Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-16-23 part 2

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wmn H three don't get Z zero guy. Welcome back everybody, as we

are well into our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we

are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM Inglorious Downtown Manchester,

New Hampshire. Jenny is here as well at the news desk present account

for yes and we have a great band who has joined us in studio or

most of the band is with us. Dark Rain is here. Hello,

good morning, Hello, Hello, welcome everybody actually here. We'll we'll start

with you if you can tell us who you are, what you do in

the band. We'll kind of go around and then we'll and then we'll hear

you play. My name is Kelly. Everybody calls me gh while I'm on

stage, and I am the biggest diva out of the four of us at

the moment. It's yeah, why do they call you g H? It's

the way I spell my name, Kelly. It's k E L L E

I g H. So they just call me for sure. I gotcha,

Okay, okay. And you, sir, Yeah, I'm Dudley. I

play guitar and I'm the other singer in the band. I'll do a lot

of the business end of stuff. Founding member. Yeah, very good,

very good, all good stuff. And you, sir, and Brian.

I play rhythm guitar, all right, and a little bit of backing vocals

here and there. Very good, very good. And uh. And we

also have are you the manager? Are you the Yeah? I do their

road managing. My name is Echo. I go by Echo Ray the rock

and Redhead. I do the stage managing and I also do merch sales and

promotion, booking, that sort of stuff. Excellent, excellent. How long

have you worked with Dark Ray Dark Rain. I've been working with for just

a few months now. We've we've been friends for half a lifetime. Oh

yeah, very good, very good. We should mention too. That track

that we played playing with fire and by the way, but you know,

full disclosure, part of why I picked that is it's six minutes long,

so it's good for the changeover when you all are getting set up. It's

a good, good, long song. But that is because I think I

heard you say that was your favorite. It's one of my favorite, one

of your favorite. I like that too. I like all the tracks,

all the studio tracks you sent me. But yeah, that one, that

that is a that is great. That is really really good. It punches

in the face. Yeah, really good stuff. But we're dying to hear

you play live if you want to. Oh, we should mention too.

So you're missing somebody right your base. Our bass players home sick. We

figured we wouldn't bring the disease down from me and appreciate. I appreciate it.

He's recuperating for the show next week, gotcha go true? Yeah,

we have an amazing show next week, so we want him to be up

and ready to go up and ready for that one. Where are you playing?

We're playing at o'donna Hughes in Brunswick, Maine. It is a fundraiser

that Echo has put on a letter tell you a little bit more about it,

But we just wanted to do something for the survivors of that Lewiston mouse

shooting. Yeah. We have a couple of friends in the music field with

us that have lost close loved ones and it's just our way to hey,

we're here for you. We got you six you know. Okay, So

very cool, very very cool. All right, Well, we're dying to

hear you play. I'll kind of ride the faders as we go, all

right, but we'll do we'll do a song off the off the CD,

the American Dream, which is when we're currently promoting. This is a one

of solo. Morecistically, it's called the Shades of August. All right,

dark Rain live in studio. She left him with no choice. She gave

of her time to other boys. What did they was going on because we

all know that he did nothing wrong when I left down on your road,

have no place to call your no mom's no on your phone. Message is

from the unknown. It's chid loggage shits of argain will time on lever with

a time nehver head. It's a child logue, a slight shreds of argain.

Ship didn't hurt so bad. She now knows what she's lost. Now

that she knows she's paid a cost, we know she can't come back again.

Boy, remember every now and there were not left down on your own,

have a face to all your no mother missed us on your phone a

message just rounding your alone long as she's of hocky will time ve wa a

time my never s long. It's a slight sweets of hocky s getting so

bad when you're left down on your road and now that masted a broll your

listen, it's from me. It's a h long shades of U time.

It's a shed fuck. It's just like shades of augain. Ship's all day,

very nice, dark rain. Live in studio with us here on Matt

Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety

five point three f M on this Saturday morning. And uh, that that's

I love that. That was awesome. The two of you singing together too,

is really good. There's there's just something really uh you just you sound

really good besties. Yeah, you guys really do. I mean that's the

first thing that I noticed was your harmony together is really beautiful. Thank you

so much. Almost sound like one voice. It'll be a new song that

makes it, if that makes sense. Do you do that on a lot

of songs where you trade off on the vocals? Yeah, yeah, it's

pretty much a duality. But it's like I call it, like the sweet

and the melancholy. My voice is not a natural singer with Kelly's got this

beautiful, awesome, powerful voice, but I think they blend well. Yeah,

yeah, there's a contrast there that there really works. How long has

Dark Rain been around? How long have you been a band? That question?

So we started out Kelly and I and well, it's it's kind of

where we we morphed from another band. It was called Strictly Business. We

morphed into Dark Rain. Brian had just stopped playing with us, and we

it was myself, Kelly a drummer front of ours, guitarist and a bass

player obviously, and we were around for like a couple of years. In

ninety nine two thousand, did a lot of shows, got pretty busy and

we played played down a mass a lot. We were doing getting kind of

a good following and had a couple of record deals on the table, and

then Kelly got pregnant, you know, had a baby. Yeah, so

they could kind of full this off track and we're getting back. Then we

went through some lineup changes and stuff. In about twenty eleven or twelve,

I decided to kind of put the band back together, so to speak,

and all the original members came back except for the bass player, and we

were working our stuff and we've been pretty much consistent since then. Brian came

back. Our friend Ben Hursty who had been an original member. He'd been

over overseas for a while and he'd come back and he joined up and eventually

decided to leave again. And that's when Brian came back to us, and

we h we've been pretty much continuing on since. We put out two three

albums. Three albums right now, ones out of print, but the two

newer ones are there and We're working on an acoustic album to be released sometime

this next year before we do our next big follow up. Yeah, and

just keep pushing or playing your eye out for the thirteenth step. Yeah,

that's okay, that's that's gonna be the name event. Okay, I'm horrible.

I always steal the naming game, and I told Kelly she could have

this one. She's been pushing the thirteenth step for a while. So yeah,

like everything has a twelve step program, and I like to go above

and beyond, So I think the thirteenth step kind of fit for us.

Yeah, I like it. I like it. Now, that's not that

exact. Now. These studio tracks? Are these from a current album that

you have out now? The ones? They center from the American Dream.

It's our current CD. Okay, okay, yeah, the newest one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I really like Uh, I really like these.

Where where did you record home? Yeah? In the the last last

two c the last two CDs before that, great guy up in Thompson,

me and Jerry Paron owns a music store and he owns music studio. We

recorded with him and it sounded great. It's just I really have been working

hard to learn the whole crafting of recording and put myself together a studio at

the house so's we had Dark Green Studios. Now we record other artists as

well. Oh excellent, and we we've been slowly building that. And we

did the whole CD from start to finish, except for the mastering I brought

back to Jerry so I could have a fresh set of ears on it.

Yeah, and I was pretty happy with the result. I thought it came

up pretty decent for doing it at home. Yeah, it's amazing. You

know, the stuff they used to do back fifty years ago with like the

Beatles and stuff, you can do it at your home studio now. So

yeah, yeah, that's something that comes up a lot on the show.

Is you know, you know, we've got all these different options as far

as how you record, and you know, and there's there's still a ton

of studios out there that you can go to, or you can learn to

do it yourself, or you can learn to do it yourself at home and

then bring another artists to record them. Do have you recorded a lot of

artists? I'm just starting. I've got a few and I'm still want to.

I went back to going back to school again too, So getting some

more knowledge under my belt, and I've taken a few in recently. I'm

hoping to get more to come in once we get to do. We're doing

some remodel on the studio too, so yeah, make it a little nicer.

Yeah, excellent, excellent and uh all right, so how did Echo,

how did you come into this in terms of working with the band?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm having an issue with your mike. Okay,

here we go. I think I got you. I was there, you

are, so as I said, I've been really good friends with these guys

for the better part of twenty years I think now, and just recently,

over the spring and summer of this past year, I decided that I was

going to take the leap and work professionally with musicians because nothing I love more

than pushing local music. And you know, we wouldn't have national bands if

they didn't start somewhere. So I go around and I scout out all these

great bands and if they need help selling their merch or if they need help

push their their name around or whatever, and then I'll step in and do

what I girl. Yeah, yeah, girl, yeah. So Dudley messaged

me up like, we've got a bunch of gigs and we could really help

use somebody to help us with merch And I don't think I've missed a gig

since August. Everyone she's always ready to go. I'm like, do you

want to get up tomorrow morning if you're ready to go by seven am and

to go to the radio. She's like, sure, I work nights.

I don't get out of work until almost two o'clock in the morning. For

seven am is not my jam. Yeah, Well, I do you want

to play another song? I'd I'd love to hear another live song if you're

just joining us. We have Dark Rain with us live in studio and they're

going to play something for us. So this one's off the American Dream as

well. It's called It's kind of Weird because we mostly a rock band.

This is kind of a little bit of a country slash, i'd say hip

hop flavor with Brian's guitar line. It's called stay with Me Tonight all right

on the persis You and I was covering enough All Loves, the middle of

Your Time, when ging you all and a way to make you mine Seeing

to Night. Well, the Dancings and Naked by the moon life. Hope

you and my wealth is all right? Just ste just stay with me.

Then you're dreading up blocking, Please, how's gonna read your bill? Who's

gonna sell your mind? Go for you're stealing welcome ass and naked by the

day. Hope you and I shall be a sorry st Just you have a

thing an just stay away. You can answers and make a body only my

examp, all right, you stay world, Just stay with the Oh that's

awesome, awesome, Dark Dark Reign is with us live in studio. I

was thinking we could play another studio track you had mentioned. Well, the

name of the album is American Dream, and of course this title track is

is really great too. I was thinking maybe we could give this a listen

and then we'll come back and talk some more. What are you thinking?

Alright, all right, check this out. This is American Dream from the

band Dark Bout my fears at the time, the way in side but now

dead stand out around your barricane as what la or am about your domas what

a bad boy right against the time? So a barricane? That's good.

That is American Dream and the band is a Dark Rain and we have them

live in studio with us. How how long was the drive for you all?

Where are you located it? Because about quarter two and a half hours?

Oh my god, wow three and a half for me, I live

an hour away from the guys. Wow. Well, we we really appreciate

you being here today. That's that's a haul. It wasn't so bad.

I didn't crash it last Yeah, I made it a little bit easier.

Yeah, yeah, no, no, we appreciate you. Uh, we

appreciate you being here. Now. When when did the album come out?

Has it been out for a while or digitally it dropped? Did I want

to say digitally and physically dropped different times? But yeah, so like about

a year now. We've been tour behind it. Yeah, and we just

started we like, we just started releasing videos, like there's an official music

video for the American Dream that you just heard on YouTube. For Playing with

Fire lyrics for Playing With No official videos we have the one for American Dream,

uh walking out of HG Double Hockey Sticks Part two and uh you can

say hell oh hell yeah, and the song. All three of those are

released so far. We're still working on the other new one. It's their

new My new Passion is doing the music videos, so oh cool. Creative

wise, do you do those? Are you in charge of that? Yeah,

I'm pretty much most of We're going to get some pointers. Yeah,

that's another That's another thing too. You know, we were talking earlier about

how we live in a time where you have all these different options for recording

also for making music videos, you know, I mean you can you know,

you can use an iPhone and record, or you can upscale from there.

But it's it's amazing. It's funny too because some people, people who

don't know, some people have this idea that the music videos are dead,

you know, because MTV doesn't doesn't do it anymore and whatnot and hasn't for

decades actually now at this point, or VH one. But uh but actually,

really there's more music videos than ever because of YouTube. I mean,

some major artists who have you know, like a gazillion dollars will put out

a video for I remember Beyonce did that at one point. Like maybe this

might have been like ten years ago, but she released an album and when

the album came out, a video for every single song. Oh yeah,

it came out at the same time. It was like, wow, that

must have been very expensive. But yeah, I mean really, there's more

music videos than ever. It's it's uh, the more choices awhere to watch,

just like with your viewing chiv choices, more stuff out there. Yeah,

more content than ever, but also yeah, you're you're competing with more.

Yeah, it's not concentrated anywhere, right right. I feel like with

a video too, you can get more context of where your artist is coming

from. Everybody takes a song differently as to like how the original artist wrote

it and then you read you watch the video or like, oh crap,

that's what they were really talking about, but that's not how I related it

to my life, right right, So, I mean it's kind of cool

to do it that way, and that's kind of why I like doing the

videos too. It gives them, gives me a kind of a chance to

add more to the interpretation of it. I'm good with people taking a song

we write and making it their own and what it means to them, you

know, Like playing with Fire is a good example. Like it's when we

talk about a lot, it's you know, for us, it's about you

know, kind of like you get two really really good friends, you know,

do they take the step and cross the line to make it more than

just a friendship. And do you mess that up? Do you play with

because I can hurt you and you can hurt me too, But I'm kind

of willing to take that chance with you because right, I like playing with

fire. That's the song, Like, like I tell people from stage,

playing taking the chance and playing with fires better than being left out in the

cold. Yeah. Yeah, if you don't take the step, you don't

know, you can miss out on something good. Or maybe you're not.

I mean I don't know, right, it could be crap. Only one

way to find out, Yeah, one way to got to take that step

and just go with it, right, right, do you want to play

another live song for us? Sure? We do something off the next CD,

well do you? This is called our public service announcement talking about the

harmonies, and this is we always tell people to worry about the breast cancer.

My mother had breast cancer. I'm a very strong advocate for women making

you know, get get your exam, get checked men too as well,

but very very very adamant on you know, save the tatas. So that's

my first and foremost uh public service announcement. And you mentioned men too.

That's something Jenny talks about a lot of encouraging men to you know, I'm

a breast cancer survivor. My mother's too, congratulations. And and and we

know someone who had well, actually a couple of people had a couple of

friends that are men who have had breast cancer. Yeah, I mean they

know, want to make friends. The stage four right now, I get

checked, get checked it. It takes the pecks boys check the p I

like that. Awesome. So that's our serious public service announcement obviously. Then,

so Kelly and I have both like different recreational items. I personally like

a good drink every once in a while, so I'll call Yeah. And

I like to smoke because it's legal in our state, you know, not

so legal here, I guess. So this is this is a little diddy

about about about both of those items. It's called Forty's. On the next

s we have coming out all right, very good dark rain live in studio

with us run down the road man, phoony in my hands. You're kind

of heady. You tell me where to go and got on my ass,

send or something with this bag well the grass, Yeah, trying to make

a somewhere gong thing I can make it have. I love this morning.

I'm not breaking Many years I went back, there's that Bucky you want you

smiling here? Where are me? Yeah? Uh willamen, miss n never

even in my name? Yes, in a hurry out of my way.

Really years I went by. I guess that is the trend was. Yeah,

the more Fras gave me a party outswer, they gave me a bag

of breed. Here I go again, yea god again, play the same

who I love it? Dark Rain, Dark Rain Live in the studio with

us this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of

w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester in New

Hampshire. If you have any questions or anything feedback input for the band,

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and contact info and show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But we

are very happy to have Dark Rain in studio with us. And do you

guys, so, are you playing a lot of shows these days? Are

you planning out a lot or yeah? We played almost every week month,

every weekend. It's part of our part of our curse, we've been we've

had a really hard time finding a steady drummer. Yeah, because we'll get

We'll get somebody on board. We've gone through. We had we had a

study drummer for years and years and years, Chris Williams, the guy that

was originally with us, great drummer, and uh, he eventually left,

went to another band, and we got another guy and he lest a little

while, and we get another guy. He lasted for We won't go into

that discussion, I guess, but we is that the show we got a

plastic one show I was talking about that shall be named. But that sounds

like a good story. It's a lot of drama. But then we get

another guy named Devin Mallard who was really good and he actually did the American

Dream City with us, and he was good. He just you start having

some some physical issues and stuff. That's why he's not playing with us now.

But so a lot of times we actually use a digital drummer, which

is a little weird, which is really cool. Actually people like drummer and

like, well, this is Scott Free, He's our drummer. It's actual,

it's not like a drum machine. It's actual tracks that people have played

and stuff and so, and sometimes we do like a different some shows we

have live drummer. Totally depends what the situation is. So we keep getting

a drummer in, we'll work them. We had a guy last time when

we worked up three months, rehearsed, rehearse, rehearsed, and yeah,

totally into this. I love to play every week and I want to be

out there. I want to be playing, you know. Gave him a

list of of upcoming shows and he's, I can't do that. There's too

many. Wow really yeah yeah. First he sitting there going, oh wow,

I'm like, we told you this from day one. It happens pretty

regularly. So up front, like if you're not one hundred percent and you

don't want to do this, then don't waste our time, please, because

but so we had a group of four of us that play out. We

have different rummers that sit in with us. Sonny Robinson from Twisted Roots,

Yeah, we got from He's going to be doing tracks on the next CD

for us as well. And Christ's in us pretty regularly off and on at

least couple of times a year. Just yeah. We have good friends to

do it, but we would love to find a permanent rummers. So somebody

has to be able to play all willing to play all the time. We

travel all over New England. Yeah, we've gone as far as New York,

but like we're really like you in on Providence right now. We're doing

a lot of shows in Rhode Island. We were down there last week.

We work with a guy named Justin mccott from Voltage. It's Voltage and he

does he does a lot of the shows that used to be the booker for

and the Vault and stuff down in Bedford. He's got us some good gigs

and we're playing down there and you know, playing Rhode Island and mass in

New Hampshire, and we played up here a little while ago. Excellent,

yeah, excellent, love them oh yeah too, yeah, absolutely absolutely,

yeah, drummers. That's been a topic on the show quite a bit.

It seems like for one thing, every drummer is in like ten bads.

That's exactly. Yeah. And my theory, uh, you know, people

have heard me say this a million times, but my theory about drummers is

when you're a kid, when you're growing up and you first start getting interested

in playing an instrument, you got to have the talk with your parents.

I want to play drums. That's the first instrument they were going to try

to talk you out of. They don't want to want all the boys,

you know that or maybe the tuba would would they would try to talk you

out of that too. Probably I got his little one playing the drums.

Oh really Yeah. He's hooked on music. Yeah, good, good,

like even the oldies too, like not just like current music. Like kid

likes Elvis, Yeah, like Buck Cherry. He likes Chuck Berry, Yeah,

like all of them. He's he's got an eclectic taste of music.

He likes to sing kiss with us too. Nice. We have a barbecue

every year and he'll get up there and he was singing, Oh god,

who's like two up there singing kiss with Annie? You know, get the

little Ones in there. Yeah, yeah, very good. My favorite band.

Yeah really yeah, it's the Psycho Circuit Store with Kiss Yeah yeah,

excellent, excellent, Well we should We'll play another studio track. Actually,

the song Poison Inside I think is really good. Should we play that one?

That's a good one too. That has to do with that situation we're

talking about with the drummer and the drama. Yea, yes, yeah.

Is that the same drummer that didn't want to play any shows or is that

no? No, the drummer named Oh god. It was such a rough

It was a rough period for us. I literally had to beg my best

day, like you are not leaving music over this. This is like how

bad that situation was made play a show? It made him. I dragged

his but oh, I can say, asked well all the way down where

we're in New Hampshire, mask the Lazy Dog and did a podcast with Jeff

Royd's Yeah, Dudley did not want to. I'm like, dude, we're

going down, you bringing your guitar. I'm not letting you get out.

We're going to have a last and one day we lost like half the bands.

One of those situations and it was a bad situation all together personally.

So yeah, we got a lot of songs out of it. Though.

Well there you go, probably a whole album worth of music that situation.

Well that's good, you know, I always say, I mean, if

you can take bad things and create something positive out of them, yeah,

come on the other side of it better. So yeah, exactly, let's

give this a listen then, cool. So this is this is topical Poison

Inside and the band is a Dark Rain. Check this out s second,

verybody can see happen. Then when did you like that? Chi I gather

my boy, this thing that everything is there. The boy I never no

Vodia. Let's say black I ever no Boia. Let's say all right,

Poison Inside. The band is Dark Rain. They are here with us,

live in studio. I just got a long fade out. I like it.

That's kind of a lost art. You don't hear long fade outs as

much as you used to, But no, I dig it Dark Rain live

in studio with us. You all want to play one more acoustic song and

then we'll, uh sure, and then we'll talk a little bit more.

Plug what you got coming up, and then we'll we'll end with We have

one more studio track too that we'll play at the end. But so the

song that we're actually going to do acoustically goes hand in hand with the one

that you want to play that's recorded. So this is I am a domestic

violence survivor, as I was telling you on that little break, and I

decided to write a song about it and kind of make the story like like,

don't keep it hidden, you know, like it the more that it's

brought out there, the more will come for it and be like this is

not socially acceptable. So this is my domestic violence story in a song,

This is never More. He came out of nowhere like an angel performer.

He was a mystery, but the devil dingers guys like me like a miestro.

And I was locked inside my mind, perched like a ray van never

mobly be mine, never more. Side of sack, beside this may he

man Bede Jane s alive. I can see you right through you before the

lies brull out your mouth. Beware of casting stones when you live in a

glasshouse. Through all of your trauma, you blacken my tell tale heart.

I never felt so well day. Wish we could go back to the store

forget that never more side, sick inside, describe them snap by. If

you haven't learned by then this is the point. I'm blooding it. Broke

can absolutely crawled out of that grave. I was dumbing mdam and love could

not be saved. So I patched up my wings and I'm learning how to

fly. They like Grave bad. I'm gonna pluck out the whole guy forever

Mo sick inside this Bye bye bye hie ye. All right, that was

awesome. Yeah, yeah, well done, well done. Dark Rain live

in studio with us, and uh, I know that we should mention too,

and Echo was reminding us about, uh, let me get that mic

up there. We've got or you've got shows. Well, there's there's a

really big one we're talking about. Is that what you were referring to?

Okay, This Friday, This upcoming Friday night, December the twenty second,

we're having the Women of Rock support Lewiston Strong hashtag Lewiston Strong. I've pulled

together for amazing bands with some rock and women in them. We have Dark

Rain will be headlining the night. We're also going to have Diamond's Edge,

which is actually a New Hampshire local Seattle new grunge band is. We're going

to be having them that features Breezy from Signal to Noise and then she is

Amazing. We love Breezy and then we also have Drunken Public performing as well.

There is a small five dollars cover charge, but all of the proceeds

are going straight to the Lewis and Strong victims. So we're going to be

doing some raffles as well. We want to put a shout out to Jerry

Paron again. He's going to be donating a gift card and we'll also have

a basket with some band merch in it so you can get your band merch

on and support those local bands. Uh. Doors at seven, music starts

at eight o'clock and it's gonna be a really good time. Hughes in Brunswick,

me O Donna Hughes and Brunswick, Miss Pleasant Street. If you guys

have nothing better to do on what is it Friday night? Echo on a

Friday night, take a drive they come see us. It's gonna be such

a great night, it really is. Finish the Christmas shopping and come on

down there you go, there you go, and uh, what should people

know about where to find you online. People want to follow everything that you're

doing. Get your music et ceara, dark rainband dot com. Okay,

in Dark Rain dot us. Oh, that's our YouTube channel. You can

find us on YouTube obviously, Spotify, Apple Music, Google, Amazon Music.

Yeah, yeah, pretty much anywhere, shiz am friend any of us.

We like people, Yeah, excellent, excellent. Like the band page

on Facebook. Yeah, Dark Echo Ray the Rock and Redhead on Facebook or

just Echo Ray also on Facebook. Okay, very good, very good.

Well, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. We're gonna play

one more studio track to close out the seg and then Jenny and I will

be back. Of course, in the third hour. We have Eric Pilcher's

classic film review coming up. And but this is another great song from Dark

Rain. This is called Skit and this this relates to the song you just

played, right it does. The chorus literally talks about you know, I'm

tired of playing the games. This is not a role in my life that

I want to play with you. Yeah. It's almost like the precursor to

the other song, because this is when Kelly and I are both going through

really bad parts of bad situations and I don't want to do this, but

I want. I'm still here, you know, stuck in that. How

do I get out of it before it turns into you know, the Nevermore

song? So okay, it started out with Skit and then went into Nevermore,

So it was like a precursor. Okay, okay, very cool.

Oh and thank you for the CDs. By the way, I should mention,

yeah, we're not on Facebook today so I can't hold them up for

everybody, but The American dream and The Long Road Home. This came out

before The American Dreamer. Yeah, that's our last CD. That's seventeen tracks

almost like yeah, yeah, you can buy them digitally, Like I said,

you know any of the digital retailers Apple Music, Yeah, yeah,

are always We always prefer that kind of stuff over Spotify. Spotify is great

to get known, but we actually make money off those if they buy him

somewhere or at a local show. Yeah yeah, support to local musicians.

Know, absolutely not as easy as everyone thinks it is. No, No,

that's that's for sure. That's for sure. Dark Reign thank you all

again so much. This has been Thank you for having us absolutely and this

is called Skit the Bass. Sorry, like my back, my back,

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Strengthen, Honor Strength Anna at my signal unleash hill both account of books infratrate

FARMA for advance right is ready as three weeks from now, I will be

hopposting my crops. Imagine where you will be and a movie. So hold

the Lord, stay with me. You find yourself alone, riding in green

fields with a sun on your face. Do not be trouble. Oh you

are an elysium and you're already died. Brothers, what were doing? Live?

Echo's and autonogy epics have been as much of a constant in cinema as

hot, fresh, buttered popcorn. These films are lengthy in nature, wide

awe inspiring sets, fight scenes, and special effects, coupled with dynamite performances

to tell a story that spans time and leaves an undeniable impact on the viewer.

As synonymous as popcorn is to film, one genre of film is synonymous

with epics. That is the quote unquote sand in sandal films or films about

ancient Rome in this week's film is one of the best ever released in two

thousand. Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator introduces us to Roman General Maximus Deretus

Meridius Russell Crowe in his breakthrough Academy Award winning performance, who is selected by

Marcus Aurelius Western film legend Richard Harris in one of his final roles, to

succeed him. However, those plans are thwarted by his son Comedists played by

Joaquin Phoenix, who murders him and kills Maximus's family and sets Maximus through the

path of slavery in being a colisseum Gladiator. However, Maximus' popularity grows and

it leads him with the chance to avenge the death of his family and emperor

in a final climactic battle with Comedists. In our introductory clip, we hear

the great General Maximus rally his troops before a battle shortly after the film begins.

Our next clips show Marcus Aurelius with both men. First. With Maxim,

we hear the tender care and honesty he has with Maximus. This hearkens

to a father and son like relationship that two have. We will then see

his interaction with his own son Comedists, where Marcus admits his failures as a

father. As he tells Commodists he is being bypassed as successor, is giving

this role to Maximus. We hear the pain of regret. It was so

fragile, and I fear that it will not survive the winter. Maximus,

let us whisper. Now together, you and I. You have a son.

Tell me about your home. My house is in the hills above Tahila,

very simple place. Pink stones are warm in the sun, kitchen garden

smells of herbs in the day, jasmine in the evening. Through the gators,

a giant poplar, figs, apples, pears, who soil Marcus black

black like that my wife's here grapes on the south slopes alas on the north.

While ponies plain him else they teach my son. He wants to be

one of them. Remember the last time you were two years two hundred and

sixty four days, and this morning I envy you, Maximus. It was

a good home worth fighting for. There is one more duty that I asked

of you before you go home. What would you have me do, Susan.

I want you to become the protector of Rome. After I die,

I will empower you to one end alone, to give power back to the

people of Rome and end the corruption that has crippled it. You accept this

great honor that I have offered you with all my heart. Now, Maximo,

that is why it must be you. But surely a prefect, a

senator, somebody who knows the city, who understands her politics. But you

have not been corrupted by our politics. And Commoduce Commodus is not a moral

man. You have known that since you were young. Commodus cannot rule.

He must not rule. You're the son that I should have had. Commodcell

except my decision. He knows that you command the loyalty of the army.

I need some time, so by sunset I hope you will have agreed.

Now embrace me as my son, and bring an old man another blanket.

And now, Marcus in Commondas, are you ready to do your duty for

Rome? Yes, father, you will not be emperor, which why the

old the man is to take my place. My pause will pass to Maximus

to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome

is to be a republic again. Acts. Yes, my decision disappoints you.

He wrote to me once, listing the forty virtues wisdom, justice,

fortitude, and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had

none of them, But I have other virtues for them. Ambition that can

be a virtue when it drives us to excel, Resourceful, his courage,

perhaps not on the battlefield, but that are many forms of courage, devotion

to my family, to you. But none of my virtues won your list.

Even then, it was as if you didn't want me for your son.

Commonness, you go too far. That's the faces of the god for

waste. Please, if you are to make you proud, one kind word,

one fuck where you best mean your chest an help me tight? It

would have been like the sun of my heart for thousand years. What is

this gonna mean? You hate so much? All I have wanted was to

the fty Caesar father, commodness. You are false as a son. Is

my failure as a father? F I would put to the whole world to

you, what don't Rea love me? I mentioned at the beginning of this

review that these epic films almost always have amazing performances, and this film is

certainly not an exception. As a matter of fact, it could be viewed

as the standard the aforementioned performance of pro Nonwithstanding, Joaquin Phoenix used his performance

in this film to shoot into the upper tier of Hollywood actors, a spot

he has not seeded since. Our next scene shows the bevy of emotions he

brought into this role. Lost, jealousy, anger, pride, deception,

deceit, greed, callousness, they're all here. In the first part of

the scene, Communist confronts his sister, who he has lusted over, and

callously explains how he is taking her son Lucius away from her. Then,

before his climactic fight with Maximus, he confronts him as he is tied to

a post, and in a brief moment, we are teased with a possible

love he may have for Maximus, but that changes as he coldly stabs him

in the kidneys, debilitating him for their final battle, and demands that the

wounds be covered by armor for their climactic showdown. Thanks donephew. What if

his mother? Should they share love us fate? Should that be messiful?

Commit us? The messful Lucius will stay with me now, and if your

mother so much as looks at him and the manner that displeases me, you

will die. She decides to be know and takes her owners, he will

die. As for you. You will love me. That's I love to

you. You will provide me with an air of pure blood, so that

Commodus and this colty will prove hlosity. Am I not my sphone? I'm

not hustlephone and a son I obey. Nothing happens to anyone that he is

not fitted by nature to bear as they called for you. The general who

became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator defied and

not striking story. Now that people want to know how the story ends,

only a famous death will do what could be more glorious than to challenge the

Emperor himself in the Great Arena. You would fight me? Why not?

Do you think I'm afraid? I think you've been afraid all your life,

unlike Maximus the Invincible, who knows no fear, And you're a man who,

once her death, smiles at us. All all a man can do

is smile back. I wonder did your friend spire at his own death.

You must know you're to your father. You loved my father. I know,

but so did I. That makes us by this, doesn't it?

Smile for me? Now? Stop on his arm Concealed Route. In two

thousand, this film took Hollywood by storm. It was released on May fifth

of two thousand, right around the time for summer blockbusters, but it not

a normal time for films looking for Academy Awards or other year end awards.

At the box office, it rked in seven point seven billion dollars worldwide.

It re emphasized the importance of summer blockbusters, and many experts have stated it's

say the fledgling DreamWorks studio at the time. After winning the Golden Globe for

Best Motion Picture Drama, it was nominated twelve Academy Awards. It won five,

including Best Picture in a Major Upset and Best Actor again for Crow.

It was nominated for others, including Best Director for Ridley Scott and Best Supporting

Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. In regards to epics, this film checks all the

boxes. Operatic esque soundtrack, on inspiring cinematography, mesmerizing performances, compelling story

and why spanning shots that blow the viewer away. This film is one of

the sand In Sandals epics that should be and must be joy by all.

I hope you join me next week when for our final review appear, and

in honor of Christmas, we will look at a young boy's quest to procure

a red rider go in nineteen or film a Christmas story of reminding kind of

ten. This has been possibilm your you are listening to wumin you come in,

don't get so greenly mad South. Welcome back everybody as we cruise into

our final segment this week on Matt Connorton Unleashed, we are live from the

studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, inglorious Downtown Manchester New I'm

sure Jenny is here as well at the news desk presenton account of farm.

Yes yes, and by the way, so today on the show, of

course, first hour we had Tom Russo here, and then second hour into

a little bit of the third hour we had a dark rain joining us live

in studio, and then we had of course Eric Pilterri's classic film review.

Another great review this week of the the your two thousand film Gladiator starring Russell

Crowe. If you are wondering if you saw on social media we were supposed

to have another band coming in, Vices Inc. From Maine, about one

of the band members is sick, so they had to stay behind. They

will reschedule certainly. Although I was saying to Jenny off air, it kind

of worked out in a way because I had no idea. We actually we

talked about it on the way over, but I didn't realize just how far

dark Rain traveled to get here. So it was actually it worked out that,

you know, I mean, sorry we to not be able to have

Vices Inc. On the show today, but it did work out in one

sense because what I realized, but I realized how far dark Rain had traveled

to be here, you know, because we interview obviously, we interview a

lot of artists from the area, but we also interview artists from far away,

sometimes from other continents, but they usually skype in. So to have

dark Rain travel all that way to get here, it worked out that we

were able to at least spend a little bit more time with them, more

fun to have in studio. I look forward to them coming back. Yeah,

yeah, really, really great. So I enjoyed that quite a bit.

I do want to mention And we talked about this a little bit last

night too on Retrospectrum Radio with pol C, but I just wanted to acknowledge

it again today here on this show. For longtime listeners, whether you're a

regular listener of this program or the Morning Show with Peter White, you're probably

familiar with Shannon Shannon die On from right here in Manchester. She was a

very loyal listener. She called both shows on a regular basis. The other

other show here at the station that really takes live calls is Off the Mark

Sports with Kyle Heavy, But I don't think Shannon was a sports fan,

so she probably didn't call that show. But we found out, well,

it was a couple of days ago, a few days ago now Shannon passed

away. So I just wanted to say, you know, condolences to the

family and you know, any loved ones that she had in the area.

I don't I don't really know. I will miss hearing her voice, yeah,

will Yeah, I don't really know much about uh, you know,

who she had around here for for family and friends. But but yeah,

the thing that the thing that I always appreciated about Shannon was her sense of

humor. Was such that you know, she was willing to uh, you

know, let's let's be honest. Sometimes the calls could be a little strange,

but my sense of humor being what it is, I tended to want

to kind of lean into that and and make things even stranger. And we

had some very strange conversations on the air, Shannon and I did. But

you know, but I could kind of, you know, pick on her

a little bit and and take it in different directions. And she was always

willing to go for the ride, you know what I mean. She she

loved me, so she did, yes, oh, absolutely, no,

she had a but she had a really good sense of humor that way,

you know, And and you know we we pick on her, never with

malice, of course, always with affection, and uh, I think she

understood that and and she she had a really good sense of humor about it.

So so uh, the obituary online just said a sudden illness. So

don't don't really know any details beyond that, of course, but anyway,

I just wanted to acknowledge that and the passing of our friend Shannon. She

will be messed absolutely absolutely. We do have a little bit of time left

on today's show not much, but the studio line is open six oh three

two five oh sixho seven if you would like to join us six oh three

two five six oh seven. I'm sorry we're not on Facebook today. Facebook

is being glitchy. As far as I can tell, It's not not anything

internally here at the studio. Technology wise, it seems to be. I

think it's an issue with Facebook because Facebook is being Facebook and Facebook does glitch

on occasions, so we're not able to stream live on Facebook. But if

you're of course, you can listen to us on ninety five point three FM

locally in Manchester, and of course you can access us from anywhere in the

world online. I hope that Eric's listening. I want to say thank you

to your film review for last week for the Bronxtail. Yes, I watched

it and I really enjoyed it a lot, and I would not have done

so if not for the film review. So that's right, big shout out

thank you to Eric. Keep doing those reviews. We love them. And

there's actually been a number of different movies along the way that I've watched only

because of the review, absolutely being one of them. Bronxtail was definitely good.

Yes, yes, we have a call. Hi. Welcome to Matt

Connorton Unleashed. Who's this Hi Matt Gary. Hey Gary, you haven't heard

from you in a while. How are you doing? Yeah? I know

life, Yeah, all right, Yeah, I'm doing good. I just

you know, Hi, Jenny, my love, Hi sweetie. What are

you doing today? I'm relaxing. I clean my house and everything and I'll

go outside because it's beautiful and get some sun. Yeah it's yeah. I

just want to Yeah, I just want to say my condolences too to Shannon's

family. And you know, she was she was, she was fun to

listen to. Yeah, she kind of became a character, you know,

on the shows on both Oh yeah, she had a character on both in

the morning shows and rest her soul. Yeah, and you know, if

it was things you know, we do. There are people out there to

help you. And I think she just wanted to call in and have a

friend. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. But yeah, but no,

things are going pretty good. I lost I lost ten more pounds, so

oh, good for you. Excellent and just yeah, I hadn't been able

to call for a while. I've been busy with other things. And and

then Uh, yeah, I figured out Saturdays. I said, well,

hey, i'll give Matt and Jenny Paul you know they'll be together. Yeah,

here we are. Ye. Yeah. Well, I just wanted to

wish you guys. Uh, Jenny, I've belated happy honka. Oh,

thank you, thank you very much. And yeah, and then just wish

you guys happy holidays and have you know, have some some good times and

uh, a brand new year next year with a new place to be at

and everything. I drove by there out with a friend of mine and it

looks really amazing with the big letters out there, and you know, and

looks like it's going to be really awesome there. Yeah, absolutely won't be

a secret studio anymore. That's right, That's right. No, I just

want to see how you guys are doing. And so yeah, I'm doing

pretty good, good, awesome, and yeah, I just I miss you

guys during the week, and but I get busy during the week now.

I try to do a lot of things and get myself prepared for the winter

because you know, we won't be able to do very much and just been

around and everything on. I did I did lose a I did lose a

friend Michelle to cancer this year, and it was kind of hard. Yeah,

she was my shoes. She was my neighbor from where I used to

live, and she we were real good friends. And I loved that lady

to death. She was so she was so great and sweet. But she's

in a far better place and no more hurting. No more hurting. She

h Yeah, she had. When I saw her, it ripped right through

her pancreatic cancer. I just ripped right through her. And I didn't want

to see I didn't want to see her the last day and I had called.

I kept calling for her, and her and her son called got her

phone number and said that she went into the hospital and but she died peacefully

with her family around her. And I said, well that was good.

And then I went to a celebration of life for her and we sat around

the table cried and said funny stories about her. So it was good.

And they even brought her corn She she loved playing corn hole, so they

brought her a cornhole. A lot accessories there and the and the kids would

play and everybody was you know, so it was it was a great celebration

of life, you know. And that's what I that's what I like you

know, to do you know, you go to funerals and everybody sits there.

Oh yeah, blah blah blah, and you gotta wear the big suits

and everything there. It was just totally awesome. It's just totally awesome and

it was great. But yeah, so Jenny, how are you doing.

I am good. I am doing very well, thank you. Feeling good?

Yes, I am upright, which is always good. Oh yeah,

I have Yeah, I have ups and downs. I have day he's your

body just doesn't want to work, and you know, but a little icy

hot, a little icy hot, and I'm on my way. All right,

Gary, All right, Well, I know you just don't have a

few minutes. But I just wanted to call in and say, you know,

I'm still here and you know, still listen to a lot of music

stuff and I like to listen to the people you got on there, so

but appreciate that. I just wanted to send my my condolences out to her

her family, and you know, things things get you know, you're you

just get overwhelmed and I can't understand sometimes but away from this stupid world and

and all the things. So but both of you, you know how much

I love you both, so a big, a big hug through the through

the phone and I have a great have a great holidays. Bye, thank

you Gary, bye bye. All right, very nice. Yeah, we

haven't heard from Gary in a long time, in a long time. If

you'd like to get in with a quick call, we do have a few

minutes left. Six O three two five six O seven is a studio line

six O three two five six seven. We did attend an event yesterday at

the Mosaic Art Collective above the Palace Theater about AI and very interesting a lot

of it talking about using chat, GPT and UH, which which I'm a

proponent of. You can do some cool things with it. And now what

was the part that they used to do pictures dot or dash. Oh there's

Dolly three, Dolly three, I can hold on to that one. I

was yeah, I was particularly well because you know, part of what a

big part of what the presentation was about was using AAR and AI in art

visual art, and I had used Dolly three recently uh on YouTube for when

I when I posted the uh I posted on YouTube. UH. The segment

that we did where we talked about the Daryl Hall versus John Oates lawsuit,

and I had actually used Dolly three and it was I talked about this a

little bit at the presentation when we were at the end and we were just

kind of chatting, and I said that, you know, I had asked

because there's there are some things you can ask it to do in terms of

creating visual images that it won't do. It'll it'll give you a hard time.

And I talked about how I tried to get it to create an image

of Daryl Hall versus John Oates in a boxing ring having a boxing match,

and the presenter of his name escapes me. Do you remember his name?

No, it was it was someone we hadn't met before. But he was

talking about how it seems like it doesn't it it's resistant to creating images of

celebrities and certain types of situations, like anything involving violence. Because I said,

yeah, the best I could do with it, I couldn't get it

to create an image of Hall and Oates boxing each other. The best I

could do was I got it to create an image of the two of them

at a chess board staring angrily at each other over a game of chess.

And that's that's really the best I could do, and that's the image if

you look at the thumbnail on YouTube, that's that's the best I could do

with it in terms of what I could get it to do. So you

know, it does have certain limitations, but it was a very interesting presentation.

Absolutely was actually if you go to the Mosaic Art Collective Facebook page,

the presentation has been posted up there so you can take a look at it.

He did an excellent job of really breaking down the different components and having

a really good conversation, Like we were talking about, you know, how

far, what should it be used, what is okay? And is still

art? What isn't okay? And do you consider it art if it's computer

generated but it's your designs. Like one of the things he talked about was

music, and that he fed the machine seventy seven songs that he had written

and then asked it to write a song with certain parameters in his style,

to which it did and he actually performed it for us and you can see

that there on the video which is on the Mosaic Our Collective's Facebook page,

which if you did didn't know that existed, I didn't either, Little alone

secret and it's absolutely awesome to go up there. They have incredible art pieces.

There's always something showing there, and there are some artists workshops in there

as well as that not workshops, they're studios, some artists have some studios.

Is located at sixty six Hanover Street, Suite two one, right here

in the Queen's City and you can see the Mosaic Artcollective dot com as well

for more information on them. But they have a lot of incredible pieces and

this presentation was definitely eye opening in that I don't know, It's like where,

how far will it go? And what is okay? What isn't okay?

Is it okay for an artist to use a computer or not, whether

it's an image or a writing, Yeah, it's questionable. And uh,

they're going to be here on January sixth, which actually will be our last

show in the studio before the big move. That's right for the big move.

Yeah, Liz and my friend Derek Smith, who's been booking the music

there, they're going to be coming in that day that which is awesome.

I really I like going there and I'm looking forward. I know they're going

to be having more stuff coming down the pike. We've we've gotten to go

there and see musicians, which was very enjoyable. It's like a small intimate

collective. It's like they call it collective. It's a small dress. One

of the things we talked about, though, was when my like me as

a writer, thinking, I don't want to have anything to do with this.

I don't want to go in where near it. I don't want anybody

to confuse it. You know, I want to do my own work.

But then, oh, but it's a great editor, right, so should

you use it for editing? Is it safe to put your work on there?

These are the kind of questions that started running through my mind, or

the other way around. You ask it to write stuff for you, and

then you edit it as a human. One of the podcasts that I listened

to that's been talking a lot about this is I don't know, if you

know, if you're familiar with Adam Conover. He's a podcaster. He's also

a stand up comedian. He also is a Hollywood writer. He's done a

lot of different things. But he was expressing the concern in an episode that

I was listening to about how you know because he's as a writer, he's

was part of that that whole strike and part of the concern among script writers

is, you know, is there going to come a point where just all

scripts are AI generated or and he's he didn't think that it'll come to that.

But what he is worried about, and what a lot of people are

worried about, is there there comes a point where a script is AI generated

and then a human a human writer takes that script and just punches it up

and kind of humanizing it, but isn't responsible for creating it from scratch.

And that will contribute to the devaluation of what writers are paid because you don't

need to hire you know, say you're you're going to be uh, you

know, you're developing a Hollywood film, you don't need to hire a writer

to write a script for that film. You just need to You can have

chat GPT generate an entire script and then give it to a writer who just

goes through, punches it up, kind of humanizes it. You know,

probably would have to punch up some of the dialogue. But so there are

a lot of concerns. What's interesting about Adam Conover's podcast though, to me

too, is he and some of the guests that he has on their main

concern is how does this affect art and people who make money with art.

But on the other end, they're very dismissive of some of the other concerns

because some of the concerns that people have about AI is, you know,

and we were kind of half joking about it at the presentation yesterday about AI

taking over and killing all the humans. And there's another guy, there's a

technology guy named Scott Galloway who works in this area and he's I've seen him

on Conover's podcast and some others, and you know, because some people are

sounding the alarm and some people like Galloway, his attitude about it is that's

he thinks that's completely absurd. He says, you know, in terms of

sorted out. But he says, you know, AI systems are not going

to become sentient beings that decide to kill us all. He thinks that that's

science fiction stuff, and it's and it's crazy. But but there's a part

of what's interesting as we learn more about this is not only seeing how AI

continues to develop, but the range of opinions and what the concern like everybody

has concerns about it, but the concerns vary wildly among the people who are

studying this and and come to different conclusions about what the concerns should be.

So that is, uh is fascinating to me. But I thought, well,

yeah, I mean I worry about how do you tell the difference?

Right, how do you tell the difference between AI art and human art when

it gets better and better? Right? Does it? Does it replace?

Does it replace us? Right? I'm because when you look at AI.

Now we're talking about AI, but AI in general has already been projected it's

going to take over millions of jobs and you know in the future, and

like, I forget what there was a number I saw that. I can't

remember what it was. It was like what they thought was going to happen

to like twenty twenty five or something. But there's obviously going to be a

lot of jobs that are going to AI. But there's so you put that

there's like a category of things that could potentially or eventually be only done by

computer. Yeah, is that all of our writers can they invoke the emotion?

They can be pretty descriptive, right, I mean, we've played with

it a little yeah, oh yeah, And I mean I can't say that

it's not good because it is. Yeah, it is, But I worry

about see for me, there's an integrity thing there too. It's like,

I like the idea of being able to have an independent computer to edit my

work and not have to wait for somebody else or anything like that. But

on the other hand, if I let it touch my work, is it

still just mine? Right? Yeah, that's it. That's a natural concern

to have. I think absolutely well we are. We are just about out

of time. We gotta we got to wrap up. But another successful show,

and of course I will be back next week, which will be our

well our last show of the year twenty twenty three. So thank you all,

and if you know, yes and if you missed any part of today's

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