KtK (Kevin Kierstead) | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: When Mattso wakes up in the morning, he gets into the shower and to the top of his lungs.

0:06 Speaker 2: He sings, I do what I want.

0:13 Speaker 3: Because I can't.

0:15 Speaker 4: All right, I'm back to the radio show. Now on the best Jerry.

0:28 Speaker 5: In your wildest dreams, you could never imagine, in your craziest thoughts, you couldn't.

0:40 Speaker 6: Ever conceive.

0:44 Speaker 4: One had one mind.

0:46 Speaker 7: One soul, one boys, one true, one or one choice.

0:52 Speaker 4: Come on, people, come on, people, come on, peoples, get this done and come on.

1:01 Speaker 8: People, come on, people, come on people.

1:05 Speaker 4: Let's get this started right now.

1:15 Speaker 1: Let your chance and face against the side.

1:22 Speaker 6: Together.

1:23 Speaker 2: We are strong and wistle, one.

1:30 Speaker 3: Hard, one mind, one.

1:32 Speaker 7: Soul, one noois, one tree, one door, one choice.

1:38 Speaker 8: Come on, people, come on, people, come on, people, escape this start.

1:45 Speaker 6: Come on, people, come on, people, come on.

1:51 Speaker 9: They will escape this start what we did to give. Just wait to see the escape the stone.

2:33 Speaker 3: In the wind.

2:36 Speaker 4: If they escape the stock.

2:39 Speaker 8: The part they would they could make hardship the stock,

2:52 Speaker 8: the escape the stock.

2:54 Speaker 2: Who Hey, welcome back everybody. If you are listening live on Saturday, October twenty five, twenty twenty five, We've just entered our number two new Marrow doos of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here, of course at the news table and the song we just heard that it's called People Come On and we've got kt K also known as Kevin Kirstaid here with us in studio. Welcome Kevin. Hey, guys, I love I love that song.

3:47 Speaker 2: I love everything about it. I love the solo, I love your voice and I love the whole vibe. Everything about that is amazing. Thank you very much, absolutely absolutely very happy to play that this morning and excited to talk to you. You came to us through Eric from JAMDEMICJM.

4:04 Speaker 10: Demic, one of my best buddies these days. Yeah, they're really on top of things, on top of their game. They're a hot band. I run sound for them, Okay, and yeah, Eric said, Matt Connerton has some spots and so I'm new and I have all my material ready. I'm just getting started in the local area. But yeah, Eric sent me over here and I'm glad to be here.

4:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, and well we're glad to have you.

4:30 Speaker 10: Yeah.

4:30 Speaker 2: I love what you're doing. What can you tell us about that song?

4:34 Speaker 10: By the way, So that particular song was inspired and it's a couple of roots. The ascending rhythm line came when I bought my Yamaha trans Acoustic is an acoustic guitar that has Courus and reaver built into it. Okay, my boss at work brought one in two years prior and played it for me, and I was absolutely amazed, and over the course of I wanted one. I wanted one, but I really didn't buy things too much. I didn't buy new instruments or things like that, and I really wasn't doing my own music, just a little bit here and there.

5:11 Speaker 10: But I sold all kinds of little things on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and saved eight hundred dollars and bought a brand new my first brand new instrument, yeah, in my late fifties, Yamaha trans Acoustic guitar. And once I got it, I picked it up and played it every single day. So the rising line in that come on, people come on. The guitar rises in there, and it was born out of that people come On. But it's a really a song about revolution and joining together and the power of unity, and it was inspired by there was an Iranian woman who was shot and killed for protesting, and shortly afterwards all the iron and women started coming out into the streets and protesting.

6:03 Speaker 10: Yep. And I really don't remember what happened with all of that, but it really inspired. It showed me the power of what they were starting to do. Yes, and even though they were against all odds and they really didn't have much of a chance, what they could do together made a difference and made an impact. So that song speaks to the power of unity, one heart, one voice, mind. Yeah, I love it. I love it.

6:30 Speaker 2: Where did you record that?

6:32 Speaker 10: So all these songs were recorded at a shout out to Zach Kazak Wild Feather Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Excellent. So last October, it's been a year now. These songs haven't existed until a year ago. I started recording all these and I just got the master that you played two weeks ago. Okay, wow, so I've had I went down. I did fourteen songs down there. Yeah, and that was one of the first ones. Yeah. So it's a magical place. It's just a little small place, much like the radio station and all the studios down there, all just small old houses converted and all vintage equipment.

7:15 Speaker 10: And I walked in to that place and I had my dream of recording all my life. I walked in there. I said, I'm not here because I think I have something that's going to sell a jillion or anything like that. I'm here because I don't want Tom playing crap at my funeral. I have all these songs. I have basement recordings. They're just not good. I have old live recordings, old bands, and something's not recorded and people Come On was a basement recording. A lot of the elements of it, like the beginning whisper come on Yeah, was developed in the basement.

7:48 Speaker 10: Over time, some of those things came together. Yeah. But you just walk in the studio there, and the studio pros are worth every penny. They seem to know what you're thinking. Laid down my dummy track with my trans acoustic yeah, and they take it all to the next level. And then I get to sing on top of it. And I got to play bass on all those too, Lucky me. Yeah, it was only taken out of my hand at one point from someone who could do a little better.

8:14 Speaker 2: Really, that's funny. Yeah, so you recorded how many fifteen?

8:19 Speaker 10: I did fourteen songs in the studio. I have fifteen tracks for you, okay. One of them is from nineteen ninety two. I recorded at Ryan's songs in pepperl Wow and had to be remastered. So I've had the opportunity to record a couple of times over my life, just that really well that one time in ninety two and now here at Wildfeather Okay, so Wildfeather, Zach Kazak, he's a complete pro. All the magic is the producer. The people are good, you know, the musicians of course, off notch. Yeah, the producer who tells you no, don't do that, here, do that there a little less?

8:54 Speaker 10: Think about that baby you're singing too. Ye he was really an inspiration and uh he sent me in the right direction.

9:02 Speaker 2: So that's excellent.

9:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been tough for showing up with the whole band of YEA, so it was very It was fun to just be the only person so and yeah, I went with his input a lot of times over mine. I don't care. Later on that you we might play. I'm not sure. There's a part we cut out, a little talking part that I do live the time I do open mic, everyone gets a chuckle, and I do live because I do an implied rhyme with a bad word. Okay, but I never say it. But he said, this song will hit the radio. You can't leave that in there.

9:36 Speaker 10: They don't want that. Yeah, so he was really conscious of what could have He was aware of what could happen in my music, and he was really helpful.

9:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, was that intimidating at all going to Nashville and doing all that? Or because we've had a lot of artists on the show, a lot of guests over the years who have done that, and and I hear, you know, some some people say, oh no, I felt really comfortable, and you know, I knew exactly where I was going and everything, and other artists will tell me other guests have said, you know, yeah, it was kind of Nashville. That's kind of a big deal going there. I was a little it was a little scary, Like, how did you feel going there and doing this?

10:12 Speaker 10: So this relationship was cultivated over a number of years through Facebook friends and through connections.

10:18 Speaker 2: That helps.

10:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, So I sent a few things to Zach over the years, and you get mixed reactions Yeah. Then I sent him round up the vote, which I did in the basement barbershop quartet. It was me myself and I all me except for Tom from the Milk Crates came over and played piano for me. But I sent that to Zach and he said, wow, that's a cute little thing. You need that mastered, and he offered to do it cheaply, and so I sent him. I was, I was a fool. I sent him my mess of tracks from the basement. I sent him forty three different tracks for maybe six different eight different elements.

11:00 Speaker 10: Yeah, but he cleaned it up and made it real nice. And after that point he uh, I said, can you listen to the rest of my stuff and put them into folders? And I let him listen to twenty odd songs, maybe old live band recordings, some just me doing it by myself in some basement recordings. Yeah, I said, put them in hits and shelf, you know, And he put most of them in hits.

11:28 Speaker 2: Nice.

11:29 Speaker 10: So I had I found myself with some money to do some stuff, and I scheduled my time for October to go down there and we picked six of them, eight of them the first time. Yeah, and did did those in a week. I stayed down there a whole week. Yeah, yep, excellent. Wow, it was one of the funnest times. Yeah, in the studio, magical place. Yeah, and you know when they're tracking and when the lead players are doing all their work a couple of times down outside and cry tears of joy magic happening upstairs.

12:05 Speaker 10: You didn't expect these things to blossom into this. I knew in my head what they sounded like, so they didn't make it sound exactly like that, but boy, they did an awesome job and making it sound into something spectacular. Absolutely. So some of the things they're completely different from the basement recordings, I don't care. And the basement recording is real guitar heavy and stuff, and the studio recording is just pretty yeah.

12:35 Speaker 6: And so.

12:37 Speaker 10: Yeah, things changed in the studio too, But it was the most It was one of the most fun thing of fun times ever around in my life. Oh that's great.

12:44 Speaker 2: Now, while you were down there, did you get a chance to play out at all? Did you do any open mics anywhere or anything like that?

12:51 Speaker 10: Not this time? Yeah, a time prior I had made sure I went down to visit and I made sure I went to an open micah, so yeah, And I had never done any up here at that point. This was like three or four years back, and I told myself, I'm going to Nashville. My daughter went to college in Nashville. Oh okay, I was in and out. Yeah. And I went to an open mic there and had never been to one, and so I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know you had to listen to the featured artists for like an hour and a half or two hours before you get to play your one song in a chair with four other people in a row.

13:28 Speaker 10: So, yeah, it was a little tough in Nashville. It's a tight town and there's not too many open mics.

13:33 Speaker 2: That's the part that where people have told me it can be intimidating, that that whole element of it.

13:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, they were all sitting in the chairs and that was the last one, and I couldn't sit in my chair. I'm not a sitter when I sing, yeah to stand up. Yeah, And I did my Tequila song and I did really well. Yeah. I did my basement recording of Tequila is out at the time, and it still is out right now. On sodcast. You can find Kevin kirstaid hashtag hydrate is the name of the song. Okay aka Tequila. But I played down in Nashville. I made little QR codes on business cards and little stickers.

14:12 Speaker 2: Smart.

14:13 Speaker 10: I went in bathrooms and stuck my stickers and stalls. Ye, left my little cards everywhere. Yeah. My Reverb Nation page got a few hits from some of those things.

14:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.

14:22 Speaker 10: So it was fun. Self producing is tough. There's a lot to do, a lot a lot to do. Yeah, absolutely, But Nashville it was a little intimidting. But I'd been there with my daughter, so I loved the town. Loved the town obviously. Yeah, couldn't wait to play there. I can't wait to play there someday as an artist.

14:43 Speaker 2: Oh I can imagine. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, well sold. We play another one of these studio.

14:47 Speaker 10: Tracks, missed Me when I'm Gone. It's one of my favorites. Okay, that was one of the ones I was never able to pre record. Most of the other ones had a pre recording. That one I went down with and I just through it and they took it from there. Get a groove to it, ye, got a Yeah, it's got a groove.

15:05 Speaker 2: It does it does, Yeah, it does, absolutely. All right, let's give this a spin. If you're just joining us, kt K is with us Kevin Kirstead. But kt K is what that's the name of the project, right, that's why you're going with for Yeah, and for those of you watching online, if you're watching on YouTube, he's got the shirt to with the cool I do like the logo kt K.

15:22 Speaker 10: The T is me?

15:23 Speaker 2: Is he your middle initial?

15:24 Speaker 10: Kevin Thomas? That's that's what.

15:26 Speaker 2: Oh, we have the same middle middle name. I'm also Thomas.

15:30 Speaker 10: There's another Kevin Thomas kirst in this area.

15:33 Speaker 2: Is there really?

15:34 Speaker 10: Yes? There is?

15:35 Speaker 2: Jeez. That's funny. All right, well let's give this a spin. So this is called the full title has Missed Me when I'm Gone, Missed Me when I'm gone, miss Me when I'm Gone by k t K.

15:44 Speaker 10: Check it out.

15:59 Speaker 6: I'm staying and in my face, but I'm standing at the dawn.

16:04 Speaker 3: I have miss.

16:04 Speaker 1: Communication and scrimmling up my brain, hidden me and you Windo driving me insane.

16:14 Speaker 4: Maybe it's team.

16:15 Speaker 3: I've been the team.

16:19 Speaker 6: I know, I know, I know, I got I gotta get away. You gone miss me, young, y'all?

16:27 Speaker 4: Miss me, you young, miss me.

16:30 Speaker 3: When I'm gone.

16:32 Speaker 9: When I'm gone, y'all.

16:34 Speaker 4: Dony'll mess me. You gone miss me, You're gone, mess me, You're gonna mess me, miss me, missed me.

16:43 Speaker 6: When I'm gone. And I can have my own opinion if I keep it to myself.

16:57 Speaker 1: I can talk about our proper joust with someone else. I can mean mound decision if I'm sure that he could fight. But you think I just screwed up again. I can't see any of you. He needs a team and me the team. I know, I know, I know, I've got I gotta get away.

17:23 Speaker 6: You're gonna miss me.

17:25 Speaker 4: You you'll miss me.

17:28 Speaker 6: You're gonna miss me when I'm gone. Then I'm gone. Now you're gonna miss me.

17:35 Speaker 4: You're gonna miss me.

17:37 Speaker 6: You're gonna miss me.

17:39 Speaker 3: You're miss me, miss me, miss me.

17:41 Speaker 1: Why I'm gone, meaning my chance the clouds will go, and I see.

17:57 Speaker 4: You're lighter the team.

18:01 Speaker 1: I'll just get.

18:02 Speaker 4: Back into and to everything you say.

18:36 Speaker 6: Yo, y'll miss me, young, y'd miss me? Y y'all miss me?

18:43 Speaker 3: Where I'm gone?

18:44 Speaker 6: Where I'm gone, day.

18:46 Speaker 4: Y'all mess me young god miss me, go, I God mess me, miss me?

18:52 Speaker 3: Wow?

18:53 Speaker 2: Well, Well, where I'm gone that has miss me when I'm gone. The radio edit from Katy k Kevin Kier said, who is here with us live in studio? Yeah, you were saying at the end of the song. The other version ends a little bit differently, little differently, a little differently. No, but I love that. I do love the groove on that and the guitar playing. So is that all you as well?

19:16 Speaker 10: Though? No, no, I don't play the guitar on that. Only bass okay okay. Guitarist was in Nashville. Mike Sherry is his name, and amazing, absolutely amazing.

19:24 Speaker 2: What's going on in your mind when he's laying down that solo, Like you must be over the moon, like at how well that's coming out? That was a solo is fantasy. Everything he did on that track was fantastic.

19:36 Speaker 10: Absolutely fantastic. And that was like his second time. That was only like a second really yeah, So I think that was one of the moments I listened to it and then it was being remixed. I went down and cried, you know these things, it's like so amazing what these people come up with. The pro Like I said, the pros are worth everybody, yep, yep. But he nailed it exactly what I wanted, exactly what I wanted because he heard the angst in the song. Yep, he caught the grown and that was the bassline too.

20:08 Speaker 10: The groove is in the bass line, it's in his line. But there's multiple multi So you listen to that and you only hear a guitar or two, but you don't know this several layers, and so the amazing part of the studio. Uh, he plays the rhythm part for that, and then producer says, Okay, pick up the strat the same exact thing with the straton now instead of less Paul, okay do that. Okay, Now we're plugging you in a different amp. Multiple multiple takes of the same thing, different sounds and different instruments.

20:38 Speaker 10: The producer built the sound so it sounds like one guitar, but it's actually multiples of different guitars and different amps that are cleverly woven together to craft that. And so there's the different tracks too and this, so there's multiple takes of multiple That was the fun part of listening to it. The leads weren't just the one time obviously, yeah things and then the producer would reached out so all the leads, and most of the guitar playing was done in the control booth, you know. The amp was in the other room and it was so this was the funniest part.

21:12 Speaker 10: I went to help Mike come in, and I went to pick up his amp. Have you put it on the ground outside the car, And I went to the handle and Zach and Mike both looked at me and say, don't pick it up by the handle. Oh really, fifty seven Fender Tweed Vintage something other other. Yeah, just don't pick them up by the handle. Yeah. Yeah, But brought it upstairs. They plugged it in and had a giant hum in it. I'm like, what are they why are they bringing this here? Yeah, And Zach gets in the studio on the other side of the control booth and he pulls up this little plug in and all of a sudden, no hum on.

21:47 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:47 Speaker 10: So he just knocked it right out of the thing, and then everything out of was clean and pure. After that, it was on eleven, and so the guy was in our room playing and so you're just sitting in a room with his pedal board. A few pedals. Yeah, the producer is reaching down half the time changing the pedals. Yeah, yeah, doing all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, the musicians are one thing, and the producer, the magic producer, is the really the key element of all that. Zach Kasach a shout out once again.

22:17 Speaker 10: Yeah, Wild Feather Recording, Nashville Student, Nashville, Tennessee.

22:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, did any of those songs that we recorded there become out like a lot different than what you had imagined? Or was everything pretty close? Or I mean, obviously, I'm sure a lot of them came out, you know, better than you had you would even imagine, right, But but but did any of them come out? I guess what I'm really asking is were there any surprises where at the end of it you were like, Wow, this is I like this, but it's not necessarily what I thought it was going to be.

22:46 Speaker 10: Absolutely, I don't care that. I hope we play later. Yeah. One of those songs that was a basement recording and it was heavy, heavy guitar, heavy into the guitar and I leaned on the decord and just rolled around with the ball things. But it was heavy on the top end of the two strings being the same sound all the time. And when it got to Nashville, that was gone and I kind of realized it, but I loved what was happening with it. And I got back and I let a friend listen to it. Yeah, and they said that song is completely different.

23:18 Speaker 10: I was like, you know what, You're right, it is different. So what they morph and tuned into. I accept that there's different versions of different songs and they'll be played differently many times. And so the heavy guitar version is my open mic version that I go to all the time, and it still is the root, and like it's sure, and but I love the stuff that came out of the studio is excellent.

23:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, that must be exciting too, like like not only seeing these things or hearing these things that you've you've come up with, these ideas that have now that are now these fully produced songs. But when something does turn out differently, that's that's there's something kind of a terious about that, right.

24:01 Speaker 10: Like absolutely, yeah, you'll take it to the edge and push it. And so all of my ideas I think are good and in my head, and the songs they're of course in my head, they're all hits. Yeah, when you present them to other people and other people's input comes into them and they morph is when they start to get wings yep, and change into something different, hopefully for something good you know that you're working with. But all these guys were pros and and this stuff even happens live at open mics and things when you're working on originals, and uh, you just throw it out there, come on up and play.

24:36 Speaker 10: It's ea, b let's go one, four five, you can do it. Yeah, And what they end up coming up with is is unique. Sometimes you need stuff I hadn't thought of.

24:45 Speaker 2: We should talk about the open mics.

24:48 Speaker 10: Open mics. I've been to open mics for about the past fourteen months. Yeah, i'd only done that one in Nashville prior. Oh, it was intimidating.

24:58 Speaker 2: It's It's cool though that the one, the first one you did was in Nashville of all places, right like you jumped into the deep end of the pool before you really had had any experience swimming, you know what I mean.

25:10 Speaker 10: Absolutely, I wondered what the New Hampshire open mics were going to be like. So my niece Rachel Rachel Evan Jocos shout out to Granted State Blue Society.

25:21 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, we've had a couple of people from there on the show. Yeah.

25:24 Speaker 10: My very first open mic in New Hampshire was July one Keys Piano Bar when they had an open mic on I think it was a Monday night. I'm not sure. It might have been a Sunday hosted by One Dime Band. Shout out to One Dime Band, uh, they were great hosts. I showed up at a blues open mic with an acoustic guitar. I felt like I had a rubber knife at a gunfight and I didn't know what to play. But I signed up and Rachel was going to meet me there, and Rachel all of a sudden couldn't make it. So here I about my first open mic all by myself.

26:02 Speaker 10: I'm like, oh, okay, wow, And then he called me up and I played Mustang Sally and so we did blues and other people played along. Obviously they were awesome, and I was like, wow, it's great playing with these people. But I wish I knew some blues or something. Yeah. I didn't do any original that. I just played along with a couple of other things. But that was my first open mic. But of course I was a bit by the bug and I started looking for where there was open mics and it was you can. You can do an open mic almost every night of the week if you're clever enough.

26:36 Speaker 10: It's hard to find him on Fridays and Saturdays where the people get paid. But yeah, Monday nights I found stumble in Lisa Guyer's open mic. She doesn't have it there anymore. I don't know if that will come back. That was a wonderful time. I can talk about that a little bit sure. Tuesday night Casey's Ribshack, Manchester Tuesday Night also Milford Station one on one. Okay, Wednesday night Riley's Place in Milford and Thursday night Rilly'es Place in Milford. That's become like my home base. Yeah, so that's where I'm living now.

27:12 Speaker 10: I go there almost every week. So if you want to hear any of my stuff, any originals, come down to Riley's Place in Milford Wednesday or Thursday. I'm usually there. Yeah. I usually end up getting signed up last because I get there late and so you won't catch me till near the end. On a Thursday. But Wednesday night's acoustic open mic there. Thursday nights they have a whole backline drum set, bass, guitar. You could come down with your band, Matt and jump up on stage and play your stuff or my stuff if you want.

27:39 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, but it's fun showing up with a band. Sometimes sometimes I do organize a few people and we show up. But those are yeah, so open mics have been. I've been doing them the past fourteen months, almost every night of every week.

27:57 Speaker 2: Excellent.

27:59 Speaker 10: I sang all my life. I always helped people and did gigs with people. Play bass. I play bass mostly, Yeah, me too.

28:07 Speaker 2: I'm a player.

28:08 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, by five string?

28:10 Speaker 2: No, I've never played a five string in my life. I've never picked.

28:14 Speaker 10: I know. Wait till you hit that other string.

28:16 Speaker 2: That's what That's what everyone says.

28:18 Speaker 10: Drummers love that other string. Yeah, you can move drummers with your fifth string. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I believe it. I believe it. I've got more smiles out of drummers that have never played with a five string bass player. Kidding, and then all of a sudden they jam with him and they're like, whoa, what is that vibe I'm feeling? No kidding, that's part of getting your songs. Haven't a groove to them?

28:39 Speaker 6: Yeah?

28:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, you got the groove and you can bounce down and have some low rumble going on. They haven't felt before like that stuff.

28:46 Speaker 2: Some of the bands I've played and that would have been really uh handy. Actually yeah, I never Oh, you know what. I wanted to mention too though about Milford because you're talking about Milford. This comes up a lot on the show Milford. So so for people who don't know people listening online from other areas, Milford is any because people from other areas who don't know New Hampshire might think, because Milford comes up so often that Milford is like this booming metropolis in New Hampshire, because it's like it's almost like the center of the of the music universe in New Hampshire is in what is actually this little town Milford.

29:19 Speaker 2: There's so much going on in Milford for music, like it it's like it's at a point where like at least, you know, we do the show every Saturday at least two or three times over the course of a month Milford, somebody's talking about Milford and and everything that's going on in Milford with music. It's really interesting, like like it seems like that town really it's a music city, but it's not even a city. It's a town, you know, what I mean. It's wild and it's very cool.

29:46 Speaker 10: I had never known that Milford was the music metropolis. I love that term. Yeah, that it is. You can walk around the Oval in Milford and there will be six different places that you could walk in that someone's playing an acoustic guitar singing.

30:03 Speaker 2: It's wild.

30:04 Speaker 10: Absolutely one of the most musically magical places. Yeah, I had never known a place like it existed. I surely hope there are other places in the country like Milford. I would love to visit them, and.

30:20 Speaker 2: I'm sure there are. We just don't know because you wouldn't hear about them because they're just these towns, right, These just these small towns where, for whatever reason, music is really prevalent.

30:28 Speaker 10: It's the smallest little town. Yeah it is. There's music, and within walking distance you could go to ten different places to hear a live act or a band.

30:39 Speaker 2: It's amazing. It's amazing.

30:41 Speaker 10: It is a blast showing up at the open mics of these different places too. And now that I'm there, I'm recognized, and I recognize others. I'm invited to play with others too. That's the funnest part. I don't I don't want to ask to play, but if they want to ask me to play, I will. Yeah. Absolutely.

30:59 Speaker 2: That's tremendous valady right when somebody says, hey, you want to play with us?

31:03 Speaker 10: Yeah. Fun. So I was doing open mics and I was playing bass along, playing bass with some things that I would have my sister. So one of the greatest joys of my life has been making music with my sister.

31:19 Speaker 10: She's the alto, I'm the tenor. We can make you sound great, Matt, Yeah, yeah, we'll back you up and make you sound awesome. Yeah. It's been fun. And so sometimes she's available and we'll she'll come down to Riley's. And I have different drummer friends. One of my drummer friends Jean Richard from Six Ways to Sunday, the band that I'm working for tonight, okay, okay, he's their lead singer, but he's my drummer, okay, And I bring him in there and and different guitarists and stuff. But we will do the whole band stuff with some of these originals as well.

31:51 Speaker 10: Yeah, And we also play annually at a camp for physically mentally handicapped people. We've played it fifteen years now. We started out in the dining hall, me and Barb doing an amazing grace, take me out to the ballgame on the piano and guitar and bringing in others and now we play in the gymnasium. This past year we were told no light show, no blow upsiant, no confetti. Can it's okay, okay. Yeah, So this past year I actually brought cotton snowballs instead and we had an indoor snowball fight.

32:28 Speaker 11: Oh.

32:29 Speaker 10: I try to bring something every year for these people to props to play with. One year it was noisemaker things. Yeah. One year we let them come up and sing a few things too, but we played there. Yeah, fifteen years running excellent. It's one of the greatest blessings is playing people who really appreciate it. Don't get to see bands and things where they're dance for their week. It's a faith based camp where they're let their hair down and have a dance night. Yeah, we do a couple of faith based songs, but we do mostly Taylor Swift and yeah, you know, all that kind of stuff.

33:07 Speaker 2: So we'll have the whole band and that's fantastic.

33:10 Speaker 10: One year we did the stroll by the Diamonds. Well, all the wheelchairs went down the middle of the gymnasing for ten minutes we played that song. Yeah, he loved it. Yeah, and they love it. It's one of the greatest joys to playing there of year. But that's with my sister. One of the greatest joys of my life. Yeah, the music with my sister. So shout out to Barb Patch.

33:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's awesome. Does she also do like, does she do her own thing musically or does she only perform with you or.

33:36 Speaker 10: So She's recorded with me on this on the fourteen songs, So we did. So I went to Nashville the first time by myself. Yeah. I went in February again to do six more songs, and me and Barb drove down. Yeah. Great trip of my life. If you want a good trip of your life, spend eighteen hours in a car with your siblings.

33:57 Speaker 2: Yeah.

33:57 Speaker 10: The person who knows you the best will bring up all kinds of things you don't need to you.

34:02 Speaker 2: Know, sure, no doubt.

34:03 Speaker 10: Wonderful time. And she had never been in a big studio either, and uh, it was I think one of the greatest trips she's had as well.

34:13 Speaker 2: So that's so cool.

34:14 Speaker 10: My daughter also came in and did some of the vocals. One of the songs that we won't hear today but tied up Baby in Love, my daughter sang with me, so she's the female lead on that song. It goes back and forth.

34:25 Speaker 2: Oh, that's so cool.

34:27 Speaker 10: And several songs that we wrote even at church. So with Barb I did five years of church band my kids were two and five and five years of every week, three new songs a week. So at the time I looked at it as difficult and oh I got to go do this again. But it was the greatest learning experience, no doubt, I could have never asked for. And it was absolutely wonderful. I had to work on new things every week, things you've never heard before. And you had to learn your harmony part, and your guitar part, your bass part.

35:06 Speaker 10: Oh the drummers out, you're playing drums this week. Okay, so things like that. So one of the greatest learning experiences she gave me without me realizing it.

35:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. You don't realize still later, right, how how important that was. And absolutely you know, and having that foundation musically, and.

35:26 Speaker 10: And the foundation did come from the religious music. In the beginning, we were all brought up there and she does that every week. Still I do that probably once a month. Yeah, there's a need for musicians at local churches. They could use any of us anytime. They are so glad when I come play music. Yeah, just so thankful and joyous. Yeah, and they try to pay me. I don't accept it at this really. Yeah, some of the piano people, you know, they're paying gigs at churches for sure, but I'm not interested in any But yeah, there is a need for any musicians out there to serve in that fashion if they're available to do so.

36:09 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I grew up in Concord and we used to go to Saint John's on Sunday and they they always had a band.

36:16 Speaker 10: The worship team, be part of the worship team.

36:19 Speaker 2: Ye, it's funny. I don't I don't remember ever hearing that term specifically worship team, but I just remember like, and I don't think they had any kind of a name or anything. They were just but but I think it was pretty consistently the same people each week. But they would do these songs they were like they were religious songs, but they were like they but they weren't hymns, you know what I mean like like they would do a song called share a little Bit of Your Love.

36:40 Speaker 10: Okay, but it was like.

36:41 Speaker 2: Share a little bit of your love, my friends, share a little bit of your love. But it wasn't it wasn't a hymn you know that that I think any of us had ever heard before. I don't know. They may have even written it themselves, I don't know. But they would do songs like that, you know what I mean, like almost like almost borderline secular some of them, but but just very positive, uplifting songs, if that makes sense. But but yeah, I was always kind of fascinated by that because it was like I've never like, I've never heard that.

37:09 Speaker 2: I mean, they would do I suppose they would do him too. My memory of it is fuzzy. This was when I was a kid. But but but yeah, Darryl Hall, I've heard say in interviews he credits his mother taking him on Sundays and they, you know, in Philadelphia, they would go to they would go to a black church and that's how he learned to sing, singing at the black church because that that gave him that that foundation, you know, and his mother was apparently a really good singer. Too, but but she insisted on bringing him there so that he could learn how to sing like her, and that's that's how he developed that that soulful voice.

37:48 Speaker 10: It's a great foundation and it's a lot of fun to sing in church. I did the choirs, and then they learned that I could find the note and read the note and follow it on the sheet music. So I was pulled into a quartets and things like that, and quartets were good sing along with background tapes yep, and touring different churches with the PV and short column speakers, the old school stuff. Wow, And so that was yeah, my younger days, that was a lot of fun. The church was a great foundation to learn, and so singing hymns, we would sing those in the pews and we would sing our harmony parts, and sooner or later we would get bored singing harmony and we would sing off key on purpose, so the old ladies would look at us really funny.

38:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, we would sing so well that we would sing off key on purpose a few times. The church was the foundation of singing and learning sound stuff, learning how to plug in wires, learning with all those buttons.

38:45 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, all that stuff absolutely well. We talked about it a bit. Do you want to play this track?

38:51 Speaker 10: I don't care, let's do I don't care and one of my favorites. This is my radio song. Okay, so at every open mic and I get smiles from this minute every open mic too. So it sounds like a love song. It is a love song. It's actually written from the perspective of your pug, oh pet Oh okay, so it's it's unconditional love. I don't care about anything, you know. I don't care about why you look like, what you smell like, and I don't care what. Just let me be with you. Yeah. So I don't think people will hear that it's from their pet.

39:25 Speaker 10: I always thought it could be used as the ASPCA commercial or something like that. Oh yeah, but I don't care. It's one of the ones that morphed from the basement recording into something quite different when the pros got it. And it's beautiful, lots of keyboards layers that I don't expect. That's where a lot of the new stuff came from. How sounds changed when you added a player on an instrument that could be any other instrument, and so a lot of things changed in that it really became something beautiful.

39:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, great, let's give this a spen. This is I don't care, and this is K T K. Our friend Kevin Ker said, is here with us, alive and suiting, And let's give this suspense.

40:12 Speaker 6: Did sure eat your fancy clues?

40:15 Speaker 12: Oh the way that you strike a pose that keeps me hanging around without a frown, your personal clown.

40:23 Speaker 13: It's not the funny things you say, old silly games we play that keep me sticking around. I'll never ever let you down making your big plans.

40:35 Speaker 6: And everything's okay if you on the pimos.

40:42 Speaker 12: I got nothing to say because I don't care. I'll go with you anywhere. I don't care about your little tattoos.

40:53 Speaker 6: Or the color of your hair. I don't care. Downtown, back roll, see sundbatt on the top, away up in the.

41:04 Speaker 3: Where along with you.

41:06 Speaker 6: I don't care.

41:11 Speaker 10: It ain't the ways that you bet your.

41:13 Speaker 14: Eyes all the way out those sides that keeps me hanging around frown upside down.

41:20 Speaker 6: Your personal clown. It's not the crazy things you say, oh the records that we play that keep me sticking round. I'll never let you down making your big planes. Man, everything's okay.

41:37 Speaker 12: If you own opdions, I get nothing to say because I don't care.

41:45 Speaker 6: I'll go with you anywhere.

41:48 Speaker 12: I don't care about your old tattoos or the color of your hair.

41:54 Speaker 6: I don't care.

41:55 Speaker 14: Downtown, back road, see sound mountains, up a way up in wherever I'm with you, I don't care.

42:06 Speaker 10: Where we want, where we where we go, who we mean if we talk, if professor spoke, I only know one thing I can't hide.

42:15 Speaker 4: When I buy your side, I feel so.

42:20 Speaker 6: I don't care. I don't care. I'm going with manywhere I don't care about your old tattoos.

43:01 Speaker 11: Of the killer of your hair.

43:03 Speaker 3: I don't care.

43:05 Speaker 4: Johnstown man Kelsey said, lap.

43:07 Speaker 6: Tap away up in.

43:12 Speaker 3: Where we go?

43:13 Speaker 6: To me too?

43:17 Speaker 2: As long as I'm with you, that is, I don't care. And that is Kevin Kirstaid also known as kat k and uh he is here with us live in studio. And that's a great song I was selling, Uh, I was selling Kevin off air that I'm gonna hear that in my head now in the morning when when the cat Jenny and I have a cat who will sit outside the bathroom door a me owing, wanting to come in. Well, well, I shave, watch me shave.

43:53 Speaker 10: You know, I don't have a pet, but that's the perspective I chose when I wrote it. Yeah, you know how they they don't care what you look, they don't care that you smell, They don't care. Just let me be with you, right, that's the whole vibe of that song.

44:07 Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, exactly. Now are these so the songs that you've recorded? Are these all? Are Are these part of an album?

44:14 Speaker 10: Or what?

44:15 Speaker 2: What's the plan with to do with these?

44:18 Speaker 10: That's my hope is that this is an album package. I have fourteen of them. Yeah, I mean I'm working on my artwork right now, so I will have CDs to sell and I want a physical media.

44:30 Speaker 2: Yeah.

44:30 Speaker 10: It costs a little a little bit to get the albums done. I'll probably make an album pressing. If I sell enough CDs, I'll probably press a couple of Ye. The CDs are real cheap to have made. So the do it yourself, do it yourself music career thing is is just coming upon me now, just learning all the ins and outs of that. Yeah, I'm finding partners and helpers like Eric from jam Demik yep. It was great with all that marketing stuff. Oh yeah, and let's talk gymdemic for a minute while I can. They have lots of their own original stuff out.

45:05 Speaker 10: They're a force in this southern New Hampshire area and so you guys can get out and catch a jamdemic, do it. They're good and I'll probably be running sound for them. So come on buy and say hi.

45:16 Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent, yeah, absolutely.

45:18 Speaker 10: So, yes, the dream is to make the package, and so I'm working on my artwork. I've written my liner notes, I have all my credits for all the people, and yeah, to have a package in my hand before Christmas to hand to my family at Christmas time, yeah, but to have stuff to sell it open mics. So I have a couple of options of how it's getting posted online, and I posted I don't care on my song cast account, and it's having a little trouble with the artwork, all the artwork. Yeah, I'm not sure if they're the venue I'm going to choose.

45:48 Speaker 10: So yeah, I'm undecided as to how how to release it all. Yeah, I don't care. We'll be out there eventually, because that's the first one I was hoping to tell you today. It's available. Oh okay, not quite. Ye, it's still having some issues and that's also making me wonder So do it yourself music we were talking about is a tough gig. There's lots of different options things to choose from and things to where to release your music through. So I'm hoping someone loves me, and what I really need is management.

46:20 Speaker 10: I'm doing it all myself and I'm stepping out there and this is the year that I'm going to put the effort into showing up and getting all the music out there. And so it's going to be an album package excellent, all fourteen songs good. I didn't want to sell anyone short and just have tens writ The fifteenth song I recorded in nineteen ninety two, a song called rat Race and at Ryan Song Studios in pepperle and that was remastered. So that'll might not make the album, but I'll keep that one in my pocket, you know, as a bonus track for something or who knows.

46:57 Speaker 10: The original tape on that was quarter inch tape. Zach had it in Nashville, but when he opened the tape that had been in storage since ninety two, heat had gotten to it over the years and it was unusable. Okay, so we had to use an old MP three and he said, this is okay. I said, it's okay. Make it sounds as much as you can like the others. But yeah, it's not quite as as good as sounding as the others. It's a different vein. So it's not going to make this collection, but it'll definitely be out there posted some day.

47:30 Speaker 2: Curious to hear it.

47:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so I'll have it for you later.

47:34 Speaker 2: You can have a cop Oh awesome, Yeah, thank you?

47:36 Speaker 10: Yeah?

47:36 Speaker 2: Yeah wow ninety two. And then so when's your next when's your next appearance?

47:43 Speaker 10: So I let's see, I just did Pumpkin Fest in Milford talking to Milford. Yeah, I ran sound for six bands at the Keysfield stage, the first time they had bands of the Keysfields brand new wooden beautiful that they built on a super fun site, nice stage. I wouldn't top stone back. Ran sound for six acts there and I was the seventh act that was right before the end, second to last. I got to do four songs there. Yeah. So my next thing, I have a showcase at Riley's Place in Milford coming up December twenty seventh.

48:17 Speaker 10: Ok, I get an hour and a half. I'm gonna start off some things by myself. Probably I don't care all alone on acoustic, because that's when I do well on acoustic called by myself. Yeah, so at the Keysfield thing, I did really and planned my fourth song set really well I did. I don't care all about myself on acoustic. Second song, I brought two friends up and we did Simon and Garfunkle Cecilia a cappella.

48:39 Speaker 2: Nice, wow, no kidding.

48:41 Speaker 10: Third song we did an original blues So this original blues song. Riley's Place has blues open mic on Sunday afternoons from one to four. Yeah, I had been, like I told you, I went to the blues one, the first one I ever went to at keys Piano Bar, and I felt like I had a rubber night for the gunfight. Yeah, so I always stayed away from Riley's Sunday blues thing other than I poked my head in and said alone, saw the incredible guitar players and saxophone, all these incredible musicians. Yeah. I went to Rally's one Sunday with my bass and I walked up on stage and I signed up and I walked up on stage and they said, what are you doing?

49:19 Speaker 10: I said, we're doing an original. And the drummer looked at me like people don't do originals, said blues jam. Yeah yeah, I said, well it's one four five. They said it's the format. I said, it's the right blues format. Don't worry, Yeah doing it. And the drummer was Phil de Luca was his name.

49:36 Speaker 2: Okay.

49:36 Speaker 10: He looked at me like I had two heads. Yeah, you're doing an original. I said, yeah, you'll be all right, just watch me for the changes.

49:43 Speaker 2: Yep.

49:43 Speaker 10: And at the end of the song he gave me a big giant thumbs up and a smile and yeah, you're a good singer. Yeah, And so I was really I had won him over in that one song. And uh, and then I played along with blues. I just played bass with whatever they wanted to be after that. But yeah, I have been back since other than just visit and say hi. But Phil DeLuca played on stage with me at Keyesfield. I wanted when I did Keysfield, I wanted to bring in town people that had I had met over the course of this year of doing open mics and that I had made friends with and that liked me because I'd won them over, you know, yeah, yeah, and I love that fact that he wanted to come and play Keysfield.

50:25 Speaker 10: So He's field was a wonderful thing. And so I did that blues number with him, and I had Scott Gibbs come up and play guitar, real good guitars, and he's the one I'm going to be work with going forward. I got oh nice Scott Gibbs, Mark Shemitt and Kevin Johnson. Yeah, I'm going to be playing and my sister to work on the original act that'll be coming out in twenty twenty six. Look for Katie K. We might be going to MMI, Kevin Kirsty. I'm not sure the name will be going under, probably Katie K. But we will be having the full band thing with the My favorite type of music is searing molten lava guitar with three part harmony over the top of it.

51:06 Speaker 10: Here you go, and we will be having a lot of that too.

51:09 Speaker 2: Nice, nice, very good, very good, Kevin. Where should people go to keep up with you online? Where's the best place to go to keep up with everything you're doing?

51:17 Speaker 10: So I'm a fledgling, I'm new to this, but I just made less than a month ago my Facebook band page. Eric from Jamdmick is going to help me with my marketing, so you will see it spreading quickly once he gets his hands to help me. I got a few things I got to help him with too, So yeah, we have a wonderful working relationship of give and take good good And yeah, I'm doing some sound of Big Bear too. Okay, Big Bial Lodge Andrew Institute of Art where Eric and jam demic.

51:45 Speaker 2: Al Right, I remember he was talking about that.

51:47 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, another great venue to go see live acts in the Brookline. Yeah yeah. Oh, and I forgot to mention the other Brookline open mic every other Thursday, the Alamo. I took my a cappella team down there. No, we did about eight songs there. That was a lot of fun.

52:03 Speaker 4: Oh wow.

52:03 Speaker 10: People don't expect that.

52:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding.

52:06 Speaker 10: And at open mics, I do a lot of girls songs. A lot of times. Girl songs are in my range. Boys songs are usually out of it. I have to change the key. But girl songs are in my range and people don't expect that from me either. So yeah, come out and catch me sometime and I'll might do something I expected. I hope to something you.

52:24 Speaker 2: Like excellent excellent. Well, very good. Well we're gonna close out the segment in a moment with follow Your Dreams, another great song. Anything we should know about this before we play it, So this one.

52:33 Speaker 10: I had a live recording of this song from ninety one ninety two. I showed up at the studio in February. My sister was with me. I also took a risk that I didn't know. I brought Zachary Stone. Shout out to Zachary Stone, drummer from New Hampshire. He was a young kid. He had played at my house in my basement and jammed once or twice when he was sixteen or seventeen yea, and I knew he was a good drummer. He had some videos where he played outside of Fenway Park at ten years old. Oh jack Stone, you know, and a lot of hits on YouTube.

53:09 Speaker 10: So he's active in the industry down there. He's a band called Gray Lee right now. They played a few nights ago. He's really active. But I brought him into the studio with me and Zach Kazik. The producer says, you know you took a risk. Brigety young kid in here. Most of these people they can't stay in time. They can't do this. Then that he goes, yeah, I said, well he's from New Hampshire. I really wanted him and I was pretty good. So and it turns out I hit a home run. Zach Stone has been called back by Zach Haazik walth Other to do some stuff.

53:39 Speaker 10: So yeah, Zach turned out to be a really good drummer. So the song was follow Your Dreams, and I am playing it for Zach in the studio and Zach actually had heard it and listened to it many times. Zach listened to all the ones I had him on and did him almost to a tee to the old band recordings. Yeah, well, yeah, he did the new ones he'd never heard. There was two he got cold that he hadn't even heard before. But I played it on the little JBL speaker and Zach Kazik walks in the control room and says, what the heck is that you're listening to?

54:14 Speaker 10: I said, that's the song we're doing, dude, and it's this one, follow your Dreams. Okay. It turned out Zack Stone killed it on drums. It's very drum heavy, synth heavy. It turned out to be Zach Kazik encouraged Mike Sharp, the synth player from Nashville. Excellent, excellent, He said, think the cars, Think the cars until you might hear some of the cars. And there we hope. Okay, and yeah, the guys did really good with Zack Stone on drums on this one. Shout out to Zach Stone and the other drummer who I didn't shout out to as Shaky.

54:50 Speaker 10: When I walked in Wild Feather Recording studios, Well, first let's start at Milford. Milford, people says, why are you going to Nashville to record? We have studios around here. I said, do you have golden platinum albums hanging on the walls of your studio up here?

55:05 Speaker 3: Right?

55:06 Speaker 10: And they were quiet. So yeah, that's why I went to Nashville. And some of those golden platinum walls on the walls were Shaky's oh albums from playing on Kid Rocks album. Oh Okay, So Shaky played drums on my eight songs and he played for kid Rock, So Shaky, shout out to Shaky. All the guys at Zach Studio were awesome, Oh, very good. The one I brought that follow your Dreams was Zach was a little afraid of it, but it came out really good.

55:30 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so we'll give this a spin to close out the segment, and if you are listening live stick ground of course. In the third hour, we have Euphemia in the house and really looking forward to talking with them. But kat K Kevin Kirer said, I got.

55:43 Speaker 10: One more shout out to dream Track Studios, Gary Connelly. I'm gonna be doing some work there coming up. They gottah, they're just getting started. They're the new studio in Milford. They got the best recording stuff in the world. Oh, less than a mile from my house. Completely surprised about that.

55:57 Speaker 2: Oh very cool.

55:58 Speaker 10: I don't know how that landedwhere near me. And this guy's my friend and he likes my original music. So yeah, we hope to be doing some stuff at dream Track Studios Milford.

56:07 Speaker 2: Oh excellent, excellent, very good. All right, well we will do this again in the future. My friend. Absolutely wonderful, lavire thank you so having me. Matt absolutely absolutely And here it is. This is follow My Follow Your Dreams by K t K.

56:40 Speaker 6: Stuck in the ruts, same old routines.

56:43 Speaker 3: Every day.

56:47 Speaker 4: You sick and going to work.

56:50 Speaker 6: That's rires.

56:50 Speaker 3: We all got today were moving to this challenge.

56:58 Speaker 9: Dreams all brings me with all the joys.

57:04 Speaker 6: A gay who suspinded Babe us feel you've got to follow.

57:12 Speaker 11: Introduce to sty to buy the powers he outsider.

57:20 Speaker 4: Following dream sent of town.

57:22 Speaker 3: That about the truth.

57:25 Speaker 11: The God believe.

57:47 Speaker 6: Every to you when you look in the mirror, are you proud of what you see?

57:56 Speaker 3: Now?

57:56 Speaker 6: Tell me the truth? Is this the way you want your like the fee?

58:04 Speaker 3: So you need a new direction?

58:07 Speaker 6: Sothing came you got to.

58:12 Speaker 12: You see bring in your soul as thin those dreams come true.

58:20 Speaker 11: You gotta find your treas through the sky to find the followers downside follow your dream true like you don't come true. You God, don't believe anything.

59:12 Speaker 6: You got buy a treat Servistar to buy the.

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59:42 Speaker 3: They died Lea