Legion of Solace | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: What mattso wakes up in the morning, he gets into

0:03 Speaker 1: the shower and to the top of his lungs he

0:07 Speaker 1: sings Wane because that.

0:16 Speaker 2: All right?

0:17 Speaker 1: The radio show now on the best and Jammy.

0:22 Speaker 3: Thanks Jerry, and welcome back everybody if you are listening live.

0:26 Speaker 3: Today is a Saturday, November fifteenth, twenty twenty five, and

0:29 Speaker 3: we have entered our number two New Marrow dose of

0:32 Speaker 3: Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of

0:35 Speaker 3: w m n H ninety five point three FM and

0:37 Speaker 3: Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here at the news

0:40 Speaker 3: table and of course today is the big day. Swarmy

0:45 Speaker 3: Fest is here tonight at Jewel cannot wait. We've been

0:49 Speaker 3: in the first hour. We played a bunch of the

0:51 Speaker 3: bands that are going to be playing tonight. We played

0:53 Speaker 3: one song from each actually and right now we have

0:56 Speaker 3: joining us in studio Malcolm and Bruce from Lee of Solace.

1:00 Speaker 4: Hey, guys, what's going on? What's going on?

1:02 Speaker 3: So we should, uh, we should explain what you guys

1:05 Speaker 3: do and then we'll talk a little bit about that

1:08 Speaker 3: because people, I'm sure people hear the name Legion of Solace. Uh,

1:11 Speaker 3: they they think you're They probably assume you're a band,

1:16 Speaker 3: which is not actually what Legion of Solace is, although

1:18 Speaker 3: would be a cool name for if you guys ever

1:19 Speaker 3: think thought about starting a band.

1:22 Speaker 5: If if we were closer to each other geographically.

1:25 Speaker 3: Possibly, Yeah, there is some distance there, right, because so, Bruce,

1:28 Speaker 3: you're from Massachusetts, right I am?

1:30 Speaker 5: Now, yeah, I've been here for almost fifteen years.

1:32 Speaker 3: Fifteen years, okay, and Malcolm, you're from far away.

1:35 Speaker 4: I'm from Lynchburg, Virginia.

1:37 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so you drove up for I was on

1:40 Speaker 3: a bus, a bus, yeah, along a trip?

1:43 Speaker 4: Was that sixteen hours?

1:44 Speaker 3: Sixteen hours? Oh my god?

1:46 Speaker 5: Would have been shorter if they'd have been on time.

1:48 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it would have been like mine at night

1:51 Speaker 6: compared to one o'clock in the morning.

1:52 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Well, well, I'm glad you made it.

1:56 Speaker 4: That wasn't that bad.

1:57 Speaker 6: I mean, if anything, the delays helped it because it

1:59 Speaker 6: may my layovers when our one of them was going

2:02 Speaker 6: to be like an hour and a half layover. Oh

2:04 Speaker 6: really yeah, so literally by them being delayed themselves, it

2:07 Speaker 6: cut out all my delays, my layovers, so like, yeah,

2:11 Speaker 6: it was great.

2:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So what what do you guys do. What

2:14 Speaker 3: is Legion of Solace exactly?

2:16 Speaker 5: We are a hub for independent bands that need marketing, advertising,

2:22 Speaker 5: promoting other bands for their event, sponsorship, for their event hosting,

2:28 Speaker 5: for their event on occasion. Well, we'll actually cater special events.

2:32 Speaker 5: The VIP pre party last night we brought barbecue, pulled

2:36 Speaker 5: porkloaded baked potatoes with us. Nice everybody fed. Everybody was nice,

2:41 Speaker 5: happy and fed. Yeah yeah, saying karaoke steps this came

2:44 Speaker 5: in did a little private performance for us.

2:46 Speaker 6: Excellent little karaoke I got. I got Bruce, if you

2:50 Speaker 6: want to see it. Thing is some karaoke. Oh really,

2:52 Speaker 6: don't worry. I got myself looking at the I'm a

2:57 Speaker 6: singer in a band.

2:58 Speaker 4: Yeah.

2:59 Speaker 6: So yeah, if you said like you said, I was

3:00 Speaker 6: starting to the band, I am in the band actually

3:03 Speaker 6: and I still uh, like last year, I told you,

3:05 Speaker 6: I still work with the guys Hateful Bosa. I used

3:07 Speaker 6: to be with Everything Hiatus right now and I just

3:10 Speaker 6: got to get that worked out.

3:11 Speaker 4: But I could still go play with those guys.

3:13 Speaker 6: But I actually started something to a side project of

3:15 Speaker 6: my own with some other guys called Numb my site,

3:18 Speaker 6: and uh, they want to do like old school new

3:20 Speaker 6: metal uh, you know runge era like stuff, which is

3:24 Speaker 6: when I grew up on most of this.

3:26 Speaker 4: And that's great. So now it's like, all right, welcome,

3:28 Speaker 4: I just got to get back to your clean vocals. Yeah.

3:30 Speaker 6: I'm normally a growler and screen where I'm like, I'm

3:34 Speaker 6: deep into it. I'm more so like mine elevated from

3:37 Speaker 6: when I started out going to choir and all that

3:39 Speaker 6: stuff and then start out like the regular bands I did, Yeah,

3:42 Speaker 6: just doing you know, growls and screams, you know, yeah, yeah,

3:46 Speaker 6: so like Lamb of God type stuff, slipknot type stuff

3:49 Speaker 6: like you know, yeah, and sometimes harder. So like it's

3:52 Speaker 6: that's my realm. That's where I found my peace, right right? Yeah?

3:56 Speaker 4: Yeah?

3:57 Speaker 3: And how did you guys meet and get connected? And because?

4:00 Speaker 3: And how long has Legion of Solis existed? Like did

4:02 Speaker 3: you guys start it.

4:03 Speaker 6: Or well it started out with me Tuesday and a

4:06 Speaker 6: few others beforehand in another group that was trying to

4:09 Speaker 6: do the same thing. Oh okay, but it didn't work

4:12 Speaker 6: out that way. Well, so we ended up starting our

4:14 Speaker 6: own things so that way we can cancel out all

4:18 Speaker 6: the flaws that we see and what is working with

4:23 Speaker 6: the music industry. You see what I'm saying, Like you

4:26 Speaker 6: see all these other people out here on the internet.

4:28 Speaker 6: That's also like advocating for you know, clean ways of

4:31 Speaker 6: doing music. That's what I've always wanted from the get go.

4:35 Speaker 6: It's especially knowing that I do the radio, my radio

4:38 Speaker 6: show callcording to a melica where I want to play,

4:41 Speaker 6: you know, an unknown band right beside Godsmack, lamb, cred,

4:44 Speaker 6: little filth, whoever. But just enjoy music in general, how

4:47 Speaker 6: it used to be back in the day where you

4:48 Speaker 6: can just go, hey, hey, play my play my play

4:51 Speaker 6: my song right right, and it's like, all right, we'll

4:53 Speaker 6: bring it in here, give it here, all right, Well

4:54 Speaker 6: this is a new song about such a such that

4:56 Speaker 6: we don't even know. But here we go, and the

4:57 Speaker 6: next thing, you know, boom, it's like the new You

5:00 Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, it like we heard it. Thank

5:02 Speaker 6: you Jesus, we needed that, right, you know what I'm saying, Like,

5:05 Speaker 6: I like that fresh smack in a face of something new,

5:08 Speaker 6: and I'm tired of hearing it in the world.

5:09 Speaker 4: And everybody's like, well, I'm getting bored with music. Man.

5:12 Speaker 6: I just don't know what to do. I literally do

5:14 Speaker 6: a thing on my show where it's called you know,

5:16 Speaker 6: Mystery Times with Malachi Well, I take thirty may I

5:19 Speaker 6: literally give you thirty seconds to a minute and a

5:21 Speaker 6: half of dead air to go scrolling through and find

5:24 Speaker 6: something I've never found before, whether it's YouTube, Spotify or whatever.

5:27 Speaker 6: And like, dude, how can you get bored with music?

5:30 Speaker 4: Right? Right?

5:30 Speaker 6: And if you actually go into the underground world, which,

5:33 Speaker 6: like I said, I have you a list right here, Yeah,

5:36 Speaker 6: and you find a good you know pool where people

5:40 Speaker 6: are bringing in people from out of town, where there's

5:41 Speaker 6: a lunch of local locals playing everything. Yep, it's an

5:44 Speaker 6: amazing thing. You find your new class of music that

5:48 Speaker 6: you might like. Yeah, a new genre that you never

5:51 Speaker 6: knew that you come across.

5:52 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

5:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so much music being made, more than ever before.

5:55 Speaker 3: And it's more you know, because of the Internet. It's

5:57 Speaker 3: more easily accessible than ever before.

5:59 Speaker 7: You know.

6:00 Speaker 3: I'm a gen x er, so my generation is really

6:03 Speaker 3: the last generation to grow up without the Internet. So

6:06 Speaker 3: I remember, and don't get me wrong, I have wonderful

6:09 Speaker 3: memories of going to the record store and flipping through

6:11 Speaker 3: and finding things you know.

6:13 Speaker 6: Eight yeah, yeah, I was at the ending of it

6:15 Speaker 6: at the beginning of Yah, yeah, like, yeah, I get it.

6:18 Speaker 3: So that was great and everything, but I wouldn't but

6:20 Speaker 3: I wouldn't trade where we have now to go back

6:22 Speaker 3: to that, you know, because sometimes you'll hear people say, well,

6:24 Speaker 3: back in my day, we you know, we actually went

6:26 Speaker 3: to the record store and it was great. And you know,

6:29 Speaker 3: today the internet's ruined everything, and it's like, no, the

6:31 Speaker 3: Internet has made it so that you can have access

6:34 Speaker 3: to literally anything, and it's it's wonderful.

6:37 Speaker 5: Right, there was there was something to be said about

6:39 Speaker 5: the friendships that were built in the record store. Sure,

6:42 Speaker 5: waiting for the midnight release.

6:43 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

6:45 Speaker 6: But yeah, but that's the thing, waiting for the midlight release.

6:47 Speaker 6: But how long do those friends last? Because me myself,

6:50 Speaker 6: I feel more along the last Go spend some time,

6:53 Speaker 6: like if you are any person who loves heavy metal music,

6:56 Speaker 6: whether it's an underground festival or even a stream festival,

7:01 Speaker 6: go spend seven days in the campground right along with

7:05 Speaker 6: other people. Yes, yeah, I did it for eight years straight. Really,

7:09 Speaker 6: I mean all the Blue Ridge Rock Festival. My band

7:12 Speaker 6: The Hateful Bones, we played in the first two. Then

7:14 Speaker 6: we you know, I went to every last one I

7:16 Speaker 6: was because I was my only outlets where I can

7:18 Speaker 6: have a go see some good bands and make it affordable.

7:21 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and then like you.

7:23 Speaker 6: See what I'm saying, So like, not only do we

7:25 Speaker 6: have our scene which was slowly thriving back up because

7:29 Speaker 6: I grew up in my hometown, I've seen it go up,

7:31 Speaker 6: I've seen it go down. I mean even see the

7:33 Speaker 6: band Hateful Bones before I joined them keep that realm

7:36 Speaker 6: up for the longest time and then it drops off.

7:39 Speaker 6: But now it's opening back up more now. So with

7:41 Speaker 6: this place called to Grab our k Bar, which they

7:44 Speaker 6: don't even know that I'm advocating for them. Yeah, Like

7:46 Speaker 6: I go to see these shows and I love what

7:48 Speaker 6: they're doing there. Yeah, there is no pay to play

7:51 Speaker 6: if you wanted, if you can, you know, want to

7:53 Speaker 6: opt off for the chance to go play with some

7:55 Speaker 6: of these bands, like Hunt the Dinosaur came down there.

7:58 Speaker 6: You know, they played a bunch of little band's play

8:00 Speaker 6: for them. You know a Jersey Skuy has a bands

8:02 Speaker 6: play for them, you know, and getting these opportunities to

8:05 Speaker 6: do this without having to worry about you having to

8:07 Speaker 6: pay to play, and you're getting paid.

8:09 Speaker 4: To do so, so why not.

8:13 Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, that's what that's what

8:14 Speaker 6: I advocate for because that's what we push forward, leadsing

8:17 Speaker 6: to solid that's who we are. There is so much

8:20 Speaker 6: way to where you. I mean, if you're out here

8:22 Speaker 6: to get money, okay, but do it honestly, dude, do

8:25 Speaker 6: it honestly. Don't break the artist back who's putting in

8:30 Speaker 6: ninety five percent of the work. You're only doing five percent.

8:32 Speaker 6: Whether you're promoting on the internet like us, or you're

8:35 Speaker 6: actually a manager, you're only doing five percent because you're

8:37 Speaker 6: sitting on your tushi. They are the other ones over

8:39 Speaker 6: there playing the instrument. Because I know both sides, because

8:42 Speaker 6: I play in a band. I want my music to

8:44 Speaker 6: get heard.

8:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

8:45 Speaker 6: That's the reason why I have another radio show, because

8:48 Speaker 6: I want to give you the platform, whether you can

8:50 Speaker 6: come to either something like Matt Connerson, who is very

8:53 Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie throughout this whole entire radio industry world.

8:57 Speaker 6: There's not many people like you anymore, many people like

9:00 Speaker 6: me anymore. Just hear good music together with whatever, right,

9:05 Speaker 6: So I mean not people the people are advocating like

9:08 Speaker 6: you do for it.

9:09 Speaker 4: I see it.

9:09 Speaker 6: I actually going into other people's stuff in other cities,

9:13 Speaker 6: and I mean there might be few far between, but

9:15 Speaker 6: they're doing it more so underground radio like me where

9:18 Speaker 6: they're doing the podcast they do and it just got

9:21 Speaker 6: a lot of followers.

9:21 Speaker 4: Yeah.

9:22 Speaker 5: Try sending an audio file a clear channel and getting right.

9:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It's a blessing to have you.

9:29 Speaker 6: And then like we wanted to be known that you

9:31 Speaker 6: have a source where wherever you put your blessed wat

9:34 Speaker 6: and tears, and we will help you promote it in

9:35 Speaker 6: any way, shape or form. Yeah, you have repsorships that

9:38 Speaker 6: we can help you with, you know, with your band

9:40 Speaker 6: and all that stuff. We have ways that we can

9:43 Speaker 6: advocate for each other and get to the promised land

9:46 Speaker 6: exactly without being a liar cheating still or I'm like,

9:51 Speaker 6: get you the side list, but this really you just

9:53 Speaker 6: give me.

9:53 Speaker 4: Your life, right taking it all.

9:58 Speaker 6: We want to help in any way, shape or form

10:00 Speaker 6: keep this society alive.

10:02 Speaker 5: Even if it's gas money for the next gig.

10:05 Speaker 6: Like you know what I'm saying, Like this is like

10:07 Speaker 6: when we're doing this, this is coming out of our

10:09 Speaker 6: own time.

10:10 Speaker 4: I go home. I literally had to work all the

10:12 Speaker 4: way until Monday night.

10:13 Speaker 6: Yeah, a double shift that I won't even supposed to work,

10:16 Speaker 6: and then I got on a bus at five o'clock

10:18 Speaker 6: in the morning to come do That's how passionate we

10:21 Speaker 6: are about it.

10:21 Speaker 4: That's what we'd love.

10:23 Speaker 6: I want to see the music scenes striving and go

10:26 Speaker 6: and be honest, especially knowing that my daughter is one

10:29 Speaker 6: to eventually be in that industry.

10:31 Speaker 1: Ye.

10:31 Speaker 6: Yeah, So why not have myself or our company make

10:36 Speaker 6: this a big enough hubs where you have an honest

10:38 Speaker 6: place that you can go to. It's like, you know,

10:41 Speaker 6: you can go, you know, I can get signed and

10:42 Speaker 6: the next thing, you know, oh you old, you know

10:45 Speaker 6: the record company millions dollars, you got to you got

10:48 Speaker 6: you gotta go out and just you gotta sole your soul.

10:51 Speaker 6: You know, you gotta run the streets for six months

10:53 Speaker 6: and nine months out of the year and you know,

10:56 Speaker 6: oh man, I only come home with this much money.

10:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know absolutely that.

11:01 Speaker 5: That's why merch fees keep going up and up and

11:03 Speaker 5: ticket fees keep going up and up, because the only

11:05 Speaker 5: time the bands eat is when they're on the road.

11:07 Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely one. We should play this.

11:12 Speaker 4: Uh.

11:12 Speaker 3: This is a little bit of a side street, but

11:14 Speaker 3: we should uh interesting uh And I don't know if

11:17 Speaker 3: I'm saying, I don't know if any of us know

11:19 Speaker 3: exactly how to pronounce how to pronounce this to dessess us,

11:22 Speaker 3: it's d E C E S s U S. It's

11:25 Speaker 3: the name of the band. This track is called Dark Flames.

11:28 Speaker 3: But really interesting story. So Jenny had brought this to

11:30 Speaker 3: my attention initially, and then you wanted us to play it.

11:35 Speaker 3: She the lead singer of this band. And I don't

11:38 Speaker 3: even I'm not even sure how to say her name correctly.

11:41 Speaker 3: But she's Miss Chili. She won the Miss Chili contest.

11:45 Speaker 5: In Miss un in the Miss Universe pageant, in the Miss.

11:47 Speaker 3: Universe pageant, and uh, she brought out her part of

11:51 Speaker 3: her her presentation, I don't know what the term.

11:53 Speaker 6: Is guitars, Yeah yeah, and started playing one of her

11:57 Speaker 6: own songs.

11:58 Speaker 3: And they right, and that that's something that had never

12:01 Speaker 3: been done obviously at one of these pageants. Was pretty

12:04 Speaker 3: pretty unique and it paid off.

12:06 Speaker 6: She won, right, I see, I say. I said the

12:08 Speaker 6: same thing to them last night. I said, if anybody

12:11 Speaker 6: helped to prove not only the best marketing in the

12:14 Speaker 6: freaking world, ye, Like, how.

12:16 Speaker 4: Smart is that? Hey?

12:17 Speaker 6: I'm hot, I'm gonna go do this pageant, right, I'm

12:20 Speaker 6: gonna win it. I'm gonna shock them with doing this

12:23 Speaker 6: amazing talent with my voice.

12:25 Speaker 4: Yep.

12:26 Speaker 6: But also in the end, you're showing how beautiful and

12:29 Speaker 6: how amazing of an art heavy metal is.

12:33 Speaker 4: Yes, it's not.

12:34 Speaker 6: Just you're you're you're you're headed with you know, one stone,

12:37 Speaker 6: two berries with one stone. You're knocking it out and

12:40 Speaker 6: being hot and knocking on this, you know, being a model.

12:42 Speaker 6: And then also you're showing that heavy metal is not

12:45 Speaker 6: something to be scared of. Heavy metal is something to embrace.

12:47 Speaker 6: R Like art sculptures are you know, the sixteenth taple

12:51 Speaker 6: Like it's an art beautiful, it's and.

12:54 Speaker 3: It's and it's not a gimmick like you know, she's

12:57 Speaker 3: legitimately very talented. Yeah. Yeah, as as we're about here,

13:00 Speaker 3: so let's give this a spin. If you're just joining us,

13:02 Speaker 3: we're talking with we have Malcolm and Bruce here from

13:04 Speaker 3: Legion of Solas and of course it is Swarmy Fest Day.

13:07 Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that in a minute, but yeah,

13:09 Speaker 3: check this out. This is I'm gonna go with decessus

13:12 Speaker 3: for how you pronounce the name of the band, But

13:14 Speaker 3: I really have no idea, but hopefully that's close. But

13:16 Speaker 3: this is really good and the track is called Dark Flames.

13:19 Speaker 3: Check it out.

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18:59 Speaker 3: Here here we got all right? Well that is that

19:03 Speaker 3: is a decessus. That is miss Chilly on lead vocals.

19:07 Speaker 3: That's fantastic, and that is Dark Flames. There's a video too,

19:10 Speaker 3: so you can you can see her and the rest

19:11 Speaker 3: of the band in action if you if you check

19:14 Speaker 3: that out on YouTube. If you are just joining us,

19:17 Speaker 3: this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from

19:19 Speaker 3: the studios of WM and H ninety five point three FM.

19:22 Speaker 3: Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go

19:24 Speaker 3: to my website Matt connorton dot com slash live for

19:27 Speaker 3: all your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos,

19:30 Speaker 3: show archives, et cetera, et cetera. It is Saturday, November fifteenth,

19:33 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, and it is Swarmyfest Day. Swarmyfest of course,

19:38 Speaker 3: is Tonight at Jewel, presented by Loud Entertainment co headliners

19:44 Speaker 3: Sepsis and Silent Season. We also have Under the Horizon

19:47 Speaker 3: Pulsifier Temptress, the Cherry Fog and featuring Lilithcat and the

19:51 Speaker 3: Blood which Matt Connorton unleashed. We are very proud once

19:55 Speaker 3: again this year we are this show is one of

19:57 Speaker 3: the official sponsors of the event. Along with our friends

20:00 Speaker 3: from Legion of Solace, we have Malcolm and Bruce are

20:04 Speaker 3: here with us in studio. Also Speed Demons Promotions, Violet's

20:08 Speaker 3: Rain BPS Records, and Denny Lynz or DANAE. Linz Creations.

20:12 Speaker 3: Not exactly sure how to say that, but we'll meet

20:14 Speaker 3: everybody later, but come down say hello to us, enjoy

20:17 Speaker 3: a great night. Jenny and I will be there really

20:19 Speaker 3: looking forward to it and getting to hang out with everybody.

20:21 Speaker 3: Come say hello, yes, yes, and of course we do

20:24 Speaker 3: have Malcolm and Bruce here with us in studio. Malcolm,

20:28 Speaker 3: you should tell us more about your show.

20:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I said, it's cornsy, was Malachai. It's

20:33 Speaker 4: the same thing.

20:34 Speaker 6: It's like what Dark Message is doing when you can

20:36 Speaker 6: get a chance to do her show, because right now

20:38 Speaker 6: she's basically with school, so she's like heavy busy with that.

20:41 Speaker 6: But because we're trying to get everything, like right now,

20:45 Speaker 6: this is just the foundation, yeah, so what we are

20:48 Speaker 6: really trying to accomplish. So she's doing her part and

20:52 Speaker 6: I'm doing my part with quaranty, with Malachai and when

20:55 Speaker 6: I came, especially with the weird sleep schedule of my job.

20:59 Speaker 6: And I will even call you shout out to texas

21:01 Speaker 6: In because I got some people watching them. Shout out

21:02 Speaker 6: to my hometown, Listsburg, Virginia. If you're ever in Lisburg, Virginia,

21:05 Speaker 6: you want a cheesy WSTNT, come get come to texas In,

21:07 Speaker 6: come see me anyway. Definitely, what I do with my

21:12 Speaker 6: radio show is requests, So it's an opportunity for you

21:15 Speaker 6: to be something like this, whether either you can call

21:18 Speaker 6: up soon I will have it where I have a

21:19 Speaker 6: WhatsApp going through its where you can call in and chat,

21:22 Speaker 6: especially if you're just a heavy music or of whether

21:24 Speaker 6: it's the underground or mainstream, and just talk about your experiences.

21:28 Speaker 6: So it's kind of like a podcast lass radio show,

21:30 Speaker 6: but for the most part, it's there for the unassigned

21:33 Speaker 6: and up and cooming talent. But if you're a PLAC

21:36 Speaker 6: person from somewhere like you know, California, Washington, somewhere where

21:40 Speaker 6: I can't get to immediately to come and watch the

21:42 Speaker 6: show that night. Yeah, and you're just an averg go

21:44 Speaker 6: over the underground world and you want to you know,

21:46 Speaker 6: shout it out and like hey, I want you to

21:48 Speaker 6: go to YouTube, especially as long as it's good audio

21:51 Speaker 6: or even a video. As long as everything is good,

21:53 Speaker 6: send it to me. I will play it. There is

21:55 Speaker 6: no charge, there is no nothing. All I asked for

21:57 Speaker 6: you to do is just share, share our platform so

22:00 Speaker 6: that way not only the people rest people in Washington

22:02 Speaker 6: who are playing underground and spending their money, blood, sweat

22:06 Speaker 6: and tears sitting in a recording studio cramped up, getting

22:09 Speaker 6: carpal tunnel playing these songs yep, you know, on repeat,

22:14 Speaker 6: just to get it recorded. Because like I said, I

22:16 Speaker 6: know both sides. Yeah, And I want you to be

22:18 Speaker 6: able to have a platform to where you can go

22:20 Speaker 6: to and just say hey. One of the fans is

22:22 Speaker 6: like hey, I mean, you know, I'm from you know,

22:24 Speaker 6: I think I've had one from uh what was Mona from.

22:29 Speaker 5: Mona's and Lean, Norway.

22:31 Speaker 6: Yeah, she's she's like she used to be a part

22:34 Speaker 6: of like originally we used to where we met him him,

22:36 Speaker 6: I I recruited him into this company from a place

22:39 Speaker 6: called from another radio show that I also love it

22:42 Speaker 6: he loved called Radio Gods the forty two. Okay, like

22:45 Speaker 6: Radio Me and Radio Gods the forty two kind of

22:47 Speaker 6: like started doing like she started doing her thing first. Yeah,

22:50 Speaker 6: but I was like always wanting to do it, and

22:52 Speaker 6: I was like, well, she gave me an inspiration to

22:54 Speaker 6: do it, but I wanted to do mine. Yeah, the

22:56 Speaker 6: way kind of like how you're doing it, but also

22:57 Speaker 6: adding into where you can come in and watching the video,

23:01 Speaker 6: you'll see me down in the bottom corner of my

23:03 Speaker 6: own little light show rocking out with you. So it's

23:05 Speaker 6: like you're fully involved. Yeah, And I want that's how

23:08 Speaker 6: I want it to be. Like to whether you call

23:10 Speaker 6: in where if you want a video chat into me

23:13 Speaker 6: and just talk to me. I want you to have

23:15 Speaker 6: a full access radio of old school rebel radio where

23:19 Speaker 6: if I wanted to call this number locally, anybody, if

23:21 Speaker 6: I want to call you and say, hey.

23:23 Speaker 4: Is your refrigerator running?

23:24 Speaker 6: You better go gadget, Like I want you to be

23:26 Speaker 6: able to do that I want you to be able

23:28 Speaker 6: to call and say, hey this man I saw you

23:31 Speaker 6: know and you know Gothensburg, Sweden, and I want you

23:34 Speaker 6: to freaking just like you know, if anybody knows where

23:37 Speaker 6: Gotharmax Sweeten is, that's where Avatar is from.

23:40 Speaker 4: The guy the like. I want you to check these

23:43 Speaker 4: guys out, and I watched them plan on your show.

23:44 Speaker 4: Yeah boom.

23:46 Speaker 6: Then share the feed if you especially if you're over anywhere,

23:49 Speaker 6: you know away from Virginia area, East Coast, are you're

23:51 Speaker 6: in the West Coast, shares in the West Coast, if

23:53 Speaker 6: you're from the West Coast, and you know you're in Sweden,

23:55 Speaker 6: and you see if I'm over there, shared there. We

23:57 Speaker 6: want this to be so international, you know, world bound

24:01 Speaker 6: to where anybody like I've even had people coming to

24:04 Speaker 6: my show when I used to do it on Twitch

24:05 Speaker 6: and play to nobody for four years straight, and I

24:08 Speaker 6: would have people come in on Twitch every now and again,

24:10 Speaker 6: and it'd be somebody from India who cannot play metal

24:12 Speaker 6: music over there, like they can't just have it playing mainstream,

24:15 Speaker 6: so they would literally would sit me there stuff before

24:18 Speaker 6: and I've played it over here on my stream multiple times.

24:21 Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, like, so that's what Cornthry

24:22 Speaker 6: and Malachi is. And like I said, I want to

24:24 Speaker 6: be able to teach people that you can you can't

24:27 Speaker 6: get bored with music. That's what like if you actually

24:31 Speaker 6: are a music lover, go tumbling down the rab hole,

24:34 Speaker 6: you know what I mean. Nights, I've been set just

24:35 Speaker 6: get finding music to play on my list that's not

24:39 Speaker 6: even that I don't know has already made it not

24:41 Speaker 6: or not yet or whatever that I can't even find

24:43 Speaker 6: the full credibility on it online yet about it, whether

24:46 Speaker 6: they're signed or unsigned, or I've been coming, I'm going

24:48 Speaker 6: to find and play, especially if I don't hear them

24:50 Speaker 6: on extend radio, if I don't hear them on regular

24:53 Speaker 6: FM radio, or they're gonna get played to my stuff,

24:56 Speaker 6: because that's everybody deserves to.

24:59 Speaker 4: Be heard by every Yeah, but it's available.

25:01 Speaker 6: Yeah, just FM radio, not just AM radio, not just

25:04 Speaker 6: satellite radio or whatever you listen to.

25:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, especially in the digital age, because in the sixties, seventies,

25:11 Speaker 5: early eighties, it used to be you could put a

25:13 Speaker 5: stack of records in the trunk of your car, drive

25:15 Speaker 5: across the country, stop at radio stations, and now all

25:17 Speaker 5: of a sudden you have national exposure.

25:19 Speaker 4: Yep.

25:20 Speaker 5: Because of the conglomeration of national mainstream radio. You can't

25:24 Speaker 5: really do that anymore because because if you don't have

25:27 Speaker 5: if if you're not even registered with Distro kid, they're

25:29 Speaker 5: not even going to look at you.

25:31 Speaker 4: Right with seriousness? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

25:33 Speaker 5: So being able to have Internet platforms like Quarantine with Malachi,

25:38 Speaker 5: like Dark Mistress, like Lee Janaura, when we get back

25:41 Speaker 5: to doing that, it gives anybody around the world the

25:44 Speaker 5: opportunity to get back into that car foot records back

25:47 Speaker 5: into their trunk and barnstorm the digital world right wide,

25:51 Speaker 5: barnstorm tens ten states. When you can barnstorm one hundred countries.

25:55 Speaker 6: Right, yeah, absolutely at one time, instantaneously.

25:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, oh, I can't be in you know,

26:01 Speaker 4: multiple places at one time. Yes, you can.

26:04 Speaker 6: That's what the digital world is giving you. Especially like

26:07 Speaker 6: if you go look at just go look into the

26:09 Speaker 6: history of the TikTok world of just underground heavy metal,

26:13 Speaker 6: it's a community there that is so.

26:18 Speaker 4: Like vastly humongous, especially just the short time that.

26:22 Speaker 5: That TikTok has been out, and there are TikTok bands

26:25 Speaker 5: that are playing national, national festivals they're like in that.

26:30 Speaker 5: I believe they're called Electric Callboy now yeah, oh yeah,

26:32 Speaker 5: I know that is yeh. Didn't they originate on TikTok?

26:35 Speaker 5: I think so, yeah, and they're one of the hottest

26:38 Speaker 5: things in the market, right Oh yeah.

26:39 Speaker 6: I mean that's saying if you can get famous off

26:40 Speaker 6: of TikTok man, I mean, TikTok something that somebody coded

26:46 Speaker 6: it was never expecting to let I mean literally themselves

26:50 Speaker 6: hit the stardom that they did. Howbody knows what they're

26:52 Speaker 6: going to be like with anything that they make, if

26:54 Speaker 6: it's going to be like completely right, right, but you know,

26:58 Speaker 6: then you go then you know this and then like

27:00 Speaker 6: people are getting famous off and just doing TikTok, which actually,

27:03 Speaker 6: I mean I wasn't against tiktokingturst, but that was like

27:06 Speaker 6: Tiktoking's like all right, well, now what happens. We're helping

27:09 Speaker 6: you to be more independent and be able to I mean,

27:13 Speaker 6: you're your supporters. If they really support you, they will

27:16 Speaker 6: support you one hundred and ten percent all the way

27:18 Speaker 6: through it, even whether it's buying your merch, you know,

27:21 Speaker 6: supporting your streams and you're a star or two every

27:23 Speaker 6: now and again, whatever you know, and that's great, that's

27:26 Speaker 6: what I love. And like I'm about to sing start

27:29 Speaker 6: doing my show over there, so that's even you know

27:31 Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Like I haven't fun fernagual whether I

27:34 Speaker 6: want to fully yet because like what if I mess up?

27:37 Speaker 4: And like there's a band that already you know, because

27:41 Speaker 4: I looked.

27:41 Speaker 6: All I did was do the research that I could find,

27:44 Speaker 6: and then it's like, oh, they're already signed, and then

27:46 Speaker 6: like but whatever, from what I heard a lot of

27:48 Speaker 6: people say, they don't really care what you play on it.

27:50 Speaker 6: That's the platform I'm looking for. I'm looking for the

27:53 Speaker 6: platform where you allow me to be me. If I

27:55 Speaker 6: want you to sit here and run this venture of

27:56 Speaker 6: being pretty much the old school whatever it was, this

27:59 Speaker 6: jockey like just sleep disc. You know what I'm saying,

28:02 Speaker 6: I want the full experience of doing that. I want

28:05 Speaker 6: to find a platform that is.

28:06 Speaker 4: Gonna allow me to do that. You see what I'm saying.

28:08 Speaker 6: Like other than like I understand if you need to

28:10 Speaker 6: write credentials for doing FM radio, but if I'm doing

28:13 Speaker 6: my own radio show, should I'm not here to play

28:16 Speaker 6: your music to make money. I'm here to entertain you, right, exactly.

28:20 Speaker 6: If my entertainment deserves a dollar or two, so be it.

28:24 Speaker 6: That's hey, I'll take it. You know what I'm saying, Like,

28:26 Speaker 6: who's gonna take? Who's gonna do? Not free money?

28:28 Speaker 4: But I'm not here for the mine.

28:29 Speaker 6: I'm here to entertain you and teach you something and

28:32 Speaker 6: show you that you can support music without ever having

28:35 Speaker 6: to drop of diame unless you want.

28:37 Speaker 3: To, right, exactly exactly.

28:38 Speaker 6: That's all it takes. A like takes you a long way.

28:41 Speaker 6: A share takes you a long way. Yes, yes, I

28:44 Speaker 6: mean that's all it takes. Literally, and you never know

28:47 Speaker 6: if that share could take you to swing in somebody

28:49 Speaker 6: else's friend bank that ends up knowing somebody in the

28:53 Speaker 6: seven Dust camp or or you know, the Lamba God

28:56 Speaker 6: camp or you know any of the hardcore camps. You

28:59 Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, Like, you can go level up

29:03 Speaker 6: with a Slayer. Let's do it, you know, why not

29:05 Speaker 6: even though they're not really doing much anymore. Like there's

29:08 Speaker 6: an example so period, Like that's the whole point. We're

29:12 Speaker 6: all out here to do the you know, be rock

29:15 Speaker 6: stars in our own way and superheroes to somebody, So

29:18 Speaker 6: why not do it the right way? Because if you

29:20 Speaker 6: the more you do it the right way is the

29:22 Speaker 6: more honestly, then everything will stay true. The more it

29:24 Speaker 6: becomes a cesspool, the more it becomes evil. It's like, oh, yeah,

29:30 Speaker 6: I think I might need to stab you so I

29:32 Speaker 6: can use you as something solid to stand on and

29:35 Speaker 6: get me.

29:36 Speaker 4: I don't need that. I don't want that. That's not

29:37 Speaker 4: what I want.

29:38 Speaker 6: I want to be able to help people out and

29:40 Speaker 6: give them the truest form of helping you to, you know,

29:46 Speaker 6: and make your cure bigger without having to worried about

29:49 Speaker 6: like did that man ever screw me over? Did he

29:51 Speaker 6: ever take something else? You know, take something off the

29:53 Speaker 6: back end?

29:54 Speaker 1: You know?

29:55 Speaker 6: No, I was always straightforward to you. I never beat

29:57 Speaker 6: it around the bus. You know what I'm saying. It's

30:00 Speaker 6: straight forward. Everything is, you know, record it out, tabbed out, whatever,

30:04 Speaker 6: It does not matter. We are going to always be

30:06 Speaker 6: honest with you, and even if to the point where

30:09 Speaker 6: if there's a point you that hey, we can't make

30:11 Speaker 6: it happen at this moment, even if that means we

30:14 Speaker 6: have to tell you now that we can't make it happen,

30:17 Speaker 6: either whether it's by our own accord or just it's

30:20 Speaker 6: just not the right time.

30:21 Speaker 4: We're going to keep it honest with you. We're not

30:22 Speaker 4: gonna like oh man, we'll talk to him next week.

30:24 Speaker 4: Don't worry about it. Keep going out there playing hills though,

30:27 Speaker 4: keep going to make the money. No, yeah, if we.

30:29 Speaker 6: Can't, if we can't make the tour happen, look to

30:31 Speaker 6: take this time, go go get some new music elevated.

30:34 Speaker 6: You will election know when we can get you on

30:36 Speaker 6: a tour record or will election know when we can

30:38 Speaker 6: have your run? If you can't make you this run

30:40 Speaker 6: while you're waking your tour, we'll get you next tour.

30:42 Speaker 6: We'll stay in touch with you, get in your music

30:44 Speaker 6: when you're about to drop a new album. If you

30:46 Speaker 6: want to do it, you know, an online interview, hit us.

30:48 Speaker 4: Up, We'll do it. Whatever.

30:50 Speaker 6: Whatever we can make propaganda wise, come to you. We're

30:55 Speaker 6: gonna do it right of course, even all the way

30:57 Speaker 6: to like you. If you're an up andcoming honist and

31:00 Speaker 6: you want to get married online, hey I can marry you.

31:02 Speaker 6: I mean, like I said, we want to hit every

31:04 Speaker 6: corner of the realm and leads no solids, whether it's

31:08 Speaker 6: we want to give you a heavy metal you know,

31:09 Speaker 6: awesome marriage, or we want to help your band strive,

31:13 Speaker 6: or we want to help this venue stay alive because

31:17 Speaker 6: like in my hometown, there's not very many feenals left.

31:19 Speaker 6: I don't really care to have you know, music in it.

31:22 Speaker 4: They'd rather just have you know, the jukebox in there

31:24 Speaker 4: and just yeah, that's it. No, dude, we got it.

31:28 Speaker 6: No, Like, that's really so many places like around my home,

31:31 Speaker 6: like around my Virginia that I've closed that that's legendary

31:35 Speaker 6: to a lot of people who's been through the season,

31:37 Speaker 6: Like you know what I'm saying, like, yeah, so it's

31:40 Speaker 6: I hate it, you know what I'm saying, Like that's

31:42 Speaker 6: and it's just going win Way and then once the

31:44 Speaker 6: Bulldogs are runs it over, it's the history is a

31:47 Speaker 6: raised and there's nothing left. No, I want my daughter

31:50 Speaker 6: to have that history. I want my daughter be able

31:51 Speaker 6: to go play certain like imagine if Whiskey and Go

31:54 Speaker 6: Go is just like right right, everybody everybody like, oh

31:59 Speaker 6: my god, I'll think of our be to make it

32:00 Speaker 6: because I won't be able to play the play that stage.

32:05 Speaker 4: We don't want that.

32:05 Speaker 6: We want to save driving to it because these little

32:09 Speaker 6: weeks if I don't care what anybody say, especially coming

32:11 Speaker 6: into this. These rinkyd venues or what they would call

32:16 Speaker 6: the hole in the wall is what kept the music

32:18 Speaker 6: industry underground. That's what music, Yes, so why not keep

32:24 Speaker 6: them going to where the future ones have a place

32:27 Speaker 6: to go? Play about it?

32:30 Speaker 5: Regardless of the genre of music, every member of every

32:34 Speaker 5: Hall of Fame ever inducted started in a bar, or

32:37 Speaker 5: a garage or a high school gym.

32:41 Speaker 6: Absolutely, so I take I take Dave Girl's world, where

32:46 Speaker 6: seriously go out there and make crappy music in the

32:49 Speaker 6: garage and then come out with something like food fighting. Right,

32:53 Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Go make that crappy music

32:55 Speaker 6: because that crappy music might save somebody's life one day. Yeah,

32:59 Speaker 6: and start off everybody start off as a crappy musician,

33:02 Speaker 6: right until you get good at it?

33:04 Speaker 3: Right exactly?

33:06 Speaker 6: You think me singing was like, oh instant things, I'm

33:09 Speaker 6: going here and I'm you know, Mariah Harry hitting them

33:11 Speaker 6: high notes.

33:13 Speaker 8: No.

33:13 Speaker 5: Once, for example, that there used to be a kind

33:16 Speaker 5: of a pop band in England, our band called Earth. Yeah,

33:21 Speaker 5: look what they became once they just stayed with it.

33:24 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well I always believe too, there's an audience

33:27 Speaker 3: for everything, you know, although I used to think of

33:31 Speaker 3: it a little bit differently. I used to say, there's

33:32 Speaker 3: an audience for everything, you just have to find the audience.

33:35 Speaker 3: But now I think of it a little differently. It's like,

33:37 Speaker 3: there's an audience for everything, but you have to make

33:39 Speaker 3: sure that you're in a place where the audience can

33:41 Speaker 3: find you. Yes, because there that audience exists. But you know, discoverability,

33:47 Speaker 3: it's such an important word. You know, you have to

33:49 Speaker 3: be in places where you can be discovered by an audience.

33:53 Speaker 6: Right, Well, that's what that's then. Other thing about leaves

33:55 Speaker 6: of Solace. In any way, shape or form, you have

33:58 Speaker 6: our platform. We literally made our Facebook, our Instagram available

34:03 Speaker 6: to where even if you wanted to go live through it. Yeah,

34:07 Speaker 6: and it says like you just wanted to, Hey, i'm

34:08 Speaker 6: an let's do an impropt too while we're at practice

34:10 Speaker 6: here we have something good, some good audio.

34:13 Speaker 4: We can let's go live on leading the Sauce. Yeah,

34:16 Speaker 4: you can go live.

34:17 Speaker 6: Yeah, make that happen. You can, and not even with

34:20 Speaker 6: our permission. You know that our platforms are open to

34:23 Speaker 6: where whether whatever you want to drop, whether it's a

34:25 Speaker 6: music video, a flyer, or whatever, it is open to

34:28 Speaker 6: you especially if you're from somebody somewhere across the United

34:31 Speaker 6: States or even over the you know, the ocean. Yeah, yeah,

34:34 Speaker 6: you can come drop with like even if you you know,

34:37 Speaker 6: I got a show going on in India. Well we

34:39 Speaker 6: know not anybody from the United States is gonna make

34:40 Speaker 6: it to India. But if you want to share it

34:42 Speaker 6: to get your name out there and just put it

34:44 Speaker 6: on our platform, you can't. Yeah, if you want to

34:47 Speaker 6: go live from over there in India and our platform

34:49 Speaker 6: you can for free.

34:51 Speaker 3: That's awesome.

34:52 Speaker 4: So that way you can get your exposure out there,

34:53 Speaker 4: whether it's across the seas or not.

34:56 Speaker 5: We've had album releases that I can remember announced from

35:00 Speaker 5: nine different countries outside of the US through the legion

35:03 Speaker 5: of solid social media platform.

35:05 Speaker 3: Oh no kidding, Wow, excellent.

35:07 Speaker 6: And it's kind of like I said, we are actually

35:10 Speaker 6: going through this step by step to show you that

35:12 Speaker 6: not only is it the struggle hard for you, is

35:14 Speaker 6: the struggle is hard for us for being just promoters.

35:16 Speaker 6: You just want to be out here promoting, you know

35:18 Speaker 6: what I'm saying, just to get the numbers to come

35:20 Speaker 6: into the radio show, Just to get the numbers to

35:22 Speaker 6: come in and just spread the word whether it's bands,

35:25 Speaker 6: whether it's fans, whether it's whoever, just people. I'd literally

35:29 Speaker 6: sit there and hand out cards day in and day out.

35:33 Speaker 6: I mean literally to the point where I'm already hijacking

35:36 Speaker 6: his card box for cards. You know what I'm saying,

35:39 Speaker 6: Like I didn't put cards to so many people's hands,

35:42 Speaker 6: and all I ever acted them in return is like, man, hey,

35:45 Speaker 6: send me your stuff, we'll play it. And all I

35:47 Speaker 6: ask is you to take these five cards and hand

35:50 Speaker 6: them to five other bands or five other fans you

35:53 Speaker 6: don't know nothing about us, So that way we can

35:56 Speaker 6: build that platform up and have a strong platform where

36:00 Speaker 6: when I go live, that thing's saying one point two

36:03 Speaker 6: k immediately, and then next thing you know, your exclusion

36:07 Speaker 6: is being dropped. You're a brand new band from you

36:09 Speaker 6: know wherever, a nobody and you got one point two

36:12 Speaker 6: K hitting that thing watching. How amazing would that be.

36:16 Speaker 3: It's a good start.

36:17 Speaker 6: Like I said, I don't care about the dollar, I

36:18 Speaker 6: don't care about the dime, I don't care about the views.

36:22 Speaker 6: But if I can make it happy for somebody else,

36:24 Speaker 6: that'd be great. That'll be a successful me because knowing

36:27 Speaker 6: being in the band's side, that's a lot.

36:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, even if only ten percent of that shares, right,

36:34 Speaker 5: that's a lot of news feeds. Friends.

36:36 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely yeah.

36:39 Speaker 6: All I want y'all do is and all I want

36:41 Speaker 6: to do is just spread the word of how you

36:43 Speaker 6: can keep this metal world thriving. Yeah, and if not,

36:47 Speaker 6: make it even more thicker than what it was because

36:49 Speaker 6: it's thinned out. I'm not saying that heavy metals gone.

36:52 Speaker 6: I'm not saying that the rock culture is gone. It's

36:54 Speaker 6: still there and it's still thriving pretty good, but it

36:59 Speaker 6: has thinned.

37:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

37:02 Speaker 5: Metal's not dead. It just got monetized, right, and I

37:05 Speaker 5: wanted to go back to the unmodetized suff that.

37:08 Speaker 6: You know. I grew up in the New Metal Age

37:10 Speaker 6: and the attitude era of wrestling. Give me good morn.

37:13 Speaker 6: Now you think I don't want to hear, I want

37:14 Speaker 6: to hear. I want to hear that break stuff, or

37:17 Speaker 6: I want to hear you know, some slipknot going on.

37:19 Speaker 6: I want to hear like something hardcore heavy. That's why

37:22 Speaker 6: I do. Like the FM radio station in my hometown

37:25 Speaker 6: and uh, it's ninety eight five at my hometown, and

37:29 Speaker 6: these these guys are there playing everything from Breaking Benjamin

37:33 Speaker 6: to Lamb of God. I mean they're playing the vast

37:36 Speaker 6: majority of the good hardcore, heavy metal, mainstream stuff.

37:40 Speaker 3: Wow.

37:40 Speaker 6: But also that it's still missing that fun factor because,

37:44 Speaker 6: like I said, in the hometown I grew up where

37:46 Speaker 6: every Tuesday and every Sunday was local day. You know

37:50 Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Yeah, we just finished playing God's Smack

37:53 Speaker 6: and Creed and you know it was arms waterpert.

37:57 Speaker 4: You know, you got.

37:58 Speaker 6: I mean there's many times when as a kid, I

37:59 Speaker 6: hear my own band that I joined part of Hey

38:01 Speaker 6: for Bones through you know, ninety six three local radio,

38:06 Speaker 6: and I grew up with that, you know, and then

38:08 Speaker 6: just being able to just say, hey, well we're scheduled

38:10 Speaker 6: to interview.

38:10 Speaker 4: You can come in and sit down and we'll talk

38:12 Speaker 4: and and it.

38:12 Speaker 6: Doesn't cost you a dime because it doesn't cost you

38:15 Speaker 6: a manager say hey man, I had to do this

38:18 Speaker 6: for you said, now you got to give you my

38:19 Speaker 6: ten percent. No, I want to go back to the

38:22 Speaker 6: day to where if you wanted to just like, hey, dude,

38:24 Speaker 6: this is the day I want to pull up on

38:26 Speaker 6: you and want to do a show with live with

38:27 Speaker 6: you right in front of your face.

38:29 Speaker 4: Let's go bro.

38:30 Speaker 6: I will literally call my job and be like, hey,

38:33 Speaker 6: I got a very important because I don't even stressed

38:34 Speaker 6: this to my job. What this leads to the solace

38:36 Speaker 6: what I do as well as being in the band,

38:38 Speaker 6: it's not a hobby, right, I mean I put over,

38:41 Speaker 6: you know, a good twenty years of my life into

38:43 Speaker 6: this to go play with like with Hay for Bones

38:45 Speaker 6: and play with these bands for the Flaw and you know,

38:48 Speaker 6: mushroom Head and all these guys, you know, and being

38:50 Speaker 6: an independent bank.

38:51 Speaker 4: So I know it's successful. I've seen the success out

38:54 Speaker 4: of it.

38:54 Speaker 6: Yeah, you see what I'm saying, like by being with

38:56 Speaker 6: that band Hey for Bones, so I know if I

38:58 Speaker 6: can do it and go wrong, even though yes it might.

39:01 Speaker 6: It's not the shortcut around. It's not hey, we can

39:04 Speaker 6: go hop this mountain and parachute down. No, we're gonna

39:07 Speaker 6: take the long road and we're gonna do it the

39:10 Speaker 6: right way. So that way not only one you have

39:12 Speaker 6: your receipts.

39:13 Speaker 4: Only two.

39:14 Speaker 6: You know that you have been respected and treated as

39:17 Speaker 6: a decent human being, not an object a toy that

39:21 Speaker 6: I can make new law off you. No, I want

39:24 Speaker 6: you to get paid. I want your music to get seen, period.

39:27 Speaker 6: I want you to be just treated with respect no

39:29 Speaker 6: matter where you go. Whether it's me helping you get

39:32 Speaker 6: into these you know, these bills that are helping you

39:34 Speaker 6: get paid while you're toying, I want you to make

39:37 Speaker 6: sure you get paid accurately. Make sure you're not getting

39:40 Speaker 6: treated or disrespect. You're not having to sign no contractor me.

39:44 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

39:44 Speaker 6: I want to just help you promote because either way

39:47 Speaker 6: it goes, it's gonna Whatever is gonna come is gonna come.

39:50 Speaker 6: Because if you build, if what happens when you, like

39:52 Speaker 6: I told Will of them last night, what happens when

39:54 Speaker 6: you actually make that magnet powerful enough, everything's gonna come

39:58 Speaker 6: stopping tools. Right, it's mainstream, whether it's under or even

40:03 Speaker 6: lower to you know, the underground, you can actually there's

40:07 Speaker 6: been many bands that still do it to this day.

40:08 Speaker 6: It's like, oh man, I see what they're doing over there.

40:10 Speaker 6: I want to go do that. I want to go

40:13 Speaker 6: be with these guys. And the next thing you know,

40:15 Speaker 6: here you go. You got something you mung's going on.

40:17 Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, that's actually not necessarily the

40:21 Speaker 6: call you calling the big stream bands to come play

40:24 Speaker 6: with you. They're calling you say, hey, I want to

40:26 Speaker 6: be a part of this because you're helping the community

40:29 Speaker 6: stay alive. Like when you see all these videos of

40:32 Speaker 6: like God's Man going out here to these schools, and

40:36 Speaker 6: you know, you're sitting around with one hundred drummers and

40:38 Speaker 6: all this and helping them teaching the music theory. And

40:41 Speaker 6: that's what that's the end goal. We want to keep

40:44 Speaker 6: it going so much to where it's getting thrown out.

40:47 Speaker 6: And I love seeing these little videos on YouTube where

40:49 Speaker 6: these little kids are like sixty seven years old and

40:51 Speaker 6: they meaning they're killing oh yeah, you know, a Lamb

40:54 Speaker 6: of God later rests, you know, like anything out there.

40:58 Speaker 6: I mean they are here on Dream Theater and it's

41:01 Speaker 6: just like, yeah, I just.

41:04 Speaker 4: I love it.

41:06 Speaker 5: That example, there's a young drummer I think he's ten

41:09 Speaker 5: or eleven now. His name is Caleb h and Joey

41:13 Speaker 5: Jordison had kind of taken him under his wing before

41:15 Speaker 5: he passed, and Jay Weinberg kind of continued that on

41:20 Speaker 5: for a little while. He's been very endeared to Slipnot

41:23 Speaker 5: for a while and Vimic got together and did the

41:26 Speaker 5: tribute show to Joey. Yeah, they invited Caleb to come

41:29 Speaker 5: in and and caleb'sad in with Vimic for two or

41:33 Speaker 5: three songs at the at the at the tribute show.

41:36 Speaker 3: Wow.

41:37 Speaker 5: And you wouldn't if you heard a recording without a video,

41:41 Speaker 5: you would never believe that it was It was an

41:44 Speaker 5: elementary school kid behind the kid back there playing like Joey,

41:48 Speaker 5: like Joey had written it for him.

41:50 Speaker 6: No, Kidd's wild, And that's what that's what we're here for.

41:53 Speaker 6: We want to keep this going from generations and generations.

41:56 Speaker 5: Well yeah, it's it's videos like that and talents like

41:59 Speaker 5: that that remind you metal isn't dead, isn't going anywhere.

42:03 Speaker 5: We don't need to gate keep it. It's in good hands.

42:06 Speaker 5: We just need to educate the youth to how to

42:08 Speaker 5: do it properly.

42:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, like I said, if I can go play with

42:12 Speaker 6: all these bands and have this, you know, this resume

42:15 Speaker 6: of bands that I haven't played with, being from a

42:18 Speaker 6: place called Lynchburg, Virginia, that I mean I've went to

42:23 Speaker 6: I went to school with people that lived in you know, Philadelphia,

42:26 Speaker 6: and I thought that's what they made.

42:28 Speaker 4: You know, No, I Lynsburg, Virginia.

42:33 Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like so to be honestly

42:35 Speaker 6: like to just be a place for that and being

42:37 Speaker 6: known that I could go up to Baltimore at any

42:39 Speaker 6: time and play with, you know, all these well known

42:41 Speaker 6: bands and then go to be on the festival twice,

42:45 Speaker 6: you know, with a bunch of bands.

42:47 Speaker 4: You know, come on, I crazy town, sick puppies. You

42:50 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.

42:50 Speaker 6: We we opened I think we closed out on our

42:53 Speaker 6: stage right before Fuel was starting up. I mean we

42:56 Speaker 6: didn't have the party with Tantric, and you know what

42:58 Speaker 6: I'm saying. Like, so being on that and doing all

43:00 Speaker 6: that stuff and being just a band that is not

43:03 Speaker 6: even signed. Yeah, yeah, just a local band has been

43:06 Speaker 6: around for over twenty years that people have looked up

43:08 Speaker 6: to and loved. Yeah, being able to do this stuff,

43:11 Speaker 6: I know I can help you get to there.

43:13 Speaker 4: Yeah.

43:13 Speaker 5: Speaking of Tantric, Oh, I know what you're gonna talk about. Yeah,

43:16 Speaker 5: I must say congratulations to our friend Opus yep, yep

43:19 Speaker 5: from Dead By Wednesday, they're founding drummer who is now

43:23 Speaker 5: the full time touring drummer of the band Tantric.

43:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, congratulations to Opus.

43:28 Speaker 5: Yeah, very cool and if you want to congratulate him

43:30 Speaker 5: in person. Early January next year at the Opus Blizzard

43:34 Speaker 5: Bash at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut. Tantric has

43:37 Speaker 5: announced that the first show of their tour will be

43:41 Speaker 5: Opus Birthday Bash.

43:43 Speaker 4: Oh okay, and then they will be.

43:44 Speaker 5: Coming to Gloucester, Massachusetts and playing a little venue called

43:47 Speaker 5: the Cut.

43:48 Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh.

43:49 Speaker 5: They're starting their their tour in New England as as

43:54 Speaker 5: an homage to Opus to say thank you for joining

43:57 Speaker 5: the band there.

43:58 Speaker 3: Oh, that's cool.

43:58 Speaker 5: They're accommodating a New England start in the middle of January. Oh,

44:02 Speaker 5: that's not a lot of bands come and see us

44:04 Speaker 5: until April.

44:05 Speaker 4: That's true. Yeah.

44:06 Speaker 3: Jenny and I last year at Swarmyfest because of course

44:08 Speaker 3: dead By Wednesday was one of the bands, and when

44:11 Speaker 3: they you know, I had to go upfront to see them,

44:15 Speaker 3: and then, you know, I kind of came back to

44:17 Speaker 3: the table for a little bit and then I heard,

44:19 Speaker 3: you know, their cover of No Easy Way Out they

44:21 Speaker 3: started playing that. I said to Jenny, I was like, oh,

44:22 Speaker 3: you got to go. I had to go back upfront

44:25 Speaker 3: for that because I love that so much. That's so good.

44:28 Speaker 3: Dead By Wednesday is so good live do you know?

44:30 Speaker 3: Is he so now that he's the full time touring

44:32 Speaker 3: drummer with Tantric is he. I mean, what's happening with

44:35 Speaker 3: Dead By Wednesday?

44:36 Speaker 5: They are still alive, well, fully functioning. Yeah, yeah, they're

44:40 Speaker 5: still still doing work.

44:41 Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, every drummer is in fifteen different bands.

44:44 Speaker 5: Anyway, I was just going to say he's also in

44:48 Speaker 5: He's still in the Black Sabbath Tribute project as well.

44:50 Speaker 5: I believe I believe they're calling that some relation to Earth.

44:55 Speaker 5: Oh okay, but it's I think it's just like Earth,

44:58 Speaker 5: the Black Sabbath Tribute. Oh, they'll be they'll be playing

45:01 Speaker 5: upstairs all night between bands at Blizzard Bash the Tribute act,

45:07 Speaker 5: so Opus will be in the building all day long.

45:09 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, And that's awesome because to see the guys

45:12 Speaker 6: that work the industry, like uh, like Sepsis and then

45:17 Speaker 6: Dead By Wednesday with Opus and then like.

45:20 Speaker 4: I love that dude.

45:23 Speaker 3: He was on the show with us.

45:24 Speaker 4: Yeah great is a networking Yeah yeah, I mean I

45:30 Speaker 4: love that dude to death.

45:31 Speaker 6: Big shouts out of there, like I him up as

45:33 Speaker 6: much as I can, and every since I can get

45:36 Speaker 6: I try to come see your show, especially if I can,

45:38 Speaker 6: if I get it while I'm up here, because I'm

45:39 Speaker 6: only up here.

45:40 Speaker 4: Well, now that I have my real ID, you know,

45:44 Speaker 4: I can fly. I got a little star.

45:49 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, uh, that's the

45:51 Speaker 6: whole other story. I got into that whole ransom the

45:54 Speaker 6: other day. But yeah, now no, I'm flying, I can

45:56 Speaker 6: go get more. But also, like I said, I'm trying

45:58 Speaker 6: to I'm trying to bands down here, up here, down there, yep,

46:04 Speaker 6: and then down here down there up here.

46:06 Speaker 4: Yeah.

46:07 Speaker 6: That's my goal for starting off, to make a strong

46:10 Speaker 6: connection between bands up here and bands down there.

46:12 Speaker 5: And that's just another thing that Legion of Solace does

46:15 Speaker 5: is because we are in different markets personally residentially, we

46:22 Speaker 5: can introduce you to markets that you might not get

46:24 Speaker 5: to as readily because you're trying to get it through

46:27 Speaker 5: a digital realm. Whereas, if you want a Southeast market,

46:32 Speaker 5: we have Southeast residents in our company. We can send

46:35 Speaker 5: that down and you can send it directly to that market.

46:38 Speaker 5: So instead of you having to travel one thousand miles

46:41 Speaker 5: six hundred miles from home and then put foot to ground,

46:44 Speaker 5: we can be your street team.

46:46 Speaker 1: Right.

46:46 Speaker 5: You send us the material, you send us the flyers.

46:49 Speaker 5: You never know, there may be a band that we

46:52 Speaker 5: work with that's putting together a five band show. They

46:54 Speaker 5: have four and they're looking to pick somebody up on

46:56 Speaker 5: their way through. You have a gig in South Carolina,

46:59 Speaker 5: you have a gig in Tennessee, it would make sense

47:02 Speaker 5: to pick up a stop through in Virginia.

47:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

47:05 Speaker 6: Like I said, I got you and we got you because,

47:08 Speaker 6: like I said, it's nothing to try to talk to

47:10 Speaker 6: some of these other venues as well as, if anything,

47:14 Speaker 6: the great thing about it down there, we don't have

47:16 Speaker 6: to have a promoter's license.

47:17 Speaker 4: I can go.

47:18 Speaker 6: I can go rent out the biggest ruins in club

47:20 Speaker 6: that we have down there and put on a show.

47:23 Speaker 6: Yeah charged it. I mean, as long as you're not

47:25 Speaker 6: selling alcohol. Yeah, I don't need a promoter license.

47:29 Speaker 4: I can go.

47:29 Speaker 6: I can literally go use finding someplace with an awesome stage,

47:32 Speaker 6: get somebody to run PA and boom right there and

47:36 Speaker 6: at least have I know there's one down in the

47:38 Speaker 6: whole capacity of three hundred people with the stage so

47:42 Speaker 6: pretty much boom as well as if not, I have

47:45 Speaker 6: the whole outside that I can just set up outside

47:47 Speaker 6: of stage and do it. There's plenty of places are

47:50 Speaker 6: just find somebody with enough land that will take a

47:52 Speaker 6: cut of some money.

47:53 Speaker 4: There you go.

47:54 Speaker 6: Which that's what we used to do back in the day.

47:56 Speaker 6: I mean like when when when that band was playing,

47:58 Speaker 6: and because I said, I've followed Hayful Bones if I

48:01 Speaker 6: even joined them. So I was one of the kids

48:03 Speaker 6: that was I was out there at thirteen years old

48:05 Speaker 6: at these backyard parties. You know what I'm saying, partying

48:09 Speaker 6: with these guys, not drinking, but just partying, join the music,

48:13 Speaker 6: and it's like, dude, that's what made me fall more

48:15 Speaker 6: in love with the local and get to this kick

48:18 Speaker 6: because if I would have never seen that or experienced

48:20 Speaker 6: that by the band that I was with, to see

48:23 Speaker 6: the struggle and then actually join in the band and

48:25 Speaker 6: then then eventually joined the band that was following. Yeah,

48:28 Speaker 6: and then see the struggles of all right, well now

48:31 Speaker 6: we got to make a band account, we got to

48:32 Speaker 6: do band merch, we got to do CDs, which great

48:35 Speaker 6: thing about that day. And as long as you had

48:37 Speaker 6: a tower and you had your music, you could burn

48:39 Speaker 6: see these all dayn line. Yeah, that's true, all day

48:44 Speaker 6: all day like and then so that way we were

48:47 Speaker 6: it was great. And then you had these little self

48:48 Speaker 6: labeling systems. I remember, Yeah, that's what that's what I

48:54 Speaker 6: see him doing. Like we have even had this point

48:56 Speaker 6: where we were selling airbrush shirts. Yeah you know what

48:59 Speaker 6: I'm saying. Like I had an old school shirt that

49:01 Speaker 6: from hay Bus, I mean in a couple of years. Yeah,

49:04 Speaker 6: you know it was air brushed. You know what I'm saying,

49:06 Speaker 6: that's what they sold. They were everywhere you could do

49:09 Speaker 6: it to where you can get your merch off, whether

49:11 Speaker 6: it's having a custom painter, having a shirt to a

49:14 Speaker 6: team do it for you or whatever.

49:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we're here for. We helped whatever style

49:19 Speaker 4: you want, We're going to try to help you to

49:20 Speaker 4: get there.

49:21 Speaker 5: When the White Stripes first started, their first merch was

49:24 Speaker 5: just a white T shirt with white stripes with sharpie,

49:28 Speaker 5: wasn't it right? Yeah, they just like scribbled on them

49:31 Speaker 5: before the show made ten or fifteen, that was their

49:33 Speaker 5: merch that.

49:34 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what sounded like. It's crazy.

49:36 Speaker 6: So like I'm saying, we've seen it where I've you know,

49:38 Speaker 6: I've didn't even help sell out all our mercer we

49:40 Speaker 6: just bought the day before, and it's just like we

49:42 Speaker 6: got three more shows out of this.

49:44 Speaker 4: What are we gonna do.

49:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, guys, we are approaching the top of the

49:49 Speaker 3: hour real quick and then and then we'll let you

49:52 Speaker 3: go where. So where should people go online? Where's the

49:55 Speaker 3: best place to go to keep up with everything? Legion

49:57 Speaker 3: of Solace is doing.

49:58 Speaker 6: Facebook for right now okay and Instagram okay right now

50:03 Speaker 6: because eventually, like I said, once we once Tuesday gets

50:07 Speaker 6: to do it. Back to door and her thing. We're,

50:09 Speaker 6: like I said, we're trying to find a platform to

50:11 Speaker 6: where we can be us and not have to worry

50:14 Speaker 6: about any restrictions that I have to work because I

50:16 Speaker 6: even me playing some of these bands like that are unsigned.

50:19 Speaker 4: Yeah I get muted on Facebook.

50:21 Speaker 6: Yeah you know what I'm saying, because it sounds like

50:23 Speaker 6: something else or whatever and it's not even a sign band,

50:26 Speaker 6: and then I have to wait months and months, I think,

50:29 Speaker 6: just not even two weeks ago, I got a notification saying, oh,

50:32 Speaker 6: we've unlocked your things, seeing that we've actually you know, researching,

50:36 Speaker 6: and it's not a sign band on there, you know

50:39 Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Like, so just do that.

50:41 Speaker 4: That's not like I'm gonna test op TikTok okay on.

50:44 Speaker 5: The human element catches up with the algorithm right.

50:47 Speaker 6: So I've got a bunch of stuff that I've done

50:49 Speaker 6: done through Facebook. But if I do it right, if

50:51 Speaker 6: I do do it right and there are enough underground,

50:55 Speaker 6: I don't be muted. Like there's like maybe one or

50:58 Speaker 6: two shows that I have going through my quarter a

51:00 Speaker 6: monica that is unmedits right now.

51:02 Speaker 3: Okay, wow, all right, Yeah, that's always that's always a challenge.

51:06 Speaker 4: Guys.

51:06 Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Bruce and Malcolm from Legion of Solace.

51:09 Speaker 5: Always a pleasure.

51:10 Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming in. Can't wait to see you tonight.

51:11 Speaker 3: A't Swarmy Fest. The day is upon us. Swarmy Fest

51:15 Speaker 3: is here, and if you are listening live on Saturday,

51:16 Speaker 3: of course Swarmy Fest is tonight. It is November fifteenth,

51:20 Speaker 3: and coming up. We've got members of Sepsis in studio

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