Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 3-29-25 hour 3
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Speaker 9: John, That is the Comets tale. The band is questing
Speaker 9: Beast and we have Jane and Shane here with us
Speaker 9: live in studio on this Saturday morning. Welcome everybody. We
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Speaker 9: New Hampshire, where it is apparently snowing outside right now
Speaker 9: on this day, March twenty nine, twenty twenty five. I
Speaker 9: was not expecting that were you. No, no, did you
Speaker 9: actually turn my microphone on? It's on, it's on, Yes,
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Speaker 9: Our birdcam you can birdcam there. They're probably somewhere, probably
Speaker 9: probably probably heading south going up. Well we came back.
Speaker 3: Too soon, premature, yeah, migration, yes, yes.
Speaker 9: I'm sure. I'm sure it is confusing to them. But yeah,
Speaker 9: so so here we are, of course on this Saturday,
Speaker 9: and we have Jane and Shane with us from Questing
Speaker 9: Beasts by the way, So I love that track. The
Speaker 9: Comets Tail definitely gets the blood pumping. And as I
Speaker 9: like to say, if that didn't get your blood pumping
Speaker 9: on a Saturday morning, check your pulse, you might be dead.
Speaker 9: But good stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a fun, fun intro song.
Speaker 7: Gets our blood pumping pretty much every time we play.
Speaker 9: Yeah, do you play that to open the show or yeah?
Speaker 3: Generally you do?
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, very good. Now when we had you on
Speaker 9: the last time, so what how how long ago it
Speaker 9: becomes a blur to me? Yeah, it was, I mean
Speaker 9: it wasn't a year ago, right.
Speaker 3: Or no, it would have been right before the Halloween show, right,
Speaker 3: so October ish, not that long Yeah, yeah, not crazy
Speaker 3: long ago, but long enough that it feels relatively significant.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So what's been going on since the last time we
Speaker 9: had John? I know, I know, you've got a big
Speaker 9: show coming up tomorrow for those listening live of course
Speaker 9: at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely sure. So yeah, yeah, so we're getting back
Speaker 3: into playing playing out again. You know, last time we
Speaker 3: were here, we're talking about how we kind of went
Speaker 3: into hibernation for the winter. We totally did that. It
Speaker 3: was great and we're out better than ever, ready to
Speaker 3: start playing more gigs again.
Speaker 9: Excellent And what so what were you doing during that
Speaker 9: hibernation period? I mean, were you did you take a
Speaker 9: break from the band, or were you writing and recording
Speaker 9: or what was what was going on?
Speaker 3: We're doing a lot of writing, and also we're planning
Speaker 3: for our upcoming first ever tour that April twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: We're basically going on a quick week long run down
Speaker 3: to Baltimore and back up.
Speaker 9: Congratulations on that. That's awesome, thanks, Yeah, very cool, exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been great. H our buddy who's playing bass
Speaker 3: for us now, Dan se Lance. He helped us book
Speaker 3: a out of these gigs, and he's also stepping into
Speaker 3: the live role of playing bass for us, which is
Speaker 3: awesome and because those are some pretty big shoes to fill,
Speaker 3: you know, the guy that we had record for us,
Speaker 3: Chase Brian's absolute monster. So for Dan to come in
Speaker 3: and be able to pick it up has been really great.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Is uh the track that we just heard, which
Speaker 9: is from what's the name of the album again, because
Speaker 9: you guys have a whole u birth that's right, That's right?
Speaker 9: Is that so that's what the previous bass player?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 9: Or or is y?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, all the recordings were done with Chase Bryant okay,
Speaker 7: Ye Bryant okay, and then he so he so you
Speaker 7: recorded with you, but was not in a position to like,
Speaker 7: was he ever? Was he ever officially in the band?
Speaker 3: Or was he just basically a hired gun? Yeah? I
Speaker 3: mean he lives he lives in la He plays in
Speaker 3: a band called war war Bringer.
Speaker 7: But I heard, yeah, he's a he's a busy guy.
Speaker 9: He's not just in that.
Speaker 7: He's playing with a few other bands. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I we follow him on social media, Like he's on
Speaker 7: tour with war Bringer right now, I think.
Speaker 3: Every but he's got like eight other projects out there, yeah,
Speaker 3: my favorite of which being Father Daddy Blues Band, No kidding, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 9: How did you How did you come to work with
Speaker 9: him him being as busy as he is. How did
Speaker 9: that come about?
Speaker 3: We were essentially just kind of racking our brains, like
Speaker 3: trying to find somebody local, and we got sick of
Speaker 3: doing it, and we're like, I bet we could find
Speaker 3: somebody else for money. And I was like, this guy
Speaker 3: is a perfect example of what I want the bass
Speaker 3: playing to sound like. And so I just hit him
Speaker 3: up on Instagram and we started talking. Yeah, and he
Speaker 3: had me send him to the demos and he was
Speaker 3: a fan of the demos, and uh yeah, we were
Speaker 3: able to work something out.
Speaker 9: When when you first contacted him, was it kind of like, uh, well,
Speaker 9: I don't know, I don't know if he's if he's
Speaker 9: gonna have time or be interested, but I'm going to
Speaker 9: give it a shot and then it works.
Speaker 3: Out or oh yeah, absolutely total shot in the dark.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't expect anything of to come
Speaker 3: from anything, especially like you know, just messaging people on Instagram.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's like you just throwing stuff out into the ether
Speaker 3: and hoping you get something back. Yeah yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 3: so for it to come back around it's nice. You know,
Speaker 3: every once in a while it does.
Speaker 9: You never know, it's always it's always worth a try
Speaker 9: because you never know. And it worked out phenomenally well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, basic playing came out awesome. He reported his
Speaker 3: parts in like two days, no kidding, Oh yeah, incredible.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 7: You throw it out there, you don't know what's going
Speaker 7: to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, absolutely.
Speaker 9: So, so what was that a matter of just kind
Speaker 9: of sending the tracks back and forth.
Speaker 3: And essentially yeah, I mean, dudes were pro so. I
Speaker 3: mean he pretty much had everything under his fingers by
Speaker 3: the time he came out here, which is convenient because
Speaker 3: we only had like, you know, eighteen hours between when
Speaker 3: he came out here and played with us for the
Speaker 3: first time and when he needed to get in the studio.
Speaker 9: Okay, wow, yeah it was.
Speaker 7: It was a good time.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's fantastic. That's fantastic. So the uh so,
Speaker 9: the new what's his name again, the new new bass
Speaker 9: player or the current bass.
Speaker 3: Player Dan Selan. He plays in Ice Giant, he plays
Speaker 3: in Annilist Monday, he plays in Perennial Quest. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: plays in other bands too. There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 9: I've heard of Ice Giant. Yeah, so he's so well,
Speaker 9: so he's also a busy guy. But yeah, but geographically
Speaker 9: he's available.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the nice thing is he seems to be I
Speaker 7: don't know if this is just like a point of pride,
Speaker 7: but he seems to be really enjoying conquering the music
Speaker 7: and learning the parts, you know what I mean. He's
Speaker 7: like posting himself working through some of it on his
Speaker 7: Instagram stories like that, and it made me feel pretty
Speaker 7: pretty awesome. Yeah, just because you know, we play the
Speaker 7: music all the time. For somebody else to try it
Speaker 7: out and get fulfillment out of trying to learn it
Speaker 7: made me like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Well that's yeah, I mean, that's that's tremendous validation, right,
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, obviously you get the validation if
Speaker 9: you play it for other people, if you play it
Speaker 9: live and people react positively to it, you know, that's
Speaker 9: that's fantastic, right, But to also get that validation of
Speaker 9: somebody wants to learn the songs and really commits, you know,
Speaker 9: commits to learning them. I mean, that's that's fantastic. That's
Speaker 9: that's great. How long has he been in the band nowand.
Speaker 3: He just played his first gig with us on Saturday?
Speaker 3: So if you've done we've done like three practices with
Speaker 3: him or something.
Speaker 9: Oh, so he's very new.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's a pretty new development as far as
Speaker 3: our live show goes and everything.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we were talking to him for a while
Speaker 3: because of the whole tour situation and everything, but so
Speaker 3: like it was gonna happen eventually. But yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 3: he's really been doing a great job I think. So.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Now for the tour, are you is
Speaker 9: there another band or other bands that you've teamed up
Speaker 9: with for the tour or you know, because there's different
Speaker 9: ways to approach it, right you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So our main tour mates are a band called
Speaker 3: Moon Tomb from Rhode Island.
Speaker 9: Mood Moon Toom. Yeah that's a cool name.
Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah, they're cool guys. We picked them
Speaker 3: because they're such pals that you know, we couldn't we
Speaker 3: couldn't have thought of like a better three dudes to
Speaker 3: go out on the road with nice and so we
Speaker 3: hit them up and they were super open to it
Speaker 3: and everything. And there's I think a total of like
Speaker 3: twenty something different local bands. Because one of the shows
Speaker 3: is a is a festival. Oh really, Yeah, the New
Speaker 3: York show is a it's the Long Island Doom Festival,
Speaker 3: Okay at mister Berry's, which so that kind of ups
Speaker 3: those numbers a bunch. But so we're super excited to
Speaker 3: go out and beat a bunch of these bands. Yeah,
Speaker 3: some of these cool shows are gonna be in some
Speaker 3: really cool places too, so yeah, it would be a
Speaker 3: good time.
Speaker 9: How many dates are you playing?
Speaker 3: Seven dates in eight days?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 3: Okay, so we get a nice day off in the middle,
Speaker 3: we might go to Hershey Park hit some roller coasters.
Speaker 9: Who nice? You should Yes, you definitely should have.
Speaker 3: We've been talking about it.
Speaker 7: I'm feeling up to it. I don't know, I haven't
Speaker 7: been to a theme parking a long time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I haven't either.
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we went to Hershey Park
Speaker 3: for like the eighth grade DC trip and the park
Speaker 3: itself was closed down, but I always wanted to go
Speaker 3: and hit those roller coasters. But I did get a
Speaker 3: five pound chocolate bar while I was there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, five pound chocolate bar. Ooh, that sounds like a
Speaker 9: lot of It was a lot of work. It's a
Speaker 9: lot of chocolate. But the roller coasters. I love roller coasters.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's my favorite type of ride. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: the stuff those ones that are like just like the
Speaker 3: big post where you sit on you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: and it goes like all the way up. I'm not
Speaker 3: a fan of that type of stuff, but on any
Speaker 3: roller coaster.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, me too, Me too. When I was a kid,
Speaker 9: I remember being terrified of going on one that went
Speaker 9: up down until I until I did it, and it
Speaker 9: happened so quick that you know, you don't even know
Speaker 9: your upside.
Speaker 3: After what I mean.
Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, no, I love I love roller coasters. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so you should definitely do that. And are you Are
Speaker 9: you playing the same set every night as far as
Speaker 9: you know, or your time is going to kind of
Speaker 9: vary where you have to kind of work with it.
Speaker 3: Some of the shows are four band bills and some
Speaker 3: of them are five band bills, so we'll be able
Speaker 3: to get an extra song or two on the shorter bills. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean we've only got the one record. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're not unveiling any of that new material until the
Speaker 3: time is right. Uh, pretty much will be songs from
Speaker 3: the first record in various orders.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, but you have so you do have
Speaker 9: new material you're working on.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yeah, pretty much. We took
Speaker 3: so between when we finished writing the first record and
Speaker 3: when we finished recording it, which was about I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe nine month period, we were just working on really
Speaker 3: hammering those songs down, and so we didn't write anything
Speaker 3: during that time. So it was kind of like this
Speaker 3: big there's like a big rush of like creativity when
Speaker 3: we you know, played the final note in the studio
Speaker 3: and we went home and we're like, what do we
Speaker 3: do now? Yeah, we've been working pretty hard and I'm
Speaker 3: really excited about the new stuff.
Speaker 9: Excellent. Is it in the same vein? Is it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: It's definitely similar style, for sure, but I think we
Speaker 7: delved even farther into each kind of individual element that
Speaker 7: we're bringing to it, So it's kind of, you know,
Speaker 7: even more thematic. Even more, we spent even more time
Speaker 7: paying attention to the different you know, flares and genres
Speaker 7: and influences you know what I mean. So there's a
Speaker 7: lot of variety, Like there's a lot of variety in
Speaker 7: the first record, but what we're working on is kind
Speaker 7: of expanding upon each little bit of that variety, I think,
Speaker 7: and so each song kind of feels pretty unique, but
Speaker 7: also there's a pretty substantial common thread between all of it,
Speaker 7: which is something on the first record too. So yeah,
Speaker 7: it's been pretty cool. We're not we're kind of throwing
Speaker 7: caution to the wind for a few things, and we're
Speaker 7: just kind of trying whatever we want to do. There's
Speaker 7: some pretty funny ideas that we've just totally ran with.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's like it's like our sound two point zero.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's basically it's a huge expansion on the first record.
Speaker 3: I think it's it's basically everything we did, but we
Speaker 3: went in every direction a little bit further.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't know, it's exciting.
Speaker 9: Is a thematically similar in terms of lyrics.
Speaker 3: Or we're not done the lyrics yet, so it's okay,
Speaker 3: So the music comes first, right, Yeah, Yeah, So I
Speaker 3: mean we kind of have like a storyline and then
Speaker 3: we build the music off of the storyline. Okay, and
Speaker 3: then the lyrics are kind of like the very final thread. Okay,
Speaker 3: I think so it's like that's like really the last
Speaker 3: eyes to dot in the tease to cross or okay lyrics.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, cool, cool. Obviously we talked about it the
Speaker 9: last time you were here. But does birth have a
Speaker 9: is there a story to it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Or a particular theme? Well, I know there's a theme,
Speaker 9: but I couldn't remember how how defined the actual story
Speaker 9: was or if it was kind of more just a
Speaker 9: loose concept.
Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of both actually, right, So it's
Speaker 3: very defined to us, like we know the storyline. It's
Speaker 3: like this very defined thing, but we purposefully at this
Speaker 3: point like like the lyrics are kind of esoteric, right,
Speaker 3: because like you can go really far in the direction
Speaker 3: of like wanting to write a good story, but after
Speaker 3: a certain point you're taking away from like the quality
Speaker 3: of the song, right, Like we don't need a billion
Speaker 3: details about like a guy's armor as he's coming up
Speaker 3: over the crest of the hill, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like you just filled up half of your verse describing
Speaker 3: this and so like and what I wanted to do
Speaker 3: or what we wanted to do is kind of have
Speaker 3: it be a more like personalized thing, right where anybody
Speaker 3: can go in and like read the lyrics and try
Speaker 3: and derive like what the legitimate story is. But it's
Speaker 3: more important, I think, from my perspective, for people to
Speaker 3: be able to derive their own meaning from it, Okay, Right, So,
Speaker 3: like I would really like to, at one point or
Speaker 3: another figure out how to do a comic book to
Speaker 3: like tell the legitimate story like straight up, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. But I also don't want to like
Speaker 3: go to people who have maybe derived their own meaning
Speaker 3: from the songs and be like, you're wrong, this is
Speaker 3: what it means, you know what I mean, because it's
Speaker 3: like that's kind of a slap in the face, and
Speaker 3: like I wouldn't I feel like you're whatever your meaning ism.
Speaker 9: Which is how it's supposed to be, right with music
Speaker 9: or with any kind of art. Really, it's what you
Speaker 9: we might have talked I've talked about this with a
Speaker 9: few people on the show. We might have talked about
Speaker 9: this before, but I know that I've experienced that where
Speaker 9: it's kind of like, you know, a song means something
Speaker 9: to you, and then you read an interview with the
Speaker 9: person who wrote the lyrics and they talk about what
Speaker 9: it means and you kind of go, oh, that's different
Speaker 9: than what it meant to me, And then there's that
Speaker 9: weirdness of oh, now I kind of feel differently about it,
Speaker 9: you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I think for our music specifically, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I think that would be a pretty funny instance because
Speaker 7: it's so specific. So you know, there's so much left
Speaker 7: to interpretation in the lyrics that if and when, you know,
Speaker 7: inevitably we do have a concrete representation of what the
Speaker 7: whole story is. You know, We've said it before. This
Speaker 7: was part one of a concept of a few albums
Speaker 7: that we're planning on releasing recently.
Speaker 3: Won't make a trilogy, Yeah, we want.
Speaker 7: To make a trilogy, and so you know we're working
Speaker 7: on installment two of that. So it's expanding upon, uh,
Speaker 7: this storytelling universe, you know what I mean. So it
Speaker 7: would be pretty funny for us to just drop all
Speaker 7: that information and have people, you know, kind of learn
Speaker 7: what it is. I think I'm gonna speak a little
Speaker 7: bit on lyrically for the first album, there's some very
Speaker 7: literal world building. So the song we just listened to,
Speaker 7: there's some very literal, you know, pre you know, description
Speaker 7: of what's going on some exposition, Yeah, exposition exactly, And
Speaker 7: it's not really up for interpretation when you sit down
Speaker 7: and read it, you know what I mean, It basically
Speaker 7: tells you, you know, what's going to happen. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: then you know all the other things beyond that, when
Speaker 7: we're singing about emotions and you know, things happening, it's
Speaker 7: it's all pretty up for interpretation. And I think we
Speaker 7: want to make music that is true to what we're
Speaker 7: trying to do story wise, and then also is up
Speaker 7: for interpretation and receivable to someone who knows nothing about
Speaker 7: the story as much as possible. And I think we've
Speaker 7: tried to dive into that even more so, Okay, on
Speaker 7: our current writing lyrically anyway.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, that's very cool. I look forward to, uh,
Speaker 9: you know when eventually, I mean you probably at this point,
Speaker 9: do you have any kind of an eta on when
Speaker 9: when you might start recording the next one?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, I don't know, like a year or I
Speaker 3: don't know, one hundred years, somewhere between those two.
Speaker 9: Somewhere somewhere between one and one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wish I could have that crystal Ball.
Speaker 3: But you never know what's going to happen, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean we it took forever to get the first one,
Speaker 3: and I think we've got a more streamlined process at
Speaker 3: this point, but yeah, you know, anything could happen.
Speaker 9: So but so, but you both talked about a trilogy.
Speaker 9: Does that mean that you've already got the you've got
Speaker 9: the whole story mapped out already, or.
Speaker 3: Like big story points that we want to hit mapped out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But I mean it's it's cool to leave like certain
Speaker 3: things open, right because like, for example, on the first record,
Speaker 3: we had finished the record, I just did air quotes
Speaker 3: for anybody listening, Yeah, and we had like six songs,
Speaker 3: and I was like, it doesn't feel right, you know,
Speaker 3: And so I was like, we got to write two
Speaker 3: more songs, and we ended up doing Beneath Red Leaves
Speaker 3: and Titans Grip, which have ended up being two of
Speaker 3: the most popular questioning beat songs at this point, and
Speaker 3: nobody else wanted to write them. But I was like,
Speaker 3: look the story, we can add some more detail else
Speaker 3: into the story, and these riffs rule, I don't see
Speaker 3: why anybody could be opposed to it. And then everybody
Speaker 3: was mad when we were recording them, and so it
Speaker 3: came out awesome.
Speaker 7: Mostly me, I was mostly angry in doing it.
Speaker 9: I don't know why.
Speaker 7: I was just like, all right, well you want some
Speaker 7: more guitar, you're gonna get it. Yeah, And it came
Speaker 7: out with a good So you were able to channel
Speaker 7: that anger, yeah a little bit. Yeah, it feels feels
Speaker 7: really epic. Titans Script is actually our current most stream
Speaker 7: song on Spotify. We passed like four thousand streams today,
Speaker 7: I think, which cool.
Speaker 9: Congratulations. Yeah, that's great, interesting metric, but but no, it
Speaker 9: matters though. Those metrics do matter. No, that's very cool,
Speaker 9: very cool. Do you have anything that you play currently
Speaker 9: that's not on this first album when you play live
Speaker 9: or no.
Speaker 3: No, we've talked about doing some covers and stuff, which
Speaker 3: is now a lot more of possibility that we've got
Speaker 3: Dan in the live setup because we were just playing
Speaker 3: to like recorded bass tracks before, you know, from the record,
Speaker 3: and so opportunities for that are kind of more available now.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I'd be down to explore that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff for sure, But for the most part, were
Speaker 3: just playing stuff from the record and trying to promote
Speaker 3: that we've got a ton of vinyl that we need
Speaker 3: to get rid of. So what do you mean, oh,
Speaker 3: just like vinyl records.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to play the songs that are on
Speaker 3: the on the record for people to try and entice
Speaker 3: them into buying it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 7: I got many copies that we have.
Speaker 9: You could be so we have less of them. Was
Speaker 9: that hard playing with with bass tracks live? Was that challenging?
Speaker 3: H I mean the process of like setting up the
Speaker 3: ableton session and everything was and that's why I had
Speaker 3: Jane do it. And uh but uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: once it's all been set up, it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: You know, a drummer is kind of a machine. Okay,
Speaker 3: so having him played to a metronome is pretty easy.
Speaker 3: As far as getting everybody else locked.
Speaker 9: In, it wasn't It wasn't weird for him, or maybe
Speaker 9: or maybe it was, but he adapted.
Speaker 3: He adapted pretty well. I don't think that there was
Speaker 3: like a huge problem for him. You know, each each
Speaker 3: song has kind of its own counting and everything. I
Speaker 3: think that was the only like learning curve.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 7: He's he kind of takes most things in stride. If
Speaker 7: I'm going to be honest, we threw a lot at him, really. Yeah,
Speaker 7: We're like, hey, you gotta.
Speaker 3: Do this, this and this, and he's got a hard job.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's got one of the hardest jobs in the
Speaker 7: house for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's back there singing too. Oh he is, okay, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: some backup vocals there.
Speaker 9: That always impresses me. Your drummers who can sing while
Speaker 9: they play, you know, because drums is the most you know,
Speaker 9: you're using all four of your looms. It's the most physical. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he's doing like harmonies, like the chorus harmonies on
Speaker 3: like tip scrip and stuff.
Speaker 9: That's great.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, he's He's crazy.
Speaker 7: Watching him do it too. I Mean, there's a there's
Speaker 7: one part I think it's in the second course of
Speaker 7: Titans Grip where I'm looking at him when we're in practice,
Speaker 7: I'll just be looking at him. He's leaned over, you know,
Speaker 7: to the mic to try to sing, and the arms
Speaker 7: are going and he's playing so much complex stuff on
Speaker 7: the drums and he's just keeping his head here, yeah,
Speaker 7: and nailing the note too, and then he just finishes
Speaker 7: and looks at the rest of us. Pretty much every time.
Speaker 7: Then he knows well we'll look at him and just
Speaker 7: give him an affirming nod of yeah, that was on,
Speaker 7: and he just always goes, you know, some iteration of like,
Speaker 7: you know, lips out, like you know, heck.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Very cool. Oh, by the way, you're getting some love
Speaker 9: in the chat room here, Bradley Hurley says, can't say
Speaker 9: enough great things about this band. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 9: of this band. And Jane Oh shouts out Bradley, what's up.
Speaker 9: Very very nice, thank you for chiming in there, Bradley, excellent.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Bradley.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, oh, we were talking. We had an interesting
Speaker 9: conversation off here two about lyrics, circling back to lyrics
Speaker 9: for a moment because you know, I was commenting now
Speaker 9: it's it's nice when I you know, I don't mind
Speaker 9: making radio edits for our guests, but it's nice when
Speaker 9: I don't have to and I never have to make
Speaker 9: any radio edits requesting beasts, which is nice.
Speaker 3: Because we don't hit the swearing. Yeah, what's interesting about this.
Speaker 3: I think that's a very like conscious decision on our part,
Speaker 3: because it's like, I don't know, you can throw a
Speaker 3: ton of swears into a song if you want to. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like I don't know, personally, it's like a very weak
Speaker 3: creative decision. I mean there's so many words, you know
Speaker 3: that like I don't know, choosing to swear for like
Speaker 3: edginess sake is like kind of weak to me. And
Speaker 3: what's funny is that I that idea kind of came
Speaker 3: from with Corey uh, what's his name, Slipknot Corey Taylor, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he made that switch. And when I was like
Speaker 3: super young and angsty, I remember being like that's lab
Speaker 3: You're not gonna swear anymore. And then I got older
Speaker 3: and I started like kind of like, you know, listening
Speaker 3: to the Slipknot sort of evolution, like the maturity and
Speaker 3: like the lyric writing and stuff, and you know, I
Speaker 3: mean you go back and listen to that first record
Speaker 3: and some of it's like headbanger stuff, but yeah, a
Speaker 3: lot of it like I don't know, spit it out,
Speaker 3: like I really want to go and listen to that
Speaker 3: right now. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good song, great song, Like I don't know.
Speaker 9: Sometimes what catches me off guard is when it's like,
Speaker 9: you know, it's one thing, if it's if it's metal,
Speaker 9: certain kinds of metal or hip hop, but if you
Speaker 9: hear you know, just a singer songwriter and they've got
Speaker 9: like the S word just in there. It's like, you know,
Speaker 9: because it's like, oh, you're a singer songwriter, but ooh
Speaker 9: you're edgy.
Speaker 3: Right, you know.
Speaker 7: Variety is the spice.
Speaker 3: And that's not to say that I think as like
Speaker 3: a blanket rule, like swearing in songs bad or lazy,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? But I do you think
Speaker 3: it's a tool that like should be used at certain points,
Speaker 3: Like like my buddy Joe plays in this band called
Speaker 3: Dirt Byre and he's got the song called Fentanyl, and uh,
Speaker 3: there's this really powerful part when he first comes in
Speaker 3: to this one line. He says, you keep fing around,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, it's super powerful because of what he's
Speaker 3: talking about, you know what I mean. Sure, but like
Speaker 3: I don't know, a lot of times I'm like, it
Speaker 3: doesn't have that same effect.
Speaker 9: Right right by the way, Jane looks like you're getting
Speaker 9: some familial love in the chat room. Mommy loves you, Janey, Shelley.
Speaker 9: That's your your mom.
Speaker 7: That's very nice, very nice, Thank you mother.
Speaker 3: We love Shelley.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love you too.
Speaker 9: No, that's great. Actually, the subject came up to with
Speaker 9: our first guests today. Uh, waiting for Z. We're on
Speaker 9: and we're talking about it's nice one when you have
Speaker 9: supportive family members. Also, oh, I missed this comment earlier.
Speaker 9: Kyle Gatto is in the chat room man says more
Speaker 9: than Matt, what's good brother, welcome Kyle. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: it's it's Uh. I also think though, too, it would
Speaker 9: be weird because of the style and the genre of
Speaker 9: the music that you do. Sure it would actually it
Speaker 9: would be strange word in there, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, nobody's thinking of like I don't know,
Speaker 3: mid century or like medieval times, and like you know,
Speaker 3: everybody's running around with like swearing a whole bunch. I
Speaker 3: don't know. It feels like it should be more like
Speaker 3: regal and like hoity toity and you know, almost have
Speaker 3: a bit of a curtsy just embedded in the lyrics,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I feel like there's like
Speaker 3: a certain level of like, I don't know, fanciful that
Speaker 3: it like needs.
Speaker 9: No, I know, I know what you mean. Although if
Speaker 9: you watch like some some of the Monty Python movies
Speaker 9: that are period pieces, it seems like there was a
Speaker 9: lot of swearing back then, but absolutely, yeah, no, I
Speaker 9: know what you mean though, Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 9: profanity would be very awkward in your music. You know,
Speaker 9: it would almost be like, I don't know, there's I
Speaker 9: think that genre it just it doesn't fit. But no,
Speaker 9: so I and I think it's great that you're you're
Speaker 9: so conscientious about the lyrics that you you know, use
Speaker 9: you know, there's so many words, you know, the English language,
Speaker 9: we have so many words, you know, so why not
Speaker 9: be creative?
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I mean we spent so much time arguing
Speaker 3: about like the sourus related really opinions. Oh yeah, when
Speaker 3: we're writing lyrics. So when we write lyrics, generally it's me,
Speaker 3: our drummer and our vocalists all working together. Sometimes Jane's
Speaker 3: into Jane generally helps more with like the melodic elements
Speaker 3: of like the vocals and like the rhythmic elements of everything.
Speaker 3: But as far as like the lyrics goes, it's like
Speaker 3: the three of us generally kind of going back and
Speaker 3: forth about what the best way to say like what
Speaker 3: we're trying to convey is, yeah, and so it prevents
Speaker 3: it from like being kind of like over ing in
Speaker 3: like one person's style. You know and we get this
Speaker 3: kind of cool average. I think that works out really
Speaker 3: well and represents the band as a whole. Yeah, pretty beautifully.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's really cool.
Speaker 9: I think we should play another track from the from
Speaker 9: the album you did send me another one that you
Speaker 9: wanted to highlight.
Speaker 3: I think beneath Red Leaves, right, was it?
Speaker 9: Let's see I'm looking. Uh yes, beneath Red Leaves. Fantastic.
Speaker 9: Yeah we can. We can give that a spin, and
Speaker 9: then at the end of the show we'll probably play
Speaker 9: another one from the album. I have your do you have?
Speaker 9: Because I do have the album pulled up and I
Speaker 9: love love your music. I think it's really good. Absolutely,
Speaker 9: so I check this out. This is called Beneath Red
Speaker 9: Leaves and the band is questing Beast.
Speaker 10: I wend it back you thro was gone, I say,
Speaker 10: good as tack. I see the piece pea so bad,
Speaker 10: pas see too back now.
Speaker 4: Seek the time s not said leave the most the hide.
Speaker 10: Its faces has called he.
Speaker 5: Used to all.
Speaker 10: We got frock, wort, spill the snow with snorty kill,
Speaker 10: got five soul.
Speaker 5: Got broad.
Speaker 10: The coming seel not too long.
Speaker 1: We got bron Smeros.
Speaker 3: This field, disky is this will Clive.
Speaker 5: My rides were got broadwise.
Speaker 3: A fine let seal song get.
Speaker 4: His way and Spike swim heels go grass courts his
Speaker 4: shield and nightfall he escaping nor.
Speaker 5: Me the jack.
Speaker 4: I wanted time stumping it through the door, No fa back,
Speaker 4: I see be overt in the.
Speaker 11: Man sending me for scares you you know at that
Speaker 11: time say nothing, He's.
Speaker 10: Thanks, You's call me a swom yet by now yourself
Speaker 10: when shuts killed, don f soul?
Speaker 8: Okay that.
Speaker 10: The coming su you liever that by final course comment
Speaker 10: our line you bead to die g brothers.
Speaker 5: So okay, right, okay.
Speaker 1: Kay.
Speaker 9: That is beneath red Leaves. The band is questing Bees
Speaker 9: and that is from their album Birth That is so good.
Speaker 9: And they're gonna be playing if you are listening live
Speaker 9: on Saturday, they're gonna be tomorrow night. They're going to
Speaker 9: be Sunday night at Terminus Underground. What time does that
Speaker 9: show start?
Speaker 3: The doors are at six o'clock. I believe we are
Speaker 3: on at seven. We're opening up that show.
Speaker 9: Well, who else is on the show with you?
Speaker 3: Do you know? Off Dog eight Dog and Sunset Electric?
Speaker 9: Oh nice? Yeah, we've had we've had both bands on
Speaker 9: the show. Oh cool Dog eight Dog was with us
Speaker 9: a couple of weeks ago. Actually, yeah, really really cool.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, they're they're amazing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 9: So a song like that, I mean, does that take
Speaker 9: a while for that to come together?
Speaker 3: I mean in terms of just honestly, that was probably
Speaker 3: one of the faster ones, was it. Yeah, So that
Speaker 3: was one of the last two that we wrote, right,
Speaker 3: the ones that we had mentioned before we started playing,
Speaker 3: and I had had that rift the main riff that
Speaker 3: button't it for a little bit, and Jane, I think,
Speaker 3: had had that intro kind of written out from something
Speaker 3: that we had messed around with during practice, and so
Speaker 3: we essentially just like fused those two things together, came
Speaker 3: up with the solo section, and I had a little
Speaker 3: alternate version that became the outro, and uh, yeah, we
Speaker 3: knocked that thing out I think in a day.
Speaker 9: No kidding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, solo section chords.
Speaker 3: The solo took forever to write.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for a long time. I would say the solo
Speaker 7: section chords and the fast like thrashy part probably one
Speaker 7: of my proudest moments. Also, so having an awesome guitar
Speaker 7: solo on top of it, too, and that was like
Speaker 7: the cherry on top. That was like the last thing
Speaker 7: for the song. That song, that song is super hard
Speaker 7: to play live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably the hardest on the record.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's so fun.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, I'm fascinated by that because I you know,
Speaker 9: I I'm a musician. I used to play in some bands,
Speaker 9: but I never played in anything that did anything that
Speaker 9: you know, with time changes and you know, demanding. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so,
Speaker 9: so I'm very impressed. Yeah that's uh, that's that's really good. Oh.
Speaker 9: By the way, in the chat room, so Bradley Hurley
Speaker 9: uh said to your mom, Oh you should know your
Speaker 9: daughter has helped my recovery and life so much for
Speaker 9: the better. Oh so very nice.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 9: You're getting a lot of love in there. That is awesome.
Speaker 9: That is awesome. And then so when does the now
Speaker 9: when does the tours start again?
Speaker 3: April twenty fifth is the first day of Horror playing
Speaker 3: Ralph's Okay in rock Yeah, that one is going to
Speaker 3: be with so Moontomb obviously, Horror, Perennial Quest and mercury
Speaker 3: Burns first.
Speaker 9: Oh okay great yeah yeah, yeah, we had mercury Burns
Speaker 9: first on a couple of months ago, and we've had
Speaker 9: Horror on too. So yeah, that's that's that's really strong.
Speaker 9: That's great. Now with the with the tour, will this
Speaker 9: be your your first time traveling out of New England
Speaker 9: with the band? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. Well the furthest we've gone up to
Speaker 3: this point is that we played out in Connecticut at
Speaker 3: some point last year. Okay, but yeah, this will be
Speaker 3: the furthest out we've gone in Maryland, I think in Baltimore.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, we're in Baltimore. What's what venue do you
Speaker 9: do you remember?
Speaker 3: Yeah? We're playing the Depot Okay in Baltimore.
Speaker 9: Okay, nice? Nice? And then, uh, do you have so
Speaker 9: who's is it just the four of you now live
Speaker 9: now that you have a live bass player?
Speaker 3: Is it five of us?
Speaker 9: There's five of you?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we've got lead singer, two guitars, bass player,
Speaker 3: drummer okay.
Speaker 9: And then so so before you would play with bass tracks,
Speaker 9: did you always have a live drummer. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 9: did always have a live drummer. Okay, all right, that
Speaker 9: makes sense. So it's just a bass player that you
Speaker 9: didn't have before officially, Okay, got it.
Speaker 3: And it's a lot easier to get away with not
Speaker 3: having a live bassis than a live drummer.
Speaker 9: I'm a bass player, so that makes me sad. But
Speaker 9: but no, I understand though, because bass players are hard
Speaker 9: to find sometimes.
Speaker 3: They really are, and they're in such high demand, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, I don't know, if I
Speaker 3: if I wanted to be a career musician, I definitely
Speaker 3: would pick up, like, you know, like a higher gun
Speaker 3: type guy. Bass or drums is like what you want
Speaker 3: to do, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah. My theory about yeah, because drummers are hard to
Speaker 9: find too, and in fact, we've seen you know, Jenny
Speaker 9: knows this. We've had so many bands on the show
Speaker 9: where the drummer specifically is in like ten different projects.
Speaker 9: And my theory about that is, you know, when you're
Speaker 9: growing up and you first you become interested interested in
Speaker 9: playing an instrument, and you have the conversation with parents,
Speaker 9: you know, I want to play drums, They're going to
Speaker 9: try to talk you out of that, oh for sure,
Speaker 9: because nobody wants live drums in their h you know,
Speaker 9: in their attic or whatever.
Speaker 3: No, especially if it's being played by somebody who doesn't
Speaker 3: know how to do it right.
Speaker 9: Exactly. Yeah, that's the worst. Yeah, drums or the tuba,
Speaker 9: or probably the two that your your parents are going
Speaker 9: to try to actively talk you out of, like, well,
Speaker 9: do you really want to play that?
Speaker 3: Are you sure you want the violin?
Speaker 8: Right? Oh?
Speaker 9: Violin? Yeah, that one could be a problem too, but
Speaker 9: uh yeah, so yeah, drums and uh, drums and drummers
Speaker 9: and bass players are usually the hardest to find.
Speaker 7: So you're bringing up some some childhood memories of me
Speaker 7: setting up a secondhand drum set in my parents' basement. Really,
Speaker 7: oh yeah, and since my mom is probably still watching,
Speaker 7: I wonder if she remembers opening the door to the
Speaker 7: basement and yelling down to me to please stop.
Speaker 9: Oh really?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Oh man, did you did you continue to play drums
Speaker 9: or my?
Speaker 10: Not?
Speaker 7: I I never really played drum set, so it's funny.
Speaker 7: Actually my trajectory he as a musician. I started on piano,
Speaker 7: and then I started playing percussion in like middle school,
Speaker 7: middle school band and stuff like that, and then I
Speaker 7: started playing marching percussion in high school. So I played
Speaker 7: I played like xylophone and stuff like that, like pit
Speaker 7: percussion for marching band. And then also during concert season
Speaker 7: I would play pit percussion, but during marching band season
Speaker 7: I would play snare drum, but I think I was
Speaker 7: when I was a senior, I was marching snare, but
Speaker 7: I marched some other things in parades too. But I
Speaker 7: picked up guitar in high school at the same time.
Speaker 7: The drumming didn't really come with me in any sense
Speaker 7: of the word after I graduated high school.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, Oh, by the way, your mom says in
Speaker 9: the chat room, that's a lie. She's an eyes yelling
Speaker 9: at you. I guess to stop.
Speaker 7: All right, Well, maybe you know, all right, maybe some
Speaker 7: selective memory on one or both parties. I do firmly
Speaker 7: and I will have a firm stance on the fact
Speaker 7: that it was not the preferred okay situation.
Speaker 9: Okay, understood, understood. Yeah, but that is an unusual trajectory though.
Speaker 9: I think you're right in terms of because I feel
Speaker 9: like I forget who we were talking about this with.
Speaker 9: But I feel like most most people who play drums,
Speaker 9: who play other instruments as well drum, they usually get
Speaker 9: to drums at the end, you know, like they like
Speaker 9: they start on guitar, bass, or piano or whatever, and
Speaker 9: then eventually they get to drums. But it sounds like you, well,
Speaker 9: you started on piano, right, but then Yeah, but drums
Speaker 9: was early.
Speaker 7: Yeah, drum drums were early. I think I started on
Speaker 7: I think I started on piano when I was like seven. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and I still play piano. I still, I still play
Speaker 7: piano pretty regularly. But yeah, I think it's interesting. I
Speaker 7: think I started picking up percussion in fifth grade.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 7: I think I was eleven or twelve when I started
Speaker 7: picking it up, so, you know, only another five years later,
Speaker 7: and I kind of did things in stages. I left
Speaker 7: a lot of piano behind as far as my main
Speaker 7: focus once I kind of got into high school. My
Speaker 7: mom will also agree with this. I stopped actually really
Speaker 7: practicing for my lessons, so I would learn stuff that
Speaker 7: I was playing. You know, I was in the school
Speaker 7: jazz band and stuff like that, so I would practice
Speaker 7: that stuff kind of. But I stopped taking formal piano
Speaker 7: lessons when I was maybe fourteen. I don't blame her whatsoever.
Speaker 7: She didn't want to support me doing it if I
Speaker 7: wasn't actually going to practice any of the material. And
Speaker 7: I had Yeah, I was like, I don't want to
Speaker 7: learn classical music, like I want to play cool stuff, right,
Speaker 7: I want to play guitar now, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not rebel, yeah, real rebel.
Speaker 7: It really only served to hold me back really in
Speaker 7: the future. I'm fortunate enough that I was able to
Speaker 7: like get back into everything kind of universally, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean. I ended up playing drums.
Speaker 9: No, it's not true.
Speaker 7: I did play drums in a band when I was
Speaker 7: in college and we were not good really yeah, a
Speaker 7: little punk band, you know. But yeah it served me
Speaker 7: well as far as all the other things that I did, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, musically, but yeah, very interesting. I'm back into
Speaker 7: piano pretty regularly now, you know. I play guitar every week,
Speaker 7: but no drumming. They hate it when I get on
Speaker 7: the drum sets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 9: But actually starting on piano though, that's good because I've
Speaker 9: heard a lot of I've heard so many music teachers
Speaker 9: and instructors and even Berkeley professors say that ideally, when
Speaker 9: when you're young and you're starting out getting into music,
Speaker 9: that's the ideal place. Keyboard, any kind of keyboard, is
Speaker 9: the ideal place to start in terms of building blocks
Speaker 9: for learning how to play music. Like that's like the
Speaker 9: single best place to start is learning how to play
Speaker 9: a keyboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean yeah, because
Speaker 3: it's just up and it's just up and down. There's
Speaker 3: none of this like dumb sideways stuff where like you're
Speaker 3: repeating the same exact note like on guitar. You know, there's, however,
Speaker 3: many different places to play each note that's like in
Speaker 3: the same exact octave.
Speaker 8: You know that.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, there's it's a lot more
Speaker 3: open to interpretation than I think that playing like piano
Speaker 3: or something like that is. And so it's really easy
Speaker 3: to see the more linear nature of music in that
Speaker 3: way and trying to like figure out a guitar fret
Speaker 3: board and be.
Speaker 9: Like exactly only and what's that right, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 9: And I guess there's research to these shows that are
Speaker 9: really it's the fastest way to train your brain to
Speaker 9: understand music and understand music theory and everything is just
Speaker 9: learning on the keyboard, but which I didn't do, unfortunately,
Speaker 9: I wish I had.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it would even give you like
Speaker 3: a really good rhythmic foundain if you wanted to switch
Speaker 3: over to like drums or something like that. A lot
Speaker 3: of people consider it to be a pretty percussive instrument itself.
Speaker 9: Right right, Yeah, exactly, Well that might explain your trajectory
Speaker 9: there in the beginning with.
Speaker 7: It definitely does. It's everything. It was an easy you
Speaker 7: know bridge, Yeah, it's everything. It's it's melody, harmony, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, bassline me, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I definitely because of that, I'd say my biggest strength
Speaker 7: in this band would be composition, you know. It's It's
Speaker 7: interesting my technique and my proficiency on the instrument on
Speaker 7: guitar has had to develop. I mean, I've become an
Speaker 7: infinitely better guitar player than I was when we first
Speaker 7: started writing music in like twenty nineteen. My my actual
Speaker 7: playing was just so behind every step of the way
Speaker 7: when I was learning guitar. But my main skill is
Speaker 7: being able to take I call it piano brain, you know,
Speaker 7: whenever we're doing anything, I just I got the visual
Speaker 7: piano in the sky okay, okay, and I kind of
Speaker 7: have to translate from guitar to piano in my mind
Speaker 7: and then back to guitar.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It makes communicating with him not great sometimes, and and
Speaker 7: everybody else too. This stuff going on in my brain
Speaker 7: is sometimes hard to explain, but giving the opportunity to
Speaker 7: put it down and then explain it in terms of
Speaker 7: everyone's individual instrument and understanding. I've been told I do
Speaker 7: a good job and it's probably my biggest I would
Speaker 7: say it's probably my biggest attribute and contribution other than
Speaker 7: like the technical side of things, okay, as far as
Speaker 7: like tech actual technology, yeah, and setting that stuff up.
Speaker 7: So yeah, you know, let me just talk about myself.
Speaker 9: For a bit.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 9: That's uh no, that that's very interesting, And yeah, I
Speaker 9: think everything you says you said, they're really bolsters that
Speaker 9: idea that you know, learning on the keyboard is the
Speaker 9: best way to start.
Speaker 7: Well, what about you?
Speaker 9: And by o way, if you're just joining us, we
Speaker 9: were joined by questing beast. Here in studio, we have
Speaker 9: Jane and Shane here and so I'm curious about your
Speaker 9: trajectory now, Shane.
Speaker 3: So I had almost none of that. I always wanted
Speaker 3: to play guitar. When I was seven, I got appetite
Speaker 3: for destruction and I would be listening to that and
Speaker 3: be like, how are they making these sounds happen? It
Speaker 3: was the first time I remember hearing like stereo guitar
Speaker 3: parts and noticing that like each guitar was doing totally
Speaker 3: different things, and so that so more than like even
Speaker 3: like you know, slashes soloing being you know great or whatever.
Speaker 3: It was the interaction between the guitars, like the riffs
Speaker 3: and the way that the playing the two different things
Speaker 3: culminated in this one new thing that's ultimately way better
Speaker 3: than the individual things on its own, always really spoke
Speaker 3: to me. And so when I inevitably started picking up
Speaker 3: guitar at like twelve years old, that I started going
Speaker 3: towards rock and roll, like immediately. Yeah, And Jane and
Speaker 3: I started writing music together when we were like fifteen, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And it was funny because I had taken I had
Speaker 3: a guitar teacher at the time who had kind of
Speaker 3: like burnt me out on it because it was like
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I was really learning a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff, and I felt like, you know, very stagnant.
Speaker 3: So I stopped playing for a while, and then one
Speaker 3: day I was like trying to figure out something that
Speaker 3: I was hearing in my head. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I wonder how you play that, And I didn't play
Speaker 3: it right at all. I played a totally new thing,
Speaker 3: and I was like, that's not the thing I was
Speaker 3: looking for, but it's pretty cool on its own. And
Speaker 3: I ended up talking to Jane at that point and
Speaker 3: being like, hey, I came up with this thing, like
Speaker 3: do you want to write the rest of it with me?
Speaker 9: And yeah, and that was so that was really the
Speaker 9: beginning of sure, yeah, of all this right, Oh yeah, wow,
Speaker 9: yeah a long time ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, fifteen years later.
Speaker 3: Wow, it sounds a.
Speaker 7: Lot different than it did when we were hanging out,
Speaker 7: just playing through a couple tiny little in his bedroom.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I can imagine, Yeah, I can imagine. Well before
Speaker 9: we run out of time. So I want to make
Speaker 9: sure we remind everybody about you know two things. Of course,
Speaker 9: you know that you got the big show tomorrow night
Speaker 9: at Terminus Underground in Nashua, and then and the tour
Speaker 9: and uh and also too where people can go online
Speaker 9: to keep up with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, if you're on Instagram, you can find us at
Speaker 3: Questing Beasts. There's no punctuation or anything. We really lucked
Speaker 3: out on that screen name there. We're also on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Those are like the two primary social places that we're at.
Speaker 3: We stream our music everywhere and we've got the link
Speaker 3: tree on the Instagram page and on the Facebook page,
Speaker 3: so it's very easily accessible. You can find our music anywhere.
Speaker 9: And yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, so be a terminus tomorrow
Speaker 9: night and then the tour starts. What was it start date?
Speaker 3: April fifth, Yeah, at Ralph's Rock Diner.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, congratulations on that.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, thank you. Yeah, we're stoked for that.
Speaker 9: That's amazing. And in a moment, we'll play one more
Speaker 9: track from Birth to close out the segment. But Jenny,
Speaker 9: do you want to remind people to give people your
Speaker 9: website because you've been up to a lot as always,
Speaker 9: trouble as usual.
Speaker 7: You can check it all out at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 7: J E N N c O f f uy dot com.
Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent, Jane and Shane, thank you both so much
Speaker 9: for joining us. Thank you, it has been wonderful. And
Speaker 9: what should we I'll let you pick. Well, we'll play
Speaker 9: one more track from Birth to close out the show.
Speaker 9: What should we? What should we play?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: You want to do corruption?
Speaker 9: Corruption?
Speaker 3: It's one of the heavier ones. I'm trying to push
Speaker 3: it out there. It's the it's like the only song
Speaker 3: that hasn't hit like a thousand on Spotify.
Speaker 9: Yet, oh no kidding.
Speaker 3: And also I'm trying to I want to do a
Speaker 3: side project where I do death metal vocals. So if
Speaker 3: you didn't a death metal band and you need a vocalist,
Speaker 3: you call me up.
Speaker 9: All right, all right, and let's see if we can
Speaker 9: push some streams on this track.
Speaker 3: Absolutely sounds great.
Speaker 9: All right, So we'll close out with this, and if
Speaker 9: you miss any part of today's show, it will be
Speaker 9: up in just a little bit at w M and
Speaker 9: H radio dot org and my website Matt Connorton dot com.
Speaker 9: And here it is. This is called Corruption. This is
Speaker 9: from the album is Birth, and the band is Question Beasts.
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Speaker 8: look one side, I ain't married. I'm going.
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Speaker 5: Shot see.
Speaker 1: Bring them in the back. Don't look up.
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