Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-11-26 hour 1

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1:09 Speaker 2: Welcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. If you are listening live, it is Saturday, April eleven, twenty twenty six, and I'm not alone.

1:45 Speaker 3: Jenny junto Food Morning Sunshine.

1:50 Speaker 2: Jenny is here at the news table, a.

1:52 Speaker 4: Presenton accounted bar. How are you this morning?

1:55 Speaker 2: Good good, We've got a great show for you today.

1:58 Speaker 4: You unexcited.

2:00 Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, we're going to be talking to Mickey Lix, a incredibly talented guitar player who's going to be joining us in the second hour. Our friends Day to Attend are going to be here. They've got some new music and there's been some changes with that band, so really looking forward to seeing those guys. If you are watching the video feed of the show, you can see I've got my day to attend shirt on. And of course let's see in the third hour Tyler Laplant, a filmmaker, is going to be here, so kind of changing it up a little bit.

2:26 Speaker 2: Although he may be a musician too, who knows, But a lot of creative people, you know, work in different modalities, but a talented filmmaker. He's got a new short film called Joey's Big Reveal. And I was listening to one of his other interview he had done on another radio show, and just a really interesting guy, so can't wait to meet him from NASHUAE. He's going to be coming in. But again it is for those of you listening live April eleventh, and it's a big day, a big event tonight we should talk about absolutely.

2:56 Speaker 3: Matt and I will be at the Mosaic Aren't Collective from five pm tonight till seven for.

3:00 Speaker 4: The Clear to Me opening exhibit.

3:03 Speaker 3: The gallery is located at sixty six Hanover Street, Swee two. Want it here in the Queen City, so please do come down and see us at the Mosaic Are Collective for the opening reception and visit mosaic Arcollective dot com to find out more fun stuff coming up for the community. Maybe it's a movie night. Maybe you want to put in for the next open call. There are two open calls on the website right now, so if you're an artist, please submit your work and don't let money be a barrier. There are ways to get around that if need be, so please check out mosaic our Collective.

3:34 Speaker 3: Come see mat Nite tonight at the Clear to Me opening opening reception.

3:40 Speaker 2: Why is it called clear to Me? Why is that the name of tonight's exhibit.

3:43 Speaker 4: That is the theme of tonight's show.

3:46 Speaker 3: Every time there's an open call, there's a theme to it, and you do with that as you will as an artist. Whatever speaks to you in whatever form that comes out, and people send in their submissions from all over and that are really talented folks, sort through that, make choices and you see the end result in the exhibit tonight.

4:05 Speaker 4: It is a juried exhibit.

4:07 Speaker 3: So not everything gets it, but it is an incredible way to be able to show your art. I know that I was scared the first time I had a piece of on the wall, and I still get nervous, but It's really amazing to be among so many creative people. It's really good for the soul to just be in community in that way and just be happy with other people.

4:28 Speaker 4: I love it. I the Mosaic Art Collective has.

4:31 Speaker 3: Become a very valuable and important part of my life.

4:34 Speaker 2: Well, and you're an important part of it now too.

4:36 Speaker 3: I am the vice president of the board of directors. Was really honored for them to ask me and that they see in me what they want to bring into the museum. And we have a lot of exciting things coming up to there's a big move coming. I can't tell you too much more about that, but there is a lot going on. It is a great place to be involved. If you are an artist, or you have a budding artist at home, bring them down, come to a community studio where you can being creative with each other, you know, because we do that monthly.

5:06 Speaker 3: We have a community studio where you can come in, you can create with other people. You can show people what you're working on, check out other people. There's always supplies around if you need something to want to work with, and just to be in the gallery. Being creative is just an amazing experience to sit amongst the art and do whatever it is that your hands feel like they want to do.

5:26 Speaker 5: You know, I.

5:29 Speaker 3: Enjoy it a great deal and I hope you do too, So please do come down and check out the Mosaic Are Collective at sixty sixty and over Street, Sweet two oh one. When you come on in, grab the elevator up to the second floor, and you will find.

5:41 Speaker 2: Us well very good, very good, And you're on the website now too.

5:45 Speaker 4: I am on the website now. I actually just found that out.

5:48 Speaker 3: This morning, Yeah, when I was just making sure I knew everything. You know we're gonna be doing too is movie Nights. There's so much good coming on from the gallery. You really should come down tonight to the opening reception, check it out for yourself.

6:00 Speaker 2: And find out more about it, right right, excellent? All right, well very good. So we're gonna go ahead and hit this track. This is the newest single from Mickey Licks again, a very talented guitar player. I can't wait to talk to him and uh and talk to him too about not only some of his uh some of the training that he's had playing guitar, but of course some of the people he works with. Because it's not him singing on the track, but but it is him shredding, So this is really good. I can't wait to talk to Mickey Licks.

6:28 Speaker 2: I believe he's a real New Yorker. I think he's from New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But this is the newest single and then we'll get him on the line via WhatsApp. This is called Persopolis and this is Mickey Licks. That is not not Mickey That is not Mickey Licks, and that is not Persopolis. That's my song. Oops. I can't blame that on a tech issue. That is that was that was one operator error.

6:55 Speaker 4: That was good good, that's so rare, it's funny.

6:57 Speaker 2: That's that's the dance mix of person Oblis by Mickey Liss. All right, here it is, I promise this time.

8:05 Speaker 6: Race fast, job.

8:32 Speaker 7: Nice with something ass.

9:01 Speaker 8: Looking stop praying nights went something as.

9:33 Speaker 7: Six fancy the smart gi y'all.

11:51 Speaker 2: I didn't want to talk over the end of that. That that echo at the end is so cool. That is a persels If I'm saying that correctly, I think I said it wrong earlier. And the artist is Mickey Lick and we've got him on the line with us via WhatsApp. Mickey, are you there?

12:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, I am here.

12:06 Speaker 2: Hell are you good?

12:07 Speaker 5: Good?

12:07 Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. I'm excited to talk to you. I love that track. I love I listen to a whole bunch of your stuff online on Spotify. It's all all really good. But that is that is that is fantastic? Am I saying it correctly? Persepolis?

12:22 Speaker 5: Yes?

12:22 Speaker 2: Okay, Well let's start with the really obvious question regarding that. What does that mean?

12:28 Speaker 5: So this song is written about the ancient city and or on?

12:32 Speaker 2: Okay, the theme I've.

12:33 Speaker 5: Been taking with my music is just writing about history. Oh love history.

12:39 Speaker 9: So for me, you know, when writing this song, I wanted to write about something agent, but I didn't want to go so obvious. I wanted to tell a story that was maybe not so told.

12:50 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, interesting, Yeah, because I I noticed Sue from you know, watching your videos and watching the video for that, it definitely uh has that, you know, in terms of the imagery, has that vibe. I was thinking about it too. You know, I'm old enough to remember, you know, when I was growing up and MTV was still a thing. You know, sometimes major artists would make these these uh, these videos that look like they cost a million dollars to make, and now with the technology that we have, you know, you can do something that looks like it costs a million dollars but but obviously it didn't.

13:23 Speaker 2: But uh, but the video, I guess that's my long winded way of saying. The video for that is really cool and I definitely think it. It goes with what you're trying to put across with the song. And now that that's cool that you that you write from a specific because I too, I noticed like you, you know, you've got a song called Gates of Buddha, for example. I notice you seem to to write from that perspective of wanting to do something. I don't know who else does that necessarily, at least as consistently as you are writing about history with their music.

13:53 Speaker 2: But I think that's really interesting.

13:55 Speaker 5: Well, thank you, I appreciate it.

13:56 Speaker 4: I mean it's for me.

13:57 Speaker 9: History is one of my biggest passions music of course, so it's really fun to combine it too.

14:04 Speaker 2: Right, No, that's great, that's great. Now who is that singing on that? Because I noticed it. It looks like that's someone you collaborate with a lot, right. The vocalist on that yeah.

14:12 Speaker 9: So that's Jill Joya. She was in Trance siberianal Chestra. She was on CBS's rock Star with Tommy Lee. Oh she sank back up for like a million artists. I think, like any third I blind.

14:26 Speaker 5: I think the list goes on.

14:27 Speaker 2: Okay, So she's a heavy, heavy hitter. She's a serious person. How did you How did you come to work with her? How did that come about?

14:34 Speaker 5: Uh? Well, crazy enough. She's actually my stepmom, So I'm no kidding. It works out really nicely.

14:40 Speaker 2: Oh that's perfect. Yeah, that's fantastic. So, uh you I assume you grew up you grew up in Wang Island. Is that correct?

14:50 Speaker 5: Yes? I grew up a long island still live here.

14:52 Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, And so obviously you grew up surrounded by musicians. I assume, yes, that is true. Okay, very good. So when did you start playing guitar? Because I suspect you started at a really young age.

15:05 Speaker 5: I actually didn't. I started at twelve.

15:10 Speaker 2: Twelve okay, fairly young.

15:11 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, fairly young, and then just kind of went from there.

15:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. Is it something that you picked up quickly?

15:19 Speaker 9: I would say, I mean it's it's in the family. So I think for me, it just kind of came a little bit more natural than other things. Sure, you know, not everything for everyone is easy, right, So it's like certain things you try, you just just it just doesn't play right, right, I have to really try.

15:35 Speaker 5: But with a guitar, I found it. It really sat comfortable with me.

15:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's that's great. I wish I had been like that. So when I was a kid, I started out on guitar. I took guitar lessons, but unfortunately I was one of those lazy kids that if I wasn't good at something quickly enough, I would give up on it.

15:52 Speaker 5: So I think we all have that.

15:57 Speaker 2: With some things. Yeah, but that's how I ended up being a bass player. And bass players hate when I say this, but it's just the truth. So I got discouraged. I kind of hit a wall. I plateaued with the guitar. But then when I picked up a bass for the first time, which really wasn't until high school, I was like, oh, two less strings and I don't have to know any chords. I think I found my instrument and then I and then I ended up playing in a bunch of bands and everything playing bass. But I turned out to be kind of okay at bass.

16:23 Speaker 2: But but I so I always admire and respect people who have the discipline to start an instrument and then you know, really see it through and get get really really good at it. When you started at twelve years old, was your goal to be? I don't know if shredder is maybe an outdated term or maybe it's not, but was that always really uh what you know?

16:45 Speaker 5: Because so I grew up playing ice hockey.

16:49 Speaker 9: Yeah, so guitar was never my passion until maybe I was fourteen, Okay, Like so for me, I was like, oh, this is just fun, but I'm still playing hockey.

17:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, and then but I got you know, I got injured. Time happens.

17:04 Speaker 9: And then the more I played guitar, the more I fell in love with it. And you know, growing up, my dad was a shredder. Okay, he's been like he's raised on that stuff. You know, he's he's he's my inspiration for that cool.

17:18 Speaker 5: So it was in the house and.

17:21 Speaker 9: Then I just kind of as my journey went along, I started just doing more shred stuff and really fall in love with it. But I did grow up on stuff like Van Halen where it's it's not technically shred but you know, it's rock playing. But then I would listen to the bands like Santa Cruz or Falling in Reverse, which at the time the guitar players were shredders.

17:44 Speaker 5: Yes, and you know you hear that and it's just like.

17:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Who's who would you say is your biggest I mean, obviously your dad is a big influence on you in terms of that, but like who would you say? You know you mentioned van Halen, Like do you is there is there kind of a someone who stands out above all of them in terms of influence.

18:07 Speaker 9: Well, I think as a lot of guitar players, I think Eddie is always the main. Without Eddie, none of this is possible, at least I don't think so. I don't think a lot of this goes this far besides Eddie, because I feel like he's always the big choice.

18:26 Speaker 5: I have a few I have. I taught under Jackie Vincent for about two years.

18:32 Speaker 9: Okay from Falling Reverse, and he's he's just a super nice dude, great player, great musician.

18:41 Speaker 5: Him. Paul Gilbert I was always big on Vea Monstein.

18:47 Speaker 9: Of course, yes, I got to learn from him a bit because I did a tour opening for him last summer and yeah, yeah, and it just got you know, get to see him play every night, and it's just like, Okay, this is serious.

19:02 Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, that's really cool. It's funny. I remember growing up, my friends and I used to argue about how what the correct way to pronounce his name.

19:10 Speaker 5: Is wins like a few ways.

19:17 Speaker 2: No, that's really cool though, that you got to tour with him. Who so, so who else have you? Well, how did you so Jackie Vincent? You said, like, is he kind of a mentor to you? It sounded like it sounds like you have to spend a lot of time with him, right, Yes.

19:30 Speaker 9: Uh so I took lessons with him for a long time. Okay, but not only just being a student, just being friends. Like he's he's a super cool dude.

19:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, he came on to one.

19:42 Speaker 5: Of my tracks and did like a guest solo and yeah, he's honestly, he's just a sweetheart and just really helped develop.

19:52 Speaker 2: What I was, you know, going for sure, sure in terms of you know, learning how to play, how to play fast, how to shred. I mean, what's kind of the most important thing because I've always so for me as someone who who can play a little bit of guitar. But like I said, I told you my journey with that and how derailed it it became. But I've always been under the impression the best way to do it. Tell me if this was your experience is you just learn. You just learn everything technical that you can, and then you just what's the expression, I've heard different variations of it, but slow is steady steady as fast, meaning first you learn how to do it, like anything that you learn in life.

20:36 Speaker 2: First you learn how to do it correctly. Don't worry about doing it fast, just worry about doing it right and doing it as efficiently and effectively as you can, and then speed just comes. Speed comes over time once you learn how to do it correctly. And my assumption, as someone who never learned how to shred, is that that's how you learn how to shred. First, you learn how to play as you know all the technical stuff, and then the speed comes over time. Or am I wrong about that? Are there specific techniques that that you have to use to learn to play fast?

21:11 Speaker 10: No?

21:12 Speaker 9: I think that's perfect. I think it's exactly that you have to build it right. You don't just get from zero to one hundred. Yeah, you know you have You have to think of it like even if you're driving a car, right, if you want to get on that gass.

21:24 Speaker 5: It's a it's a you know. Yeah, it takes a build up. It doesn't just go from zero to one hundred. But uh.

21:31 Speaker 9: The only like thing I usually say for people who want to get into it is, well, one, you have to be friends of the metronome even if even if it's annoying, you have.

21:42 Speaker 5: To like it. It is what it is. You'll be hearing it for the rest of your life. Right.

21:47 Speaker 9: Two, if you're gonna get into the shrid guitar stuff, the most important thing to learn is scales, okay, because most of what it is is scales.

21:59 Speaker 5: Yes I shouldn't say most, but a lot of it is scales.

22:03 Speaker 9: It's combining scales, using multiple just doing maybe three or four notes from one scale.

22:10 Speaker 5: It's all about that, okay. So if you want to be able to really rip, that's your founded.

22:15 Speaker 2: True okay, Okay, that's good advice, good advice, And so tell us about so the first single Defiance that was the debut single, right you're first single that you officially released, and then that that did really well, right, ten k plus on YouTube? And I mean you were starting out.

22:32 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was really happy that.

22:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really cool. I mean did you expect to have such early success with it?

22:40 Speaker 10: No?

22:40 Speaker 5: No, no, I I was really young at the time, so I just put it out, yeah, no winging a prayer.

22:47 Speaker 2: How old were you when you put it out?

22:49 Speaker 5: I think I was sixteen?

22:50 Speaker 11: Wow?

22:51 Speaker 5: Wow? Yeah?

22:53 Speaker 2: What do you think, like, what do you attribute the early success and attention to. I mean, obviously you're doing something right at sixteen, you've already got you know that for a single right out of the gate, you're having success with it online. But I mean what what do you attribute that too? Is is there something about about it that you think just really connected with people?

23:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be honest with you, I don't really know.

23:11 Speaker 12: Yeah.

23:12 Speaker 5: Maybe it was just right time, right place, you know.

23:15 Speaker 2: Yeah.

23:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I'm just I'm grateful it went how it went. Absolutely, I wouldn't really know. Maybe it was just yeah, maybe it was just right for the time.

23:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, apparently. And what does that song represent to you personally?

23:28 Speaker 5: Like?

23:29 Speaker 2: Why is it called defiance?

23:33 Speaker 9: I'd have to let me think, because I think at the time it was just like I was young, right, yeah, And I think when you're a young kid and you're trying to make it in something, there's going to be.

23:46 Speaker 5: A lot of hate you get.

23:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, right, yeah, and I you know, I hate to be that whole Well, a lot of people parted me at the time because now, but you know, as a sixteen year old navigating this career and you know, thirty years ago, there wasn't social media, right, so people weren't going on slashers post doone, dude, you suck.

24:06 Speaker 5: But you know as a sixteen year old, do you get that quite a lot.

24:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a different world.

24:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, So I think it was just kind of maybe learning to deal with that and be like, all right, I'm my own thing.

24:19 Speaker 5: I'm strong in what I do. And I think it was just like all right, we're gonna name it that.

24:24 Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think that's cool. And I think that you know, because we live and people might take something from this that's valuable, is you know you really just the best thing to do is just be yourself in terms of what you do creatively and how you choose to express it. I don't work, don't worry about the critics, and the you know, the people who aren't gonna like you, because you know, I'm old enough to remember, you know, when we didn't have social media and all of this, and you know, it is a different world and you get instant feedback and no matter what you do, there's going to be haters, you know, so you have to just embrace that.

24:56 Speaker 2: And you know, hey, at least the haters are paying attention you, you know, even if the haters are watching your music video while you're still getting those clicks. So you know, there's always gonna be people who love you and people who hate you, and just you know, you got to embrace all of it.

25:10 Speaker 5: And I always think it's like a ninety ten or like a ninety five five rule.

25:14 Speaker 4: Right yeah, like.

25:17 Speaker 5: I hate you get the rest is loves exactly.

25:21 Speaker 9: Just who cares, you know, And you know it's a keyboard warrior. You're gonna argue with the keyboard warrior.

25:27 Speaker 2: Right exactly exactly. I think that's a very healthy way of looking at it and thinking about it. Also, so tell me about Holy Mother. You're you're also in this. You don't just do solo work as Mickey Mickey Licks. You've got this band Holy Mother that was Oh you are okay?

25:44 Speaker 5: Yeah? I left in fall.

25:47 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay. What happened.

25:50 Speaker 5: Just creative differences, just felt it was better to go my own.

25:54 Speaker 2: Way, okay, okay. How long were you in the band?

25:58 Speaker 5: I'm gonna say three years.

25:59 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so you were there for a while.

26:01 Speaker 13: Yeah.

26:01 Speaker 2: And is it true that you did a tour? You toured North America and also you went to Europe opening for Doropesh.

26:09 Speaker 5: I toured in Europe?

26:10 Speaker 2: Oh you did?

26:11 Speaker 5: Okay?

26:11 Speaker 2: Okay, wow, now that must have been That must have been cool. What was that like opening for Doro Pesh because she's kind of kind of a legend, you know.

26:20 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was really cool. Definitely.

26:22 Speaker 9: I mean it's it's always great to play Germany, you know. I look forward to the times in the future, but the fans are always great. I always love the culture.

26:32 Speaker 2: So yeah, I really dig it, no doubt, no doubt. So is are you Are you in another band now or are you strictly are you focused on releasing music as Mickey Lix?

26:43 Speaker 9: Well, so I'm I do the Mickey Licks band, right, but I also I work with a singer named Andrew. Okay, she's a Greek like power metal singer. Oh, so I've gotten lucky enough to tour all over with her. I've done my most work probably with her. Oh wow, that's what I opened with ing Bay with her, opened for Dave Ellison of Mega Deaths.

27:08 Speaker 7: Uh.

27:09 Speaker 5: We did our own like solo headlining tour and there. You know, there's always more in the works.

27:14 Speaker 9: But it's been a really really fun project, met some really cool people with it, and yeah, that that I have such a blast with.

27:22 Speaker 2: Oh, that's really cool. That's amazing. And then so you're still do you have any plans to Uh, you're still living in Long Island, right, so do you have any plans to to you know, I don't know, go to Hollywood or something or what na stick around where you are at all.

27:40 Speaker 5: I'm not you know, this is what I'll say. I think being from the East Coast, no shot, not gonna happen. Yeah, yeah, you know, I've been to l A two times now. It's cool, but it's just not my thing, you know.

27:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're I mean, you know, the traffic is terrible either place, right, So.

28:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's true. I mean, by me, it's not horrible.

28:05 Speaker 2: That's good.

28:06 Speaker 9: It's not like New York City traffic, right yeah, yeah, but yeah, I don't know if I could be in that lifestyle.

28:13 Speaker 5: You know, it's it's not it doesn't feel genuine to me.

28:17 Speaker 2: Right right. Well that's also a very healthy way of thinking about it, I think. So that's good. That's good. Yeah. No, I like the Northeast. Obviously I still live here, so yeah, absolutely. So what's kind of the So what's next for you? You've got a lot going on. Do you have Well, Persepolis is relatively new, right as a single that that came out recently?

28:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, I came out. I think it's been like two and a half three weeks.

28:45 Speaker 2: Oh, so it's really new. Yeah. So do you do you have another single that you're getting ready to release soon or what's what's kind of next?

28:54 Speaker 5: Yes, I do, so. I don't want to like give away too much.

28:59 Speaker 9: Okay, I'll give away like a little. So we have a we have a new release coming out in early May. Okay, another metal track, history metal. Oh but this time it's written about a story here in the States, which is the first song we're gonna be doing about that. Oh, and I think it's intrigued comes fun in time for America's two fifty.

29:24 Speaker 5: So okay, I'm really I'm really stoked about it.

29:26 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm very intrigued. I'm very intrigued. Well, when it's when it's ready, you'll have to send that to us because we'd love to play it here absolutely, And and will it be your your uh it is funny about well will it be your stepmom singing on it?

29:39 Speaker 5: It will be. Yeah, So she's handled all the duties with that. Okay, I'm not I'm not a power metalle singer. I can't do that.

29:47 Speaker 2: There is there is one song you sing on though, right, what is it? Fight You? Is that the song?

29:54 Speaker 5: Yeah?

29:54 Speaker 6: Yeah?

29:55 Speaker 5: So we did a few last year. We did a few like pop rock.

30:00 Speaker 2: Tracks, okay, yeah, and you know what, they're not so I They're.

30:04 Speaker 9: Not available anymore because I'm trying to, like, you know, get this power metal brand and going. And I was like, I feel like these probably don't help it. But I'm still gonna upload them like sometime in the future. But I released three pop rock tracks and yeah, I did sing on them.

30:23 Speaker 5: I love the tracks. Yeah, I just don't think it fits what I'm doing now.

30:26 Speaker 2: Okay, So, but I.

30:28 Speaker 9: Think it's great because it kind of like I got to learn with these tracks how to really craft the hook, right, So I was able to kind of take that training and then put it over to what I'm doing now, which has been like it's like all right, great. So they they serve their purpose and you know, they'll still be out there so people can find them. But I think I put them off Spotify and everything because like, you know, kill the metal stuff.

30:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, I found I found on YouTube and I checked out the video and I was like, oh, that's cool. I like it, and but I noticed right away it was different from your other stuff, but it is you know, it is very very very catchy, and it's a fun I like the video. It's fun.

31:11 Speaker 5: We had fun.

31:12 Speaker 2: Who's who's the the older gentleman in the video with the gray hair. Who's who sits at the drums at one point?

31:18 Speaker 5: So that is our drummer, Steve O his dad.

31:24 Speaker 2: That's his dad who comes in and sits down at the drum set.

31:27 Speaker 9: Okay, you know with what we do, it's very like very family reacted. Yeah, right, like everybody's into it, like nobody's like nobody has anyone who's.

31:39 Speaker 5: Like, nah, that's stupid.

31:41 Speaker 9: Because my dad is like, he's super helpful me and you know, I always bounce a lot of ideas off him.

31:48 Speaker 5: He's just great for this stuff. And then our drummer's dad, Steve, well, his name is Nick the Dada.

31:55 Speaker 9: He's super helpful, super supportive. So we're really that we have family who will support us with this.

32:04 Speaker 2: Oh that's great and having a Yeah, having a supportive family makes all the difference. And and you know, like I said too, I mean, you know, we talked about it a little bit. You grew up in a great situation there with your family in terms of what you're doing now for a career. And I think I think that's uh, I think that's amazing. Well, Mickey Lix, this has been wonderful. Like I said, I can't wait to hear the new single when it comes out, and we'll be happy to play it here.

32:28 Speaker 5: Uh.

32:29 Speaker 2: We did open with uh Persepolis. I was thinking about closing our conversation with Gates of Buddha, another great track. What do you Unless there's something else you'd prefer we play to close out the segment, but you know, I like to bookend the segment with some music.

32:46 Speaker 5: So I think it is perfect. Yeah, that's a great choice.

32:50 Speaker 2: So tell us about that one.

32:52 Speaker 5: Uh So this song.

32:55 Speaker 9: Is written about the scene to Buddha in sixteen six. Okay, So last summer, when opening for en Bay, I went to Hungry. I've been before, love love the country, but it was my first time in Budapest.

33:10 Speaker 5: Oh, never been to Budapest. And I didn't have much time in Budapest.

33:14 Speaker 9: I had the gig and then the whole band woke up early the next morning just to be tourists until like I'm gonna say, like twelve or one o'clock because then we had to we had to haul to Greece because they're like, all right, we have a show in Greece the next day. So looking at a map, that was about like a nine ten hour drive. Yeah, like that was in a short drive that we did. So you know, I didn't get to spend too much time in Budapest, right, Yeah, But from what I did get to see, I was really into it.

33:49 Speaker 5: There was just the beautiful churches, beautiful scenery. The people were just great.

33:55 Speaker 9: I really liked the fans, like you know this, there's certain countries I think you fold near and deer right to like how they react to music.

34:05 Speaker 5: So like I've always been, I've always obviously been a.

34:08 Speaker 9: Big fan of the German fans. They're really into the music. But I've also always been into Eastern European fans. There's just a certain energy they bring that I just haven't seen anywhere else. But I felt in Hungry they were very appreciative, even the staff working, Like when I walked in the building, they were super friendly. They you know, they were talking to me about other projects that I've been in, so you know, as an artist, it just makes.

34:38 Speaker 5: You like it's super heartwarming. It's like, really, you've heard.

34:42 Speaker 9: Of it, and like even I've had people that were like, oh, I saw you when you played here, and I saw you when you played.

34:49 Speaker 5: Here, So getting back to where I was, so I had a really good experience there. I really enjoyed its.

35:00 Speaker 9: So when I started doing this power metal stuff, I've always been in the power metal but starting to write this stuff, I came up with the song which was Gates Buddho wrote the whole song, but I didn't know what it was going to be about.

35:15 Speaker 5: I had no clue. I just knew it was going to be about a battle, and that's it.

35:21 Speaker 9: Yeah, so I started doing my studying of what I thought maybe all right, so testing out different ideas, and then I started to kind of get into the CG Vienna a bit. But the Cgvna is something that's very popular, Like a lot of people know about the seas of Vienna, a lot of people know about the wing Cisars. So for me, I was like, all right, let's shift same war, different battle, and then that's where Buddha clicks. Where I was like, ah, okay, because just a quick geography lesson, because I love geography.

35:58 Speaker 9: Budapest is separated by the Danu, right, so the north of the city I might get I might get this wrong, so people could correct me if if I long the north of the city is Buddha, and then the south of the city is Pest and then they just combined it. But so the north of the city Buddha is where all the historic stuff is. It's where Castle Hill is, where.

36:23 Speaker 5: It's mentioned in the song. That's where Buddha Castle is. So that's the siege of Buddha.

36:29 Speaker 2: Okay, right, and that real thing.

36:31 Speaker 9: So I really loved the story of how you know, in history, this stuff gets conquered, it's gets claimed it happens.

36:41 Speaker 5: But I really enjoyed the story of nationality and a group of people trying to reclaim.

36:48 Speaker 9: What was theirs right, right, and so they've came closed, but they failed a lot of times. But it was like, after one hundred and fifty years, they finally got what was theirs back, okay. And I thought that was such a interesting story, you know. And you know, I think with this you get a little risky because there is religion involved. But you know, like I, like I've said to millions of people who have had this question, it's just talking about history.

37:17 Speaker 5: There's no religious prejudice. I love everybody, you know what I mean. But it's just such an interesting story and I think it's a story that needs to be told. And that's why when the song released, it was so cool.

37:31 Speaker 9: To see the outpouring of Hungarian fans who just came out of the old work.

37:35 Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, you gotta see this.

37:38 Speaker 2: Oh that's really cool, that's really cool. That's amazing. Okay, well, very good. So we're gonna share that with everybody in just a moment. But before we let you go, Mickey, where's the best place to go to keep up with everything that you're doing, with everything that Mickey Lix is doing.

37:51 Speaker 9: Well, you could check www dot mickey lix dot com.

37:55 Speaker 5: That's my website.

37:56 Speaker 9: Okay, I'm at mickey Underscore licks on Instagram, Mickey Licks on Facebook, and then just hit the Spotify's just Mickey Licks and licks is spelled l y x x uh. And hopefully I'll be in your state, in your country very soon doing what we're doing, having fun.

38:15 Speaker 5: And yeah, I hope to see you there.

38:17 Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool. All right, Well, it is wonderful to talk with you. You can't wait to hear the next single when it comes out. And I'm sure we'll do this in the future as you're releasing new music and doing doing a lot of things. Uh, you know, we're we we became fast fans here, so really really love what you're doing. Man, keep it up, and uh, we'll let you go for now and we're gonna hit this track. But Mickey Licks, thank you so much, thank you. All right, you got to take care, all right. That is Mickey Licks from Long Island, a real New Yorker by the way, Jenny, really yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, all right, that's a that's a little bit inside.

38:51 Speaker 2: But if you know, you know, but uh no, but he's he's amazing, very very talented, and uh let's give this a spin. This is another great track. I actually listen to all of these, but this is called Gates of Buddha.

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43:14 Speaker 2: That is Mickey Licks and that track is called Gates of Buddha and oh yeah, yeah, no kidding, no kidding, yeah. Thank you again to Mickey Licks for joining us this morning on the show. That was great. Really enjoyed talking with him and love his music. And he's young, he's got a long, very successful career about him, I predict. And this is Matt Connorton Unleashed. If you're listening live on Saturday, We've got a lot more coming up. On the second hour, we have Day to Attend coming in our friend's Day to Attend.

43:40 Speaker 2: They might be in the five Timers Club. I'm not sure, I think at this point probably. And then in the third hour we have filmmaker Tyler Laplant who's going to be joining us talking about his new short film, Joey's Big Reveal. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. You can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options. Social media links, contact Infosho archives, et cetera, et cetera.

44:06 Speaker 2: We have a few minutes before the top of the hour, and there is some music industry news. There is a ticketing agency in trouble, and it's not Ticketmaster. For once, StubHub has run a foul of the Federal Trade Commission. This is from Digitalmusicnews dot com, which by the way, is one of my favorite websites to get music industry news. From FTC orders StubHub to refund ten million dollars worth of unfair or deceptive fees. Check your email you might have an email offering you a part of a settlement.

44:43 Speaker 2: Here it says the Federal Trade Commission has ordered stub up to pay ten million dollars to fans for deceptively advertising ticket prices on its website. The country's largest ticket exchange and resale ticket platform, StubHub, has to fork over ten million dollars to fans to set up charges lodged against it by the Federal Trade Commission over violations of the FTC Act. Specifically, sub Hub was found to have violated the agency's rule on unfair or deceptive fees by advertising ticket prices on its website without clearly disclosing up front how much customers would pay at checkout after all mandatory fees.

45:21 Speaker 2: And by the way, this is not anything unique. Of course, if you're a longtime listener of the show, or if you just follow music industry news, you know that we often That's why I made that joke about it really wasn't even a joke about, Oh, there's a ticketing agency in trouble, and for once, it's actually not Ticketmaster, because we run into the same thing, of course with Ticketmaster, where anyone who's bought tickets knows. You go on their website and you go to look up some tickets and you decide you want them, and then by the time you get to the end of the transaction, you're paying nearly twice as much as what you thought those tickets were initially going to cost.

46:00 Speaker 2: Apparently stubbub kind of operates the same way, and you get to the end of it and you're you know, with all the fees and taxes and everything, the final price ends up being way more than what you were expecting. So so stub hub is run a foul of the FTC. It says here quote the Commission's fee rules make it very clear that the total price of live event tickets must be disclosed upfront to enable customers to make fully informed purchasing decisions unquote, said Christopher Mufferage, director of the FDC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

46:37 Speaker 5: Quote.

46:37 Speaker 2: Price transparency is essential to a free and competitive marketplace. Today's settlement underscores the Commission's commitment to ensuring that consumers pay the price they are promised unquote. The agency's action against stubbub follows a warning letter sent to the company in May of last year, which stated that multiple price is listed on its website appear to be in violation of the Fees Rule. That rule went into effect on May twelve, twenty twenty five. The rule states that it is an unfair and deceptive practice to offer, display, or advertise the price of a live event ticket without quote clearly, conspicuously and most prominently disclosing the total price unquote.

47:21 Speaker 2: This is defined as quote the maximum total of all fees or charges a consumer must pay for any goods or services, and any mandatory ancillary goods or services unquote. To settle stub Hub's alleged violations of the FTC Act, the company is required to pay ten million dollars, which will go to eligible consumers through a settlement and consumer redress distribution program. Stub Hub is also prohibited from misrepresenting the total price of any goods or services. Any fees are charges, the final payment amount for any transaction, and other material facts, including those related to refunds or cancelations.

48:04 Speaker 2: Stub Hub must pay two groups of eligible consumers within ninety days of the date of the order. Eligible consumers include those who bought tickets for live events in the US between May twelve and May fourteen of twenty twenty five. The first group includes those whom the total price of tickets was not disclosed on the initial pricing display. The second group includes all other consumers who bought tickets during that period. That's a really short window, May twelve to May fourteen, and it's going to be a ten million dollar payout.

48:38 Speaker 5: Wow.

48:38 Speaker 4: How they're going to pull that one?

48:40 Speaker 2: Wow? But there you go. So somebody is in trouble, and this time it's not Ticketmaster, it's Stubba. But what do we always say? Ticketing is a dirty business. It's a dirty business. So I wonder if they, uh, I wonder if you know, because I don't know if anything ever changed with supposedly Ticketmaster was making some changes, but I don't know if they ever actually did.

49:05 Speaker 4: So now I wonder about that. Yeah, because it always seems to never go down, right, you know, there's so many fees.

49:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you always end up page ridiculous.

49:14 Speaker 3: This handling fee, that handling fee, this one, it went through that one's computers.

49:17 Speaker 2: So we'll tack on another five bucks, right, yeah, it's it's remarkable.

49:23 Speaker 4: All right.

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