Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-28-26 hour 1

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4:00 Speaker 9: Yes, there it is the Ballad of twenty six. That is Peter the photographer, and he is here with us, and we're going to talk with him in just a moment. Really looking forward to this. Welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. 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 fos, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

4:48 Speaker 9: Today is Saturday, February twenty eight, twenty twenty six, the last day of winter. I know that is not literally true according to the calendar, but if you know me at all, you know in my mind March FIRSTUS, first day of spring. So happy uh, almost spring everybody. We'll see if the weather cooperates with that. But let me get those mics up and uh, I'm really looking forward to this. So Peter the photographer is here. Good morning, sir. How are you very well? Very well? Love that song?

5:18 Speaker 12: What?

5:18 Speaker 6: What can you?

5:20 Speaker 9: I mean? We should we should talk about that a little bit. We should also mention too, you did bring your guitar and you're gonna play live, which looking forward to that. But uh, yeah, I mean what inspired you to uh what inspired you to write that song? Not not that you have to look too deeply into the lyrics to figure out the meaning. Alrighty is for pretty direct, which I.

5:38 Speaker 3: Love front, so the spark for the song, which uh became the original bass of the song, came out. I was sitting in my home studio and uh, I was looking to record something else. I need to get closer.

5:58 Speaker 6: Uh.

6:00 Speaker 3: I was attempting to record something else and having some technical issues and I needed a break. So I started scrolling on my phone and it was right when they had released the report that they that Don Lemon had been arrested.

6:19 Speaker 6: Ah.

6:20 Speaker 3: Yes, and I literally just shut the phone off, put it down, sat back and went. They kidnapped Don Lemon, but left us Hannity and my brain went and ten minutes later I had ninety percent of the lyrics written. I didn't overthink the music, which is weird for me, but just sat down and strummed a couple of chords. And you know, I can't say I've always been an overly political person, but I've had my beliefs. I have stayed true to those beliefs for most of my life. Yeah, And one of those beliefs is that most politicians, most presidents, are not the best, not the best.

7:08 Speaker 3: I think some have great intentions. I think they all think they have great intentions. But my perspective on what has gone on over this past year is complete ridiculousness. Whether you agree with the policies or not, the show is ridiculous, ridiculous. So I made a ridiculous song. How do you.

7:32 Speaker 9: Describe the style of that song, like in terms of the genre, I mean, it reminds me of something you might hear in a bar on St Patrick's Stay.

7:42 Speaker 3: That was I don't know that that was the intent, but the delivery brought it there.

7:48 Speaker 9: Yeah.

7:49 Speaker 3: I certainly if I were to envision the perfect scenario of playing that in a live situation, it would probably be, you know, at the Strange Broot tavern on Saint Patrick's Day, right right, with everybody swaying and yeah yeah, everybody kind of saying, got that six eight feel of We're just gonna clank our glasses, which if you listen in the background, there is actually two beer bottles being clanked on the beat.

8:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that style of song. Because you know, we have a couple of your your studio tracks from from earlier in your career, but you never recorded anything quite like that. Nore right, No, yeah, no, is it the way that it came out? Is it kind of exactly the way you heard it in your mind or yeah, yep.

8:36 Speaker 3: The minute I finished the lyrics, although those aren't the all the original lyrics, but the when I heard it in my head as I was writing it, I think it was very much that flogging Molly's drop kick Murphy's, which it's it's kind of been compared to Wow, it's got that vibe, and it does, and it was, but I think it's a little more over the top vocally, yeah, than that kind of stuff. And it was because that's how I wanted the message delivered.

9:03 Speaker 6: Right.

9:04 Speaker 3: It's not the news that makes me think this, it's watching who the song is about, right, And that's that's how he comes across to me. That's how I hear him, Like, if he really spoke the way his character wanted to, that's how he would sound.

9:19 Speaker 9: Right, right. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. No, I love it, of course.

9:24 Speaker 12: You know.

9:24 Speaker 9: We were very happy to do the world radio premiere of it here on.

9:26 Speaker 3: And I thank you for that. Absolutely, been like fifteen years, twenty years since I've done a song on the radio. Yeah, it's kind of exciting.

9:35 Speaker 9: Well, speaking of which too, you know, because we were talking off air earlier, so it was probably fifteen to twenty years Like, oh my god, but I interviewed you before. Yeah, because the first sort of radio show, our podcast, well, we weren't even using the word podcast.

9:51 Speaker 3: Right, it was internet radio.

9:53 Speaker 9: Internet radio was the term. Yeah. Our friend Hammer, whom I haven't seen in a very long time, but he had a rage rock Radio dot com. And I'll always be very grateful to Hammer because not only did he and I become very good friends at the time, but although I haven't kept in touch with him, but he gave me my first opportunity to actually do this. Like if it were not for Hammer, I might not be sitting here right now at w M and H. Because Hammer I gave me an opportunity to host a show on Rage rock Radio dot com and and and that gave me my start.

10:25 Speaker 9: And uh so I had interviewed you. We were trying to figure out so it must have been fear of flying was because I remember during the interview we talked about your pension for climbing staff folding it shows and you were a climber, and for some reason that stuck out in my head. But you were in fear of flying, And of course was soundtrack to Monday, which was before or after? I get after? That was after okay, f.

10:48 Speaker 3: O F then then Soundtrack to Monday. Gotcha a handful and a half years of nothing.

10:54 Speaker 9: Okay, Now, why why did you step away from it for a while?

11:01 Speaker 3: I would say I made poor choices on my handling of my available time, okay, and close influences in my life, I think driving me in a direction to spend less time expelling my energy on the things that I really wanted to.

11:24 Speaker 9: Yeah.

11:25 Speaker 3: You know, we've all had bad relationships that we've made choices during those relationships that change the direction of or trajectory of where you want to be going. Oh yeah, and I'm outside of those situations now and rekindling the love for you know, pouring my energy into all of the things that require my energy.

11:48 Speaker 9: Something that I ask everybody who's ever taken a break from music, did you always kind of know that you would get back to it, or did you or was there a point where are you really got Okay? You always knew? Yeah?

11:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there was never a time where I didn't have this desire to dump everything in my life to pursue it.

12:08 Speaker 9: Okay.

12:08 Speaker 3: I think music in general has always been my first true love, okay, and anything that got in the way of that, I think in a way probably felt the brunt.

12:20 Speaker 9: Of that, okay. And yeah, yeah, it's always interesting, you know, I reflect back on you know, Fortunately I have a partner who's obviously you know, Jenny's very supportive, and she's involved in the show and everything in fact. But but I know what you mean about relationships where maybe you know, because I've had them too, where maybe you have a partner who's not so supportive and maybe they're even actively trying to.

12:44 Speaker 3: Destroy tale as old as time, oldest time. And like you, I, I have a partner now that is so supportive. It's ridiculous.

12:55 Speaker 9: Yeah.

12:55 Speaker 12: The the.

12:58 Speaker 3: Freedom that I now have, that's wonderful, having a partner that allows me to feel free. Yeah, my wife, Megan meg my love.

13:08 Speaker 9: Yeah, she's probably listening.

13:10 Speaker 3: She hopefully is listening and is probably laying in bed just rolling her eyes, going, don't talk about me.

13:19 Speaker 9: No, that's awesome. Though. There's nothing worse than when you get in a relationship with somebody who says when they say, basically I love everything about you.

13:26 Speaker 3: Now change yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely so.

13:29 Speaker 9: Now having a supportive partner is wonderful. By the way. So speaking of support, Michael Martina, who we know here at WM and HS Texas. Mike, that's a long story, but he says. Peter is an amazing human being and a great photographer. I love his work with Jolly Cations. Yes, yes, what's what's Jolly Cations?

13:49 Speaker 6: Oh?

13:49 Speaker 3: That is Jake and Christina Jolly Moore. They have a foundation or a nonprofit that they've put together where they raise funds to put together, if I remember correctly, vacations for families going through or have gone through cancer treatment. Oh wow, Okay, Jake had you know, I don't want to speak too much for him, but I will say is an amazing, amazing human He and his wife both excuse me, and they put together these adult prompts. Okay, I speak for the past couple of years, and you pay to get in and all of the money that they raise goes towards these vacations.

14:38 Speaker 3: And Jake had been diagnosed when he was I believe seventeen or eighteen and had beat cancer and is very much alive and well. Yeah, and just puts all of his energy into helping people going through the same thing.

14:54 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, Oh, Wow.

14:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing couple of them to pieces.

14:58 Speaker 9: Oh wow, that's that's wonderful. And of course, you know he referred to your photography too. Do you want to mention that because you are, of course, Peter the photographer.

15:07 Speaker 6: I am so.

15:11 Speaker 3: I do weddings, engagement sessions, maternity sessions.

15:17 Speaker 9: Yeah.

15:20 Speaker 3: I've been doing it for about ten years or so. I don't have a website. I can't afford a website anymore. They're just too expensive to keep up and running. But you can find me on Facebook because the photographer LLC. I love doing weddings. I love capturing real things that are happening.

15:38 Speaker 9: Yeah.

15:39 Speaker 3: That must be fun, the stories that unhold throughout the day. Yeah, it's it's just it's it's wonderful to be part of that story for people. And I'm fortunate enough that most of my clients have become kind of friends online.

15:56 Speaker 9: Oh that's great.

15:57 Speaker 3: They've supported some of my music, some of them come on to see me play. We keep in touch here and there, and you know we've kind of developed, you know, small friendships. Ye kind of grows a little bit from there. So that's one that's amazing and I love working with am. I allowed to mention another radio station. Absolutely so Greg in the morning buzz I've done the Buzzball the past three years, which has been an amazing opportunity, very cool. Gotten to do a few things that stem from there. But I love concert photography.

16:29 Speaker 3: I just love, just like writing a song, taking pictures or grabbing images of moments. It's it's really all the same thing. You're just capturing a moment and it's it's there. Yeah, you know, these moments for these couples, these moments for these musicians, they have that split second that they now get to carry to the rest of their lives. And I love being somebody who gets to give.

16:56 Speaker 9: That to Somebody's fantastic. Yeah, that's awesome. Well I'm go and hear you play. You want to play something, I.

17:02 Speaker 3: Will play something. I'm a little nervous early.

17:04 Speaker 9: So I'll just I'll share with the audience. So, Peter, was you know we were doing a soundcheck before the show. Sounded amazing. I don't know that prior to today, I've ever actually heard you live, because I don't remember ever seeing I don't think I ever saw Fear of Flying or a soundtrack to Monday Live, believe it or not Well.

17:24 Speaker 3: Soundtrack to Monday was a cover band. Okay, so if you weren't into going to hear the cover songs of the day, we wouldn't have. And Fear of Flying was was mainly a cover band that wrote a bunch of really good originals and got pretty dang far on handful of originals.

17:44 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah that I remember. I remember the songs. Yeah, I remember. I remember Hammer, you know, because he you know, he was obviously producing the show we done on Rage Rock, but he would also kind of be like an extra voice. He would, you know, he chime in on things during the interview, and I remember there was I wish I could remember the name of the song, but I do recall though, like there was a particular Fear of Flying song that he was really enthusiastic about.

18:11 Speaker 3: I bet it was amnesia.

18:13 Speaker 9: That title is familiar.

18:15 Speaker 3: Really, like much heavier olymp Biscuity. Yeah, yeah, which was actually my first and people I still don't think people realize it to this day, because people will still post that song on Facebook. Yeah, every couple of months, somebody will post it and everybody will kind of reminisce on it. Yeah, that was my first political politically charged song. Oh wow, and that came out, I would say two thousand two wow, two thousand and three, okay.

18:46 Speaker 12: And.

18:48 Speaker 3: I wish I had a copy. I'm sure I have a copy of it some yah. Yeah, but that song is very much about today.

18:55 Speaker 8: Wow.

18:56 Speaker 3: That talks about you know, people just screwing up everything on the internet and what are we doing? And yeah, this is dumb and there's no place to hide from it. And I don't think people realize that. I could. I'm a talker. I could go on a rant about that, but I won't right now. Maybe if you have me back, we'll talk more about that. Definitely, definitely, yeah, yeah, I think that's probably sorry.

19:24 Speaker 9: Oh, no worries if you're just joining us. Peter the photographer is here with us live in studio and uh yeah.

19:34 Speaker 3: So, oh I don't I don't even know.

19:38 Speaker 9: Well you you want to talk about what you're gonna what you're gonna play?

19:40 Speaker 6: Oh?

19:41 Speaker 9: Sure?

19:42 Speaker 12: So this is.

19:45 Speaker 3: This is a song called Ghosts, and uh, I'm not sure one hundred what it's about, except for it's me just trying to figure out how to effectively move on from making so many mistakes in life and being part of so many mistakes in life and not getting stuck with what I what I refer to as conversations with ghosts.

20:16 Speaker 9: As someone who ruminates constantly, I can already tell I'm going to connect with what you're about to play.

20:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think I think it's it's pretty common. I think a lot of people do it. But this is me kind of journaling the idea that I can't get stuck in my head above the past.

20:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, this sounds. It sounds very relatable, and it is something that I think everyone does to varying degrees.

20:43 Speaker 3: And it is brand new, So if I mess it up, I'm sorry.

20:46 Speaker 9: Oh wonderful, brand new, brand new. We love it.

20:49 Speaker 3: We love it all right. So it kind of goes like this, I'm okay, but I'm not.

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21:22 Speaker 7: When a ticket slow? It is all too much?

21:27 Speaker 6: Is it me?

21:30 Speaker 13: Conscious of mary insanity? The God's come on, I must get home. It's too loud when I'm home, jomping me here, sending.

21:50 Speaker 6: And ass from home.

21:53 Speaker 7: Don't disturb, leave me stying and with all of my goals because I'm counting.

22:05 Speaker 14: The fagers were built in the summer smaller when it gets too cold.

22:12 Speaker 6: Don't be me.

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22:32 Speaker 14: You've been there too. I don't blame you for distance.

22:40 Speaker 14: After all we've been through. But how not the only one oly pranging fortues because there's something inside us that's bigger than this handle that jumping in it too.

23:03 Speaker 6: But don't be me, he.

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23:20 Speaker 14: A little macas because I'm counting the figas built in the summer.

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24:32 Speaker 7: God, some county in the fires.

24:35 Speaker 16: Rebuilding the summer spannel gainst you a cold.

24:41 Speaker 6: Don't be me, don't be me, don't be me.

25:02 Speaker 9: Oh my god, that is so good, dude, I love that. I love that, and uh I was right. I did find that very relatable. Wow, what a great song. If you're just joining us. Peter the photographer is here with us, alive in studio, and that, oh that that was so good.

25:20 Speaker 3: So that's brand new.

25:22 Speaker 9: Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing.

25:23 Speaker 6: Yeah.

25:24 Speaker 9: Now when you record you, uh, do you record everything at home or what's what's kind of your process?

25:28 Speaker 3: So right now I am demoing everything at home, okay, and I'm doing the best that I can the best of my abilities with my limited knowledge of all of the recording world.

25:42 Speaker 9: Yeah.

25:43 Speaker 3: Uh. And I'm gonna be releasing what I do at home, uh and at the same time sending those demos out to some local uh and not so local musicians to hopefully fill it up to a fully fully done song or songs.

26:05 Speaker 9: Yeah. So is part of the idea. Are you looking to work with people you've worked with before or.

26:14 Speaker 3: To start Yes, yeah, I think having been out of the actual scene if they're you know, if you want to refer to the area as a scene, I've been largely out of it for about fifteen years, with the exception of doing cover bands and doing some solo acoustic shows here and there. I haven't really been part of the creative scene in well over a decade, maybe closer to two decades. So reaching out to the people that I know, I think is the easy start because there's a lot of players out there that I've heard not only where we practice.

26:56 Speaker 3: There's a lot of bands over there, and you get an opportunity to hear whereas over at Morgan Organs. Yeah, and I am starting to tiptoe my way back out there to places like Bad Burger where they're they're hosting a lot of original stuff, which is awesome. I feel like the original scene, if I can kind of vocally meander for a little bit, aste was amazing back in the day. I'd say around ninety eight ninety nine you really started to see there was a lot of bands in the area, but there was really no place to play original stuff, so you kind of had to get creative.

27:37 Speaker 3: But i'd say two thousand and one, it really kicked off around here. Like you, you felt the energy if you were part of the scene. You had Mad Bobs, you had the Uptown Tavern, you had the Black Brimmer, the bomb Shelter, the bombshell, my god, the bomb.

27:57 Speaker 9: Shelter wonderful and not so wonderful memories, right right.

28:02 Speaker 3: But you had places that really were supporting the creativity of the area, the energy of the area, and I think that built quite a bit, and then you you ended up having the Rage Rock Radio, you had Spider Bite Radio. You had so many people in the area that even if they weren't musicians, were helping to really prop the scene up. And it was awesome. Yeah, And somewhere around two thousand and five, two thousand and six, I feel like it just kind of went hmm, and now it's like there there's there's some rumblings that it feels like that ninety eight, ninety nine, two thousand is kind of Vibeah where people in the area are like, Okay, I'm kind of sick of having to go out to Boston, right, and they're starting to build it here.

28:49 Speaker 3: That's what it feels like, and I hope that that's the case.

28:52 Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, there's so much incredible talent around here. There is, you know, and people will ask ask me, or they'll ask Jenny, because Jenny handles the book in the guests, you know, like, how do you find you know, how do you find all this great talent? It's like, well, that's that's not hard.

29:06 Speaker 6: Right, you know what I mean?

29:07 Speaker 9: Like like for Jenny, the you know, the challenging part is keeping it all organized, which you know she's very good at, but but actually finding the talent is you know, this is so much of it. And I'm sure that's true anywhere.

29:18 Speaker 3: Sure, you know.

29:19 Speaker 9: That's why I always tell everybody, you know, check check out what's going on in your area.

29:23 Speaker 5: You know.

29:23 Speaker 9: Obviously we have you know, listeners locally. We also have a lot of people who listen online from other places. And I tell everybody you know, there's there's a lot of incredible music being made right under your nose. You know, you just got to look. It's but it's there, you know, there's there's so much. My my dad, you know, he passed away not long ago, but he used to say that we live in a golden age of music because there's so much of it.

29:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's true. Yeah, it's true. And I think it's difficult too. And we were talking about this before we we went on There is is, there's this this also, So when I talk about the the scene brewing, I'm talking about the twenty somethings.

30:10 Speaker 9: Yeah.

30:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we are not that. We have been that and we've lived that. But you know, you and I, if we're talking candidly.

30:20 Speaker 9: We're we're a little older.

30:21 Speaker 3: We're a little older, and most of us as musicians being around my age. We took time off for whatever reason, whether there was to to raise our kids, to pursue a career that actually paid the bills. But I find that there's a lot of people our age that are rekindling that love and reigniting. Not that they ever forgot, but but we put it aside. Yeah, for whatever whatever the reason. Yeah, And it's kind of like fifty ish is where where it starts going. Oh, I can open this back up again. Like me fifteen years or so without writing a song, It's like I still have something to say.

31:10 Speaker 9: Yeah.

31:10 Speaker 3: It doesn't mean I think the whole world is going to grab onto it, but I still have something to say. I didn't do it in my twenties. I mean, I think when you're younger, you get that rock star mentality, like I want to be a rock star. But at the core of it, especially within the jam room, you're just doing it for the love of I have something to say, and these guys have something to play and it sounds great together. And I think we're at fifty plus we're relearning that we just love to play and we still have something to say, and we're not dead yet.

31:47 Speaker 17: And I think I told you.

31:49 Speaker 3: You know, I kind of coined it for myself. It's like there's an un young revolution that's going on that really didn't happen with the generation prior to to us. You know, they got to forty or fifty and the thing was, Now it's a sprint to retirement and relaxation and sitting on the front porch screaming, get off my lawn. Right, And that's that's not us.

32:15 Speaker 9: No, it's not even a thought in my head. Right, I've always thought, although this is something I've always thought my whole life. It's weird to me when people talk about, oh, I can't wait till I'm retired, you know, and just relax. It's like, really, you're looking forward to being old and not having any use anymore.

32:33 Speaker 3: I mean, I love the idea of relaxation. I mean, I'm a photographer, I mean musician, I work a full time job. I got a wife at all. Yeah, he's you know, pretty much two kids.

32:43 Speaker 9: Yeah.

32:43 Speaker 3: I mean, relaxation is nice, but I can't stay idle, no meaning I don't know many people our age that can't.

32:50 Speaker 12: No.

32:50 Speaker 3: No, yeah, especially in the art scene.

32:53 Speaker 9: Well, it's like I was saying to you too, I've I've always felt that, you know, you can't help getting older, you can't help the past sage of time, but getting old is a choice.

33:02 Speaker 3: And we harkened to what was it clinicood, just don't let the old man.

33:08 Speaker 9: He's the first one I ever heard saying I think that's saying predates him, but probably yeah, yeah, but yeah, don't let the old man. And it might have been well, we know what happened, poor but uh but but yeah, And I think the Internet has a lot to do with it too, because you can, you know, you can be any age and put your music online and and people of any age might connect to it. And I actually think that has a lot to do with it.

33:35 Speaker 3: Because we att yeah, an easy outlet, an easily accessible outlet.

33:40 Speaker 9: Right right. There's no gatekeepers anymore. I mean in some in some ways there are. But but in terms of like you know, it's it's not like when we were growing up, where if you wanted to get your music out there, you know, you had to try to get signed to a label who would then you know, and go and all of it. And now you know you can. There really is no barrier of entry now, whether or not people are gonna hear what you're doing. You know, that's that's a whole other thing. But but you can, you know, anybody can put their music online and you know, maybe it connects with somebody and maybe it means something to someone, and you know, it's it's it's a pretty amazing time to be alive.

34:19 Speaker 9: In that sense.

34:20 Speaker 3: Sure, it's a pretty amazing time to be alive.

34:23 Speaker 9: It's both both both good and bad. But one of the really good things is, you know, like I don't I don't know that I would have it was like I said earlier, had I not had a chance to do a quote unquote internet radio show, I don't know if I'd be sitting here right now, I probably probably wouldn't be. So no, so it is. It is an amazing time. Do you want to play an I'm dying here more? Do you want to play another one?

34:46 Speaker 3: I think I do.

34:47 Speaker 9: Okay, I hope you do, because that last song was amazing. If you're just joining us, Peter of the photographers here with us live in studio and uh sounding amazing.

35:01 Speaker 3: Uh so this song again is brand new?

35:05 Speaker 9: Uh nice?

35:07 Speaker 3: And again it's it's kind of like writing in a journal, tearing the page out and throwing it onto a microphone.

35:18 Speaker 3: The song is called Florence, and it's actually about kind of a snapshot of a play on a snapshot of my wife and myself and and the way we support each other. It's my version, I guess, of a love song. But yeah, I'll stop me injuring. I have not played this for anyone except for a couple of musicians in a room. I'm not even sure it's finished yet, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna play it and see what happens, all right, Yeah, here we go. This song is called Florence for my wife.

36:11 Speaker 14: She cries when she hears the old religion, wrestles with her blankets while fighting with herself.

36:24 Speaker 7: She was never one for romance novels.

36:30 Speaker 15: She lies when she says that she needs nothing, no nothing at all, and seeing I believe her, even when she cries herself to sleep.

36:49 Speaker 18: Because one they soon have me breaking down tail when it it all just gets too much, because I need you.

37:04 Speaker 7: I'm finished show you need me to. I get a little this in heaven too.

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37:17 Speaker 5: Do dump tum.

37:27 Speaker 7: I get to ide it home in.

37:30 Speaker 6: New York.

37:34 Speaker 18: Like in Addicts and Recovery, and I go chasing.

37:42 Speaker 7: Rabbits down Spiedro. But Yoey seems a bit of pots of me.

37:53 Speaker 19: I believe if things are conspiracy, because one.

38:00 Speaker 18: On day soon she'll be breaking downtil when it'll just get too much.

38:11 Speaker 16: Because I need you.

38:14 Speaker 7: I'm pretty show your name me too.

38:18 Speaker 18: I get a linxious send heaven to sorry, my love, no one, let.

38:24 Speaker 20: Too, don't don't, don't do, don't, don't, don't do do don't do, oh boy, because.

38:50 Speaker 18: One nay soon we'll be breaking damti when he not just gets too.

39:00 Speaker 4: Much Because Sam, I've finished, So you need me too, hacking on the this in heaven too, Sorry.

39:12 Speaker 6: My no one know to do do no one no else who never do do.

39:23 Speaker 3: Do?

39:24 Speaker 7: No one now who never do do do?

39:29 Speaker 21: Don't do?

39:31 Speaker 7: No one now who never do?

39:44 Speaker 9: I love it. I love it. That's called Lawrence Lawrence. Yes, oh that sounds sounds done to me. You said you weren't sure of those don it's a great song.

39:52 Speaker 3: I'm not sure about this part of this part, but we're gonna see how it's gonna go.

39:55 Speaker 9: I love it. I think it's great. I think it's great. I'm sure your your wife enjoys that song.

39:59 Speaker 3: I hope so. Actually it's it's called Florence, and there there are two specific references to her favorite artists and one of mine Florence in the Machines. Oh okay, so the very first line she cries when she hears the Old Religion. There's a song on the new album called the Old Religion one that she absolutely loves. The ending part of the chorus is I get all of this in heaven too, all of this in heaven two is is uh. I don't know if it's the name of the song. She's she's gonna yell at me when I get out of that, But it was the song that was the first dance song from our wedding, ohkd.

40:40 Speaker 3: Very called Florence brings out My wife is a very stoic woman. She's a very practical woman. She is a healthcare professional and just amazing at what she does. And because of what she does, she has to be a very strong, very skinned woman.

41:01 Speaker 9: Yeah.

41:01 Speaker 3: But oh man, you put on Florence and the hands go up, the spirit fingers. It just it's that thing that really pulls pulls her through that. Okay, So I thought naming a song after Florence was very appropriate for my wife.

41:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's very cool, that's very cool. How did you learn to sing? Because you've got such a great voice?

41:23 Speaker 7: Thank you?

41:23 Speaker 9: Are you? Are you self taught? Did you take lessons or.

41:25 Speaker 3: I am very self taught?

41:27 Speaker 9: Really?

41:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, trial and error. I think singing for cover bands for a long time taught me a lot because when I first started was you know, we were doing a lot of like creed Stone, Tuble, Pilots, Pearl Jam, and there's such distinctive voices. Yeah, that it was always like

41:51 Speaker 3: when I heard a cover band, I wanted to hear them almost act as a tribute to these artists, okay, And so that's what I did, Yeah, and really just found where the voice goes. And in doing that, I learned what I can do with my own voice for myself, okay, which is actually it serves me because depending on the type of song that I'm writing, I can kind of put a different feel on it, much like the Ballot of twenty six which is completely different.

42:20 Speaker 9: Yeah.

42:21 Speaker 3: But yeah, trial and error. When I first started singing in my first band when I was fourteen, I actually still have a tape of that band. Thanks Bill, Buddy Tom. Actually I get to return that to him, and the tape is dead, like you can barely hear anything, but you can hear that. I sounded like Kermit the Frog trying to do kind of eighties rock kind of stuff. Yeah, and just over the years, just found what worked, found what didn't work, found what blew it out, found what didn't And yeah, completely self taught.

42:51 Speaker 9: Okay, I've heard other people say that too, that singing in a cover band is a great way to.

42:56 Speaker 3: Really Yeah, you build your stamina and figure out, you know, how many beers you can drink before it all goes to you know where it?

43:06 Speaker 9: Is there any particular cover song that you ever found especially challenging to pull off vocally?

43:12 Speaker 3: If I do, I won't. Oh yeah, well yeah I did. There is one and I do still pull it out Possum Kingdom.

43:20 Speaker 9: Yeah.

43:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, don't ask me to do it right now. It is too early for that.

43:23 Speaker 6: Yeah.

43:23 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's hard. That's a hard one to say.

43:25 Speaker 3: Oh my good lord, it is. It is. That guy's voice is It's not high in the respect of like a Ronnie James dio, but it is powerful and piercing h and at the top of a tenor register is just yeah, probably the most challenging cover I've ever done again, probably because I want to match, you know, with the style of what he was going for. Especially in that song. You have this almost control old maniacal feel to it, and it pulls an energy and it's hard to pull that energy with delivery, but hold back on overdoing it, right, Yeah, right, No, that makes sense.

44:13 Speaker 9: That makes sense. And then what about playing guitar? Are you self taught on guitar?

44:17 Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, had my buddy Matt when I was fourteen, conned my mom into giving me forty bucks for she used acoustic that was on a sidewalk sale. Yeah, went home. He taught me every rose has its song baby, Yeah, and those three cords or four chords because there's a minor in the solo somewhere. But yeah, it started with those four chords and you couldn't stop me from there. It was any book that I could I could find in a used book bind and just kind of figure out what chords were. I think in totally I learned about twelve chords overall, and then learned how to use a KPO and those twelve chords or a chords or whatever it was.

45:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of served me to this day.

45:07 Speaker 5: Yeah.

45:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, I slapped my fingers on the neck and if it sounds cool, I'm like, I'm gonna go with.

45:13 Speaker 9: That, right right. Did you in the cover bands do you play also or do you just saying I play as well? Okay, yeah, okay, that's what I thought.

45:24 Speaker 3: Acoustic and electric?

45:25 Speaker 9: Yeah, And then so now, what's what's your current live situation? Like are you are you playing any shows as Peter the Photographer? So, because I know you're kind of waiting back into things.

45:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, So for the past couple of years, I do one show a month acoustic solo at the Strange Bru Tevern, and forgive me, I can actually tell you the next one I'm gonna.

45:46 Speaker 9: Be oh by all means yeah. Yeah. While you're looking that up, we should mention, of course, that Peter the Photographer is here with us live in studio. Sounded amazing, Well, I thank you, sir, absolutely so.

45:59 Speaker 3: Mark thirteenth, I am, as Peter the Photographer, going to be at the Strange Root Tavern from eight to eleven, and then on March fourteenth, Forever forty one my cover band will be at the dairy Field.

46:14 Speaker 9: Oh very good.

46:15 Speaker 6: Yeah.

46:15 Speaker 3: So two night back to back?

46:17 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah.

46:18 Speaker 9: Is that tough on your voice or a little bit?

46:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. Luckily with the acoustic stuff, I can kind of I've got a long list of songs that I play, so I can kind of you can kind of carefully craft that so that it doesn't hurt too much. But I think at this point I'm strong enough that a two nighter doesn't completely kill me. Although there is much harder stuff that I do with the cover band. Vocally, Yeah, I can imagine you should come and see that though. It's a great time. The list literally is from We Built this City to Barbie Girl to grunge stuff.

46:57 Speaker 3: I mean, it's all over the map, but it's all fun. Yeah, it's all fun.

47:02 Speaker 9: Yeah. Why is it called Forever forty one?

47:05 Speaker 3: So so there's actually two singers in the band. It's myself and Jess Vaughn.

47:09 Speaker 9: Okay, Oh yes, I'm sorry.

47:12 Speaker 3: She actually asked me to tell you.

47:13 Speaker 9: She said he I'll be damn from Oh my god, I'm blanking on the name. Oh she's gonna kill me me too, Because I've interviewed her a bunch of times over the years in that band, and now I'm blanking on the name.

47:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry Jess, Sorry sorry Jess.

47:30 Speaker 9: It'll it'll come to me when I'm not thinking about it.

47:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, so she sings in the band as well. Okay, now I got lost. I took a left turn and then got lost. Oh forever forty one. Yeah, so there was a store I think it was called Forever twenty one. Yes, and Jess kind of threw it. I think it'd be funny if we did Forever forty one.

47:54 Speaker 9: Yeah.

47:54 Speaker 3: We're not gonna get any older than forty one, that's it. Yeah, And it kind of lends it because if you're forty one, you're gonna know most of the songs that we do.

48:03 Speaker 9: Right, And so.

48:07 Speaker 3: It was a little bit silly, but it was like, yeah, that that works. Yeah, I'll be forever forty one.

48:11 Speaker 17: There you go.

48:12 Speaker 3: That wasn't the worst.

48:13 Speaker 9: No, no, this is a good edge. Is she still in that other band than?

48:18 Speaker 6: Oh?

48:18 Speaker 9: Wait, complex? Something simple, complex a simple complex? Thank you?

48:23 Speaker 5: Yes?

48:24 Speaker 9: Is she still in that band?

48:25 Speaker 6: Oh?

48:25 Speaker 9: Okay? Are they done that?

48:28 Speaker 17: I don't know?

48:28 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, yeah, because she wasn't the original like that, they had a dude and then she joined and really I mean they were really, really a good band.

48:37 Speaker 3: Jess is incredible. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible getting to not only share a stage, but you know, once a week getting together at the jam Space. Yeah, she's she's a great soul. Yeah, she's a great humane, great performer. I'm pretty confident in my abilities, but I don't know why they let me sing after here her. Yeah you know, I say that with with a little humbleness.

49:05 Speaker 9: Yeah, So as how does that work? Do you kind of split up the vocals like she summon? Yep, and we built the city? You probably do together?

49:12 Speaker 6: Yeah?

49:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we have a couple of duets. Can't think of any besides that one off the top of my head. But she's got her songs, and I'll stay back and either play guitar and do backup vocals or just backup vocals and do my best to sing things that maybe other people won't pick up, but she will because she's got her in her in so I can mess with her.

49:31 Speaker 9: Yeah, while she's doing her things. Oh that's funny. That's funny. Well, Jess, hello if you are listening, and yeah, yeah, it's been a it's been a few years since I've seen her, but No, that's very cool. That's very cool. Well, we are we are rapidly running out of time. But Peter, this has been amazing. I love this and let's not let another twenty years go by between interviews.

49:53 Speaker 3: Absolutely not.

49:56 Speaker 9: And as you're you know, as you're releasing new music too, you know, we'd love to we'd love to be the first to play it here. So definitely, where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing. Where's the best place to go?

50:06 Speaker 3: On Facebook? Okay, on Facebook, So if you are in need of some wedding photos or fan photos, you can find me on Facebook, Peter the Photographer LC. If you're looking for my music, it's just Peter the Photographer one word okay. And you know, websites are kind of hard to come by financially right now, so kind of just sticking with Facebook. So find us on there, follow us on there, message me on there.

50:35 Speaker 9: Whatever.

50:36 Speaker 3: YEA love to get out there and start doing some more stuff. And there are other musicians out there that maybe I don't know, that heard the stuff that I was doing and they're like, oh, I'd love to kind of throw a thing on that reach out let me. Yeah, absolute to work with Everyone.

50:51 Speaker 9: And the Ballad of twenty six. I can get that on Facebook.

50:54 Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, yes you I mean so, it's on band camp Peter six or Peter the Boy. So if you go to my Facebook page you'll find the link there. I'll tell you where it is.

51:05 Speaker 9: Perfect.

51:06 Speaker 3: It's two dollars to download. I think with band camp you can listen to it four times per day and then you can't listen to it anymore unless you buy it. I also have an acoustic album that I put out in twenty twenty that is also on band Camp called Days Like That, which is four songs that I've had forever that I just decided to put out because there was nothing else to do in twenty twenty.

51:31 Speaker 9: Games right, Yeah, that's true.

51:32 Speaker 3: That's true, And that one is free, by the way. You just put in zero dollars and you can download it or you can tip me if you want, doesn't you know whatever?

51:41 Speaker 9: Yeah, outstanding. I was thinking too, because you did sound us a couple two I've seen about ending the segment with the fall.

51:47 Speaker 3: Okay, which is a fear of Flying song showed out to Jonesy, Brian Levec and dan Let. Dan Lett, Actually I wrote the guitar part, the main guitar part for the song, and we hadn't really been in connection, but I've always kind of carried that song with me.

52:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a great song.

52:08 Speaker 3: It kind of stands the test of time, it.

52:10 Speaker 9: Does for me. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

52:12 Speaker 3: Appreciate that you're gonna play that one. That's that's pretty cool.

52:14 Speaker 9: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's really good. It's really good. Peter the Photographer again, thank you so much, my friend. All Right, absolutely, and if you are listening live on Saturday stick around. Coming up in just a few minutes, we have Elijah Jenkins from the band moving on. He's gonna be joining us via Microsoft teams from another continent. And then, of course, in the third hour today Charles Richardson of The Charles Richardson Show will be with us. But here it is, this is the fall.

52:40 Speaker 9: Peter the Photographer.

52:56 Speaker 7: Woke up with the woman.

53:00 Speaker 12: Against the US guy just send me down the morning disguise has something just a friendly reminder of how things are supposed to be.

53:14 Speaker 3: Because I lost myself somewhere long to be.

53:21 Speaker 6: Again.

53:33 Speaker 19: Well, I forgot what I was gonna say, but send me to really didn't matter anyway.

53:46 Speaker 7: Are you ever listen? Do you even care? Am I cold.

53:55 Speaker 8: Clear?

53:58 Speaker 7: And no me some I thought that I'm going.

54:01 Speaker 13: Bas and I thought that I'm going.

54:05 Speaker 3: Let you say it to open up.

54:09 Speaker 9: As the past is the past, and it go. It's time to time from the fight tony.

54:20 Speaker 21: Uber of to right, the past is the past, and God wait to we go after the fall, after the fall.

54:51 Speaker 11: The tsuna win this matter. But you don't always be the truth. It's impossible to this far. We know the unit saints sold and there's no words.

55:07 Speaker 19: Than to fill this old that burns sign.

55:16 Speaker 9: We know this time I bathed, I'm going to.

55:20 Speaker 7: Listen my mom, I just said to leave it on me.

55:28 Speaker 7: The past is the past, let it go.

55:33 Speaker 6: Sign to time.

55:36 Speaker 22: From the fine sonner of supride the past is the past, and in goal went to me go after.

55:49 Speaker 6: Value far.

56:06 Speaker 8: When do we come we all for?

56:19 Speaker 9: Don't this time my fault?

56:21 Speaker 6: Did I go.

56:24 Speaker 21: When I just said to leave it on to behind?

56:30 Speaker 7: Had the cast is the past and go time to time from the.

56:38 Speaker 14: Body turn me normous to right.

56:43 Speaker 21: The cast is the cast and endo when to me after fall the firest is past.

56:58 Speaker 7: And woe down down.

57:05 Speaker 21: Down, Let we go when we are followed down.

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