Loud Entertainment | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: So we've got a couple of gentlemen here, one of whom is very very colorfully dressed. But we have Larry from Loud Entertainment is here. Good morning, Larry, good morning, How are you good? Good? And you're your associate here. And by the way, for those of you, for those of you who are listening to the show, because obviously this is first and foremost a radio show, but if you are just listening to the audio, I do implore you go back and check out the video because we have mister I'm not sure your last name, Baboovich, Baboo Figure, Rich Fikovich, Pico Rich.

0:31 Speaker 1: I feel like there's an accent there that I can't replicate. But welcome, sir, Thank you, sir.

0:37 Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and thank you for allowing us in today.

0:39 Speaker 1: Absolutely no, it's wonderful, too wonderful to meet you both. So uh, we should and you know, we'll circle back back to it at the end, but I think kind of probably priority number one, at least for people listening live on Saturday, is you all got a big show tonight?

0:53 Speaker 2: Right?

0:53 Speaker 3: Yes, sure, we absolutely do. We got coming up tonight. We have a Metallica tribute along with the God Smack Trip at the Jewel right here in Manchester.

1:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, right across the street from where we are.

1:04 Speaker 2: You can throw stones at it.

1:06 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you you literally could. Yeah. Absolutely. So that's uh tonight. What time does that start?

1:11 Speaker 3: Doors open at seven? Show starts at eight. Tickets are available at the door.

1:15 Speaker 1: Now is it is it two different bands? Or are they? Is it one band tribute to both?

1:19 Speaker 3: Oh?

1:19 Speaker 1: Okay, oh, very cool, very cool? Now, you do you do a lot of tribute shows, right.

1:24 Speaker 3: We do. We probably put on at least fifty shows a year.

1:28 Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so you got something pretty much every week then, yeah.

1:32 Speaker 3: Pretty much. Sometimes next week we got three nights in a row.

1:36 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding. Wow, So that's kind of I feel like that's kind of your specialty, right, But it's not the only thing. Because you know, you're involved in Swarmy Fest. We should mention that too. Yep, you're the promoter for a Swarmy Fest coming up November fifteenth. That wore my I wore my Stepsis shirt of course, the new one that they gave me last week. Yeah, this will be uh, you know, this show, not the station, but this show specifically. We're one of the sponsors involved in that, and Jay and I always we always look forward to Swarmyfest every year.

2:03 Speaker 1: So this is going to be great and how but this is your this is your first year Loud Entertainments, first year involved in that, correct.

2:11 Speaker 3: In Swimmy Fish.

2:12 Speaker 1: Yeah great, So how did that come about? I'm really curious. It's it's a wonderful thing to be a part of, but to be you know, that's but you've got a little extra responsibility, right because like Jenny and I just have to show up and kind of represent what we do and whatnot. But as the promoter, you know, you've got a lot on your shoulders rights as the promoters of the show.

2:32 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, there's a lot of organization organizing things that particular show has. It's not just a show, I should say, it's not just a concert. It is actually a show. Yeah, we're going to bring a lot of different acts in and do some different things and you know, we try to bring you know, bring different people in and have a good time. And the more the merrier on that one.

2:51 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So how long has loud entertainment existed? And and and have have both of you been because baboo, you're your part. I mean, are you partners in this.

3:03 Speaker 2: Or are you There are three of us involved in it, were other gentleman named Joe Gun.

3:09 Speaker 1: It's okay, okay, So so you've been you've both been there from the beginning. Obviously you guys started you started it.

3:17 Speaker 3: We were actually doing a show at Default and uh, I at that point, I didn't know mister Bab. Yeah, and he walked in the room and I was sitting there with my girlfriend and.

3:27 Speaker 1: She said, I assume I assume you noticed him right away.

3:29 Speaker 3: Well she did. Yeah, she said to me, see that guy over there. I said, yeah. She said, that's the way a promoter should be dressed.

3:36 Speaker 1: Nice.

3:36 Speaker 3: So later on, after the show, there was a local band playing at a bar not five down the road, and uh, we went over there to see that after we were done, and mister Bab walked in again. Yeah, so I call her, sent him an email the next day. He sent me one back, and I mean, we've been pretty good friends since well I shouldn't even say good friends. We talked daily, so every day.

3:58 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. So then how did uh, I mean, did one of you pitch the idea to the other for loud entertainment or how did that happen?

4:07 Speaker 3: Well, that was doing our rebe once you tell him what's up with that? Which one on the question he just.

4:14 Speaker 1: Asked about Loud Entertainment, Like, how did the two of you? I mean it sounds like you became fast friends. But then how did Loud Entertainment come into existence?

4:21 Speaker 2: Well, Loud was doing shows and then as as Larry mentioned, we kind of met up at this little bar after a gig at at the ball okay, and he proposed that I do all of their events and m see everything that they do. Oh, okay, which is Gemini, Christmas a lot.

4:38 Speaker 1: Yeah.

4:39 Speaker 2: And I was, you know, slipping around getting here dribs and drabs, you know ones he twoesies. Now I'm getting like three nights in a given week. Yeah. I know some bands that you know, they'll do over one hundred gigs a year.

4:55 Speaker 1: Yeah.

4:56 Speaker 2: I see us in twenty twenty six being there. Yeah, and he sat at the latest.

5:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:03 Speaker 2: But there's a lot of venues that are closing. There's a couple of them that are that we're losing, and that will mean that the bands will have better, better attendance, I believe, because there's a lot of people out there for these tribute bands to get a foothold.

5:20 Speaker 3: I try. I try to say all the time that you know, at our age doing these tribute bands, you know, half of us have passed away. The other half never came back to music. So there's a small piece of pie to split up when there's nineteen shows going on within one hundred miles of each other, right, yeah, everybody gets everybody gets a few. Yeah, so when you do get that show with one hundred and fifty two hundred people in a small club, you actually had a good night, because that's that's accomplishing something.

5:46 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I hate to see venues closing though, that's that's terrible.

5:52 Speaker 3: One of the one of the big ones out on the what is that the boat? The boat, the boat is closing.

5:58 Speaker 1: It's cool though that like you guys take the attitude of well, you know, it's it's terrible when venues closed, but you know you got to find the silver linings, right, so show must go on. Yep, yep.

6:10 Speaker 2: Absolutely, There's never been more tribute pans now never ever. Ever. The first tribute band that I knew it was way back in the early eighties, was called Surgical Steel and they were copying Judish Priest. Yeah, and that was the only tribute Pan then, but now Gimani Christmas. There's a Linda ronstant One that's up at the two below.

6:29 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:30 Speaker 2: Ah, these tribute bands come out. We just got through having a couple of really great country western trips down at the Plymouth Memorial Hall, which we're going to be doing shows later on this year again excellent and some country events. We found out that there's a lot of people out there that you know, I know, you're a rock station, but there are a lot of country fans out there.

6:50 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We have actually our our guests in our number two, Matt Axton. He's white accent son. Oh my, so we got it. We got a country act in the second hour today as a matter of act. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're having a little bit.

7:03 Speaker 3: We love all types of music, all genres, you know. Yeah, do what we can to help out no matter what it is.

7:09 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, So why why is it? Why do you guys think there are more attribute bands than ever right now?

7:17 Speaker 2: What?

7:17 Speaker 1: What? What's the reason for that? Do you think? I mean, is is there something that's driving that?

7:21 Speaker 2: Or yeah, they want to be musicians and they want to work.

7:24 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because you can. You can really make a living doing that, right, Sure you can. Yeah yeah, but.

7:32 Speaker 2: You also got realized that the competition is very rough.

7:35 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:36 Speaker 2: There's a couple of bands out there that do well. A guy named Miguel and Kalvis runs a band called Back in Black. They really do well. They're a C d C all over New England all the way to Western PA. Then there's a band called Crazy Train Ozzy Experience. These cats go on Hawaii.

7:54 Speaker 1: Now.

7:54 Speaker 2: Granted Ozzy just passed and the righting the crest of the wave, but they just got through performing for like eight thousand people.

8:02 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

8:03 Speaker 2: Uh, they're they're all over the place now and they're coming down to.

8:08 Speaker 3: The Jewel and the Jewel, I mean not to duel. Excuse me, They're coming down to the Vault next Saturday night, Crazy Train and uh who we got with them?

8:17 Speaker 2: Uh, sugar?

8:19 Speaker 3: Maybe there's so many shows on the schedule. Yeah, you say it because it's oh, Crazy Training, White Steak, which is the White Snake tribute. Those guys are hot too. They are really good right now.

8:30 Speaker 1: Yeah.

8:31 Speaker 3: Absolutely, they're starting to get more and more, playing bigger theaters and stuff.

8:34 Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, now how does it work? I suppose, I don't know if as as the promoters, if if you have to worry about this part, or it's more of the band has to worry about this part these individual bands. But I've always been curious about because that's not a with tribute bands. That's not a particular zone I've ever had any involvement in, Like, how does that work legally?

8:56 Speaker 2: Like any other job? Because pay a tax?

8:58 Speaker 1: No, but I mean, but I mean in terms of intellectual property and whatnot, Like, do you do you know any because I'm sure there's stories out there of bands that are maybe doing a tribute a tribute act and they get, you know, somebody kind of taps them on the shoulder, sends them a season assist letter or something saying we don't want you doing this and.

9:16 Speaker 3: You have to have original photos. Okay, use the word tribute a lot when you're explaining your shows. Okay, we just had a recent issue with our show that's going on tonight. Oh, about two months ago, when we started advertising the show, someone took our venue, our time, our date, and posted real pictures of the real Godsmack on stump hub.

9:39 Speaker 2: Oh.

9:40 Speaker 1: Wow.

9:41 Speaker 3: Actually, I started started getting calls from people and saying, hey, we just paid three hundred and eighty dollars before tickets. Oh my god, I'm like you crazy. So I'm actually letting them come tonight. Yeah, the people that don't have tickets, I'm just going to give them a break at the door. And they still got to you know, obviously they still got to pay to come in, but I'm gonna tell them that. I've already spoke to stump Hub and Stumphub said to let the people that don't have valid tickets to tell them to call them in the morning and they will.

10:09 Speaker 3: They'll fix the situation. They can't do anything about it until after the show.

10:12 Speaker 1: Okay, So somebody was pulling a scam. In other words, So, yeah, they Upstate took your show, made it look like it was the actual band. Yeah, and we actually got up Wow.

10:21 Speaker 3: We actually got a phone call from like god Smacks people and they're like, what are you guys doing. We're like, whoa, that ain't us. I got a call from John over at the Jewel and he said, what's going on? Why are you doing this? Yeah, he said, John, that's not us. So we all looked into it and we ended up figuring out that it was a scam.

10:37 Speaker 1: Oh that's crazy. I can see how that would happen though. Wow. So have you ever had a situation where a band is supposed to play and they come to you and they say, we've got a problem. We got a letter we heard from somebody's lawyer. Uh, that hasn't happened.

10:51 Speaker 2: That's good.

10:52 Speaker 1: No, that's good.

10:52 Speaker 2: You know, And if you really think about it, these tribute bands are doing the bands that they're you know, copying and on or because they're keeping their music, yes, and they're helping sell their.

11:02 Speaker 1: Product exactly exactly. Yeah. I often, you know, when the subject of tribute bands come up. You know, my favorite band of all time is Kiss, and I'm well aware that because i've you know, I've read a lot of books about this. How during the eighties when Kiss was in their non makeup era, you know, these tribute bands started popping up of kissing full makeup, and Kiss has always I've seen and heard a couple things that make me think in recent years they might have changed their policy slightly. But I know, for a long time, Kiss was really good about you know, they weren't going after anybody, leave them alone, let them do their thing, because they're actually helped.

11:42 Speaker 1: There was a Kiss tribute band in the early nineties. I can't remember who it was, but there was a guy from Boston who was in the band who they they did like five thousand seats at a tribute show in Canada, you know, doing the full makeup show. So it's it's like, you know, so they were making money and you know it helps, you know, it helps promote the band that they're a tribute of. But I do know too that there's like I remember a few years ago, I think there was a story about Springsteen was harassing somebody who was doing a Springsteen show, saying I don't want you doing But I don't know what the you know, details were about that eater, and maybe there was something that this guy was doing that that Springsteen objected to specifically.

12:26 Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I know that you can run into trouble. But but it sounds like it's been pretty smooth for you guys overall.

12:32 Speaker 2: Right, Well, you got to remember the master Marketer is Geene Simmons. He's got one thing that I think it is, although a little bit harsh, very correct. He says if if you think that money cannot buy you happiness, you've never had money, right. True. He's the master marketer. He makes money off of everything he touches, and he's happy. He heck to have these kiss tributes out there. Yeah, there's one that Larry and I know well, Kiss Story with a guy named Vinnie, and Vinnie is spinning off a little bit into an Aussie trip that they call Sweet Leave.

13:07 Speaker 1: Okay.

13:08 Speaker 2: Vinnie's great. He's been a musician all his life. They're over in the New York area, Western New York area mostly so history hasn't come around. We're hoping we can set something up. Oh yeah in the future.

13:19 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And if you do it in they're coming here. We'd love to get him on the show.

13:22 Speaker 2: Oh if we'd love get him in the studio. All makeup and every they are bloody right on, I mean every aspect, boots everything, Kate, Yeah, perfect makeup.

13:37 Speaker 3: They are the most the blood running from his mouth.

13:41 Speaker 2: I don't know if he does that breathing fire. I don't believe he does that one. The pyrotechnic thing, and that's kind of a gene thing. I mean, you hold all the liquid in your mouth, you spew it out and then you purse your lips because if you draw back you can get a face full of fire.

13:57 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, who's the I mean, is there anyone you guys have booked who has particularly surprised you in terms of just how good where you go? Wow?

14:12 Speaker 2: Absolutely, young band named Under the Horizon has been very, very good.

14:18 Speaker 1: We love we love them, and we should clarify to for listeners who don't know that they're not a tribute, but there. We've had them on the show and Jenny and I just saw them last well it was a week ago today actually at Bad Burger Okay with Vices Inc. And Plagued Dad.

14:33 Speaker 3: They've been making some noise. I mean, those kids, and that guitarist is crazy. The drum is great yep. And the girl she loosens up a little more every single show. You find her doing something better and better and better, and she's just growing along with the band. And it's I mean, honestly, they're one of the better younger because they are really young. There ain't no one in the band that's over eighteen. Yeah yeah, but we try to put them in all our metal shows. We think they're great.

15:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

15:00 Speaker 3: I mean the dad, Mike Palmer. He's taking good care of them kids. He bought the bus.

15:06 Speaker 2: He's pushing them a yellow school bus. They got a yellow school bush. Yeah, the horizon on the side. It's really great.

15:11 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, take you back in time when they used to just travel around and a bus together. You know. Every time they pull up to a show, I'm waiting for the Pocas family to come back.

15:21 Speaker 1: Right right. They've gotten heavier too than when they started. The first time Jenny and I saw them live, it was right after they were on this show and we went I think it was that same weekend we went and saw them at the Tupelo. They were opening for was it Great White?

15:34 Speaker 3: They're doing that again?

15:35 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I can't remember it was Great White.

15:38 Speaker 3: It was they're actually opening up a Great White again in a couple of weeks.

15:41 Speaker 1: The reason I couldn't remember is because Jenny and I went to that show, but we just stayed for Under the Horizon and they were where, you know, we just wanted to see them, and they were kind of.

15:48 Speaker 2: Like another great band that we're working with and see a lot of potential with. There's a new band kind of new Stone Crusher. I don't know.

15:55 Speaker 1: I don't know them.

15:56 Speaker 2: They got a new album out. Their stuff is really really hot.

16:00 Speaker 1: Okay.

16:00 Speaker 2: The vocalist was named best vocalist in the local area by a Worcester magazine. I can't remember exactly which magazine.

16:09 Speaker 3: He's got some pipes, no doubt.

16:10 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he's got one of the best. When he hits the high notes, my toes.

16:14 Speaker 1: Girl, really yeah nice. So a little bit of a changing gear is baboo. I have to ask you because Larry said was talking about I should ask you this about the time you met Ozzie.

16:28 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, excuse me. So there was a casino in King of Prussia, PA that he came to. Of all places, he was five hours drive away from me, my idol, my lifelong idol. You know all the places in no world, he's five hours.

16:45 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:46 Speaker 2: So I went for all four days and I met him several times, and the last day I met him. But when I first come up to him, I was kind of expecting him to go, oh, gosh, look there I am, and he kind of went ouh, geez, no no,

17:02 Speaker 2: but I have this coat on and he dug it and he goes Sharon. Sharon goes, oh, see, you look at this blouch coat. So I've got pitchers with Sharon too. She doesn't even weigh eighty ninety pounds. I don't think she's so tiny. Yeah, yeah, gosh. But when I met Ousie, he could barely walk and he was sitting in a chair where there was two hundred people to meet him.

17:26 Speaker 1: What year was this, roughly twenty twenty twenty three, twenty twenty three.

17:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, so being a pressure pa.

17:33 Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, so this was fairly recent.

17:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very recent.

17:36 Speaker 1: Yeah.

17:37 Speaker 2: So I got to sit by him, and I have two rings that were custom made to copy. Is this cross ring and this star ring? So he sees the cross ring and he's fascinated with it and he says, moin to gout, I said, of course, there's just cold.

17:52 Speaker 1: You're Aussie.

17:53 Speaker 2: I got born man silver. But anyway, he's looking at he can't see. He's pushing my hand down. My hand is on his leg. Yeah, you're not supposed to touch these guys.

18:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I.

18:04 Speaker 2: You know, shirk back and the guy on the other side starts laughing. The photographer starts screaming. Ozzy Ozzy won two three to tap the snap the picture, you get one shot.

18:15 Speaker 1: Okay.

18:16 Speaker 2: So I got this shot of Ozzy and me grinning like hell and Ozzy looking at the photographer, and right after the shot he goes, you wank and called him matter a couple of times. Was not happy at all because he want to talk about this ring.

18:31 Speaker 1: Oh okay, so.

18:33 Speaker 2: The guy that was there, I hope I guess that lanker on here.

18:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fine.

18:40 Speaker 2: So anyway, the guy guy give us some time, and Ozzy was fascinated where to come from talking about it. Then he goes, look, Oz got two hundred people, we got her, he's along. The last thing he said to me was he goes, there's only two things that well, Mike all got one. Hey you got the other?

18:58 Speaker 1: Wow?

19:00 Speaker 2: Three feet up the ground. I went and floated away.

19:03 Speaker 1: Yeah that's pretty cool.

19:05 Speaker 2: He was gonna come to Phoenix, Arizona and do another one of those things. Yeah, only an hour flight from LA Yeah, in a lyrics yet you know, yeah, he couldn't even do that. I bought tickets for that and that one they didn't.

19:19 Speaker 1: Hold it and got canceled.

19:20 Speaker 2: Hyeah, Yeah, and I couldn't afford to get over to England for the last show. Yeah, I mean that.

19:25 Speaker 1: Was just gosh, no doubt, no doubt, what a what a way to go out though, like doing that show and raising all that money for cancer research and for kids.

19:36 Speaker 2: And Ozzy was saying, man, everybody said he was black and dark, but he was very, very Christian.

19:43 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's funny. It's funny you mentioned that because I remember, uh, he was on this was years ago. He was on Alice Cooper's show, and uh, some people might not know this about Alice Cooper, but he's a devout Christian and I remember I remember at the end of the interview Ozzie he kind of went out his way to say God bless you to Alice, and I thought, oh, that's interesting because you just don't expect that necessarily. But but the but the character, you know, the character of Ozzy Osbourne, you know obviously under that was you know, you know, a really good guy.

20:14 Speaker 1: But but I've always said, too Black Sabbath to me is and this is not an original thought. Others have said this too, but the most misunderstood band in in history, you know what I mean, Like I think, actually I think Ozzy said that once. You know, because if you if you perceive Sabbath as being like evil and dark, and well, yeah they're dark, but but their songs are not. They're not promoting anything. I don't think anyone really thinks this now anyway, but back in the day, you know, people who are afraid of it whatever.

20:45 Speaker 1: You know, they're not promoting something satanic or anything. It's a you know, it's a commentary on life and the world. And you know, war Pigs I think is one of the greatest anti war songs ever. But you know, if you go online and you look at you know, look up a list of great anti war songs, you know, you he are a lot of stuff from the you know, like more of the from the hippies and whatnot, but you know, you won't see war Pigs on that list. But it's like, why not. It's a fantastic anti war song in my opinion.

21:13 Speaker 3: Baboo spent a lot of time out on the road throughout his life, and he's met many, many big rock stars. Yeah, and he's used to tell him how you got all your miles there, Baboo?

21:25 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm curious.

21:28 Speaker 2: I used to work for an Arizona company called Arizona Instruments, and they sent me all over the world starting then I got a job with another company in Massachusetts called Liquood Solids Control. Okay, they sent me all over, and then I got my own company. I went all over. But while I was working for Arizona Instruments, I was in Canada with a green card, a gold American Express card, Carte Blaunch, go wherever I want, no supervision, and Rush would be playing on Triumph these places down in the United States with thousands of people.

22:03 Speaker 1: Yeah.

22:04 Speaker 2: In fact, I saw him in eighty three at the US Festival in California. Triumph.

22:08 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

22:09 Speaker 2: And so I was up in Canada and they were playing and I'd go see him. They couldn't even sell out five hundred seats, no kidding. In their own country they were not as popular as the United States. Well, consequently, I get up and get to meet the band, and by time two years was over with, I knew the band's brush and the band Triumph well enough that if there was a show in Cold Lake, Alberta, I found a business reason to be there. I was in the dressing room and I you know, I knew Neil parrot very well.

22:40 Speaker 2: Really, he was well written, he was an author. He was he was such an introvert. He didn't want to have a lot to do with people. Right the show was over, he would run to the limo.

22:52 Speaker 1: I've always heard that about him from other people who knew him. Yeah, that he Yeah, he was. He was not comfortable with the fame part of being.

23:00 Speaker 2: The only time he comes from behind his kit to stand with the other guys in the band. Was the last show he ever played.

23:07 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:07 Speaker 3: How many times have you chased kiss around the country?

23:10 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, my ex wife April was kissing on a member like eight Yeah. Yeah, so team any Christmas if they came within five hundred bloody miles, I had to go there, yep, and take her there and get as good a tickets as we could afford. And back in the eighties we spent five thousand dollars for a meet and greet. Wow, that was a lot of money then, yeah, but a lot more then.

23:34 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:35 Speaker 2: But they did it right. It was an hour. We got to meet everybody in the band. Yeah, we got They had food, they had drinks. They spent at least fifteen twenty minutes with everybody in there. Yeah, we got all the pictures we wanted on our cell phones and such.

23:50 Speaker 1: Yep.

23:51 Speaker 2: So I've got to say that Chris Kiss is one of the best marketing marketed bands out there.

23:59 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the most heavily merchandise band in history, I think. I think the Beatles is number two.

24:04 Speaker 2: Oh gem and Christmas you can buy Kiss casket, Kiss condoms.

24:10 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with all the with all the time that he spent out doing all this rock and roll stuff, it's really a privilege to have him working for LOUD because he knows you know, he knows a lot of people, people, especially in New England. Yeah, a lot of people are starting to know who the baboo is. And yeah, we have a great time with him. And I'm glad to have him Aboard, actually kind of took him, and he's gonna be he's kind of the face of LOUD because of his character and yeah that makes sense. Yeah, you got a little trading cards made up to the autographs, and yeah, we're having a good time with it.

24:42 Speaker 2: And that autograph card is gonna be worth so much after I'm dead. Just it's gonna be worth its own weight and papers.

24:50 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us we've got Larry and a baboo. How do you say her last time again? Thinkovich Speakovich, yep, I got it. You got it all right from Loud Entertainment here with us in studio. And so what's kind of the long term you got I mean, you guys are running at quite a pace, right we are.

25:11 Speaker 2: And we're about to hold the theater events. We just finished one at the Plymouth Memorial Hall.

25:16 Speaker 1: Okay.

25:17 Speaker 2: We've got the theater up and jaff in New Hampshire the Park Theater, and we've got Marshfield Fairground. We're trying to do a three day event there in twenty twenty.

25:27 Speaker 1: Six, okay.

25:28 Speaker 3: And we got a couple of locations that we play in Providence with music. We go down the Cape, we have Lawil Hall obviously.

25:35 Speaker 2: We're here in Manchester Lot and we're down at the Vault quite a bit too, okay. I do a little MC work at places like Rascals for my good friend Frank Upolo. Okay, and there's a little plug for you, Frank.

25:50 Speaker 3: It was great. It was great to meet him. He took like a half hour of his time. The other night we went to his club to see this country line dance thing that works out well for him. So we went to check it out and he what gave us about a full half hour of his time just to talk about what everybody's doing. Yeah, he was Yeah, what a guy, nice guy.

26:07 Speaker 2: Man, Frank's a whale in our polland yeah, yeah, he's definitely he's got that minors touch almost anything he touches.

26:15 Speaker 1: Now, what do you guys look for in terms of venues to whole events? Like, like, are there are there specific things that you.

26:22 Speaker 3: Depending on the popularity of the band kind of tells you what size stity you're gonna need. Okay, it always doesn't turn out that way. Sometimes, you know, sell out a smaller club is a better thing because it's a you've got a great show and yeah it's packed and people are having fun.

26:37 Speaker 1: Better to have a small room that's full, right, then it's then a big room that's exactly empty.

26:42 Speaker 3: But you got Tribute South there, like, well you can help me out with this, but like get the let out. Oh they're killing it. They're killing it. The fifteen twenty thirty thousand people coming out to a tribute really yeah, wow, killing it all over the country.

26:55 Speaker 1: Wow.

26:55 Speaker 2: I held an event at the Plymouth Excuse Need the Lowell Memorial Theater. I was trying to get the Lead out, Get the Lead out, and they were seventy five hundred. Yeah, within a month they were over ten thousand.

27:09 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Wow.

27:11 Speaker 2: Within three months they were twenty. They sold out the Red Rocks two nights in a row, really bad. Took them up to forty and I believe that Get the Lead Out is right around fifty thousand this show now, And you know, it's really interesting because there's farmer members than led Zeppelin. They don't really even look like any of led Zeppelin members, but their music is very, very good and their promotion is top shelf.

27:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. So are they the most successful tribute band?

27:39 Speaker 2: I would believe so, Yeah, I can. I would think so because there's three that one completely unchained and yeah, completely unchanged, killing the two and they're very confident about what they can draw.

27:50 Speaker 3: They come.

27:50 Speaker 1: They do a great job in Allison chains tribute.

27:54 Speaker 3: Uh, the one we know has Vani Okay, the Allison change band that we used a lot. It's called Nothing Safe as a matter of fact, and November fifth, November twentieth, maybe you'll have to look and look up Loud Entertainment. Look up Steve O and they're having a great Lane Staley tribute. Every year, Steve would fly out to Seattle to do the vocals for a show out there that they have that tributes Lane Staley, and Steve actually met Lane Staley's mom and he has collaborated with all of them to bring us a great show here in Boston at the Ballroom.

28:34 Speaker 3: And it's gonna be a nothing but a tribute to Lane Staley. And it's gonna be it's gonna be multiple artists on the stage doing things like songs in him and things for him, and one special song for his mom. And yeah, it's gonna be a great show. If you're here in Dallas and Chains and you want to see the memorial, you're going to see a really good a really good show.

28:55 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very cool.

28:56 Speaker 3: Once again, it's not a concert, it's a show.

28:59 Speaker 1: Yeah you know, Yeah, Yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha. Do you guys have any advice for so you know, a lot of musicians listen to the show, a lot of industry people. That's that's kind of our niche audience. I think, do you have advice for if there's a musician listening who wants to start a tribute band or maybe they want to do a solo tribute thing or whatever it is, Like, like, do you have advice for how to get into it, because obviously there's you know, when you're doing that and you're kind of doing that in tribute to someone else's artistic vision and they're what they've created.

29:30 Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's probably there's probably mistakes that people make right when they try to do that.

29:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, when you put out a tribute to it's like, you know, you gotta be good, you got to have it down, yeah, because if you don't, it doesn't serve the purpose of what you're trying to do. Yeah, so don't don't try to jump out too quick. Get yourself together before you, you know, decide to take the stage with someone else's name, so to speak. It's uh yeah, yeah.

29:55 Speaker 2: Make sure you've really got them on it, because it can't do thisstribute stuff halfway right right?

30:02 Speaker 1: What about have you guys worked with anybody who who doesn't do it, like who kind of puts their own twist on it. Like I'll give you an example that I don't know if they're still around or not. But there was a tribute band. I happened to find them on YouTube one time, a Kiss tribute band called Reason to Kiss and they what but what they did because the name of the band was a play on the song Reason to Live, which obviously came out during the non makeup era. And what this band did was they called the Reason to Kiss and it was they were doing acoustic versions only of eighties non makeup era Kiss songs.

30:36 Speaker 1: So there's really it's funny because some of these Kiss tribute bands they find like this weird niche and it was like, I was kind of fascinated by it. But that's but they're obviously doing something different. They're doing Kiss, but they're putting their own spin, their own twist on it. I mean, have you guys worked with anybody who does that, because there's a risk in doing that, right, because that that can blow up in your face, Like, like, do any of the bands that you guys have worked with do anything like that?

31:02 Speaker 2: No?

31:02 Speaker 1: No, no, would you if you came across someone who did do something like that, would you give him a chance or would that be too.

31:09 Speaker 3: We're always wanting to give you a chance. You're just gonna show us what you got. Yeah, we'll find a stage for you. It's just you got to have it, right. Yeah.

31:16 Speaker 2: We being promoters, we can't be left with the bag. I mean right. You know. So one of the reasons that we've been able to get so far is because we've been able to work with some bands who nobody else at touch Yeah, and we go in a semi partnership with them, We say, look, this is it. We'll split whatever happens to play for the door.

31:40 Speaker 1: Yep.

31:42 Speaker 2: And some of the venues can't fill. We had the Jewel over here, we had two hundred in there one night, pet.

31:49 Speaker 3: White Athlete, White Snake and looks to Kill, Yeah, it looks at Kill, Motley Crue Yeah. Yeah. We had a good time over there that night.

31:58 Speaker 2: We did well.

32:00 Speaker 3: Night. Show's got a lot of tickets sold to it.

32:02 Speaker 1: Good.

32:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna be a great show tonight if you can get out at the Jewel in Manchester, New Hampshire.

32:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to.

32:08 Speaker 3: Be having Metallica and a Metallica tribute Yea and a guard Smack tribute called head Smack. Okay, and on point like that's great. I can't Yeah, it's it's nice. It's good, it's loud, it's it's real solid.

32:25 Speaker 1: Is it? Is it just the two bands or is there is there an opener who's not not really advertised or is it just yeah, yes, two? Yeah. Do you guys do a lot of shows a Jewel or.

32:35 Speaker 2: At one time we're gonna do fifty, but we just have to back away and yeah, two other shows other places. Yeah, we couldn't put all eggs in one basket, right.

32:45 Speaker 3: I would say we're probably at the Jewel like twice a month, okay, even three times. Sometimes. We got a big, big next Thursday night, excuse me, next Friday night. We have a national tribute coming to the Jewel called Satisfaction.

33:00 Speaker 1: Okay.

33:00 Speaker 3: They are a great rolling Stones band that like travels the world.

33:04 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

33:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's gonna be a great show over there.

33:07 Speaker 2: And you know you got to have some horns to get up there and do Mick Jaggers.

33:11 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's absolutely.

33:16 Speaker 3: We're absolutely gonna Halloween Potty coming up on October seventeenth over here at the Jewel. Yeah, we're going to be bringing Lords of Salem, which is a rob Zombie tribute, okay, and uh, Sun and Steel, which is an Iron Maiden tribute, and both of them are like great, oh really, yeah.

33:32 Speaker 2: We enjoyed it.

33:33 Speaker 3: Some people come and you know, they watch it and they're like, wow, I didn't think anybody else could do that. Yeah, and some of the guys are really really good at what they do.

33:45 Speaker 1: And then what like, what what's the what's the biggest show you guys have done so far? Like in terms of attendance, were the one that one that really stands out is.

33:52 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, we had a country show last week that's a fifteen had fifteen hundred seats. Yeah, we did okay with that, and most of them are like somewhere between, say two hundred and five hundred. Seems to be our big We're trying to branch out. We want to get into those places that are selling one thousand and fifteen hundred, two thousand seats because we want to bring in those national acts from around the around the country, around the world.

34:17 Speaker 2: I completely unchanged. Jean Henrickson is willing to work for the door. He's so confident a part of the door. He's so confident in him, his draw and his band. Yet one time he had this guy that was the most fantastic drummer I can think of, but he's got a drummer now and equals him. Yeah, I mean it just that's kind of Jean Henrickson is Tommy Henrickson of the Hollywood Vampire's older brother.

34:44 Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh interest so.

34:46 Speaker 2: And I mean Jane and I are two years different difference in age, and he's like a chiseled Greek statue. Oh really yeah, I mean I don't even know of any twenty year old who can go shirt let's but he can go shirt Oh.

34:58 Speaker 1: No kidding, Oh that's cool. He just see.

35:01 Speaker 3: Him up there jumping around like he's twenty five.

35:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, just had hip surgery, but he still does the kicks up and over the microphone.

35:08 Speaker 3: Wonder why he's had Wonder why he's had hip surgery?

35:12 Speaker 1: Wow? Wow, Whatever Iggy Pop's been doing, he must have been. This guy must have been doing it too, or he needs he's.

35:19 Speaker 3: Doing it though, and they're doing very well. Matter. They're all over the place a matter of fact, yesterda, I think last night or tonight they're in Melbourne, Florida. Early. Yeah, completely unchanged. It's got it going on.

35:29 Speaker 1: Wow.

35:30 Speaker 2: He does over one hundred and twenty gigs a year. He's the hardest. Like I said, the don' only know if two of the guys that worked as hard as him.

35:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh wow.

35:38 Speaker 3: Sometime in the early spring, if you follow us, you'll get the date. We're going to be doing a big festival at the Marshfield Fairgrounds in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

35:46 Speaker 1: Okay.

35:47 Speaker 3: We plan on having two really big bands there on Friday night that'll you know, pack us in. Then Saturday night we're doing I think eight bands, and then Sunday we're going to do a family southern country thing with pig Roast on Sunday. Okay, so well, basically have a show for the entire weekend. Yeah, there's gonna be a good time.

36:06 Speaker 1: Okay.

36:07 Speaker 3: We got some really good good people that are available for it, and we're starting to put it together. We should have a set date by the end of the week.

36:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice.

36:14 Speaker 2: I'm hoping we can get four Horsemen in on that.

36:17 Speaker 3: That would be nice.

36:18 Speaker 1: Four Horsemen.

36:19 Speaker 2: Who are Who's that Metallica trip one of the best ones out there? Oh yeah, Sean do a good act. I want to tell you really.

36:28 Speaker 1: M who By the way, so what what band has the most like from what you've observed has the most tributes because I've always had the impression there's a lot of Motley Crue tribute bands. Am I am? I right about that? It seems it seems like they're a Motley Crew. Tribute bands are everywhere.

36:43 Speaker 3: Alison Chains too have a lot of them. Yeah, that's it's saturated with Alice and Chains out there.

36:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 3: Only there's a couple that are really good. But then you know, you got some.

36:53 Speaker 2: Some of the East coast outlets. That's the only that's the only Alice band out here. There's only one on.

36:58 Speaker 3: The West coast out at something.

37:00 Speaker 2: Mike Carmo is freaking I go out with other people and when I went with Mike Carmo to see Alice Cooper, people were walking past me like I was.

37:12 Speaker 1: A ghostly to get a picture with Alice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike.

37:16 Speaker 3: Mike's great. He puts on the whole act. It's so theatrical up on the stage because he's acting out like the the meaning of the song the whole time. He's very just like Alice Cooper does. Yeah, very good with that?

37:35 Speaker 1: Is that did you bring that in?

37:37 Speaker 2: No?

37:38 Speaker 1: Oh, that's Jenny's He can't steal Jenny's.

37:42 Speaker 3: I can't drive.

37:44 Speaker 2: I'm hoping I could get some water.

37:46 Speaker 1: We're almost We're almost. We're almost done, guys, because we're getting close to we're getting close to the top of the hour. What's that? No, you don't know, so I'm older.

37:55 Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, if it would have been not opened, I would have Yeah.

38:00 Speaker 1: We can only have water in here, any We only have playing water in this room anyway, because if if something gets spilled, it's I'm in a lot of trouble.

38:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, no fire on the ship, that's right, A lot of cords around you.

38:11 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but no. We're about down the segment anyway. But before we wrap up, so I want to thank you guys for coming in. This has been wonderful and like I said too, you know, because I've been in the music industry for a long time, but the tribute band zone isn't something I know that much about. So this has been really interesting for me because I love to learn as much as I can, and it sounds like you guys are having a lot of success, which is great, so I love it. Where should people go online?

38:34 Speaker 1: Like, where's the best place to go to keep up with everything that you guys are doing with Loud Entertainment or anything else that you want us to know about.

38:41 Speaker 3: Love. Loud Entertainment has a Facebook page called Loud entertain Entertainment from Massachusetts. Will get you there. Okay, you're looking for the logo of Loud, which is a orange, yellow and red speaker with the big word Loud across it, and we yeah, I would go online.

38:58 Speaker 2: You'll see my image on Facebook representing the company.

39:02 Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

39:03 Speaker 2: And I have a page called Tazzi Productions. Oh okay, loud stuff.

39:10 Speaker 1: On excellent, excellent. Okay, we do a lot.

39:13 Speaker 3: So we're really having a good time with this. And like I told you earlier, I haven't been at it all my life, so I'm I'm full of energy and I'm not burnt out, so I am ready to conquer. And then yeah, this guy over here, it's nice to have him around because all his knowledge of rock and roll and everything really helps us out absolutely.

39:31 Speaker 1: And one more time too, for people who are listening to the show live on Saturday, talk about remind people tonight, Big Show Tonight, Big Show, Big Show Tonight.

39:40 Speaker 3: The doors open at seven.

39:43 Speaker 2: At the Jewel.

39:44 Speaker 3: At the Jewel and the show starts at eight, okay, and come on down. There are a few seats available. We do have a very good, solid crowd there tonight. Yeah, and we'd love to have you. We'd love to have you any loud show. And we'll be back next Thursday with the Status Faction, Rolling Stones Tribute National Act excellent and uh if you can, if you're in the North and uh in the down towards South Shore, we have a great shows going on at the Vault and with like I said, that's next Saturday night with Whitesnake and.

40:18 Speaker 1: Crazy Train, Crazy Train. Okay, very good, very good. Well guys, thank you about so much. This has been wonderful Larry and Baboo Bigovich.

40:25 Speaker 2: And by the way, I want to say one more thing, Yes, come to this show because I'll be throwing about two dozen T shirts, some totes Babu t shirts.

40:33 Speaker 1: Nice.

40:34 Speaker 3: One more thing I just want to mention is swammy Fest again.

40:38 Speaker 1: Oh yes, thank you.

40:39 Speaker 3: They're a local band. We love those guys over the They float to their own beat. Yeah, very down the middle type of people and uh, the shows they put on, it's like we don't just don't want to bring you to a concert at their stuff. We want to bring you to a show. So we've added so much to this, different acts, different types of people, you know, different things.

41:01 Speaker 1: Silent Season is co edlining, got.

41:04 Speaker 2: Under the Horizon.

41:05 Speaker 1: It's going to be a great nice Yeah.

41:08 Speaker 3: Cherry Fog.

41:10 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll mentioned Cherry Fog. I think when they were when because Sepsis was here last week and I'm not familiar with them, but I'm looking forward to seeing them.

41:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a party if you can make it out the Swarmy Fest, don't miss it. And also don't miss our Halloween party over at the Juwel on October seventeenth. Okay, Lords of Salem Rob Soombie tribute and a Son and Steel Iron Maiden tribute. Okay, Okay, it'd be a great time, Okay, fantastic, fantastic. All right, Well, so we'll let you guys go.

41:41 Speaker 1: Thank you both so much, And if you are listening live on Saturday, we have Matt Axton coming up in the second hour, calling in from the road. He's on a big national tour, yes, and so there is plenty more to come. But guys, thank you both again so much.

41:55 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,