KtK (Kevin Kierstead) | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: When Mattso wakes up in the morning, he gets into

0:03 Speaker 1: 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

0:19 Speaker 4: the best Jerry.

0:28 Speaker 5: In your wildest dreams, you could never imagine, in your

0:37 Speaker 5: 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

0:58 Speaker 4: 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

1:44 Speaker 8: 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.

1:56 Speaker 9: 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

3:20 Speaker 2: on Saturday, October twenty five, twenty twenty five, We've just

3:23 Speaker 2: entered our number two new Marrow doos of Matt Connorton

3:26 Speaker 2: Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm

3:29 Speaker 2: NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

3:33 Speaker 2: Jenny is here, of course at the news table and

3:36 Speaker 2: the song we just heard that it's called People Come

3:38 Speaker 2: On and we've got kt K also known as Kevin

3:42 Speaker 2: Kirstaid here with us in studio. Welcome Kevin. Hey, guys,

3:46 Speaker 2: I love I love that song. I love everything about it.

3:49 Speaker 2: I love the solo, I love your voice and I

3:52 Speaker 2: love the whole vibe. Everything about that is amazing. Thank

3:54 Speaker 2: you very much, absolutely absolutely very happy to play that

3:57 Speaker 2: this morning and excited to talk to you. You came

4:01 Speaker 2: to us through Eric from JAMDEMICJM.

4:04 Speaker 10: Demic, one of my best buddies these days. Yeah, they're

4:07 Speaker 10: really on top of things, on top of their game.

4:09 Speaker 10: They're a hot band. I run sound for them, Okay,

4:13 Speaker 10: and yeah, Eric said, Matt Connerton has some spots and

4:19 Speaker 10: so I'm new and I have all my material ready.

4:22 Speaker 10: I'm just getting started in the local area. But yeah,

4:26 Speaker 10: 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

4:33 Speaker 2: about that song?

4:34 Speaker 10: By the way, So that particular song was inspired and

4:39 Speaker 10: it's a couple of roots. The ascending rhythm line came

4:47 Speaker 10: when I bought my Yamaha trans Acoustic is an acoustic

4:51 Speaker 10: guitar that has Courus and reaver built into it. Okay,

4:54 Speaker 10: my boss at work brought one in two years prior

4:57 Speaker 10: and played it for me, and I was absolutely amazed,

5:00 Speaker 10: and over the course of I wanted one. I wanted one,

5:04 Speaker 10: but I really didn't buy things too much. I didn't

5:06 Speaker 10: buy new instruments or things like that, and I really

5:08 Speaker 10: wasn't doing my own music, just a little bit here

5:10 Speaker 10: and there. But I sold all kinds of little things

5:15 Speaker 10: on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and saved eight hundred dollars

5:19 Speaker 10: and bought a brand new my first brand new instrument, yeah,

5:23 Speaker 10: in my late fifties, Yamaha trans Acoustic guitar. And once

5:28 Speaker 10: I got it, I picked it up and played it

5:30 Speaker 10: every single day. So the rising line in that come on,

5:34 Speaker 10: people come on. The guitar rises in there, and it

5:37 Speaker 10: was born out of that people come On. But it's

5:42 Speaker 10: a really a song about revolution and joining together and

5:47 Speaker 10: the power of unity, and it was inspired by there

5:52 Speaker 10: was an Iranian woman who was shot and killed for protesting,

5:58 Speaker 10: and shortly afterwards all the iron and women started coming

6:01 Speaker 10: out into the streets and protesting. Yep. And I really

6:05 Speaker 10: don't remember what happened with all of that, but it

6:07 Speaker 10: really inspired. It showed me the power of what they

6:10 Speaker 10: were starting to do. Yes, and even though they were

6:13 Speaker 10: against all odds and they really didn't have much of

6:17 Speaker 10: a chance, what they could do together made a difference

6:21 Speaker 10: and made an impact. So that song speaks to the

6:25 Speaker 10: power of unity, one heart, one voice, mind. Yeah, I

6:29 Speaker 10: 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

6:34 Speaker 10: to Zach Kazak Wild Feather Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Excellent.

6:40 Speaker 10: So last October, it's been a year now. These songs

6:44 Speaker 10: haven't existed until a year ago. I started recording all

6:47 Speaker 10: these and I just got the master that you played

6:52 Speaker 10: two weeks ago. Okay, wow, so I've had I went down.

6:55 Speaker 10: I did fourteen songs down there. Yeah, and that was

7:00 Speaker 10: one of the first ones. Yeah. So it's a magical place.

7:05 Speaker 10: It's just a little small place, much like the radio

7:08 Speaker 10: station and all the studios down there, all just small

7:10 Speaker 10: old houses converted and all vintage equipment. And I walked

7:16 Speaker 10: in to that place and I had my dream of

7:20 Speaker 10: recording all my life. I walked in there. I said,

7:23 Speaker 10: I'm not here because I think I have something that's

7:26 Speaker 10: going to sell a jillion or anything like that. I'm

7:28 Speaker 10: here because I don't want Tom playing crap at my funeral.

7:31 Speaker 10: I have all these songs. I have basement recordings. They're

7:34 Speaker 10: just not good. I have old live recordings, old bands,

7:37 Speaker 10: and something's not recorded and people Come On was a

7:41 Speaker 10: basement recording. A lot of the elements of it, like

7:44 Speaker 10: 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

7:52 Speaker 10: you just walk in the studio there, and the studio

7:55 Speaker 10: pros are worth every penny. They seem to know what

7:58 Speaker 10: you're thinking. Laid down my dummy track with my trans

8:02 Speaker 10: acoustic yeah, and they take it all to the next level.

8:06 Speaker 10: And then I get to sing on top of it.

8:07 Speaker 10: And I got to play bass on all those too,

8:09 Speaker 10: Lucky me. Yeah, it was only taken out of my

8:11 Speaker 10: hand at one point from someone who could do a

8:13 Speaker 10: 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

8:22 Speaker 10: tracks for you, okay. One of them is from nineteen

8:25 Speaker 10: ninety two. I recorded at Ryan's songs in pepperl Wow

8:28 Speaker 10: and had to be remastered. So I've had the opportunity

8:32 Speaker 10: to record a couple of times over my life, just

8:35 Speaker 10: that really well that one time in ninety two and

8:37 Speaker 10: now here at Wildfeather Okay, so Wildfeather, Zach Kazak, he's

8:42 Speaker 10: a complete pro. All the magic is the producer. The

8:47 Speaker 10: people are good, you know, the musicians of course, off notch. Yeah,

8:50 Speaker 10: the producer who tells you no, don't do that, here,

8:53 Speaker 10: do that there a little less? Think about that baby

8:55 Speaker 10: you're singing too. Ye he was really an inspiration and

9:00 Speaker 10: 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

9:05 Speaker 10: band of YEA, so it was very It was fun

9:09 Speaker 10: to just be the only person so and yeah, I

9:12 Speaker 10: went with his input a lot of times over mine.

9:15 Speaker 10: I don't care. Later on that you we might play.

9:18 Speaker 10: I'm not sure. There's a part we cut out, a

9:21 Speaker 10: little talking part that I do live the time I

9:23 Speaker 10: do open mic, everyone gets a chuckle, and I do

9:26 Speaker 10: live because I do an implied rhyme with a bad word. Okay,

9:30 Speaker 10: but I never say it. But he said, this song

9:34 Speaker 10: 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

9:40 Speaker 10: of what could have He was aware of what could

9:43 Speaker 10: happen in my music, and he was really helpful.

9:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, was that intimidating at all going to Nashville and

9:49 Speaker 2: doing all that? Or because we've had a lot of

9:52 Speaker 2: artists on the show, a lot of guests over the

9:54 Speaker 2: years who have done that, and and I hear, you know,

9:57 Speaker 2: some some people say, oh no, I felt really comfortable,

9:59 Speaker 2: and you know, I knew exactly where I was going

10:02 Speaker 2: and everything, and other artists will tell me other guests

10:04 Speaker 2: have said, you know, yeah, it was kind of Nashville.

10:07 Speaker 2: That's kind of a big deal going there. I was

10:08 Speaker 2: a little it was a little scary, Like, how did

10:11 Speaker 2: you feel going there and doing this?

10:12 Speaker 10: So this relationship was cultivated over a number of years

10:16 Speaker 10: 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

10:22 Speaker 10: the years, and you get mixed reactions Yeah. Then I

10:25 Speaker 10: sent him round up the vote, which I did in

10:29 Speaker 10: the basement barbershop quartet. It was me myself and I

10:33 Speaker 10: all me except for Tom from the Milk Crates came

10:36 Speaker 10: over and played piano for me. But I sent that

10:40 Speaker 10: to Zach and he said, wow, that's a cute little thing.

10:43 Speaker 10: You need that mastered, and he offered to do it cheaply,

10:48 Speaker 10: and so I sent him. I was, I was a fool.

10:52 Speaker 10: I sent him my mess of tracks from the basement.

10:54 Speaker 10: I sent him forty three different tracks for maybe six

10:57 Speaker 10: different eight different elements. Yeah, but he cleaned it up

11:02 Speaker 10: and made it real nice. And after that point he uh,

11:07 Speaker 10: I said, can you listen to the rest of my

11:08 Speaker 10: stuff and put them into folders? And I let him

11:11 Speaker 10: listen to twenty odd songs, maybe old live band recordings,

11:17 Speaker 10: some just me doing it by myself in some basement recordings. Yeah,

11:21 Speaker 10: I said, put them in hits and shelf, you know,

11:25 Speaker 10: 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

11:34 Speaker 10: do some stuff, and I scheduled my time for October

11:38 Speaker 10: to go down there and we picked six of them,

11:42 Speaker 10: eight of them the first time. Yeah, and did did

11:45 Speaker 10: those in a week. I stayed down there a whole week. Yeah, yep, excellent. Wow,

11:49 Speaker 10: it was one of the funnest times. Yeah, in the studio,

11:52 Speaker 10: magical place. Yeah, and you know when they're tracking and

11:55 Speaker 10: when the lead players are doing all their work a

11:58 Speaker 10: couple of times down outside and cry tears of joy

12:03 Speaker 10: magic happening upstairs. You didn't expect these things to blossom

12:08 Speaker 10: into this. I knew in my head what they sounded like,

12:13 Speaker 10: so they didn't make it sound exactly like that, but boy,

12:15 Speaker 10: they did an awesome job and making it sound into

12:19 Speaker 10: something spectacular. Absolutely. So some of the things they're completely

12:24 Speaker 10: different from the basement recordings, I don't care. And the

12:28 Speaker 10: basement recording is real guitar heavy and stuff, and the

12:31 Speaker 10: 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

12:40 Speaker 10: the most It was one of the most fun thing

12:42 Speaker 10: 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

12:46 Speaker 2: chance to play out at all? Did you do any

12:48 Speaker 2: open mics anywhere or anything like that?

12:51 Speaker 10: Not this time? Yeah, a time prior I had made

12:55 Speaker 10: sure I went down to visit and I made sure

12:57 Speaker 10: I went to an open micah, so yeah, And I

13:00 Speaker 10: had never done any up here at that point. This

13:02 Speaker 10: was like three or four years back, and I told myself,

13:05 Speaker 10: I'm going to Nashville. My daughter went to college in Nashville.

13:09 Speaker 10: Oh okay, I was in and out. Yeah. And I

13:13 Speaker 10: went to an open mic there and had never been

13:16 Speaker 10: to one, and so I didn't know what to expect.

13:18 Speaker 10: I didn't know you had to listen to the featured

13:20 Speaker 10: artists for like an hour and a half or two

13:22 Speaker 10: hours before you get to play your one song in

13:26 Speaker 10: a chair with four other people in a row. So, yeah,

13:29 Speaker 10: it was a little tough in Nashville. It's a tight

13:31 Speaker 10: town and there's not too many open mics.

13:33 Speaker 2: That's the part that where people have told me it

13:36 Speaker 2: can be intimidating, that that whole element of it.

13:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, they were all sitting in the chairs and that

13:42 Speaker 10: was the last one, and I couldn't sit in my chair.

13:46 Speaker 10: I'm not a sitter when I sing, yeah to stand up. Yeah,

13:49 Speaker 10: And I did my Tequila song and I did really well. Yeah.

13:53 Speaker 10: I did my basement recording of Tequila is out at

13:56 Speaker 10: the time, and it still is out right now. On sodcast.

13:59 Speaker 10: You can find Kevin kirstaid hashtag hydrate is the name

14:03 Speaker 10: of the song. Okay aka Tequila. But I played down

14:07 Speaker 10: in Nashville. I made little QR codes on business cards

14:11 Speaker 10: and little stickers.

14:12 Speaker 2: Smart.

14:13 Speaker 10: I went in bathrooms and stuck my stickers and stalls. Ye,

14:16 Speaker 10: left my little cards everywhere. Yeah. My Reverb Nation page

14:19 Speaker 10: 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

14:26 Speaker 10: lot to do, a lot a lot to do. Yeah, absolutely,

14:31 Speaker 10: But Nashville it was a little intimidting. But I'd been

14:35 Speaker 10: there with my daughter, so I loved the town. Loved

14:38 Speaker 10: the town obviously. Yeah, couldn't wait to play there. I

14:41 Speaker 10: can't wait to play there someday as an artist.

14:43 Speaker 2: Oh I can imagine. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, well sold. We

14:46 Speaker 2: play another one of these studio.

14:47 Speaker 10: Tracks, missed Me when I'm Gone. It's one of my favorites. Okay,

14:51 Speaker 10: that was one of the ones I was never able

14:53 Speaker 10: to pre record. Most of the other ones had a

14:56 Speaker 10: pre recording. That one I went down with and I

14:58 Speaker 10: just through it and they took it from there. Get

15:02 Speaker 10: a groove to it, ye, got a Yeah, it's got

15:04 Speaker 10: a groove.

15:05 Speaker 2: It does it does, Yeah, it does, absolutely. All right,

15:07 Speaker 2: let's give this a spin. If you're just joining us,

15:09 Speaker 2: kt K is with us Kevin Kirstead. But kt K

15:13 Speaker 2: is what that's the name of the project, right, that's

15:15 Speaker 2: why you're going with for Yeah, and for those of

15:17 Speaker 2: you watching online, if you're watching on YouTube, he's got

15:19 Speaker 2: the shirt to with the cool I do like the

15:21 Speaker 2: 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.

15:38 Speaker 2: So this is called the full title has Missed Me

15:40 Speaker 2: when I'm Gone, Missed Me when I'm gone, miss Me

15:42 Speaker 2: 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

16:02 Speaker 6: the dawn.

16:04 Speaker 3: I have miss.

16:04 Speaker 1: Communication and scrimmling up my brain, hidden me and you

16:10 Speaker 1: 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

16:22 Speaker 6: 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,

16:40 Speaker 4: You're gonna mess me, miss me, missed me.

16:43 Speaker 6: When I'm gone. And I can have my own opinion

16:55 Speaker 6: if I keep it to myself.

16:57 Speaker 1: I can talk about our proper joust with someone else.

17:02 Speaker 1: I can mean mound decision if I'm sure that he

17:06 Speaker 1: could fight. But you think I just screwed up again.

17:10 Speaker 1: I can't see any of you. He needs a team

17:14 Speaker 1: and me the team. I know, I know, I know,

17:20 Speaker 1: 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.

17:31 Speaker 6: 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,

17:56 Speaker 1: 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

18:42 Speaker 6: 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

18:51 Speaker 4: mess me, miss me?

18:52 Speaker 3: Wow?

18:53 Speaker 2: Well, Well, where I'm gone that has miss me when

18:58 Speaker 2: I'm gone. The radio edit from Katy k Kevin Kier said,

19:03 Speaker 2: who is here with us live in studio? Yeah, you

19:05 Speaker 2: were saying at the end of the song. The other

19:08 Speaker 2: version ends a little bit differently, little differently, a little differently. No,

19:11 Speaker 2: but I love that. I do love the groove on

19:13 Speaker 2: that and the guitar playing. So is that all you

19:16 Speaker 2: as well?

19:16 Speaker 10: Though? No, no, I don't play the guitar on that.

19:18 Speaker 10: Only bass okay okay. Guitarist was in Nashville. Mike Sherry

19:21 Speaker 10: is his name, and amazing, absolutely amazing.

19:24 Speaker 2: What's going on in your mind when he's laying down

19:27 Speaker 2: that solo, Like you must be over the moon, like

19:30 Speaker 2: at how well that's coming out? That was a solo

19:32 Speaker 2: is fantasy. Everything he did on that track was fantastic.

19:36 Speaker 10: Absolutely fantastic. And that was like his second time. That

19:40 Speaker 10: was only like a second really yeah, So I think

19:43 Speaker 10: that was one of the moments I listened to it

19:45 Speaker 10: and then it was being remixed. I went down and cried,

19:47 Speaker 10: you know these things, it's like so amazing what these

19:51 Speaker 10: people come up with. The pro Like I said, the

19:52 Speaker 10: pros are worth everybody, yep, yep. But he nailed it

19:58 Speaker 10: exactly what I wanted, exactly what I wanted because he

20:01 Speaker 10: heard the angst in the song. Yep, he caught the

20:03 Speaker 10: grown and that was the bassline too. The groove is

20:09 Speaker 10: in the bass line, it's in his line. But there's

20:12 Speaker 10: multiple multi So you listen to that and you only

20:14 Speaker 10: hear a guitar or two, but you don't know this

20:17 Speaker 10: several layers, and so the amazing part of the studio. Uh,

20:22 Speaker 10: he plays the rhythm part for that, and then producer says, Okay,

20:26 Speaker 10: pick up the strat the same exact thing with the

20:28 Speaker 10: straton now instead of less Paul, okay do that. Okay,

20:31 Speaker 10: Now we're plugging you in a different amp. Multiple multiple

20:34 Speaker 10: 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,

20:41 Speaker 10: but it's actually multiples of different guitars and different amps

20:45 Speaker 10: that are cleverly woven together to craft that. And so

20:50 Speaker 10: there's the different tracks too and this, so there's multiple

20:52 Speaker 10: takes of multiple That was the fun part of listening

20:56 Speaker 10: to it. The leads weren't just the one time obviously,

20:59 Speaker 10: yeah things and then the producer would reached out so

21:03 Speaker 10: all the leads, and most of the guitar playing was

21:05 Speaker 10: done in the control booth, you know. The amp was

21:07 Speaker 10: in the other room and it was so this was

21:10 Speaker 10: the funniest part. I went to help Mike come in,

21:15 Speaker 10: and I went to pick up his amp. Have you

21:17 Speaker 10: put it on the ground outside the car, And I

21:18 Speaker 10: went to the handle and Zach and Mike both looked

21:21 Speaker 10: at me and say, don't pick it up by the handle.

21:23 Speaker 10: Oh really, fifty seven Fender Tweed Vintage something other other. Yeah,

21:29 Speaker 10: just don't pick them up by the handle. Yeah. Yeah,

21:31 Speaker 10: But brought it upstairs. They plugged it in and had

21:34 Speaker 10: a giant hum in it. I'm like, what are they

21:37 Speaker 10: why are they bringing this here? Yeah, And Zach gets

21:40 Speaker 10: in the studio on the other side of the control

21:42 Speaker 10: booth and he pulls up this little plug in and

21:45 Speaker 10: 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,

21:49 Speaker 10: and then everything out of was clean and pure. After that,

21:52 Speaker 10: it was on eleven, and so the guy was in

21:54 Speaker 10: our room playing and so you're just sitting in a

21:57 Speaker 10: room with his pedal board. A few pedals. Yeah, the

22:01 Speaker 10: producer is reaching down half the time changing the pedals. Yeah, yeah,

22:06 Speaker 10: doing all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, the musicians are

22:10 Speaker 10: one thing, and the producer, the magic producer, is the

22:13 Speaker 10: really the key element of all that. Zach Kasach a

22:16 Speaker 10: shout out once again. Yeah, Wild Feather Recording, Nashville Student, Nashville, Tennessee.

22:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, did any of those songs that we recorded there

22:25 Speaker 2: become out like a lot different than what you had imagined?

22:28 Speaker 2: Or was everything pretty close? Or I mean, obviously, I'm

22:31 Speaker 2: sure a lot of them came out, you know, better

22:33 Speaker 2: than you had you would even imagine, right, But but

22:35 Speaker 2: but did any of them come out? I guess what

22:38 Speaker 2: I'm really asking is were there any surprises where at

22:40 Speaker 2: the end of it you were like, Wow, this is

22:41 Speaker 2: I like this, but it's not necessarily what I thought

22:45 Speaker 2: it was going to be.

22:46 Speaker 10: Absolutely, I don't care that. I hope we play later. Yeah.

22:49 Speaker 10: One of those songs that was a basement recording and

22:52 Speaker 10: it was heavy, heavy guitar, heavy into the guitar and

22:55 Speaker 10: I leaned on the decord and just rolled around with

22:59 Speaker 10: the ball things. But it was heavy on the top

23:01 Speaker 10: end of the two strings being the same sound all

23:03 Speaker 10: the time. And when it got to Nashville, that was

23:08 Speaker 10: gone and I kind of realized it, but I loved

23:10 Speaker 10: what was happening with it. And I got back and

23:12 Speaker 10: I let a friend listen to it. Yeah, and they

23:15 Speaker 10: said that song is completely different. I was like, you

23:19 Speaker 10: know what, You're right, it is different. So what they

23:23 Speaker 10: morph and tuned into. I accept that there's different versions

23:27 Speaker 10: of different songs and they'll be played differently many times.

23:31 Speaker 10: And so the heavy guitar version is my open mic

23:34 Speaker 10: version that I go to all the time, and it

23:36 Speaker 10: still is the root, and like it's sure, and but

23:40 Speaker 10: I love the stuff that came out of the studio

23:43 Speaker 10: is excellent.

23:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, that must be exciting too, like like not only

23:49 Speaker 2: seeing these things or hearing these things that you've you've

23:51 Speaker 2: come up with, these ideas that have now that are

23:53 Speaker 2: now these fully produced songs. But when something does turn

23:56 Speaker 2: out differently, that's that's there's something kind of a terious

24:00 Speaker 2: about that, right.

24:01 Speaker 10: Like absolutely, yeah, you'll take it to the edge and

24:04 Speaker 10: push it. And so all of my ideas I think

24:07 Speaker 10: are good and in my head, and the songs they're

24:09 Speaker 10: of course in my head, they're all hits. Yeah, when

24:13 Speaker 10: you present them to other people and other people's input

24:16 Speaker 10: comes into them and they morph is when they start

24:19 Speaker 10: to get wings yep, and change into something different, hopefully

24:23 Speaker 10: for something good you know that you're working with. But

24:26 Speaker 10: all these guys were pros and and this stuff even

24:29 Speaker 10: happens live at open mics and things when you're working

24:33 Speaker 10: on originals, and uh, you just throw it out there,

24:35 Speaker 10: come on up and play. It's ea, b let's go one,

24:37 Speaker 10: four five, you can do it. Yeah, And what they

24:40 Speaker 10: end up coming up with is is unique. Sometimes you

24:43 Speaker 10: 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

24:52 Speaker 10: past fourteen months. Yeah, i'd only done that one in

24:55 Speaker 10: Nashville prior. Oh, it was intimidating.

24:58 Speaker 2: It's It's cool though that the one, the first one

25:00 Speaker 2: you did was in Nashville of all places, right like

25:03 Speaker 2: you jumped into the deep end of the pool before

25:06 Speaker 2: you really had had any experience swimming, you know what

25:09 Speaker 2: I mean.

25:10 Speaker 10: Absolutely, I wondered what the New Hampshire open mics were

25:13 Speaker 10: going to be like. So my niece Rachel Rachel Evan

25:18 Speaker 10: Jocos shout out to Granted State Blue Society.

25:21 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, we've had a couple of people from there

25:23 Speaker 2: on the show. Yeah.

25:24 Speaker 10: My very first open mic in New Hampshire was July

25:28 Speaker 10: one Keys Piano Bar when they had an open mic

25:33 Speaker 10: on I think it was a Monday night. I'm not sure.

25:35 Speaker 10: It might have been a Sunday hosted by One Dime Band.

25:38 Speaker 10: Shout out to One Dime Band, uh, they were great hosts.

25:42 Speaker 10: I showed up at a blues open mic with an

25:46 Speaker 10: acoustic guitar. I felt like I had a rubber knife

25:49 Speaker 10: at a gunfight and I didn't know what to play.

25:53 Speaker 10: But I signed up and Rachel was going to meet

25:56 Speaker 10: me there, and Rachel all of a sudden couldn't make it.

25:59 Speaker 10: 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

26:05 Speaker 10: up and I played Mustang Sally and so we did

26:09 Speaker 10: blues and other people played along. Obviously they were awesome,

26:13 Speaker 10: and I was like, wow, it's great playing with these people.

26:15 Speaker 10: But I wish I knew some blues or something. Yeah.

26:19 Speaker 10: I didn't do any original that. I just played along

26:21 Speaker 10: with a couple of other things. But that was my

26:23 Speaker 10: first open mic. But of course I was a bit

26:25 Speaker 10: by the bug and I started looking for where there

26:29 Speaker 10: was open mics and it was you can. You can

26:33 Speaker 10: do an open mic almost every night of the week

26:35 Speaker 10: if you're clever enough. It's hard to find him on

26:38 Speaker 10: Fridays and Saturdays where the people get paid. But yeah,

26:41 Speaker 10: Monday nights I found stumble in Lisa Guyer's open mic.

26:47 Speaker 10: She doesn't have it there anymore. I don't know if

26:48 Speaker 10: that will come back. That was a wonderful time. I

26:51 Speaker 10: can talk about that a little bit sure. Tuesday night

26:54 Speaker 10: Casey's Ribshack, Manchester Tuesday Night also Milford Station one on one. Okay,

27:02 Speaker 10: Wednesday night Riley's Place in Milford and Thursday night Rilly'es

27:07 Speaker 10: Place in Milford. That's become like my home base. Yeah,

27:10 Speaker 10: so that's where I'm living now. I go there almost

27:13 Speaker 10: every week. So if you want to hear any of

27:15 Speaker 10: my stuff, any originals, come down to Riley's Place in

27:17 Speaker 10: Milford Wednesday or Thursday. I'm usually there. Yeah. I usually

27:22 Speaker 10: end up getting signed up last because I get there

27:24 Speaker 10: late and so you won't catch me till near the end.

27:26 Speaker 10: On a Thursday. But Wednesday night's acoustic open mic there.

27:29 Speaker 10: Thursday nights they have a whole backline drum set, bass, guitar.

27:34 Speaker 10: You could come down with your band, Matt and jump

27:36 Speaker 10: up on stage and play your stuff or my stuff

27:38 Speaker 10: if you want. Yeah. Yeah, but it's fun showing up

27:42 Speaker 10: with a band. Sometimes sometimes I do organize a few

27:44 Speaker 10: people and we show up. But those are yeah, so

27:49 Speaker 10: open mics have been. I've been doing them the past

27:53 Speaker 10: 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

28:03 Speaker 10: did gigs with people. Play bass. I play bass mostly, Yeah,

28:07 Speaker 10: 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.

28:12 Speaker 2: 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

28:22 Speaker 10: with your fifth string. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I believe it.

28:25 Speaker 10: I believe it. I've got more smiles out of drummers

28:28 Speaker 10: that have never played with a five string bass player. Kidding,

28:31 Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden they jam with him

28:32 Speaker 10: and they're like, whoa, what is that vibe I'm feeling?

28:35 Speaker 10: No kidding, that's part of getting your songs. Haven't a

28:38 Speaker 10: groove to them?

28:39 Speaker 6: Yeah?

28:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, you got the groove and you can bounce down

28:42 Speaker 10: and have some low rumble going on. They haven't felt

28:44 Speaker 10: before like that stuff.

28:46 Speaker 2: Some of the bands I've played and that would have

28:47 Speaker 2: been really uh handy. Actually yeah, I never Oh, you

28:50 Speaker 2: know what. I wanted to mention too though about Milford

28:52 Speaker 2: because you're talking about Milford. This comes up a lot

28:54 Speaker 2: on the show Milford. So so for people who don't

28:57 Speaker 2: know people listening online from other areas, Milford is any

29:00 Speaker 2: because people from other areas who don't know New Hampshire

29:03 Speaker 2: might think, because Milford comes up so often that Milford

29:06 Speaker 2: is like this booming metropolis in New Hampshire, because it's

29:12 Speaker 2: like it's almost like the center of the of the

29:15 Speaker 2: music universe in New Hampshire is in what is actually

29:18 Speaker 2: this little town Milford. There's so much going on in

29:21 Speaker 2: Milford for music, like it it's like it's at a

29:25 Speaker 2: point where like at least, you know, we do the

29:27 Speaker 2: show every Saturday at least two or three times over

29:31 Speaker 2: the course of a month Milford, somebody's talking about Milford

29:34 Speaker 2: and and everything that's going on in Milford with music.

29:36 Speaker 2: It's really interesting, like like it seems like that town

29:40 Speaker 2: really it's a music city, but it's not even a city.

29:42 Speaker 2: It's a town, you know, what I mean. It's wild

29:44 Speaker 2: and it's very cool.

29:46 Speaker 10: I had never known that Milford was the music metropolis.

29:50 Speaker 10: I love that term. Yeah, that it is. You can

29:54 Speaker 10: walk around the Oval in Milford and there will be

29:58 Speaker 10: six different places that you could walk in that someone's

30:01 Speaker 10: 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

30:10 Speaker 10: had never known a place like it existed. I surely

30:14 Speaker 10: hope there are other places in the country like Milford.

30:18 Speaker 10: I would love to visit them, and.

30:20 Speaker 2: I'm sure there are. We just don't know because you

30:22 Speaker 2: wouldn't hear about them because they're just these towns, right,

30:24 Speaker 2: These just these small towns where, for whatever reason, music

30:27 Speaker 2: is really prevalent.

30:28 Speaker 10: It's the smallest little town. Yeah it is. There's music,

30:32 Speaker 10: and within walking distance you could go to ten different

30:35 Speaker 10: 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

30:43 Speaker 10: of these different places too. And now that I'm there,

30:47 Speaker 10: I'm recognized, and I recognize others. I'm invited to play

30:52 Speaker 10: with others too. That's the funnest part. I don't I

30:54 Speaker 10: don't want to ask to play, but if they want

30:56 Speaker 10: to ask me to play, I will. Yeah. Absolutely.

30:59 Speaker 2: That's tremendous valady right when somebody says, hey, you want

31:01 Speaker 2: to play with us?

31:03 Speaker 10: Yeah. Fun. So I was doing open mics and I

31:08 Speaker 10: was playing bass along, playing bass with some things that

31:11 Speaker 10: I would have my sister. So one of the greatest

31:14 Speaker 10: 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

31:21 Speaker 10: sound great, Matt, Yeah, yeah, we'll back you up and

31:24 Speaker 10: make you sound awesome. Yeah. It's been fun. And so

31:28 Speaker 10: sometimes she's available and we'll she'll come down to Riley's.

31:32 Speaker 10: And I have different drummer friends. One of my drummer

31:35 Speaker 10: friends Jean Richard from Six Ways to Sunday, the band

31:37 Speaker 10: that I'm working for tonight, okay, okay, he's their lead singer,

31:42 Speaker 10: but he's my drummer, okay, And I bring him in

31:45 Speaker 10: there and and different guitarists and stuff. But we will

31:48 Speaker 10: do the whole band stuff with some of these originals

31:50 Speaker 10: as well. Yeah, And we also play annually at a

31:56 Speaker 10: camp for physically mentally handicapped people. We've played it fifteen

32:00 Speaker 10: years now. We started out in the dining hall, me

32:04 Speaker 10: and Barb doing an amazing grace, take me out to

32:06 Speaker 10: the ballgame on the piano and guitar and bringing in

32:09 Speaker 10: others and now we play in the gymnasium. This past

32:13 Speaker 10: year we were told no light show, no blow upsiant,

32:18 Speaker 10: no confetti. Can it's okay, okay. Yeah, So this past

32:23 Speaker 10: year I actually brought cotton snowballs instead and we had

32:26 Speaker 10: an indoor snowball fight.

32:28 Speaker 11: Oh.

32:29 Speaker 10: I try to bring something every year for these people

32:31 Speaker 10: to props to play with. One year it was noisemaker things. Yeah.

32:37 Speaker 10: One year we let them come up and sing a

32:39 Speaker 10: few things too, but we played there. Yeah, fifteen years

32:43 Speaker 10: running excellent. It's one of the greatest blessings is playing

32:48 Speaker 10: people who really appreciate it. Don't get to see bands

32:51 Speaker 10: and things where they're dance for their week. It's a

32:55 Speaker 10: faith based camp where they're let their hair down and

32:59 Speaker 10: have a dance night. Yeah, we do a couple of

33:02 Speaker 10: faith based songs, but we do mostly Taylor Swift and yeah,

33:06 Speaker 10: 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,

33:14 Speaker 10: all the wheelchairs went down the middle of the gymnasing

33:16 Speaker 10: for ten minutes we played that song. Yeah, he loved it. Yeah,

33:19 Speaker 10: and they love it. It's one of the greatest joys

33:22 Speaker 10: to playing there of year. But that's with my sister.

33:25 Speaker 10: One of the greatest joys of my life. Yeah, the

33:26 Speaker 10: 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

33:33 Speaker 2: she do her own thing musically or does she only

33:35 Speaker 2: perform with you or.

33:36 Speaker 10: So She's recorded with me on this on the fourteen songs,

33:39 Speaker 10: So we did. So I went to Nashville the first

33:41 Speaker 10: time by myself. Yeah. I went in February again to

33:44 Speaker 10: do six more songs, and me and Barb drove down. Yeah.

33:50 Speaker 10: Great trip of my life. If you want a good

33:52 Speaker 10: trip of your life, spend eighteen hours in a car

33:54 Speaker 10: with your siblings.

33:57 Speaker 2: Yeah.

33:57 Speaker 10: The person who knows you the best will bring up

34:00 Speaker 10: 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

34:07 Speaker 10: studio either, and uh, it was I think one of

34:11 Speaker 10: 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.

34:17 Speaker 10: One of the songs that we won't hear today but

34:19 Speaker 10: tied up Baby in Love, my daughter sang with me,

34:22 Speaker 10: so she's the female lead on that song. It goes

34:23 Speaker 10: 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

34:31 Speaker 10: with Barb I did five years of church band my

34:35 Speaker 10: kids were two and five and five years of every week,

34:42 Speaker 10: three new songs a week. So at the time I

34:47 Speaker 10: looked at it as difficult and oh I got to

34:49 Speaker 10: go do this again. But it was the greatest learning experience,

34:53 Speaker 10: no doubt, I could have never asked for. And it

34:56 Speaker 10: was absolutely wonderful. I had to work on new things

35:00 Speaker 10: every week, things you've never heard before. And you had

35:02 Speaker 10: to learn your harmony part, and your guitar part, your

35:05 Speaker 10: bass part. Oh the drummers out, you're playing drums this week. Okay,

35:09 Speaker 10: so things like that. So one of the greatest learning

35:13 Speaker 10: 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,

35:19 Speaker 2: how how important that was. And absolutely you know, and

35:23 Speaker 2: having that foundation musically, and.

35:26 Speaker 10: And the foundation did come from the religious music. In

35:29 Speaker 10: the beginning, we were all brought up there and she

35:32 Speaker 10: does that every week. Still I do that probably once

35:35 Speaker 10: a month. Yeah, there's a need for musicians at local churches.

35:41 Speaker 10: They could use any of us anytime. They are so

35:45 Speaker 10: glad when I come play music. Yeah, just so thankful

35:48 Speaker 10: and joyous. Yeah, and they try to pay me. I

35:52 Speaker 10: don't accept it at this really. Yeah, some of the

35:55 Speaker 10: piano people, you know, they're paying gigs at churches for sure,

36:00 Speaker 10: but I'm not interested in any But yeah, there is

36:03 Speaker 10: a need for any musicians out there to serve in

36:06 Speaker 10: that fashion if they're available to do so.

36:09 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I grew up in Concord and we used

36:12 Speaker 2: to go to Saint John's on Sunday and they they

36:15 Speaker 2: 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

36:21 Speaker 2: that term specifically worship team, but I just remember like,

36:24 Speaker 2: and I don't think they had any kind of a

36:26 Speaker 2: name or anything. They were just but but I think

36:27 Speaker 2: it was pretty consistently the same people each week. But

36:30 Speaker 2: they would do these songs they were like they were

36:33 Speaker 2: religious songs, but they were like they but they weren't hymns,

36:36 Speaker 2: you know what I mean like like they would do

36:38 Speaker 2: 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

36:43 Speaker 2: a little bit of your love. But it wasn't it

36:45 Speaker 2: wasn't a hymn you know that that I think any

36:48 Speaker 2: of us had ever heard before. I don't know. They

36:50 Speaker 2: may have even written it themselves, I don't know. But

36:52 Speaker 2: they would do songs like that, you know what I mean,

36:55 Speaker 2: like almost like almost borderline secular some of them, but

37:00 Speaker 2: but just very positive, uplifting songs, if that makes sense.

37:03 Speaker 2: But but yeah, I was always kind of fascinated by

37:05 Speaker 2: that because it was like I've never like, I've never

37:08 Speaker 2: heard that. I mean, they would do I suppose they

37:11 Speaker 2: would do him too. My memory of it is fuzzy.

37:13 Speaker 2: This was when I was a kid. But but but yeah,

37:17 Speaker 2: Darryl Hall, I've heard say in interviews he credits his

37:23 Speaker 2: mother taking him on Sundays and they, you know, in Philadelphia,

37:27 Speaker 2: they would go to they would go to a black

37:29 Speaker 2: church and that's how he learned to sing, singing at

37:33 Speaker 2: the black church because that that gave him that that foundation,

37:37 Speaker 2: you know, and his mother was apparently a really good singer. Too,

37:40 Speaker 2: but but she insisted on bringing him there so that

37:43 Speaker 2: he could learn how to sing like her, and that's

37:46 Speaker 2: 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

37:52 Speaker 10: to sing in church. I did the choirs, and then

37:55 Speaker 10: they learned that I could find the note and read

37:58 Speaker 10: the note and follow it on the sheet music. So

38:01 Speaker 10: I was pulled into a quartets and things like that,

38:04 Speaker 10: and quartets were good sing along with background tapes yep,

38:08 Speaker 10: and touring different churches with the PV and short column speakers,

38:13 Speaker 10: the old school stuff. Wow, And so that was yeah,

38:16 Speaker 10: my younger days, that was a lot of fun. The

38:18 Speaker 10: church was a great foundation to learn, and so singing hymns,

38:22 Speaker 10: we would sing those in the pews and we would

38:24 Speaker 10: sing our harmony parts, and sooner or later we would

38:26 Speaker 10: get bored singing harmony and we would sing off key

38:28 Speaker 10: on purpose, so the old ladies would look at us

38:31 Speaker 10: really funny. Yeah, we would sing so well that we

38:35 Speaker 10: would sing off key on purpose a few times. The

38:39 Speaker 10: church was the foundation of singing and learning sound stuff,

38:43 Speaker 10: 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

38:49 Speaker 2: 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

38:53 Speaker 10: of my favorites. This is my radio song. Okay, so

38:56 Speaker 10: at every open mic and I get smiles from this

38:58 Speaker 10: minute every open mic too. So it sounds like a

39:01 Speaker 10: love song. It is a love song. It's actually written

39:05 Speaker 10: from the perspective of your pug, oh pet Oh okay,

39:10 Speaker 10: so it's it's unconditional love. I don't care about anything,

39:16 Speaker 10: you know. I don't care about why you look like,

39:17 Speaker 10: what you smell like, and I don't care what. Just

39:19 Speaker 10: let me be with you. Yeah. So I don't think

39:22 Speaker 10: people will hear that it's from their pet. I always

39:25 Speaker 10: thought it could be used as the ASPCA commercial or

39:28 Speaker 10: something like that. Oh yeah, but I don't care. It's

39:31 Speaker 10: one of the ones that morphed from the basement recording

39:34 Speaker 10: into something quite different when the pros got it. And

39:37 Speaker 10: it's beautiful, lots of keyboards layers that I don't expect.

39:41 Speaker 10: That's where a lot of the new stuff came from.

39:43 Speaker 10: How sounds changed when you added a player on an

39:47 Speaker 10: instrument that could be any other instrument, and so a

39:49 Speaker 10: 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

39:54 Speaker 2: is I don't care, and this is K T K.

39:57 Speaker 2: Our friend Kevin Ker said, is here with us, alive

39:59 Speaker 2: 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

40:18 Speaker 12: me hanging around without a frown, your personal clown.

40:23 Speaker 13: It's not the funny things you say, old silly games

40:28 Speaker 13: we play that keep me sticking around. I'll never ever

40:31 Speaker 13: 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

40:47 Speaker 12: 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,

40:57 Speaker 6: 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

41:17 Speaker 14: hanging around frown upside down.

41:20 Speaker 6: Your personal clown. It's not the crazy things you say,

41:25 Speaker 6: oh the records that we play that keep me sticking round.

41:29 Speaker 6: I'll never let you down making your big planes. Man,

41:35 Speaker 6: everything's okay.

41:37 Speaker 12: If you own opdions, I get nothing to say because

41:43 Speaker 12: 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

41:52 Speaker 12: 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

41:59 Speaker 14: in wherever I'm with you, I don't care.

42:06 Speaker 10: Where we want, where we where we go, who we

42:08 Speaker 10: mean if we talk, if professor spoke, I only know

42:12 Speaker 10: 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

42:58 Speaker 6: 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.

43:31 Speaker 2: And that is Kevin Kirstaid also known as kat k

43:35 Speaker 2: and uh he is here with us live in studio.

43:38 Speaker 2: And that's a great song I was selling, Uh, I

43:40 Speaker 2: was selling Kevin off air that I'm gonna hear that

43:42 Speaker 2: in my head now in the morning when when the

43:44 Speaker 2: cat Jenny and I have a cat who will sit

43:47 Speaker 2: outside the bathroom door a me owing, wanting to come in. Well, well,

43:51 Speaker 2: I shave, watch me shave.

43:53 Speaker 10: You know, I don't have a pet, but that's the

43:55 Speaker 10: perspective I chose when I wrote it. Yeah, you know

43:59 Speaker 10: how they they don't care what you look, they don't

44:01 Speaker 10: care that you smell, They don't care. Just let me

44:04 Speaker 10: 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

44:11 Speaker 2: you've recorded? Are these all? Are Are these part of

44:14 Speaker 2: 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.

44:20 Speaker 10: I have fourteen of them. Yeah, I mean I'm working

44:24 Speaker 10: on my artwork right now, so I will have CDs

44:27 Speaker 10: 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

44:32 Speaker 10: albums done. I'll probably make an album pressing. If I

44:35 Speaker 10: sell enough CDs, I'll probably press a couple of Ye.

44:39 Speaker 10: The CDs are real cheap to have made. So the

44:41 Speaker 10: do it yourself, do it yourself music career thing is

44:46 Speaker 10: is just coming upon me now, just learning all the

44:48 Speaker 10: ins and outs of that. Yeah, I'm finding partners and

44:53 Speaker 10: helpers like Eric from jam Demik yep. It was great

44:56 Speaker 10: with all that marketing stuff. Oh yeah, and let's talk

45:01 Speaker 10: gymdemic for a minute while I can. They have lots

45:03 Speaker 10: of their own original stuff out. They're a force in

45:06 Speaker 10: this southern New Hampshire area and so you guys can

45:09 Speaker 10: get out and catch a jamdemic, do it. They're good

45:13 Speaker 10: and I'll probably be running sound for them. So come

45:14 Speaker 10: 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

45:21 Speaker 10: so I'm working on my artwork. I've written my liner notes,

45:24 Speaker 10: I have all my credits for all the people, and yeah,

45:27 Speaker 10: to have a package in my hand before Christmas to

45:29 Speaker 10: hand to my family at Christmas time, yeah, but to

45:32 Speaker 10: have stuff to sell it open mics. So I have

45:35 Speaker 10: a couple of options of how it's getting posted online,

45:39 Speaker 10: and I posted I don't care on my song cast account,

45:42 Speaker 10: and it's having a little trouble with the artwork, all

45:45 Speaker 10: the artwork. Yeah, I'm not sure if they're the venue

45:47 Speaker 10: I'm going to choose. So yeah, I'm undecided as to

45:51 Speaker 10: how how to release it all. Yeah, I don't care.

45:54 Speaker 10: We'll be out there eventually, because that's the first one

45:56 Speaker 10: I was hoping to tell you today. It's available. Oh okay,

45:59 Speaker 10: not quite. Ye, it's still having some issues and that's

46:03 Speaker 10: also making me wonder So do it yourself music we

46:06 Speaker 10: were talking about is a tough gig. There's lots of

46:09 Speaker 10: different options things to choose from and things to where

46:14 Speaker 10: to release your music through. So I'm hoping someone loves me,

46:17 Speaker 10: and what I really need is management. I'm doing it

46:22 Speaker 10: all myself and I'm stepping out there and this is

46:24 Speaker 10: the year that I'm going to put the effort into

46:27 Speaker 10: showing up and getting all the music out there. And

46:30 Speaker 10: so it's going to be an album package excellent, all

46:34 Speaker 10: fourteen songs good. I didn't want to sell anyone short

46:37 Speaker 10: and just have tens writ The fifteenth song I recorded

46:40 Speaker 10: in nineteen ninety two, a song called rat Race and

46:43 Speaker 10: at Ryan Song Studios in pepperle and that was remastered.

46:48 Speaker 10: So that'll might not make the album, but I'll keep

46:52 Speaker 10: that one in my pocket, you know, as a bonus

46:55 Speaker 10: track for something or who knows. The original tape on

46:59 Speaker 10: that was quarter inch tape. Zach had it in Nashville,

47:04 Speaker 10: but when he opened the tape that had been in

47:06 Speaker 10: storage since ninety two, heat had gotten to it over

47:10 Speaker 10: the years and it was unusable. Okay, so we had

47:13 Speaker 10: to use an old MP three and he said, this

47:15 Speaker 10: is okay. I said, it's okay. Make it sounds as

47:18 Speaker 10: much as you can like the others. But yeah, it's

47:21 Speaker 10: not quite as as good as sounding as the others.

47:23 Speaker 10: It's a different vein. So it's not going to make

47:26 Speaker 10: 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

47:41 Speaker 2: when's your next appearance?

47:43 Speaker 10: So I let's see, I just did Pumpkin Fest in

47:46 Speaker 10: Milford talking to Milford. Yeah, I ran sound for six

47:50 Speaker 10: bands at the Keysfield stage, the first time they had

47:52 Speaker 10: bands of the Keysfields brand new wooden beautiful that they

47:57 Speaker 10: built on a super fun site, nice stage. I wouldn't

48:01 Speaker 10: top stone back. Ran sound for six acts there and

48:06 Speaker 10: I was the seventh act that was right before the end,

48:09 Speaker 10: second to last. I got to do four songs there. Yeah.

48:11 Speaker 10: So my next thing, I have a showcase at Riley's

48:14 Speaker 10: Place in Milford coming up December twenty seventh. Ok, I

48:17 Speaker 10: get an hour and a half. I'm gonna start off

48:19 Speaker 10: some things by myself. Probably I don't care all alone

48:22 Speaker 10: on acoustic, because that's when I do well on acoustic

48:24 Speaker 10: called by myself. Yeah, so at the Keysfield thing, I

48:27 Speaker 10: did really and planned my fourth song set really well

48:31 Speaker 10: I did. I don't care all about myself on acoustic.

48:33 Speaker 10: Second song, I brought two friends up and we did

48:36 Speaker 10: 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

48:45 Speaker 10: blues song. Riley's Place has blues open mic on Sunday

48:49 Speaker 10: afternoons from one to four. Yeah, I had been, like

48:53 Speaker 10: I told you, I went to the blues one, the

48:55 Speaker 10: first one I ever went to at keys Piano Bar,

48:57 Speaker 10: and I felt like I had a rubber night for

49:00 Speaker 10: the gunfight. Yeah, so I always stayed away from Riley's

49:03 Speaker 10: Sunday blues thing other than I poked my head in

49:05 Speaker 10: and said alone, saw the incredible guitar players and saxophone,

49:09 Speaker 10: all these incredible musicians. Yeah. I went to Rally's one

49:12 Speaker 10: Sunday with my bass and I walked up on stage

49:16 Speaker 10: and I signed up and I walked up on stage

49:18 Speaker 10: and they said, what are you doing? I said, we're

49:20 Speaker 10: doing an original. And the drummer looked at me like

49:23 Speaker 10: people don't do originals, said blues jam. Yeah yeah, I said,

49:26 Speaker 10: well it's one four five. They said it's the format.

49:30 Speaker 10: I said, it's the right blues format. Don't worry, Yeah

49:32 Speaker 10: doing it. And the drummer was Phil de Luca was

49:35 Speaker 10: his name.

49:36 Speaker 2: Okay.

49:36 Speaker 10: He looked at me like I had two heads. Yeah,

49:39 Speaker 10: you're doing an original. I said, yeah, you'll be all right,

49:42 Speaker 10: 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

49:47 Speaker 10: a big giant thumbs up and a smile and yeah,

49:49 Speaker 10: you're a good singer. Yeah, And so I was really

49:52 Speaker 10: I had won him over in that one song. And uh,

49:55 Speaker 10: and then I played along with blues. I just played

49:57 Speaker 10: bass with whatever they wanted to be after that. But yeah,

49:59 Speaker 10: I have been back since other than just visit and

50:02 Speaker 10: say hi. But Phil DeLuca played on stage with me

50:04 Speaker 10: at Keyesfield. I wanted when I did Keysfield, I wanted

50:08 Speaker 10: to bring in town people that had I had met

50:11 Speaker 10: over the course of this year of doing open mics

50:14 Speaker 10: and that I had made friends with and that liked

50:17 Speaker 10: me because I'd won them over, you know, yeah, yeah,

50:20 Speaker 10: and I love that fact that he wanted to come

50:23 Speaker 10: and play Keysfield. So He's field was a wonderful thing.

50:28 Speaker 10: And so I did that blues number with him, and

50:30 Speaker 10: I had Scott Gibbs come up and play guitar, real

50:34 Speaker 10: good guitars, and he's the one I'm going to be

50:35 Speaker 10: work with going forward. I got oh nice Scott Gibbs,

50:39 Speaker 10: Mark Shemitt and Kevin Johnson. Yeah, I'm going to be

50:42 Speaker 10: playing and my sister to work on the original act

50:45 Speaker 10: that'll be coming out in twenty twenty six. Look for

50:49 Speaker 10: Katie K. We might be going to MMI, Kevin Kirsty.

50:52 Speaker 10: I'm not sure the name will be going under, probably

50:54 Speaker 10: Katie K. But we will be having the full band

50:57 Speaker 10: thing with the My favorite type of music is searing

51:02 Speaker 10: molten lava guitar with three part harmony over the top

51:05 Speaker 10: of it. Here you go, and we will be having

51:08 Speaker 10: a lot of that too.

51:09 Speaker 2: Nice, nice, very good, very good, Kevin. Where should people

51:13 Speaker 2: go to keep up with you online? Where's the best

51:15 Speaker 2: 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

51:19 Speaker 10: just made less than a month ago my Facebook band page.

51:23 Speaker 10: Eric from Jamdmick is going to help me with my marketing,

51:25 Speaker 10: so you will see it spreading quickly once he gets

51:29 Speaker 10: his hands to help me. I got a few things

51:32 Speaker 10: I got to help him with too, So yeah, we

51:33 Speaker 10: have a wonderful working relationship of give and take good

51:37 Speaker 10: good And yeah, I'm doing some sound of Big Bear too. Okay,

51:41 Speaker 10: Big Bial Lodge Andrew Institute of Art where Eric and

51:44 Speaker 10: 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

51:50 Speaker 10: in the Brookline. Yeah yeah. Oh, and I forgot to

51:53 Speaker 10: mention the other Brookline open mic every other Thursday, the Alamo.

51:57 Speaker 10: I took my a cappella team down there. No, we

52:00 Speaker 10: 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.

52:10 Speaker 10: A lot of times. Girl songs are in my range.

52:11 Speaker 10: Boys songs are usually out of it. I have to

52:13 Speaker 10: change the key. But girl songs are in my range

52:16 Speaker 10: and people don't expect that from me either. So yeah,

52:19 Speaker 10: come out and catch me sometime and I'll might do

52:21 Speaker 10: something I expected. I hope to something you.

52:24 Speaker 2: Like excellent excellent. Well, very good. Well we're gonna close

52:27 Speaker 2: out the segment in a moment with follow Your Dreams,

52:30 Speaker 2: another great song. Anything we should know about this before

52:32 Speaker 2: we play it, So this one.

52:33 Speaker 10: I had a live recording of this song from ninety

52:39 Speaker 10: one ninety two. I showed up at the studio in February.

52:43 Speaker 10: My sister was with me. I also took a risk

52:46 Speaker 10: that I didn't know. I brought Zachary Stone. Shout out

52:49 Speaker 10: to Zachary Stone, drummer from New Hampshire. He was a

52:53 Speaker 10: young kid. He had played at my house in my

52:55 Speaker 10: basement and jammed once or twice when he was sixteen

52:59 Speaker 10: or seventeen yea, and I knew he was a good drummer.

53:02 Speaker 10: He had some videos where he played outside of Fenway

53:05 Speaker 10: Park at ten years old. Oh jack Stone, you know,

53:07 Speaker 10: and a lot of hits on YouTube. So he's active

53:10 Speaker 10: in the industry down there. He's a band called Gray

53:12 Speaker 10: Lee right now. They played a few nights ago. He's

53:14 Speaker 10: really active. But I brought him into the studio with

53:17 Speaker 10: me and Zach Kazik. The producer says, you know you

53:21 Speaker 10: took a risk. Brigety young kid in here. Most of

53:23 Speaker 10: these people they can't stay in time. They can't do this.

53:25 Speaker 10: Then that he goes, yeah, I said, well he's from

53:28 Speaker 10: New Hampshire. I really wanted him and I was pretty good.

53:30 Speaker 10: So and it turns out I hit a home run.

53:34 Speaker 10: Zach Stone has been called back by Zach Haazik walth

53:38 Speaker 10: Other to do some stuff. So yeah, Zach turned out

53:41 Speaker 10: to be a really good drummer. So the song was

53:43 Speaker 10: follow Your Dreams, and I am playing it for Zach

53:47 Speaker 10: in the studio and Zach actually had heard it and

53:49 Speaker 10: listened to it many times. Zach listened to all the

53:51 Speaker 10: ones I had him on and did him almost to

53:54 Speaker 10: a tee to the old band recordings. Yeah, well, yeah,

53:58 Speaker 10: he did the new ones he'd never heard. There was

53:59 Speaker 10: two he got cold that he hadn't even heard before.

54:02 Speaker 10: But I played it on the little JBL speaker and

54:07 Speaker 10: Zach Kazik walks in the control room and says, what

54:11 Speaker 10: the heck is that you're listening to? I said, that's

54:15 Speaker 10: the song we're doing, dude, and it's this one, follow

54:19 Speaker 10: your Dreams. Okay. It turned out Zack Stone killed it

54:24 Speaker 10: on drums. It's very drum heavy, synth heavy. It turned

54:28 Speaker 10: out to be Zach Kazik encouraged Mike Sharp, the synth

54:33 Speaker 10: player from Nashville. Excellent, excellent, He said, think the cars,

54:37 Speaker 10: Think the cars until you might hear some of the cars.

54:39 Speaker 10: And there we hope. Okay, and yeah, the guys did

54:42 Speaker 10: really good with Zack Stone on drums on this one.

54:45 Speaker 10: Shout out to Zach Stone and the other drummer who

54:48 Speaker 10: I didn't shout out to as Shaky. When I walked

54:51 Speaker 10: in Wild Feather Recording studios, Well, first let's start at Milford. Milford,

54:55 Speaker 10: people says, why are you going to Nashville to record?

54:57 Speaker 10: We have studios around here. I said, do you have

55:00 Speaker 10: golden platinum albums hanging on the walls of your studio

55:04 Speaker 10: up here?

55:05 Speaker 3: Right?

55:06 Speaker 10: And they were quiet. So yeah, that's why I went

55:08 Speaker 10: to Nashville. And some of those golden platinum walls on

55:11 Speaker 10: the walls were Shaky's oh albums from playing on Kid

55:15 Speaker 10: Rocks album. Oh Okay, So Shaky played drums on my

55:18 Speaker 10: eight songs and he played for kid Rock, So Shaky,

55:22 Speaker 10: shout out to Shaky. All the guys at Zach Studio

55:24 Speaker 10: were awesome, Oh, very good. The one I brought that

55:26 Speaker 10: follow your Dreams was Zach was a little afraid of it,

55:29 Speaker 10: but it came out really good.

55:30 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so we'll give this a spin to

55:32 Speaker 2: close out the segment, and if you are listening live

55:35 Speaker 2: stick ground of course. In the third hour, we have

55:37 Speaker 2: Euphemia in the house and really looking forward to talking

55:40 Speaker 2: with them. But kat K Kevin Kirer said, I got.

55:43 Speaker 10: One more shout out to dream Track Studios, Gary Connelly.

55:46 Speaker 10: I'm gonna be doing some work there coming up. They gottah,

55:49 Speaker 10: they're just getting started. They're the new studio in Milford.

55:51 Speaker 10: They got the best recording stuff in the world. Oh,

55:54 Speaker 10: 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

56:01 Speaker 10: guy's my friend and he likes my original music. So yeah,

56:04 Speaker 10: we hope to be doing some stuff at dream Track

56:06 Speaker 10: Studios Milford.

56:07 Speaker 2: Oh excellent, excellent, very good. All right, well we will

56:10 Speaker 2: do this again in the future. My friend. Absolutely wonderful,

56:12 Speaker 2: lavire thank you so having me. Matt absolutely absolutely And

56:16 Speaker 2: here it is. This is follow My Follow Your Dreams

56:19 Speaker 2: 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

57:51 Speaker 6: 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

57:59 Speaker 6: 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

58:18 Speaker 12: come true.

58:20 Speaker 11: You gotta find your treas through the sky to find

58:24 Speaker 11: the followers downside follow your dream true like you don't

58:32 Speaker 11: come true. You God, don't believe anything.

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

59:17 Speaker 4: Powersteeds downside bow you train Si.

59:23 Speaker 6: And don't go to.

59:28 Speaker 11: The dot. Buy cream service Stars and the by the

59:33 Speaker 11: powers the downside, the pre s and no go true.

59:42 Speaker 3: They died Lea