Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-14-26 hour 2

0:00 Speaker 1: Wm NH will rip the novels.

0:32 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, here we go.

0:34 Speaker 3: We have entered our number two numerados of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three f M and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and fo show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Happy Valentine's Day. It is Saturday, February four, twenty twenty six. Jenny is here, of course at the news table, resident accounted for and joining us in studio, and I'm gonna get these mics up, and we got we got a lot of mics here, but we've got the guys from Jarraflies here.

1:13 Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, good morning, good morning.

1:16 Speaker 3: We're gonna do a quick Okay, let's do this because we have to do kind of a live mic check on the air soundcheck I should say uh in this case. So let's start in the corner here and we'll go around. We'll have each of you tell me who you are, what you do in jarflies and uh, and that'll give me a chance to kind of do a soundcheck as we go, so we'll start with you, sir.

1:39 Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, good morning.

1:41 Speaker 5: My name is Steven and uh I played drums and jarflies.

1:45 Speaker 4: All right?

1:46 Speaker 6: And you Chris A von Holwig, singer extraordinaire, here for your entertainment pleasure.

1:53 Speaker 2: I feel like you were an alter ego the last time you were here.

1:55 Speaker 7: Yes, I was the last time I was here.

1:57 Speaker 6: It was in another tribute, but we we will romote that one because we're promoting joy Flies today.

2:02 Speaker 2: Right right, all right, very good?

2:04 Speaker 3: And you I'm Eric, play guitar, okay, Eric, welcome? And of course you who you got to be in the five Timers club by now right? Why can't I can't hear you at all?

2:14 Speaker 2: Come?

2:14 Speaker 3: Let's let me figure this out here. I cannot wait. I think I might know the problem. Let's try that again. Let's see.

2:24 Speaker 8: It is Valentine's Day. Screw them?

2:26 Speaker 2: There you are there, you are, Hello, Chris. Hello, welcome.

2:33 Speaker 8: I am Chris, and I play guitar and jarriflies.

2:36 Speaker 2: Also known as H. Yes do you play guitar as H or Chris?

2:40 Speaker 8: And it's always H just for the general public.

2:45 Speaker 2: There are a lot of Chris is introduce.

2:49 Speaker 4: Chris and I play bass.

2:51 Speaker 2: Well say that again, Chris. I'm the third Chris. You're the third Chris Smith because their creative.

2:58 Speaker 9: Told me, and actually Sergeant Baker, Yes, Sergeant Baker, I'm.

3:04 Speaker 2: Gonna turn this up and I'm gonna turn this down.

3:07 Speaker 3: And let's see, all right, I need the I need h and Smith to talk a little bit.

3:15 Speaker 8: Hello.

3:16 Speaker 2: Okay, here we are.

3:18 Speaker 7: Today.

3:19 Speaker 8: Chris.

3:19 Speaker 10: I'm doing well. How are you today?

3:20 Speaker 4: All right?

3:21 Speaker 3: I thank you as hear you both. I can hear you both. Okay, I think I think that'll work. So Jara Flies obviously an Allison Chain's tribute. I think anyone would uh would would guess I assume I'm correct.

3:32 Speaker 2: Yes, it'd be funny if you came in and it turns out.

3:34 Speaker 8: A note, Actually mama's in the puppet.

3:38 Speaker 2: This other console. Yeah, Mom's in the pop has They had a song called jar Flies. Most people don't realize that. And this is how new? Is this? Is this? Have you guys been doing this for a while or is this brand new?

3:48 Speaker 9: It's pretty new? Okay, kind of kind of spawned late last year. Oh so we were doing kind of another band, original band with the four of us, and then I ended up breaking my foot and so I was playing less drums and I played all these Ouse and Chain songs forever.

4:10 Speaker 8: Yeah, So I just threw it out to the guys.

4:11 Speaker 9: I'm like, you guys into the playing like doing a Chain's acoustic project, and uh, They're immediately were on board. I'm like, well, we need to get another guitar player. So just put it out there in the ether and Eric showed up and it was a home run from the beginning, and we love him, not a lot of love.

4:34 Speaker 2: What was that? Was that an idea that you always kind of had that you wanted to do, or.

4:38 Speaker 9: For me personally, because I was I had. It's funny because we have the songbook in the studio, but I had picked that up when I was in high school, Yeah, just for fun and learned all those songs three hundred years ago.

4:51 Speaker 8: So it was kind of nice that everybody was on board.

4:53 Speaker 2: Yep.

4:53 Speaker 8: Yeah, to kind of bring it out there.

4:56 Speaker 9: And then with all the tribute thing going on, it's it was it was kind of like, you know, we play with you know, with Edgeways and you know, anything that's fully plugged in as we get older, I was kind of noticing, like, this sounds great, right, because it's hard to get good sound for original bands or even tribute acts that are subjective to the venue. Yeah, and their sound guy, and they don't you know, it's it's hard.

5:19 Speaker 2: It's oh yeah.

5:20 Speaker 9: You get people in their forties and fifties who want to go out and enjoy the night. They don't want to hear screaming guitars for three hours, or maybe they do, but it gets it gets taxing, right right. So this is kind of a play on while we can do it in more intimate venues. Yeah, and so we we did an open mic night. I'd never played guitar on live before really, so that was kind of the challenge of it as well.

5:46 Speaker 2: What was that? Was that scary or were you.

5:48 Speaker 9: Nervous because hide because I have I bought a big drums and I get to hide behind him.

5:53 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and then I can say, oh, you guys out there right right?

5:59 Speaker 2: Yeah?

6:00 Speaker 9: And I was just tired looking at his all these years.

6:06 Speaker 2: Right right.

6:08 Speaker 3: So So now, well, how many how many songs have you guys learned to do in this in this format so far?

6:16 Speaker 2: Like, how many so.

6:17 Speaker 9: The idea was to do the whole MTV and plugged album. Okay, so we do it as they performed it. Oh wow, and then we do attack on some bonus tracks.

6:27 Speaker 2: Oh very cool?

6:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, very cool.

6:30 Speaker 2: Have these songs been challenging to learn or some of them for me?

6:34 Speaker 4: Really?

6:35 Speaker 2: Yeah?

6:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we're still working. I mean there's a lot of vocal parts that you know, and chans. It's just tough to you can't replicate it, you know, just so we try to do the best you can.

6:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, dense with nuance, so it's like you can learn the song, but then nailing the nuances is what takes time.

6:53 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

6:54 Speaker 3: And vocally too, So how do you handle you know, because Lane Staley and Tererry can treal singing together, which is vocally kind of the secret weapon right of the band. So I mean, how do you guys handle that.

7:08 Speaker 6: Eric has a good high falsetto. I can do both, but the warmth and tone in you know, basically in both of their voices, Jerry and Lane. But I do a lot of the you know, the the warmer, bassier tones, and then he supports me and the you know, the the high, higher falsetto backups and then h will come in on some of the stuff that you know acquires you know, a third voice. Okay, so yeah, so we make the arrangements work with what you know, what our what our strengths are.

7:40 Speaker 11: Yeah, try not to do too much with it because they.

7:43 Speaker 2: Do right right absolutely y.

7:47 Speaker 4: That's why Eric was the Unicorn.

7:48 Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, man, play the guitar well and singing and material already. Yeah yeah, heap your teeth.

8:02 Speaker 3: Wow, Eric, you got it all man, fantastic, You're like an angel.

8:11 Speaker 2: Well, I'm dying to hear something. You guys, you guys want to play?

8:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, we could do that show all right, very good if.

8:20 Speaker 2: You're just joining us. We got our flies here in studio with us.

8:28 Speaker 8: H you guys say when.

8:46 Speaker 12: H m hm hm hm hmmm.

9:02 Speaker 9: Sorry not today, not today.

9:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike's picking it up.

9:12 Speaker 8: It's right.

9:20 Speaker 13: M h.

9:30 Speaker 12: M hm.

9:43 Speaker 14: M chasmss with the least we it's a matatiz.

10:09 Speaker 15: In yet at bad and yet at bat this badle long.

10:20 Speaker 16: No one want to grab dude, no basical man give themselves three, man give themselves three, and yet I found.

11:21 Speaker 17: Yet I found.

11:23 Speaker 18: Repeatingly my.

11:29 Speaker 17: Ven jimp mal.

11:34 Speaker 7: I feel better jer.

12:24 Speaker 2: H m hmm. That was great. Guys, thank you, Oh my god, that was so good.

12:50 Speaker 8: Nice happy tune for Valentine's Day.

12:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, There you go.

12:57 Speaker 3: Eric, I'm wondering if when you're for the next one, if we can get that mic in front of the guitar. I just want to make sure we're picking up a little bit better if you get I mean, you can pull the extender there, you can just yeah, I know it's a it's a little bit awkward, but yeah, I just want to make sure we're getting you.

13:13 Speaker 2: But yeah, you guys, get there you go. Yeah, I know it's awkward. That was the one advantage of the old studio. We had more room. But no, you guys sound great if you're just joining us.

13:25 Speaker 3: We've got jar Flies here with us in studio and absolutely fantastic.

13:30 Speaker 2: How many how many shows have you guys been been doing so far? You've been playing a lot.

13:35 Speaker 9: We had one at the beginning of January and we have a few more lined up.

13:41 Speaker 2: Okay, so we have.

13:44 Speaker 9: February twenty eighth coming up at the Button Factory in Portsmouth. But that did sell out.

13:51 Speaker 4: Oh, really excellent.

13:53 Speaker 8: The first show we did in Milford at Riley's Place.

13:59 Speaker 9: We got over five hundred people interested on our Facebook Oh my god event page.

14:04 Speaker 8: Wow, it's pretty cool.

14:05 Speaker 9: And then we ended up going to capacity there for our first show, so it was so it was kind of like a little bit unexpected. And then we did the Portsmouth show Brochie Stephen Erica for kind of from that the coast area something like us, we should try to get out there, so just trying to find these smaller places.

14:25 Speaker 8: And then that sold out in a few days. And then we have.

14:29 Speaker 9: The Marrigold in Brattleboro, Vermont March seventh, and then we have Pembroke City Limits the eighth on the schedule so.

14:39 Speaker 2: Far, Oh fantastic, which is trying to forget about.

14:44 Speaker 7: That's in the Rochester.

14:47 Speaker 2: So you guys are off to a very strong start. That's great.

14:50 Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's it's it's done pretty well with the response. Ah yeah, really well, so it's kind of nice. Yeah, that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, I'm dying to hear another one. You guys want to play another one? Yeah, jar Flies is here with us in the studio. If you're just showing us sounded amazing, no excuses.

15:08 Speaker 3: That's a volume on that.

15:12 Speaker 2: Sounds good, sounds good in the headphones.

15:42 Speaker 4: It's all right.

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15:50 Speaker 13: Can no.

15:53 Speaker 15: Search for me so nice, lame, wanna take hisl no more in no disgarsin to sad. Very days something hits me.

16:18 Speaker 7: Have so good.

16:21 Speaker 19: You found me seeing him found myself. Don't excuse is that.

16:27 Speaker 13: I know.

16:46 Speaker 12: It's okay.

16:50 Speaker 19: He abdy his up brood, breaking rock, soltry.

17:02 Speaker 4: Drained and blue.

17:06 Speaker 19: I believe for you.

17:10 Speaker 18: You think it's fine.

17:12 Speaker 15: Well you're traveling in it too. Every day something hits me.

17:22 Speaker 19: I'm so cool you can't me see it found myself. Don't choose his.

17:30 Speaker 13: D I know.

18:06 Speaker 17: Yes, we walk down the line, leave our ray to.

18:16 Speaker 19: Go grey, to warm some shade you my friend, I will need a bread.

18:30 Speaker 13: It we.

18:32 Speaker 18: Well love you whenyway.

18:38 Speaker 19: Revery day something miss me.

18:41 Speaker 12: I'm so.

18:44 Speaker 19: You find me, see it found myself. Don't use I.

18:50 Speaker 2: Love m fantastic guys. Wow, thank you. If you're just joining us, we have jar flies here with us live in studio.

19:34 Speaker 3: And yeah, that sounded really really good. Like in terms of long term do you do you plan to learn other? I mean, I know you talked about doing the you know, the entire unplugged album, and that's kind of the the main thing. And then you but I mean, do you plan on tackling like maybe other entire Alison Chain's albums in the future or.

19:56 Speaker 7: Now we're just adding songs we did.

19:58 Speaker 6: We did also do Stay, which is personal favorite. Oh yeah, it ain't like that, don't follow, but we also did and we did an acoustic version. Was still the big vocal a man in the Box to close the show Riley, So that that and that, you know, because that's a big song and obviously they're most probably the most one of their most notable hits.

20:24 Speaker 7: You still need that you know energy.

20:25 Speaker 6: But yeah, because we had a capacity crowd, they joined in for everything, so we really got that you know residence, even without the electrified guitars, so you know, we're still using the full drums, so we still have that impact of the drums, which this is a very drum and bass driven type of music.

20:44 Speaker 2: Yeah.

20:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a little extra acoustic this morning.

20:47 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, now this is cool.

20:50 Speaker 7: Drummer always get screwed in the.

20:53 Speaker 5: Even the guitars aren't amplified, you know, it's like, yeah, amplified acoustic sounds beautiful.

21:00 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah.

21:02 Speaker 9: In terms of full albums, we wouldn't do it a full album. I guess technically we could do SAT, we could do set. They had the four song EP SAP right right, but there's but Chris Cornell guess vocals on there. There's some crazy vocals on that album. But yeah, but those would be some deeper cuts for sure.

21:19 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:19 Speaker 9: Yeah, but we've talked about even some of the newer Allison Chain's albums without Lane. There's some good songs on those albums. Yeah, so maybe if we get down the road and then you know the side projects like mad Season.

21:32 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, we could do stuff like that.

21:34 Speaker 2: I really like that album, mad Season album.

21:37 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great album.

21:38 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, there's amount of hits that they had that didn't on the unplugged album.

21:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true too.

21:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, those are those are all targets if they translate well right right.

21:50 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:51 Speaker 3: Was there anything that was particularly challenging, I mean, any anything that you guys kind of had.

21:56 Speaker 2: To really work art out to get it right? Yeah?

21:59 Speaker 9: Those a few songs over now is a unique tuning, so we you know, we have separate guitars for that one.

22:08 Speaker 7: Frogs Frogs Cross is a.

22:11 Speaker 6: Super impressive song, but there's a lot of very cool bass parts that are triggers for me in terms of the vocal Okay and Lane, whether it's the recording or unplugged his especially the whole end of the song. It it feels when you listen to it that it's very much just riffing and it's out of time, but you have to you know, you have to count it. But in Lane fashion, he sings when he wants to sing, when you just kind of follow what he's doing.

22:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, And to that, a lot of it is just which is part of four We kind of tried to do the more intimate gigs. It's it's very viby, so it's not there's nothing to a grid, there's it's not specific, it's how we're feeling. Try to find that pocket so people can really feel and and us just feel it the music more than just hey, we're just playing a song and we can pull in anybody to play this. It's not going to be like that as much because it's it really takes the band to kind of work.

23:12 Speaker 8: Together to sell these songs.

23:14 Speaker 9: I think, oh yeah, versus you know, if you're just playing a bar band, cover band and you play Mustang Sally. You can find three thousand people to play it and they can kill it and that's fine. Yeah, you know some of this stuff is I think it's not super unique, but it's it's kind of nicer to have that that feel.

23:33 Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's like you play it too fast and it kind of takes the mood away. You've really got to find that pocket in order for it to come through.

23:40 Speaker 4: Right right? Yeah?

23:41 Speaker 3: Absolutely? Uh, you guys want to play another one? Sure if you're discerning us. We've had jar flies here with us in studio sounding really good?

23:51 Speaker 2: Really good?

23:52 Speaker 8: Are we doing on tuning?

23:53 Speaker 7: Done in a hole?

23:54 Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, I don't want to hear that good?

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24:57 Speaker 8: In blue.

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25:31 Speaker 19: Look get me now main.

25:35 Speaker 15: Spa telling in a hold, losing myself, tell me in a hold, letting control.

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26:20 Speaker 19: They put all the stuns in.

26:23 Speaker 15: The play, beating the song on my tongue. He had been burn off the tree.

26:37 Speaker 19: Where have the fl me in myself? And where will be to know more on my femials.

26:57 Speaker 12: Down in a.

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27:22 Speaker 19: From now into pencil.

27:34 Speaker 10: No remaining stopping.

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27:51 Speaker 15: Say rings down and hear as said.

28:00 Speaker 19: Now said, go.

28:09 Speaker 15: To be sad down in a hole, losing my soul

28:21 Speaker 15: down in a ball, feelings.

28:26 Speaker 19: So small.

28:30 Speaker 15: Down in a ball, losing my soul down a hole,

28:44 Speaker 15: down in control.

28:49 Speaker 12: That to f.

28:55 Speaker 19: The mollys of pencils.

29:23 Speaker 3: Amazing jar flies here with us in studio and uh yeah, you guys, sound sounds so good, so good?

29:31 Speaker 2: Is there what what goes over the best?

29:34 Speaker 12: Like?

29:34 Speaker 3: Is there something that stands out when you guys play live that the crowd reacts to the most. Would you say, is there any one thing that really.

29:44 Speaker 4: I feel? I feel like?

29:45 Speaker 6: We we got exactly what we expected, which was this was already inside of us from our youth. So when we brought the project together, we even surprised ourselves playing it through the first time. Pretty much nine ten of us songs came to us easy. So the fans, the people came that love it. I think the thing that I got from it was right, Lane's gone, so there's no availability for anybody who either was alive during that time and lived it when it was you know, fresh and new, or is now experiencing it after So the looks on the people's faces and them singing the songs along with me, everything seemed to be their favorite.

30:27 Speaker 7: Yeah, everything was a hit.

30:28 Speaker 6: Of course, you know, Man in the Box, Down in a Hole that we just did are very big, you know, notable songs. But I would say the crowd that we have there, they may have even known the music better than we did. Yeah, so I could have handed the mic off several times people were doing it.

30:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, well say that, Chris.

30:48 Speaker 4: Yeah.

30:48 Speaker 3: The reaction from the people, I think I underestimated I guess how popular they were because I wasn't expecting people like they were singing along and like to some of the songs.

30:58 Speaker 4: I didn't expect it to It was like, okay, kind of need to see you know. Yeah, I second that.

31:03 Speaker 5: I think that is the biggest thing that blew me away was that I, you know, like most of us like the suggestion to learn these songs, was like, yeah, of course, like it's always fun, yeah to pick up a new challenge and play a thing.

31:18 Speaker 4: But I had no idea that it would get the response that it did.

31:23 Speaker 5: Yeah, Like we didn't bring more than like something like less than ten percent of the people there, family and friends of ours.

31:30 Speaker 7: Yeah, like just like organic people just yeah, like.

31:34 Speaker 5: Brought that place to capacity just because they love Alice and Chains. Yeah, we're seeing that at the other gigs that we posted too, So I think that's the biggest surprise.

31:46 Speaker 4: That's great. Yeah, it's a great response.

31:49 Speaker 6: The return after the show when it was over, that you know people told me was that the music uh, at some point in their lives did something to help them, you know, as some of the content can be downtrodden and depressing as it is, it's a reflection of human emotions. So I think the return from people was I would will never have and didn't have the opportunity to see this and for real, but you doing this gives.

32:18 Speaker 7: Me the opportunity to experience it the.

32:20 Speaker 6: Way you know, maybe you know, whatever my parents or I may have if I was a little older or something during whatever time of their life and age groups, so yeah, I don't remember her name, but we did find out that one of the employees there at Riley's was actually there at the Unplugged in nineteen ninety six.

32:40 Speaker 8: She worked with a hipparador magazine.

32:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, no, kidding, wild, that's wild, amazing.

32:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, so she she saw the real thing and she was very instrumental, because that's the part we left out is we just went to Riley's to do an open mic maybe a month and a half before yet, and it got such a good response. Uh, they asked us to come back, and I think she she was instrumental in doing it. They said, you need to get these guys in. I've seen the real thing and they do it. They do good jobs.

33:10 Speaker 2: Oh that's yeah, that's an incredible validation.

33:13 Speaker 7: Yeah.

33:14 Speaker 9: Yeah, because conveniently they Fradley's was booked for a long time, then a date opened up.

33:19 Speaker 7: Yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you for having me.

33:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

33:26 Speaker 3: I'm also curious, and you know, for any any of you who want to address this, like, what what is it about Alison Chains that that made or makes because they still exist obviously, but that makes that band so special because off the top of my head, Like, there's nobody who sounds like Alice in Chains, you know what I mean, There's nobody who quite sounds like them. So they're unique in a you know, in a universe where you know, everybody you know sounds like somebody else to some extent. But Alison Chains really kind of I mean, I I and again I referenced it earlier.

33:58 Speaker 3: I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, again, Laye and Jerry and their and their vocals together. I think that's to me, that was kind of always a secret sauce. But but but there's other elements about them that are, you know, interesting. But I mean, what do you guys think? Because you're you're in a good position to speak on this since you're, you know, covering their songs. Obviously you're all passionate about Alison Chains, and you're and you're exploring how to play them, right, you've learned how to play these songs.

34:26 Speaker 3: So, like I just and anybody wants to share their perspective, what is it about Alison Chains that makes them so incredible?

34:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take a shot at that.

34:33 Speaker 11: I for me, it's uh, when I when actually when I saw you guys looking for somebody to play. I saw that immediately and I responded because this is, you know, the Dirt album came out, I think just as I was. I think I might have been in the Marines at the time, but when I was overseas dy we beat them, We beat the brakes off that.

34:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, at the time to the tape yet get yeah, but uh, but I think it goes back.

34:58 Speaker 11: There was a lot of change in me music at that time when their first album came out.

35:02 Speaker 20: I mean, because I'm still an eighties guy.

35:04 Speaker 11: I love eighties music, but I was, you know, still in high school when it started to switch over and to Vana, sound Garden, you know, pro Jam, all these bands came out, and I think it was just a change, and I think there was a lot that people kind of reflect on that change out now that they're older and they look back on that and they have, you know, caon memories of what this music means to them.

35:22 Speaker 20: So I think that's kind of the response.

35:24 Speaker 2: As well, right right, yeah, anybody else, no, no, no, go ahead.

35:29 Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, I think I think obviously all all of them are talented, extremely talented musicians. Jerry Cantrell great, you know, composer of an orchestrator of that music helped too. That their voices were very close, so not only in terms of inflection and tonally, so that that works is you know, sometimes you couldn't tell, you know the difference when Jerry was singing, but Lane had a very haunting vocal. But I think the the length of them being together and managing to get to that level, because I'm sure if you've ever deep dive, you know Alice in chains, you know where they started and where they ended up very different, so that you know that graduation to that.

36:10 Speaker 7: But human emotion, as sad as it is that.

36:13 Speaker 6: Lane died and the struggle, I think, I think the audience uh, in just being human really uh, you know, honed in on the fact that you know this this guy is he really feels this.

36:26 Speaker 21: You know.

36:26 Speaker 6: Of course, now looking back, I think, you know, possibly at this time, maybe he would have gotten more help than he did and we would have been able to enjoy him for much longer.

36:36 Speaker 7: But you know, some stars burned the brightest.

36:38 Speaker 11: I think that everybody relates to that too, right, I Mean, everybody's been down in a hole at some point in their life, so I think their lyrics and the way they come across.

36:44 Speaker 4: I mean, everybody can relate to some way.

36:47 Speaker 11: It's almost all of their songs, So I think that's another piece that really draws people to their music.

36:51 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah.

36:53 Speaker 5: I was just gonna say to what I think the two big they've been touched on the two biggest things are that you can't understand the the magnificence of the harmonies that those two singers created together.

37:07 Speaker 7: It's really unique.

37:08 Speaker 4: I don't. You don't see it a lot in music. You really didn't see it in that genre specifically.

37:13 Speaker 5: Exactly like bon Jovi was doing it, but like you know, that's like happy pop, you know, right, right, uh, But they brought it to that genre in a way that really did justice to the authenticity of the There was just such an authenticity to that. You didn't feel like they were trying to commercialize pain something. They they were really authentic, And I think that's what resonates with people.

37:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think for me it's I've never been a huge lyric guy, so the authenticity in the Lane, to what Chris said, is one undercent on. For me, it's the sonics of it all and a lot of how people recorded during that During that time, we got a lot of great music. You know that Rage album, all those those early nineties albums, they have their own sound. Yeah, and Jerry was you know that just the feelings of that music message aside, just grabs me. You know, that's the snare sounds or the guitar sounds.

38:17 Speaker 9: What effects are going on there? How are they getting all these layers right so that people don't really realize that, but it affects them. It's like there's something that sounds really cooler. I don't know what it is, but it's right. It pulls you in, right, So it's I think it's all that.

38:30 Speaker 1: You know.

38:30 Speaker 8: They were both package that pretty well.

38:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, there's.

38:34 Speaker 7: A good old raw rock and roll too. I mean they were.

38:38 Speaker 6: They were great musicians, but you watch not a butt more of a you know, it wasn't so overly polished. They adapted, you know, you can you can see during that that you know, it had been a long time since they had played you know, those songs and played with Lane. I'm sure there was some rehearsals, but they even there's even a comment by Lane, you know, this is the best show we've had in three years and somebody shouts out, yeah, it's the only show because he disappeared. I mean, we talk about all the time.

39:08 Speaker 6: Their their window, like a lot of other great bands was very short. Yeah, at the time, from when they hit to when it was over and we lost Lane was a very short time. But to watch them play that and be those musicians. But you know, with all the nuances and the warts and everything that goes with it, we're really dissecting it, Like now we're in the ten percent of like, you know, that's that's not the recording, but what they did here actually ended up cool. Yeah, because they adapt to uh to it. And I like the the you know, I want them to be good musicians, but I like the unpolished.

39:45 Speaker 7: Raw rock and roll.

39:46 Speaker 6: I feel a lot of stuff today is just so perfectly orchestrated, and whether they're playing with backing tracks or you know, they've got the most professional you know, equipment and yeah, recording software stuff that they do live. I just like the good old you know, it's raw rock and roll, and yeah, if we mess it up, we're not gonna We're just gonna keep going through it.

40:09 Speaker 2: It's not supposed to be perfect.

40:10 Speaker 7: Yes, I know a lot of people are critical.

40:12 Speaker 6: They want it to be like album quality, and it's like, yeah, but this is real and certainly we're not Alice in Chains, so we're adapting to what you know, parts we can we can do.

40:22 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we've got a little bit of that.

40:24 Speaker 9: But we talk about all the time as just being artists, you're going to get some critiques. So it's you're not doing laying any justice and like we're not. We're not trying to replicate Lane right right, We're playing the songs and just just a channel in this area for people to hear it.

40:41 Speaker 7: It's a tribute. Yeah, it's merely a tribute.

40:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's that.

40:46 Speaker 9: I mean, it's just it's just just sharing the music, just enjoying the music and playing with other people. You can call it tribute, I guess, but it's really just here songs that we like. We hope you like them too, and we're just trying to Yeah, we'll try to convey that that message because Jerry and you are here together. If Jerry wants to come in, great.

41:08 Speaker 4: And we love.

41:10 Speaker 7: We love to we love to be loud and play metal. We're all metal guys.

41:14 Speaker 6: Uh, And with deep roots and you know thrash metal and hard rock stuff from the eighties and the nineties. But I have to say that yes, this not only for the reaction that we got, but for us it is it is a change from the norm.

41:30 Speaker 7: It is not easy.

41:32 Speaker 6: I'm not saying it's easy, but vocally like, it's much different than everything else that I do with either other trip it's original bands or covers, so it's uh. And to put it together collectively in package it that way, I think that's you know, if we did a song or two in like a cover set, we just you know, be another cover band and noise of all cover bands. So it just has more of a thing. And there are other great Alison chains.

41:56 Speaker 22: Somebody somebody rang the door bell, murder them somebody, somebody's somebody wants a bus ticket, it's pizza, but Jenny's on the case.

42:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, It's just it's enjoyable to do and package it that way and have people be like, yeah, I can each mentioned it earlier. I can go there, maybe get some food, have a drink, and I can still talk to people and here because the decibels of this are are far less. Yeah, you know, even even with you know, electrified acoustic and amplification. It just has less impact than going to see you know, your your favorite you know, very loud rock band and you know you're you're with you're just screaming at each other your horse at the end of the night.

42:40 Speaker 9: So and the idea of it is just to create a little bit more of an experience. But you know, we have like the candles and the just bring the mood down a little bit so people can kind of dive into it. So you know, we're not just a band in the corner, you know, it's people just can dive into it. Like I said, just I like the song and you can hear people kind of talking I love this and they start singing. So that kind of interaction is new for me because, like Chris is saying, you know, if you're playing with amps, you don't hear anybody, right, right, That's true.

43:13 Speaker 9: Yeah, Like you're like, well you really like that, you try harder, and it's like I do like it too, Yeah, and then you have that connection.

43:19 Speaker 2: Yeah.

43:20 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty close.

43:21 Speaker 9: Yeah, it sounds like because there's people, I mean when we're at Riley's, I mean there was a couple, there's a whole group, you know, this.

43:27 Speaker 8: Far away and like that's that's a lot of pressure.

43:30 Speaker 9: Yeah, and in a sense because like can you can see people kind of either get water eyed or whatever.

43:34 Speaker 8: They're like, this is my song and like, yeah, you know it's good.

43:38 Speaker 2: So it's cool, Like it's not.

43:39 Speaker 9: My song, we're just you know, channeling it, But it's cool that they're getting that emotion from it.

43:44 Speaker 4: Yeah.

43:44 Speaker 5: I'm also surprised aunt I forgot to mention this the amount of women that were at that show and kids. There are a lot of like younger kids, like teenage kids, Like my niece is like fourteen and she uh, she's in Dallas and Chain.

43:58 Speaker 4: So like, yeah, to the extent that we can bring.

44:04 Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.

44:06 Speaker 5: I mean to the extent that any like younger kid enjoys this music. Yeah, And if there's anyone in this area that likes this kind of music and they're younger and they can hopefully we can do they can come to a show and we can kind of do justice to like the vibe that they missed out on not being alive.

44:22 Speaker 8: Yeah, we see that a lot and people reached out.

44:25 Speaker 9: Is this eighteen plus or a twenty one plus can you know, they want to make sure because like my daughter or my whatever child, it's hugely into it. So it's kind of like it's kind of interesting. It's like, you know, people our age, I guess their kids are more into it.

44:40 Speaker 2: Yeah.

44:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, we spawned, we all spawned kids that would listen to it.

44:44 Speaker 9: But yeah, but it's kind of the same idea because I think it's for me. I kind of skipped the eighties and my I had older brothers who listened to a lot of seventies stuff, But the nineties stuff was a product of a lot of seventies music, you know, your Sabbaths and Zeppelin and yeah, all the all the kind of the harder rock stuff where the eighties was polished and they.

45:06 Speaker 8: Had that eighties machine to it.

45:08 Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean you had your metal, but you didn't have like the rock like the nineties grunge stuff was a descending of the you know, late sixties and seventies.

45:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, and and probably to kind of a reaction to to the eightieschene you know, right, Oh for sure, Yeah, kind of a kind of a pushback on that and a and a welcome one.

45:30 Speaker 2: And in a lot of ways, I would say Chris, you've been quiet. Did you have anything you want to do?

45:37 Speaker 13: Uh?

45:37 Speaker 23: No, I'm just a bass player.

45:38 Speaker 3: Man.

45:39 Speaker 7: It's a bass player.

45:40 Speaker 3: Hey man, I'm a bass player too, So you know, we gotta we gotta look out for each other. That's why I want to make sure if you had anything he got in there.

45:46 Speaker 12: I will.

45:47 Speaker 9: I'll say that the base is amazing on a lot of the OUs chain stuff, and yeah, he's nailing it with Oh I noticed on the not only the tones, but just just the parts in general, because it's such a huge part of it.

46:00 Speaker 4: Mike is an amazing bass player.

46:02 Speaker 24: That's one of the reasons I've always loved them anyways, is he's just oh yeah, awesome.

46:06 Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, absolutely, one hundred percent. He's one of my favorites.

46:10 Speaker 4: I think.

46:11 Speaker 3: So in a moment, if you guys want to do one more, we can. We can end the segment with one more. We definitely have time. But I also want to make sure that uh two things. One that people know where to find you guys online, and also what you've got coming up if you want to remind people too, because you got to you got a bunch of shows coming up.

46:30 Speaker 9: We do, so it's online jarflies dot com, which is amazing that we were able to get that.

46:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually surprised. That's really Oh, that's great.

46:40 Speaker 8: It's great. So that's that's the home spot.

46:42 Speaker 9: You can find all the gigs there and I'll see on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube at jariflies or jariflies inn h so you people can find it. But jariflies dot com I'll have all the links excellent to find us on the social sign up for the email lists so you can be notified.

47:03 Speaker 8: We have some shirts as well merch at the shows, which is kind of fun.

47:08 Speaker 2: Yeah.

47:09 Speaker 8: And then so our next one is at Button Factory, but that's sold out already.

47:15 Speaker 6: Yes, if you don't already have a ticket, we'd love to see you, but please don't show up there and then be upset because we don't we we don't want to have you drive really far to find out you can't get in. So look at our next but our next gigs on March seventh, Olt Bridle Borrow and then four eighteen in Rochester.

47:35 Speaker 7: Those are bigger venues.

47:37 Speaker 9: Come back to Rochester at the East Side Tavern. It's a good size. Yeah, so's that's not ticketed. Okay, but we do ask everybody just say that you're interested on at least on the Facebook event page if possible, so that we can kind of gauge if we do get to a capacity limit. We've been asked by the venues just so they can have a kind of account. They do tickets, but they're not yea, but.

48:01 Speaker 8: We don't want people.

48:02 Speaker 9: If you're if you signed up, click interest interested and then you can say, hey, at least they they're here. We can try to get you in, but I think it's big enough. We'll probably if we if it gets packed there they'll be crazy.

48:15 Speaker 2: Yeah.

48:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, again, you guys are off to such a great start. That's that is wonderful, So very very happy for you. Glad you're here. Uh, you sound amazing. So this has been incredible. But yeah, so we'll end the We'll end the segment with one more song if if you guys want to play, you want to play.

48:31 Speaker 2: One more is the bonus one got me wrong, come me wrong? Thanks for having us man, absolutely absolutely and we will thank you. We'll do it again in the future for sure. This is great.

48:40 Speaker 4: Uh.

48:40 Speaker 3: And again if you are just joining us, Jarra Flies is here with us live in studio.

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49:21 Speaker 12: Well?

49:22 Speaker 15: Let's see nothing even as I know bit you got me wroung.

49:36 Speaker 19: So shoy wrong from something strong.

49:53 Speaker 7: I can't let go.

49:59 Speaker 25: Thread their tap tree unwinding slow, you.

50:07 Speaker 19: Dorged dream.

50:10 Speaker 7: Show, all been left you want.

50:13 Speaker 12: Me to.

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50:37 Speaker 25: Dive there lost, so long row in a sad tube bag one.

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50:54 Speaker 18: Their domlascae. Something's gonna turn out right.

51:36 Speaker 12: You.

51:39 Speaker 18: Sugar teas.

51:41 Speaker 15: Sweetness, does nothing touch my face?

51:47 Speaker 18: Stay if you please?

51:52 Speaker 4: You may now be here when not leave.

51:58 Speaker 19: Where I now?

52:01 Speaker 15: Bet you got me around? So shall we reach for something song? I haven't been actis and so long.

52:25 Speaker 19: Row in a sense tub.

52:31 Speaker 15: Budgon from low row, I haven't been racist and so long don't that forever?

52:53 Speaker 18: So Lee's gotta turn out right.

53:16 Speaker 26: The city is crashing, it's stats to cool the chado sliding.

53:32 Speaker 19: Sappers.

53:37 Speaker 13: She had those mony, baby mony.

53:45 Speaker 19: When you see that lights, No that I'm not done, claim that.

53:51 Speaker 4: She sees sister stone.

53:55 Speaker 19: When you see that lights, No that I'm not gone? The lean that you see is just the stone.

54:06 Speaker 13: M hmm.

54:22 Speaker 19: The story is closing the end of the show. She is out.

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