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Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-5-24 hour 3
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World Radio Premiere of "Light It Up" by Chasing The Devil.
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Speaker 1: Night it up, notting up.
Speaker 5: Lit up.
Speaker 4: That is lighted up.
Speaker 6: The brand new single from Chasing the Devil, and today's
Speaker 6: the world radio premiere of that track here at w
Speaker 6: m n H on matt Connorton on le and those
Speaker 6: guys are on tour right now, by the way, they
Speaker 6: are and as we speak they are in Kentucky and
Speaker 6: then they're off to Texas and they're going all over
Speaker 6: the place. But they'll be back in New Hampshire on
Speaker 6: August twentieth at Wally's in Hampton Beach and then they
Speaker 6: go back out they head out to Ohio after that,
Speaker 6: so they're going all over the place. They're on the
Speaker 6: Lifestyles of the Rich and Blameless tour. They've got there
Speaker 6: with shim anything but Human and shallow Side. So congratulations
Speaker 6: to those guys and love the new track again that
Speaker 6: is lighted up, that is available now on the streaming
Speaker 6: platforms and you can hear it here on the radio.
Speaker 6: So very happy to do the premiere for that. And
Speaker 6: Jenny is here of course at the news table.
Speaker 7: Resent in accounted for and.
Speaker 6: We should mention we were talking about the upcoming event
Speaker 6: at Mosaic.
Speaker 7: Yes, the Mosaic Aren't Collective has an upcoming exhibit starting
Speaker 7: on October seventh, running until November first, the Spellbound Exhibit.
Speaker 7: I am proud to have a couple of my own
Speaker 7: pieces in there. You can attend the opening reception on
Speaker 7: October two from four to eight pm. They are located
Speaker 7: right here in the Queens City at sixty six an
Speaker 7: Over Street, Sweet two oh one. You've got to check
Speaker 7: out this lovely venue. And if you are an artist,
Speaker 7: they are right now accepting submissions for the jury show
Speaker 7: Small Wonders miniature art show that'll take place from November
Speaker 7: eighth until December twenty second. You can apply now, so
Speaker 7: go to Mosaic Artcollective dot com.
Speaker 4: Very good, very good, and congratulations, thank you. I'm proud.
Speaker 7: This is the first time I've ever had two pieces
Speaker 7: in a jury show.
Speaker 4: Okay ever, yeah, so yeah, I'm like super proud.
Speaker 7: That was like an achievement I was going for to
Speaker 7: get more than one painting into a show.
Speaker 6: Well what's now, So tell me the difference between that,
Speaker 6: because at the Midnight Creatives Collective had you had quite
Speaker 6: a few paintings.
Speaker 7: Midnight Creatives Collective actually does a thing with a highlight artists,
Speaker 7: so they invite an artist to come in and your
Speaker 7: work stays up for the entire month. Yeah, you can
Speaker 7: also run an event if you want to do something
Speaker 7: like do some kind of an art class or something,
Speaker 7: which I'm not quite there yet, but I was very
Speaker 7: proud to have twelve of my darkest pieces on display
Speaker 7: there for the entire month of August.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So they always have different artists coming in. You get
Speaker 7: to hear a lot of great music on top of
Speaker 7: all of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So we've got a couple of really that one's
Speaker 7: in Nashville, so we have really great galleries here. Highlighting
Speaker 7: local work and getting into a Drury show is always
Speaker 7: special for any artist. So I invite you to submit
Speaker 7: your work and don't let the submission charge of ten
Speaker 7: dollars be a.
Speaker 4: Stop for you.
Speaker 7: There are scholarships available to those who want to enter
Speaker 7: their art into one of these shows.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, very good, very good. Well, speaking of the
Speaker 6: Midnight Creatives Collective and Terminus and Events, big show coming
Speaker 6: up there October nineteenth, that we've been talking about a
Speaker 6: lot today because Able Blood. Our first hour guests are
Speaker 6: on that show, and of course our second hour we
Speaker 6: had Dan from the band Horror, and now we've entered
Speaker 6: our third hour numerow Trace here on Matt Connorton unleashed,
Speaker 6: and we've got Dennis and Sean from the band The
Speaker 6: Gray Curtain. Welcome guys. Good good, Oh, why can't I
Speaker 6: hear you? I can't hear you, Sean. I don't know why.
Speaker 4: Keep talking, oh, Nicol difficulties. That might mean too, that
Speaker 4: mic was working earlier. Keep talking shut Live Radio.
Speaker 6: No, it's not, it's probably uh probably me. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: can't find you. Oh wait, I think I I think
Speaker 6: I might have figured it out. Never mind, Jenny, I think.
Speaker 4: Oh there he is found you? All right? Very good?
Speaker 4: I always the bass player. I think I lost you again?
Speaker 4: Really well?
Speaker 7: Wait, is there a gumbling in the microphone?
Speaker 4: There might be? This is weird. I just want to
Speaker 4: watch a movie. I found you again, the first one.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I'm not going to touch anything else, and
Speaker 6: hopefully we don't lose you again.
Speaker 4: All right. It's funny.
Speaker 6: I said that mic never fails us, and then I
Speaker 6: have a problem with it. That's funny anyway, Well, Live
Speaker 6: Radio you jinks it, I know apparently I did. Jenny
Speaker 6: warns me about that too. She's like, don't, she says,
Speaker 6: don't jinx it.
Speaker 4: Get your fault. It is it is. That's fine. Rest
Speaker 4: of the day.
Speaker 7: Told you not to go there.
Speaker 6: Well, guys, welcome, We're I'm looking forward to talking to you,
Speaker 6: and we're going to play some of your tracks too.
Speaker 6: But yeah, tell us about your band, The Gray Curtain, Oh.
Speaker 4: Well started.
Speaker 8: I started the band in twenty fourteen. Basically I put
Speaker 8: out a couple of songs just me and an acoustic guitar,
Speaker 8: and there was a Battle of the band's online Battle
Speaker 8: of the Bands over Foxwoods and I ended up placing
Speaker 8: fourth out of like like.
Speaker 4: One hundred and eighty nine bands. Yeah, which was just
Speaker 4: mind boggling. So it was you just submitted, you just
Speaker 4: how to submit your music. That's that's all I did.
Speaker 8: Okay, So they called me up and said, yeah, we're
Speaker 8: going to do a live Battle of the Bands over Foxwoods,
Speaker 8: you know in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: You know, we'll see you, you and your band there.
Speaker 8: I hung up the phone all excited, and then I went, wait,
Speaker 8: I need a band.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it you know, it'sok a few days to
Speaker 8: get a few guys in on the project. Unfortunately, everyone
Speaker 8: that was part of the band at that point of
Speaker 8: all coming gone you know, done, uh, you know, gone
Speaker 8: on to do their own things. Sean has been a
Speaker 8: close friend of the band for many years doing his
Speaker 8: own band in Man Okay, but recently, over the last
Speaker 8: two years or so, I've needed new bandmates and Sean
Speaker 8: was the first person I called, And we're actually currently
Speaker 8: looking for you board player, synth player. But you know,
Speaker 8: we're trying out drummers currently because as you mentioned, the
Speaker 8: Terminus show on the nineteenth, we're going to be saying
Speaker 8: goodbye to the drummer we currently have Joe Soferano Okay,
Speaker 8: mainly because he's just in way too many projects. He's
Speaker 8: in the Megans, who are going to be playing the
Speaker 8: show with us, He's in Guello. I think he's I
Speaker 8: can't remember if he's full time or part time with
Speaker 8: Rags to Stitches, but you know he's he's in a
Speaker 8: lot of other projects, and with the amount of shows
Speaker 8: that we're planning on doing, it was just it was
Speaker 8: better if he bowed out.
Speaker 6: It's funny because that comes up, This subject specifically comes
Speaker 6: up all the time on the show. Every drummer is
Speaker 6: in like ten different bands.
Speaker 8: They gotta be Yeah, they're They're a rare resource in
Speaker 8: this area right now.
Speaker 6: Well, my theory is and longtime listeners have heard me
Speaker 6: say this a thousand times. But you know, when you're
Speaker 6: growing up and you first become interested in playing a
Speaker 6: musical instrument, you go to have the conversation with your
Speaker 6: parents about what you're gonna play.
Speaker 4: If it's if.
Speaker 6: It's the drums or the tuba, they're going to try
Speaker 6: to talk you out of it. Oh yeah, absolutely, So
Speaker 6: that's my theory because yeah, every drummer is in you know,
Speaker 6: ten different bands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my dad was a drummer, so it's you know,
Speaker 8: he knows what it's like to stretch himself thin in
Speaker 8: like multiple projects. But yeah, basically the band was started
Speaker 8: by me. Just I started writing stories and basing my
Speaker 8: music around these stories. Henry Miller said the best way
Speaker 8: to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.
Speaker 8: So I did that with all my hurts, habits, hang ups,
Speaker 8: all my bullies, all my traumas PTSD, my depression, my nightmares,
Speaker 8: my addictions, and made all of these feelings, all of
Speaker 8: these past characters and whatnot in my life into citizens
Speaker 8: of this cursed town.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can't leave.
Speaker 8: And all of our music is based around the people
Speaker 8: and events that happen in this town.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, something we talk about a lot on the show.
Speaker 6: It comes up quite a bit. In fact, it came
Speaker 6: up with Dan from the band Horror in the last hour.
Speaker 6: Is talking about, you know, taking problems and doing something
Speaker 6: creative with them, whether it be you know, and I
Speaker 6: get you know, I'm someone who struggles with depression, so
Speaker 6: I can certainly relate to that aspect of it. But
Speaker 6: taking you know, whether it's that, whether it's some sort
Speaker 6: of trauma, whatever it is, you know, taking these things
Speaker 6: that happened to us, but then doing something creative with them,
Speaker 6: actually making something out of them that other.
Speaker 4: People can then relate to and enjoy. You know. I
Speaker 4: think that's the best therapy that there is. Really, That's
Speaker 4: exactly what I say.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Whenever I get off stage, you know, people will approach
Speaker 8: me and tell me how, you know, my songs are
Speaker 8: helping them in some way through their depression. And we
Speaker 8: played a show in Maine recently and a young woman,
Speaker 8: I won't go into details on her name or anything,
Speaker 8: but a young woman approached me and told me how
Speaker 8: she had had been thinking about ending her life and
Speaker 8: she felt very sorry.
Speaker 4: She felt very.
Speaker 8: Attached to a couple of our songs and made her
Speaker 8: feel better. Really, that is basically the key element of
Speaker 8: what I try to do. I try to help people
Speaker 8: who feel like I feel, think how I think, feel
Speaker 8: better and try to make it through the day just
Speaker 8: a little easier. Yes day, Yeah so I but I
Speaker 8: say it all the time. It's like this is the
Speaker 8: best form of therapy there is absolutely was that?
Speaker 4: Was that your goal from the beginning or going? It
Speaker 4: kind of become that the gray curtain.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've been in fourteen bands and a wow, yeah, well.
Speaker 4: Wait do you also play drums? Is that what I play?
Speaker 8: I play percussion, but not as well as past members
Speaker 8: of this band. I played bass, but not as well
Speaker 8: as past members of this band and present members of
Speaker 8: this band. But but now, I come from a long
Speaker 8: line of musicians, all of my My uncle Smokey used
Speaker 8: to play in his own band, Smoking and the Rangers
Speaker 8: in the Irish Club in Putnam. It's no longer there,
Speaker 8: but he got me on stage at five years old
Speaker 8: singing Frosty the Snowman at a at a Christmas event,
Speaker 8: and I got hooked ever since. You know chamber choir,
Speaker 8: church choir, you know school chorus, state competitions, voice lessons.
Speaker 4: I was just give me all of it.
Speaker 8: And you know, growing up in high school, you know,
Speaker 8: as I mentioned, I was, I was a victim of
Speaker 8: a lot of bullying and whatnot. I was told that
Speaker 8: my singing wasn't good enough to be in a in
Speaker 8: a band. Really, so I uh I started playing bass.
Speaker 8: My uncle Bob uh taught me, uh some basics and
Speaker 8: once I got those down, he was like, you're ready
Speaker 8: to go. Just do your thing, you know, because he
Speaker 8: was playing country and I'm trying to do like Les
Speaker 8: Claypool stuff, you know, and so he was just like,
Speaker 8: you're good, You're good, you know, just just keep doing
Speaker 8: what you're doing.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, I basically, uh.
Speaker 6: Who who told you weren't good enough to sing?
Speaker 8: Was it a teacher or no? No, none of my teachers.
Speaker 8: So shout out to Michael Adam Kerns. He he he
Speaker 8: kept pushing me. Oh I would you know, I was
Speaker 8: like tormented so much in in school. I would take
Speaker 8: my lunch into the course room and just sit by myself.
Speaker 8: Really Oh yeah, yeah, believe me.
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 8: I could sit here for hours telling you about this stuff.
Speaker 8: But uh no, it was you know, my peers, you know,
Speaker 8: kids that you know that I would it.
Speaker 4: Was part it sounds like it was part of the bullying.
Speaker 4: It really, it really was.
Speaker 8: But from that I got to say, if it wasn't
Speaker 8: for those experiences, I don't think I'm sitting here now
Speaker 8: talking to you about this because a lot of the
Speaker 8: characters are based on things like that, being told that
Speaker 8: I wasn't good enough, being told that my sound wasn't metal.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, you.
Speaker 8: Know, even now we're nominated for a New England Music
Speaker 8: Award for Best hard Rock and Metal, and I'm still
Speaker 8: getting from my peers that we're not a metal band.
Speaker 8: We shouldn't be, And it's like, you know what, You're right,
Speaker 8: We're not a metal band.
Speaker 4: You know. We we like to do a little bit
Speaker 4: of metal.
Speaker 8: We like to do a little bit of rock, we
Speaker 8: like to do a little bit of jazz, we like
Speaker 8: to do a little bit of swing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: It basically depends on the character in the story that
Speaker 8: that song pertains, But yeah, it's it's really difficul goal
Speaker 8: because you want people to be connected and you want
Speaker 8: people to to help each other, especially in this scene,
Speaker 8: you know, between all the states in New England. But uh,
Speaker 8: it's it's really tough sometimes because it doesn't feel like
Speaker 8: that's the case and in a lot of a lot
Speaker 8: of instances.
Speaker 4: But well, you're doing something unique too.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I can't think of anyone who
Speaker 6: sounds quite like you guys, which is awesome, which I love.
Speaker 6: And I'm curious, Sean, is this the most unique project
Speaker 6: you've ever been a part of?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably, I would have to say so.
Speaker 9: You know, I've been, like, like you mentioned before, I
Speaker 9: was in a band Inman before that was kind of
Speaker 9: more of a you know, a straight forward modernized grunge band,
Speaker 9: where I feel like the stuff we're playing in this
Speaker 9: is definitely a.
Speaker 4: Little more uh, a little more.
Speaker 9: Difficult to, like you said, find someone who sounds quite
Speaker 9: like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, And I feel like there's a lot of different
Speaker 9: influences that go into the sound, so there's it's really
Speaker 9: easy to have a.
Speaker 4: Lot of fun with it. You know.
Speaker 9: It's definitely definitely doesn't get redundant any at any point.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, absolutely, Well we should play something now,
Speaker 6: you uh, what should because you had you would suggested
Speaker 6: in your email a few songs. Is there one that
Speaker 6: you're pushing as a single.
Speaker 8: Well, uh, the first album, Shadow of a Man, A
Speaker 8: lot of people like the opening. Yeah, the second album,
Speaker 8: we didn't get a chance to, uh to really play
Speaker 8: all that much before the mass outing of the the
Speaker 8: the members I had, right.
Speaker 9: So we could we could do the title track from
Speaker 9: that album.
Speaker 4: Then oh the Floors, Yeah, the floors, that was that
Speaker 4: was one of the ones you'd suggested.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, oh no, that wasn't one of the
Speaker 6: Oh no, that was. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm you know
Speaker 6: what in my mind, I'm I'm conflating the uh, the
Speaker 6: uh album with the song.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, yeah, so we'll, uh, let's go with that. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I really like this one a lot, and then we'll,
Speaker 6: uh we'll talk about it a little bit after. But so,
Speaker 6: uh yeah, let's give this a spin. This is really interesting.
Speaker 6: Check this out the Gray Curtain and the song is
Speaker 6: called the Florist.
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Speaker 5: A march.
Speaker 1: About most of it?
Speaker 6: That is the florist the Gray Curtain here with us
Speaker 6: in studio. We've got a couple of the guys from
Speaker 6: the band here with us, and uh wow, that's a
Speaker 6: great song. Uh if you are just joining us, of course.
Speaker 6: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we're live from the
Speaker 6: studios of w M n H ninety five point three
Speaker 6: f M. And today our guests have been, uh some
Speaker 6: of the people who are going to be performing at
Speaker 6: uh at a great event coming up at Terminus in
Speaker 6: Nashua on October nineteenth. And we talked to Abel Blood
Speaker 6: earlier and Dan from Horror and now we've got the
Speaker 6: Gray Curtain here and.
Speaker 4: What can you tell us about that song?
Speaker 8: Well, the song and the album are based around a
Speaker 8: elderly floorist from the town of Apathy. All of the
Speaker 8: Gray Curtain albums are going to be around based around
Speaker 8: citizens of the town of Apathy. The character in question
Speaker 8: is a man named Serge Colin. He loses his wife
Speaker 8: to cancer and he develops. He finds this plant in
Speaker 8: the basement of his now dilapidated flower shop. He sells
Speaker 8: everything to try to get his wife some treatment, and
Speaker 8: she ends up passing away anyway, and he goes down
Speaker 8: to the basement this flower shop and finds this this
Speaker 8: plant actually exists in real life. It's oh, it's called
Speaker 8: a double's trumpet. And he gets the the oil of
Speaker 8: the of the plant uh ingested into his body. And
Speaker 8: when when that happens again, I r l in real life,
Speaker 8: you hallucinate, you see like nightmares in real life, and.
Speaker 4: It hurt it.
Speaker 8: Uh, it hurts your your ability to breathe, it hurts
Speaker 8: your ability to function.
Speaker 4: I think I've actually heard of this.
Speaker 8: And he ends up hearing the voice of his dead
Speaker 8: wife telling him that if he plants the women of
Speaker 8: the town into the ground like seeds, she will blossom
Speaker 8: like a flower from the earth and they will be
Speaker 8: together again. And the entire album is about his quest
Speaker 8: to get his wife back by doing this. It's uh,
Speaker 8: it's one for the kids.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now this and is this also being written as
Speaker 6: a as a full story.
Speaker 4: Yes it is. Yeah, we are currently I'm currently working
Speaker 4: on a series of graphic novels. Oh.
Speaker 8: It's taken me forever to do because I at first,
Speaker 8: I was doing it on paper, just you know, pencil
Speaker 8: drawings and whatnot, and I was able to get like
Speaker 8: four comics done. Now I'm doing everything again on tablet
Speaker 8: and it you know, I'm I'm investing a lot in
Speaker 8: getting you know, the color schemes and things like that.
Speaker 8: And then on top of that, I'm working with my
Speaker 8: partner April on getting a script for the entire twenty
Speaker 8: chapter storyline of the Town of Apathy finished and possibly
Speaker 8: if we can get it picked up to make it
Speaker 8: an actual show. Wow, we're about April. What will be
Speaker 8: two hundred and eight pages in Okay, yeah, two.
Speaker 4: Hundred and eight of I mean, how much do you
Speaker 4: do you think it'll end up being? We any idea?
Speaker 8: Probably three hundred and fifteen pages, I think is what
Speaker 8: we're going to stop at, because then you've got about
Speaker 8: nine episodes.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you figure you're about two thirds of the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: well that's that's a lot. No, that's great though, that's
Speaker 6: that's a great Uh, that's a great undertaking.
Speaker 8: And the you know, the Florist storyline is part of that,
Speaker 8: that script and I've already got excuse me, about twenty
Speaker 8: thirty pages or so of the of the graphic novel
Speaker 8: for The Florist and Shadow of a Man, the first
Speaker 8: the first album completed.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I was curious to ask you about that too,
Speaker 6: because we're gonna play I like this track, the opening
Speaker 6: that well, we'll play in a couple of minutes. But
Speaker 6: I'm curious about Shadow of a Man and does this
Speaker 6: also have a like The Florist?
Speaker 4: Does this also kind of have its own story? Oh?
Speaker 4: They all do?
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 8: Shadow of a Man is more autobiographical. However, in twenty twelve,
Speaker 8: I went through a downward spiral where I attempted suicide.
Speaker 8: I was caught, but I based Shadow of a Man
Speaker 8: on what happened to me during that time. I lost
Speaker 8: the love of my life. She is currently not speaking
Speaker 8: to me because of the man that I was back then,
Speaker 8: rightfully so, and I based the character Nathan Knoth on me.
Speaker 8: His name originally was going to be Nough Guile, but
Speaker 8: I thought that was a little on the nose because
Speaker 8: that's my last name backwards.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding, but.
Speaker 8: But yeah, the album takes place in the last day
Speaker 8: and a half of Nathan's life.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, let's what should we know about this song.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna play the opening, and I think we should
Speaker 6: know about this specifically.
Speaker 8: The opening takes place, well, I wrote the opening before
Speaker 8: I even had like an idea of like the storyline
Speaker 8: or anything like that.
Speaker 4: It was basically my.
Speaker 8: Acceptance that I have a rare form of cancer, and
Speaker 8: I know that my timeline is not as long as
Speaker 8: a lot of other people. So I wrote the opening
Speaker 8: as a way to kind of come to terms with
Speaker 8: seeing the light and knowing that as much as I fight,
Speaker 8: one day, this is going to end.
Speaker 4: So I have to enjoy what I have while I
Speaker 4: have it. And the opening, as.
Speaker 8: Far as the storyline, takes place right around the end
Speaker 8: of the story where Nathan is accepting death.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, so let's give this a listen. This
Speaker 6: is songs called the opening. This is from the album
Speaker 6: Shadow of a Man by the Gray Curtain.
Speaker 5: By Walk.
Speaker 1: Of Shadow.
Speaker 5: But I got a little.
Speaker 12: Guy in my care and my rage, my god, this
Speaker 12: will be so bad.
Speaker 1: Honestly willing, and it's trying all night, so shuck.
Speaker 5: There's any reason that I am still a.
Speaker 3: Lot, a lot, a lot.
Speaker 5: Lot walk.
Speaker 1: I'll be old.
Speaker 4: Across my un my city again by.
Speaker 1: Like the waiting despy.
Speaker 5: Oh accord in bs of.
Speaker 1: My singing, see.
Speaker 10: I climb on the mountains on Dauntess where the green
Speaker 10: iry line and rocking board ragil died cracky instead one
Speaker 10: of five lines of wenzy women.
Speaker 13: It's a man on the round don sis a very reason.
Speaker 5: That I just don't know, oh my ride on the Don.
Speaker 5: But when I say by.
Speaker 3: A girl when there's.
Speaker 5: One all.
Speaker 10: But will never mus says say.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: That is the opening from the album Shadow of a
Speaker 6: Man by the Gray Curtain, And uh we have Dennis
Speaker 6: and Sean Uh from the Gray Curtain here with us
Speaker 6: alive in studio this morning, and uh wow, that's that's
Speaker 6: pretty epic. As we're listening to that, Dennis, I'm curious
Speaker 6: to know more about your your singing, and where do
Speaker 6: you take influences from in terms of your vocal approach.
Speaker 8: Well, growing up, I was kind of bombarded with old
Speaker 8: school country, No Show Jones, Patsy Kline, Roy Orbison. So
Speaker 8: thus a lot of my lyrical content is sad by nature,
Speaker 8: as theirs were. But then as I got older, I
Speaker 8: started finding my own influences in soul music and jazz
Speaker 8: and blues. And then as I became a teenager, I
Speaker 8: started listening to metal more often. But really I started
Speaker 8: getting into the kind of stuff that I'm doing currently
Speaker 8: because of things like Rocky Horror Picture Show. You know,
Speaker 8: the first time I the first time I saw Meatloaf,
Speaker 8: I was enamored. I wanted to know everything there was
Speaker 8: to know about this guy from Bad Out of Hell one, two,
Speaker 8: even three. You know a lot of people don't talk
Speaker 8: about three, but that's a good album.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I enjoy musicians who wear their heart on their sleeve
Speaker 8: when they're on stage, or you know, just when they're
Speaker 8: writing a song. They're trying too not so much make
Speaker 8: you dance or make you feel happy or anything. They're
Speaker 8: trying to invoke an emotion. Former band member of the
Speaker 8: Gray Curtain actually got me into Stephen Wilson from Porcupine Tree, which, yeah,
Speaker 8: which is one of Sean's favorite bands.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: First time I saw Stephen Wilson perform, he did the
Speaker 8: song called Routine, and I could actually feel my heart
Speaker 8: get just ripped out of my chest. And a lot
Speaker 8: of people don't go to a show, you know, wanting that,
Speaker 8: but I do.
Speaker 4: I want to. I want to feel an experience when
Speaker 4: and I go to a show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So, and and that's where my where I take a
Speaker 8: lot of my influence from, uh, you know, seeing Rent
Speaker 8: on Broadway, you know, uh, and then the very next
Speaker 8: day going to see you know, Metallica play at Woodstock
Speaker 8: ninety nine. You know. I it's basically like those two
Speaker 8: things are what makes uh makes the Great Curtain? Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know that heavy edge with the emotional baggage.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 6: Did your approach change it all between these two albums,
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously they have different themes to them, but.
Speaker 8: Well, my my old band members did did all the recording,
Speaker 8: did all the mixing.
Speaker 4: Uh, so you know, all of the.
Speaker 8: Ah, what's the word I'm looking for? All all of
Speaker 8: the kudos goes to them for the way that these
Speaker 8: albums sound as far as production, but it's far as approach. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we the first album, we basically went into it like
Speaker 8: we need to get this sound out there. A lot
Speaker 8: of people are asking for some sort of hard copy,
Speaker 8: and by the time we got to the second album,
Speaker 8: nobody listens to a hard copy anymore, you know. So
Speaker 8: we only got maybe like fifty copies of the second
Speaker 8: album and we were like throwing them around at people.
Speaker 4: A lot of people just.
Speaker 8: Listen to our streaming sure today. But the approach was basically,
Speaker 8: just like with the characters. The first album was very melodramatic,
Speaker 8: very dark, very Ecker Allen Poe. The second is very
Speaker 8: horror movie. It's very it's very John Carpenter, it's very
Speaker 8: you know, Stephen King. And that's what we try to do,
Speaker 8: you know, as far as like what I try to
Speaker 8: do when I'm developing a story. The one that we're
Speaker 8: currently working on is about two killers and they both
Speaker 8: have two lists that they have to complete. The main
Speaker 8: protagonist antagonist excuse me, the main antagonist of the story
Speaker 8: basically allows one of them to go free of this
Speaker 8: town that they can that no one in the town
Speaker 8: can escape. And the first killer that can complete their
Speaker 8: list of ten is allowed to leave the town no
Speaker 8: strings attached. So we're a you know, we're able to
Speaker 8: take from that brief description of the storyline and go, okay, well,
Speaker 8: what kind of album is this going to be? Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, what kind of songs are we going to
Speaker 8: put together for this? And and this is going to
Speaker 8: be more of like an action type of I don't
Speaker 8: want to say, gory type of thing, but a lot
Speaker 8: more intense album than the other two.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, will you be recording? Well? Where did you
Speaker 4: record the newest one?
Speaker 8: In my former drummer's house. He had a recording studio
Speaker 8: in the basement of his house, and we, uh and
Speaker 8: we mixed in the sun room like a sun porch.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh so you see you did the entire album there, yep, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: the whole thing was was homemade.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we didn't have to go to a studio. Obviously
Speaker 8: with this next batch of songs, not going to.
Speaker 4: Be the case.
Speaker 8: But but you know, and and the worst part too,
Speaker 8: is like I still love those guys, you know, I
Speaker 8: I've got I got nothing nothing but love for everybody,
Speaker 8: every single person that has helped me along through this ride.
Speaker 8: Present and past has you know, has made the spand better.
Speaker 4: So I've.
Speaker 8: Like I I will never say a ill will word
Speaker 8: ill word towards any member that you know. Was we
Speaker 8: were just talking during the during the opening of past members,
Speaker 8: people that I wish we're still in this band, people
Speaker 8: that I understand why they left.
Speaker 4: But as far as you know, where we're.
Speaker 8: Gonna go, as far as uh like recording in the future,
Speaker 8: you know who knows, you know who knows.
Speaker 4: I was obviously gonna have to go to a studio,
Speaker 4: but you've got plenty of options, that's the good news. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I keep hearing people tell me, you know, oh
Speaker 8: you should go here, you should go here, you should
Speaker 8: go here. But you know, right right now we're still
Speaker 8: in Like I think we've only got like seven songs,
Speaker 8: and I want this thing to be you know, it's
Speaker 8: kind of a moot thing to say nowadays, with physical
Speaker 8: copies being you know, the thing of the past.
Speaker 4: I guess which makes me sad.
Speaker 6: What one of the a lot of our guests are
Speaker 6: still putting out, you know, physical copies of CDs. But
Speaker 6: but I think my theory though, is I think most
Speaker 6: most of those never actually get played. It's just if
Speaker 6: you're really a fan of somebody, it's nice. You know,
Speaker 6: same thing with vinyl, Yeah, I mean vinyl. I think
Speaker 6: now vinyl is.
Speaker 4: Out selling CDs. Yeah, but if you buy it, if
Speaker 4: you buy.
Speaker 6: Somebody's vinyl, a brand new vinyl in the package and
Speaker 6: probably you know, most people I'm sure never even open it.
Speaker 6: They just it's because they're such a big fan of
Speaker 6: that artist. It's cool to have the vinyl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Ye kind of collected, but yeah, you.
Speaker 8: You explained it a lot better than I did, where
Speaker 8: it's like, yeah, people are still collecting it.
Speaker 4: I still have CDs, I still have tapes. Yeah.
Speaker 8: One of our main crew guys, his name is Fully,
Speaker 8: shout out to Fully. His wall is nothing but cassette tapes.
Speaker 8: You know, he's got vinyl for days. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 8: it's just like what you said, you know, if you
Speaker 8: appreciate it, then you know you will you will buy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but what we're trying to, well, what I'm.
Speaker 8: Hoping to pitch and what the guys hopefully will go
Speaker 8: along with, is a double album, really one one album's
Speaker 8: worth of material.
Speaker 4: For each killer. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, So I'm hoping, hoping that we can get
Speaker 8: that get that out there within the next couple of years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, oh that's a that's a great concept. I
Speaker 6: can relate to what you were saying about meat Loaf,
Speaker 6: by the way, because I was I was such a
Speaker 6: big fan growing up. I actually have his non or
Speaker 6: I did. I don't know where they are now. I
Speaker 6: don't really keep any speaking of physical copies, I really
Speaker 6: don't keep physical copies of anything anymore. But but I
Speaker 6: I always bought his non bad Out of Hell albums too,
Speaker 6: you know, like Whine before I Stop and uh, what's
Speaker 6: the uh? I can't even remember the titles now, it's
Speaker 6: been so long, but yeah, I actually that's A friend
Speaker 6: of mine joked with me once because I had, you know,
Speaker 6: I had all these obscure albums of meat Loaf that
Speaker 6: nobody else cared about because they didn't have that out
Speaker 6: of Helmet title. And yeah, friend of mine said, you know,
Speaker 6: he probably knows you, like like like he probably knows
Speaker 6: who you are, because you're the one guy who actually
Speaker 6: bought these other CDs. Like if you ever met him,
Speaker 6: he'd be like, hey, I know you. I heard about you.
Speaker 6: They told me you were real, but I didn't think
Speaker 6: you were. Eleanor in the chat room says CDs are
Speaker 6: totally in. Uh we still use super dupes in uh
Speaker 6: in Salem, Salem, New Hampshire. Shout out to Bruce Bannett.
Speaker 4: Oh there you go.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so there's an option for you if you
Speaker 6: decide to Uh. Yes, Spelfie was saying too, she's still
Speaker 6: buy CDs.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, And I knew like the way that I
Speaker 8: worded it, we were probably going to get people going, hey,
Speaker 8: wait a second, I'm not saying that CDs aren't awesome. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm just saying that, you know, it just seems like
Speaker 8: people don't really buy them anymore. Like when we go
Speaker 8: to play shows, you know a lot of people will ask, oh,
Speaker 8: are you guys on Spotify or you guys on Apple?
Speaker 6: That's the most important thing to be on the streaming platforms? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: But don't get me wrong.
Speaker 8: Every show we play, we have copies of the floorst
Speaker 8: we have copies of Shadow of a Man, we have
Speaker 8: the T shirts.
Speaker 4: We have you know, great Hurt in the Flame Throw
Speaker 4: kids love that one. Oh yeah, well I bet Eleanor's
Speaker 4: excited to see that at Terminus. Just kidding. Yeah, we're
Speaker 4: not bringing Pyro. Actually, well you know what they survived,
Speaker 4: Green Jello. So yeah, yeah, that's a mess. I had,
Speaker 4: I had to I had.
Speaker 6: I was there on Tuesday of this week for a
Speaker 6: meeting with Eleanor, and I asked her because actually Jenny
Speaker 6: is the one who kind of put that ball in
Speaker 6: motion as far as booking Green Jellow there.
Speaker 4: But I asked asked me for a venue. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: because we.
Speaker 6: We when they were in town, we had them on
Speaker 6: the show. And but I asked Eleanor, I said, uh,
Speaker 6: did anything get broken that night? I was just curious,
Speaker 6: But I apparently nothing did so at least at least
Speaker 6: nothing important, So that's good.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was a that was a hell of
Speaker 4: a night. But but yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 6: We should remind people, of course October nineteenth, you're going
Speaker 6: to be there, yep, at Terminus also with we had
Speaker 6: able Blood in the first hour, they're going to be there.
Speaker 6: And Horror is also going to be there at that show.
Speaker 6: Who was here with us in the second hour. Also,
Speaker 6: do you still have in front of you, Jenny. I'm
Speaker 6: kind of doing this for memory deed. Harrison of course
Speaker 6: will be there October nineteenth, Thenagans.
Speaker 8: Ye, Joe's Joe from the Nigans is going to be
Speaker 8: playing double duty with us and the Megans.
Speaker 5: Oh very cool.
Speaker 4: It's going to be his last show with us, unfortunately.
Speaker 7: And they're going to have a haunted house.
Speaker 4: Yeah you heard about that.
Speaker 6: Oh, here, here we go, I find it. Oh oh,
Speaker 6: Questing Beast, that's who I was forgetting. I love that name,
Speaker 6: Questing Beast. I just think that's a cool name. So yeah,
Speaker 6: So that's gonna be a big night October nineteenth at
Speaker 6: Terminus in Nashua. So, and of course we'll we'll definitely
Speaker 6: be reminding you all of that as it gets closer.
Speaker 4: But guys, we are.
Speaker 6: I want to get one more song and it's a
Speaker 6: long one, so we will we'll begin to wrap up.
Speaker 6: But what should people know about? Where to follow you
Speaker 6: guys online?
Speaker 4: How to keep up with every thing that you're doing.
Speaker 8: Uh, basically, we're on Facebook. Basically type in the gray curtain.
Speaker 8: It'll either show you pictures of curtains or it'll show
Speaker 8: you us. But yeah, we're on Spotify, Apple Music, We're
Speaker 8: on band Camp, We're on YouTube. Just type in the
Speaker 8: gray curtain and it'll take you to one of one
Speaker 8: of our pages. We're also on Facebook, Instagram, all of
Speaker 8: the streamings, all of the social media's.
Speaker 14: Yeah, very good.
Speaker 4: Oh and we should tell people too.
Speaker 1: It is g R e Y. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A lot of people get that confused too, Yeah, g
Speaker 4: R e Y.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 4: Does the name ever get spelled wrong?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the time, all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: You know, I work for meals on wheels, and like
Speaker 8: people find out that I'm in a band, They're like
Speaker 8: typing it in.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, we can't find you. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's it's e E why. Yeah, all right, well, very good.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you guys so much. We are going to
Speaker 6: play one more track to close out in just a moment.
Speaker 6: Thank you to everybody who joined us today on this Saturday.
Speaker 6: And Jenny, you want to plug.
Speaker 4: Your website absolutely.
Speaker 7: You can go to Gencoffee dot com j E N
Speaker 7: N c O F f Ey dot com. Check out
Speaker 7: the blog and you can find my report on the
Speaker 7: White House Medical Dead event, as well as information on Spellbound,
Speaker 7: the next Mosaic Art collective show.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, very good. So we'll close out with this song.
Speaker 6: Like I said, it's a long one, but this clip
Speaker 6: the Stitch from the album of the Florist by the
Speaker 6: Gray Curtain, and what should we know about this before
Speaker 6: we play it.
Speaker 8: This takes place in the part of the story where
Speaker 8: Surge the Florist starts seeing and hearing, excuse me, seeing
Speaker 8: and hearing his dead wife telling him what he needs
Speaker 8: to do to get her back.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, very good. So we're going to close
Speaker 4: out with this.
Speaker 6: If you miss any part of today's show it we'll
Speaker 6: be up in just a little bit at w m
Speaker 6: n H radio dot org at my website Matt Connorton
Speaker 6: dot com.
Speaker 4: And uh yes, we will leave you with this. This
Speaker 4: is clip the Stitch. The band is the Gray Curtain,
Speaker 4: and thanks everybody. We'll talk to y'all a little bit later.
Speaker 15: M m m hm.
Speaker 10: Over my past until the top, heavy burden in my
Speaker 10: pride and help read me while I thought the guy
Speaker 10: is tame to be my talking rot. My father's the
Speaker 10: lid my father.
Speaker 5: If you want.
Speaker 1: I should out, don't, I shall go lit u s get.
Speaker 5: Don't think it's.
Speaker 15: Still see to see.
Speaker 12: Too well, think it's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I'm going yet, but make it.
Speaker 10: Think this still the stray people distresses in the spy SHOs.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's kind of funny, all me d.
Speaker 5: And didn't thinking leave me?
Speaker 16: Still, I'll clip the stitu me on distresses and the
Speaker 16: spy of you the listen.
Speaker 5: Bother my last mistakes. I'm begging to repardon and dollow me.
Speaker 13: If the monkey and the state don my law an
Speaker 13: welcome to the lad something there shout, I shall.
Speaker 5: Ask me, I shove out to my hole.
Speaker 17: Aga still listen to the sun.
Speaker 18: She said.
Speaker 5: This time.
Speaker 4: Over think, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: It's a sali hide.
Speaker 5: Didn't get the mad completely.
Speaker 1: Still, how couldn't this the true.
Speaker 5: Down the rops in this time a moment.
Speaker 11: On the monos, the suns, the door, same bi card and.
Speaker 5: Now she's gone.
Speaker 10: On the b on the joy if the summons the
Speaker 10: thought and not card, and now she's gone.
Speaker 5: God away is.
Speaker 3: The challenge just to speak of the.
Speaker 5: Lodes world, Lord Afrek at the.
Speaker 10: Challenge, just to speak of the lodest world. Well, she said,
Speaker 10: we've always been together.
Speaker 1: She lied, she said, oh woking for whatever bore she died.
Speaker 4: She said, she said she said that she would never
Speaker 4: leave me.
Speaker 1: She said, she said, she said I love.
Speaker 4: Would never die.
Speaker 17: She said, she said, she said that she.
Speaker 5: Would never leave me. She said, she said, she said
Speaker 5: I would never die.
Speaker 16: She said, she said, she said that she would never leave.
Speaker 16: She said, she said, she said, O love never die.
Speaker 16: She said, she said, she said that she would never leave.
Speaker 1: She said, she said, she said, R.
Speaker 5: Dies dies.
Speaker 11: And love what the momola, the serments, the noise and
Speaker 11: bart he had, And now she's gone, gone, gone the umma,
Speaker 11: the silent, the noise and pie he had.
Speaker 5: And now she's gone. To save a head, I have
Speaker 5: a little more. Will I ride my nfty man? Will
Speaker 5: I die?
Speaker 1: I shall do? I shall god s leave.
Speaker 5: I shall not lift till I see them again.
Speaker 1: I shall do. I shall not.
Speaker 5: I shall until the well again.
Speaker 1: I shall not. I shall not so leave.
Speaker 5: I shall not left to my horse again.
Speaker 1: Again.
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