Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-18-25 hour 3

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3:36 Speaker 8: That ending was a surprise. Hey, welcome everybody. I love it.

3:40 Speaker 8: That is a bright future. That is Quincy Lord. If

3:42 Speaker 8: you are listening live on Saturday, we have entered our

3:46 Speaker 8: third hour New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and

3:49 Speaker 8: we are live from the studios of w m n

3:52 Speaker 8: H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

3:56 Speaker 8: And today is Saturday, January eighth, teen, twenty twenty five.

4:02 Speaker 8: And let me get that mic up for you there.

4:04 Speaker 8: Quincy Lord is here with us live in studio.

4:06 Speaker 6: Good morning, Hello, Hello, how are you good? Welcome back.

4:09 Speaker 6: I saw you using a cheat sheet on the calendar

4:11 Speaker 6: just then.

4:12 Speaker 8: Yeah, well when I look over there, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

4:15 Speaker 8: it's un until it becomes afternoon. I don't recall what

4:21 Speaker 8: day of the month it is, but you know by

4:23 Speaker 8: the afternoon I've woken up.

4:26 Speaker 6: Same. We'll get there together.

4:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so welcome. When was the last time we

4:30 Speaker 8: had you. We haven't had you since you've been since

4:32 Speaker 8: we've been here.

4:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think we had put out with my

4:37 Speaker 6: band's Sunset Electric. We had put out an album last November,

4:41 Speaker 6: and it was just a little bit before that came

4:43 Speaker 6: out because we had a couple of singles for you

4:45 Speaker 6: to play. So yeah, it must have been early last November,

4:48 Speaker 6: maybe October, so over a year.

4:51 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, long enough. And the band is still going, right.

4:55 Speaker 6: The band's still going. We have a couple of shows

4:58 Speaker 6: coming up. I'm sure all glad about that as the

5:00 Speaker 6: day goes on. But we're having a good time. But

5:04 Speaker 6: I've had all these songs collecting for a while. On

5:06 Speaker 6: a side, put out this solo record that I'm here

5:09 Speaker 6: to talk about. Obviously that was the title track if

5:12 Speaker 6: we didn't say that A bright future.

5:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, I listened to the whole album. You sent us

5:18 Speaker 8: the whole thing, and I love it. I love the

5:21 Speaker 8: whole thing. Is just great.

5:22 Speaker 6: I appreciate that you said.

5:24 Speaker 8: So this is a collection of songs that you've been

5:25 Speaker 8: accumulating for a while now.

5:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, this is I've been telling myself I was doing

5:30 Speaker 6: a solo acoustic record for a while, because yeah, I've

5:33 Speaker 6: written a lot and there's a lot of songs that

5:36 Speaker 6: don't fit what the band does. So okay, but there's

5:39 Speaker 6: fifteen songs on this, which is obviously too many, about

5:43 Speaker 6: five too many? But basically there's a it's broken into

5:47 Speaker 6: three groups of five here, and there's a The last

5:51 Speaker 6: five songs, which are I just see as extra are

5:54 Speaker 6: acoustic versions of songs we've already put out the band

5:58 Speaker 6: did on the last record or one it's a single

6:01 Speaker 6: we've done since once a song I did with my

6:03 Speaker 6: old band in like twenty nineteen, but oh okay. And

6:08 Speaker 6: then there's five songs that are very old, some I

6:11 Speaker 6: wrote when I was a teenager, which is a lifetime ago.

6:14 Speaker 6: And so there's five very old songs, five new songs,

6:18 Speaker 6: and five songs that are re released acoustic versions. So

6:21 Speaker 6: I was like, let's just stick them all together and

6:23 Speaker 6: put them out there. So it's not the most cohesive unit,

6:26 Speaker 6: but I think it's a I enjoy it. I like

6:30 Speaker 6: to have that they came to life, and I can

6:32 Speaker 6: be like, okay, I don't have you have this one

6:34 Speaker 6: you know on the back of my mind, like I

6:35 Speaker 6: want to do something with that song someday, right right.

6:39 Speaker 8: In terms of recording these who else is on these

6:41 Speaker 8: tracks with you? Or is it all you? Did? You

6:43 Speaker 8: do this all yourself?

6:44 Speaker 6: I did all the recording, but I had a bunch

6:47 Speaker 6: of friends join me on this. The Sunset Electric tracks,

6:51 Speaker 6: the four of the tracks at the end, I had

6:53 Speaker 6: my bass player from the band, Dan Smiles or No

6:58 Speaker 6: on the bass guitar. My buddy Justin Fife helped with

7:02 Speaker 6: a bunch of these. Justin mckinnis also, they're both in

7:05 Speaker 6: a band with me. And then they had help from

7:08 Speaker 6: my friend Cassidy. That song we just played, she did

7:11 Speaker 6: some backup vocals on, and she's on two other songs

7:14 Speaker 6: on the album. I met her in this past year

7:18 Speaker 6: and yeah, just I heard her. We were at the

7:21 Speaker 6: same show and I heard her sing and I asked

7:23 Speaker 6: her to come feature on some songs and she didn't.

7:27 Speaker 6: I was very glad it ended up working out really well.

7:30 Speaker 6: Is she in a band or she isn't? She actually

7:33 Speaker 6: does music therapy, I believe. Yeah, Yeah, it's very cool.

7:37 Speaker 6: I'm a little jealous. It sounds like a fun thing

7:40 Speaker 6: to be doing. But yeah. And then my friend will

7:45 Speaker 6: Hart on one of the tracks that will probably play

7:49 Speaker 6: later steam Town played some harmonica for us. So anyways,

7:53 Speaker 6: I had a bunch of people on this and snow Cone,

7:55 Speaker 6: my partner did the al martwork. If for those who

7:59 Speaker 6: didnt see the picture. It's a kind of a newspaper

8:03 Speaker 6: front with the title of bright Future and reflection of

8:07 Speaker 6: an eye with an atomic explosion in the background. So yeah,

8:11 Speaker 6: if to set the cynical tone there.

8:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, I really like the cover. I was curious about that. Yeah, Uh,

8:17 Speaker 8: that's that's really cool. How how is your approach different

8:20 Speaker 8: to recording these than than with the band.

8:24 Speaker 6: Well, I set out with the intent to just keep

8:29 Speaker 6: it so simple and just have my voice and the guitar,

8:31 Speaker 6: and I didn't let myself do that. And yeah, there's

8:35 Speaker 6: one track which ended up just being vocals and guitar

8:37 Speaker 6: and arrests had a lot more. But you know, I

8:40 Speaker 6: mixed the band's record also when we recorded that ourselves,

8:44 Speaker 6: and I want to see how it would be to

8:48 Speaker 6: mix something without drums. So for me, the approach was

8:51 Speaker 6: thinking about the mix and that process of it, the

8:53 Speaker 6: post production of how's this going to be different? And

8:57 Speaker 6: I tried a bunch of different things on different songs,

8:59 Speaker 6: and uh, in the future, I'll look back and they'll

9:02 Speaker 6: be someone will be like, Okay, that really worked, and

9:04 Speaker 6: others will be like I should never have done that.

9:06 Speaker 8: Right, Oh that's yeah, that's the inevitability of some of those. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

9:12 Speaker 8: But yeah, did you record these in a studio or

9:15 Speaker 8: did you do it at.

9:15 Speaker 6: Home or the studio being my apartment? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,

9:19 Speaker 6: much to my neighbor's chagrin, I'm sure.

9:21 Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, but you didn't have like a full drum

9:25 Speaker 8: set in there.

9:25 Speaker 6: No, there wasn't that. Just a lot of takes in

9:27 Speaker 6: me being very loud.

9:29 Speaker 8: Really h oh, that's funny. Uh you want to play Uh,

9:32 Speaker 8: I'm dying to hear you play live. Let me uh

9:36 Speaker 8: pull that. I'll pull that out. So, because we're already

9:39 Speaker 8: live on the air, we can't we can't do a

9:40 Speaker 8: proper soundtrack. But if you want to strum that guitar

9:44 Speaker 8: a little bit, got some say.

9:47 Speaker 6: I know from history that people like hearing guitar be strums.

9:50 Speaker 8: So yeah, well that sounds nice. Yeah, that sounds really

9:56 Speaker 8: good in the headphones.

9:57 Speaker 6: Sounds great in my headphones. I'm not wearing any if

10:01 Speaker 6: you're not listening, not watching, I guess right.

10:04 Speaker 8: Right, yes, the uh, well, radio is theater of the mine,

10:08 Speaker 8: so you could have actually just pretended to add headphones.

10:12 Speaker 6: You want me to be full of deceit today? Is

10:15 Speaker 6: that what we're doing well.

10:17 Speaker 8: It's early, you know. We can be more honest in

10:19 Speaker 8: the afternoon.

10:19 Speaker 6: See, that's the thing, It's true. Some morning voice. We'll

10:21 Speaker 6: have some gravel here.

10:22 Speaker 8: Well that could be a good thing. That can be

10:24 Speaker 8: a good thing. What are you going to play for us?

10:28 Speaker 6: So this song is called Dive, and it's actually from

10:32 Speaker 6: this album and anything I've released. Probably the oldest song

10:35 Speaker 6: I have because I've wrote it as a very angsty teenager.

10:39 Speaker 6: I think it was probably sixteen or seventeen when I

10:42 Speaker 6: wrote this, But I always liked the song, and it's

10:45 Speaker 6: a kind of my experience with Catholicism and breaking away

10:53 Speaker 6: from that.

10:54 Speaker 8: Oh interesting I was. I was raised Catholic, and I

10:57 Speaker 8: think a lot of people can I haven't even where'd

11:00 Speaker 8: you play it? Yeah, but I think a lot of

11:01 Speaker 8: people can probably relate.

11:04 Speaker 6: You said a excuse me, you're gonna make it.

11:06 Speaker 8: I'm not sick, but I was sick and like this

11:09 Speaker 8: cough just lingers forever.

11:11 Speaker 6: Ah think it likes to do that.

11:13 Speaker 8: Yes, but this is the first song you wrote.

11:17 Speaker 6: Not the first song I wrote. No, Oh, okay, that's

11:19 Speaker 6: just of the songs I've released. It's probably the oldest.

11:22 Speaker 6: Oh I got you the songs I released back in

11:24 Speaker 6: like twenty seventeen. Oh okay, very very old. I have

11:29 Speaker 6: notebooks and notebooks full of songs, but this is the

11:31 Speaker 6: oldest one I'm probably recorded. So okay, okay, cool, you'll

11:34 Speaker 6: you'll hear the angst?

11:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, all right, I'll look forward to this. So

11:38 Speaker 8: if you're just joining it, U Squizzy Lord is here

11:40 Speaker 8: with us live in studio, and he's gonna play what's

11:42 Speaker 8: what is the name of it?

11:43 Speaker 6: Dive dive all right, whenever you're ready.

11:48 Speaker 9: Ne mem man the tuck, I will find do wed

11:55 Speaker 9: to stun.

11:56 Speaker 13: Fuck you, my Simpson.

11:58 Speaker 9: Make me you one refute everything that I've done while

12:05 Speaker 9: you're drowning in your light. You wim a failed to

12:10 Speaker 9: mask your spy. You say that I shouldn't on my place.

12:17 Speaker 9: Scarce runs down my face.

12:20 Speaker 4: How could you believe it's.

12:23 Speaker 13: True that God send me to challenge you? Well that's

12:29 Speaker 13: what you say, high um, you say that, high am.

12:36 Speaker 9: Build me up from ground the sky, break my wings,

12:41 Speaker 9: holl earn to fly?

12:43 Speaker 13: Don't you half a one too?

12:46 Speaker 9: Whe they built mountains Aho, no flies.

12:51 Speaker 14: Just suit sata Let the wind say you when oh,

13:00 Speaker 14: dive tie through the blessings sad in since time the

13:07 Speaker 14: shadow in your mind call them friends, don't know?

13:18 Speaker 15: Then to save ti, don't ask why on your neck

13:29 Speaker 15: with kilts and pain. Then left and the rain. Pray

13:36 Speaker 15: for and holy one, not the one on that is gone.

13:44 Speaker 15: As children learn to walk, It's seats some hearts.

13:50 Speaker 13: You talk all the words, not to say the prayer.

13:57 Speaker 9: I'll never pray, Save up bread and drink the wine.

14:03 Speaker 13: Sits he memorize your lines.

14:06 Speaker 7: No, I told you that I'm done, never meant to

14:12 Speaker 7: hurt anyone.

14:14 Speaker 9: Build me up from crown to sky, break my wings

14:20 Speaker 9: on the earth.

14:21 Speaker 12: Fly.

14:22 Speaker 13: Don't you have one toy?

14:26 Speaker 9: They built mountains Salhoun of this, just to time.

14:32 Speaker 7: Time, Let the water take you in a tive.

14:39 Speaker 2: Side, time for the blessing, send the sense and tell

14:45 Speaker 2: the shadow in your mind you can't accept his.

14:52 Speaker 1: Hurt to you.

14:57 Speaker 13: Just save time. Time who outside?

15:19 Speaker 8: I love it? I love it, Quincy Raymond Is, I'm sorry,

15:23 Speaker 8: Quincy Lauren dear slipped. There is here with us live

15:27 Speaker 8: in studio. You know why that happened because I tagged

15:30 Speaker 8: you on Facebook with the picture I just shared out.

15:33 Speaker 8: But now, what a great song I had a feeling

15:35 Speaker 8: I would find that relatable and enjoy that does, uh,

15:42 Speaker 8: just out of curiosity obviously. So with that song, you

15:47 Speaker 8: so you were raised, I assume in a Catholic family,

15:50 Speaker 8: how do they does anyone in your family have they

15:52 Speaker 8: ever said anything about Have they heard that song and

15:54 Speaker 8: said anything about it?

15:55 Speaker 6: Or yeah, well what I used to hear from because

15:57 Speaker 6: as a nanngsty teenager I did sing that up in

16:00 Speaker 6: my bedroom and my father would hear me going dove

16:05 Speaker 6: Die have dive, and he'd be like, are you saying

16:07 Speaker 6: die die die? Like, oh, what is that song? You

16:10 Speaker 6: kept singing? Yeah, the comments I've had from my family

16:15 Speaker 6: since releasing it have mostly just been that ben that

16:18 Speaker 6: it sounds angsty and they aren't wrong, Okay. I haven't

16:23 Speaker 6: been confronted in any such way. I get along with

16:26 Speaker 6: my family. We're on good terms, so you know, gotta

16:29 Speaker 6: gotta poke the gotta poke the bear little at holidays

16:33 Speaker 6: and such, right, Right.

16:35 Speaker 8: No one's threatened to have an official papal excommunication or anything.

16:39 Speaker 6: Not quite yet. I can't can't say I'm too concerned

16:42 Speaker 6: about right, Yeah, yes, understood, but yeah, that one's uh,

16:47 Speaker 6: it was a lot, but it was a lifetime ago. Also, Yeah,

16:50 Speaker 6: you know everyone's experience is different there, but I was like,

16:54 Speaker 6: someone might relate to this and hopefully it's a good

16:57 Speaker 6: song for someone who's still in that.

17:00 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's very very catchy. I like that

17:03 Speaker 8: a lot. I like that a lot. Quincy Lord is

17:06 Speaker 8: here with us and we're talking about the new album.

17:08 Speaker 8: Oh so where does the You talked about the artwork,

17:11 Speaker 8: But what about the title itself, A Bright Future.

17:14 Speaker 6: It's just the that's just I don't know where it

17:17 Speaker 6: came to me. I've just been working on lyrics for

17:20 Speaker 6: the song of Bright Future, which I don't believe ever

17:22 Speaker 6: says that, But at some point I was thinking about

17:25 Speaker 6: what the title should be and looking at the track

17:27 Speaker 6: list and the other names, like all, what would be

17:30 Speaker 6: a good title, and as that song was originally called

17:33 Speaker 6: Faster Faster, which is something I repeat a lot throughout

17:37 Speaker 6: the song, but it just had the right kind of

17:40 Speaker 6: cynicism to me. Once we found a picture, I had

17:42 Speaker 6: the idea for that, Yeah, that name to come out

17:48 Speaker 6: and that song itself, by the way, the title track,

17:50 Speaker 6: A Bright Future, I wrote that because my partner's fate.

17:56 Speaker 6: One of her favorite genres of types of song is

17:59 Speaker 6: really up eat songs. About the world ending. Yeah, so

18:02 Speaker 6: like we will become silhouettes by the Shins. It's into

18:05 Speaker 6: the World as we Know It by Rim obviously songs

18:09 Speaker 6: like that. And she was getting ready for work one

18:11 Speaker 6: day and I must have been a weekend because I

18:15 Speaker 6: was home and uh, I was just following her around

18:18 Speaker 6: one and just you know, making up words I heard

18:28 Speaker 6: and You're like, I actually kind of like that. Let

18:29 Speaker 6: me see if I can turn that into something.

18:32 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh that's cool.

18:34 Speaker 6: It's the goal was to write an upbeat song about

18:37 Speaker 6: you know, world ending the fallout.

18:39 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it.

18:41 Speaker 10: Yeah.

18:41 Speaker 8: I was trying to think of some more examples of Yeah,

18:44 Speaker 8: it seems like there are quite a few. Yeah, you

18:46 Speaker 8: mentioned the end of the world as we know at Rim.

18:49 Speaker 8: What else does oh? You know one that nobody ever

18:51 Speaker 8: thinks of is?

18:52 Speaker 15: Uh?

18:52 Speaker 8: Do you know the song Wake Me Up on Judgment

18:54 Speaker 8: Day by Steve Winwood?

18:55 Speaker 6: I don't.

18:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, no one remembers that one.

18:58 Speaker 6: But you did except me. Steve When would would be

19:01 Speaker 6: very glad right now? Yes, yes, he's still alive, right,

19:04 Speaker 6: Steve When would? As far as I know, I think

19:05 Speaker 6: he still haven't talked to him in a while.

19:07 Speaker 8: Yeah, are there are there other themes or is there

19:12 Speaker 8: a theme? I probably not to the album because you

19:16 Speaker 8: mentioned that, you know, they've they've kind of come from.

19:19 Speaker 6: Absolute, absolute chaos. Yeah, it's all over the place. It's

19:22 Speaker 6: no rhyme or reason throughout.

19:24 Speaker 8: But it is cohesive because, like I said, I listened

19:28 Speaker 8: to the whole thing and I and I listened to

19:30 Speaker 8: everything at once. I didn't, you know, It's not like

19:32 Speaker 8: I listened to some and then listen more later. So

19:34 Speaker 8: to me, it seemed really cohesive.

19:36 Speaker 6: Well, despite when they were written, at the very least

19:38 Speaker 6: they were for the most part, they recorded or at

19:40 Speaker 6: least mixed at the same time. Yeah, a couple of

19:44 Speaker 6: songs that did start recording in like uh twenty eighteen,

19:47 Speaker 6: twenty nineteen, it was just like, I'm not redoing this.

19:49 Speaker 6: I'm just going to keep those files and yeah, I

19:51 Speaker 6: sound the same. I'm sure it's gonna be fine, right right,

19:55 Speaker 6: But uh no, it's not really theme. I mean, with

19:57 Speaker 6: a Bright Future.

19:57 Speaker 10: It was just.

20:00 Speaker 6: The reason that that was like the strongest feeling is

20:02 Speaker 6: why I guess I kept that as the title for

20:05 Speaker 6: the album. Just you know, there's a lot of anxieties.

20:09 Speaker 6: I think Monday is going to be an anxious day

20:11 Speaker 6: for a lot of people. If you have no idea

20:13 Speaker 6: what's going on in politics, you can figure it out.

20:16 Speaker 6: But yeah, which, well there is that. But just a

20:22 Speaker 6: lot of terrible things happening in the world at all times,

20:26 Speaker 6: and general consciousness of that is enough to weigh on someone,

20:32 Speaker 6: I think, and got to keep living life as in

20:36 Speaker 6: the world we are and you know, yes, yes, hope

20:39 Speaker 6: for the best.

20:42 Speaker 13: Boy.

20:43 Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry, I started your political wheel turning here.

20:48 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, what you know, we used to do politics

20:52 Speaker 8: on the show, and then we took that element.

20:54 Speaker 6: Out of the I didn't know you took it out

20:56 Speaker 6: well out of the WM.

20:57 Speaker 8: And H version of the show. Now I only do

20:59 Speaker 8: that online.

21:00 Speaker 6: But but but I am uh, you're gonna make it Matt.

21:05 Speaker 6: Matt needs a little drink.

21:06 Speaker 8: I think that's what's causing my my cough is the

21:08 Speaker 8: uh sense of dread and doom I feel. But anyway, well,

21:15 Speaker 8: I do need a gulp of water.

21:17 Speaker 6: That's right, We're gonna We're just gonna play a little

21:19 Speaker 6: waiting music.

21:20 Speaker 8: Well, that's right. Oh, I like that. That's nice to

21:27 Speaker 8: help spring my stress level down too. It's very peppy.

21:32 Speaker 8: You can make a song about the end of the

21:34 Speaker 8: world out of that, sure could. But you can just

21:37 Speaker 8: make it about Monday, although it is Martin Luther King

21:40 Speaker 8: day to Monday. So that's positive.

21:42 Speaker 6: There you go.

21:43 Speaker 8: There's a It's weird though that these two things are

21:46 Speaker 8: converging on the same day.

21:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, they don't seem to go together.

21:48 Speaker 8: No, they really do not. They certainly do not.

21:53 Speaker 6: Yeah, but uh now that's that's the least we can

21:58 Speaker 6: say about it.

21:59 Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly now with the band, so with Sunset Electric,

22:05 Speaker 8: I know them, yes, yes, so are you While you

22:10 Speaker 8: were recording this album, did the band keep going or

22:14 Speaker 8: did you guys take a break while you were doing this?

22:16 Speaker 6: I don't know the band kick guard. I did this

22:18 Speaker 6: very slowly over this past year. There was like weeks

22:22 Speaker 6: of focus and weeks I didn't touch it at all.

22:24 Speaker 6: And that's some of it. That was just writing songs.

22:27 Speaker 6: But no, we've been we've been playing. We have a

22:31 Speaker 6: couple of shows coming up. We're gonna be at a

22:34 Speaker 6: Huskies Pub and Wooster on the eighth and of February.

22:38 Speaker 6: And we're around. But we have been working on a

22:43 Speaker 6: new album also. We're in writing stages, but we're almost

22:46 Speaker 6: done writing the next record and excellent, which you know.

22:49 Speaker 6: Sometimes I would start a song intending it to be

22:51 Speaker 6: for my solo thing, and I was like, ah, nah,

22:53 Speaker 6: the band will like this one, and yeah, you know,

22:55 Speaker 6: just bringing songs into them and seeing what sticks and

22:58 Speaker 6: what they vibe would so yeah, but no, we've still

23:01 Speaker 6: been going. We have a great time playing and practicing,

23:05 Speaker 6: and yeah, it's a blast. I always look forward to

23:08 Speaker 6: playing with the band. I like playing the solo shows too, Obviously,

23:11 Speaker 6: it's a whole different experience. I can play soft stuff,

23:14 Speaker 6: I can get more lyrical, but the energy is great

23:17 Speaker 6: when the band's playing and people are clapping and singing

23:20 Speaker 6: along and we're full of antics and jumping around and

23:23 Speaker 6: messing with each other. It's it's always fun.

23:25 Speaker 8: Yeah. Now with the solo shows, do you do like

23:28 Speaker 8: really long sets? You do like multi hour?

23:31 Speaker 10: Yeah?

23:31 Speaker 6: Usually? I mean I do a lot of breweries, and

23:33 Speaker 6: actually today I'm playing at a seven Saws Brewing and

23:36 Speaker 6: a Holden mass That's one of my favorite spots. But

23:39 Speaker 6: I'm playing there a very long time. Yeah, like how long,

23:42 Speaker 6: like before COVID, probably like twenty eighteen, I want to

23:46 Speaker 6: say I started, which might be around when they opened.

23:51 Speaker 6: I lived in Lemonster at the time, so it was

23:52 Speaker 6: a lot closer. Yeah, so it made sense that I

23:55 Speaker 6: found them and was going there. But uh, yeah, I've

23:58 Speaker 6: been going there. I was there every Sunday or as

24:01 Speaker 6: a duo with one of my bandmates for a good while.

24:03 Speaker 6: But anyways, I'll be there. But yeah, it's like a

24:06 Speaker 6: three hour set when I'm playing at a brewery, which

24:08 Speaker 6: you know, I like to play my originals do a lot,

24:10 Speaker 6: and people are very receptive to that.

24:13 Speaker 8: Yeah. Good.

24:14 Speaker 6: But I also, you know, play covers and make people happy.

24:17 Speaker 8: Sure.

24:17 Speaker 6: The best thing is when you play a cover a

24:19 Speaker 6: song you know, but that's not popular, and people come,

24:22 Speaker 6: I really like that's original of yours. Yeah, well you

24:25 Speaker 6: picked the one that wasn't mine. But I understand I

24:27 Speaker 6: love it too.

24:28 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, No, it's funny when that happens because yeah,

24:31 Speaker 8: you know, we've had a lot of guests over the

24:33 Speaker 8: years who you know, they'll they'll do covers, but they'll

24:35 Speaker 8: do something obscure and then people don't even know.

24:39 Speaker 6: It's just associated with them forever.

24:41 Speaker 8: Yeah. I was in a band where we years ago,

24:45 Speaker 8: long time ago. I was in a band called My

24:46 Speaker 8: Life Crisis, and we did a kiss cover. But we

24:49 Speaker 8: did a song called Hate, which is from their most

24:52 Speaker 8: obscure album that only the most diehard Kiss fans even

24:54 Speaker 8: know about, and it sounded so much like everything else,

24:58 Speaker 8: like all our originals that, yeah, nobody knew.

25:00 Speaker 6: You know, what did you do in the band?

25:02 Speaker 8: I was a bass player.

25:03 Speaker 6: How'd you like it?

25:04 Speaker 8: Do you still play? I haven't picked up a bass

25:06 Speaker 8: in a long time, Yeah, but I used to be.

25:09 Speaker 8: I was pretty active. At one point. I was in

25:11 Speaker 8: three different bands at once and we were all doing

25:12 Speaker 8: a lot of shows. But I never started a family

25:16 Speaker 8: because obviously you can't do that if you have kids,

25:19 Speaker 8: so I avoided that. But yeah, now I'm just too

25:22 Speaker 8: busy with other things, so I haven't. I haven't played

25:24 Speaker 8: in a long time, but sometimes I miss it and

25:26 Speaker 8: then I remember all the work that goes into it,

25:28 Speaker 8: and it's like, yeah, I don't miss it that much.

25:31 Speaker 6: Labor of love, I think they'd say.

25:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. But the nice thing about what you're doing

25:36 Speaker 8: when you do it solo acoustic, of course, that opens

25:38 Speaker 8: up a lot of different places you can play, and like, like,

25:41 Speaker 8: you have no shortage of opportunity. I'm sure as far

25:44 Speaker 8: as where you play.

25:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, you can one one person can fit in wherever

25:48 Speaker 6: exactlip side. If you haven't a bad day for your

25:51 Speaker 6: voice or you're just all over to play, you have

25:53 Speaker 6: no one to blame, like, oh no, the drummer was

25:55 Speaker 6: the drummer was hammered that day. You can't blame the

25:58 Speaker 6: drummer when it's just you, Like, no, that that was

26:00 Speaker 6: just me not being perfect. Sorry, guys, Yeah, yeah, it's

26:05 Speaker 6: been known to happen.

26:06 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, if you're just joining us.

26:09 Speaker 6: Casey, Lord, Casey, what what am I doing, Quincy, Lord,

26:12 Speaker 6: Matt's having a day.

26:13 Speaker 8: I am. I'm thinking about Monday.

26:15 Speaker 6: I'm gonna write it down for you next time.

26:17 Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I'm thinking about Monday and I'm distracted.

26:20 Speaker 8: Nothing nothing too terrible, we at least not the first day.

26:23 Speaker 8: Nothing terrible will happen, I'm sure.

26:25 Speaker 6: Well the next day, I think there's some terrible plans week.

26:27 Speaker 6: We should probably the.

26:28 Speaker 8: Next day, yeah, well we'll we'll enjoy the holiday. The

26:30 Speaker 8: next day, well we'll be terrible. But uh, do you

26:33 Speaker 8: want to you want to play another live one for us? Yeah?

26:36 Speaker 4: Why not?

26:36 Speaker 8: Dying to hear another one? Let me uh get that

26:41 Speaker 8: other mic back up there. That guitar sounds nice.

26:48 Speaker 6: Sure, I'm gonna play you.

26:49 Speaker 3: Uh.

26:49 Speaker 6: This was one of the songs I actually had released

26:51 Speaker 6: already with Sunset Electric, but I released as an acoustic

26:55 Speaker 6: version of this album because it's a lot of fun

26:57 Speaker 6: and uh, I don't think I'm pretty sure to play

27:00 Speaker 6: it last semes here it's called the Inn. Okay, Well, no,

27:02 Speaker 6: we've we played the recording last time. That's it, okay,

27:06 Speaker 6: but I want to play it, so we're going to

27:08 Speaker 6: awesome answer. I know it's a guess. It's about feeling lost,

27:11 Speaker 6: it's a it's run.

27:20 Speaker 3: Oh my, oh my, you're sat from my sore eyes.

27:29 Speaker 3: Read your footprints from the dark. Come sit, bind up

27:33 Speaker 3: one's light you in a dark place. We've all given

27:38 Speaker 3: to desire with a blind leading the blind, and you're preaching.

27:43 Speaker 7: To the barn, said tell me where the car, Where

27:49 Speaker 7: I can lay the bow?

27:52 Speaker 1: Where can lay my.

27:55 Speaker 13: Said shah, call.

27:58 Speaker 4: To the bow? Where can lemma bo?

28:02 Speaker 13: Wherelemma bone? Bone is my own night.

28:16 Speaker 10: Loma?

28:17 Speaker 7: Ohah see, you're not acusole through your ashes, through the wind,

28:25 Speaker 7: losing long control.

28:27 Speaker 13: This back rang nights a signal, I'll tacon. You can

28:33 Speaker 13: say night, but you can't see bodusn't see nothing. Oh

28:39 Speaker 13: tell me where to go? Where I can let him

28:43 Speaker 13: a bottle?

28:44 Speaker 4: Where can lem my bone?

28:48 Speaker 6: I said, bo shall go.

28:51 Speaker 1: To the roll?

28:52 Speaker 13: Where can a lemma bounce? Where Lama boats.

29:00 Speaker 5: That?

29:01 Speaker 13: It cuts cold?

29:02 Speaker 4: Half nice? Has her her?

29:11 Speaker 13: You don't dropping the parts life. He's a truce, to

29:18 Speaker 13: be sure.

29:20 Speaker 1: But I'm not.

29:22 Speaker 4: Coming up, be le.

29:56 Speaker 8: I do know.

29:58 Speaker 13: I'm searching.

30:00 Speaker 4: Go home.

30:01 Speaker 13: It's pleased to go on my own, on my home.

30:06 Speaker 6: What did gen meet?

30:07 Speaker 1: To this road?

30:09 Speaker 7: Where a Lamma bones? Why tell me where to go?

30:20 Speaker 7: Where Calma problems? Mysa puble shack all to the ball?

30:31 Speaker 13: Waking Lama? Where my bone?

30:42 Speaker 10: Well?

30:42 Speaker 4: My work Lemma?

30:52 Speaker 8: Oh that is cool. I really like that. Yeah, that

30:56 Speaker 8: sounded great. If you're just joining us, we have Quincy

30:59 Speaker 8: Lord here with us live in studio playing some tracks live,

31:02 Speaker 8: and of course we're featuring songs from his new album,

31:05 Speaker 8: A Bright Future and Refresh my Memory. Is it out

31:09 Speaker 8: now or is it coming out?

31:10 Speaker 6: It is out now.

31:11 Speaker 8: I just came out on January first. Felt appropriate? Yeah, excellent.

31:15 Speaker 8: So it's it's on all the streaming platforms.

31:17 Speaker 6: It is on all the streaming platforms as far as

31:20 Speaker 6: I know. We had a little issue with Apple, but

31:22 Speaker 6: it's live there now too. So for those who were

31:25 Speaker 6: asking me about.

31:25 Speaker 8: It, Oh, what was the problem with Apple? I'm always

31:29 Speaker 8: curious about this type of thing.

31:30 Speaker 6: I have no idea. It was just from the distributors,

31:33 Speaker 6: just like, oh, delivery to iTunes and Apple failed, it said,

31:36 Speaker 6: And I emailed them like six times and they got

31:39 Speaker 6: back to me last night being like, oh it's fixed now,

31:42 Speaker 6: and like, well thanks, oh okay, good good. Only took

31:44 Speaker 6: him a couple of weeks. It could be worse.

31:46 Speaker 8: Busy distro Kid is that who you used?

31:49 Speaker 6: CD baby And I used to use distro Kid, but

31:52 Speaker 6: it was a didn't end up being worth it.

31:55 Speaker 8: Yeah, I've heard that from from quite a few people.

31:57 Speaker 6: Well, it depends if you're someone that uh I friends

32:00 Speaker 6: who just like you know, they'll have an idea and

32:01 Speaker 6: they'll just knock out some recording, especially if it's like

32:05 Speaker 6: house music or whatever. Yeah, just something like that where

32:07 Speaker 6: they're or a tecto or whatever and they'll just you know,

32:11 Speaker 6: upload a song at a time, and yeah, you know,

32:13 Speaker 6: having a subscription, which is how district it works, and

32:15 Speaker 6: you just upload all you want as opposed to per release,

32:18 Speaker 6: then it's worth it for those people. But yeah, the

32:20 Speaker 6: trouble is if you ever stop paying them to take

32:22 Speaker 6: your music down, or you have to give them fifty

32:24 Speaker 6: bucks per release, which is a lot of money.

32:27 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, wow, are you doing physical CDs as well?

32:34 Speaker 6: Or I am? I think I have some with me.

32:36 Speaker 8: Oh okay, cool. Yeah, that's it's interesting how that's changed

32:41 Speaker 8: over the years, because you know, when I first started

32:44 Speaker 8: interviewing bands and you know it, it was a long

32:47 Speaker 8: time ago. And just give you an idea of how

32:49 Speaker 8: long ago it was when I first started. This was

32:51 Speaker 8: before I was at WM andh like, guess wouldn't be

32:55 Speaker 8: even Oh I should have turned that mic down. There

32:59 Speaker 8: we go. So before I was at WM and h uh,

33:07 Speaker 8: instead of sending me emailing me files, before people were

33:10 Speaker 8: really comfortable with that, people would give me a CD

33:13 Speaker 8: and the move was very often and this was typical.

33:17 Speaker 8: Uh the CD wouldn't even be in a case. It

33:20 Speaker 8: would be on a CDR and they would write on

33:23 Speaker 8: it with sharpe what it was and they would hand

33:25 Speaker 8: it to me on their finger. You know, it's no

33:28 Speaker 8: case and you know, and then of course eventually people

33:32 Speaker 8: got comfortable with just emailing tracks using Dropbox and services

33:36 Speaker 8: like that, Google Drive and whatnot. And then so that stopped.

33:40 Speaker 8: But also a lot of a lot of people just stopped,

33:44 Speaker 8: you know, because there was this thought, well, everything's online

33:47 Speaker 8: now and with Spotify and everything, there's no reason to

33:50 Speaker 8: make CDs. And then and so it seems like for

33:52 Speaker 8: a while, most of the guests I had, you know,

33:55 Speaker 8: I would ask them, well, are you going to do

33:56 Speaker 8: a physical CD? And they'd look at me like I

33:58 Speaker 8: was nuts. And then now, over the past I don't know,

34:01 Speaker 8: five or six years, probably you know, everybody's doing CDs again,

34:04 Speaker 8: and some are even doing vinyl, which apparently is very expensive.

34:07 Speaker 6: But there's definitely a vinyl resurgence for sure.

34:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, well I think I think it was twenty

34:14 Speaker 8: twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs.

34:19 Speaker 6: I did hear that? Yeah, Well, you know, the biggest

34:22 Speaker 6: issue here is anyone buying a new car. For the

34:24 Speaker 6: past five years, I'm guessing the vast majority don't have

34:28 Speaker 6: CD players In the time I bought a new car

34:31 Speaker 6: last year, I had to get rid of my old one,

34:33 Speaker 6: and I went from having you know, a six CD

34:35 Speaker 6: changer that I had all my favorites in, and you

34:38 Speaker 6: know that one of those books that just has full

34:42 Speaker 6: of little CDs. Oh yeah, you know, have a couple

34:44 Speaker 6: hundred CDs in there. And you know, if you're driving

34:47 Speaker 6: out in the boondogs and don't have service, you know,

34:50 Speaker 6: didn't have to worry about having songs on my phone.

34:52 Speaker 6: I could just you know, yes, And I like listening

34:56 Speaker 6: to records start to bottom. A lot of people, yep,

34:59 Speaker 6: don't like doing that, don't have the attention for it.

35:02 Speaker 6: But I like to commit and see what's going on. Yeah,

35:06 Speaker 6: but uh, you know, I've always liked doing CDs. It's

35:08 Speaker 6: good to just have like a little a little something.

35:11 Speaker 8: Well that's the thing. You know, it's fun to listen

35:13 Speaker 8: or it's fun to look at liner notes and the

35:16 Speaker 8: artwork and everything that whole experience. I mean, that's you know,

35:18 Speaker 8: when I was a kid, I always loved you know,

35:21 Speaker 8: if I was really into an artist, I would actually

35:23 Speaker 8: read everything that was in there, like like who their

35:26 Speaker 8: manager was, you know, just everything. If I was really

35:29 Speaker 8: into somebody, you know, like.

35:31 Speaker 6: Oh this guy played sex phone on that one song.

35:33 Speaker 6: That's very interesting.

35:34 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, because I could get obsessed if I still can.

35:37 Speaker 8: But but it's cool that it you know that it

35:39 Speaker 8: never went away.

35:41 Speaker 4: Even.

35:43 Speaker 8: Even cassettes. I think it was about five or six

35:46 Speaker 8: years ago. I was on band camp dot com and

35:48 Speaker 8: just looking for new artists in the area and I

35:52 Speaker 8: found somebody who was making cassettes. And the first one

35:55 Speaker 8: that I found I thought it was a fluke and

35:57 Speaker 8: I was like, Oh, they're doing this kind of retro thing,

35:59 Speaker 8: you know, is it like an pop band from mean

36:01 Speaker 8: Steak College or something. And then I found more and

36:04 Speaker 8: I'm like, oh my god, it's crazy.

36:09 Speaker 6: But yeah, it's definitely a retro hipster kind of thing.

36:13 Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, the only people I really usually see

36:16 Speaker 6: selling cassettes are like folk punk slash crustpunk bands and

36:22 Speaker 6: you know, very di y and indie people. I don't

36:25 Speaker 6: see many eight tracks anymore.

36:27 Speaker 8: No eight tracks.

36:29 Speaker 6: Yeah, my one my bandmate, and I'm in another band

36:32 Speaker 6: called Pants to band that's largely the same members but

36:36 Speaker 6: all in different rules as a Sunset, but our keyboardist,

36:41 Speaker 6: Justin mcinness is the singer in Pants. It's all his

36:43 Speaker 6: songs since Old Vibe. Anyways, he has the means to

36:46 Speaker 6: record eight track really and he's he's dead set on,

36:51 Speaker 6: you know, our next recording, just releasing a couple like that,

36:55 Speaker 6: just to say we could that's fun. I do remember

36:58 Speaker 6: seeing Cheap Trick like ten years ago and they had

37:01 Speaker 6: just as a gag, released an eight track of their

37:04 Speaker 6: new record at the time, just that they could say

37:07 Speaker 6: they have the number one eight track in the world. Yeah, which, yeah,

37:10 Speaker 6: I guess so also the only but yeah.

37:13 Speaker 8: I was in a band called The Jakes. This was

37:15 Speaker 8: like twenty years ago, and we had a running joke

37:17 Speaker 8: in the band that we were going to release like

37:18 Speaker 8: a single, and of course.

37:20 Speaker 10: If we did.

37:21 Speaker 8: But if we did that today, you know, it would

37:23 Speaker 8: kind of be almost normal. People would be like, oh,

37:25 Speaker 8: that's cool retrothegue.

37:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, and then be like, how do we use it

37:29 Speaker 6: right exactly? The tracks also have the dumb thing where

37:31 Speaker 6: they like flip over part way through and oh yeah,

37:33 Speaker 6: sometimes in the middle of a song if they plan

37:35 Speaker 6: it poorly, yeah, or the track list will be in

37:37 Speaker 6: a different order than like on a CD or vinyl,

37:41 Speaker 6: a different order of than name tended just so it fits, yeah,

37:44 Speaker 6: and like that's that's not okay.

37:46 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but yeah. It's interesting to see how the

37:50 Speaker 8: technologies change and how things some things never go away.

37:54 Speaker 8: You know, a lot of people have this impression that

37:56 Speaker 8: vinyl went away and then it came back, but it

37:59 Speaker 8: never actually went away.

38:00 Speaker 6: I mean, even it got cheap, is what happened, and

38:02 Speaker 6: is not expensive again.

38:03 Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly exactly. But even at its lowest EBB, you know,

38:07 Speaker 8: all the major labels were still releasing by you know,

38:10 Speaker 8: limited edition vinyl or whatnot.

38:12 Speaker 6: But yeah, it was always like a cool thing that bands.

38:14 Speaker 6: It's just very expensive, so it's often inaccessible to smaller bands.

38:19 Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm convinced, Uh, there's no statistical data to

38:23 Speaker 8: prove this, but I'm sure that most people, probably the

38:27 Speaker 8: vast majority of people who buy vinyl, don't even have

38:30 Speaker 8: a record player, don't have anything to put it on.

38:32 Speaker 8: They just buy it because, you know, if you're really

38:35 Speaker 8: a fan. I'm talking about if you're buying like brand

38:37 Speaker 8: new vinyl, not if you're going I mean, if you're

38:38 Speaker 8: going to a record store and flipping through and buying

38:41 Speaker 8: use you know, old vinyl, obviously you have something to

38:43 Speaker 8: play it on, probably unless you're looking for something rare

38:46 Speaker 8: just to have it. But I think most people who

38:48 Speaker 8: buy new vinyl, they probably don't have anything to play

38:49 Speaker 8: it on. They just if they're a fan of an artist.

38:51 Speaker 6: Right, it's just cool to have it. A lot of

38:54 Speaker 6: people hang them on the walls. Yeah, exactly, they do

38:56 Speaker 6: a lot of I don't know what to call it,

38:58 Speaker 6: but you know, instead of just a plain black record,

39:00 Speaker 6: it's like it will be like a cool splattered thing

39:02 Speaker 6: or have all different colors in there and whatever process

39:06 Speaker 6: they go through, but you know that to make it

39:08 Speaker 6: pretty to look at, Yeah, exactly. The only time I

39:11 Speaker 6: really buy a new one is some of the some

39:14 Speaker 6: of my favorite bands that are smaller, Uh, you know,

39:17 Speaker 6: I go and see them live and I like to

39:19 Speaker 6: support them and buy their merch So that's when I'll

39:21 Speaker 6: buy one, and I'll you know, i'll throw it on,

39:23 Speaker 6: but in reality, i'll play it once or twice or

39:25 Speaker 6: at home on a rainy day or something once in

39:27 Speaker 6: a while. But yeah, it's you know, it's there's not

39:31 Speaker 6: much reason for me to put on vinyl. You know,

39:33 Speaker 6: I have an apartment. I don't have a great like

39:35 Speaker 6: stats sound set up for it. It's not like I'm

39:37 Speaker 6: blasting it through my favorite speakers or anything. So it's

39:39 Speaker 6: like I see my worst speakers with the highest fidelity

39:45 Speaker 6: recording I could have, and um and see how that goes.

39:49 Speaker 8: Yeah, we don't even have Jenny and I don't even

39:52 Speaker 8: have a CD player at home. We have one here,

39:56 Speaker 8: but I think the only one who ever uses it

39:58 Speaker 8: to the best of my knowledge. I don't know if

39:59 Speaker 8: you know Rob as a veto. He also show here

40:01 Speaker 8: called Granted State of Mind Fridays at six.

40:04 Speaker 6: I don't. I haven't met him, but I've I've watched,

40:07 Speaker 6: I've had some friends go on a show before.

40:09 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, and he also owns Pembroke City Limits, which

40:11 Speaker 8: everybody yeah yeah, yeah, So Rob actually will bring in

40:15 Speaker 8: CDs and and he so I know this. I know

40:17 Speaker 8: it works, but I've never I've never used it. But

40:20 Speaker 8: but no, but people give us CDs and you know,

40:22 Speaker 8: and it's nice to have them and and whatnot. But yeah,

40:26 Speaker 8: but we have nothing at home to actually play them mine,

40:28 Speaker 8: but but it's but it's nice to have them. I

40:33 Speaker 8: was curious this occurred to me as you were playing

40:35 Speaker 8: that song that was called bones.

40:38 Speaker 6: The inn oh, the end with two ends, at least

40:40 Speaker 6: two ends. You can use more if you want.

40:42 Speaker 8: Where did I get bones?

40:43 Speaker 6: I do say bones a lot in a song.

40:44 Speaker 8: That's why. Okay, do you say the ends on the

40:47 Speaker 8: song at all?

40:48 Speaker 6: I say the in a couple of times, but once

40:52 Speaker 6: it's with one end, once it's with two ends.

40:53 Speaker 8: So right, so it's different.

40:55 Speaker 6: There's a total three ends across the ends.

40:57 Speaker 8: But I got you.

41:00 Speaker 6: Now.

41:00 Speaker 8: I was curious what goes into your decision when you

41:03 Speaker 8: when you write a song, whether it's something you should

41:06 Speaker 8: keep for yourself or something maybe to use for Sunset Electric,

41:09 Speaker 8: like you kind of have some criteria in your mind

41:12 Speaker 8: or is it just a vibe thing?

41:13 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean sometimes I largely that last bit. Sometimes

41:17 Speaker 6: I do go about writing a song and I haven't

41:20 Speaker 6: with the band in mind, and I'll write it and

41:22 Speaker 6: you know, the thing about what they're probably going to

41:24 Speaker 6: come up with for their parts or how they'll react.

41:26 Speaker 6: But yeah, what I've been doing. I'll backtrack a little.

41:30 Speaker 6: So on the record we put out last year, Graffiti Hearts,

41:36 Speaker 6: the majority of those songs I had written ahead of times,

41:39 Speaker 6: some like years prior, so a lot of that was

41:42 Speaker 6: me bringing completed songs to the band and then you know,

41:45 Speaker 6: making some small adjustments. But sometimes I was a bit

41:48 Speaker 6: of a jerk about this needs to stay like it is.

41:51 Speaker 6: And yeah, so since you know those that album was

41:54 Speaker 6: put out, everything I've done with the band, you know,

41:58 Speaker 6: I've tried to bring them the songs before they're you know, completed,

42:04 Speaker 6: you know, right, here's a verse, and of course here's

42:06 Speaker 6: you know how far I got on day one of writing,

42:09 Speaker 6: like with a spark, And then I'll bring it into

42:11 Speaker 6: practice and be like, what do you guys think of this?

42:13 Speaker 6: See if it sticks, see if they vibe with it,

42:15 Speaker 6: and if it doesn't, you know, that's all I need

42:19 Speaker 6: to know. And other times it's like a softer, gentler

42:21 Speaker 6: song and it's clearly not going to be the right

42:24 Speaker 6: vibe for them. So yeah, some mix of the two.

42:27 Speaker 6: But it's usually apparent when I start writing it if

42:29 Speaker 6: it will be something they'll like or not.

42:32 Speaker 8: Yeah, now do you have I mean obviously so you

42:38 Speaker 8: went what is it fifteen.

42:39 Speaker 6: Tracks on this? Yeah, a few too many, fifteen five

42:42 Speaker 6: or rereleased, so I'll call it like I see it

42:44 Speaker 6: as like a grouping of ten like the album and

42:47 Speaker 6: then extras.

42:48 Speaker 8: Yeah, do you have even more that you recorded that

42:50 Speaker 8: you decided to leave out or maybe use on a

42:52 Speaker 8: future release?

42:54 Speaker 6: I have many more that I have, you know, another

42:58 Speaker 6: twenty songs I considered that I were old songs that

43:02 Speaker 6: I considered putting on this, but we'll see, you know.

43:06 Speaker 6: There there's another problems with Catholicism song that I was like, ah,

43:11 Speaker 6: those would go well together. I'm like, maybe I'll spread

43:13 Speaker 6: it out and just make sure that notion stays, you

43:17 Speaker 6: know something, talk about it holidays.

43:20 Speaker 8: Was it hard to kind of because you have so

43:22 Speaker 8: many songs? Was it hard to kind of pare it

43:23 Speaker 8: down and make those were those hard to stay?

43:26 Speaker 6: So the it was less sad and more I wanted

43:29 Speaker 6: this to be a quick thing. Yeah, not end up

43:31 Speaker 6: being a quick thing because I couldn't. I kept being like, oh, well,

43:34 Speaker 6: this song I half wrote, you know, maybe I could

43:36 Speaker 6: just finish that and put it on, Like I'm not

43:37 Speaker 6: gonna the band. It doesn't fit the band. Maybe I'll

43:40 Speaker 6: just and then just you know, because I was doing

43:44 Speaker 6: it alone, there was no one to tell me no, yeah,

43:46 Speaker 6: or stop, or you have enough songs, or you don't

43:50 Speaker 6: need to record the sixteen layers on that song. I'm like, yeah,

43:54 Speaker 6: but I want to play the banjo. Who's going to

43:56 Speaker 6: stop me me? No? Right, I want to play the banjo.

43:58 Speaker 6: I want to play the mandolin. I'm gonna do them.

44:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so you play both. There's both banjo and mandolin.

44:03 Speaker 6: That's all you not as well as Yeah, I played

44:06 Speaker 6: all of that on the album. I mean each is

44:08 Speaker 6: only on one song. Okay, I do play those. I

44:12 Speaker 6: mean I I think my cousin Josiah put it that

44:17 Speaker 6: I there's a genre he'd call it of a guitar

44:22 Speaker 6: players who pick up a banjo. Yeah, and then that's

44:25 Speaker 6: very much what I am. I'm not a I don't

44:28 Speaker 6: do the claw hammer the proper things. Mandolin. I'm probably

44:31 Speaker 6: closer to doing it properly because it's the same motions

44:35 Speaker 6: as far as the pick goes, different tuning and such.

44:38 Speaker 6: But I like to dabble. I'm definitely better at guitar

44:41 Speaker 6: than those. But I get to play guitar out and

44:45 Speaker 6: every now and then I'll get a get the notion

44:47 Speaker 6: to like, oh if I practiced mandolin, maybe I'll bring

44:49 Speaker 6: it to my show today and do some songs on mandolin.

44:52 Speaker 6: But I'm always like, I'll wait till I'm doing a

44:55 Speaker 6: duo thing at some point and mess around with it then.

44:58 Speaker 6: But I liked the excuse to play with different instruments

45:01 Speaker 6: and just you.

45:02 Speaker 8: Know, I've never even picked up a mandolin, is it?

45:05 Speaker 6: They're not heavy? You could do it.

45:07 Speaker 8: I well, I hope, so I don't know the web

45:09 Speaker 8: in coffin, I might. I don't know, I might not

45:11 Speaker 8: have the strength.

45:13 Speaker 7: Is it?

45:14 Speaker 8: Is it drastically different in terms of I mean, I

45:17 Speaker 8: assume if you're a guitar player, you're ahead of the game, right,

45:20 Speaker 8: But is it like how challenging is it to pick

45:24 Speaker 8: up a not to pick up a mandolin?

45:25 Speaker 6: But semantics, well, I think from going from guitar to mandolin,

45:32 Speaker 6: the easiest part is the fact that your strumming hand

45:35 Speaker 6: is yeah, very familiar. So yeah, it's getting used to

45:40 Speaker 6: tiny frets that you have to like it sence your

45:43 Speaker 6: fingers on, and also just retraining your brain because our

45:46 Speaker 6: guitar is tuned in force mostly and mandolin's violence whatever,

45:51 Speaker 6: they're all tuned in fists. Yeah, so you just had

45:55 Speaker 6: to be like, oh, yeah, the note not where I'm

45:57 Speaker 6: not where I think it's going to be, and just

45:59 Speaker 6: you know, learn shapes and patterns and your scales and yeah, interesting,

46:04 Speaker 6: and then you're fine, how many strings on a man

46:07 Speaker 6: to win eight West? It's four, but they're doubled like

46:10 Speaker 6: a twelve string guitar would be Oh.

46:11 Speaker 8: I got ya, okay, okay, And what about the banjo

46:15 Speaker 8: I've heard. I've heard people say that banjo isn't as

46:20 Speaker 8: difficult to learn as one might think. But then again,

46:23 Speaker 8: all the people i've heard say that are really good

46:26 Speaker 8: at playing the banjo.

46:28 Speaker 1: So.

46:30 Speaker 6: Not being a proficient banjo player, I'll put it here.

46:33 Speaker 6: You can coming as a guitar player especially, you can

46:36 Speaker 6: come and you can make decent sounds on a banjo

46:39 Speaker 6: and you can play it and make noise. A lot

46:41 Speaker 6: of it's tuned. Sees me much like a guitar, except

46:45 Speaker 6: with a very high string on the wrong side, which

46:47 Speaker 6: you get used to. But if you're playing banjo like

46:50 Speaker 6: a banjo player would like a blue grass player or

46:52 Speaker 6: traditional player would, I think that requires a high level skill.

46:57 Speaker 6: I think, you know, bluegrass players are some of the

46:59 Speaker 6: most did musicians there are. I agree. Yeah, you just

47:02 Speaker 6: have a focus. You just shred on it. There's no

47:05 Speaker 6: drums to guide you all just have to lock in

47:07 Speaker 6: together and you know, yeah, they go crazy. So I

47:12 Speaker 6: think that's a high level, in my mind, is a

47:15 Speaker 6: high level of talent. I'm always impressed by good U

47:18 Speaker 6: banjo players. My friend Ross plays the banjo very well. Yeah, yeah,

47:24 Speaker 6: I'm always it's awa it's always it's always fun to

47:26 Speaker 6: see someone playing.

47:27 Speaker 8: You're just like wow, there's like yeah, yeah, I'm always

47:30 Speaker 8: impressed by that. Yeah, absolutely, or even just being able

47:35 Speaker 8: to fingerpick, just you know, just generally. I mean because

47:39 Speaker 8: I you know, I'm a bass player and I play

47:42 Speaker 8: with a pick most of the time. Even when even

47:44 Speaker 8: playing bass, I.

47:44 Speaker 6: Don't have to tell anyone that it's okay, I use it.

47:48 Speaker 8: Everyone already knows. Paul McCartney does it.

47:52 Speaker 6: So I used to pick on the bass too. I've

47:54 Speaker 6: played bass in the bands before and on this record,

47:57 Speaker 6: I've played a lot of bass obviously, but uh, yeah,

48:00 Speaker 6: I use a pick. It's easier.

48:02 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.

48:03 Speaker 6: There was one track I actually I went to the

48:06 Speaker 6: and you know, use my fingers because it's I wanted

48:09 Speaker 6: it to be an upright bass, but I didn't have

48:11 Speaker 6: an upright bass. It was too impatient to ask someone

48:14 Speaker 6: else to play it or to go and borrow one

48:17 Speaker 6: and get used to it. I'm like, I'm just gonna

48:20 Speaker 6: roll my tone knobs back and use my fingers and

48:22 Speaker 6: it will be fine.

48:23 Speaker 8: There you go. There. That's something I've never done either.

48:25 Speaker 8: I've never played an upright bass.

48:28 Speaker 6: Bucket lists Matt bucket list.

48:30 Speaker 8: No, no, it looks it just looks so awkward to me.

48:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, that one's a little harder to pick up. Yeah.

48:35 Speaker 8: Physically, yeah, it's heavy because it's big interesting. So you

48:45 Speaker 8: so all that. So you do all the guitar and

48:47 Speaker 8: the mandolin and the banjo on the album.

48:48 Speaker 6: And for the most part, I did have a Justin Feife,

48:54 Speaker 6: who's my dear bandmate, he on the Sunset Electrics to

49:00 Speaker 6: have them come in and like do acoustic versions of

49:02 Speaker 6: his parts. Just I was like, you already know this,

49:05 Speaker 6: Like let's do the thing. Yeah, but yeah, I you know,

49:09 Speaker 6: I like being in my tower song and just recording

49:15 Speaker 6: all the little bits and I could use a little

49:17 Speaker 6: thing here. I record a lot more tracks than I

49:19 Speaker 6: use And maybe I did too much here. Maybe I

49:22 Speaker 6: need to calm down a little.

49:25 Speaker 8: And is the only other vocalist Cassidy is she the

49:27 Speaker 8: only other one.

49:28 Speaker 6: Justin Fife also also sang on that. I think it's

49:34 Speaker 6: just the two of them. Oh no, Justin McInnis also

49:37 Speaker 6: did a few vocals. I had a lot on the

49:39 Speaker 6: back of the album and on band camp. It's very

49:40 Speaker 6: specific about who did what on what song, but a

49:44 Speaker 6: lot of songs are just me.

49:48 Speaker 8: All these songs on the album, are these all songs

49:51 Speaker 8: that you play live actively.

49:53 Speaker 6: Or just about There's there's one song that I haven't

49:59 Speaker 6: done live i've yet, which is called so It Goes,

50:02 Speaker 6: and it's you know I wrote.

50:04 Speaker 8: Is this one on Oh Turn It Back Up? Yeah?

50:07 Speaker 6: Absolutely, just just because it's I wrote the song originally

50:10 Speaker 6: intending it to be for the band because I just

50:12 Speaker 6: had this fun like it was like a bass or

50:14 Speaker 6: if I had like.

50:23 Speaker 10: Like that.

50:27 Speaker 6: Whatever, and I was like, oh, that's like a cool

50:28 Speaker 6: groo we sing. I was like, and I was like

50:31 Speaker 6: messing around on the drums and I was like, all right,

50:33 Speaker 6: this could be a cool thing. But uh, I just

50:36 Speaker 6: never had that next part that would make sense with

50:38 Speaker 6: the band. And I picked it up one day and

50:40 Speaker 6: you know, just start singing the next section and but anyways,

50:46 Speaker 6: it's just I guess I just need to practice it.

50:48 Speaker 6: Like it's a little bit of a throwaway song, but

50:51 Speaker 6: I like listening to recording. It makes me happy.

50:53 Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, I try to came.

51:00 Speaker 6: And like it has this whole like kind of melancholy

51:03 Speaker 6: feel to it as it goes, and you know, yeah,

51:05 Speaker 6: it's one of my many songs about you know, mental

51:07 Speaker 6: health and you know, just being a mess in general.

51:10 Speaker 6: But but that's the only one I haven't really done live,

51:15 Speaker 6: which I could probably practice and get there, but I've

51:18 Speaker 6: just never had the like, this isn't the one I

51:20 Speaker 6: want to show off really necessarily.

51:22 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, like I like it for me, but right, no,

51:27 Speaker 8: I like that is a I do like that riff.

51:29 Speaker 8: It's got a nice groof to it. Yeah, Well, time

51:33 Speaker 8: goes quickly. We are already approaching the top of the hour,

51:35 Speaker 8: so I want to make sure we get one more

51:37 Speaker 8: studio track, I'm sure, but before we do that, So

51:41 Speaker 8: what do people need to know about? Where to keep

51:42 Speaker 8: up with everything that you're doing? And the band too,

51:45 Speaker 8: Soundset Electric.

51:46 Speaker 6: Yeah sure, So all all my social media's under Quincy

51:50 Speaker 6: Lord Music. Quincy Lord Music. Quincy Lord was my name,

51:55 Speaker 6: in case you missed that. Yeah, Sunset Electric Band is

52:00 Speaker 6: where you can find all the band stuff. I post

52:02 Speaker 6: most on Facebook because I resent social media in general

52:06 Speaker 6: and can't commit to too many of them, and that's

52:11 Speaker 6: the one that lets me make events. But you can

52:13 Speaker 6: follow us there. I'm going to be at you were

52:16 Speaker 6: talking to Eleanor earlier. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, So

52:20 Speaker 6: I'm going to be playing at Terminus on Tuesday for

52:23 Speaker 6: their whole shin dig that's going on.

52:25 Speaker 8: Yeah, Jenny and I will be there for that.

52:27 Speaker 6: All awesome. I look forward to it. So I'll be

52:29 Speaker 6: playing a lot of the album live and more awake

52:33 Speaker 6: than so that will be a good time. Next week,

52:39 Speaker 6: is it now? In two weeks we're going to be

52:41 Speaker 6: on WMFO with Top Tufts Radio with the band on

52:45 Speaker 6: the Town with Mikey d Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah. We

52:48 Speaker 6: went on there in like twenty eighteen or nineteen or something,

52:51 Speaker 6: so it's been a good while and Joel just made

52:53 Speaker 6: us sound so good. We had these out of tune

52:55 Speaker 6: drums and he just he made it all sound great. Yeah,

52:58 Speaker 6: Tuesday at Terminus, Today's seven Saws and Holding and the band.

53:02 Speaker 6: Next band show is going to be February eighth at

53:05 Speaker 6: Husky's Pub, our favorite spot in Worcester.

53:08 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool, And we'll we'll end

53:12 Speaker 8: with steam Town.

53:13 Speaker 6: I guess that's who should we do? We have time

53:15 Speaker 6: for me to say a quick thing about it or

53:17 Speaker 6: oh yeah, go ahead, yeah, absolutely so, just I'll be

53:19 Speaker 6: quick a quick story with Steamtown. This is one of

53:22 Speaker 6: the old songs E wrote A long time ago. Once

53:25 Speaker 6: upon a time, it was me and I was driving

53:27 Speaker 6: up and down each I kind of ran away and

53:29 Speaker 6: was driving up and down the East Coast with a

53:31 Speaker 6: couple of friends, sleeping in my nineteen ninety six Pontiac

53:34 Speaker 6: rand Am And anyways, it was written as a letter

53:39 Speaker 6: for me at the time to this girl I cared

53:40 Speaker 6: about because I was I kind of ran away and

53:48 Speaker 6: I was like, hey, I miss you. I wish you

53:50 Speaker 6: wanted to come with us. She didn't, and like, you know,

53:53 Speaker 6: just knowing it was kind of saying like I miss

53:55 Speaker 6: you and I wish you were here, but also I'm

53:56 Speaker 6: going to go do what I want. So it's kind

53:58 Speaker 6: of me being a jerk with it. It seems a

53:59 Speaker 6: little sweet. And in the beginning the song says, dear Simba,

54:03 Speaker 6: because it's a it was written as a letter to her. Okay, okay,

54:07 Speaker 6: a very long time ago. Sima's a dear friend who's

54:10 Speaker 6: eleanor might have mentioned she helps out.

54:12 Speaker 8: I'm gonna say that name came up earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting,

54:15 Speaker 8: such a small world.

54:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, Simba's how they wrote me into going and playing Tuesday.

54:20 Speaker 8: Gotcha, I gotcha, all right? Very cool, very cool. Well,

54:23 Speaker 8: thank you so much, Quincy Lord, this has been wonderful.

54:26 Speaker 8: Thank you for having me absolutely, and if you are

54:28 Speaker 8: listening live on Saturday, if you miss any part of

54:30 Speaker 8: today's show and will be up in just a little

54:32 Speaker 8: bit at WM and hradio dot orgon at my website

54:35 Speaker 8: Matt Connerton dot com. And don't forget Jencoffee dot com

54:39 Speaker 8: if you want to keep up with everything Jenny's been doing.

54:41 Speaker 8: She just got back from New York and the United

54:44 Speaker 8: Healthcare protests there and so proud of her. She's doing great,

54:48 Speaker 8: great things. And Jenny absolutely, and don't forget the open

54:52 Speaker 8: house at New Hampshire Underground at Terminus Underground and Quincy

54:56 Speaker 8: Lord will be there and Jesse what the hell was

55:01 Speaker 8: his last name?

55:01 Speaker 6: Was?

55:01 Speaker 8: Somebody I don't know. I can't remember now. Eleanor said

55:04 Speaker 8: a name of someone I'm not familiar with, but who's

55:06 Speaker 8: also going to be performing there, Jesse something I can't

55:09 Speaker 8: remember anyway, but check out New Hyptire Underground dot org

55:14 Speaker 8: for more information on that. And thank you again to

55:16 Speaker 8: Eleanor and Andre for coming in earlier, and of course

55:19 Speaker 8: thank you to Nancy Manet and Quincy Lord. Thank you

55:22 Speaker 8: again and we will thank you.

55:23 Speaker 6: We will leave you with this.

55:24 Speaker 8: This is called Steamtown from the new album A Bright Future.

55:50 Speaker 10: You have to.

55:51 Speaker 1: Undercent we need to get away. I just can't stand

55:58 Speaker 1: that kind.

55:58 Speaker 9: Of bluffy blue tat dick they had to on beset.

56:05 Speaker 6: It wasn't meant to happen this way.

56:08 Speaker 4: No, we weren't going to leave.

56:11 Speaker 9: There's nothing you could say, and lace.

56:15 Speaker 4: Seemed tell me. Learned to catch right the first time

56:20 Speaker 4: we'd have.

56:21 Speaker 1: Snag salt faces in our lives.

56:25 Speaker 4: They let us fall asleep with.

56:28 Speaker 16: The ranking broken jars tream, the bout glassy left.

56:34 Speaker 1: We go Forritanna come, not ses that I left, but.

56:46 Speaker 6: It was you couldn't come, know you one born went.

56:51 Speaker 5: The last suit corn all the sun When they're trying

56:55 Speaker 5: to take me anywhere on the side shop, God, you

57:01 Speaker 5: know I really don't on life.

57:04 Speaker 16: On the long runna fame time we learn to catch

57:10 Speaker 16: a ride away from all the faces and the places

57:16 Speaker 16: we despise.

57:18 Speaker 1: The tracks wear on our creating. We have story at nights,

57:23 Speaker 1: but we can only follow on.

57:26 Speaker 4: So we go let cat same town. We learned to

58:04 Speaker 4: catch run the first.

58:06 Speaker 16: Time we fell smiles on faces and our lives we

58:12 Speaker 16: by le ballantly with our lanterns lit by the stars,

58:17 Speaker 16: to dream about a ladder left, a girlfriends and a cause.

58:27 Speaker 4: We learned to cash or eye sales came in.

58:38 Speaker 1: The song I count if we ever met to get

58:43 Speaker 1: going to want.

58:44 Speaker 4: You know that.

59:28 Speaker 6: No fire.

59:31 Speaker 4: Let a liar. Won't you run away.

59:36 Speaker 1: For me?

59:39 Speaker 4: Lollius thoughts come out of my hair. Let him with you.

59:44 Speaker 10: There transfers a specimens you men to me