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3:18 Speaker 9: John, That is the Comets tale. The band is questing Beast and we have Jane and Shane here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number three New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we're live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire, where it is apparently snowing outside right now on this day, March twenty nine, twenty twenty five. I was not expecting that were you. No, no, did you actually turn my microphone on?

4:41 Speaker 9: It's on, it's on, Yes, I know, right, so of course grow Yeah, that's exactly that was exactly my word for it. But at least we know it will it'll, it'll melt. Oh that's true. Yeah. Our birdcam you can birdcam there. They're probably somewhere, probably probably probably heading south going up. Well we came back.

5:04 Speaker 3: Too soon, premature, yeah, migration, yes, yes.

5:10 Speaker 9: I'm sure. I'm sure it is confusing to them. But yeah, so so here we are, of course on this Saturday, and we have Jane and Shane with us from Questing Beasts by the way, So I love that track. The Comets Tail definitely gets the blood pumping. And as I like to say, if that didn't get your blood pumping on a Saturday morning, check your pulse, you might be dead. But good stuff, good stuff.

5:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a fun, fun intro song.

5:37 Speaker 7: Gets our blood pumping pretty much every time we play.

5:39 Speaker 9: Yeah, do you play that to open the show or yeah?

5:41 Speaker 3: Generally you do?

5:42 Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, very good. Now when we had you on the last time, so what how how long ago it becomes a blur to me? Yeah, it was, I mean it wasn't a year ago, right.

5:51 Speaker 3: Or no, it would have been right before the Halloween show, right, so October ish, not that long Yeah, yeah, not crazy long ago, but long enough that it feels relatively significant.

6:02 Speaker 8: Yeah.

6:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

6:03 Speaker 9: So what's been going on since the last time we had John? I know, I know, you've got a big show coming up tomorrow for those listening live of course at Terminus Underground.

6:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely sure. So yeah, yeah, so we're getting back into playing playing out again. You know, last time we were here, we're talking about how we kind of went into hibernation for the winter. We totally did that. It was great and we're out better than ever, ready to start playing more gigs again.

6:32 Speaker 9: Excellent And what so what were you doing during that hibernation period? I mean, were you did you take a break from the band, or were you writing and recording or what was what was going on?

6:42 Speaker 3: We're doing a lot of writing, and also we're planning for our upcoming first ever tour that April twenty fifth. We're basically going on a quick week long run down to Baltimore and back up.

6:59 Speaker 9: Congratulations on that. That's awesome, thanks, Yeah, very cool, exciting.

7:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been great. H our buddy who's playing bass for us now, Dan se Lance. He helped us book a out of these gigs, and he's also stepping into the live role of playing bass for us, which is awesome and because those are some pretty big shoes to fill, you know, the guy that we had record for us, Chase Brian's absolute monster. So for Dan to come in and be able to pick it up has been really great.

7:28 Speaker 9: Yeah. Is uh the track that we just heard, which is from what's the name of the album again, because you guys have a whole u birth that's right, That's right?

7:40 Speaker 9: Is that so that's what the previous bass player?

7:42 Speaker 8: Right?

7:42 Speaker 9: Or or is y?

7:44 Speaker 3: Yeah?

7:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, all the recordings were done with Chase Bryant okay, Ye Bryant okay, and then he so he so you recorded with you, but was not in a position to like, was he ever? Was he ever officially in the band?

7:58 Speaker 3: Or was he just basically a hired gun? Yeah? I mean he lives he lives in la He plays in a band called war war Bringer.

8:06 Speaker 7: But I heard, yeah, he's a he's a busy guy.

8:11 Speaker 9: He's not just in that.

8:13 Speaker 7: He's playing with a few other bands. I don't know. I we follow him on social media, Like he's on tour with war Bringer right now, I think.

8:23 Speaker 3: Every but he's got like eight other projects out there, yeah, my favorite of which being Father Daddy Blues Band, No kidding, Yeah.

8:32 Speaker 5: Cool.

8:33 Speaker 9: How did you How did you come to work with him him being as busy as he is. How did that come about?

8:38 Speaker 3: We were essentially just kind of racking our brains, like trying to find somebody local, and we got sick of doing it, and we're like, I bet we could find somebody else for money. And I was like, this guy is a perfect example of what I want the bass playing to sound like. And so I just hit him up on Instagram and we started talking. Yeah, and he had me send him to the demos and he was a fan of the demos, and uh yeah, we were able to work something out.

9:01 Speaker 9: When when you first contacted him, was it kind of like, uh, well, I don't know, I don't know if he's if he's gonna have time or be interested, but I'm going to give it a shot and then it works.

9:11 Speaker 3: Out or oh yeah, absolutely total shot in the dark.

9:14 Speaker 9: Yeah.

9:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't expect anything of to come from anything, especially like you know, just messaging people on Instagram.

9:21 Speaker 8: You know what I mean.

9:21 Speaker 3: It's like you just throwing stuff out into the ether and hoping you get something back. Yeah yeah, yeah, And so for it to come back around it's nice. You know, every once in a while it does.

9:31 Speaker 9: You never know, it's always it's always worth a try because you never know. And it worked out phenomenally well.

9:36 Speaker 3: So yeah, basic playing came out awesome. He reported his parts in like two days, no kidding, Oh yeah, incredible.

9:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, you never know.

9:45 Speaker 7: You throw it out there, you don't know what's going to happen.

9:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, absolutely.

9:51 Speaker 9: So, so what was that a matter of just kind of sending the tracks back and forth.

9:55 Speaker 3: And essentially yeah, I mean, dudes were pro so. I mean he pretty much had everything under his fingers by the time he came out here, which is convenient because we only had like, you know, eighteen hours between when he came out here and played with us for the first time and when he needed to get in the studio.

10:09 Speaker 9: Okay, wow, yeah it was.

10:11 Speaker 7: It was a good time.

10:12 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's fantastic. That's fantastic. So the uh so, the new what's his name again, the new new bass player or the current bass.

10:21 Speaker 3: Player Dan Selan. He plays in Ice Giant, he plays in Annilist Monday, he plays in Perennial Quest. Yeah, he plays in other bands too. There's a bunch of them.

10:33 Speaker 9: I've heard of Ice Giant. Yeah, so he's so well, so he's also a busy guy. But yeah, but geographically he's available.

10:41 Speaker 8: Yeah.

10:42 Speaker 7: And the nice thing is he seems to be I don't know if this is just like a point of pride, but he seems to be really enjoying conquering the music and learning the parts, you know what I mean. He's like posting himself working through some of it on his Instagram stories like that, and it made me feel pretty pretty awesome. Yeah, just because you know, we play the music all the time. For somebody else to try it out and get fulfillment out of trying to learn it made me like, yeah, yeah.

11:14 Speaker 9: Well that's yeah, I mean, that's that's tremendous validation, right, I mean, you know, obviously you get the validation if you play it for other people, if you play it live and people react positively to it, you know, that's that's fantastic, right, But to also get that validation of somebody wants to learn the songs and really commits, you know, commits to learning them. I mean, that's that's fantastic. That's that's great. How long has he been in the band nowand.

11:40 Speaker 3: He just played his first gig with us on Saturday? So if you've done we've done like three practices with him or something.

11:46 Speaker 9: Oh, so he's very new.

11:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's a pretty new development as far as our live show goes and everything.

11:54 Speaker 9: Yeah.

11:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, but we were talking to him for a while because of the whole tour situation and everything, but so like it was gonna happen eventually. But yeah, I don't know, he's really been doing a great job I think. So.

12:05 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Now for the tour, are you is there another band or other bands that you've teamed up with for the tour or you know, because there's different ways to approach it, right you know.

12:16 Speaker 3: Yeah. So our main tour mates are a band called Moon Tomb from Rhode Island.

12:21 Speaker 9: Mood Moon Toom. Yeah that's a cool name.

12:23 Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah, they're cool guys. We picked them because they're such pals that you know, we couldn't we couldn't have thought of like a better three dudes to go out on the road with nice and so we hit them up and they were super open to it and everything. And there's I think a total of like twenty something different local bands. Because one of the shows is a is a festival. Oh really, Yeah, the New York show is a it's the Long Island Doom Festival, Okay at mister Berry's, which so that kind of ups those numbers a bunch.

12:56 Speaker 3: But so we're super excited to go out and beat a bunch of these bands. Yeah, some of these cool shows are gonna be in some really cool places too, so yeah, it would be a good time.

13:04 Speaker 9: How many dates are you playing?

13:06 Speaker 3: Seven dates in eight days?

13:08 Speaker 9: Okay?

13:09 Speaker 3: Okay, so we get a nice day off in the middle, we might go to Hershey Park hit some roller coasters.

13:14 Speaker 9: Who nice? You should Yes, you definitely should have.

13:17 Speaker 3: We've been talking about it.

13:18 Speaker 7: I'm feeling up to it. I don't know, I haven't been to a theme parking a long time.

13:21 Speaker 9: Yeah, I haven't either.

13:23 Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we went to Hershey Park for like the eighth grade DC trip and the park itself was closed down, but I always wanted to go and hit those roller coasters. But I did get a five pound chocolate bar while I was there.

13:34 Speaker 9: Yeah, five pound chocolate bar. Ooh, that sounds like a lot of It was a lot of work. It's a lot of chocolate. But the roller coasters. I love roller coasters.

13:42 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's my favorite type of ride. Yeah, like the stuff those ones that are like just like the big post where you sit on you know what I mean, and it goes like all the way up. I'm not a fan of that type of stuff, but on any roller coaster.

13:54 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, me too, Me too. When I was a kid, I remember being terrified of going on one that went up down until I until I did it, and it happened so quick that you know, you don't even know your upside.

14:04 Speaker 3: After what I mean.

14:05 Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, no, I love I love roller coasters. Yeah, so you should definitely do that. And are you Are you playing the same set every night as far as you know, or your time is going to kind of vary where you have to kind of work with it.

14:19 Speaker 3: Some of the shows are four band bills and some of them are five band bills, so we'll be able to get an extra song or two on the shorter bills. Yeah, but I mean we've only got the one record. Yeah, we're not unveiling any of that new material until the time is right. Uh, pretty much will be songs from the first record in various orders.

14:41 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, but you have so you do have new material you're working on.

14:45 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yeah, pretty much. We took so between when we finished writing the first record and when we finished recording it, which was about I don't know, maybe nine month period, we were just working on really hammering those songs down, and so we didn't write anything during that time. So it was kind of like this big there's like a big rush of like creativity when we you know, played the final note in the studio and we went home and we're like, what do we do now? Yeah, we've been working pretty hard and I'm really excited about the new stuff.

15:18 Speaker 9: Excellent. Is it in the same vein? Is it?

15:22 Speaker 8: Yeah?

15:23 Speaker 7: It's definitely similar style, for sure, but I think we delved even farther into each kind of individual element that we're bringing to it, So it's kind of, you know, even more thematic. Even more, we spent even more time paying attention to the different you know, flares and genres and influences you know what I mean. So there's a lot of variety, Like there's a lot of variety in the first record, but what we're working on is kind of expanding upon each little bit of that variety, I think, and so each song kind of feels pretty unique, but also there's a pretty substantial common thread between all of it, which is something on the first record too.

16:14 Speaker 7: So yeah, it's been pretty cool. We're not we're kind of throwing caution to the wind for a few things, and we're just kind of trying whatever we want to do. There's some pretty funny ideas that we've just totally ran with. So yeah, it's like it's like our sound two point zero.

16:35 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, cool.

16:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's basically it's a huge expansion on the first record. I think it's it's basically everything we did, but we went in every direction a little bit further.

16:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, and.

16:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't know, it's exciting.

16:51 Speaker 9: Is a thematically similar in terms of lyrics.

16:54 Speaker 3: Or we're not done the lyrics yet, so it's okay, So the music comes first, right, Yeah, Yeah, So I mean we kind of have like a storyline and then we build the music off of the storyline. Okay, and then the lyrics are kind of like the very final thread. Okay, I think so it's like that's like really the last eyes to dot in the tease to cross or okay lyrics.

17:16 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, cool, cool. Obviously we talked about it the last time you were here. But does birth have a is there a story to it?

17:25 Speaker 3: Yeah?

17:26 Speaker 9: Or a particular theme? Well, I know there's a theme, but I couldn't remember how how defined the actual story was or if it was kind of more just a loose concept.

17:36 Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of both actually, right, So it's very defined to us, like we know the storyline. It's like this very defined thing, but we purposefully at this point like like the lyrics are kind of esoteric, right, because like you can go really far in the direction of like wanting to write a good story, but after a certain point you're taking away from like the quality of the song, right, Like we don't need a billion details about like a guy's armor as he's coming up over the crest of the hill, you know what I mean, Like you just filled up half of your verse describing this and so like and what I wanted to do or what we wanted to do is kind of have it be a more like personalized thing, right where anybody can go in and like read the lyrics and try and derive like what the legitimate story is.

18:25 Speaker 3: But it's more important, I think, from my perspective, for people to be able to derive their own meaning from it, Okay, Right, So, like I would really like to, at one point or another figure out how to do a comic book to like tell the legitimate story like straight up, you know what I mean. But I also don't want to like go to people who have maybe derived their own meaning from the songs and be like, you're wrong, this is what it means, you know what I mean, because it's like that's kind of a slap in the face, and like I wouldn't I feel like you're whatever your meaning ism.

19:01 Speaker 9: Which is how it's supposed to be, right with music or with any kind of art. Really, it's what you we might have talked I've talked about this with a few people on the show. We might have talked about this before, but I know that I've experienced that where it's kind of like, you know, a song means something to you, and then you read an interview with the person who wrote the lyrics and they talk about what it means and you kind of go, oh, that's different than what it meant to me, And then there's that weirdness of oh, now I kind of feel differently about it, you know what I mean?

19:33 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I think for our music specifically, Yeah, I think that would be a pretty funny instance because it's so specific. So you know, there's so much left to interpretation in the lyrics that if and when, you know, inevitably we do have a concrete representation of what the whole story is. You know, We've said it before. This was part one of a concept of a few albums that we're planning on releasing recently.

20:09 Speaker 3: Won't make a trilogy, Yeah, we want.

20:10 Speaker 7: To make a trilogy, and so you know we're working on installment two of that. So it's expanding upon, uh, this storytelling universe, you know what I mean. So it would be pretty funny for us to just drop all that information and have people, you know, kind of learn what it is. I think I'm gonna speak a little bit on lyrically for the first album, there's some very literal world building. So the song we just listened to, there's some very literal, you know, pre you know, description of what's going on some exposition, Yeah, exposition exactly, And it's not really up for interpretation when you sit down and read it, you know what I mean, It basically tells you, you know, what's going to happen.

21:03 Speaker 7: Yeah, and then you know all the other things beyond that, when we're singing about emotions and you know, things happening, it's it's all pretty up for interpretation. And I think we want to make music that is true to what we're trying to do story wise, and then also is up for interpretation and receivable to someone who knows nothing about the story as much as possible. And I think we've tried to dive into that even more so, Okay, on our current writing lyrically anyway.

21:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, No, that's very cool. I look forward to, uh, you know when eventually, I mean you probably at this point, do you have any kind of an eta on when when you might start recording the next one?

21:46 Speaker 3: Or yeah, I don't know, like a year or I don't know, one hundred years, somewhere between those two.

21:54 Speaker 9: Somewhere somewhere between one and one hundred.

21:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wish I could have that crystal Ball. But you never know what's going to happen, you know. I mean we it took forever to get the first one, and I think we've got a more streamlined process at this point, but yeah, you know, anything could happen.

22:10 Speaker 9: So but so, but you both talked about a trilogy. Does that mean that you've already got the you've got the whole story mapped out already, or.

22:19 Speaker 3: Like big story points that we want to hit mapped out. Yeah, But I mean it's it's cool to leave like certain things open, right because like, for example, on the first record, we had finished the record, I just did air quotes for anybody listening, Yeah, and we had like six songs, and I was like, it doesn't feel right, you know, And so I was like, we got to write two more songs, and we ended up doing Beneath Red Leaves and Titans Grip, which have ended up being two of the most popular questioning beat songs at this point, and nobody else wanted to write them.

22:57 Speaker 3: But I was like, look the story, we can add some more detail else into the story, and these riffs rule, I don't see why anybody could be opposed to it. And then everybody was mad when we were recording them, and so it came out awesome.

23:10 Speaker 7: Mostly me, I was mostly angry in doing it.

23:14 Speaker 9: I don't know why.

23:15 Speaker 7: I was just like, all right, well you want some more guitar, you're gonna get it. Yeah, And it came out with a good So you were able to channel that anger, yeah a little bit. Yeah, it feels feels really epic. Titans Script is actually our current most stream song on Spotify. We passed like four thousand streams today, I think, which cool.

23:37 Speaker 9: Congratulations. Yeah, that's great, interesting metric, but but no, it matters though. Those metrics do matter. No, that's very cool, very cool. Do you have anything that you play currently that's not on this first album when you play live or no.

23:54 Speaker 3: No, we've talked about doing some covers and stuff, which is now a lot more of possibility that we've got Dan in the live setup because we were just playing to like recorded bass tracks before, you know, from the record, and so opportunities for that are kind of more available now. So I mean, I'd be down to explore that kind of stuff for sure, But for the most part, were just playing stuff from the record and trying to promote that we've got a ton of vinyl that we need to get rid of. So what do you mean, oh, just like vinyl records.

24:24 Speaker 9: Yeah.

24:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to play the songs that are on the on the record for people to try and entice them into buying it.

24:31 Speaker 9: Yeah, I got you.

24:33 Speaker 7: I got many copies that we have.

24:37 Speaker 9: You could be so we have less of them. Was that hard playing with with bass tracks live? Was that challenging?

24:50 Speaker 3: H I mean the process of like setting up the ableton session and everything was and that's why I had Jane do it. And uh but uh yeah, I mean once it's all been set up, it's not that bad. You know, a drummer is kind of a machine. Okay, so having him played to a metronome is pretty easy. As far as getting everybody else locked.

25:12 Speaker 9: In, it wasn't It wasn't weird for him, or maybe or maybe it was, but he adapted.

25:16 Speaker 3: He adapted pretty well. I don't think that there was like a huge problem for him. You know, each each song has kind of its own counting and everything. I think that was the only like learning curve.

25:25 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, gotcha.

25:27 Speaker 7: He's he kind of takes most things in stride. If I'm going to be honest, we threw a lot at him, really. Yeah, We're like, hey, you gotta.

25:35 Speaker 3: Do this, this and this, and he's got a hard job.

25:37 Speaker 7: Yeah, he's got one of the hardest jobs in the house for sure.

25:41 Speaker 9: Yeah.

25:42 Speaker 3: He's back there singing too. Oh he is, okay, Oh yeah, some backup vocals there.

25:48 Speaker 9: That always impresses me. Your drummers who can sing while they play, you know, because drums is the most you know, you're using all four of your looms. It's the most physical. Yeah.

25:55 Speaker 3: And he's doing like harmonies, like the chorus harmonies on like tip scrip and stuff.

26:00 Speaker 9: That's great.

26:00 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, he's He's crazy.

26:02 Speaker 7: Watching him do it too. I Mean, there's a there's one part I think it's in the second course of Titans Grip where I'm looking at him when we're in practice, I'll just be looking at him. He's leaned over, you know, to the mic to try to sing, and the arms are going and he's playing so much complex stuff on the drums and he's just keeping his head here, yeah, and nailing the note too, and then he just finishes and looks at the rest of us. Pretty much every time. Then he knows well we'll look at him and just give him an affirming nod of yeah, that was on, and he just always goes, you know, some iteration of like, you know, lips out, like you know, heck.

26:39 Speaker 8: Yeah.

26:42 Speaker 9: Very cool. Oh, by the way, you're getting some love in the chat room here, Bradley Hurley says, can't say enough great things about this band. I'm a huge fan of this band. And Jane Oh shouts out Bradley, what's up. Very very nice, thank you for chiming in there, Bradley, excellent.

26:58 Speaker 7: Thank you, Bradley.

26:59 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, oh, we were talking. We had an interesting conversation off here two about lyrics, circling back to lyrics for a moment because you know, I was commenting now it's it's nice when I you know, I don't mind making radio edits for our guests, but it's nice when I don't have to and I never have to make any radio edits requesting beasts, which is nice.

27:18 Speaker 3: Because we don't hit the swearing. Yeah, what's interesting about this. I think that's a very like conscious decision on our part, because it's like, I don't know, you can throw a ton of swears into a song if you want to. Yeah, like I don't know, personally, it's like a very weak creative decision. I mean there's so many words, you know that like I don't know, choosing to swear for like edginess sake is like kind of weak to me. And what's funny is that I that idea kind of came from with Corey uh, what's his name, Slipknot Corey Taylor, Yeah, because he made that switch.

27:56 Speaker 3: And when I was like super young and angsty, I remember being like that's lab You're not gonna swear anymore. And then I got older and I started like kind of like, you know, listening to the Slipknot sort of evolution, like the maturity and like the lyric writing and stuff, and you know, I mean you go back and listen to that first record and some of it's like headbanger stuff, but yeah, a lot of it like I don't know, spit it out, like I really want to go and listen to that right now. Yeah, I don't.

28:21 Speaker 7: Yeah, good song, great song, Like I don't know.

28:27 Speaker 9: Sometimes what catches me off guard is when it's like, you know, it's one thing, if it's if it's metal, certain kinds of metal or hip hop, but if you hear you know, just a singer songwriter and they've got like the S word just in there. It's like, you know, because it's like, oh, you're a singer songwriter, but ooh you're edgy.

28:45 Speaker 3: Right, you know.

28:48 Speaker 7: Variety is the spice.

28:50 Speaker 3: And that's not to say that I think as like a blanket rule, like swearing in songs bad or lazy, you know what I mean? But I do you think it's a tool that like should be used at certain points, Like like my buddy Joe plays in this band called Dirt Byre and he's got the song called Fentanyl, and uh, there's this really powerful part when he first comes in to this one line. He says, you keep fing around, And I'm like, it's super powerful because of what he's talking about, you know what I mean. Sure, but like I don't know, a lot of times I'm like, it doesn't have that same effect.

29:28 Speaker 9: Right right by the way, Jane looks like you're getting some familial love in the chat room. Mommy loves you, Janey, Shelley. That's your your mom.

29:40 Speaker 7: That's very nice, very nice, Thank you mother.

29:43 Speaker 3: We love Shelley.

29:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, I love you too.

29:46 Speaker 9: No, that's great. Actually, the subject came up to with our first guests today. Uh, waiting for Z. We're on and we're talking about it's nice one when you have supportive family members. Also, oh, I missed this comment earlier. Kyle Gatto is in the chat room man says more than Matt, what's good brother, welcome Kyle. Yeah, I mean it's it's Uh. I also think though, too, it would be weird because of the style and the genre of the music that you do. Sure it would actually it would be strange word in there, you know.

30:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, nobody's thinking of like I don't know, mid century or like medieval times, and like you know, everybody's running around with like swearing a whole bunch. I don't know. It feels like it should be more like regal and like hoity toity and you know, almost have a bit of a curtsy just embedded in the lyrics, you know what I mean. I feel like there's like a certain level of like, I don't know, fanciful that it like needs.

30:47 Speaker 9: No, I know, I know what you mean. Although if you watch like some some of the Monty Python movies that are period pieces, it seems like there was a lot of swearing back then, but absolutely, yeah, no, I know what you mean though, Yeah, I think I think profanity would be very awkward in your music. You know, it would almost be like, I don't know, there's I think that genre it just it doesn't fit. But no, so I and I think it's great that you're you're so conscientious about the lyrics that you you know, use you know, there's so many words, you know, the English language, we have so many words, you know, so why not be creative?

31:23 Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I mean we spent so much time arguing about like the sourus related really opinions. Oh yeah, when we're writing lyrics. So when we write lyrics, generally it's me, our drummer and our vocalists all working together. Sometimes Jane's into Jane generally helps more with like the melodic elements of like the vocals and like the rhythmic elements of everything. But as far as like the lyrics goes, it's like the three of us generally kind of going back and forth about what the best way to say like what we're trying to convey is, yeah, and so it prevents it from like being kind of like over ing in like one person's style.

32:01 Speaker 3: You know and we get this kind of cool average. I think that works out really well and represents the band as a whole. Yeah, pretty beautifully.

32:10 Speaker 9: Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's really cool. I think we should play another track from the from the album you did send me another one that you wanted to highlight.

32:19 Speaker 3: I think beneath Red Leaves, right, was it?

32:23 Speaker 9: Let's see I'm looking. Uh yes, beneath Red Leaves. Fantastic. Yeah we can. We can give that a spin, and then at the end of the show we'll probably play another one from the album. I have your do you have? Because I do have the album pulled up and I love love your music. I think it's really good. Absolutely, so I check this out. This is called Beneath Red Leaves and the band is questing Beast.

33:44 Speaker 10: I wend it back you thro was gone, I say, good as tack. I see the piece pea so bad, pas see too back now.

34:00 Speaker 4: Seek the time s not said leave the most the hide.

34:09 Speaker 10: Its faces has called he.

34:11 Speaker 5: Used to all.

34:12 Speaker 10: We got frock, wort, spill the snow with snorty kill, got five soul.

34:17 Speaker 5: Got broad.

34:20 Speaker 10: The coming seel not too long.

34:22 Speaker 1: We got bron Smeros.

34:24 Speaker 3: This field, disky is this will Clive.

34:27 Speaker 5: My rides were got broadwise.

34:41 Speaker 3: A fine let seal song get.

34:44 Speaker 4: His way and Spike swim heels go grass courts his shield and nightfall he escaping nor.

34:51 Speaker 5: Me the jack.

35:02 Speaker 4: I wanted time stumping it through the door, No fa back,

35:09 Speaker 4: I see be overt in the.

35:12 Speaker 11: Man sending me for scares you you know at that time say nothing, He's.

35:27 Speaker 10: Thanks, You's call me a swom yet by now yourself when shuts killed, don f soul?

35:35 Speaker 8: Okay that.

35:38 Speaker 10: The coming su you liever that by final course comment our line you bead to die g brothers.

36:35 Speaker 5: So okay, right, okay.

36:54 Speaker 1: Kay.

37:12 Speaker 9: That is beneath red Leaves. The band is questing Bees and that is from their album Birth That is so good. And they're gonna be playing if you are listening live on Saturday, they're gonna be tomorrow night. They're going to be Sunday night at Terminus Underground. What time does that show start?

37:27 Speaker 3: The doors are at six o'clock. I believe we are on at seven. We're opening up that show.

37:32 Speaker 9: Well, who else is on the show with you?

37:34 Speaker 3: Do you know? Off Dog eight Dog and Sunset Electric?

37:37 Speaker 9: Oh nice? Yeah, we've had we've had both bands on the show. Oh cool Dog eight Dog was with us a couple of weeks ago. Actually, yeah, really really cool. Oh yeah, they're they're amazing.

37:48 Speaker 1: Now.

37:49 Speaker 9: So a song like that, I mean, does that take a while for that to come together?

37:54 Speaker 3: I mean in terms of just honestly, that was probably one of the faster ones, was it. Yeah, So that was one of the last two that we wrote, right, the ones that we had mentioned before we started playing, and I had had that rift the main riff that button't it for a little bit, and Jane, I think, had had that intro kind of written out from something that we had messed around with during practice, and so we essentially just like fused those two things together, came up with the solo section, and I had a little alternate version that became the outro, and uh, yeah, we knocked that thing out I think in a day.

38:32 Speaker 9: No kidding.

38:33 Speaker 7: Yeah, solo section chords.

38:36 Speaker 3: The solo took forever to write.

38:37 Speaker 7: Yeah, for a long time. I would say the solo section chords and the fast like thrashy part probably one of my proudest moments. Also, so having an awesome guitar solo on top of it, too, and that was like the cherry on top. That was like the last thing for the song. That song, that song is super hard to play live.

38:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably the hardest on the record.

39:01 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's so fun.

39:03 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, I'm fascinated by that because I you know, I I'm a musician. I used to play in some bands, but I never played in anything that did anything that you know, with time changes and you know, demanding. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so, so I'm very impressed. Yeah that's uh, that's that's really good. Oh. By the way, in the chat room, so Bradley Hurley uh said to your mom, Oh you should know your daughter has helped my recovery and life so much for the better. Oh so very nice.

39:35 Speaker 3: Thank you.

39:36 Speaker 9: You're getting a lot of love in there. That is awesome. That is awesome. And then so when does the now when does the tours start again?

39:44 Speaker 3: April twenty fifth is the first day of Horror playing Ralph's Okay in rock Yeah, that one is going to be with so Moontomb obviously, Horror, Perennial Quest and mercury Burns first.

40:01 Speaker 9: Oh okay great yeah yeah, yeah, we had mercury Burns first on a couple of months ago, and we've had Horror on too. So yeah, that's that's that's really strong. That's great. Now with the with the tour, will this be your your first time traveling out of New England with the band? Yeah?

40:15 Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. Well the furthest we've gone up to this point is that we played out in Connecticut at some point last year. Okay, but yeah, this will be the furthest out we've gone in Maryland, I think in Baltimore.

40:28 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, we're in Baltimore. What's what venue do you do you remember?

40:32 Speaker 3: Yeah? We're playing the Depot Okay in Baltimore.

40:34 Speaker 9: Okay, nice? Nice? And then, uh, do you have so

40:43 Speaker 9: who's is it just the four of you now live now that you have a live bass player?

40:48 Speaker 3: Is it five of us?

40:49 Speaker 9: There's five of you?

40:51 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we've got lead singer, two guitars, bass player, drummer okay.

40:58 Speaker 9: And then so so before you would play with bass tracks, did you always have a live drummer. Yeah, yeah, you did always have a live drummer. Okay, all right, that makes sense. So it's just a bass player that you didn't have before officially, Okay, got it.

41:10 Speaker 3: And it's a lot easier to get away with not having a live bassis than a live drummer.

41:15 Speaker 9: I'm a bass player, so that makes me sad. But but no, I understand though, because bass players are hard to find sometimes.

41:22 Speaker 3: They really are, and they're in such high demand, you know what I mean. Like, I don't know, if I if I wanted to be a career musician, I definitely would pick up, like, you know, like a higher gun type guy. Bass or drums is like what you want to do, you know.

41:35 Speaker 9: Yeah. My theory about yeah, because drummers are hard to find too, and in fact, we've seen you know, Jenny knows this. We've had so many bands on the show where the drummer specifically is in like ten different projects. And my theory about that is, you know, when you're growing up and you first you become interested interested in playing an instrument, and you have the conversation with parents, you know, I want to play drums, They're going to try to talk you out of that, oh for sure, because nobody wants live drums in their h you know, in their attic or whatever.

42:02 Speaker 3: No, especially if it's being played by somebody who doesn't know how to do it right.

42:05 Speaker 9: Exactly. Yeah, that's the worst. Yeah, drums or the tuba, or probably the two that your your parents are going to try to actively talk you out of, like, well, do you really want to play that?

42:13 Speaker 3: Are you sure you want the violin?

42:15 Speaker 8: Right? Oh?

42:16 Speaker 9: Violin? Yeah, that one could be a problem too, but uh yeah, so yeah, drums and uh, drums and drummers and bass players are usually the hardest to find.

42:26 Speaker 7: So you're bringing up some some childhood memories of me setting up a secondhand drum set in my parents' basement. Really, oh yeah, and since my mom is probably still watching, I wonder if she remembers opening the door to the basement and yelling down to me to please stop.

42:44 Speaker 9: Oh really?

42:47 Speaker 8: Yeah?

42:49 Speaker 9: Oh man, did you did you continue to play drums or my?

42:55 Speaker 10: Not?

42:55 Speaker 7: I I never really played drum set, so it's funny. Actually my trajectory he as a musician. I started on piano, and then I started playing percussion in like middle school, middle school band and stuff like that, and then I started playing marching percussion in high school. So I played I played like xylophone and stuff like that, like pit percussion for marching band. And then also during concert season I would play pit percussion, but during marching band season I would play snare drum, but I think I was when I was a senior, I was marching snare, but I marched some other things in parades too.

43:31 Speaker 7: But I picked up guitar in high school at the same time. The drumming didn't really come with me in any sense of the word after I graduated high school.

43:41 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, Oh, by the way, your mom says in the chat room, that's a lie. She's an eyes yelling at you. I guess to stop.

43:48 Speaker 7: All right, Well, maybe you know, all right, maybe some selective memory on one or both parties. I do firmly and I will have a firm stance on the fact that it was not the preferred okay situation.

44:07 Speaker 9: Okay, understood, understood. Yeah, but that is an unusual trajectory though. I think you're right in terms of because I feel like I forget who we were talking about this with. But I feel like most most people who play drums, who play other instruments as well drum, they usually get to drums at the end, you know, like they like they start on guitar, bass, or piano or whatever, and then eventually they get to drums. But it sounds like you, well, you started on piano, right, but then Yeah, but drums was early.

44:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, drum drums were early. I think I started on I think I started on piano when I was like seven. Yeah, and I still play piano. I still, I still play piano pretty regularly. But yeah, I think it's interesting. I think I started picking up percussion in fifth grade.

44:53 Speaker 1: Maybe.

44:53 Speaker 7: I think I was eleven or twelve when I started picking it up, so, you know, only another five years later,

45:01 Speaker 7: and I kind of did things in stages. I left a lot of piano behind as far as my main focus once I kind of got into high school. My mom will also agree with this. I stopped actually really practicing for my lessons, so I would learn stuff that I was playing. You know, I was in the school jazz band and stuff like that, so I would practice that stuff kind of. But I stopped taking formal piano lessons when I was maybe fourteen. I don't blame her whatsoever. She didn't want to support me doing it if I wasn't actually going to practice any of the material.

45:40 Speaker 7: And I had Yeah, I was like, I don't want to learn classical music, like I want to play cool stuff, right, I want to play guitar now, you know.

45:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, not rebel, yeah, real rebel.

45:56 Speaker 7: It really only served to hold me back really in the future. I'm fortunate enough that I was able to like get back into everything kind of universally, you know what I mean. I ended up playing drums.

46:09 Speaker 9: No, it's not true.

46:10 Speaker 7: I did play drums in a band when I was in college and we were not good really yeah, a little punk band, you know. But yeah it served me well as far as all the other things that I did, yeah, you know, musically, but yeah, very interesting. I'm back into piano pretty regularly now, you know. I play guitar every week, but no drumming. They hate it when I get on the drum sets.

46:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's bad.

46:37 Speaker 9: But actually starting on piano though, that's good because I've heard a lot of I've heard so many music teachers and instructors and even Berkeley professors say that ideally, when when you're young and you're starting out getting into music, that's the ideal place. Keyboard, any kind of keyboard, is the ideal place to start in terms of building blocks for learning how to play music. Like that's like the single best place to start is learning how to play a keyboard.

47:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean yeah, because it's just up and it's just up and down. There's none of this like dumb sideways stuff where like you're repeating the same exact note like on guitar. You know, there's, however, many different places to play each note that's like in the same exact octave.

47:21 Speaker 8: You know that.

47:22 Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, there's it's a lot more open to interpretation than I think that playing like piano or something like that is. And so it's really easy to see the more linear nature of music in that way and trying to like figure out a guitar fret board and be.

47:40 Speaker 9: Like exactly only and what's that right, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I guess there's research to these shows that are really it's the fastest way to train your brain to understand music and understand music theory and everything is just learning on the keyboard, but which I didn't do, unfortunately, I wish I had.

47:56 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it would even give you like a really good rhythmic foundain if you wanted to switch over to like drums or something like that. A lot of people consider it to be a pretty percussive instrument itself.

48:06 Speaker 9: Right right, Yeah, exactly, Well that might explain your trajectory there in the beginning with.

48:10 Speaker 7: It definitely does. It's everything. It was an easy you know bridge, Yeah, it's everything. It's it's melody, harmony, uh, you know, bassline me, you know what I mean. Yeah,

48:24 Speaker 7: I definitely because of that, I'd say my biggest strength in this band would be composition, you know. It's It's interesting my technique and my proficiency on the instrument on guitar has had to develop. I mean, I've become an infinitely better guitar player than I was when we first started writing music in like twenty nineteen. My my actual playing was just so behind every step of the way when I was learning guitar. But my main skill is being able to take I call it piano brain, you know, whenever we're doing anything, I just I got the visual piano in the sky okay, okay, and I kind of have to translate from guitar to piano in my mind and then back to guitar.

49:11 Speaker 9: Yeah.

49:11 Speaker 7: It makes communicating with him not great sometimes, and and everybody else too. This stuff going on in my brain is sometimes hard to explain, but giving the opportunity to put it down and then explain it in terms of everyone's individual instrument and understanding. I've been told I do a good job and it's probably my biggest I would say it's probably my biggest attribute and contribution other than like the technical side of things, okay, as far as like tech actual technology, yeah, and setting that stuff up.

49:42 Speaker 7: So yeah, you know, let me just talk about myself.

49:45 Speaker 9: For a bit.

49:48 Speaker 1: Now.

49:48 Speaker 9: That's uh no, that that's very interesting, And yeah, I think everything you says you said, they're really bolsters that idea that you know, learning on the keyboard is the best way to start.

49:58 Speaker 7: Well, what about you?

49:59 Speaker 9: And by o way, if you're just joining us, we were joined by questing beast. Here in studio, we have Jane and Shane here and so I'm curious about your trajectory now, Shane.

50:08 Speaker 3: So I had almost none of that. I always wanted to play guitar. When I was seven, I got appetite for destruction and I would be listening to that and be like, how are they making these sounds happen? It was the first time I remember hearing like stereo guitar parts and noticing that like each guitar was doing totally different things, and so that so more than like even like you know, slashes soloing being you know great or whatever. It was the interaction between the guitars, like the riffs and the way that the playing the two different things culminated in this one new thing that's ultimately way better than the individual things on its own, always really spoke to me.

50:48 Speaker 3: And so when I inevitably started picking up guitar at like twelve years old, that I started going towards rock and roll, like immediately. Yeah, And Jane and I started writing music together when we were like fifteen, Yeah, And it was funny because I had taken I had a guitar teacher at the time who had kind of like burnt me out on it because it was like I didn't feel like I was really learning a lot of stuff, and I felt like, you know, very stagnant. So I stopped playing for a while, and then one day I was like trying to figure out something that I was hearing in my head.

51:20 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I wonder how you play that, And I didn't play it right at all. I played a totally new thing, and I was like, that's not the thing I was looking for, but it's pretty cool on its own. And I ended up talking to Jane at that point and being like, hey, I came up with this thing, like do you want to write the rest of it with me?

51:42 Speaker 9: And yeah, and that was so that was really the beginning of sure, yeah, of all this right, Oh yeah, wow, yeah a long time ago.

51:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, fifteen years later.

51:52 Speaker 3: Wow, it sounds a.

51:53 Speaker 7: Lot different than it did when we were hanging out, just playing through a couple tiny little in his bedroom.

52:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can imagine, Yeah, I can imagine. Well before we run out of time. So I want to make sure we remind everybody about you know two things. Of course, you know that you got the big show tomorrow night at Terminus Underground in Nashua, and then and the tour and uh and also too where people can go online to keep up with everything that you're doing.

52:21 Speaker 3: Absolutely, if you're on Instagram, you can find us at Questing Beasts. There's no punctuation or anything. We really lucked out on that screen name there. We're also on Facebook. Those are like the two primary social places that we're at. We stream our music everywhere and we've got the link tree on the Instagram page and on the Facebook page, so it's very easily accessible. You can find our music anywhere.

52:45 Speaker 9: And yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, so be a terminus tomorrow night and then the tour starts. What was it start date?

52:51 Speaker 3: April fifth, Yeah, at Ralph's Rock Diner.

52:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, congratulations on that.

52:58 Speaker 3: That's amazing, thank you. Yeah, we're stoked for that.

53:00 Speaker 9: That's amazing. And in a moment, we'll play one more track from Birth to close out the segment. But Jenny, do you want to remind people to give people your website because you've been up to a lot as always, trouble as usual.

53:12 Speaker 7: You can check it all out at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N c O f f uy dot com.

53:18 Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent, Jane and Shane, thank you both so much for joining us. Thank you, it has been wonderful. And what should we I'll let you pick. Well, we'll play one more track from Birth to close out the show. What should we? What should we play?

53:30 Speaker 1: Uh?

53:31 Speaker 3: You want to do corruption?

53:33 Speaker 9: Corruption?

53:33 Speaker 3: It's one of the heavier ones. I'm trying to push it out there. It's the it's like the only song that hasn't hit like a thousand on Spotify.

53:39 Speaker 9: Yet, oh no kidding.

53:40 Speaker 3: And also I'm trying to I want to do a side project where I do death metal vocals. So if you didn't a death metal band and you need a vocalist, you call me up.

53:48 Speaker 9: All right, all right, and let's see if we can push some streams on this track.

53:52 Speaker 3: Absolutely sounds great.

53:53 Speaker 9: All right, So we'll close out with this, and if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w M and H radio dot org and my website Matt Connorton dot com. And here it is. This is called Corruption. This is from the album is Birth, and the band is Question Beasts.

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54:35 Speaker 8: As my thoughts guts back died. She's told a trainer, No, look one side, I ain't married. I'm going.

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57:15 Speaker 1: Rob black.

57:17 Speaker 3: Like black die.

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58:06 Speaker 6: Spries, let's call the crimson bills.

58:15 Speaker 1: So long as my.

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58:27 Speaker 1: All all the.

58:28 Speaker 6: Pasperis outside to start very Bno, all, let's try that first, your suffering.

58:37 Speaker 4: And shine.

58:48 Speaker 5: Shot see.

58:58 Speaker 1: Bring them in the back. Don't look up.

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