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comes back to that first memory, as you lived in this smart town with

your blue hair and eyes, the way you looked at me and knew I

finally be found. And I called our ship when I thought that. She

said, one day you'll learn to love me again, sailing the way with

the map that's been lost at sea. And I called our ship when I

thought that. She said, one day you'll learn to love me again.

But now I don't know what to do. The only true thing I know

is you. You are listening to w UM and H ninety five. You

come he God, don't get so freely matselfing. Good morning, everybody,

Happy Saturday. It is that time again. Matt Connerton unleashed and we are

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It is Saturday, March nine, twenty twenty four, and I am

not alone. Good morning Sunshine. Jenny is here at the news table present

that accounted for Yes, yes, and we've got a great show for you

today and we have joining us live in studio. Let me get that mic

up there. Eric, I'm so I'm not sure I know how to say

your last name, although I don't know if you even wanna if you want

to give your last name, because you have a you go buy Temple Mountain

musically. But yeah, thank you for having me, by the way,

Yeah absolutely, Oh yeah, we'll move that mic up. That mic is

drooping. We might have to yeah, we might have to adjust it,

but uh yeah, Temple Mountain and uh, you're gonna you're gonna we're still

getting used to the new set up here. Actually, let me mute that

mic. Well, well, Jenny adjusts. Jenny's playing Roady, but Temple

Mountain live in studio. He's gonna play for us today. We actually just

featured one of his studio tracks, a great song called Transference, really really

good. What a beautiful voice, Uh, Eric has and so really looking

forward to hearing him play live and we'll get to know him a bit.

And in the third hour today we have Casey Darren and uh he's got his

project Soda which is s O T A H. He's going to be joining

us in the third hour today and really looking forward to that as well.

He's been on the show before. Uh, but uh, it's it's it's

been a little while. When was the last time Casey Darren was on?

That was probably more than a year ago, right, yeah, at least

a year. Yeah, it's been a while, it has been a while.

I'm excited to have him come back in. It's they've got new material

we haven't gotten here and you're doing more, so it'd be cool to get

to have him in there. He's just a great guy anyway. I really

like him absolutely, And if you have any questions or feedback or anything for

our guests today, you can call the studio line is open six O three

two five oh six O seven six O three two five oh six O seven.

Also, I mentioned the new page Matt connorton dot com slash live.

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to keep an eye on it. But so for those of you who are

not interested in using Facebook the social media. But so, by the way,

so Eric, where does the name Temple Mountain come from? Why do

you why do you call your project that? I'm still trying to figure that

one out, but I do live on Temple Mountain in Peterborough. There's a

oh yeah, it's a mountain called Timp Mountain. And it just felt right,

Like I remember, I was just like walking one day. I might

even been doing a run in like I was like, uh, Temple Mountain

would be a cool name. Yeah. There's a lot of singer songwriters like

Tallest Man on Earth who like you know, they just they give a different

pseudonym. And I was like, yeah that works. Yeah, yeah cool.

And that track Transference that we opened with that is fantastic thank you from

the album Schema, which is a full length how many Yeah? Where did

you record in my room? Yeah, in the very untreated acoustic room on

a very low budget. Well, I'll tell you what, Well, it

sounds great and I thank you. I always say this comes up a lot

on the show, that it's uh, we're blessed to live in a time

where, you know, technology gives us so many different options as far as

how we record. You know, I'm old enough to remember when you know

you had to go to a studio and spend tons and tons of money and

you can still do that, and there's some amazing studios around. But you

can also record in your bedroom, in your living room. You can There's

there's no shortage of different approaches you can take and get a really great sound.

And time is in the factor either anymore, which is incredible. Like

if you make mistakes and you could actually incorporate those mistakes into the record if

you want, Like it's really it's very pulkratooness in a sense, the full

album down that way. Yeah, yeah, I did everything but master it.

Okay. Yeah, who did you go through for Dynamics Sound Studios in

Michigan? Okay? Yeah, Blake's a great guy. Okay, Okay,

very good, very good. Well, I'm dying to hear you play live,

and uh, let me we're working with some new stuff here. Let

me see if we can get that. I've got another mic on your guitar.

Yeah, go good and play for us, Eric if you would.

Oh, I know why I'm not hearing anything? I think hmm, well

that is quiet it's for some reason. I like trying. Yeah, top

top that mic if you would. Yeah, I'm not hearing anything coming out

of that for some reason. Oh wait a second, I think I might

have figured out the problem here almost there. I think the guitar is a

nice sound too. Thank you. This is why I got back in the

music. Actually, her name is Sierra. Do you name all of your

instruments? Uh? Yeah, I do? Do you have? Do you

play? Also play like electric? Or I'm really bad at electric? Are

you? Yeah? I tried to do. I was like a shredder back

in the day. Is this your favorite guitar? Yeah? Go and go

ahead and play a little more. Eric, this is a wund it.

Thank you. There we go here. Yeah, yeah that sounds nice.

Okay. Actually, let me just just kind of playing with the game a

little bit here. I'm gonna do it on the fly. Dylan, Hi,

Dylan in the way chat room, say hi to you, says the

new studio looks is looking good? Oh thank you. Yes, Dylan Reynolds,

very very tented musician. Absolutely yeah, he says in the chat room.

I us ozone eleven VSD plugin for mastering all my stuff. Now a

little pricey, but it makes for a totally professional final sound A good morning

to Ronda Cool, very good early morning in California. So she's up early

early. This is like three hours behind us. Yes, indeed, thank

you for getting up with us morning, Miriam. I see you in the

chat room. We have our friend from Uganda in the chat Also, Darling

Hill, who has been on the show. Band named Darling Hill, said

they I just discovered Temple Mountain this week. So awesome you're featuring him.

I can't wait to get to know more about him. Absolutely, they're great.

They're a great band. Yeah, so you're get a lot of love

in the chat room already, and all they've heard is the studio track in

this so much more to come. Well, all right, Eric, a

live concert whenever you're ready. Let's yeah, let's hear something whatever you want

to play. Sure, this is a song of mine called that Diagnosis.

It's a nice way to warm up in the morning. All right, is

it on check again? There's no heat bird. It drives me away and

it's all in my head. I wish it all goes away up again two

am. Only fourteen words left to this pain, and it's all in my

head. I wish it all goes away. But then, just like before,

now your mind's asked for more, always fading, and all you a

door seems to haunt you for more. Abut it's pain what stops you from

halting the sky. It is the same breath that keeps you a light.

But when two hats and time folk light. What's to complain? Cooking lines

makes some strains, ties a knob with the nails on the face, And

it's all in my head. I wish it all goes away. Felt this

way sometime before, keeps me up for days, always asking something more locked

me now. I've been known to make mistakes, and I swear that I've

seen better days. And it's all in my head. I wish it all

goes away. But then, just like before, now you're mine ask for

more, always fatal and saw you a door seems to haunt you for more.

But it's pain what stops you from holding the sky. It is the

same breath that keeps you alive when too hot and tempo pled. What to

complain? Because it's all in my head? I should all go some way.

Oh that is beautiful. Wow, that was awesome, fantastic, really

really awesome. I don't know what you're worried about. Your voice sounds fantastic.

Thank you. If you're just joining us, we have Temple Mountain here

with us alive in the studio and uh yeah that that, uh that sounded

great. Now on the album, is it? Is it all you?

Did you have any collaborators or no, it's just me. It was recorded

in like a month. I've had these songs maybe four since I started my

undergrad so like two years ago. Yeah, And well I've had songs since

two years ago, and I've been writing and writing and writing, and I

just wanted to prove to myself that I could make something that I hear in

my head. And I wanted it to sound very low fi, like I

love the sound of tapeists from like sixties recordings. Oh wow. Yeah.

I just wanted to make it sound as like organic from what my like.

I consider organic and stuff like that as possible. Yeah. Yeah. Have

you only performed solo or do you? Have you ever played in a band

or in high school, I played in like a death metal band. Kid.

I would not have thought, but uh no, I've only been solo.

But I think the songs I've been writing lately. I think would really

be fun to have a band. I've actually kind of been writing a bit

more poppy lately and really yeah, yeah, yeah, I would love to

have some drums within stuff like that. Oh no kidding, Okay, very

cool. Uh. Eric from Temple Mountain is here if you have any questions

or feedback or anything at all. Uh, the studio line is open this

morning six o three two five oh six oh seven, six o three two

five oh six oh seven. Of course we're on uh the Facebook. I

see Jay fed and uh Melanie from the Great State of Vermont. You're getting

a little love from Vermont for your beard. Oh yeah, Melanie and Jason

are amorate of beards and they do judge you. Oh, I'm just warning.

That's okay, I use beard products. We can talk about that.

Oh yeah, he's actually admiring your beard, so you are. I see

a beard with a heart, so just liking it. Yeah right. And

Jay Fat is always encouraging people to grow out their beer. You believe they

should be longer. I did. I just shaved mine down recently. Yeah.

I get curly hair, so like just like I don't know, I

do it. I do it for like four months and then I look in

the mirror one day and it's very spontaneous, and I regret it. Yeah,

I never let mine get I just it starts to itching. Oh that's

a good look for you, though, Yeah, I keep it. This

is as much This is as much facial hair as me really. But now,

do you play out a lot? Do you do a lot of shows?

I'm trying and I just started in January, like playing live. I

have a show actually on Monday in Guildford at Patrick's Pub. Oh yeah,

and then I'm playing over Arts March thirtieth. I'm playing in for on the

fourteenth. Oh do you hear that? Melanie Jason coming to Vermont Bar five

eighty and Brattleborough. Okay, yeah, yeah, excellent, Yeah, thank

you. Brattleborough. That's that's right on the border, right, yeah,

it's that close to the Okay, yeah, I think I know exactly where

that is. It's a beautiful little town. I love Browborough so much.

Yeah. Yeah. Now you're originally from New York, is that correct?

Yeah? I grew up in Long Island and then I moved out to the

city when I was like twenty two. Okay, yeah, New Yorker,

Yes, real New Yorker. We've had We've had a number of people who

uh lately, Yeah, Kenny Troon, he lived in New York for a

while, yep, to Newhampshire. See, all these people are in their

right minds now, so they're also New Yampshire. Sure, the tax free

status. The drummer from h what's the name of the band? Which one

We're supposed to see them? And then the show got rescheduled. Oh thieves,

Oh, run like thieves, Run like thieves. Yeah, he's he's

yeah, yeah, I forget his name now, Santini's is his last name?

What's this? I can't remember? The drummer he moved here from New

York. Yeah, a lot of people do it. And it's very funny

because now every time I go back to the city, I get like,

and this was never the case growing up, but I get like anxiety.

I'm like, oh my god, was it always this dirty? Was it

always like all like these people here and stuff like that? Yeah, yeah,

you don't notice it when you're like living it, and now it's very

noticeable when you like live in the woods twenty four to seven. Yeah,

no doubt. Yeah, that is a big change. So why the change.

What brought you here? H a bad breakup, I guess you could

say, and I just needed music. I was doing music back then and

it wasn't working out. I was just not taking myself seriously. I wasn't

taking good care of myself. And I was very lucky to have parents who

or like come up here and spend a year to think about things. And

what happened was I was actually about to leave for Austin, Texas, and

like a month before that happened, I met someone and I was like okay,

and I still went to Austin, Texas. But then I moved back

here and we've been together ever since. Oh very cool, congratulations, thank

you. Now, why when you were when you were planning to go to

Austin, what was the reason was that the music scene there? Cost of

living too? Oh? Really? Yeah? The cost of living was really

good. And I didn't know. I didn't do the research like I would

have done now. I was just like, yeah, Austin be cool,

right right? Yeah, that is a great city. It's beautiful. Absolutely.

Do you want to play another I'm down here more? Do you want

to play another one? Another live one for us? Yeah? If you're

just joining us simple Mountains here with us live in studio and we've been talking

and get that guitar mic back on there sounds amazing. Yeah, I'm actually

releasing after this interview, releasing the official video for this upcoming for this song.

Oh nokid yeah, oh cool, cool excited? What what what song

is it? It's called Interpersonal Relationships? Okay, yeah, all right,

very good. It seems I've only met you. It's falling down that ring.

It's all the ways you make me feel and cry. So I want

to take my hands and help me understand as we sit still, the world

is passed by. I recognize the mistrust I experience, the pain I've seen,

the way that men contend to lie. So I'll work hard each day

and think of how to say I'm here to love, not here, the

change of mind for you know, where not were or so focused on the

way you're making sounds for you know it's time for you to go. But

I'll think about the next time you're around. Because I made you a promise,

a promise I can't break, but I think I found a way to

compromise. More. History will show the way you helped me grow. We

make up pretty friendship, you and I for you know, when never so

focused on the way you're making sounds for you know, it's tougher a year

ago, But I'll think about the next time you're around. Because I made

you a promise, a promise I won't break. But I think I found

a way to a compromise. More history, wal show the way you helped

me grow. Make up pretty friendship, You and I make up pretty friendship.

You and I. Oh that is beautiful. Thank you? What is

that called it? Interpersonal relationship? Interpersonal relationships? That was awesome. Temple

Mountain is here with us live in studio this morning on Matt connorton Unleashed.

If you have any questions or feedback or anything at all for Eric, the

studio line is open six oh three two five oh six oh seven, six

oh three two five oh six oh seven. Of course, you can also

interact endopine in the Facebook live chat. You can also comment at Matt connorton

dot com slash live. And I did fix it, by the way,

I noticed it was a problem with the page a few minutes ago, but

I did fix it. But uh, and for those paying attention in the

chat room, I am dropping you some links in there. You can reach

out to Temple Mountains Facebook page as well their music page of their own their

website Temple Mountain music dot com. But drop those links in there for you

guys so you can take a peek. Darling Hill. In the chat room,

Kate says, I listened to the song on Insta. It's what got

me. Very nice, very nice, very nice, and Miriam Bannis shows

us in the Facebook live chat and says, I like it. Oh,

Stacy Hannings, I think you might know. I know, I think you

might know. Stacy hans we were talking earlier. Let's not talk about her.

No, no, well she did. She did leave a nice comment.

She said, oh that's all him. We joke. He has more

products than I do. Oh, always talking about my beard. Yeah,

oh the beard. Yes, yes, yes. B Pinarda joins us and

says, good morning everyone. Oh okay, I see. She was responding

to Melanie's comment. Melanie said, okay, be honest. Did you introduce

him to the beard products? No? No, no, uh, he's

a farm girl. She's like a he's a hard working, hard working lady.

And now she's not the she's just she's just like you. Know she's

very simple, likes to live the simple life. Oh. She also said

that's my guy, so proud. Very nice, Thanks, Stacy, very

nice. Yes, welcome Stacy. Yeah, a lot of talk of bird

uh beard cool Beard products before shave. That's what I use if anyone's scared.

Yeah, the bay rum scent. I really am a fan. Oh

okay, Jason will know what you're talking about without a doubt. Most likely.

My sister also got me a tom Ford one, so like a high

end one. I don't like it as much really Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I like the bay That bay rum smell. Oh nice. Rhonda Favero

says, sounds a little like Kat Steven's beautiful voice. Ah, that's awesome.

Well that that that leads me to a question. Uh, talk to

us about influences, because yeah, you do remind me of Kat Stevens a

bit. But I but I can hear some other things as well. Yeah.

I think the three like biggest ones for me are obviously the Beatles.

I love the Beatles. I have a Beatles moment once a month. Elliott

Smith is another one. He's not really a familiar name, but he was

like a nineties folks singer. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm obsessed and John

Mayer just because for me, everything that he plays just makes my legs like

kind of shake. So I love his music a lot. But I love

a lot of music. I love sixties folks songs, which like I'm kind

of embedded in that type of tradition where my mom grew me up on,

like Peter Paul Mary and Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell. I love jazz a

lot, like I love Chet Baker, I love classical music. I love

I don't know. There's so much, and with Spotify now, it's like

you're always just discovering more and more. It's overwhelming. Yeah, yeah,

absolutely. John di Petro is in the Facebook live chat. Hi John,

He says, wow, Eric is impressive. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And

of course you can find him as a Temple Mountain online. I'm curious,

do people ever contact you thinking that you're a band because of the name Temple

Mountain? Not yet, but I'm just not It's it's still too early.

It'll happen. It'll happen, but I guess if you ever do decide to

bring in other people, yeah, or the more interesting question is will I

ellude that I'm a band to get the gig. Yeah, sometimes there you

go, there you go, he's thinking, he's a think, Oh my

gosh, we were because we were talking earlier. You're starting to play out

now now you're really looking to get out into the clubs and get into play

Absolutely. Yeah, I love it. And I'm surprised with how much I'm

enjoying live music because when I was in New York, I didn't really like

playing live. I would do it, but I felt uncomfortable, and something

happened in my thirties when I'm just like, oh, this is not now.

Have you released anything else other than the album that? Uh not yet.

I'm releasing a video, like I said after this interview, and my

goals, I would like to have another record by the end of this year.

I have like some songs in mine and stuff like that. I'm also

doing I forget the name of the studio, like Lee Van Studios in Brooklyn.

I'll be doing a campaign for that and they do direct to vinyl recordings.

Oh no kidding. Yeah, So I'll be doing two songs for that

and it's like personal records and stuff like that. I'm very excited about that.

Now, what should we know about the video that's that you're going to

be releasing after the interview. It's for that song Interpersonal Relationships. It was

recorded by a guy named Omega Keene. His name's Max actually, and he's

in Keen and he does He did a really great job. We kind of

tried to make it almost look like the album cover, so it's in black

and white and it's got like a bluish kind of hue to it, and

it's a very simple music video. It's just me playing and performing and trying

to look as cool as I possibly could look. This was it wasn't an

easy task, and he succeeded, in my opinion, so I appreciate it.

Is it your first music video? Yeah? Yeah, technically there.

I used to go by Eric Phillip, and if you scroll the internet you

can find some slightly embarrassing videos of me playing to that name. But other

than that, this is the first time I've ever done something like professionally and

actually invested money into like my art and my dreams. Yeah yeah, well,

why why were you Eric Phillip? Is Phillip your middle day? Yeah?

Oh yeah, and my name is apparently named after Disney characters. I

like to bring that out. So Eric is the Prince from a Little Mermaid.

Oh and Philip is the Prince from a Sleeping Beauty. Oh no,

cool cool Carol's and Warwitz joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hi,

Carol, Miriam said regarding she said, Kat Stevens, I was trying to

think of who he reminded me of. Kind of took me back in time.

Yeah, I asked about, you know, if you had other material

only because you strike me if someone who's probably always writing, I assume you've

got a lot of ideas that you haven't. It comes and goes. I'm

also so I'm in grad school at the moment. So yeah, Like sometimes

when I get home, the first thing I do is I just pick up

the guitar and something will come out. Yeah, but I'll get writer's block

for sure. And when I get that, yeah, oh yeah, and

when I get that, that's really difficult. Like I don't know, it's

I just don't want things to always sound the same, like I can't.

And I love music that does this, but I can't ever just do very

simple like bar chords. I need to, like my fingers need to be

moving, like it's the ADHD in me. Yeah, so I don't know.

I'm when it comes. I do get writer's block, but once it

breaks, then I have like I'll write like ten songs. Do you remember

the first song you ever wrote? I do. It's called nineteen ninety three.

I don't remember it by heart. I remember the riff. The riff

was like something like that. Yeah, and I I'm not going to sing

it, but it was. Yeah, it took me. You know,

I'm still not very happy with my voice. And I say that, Yeah,

I say that in a good way, like I'm always searching. But

I did not sing like with confidence like five years ago. Yeah, yeah,

what got you to be able to sing with with more confidence? Have

you've taken lessons or no prozac? Prozac for sure, be honest. This

psycho pharmacology, like done ethically and properly helped a lot. Yeah yeah,

good good. You struggle with depression. I didn't realize it. Yeah yeah.

And then now I see life much different perspective. So yeah, yeah.

I in my family like intrusive thoughts I think are definitely like a thing.

And then my sister who's a neurologist, he was just like, have

you thought about this? And gave it a try, and it's like,

bah, no kidding. Oh, that's good, that's good. You want

to play another other song? Sure, if you're just joining us, Temple

Mountain is here with us, alive in studio, sounded amazing. Sure this

song is called the Unconditional. All I sees you, my thoughts can't be

alone. Oh, falling through the sky. I was thinking i'd fly,

but you cut me in your arms. And the day I was gone,

I tell you that I saw a happy to my songs. But dreams they

fade away, and someday you'll be gone. Been running out of lights,

been staying up too long, thinking how we've never met, And I'm willing

to make a bet that your dreaming is so wrong. And the day I

was gone, I tell you that I felt a rose by its thorns.

And our hands stay bled. But I knew some day I be yours that

dance with you, the moment so divine, like a blanket I held tight.

I always fear the unknown, but with you, the unknown feels so

right. So I keep my eyes on you, keep you locked inside my

mind. And it's so hard just to see how every part of me it

is just a shadow in the night and the day I was gone. I

tell you that I saw a breath inside my home and I love the way

it looks at me. I love how it's all I can see, and

I know it's more than fantasi coming r beautiful you Temple Mountain here with us

alive in studio this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed. By the way, Melanie

La Liberty, one of our friends from Vermont, said, I love that.

He just said that promoting good mental health is fantastic. I agree.

She also said mental health is health. It really shouldn't be separate from medical

care. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Do you have songs that

deal with that subject specifically? So just this album I got. I just

finished in December my undergrad in psychology and I'm starting grad school now, and

you know, an undergrad degree in psychology can't really do much outside in the

field. So I was like, well, I put all this money into

it, might as well make my album based on it. Interesting. Yeah,

okay, so there's all the songs are based on psychological terms to a

certain degree. I yeah, see, I wondered about that, you know,

like I saw a transference for example. Yeah, it's like you know

that's uh, I know, I know a little. You know, I'm

a hypnotherapist, so I know, yeah, I saw that some very just

very basic psychology. But but I did notice that, yeah, diagnosis and

uh yeah, and they're loosely based on those terms. I want to I

should emphasize because yeah, yeah, did you go into did you go into

the project intending that or did that happen organically? It happened organically. Yeah,

I think I've had other names for some of these songs. In fact,

I also struggle with names, like naming my songs like so, I

don't know, it just felt right. And I always like concept albums in

a sense, like in a way it doesn't have to be a full concept,

but like how many themes can you add to the record, and then

how can you incorporate those themes into the following record. So, for example,

I'm thinking for my next album, my album cover is like blue,

it's black and white with a blueish hue, and I'm thinking doing something similar

both a different color. So oh, it's like, yeah, keep the

theme going. Okay, very cool, very cool, boiler alert, Yes

we have time? You want to play another one? Uh? Yeah,

I can figure something out. We're uh, if you're just joining us,

we have Temple Mountain here with us alive in studio. The album is called

Schema, and uh this is this is great and you sound amazing live.

I mean the tracks you know sound great too, the studio tracks. And

well we'll play another studio song at the top of the hour. But uh,

you sound sound fantastically that. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate you absolutely.

Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna play this is the newest song I recorded

forty album before I released it. It's called Secure Bass. Okay, yeah,

yeah, I wouldn't believe it's true that I found someone just like you.

Now I am floating around the start with you got in my heart.

One day my eyes will turn blue, green will cover your hair, roots,

red lights of stream from my farm, with you got in my heart.

And then that's all around what I hold you and say the good life

of chance with each step we take. Love's not the fine. Love is

man. I want to be all of you, wise, full of life,

strong and cutes, grow and all doesn't sound but all with you got

in my heart, and the nights all rounds want to hold you and say

the good life's a dance. With each step we take, loves not the

fine love this man, and we'll travel the world. We'll make what is

ours, holding hands with a mind, and I'll tell you I love you

each night. And I'll tell you I love you each night. M hm

hm on dam eyes will turn blue, green will cover your hair. Roads,

red lights was seen from the far with you got in my heart in

the nuts of roads. I want to hold you and say good lights of

dance. Each step we take, Love's not the fine love is made.

Love's not the fine. Love is made beautiful Temple Mountain with us live in

studio here on Matt Connorton Unleashed. And by the way, I was noticing

on band camp this quote the good life is a process, not a state

of being. It is a direction, not a destination. I appreciate you,

Carl Rodgers. Yeah, tell us about that. What does that quote

mean to you? Why is that there? Well, it's funny, that

was a good time because that song's based on that quote. So like the

chorus is the good life to dance for? It's just like a rephrasing of

it. Yeah, I don't know, I think one. I just love

Carl Rodgers. I think Client Center therapy is like just so beautiful and like,

I'm so fascinated by it. And I'm sure he has his imperfections like

all of us do, but I just really find him inspiring. And that

line just kind of reminds me to just breathe right, you know, like

take it. And I've really grown to love my mistakes. And I've made

quite a few of them in life, and I've grown to really see how

those mistakes have evolved me into a person that I quite enjoy. I don't

wake up feeling ediolated anymore. I wake up feeling really proud of myself.

And yeah, I think that comes from knowing what not to do. Right.

In order to know what not to do, you have to do it

sometimes. Sure, sure, yeah, it's part of learning. Absolutely absolutely,

no, I think. And that's uh, that's good advice, good

advice for people. Now, what do you have coming up? We talked

about and we'll remind people too, uh before we uh before we wrap about

the video that's gonna be released right after the interview. But what else do

you have coming up? As far as do you have shows this weekend that

you want to plug or no, I have a family dinner tonight, so

no Monday. I'm playing on the eleventh, I'm playing in Guildford. I'm

playing at Patrick's Pub. Okay, I'm gonna be the featured artist that night.

Very excited. Do you have and sometimes you know from my own experience,

I don't play anymore, but I have played a lot of bands and

whatnot. Do you have anybody that you kind of team up with, because

sometimes that happens organically. Where is there someone that you play a lot of

shows with? Not yet, but I've grown to meet a couple of cool

cohorts. If you would that, I would love to show out, like

I really love this band, Modern Fools, Okay. Yeah, Josh is

an incredible songwriter and very very talented musician, and he just does a lot

of the sound and stuff like that, and the whole band in that is

incredible. John is the guitar player for that band. He does his own

stuff. He's fantastic. Ian Gallipo is a bass player for that band.

He also does singer songwriter stuff. Oh yeah, either we've had him on

or I've met him. He's he writes beautiful stuff. He just released a

song called I believe it's called The Little Things, okay, and that song

is gorgeous. There's also a guy named Dylan Patrick Ward who I'm hoping to

do some shows with and he writes just incredible music. Okay, yeah,

very good. Do you think you'll ever collaborate with any of these folks?

I would love to. Yeah. I feel like, like we were talking

about earlier with recording, because you have the access to record, there's really

no reason why you shouldn't collaborate nowadays, right right, Yeah, Yeah,

I would love to hear what like certain sounds would work toge because, for

example, Modern Fools they kind of do like alt country, so I don't

personally do that, so I feel like it would be very cool to see

what the combination of that would be. Yeah, yeah, no doubt,

very good, very good. And where should people go to find to find

you online? Is there a do you have a central hub or where should

people go to find Temple Mountain? So Temple Mounts and music dot Com for

sure, and then all my social links there will be on there. And

I definitely would say I use Instagram as my main connect with my you know

audience, if you will. Yeah, So that's the one I personally like

to use the most I try to avoid. I love Facebook, but I

also try to equally avoid it as possible for my own mental health. Yeah,

that's interesting that you say that. I know that there have been no

shortage of studies that show that when people either take a break or find a

way to avoid entirely Facebook, their mental health improves. Photos don't really hold

debates, right, So on Instagram you see photos of people just live in

their lives, right, Like, I'm not saying there's not issues with that

either, but at least for me, it's very calming and relaxing, where

on Facebook, I just get it's like for me, it's personally like watching

the news, which is a beautiful thing and an important thing to do,

but it's just it gets really sad very quickly for me. Yeah. Yeah,

there's a lot of uh, you know, negativity. Yeah, you

know, Uh, it's it's hard to for example, working in this medium.

Yeah, I don't have the luxury of just kind of disconnecting from Facebook,

but I've also kind of learned to just, i don't know, just

let it roll off. Yeah. I imagine also for in your case,

like you also get this, like privilege of you have you can use your

voice for like now you can direct a higher voice to like kind of help

the community anything else, which is incredible. Oh thank you. Yeah,

yeah, that's that's that's what we try to do. But yeah, there

is a lot of uh yeah, Facebook and Reddit is the other one that

comes to mind. Yeah, I'm always I always forget about Reddit. What

a cesspoolit My god, it's an interesting one. The horrible things you can

find. It used to be way worse too, Like it's really getting regulated

more and more. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

I use YouTube a lot too, like YouTube, to me is one of

the most important like websites of all time. Oh absolutely absolutely. It is

literally an educated source of knowledge if you want it to be. But of

course there's trolls on YouTube. But for some somehow it's almost maybe it's because

you don't have direct It's not like in the comment section of a video you

can really have a direct conversation with someone. It's just people commenting at each

other. So if if a troll leaves something nasty, it's I think it's

easier to just gonna let it roll off you because it's like, well,

you know, it's not like you're replying directly to well you can't. Actually

you can reply directly to their comment. But people don't really bother on YouTube.

I'm always baffled about people commenting on YouTube personally, like because every time

I watch a video, there's just never I never go like, oh,

I'm gonna come yeah, yeah, I never have this instinct to do it.

But like you look at it's like, oh, one hundred thousand other

people did. Yeah. Yeah, I'll give a thumbs up if I like

it, right, But I very rarely comment. But but sometimes and sometimes

the negative comments are oh some of them are brilliant. Yeah, yeah,

you see some really uh, you see some really interesting stuff. Well,

before we get to the top of the r and by the way, we're

gonna play another studio track before we close out, but remind us about the

video. This is very important. Right after the interview, this is uh,

this is gonna drop. Yeah, I'm gonna upload it onto YouTube with

my iPhone. It's called Interpersonal Relationships. I played it earlier and I'm really

excited. Yeah, I'm just please any love and support it would help and

only helped. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely Uh, so we encourage people to

uh, that'll be on Temple Mountain. That's the name of the YouTube channels,

Temple Mountain Music Music. Okay, very good, very good, and

uh. We will also close out the segment with another studio track from Schema.

But I'll let you uh, I'll let you pick what should we play.

Oh. If you guys like Harmonica's my opening track, counter Transference has

a harmonica. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Uh do you play the harmonica

on that? I yeah, I like tried. There was a harmonica holder

at a guitar center and I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. Yeah,

and I was just like, I'm gonna buy this, and then I

wrote a song with it. Yeah. Do you do the thing where you

where you have where you you're playing guitar and you're playing the harmonica. I

haven't done it live yet, but i've been I'm going to be. I'm

gonna be doing it this Monday for the first time. Yeah. I can't

know how you do that. I don't know if I would do it like

permanently, like because it's a sound right. Yeah, it's been done,

and but I wanted to have one song like all my favorite artists like the

Beatles have a harmonica song, Elliot Smith has a harmonica song. John Mayer

as a harmonica song. I had to this is my harmonica song. Yeah,

we had a I don't know if you know Nick Rolser. We had

him on the show Else, Oh, a couple of years ago. Now,

Oh, Nick is amazing. Yeah, but he but he does that.

I was talking to him about it, and I said him the same

thing I said to you. I said, because you mentioned the harmonica.

He mentioned a harmonica holder. I said, do you do the thing?

And when I said the thing, you knew exactly what I meant. He

said, oh, yeah, I do that. And I've it's always been

fascinated by it because when you do that, you're literally playing two instruments at

once. You know which is I mean, I guess in a way it's

with singing to your do it. Yeah, I guess in a way,

it's no different than singing and playing. But anythingels easier because with singing you

have to like remember that you speak, and like with harmonica, at least

the way I play, because I'm playing very very poorly. It's just you

know, I'm just blowing into the thing, right right, it's more about

making sure you have enough breath into it. So you have to like breathe

the right way if anything, and you have to like use your ear to

make sure your pitches are right, because once again, I have no idea

what I'm doing on I don't actually I know it's like a it's a G

major or a C major scale, but like I don't know, like oh

the chief right here, right right, Yeah, no that makes sense,

but uh yeah, very cool, So we'll we'll give this a list.

Counter Transference. This is, of course Temple Mountain and Eric, thank you

so much for joining us today. This is amazing, absolutely absolutely we will

do it again in the future. And don't forget the new video. It's

gonna drop and right after the interview. So very cool, very cool.

All right, So here it is. We will close out the segment with

this, but everybody else sit around. We got plenty more show to come.

But here it is. This is counter Transference. The album is Schema

and the artist is Temple Mountain. Oh. It's when you are looking for

something that you know. Listen, nothing in the world that you have is

are scrumbling with the answers you left me and found there's a feeling you have

in the morning, there's a breath that taking you home. But that that

is when your dreams are farming and your words are now riding this bone.

There are times when I'm thinking of dying. How I wish there were once

I could say, and they're crazing everest from my crying. So how I'm

the one lost in this cave? Nowhere but home? Now you're alone?

How you feel and tonight? So we thank your goss for now. You

don't know if you'll ever feel right, but there's a hope in the friends

who are caring. There's a light at the end of the road, and

while driving the night can be tearing. We are stars and we're goding you

home. No we but home? Now you're alone? How you feel anight?

So we thank your goals for now. You don't know if you'll ever

feel right, but there's a hope in the friends who are carrying. There's

a line at the end of the road, and while driving a night can

be tearing. We just dosn't regarding your home. Come on,

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