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Speaker 2: Look at me, I love you, and that you fall asleep.
Speaker 3: I count the sheep.
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Speaker 3: Or your golden hair swinging inny.
Speaker 2: It's the quiet winds, subsides and your loneliness and your only and your mind.
Speaker 3: Now I see why I say you and I.
Speaker 4: On the bellies I wrote before, have you between the lines,
Speaker 4: and I would do anything.
Speaker 3: To just say I.
Speaker 2: Do so, Spree, look at me, I love you so Sprey, look at me.
Speaker 5: What a beautiful song that is called Stacy. And we have the writer and composer and singer and guitarist and from Temple Mountain is here with us live in studio. And we get that mic up. Hello, Eric, Hey, how are we doing? Let's see?
Speaker 6: How do I sound good?
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna boosome that volume a little bit.
Speaker 6: Heard.
Speaker 5: Eric's gonna play live for us this morning, so I want to make sure we can hear you. Okay, I think we're I think we're good. Yeah, congratulations that just came out. Stacy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's Stacy's song has been out since today, and yeah, it's the series of probably several singles that are gonna be coming in in the near future. So I have like at least seven or eight more.
Speaker 5: Okay, So has this been played on the radio before today? World Radio premiere?
Speaker 3: We love it?
Speaker 5: Excellent? Excellent? Uh so when you say it's out today, so it's on all the streaming play platforms.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then I have a video and official video that uh I handa B photography and I filmed together that I'm going to be releasing soon too.
Speaker 5: Very good. Like how so like within the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 7: You would think with someone who's passionate, they would have a date set, but I haven't put it. We we kind of created that video so extemporaneously and very last minute. So it's done and it's ready.
Speaker 6: I could release it now, but I don't know when I want to do it.
Speaker 5: Right right, No, it makes sense. Yeah, you want to wait till the time is right. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. And so you said, so you're releasing a series of singles.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm doing you you ever heard the Waterfall Effect?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I've heard.
Speaker 7: I don't really want to do it because I don't like the idea of it, but it seems to everyone's just telling me to do it. So I'm like, why don't I do it this time around and then the next I.
Speaker 6: Can do with the way I want to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, I'm releasing probably every other month, I'm going to release a song.
Speaker 5: Actually, I'm going to ask you to get a little closer to that, mic. I thought it was a good distance. But yeah, So, uh, you're a previous because you have the album Schema, which we've played songs from before. So but this time, so will the singles that you're releasing will they eventually call a.
Speaker 7: Yeah, actually it's going to release. The album is going to be called Case Studies. And you had the artists who did the artwork for it on the show.
Speaker 6: Kira Curtis Oh yes, that's why we talked about that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she did the final album artwork, and then for all the singles, I want to get local artists to kind of create the what what would you call it, the Spotify single template for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh that's a great idea. Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool? Are these? Uh So Schema obviously kind of has a theme.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now I took that out this time.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: It's in there because I think in that kind of way, but in terms of titles and overall concept, I just wanted to kind of rein free. There was I put a lot of restrictions on Schema, like there's only you know, you play guitar or correct yea, so there's only like certain shapes that I restricted myself to to create songs with. For this time around, I was like, let me experiment more of harmony and let me experiment more with just I just wanted it to be completely And I even went to like a studio this time around to like record them and act in Massachusetts.
Speaker 6: So I just wanted to try something new.
Speaker 5: Okay. So that's where Stacy was recorded.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and well Spring sounds okay. Josh is awesome. I love the guy.
Speaker 5: Now, how did you connect with him and why did you decide to work with him?
Speaker 7: I was looking at places that offered tape recording because I was because you know, why not and they don't do that. But they came up and I saw their rates and I was like, that's affordable.
Speaker 5: So so you were looking for so when you say tape recording, so you were looking for that, I.
Speaker 6: Was looking for like real to reel that.
Speaker 7: Wow, and it's it's possible. It's just then I started I get really in my head about these things. It's like would that be a cliche? Would that be a little bit of a gimmick? And so then I found them and I was like, why don't I just give this a try? And Josh, what's cool is I'm a big Elliott Smith fan. And they have the original microphones that Elliott Smith used on his Lucky three documentary, which is like the mike, it's a Newman something. I forget what they're called, but uh, okay, so just I got to record the whole album with those microphones.
Speaker 5: So kidding, Oh very cool. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: I mean it meant a lot to me.
Speaker 5: That's awesome. Yeah, I am curious. Were you able to find I assume not in the area. Were you able to find a studio that does real to real when you were looking online? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah absolutely. And I had a friend, uh, my friend Josh. He actually has a four track set recorder, and I was thinking about doing something like that.
Speaker 6: But I don't know, it's so funny you because I was just thinking about this.
Speaker 7: I kind of want to make an album and I know saying this live on the air, like it's silly, but I want to create an album where I just record right on my iPhone because to me, the iPhone voicemail app seems to be like the new Lo Fi And I would like, what can.
Speaker 6: I do with that?
Speaker 7: And maybe I could do something kind of Nick Drake like and like do a live fingerpicking and vocal intimate stuff and like it won't sound like high professional, but that's like that's the point.
Speaker 5: Right right. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I love I love when it sounds like you're there, you know why. It's not like I love.
Speaker 6: The room noise. I love everything about that. Yeah, I love the mistakes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how did I know? We talked about this before? But how how was schema recorded?
Speaker 7: In my in my farmhouse, just with like a simple microphone and and uh a Logic Pro and a laptop that couldn't handle Logic Pro. And then I just kind of figured it out. I mixed in myself, so I just did it by ear. I don't really know how to do compression or make uh you know EQ and you know it shows. But I'm really happy. I'm really proud of that album. Every time I listen to it, I'm always.
Speaker 6: Like, oh I still like this, Yeah, which that good? That hasn't happened before.
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Have you been self critical in the past of some of.
Speaker 6: Your pre prozac Yeah?
Speaker 5: That makes sense. That makes sense. You want to play something a lot for sure?
Speaker 6: Could I play an Elliot Smith song?
Speaker 5: You can play anything you'd like?
Speaker 7: All right, this is an Elliot Smith song. It's called Angelus.
Speaker 2: Someone's always coming around here trailing some nucule said, I see in your picture on a hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 3: Taking of chance to you in the swan of real skill. So glad to meet you and just pick it up.
Speaker 2: The ticket showstairs, money to be me, go on loose that gamble that stuff history you have the trade?
Speaker 3: Did you add up all the cards left to play to zero, sign up with evil and less.
Speaker 2: Don't start me dry now, uh huh uh huh uh huh uh uh.
Speaker 3: Because I'm born over it and.
Speaker 2: I can make you satisfied with everything you do. All your secret wishes could right now home back to you.
Speaker 3: Be for with Mad Poyson around you.
Speaker 2: No one's gone fool round first, no one's gone the fool.
Speaker 3: First song that meets you angeless?
Speaker 5: Very cool? I like it. I like it.
Speaker 6: What's that called Angelus by Elliott Smith?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I like it. I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've always been aware of Elliott Smith and and somewhat familiar, but I don't Uh yeah, I don't know that song. But no, I really like it.
Speaker 6: He's my hero, yea.
Speaker 5: What is it about him? Is it is? That's a great song? Is it a songwriting?
Speaker 6: Yes, it's definitely the songwriting. When I was in my senior year of high school, this really cool guy did a English project and we had to choose a song and like talk about how it has symbolic meaning. And he did a song called Between.
Speaker 7: The Bars and I just watched it and it was like everything I wanted to be. Yeah, and then that night It's so funny because it was just coincidence. I watched Goodwill Hunting and he did the music for Goodwill Hunting.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, and I was.
Speaker 6: Watching, I was listening to it. I was like, wow, this is really good.
Speaker 3: Who is it?
Speaker 7: And I looked it up at was Elliot Smith And actually is the reason I got into psychology that movie.
Speaker 6: So really yeah, so he just I don't know, his playing blows my mind, his songwriting, his voice blows mine and I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't remember if we talked about this before, but so Goodwill Hunting is what inspired you to get into psychology.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's this.
Speaker 7: There's a great scene in that movie where Robin Williams is talking to Matt Damon about laying bricks, and Matt Damon's like making the argument like why are we looking at laying bricks like it's a bad job.
Speaker 6: That's a noble job.
Speaker 7: There's honor in that, And it like blew my mind hearing that for the first time and seeing then Matt have a kind of breakthrough.
Speaker 6: It was like, I want to I want to experience that in my lifetime.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: Interesting, yeah. The Uh if this sounds familiar to you, then we did talk about this before. But your friend my dad has told me that people have told him that the Robin Williams character reminds that reminds them of him.
Speaker 6: Oh really, yeah, I know. Yeah, but you're a hypnotist, correct, Yes? Have you do you find that?
Speaker 7: Because hypnotism can create incredible change in a person, is there like a breakthrough moment? Would you say, like, can a person realize there I don't like using the word cured, but when they realized that a problem can maybe get diminished or fixed.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Do you experience that yourself or is it more outside the office where they notice that.
Speaker 5: I'll well, I'll tell you this. It's a great question because sometimes during a session, at the end of it, they're different, Like, not everybody, but sometimes they are, Like I can see the subtle differences even in just how they like their facial expressions, Like they exude a confidence and a sense of empowerment that clearly was not there before the sex. Cool. Yeah, and it is. I do love that. I guess such a rush for that's you know. I like to think I have certain skill sets, I'm good at something, I think I'm okay at hosting a talk show.
Speaker 5: I'm good for some good at that. But the one thing I really love is hypnotherapy.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what's cool about hitting the therapy too is and people don't talk about this, but hypnotherapy is the reason why psychoanalysis and therapy exists because Freud saw hypnotherapy and was fascinated by it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, like it's such an important part of mental health that we don't talk about a lot. It's diminished a little bit, it's coming back and its diminished, it goes in waves. Sometimes it's used as a party trick, and it's like it's not just that it's it's a form of behavioral therapy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely absolutely, No, I love I love helping people with it. I do uh, I do a visualization while they're in a state of hypnosis where I have them imagine they're the ideal version of themselves, the version of themselves that they most want to be. Oh wow, And yeah, people seem to really get a lot out of that, you know. But yeah, and so you now are you where are you in your career with with psycho psychology.
Speaker 6: Ye, I'm in my third semester of grad school.
Speaker 5: Excellent.
Speaker 7: I'm actually in my counseling skills class that I adore.
Speaker 6: I've been a.
Speaker 7: Case manager since the beginning, but I'm really looking forward to internship. I love case management, but I'm really looking forward to internship because i want to be in the office and you know, just reading up on Yalam and reading up on.
Speaker 6: Carl Rogers.
Speaker 7: I think the therapy that I'm interested in the most is Rogarian therapy and like existential therapy.
Speaker 6: So I'm still trying and a little bit of solution focused. There's some that's in there.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I just I'm I got about another year and a half until i am.
Speaker 6: That's like part of my life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, cool, very exciting, cant and done days.
Speaker 5: That's that's excellent. Do you think do you think your music will change when you when you get to that point?
Speaker 6: How so, like I don't know, like do you.
Speaker 5: Think because obviously you know you have these things in mind, like with schema, you have these things in mind as you're writing these songs. I mean, do you think it'll do you think it will change your perspective at all in terms of how you actually approach your music.
Speaker 7: I think where I get my most happiness from is playing live. And I mean I've been busy with the music stuff and it's been like two three hour shows playing at bars, playing like you know, can't help falling in love with Elves or hate Jude by the Beatles, And I find a lack of arcists in that, and.
Speaker 6: I don't. I think the image.
Speaker 7: That I'm kind of portraying right in front of you right now is kind of what I want to continue doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: See, at one point I was singing about do I want a band or nine? That's like that sounds so expensive?
Speaker 9: So right right, So in a lot of ways, yeah, yeah, I think I want to find a healthy balance like and sounds silly, but almost like the Batman thing, you know.
Speaker 7: By day I do I see patients and I see clients and I help the best I can, and I grow and build relationships. And at night I play music and I grow and build relationships. So yeah, that's and then you know, somewhere in between that also, I'm I'm a happy husband and father, So to me, that sounds like the ideal life for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Do you think people overlook the benefit the psychological benefits of music, like do you think the It's funny because I've never really thought about it before from this angle, but as we're talking to a personally, like, you know, music in and of itself is such great therapy, even just listening to it, you know, it can really affect how you feel. And but sometimes I wonder if people don't. I mean a lot of people do, even if they just don't realize it necessarily consciously. But I think music itself is kind of overlooked in that it can so so much influence how we feel, how we feel about ourselves, and and but it can also be sabotaging, and I feel too exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something I've never understood about people is why. I mean, I I do get it, but I but I it's not my instinct to do this when someone is sad and they want to listen to sad songs because they feel sad. And I've always been from my entire from when I was a kid, when I was a little kid. If I'm sad, the last thing I want to do is listen to sad music. I want to listen to something that's going to change my state of mind.
Speaker 6: I think the thing that is actually maybe maybe not maybe I'm getting a tangential. But the thing that's more interesting to me is.
Speaker 7: Music you can develop an identity with. You know, if there's a banana across the room, I'm not going to have an identity with that banana. I'm not gonna go like, oh, yeah, that's my favorite type of banana. It's from New Zealand or something like that. You know, I don't know if New Zealand grows bananas, but yeah, you know, with music, it can get really idiolating because there can be times where I've had moments where music is my best friend on certain days, and there's certain days where it's just like, oh my god, I've listened to Room for Squares by John Mayer NonStop for a week and then I have an identity crisis.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so that part doesn't get taught bad enough, where, especially if you're into the arts and you pursue the arts, you have moments of imposter syndrome and identity crisis. And yes, music can be your best friend at the end of the day. And I think Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the greatest songs of all time, but after listening to it two thousand times, when I listen to it now, it's like, I know what happens on second forty five.
Speaker 6: I can't listen to that song anymore, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's a it's a balance, and I'm always trying. The other hard thing I want to say is discovering new music for me is really difficult.
Speaker 6: I try really hard.
Speaker 7: I look for stuff, and it's just there's something going on where my brain's like, nah, keep going. And when I do find somebody, like right now it's been hip hop, I'm like obsessed with just like we were talking about before the show, making, like beat making and stuff like that. Yeah, that's fine. It's like, finally here's that energetic high I've been looking for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. So but so you so you have a hard time though, finding new music that you like.
Speaker 7: Especially with acoustic music, because usually when people recommend me acoustic stuff that it would make sense that I should like it, but it just doesn't hit me. Like A good example is Bonaver, very talented musician. People who love Boneaver. You have great taste. I'm not here to try and question that. And then when it comes to my ears and I process it, it's like this isn't for me. It's just not hitting it. I've I don't Maybe the maybe the problem is.
Speaker 6: I don't actually know what I want.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I don't actually have my taste well defined yet in my head?
Speaker 5: Well does it? Is it also possible that the production is bothering you because because yeah, because you know, you're a low fi guy.
Speaker 7: But I love again, I love smells like teen Spirit, which is the exact opposite of that. So it's like it depends on the context of the music itself.
Speaker 5: But even smells like teen Spirit, the production is different than what like now, everything is so compressed.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, the only.
Speaker 5: People I feel really get it right is uh. I'm not a big country guy, but I gotta say, from a production standpoint, Nashville has it down.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: The drums always sound great.
Speaker 7: You know, this is where it sounds like I almost don't want to come across as like a double like I'm here I making double standards. But like, for example, like my friend sent me a song by an artist called Dare the songs called Girls Don't Play. It's very raunchy. I love that song. Yeah, it's awesome. I love I love when that stuff is incorporated into like dance music and stuff like that, it's like yes, but when it's incorporated, it's like the acoustic guitar.
Speaker 6: And I hear an acoustic guitar, especially.
Speaker 7: Like like maybe controversible, and I hear guitar that has like Elixir strings on it. For those who know what Elexa strings are, they're coded strings. It's like an immediate turnoff from my ears.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't like it. It sounds too clean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I want to make it clear, like I don't think that this should be the standard for anyone by any means, like because I'm not the best guitar player of all time.
Speaker 6: I'm not the best songwriter of all time.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 7: It's nothing like that. It's just for what I look for to help me grow as a musician. I put these kind of things on a pedestal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense. If you are just joining us, Temple Mountain is here with us alive in studio, and you want.
Speaker 6: To play another one, Sure, I'll actually play.
Speaker 7: Because you played Stacy song earlier, I'll played the next single I'm probably gonna release after that. Oh cool, And I'm probably gonna mess it.
Speaker 5: Up, So that's okay.
Speaker 6: Ever, only live.
Speaker 5: It's an original and we won't know very good.
Speaker 6: It's called grateful, all right.
Speaker 2: Choice of girl is so profound, different shades of black and gray. And you're say in the world is round,
Speaker 2: but I'd seen in different ways, and I've noticed you're holding my soul. Good, say with a breadth, Fay, it's only one way. Oh, it's all right, say that I need you so grateful, that meant you this way, waiting for the moon to bloom.
Speaker 3: I watch the way it starts. My heart is only sat on you. So now I thank you for today.
Speaker 2: And remember you told me the whole day the world can be the friend each day. Oh, it's all right to say that I need you so grateful to met.
Speaker 3: You sway stand behind again, backs our face and then.
Speaker 2: With voices all around, but we never made a sound.
Speaker 2: All Your story is so profound. Now you choose to live each day and it's never up or down.
Speaker 3: It's not a side that leans your way.
Speaker 2: Member, you told me to say for the world, as asked you this say. Oh it's all right to say that I needs you so grateful the mech you its way.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's all al.
Speaker 2: Right to say that I need you so grateful the met you today.
Speaker 5: Beautiful beautiful Temple Mountain Live and studio. Well that's so that's gonna be the next single.
Speaker 6: Yeah I think so. Yeah, yeah, probably in December.
Speaker 5: Very good, very good? Is it? Is it difficult to choose what to what to go with next because obviously you've written a lot of songs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, and no, I just kind of do it, but yeah, I don't put too much thought into it, Like the this sounds silly, but like I'm just so I know social media is important. ID even think you were just talking about that with the last artist, how important it is on so or maybe that was yesterday. The social media is just so important to do as an artist. But I just don't see it as important. You know, if I wanted to, I can pay twenty bucks and get like fifty fake likes on my Facebook account, right, So like it's artificial, like it's all controlled.
Speaker 7: Like it's not the same as when I go live and I play a song with someone and connect with them and they come up to me after the show and say, hey, that was really cool. Even if it's just one person, that means way more to me, so.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't put too much thought. I do allow the releasing and stuff like that just so I can get gigs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Jenny was just reminding me too online.
Speaker 6: Do you teach now, Oh, you don't teach music.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's what she meant.
Speaker 6: No, no, okay, I'm not much of a teacher.
Speaker 5: It's unfortunately thinking of somebody else. Yeah, now you uh, you did mention earlier. Sometimes you think about, you know, playing in a band or getting a band together. I mean, how how how seriously do you do you think about that? Is it possible in the future or is it something that you kind of dismissed when it pops into your head?
Speaker 7: Or I got a telecaster recently, so oh yeah, telecasts and a jazz chort Sam. Because I really like the sound of it, I think about it. It's just I don't know. I don't know how to do it. If if I don't think, I would want to search for it like I would if it happens naturally. That's how I'd be down for it, because I don't want to have like Temple Mountain, then I control the music and everything like that. I want it would be cool if it was something like Queen, where it's like I write songs, bass player write songs, and drummer writes songs and we just appreciate each.
Speaker 6: Other's songwriting together and we could all sing. That would be awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, were you in a band before?
Speaker 6: Growing up?
Speaker 7: I was in a death metal band, Oh you were, yeah, called The Story of Anatomy in New York, but we didn't do anything. Yeah, and then I played I was Eric Phillip in New York City.
Speaker 6: And then because that's.
Speaker 7: My middle name, okay, and that just didn't go very well. And then this this has been really taking off. It's been crazy.
Speaker 5: And tell us again, how did you become Temple Mountain?
Speaker 7: Well, I live in Peterborough, which is right off and I live off a temple mountain.
Speaker 6: And then, you know, when you're starting to.
Speaker 7: Be a licensed therapist, you you learn a lot about both boundaries and confidentiality, and I think it's important that you know, I want to keep this life separate.
Speaker 6: So it's it's like I said earlier, it's kind of like my batman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. And uh, by the way, are you married now?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Not yet? Oh not yeah, no, there. Okay, yeah, very good?
Speaker 6: Wait, very good?
Speaker 5: Is Stacy's song? Is that about your It is early?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Excellent. Yeah. I think I think she was in the chat room last time you were on with Yeah.
Speaker 6: She she works for Kobe Sawyer and today is homecoming, so she had to leave work for work today at like six am.
Speaker 7: She just doing a lot of stuff. So yeah, we're not going to be seeing each other until tomorrow. Probably not in the chat room today, gotcha. And if she is, then Kobe Sawyer should think about that because she's not doing her job.
Speaker 5: Well do you want to uh? Oh yeah, we got time. You want to play another one?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 5: If you are just joining us, A Temple Mountain is here with us live in studio, and we should tell people to Last night you were on Granded State of Mind with Rob as a veto. Yeah, so if you want to check that out too, that is of course up on the site WM Andhradio dot Org.
Speaker 6: Shout to Rob.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Rob doing amazing things. You've you've played at Pembroke City Limits.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I played the Nirvana night there?
Speaker 5: Oh did you Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was incredible?
Speaker 5: What song did you do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Uh? I think I played on I'm on a Plane.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah that's yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did that, and then I played something in the way I meant. So what happened was I went in there going to play something in the way, and then like the day before, he asked.
Speaker 6: Me if I could play I think it was I'm on a Plane. Oh.
Speaker 7: I was just like yeah, okay, and so I had to kind of figure it out. And I remember I drove there like two hours earlier. I learned the song like two hours before the show, and no kidding, Yeah, I was so nervous and like it kept blanking because I kept going through the lyrics in my head. And then once you're on stage, something just kind of happens, yeah, and it all comes back to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I got lucky. It was a good shime and I met so many cool people that night. That was the best part about that show, kid, Yeah, because here you just playing bar gigs, you're always by yourself. You don't get to really see other artist because you're always overlapping. Rob did something gray where he got all these people coming together.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, for those who don't know what we're talking about. So it was a show where everybody everybody played just just one right, just one Nirvana song?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Two? Yeah, yeah. Do you know how many performers there were that night?
Speaker 6: Total must have been close to seven or eight, no kidding. Yeah, I met Ben. Do you know Ben Harris?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: I heard him on Rob's show a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, saw such a nice guy. So we met.
Speaker 7: We were speaking online already, and then we met from the show, and then he invited me to play at Panucci's Conquered, So like, we need more shows like that. Yeah, it's a great artist like to help artists. So yes, I really appreciate Rob.
Speaker 3: For doing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, that's awesome. Yeah. Check out Pembroke City Limits if you haven't been there, it's a it's a great place. Rob's doing great things there. And uh, all right, you were gonna play and I totally derailed you.
Speaker 6: No, you're fine, But.
Speaker 5: Devile Mountain is here with us live in studio, and what are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 6: This is a song off Schema.
Speaker 7: It's called Stages of Attachment and with a name like that, you would never guess, but it's about my cat.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 8: So let's see you try to wake me up, assuming I should rise, So pull my.
Speaker 3: Blanket up and stay here for a while. All just fell for.
Speaker 2: You and simple life you like you could break off the rules. Love you all the time. You're just a little thing sheltered by these walls.
Speaker 3: See his life for gaunt eyes, little ginger parts. It's just a little thing. Your heart is.
Speaker 2: Pure and true, bringing love to you all. You mean everything you do. I remember the day, all the morning drive,
Speaker 2: seven are in the room and you with us, a guy, how.
Speaker 3: Your wells just came to me and family did rise.
Speaker 2: And home you fell asleep, pouder powder cry. It's just a little thing sheltered by these walls.
Speaker 3: Seems like through gold and eyes, a little ginger pards. You're just a little thing. Your heart is pure and true. Bring in love to you all.
Speaker 2: You mean everything you do. When I get home, it's hello, not goodbye. And when I leave tomorrow you'll always try and cry. You walk your sister up zooming, she play, but you know when she's fed up with all your silling games.
Speaker 3: And the world around you know.
Speaker 2: How it makes me want to cry, But you know I'll never frown. As you lay by my side, You're just a little thing. You sto bout these walls.
Speaker 3: He see his life through gold eyes, Little Ginger Paus, You're just a little thing.
Speaker 2: Your heart is pure and true, bringing love to you all.
Speaker 3: You mean and everything you do.
Speaker 2: Bringing love to you all you mean and everything you do.
Speaker 5: Very cool, Thank you.
Speaker 6: What's that called stages of attachment?
Speaker 5: Stages of attachment? Yes, yes, Jenny and I have two cats and we love them very much. So I find that song very relatable.
Speaker 6: Oh I appreciate that.
Speaker 7: Yeah you don't, do you know Dylan Patrick Ward? Does that name sound familiar?
Speaker 5: Sounds familiar.
Speaker 6: It's a local songwriter from Vermont.
Speaker 7: He has a song called the Cat's Song, and when I heard it, I was like, oh, you can write about your cats.
Speaker 6: That was the inspiration.
Speaker 5: We had a recently, well a couple months ago, we had the band Turbo Cats. I played with them.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah, I played with that show at Terminus.
Speaker 7: Oh right, so funny, Oh yeah, yeah, god they cracked like in a great way. Yeah awesome, And it was just like they were so seriously like this next song is called licking your Leg.
Speaker 6: Or something like that. It was brilliant.
Speaker 5: They have that song. My senior lady cat, which because we have a female cat that's you know, getting up there, so we could relate to that.
Speaker 6: It's really trendy right now to sing about your cat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think it's a great thing. Some people really don't like cats, and uh yeah, I don't get that. I think I think those people have some sort of psychological issue. Yet you could not love cats?
Speaker 7: Well, just how can you not love any animal? Right, besides a wasp because they hurt?
Speaker 5: Well, it's not an animal, right, that's an insect.
Speaker 6: Is an insect not an animal?
Speaker 5: Or I don't think so. But then but then, uh we were talking about.
Speaker 6: This on a on a Friday night on a Cereal of Soup.
Speaker 5: I'm a co host on Retrospect Radio with poly C and Paul was saying that ants actually technically are animals, not insects. And it freaked me out because when I was a kid, my friends and I would light ants on fire in the summertime with a lighter and uh, now I feel terrible about it. I didn't care when I thought they were insects.
Speaker 6: You know, they're pre their their pre the size of their.
Speaker 7: Brains alone, for the for who what the size of them as an animal is alone like enough to be like, wow, these are very impressive creatures.
Speaker 6: Cats are Yeah, pre frontal cortexes are he really?
Speaker 5: Is that true?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: See now I feel really bad?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah. Wow how old are you?
Speaker 5: Oh? I was probably like ten oh yeah times past yeah yeah, I mean I would.
Speaker 6: Probably done way worse since then.
Speaker 5: Oh definitely. Oh yeah, you have no idea of course
Speaker 5: if you are just joining us on this Saturday morning, Temple Mountain is here with us live in studio. Are you playing a lot? You're playing pretty consistently.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a show later today, and then this month I was playing a lot. September I played probably like close to twenty shows. Oh kidding, yeah, next month I have probably I think I'm at fifteen right now. I'm trying to get more. So yeah, it's gonna taper down by the new year, but it's slowly growing back.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I love I have. Two weeks ago, I played three three hour shows.
Speaker 7: In one day and wow, that was an incredible accomplishment on my end that I was really proud of and I always wanted to because Billy Shean of the ban Talis said that he once did three shows and one day, I was like, I could do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I was. It was a nice kind of yeah farces.
Speaker 5: Three three hour shows.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I couldn't sing for a little bit after that one. It was had a great time.
Speaker 5: How did that even happen?
Speaker 6: Like how do you my own it's my own stupidity.
Speaker 7: I just keep saying yes, yeah, yes, and then I'll be like so that. That was a crazy day too, because I had to go my first gig was in Where's Beach and then I had to drive to Manchester to play at Great North, and then I had to go to Foundry and play the Foundry. So and Great North was such a shout out to Jesse by the way for that gig. Yes, And I'm glad I brought that up because I want to apologize to Jesse because Jesse asked me to like check if my songs were gonna be a part of B M I or something like that and just didn't have time.
Speaker 6: He did it for me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was very nice of him, but like I had to change my whole setlist around.
Speaker 6: And it turned out it was a great show, but it was it was so funny.
Speaker 7: I was like, so can I I was gonna play like Dave Matthews, Like you can't play Dave Matthews.
Speaker 6: That was such a great gig though I had. I loved that place.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and the beer was amazing, yes, yes, yeah. Jenny and I stopped in there recently because it was Jesse's birthday and she's a she's a proud mama. Yeah yeah, so yeah, and he you know, he's been on the show a bunch of times too. Oh yeah, sounding really good, wicked, talented, really good. Absolutely, but that that's not something usually run into though, right at a venue where they you know, because of the music rights, where that kind of gets something. I mean, if you run into that before.
Speaker 7: I did at not when I was playing music. I used to be a butcher, and they took the music there very seriously because they were worried.
Speaker 6: I get it. Yeah, like it is. It's it's not the venue's fault or anything like that.
Speaker 5: It's right.
Speaker 6: The way the music industry works is you gotta be careful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I kind of like when stuff like that happens, Like if you.
Speaker 7: Have like a two hour set or three hour set and then all of a sudden you have to remove twenty songs and figure it out.
Speaker 6: Like it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5: It's a challenge.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. Good, good attitude to have about it, certainly. Yeah. Yeah. I've just over the years, I've heard stories of like BMI and ASCAP, like actually it's it sounds like you wouldn't think it would really happen, but like sending undercover agents, yeah, into places to see.
Speaker 7: If they're I remember when piracy was big, and like there was like those stories of kids getting like sued because they downloaded the Titanic, and that actually happened.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it sued for lots of money. It's like these are kids, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's wild. It's wild. Yeah. And there used to be uh years ago, there was a place in Conquered called the Cafe Eclipse, and they got into some kind of trouble and they.
Speaker 6: Just that's a great name.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, it was a cool place. I played there a lot back in the day. But they had to make a rule just no covers because they had gotten in trouble and they'd been threatened by I don't know if it was ASCAP, BMI, or it might have been Sea Sack, because I remember the guy telling me, and I was like, oh, that's what I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 7: I believe I'm playing a gig in March. It's a place that I've been wanting to get. It's hard to get the gig. It's like a two year out gig. It's called Stage thirty three. It's in Bellow Falls, Vermont. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. That's part of the rules is I can't play any covers because they don't have any licensing agreements, so it's all gonna be originals. For like, it's like a forty minute set of original which is fine, hayahy to do that. Yeah, if anything, it's refreshing. Yeah, there's not many listening rooms.
Speaker 7: That's the It's not a fault of New Hampshire, but it's the hardest thing in New Hampshire is there's not many listening rooms.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, right, no, I agree. When you when you play covers, do you mix in any originals?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Always, yeah, yeah, you gotta and they usually, you know, usually people want to hear it too. And my covers vary, Like I play John Mayor Dave Matthews Shehr, but I also play Britney Spears.
Speaker 6: I play I do. I do.
Speaker 7: Wow, that was almost very uh braggadocios. I do a cover of Cake by the Ocean that I really like. I just I do things that I want to hear. Yeah, I want to listen to you know what I mean? And it's yeah, it's just so. Then if you incorporate those and I base my set lists on where I have to place the capo.
Speaker 6: Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, like if I do all my like second fret capo songs together, so it helps with tuning stability and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I incorporate my originals conclusion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well i'd imagine too. Some of the covers you do, like that Elliott Smith song I didn't recognize. I'm sure. I'm sure if you ever had anyone come up to you and say, hey, I really like that song and they have no idea that it's not an original, does that happen?
Speaker 7: The only covers I would say that I do that people don't recognize are Elliott Smith and I Have so and which sends me. But I do them just I do them as like a kind of way of saying thank you to Elliott. Yeah, but yeah, usually people like people pick up on things like it's crazy. You know, you play you, people wonder why, Like somebody will be like, I'll never.
Speaker 6: Play Hate Jude because it's such a cliche. But you play it at a bar, you're gonna get a reaction that's gonna give you such an endorphin rush. That's it's incredible, the dopamine high you get from playing Hate You Live. I can't I recollect it to everyone. Play Hay Jude.
Speaker 5: Live, no kidding?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and play The Boxer by Paul by something. Oh yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Are do you have a favorite cover? Is there is there one that you especially.
Speaker 6: That like I look forward to? Yeah, I can. I play Neon by John Mayer, and that's a bit of a flex and that seems to be giving me some attention.
Speaker 7: So I like playing that one. Yea, yeah, yeah, that's it's been fun. I also like playing Your Body as a Wonderland.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love that song. Yeah yeah yeah uh. And I also love playing I Can't help falling in Love with You. Yeah, play Elvis a lot. That's a great song.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would imagine that goes over pretty well.
Speaker 7: I can I can see how just watch I've seen like moms bring their little kids on stage up the front to dance.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's very cool, very cool. Have you ever if you ever played any covers that you had to ditch because you they weren't going over well or.
Speaker 7: That's a good question. Yeah, definitely. I tried doing party rock by l MFAO.
Speaker 6: That didn't work. I still do it sometimes, but there's a line in.
Speaker 7: It it's like half half black, half white Domino and like, once I sung it out loud.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh yeah, I'm as.
Speaker 6: Just white male. So there was that, and then there was also.
Speaker 7: There's a song called issues like I Got I Got Issues, you got too. I don't know who actually does a song, but it just didn't translate well to acoustic. But I'm working on a version, you know, the song I Will Survive. I'm working on that at the moment. That's like my latest thing. I'm really excited. I think I want to actually like put it on the album. I always wanted to have a song like a cover so on the album.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so I might do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, spoiler alert, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know I think that would that would be pretty cool. Now the singles that you're releasing, are these all being recorded at the same studio or yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Well I'll go in there and we'll spend like three hours record like three songs because they're just double tracked. They're very simple. It's still I like. What I like is it's not it's not low fi, but it's like just the next step up. Yeah, and I just want.
Speaker 7: To keep polishing it up, you know, keep polishing the turd if you will, until it's maybe where people would consider it acceptable or something like that.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll look forward to hearing the next one when it's ready.
Speaker 6: That's for sure.
Speaker 5: That's for sure. Let's see you want to play one more? Sure? Sure, sure, if you're just joining us, We have Temple Mountain here with us alive in studio on this Saturday morning. We do have a dead by Wednesday in the third hour, although they might be a little late. We were talking, we were I think it was off air. We were talking about how they're coming up from Connecticut, and apparently Jenny messaged me and said they had a little bit of a delay because of the Hartford Marathon, which I didn't know what's happening today, but I can see how that would happen.
Speaker 6: Here's a random question. What are your thoughts on do you know about New Haven's clam pizza?
Speaker 5: No, but I'm horrified.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, yeah, it's someone from New York. It's just like, there's no way that.
Speaker 5: Works clam pizza. I have a rule because you know, pizza is my favorite food. And uh oh really and and if somebody asked me, you know, Matt, why you know you say certain types of pizza are gross and other types are good. Here's here's how. This is what I tell people. If you want your pizza to be delicious, you should only choose delicious toppings. If you choose disgusting toppings, your pizza will be disgusting. And that's all you have to know.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 7: With that said, you know pizza is hard to find. Come around here there's good pizza and there's Sorry New Hampshire, there's not. If you're from New York, you're not gonna love the pizza.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: Have you been Tollis in Peterborough?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: No, they're good, really Yeapelli's only getting better too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: They are very traditional in like New York style slices and they still slices by the singles Monday through Friday, eleven am to four pm.
Speaker 5: You being from New York, you you, I mean, you wouldn't say that if it wasn't true.
Speaker 7: So it's now is it New York Pizza? No, but but there's something in the water, so.
Speaker 5: It's the clos probably so far.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've heard think that people have told me about Tilton's House of Pizza, and I need to check out. Apparently I've had good pizza. I kind of like bad pizza too. I just love pizza.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't have to be great exactly. I love you know, cumber Comby's Farms pizza makes me happy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, I'm gonna get out of I hate for that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, seven eleven pizza isn't bad if like when it's fresh. But it has to be fresh because once it turns, it turns. Oh yeah, I fell into a habit of I don't need seven eleven pizza anymore, but I felt of eating it. But it had to be like like, I mean, like within the last five minutes. It had to have been put.
Speaker 6: Yeah, otherwise something happens to cheese at.
Speaker 5: Minute six it turns into something horrible.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm not stupid. I know it's not real.
Speaker 7: I know it's yeah, yeah, I know that's not that's not all right, that's not tomato right.
Speaker 5: Right, making me hungry? All right, Temple Mountain is here with us, live in studio, and what are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna play a John Mayer song if that's okay, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6: I'll play your Body's of Wonderland?
Speaker 5: Right, happy, all right, very good.
Speaker 2: We got the afternoon. You got this room too. One thing that's left to do government discovering you, one mind to avery and Jeff, your skin like Parson, one pair of cantie lips, and your bubble gum too.
Speaker 10: And if you want love making swimming a deep sea of blankets, take your big plants and break up.
Speaker 2: This is bound to be a wild Your body is wanting land. Your body is a wonder I'll use my hands. Your body is wanton land. Something about wid half falls in your face. I love the shape you take.
Speaker 10: One crownto Honts billowcas you tell me where to go, and the one I lead found it and never let your head hits bad.
Speaker 3: Found my hand behind it. One off, make it swim in the deep sea. Plants.
Speaker 2: Take all your big plants and break them.
Speaker 5: This is bound to be a wow.
Speaker 2: Your body is wander Lands.
Speaker 3: Your body is wander Well you use my hands, your body is wander lands.
Speaker 2: Damn, baby, man, you rest your may.
Speaker 3: I know your mind.
Speaker 2: Oh man o man, But she looks so good it hurts.
Speaker 3: Sometimes.
Speaker 6: Bad is want lands.
Speaker 3: Bad is wander all use mans, bad is want.
Speaker 5: That's a long fade. Well, you know what's funny. I was thinking about this as you were playing it. I haven't heard you know, his version, the original version of a long time. But speaking of phades, there's I always thought it was kind of funny how the song kind of tricks you a little bit in that it sounds like it's over. There's a point where the song sounds like it's over where you know what I mean, and it goes to that like you know exactly what I mean, which is not because I've said this to other people and they don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a point in the song where it's like, if you haven't heard it before, you're sure the fade out is right there, and then it doesn't happen.
Speaker 6: He does that actually a lot on M squares.
Speaker 7: This is a song called my stupid mouth and there's a part where it just ends and then he goes one more thing.
Speaker 5: Oh yea yeah yeah. I was like, Clarity, that's a down Mary's song that I really like. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. What uh so we are approaching the top of the hour. What do you are you playing this weekend anywhere?
Speaker 7: I'm going to Campton, New Hampshire today to play at mad River Coffee House, okay, and then I'm playing this Thursday. I play at kill Kenny's in New Hampshire, and then i play in Francis Town. The following week I play I don't know my whole schedule, but I'm all over the place if you want to find out. Www dot Temple Mats and music dot com. I just updated the website too, so.
Speaker 5: Oh very good, very good. You do all that yourself, the yeah web web stuff, Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah, no, it's a nice website. Thank you. I'm kind of a website nerd. I look at websites and judge them.
Speaker 6: That's I don't know what I'm doing, so that means a lot to me.
Speaker 5: Well, because a lot of a lot of our guests I look at their websites and it's like, oh they're so like, you know, I'll have a band on It's like, oh, there's such a great band and their website. It's horrible.
Speaker 7: You know, invest put if you make money at gigs, put money back into things.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I paid for a graphic designer. Shout to Emily Perry for designing my logo and ever since that, that was like a game changer, Like I don't got so many gigs from.
Speaker 5: That logo, don't kidding? Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's great that you say that, though, because that demonstrates that sometimes, you know, even just tweaking one thing, oh yeah, that that most people might not think would make a difference sometimes just everything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And learning how to talk to people is so important, yes, you know, don't Yeah, I have a real pet peeve when I hear like, I know, we gotta go. But when I hear an artist like almost like say something condescending to like a person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, just be nice, right right, just do it? Yeah. Yeah, it's not hard, it's not hard. It doesn't cost anything.
Speaker 6: Now, it's not easy either, sometimes, but yeah, make it easy, find a way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly exactly, And that's how you build relationships exactly. Yeah, absolutely, and uh so you've got uh and then you're are you pretty busy for the rest of the month too? When when does Because I know you said you're starting to slow down, but that's is that in November.
Speaker 6: I'm slowing down.
Speaker 7: I'm taking a little bit of a break just to focus on grad school. So I have two gigs left for October.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 7: Then I go into a studio on the thirtieth, okay, and then November I start again. I'll have I think I have like ten to fifteen gigs or something like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, oh wow, okay, and then uh and Stacey the new single, which we'll we'll play again to close out to a segment two of you because this is out today on all the streaming platforms, and there's a video coming soon.
Speaker 6: Make a week okay, yeah it might. Yeah, I'll probably release it in a week.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, excellent, excellent, Well, thank you, my friend. This is always wonderful to see you. I think this is your Is this your third time on the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you for always having me. You guys, that's really sweet.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, no, we we love to have you on and I'll remind people too. Eric was also on Rob's show Granted State of Mind, so you can find that in the archive as well. And we will close out the segment once again with the brand new single out today. It is called Stacy by Temple Mountain. Thanks again.
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