Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-25-15 hour 2

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Speaker 2: He sings, and I do what I want because I can have it all.

Speaker 3: Right, I'm back to the radio show. Now, all the best Jerry.

Speaker 4: In your wildest dreams, you couldn't ever imagine, in your craziest thoughts, you couldn't ever conceive.

Speaker 5: One on, one.

Speaker 3: Mind, one soul, one voice, one true, one no one choice. Come on, people, come on, people, Come on, peoples, get this done. And come on people, come.

Speaker 6: On, people, come on people.

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Speaker 7: The side get together.

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Speaker 7: One mind, one.

Speaker 8: Soul, one noise, one true, one do, one choice.

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Speaker 9: Who hey, welcome back everybody.

Speaker 10: If you are listening live on Saturday, October twenty five, twenty twenty five. We've just entered our number two new marrowdos of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here, of course at the news table and the song we just heard that it's called People Come on and we've got kt K also known as Kevin Kirsted here with us in studio.

Speaker 6: Welcome Kevin. Hey, guys, I love having.

Speaker 10: I love that song. I love everything about it. I love the solo, I love your voice, and I love the whole vibe. Everything about that is amazing. Thank you very much, absolutely absolutely very happy to play that this morning and excited to talk to you. You came to us through Eric from Jamdemic.

Speaker 6: Jam Demic one of my best buddies these days. Yeah. They're really on top of things, on top of their game. They're a hot band. Yeah. I run sound for them, Okay, and yeah, Eric said, Matt Connerton has some spots and so I'm new and I have all my material ready. I'm just getting started in the local area. Yeah. Yeah, Eric sent me over here and I'm glad to be here.

Speaker 10: Yeah, well we're glad to have you. Yeah, I love what you're doing. What can you tell us about that song?

Speaker 6: By the way, So that particular song was inspired and a couple of roots. The ascending rhythm line came when I bought my Yamaha trans Acoustic is an acoustic guitar that has cours and reaver built into it. Okay, my boss at work brought one in two years prior and played it for me, and I was absolutely amazed, and over the course of I wanted one. I wanted one, but I really didn't buy things too much. I didn't buy new instruments or things like that, and I really wasn't doing my own music, just a little bit here and there.

Speaker 6: But I sold all kinds of little things on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and saved eight hundred dollars and bought a brand new my first brand new instrument, yeah, in my late fifties, Yamaha trans Acoustic guitar. And once I got it, I picked it up and played it every single day. So the rising line in that come on, people come on. The guitar rises in there, and it was born out of that people come On. But it's a really a song about revolution and joining together and the power of unity. And it was inspired by there was an Iranian woman who was shot and killed for protesting, and shortly afterwards, all the iran and women started coming out into the streets and protesting.

Speaker 6: Yep. And I really don't remember what happened with all of that, but it really inspired. It showed me the power of what they were starting to do. Yes, and even though they were against all odds and they really didn't have much of a chance, what they could do together made a difference and made an impact. So that song speaks to the power of unity, one heart, one voice mind. Yeah, I love it. I love it.

Speaker 9: Where did you record that?

Speaker 6: So all these songs were recorded at A shout out to Zach Kazik Wild Feather Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Excellent. So last October, it's been a year now. These songs haven't existed until a year ago. I started recording all these and I just got the master that you played two weeks ago. Okay, wow, so I've had I went down I did fourteen songs down there. Yeah, and that was one of the first ones. Yeah. So it's a magical place. It's just a little small place, much like the radio station, and all the studios down there, all just small old houses converted and all vintage equipment.

Speaker 6: And I walked in to that place and I had my dream of recording all my life. I walked in there. I said, I'm not here because I think I have something that's going to sell a jillion or anything like that. I'm here because I don't want to playing crap at my funeral. I have all these songs. I have basement recordings. They're just not good. I have old live recordings, old bands, and something's not recorded and people Come On was a basement recording. A lot of the elements of it, like the beginning whispered come on Yeah, was developed in the basement.

Speaker 6: Over time, some of those things came together. Yeah. But you just walk in the studio there, and the studio pros are worth every penny. They seem to know what you're thinking. I just laid down my dummy track with my trans acoustic yeah, and they take it all to the next level, and then I get to sing on top of it. I got to play bass on all those too, lucky me. Yeah, it was only taken out of my hand at one point from someone who could do a little better. Really, that's funny.

Speaker 9: Yeah, so you recorded how many and fifteen?

Speaker 6: I did fourteen songs in the studio. I have fifteen tracks for you, okay. One of them is from nineteen ninety two. I recorded at Ryan's songs in pepperl Wow and had to be remastered. So I've had the opportunity to record a couple of times over my life just that really, well that one time in ninety two and now here at Wildfeather Okay, so Wildfeather, Zach Kazak, he's a complete pro. All the magic is the producer. The people are good, you know, the musicians of course, Off Notch. Yeah, the producer who tells you no, don't do that, here, do that there a little less?

Speaker 6: Think about that baby you're singing too. Ye. He was really an inspiration and uh he sent me in the right direction. So that's excellent. Yeah, it's been tough for showing up with the whole band of YEA, so it was very It was fun to just be the only person so and yeah, I went with his input a lot of times over mine. I don't care later on that you we might play. I'm not sure. There's a part we cut out a little talking part that I do live. The time I do open mic, everyone gets a chuckle and I do live because I do an implied rhyme with a bad word.

Speaker 6: Okay, and I never say it. But he said, this song will hit the radio. You can't leave that in there. They don't want that. Yeah, so he was really conscious of what could how he was aware of what could happen in my music, and he was really helpful.

Speaker 10: Yeah, was that intimidating at all going to Nashville and doing all that? Or because we've had a lot of artists on the show, a lot of guests over the years who have done that, and and I hear different. You know, some some people say, oh no, I felt really comfortable, and you know, I knew exactly where I was going and everything, and other artists will tell me. Other guests have said, you know, yeah, it was kind of Nashville. That's kind of a big deal going there. I was a little it was a little scary, Like, how did you feel going there and doing this?

Speaker 6: So this relationship was cultivated over a number of years through Facebook friends and through connections that helps. Yeah, So I sent a few things to Zach over the years, and you get mixed reactions. Yeah, And I sent him Round Up the Vote, which I did in the basement barbershop quartet. It was me myself and I all me except for Tom from the Milk Crates came over and played piano for me. Okay. But I sent that to Zach and he said, wow, that's a cute little thing. You need that mastered, and he offered to do it cheaply, yea, And so I sent him.

Speaker 6: I was, I was a fool. I sent him my mess of tracks from the basement. I sent him forty three different tracks for maybe six different eight different elements. Yeah, but he cleaned it up and made it real nice. And after that point he h. I said, can you listen to the rest of my stuff and put them into folders? And I let him listen to twenty odd songs, maybe old live band recordings, some just me doing it by myself in some basement recordings. Yeah, I said, put them in hits and shelf, you know, And he put most of them in hits.

Speaker 6: Nice. So

Speaker 6: I had I found myself with some money to do some stuff, and I scheduled my time for October to go down there, and we picked six of them, eight of them the first time. Yeah, and did did those in a week. I stayed down there a whole week. Yeah, yep, excellent. Wow. It was one of the funnest times in the studio. Magical place. Yeah. And you know when they're tracking and when the lead players are doing all their work a couple of times down outside and cry tears of joy, magic happening upstairs. You didn't expect these things to blossom into this.

Speaker 6: I knew in my head what they sounded like, so they didn't make it sound exactly like that, but boy, they did an awesome job and making it sound into something spectacular. Absolutely. So some of the things they're completely different from the basement recordings, I don't care. And the basement recording is real guitar heavy and stuff, and the studio recording is just pretty yeah. And so yeah, things changed in the studio too, But it was the most It was one of the most fun things, fun times ever around in my life.

Speaker 6: Oh that's great.

Speaker 10: Now, while you were down there, did you get a chance to play out at all? Did you do any open mics anywhere or anything like that?

Speaker 6: Not? This time. Yeah, a time prior. I had made sure I went down to visit and I made sure I went to an open mic. So yeah, and I had never done any up here at that point. This was like three or four years back, and I told myself, I'm going to Nashville. My daughter went to college in Nashville. Oh okay, I was in and out. Yeah. And I went to an open mic there and had never been to one, and so I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know you had to listen to the featured artists for like an hour and a half or two hours before you get to play your one song in a chair with four other people in a row.

Speaker 6: So yeah, it was a little tough in Nashville's tight town and there's not too many open mics.

Speaker 10: That's the part that where people have told me it can be intimidating, that that whole element of it.

Speaker 6: Yeah. They were all sitting in the chairs and that was the last one, and I couldn't sit in my chair. I'm not a sitter when I sing, Yeah to stand up. Yeah, And I did my Tequila song and I did really well. Yeah. I did my basement recording of Tequila is out at the time, and it still is out right now. On sodcast you can find Kevin kirstaid hashtag Hydrate is the name of the song. Okay aka Tequila. But I played down in Nashville. I made little QR codes on business cards and little stickers. Smart. I went in bathrooms and stuck my stickers and stalls.

Speaker 6: Ye left my little cards everywhere. Yeah, my reverb Nation page got a few hits from some of those things. Yeah, that's good. So it was fun. Self producing is tough. There's a lot to do, a lot a lot to do. Yeah, absolutely, But Nashville it was a little intimidating. But I'd been there with my daughter, so I loved the town. Loved the town obviously. Yeah. I couldn't wait to play there. I can't wait to play there someday as artist. Oh I can imagine.

Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Well, should we play another one of these studio tracks?

Speaker 6: Uh? Missed me when I'm gone? It's one of my favorites. Okay, that was one of the ones I was never able to pre record. Most of the other ones had a pre recording. That one I went down with and I just play through it and they took it from there get a groove to it and got a Yeah, it's got a groove.

Speaker 10: It does, it does, Yeah, it does absolutely. All right, let's give this a spin. If you're just joining us, kt K is with us Kevin Kirstead. But kt K is what that's the name of the project, right, that's what you're going with for Yeah, and for those of you watching online, if you're watching on YouTube, he's got the shirt to with the cool I do like.

Speaker 6: The logo kt K. The T is me?

Speaker 9: Is he your middle initial?

Speaker 6: Kevin Thomas? That's what? That's what?

Speaker 9: Oh, we have the same middle middle name. I'm also Thomas.

Speaker 6: There's another Kevin Thomas kirst in this area? Is there really? Yes? There is? Jeez.

Speaker 10: That's funny. All right, Well let's give this a spin. So this is called the full title has Missed Me when I'm Gone, Missed Me when I'm gone, miss Me when I'm Gone by K t K.

Speaker 6: Check it out.

Speaker 3: I'm staying in my face, but I'm staring at the door.

Speaker 1: I'm miss communication, scrimmling up my brain hidden mean you windo driving me insane?

Speaker 3: Maybe it's team.

Speaker 5: I've been the team.

Speaker 7: I know, I know, I.

Speaker 2: Know, I've got I gotta get away.

Speaker 1: You gone, miss me, young y'all, miss me, you young, miss me when I'm gone.

Speaker 5: When I'm gone yet.

Speaker 8: Young y'all, mess me, you're gone, miss me, You're gone, miss me. You're gonna miss me, miss me, miss me when I'm gone.

Speaker 3: I can have my opinion, and if I keep.

Speaker 1: It to myself, I can talk about our proper you're listen with someone else.

Speaker 3: I can make my own decision if I'm sure that he could fight. But you can think I just screwed up again. I can't see any of you.

Speaker 6: He needs a team.

Speaker 5: I need the team.

Speaker 7: I know, I know.

Speaker 1: I know, I God, I gotta get away. You're gonna miss me, you you'll miss me. You're gonna miss.

Speaker 7: Me when I'm gone. When I'm gone.

Speaker 8: Now you're gone, miss me, You're gone, miss me, You're gone, miss me. You gonna miss me, miss me, miss me when I'm gone.

Speaker 3: Me my chance, the clouds will go and see.

Speaker 5: Your line and the team.

Speaker 3: I'll just get back into line to.

Speaker 11: Everything you say, y y'all, miss me, young' miss me, young you'll miss me where.

Speaker 7: I'm gone, where I'm gone, Get.

Speaker 8: Young y'all, mess me, young god, miss me, I got I God, mess me miss me?

Speaker 7: Wow, Well, well, well where I'm gone?

Speaker 9: That has miss me when I'm gone.

Speaker 10: The radio edit from kat K Kevin Kier said, who is here with us live in studio? Yeah, you were saying at the end of the song. The other version ends a little bit differently, a little differently, a little differently. No, but I love that. I do love the groove on that and the guitar playing.

Speaker 9: So is that all you as well?

Speaker 6: No? No, I don't play the guitar on that, only bass okay, okay. Guitarist was in Nashville, Mike Sherry is his name, and amazing, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 10: What's going on in your mind when he's laying down that solo, Like you must be over the moon, like at how well that's coming out? That was a solo is fantasy. Everything he did on that track was fantastic.

Speaker 6: Absolutely fantastic. And that was like his second time. That was only like a second really, Yeah, So I think that was one of the moments I listened to it and then it was being remixed. I went down and cried. You know these things, it's like so amazing what these people come up with. The pro Like I said, the pros are worth everybody. Yep, yep. But he nailed it exactly what I wanted, exactly what I I wanted because he heard the angst in the song. Yep, he caught the growing and that was the bassline too.

Speaker 6: The groove is in the bass line. It's in his line. But he there's multiple multi So you listen to that and you only hear a guitar or two, but you don't know this several layers, and so the amazing part of the studio.

Speaker 2: Uh.

Speaker 6: He plays the rhythm part for that, and then producer says, Okay, pick up the strat the same exact thing with the Stratton now instead of less Paul, okay do that. Okay, Now we're plugging you in a different amp. Multiple, multiple takes of the same thing, keep different sounds and different instruments. The producer built the sound so it sounds like one guitar, but it's actually multiples of different guitars and different amps that are cleverly woven together to craft that. And so there's the different tracks too and this, so there's multiple takes of multiple That was the fun part of listening to it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, the leads weren't just the one time obviously, yeah, things, and then the producer would reached out. So all the leads and most of the guitar playing was done in the control booth, you know. The amp was in the other room, and it was Oh, so this was the funniest part. I went to help Mike come in and I went to pick up his amp. Have you put it on the ground outside the car And I went to the handle, and Zach and Mike both looked at me and say, don't pick it up by the handle. Oh really, fifty seven Fender Tweed Vintage something other other.

Speaker 6: Yeah, just don't pick them up by the handle. Yeah. Yeah, But brought it upstairs. They plugged it in and had a giant hum in it. What are they why are they bringing this here? Yeah, And Zach gets in the studio on the other side of the control booth and he pulls up this little plug in and all of a sudden, no hum on. Yeah. So he just knocked it right out of the thing, and then everything out of it was clean and pure. After that, it was on eleven, and so the guy was in our round room playing. So you're just sitting in a room with his pedal board just few pedals.

Speaker 6: Yeah, the producer is reaching down half the time, changing the pedals, doing all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, the musicians are one thing, and the producer, the magic producer, is the really the key element of all that. Zach Kazak a shout out once again. Yeah. Wild Feather Recording, Nashville Studio, Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah.

Speaker 10: Did any of those songs that we recorded there become out like a lot different than what you had imagined? Or was everything pretty close? Or I mean, obviously, I'm sure a lot of them came out, you know, better than you had you would even imagine, right, But but but did any of them come out I guess what I'm really asking is were there any surprises where at the end of it you were like, wow, this is I like this, but it's not necessarily what I thought it was going to be.

Speaker 6: Absolutely I don't care that. I hope we play later. Yeah. One of those songs that was the basement recording, and it was heavy, heavy guitar, heavy into the guitar and I leaned on the decord and just rolled around with the bottom things. But it was heavy on the top end of the two strings being the same sound all the time, and when it got to Nashville, that was gone and I kind of realized it, but I loved what was happening with it. And I got back and I let a friend listen to it. Yeah, and they said that song is completely different, and I was like, you know what, You're right, it is different.

Speaker 6: So what they morph and turned into. I accept that there's different versions of different songs and they'll be played differently many times. And so the heavy guitar version is my open mic version that I go to all the time, and it still is the root and like it's sure, and but I love the stuff that came out of the studio is excellent.

Speaker 10: Yeah, that must be exciting too, like like not only seeing these things or hearing these things that you've you've come up with these ideas that have now that are now these fully produced songs. But when something does turn out differently, that's that's there's something kind of advance terious about that, right.

Speaker 6: Like absolutely, yeah, you'll let take it to the edge and push it. And so all of my ideas I think are good and in my head, and songs there of course in my head, they're all hits. Yeah, when you present them to other people, and other people's input comes into them and they morph is when they start to get wings, yep, and change into something different, hopefully for something good you know that you're working with. But all these guys were pros and and this stuff even happens live at open mics and things when you're working on originals and uh, you just throw it out there, come on up and play.

Speaker 6: It's ea, b let's go one, four, five, you can do it. Yeah, And what it what they end up coming up with is is unique. Sometimes you need stuff I hadn't thought of.

Speaker 9: But we should talk about the open mics.

Speaker 6: Open mics. I've been to open mics for about the past fourteen months. Yeah, i'd only done that one in Nashville prior. Oh, that was intimidating.

Speaker 10: It's it's cool though that the one, the first one you did was in Nashville of all places. Right like you jumped into the deep end of the pool before you really had had any experienced swimming, you know.

Speaker 6: What I mean. Absolutely, I wondered what the New Hampshire open mics were going to be like. So my niece Rachel Rachel Evan Jocos shout out to granted State Blue Society.

Speaker 9: Oh, yes, we've had a couple of people from there on the show.

Speaker 6: Yeah. My very first open mic in New Hampshire was July one Keys Piano Bar when they had an open mic on I think it was a Monday night. I'm not sure. It might have been a Sunday hosted by One Dying Band. Shout out to One Dime Band. Uh, they were great hosts. I showed up at a blues open mic with an acoustic guitar. I felt like I had a rubber knife at a gunfight and I didn't know what to play. But I signed up and Rachel was going to meet me there, and Rachel all of a sudden couldn't make it. So here I am my first open mic all by myself.

Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, okay, wow. And then he called me up and I played Mustang Sally and so we did blues and other people played along. Obviously they were awesome, yeah, and I was like, wow, it's great playing with these people. But I wish I knew some blues or something. Yeah. I didn't do any original that. I just played along with a couple of other things. But that was my first open mic. But of course, I was a bit by the bug and I started looking for where there was open mics, and it was you can. You can do an open mic almost every night of the week if you're clever enough.

Speaker 6: It's hard to find him on Fridays and Saturdays where the people get paid. But yeah, Monday nights I found stumble in Lisa Guyer's open mic. She doesn't have it there anymore. I don't know if that'll come back. That was a wonderful time. I can talk about that a little bit. Tuesday night Casey's Ribshack, Manchester Tuesday night also Alford Station one on one. Okay, Wednesday night Riley's Place in Milford and Thursday night Rilly's Place in Milford. That's become like my home base. Yeah, so that's where I'm living now.

Speaker 6: I go there almost every week. So if you want to hear any of my stuff, any originals, come down to Riley's Place in Milford Wednesday or Thursday. I'm usually there. Yeah. I usually end up getting signed up last because I get there late and so you won't catch me till near the end. On a Thursday, But Wednesday Night's acoustic open mic there. Thursday nights they have a whole backline, drum set, bass, guitar. You could come down with your band, Matt and jump up on stage and play your stuff or my stuff if you want.

Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, but it's fun showing up with a band. Sometimes sometimes I do organize a few people and we show up. But those are yeah, so open mics have been. I've been doing them the past fourteen months, almost every night of every week. Excellent. I sag all my life. I always helped people and did gigs with people. Play bass. I play based mostly.

Speaker 10: Yeah, me too, I'm a player. Oh yeah, by five string? No, I've never played a five string in my life. I've never picked.

Speaker 6: I know. Wait till you hit that other string. That's what That's what everyone says. Drummers love that other string. Yeah, you can move drummers with your fifth string. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I believe it. I believe it. I've got more smiles out of drummers that have never played with a five string bass player kid, and then all of a sudden they jam with him and they're like, whoa, what is that vibe? I'm feeling? No kidding, that's part of getting your songs. Haven't a groove to them. Yeah, you got the groove and you can bounce down and have some low rumble going on.

Speaker 6: They haven't felt before like that.

Speaker 10: Stuff some of the bands I've played, and that would have been really uh handy. Actually yeah, I never Oh, you know what. I wanted to mention too though, about Milford, because you're talking about Milford. This comes up a lot on the show Milford, so so for people who don't know people listening online from other areas, Milford isn't even And because people from other areas who don't know New Hampshire might think, because Milford comes up so often that Milford is like this booming metropolis in New Hampshire, because it's like it's almost like the center of the of the music universe in New Hampshire is in what is actually this little town Milford.

Speaker 10: There's so much going on in Milford for music, Like it's like it's at a point where like at least, you know, we do the show every Saturday at least two or three times over the course of a month, Milford. Somebody's talking about Milford and and everything that's going on in Milford with music. It's really interesting, like like it seems like that town really it's a music city, but it's not even a city.

Speaker 6: It's a town, you know what I mean. It's wild and it's very cool. I had never known that Milford was the music metropolis. I love that term. Yeah, that it is. You can walk around the Oval in Milford and there will be six different places that you could walk in that someone's playing an acoustic guitar singing.

Speaker 9: It's wild.

Speaker 6: Absolutely one of the most musically magical places. Yeah, I had never known a place like it existed. I surely hope there are other places in the country like Milford. I would love to visit them.

Speaker 9: And I'm sure there are.

Speaker 10: We just don't know because you wouldn't hear about them because they're just these towns, right, These just these small towns where.

Speaker 9: For whatever reason, music is really prevalent.

Speaker 6: It's the smallest little town. Yeah, there's music, and within walking distance you could go to ten different places hear a live act or a band. It's amazing. It's amazing. It is a blast showing up at the open mics of these different places too. And now that I'm there, I'm recognized and I recognize others. I'm invited to play with others too. That's the funnest part. I don't I don't want to ask to play, but if they want to ask me to play, I will. Yeah.

Speaker 10: Absolutely, that's tremendous valady right when somebody says, hey, you want to play with us?

Speaker 6: Yeah. Fun. So I was doing open mics and I was playing bass along, playing bass with some things that I would have my sister. So one of the greatest joys of my life has been making music with my sister.

Speaker 6: She's the alto, I'm the tenor. We could make you sound great, Matt. Yeah, yeah, we'll back you up and make you sound awesome. Yeah. It's been fun. And so sometimes she's available and we'll she'll come down to Riley's. And I have different drummer friends. One of my drummer friends Jean Richard from Six Ways to Sunday, the band that I'm working for tonight, Okay, Okay, he's their lead singer, but he's my drummer okay, And I bring him in there and and different guitarists and stuff. But we will do the whole band stuff with some of these originals as well.

Speaker 6: Yeah. And we also play annually at a camp for physically mentally handicapped people. We've played it fifteen years now. We started out in the dining hall, me and Barb doing an amazing grace take me out to the ballgame on the piano and guitar and bringing in others, and now we play in the gymnasium. This past year we were told no light show, no blow upst no confetti can its okay okay? Yeah, So this past year I actually brought cotton snowballs instead and we had an indoor snowball fight.

Speaker 12: Oh.

Speaker 6: I try to bring something every year for these people to props to play with. One year it was noisemaker things. Yeah. One year we let them come up and sing a few things too, but we played there. Yeah, fifteen years running excellent. It's one of the greatest blessings is playing people who really appreciate it. Don't get to see bands and things where they're dance for their week. It's a faith based camp where they're let their hair down and have a dance night. Yeah, we do a couple of faith based songs, but we do mostly Taylor Swift and yeah, you know, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6: So we'll have the whole band and that's fantastic. One year, we did the Stroll by the Diamonds. Well, all the wheelchairs went down the middle of the gymnasing for ten minutes we played that song. Yeah, we loved it. Yeah, and they love it. It's one of the greatest joys to playing there year. But that's with my sister. One of the greatest joys of my life. Yeah, music with my sister. So shout out to Barb Patch. Yeah, Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 10: Does she also do like, does she do her own thing musically or does she only perform with.

Speaker 6: You or so she's recorded with me on this on the fourteen songs, So we did. So. I went to Nashville the first time by myself. Yeah. I went in February again to do six more songs, and me and Barb drove down. Yeah. Great trip of my life. If you want a good trip of your life, spend eighteen hours in a car with your siblings. Yeah. The person who knows you the best will bring up all kinds of things you don't need to you know, sure, no doubt. Wonderful time. And she had never been in a big studio either, and uh, it was I think one of the greatest trips she's had as well, so that's so cool.

Speaker 6: My daughter also came in and did some of the vocals. One of the songs that we won't hear today, but tied up Baby in Love. My daughter sang with me, so she's the female lead on that song that goes back and forth. Nice.

Speaker 9: Oh that's so cool.

Speaker 6: And several songs that we wrote even at church. So with Barb, I did five years of church band my kids were two and five and five years of every week, three new songs a week. So at the time I looked at it as difficult and oh I got to go do this again. But it was the greatest learning experience, Oh, no doubt I could have never asked for. And it was absolutely wonderful. I had to work on new things every week, things you've never heard before. Yeah, And you had to learn your harmony part and your guitar part, your bass part, all the drummers out you're playing drums this week, so things like that.

Speaker 6: Yeah. So one of the greatest learning experiences she gave me without me realizing it. Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the thing you don't realize still later, right, how how important that was and absolutely you know, and having that foundation musically and ye.

Speaker 6: And the foundation did come from the religious music in the beginning. We were all brought up there and she does that every week. Still I do that probably once a month. Yeah, there's a need for musicians at local churches. They could use any of us anytime. They are so glad when I come play music. Yeah, just so thankful and joyous. Yeah, and they try to pay me. I don't accept it at this really. Yeah, some of the piano people, you know, they're paying gigs at churches for sure, but I'm not interested in any But yeah, there is a need for any musicians out there to serve in that fashion if they're available to do so.

Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

Speaker 10: I grew up in Concord and we used to go to Saint John's on Sunday and they they always had a band.

Speaker 6: The worship team, be part of the worship team. Ye, it's funny.

Speaker 10: I don't I don't remember ever hearing that term specifically worship team, but I just remember like, and I don't think they had any kind of a name or anything. They were just but but I think it was pretty consistently the same people each week. But they would do these songs they were like they were religious songs. But they were like they but they weren't hymns, you know what I mean. Like like they would do a song called share a little Bit of Your Love, Okay, but it was like share a little bit of your love, my friends, share a little bit of your love.

Speaker 10: But it wasn't it wasn't a hymn. You know that that I did any of us had ever heard before.

Speaker 6: I don't know.

Speaker 10: They may have even written it themselves, I don't know. But they would do songs like that, you know what I mean, like almost like almost borderline secular some of them, but but just very positive, uplifting songs, if that makes sense. But but yeah, I was always kind of fascinated by that because it was like I've never like, I've never heard that. I mean, they would do I suppose they would do him too. My memory of it is fuzzy. This was when I was a kid. But but but yeah, Darryl Hall, I've heard say in interviews he credits his mother taking him on Sundays and they, you know, in Philadelphia, they would go to they would go to a black church and that's how he learned to sing, singing at the black church because that that gave him that that foundation, you know.

Speaker 10: And his mother was apparently a really good singer too, but but she insisted on bringing him there so that he could learn how to sing like her, and that's that's how he developed that that soulful voice.

Speaker 6: It's a great foundation and it's a lot of fun to sing in church. I did the choirs, and then they learned that I could find the note and read the note and follow it on the sheet music. So I was pulled into a quartets and things like that. And quartets were good sing along with background tapes yep, and touring different churches with the PV and short column speakers, the old school stuff. Wow, And so that was yeah, my younger days, that was a lot of fun. The church was a great foundation to learn, and so singing hymns, we would sing those in the pews and we would sing our harmony parts, and sooner or later we would get bored singing harmony and we would sing off key on purpose.

Speaker 6: The old ladies would look at us really funny. Yeah, we would sing so well that we would sing off key on purpose a few times. The church was the foundation of singing and learning sound stuff, learning how to plug in wires, learning with all those buttons.

Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, all that stuff. Absolutely well. We talked about it a bit. Do you want to play this track? I don't care.

Speaker 6: Let's do. I don't care and one of my favorites. This is my radio song. Okay, so at every open mic and I get smiles from this minute every open mic too. So it sounds like a love song. It is a love song. It's actually written from the perspective of your pug. Oh you pet Oh okay, so it's it's unconditional love. I don't care about anything, you know. I don't care about why you look like, what you smell like, and I don't care what Just let me be with you. Yeah. So, I don't think people will hear that it's from their pet.

Speaker 6: I always thought it could be used as the ASPCA commercial or something like that. Oh yeah, so, but I don't care. It's one of the ones that morphed from the basement recording into something quite different when the pros got it. And it's beautiful, lots of keyboards layers that I didn't expect. That's where a lot of the new stuff came from. How sounds changed when you added a player on an instrument. That could be any other instrument, and so a lot of things changed in that it really became something beautiful.

Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, great, let's give this a spen. This is I don't care, and this is K T K. Our friend Kevin Kier said, is here with us alive in suity, and let's give this a spender.

Speaker 13: He shure your fancy clues, Oh the way that you strike a pose that keeps me hanging around without a frown, your personal clown.

Speaker 3: It's not the funny things you.

Speaker 11: Say, oh the silly games we play that keep me sticking around.

Speaker 14: I'll never ever let you down making your big plans, and everything's okay if you on the pinmows.

Speaker 13: I got nothing to say because I don't care.

Speaker 3: I'll go with you anywhere.

Speaker 13: I don't care about your little tattoos or the color.

Speaker 12: Of your hair.

Speaker 1: I don't care downtown, back grill, see sambo on the top, a way up.

Speaker 5: In the wherever I'm with you, I don't care.

Speaker 6: It ain't the way to batch your.

Speaker 7: Eyes, oh the way out those sides that keeps.

Speaker 13: Me hanging around frown upside down, your personal clown. It's not the crazy things you say.

Speaker 3: Oh the records that we play that keep me sticking round.

Speaker 7: I'll never let you down making your big.

Speaker 8: Planes, and everything's okay if you are opilions.

Speaker 14: I get nothing to say because I don't care.

Speaker 3: I'll go with you anywhere. I don't care about your old tattoos.

Speaker 6: Or the color of your hair.

Speaker 1: I don't care downtown, back road, see soundboun it's.

Speaker 8: Up a way up in.

Speaker 3: Wherever I'm with you.

Speaker 6: I don't care.

Speaker 1: We want where we where we go, and we mean if we talk, if professors, so I only know the one thing I.

Speaker 14: Can't hide when I'm by your side.

Speaker 7: I feel, so I don't care.

Speaker 3: I don't care. I'm going with you manywhere.

Speaker 1: I don't care about your old tattoos and the color of your hair.

Speaker 7: I don't care downtown, man.

Speaker 3: Kelsey said, laughing, tap away uppily.

Speaker 7: Where we go to.

Speaker 12: Me too.

Speaker 5: As long as I'm with you.

Speaker 6: I don't care.

Speaker 10: That is I don't care, And that is Kevin Kirstaid also known as kat k and uh he is here with us live in studio, and that's a great song I was selling, Uh, I was selling Kevin off air that I'm gonna hear that in my head now in the morning when when the cat. Jenny and I have a cat who will sit outside the bathroom door, me owing, wanting to come in. Well, well I shave, watch me shave.

Speaker 6: You know, I don't have a pet. But that's the perspective I chose when I wrote it. Yeah, you know how they they don't care what you look, they don't care that you smell, They don't care. Just let me be with you, right that the whole vibe of that song.

Speaker 10: Exactly, yeah, exactly. Now are these so the songs that you've recorded, are these all? Are Are these part of an album?

Speaker 6: Or what?

Speaker 9: What's the plan with to do with these?

Speaker 6: That's my hope is that this is an album package. I have fourteen of them. Yeah, I mean I'm working on my artwork right now, so I will have CDs to sell and I want a physical media. Yeah. It costs a little a little bit to get the albums done. I'll probably make an album pressing if I sell enough CDs, I'll probably press a couple of Ye. The CDs are real cheap to have made. So the do it yourself, do it yourself music career thing is is just coming upon me now and just learning all the ins and outs of that.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm finding partners and helpers like Eric from jam Demik. Yep, it was great with all that marketing stuff. Yeah, and let's talk Gamdemic for a minute while I can. They have lots of their own original stuff out. They're a force in this southern New Hampshire area and so you guys can get out and catch a jamdemic. Do it. They're good and I'll probably be running sound for them. So come on buy and say hi. Excellent, excellent, yeah, absolutely, so, yes, the dream is to make the package, and so I'm working on my artwork.

Speaker 6: I've written my liner notes, I have all my credits for all the people, and yeah, to have the package in my hand before Christmas to hand to my family at Christmas time, but to have stuff to sell it open mics. So I have a couple of options of how it's getting posted online. And I posted I don't care on my song cast account and it's having a little trouble with the artwork, all the artwork. Yeah, I'm not sure if they're the venue I'm going to choose. So yeah, I'm undecided as to how how to release it all.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't care. We'll be out there eventually, because that's the first one I was hoping to tell you today it's available. Okay, not quite. Yeah, it's still having some issues, and that's also making me wonder. So do it yourself. Music we were talking about is a tough gig. There's lots of different options things to choose from and things to where to release your music through. So I'm hoping someone loves me, and what I really need is management. I'm doing it all myself and I'm stepping out there and this is the year that I'm going to put the effort into showing up and getting all the music out there.

Speaker 6: And so it's going to be an album package excellent, all fourteen songs good. I didn't want to sell anyone short and just have tens. The fifteenth song I recorded in nineteen ninety two, a song called rat Race and at Ryan Song Studios in pepperle and that was remastered. So that'll might not make the album, but I'll keep that one in my pocket, you know, as a bonus track for something or who knows. The original tape on that was quarter inch tape. Zach had it in Nashville, but when he opened the tape that had been in storage since ninety two.

Speaker 6: Heat had gotten to it over the years and it was unusable. Okay, so we had to use an old MP three and he said, this is okay. I said, it's okay. Make it sounds as much as you can like the others. But yeah, it's not quite as as good as sounding as the others. It's a different vein. So it's not going to make this collection, but it'll definitely be out there posted some day.

Speaker 10: Curious to hear it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so I'll have it for you later. You can have a cop Oh awesome, Yeah, thank you? Yeah yeah wow. Ninety two.

Speaker 9: And then so when's your next when's your next appearance?

Speaker 6: So I let's see, I just did a pumpkin fest in Milford talking to Milford. Yeah, I ran sound for six bands at the Keysfield stage, the first time they had bands of the Keysfields brand new wooden, beautiful that they built on a super fun site, nice stage. I wouldn't top stone Back. Ran sound for six acts there and I was the seventh act that was right before the end, second to last. We got to do four songs there. Yeah. So my next thing, I have a showcase at Riley's place. In Milford coming up December twenty seventh.

Speaker 6: Ok, I get an hour and a half. I'm gonna start off some things by myself. Probably I don't care all alone on acoustic, because that's when I do well on acoustic called by myself. Yeah. So at the Keysfield thing, I did really planned my fourth song set really well I did. I don't care all about myself on acoustic. Second song, I brought two friends up and we did Simon and garfuncle Cecilia a cappella.

Speaker 9: Nice, wow, no kidding.

Speaker 6: Third song we did an original blues So this original blues song. Riley's Place has blues open mic on Sunday afternoons from one to four. Yeah, I had been, like I told you, I went to the blues one, the first one I ever went to at keys Piano Bar, and I felt like I had a rubber knife for the gunfight. Yeah. So I always stayed away from Riley's Sunday blues thing other than I poked my head in and said alone, saw the incredible guitar players and sexophone, all these incredible musicians. Yeah. I went to rallies one Sunday with my bass and I walked up on stage and I signed up and I walked up on stage and they said what are you doing.

Speaker 6: I said, we're doing an original and the drummer looked at me like people don't do originals, said blues jam. Yeah, I said, well, it's one four five. They said it's the format. I said, it's the right blues format. Don't worry yea doing it. And the drummer was Phil de Luca was his name? Okay. He looked at me like I had two heads. Yeah, you're doing an original. I said, yeah, you'll be all right, just watch me for the changes. Yep. And at the end of the song he gave me a big giant thumbs up in a smile and yeah, you're a good singer.

Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I was really I had won him over in that one song, and uh, and then I played along with blues. I just played bass with whatever they wanted to be after that. But yeah, I have then back since other than just visit and say hi. But Phil DeLuca played on stage with me at Keithfield. I wanted when I did Keysfield, I wanted to bring in town people that had I had met over the course of this year of doing open mics, and that I had made friends with and that liked me because I'd won them over, you know, yeah, yeah, And I love that fact that he wanted to come and play Keysfield.

Speaker 6: So He's field was a wonderful thing. And so I did that blues number with him, and I had Scott Gibbs come up and play guitar, real good guitars, and he's the one I'm going to be work with going forward. I got oh nice Scott Gibbs, Mark Shemitt and Kevin Johnson going to be playing, and my sister to work on the original act that'll be coming out in twenty twenty six. Look for Katie K. We might be going to MMI, Kevin Kirsty, I'm not sure the name will be going under, probably Katie K. But we will be having the full band thing with the My favorite type of music is searing malten lava guitar with three part harmony over the top of it.

Speaker 6: There you go, and we will be having a lot of that too.

Speaker 9: Nice, nice, very good, very good.

Speaker 6: Kevin.

Speaker 9: Where should people go to keep up with you online? Where's the best place to go to keep up with everything you're doing?

Speaker 6: So I'm a fledgling, I'm new to this, but I just made less than a month ago my Facebook band page. Eric from Jamdemick is going to help me with my marketing, so you will see it's spreading quickly once he gets his hands to help me. I got a few things I got to help him with too, So yeah, we have a wonderful working relationship of give and take good good. And yeah I'm doing some sound of Big Bear too. Okay, Big Bial Lodge Andrew Institute of Art where Eric and jamdmic. Oh right, I remember he was talking about that.

Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, another great venue to go see live acts in the Brookline Yeah yeah. Oh, and I forgot to mention the other Brookline open mic every other Thursday, the Alamo. Okay, I took my a cappella team down there. I did about eight songs there. That was a lot of fun. Oh wow, people don't expect that. Yeah, no kidding. And at open mics, I do a lot of girls songs. A lot of times. Girl songs are in my range. Boys songs are usually out of it. I have to change the key. But girl songs are in my range and people don't expect that from me either, So yeah, come on catch me sometime and I'll might do something I expected.

Speaker 6: I hope to something you.

Speaker 10: Like excellent, excellent, well, very good. Well we're gonna close out the segment in a moment with follow Your Dreams, another great song. Anything we should know about this before we play it?

Speaker 6: So this one. I had a live recording of this song from ninety one ninety two. I showed up at the studio in February. My sister was with me. I also took a risk that I didn't know. I brought Zachary Stone. Shout out to Zachary Stone, drummer from New Hampshire. He was a young kid. He had played at my house in my basement and jammed once or twice when he was sixteen or seventeen yea, and I knew he was a good drummer. He had some videos where he played outside of Fenway Park at ten years old. Oh Jack Stone, you know, and a lot of hits on YouTube.

Speaker 6: So he's active in the industry down there. He's a band called Gray Lee right now. They played a few nights ago. He's really active. But I brought him into the studio with me and Zach Kasik. The producer says, you know you took a risk for a young kid in here. Most of these people they can't stay in time, they can't do this. They that he goes. Yeah, I said, well, he's from New Hampshire. I really wanted him and it was pretty good. And it turns out I hit a home run. Zach Stone has been called back by Zach Haazik Wilth other to do some stuff.

Speaker 6: So yeah, Zach turned out to be a really good drummer. So the song was follow Your Dreams, and I am playing it for Zach in the studio and Zach actually had heard it and listened to it many times. Zach listened to all the ones I had him on and did him almost to a tee to the old band recordings. Yeah, well, yeah, he did the new ones he'd never heard. There was two he got cold that he hadn't even heard before. But I played it on the little JBL speaker and Zach Kazik walks in the control room and says, what the heck is that you're listening to?

Speaker 6: I said, that's the song we're doing, dude, and it's this one, follow your Dreams. Okay. It turned out Zack Stone killed it on drums. It's very drum heavy, synth heavy. It turned out to be Zach Kazik encouraged Mike Sharp, the synth player from Nashville. Excellent, excellent. He said, think the cars, think the cars until you might hear some of the cars. And there we hope. Okay, and yeah, the guys did really good with Zack Stone on drums on this one. Shout out to Zach Stone and the other drummer who I didn't shout out to as Shaky.

Speaker 6: When I walked in Wild Feather Recording studios, well, first let's start at Milford. Milford people says, why are you going to Nashville to record? We have studios around here. I said, do you have golden platinum albums hanging on the walls of your studio up here right? And they were quiet, So yeah, that's why I went to Nashville. And some of those golden platinum walls. On the walls were Shaky's oh albums from playing on Kid Rocks album. Oh Okay, So Shaky play drums on my eight songs and he played for kid Rock, So Shaky.

Speaker 6: Shout out to Shakey. All the guys at Zach studio were awesome, Oh, very good. The one I brought that follow Your Dreams was Zach was a little afraid of it, but it came out really good.

Speaker 10: Okay, all right, so we'll give this a spin to close out the segment, and if you are listening live, stick around. Of course, in the third hour, we have Ephemea in the house and really looking forward to talking with them.

Speaker 9: But kat K Kevin Kier said that I got one.

Speaker 6: More shout out to dream Track Studios, Gary Connelly. I'm gonna be doing some work there coming up. They gotta Oh they're just getting started. They're the new studio in Milford. They got the best recording stuff in the world. Oh ex less than a mile from my house. Completely surprised about that. Oh very cool. I don't know how that landed anywhere near me. And this guy's my friend and he likes my original music. So yeah, we hope to be doing some stuff at dream Track Studios Milford.

Speaker 10: Oh excellent, excellent, very good. All right, well we will do this again in the future, my friend. Absolutely wonderful, Lavire, thank you so having me, Matt, absolutely absolutely And here it is. This is follow My Follow Your Dreams by k t K.

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