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3:18 Speaker 9: John, That is the Comets tale. The band is questing

4:10 Speaker 9: Beast and we have Jane and Shane here with us

4:13 Speaker 9: live in studio on this Saturday morning. Welcome everybody. We

4:16 Speaker 9: have entered our number three New Marrow trace of Matt

4:20 Speaker 9: Connorton unleashed and we're live from the studios of w

4:23 Speaker 9: m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Manchester,

4:27 Speaker 9: New Hampshire, where it is apparently snowing outside right now

4:31 Speaker 9: on this day, March twenty nine, twenty twenty five. I

4:35 Speaker 9: was not expecting that were you. No, no, did you

4:40 Speaker 9: actually turn my microphone on? It's on, it's on, Yes,

4:44 Speaker 9: I know, right, so of course grow Yeah, that's exactly

4:49 Speaker 9: that was exactly my word for it. But at least

4:51 Speaker 9: we know it will it'll, it'll melt. Oh that's true. Yeah.

4:54 Speaker 9: Our birdcam you can birdcam there. They're probably somewhere, probably

5:00 Speaker 9: 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,

5:13 Speaker 9: so so here we are, of course on this Saturday,

5:16 Speaker 9: and we have Jane and Shane with us from Questing

5:18 Speaker 9: Beasts by the way, So I love that track. The

5:21 Speaker 9: Comets Tail definitely gets the blood pumping. And as I

5:25 Speaker 9: like to say, if that didn't get your blood pumping

5:28 Speaker 9: on a Saturday morning, check your pulse, you might be dead.

5:31 Speaker 9: 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

5:45 Speaker 9: the last time, so what how how long ago it

5:47 Speaker 9: becomes a blur to me? Yeah, it was, I mean

5:49 Speaker 9: it wasn't a year ago, right.

5:51 Speaker 3: Or no, it would have been right before the Halloween show, right,

5:55 Speaker 3: so October ish, not that long Yeah, yeah, not crazy

5:59 Speaker 3: 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

6:05 Speaker 9: had John? I know, I know, you've got a big

6:07 Speaker 9: show coming up tomorrow for those listening live of course

6:12 Speaker 9: at Terminus Underground.

6:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely sure. So yeah, yeah, so we're getting back

6:17 Speaker 3: into playing playing out again. You know, last time we

6:21 Speaker 3: were here, we're talking about how we kind of went

6:22 Speaker 3: into hibernation for the winter. We totally did that. It

6:26 Speaker 3: was great and we're out better than ever, ready to

6:30 Speaker 3: start playing more gigs again.

6:32 Speaker 9: Excellent And what so what were you doing during that

6:36 Speaker 9: hibernation period? I mean, were you did you take a

6:39 Speaker 9: break from the band, or were you writing and recording

6:41 Speaker 9: or what was what was going on?

6:42 Speaker 3: We're doing a lot of writing, and also we're planning

6:46 Speaker 3: for our upcoming first ever tour that April twenty fifth.

6:53 Speaker 3: We're basically going on a quick week long run down

6:55 Speaker 3: 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

7:07 Speaker 3: for us now, Dan se Lance. He helped us book

7:11 Speaker 3: a out of these gigs, and he's also stepping into

7:14 Speaker 3: the live role of playing bass for us, which is

7:16 Speaker 3: awesome and because those are some pretty big shoes to fill,

7:20 Speaker 3: you know, the guy that we had record for us,

7:22 Speaker 3: Chase Brian's absolute monster. So for Dan to come in

7:25 Speaker 3: 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

7:33 Speaker 9: is from what's the name of the album again, because

7:35 Speaker 9: 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,

7:49 Speaker 7: Ye Bryant okay, and then he so he so you

7:53 Speaker 7: recorded with you, but was not in a position to like,

7:56 Speaker 7: was he ever? Was he ever officially in the band?

7:58 Speaker 3: Or was he just basically a hired gun? Yeah? I

8:01 Speaker 3: mean he lives he lives in la He plays in

8:04 Speaker 3: 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.

8:17 Speaker 7: I we follow him on social media, Like he's on

8:20 Speaker 7: tour with war Bringer right now, I think.

8:23 Speaker 3: Every but he's got like eight other projects out there, yeah,

8:25 Speaker 3: 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

8:34 Speaker 9: him him being as busy as he is. How did

8:37 Speaker 9: that come about?

8:38 Speaker 3: We were essentially just kind of racking our brains, like

8:41 Speaker 3: trying to find somebody local, and we got sick of

8:44 Speaker 3: doing it, and we're like, I bet we could find

8:46 Speaker 3: somebody else for money. And I was like, this guy

8:49 Speaker 3: is a perfect example of what I want the bass

8:51 Speaker 3: playing to sound like. And so I just hit him

8:53 Speaker 3: up on Instagram and we started talking. Yeah, and he

8:56 Speaker 3: had me send him to the demos and he was

8:58 Speaker 3: a fan of the demos, and uh yeah, we were

9:00 Speaker 3: able to work something out.

9:01 Speaker 9: When when you first contacted him, was it kind of like, uh, well,

9:05 Speaker 9: I don't know, I don't know if he's if he's

9:07 Speaker 9: gonna have time or be interested, but I'm going to

9:09 Speaker 9: 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

9:17 Speaker 3: 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

9:25 Speaker 3: and hoping you get something back. Yeah yeah, yeah, And

9:28 Speaker 3: so for it to come back around it's nice. You know,

9:30 Speaker 3: every once in a while it does.

9:31 Speaker 9: You never know, it's always it's always worth a try

9:34 Speaker 9: because you never know. And it worked out phenomenally well.

9:36 Speaker 3: So yeah, basic playing came out awesome. He reported his

9:39 Speaker 3: 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

9:47 Speaker 7: to happen.

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

9:51 Speaker 9: So, so what was that a matter of just kind

9:53 Speaker 9: of sending the tracks back and forth.

9:55 Speaker 3: And essentially yeah, I mean, dudes were pro so. I

9:58 Speaker 3: mean he pretty much had everything under his fingers by

10:00 Speaker 3: the time he came out here, which is convenient because

10:03 Speaker 3: we only had like, you know, eighteen hours between when

10:06 Speaker 3: he came out here and played with us for the

10:07 Speaker 3: 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,

10:17 Speaker 9: the new what's his name again, the new new bass

10:20 Speaker 9: player or the current bass.

10:21 Speaker 3: Player Dan Selan. He plays in Ice Giant, he plays

10:24 Speaker 3: in Annilist Monday, he plays in Perennial Quest. Yeah, he

10:28 Speaker 3: 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,

10:37 Speaker 9: so he's also a busy guy. But yeah, but geographically

10:39 Speaker 9: he's available.

10:41 Speaker 8: Yeah.

10:42 Speaker 7: And the nice thing is he seems to be I

10:46 Speaker 7: don't know if this is just like a point of pride,

10:49 Speaker 7: but he seems to be really enjoying conquering the music

10:53 Speaker 7: and learning the parts, you know what I mean. He's

10:55 Speaker 7: like posting himself working through some of it on his

10:59 Speaker 7: Instagram stories like that, and it made me feel pretty

11:03 Speaker 7: pretty awesome. Yeah, just because you know, we play the

11:07 Speaker 7: music all the time. For somebody else to try it

11:09 Speaker 7: out and get fulfillment out of trying to learn it

11:11 Speaker 7: made me like, yeah, yeah.

11:14 Speaker 9: Well that's yeah, I mean, that's that's tremendous validation, right,

11:17 Speaker 9: I mean, you know, obviously you get the validation if

11:20 Speaker 9: you play it for other people, if you play it

11:21 Speaker 9: live and people react positively to it, you know, that's

11:24 Speaker 9: that's fantastic, right, But to also get that validation of

11:28 Speaker 9: somebody wants to learn the songs and really commits, you know,

11:32 Speaker 9: commits to learning them. I mean, that's that's fantastic. That's

11:34 Speaker 9: 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?

11:43 Speaker 3: So if you've done we've done like three practices with

11:46 Speaker 3: 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

11:52 Speaker 3: 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

11:56 Speaker 3: because of the whole tour situation and everything, but so

11:59 Speaker 3: like it was gonna happen eventually. But yeah, I don't know,

12:03 Speaker 3: 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

12:09 Speaker 9: there another band or other bands that you've teamed up

12:12 Speaker 9: with for the tour or you know, because there's different

12:14 Speaker 9: ways to approach it, right you know.

12:16 Speaker 3: Yeah. So our main tour mates are a band called

12:19 Speaker 3: 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

12:26 Speaker 3: because they're such pals that you know, we couldn't we

12:29 Speaker 3: couldn't have thought of like a better three dudes to

12:31 Speaker 3: go out on the road with nice and so we

12:34 Speaker 3: hit them up and they were super open to it

12:35 Speaker 3: and everything. And there's I think a total of like

12:39 Speaker 3: twenty something different local bands. Because one of the shows

12:42 Speaker 3: is a is a festival. Oh really, Yeah, the New

12:46 Speaker 3: York show is a it's the Long Island Doom Festival,

12:51 Speaker 3: Okay at mister Berry's, which so that kind of ups

12:55 Speaker 3: those numbers a bunch. But so we're super excited to

12:57 Speaker 3: go out and beat a bunch of these bands. Yeah,

13:00 Speaker 3: some of these cool shows are gonna be in some

13:02 Speaker 3: really cool places too, so yeah, it would be a

13:04 Speaker 3: 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,

13:11 Speaker 3: 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

13:20 Speaker 7: 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

13:25 Speaker 3: for like the eighth grade DC trip and the park

13:28 Speaker 3: itself was closed down, but I always wanted to go

13:30 Speaker 3: and hit those roller coasters. But I did get a

13:32 Speaker 3: five pound chocolate bar while I was there.

13:34 Speaker 9: Yeah, five pound chocolate bar. Ooh, that sounds like a

13:38 Speaker 9: lot of It was a lot of work. It's a

13:39 Speaker 9: 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

13:45 Speaker 3: the stuff those ones that are like just like the

13:48 Speaker 3: big post where you sit on you know what I mean,

13:49 Speaker 3: and it goes like all the way up. I'm not

13:51 Speaker 3: a fan of that type of stuff, but on any

13:53 Speaker 3: roller coaster.

13:54 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, me too, Me too. When I was a kid,

13:56 Speaker 9: I remember being terrified of going on one that went

13:59 Speaker 9: up down until I until I did it, and it

14:02 Speaker 9: happened so quick that you know, you don't even know

14:04 Speaker 9: 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,

14:08 Speaker 9: so you should definitely do that. And are you Are

14:12 Speaker 9: you playing the same set every night as far as

14:15 Speaker 9: you know, or your time is going to kind of

14:17 Speaker 9: vary where you have to kind of work with it.

14:19 Speaker 3: Some of the shows are four band bills and some

14:23 Speaker 3: of them are five band bills, so we'll be able

14:25 Speaker 3: to get an extra song or two on the shorter bills. Yeah,

14:29 Speaker 3: but I mean we've only got the one record. Yeah,

14:31 Speaker 3: we're not unveiling any of that new material until the

14:34 Speaker 3: time is right. Uh, pretty much will be songs from

14:38 Speaker 3: the first record in various orders.

14:41 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, but you have so you do have

14:43 Speaker 9: new material you're working on.

14:45 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yeah, pretty much. We took

14:48 Speaker 3: so between when we finished writing the first record and

14:50 Speaker 3: when we finished recording it, which was about I don't know,

14:54 Speaker 3: maybe nine month period, we were just working on really

14:58 Speaker 3: hammering those songs down, and so we didn't write anything

15:01 Speaker 3: during that time. So it was kind of like this

15:03 Speaker 3: big there's like a big rush of like creativity when

15:06 Speaker 3: we you know, played the final note in the studio

15:09 Speaker 3: and we went home and we're like, what do we

15:12 Speaker 3: do now? Yeah, we've been working pretty hard and I'm

15:16 Speaker 3: 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

15:29 Speaker 7: delved even farther into each kind of individual element that

15:34 Speaker 7: we're bringing to it, So it's kind of, you know,

15:39 Speaker 7: even more thematic. Even more, we spent even more time

15:45 Speaker 7: paying attention to the different you know, flares and genres

15:49 Speaker 7: and influences you know what I mean. So there's a

15:53 Speaker 7: lot of variety, Like there's a lot of variety in

15:57 Speaker 7: the first record, but what we're working on is kind

16:01 Speaker 7: of expanding upon each little bit of that variety, I think,

16:03 Speaker 7: and so each song kind of feels pretty unique, but

16:07 Speaker 7: also there's a pretty substantial common thread between all of it,

16:11 Speaker 7: which is something on the first record too. So yeah,

16:15 Speaker 7: it's been pretty cool. We're not we're kind of throwing

16:20 Speaker 7: caution to the wind for a few things, and we're

16:23 Speaker 7: just kind of trying whatever we want to do. There's

16:26 Speaker 7: some pretty funny ideas that we've just totally ran with.

16:29 Speaker 7: 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.

16:40 Speaker 3: I think it's it's basically everything we did, but we

16:43 Speaker 3: 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,

16:57 Speaker 3: So the music comes first, right, Yeah, Yeah, So I

16:59 Speaker 3: mean we kind of have like a storyline and then

17:02 Speaker 3: we build the music off of the storyline. Okay, and

17:05 Speaker 3: then the lyrics are kind of like the very final thread. Okay,

17:09 Speaker 3: I think so it's like that's like really the last

17:12 Speaker 3: 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

17:21 Speaker 9: last time you were here. But does birth have a

17:23 Speaker 9: 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,

17:29 Speaker 9: but I couldn't remember how how defined the actual story

17:32 Speaker 9: was or if it was kind of more just a

17:34 Speaker 9: loose concept.

17:36 Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of both actually, right, So it's

17:39 Speaker 3: very defined to us, like we know the storyline. It's

17:42 Speaker 3: like this very defined thing, but we purposefully at this

17:45 Speaker 3: point like like the lyrics are kind of esoteric, right,

17:48 Speaker 3: because like you can go really far in the direction

17:52 Speaker 3: of like wanting to write a good story, but after

17:56 Speaker 3: a certain point you're taking away from like the quality

17:59 Speaker 3: of the song, right, Like we don't need a billion

18:02 Speaker 3: details about like a guy's armor as he's coming up

18:05 Speaker 3: over the crest of the hill, you know what I mean,

18:07 Speaker 3: Like you just filled up half of your verse describing

18:10 Speaker 3: this and so like and what I wanted to do

18:13 Speaker 3: or what we wanted to do is kind of have

18:14 Speaker 3: it be a more like personalized thing, right where anybody

18:20 Speaker 3: can go in and like read the lyrics and try

18:23 Speaker 3: and derive like what the legitimate story is. But it's

18:26 Speaker 3: more important, I think, from my perspective, for people to

18:29 Speaker 3: be able to derive their own meaning from it, Okay, Right, So,

18:32 Speaker 3: like I would really like to, at one point or

18:35 Speaker 3: another figure out how to do a comic book to

18:37 Speaker 3: like tell the legitimate story like straight up, you know

18:40 Speaker 3: what I mean. But I also don't want to like

18:46 Speaker 3: go to people who have maybe derived their own meaning

18:48 Speaker 3: from the songs and be like, you're wrong, this is

18:51 Speaker 3: what it means, you know what I mean, because it's

18:53 Speaker 3: like that's kind of a slap in the face, and

18:55 Speaker 3: 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

19:03 Speaker 9: or with any kind of art. Really, it's what you

19:06 Speaker 9: we might have talked I've talked about this with a

19:08 Speaker 9: few people on the show. We might have talked about

19:10 Speaker 9: this before, but I know that I've experienced that where

19:14 Speaker 9: it's kind of like, you know, a song means something

19:16 Speaker 9: to you, and then you read an interview with the

19:20 Speaker 9: person who wrote the lyrics and they talk about what

19:22 Speaker 9: it means and you kind of go, oh, that's different

19:25 Speaker 9: than what it meant to me, And then there's that

19:28 Speaker 9: weirdness of oh, now I kind of feel differently about it,

19:32 Speaker 9: you know what I mean?

19:33 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I think for our music specifically, Yeah,

19:39 Speaker 7: I think that would be a pretty funny instance because

19:43 Speaker 7: it's so specific. So you know, there's so much left

19:47 Speaker 7: to interpretation in the lyrics that if and when, you know,

19:52 Speaker 7: inevitably we do have a concrete representation of what the

19:56 Speaker 7: whole story is. You know, We've said it before. This

20:02 Speaker 7: was part one of a concept of a few albums

20:06 Speaker 7: 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

20:12 Speaker 7: on installment two of that. So it's expanding upon, uh,

20:17 Speaker 7: this storytelling universe, you know what I mean. So it

20:20 Speaker 7: would be pretty funny for us to just drop all

20:22 Speaker 7: that information and have people, you know, kind of learn

20:26 Speaker 7: what it is. I think I'm gonna speak a little

20:32 Speaker 7: bit on lyrically for the first album, there's some very

20:39 Speaker 7: literal world building. So the song we just listened to,

20:43 Speaker 7: there's some very literal, you know, pre you know, description

20:50 Speaker 7: of what's going on some exposition, Yeah, exposition exactly, And

20:56 Speaker 7: it's not really up for interpretation when you sit down

20:59 Speaker 7: and read it, you know what I mean, It basically

21:01 Speaker 7: tells you, you know, what's going to happen. Yeah, and

21:03 Speaker 7: then you know all the other things beyond that, when

21:06 Speaker 7: we're singing about emotions and you know, things happening, it's

21:09 Speaker 7: it's all pretty up for interpretation. And I think we

21:13 Speaker 7: want to make music that is true to what we're

21:17 Speaker 7: trying to do story wise, and then also is up

21:21 Speaker 7: for interpretation and receivable to someone who knows nothing about

21:25 Speaker 7: the story as much as possible. And I think we've

21:27 Speaker 7: tried to dive into that even more so, Okay, on

21:32 Speaker 7: our current writing lyrically anyway.

21:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, No, that's very cool. I look forward to, uh,

21:39 Speaker 9: you know when eventually, I mean you probably at this point,

21:42 Speaker 9: do you have any kind of an eta on when

21:45 Speaker 9: when you might start recording the next one?

21:46 Speaker 3: Or yeah, I don't know, like a year or I

21:50 Speaker 3: 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.

22:00 Speaker 3: But you never know what's going to happen, you know.

22:02 Speaker 3: I mean we it took forever to get the first one,

22:05 Speaker 3: and I think we've got a more streamlined process at

22:07 Speaker 3: this point, but yeah, you know, anything could happen.

22:10 Speaker 9: So but so, but you both talked about a trilogy.

22:13 Speaker 9: Does that mean that you've already got the you've got

22:17 Speaker 9: the whole story mapped out already, or.

22:19 Speaker 3: Like big story points that we want to hit mapped out. Yeah,

22:22 Speaker 3: But I mean it's it's cool to leave like certain

22:25 Speaker 3: things open, right because like, for example, on the first record,

22:29 Speaker 3: we had finished the record, I just did air quotes

22:33 Speaker 3: for anybody listening, Yeah, and we had like six songs,

22:37 Speaker 3: and I was like, it doesn't feel right, you know,

22:40 Speaker 3: And so I was like, we got to write two

22:43 Speaker 3: more songs, and we ended up doing Beneath Red Leaves

22:46 Speaker 3: and Titans Grip, which have ended up being two of

22:50 Speaker 3: the most popular questioning beat songs at this point, and

22:55 Speaker 3: nobody else wanted to write them. But I was like,

22:57 Speaker 3: look the story, we can add some more detail else

23:00 Speaker 3: into the story, and these riffs rule, I don't see

23:03 Speaker 3: why anybody could be opposed to it. And then everybody

23:06 Speaker 3: was mad when we were recording them, and so it

23:08 Speaker 3: 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

23:18 Speaker 7: more guitar, you're gonna get it. Yeah, And it came

23:23 Speaker 7: out with a good So you were able to channel

23:26 Speaker 7: that anger, yeah a little bit. Yeah, it feels feels

23:29 Speaker 7: really epic. Titans Script is actually our current most stream

23:32 Speaker 7: song on Spotify. We passed like four thousand streams today,

23:36 Speaker 7: I think, which cool.

23:37 Speaker 9: Congratulations. Yeah, that's great, interesting metric, but but no, it

23:43 Speaker 9: matters though. Those metrics do matter. No, that's very cool,

23:47 Speaker 9: very cool. Do you have anything that you play currently

23:51 Speaker 9: that's not on this first album when you play live

23:53 Speaker 9: or no.

23:54 Speaker 3: No, we've talked about doing some covers and stuff, which

23:57 Speaker 3: is now a lot more of possibility that we've got

24:01 Speaker 3: Dan in the live setup because we were just playing

24:03 Speaker 3: to like recorded bass tracks before, you know, from the record,

24:07 Speaker 3: and so opportunities for that are kind of more available now.

24:11 Speaker 3: So I mean, I'd be down to explore that kind

24:13 Speaker 3: of stuff for sure, But for the most part, were

24:15 Speaker 3: just playing stuff from the record and trying to promote

24:17 Speaker 3: that we've got a ton of vinyl that we need

24:18 Speaker 3: to get rid of. So what do you mean, oh,

24:22 Speaker 3: just like vinyl records.

24:24 Speaker 9: Yeah.

24:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to play the songs that are on

24:27 Speaker 3: the on the record for people to try and entice

24:30 Speaker 3: 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

24:45 Speaker 9: 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

24:53 Speaker 3: ableton session and everything was and that's why I had

24:55 Speaker 3: Jane do it. And uh but uh yeah, I mean

25:01 Speaker 3: once it's all been set up, it's not that bad.

25:03 Speaker 3: You know, a drummer is kind of a machine. Okay,

25:06 Speaker 3: so having him played to a metronome is pretty easy.

25:09 Speaker 3: As far as getting everybody else locked.

25:12 Speaker 9: In, it wasn't It wasn't weird for him, or maybe

25:14 Speaker 9: or maybe it was, but he adapted.

25:16 Speaker 3: He adapted pretty well. I don't think that there was

25:18 Speaker 3: like a huge problem for him. You know, each each

25:20 Speaker 3: song has kind of its own counting and everything. I

25:23 Speaker 3: 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

25:30 Speaker 7: I'm going to be honest, we threw a lot at him, really. Yeah,

25:34 Speaker 7: 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

25:40 Speaker 7: house for sure.

25:41 Speaker 9: Yeah.

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

25:46 Speaker 3: some backup vocals there.

25:48 Speaker 9: That always impresses me. Your drummers who can sing while

25:51 Speaker 9: they play, you know, because drums is the most you know,

25:53 Speaker 9: 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

25:58 Speaker 3: 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

26:07 Speaker 7: one part I think it's in the second course of

26:09 Speaker 7: Titans Grip where I'm looking at him when we're in practice,

26:12 Speaker 7: I'll just be looking at him. He's leaned over, you know,

26:14 Speaker 7: to the mic to try to sing, and the arms

26:17 Speaker 7: are going and he's playing so much complex stuff on

26:19 Speaker 7: the drums and he's just keeping his head here, yeah,

26:22 Speaker 7: and nailing the note too, and then he just finishes

26:25 Speaker 7: and looks at the rest of us. Pretty much every time.

26:27 Speaker 7: Then he knows well we'll look at him and just

26:29 Speaker 7: give him an affirming nod of yeah, that was on,

26:33 Speaker 7: and he just always goes, you know, some iteration of like,

26:37 Speaker 7: 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

26:45 Speaker 9: in the chat room here, Bradley Hurley says, can't say

26:48 Speaker 9: enough great things about this band. I'm a huge fan

26:50 Speaker 9: of this band. And Jane Oh shouts out Bradley, what's up.

26:55 Speaker 9: 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

27:02 Speaker 9: conversation off here two about lyrics, circling back to lyrics

27:05 Speaker 9: for a moment because you know, I was commenting now

27:07 Speaker 9: it's it's nice when I you know, I don't mind

27:09 Speaker 9: making radio edits for our guests, but it's nice when

27:13 Speaker 9: I don't have to and I never have to make

27:15 Speaker 9: 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.

27:21 Speaker 3: I think that's a very like conscious decision on our part,

27:24 Speaker 3: because it's like, I don't know, you can throw a

27:27 Speaker 3: ton of swears into a song if you want to. Yeah,

27:30 Speaker 3: like I don't know, personally, it's like a very weak

27:31 Speaker 3: creative decision. I mean there's so many words, you know

27:36 Speaker 3: that like I don't know, choosing to swear for like

27:40 Speaker 3: edginess sake is like kind of weak to me. And

27:43 Speaker 3: what's funny is that I that idea kind of came

27:48 Speaker 3: from with Corey uh, what's his name, Slipknot Corey Taylor, Yeah,

27:55 Speaker 3: because he made that switch. And when I was like

27:58 Speaker 3: super young and angsty, I remember being like that's lab

28:01 Speaker 3: You're not gonna swear anymore. And then I got older

28:03 Speaker 3: and I started like kind of like, you know, listening

28:06 Speaker 3: to the Slipknot sort of evolution, like the maturity and

28:09 Speaker 3: like the lyric writing and stuff, and you know, I

28:12 Speaker 3: mean you go back and listen to that first record

28:14 Speaker 3: and some of it's like headbanger stuff, but yeah, a

28:16 Speaker 3: lot of it like I don't know, spit it out,

28:18 Speaker 3: like I really want to go and listen to that

28:20 Speaker 3: 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,

28:31 Speaker 9: you know, it's one thing, if it's if it's metal,

28:33 Speaker 9: certain kinds of metal or hip hop, but if you

28:36 Speaker 9: hear you know, just a singer songwriter and they've got

28:38 Speaker 9: like the S word just in there. It's like, you know,

28:41 Speaker 9: because it's like, oh, you're a singer songwriter, but ooh

28:44 Speaker 9: 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

28:52 Speaker 3: a blanket rule, like swearing in songs bad or lazy,

28:56 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? But I do you think

28:57 Speaker 3: it's a tool that like should be used at certain points,

29:03 Speaker 3: Like like my buddy Joe plays in this band called

29:06 Speaker 3: Dirt Byre and he's got the song called Fentanyl, and uh,

29:12 Speaker 3: there's this really powerful part when he first comes in

29:15 Speaker 3: to this one line. He says, you keep fing around,

29:19 Speaker 3: And I'm like, it's super powerful because of what he's

29:22 Speaker 3: talking about, you know what I mean. Sure, but like

29:24 Speaker 3: I don't know, a lot of times I'm like, it

29:27 Speaker 3: doesn't have that same effect.

29:28 Speaker 9: Right right by the way, Jane looks like you're getting

29:32 Speaker 9: some familial love in the chat room. Mommy loves you, Janey, Shelley.

29:39 Speaker 9: 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

29:49 Speaker 9: our first guests today. Uh, waiting for Z. We're on

29:52 Speaker 9: and we're talking about it's nice one when you have

29:54 Speaker 9: supportive family members. Also, oh, I missed this comment earlier.

29:58 Speaker 9: Kyle Gatto is in the chat room man says more

30:00 Speaker 9: than Matt, what's good brother, welcome Kyle. Yeah, I mean

30:05 Speaker 9: it's it's Uh. I also think though, too, it would

30:08 Speaker 9: be weird because of the style and the genre of

30:11 Speaker 9: the music that you do. Sure it would actually it

30:13 Speaker 9: would be strange word in there, you know.

30:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, nobody's thinking of like I don't know,

30:19 Speaker 3: mid century or like medieval times, and like you know,

30:25 Speaker 3: everybody's running around with like swearing a whole bunch. I

30:28 Speaker 3: don't know. It feels like it should be more like

30:30 Speaker 3: regal and like hoity toity and you know, almost have

30:35 Speaker 3: a bit of a curtsy just embedded in the lyrics,

30:38 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I feel like there's like

30:40 Speaker 3: a certain level of like, I don't know, fanciful that

30:45 Speaker 3: it like needs.

30:47 Speaker 9: No, I know, I know what you mean. Although if

30:49 Speaker 9: you watch like some some of the Monty Python movies

30:52 Speaker 9: that are period pieces, it seems like there was a

30:54 Speaker 9: lot of swearing back then, but absolutely, yeah, no, I

30:58 Speaker 9: know what you mean though, Yeah, I think I think

31:01 Speaker 9: profanity would be very awkward in your music. You know,

31:04 Speaker 9: it would almost be like, I don't know, there's I

31:07 Speaker 9: think that genre it just it doesn't fit. But no,

31:11 Speaker 9: so I and I think it's great that you're you're

31:14 Speaker 9: so conscientious about the lyrics that you you know, use

31:17 Speaker 9: you know, there's so many words, you know, the English language,

31:21 Speaker 9: we have so many words, you know, so why not

31:22 Speaker 9: be creative?

31:23 Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I mean we spent so much time arguing

31:26 Speaker 3: about like the sourus related really opinions. Oh yeah, when

31:31 Speaker 3: we're writing lyrics. So when we write lyrics, generally it's me,

31:36 Speaker 3: our drummer and our vocalists all working together. Sometimes Jane's

31:40 Speaker 3: into Jane generally helps more with like the melodic elements

31:43 Speaker 3: of like the vocals and like the rhythmic elements of everything.

31:47 Speaker 3: But as far as like the lyrics goes, it's like

31:49 Speaker 3: the three of us generally kind of going back and

31:51 Speaker 3: forth about what the best way to say like what

31:53 Speaker 3: we're trying to convey is, yeah, and so it prevents

31:57 Speaker 3: it from like being kind of like over ing in

32:00 Speaker 3: like one person's style. You know and we get this

32:03 Speaker 3: kind of cool average. I think that works out really

32:06 Speaker 3: 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.

32:13 Speaker 9: I think we should play another track from the from

32:15 Speaker 9: the album you did send me another one that you

32:18 Speaker 9: 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.

32:26 Speaker 9: Yeah we can. We can give that a spin, and

32:28 Speaker 9: then at the end of the show we'll probably play

32:30 Speaker 9: another one from the album. I have your do you have?

32:32 Speaker 9: Because I do have the album pulled up and I

32:34 Speaker 9: love love your music. I think it's really good. Absolutely,

32:38 Speaker 9: so I check this out. This is called Beneath Red

32:40 Speaker 9: Leaves and the band is questing Beast.

33:44 Speaker 10: I wend it back you thro was gone, I say,

33:48 Speaker 10: good as tack. I see the piece pea so bad,

33:55 Speaker 10: 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,

34:16 Speaker 10: 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

34:48 Speaker 4: 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

35:20 Speaker 11: time say nothing, He's.

35:27 Speaker 10: Thanks, You's call me a swom yet by now yourself

35:32 Speaker 10: 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

35:44 Speaker 10: 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

37:16 Speaker 9: and that is from their album Birth That is so good.

37:19 Speaker 9: And they're gonna be playing if you are listening live

37:20 Speaker 9: on Saturday, they're gonna be tomorrow night. They're going to

37:23 Speaker 9: be Sunday night at Terminus Underground. What time does that

37:26 Speaker 9: show start?

37:27 Speaker 3: The doors are at six o'clock. I believe we are

37:30 Speaker 3: 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

37:40 Speaker 9: the show. Oh cool Dog eight Dog was with us

37:42 Speaker 9: a couple of weeks ago. Actually, yeah, really really cool.

37:45 Speaker 9: 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

37:52 Speaker 9: a while for that to come together?

37:54 Speaker 3: I mean in terms of just honestly, that was probably

37:56 Speaker 3: one of the faster ones, was it. Yeah, So that

37:59 Speaker 3: was one of the last two that we wrote, right,

38:01 Speaker 3: the ones that we had mentioned before we started playing,

38:04 Speaker 3: and I had had that rift the main riff that

38:09 Speaker 3: button't it for a little bit, and Jane, I think,

38:12 Speaker 3: had had that intro kind of written out from something

38:16 Speaker 3: that we had messed around with during practice, and so

38:19 Speaker 3: we essentially just like fused those two things together, came

38:23 Speaker 3: up with the solo section, and I had a little

38:25 Speaker 3: alternate version that became the outro, and uh, yeah, we

38:30 Speaker 3: 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

38:40 Speaker 7: section chords and the fast like thrashy part probably one

38:45 Speaker 7: of my proudest moments. Also, so having an awesome guitar

38:49 Speaker 7: solo on top of it, too, and that was like

38:51 Speaker 7: the cherry on top. That was like the last thing

38:53 Speaker 7: for the song. That song, that song is super hard

38:58 Speaker 7: 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,

39:06 Speaker 9: I I'm a musician. I used to play in some bands,

39:09 Speaker 9: but I never played in anything that did anything that

39:13 Speaker 9: you know, with time changes and you know, demanding. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so,

39:18 Speaker 9: so I'm very impressed. Yeah that's uh, that's that's really good. Oh.

39:22 Speaker 9: By the way, in the chat room, so Bradley Hurley

39:25 Speaker 9: uh said to your mom, Oh you should know your

39:29 Speaker 9: daughter has helped my recovery and life so much for

39:32 Speaker 9: 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.

39:38 Speaker 9: That is awesome. And then so when does the now

39:42 Speaker 9: when does the tours start again?

39:44 Speaker 3: April twenty fifth is the first day of Horror playing

39:47 Speaker 3: Ralph's Okay in rock Yeah, that one is going to

39:51 Speaker 3: be with so Moontomb obviously, Horror, Perennial Quest and mercury

39:59 Speaker 3: Burns first.

40:01 Speaker 9: Oh okay great yeah yeah, yeah, we had mercury Burns

40:03 Speaker 9: first on a couple of months ago, and we've had

40:05 Speaker 9: Horror on too. So yeah, that's that's that's really strong.

40:09 Speaker 9: That's great. Now with the with the tour, will this

40:11 Speaker 9: be your your first time traveling out of New England

40:14 Speaker 9: with the band? Yeah?

40:15 Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. Well the furthest we've gone up to

40:17 Speaker 3: this point is that we played out in Connecticut at

40:21 Speaker 3: some point last year. Okay, but yeah, this will be

40:24 Speaker 3: 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

40:31 Speaker 9: 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

40:46 Speaker 9: 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,

40:56 Speaker 3: drummer okay.

40:58 Speaker 9: And then so so before you would play with bass tracks,

41:00 Speaker 9: did you always have a live drummer. Yeah, yeah, you

41:03 Speaker 9: did always have a live drummer. Okay, all right, that

41:05 Speaker 9: makes sense. So it's just a bass player that you

41:07 Speaker 9: didn't have before officially, Okay, got it.

41:10 Speaker 3: And it's a lot easier to get away with not

41:12 Speaker 3: having a live bassis than a live drummer.

41:15 Speaker 9: I'm a bass player, so that makes me sad. But

41:19 Speaker 9: but no, I understand though, because bass players are hard

41:22 Speaker 9: to find sometimes.

41:22 Speaker 3: They really are, and they're in such high demand, you

41:25 Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, I don't know, if I

41:27 Speaker 3: if I wanted to be a career musician, I definitely

41:29 Speaker 3: would pick up, like, you know, like a higher gun

41:32 Speaker 3: type guy. Bass or drums is like what you want

41:34 Speaker 3: to do, you know.

41:35 Speaker 9: Yeah. My theory about yeah, because drummers are hard to

41:38 Speaker 9: find too, and in fact, we've seen you know, Jenny

41:41 Speaker 9: knows this. We've had so many bands on the show

41:43 Speaker 9: where the drummer specifically is in like ten different projects.

41:46 Speaker 9: And my theory about that is, you know, when you're

41:49 Speaker 9: growing up and you first you become interested interested in

41:51 Speaker 9: playing an instrument, and you have the conversation with parents,

41:54 Speaker 9: you know, I want to play drums, They're going to

41:57 Speaker 9: try to talk you out of that, oh for sure,

41:59 Speaker 9: because nobody wants live drums in their h you know,

42:01 Speaker 9: in their attic or whatever.

42:02 Speaker 3: No, especially if it's being played by somebody who doesn't

42:04 Speaker 3: know how to do it right.

42:05 Speaker 9: Exactly. Yeah, that's the worst. Yeah, drums or the tuba,

42:08 Speaker 9: or probably the two that your your parents are going

42:10 Speaker 9: to try to actively talk you out of, like, well,

42:12 Speaker 9: 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

42:20 Speaker 9: uh yeah, so yeah, drums and uh, drums and drummers

42:24 Speaker 9: and bass players are usually the hardest to find.

42:26 Speaker 7: So you're bringing up some some childhood memories of me

42:31 Speaker 7: setting up a secondhand drum set in my parents' basement. Really,

42:34 Speaker 7: oh yeah, and since my mom is probably still watching,

42:38 Speaker 7: I wonder if she remembers opening the door to the

42:41 Speaker 7: 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

42:52 Speaker 9: or my?

42:55 Speaker 10: Not?

42:55 Speaker 7: I I never really played drum set, so it's funny.

42:58 Speaker 7: Actually my trajectory he as a musician. I started on piano,

43:02 Speaker 7: and then I started playing percussion in like middle school,

43:06 Speaker 7: middle school band and stuff like that, and then I

43:09 Speaker 7: started playing marching percussion in high school. So I played

43:13 Speaker 7: I played like xylophone and stuff like that, like pit

43:18 Speaker 7: percussion for marching band. And then also during concert season

43:21 Speaker 7: I would play pit percussion, but during marching band season

43:24 Speaker 7: I would play snare drum, but I think I was

43:26 Speaker 7: when I was a senior, I was marching snare, but

43:28 Speaker 7: I marched some other things in parades too. But I

43:31 Speaker 7: picked up guitar in high school at the same time.

43:35 Speaker 7: The drumming didn't really come with me in any sense

43:38 Speaker 7: of the word after I graduated high school.

43:41 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, Oh, by the way, your mom says in

43:43 Speaker 9: the chat room, that's a lie. She's an eyes yelling

43:47 Speaker 9: at you. I guess to stop.

43:48 Speaker 7: All right, Well, maybe you know, all right, maybe some

43:55 Speaker 7: selective memory on one or both parties. I do firmly

44:01 Speaker 7: and I will have a firm stance on the fact

44:03 Speaker 7: that it was not the preferred okay situation.

44:07 Speaker 9: Okay, understood, understood. Yeah, but that is an unusual trajectory though.

44:12 Speaker 9: I think you're right in terms of because I feel

44:14 Speaker 9: like I forget who we were talking about this with.

44:16 Speaker 9: But I feel like most most people who play drums,

44:18 Speaker 9: who play other instruments as well drum, they usually get

44:20 Speaker 9: to drums at the end, you know, like they like

44:23 Speaker 9: they start on guitar, bass, or piano or whatever, and

44:25 Speaker 9: then eventually they get to drums. But it sounds like you, well,

44:29 Speaker 9: you started on piano, right, but then Yeah, but drums

44:31 Speaker 9: was early.

44:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, drum drums were early. I think I started on

44:36 Speaker 7: I think I started on piano when I was like seven. Yeah,

44:39 Speaker 7: and I still play piano. I still, I still play

44:44 Speaker 7: piano pretty regularly. But yeah, I think it's interesting. I

44:49 Speaker 7: 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

44:55 Speaker 7: 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

45:06 Speaker 7: a lot of piano behind as far as my main

45:09 Speaker 7: focus once I kind of got into high school. My

45:14 Speaker 7: mom will also agree with this. I stopped actually really

45:17 Speaker 7: practicing for my lessons, so I would learn stuff that

45:21 Speaker 7: I was playing. You know, I was in the school

45:23 Speaker 7: jazz band and stuff like that, so I would practice

45:25 Speaker 7: that stuff kind of. But I stopped taking formal piano

45:30 Speaker 7: lessons when I was maybe fourteen. I don't blame her whatsoever.

45:35 Speaker 7: She didn't want to support me doing it if I

45:38 Speaker 7: wasn't actually going to practice any of the material. And

45:41 Speaker 7: I had Yeah, I was like, I don't want to

45:43 Speaker 7: learn classical music, like I want to play cool stuff, right,

45:49 Speaker 7: 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

46:00 Speaker 7: the future. I'm fortunate enough that I was able to

46:03 Speaker 7: like get back into everything kind of universally, you know

46:06 Speaker 7: 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

46:12 Speaker 7: in college and we were not good really yeah, a

46:15 Speaker 7: little punk band, you know. But yeah it served me

46:19 Speaker 7: well as far as all the other things that I did, yeah,

46:22 Speaker 7: you know, musically, but yeah, very interesting. I'm back into

46:25 Speaker 7: piano pretty regularly now, you know. I play guitar every week,

46:29 Speaker 7: but no drumming. They hate it when I get on

46:32 Speaker 7: 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

46:40 Speaker 9: heard a lot of I've heard so many music teachers

46:43 Speaker 9: and instructors and even Berkeley professors say that ideally, when

46:49 Speaker 9: when you're young and you're starting out getting into music,

46:52 Speaker 9: that's the ideal place. Keyboard, any kind of keyboard, is

46:56 Speaker 9: the ideal place to start in terms of building blocks

46:59 Speaker 9: for learning how to play music. Like that's like the

47:02 Speaker 9: single best place to start is learning how to play

47:05 Speaker 9: a keyboard.

47:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean yeah, because

47:08 Speaker 3: it's just up and it's just up and down. There's

47:10 Speaker 3: none of this like dumb sideways stuff where like you're

47:13 Speaker 3: repeating the same exact note like on guitar. You know, there's, however,

47:17 Speaker 3: many different places to play each note that's like in

47:20 Speaker 3: 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

47:25 Speaker 3: open to interpretation than I think that playing like piano

47:29 Speaker 3: or something like that is. And so it's really easy

47:32 Speaker 3: to see the more linear nature of music in that

47:37 Speaker 3: way and trying to like figure out a guitar fret

47:39 Speaker 3: board and be.

47:40 Speaker 9: Like exactly only and what's that right, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

47:45 Speaker 9: And I guess there's research to these shows that are

47:47 Speaker 9: really it's the fastest way to train your brain to

47:50 Speaker 9: understand music and understand music theory and everything is just

47:53 Speaker 9: learning on the keyboard, but which I didn't do, unfortunately,

47:55 Speaker 9: I wish I had.

47:56 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it would even give you like

47:58 Speaker 3: a really good rhythmic foundain if you wanted to switch

48:01 Speaker 3: over to like drums or something like that. A lot

48:03 Speaker 3: 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

48:09 Speaker 9: there in the beginning with.

48:10 Speaker 7: It definitely does. It's everything. It was an easy you

48:14 Speaker 7: know bridge, Yeah, it's everything. It's it's melody, harmony, uh,

48:20 Speaker 7: 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

48:28 Speaker 7: in this band would be composition, you know. It's It's

48:32 Speaker 7: interesting my technique and my proficiency on the instrument on

48:37 Speaker 7: guitar has had to develop. I mean, I've become an

48:41 Speaker 7: infinitely better guitar player than I was when we first

48:43 Speaker 7: started writing music in like twenty nineteen. My my actual

48:49 Speaker 7: playing was just so behind every step of the way

48:54 Speaker 7: when I was learning guitar. But my main skill is

48:57 Speaker 7: being able to take I call it piano brain, you know,

49:00 Speaker 7: whenever we're doing anything, I just I got the visual

49:02 Speaker 7: piano in the sky okay, okay, and I kind of

49:06 Speaker 7: have to translate from guitar to piano in my mind

49:10 Speaker 7: and then back to guitar.

49:11 Speaker 9: Yeah.

49:11 Speaker 7: It makes communicating with him not great sometimes, and and

49:15 Speaker 7: everybody else too. This stuff going on in my brain

49:18 Speaker 7: is sometimes hard to explain, but giving the opportunity to

49:22 Speaker 7: put it down and then explain it in terms of

49:24 Speaker 7: everyone's individual instrument and understanding. I've been told I do

49:29 Speaker 7: a good job and it's probably my biggest I would

49:32 Speaker 7: say it's probably my biggest attribute and contribution other than

49:35 Speaker 7: like the technical side of things, okay, as far as

49:38 Speaker 7: 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

49:51 Speaker 9: think everything you says you said, they're really bolsters that

49:55 Speaker 9: idea that you know, learning on the keyboard is the

49:57 Speaker 9: 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

50:01 Speaker 9: were joined by questing beast. Here in studio, we have

50:04 Speaker 9: Jane and Shane here and so I'm curious about your

50:06 Speaker 9: trajectory now, Shane.

50:08 Speaker 3: So I had almost none of that. I always wanted

50:10 Speaker 3: to play guitar. When I was seven, I got appetite

50:12 Speaker 3: for destruction and I would be listening to that and

50:15 Speaker 3: be like, how are they making these sounds happen? It

50:18 Speaker 3: was the first time I remember hearing like stereo guitar

50:23 Speaker 3: parts and noticing that like each guitar was doing totally

50:27 Speaker 3: different things, and so that so more than like even

50:31 Speaker 3: like you know, slashes soloing being you know great or whatever.

50:35 Speaker 3: It was the interaction between the guitars, like the riffs

50:38 Speaker 3: and the way that the playing the two different things

50:42 Speaker 3: culminated in this one new thing that's ultimately way better

50:45 Speaker 3: than the individual things on its own, always really spoke

50:48 Speaker 3: to me. And so when I inevitably started picking up

50:51 Speaker 3: guitar at like twelve years old, that I started going

50:56 Speaker 3: towards rock and roll, like immediately. Yeah, And Jane and

50:59 Speaker 3: I started writing music together when we were like fifteen, Yeah,

51:03 Speaker 3: And it was funny because I had taken I had

51:05 Speaker 3: a guitar teacher at the time who had kind of

51:09 Speaker 3: like burnt me out on it because it was like

51:11 Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I was really learning a lot

51:13 Speaker 3: of stuff, and I felt like, you know, very stagnant.

51:15 Speaker 3: So I stopped playing for a while, and then one

51:17 Speaker 3: day I was like trying to figure out something that

51:20 Speaker 3: I was hearing in my head. I was like, oh,

51:21 Speaker 3: I wonder how you play that, And I didn't play

51:24 Speaker 3: it right at all. I played a totally new thing,

51:27 Speaker 3: and I was like, that's not the thing I was

51:30 Speaker 3: looking for, but it's pretty cool on its own. And

51:33 Speaker 3: I ended up talking to Jane at that point and

51:37 Speaker 3: being like, hey, I came up with this thing, like

51:39 Speaker 3: 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

51:45 Speaker 9: beginning of sure, yeah, of all this right, Oh yeah, wow,

51:49 Speaker 9: 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,

51:57 Speaker 7: just playing through a couple tiny little in his bedroom.

52:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can imagine, Yeah, I can imagine. Well before

52:06 Speaker 9: we run out of time. So I want to make

52:07 Speaker 9: sure we remind everybody about you know two things. Of course,

52:11 Speaker 9: you know that you got the big show tomorrow night

52:13 Speaker 9: at Terminus Underground in Nashua, and then and the tour

52:16 Speaker 9: and uh and also too where people can go online

52:19 Speaker 9: to keep up with everything that you're doing.

52:21 Speaker 3: Absolutely, if you're on Instagram, you can find us at

52:23 Speaker 3: Questing Beasts. There's no punctuation or anything. We really lucked

52:27 Speaker 3: out on that screen name there. We're also on Facebook.

52:30 Speaker 3: Those are like the two primary social places that we're at.

52:34 Speaker 3: We stream our music everywhere and we've got the link

52:37 Speaker 3: tree on the Instagram page and on the Facebook page,

52:40 Speaker 3: 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

52:48 Speaker 9: 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

53:03 Speaker 9: track from Birth to close out the segment. But Jenny,

53:06 Speaker 9: do you want to remind people to give people your

53:09 Speaker 9: website because you've been up to a lot as always,

53:12 Speaker 9: trouble as usual.

53:12 Speaker 7: You can check it all out at Gencoffee dot com.

53:15 Speaker 7: 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

53:22 Speaker 9: for joining us. Thank you, it has been wonderful. And

53:24 Speaker 9: what should we I'll let you pick. Well, we'll play

53:27 Speaker 9: one more track from Birth to close out the show.

53:29 Speaker 9: 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

53:35 Speaker 3: it out there. It's the it's like the only song

53:37 Speaker 3: 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

53:41 Speaker 3: side project where I do death metal vocals. So if

53:44 Speaker 3: you didn't a death metal band and you need a vocalist,

53:47 Speaker 3: you call me up.

53:48 Speaker 9: All right, all right, and let's see if we can

53:51 Speaker 9: 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

53:55 Speaker 9: you miss any part of today's show, it will be

53:57 Speaker 9: up in just a little bit at w M and

53:59 Speaker 9: H radio dot org and my website Matt Connorton dot com.

54:02 Speaker 9: And here it is. This is called Corruption. This is

54:04 Speaker 9: from the album is Birth, and the band is Question Beasts.

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54:33 Speaker 6: still diagrams and fellows how long.

54:35 Speaker 8: As my thoughts guts back died. She's told a trainer, No,

54:40 Speaker 8: look one side, I ain't married. I'm going.

54:54 Speaker 3: St the full on around sun Sho.

55:06 Speaker 1: It's see.

55:10 Speaker 5: I don't where.

55:13 Speaker 10: Bird Boats Such Pad, stop Car, Don't Away, take you

55:20 Speaker 10: back Car Roads First, take about Such and stop Card,

55:27 Speaker 10: Don't Wait, Take you Back Car Roads, Rise, Where came Back,

56:32 Speaker 10: full of Through three times, Fall Shot only Tree and

56:40 Speaker 10: the Ball, Flash Shot, Stop Car Down Away, take Back

56:46 Speaker 10: Car tepagle boys at Baker.

57:15 Speaker 1: Rob black.

57:17 Speaker 3: Like black die.

57:20 Speaker 1: Try by the way, wish.

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

58:15 Speaker 1: So long as my.

58:16 Speaker 6: Eyes gets to the side wood through cocaondus cocotta birds

58:21 Speaker 6: across local little child and the cruise or us to

58:26 Speaker 6: Joy and the mess.

58:27 Speaker 1: All all the.

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

58:36 Speaker 6: 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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59:11 Speaker 10: Don't go away that sore horbat