Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-14-24 hour 3

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0:39 Speaker 3: Time stands still. Do you know my drink moble pulling

0:53 Speaker 3: 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.

1:32 Speaker 4: It is time. Let's till moning sorry.

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

2:16 Speaker 5: 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

3:00 Speaker 6: of the sun, goes around, chase it down, he's eating body,

3:07 Speaker 6: 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,

3:32 Speaker 4: 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

4:06 Speaker 9: live in studio on this Saturday morning.

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

4:14 Speaker 8: was that.

4:14 Speaker 9: You said you just wrote that with a friend who

4:16 Speaker 9: 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

4:24 Speaker 10: week ago, and I had written the song thread probably

4:30 Speaker 10: five or six months ago. It sat for a while

4:32 Speaker 10: in my in my voice notes on iPhone, as a

4:35 Speaker 10: lot of them do, and then I threw it over

4:39 Speaker 10: to my friend Ian Gallipo, who's from the Keen area,

4:42 Speaker 10: and he liked it, kind of wrote a chorus to it,

4:46 Speaker 10: maybe some verse parts I think, and then we just

4:49 Speaker 10: put our heads together over a video chat and kind

4:52 Speaker 10: of hammered it out. I had written that bridge, and yeah,

4:56 Speaker 10: it kind of came together, and then I was kind

4:59 Speaker 10: of like, holy cow of a song, you know what

5:00 Speaker 10: I mean? Yeah, which is a really cool moment as

5:02 Speaker 10: a songwriter.

5:04 Speaker 9: I feel like Ian Gallipo is a name that's come

5:06 Speaker 9: up on the show. I don't think he's ever been on.

5:08 Speaker 9: I wlways say I don't think he's ever been on,

5:10 Speaker 9: because it does become I've been doing this a long time.

5:12 Speaker 9: It does become a little bit of a blur, of course,

5:14 Speaker 9: but I don't think he's been on the show, but

5:15 Speaker 9: I feel like his name comes up a lot on

5:17 Speaker 9: the show.

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

5:19 Speaker 1: 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

5:26 Speaker 10: the collective as well, does all sorts of stuff with

5:28 Speaker 10: that and other things. But that's how I met him.

5:31 Speaker 10: And he's great man. If you've never heard his song

5:33 Speaker 10: little Things, check it out. It's a gut wrencher be

5:36 Speaker 10: ready to cry. Yeah, but he's just an incredible lyricist.

5:40 Speaker 10: He's an incredible musician and a down to earth guy.

5:43 Speaker 10: You know, he's really enjoyable to be around. So I

5:45 Speaker 10: had a really good experience writing with him, you know,

5:48 Speaker 10: in the level that I'm at right now, there's no

5:51 Speaker 10: 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

5:54 Speaker 10: over the last few years really. Yeah, And I've been

5:57 Speaker 10: a musician my whole life. I can fill you in

5:59 Speaker 10: on the back story if you want, But with the end,

6:01 Speaker 10: it's just great because we it's just pure creativity, you

6:04 Speaker 10: know what I mean. Two musicians hanging out writing a song,

6:07 Speaker 10: there's no pressure to do anything. And for whatever reason,

6:11 Speaker 10: I was just kind of had that feeling when we

6:13 Speaker 10: were doing that together, and and that's what it's all

6:15 Speaker 10: about for me. Yeah, those kind of experiences and writing

6:17 Speaker 10: music and being just purely creative, no doubt.

6:20 Speaker 9: So you you've been a musician for a long time,

6:23 Speaker 9: as you said, but you only started writing songs a

6:26 Speaker 9: 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

6:33 Speaker 10: our class instrumentalist. I was in like every music group,

6:36 Speaker 10: did all of it, show choir, I did a lot

6:38 Speaker 10: of theater.

6:40 Speaker 1: I was.

6:41 Speaker 10: I started in high school musical when I was in

6:42 Speaker 10: high school, all sorts of you know of stuff to

6:47 Speaker 10: lead me on my musical journey. And then I kinda

6:49 Speaker 10: I kind of went a totally different direction for the

6:51 Speaker 10: last decade. I got a degree in resort management and

6:54 Speaker 10: have worked at ski resorts and done all men or

6:57 Speaker 10: of other things. But I never put down the guitar.

6:59 Speaker 10: That's kind of what kept it alive for me. And

7:00 Speaker 10: then yeah, like three years ago, I had a really

7:02 Speaker 10: good friend who was living around here, and she convinced

7:04 Speaker 10: me to go to an open mic up at Patrick's

7:07 Speaker 10: Pub in Guildford, New Hampshire. That's where I met John MacArthur,

7:10 Speaker 10: 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.

7:17 Speaker 10: And you know, especially in this context with the opportunities

7:19 Speaker 10: he's given me playing a lot of these bar gigs

7:21 Speaker 10: and stuff around here, which is just it's like with anything, right,

7:26 Speaker 10: if you want to be really good, you got to

7:27 Speaker 10: just put in time and hard work. It's kind of

7:29 Speaker 10: the grind that I've been on these last few years

7:31 Speaker 10: since doing that. And then you know, I've, like I said,

7:34 Speaker 10: I've been a musician my whole life, and I have

7:36 Speaker 10: a really I lean really heavily on my ear, Yeah,

7:39 Speaker 10: and I can be judgmental in that way. So I think,

7:41 Speaker 10: as most musicians will probably tell you, there's a lot

7:44 Speaker 10: of stuff that goes on with songwriting in terms of

7:46 Speaker 10: being hyper critical of yourself and self confidence, releasing tracks

7:50 Speaker 10: 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,

7:56 Speaker 10: and you know, that might be one of the songs

7:57 Speaker 10: that's going to be on it. Oh, I hope. So yeah, yeah,

8:00 Speaker 10: it deserves it. That's totally good. Yeah, that's very kind

8:02 Speaker 10: of neat to say. I yeah, it's it's something I'm

8:05 Speaker 10: really interested in. But like I said, it's it's just

8:07 Speaker 10: tough not to be able to overly critical. But at

8:09 Speaker 10: 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

8:15 Speaker 10: what I'm doing with music. I think that if I

8:18 Speaker 10: had gone right into music school like I kind of

8:21 Speaker 10: wanted to after high school, after doing all that stuff,

8:23 Speaker 10: I don't think it would have gone well. I think

8:25 Speaker 10: I was on the edge of burnt out really because yeah,

8:27 Speaker 10: I mean we had jazz band practices every morning before school.

8:30 Speaker 10: At six forty, it was taking trumpet lessons. It's just

8:34 Speaker 10: completely saturated in music. Yeah, and not really knowing you know,

8:38 Speaker 10: at that point in my life, you know, late teens,

8:39 Speaker 10: 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

8:45 Speaker 10: years of not being involved in music, I think have

8:47 Speaker 10: just fueled this crazy fire that I have now to

8:49 Speaker 10: write and collaborate with people and just really like I

8:53 Speaker 10: just started taking guitar lessons a couple, you know, maybe

8:56 Speaker 10: a month or two ago with a really great guy.

8:59 Speaker 10: So I'm actually put some of the old theory knowledge

9:01 Speaker 10: that I have to use with like the fifteen years

9:03 Speaker 10: of guitar playing, just playing songs that I like to

9:06 Speaker 10: hear and play. Yeah, So it just feels really, really awesome,

9:10 Speaker 10: and I'm really grateful to be here doing what I'm

9:12 Speaker 10: doing now.

9:13 Speaker 9: You know, during the span of time where you you know,

9:16 Speaker 9: you had kind of gotten away from it all, did

9:18 Speaker 9: you always kind of know that you would come back

9:21 Speaker 9: to it, or did you really at the time kind

9:24 Speaker 9: of feel like you know that was you know, I'm

9:26 Speaker 9: 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

9:32 Speaker 10: would have told you the latter. I probably would have

9:33 Speaker 10: told you now, you know, And I think that comes

9:37 Speaker 10: from being jaded and my no, through no fault of

9:40 Speaker 10: his own, my trumpet teacher was one of the ones

9:41 Speaker 10: who convinced me not to go to school for like

9:44 Speaker 10: performance really yeah, which how much of that was actually

9:48 Speaker 10: him and how much of it was in my head,

9:49 Speaker 10: 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

9:56 Speaker 10: horn players working in places like New York Boss. You know,

9:58 Speaker 10: all these clubs and theaters have live orchestras, and now

10:01 Speaker 10: it's just a percentage of what that was. So yeah,

10:03 Speaker 10: the statistics just make it pretty daunting. Yeah, but I

10:07 Speaker 10: think subconsciously, very deep down there, to answer your question,

10:10 Speaker 10: 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

10:16 Speaker 10: I am since a very young age. And like I said,

10:19 Speaker 10: you know, I rely heavily on my ear. I don't

10:21 Speaker 10: like to say I have a good ear because it's

10:23 Speaker 10: like what does that mean? But I just the way

10:25 Speaker 10: I hear music and interpret music is so ingrained with

10:28 Speaker 10: everything else about me, and it affects my you know, emotions,

10:32 Speaker 10: it affects my goals, it affects you know. So I

10:34 Speaker 10: think it was it was inevitable.

10:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. Well I'm dying to hear another one.

10:38 Speaker 8: If you want to play another live shirt chorus, Yeah,

10:41 Speaker 8: if you're just joining.

10:42 Speaker 9: Us, will he chases here with us alive in studio

10:45 Speaker 9: 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

10:55 Speaker 10: composite guitar. It's fully made of carbon fiber, and really yeah,

10:59 Speaker 10: the whole thing that, the bridge, the body, everything, the

11:03 Speaker 10: whole thing's carbon fiber. And the reason I got it

11:05 Speaker 10: was I've I've got an old tailor that I really

11:07 Speaker 10: really love, which you know, it's not a special instrument

11:10 Speaker 10: by most people's standards, but it is to me. And

11:12 Speaker 10: playing all these gigs, like playing outside a lot, playing

11:14 Speaker 10: around campfires all my friends, was just getting trashed. So

11:18 Speaker 10: you know, I saved up some tip money and got

11:20 Speaker 10: this thing, and it just holds tune really consistently. I

11:22 Speaker 10: don't have to worry as much about it. But it

11:24 Speaker 10: turns out that despite all of that, it's a really

11:27 Speaker 10: fun guitar to play, and it sounds great plugged in.

11:29 Speaker 10: You know, it's a little tinny acoustically if you're gonna

11:31 Speaker 10: make it up, because it's not very it's pretty cold,

11:34 Speaker 10: but right, right, So this next song, I go a

11:38 Speaker 10: bunch of different directions, so forgive me, but this is

11:41 Speaker 10: what I like to call cheap country song. But this

11:44 Speaker 10: this song, it has some country roots, but it's it's

11:47 Speaker 10: it's deeper than that. It's about kind of being in

11:50 Speaker 10: a bad place. And this vision I had of of,

11:54 Speaker 10: you know, if I didn't kind of get my act

11:56 Speaker 10: together and you know, have a few less beers and

11:58 Speaker 10: stop feeling sorry for myself. It was kind of a

12:00 Speaker 10: place where I was gonna end up. So it's a

12:02 Speaker 10: little bit about that. But yeah, this song is called

12:06 Speaker 10: I don't know what this song is called. Oh I

12:07 Speaker 10: guess it's called Pushing my Luck something like that. Okay,

12:11 Speaker 10: 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.

12:35 Speaker 4: Dog's on then. I ain't got it too far. I

12:39 Speaker 4: keep on living here, you keep on growing. I'm burying

12:42 Speaker 4: my money out in that yard, down on my luck,

12:47 Speaker 4: strutting my stuff. It's wearving me down. I'm anna sweeter,

12:51 Speaker 4: I'm tough. I ain't doing a lot. It's getting hard.

12:55 Speaker 4: 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

13:04 Speaker 3: right where it's going.

13:06 Speaker 4: I tried and mon on, but I just couldin stays wrong.

13:12 Speaker 4: So I cracking another bottle, try to make a quick Fuck. Man,

13:17 Speaker 4: 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.

13:32 Speaker 4: She don't think it's funny. She's pissed off, pissed, drunk family,

13:37 Speaker 4: end of that, all the things I can handle. So

13:40 Speaker 4: I'll just talk to mister Daniels. Because time keeps moving

13:45 Speaker 4: 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,

13:57 Speaker 4: So I cracking another bottle, try to make it quick.

14:00 Speaker 4: 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

14:23 Speaker 4: the bed, and man, I'm trying to up. I keep

14:26 Speaker 4: on drinking there, you keep on leaving, burying my soul

14:30 Speaker 4: 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

14:41 Speaker 4: knows right where it's going. I tried and moving on,

14:46 Speaker 4: I us couldn't stay strong so I cracking up the bottle,

14:51 Speaker 4: try to make a quick fuck man, I know what,

14:55 Speaker 4: 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

15:20 Speaker 9: 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

15:27 Speaker 9: you try to kind of sound like?

15:31 Speaker 10: It's probably an amalgamation of like twenty five people. Yeah, yeah,

15:34 Speaker 10: there'd be some easy ones to name. But honestly, recently,

15:37 Speaker 10: I've just been trying to sound like me. I think

15:40 Speaker 10: in the past I've tried to sound country singing country

15:43 Speaker 10: because of like the way I listen to music. I like,

15:46 Speaker 10: if I love a song, I'll just try to play

15:48 Speaker 10: it sound just like it, you know what I mean? Yeah,

15:51 Speaker 10: which gives me great satisfaction to be able to be like, yeah,

15:53 Speaker 10: I can play that song right. One thing I'm kind

15:56 Speaker 10: of figuring out or thinking more about now that I'm

15:58 Speaker 10: writing my own stuff is just, you know, how to

16:00 Speaker 10: I sound like me? How do I convey even if

16:02 Speaker 10: it's that feeling? But but you know, be unique? So

16:05 Speaker 10: but but yeah, vocally, I mean, you know, I'm sure

16:09 Speaker 10: a lot of people would say this is an influence.

16:11 Speaker 10: But Chris Stapleton I think has an amazing voice. You know,

16:14 Speaker 10: he's he's great. I'm a little below that, so you know,

16:18 Speaker 10: I would I would say another vocal influence, even though

16:20 Speaker 10: 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

16:27 Speaker 10: 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,

16:34 Speaker 9: He's there's nothing great about him at all. But yeah,

16:37 Speaker 9: but you're right though, for what he's doing, for what

16:39 Speaker 9: Pink Floyd is supposed to sound like.

16:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know. And I was fortunate when I

16:43 Speaker 1: was younger, I had some good coaches. I had.

16:46 Speaker 10: One of our theater directors was a Boston Pops pianist,

16:50 Speaker 10: 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

16:58 Speaker 10: good foundation of like brief and you know, despite the

17:02 Speaker 10: fact that I'm sitting back in my chair, like sitting

17:04 Speaker 10: on that sit on the front of your chair, like

17:05 Speaker 10: put vocal support, you know, sting out. And then also

17:09 Speaker 10: YouTube great, there's great like vocal instructors on YouTube that

17:12 Speaker 10: can give you tips on warming up and all this stuff.

17:14 Speaker 10: So yeah, I don't know if that answered your question,

17:18 Speaker 10: but oh definitely.

17:19 Speaker 9: I don't know if you notice I kind of reacted

17:21 Speaker 9: when he said Chris Stapleton because if I were to

17:24 Speaker 9: choose all the singer songwriters we've had on the show

17:28 Speaker 9: over the years, if I were to choose the number

17:30 Speaker 9: one name that comes up in conversation as far as influence,

17:34 Speaker 9: 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

17:40 Speaker 10: spent writing before he was, you know, pop famous. I

17:44 Speaker 10: 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

17:53 Speaker 10: 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.

17:59 Speaker 10: Blue Side of the Mountain, Angel of the Night, that's one. Sorry,

18:03 Speaker 10: 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

18:57 Speaker 4: 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,

19:09 Speaker 9: 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.

19:14 Speaker 8: You do a lot of when you play live. Do

19:15 Speaker 8: you do a lot of covers or yeah?

19:18 Speaker 10: Mostly covers. Yeah, I've got almost an hour of original

19:20 Speaker 10: music that can do. I'll stretch it and do a

19:22 Speaker 10: little storytelling. Yeah yeah, but uh but yeah, mostly covers.

19:25 Speaker 10: I mean, you know, for the for the gigs that

19:27 Speaker 10: I'm doing right now, you know, the main point is

19:30 Speaker 10: entertaining everybody at the bar and stuff, and you know,

19:33 Speaker 10: oftentimes people respond well to my music, which is you know,

19:36 Speaker 10: just great and validating, and but you know, people want

19:39 Speaker 10: to hear what they want to hear, right when they're

19:41 Speaker 10: having a beer, which is which I totally understand, and

19:43 Speaker 10: I think I kind of love that. You know, I

19:45 Speaker 10: look at those gigs as a challenge. You know, how

19:48 Speaker 10: do you get people's interest, How do you get foot

19:51 Speaker 10: feet tapping? You know, how do you get people turning

19:53 Speaker 10: 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,

19:57 Speaker 10: that's that's how you make tips. Any performer will tell you.

19:59 Speaker 10: But yeah, financially it's a good strategy. But but that's

20:04 Speaker 10: you know, from the beginning, that's always been the fun part.

20:06 Speaker 10: It's like, how do you get people to notice you?

20:09 Speaker 10: Because that means they're enjoying it, right, They're having a

20:10 Speaker 10: 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

20:18 Speaker 9: and the Collective because that's again such a great organization.

20:23 Speaker 9: And we had John on the show, and you know,

20:24 Speaker 9: we've had a lot of musicians on the show who

20:26 Speaker 9: who work with them. And John, by the way, is

20:30 Speaker 9: he's very very busy. Like when he told us we

20:34 Speaker 9: were talking about the events, how many events they do,

20:36 Speaker 9: and he told us the number that he personally is

20:39 Speaker 9: 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

20:46 Speaker 9: 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,

20:52 Speaker 10: but he goes to open mics around and kind of

20:54 Speaker 10: you know, looks for talent a little bit, I think,

20:56 Speaker 10: But uh, yeah, I met him at Patrick's Pub, Guildford.

21:01 Speaker 10: We kind of hit it off and exchanged information. And

21:04 Speaker 10: you know, at that point, I didn't have three hours

21:06 Speaker 10: of consistent songs that I could play that were all.

21:08 Speaker 1: Polished and yeah and done. You know. So it took

21:11 Speaker 1: 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,

21:16 Speaker 10: John and I kind of became friends. He would, uh,

21:18 Speaker 10: he would give me a call. We live pretty close

21:20 Speaker 10: to each other up there in the Lakes region, so

21:22 Speaker 10: 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

21:26 Speaker 10: about other people, I guess in a friendship situation, which

21:29 Speaker 10: is but you know, I've been around a lot of

21:31 Speaker 10: music in my life and been around really good musicians

21:34 Speaker 10: and and you know, regardless of whatever whatever I play,

21:36 Speaker 10: I think I have a pretty good idea of you know,

21:39 Speaker 10: 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

21:47 Speaker 10: and you know, he would kind of ask my opinion

21:48 Speaker 10: about people. And you know, I'm not trying to say

21:51 Speaker 10: that I'm judging and jury but or anything, but we

21:53 Speaker 10: just kind of enjoyed it. You know, we enjoyed each

21:55 Speaker 10: other's presence and hanging out and talking about music and

21:57 Speaker 10: 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

22:04 Speaker 10: experienced this really, but in an industry there's a reportedly

22:07 Speaker 10: very cutthroat people will say about music and arts and

22:09 Speaker 10: you know, getting gigs and stuff. John is just somebody

22:12 Speaker 10: who genuinely cares about everybody he works with. He genuinely

22:15 Speaker 10: wants everybody to succeed. And he'll give you an opportunity

22:18 Speaker 10: if you're working hard, no matter you know, who we are,

22:22 Speaker 10: what you look like, what you're doing, what kind of

22:25 Speaker 10: music you're playing. He's just able to recognize people who

22:27 Speaker 10: 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,

22:34 Speaker 10: who is the other half of the New Hampshire Music Collective,

22:36 Speaker 10: who's an unbelievable guitarist. I'll have to recommend you his

22:41 Speaker 10: him for the show too. But yeah, but but yeah,

22:44 Speaker 10: just John. You know, John's awesome, so from there, you know,

22:46 Speaker 10: he he was gracious enough to give me some gigs

22:48 Speaker 10: 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

22:55 Speaker 10: I know, so like I just listened to so many

22:57 Speaker 10: different types of music that I have this kind of

22:59 Speaker 10: weird catalog. But it works great for that situation, right

23:02 Speaker 10: 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

23:07 Speaker 10: then like you play something yeah anyway, you know you

23:09 Speaker 10: know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, yeah, So I've done

23:11 Speaker 10: pretty well with the bar gigs and we have a

23:14 Speaker 10: great thing going.

23:14 Speaker 1: You know. I love working with those guys. It yeah

23:16 Speaker 1: helps me. It's a great side hustle.

23:18 Speaker 10: I do still have a day job, unfortunately, but but yeah, no,

23:22 Speaker 10: it's awesome.

23:23 Speaker 1: All around.

23:23 Speaker 9: It's so important to find people who are who are

23:26 Speaker 9: positive and honest, and you know, there are a lot

23:28 Speaker 9: of sharks, you know, so to be able to connect

23:31 Speaker 9: with somebody like John and the NH Music Collective, it's

23:34 Speaker 9: 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,

23:40 Speaker 9: because it's I do feel like there, you know. I mean,

23:44 Speaker 9: there's there's some people you want to avoid, but I

23:46 Speaker 9: think generally, I think the music scene, at least around here,

23:50 Speaker 9: is people are pretty supportive of each other and want

23:52 Speaker 9: to work together and uplift each other. I always contrast

23:55 Speaker 9: it with I've listened to some podcasts over the years

23:59 Speaker 9: of stand up comics, and that my impression of that

24:03 Speaker 9: world of stand up comedy. I mean, it's all part

24:04 Speaker 9: of live entertainment, but stand up comedy, as far as

24:08 Speaker 9: I can tell, is very cutthroat, like everyone secretly hates

24:11 Speaker 9: each other, everyone secretly wants to see each other fail,

24:13 Speaker 9: you know what I mean. That's just the impression that

24:16 Speaker 9: I get, the vibe that I get from it. Whereas

24:18 Speaker 9: I think, yeah, there's there's always people you want to

24:22 Speaker 9: be careful of, but I think generally people are pretty

24:23 Speaker 9: supportive in the music scene and yeah, cool, you know,

24:27 Speaker 9: and and why not be you know, it doesn't, right,

24:30 Speaker 9: none of it's a zero sum game. You know, life

24:32 Speaker 9: is not a zero s game. Just because somebody else

24:34 Speaker 9: is being successful, that doesn't take something away from you.

24:38 Speaker 9: If anything, it should inspire you to maybe be able

24:41 Speaker 9: 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

24:45 Speaker 10: experience or in the music scene around here. And I'm

24:48 Speaker 10: sure you've seen way more than I've been exposed to.

24:50 Speaker 10: But yeah, so it's it's great. I think we got

24:51 Speaker 10: 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,

25:04 Speaker 8: 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

25:14 Speaker 9: 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

25:28 Speaker 10: is another song I wrote after coming out of a

25:31 Speaker 10: hard place. This is kind of about just being who

25:33 Speaker 10: you are and getting back to yourself and away from

25:36 Speaker 10: 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

26:44 Speaker 3: party in front of you.

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

27:03 Speaker 4: 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

27:29 Speaker 4: and trying to sleep, wondering if the rain could wash

27:40 Speaker 4: you from my sheets. Oh time, never ever gonna come

27:57 Speaker 4: back to you.

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

28:08 Speaker 12: 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.

28:44 Speaker 9: And yeah, I think that's a universal theme, you know.

28:47 Speaker 9: 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.

28:53 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.

28:55 Speaker 10: Yeah, man, that that was that came from a dark place,

28:58 Speaker 10: for sure. But there's always light at the end of

29:01 Speaker 10: the tunnel, I guess.

29:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it could be an oncoming train.

29:05 Speaker 8: 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.

29:12 Speaker 8: Are you playing out a lot? Are you doing a

29:13 Speaker 8: 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

29:19 Speaker 10: 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.

29:26 Speaker 10: I really just this past like August, I really kind

29:30 Speaker 10: of had a revelatory moment where I decided I was

29:32 Speaker 10: just gonna say no to nothing and say yes to

29:36 Speaker 10: everything and just kind of give everything I had, you know, yeah,

29:40 Speaker 10: because yeah, this is what I want to do for

29:43 Speaker 10: the rest of my life. Yeah, and I'm planning on

29:45 Speaker 10: it so good through a set of experiences that I

29:47 Speaker 10: don't have to go into, you know, that song came

29:50 Speaker 10: 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

29:56 Speaker 1: of really cool shows. Recently.

29:57 Speaker 10: We had a singer songwriter competition up there in Guilford

30:01 Speaker 10: and then John put together John MacArthur put together a

30:05 Speaker 10: show at the BNH Stage and Conquered where all the

30:07 Speaker 10: finalists from that competition came and played and played with them.

30:10 Speaker 10: We did a couple numbers together and it was really fun.

30:13 Speaker 10: I mean, just what a group of talented people.

30:16 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you always play? Is it always

30:20 Speaker 8: 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

30:24 Speaker 10: of the stuff I book is solo. But there's a

30:27 Speaker 10: shop in Laconia called NH Vintage Vinyl. This guy, Dan

30:31 Speaker 10: McLaughlin owns it, Dan mack He's a friend of mine.

30:33 Speaker 10: He plays bass, so he comes out. We do a

30:35 Speaker 10: really cool duo. We do like a bunch of grunge

30:38 Speaker 10: oh stuff, so to have like you know, it's still

30:41 Speaker 10: kind of acoustic. But then there's a couple of different

30:44 Speaker 10: groups I've played with in more of a band setting,

30:46 Speaker 10: but nothing, nothing super firm. I'm definitely looking to collaborate

30:50 Speaker 10: more with other people and you know, getting into more

30:52 Speaker 10: of a production role and self producing a lot of

30:55 Speaker 10: stuff just for you know, demos and yeahnt in preparation

30:58 Speaker 10: of going into the studio. And that's all always been

31:00 Speaker 10: a h A fun thing for me is you know,

31:03 Speaker 10: I took a few recording engineering courses in community college

31:07 Speaker 10: before I kind of went went to school, and and

31:09 Speaker 10: so knowing how to use pro tools, what I interface does,

31:13 Speaker 10: 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

31:19 Speaker 10: other people is magical. Yeah, you know, I think that's

31:21 Speaker 10: one thing that's a little bit I don't want to

31:23 Speaker 10: say it's lost, but you know, not as common these days.

31:26 Speaker 10: You know, fifty years ago, you didn't have any any choice.

31:28 Speaker 10: If you wanted to play with somebody else, you had

31:29 Speaker 10: to go in and link up with them and say, hey,

31:31 Speaker 10: let's sit down and play some music. And now there's

31:33 Speaker 10: everything's in the Internet, and it's obviously it's you know,

31:36 Speaker 10: there's so many bonuses from that. But yeah, it's been

31:40 Speaker 10: it's been kind of tough, honestly to get people to

31:42 Speaker 10: h to want to collaborate. I mean, I don't know

31:45 Speaker 10: if it's a function of just the location I'm in

31:47 Speaker 10: or my you know, lack of outreach, I don't know,

31:49 Speaker 10: but but it's something I'm craving. Yeah, if you're listening

31:53 Speaker 10: to this and you want to collaborate, you want to

31:54 Speaker 10: 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

32:01 Speaker 10: we had another drummer and his name was Dan Hewitt.

32:04 Speaker 10: We played a couple of shows like my buddy's birthday

32:06 Speaker 10: party and stuff, but we put together like two hours

32:08 Speaker 10: having a killer.

32:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

32:09 Speaker 10: We did this cover of Comfortably Numb and I don't know,

32:13 Speaker 10: 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.

32:19 Speaker 10: 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.

32:24 Speaker 10: We played the reck Yard up in uh up at

32:28 Speaker 10: you know, Tower Hill, Weir's Beach.

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

32:33 Speaker 1: couple other things, but.

32:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, I haven't I haven't really been like a you know,

32:37 Speaker 10: a standard with with anybody, but you know, hoping to

32:40 Speaker 10: find people and collaborate.

32:41 Speaker 1: I'm I just kind of take it as it comes,

32:43 Speaker 1: you know what I mean?

32:44 Speaker 10: Because that's sometimes you can rush into situations and it's

32:46 Speaker 10: not where you want to be or you And conversely,

32:49 Speaker 10: you could just sit in your apartment, play guitar.

32:50 Speaker 1: All day and never talk. Sometimes I find myself that's

32:54 Speaker 1: all a balance, right, do you?

32:56 Speaker 9: As far as shows and you got out of New England,

32:58 Speaker 9: 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

33:03 Speaker 9: there aren't a million places to play here, because there

33:05 Speaker 9: definitely are.

33:06 Speaker 1: True.

33:06 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I haven't really. I spent the last four

33:10 Speaker 10: winters out in Park City, Utah. Really yeah, why working

33:14 Speaker 10: 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,

33:19 Speaker 10: 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

33:27 Speaker 10: or two open mics and and kind of you know stuff,

33:29 Speaker 10: 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

33:34 Speaker 10: for the big launch. But once I get some you know,

33:36 Speaker 10: once I get like a solid record out that I'm

33:38 Speaker 10: happy with, you know, and then can release and like capitalize.

33:42 Speaker 10: But I'm I'm yeah, I just I'm cool, kind of

33:44 Speaker 10: cool with where I'm at now because I feel like

33:46 Speaker 10: I'm just racking up all these hours, right, all these

33:48 Speaker 10: gigs and just like, yeah, I want to blow the

33:51 Speaker 10: 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

34:01 Speaker 9: you know, we live in a time when you you know,

34:03 Speaker 9: 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

34:09 Speaker 9: of singles that eventually becomes an album. You know, is

34:11 Speaker 9: but are you is that kind of your goal is

34:14 Speaker 9: 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

34:18 Speaker 10: music always and the way that I think about music,

34:21 Speaker 10: I think like a song is too short for me

34:23 Speaker 10: 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

34:27 Speaker 10: probably release some singles, yeah, you know, once I can

34:30 Speaker 10: get things recorded properly and whatnot, which is mostly just

34:34 Speaker 10: you know, financial Oh. But but yeah, I think like

34:41 Speaker 10: my favorite albums are the ones that you just you know,

34:43 Speaker 10: front to back, right, you just put put the needle

34:45 Speaker 10: down and go through it, and it tells a story

34:49 Speaker 10: or it conveys a feeling, or even if it's just

34:51 Speaker 10: totally your interpretation of it, it all fits together. I think

34:53 Speaker 10: that's really beautiful. It's like a book, right, Yeah, yeah,

34:56 Speaker 10: people release a chapter of a book. I mean maybe,

34:58 Speaker 10: 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

35:05 Speaker 10: real world limitations like resources and time yea, you know,

35:08 Speaker 10: and I understand, you know, singles are the big thing now.

35:11 Speaker 10: I think you really want to push singles and yeah,

35:14 Speaker 10: the way music is released and distributed, but I'm I'm

35:16 Speaker 10: a long way away from that, you know what I mean.

35:19 Speaker 10: I'm sure I'd love to be in a place one

35:22 Speaker 10: day where that all that really, you know, matters, and

35:24 Speaker 10: 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

35:29 Speaker 10: a long time ago, you know what I mean. That's

35:31 Speaker 10: part of what I said earlier about being in the

35:32 Speaker 10: position I'm in now. You know, I do just for myself,

35:34 Speaker 10: and I realized that as some of those first open mics.

35:37 Speaker 10: It's actually just a quick story that I won that

35:39 Speaker 10: songwriter competition three years ago and it took me. There's

35:43 Speaker 10: eight qualifying weeks and I played all of them and

35:45 Speaker 10: I didn't qualify until the very last week and went

35:47 Speaker 10: 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

35:55 Speaker 10: hadn't performed any type of music in twelve years, no kidding.

36:00 Speaker 10: So I was like, you know, I'm gonna come in

36:01 Speaker 10: here and everybody's gonna love me songs and I'm gonna

36:05 Speaker 10: be great.

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

36:08 Speaker 1: jokingly of course.

36:10 Speaker 10: Yeah, But that taught me, you know, I realized through

36:13 Speaker 10: those eight weeks, I was like, man, you know, because

36:16 Speaker 10: 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

36:23 Speaker 10: let me through the finals, I didn't care because I

36:25 Speaker 10: just it was the only place I could go and

36:26 Speaker 10: 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

36:30 Speaker 10: kept signing up for slots because I was like, I

36:32 Speaker 10: 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

36:37 Speaker 8: 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

36:42 Speaker 10: so much of it is based on luck and connections

36:45 Speaker 10: and stuff like you can't. You know, it's a great

36:47 Speaker 10: Quincy Jones quote, God Rest his Soul that I always

36:50 Speaker 10: think of. It's like when you start talking about money,

36:52 Speaker 10: 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,

37:00 Speaker 10: like it's with anything in life, right, you know, do

37:03 Speaker 10: what you love, work really hard at it, and all

37:05 Speaker 10: the things that you want, all the material things will

37:07 Speaker 10: come usually in excess, if you know, if you're really

37:10 Speaker 10: devoting yourself to something right, and and that just you know,

37:14 Speaker 10: it has a whole set of problems with it. And

37:15 Speaker 10: you know, listen, I live in the real world. I

37:17 Speaker 10: got credit card dead right, I got we got all

37:19 Speaker 10: make money. But but man, I just do this because

37:21 Speaker 10: I love it. I never get sick of picking up

37:23 Speaker 10: a guitar and playing music or talking about music. Like

37:26 Speaker 10: being here with you right now is awesome just because

37:28 Speaker 10: we get to spend time talking about music and thinking

37:30 Speaker 10: 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

37:34 Speaker 10: on a tangent like I normally do. But you know,

37:36 Speaker 10: 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

37:45 Speaker 10: that competition. Cool that my my friends and folk friends

37:50 Speaker 10: love this song.

37:51 Speaker 1: Uh.

37:51 Speaker 10: The song is called Misery and Tequila. Uh, and it

37:54 Speaker 10: 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,

38:28 Speaker 4: this haunchoke dying on lock of the Lakes. I ain't

38:34 Speaker 4: 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

38:50 Speaker 4: porch knocking? Maybe three more? Who have you knocking on

38:54 Speaker 4: 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

39:22 Speaker 4: the feeling and I should call her and lifting when

39:27 Speaker 4: I do, she'll tell me that we're through. Misery, Kee,

39:36 Speaker 4: I love you. The parting of the shot on the

39:42 Speaker 4: front porch knocking baby three board, will have you knocking

39:47 Speaker 4: 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

40:24 Speaker 9: 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

40:32 Speaker 9: our live listeners? Anything to plug?

40:35 Speaker 10: Not this weekend, but coming up. Yeah, I got a

40:37 Speaker 10: bunch of stuff. You can always go to my website

40:39 Speaker 10: Willichase music dot com. Uh, there's a schedule tab on

40:43 Speaker 10: there with all my upcoming shows. But yeah, I'm playing

40:46 Speaker 10: just about every weekend around the Lakes region. I'm gonna

40:48 Speaker 10: be at the Waterview Pub this coming Wednesday. I can't

40:52 Speaker 10: remember exactly where that is. That's a new one for me.

40:55 Speaker 10: And then I'm usually at Twin Barnes and Meredith all

40:57 Speaker 10: the time about once a month or so. I've got

41:01 Speaker 10: 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,

41:08 Speaker 10: so you know, kind of that circuit up there. I

41:10 Speaker 10: will be in Manchester at certain points in January and

41:14 Speaker 10: February playing in the Backyard Brewery and the Anheuser Busch

41:19 Speaker 10: Beer Garden. I've done that those a couple of times.

41:21 Speaker 10: I've got a couple more dates booked there. I'm going

41:23 Speaker 10: to be playing at Defiant Records and Laconia. So yeah,

41:26 Speaker 10: if you go to my website Willichase Music dot com

41:28 Speaker 10: w I L L Y, or Google me social media,

41:32 Speaker 10: Instagram and Facebook at Willy Chase Music, you can always

41:36 Speaker 10: find I'm posting about the shows and stuff.

41:37 Speaker 9: So do you have a favorite place to play or

41:41 Speaker 9: a couple that are just really really that you just

41:44 Speaker 9: 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,

41:50 Speaker 10: Foster's Tavern is always a super fun time. Yeah, it's

41:53 Speaker 10: always full of people and everybody's always usually singing along

41:56 Speaker 10: by the end.

41:57 Speaker 1: Oh that's what it really gets people singing along these

41:58 Speaker 1: 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

42:07 Speaker 10: to a song and playing Take Me Higher by Creative,

42:09 Speaker 10: 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

42:16 Speaker 10: the arc of some of those artists. Yeah, you know,

42:18 Speaker 10: like very popular and then basically geting dragged on social

42:21 Speaker 10: media for ten years, but everybody loves him.

42:24 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's happened to a lot of those lymp Biscuits.

42:28 Speaker 9: A great exit, yeah too, Limp Biscuit is huge. Yeah,

42:31 Speaker 9: and they were huge. But even but even when they

42:34 Speaker 9: were huge the first time, a lot of people look

42:36 Speaker 9: down on them and you know what I mean. But

42:38 Speaker 9: now it's like everybody's just kind of like, oh yeah,

42:42 Speaker 9: 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

42:46 Speaker 10: 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,

42:56 Speaker 9: he gets overlooked because of the band that he plays in, right,

43:00 Speaker 9: but yeah, no, I agree, I agree. Yeah, that's They've

43:03 Speaker 9: been a topic on the show recently because of that

43:05 Speaker 9: big two hundred million dollar lawsuit. UMG, talking about sharks

43:10 Speaker 9: 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

43:17 Speaker 9: those bands, yeah, like like Creed and who else?

43:19 Speaker 8: Do you so you play a lot of that stuff

43:21 Speaker 8: 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

43:26 Speaker 10: know Unknown Creed. I guess you would say I know

43:28 Speaker 10: some of the bangers. Yeah, but I play a lot

43:31 Speaker 10: of like Alison Chain's Stone Temple pilots like That's always

43:34 Speaker 10: been a very I've always been super fond of that, Yeah,

43:38 Speaker 10: 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

43:45 Speaker 10: Chains fan. Like Lane Staley, I think was it was

43:49 Speaker 10: one of my favorite vocalists. That actually kind of goes

43:51 Speaker 10: back to that earlier question. I try to sound like him,

43:54 Speaker 10: but yeah unsuccessfully. Yeah, but I when the screen because

43:58 Speaker 10: he's like he was a bit of a screamer, but

43:59 Speaker 10: not a high register like I can never sing like

44:02 Speaker 10: Chester Bennington or anybody from you know, more metal league groups.

44:07 Speaker 10: I just I don't have that in my range. But

44:08 Speaker 10: like guys like Lane, you know, we're we're kind of

44:13 Speaker 10: in that lower register but still managed to get that

44:15 Speaker 10: like rock high like screaming sound, which I really love,

44:20 Speaker 10: you know. And then of course I'm big fan of

44:22 Speaker 10: like Audio Slave and Chris Cornell, Yeah, Sound Garden and yeah,

44:25 Speaker 10: you know and that, and but Chris Cornell was way

44:27 Speaker 10: up there too, but he was one of my favorite

44:29 Speaker 10: 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

44:39 Speaker 9: stop myself because I started to have this thought. You

44:42 Speaker 9: ever started to have a thought and then you're about

44:44 Speaker 9: 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,

44:52 Speaker 9: Lane Staley such a unique voice, as nobody who sounds

44:55 Speaker 9: like him? And then of course I remember, no, they

44:57 Speaker 9: found a new singer who sounds exactly like him.

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

45:03 Speaker 8: 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

45:09 Speaker 10: like dark in drab. But then you'd hear it like

45:11 Speaker 10: you'd be listening to jar of Flies and it's like,

45:14 Speaker 10: you know, just do me almost and then there's like

45:17 Speaker 10: this whole major, like beautiful acoustic song. I'm trying to

45:20 Speaker 10: remember the name of the title of the track, but

45:22 Speaker 10: it's like later on in that jar Flies album, Oh

45:24 Speaker 10: just like super pleasant, you know what I mean, Like

45:26 Speaker 10: very major and beautiful, so like the complexity is what

45:30 Speaker 10: 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

45:35 Speaker 8: one more?

45:36 Speaker 9: Sure, I'd love to hear one more if you're just

45:38 Speaker 9: joining us, will he chases here with us live in

45:40 Speaker 9: studio and uh back up there?

45:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, so this last track, well, making sure my guitar

45:47 Speaker 10: is in two and I'll tell you a little bit

45:48 Speaker 10: about it, Okay, this I So I grew up down

45:52 Speaker 10: in Connecticut, which evokes many things. But my mother's family

45:57 Speaker 10: has been there for a very long time. They were

45:59 Speaker 10: 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

46:07 Speaker 10: I have a big family and I love everything about it.

46:10 Speaker 10: But it's there's no farming left, you know, we don't

46:13 Speaker 10: farm anymore. And the last dairy farm in our town

46:15 Speaker 10: just closed a few years ago. So this whole lifestyle

46:18 Speaker 10: of generations and generations my family the way that I mean,

46:21 Speaker 10: nobody left, like you know, it was just always there,

46:25 Speaker 10: and it's just not a place I ever felt home at,

46:28 Speaker 10: you know, outside of our little bubble like Connecticut. Rather,

46:30 Speaker 10: you know, it's just this what used to be really

46:33 Speaker 10: a graririan kind of nice place is just surrounded by

46:36 Speaker 10: 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,

46:40 Speaker 10: the North Country and everything. So this song is kind

46:43 Speaker 10: of about that feeling of this whole paradigm shift, and

46:47 Speaker 10: you know, like feeling like you know, I have three

46:49 Speaker 10: hundred years of dairy farming in my blood, but it's

46:51 Speaker 10: like just this weird anyway, I'll stop talking about it

46:54 Speaker 10: 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

47:17 Speaker 4: cut it eavy here. Now they're putting up panels, and

47:21 Speaker 4: 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

47:36 Speaker 4: stoves in old hay bells. That's blowing off of your

47:40 Speaker 4: old hay, picking up a memory and flies into the Mama,

47:53 Speaker 4: love is town. I got a lot of reasons left

48:00 Speaker 4: sticking around, And that's blood run sticking in water. God Lord,

48:08 Speaker 4: 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

48:35 Speaker 4: 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

48:54 Speaker 4: can't take it anymore. But my family, you keep me

49:00 Speaker 4: 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

49:27 Speaker 4: 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

49:53 Speaker 4: the break faster than ever who befooling good all the

50:00 Speaker 4: e I'm bringing me home. No more my roots can

50:20 Speaker 4: 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

50:35 Speaker 4: me drown. No more roots can down. No, my roots

50:45 Speaker 4: 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

51:16 Speaker 9: we wrap up, I want to remind people if you

51:18 Speaker 9: are listening live on Saturday, today is the Magical Market

51:22 Speaker 9: at the Great North Ale Works from noon to four pm.

51:26 Speaker 9: That's where Jenny is right now, and I will be

51:28 Speaker 9: joining her in a little bit after the show, after

51:31 Speaker 9: I get everything uploaded, So come say hello. Lots of

51:35 Speaker 9: great artisans and local businesses participating in that event. And

51:39 Speaker 9: as I like to remind people every holiday season, Walmart

51:42 Speaker 9: 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

51:47 Speaker 9: businesses and we'd love to see you there. So that

51:50 Speaker 9: is a great north Aale works from noon to four

51:52 Speaker 9: pm this afternoon on the fourteenth. If you are listening

51:57 Speaker 9: live Willie Chase, this has been wonderful.

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

52:01 Speaker 1: 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,

52:08 Speaker 10: threads at Willy Chase Music all one word or Willichase

52:12 Speaker 10: 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.

52:22 Speaker 10: Oh best thing ever. Yeah, And one of the first

52:24 Speaker 10: posts I put out I was just talking about like

52:26 Speaker 10: jazz orchestras and got like ten thousand people viewed it

52:29 Speaker 10: and got everybody talking about posting old pictures of jazz

52:31 Speaker 10: clubs in New York. It was like the best social

52:33 Speaker 10: 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,

52:42 Speaker 10: it's been really cool.

52:43 Speaker 9: Yeah no, that's good. That's good, very good. And when

52:47 Speaker 9: is your next show?

52:48 Speaker 10: I have a show coming up this Wednesday at the

52:50 Speaker 10: Waterview Pub And yeah, go to my website. Everything's listed

52:54 Speaker 10: right out of the schedule tab. You can see all

52:55 Speaker 10: my shows coming up. I'll be playing all around the

52:58 Speaker 10: Lakes region and south down to Manchester Conquered in the

53:00 Speaker 10: next few months.

53:01 Speaker 9: Outstanding, outstanding, very good. Well, thank you so much, and

53:05 Speaker 9: thank you to all of our guests today. Of course

53:07 Speaker 9: we had Tom Modern in the second hour. In the

53:09 Speaker 9: first hour we had Sean Devlin from the band Devil

53:11 Speaker 9: inside Us and of course, uh they're playing tonight at

53:14 Speaker 9: Terminus in Nashua. Big show there. It's the Christmas in Hell,

53:20 Speaker 9: I believe, is the name of the show. But uh,

53:22 Speaker 9: don't don't be put off by the name, because it's

53:24 Speaker 9: actually for a great, great cause. They're raising a ton

53:27 Speaker 9: of money for to buy toys for children who might

53:31 Speaker 9: not otherwise have a Christmas this year. So that's a

53:33 Speaker 9: great event to and Terminus is a great place, so

53:36 Speaker 9: check that out.

53:36 Speaker 8: That out.

53:37 Speaker 9: If you can come to Great North Ale Works, come

53:39 Speaker 9: say hello to Jenny and I and Willie Chase. Thank

53:42 Speaker 9: you again, and if you miss any part of today's show,

53:44 Speaker 9: it will be up in just a little bit w

53:45 Speaker 9: Mnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com,

53:49 Speaker 9: and we will talk at you all a little bit later.

53:51 Speaker 8: By everybody, My.

53:56 Speaker 12: God bless keep you always your wishes all come true.

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

54:10 Speaker 3: for you.

54:11 Speaker 12: May you build the letter to the stars, climb on

54:16 Speaker 12: every long.

54:20 Speaker 4: May you stay.

54:23 Speaker 3: Foreveryon.

54:27 Speaker 12: May you stay foreveryon.

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

54:51 Speaker 12: know the truth. Fancy the lights surrounding you. May you

54:57 Speaker 12: always be courageous, stand upright, be strong.

55:05 Speaker 4: May you stay.

55:08 Speaker 12: Foreverrion, May you stay for everyon. May your hands always

55:58 Speaker 12: be busy. May your feet always be with.

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

56:08 Speaker 12: When the wind of changes shift. May your heart always

56:14 Speaker 12: be joyful. Mayor song always be song. May you stay foreveryon.

56:29 Speaker 12: May you stay foreverial.

56:39 Speaker 4: M H.

56:42 Speaker 1: You're listening to W M and H.

56:49 Speaker 8: The Commander don't get so Maxell coming