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, and they are here with us. We're gonna speak with them in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two New Marow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com, slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact in foshow archives, et cetera, et cetera.

0:27 Speaker 2: Today is a Saturday, June twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course, at the news table and joining us in studio. Let me get those mics on. We've got three members of the band Jersey Calling. Welcome everybody, Good morning, good morning, good morning. Wonderful to have you here. I love, like I said, I love that song. Actually I love all of them that I've listened to. Great great stuff. Let's start with you, sir. Let's go through and each introduce yourselves and tell us who you are, what you do in the band.

0:55 Speaker 3: Hi, my name Sean, and I play lead guitar in the band, and if they're really nice to me, they 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 yeah it's about it. I play a little tambourine. That's range about it.

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

1:12 Speaker 1: And you my name is Josh. I play guitar, and I also sing. I play guitar worse than Sean. I sing worse than Victoria. I also love that Sean went 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 a big national tour, right you've been. Uh, it looks like you play a lot of shows from what I saw online.

1:37 Speaker 1: You know, we give that impression. No, this is just 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 on the weekends sometimes we get real squirrely and we're like, let's drive as far as possible. Oh okay, okay, And that's what we did this weekend. We uh, yesterday we 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 at at your stuff online, it looks like you've like, how how far have you gone with with this? As 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. They think it's, you know, like it's all just country music and cowboy boots and everything. But obviously, I mean, you know, Jersey Calling played there, so there's there's a 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, Graveyard Kids, and uh, oh my god, why did I 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 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, all right.

2:58 Speaker 1: So so the the shortest dancer I can give is that, like we started when we were like I don't know, nineteen or twenty. Back in two thousand and two, we played as a band. We played pretty much locally exclusively for like three years, and then after that we like kind of, you know, adult life got in the way. We all started like focusing on getting a meaningful job, starting starting a family and all that stuff. And then in twenty twenty, when the pandemic hit, I wrote a bunch of new songs and I called up Sean and Randy, and Randy's our bass player, he's not with us today, and they said that they wanted to play them like they would be down to record them with me.

3:47 Speaker 1: And right around that same time, I met Victoria here and we started dating, and I thought I would try to impress her with my singing and guitar playing, and then I heard her sing and I was like, ah, I 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 when you brought your guitar, I'm like, cool, we'll both sing together. I already knew because I watched you on Facebook, because like you, he had like this live concert series like he was doing for twenty twenty sold that, so 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. I'm like, yeah, let's hang out and yeah. So the rest is history, man, Yeah yeah.

4:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah. Since twenty twenty we've been playing pretty pretty much NonStop. In twenty twenty three was when our newest member, John, our drummer, came on and he and Randy are together at the hotel room now taking care 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 early morning.

4:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, the morning, Yeah, it is. It is. So, uh 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, well at least last couple of years, especially with with everybody who comes on. Everybody's drummer is in like ten 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 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 got to go back to the hotel room. I'm like, okay, John, Yeah, he's going to his next his next gig with the other band.

5:33 Speaker 2: Yeahs, yeah, it's amazing. And you know, bass players can be hard to come by too, But but drummers especially, 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 say that, you know, no offense, but no, yeah, no, but it is true. Yeah, guitar players are everywhere. Yeah, yeah, what do you what do you think it is with drummers? Why are drummers so hard to Uh?

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

6:02 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because you got to use all four of 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 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 parents of a drummer, it's a very special person that 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 that get into it super early, and and that's why they're in such high demand. I tell my kid all the time, you will always have work if you stick with us.

6:34 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah, that and maybe 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 you get that squeaky sound when they're learning. It's like 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 that squeak. Yeah.

7:02 Speaker 2: Yeah. Now I'm curious about the name Jersey Calling. Uh what? I assume it has something to do with New Jersey, 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 and I were listening to a lot of the Clash and so we thought the Jersey Calling would be a cooler band name than the band that we were in 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 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 uh she told us that we were gonna suck. I forget exactly what was said in response, and she said, well, 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 and forth sibling rivalry. Yeah, thing, that's cool, good.

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

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

8:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, like we I think we made stickers and it 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, 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 your songs. It seems like there's there's a slight political bent. Maybe I don't know. You can never be sure because you know, it's it's kind of ambiguous, so maybe maybe maybe not. Maybe I'm reading into it. I don't know, but I'm curious about lyrical themes. It seems like it seems like the songs not just not just ex Americana, but the other ones I listened to too. There's They've got that, Well, there's that punk ethoswhear you want to appeal to people who are not uh you know to 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 what I mean? And I mean, am I am I getting the right vibe with what I'm what I'm hearing in your lyrics.

9:13 Speaker 1: Or yeah, I I I would say so. I mean I feel like ex Americana is a lot more explicitly so any song that we've done so far. But on the album Parasocial Security, I mean there there are plenty of songs with political themes, like Gods and Cowboys is about imperialism. Uh, You've got astill Auego, which is kind of a working class kind of song. Yeah got uh Queen of the Unclean, which is about trans rites social media content about social media, and then.

9:47 Speaker 4: You got a little bit of love in there. So like you know, you got you got political, you got you know, social rights, you got the you have, we run the gamut.

9:58 Speaker 9: Kind of yah.

10:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like I feel like if I tried to write only political songs, I would run out of 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 drew me in listening to your music, though, is is the theme the themes of because I love that stuff anyway. You know, we used to actually do politics on the show a long time ago, and we had to take it out. But now it's, you know, we we stick to interviews with musicians. But but it's but I like that kind of I like music with a message and a point of view and and all that. So I think that's that's what part of what drew me into because when I was listening because then I you know, obviously I listened to the tracks you sent, and then I went online and just listen everything I could find of of Jersey calling.

10:44 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks dude, absolutely absolutely, Well, do you want to play another as long as we're talking about all this great music, you want to play 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 you all pick, assuming I don't know if you remember what you sent me. Uh no, there's a backseat driver ascoll luego. Oh maybe we should play that one because 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, they're all. They're all pretty pretty high energy. What should we know about this one? Anything you want to tell us? Anything special about this one? We should know before we hear it.

11:21 Speaker 1: Sure. A little fun fact about it was I wrote this song for my kindergarten class. I'm a teacher, okay during the day. Yeah, oh cool, I'm a Spanish teacher. And so I wrote the chorus Asta asta astill luego just to teach them how to say goodbye. And I was after after liszlie do it a little bit, I'm like, this will be a cool punk song. Yeah, And so I wrote a verse with a lot of a lot of the F word in it. Okay, you know that that works? The clear and clean verse you sent me. You sent me the radio edit, all right, say, man, like you're gonna get canceled for them?

11:54 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and ire I pre screen everything. I'm super I mean, granted if you if you'd sent me the the raw version. And I because sometimes people will send me stuff and it's like, oh I can't play that, but I can make Sometimes I'll make my own radio edit. I just I call it the poor man's radio edit. 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. We get played on the air, so like we're in the studio and he's like, should we do a radio edit of this? And I was like, no, no one's gonna want to hear this song on the air. And 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 station in our area, WMMR out of Philadelphia, they were like, we got they picked us as the local artist of the month. Yeah, and the guy's like, hey, do you have radio edits of any of the songs on them there? I'm like, oh, well, this track's clean. This track's clean. I'm like, can we have a radio edit of Backseat Driver? And he's like, what about Astill aweg, I'm like, oh, come on.

12:55 Speaker 4: Sometimes it just feels good to be a little right, 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 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 studio and uh and coming up with not you instead of you.

13:11 Speaker 2: Know, okay, goatcha, yeah yeah, I love it. All right, all right, let's give the suspend. This is the radio add at the clean version of ASA Luego. The band is Jersey Calling.

13:43 Speaker 5: We read you.

13:46 Speaker 10: Wait too long now one need for spending, and we 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 treats and find us fuels, raise burning and sign right now for our great scream til we play not you, 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 Bear and Suka sitting on a campa.

14:53 Speaker 11: Not you, not you, not you, not you, You're going not your house? Stop stop stop?

15:49 Speaker 2: Oh I love it. Also Luego the band is Jersey Calling. That is very, very catchy, high energy. I always say when I play something like that, if it doesn't get to moving, check your pulse, you might be dead. But we've got three of the members of Jersey colleing here with us in studio. And how how much how much music have as the band recorded? Do you have a lot at this point?

16:10 Speaker 1: Yeah? We have a good amount online. Uh so we have three three full length albums, uh Daddy reissues, Punk Rock Retirement and Parasocial Security.

16:20 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:20 Speaker 1: And then we have two single releases Projections, which is actually two songs, It's Projections and poster Girl. And then we just released X Americana two weeks ago.

16:30 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, excellent. Now do you have do you have 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 our albums. We have vinyl of Parasocial security, and then we also have a seven inch vinyl of these single 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 release of X Americana because I mean, I was kind of thinking we'd save it for our next album, which will be sometime in twenty twenty six. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's just it's so expensive to get everything pressed at this point. Man, Like those seven inches were like, we're basically selling them at cost because it's tough. It's tough to jack up the price of something with 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 the show lately too with a lot of our guests. Is you know physical media because for a long time, so I've only been doing the show here at WMNH for about eight and a half years, but I've been interviewing bands for like twenty years, and and there was a period maybe ten years ago, maybe a little more, there was a period where everybody I would talk to would say, now physical media is dead. We're just putting everything online. Just Spotify and everything, and then, like especially probably in the last five years, I feel like there's been this reversal where obviously, yeah, you do have to put everything online, that's important, that that should be the 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 vinyl like they just stopped making vinyl at one point and then it came back, but it really never went away. But but there's been a resurgence with that. I think it was it was either twenty twenty three or maybe twenty twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs since CDs became the primary medium. So but my theory with that is, I think most people who buy vinyl they never even open it because if you're really a fan of an artist, like a lot of people who buy vinyl probably don't even have a record player, you know, they just buy it because if you really want to support that artist, you know, and then you 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, because it's yeah big, you know, oh yeah, but yeah, you know. What's crazy to me is like the amount of young people that are really into vinyl. Yeah, oh yeah, like the students that I teach, Like I have a sixth grade kid who he he's like really into vinyl and tapes and CD like like if it's if it's physical music, he is into it. Yeah, And I suspect like the streaming maybe is the introduction to that music. Yes, but if he likes it, he's going out and he's seeking out the physical album, which yeah, I mean that's 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, like you kind of had to either hear them live or just buy it and then listen and decide whether you like it or not. I kind of like that you can listen first and go no, I want that, like, 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 me some money in the nineties, man, that really would have absolutely.

19:38 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, I mean I think it's yeah, it's nice. That's a great point, Victoria, because and don't get me wrong, like I have memories of being a kid going to the record store and you know, flipping through things and finding things that look interesting. Oh this looks this has a cool cover. Maybe this will be cool, maybe it won't, 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 guess where, and you can find anything that that's some of the you know, cause I'm I'm Generation X. My generation is really the last generation to grow up without the internet. So I can still remember, like if there was a song that just popped into my brain one day and I'm like, oh, I haven't heard that in a while. I'd like to hear that. Well, what am I gonna do if I don't. If I don't have it myself, I don't know anyone who has it. I mean, it's all you know.

20:20 Speaker 2: But now I can just go online and find it. It's amazing. We lived in an amazing time.

20:24 Speaker 10: It is.

20:25 Speaker 1: It is pretty crazy. I remember like I would I would hear I would hear a single on the radio or I'd see it on like MTV or something, and then you had no choice. You had to go out and buy the album because like the single wasn't available or whatever. Yeah, and then you listen to the album 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 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 radio too.

21:03 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, same way, just recorded off Oh my god, I forgot that. Yeah. Oh yeah, I mean technically, like that's word admitting to crimes now, right, like this is this We're just this is like a confessional. Yeah, like 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 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, she has a question. She says, I'd like to know bands are artists that might have inspired them? Yeah, great, great subject. I want to know that too, like who are your inspirations? Who are your influences.

21:42 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw at the Sewan again because I haven't heard his voice in three minutes. Oh okay.

21:46 Speaker 3: From from a guitar playing perspective, there are three guitarists 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, but they're three people that I like. Those are the solos I try to learn and then try to just 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 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 from Hailstorm, and Amy Lely from Evanescence. Those are like my three very big ones. Yeah, but I you know, kind of like runs the gamut because I'm I'm also in cover bands and I kind of grew up on cover bands my dad did, so, yeah, I I grew up on like, you know, Green Day and actually and I'm a really funny one just because I think it's funny because I like rock, so I like Pearl Jam 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 Avril Lavine like when she started coming out, I learned how to sing like I just sucked in helium because of Britney Spears. Oh yeah, ad so like you know different, I have all these different influences and those so far, those three though, and I just got to meet Lizzie 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. But first it was you don't have to say, I'm just saying, but yeah, so those mine.

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

23:50 Speaker 1: Not really because I feel like like a lot of the kids nowadays, as far as rock is concerned, they listened to the same music that I listened to as a kids, so like like I'm big into like nineties punk and scat. It was a big SKA kid too. Yeah, and then they they go back even further, like like the same sixth grader the other day was like, hey, mister Kate's uh you ever listened to Minor Threat and I'm like, na, man, you're a lot more hardcore than like, 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, No Effects against Me. Really love Laura Jane Grace's solo stuff too, And then on the SKA side, I really I love Less than Jake. They were one of my favorite bands coming up. And then as far as like newer stuff, like I don't know Frank Turner. I really like Frank Turner. What's cool is like playing these shows we get to hear some like local bands that we actually like and I would probably never hear of like if it weren't for this. Yeah, like last night when we played with Futon Lasagnia, that band was rat but 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 a great band too. And then from around our area we got a backyard Superheroes that we just played with and title Holder, Like, there's a lot of really good undiscovered talent out there, and uh, I think that's one of the coolest things about being in a local band 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 a little bit of a dead milkman vibe from the last song we played.

25:30 Speaker 1: I guess that is a that is the biggest Philly compliment that you can receive. Yeah, I appreciate it now, Oh my god. Yeah, Like they're legends. Yeah, I'm like, I'm pretty sure they're going to build a statue of those guys next to the statue of Rocky Balboa that 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 it earlier. Should we play this? We haven't planned this, but this track got Queen of the Unclean. Yeah, we should give this a spin. What what should we know about this?

26:02 Speaker 1: So, like I said a little bit earlier, it is about trans trans writes. It is like I feel like upon a cursory read of it, you would never get that. You really have to kind of like read the lyrics, and then upon reading it a little bit more, it's like, oh, all right, I kind of get what they could be talking about here. I didn't want to make it super explicit because I don't know. Like, here's the thing, I'm not a trans person. I can't really speak for that community. It's really a song about like empathy because like I 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 I wrote that. I don't know, man like, because I saw all the like outrage coming from like certain media sources and from even like you know, like older friends and family members, and I'm just like why, like why, like why we can be this upset? I can know something that doesn't affect you at.

27:06 Speaker 2: All, I can relate to that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well 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 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. 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 humanity and lay on me up safe some redity, some 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 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. You're queen of me.

29:31 Speaker 6: I play, I'm tay, I can't take away your tech 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 Jersey calling. I'm glad that came up in conversation because we hadn't planned to play that one, but uh, I love it.

30:09 Speaker 1: Yeah. That one's more of a deep cut. That is that is not that is not one of our most 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, like I get to hear his solo live and I get excited about that.

30:22 Speaker 2: Yeah.

30:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now that is really good that Randy. He's got a really rad bassline on that, so it's fun for 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 in studio and now what is you're so you're in the area on your way to where do you have a show tonight? Yeah? Where are you playing tonight? We are at.

30:43 Speaker 1: Hutkey's at the Nook and that is in Westfield, Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts, and we're playing with all right here we go. I can do this, uh overy easy, m J Bones, always Man and the pros x okay, and I think I got all of them there, and I'm sorry if I missed anybody. I'm a jerk playing right for Yeah, 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. The show is presented by four thirteen ska uh and it starts tonight at uh oh Man, I want to say seven pm. Yeah, that sounds that sounds close to right. Sure, sure you know what you get there a little bit early. 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, what's up? Well, we'll get we'll get these guys hooked up with microphones. But while we do that, Jenny's helping 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 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 Victoria sings it and her voice.

32:20 Speaker 2: Oh nice, nice? Let me uh just getting this one loaded up here? And uh, by the way, where are all these recorded? Because everything sounds so good.

32:29 Speaker 1: Almost everything that we've recorded has been through the Gradwell House, which is a studio in head and Heights, New Jersey. Okay, almost every track is mixed, but mixed and and and mastered by them so mixed by Matt Weber and mastered by Dave Downham and they're co owners. Okay at these yeah, okay, okay, people excellent people.

32:50 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I know everything sounds really good. All right, let's give this a spin. This is Backseat Driver and the band is Jersey Calling.

33:14 Speaker 7: I watched you crawl to your cattleack like a wm or tube for you're broken, that carrying on the frost like a met some good blue two seeds, and you've 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, 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 out of the time, I see you.

34:20 Speaker 7: Don't a little talk to me, but I can't remember all the time of Tom Magic. Now you're suppressed on the tour. When I speak, or let us speak, get 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 every code. Y soon, I you soon, like you, like 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 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, I used to.

36:35 Speaker 1: I love it.

36:35 Speaker 2: That is so catchy, backseat driver, and the band is a Jersey calling and we have so let's see. I'm gonna get those mics up here because we have been joined in studio. I'll put the camera on them too for the stream here we've got two well basically the rhythm section is here, so let me turn those on and okay, we should be good. Hi guys, Oh good, I can hear you. Okay, welcome, So who are you? Please introduce yourselves? Introduce yourselves please. The drummer, John the drummer, Welcome, 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 bus man.

37:19 Speaker 2: We'll do that. Well, you know, as a fellow bass player. We we own up to our responsibilities. Right, If we make a mistake, we acknowledge that we uh we we 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, absolutely absolutely. So, well, let's let's do this. Tell us about your because we were talking about influences earlier, and I'm curious to hear what what you guys influence his inspirations musically and so forth.

37:54 Speaker 14: John, I have a big range. I would go from like led Zepp to the Who and then the past, I don't know, ten to fifteen years. I really got 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 itself for our own influence.

38:20 Speaker 13: A lot of my influences line up with Josh's Yeah, nineties punk, you know, skate punk, yeah, Green Day, Penny Wise, Offspring, Bad Religion yeah, yeah, descendants obviously.

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

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

38:42 Speaker 2: Excellent. Now what was this? While the song was playing, I heard something about and the word contiguous made its way into Oh my gosh, the conversation. I'm so glad you brought that up, aren't you. I thought you might be from the conversation.

38:57 Speaker 3: So my family and I two little kids, when we go on car trips, we desperately try to keep them entertained iPad's help. But we also have this license plate game where it's more involved than just counting how many different states you see, but you have to get a total of states that are all contiguous with one another. So like, if you see a Wyoming plate, in order to count it in the total, you got to connect it all the way to in this case, like New Hampshire and anyway. So I've been playing that and they've 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 plate for the state that you're in.

39:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to wait until you get out of that state and then see that state's plate in another state.

39:45 Speaker 1: I was trying to help you by naming license plates that I saw, and I realized very quickly that I did not understand the game. And I'm just I'm I'm 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, 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 the kids.

40:11 Speaker 1: It does geography, yes, exactly. Yeah, shout out your kids 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 of the one that would be excited that my daughter 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 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 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 what it is. I think she gets a kick out 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? You all like ride together? How does that work as 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. 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 do it, right, because I've met bands who, you know, they've got like three cars.

41:27 Speaker 1: You know, rolling, and it's like, uh, it's also convenient that none of us breaks six feet in height, like 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. I mean five to nine is a national average, right, 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, 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 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, 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. You're the second newest, Victoria? Okay, gotcha? Gotcha? Okay, all right? 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. 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 it bad.

42:57 Speaker 1: I think all right, all self depric aside. I think the the dueling male and female vocals are really cool. Like, I think it makes it more interesting to listen to. I think I love Victoria's voice. I love the way our voices work together.

43:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it just adds another I think a little bit more depth to our songs. I think there's there's a story that Victory is able to tell with her voice. That and and give something to the lyrics that we write that might not have been there 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, I do want to get one more song in which well we'll play in a moment. Which is the one that you sent that we did play yet It was uh oh yeah projections that came up in the conversation earlier. But we're gonna play that in a moment to end the segment. But thank you all, all five of you for being here. This has been one full thanks.

44:00 Speaker 15: Happing us man. Yeah, absolutely sorry about ringing your doorbell. We wanted to come in.

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

44:18 Speaker 2: That's all right, that's all right. I like the spontaneity and it's very punk. You know, you you ring a doorbell. 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 not the boss of me.

44:36 Speaker 15: We have a music video for this song that you're about to play. It's pretty fun.

44:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a ton of music, but like we have a good amount of music videos for a local band. Man, Like we have over ten music videos on YouTube. Oh nice, wow, Please if you're listening, check us out on YouTube. We put a lot of work in those videos. Man, there were a lot of fun to make and they're time kidsuing man music video take forever.

45:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, I will. I will check those out definitely for those listening live on Saturday. Let's remind people where you're playing tonight.

45:09 Speaker 1: Huckey's at the Nook, Westfield, Massachusetts. I want to say the addresses eight Franklin Street. You know what, I'm just gonna go with it. I think that's right. I'm not even going to check my phone. Eight Franklin Street, Westfield, Massachusetts. Hockey's at the Nook. Yeah, you know, I'm probably messing 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? Is that? Uh, do you have a show tomorrow night 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. Oh okay, So so tonight after the show is done, I am drinking a lot of pre workout energy drink 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, and uh, opening up for Markey Ramon, which is pretty pretty freaking cool.

46:15 Speaker 2: That is cool. That's very cool, very cool. Well listen, Thank you again. I appreciate all of you coming in. This has been amazing. We will do it again in the future as you're releasing new music, you know, or next next time you're in the area, and uh, you know, and even if even if you want to do it sooner, you know, we can always do it, do it online or something. But but we're big fans love Jersey Calling. So we're gonna play this in a moment and uh, if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Lou Antonucci is with us and really looking forward to talking with him.

46:43 Speaker 2: But we will close out the segment with this. This is called Projections and the band is Jersey Calling, and thank you all. Again, thank you, thank you. That's the wrong song. You know, you know it's funny. Let me turn those mice back on for a second. You know what's funny about that is it did sound familiar to me. When it started. 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 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 gonna try that again. But see, Randy, did you notice though I'm a bass player, I took responsibility just like 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 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.

47:45 Speaker 8: What's the hold up? Now?

47:46 Speaker 10: Call me the reluctant, overthinking calculady. Keep the fucking loud, look.

47:54 Speaker 5: Right, what the cot.

47:56 Speaker 11: Word she went to your nightf ten?

48:02 Speaker 9: Stepping out is too.

48:06 Speaker 5: It's not called slats.

48:07 Speaker 4: The checks seven steptions, not seven stetches.

48:19 Speaker 10: So it down, locking it up, miles hollow, round a million tiny boys and shot at trust and top up bound, filter bags, camera tracks, messer me west class tre's the numbers, body ticking, got it, get off?

48:33 Speaker 11: Fix's not God went to rip.

48:37 Speaker 8: Your mighty slepping and the.

48:40 Speaker 11: Curd j it's not called spot.

48:43 Speaker 9: To protect some seven steps and.

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48:56 Speaker 9: But I come chat, you were chatting the pack, mister God.

49:01 Speaker 11: Lost time three thir.

49:33 Speaker 9: Was never good with you, che mind that you never sleeping at.

49:38 Speaker 11: My crowns to.

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