Matt Connarton Unleashed 3-8-25 hour 3

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3:03 Speaker 7: That is WTF. We'll call it sick dude. Hell yeah

3:07 Speaker 7: is the band. We're going to talk to these guys

3:09 Speaker 7: in just a moment. Welcome everybody. If you are listening

3:12 Speaker 7: live on Saturday. It is Saturday, March eight, twenty twenty five,

3:17 Speaker 7: and we are live from the studios of wm NH

3:20 Speaker 7: ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny

3:25 Speaker 7: is here as well, of course at the news table. Yes,

3:29 Speaker 7: and let's go ahead and get those mics up here.

3:31 Speaker 7: Really looking forward to talking to these guys. Gentlemen.

3:33 Speaker 8: Welcome, hey, thanks for having us.

3:35 Speaker 7: Absolutely please please each introduce yourselves and tell us who

3:40 Speaker 7: you are what you do in the band.

3:42 Speaker 5: I'm Dylan McKenna.

3:43 Speaker 9: I do bass and vocals, all right, welcome, And I'm

3:47 Speaker 9: Somebody's Crackers and I play the drums and do some

3:51 Speaker 9: backup vocals.

3:52 Speaker 7: All right, very good. Somebody's Crackers. Am I saying that right?

3:57 Speaker 8: It's not an as, it's an e RS, it's an eers.

4:00 Speaker 7: Somebody's crackers. Okay, very good. You know these uh these

4:03 Speaker 7: these names, Yeah, I want I try to make sure

4:06 Speaker 7: I pronounce everyone's name correctly. Jenny witnessed me, uh, just

4:11 Speaker 7: almost panicking over well, he ended up not joining us

4:14 Speaker 7: on the show. I guess we had booked earlier and

4:17 Speaker 7: uh phy Zach early or something, and it's like, I

4:19 Speaker 7: don't know how to say this name, so I probably

4:21 Speaker 7: would have butchered it anyway, telemarketer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding,

4:25 Speaker 7: no kidding. Uh So, welcome guys. First question, of course, uh,

4:31 Speaker 7: where does the name come from? Because that that's obvious.

4:33 Speaker 7: You know it's sick dude. Hell yeah, it's not a

4:35 Speaker 7: not a a conventional name for a band, shall we say?

4:39 Speaker 5: Yeah? Sure, no, it's actually it's kind of a funny

4:41 Speaker 5: story and it's actually it's it's it's pretty simple. We

4:45 Speaker 5: were jamming one day and we had like an idea

4:48 Speaker 5: we wanted to do some type of band together, and Uh,

4:53 Speaker 5: I forgot about a cable. I had to split my

4:56 Speaker 5: bass into two signals. Yeah, oigured, let's let's give that

4:59 Speaker 5: a shot. Did that and our first jam session, like

5:03 Speaker 5: after it, I was like sick dude, and Nate hell.

5:07 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. We just kind of It's been the mantra

5:11 Speaker 9: since day one. It's just like every time we finish

5:14 Speaker 9: like making some kind of new addition to a song

5:16 Speaker 9: or like come up with like the first sick riff

5:19 Speaker 9: for like yeah whatever, it's just one of us will

5:22 Speaker 9: stay sick dude and the other one will say, hell yeah,

5:24 Speaker 9: it doesn't It hasn't been decided who's who yet, but

5:27 Speaker 9: you know.

5:28 Speaker 7: Right, that's awesome now, so it makes sense. It makes sense.

5:33 Speaker 7: The name is is appropriate. Dylan, tell me about the

5:37 Speaker 7: splitting of the Uh oh sorry, Uh, I don't have

5:42 Speaker 7: the video on me. I have it on you guys,

5:43 Speaker 7: so people can't see I'm fidgeting with my microphone. Uh

5:46 Speaker 7: tell me about the splitting of the signal. I'm curious

5:49 Speaker 7: about this and when you mentioned that too. Do you

5:51 Speaker 7: guys probably know Able Blood, right or did you guys

5:54 Speaker 7: know the band Able Blood?

5:55 Speaker 8: I don't think so now.

5:56 Speaker 7: Because there's a lot of okay, because there's a lot

5:58 Speaker 7: of splitting of signals with with their whole setup. So

6:00 Speaker 7: I'm curious about this, So tell me about anima bass player.

6:04 Speaker 7: So selfishly, I'm also very careious. Yeah, exactly.

6:09 Speaker 5: So originally it started with just a split a quarter

6:14 Speaker 5: inch cable that come off my bass and basically one

6:17 Speaker 5: signal just goes straight into my bass amp and I

6:21 Speaker 5: just cranked the gain on that, and then the other

6:23 Speaker 5: signal goes through a pitchfork and so I just have

6:27 Speaker 5: to pitch shifted up in octave and then into a

6:30 Speaker 5: fuzz pedal and into my guitar.

6:32 Speaker 7: Okay, so that gives you a really just a heavy yeah,

6:37 Speaker 7: like like there's it's it's great. I love the way

6:40 Speaker 7: it sounds.

6:41 Speaker 5: Yeah cool, Yeah, no, thank you and yeah. So I

6:43 Speaker 5: mean I guess the goal was to try to just

6:44 Speaker 5: like mimic a guitar but have bass as well. Yeah,

6:50 Speaker 5: because where we we're from, it's it's pretty tough to

6:53 Speaker 5: find other musicians to jam with.

6:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, where are you guys from Wolfborough, New Hampshire, wolf

6:59 Speaker 7: Burro up.

7:00 Speaker 9: So there's plenty of musicians out there, it's just not

7:03 Speaker 9: ones who want to make like super you know, in

7:07 Speaker 9: your face kind of stuff like this testosterone fueled caveman jam.

7:13 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah right, uh yeah, able Blood does something kind

7:17 Speaker 7: of like what you described. I forget how they but

7:19 Speaker 7: because because they also have that a lot of bottom

7:21 Speaker 7: end and you know, it's it's really their setup is

7:24 Speaker 7: really interesting because there you know, it's three of them,

7:26 Speaker 7: but they sound, They've got this huge sound. You should

7:30 Speaker 7: check them out. But who else is in the band?

7:33 Speaker 8: It's not just that it literally is just the two

7:36 Speaker 8: of you.

7:36 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's amazing, that's that's awesome. Okay do you do

7:42 Speaker 7: you have plans to add members or or is this

7:45 Speaker 7: working so well with just the two of you? And

7:48 Speaker 7: and I mean it's not like it hasn't been done.

7:49 Speaker 7: I suppose, right, but there's not but to be able

7:52 Speaker 7: to pull it off like like you do, it's pretty cool.

7:54 Speaker 7: Like I think of the White Stripes when I think

7:56 Speaker 7: of you know.

7:57 Speaker 9: Most legendary duo of all time, yea from maybe Tenacious D.

8:01 Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, no, I I think that like we're

8:04 Speaker 9: not necessarily closed off to it. It's just uh, for one,

8:07 Speaker 9: it's a matter of ease.

8:09 Speaker 7: Yeah.

8:09 Speaker 9: For two, it's a matter of you know, having people

8:11 Speaker 9: like you ask us questions like that, and that feels

8:14 Speaker 9: really good to kind of stand out in a way,

8:16 Speaker 9: you know. But nothing's completely off the table. Like if

8:19 Speaker 9: if some other riff lord wanted to saddle up and

8:22 Speaker 9: could do something uh that made us say either sick Dude,

8:26 Speaker 9: hell yeah, or both, then welcome aboard, frankly. But but

8:30 Speaker 9: we're not like, we're not like, uh, there's no like

8:32 Speaker 9: now hiring, sign up or anything. Ye're perfectly content to

8:36 Speaker 9: just move forward as a duo. There's a soft spot,

8:39 Speaker 9: excuse me, a soft spot in my heart.

8:41 Speaker 8: For musical duos like just yeap and across the board.

8:46 Speaker 7: So and if it's working, it's working. Yeah, so far,

8:49 Speaker 7: why I mess with it? Yeah? How long is Sick

8:51 Speaker 7: Dude hell yeah existed?

8:53 Speaker 5: Oh hm, I think maybe almost five months?

8:57 Speaker 7: Yeah, this really new?

8:59 Speaker 5: Yeah it was.

9:00 Speaker 9: We met in a different band and then uh, I

9:05 Speaker 9: guess I'll just say, creative differences kind of drove us apart,

9:08 Speaker 9: but then drove Dylan and I together, and okay, we

9:11 Speaker 9: just kind of picked up in the same practice space

9:14 Speaker 9: where they left off, and we're just like, let's just start, uh,

9:17 Speaker 9: let's just start riffing around. And we had two songs

9:20 Speaker 9: by the end of our first practice and we're just

9:22 Speaker 9: like sick, dude, hell you.

9:25 Speaker 7: So you guys were in that other band together?

9:27 Speaker 1: Yeah?

9:27 Speaker 7: Oh, what do you want to say? What band? Redacted? Redacted? Okay, yeah,

9:31 Speaker 7: not somebody I know? Or are you saying you're redact?

9:33 Speaker 8: I'm saying I'm reacting the reacting.

9:35 Speaker 7: Okay, will you tell me off their?

9:36 Speaker 5: Sure?

9:37 Speaker 7: I won't repeat it, I promise, Yeah, don't don't. I

9:39 Speaker 7: don't repeat anything, right, Jenny, there you go.

9:45 Speaker 8: Do you have a little reverb on your mic over there?

9:46 Speaker 7: I don't know what's going on over there? All right,

9:50 Speaker 7: sound very strange. I'm sorry. Yeah, she's she's booking guests

9:54 Speaker 7: for the show.

9:56 Speaker 6: No.

9:56 Speaker 7: But uh so that's so you guys had already worked

9:59 Speaker 7: had you worked together for a long time in that band?

10:01 Speaker 5: About a year?

10:02 Speaker 8: About a year?

10:02 Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, So where do you record because obviously the

10:08 Speaker 7: sound is, you know, it's a really raw you know,

10:12 Speaker 7: which I love personally, I like that, but it's it's

10:17 Speaker 7: it's got that sort of raw sort of demo vibe.

10:20 Speaker 7: But I think but I think it's really cool, Like,

10:22 Speaker 7: how do you guys record? What's your process?

10:24 Speaker 5: So we actually our practice space is adjacent to a

10:29 Speaker 5: small studio that's a friend of mine, nice, and so

10:32 Speaker 5: we just we recorded with him. Yeah, and the way

10:35 Speaker 5: we did it, I know, we used a few different amps, yeah,

10:39 Speaker 5: and had some amps and different rooms, but we were

10:42 Speaker 5: definitely going for the overall like demo kind of rougher

10:46 Speaker 5: sound because we thought it would fit fit our vibe

10:50 Speaker 5: a lot better.

10:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool.

10:52 Speaker 9: Yeah, we just we just did the instruments in one

10:55 Speaker 9: take and then vocals in another take. Yeah, and just

10:57 Speaker 9: kind of like went into pro tools and just polished

10:59 Speaker 9: up and everything so that it wouldn't be so that

11:01 Speaker 9: it had a little bit of polished. But we didn't

11:03 Speaker 9: want to go in and like overproduce it either. We

11:05 Speaker 9: were more concerned with getting it out and just kind

11:08 Speaker 9: of having people listen to it. We can, we can

11:10 Speaker 9: polish something up later if we feel like it.

11:12 Speaker 5: But you know, it's yeah, and I think that my void.

11:16 Speaker 5: We didn't just in vocals and instruments all on one

11:19 Speaker 5: take that one.

11:21 Speaker 7: Yeah, Oh that's cool. The the radio edit that we heard,

11:27 Speaker 7: like you did that yourself, the editing on that, the

11:30 Speaker 7: putting in. I'm curious.

11:32 Speaker 5: So I gave my buddy a call, who initially recorded us,

11:36 Speaker 5: and I let him know what was going on. He's like,

11:38 Speaker 5: come on down, Yeah, well we'll put something together. And

11:42 Speaker 5: he's a goofy character as well, like me. So I mean,

11:44 Speaker 5: we're just hanging out and initially we're just gonna do beeps,

11:48 Speaker 5: and I was I wish the thought just popped in

11:49 Speaker 5: my head, like why am I just gonna do bleeps?

11:51 Speaker 5: Why don't I have some fun with it?

11:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. I love how it came out.

11:57 Speaker 9: And in one of the songs on the EP, you

12:00 Speaker 9: can hear the producer making some barnyard noises just in

12:05 Speaker 9: the background, Like, yeah, that wasn't either of us.

12:07 Speaker 8: I might have leaned up to the snare drum mic

12:09 Speaker 8: and joined him, but.

12:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's very cool. Are you guys playing out a

12:16 Speaker 7: lot or what's what's that like?

12:18 Speaker 5: So it's been kind of a slow start, which has

12:21 Speaker 5: been fine. We did we did one show at actually

12:24 Speaker 5: a wicked cool local indoor skate park in Rochester called

12:27 Speaker 5: Red Alert. Okay, and that was a blast. And then

12:31 Speaker 5: as far as shows that are books that we have,

12:33 Speaker 5: we only have one coming up in Plattsburgh, New York

12:38 Speaker 5: on April nineteenth over at Peabody The Occasion. It's so

12:42 Speaker 5: it's a four to twenty fast Yeah, okay, my buddy's

12:45 Speaker 5: in Lungbuster. They put it on.

12:47 Speaker 7: Okay, but it's the nineteenth, so it's uh said, yeah,

12:51 Speaker 7: it's premature, proactive. Yeah that's good. That's good.

12:56 Speaker 8: That's for the real go getters of the four twenty crowd.

13:00 Speaker 5: There you go.

13:01 Speaker 7: So that's it. Now, how did how did you get

13:03 Speaker 7: involved in that? Get in on that bill?

13:07 Speaker 1: So?

13:07 Speaker 5: I used to be in a I used to drum

13:09 Speaker 5: and a doom metal band a couple of years ago,

13:13 Speaker 5: and I played a show with those guys.

13:15 Speaker 7: And who was the band? Can you say?

13:17 Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we were called Grave Tripper.

13:18 Speaker 7: Okay, oh that's a cool name.

13:20 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was wicked. It was a fun project. Yeah.

13:25 Speaker 5: But as far as like things went and we just

13:27 Speaker 5: kind of all decided to part ways. But but yeah,

13:33 Speaker 5: so I met those guys at a show we played,

13:35 Speaker 5: and I thought they were cool, they were fun to watch,

13:37 Speaker 5: and yeah, I just hit them up on Instagram and

13:40 Speaker 5: you don't let them know. Hey, I'm starting this project.

13:42 Speaker 5: If if you guys ever need an opener or you know,

13:45 Speaker 5: need to fill a bill, feel free to hit us.

13:48 Speaker 7: Oh very cool, very cool. That's in Plattsburgh, New York. Yeah, okay, excellent.

13:54 Speaker 7: Have you guys played out much or I know it's

13:56 Speaker 7: a relatively new prob.

13:58 Speaker 9: Yeah, actually very new really just that show at Red

14:00 Speaker 9: Alert was our first, our first and only gigs so far.

14:04 Speaker 8: Okay, where uh.

14:06 Speaker 9: You know, we're wide open like our you know, we

14:09 Speaker 9: we work and have day jobs and stuff like that.

14:11 Speaker 9: But yeah, get us on your get us on your bill,

14:14 Speaker 9: get us in your basement, get us on.

14:16 Speaker 8: Your birthday, your birth birthday. We'll play whatever.

14:22 Speaker 7: But I would imagine when when you guys are out

14:26 Speaker 7: there gigging to that, you know, other other bands that

14:30 Speaker 7: you play with are going to really appreciate the you know,

14:34 Speaker 7: whereas this just two of you. You know, it's not

14:36 Speaker 7: because I, like, I used to play in a lot

14:38 Speaker 7: of bands and I don't know anymore, but I don't

14:40 Speaker 7: play anymore, but I know how like like sometimes when

14:43 Speaker 7: you're on a bill with a bunch of bands and

14:44 Speaker 7: you've got a band that you know, they're a five

14:47 Speaker 7: piece metal band and they've got all this gear and

14:49 Speaker 7: it takes them forever to get set up and then

14:51 Speaker 7: the tear down and you're waiting and waiting and waiting.

14:53 Speaker 7: But when it's just two of you.

14:55 Speaker 8: Know, where a sound guy's dream come true.

14:57 Speaker 7: I would imagine that's cool. And making the sound guy

15:03 Speaker 7: happy is always a plus.

15:04 Speaker 9: It's miles miles where other actions go yards, making the

15:10 Speaker 9: sound guy happy goes mine.

15:12 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, absolutely so. Have you both played in a

15:17 Speaker 7: lot of bands before this project or yeah.

15:19 Speaker 9: I've I've been in all kinds of bands, Like you know,

15:24 Speaker 9: I had like a little garage band that didn't do

15:26 Speaker 9: anything with some friends.

15:27 Speaker 8: In middle school. We were called rubber band, you know.

15:31 Speaker 9: Yeah, and we wore rubber bands on our wrists because

15:34 Speaker 9: we were in the band rubber band.

15:36 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it was well now, yeah exactly.

15:39 Speaker 9: And then we would start, you know, shooting them across

15:41 Speaker 9: the classrooms and getting them taken away by.

15:43 Speaker 8: Teachers and stuff like that. But that's good for our

15:45 Speaker 8: middle school things, good marketing.

15:47 Speaker 9: Then in high school, I was in a group called

15:49 Speaker 9: Idiosity Killed the Cat. Okay, we we got kind of

15:53 Speaker 9: kind of big, like in our town, like and you know,

15:56 Speaker 9: people would come out to see our shows because we

15:58 Speaker 9: were really the only like thing like that coming out

16:01 Speaker 9: of the town, which was Natick, Massachusetts. Bag shout out Natick, Massachusetts.

16:04 Speaker 9: There they've got a lot of music going on there.

16:07 Speaker 9: There's it's actually become quite the cultural hub.

16:10 Speaker 7: Good.

16:10 Speaker 9: But in my high school days it was less so yeah,

16:13 Speaker 9: and it's just it's it's really cool.

16:15 Speaker 7: Yeah.

16:16 Speaker 9: And then like more recently, I was in like a

16:18 Speaker 9: ska psychedelic fusion kind of band called Massachusetts the Band.

16:23 Speaker 9: As you can see, we're just great at naming bands.

16:29 Speaker 9: It was in like a gloom like glam doom rock

16:33 Speaker 9: outfit for a while called Votes that I sang and

16:35 Speaker 9: played tambourine for. Really yeah, just you know, all kinds

16:40 Speaker 9: of projects to keep me busy.

16:42 Speaker 8: I'll quit hoging the mic, what about you, don So.

16:46 Speaker 5: I haven't really been in too many bands and h

16:49 Speaker 5: In my early years of high school, like eighth grade

16:51 Speaker 5: through maybe sophomore year, I was in this crossover band

16:54 Speaker 5: called Silent Violence and we've played a few shows here

16:58 Speaker 5: and there, but somewhere in my sophomore year I was

17:02 Speaker 5: perpetually grounded pretty much like every other week through the

17:06 Speaker 5: rest of high school. That kind of hindered my ability

17:09 Speaker 5: to be in bands, yeah, because I wasn't following the

17:13 Speaker 5: rules there. But after high school I did a lot

17:16 Speaker 5: of like solo acoustic stuff for a long time. Yeah,

17:19 Speaker 5: and it was fun. It was fun because I had

17:25 Speaker 5: the ability to travel and not have to be around

17:29 Speaker 5: one area for too long and still be able to

17:32 Speaker 5: do music. Oh yeah. And it wasn't really until until

17:36 Speaker 5: Grave Tripper that I started playing in bands again.

17:38 Speaker 7: Oh no kidding.

17:39 Speaker 5: Yeah.

17:40 Speaker 7: Yeah. The thing about doing like in a solo acoustic

17:43 Speaker 7: thing is it's it's very liberating, I would think, right,

17:46 Speaker 7: because you can book yourself wherever and you don't have

17:49 Speaker 7: to check with anybody on their schedule or anything like that.

17:52 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely play whatever songs you want too.

17:55 Speaker 5: Yeah.

17:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, was was it hard for that reason? Was it

17:58 Speaker 7: hard to transition back into playing in a band?

18:01 Speaker 5: No? No, Actually for me, it was. Uh. It was

18:06 Speaker 5: nice to finally transdition back into a band because for

18:09 Speaker 5: for a long time I was trying to get back

18:11 Speaker 5: into it, but just wasn't able to find the right people, yeah,

18:14 Speaker 5: to make to make sounds with, you know. And uh,

18:18 Speaker 5: I just think being in a group of people and

18:22 Speaker 5: all kind of finding that like vibe and that like wavelength,

18:25 Speaker 5: we can all ride together. Is something really special.

18:27 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh very cool, very cool.

18:29 Speaker 5: Hey.

18:29 Speaker 7: By the way, too, I want to mention, Uh, I

18:32 Speaker 7: saw in one of the chat rooms Sheila Russo uh

18:36 Speaker 7: says really great tunes, referring to one of our earlier guests.

18:39 Speaker 7: And and Sheila, of course, I don't know. Do you

18:41 Speaker 7: guys know a paper Jam magazine?

18:42 Speaker 5: No?

18:43 Speaker 8: I know of it.

18:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah there. We kind of partnered up

18:46 Speaker 7: with them. They send us a lot of great guests

18:48 Speaker 7: and and uh, they're they're amazing. So hi Sheila, if

18:51 Speaker 7: you're still listening, we love paper Jam. The new one

18:53 Speaker 7: just came in the mail, uh the other day. And uh,

18:56 Speaker 7: our friend Gracy Gatto is in the chat room to

18:59 Speaker 7: hello Gracie, and let's see And in the Facebook chat room,

19:03 Speaker 7: I see our friend Jay Fed from Vermont and Nathan Hill,

19:06 Speaker 7: another very talented musician. He's gonna be coming on the

19:09 Speaker 7: show soon. So hello Nathan and everybody else who is listening.

19:12 Speaker 7: I think we should play another track. What do you

19:16 Speaker 7: guys think we should play next?

19:17 Speaker 9: Shit him with my void because we talked about it

19:20 Speaker 9: a little while ago you've read my mind.

19:22 Speaker 8: This is the one that we recorded everything in the

19:24 Speaker 8: same take.

19:25 Speaker 7: Okay, so this was all so, this was all done live.

19:28 Speaker 7: In other words, yeah, this track, okay, very cool if

19:31 Speaker 7: you're just joining us. We have the guys from Sick Dude,

19:33 Speaker 7: Hell yeah here with us in studio and let's give

19:37 Speaker 7: this a spin. This is called my void.

20:47 Speaker 4: I said in this wool.

20:51 Speaker 10: Went for us the walls, I cannot see myself and

20:59 Speaker 10: I saw I won't try move it.

21:03 Speaker 1: Like gostone.

21:06 Speaker 6: Waiting two by cross by stay close, so burstness, I shryd.

21:25 Speaker 4: The motion of great.

21:29 Speaker 6: Wait.

21:29 Speaker 7: I told me that.

21:48 Speaker 1: Wrapped the fox shop, I will never see it away.

21:55 Speaker 1: If the fine destroyed myself by a furcas white kid.

22:01 Speaker 6: An ways, while when knock down head that my voice

22:11 Speaker 6: jelly man so.

22:18 Speaker 4: So pastis.

22:23 Speaker 11: Said the most enough gray.

22:30 Speaker 7: White as a way, I love it. That is called

23:14 Speaker 7: my void. The band is Sick Dude, Hell yeah. Do

23:18 Speaker 7: you guys refer to yourselves as a band when there's

23:20 Speaker 7: two of you? How does that work? Because you sound

23:22 Speaker 7: like a band. It's hard not to call you a

23:25 Speaker 7: band because you've got such a big sound, you know.

23:27 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we both tell our respective partners.

23:30 Speaker 9: We're off to band practice, you know.

23:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. And

23:39 Speaker 7: I enjoy now that I know you're set up, Dylan.

23:41 Speaker 7: I just I really I enjoy listening to it even

23:43 Speaker 7: that much more now that I understand what you're doing there.

23:47 Speaker 7: That's really cool. And what's going on with the vocal there,

23:50 Speaker 7: like what's the vocal effect on that?

23:52 Speaker 5: I know we ran distortion on it. Yeah, And well,

23:56 Speaker 5: initially when I started the band, I always wanted to

23:58 Speaker 5: learn how to do like metal screams. And I figured, like,

24:02 Speaker 5: I'm never gonna learn if I don't try, and even

24:04 Speaker 5: if it sounds like crap, I'm just gonna wing it

24:06 Speaker 5: and right right, And that was kind of the idea,

24:10 Speaker 5: and just to kind of a what do you call

24:14 Speaker 5: it to omit like dread through the sound of it?

24:21 Speaker 7: Are you able to Are you able to do that

24:23 Speaker 7: without hurting your your throat?

24:26 Speaker 5: I mean I am now, I am now.

24:30 Speaker 8: During the recording process, not so much.

24:35 Speaker 5: It took a little bit. There was one point I

24:37 Speaker 5: lost my voice for probably like for like a week

24:40 Speaker 5: and a half. Really yeah, And that's when I realized, like, oh,

24:44 Speaker 5: I gotta start watching some videos, and you know, taking

24:47 Speaker 5: this a little bit more seriously, there's.

24:49 Speaker 7: That that legendary one that people talk about to this day.

24:53 Speaker 7: I think it's called the zen of. Is that the

24:55 Speaker 7: zendom screaming?

24:56 Speaker 6: You know that one?

24:57 Speaker 7: No, there's a vocal. I cannot remember her name, but

25:03 Speaker 7: there was a point where, like everybody I knew who

25:06 Speaker 7: was doing any kind of aggressive vocals would talk about

25:08 Speaker 7: learning from her. But I think it was actually this

25:11 Speaker 7: was quite a while ago now, because I remember people

25:13 Speaker 7: talking about a DVD. But I'm sure it's on YouTube now,

25:16 Speaker 7: it's on Blu ray now yeah maybe.

25:20 Speaker 9: Maybe, Yeah, But that effect that was just uh again

25:24 Speaker 9: just the producer which I shut out John at the

25:26 Speaker 9: sound of and by the way, but the uh, he

25:30 Speaker 9: was just you know, kind of throwing some little effects

25:33 Speaker 9: on it to kind of beef up that vocal thing. Yeah,

25:37 Speaker 9: when we do it live, I or when we did

25:39 Speaker 9: it live that one time, I tried, I try to

25:42 Speaker 9: like do like a secondary yelled vocal in the background

25:45 Speaker 9: to kind of just like fill it out.

25:47 Speaker 7: Yeah.

25:48 Speaker 8: Yeah, We're.

25:50 Speaker 9: Neither of us are very gifted metal singers. You know,

25:54 Speaker 9: we can both kind of hold a scream, but then

25:57 Speaker 9: it hurts the next day.

25:58 Speaker 7: Right right, Well, when you're drumming too, especially, that's gonna

26:03 Speaker 7: be hard, right, I mean, you don't see that many

26:05 Speaker 7: drummers who sing, and I.

26:06 Speaker 8: Yeah, I've done that in a couple of bands.

26:08 Speaker 9: In that band Massachusetts of the band I was, I was,

26:12 Speaker 9: I did lead vocal on a lot of songs us,

26:14 Speaker 9: but was backup vocal for most of the songs. Like,

26:17 Speaker 9: the leader of that band really wanted us to focus

26:19 Speaker 9: on three part harmonies and we were a three piece,

26:21 Speaker 9: so it was like, oh, I had to do what

26:23 Speaker 9: we had to do, and I had to learn and

26:25 Speaker 9: uh yeah, I get to take some of that some

26:27 Speaker 9: of that knowledge into this band, which is cool.

26:29 Speaker 7: But yeah, I would imagine that was challenging because obviously

26:33 Speaker 7: as a drummer, well, singing, so much of it is breathing,

26:36 Speaker 7: controlling your breath, and drums is the most physical instrument

26:40 Speaker 7: because you're using all four of your limbs and it's

26:42 Speaker 7: you know, and at the same time, you got to

26:44 Speaker 7: really kind of control your breathing if you're trying to

26:45 Speaker 7: sing while drumming.

26:46 Speaker 9: I was imagine you really got to You gotta treat

26:49 Speaker 9: your your breathes in and each syllable that you're singing

26:53 Speaker 9: like it's on the grid with what you're drumming to,

26:55 Speaker 9: Like it had to like you're not just hitting your

26:59 Speaker 9: right hand and on the snare, you're also going ah

27:02 Speaker 9: like while you're hitting it.

27:03 Speaker 7: So yeah, you have to.

27:05 Speaker 9: Internalize it like it's part of the drum set, but

27:08 Speaker 9: it's coming through you. That's been my way.

27:11 Speaker 7: I've never heard anyone explain it that way, but that

27:13 Speaker 7: makes sense. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

27:15 Speaker 8: A little tip for for beginners like me.

27:17 Speaker 7: Yeah, Now, how many songs do you, guys, everything that

27:23 Speaker 7: you've written so far, is that on on this uh,

27:26 Speaker 7: this debut release or do you have others that you

27:29 Speaker 7: haven't recorded yet.

27:30 Speaker 5: We have two others that we haven't recorded yet, okay,

27:33 Speaker 5: and we got a few more in the works as well.

27:35 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, and this I Forget is it self titled

27:39 Speaker 7: the debut.

27:41 Speaker 5: We called it E P like E E P that's

27:45 Speaker 5: that's right, I forgot.

27:46 Speaker 6: Yeah.

27:47 Speaker 8: That was a spur of the moment decision.

27:49 Speaker 5: There was there was a it was a hell yeah moment.

27:53 Speaker 5: It was like should we call it E E P

27:55 Speaker 5: E E? You know, like sick dude?

27:57 Speaker 7: Hell yeah, I'm always I ask everybody. I'm always curious

28:03 Speaker 7: about influences, and from talking to you guys so far,

28:05 Speaker 7: I would imagine that you both have pretty diverse influences musically,

28:10 Speaker 7: but I'm curious to hear about some of them.

28:12 Speaker 5: Yeah, so big influences for me. A lot of Black Sabbath,

28:18 Speaker 5: a lot of James Brown, Yeah, yeah, a little bit

28:22 Speaker 5: of everything. Yeah, you know, I mean I grew up

28:24 Speaker 5: listening to a lot of Johnny Cash. Yeah, and I

28:28 Speaker 5: was lucky enough to have parents who loved cool music.

28:32 Speaker 5: I mean, so I was exposed to bands like Blind Melon, Sublime,

28:35 Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff at an early age, and

28:37 Speaker 5: like Alice in Chains, So that took like a that

28:40 Speaker 5: was a big role in kind of shaping my taste

28:43 Speaker 5: in music. But yeah, a lot of a lot of everything,

28:47 Speaker 5: and especially like like metal, punk rock, a lot of

28:50 Speaker 5: underground stuff, but also anything that's just weird and different.

28:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. How about you? Yeah, I

28:59 Speaker 7: don't know what to call it. Do I call you somebody?

29:01 Speaker 8: You could just call me Nate.

29:02 Speaker 9: I was I just uh I because I didn't know,

29:04 Speaker 9: if you know, I make art under somebody's crackers, somebody's crackers.

29:08 Speaker 7: So I didn't know, do I call you somebody's Do

29:10 Speaker 7: I do I call you some for short?

29:11 Speaker 5: Yeah?

29:11 Speaker 8: You call me crackers. You can just call me Nate.

29:14 Speaker 5: That's my name.

29:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, perfect.

29:18 Speaker 9: I've never really thought about how people are supposed to

29:20 Speaker 9: call me. When I introduced myself as somebody's I didn't.

29:23 Speaker 5: Know maybe if it was s C.

29:25 Speaker 7: You know, you just use initials for for short. I

29:28 Speaker 7: wasn't sure.

29:28 Speaker 9: I've done some raps as somebody's crackers, and after I

29:31 Speaker 9: refer to myself as s C. Yeah, the best there

29:35 Speaker 9: ever was, but the best that ain't yet be SC

29:38 Speaker 9: something like a Lil Wayne Gretzky. It's funny how nobody

29:41 Speaker 9: gets me, like no soap radio or no coke pepsi?

29:44 Speaker 8: Anyway?

29:46 Speaker 7: Is that online?

29:47 Speaker 2: Uh?

29:48 Speaker 5: Sort of? Uh?

29:49 Speaker 9: Me and my friend did a project called America's Funniest

29:52 Speaker 9: Home Videos, and I used some of that rap in

29:54 Speaker 9: one of the songs.

29:56 Speaker 8: That's cool anyway.

29:58 Speaker 5: What was the question?

29:59 Speaker 1: Though?

29:59 Speaker 8: It's about music.

30:01 Speaker 9: I've been exposed to music from a very young age.

30:03 Speaker 9: My folks were in a band full time when I

30:06 Speaker 9: was born. They were called the Candles. They played all

30:08 Speaker 9: around like New England and most of the Eastern Seaboard,

30:12 Speaker 9: and they just, uh, is that the same thing as

30:15 Speaker 9: the East Coast that I just try to sound smart

30:18 Speaker 9: but sound like an idiot.

30:19 Speaker 7: Anyway, I feel like the seaboard is when people say,

30:24 Speaker 7: I feel like that's more like the East Coast is

30:26 Speaker 7: more like the Upper the Upper East, well, the Upper

30:29 Speaker 7: East Coast like like New England and down down into

30:34 Speaker 7: New Jersey. I get like, that's the East Coast, but

30:36 Speaker 7: the Eastern Seaboard would be the whole eastern side of

30:39 Speaker 7: the country thing.

30:40 Speaker 9: Anyway, I think that's where they played. Yeah, they they

30:43 Speaker 9: had original music, but they really packed. They packed bars

30:48 Speaker 9: and venues and stuff with their Grateful Dead covers. As

30:51 Speaker 9: a result, I'm not the world's biggest Grateful Dead fan.

30:54 Speaker 9: But I don't hate them, but I don't love them.

30:57 Speaker 9: But I love everything. And like I said earlier, I

31:00 Speaker 9: particularly identify with duos, people like Steely Dan, like Ween,

31:05 Speaker 9: anything that's just been two people getting together and creating

31:08 Speaker 9: something like even if it evolves past more than two people,

31:11 Speaker 9: like what it did in both of those cases. But yeah,

31:14 Speaker 9: the White Stripes, Sneaker Pamps, Fevery Corporation, just anything that's

31:19 Speaker 9: two people. Daft punk just always really speaks to me,

31:22 Speaker 9: because it's really.

31:24 Speaker 8: All you need to take.

31:25 Speaker 9: Like, like, singer songwriter stuff is in like one pocket

31:30 Speaker 9: that's ever growing with like the way people are getting

31:32 Speaker 9: more and more creative. But a second person can take

31:35 Speaker 9: singer songwriter and just turn it into a full blown composition.

31:39 Speaker 9: And I just like, I have such a hard time

31:41 Speaker 9: working as a solo artist, like I need that other

31:44 Speaker 9: person to bounce something off of. And so yeah, so

31:47 Speaker 9: other bands though, I've like, I really love like Manu

31:52 Speaker 9: Chau and his band Mono Negra.

31:55 Speaker 5: I love.

31:57 Speaker 8: What have I been digging on a lot lately, King

32:00 Speaker 8: Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Gong.

32:04 Speaker 5: Who else?

32:05 Speaker 9: I love like psychedelic rock, but I love like garage

32:07 Speaker 9: rock too. I love rap music, like particularly like underground

32:11 Speaker 9: hip hop stuff. Yeah yeah, a certain era of popular

32:16 Speaker 9: rap music that I still really love. A lot of

32:18 Speaker 9: people will call me an old head for that, but yeah,

32:21 Speaker 9: there's a lot of that stuff I love, like the nineties,

32:24 Speaker 9: two thousands, even some of the early twenty ten stuff

32:27 Speaker 9: like Asap Rocky.

32:28 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah me too, really really good stuff.

32:30 Speaker 9: Yeah, but yeah, I love everything as long as it's

32:33 Speaker 9: like authentic, it makes me feel something and bonus points

32:36 Speaker 9: if it's like something I haven't heard before, right.

32:39 Speaker 7: Right, there's so much great stuff out there, and you know,

32:42 Speaker 7: a lot of people they get older, and I think

32:44 Speaker 7: the average age for this is probably around thirty. A

32:46 Speaker 7: lot of people they reach a certain point in their

32:47 Speaker 7: life where they say, Okay, I've heard all the music

32:50 Speaker 7: I ever need to hear, and anything made after this

32:53 Speaker 7: I'm not going to like. And it's too bad, really is,

32:57 Speaker 7: because you miss out on so much. And you mentioned

33:01 Speaker 7: bands just now that I haven't heard of that now

33:02 Speaker 7: I'm curious about just because you know, you mentioned him.

33:05 Speaker 7: It's like okay, because but yeah, I always grew up,

33:09 Speaker 7: you know. And and Jenny is like this too, like

33:11 Speaker 7: we both love here. I mean, that's part of why

33:12 Speaker 7: we do a show like this because we love hearing

33:15 Speaker 7: new music and new music that maybe hasn't made it

33:17 Speaker 7: to the mainstream. And you know, and and uh, my dad,

33:23 Speaker 7: you know, he's in his seventies and he lives on

33:25 Speaker 7: the Seacoast and he's still at his age. He'll listen

33:28 Speaker 7: to w u n H, the great college station there

33:31 Speaker 7: because he loves hearing new music. Like if you got

33:34 Speaker 7: in a car with my dad, you're not gonna hear

33:36 Speaker 7: an oldies station on his radio. You know, he's not

33:39 Speaker 7: that stereotypical boomer. He loves hearing new music and he's

33:42 Speaker 7: always been like that, you know, and even like and

33:45 Speaker 7: he likes hip hop. He like, you know, it's it's amazing.

33:49 Speaker 7: So you know. So, I mean he's he's sipper than me.

33:52 Speaker 7: Like he'll he'll ask me about a band he heard

33:55 Speaker 7: on w U n H and I'm like, I don't,

33:57 Speaker 7: I don't know who it is. And it's like, wow,

33:59 Speaker 7: you know me on this But but yeah, and I

34:02 Speaker 7: and I think it's so important to you know, I mean, yeah,

34:04 Speaker 7: it sounds like you guys both have a real commitment

34:06 Speaker 7: to to hearing, hearing and exploring new sounds, which then

34:11 Speaker 7: informs your own musical output and and helps you to

34:15 Speaker 7: be more creative. The more the more you're exposed to,

34:17 Speaker 7: the more creative you're gonna be, right, Yeah, No, So

34:24 Speaker 7: I think I think that's great. I think it's so

34:26 Speaker 7: important to have a diversity and and uh and influences

34:30 Speaker 7: and all that.

34:30 Speaker 5: So yeah, absolutely, I mean our our main goal, I

34:34 Speaker 5: think collectively is is to just have fun. Yeah, you know,

34:37 Speaker 5: make some loud sounds, smash some stuff and you know,

34:41 Speaker 5: have a good time.

34:42 Speaker 8: Meet some people, help some people feel good.

34:46 Speaker 7: Absolutely well we should uh, we should play another track.

34:50 Speaker 7: What do you guys want to play next?

34:53 Speaker 8: Sitting with the title track?

34:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, let's see, let me find it here. Why don't

35:01 Speaker 7: I see it?

35:02 Speaker 8: It's might be he might have sent it to you

35:07 Speaker 8: as sdh.

35:08 Speaker 7: Oh, I'm looking right, that's why. Yeah, it says that

35:10 Speaker 7: sh wid it threw me out?

35:11 Speaker 1: Got it?

35:12 Speaker 7: Got it? Okay? Yeah?

35:13 Speaker 8: Nice going do.

35:16 Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm grounded again.

35:20 Speaker 7: All right, this is the title track. This is sick dude,

35:22 Speaker 7: Hell yeah, but your building in the.

35:53 Speaker 2: World today when I keep fighting for a better way,

35:57 Speaker 2: wing a back back, a fie for a heart a check,

36:02 Speaker 2: but after that I be late, free coming down the

36:06 Speaker 2: road and a feeling the breeze, A million.

36:08 Speaker 1: Half accots in b fig swimming the life.

36:11 Speaker 11: But by decide check dude, hell yeah, checkdune, Hell yeah,

36:19 Speaker 11: check dude, hell yeah, chiktute hell yeah.

36:35 Speaker 1: But it's stripping. Fuck the crowd. I gotta go kind

36:39 Speaker 1: of get out now. The road is calling for my escape.

36:43 Speaker 1: There's no more time for Chester Jay. I could the

36:46 Speaker 1: bottle pull it back? The whiter spinning head of the back.

36:51 Speaker 1: But my promised and paid away. Whimming at the moments that.

36:55 Speaker 11: Takes to day six dude, Hell yeah, hell yeah.

37:05 Speaker 4: Check.

37:20 Speaker 7: Oh that is sick, dude.

37:21 Speaker 1: Hell yeah.

37:22 Speaker 7: That's the name of the song. That's the name of

37:23 Speaker 7: the band. And we've got the guys here. Dylan and

37:26 Speaker 7: Nate are here with us.

37:27 Speaker 8: Hey, hey, hey, live in the studio.

37:29 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, that's really good.

37:31 Speaker 1: Guys.

37:31 Speaker 7: I love the energy of it. If that doesn't get

37:34 Speaker 7: you moving, check your pulse, you might be dead.

37:38 Speaker 8: Look at this on your little weather cam here. You

37:40 Speaker 8: got this sharp shinned hawk right here.

37:42 Speaker 1: Yeah.

37:42 Speaker 8: I love birds, man.

37:46 Speaker 7: When we were here, when we got here this morning,

37:48 Speaker 7: that bird was right in front of the camp. We

37:52 Speaker 7: got two of them.

37:54 Speaker 8: Yeah, very cool. See a lot of great babies last year.

37:57 Speaker 5: So this is the falcon cam on top of the

37:59 Speaker 5: bree Yeah awesome.

38:02 Speaker 6: Yeah.

38:02 Speaker 7: It's really cool at night too, because so I'm also

38:06 Speaker 7: a co host on a show that airs on Friday

38:07 Speaker 7: night's called retro Spectrum Radio, and and so we have

38:10 Speaker 7: this on last night. And the view of the city

38:12 Speaker 7: at night is even whether there's a bird there. When

38:14 Speaker 7: there's a bird there, that's a plus. But even when

38:16 Speaker 7: there's not a bird there. Just the view of the

38:18 Speaker 7: city is really cool at night when everything's lit up.

38:20 Speaker 8: But anyway, this isn't good radio.

38:23 Speaker 7: Here in Manchester. Well you know, we can describe it.

38:26 Speaker 7: I mean it is theater of the mind after all. Yes, yes,

38:31 Speaker 7: but yeah, we've got the guys from Sick Dude. Hell

38:33 Speaker 7: yeah here with us in studio and now do you

38:38 Speaker 7: guys obviously it's almost spring and then summer will be

38:42 Speaker 7: here and a lot of the bands we know, you know,

38:44 Speaker 7: they play a lot of shows in the summer. Is

38:45 Speaker 7: that kind of the plan for you guys? You're going

38:47 Speaker 7: to be get getting out there.

38:48 Speaker 5: A lot this year, we hope to Yeah, yeah, I

38:50 Speaker 5: mean that's the goal. Yeah, that's the goal. Absolutely. Yeah,

38:56 Speaker 5: because it's summertime, people are going to be out and

39:00 Speaker 5: you know, at the same time too, as far as

39:02 Speaker 5: next winter goes, I hope to be playing just as much. Yeah,

39:06 Speaker 5: because I feel like, especially you know in the East

39:09 Speaker 5: Coast in the winter, having something to go do is

39:12 Speaker 5: super important. Yeah, you know, and then some of the

39:15 Speaker 5: most fun shows I've been to for some reason, I've

39:18 Speaker 5: always been in the winter time. Really yeah, yeah, I

39:20 Speaker 5: don't know, I think I have something to do with

39:21 Speaker 5: just like uh like being cooped up, you.

39:23 Speaker 8: Know, releases twice as nice yep.

39:27 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's a good way to uh you know,

39:30 Speaker 7: to fight the winter depression and all this seasonal depression

39:34 Speaker 7: that which is especially bad here in the Northeast. So yeah, no,

39:38 Speaker 7: that's cool. Yeah, I want to see you guys live.

39:40 Speaker 7: I love the I love what you're doing. I love

39:42 Speaker 7: the energy of it. And do you guys are there?

39:47 Speaker 7: I mean what is you both live in wolf Burrow?

39:49 Speaker 5: Or yeah?

39:50 Speaker 7: Okay, like are there other bands there or did you

39:54 Speaker 7: guys can kind of team up with for shows? Or

39:56 Speaker 7: what's the scene like? I mean, I know wolf Burrow,

39:59 Speaker 7: It's it's not a big place.

40:01 Speaker 5: I know that.

40:01 Speaker 7: I think I believe I've driven through it once or twice.

40:06 Speaker 8: But a quick drive through, yeah, blink and you'll miss it.

40:11 Speaker 5: It's uh, it could be a little tough scene wise there.

40:13 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:14 Speaker 5: Yeah, because a lot of it's just a lot of

40:17 Speaker 5: it's bar bands, yeah, you know, and it's it's mainly covers.

40:21 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:21 Speaker 5: Finding a place to play your original songs up there

40:25 Speaker 5: can kind of be like pulling teeth.

40:26 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:28 Speaker 5: I was fortunate enough one time to play on the

40:31 Speaker 5: Winnie Bell and that's like the boat that goes out

40:34 Speaker 5: on the lake out there and yeah, yeah, and the

40:37 Speaker 5: dude who hired me to play hadn't heard any of

40:40 Speaker 5: my music. Yeah, and my acoustic solo stuff was very

40:43 Speaker 5: rooted in punk rock as well. A lot like the

40:46 Speaker 5: Stoogest kind of deal, and a lot of it was

40:50 Speaker 5: making people feel uncomfortable, which was something I enjoyed, like

40:53 Speaker 5: as a musician. And I got to say, it was

40:56 Speaker 5: like the perfect show for it because I get on

40:58 Speaker 5: this boat and it's all these like older people or

41:02 Speaker 5: like like high class, sophisticated type folk and we go

41:06 Speaker 5: out on the boat and I looked like a maniac

41:09 Speaker 5: that day, you know. And I hop on the microphone

41:12 Speaker 5: like is everybody ready to get weird? And it was

41:15 Speaker 5: just like dead silence.

41:17 Speaker 7: Those people were not expecting on a boat with Yeah, that.

41:20 Speaker 5: Was the best part. They couldn't get away. You know.

41:23 Speaker 7: That's great, that's funny. Well, so then how did it go?

41:27 Speaker 7: Like how did the gig go? How did people react?

41:30 Speaker 5: My girlfriend really enjoyed it, yeah, and the rest of

41:34 Speaker 5: the people were, I think, just waiting to get off

41:36 Speaker 5: the boat because sometimes it's.

41:38 Speaker 7: Sometimes it's fun in a situation like that, that to

41:40 Speaker 7: see if you can win people over, you know, But

41:42 Speaker 7: it doesn't sound like that was a crowd that necessarily

41:45 Speaker 7: wanted to be one over.

41:47 Speaker 8: No, I tried, that's funny, drove them back to port.

41:51 Speaker 1: Yeah.

41:53 Speaker 7: Did the guy who booked you, did he ever book

41:56 Speaker 7: you again?

41:56 Speaker 6: Or was that?

41:58 Speaker 1: No?

41:58 Speaker 5: But not necessarily. I don't think it was a matter

42:01 Speaker 5: of a matter of me burning the bridge.

42:05 Speaker 7: Yeah, he was like, he wasn't upset with you. No, No, No,

42:08 Speaker 7: he wasn't upset because he probably he probably knew what

42:10 Speaker 7: he was. He probably figured he had some he knew me,

42:13 Speaker 7: so he knew maybe it would work. Yeah, because I

42:16 Speaker 7: used to do so. I used to in addition to

42:19 Speaker 7: playing in a lot of bands, I would promote a

42:20 Speaker 7: lot of shows, and I put on shows various places,

42:23 Speaker 7: and I always kind of and and from a business standpoint,

42:26 Speaker 7: this was probably not a good thing, but I would

42:29 Speaker 7: kind of like to test the limits a little bit

42:32 Speaker 7: in terms of just seeing what would happen.

42:34 Speaker 12: You know.

42:35 Speaker 7: Okay, you know, we got this metal show we're doing,

42:38 Speaker 7: but we got this one act that's a little more

42:41 Speaker 7: hip hop, you know, but we're going to put them

42:43 Speaker 7: in there and see what happens, you know, just to

42:46 Speaker 7: see what happened, and and sometimes it ends up going well,

42:50 Speaker 7: you know, because sometimes people who may not think they

42:53 Speaker 7: want some sort of variety in the in the show,

42:56 Speaker 7: when you know, when you got a bunch of bands

42:58 Speaker 7: and this one act that's different, sometimes you know, if

43:01 Speaker 7: it may go over well and it turns out these

43:03 Speaker 7: people actually enjoy what they're seeing.

43:05 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's like that's how some people find

43:07 Speaker 9: out that they like rap music. Like I'm not even kidding.

43:09 Speaker 9: That is how some people find out they like anything.

43:12 Speaker 9: As you throw like a wild card band onto a

43:14 Speaker 9: bill and then all of a sudden you've got somebody's

43:17 Speaker 9: entire like world being opened up in front of their

43:20 Speaker 9: eyes to something they were completely blind to.

43:22 Speaker 7: And it's just that is very true. Yeah, yeah, and

43:25 Speaker 7: especially with hip hop, I think, yeah, yeah absolutely.

43:31 Speaker 5: Do you guys?

43:32 Speaker 7: Uh so, I mean long term, do you want to

43:34 Speaker 7: like tour around New England and get out and kind

43:38 Speaker 7: of go everywhere.

43:38 Speaker 8: Or I would like to Yeah, we would be great.

43:42 Speaker 5: Yeah, we we haven't had that discussion together, but I

43:45 Speaker 5: mean that's definitely like a lifelong dream and goal of

43:49 Speaker 5: mine just to tour, you know, and play basements all

43:53 Speaker 5: over the place.

43:54 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people listening probably don't even

43:58 Speaker 7: know what you mean when you say that, you know,

44:00 Speaker 7: basement shows, because people who are people who've never you know,

44:04 Speaker 7: even been near you know, the punk rock scene or

44:06 Speaker 7: anything like that, probably are like, what, what does he

44:08 Speaker 7: mean play basements?

44:10 Speaker 8: That's exactly what we mean.

44:12 Speaker 9: We mean, pack a bunch of sweaty people into your

44:14 Speaker 9: basement and charge him five dollars or three beers to

44:17 Speaker 9: see us.

44:18 Speaker 5: And vacant warehouses. Some of the best shows I've actually,

44:24 Speaker 5: you know, best shows I've ever been to take a

44:26 Speaker 5: place in basement or or a squat house. You know,

44:31 Speaker 5: it's always interesting because you never know what you're gonna get.

44:34 Speaker 1: You know.

44:34 Speaker 5: Sometimes you walk into place and the only rule is

44:37 Speaker 5: don't hang on the pipes, right, exactly exactly.

44:42 Speaker 7: I want to make sure we get another song. And

44:45 Speaker 7: what do you guys want to play next? We should

44:46 Speaker 7: play another.

44:47 Speaker 5: One, yeah, I think we should do Nailing the Coffin.

44:50 Speaker 7: Nailing the Coffin, all right, Yeah, I gotta get a

44:53 Speaker 7: radio editor to that one that I made. Yeah, this

44:55 Speaker 7: is and this also happens to be one of my

44:57 Speaker 7: favorites too. Uh, you know, I some of the whole thing,

45:00 Speaker 7: but I really like this a lot. Where oh there

45:05 Speaker 7: it is? I'm like, where did it go? I'm talking

45:07 Speaker 7: about how much I want to play and I can't

45:09 Speaker 7: find it there. It's been a busy show today, but

45:14 Speaker 7: I'm glad you guys are here and I'm very happy

45:16 Speaker 7: to share this track. All right here it is if

45:18 Speaker 7: you are just tuning in, We've got sick Dude hell

45:21 Speaker 7: yeah with us here in studio, and this track is

45:23 Speaker 7: called Nail in the Coffin, Don't Believe in myself?

45:32 Speaker 10: Bumping to beforn another nail in knight, popping another closet door,

45:40 Speaker 10: corn crops by something baking right not old table go

45:44 Speaker 10: it bit fakes by.

45:51 Speaker 2: Two week call, we can back up ships, sworn the

45:54 Speaker 2: cream and is always brising, so wait, sit on, I'm

45:59 Speaker 2: a petty score.

46:00 Speaker 7: Ford crumps, fie does it make bye?

46:03 Speaker 1: I don't kim up it big makes a fry.

46:21 Speaker 10: All these Swedish people making their it's a mess, preaching

46:27 Speaker 10: in my pocket.

46:28 Speaker 7: But all I said, ever said, Ford promps, fy I.

46:32 Speaker 1: It make you bye? I don't kim up no it

46:34 Speaker 1: it makes a bye.

47:14 Speaker 7: I love that. I was so into it I didn't

47:17 Speaker 7: notice it was over.

47:18 Speaker 8: I appreciate it that. I love the groove on that.

47:21 Speaker 7: I love the groove on that. Great job, guys, Thank you,

47:23 Speaker 7: thank you. Sick dude, hell yeah, is here with us

47:26 Speaker 7: in studio. That is called Nail in the Coffin. Hey,

47:28 Speaker 7: what do you have again? Swedish people though that was

47:31 Speaker 7: a little inside No, that is that is a great

47:36 Speaker 7: track and uh yeah, you guys were saying as we

47:38 Speaker 7: were listening to it too, that one goes over pretty well.

47:41 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's probably our favorite to like play.

47:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like if we're when we're practicing, if

47:47 Speaker 9: we're like that last one wasn't so good, let's play

47:49 Speaker 9: Nail in the Coffin and kind of just like bring

47:52 Speaker 9: us bring ourselves back to ground a little bit, you know.

47:54 Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, always always brings up the energy morale.

47:58 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. Now, do you Alays have any covers? A

48:01 Speaker 7: lot of bands will throw in a cover. I'm just curious.

48:05 Speaker 5: So we've been trying to figure out what what to

48:09 Speaker 5: cover and what we could make work.

48:11 Speaker 7: Yeah. I can imagine like like some classic Sabbath like

48:16 Speaker 7: Sweetly for something.

48:17 Speaker 8: We do have a Sabbath song on the chopping block

48:19 Speaker 8: to learn for covering. Which one was it?

48:23 Speaker 5: Hand of Doom?

48:24 Speaker 1: Yeah?

48:24 Speaker 7: Okay, yeah I can I can picture that. Yeah yeah.

48:28 Speaker 9: I I've been in a lot of bands, some of

48:31 Speaker 9: which have played covers. I have like a weird moral

48:35 Speaker 9: hang up about covers because like, so hear me out, okay.

48:40 Speaker 8: Very curious.

48:40 Speaker 9: If you play in a band that does mostly original

48:43 Speaker 9: songs and you play a cover live at like say

48:46 Speaker 9: a bar or something, you have suddenly become the disappointment

48:50 Speaker 9: jukebox for the entire audience because a couple of people

48:53 Speaker 9: in the audience liked the cover song. But then they're like, hey,

48:56 Speaker 9: can you play leather and Lace or like something?

48:59 Speaker 8: And you can't. You play leather and Lace, you can't

49:02 Speaker 8: play free Bird, you can't play.

49:06 Speaker 9: Sultans of Swing, you know what I mean, Like suddenly

49:09 Speaker 9: you can't play what they all of a sudden want

49:11 Speaker 9: to hear and what they've tricked themselves into thinking they're

49:14 Speaker 9: there to hear. That suddenly you owe them something. And

49:19 Speaker 9: so with me, I like to play covers if it

49:21 Speaker 9: really means something to me, Like if I can get

49:24 Speaker 9: something emotionally out of performing this song in front of people,

49:28 Speaker 9: play a cover all day long, But I'm not just

49:31 Speaker 9: gonna play you know, wagon Wheel because it'll does that

49:37 Speaker 9: make sense?

49:38 Speaker 5: It does?

49:38 Speaker 1: It does.

49:39 Speaker 7: I can relate to what you're saying, And.

49:41 Speaker 8: No shade to anybody who makes a living playing covers.

49:44 Speaker 8: That's that's not what I vibe with musically, you really speak.

49:52 Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I can relate to that tremendously because you know,

49:56 Speaker 7: I played a bunch of bands, and I always fought

49:58 Speaker 7: against doing too many covers. It would be hard to

50:03 Speaker 7: talk the other people I was in these bands with

50:05 Speaker 7: out of doing any covers. But like I was in

50:09 Speaker 7: a hardcore band. I was in a band called First Shove,

50:12 Speaker 7: and like the one cover that we were doing was

50:15 Speaker 7: we did Last Breath by Hate Breed and that was

50:19 Speaker 7: okay because it was short and it wasn't with with

50:21 Speaker 7: that kind of situation. It's not like somebody's not going

50:23 Speaker 7: to say, you know, okay, now do you know free Bird?

50:25 Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, that's true, like

50:27 Speaker 5: in that and that type of element, you know, covering

50:33 Speaker 5: a song is almost like more more or less paying

50:35 Speaker 5: homage to an inspiration.

50:38 Speaker 8: Yeah.

50:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, that band we played with it that Red Alert

50:42 Speaker 9: shout out to Trick Attack at the coolest design i've

50:45 Speaker 9: ever heard of. So everybody loves the Tony Hawk pro

50:48 Speaker 9: skater soundtracks, right, what if there was a band that

50:51 Speaker 9: that was their whole thing and that's Trick Attack, kid. Yeah,

50:54 Speaker 9: be on the lookout for Trick Attack coming to a

50:56 Speaker 9: place near you. They were so awesome, they were sick

50:59 Speaker 9: and they've got such a good idea of just like

51:01 Speaker 9: taking this soundtrack that's resonated with so many people our

51:04 Speaker 9: age and exposed so many people to so many cool

51:07 Speaker 9: forms of music, and uh yeah, just kind of bringing

51:10 Speaker 9: the spirit of that and and to.

51:12 Speaker 5: Like skateboard to coundtrack being played live. That that was like, man,

51:19 Speaker 5: my fourth grade self was over the moon.

51:23 Speaker 8: Respect yeah, yeah.

51:25 Speaker 5: Yeah, respectfully of course the nostalgic it was great.

51:28 Speaker 7: Where are they from? Are they from around here?

51:31 Speaker 8: They're from mass Yeah, Mass, I think, okay.

51:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, maybe we can get them on the show.

51:35 Speaker 7: That's that's very interesting. Yeah. But yeah, I always I

51:38 Speaker 7: always fought against doing too many covers in the bands

51:41 Speaker 7: I was in or or. My thing was, if we're

51:43 Speaker 7: going to do a cover, let's end with it that way.

51:46 Speaker 7: Yeah the way, there's not that way. There's no misunderstandings

51:49 Speaker 7: about you know, Are we an original band? Are we

51:51 Speaker 7: a cover band? I was just you know, we'll do well, well,

51:54 Speaker 7: let's do it at the end. But the other thing

51:56 Speaker 7: that drove me nuts to back in and this, you know,

52:00 Speaker 7: so this goes back like twenty years, but there was

52:03 Speaker 7: a period where and and anybody, any of my peers

52:07 Speaker 7: from that time will know what I'm talking about, because

52:10 Speaker 7: I know I know some of the people I knew

52:12 Speaker 7: then listen to the show. There was this period where

52:15 Speaker 7: if you were a New Hampshire band and you were

52:20 Speaker 7: an original band that liked to sprinkle in a couple

52:22 Speaker 7: of covers, all of these bands were covering sober by Tool.

52:29 Speaker 7: It was so obnoxious. And it wasn't even like all

52:35 Speaker 7: these bands were covering Tool. All these bands were specifically

52:39 Speaker 7: covering sober by Tool. And it even and I was

52:44 Speaker 7: in a band called My Life Crisis, and I remember

52:47 Speaker 7: one of the guys was like, because everybody in the

52:50 Speaker 7: band was a Tool fan, including me, I like Tool.

52:52 Speaker 5: I didn't.

52:53 Speaker 7: I never loved Tool, but I liked but I think

52:55 Speaker 7: I burned out on them because they just they were

52:57 Speaker 7: so ubiquitous. It was like, oh my god, no more.

53:01 Speaker 7: And I remember the conversation with these guys where one

53:03 Speaker 7: of them was like, we should do a Tool cover,

53:05 Speaker 7: and I remember just I'm sitting there silently thinking, oh, no,

53:08 Speaker 7: I know what's coming next. We should do Sober. It

53:12 Speaker 7: was so weird and I'm not even I'm not even

53:15 Speaker 7: exaggerating or being hyperbolic. All of these bands were covering

53:19 Speaker 7: that specific song.

53:20 Speaker 8: I must really resonate with the New Hampshire musician craft.

53:24 Speaker 5: I guess.

53:26 Speaker 7: It was so strange, like at like twenty years ago,

53:30 Speaker 7: if you walked into any bar where there was a

53:32 Speaker 7: rock band playing, whether it was an original band that

53:35 Speaker 7: did one cover or a cover band, you were going

53:39 Speaker 7: to hear Sober by Tool. It was bizarre and it

53:45 Speaker 7: was very frustrating. And here I am, two decades later,

53:48 Speaker 7: finally venting about it publicly to.

53:51 Speaker 8: Get your chest it does.

53:53 Speaker 7: I've been carrying that around with me all this time.

53:57 Speaker 7: We'll be like, oh, it's a great bassline, don't get

54:02 Speaker 7: me wrong.

54:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, can't we be sob.

54:12 Speaker 7: Mashup?

54:12 Speaker 8: Yeah, me too.

54:13 Speaker 6: Man.

54:14 Speaker 5: I had a funny idea. I was thinking, you know,

54:17 Speaker 5: wouldn't it be funny to open with a cover and

54:21 Speaker 5: then before every original song you played, just be like, oh,

54:26 Speaker 5: this next one is war Pigs by Sabbath.

54:31 Speaker 9: I do stuff like that with There's another band that

54:35 Speaker 9: I play sometimes with. We're kind of like in the

54:38 Speaker 9: middle of like a semi break now, but we're called Targets.

54:40 Speaker 9: Targets shout out to Sean James Sweeney.

54:43 Speaker 1: Uh we uh.

54:45 Speaker 8: I kind of like MC for them.

54:47 Speaker 9: Because everybody else just like he is either too busy

54:50 Speaker 9: setting up there like synthesizer for the next song or whatever.

54:53 Speaker 9: So I just kind of end up like talking, and

54:55 Speaker 9: I'll introduce songs with like names that are familiar or

54:59 Speaker 9: like not say that where us. I'll say that like hey,

55:01 Speaker 9: where are the Backstreet Boys? Or where the fine young

55:03 Speaker 9: Cannibals or something like that. Yeah, like anything so that

55:06 Speaker 9: it seems like I'm am seeing, but I'm actually giving

55:09 Speaker 9: the audience no information at all.

55:11 Speaker 8: Right, that's kind of my stick.

55:13 Speaker 7: Oh that's cool, that's cool. I like that. Let's uh.

55:18 Speaker 7: I want to make sure we get at least one

55:19 Speaker 7: more in what should we play?

55:20 Speaker 8: I think we only got one more? You want to

55:22 Speaker 8: hit him with dead Sky?

55:23 Speaker 1: Oh?

55:23 Speaker 6: Yeah?

55:25 Speaker 5: Yeah?

55:26 Speaker 7: Is there only one more?

55:27 Speaker 8: I think there is. This is the one that you

55:29 Speaker 8: can hear John doing Barnyard noise.

55:31 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh there is only one left. Okay, yeah,

55:33 Speaker 7: so we'll play this something, we'll come back and wrap up.

55:36 Speaker 7: But if you are just joining us, oh hello to

55:39 Speaker 7: Andre Dumont in the chat room, of course, from the

55:41 Speaker 7: great band Andre from Dead Harrison and Terminus Underground and

55:46 Speaker 7: New Hampshire Underground. And Andre is someone who probably can

55:49 Speaker 7: relate to what I was saying a moment ago, one

55:52 Speaker 7: of my peers from that era. I'm sure Andre. Andre

55:54 Speaker 7: may have even been in a band that played sober by.

55:57 Speaker 8: Tool listen, man, why can't we just be sober?

56:00 Speaker 7: Oh boy, you'd think I could relate to I'm not

56:04 Speaker 7: much of a drinker myself. I'm pretty sober. You think

56:07 Speaker 7: i'd appreciate the song more, but I just grew to

56:11 Speaker 7: hate it, all right. So this is called a Dead

56:14 Speaker 7: Sky and the band is Hell yeah. No, I'm sorry,

56:19 Speaker 7: sick dude. Hell yeah, I apologize, gentlemen.

56:21 Speaker 5: I'm suffering.

56:23 Speaker 7: I'm suffering from adult onset dyslexia.

56:26 Speaker 6: Here we go.

56:26 Speaker 7: This is Dead Sky from Sick Dude. Hell Yeah.

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