Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-18-23 part two

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Come in, guy, don't get so freely mattself going you. Welcome back everybody, as we are about to cruise into our third hour. Never said that before on the show of Matt Connorton Unleashed. We're on our new schedule here every Saturday morning from nine am to twelve noon Eastern Time. For those of you listening online from other places, welcome. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe.

You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Jenny is here as well at the news desk, present and accounted for, and thank you again to uh. Let's see so we had a sepsis in here. We had William and Zach and Lexi, and thank you again to them for the these wonderful shirts and we took some picks with them. We'll post those online or maybe sure some Legion of Solace they made that special for you.

Oh, Legion of Solace made this. Oh okay, that's done, that's signed all over. Oh okay, Yeah, excellent, excellent, Yeah, no, very very nice. Thin Their band name I think is on the front. Oh okay, isn't it? Don't I don't want to unfolded again, but no, that was very nice though. We really appreciate that, really appreciate that a lot. And of course we had Eric Pilcher's classic film review, the subject being Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and you can also that's also posted separately online if you just want to if you miss a review and you want to check it out.

He does a wonderful job with those, and we appreciate it, and we want to mention too before we talk to our guests. We're going to be tonight at sixty six Handover Street is the address. There's a Biza who's a great hip hop artist who I've interviewed, is going to be planned tonight, and I'm not sure who else is going to be there, but my old friend Derek Smith from way back in the day he reached out to me and he's getting involved in a show that's going to be going on there. So I can't really say much more about it than that because the flyer that he sent me is a bit lacking and information.

But I know the address, So Jenny and I will be there tonight at eight pm at what's that getting at? Yeah, it's it's some sort of art studio, but they have live music. So yeah, I'm totally stoked about. He never goes to art stuff with me. This is like the first time he's going to go to on art stuff with me, So I'm excited. Yes, yes, I'm not sure exactly what we're getting into. Like I said, I just have an address, so I'll get some inspiration to go home and slap some pain. That's right, That's right.

But we have Oh we have Oh, Derek Smith is calling actually so he can he can fill us in on whatever details we're lacking. Hey, Derek, I you are live on the air, my friend. Yeah, tell us tell us more about time calling to give you that additional information. Yes, yes please, So you gave the address and yes, business is going to be closing the night. Good friends that I've known for ten years now, Evan of Happy Just to see you. Oh yes, local band is going to be opening and doors are at seven o'clock and show starts at eight.

And it is a twenty one plus show and it's a suggested donation of five to ten dollars. Okay, and that is that? Now? Is it? Is it upstairs? I'm trying to remember when upstairs above the Palace Theater at Mosaic Art Collective, Mosaic Art Collectives. Okay, very good, very good. Yeah, Now, Jenny and I are looking forward to that, and it'll be great to see you. Man. It's it's been uh I don't even want to think about how long it's been because it makes me feel old. But its been since about two thousand and flourish, I think, so, I think it really has been that long.

So we're pushing twenty years, yeah, reuniting. Yeah, yes, yes, no, I'm really looking forward to seeing you. So that'll be cool. So yeah, so tonight tonight and it is above the Palace Theater. Okay, that's right, I remember you telling me that. Now the flyers a little vague, but uh no, no worries. I think I didn't send you the full one that had mosaic actually on it.

But oh okay, okay, yeah, no worries. Well we will we will see you this evening, sir, Yes, sir, all right, thank you, all right, Derek, thanks for calling man, Bye bye. You're welcome. All right, my old friend Derek Smith. Yeah, we used to do a lot of a lot of stuff in the music scene together and uh booked a lot of shows and and so forth. So that will be that will be cool. He reached out to me recently and I was like, Wow, that's a that's a name from the past, so very nice. We've got a couple of great musicians here with us making their return.

We have Aaron Billido is on the couch. Uh huh, welcome back. And Huey the Gecko is with you. Hello and uh oh, get right upon that. Mike. Uh that's okay. Now you've been on you've been on with us a bunch of times. What one one time particularly memorable? Well, actually, no, that was the time you guys were here together. Uh well, I think I think you were Hugh he was kind of the featured guests right right, I was playing that day. But yes, yes, the pod Awful cult. Uh that that was a legendary. But you had such a good sense of humor about you, which is great.

Yeah, I always had my reptile. Reptile. He really handled it, you know, like a tamp but he was still good. No, but people around here still talk about that about that day. So we're gonna we're gonna, uh, these guys are gonna play live for us, and we've got some studio tracks and my dad is on the line, so uh, we'll speak to him for a moment. Hey Dad, Hey, many congratulations of the new showing programming. Thank you, Joe, Thank you appreciate it. Yes, you're very welcome. Weird being here and welcome.

It's exciting, and uh, you know, something's changed. Changes we all we all have to deal with. I never liked it much myself, but it's a reality. But this is, this is, this will be good. Now. I don't want to endre up it. Are you interviewing a guest right now? Yes, we were. We've got a couple of great musical guests here. Aaron Billido is with us, and Huey the Gecko is here as well, and they're gonna play live for us in studio. How you doing. Oh, that's that's great. Yeah, I'm familiar with them and I saw the the prep.

So I don't want to hold hold that interview up or all the good music I do it just a couple of things. I wanted to give a shout out to what I would consider a big hit song, and I think you would agree with me that I'm gonna put you on the spot man. The song that I think Eric actually premiered on your show Wild by the great Katie Dover. Yes, yes you know that song. Yes, yeah, I did play a few weeks ago. Yeah, yes, yeah, I know that was great. It was a well done mass and Eric did a good job in his presentation on that.

Yeah. That that is a great son. She is so beautiful and so talented. Absolutely, my heart's starting to race. I got stuff on that one. But I want to say, you'll never get well, I'm kidding sort of, but you never guess what fan club yesterday through Facebook? You know? Do you ever see my philosophical post on Facebook? I don't know how that worked. I see some of them. I don't know. I don't know that I see all that because I've learned. You know what I learned was and your guests will appreciate this.

I'm sure I've learned that if I say anything critical of the Biden administration or Obama or some of which I would. I had a proclivity to do that initially for a while, and I was very careful, you know, it was very nice, and you know, I would pray on it before I did it, but they would just it would, it would come up as a post and like within five minutes, Bay, it's gone, man, you know. So so I stay away from that now and I talk more about philosophical things and contempt a generic context. So I wanted to what fan club?

This is an old time singer, great singer, he knew Elvis. Well, what fand club did I join yesterday? Do you want to take a shot? I don't know how did you know that with that, Jenny? How did you get that? Yes, Mickey Mouse, but also Pat Boone. You know Pat Boone is eighty nine years old and he's still singing. He had a little bit of an hip accident recently. But but every Sunday night on w SEW out of Sanford and North Conway, Pat Boone has a radio program and it's really good. Match and Jenny, they have it goes from eight to nine for anyone in the area wants to pick this take a look at it, and he'll come in and comment, and he'll always sing the last song himself.

But he has all these great artists in Christian music and gospel music, and they are so talented. You know. I won't go into all of that, but I would recommend that. And then after that Matt and Jenny at nine o'clock on w SEW they have the Bluegrass Gospel Hour and that is just terrific. I don't know half the groups they play, but they are so good if you like that genre, and you know I'm eclectic with that stuff, so I really appreciate that. So on that note, I will stop and wish you guys well and congratulations again on this new show.

It will go well. I'm sure right, all right, Thanks dat, I appreciate it. You're welcome, take care you well, love you all right, I love you, bye bye. All right. That was my father, Martin Connorton. Very nice, very nice. So we're gonna hear now you guys are gonna play live for us, but we're gonna play a studio track too. We have a couple of studio tracks to play, and we're gonna play this Fiesta Control and this is now this is not out yet right Tuesday. This comes out Tuesday, the twenty first. My new album is Drone at Home.

So this being the first to hear song. Yeah, yeah, So this is the world radio premiere. Yes, excellent, we love the world radio premiere. Is very good. So let's give this a listen and then we're gonna come back and talk some more. And these guys are gonna play for us and really looking forward to this. But here it is from the new album Drone at Home. This is Aaron Billdoh is is he the get go on this with you? No? No, no, this is He's only on the first two tracks, gotcha, gotcha? All right? This is Aaron billideo and the track is called Fiesta Control Ride Gus which seem speak basic dreams that never big in the world hides and allows wonderway how they had little God yearning over that Russians feelings of the actions emotion set aside, allows for time without bright, without biting.

It's it's statt side is what stop mom to take take step stooping to sust made this change made just

very cool at his Fista control from the great eron Bid on his new album Drone at Home, coming out Tuesday, and Aaron is here with us along with Huey the Gecko studio. Yeah, very nice. Yeah, you know, it's interesting you don't hear a lot of Uh. I mean, I'm trying to think of other artists who who do anything kind of like where the bass is really the lead instrument, you know, because we're used to, obviously in rock music the guitar being the lead instrument and so forth. But I mean, are there are there other artists, maybe some that you're influenced by, who do that where the bass is what is right out in front.

Yeah. Uh. My main influence growing up is a square pusher. He's a he's like a DJ from the nineties. Okay, he played stuff like Aphex Twin kind of type of music. But he was a bass player. So he used to play like fretless jazz over techno and then he started playing uh slat bass and stuff over and just he just went crazy and it was a huge inspiration to me. Yeah yeah, yeah, so uh yeah, that's uh, that's I do it out of necessity and I'm a bass player, not guitar player, and uh, you know, I'm all by myself most of the time, so I you know, I use the tools that I have or nothing gets done.

And on a track like that, are you doing everything? I'm doing everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I play keyboards and all the drums are programmed and uh yeah, you know, I do the sense and all the hand hand tools, and of course the bass and now I'm doing a lot of uh distortion in my bass, which I've never done before. Really yeahah never, I've never used distortion. So this is the first on this album. Yeah? Yeah, Now is the Is the entire album just you? Or do you? Well? No, there's I mean, most of it's just me.

There's no there's no guest musicians. Uh, there's a couple of songs. He's on Mushroom Dust with me. He does vocals on there, and I got like seven people on the first track doing gang vocals. Okay, and that's it, you know, and then I did I did everything else. Wow? Is it Is this the first full album where you've done everything? No? Well, I mean okay, so like my first couple albums, I had guest musicians. Yeah, Huey was on a song on Destroyer, and you were also on a song on Zero Acid Burn, my techno album.

He was on there. Okay, what was that one that was relaxed? Kid? It's just acid name of the song. Every every song it's that albums all acid techno from the nineties, so every song title has acid in it, just for fun. And then I had Freido on a couple of songs on the first album. So yeah, this is actually the first one where it's like just me on all the instruments. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing, very cool. By the way, a few chat room comments for our friend Huey the Gecko. Jim Hurley says, HTG get on that mic.

Yeah, Ramani, I probably won't say this correctly. Ramani beconsall Wood. Oh okay, Yeah, she's very happy to see you here. Justin Hale says, whoop whoop, Huey the Gecko Topp Tire so very nice. Yeah. Matt Juno from of course The Morning Show with Peter White, I got to hang out with those guys yesterday morning. Matt says, uh, did you forget about Lemmy Motorhead? Come on, that's insulting to a rock and roll icon. But I wouldn't consider that he sweated on me once. Oh, Lemmy did, I wouldn't consider I wouldn't consider that a lead like what he did you after that?

Yeah, I mean Lemmy, the way that he played kind of was, I wouldn't consider that a lead though, like in front, you know, it was very rhythm Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Mattie Juno disagrees. He says he was definitely a lead. Well, he was the lead singer of cour Use and the leader of the band. Yeah, the most infamous Lee's got to be the most infamous one, right,

Well, no, but I was talking about though, where the bass is the lead instrument, like right out in front, you know what I mean? Oh, whereas Jean's like a big bass player if you talk about rock icons, like oh yeah, yeah, of course, yeah absolutely, Yeah, Simmons, I got a lot of my influences by from Ryan Martini from mud Vein. Oh really yeah. He did a lot of slap in metal and he was like, my he was my big influence. What fifteen years ago back? Where were we doing it? You know for slapping all the bands I was in.

Oh yeah, helped me kind of stick out a little bit. Yeah, totally totally. Chad Felch in the chat room says Helti. He says, Aaron, you rock, brother Ran very nice, and Isaac Bank says, Huey the Gecko, you rock. Everybody rock, everybody rock, very nice. It's very nice. I'm dying to hear you guys play live. So, uh, I went the wrong way with that one. Let me let me mute that mike for a for a second. Era, Okay, how are you are you for? Un Yeah, I don't worry. It's don't don't worry. You didn't you didn't break anything.

It's it's supposed to. It's supposed to come out. Well, I mean it's not supposed to, but it can. Yeah, So really looking forward to hearing you guys play. So I'll let you kind of introduce the tunes as we go, and uh right, all right, this first song is called what you Play. It's a sing along. The lyrics are for you guys, what you play? All right? So what you play? Solo bad, what you play solobad, what you play, what you play

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

what you play solo pop? What you play, what you play solob what you play what you play? All right? This next do is called mushroom does chocolate claver strange behavior? Will that mystic man come and save me from his little van I don't know, chocolate flavor strange behavior. Will that mystic man come and save me with his little plan? I don't know.

You go grave field of color, where the shadows play, where the shadows play, Gray field of color, where the shadow play, where the shadows play. Whispers in the trees. They're calming him in this auldier state. Nothing is the same. Drift him through this, all his bonds roughing. The magic of My Mushroom does. Whispers in the trees they calling him in this aultier state, nothing is the same. Drifting through these dolls may cost lost in the magic of my mushroom doll. Psychedelic visions A full cosmic sense

through my colleges. The hell I transcend whoa my ah psychedelic vision, also cosmic fan through my college. He love I trump so many vapors and smoke.

Yeah it's hazy. I don't know if a savior to me or not, but it's a savior to a lot. Yeah, can it's the babine take a ribbon it's just a little don't get psycho. Just how America does it. It's it's yeah, it's must have great fields of color, where the shadows play, Where the shadows like great fields of color, where the shadows playing, where the shadows like whispers in the trees they call my name in this salted steak. Nothing is the same. Drift them through the cause may cross lost in the magic of my mushroom does whippers in the trees they call my name in this saltier steake.

Nothing is the same. Drift them through this cause mid cross lost in the magic or mimushroom does as the tree goes by. H thank you. I wish my fingers would move that fast. That was awesome, Thank you, thank you. I appreciated that one. This is the first time for me. Now I'll play without all made backing tracks, my safety tracks. Yeah. Last time you were here, you had you had quite the setup. Yeah all right. This next song is called Winter at the start of winter, early evenings come, that means the darkness, that means no sun, three months of winter still ahead of us all and it's cold and it's dark.

Don't let the sadness come once you my high sim me shame me, shame me, shi me save me, save save me, save me save si si saven once some high save me, se me same me, sall me sid me some sive me si MEI me give me sim me sever m h m m. At the start of winter, early evenings come, that means the darkness. Love means no sun. Three months of winter still a hell's all and it's cold and it's dark. Don't let the sadness come once your hair sim shim me sim sim si simmy sim sim sim sim simmer once your hair simmy sim sim si me sim me to sim sim si me sim me sim me sim who m who?

Right? That was winter? Thank you? I got two more you want to do an hour? Yeah, let's go for it, all right, I'm digging it me here hello, sir, will bring you here? Sitting all alone in the state of here, rocking back and both sides side. Wasn't that a nice ride? Have a steel limit with something, it'll help you stop that, ben Hey, back rest your head if you can't in athin bed, doctor Millogram, can you see grab at? Yeah, pulls me through, doctor Milli Graham. Can't you see gravity through? Pipp a spoon to finish showing me kicking back in cement seats one.

This soon you'll get out of here, maybe maybe not that soon, Doctor Milli Graham. Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Milli Graham.

Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Miller Graham. Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, Doctor Milli Graham. Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through, grab mill Can't you see gravity? It pulls me through? Very cool. We should mention, by the way, that's a single right And there's there's a video on YouTube on on on my Facebook on YouTube, but definitely find it on YouTube Doctor Milli Graham starring uh my wife Amy the nurse uh and Philip as the patient pick up you're out there and of course my hype man be me the geto.

Yes, yes, you gotta one more live one? I know, I do, I have another one? Feel awesome? Sure? Yeah. Lady on the show Lady chosen the sad Lady on the Who Show chose. Lady on the Show is chosen the sa Lady on the Who Show. Lady on the Show.

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

Lady on the show They Don't Want Was the man in the mill over the valleel stag so little he's that he would find laugh so poor that he did with the lady on the show. There we go down in the valley with the sun number reaches, no flowers grow, and the man human still lived in Sandy's life the middle. I won't dance him, alright, I would play She made brooches and the flame market tap, bumpy twirling hair, Old day Lady on the show with sail. Lady on the Saw with the toes in the Sand, Lady in the show with the toes in the said lady on the show with the sand Saw the Sand with the toes in the Sand, Lady on the Show with the Toad in the Sand.

Here we go down in the valley with some doesn't reach, no flowers bro and the man never sleeps. Right, that's called Lady on the Shore. Very nice, thank you. That's off my first album. Hello to nobody, Ah, very good. If you're just joining us. We have Aaron billid Oh here with us alive in studio, and Huey the gecko is accompanying him and very very cool in a moment, we'll play we'll play another studio track from from the upcoming album Drone at Home, coming out on Tuesday. But uh, let me, I got a which, Mike, because that that's that one?

Okay. But yeah, these guys have been playing live for us, and before we get to the studio track, you're getting a lot of love. In the Facebook live chat, Justin Hale says Hueye is a pinnacle of energy and creativity. He needs to be put out there more. Uh, everybody bring him out. Tony Petrello, one of our co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio on Friday nights, says, I am not stoned enough for this. But he didn't say he didn't like it, so he just said he's not. You know, there's always time, proper state, that's right.

Jogi's basket, says Huey. The Gecko is so talented. He can play so many instruments. So well, let's see, I'm kind of working backwards here. Lizards. Yes, yes, now you mentioned in the song I'm sorry, I'm getting the titles mixed up the single with the video, Oh doctor doctor Milligram, Yes, so you know you mentioned being pulled by gravity. Melanie La Liberty, our friend from Vermont, says, fun fact, if the gravitational pull of the moon changed and the slightest we are all blanked.

So that's scary. That is scary. Yes, that could happen at any moment. Miriam vanishes in the chat room. She says, I like this, she likes uh, she likes what what you're doing? Absolutely, And John Burke in the chatroom says, hell, yeah, brother, I think that's for you, Huey. Hell yeah, brother, Yeah that sounds about right. Yeah yeah. And Nick Murdoch joins us in the chat and says, damn, I forgot about the new time until now, and the wife and I are about to head out. Hello to everyone. Hope things are going well, Maddie.

I love you, brother, Thank you, Nick, thank you for for everything. I appreciate you tons of support. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Miriam. Miriam said, I'm so clueless. What is slapping? Yeah, that's uh, the the slapping of the bass.

Yeah. And you know what I noticed too when you were playing actually I think it was with the last song, Lady on the Shore. It really when you turn on the distortion and you're playing in that high register, it really does sound like an electric guitar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that really that really works? Uh Lou Saviano, who I suspect is related to uh to our favorite gecko, Uh Lou says Aaron, one of the best bass players in New England. I love you absolutely, I would I would agree. Let's see, I think we're think we're caught up there.

Oh, Isaac Banks from Greensboro, North Carolina, says Justin and Aaron from Huey the Gecko. Keep on rocking and check out on Facebook live online is me known as Iikeman, Breezy Yes and teen Sensational on Sunday evening seven to nine pm. Alrighty aout today? What's that I'm worried about him? About Isaac Banks? Yeah, there was no hashtag, no hashtag. Yeah that's all that's uh. Yeah someone else. Yeah, our friends from Greensboro, they use a lot of uh, they use a lot of hashtags. Well, let's say I'm dying to hear this other track, this studio track lamping.

Yeah, we wanted to play and this is uh, this is this is of course from your upcoming studio album Drone at Home. Now, what does it? What does that mean by the way the name of the album I uses behind like every song. Yeah, so uh yeah, I just like it ended up being a theme for this album. I really liked h I was used in some pads and and able tin and uh, I really like it. Like metal, I kind of just dragging through the whole song. Yeah, you know, in the background with a little reverb on it. I kind of it kind of became the theme of every single track on this album.

So that's what a drone tone is. Yeah, okay to me, I didn't I hadn't heard that term. Okay, like droning music. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, cool, very cool. Well let's give this a listen. So this is called glamping. Whoops, let me uh, I made a mistake there. I haven't been here in a couple of weeks. Here we go, we got brand new air. You just why even they come? But you do want to say, just want day, let's go, we want you there. Let's not, let's not best, let's not okay, let's wills may Well, let's tell that

is glamping. That is from Aaron Billideo his new album Drone at Home, coming out on Tuesday, and uh so we're featuring new tracks from that today as well as these guys who the gecko is here with them and they played live for us, and Miriam in the chat room says ha ha, I love this. I just want I just want to stay home as songrys for all those ungrateful children out there that don't appreciate the finer things of like nature.

Oh, I'm that way. I don't. I don't, I don't do Uh. I don't like to go into the woods. Well, I'm very afraid of you know, deer ticks and uh, you know, the mountain lions, the blair witch. If you're afraid of everything, though, you're going to miss out. Yeah, I'm okay with missing out on the woods. I feel yeah, I feel yeah. I prefer going out on like boots over the woods personally. You know, it's a little bit safer. You know, you don't have to worry about bears, right right, I mean there's drowning, but you know, hopefully not.

You know, just where you lafe jacket, that's right, that's right. Oh. By the way, our friend Derek Smith who called a few minutes ago, he also put this in the chat room. So this is regarding the show tonight that Jenny and I are going to be at he said, here's the full information. Artists Only and Mosaic Art Collective presents DJ Biza from Portland, Maine, whom I have interviewed on the show, plus Evan Benoit of Happy Just to See You. I don't think I've interviewed him, but I know that band doors are at seven shows at eight.

It's twenty one plus tonight and the suggested donation is five to ten dollars and that is above the Palace Theater at sixty six and over. So Jenny and I are going to be heading over there this evening. Miriam says, regarding glamping, I needed this song when I was driving back from Pennsylvania. Thank you. Now, So when you play out, is it is it always the two of you together? Do you perform together always? Or no? No? Just when he's available? Yeah, you know, if he's available, Uh, he's he's there with me, But it's not always.

I got my full show, uh set up for myself. Yeah you know. So so when it is just you, are you are you bringing the like the setup like you? So? Yeah, I bring the full setup I had last time, like that rolling Pa and I got to make sure that I run on my backing tracks I got. I got a ear piece with my click in it. Yeah, because it's the only it's the only way I can keep up with my uh the perfect time with the backing tracks. And then uh yeah that's it, I said, I sing with songs, and uh I played a show recently.

I played portrait Fest and Antrim. Okay, yeah that was that was That was like a really good I got a full hour oh okay, yeah, and it even an hour just flies by. Yeah. I was really pleased with like the sound. Everything came out really good. So yeah, that's the plan moving forward. And you were saying, I can't remember if this this was on air or off air. You were saying, your plan is to release an album a year going forward. Is yeah, so what I've been doing. My first album I came out in twenty one, okay, and that was a big push because I was having an existential crisis, thinking I was going to die.

You know, I'm in my forties, We're gonna have a heart attack, something's gonna happen. You know. I've always wanted to put out an album and I never did, so it was a big rush. Yeah, and then the sooner I got to the deadline soon, Like my anxiety was just through the roof, you know, like I gotta get it done. I got to get it uploaded. As soon as I get it uploaded, it doesn't matter after that, you know. And then I put that out immediately after I joined Dank Sinatra. I was in that band for eight months a keyboard player.

And then after that I put out an album right away. It took me a couple months and I put out Destroyer, and I'm like, I'm just gonna keep doing this every year. So after Destroyer, I put out an EP after on the first of the new year, and then I realized, like I should just do an album and an EP like that guy Square Pushed I was talking about. He puts out like a full base album with all the tracks and everything and all the instruments every year. But then right after that he puts like a techno album out, which is like an accompaniment album the way he just put out He's been doing that for years.

I love that Allison Chains did that. They did like album, EP, album EP, so I kind of like, that's my goal now. It's so now I got three full lengths. I've done it every year for three years and this year January first I put out an EP, so I plan on putting one out. I'd like to push it out towards the spring a little bit because it was just like too soon last time. But yeah, album album, EP, album, EP, and just keep popping them out as long as I can. Yeah, there's no excuse not to. I got music just like like flowing on me.

Yeah. Yeah, you know, there's no there's no lack of inspiration on this end. It's just it's just motivation really. Yeah. Well also too, you know, you've you've found a way to do it all yourself, right, It's like, I mean that must be kind of liberating, right, But it was, I mean it was hard. It was hard at first, Like I didn't even know how to play keyboards for my first album, and I bought it. I'm like, oh, I've never worked with Midi before. First I was drawing Midi, you know, and then I got a keyboard and I started doing that and I learned how to do that, and then all of a sudden, I'm thrust into a band playing keyboards.

Oh my god. The anxiety was through the roof like that. Towards the end, like every gig, like I was shaking and causing a scene and everything, and then again on stage it's all fine, but yeah, you know, once you once you hit that first note, everything's fine. But it was rough. I made some weird investments, like I bought a uh eighty eight key fully weighted, heavy, heavy keyboard, you know, and I'm like, oh my god, I'm in my forties lugging this giant thing around. But I got two keyboards and then my computer, my whole setup, all my sense and everything, and that my anxiety was through the roof at the end.

Yeah, and it like it took me a while, but like the best thing was like, like I wasn't made to be a keyboard player. Why you left? I mean it was, yeah, it was. It was a lot. It was a lot of it was all me, yeah, you know, and you know rightfully so at the time, but like, uh, it was like the time in that band really like forced me to like get good quick, get good quick, learn how to jam, learn how to make changes on the fly. Yeah, because we were doing it all the time. And if I didn't do that, have that whole experience, I would have never put out Destroyer.

Immediately after and like, uh, it was just it was really the best thing that could have happened to me at that time. Yeah, it pushed me. It pushed me, and and here I am now, and you know I got three more albums out of it so far, Problems and an EP. So yeah, that's the goal. I think we have time. I'd like to if I can find it online quickly, I'd like to play that other you were telling me about, Yeah, tech death whistle that's off of Zero Rested Burn. That's the techno EP. Let me see if I if I can find it quickly, I'd like to play that.

I think there's something to get your attention. Well, Aaron was talking about it earlier because Auto is on this track right right from Dust Profit. He plays guitar on that track. Yeah. I reached out to him and he was he was, yeah, no problem. He had it back to me in like like three days. That's awesome. Yeah I found it. Yeah, yeah, So I'm curious to hear this and now. But it was off are you were talking talking about it? Right? Do you want to explain everybody what that is? Death whistle? So my friend gave me this whistle.

It's black and it's in the shape of a skull. It's about fist size. It's pretty good size. You blow into it and it sounds like a scream, like a real breathy, ghostly banshee scream. And back in the day when the Aspects would go to war, there would be a thousand of them over the hill like blowing these things all night, keeping the enemies up, not letting them sleep. And then they charge in blowing these whistles, and it just sounded like ghosts screams. Amazing. You can hear like it's the first sound on here and it repeats all right track, so you can kind of hear it.

Cool. Cool, I'm really curious to hear this, So let's give this a listen. So this is Acid Death Whistle Aaron Bilodeo featuring the Great Auto Kinsel. I'm very curious here it is.

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

Y? Is? That is that it again? At the end? That's it? Wow, very cool, very cool. While we learned something. I like it, very catchy. Wow. We are rapidly running out of time. So the new album comes out Tuesday, Tuesday twenty first, all right, right before the Turkey Day. Thank you for everyone that shouted us out. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Thank you guys. That was a lot of fun, amazing. Should you maybe for people looking for you online? Should you maybe spell your last name for Yeah, sure, it's Aaron A A R O N billod oh b I L O D E A U. You can find me everywhere.

Find me on YouTube. I got like two hundred videos on there. Yep, yep, very good. Yeah, and check out the video for is it doctor Milligram, Doctor Milligram. That's the newest video today off of Drone at Home. Yeah, very cool, very cool. I played it without all this stuff today, kind of acoustic or whatever. And do you have any you have any live shows coming up in the area. No, that's it for now. I'm booking. I'm looking yeah, yeah, but yeah, they say you were the last one for now. All right, all right, well guys, thank you so much.

Aeron, billidoh Huey the Gecko. I appreciate you both. Thank you for having us. Thank you, yes you guys. Absolutely, and Jenny, did you want to plug your plug your website or absolutely, you can always check me out at Gencoffee dot com. J E. N. N C. O f f u I dot com, my work, my artworks up there, my writings, things of that nature. And if you are an artist and you'd like to be featured on Matt Comments and Unleashed, make sure you message me or reach out to Matt. We'd be happy to get you booked.

Yes, yes, indeed, and uh, of course thank you again to William and Zach and Lexi from Sepsis for coming in, and of course Eric Pilcher for another great classic film review. And if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at w mnhradio dot org at my website, Matt Connorton dot com. Our first, our first Saturday morning show in the books. And thank you all, and we'll talk to you a little bit later. Bie, everybody, bye bye. Were listening to w U n H. Come on, guys, don't get so freely Matz.

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