Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-20-25 hour 1

0:00 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and today is Saturday, Saturday, December twentieth, twenty twenty five. We are live from the studios of w n H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, he can stream the show anywhere from Matt connorton dot com slash Live. So a little bit of an unusual opening. We usually open with some music and then get into the show, and today will be, for the most part normal edition of the program. We do have some some great guests lined up and one of them we're going to be speaking to him just a couple of minutes.

0:38 Speaker 1: Actually, he's already in Microsoft Teams, so I told him I had to do something a little different to open the show this morning, and he's very understanding. But the reason I'm doing this opening this way is I just wanted to say quickly, you know, thank you to everybody the outpouring of love and support regarding If you don't know, then a lot of you listening will know because you if you follow me on social media, you're aware. But for those of you listening who do not know or who haven't seen it yet, my father passed away Martin Connorton.

1:10 Speaker 1: He passed away on Thursday of this week. And you know here we are because I did hear from people asking me if I was still going to be on Live this Saturday. But you know, I the only way I know how to process grief is to stay busy and keep going and try to keep as normal as schedule as I can. But so that's that's how I deal with it. But you know, this is I've always been able to say I was very fortunate to still have both my parents, and I can't say that anymore. So it's it's hard, It's it's been a tough week.

1:47 Speaker 1: Dad fought bravely for a couple of months. He was at Mass General and I do take some solace again and knowing that he was at one of the best hospitals in the country, with one of the best cardiac wings, one of the best cardiac units in the country, So you know, if if they couldn't save him, no one could. He had the best possible shot that he could have anywhere at Mass General, but it was not to be. But part of why I wanted to just mention it on the show too, is because so many of you who have been listeners of the show for a long time, If if you came to the program recently, not so much.

2:26 Speaker 1: But for those of you who have been with me for a long time, you might have become familiar with my dad. When the show used to be we had a little bit of a different format, and we were on weekday afternoons for years, many years, what was it, six years, seven years? Maybe Dad was a frequent caller. He would he would often call the show, and so a lot of our listeners of the program got introduced to him that way. I think he even called the morning show once or twice, but he but he would call my show on a somewhat regular basis, and so a lot of our listeners got to know my dad.

3:02 Speaker 1: Some listeners got to know him on social media or a combination of or you know, got to know him first on the show and then on social media and and forged relationships with him. So a lot of you know, it's like I said to Joe lar here at Manchester Public Television sent me a very nice email, you know, talking about how sorry he wants to hear about my dad and and how how much he thought of him. I don't think they had ever met, but you know, he remembered my my dad calling into the show, and you know, and I wrote back to Joe and I said, yeah, I don't know if Dad realized just how largely he loomed in our little radio universe here, but he did.

3:42 Speaker 1: He did a lot of you got to know him that way. So you know, I thought I should say something. I'm not going to say too much right now because I'm still emotionally trying to find my way through this. I can tell you that I do intend to do a when I'm ready, I'm going to do a podcast. So just to quickly clarify, so there's another iteration of this program that exists. You know. We do the radio version, of course, every Saturday morning here at WM and H. Occasionally, and it's only once in a while, but occasionally we do a separate podcast only version that is strictly online of the show.

4:31 Speaker 1: We call it MCUAF and I always tell people, if you don't know what AF means, just ask someone younger than you. But the purpose of this other version of the show is just to kind of do anything that anything that we want to do on the show that doesn't necessarily fit the format of this program that we do here at WM ANDH. We just do it on the podcast version and kind of keep that separate, and we only do those once in a while. It's not often that a situation and like that comes up, to be honest, but I want to do I'm going to do a podcast version where I just talk about my dad and just kind of say everything I want want to tell you about my dad and his influence on me and how he shaped me, and what he was like to grow up with, et cetera, and you know, and what our relationship was like in recent years.

5:18 Speaker 1: And I just I just want to talk about my dad and try to do that to honor him the best way that I can. The reason though, that I want to do it on that version of the show is it just takes the pressure off of, you know, not trying to schedule it, not trying to plan it. Because obviously, with the radio show, we're here every Saturday nine am to noon Eastern time, check social listings, as Polyic likes to say. But with the podcast version of the show, we can just do that whenever we want. We just go online and do it and upload it and that's it.

5:50 Speaker 1: So I don't want the pressure of committing to a specific time. You know, Jenny does all the scheduling. I don't want to say, Jenny, I want to I want to do some sort of a tribute to my dad on this Saturday in this segment, because what if what if we do that, and what if we plan that and then the day comes and I don't feel on that day that I'm emotionally prepared to do it or in the right headspace, et cetera. So what we're gonna do is, instead, we're gonna do I'm going to do a podcast of the show where I just talk about my dad for you know.

6:24 Speaker 1: And again, by doing it that way, there's no time constraints. It can be as short or as long as I want to make it, you know, and I'll just be able to speak very freely, and you know, and I think that's I think that's the best way to handle that, because I do have a lot to say, and you know, my dad did loom very large in my life, and I think that's a I think that's a good way to honor him. So I don't know when it's going to be. It could be in a week. It could be in two weeks, it could be later this weekend.

6:56 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, if you're interested in that, just kind of keep your eyes and ears open for that. But there will be a podcast version of the show where I just take some time and talk about my dad. But in the meantime,

7:11 Speaker 1: you know, we my my sister Lindsay and high Lindsay if you if you hear this, Uh, she's she's been amazing through this. She's really kind of taken the lead in ways that I'm I certainly was not prepared for in terms of, you know, navigating through what we have to do next. Obviously there's some things that we have to do. And but again, uh, there there will be more more forthcoming. And I might address this to again at the end of the show today, but uh, but but I will, I will talk. Uh, I will talk more at length in a in a separate a separate podcast version of the show.

7:48 Speaker 1: So but again, I I do want to say, I mean, I I was actually surprised, to be honest, just that the outpouring of support and uh and everything, and and I know a lot of you felt very very strongly about my dad, and really I don't know that he ever knew just how much he influenced so many people, in touch the lives of so many people. I hope that he did. I don't know that he did. And on that that's a cheerful way to open the show. Huh, sorry everybody, but no, but I did want to say that, and thank you, thank you for indulging me on that.

8:28 Speaker 1: There will be more to come in the meantime. We do have a great show for you. And right now we are going to play the newest single from the band The Painting. This is a great track called Scarlet. We did the radio premiere for it here on the show recently, in fact. And then at the end of the song, we're gonna speak with Lewis Taylor from the band The Painting, and then at the end of that we'll play another track from the album. The album is called Before the Rain and this is great. This is a great single.

8:57 Speaker 1: I cannot wait to talk to Lewis. I really like this band lot, but this is called scarlet Let.

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12:47 Speaker 1: What a great song that is? I love that. That is called Scarlet. The band is the Painting, the album is Before the Rain, And let's get Lewis in here. Lewis Taylor is on the line with us via Microsoft Teams. Hello Lewis, Hi there, how's it going?

13:02 Speaker 5: Good?

13:02 Speaker 1: Good, Welcome to the show. I love that song. I love that song so much. That is that is so good? We play that, We played it when it first came out, and and I still love it as much as I I did. Listen to the entire album, by the way, Before the Rain. I think the whole thing is great. So I'm really happy to have you on the show today.

13:19 Speaker 6: Thank you, I'm really glad to be here.

13:21 Speaker 4: Excellent.

13:23 Speaker 6: Just before we go in it further, I went to pass on condolences as well to yourself about your dad. I lost my dad a couple of years ago, and so I know what it's like.

13:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I appreciate that very much. Yeah, it's it's it's rough. It's yeah, it's it's Uh. I'm still I'm still kind of processing it all. But I'm sorry to hear that you lost your dad a couple of years ago. But yeah, so you you know what, uh you know what we're going through here. But no, I appreciate that very much, No, no problem, but uh so happier subjects. So, like I said, I love the band, and you guys are from Glasgow? Is that correct?

13:59 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're we're based in Glasgow. We're all all the members are were you know, originally from different parts of Scotland, but we're all based in Glasgow.

14:08 Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And then how long has the band been around?

14:12 Speaker 6: Oh as this iteration of the band, maybe around the year.

14:20 Speaker 1: That's what I thought.

14:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, beforehand we were in A we were a different band with a different name, but that will that will changed about a year ago and we decided to change name and change direction slightly with what kind of music we played as well.

14:36 Speaker 1: So the Painting as an entity then is a is a relatively new project, which is interesting because you've already got you've already got a full album that like when when you became when the band became The Painting Did did you immediately start working on this album?

14:53 Speaker 6: I think at that point in time we didn't realize it was going to be, you know, an album. I think we had thoughts it might be maybe a couple of singles or you know what, kind of a shorter release. And by this time went on and we realized that we are very prolific when it comes to writing songs, and we we think it's mostly we find it easy, but would be just it just comes quite naturally to to just you know, to write, to write music. And very quickly it became evident that we were you know, we were having had a large batch of songs and we decided, let's just record an album.

15:31 Speaker 1: It's cool when when it seems so natural and and it kind of comes easy, right, because that's when you know you've really got something. I mean, it's you know, it's fine if you have to to really work at it, that's that's okay too. But when you when as a band, when when just the songwriting process, when these songs just come together quickly, it's that's how you know you're really onto something. I think when it's when it's just kind of natural and organic. And and part of why I was so curious about that too, is because it is a full album because we live in a time as you know, and you referenced it too, you you know, you were talking about how you had to decide, you know, are you going to do a full album or you going to do singles or an EP or whatever.

16:09 Speaker 1: So yeah, so to make the decision to do a full album, that's a big undertaking right out of the gate, but it sounds like it made a lot of sense given your situation with the band.

16:18 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're definitely very, very ambitious when it comes to things like, you know, like recording an album or you know, we don't do things by half measures. We always try to, you know, elevate things and aim for something quite ambitious. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, you're rightly, it's a bit. I think it's quite a rare thing to be able to be with another group of musicians and be able to come up with things very very quickly and you know, efficiently. I mean I've been in projects before where it would take it could take you months to even write one song, whereas we could write a song not easily.

16:57 Speaker 6: I mean, sure, it does come with it, you know, roadblocks, but we can write songs fairly quickly. So yeah, I think it's quite a rare thing, and you know, it's it's always a fun process with the rest of the band members.

17:13 Speaker 1: I think I neglected to mention too. So you're the best player in the band. So I am myself a bass player.

17:19 Speaker 6: So there we go.

17:21 Speaker 1: Bass players unite absolutely. How many how many people are in the band? Is it a four piece?

17:27 Speaker 7: No, so.

17:29 Speaker 6: It's not became you know, kind of public knowledge. We wear six six piece, but band well down to we're now down to a five piece at this moment in time. Okay, yeah, we we recently had someone exit the band, and I won't go into it. It's it's not really you know, there's no point going in to it as what it is. But yeah, there we're Yeah, we are five members and we're just continuing as normal. There's no you know, it's not gonna mp US or anything in any way. We'll just keep going.

17:58 Speaker 4: Yeah.

17:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now the album Before the Storm is there. I'm sorry, before the Before the Rain rather is there? Oh, I know why I was singing Storm. I was seen about the song Waiting, which we're gonna play at the end of the segment. But yeah, but is there any kind of a theme, you know, lyrically, is there any kind of a theme of the album. It's it's really cohesive. It almost feels like there could be a theme, but maybe not. I'm not sure. You tell us.

18:25 Speaker 6: This is this is the hard book because I'm probably the wrong person task best as in Keaton, who is the you know, the sega and letters as to the band. But I think we all collectively agreed like when we were you know, when we saw the Lytics and we heard the Lytics, So it all kind of points to can the new beginnings a lot of the time. Yeah, And I think it's quite relevant obviously with regards to I was becoming a new project and you know, coming from the ashes of an old band basically, and I know Keaden would make me talking about it as well.

18:59 Speaker 6: But obviously you went through a breakup during this time and then has now moved on to you know, a new relationship and that's essentially what the song Scarlet's about is new relationship. And so there's a lot of kind of new beginnings is probably I think a quite a big, you know theme within the album. Within the lyrics, I think you're right as pretty cohesive, and I think it was quite unintentional. I don't think it was it was set out to be like that, but yeah, I think when you and you know, in retrospect, if you were, if I was to go back and listen to it, or you know, listen to the lyrics, I could definitely see that there's a lot of you know, and intertwined kind of themes that makes sense basically.

19:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's very I find overall, it's got a vibe that is very you know, it's it's sort of dreamy and light in a sense, but also hopeful. Yeah, you know, it's it's gotta there's just a hopefulness to the to the album that I really like. And also, I wanted to ask you about the cover for Before the Rain. It's appropriate for a band, uh called the painting because it looks like a painting. But I'm I'm and it's a you know, I encourage people to look at it online. It's it's a really nice cover and it's very I think it's classy to the way the name of the band and the name of the album.

20:20 Speaker 1: It's it's in the upper left corner, you know, kind of kind of small, you know, big enough so you can see it. Obviously it's you don't have to hunt for it. But but but the way it's sort of unintrusive in terms of of the uh, the rest of the image of of what looks to be a painting. But I'm curious about the artwork. I mean, is that an actual painting that that's hanging somewhere and uh or is it specifically for the album or where does that come from?

20:44 Speaker 6: No, actually, it's actually a photograph really yeah, yeah, we I think it's maybe slightly being added to to make it kind of look more like a paint. And I'm not entirely sure, but it certainly comes from a photograph that we came across online and by photographer, and we you know, we obviously spoke to the photographer and goal permission to use it. But yeah, I understand where you're coming from. It it does look like a.

21:10 Speaker 1: Painton, Yeah, it really does. It really does. Absolutely. What was the so, what was the name of the band that that pre pre dates the painting.

21:21 Speaker 6: It was Arcade State.

21:23 Speaker 1: Arcade State. Yeah, that's an that's an interesting name. That's kind of cool and too random. And then and then so, so how many how many members from that are in the painting so.

21:36 Speaker 6: At this moment, and say just three three, so it would be myself, Jordan the drummer, and Keetan who is the guitarist and singer.

21:45 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now to end that project and then start the painting. Was that was that difficult?

21:52 Speaker 8: Like?

21:52 Speaker 1: Was there a lot of I'm especially curious because I've been in situations like that. I don't play anymore. I used to play in bands at this point at this one, I'm more focused on on broadcasting and stuff. But I've been in situations where it's like, in fact, I've been in that exact situation where one band, You've got one band and you're thinking about maybe making a new project with some of the same people. So then it's like, well, what do we do we just take what we have and change direction, or or do we just say that's it, We're going to do this whole new thing with this new name.

22:23 Speaker 1: How much of the old thing gets brought into the new thing and all the nuances of that. So I'm really curious about that.

22:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, So, to be honest, things then in particular, will I think I think, and they kind of plan for Keaton was to do this as almost like a kind of a solo project. We'd all going into a long story and we all didn't perhaps part way is quite you know, it wasn't really amicable. It was quite. It wasn't the most you know, it just ended quite abruptly and will not fell out and hated each other or anything. It wasn't like that. It just wasn't. Yeah, it just looked like we were it was just over and that was the end of it.

23:10 Speaker 6: And then Keran announced that he wanted to start a new project. It would be the Painting. He was the only member at that point. I don't know if his plans were to you know, get other members or do everything on his own. But eventually, maybe after a week or so, he asked me to come back and play bass for him, and then Jordan, who is his brother, actually to play drums. And then eventually it just got to the point where we were just essentially a few members of our Kade state. And then we started looking for a keyboard player and another guitar player, and that's where Marta and Johnny came into the equation.

23:49 Speaker 6: Yeah, and when it comes to the style of music. Beforehand, we were more alternative rock. Maybe I wouldn't say we weren't heavy, like kind of heavy music, you know. It was more a little bit more abrasive than what we are now, obviously, but we wanted to lean more into the kind of pop aspect of things. And I think all of us, like our one of our biggest influences is the war on drugs, and we wanted to kind of lean more into that as well, a bit more of a kind of I guess I'm trying to think about what you would define them as, almost kind of Americana sort of music, yeah, and mixed up with a kind of pop element.

24:36 Speaker 6: So I think we're getting there. I think with the album Before the Rain, that's only just the first step in our revolution and sound. I think we're still writing now, like for future releases, and I think with what we're writing, it's certainly evolving. So yeah, yeah, it's been a long it's been a very quick year, but also it feels like a very long the time.

25:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you guys have been busy. You've been doing a lot. That's wonderful. I'm curious soon did any of the material from Arcade state make it into the painting or did you just start completely new?

25:10 Speaker 6: So we started completely fresh?

25:12 Speaker 9: Yeah?

25:13 Speaker 6: Yeah, we actually I think even had a number of songs that we could have carried over, you know, to this project, but we just scraped them essentially. There might there might be a little bits here in the early a guitar lane or like a few lines of like lytrics and things like that, but it's not you know, it's not like a base of a song that's came from the project. Everything is essentially new.

25:38 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, What was that difficult? Because you know, song some some songwriters will describe songs as being almost like their children. It's hard to you know, it's hard to leave them behind. That was that difficult at all, like leaving all of that behind or did it just seem like the natural thing to do or.

25:59 Speaker 6: What was that like? It definitely felt like the natural thing to do. Good. But also we are quite cutthroat, well we we we'll just scrap things and and just move on. Obviously there'll be there'll be certain songs that you they will miss from the old from the old band. Yeah, yeah, none of it fits anymore. It really makes sense. So I mean, I guess you could argue we could make it fit, but I think we're quite content with the direction we're heading. But no, I think we might be a little bit of a kind of were entity there where we're quite cutthroat.

26:39 Speaker 6: We don't mind. We'll just move on and write something else.

26:42 Speaker 1: Oh that's good, that's that's excellent. Good for you. And then what's the live situation like for for you guys? Are you playing a lot of live shows or so?

26:54 Speaker 6: There was a period of time when we were writing the album we weren't really playing at all. It was more just focused on the writing aspective things. But as the years came to a close, like coming to a close, we have played a few gigs recently. We played a headline show in Glasgow in October and then another headline show in Edinburgh in November. It was sorry, everything this whole year is just a blur. Yeah, but yeah, so, and we also played a kind of mini festival like a day festival, indoor festival in Aberdeen as well.

27:33 Speaker 6: It started December, so you know, we were quite busy coming towards the end of the year and then moving into next year. We've got quite a lot coming up We've got a lot dates planned. We've got almost a small mini tour of the UK planned as well, and yeah, there's many other things in the works that hasn't you know, it's not been announced jet, it's not being confirmed yet, but there's a lot. Next year is gonna be really really busy.

28:00 Speaker 1: Well, very good, good good. So in a moment, we're going to play at the end of our our conversation, we're going to play the track Waiting on the Storm. What should people know about this one? This is one because I had asked you, So we'll pull back the curtain a little bit. I did ask you what you wanted to what you wanted us to play at the end of the at the end of the segment, and I don't I mean, is this going to be the next single or is this just one that that that you're really proud of or what?

28:26 Speaker 1: What should we know about this song before we play it?

28:29 Speaker 6: Yeah, So this is an early single from the album and the final single from the album. And this song was actually written in I think maybe ten minutes. Wow, it was a yeah, yeah, it was a very very quick This is one of the occasions where we didn't overthink it. We just played what failed Natural and this is what came out?

28:54 Speaker 1: Wow, excellent, excellent. So before we let you go and before we hit that song, what should be people know about where to keep up with everything that you're doing as a band. Where should people Where's the best place to go online to keep up with the painting.

29:07 Speaker 6: Oh, I would say definitely on Instagram, instagrams that we you know, where we are probably most active. You can find us the Painting Official okay on Instagram, and yeah, that's definitely the best place to keep up to date with us.

29:24 Speaker 1: Outstanding, outstanding, Well, Lewis, I really appreciate you joining us here today this morning or I don't know what what time is it where you are, where you are, it's probably afternoon, right.

29:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's two theory to theory you. I'll forgive you you.

29:39 Speaker 1: It is indeed, it is indeed, No, but I do very much appreciate you doing joining us. Like I said, I listened to the full album and we've we've become fast fans of the painting here. Really really like what you're doing. So we'll definitely have to do this in the future, and certainly once you have some new music, we'll have you on or or you know, or anything that you have coming up that's exciting. You know, we'd love to have you back and we will definitely this again.

30:01 Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me and moving to quietly come back on. It's been a pleasure, wonderful, wonderful.

30:07 Speaker 1: All right, Lewis, thank you. We'll let you go. We're gonna hit this track and we will talk to you soon.

30:11 Speaker 6: Take care, no problem, Thank you any much.

30:14 Speaker 1: You got it, Bye bye, all right. That is Lewis Taylor. He is the bass player for the band The Painting. And here's another great track, and this is going to be the next single. You heard it here first, at least on American radio. You're hearing it for the first time, so I don't know if it's been played over there yet. But this is from the album Before the Rain, and the track is called Waiting on the Storm?

30:51 Speaker 4: Are you waiting story? You do to focus on the stay off We're focusing guys, stay at shore, showing you want you want the same info tradition, the state dispersion. Don't speak to diff Chuck. We should shut the show.

32:18 Speaker 3: The cap.

32:22 Speaker 4: Show me then show me up.

32:31 Speaker 3: The captain.

33:35 Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a great song. That is so good waiting on the Storm. The band is The Painting and that is from their album Before the Rain. And thank you again so much to Lewis Taylor for joining us, the bass player from The Painting. Really enjoyed speaking with him and we will definitely do it again in the future. You are listening to Matt connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a Saturday, December twentieth, twenty twenty five.

34:05 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something so I wanted to say something else about my dad. You know, I spoke about my father who passed away on Thursday at the top of the show, and you know, as we go through the show and again I am going to do a separate podcast where I just say a lot of things all at once, but as things come to me throughout the show today, as we have time between segments, I might I might say a little bit more here and there. And something that you know I was singing about as we were playing that is, you know, something really cool about my dad.

34:34 Speaker 1: And if you're a longtime listener of the show, you've probably heard me say this on the show. He always loved hearing new music. People have a lot of people, you know, not musicians don't fall into this generally, certainly, and that's who we talked to on the show as musicians for the most part. But there are some people, non musicians who who kind of often get sort of locked into they only like music from a certain time period, you know, the stereotypical a person who like who has this. They kind of go through life with this idea that all the good music that was ever made was during their youth and everything after that it's terrible, and they don't want to hear anything else.

35:16 Speaker 1: And people kind of get stuck in their era, and you know, you'll hear people say it all the time. Oh, when I was a kid, music was great. Now music is terrible, All the new music is awful and whatnot. My dad was never like that, all the way to the end. He loved hearing new music. He was a big fan. I talked about this in a social media post. He was a huge fan of college radio. He lived on the Sea coast in Dover, New Hampshire at the end, but for a long time he lived on and he grew up on the seacoast actually, but he loved to listen to w u n H, the great college station at University of New Hampshire.

35:52 Speaker 1: He loved that station because he got to hear a lot of new stuff that you don't hear on mainstream commercial radio. And he loved hearing new music. And you know, you would not I always said, if you got into a car with my dad, you would not hear on his car radio. You wouldn't hear an oldies station or anything like that. You you would hear you would hear a probably college radio, because he loved hearing new music. And that's something that when when this show, when the format of the show changed here at w M and H, when we went from afternoons to doing saturdays weekday afternoons to Saturdays, we we took the you know, it became much more focused on you know, we used to do politics and other stuff, but when the show moved, we became much more focused on sticking to music and interviewing independent artists and other people in the industry as well.

36:47 Speaker 1: In fact, in the second hour today, we're gonna have Mike and Terry from Charlie Hill, which is a great venue that features musicians from the area. But but so people in the industry. But but you know, in the independent side of things and the local side of things, a lot of great local talent. And my father was always very supportive of that, and because he really enjoyed the guests that we would have on the show and hearing their music, and he would often say that he felt that we were in a golden age of music.

37:15 Speaker 1: In other words, he was never like, oh, the music the best music was when I was growing up. No, he always he always told me, he said, we're in a golden age of music right now because there's so much of it. And he loved being able to explore that online because the Internet has given us the ability something we didn't have when I was a kid. Certainly growing up. Don't get me wrong, I've fond memories of going to a music store and flipping through albums and flipping through CDs and finding new stuff and all that.

37:41 Speaker 1: But but I wouldn't trade what we have now to go back to that. Now. It's incredible. I can find anything anytime I want to on the Internet. I can find you know, whether I want to find something new or whether I want to find something old that I just feel like hearing. But he loved that and being able to explore, you know, all all genres. You know, he didn't. He certainly didn't limit himself that way either. My dad even liked some hip hop, which might surprise some of you, but he did. He loved Doctor Dre.

38:09 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, he really did. Just as an example, he was a big Doctor Dre fan, so so he was always so he was very supportive of what we of what we were doing here, and and I think I think he would have enjoyed, uh, I think he would have enjoyed that band, the painting. I think he really would have liked that. And I think he would have liked to have heard that conversation. So the other thing I'm gonna do, uh, kind of just in honor of my dad, is I'm going to play a song for you that is definitely not an indie artist.

38:41 Speaker 1: But let me explain. So if you know me at all, you probably know that my favorite band and it's part of why I chose to wear this shirt today. My favorite band, for those of you watching the video, my favorite band of all time is Kiss and has been since I was a kid and my dad Ad is responsible for getting me in the Kiss. And my dad wasn't like a diehard fan or anything, but he liked He always liked Kiss. He was a fan. But here's what happened. And you know, I'm kind of showing my age here with this little anecdote, but this was the beginning of my Kiss fandom.

39:19 Speaker 1: So I won't say what year was, but you can figure it out. So the single at the time was Tears Are Falling. It was from the Kisses Asylum album. At this point, we were well into the non makeup era of Kiss. They didn't have the makeup at this point. They had already taken it off a few years earlier. But Asylum had come out and the single was Tears Are Falling, and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV and after school every day, of course, I would come home from school and I would turn on MTV to see the newest videos and everything that I that I you know, what they were playing, and I loved tears Are Falling.

40:02 Speaker 1: Now I had already kind of liked Kiss, you know, because I remembered seeing the video for Heaven's on Fire from the previous album Animalized. I remember seeing that on MTV, and I remember hearing Lick It Up on the radio, so I didn't really get it was already the end of the non makeup era. By the time I even started to take an interest in kiss, I completely missed the original makeup era. But Tears Are Falling was the song that really hooked me. And here's what happened. I remember this like it was yesterday.

40:34 Speaker 1: I know people use that as a cliche, but it's literally true. I was in the living room after school the video for Tears Are Falling was on. I loved the song. I was fascinated by the video. So I'm sitting there very intently focused on the television, and my dad comes home from work. Now Again, like I said, my dad always loved new music. So we never had that thing when I was growing up, where you know, I'm listening to stuff that my parents don't like and they're giving me a hard time about it. Why are you listening to that?

41:06 Speaker 1: It was never like that because my dad. You know, my dad loved Van Halen. He loved the Sammy Hagar version of Van Halen as much as I did. He was really into it, you know, So, so he was always current, so, so we liked a lot of the same stuff and a lot of the same stuff. So my dad happens to come home while the video for Tears Are Falling is on, and he kind of walks into the living room. He kind of pokes his head into the living room and he says, Maddie, who is that? Who does this song? Is that Kiss?

41:32 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah it is? And he said, oh, I really like this song. And I said to him, I said, yeah, me too. It's like my favorite song right now. So apparently dad made a mental note of that because for Christmas he got me that album. He got me Asylum, the newest Kiss album at the time that had you know that was the lead single, Tears Are Falling. He got that for me for Christmas, and I listened to it and I was hooked Asylum, by the way. And I know some Kiss fans will agree, some will disagree. I know Jeff Richards from Day to A ten degrees with me on this because he commented on it once online.

42:11 Speaker 1: Asylum is very underrated. It truly one of the most underrated Kiss albums. It's a really, really strong album, but Tears Are Falling is the only really real hit from it. Although my favorite Kiss song of all time also happens to be on that album Who Wants to Be Lonely. I can listen to that today and still love it as much as the first time I heard it. But Tears Are Falling was the song where again you know, I said that to my dad. Yeah, that's like my favorite song now too, right now, that's my favorite song.

42:40 Speaker 1: So he got me that album. I was hooked. He was pretty into it as well, and so my dad is respond If that moment hadn't happened, who knows, maybe today Kiss would not be my favorite band were it not for that moment and that exchange with my dad. So we don't normally play anything like this on this show because we are very focused on independent music. But I'm gonna go ahead and play this in honor of my dad and that memory. I'm going to play Tears Are Falling by Kiss, and then after that we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors.

43:10 Speaker 1: And then when we come back in the second hour, we'll have Mike and Terry from Charlie's Hill here with us in the studio. I cannot wait to speak with them. But here it is. This is a song that really got it started for me. This is tears are falling by kiss.

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53:16 Speaker 1: Novels and this is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of WM and H ninety five point three FM Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, and of course you can stream the show from from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live. We've got a little bit of time left in this hour. Our guests are still on their way our hour two guests. We've got Mike and Terry coming from Charlie Hill. But we're gonna play one more track from the Painting. They joined us, or I should say he Lewis Taylor from the band.

53:48 Speaker 1: The bass player from the band did join us earlier in the hour. And since we can feed this, we can squeeze this in. I don't know where I got feed Since we can feed this in, that's a radio term you've probably never heard, you know, feed this in. Since we can squeeze this in, I'm gonna play this. This is another track from their album Before the Rain. This is probably my personal favorite. This is the title track. This is Before the Rain. I really like this a lot. Check this out. The band is the Painting.

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