Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-20-25 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W m N H rip the nomals. We're back from

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4:27 Speaker 2: St Step, I'm say, I'm say.

5:02 Speaker 3: Stop, I cat five.

5:19 Speaker 2: I'm cat, I'm saving, I'm sick, I'm saving, I'm still So.

7:45 Speaker 4: That is another epic track from Tombstones in Their Eyes

7:48 Speaker 4: that is under Dark Skies. Love that track. And let's see,

7:53 Speaker 4: let's see here. We'll bring this mike up. We're gonna

7:55 Speaker 4: try to talk to John treen Or from the.

7:56 Speaker 5: Band Just one too, I can take one too.

8:00 Speaker 6: Hello, Hey John, I can I can hear you? Can

8:02 Speaker 6: you hear me?

8:03 Speaker 5: Yes?

8:04 Speaker 4: Oh beautiful? You sound great? So you switch to a

8:07 Speaker 4: different mic. I guess that's uh, I guess that's all

8:09 Speaker 4: we needed. Wonderful, Welcome to the show. I'm glad we

8:11 Speaker 4: got to talk. I was getting nervous. But I really, uh,

8:14 Speaker 4: I really like this project. This is really good Tombstones

8:17 Speaker 4: in Their Eyes great stuff. We did play the we

8:19 Speaker 4: played the single earlier Alive and Well, and of course

8:21 Speaker 4: that was the title track under Dark Skies and I

8:25 Speaker 4: love this band. Is this your project? Are you kind

8:28 Speaker 4: of the main guy? So you guys are now now

8:30 Speaker 4: you're you're on the West coast?

8:32 Speaker 6: Is that correct?

8:33 Speaker 5: I am los Angeles.

8:35 Speaker 6: You're you're an LA.

8:36 Speaker 4: Based band, and are you are you kind of the

8:38 Speaker 4: the main the main guy? Are you kind of the

8:41 Speaker 4: the center of the of the band? In terms of

8:44 Speaker 4: of uh steering the project?

8:47 Speaker 5: I am. This is my band. I write the songs.

8:49 Speaker 5: UH formed it originally and uh yeah, so that's the

8:54 Speaker 5: deal man.

8:55 Speaker 4: How long has this existed? How long has Tombstones in

8:58 Speaker 4: Their Eyes existed?

9:00 Speaker 5: We're at ten years now, ten.

9:02 Speaker 6: Years, that's a long time.

9:03 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:03 Speaker 4: I was looking at band camp and I thought, wow,

9:09 Speaker 4: they've got a lot of material. You've released quite a

9:12 Speaker 4: bit over that span of time, which is impressive. Yeah,

9:16 Speaker 4: it's very very impressive.

9:18 Speaker 6: Now I assume the uh, oh go ahead, No, you go.

9:22 Speaker 4: Well, I was just gonna say, I assume the makeup

9:24 Speaker 4: of the band has changed quite a bit over that time.

9:27 Speaker 5: It has. Yeah, the people I originally did the first

9:32 Speaker 5: recordings with are no longer around. I've got a bunch

9:36 Speaker 5: of newer people, some been around longer than others. The

9:40 Speaker 5: drummer Steven has been with me for a long time.

9:43 Speaker 5: And yeah, but yeah, things are pretty solid right now.

9:48 Speaker 4: Has it been a challenge to keep this project going

9:52 Speaker 4: for ten years? Because some you know, some people if

9:55 Speaker 4: they have a band and people start leaving and they

9:58 Speaker 4: have to cycle people out, at some point they they

10:00 Speaker 4: kind of they kind of start to think, well, maybe

10:02 Speaker 4: I'll start a new project myself, since you know people

10:05 Speaker 4: are coming and going. But ten years, I mean, that's

10:07 Speaker 4: impressive longevity. Has it been? Has it been challenging at

10:11 Speaker 4: times to keep this going? Have you ever been tempted

10:13 Speaker 4: to start something new? Or maybe you're just firmly committed

10:16 Speaker 4: to this and you're gonna keep going no matter what.

10:18 Speaker 4: I mean, what what's kind of been your your approach

10:20 Speaker 4: to that over the years.

10:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, this is my thing and I'm gonna keep it

10:24 Speaker 5: going as long as as long as I keep writing songs.

10:29 Speaker 5: You know, That's how I see it.

10:30 Speaker 4: No, that's great. I assume too. Where you are obviously

10:34 Speaker 4: you've got a lot of talent around you. So how

10:37 Speaker 4: hard is it to find musicians to bring in when

10:40 Speaker 4: you have to do that, when you have to make

10:42 Speaker 4: a change, when somebody's leaving and you've got to replace them,

10:44 Speaker 4: is it?

10:45 Speaker 7: Uh?

10:45 Speaker 6: I mean?

10:46 Speaker 4: Do you do you hold auditions or do you just

10:48 Speaker 4: know people already who would be suitable for these various

10:52 Speaker 4: Because at this point you're you're Are you the only

10:54 Speaker 4: original member?

10:55 Speaker 6: I assume you're the only one, right, Oh, yes, ma'am. Yeah.

10:59 Speaker 6: So how hard is it to find people or is

11:01 Speaker 6: it pretty easy?

11:03 Speaker 5: It's not, you know, it varies, right. So I had

11:07 Speaker 5: a search a while back for someone on bass, and

11:11 Speaker 5: we tried some things, and I ended up going back

11:14 Speaker 5: to someone i'd used before, a guy named Nick, who

11:17 Speaker 5: is still in the band and recently I had the

11:21 Speaker 5: same experience, but it was easier. Our guitar player Paul

11:25 Speaker 5: Bluten passed away a couple of months ago.

11:27 Speaker 6: Oh wow, sorry to hear that. That's terrible. Oh that's awful.

11:30 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't really planning on replacing him at

11:34 Speaker 5: this point. We just took some time off. But then

11:36 Speaker 5: I thought of this guy in the studio, an engineer

11:39 Speaker 5: where we record at Kitt and Robot Studio, and I

11:43 Speaker 5: asked him and his name is John Miller, and I

11:46 Speaker 5: think he's coming aboard. So that one, that one was

11:49 Speaker 5: particularly easy, but it could be difficult.

11:51 Speaker 6: No doubt, no doubt.

11:53 Speaker 4: Now, what can you tell us about under Dark Skies

11:55 Speaker 4: because it seems like I was reading something about that

11:58 Speaker 4: you went through a period of of some pretty intense

12:01 Speaker 4: personal upheaval. It was kind of the genesis of the

12:04 Speaker 4: emotional context of the album.

12:06 Speaker 5: Is that correct for sure? Yeah? I mean for me,

12:10 Speaker 5: you know, writing songs is always easier when you're in

12:13 Speaker 5: a sort of a down period. Yeah, And I've had

12:16 Speaker 5: my experience with that, but in twenty twenty three it

12:21 Speaker 5: was particularly bad, and you know, some really tough stuff

12:26 Speaker 5: going on.

12:27 Speaker 3: And.

12:29 Speaker 5: That led to a lot of the material and under

12:32 Speaker 5: Dark Skies.

12:34 Speaker 4: Something that comes up a lot on the show with

12:35 Speaker 4: people we talked to is how probably the best form

12:40 Speaker 4: of therapy is taking things that are bad, things that

12:43 Speaker 4: are traumatic, and then making that into art, because not

12:48 Speaker 4: only does it help you take something terribly negative and

12:51 Speaker 4: create something positive from it, because it helps you to

12:53 Speaker 4: create art, whether it be music or visual art or

12:56 Speaker 4: writing or whatever it is, but it also has the

12:58 Speaker 4: potential to help other people people because other people then

13:02 Speaker 4: can connect with that and it can help them as well.

13:04 Speaker 4: And then you've you've taken something negative and made something

13:06 Speaker 4: very positive out of it that not only helps you

13:09 Speaker 4: work through it and the process whatever it is you're

13:11 Speaker 4: going through, but can can connect with others. And I'm curious,

13:14 Speaker 4: have you experienced other people kind of reaching out to

13:17 Speaker 4: you when they hear the album and say, you know,

13:20 Speaker 4: I relate to this song, or I relate to the

13:23 Speaker 4: themes that are here or this this connects with me

13:26 Speaker 4: on a level that maybe I didn't expect, but then

13:28 Speaker 4: I listened to it and I got it, and I

13:30 Speaker 4: and I kind of know what you're feeling. Like, do

13:32 Speaker 4: do you hear from people about that? Oh?

13:35 Speaker 5: I definitely?

13:36 Speaker 6: Yeah.

13:36 Speaker 5: Yeah. I had one particular incidence where I wrote a

13:39 Speaker 5: song about super simple song about basically being on drugs

13:45 Speaker 5: during a period where I had had a relapse, and

13:49 Speaker 5: and the guy wrote in and said, I've never I've

13:51 Speaker 5: never done drugs, but after listening to your song, I

13:54 Speaker 5: completely understand the you know, the depths to which you

13:59 Speaker 5: might go or or the way he might feel, you know,

14:02 Speaker 5: And yeah, that was kind of interesting, you know, but yeah, definitely.

14:06 Speaker 5: You know, most of the music I listened to is

14:08 Speaker 5: a little sad or whatever you want to call it,

14:12 Speaker 5: and so I connect with that. You know, it makes

14:15 Speaker 5: me feel not so alone. And I think the same

14:18 Speaker 5: goes true with you know, some of the songs I write, right,

14:21 Speaker 5: So no doubt.

14:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, and can you tell us kind of circling back

14:27 Speaker 4: to Paul Button for a moment because the track we

14:30 Speaker 4: played it earlier, the single Alive and Well.

14:33 Speaker 6: Is that is it true that that's dedicated to Paul?

14:35 Speaker 8: Butten it is?

14:38 Speaker 5: It is It was written before he passed away, though

14:41 Speaker 5: it wasn't you know, written after that in relation to

14:45 Speaker 5: his passing. Yeah, but but yeah, it was one of

14:49 Speaker 5: his favorites and he plays on it. And you know,

14:53 Speaker 5: when we released it, I had a tough choice to make,

14:55 Speaker 5: right he had just passed away. The singles coming out

14:58 Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks, and I wrestle with, you know,

15:00 Speaker 5: do I want to release a single called the Live

15:02 Speaker 5: and Well after my guitar player has died, you know,

15:05 Speaker 5: and my friend and I decided to go ahead with it,

15:10 Speaker 5: you knowa dedicated to him because really the song is

15:14 Speaker 5: about coming through tough times and coming back right and

15:19 Speaker 5: and Paul had experienced that kind of process in his

15:22 Speaker 5: own life. Sure, so so we both had that in common.

15:26 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, And we should talk to about where this

15:30 Speaker 4: was recorded because and I always like to make sure

15:33 Speaker 4: we give credit to producers and engineers and whomever you

15:36 Speaker 4: work with. When I hear something that I think is

15:38 Speaker 4: really striking sonically, and and I really love the way.

15:42 Speaker 4: I mean, I enjoy the songs. I like what you're doing.

15:45 Speaker 4: I also really love I'm kind of a recording nerd,

15:49 Speaker 4: and I love the production. I think it's I think

15:52 Speaker 4: it's really good. And I feel too that this genre

15:56 Speaker 4: that you're working in the production has to be really good.

15:59 Speaker 4: You have to be able to create something epic. You know,

16:02 Speaker 4: you can't have guitars that sound small, and.

16:06 Speaker 6: You know what I mean.

16:07 Speaker 4: So, uhhere where did you record this? And who did

16:09 Speaker 4: you work with?

16:11 Speaker 5: We recorded a place called Kitt and Robots Studio, and

16:14 Speaker 5: we've been recording there since. Really our first record we

16:19 Speaker 5: mixed there and then everything else since then we've recorded there.

16:22 Speaker 5: And there's a a friend, a producer, Paul Rossler. I

16:27 Speaker 5: think the spelling's probably in the press kit, but you know,

16:31 Speaker 5: he's he's an LA fixture. He's been around since the

16:35 Speaker 5: late seventies. He played in a famous early LA sort

16:39 Speaker 5: of synth punk band called the Screamers, and since then

16:42 Speaker 5: he's been you know, in many other bands and and

16:45 Speaker 5: so we've been working together for you know this this

16:48 Speaker 5: ten years and he really gets what we want to do.

16:51 Speaker 5: We have a great working relationship and and we learned together,

16:55 Speaker 5: right and yeah, so you know, yeah.

16:59 Speaker 4: When you say you've worked with him for this ten years,

17:02 Speaker 4: does that mean every single thing that you've recorded for Tombstones,

17:06 Speaker 4: in their eyes, it's all been with him.

17:09 Speaker 5: Our first record we started off at a place locally,

17:14 Speaker 5: but when it came time to mix that record, I

17:17 Speaker 5: found Paul, so technically we recorded something elsewhere. But ever

17:23 Speaker 5: since then everything has been recorded there.

17:25 Speaker 4: Okay, Oh that's awesome. Yeah, obviously it's working for you.

17:29 Speaker 4: I'm also curious about this, So this is I don't

17:32 Speaker 4: usually see this, and maybe we're getting into the weeds,

17:35 Speaker 4: but we do have a lot of industry people who

17:37 Speaker 4: listen to the show who might also find this very interesting.

17:39 Speaker 4: So this is a dual label release, so it's out

17:44 Speaker 4: on Little Cloud Records here in North America, but it's

17:47 Speaker 4: also on a completely separate label, Shore Dive Records in

17:51 Speaker 4: the UK. And I'm curious about how that works and

17:55 Speaker 4: how that came about, and are there any challenges to

18:00 Speaker 4: effectively You've released this on two separate labels, which is

18:03 Speaker 4: very interesting to me.

18:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, I wish I'd discovered I could do that sooner. Actually,

18:10 Speaker 5: because we have fans in Europe and you know, around

18:15 Speaker 5: the world, but particularly in Europe, the UK, and so

18:20 Speaker 5: shipping over there is incredibly expensive these days shipping from

18:24 Speaker 5: the US.

18:25 Speaker 7: Ye.

18:25 Speaker 5: So, uh So what happened is that when we when

18:28 Speaker 5: we got with Little Cloud Records for this record, I

18:32 Speaker 5: noticed that one of their previous releases, one of the

18:35 Speaker 5: bands had done a similar thing. Actually, they do it

18:38 Speaker 5: quite regularly, I think, And so I had the idea,

18:41 Speaker 5: and I already knew U Nico from Short Drive Records,

18:45 Speaker 5: so I asked him. I asked Little Cloud if it

18:47 Speaker 5: was fine, and they're They're all fine with it. So,

18:50 Speaker 5: so what this does is, like I said, it gives

18:52 Speaker 5: me a chance, or it gives us a chance to

18:53 Speaker 5: get our stuff out to those fans over there without

18:56 Speaker 5: them having to pay a million dollars for shipping.

18:59 Speaker 4: Makes sense, Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Have

19:02 Speaker 4: you had a chance to tour over there?

19:05 Speaker 5: No? No, Yeah, being being a little older and having

19:11 Speaker 5: quite a full life, and you know, same with the band,

19:14 Speaker 5: right you know, right now the band has seven people,

19:17 Speaker 5: So gathering those seven people and getting us all in

19:21 Speaker 5: a place where we could do that is pretty tough,

19:24 Speaker 5: right now.

19:24 Speaker 6: No doubt.

19:25 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so so seven people, So that's interesting. I

19:28 Speaker 4: did notice that the picture that I saw too in

19:30 Speaker 4: the press release. So what I mean, what what do

19:33 Speaker 4: all these people? What do all these seven people do?

19:35 Speaker 7: Like?

19:35 Speaker 4: Do you do you have multiple guitars? I mean what

19:38 Speaker 4: can you just kind of take us through that what

19:39 Speaker 4: the lineup looks like in terms of of what everyone's

19:42 Speaker 4: doing in the band?

19:44 Speaker 5: Sure? Yeah, So myself I do vocals and guitar. We

19:48 Speaker 5: have a guitar player named Phil Cobb does yeah, and

19:52 Speaker 5: then we have a we had Paul Bouton who passed away,

19:55 Speaker 5: and now we have a John Miller who's going to

19:58 Speaker 5: be also you know, playing guitar. So that's me, two

20:01 Speaker 5: guitar players, a bass player named Nick, drummer named Steven,

20:05 Speaker 5: and then we have two other vocalists. One is Clia

20:09 Speaker 5: Cohen and the other is Courtney Davies. Okay, yeah, Courtney's

20:13 Speaker 5: been with us a little a little while and Clia

20:15 Speaker 5: is a little newer. But we started to get into

20:20 Speaker 5: harmony so much on the records that it made sense,

20:23 Speaker 5: you know, to try and do that live.

20:25 Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, has has that been some? Is that something

20:29 Speaker 4: that's unique to this record in terms of the harmonies

20:33 Speaker 4: or did you do that on.

20:36 Speaker 5: It's been starting to happen. It really came into bloom

20:41 Speaker 5: on the last record, Asylum Harbor, and has sort of continued.

20:45 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, just.

20:46 Speaker 5: Been a pro and an evolution.

20:48 Speaker 6: Interesting, Okay, very cool. I want to ask you too.

20:52 Speaker 4: I want to make sure we touch on you know,

20:55 Speaker 4: so people don't get the wrong idea in terms of

20:58 Speaker 4: in terms of the album and the context. You know,

21:00 Speaker 4: it's not all it's not all doom and gloom, right,

21:03 Speaker 4: there's there's sort of a theme of defiance and overcoming

21:08 Speaker 4: these challenges and dare I say even hopefulness to it, right.

21:12 Speaker 4: I listened to the whole thing, and that's that's kind

21:14 Speaker 4: of what I took from it. It's you know, it's

21:17 Speaker 4: not just you know, because people hear, you know, doom

21:20 Speaker 4: rock or whatever term you want to use, and they think, oh,

21:22 Speaker 4: it's it's just all down, it's all negative, but it's

21:25 Speaker 4: really not. And and what do you want people to

21:28 Speaker 4: take away from this, you know, not just when they

21:31 Speaker 4: listen to say Alive and Well the single, but when

21:34 Speaker 4: they listen to the whole album. What do you want

21:35 Speaker 4: people to take away from from that? When they hear it.

21:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, I hear what you're saying for sure, and it

21:46 Speaker 5: is not all doom and gloom, right, And I want

21:48 Speaker 5: people to take away that you can make it through

21:50 Speaker 5: tough times, you can find strength and there is hope.

21:55 Speaker 5: And that was sort of you know, the place I

21:57 Speaker 5: was in. I can't believe I made it through at

22:01 Speaker 5: some at some points, right, And so the songs are

22:06 Speaker 5: they're not wallowing in self pity right there. There are

22:12 Speaker 5: like you said, sort of a defiant like I'm gonna

22:15 Speaker 5: make this happen, you know, I'm gonna make it.

22:18 Speaker 6: Yeah.

22:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I got from it was the defiance

22:21 Speaker 4: and I really like that it connected with me. I

22:23 Speaker 4: think the album is fantastic. We should imagine too, how

22:26 Speaker 4: new it is too. This just came out December fifth, right,

22:29 Speaker 4: so this this just came out earlier this month, so

22:31 Speaker 4: it's very new and obviously it's on all the streaming services.

22:35 Speaker 4: And you did you get physical copies of this as well?

22:39 Speaker 4: Do you have physical copies?

22:40 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's on vinyl, NCD. Vinyl can

22:44 Speaker 5: be you know, purchased through our band camp, can be

22:47 Speaker 5: purchased through Short Dived Records band camp in Europe and

22:50 Speaker 5: the UK and also on Little Cloud Records website, so

22:54 Speaker 5: it's available.

22:55 Speaker 4: Oh, fantastic, fantastic. Where is the best place to go?

22:59 Speaker 6: John?

23:00 Speaker 4: And for people to keep up with everything that you're

23:02 Speaker 4: doing with tombstones in their eyes? Where should people go

23:05 Speaker 4: online to keep up with everything?

23:07 Speaker 5: I would say these days, either Instagram. Probably Instagram would

23:13 Speaker 5: be the best place because I had some help with

23:15 Speaker 5: that and we're making sure the content is flowing there

23:18 Speaker 5: with news and other things. I handle the Facebook myself,

23:24 Speaker 5: so that's you know, there was a period where I

23:26 Speaker 5: was trying to manage every social media and I've had

23:30 Speaker 5: to concentrate on just a few. Yeah, you know, Yeah,

23:32 Speaker 5: i'd say Instagram is a good place to go.

23:35 Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent, excellent. In a moment, we'll let you go

23:39 Speaker 4: and then we're gonna play I want to close out

23:41 Speaker 4: the segment with another track from the album, under Dark Skies,

23:45 Speaker 4: but I'm gonna kind of put you on the spot

23:47 Speaker 4: a little bit. I'm gonna ask you to pick it

23:49 Speaker 4: because we already played we played a live and well

23:52 Speaker 4: and we played the title track under Dark Skies, you know,

23:54 Speaker 4: while we were kind of working through our tech issues.

23:57 Speaker 4: So what would you like us to play to close

23:59 Speaker 4: out the segment it.

24:01 Speaker 5: Wow, we might throw you a curve bamb play. Have

24:06 Speaker 5: you play an instrumental?

24:08 Speaker 6: Okay?

24:09 Speaker 5: Would that be okay?

24:10 Speaker 6: Absolutely, absolutely, whatever you want.

24:14 Speaker 5: The song is called the Beginning.

24:16 Speaker 6: The Beginning.

24:18 Speaker 4: Oh yep, I see it excellent. So yeah, so we'll

24:21 Speaker 4: finish out with that. That'll be interesting.

24:23 Speaker 6: Okay.

24:24 Speaker 4: Well, John, thank you so much for joining us here today.

24:27 Speaker 4: Like I said, I love the album. I'm going to

24:29 Speaker 4: go back to and listen to some of your earlier

24:31 Speaker 4: work as well. So far, I've only listened to Under

24:33 Speaker 4: Dark Skies, but i really enjoyed it a lot. And

24:36 Speaker 4: I'm glad that we were able to work through our

24:38 Speaker 4: tech issues and get you on the phone. And it's

24:41 Speaker 4: been interesting talking to you and I'm sure we will

24:43 Speaker 4: definitely do it again in the future.

24:44 Speaker 6: As you're are you already working on new music? You are?

24:48 Speaker 4: You just kind of focused on the current project right

24:50 Speaker 4: now now that this has just come out.

24:52 Speaker 5: There's always stuff in the works. I mean, we have

24:54 Speaker 5: a lot a big backlog of songs that have recorded

24:57 Speaker 5: over the last couple of years.

24:58 Speaker 7: Yea.

24:59 Speaker 5: At the same time, yeah, I'm kind of focusing on

25:01 Speaker 5: this right now and trying to yeah, you know live.

25:06 Speaker 6: Oh of course, yeah.

25:07 Speaker 4: Well we will definitely have you back in the future

25:09 Speaker 4: as when you do have new stuff, because like I said,

25:11 Speaker 4: I've become a fast fan of your work. We're gonna

25:14 Speaker 4: hit this track, so we'll let you go for now.

25:16 Speaker 4: But John from Tombstones in Their Eyes, thank you so

25:19 Speaker 4: much for joining us today.

25:21 Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm sorry for the second

25:23 Speaker 5: Oh hey.

25:24 Speaker 4: No worries, We got through it all right, all right, John,

25:27 Speaker 4: take care of bye bye all right. That was John

25:30 Speaker 4: Treeener from Tombstones in Their Eyes and we will close

25:33 Speaker 4: out this segment with this. This is an instrumental from

25:36 Speaker 4: the album Under Dark Skies. This is called the Beginning.

29:00 Speaker 4: That's heavy. That is called the Beginning. The band is

29:03 Speaker 4: Tombstones in Their Eyes and thank you again to John

29:05 Speaker 4: Treeener for joining us. Thank you to everyone who joined

29:08 Speaker 4: us today. Of course, in the first hour we had

29:12 Speaker 4: Lewis Taylor from the band The Painting, and then in

29:15 Speaker 4: the second hour we had Mike Hill along with Terry

29:18 Speaker 4: and Lloyd from Charlie Hill with us and it was

29:21 Speaker 4: great talking. In the third hour with John Treener from

29:24 Speaker 4: Tombstones in Their Eyes really really liked that project. If

29:28 Speaker 4: you are just joining us, we are live, of course

29:30 Speaker 4: on Saturday, December twentieth, twenty twenty five. This is Matt

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29:51 Speaker 6: Etc.

29:52 Speaker 4: I talked about it at the very beginning in the

29:54 Speaker 4: first hour of today's show, and I'll just kind of

29:57 Speaker 4: circle back to it. I do want to anyone who

30:00 Speaker 4: missed it. I want to just publicly thank everybody for

30:02 Speaker 4: their kind words and love and support.

30:06 Speaker 6: This week.

30:06 Speaker 4: My father passed away on Thursday, Martin Connorton. Some of

30:12 Speaker 4: you knew him, became familiar with him through the show

30:15 Speaker 4: back when we used to do weekday afternoons. He was

30:18 Speaker 4: a regular caller, so a lot of you heard his voice.

30:21 Speaker 4: Some of you became familiar with him on social media,

30:26 Speaker 4: but you know he did. He did loom large in

30:29 Speaker 4: our little radio universe here. As I like to say,

30:32 Speaker 4: so uh, you know, thank you everyone who's reached out.

30:36 Speaker 4: He as I said earlier, he had a tough battle.

30:39 Speaker 4: It lasted for almost two months at mass General in Boston,

30:44 Speaker 4: and you know, if anyone could have saved him, they

30:46 Speaker 4: could have because that's one of the best hospitals with

30:49 Speaker 4: one of the best cardiac units in the entire country.

30:51 Speaker 4: So if they couldn't couldn't save him, then then no

30:54 Speaker 4: one could. So that, you know, there is some some

30:58 Speaker 4: solace in that, but but it hurts. It's painful. I

31:03 Speaker 4: am planning to do I'm gonna outside of this show,

31:07 Speaker 4: I'm going to do a separate podcast about my dad

31:10 Speaker 4: at some point where I really just have the time

31:12 Speaker 4: and the space to just say everything that I want

31:15 Speaker 4: to say about him and and you know, and and

31:19 Speaker 4: how he influenced me in my life. And but I'm

31:22 Speaker 4: gonna do that. I'm gonna do that separate from the show.

31:24 Speaker 4: I'm going to do that on the podcast version, just

31:26 Speaker 4: so because that way I don't have the pressure of Okay,

31:29 Speaker 4: on on this day, on this particular Saturday morning, in

31:34 Speaker 4: this segment, I'm going to talk about my dad. I

31:36 Speaker 4: don't I want to be able to just do it

31:38 Speaker 4: when I'm ready to do it. And I don't know

31:40 Speaker 4: when I'm going to be ready to do it because

31:41 Speaker 4: I'm not ready to do it yet. But but but

31:44 Speaker 4: it's coming, it's coming. I do want to do that.

31:46 Speaker 4: I want to honor him with that, and I want

31:48 Speaker 4: to you know, and maybe I can share some things

31:50 Speaker 4: about him that my surprise some listeners. I'm sure that

31:53 Speaker 4: listeners who knew my dad became familiar with him might

31:57 Speaker 4: find it interesting to hear some some childhood stories and

32:00 Speaker 4: that kind of thing. So so there's a lot, there's

32:03 Speaker 4: a lot there. There's a lot to say. He was

32:05 Speaker 4: a very interesting guy, a very complicated guy in some ways.

32:09 Speaker 4: Our relationship was complicated in some ways. But you know,

32:13 Speaker 4: but it hurts, it's it's hard, and so I I

32:16 Speaker 4: do appreciate, I do appreciate everyone who's reached out and

32:20 Speaker 4: just you know, keep your eyes and ears open for

32:22 Speaker 4: the podcast version of the show. Like I said, could

32:24 Speaker 4: be a week, it could be a couple of weeks,

32:25 Speaker 4: it could be this weekend.

32:26 Speaker 6: I don't know when I'm gonna do it.

32:28 Speaker 4: I'm just gonna I'm gonna do it when I'm ready,

32:30 Speaker 4: and uh, well I'm sure I'm ready because once I

32:34 Speaker 4: turned that microphone on and start going that's you know,

32:36 Speaker 4: that's that's it. I'm committed. So but uh so, I

32:39 Speaker 4: do appreciate all of you. I think what we're gonna do.

32:43 Speaker 4: So earlier in the show, it was in the first hour,

32:49 Speaker 4: I played a song that I played, Tears Are Falling

32:53 Speaker 4: by Kiss, and I played that because I told the

32:55 Speaker 4: story of how my dad was the one who got

32:57 Speaker 4: me into, uh really into heavily listening to Kiss and

33:05 Speaker 4: he also I remember another band that he and I

33:09 Speaker 4: really bonded over was Van Halen when I was a kid.

33:13 Speaker 4: And again I'm kind of showing my age here, but

33:16 Speaker 4: I have another very nice memory of my father from

33:19 Speaker 4: when I was a kid, so we had borrowed again.

33:22 Speaker 4: This was during the van the Van Hagar era as

33:25 Speaker 4: some people like to call it. Fifty one fifty had

33:29 Speaker 4: come out, which is my to this day, my favorite

33:31 Speaker 4: Van Halen album, and it was the first album with

33:35 Speaker 4: Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, and that was another album

33:40 Speaker 4: that both my dad and I just loved and we

33:42 Speaker 4: would listen to all the time. And I have a

33:46 Speaker 4: particular memory of on video Van Halen had released. It

33:50 Speaker 4: was called Live without a net, and it was from

33:53 Speaker 4: a show on the fifty one fifty tour when they

33:56 Speaker 4: played in New Haven, Connecticut, and so I'd borrowed that.

34:03 Speaker 4: I'd borrowed the video of that from a friend, and

34:07 Speaker 4: it was that weekend that i'd borrowed it. It was

34:11 Speaker 4: a Sunday night, and Dad and I sat and we

34:15 Speaker 4: watched the entire thing, the whole two hour concert on video,

34:20 Speaker 4: and we both really enjoyed it. And Dad was so

34:24 Speaker 4: into it that at the end of it, he said

34:27 Speaker 4: to me, now it was getting to be my bedtime.

34:30 Speaker 4: And something Dad was a little strict about, probably more

34:34 Speaker 4: than he needed to be. Not to critique him, but

34:37 Speaker 4: I always I thought this at the time, and even

34:39 Speaker 4: in hindsight, I still think he was a little bit

34:41 Speaker 4: strict about making sure on school nights I was in

34:43 Speaker 4: bed at an early enough time, just but he would

34:50 Speaker 4: make exceptions. And he made an exception that night because

34:54 Speaker 4: we got to the end of watching the video and

34:58 Speaker 4: it was definitely time for bed, and he said to me,

35:03 Speaker 4: because he liked it so much, he said, you know what,

35:06 Speaker 4: we should watch, like the first couple of songs again.

35:08 Speaker 4: We should start it over and just watch the first

35:10 Speaker 4: couple of songs and then and then you can go

35:12 Speaker 4: to bed. And I was like, okay, So we started

35:19 Speaker 4: it over. And here's the thing I knew, because even

35:22 Speaker 4: though he was a little bit strict about the bedtime,

35:25 Speaker 4: he did make exceptions.

35:26 Speaker 6: I knew.

35:28 Speaker 4: Once he committed to that, we'll watch a couple, We'll

35:32 Speaker 4: watch the first couple. I thought, Oh, I'm staying up

35:35 Speaker 4: for another two hours because yeah, he's saying that, right,

35:39 Speaker 4: We'll just watch the first couple of songs again and

35:42 Speaker 4: then you can go to bed. But he's not going

35:44 Speaker 4: to enforce that, you know, because I knew my dad

35:46 Speaker 4: well enough, you know, and that's something every you know,

35:48 Speaker 4: all kids, I think, kind of learned that with their parents.

35:51 Speaker 4: You know, what they say or or it doesn't always

35:54 Speaker 4: necessarily match up with what they're actually going to enforce.

35:58 Speaker 4: Because my dad overall was not super strict, you know.

36:02 Speaker 4: He I mean, I was an easy kid anyway, because

36:04 Speaker 4: I wasn't getting into trouble all the time or anything

36:06 Speaker 4: like that to begin with. So it's not like he

36:08 Speaker 4: had to be the strict disciplinarian with me to begin with.

36:11 Speaker 4: But but you know, but he wasn't, you know, he

36:14 Speaker 4: wasn't like super strict or anything, so I knew. I

36:19 Speaker 4: remember thinking, oh, he's gonna let me stay up the

36:22 Speaker 4: whole two hours. He's gonna let me stay up two

36:24 Speaker 4: hours past my bedtime because he's gonna want to watch

36:26 Speaker 4: the whole thing over again. And he's not gonna want

36:29 Speaker 4: to send me to bed while he stays up and

36:31 Speaker 4: watches the rest of it, because that's not cool.

36:33 Speaker 6: Uh.

36:33 Speaker 4: I've got him. He's gonna let me, He's And that's

36:35 Speaker 4: exactly what happened. I stayed up for another two hours,

36:38 Speaker 4: two hours passed my bedtime on a school night, and

36:40 Speaker 4: we watched the entire thing a second time. And that's

36:43 Speaker 4: just a really uh And I was fine the next day.

36:45 Speaker 4: I wasn't tired or anything. But but that's just a

36:47 Speaker 4: childhood memory that has stuck with me. So I think

36:50 Speaker 4: what I would like to do now is I would

36:53 Speaker 4: like to play my dad's favorite song from the album

36:57 Speaker 4: fifty one to fifty. It's actually the title track from

37:00 Speaker 4: the album, and we would listen to it in the

37:03 Speaker 4: car and I remember my dad was just like, this

37:05 Speaker 4: is such a great song. So I think what we'll

37:07 Speaker 4: do is I'm gonna play that now. And then I

37:13 Speaker 4: think I'm gonna place maybe we'll have time to play

37:17 Speaker 4: a couple other songs that I know that my dad

37:20 Speaker 4: really loved.

37:23 Speaker 6: I think we should do that.

37:25 Speaker 4: I think this is gonna be the end of me

37:26 Speaker 4: speaking on today's show, though, I think I'm gonna play this,

37:29 Speaker 4: and then I'm just gonna go ahead and play some

37:31 Speaker 4: other songs that my dad really loved that I know

37:37 Speaker 4: connected with him, songs that he and I both loved.

37:43 Speaker 6: I think that would be a good way to finish

37:45 Speaker 6: out the hour.

37:46 Speaker 4: If you miss any part of today's show, you know

37:48 Speaker 4: the drill, It'll be up in just a little bit

37:50 Speaker 4: at wm and a radio dot orgon at my website

37:52 Speaker 4: Matt Connorton dot com. And I think that's gonna do

37:58 Speaker 4: it for me as far as what I have to

38:01 Speaker 4: say this week. But thanks everyone again who joined us,

38:03 Speaker 4: and I will I'm gonna play this here it is.

38:08 Speaker 4: This is the title track from Van Halen's album fifty

38:11 Speaker 4: one fifty.

38:13 Speaker 6: Love Your Dad, No.

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39:35 Speaker 2: We'd take our chance, we don't begin then snowy shine

39:43 Speaker 2: will take that O. Wait, God God never says to

40:07 Speaker 2: want you turn you it's only want me.

40:16 Speaker 7: Me to and know.

40:22 Speaker 2: What that means.

40:33 Speaker 9: Feel my grun name politician.

40:37 Speaker 3: And just turn to please you.

40:41 Speaker 9: Ority given you myself the whole condition.

40:53 Speaker 2: Running always wonder you never said trow. You know it's

41:19 Speaker 2: only water, so.

41:26 Speaker 10: Too have the way.

41:29 Speaker 2: When you talking about what.

41:32 Speaker 7: That out.

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43:05 Speaker 11: Something so.

43:10 Speaker 2: Don't laugh. We two lf the way. Wait a don

43:16 Speaker 2: do what dold.

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44:27 Speaker 12: for sharing dreams on evil on that this harmble expression

44:34 Speaker 12: meagally dresses my aus of mean.

44:38 Speaker 3: It has no meaning, but you.

44:42 Speaker 11: My all a secret courts must be on the telet.

44:50 Speaker 2: I need my love to translin that plays up beyond

44:55 Speaker 2: a normal brided hurting.

44:59 Speaker 10: This time the sky I saved your class on heaving.

45:04 Speaker 2: To the sun of Crian.

45:06 Speaker 12: Even if guided, I'll try the gay because the knive

45:13 Speaker 12: what song.

45:18 Speaker 3: I'm from a wrong.

45:27 Speaker 12: Contected on command neforlessly.

45:34 Speaker 3: My mind and sky.

45:36 Speaker 2: When I wake up pety day time of.

45:40 Speaker 3: Night time, I feel in it.

45:45 Speaker 11: Going on to reading she has been here but.

45:49 Speaker 13: Jealous night and on her secret cards on the tempt

45:58 Speaker 13: in my love to try slaying this start to the

46:02 Speaker 13: sky sing and plass.

46:04 Speaker 3: On hearving.

46:06 Speaker 7: To the sun of crying.

46:08 Speaker 13: They were never mid a frighting gayser because we do

46:15 Speaker 13: what's fun.

46:41 Speaker 11: But cannot snid all have secret gods must be there

46:49 Speaker 11: on the tid on me not long the translat Let's

46:56 Speaker 11: start to.

46:57 Speaker 3: The sky, sing in class on him.

47:01 Speaker 11: To the sun of crime, even if found it.

47:06 Speaker 2: I'm trying to gay.

47:09 Speaker 10: Because with you what's wrong.

47:15 Speaker 3: Doing?

47:34 Speaker 11: And lay streaking music spound down the streets.

47:42 Speaker 3: I here remember with you.

47:44 Speaker 10: I have to go because my rock and roll it's.

47:49 Speaker 3: Burning on wait.

47:52 Speaker 2: And the men go on.

47:57 Speaker 11: Call vaga, happenlessening. My mind is God and were awake.

48:08 Speaker 3: Daytime the night.

48:10 Speaker 7: I'm vision.

48:12 Speaker 10: We don't want to breathing. She helps me here, but

48:17 Speaker 10: tell us nine and all.

48:19 Speaker 11: Her secret cards. I'm must be there on the telephone.

48:26 Speaker 10: I need my love to translay.

48:38 Speaker 3: With you, my love.

48:39 Speaker 10: We're going to wait the future.

48:44 Speaker 3: With you, my love.

48:45 Speaker 10: We're going to stick.

48:46 Speaker 2: Out their beds.

48:49 Speaker 3: We want today to.

48:50 Speaker 14: Ransome the Loquard's block stop CONTI yesterday, don't you to day,

49:04 Speaker 14: don't do yesterday?

49:08 Speaker 3: You want don't.

49:09 Speaker 10: Stops tall.

49:43 Speaker 2: Seven six.

49:46 Speaker 3: Rouding O.

49:52 Speaker 2: Now it say, I'm just astaying until my ste I'm

49:58 Speaker 2: not I'm not casting someone cles the happiness unto the

50:11 Speaker 2: city does.

50:11 Speaker 3: Not in my other.

50:20 Speaker 2: Basic and it's time.

50:23 Speaker 7: It's like.

50:25 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell me, so stay some time. All

50:37 Speaker 2: st st st stuffs, so my good stuff.

50:48 Speaker 13: What we.

50:51 Speaker 15: Go to?

50:54 Speaker 1: What's time that happens?

50:57 Speaker 2: I doesn't want to.

51:00 Speaker 7: Tagy's this claim? So we.

51:06 Speaker 2: When you got to say talk to make it from

51:10 Speaker 2: one the rats want to cry talk, soletart the western

51:26 Speaker 2: time always susy.

51:29 Speaker 7: Starts very.

51:34 Speaker 2: Like it start what about song?

52:52 Speaker 7: The side.

52:55 Speaker 2: The stars the sun be size of almost great stacks.

53:05 Speaker 2: So make the stand that sound and the sad the

53:20 Speaker 2: stand the all sizes bull stands, so make it stands.

53:38 Speaker 3: In the boat.

54:35 Speaker 10: You're too far side.

54:38 Speaker 2: You're not faing on the first time I tell.

54:43 Speaker 8: You somebod me around.

54:45 Speaker 9: Rim My Tess said of the thing that I'll persent

54:51 Speaker 9: fruits and the FDA to make myself no.

54:58 Speaker 7: My time.

54:58 Speaker 3: It is not to answer.

55:00 Speaker 9: I think if I sing, oh, why I don't.

55:07 Speaker 5: Show you.

55:09 Speaker 3: Time? Not surprising my time?

55:14 Speaker 2: Donor s why I don't show you time? Not surprise

55:27 Speaker 2: save my time?

55:30 Speaker 10: Donor staying.

55:44 Speaker 2: In time to find me sting the la show is

55:55 Speaker 2: a sad bisone as.

56:14 Speaker 3: I'm gonna ride ahead, and nobody dead wants.

56:18 Speaker 2: So down around.

56:25 Speaker 8: List enough by tone, you want.

56:30 Speaker 6: Never speak on what you seen.

56:36 Speaker 16: How hund you said too much deciding to go for

56:42 Speaker 16: a little ride had had.

56:47 Speaker 8: You're not coming back.

56:52 Speaker 15: You've seen way too much. You're not coming at You

57:03 Speaker 15: said way too much.

57:05 Speaker 7: Mother left you with you ten.

57:15 Speaker 15: Father you have enu see him.

57:21 Speaker 1: My trouble now took you away.

57:26 Speaker 15: You have to know one on judgment to you.

57:33 Speaker 6: Don't come in back.

57:38 Speaker 3: You see way too much. You don't come in.

57:48 Speaker 1: You said wait till much.

57:59 Speaker 7: You don't.

58:10 Speaker 8: I want to got you say it's got to bad.

58:19 Speaker 8: If it ain't you, then it's the haw Percy a

59:07 Speaker 8: muscle Peece forgave mer peace. Begin dow Percy a muscle

59:19 Speaker 8: Peece forgive mer.

59:22 Speaker 12: Teace became.

59:26 Speaker 8: Ha Mercy on muscle.

59:30 Speaker 2: Sce begain make peace.

59:33 Speaker 3: Begin me.

59:37 Speaker 8: Pal Mercy a muscle.

59:41 Speaker 3: Pace.

59:41 Speaker 2: We gave me.

59:43 Speaker 8: Peace, Begin me.

59:51 Speaker 2: I'm not coming down