Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-18-23 part two

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0:49 everybody, as we are about to cruise into our third hour. Never said

0:52 that before on the show of Matt Connorton Unleashed. We're on our new schedule

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1:00 of you listening online from other places, welcome. We are live from the

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1:15 You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live

1:19 streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera,

1:23 et cetera. Jenny is here as well at the news desk, present

1:26 and accounted for, and thank you again to uh. Let's see so we

1:30 had a sepsis in here. We had William and Zach and Lexi, and

1:37 thank you again to them for the these wonderful shirts and we took some picks

1:40 with them. We'll post those online or maybe sure some Legion of Solace they

1:45 made that special for you. Oh, Legion of Solace made this. Oh

1:48 okay, that's done, that's signed all over. Oh okay, Yeah,

1:51 excellent, excellent, Yeah, no, very very nice. Thin Their band

1:53 name I think is on the front. Oh okay, isn't it? Don't

1:59 I don't want to unfolded again, but no, that was very nice though.

2:01 We really appreciate that, really appreciate that a lot. And of course

2:06 we had Eric Pilcher's classic film review, the subject being Ferris Bueller's Day Off,

2:10 and you can also that's also posted separately online if you just want to

2:14 if you miss a review and you want to check it out. He does

2:15 a wonderful job with those, and we appreciate it, and we want to

2:21 mention too before we talk to our guests. We're going to be tonight at

2:24 sixty six Handover Street is the address. There's a Biza who's a great hip

2:30 hop artist who I've interviewed, is going to be planned tonight, and I'm

2:34 not sure who else is going to be there, but my old friend Derek

2:37 Smith from way back in the day he reached out to me and he's getting

2:42 involved in a show that's going to be going on there. So I can't

2:45 really say much more about it than that because the flyer that he sent me

2:49 is a bit lacking and information. But I know the address, So Jenny

2:53 and I will be there tonight at eight pm at what's that getting at?

3:00 Yeah, it's it's some sort of art studio, but they have live music.

3:04 So yeah, I'm totally stoked about. He never goes to art stuff

3:07 with me. This is like the first time he's going to go to on

3:08 art stuff with me, So I'm excited. Yes, yes, I'm not

3:12 sure exactly what we're getting into. Like I said, I just have an

3:14 address, so I'll get some inspiration to go home and slap some pain.

3:22 That's right, That's right. But we have Oh we have Oh, Derek

3:27 Smith is calling actually so he can he can fill us in on whatever details

3:31 we're lacking. Hey, Derek, I you are live on the air,

3:37 my friend. Yeah, tell us tell us more about time calling to give

3:39 you that additional information. Yes, yes please, So you gave the address

3:46 and yes, business is going to be closing the night. Good friends that

3:53 I've known for ten years now, Evan of Happy Just to see you.

3:58 Oh yes, local band is going to be opening and doors are at seven

4:02 o'clock and show starts at eight. And it is a twenty one plus show

4:10 and it's a suggested donation of five to ten dollars. Okay, and that

4:15 is that? Now? Is it? Is it upstairs? I'm trying to

4:17 remember when upstairs above the Palace Theater at Mosaic Art Collective, Mosaic Art Collectives.

4:25 Okay, very good, very good. Yeah, Now, Jenny and

4:28 I are looking forward to that, and it'll be great to see you.

4:30 Man. It's it's been uh I don't even want to think about how long

4:33 it's been because it makes me feel old. But its been since about two

4:39 thousand and flourish, I think, so, I think it really has been

4:43 that long. So we're pushing twenty years, yeah, reuniting. Yeah,

4:47 yes, yes, no, I'm really looking forward to seeing you. So

4:50 that'll be cool. So yeah, so tonight tonight and it is above the

4:55 Palace Theater. Okay, that's right, I remember you telling me that.

4:58 Now the flyers a little vague, but uh no, no worries. I

5:02 think I didn't send you the full one that had mosaic actually on it.

5:08 But oh okay, okay, yeah, no worries. Well we will we

5:12 will see you this evening, sir, Yes, sir, all right,

5:16 thank you, all right, Derek, thanks for calling man, Bye bye.

5:19 You're welcome. All right, my old friend Derek Smith. Yeah,

5:21 we used to do a lot of a lot of stuff in the music scene

5:26 together and uh booked a lot of shows and and so forth. So that

5:30 will be that will be cool. He reached out to me recently and I

5:31 was like, Wow, that's a that's a name from the past, so

5:35 very nice. We've got a couple of great musicians here with us making their

5:40 return. We have Aaron Billido is on the couch. Uh huh, welcome

5:45 back. And Huey the Gecko is with you. Hello and uh oh,

5:50 get right upon that. Mike. Uh that's okay. Now you've been on

5:56 you've been on with us a bunch of times. What one one time particularly

6:00 memorable? Well, actually, no, that was the time you guys were

6:02 here together. Uh well, I think I think you were Hugh he was

6:06 kind of the featured guests right right, I was playing that day. But

6:11 yes, yes, the pod Awful cult. Uh that that was a legendary.

6:17 But you had such a good sense of humor about you, which is

6:20 great. Yeah, I always had my reptile. Reptile. He really handled

6:26 it, you know, like a tamp but he was still good. No,

6:29 but people around here still talk about that about that day. So we're

6:33 gonna we're gonna, uh, these guys are gonna play live for us,

6:35 and we've got some studio tracks and my dad is on the line, so

6:40 uh, we'll speak to him for a moment. Hey Dad, Hey,

6:44 many congratulations of the new showing programming. Thank you, Joe, Thank you

6:50 appreciate it. Yes, you're very welcome. Weird being here and welcome.

6:54 It's exciting, and uh, you know, something's changed. Changes we all

7:00 we all have to deal with. I never liked it much myself, but

7:04 it's a reality. But this is, this is, this will be good.

7:08 Now. I don't want to endre up it. Are you interviewing a

7:10 guest right now? Yes, we were. We've got a couple of great

7:14 musical guests here. Aaron Billido is with us, and Huey the Gecko is

7:17 here as well, and they're gonna play live for us in studio. How

7:19 you doing. Oh, that's that's great. Yeah, I'm familiar with them

7:24 and I saw the the prep. So I don't want to hold hold that

7:28 interview up or all the good music I do it just a couple of things.

7:32 I wanted to give a shout out to what I would consider a big

7:38 hit song, and I think you would agree with me that I'm gonna put

7:40 you on the spot man. The song that I think Eric actually premiered on

7:46 your show Wild by the great Katie Dover. Yes, yes you know that

7:51 song. Yes, yeah, I did play a few weeks ago. Yeah,

7:56 yes, yeah, I know that was great. It was a well

7:59 done mass and Eric did a good job in his presentation on that. Yeah.

8:01 That that is a great son. She is so beautiful and so talented.

8:07 Absolutely, my heart's starting to race. I got stuff on that one.

8:09 But I want to say, you'll never get well, I'm kidding sort

8:15 of, but you never guess what fan club yesterday through Facebook? You know?

8:20 Do you ever see my philosophical post on Facebook? I don't know how

8:24 that worked. I see some of them. I don't know. I don't

8:28 know that I see all that because I've learned. You know what I learned

8:31 was and your guests will appreciate this. I'm sure I've learned that if I

8:37 say anything critical of the Biden administration or Obama or some of which I would.

8:45 I had a proclivity to do that initially for a while, and I

8:48 was very careful, you know, it was very nice, and you know,

8:50 I would pray on it before I did it, but they would just

8:54 it would, it would come up as a post and like within five minutes,

8:58 Bay, it's gone, man, you know. So so I stay

9:05 away from that now and I talk more about philosophical things and contempt a generic

9:11 context. So I wanted to what fan club? This is an old time

9:20 singer, great singer, he knew Elvis. Well, what fand club did

9:26 I join yesterday? Do you want to take a shot? I don't know

9:31 how did you know that with that, Jenny? How did you get that?

9:35 Yes, Mickey Mouse, but also Pat Boone. You know Pat Boone

9:41 is eighty nine years old and he's still singing. He had a little bit

9:45 of an hip accident recently. But but every Sunday night on w SEW out

9:50 of Sanford and North Conway, Pat Boone has a radio program and it's really

9:58 good. Match and Jenny, they have it goes from eight to nine for

10:05 anyone in the area wants to pick this take a look at it, and

10:07 he'll come in and comment, and he'll always sing the last song himself.

10:11 But he has all these great artists in Christian music and gospel music, and

10:20 they are so talented. You know. I won't go into all of that,

10:26 but I would recommend that. And then after that Matt and Jenny at

10:30 nine o'clock on w SEW they have the Bluegrass Gospel Hour and that is just

10:39 terrific. I don't know half the groups they play, but they are so

10:43 good if you like that genre, and you know I'm eclectic with that stuff,

10:48 so I really appreciate that. So on that note, I will stop

10:54 and wish you guys well and congratulations again on this new show. It will

11:01 go well. I'm sure right, all right, Thanks dat, I appreciate

11:05 it. You're welcome, take care you well, love you all right,

11:09 I love you, bye bye. All right. That was my father,

11:11 Martin Connorton. Very nice, very nice. So we're gonna hear now you

11:16 guys are gonna play live for us, but we're gonna play a studio track

11:20 too. We have a couple of studio tracks to play, and we're gonna

11:22 play this Fiesta Control and this is now this is not out yet right Tuesday.

11:26 This comes out Tuesday, the twenty first. My new album is Drone

11:30 at Home. So this being the first to hear song. Yeah, yeah,

11:33 So this is the world radio premiere. Yes, excellent, we love

11:37 the world radio premiere. Is very good. So let's give this a listen

11:39 and then we're gonna come back and talk some more. And these guys are

11:41 gonna play for us and really looking forward to this. But here it is

11:43 from the new album Drone at Home. This is Aaron Billdoh is is he

11:48 the get go on this with you? No? No, no, this

11:50 is He's only on the first two tracks, gotcha, gotcha? All right?

11:54 This is Aaron billideo and the track is called Fiesta Control Ride Gus which

12:11 seem speak basic dreams that never big in the world hides and allows wonderway how

12:26 they had little God yearning over that Russians feelings of the actions emotion set aside,

12:41 allows for time without bright, without biting. It's it's statt side is

13:22 what stop mom to take take step stooping to sust made this change made just

15:54 very cool at his Fista control from the great eron Bid on his new album

15:58 Drone at Home, coming out Tuesday, and Aaron is here with us along

16:02 with Huey the Gecko studio. Yeah, very nice. Yeah, you know,

16:07 it's interesting you don't hear a lot of Uh. I mean, I'm

16:11 trying to think of other artists who who do anything kind of like where the

16:15 bass is really the lead instrument, you know, because we're used to,

16:18 obviously in rock music the guitar being the lead instrument and so forth. But

16:22 I mean, are there are there other artists, maybe some that you're influenced

16:26 by, who do that where the bass is what is right out in front.

16:29 Yeah. Uh. My main influence growing up is a square pusher.

16:33 He's a he's like a DJ from the nineties. Okay, he played stuff

16:38 like Aphex Twin kind of type of music. But he was a bass player.

16:42 So he used to play like fretless jazz over techno and then he started

16:47 playing uh slat bass and stuff over and just he just went crazy and it

16:52 was a huge inspiration to me. Yeah yeah, yeah, so uh yeah,

16:56 that's uh, that's I do it out of necessity and I'm a bass

16:59 player, not guitar player, and uh, you know, I'm all by

17:02 myself most of the time, so I you know, I use the tools

17:04 that I have or nothing gets done. And on a track like that,

17:08 are you doing everything? I'm doing everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

17:11 So I play keyboards and all the drums are programmed and uh yeah, you

17:17 know, I do the sense and all the hand hand tools, and of

17:22 course the bass and now I'm doing a lot of uh distortion in my bass,

17:26 which I've never done before. Really yeahah never, I've never used distortion.

17:30 So this is the first on this album. Yeah? Yeah, Now

17:33 is the Is the entire album just you? Or do you? Well?

17:37 No, there's I mean, most of it's just me. There's no there's

17:41 no guest musicians. Uh, there's a couple of songs. He's on Mushroom

17:45 Dust with me. He does vocals on there, and I got like seven

17:49 people on the first track doing gang vocals. Okay, and that's it,

17:53 you know, and then I did I did everything else. Wow? Is

17:56 it Is this the first full album where you've done everything? No? Well,

18:02 I mean okay, so like my first couple albums, I had guest

18:07 musicians. Yeah, Huey was on a song on Destroyer, and you were

18:15 also on a song on Zero Acid Burn, my techno album. He was

18:19 on there. Okay, what was that one that was relaxed? Kid?

18:25 It's just acid name of the song. Every every song it's that albums all

18:30 acid techno from the nineties, so every song title has acid in it,

18:36 just for fun. And then I had Freido on a couple of songs on

18:41 the first album. So yeah, this is actually the first one where it's

18:45 like just me on all the instruments. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing,

18:49 very cool. By the way, a few chat room comments for our friend

18:53 Huey the Gecko. Jim Hurley says, HTG get on that mic. Yeah,

19:00 Ramani, I probably won't say this correctly. Ramani beconsall Wood. Oh

19:07 okay, Yeah, she's very happy to see you here. Justin Hale says,

19:11 whoop whoop, Huey the Gecko Topp Tire so very nice. Yeah.

19:19 Matt Juno from of course The Morning Show with Peter White, I got to

19:22 hang out with those guys yesterday morning. Matt says, uh, did you

19:26 forget about Lemmy Motorhead? Come on, that's insulting to a rock and roll

19:30 icon. But I wouldn't consider that he sweated on me once. Oh,

19:34 Lemmy did, I wouldn't consider I wouldn't consider that a lead like what he

19:40 did you after that? Yeah, I mean Lemmy, the way that he

19:47 played kind of was, I wouldn't consider that a lead though, like in

19:52 front, you know, it was very rhythm Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.

19:57 Mattie Juno disagrees. He says he was definitely a lead. Well,

20:00 he was the lead singer of cour Use and the leader of the band.

20:03 Yeah, the most infamous Lee's got to be the most infamous one, right,

20:10 Well, no, but I was talking about though, where the bass

20:14 is the lead instrument, like right out in front, you know what I

20:15 mean? Oh, whereas Jean's like a big bass player if you talk about

20:22 rock icons, like oh yeah, yeah, of course, yeah absolutely,

20:25 Yeah, Simmons, I got a lot of my influences by from Ryan Martini

20:30 from mud Vein. Oh really yeah. He did a lot of slap in

20:33 metal and he was like, my he was my big influence. What fifteen

20:38 years ago back? Where were we doing it? You know for slapping all

20:42 the bands I was in. Oh yeah, helped me kind of stick out

20:45 a little bit. Yeah, totally totally. Chad Felch in the chat room

20:49 says Helti. He says, Aaron, you rock, brother Ran very nice,

20:53 and Isaac Bank says, Huey the Gecko, you rock. Everybody rock,

20:57 everybody rock, very nice. It's very nice. I'm dying to hear

21:00 you guys play live. So, uh, I went the wrong way with

21:06 that one. Let me let me mute that mike for a for a second.

21:10 Era, Okay, how are you are you for? Un Yeah,

21:26 I don't worry. It's don't don't worry. You didn't you didn't break anything.

21:30 It's it's supposed to. It's supposed to come out. Well, I

21:33 mean it's not supposed to, but it can. Yeah, So really looking

21:40 forward to hearing you guys play. So I'll let you kind of introduce the

21:44 tunes as we go, and uh right, all right, this first song

21:47 is called what you Play. It's a sing along. The lyrics are for

21:52 you guys, what you play? All right? So what you play?

22:04 Solo bad, what you play solobad, what you play, what you play

22:22 solo baw, what you play, what you love above, what you play,

22:36 what you play solo pop? What you play, what you play solob

22:52 what you play what you play? All right? This next do is called

23:11 mushroom does chocolate claver strange behavior? Will that mystic man come and save me

23:27 from his little van I don't know, chocolate flavor strange behavior. Will that

23:41 mystic man come and save me with his little plan? I don't know.

23:48 You go grave field of color, where the shadows play, where the shadows

23:55 play, Gray field of color, where the shadow play, where the shadows

24:00 play. Whispers in the trees. They're calming him in this auldier state.

24:06 Nothing is the same. Drift him through this, all his bonds roughing.

24:11 The magic of My Mushroom does. Whispers in the trees they calling him in

24:17 this aultier state, nothing is the same. Drifting through these dolls may cost

24:22 lost in the magic of my mushroom doll. Psychedelic visions A full cosmic sense

24:41 through my colleges. The hell I transcend whoa my ah psychedelic vision, also

25:11 cosmic fan through my college. He love I trump so many vapors and smoke.

25:33 Yeah it's hazy. I don't know if a savior to me or not,

25:40 but it's a savior to a lot. Yeah, can it's the babine

25:45 take a ribbon it's just a little don't get psycho. Just how America does

25:52 it. It's it's yeah, it's must have great fields of color, where

26:03 the shadows play, Where the shadows like great fields of color, where the

26:10 shadows playing, where the shadows like whispers in the trees they call my name

26:15 in this salted steak. Nothing is the same. Drift them through the cause

26:19 may cross lost in the magic of my mushroom does whippers in the trees they

26:26 call my name in this saltier steake. Nothing is the same. Drift them

26:30 through this cause mid cross lost in the magic or mimushroom does as the tree

26:44 goes by. H thank you. I wish my fingers would move that fast.

26:52 That was awesome, Thank you, thank you. I appreciated that one.

26:56 This is the first time for me. Now I'll play without all made

27:00 backing tracks, my safety tracks. Yeah. Last time you were here,

27:03 you had you had quite the setup. Yeah all right. This next song

27:10 is called Winter at the start of winter, early evenings come, that means

27:41 the darkness, that means no sun, three months of winter still ahead of

27:51 us all and it's cold and it's dark. Don't let the sadness come once

28:03 you my high sim me shame me, shame me, shi me save me,

28:04 save save me, save me save si si saven once some high save

28:11 me, se me same me, sall me sid me some sive me si

28:12 MEI me give me sim me sever m h m m. At the start

28:57 of winter, early evenings come, that means the darkness. Love means no

29:07 sun. Three months of winter still a hell's all and it's cold and it's

29:18 dark. Don't let the sadness come once your hair sim shim me sim sim

29:29 si simmy sim sim sim sim simmer once your hair simmy sim sim si me

29:36 sim me to sim sim si me sim me sim me sim who m who?

29:56 Right? That was winter? Thank you? I got two more you

30:02 want to do an hour? Yeah, let's go for it, all right,

30:07 I'm digging it me here hello, sir, will bring you here?

30:22 Sitting all alone in the state of here, rocking back and both sides side.

30:27 Wasn't that a nice ride? Have a steel limit with something, it'll

30:33 help you stop that, ben Hey, back rest your head if you can't

30:38 in athin bed, doctor Millogram, can you see grab at? Yeah,

30:59 pulls me through, doctor Milli Graham. Can't you see gravity through? Pipp

31:17 a spoon to finish showing me kicking back in cement seats one. This soon

31:22 you'll get out of here, maybe maybe not that soon, Doctor Milli Graham.

31:34 Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Milli Graham.

31:45 Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Miller Graham. Can't

31:55 you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Milli Graham. Can't you

32:10 see gravity? It pulls me through, grab mill Can't you see gravity?

32:24 It pulls me through? Very cool. We should mention, by the way,

32:36 that's a single right And there's there's a video on YouTube on on on

32:42 my Facebook on YouTube, but definitely find it on YouTube Doctor Milli Graham starring

32:46 uh my wife Amy the nurse uh and Philip as the patient pick up you're

32:52 out there and of course my hype man be me the geto. Yes,

32:59 yes, you gotta one more live one? I know, I do,

33:02 I have another one? Feel awesome? Sure? Yeah. Lady on the

34:01 show Lady chosen the sad Lady on the Who Show chose. Lady on the

34:08 Show is chosen the sa Lady on the Who Show. Lady on the Show.

34:19 Lady on the Who Show is chosen. The sand lady on the show,

34:25 Lady on the show They Don't Want Was the man in the mill over

34:37 the valleel stag so little he's that he would find laugh so poor that he

34:50 did with the lady on the show. There we go down in the valley

36:08 with the sun number reaches, no flowers grow, and the man human still

36:50 lived in Sandy's life the middle. I won't dance him, alright, I

37:00 would play She made brooches and the flame market tap, bumpy twirling hair,

37:15 Old day Lady on the show with sail. Lady on the Saw with the

37:29 toes in the Sand, Lady in the show with the toes in the said

37:34 lady on the show with the sand Saw the Sand with the toes in the

37:44 Sand, Lady on the Show with the Toad in the Sand. Here we

37:57 go down in the valley with some doesn't reach, no flowers bro and the

38:01 man never sleeps. Right, that's called Lady on the Shore. Very nice,

38:44 thank you. That's off my first album. Hello to nobody, Ah,

38:47 very good. If you're just joining us. We have Aaron billid Oh

38:51 here with us alive in studio, and Huey the gecko is accompanying him and

38:55 very very cool in a moment, we'll play we'll play another studio track from

39:00 from the upcoming album Drone at Home, coming out on Tuesday. But uh,

39:07 let me, I got a which, Mike, because that that's that

39:09 one? Okay. But yeah, these guys have been playing live for us,

39:14 and before we get to the studio track, you're getting a lot of

39:16 love. In the Facebook live chat, Justin Hale says Hueye is a pinnacle

39:22 of energy and creativity. He needs to be put out there more. Uh,

39:25 everybody bring him out. Tony Petrello, one of our co hosts on

39:30 Retrospectrum Radio on Friday nights, says, I am not stoned enough for this.

39:36 But he didn't say he didn't like it, so he just said he's

39:38 not. You know, there's always time, proper state, that's right.

39:44 Jogi's basket, says Huey. The Gecko is so talented. He can play

39:47 so many instruments. So well, let's see, I'm kind of working backwards

39:52 here. Lizards. Yes, yes, now you mentioned in the song I'm

40:00 sorry, I'm getting the titles mixed up the single with the video, Oh

40:06 doctor doctor Milligram, Yes, so you know you mentioned being pulled by gravity.

40:09 Melanie La Liberty, our friend from Vermont, says, fun fact,

40:13 if the gravitational pull of the moon changed and the slightest we are all blanked.

40:19 So that's scary. That is scary. Yes, that could happen at

40:22 any moment. Miriam vanishes in the chat room. She says, I like

40:25 this, she likes uh, she likes what what you're doing? Absolutely,

40:30 And John Burke in the chatroom says, hell, yeah, brother, I

40:34 think that's for you, Huey. Hell yeah, brother, Yeah that sounds

40:37 about right. Yeah yeah. And Nick Murdoch joins us in the chat and

40:40 says, damn, I forgot about the new time until now, and the

40:44 wife and I are about to head out. Hello to everyone. Hope things

40:46 are going well, Maddie. I love you, brother, Thank you,

40:49 Nick, thank you for for everything. I appreciate you tons of support.

40:54 Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Miriam. Miriam said, I'm so clueless.

41:04 What is slapping? Yeah, that's uh, the the slapping of the bass.

41:09 Yeah. And you know what I noticed too when you were playing actually

41:14 I think it was with the last song, Lady on the Shore. It

41:16 really when you turn on the distortion and you're playing in that high register,

41:20 it really does sound like an electric guitar. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

41:24 no, that really that really works? Uh Lou Saviano, who I suspect

41:30 is related to uh to our favorite gecko, Uh Lou says Aaron, one

41:35 of the best bass players in New England. I love you absolutely, I

41:42 would I would agree. Let's see, I think we're think we're caught up

41:45 there. Oh, Isaac Banks from Greensboro, North Carolina, says Justin and

41:52 Aaron from Huey the Gecko. Keep on rocking and check out on Facebook live

41:58 online is me known as Iikeman, Breezy Yes and teen Sensational on Sunday evening

42:05 seven to nine pm. Alrighty aout today? What's that I'm worried about him?

42:10 About Isaac Banks? Yeah, there was no hashtag, no hashtag.

42:14 Yeah that's all that's uh. Yeah someone else. Yeah, our friends from

42:21 Greensboro, they use a lot of uh, they use a lot of hashtags.

42:23 Well, let's say I'm dying to hear this other track, this studio

42:28 track lamping. Yeah, we wanted to play and this is uh, this

42:32 is this is of course from your upcoming studio album Drone at Home. Now,

42:36 what does it? What does that mean by the way the name of

42:37 the album I uses behind like every song. Yeah, so uh yeah,

42:44 I just like it ended up being a theme for this album. I really

42:46 liked h I was used in some pads and and able tin and uh,

42:52 I really like it. Like metal, I kind of just dragging through the

42:54 whole song. Yeah, you know, in the background with a little reverb

42:59 on it. I kind of it kind of became the theme of every single

43:02 track on this album. So that's what a drone tone is. Yeah,

43:06 okay to me, I didn't I hadn't heard that term. Okay, like

43:08 droning music. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, cool, very cool.

43:12 Well let's give this a listen. So this is called glamping. Whoops,

43:17 let me uh, I made a mistake there. I haven't been here in

43:21 a couple of weeks. Here we go, we got brand new air.

43:46 You just why even they come? But you do want to say, just

44:24 want day, let's go, we want you there. Let's not, let's

44:45 not best, let's not okay, let's wills may Well, let's tell that

46:14 is glamping. That is from Aaron Billideo his new album Drone at Home,

46:17 coming out on Tuesday, and uh so we're featuring new tracks from that today

46:22 as well as these guys who the gecko is here with them and they played

46:25 live for us, and Miriam in the chat room says ha ha, I

46:30 love this. I just want I just want to stay home as songrys for

46:36 all those ungrateful children out there that don't appreciate the finer things of like nature.

46:43 Oh, I'm that way. I don't. I don't, I don't

46:45 do Uh. I don't like to go into the woods. Well, I'm

46:49 very afraid of you know, deer ticks and uh, you know, the

46:52 mountain lions, the blair witch. If you're afraid of everything, though,

46:55 you're going to miss out. Yeah, I'm okay with missing out on the

46:59 woods. I feel yeah, I feel yeah. I prefer going out on

47:06 like boots over the woods personally. You know, it's a little bit safer.

47:10 You know, you don't have to worry about bears, right right,

47:14 I mean there's drowning, but you know, hopefully not. You know,

47:16 just where you lafe jacket, that's right, that's right. Oh. By

47:21 the way, our friend Derek Smith who called a few minutes ago, he

47:23 also put this in the chat room. So this is regarding the show tonight

47:28 that Jenny and I are going to be at he said, here's the full

47:30 information. Artists Only and Mosaic Art Collective presents DJ Biza from Portland, Maine,

47:37 whom I have interviewed on the show, plus Evan Benoit of Happy Just

47:42 to See You. I don't think I've interviewed him, but I know that

47:45 band doors are at seven shows at eight. It's twenty one plus tonight and

47:50 the suggested donation is five to ten dollars and that is above the Palace Theater

47:54 at sixty six and over. So Jenny and I are going to be heading

47:59 over there this evening. Miriam says, regarding glamping, I needed this song

48:04 when I was driving back from Pennsylvania. Thank you. Now, So when

48:10 you play out, is it is it always the two of you together?

48:14 Do you perform together always? Or no? No? Just when he's available?

48:16 Yeah, you know, if he's available, Uh, he's he's there

48:20 with me, But it's not always. I got my full show, uh

48:23 set up for myself. Yeah you know. So so when it is just

48:28 you, are you are you bringing the like the setup like you? So?

48:30 Yeah, I bring the full setup I had last time, like that

48:35 rolling Pa and I got to make sure that I run on my backing tracks

48:38 I got. I got a ear piece with my click in it. Yeah,

48:43 because it's the only it's the only way I can keep up with my

48:45 uh the perfect time with the backing tracks. And then uh yeah that's it,

48:49 I said, I sing with songs, and uh I played a show

48:52 recently. I played portrait Fest and Antrim. Okay, yeah that was that

48:58 was That was like a really good I got a full hour oh okay,

49:00 yeah, and it even an hour just flies by. Yeah. I was

49:05 really pleased with like the sound. Everything came out really good. So yeah,

49:09 that's the plan moving forward. And you were saying, I can't remember

49:14 if this this was on air or off air. You were saying, your

49:15 plan is to release an album a year going forward. Is yeah, so

49:20 what I've been doing. My first album I came out in twenty one,

49:23 okay, and that was a big push because I was having an existential crisis,

49:28 thinking I was going to die. You know, I'm in my forties,

49:30 We're gonna have a heart attack, something's gonna happen. You know.

49:34 I've always wanted to put out an album and I never did, so it

49:37 was a big rush. Yeah, and then the sooner I got to the

49:40 deadline soon, Like my anxiety was just through the roof, you know,

49:45 like I gotta get it done. I got to get it uploaded. As

49:47 soon as I get it uploaded, it doesn't matter after that, you know.

49:52 And then I put that out immediately after I joined Dank Sinatra. I

49:55 was in that band for eight months a keyboard player. And then after that

50:02 I put out an album right away. It took me a couple months and

50:05 I put out Destroyer, and I'm like, I'm just gonna keep doing this

50:08 every year. So after Destroyer, I put out an EP after on the

50:14 first of the new year, and then I realized, like I should just

50:16 do an album and an EP like that guy Square Pushed I was talking about.

50:20 He puts out like a full base album with all the tracks and everything

50:23 and all the instruments every year. But then right after that he puts like

50:28 a techno album out, which is like an accompaniment album the way he just

50:31 put out He's been doing that for years. I love that Allison Chains did

50:36 that. They did like album, EP, album EP, so I kind

50:39 of like, that's my goal now. It's so now I got three full

50:44 lengths. I've done it every year for three years and this year January first

50:49 I put out an EP, so I plan on putting one out. I'd

50:52 like to push it out towards the spring a little bit because it was just

50:55 like too soon last time. But yeah, album album, EP, album,

51:00 EP, and just keep popping them out as long as I can.

51:02 Yeah, there's no excuse not to. I got music just like like flowing

51:07 on me. Yeah. Yeah, you know, there's no there's no lack

51:10 of inspiration on this end. It's just it's just motivation really. Yeah.

51:15 Well also too, you know, you've you've found a way to do it

51:19 all yourself, right, It's like, I mean that must be kind of

51:21 liberating, right, But it was, I mean it was hard. It

51:22 was hard at first, Like I didn't even know how to play keyboards for

51:25 my first album, and I bought it. I'm like, oh, I've

51:29 never worked with Midi before. First I was drawing Midi, you know,

51:32 and then I got a keyboard and I started doing that and I learned how

51:36 to do that, and then all of a sudden, I'm thrust into a

51:38 band playing keyboards. Oh my god. The anxiety was through the roof like

51:42 that. Towards the end, like every gig, like I was shaking and

51:47 causing a scene and everything, and then again on stage it's all fine,

51:51 but yeah, you know, once you once you hit that first note,

51:52 everything's fine. But it was rough. I made some weird investments, like

51:58 I bought a uh eighty eight key fully weighted, heavy, heavy keyboard,

52:05 you know, and I'm like, oh my god, I'm in my forties

52:07 lugging this giant thing around. But I got two keyboards and then my computer,

52:10 my whole setup, all my sense and everything, and that my anxiety

52:14 was through the roof at the end. Yeah, and it like it took

52:17 me a while, but like the best thing was like, like I wasn't

52:21 made to be a keyboard player. Why you left? I mean it was,

52:27 yeah, it was. It was a lot. It was a lot

52:29 of it was all me, yeah, you know, and you know rightfully

52:32 so at the time, but like, uh, it was like the time

52:37 in that band really like forced me to like get good quick, get good

52:43 quick, learn how to jam, learn how to make changes on the fly.

52:47 Yeah, because we were doing it all the time. And if I

52:51 didn't do that, have that whole experience, I would have never put out

52:53 Destroyer. Immediately after and like, uh, it was just it was really

53:00 the best thing that could have happened to me at that time. Yeah,

53:04 it pushed me. It pushed me, and and here I am now,

53:07 and you know I got three more albums out of it so far, Problems

53:12 and an EP. So yeah, that's the goal. I think we have

53:15 time. I'd like to if I can find it online quickly, I'd like

53:19 to play that other you were telling me about, Yeah, tech death whistle

53:22 that's off of Zero Rested Burn. That's the techno EP. Let me see

53:25 if I if I can find it quickly, I'd like to play that.

53:30 I think there's something to get your attention. Well, Aaron was talking about

53:39 it earlier because Auto is on this track right right from Dust Profit. He

53:45 plays guitar on that track. Yeah. I reached out to him and he

53:47 was he was, yeah, no problem. He had it back to me

53:51 in like like three days. That's awesome. Yeah I found it. Yeah,

53:55 yeah, So I'm curious to hear this and now. But it was

53:59 off are you were talking talking about it? Right? Do you want to

54:00 explain everybody what that is? Death whistle? So my friend gave me this

54:06 whistle. It's black and it's in the shape of a skull. It's about

54:09 fist size. It's pretty good size. You blow into it and it sounds

54:14 like a scream, like a real breathy, ghostly banshee scream. And back

54:19 in the day when the Aspects would go to war, there would be a

54:22 thousand of them over the hill like blowing these things all night, keeping the

54:24 enemies up, not letting them sleep. And then they charge in blowing these

54:30 whistles, and it just sounded like ghosts screams. Amazing. You can hear

54:34 like it's the first sound on here and it repeats all right track, so

54:37 you can kind of hear it. Cool. Cool, I'm really curious to

54:39 hear this, So let's give this a listen. So this is Acid Death

54:43 Whistle Aaron Bilodeo featuring the Great Auto Kinsel. I'm very curious here it is.

55:01 And jo Da bookays, any you're doing you anything you do you?

57:54 Y? Is? That is that it again? At the end? That's

58:15 it? Wow, very cool, very cool. While we learned something.

58:17 I like it, very catchy. Wow. We are rapidly running out of

58:22 time. So the new album comes out Tuesday, Tuesday twenty first, all

58:25 right, right before the Turkey Day. Thank you for everyone that shouted us

58:30 out. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Thank you guys. That was

58:31 a lot of fun, amazing. Should you maybe for people looking for you

58:36 online? Should you maybe spell your last name for Yeah, sure, it's

58:38 Aaron A A R O N billod oh b I L O D E A

58:43 U. You can find me everywhere. Find me on YouTube. I got

58:46 like two hundred videos on there. Yep, yep, very good. Yeah,

58:51 and check out the video for is it doctor Milligram, Doctor Milligram.

58:54 That's the newest video today off of Drone at Home. Yeah, very cool,

59:00 very cool. I played it without all this stuff today, kind of

59:02 acoustic or whatever. And do you have any you have any live shows coming

59:06 up in the area. No, that's it for now. I'm booking.

59:08 I'm looking yeah, yeah, but yeah, they say you were the last

59:13 one for now. All right, all right, well guys, thank you

59:15 so much. Aeron, billidoh Huey the Gecko. I appreciate you both.

59:19 Thank you for having us. Thank you, yes you guys. Absolutely,

59:22 and Jenny, did you want to plug your plug your website or absolutely,

59:25 you can always check me out at Gencoffee dot com. J E. N.

59:29 N C. O f f u I dot com, my work,

59:31 my artworks up there, my writings, things of that nature. And if

59:36 you are an artist and you'd like to be featured on Matt Comments and Unleashed,

59:39 make sure you message me or reach out to Matt. We'd be happy

59:44 to get you booked. Yes, yes, indeed, and uh, of

59:46 course thank you again to William and Zach and Lexi from Sepsis for coming in,

59:52 and of course Eric Pilcher for another great classic film review. And if

59:55 you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little

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