Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-14-24 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W MNH Rip the Dobles.

0:04 Speaker 2: This is Eleanor Langthorne from Vices Inc. And you're listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on ninety five point three w m n H.

0:39 Speaker 3: Time stands still. Do you know my drink moble pulling air into my chest? Oh?

0:57 Speaker 4: I know, visit instant dandy, It's gone out and flow.

1:10 Speaker 3: Let the current take me.

1:22 Speaker 1: Tide.

1:23 Speaker 4: Let's time. Let's time. We are less time at think time. It is time. Let's till moning sorry.

2:02 Speaker 5: Seconds flow, lean up my glass, sans yeroad, tip me over, take me back to.

2:19 Speaker 4: Whine my day, to that lifele theless song, sample again.

2:32 Speaker 3: To that summer vetl.

2:43 Speaker 6: So never read off, walking drue dancing across the surface of the sun, goes around, chase it down, he's eating body, have it's slip.

3:08 Speaker 7: So oh time, let's time.

3:25 Speaker 4: Let's time. We are less time then we thing time, less time left till the moment sadery.

3:58 Speaker 8: Oh my god, that is great. That's brand new.

4:01 Speaker 1: Huh thanks man, Yeah, brand new.

4:03 Speaker 8: Wow, that is fantastic.

4:04 Speaker 9: If you're just joining us, Willie Chases here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.

4:09 Speaker 8: That's very cold Saturday morning. But yeah, that's how new was that.

4:14 Speaker 9: You said you just wrote that with a friend who didn't know you were going to play it today.

4:18 Speaker 8: Is that true?

4:19 Speaker 1: That's pretty accurate.

4:21 Speaker 10: We just had our last co writing session maybe a week ago, and I had written the song thread probably five or six months ago. It sat for a while in my in my voice notes on iPhone, as a lot of them do, and then I threw it over to my friend Ian Gallipo, who's from the Keen area, and he liked it, kind of wrote a chorus to it, maybe some verse parts I think, and then we just put our heads together over a video chat and kind of hammered it out. I had written that bridge, and yeah, it kind of came together, and then I was kind of like, holy cow of a song, you know what I mean?

5:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, which is a really cool moment as a songwriter.

5:04 Speaker 9: I feel like Ian Gallipo is a name that's come up on the show. I don't think he's ever been on. I wlways say I don't think he's ever been on, because it does become I've been doing this a long time. It does become a little bit of a blur, of course, but I don't think he's been on the show, but I feel like his name comes up a lot on the show.

5:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's awesome. So I work a lot with the New Hampshire Music Collective.

5:21 Speaker 8: That might be how I've why I've heard his name.

5:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so he's he's, you know, a member of the collective as well, does all sorts of stuff with that and other things. But that's how I met him. And he's great man. If you've never heard his song little Things, check it out. It's a gut wrencher be ready to cry. Yeah, but he's just an incredible lyricist. He's an incredible musician and a down to earth guy. You know, he's really enjoyable to be around. So I had a really good experience writing with him, you know, in the level that I'm at right now, there's no skin in the game really, you know what I mean.

5:52 Speaker 10: I'm kind of just starting out on the songwriting journey over the last few years really. Yeah, And I've been a musician my whole life. I can fill you in on the back story if you want, But with the end, it's just great because we it's just pure creativity, you know what I mean. Two musicians hanging out writing a song, there's no pressure to do anything. And for whatever reason, I was just kind of had that feeling when we were doing that together, and and that's what it's all about for me. Yeah, those kind of experiences and writing music and being just purely creative, no doubt.

6:20 Speaker 9: So you you've been a musician for a long time, as you said, but you only started writing songs a few years ago.

6:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I quote unquote have written other stuff.

6:30 Speaker 8: Yeah.

6:31 Speaker 10: I was a horn player in high school. I was our class instrumentalist. I was in like every music group, did all of it, show choir, I did a lot of theater.

6:40 Speaker 1: I was.

6:41 Speaker 10: I started in high school musical when I was in high school, all sorts of you know of stuff to lead me on my musical journey. And then I kinda I kind of went a totally different direction for the last decade. I got a degree in resort management and have worked at ski resorts and done all men or of other things. But I never put down the guitar. That's kind of what kept it alive for me. And then yeah, like three years ago, I had a really good friend who was living around here, and she convinced me to go to an open mic up at Patrick's Pub in Guildford, New Hampshire.

7:08 Speaker 10: That's where I met John MacArthur, who's one of the owners of the New Hampshire Music Collective.

7:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, we had him on the show. He's great.

7:14 Speaker 10: Yeah, he's awesome. Can't say enough good things about him. And you know, especially in this context with the opportunities he's given me playing a lot of these bar gigs and stuff around here, which is just it's like with anything, right, if you want to be really good, you got to just put in time and hard work. It's kind of the grind that I've been on these last few years since doing that. And then you know, I've, like I said, I've been a musician my whole life, and I have a really I lean really heavily on my ear, Yeah, and I can be judgmental in that way.

7:41 Speaker 10: So I think, as most musicians will probably tell you, there's a lot of stuff that goes on with songwriting in terms of being hyper critical of yourself and self confidence, releasing tracks and everything.

7:50 Speaker 1: So you know, it's a slow process.

7:53 Speaker 10: But I'm in early production of making a record hopefully, and you know, that might be one of the songs that's going to be on it. Oh, I hope. So yeah, yeah, it deserves it. That's totally good. Yeah, that's very kind of neat to say. I yeah, it's it's something I'm really interested in. But like I said, it's it's just tough not to be able to overly critical. But at this point in my life, on my early thirties, I

8:13 Speaker 10: feel like it's a really good place to be doing what I'm doing with music. I think that if I had gone right into music school like I kind of wanted to after high school, after doing all that stuff, I don't think it would have gone well. I think I was on the edge of burnt out really because yeah, I mean we had jazz band practices every morning before school. At six forty, it was taking trumpet lessons. It's just completely saturated in music. Yeah, and not really knowing you know, at that point in my life, you know, late teens, early twenties, you're just figuring out who you are, right.

8:43 Speaker 10: So all the experiences I've had over the last ten years of not being involved in music, I think have just fueled this crazy fire that I have now to write and collaborate with people and just really like I just started taking guitar lessons a couple, you know, maybe a month or two ago with a really great guy. So I'm actually put some of the old theory knowledge that I have to use with like the fifteen years of guitar playing, just playing songs that I like to hear and play. Yeah, So it just feels really, really awesome, and I'm really grateful to be here doing what I'm doing now.

9:13 Speaker 9: You know, during the span of time where you you know, you had kind of gotten away from it all, did you always kind of know that you would come back to it, or did you really at the time kind of feel like you know that was you know, I'm sort of done with that.

9:27 Speaker 8: I'm sort of burnt out on it.

9:29 Speaker 10: If you asked me that question years ago, I probably would have told you the latter. I probably would have told you now, you know, And I think that comes from being jaded and my no, through no fault of his own, my trumpet teacher was one of the ones who convinced me not to go to school for like performance really yeah, which how much of that was actually him and how much of it was in my head, I can't really tell you, but you know, and his point.

9:53 Speaker 1: Was very valid.

9:54 Speaker 10: You know, forty years ago there was just so many horn players working in places like New York Boss. You know, all these clubs and theaters have live orchestras, and now it's just a percentage of what that was. So yeah, the statistics just make it pretty daunting. Yeah, but I think subconsciously, very deep down there, to answer your question, I think it was inevitable of coming back to music.

10:13 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just such a part of me.

10:14 Speaker 10: It's part of who I am, been part of who I am since a very young age. And like I said, you know, I rely heavily on my ear. I don't like to say I have a good ear because it's like what does that mean? But I just the way I hear music and interpret music is so ingrained with everything else about me, and it affects my you know, emotions, it affects my goals, it affects you know. So I think it was it was inevitable.

10:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. Well I'm dying to hear another one. If you want to play another live shirt chorus, Yeah, if you're just joining.

10:42 Speaker 9: Us, will he chases here with us alive in studio and playing some stuff and that guitar sounds.

10:49 Speaker 8: I love the way that guitar sounds.

10:50 Speaker 1: Thanks man. Yeah, it's uh.

10:52 Speaker 10: Since you can't see it, it's a rain song, fully composite guitar. It's fully made of carbon fiber, and really yeah, the whole thing that, the bridge, the body, everything, the whole thing's carbon fiber. And the reason I got it was I've I've got an old tailor that I really really love, which you know, it's not a special instrument by most people's standards, but it is to me. And playing all these gigs, like playing outside a lot, playing around campfires all my friends, was just getting trashed.

11:18 Speaker 10: So you know, I saved up some tip money and got this thing, and it just holds tune really consistently. I don't have to worry as much about it. But it turns out that despite all of that, it's a really fun guitar to play, and it sounds great plugged in. You know, it's a little tinny acoustically if you're gonna make it up, because it's not very it's pretty cold, but right, right, So this next song, I go a bunch of different directions, so forgive me, but this is what I like to call cheap country song.

11:44 Speaker 10: But this this song, it has some country roots, but it's it's it's deeper than that. It's about kind of being in a bad place. And this vision I had of of, you know, if I didn't kind of get my act together and you know, have a few less beers and stop feeling sorry for myself. It was kind of a place where I was gonna end up. So it's a little bit about that. But yeah, this song is called I don't know what this song is called. Oh I guess it's called Pushing my Luck something like that. Okay, so it's a country song and g about that.

12:13 Speaker 8: All right, There we go Willie Chase Live.

12:31 Speaker 4: Mama's in the kitchen, here he be's in New York. Dog's on then. I ain't got it too far. I keep on living here, you keep on growing. I'm burying my money out in that yard, down on my luck, strutting my stuff. It's wearving me down. I'm anna sweeter, I'm tough. I ain't doing a lot. It's getting hard. The baby I make it too far. It's time keeps moving.

13:00 Speaker 3: Like in Norse win blow in. That's one thing knows right where it's going.

13:06 Speaker 4: I tried and mon on, but I just couldin stays wrong. So I cracking another bottle, try to make a quick Fuck. Man, I know that I'm pushing my luck.

13:22 Speaker 3: And pushing up.

13:27 Speaker 5: Out.

13:27 Speaker 4: Hear the bullets third night are running thirty minutes, calls. She don't think it's funny. She's pissed off, pissed, drunk family, end of that, all the things I can handle. So I'll just talk to mister Daniels. Because time keeps moving in the whiskey keys flow in, drunk need nose.

13:49 Speaker 3: Right away, I'm going.

13:51 Speaker 4: I tried and moving on, but I just couldn't stays wrong, So I cracking another bottle, try to make it quick. Fuck cause man, I know, and I'm pushing my up.

14:07 Speaker 4: I am pushing my love. Yeah, I'm pushing my up.

14:18 Speaker 4: Mama's in the kitchen, he's in the yard, dog's all the bed, and man, I'm trying to up. I keep on drinking there, you keep on leaving, burying my soul out in the backyard.

14:35 Speaker 3: Because time and keeps.

14:37 Speaker 4: Moving, like can the north wind blowing, that's one thing knows right where it's going. I tried and moving on, I us couldn't stay strong so I cracking up the bottle, try to make a quick fuck man, I know what, I'm pushing my up.

14:59 Speaker 3: I am pushing my.

15:02 Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm pushing that.

15:14 Speaker 8: That is really good.

15:16 Speaker 1: Hey, thanks man, really good.

15:17 Speaker 9: Willie Chase us here with us live in studio and uh yeah, that's fantastic.

15:22 Speaker 8: I love her.

15:22 Speaker 1: Voice, appreciate it.

15:25 Speaker 9: Is there anyone who influences you vocally? Is there anyone you try to kind of sound like?

15:31 Speaker 10: It's probably an amalgamation of like twenty five people. Yeah, yeah, there'd be some easy ones to name. But honestly, recently, I've just been trying to sound like me. I think in the past I've tried to sound country singing country because of like the way I listen to music. I like, if I love a song, I'll just try to play it sound just like it, you know what I mean? Yeah, which gives me great satisfaction to be able to be like, yeah, I can play that song right. One thing I'm kind of figuring out or thinking more about now that I'm writing my own stuff is just, you know, how to I sound like me?

16:01 Speaker 10: How do I convey even if it's that feeling? But but you know, be unique? So but but yeah, vocally, I mean, you know, I'm sure a lot of people would say this is an influence. But Chris Stapleton I think has an amazing voice. You know, he's he's great. I'm a little below that, so you know, I would I would say another vocal influence, even though I don't think he's a great vocalist.

16:22 Speaker 1: I don't like being negative.

16:23 Speaker 10: But but David Gilmore, Yeah, you know, I think the way that he sang was just really soulful and honest.

16:30 Speaker 8: I know exactly what you mean.

16:32 Speaker 9: Yeah, he's not a great like from a technical stand right, He's there's nothing great about him at all. But yeah, but you're right though, for what he's doing, for what Pink Floyd is supposed to sound like.

16:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know. And I was fortunate when I was younger, I had some good coaches. I had.

16:46 Speaker 10: One of our theater directors was a Boston Pops pianist, great woman, Jill Wriggles, God Rest your soul and she.

16:54 Speaker 1: You know, that was a lot of like theater based stuff.

16:56 Speaker 10: So yeah, I think from early on I had a good foundation of like brief and you know, despite the fact that I'm sitting back in my chair, like sitting on that sit on the front of your chair, like put vocal support, you know, sting out. And then also YouTube great, there's great like vocal instructors on YouTube that can give you tips on warming up and all this stuff. So yeah, I don't know if that answered your question, but oh definitely.

17:19 Speaker 9: I don't know if you notice I kind of reacted when he said Chris Stapleton because if I were to choose all the singer songwriters we've had on the show over the years, if I were to choose the number one name that comes up in conversation as far as influence, it's Chris Staple.

17:35 Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, He's a monster.

17:37 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean just you know, in the years he spent writing before he was, you know, pop famous. I especially like his stuff he did with the Steel Drivers.

17:48 Speaker 8: I've never I've never heard any of that Steel Drivers.

17:51 Speaker 10: Yeah, they're they're a bluegrass group and he was he was there frontman and guitarist.

17:56 Speaker 8: I didn't even know that. Huh.

17:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

17:57 Speaker 10: Check it out, man. They've got a bunch of great tunes. Blue Side of the Mountain, Angel of the Night, that's one. Sorry, I do you don't mind if I play.

18:08 Speaker 1: A few minutes.

18:09 Speaker 3: No, go ahead, I love it.

18:12 Speaker 1: This is the steel Driver's Angel of the Night.

18:14 Speaker 4: Well, the music is playing in you had the Whiskey Saloon.

18:22 Speaker 4: It comes through my window. I like my favorite tune.

18:31 Speaker 4: I could walk down stairway, I can walk down the street,

18:39 Speaker 4: laid down my money. Well it's not brod, I.

18:44 Speaker 3: Mean, let me fly on.

18:48 Speaker 4: Your ways, right, these earthly things they did all be all right? Angel of the Night.

19:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's Chris Stapleton and the steel Drivers.

19:07 Speaker 9: I've heard that song. I had no idea who it was, but I recognize that song.

19:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, great tune.

19:11 Speaker 8: Well, yeah, no, that's that's really good. That's really good. You do a lot of when you play live. Do you do a lot of covers or yeah?

19:18 Speaker 10: Mostly covers. Yeah, I've got almost an hour of original music that can do. I'll stretch it and do a little storytelling. Yeah yeah, but uh but yeah, mostly covers. I mean, you know, for the for the gigs that I'm doing right now, you know, the main point is entertaining everybody at the bar and stuff, and you know, oftentimes people respond well to my music, which is you know, just great and validating, and but you know, people want to hear what they want to hear, right when they're having a beer, which is which I totally understand, and I think I kind of love that.

19:45 Speaker 10: You know, I look at those gigs as a challenge. You know, how do you get people's interest, How do you get foot feet tapping? You know, how do you get people turning around and going, whoa, who's this guy?

19:54 Speaker 1: Right or whatever?

19:55 Speaker 10: And that's a challenge to me. And I mean, you know, that's that's how you make tips. Any performer will tell you. But yeah, financially it's a good strategy. But but that's you know, from the beginning, that's always been the fun part. It's like, how do you get people to notice you? Because that means they're enjoying it, right, They're having a cool experience, they're listening to the music.

20:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

20:15 Speaker 9: How did you get involved with the with John MacArthur and the Collective because that's again such a great organization. And we had John on the show, and you know, we've had a lot of musicians on the show who who work with them. And John, by the way, is he's very very busy. Like when he told us we were talking about the events, how many events they do, and he told us the number that he personally is at running.

20:40 Speaker 8: It's like, dude, you don't sleep.

20:42 Speaker 9: It's staggering, which I which I admire, you know, But but but how did how did you get involved?

20:48 Speaker 1: Yeah?

20:49 Speaker 10: So I I met John He I mean now hosts, but he goes to open mics around and kind of you know, looks for talent a little bit, I think, But uh, yeah, I met him at Patrick's Pub, Guildford. We kind of hit it off and exchanged information. And you know, at that point, I didn't have three hours of consistent songs that I could play that were all.

21:08 Speaker 1: Polished and yeah and done. You know. So it took me a little while, but I played a bunch of.

21:12 Speaker 10: Volking mics and and got my act together, and you know, John and I kind of became friends. He would, uh, he would give me a call. We live pretty close to each other up there in the Lakes region, so he'd give me a call.

21:22 Speaker 1: We'd go out and see somebody.

21:24 Speaker 10: You know, I'm I'm not afraid to share my opinion about other people, I guess in a friendship situation, which is but you know, I've been around a lot of music in my life and been around really good musicians and and you know, regardless of whatever whatever I play, I think I have a pretty good idea of you know, who's doing what or who's who's been practicing.

21:42 Speaker 1: That's really all that comes down, right.

21:44 Speaker 10: But yeah, so we would go off for fun and and you know, he would kind of ask my opinion about people. And you know, I'm not trying to say that I'm judging and jury but or anything, but we just kind of enjoyed it. You know, we enjoyed each other's presence and hanging out and talking about music and and and John's just such a great guy.

22:01 Speaker 1: You know, he's you.

22:02 Speaker 10: Know, in an in an industry that and I haven't experienced this really, but in an industry there's a reportedly very cutthroat people will say about music and arts and you know, getting gigs and stuff. John is just somebody who genuinely cares about everybody he works with. He genuinely wants everybody to succeed. And he'll give you an opportunity if you're working hard, no matter you know, who we are, what you look like, what you're doing, what kind of music you're playing. He's just able to recognize people who are there for the right reasons and are working hard.

22:30 Speaker 10: So I really respect that about John and his partner Brad, who is the other half of the New Hampshire Music Collective, who's an unbelievable guitarist. I'll have to recommend you his him for the show too. But yeah, but but yeah, just John. You know, John's awesome, so from there, you know, he he was gracious enough to give me some gigs and you know, and I can.

22:51 Speaker 1: Crush the bargain pretty well.

22:52 Speaker 10: I have a lot of nineties tunes and I just I know, so like I just listened to so many different types of music that I have this kind of weird catalog. But it works great for that situation, right because you never know who's going to be in there.

23:04 Speaker 8: Yeah.

23:05 Speaker 10: Certain, you know, you think a lot of country, but then like you play something yeah anyway, you know you know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, yeah, So I've done pretty well with the bar gigs and we have a great thing going.

23:14 Speaker 1: You know. I love working with those guys. It yeah helps me. It's a great side hustle.

23:18 Speaker 10: I do still have a day job, unfortunately, but but yeah, no, it's awesome.

23:23 Speaker 1: All around.

23:23 Speaker 9: It's so important to find people who are who are positive and honest, and you know, there are a lot of sharks, you know, so to be able to connect with somebody like John and the NH Music Collective, it's so important.

23:35 Speaker 8: When we had Rebecca Turmel.

23:37 Speaker 9: On the show and we were talking about that too, because it's I do feel like there, you know. I mean, there's there's some people you want to avoid, but I think generally, I think the music scene, at least around here, is people are pretty supportive of each other and want to work together and uplift each other. I always contrast it with I've listened to some podcasts over the years of stand up comics, and that my impression of that world of stand up comedy. I mean, it's all part of live entertainment, but stand up comedy, as far as I can tell, is very cutthroat, like everyone secretly hates each other, everyone secretly wants to see each other fail, you know what I mean.

24:14 Speaker 9: That's just the impression that I get, the vibe that I get from it. Whereas I think, yeah, there's there's always people you want to be careful of, but I think generally people are pretty supportive in the music scene and yeah, cool, you know, and and why not be you know, it doesn't, right, none of it's a zero sum game. You know, life is not a zero s game. Just because somebody else is being successful, that doesn't take something away from you. If anything, it should inspire you to maybe be able to do what they're doing.

24:42 Speaker 8: You know.

24:43 Speaker 10: So absolutely, that's a great perspective. And that's been my experience or in the music scene around here. And I'm sure you've seen way more than I've been exposed to. But yeah, so it's it's great. I think we got a great thing going.

24:52 Speaker 1: On here, you know what I mean?

24:53 Speaker 8: Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely fun. You want to play another one?

24:57 Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, yeah, definitely if you're just joining us.

25:01 Speaker 8: We have Willie Chase with us live in studio. Oh, let me get that on.

25:06 Speaker 1: I make sure those things are tuned too. It's cold outside, it.

25:09 Speaker 9: Is, yeah, I think it's the coldest morning we've had this season so far.

25:16 Speaker 1: I believe it. Yeah, there's plenty of ice on my truck.

25:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, after sixty in raining what three days ago?

25:22 Speaker 1: I know, right, that's this song.

25:26 Speaker 10: I've been playing this song out a little bit. This is another song I wrote after coming out of a hard place. This is kind of about just being who you are and getting back to yourself and away from other toxic people.

25:38 Speaker 1: But yeah, this is called back to me.

26:33 Speaker 3: Fell into ghosted you, my heart am sleep a fellow party in front of you.

26:46 Speaker 4: I guid in your dreams. God never ever gonna come back to you.

27:05 Speaker 12: Oh no, no, baby, please forgive.

27:12 Speaker 3: Me, but I'm coming back to me.

27:19 Speaker 4: I'm coming back to me, watching through the window page and trying to sleep, wondering if the rain could wash you from my sheets. Oh time, never ever gonna come back to you.

27:59 Speaker 12: Oh no, no, baby, please forgive me, but I'm coming back to me, back to me.

28:18 Speaker 3: I'm coming back to me.

28:37 Speaker 8: Very nice, very nice.

28:39 Speaker 9: Willie Chase is here with us live in studio, sounding great. And yeah, I think that's a universal theme, you know. I think we've all had that that moment.

28:49 Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely, And if you haven't, well you know it's coming. That's right, that's right.

28:55 Speaker 10: Yeah, man, that that was that came from a dark place, for sure. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel, I guess.

29:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it could be an oncoming train. You never know.

29:07 Speaker 1: Sometimes it is sometimes.

29:09 Speaker 8: It is no. No, I really like that a lot. Are you playing out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows? It sounds like you are.

29:15 Speaker 1: I am.

29:15 Speaker 10: Yeah, probably coming up on sixty or seventy book for next year already, wow, And yeah, pretty much every weekend.

29:23 Speaker 8: Good.

29:24 Speaker 10: Been a little bit of a light stretch right now. I really just this past like August, I really kind of had a revelatory moment where I decided I was just gonna say no to nothing and say yes to everything and just kind of give everything I had, you know, yeah, because yeah, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. Yeah, and I'm planning on it so good through a set of experiences that I don't have to go into, you know, that song came out of and dedication and so yeah, I've I've.

29:53 Speaker 1: Been playing pretty much every weekend. We've had a couple of really cool shows. Recently.

29:57 Speaker 10: We had a singer songwriter competition up there in Guilford and then John put together John MacArthur put together a show at the BNH Stage and Conquered where all the finalists from that competition came and played and played with them. We did a couple numbers together and it was really fun. I mean, just what a group of talented people.

30:16 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you always play? Is it always just you? Or does anyone ever join you?

30:22 Speaker 1: Yeah?

30:23 Speaker 10: I've got a couple of different settings. I mean, most of the stuff I book is solo. But there's a shop in Laconia called NH Vintage Vinyl. This guy, Dan McLaughlin owns it, Dan mack He's a friend of mine. He plays bass, so he comes out. We do a really cool duo. We do like a bunch of grunge oh stuff, so to have like you know, it's still kind of acoustic. But then there's a couple of different groups I've played with in more of a band setting, but nothing, nothing super firm. I'm definitely looking to collaborate more with other people and you know, getting into more of a production role and self producing a lot of stuff just for you know, demos and yeahnt in preparation of going into the studio.

30:59 Speaker 10: And that's all always been a h A fun thing for me is you know, I took a few recording engineering courses in community college before I kind of went went to school, and and so knowing how to use pro tools, what I interface does, and you know, spend a little money on plugins.

31:16 Speaker 1: So I do a little bit of that.

31:17 Speaker 10: And I'm looking at you because I just playing with other people is magical. Yeah, you know, I think that's one thing that's a little bit I don't want to say it's lost, but you know, not as common these days. You know, fifty years ago, you didn't have any any choice. If you wanted to play with somebody else, you had to go in and link up with them and say, hey, let's sit down and play some music. And now there's everything's in the Internet, and it's obviously it's you know, there's so many bonuses from that.

31:38 Speaker 10: But yeah, it's been it's been kind of tough, honestly to get people to h to want to collaborate. I mean, I don't know if it's a function of just the location I'm in or my you know, lack of outreach, I don't know, but but it's something I'm craving. Yeah, if you're listening to this and you want to collaborate, you want to play some music up.

31:55 Speaker 8: Have you ever played in a full band?

31:57 Speaker 1: Yeah?

31:58 Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, yeah, we had with Dan Mack and then we had another drummer and his name was Dan Hewitt. We played a couple of shows like my buddy's birthday party and stuff, but we put together like two hours having a killer.

32:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

32:09 Speaker 10: We did this cover of Comfortably Numb and I don't know, I think we all shocked ourselves.

32:14 Speaker 1: I thought it sounded great. Yeah.

32:17 Speaker 10: And then I have another friend, another friend, Dan Fallon. I don't know if you've come across him.

32:20 Speaker 8: Dan's been on the show.

32:22 Speaker 1: Yep.

32:22 Speaker 10: Dan's another buddy and I've played a little bit with them. We played the reck Yard up in uh up at you know, Tower Hill, Weir's Beach.

32:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of times. It was fun. Did a couple other things, but.

32:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, I haven't I haven't really been like a you know, a standard with with anybody, but you know, hoping to find people and collaborate.

32:41 Speaker 1: I'm I just kind of take it as it comes, you know what I mean?

32:44 Speaker 10: Because that's sometimes you can rush into situations and it's not where you want to be or you And conversely, you could just sit in your apartment, play guitar.

32:50 Speaker 1: All day and never talk. Sometimes I find myself that's all a balance, right, do you?

32:56 Speaker 9: As far as shows and you got out of New England, at all. Have you done that yet or not?

33:00 Speaker 1: Really? Yeah?

33:01 Speaker 9: No, yeah, I mean it's not it's not as though there aren't a million places to play here, because there definitely are.

33:06 Speaker 1: True.

33:06 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I haven't really. I spent the last four winters out in Park City, Utah. Really yeah, why working at a ski resort out there?

33:15 Speaker 8: Okay.

33:16 Speaker 10: Yeah, I've been a SnowCat operator for like twelve years, building train parks and grimming and stuff.

33:21 Speaker 1: So I that's kind of the other side of my life.

33:23 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:24 Speaker 10: So I've been out there and and did like one or two open mics and and kind of you know stuff, but nothing significant outside.

33:30 Speaker 1: Of New England. Now.

33:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm getting ready though, you know, I'm geared enough for the big launch. But once I get some you know, once I get like a solid record out that I'm happy with, you know, and then can release and like capitalize. But I'm I'm yeah, I just I'm cool, kind of cool with where I'm at now because I feel like I'm just racking up all these hours, right, all these gigs and just like, yeah, I want to blow the doors off when I go somewhere, you know what I mean.

33:53 Speaker 1: Right, Anyway, it's it's all it's all just fun.

33:56 Speaker 8: But yeah, but yeah, excellent, excellent?

33:59 Speaker 9: Is so is the goal to make an album because you know, we live in a time when you you know, people approach it all kinds of different ways.

34:05 Speaker 8: You can make an album.

34:06 Speaker 9: You could make an EP, you could make a series of singles that eventually becomes an album. You know, is but are you is that kind of your goal is to make a full album?

34:15 Speaker 1: Creatively?

34:16 Speaker 10: Yeah, I think just the way that I've listened to music always and the way that I think about music, I think like a song is too short for me to convey what like a message.

34:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what I mean.

34:25 Speaker 10: And I understand the way the industry is, so I'd probably release some singles, yeah, you know, once I can get things recorded properly and whatnot, which is mostly just you know, financial Oh. But but yeah, I think like my favorite albums are the ones that you just you know, front to back, right, you just put put the needle down and go through it, and it tells a story or it conveys a feeling, or even if it's just totally your interpretation of it, it all fits together. I think that's really beautiful.

34:54 Speaker 10: It's like a book, right, Yeah, yeah, people release a chapter of a book. I mean maybe, but that's.

34:59 Speaker 8: A perfect and now yeah yeah, yeah.

35:01 Speaker 10: So but you know, I you know, there's obviously other real world limitations like resources and time yea, you know, and I understand, you know, singles are the big thing now. I think you really want to push singles and yeah, the way music is released and distributed, but I'm I'm a long way away from that, you know what I mean. I'm sure I'd love to be in a place one day where that all that really, you know, matters, and a lot of people are.

35:25 Speaker 1: Listening to the music.

35:25 Speaker 10: But and I gave up on I'm fantasizing too much a long time ago, you know what I mean. That's part of what I said earlier about being in the position I'm in now. You know, I do just for myself, and I realized that as some of those first open mics. It's actually just a quick story that I won that songwriter competition three years ago and it took me. There's eight qualifying weeks and I played all of them and I didn't qualify until the very last week and went to the finals and then I was I won the competition.

35:51 Speaker 1: But the process it was all new to me.

35:53 Speaker 10: I'd never performed like solo acoustic like that, and I hadn't performed any type of music in twelve years, no kidding. So I was like, you know, I'm gonna come in here and everybody's gonna love me songs and I'm gonna be great.

36:05 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be famous in two weeks, right, you know jokingly of course.

36:10 Speaker 10: Yeah, But that taught me, you know, I realized through those eight weeks, I was like, man, you know, because it was all about the competition.

36:17 Speaker 1: It was new, it was freshness, was like everything to me.

36:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, and I just realized that if they weren't gonna let me through the finals, I didn't care because I just it was the only place I could go and play music in front of people.

36:27 Speaker 1: At that point in time.

36:29 Speaker 10: It was the only opportunity I had, And I just kept signing up for slots because I was like, I just I love this feeling.

36:33 Speaker 1: I love being up here. This is really cool.

36:35 Speaker 8: Well and isn't that a relief too, to let go of the caring about it? Part?

36:39 Speaker 1: Massive?

36:39 Speaker 8: Yeah?

36:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, massive, weight off your shoulders, right, yeah, exactly, because so much of it is based on luck and connections and stuff like you can't. You know, it's a great Quincy Jones quote, God Rest his Soul that I always think of. It's like when you start talking about money, God walks out of the room.

36:54 Speaker 8: And I've never heard that, but that is a great quote.

36:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just it's so true.

36:58 Speaker 10: Man, if you're here for all the those other things, like it's with anything in life, right, you know, do what you love, work really hard at it, and all the things that you want, all the material things will come usually in excess, if you know, if you're really devoting yourself to something right, and and that just you know, it has a whole set of problems with it. And you know, listen, I live in the real world. I got credit card dead right, I got we got all make money. But but man, I just do this because I love it.

37:22 Speaker 10: I never get sick of picking up a guitar and playing music or talking about music. Like being here with you right now is awesome just because we get to spend time talking about music and thinking about it.

37:31 Speaker 1: And yeah, so I'm.

37:32 Speaker 10: Just grateful for where I'm at. And I'm going off on a tangent like I normally do. But you know, but yeah, that's all right.

37:37 Speaker 8: It's kind of what we do here.

37:40 Speaker 3: Well, do you want to play another one?

37:42 Speaker 1: Sure?

37:43 Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll play a fun song that I wrote for that competition. Cool that my my friends and folk friends love this song.

37:51 Speaker 1: Uh.

37:51 Speaker 10: The song is called Misery and Tequila. Uh, and it is in fact about a bottle of tequila.

37:56 Speaker 8: Excellent hope. How we signed Willie Chase slive in studio.

38:20 Speaker 3: There's a battle lea.

38:21 Speaker 4: You go it staring mean the things that Blanco's got, this haunchoke dying on lock of the Lakes. I ain't got no girl to leave me.

38:36 Speaker 3: If I did it, will she be through?

38:40 Speaker 1: Here's a.

38:42 Speaker 4: Ki I love you one another shot on the front porch knocking? Maybe three more? Who have you knocking on my door?

38:56 Speaker 8: Poor little?

38:56 Speaker 4: More misery and k I love you.

39:12 Speaker 3: Listen on somes goude mean thinking aboutt old day day.

39:17 Speaker 4: Then when it's starting to taste like water, I get the feeling and I should call her and lifting when I do, she'll tell me that we're through. Misery, Kee, I love you. The parting of the shot on the front porch knocking baby three board, will have you knocking on my door?

39:48 Speaker 3: Poor little moment.

39:54 Speaker 4: Misery and kr misery and misery tends to kill you, but.

40:10 Speaker 8: You I love it. I love it.

40:21 Speaker 9: Will he Chase here with us alive in studio today and uh sounding fantastic.

40:27 Speaker 8: Uh what do you have coming up? Are you?

40:30 Speaker 9: Are you playing anywhere this weekend? You got any for our live listeners? Anything to plug?

40:35 Speaker 10: Not this weekend, but coming up. Yeah, I got a bunch of stuff. You can always go to my website Willichase music dot com. Uh, there's a schedule tab on there with all my upcoming shows. But yeah, I'm playing just about every weekend around the Lakes region. I'm gonna be at the Waterview Pub this coming Wednesday. I can't remember exactly where that is. That's a new one for me. And then I'm usually at Twin Barnes and Meredith all the time about once a month or so. I've got shows coming up at the four oh five in Laconia.

41:05 Speaker 10: I've got shows coming up at Foster's Tavern in Alton Bay, so you know, kind of that circuit up there. I will be in Manchester at certain points in January and February playing in the Backyard Brewery and the Anheuser Busch Beer Garden. I've done that those a couple of times. I've got a couple more dates booked there. I'm going to be playing at Defiant Records and Laconia. So yeah, if you go to my website Willichase Music dot com w I L L Y, or Google me social media, Instagram and Facebook at Willy Chase Music, you can always find I'm posting about the shows and stuff.

41:37 Speaker 9: So do you have a favorite place to play or a couple that are just really really that you just love playing it?

41:45 Speaker 1: That's tough.

41:46 Speaker 10: They're all fun, but I would have to say, you know, Foster's Tavern is always a super fun time. Yeah, it's always full of people and everybody's always usually singing along by the end.

41:57 Speaker 1: Oh that's what it really gets people singing along these days is playing Creed.

42:01 Speaker 8: Well. I keep seeing that meme.

42:03 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, man, I've never had more people sing along to a song and playing Take Me Higher by Creative, Get the Whole Place Rocket.

42:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so much fun.

42:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's so funny some of those it's so interesting the arc of some of those artists. Yeah, you know, like very popular and then basically geting dragged on social media for ten years, but everybody loves him.

42:24 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's happened to a lot of those lymp Biscuits. A great exit, yeah too, Limp Biscuit is huge. Yeah, and they were huge. But even but even when they were huge the first time, a lot of people look down on them and you know what I mean. But now it's like everybody's just kind of like, oh yeah, I guess I likelymp Biscuit.

42:43 Speaker 1: I know.

42:43 Speaker 10: Now Fred Durst comes out with like a silver goatee and yeah, yeah Cowboy, Yeah.

42:48 Speaker 8: He's really having a good time and yeah yeah.

42:51 Speaker 1: West Portland's a great guitarist too, man, he is.

42:53 Speaker 9: Yeah in general, yeah, underrated I think because you know, he gets overlooked because of the band that he plays in, right, but yeah, no, I agree, I agree. Yeah, that's They've been a topic on the show recently because of that big two hundred million dollar lawsuit. UMG, talking about sharks in the industry.

43:11 Speaker 1: No care but crazy stuff man.

43:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, but yeah, a lot of those, a lot of those bands, yeah, like like Creed and who else?

43:19 Speaker 8: Do you so you play a lot of that stuff right live in your set? Yeah?

43:24 Speaker 1: Yeah I do.

43:24 Speaker 10: I mean I don't play a ton of like you know Unknown Creed. I guess you would say I know some of the bangers. Yeah, but I play a lot of like Alison Chain's Stone Temple pilots like That's always been a very I've always been super fond of that, Yeah, you know, kind of era in music.

43:40 Speaker 1: To be honest, it was never like a huge Nirvana fan.

43:42 Speaker 10: Yeah, which might seem weird, but I'm a huge Alison Chains fan. Like Lane Staley, I think was it was one of my favorite vocalists. That actually kind of goes back to that earlier question. I try to sound like him, but yeah unsuccessfully. Yeah, but I when the screen because he's like he was a bit of a screamer, but not a high register like I can never sing like Chester Bennington or anybody from you know, more metal league groups. I just I don't have that in my range. But like guys like Lane, you know, we're we're kind of in that lower register but still managed to get that like rock high like screaming sound, which I really love, you know.

44:21 Speaker 10: And then of course I'm big fan of like Audio Slave and Chris Cornell, Yeah, Sound Garden and yeah, you know and that, and but Chris Cornell was way up there too, but he was one of my favorite rock writers. I would I would say, yeah, what a legend.

44:34 Speaker 8: I know, I know, absolutely absolutely. You know.

44:37 Speaker 9: It's funny when you mentioned Lane Staley, I had to stop myself because I started to have this thought. You ever started to have a thought and then you're about to say it, and then you realize it's stupid.

44:47 Speaker 1: Like all the time, all the time.

44:49 Speaker 9: Because I found myself thinking and I almost said, you know, Lane Staley such a unique voice, as nobody who sounds like him? And then of course I remember, no, they found a new singer who sounds exactly like him.

45:00 Speaker 8: But other than other than that guy, yeah, other than that guy.

45:04 Speaker 3: It is really he he was.

45:05 Speaker 10: He did have an unusual voice, yeah yeah, and very like dark in drab. But then you'd hear it like you'd be listening to jar of Flies and it's like, you know, just do me almost and then there's like this whole major, like beautiful acoustic song. I'm trying to remember the name of the title of the track, but it's like later on in that jar Flies album, Oh just like super pleasant, you know what I mean, Like very major and beautiful, so like the complexity is what really hooks me.

45:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those guys you know.

45:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt we have time. You want to play one more?

45:36 Speaker 9: Sure, I'd love to hear one more if you're just joining us, will he chases here with us live in studio and uh back up there?

45:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, so this last track, well, making sure my guitar is in two and I'll tell you a little bit about it, Okay, this I So I grew up down in Connecticut, which evokes many things. But my mother's family has been there for a very long time. They were dairy farmers for three hundred years, and.

46:04 Speaker 1: I love it there.

46:05 Speaker 10: We have like a little bit of land left and I have a big family and I love everything about it. But it's there's no farming left, you know, we don't farm anymore. And the last dairy farm in our town just closed a few years ago. So this whole lifestyle of generations and generations my family the way that I mean, nobody left, like you know, it was just always there, and it's just not a place I ever felt home at, you know, outside of our little bubble like Connecticut. Rather, you know, it's just this what used to be really a graririan kind of nice place is just surrounded by all this other stuff that isn't really interesting to me.

46:38 Speaker 10: And I was drawn in the mountains and you know, the North Country and everything. So this song is kind of about that feeling of this whole paradigm shift, and you know, like feeling like you know, I have three hundred years of dairy farming in my blood, but it's like just this weird anyway, I'll stop talking about it and play all right.

46:57 Speaker 1: This song is called Thicker than Water.

47:13 Speaker 4: There used to be a cornfield right here. Green backers cut it eavy here. Now they're putting up panels, and the picture on the mantle gets a little smaller. Every

47:32 Speaker 4: wind house through in old barn window. That's the empty stoves in old hay bells. That's blowing off of your old hay, picking up a memory and flies into the Mama, love is town. I got a lot of reasons left sticking around, And that's blood run sticking in water. God Lord, that's making me drown.

48:10 Speaker 3: No, my rootsca old me down.

48:17 Speaker 4: They on me me, tell me everything, how older and sure of had no.

48:38 Speaker 3: I carry it in.

48:39 Speaker 4: They're always with kicking my battles or keeping my cool.

48:51 Speaker 4: I see the way the world is going, but I can't take it anymore. But my family, you keep me around it. That's the only thing I know for sure.

49:10 Speaker 3: Mama, I love this town.

49:15 Speaker 4: I ain't got a lot of reasons left sticky around

49:22 Speaker 4: because there's blood run sticky and water of my Lord that's making me drown.

49:29 Speaker 3: No, my roots came all the down.

49:35 Speaker 4: From my roots can hold me down, and I feel the break faster than ever who befooling good all the e I'm bringing me home. No more my roots can hold me down.

50:24 Speaker 3: And there's a million things that will put me.

50:30 Speaker 4: Because there's blood runs in water my Lord that's made me drown. No more roots can down. No, my roots can't hold me down.

50:52 Speaker 5: Hold me.

50:55 Speaker 4: Now.

51:10 Speaker 8: Oh that is so good. That is so good.

51:12 Speaker 1: Thanks man.

51:13 Speaker 9: Willy Chase with us live in studio today. Hey, before we wrap up, I want to remind people if you are listening live on Saturday, today is the Magical Market at the Great North Ale Works from noon to four pm. That's where Jenny is right now, and I will be joining her in a little bit after the show, after I get everything uploaded, So come say hello. Lots of great artisans and local businesses participating in that event. And as I like to remind people every holiday season, Walmart and Target don't need any more.

51:44 Speaker 8: Of your money.

51:45 Speaker 9: They will be just fine, but please support your local businesses and we'd love to see you there. So that is a great north Aale works from noon to four pm this afternoon on the fourteenth. If you are listening live Willie Chase, this has been wonderful.

52:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks so much, man, it's been so fun to be here.

52:02 Speaker 8: Absolutely, remind everybody again where to find you online.

52:05 Speaker 10: Absolutely, you can find me on social media, Facebook, Instagram, threads at Willy Chase Music all one word or Willichase Music dot com wi l y excellent.

52:15 Speaker 8: You have much luck with threads. I forget it's there.

52:18 Speaker 10: Actually, it's been really great, mainly because there's no ads. Oh best thing ever. Yeah, And one of the first posts I put out I was just talking about like jazz orchestras and got like ten thousand people viewed it and got everybody talking about posting old pictures of jazz clubs in New York. It was like the best social media experience I've had in a long time.

52:34 Speaker 8: No kidding. So you're having good engagement from.

52:36 Speaker 1: It, well, no, it was just that one post.

52:39 Speaker 10: It just happened to go but uh, okay, but yeah, yeah, it's been really cool.

52:43 Speaker 9: Yeah no, that's good. That's good, very good. And when is your next show?

52:48 Speaker 10: I have a show coming up this Wednesday at the Waterview Pub And yeah, go to my website. Everything's listed right out of the schedule tab. You can see all my shows coming up. I'll be playing all around the Lakes region and south down to Manchester Conquered in the next few months.

53:01 Speaker 9: Outstanding, outstanding, very good. Well, thank you so much, and thank you to all of our guests today. Of course we had Tom Modern in the second hour. In the first hour we had Sean Devlin from the band Devil inside Us and of course, uh they're playing tonight at Terminus in Nashua. Big show there. It's the Christmas in Hell, I believe, is the name of the show. But uh, don't don't be put off by the name, because it's actually for a great, great cause. They're raising a ton of money for to buy toys for children who might not otherwise have a Christmas this year.

53:33 Speaker 9: So that's a great event to and Terminus is a great place, so check that out.

53:36 Speaker 8: That out.

53:37 Speaker 9: If you can come to Great North Ale Works, come say hello to Jenny and I and Willie Chase. Thank you again, and if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit w Mnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com, and we will talk at you all a little bit later.

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54:04 Speaker 3: May you always do for others and let others do for you.

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54:20 Speaker 4: May you stay.

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54:40 Speaker 3: May you grow up to be righteous.

54:44 Speaker 12: May you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth. Fancy the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright, be strong.

55:05 Speaker 4: May you stay.

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56:05 Speaker 3: May you have a strong foundation.

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