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Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-3-26 hour 1
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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. It is a chilly Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: It is Saturday, our first show of the new year
Speaker 3: at twenty twenty six. It is a January third. Welcome everybody,
Speaker 3: and of course I am not alone.
Speaker 4: Jenny John.
Speaker 3: Best morning, sun ste Good morning. Yes, Jenny is here
Speaker 3: of course at the news table account and joining us. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: Happy new Year everybody and joining us in studio. Let's see,
Speaker 3: we've got Jesse Rutstein and Caleb dy Aer here from
Speaker 3: of course uh Hatchet Axe and Saw Records.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, Hello, Hello, Hello. I learned how to.
Speaker 3: Say the name of your label without tripping over it.
Speaker 3: See I did my homework this time.
Speaker 2: Just too many syllables.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, welcome back. It's good to see you. Although
Speaker 3: you know, unfortunately under some uh troubling circumstances, because of
Speaker 3: the what happened recently in Nashua, we should probably uh
Speaker 3: should probably talk about should we talk about that first?
Speaker 3: And I know there's another part to it we might
Speaker 3: circle back to at the end, but but you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure people are tuning in wanting to know uh
Speaker 3: more about what happened and then the aftermath and how
Speaker 3: you're moving forward through that.
Speaker 5: And uh, yeah, it's been it's it's been a crazy
Speaker 5: end to twenty twenty five for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorrowing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, last time we were here, we were talking about
Speaker 5: getting getting rolling with H and S and uh and
Speaker 5: we're still rolling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, some minor setback.
Speaker 6: Train slowed down a little bit a little bit. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's uh, you know, we're we're making the best of it.
Speaker 2: We're doing what we can.
Speaker 3: So for the for those who don't know what happened exactly,
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously there was a there was a fire, so.
Speaker 2: There it's two streets Ash Street.
Speaker 5: There was a apartment complex that caught fire, and there's
Speaker 5: rumors I don't want to get into like rumors of
Speaker 5: how it all happened, But what ended up happening was
Speaker 5: that fire, which absolutely destroyed this apartment building spread over
Speaker 5: to the warehouse where Tree Streets Inc. Was located. Tree
Speaker 5: Streets Inc. Is the studio that Hatchet accident saw works
Speaker 5: out of Okay, and it's where we, you know, keep
Speaker 5: all of our equipment.
Speaker 2: It's where we do all the recording.
Speaker 5: My record was supposed to last time we were here,
Speaker 5: we were talking about my record dropping on December seventeenth,
Speaker 5: and obviously that didn't happen. So the fire spread over
Speaker 5: to the warehouse and it like was you know, engulfed
Speaker 5: in flames. It was a big story and it was
Speaker 5: just pretty it's it's just pretty crazy. I was literally
Speaker 5: down in the studio until about two i am the.
Speaker 2: Day of, or the night before the fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, working on the title track of the record, and.
Speaker 2: I literally wrapped on it.
Speaker 5: I couldn't wait to call Caleb and say, hey, it's done,
Speaker 5: ready for you, ready for you to step in, ready
Speaker 5: to master.
Speaker 2: And I went home around two in the morning.
Speaker 5: I had been working all day and I got the
Speaker 5: call a couple hours later from somebody else that used
Speaker 5: to work in the studio. And it was six thirty
Speaker 5: in the morning, and this is a true story, six
Speaker 5: thirty in the morning. And I answered the phone and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I said to this kid something, something better
Speaker 5: be on fire if you're calling this early. And he goes,
Speaker 5: I really wish you didn't say that. And then we
Speaker 5: get to the scene. I got I got to the scene.
Speaker 2: You called me.
Speaker 5: I called Caleb, and when I got there, I just
Speaker 5: I just watched everything.
Speaker 2: Everything was on fire. Like it.
Speaker 5: It's a weird expression that we use all the time.
Speaker 5: Everything's on fire, right right, you know, but everything's everything
Speaker 5: was on fire. I had worked so hard, we had
Speaker 5: all worked so hard at this record Superhero Toys that
Speaker 5: was supposed to drop on December seventeenth. Yeah, and everything
Speaker 5: was on fire. And I call Kale. I'm like, I
Speaker 5: don't get down here. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5: First thing we did was round up the people that
Speaker 5: we knew might have been in the building. Nobody got
Speaker 5: severely hurt, which is which is the main focus on
Speaker 5: everything that we've done since this, these few minutes that
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. Yeah, Connor Coburn from No More Blue
Speaker 5: Tomorrow's Tom Philbrook Ivan did too many to name, but
Speaker 5: we just made sure everybody was okay first, all right,
Speaker 5: everybody's okay.
Speaker 2: Now we can now we can start being sad, right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I think the worst was like smoke inhalation with someone
Speaker 6: on one O eight or one ten ash.
Speaker 2: I think that was really Yeah.
Speaker 6: We're just just very fortunate that just everybody got Yeah,
Speaker 6: everyone was just.
Speaker 3: That is that is lucky considering the magnitude of the fire,
Speaker 3: that that no one was.
Speaker 6: Unbelieved property can be replaced life camp right exactly right?
Speaker 3: Wow, So now so does that mean, like, is everything
Speaker 3: you worked on for the album?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that all gone?
Speaker 5: So this story is this story is like crazy because
Speaker 5: the last time we were here we were talking about
Speaker 5: how the album came to be. I had a turbulent uh,
Speaker 5: I had a turbulent year, and then Caleb and I
Speaker 5: decided that we were going to make the record. I
Speaker 5: turned everything around. I kept things positive and I'm still
Speaker 5: keeping things positive. But the we were on the bottom floor,
Speaker 5: so everything that the only damage that we received was
Speaker 5: water damage because they stopped the fire at the top.
Speaker 5: So some of the other studios that were in the building,
Speaker 5: they lost everything. The people who were in the apartment building.
Speaker 5: They lost everything. Yeah, I lost or thought I lost
Speaker 5: my music. Oh so I am. I completely was like,
Speaker 5: don't worry about me.
Speaker 2: Ye, you know.
Speaker 5: We've done three benefit shows for the folks who have
Speaker 5: been displaced. We've raised over seven thousand dollars so far,
Speaker 5: between a solo show with me, a show at Peddler's
Speaker 5: with Connor, and then down at Bad Burger. They hooked
Speaker 5: us up and we did a great show and we've
Speaker 5: raised so much money for the So I'm not accepting
Speaker 5: any donations or doing any gofundmes. I was really sad
Speaker 5: about my music because when we finally were able to
Speaker 5: get down there, the computer that everything was on was
Speaker 5: under three feet of water and some of it's backed up,
Speaker 5: some of it's not. But even the stuff that's backed up, like,
Speaker 5: there's no way we're going to be able to release
Speaker 5: the record, right, you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So, and we didn't even know what was on
Speaker 2: the hard drive.
Speaker 5: It's literally been a week since our executive producer, Dave
Speaker 5: Patterson texted me and told me that the hard drives
Speaker 5: all set, everything is still there. We can still release
Speaker 5: the record and like like that, that's when I told
Speaker 5: people like, you want to see me cry, that's that's
Speaker 5: when you're gonna see me cry. I got my stuff back, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got my stuff back. We're not releasing the record.
Speaker 5: What we're gonna do is re release the EP that
Speaker 5: we released in July. But we're gonna do it with
Speaker 5: the same kind of same approach that we were going
Speaker 5: to take at the record. We're gonna do CDs, shirts, stickers,
Speaker 5: maybe posters, and and just get out and start playing.
Speaker 5: But instead of being ten songs, it's gonna be five.
Speaker 5: And uh, then we'll once we figure out a location
Speaker 5: to set up shop to start mixing the record, that's
Speaker 5: when we're gonna go forward and start working on that.
Speaker 5: You know, Eleanor and Andre down at Terminus, they're volunteering some space.
Speaker 5: They've been instrumental, especially Eleanor, like what a person like,
Speaker 5: just instrumental in organizing the community to come together. And
Speaker 5: that is the biggest piece of all of this, is
Speaker 5: that our music community came together for this, like immediately,
Speaker 5: and I couldn't be I couldn't be more proud to
Speaker 5: be a part of it, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 5: there's so many different genres of music in this area,
Speaker 5: and that's what Hatchet Accent saw I really wanted to
Speaker 5: to focus on, and that's what we wanted to do.
Speaker 5: We wanted to put everybody out there, and they came
Speaker 5: to our aid like immediately. So I'm very proud to
Speaker 5: say that that I'm a part of this southern New
Speaker 5: Hayampshire music community because because.
Speaker 2: We're we're awesome. Yeah, that's how people showed out, man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: question absolutely.
Speaker 3: Now what about music? Were you in the midst of
Speaker 3: working on anything else for any of the other artists
Speaker 3: associated with the label or we.
Speaker 6: We had been working on one it it kind of
Speaker 6: it was fallen through for for some reasons, but there
Speaker 6: was also more that was going to be coming with
Speaker 6: Santino that it just kind of started that that hadn't
Speaker 6: fallen through. We just oh, Crank and Wagon. Crank and
Speaker 6: Wagon had had literally weeks before the fire. We had
Speaker 6: just started and we had gotten tracks, drum tracks on
Speaker 6: our self titled tune. We had started one of the
Speaker 6: other ones too, and yeah, man, there were some projects
Speaker 6: that that were nascent, but but still still it started.
Speaker 6: In fact, you can go and you can check out
Speaker 6: the Facebook reels that I think Paul published of him
Speaker 6: doing the the ambulance sound with the guitar. Yeah, it's
Speaker 6: just just some fun stuff we were doing with that tune. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but you know, we had stuff that was in the
Speaker 6: works that I think really would have knocked your socks.
Speaker 2: It still will.
Speaker 6: I mean, yea, this week, we gotta you know, we
Speaker 6: gotta make the time and right now get in the
Speaker 6: real estates the big block. Dave and I Dave and
Speaker 6: I are we're looking, we're scouting options, but it's kind
Speaker 6: of hard to replace what we had there because the
Speaker 6: one the one thing, man, we are two things. We
Speaker 6: had the electricity included in the cost of the rent, yeah,
Speaker 6: which I mean for a musician, holy crap.
Speaker 7: Yeah, space was like, yeah, it's just and then on
Speaker 7: top of that, as if that wasn't good enough, we
Speaker 7: also had it twenty four loud down there, which is
Speaker 7: just I mean, what more.
Speaker 2: Can you ask for? Yeah, you know, if you if
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 6: Work all hours of the day and night and and
Speaker 6: have power included in your rent, oh yeah I would.
Speaker 5: I'd get out of work at nine shoot down there
Speaker 5: and just be there all night working on the music.
Speaker 5: Whether I'm working on one of the projects or my
Speaker 5: own stuff. It was just it was too good to
Speaker 5: be true that space. But you know what, we learned
Speaker 5: a lot down there in the last In the last
Speaker 5: five years that I've been working with Caleb and Dave,
Speaker 5: I've learned so much about myself as a musician. I've
Speaker 5: learned how it all goes together. And it's not easy,
Speaker 5: like you know, I mean, and I still need Dave
Speaker 5: and Caleb to come down and do the mixes and
Speaker 5: stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you put a song together? How do
Speaker 6: you put show together?
Speaker 5: I grew so much as a musician because of One
Speaker 5: fifteen Vine. I've been a musician since I was seven.
Speaker 5: I'm forty five years old, and in the last five
Speaker 5: years I can now be like really proud of who
Speaker 5: I am as a musician, and a lot of it
Speaker 5: has to do with Caleb, Dave and one fifteen Vine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt a brief detour, because I truly don't
Speaker 6: think we're just Jesse myself, Dave even just dead like
Speaker 6: other bands in the basement dead Time, you know, good
Speaker 6: good friends and folks and incredible musicians. We're just one
Speaker 6: small piece, small recent piece of the history of that
Speaker 6: building in the music community.
Speaker 2: I don't really.
Speaker 6: I don't think people truly understand. It goes back decades. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that that that building in the like early two thousands,
Speaker 6: it was the home for a bunch of bands. I mean,
Speaker 6: one of one band. I remember when I was in
Speaker 6: middle school and going into high school. There's a band Voyagers,
Speaker 6: my buddy Eddie and uh Rusty the guitar players, and
Speaker 6: then trying to remember but they I mean Eddie, I'm
Speaker 6: pretty sure he used.
Speaker 2: To live in that building. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know, now now he's married, he's got a
Speaker 6: got a kid, and he's doing great. He's kind of
Speaker 6: gotten out of music. But I mean that that whole
Speaker 6: building for decades was a generator of original music of
Speaker 6: you know, people doing it honestly, you know, for for
Speaker 6: for real, and and and it's it's truly it's hard
Speaker 6: to explain to people that we were just the latest
Speaker 6: custodian exactly.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: We we were, we were just the most recent and
Speaker 6: and I mean I I remember, uh some years ago,
Speaker 6: some guys I think they're from the New York area,
Speaker 6: but they had a studio all the way up here
Speaker 6: in Nashville in that building. Perspective, A lovely hand to hold.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were.
Speaker 6: They were a fantastic band, and they had an incredible
Speaker 6: studio that was on the second floor, and they they
Speaker 6: had moved out some years ago, but just to to
Speaker 6: explain to people that there were so many, even people
Speaker 6: who weren't affected by the fire, but just so much
Speaker 6: music came out of that building over.
Speaker 5: The last five Over the last five years. When I say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm at one fifteen vine, I could be talking to
Speaker 5: some band that I was playing with and conquered oh yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: the warehouse, Oh yeah, everybody.
Speaker 2: It gained.
Speaker 6: It gained a notoriety of just yeah special place. Yeah,
Speaker 6: musicians come out of there. And you know, if you
Speaker 6: if you had the gumption, if you're really were putting
Speaker 6: in time and really doing it, you could do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It wasn't pretty on the outside, but when when you
Speaker 5: walk through those doors, it was just.
Speaker 2: Any given day.
Speaker 5: I'd be going down to work on one of my
Speaker 5: love songs and I'd hear a hardcore band were cursing upstairs. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and and it there's just something about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then you'd run out to the guys that everybody's
Speaker 5: going to their car and stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh, you guys sound good.
Speaker 5: And then this hardcore band. I'd be like, oh, I
Speaker 5: heard you mixing downstairs. This sounds good, you know, and
Speaker 5: and just like the amount of respect we all had
Speaker 5: for each other.
Speaker 2: It was it was really like the community within a community.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure, just you know, and and that
Speaker 6: hopefully that community will I mean, it's clearly remaining strong.
Speaker 6: I mean the Bad Yeah, the Bad Burger benefit was
Speaker 6: just it was incredibly well attended, you know, and just uh,
Speaker 6: it's it's very heartwarming to see it.
Speaker 5: That was a that was a fun show too, because
Speaker 5: I I had just I didn't even know Ash she
Speaker 5: does the booking down there, and I saw that she
Speaker 5: was putting on a show this is in with within
Speaker 5: like two days of the fire, and so I shot
Speaker 5: her a message, you know, shoot your shot.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, my name is Jesse Rudstein.
Speaker 5: I'm a member of the community that that was affected.
Speaker 5: I'd like to get on the bill, just knowing that
Speaker 5: it was a benefit show, and she's like, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: She threw my logo on the poster and fun anything like,
Speaker 5: apparently my logo looks like everybody else's logo that was
Speaker 5: on the poster. But they were all hardcore metal bands
Speaker 5: and yeah there's me singing my love songs.
Speaker 6: Some serious It was awesome.
Speaker 2: But that's cool though. We had a really cool show.
Speaker 5: But but I with everything that was going on, I
Speaker 5: didn't really have a chance to check out all the
Speaker 5: other bands that were on the bill. Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: when I did, I'm like, oh no, I mean myself
Speaker 5: on a hardcore show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's all right, yeah yeah, yeah, no one.
Speaker 2: The other bands were great.
Speaker 5: The whole show was very, like Caleb said, was very
Speaker 5: well attended.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very well attend and people really did show out.
Speaker 3: Good, good, excellent. If you're just joining us, we've got
Speaker 3: Jesse Rotstein and Caleb Diler Tire sorry from Hatchet Asensaw Records.
Speaker 3: See now I can say the name Hatchet Accessaw Records,
Speaker 3: but I can't say your last name apparently, but uh yeah,
Speaker 3: we were talking about the fire at one fifteen Vine
Speaker 3: that was the address, Yeah, team.
Speaker 6: And also want to wait in one ten ash I
Speaker 6: think that. Yeah, at least in the music community, we
Speaker 6: we focused on one fifteen fine, but there were there
Speaker 6: were like thirty people this placed from there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Wow. Yeah, that's the scale of it.
Speaker 3: Was just yeah, that's awful. Remark remarkable though that in
Speaker 3: all that no one was seriously hurt or killed. I
Speaker 3: mean that's incredible. Yeah, with that many people, you know, early, well,
Speaker 3: what time was this? Like six thirty was when I
Speaker 3: got the phone call? Yeah, I got there at about eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I called Caleb around seven.
Speaker 5: When I got down there, it was like, where's Ivan,
Speaker 5: Where's Connor, where's Tom?
Speaker 2: You know, people? Where is everybody? Is? Everybody? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 5: And then so then I called Caleb and and of
Speaker 5: course it was the first really big snowstorm of the season.
Speaker 5: So yeah, then it ding snow. I'm sitting there, like
Speaker 5: watching the fire department. This is a five alarm fire.
Speaker 5: So hats off to I'm gonna I'm gonna remember them
Speaker 5: all this time, uh, Lowell, Nashua, Hollis, Tingsboro, and Hudson. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so those are all the fire departments. I think that's right.
Speaker 5: If if I missed a fire department, sorry, guys.
Speaker 2: I think Merrimac also show. I think there's six something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 5: I don't know the first Hats off to the first
Speaker 5: responders for sure, but I'm watching it and I'm like,
Speaker 5: and you know, my mind is always going.
Speaker 2: I'm an overthinker, and I'm like, oh, maybe this snow
Speaker 2: will help.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, frozen water falling from the sky. And then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, there's all these flames everywhere, and
Speaker 5: these guys like like, there's some great photos and not
Speaker 5: they're not great photos, but some really uh captivating photos
Speaker 5: of of like this guy on one ladder and this
Speaker 5: guy on another ladder, like those guys one of the
Speaker 5: Actually there were three injuries, minor injuries, two people from
Speaker 5: the apartment a building, and the only other injury was
Speaker 5: to a member of one of the fire departments. Okay,
Speaker 5: and everybody but like everybody's okay, No nobody got seriously injured.
Speaker 5: But those were the only reported injuries throughout the whole thing,
Speaker 5: so I would be uh, I got to say thanks
Speaker 5: to the fire departments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, strictly the fire departments. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6: But as soon as I remember it distinctly, as soon
Speaker 6: as the scene was kind of cleared, I went home.
Speaker 6: I as soon as I got to the scene and
Speaker 6: that fire burning, I was just kind of like, I
Speaker 6: don't need to be here, I don't need to watch
Speaker 6: my life burn away.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just went home and I was like, all right, well,
Speaker 6: time to make some plans, like what are we going
Speaker 6: to do about it?
Speaker 5: I couldn't take my eyes off it.
Speaker 2: And then so, well you gave me a call at
Speaker 2: what time.
Speaker 6: I don't know when it exactly it was, but it
Speaker 6: was sometime the afternoon, and you're like, hey, they're gonna
Speaker 6: be letting people into the building, and you were. You
Speaker 6: ended up being one of the first people in the building.
Speaker 6: To tell a little bit about that, And then I'll
Speaker 6: explain when I got there and what I did to.
Speaker 8: You.
Speaker 5: So you want to do you want me to tell
Speaker 5: a story, Well, I mean tell like when's got down
Speaker 5: in there, like you saw, you saw it in the
Speaker 5: original state, you saw it before even I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I was the first one in the building.
Speaker 5: So so we're sitting there, everything's burning, and the news
Speaker 5: crews show up and our good friend Connor Coburn, really
Speaker 5: close friend of mine, he lead singer for No More
Speaker 5: Blue tomorrows Uh. He's the one who put on the
Speaker 5: benefit that's raised the most money for the victims so far.
Speaker 2: But he sees the news cruise.
Speaker 5: Show up and he looks over and he goes, Jesse,
Speaker 5: there's some cameras over there, like, all right, I'll see
Speaker 5: you guys later, and I went and I did some
Speaker 5: interviews and on local and national national news about the fire,
Speaker 5: which was on the street right next to the building.
Speaker 5: And so that happened. Caleb's like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 5: You know, everybody's kind of dispersed. One of the great
Speaker 5: coincidences about the location of this place is that my
Speaker 5: ex wife lives right down the road. So even throughout
Speaker 5: all these years, I'll be at the studio, then I,
Speaker 5: you know, see my kids.
Speaker 2: My kids would just come down and jam.
Speaker 5: You know, my sons are they play and you know
Speaker 5: they would they would, you know, I would be able
Speaker 5: to just run over there, have dinner and go back
Speaker 5: and work on stuff. Yeah, nice little coincidence. So I
Speaker 5: set up shop at my ex wife's house.
Speaker 2: I called her.
Speaker 5: Obviously she knew what was going on, she could see
Speaker 5: it from her window. And I was kind of like
Speaker 5: gonna be the point person to be able to walk
Speaker 5: down there and see what was.
Speaker 2: Going on throughout the day.
Speaker 5: So at around eleven am, after everybody had left, we
Speaker 5: had some food.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know if it was.
Speaker 5: It was one of those days where it wasn't lunch,
Speaker 5: it wasn't breakfast, it was just, yeah.
Speaker 2: We have food.
Speaker 5: And I walked down there again with my son and
Speaker 5: we went to go check it out and I saw
Speaker 5: the police, I'm sorry, the fire chief, and he brought
Speaker 5: me in the building with him. This is after the
Speaker 5: fire was out, and I was like, I just I
Speaker 5: just want to know what's going on downstairs. And he
Speaker 5: walked down half the stairs and he goes, there's like
Speaker 5: three four feet of.
Speaker 2: Water down there.
Speaker 5: That's how much That's how much water it took to
Speaker 5: put out this fire. But we're in the basement of warehouse,
Speaker 5: so there was nowhere for the water to go. So
Speaker 5: that I call Caleb, I let him know that, and
Speaker 5: I go back to go back to the point. And
Speaker 5: about a couple hours later, I walked down the street again.
Speaker 5: This time there was police tape up, like they had
Speaker 5: put like tape up, and this is the same street
Speaker 5: I had been walking down all day. There's actually a
Speaker 5: video of me and my son coming back from that
Speaker 5: visit where the Mayor of Nashville was taking a video
Speaker 5: saying how how tragic it is on this street. But
Speaker 5: now there's tape there. I didn't really think anything of it.
Speaker 5: And I walked around and Officer Jonathan Earnhardt decided to
Speaker 5: start yelling at me. Rightfully, so I crossed the tape. Sure, sure,
Speaker 5: I did a bad thing, he said, But but he
Speaker 5: was Immanti, I'm gonna rest you.
Speaker 3: I mean, you probably weren't even thinking about it, right,
Speaker 3: It's not like it's not like you consciously did that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, und I just walked the route that I've been
Speaker 5: walking for five years. Yeah, And I like, he's he's
Speaker 5: threatening to arrest me, and I'm like, I'm like, dude, seriously,
Speaker 5: Like I am just like one of the victims here.
Speaker 2: I'm just checking in.
Speaker 5: I was literally in the building with the fire chief
Speaker 5: a little while ago, and he's yelling at me and
Speaker 5: doing his little cop thing, and I'm I'm not nice.
Speaker 5: I'm not nice when people I have I've always.
Speaker 2: Had a problem with authorities.
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, but at this, at this point in the game,
Speaker 5: like I wasn't doing anything. I literally did a news
Speaker 5: I was on TV on the place I was standing,
Speaker 5: so I didn't think it was.
Speaker 2: A big deal.
Speaker 3: And you were dealing with a lot emotionally in that moment, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a traumatic thing.
Speaker 5: I am losing my mind, not knowing what is going on.
Speaker 5: So I walked back to my ex wife's house and
Speaker 5: I told her what happened. And Tom hanging with my son.
Speaker 5: We're playing Minecraft, you know what I mean, just just
Speaker 5: trying to forget about what's going on. Finally four o'clock
Speaker 5: rolls around and I'm like, you know what, I like
Speaker 5: what Caleb did early in the morning, Like I'm calling
Speaker 5: it today. We'll figure all this out. Nobody needs me here,
Speaker 5: so and and I I didn't you know, dried. I
Speaker 5: had to get an uber to get home. So I
Speaker 5: ordered my uber, but because of the police vehicles on
Speaker 5: the street, the uber couldn't get in.
Speaker 2: So I walk down Ash. I walked three blocks.
Speaker 5: I walked down Ash around back to Vine to you know,
Speaker 5: to not cross the line, because I complied when he
Speaker 5: told me not to cross the line. And I get
Speaker 5: to the building and he's on the other side of
Speaker 5: the building because he was literally parked on the other
Speaker 5: side of the building. There's a couple of cop cars there,
Speaker 5: and another officer was like, where are you going.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just trying to catch my uber. He's
Speaker 2: over there. Can I go?
Speaker 5: And he's like, yeah, sure, And then I noticed people
Speaker 5: going in and out of the building. The cops had
Speaker 5: started letting some of the musicians, and I started seeing
Speaker 5: my friends going on and out of the building.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I turned to the officer respectfully and I'm like,
Speaker 5: you're letting people in there.
Speaker 2: This is my building. Now.
Speaker 5: Keep in mind, I've been calling this my building for
Speaker 5: five years. It doesn't belong to me, but you know,
Speaker 5: it's like say in my house.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, of course belongs to Hinch crowdly right right.
Speaker 2: So the officers like, yeah, you're one of the musicians. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can go ahead.
Speaker 5: So I cancel my UBER and I go in and
Speaker 5: we start ripping guitars out of there. Like I'm on
Speaker 5: the stairs. These other guys are all wading through the water.
Speaker 5: They're giving me the computer. They're giving Devin was like,
Speaker 5: what do you need. I'm like, the computer, yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: and get me the strat, get me the this case,
Speaker 5: this case, brown case, you know. And we're just pulling
Speaker 5: instruments up for about a half an hour and the
Speaker 5: pit's black. I'm soaked, everybody's you know, And I cancel
Speaker 5: the uber and my dad called me and he's like Hey,
Speaker 5: do you want some help. I'm like yeah, because because
Speaker 5: he was out and whatever. So he drove down, parked
Speaker 5: behind the officers, and I was just gonna start loading
Speaker 5: up some guitars into his car. And the first guitar
Speaker 5: that I grabbed was the Stratocaster and it belongs to Caleb. Well,
Speaker 5: it belongs to the studio, doesn't belong to me. I
Speaker 5: was the one who bought it. I didn't grab my
Speaker 5: guitar first. This Strata is on every track. It's a
Speaker 5: very important sentimental piece, but it's also one of the
Speaker 5: best guitars in the studio. So I grabbed that one first,
Speaker 5: mainly because like carrying two was like carrying one hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5: And then I'm carrying it toward my I see my dad,
Speaker 5: see the cop cars.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I hear where's your uber?
Speaker 5: And it's the officer from earlier in the day, Jonathan
Speaker 5: earn Hart. He starts yelling at me and he's like,
Speaker 5: where's your uber. I'm like, dude, I canceled my uber.
Speaker 5: You're letting people in the building. I'm at this point,
Speaker 5: I'm like I don't want to deal with this. I
Speaker 5: can feel my blood getting hotter. And he goes, you
Speaker 5: lied to him and you said you own this building,
Speaker 5: and you lied and you said you were getting I'm like, dude, please, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 5: And he looked, he literally looked at me, and he's like, listen,
Speaker 5: I've had a really long day.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, my god.
Speaker 2: So this is yeah my blood.
Speaker 5: This is where my blood went from boiling to just
Speaker 5: like overflowing the pot. And and I was like, you've
Speaker 5: had a long day. And I said, and I started
Speaker 5: running my mouth and I shouldn't have run my mouth.
Speaker 5: And when I run my mouth, it runs. And then
Speaker 5: so he's like, you're on body cam right now, I'll
Speaker 5: arrest you right now. He had no reason to arrest me.
Speaker 2: I was. I was threatening.
Speaker 5: So what I did was I leaned the stratocaster case
Speaker 5: on my leg and I put my hands up and
Speaker 5: I was like, go ahead and arrest me. If if
Speaker 5: you're gonna arrest me, go ahead and just do it.
Speaker 5: Like he had no reason to, right, so he couldn't.
Speaker 5: And he grabbed the guitar and he threw it toward
Speaker 5: my father's car. Oh go far in defense of this officer,
Speaker 5: mister Officer Earn Hardt. I will say, in his defense,
Speaker 5: he didn't know what he was throwing. No, he like,
Speaker 5: he shows up to a you know, cops have a
Speaker 5: hard job. They show up to like like scenes all
Speaker 5: the time, Like this guy's getting thrown out of his house,
Speaker 5: grab his suitcase and get out of here, you know.
Speaker 5: So so in his defense, he didn't know what he
Speaker 5: was throwing, but he threw. Doesn't make it okay, though,
Speaker 5: and that's the point of this story. So he throws
Speaker 5: the guitar and that's when I lost my mind. I'm
Speaker 5: still in the air and I'm now I'm like all
Speaker 5: the things that you could say to a cop that
Speaker 5: you're not supposed to say, I'm saying, but I'm I'm
Speaker 5: non threatening, like I wasn't doing anything wrong. And so finally,
Speaker 5: thank god it was my dad who was there, because
Speaker 5: because I would have ended up in cuffs.
Speaker 2: You out there.
Speaker 5: He was like, he grabbed the guitar, he put it
Speaker 5: in the car, He got me in the car and
Speaker 5: he's like, let's just go. I'm like, I have other
Speaker 5: stuff to get, and the cops like, you're not going
Speaker 5: back in that building.
Speaker 2: It's crime scene. I'm like, you're other people.
Speaker 6: They're literally literally Connor, Connor, I, I, I, everybody, whoever else.
Speaker 2: He hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker 6: No, I showed up maybe about an hour after this
Speaker 6: all I called him.
Speaker 2: I went home like I'm like screaming. Caleb's like, Jesus
Speaker 2: es I know.
Speaker 6: I'm just like now I have to now go and
Speaker 6: get all of the rest of the time as much
Speaker 6: as I could carry it out.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying like I believe that officer Earnhardt
Speaker 5: caused the scene, but but I didn't. But I was
Speaker 5: very much part of the scene. So I get home,
Speaker 5: I opened the case. I noticed at the back of
Speaker 5: the back of the neck the guitar is damaged and
Speaker 5: it's still being looked at.
Speaker 2: It could have been water damage, but.
Speaker 6: It's it's very likely a combination of both. So I
Speaker 6: took it and this this is a shameless plug. This
Speaker 6: is a shameless plug. And then then I'll talk about
Speaker 6: the salvage operation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me, but before you do that, sure, I
Speaker 5: noticed the guitar was damaged, So I did the right thing,
Speaker 5: and I filed police report against this officer for damaging
Speaker 5: our property. And I get a phone call two days
Speaker 5: later from what I just think is a supervisor.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: I was talking to the captain of the National Police
Speaker 5: Department and he told us to come. He asked me
Speaker 5: to come down, and so I immediately called Caleb, grab
Speaker 5: the evidence. Let's go, because because Caleb's first like this
Speaker 5: was an impact that it could Yeah, he'll he'll tell
Speaker 5: you all about how the wood is on the guitar
Speaker 5: and all that. But we get to the police department
Speaker 5: and I said, I hope you don't mind I brought.
Speaker 2: I brought my partner with.
Speaker 5: Me, and he goes, well, I would have liked to
Speaker 5: heads up, and then we sit down in the chair.
Speaker 5: What this guy thought was gonna be like he thought
Speaker 5: he was going to reprimand me for yelling and being
Speaker 5: a bad boy. But and he was like, you know,
Speaker 5: he was going to throw a couple bucks because they
Speaker 5: do have funds in police departments, like if they have
Speaker 5: to kick in a door during a fire or during
Speaker 5: during a scene that the state, the city or the
Speaker 5: state will take care.
Speaker 2: Of like the door hinges for the landlord and stuff.
Speaker 5: So he thought it was just gonna be like a
Speaker 5: little okay, you shouldn't have been mean, and we're gonna
Speaker 5: like pay for something. That's not what happened, though. I
Speaker 5: was like, no, no, no, your officer threw my guitar. He goes, well,
Speaker 5: I saw you on the bodycam footage and you weren't
Speaker 5: being nice. And I was like, I know I wasn't
Speaker 5: being nice, but my hands were in the air. I
Speaker 5: was not threatening. But did you happen to catch on
Speaker 5: the bodycam footage your officer throwing the guitar? He said no,
Speaker 5: I didn't see that. I haven't talked to the officer yet.
Speaker 5: He just kept stumbling over himself because he thought he
Speaker 5: was just gonna slap some stupid long hair musician on
Speaker 5: the wrist, of course, but instead he got me, so
Speaker 5: I started unloading on him, not again, not knowing he was.
Speaker 5: I just thought he was like, yeah, Supervisor, that was
Speaker 5: not smart. I think you've assumed too much of officer. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: in any event, Officer Captain Welsh continuously told me to
Speaker 5: not say that his officer was lying. But if his
Speaker 5: officer said that he didn't throw the guitar, he's lying,
Speaker 5: you know. Like lying is very simple. If if you
Speaker 5: know something is the truth and you say the opposite,
Speaker 5: then that's a lie. So I kind of got into
Speaker 5: it with Welsh and they're there now can his head dropped.
Speaker 5: He's like, this is not how I thought the conversation
Speaker 5: was going to go. Now I have to do an investigation.
Speaker 5: And he's, you know, given the whole you know, Officer
Speaker 5: earn Hard, he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm like, look man, he's a good guy,
Speaker 5: and he made a mistake. This whole time, I've recognized
Speaker 5: that it was an accident. Sure, but if I hit
Speaker 5: your car tomorrow with my car and it's my fault,
Speaker 5: I have to pay for that accident. That was a
Speaker 5: reason they call it for calling an accident. We just
Speaker 5: want the guitar replays.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: I hope they do the right thing repair replace that. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't really care which it is.
Speaker 5: But but then I brought Caleb with me and he'll
Speaker 5: talk to the This is where Caleb can.
Speaker 6: So we had the meeting with Officer Welch. I I'm
Speaker 6: of the opinion it probably could have gone better.
Speaker 2: But it's all good man, and and you know, I
Speaker 2: just I explained to him.
Speaker 6: I was like, I checked out the guitar and I
Speaker 6: was like some of this, Yeah, the glue was loosened
Speaker 6: up by the water, but some of it to me
Speaker 6: kind of looks like impact that case. Yeah, And I
Speaker 6: mean the case showed a little bit of scuffing on
Speaker 6: the top where the headstock would have been in the case,
Speaker 6: and that's probably the crappiest part the thing to land on.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's a Strat's a bolt neck guitar, and
Speaker 6: it's got a skunk stripe. So it's got the piece
Speaker 6: of wood on the back of the neck that contains
Speaker 6: the trust rod in there, and that piece had delaminated
Speaker 6: and kind of.
Speaker 2: Twisted a little bit.
Speaker 6: And usually if and I've seen some other flood damage
Speaker 6: strats and Telly's that have the skunk strip right, And
Speaker 6: usually what happens is the glue gets loosened up a
Speaker 6: little bit and it usually uniformly delaminates on one side
Speaker 6: or the other of the skung stripe. Just yeah, because
Speaker 6: the pressure of the wood pushing against itself, it just
Speaker 6: wants to uniformly delaminate.
Speaker 2: It had kind of twisted in there, and.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at it and I'm like, man that you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: water loosened it up, But I don't think I don't
Speaker 6: think that that neck movement happened, but just by water
Speaker 6: water doing it, because I mean, I knew the guitar.
Speaker 6: The neck was pretty stable on the thing, and strangely,
Speaker 6: even with the impact, the next staid barely stable, like
Speaker 6: the guitar.
Speaker 2: Wasn't in tune.
Speaker 6: But it definitely it definitely bared. Like I mean, the
Speaker 6: body of the guitar is totally fine. It's just the neck. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just the neck that got.
Speaker 2: A little bit screeny.
Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, the guitar repairs. Yeah, I just just repaired.
Speaker 6: And I took it up and this is a shameless
Speaker 6: plug to the music text here in Manchester. They're a great,
Speaker 6: great guy, do awesome work. I took it up to
Speaker 6: Doug McCormick and Seth oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, I've known Doug a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Doug. Doug's fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And and Doug wasn't the one who looked at the
Speaker 6: strat really he he's going to handle another restoration project.
Speaker 6: It's actually the second time he's taking on this this guitar,
Speaker 6: because it's the second time it's been in total disrepair unfortunately.
Speaker 6: But the fender he U or Seth looked at the
Speaker 6: fender and he was like, yeah, we can at the
Speaker 6: very word, you know, at the very worst, we'll just
Speaker 6: pop a new neck on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then that'll be fine.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure he'll find a neck that's like, you know,
Speaker 6: within ninety percent similar to it. The one thing that well,
Speaker 6: we'll kind of suck about that is we won't have
Speaker 6: the uh, the serial number on it. It was a
Speaker 6: it was a two thousand, two thousand neck. And you know,
Speaker 6: even if we replace the neck, it permanently devalues the instrument.
Speaker 2: It's no longer you know, I mean that was it.
Speaker 6: Literally in twenty twenty five, that guitar became a did
Speaker 6: the guitar?
Speaker 2: You know? Crazy? Yeah, it's really really weird.
Speaker 6: I bought it a couple of years ago, you know,
Speaker 6: just as a used strat, just because the studio needed
Speaker 6: a strat. We needed something that was serviceable and was
Speaker 6: gonna last a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, every track, it's every one of my tracks, a
Speaker 5: ton of tunes. I can't think of one song that
Speaker 5: I didn't. I mean, the strat is the most first
Speaker 5: satile guitar in the history of guitars.
Speaker 2: Arguably I disagree with.
Speaker 5: Of course, you know, but I mean it's most most
Speaker 5: certainly is one of one of the most iconic, I mean,
Speaker 5: every you know, if you've ever heard Sweet Home Alabama,
Speaker 5: you've heard of Stratocaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a picture Jimmy Hendricks right there there.
Speaker 3: You Oh yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 6: Some of the most iconic songs you've ever heard. I
Speaker 6: recorded on one of them. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 6: even really a strat guy.
Speaker 2: I just need neither of us, are.
Speaker 3: We just we just need one in the studio, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're just joining us, we have Jesse Rutstein and
Speaker 3: Caleb Dire. I almost sit it again, whatever, I just
Speaker 3: say Jesse and Caleb from records word.
Speaker 2: So I didn't mean to wed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I didn't mean to get so off on that part
Speaker 5: of the story because that is such a minuscule piece
Speaker 5: of this puzzle. We just hope Nashville PD does the
Speaker 5: right thing because I'm doing a lot of shows right now,
Speaker 5: and like the Bad Burger show that came out like
Speaker 5: they just came out swinging. They don't, they're not even
Speaker 5: they weren't even really associated with us and came out
Speaker 5: swinging and then Peddlers came out and then San Francisco
Speaker 5: Kitchen and Nashua. So between those three shows alone, we've
Speaker 5: done over seven thousand dollars. Yeah, and uh, you can
Speaker 5: donate through the Salvation Army just so everybody knows. Eleanor
Speaker 5: from Terminus New Hampshire Underground set up a link where
Speaker 5: people can donate and between our contributions and people that
Speaker 5: have been coming to the shows, and like we've raised
Speaker 5: all this money and we have a really big one
Speaker 5: coming up on February, February seventh, and and that's going
Speaker 5: to be at the Backstreet Bar and Grill. That's going
Speaker 5: to be like an all day festival style with some
Speaker 5: really great bands to be announced. We haven't gotten confirmation
Speaker 5: on every band, but we do know that obviously I'm
Speaker 5: going to be there.
Speaker 2: The Faith and Band is going to be there.
Speaker 5: No More Blue Tomorrow's is going to be there, and
Speaker 5: and and if I'm I'm missing, I know I'm missing
Speaker 5: people and I'm sorry, Dead Harrison, I'm wearing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah shirt nice. They're going to be down there too.
Speaker 2: I would love to get Dead Time on that bill.
Speaker 5: Yeah, where we're we're working with them. And then on
Speaker 5: the is it the sixteenth of this month or seventeenth. See,
Speaker 5: I had it already the sixteenth. Lacy who I am
Speaker 5: is putting on a show at Photies and she's had
Speaker 5: when we come down and we're going to do a
Speaker 5: show at Photis that weekend also to benefit so excellent.
Speaker 2: The thing is, like, I just I really.
Speaker 5: Want to focus on because I'm not accepting any donations.
Speaker 5: Jesse rudstein Brand is not accepting any donations, no gofundmes.
Speaker 5: I didn't lose what other people lost, right, you know?
Speaker 6: We we are indirectly we are taking donations. If you
Speaker 6: would like to donate three streets, yes, if you If
Speaker 6: you would like to donate to the effort that we're
Speaker 6: putting on, it's through a zephy link, OK, not not
Speaker 6: a go the go fundmes that are out there, and
Speaker 6: please do donate to those as well if you are able.
Speaker 6: Those are all to benefit individual musicians that were in
Speaker 6: the building or bands or what have you. But the
Speaker 6: the only one, the only formal operation was us. We
Speaker 6: were the only one that had like some formal governance
Speaker 6: structure in any way, shape or form, and so we're
Speaker 6: trying to use that nonp off its status to receive donations,
Speaker 6: try to help people who donate to us give you
Speaker 6: a tax receipt, you know, help you out come tax time.
Speaker 6: But you know, uh so if you if you want
Speaker 6: to donate, we've got a Zephi link we can point
Speaker 6: you to that.
Speaker 2: You can find it not only.
Speaker 6: Through Tree Streets stuff, but you can also find it
Speaker 6: through New Hampshire Underground and Ellen Orchishu is the one
Speaker 6: who set it up.
Speaker 2: But that any money given to that.
Speaker 6: Benefits Tree Streets Incorporated, which is David Patterson myself, and
Speaker 6: we're you know, if if you want to see where
Speaker 6: all the money's going, yeah, well you know we're publishing that.
Speaker 5: So okay, excellent, good But yeah, it's we're doing We're
Speaker 5: doing some good, you know, and it stinks that we
Speaker 5: have to. That's like, that's a story, right, I'm getting
Speaker 5: like I wanted to release my record and start gigging
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty six to support it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait. Yeah, and a
Speaker 2: little bit of a delay. Well, but the.
Speaker 5: Amount of exposure that I'm getting from this five here
Speaker 5: is probably more than I would have got from the record,
Speaker 5: So I'm not trying I'm not trying to capitalize on
Speaker 5: a horrible thing. I just it feels good to do
Speaker 5: right by the folks, you know, And I just wish
Speaker 5: I didn't have to do that, because they.
Speaker 2: They It's strange how the world works. It really is, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, we just you know, but you keep on
Speaker 2: keeping on.
Speaker 5: Just keep it, keeping it all positive and looking looking
Speaker 5: to the future.
Speaker 2: Hatchet Action Saw is not dead. We just burned. We
Speaker 2: just got burned. On a positive note.
Speaker 6: On a positive note, I have happy news to report
Speaker 6: about the equipment. So, as Jesse articulated earlier, we really
Speaker 6: didn't suffer any fire damage in the basement.
Speaker 2: It's pretty much all.
Speaker 6: Water, so there was a lot of stuff that was submerged. However,
Speaker 6: one thing that is pretty good about some of these
Speaker 6: old electronics is that they're actually fairly resilient water damage,
Speaker 6: especially if you just let it out for a whole
Speaker 6: long time. So, yeah, the computer was toast, which sucks. However,
Speaker 6: the SSDs, we were able to rip them out of
Speaker 6: the computer and you know, process that information onto a
Speaker 6: new machine.
Speaker 2: Excellent. So there's an immediate win.
Speaker 6: That's why we're going to be able to re release
Speaker 6: or release anything that we will be able to do
Speaker 6: come this March. In addition to that, I've been going
Speaker 6: through test and amplifiers. I just last night played a
Speaker 6: gig with a V four B that we had down there,
Speaker 6: very very nice base amp costs quite a bit of money,
Speaker 6: and two by fifteen, a vintage acoustic two by fifteen
Speaker 6: cab base cab, and that base rig absolutely slams and
Speaker 6: that head was totally completely submerged, totally submerged, water, totally underwater.
Speaker 6: When I grabbed it out of the basement there were
Speaker 6: at least three inches of water on top of where
Speaker 6: the handle was. Oh my god, you know, yeah, so
Speaker 6: it totally submerged in that amp. When I turned it
Speaker 6: on yesterday before I went to or I should say
Speaker 6: two days ago testing it for yesterday.
Speaker 2: When I played the gig, it just fired up. That's amazing,
Speaker 2: fired right up, and and man it you know, thumped
Speaker 2: all the same. That's incredible.
Speaker 6: And I'm expecting that most of the amplifiers, given that
Speaker 6: I've given him about four weeks to dry out, most
Speaker 6: of the amplifiers I think are going to turn on.
Speaker 2: I haven't tested them all. I've tested the the.
Speaker 6: An amplifier that we literally bought in three days before
Speaker 6: the fire.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was a nineteen sixty eight Lafayette is a nice
Speaker 6: old vintag jamp. I bought it out in Swansea off
Speaker 6: of a guy who was an amp technician, and he
Speaker 6: knew what he had, but he was just like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm willing to I'm willing to let this.
Speaker 2: Go and and go to go to a good home. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I had put it down there.
Speaker 6: I had, I had play tested it, and you know,
Speaker 6: and then the fire happens and I'm thinking, I hope
Speaker 6: that thing survives. The way that the amp is designed,
Speaker 6: it's like taller than it is wide. So the amp
Speaker 6: never actually saw water, actually didn't.
Speaker 2: The speakers did.
Speaker 6: The lower speakers saw water, but the actual amp was
Speaker 6: totally untouched. And I that was one of the first
Speaker 6: amps that I tested, and it just fired right up.
Speaker 2: Nice. There's a lot of.
Speaker 6: Stuff like That's some stuff that's a little more questionable. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: both of my keyboards were totally submerged, even in their
Speaker 6: road cases. The b X three, which is a vintage
Speaker 6: eighties like Corg b X three very it's yeah, right,
Speaker 6: literally can't be replaced.
Speaker 5: They stopped making them and it can find when it
Speaker 5: costs more than yeah, yeah we should be spending on yeah.
Speaker 6: More than what we should be spending on that. And
Speaker 6: that thing got soaked and it's still buried in rice
Speaker 6: right now, so I'm gonna have to go and vacuum
Speaker 6: that all.
Speaker 3: Oh so in theory there might be hope still.
Speaker 5: So so no matter that seems to be the theme. Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: it's it's miraculous that all these things are surviving.
Speaker 2: I followed all of.
Speaker 6: The procedures and protocols for for salvage and electronics. Man,
Speaker 6: so there's there's a high likelihood that it will turn
Speaker 6: on okay, even if it doesn't work one hundred percent
Speaker 6: because this thing was built in like nineteen eighty three
Speaker 6: in Japan. There was actually some Japanese person that point
Speaker 6: to point wired this whole thing, so you know, it's
Speaker 6: not built like a modern PCB board equipment.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's.
Speaker 6: Definitely salvageable no matter what. It's a matter of how
Speaker 6: much money do you want to sink actually repairing it,
Speaker 6: But those sorts of things are worth putting it into.
Speaker 6: The The other major thing, which I got a shout
Speaker 6: out to my father, Mitch Dyer. He he came down
Speaker 6: in a couple of days and he helped lug out
Speaker 6: the ham and B three that we had down there,
Speaker 6: and that that if if I mean if listeners out there,
Speaker 6: no HAMM and B three under normal circumstances, generally takes
Speaker 6: about four people to move it safely. Yeah, and to
Speaker 6: have one that's water logged and all kinds of screwed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was rough. However, because my.
Speaker 6: Father is a mechanical genius, we basically were able to
Speaker 6: do it with two people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The way we rigged it up, you know, we locked
Speaker 6: on the tone wheel and did all we had to
Speaker 6: do to get it ready to move. But we we
Speaker 6: rigged up a chain fall and we just we we
Speaker 6: took in the building. There's some four inch cast iron
Speaker 6: pipe that's just like hanging for for drain lines and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just old old cast iron pipe. It's stuff that guys
Speaker 6: wouldn't use today. But it was perfect for us because
Speaker 6: we could rig up all kinds of like toast strapping
Speaker 6: and chain fall up there and we could support the
Speaker 6: weight of this organ just oh my god, for cast
Speaker 6: iron pipe with the hang Oh yeah wow. So so
Speaker 6: it only took two of us to to actually move
Speaker 6: it up and out.
Speaker 2: Do you have video of that? Did you take video?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we didn't take video, but we we we
Speaker 6: got pictures of the rag and uh it kind of
Speaker 6: surprised people because we did put out a call to help.
Speaker 6: That morning, I put out a Facebook post like, hey,
Speaker 6: if anyone has extra time this to make this safe,
Speaker 6: you know, really even just a pair of eyes or
Speaker 6: what have you. But but no, we we got it done.
Speaker 2: Just just the two of us.
Speaker 3: Amazing and uh yeah, we we we.
Speaker 6: Absolutely did make it out of there with that B
Speaker 6: three within a couple of days that that that thing
Speaker 6: is uh, it's gonna get rebuilt, it's gonna go down.
Speaker 6: And here's another shameless plug to someone who doesn't get
Speaker 6: nearly enough recognition in the Keys community. Tyler dre Bick
Speaker 6: down in Summerville at Boss, Oregon. He's actually originally from
Speaker 6: up here in New Hampshire and he does incredible work.
Speaker 6: He's he's probably and I mean I think he knows this.
Speaker 6: He's one of the foremost Hammond organ techs in the world.
Speaker 6: He you know, he does ham and teching for you know,
Speaker 6: touring act guy guys in touring acts you you know,
Speaker 6: and he's gonna be the one who's gonna be taken
Speaker 6: on the job. I get to deliver the organ to
Speaker 6: him at the end of the month, end of January
Speaker 6: or maybe beginning. It kind of depends on when his
Speaker 6: space exactly frees up.
Speaker 5: But one of the one of the most amazing things
Speaker 5: about this situation that just landed in my lap five
Speaker 5: years ago being a part of Tree Streets Incorporated, Uh,
Speaker 5: not only just the support from Dave and Caleb, but
Speaker 5: the fact that we had things like a ham and
Speaker 5: B three with a Leslie rotating cab at our fingertips. Nowadays,
Speaker 5: when you hear organ in the song, if you hear
Speaker 5: organ in the song, it's it's usually just like a
Speaker 5: setting and it's fine, like that's what we do when
Speaker 5: we play live. But on Lost in It All featuring
Speaker 5: Faith in the single that's the single that's uh that we're.
Speaker 2: Trying to get rolling, Yeah, that's a real organ.
Speaker 5: On Dear Baby Gene, which which is a a what
Speaker 5: didn't start as as a song that was going to
Speaker 5: be prominently organ driven. Yeah, it's a real hamm and
Speaker 5: it's like it's like what ray Man Xeric used on
Speaker 5: those Doors records.
Speaker 2: Well, no, he used a Vox but yeah, stop correcting, Not.
Speaker 5: That wasn't it.
Speaker 2: That wasn't a B three.
Speaker 6: No, no, he used a Vox Continental but no, kidding,
Speaker 6: show my ignorance and a Fender Roads based baby.
Speaker 5: I knew about the Fender room. But in any event,
Speaker 5: it's the fact that we had all these wonderful instruments
Speaker 5: and and what Caleb and Dave put together.
Speaker 6: It's if you build it, they will come, and I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But so so we dug into the computer computers for
Speaker 5: hard drive.
Speaker 2: Is okay?
Speaker 5: That the most important thing means we have all the
Speaker 5: stems for all the songs.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 5: And so the title track of the of the album
Speaker 5: that was meant to be Superhero Toys, and it's a
Speaker 5: song about my son, my son's actually, and they were
Speaker 5: on the track, so I like, I don't want to
Speaker 5: give it too much a way about the song, but
Speaker 5: at the end of the song we repeat the chorus
Speaker 5: and all the kids are on it, and we do
Speaker 5: some like Pink Floyd's style like recordings in the background
Speaker 5: of kids like like stuff throughout the years. So, but
Speaker 5: one thing that was really special to me was Junior's
Speaker 5: my son. He's twenty. He's a marine, so he's not around,
Speaker 5: and he wanted to take I have my son Jackson
Speaker 5: on the track. There's the last verse is about when
Speaker 5: he's born and how me and Junior now like it's
Speaker 5: our job to make him a man. And he sang
Speaker 5: on this track two years ago when we started it,
Speaker 5: and we just kind of never finished it, but we
Speaker 5: decided to add it to the record and it ended
Speaker 5: up becoming the title track, and so Jackson sang on
Speaker 5: it again when he was fourteen. So that's the kind
Speaker 5: of stuff I was scared to lose, having him at
Speaker 5: eleven singing on the track, and then having him at fourteen,
Speaker 5: so both of those voices were there, Like I can't
Speaker 5: get him at eleven again, I can have him redo
Speaker 5: the track tomorrow we set up. So those are the
Speaker 5: things that I was thinking about, and honestly, I felt
Speaker 5: selfish every time I thought about it, because these people
Speaker 5: lost their homes.
Speaker 2: I lost some songs, but.
Speaker 5: I got a roof in a bed, which is one
Speaker 5: of the main reasons why I was like laser focused
Speaker 5: on making sure people knew that I wasn't taking money
Speaker 5: from this. I want to make sure people know that
Speaker 5: we are doing everything we can to help the folks
Speaker 5: that no longer have a roof in a bed, like
Speaker 5: they were getting put up at the old middle school.
Speaker 5: Read that's where that's where they were staying. Like I
Speaker 5: was staying in my room, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like I was, I was cooking breakfast the next day
Speaker 5: in my kitchen.
Speaker 2: You know, so so I.
Speaker 5: But but now that we are making sure that in
Speaker 5: the Salvation Army has been great. I forget the gentleman's
Speaker 5: name that was the contact. I believe it's Dave something,
Speaker 5: but he's working closely with the families to make sure
Speaker 5: that that all our donations are going through.
Speaker 2: And good. Now now that and I.
Speaker 5: Jokingly said, like the first week after all this, because
Speaker 5: any anybody who sees me so the news, you know
Speaker 5: what's going on with the fire all, I like, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'll be sad next month about my music because I
Speaker 5: thought it was gone, and now it's my month to
Speaker 5: be sad about. You know, I could be a little
Speaker 5: bit selfish. And I get a text from Dave the
Speaker 5: other night. I was literally out having a couple a
Speaker 5: couple drinks at the Blues blues Bar and I look
Speaker 5: I looked down at the phone and they sent me
Speaker 5: a message with all my folders. Yeah, man, I cried.
Speaker 5: I cried at the bar. I don't even wow, just
Speaker 5: like tears filled my eyes and it's all there.
Speaker 2: It's all there. You don't know when we're going to
Speaker 2: mix it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put a I'm gonna put a date on
Speaker 5: it at some point, but right now, what we're going
Speaker 5: to do is we're going to re release my EP
Speaker 5: with merchandise and start getting out there and uh playing
Speaker 5: it live. So the re release is for me personally,
Speaker 5: this is this is this is just my plug, not
Speaker 5: not a benefit. My re release is on February ninth,
Speaker 5: we're re releasing the EP, and then on March seventh
Speaker 5: at Bad Burger, we're doing a a record release party
Speaker 5: or an EP release party, and my my full band
Speaker 5: will be there, and we have two wonderful bands that
Speaker 5: are going to be on the bill as well, The
Speaker 5: Tumble Toads and the Faith and Band are going to
Speaker 5: also be the on the seventh of March at Bad Burger,
Speaker 5: and we are gonna that's gonna be a party.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a ticketed event.
Speaker 5: There'll be money at the door and merchandise, so if
Speaker 5: you want a shirt with my ugly mug on it,
Speaker 5: you can come down and check it out.
Speaker 2: But we're really really excited to I'm excited to be
Speaker 2: releasing it.
Speaker 5: I wanted Superhero Toys to be on it. Like the
Speaker 5: seventeenth of December was when it was supposed to come out.
Speaker 2: My son's birthday.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, every one of my releases has has a meeting,
Speaker 5: even February ninth. I'm like, I want to release in February.
Speaker 5: What's a good February date. Well, it happened. February ninth
Speaker 5: happens to be the sixty thirty anniversary of when the
Speaker 5: greatest band of all time appeared on the Ed Sullivan
Speaker 5: Show and change rock and roll, you know, and and
Speaker 5: and pretty much made me want to do what I
Speaker 5: want to do, you know, through.
Speaker 2: My father and stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, excuse me, so everything, everything has a special date.
Speaker 5: But I really wanted to come out on the seventeenth.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna but buckle up, everybody. Twenty twenty six,
Speaker 5: we're we're ripping it and you.
Speaker 6: Might even get a single release of one of my
Speaker 6: originals that made it through Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 6: some some music of mine that is as of yet
Speaker 6: unheard by the world.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, this absolutely.
Speaker 6: Wonder this, this fire has kind of made me realize
Speaker 6: that I should probably just publish it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, good, Well we look forward to that. Guys,
Speaker 3: we're almost out of time. I'm thinking I was going
Speaker 3: to close out the segment. We'll play Lost in It
Speaker 3: all that single with faith and got that cute up
Speaker 3: and ready. Anything you want to just remind people before
Speaker 3: we wrap up the hour, what what they should know
Speaker 3: about what's coming up?
Speaker 6: Well, if if you'd like to catch me tonight, I'm
Speaker 6: actually going to be playing a bad Burger a ten
Speaker 6: pm tonight.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: I'll be with the brad New Bay Band's kind of
Speaker 6: a weird bill. There's like two metal bands and then
Speaker 6: a blues band in the middle of it. Okay, you know,
Speaker 6: but if you want to catch a forty five minute
Speaker 6: set of some some ripping blues tonight, I'll be here
Speaker 6: at ten pm.
Speaker 2: Nice also, uh, actually, no, that's it.
Speaker 5: I would love to end the segment by saying thank
Speaker 5: you to everybody who supported me. From family, friends, other
Speaker 5: musicians are our community, our music community. In southern New
Speaker 5: Hampshire is uh is really special?
Speaker 2: Agreed?
Speaker 5: And and you know you got Gary coming in next.
Speaker 5: And that guy's in every single band in the music community.
Speaker 3: I always say he's the busiest musician I know.
Speaker 2: I playing with Gary soon. Yeah, excellent week.
Speaker 5: So I say thank you to the bands, to Eleanor
Speaker 5: and Terminus Underground. I want to say thank you to
Speaker 5: to family and friends who have supported us, anybody who's donated,
Speaker 5: and and everybody that's keeping this, keeping this rolling.
Speaker 3: Thank you, absolutely, thank you, well said guys, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you for coming in and this has been this
Speaker 3: has been wonderful. And uh yeah, if you are listening
Speaker 3: live on Saturday, Gary Smith is joining us next and
Speaker 3: right now, let's hit this track. This is Lost in
Speaker 3: it All Jesse Rudstein featuring Faith Inn. We made plans
Speaker 3: to see the bed because my friend plays ron.
Speaker 5: It's been a long week.
Speaker 4: Cannot can I can't wait again in all time it
Speaker 4: sounds I gotta let the episode of a.
Speaker 5: Wag loose my some to sit.
Speaker 8: Here, good, to.
Speaker 4: Have a little fun, baby get served. It's just something
Speaker 4: about using wait the know please makes me again up
Speaker 4: about my team getting.
Speaker 8: Bosting it all because we all work. God, we getting
Speaker 8: lost at it all.
Speaker 3: Somebody then be there.
Speaker 4: We're gonna sit right in and we get lost.
Speaker 8: In at it all. They've been out in a long time.
Speaker 3: Then I just line in joy if I know
Speaker 1: I ain't seen this, tir little lost
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