Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-16-24 hour 1
Game Plan
Speaker 1: On November twenty second, join us at the Sister Witch
Speaker 1: Company for a pre Black Friday event and the lighting
Speaker 1: of our Yule tree at eleven ninety three Hooks at
Speaker 1: Road and Hooks It from five thirty to nine thirty pm.
Speaker 1: Enjoy local vendors, light refreshments and holiday shopping. Plus be
Speaker 1: there by seven for the tree lighting and receive an
Speaker 1: exclusive ticket to our next event. Then on the thirtieth,
Speaker 1: don't miss our magical market, psychic and small business event
Speaker 1: at the Manchester Masonic Temple. Discover local artisans, psychic readings,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that
Speaker 1: time again. Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from
Speaker 1: the studios of w M n H ninety five point
Speaker 1: three feven glorious, Manchester, New Hampshire, bright sunny day, little
Speaker 1: chili outside, but but nonetheless glorious. Of course, today is Saturday,
Speaker 1: November sixteen, twenty twenty four. Jenny is not with me
Speaker 1: this week, but she'll be back. Of course, she's got
Speaker 1: an important event. You know, she does a lot of
Speaker 1: great activism for healthcare, and this morning she's got something
Speaker 1: going on with rights and democracy. So she continues to
Speaker 1: do great work. Very proud of her. But we do
Speaker 1: have a big show for you today coming up at
Speaker 1: nine to fifteen am. Of course, in just a few
Speaker 1: minutes we'll be joined via phone by Dennis Layton. Now
Speaker 1: Dennis is from the band The Gray Curtain, and they
Speaker 1: were on with us a couple of months ago, I think,
Speaker 1: or maybe a month ago. It all becomes kind of
Speaker 1: a blur. But he's gonna be calling in to talk
Speaker 1: about the No Masters Fest. Last night was night one,
Speaker 1: Tonight is night two going on in Wister and he's
Speaker 1: involved in that, so he's gonna call and tell us
Speaker 1: all about that. Second hour, we have Liz from the
Speaker 1: Mosaic Art Collective and she's gonna be bringing a couple
Speaker 1: of people with her. I believe that will be in
Speaker 1: the second Jenny has currently four of her pieces showing
Speaker 1: at the Mosaic Art Collective, so we went to the
Speaker 1: opening for the Actually I think this one goes two months,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be for it's going to be
Speaker 1: until the end of the year. But we went to
Speaker 1: the opening for that on well, it was last Saturday,
Speaker 1: it was one week ago. Like I said, it all
Speaker 1: becomes a bit of a blur. But so Liz and
Speaker 1: a couple of other people from Mosaic are going to
Speaker 1: be joining us in the second hour, and they've been
Speaker 1: on the show a number of times now, always very
Speaker 1: interesting to speak with them. Third hour, we're going to
Speaker 1: be devoting to our departed friend Brooks Young, great musician
Speaker 1: from New Hampshire here who experienced a lot of success
Speaker 1: and tragically was taken from us earlier this week in
Speaker 1: a car accident in Alton. So we're very sad about that,
Speaker 1: but we're going to try to really kind of celebrate
Speaker 1: his music and his life during the third hour of
Speaker 1: the show today. So our number three will be devoted
Speaker 1: to Brooks Young, and my plan is I will play
Speaker 1: some of his music during that hour, and I might
Speaker 1: even feature a little bit of the final interview that
Speaker 1: I ever got to do with Brooks here on the show.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that. But I also I would
Speaker 1: love to get some people calling in. I did hear
Speaker 1: from a lot of people throughout the week after I
Speaker 1: posted it about Brooks's passing, So hopefully we can get
Speaker 1: some people calling in in the third hour to share
Speaker 1: memories of Brooks, either personal memories or you know, just
Speaker 1: thoughts on his music. And so we're gonna really dedicate
Speaker 1: our three the eleven am hour to that this week.
Speaker 1: So I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Brooks
Speaker 1: many times over the course of the years. Just such
Speaker 1: a great person and you know, enormously talented, and he
Speaker 1: also got to live his dream. You know, he had
Speaker 1: a lot of success, He got to play with a
Speaker 1: lot of great people, got to play with a lot
Speaker 1: of his heroes, and but throughout it all just always
Speaker 1: very humble, very he had a lot of gratitude for
Speaker 1: the life he had built and and the career that
Speaker 1: he had built, and you know, he started a family
Speaker 1: and everything. So so we're very sad. It's a terrible loss.
Speaker 1: But like I said, during the third hour, we're going
Speaker 1: to try to celebrate his life and his music. Brooks
Speaker 1: Young taken from us at the age of forty two.
Speaker 1: You just never know, You just never know, so so
Speaker 1: that will be what we're doing during the third hour today.
Speaker 1: A couple things, let's see, I want to remind everybody.
Speaker 1: Of course, our newest sponsor here on the show and
Speaker 1: at the station WMNH is of course, the Sister Witch Company.
Speaker 1: You've heard us talking a lot about the Sister Witch
Speaker 1: Company recently. They've got actually two big events coming up
Speaker 1: that are connected. So on the twenty second, November twenty second,
Speaker 1: from five point thirty to nine thirty pm, they have
Speaker 1: their pre Black Friday and lighting of the Yule Tree.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be happening on site at Sister
Speaker 1: Witch Company at eleven ninety three Hooks at road in Hooks.
Speaker 1: It very easy to find right there on Ruth three
Speaker 1: and it's a great place to I have the honor
Speaker 1: and privilege a couple of months ago of participating in
Speaker 1: an event they had there where I got to do
Speaker 1: private sessions with hypnosis clients who I met through Sister
Speaker 1: Witch Company, who would come in and show up and say,
Speaker 1: hypnotize me. I want to do, I want to solve this,
Speaker 1: I want to improve this, whatever it may be. So
Speaker 1: they're great people and so I'm really honored and proud
Speaker 1: to have them to work with them, connected to the show,
Speaker 1: connected to wmn H. It's a great thing. So please
Speaker 1: support them, and you should always support local businesses anyway.
Speaker 1: But November twenty second, the pre Black Friday event and
Speaker 1: lighting of the Yule Tree. They will have vendors for
Speaker 1: holiday shopping, light refreshments, and of course the lighting of
Speaker 1: the Yule tree will be at seven pm. Make sure
Speaker 1: you get there in time for the lighting of the
Speaker 1: tree and then you get an exclusive ticket if you
Speaker 1: are there for the lighting to their next event, which
Speaker 1: is coming up November thirtieth. The next event after the
Speaker 1: November twenty second event, of course the Magical Market Small
Speaker 1: Business Psychic Fair. And this is from their website. This
Speaker 1: has a little bit more details that we couldn't fit
Speaker 1: into the ad. Come join us on Small Business Saturday,
Speaker 1: Like I said, support your small businesses from eleven thirty
Speaker 1: am to six pm, where you will find some of
Speaker 1: the most amazing vendors and they're handmade items and art.
Speaker 1: This will be a packed This will be packed full.
Speaker 1: One hour I'm sorry, one floor only event with a
Speaker 1: separate room dedicated to our readers and healers. This is
Speaker 1: the time of year where small businesses need you more
Speaker 1: than any big box store. Come meet us and watch
Speaker 1: us light up when we make a sale. This is
Speaker 1: being held at the Manchester Masonic Temple at fifteen oh
Speaker 1: five Elm Street right here in Manchester, New Hampshire. So
Speaker 1: the Magical Market, which now technically it's from noon to
Speaker 1: five pm, but if you go to the event on
Speaker 1: the twenty second and you're there for the lighting of
Speaker 1: the Yule Tree, you get an exclusive ticket which gets
Speaker 1: you in for a pre Magical Market shopping experience at
Speaker 1: eleven thirty am on that day, so you get in
Speaker 1: a little early and you get to do some exclusive
Speaker 1: shopping that won't be available necessarily to everyone else. So
Speaker 1: you definitely want to participate in both events. And of
Speaker 1: course the thirtieth is Small Business Saturday. Support your local businesses.
Speaker 1: Walmart doesn't need any of your money, They'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: Support your small businesses whenever you can, not only during
Speaker 1: the holidays but year round. You'll often hear it say
Speaker 1: that a small business is the engine that really drives
Speaker 1: our economy. It's very important. And like I said, Sister
Speaker 1: Witch Company, they are fantastic people. We love them very
Speaker 1: much and we love getting to work with them. It's
Speaker 1: a great thing. Speaking of events too, I also want
Speaker 1: to remind everybody of course, coming up on November twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: it is Spelfy Fest and I'm involved in this as well,
Speaker 1: and so is Jenny. So this is a really important
Speaker 1: event because not only is it going to be a
Speaker 1: day of music at Jewel Nightclub, it's being put on
Speaker 1: by the Midnight Creatives Collective. We had Eleanor and Spelfe
Speaker 1: joining us last week via phone to talk all about it,
Speaker 1: and it is going to be raising money for a
Speaker 1: great organization, the rs DSA. And Jenny is going to
Speaker 1: be there talking about that, and I think she's opening
Speaker 1: the show actually with her comments. She's going to be
Speaker 1: doing a short presentation about that. I also am going
Speaker 1: to be there. I'm going to be emceeing part of
Speaker 1: the event, introducing some of the bands, and I'm also
Speaker 1: going to be performing, going to do some hypnosis. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but I think if she doesn't back out
Speaker 1: on me, I think the birthday girl herself, Spelfie, is
Speaker 1: going to let me hypnotize her and to help her
Speaker 1: get over her stage fright so that she can actually
Speaker 1: sing in front of people. But so we'll see, we'll
Speaker 1: see what we what we do there. You know, if
Speaker 1: she if she doesn't want to go through with it.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't put it that way. It's not like a
Speaker 1: scary thing really, but but if she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: do it, you know, maybe we'll maybe we'll hypnotize everybody
Speaker 1: in the room to do something silly or there's different
Speaker 1: directions we could go with it. I'm going to kind
Speaker 1: of read the room and see what happens, see what
Speaker 1: I'm feeling. So that's part of the adventure of it.
Speaker 1: But so looking forward to that doing hypnosis. There doors
Speaker 1: open at one pm and it goes all the way
Speaker 1: to one am, so it's a it's an all day event.
Speaker 1: Jenny will be there, like I said, she's going to
Speaker 1: give a talk. She's also going to have be selling
Speaker 1: some of the amazing things she's been creating. If you
Speaker 1: follow her online, you know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 1: that's all coming up I will just quickly mention some
Speaker 1: of the bands too. There's a lot of them. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it is a full day of music, so
Speaker 1: if I leave anybody out, I apologize. But Deed Harrison
Speaker 1: of course is going to be performing there. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to that, mister Goodbars, who has been on the show.
Speaker 1: A lot of these artists have been on the show
Speaker 1: here on Matt Connorton, Unleashed, More in the Light. They've
Speaker 1: been on Let's See Leon Trout, Lexi, Lethal Waylam Park,
Speaker 1: The Whole Loaf, They've been on the show, Dog eight Dog,
Speaker 1: and a myriad of others. There's a ton of bands.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read all of them, but you
Speaker 1: can find more information and you can get tickets at
Speaker 1: Midnight Creatives Collective dot com and they've got a lot
Speaker 1: of events there, so check that out. They're always doing
Speaker 1: stuff at Terminus Terminus Underground, the great venue that they
Speaker 1: operate in the city of Nashua. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on, a lot to talk about. But like I said,
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes, we're going to be
Speaker 1: joined live on the show via phone by Dennis Layton
Speaker 1: from the band The Gray Curtain, talking all about No
Speaker 1: Masters Fest, which is going on right now in the
Speaker 1: city of Worcester. Again, just to remind you too quickly
Speaker 1: if you are just joining us in the third hour today,
Speaker 1: it's going to be all about Brooks Young, dedicated to
Speaker 1: Brooks Young. I hope to take some calls during the
Speaker 1: third hour from people who want to talk about Brooks
Speaker 1: and share memories. Six oh three two five six seven
Speaker 1: is the studio line, but there are other ways that
Speaker 1: you can interact to if you want to send me
Speaker 1: anything ahead of time. If you don't want to call
Speaker 1: in but you'd like to send something, if you go
Speaker 1: to Matt connorton dot com slash live, there's an option
Speaker 1: there to instant message me. There are links to the
Speaker 1: chat rooms. There are the number there, the text line
Speaker 1: is also there, and the studio line, so and of
Speaker 1: course you can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com.
Speaker 1: But all of that information is there at Matt connorton
Speaker 1: dot com slash live. So if you don't want a
Speaker 1: call during the third hour, if you'd rather just email
Speaker 1: me something that you would like share it on the air,
Speaker 1: or anything like that, anything at all. I will try
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on all of it. And because
Speaker 1: we really want to honor the memory of Brooks and
Speaker 1: like I said, such a fantastic musician and a great
Speaker 1: person and we're very sad about this loss. I want
Speaker 1: to say hello to a few people too who are
Speaker 1: in the chat right now live. Be Pinard says, good
Speaker 1: morning everyone, Good morning be Elizabeth Towns says morning, mister Connorton,
Speaker 1: have a beautiful Saturday. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: B Penard says. Justin Spencer from Recycled Percussion has just
Speaker 1: completed his event in Australia. Ah. Yes, down under. Malcolm
Speaker 1: Wood is in the Facebook live chat. Hello Malcolm. We
Speaker 1: had Malcolm on the show recently with Legion of Solace
Speaker 1: and they're doing great things in the music scene. Absolutely absolutely,
Speaker 1: let's see let's do this. I think what we're going
Speaker 1: to do since Dennis is going to be joining us,
Speaker 1: Dennis from the band The Gray Curtain, we'll play a
Speaker 1: little bit of one of their songs from the newest album,
Speaker 1: The Florist, and let's see which one should we play.
Speaker 1: We'll play something short because he's going to be joining us,
Speaker 1: we'lllay We'll play Crippled. Let's do that one, and then
Speaker 1: we'll have Dennis on the line with us talking about
Speaker 1: no Masters Fest coming up, or I shouldn't say coming up.
Speaker 1: It's happening right now. Last night was night one. Tonight
Speaker 1: is night too in Wister, so he's going to be
Speaker 1: joining us to talk about that. But here it is.
Speaker 1: This is crippled. This is from the album is called
Speaker 1: the Florist and the band is the gray Curtain.
Speaker 5: On the skin.
Speaker 6: It seems a long.
Speaker 7: Concurving Where did I?
Speaker 6: Where did I? Where I go from?
Speaker 8: The friend.
Speaker 7: Billy answers, but I don't hear them. The posts won't
Speaker 7: stop screw.
Speaker 8: In the my head in the mock play, I am
Speaker 8: where the body with the mam the mo? I am?
Speaker 6: Ho we do his b tell me my friend any
Speaker 6: weird day?
Speaker 8: Why do we do this? To put me a.
Speaker 6: Crop in the my grave?
Speaker 8: For whow.
Speaker 6: Where did I come from? The song of cage bird sings?
Speaker 6: Seeing the starts from the.
Speaker 7: Prison cos the mocks retained?
Speaker 8: Where did I go from.
Speaker 6: Master to a sleep? The water's in there with me?
Speaker 6: Is that a present? And wait, chick, where did I?
Speaker 6: Where did I go?
Speaker 9: Tell me?
Speaker 6: Where where did I?
Speaker 10: Where did I go?
Speaker 8: To?
Speaker 6: Momma?
Speaker 7: I am waiting money and into my heart into my store.
Speaker 7: I am speling this man, tell me about friend.
Speaker 6: Can you hear this? I'm want me do this, then
Speaker 6: tell me cry.
Speaker 9: It's about.
Speaker 11: One the world to rible one won, the world to tyble.
Speaker 8: One bo people, a world to rip.
Speaker 6: One bar who the world to ruble one bar?
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I do love that track. I love that band that
Speaker 1: is called Crippled. The band is called The Gray Curtain,
Speaker 1: and that is from the album The Florists. And Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had Dennis and a couple of his bandmates on
Speaker 1: not too long ago and just had a fascinating conversation
Speaker 1: and it's such an interesting project. We're trying to get
Speaker 1: Dennis on the line, so he is not with us yet.
Speaker 1: So I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna
Speaker 1: play one more track. Why not, because I do love
Speaker 1: this band so much, We'll play one more. We'll play
Speaker 1: a short one from the Gray Curtain. This one's called
Speaker 1: Burn that Bridge, and this is one of their shorter songs.
Speaker 1: They have songs. It's interesting. Some of their songs are
Speaker 1: only a couple of minutes long, summer like eight minutes.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna play one more and then we can't
Speaker 1: get Dennis on the line.
Speaker 6: We will move on.
Speaker 1: But here this is called burn that bridge.
Speaker 12: The boy I condone me wroteeplings about it, a pregnant
Speaker 12: face I.
Speaker 10: Could never please.
Speaker 4: It's a ways to in the.
Speaker 6: End o my rest, I want to read.
Speaker 8: By reason.
Speaker 6: We got to slam it rom.
Speaker 8: Le me.
Speaker 6: Rock strap slave feeling a lot.
Speaker 3: The last thing.
Speaker 8: Go stas the bold, the earth, the one way, the
Speaker 8: way from that.
Speaker 6: Got every mon got cram before pastime.
Speaker 5: I then got anything.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't want.
Speaker 1: That's a catchy one, isn't it. It's got a great
Speaker 1: hook that has burned that bridge. The band is the
Speaker 1: Gray Curtain. And I think we have Dennis on the
Speaker 1: line with us. Dennis, are you there?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: I am Dennis.
Speaker 12: What have you got?
Speaker 1: What have you got going on this weekend? You've got
Speaker 1: no Masters Fest? Right? Tell us about it?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, Well we had no Master's Fest last night one.
Speaker 10: We had night one last night over at the Raven
Speaker 10: and Worcester. Yeah, and we had a we had a
Speaker 10: great turnout. A lot of people came in, a lot
Speaker 10: of people donated. We've got about five hundred dollars worth
Speaker 10: of donations and we're basically we're trying to raise money
Speaker 10: for funds and awareness for for rehab programs around New England.
Speaker 10: And today we're having no Masters Fest Night two over
Speaker 10: at the Cabinet of Curiosities over in Colchester, Connecticut. A
Speaker 10: lot of great talent, a lot of great bands. Great
Speaker 10: Curtain will be playing. But we also have crow Hill,
Speaker 10: we have Fear of the mass Is, we have Ape,
Speaker 10: we have the Big Sun. Anyone that hasn't heard any
Speaker 10: of these bands really needs to check them out. And
Speaker 10: Mary Antoilette and the Runs and yeah, we're we're hoping
Speaker 10: to We're hoping to get I'm I'm open to get
Speaker 10: to at least the South to get a you know,
Speaker 10: one of those cashiers checks and bring it over to
Speaker 10: Centerlink so they can just disperse it how they see fit.
Speaker 1: So just to be clear, so are you the promoter?
Speaker 1: Are you the main person who's been putting all of
Speaker 1: this on this big event?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, basically you know, I so on on the fourteenth,
Speaker 10: on Thursday, I was five years sober and alcohol and excellent,
Speaker 10: thank you. I wanted to do. I want to do something,
Speaker 10: you know, bigger than me, bigger than just me doing
Speaker 10: a show, and you know, doing the whole raw raw thing.
Speaker 10: So I'm I'm trying to help people that kind of
Speaker 10: swim in my seat, you know, people that suffer from
Speaker 10: depression and anxiety and alcohol abuse, and especially around this
Speaker 10: time of year, people really need to know that people
Speaker 10: are there for them. I've spent I've spent a couple
Speaker 10: of Thanksgivings alone hoping that you know, a phone would ring,
Speaker 10: or you know, someone would care enough to like invite me,
Speaker 10: and instead, I just you know, drank by myself. And
Speaker 10: I don't wish that on anybody. So I'm hoping that
Speaker 10: we can, like I said, we can raise awareness that
Speaker 10: there are these programs out there that people can utilize
Speaker 10: to help them through the holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a very I mean, it almost sounds
Speaker 1: cliche to say it, but really is true. The holidays
Speaker 1: can be a very lonely time for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a situation where perhaps they've lost people, they've
Speaker 1: lost family members or you know, or they're isolated, perhaps
Speaker 1: they're living in an area where they don't know anybody,
Speaker 1: or you know, as you alluded to, they're just going
Speaker 1: through a lot. They've got issues that they're dealing with
Speaker 1: and and you know, it's kind of and obviously I'm
Speaker 1: not telling you anything you don't know, but it's it
Speaker 1: can be kind of a cycle, right because you know,
Speaker 1: if you have certain issues that might push people away,
Speaker 1: and then the more that pushes people away, the more
Speaker 1: isolated you end up. And then so those issues actually
Speaker 1: just get harder and harder. So so I think what
Speaker 1: you're doing, you know, with that awareness through your own
Speaker 1: personal experience and I'm sure obviously what you've observed with
Speaker 1: others as well, that this can be a very lonely
Speaker 1: time for people, and people do need to know that
Speaker 1: there's that there's help, and that there's you know, and
Speaker 1: that they have options. And it's it's very very hard
Speaker 1: because you know, the way the brain works, we establish
Speaker 1: these patterns in our minds that then it's difficult to
Speaker 1: break out of them, and so it's hard for somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, people Sometimes people will look at people who
Speaker 1: have issues, whether it be alcoholism or a drug issue
Speaker 1: or or anything anything that's really affecting them and say, well,
Speaker 1: why don't they just stop or why don't they just
Speaker 1: get help? And it's hard to break out of those patterns,
Speaker 1: and even positive change can be very difficult. So so
Speaker 1: I think what you're doing is is wonderful?
Speaker 13: Are you?
Speaker 1: Is there more than one organization that you're raising money
Speaker 1: for or is it for a specific organization or how
Speaker 1: does that work?
Speaker 10: Well, I have a list that I'm trying to raise
Speaker 10: money for. We have a like I said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 10: it wasn't Centerlink, it was Community Health Link. Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 10: between Saint Vincent Behavioral Health, we have Arbor Counseling Services,
Speaker 10: Sadiva Health of Wister, like I have Recovery Clean Slate.
Speaker 10: I'm turning very very hard to at least raise money
Speaker 10: for one of these programs. And it's not even that
Speaker 10: they're asking for money. It's not that they're asking for donations.
Speaker 10: For all, I know, these guys don't need my help,
Speaker 10: but I do know that I feel I need to
Speaker 10: do something, Yes, because whether these programs need the the
Speaker 10: awareness you know, you know, for someone with a megaphone saying, hey,
Speaker 10: these programs exist. Up until very recently, someone like me
Speaker 10: would have needed these programs because you know, so many
Speaker 10: people only think that there's AA and celebrate recovery alan on.
Speaker 10: You know, there are other venues. Not that those programs
Speaker 10: aren't successful, not that they don't work for people, but
Speaker 10: you know, for some, you know, they need different avenues.
Speaker 10: So I'm trying really hard to but mostly just to
Speaker 10: raise the awareness that these programs.
Speaker 4: Exist right now.
Speaker 1: I think that's important because, as you say, not everything
Speaker 1: works for everyone. Everyone's different, and I do think it's
Speaker 1: important that people have options in terms of what kind
Speaker 1: of help, what kind of treatment, what kind of counseling
Speaker 1: they get, and so forth. And I think you know,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned too, you don't know that these organizations
Speaker 1: necessarily need financial help. But it's it's a pretty safe bet,
Speaker 1: you know, when when we're talking about mental health and
Speaker 1: addiction and all of that kind of thing. Everything in
Speaker 1: that realm, there's never enough money. You know, these organizations
Speaker 1: always need more help so that they can expand their
Speaker 1: resources and help more people. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty safe bet that they'll be
Speaker 1: able to put the money that you're raising to good use.
Speaker 1: So I think that's I think that's fantastic what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And any any negative experience, you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: it on the show a lot, and I'm sure we
Speaker 1: talked about it when when you were here that day.
Speaker 1: Anytime that you can take things that are negative, things
Speaker 1: that are dark, and create something positive from them, whether
Speaker 1: it's through music like like your band The Gray Curtain,
Speaker 1: or whether it's also through what you're doing putting on
Speaker 1: an event like No Master's Fest to raise money and awareness,
Speaker 1: you know, anything positive that you can pull out of
Speaker 1: these negative experiences. I think that's that's the best therapy.
Speaker 1: I think when you can take take dark things and
Speaker 1: make them positive or make something positive out of them
Speaker 1: in some way. So have you done this before? No
Speaker 1: Masters Fast or is this the first year?
Speaker 10: This is the first year. This is the first time
Speaker 10: I'm attempting anything like this. I've tried, like, I've booked
Speaker 10: shows before, but I've never done a benefit. So I
Speaker 10: am a complete and total novice. But as I as
Speaker 10: I mentioned, you know, I'm yeah, I just want to
Speaker 10: do a good thing, you know, I want to think
Speaker 10: of others in this time that you know, that really
Speaker 10: need to help. It's uh, I mean, that's basically, in
Speaker 10: my opinion, that's all that any of us should be
Speaker 10: doing right year round, not just this time of year,
Speaker 10: but this time of year seems to be the time
Speaker 10: that we, you know, we all should be getting together
Speaker 10: and you know, helping people in need. You know, I
Speaker 10: work for meals on wheels and I'm constantly driving by
Speaker 10: churches that are looking for help, you know, with food
Speaker 10: kitchens and food pantries, things of that nature, clothing drives
Speaker 10: and whatnot. You know, you know you can, you know
Speaker 10: you can do that. You can start there and just
Speaker 10: help somebody that has less than you, that may you know,
Speaker 10: little things like that could help somebody with melancholia, major
Speaker 10: depression disorder, hyper anxiety and help them realize, if only
Speaker 10: for like one extra day, that someone does care, someone
Speaker 10: does care enough to want them to get out of
Speaker 10: the ditch that they're in. And you know, I don't
Speaker 10: think we I don't think we realized that enough. You know,
Speaker 10: I think, oh, you know, what's the you know, it's
Speaker 10: not that big of a deal. It is that big
Speaker 10: of a deal to just to just show somebody that
Speaker 10: you care enough to do something like that. You know,
Speaker 10: is it goes along the way. Because I've been the
Speaker 10: guy in line at a food pantry. I've been the
Speaker 10: guy homeless, sleeping on a sleeping on a bench, you know,
Speaker 10: crashing on people's couches, you know, going to a soup kitchen,
Speaker 10: you know, and I know that these programs helped me
Speaker 10: through a lot. Yeah, and I I, at the risk
Speaker 10: of sounding redundant, I just want to help. I just
Speaker 10: want to help people that you know, have less than me.
Speaker 10: I don't have a lot, don't get me wrong, you know,
Speaker 10: but I I know that there are a lot of
Speaker 10: people out there that have a lot less than me,
Speaker 10: and I just want to help those.
Speaker 1: People, right right, I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Is this going to be?
Speaker 1: You said this is your your first attempt with one.
Speaker 4: Is this going to be?
Speaker 1: Are you planning to make this an annual event? I
Speaker 1: know you're I know you're probably right at the moment,
Speaker 1: you're probably just trying to get through this weekend, because,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, putting on something like this is a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It's a lot of stress.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but but it sounds like it's something you'd you'd
Speaker 1: probably like to do every year.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, you mentioned I would. I absolutely what.
Speaker 10: I was talking about it last year while I was
Speaker 10: on stage. I'm like, Man, wouldn't it be great if
Speaker 10: we could do this every year around this time? Yeah,
Speaker 10: you know, right around Thanksgiving? But you mentioned the stress,
Speaker 10: It's like between the chemo and you know, the chemotherapy
Speaker 10: and the stress of this show. I'm like looking at
Speaker 10: the top of my head, I'm like, and it's tenny,
Speaker 10: but but yeah, I'm yeah, I'm hoping that this this
Speaker 10: becomes an annual thing and more people join in the help.
Speaker 10: You know, I can't thank you guys enough for having
Speaker 10: me on to talk about this. You know, I got
Speaker 10: in about I got in about three o'clock last night,
Speaker 10: and I was floating on a cloud.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was so happy with the turnout. I was
Speaker 10: so happy with the amount of donations, between the people
Speaker 10: that were there who gave cash for donations, and and
Speaker 10: the people that walked in and say, hey, can I venmo?
Speaker 10: You can I PayPal?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 10: I said, you know, I didn't even think of that.
Speaker 10: Absolutely yes, you know. So I'm man, I'm really hoping.
Speaker 10: I'm really hoping we can make this an annual thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, short story long, I'm hoping that we can make
Speaker 10: this an annual thing. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm sure you can do it. By the way,
Speaker 1: what is the significance of the name No Masters Fest?
Speaker 10: Well, I I kind of figured it's it goes back
Speaker 10: to you know, alcohol was my master. You know when
Speaker 10: I when I was drinking, I could not I could
Speaker 10: not spend a day, I could not spend an hour
Speaker 10: without thinking to myself, Well, the package store opens in
Speaker 10: about ten minutes, you know, the you know the I
Speaker 10: could probably hit up the bar at some point tonight,
Speaker 10: you know, just grab a couple of shots. I call
Speaker 10: them like whiskey wattages, you know, Stevie ray Vaughan. You
Speaker 10: know I would, Yeah, I would have that constantly in
Speaker 10: my head. Alcohol was my master, you know, and I
Speaker 10: look at all drugs, you know, and this is not
Speaker 10: don't get me wrong, this is not my saying. You
Speaker 10: know that alcohol is my master. You know, alcohol is
Speaker 10: not my master. You know, alcohol is not the boss
Speaker 10: of me. Yeah, but we all have those things. I mean,
Speaker 10: over eaters have junk food, you know. You know, any
Speaker 10: person that has that that addiction that they can't they
Speaker 10: can't quite get over, you know. You know, it's kind
Speaker 10: of like that is your master. That's the thing that
Speaker 10: is running your life and telling you what to do.
Speaker 10: The the significance of No Masters Fest is we're trying
Speaker 10: to get past that. Yeah, you know, any you know,
Speaker 10: anyone that comes to these shows has to realize that
Speaker 10: these devices are not your master. You are the You
Speaker 10: are in charge of your own life, and the best
Speaker 10: way to do that is to have someone there, you know,
Speaker 10: helping you realize that, because sometimes, especially when it comes
Speaker 10: to addiction, especially when you have you know, some sort
Speaker 10: of mental illness, it's it's very difficult to be able
Speaker 10: to accept and it's very difficult to say, I am
Speaker 10: in control of.
Speaker 1: My life, right.
Speaker 10: This is not this does not run my life right.
Speaker 10: And that and that's where the No Masters Fest comes from.
Speaker 1: I kind of suspected that that was the meaning behind it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know, obviously, And it's cool that I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I was right, because I think that's a
Speaker 1: great concept. I think that's a fantastic name to call
Speaker 1: this event the No Master's Fest. And and I think
Speaker 1: the way that you said that, the way that you
Speaker 1: explained that was excellent, And yeah, exactly. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a hypnotherapist, and when I see clients for various issues
Speaker 1: like you know, people who want to quit smoking and
Speaker 1: things like that, or other types of addition addiction rather
Speaker 1: be the physical addiction or even you know, just psychological addiction,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's It's one of the things that
Speaker 1: I try to impress on them is not only when
Speaker 1: we're doing the pre talk for the session, but during
Speaker 1: the actual session itself. I give them hypnotic suggestions that
Speaker 1: you are in control. Nothing else can control you. You
Speaker 1: are in control. And uh but it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: like I was saying earlier, sometimes it's hard for people
Speaker 1: to accept that because it's even positive change once those
Speaker 1: patterns are established, even positive change can be difficult for people.
Speaker 1: But I really like the way you explained that, and
Speaker 1: I think it's very empowering. And you know, there might
Speaker 1: be somebody out there listening who heard what you said
Speaker 1: and is now thinking about their own addiction or their
Speaker 1: own problems, whatever it may be, thinking about that in
Speaker 1: a new way and thinking about, Oh, I like what
Speaker 1: Dennis said. You know this, this doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: my master. I'm in like you said, you're in charge
Speaker 1: of your own life. And and I think even just
Speaker 1: saying that to people and telling people that I think
Speaker 1: might might help somebody, you know. So I think that's
Speaker 1: I think that's excellent. And uh so tonight, so tell
Speaker 1: us again for for people listening live, Uh, where where
Speaker 1: again is the event tonight. If people want to go.
Speaker 10: The event tonight is that Cabinet of Curiosities. We had
Speaker 10: a bit of a snap who with the venue, so
Speaker 10: we moved it over to Cabinet Curiosities. It's over in
Speaker 10: uh Colchester, Connecticut. Uh, you know a lot of great bands. Uh,
Speaker 10: there's going to be a couple of vendors. Black Noise
Speaker 10: Magazine is going to be there. Uh, there's a there's
Speaker 10: going to be uh six bands total, and we're really
Speaker 10: hoping you know. Uh, admission is just a donation. You
Speaker 10: have a dollar. If you have a dollar, donate it.
Speaker 10: If you have ten dollars, if you can spare it,
Speaker 10: donate it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: Uh, this is not about you know, an admission fee.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 10: There's going to be a box over at the door.
Speaker 10: Just put whatever you can in the box and come
Speaker 10: in enjoy the show.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 10: But yes, it's a Cabinet Curiosities in Colchester, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: What time does it start?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 10: The first bench should be going on around uh around
Speaker 10: uh seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been of Curiosities. That's a that's a cool
Speaker 1: name for a venue.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, Uh, it's a it's a shop over in Colchester.
Speaker 10: You know, they they uh they specialize in uh you
Speaker 10: know little uh excuse me, I'm like, I'm still half
Speaker 10: half asleep from last night.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 10: You know they uh you know, they basically just uh
Speaker 10: you know, they're like any other story. You know, they
Speaker 10: sell uh they sell their merchandise, and they were willing
Speaker 10: to hold this, uh this event in their kind of
Speaker 10: like the back rooms of the shop. You know, they're
Speaker 10: they're getting a pa set up for us, and uh yeah,
Speaker 10: it's honestly, I cannot I cannot wait too to jam
Speaker 10: out with these bands, like I know, uh, I know
Speaker 10: a lot of these bands from a long time that
Speaker 10: have Yeah, we just have a good rapport with each other.
Speaker 10: So it's gonna be a lot of fun regardless. And
Speaker 10: I'm really hoping that people will come and uh enjoy
Speaker 10: it because it's just gonna be a good atmosphere. I think.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, are you are you documenting this at all?
Speaker 1: This this weekend?
Speaker 10: Is there?
Speaker 1: Are are you recording anything?
Speaker 10: Are you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is there will there be a video available of some
Speaker 1: of these bands or just for people who maybe aren't
Speaker 1: able to make it but want to check.
Speaker 10: It out after the fact, you know, I It's one
Speaker 10: of those things I did not think of, was to
Speaker 10: get somebody to record the whole experience, you know, next year. Yeah,
Speaker 10: but uh yeah, but people did record. Uh. I believe
Speaker 10: there was some recording during Big Sun last night, the
Speaker 10: Big Son. I can't keep saying Big Son, the Big
Speaker 10: Son last night.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure people were recording during Paradise is canceled,
Speaker 10: you know, Shade Upon uh and Trouble Parachutes Aluminium they
Speaker 10: I'm fairly certain people who are recording during those during
Speaker 10: those sets. But you know, you you definitely just you know,
Speaker 10: sparked an idea, you know, like turned the light bulb
Speaker 10: on in my head. I'm like, why I didn't I
Speaker 10: have somebody documenting all this? But it's just one of
Speaker 10: those things, like I was, I was trying to get
Speaker 10: the show together, you know, and try to get it
Speaker 10: to go off without a hitch. Yeah, I just you've
Speaker 10: got a lot on mot those things I did not
Speaker 10: think of.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot on your plate already just doing
Speaker 1: just doing a two night event like this at at
Speaker 1: different venues and everything. You know, it's it's it's already
Speaker 1: a lot. So yeah, something to think about for next year.
Speaker 1: But but I think it's I think it's fantastic, Dennis,
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And uh, I'm sure tonight will be
Speaker 1: I'm sure tonight will be very successful. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like last night went great, So that's that's wonderful. We'll
Speaker 1: let you go in a moment. But anything we should
Speaker 1: know about the Gray Curtain by the way, anything anything
Speaker 1: new uh there or you know what we played. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna actually at the end of the segment, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play clip the Stitch. I really love that. That's that's
Speaker 1: pretty pretty epic. But anything we should know about the
Speaker 1: Gray Curtain going forward since we had.
Speaker 10: You on, well, uh, you know this, Uh, this will
Speaker 10: be our last show of the year. Yeah, I got
Speaker 10: to emphasize that of the year. Yes, and uh, we're
Speaker 10: going to go into hibernation mode.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 10: We just locked in a new sense player, uh, and
Speaker 10: we're trying to lock in a drummer. We have a
Speaker 10: couple of really talented candidates that we have to narrow
Speaker 10: down to one. We have one in particular that we're
Speaker 10: hoping we'll stick around. But but yeah, we'll we'll be
Speaker 10: going into hibernation mode and probably coming back. Uh, like
Speaker 10: March April. My birthday is April second, so I'm kind
Speaker 10: of you know, I'm kind of hoping to do a
Speaker 10: show around then, but there may be an opportunity for
Speaker 10: one more show before before the end of the year.
Speaker 10: We're we're hoping, uh to get one more in there.
Speaker 10: But if it doesn't happen, it's okay. You know, we've
Speaker 10: had we've had a pretty successful year between the New
Speaker 10: England Music Award nomination and uh, you know, the Battle
Speaker 10: of the Bands and uh, the Halloween show over at Terminus.
Speaker 10: You know, we've you know, we we've wrenched out and
Speaker 10: we went to Maine this year. We never did that before.
Speaker 10: We played Charlie's Hill over in eleven minutes. As far
Speaker 10: as what we're gonna be doing in the future, you know,
Speaker 10: we're hoping that the you know, to write the next
Speaker 10: album within the next few months. You know, we have
Speaker 10: like seven eight songs already ready to go, and we're
Speaker 10: hoping to do a double Oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, cool, very cool, outstanding. Look forward to that. Look
Speaker 1: forward to that. I'm a big fan, you know, the project.
Speaker 1: It's it's unique, but it's also very accessible. That song burned,
Speaker 1: that bridge, that's not one of the ones that we
Speaker 1: played when you were on the show before. But man,
Speaker 1: I love that. That's that is so catchy, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of singing along to it in the studio. But great,
Speaker 1: great stuff. So all right, Dennis, we'll let you go
Speaker 1: in a moment. One more quick plug for tonight and
Speaker 1: then I know you've got another busy day ahead of you.
Speaker 1: But just remind our listeners anyone just joining us about
Speaker 1: the about night two of No Masters Fest this evening.
Speaker 10: Uh yeah, it's No Master's Fest over in Colchester, Connecticut.
Speaker 10: Over at the Cabinet of Curiosities. We've got the Gray
Speaker 10: Curtain of course playing. Uh there's scarecrow Hill, Fear the Masses,
Speaker 10: Mary Antwilllett and the runs Ape and the Big Sun
Speaker 10: are all going to be playing in this in the shop,
Speaker 10: hoping to raise awareness and funds for rehab programs around
Speaker 10: New England. It should should be should be a great
Speaker 10: time and we hope people will will come in just
Speaker 10: have a great time and donate.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I predict a very successful night. So it's fantastic
Speaker 1: what you're doing, Dennis, And thank you so much for
Speaker 1: calling us today and always wonderful to speak with you.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure, we'll we'll do it again in the
Speaker 1: not too distant future. But thank you Dennis, and good
Speaker 1: luck tonight. I know it's going to be great.
Speaker 10: Hey, thanks, thank you guys so much for having me. Seriously,
Speaker 10: it's it's so great to be able to do this.
Speaker 10: Thank you for allowing me to do this.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, you got it man. All right, Dennis, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Take care, al bye bye, all right,
Speaker 1: bye bye. All right Dennis Layton from the band The
Speaker 1: Great Curtain, and we will close the segment with Clip
Speaker 1: the Stitch, another great track from The Gray Curtain, and
Speaker 1: the album is called The Florist. I recommend you check
Speaker 1: it out. And then coming up an hour number two,
Speaker 1: we have Liz and a couple of other folks from
Speaker 1: the Mosaic Art Collective right here in Manchester. But here
Speaker 1: it is Clip the Stitch.
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