Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-24-26 hour 3

0:02 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, welcome everybody. We have entered our number three

0:05 Speaker 1: New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are

0:10 Speaker 1: live from the studios of wm MH ninety five point

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0:26 Speaker 1: you are listening live today is January twenty four, twenty

0:30 Speaker 1: twenty six, and I hope you are warm, keeping warm

0:34 Speaker 1: wherever you are, because it is brutally cold and we've

0:37 Speaker 1: got a we got a big storm coming. But that's okay.

0:40 Speaker 1: We're having fun.

0:41 Speaker 2: Let's see.

0:42 Speaker 1: Let me get that mic up. Brooklyn Mike is here.

0:47 Speaker 1: Oh I can't hear you. Let me figure out why

0:54 Speaker 1: I think I. Oh, oh, I'm hearing. Here's something. Go

0:57 Speaker 1: ahead and talk good morning Matt. There we are there,

1:00 Speaker 1: we are. So for those of you just joining us,

1:02 Speaker 1: if you have not heard Brooklyn Mike on the show,

1:05 Speaker 1: you're lucky. When Brooklyn Mike comes in, he brings his guitar,

1:10 Speaker 1: he plays live for us. So we have a you know,

1:11 Speaker 1: whenever we have live performers who play in studio, we

1:14 Speaker 1: have use a little bit of a different mic setup,

1:17 Speaker 1: so it doesn't always it's not always smooth right in

1:19 Speaker 1: the beginning, but then the rest of the show, everything's wonderful.

1:21 Speaker 1: So bear with us. But nope, we can hear him.

1:24 Speaker 1: Mike's got his guitar plug and he's going to play

1:26 Speaker 1: for us. And we should talk about So the last

1:29 Speaker 1: time you were on the last time you were on

1:31 Speaker 1: this show, because you are you're kind of a semi

1:34 Speaker 1: regular now on Retrospectrum Radio Correct and of course you've

1:37 Speaker 1: made many appearances on the Morning Show with Peter White

1:39 Speaker 1: as well. But since the last time you were on

1:42 Speaker 1: this program, you you've played an open mic at PCL right.

1:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, at Pembroke City Limits.

1:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, our friend Rob az Avito.

1:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, great venue, beautiful venue. They do open mic there

1:54 Speaker 2: the first Wednesday of each month. So I attended the

2:00 Speaker 2: December and January open mics. Oh good, and I look

2:03 Speaker 2: forward to being back there. I believe it's February fourth, okay,

2:07 Speaker 2: the first Wednesday in February, Okay, very good.

2:09 Speaker 1: So they do those every Wednesday at.

2:12 Speaker 2: First Wednesday of the month once a month.

2:14 Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, so Pembroke City Limits. Of course, if

2:17 Speaker 1: you haven't checked it out, please do. It's an amazing place.

2:19 Speaker 1: Rob az Avito of course also a very important part

2:22 Speaker 1: of the WMNH family. I think he was here before

2:25 Speaker 1: I started my show. Actually, I think before I came here.

2:29 Speaker 2: That's a long time.

2:30 Speaker 1: So it's been nearly a decade. Yeah, Rob of course

2:33 Speaker 1: host granted State of Mind, which you can hear Fridays

2:36 Speaker 1: at six pm here at wm ANDH and also of

2:39 Speaker 1: course if you go to the if you go to

2:41 Speaker 1: WMNH Radio dot org, you can get it on demand.

2:45 Speaker 1: But I think now he's actually interviewing people at PCL

2:50 Speaker 1: is what it sounds like. There's live a lot of

2:52 Speaker 1: live performances in the show, so.

2:54 Speaker 2: Heats us a ton of different events there. I mean

2:57 Speaker 2: they had something I think it was last Sunday where

3:00 Speaker 2: was basically bring a plant to take a plant, so

3:05 Speaker 2: real people bringing live plants. He does so many things

3:08 Speaker 2: to get people in there, and it's really really interesting.

3:12 Speaker 2: So yeah, the event would be you would bring a

3:14 Speaker 2: live plant that you'd want to donate to somebody, and

3:17 Speaker 2: then almost like a pot luck, but with plants, yeah,

3:20 Speaker 2: potted potted plant luck if you will, and so different

3:24 Speaker 2: things like that.

3:25 Speaker 1: Yeah.

3:25 Speaker 2: Then of course they do trivia there, they do, I

3:28 Speaker 2: believe they do some comedy. There's a ton of musicians

3:31 Speaker 2: that play there. Yeah, he just he hosts a lot

3:35 Speaker 2: of different, really interesting and varied events. It's and it's

3:39 Speaker 2: a really really nice venue. It's really cozy. The people

3:42 Speaker 2: there are super super nice.

3:44 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's really becoming the time it's been open,

3:48 Speaker 1: it's been at least two years now, right, maybe there's

3:50 Speaker 1: been two years about that, I believe, so yeah, yeah,

3:53 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's become such an important part of

3:55 Speaker 1: the scene here.

3:55 Speaker 2: And then a couple of doors away he has a

3:57 Speaker 2: record store selling vinyl. I haven't made it in there yet.

4:00 Speaker 2: I got to get there.

4:00 Speaker 1: I got I got to do that too.

4:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to turn that out.

4:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely.

4:05 Speaker 2: So Now have you been have you played anywhere else?

4:08 Speaker 2: Or has that kind of been your your smory into

4:10 Speaker 2: getting back into playing live or correct? That's correct. I

4:14 Speaker 2: just want to get It's it's kind of ironic because

4:17 Speaker 2: I'm finding I'm needing to get over nervousness really, which well,

4:21 Speaker 2: you know, I haven't performed live, really performed anywhere other

4:25 Speaker 2: than the radio show, which you know, Peter's been super

4:29 Speaker 2: kind to have me on, and you know, perform here

4:32 Speaker 2: and there. Yeah, but other than that, you know, I

4:34 Speaker 2: moved to New Hampshire twenty five My wife and I

4:36 Speaker 2: moved to New Hampshire twenty five years ago. And you know,

4:40 Speaker 2: I moved here, got a real job, had to be

4:42 Speaker 2: you know, a real grown up, grown up, and you know,

4:45 Speaker 2: bought a house and had to pay the bills. So

4:47 Speaker 2: I kind of had to back burn or the music

4:49 Speaker 2: for a quarter decade. Now. Granted, if I it's not

4:55 Speaker 2: that I didn't want to. I was gonna say, if

4:57 Speaker 2: I really wanted to, I could have gotten out there

4:59 Speaker 2: and stillmed. But you know, I moved up here. It

5:02 Speaker 2: was like a whole different life. You know, I had

5:05 Speaker 2: all my contacts and colleagues back home in New York

5:09 Speaker 2: and I didn't know it. Literally didn't know anybody up here.

5:12 Speaker 2: So just starting a new life. I'm not in a

5:15 Speaker 2: witness protection program or anything like that.

5:18 Speaker 1: It was just, uh, which is exactly what you would

5:21 Speaker 1: say if you were in the witness protection program.

5:24 Speaker 2: M very interesting. So so anyway, fast forward a quarter century.

5:31 Speaker 2: You know, it's a blink of an eye. Man, you

5:33 Speaker 2: just can't believe it. And all the whole time, I

5:38 Speaker 2: just my goal was that when I was able to

5:42 Speaker 2: get back to it, I was going to get back

5:44 Speaker 2: to it because you know, I was a music major

5:46 Speaker 2: and really music has been my life since I was

5:48 Speaker 2: a child. And so here I am, you know, kind

5:52 Speaker 2: of getting out there again, and it's it's it's a

5:54 Speaker 2: whole other world, you know, with technology. I mean, when

5:57 Speaker 2: I was in you know, performing in and solos, you know,

6:01 Speaker 2: you'd want to you found a venue that you'd want

6:05 Speaker 2: to perform at, you know, and you'd take your eight

6:07 Speaker 2: by ten glossy with your press kit and a cassette tape,

6:11 Speaker 2: you know, with a demo with three songs on it,

6:14 Speaker 2: and and you'd get your foot in the door.

6:16 Speaker 1: You know.

6:16 Speaker 2: Now it's like, you know, that's the biggest hurdle for

6:19 Speaker 2: me is and not that I mean I'm good with technology.

6:22 Speaker 2: It's just now getting you know, preparing so to speak,

6:28 Speaker 2: a resume, an online resume and getting it out there.

6:32 Speaker 2: So it but you know, it's it's it's kind of

6:34 Speaker 2: fun too, because it's it's a whole new a whole

6:37 Speaker 2: new world for me. Yeah, it's kind of ironic because

6:40 Speaker 2: you know, you've, like your first guest. Both your guests

6:44 Speaker 2: that you had on today were were terrific. By the way,

6:47 Speaker 2: interesting common thread among the three of us. Yes, we

6:50 Speaker 2: all have accents, so that's true. That's true. I got

6:54 Speaker 2: my coffee here. You're a you're a real New york

6:57 Speaker 2: I got my coffee. And by the way, shout out

7:00 Speaker 2: my friend Denise. She's listening in Ocalla, Florida today. Denise

7:05 Speaker 2: was a coworker who lived in Nashua. She was Manchester

7:08 Speaker 2: native and just recently also retired and made the move

7:13 Speaker 2: to Florida. Oh okay, so loaded Denise down in Florida.

7:17 Speaker 2: I hope you're keeping warm down there because we're not.

7:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't know if most of the country

7:23 Speaker 1: is this sweek und Well, yeah, I think.

7:25 Speaker 2: There was snow, even parts of Florida.

7:27 Speaker 1: I heard really, Yeah, I believe it. Yeah, huge, huge storm.

7:31 Speaker 1: I'm remaining I don't know if you heard me saying

7:33 Speaker 1: this earlier in the show. I'm remaining cautiously oppiatistic that

7:35 Speaker 1: it's not going to be that bad here.

7:37 Speaker 2: Yeah. I was laughing because when you said I don't know,

7:39 Speaker 2: we're not going to get like two feet, and I'm thinking, yeah,

7:41 Speaker 2: just a foot and a half. Yeah, yeah, well that's

7:43 Speaker 2: better better than two feet.

7:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

7:47 Speaker 2: That's definitely a case where less is more. Yeah. When

7:50 Speaker 2: it comes to snowfall, I love the snow. I mean

7:53 Speaker 2: I actually love the winter. Autumn and winter. I love

7:58 Speaker 2: It's just like, I'm kind of very very sentimental person.

8:00 Speaker 2: I think it's my heritage of I'm first generation Italian

8:04 Speaker 2: born here. Yeah, and so we're just like naturally emotional

8:08 Speaker 2: sentimental people. And to me, like the autumn and winter

8:11 Speaker 2: is like very very sentimental, you know, melancholy, and I

8:16 Speaker 2: just love it.

8:16 Speaker 1: I don't like the melancholy, No, I do like I

8:19 Speaker 1: see the leaves falling, and I just reminds me of death. Well,

8:23 Speaker 1: it's all death.

8:24 Speaker 2: You know. There can't be life without death. It's all

8:26 Speaker 2: the circle, you know.

8:28 Speaker 1: Oh, we do have a call. Let's let's see who's

8:30 Speaker 1: on the line here. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed.

8:33 Speaker 1: Is this.

8:37 Speaker 2: The ghost caller? Uh?

8:38 Speaker 1: Oh, the phantom thanks for calling. Oh I don't know

8:42 Speaker 1: who that was. Might have been, might have been another

8:45 Speaker 1: New Yorker who got a little shy. There's no such

8:48 Speaker 1: thing calling the big time radio show. You know, they

8:50 Speaker 1: got a little nervous there, shy New Yorker. Actually, when

8:54 Speaker 1: I was younger, I was I couldn't talk to anybody.

8:56 Speaker 1: I really, really, really shy.

8:58 Speaker 2: It broke probably about sixteen seventeen where I started like

9:04 Speaker 2: being more outgoing.

9:05 Speaker 1: I can relate to that. I was painfully shy growing up. Well,

9:08 Speaker 1: I'm an introvert by nature, which surprises some people because

9:12 Speaker 1: they'll people who don't understand introverts. I'll say, well, how

9:15 Speaker 1: can you host a radio show and you've played in

9:17 Speaker 1: bands and all this stuff, And it's like, well, when

9:18 Speaker 1: you're an introvert, any kind of a performance situation is

9:21 Speaker 1: actually easier than human interaction on a just on a

9:25 Speaker 1: purely social level.

9:26 Speaker 2: It's quite common with actors, comedians, musicians, it is quite common.

9:31 Speaker 2: But from a person that is not in the arts,

9:35 Speaker 2: so to speak like that, it's hard. It's like on

9:38 Speaker 2: the surface, it doesn't make sense, right, right, Yeah, but

9:42 Speaker 2: it happens.

9:42 Speaker 1: Like I tell everybody, this is where I feel the

9:44 Speaker 1: safest in the world is behind a microphone. Yeah, you know,

9:47 Speaker 1: whether it's in a radio station or it's like I'm

9:51 Speaker 1: very comfortable with public speaking. You know, I can do

9:54 Speaker 1: all that, but I don't. But I don't go to parties.

9:57 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I don't want to

9:58 Speaker 1: mingle with people.

10:00 Speaker 2: See I could, I could do both. I have no problem.

10:02 Speaker 2: Well again, I think it's part of being from New

10:05 Speaker 2: York City, always being in crowds. It's just like I

10:09 Speaker 2: actually feel less comfortable in like small, like smaller situations. Yeah. Yeah,

10:17 Speaker 2: so I'm just I'm very comfortable in multi integrated situations

10:23 Speaker 2: with different people.

10:24 Speaker 1: Yeah.

10:24 Speaker 2: Like I hate to put it this way, but like

10:27 Speaker 2: when I went to Maine for the first time. I

10:28 Speaker 2: was playing with one of my bands and we went

10:30 Speaker 2: up to Brewer, Maine to play for the whole week.

10:32 Speaker 2: We did that a couple of times at this place,

10:34 Speaker 2: Stacy's Lounge in Brewer, and uh, it was almost like

10:39 Speaker 2: we went to the Banger Mall and I felt uncommon,

10:42 Speaker 2: like there's nothing but white people here. I mean, I

10:46 Speaker 2: hate to bring the subject out. It's I'm not saying

10:48 Speaker 2: it like in a bad way, but it was uncomfortable

10:50 Speaker 2: for me because it didn't feel natural.

10:52 Speaker 1: That makes you know what I mean? That makes sense.

10:54 Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't a bad thing, it just was

10:56 Speaker 2: it was odd for me.

10:57 Speaker 1: We have a we have a call person who called earlier.

11:01 Speaker 1: Hi are you there?

11:03 Speaker 3: Hi?

11:04 Speaker 1: Oh, who's this?

11:06 Speaker 4: This is just a fan of Brooklyn Mike.

11:08 Speaker 1: I know that voice. I thought I thought it might

11:13 Speaker 1: be somebody else.

11:14 Speaker 4: Calling, but it's it's an anonymous fan.

11:17 Speaker 1: That it's an anonymous fan. We have an anonymous fan

11:20 Speaker 1: on the line of Brooklyn Mike. You have anonymous fans.

11:23 Speaker 1: So you're already having a lot of success.

11:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see that. That proves it. Nobody wants to

11:27 Speaker 2: admit it.

11:30 Speaker 4: Brooklyn Mike. You are also a new co host on

11:34 Speaker 4: one of the radio shows. There is that correct.

11:36 Speaker 2: Yes, the host of that show was quite kind to

11:40 Speaker 2: invite me on a regular basis.

11:42 Speaker 1: Oh, Paul, Paul Cormier.

11:43 Speaker 2: Paul Cormier. Yes, I've very much appreciate that.

11:47 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I was just kidding. Guys. It's me. It's me.

11:52 Speaker 2: Oh, it's Paul, Matt, It's Paul. See. I didn't recognize

11:55 Speaker 2: his voice. I thought it was somebody else at me.

11:57 Speaker 2: I thought it was one of those famous people.

11:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's it's different on the phone. You know

12:01 Speaker 1: what saying I had you going, but you did. Are

12:04 Speaker 1: you usually like one of those voice changer things.

12:07 Speaker 4: No, No, it's just the real McCoy. What you see

12:10 Speaker 4: is what you get.

12:10 Speaker 1: It's amazing. Well, we can't see you, that's why we

12:12 Speaker 1: didn't know it's you.

12:13 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's why I'm actually calling. I was actually

12:17 Speaker 4: stepping out. I did my my errands this morning, and

12:20 Speaker 4: I was tuning in and I loved the uh the

12:23 Speaker 4: Irish guy there I had from Ireland.

12:25 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. He was wonderful.

12:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, and his song was fantastic.

12:30 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, no, he was. He was amazing. Uh

12:34 Speaker 1: Ca hal Fits. I still don't know if I'm saying

12:37 Speaker 1: his first name correctly, but he said I was. He

12:39 Speaker 1: might have just been being kind.

12:42 Speaker 4: Maybe he was being kind, he man, Maybe.

12:44 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm saying it wrong.

12:47 Speaker 4: So I went out. I went out this morning. I

12:48 Speaker 4: ran my errands and I was listening in and I'm like, hey,

12:51 Speaker 4: I'm gonna go win at eleven. And then I got

12:52 Speaker 4: home probably about half an hour ago, and I was

12:55 Speaker 4: venturing back out and it's too damn cold out there.

12:58 Speaker 2: Man, don't blame you. It was like thirteen below at

13:00 Speaker 2: the Windshill.

13:01 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm sitting here now and with a

13:05 Speaker 4: hot cup of coffee, looking forward to hearing some acoustical

13:09 Speaker 4: jams from the fabulous Brooklyn Mike Platino.

13:12 Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Paul.

13:13 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you said his real last name. He's just

13:17 Speaker 1: stocks him.

13:22 Speaker 5: Yeah.

13:23 Speaker 4: I even spell it right too.

13:24 Speaker 1: Yeah.

13:25 Speaker 4: He spelled it out to me once, and I and

13:27 Speaker 4: I and it's Stocked.

13:28 Speaker 2: It just took like two or three times to pronounce

13:30 Speaker 2: it properly, which is not unusual. I believe me. It's

13:33 Speaker 2: been pronounced all different ways. The bad thing about having

13:35 Speaker 2: a name like you know, a surname like that that's

13:38 Speaker 2: somewhat unique. So is that I can't say, well it

13:42 Speaker 2: was It wasn't me. It was the other mic Platino, right,

13:45 Speaker 2: that's right, I forget. Actually there were I found another

13:47 Speaker 2: mic Platino, which I was very proudly in New Jersey

13:50 Speaker 2: as a dentist. Oh really Yeah, and sometimes I get

13:52 Speaker 2: his mail, which is kind of funny.

13:54 Speaker 1: Oh that is fine, That is fine. Yeah, there's another

13:57 Speaker 1: Matt Connorton right here in New Hampshire. But he's my

14:00 Speaker 1: so that all right. It kind of doesn't count.

14:04 Speaker 4: Here we get one of his paychecks. You just go

14:06 Speaker 4: to the bank wearing a Johnny Oh the thing. Yeah,

14:09 Speaker 4: I'm doctor Platina GDS. Yep, quere scrubbed.

14:15 Speaker 1: There you go.

14:16 Speaker 2: You're always thinking, Paul.

14:18 Speaker 4: That's right. All right, Well, I'm going to be sitting

14:21 Speaker 4: here enjoying your interview. And uh, it's always nice to

14:24 Speaker 4: hear book of Mic on no matter what show he's on.

14:27 Speaker 4: And Matt love your show. I'm your biggest fan. I

14:30 Speaker 4: didn't know if you knew that, but yeah, I did

14:33 Speaker 4: not know.

14:34 Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Polly C.

14:36 Speaker 4: Thank you you will sometimes.

14:39 Speaker 2: All right, all right?

14:43 Speaker 1: That was the great policy from Retrospect Radio with poly C,

14:46 Speaker 1: which you can hear every Friday night live here at

14:49 Speaker 1: WMNH ninety five point three FM from eight to ten pm.

14:52 Speaker 1: Of course, Brooklyn mic is, now are you with us

14:54 Speaker 1: every week on that like officially every week now on

14:56 Speaker 1: that show?

14:57 Speaker 2: Oh?

14:58 Speaker 1: Oh for some reason, why can't I hear you? Oh?

15:00 Speaker 1: I know why? Sorry, I figured it out. Say that again.

15:04 Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, that is correct. Paul invited me. He

15:08 Speaker 2: called me about two weeks ago and he said, listen

15:11 Speaker 2: because usually at the end of each program that I've

15:13 Speaker 2: been on, we have a conversation like do you want

15:16 Speaker 2: me to come back next week, and he says, well,

15:17 Speaker 2: do you want to come back? So he called me

15:19 Speaker 2: about two weeks. He says, listen, instead of having this

15:21 Speaker 2: conversation every week, if you he says, I like, I

15:24 Speaker 2: like having you on the show. If you'd like to

15:26 Speaker 2: be on, let's just make you like a permanent co host,

15:28 Speaker 2: as you put it. Yeah, And I said it would

15:30 Speaker 2: be my pleasure, you know.

15:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think it's great because we had a conversation.

15:35 Speaker 1: I don't think he'll mind me saying this, because I

15:38 Speaker 1: think it was just he and I in the room

15:39 Speaker 1: after everyone else had left last night. But he said

15:41 Speaker 1: to me, he said, I really like this screw you

15:43 Speaker 1: know that we have right now on retrost feels.

15:47 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm new to it, but it feels real nice,

15:49 Speaker 2: real comfortable, real natural.

15:50 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, good, I'm glad. I'm glad. Well, geez, you

15:54 Speaker 1: want to play something, uh for for people who uh

15:58 Speaker 1: for people who have not heard you? Yeah, if you

16:01 Speaker 1: are just joining us Brooklyn Mike is here. He is

16:03 Speaker 1: a real New Yorker. Let me turn that guitar up there.

16:08 Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean by it.

16:09 Speaker 1: It's a little it's a little inside but if you know,

16:11 Speaker 1: you know, some of our listeners know what I mean.

16:16 Speaker 1: And real new Yorkers are the most amazing people from

16:19 Speaker 1: what I'm told, Like, there's nobody else on earth quite

16:21 Speaker 1: like a real new Yorker.

16:23 Speaker 2: Really, I mean, we have a president who's a real

16:25 Speaker 2: New York Look how great he is there?

16:27 Speaker 6: You.

16:29 Speaker 1: I just threw up in my mouth. I swallowed it

16:32 Speaker 1: back down though, because I'm a professional. I got the

16:35 Speaker 1: burning sensation in the throat, but I'm okay, you know

16:37 Speaker 1: how to deal with it. I got water here, I'm

16:39 Speaker 1: all right.

16:40 Speaker 2: So I think maybe we'll start off with this song here.

16:46 Speaker 2: So I had mentioned that you you had a interviewed

16:52 Speaker 2: John Poussett Dart. Yes, like I said, that was a

16:56 Speaker 2: in my opinion, great feather in your cap. Oh thank you, Yeah,

16:59 Speaker 2: I was great interview. I really loved it. And I've

17:02 Speaker 2: been a fan of John Poussett's art, the Pussette Dart

17:05 Speaker 2: Band since at least nineteen seventy five. I have like

17:08 Speaker 2: all their albums and I've seen them in concert quite

17:11 Speaker 2: a few times. Okay, wow, and is this song that

17:15 Speaker 2: I've always done of his? I really like it and

17:17 Speaker 2: I think it's quite apropos for today, at least the

17:20 Speaker 2: title of it is. It's entitled winterness.

17:23 Speaker 1: Okay, well that is apropos.

17:25 Speaker 2: I've a shot here all.

17:27 Speaker 3: Right, watching the rain fall down, thinking about San Francisco.

17:43 Speaker 2: It all leaves me just about right he.

17:51 Speaker 3: Lana wake last night and felt real nice having you

17:56 Speaker 3: hear instead of there tension and all living with many.

18:04 Speaker 2: Buts to living alone. It's the circle of seasons.

18:11 Speaker 3: It's both sides of the street. Sure is funny to

18:19 Speaker 3: listen to someone's song for so long, just like.

18:22 Speaker 7: An old friend.

18:24 Speaker 2: Now it's nice to have you back again some.

18:29 Speaker 3: Wonder and wonder and wonder and wonder and wonder and

18:33 Speaker 3: wander and wind poll back this way again. Winterness, subtle

18:43 Speaker 3: bliss now just about missus me sure enough, ya ye.

19:07 Speaker 2: Yelling ye yu.

19:15 Speaker 7: Yu yu yu.

19:25 Speaker 2: Say. It's a circle of seasons.

19:30 Speaker 3: It's both sides of the street. I'm just watching the

19:37 Speaker 3: rain fall down, just thinking about San Francisco. It all

19:45 Speaker 3: leaves me just about right here.

19:50 Speaker 2: I ain't gonna know where.

19:52 Speaker 3: It all leaves me just about right here. Don't go

19:59 Speaker 3: where it all leaves me just stoop out right.

20:03 Speaker 2: He hmm.

20:12 Speaker 1: That's great, That is great, Brooklyn Mike is here with

20:15 Speaker 1: us live in studio. If you're just joining us, and uh,

20:19 Speaker 1: you know it's funny. As much as I don't like Winter,

20:20 Speaker 1: I really like that song or your rendition of it anyway,

20:23 Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely If you Alrea just

20:26 Speaker 1: joining us. We have Brooklyn Mike here on Matt Connorton

20:29 Speaker 1: unleashed on this uh very cold Saturday morning, Saturday, of course,

20:33 Speaker 1: January twenty four, twenty twenty six, and we are live

20:36 Speaker 1: from the studios of wmn H ninety five point three

20:39 Speaker 1: FM's what's the most because you know, as I'm listening

20:42 Speaker 1: to you sing that, it just occurred to me. I

20:44 Speaker 1: don't know if I've asked you this before. What's the

20:45 Speaker 1: most challenging thing to sing? It's kind of in your

20:48 Speaker 1: repertoire of songs that you do. Is there something that's

20:51 Speaker 1: particularly challenging for you to sing?

20:53 Speaker 2: Just sing? Well, I'll put it this way. If I

20:58 Speaker 2: don't feel that I if I, personally, in my opinion,

21:01 Speaker 2: don't feel that I could do a song justice, as

21:03 Speaker 2: much as I might like the song, I won't do it.

21:07 Speaker 2: I have to feel that I can render an acceptable,

21:14 Speaker 2: acceptable to me rendition of the song both playing wise

21:20 Speaker 2: and you know, the total execution the singing I try

21:25 Speaker 2: to keep I was having this conversation with Glenn last night,

21:30 Speaker 2: is that one of the things that I enjoy and

21:32 Speaker 2: I find the most challenging is you know, being soloist

21:37 Speaker 2: only playing you know, rhythm guitar and singing. You know,

21:41 Speaker 2: you're replicating something that was generally you know, on an

21:44 Speaker 2: album with you know, full production, So to replicate it

21:49 Speaker 2: and be able to fill all the spaces, you know,

21:52 Speaker 2: without getting too crazy. But I like to keep it

21:54 Speaker 2: as true to the recording as I can, so I

21:59 Speaker 2: hope and like, so you've never heard that song before,

22:02 Speaker 2: and now if you go out and search that song

22:05 Speaker 2: out and you hear it the recording, I want it

22:10 Speaker 2: what you heard me do be like what you hear

22:13 Speaker 2: on the record. If that makes any sense, No, it does,

22:15 Speaker 2: it does. And it's not because I want to be

22:19 Speaker 2: like a copycat. It's just my approach is to keep

22:25 Speaker 2: the songs as true to the recordings. Number one, to

22:29 Speaker 2: honor the artist and their vision of the song, which

22:34 Speaker 2: oftentimes is the songwriter themselves. And there's nothing wrong with

22:39 Speaker 2: you know, doing different versions of you know, people do that.

22:41 Speaker 2: They'll do a different take on songs. That's not my approach.

22:47 Speaker 2: And then the other thing is too that if if

22:53 Speaker 2: a person in the audience is hearing a song that

22:55 Speaker 2: they know, and they know it off the record, it

22:58 Speaker 2: sounds more familiar if it's performed as close to the

23:05 Speaker 2: recording as possible. I think people like that. They like

23:08 Speaker 2: that familiarity because I know a lot of times artists

23:13 Speaker 2: and I understand this. I'll just say James Taylor, for example,

23:16 Speaker 2: We'll go out and do Fire and Rain, but he'll

23:18 Speaker 2: do it like a little differently than he did it,

23:20 Speaker 2: you know, in nineteen whatever, seventy one, because he's done

23:23 Speaker 2: it's seventeen gazillion times. So for his own sanity, he

23:27 Speaker 2: changes it a little bit, or he these the song

23:30 Speaker 2: for the songwriter evolves a little bit and they change it.

23:33 Speaker 2: And some people in the audience enjoy that because it's

23:38 Speaker 2: it's something different. But I know there are people that

23:40 Speaker 2: don't like that. It's like, oh, why is he doing

23:43 Speaker 2: it differently? So you know, you can't please everybody, right,

23:47 Speaker 2: so I have to do what I feel comfortable with.

23:50 Speaker 2: And my approach has always been to try to replicate

23:53 Speaker 2: the original sound as well as closely as I humanly

23:58 Speaker 2: can with my abilities.

24:00 Speaker 1: I think sometimes too, artists will change, you know, especially

24:04 Speaker 1: someone uh, James Taylor. He's going to be in his

24:06 Speaker 1: eighties right, Sometimes artists will will change over time what

24:12 Speaker 1: they do because just out of sheer necessity. So I'll

24:16 Speaker 1: give you a just a random example. So Kiss, And

24:19 Speaker 1: for those watching the video appen, you know, Kiss is

24:20 Speaker 1: my favorite band, so I I never that, right, but

24:26 Speaker 1: but Kiss is an example of over over the years,

24:29 Speaker 1: at a certain point they started changing the tunings, and

24:32 Speaker 1: a lot of rock bands do this where they're they're

24:34 Speaker 1: playing these songs in a lower tuning so that they're

24:37 Speaker 1: a little yeah, so that they're a little bit easier

24:38 Speaker 1: to sing voice to hit those notes, and most people

24:43 Speaker 1: probably don't notice. For someone like me who does notice,

24:47 Speaker 1: I actually like that with that genre. I think that

24:50 Speaker 1: works really well because when you when you tune down

24:54 Speaker 1: that it actually makes the songs a little bit heavier.

24:56 Speaker 1: And I like that I want because I want them

24:58 Speaker 1: to be heavy. I kind of on certain songs it's like, oh,

25:01 Speaker 1: I like that and that I like that tuned down.

25:04 Speaker 1: But I think, but I wonder too, even you know,

25:05 Speaker 1: even somebody like James Taylor, I wonder if if maybe

25:08 Speaker 1: some of these songs have changed over the years just

25:10 Speaker 1: out of necessity.

25:11 Speaker 2: He does. I there's one song that I do three

25:14 Speaker 2: of his songs, and one of the songs, as I

25:17 Speaker 2: was learning it, i've you know, I know the original recording.

25:21 Speaker 2: That's the other thing is that I the vast majority

25:25 Speaker 2: of the songs that I do, which I don't have

25:26 Speaker 2: a repertoire of, I don't know one hundred and twenty

25:28 Speaker 2: songs I do in the original keys. Yeah, and so

25:31 Speaker 2: that's a challenge for me too. Once in a while,

25:34 Speaker 2: I could think of Right now, I can only think

25:37 Speaker 2: of two songs that I do in different keys than

25:40 Speaker 2: the original recordings. And that's just to accommodate my voice, right,

25:46 Speaker 2: my vocal range. I'm a tenor, so I tend to

25:49 Speaker 2: have a higher voice, although as I'm getting older, it's

25:51 Speaker 2: like it's kind of odd I could sing lower.

25:53 Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing too, your voice changes, Yeah, yeah,

25:56 Speaker 1: but I.

25:56 Speaker 2: Could still sing you know, I have a strong falsetto,

25:59 Speaker 2: so yeah, you know that comes in handy. But James Taylor,

26:02 Speaker 2: as an example, one of the three songs of his

26:05 Speaker 2: that I do, uh, I learned it, you know, from

26:07 Speaker 2: the original recording, and then I've seen him do it

26:10 Speaker 2: more recently and he does it a half step half

26:13 Speaker 2: step higher, does half step higher. Yeah, it's kind of interesting.

26:18 Speaker 1: Yeah.

26:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a baritone. Okay, James Taylor is a baritone.

26:21 Speaker 2: It's funny because I heard him say that he doesn't

26:23 Speaker 2: consider himself at all a good singer and he wishes that. Yeah,

26:27 Speaker 2: he wishes that he were more of a tenor than

26:30 Speaker 2: a baritone so he could sing higher.

26:32 Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting.

26:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought that was interesting to hear him

26:35 Speaker 2: say that.

26:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think he's a very good singer. I mean,

26:37 Speaker 1: I think he's a great songwriter. Oh yeah, do you

26:40 Speaker 1: want to do something from James Taylor?

26:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's switches do that song that I'm talking about.

26:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious.

26:46 Speaker 2: It's called uh, Don't let Me Be Lonely Tonight.

26:49 Speaker 1: Okay.

26:50 Speaker 2: I toeld this little anecdote on Peters on the Morning Show.

26:56 Speaker 2: Every time I hear this, you know how like sometimes

26:59 Speaker 2: a song can just spark a very very specific memory,

27:03 Speaker 2: not just of a time period or year, but like

27:06 Speaker 2: a very specific and this song, this song, the recording

27:11 Speaker 2: has a sax solo tenor sax solo toward the end,

27:15 Speaker 2: and it was late seventies and I was working in

27:20 Speaker 2: a pizzeria, which I did from like nineteen sixty eight

27:23 Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty one. But I was working at pizzeria.

27:27 Speaker 2: In the kitchen, we had a radio on the shelf

27:30 Speaker 2: and had you know, rock station on or whatever FM station,

27:34 Speaker 2: and this song came on and it was the dead

27:36 Speaker 2: of summer, and right as the sax solo was about

27:40 Speaker 2: to start, we had a blackout. It was in the

27:42 Speaker 2: middle of the afternoon, and I just always remember, right

27:46 Speaker 2: as the sax solo was going to start, everything went out,

27:49 Speaker 2: the refrigerators went off, the lights went out, and like

27:52 Speaker 2: every time I hear the song, I remember that. So

27:55 Speaker 2: but I will admit that in my rendition, I will

27:58 Speaker 2: not be doing the sax solo.

28:00 Speaker 1: Okay, fair, I think that's fair. You get that guitar

28:03 Speaker 1: up there, swig of water here, No, no, no sacks solo,

28:08 Speaker 1: no to if you're just doing us. We have Brooklyn

28:10 Speaker 1: Mike here with us live in studio on this very

28:14 Speaker 1: very very bitterly cold hopefully it's the coldest day of

28:18 Speaker 1: the year, because I don't want it to get any

28:19 Speaker 1: colder than this. Certainly.

28:20 Speaker 4: Yeah.

28:20 Speaker 2: I think this is this is about as cold as

28:23 Speaker 2: we get generally. Yeah, all right, let's give this baby

28:27 Speaker 2: a shot.

28:28 Speaker 1: All right, looking forward to this. I love James Taylor.

28:36 Speaker 2: That too loud?

28:37 Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, that's great, really okay, do me.

28:43 Speaker 3: Wrong, to me right, tell me lies, but me tight.

28:55 Speaker 3: Save your goodbyes for the morning light. But don't let

29:00 Speaker 3: me be lonely tonight. Say goodbye and say hello, sure enough,

29:12 Speaker 3: good to see you, but it's time to go. Don't

29:18 Speaker 3: say yes, but please don't say no.

29:23 Speaker 2: I don't want to be lonely tonight.

29:28 Speaker 3: Go away, and Tam, go on and do as you

29:33 Speaker 3: please here. You ain't gonna see me getting down on

29:38 Speaker 3: my knees. I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided. You've

29:46 Speaker 3: been turning my world upside down now, So do me

29:56 Speaker 3: wrong and do me right right now, baby, go on

30:02 Speaker 3: and tell me lies, but hold me tight. Save your

30:08 Speaker 3: goodbyes for the morning light, morning light, but don't let

30:13 Speaker 3: me be lonely tonight. I don't want to be lonely tonight. No, no,

30:23 Speaker 3: I don't want to be lonely tonight.

30:33 Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful Brooklyn Mike here on the show This morning you.

30:37 Speaker 1: That's great. That's great. Now, So the next just for

30:43 Speaker 1: people who are joining us now, so you're gonna be

30:46 Speaker 1: when's the next open my kid?

30:47 Speaker 2: Is it in February? February February fourth, first Wednesday of February.

30:52 Speaker 1: At Pembroke City Limits of course, which uh uh. Rob

30:56 Speaker 1: as a veto who also hosts a great Est State

30:58 Speaker 1: of Mind here on WM and A. So Rob's been

31:01 Speaker 1: a part of the you know, a very important part

31:03 Speaker 1: of the music scene here for a long time. So

31:05 Speaker 1: that's that's great. Now have you been Have you been

31:07 Speaker 1: doing any other open mics anywhere else or.

31:10 Speaker 2: No, I'm looking into it. I was actually over at

31:13 Speaker 2: the Mocha pot and talking to the gal down there.

31:17 Speaker 2: They're thinking of starting to do some open mics. Actually

31:20 Speaker 2: in February they're going to start doing a comedian open mics.

31:23 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

31:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that'll be fun and we.

31:26 Speaker 1: Need more of that, yeah, need more laughter in general. Oh,

31:33 Speaker 1: very cool. Now, when you do the open mics, what

31:35 Speaker 1: do you what do you do?

31:36 Speaker 2: Like?

31:36 Speaker 1: Do you do you kind of mix it up or

31:38 Speaker 1: do you try ou different things kind of read the

31:40 Speaker 1: crowd or.

31:41 Speaker 2: I try to It's it seems like they've the way

31:45 Speaker 2: it's been two times. It's like they allow you three songs. Okay,

31:49 Speaker 2: So I just I don't know. I've picked three songs

31:52 Speaker 2: that I feel most comfortable with. Like I said, I'm

31:55 Speaker 2: still getting over the nervousness. Yeah, I didn't finish that conversation.

31:58 Speaker 2: It's kind of ironic because I got into the whole

32:01 Speaker 2: thing about moving to New Hampshire. But before I moved here,

32:04 Speaker 2: for over fifteen years, almost twenty years, I largely made

32:09 Speaker 2: a living, you know, performing in bands and solos, and

32:13 Speaker 2: I'd literally performed in front of almost twenty thousand people,

32:16 Speaker 2: you know, very large crowds. Wow. Never bothered me, you know,

32:20 Speaker 2: you know, I was just so. Also, when you're younger,

32:22 Speaker 2: I think you're less, you have less inhibitions.

32:26 Speaker 1: Depends on the person, Yeah, I think some people. For

32:29 Speaker 1: some people, I think it's the opposite. Uh you know,

32:31 Speaker 1: because some people as they get older, they they become

32:33 Speaker 1: more just kind of secure, like like they're not as

32:36 Speaker 1: worried about some of the things that they were when

32:38 Speaker 1: they were younger.

32:38 Speaker 2: In terms of I think for I should I should

32:41 Speaker 2: specify for me, it's it's in terms of performing, okay,

32:45 Speaker 2: not just in general generally in life, Like, yeah, I'm comfortable,

32:49 Speaker 2: Like I talk to strangers all the time. I have

32:51 Speaker 2: no problem speaking with anybody or But because I take

32:55 Speaker 2: the performing so seriously, like I'm so worried about screwing up. Yeah,

32:59 Speaker 2: and I just you know, want to make a good impression.

33:01 Speaker 1: I just that makes sense.

33:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like that.

33:03 Speaker 1: Yeah.

33:04 Speaker 2: So, and I was doing it on such a regular basis.

33:10 Speaker 2: I mean there were times where I was in a

33:13 Speaker 2: band where we were doing over thirty jobs a month,

33:16 Speaker 2: you know, while we were out all the time. Yeah. Yeah,

33:21 Speaker 2: and then you know there were slow times too.

33:22 Speaker 1: Yeah.

33:23 Speaker 2: So now it's like just starting all over. It's almost

33:25 Speaker 2: like starting for the first Like I have all this

33:28 Speaker 2: repertoire that you know, I had to brush up on. Yeah.

33:31 Speaker 2: But it's it's getting better. As far as the not

33:36 Speaker 2: being too nervous. Yeah, but I still even coming in

33:39 Speaker 2: here just you and me, I'm still you know, because

33:41 Speaker 2: I still I think it's because I take it so seriously.

33:44 Speaker 1: No, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. Well

33:46 Speaker 1: plus two, isn't it good to be a little bit

33:48 Speaker 1: nervous a little uh?

33:50 Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I guess a little bit. I think

33:52 Speaker 2: I'll keep on your toes a little bit.

33:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just you know, it's kind of you know,

33:55 Speaker 1: it's because to me, it's a you know, like I

33:57 Speaker 1: always thought of stage right as being a good kind

33:59 Speaker 1: of new nervous you know. I don't playing bands anymore,

34:01 Speaker 1: but when I when I used to, you know, I

34:05 Speaker 1: I of course say it's right. Works different ways for

34:07 Speaker 1: different people, but I know for me and for a

34:09 Speaker 1: lot of people, it would be, you know, I would

34:11 Speaker 1: be nervous right up to the point of going on stage,

34:14 Speaker 1: that kind of nervous energy, but then once on stage,

34:17 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, okay, yeah, this is good, you know.

34:19 Speaker 2: And also for me, it's kind of interesting that you

34:22 Speaker 2: put it that way, like waiting to go on stage.

34:24 Speaker 2: So all the bands that I worked in, I did

34:26 Speaker 2: the sound like I had have the sound system, oh yeah,

34:29 Speaker 2: so like I would get there, you know, before everybody

34:31 Speaker 2: else and unload the whole sound. So I was already

34:34 Speaker 2: like you know, in the groove, you know, getting sound

34:37 Speaker 2: ready and getting all the mics and the yamps and

34:40 Speaker 2: the you know, the the PA speakers and getting all

34:43 Speaker 2: you know, hooking everything up. So by the time it

34:45 Speaker 2: came time to actually you know, put my bass on

34:49 Speaker 2: my shoulder and start and sing and perform. I was like,

34:52 Speaker 2: it's like a relief. Yeah, now I could Now I

34:55 Speaker 2: could have fun.

34:55 Speaker 5: You know.

34:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, you got all the work out of the way,

34:58 Speaker 2: you know, right right?

35:00 Speaker 1: Did you like that?

35:00 Speaker 2: Did you like being I loved it. I loved doing sound.

35:03 Speaker 2: Yeah that's good because sometimes you know, if there's a

35:08 Speaker 2: guy in a band who's also the sound guy, they

35:10 Speaker 2: do it out of they're doing it out of necessity. Yeah,

35:12 Speaker 2: but no, I volunteered to do it because even it

35:17 Speaker 2: started right from the very very beginning. The first band

35:19 Speaker 2: that I was in with my brother, you know, we

35:22 Speaker 2: went out and bought the sound system, which I had

35:24 Speaker 2: to supplement as time went on with you know, the

35:27 Speaker 2: other bands that I was in. But you know, we

35:30 Speaker 2: had a basic sound system, and I I just volunteer

35:34 Speaker 2: because I don't know, I just had an ear for

35:35 Speaker 2: it and I wanted to do it, and nobody else

35:39 Speaker 2: really wanted to. I was like, I was happy to

35:41 Speaker 2: do it.

35:41 Speaker 1: Yeah.

35:42 Speaker 2: And plus you know, I mean I think you know

35:45 Speaker 2: this very well that no matter how good a band is,

35:49 Speaker 2: the sound could make or break a band. Sure, And

35:52 Speaker 2: and I so often go hear bands even just sometimes

35:56 Speaker 2: like hearing a person doing speaking and it's like, who

36:02 Speaker 2: is doing sound? Like it's so muffled? Yeah, you know

36:05 Speaker 2: it's he's so easy to correct it, you know, right,

36:08 Speaker 2: and so so I enjoyed being able to to do

36:11 Speaker 2: that and get the sound to my in my opinion,

36:15 Speaker 2: proper right. And we never had any complaints.

36:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Yeah, well

36:20 Speaker 1: you want to.

36:21 Speaker 2: Play another one? Yeah? Sure, how about and see?

36:25 Speaker 1: Oh let me get that uh guitar up there?

36:28 Speaker 2: Of course you know I got it too. One by

36:29 Speaker 2: my man Gordon.

36:31 Speaker 1: Oh, yes, is he? I know we've talked about this before,

36:35 Speaker 1: but remind me, is he your favorite?

36:37 Speaker 2: Yeah?

36:37 Speaker 1: All time?

36:39 Speaker 2: Gordon Lightfoot.

36:40 Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I thought.

36:41 Speaker 2: Referred to him as my hero. And like I said,

36:43 Speaker 2: I've said, I've was very very fortunate to get to

36:46 Speaker 2: meet him a few times.

36:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 2: So I'm in concert quite a number of times in

36:50 Speaker 2: New York and also here.

36:51 Speaker 1: Like how many times would you say, like double digits?

36:53 Speaker 2: Like oh no, no, not that many times. No, probably

36:58 Speaker 2: half a dozen, maybe more than that, close to ten times.

37:03 Speaker 2: But you know, I don't have to see somebody every

37:06 Speaker 2: time they come around. But probably in New York Cle's

37:10 Speaker 2: one two three. I saw him at Carnegie Hall. That

37:12 Speaker 2: was a really great concert. I mean, you want to

37:15 Speaker 2: talk about you know, the old saying you could hear

37:17 Speaker 2: a pin drop in the audience, you know, and he's

37:20 Speaker 2: like when he performs, like it's very very controlled, very quiet.

37:28 Speaker 2: It's just it was. If you've ever gotten to see him,

37:32 Speaker 2: it was an amazing, amazing experience to support. And yeah,

37:38 Speaker 2: so just this a little bit of a cautionary tale,

37:42 Speaker 2: I would say, and cautionary in the respect that if

37:49 Speaker 2: you happen to have the propensity for talking in your

37:52 Speaker 2: sleep and you might have some secrets could be an issue.

37:57 Speaker 2: So this one is entitled talking in your sleep?

38:00 Speaker 6: Right, I heard you talking in your sleep?

38:34 Speaker 2: Is there anything that I can do?

38:38 Speaker 3: I don't believe we've had a word all day about

38:42 Speaker 3: anything at all. I heard you talking in the night,

38:49 Speaker 3: that's right. Yes, I heard your call. Well, I could

38:53 Speaker 3: hardly hear the name you spoke. It's me, I don't recall.

39:03 Speaker 3: I heard you soly whisper. I reached out to hold

39:11 Speaker 3: you near me, and from your lips there came that

39:16 Speaker 3: secret I was not supposed to know. I heard you

39:26 Speaker 3: talking in your sleep. Is there anything that I can say?

39:32 Speaker 3: I don't believe we've had a word all thing about anything,

39:38 Speaker 3: you know?

39:40 Speaker 7: Today to day.

40:10 Speaker 3: I heard you softly whisper. I reached out to hold

40:18 Speaker 3: you near me, and from your lips they came that

40:23 Speaker 3: secret I was not supposed to know.

40:32 Speaker 7: I heard you talking in your sleep.

40:35 Speaker 3: Is there anything that I can do? I don't believe

40:40 Speaker 3: you've had a word all day about anything at all.

40:47 Speaker 3: I heard you talking in the night. That's right, it's

40:51 Speaker 3: I heard you call, though I could hardly hear the

40:56 Speaker 3: name you spoke.

40:58 Speaker 1: It's me.

40:58 Speaker 6: I don't recall.

41:14 Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, I don't know that one. That's us beautiful.

41:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an old one that's probably from nineteen sixty six,

41:21 Speaker 2: goes way back.

41:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, when did when did he start? Was that

41:25 Speaker 1: like the beginning for him?

41:27 Speaker 2: He goes back to the fifties? Actually, oh no kidding,

41:30 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he didn't realize I started at a really

41:32 Speaker 2: young age.

41:32 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh see, I didn't realize.

41:35 Speaker 2: The late fifties. But in America, I mean as far

41:39 Speaker 2: as recordings and getting on the radio, it was probably

41:41 Speaker 2: about sixty six or so.

41:43 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and then when did he pass away?

41:47 Speaker 2: Was I was May May first, I think of twenty

41:53 Speaker 2: twenty three.

41:54 Speaker 1: Okay, not that long ago. Yeah, and he was he

41:57 Speaker 1: was kind of performing up to the end.

41:58 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he was doing like almost one hundred

42:00 Speaker 2: shows a year.

42:01 Speaker 6: Jeez.

42:01 Speaker 2: Wow, good eighty four and a half years old.

42:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible, that's incredible. What was he still able

42:07 Speaker 1: to sing? Pretty much?

42:09 Speaker 2: His voice was shot, was it? Yeah? It was one

42:11 Speaker 2: of those that unfortunately it was just like a veil

42:15 Speaker 2: of his former voice.

42:17 Speaker 1: Yeah.

42:17 Speaker 2: But you know, mixed reviews. I mean people that would

42:21 Speaker 2: go to see him, that expected to, you know, hear

42:23 Speaker 2: the Gordon Lightfoot of the nineteen seventies, you know, would

42:27 Speaker 2: complain about it, why is she still doing shows? But

42:30 Speaker 2: those of us that really loved him, it didn't matter,

42:33 Speaker 2: you know, right, because the music was still a hundred

42:35 Speaker 2: I mean, he was still one hundred percent there with

42:37 Speaker 2: the music really yeah. Yeah, and he would never never

42:40 Speaker 2: miss a beat, never miss a lyric, nothing, yeah, you know,

42:43 Speaker 2: and he still had the guys, I mean the drummer,

42:46 Speaker 2: drummer and a bassist that played with him for like

42:50 Speaker 2: through all these decades really yeah, and even the keyboardist

42:53 Speaker 2: has been with him since like the nineteen eighties, No kidding, Yeah,

42:56 Speaker 2: the same guy's pretty amazing.

42:58 Speaker 1: That is that's incredible.

43:00 Speaker 2: Only his guitarist had passed away in recent years and

43:03 Speaker 2: he was replaced with a great guitarist. But yeah, that's so.

43:07 Speaker 2: It really was like hearing the records when you'd go

43:09 Speaker 2: to see him, you know, other than his voice being diminished,

43:12 Speaker 2: which you know you can't you can understand that, I guess.

43:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Yeah, how old was he? Eighty four?

43:17 Speaker 2: Eighty four and a half?

43:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, eighty four and a half. Jaz Wow, Now that

43:21 Speaker 1: is that is remarkable. Who else is a big influence

43:23 Speaker 1: on you?

43:24 Speaker 2: Dan Fogelberg another one of my favorites as far as vocal,

43:32 Speaker 2: Like I say, my vocal mentor is a singer songwriter

43:36 Speaker 2: also from New York City, Kenny Rankin. Okay, so he's

43:40 Speaker 2: He's one of my biggest influences as far as far

43:43 Speaker 2: as you know, the term of vocal stylings.

43:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, what what is it about him? Because I'm trying to.

43:50 Speaker 2: Think, you know, he his his style of playing It

43:54 Speaker 2: was very very much like you know, like Boston Nova,

43:58 Speaker 2: like Brazilian style of music, and he did a lot

44:02 Speaker 2: of covers. I do a few of a few songs

44:07 Speaker 2: of his so that are covers, but like in the

44:10 Speaker 2: style that he does them. Okay, I speak kind of interesting.

44:15 Speaker 2: A song that I did last time I was here,

44:17 Speaker 2: Pussy Willow's Cattails. A funny little anecdote about that is

44:22 Speaker 2: that I was always a big Gordon Lightfoot fan, but

44:26 Speaker 2: I didn't really know a lot of I knew like

44:28 Speaker 2: his hits early on, like in the early seventies, I

44:32 Speaker 2: knew songs that were on radio. I didn't really have

44:34 Speaker 2: many of his albums yet, but I did. I was

44:37 Speaker 2: very familiar with Kenny Rankin. He was he had a

44:40 Speaker 2: lot of airplay in New York City, and so I

44:43 Speaker 2: had a bunch of his albums. And one of my

44:45 Speaker 2: favorite songs of Kenny Rankins was that he did Pussy

44:48 Speaker 2: Willow's Cattails. And I didn't realize until years later that

44:52 Speaker 2: it was a Gordon Lightfoot song. So it kind of

44:54 Speaker 2: all came together, you know, it was Okay, this makes sense,

44:58 Speaker 2: and yeah, Kenny, he covered like two or three Gordon

45:00 Speaker 2: Lightfoot songs. Oh wow, no, Kenny, Yeah, yeah, oh interesting,

45:03 Speaker 2: yeah another one another one called Mountains in Marianne. Yeah,

45:08 Speaker 2: it might be just those two no, is he still

45:10 Speaker 2: around Kenny rank No, he died quite a number of

45:12 Speaker 2: years ago, unfortunately.

45:13 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay.

45:15 Speaker 2: Good, almost twenty years ago. Now yeah, oh yeah, did

45:19 Speaker 2: you want to play something of his? Uh? That's interesting.

45:22 Speaker 2: Let's see what can we do.

45:27 Speaker 1: I'm particularly curious because, off the top of my head,

45:29 Speaker 1: let me turn that guitar up. Off the top of

45:30 Speaker 1: my head, I don't really know any Kenny Rankin. I'm

45:36 Speaker 1: certainly where if we ate, he was, but I can't

45:38 Speaker 1: think of anything of his that I know.

45:45 Speaker 2: I'm going to do a song that he did. He

45:47 Speaker 2: did a cover. This is a cover, so you'll you

45:49 Speaker 2: know the song. But uh, really going out on, going

45:53 Speaker 2: out in the limb on this one.

45:54 Speaker 1: That's live radio. It's exciting.

46:00 Speaker 7: H's where?

46:03 Speaker 2: Okay? So this is I'm going to try to replicate

46:06 Speaker 2: Kenny's version of this song as well as I can.

46:11 Speaker 1: Will Will we recognize the song?

46:13 Speaker 2: Yes?

46:13 Speaker 1: Okay?

46:13 Speaker 2: As soon as the vocal comes in, I think, okay, okay, Well, hm,

46:37 Speaker 2: I look.

46:37 Speaker 3: At you all? See the love there? That sleepy?

46:46 Speaker 2: Why am I get.

46:47 Speaker 3: Talm gently weeps.

46:56 Speaker 1: I look at the.

46:57 Speaker 3: Floor and I see it me sweeping, steal my guitar

47:07 Speaker 3: gently weeds.

47:14 Speaker 6: I don't know.

47:19 Speaker 3: Nobody told you.

47:23 Speaker 7: How to unfold.

47:26 Speaker 3: Your love, and I don't know how.

47:37 Speaker 2: Someone controlled you, they.

47:42 Speaker 7: Bought and sold you.

47:51 Speaker 3: I look at the world and I see it's still

47:56 Speaker 3: turning in.

47:59 Speaker 2: Why my guitar.

48:02 Speaker 3: Gently weeks. With every mistake, we must surely be learning

48:18 Speaker 3: steal my guitar, gently weeks.

48:27 Speaker 2: I don't know why.

48:31 Speaker 7: You were diverted.

48:36 Speaker 3: You will preferred to, and I don't know how.

48:49 Speaker 7: You were renverted. No one to learned.

49:10 Speaker 3: And I'll let you all seek the little father sleeping

49:19 Speaker 3: while I get tar gently weep.

50:01 Speaker 5: Hmmm, that was fantastic, Thank you, good Lord.

50:22 Speaker 1: That was really good, really good.

50:24 Speaker 2: If that doesn't sedate you, I don't know what will.

50:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that and that that harmonic that does

50:29 Speaker 1: he do that on his version? Jesus threw that is

50:32 Speaker 1: cool as hell. I love that harmonic. You threw it

50:35 Speaker 1: right at the end there. Yeah, Well, the drama of

50:37 Speaker 1: it is just so good.

50:38 Speaker 2: Well, that's you know, one of the if you could

50:40 Speaker 2: bring it up again, that's one of the things that

50:43 Speaker 2: I love, you know, Uh, for example, is figure oftentimes

50:48 Speaker 2: figuring out how to how to end the song. I

50:49 Speaker 2: mean a lot of songs on records fade, so it's

50:52 Speaker 2: coming up with an ending. And so the way I

50:55 Speaker 2: describe it, it's like that's my version of Kenny Rankin's version. Wow,

51:00 Speaker 2: my good talk. Yeah, but to do I like to.

51:04 Speaker 1: That love it.

51:20 Speaker 2: Gotta end it somehow.

51:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is so good. That is so good.

51:25 Speaker 2: One of the things I enjoyed the most is that

51:27 Speaker 2: that type of stuff.

51:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know absolutely if you're just joining us up,

51:31 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Mike is here with us live in studio on

51:34 Speaker 1: this very very cold Saturday morning, January twenty four, twenty

51:38 Speaker 1: twenty six. Here, this is Matt Connorton on leave and

51:40 Speaker 1: we are live from the studios. It's nice and toasty

51:42 Speaker 1: Warman here at WMNH ninety five point three FM. And

51:45 Speaker 1: of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go

51:47 Speaker 1: to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of

51:50 Speaker 1: your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,

51:54 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. We got looking at the clock,

51:59 Speaker 1: We got time for what you want to do?

52:00 Speaker 2: One more?

52:01 Speaker 1: Sure, we had time for one more love hearing Brooklyn

52:04 Speaker 1: Mike play.

52:06 Speaker 2: Thank you. I think I'd like to if you don't

52:08 Speaker 2: mind another Gordon Lightfoot song.

52:10 Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, whatever you want to do.

52:11 Speaker 2: Got to honor my man here we.

52:13 Speaker 1: Should mention too, Brooklyn Mike also now officially a member

52:16 Speaker 1: of Retrospectrum Radio every Friday night here at WM and

52:19 Speaker 1: H from eight to ten pm Eastern Time. Check social listings.

52:23 Speaker 1: As Polly C likes to.

52:24 Speaker 2: Say, so, another thing that I enjoyed doing is kind

52:42 Speaker 2: of turning people on to songs by artists that they know,

52:49 Speaker 2: but they don't know the songs. So yes, I do.

52:51 Speaker 2: For example, up until recently, I mean I I do

52:56 Speaker 2: like about fifteen Gordon Lightfoot songs, and only two of

52:59 Speaker 2: them more hits. But more recently, thanks to Paul Cormier

53:03 Speaker 2: and his suggestions, I've added some more popular Gordon Lightfoot songs,

53:07 Speaker 2: which I think was a great idea. So I've got

53:10 Speaker 2: about five of those now.

53:11 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

53:11 Speaker 2: But this one is probably one of my top three

53:16 Speaker 2: favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs of all time. Nineteen seventy four

53:20 Speaker 2: off the Sundown album. And unless you're a fan of

53:23 Speaker 2: his or had the album, you probably have never heard

53:26 Speaker 2: the song. But I just and again if anybody that

53:30 Speaker 2: if you're out there and you're hearing this song and

53:33 Speaker 2: it sparks your interest, please go and listen to the

53:36 Speaker 2: recording because it's the orchestra. It's very haunting. The orchestration

53:43 Speaker 2: on it is amazing, the production is amazing, and it's

53:48 Speaker 2: just one of those songs. I still I wish I

53:52 Speaker 2: wish he were still alive for many many reasons, but

53:55 Speaker 2: also if I could get to meet him again, to

53:57 Speaker 2: ask him what is this song about? Because I have

54:00 Speaker 2: I can't. I still can't figure it out. It's uh, musically,

54:05 Speaker 2: it's it's very interesting, I find and even like lyrically,

54:09 Speaker 2: I just I can't figure it out. Figure it out.

54:12 Speaker 2: So if anybody out there knows, it's called is There

54:16 Speaker 2: Anyone Home? Is the title of this song, and it's

54:19 Speaker 2: if you want to hear it. It's on the Sundown album.

54:24 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

54:37 Speaker 2: Is there anyone home in this house? Made of stone?

54:42 Speaker 3: Anyone inside norm made I've been around for half a

54:50 Speaker 3: hundred days, never saw the door shut so tight. Turn around,

54:58 Speaker 3: don't look down. There's a man behind you.

55:01 Speaker 2: With a gun, like.

55:13 Speaker 3: Any wandering child in the wilderness, wild and uncaged.

55:19 Speaker 2: On your wings. I think I heard someone stirred.

55:27 Speaker 3: I think I heard someone stirn. There's a light around you.

55:37 Speaker 3: I've conco switched all it would brighten every room.

55:45 Speaker 2: Don't be ashamed if.

55:47 Speaker 3: You feel a whole lot water in your heart, you

55:52 Speaker 3: got that feeling in your soul. Is there anyone home

56:06 Speaker 3: in this house?

56:07 Speaker 2: Made stole? Anyone in there whom might care? I've grown

56:14 Speaker 2: weary and wise, and I feel much amazed.

56:19 Speaker 3: Got a few good tales too, Unwine, turn around, don't

56:25 Speaker 3: look down.

56:27 Speaker 2: There's a man behind you with.

56:29 Speaker 3: The girl, like any wandering minstrel at on in the

56:44 Speaker 3: House of a Thousand Delights.

56:48 Speaker 2: I think I heard someone sterned. I think I heard.

56:57 Speaker 6: Someone stern.

56:59 Speaker 3: I think I.

57:02 Speaker 6: So one st.

57:04 Speaker 2: I think got her someone stern.

57:11 Speaker 3: I think got the.

57:16 Speaker 2: Soone.

57:26 Speaker 1: Is it a ghost story?

57:27 Speaker 2: Maybe? I have no idea, but I love the song

57:30 Speaker 2: I do too. Yeah.

57:31 Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I like that a lot.

57:32 Speaker 2: It's got a lot of interesting like changes in it, you.

57:35 Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, yeah, No, it was really good. Thanks Brooklyn, Mike.

57:38 Speaker 1: Where should people go online to keep up with everything

57:40 Speaker 1: that you're doing?

57:41 Speaker 2: The wm n H n H dot org ninety five

57:45 Speaker 2: point three FM.

57:47 Speaker 1: Tune in retrospector right Friday nights for one thing, right.

57:49 Speaker 2: I do have I have a couple of songs on YouTube. Yes,

57:53 Speaker 2: you know, Michael Platino, P L O T I n OK.

57:56 Speaker 2: Just a couple of songs. I put them on there initially,

57:59 Speaker 2: h in the springtime. I'm because I submitted. I had

58:05 Speaker 2: to submit a couple of songs that people could review

58:08 Speaker 2: as kind of as an audition. I didn't get the job,

58:11 Speaker 2: but that's okay. I got a couple of couple of

58:13 Speaker 2: videos online. I did Venture a Highway and by the

58:17 Speaker 2: time I get to Phoenix, so that's on YouTube. Oh cool,

58:21 Speaker 2: I'll have to check those out. Yeah, yeah, I could

58:23 Speaker 2: send you to I'll send you the links. Okay, Yeah,

58:25 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Appreciate it well.

58:26 Speaker 1: Always wonderful to have you here, and of course wonderful

58:29 Speaker 1: seeing you Friday nights, of course, and a lot of fun.

58:32 Speaker 1: And I do want to thank you everybody who joined

58:33 Speaker 1: us today. Of course, we had a ca Hall fits,

58:36 Speaker 1: so don know if I'm saying it right in the

58:38 Speaker 1: first hour and in the second hour we had a Dale,

58:41 Speaker 1: the bass player from the Puncturists, great great band from

58:45 Speaker 1: the UK. I really really liked them a lot. And

58:47 Speaker 1: of course Brooklyn Mike was here. Wonderful and if you

58:50 Speaker 1: miss any part of today, so of course it'll be

58:52 Speaker 1: up in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot org

58:55 Speaker 1: and at my website Matt connorton dot com. And again

58:58 Speaker 1: Brooklyn mic are real New Yorker. Thanks, thank you so much,

59:00 Speaker 1: my friend.

59:00 Speaker 2: Thank you being here.

59:02 Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I mentioned the puncturists. I'm gonna leave you uh,

59:05 Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave you all with this song one more time.

59:07 Speaker 1: We played this in the second hour. But again, I

59:10 Speaker 1: think it's relatable for our audience because I know we

59:12 Speaker 1: have a lot of musicians who listen to the show

59:14 Speaker 1: and industry people and so forth, so I think this

59:16 Speaker 1: is uh, I think this is appropriate to play this again.

59:19 Speaker 1: The song is called they Don't Pay support Bands, and

59:22 Speaker 1: the band is the Puncturess And this is just a

59:26 Speaker 1: fun song, but there's a lot of truth in it.

59:29 Speaker 1: And we'll talk to you all a little bit later. Bye, everybody,