Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-8-25 hour 3
Game Plan
w/Jenn Coffey, Jason Oberstein
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Speaker 9: I like that a lot. All I see Jason Oberstein
Speaker 9: this little extra audio at the end. There I wasn't expected.
Speaker 9: That is uh, that is really cool. We're gonna talk
Speaker 9: with Jason in just a moment. He is here with
Speaker 9: us in studio. Welcome everybody. If you are listening live
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Speaker 9: trace of Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from the
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Speaker 9: New Hampshire. Jenny is here as well, of course at
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Speaker 9: and today is Saturday, February eight, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 9: Oh, it's a big day, Jenny. Before we go any further,
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Speaker 9: Yes, to see you there, looking forward to that. How
Speaker 9: say hi to Matt and I absolutely absolutely and thank
Speaker 9: you of course everyone who's joined us today on the show.
Speaker 9: So far we had in the first hour Rivia all
Speaker 9: the way from Liverpool skyping in and I really enjoyed
Speaker 9: that conversation. And of course in the second hour we
Speaker 9: had Kate Shimkey here along with Aaron and Nick from
Speaker 9: the listening room at Prayers of Nature and Tyler all
Speaker 9: good also and we seriously world premiered his new single,
Speaker 9: his new single All Night Dreams, and he played live
Speaker 9: for us. We put him on the spot, asked him
Speaker 9: to play a second song because he just sounds so good.
Speaker 9: The voice on that guy made us a voodoo doll.
Speaker 9: That's incredible. It's adorable and it makes me smile. Yes, yes,
Speaker 9: but uh, I'm gonna go ahead and bring that mic
Speaker 9: up and we'll bring Jason Oberseein is here with us.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Jason, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11: How's it going good?
Speaker 9: Good, Welcome to the show. Uh really enjoyed that track
Speaker 9: all I see. We were kind of talking off air
Speaker 9: a little bit about I was commenting, how you know
Speaker 9: it not everyone can can do what you do on
Speaker 9: that song, nail in those harmonies and uh, it kind
Speaker 9: of reminded me a little bit of Seay Dan, but
Speaker 9: even more so like Crosby, Stills and Nash. And you
Speaker 9: were saying how hard that is to pull off live?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think our live harmonies and colors weren't the best,
Speaker 11: but you know, we did enough takes and we got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I gotta thank my dad for introducing me to CSN
Speaker 11: senior year of high school. Oh No, get a huge
Speaker 11: influence on me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, any any particular tracks or albums from
Speaker 9: them that that really.
Speaker 11: The one that really caught my attention was carry One
Speaker 11: off of the I think their first album. Yeah, it
Speaker 11: really sounds like the voice of God, just like talking
Speaker 11: to you.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there aren't. I'm trying to think who. I'm trying
Speaker 9: to think of who is even you know, at that
Speaker 9: level of notoriety, who is actually even comparable in terms
Speaker 9: of being able to pull that off? I mean, I
Speaker 9: mean the Beach Boys of course, you know they you know,
Speaker 9: great harmonies there, that's really central to their sound. But
Speaker 9: I'm trying to think who else can can do it
Speaker 9: quite the way? I mean CSN, because not only could
Speaker 9: they do those harmonies, but there was kind of a
Speaker 9: uniqueness I think, Yeah, the.
Speaker 11: Way their voice is blended was yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: I think The Grateful Dead had some of that in
Speaker 11: their studio records, yes, but not really in the same
Speaker 11: way like in their live performance.
Speaker 9: Right right, agreed? Agreed? So that's is that what got
Speaker 9: you started playing music or was that just what got
Speaker 9: you interested in those doing those?
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's what got me interest in the harmonies. Yeah,
Speaker 11: I've been playing music forever since I was ten. I
Speaker 11: started on guitar lessons and you know, started with just
Speaker 11: like Zeppelin and Rush and like classic rock and then
Speaker 11: sort of agree to the more jammy, psychedelic, softer stuff
Speaker 11: in college with Grateful.
Speaker 9: Dead and okay like that. Yeah, Okay, you've you know,
Speaker 9: you set us a bunch of music and you're gonna
Speaker 9: play something live for us today, which we really look
Speaker 9: forward to you. But it looks like you so you've
Speaker 9: you've done a lot of solo material and you've played
Speaker 9: in a lot of bands.
Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, Yeah, I'd say like most of my identity
Speaker 11: through the years has been just like random bands, especially
Speaker 11: when I moved to Boston like three years ago. I'm
Speaker 11: in like four bands at this point, a couple of
Speaker 11: bands that I've dissolved unfortunately. But over this last year
Speaker 11: I've been trying to like do more of my own thing,
Speaker 11: you know, writing and like performing just me and my
Speaker 11: acoustic which is still kind of new to me. But
Speaker 11: I'm you know, trying to get out there more.
Speaker 9: Yeah, when you when you moved to Boston, was it
Speaker 9: for college or no?
Speaker 11: It's right after college, right, Actually college, I moved out
Speaker 11: of Boston to Saint Louis or College. Oh okay, I
Speaker 11: came back for a job. Oh okay, yeah, and then
Speaker 11: I just started playing as much music as I possibly could.
Speaker 9: So you grew up in Boston, you're from there originally, Yeah.
Speaker 11: From like a suburb of Boston, gotcha. I still kind
Speaker 11: of felt new to the city when I moved in.
Speaker 11: Oh I live in Cambridge now, okay yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, great music scene and uh and some great college
Speaker 9: radio stations there too. I don't know if you've been
Speaker 9: playing on college radio there at all, Like, uh, I
Speaker 9: always say, you know. I also I work in I'm
Speaker 9: a radio promoter, so clients hired me to send their
Speaker 9: music to college stations, and I always talk about, uh whatever.
Speaker 9: Anybody asked me, like, what's the best college radio station,
Speaker 9: I would say w r S at Emerson because that's
Speaker 9: I don't know if you've ever listened to w er S,
Speaker 9: But it's like you wouldn't know necessarily that it was
Speaker 9: a college station if you didn't know, because they are
Speaker 9: so professional there and everything they do is perfect. It
Speaker 9: sounds like like a commercial FM radio station in a
Speaker 9: major market. You know, they've they've really uh, they've really
Speaker 9: got it down. But but yeah, such a great, such
Speaker 9: a great music scene in Boston. So that's a that's
Speaker 9: a good place to be, Yeah, for sure. I mean
Speaker 9: you mentioned, you know, being in four different bands at
Speaker 9: one point. I wonder if you know how many other
Speaker 9: cities you could really do that, and you know, Boston
Speaker 9: it seems like it's the perfect place to be able.
Speaker 11: To do that, you know, Yeah, I mean New York
Speaker 11: is a big one of New York.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely a lot.
Speaker 11: Of my music friends are moving to New York, which
Speaker 11: I'm kind of sad about. But yeah, Boston's also really good, I.
Speaker 9: Think absolutely absolutely. Do you go to a lot of
Speaker 9: live shows? Do you go to see a lot of
Speaker 9: other bands.
Speaker 11: Or Yeah, every once in a while I go to
Speaker 11: see some bands. I honestly just happen to see a
Speaker 11: lot through the shows that I play because it's usually
Speaker 11: I'm on a bill with like a couple other bands,
Speaker 11: so I got to like hear a bunch of music
Speaker 11: that way.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, very cool. Now you mentioned so you're more
Speaker 9: focused on the solo stuff at this point.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm still focused on everything, but that's that's sort
Speaker 11: of like the primary thing that's like blossoming in me.
Speaker 11: Right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, is it easier in the sense that you know,
Speaker 9: so I don't play anymore, but I used to play
Speaker 9: in a lot of bands, but I never did anything
Speaker 9: where it was just me, you know, solo. But I've
Speaker 9: always kind of wondered it must be liberating in a
Speaker 9: sense because you don't have to worry about like when
Speaker 9: booking shows, you don't have to worry about anybody else's
Speaker 9: schedule when you're doing a solo thing. And also if
Speaker 9: you're doing a solo acoustic thing, it opens up opportunities
Speaker 9: because you can play almost anywhere. You know, like when
Speaker 9: you're in a band, there's a lot of places you
Speaker 9: can't play. Some places only want a solo acoustic act.
Speaker 9: But you probably, I would imagine, I mean, you can
Speaker 9: book yourself a lot more places doing the solo thing
Speaker 9: than you can with the bands that you play.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's true. I've also found that some places do
Speaker 11: prefer bands, like certain breweries like that big sound.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's more attractive. But you're probably right on the whole. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 11: it's certainly easier, like just deciding on songs and orchestrations,
Speaker 11: like I can just do it all in my head. No,
Speaker 11: there's nothing lost in communication.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 11: The art is like maybe more pure in a way,
Speaker 11: but it's also very limiting, where like I can't really
Speaker 11: take it to that like energy level yea that I
Speaker 11: want it to. Yeah, it's it's a trade off and
Speaker 11: that I'm getting used to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Now, what bands are you? What bands are you
Speaker 9: currently in?
Speaker 11: So the just to list them all off, Yeah, it's
Speaker 11: a Flying Turtle. I'm in a band supporting the singer
Speaker 11: songwriter Jill McCracken. Okay, I'm in a jam band called
Speaker 11: Spoon Drift, and then I just started a new trio
Speaker 11: which is sort of centered around my singer songwriter work,
Speaker 11: which is called The Fourth Story.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, and why are you? Why do you have
Speaker 9: so many projects going? Are you someone who do you
Speaker 9: have to have a lot of different things happening to
Speaker 9: be able to really feel like you're fully expressing yourself.
Speaker 11: Maybe maybe it's like the anxious person and me just
Speaker 11: wanting to do as much as possible and you know,
Speaker 11: not be a lazy person.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 11: It's also just good to like, like all the bands
Speaker 11: are like different in a way, and you know, I
Speaker 11: can express different parts of me and each band, So
Speaker 11: that's important to me. But it's also just like, you know,
Speaker 11: I've been in Boston for three years, and like I
Speaker 11: try to keep the bands going, and then you know,
Speaker 11: I get dragged into other projects and they kind of
Speaker 11: just start accumulating and maybe next year I'll be in
Speaker 11: five or six. Right at a certain point, it's not
Speaker 11: going to work anymore, but.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, I was in three bands at
Speaker 9: one point around here, and that it's it seemed like
Speaker 9: a lot, but it was also you know, it got
Speaker 9: a little tricky in terms of the higherarchy and in
Speaker 9: terms of my own priorities, and you know, sometimes it's
Speaker 9: hard to keep multiple things going when you know, I mean,
Speaker 9: do you find yourself in a position where you have
Speaker 9: to kind of prioritize, like like you have to say,
Speaker 9: notice certain things that maybe one and certain opportunities that
Speaker 9: one band has because another band is so busy, and
Speaker 9: then you end up in kind of that position.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Sure, fortunately not too much. But uh, like a big
Speaker 11: thing is the Summerville Porch Fest, which in the Boston areas,
Speaker 11: like like a big thing. It's like in May, and
Speaker 11: like like all of my bands want to play it.
Speaker 11: Oh really, yeah, they can't do it with all of them,
Speaker 11: right right, Yeah, well.
Speaker 9: You could in theory, right he I mean obviously if
Speaker 9: you're not all playing at the same time.
Speaker 11: I've done that in the past. Especially there's like a
Speaker 11: twelve twelve to two time slot and then the two
Speaker 11: to four time slot, and I'm like, of course I
Speaker 11: can do both of those. Yeah, and there's zero time
Speaker 11: in between them, of course, right right. It gets tricky,
Speaker 11: but yeah, yeah, I do my best.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: What do you find the most satisfying?
Speaker 11: Like, is it the solo stuff or I think right
Speaker 11: now it's the band stuff really, just just because the
Speaker 11: solo stuff is still new, I'm still sort of finding
Speaker 11: my voice and finding my way. Yeah, but yeah, just
Speaker 11: but anytime I'm performing is what I'm passionate about. It's
Speaker 11: what I'm all about. Just like, yeah, controlling the sound
Speaker 11: waves of a room and like people walking into me
Speaker 11: and like it's you know, it's a very like deep
Speaker 11: thing music. I think it's like special. It's like be
Speaker 11: able to control that for someone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely. Do you prefer that to be
Speaker 9: in the studio?
Speaker 11: Yeah, The studio is cool in its own way, but
Speaker 11: it's also like you can get in your own head
Speaker 11: and like doing takes, overtakes and stuff. Yeah, it's there's
Speaker 11: something pure about doing it live. I also love improvisation.
Speaker 11: That's sort of really the best thing about music for me.
Speaker 11: So you sort of like get that more in the
Speaker 11: live setting.
Speaker 9: Yeah, everything that you sent us, all the studio tracks,
Speaker 9: they all sound amazing. Is there how do you record?
Speaker 9: Is there a particular studio that you work with, or
Speaker 9: maybe you do it. I mean we live in an
Speaker 9: era where you know, you can record at home or
Speaker 9: or I imagine various projects maybe record in different ways.
Speaker 11: They're all recorded different ways.
Speaker 9: Really.
Speaker 11: A couple of them we're done at like more professional studios,
Speaker 11: a couple we're done at home. My solo record, Northern
Speaker 11: Rails is like sort of my big project last year.
Speaker 11: I have like a little tiny room in my house
Speaker 11: where I have sound equipment and I did it all there.
Speaker 9: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool that. You know,
Speaker 9: I'm old enough to remember when your your only real
Speaker 9: options were you either go to a studio and spend
Speaker 9: a lot of money, or you know, you could record
Speaker 9: at home with one of those uh those old aasskam
Speaker 9: recorders and you know, but but now you there's so
Speaker 9: many different ways you can do it, and there's so many.
Speaker 9: It's interesting too, because even though you have more options
Speaker 9: than ever, there's still more. There's still tons of recording
Speaker 9: studios too, you know, because some people thought that there
Speaker 9: was a point where recording studios would kind of start
Speaker 9: to go away as people had more ability to record
Speaker 9: at home or like you do with your solo stuff.
Speaker 9: But actually I feel like there's more recording studios than ever.
Speaker 9: And of course in Boston you've got some great I'm
Speaker 9: curious what studios you've been to with your band projects,
Speaker 9: because there's there's some great studios in Boston obviously.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've you know, I'm honestly not sure that the
Speaker 11: one we did with Flying Turtle was like not a
Speaker 11: great studio really like it was pretty good. Yeah, And
Speaker 11: then the one we did with I only went to
Speaker 11: one other professional studio and it was it was like
Speaker 11: not in Boston. We sort of like drove away and
Speaker 11: it was just like it was like a weird situation.
Speaker 11: I'm curious now, Yeah, it was like it used to
Speaker 11: I forget exactly the details, but it used to be
Speaker 11: like a really big studio that they had like really
Speaker 11: big names in there. And then it got converted to
Speaker 11: like office space or something, and then they were like
Speaker 11: revitalizing it, so we got a really cheap rate there
Speaker 11: because they were just starting to like get up and
Speaker 11: running again. But I forget the name of it, so
Speaker 11: I can't really enlighten you.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, Sorry, when you said you drove away, I
Speaker 9: thought maybe you went and looked at it and you
Speaker 9: were like, let's get out.
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, we drove yeah, out of Boston.
Speaker 9: I got, oh, okay, that's what you've met. Okay. I
Speaker 9: thought I thought there was maybe another story there, no
Speaker 9: interesting story. But recording at home though, being able to
Speaker 9: do that with your solo stuff, that must be nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean it was like really like I spent a
Speaker 11: lot of time in there, so it was like kind
Speaker 11: of like blowing my brains out sometimes really yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 11: but I'm really really proud of the end product, and
Speaker 11: you know, I like the experience overall.
Speaker 9: Now that that track, all I see is that from
Speaker 9: Northern Rails.
Speaker 11: No, so that is from my college band Addicts, Okay,
Speaker 11: and that's that's the first album I've ever been a
Speaker 11: part of recording. It was mostly recorded by our bass
Speaker 11: player Cole He had a whole setup in his basement.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, Yeah, Doug Addicts is the name of the band. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: where where does the I mean obviously there's you.
Speaker 2: Know, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: It actually came from a like a band name generator online.
Speaker 11: We like typed some words into it, two of which
Speaker 11: were Doug, which was our lead singer. Oh okay, drug
Speaker 11: because we were into drugs in college, right, and Doug Addicts.
Speaker 11: And it's importantly it's not the Dug Addicts. Oh, just
Speaker 11: Doug Addicts, because we're Doug Addicts and the people that
Speaker 11: come to see us, they're also Doug. Like we're all
Speaker 11: addicted to Doug.
Speaker 9: That makes sense. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 9: That's cool. Now that band is no longer active.
Speaker 11: Yeah that was just for college.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I gotcha. In Northern Rails. Is that a
Speaker 9: full length or is it an EP?
Speaker 4: Or what?
Speaker 11: What's a full length album?
Speaker 9: Whole length album?
Speaker 11: I'm up for it.
Speaker 9: Why the decision to do that, because you know, a
Speaker 9: lot of artists now, especially recently, it seems like in
Speaker 9: the last few years, some artists only release singles or
Speaker 9: they do the waterfall approach where they release singles that
Speaker 9: eventually become an album, which is, you know, the inverse
Speaker 9: of what it used to be where you release an
Speaker 9: the singles. But but yeah, a lot of artists or
Speaker 9: they'll do an EP. But I don't see as many
Speaker 9: full length albums, at least not as much as I
Speaker 9: used to. Why the decision to do a full length yeah,
Speaker 9: for sure.
Speaker 11: Well what happened to me is I moved to Boston
Speaker 11: for a software job.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I was there for about two years, and then at
Speaker 11: a certain point, I just decided to quit because I
Speaker 11: wanted to do more music, and so in my mind,
Speaker 11: like I want it to be as you know, I'm
Speaker 11: kind of like anxious about like being productive and like
Speaker 11: making something of myself. So I'm like, all right, I
Speaker 11: quit my job. I have this time. Now I'm going
Speaker 11: to like stend it. I'm like gonna do like the
Speaker 11: biggest thing I can imagine, which is just like a
Speaker 11: full album. Yeah, that was sort of the decision.
Speaker 9: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's that's a great reason to
Speaker 9: do it. Did you have any help, like or did
Speaker 9: you do it all yourself?
Speaker 11: I did it all myself.
Speaker 9: Kidding.
Speaker 11: That's kind of the stick of the album. Like every
Speaker 11: every sound you hear is recorded in that little room
Speaker 11: or outside somewhere, I suppose, but yeah, it's all me
Speaker 11: and I learned to mix and everything.
Speaker 9: And oh, good for you, good for you. Yeah, so
Speaker 9: you really went for it. That's awesome. Where does the
Speaker 9: name come from? Northern Rails?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I guess the album. The theme of the album
Speaker 11: lyrically is sort of about like a call for adventure,
Speaker 11: and it's vaguely trained themed. There's like little train references.
Speaker 11: And then the title track, which which we have today
Speaker 11: is called Northern Rails.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, well maybe we should uh, maybe we should
Speaker 9: play that one next.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker 9: Has this been played on the radio before once?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Who played it?
Speaker 11: I forget the station? It was in Portsmouth?
Speaker 9: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Probably u W SCS. No, what's I know the station?
Speaker 9: I know the station that probably played it. Is it
Speaker 9: a station that plays a lot of a lot of
Speaker 9: independent artist Yeah? Yeah, I want to say SCS, but
Speaker 9: then I don't think that's right.
Speaker 11: That doesn't sound right to me. But I honestly forget.
Speaker 11: I should remember. I feel bad about it.
Speaker 9: I know the station you mean though, Okay, it's not
Speaker 9: that important, but I was scared I'm always curious anything
Speaker 9: radio related, and very curious about Let's play that. Here's
Speaker 9: what I think we should do. Let's play this. And
Speaker 9: while we're doing that, if you want to grab your guitar,
Speaker 9: and then when we come back from this, if you
Speaker 9: want to play something live for us down here, you
Speaker 9: play live. But uh so this is from and by
Speaker 9: the way, how long has this been out? O?
Speaker 11: Northern Rails released at the end of August.
Speaker 9: Okay, half a year? Okay, oh so relatively new great
Speaker 9: And this is the title track. All right, this is
Speaker 9: Northern Rails. This is Jason over Stein. Check it out.
Speaker 3: When I was younger than I am today, the creature
Speaker 3: told me to ride on out of the station. Started
Speaker 3: off with everything. My mind was so at ease, but
Speaker 3: the clear blue sky obscured the night of the light
Speaker 3: from northern stars on distant trees. So I trained my summer.
Speaker 4: Mine to turn northward.
Speaker 3: At time, mountain rains snow intertwined, get lost in the climb,
Speaker 3: and I train.
Speaker 5: All the time.
Speaker 3: Life didn't pass me by.
Speaker 4: Train and station.
Speaker 5: Train a mile mile.
Speaker 4: In the station.
Speaker 3: The miles are getting longer now, the years are shorter,
Speaker 3: and the echos are getting louder. The winter starts to settle,
Speaker 3: and my branches start to crack, and the fatal pin
Speaker 3: beneath the skin keeps me lost and on the verge
Speaker 3: of turning back. It's still a train my summer mind
Speaker 3: to turn northward of time, mountain rain, snow intertwined, get
Speaker 3: lost in the climb, and a train on the town.
Speaker 5: Life didn't pass me by, uh trip in the station.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll hear a word or two from someone mystic
Speaker 3: that breaks me open and sparks the whole world of light.
Speaker 3: And other times I feel the prickings in my spine
Speaker 3: the roamas of a station I still wander and I've
Speaker 3: kept so carefully.
Speaker 4: Out of mine.
Speaker 5: Hmmm.
Speaker 9: That is the South Battle track at Northern Rails from
Speaker 9: Jason Overseain and I love that. We were kind of
Speaker 9: talking off air about that, and I love that. You know,
Speaker 9: you really hear that CSN harmony, and you hear it
Speaker 9: right up front, you know, coming right out of the gate.
Speaker 9: That's the first thing vocally that you hear. That's so good, dude,
Speaker 9: love that, Love that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks Matt.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Jason's got his guitar and what are you gonna
Speaker 9: play for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I'm gonna play a new tune. I had two new
Speaker 11: ones coming in, and I just five seconds ago picked
Speaker 11: the one I'm gonna plays, called Ultraviolet Maroon. It's the
Speaker 11: most recent one I've written. It's on YouTube, but it's
Speaker 11: not like recorded on Spotify or anything.
Speaker 9: So okay, very good, Jason Oberstein, live in studio.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 3: I am stuck in my ways again, twenty six years
Speaker 3: honed my touch. Wildflowers billow upwards on a bright desert night.
Speaker 3: Yellow maroon sharpens my mind for me. Pale bud breathing turquoise,
Speaker 3: strumming my guitar.
Speaker 5: Hart this yarden.
Speaker 11: I know, deep in my.
Speaker 3: Soul, you.
Speaker 5: Show me more.
Speaker 3: And even when the stems and the petals start to
Speaker 3: bury me down.
Speaker 5: Below, you show me more when you pay that.
Speaker 4: Notes.
Speaker 5: I've never sunk.
Speaker 3: Ultra by the move stray from the sun. I give
Speaker 3: you someone like you show me what's true. I could
Speaker 3: learn a lot from you. I could learn a lot
Speaker 3: from you. Yeah, it's funny how the world goes, just
Speaker 3: as it comes, sacred sand slipping through our toes below us,
Speaker 3: And on this dim desert morning, I shine, sweet sweet
Speaker 3: my noise in my ears again, a deep, deep, violet
Speaker 3: Rose is warming my troubled heart. All these colors they flow,
Speaker 3: but I can't let go. You show me more.
Speaker 5: When you play that too? Oh that too? Not side
Speaker 5: never Sun?
Speaker 4: Won't you buy the maroon.
Speaker 5: Strayed from the Sun when you dance that way?
Speaker 3: The colors calm undone, don't you buy the maroon Shining
Speaker 3: Light the Sun. I'll get you someone like you to
Speaker 3: show me what's true. I could learn a lot from you.
Speaker 3: I could learn a lot from you. Someday I'll comera,
Speaker 3: I'll unlock that door, step inside myself.
Speaker 4: And see that color show. Yes, you show more, Yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Show me more when you play that tune. Note side
Speaker 5: never Sun. Don't you buy the movie stray from the
Speaker 5: Sun when you danced that way? Becaulors come, I'm done.
Speaker 5: Don't you buy the movie Shot a Light the Sun?
Speaker 5: Don't you buy the movie shot a Light the Sun?
Speaker 5: Sad you one like you?
Speaker 3: Show me what's true. I can learn a lot from it.
Speaker 3: I can learn a lot from you.
Speaker 5: Show me mom son, learn a lot from you.
Speaker 4: Show me more.
Speaker 5: Sockn learn a laugh from you. I can learn a
Speaker 5: laugh from learn a laugh on you. When you danced
Speaker 5: that with it sound learn a laugh from you.
Speaker 9: Oh that was so good. I love it. And that's
Speaker 9: brand new. Yeah, brand new. Jason oberseein live in studio
Speaker 9: with us if you are just joining us, said yeah,
Speaker 9: that was so cool. Thank you for playing us awesome, absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 9: really really good. By the way, Judy Finn sent us
Speaker 9: an instant message and says love your sound, Jason see
Speaker 9: thanks absolutely. Also, Bags Ballin is in the chat says
Speaker 9: rock On, great interview. Let's see Rob Dieon. Also in
Speaker 9: the chat room, Rob hosts a show here at w
Speaker 9: m n H through the stage door. So welcome Rob.
Speaker 9: Let's see somebody. Oh, and Rocky Huber is in the
Speaker 9: Facebook live chat. Rocky says, we need to interview Matt Connorton,
Speaker 9: the artist. He has many hits. He's a humble guy.
Speaker 9: I do have many hits. I'm kidding, I have no hits.
Speaker 9: Trust me pretty good. So I think we should from there.
Speaker 9: Why don't we? We'll play another studio track and it'll
Speaker 9: give you a chance to to put your guitar away.
Speaker 9: What should we But I'm gonna let you pick, Jason,
Speaker 9: what should we play next? You've got all these different projects.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's let's do let's switch it up. Let's do something.
Speaker 11: Let's see the one called Through, which is a project
Speaker 11: of mine. It was just like a literally a two
Speaker 11: week project of mine called Tuning the Western Wood.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 11: It was a duo between me and one of my
Speaker 11: oldest friends, Jeremy Oh. We like decided to do this
Speaker 11: little album together. We like locked ourselves in a house
Speaker 11: for like two weeks and then out popped like thirteen
Speaker 11: ish songs.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and this is one of them. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a much lower production quality than so just
Speaker 11: be ready for that.
Speaker 9: I like, well, I like the low fi. I think
Speaker 9: it's kind of cool actually, so yeah, let's check this out. Okay,
Speaker 9: this is Through.
Speaker 11: And what was the name of the project again, Tuning
Speaker 11: the Western Wood.
Speaker 9: Tuning the Western Wood. Check it out.
Speaker 7: Can see, can see thou.
Speaker 4: Can see.
Speaker 3: Far away, flower booms for you, petals curl.
Speaker 4: In the morndo, the love passes through.
Speaker 3: Talk to me, lay me down long, lie to me,
Speaker 3: let your tongue phone, your soft.
Speaker 4: Words stirring true. I can see through. I can see.
Speaker 3: Neath the sun, neath the chido, beneath the wind and
Speaker 3: the mano. The earth sings silent tune otamized through your wind,
Speaker 3: low colors, swirl.
Speaker 4: In the wind flow.
Speaker 6: In your soft gaze, grand blue. Take your veil, O, don.
Speaker 4: Take your smile and it's soft. Let your cool.
Speaker 2: See you.
Speaker 4: Can see, can seeze.
Speaker 9: I like that very much, absolutely, it is. Yeah, that
Speaker 9: is called through from tuning the Western Wood. Did I
Speaker 9: get away?
Speaker 11: Yes, so that name is like I mentioned Jeremy as
Speaker 11: one of my oldest friends.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 11: We grew up together in our hometown of Westwood. Okay,
Speaker 11: so kind of paying homage to that name.
Speaker 9: Oh, I got you, I got youa Westwood? Where is that?
Speaker 11: It's outside of Boston.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I've never even heard of it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it's a small town.
Speaker 9: Okay, very good, very good. If you are just joining us,
Speaker 9: Jason Overstein is here with us live in studio and
Speaker 9: uh yeah, so that's so so obviously so it's the
Speaker 9: two of you, it's it's the two of you on
Speaker 9: vocals and are you both playing guitars? Yeah yeah, And
Speaker 9: it was all done live. Yeah yeah, so the stick
Speaker 9: of that out. That was sort of my first foray
Speaker 9: into music production. And yeah, we still like four mics,
Speaker 9: you know, two for vocals, two for guitars, and then
Speaker 9: a rim mic and then yeah, each song on there
Speaker 9: is like one continuous take, no overdobes or anything.
Speaker 11: Wow, that's kind of the stick.
Speaker 9: When you were they were able to nail them in
Speaker 9: one take. No, most of them are.
Speaker 11: No, I would, but this always happens with recording projects.
Speaker 11: For most of these songs, you know, we spent two
Speaker 11: weeks together. Yeah, and so we were kind of like
Speaker 11: writing orchestrating then recording as we were going. Yeah, most
Speaker 11: of them were recorded on the very last day.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 11: I feel like the more you play them, the better
Speaker 11: they get. And then yeah, I don't know, so I
Speaker 11: feel some musicians like burn out from doing takes on
Speaker 11: takes on takes. Oh yeah, personally, I feel like I
Speaker 11: just get better and yeah, it's always the last take
Speaker 11: for me.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, some musicians will will tell you something different.
Speaker 9: I mean, everybody's different, obviously, but yeah, I've I've heard
Speaker 9: some people say, you know, in the studio, if you're
Speaker 9: doing if there comes a point where you know, you
Speaker 9: get fatigued, if you're doing too many takes, and then
Speaker 9: it you know, it might not be that you're not
Speaker 9: playing as well or not singing as well, but there's
Speaker 9: a point where maybe you feel like you lose a
Speaker 9: little bit of the spontaneity of it that you might
Speaker 9: be looking for. But but yeah, everybody's different. So now
Speaker 9: that's Uh, do you have plans to release anything else
Speaker 9: with him or or was that kind of a one.
Speaker 11: Time plans right now? It was kind of a one
Speaker 11: time thing. But you know, we're still friends, we still
Speaker 11: play together. So yeah, I've been trying to like play
Speaker 11: show with him. Yeah, but he doesn't really perform out much.
Speaker 11: Oh really, Okay, if you're listening, Jeremy, the onus is
Speaker 11: on you. You got to you gotta come to Boston
Speaker 11: and we got to book a show together.
Speaker 9: Yeah, come on, Jeremy, I want to hear that live.
Speaker 9: That's that's really good. Yeah, really really good. Now what
Speaker 9: h So are you playing out a lot now these days?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Sometimes sometimes in winter musicians hybernate, Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Uh yeah. I mean I have like all my projects,
Speaker 11: and I feel like each project plays like once a month,
Speaker 11: twice a month, and so for me, it ends up
Speaker 11: being like an average of I like my schedule right
Speaker 11: now is like an average of once a week for
Speaker 11: the next couple of months, which is pretty good for me.
Speaker 11: I'd like to play. I want to play as much
Speaker 11: as possible, So yeah, I'm trying to book more. But
Speaker 11: that's sort of how it is right now.
Speaker 9: Summer must be very busy for you because that's kind
Speaker 9: of everyone's busiest time as far as it's busy.
Speaker 11: But also like some people are like out of town
Speaker 11: on trips and stuff, so maybe it's harder to coordinate
Speaker 11: with the bands. Yeah, yeah, there's a trade off there.
Speaker 9: But yeah, that's true. Now, are you playing anywhere this
Speaker 9: weekend that we should mention?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so so two things. So the big thing for
Speaker 11: me is I don't play too many like solo shows.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to play more. But I actually have one
Speaker 11: coming up this week. It's on Thursday. It's in Melrose.
Speaker 11: They're sort of doing this like in or porch fist
Speaker 11: kind of thing. Oh okay, Yeah, it's this community center
Speaker 11: called Follow Your Art and yeah, I'm playing like an
Speaker 11: hour long set there.
Speaker 9: Cool.
Speaker 11: You can find tickets on my website, just like Jason
Speaker 11: Oberstein dot com. Yeah, and then if you can't make
Speaker 11: it out to that tonight, I'm playing with the Jill
Speaker 11: McCracken project and that's going to be at the Middle
Speaker 11: East and uh, right in Central Square in game.
Speaker 9: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 11: That's somebody I've heard of, Jill McCracken.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I'm not not too familiar. Yeah.
Speaker 11: That radio station we mentioned.
Speaker 9: Earlier, that oh w W s c A inports.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was introduced to them because Jill. I was
Speaker 11: there with Jill McCracken playing a set. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 11: so maybe maybe you heard it there.
Speaker 9: Probably Yeah, yeah that makes sense. Well, by the way, too,
Speaker 9: I was looking at your website. So you also give
Speaker 9: a guitar lesson I do. Yeah, we should, Yeah, we
Speaker 9: should plug that if people people want less Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Do you uh, do you work with a wide range
Speaker 9: of students like you work with because a lot of
Speaker 9: a lot of good teachers I've met, you know, some
Speaker 9: only work with with beginners, and some work with people
Speaker 9: who are more advanced but just want to kind of
Speaker 9: you know, obviously, you know a lot of guitar players
Speaker 9: they hit a certain level and then they get stuck
Speaker 9: and they want to advance more, but maybe they get stuck.
Speaker 9: I mean, do you work with a range of Yeah.
Speaker 11: I definitely work with a range of people. I'd say,
Speaker 11: like my most like My most common student is like
Speaker 11: an adult who's a beginner. Yeah, but I also work
Speaker 11: with kids. I work with like older folks and yeah,
Speaker 11: all levels.
Speaker 9: Yeah he me.
Speaker 11: Uh you can like visit my website, shoot me an
Speaker 11: email which is on my website.
Speaker 9: Yeah anything, Yeah, Jason oversetin dot com. What I took
Speaker 9: lessons When I was a kid, I started out on guitar,
Speaker 9: but then I ended up switching to bass because unfortunately,
Speaker 9: and it frustrates me about myself, but growing up, I
Speaker 9: was one of those kind of lazy kids who if
Speaker 9: I wasn't good at something quickly enough, I would give
Speaker 9: up on it and just move on to another thing.
Speaker 11: I'm kind of like that, honestly.
Speaker 9: Really, you don't seem like it, you see, you seem
Speaker 9: pretty pretty motivated.
Speaker 11: I'm motivated with the things I'm already getting.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, fair fair enough. But uh yeah, So I
Speaker 9: wasn't progressing fast enough on guitar, so I got frustrated
Speaker 9: and I sort of gave up. And then in high
Speaker 9: school I picked up a bass and it was and
Speaker 9: I know bass players hate when I say this, but
Speaker 9: it was this was my experience. I'm just being honest.
Speaker 9: I picked up a bass and I seem to have
Speaker 9: a feel for it pretty quickly. And I remember thinking
Speaker 9: to less strings and I don't have to know any chords.
Speaker 9: I think I found my instrument, and it turned out
Speaker 9: I did because I you know, I went on to
Speaker 9: play in a bunch of bands and whatnot. But but
Speaker 9: that was kind of my experience with it. Like I
Speaker 9: I really struggled with theory and and uh, never really
Speaker 9: did learn theory correctly. Fortunately, I have a good ear,
Speaker 9: so I can, you know, like on the bass, I
Speaker 9: can figure out a bassline and play it. But but yeah,
Speaker 9: that was that was my experience with it. But I
Speaker 9: did take I did take lessons from some good people.
Speaker 9: But but that's that's cool though that Uh, like, like,
Speaker 9: how many students are you working with at any one time?
Speaker 11: Yeah, right now I have like six or seven excellent.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to expand to about like ten to twelve
Speaker 11: I think would be a good number.
Speaker 9: Good good, yeah, good for you. Do you do you
Speaker 9: work at uh, do you give lessons at a music
Speaker 9: shop or do.
Speaker 13: You do that?
Speaker 9: St right?
Speaker 11: Well, So some people come to me just like my
Speaker 11: living room, and then I go to some people sort
Speaker 11: of depending on the location.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Oh that's really cool. Yeah, good for you. Good
Speaker 9: for you. Geez. Do you ever think about working at
Speaker 9: Berkeley or something?
Speaker 11: No, No, I don't know if I'm qualified.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you might be. I don't know. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 9: we are approaching the top of the hour and I
Speaker 9: want to make sure we get one more studio track in.
Speaker 9: But where is the best place for people to go online?
Speaker 9: Jasonoverstin dot com.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so that's my way. I'd say the probably the
Speaker 11: number one place is Instagram Jason dot Overstein, okay, on Instagram,
Speaker 11: and then yeah, number two is Jasonoverstein dot com. And
Speaker 11: from the website you can see my instagram. My YouTube
Speaker 11: is linked there. But yeah, but that's pretty much it.
Speaker 11: It's like my Instagram and you know, you can find
Speaker 11: me on Spotify just type in my name Jason Overstein.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, excellent. Man, Uh, what should we close out the
Speaker 9: segment with. I'll let you pick again.
Speaker 11: Oh, man, just just one more.
Speaker 9: Well I might be able to fit to and actually
Speaker 9: go ahead and pick two.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's do the paper cup party.
Speaker 9: Paper cup party, okay.
Speaker 11: And then followed by Blue Mark Blues.
Speaker 9: Blue Mark Blues. Okay, so we will I'm gonna cue
Speaker 9: those up. And while I'm doing that, Jenny, we should
Speaker 9: remind everybody what we're doing.
Speaker 10: Later, we will be at the Mosaic Aren't Collective for
Speaker 10: the opening of the Illusions.
Speaker 9: Yeestion collection.
Speaker 10: Join us tonight from four to eight pm at the
Speaker 10: Daily Mirror building at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweep two
Speaker 10: one here in the Queens City for the Mosaic are
Speaker 10: Collective Illusions and Exploration and Optical Illusions, Anamorphic Surrealism, black
Speaker 10: Lights and three dr Yes and for more on me
Speaker 10: go to Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 4: J E N N co O F F E y
Speaker 4: dot com.
Speaker 9: Yes, Yes, looking forward to that and congratulations again and
Speaker 9: having one of your pieces chosen for that. Very proud Yes,
Speaker 9: Mosaic Art Collective, and thank you everyone who joined us today.
Speaker 9: Of course Rivia in the first hour and then in
Speaker 9: the second hour we had Kate Shimkey along with Aaron
Speaker 9: and Nick and Tyler all Good was here with us
Speaker 9: and Jason. Thank you again man, you sound incredible. Thank
Speaker 9: you for playing live for us. That was amazing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 9: Absolutely absolutely, it's wonderful. We will do this again in
Speaker 9: the future. You're a busy guy, so I have no
Speaker 9: doubt you'll have things to talk about in the future
Speaker 9: as well. So, so this has been great and we'll
Speaker 9: we'll close out with now paper Cup party?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 9: Uh one of the Which band is that?
Speaker 11: Yeah? So this is the Flying Turtle Band. This is
Speaker 11: my first Boston.
Speaker 9: Band, your first Boston band, Okay.
Speaker 11: So it's like a danceable jam band. And I didn't
Speaker 11: write this song, but it was written by our awesome
Speaker 11: bass player, Okay, but it is a lot of nice
Speaker 11: lead guitar on it.
Speaker 9: Okay, very cool. So we're gonna spin that and I'm
Speaker 9: gonna try to fit in Blue Mark Blues too. And
Speaker 9: which band is that?
Speaker 11: That's from Northern Rails. That's like a crowd favorite of mine. Oh,
Speaker 11: very cool, feel like I had to play that on
Speaker 11: the radio.
Speaker 9: Very cool. All right, So we're gonna spin and if
Speaker 9: you missed any part of today's show, and we'll be
Speaker 9: up in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot org,
Speaker 9: a at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And that's
Speaker 9: gonna do it for us for now. We will talk
Speaker 9: to you a little bit later. Bye everybody.
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