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Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-28-24 hour 3
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Welcome everybody.
Speaker 6: Matt Connorton unleashed.
Speaker 7: We have entered our number three New Marrow trace on
Speaker 7: this Saturday morning, December twenty eight, twenty twenty four. We
Speaker 7: are live from the studios of w m n H
Speaker 7: ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 7: And Jenny is here as well, of course at the
Speaker 7: news table accounted for. And the track we just heard
Speaker 7: is Calleen Season from the band of Volley, if I'm
Speaker 7: saying that correctly. And we've got the guys here. Welcome, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: Audi going on, So let's let's start.
Speaker 6: In the corner here. Tell us who you are and
Speaker 6: what you do in the band.
Speaker 8: My name is Sean and some people know me is
Speaker 8: Skeet three Pan, which is a it's a long stupid story.
Speaker 9: But which I will ask you about because I'm fantastic.
Speaker 8: So I am the vocalist and I write all the lyrics, okay,
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, I do some of the art stuff too, okay, excellent, excellent,
Speaker 8: And you, sir.
Speaker 9: My name is Dane.
Speaker 10: I'm the guitarist in Vali and Bally's newest member.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, well, congratulations.
Speaker 9: Also he also goes by dB Pooper that's.
Speaker 6: Correct, okay, which I will ask you about.
Speaker 11: And and you Jonah Jonah. I played the drums, You
Speaker 11: play the drums.
Speaker 6: Very good, very good turn. And that's not a drummer.
Speaker 3: But you don't know.
Speaker 6: But you don't have like a funny weird name, or
Speaker 6: he does, but we can't stay it on the radio.
Speaker 11: Oh gotcha Jona to Jonah five bone, uh something like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 6: All right, So let me ask, so Sean, what what's
Speaker 6: your weird name again?
Speaker 9: Your nickname Skeet three pan?
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 8: So I went to Taco Bell many many moons ago
Speaker 8: after having a few drinks, and I told them because
Speaker 8: they asked my name for the order, and I said
Speaker 8: my name was Scaffon with a K yes, and they
Speaker 8: spelled it as Skeet three pan and they yelled ski
Speaker 8: three pan to calm me over for my order, and
Speaker 8: it just, uh, it just stuck from there.
Speaker 6: So I love that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's great. Oh.
Speaker 8: Also side notes, so Cody isn't here. He is the bassist,
Speaker 8: uh and he puts that bag there, but he is
Speaker 8: at work. So okay, I wanted to clarify that. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: his name is Han Blo, so okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 6: And where's your funny name game from?
Speaker 10: What was it?
Speaker 6: Or is that a story you can tell on the air.
Speaker 10: Well, it's easy because well, first off, the name is
Speaker 10: dB Pooper, don't forget, and it was it was just
Speaker 10: it was given to me by these gentlemen. So okay,
Speaker 10: oh okay, but it's it's it's an honorary name, so
Speaker 10: I'll take it with Pride.
Speaker 6: Okay. How long have you been in the band? You
Speaker 6: said your name?
Speaker 10: I want to say since like a Halloween okay, like
Speaker 10: like maybe like a couple weeks before Halloween.
Speaker 9: Yeah, our first show of them was Halloween.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: He had maybe three practices with us Pride too, and
Speaker 8: he just picked it up like that, yeah immediately.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh very good.
Speaker 9: Yeah. How long has the band existed?
Speaker 8: Technically since summer summer twenty twenty one. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 8: So we started the band. It was just Joanah and
Speaker 8: I and we were in the room of my old apartment.
Speaker 8: We had my electronic kit and I had this super
Speaker 8: crappy guitar that was fed straight into my DII and
Speaker 8: we had it monitoring so I could hear it well recorded. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and that's how we recorded those first three songs, no kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So our summer twenty one demos up on our band camp.
Speaker 8: I think it's on Spotify as well. All our music's
Speaker 8: on all the streaming.
Speaker 10: But not to be confused with the three songs we're
Speaker 10: listening to today.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, there's quite the difference between the two sonically alone.
Speaker 8: But yeah, we just kept going and recording and doing
Speaker 8: music and having fun, and we eventually rained in our
Speaker 8: old guitarist, Josh. So we originally brought him in, I believe,
Speaker 8: on bass, and then I was gonna play bass, he
Speaker 8: was gonna play guitar, and Jonah would play drums, and
Speaker 8: he really rained us in because when Joana and I
Speaker 8: play together, we just play as fast as humanly possible. Yeah,
Speaker 8: so Josh was kind of our metronome. And then after
Speaker 8: we reeled Josh in, he suggested that we get Cody
Speaker 8: on bass, and right from the get go, it was
Speaker 8: like four friends in a room that have known each
Speaker 8: other forever, Like we were doing more joking than actually
Speaker 8: making music. So it was like it was a very
Speaker 8: nice fit. And I want to say a month after
Speaker 8: that month or two, we recorded all of the tracks
Speaker 8: that are on our album rough Cuts, which it's no misnomer.
Speaker 9: They're all like room recordings.
Speaker 8: That I ripped the audio from the video of, so
Speaker 8: they're not Wow, I bootleg all.
Speaker 9: Of our music.
Speaker 6: That's very punk rock, really is.
Speaker 8: So Jonah actually had this huge cassette deck because we
Speaker 8: put all our music on cassette. Yeah, like we handed
Speaker 8: it and uh wow, yeah, that's.
Speaker 9: A whole thing.
Speaker 8: But Jonah and I were using his cassette deck because
Speaker 8: mine I just have like the little single cassette one
Speaker 8: you'd bring to like a college lecture in the nineties.
Speaker 8: So it's not the best. And uh we tried his
Speaker 8: and for it to record it, I forget exactly what
Speaker 8: it's called. But it'll take like a speed speed dubbing. Yes,
Speaker 8: so his has speed dubbing, So it'll take like a
Speaker 8: two minute song and it'll record it faster, like it
Speaker 8: plays the tape at a higher speed while it's recording.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, but when it does that, you can actually
Speaker 8: turn the volume on and listen and it sounds like
Speaker 8: the Chipmunks.
Speaker 9: It's yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 11: The chip Punks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've heard of that speed dubbing. But but do
Speaker 7: you lose quality when you do it that way or does.
Speaker 10: It doesn't imagine?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would definitely imagine. So, but we we weren't
Speaker 8: exactly much exactly so Jonah had an idea a while
Speaker 8: back that we would take like because I record to
Speaker 8: cassette from a line out on my computer directly into
Speaker 8: the cassette player. Okay, yeah, so it's it's a little jankee.
Speaker 8: But uh, he had the idea of doing that and
Speaker 8: then just continuing to record from cassette to cassette to cassette,
Speaker 8: so it just loses more and more quality until it's
Speaker 8: just like jarbled air.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So we we do want there to be some quality
Speaker 8: to our music where it's like you can listen to it,
Speaker 8: But of course we don't need super ritzy recordings and
Speaker 8: like a three thousand dollars per hour room. We want
Speaker 8: we want it to sound as true as it can't. Yeah,
Speaker 8: because we're not those type of people.
Speaker 10: We're not.
Speaker 9: We didn't pull up in a limousine, right right.
Speaker 10: Right, And you don't need a super expensive studio to
Speaker 10: catch authenticity either, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 10: think that's kind of the biggest thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well you know we'll take one though, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: as a free one.
Speaker 9: Yes, it would be rude to not accept. We're good guests.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7: If the opportunity presents itself, sure, why wouldn't you. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so do you so with the cassettes? So do you
Speaker 7: sell the cassettes that shows?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So we actually I think we only have three left,
Speaker 8: no kidding.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So every or darn near every person that we've sold
Speaker 8: a cassette too has followed it up by saying, I have.
Speaker 9: No way to play this, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And almost all the people who didn't buy cassette
Speaker 8: said I have no way to play this right. But
Speaker 8: I think the two people we've given cassettes to actually
Speaker 8: had cassette players and were like, oh, you can just okay,
Speaker 8: take it if you're not going to use it as
Speaker 8: a paperweight.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: It also works great as a key.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I found a briefcase on the side of the road.
Speaker 8: There was a moving sale in this like ritzy neighborhood,
Speaker 8: and they had a briefcase. I was just going They
Speaker 8: had a huge table of free stuff, and I opened
Speaker 8: the briefcase up there was like seventy blank cassettes in it,
Speaker 8: wow wrapped. And I was like, well, I guess I'm
Speaker 8: starting a label.
Speaker 9: And I didn't. I never started a label, but.
Speaker 8: I put yeah, I put are I think two albums EPs,
Speaker 8: whatever you want to call them, on cassette or three? Actually, yeah,
Speaker 8: so three of our releases are on cassette or where
Speaker 8: we got rid of all of them. But yeah, we
Speaker 8: we recorded him in my room, from my computer to
Speaker 8: the tape deck. Yeah, made all the album art, made
Speaker 8: all the album sleeves.
Speaker 10: Like, well, we might get demand now I might have
Speaker 10: to mix some more.
Speaker 9: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: It's it's interesting to me because I remember it was
Speaker 7: probably seven or eight years ago. Maybe I was on
Speaker 7: band camp dot com and and I'm looking around. I'm
Speaker 7: looking for bands in the area and see who's out there,
Speaker 7: and and I noticed somebody. I don't remember who it
Speaker 7: was the first one I noticed, but I noticed somebody
Speaker 7: was selling cassette tapes.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was like, huh, did I just time travel? And
Speaker 7: then I looked around. I'm looking at others, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 7: it's not just them. This is a thing now, this
Speaker 7: is actually happening. People are doing this, I was like,
Speaker 7: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: It is super cool, Like I I am happy to
Speaker 8: see it because the more formats we have to listen to,
Speaker 8: the better. Like, yeah, sure you can get like a
Speaker 8: flack recording, listen to it on the nicest sound system
Speaker 8: you have via your computer, what have you. I still
Speaker 8: love the emotion behind the music that was recorded on
Speaker 8: to cassette, you know, not to discredit the stuff that's
Speaker 8: overproduced if you will. Yeah, it's just it feels more authentic,
Speaker 8: I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 10: Almost how like Vinyl had like a resurgenist lately and
Speaker 10: you know, now cassettes and I bought my son like
Speaker 10: a whole bunch of CDs in a boombox for Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 10: he's a you know, he's a he's ten, and you know,
Speaker 10: he didn't grow up with CDs. But he's listening to
Speaker 10: his room and he pops them in and listens to
Speaker 10: the tracks and he's really liking it. So it's cool
Speaker 10: to see that.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, well, ultimately, you know, people don't know that
Speaker 6: the quality. I mean, I think vinyl sounds better.
Speaker 7: Than anything, right nothing, Vinyl, Well, Vinyl sounds better than
Speaker 7: a CD and a CD sounds better than a wave file,
Speaker 7: and a wave file sounds better than an MP three
Speaker 7: and so on.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: But but I think I think a lot of people
Speaker 6: just don't realize that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, but and they all sound better than
Speaker 11: a tape.
Speaker 7: Because with a tape you'll you'll get I mean, I
Speaker 7: guess with a cassette you get some of that warmth
Speaker 7: that you get with vinyl, right yeah, but you might
Speaker 7: get some hiss too.
Speaker 10: I feel like with vinyl though too, with you know,
Speaker 10: amongst other things, it's like the ritual of doing it.
Speaker 10: You know, to leave and you're reading up everything and
Speaker 10: you put it down and set the needle and all that,
Speaker 10: so it's, you know, the ritual of it all.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: My theory too is I think probably most people who
Speaker 7: buy vinyl never open it, or they open it, but
Speaker 7: they don't they don't play it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like like just like with the cassettes.
Speaker 7: You know, if someone's like a really big fan, you know,
Speaker 7: they might just want it to have it, yeah, but
Speaker 7: they're not, but they have nothing to play it on.
Speaker 7: And I strongly suspect that most of the people who
Speaker 7: buy vinyl.
Speaker 6: Don't even have a record player, right, i'd have to
Speaker 6: agree with you. Yeah, but it's I think it was
Speaker 6: what was it, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7: I think was the first year that vinyl had outsold CDs, Yeah, forever.
Speaker 6: I think it was twenty twenty.
Speaker 10: There everywhere f y E, Newberry, Comics, everywhere you go,
Speaker 10: there's records.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I haven't even forget even a Walmart. I've
Speaker 7: seen vinylists. They've got like that.
Speaker 9: That is the That is the funniest part of it.
Speaker 8: Like when when you start seeing a certain type of
Speaker 8: product being sold at Walmart, that's when you know it's like, oh,
Speaker 8: this is definitely a thing.
Speaker 10: Now got a little Walmart for my George Straight CDs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is so I I worked at I worked
Speaker 7: at f y E, which before that was Strawberries. I
Speaker 7: don't know if any of you guys remember Strawberries, No,
Speaker 7: but that was that was a record store that uh
Speaker 7: f ye came in and bought. But there were Strawberries
Speaker 7: locations all over New England. And I remember when we
Speaker 7: had when when I started there, we still had cassette
Speaker 7: tapes sure and uh and it was interesting. One of
Speaker 7: the things that I always found fascinating was to see,
Speaker 7: you know, older technology. You know, people make all kinds
Speaker 7: of predictions about when it's gonna go way, but then
Speaker 7: does it actually go away? You know, And cassettes, even
Speaker 7: at that time, hung on for a lot longer than
Speaker 7: I would have expected. And I think the reason was
Speaker 7: they were still selling new cars with cassette players in them,
Speaker 7: and then once that stopped, that's when we didn't have
Speaker 7: cassettes anymore in the store.
Speaker 6: So it's wild to see them come back. And of
Speaker 6: course vinyl, which never went away.
Speaker 9: People.
Speaker 7: It's funny people talk about vinyl like, oh, vinyl is back,
Speaker 7: and it's like, well, never stopped.
Speaker 6: They never stopped making vinyl.
Speaker 11: But I have a record player in my car.
Speaker 9: Do you really know? Oh? Okay, I think he's got
Speaker 9: the dash mount for that.
Speaker 7: So I was gonna say, I think if you buy
Speaker 7: a Tesla, you can actually get it with a record
Speaker 7: player in it. Like I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 8: Oh, man, have you ever seen the No, I don't
Speaker 8: think so it dude. It's basically like plastic the thickness
Speaker 8: of a soda bottle, like a two liters of soda. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and they I guess they used to give them mountain
Speaker 8: boxes a series, but I got one from one of
Speaker 8: my favorite bands. They have like they do it all
Speaker 8: DIY and I bought this record. I've never seen a
Speaker 8: flexi disc before in my life, and it's just like
Speaker 8: a sheet of plastic.
Speaker 9: It's so thin. And I pulled it out. I'm like,
Speaker 9: did these guys like pull a fast one on me?
Speaker 9: Is this a joke? And I put it on.
Speaker 8: It actually plays, and I looked it up. So flexi
Speaker 8: discs are like very low quality. The quality is terrible,
Speaker 8: but they're definitely a novelty because it is cool to
Speaker 8: see this thing and be like, I can play music
Speaker 8: off of that, no kidding. Yeah, I definitely recommend looking
Speaker 8: up and you just.
Speaker 6: Play it on a record player.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can play it on a record player. And
Speaker 8: they're like, I was looking into how much it costs
Speaker 8: to get a run of them. It's not it's not
Speaker 8: worth it. There's more, there's more labor involved than you
Speaker 8: would imagine for that tiny little piece of plastic.
Speaker 7: But yeah, because it's probably there's probably like one place
Speaker 7: in the entire country that doesn't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's not too many. There's not a high demand
Speaker 8: for flexi discs for a reason.
Speaker 10: Yeah, a little bit of a new meaning to low fi.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Is it the size of a full record?
Speaker 8: Or is it what I believe? They make some that
Speaker 8: are the size of a full record. The one I
Speaker 8: got was like a seven inch okay, so yeah, well
Speaker 8: that's wild.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've never even heard of that, which surprises me.
Speaker 7: But oh that's cool. I'm gonna have to look that up.
Speaker 7: I'm super curious now.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 6: So but you guys put you do CDs to right.
Speaker 9: Or do you have we ever done a CD?
Speaker 11: Have yet to make a SA.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm working on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but but but is that so I assume that's
Speaker 6: the plan for the new It's an EP right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So it's gonna be a six song EPH. It's
Speaker 8: gonna be coming out January twenty fourth. Funny enough, we're
Speaker 8: playing at Codo and Lowell January twenty fourth with our
Speaker 8: good buddies Street Trash okay and the Lips Boys, the
Speaker 8: Lipstick Boys, Hatch and yes the Black Hat. Oh yes,
Speaker 8: so that should be a good time. I think it's uh,
Speaker 8: it's gonna start at nine. It's on our instag but
Speaker 8: uh yeah, six song EP on the way and we
Speaker 8: are going to put it on CDs. Okay, yeah, theoretically,
Speaker 8: theoretically they're gonna realistically, it's gonna be a CDR that
Speaker 8: we burnt it onto and I just wrote on sharp
Speaker 8: with sharpy on it, like this is it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I'm a big CD fan, so I'll definitely be getting one.
Speaker 10: However that needs to come to fruition.
Speaker 9: It'll be five dollars. Okay.
Speaker 6: I love the CDR idea.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I've I've done it before where I printed
Speaker 8: out the uh it's like a sticky label you can
Speaker 8: put right on top of the CD. Yeah, so I
Speaker 8: can make it look a little more Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but that's funny.
Speaker 7: When I first started doing this because I started, well, actually, yeah,
Speaker 7: when did I started interviewing bands? Like back in two
Speaker 7: thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. This show hasn't
Speaker 7: existed that long, but but I was doing it for
Speaker 7: a while before I was at W M and H.
Speaker 7: And when I first started, like people hadn't even gotten
Speaker 7: really comfortable yet with sending things via Dropbox and Google
Speaker 7: Drive or just attaching files to an email, and occasionally
Speaker 7: like guests would show up.
Speaker 6: The move was they'd have a.
Speaker 7: CD that they burned with the music on it that
Speaker 7: they wanted to play, and they'd write on it with
Speaker 7: a sharpie and then it wouldn't even be in a case.
Speaker 6: They would hand it to me. They'd put the CD
Speaker 6: on their finger and be like, here you.
Speaker 10: Go, I've heard you. I've heard you tell this more.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Sure, And that would happen all the time.
Speaker 10: Well if you have kids too, like you know, with
Speaker 10: like any like Xboxer PlayStation disc, like, if it's not
Speaker 10: in the machine, that's the last time it'll be in
Speaker 10: the machine, right right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's nice to have technology, you know, we do.
Speaker 7: We actually have a CD player here, but the only
Speaker 7: one who ever, I don't know if he has no
Speaker 7: rob as a veto, he also show here called Granted
Speaker 7: state of Mind and he uses it.
Speaker 6: But he's the only one. I've never even used a
Speaker 6: CD player.
Speaker 9: That's sick, yeah, but it's but yeah, the.
Speaker 7: Technology is wonderful, wonderful to have. So now, so where
Speaker 7: did you guys record so the new EP the six songs?
Speaker 7: And did you record it the same way you've recorded
Speaker 7: everything else or no?
Speaker 8: So we actually we we bucked up and started paying
Speaker 8: for studio time instead of just recording it with a
Speaker 8: crappy camera.
Speaker 9: Oh god, yeah. So we recorded it with our good
Speaker 9: buddy Axel.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: He helped us bang it out.
Speaker 6: It took I only know one Axel around your axle Baguley.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the very same.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: He's a great guy.
Speaker 9: Yeah he as I.
Speaker 8: I told him several times. He's an absolute wizard.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So if he's listening, shout out to Axel for sure,
Speaker 8: or more specifically PACIFICO.
Speaker 9: Don't know what I mean, uh specific. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Uh So it took us about seven or eight hours
Speaker 8: to bang it all out. We did the drums all
Speaker 8: in one night, then we did guitar and bass the
Speaker 8: next night, then we did both Okay, so it was
Speaker 8: uh I'm still getting over being tired from all of
Speaker 8: that because that was the week before Christmas is when
Speaker 8: we like really started hammering it down.
Speaker 9: So it was a busy time to be doing that.
Speaker 10: Uh yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I want to say
Speaker 10: that's the first time we've all experienced that kind of
Speaker 10: like recording process. So it was you know, you're I
Speaker 10: gotta be on point and you know, I've getten lockdown
Speaker 10: and lock in.
Speaker 8: So I've done it once before, but it was maybe
Speaker 8: four hours worth of being in the studio and I
Speaker 8: was on drums the entire time, so it was like
Speaker 8: I was in a completely separate room with headphones on,
Speaker 8: and that was the first time I ever had to
Speaker 8: do that, and I'm like, this is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 6: Is weird, isn't it?
Speaker 9: It's so weird.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh that's uh, that's cool though, that you
Speaker 7: got recorded with AX. Where did the place in Nashawa? Yes,
Speaker 7: sir okay, excellent. Yeah, yep, that's outstanding. You guys ever
Speaker 7: play there at Terminus.
Speaker 8: So I have been talking to actually another shout out
Speaker 8: my good friend sim So she just started, uhim.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the very same yep, your people know my peep.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's a small scene.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So she reached out to me recently about potentially getting
Speaker 8: us booked there in twenty twenty five, and I am
Speaker 8: quite excited, yeah because I my old old band actually
Speaker 8: used to practice there. Oh no kidding, yeah band, So
Speaker 8: it was Putrid Lizards at the time, and then yeah,
Speaker 8: we went through several name changes.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 8: It was certainly an interesting period of my life.
Speaker 6: Futrid Lizards strike me.
Speaker 7: Strikes me as a kind of name where you're probably
Speaker 7: pretty safe that somebody else isn't gonna, you know, come
Speaker 7: after you and say.
Speaker 6: Hey we we already have that name, right am I?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, correct? Correct to Mundo. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7: But no, that's cool that you were recorded with Axel.
Speaker 7: And then so now, why an EP? I'm always curious
Speaker 7: about this because again, we live in a time where
Speaker 7: you have so many different options. You can do an EP,
Speaker 7: you could do an album, you could just release singles. Yeah,
Speaker 7: a lot of the guests that we talked to lately
Speaker 7: they released a bunch of singles that eventually become an album,
Speaker 7: you know, instead of doing it the old way where
Speaker 7: they release an album and put out singles.
Speaker 6: But why did you guys decide to do an EP?
Speaker 6: What went into that decision?
Speaker 8: We had the opportunity, So it actually kind of started
Speaker 8: when Axel hit me up because he was saying, you
Speaker 8: wanted to record us. So we finally hashed out a
Speaker 8: day to start recording, and we thought, okay, well, we
Speaker 8: have like seven songs that we want to get recorded,
Speaker 8: and now that we have Dane and we also were
Speaker 8: deciding what do we want to rehash from Voluntary Suffering?
Speaker 9: That's our album? Okay, that we recorded prior, and we.
Speaker 8: Didn't necessarily want to rehash anything. So we went forth
Speaker 8: to start recording those six seven songs. It was seven,
Speaker 8: but one of them we scrapped for now, but uh,
Speaker 8: we just we recorded them and felt like this is
Speaker 8: exactly it, Like this is how it should be. We
Speaker 8: shouldn't add more, we shouldn't redact anything like it just
Speaker 8: it kind of all collectively felt right.
Speaker 10: It sounds how Baldy should sound exactly.
Speaker 8: And it's like you need to know how much to
Speaker 8: how much to pour into something. You don't want to
Speaker 8: overpour and overfill the cup, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Actually, it's kind of nice right when it when it's
Speaker 7: sort of organic, when the when the answer just presents itself,
Speaker 7: it's like this feels right, this sounds right.
Speaker 9: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 10: It should be fun, and you don't want to get
Speaker 10: to a point where like you're agonizing over every silly
Speaker 10: little thing that's going on in the recording thing too.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, we we we want to rock
Speaker 10: out and want to sound good, but we're not like,
Speaker 10: you know, going to lose our minds over it, right.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, that makes that makes sense.
Speaker 11: I don't know what the difference between an EP and
Speaker 11: an LP and an album. So I'm glad Sean answered
Speaker 11: that question.
Speaker 10: I don't know if he really answered it.
Speaker 9: I ramble, dude.
Speaker 8: I think it's I think it's very subjective, like because
Speaker 8: you know, especially in punk rock, you have like nine
Speaker 8: minute long songs, right, So is the standard set on
Speaker 8: the track the amount of tracks, or is it set
Speaker 8: on the length in terms of.
Speaker 10: You know, I never thought of it ginning to something
Speaker 10: else that's gonna come.
Speaker 8: Out, because you can have like you have these crazy
Speaker 8: Norwegian black metal bands that have songs that are like
Speaker 8: thirteen minutes long and they have three songs and they're like,
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna do death.
Speaker 9: Just to picture it. But it's like this is an album, like, right,
Speaker 9: it's three.
Speaker 6: Songs, like, but if it's an hour long, it's hard
Speaker 6: to argue exactly.
Speaker 9: That's what I mean.
Speaker 10: Like AFI has an EP and it only has four
Speaker 10: songs on it, but it.
Speaker 8: Also I feel like that's typically what you find on
Speaker 8: an EP is like anywhere from one to like seven songs,
Speaker 8: and then there's that weird like limbo seven to nine
Speaker 8: songs where it's like, yeah, you're you're curious of what
Speaker 8: you are, I suppose and then you have anything past
Speaker 8: that hours like that's an album. But we could be
Speaker 8: funny and do like a twenty six song EP.
Speaker 10: We have it in us. We could definitely definitely have
Speaker 10: it now that we know and then you know the
Speaker 10: recording process and all that sort of thing. I feel
Speaker 10: like that's possible if you wanted to do, like, you know,
Speaker 10: a thirteen fourteen song thing and have it be anything legit.
Speaker 11: Yeah, twenty six songs single?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, double album.
Speaker 8: We're never putting out We're never putting out another album.
Speaker 8: We're just gonna put out EPs.
Speaker 6: Do you got how many songs do you guys have?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 6: Sounds like you guys have a lot of songs, right, geez.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I never really thought about it. Maybe
Speaker 10: roughly it could be in the twenties.
Speaker 9: Yes, we're in the twenties.
Speaker 8: Like, and that's involving like the half written one, the
Speaker 8: ones that we've played thought in progress, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, covers of bands and owns ever heard? So we
Speaker 11: just got our song.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we uh that about doing Yeah, we're like we
Speaker 8: need we need to learn covers so that when where
Speaker 8: it shows people will at least recognize something that was
Speaker 8: our logic behind it. And then we're like, let's cover
Speaker 8: the like lowercase B sides from every band, right, like
Speaker 8: the Four of Us. Yeah, I mean, well, people know Nirvana,
Speaker 8: but they don't know Tourett's by Nirvana because we cover that.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: When when I first got in the band, I thought
Speaker 10: Floyd the Barber was a song that they wrote. I
Speaker 10: was like, wow, you guys have great songs, and they're like, banks,
Speaker 10: we didn't write it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 7: I was in a band that we did a Kiss
Speaker 7: cover called Hate, and like only the most diehard Kiss
Speaker 7: fan would know about that song from their most obscure.
Speaker 11: Album sound like a Kiss.
Speaker 7: It doesn't, Yeah, and and but we would play it,
Speaker 7: and you know, we never told anybody, you know, and
Speaker 7: nobody nobody knew, Like nobody nobody ever came up to
Speaker 7: us and said, wow, I can't believe you're covering that's
Speaker 7: like the most obscurre Kiss song ever, Like literally nobody
Speaker 7: ever said it to us. Yeah, and we just we
Speaker 7: just put it in the set because we liked it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's funny how that that can work out. What do
Speaker 7: you like what do you guys do for covers?
Speaker 9: So we got.
Speaker 11: It's Nirvana.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we we have a Turettes by Nirvana, Floyd the
Speaker 8: Barber by Nirvana. We do Molly's Lips, which is a
Speaker 8: cover of the Vasilines that Nirvana did.
Speaker 10: Oh that's a double cover.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we were working. Oh, paper Planes by m I
Speaker 8: A Kid. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of cool. It's a
Speaker 8: goofy one that we do.
Speaker 6: What do you do about the gunfire? Does everybody clap their.
Speaker 9: Hands or something? So I'm glad you know the song?
Speaker 8: So for the gunfire, Jonah just hits the snare and
Speaker 8: I do like weird little wootily woos with my voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So yeah, we thought we thought about though, if we'd
Speaker 10: were to record that cover, we'd actually use real guns.
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah you want to. I mean that's like the
Speaker 6: punk rock Yeah, exactly, keep it real.
Speaker 8: So I saw I saw one of the funniest things
Speaker 8: I've seen. It was on YouTube and they did paper
Speaker 8: Planes by m I A. But if they used muskets,
Speaker 8: it's so funny.
Speaker 9: I have to see that. It's amazing.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 8: There's one shot that's licked off and then it's like
Speaker 8: two minutes of them packing it really.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is hilarious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great, that's great. Whose idea was that to
Speaker 6: do that?
Speaker 9: Oh dude, I have no idea.
Speaker 8: It's someone on the internet graced us with its presence.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's awesome. That's awesome. Oh so where does
Speaker 6: the name come from?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was listening to a podcast about I
Speaker 8: think it was World War One and uh, because I
Speaker 8: just I listened to like random podcasts every day when
Speaker 8: it was working, and they were talking about the method
Speaker 8: of attack of Bali and Joan and I were jamming
Speaker 8: at the time, and I really that word just resonated
Speaker 8: with me and stuck in my head. So I told
Speaker 8: him I wanted to try to use that name, and
Speaker 8: he's like, I definitely dig it. We have to spell
Speaker 8: it differently, though, Okay, that's why it's spelled the way
Speaker 8: it is. And like we've gotten the funniest pronunciations. I'm
Speaker 8: glad you in the email you asked me, like phonetically
Speaker 8: how to use that. Yeah, because most people call us
Speaker 8: valie and I get it.
Speaker 10: Valley girls.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I didn't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I saw that and I thought I was wondering,
Speaker 6: like is it the name of a place?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 9: The only other thing I found online is some like
Speaker 9: Italian muffler.
Speaker 10: Man custom exhaust for your like it's from a Romeo
Speaker 10: or whatever.
Speaker 7: So do people yeah, you said people mispronounce it? Does
Speaker 7: anybody ever spell it wrong like on a poster or something.
Speaker 8: Or No, we haven't encountered that yet. So the main
Speaker 8: reason is most of the flyers I make, so I
Speaker 8: guess I lucked out with that, But the flyers that
Speaker 8: I didn't make, we haven't had it spelled incorrectly yet.
Speaker 9: That's good because there's more, there's.
Speaker 8: More communication that happens online and like with our Instagram
Speaker 8: right there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So it's like I would hope you wouldn't spell
Speaker 9: it wrong.
Speaker 10: Man, five letters isn't too hard.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but if someone was like doing speech to text
Speaker 8: to just be like volley like a volleyball. We actually
Speaker 8: we were joking about for our merch making volley volleyballs.
Speaker 6: So that's a good idea. That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 9: Why not? Now?
Speaker 6: So Sean you write all the lyrics?
Speaker 10: I do?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: Is there like a theme or does it vary?
Speaker 9: It varies?
Speaker 8: I I kind of just write what I'm feeling. I
Speaker 8: don't necessarily fixate on a topic like I. I don't
Speaker 8: give myself a topic to write about when I'm writing.
Speaker 8: I just I'll see like a word on the wall,
Speaker 8: or something in the newspaper or something on the TV,
Speaker 8: just one word and it just it lights a fire
Speaker 8: into my butt, and I just start writing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: More often than not, I write the lyrics before we
Speaker 8: write the music, so to speak. But we'll have, for instance,
Speaker 8: Dane'll start playing a riff and I'll be like, I'll
Speaker 8: either start writing something or in my giant folder of
Speaker 8: half written songs, I'm like, I think this will fit perfectly. Yeah,
Speaker 8: And I have way too, because I have massive ADHD
Speaker 8: so like, I literally have like a thousand notes in my.
Speaker 9: Like lyric folder.
Speaker 10: I've seen him scroll through, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but we like typically it's more I suppose there's
Speaker 8: a darker vibe to our songs and whatnot. I wouldn't
Speaker 8: necessarily call myself a missanthroat, but I would say they're
Speaker 8: a little misanthropic. But it's it's very cathartic for me
Speaker 8: to write lyrics and then yell those lyrics with my
Speaker 8: best friends, no doubt, yeah, it's like, there are bad
Speaker 8: things that are happening in the world, but we're having
Speaker 8: a ball. However, I'm cognitive of the fact that there's
Speaker 8: bad things going on, so maybe I'll tell some people.
Speaker 11: He stole the chorus of fTPM from me.
Speaker 9: Yes, I did.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Jonah, that's my only contribution, his only lyrical contribution.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: I'm curious about the ADHD does that, and there's specific
Speaker 7: reason I'm asking, But does that help you, Like, do
Speaker 7: you feel that that that helps you in terms.
Speaker 6: Of writing and creativity? Is it a is it an
Speaker 6: advantage somehow? A?
Speaker 9: Yes and no.
Speaker 8: It's like a it's a very black and white yes
Speaker 8: and no. It's either it depends on like there's so
Speaker 8: many factors like what I ate during the day, how
Speaker 8: my mood is going and whatnot. But I like I'm
Speaker 8: either a hurricane of just starting things and not finishing them,
Speaker 8: like back to back to back. I'll start sweeping the
Speaker 8: floor and then get distracted and do something else, or
Speaker 8: I like hyper fixate on it.
Speaker 9: I lock in on it and just yeah, it's more
Speaker 9: often than not it h it throws a stick in
Speaker 9: the spokes.
Speaker 7: Okay, The reason I was curious, is I don't know
Speaker 7: if you know doctor Kevin ross Emory.
Speaker 9: He's I don't think so.
Speaker 7: He's from Nashua, and I've done a lot of work
Speaker 7: with him over the years. I'm on his podcast sometimes
Speaker 7: and he's been on the show a lot, and I
Speaker 7: know him really well. But he he's done a lot
Speaker 7: of work in the area of a d D and
Speaker 7: ADHD and he's written he's written some books. One of
Speaker 7: the books is called Managing the Gift, and in it
Speaker 7: he talks about how it can actually be an advantage
Speaker 7: if you play it right, and and how you know
Speaker 7: a lot of creative people you know have ADHD and
Speaker 7: a lot of very successful entrepreneurs you know, and there's
Speaker 7: a spectrum and so forth. But but yeah, he talks
Speaker 7: about how a lot of musicians you know, that it
Speaker 7: can again if you if you use it to your advantage,
Speaker 7: you can it can help you with your creativity and
Speaker 7: coming up with concepts and then expanding on them.
Speaker 8: And I think if anything musically that it's helped with,
Speaker 8: it's playing the drums really, because I am always tapping
Speaker 8: on stuff like NonStop ever since I was a kid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm the same I'm not a drummer. I'm a
Speaker 6: bass player, but I constantly.
Speaker 9: Tell yeah, I uh.
Speaker 8: When I first started playing drums, that's how I would
Speaker 8: like write most of my drumming and learn and practice
Speaker 8: was like in class. I would be stopping my foot,
Speaker 8: tapping my right hand, tapping my left hand, and visualizing
Speaker 8: the kit, which did not help it. It almost made
Speaker 8: it more enticing to tap on everything. And my classmates
Speaker 8: weren't too stoked on that, as you can imagine.
Speaker 10: I bet your teachers loved you.
Speaker 9: No, they hated me, dude.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's too bad, because, you know, because they
Speaker 7: should have been. It'd be nice if they were supportive.
Speaker 7: But teachers don't always know what.
Speaker 10: I had a tough time in school too. Yeah, well
Speaker 10: for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I was always getting in trouble and being a menace
Speaker 10: and yeah, you know, but it's it's all how you
Speaker 10: turn out in the and I suppose.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly. How how about you?
Speaker 11: I got good grades when I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 11: I just ran cross country and track and did my
Speaker 11: homework because I didn't know anyone. When I moved to
Speaker 11: Florida for high school.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, but then I.
Speaker 11: Decided that I had other things. I want to tape
Speaker 11: it off.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. We should
Speaker 7: uh oh Jesus already eleven thirties. Let's uh, let's play
Speaker 7: another track. Oh, by the way, so what's up before
Speaker 7: we do that?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 6: What is what is calling season about?
Speaker 7: Because the lyrics are really interesting and that that that's
Speaker 7: part of why I was asking too about uh, you know,
Speaker 7: is there a theme to your your your lyrics?
Speaker 9: Oh? Well, that one is about killing and eating the rich,
Speaker 9: the top one percent, like the folks that are so rich.
Speaker 9: You have no idea who they.
Speaker 7: Are, right, I approve, Yeah, I'm not literally doing it, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: I approve of them.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah in Minecraft. In Minecraft, No, it's it's metaphorical.
Speaker 8: I'm not I'm not, of course saying like, hey, go
Speaker 8: do this dog, but uh, it's it's just it's what
Speaker 8: I am at the collective messages that the general populace
Speaker 8: feels about the struggle that we're all going through right
Speaker 8: now to some degree, because there's different facets of struggling financially.
Speaker 8: But yeah, you know the fact that you have someone
Speaker 8: like Jeff Bezos or Bezos however, your pronounce his name.
Speaker 8: That make my yearly salary in a minute, like, I
Speaker 8: feel like you have enough, buddy, Right, I'm all for
Speaker 8: folks winning the medal, but.
Speaker 9: Come on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And and that concentration of wealth, it becomes more and
Speaker 7: more concentrated all the time. Yes, exactly, Fewer and fewer
Speaker 7: people control more and more of the wealth.
Speaker 9: Exactly.
Speaker 11: Are you registered to vote, Sean?
Speaker 6: No, you should, Yes, I have.
Speaker 9: I actually voted for Dane.
Speaker 6: Oh that's nice, rotamentary.
Speaker 9: It would have been nicer if you one.
Speaker 10: I don't remember what I what I was running for.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, were you on the ballot or
Speaker 6: was it around now?
Speaker 9: I put him on the ballot. Oh very good. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's very.
Speaker 10: Sweet of you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's something very that's very new Hampshire.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I do that.
Speaker 10: That's a very nice I think Cody ran for sheriff.
Speaker 11: I want to say I voted for Cody for sheriff too.
Speaker 10: I quoted for Cody.
Speaker 9: Oh, very nice.
Speaker 6: I would have known.
Speaker 10: I think he'd make a great sheriff.
Speaker 8: So he said, he said, if he became the sheriff,
Speaker 8: he would make everybody in the entire state of deputy.
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean that's a lot of responsibility. I don't
Speaker 6: know if I'd want.
Speaker 9: To be a well tough luck buddy or a deputy.
Speaker 10: It'd be cool to have the badatory deputy service.
Speaker 9: It'd be hilarious if everybody in an entire state was
Speaker 9: a deputy.
Speaker 10: Watch out Massachusetts.
Speaker 6: I feel like that.
Speaker 7: Would not be very New Hampshire. That would be more
Speaker 7: like Utah or something. Yeah, I could see that where
Speaker 7: you just deputize everybody.
Speaker 11: Yeah, everybody's a wife in Utah.
Speaker 10: Yes, more wifes per capita.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 6: That might be a lyrical idea. You could do something
Speaker 6: with that.
Speaker 7: Well, let's let's play this track Static. Anything we should
Speaker 7: know about this before we play it.
Speaker 8: Uh, If you come to see us when we're playing
Speaker 8: this live and you don't yell along to the part
Speaker 8: that you'll know what to yell along to once you
Speaker 8: hear it, I'm gonna be pretty sad.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, fair enough? Check it out. This is Static.
Speaker 6: The band is Volley, and they're here with us live
Speaker 6: in studio.
Speaker 1: I feel I can't understanding. I'd feel like my labor
Speaker 1: I feel like he's so made up. Last going got
Speaker 1: your picture. But I feel like God the an he
Speaker 1: tries to clinic in.
Speaker 4: The script shirt. Stand, it's a static stacking washed away
Speaker 4: and it's a static stag it wash away.
Speaker 1: Stand, it's a static stag.
Speaker 3: It washed away. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1: Static staging walked away.
Speaker 2: I feel like got me any priceman and on the
Speaker 2: sun what I feel like on the fiery pemin and.
Speaker 1: A broken gun so ready to furst. I'm ready to burst.
Speaker 2: Someone bottled up stuck that inca ready jumping like.
Speaker 4: Day dag away, dagon walking away and it's a dand.
Speaker 6: Away that is static. The band is volley here with us.
Speaker 8: And I'm a robot. My voice sounds like a flanger
Speaker 8: right now. But Axel is assuring me that I'm not
Speaker 8: going to sound like a robot. I will, in fact
Speaker 8: sound like a human being, because I am a human
Speaker 8: being that is not, in fact a robot.
Speaker 10: It's true, he is not a robot.
Speaker 9: Thank you for leaving that in, Axel, I love you.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you can turn it off.
Speaker 6: That's all right, we got this far.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 6: I totally forgot that there was something else there that
Speaker 6: that makes two of us.
Speaker 10: Well, at least it was radio friendly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, we have to do that to make the song
Speaker 11: two minutes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 6: Right, that's smart.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: I when I listened to it, I was like, I
Speaker 7: got to remember this something at the end, and then
Speaker 7: of course I forgot.
Speaker 6: But uh no, I like that track though. It's very
Speaker 6: very catchy.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I like the do you want to tell you? You
Speaker 6: were telling off air? Do you want to Yeah, what
Speaker 6: you were talking about?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So I wrote that on guitar like four years ago,
Speaker 8: give your take. And this was when I was playing
Speaker 8: guitar a lot. I I broke my wrist a few
Speaker 8: years later, like once Volley started really picking up, I broke.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: That's all right. We're on a we're on a delay.
Speaker 6: I caught it. We're on an eight second delay. So
Speaker 6: when the when the naughty punk rock?
Speaker 11: Yeah, sorry, you want to say something bad?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 8: So I broke my wrist and I was unable to
Speaker 8: play that song anymore because there's a solo part that
Speaker 8: it's very difficult to do, and we kept trying and
Speaker 8: trying and trying. So at one point we were just
Speaker 8: playing the last two measures of it. After it does
Speaker 8: the little solo we part and we wound up messing
Speaker 8: around at practice and I was yelling along to what
Speaker 8: the solo would have been that I was doing and
Speaker 8: to do that just so we could keep time I
Speaker 8: was going. But and when we recorded it, I was
Speaker 8: doing that in the background and Axel said that sounds
Speaker 8: pretty sick. Next practice, I texted them, I'm like, we
Speaker 8: need to at least try this, like hear me out,
Speaker 8: let's try it.
Speaker 9: And we did it.
Speaker 8: We all just looked at each other and we're like, oh,
Speaker 8: that's it. So now we have that part where we
Speaker 8: all yelled the solo instead, and it's just it gives
Speaker 8: me like such a great feeling every time I hear it, because, yeah,
Speaker 8: what we want is we want people to hear it
Speaker 8: and yell along with us, right, because we're all we're
Speaker 8: all in it together to have fun, right right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Live at a show, it's definitely easy for the
Speaker 10: audience to like chime in on that and yeah the
Speaker 10: whole place, you know, you know, yelling it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, that's very cool. That's very cool. Are you
Speaker 6: guys playing out a lot?
Speaker 9: We have been playing more and more.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So we have a show January twenty fourth at
Speaker 8: CODO and Lowell. We're playing the twenty seventh at that's January. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we're playing the twenty seventh of January at O'Brien's in Boston.
Speaker 6: Oh nice.
Speaker 8: We're setting up a show in February at the Keep
Speaker 8: and Lowell, so we're super stoked for that. We have
Speaker 8: been playing out quite a bit.
Speaker 10: This will be our second trip to O'Brien's. We just
Speaker 10: played with Already Dead and Dave Strong a couple of
Speaker 10: weeks ago. Oh my god.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, big shout outs to both of them.
Speaker 7: We love absolutely, Yeah, we loved Dave's been on the
Speaker 7: show a couple of Dave's amazing and we had Already
Speaker 7: Dead on I don't know, maybe six months ago.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're fantastic.
Speaker 8: They're awesome. There's such funny guys. Like after the show
Speaker 8: is finished, we sat and joked with them for like
Speaker 8: thirty minutes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and there they have some pretty good, pretty sophisticated
Speaker 7: themes to their Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, yeah, no, I love I love those guys. That's
Speaker 6: that's great.
Speaker 7: Do you guys have any is there anybody in the
Speaker 7: scene you kind of you know, because it happens organically,
Speaker 7: anybody that you kind of team up with.
Speaker 6: Are there any other bands that you play a lot
Speaker 6: of shows?
Speaker 8: It's so street trash there. There are buddies. We play
Speaker 8: with them pretty frequently. A lot of the shows that
Speaker 8: we've played have been with them, from either of them
Speaker 8: reaching out to us with an opportunity or us reaching
Speaker 8: out to them and saying like, hey, we want to
Speaker 8: play with you guys again. Yeah, And every time we
Speaker 8: play together, it's just it's so much fun. It it
Speaker 8: feels very organic, like because we basically just laugh the
Speaker 8: entire time. Yeah, and we're not playing music, we're messing
Speaker 8: with each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 9: That's very cool.
Speaker 10: Street trash rules for sure.
Speaker 7: I don't think, Yeah, we haven't had them, have we Jenny, Oh,
Speaker 7: she's busy doing something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it becomes a blur. I've been doing this a
Speaker 7: long time. It's like sometimes sometimes we'll we'll have somebody
Speaker 7: and it's like looking forward to meeting them. It's like, oh,
Speaker 7: I've already met them, but I don't realize it until
Speaker 7: they're here, you know.
Speaker 6: But uh no, but that's you guys.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: What about in the summertime? Do you plan to do
Speaker 7: a lot of shows in the summer. It seems like
Speaker 7: a lot of bands that's when they.
Speaker 8: Yes, so we are actually, uh, we're hoping for a
Speaker 8: busy summer, but we're also trying to formulate it's towards
Speaker 8: the end of summer, we're gonna try to go to Japan. Yeah,
Speaker 8: so Cody, again, big ups to Cody. I know you're
Speaker 8: listening all at work. So Cody was in Japan for
Speaker 8: a few years and he brought up the idea last
Speaker 8: year that we should go to Japan. And we're like,
Speaker 8: we're trying to say, of all our money from shows
Speaker 8: and like piling our own personal funds too, to try
Speaker 8: to go over there for like a week and wow, yeah,
Speaker 8: just just have a blast.
Speaker 10: It seems Cody has like connects with some venue owners
Speaker 10: over there when he was stationed in Japan. And yeah,
Speaker 10: the punk scene in Japan is really cool too. It's
Speaker 10: like they're still in the eighties punk scene. Still, it's
Speaker 10: still really raw and still really you know, kind of
Speaker 10: that that original punk vibe over there.
Speaker 6: No kidding, I had no idea.
Speaker 10: Yeah, what's the EP comes out, We're gonna send it
Speaker 10: their way and you know, get them, get them primed.
Speaker 9: Oh wow. Yeah, the punk scene in Japan is really
Speaker 9: really big, no kidding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed. Now, are there other American
Speaker 6: bands that they go there to tour that go to Japan.
Speaker 9: Specifically that you yeah, a good amount of them?
Speaker 8: None then, I know personally yeah yeah, but if there's
Speaker 8: a larger, larger scale punk band that you can think of,
Speaker 8: they probably tore over in Japan.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, okay, there's a Facebook page too that you know,
Speaker 10: it's all just you know what bands are coming through
Speaker 10: Japan in the dates and stuff like that. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 10: you know, tune into what's going on with that.
Speaker 9: That's wild.
Speaker 6: Are there any Japanese punk bands a tour here that
Speaker 6: I don't know about?
Speaker 8: So Oda Boke Beaver there. I believe all female punk band,
Speaker 8: I know it. If not all, most of the members are.
Speaker 8: It's like a female front at punk band. And they
Speaker 8: are phenomenal. They're so fast and so like sick. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they just got done touring over here, no kidding, yeah,
Speaker 8: like a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 9: I didn't get to go see him. I was super bummed.
Speaker 9: But yeah, they're very very good. Oh wow, yeah, oh.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool. Huh.
Speaker 7: It's interesting. Yeah, I had no idea if you are
Speaker 7: just joining us. We have Volley here with us alive
Speaker 7: in studio. Hi, when does the when does the EP?
Speaker 7: I'm sure you said it, but I can't remember when
Speaker 7: when does the EP come out?
Speaker 6: Or do you know yet?
Speaker 8: So it's gonna be releasing January twenty fourth.
Speaker 10: January twenty fourth, other night, which is the same night
Speaker 10: as the Codo Lowell Show.
Speaker 9: Yeaes gotcha Codo and Lowell.
Speaker 7: Hey, is that a new place by the way, Codo,
Speaker 7: Because all of a sudden, I'm hearing about it, and I.
Speaker 8: Know I'm not certain that it's necessarily a new place.
Speaker 8: I think it's new that they've started hosting music. I
Speaker 8: could be very wrong, though, So I just discovered this
Speaker 8: place because it's the first I started hearing of it too.
Speaker 8: So there's a location in loll And then there's a
Speaker 8: location in Salem.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, Yeah, I want to say Street Trash just
Speaker 10: played in Salem last night. Yeah, literally last night Friday
Speaker 10: and Friday night they played it Salem.
Speaker 9: Codo.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, I'm gonna have to learn about that because
Speaker 7: I got a yesterday, I got a text message from
Speaker 7: somebody wanted to know if I had a suggestion for
Speaker 7: a band, yeah, to play a show at Codo and
Speaker 7: Lowell And I'm like, Codo, that's new to me. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so that's cool though, I mean we need more venues,
Speaker 7: we always do.
Speaker 8: We absolutely need more venues there. There aren't too many
Speaker 8: around this neck of the woods. Union Coffee in Milford
Speaker 8: is it has a special place in our heart really Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, shout out Union Coffee for sure, and big
Speaker 9: ups to Drew. I love you.
Speaker 6: Why is uh?
Speaker 7: I've heard of it, but I've never been there. What's
Speaker 7: special about Union Coffee?
Speaker 8: So it's a tiny little coffee shop that you would
Speaker 8: not expect an absolute hurricane of a punk show to happen.
Speaker 9: It happened at Yeah.
Speaker 8: So last time we played there, it was too cool
Speaker 8: to play outside, so we played inside or it was
Speaker 8: rainy something like that. But it was pretty cramped in
Speaker 8: there and it was just chaos. Street Trash actually brought
Speaker 8: this big inflatable pill that they threw up into the
Speaker 8: crowd and that people were smacking it around and it
Speaker 8: wound up hitting one of the beer taps and beer
Speaker 8: was spring everywhere.
Speaker 9: Well, they were playing and it was.
Speaker 8: Like that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, it
Speaker 8: was an absolute madhouse. And prior to that we played
Speaker 8: outside and it was just so much fun because that
Speaker 8: was the first show in a long while where I
Speaker 8: got to just do vocals, and when I can just
Speaker 8: do vocals, I run around like a madman.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just like act like a crazy person.
Speaker 6: So yeah, oh that's cool. So the owners there were
Speaker 6: cool about the beer tap.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody really notified.
Speaker 10: I don't think any other venue in town because there's
Speaker 10: a few you know restaurants stuff where they have you know,
Speaker 10: local bands that do cover songs and stuff like that,
Speaker 10: and I don't think anyone else would let them get
Speaker 10: away with that in that place, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so.
Speaker 10: Having as much fun though, Yeah.
Speaker 8: The Shasking in Manchester is sick.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not certain of too many other places. I
Speaker 8: know there are other venues in Manchester, the Jewel. The
Speaker 8: Jewel I'm talking about more like our type of venues
Speaker 8: you can do what you do. Yeah, yeah, the places
Speaker 8: where you go to the bathroom and the stall door
Speaker 8: was ripped off.
Speaker 9: That's where our music.
Speaker 10: There may or may not be a volley sticker in
Speaker 10: the urinal I don't know who put that there.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, so the EPs in January and then are
Speaker 7: you guys already working on new stuff for the next.
Speaker 8: One or we have actually several other songs that are
Speaker 8: like half written, uh, that that have music behind them too.
Speaker 8: And we're always, you know, messing around of practice. So
Speaker 8: we just got done building our new practice space. Ah,
Speaker 8: so we were pretty occupied with that. But now that
Speaker 8: we're all moved in, it's like our little clubhouse.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 8: We're working on soundproofing because it's loud in there. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but yeah, we have been playing more frequently too, so
Speaker 8: we haven't had much time to have just a relaxing practice.
Speaker 8: It's like, we have a show Friday, we need to
Speaker 8: we need to stop goofing off, right, which we still
Speaker 8: goof off during that time.
Speaker 6: But what do you guys run us a couple times
Speaker 6: a week or so?
Speaker 8: We do once a week. Uh, it's it changes. So
Speaker 8: we were doing every Monday, now we do every Wednesday.
Speaker 9: Not that people are like.
Speaker 8: Concerned with what day of the week unless they're trying
Speaker 8: to kill us.
Speaker 10: I suppose we had a show and then now it's
Speaker 10: been the holidays and you know a little little disbanded
Speaker 10: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you have you have Thanksgiving, then you have like,
Speaker 8: what's three or four weeks until Christmas, So that entire
Speaker 8: chunk the past two months of my life have just
Speaker 8: been carpentry. Yeah, carpentry, uh, sleeping, occasionally, recording music, and
Speaker 8: taking care of my kiddo.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it can be a relief when the holidays are
Speaker 7: over and it's like, Okay, I can get back.
Speaker 9: Dude. December December twenty sixth is my favorite.
Speaker 7: I was like that when I worked in retail. Oh man,
Speaker 7: December twenty sex could not come soon enough.
Speaker 8: I worked in retail too, and Black Friday was just
Speaker 8: an absolute nightmare. It's been probably about eight or nine
Speaker 8: years since I worked in retail, but brother, if Black
Speaker 8: Friday is a nightmare.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, when I worked for Fye, because you know, Strawberries
Speaker 7: had been bought by Fye, and that's a chain of
Speaker 7: stores that just won't die. Every time it looks like
Speaker 7: they're done, they open a new location somewhere and they survived.
Speaker 7: But over the course of the span of the years
Speaker 7: that I worked there, like Black Friday was so just
Speaker 7: monstrously busy.
Speaker 6: But by the time I left. I left that.
Speaker 7: Company in twenty thirteen, and by that point Black Friday
Speaker 7: would be so busy at the beginning of the day,
Speaker 7: and then by the time we would get to the afternoon,
Speaker 7: you know, because online shopping is so big now, it
Speaker 7: would be just like kind of a normal day. It
Speaker 7: really changed over the years, and I found that I
Speaker 7: didn't mind it as much because it was like not
Speaker 7: so overwhelming. Like when I first started there, it would
Speaker 7: be like Black Friday was super busy, and then every
Speaker 7: day it was super busy right up to Christmas, and
Speaker 7: then by the time I left there, it was like
Speaker 7: Black Friday was kind of busy, and then the rest
Speaker 7: of the time would be just kind of normal. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then you'd be wondering, are they going to close
Speaker 7: this location in January, which often turned out.
Speaker 9: To be the case, But it becomes a spirit Halloween
Speaker 9: pretty quick.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely So. Guys, where should people
Speaker 6: go online to keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 6: Where's the best place?
Speaker 8: So on Instagram it's at Bally six sixty six because
Speaker 8: we're super edgy. On Facebook dot com, that's www dot
Speaker 8: Facebook dot com.
Speaker 9: Uh, I feel to need to clarify it. Oh lord,
Speaker 9: uh so I believe it.
Speaker 8: I believe it's also Bally sixty sixty six. We are
Speaker 8: on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, all that stuff.
Speaker 9: Uh, band Camp and band camp.
Speaker 8: Our favorite is when you go to our band camp
Speaker 8: because when you go to our band camp, we actually
Speaker 8: get a cut of some of the profit when you
Speaker 8: purchase our stuff instead of getting a fraction of a
Speaker 8: cent every thousand plays or something. Right, Not that we're
Speaker 8: in it for the money, but if there's money being made,
Speaker 8: I don't feel like ninety nine percent of it should
Speaker 8: be going to the streaming platform, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And band camp has band Camp Friday, so if you
Speaker 8: need to buy somebody a belated Christmas present, you should
Speaker 8: totally buy them something from our merch store.
Speaker 9: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 10: That's www dot bali, dot bandcamp, dot com.
Speaker 6: Did somebody tell you guys that that's my pet peeve?
Speaker 6: The Www?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: I know that's awesome though it's a lot of people's
Speaker 9: pet peeves.
Speaker 7: That's why I did it, Dude, I've been I've been
Speaker 7: upset about that for twenty years, like literally twenty years ago.
Speaker 7: I was going, why do I still hear radio ads
Speaker 7: where when they give the website they say w WLB.
Speaker 9: Why I could have said worldwide Web?
Speaker 4: Do that?
Speaker 9: Is that actually what that stands for? Worldwide Web? Yeah?
Speaker 10: Dog, yeah, okay, I heard.
Speaker 9: I had heard that.
Speaker 10: I just wasn't sure if someone was just trying to
Speaker 10: mess with me or now it sounds too perfect.
Speaker 1: I swear to you.
Speaker 7: Twenty years ago I was complaining about it, like, why
Speaker 7: why do people still say that it's a rightful gripe.
Speaker 9: It's there's no need to say it.
Speaker 8: What about http slash slash you forgot the semi colon?
Speaker 7: Okay, I'll only say this publicly because I don't think
Speaker 7: he actually listens to the show. Doctor Kevin I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 7: Doctor Kevin ross Emory he had an ad once. It
Speaker 7: was it was just it was a an ad for
Speaker 7: for his book. I think it was probably managing the
Speaker 7: gift an ad for his book. That it wasn't on
Speaker 7: the radio.
Speaker 6: It was only online.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 6: It was like it was produced like a radio ad.
Speaker 7: I swear to god, it actually said in the ad
Speaker 7: go to h t t oh no actually.
Speaker 6: Said that in the ad.
Speaker 9: That is hilarious, And I just I was.
Speaker 11: I never and I'm still talking about the ad today,
Speaker 11: so I think it was successful.
Speaker 6: Well, that's true.
Speaker 10: My grandmother is going to actually type that in.
Speaker 9: So what you're going to do is you're going to
Speaker 9: turn on your personal computer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just uh, but the ad wasn't successful because
Speaker 7: I don't remember exactly what.
Speaker 4: It was for.
Speaker 6: I just said it was for doctor.
Speaker 9: You just remember his flub.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I remember hearing him saying in the ad
Speaker 6: for more information.
Speaker 9: Go to H T T.
Speaker 6: I'm like, what is that happening?
Speaker 10: That's precious airtime You're wasting by saying all that exactly.
Speaker 7: Well, that's that's that's why, even because even today I
Speaker 7: hear it in radio ads.
Speaker 6: Sure, and I'm baffled, like, why would you do that?
Speaker 6: Why would you waste that time?
Speaker 11: Anyway, I am wasted airtime.
Speaker 10: You know you're not. Jonah.
Speaker 9: We love you.
Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate you coming in. This has been this
Speaker 7: has been great having absolutely we will do it again
Speaker 7: in the future. And we can close with this track
Speaker 7: sleep anything we should know about this.
Speaker 8: So this song is about how I've just been dealing
Speaker 8: with massive sleep deprivation for thirty whole years. I just
Speaker 8: I have a very hard time sleeping, so I wrote
Speaker 8: this and also, yeah, I don't know if my son's listening,
Speaker 8: but shout out to Mason tax.
Speaker 10: Fraud Sean sleep situation is getting better though. He was
Speaker 10: gifted a new mattress for Christmas. Shout out to a
Speaker 10: mattress firm or I don't know who you want to.
Speaker 9: I don't know if we can do that.
Speaker 10: He's sponsored.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you to the manufacturer of my match. Well
Speaker 8: from a person who coiled the springs to the person
Speaker 8: who stuffed it.
Speaker 6: Yes, very good. Well it's probably all machines.
Speaker 10: But well we can hope hope.
Speaker 7: Right exactly exactly, Well, we'll we'll play that in a moment.
Speaker 7: But Jenny, before we go, do you want to plug
Speaker 7: your website?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, you can come check me out at gen coffee
Speaker 10: dot com, g E N N C O F f
Speaker 10: U I dot com for all my creatives and trouble making.
Speaker 6: And links to your article. You've been you've been in
Speaker 6: the news quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's there too.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, absolutely, all right, So we will end with
Speaker 7: this track. This is called Sleep. The band is Volley Again. Guys,
Speaker 7: thank you so much, thank you, good night, and if
Speaker 7: you missed any part of today's show. It will be
Speaker 7: up in just a little bit at w m H
Speaker 7: radio dot organ at my website Matt Conorton dot com,
Speaker 7: and we'll talk at you a little bit later.
Speaker 6: Bye everybody, Bye.
Speaker 3: Bye sleep time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: To be on the seat.
Speaker 2: Cannot try to count. Be poor there, bunny can talk
Speaker 2: my guys have a shrug.
Speaker 12: What a lot of the jackpot of lethargy. I feel
Speaker 12: like I'm running down a feather seat.
Speaker 4: Ye, feel like I'm running out a boat.
Speaker 1: Ye feel like I'm running down a feather cheat.
Speaker 3: Ye feel like I'm.
Speaker 1: Running out a boat. Got here, I sleep dolling asleep,
Speaker 1: ex peenny time and gone their future.
Speaker 12: So s to sase, bring by your name big o
Speaker 12: the space current Saya.
Speaker 1: To be so the sea? Can I sign a rout
Speaker 1: before that? You're funny?
Speaker 3: He had to talk.
Speaker 1: Play eyes, have a suck d on the one or
Speaker 1: reject a lot of puckers.
Speaker 3: Die.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm running out. I'm got a tea ry.
Speaker 1: You feel like I'm running out of home.
Speaker 3: Die. I feel like I'm running out of a.
Speaker 1: Cheap NYE feel like I'm running out of home.
Speaker 4: Nine feel like I'm running a guy right, feel like I'm.
Speaker 3: Running got a fuck.
Speaker 1: I feel like come running out of energy. I feel
Speaker 1: I come running out of hope.
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