06 Speaker 2: music have as the band recorded? Do you have a

16:09 Speaker 2: lot at this point?

16:10 Speaker 1: Yeah? We have a good amount online. Uh so we

16:12 Speaker 1: have three three full length albums, uh Daddy reissues, Punk

16:17 Speaker 1: Rock Retirement and Parasocial Security.

16:20 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:20 Speaker 1: And then we have two single releases Projections, which is

16:24 Speaker 1: actually two songs, It's Projections and poster Girl. And then

16:28 Speaker 1: we just released X Americana two weeks ago.

16:30 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, excellent. Now do you have do you have

16:35 Speaker 2: physical CDs or do you just put things out online? Okay?

16:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we we get CDs of all

16:40 Speaker 1: our albums. We have vinyl of Parasocial security, and then

16:46 Speaker 1: we also have a seven inch vinyl of these single

16:48 Speaker 1: projections with the B side being a poster girl.

16:52 Speaker 2: Oh no kidding, Yeah, that's very cool.

16:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't done a we haven't done a physical

16:56 Speaker 1: release of X Americana because I mean, I was kind

16:59 Speaker 1: of thinking we'd save it for our next album, which

17:01 Speaker 1: will be sometime in twenty twenty six. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,

17:07 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just it's so expensive to get

17:08 Speaker 1: everything pressed at this point. Man, Like those seven inches

17:11 Speaker 1: were like, we're basically selling them at cost because it's tough.

17:16 Speaker 1: It's tough to jack up the price of something with

17:19 Speaker 1: only two songs on it. Oh yeah, it's hard to justify.

17:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That's something that's been a subject on

17:25 Speaker 2: the show lately too with a lot of our guests.

17:28 Speaker 2: Is you know physical media because for a long time,

17:31 Speaker 2: so I've only been doing the show here at WMNH

17:34 Speaker 2: for about eight and a half years, but I've been

17:35 Speaker 2: interviewing bands for like twenty years, and and there was

17:39 Speaker 2: a period maybe ten years ago, maybe a little more,

17:42 Speaker 2: there was a period where everybody I would talk to

17:45 Speaker 2: would say, now physical media is dead. We're just putting

17:47 Speaker 2: everything online. Just Spotify and everything, and then, like especially

17:53 Speaker 2: probably in the last five years, I feel like there's

17:55 Speaker 2: been this reversal where obviously, yeah, you do have to

17:57 Speaker 2: put everything online, that's important, that that should be the

17:59 Speaker 2: number one already, but there's been a real recommitment to CDs.

18:03 Speaker 2: And of course vinyl never went away. Some people think

18:06 Speaker 2: vinyl like they just stopped making vinyl at one point

18:08 Speaker 2: and then it came back, but it really never went away.

18:10 Speaker 2: But but there's been a resurgence with that. I think

18:13 Speaker 2: it was it was either twenty twenty three or maybe

18:16 Speaker 2: twenty twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually

18:18 Speaker 2: outsold CDs since CDs became the primary medium. So but

18:24 Speaker 2: my theory with that is, I think most people who

18:25 Speaker 2: buy vinyl they never even open it because if you're

18:28 Speaker 2: really a fan of an artist, like a lot of

18:30 Speaker 2: people who buy vinyl probably don't even have a record player,

18:33 Speaker 2: you know, they just buy it because if you really

18:35 Speaker 2: want to support that artist, you know, and then you

18:36 Speaker 2: can mount the cover art on the wall or something.

18:38 Speaker 1: But the cover art does look really cool, especially on vinyl,

18:42 Speaker 1: because it's yeah big, you know, oh yeah, but yeah,

18:46 Speaker 1: you know. What's crazy to me is like the amount

18:47 Speaker 1: of young people that are really into vinyl. Yeah, oh yeah,

18:51 Speaker 1: like the students that I teach, Like I have a

18:53 Speaker 1: sixth grade kid who he he's like really into vinyl

18:57 Speaker 1: and tapes and CD like like if it's if it's

19:02 Speaker 1: physical music, he is into it. Yeah, And I suspect

19:05 Speaker 1: like the streaming maybe is the introduction to that music. Yes,

19:09 Speaker 1: but if he likes it, he's going out and he's

19:11 Speaker 1: seeking out the physical album, which yeah, I mean that's

19:14 Speaker 1: I think that's super cool, you know, absolutely.

19:16 Speaker 4: I like that there's like that option though, so like before,

19:19 Speaker 4: like you kind of had to either hear them live

19:22 Speaker 4: or just buy it and then listen and decide whether

19:24 Speaker 4: you like it or not. I kind of like that

19:25 Speaker 4: you can listen first and go no, I want that, like,

19:29 Speaker 4: you know, like that, I don't know if that helps me.

19:31 Speaker 1: No, that would have saved me. That would have saved

19:34 Speaker 1: me some money in the nineties, man, that really would

19:36 Speaker 1: have absolutely.

19:38 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, I mean I think it's yeah, it's nice.

19:42 Speaker 2: That's a great point, Victoria, because and don't get me wrong,

19:45 Speaker 2: like I have memories of being a kid going to

19:47 Speaker 2: the record store and you know, flipping through things and

19:50 Speaker 2: finding things that look interesting. Oh this looks this has

19:53 Speaker 2: a cool cover. Maybe this will be cool, maybe it won't,

19:55 Speaker 2: but I'll take the risk and buy it.

19:56 Speaker 6: You know.

19:56 Speaker 2: But now it's like, you know, there's no there's no

19:59 Speaker 2: guess where, and you can find anything that that's some

20:04 Speaker 2: of the you know, cause I'm I'm Generation X. My

20:06 Speaker 2: generation is really the last generation to grow up without

20:08 Speaker 2: the internet. So I can still remember, like if there

20:10 Speaker 2: was a song that just popped into my brain one

20:12 Speaker 2: day and I'm like, oh, I haven't heard that in

20:13 Speaker 2: a while. I'd like to hear that. Well, what am

20:15 Speaker 2: I gonna do if I don't. If I don't have

20:17 Speaker 2: it myself, I don't know anyone who has it. I mean,

20:19 Speaker 2: it's all you know. But now I can just go

20:22 Speaker 2: online and find it. It's amazing. We lived in an

20:24 Speaker 2: amazing time.

20:24 Speaker 10: It is.

20:25 Speaker 1: It is pretty crazy. I remember like I would I

20:28 Speaker 1: would hear I would hear a single on the radio

20:30 Speaker 1: or I'd see it on like MTV or something, and

20:33 Speaker 1: then you had no choice. You had to go out

20:35 Speaker 1: and buy the album because like the single wasn't available

20:37 Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, and then you listen to the album

20:39 Speaker 1: and it's like, I hate every other.

20:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate.

20:44 Speaker 1: I have eleven tracks of garbage and I have one

20:48 Speaker 1: song that I want to hear yeap.

20:49 Speaker 2: Oh yeah that was.

20:51 Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars of my heart earned allowance yep. Stuff.

20:55 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, taking the trash out and moments and lawns.

20:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, I used to. I used to record off the

21:03 Speaker 2: radio too.

21:03 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, same way, just recorded off Oh my god,

21:07 Speaker 1: I forgot that. Yeah. Oh yeah, I mean technically, like

21:10 Speaker 1: that's word admitting to crimes now, right, like this is

21:12 Speaker 1: this We're just this is like a confessional. Yeah, like

21:15 Speaker 1: we shouldn't be that. That's true.

21:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

21:17 Speaker 6: Oh.

21:17 Speaker 2: I would record with the VCR. I would record videos

21:20 Speaker 2: off of MTV.

21:21 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, the FCI has entered the.

21:28 Speaker 2: Absolutely Oh. Our friend Maria vanishes in the chat room. Man,

21:32 Speaker 2: she has a question. She says, I'd like to know

21:34 Speaker 2: bands are artists that might have inspired them? Yeah, great,

21:37 Speaker 2: great subject. I want to know that too, like who

21:39 Speaker 2: are your inspirations? Who are your influences.

21:42 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw at the Sewan again because I haven't

21:43 Speaker 1: heard his voice in three minutes. Oh okay.

21:46 Speaker 3: From from a guitar playing perspective, there are three guitarists

21:50 Speaker 3: that I really like James Bowman from Against Me, Jerry Garcia.

21:53 Speaker 5: From The Rateful Dead, and Slash.

21:55 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:56 Speaker 3: Those are the three, and there are three very different guitarists,

21:59 Speaker 3: but they're three people that I like. Those are the

22:02 Speaker 3: solos I try to learn and then try to just

22:05 Speaker 3: see what I can fit in in Jersey calling songs.

22:07 Speaker 1: I want to put those three in a room together.

22:10 Speaker 2: Yeah.

22:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see those three guys in a

22:12 Speaker 1: room together just hanging out.

22:13 Speaker 2: That's no great, Well one of them would be hard.

22:17 Speaker 5: Jergrecy has been dead for like twenty years, yeah, thirty years.

22:24 Speaker 1: I do know things about music.

22:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, Jerry has left the building. Yeah yeah, how about you, Victoria.

22:30 Speaker 4: So my influences include Haley Williams from Paramore, Lizzie Hale

22:36 Speaker 4: from Hailstorm, and Amy Lely from Evanescence. Those are like

22:39 Speaker 4: my three very big ones. Yeah, but I you know,

22:44 Speaker 4: kind of like runs the gamut because I'm I'm also

22:47 Speaker 4: in cover bands and I kind of grew up on

22:48 Speaker 4: cover bands my dad did, so, yeah, I I grew

22:52 Speaker 4: up on like, you know, Green Day and actually and

22:56 Speaker 4: I'm a really funny one just because I think it's

22:58 Speaker 4: funny because I like rock, so I like Pearl Jam

23:03 Speaker 4: and you know what hard like like, I I.

23:09 Speaker 2: Like it, I like it.

23:11 Speaker 4: I like a lot of different, you know styles, but

23:14 Speaker 4: Avril Lavine like when she started coming out, I learned

23:18 Speaker 4: how to sing like I just sucked in helium because

23:21 Speaker 4: of Britney Spears. Oh yeah, ad so like you know different,

23:25 Speaker 4: I have all these different influences and those so far,

23:29 Speaker 4: those three though, and I just got to meet Lizzie

23:31 Speaker 4: Hale and that was the best day of my life.

23:33 Speaker 2: Oh nice, very cool.

23:34 Speaker 8: Yeah.

23:34 Speaker 4: So and then and then our wedding was the best day.

23:37 Speaker 4: But first it was you don't have to say, I'm

23:42 Speaker 4: just saying, but yeah, so those mine.

23:45 Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. You must hear a lot of new stuff

23:47 Speaker 2: too being a teacher.

23:50 Speaker 1: Not really because I feel like like a lot of

23:54 Speaker 1: the kids nowadays, as far as rock is concerned, they

23:57 Speaker 1: listened to the same music that I listened to as

23:59 Speaker 1: a kids, so like like I'm big into like nineties

24:02 Speaker 1: punk and scat. It was a big SKA kid too. Yeah,

24:06 Speaker 1: and then they they go back even further, like like

24:09 Speaker 1: the same sixth grader the other day was like, hey,

24:11 Speaker 1: mister Kate's uh you ever listened to Minor Threat and

24:14 Speaker 1: I'm like, na, man, you're a lot more hardcore than like,

24:17 Speaker 1: like like I'm waiting for him to call me a poser.

24:20 Speaker 2: Now it's gonna happen.

24:23 Speaker 1: But like I don't know, like Green Day, Bad Religion,

24:27 Speaker 1: No Effects against Me. Really love Laura Jane Grace's solo

24:31 Speaker 1: stuff too, And then on the SKA side, I really

24:35 Speaker 1: I love Less than Jake. They were one of my

24:37 Speaker 1: favorite bands coming up. And then as far as like

24:40 Speaker 1: newer stuff, like I don't know Frank Turner. I really

24:43 Speaker 1: like Frank Turner. What's cool is like playing these shows

24:47 Speaker 1: we get to hear some like local bands that we

24:51 Speaker 1: actually like and I would probably never hear of like

24:55 Speaker 1: if it weren't for this. Yeah, like last night when

24:57 Speaker 1: we played with Futon Lasagnia, that band was rat but

25:00 Speaker 1: it was a really good band that name.

25:02 Speaker 2: They were awesome.

25:03 Speaker 1: They were really good. And then the Prozacts tonight they're

25:06 Speaker 1: a great band too. And then from around our area

25:08 Speaker 1: we got a backyard Superheroes that we just played with

25:11 Speaker 1: and title Holder, Like, there's a lot of really good

25:16 Speaker 1: undiscovered talent out there, and uh, I think that's one

25:19 Speaker 1: of the coolest things about being in a local band

25:21 Speaker 1: is like you get to you get to hear these things.

25:23 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Miriam was saying she was getting

25:26 Speaker 2: a little bit of a dead milkman vibe from the

25:29 Speaker 2: last song we played.

25:30 Speaker 1: I guess that is a that is the biggest Philly

25:33 Speaker 1: compliment that you can receive. Yeah, I appreciate it now,

25:37 Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, Like they're legends. Yeah, I'm like,

25:41 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're going to build a statue of

25:43 Speaker 1: those guys next to the statue of Rocky Balboa that

25:45 Speaker 1: we have.

25:46 Speaker 2: Nice.

25:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds accurate.

25:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Hey, we were talking about

25:52 Speaker 2: it earlier. Should we play this? We haven't planned this,

25:54 Speaker 2: but this track got Queen of the Unclean. Yeah, we

25:58 Speaker 2: should give this a spin. What what should we know

26:01 Speaker 2: about this?

26:02 Speaker 1: So, like I said a little bit earlier, it is

26:04 Speaker 1: about trans trans writes. It is like I feel like

26:09 Speaker 1: upon a cursory read of it, you would never get that.

26:14 Speaker 1: You really have to kind of like read the lyrics,

26:17 Speaker 1: and then upon reading it a little bit more, it's like, oh,

26:21 Speaker 1: all right, I kind of get what they could be

26:23 Speaker 1: talking about here. I didn't want to make it super

26:26 Speaker 1: explicit because I don't know. Like, here's the thing, I'm

26:29 Speaker 1: not a trans person. I can't really speak for that community.

26:33 Speaker 1: It's really a song about like empathy because like I

26:35 Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like all people should have rights.

26:39 Speaker 1: I know that's a really radical view. Now it's so crazy,

26:44 Speaker 1: like look at this guy, but uh, yeah, that's why

26:49 Speaker 1: I wrote that. I don't know, man like, because I

26:51 Speaker 1: saw all the like outrage coming from like certain media

26:55 Speaker 1: sources and from even like you know, like older friends

26:58 Speaker 1: and family members, and I'm just like why, like why,

27:01 Speaker 1: like why we can be this upset? I can know

27:04 Speaker 1: something that doesn't affect you at.

27:06 Speaker 2: All, I can relate to that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well

27:10 Speaker 2: let's let's give this a spin.

27:11 Speaker 8: Uh.

27:11 Speaker 2: This is called Queen of the Unclean and the band

27:14 Speaker 2: is Jersey Calling.

27:25 Speaker 9: It's me that's keeping you on wing all night.

27:28 Speaker 4: It's me.

27:30 Speaker 10: It's me your worst fear, suckle light, it's me, just me.

27:35 Speaker 9: It's me.

27:36 Speaker 1: You're lending firs are, it's me for beating for you.

27:40 Speaker 1: It's me an unblin read there.

27:42 Speaker 9: It's me, just me.

27:45 Speaker 1: I never one into me, the symptom of try me.

27:54 Speaker 2: It's me in the culture you didn't I it's me.

27:57 Speaker 1: In the edu kitchen.

27:58 Speaker 11: You didn't cry.

27:59 Speaker 1: It's me and the fucking you feel a bience.

28:02 Speaker 13: Me, trust me.

28:04 Speaker 11: I never want it to be.

28:09 Speaker 5: Assen to or just dry.

28:12 Speaker 6: Reality, identity, identity strip, don't rate my agency, stolen my

28:19 Speaker 6: humanity and lay on me up safe some redity, some

28:24 Speaker 6: redity is buried under bagantry.

28:28 Speaker 2: It's my existence, blasphemy.

28:30 Speaker 11: You're green of me. You're play woo whoa whoa.

29:02 Speaker 10: I never won interve a symbol of your vicious Santamus.

29:11 Speaker 11: Day siddy iddy, stript away my agency, sol my humanity

29:21 Speaker 11: and lay on me.

29:22 Speaker 1: I say so breadity, so bredity is buried.

29:26 Speaker 11: I'm never break a tree. It's my insists last may.

29:30 Speaker 11: You're queen of me.

29:31 Speaker 6: I play, I'm tay, I can't take away your tech

29:38 Speaker 6: system and I lay in my yard day and Saturday Saturday.

29:45 Speaker 1: So backas my id on me, your play.

30:02 Speaker 2: I love it. Queen of the Unclean. The band is

30:05 Speaker 2: Jersey calling. I'm glad that came up in conversation because

30:07 Speaker 2: we hadn't planned to play that one, but uh, I

30:09 Speaker 2: love it.

30:09 Speaker 1: Yeah. That one's more of a deep cut. That is

30:12 Speaker 1: that is not that is not one of our most

30:14 Speaker 1: popular songs.

30:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's catch.

30:16 Speaker 1: I mean I like playing it because I don't know,

30:18 Speaker 1: like I get to hear his solo live and I

30:20 Speaker 1: get excited about that.

30:22 Speaker 2: Yeah.

30:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now that is really good that Randy. He's got

30:25 Speaker 1: a really rad bassline on that, so it's fun for

30:28 Speaker 1: us to play.

30:28 Speaker 4: I like it.

30:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.

30:31 Speaker 1: Uh.

30:31 Speaker 2: The band is Jersey Calling. They are here with us

30:33 Speaker 2: in studio and now what is you're so you're in

30:38 Speaker 2: the area on your way to where do you have

30:40 Speaker 2: a show tonight? Yeah? Where are you playing tonight? We

30:43 Speaker 2: are at.

30:43 Speaker 1: Hutkey's at the Nook and that is in Westfield, Massachusetts,

30:48 Speaker 1: Western Massachusetts, and we're playing with all right here we go.

30:52 Speaker 1: I can do this, uh overy easy, m J Bones,

30:59 Speaker 1: always Man and the pros x okay, and I think

31:03 Speaker 1: I got all of them there, and I'm sorry if

31:06 Speaker 1: I missed anybody. I'm a jerk playing right for Yeah,

31:10 Speaker 1: that was four four plus us.

31:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I got them all, he said four.

31:15 Speaker 2: Yeah.

31:15 Speaker 14: I think.

31:17 Speaker 1: I just making sure the song the song is the song.

31:21 Speaker 1: The show is presented by four thirteen ska uh and

31:25 Speaker 1: it starts tonight at uh oh Man, I want to

31:29 Speaker 1: say seven pm. Yeah, that sounds that sounds close to right. Sure,

31:33 Speaker 1: sure you know what you get there a little bit early.

31:35 Speaker 1: I'm sure there's food available. It's delicious. Grab a beer.

31:40 Speaker 2: You remember hang out with us? You did great? I did?

31:43 Speaker 4: Okay, you did awesome.

31:44 Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Yeah, I did.

31:48 Speaker 2: I did my best.

31:50 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what's up guy?

31:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's our drummer player Randy and John?

31:56 Speaker 2: Are you the rhythm section has has arrived a veeh,

32:00 Speaker 2: what's up? Well, we'll get we'll get these guys hooked

32:04 Speaker 2: up with microphones. But while we do that, Jenny's helping

32:07 Speaker 2: to get them seated here.

32:08 Speaker 5: Thanks Jenny.

32:09 Speaker 2: Let's let's listen to another one of the studio Should

32:12 Speaker 2: we play a Backseat Driver? That's one of the studio tracks.

32:14 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's definitely one of our bigger hits because

32:17 Speaker 1: Victoria sings it and her voice.

32:20 Speaker 2: Oh nice, nice? Let me uh just getting this one

32:23 Speaker 2: loaded up here? And uh, by the way, where are

32:26 Speaker 2: all these recorded? Because everything sounds so good.

32:29 Speaker 1: Almost everything that we've recorded has been through the Gradwell House,

32:33 Speaker 1: which is a studio in head and Heights, New Jersey. Okay,

32:37 Speaker 1: almost every track is mixed, but mixed and and and

32:40 Speaker 1: mastered by them so mixed by Matt Weber and mastered

32:44 Speaker 1: by Dave Downham and they're co owners. Okay at these yeah, okay, okay,

32:49 Speaker 1: people excellent people.

32:50 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I know everything sounds really good. All right,

32:52 Speaker 2: let's give this a spin. This is Backseat Driver and

32:54 Speaker 2: the band is Jersey Calling.

33:14 Speaker 7: I watched you crawl to your cattleack like a wm

33:17 Speaker 7: or tube for you're broken, that carrying on the frost

33:20 Speaker 7: like a met some good blue two seeds, and you've

33:24 Speaker 7: got really slightly hunched checking on your lingering focus.

33:29 Speaker 8: And I'm still covering in those back set.

33:31 Speaker 9: On every car ride.

33:34 Speaker 10: I like you so, I like you to like you.

33:43 Speaker 12: I you so, I you to lie to myself too,

33:52 Speaker 12: and always on your Chelsea bad all leave south anymore?

33:56 Speaker 6: I got, I'll just have westcast doodcast.

33:59 Speaker 12: Then sure, because I've read out every time I've read

34:04 Speaker 12: out of the time, I see you.

34:20 Speaker 7: Don't a little talk to me, but I can't remember

34:23 Speaker 7: all the time of Tom Magic. Now you're suppressed on

34:26 Speaker 7: the tour. When I speak, or let us speak, get

34:28 Speaker 7: all you can all of a sudden, now.

34:31 Speaker 8: You're ro greef can might never come up from a century.

34:34 Speaker 9: You let me bleeding out in the backs, lean on

34:37 Speaker 9: every code. Y soon, I you soon, like you, like

34:49 Speaker 9: you soon? I you so lie to myself too.

34:57 Speaker 11: In the hour of talking of Chelsey. Don't lead stop anymore.

35:02 Speaker 6: The first south just head west of Sakas the Ham

35:05 Speaker 6: off shore, because.

35:07 Speaker 9: I read out this time, I'm bleed out in time.

35:11 Speaker 11: I see.

35:36 Speaker 2: Us do I used to.

35:45 Speaker 8: I used to, I used to lie, I used to,

35:57 Speaker 8: I used to.

36:35 Speaker 1: I love it.

36:35 Speaker 2: That is so catchy, backseat driver, and the band is

36:38 Speaker 2: a Jersey calling and we have so let's see. I'm

36:40 Speaker 2: gonna get those mics up here because we have been

36:43 Speaker 2: joined in studio. I'll put the camera on them too

36:45 Speaker 2: for the stream here we've got two well basically the

36:50 Speaker 2: rhythm section is here, so let me turn those on

36:53 Speaker 2: and okay, we should be good. Hi guys, Oh good,

36:58 Speaker 2: I can hear you. Okay, welcome, So who are you?

37:01 Speaker 2: Please introduce yourselves? Introduce yourselves please. The drummer, John the drummer, Welcome,

37:09 Speaker 2: Randy the bass player, Randy the bass player, welcome.

37:12 Speaker 15: Get full of money, man.

37:15 Speaker 1: No one was going to throw your name under the

37:17 Speaker 1: bus man.

37:19 Speaker 2: We'll do that. Well, you know, as a fellow bass player.

37:22 Speaker 2: We we own up to our responsibilities. Right, If we

37:25 Speaker 2: make a mistake, we acknowledge that we uh we we

37:29 Speaker 2: made an error, right.

37:30 Speaker 15: Yes, yes, your mistakes is key, Yes.

37:34 Speaker 2: Exactly, there you go, there you go. Well, welcome guys, Yeah,

37:41 Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely. So, well, let's let's do this. Tell us

37:45 Speaker 2: about your because we were talking about influences earlier, and

37:49 Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear what what you guys influence his

37:52 Speaker 2: inspirations musically and so forth.

37:54 Speaker 14: John, I have a big range. I would go from

37:59 Speaker 14: like led Zepp to the Who and then the past,

38:02 Speaker 14: I don't know, ten to fifteen years. I really got

38:04 Speaker 14: into the Ramones yeah, and Soars of Distortion Yeah, and

38:11 Speaker 14: Jersey Calm.

38:12 Speaker 1: Yeah. You good answer, good choice, like a snake eating

38:17 Speaker 1: itself for our own influence.

38:20 Speaker 13: A lot of my influences line up with Josh's Yeah,

38:24 Speaker 13: nineties punk, you know, skate punk, yeah, Green Day, Penny Wise, Offspring,

38:30 Speaker 13: Bad Religion yeah, yeah, descendants obviously.

38:34 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, you named a lot that I didn't name.

38:37 Speaker 1: And good choice choices.

38:39 Speaker 15: Yeah, I heard what you said, so I wanted to

38:41 Speaker 15: add to it.

38:42 Speaker 2: Excellent. Now what was this? While the song was playing,

38:45 Speaker 2: I heard something about and the word contiguous made its

38:48 Speaker 2: way into Oh my gosh, the conversation. I'm so glad

38:51 Speaker 2: you brought that up, aren't you. I thought you might

38:54 Speaker 2: be from the conversation.

38:57 Speaker 3: So my family and I two little kids, when we

39:01 Speaker 3: go on car trips, we desperately try to keep them

39:04 Speaker 3: entertained iPad's help. But we also have this license plate

39:08 Speaker 3: game where it's more involved than just counting how many

39:11 Speaker 3: different states you see, but you have to get a

39:13 Speaker 3: total of states that are all contiguous with one another.

39:17 Speaker 3: So like, if you see a Wyoming plate, in order

39:20 Speaker 3: to count it in the total, you got to connect

39:22 Speaker 3: it all the way to in this case, like New

39:24 Speaker 3: Hampshire and anyway. So I've been playing that and they've

39:28 Speaker 3: all been making fun of me, the whole.

39:31 Speaker 1: People. We think it's adorable, man.

39:33 Speaker 15: I like, your rule is you can't write down a

39:36 Speaker 15: plate for the state that you're in.

39:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to wait until you get

39:41 Speaker 3: out of that state and then see that state's plate

39:44 Speaker 3: in another state.

39:45 Speaker 1: I was trying to help you by naming license plates

39:47 Speaker 1: that I saw, and I realized very quickly that I

39:50 Speaker 1: did not understand the game. And I'm just I'm I'm

39:56 Speaker 1: not good at it. I did not understand how to play.

40:00 Speaker 5: You said Pennsylvania like sixteen times.

40:02 Speaker 1: Oh you know what's fun to say? It's just you know,

40:04 Speaker 1: it's kind of like Transylvania.

40:06 Speaker 6: It is.

40:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, very good and it's educational, right. It teaches

40:11 Speaker 2: the kids.

40:11 Speaker 1: It does geography, yes, exactly. Yeah, shout out your kids

40:15 Speaker 1: say their full names.

40:17 Speaker 5: Don't do that.

40:18 Speaker 6: I don't.

40:23 Speaker 2: She loves what if you just say that the name

40:26 Speaker 2: of the one that would be excited that my daughter

40:29 Speaker 2: hates this band?

40:30 Speaker 6: Oh?

40:30 Speaker 2: Really?

40:31 Speaker 5: Yes?

40:32 Speaker 1: Why?

40:32 Speaker 3: I think the biggest reason is because I'm here and

40:35 Speaker 3: not hanging out with her. We're also loud and she doesn't.

40:38 Speaker 2: Like Oh really okay, okay, well that's fair.

40:41 Speaker 5: But it's it's very adorable how much she hates Brilliant

40:43 Speaker 5: and she really she dives.

40:44 Speaker 9: Into it, but Swift for her tail swift.

40:48 Speaker 1: I think she loves to hate us. I think that's

40:51 Speaker 1: what it is. I think she gets a kick out

40:53 Speaker 1: of it.

40:54 Speaker 5: She does.

40:54 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well that's that's better then.

40:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

40:57 Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you guys all like do you have a van?

41:00 Speaker 2: You all like ride together? How does that work as

41:02 Speaker 2: far as travel? Because it's five of you.

41:04 Speaker 15: So we're in a big cab pickup truck that I own.

41:07 Speaker 15: Oh really, I on a trailer.

41:09 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so everybody's able to fit inside the.

41:12 Speaker 15: Truck across the back to in the front.

41:15 Speaker 5: Oh comfy too, is it?

41:16 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?

41:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, super roomy, like way way better than I would think.

41:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's good. That's good. That's the way to

41:24 Speaker 2: do it, right, because I've met bands who, you know,

41:25 Speaker 2: they've got like three cars.

41:27 Speaker 1: You know, rolling, and it's like, uh, it's also convenient

41:30 Speaker 1: that none of us breaks six feet in height, like

41:33 Speaker 1: like we're all pretty short.

41:35 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, is that by design? Is that was that?

41:38 Speaker 6: Yeah?

41:39 Speaker 1: There's a rule yeah environment Yeah, yeah.

41:43 Speaker 14: You under five you can't be in his vand.

41:45 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah that's awesome. Well, and you know that's reasonable.

41:48 Speaker 2: I mean five to nine is a national average, right,

41:50 Speaker 2: so you know, it doesn't doesn't close you off too much.

41:53 Speaker 1: John showed up for the audition and I was just like, okay,

41:56 Speaker 1: check right.

41:59 Speaker 4: Next to him, like measured it up.

42:01 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Now, so how long have each have you

42:05 Speaker 2: been in the band?

42:06 Speaker 5: I've been in the band.

42:07 Speaker 14: It'll be two years in September.

42:09 Speaker 2: Are you the newest member? You're the newest member. Okay,

42:13 Speaker 2: and then is Randy the second newest?

42:14 Speaker 1: Now Randy's the founding members, the.

42:16 Speaker 15: Founding I'm a day one higher.

42:18 Speaker 2: Ah right, Oh okay, so it was the second newest.

42:22 Speaker 2: You're the second newest, Victoria? Okay, gotcha? Gotcha? Okay, all right?

42:29 Speaker 2: Was so there was another was there a previous female.

42:31 Speaker 1: Singer or no?

42:32 Speaker 12: No?

42:33 Speaker 1: Originally it was just me.

42:35 Speaker 2: So you were doing all the vocals originally yeah, yeah.

42:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that, like that was not not that good.

42:43 Speaker 1: Now we have Victoria yeah to make us sound good.

42:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, which is I.

42:52 Speaker 4: Think it's something different. I don't know that it makes

42:56 Speaker 4: it bad.

42:57 Speaker 1: I think all right, all self depric aside. I think

43:01 Speaker 1: the the dueling male and female vocals are really cool. Like,

43:06 Speaker 1: I think it makes it more interesting to listen to.

43:08 Speaker 1: I think I love Victoria's voice. I love the way

43:11 Speaker 1: our voices work together.

43:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it just adds another I think

43:15 Speaker 3: a little bit more depth to our songs. I think

43:18 Speaker 3: there's there's a story that Victory is able to tell

43:20 Speaker 3: with her voice. That and and give something to the

43:24 Speaker 3: lyrics that we write that might not have been there

43:27 Speaker 3: when we wrote them down at first.

43:28 Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it helps you class.

43:30 Speaker 1: And class absolutely, yeah, class.

43:36 Speaker 14: Female.

43:39 Speaker 2: No, that's fantastic. Well, listen, the time goes quickly. Unfortunately,

43:44 Speaker 2: I do want to get one more song in which

43:46 Speaker 2: well we'll play in a moment. Which is the one

43:48 Speaker 2: that you sent that we did play yet It was

43:51 Speaker 2: uh oh yeah projections that came up in the conversation earlier.

43:54 Speaker 2: But we're gonna play that in a moment to end

43:56 Speaker 2: the segment. But thank you all, all five of you

43:58 Speaker 2: for being here. This has been one full thanks.

44:00 Speaker 15: Happing us man. Yeah, absolutely sorry about ringing your doorbell.

44:04 Speaker 15: We wanted to come in.

44:05 Speaker 2: It's all good, it's all good. I'm I mean, you

44:10 Speaker 2: got rules for a reason, that's that's right.

44:12 Speaker 15: You didn't read the thing.

44:14 Speaker 1: That's my fault. I didn't know you guys were coming back.

44:17 Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

44:18 Speaker 2: That's all right, that's all right. I like the spontaneity

44:20 Speaker 2: and it's very punk. You know, you you ring a doorbell.

44:23 Speaker 2: You're not supposed to ring this something something right.

44:26 Speaker 1: I like to think Randy's outside going, don't tell me.

44:28 Speaker 3: What to do.

44:30 Speaker 2: You're not my real dad, that's right, that's right. You're

44:33 Speaker 2: not the boss of me.

44:36 Speaker 15: We have a music video for this song that you're

44:39 Speaker 15: about to play. It's pretty fun.

44:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a ton of music, but like we

44:44 Speaker 1: have a good amount of music videos for a local band. Man,

44:47 Speaker 1: Like we have over ten music videos on YouTube. Oh nice, wow,

44:51 Speaker 1: Please if you're listening, check us out on YouTube. We

44:54 Speaker 1: put a lot of work in those videos. Man, there

44:56 Speaker 1: were a lot of fun to make and they're time

44:58 Speaker 1: kidsuing man music video take forever.

45:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, I will. I will check those

45:03 Speaker 2: out definitely for those listening live on Saturday. Let's remind

45:07 Speaker 2: people where you're playing tonight.

45:09 Speaker 1: Huckey's at the Nook, Westfield, Massachusetts. I want to say

45:14 Speaker 1: the addresses eight Franklin Street. You know what, I'm just

45:18 Speaker 1: gonna go with it. I think that's right. I'm not

45:20 Speaker 1: even going to check my phone. Eight Franklin Street, Westfield, Massachusetts.

45:25 Speaker 1: Hockey's at the Nook. Yeah, you know, I'm probably messing

45:30 Speaker 1: that up. I'm so confident about the address that it's like.

45:32 Speaker 2: Hootkeys very good. And then where do you go from there?

45:38 Speaker 2: Is that? Uh, do you have a show tomorrow night

45:40 Speaker 2: as well?

45:41 Speaker 15: Or you go back Victoria has a show.

45:43 Speaker 1: Victoria is playing with her cover band back in New Jersey.

45:47 Speaker 1: Oh okay, So so tonight after the show is done,

45:51 Speaker 1: I am drinking a lot of pre workout energy drink

45:55 Speaker 1: and then I'm driving overnight and I'll sleep when I'm dead.

45:59 Speaker 2: Yet.

46:01 Speaker 14: Shows with from Mark Ramon in September.

46:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, September, Yeah, yeah, Stember.

46:07 Speaker 1: We're playing at the More, yeah hard More Theater in Philly,

46:11 Speaker 1: and uh, opening up for Markey Ramon, which is pretty

46:14 Speaker 1: pretty freaking cool.

46:15 Speaker 2: That is cool. That's very cool, very cool. Well listen,

46:18 Speaker 2: Thank you again. I appreciate all of you coming in.

46:20 Speaker 2: This has been amazing. We will do it again in

46:22 Speaker 2: the future as you're releasing new music, you know, or

46:24 Speaker 2: next next time you're in the area, and uh, you know,

46:27 Speaker 2: and even if even if you want to do it sooner,

46:28 Speaker 2: you know, we can always do it, do it online

46:30 Speaker 2: or something. But but we're big fans love Jersey Calling.

46:34 Speaker 2: So we're gonna play this in a moment and uh,

46:36 Speaker 2: if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in

46:38 Speaker 2: the third hour, Lou Antonucci is with us and really

46:41 Speaker 2: looking forward to talking with him. But we will close

46:44 Speaker 2: out the segment with this. This is called Projections and

46:46 Speaker 2: the band is Jersey Calling, and thank you all. Again,

46:49 Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. That's the wrong song. You know,

47:02 Speaker 2: you know it's funny. Let me turn those mice back

47:05 Speaker 2: on for a second. You know what's funny about that

47:07 Speaker 2: is it did sound familiar to me. When it started.

47:09 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, those are the same chords.

47:11 Speaker 4: I was just like, I'm like rocking. I'm like, why

47:13 Speaker 4: is this?

47:14 Speaker 11: Yeah?

47:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, the all punk rock sounds.

47:18 Speaker 2: The Adventures of live Radio my friends. All right, I'm

47:21 Speaker 2: gonna try that again. But see, Randy, did you notice

47:25 Speaker 2: though I'm a bass player, I took responsibility just like

47:29 Speaker 2: that's what we do. That's what bass players do.

47:32 Speaker 4: We need you guys to write a book Bacon's virtue

47:36 Speaker 4: like this.

47:37 Speaker 2: That's that's right.

47:38 Speaker 5: I like it.

47:39 Speaker 2: I like it all right.

47:40 Speaker 1: Here it is.

47:40 Speaker 2: This is projections, and this is Jersey calling on your stand.

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48:07 Speaker 4: The checks seven steptions, not seven stetches.

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48:23 Speaker 10: million tiny boys and shot at trust and top up bound,

48:26 Speaker 10: filter bags, camera tracks, messer me west class tre's the numbers,

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