Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-12-24 hour 3

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4:09 Speaker 7: The perfect day It's so great, the perfect day, it's

4:13 Speaker 7: so great, the perfect day with.

4:17 Speaker 8: The perfect day with you, the perfect ka with you.

4:24 Speaker 4: That is quite catchy. That is Brian Blanski. That is

4:27 Speaker 4: called the Perfect Date. And this is Matt Connorton Unleashed

4:31 Speaker 4: and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety

4:34 Speaker 4: five point three FM, Inglorious of Manchester, New Hampshire. Today

4:38 Speaker 4: is October twelve, twenty twenty four, and Jenny is here,

4:42 Speaker 4: of course at the news table, and we have Brian

4:47 Speaker 4: here with us. Let's see if that mike is working. Brian,

4:49 Speaker 4: how are you?

4:50 Speaker 8: Hey, how's it going?

4:51 Speaker 10: I'm doing well? How about yourself?

4:52 Speaker 4: There we go, now I can hear you all right,

4:55 Speaker 4: Brian is So we were talking off air about I

5:00 Speaker 4: was trying to figure out if I was saying your

5:01 Speaker 4: name correctly, and so it turns out I wasn't, but

5:04 Speaker 4: I was because so you professionally you go by Brian Blansky. Yes,

5:10 Speaker 4: but the way I was saying it, Biolanski is actually the.

5:14 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how you say it correctly in Poland, and

5:17 Speaker 10: it is a Polish name. So I'm doing the Midwestern

5:21 Speaker 10: americanized accent version.

5:24 Speaker 4: Well fair enough, but we do have listeners in Poland.

5:29 Speaker 4: I believe.

5:30 Speaker 8: Awesome.

5:30 Speaker 4: I made that up, but it's nice to think we do.

5:33 Speaker 4: I mean, it's the internet.

5:34 Speaker 10: Well, I definitely promoted this show on my social media

5:38 Speaker 10: pages and do have quite a few followers in Poland.

5:41 Speaker 10: So hopefully, hopefully now there are some listeners there if

5:43 Speaker 10: there weren't before.

5:44 Speaker 4: There you go, there you go. Yeah, you're on a

5:46 Speaker 4: big national tour, right or you're going everywhere yet?

5:49 Speaker 10: Well this fall it is a Midwest, East Coast and

5:53 Speaker 10: Canada tour. I actually just got back from Edmondston, New Brunswick,

5:58 Speaker 10: playing a show up there last night. Okay, so so yeah, yeah,

6:02 Speaker 10: all over the place, just trying to promote the new

6:04 Speaker 10: album Brian's Super Happy Fun Time for.

6:07 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, no, I love it. It's very very catchy

6:10 Speaker 4: stuff fun songs. Didn't have to make any radio edits,

6:14 Speaker 4: which is nice.

6:15 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, you know, I always try to be polite

6:18 Speaker 10: to the to my my friends in the radio there,

6:22 Speaker 10: make everything FCC friendly.

6:23 Speaker 4: Where are you from.

6:25 Speaker 10: I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. That's my home.

6:30 Speaker 8: We have listeners there, we do, we do?

6:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, that is true.

6:36 Speaker 10: Listen, yes, yes, excellent, All right, well, hello Charlotte listeners

6:40 Speaker 10: and that is.

6:41 Speaker 4: A that is a verifiable fact. So is that where

6:44 Speaker 4: you currently live?

6:46 Speaker 10: That is my home base? Yeah, so though saying I

6:48 Speaker 10: live there is is kind of a stretch. I'm there

6:51 Speaker 10: maybe a few weeks out of the year. The rest

6:53 Speaker 10: of the time, I'm just traveling across the country, And

6:57 Speaker 10: like we were talking off the air, did a europe

6:59 Speaker 10: tour early this year too, So yeah, I spend most

7:01 Speaker 10: of my time traveling and playing music. But yeah, I

7:04 Speaker 10: do call Charlotte home at the end of the day

7:07 Speaker 10: for a few weeks at least.

7:08 Speaker 4: How long have you been doing this full time touring?

7:11 Speaker 10: Twenty twelve is when I made the big plunge and

7:14 Speaker 10: decided to go from being a part timer like weekend

7:17 Speaker 10: Warrior to just kind of being a nomad and kind

7:20 Speaker 10: of living on the road more or less.

7:22 Speaker 4: Was it scary at first?

7:24 Speaker 3: Oh?

7:24 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's still scary.

7:27 Speaker 4: It's still yeah, especially at first.

7:31 Speaker 10: I mean, you get used to a lot of aspects

7:33 Speaker 10: of it, and honestly, the aspect of not doing it

7:38 Speaker 10: is scarier to me than all the things that folks

7:41 Speaker 10: might consider scary about being on the road. But yeah,

7:45 Speaker 10: you get used to it and it's great. It's a

7:48 Speaker 10: lot of hard work, but it's a lot of fun too.

7:50 Speaker 4: Have you been touring steadily since twenty twelve? So actually

7:54 Speaker 4: the pandemic probably we know that.

7:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, we know.

7:56 Speaker 10: There was a little break for that, and I actually

7:59 Speaker 10: have been touring steadily since things reopened from COVID. Pre COVID,

8:05 Speaker 10: it would get to see, I've gotten better about the

8:07 Speaker 10: business aspect. At first in twenty twelve, I'd be on

8:10 Speaker 10: tour for like nine months, run out of money, have

8:12 Speaker 10: to work a couple months at my old job, and

8:15 Speaker 10: then go on tour another seven months. You know, Yeah,

8:18 Speaker 10: it depends, you know, But lately, you know, I think

8:21 Speaker 10: I've made every financial mistake there was to make as

8:25 Speaker 10: being a traveling musician. So now I, like, you know,

8:28 Speaker 10: know how to weather the storm, if you know, some

8:30 Speaker 10: years are better than others. Sure, but but yeah, yeah,

8:33 Speaker 10: since since things reopened after COVID, this is this has

8:37 Speaker 10: been it.

8:38 Speaker 5: Yeah.

8:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're making it work, certainly, and that's great.

8:40 Speaker 10: Good for you, Thank you, Good for you.

8:43 Speaker 4: Well do you want to play something live for us?

8:45 Speaker 11: Well?

8:45 Speaker 10: Absolutely, yeah, sure, I'm going to do a song from

8:48 Speaker 10: my last album, Brian's Super Happy Fun Time three, the

8:52 Speaker 10: predecessor to the new one, and this song is called

8:54 Speaker 10: rock the Library. It's a song about how I hang

8:58 Speaker 10: out in the libraries all day before my shows because

9:00 Speaker 10: it's a great place to get some work done, hang

9:03 Speaker 10: out for free, and even every once in a while,

9:06 Speaker 10: have a chance to read a book.

9:07 Speaker 7: There you go, all right, well, honey, I know what

9:14 Speaker 7: you need. I like to write and you like to read,

9:19 Speaker 7: or really like the way you look? Are you gonna

9:21 Speaker 7: check out my library book? Because I'm your host. We're

9:25 Speaker 7: the most rocking libraries coast to coast and I ten,

9:30 Speaker 7: I twenty, I.

9:31 Speaker 8: Thirty and forty A fifty, I sixty, I seventy eighty.

9:34 Speaker 7: I love you, baby, don't even maybe you're hot of

9:38 Speaker 7: than Nashville tatos of gravy.

9:40 Speaker 8: Well, I'm your hosts Hey, okay, rocking.

9:43 Speaker 7: Libraries, you will say, yeah, you look so cute in

9:47 Speaker 7: your glasses studying for college classes no fills only passes

9:54 Speaker 7: sweeter than Alla Fami molasses.

9:57 Speaker 8: I'm your host. We're the most rocking li libraries coast

10:01 Speaker 8: to coast.

10:02 Speaker 10: And I ten, I twenty, I thirty.

10:04 Speaker 8: Eight, forty A fifty, I sixty, I seventy eighty.

10:07 Speaker 7: I love you, baby, don't mean maybe your heart of

10:10 Speaker 7: than mash potatoes and gravy. Well, I'm your host Aoka

10:15 Speaker 7: rocking libraries.

10:17 Speaker 5: You will say, have.

10:18 Speaker 12: Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library.

10:24 Speaker 12: Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library.

10:29 Speaker 8: I'm your host, Aoka rocking libraries.

10:33 Speaker 7: You will say, yeah, honey, I know what I need.

10:37 Speaker 7: I like a girl that likes to read. Come on, baby,

10:41 Speaker 7: I'm no fool. I know that the library is cool.

10:45 Speaker 7: And I'm your host.

10:47 Speaker 8: We're the most rocking libraries coast to coast.

10:51 Speaker 7: And I ten, I twenty, I thirty eight, forty A fifty,

10:54 Speaker 7: I sixty, I seventy eighty. I love you, baby, don't

10:58 Speaker 7: even maybe your heart of damp mash.

11:00 Speaker 8: For tata's and gravy. And I'm your hosts AOK rocking

11:05 Speaker 8: the libraries.

11:06 Speaker 10: You will say, yeah, rock rock rock.

11:09 Speaker 12: The library, Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock

11:15 Speaker 12: the library.

11:16 Speaker 8: A rock rock rock the library. I'm your host, a

11:20 Speaker 8: OK rocking the libraries. You wus say, very nice, that

11:29 Speaker 8: was awesome.

11:30 Speaker 5: I love it.

11:31 Speaker 8: Thanks y'all, Thank you very much.

11:33 Speaker 4: Brian Blanski is here with us live in studio. If

11:35 Speaker 4: you're just joining us and uh, yeah, libraries are do

11:38 Speaker 4: you have you found that there aren't as many as

11:40 Speaker 4: there used to be.

11:42 Speaker 10: Oh no, there seem to be plenty of libraries. The

11:45 Speaker 10: only thing I've noticed it was, well, you know, a

11:47 Speaker 10: lot of them are not open for as many hours.

11:51 Speaker 10: Yeahs as they used to be. A lot of the

11:53 Speaker 10: public libraries are closed on Sundays, which but you know, honestly,

11:58 Speaker 10: I also do a university libraries a lot too, because

12:01 Speaker 10: they're often like open till late at night. So like,

12:04 Speaker 10: if I have an early show, I stopped by college library,

12:07 Speaker 10: pull out my laptop and you know, start sending emails,

12:11 Speaker 10: took book and promote shows. That's pretty much how I

12:14 Speaker 10: keep things going.

12:15 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Well, now do you have a because a

12:19 Speaker 4: lot of the people who listen to the show are

12:20 Speaker 4: musicians or people who are aspiring to do what you do, Like,

12:24 Speaker 4: do you have advice for maybe somebody who's just starting

12:27 Speaker 4: out who wants to be able to do what you

12:29 Speaker 4: do in terms of touring nationally, hitting the road. You

12:32 Speaker 4: know you mentioned mistakes that you made, especially you know

12:36 Speaker 4: earlier early in your career.

12:39 Speaker 8: Oh.

12:39 Speaker 10: Absolutely, my advice to anyone that wants to you know,

12:43 Speaker 10: do music full time.

12:45 Speaker 4: Just pretty much it's all I do.

12:47 Speaker 10: More or less. You know, if I'm not driving city

12:50 Speaker 10: to city or playing shows, I'm just I'm on my laptop,

12:54 Speaker 10: laptop promoting and booking shows. So I literally, you know,

12:58 Speaker 10: don't have a lot of downtime. And yeah, I just

13:01 Speaker 10: spend all my time just you know, working hard at it.

13:05 Speaker 10: And whatever you focus on, I thinking, if it's music

13:08 Speaker 10: or anything, if you devote your entire focus to whatever

13:11 Speaker 10: your goals are, then I mean it's bound to happen,

13:15 Speaker 10: like you know, little by little. And my other advice is,

13:17 Speaker 10: do not let any rejections or anybody who you know

13:22 Speaker 10: saying something mean about your music or about you as

13:24 Speaker 10: a person. Don't let that deter you because a lot

13:27 Speaker 10: of the times the people are probably just jealous. So yeah,

13:31 Speaker 10: don't let any of that stuff bother you. And just

13:33 Speaker 10: work hard and keep a positive attitude and you know,

13:36 Speaker 10: stay calm when challenges arise. That's my advice.

13:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, I think that that too

13:44 Speaker 4: kind of gels with what you know. In the first hour,

13:47 Speaker 4: our guest six Minds Combined, who's kind of an alternative

13:51 Speaker 4: hip hop artist from the area. He said something similar

13:55 Speaker 4: about you know, really keeping positive and not you know,

14:00 Speaker 4: not letting rejection or criticism affect you. But but he

14:03 Speaker 4: talked about how, you know, the way he really got

14:07 Speaker 4: into his career was he had gotten into some trouble

14:10 Speaker 4: a long time ago and he ended up having to

14:12 Speaker 4: do community service. And he had to do community service

14:15 Speaker 4: with a place called Positive Street Art, which is where

14:18 Speaker 4: he met someone with whom he collaborates with musically and

14:23 Speaker 4: so forth. And it's just kind of snowballed from there,

14:25 Speaker 4: and how approaching it. He talked about how approaching everything

14:28 Speaker 4: positively really enables him to have the career that he

14:32 Speaker 4: has now.

14:33 Speaker 10: And that's the truth. And I think you know that,

14:36 Speaker 10: like like it's true in anything you do that if

14:39 Speaker 10: you stay positive and you treat people the way you

14:42 Speaker 10: want to be treated. I mean, I know there's a

14:43 Speaker 10: lot of people in you know, the music business and

14:46 Speaker 10: in any business that you know, we'll try to get

14:49 Speaker 10: ahead at the expense of other people. But and that

14:51 Speaker 10: might work for the short term, but in the long term,

14:54 Speaker 10: I think, you know, in karmically and and just also

14:59 Speaker 10: you know, people talk, so when people do rude things

15:02 Speaker 10: or treat people poorly, I mean it's a small world.

15:04 Speaker 10: It's much smaller than you'd expect.

15:07 Speaker 4: The Internet has made it very small indeed. Indeed, yeah, yeah, no,

15:11 Speaker 4: I think you bring up a good point about how

15:13 Speaker 4: you treat people, because it's so much of it is

15:15 Speaker 4: about building relationships and having a strong reputation, you know,

15:23 Speaker 4: because yeah, you know, people talk and well, it's quite true.

15:26 Speaker 10: And one thing I've seen in shows where I'm playing

15:30 Speaker 10: with other musical acts and maybe some that are, you know,

15:32 Speaker 10: more famous than I am, but I've seen a lot

15:34 Speaker 10: of musicians treat their fans poorly, like they can't be

15:37 Speaker 10: bothered with them, and that just always boggled my mind.

15:40 Speaker 10: I'm like these people that like, like, your music is

15:43 Speaker 10: the reason why you're doing what you're doing. So anytime,

15:46 Speaker 10: like somebody you know, tries to reach out to me

15:49 Speaker 10: and express that they like my music, I try my

15:52 Speaker 10: best to express my appreciation for them, because if it

15:55 Speaker 10: wasn't for those people, I wouldn't be doing what I'm

15:58 Speaker 10: doing right right.

15:59 Speaker 4: Exactly how many do you have any idea how many

16:03 Speaker 4: songs you've written? It looks like from what I see online,

16:06 Speaker 4: it looks like you've written quite a few.

16:07 Speaker 10: Exactly one hundred and eighty published songs.

16:10 Speaker 8: Wow.

16:11 Speaker 10: Yes, Before I was a solo artist. I had a

16:14 Speaker 10: band for many years, so most of those songs are

16:17 Speaker 10: the old band. I still play a few of those

16:20 Speaker 10: old band songs here and there in in my live sets.

16:24 Speaker 10: But yeah, one hundred and eighty.

16:27 Speaker 4: And you've probably written I imagine you strike me as

16:29 Speaker 4: someone who writes a lot. You've probably written a lot

16:31 Speaker 4: that you haven't even recorded yet.

16:33 Speaker 10: I would think, well, yeah, it's it's funny you mentioned that,

16:35 Speaker 10: because Brian's super happy. Fun time for the new album.

16:38 Speaker 10: It just came out last month, and as soon as

16:41 Speaker 10: I was done recording the album this summer, I just

16:44 Speaker 10: got a like a flood of new song ideas. I'm like,

16:47 Speaker 10: that always happens too. I'm like, oh, man, why could

16:49 Speaker 10: have I wrote this one before the album and put

16:52 Speaker 10: it on this album? But yeah, I definitely have almost

16:55 Speaker 10: the whole next album written whenever, whenever I find the time,

16:59 Speaker 10: in the in the need to record it, you know,

17:01 Speaker 10: it's definitely I've got the songs all set.

17:04 Speaker 4: Where do you record?

17:05 Speaker 10: So most of my songs I record in Charlotte. There's

17:10 Speaker 10: a studio called Catalyst Recording, and my producer Rob Tavlion

17:15 Speaker 10: down there and we've been working together for almost twenty

17:19 Speaker 10: years since the old days with my old band, and

17:22 Speaker 10: he does a great job. I always like to say

17:24 Speaker 10: he's like the George Martin of the Southeast United States.

17:28 Speaker 10: He's great. I mean, he collaborates, he plays percussion on

17:32 Speaker 10: a lot of the songs on the albums. And this

17:36 Speaker 10: last album actually I did the whole thing at his studio.

17:40 Speaker 10: It was a better year financially because sometimes I just

17:42 Speaker 10: do the radio singles, like the standout tracks at his

17:46 Speaker 10: studio and then I'll self record the rest of the

17:49 Speaker 10: album in my home studio. But this year treated me okay,

17:52 Speaker 10: So I actually got to do the whole album at

17:54 Speaker 10: Rob's studio.

17:55 Speaker 4: Oh outstanding.

17:56 Speaker 10: Neat, Yeah, it was a neat.

17:57 Speaker 4: What was the band that you were in? What did

18:00 Speaker 4: what did you guys sound like?

18:01 Speaker 10: So the band was called Anguish with a W A

18:05 Speaker 10: G wish and it was punk rock slash hard rock.

18:09 Speaker 8: Oh kind of band?

18:10 Speaker 10: Yes, yes, so I definitely did like a one to

18:13 Speaker 10: eighty as far as like the lyrical themes, like you know,

18:16 Speaker 10: now it's Brian super happy fun time, whereas like you know,

18:19 Speaker 10: the old band was more like angry, screaming punk rock

18:22 Speaker 10: songs and stuff.

18:24 Speaker 4: Yeah, so.

18:26 Speaker 10: Actually the final album as a band I got to

18:28 Speaker 10: do with the late great Steve Albini back in twenty sixteen,

18:32 Speaker 10: no kidding, and that was so yeah, he was. He

18:35 Speaker 10: was a great guy too. I mean he did so

18:37 Speaker 10: much for independent music and he was really pleasant guy

18:40 Speaker 10: to work with. He was just ultra professional, had a

18:43 Speaker 10: lot of input and ideas for a lot of the

18:46 Speaker 10: songs we recorded there. So it was a great way

18:48 Speaker 10: for me to like end that chapter of my life,

18:50 Speaker 10: to get to something a dream I'd always had. Is

18:53 Speaker 10: my favorite engineer by far.

18:55 Speaker 4: That's fantastic that you got to work with Steve Albini.

18:57 Speaker 4: That's great. He's just past.

19:00 Speaker 10: It was a couple of years ago, right, it was

19:01 Speaker 10: earlier this year.

19:02 Speaker 5: Actually, oh it was earlier this year. Wow.

19:04 Speaker 4: Wow. And then so after that, so the band was

19:08 Speaker 4: that after having that experience, was that kind of like, well,

19:11 Speaker 4: there's nowhere else to go with this or.

19:14 Speaker 10: Well, actually what it was? You know, I mentioned I've

19:16 Speaker 10: been touring live since twenty twelve, and you know it

19:20 Speaker 10: was like half and half band and solo because basically

19:24 Speaker 10: I'd set up tours as my band, but bandmates would

19:27 Speaker 10: just like flake out halfway through the tour because the

19:31 Speaker 10: living life on the road at the level that I

19:34 Speaker 10: do it, it can be a little grueling and it's

19:35 Speaker 10: not for everybody. So basically, band members would quit and

19:38 Speaker 10: I'd be left like just showing up to the places

19:41 Speaker 10: alone with my acoustic guitar, like, yeah, my band bailed

19:44 Speaker 10: on me, but I'm here. I still want to play.

19:46 Speaker 10: And I just got the epiphany. I was like, you know,

19:48 Speaker 10: why don't I just do this right?

19:50 Speaker 4: You know, right?

19:51 Speaker 10: And it's it's been a lot easier logistically since I

19:55 Speaker 10: just started being a solo artist. Yeah, and then of

19:58 Speaker 10: course on the albums, I'm I'm doing the instruments, like

20:01 Speaker 10: the track we played to start the show, I'm doing drums, bass,

20:05 Speaker 10: lead guitars. So I still get to kind of have

20:07 Speaker 10: fun in the studio, like like I'm a full band,

20:10 Speaker 10: laying each track down one at a time Paul McCartney style.

20:14 Speaker 10: Uh but uh but yeah, when I'm live, this is

20:16 Speaker 10: this is what I do. I got my acoustic guitar

20:18 Speaker 10: and i'ms singing and playing my songs.

20:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard with you know, I've been in bands

20:22 Speaker 4: and somebody I forget who it was now. Somebody on

20:25 Speaker 4: the show described describe the challenge of it, you know,

20:28 Speaker 4: in terms of scheduling and all of it. It's like

20:31 Speaker 4: being like if you're in a band with three other people.

20:33 Speaker 4: It's like it's like being in a it's like being

20:35 Speaker 4: in three separate relationships, and those with with people who

20:40 Speaker 4: are all in three separate relationships.

20:42 Speaker 3: You know.

20:43 Speaker 4: It's it's just it's it's hard. It's really hard.

20:46 Speaker 10: It's so hard. And it's sad too because the last

20:50 Speaker 10: incarnation of my band, we were just a two piece.

20:52 Speaker 10: It was just me and a drummer. But still it

20:54 Speaker 10: was just uh, you know, like I said, it's more

20:57 Speaker 10: like you know, sleeping in a vehicle and you know,

21:01 Speaker 10: not you know, dealing with all the you know, pressures

21:04 Speaker 10: of the road. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's

21:06 Speaker 10: a fun time too, but there's a lot of things

21:08 Speaker 10: that I think, you know, quote unquote normal people might

21:11 Speaker 10: might find just they could you know, deal with it

21:15 Speaker 10: on a daily basis. Yeah, so so yeah, But but

21:18 Speaker 10: you know what you said was one hundred percent true, Like,

21:20 Speaker 10: you know, trying to you know, manage all the schedules

21:24 Speaker 10: and it is it's like it's like being in a

21:26 Speaker 10: family and being or being like in a relationship. So

21:30 Speaker 10: it's tricky. I mean, and uh, a lot of my

21:33 Speaker 10: ex bandmates are are still like very supportive come to

21:37 Speaker 10: my shows when I'm around in Charlotte. So yeah, definitely

21:40 Speaker 10: like not you know, a lot of amicable breakups, just

21:44 Speaker 10: kind of like hey, Brian, I just can't do this,

21:45 Speaker 10: not not like you know, yeah, like I can't stand you.

21:51 Speaker 4: Well that's good. Is the material that you recorded with

21:55 Speaker 4: Anguish is that still available online?

21:57 Speaker 8: Oh?

21:57 Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely.

21:59 Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, accidentally, because I didn't understand

22:02 Speaker 10: how all the digital distribution worked at the time, my

22:06 Speaker 10: first solo album is actually under the old band, which

22:11 Speaker 10: is yeah, I like, little mistake on my party, I said,

22:14 Speaker 10: I think I made every mistake. I was like, oh,

22:16 Speaker 10: I didn't know. I had to create a brand new

22:18 Speaker 10: uh you know, identity online for my new uh my

22:23 Speaker 10: new projects. So so yeah, but yeah, all that stuff

22:25 Speaker 10: if anybody wants to, uh see it, but I will

22:28 Speaker 10: warn anybody that that stuff is not family friendly, like

22:32 Speaker 10: the Brian super happy fun stuff. So just a fair

22:35 Speaker 10: warning to anyone because there's a lot of like younger,

22:38 Speaker 10: younger listeners.

22:39 Speaker 2: Uh.

22:39 Speaker 10: These days, I've been playing a lot of shows at

22:41 Speaker 10: things like you know, churches and schools and and things

22:44 Speaker 10: like that. So definitely, I just like to say parental

22:48 Speaker 10: advisory for the the earlier stuff. There's there's some clean stuff,

22:52 Speaker 10: but yeah, a lot of it was punk rocks. So yeah,

22:55 Speaker 10: it's enough said. I guess understood, understand. Well, do you

23:00 Speaker 10: want to play another one for us? I'd love to

23:02 Speaker 10: hear another song.

23:03 Speaker 4: Absolutely sure.

23:04 Speaker 10: I'm gonna just do one more from the last album,

23:07 Speaker 10: and this one is called Baby I'm your super Mario.

23:12 Speaker 4: All right, Brian Blanski live in studio with us.

23:22 Speaker 7: Baby, I'm your super Mario. Oh yeah, your super Mario.

23:30 Speaker 2: Give me a try.

23:31 Speaker 8: You won't be Sorrio.

23:34 Speaker 10: Oh no, you won't be Sorrio.

23:38 Speaker 7: I'm getting big, I'm getting super I'm gonna save you

23:43 Speaker 7: from King Cooper. You're gonna be my Princess Peach. The

23:49 Speaker 7: Level eight Castle is in my reach. Baby, I'm your

23:54 Speaker 7: Supoo Mario. Oh yeah, your super Boo Mario. You just

24:01 Speaker 7: stay away from Warrio. Oh no, don't go with Warrio.

24:08 Speaker 7: You're gonna be my Princess Peach. To Level eight Castle

24:13 Speaker 7: is in my reach. Will All my dreams have come

24:18 Speaker 7: true except the one where I save you, Where I

24:26 Speaker 7: save you, because all my dreams have come true except

24:38 Speaker 7: the one where I save you.

24:42 Speaker 8: I just wanna be your guy. We have a souper

24:47 Speaker 8: halpy fun time.

24:49 Speaker 5: Feed it.

24:50 Speaker 7: I'm your super Mario. Fad it, I'm your super Mario.

24:57 Speaker 5: Fad it.

24:58 Speaker 7: I'm your super Mario.

25:01 Speaker 8: Fabe I'm your super Mario.

25:05 Speaker 4: Now, Ryan Blansky live in studio with us here on

25:12 Speaker 4: this Saturday morning on Matt connorton Unleashed. Yeah, I'll tell

25:16 Speaker 4: you if if you're gonna write a song about a

25:18 Speaker 4: video game, it makes sense to do that one because

25:20 Speaker 4: it's timeless. Yeah you know what I mean, Like like

25:23 Speaker 4: Super Mario goes back to when I was a kid.

25:25 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, me at me too.

25:26 Speaker 10: And ironically that when that song came out on my

25:31 Speaker 10: my last album last year, I had no idea there

25:34 Speaker 10: was a Super Mario movie coming out, and it actually

25:37 Speaker 10: came out just about the same month that the movie

25:40 Speaker 10: came out. I was like, oh, really, what a coincidence,

25:42 Speaker 10: But it worked out. I think that's the most popular

25:45 Speaker 10: song as far as the digital streaming sites go, which

25:48 Speaker 10: is which is kind of neat. I like it, and

25:51 Speaker 10: once again, you know, yeah, I used to love playing

25:54 Speaker 10: video games as a kid. Not a lot of time

25:56 Speaker 10: to play video games now with the organizing, you know,

26:00 Speaker 10: three hundred shows a year, So instead I write, write

26:03 Speaker 10: and play songs about him instead.

26:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, and video games can

26:07 Speaker 4: be highly addictive too, so probably better.

26:12 Speaker 8: No doubt.

26:13 Speaker 10: Well, you know what, I love video games, and I

26:15 Speaker 10: feel like the fact that I was so into them

26:17 Speaker 10: when I was a kid has like really helped me,

26:20 Speaker 10: you know, with with my booking and my promoting, like

26:24 Speaker 10: you know, surfing the internet trying to find you know,

26:27 Speaker 10: radio TV stations and venues, like at the faster I

26:30 Speaker 10: can find their emails, I'm like, it's kind of like,

26:32 Speaker 10: you know, jumping out of the way of the Koopa

26:34 Speaker 10: Troopa and Super Mario. Is are you fast enough to

26:37 Speaker 10: do that? Are you fast enough to find the right

26:39 Speaker 10: place before another band books it? Kind of thing right? Right?

26:42 Speaker 5: Yeah?

26:43 Speaker 4: No, that makes sense. That makes sense in your experience,

26:46 Speaker 4: you know, because again you were started touring in twenty twelve,

26:50 Speaker 4: and then of course, you know, the pandemic kind of

26:53 Speaker 4: caused that break and then and then you got back out.

26:57 Speaker 4: Is is touring different post pandemic in terms of like

27:01 Speaker 4: I hear people complain that some venues have closed and

27:05 Speaker 4: you know that kind of thing.

27:06 Speaker 10: You know, Yes, I think if I'm not mistaken, and

27:10 Speaker 10: I could be wrong about this, but I believe that,

27:13 Speaker 10: like you know, pre COVID that I think one third,

27:18 Speaker 10: close to one third of all venues in the US

27:21 Speaker 10: closed down. Now there are new ones popping up to

27:25 Speaker 10: which is great, but yes, sadly, I mean venues that

27:28 Speaker 10: I'd played at for years and years that I had

27:30 Speaker 10: great relationships with went out of business because they just

27:33 Speaker 10: could not weather the storm. I mean, you know, the

27:37 Speaker 10: COVID thing. Really it killed a lot of venues, which

27:40 Speaker 10: is sad. But you know what, like I said earlier

27:43 Speaker 10: about the advice, you know, I mean, there's you just

27:45 Speaker 10: keep going. There's a well, like I said, I've started

27:49 Speaker 10: playing a lot of places that a lot of musicians

27:52 Speaker 10: don't even think about playing, like schools, homeless shelters, hospitals.

27:57 Speaker 10: So you know, there's and I think a lot of

28:00 Speaker 10: musicians probably don't want to play those kinds of places

28:03 Speaker 10: for whatever reason. But to me, those are some of

28:05 Speaker 10: the most fun shows and some of the most appreciative

28:08 Speaker 10: audiences at places that don't typically get musicians.

28:13 Speaker 4: No, that makes sense. Is there a particular place or

28:18 Speaker 4: type of place that you've played that really kind of

28:20 Speaker 4: surprised you where you you it ended up being a

28:23 Speaker 4: better experience than you thought, you know.

28:26 Speaker 10: And it's funny. I have a song where I list

28:29 Speaker 10: off all the different interesting places. Yes, I've played grocery stores.

28:34 Speaker 10: I played a laundromat once, you know, a dentist office

28:39 Speaker 10: waiting room in Mexico. I was able to get a

28:42 Speaker 10: play for the people waiting to get their dental work

28:44 Speaker 10: done and got a discount for doing the concert, So

28:47 Speaker 10: that was kind of Yeah. And to me, like the

28:50 Speaker 10: more unique of a place, like, the more fun it is.

28:54 Speaker 10: And like I said, I've been having a lot of fun,

28:56 Speaker 10: you know, doing doing the shows at like homeless shelters

28:58 Speaker 10: and hospitals and rehabilitation centers, just you know, trying to

29:03 Speaker 10: think about people in the population that that, Like I said,

29:06 Speaker 10: a lot of musicians don't think about playing for them,

29:08 Speaker 10: and I like to you know, I like to, uh

29:10 Speaker 10: to do those kind of shows.

29:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's awesome. And while you're while you're on

29:17 Speaker 4: the road, do you do you primarily do shows by

29:21 Speaker 4: yourself or do you have anybody you team up.

29:23 Speaker 10: With or anybody with mostly it's so when I'm traveling,

29:28 Speaker 10: it's just me in my car going city to city.

29:32 Speaker 10: Most of my shows are me just performing on my

29:36 Speaker 10: own and I you know, my concerts can be anywhere

29:38 Speaker 10: from like an hour and a half, two hours to

29:40 Speaker 10: uh I've done up to five hours. Really a five

29:44 Speaker 10: hour concert. A few of those, Yeah, those are few

29:46 Speaker 10: and far between, but I have done a couple of them.

29:49 Speaker 10: Sometimes I do play shows where I'm playing a shorter

29:51 Speaker 10: set and there's other musicians or bands on the bill

29:54 Speaker 10: with me, but uh, typically it's I'm doing the longer

29:58 Speaker 10: concerts where it's just me.

30:00 Speaker 4: Wow, no kidding. You've done shows was five hours?

30:03 Speaker 10: Five hours? Yeah, one in one in New Mexico and

30:06 Speaker 10: one in Wyoming.

30:08 Speaker 4: Wow, that's like Springsteen in the eighties, you do those

30:11 Speaker 4: five hour shows.

30:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.

30:14 Speaker 10: It was uh yeah, there's something else and but yeah,

30:17 Speaker 10: I love a challenge, so you know when they were uh,

30:21 Speaker 10: one of the venues was like, hey, are our next

30:24 Speaker 10: band canceled? Can you just play five hours instead of

30:27 Speaker 10: two and a half. I was like, I'm on it.

30:29 Speaker 4: Wow, wow, no kidding. I hope they paid you for it.

30:33 Speaker 10: I did get paid.

30:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, which was a great part.

30:36 Speaker 10: That's definitely a great part of that.

30:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. Well you want to you want to

30:41 Speaker 4: play another live one for us?

30:42 Speaker 10: Absolutely, I'll uh you know this next song that I'm

30:46 Speaker 10: gonna carry on with here. This is one from the

30:49 Speaker 10: brand new album uh Brian, Super Happy Fun Time four

30:53 Speaker 10: and uh this is a little bit more of a

30:55 Speaker 10: like a serious song. I guess it's it's my version

30:58 Speaker 10: of a we are the World uh kind of song

31:01 Speaker 10: about how I wish everyone in the world would get

31:03 Speaker 10: together or get along better.

31:20 Speaker 8: You've gotta give a little love and you get a

31:28 Speaker 8: little love. So what are you.

31:33 Speaker 5: Thinking of.

31:37 Speaker 8: Commands from heaven above?

31:43 Speaker 11: You've gotta give a little love. Well, I don't think

31:52 Speaker 11: that it's too late. Things in our world could be great.

32:02 Speaker 7: Well, if we pray for peace, the wars, in hunger,

32:10 Speaker 7: all mesies.

32:11 Speaker 8: You gotta give a little love.

32:17 Speaker 5: And you get a little love.

32:23 Speaker 8: So what are you thinking of.

32:28 Speaker 7: Commands from heaven above?

32:34 Speaker 8: You've gotta give a little love.

32:42 Speaker 10: I know we can do it.

32:45 Speaker 8: Let's put all my suit with sisters and brothers, be

32:51 Speaker 8: good to each other.

32:54 Speaker 10: I know we can do it.

32:56 Speaker 13: Let's put on my suit and make the world a

33:01 Speaker 13: better place, a better place for every one.

33:11 Speaker 8: You gotta give a little love and you get a

33:19 Speaker 8: little love. What are you thinking of commands from having above?

33:34 Speaker 8: You gotta give a little love.

33:49 Speaker 4: I like that, Thank you. That's something we could we

33:55 Speaker 4: could all use, right.

33:57 Speaker 10: Yeah, give a little love from the new album there.

34:00 Speaker 10: It's it gets tricky too because most people know me

34:02 Speaker 10: for my my happy go lucky like semi silly songs.

34:06 Speaker 10: So but I felt, like, you know, doing a serious

34:09 Speaker 10: song here and there is okay.

34:10 Speaker 4: No, I think, uh and very appropriate.

34:12 Speaker 10: I think thank you, thank you very much.

34:14 Speaker 4: Absolutely. If you are just joining us on the Saturday morning,

34:18 Speaker 4: we have Brian Bolanski here with us live in studio.

34:21 Speaker 4: Where do you now? Where do you go from here? Brian?

34:23 Speaker 4: Because you said so your last show was in Canada?

34:26 Speaker 10: Is that right?

34:27 Speaker 14: Yeah?

34:27 Speaker 10: Last night played in Edmundston, New Brunswick.

34:31 Speaker 14: Uh.

34:32 Speaker 10: After I leave the show here, I am headed to Swansea,

34:36 Speaker 10: New Hampshire, where I will be playing at the West

34:39 Speaker 10: La Beer Company today from three pm to six pm.

34:43 Speaker 4: Oh wow, okay, very cool, very cool.

34:46 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, and it's it's great to be back in

34:48 Speaker 10: New Hampshire.

34:50 Speaker 4: How much of the how much of the country have

34:52 Speaker 4: you like, do you keep track of how many states

34:54 Speaker 4: you've played it?

34:55 Speaker 10: Oh, yes, that's something uh that it is a matter

34:59 Speaker 10: of fact. I list them all out in the bio.

35:01 Speaker 10: It's been forty nine states and twenty five countries abroad

35:05 Speaker 10: that I've performed in.

35:06 Speaker 4: Wow, what's the one state you haven't hit?

35:09 Speaker 10: Alaska?

35:10 Speaker 4: Alaska.

35:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, but they're they're not going to get away from

35:13 Speaker 10: me forever. I'll eventually get there. They're they're they're in

35:16 Speaker 10: my sights.

35:17 Speaker 15: Yeah.

35:18 Speaker 4: How many times? Like how many times have you gone

35:20 Speaker 4: overseas to do tours?

35:22 Speaker 10: So this this year would have been my fifth time

35:27 Speaker 10: going overseas to uh to Europe.

35:30 Speaker 3: Uh.

35:30 Speaker 10: And I've done one Central American and one Asian tour

35:35 Speaker 10: in the past, and I'd love to uh love to

35:38 Speaker 10: get back to Asia and Central America was was pre COVID,

35:41 Speaker 10: So I'd love to get back to both those places.

35:44 Speaker 10: And you know, I've still still got Australia and Africa

35:47 Speaker 10: and South America and you know, to to get to

35:50 Speaker 10: and then finally Antarctica eventually. Okay, So yeah, yeah, that's

35:56 Speaker 10: my my life stream is to perform in all seven continents. Well,

36:00 Speaker 10: still here.

36:02 Speaker 4: Do the challenges they come with touring and change when

36:06 Speaker 4: you go like Central America or is it all I mean?

36:10 Speaker 4: Or is it the same challenges but just more severe?

36:13 Speaker 4: Shall we say?

36:15 Speaker 7: Uh?

36:15 Speaker 10: You know, it's kind of the same. Like Luckily, well

36:18 Speaker 10: Central America. I'm not great speaking Spanish, but I'm a

36:21 Speaker 10: little bit better at Spanish than any other language.

36:25 Speaker 4: Okay, you know I think language well, Luckily.

36:28 Speaker 10: A lot of people abroad speak English is a second language,

36:31 Speaker 10: so that between that and me, I always try to

36:35 Speaker 10: learn at least a little bit of every country I

36:38 Speaker 10: go to. That got a little trickier when I was

36:40 Speaker 10: in places like Finland and Latvia, and even like Poland

36:44 Speaker 10: was really tricky. French and Italian and German a little

36:49 Speaker 10: bit easier, a little bit closer to English. But but yeah,

36:53 Speaker 10: I always make sure I sing in English. But when

36:56 Speaker 10: I'm talking to the audience in between songs, I always

36:59 Speaker 10: learn how to say. This next song is from my

37:02 Speaker 10: my last album. As a matter of fact, yesterday in

37:05 Speaker 10: New Brunswick, I was in a French speaking part of

37:09 Speaker 10: the province there, so I got to practice my French

37:12 Speaker 10: again last night speaking to the audience there. But you know,

37:16 Speaker 10: same kind of challenges. I just do a lot of

37:19 Speaker 10: online research and find venues, and after I get my

37:22 Speaker 10: venues booked, I try to find you know, radio newspapers

37:26 Speaker 10: and stuff to promote the shows and uh and yeah, yeah,

37:29 Speaker 10: it's just it's a labor love, a lot of a

37:31 Speaker 10: lot of hours spent.

37:32 Speaker 7: Yeah.

37:33 Speaker 4: Wow. What what was the most challenging place that you've

37:38 Speaker 4: played geographically?

37:39 Speaker 10: Oh, I would have to say Thailand when I was there,

37:43 Speaker 10: just it was it was trickier to find venues there. Luckily,

37:47 Speaker 10: I had kind of like boots on the ground. I

37:49 Speaker 10: had some friends that lived in Thailand and and they

37:53 Speaker 10: were the ones that helped me book the majority of

37:56 Speaker 10: my shows in Thailand, So it would have been a

37:59 Speaker 10: lot more challenging of I didn't have friends already there

38:01 Speaker 10: kind of like you know, going to places like in

38:04 Speaker 10: person and and you know talking me up to different

38:08 Speaker 10: music venues. So so that was kind of challenging. But

38:11 Speaker 10: it was also probably one of the most fun countries

38:14 Speaker 10: abroad really just because it was you know, such a

38:18 Speaker 10: different culture and uh, and the people there were so friendly,

38:21 Speaker 10: so amazing, and great food too.

38:23 Speaker 16: Yeah.

38:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's awesome. That's awesome. You want to play

38:26 Speaker 4: another one?

38:27 Speaker 8: Sure?

38:28 Speaker 10: Absolutely? So this next song that I'll carry on with.

38:32 Speaker 10: This is from my album two albums ago, Brian's Super

38:35 Speaker 10: Happy Fun Time Too, and this was the main single

38:39 Speaker 10: from that album. It's called Elf Girlfriend.

38:47 Speaker 17: She's an elf in the woods and she's magic. If

38:53 Speaker 17: she turned be away, it be tragic. I feel that

39:00 Speaker 17: God known her for years, really like her point of years.

39:04 Speaker 8: She's an oath in the woods.

39:07 Speaker 17: I discovered she's an oe. Now I think I'm gonna

39:13 Speaker 17: love her. I know she lives inside a tree. That's

39:19 Speaker 17: really came with me.

39:27 Speaker 10: Well, I'm so intrigued, and I never knew.

39:33 Speaker 5: That she exists.

39:36 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's true because my life was bad, but

39:41 Speaker 8: now it's cool. Well, I don't what I gotta do.

39:49 Speaker 17: She's an oath in the woods and she's magic, and

39:55 Speaker 17: she turned me away, it be tragic.

40:00 Speaker 7: I feel like.

40:01 Speaker 17: God known her for years, really like her pointy years.

40:06 Speaker 8: She's an out prettier than Princess El. I'm quasi modo.

40:14 Speaker 8: She's as moral. I know she lives inside a tree.

40:21 Speaker 8: That's really okay with me. She's my elf. She's my

40:25 Speaker 8: elf golfriend.

40:29 Speaker 5: She's my elf.

40:30 Speaker 8: She's my elf gouffriend. She's my elf, she's my.

40:37 Speaker 17: Health goffriend girlfriend.

40:43 Speaker 8: Dum very nice, very nice, Thank you very much.

40:47 Speaker 4: Did you meet an actual elf in the woods? H?

40:50 Speaker 10: No, that songs it is a fairy tale.

40:52 Speaker 4: Okay, that did not.

40:55 Speaker 10: Actually, even though most of my songs are actually you know,

40:58 Speaker 10: I'm singing them all from my own perspective, so that one.

41:02 Speaker 5: Yeah.

41:02 Speaker 10: Actually, when COVID hit in twenty twenty and nobody was

41:08 Speaker 10: sure if things were going to open soon or not,

41:11 Speaker 10: of course they wind it up. Not so I spent

41:14 Speaker 10: many months camping in national forests, and I like to

41:18 Speaker 10: do a lot of research on anything I'm doing, and

41:21 Speaker 10: I kept researching that a lot of people would see

41:23 Speaker 10: supernatural creatures in the national forests, and some of them,

41:28 Speaker 10: most of almost all of them were like bigfoot sasquatch,

41:32 Speaker 10: scary threatening things. And then you'd hear a few people

41:36 Speaker 10: talk about like the pixies and fairies and like the

41:38 Speaker 10: more benevolent kind of creatures. And I've always been a

41:42 Speaker 10: fan of supernatural stuff, so I was like, well, let

41:44 Speaker 10: me do a song about, you know, instead of like

41:46 Speaker 10: a big scary bigfoot, if there was like a benevolent

41:49 Speaker 10: creature in the woods. So yeah, fit little fairy tale

41:52 Speaker 10: song there. When I was bored in the woods for

41:55 Speaker 10: three months dur the COVID quarantine.

41:58 Speaker 4: Oh very cool. Do you remember the first song.

42:01 Speaker 5: You ever wrote?

42:02 Speaker 8: Oh?

42:03 Speaker 10: I do, actually, yes, I do, Uh, the first good one,

42:07 Speaker 10: you know. I guess there was like some proto songs.

42:10 Speaker 1: But but yes, I I actually do.

42:13 Speaker 10: I you know, used to write them all down in

42:15 Speaker 10: notebooks and and yeah, that's a very good question. I

42:19 Speaker 10: actually do remember, what I think, at least the first

42:22 Speaker 10: one that that you know was written down and and everything.

42:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely did it? Did it survive or did you leave?

42:30 Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, I had resurrected it and

42:32 Speaker 10: put it on the very first Brian super happy fun time.

42:35 Speaker 10: Oh cool, Yeah, you know, and it's funny too a

42:38 Speaker 10: lot of times, you know, when I release music, I

42:41 Speaker 10: like to release albums. I know a lot of musicians.

42:44 Speaker 10: I guess I'm old fashioned that way. A lot of

42:45 Speaker 10: musicians these days just like to do singles and EPs.

42:48 Speaker 10: But uh, I don't know from from what I hear,

42:51 Speaker 10: you know, albums are still the way to go, because

42:54 Speaker 10: I look at albums kind of like a painting, and

42:57 Speaker 10: one song is like, you know, one thing in the pa,

43:00 Speaker 10: like one of the tree in the landscape painting or whatever.

43:03 Speaker 10: So I like to do that, and a lot of

43:05 Speaker 10: times I'll go back to like my really early songs,

43:08 Speaker 10: and you know, when I'm trying to, you know, I'm like, oh,

43:11 Speaker 10: I need I need three more songs for this album.

43:13 Speaker 10: I'm like, wait a minute, right, that part of that

43:15 Speaker 10: song was good, This part of this song was good.

43:17 Speaker 10: So sometimes I frankenstein songs together too. Yeah, yeah, but

43:22 Speaker 10: it did survive. Yeah.

43:23 Speaker 4: A subject that comes up a lot on the show is,

43:25 Speaker 4: you know, because we live in a time where there's

43:27 Speaker 4: so many different strategies you can use for releasing music,

43:30 Speaker 4: and you know, some artists just do EPs, or some

43:33 Speaker 4: just do singles, or or some of our guests that

43:36 Speaker 4: we've had in recent years, their strategy is to release

43:39 Speaker 4: a series of singles that eventually become an album, kind

43:42 Speaker 4: of the inverse right of what we're used to traditionally.

43:45 Speaker 10: But indeed, and I've done that before in the past,

43:50 Speaker 10: and yeah, there's no wrong way to do things. Of course,

43:53 Speaker 10: what I've been doing. As a matter of fact, last year,

43:55 Speaker 10: I put out the album full album Brian's Super Happy

43:58 Speaker 10: Fun Time three, but I also out an EP of

44:01 Speaker 10: all non album tracks. I'm a big Beatles fanatic, and

44:05 Speaker 10: one thing I loved about them is that their EPs

44:07 Speaker 10: and their singles were almost always things that were not

44:11 Speaker 10: on their albums. They like they wanted to make sure

44:13 Speaker 10: their their customers were getting their you know, getting their

44:16 Speaker 10: money's worth.

44:17 Speaker 4: So that's something I do.

44:18 Speaker 10: If I ever do an EP or a single, I

44:20 Speaker 10: try to make sure that it's not something that you

44:22 Speaker 10: can just get on the album and make your fans

44:26 Speaker 10: buy something twice, right, thing, right, So that's something I

44:29 Speaker 10: tried to do too.

44:30 Speaker 4: That's like a British thing. I feel it is, because

44:33 Speaker 4: you know a lot of yeah, a lot of British

44:34 Speaker 4: artists would do that, not not even necessarily then, but

44:41 Speaker 4: even in more recent years like Oasis when what went

44:44 Speaker 4: well of course, if Jesus was back in the nineties

44:46 Speaker 4: now when Oasis first got big, seems like more recent,

44:49 Speaker 4: but I noticed, uh, they right from the beginning did that.

44:54 Speaker 4: Like one of my favorite Oasis song, which happens to

44:56 Speaker 4: be Acquiesce, was originally the B side. You know, it

45:00 Speaker 4: eventually came out on the Best Of album, but it

45:02 Speaker 4: was originally a B side that was not not released

45:06 Speaker 4: on an album.

45:07 Speaker 10: No kidding, you know, and I'm and yeah for me

45:11 Speaker 10: like Nirvana another one of my big, big inspirations, and

45:16 Speaker 10: I loved like to me that was like just the

45:18 Speaker 10: best thing, getting a single with a B side that

45:21 Speaker 10: you could not get anywhere else, and me like, this

45:23 Speaker 10: is the best song. Why is it just on the

45:25 Speaker 10: B side to the single? It seems like the B

45:27 Speaker 10: sides are always the best songs.

45:30 Speaker 5: We should uh.

45:31 Speaker 4: So we're running out of time. I'd love to get

45:35 Speaker 4: you to play one one more, but before we do that,

45:37 Speaker 4: I want to make sure our listeners know too where

45:40 Speaker 4: to go online to keep up with everything that you're

45:42 Speaker 4: doing if they want to follow you on tour. You know,

45:45 Speaker 4: obviously we're local here in Manchester, but we have a

45:47 Speaker 4: lot of listeners online in other parts of the country

45:49 Speaker 4: who might you know you might be coming to their area.

45:52 Speaker 4: So I want to make sure everybody knows exactly where

45:54 Speaker 4: to find Brian Blanski.

45:56 Speaker 10: Great, thank you and.

45:57 Speaker 5: Uh and yeah.

45:58 Speaker 10: The way to find me online The best way is

46:01 Speaker 10: my official website, Brian's Super Happy Fun Time dot com

46:05 Speaker 10: and that is Brian with a Y. And from Brian's

46:09 Speaker 10: Super Happy Funtime dot com you can find everything. My

46:13 Speaker 10: tour schedule, links to you know, music streaming sites, the

46:18 Speaker 10: YouTube channel, all the social media platforms, so it's a

46:21 Speaker 10: great one stop shop and all the links to anything

46:24 Speaker 10: else you might like to consume music on or right

46:28 Speaker 10: there on Briansuper Happy Funtime dot com.

46:30 Speaker 4: Excellent. Looks like you've got tour day. It's going all

46:32 Speaker 4: the way like for the next year.

46:35 Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, well that's the thing Europe next year.

46:38 Speaker 4: You see Europe.

46:39 Speaker 10: They booked, They booked pretty far in advance, so yeah,

46:41 Speaker 10: there's stuff going all the way up to next September.

46:43 Speaker 10: So yeah, yeah, I said it's good to stay busy.

46:46 Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, Yeah. You want to play one more.

46:49 Speaker 10: For us, absolutely well, I'll do one song from the

46:53 Speaker 10: original Brian Super Happy Fun Time album Brian Super Happy

46:57 Speaker 10: fun Time one.

46:58 Speaker 8: All right, love you once, love you twice, Love you more.

47:06 Speaker 17: Damn Being's rice, my bat m, my pretty baby, my

47:12 Speaker 17: little lead at, my pretty baby, love you up.

47:18 Speaker 8: Love you down, God, love you where I found.

47:22 Speaker 17: My baby there, my pretty bay, there, my little lead,

47:28 Speaker 17: my pretty baby, damn.

47:46 Speaker 8: Love you here, love you that God.

47:48 Speaker 17: I love you everywhere, my beave in, my pretty baby,

47:54 Speaker 17: my little leader, my pretty bad at, Love you watch,

48:01 Speaker 17: love you twice, Love you mo damps, Rice Bope, my

48:07 Speaker 17: pretty beeve, my little lead, my pretty bee, my little lead,

48:16 Speaker 17: my pretty beeted you.

48:24 Speaker 4: Very nice, very nice.

48:25 Speaker 5: Thank you.

48:26 Speaker 4: Brian Blansky live in studio with us, and uh now

48:29 Speaker 4: this is this has been wonderful Brian. We really appreciate

48:32 Speaker 4: your coming in before we run out of time too, Jenny,

48:36 Speaker 4: I want to make sure we remind people because it's

48:38 Speaker 4: a big day. What uh what what what we're doing?

48:41 Speaker 16: Later this afternoon we are going to be at the

48:44 Speaker 16: Mosaic Our Collective right here in the Queens City were

48:48 Speaker 16: the opening of Spellbown. Yes, I am proud to have

48:51 Speaker 16: two paintings in this show and we will be there

48:55 Speaker 16: this afternoon now. The opening is from four to eight pm.

48:58 Speaker 16: You can join us at sixty six in Street Sweet

49:01 Speaker 16: two or one here in the Queens City.

49:03 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and your website you should plug that too.

49:07 Speaker 16: You can check me out and find out what I'm

49:09 Speaker 16: up to at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N

49:11 Speaker 16: co o f f Ey dot com.

49:14 Speaker 4: And you also wanted to mention something about pink Tober.

49:16 Speaker 16: Yes, my annual appeal. It is pink Tober and they

49:20 Speaker 16: pink it up and they forget our boys. Remember men

49:23 Speaker 16: can get breast cancer too. One out of one hundred

49:25 Speaker 16: new cases is a man, and we need to stop

49:29 Speaker 16: pinking it up and remember pink and blue because boys

49:31 Speaker 16: can get breast cancer too.

49:33 Speaker 4: All right, well said, well said, Well, thank you, Thank

49:36 Speaker 4: you to everybody who joined us today. Of course we

49:38 Speaker 4: had Rick everhard A better known as Six Minds combined

49:41 Speaker 4: in the first hour. Second hour we had Gary Smith

49:43 Speaker 4: and Brian Bolanski again. Wonderful to have you on, sir,

49:47 Speaker 4: Thank you.

49:47 Speaker 8: So much for having me. I had a great time

49:48 Speaker 8: talking with you all.

49:49 Speaker 4: Safe travels out on the road, and I'm gonna put

49:52 Speaker 4: you on the spot here. I'm gonna play one more

49:54 Speaker 4: studio track from Brian super Happy fun time for what

49:57 Speaker 4: would you like me to play? What would be a

49:59 Speaker 4: good choice to to close out? O?

50:01 Speaker 10: Uh, let's go ahead and do uh your Pretty Face,

50:04 Speaker 10: the final song on the album.

50:07 Speaker 4: You're Pretty Face. All right, I like it. Well, we'll

50:09 Speaker 4: go with that, and uh, everybody, if you miss any

50:11 Speaker 4: part of today's show, it will be up in just

50:13 Speaker 4: a little bit at wmnhradio dot org, at my website

50:17 Speaker 4: Matt Connorton dot com. And uh, we'll talk at y'all

50:21 Speaker 4: a little bit later, Bye everybody, bye, oh sorry, here

50:27 Speaker 4: we go.

50:38 Speaker 8: Like you, pretty face, I'll see it in my mind

50:42 Speaker 8: over the place, like.

50:43 Speaker 9: You, pretty mine.

50:46 Speaker 8: Oh I you think about you all the time.

50:48 Speaker 5: Never be the same.

50:51 Speaker 8: You look so pretty in the refall game, exception to

50:54 Speaker 8: the rule.

50:56 Speaker 5: You look so pretty in the swimming pool.

51:00 Speaker 8: Baby, I'm George Crazy.

51:04 Speaker 3: Nobody's come on back when I'm coming under the back.

51:09 Speaker 5: Who's gonna creep my room?

51:11 Speaker 3: When I'm getting the temple to baby? Baby, I'm George Crazy.

51:22 Speaker 2: Uh oh.

51:27 Speaker 3: Baby, oh.

51:37 Speaker 5: Baby, oh creebe oh.

52:23 Speaker 3: Oh baby, nobody's got my back?

52:33 Speaker 5: Well, I'm coming under tack.

52:35 Speaker 8: Who's your creamonder? Well in the test?

52:39 Speaker 3: Polty baby, baby, I'm Josh Crazy.

52:47 Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

53:10 Speaker 18: I broke, but I'm not broken. Broken, don't breaking. I

53:15 Speaker 18: left the gun smoking. My blood runs open scars, don't

53:21 Speaker 18: heal right?

53:22 Speaker 3: Right?

53:22 Speaker 18: Can't get it to steil tight, rub tokens together, hoping

53:25 Speaker 18: for luck, but the deal's light. Falling like a steel pipe,

53:28 Speaker 18: I fall hard through a skylight window covered in glass shards.

53:32 Speaker 18: Too much dancing with the devil left my ass chard

53:35 Speaker 18: into the road. Asked my maker to make it in

53:37 Speaker 18: less painful instead, an angel came and sang me songs

53:41 Speaker 18: until I fell asleep, helped me get up. Instead of

53:43 Speaker 18: rain clouds, there was a rainbow. So I crawled till

53:46 Speaker 18: I could walk. Now, I let this guitar weak.

54:08 Speaker 15: As I lay dying, as I lay dying, As I

54:29 Speaker 15: lay dying, as I laid dying, But it.

54:35 Speaker 19: All falls down, and the ground starts quaking, and my

54:37 Speaker 19: soul of wickeds, and the sky starts breaking, and the

54:40 Speaker 19: eyes are watch and the time I've taken is not

54:43 Speaker 19: be given living these times we seem to bind. Prize

54:46 Speaker 19: ribbons were driven from riches and sinning. And this isn't

54:48 Speaker 19: why we live in this prison. This inim envision, it's

54:51 Speaker 19: like an incision, like if I get in. Prescriptions seem

54:53 Speaker 19: to make us painfree, but mainly remind us that we

54:56 Speaker 19: isn't in fame.

54:57 Speaker 2: We checks and dragons that have no emotion.

55:00 Speaker 19: Was what sober soldiers This cappa cheese, and they chosen formulas.

55:03 Speaker 8: The real truth thighs in this here book.

55:05 Speaker 5: There's no fearing.

55:06 Speaker 19: My eyes accent dispairing, the spies walking through paring, the

55:09 Speaker 19: lies are bearing disguise. I taste the tears rolling down

55:12 Speaker 19: their cheeks, kiss them away, keep loves so deep, I said,

55:15 Speaker 19: no more tears.

55:18 Speaker 2: I just let this guitarla weep as I they dying.

55:44 Speaker 2: That's how they dying.

55:48 Speaker 5: That's how they dying.

55:49 Speaker 19: That's how they dying.

56:00 Speaker 5: I not they.

56:14 Speaker 1: W m n H rip the novels.

56:42 Speaker 2: Some people the break when.

56:44 Speaker 9: They would your breath while.

56:47 Speaker 2: Your thinkers six you crips and eyes wash the pina

56:52 Speaker 2: your pad. He tried to not John, are your drinkers? Try? Said?

57:22 Speaker 5: She says, last, thank you.

57:46 Speaker 2: So she's gonna naked in the nine number rod.

57:50 Speaker 5: I've found it.

57:52 Speaker 2: I have done every I believe. So looking my as well,

57:57 Speaker 2: you're shown.

58:02 Speaker 6: Oh no, don't worry your bad joke that back yard

58:08 Speaker 6: your red bass like.

58:09 Speaker 2: Again that don't your mother still a bass dast? You

58:28 Speaker 2: want to start going down back dast?

58:59 Speaker 5: You listening to w m n H.

59:06 Speaker 3: Command God, don't get supreme Leada maxill coving.

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59:53 Speaker 14: drink and be happy.

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