Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-31-26 hour 3

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0:20 Speaker 4: This is Eleanor Langthorne from Vices Inc. And you're listening to Matt Connerton unleashed on ninety five point three. W m n H.

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3:05 Speaker 3: I do anything for you, I do anything.

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4:09 Speaker 1: Good night.

4:14 Speaker 3: All through.

4:19 Speaker 9: That is all through the night. The band is Vices Inc. And they are with us. We're going to speak with them in just a moment. But welcome everybody. If you are listening live on Saturday, we have entered our number three new Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we're live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM and Glorious but very very very very cold, but glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com, slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and fosh archives, et cetera, et cetera.

4:50 Speaker 9: Today is January thirty one, two thousand and twenty six, and we have returning to the show. Let's see Jogger. Let's start with you. Let's go around, have everyone introduce themselves in the band. This is your because this is only Is this your third or fourth time on the show or.

5:05 Speaker 10: The band's been here three times, three times, but I've been on it, uh individually talk about the Vices past.

5:11 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, four times, four times, so you're in the four time risk club. Now if that's a thing, we'll make it a thing.

5:17 Speaker 10: Mack a jacket? Great, that's right, all right. So and what do you do in the band. Yeah, that's a good question. Mostly guitar and keyboards, but I do multiple things. Yes, and I cooked two for the band, so that's good. Right. Oh I didn't know that.

5:34 Speaker 2: Wow?

5:34 Speaker 10: Nice?

5:35 Speaker 9: Nice? All right?

5:36 Speaker 11: And you hi.

5:38 Speaker 12: I'm Eleanor. I am the vocalist of Vices, Inc. And recently I've started playing guitar. Oh cool during our live shows.

5:46 Speaker 9: Oh nice? Nice? Yes, yes, and you hi.

5:50 Speaker 11: I'm Christy. I play the drums and that's.

5:52 Speaker 10: All I do. Well, percussion, Yeah, that's true.

5:56 Speaker 12: Christy also records my vocals.

5:58 Speaker 11: That's true.

5:58 Speaker 9: Oh that's important. Oh, very good, very good, Yeah, because everything is self recorded, right you all? Yes, we have a studio. Yeah, it sounds. It sounds fantastic. If have you done it that way from the beginning, if I remember.

6:10 Speaker 10: Correctly, No, no, no, two years into it we started doing we decided that was the best way to do it. Okay. We were at multiple studios and we just couldn't. It just didn't work out until we did it ourselves.

6:23 Speaker 9: Right right, Okay. Oh by the way too, for those watching online, whether it be Facebook or YouTube or let's see, y'all brought goodies, which I appreciate. CD here Rolling eighty two. I'll hold that up so everyone whips. Will hold that up so everyone can see it. And a brand new I'm wearing my Vice's ink shirt, but you brought me another one. I'll hold that up so people can see it.

6:45 Speaker 10: So I appreciate that it's actually the Boston Skyline.

6:48 Speaker 9: There, Oh it is, Okay. I love city skylines. That's kind of my thing, so that's very cool.

6:52 Speaker 12: So I appreciate that we'll have to do a Manchester skyline.

6:55 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so inviting. Yes, but thank you.

7:01 Speaker 9: And of course for those watching online too, I have my vices in kat was very appropriate to wear on such a brutally cold day, and my my shirt and mind oh and my new Uh. Jenny will be very happy to to get one of these. She loves this stuff.

7:13 Speaker 10: So we're going to be having a vice Minden's pretty soon for you too, Okay, Licensing, it was wonderful. Wow, we've hard forget to say this. Yes, I want to say right off that I want to give a good Alden to you for your passing your father. Oh, thank you, and we know it's been hard for you and we're thinking about you.

7:31 Speaker 9: Oh, I appreciate that, Jagger, thank you very much. Sorry about you know, Yeah, no, I appreciate that.

7:35 Speaker 10: Yeah.

7:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of our listeners were very familiar with him because when the show used to be on an afternoon's week afternoons, he would call in a lot. But he was such a huge supporter of music, local music, independent music. You know, I always say he's like the only he was the only seventy something year old man I knew who would actually like listen to college radio and liked hearing new stuff and.

7:54 Speaker 10: Maybe maybe like devices inc. Who knows, you know, he probably did.

7:57 Speaker 9: He probably, you guys, the sound on that the sound of the band is the kind of thing he would really enjoy, so he probably he probably did. Actually, so yeah, absolutely, so thank you for that.

8:08 Speaker 10: Sure.

8:09 Speaker 9: So what what is new with the bands that track all through the night?

8:14 Speaker 2: Why?

8:14 Speaker 9: Why did you choose that for the opening single today.

8:18 Speaker 10: Well, it's it's we went you know, we that's when we're here talking about how we were going to go change our sound. Yeah, which is the il like Kissed album, which is the shirt you're in right now, And that song is kind of back to our roots again, okay, and we just kind of inspired to do it. And crazy enough, the song has been wicked popular, so it's like, well, maybe we shoused to be doing that too, you know.

8:41 Speaker 9: Yeah.

8:42 Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's a precursor to our next album, not the album coming out next week, but the album that's coming out after that one. Okay, back to being the pop punk album.

8:51 Speaker 9: Okay.

8:52 Speaker 10: So and it's not down the album, it's it's a standalone single. But we just get inspired to do it again. Yeah yeah, and it's a fun song.

9:00 Speaker 9: Yeah. Well you're you're incredibly prolific. We were talking off air. You got like three hundred songs.

9:04 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean online we do, but like like in the vault or being worked on, it's probably double that right, Oh my god.

9:11 Speaker 12: Criple, Like there's an unlimited number of songs out there that Yeah, Jag he has songs that he's written that we plan to work on yeah, and then like every other day he's like, I wrote five new songs and they're all like amazing. Ye, so we want to do all of them. Yeah, so yeah, I mean that is the goal. Yeah, but yeah, we'll get to them.

9:37 Speaker 10: She just got a new one yesterday yep.

9:39 Speaker 9: Oh really yeah.

9:39 Speaker 10: It's for a CAF thing called dark Pop. Right. So we've got an EP coming out sometime whenever she gets to it, because she has a lot of stuff to get to and it'll be a thing called dog pop EP, which is like songs that are pop by on the darker side. Okay, Okay, we're crazy.

9:55 Speaker 9: Yeah.

9:56 Speaker 10: What happened was? I mean people asked us this question all the time? How did they become this because we're a COVID band and instead of playing shows we need music. That's basically what happened. And now we can't stop doing it because I'm weird.

10:08 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:09 Speaker 9: No, it's great though. It's funny how much COVID still comes up on the show, you know, even because in the first and second hours of the show today I had guests from the UK on Microsoft teams joining us, and in both of those conversations, COVID came up and how it affected what they were doing musically and put them in the directions that they're going now. So I always say, you know, the pandemic was awful, but we have to find these silver linings where we can in one of the silver linings of.

10:32 Speaker 10: COVID was it.

10:33 Speaker 9: It really brought a lot of creativity out and a lot of musicians that we've had on the show and just generally and also to getting musicians to embrace technology more in terms of collaboration and all of it, you know.

10:46 Speaker 10: So hey, it's a price side of that, right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, And now we just got in such a routine of working so hard even though we play shows and all this other stuff on our agenda. Yeah, we just can't change it. Yeah, and that's okay. Yeah, it seems like the fans of our music are happy with that. Yes, it's like, every time you have something released, how about some more? How about some more? I'm like, how about you do it right right.

11:13 Speaker 6: Now.

11:13 Speaker 9: It's a good problem to have though, And uh, yeah, Jenny and I went to see all at Bad Burger with Under the Horizon and Plague Dad, oh and Eleanor. I wanted to tell you too. I love like when when you get up and sing with plague Dad. That is amazing. That is so good.

11:29 Speaker 11: Thank you so much.

11:29 Speaker 12: I love I love Frank so much. I love everything he does.

11:32 Speaker 11: So it's it's so.

11:35 Speaker 12: Amazing to be able to go join him on stage for his set too. Yeah, we have a couple more songs were really together.

11:41 Speaker 13: Yeah.

11:42 Speaker 9: How many did you did you do that night?

11:43 Speaker 10: Like three?

11:44 Speaker 1: Yeah?

11:44 Speaker 12: Reason, I do like two or three? Yeah, but he wants to add me to one of his other ones nice, which I'm really excited about because it's a fun one.

11:52 Speaker 9: Yeah. Oh that's cool.

11:53 Speaker 10: That's cool.

11:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, I think Jenny and I we met him through you didn't.

11:57 Speaker 10: We sure did?

11:58 Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah?

11:59 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah how you met him? Was he?

12:02 Speaker 14: Uh?

12:02 Speaker 10: We were supposed to come here for a show and some reason we couldn't. Oh yeah I hadn't replace us Okay, and that's what.

12:09 Speaker 9: I remember now. Yeah, yeah, no, he is great. Yeah, we got to get him back on he's he's he's amazing.

12:14 Speaker 10: He actually he's been helping us out lately too, really show why some shows he's been playing bass for us.

12:20 Speaker 9: Oh nice? So okay rock you know he comes out with his love jacket punk rock and oh very cool fan. So we should talk about that too. So you're you're down, you're down a member.

12:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, and you know I have Christy talk about that.

12:34 Speaker 9: Okay, oh sure, well it is well, you know it is the rhythm section, right, so yeah, friend, a representative of the rhythm section. Should I should address this officially? Right?

12:45 Speaker 11: Absolutely?

12:46 Speaker 10: Yeah.

12:46 Speaker 15: I mean we've been working hard still, just you know, trying to find the right fit. And you know, you have a couple of different people help us out, you know, for shows in the meantime. But yeah, you know, if you know a bass player, you are a bass player, maybe talk to us. But also, you know, we wanted to make sure we find the right person. I'm not letna say anything bad about anyone that we've worked with. It's just that we're a close knit band. Yeah, we we're friends outside of it too, So we want to make sure we find somebody who's not only you know, a good person to hang out with, Buzz also has the time and the commitment to that's the same as us.

13:15 Speaker 15: I mean, as we were talking about how busy we are, it's a huge commitment.

13:18 Speaker 11: To be in this band. It's it's basically your life that's true.

13:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, we're very protective of our music but also protective Charlie two. Yeah, so if you give me part of that, you have to understand yours guidelines, be part of the band and stuff, and we won't change that.

13:31 Speaker 15: Yeah, but we'd love to steal a Frank. Don't get us wrong. He has his own projects. Like, We're not gonna take him away from that, right, that's not fair to him to us, So.

13:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, of course, of course.

13:40 Speaker 10: Yeah.

13:40 Speaker 9: Bass players can be hard to hard to come by, although not You know what comes up on the show constantly is drummers. Are you how many bands are you in? Are you only in this band?

13:47 Speaker 11: I have only in this band, I only have time for this band.

13:49 Speaker 9: You're the only drummer I know who's only in one.

13:52 Speaker 11: I'm an monogamous drummer, the only one.

13:54 Speaker 9: Most in the world, most drummers are in like ten different bands.

13:57 Speaker 11: I can see that.

13:58 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm only one in another band, in this band. But that's been coming kind of an issue too, oh really kind of balance both bands.

14:06 Speaker 9: Oh you got another project?

14:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, the Ghost of New England, which oh.

14:09 Speaker 9: Yes, didn't we did? We talk about that at one point?

14:15 Speaker 10: Yeah, well they supposed to be on the show eventually.

14:18 Speaker 9: Oh good, okay, right right right, yeah, because I recognized the name, yeah yeah, okay, okay, cool, and that's more like what what is that? What is that band?

14:27 Speaker 16: Like?

14:27 Speaker 10: What is that think of? Like Black Eyes Style?

14:30 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, right, okay, I remember talking about it now, Okay, yeah that makes sense. But yeah, drummers are you know my theory I might have said this year before, my theory with with drummer. Well, Christy, you can tell me what your experience was. Is that most most kids, you know, you're growing up, you get interested in playing an instrument, You want to play the drums. You go to the parents and say this is what I want to play. They're going to try to talk you out of that, like can you play something a little quieter?

14:54 Speaker 9: Right? Well, what was your experience with that?

14:56 Speaker 15: Mine was actually interesting experience. My mom did do that, but it wasn't because of hers, because of me, because she's like I'm and when I was young, I actually had a lot of a lot of hard times with loud noises. Oh, because she was trying to protect me. When I said when I was like nine or ten years old that I wanted to try the drums and she's She's like, are you sure you want to do that? And I'll go, well, I guess that's a good point. But at the time I didn't. What I didn't realize is when you're actually playing, you can't tell, like the bad noises don't bother you, you're the one behind the instrument, right, Like I had actually bothered me more because she had me play saxophone, which I was right in front of the percussion section.

15:27 Speaker 15: So to me, it was louder doing that than if I had actually played the drums myself. It would have been way better situation. But then later on, when I was in middle school, I decided to try again. Yeah, and I was a little bit better like with noises at that point too. So between the two things, that's how I started playing.

15:43 Speaker 9: But and in hindsight, she's probably glad that she wasn't able to talk you out of it, right.

15:47 Speaker 15: Yeah, No, she loves it now. She's probably a biggerest fan. She comes around with us almost every show. She helps the stue merch and stuff.

15:52 Speaker 9: Oh that's great, Yeah good, I've heard the super like.

15:54 Speaker 11: I could not ask for more supportive family.

15:57 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's great. That makes That makes a big difference, I mean all the difference.

15:59 Speaker 10: Yeah, you're extending family too, like you're my own uncle. A couple of actually, and the true fans. It sound like it's just because of Christy's like you know, a relative. They are true fans of the music, which is really great. Yeah, oh that is yeah when they know the lyrics better than Eleanor.

16:15 Speaker 12: You know, I think most people do.

16:22 Speaker 9: Eleanor. Should we talk about what you've what you've been through recently?

16:26 Speaker 12: Sure? Yeah, so I I've had this condition for my entire life. I've not been able to burp. Really yes, interesting, it's called RCPD. I don't actually know what it stands for, but that's like the like if you look up r CPD, you'll find I.

16:41 Speaker 9: Bet the is the r like reflux or something.

16:44 Speaker 12: Retro something I think, But there there are dozens.

16:49 Speaker 11: Of us, you know.

16:50 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, is it a rare condition.

16:52 Speaker 12: It's so the awareness of it has gotten a lot better. I think it's more common than maybe was previously thought. But they came up with a treatment for it in like twenty nineteen, and like started rolling it out in like twenty twenty, so it's very new. But I got a shot of botox to my larynx. Interesting, and that has allowed me. Now I'm three months out from the procedure, which usually if like if you lose the ability again, it's like by this point, so it seems like it's possibly worked permanently for me.

17:29 Speaker 12: It works for like eighty percent of people all the time.

17:33 Speaker 10: Good.

17:33 Speaker 12: But because I got that done, I like kind of lost control of my voice for like the past three months, and like, just like pretty much this week feel like I have it fully really Yeah, but it was really really difficult, Like we had shows booked and we had no idea like what the recovery was going to be. Like yeah, they told me like, oh, you'll probably like if it does affect your voice, it'll probably be better in like a month, but worst case, it'll be three months. So we kind of were like hoping for the one month and then it turned out to be a little bit more of a factor then we had hoped.

18:11 Speaker 12: But I'm really glad I got it done. It's cool that, like you know that it's like a thing that's recognized and there's a treatment for it.

18:21 Speaker 3: Yeah.

18:21 Speaker 12: Yeah, I feel a lot better just like in my everyday life. Kidding, Yeah, but yeah, it kind of stunk to not really be able to like use my voice. And it wasn't like it was painful. It was just like I didn't have access to most of my range. It was really frustrating because I'm like I can, like I'm doing the thing that should be producing this sound, and I just can't produce that sound.

18:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, now that makes sense, can you now?

18:51 Speaker 6: Yes?

18:51 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, not really like on Q, but but I can do it, so like for the first time in your life, you're able to Wow.

19:01 Speaker 12: Yeah, I like, you know, maybe like once a year I would have like a hiccup that turned into a tiny burp.

19:09 Speaker 9: Oh interesting, and I would be like, oh, that was cool.

19:12 Speaker 12: I like couldn't burp. Like I remember when I was little, my brother was like burping the alphabet and I was like, I can't even burp at all, and He's like, just work harder. I guess, like the muscle can be like so tight that you just like don't have the ability to use it properly. So they like paralyze it with botox. Okay, so your body learns how to like just let it happen, and then once the botox wears off, you like in theory, will have learned to use that muscle kind of involuntarily. It's really cool.

19:46 Speaker 9: Interesting, Yeah, were there like what are the consequences of not being able to burp?

19:52 Speaker 12: Just like eternal bloating and like discomfort, Like I would get a lot of like cramps in my esophague like not fun. I would also get this thing sometimes I would just like start salivating. I would like literally have to like go to a sink. It was really gross, but it was like like so much saliva, like just like weird, kind of inconvenient like discomfort.

20:16 Speaker 10: But it doesn't make like cause issues as you get older.

20:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, so it can put you at risk for a soft deal cancer, which my grandfather actually passed away from. So I was like, I know I'm already kind of at higher risk for that anyway, So I definitely want to take care of this as soon as I can.

20:36 Speaker 2: Yeah.

20:36 Speaker 9: Would it would it interfere with your singing?

20:40 Speaker 12: No, So it shouldn't like oh you mean like not being able to burp in the first place. Yeah, No, I mean sometimes like I would get these like gurgly noises. That's like one of the big symptoms is like people call them like frog noises croaking or whatever, and that would be annoying if I was like trying to record.

21:00 Speaker 9: Yeah, can imagine.

21:01 Speaker 12: Yeah, I feel like, you know, I can't use that takee because there's like a random little like so that was like kind of an issue. I would try not to like drink anything super like carbonated before recording, but a lot of people who have the condition like avoid carbonated drinks completely.

21:20 Speaker 9: You know, Yeah, I can see why.

21:21 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I just like really like carbonation.

21:23 Speaker 10: So oh yeah I get that. Yeah.

21:27 Speaker 9: So you're but you think you're you're pretty well recovered at this point.

21:30 Speaker 11: Yeah, I think.

21:31 Speaker 16: Yeah.

21:31 Speaker 12: I was singing in the shower yesterday. Yeah, some paramore. That's all coming out nice, good yod like excellent, finally excellent.

21:40 Speaker 10: We always have to back up, though, because if she can't do the vocals, I can do it. And oh yeah I sound just like her, So it's great a difference. Yeah, So it's like it's me, is it her? Sometimes I'm doing that. I don't know who it is.

21:53 Speaker 9: Wow, Well that's excellent.

21:54 Speaker 10: That's good to have.

21:57 Speaker 9: So on all through the night. Is that you or is that owner?

22:00 Speaker 11: Well?

22:00 Speaker 10: See this the point is we don't know anymore the world never know.

22:04 Speaker 9: We're ourselves very good, very good. Well, if you're just joining us vices incas here with us, I think we should play another track us.

22:14 Speaker 10: All right.

22:14 Speaker 9: I'm gonna be selfish. I usually let the guests pick, but I really want to hear Cities in Dust all right, tell me about this song because I love this song.

22:22 Speaker 10: Well again.

22:24 Speaker 2: Uh.

22:25 Speaker 10: We decided to do this album, which is coming out next week, by the way, call Into In and Out of the Strange Evings, Okay, And it's basically the songs that were part of that show, and we wrote songs that felt like should be in that show.

22:39 Speaker 9: Interesting, and.

22:42 Speaker 10: So we said, you know, I you know, so you you hear all the albums like okay, oh I heard that song, that song on that you know episode to season four whatever. So that was the you know, we was kind of random with the songs we picked. We wanted this album to flow well. But there was other songs we picked for this album too that didn't make the cut. Okay, but city does. It's always a bit. It's a cool song. It is like a drum beat forward. I love the guitar effects on it. And Susie in the Banchie. It's pretty cool.

23:10 Speaker 10: Yeah, so, and it's a song that's not overplayed either, so we decided, you know, why not go for it? And if I think it fits perfectly with the whole stranger.

23:18 Speaker 9: So this is a Susie and the Banchies cover. See I didn't even realize that. Yeah, yeah, i'd never because I remember Susie and the Banchies of course, but I don't remember the song. But anyway, yeah, I love it. This is really good. So let's give this a spind then we'll come back. We'll talk, we'll talk more about the album because I want to hear more about that. That's a very very interesting concept. But here it is cities and dust, and this is vices inc.

24:07 Speaker 1: Watson was running, children were running. You were running out a time under the mountain of Golden Fountain. Where are you prying at the Lors Drive?

24:23 Speaker 14: But oh.

24:25 Speaker 17: Oh your sity lies and dome smiling, Oh.

24:33 Speaker 3: Oh your safety lie and door.

24:38 Speaker 1: Smiling. We found you lying.

24:49 Speaker 18: We found you lying, choking all lots in sand.

24:55 Speaker 8: You'll feel my glories and all the stories drag can walks with the egers.

25:02 Speaker 1: But oh.

25:05 Speaker 3: Oh, your city lies and do smile, friend, Oh.

25:13 Speaker 13: Oh, your CD lies and does lose mon Your sat lazy does.

25:29 Speaker 16: M water swarming children, We got to harden.

25:41 Speaker 1: We know you're liars, waters roters children, We're.

25:47 Speaker 9: Gon ne riding, We're lion.

25:53 Speaker 3: Your city lies does smile?

25:57 Speaker 1: Friend?

25:58 Speaker 3: Oh oh your city line and don.

26:06 Speaker 1: Cloud heart burning in your nostrils.

26:19 Speaker 13: Pouring down your gaping man sims and bodies, blankets.

26:25 Speaker 3: And synders, gord in the door.

26:30 Speaker 17: Oh oh, your dating lies in don smile? Oh oh your city las do.

26:44 Speaker 3: Smile? Oh oh, your sty lies do smile? Oh oh, your city line and.

26:59 Speaker 9: Do mhmm, cities and dust. The band is Vices Inc. And that is from the album In and Out of the Stranger Things. And we've got Vices Inc. Here with us in studio, and yeah, I love that. So I want to hear more about this, this concept of this album and and you know the backstory and why you decided to do that, do this album.

27:40 Speaker 10: I'm gonna say one thing, you know what, That song has a fade out. That's eighties right there. We don't do out, but we got one there. I did notice that. I did notice that. Yeah, you got to have a fade out for eight songs. Yeah, absolutely, talk about that album.

27:54 Speaker 12: Sure, yeah, we all like really loved Stranger Things just for for years we've we've loved the show and I don't even know like what year this idea first originated.

28:09 Speaker 11: But we can start to run up the hill, doesn't it?

28:11 Speaker 10: Yeah?

28:12 Speaker 11: Okay?

28:13 Speaker 10: Season four?

28:13 Speaker 12: Okay, Yeah, so season four came out, we decided to cover Running Up that Hill, which we have recently added to our live set.

28:22 Speaker 9: Did you play that at Bad Burger?

28:24 Speaker 2: No?

28:25 Speaker 10: We started doing it like last month.

28:27 Speaker 12: Oh okay, okay, and we were like, what if we covered more songs from Stranger Things and add a couple originals too. That kind of fit, and we put it out as an album and we kind of picked some of the songs that were the most impactful. We actually added two songs like like two months ago, like right before. We're like, we really feel like we need to have these ones on there too.

28:55 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, the one we've got to add if you watch the show of at all, one of the main is that should I Say? Should I Go? And we did not do that song. Hello, maybe we should do that song.

29:06 Speaker 12: So we did that last month, and the other one we actually do a live version of I Think We're Alone Now. Okay, we were watching season five and we're like, oh my gosh, they put it in the show so we can record this real quick.

29:21 Speaker 9: That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, very cool. I you know, it's funny. I never I never watched Stranger Things, but I did end up seeing the finale only because Jenny watches it, or she watched it so she had it on and I was in the living room on the computer, and I was kind of curious how this turns out, even though I'd never I'd never watched it.

29:41 Speaker 10: No, that's cool. So that when does that come out? That one comes out next week?

29:46 Speaker 9: Next week? Okay, okay, very cool. And then what's the plan for it? Because then you you mentioned another album for later in the year, right, sure, but but of course you did, because you make millions of songs.

30:01 Speaker 10: The next full length album, which will be out in May. Okay, how long it takes Ellen to get done by I'm sure she'll would be done before that. We'll be back to square one, which is one of it's actually the album that got this band to be a band?

30:15 Speaker 9: Really, is that true?

30:17 Speaker 11: That is true?

30:18 Speaker 10: Okay, So when you talk about.

30:19 Speaker 12: That, Christy, yeah, absolutely, So when when I met Jag.

30:23 Speaker 15: We met through band mix. He was looking to new people jam with, and he wrote an album in like a week, maybe two weeks, two weeks, okay, two weeks to make Bad Square one. He wrote all this, you know, really good songs and he sent them to me and I was like, wow, these are great. And that was basically the back Square one album that it was all all the instrumental stuff.

30:43 Speaker 11: Was done on it.

30:44 Speaker 15: Okay, So then I ended up recording the drums for it, and actually it was right before the pandemic hit my sessions for that. But then we ended up just having so many more projects that we ended up just putting ahead of it. Oh okay, But that's why all of our recordings as far as Jag and I are, been done.

31:01 Speaker 11: For a while.

31:02 Speaker 15: I've been waiting for this for so long, Like I'm so excited, Like you have no idea. It's like, it's not like we put it on a back burner because we don't like it. Yeah, because we had like these other things like We're Stranger. Things were like we want to get this out around the time the show was done and we have oh, we wanted to explore this new genre and stuff like that. But where this album. I'm like, I cannot wait to hear her vocals on the songs that I've been waiting for literally seven years to hear these.

31:26 Speaker 9: So that's interesting. So the songs have existed for a long time.

31:30 Speaker 10: Yep, Yeah, I wrote, I was in another band before this band, and that band broke up and I wasn't gonna do music anymore, and one day I decided just to pick up the guitar again, and I wrote, it was crazy. All these songs came out on I mean in the two week period, and so we read away it's like, okay, I'm going to get the band together and just perform these songs live. And I wasn't going to be in a band anymore. But then it became a band, and then we right away recorded this album and we just shelped it and like, it's nothing about the album's bad.

32:02 Speaker 10: It's actually great, great albums, like one of my past And that's just he's crazy that we shelved it. But we shelved many albums. They got another album called Hello go By. It's been shelved, that's going to be done. We got we had an album in twenty twenty two called El ways, and we got two versions of that alas two and three rolling to the other version of it, the album version of it that's you know, I can't motion down to my this is more right? The release of the mid the Mid East Email album. Yeah, every Day Hero and every Dare Hall, which is really that our first main album.

32:39 Speaker 10: We had two albums that considered before that, but they were just they were weird really, like like in what way. Well this one album called Okay I Got the Blues, which is definitely the most COVID album of all time. Yeah, and it's actually half a jazz oh really, it's crazy interesting.

32:55 Speaker 12: There's some like like e haws.

32:59 Speaker 11: Unr. Yeah, it's been kind of a joke.

33:02 Speaker 12: It's all over the place.

33:03 Speaker 10: Yeah. We actually do one song from that album though a lot, why Don't You, which is actually pretty good. But the rest of the album is like it's chaos really, but that's there's all chaos going on during that time, so it makes a lot of sense and you think you listen to it like this band is on a lot of drugs and if that's a funny thing. We don't do drugs, never have, never will. We eat a lot of food. That's our vice, right, there's no advices with drugs, right, So advice is food, too much food and too much music?

33:31 Speaker 10: Right?

33:31 Speaker 11: Yeah?

33:32 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, So like we you know, just this album, we're excited about it. I mean I haven't listened to the I was about a two months ago. I didn't you know at that time we listened to the stuff and I didn't listen to it for maybe a year, and I'm like, holy cow, this stuff is really good, Like, who, what's going on? Why are we not? Why do we do that stuff? Yea? And Christy goes, yeah, I've been waiting.

33:57 Speaker 11: It's a shorter album too.

33:58 Speaker 15: It's like, oh really yeah, I mean compared to like a lot of stuff we do is like we'll double album, like this one has sound songs on it.

34:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm like we got that.

34:06 Speaker 9: Yeah.

34:07 Speaker 10: Yeah.

34:08 Speaker 9: So I'm curious too, just kind of from from a marketing standpoint, when you have so much output, how do you as you're releasing things, how do you make sure that everything gets the attention it deserves? And do you ever worry about things? Because if you guys were on a like a major label, they would not allow you.

34:26 Speaker 10: To do any of that. The truth is a lot of the stuff gets buried, it does, yeah, and unfortunately it has it has happened. So I think that the album that did the best for us for a long time is Eackling Kiss. Okay, those songs are still on a top ten because it did still well. Yeah, and that's the first time that anything that ever, you know, really stuck, you know, album wise, stuck well through years if it came out, because it came out in two and twenty four. Okay, but yeah, you know, we don't do well promoting wise.

34:59 Speaker 10: We don't do well in social media, which we need to work on this year. Eleanor No Name, but we don't make videos. We're going to work on that too. It's we gotta work better on doing stuff to promote the music. And it's a lot. It's a lot to do, and we'll still like the way it is. We're never going to stop the output of our music, so therefore it will still give a little bit buried. Yeah, but we need to do a better job of it too. Yeah, And we're learning that the hard way that it's not easy.

35:30 Speaker 9: There's a lot to do.

35:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, be like, oh wow, this is one of your songs. I go, Yeah, I didn't know if one of our songs.

35:38 Speaker 9: That's funny if you're just joining us. We have Vices in here with us in the studio, and I think we should play Should we play Song of eleven?

35:46 Speaker 12: Yeah?

35:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's like ways well with season Dust.

35:50 Speaker 9: Okay, is this on the album?

35:51 Speaker 4: Is this on?

35:52 Speaker 1: Well?

35:53 Speaker 10: Because that one of the character's name is eleven.

35:55 Speaker 9: Oh that's right, And I actually did know that and I forgot. Okay, that makes sense, That makes perfect sense, alright. But like I said, I saw I saw the because Jenny was watching it. I saw the finale, and I might have seen the episode before the finale, so I didn't even admit to her that I was sort of half paying attention. I'm just I'm just sitting there on my computer while she's watching it. But I'm like lancing up and is that is that really one on a rider?

36:17 Speaker 10: Anyway?

36:20 Speaker 9: All right?

36:20 Speaker 10: Here it is Song of eleven? This is Vices inc.

36:54 Speaker 5: World the most, the most changer, buzzing them.

37:00 Speaker 1: Like a storted ago.

37:05 Speaker 4: Under the stone of.

37:08 Speaker 3: What we can't explain things on.

37:12 Speaker 5: Rablay, exposing art in a way.

37:28 Speaker 1: She's said, charging the head is nor the fear that held some.

37:54 Speaker 5: Very deep behind ours, breathing the stones or the sun.

38:02 Speaker 1: Don't do the world unleash the monster with in the mind of.

38:10 Speaker 3: Her fund hoping to say, also the.

38:25 Speaker 14: Story it's the night the moves.

38:48 Speaker 5: Are hid and my sounder class through the sky, racing naked in turn.

38:59 Speaker 14: Under hold, she's.

39:02 Speaker 5: Just alone, a girl lording to trust the world.

39:08 Speaker 3: Stay on the furnisher.

39:42 Speaker 13: The light.

39:44 Speaker 5: Will she paid the price evil came to claim her life, relieved him much of fun after the fight, Will Lord you fall sad? Christie to save them all? Closing the child to vote, she said, she said.

41:09 Speaker 9: This song of eleven by Vices Inc. And uh, something hilarious almost happened when the song was playing. I the guy in the room who never even really cared about stranger things, almost completely ruined the ending for Jagger.

41:25 Speaker 10: It would have booked my heart, which would have been just the most ironic thing ever. And you were, you know, we said we gotta take away your gear. That's right, he's got all the gear that waswere He's getting an undwear on too. I think underwear.

41:37 Speaker 9: Yeah, I am, yes, yes, as a proud Mormon, I had to sacrifice to put that underwear.

41:44 Speaker 10: I'm kidding that joke.

41:46 Speaker 9: It doesn't offend anybody anyway, so we should. Yeah, time is short, but I want to make sure we get everything in vices Fest. When's the next vices Fest?

41:55 Speaker 10: Do we know? Yes, its gonna be the same time like last year, where it's gonna be during Liberty Weekend, a three days event. This time is going to be placed in Clinton, Massachusetts. Okay, at a place that's with the same name, this Drying Theater. One is a much bigger venue than the one we did like last year. But this time around, we're gonna actually have each night, we're gonna have a real national act.

42:19 Speaker 9: Oh really, Oh cool.

42:20 Speaker 10: So we don't want to give away names yet, okay, but they were going to be bigger names for each show.

42:24 Speaker 9: Oh cool.

42:25 Speaker 10: Blessed bands on overwhelmed because the past couple of times we put as many bands in there as we could. Yeah, and it was kind of overwhelming as well, because, like you know, we got like forty bands over that weekend. It's a lot of music. Yeah, it went smoothly, but but since we have natural acts coming, we need to condense a little bit more, so we're gonna be a little more picky with the music unfortunately.

42:51 Speaker 14: Yeah.

42:51 Speaker 10: Yeah, interesting to be exciting.

42:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, I remember we did on the podcast version of the show. We had a conversation specifically about Vices inc. And how much like I'm as as someone who I don't do it currently, but I used to promote a lot of shows myself, and you know, just doing like shows with a few bands could be stressful. And I remember telling you this, I cannot imagine. Well, it seems like you handle it really well. I cannot imagine the burden of putting together these enormous you know, this this festival that you do with.

43:21 Speaker 10: I am I have a good team, you know. I mean I might put a lot of work in it, in the forefront of it. Yeah, but the band that my band, which is you know, these guys, and we have a crew of other people that evolved in it. We call the Vice's Best Crew, which is like the care flowers and play Dad. Yeah, Banna my hair cruck crew. Right, it's fairy And we all did it in the house your parents, well you know, your parents had it off that day weekend. But yeah, we all you know, and once I get to the point where they can help me, they'll take over and do a lot of work.

43:52 Speaker 10: Like Ellen is more on hands. Definitely over the festival three day festival than I was. I did all the work before then, like a lot of the work came that day week and I was burnt. I can imagine she took over. She was the manager much of that.

44:05 Speaker 9: Oh cool.

44:05 Speaker 10: It wasn't for her, I would have been in the bathroom crying. Yeah.

44:12 Speaker 9: When when's the do you know that? The day yet? Again?

44:14 Speaker 10: Well, it's August thirty thirtieth, thirty first, the twenty ninth, whatever, it's twenty twenty ninth and thirtieth, because I think it's only thirty days in August, right, yeah, because uh, let me dated. It's her first, and that's the day off, and no one's gonna be doingday Saturday and Sunday, gotcha, And then you can rest up on Monday because the livery day.

44:34 Speaker 2: Right.

44:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's true.

44:36 Speaker 10: That's true.

44:36 Speaker 9: That works.

44:37 Speaker 10: That works, a lot of music, Yeah, a lot of fun, A lot of hot dogs and stuff like that, like hot dog.

44:42 Speaker 9: Right, I'm picky about how they're made though, Okay, that's okay.

44:45 Speaker 12: Something I'm picky about how they're stored. Oh really yeah yeah, well yeah, containers you know.

44:52 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.

44:53 Speaker 10: I'm also picky the date that they were made.

44:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, right right, I'm just picky about how. I had a conversation about this with someone yesterday. Like, some people think it's acceptable to eat a microwave hot dog.

45:05 Speaker 10: I do not.

45:05 Speaker 9: I think that's that's I think that's disgusting.

45:09 Speaker 10: That's not good.

45:10 Speaker 9: Boiled is questionable, steamed is okay, Brilled is the best.

45:15 Speaker 10: Mic awave man micro let's put out the sun for a week.

45:19 Speaker 9: Just look what happens to it while it's in there. It's happening in front of you.

45:23 Speaker 10: Well, micropood microwavable food and kindle is kind of gross.

45:26 Speaker 9: Well you shouldn't, yeah, I mean it's not the healthiest option.

45:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, hot dogs, right, that's Niversity this year. So there you go.

45:37 Speaker 9: Oh my god, oh wow, Yeah, you should do something about that.

45:40 Speaker 10: You should?

45:40 Speaker 9: What why not?

45:41 Speaker 10: I mean why not? Just I just said two days ago was the Challenger University too? A whole around that you could?

45:47 Speaker 9: I mean why not? You've got plenty of time?

45:53 Speaker 10: Oh boy?

45:55 Speaker 9: And then oh so Master of Puppets, I want to ask you about that because I am going to end with that. We're not gonna have we played it earlier but I want to play it again to end, but we're not gonna have time to play the whole thing, so we'll get as much. And you know, it's eight minutes. But I do want to know, like why you decided to record Master of Puppets.

46:11 Speaker 10: Well, it's it's a big part of that show, a very part of part of the show. Two, I wanted to challenge Christy to play double Check.

46:20 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I my best friend.

46:24 Speaker 10: Came right for me personally with a challenge too. I mean, it took a while for me to really work out the guitar parts and all that stuff. Usually I can learn songs pretty quickly, yeah, but that song, it took me a couple of weeks, right, and then you know, I was excited to hear how I approach it? Yeah, and she did, I don't stay in a job on it.

46:43 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. Was it challenging.

46:46 Speaker 12: So it actually falls in a really like good spot in my range, So in terms of that, it was like pretty comfortable, but rhythmically it's really really challenging. Ye with the time signature change. So I had like like several takes where I'm like, Nope, I gotta do it again because I didn't get that, like that kind of early beat feel when it goes like three to four. But yeah, yeah, it's fun.

47:14 Speaker 10: Take a while, take a while to require that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure it did. Yeah, And I had a little vocals for you, you know, why.

47:20 Speaker 12: Not right, So the screams and some of the laughing at the end, that's that's jack.

47:25 Speaker 9: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha?

47:27 Speaker 2: Oh?

47:27 Speaker 9: Very cool, very cool. So before we run out, is there anything spand us so much going on? Is there anything we didn't talk about that you want to mention?

47:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm just check us out on our website, vicesing dot com, Yeah, which Christy designed, by the way, And we have shows coming up. We've got one in February thirteenth at the Mill Tavern in in Sanford, and you know, to check us out and see comes to a show. We're gonna be We don't know who's playing bass at the time. Could be anybody, could be you, you know, it could be the listener right now and just uh, you know, look listen to the new album coming out all right, and uh yeah that's it.

48:08 Speaker 9: Very cool, very cool.

48:09 Speaker 10: Stay warm please but love of God, stay warm.

48:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, Sanford, Maine almost around there when I was a kid.

48:14 Speaker 10: Story.

48:16 Speaker 9: Don't be sorry, I mean survive. Yeah, have you sorry about I'm not sure how to take that. No, this is this has been wonderful. I really appreciate all three of you coming in. This is this has been great. And uh yeah, let's we'll spin this to end again. This this came out really really well Master of Puppets. It's on in and Out of the Stranger Things. Did I get the title right? It's a long title, okay, and uh and that's coming out next week next week. Excellent.

48:45 Speaker 10: All these songs you're playing right now are debuting songs on the radio.

48:49 Speaker 9: Oh fantastic.

48:51 Speaker 10: I know you like that. We do.

48:52 Speaker 9: We we love the world radio premieres here, we very much do. All right, thank you all again so much. Vices inc. And absolutely absolutely here it is Master of Puppets.

50:00 Speaker 18: And the Fashion play Crawling away on your source of self destruction face pop with beer, sucking darkness, clear be eating on your desk.

50:14 Speaker 3: Construction says you. We'll see Morris.

50:18 Speaker 7: All you need dedicated to how I'm killing you.

50:28 Speaker 19: Come Crawling faster, Obabier, master.

50:37 Speaker 3: Your life, barns.

50:38 Speaker 19: Faster, Obabia, master Luster, Master of puppets.

50:45 Speaker 18: I'm calling your streams, missing your mind and smashing your dreams, winding my name.

50:53 Speaker 3: I'm casting a day.

50:55 Speaker 8: Just want my name because I'll hear your scream master Master, Just put my name to sell here, you scream.

51:04 Speaker 3: Master Master, needn't work some way.

51:18 Speaker 18: Never you betrayed by first dead, becoming clearer, pay enough, believe ritual misery. Drop off your breakfast on a mirror, taste me you will see.

51:34 Speaker 3: More's all you need.

51:36 Speaker 19: Dedicated to how I'm killing you. Come crumbling Caster, okayor master.

51:53 Speaker 3: Your life burns duster obayor master master Master.

52:01 Speaker 18: We're pupping some, pulling your strings, pushing your mind and smashing your trees.

52:08 Speaker 3: What is my name? I can't say a.

52:10 Speaker 8: Kay just got my name because all you're used cream Master Master just got my name because on your u s Cream.

52:20 Speaker 3: That'ster Lester.

53:08 Speaker 20: Later, Muster, Muster, where's the dreams?

54:08 Speaker 21: Laughing after master Master promised only lies, Luster Luster, I hear receives laughter, Luster lutter laughing.

54:21 Speaker 3: At my crists.

55:30 Speaker 19: Tell us worth all that if she'll have its hat, John, don't ride without everyson, never renting.

55:39 Speaker 3: These sift on number days.

55:42 Speaker 18: Now your life is out of season.

55:46 Speaker 3: I will love you, hie, I will help you, sid, I will run through you. Now I to rule you can.

55:58 Speaker 19: Come crawling roster obayor master.

56:07 Speaker 3: Your life burst.

56:08 Speaker 18: Doster o Bayer Master Master master pupp is some pulling your strings, twisting your mind, is slashing your trees.

56:22 Speaker 3: RND in my name, Cassy a thing.

56:25 Speaker 1: Just go my name because I'll you do.

56:27 Speaker 8: Scream sester master, Just go my name because all you do, scream.

56:34 Speaker 3: Master Master.

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57:54 Speaker 3: Not boilets with the gees up damn.

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58:15 Speaker 2: I remember roll the mad times and picks them along.

58:23 Speaker 3: It feels like someone that's humping their tack. Fuck all of my arm.

58:31 Speaker 2: Right, don you mass side go where no scene down? Noboby, roll up live. I rhy mess side go where no scene down?

58:44 Speaker 3: The bomb me roll up live.

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59:03 Speaker 16: When I was in school, didn't.

59:06 Speaker 1: Make good grades.

59:07 Speaker 3: I was yes, still big numb fool.

59:11 Speaker 2: When I was still young.

59:14 Speaker 1: All I cared about rounds girls.

59:16 Speaker 16: But they didn't like my temples.

59:19 Speaker 3: I used to be such just a wool before day as night, crying on the floor.

59:27 Speaker 2: They used to wear a fans beat me of my milk money taking. When I was growing up, I remember all the bad times and picking them alm. It feels like someone is shoving the time my moms of my heart. I ride, don't you naside go when no seat, young nob