Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-13-24 hour 2

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6:26 that is? Don't you? By grim Rock as we are in our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton unleashed on this Saturday morning, April thirteen, two thousand twenty four from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM on Canal Street in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, and I believe we have Grimrock with us live via Skypillo. Hey, mister Manda, how you doing good? How are you? Welcome back? I appreciate being back. This is great. So, by the way, so I had something planned, so you sent us this wonderful package, and unfortunately the video component of our Facebook feed is not working.

7:07 I wanted to pull this out live on the air and kind of show everybody on video. Uh but uh, well, but radio is theater of the mind, so that's all right. But but I had I had waited on this. Although Jenny's got a video going, so I'm uh, you sent us this wonderful package which I'm unboxing now, so Jenny's getting video of it. But are are you streaming that live or are you just recording it? Just recording it? Okay, I did it very quickly. But grim you sent us this uh okay, this five song EP and uh and you personalized it to Matt and Jenny.

7:45 Thank you and some stickers. Oh wait, oh we've got a oh we've got a button yep and a guitar pick. Very cool. And by the way, I want you to know you can't see it on video today unfortunately, but we are going to take a picture afterwards. Jenny and I are both wearing our shirts that you had yes given us, sir. Oh, this is very wow. You really send us so you went all out on this. This is very cool. I think I'm going to make a frame for that. We're gonna have to take a lot of pictures here. Yeah, and I think that will look really cool to frame them up.

8:15 Yeah. Oh yeah, we'll hang that in the office. We can we can do something to where we spread these out on a table and take a picture and post it. Absolutely absolutely, And I'll definitely get a picture to show you. And I'll add stickers to my computer. I have the rainbow sticker that you gave me on my computer. Sweet. I need to reorder those. I'm out of those. Yeah, there's a couple of guitar picks in here. Dude, you went all out. Thank you. Awesome, You're welcome. I'm glad to be able to send things like that to people we know.

8:46 Oh well, we love you. We love your music. And if people don't see your logo, now check us out the Matt Content Unleashed page and you'll you'll be able to see the logo in a little bit here. Nice. Yeah, and I love that, you know. I had to play don't check. I love that song so much. Yeah. If you are just joining us, I grim Rock is here with this via Skype. And by the way, if you have any questions or feedback or anything at all for our guests, the studio line is open. You can call us live on the air at six O three two five O six oh seven six O three two five O six oh seven.

9:16 You can also, of course, uh interact into opine in the Facebook live chat. I see Miriam Banish has joined us in there, and uh Lewis Tive is in the Facebook live chat and he says legend yeah you and he now we've had him on the show as well. You and he did something together. Correct, We we've done a few things together. He was actually responsible the Haunted video. A section in there, the goth model that's his wife. Oh no, kidding, Yeah, he sent it. He sent the video footage clear from Staffordshire, UK, and uh, I integrated him with the footage that I did here.

9:48 It was completely di I y, it was. It was really good. We've done all kind of things though. That's really cool. Is that? How is that how we met him through you? Or did we meet you through him? Or no? I think yeah, I'm pretty sure it was him through me because I got it from someone else, you know what I mean. It was kind of everything's passed on, you know, right right, yeah, Yeah, he's amazing. He's amazing. Now now where in Pennsylvania are you again? Refresh our memories? I am in I'm just outside of Pittsburgh, okay, okay, and uh, what's been going on with you?

10:22 You've got some news? I remember Jenny and I I think we were watching it live. In fact, you were signing a deal live on Uh? Was was it on Facebook? You were signing a distribution deal? Yeah? I did it on I actually did it on YouTube and and posted it everywhere, but yeah, yeah, through Golden Robot Records and uh, I actually got a little story for that one. So almost two years to the week before this all happened, I had seen a post for a singles competition and I had just put out grim Rock Radio to say, and I was really super excited about the song and i'd sent it.

11:05 Well. A couple of weeks later, I was watching the podcast that I was helping sponsor the competition, and the guy was like, don't Boris get to the chorus, and I was like, that's it. So that actually actually caused me to change the track to have the lights out, burned it down at the very beginning to lead it in. Yeah, and I also messed the application up. I was so excited about it. I ended up putting two songs on, not a photo in a song. It was just all But anyway, I saw another post that they were looking to put on some people for distribution and I was like, well, I'll try it, and I sent an email and it took a little while and they got back and they asked for music, and I was like, well, here we go again.

11:46 So I sent him a couple of tracks and it was like ten minutes and they come back and I was like, wow, and here I am, you know, very good now. So for those and you know, we have a lot of people who listen to the show who are music of course, or some who are involved in other elements of the business. So for those who don't know, for the uninitiated, So what does that do for you exactly a distribution deal and and why is that important to have for me? I mean, you know, as an independent artist, you know, we all can do distribution ourselves through different platforms.

12:18 I was doing it through Distro Kid. And the real process of the thing that I'm looking forward to for this is actually the reach. You know. So basically you're going to send the music to the whatever company you have a distribution deal with. They'll redistribute it for you and it'll be on their page, so you get their exposure, you know, their their reach, some different things like that, they do some pr In this case, I'll be sending the g R five album to them as a release and then several months later I'll be probably doing another release forum and which will be really cool and you know, hopefully I can kind of pick up you know, maybe opening acts, you know, any area for people that are on their label and stuff.

13:05 I mean, there's there's still more to be talked about with this, but I have I have high hopes with it, you know, and I'm really excited about it. Yeah, very cool. Now the EP, So now this is already out right, this has been released or or are you waiting for for them to release it? No, I still have a couple of tracks and I gotta send them those as well. Oh okay, okay, yeah, So Angry is one that's on I believe is it on that yeah sampler? Yeah, Angry is track one on the sampler. It is something that's not out yet, and that will be part of the tracks that nobody has really heard, you know.

13:43 Oh okay, cool? Cool? Yeah, yeah, because we've got and also this track Abyss, which which I think we're gonna play at the end of the segment, and you've got it. It says lyrics by Angel. What does that say? Angel? Vow? Angel Vow? Now? Who is that and why are you? Why do they have because I assume the lyrics for your other songs you've written them yourself. Right, Uh? Yeah, Faded will be one. It's Jason Clem and I have some other ones in the process. So Angel is actually a friend of mine and she lives in the Pittsburgh area and we've talked for a long time.

14:22 We've met, you know, we've gone to football games, you know, stuff like that. And she's actually a writer. She writes books and she's self published and she's doing really well with that. And one day shed we were talking about some stuff and I was like, well, you know, I had other people, you know, send me lyrics, you know, like city. You know, Cities was a poem that I changed into music for Matt Oyster. But so she sent me the stuff for Abyss and we put it together and that, I'm telling you that really had changed my whole perspective of things.

14:54 When I did that particular song, just a series of event happened that just really unlocked everything, I think for where we're sitting today, you know what I mean, And I mean everything from you know, the model that was in the video to the person who shot the video. We did it in Cleveland, Ohio. I had another interview with a different podcast and they're mixing guy Matt Kershner actually had messaged me afterwards and wanted to mix the song and do it oh, turned into a long term thing. And he's actually at Pine Box Studios in Connecticut.

15:30 So I sent him tracks. He mixes them and sends them back, and that's what that particular disc has. It's it's new mixes of the tracks that I have, with the exception of Abyss. Abyss was released as his mix. You know what I mean? Oh, okay, okay, Yeah, that's pretty cool. When you hear from somebody you don't expect to and they're like, hey, I like what you're doing so much. I want to I want to mix this for you. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I was. I was completely blown a way and I thought it was gonna be one and I was like, well, you know, we'll check it out.

15:58 And I was listening. Ended up being everything you know, And he's going to finish mixing this disc and hopefully I get to work with the more, you know, in the future. Man, he's a he's a cool dude. That's fantastic. H Lewis Ivey in the chat room says you belong you see as the best song. He says that he's told me that a million times. Yeah, and you know it's funny because you know, like I said, his Wife's and Haunted. Now I kind of expected Haunted to be the best song, but it's he likes you belong to See a lot of people like that.

16:26 And I actually opened my shows with with the new Angry track and you belong to see Tied Together. Oh okay, one longer track. So yeah, that's that's super cool. Now, who is uh? Who is disposing with the guitar on the cover? That is my cover model. And that's that's another thing that happened, Like in the process whole this thing. I had an interview actually with her. She does little interviews on her YouTube channel and she goes by the name of tattoo Baby twenty three on all the social media, including you.

17:00 And one day I was perusing her page and I saw that photo and I was like, man, that would make a great album cover. And so I had messaged her and I was like, hey, you know anybody uses for albut covers. She's like, no, nobody has yet, you know. And I was like, well, if nobody does, let me know. I didn't hear anything for a while, and I was like, well, maybe I'll message her back. So I messaged again about it and she's like, yeah, go ahead, and she talked to her guy that actually took the photo. It was done in Texas by a guy named David Diaz, and they were really cool with it.

17:33 And that's that turned into the cover for g R five. In a long term relationship with her with different things, and man, I'm really I'm thankful for everything that's happened since that whole Abyss thing happened. I mean, it's just so many twists and turns. Yeah, and no, that's really cool. But by the way, why is it called g R five? Is it? Is it your fifth release? So technically it's my fifth release. I had four yeah, four out technically, so three actual EPs, and then I actually had a single called Everything Is on Fire and it's actually in a different tuning and I haven't done anything else in that tuning, so I kind of left it stranded, and I was like, well, I don't have to be my fourth kind of release.

18:20 It was just a single, you know, So it's just Grimrock five. Yeah, Okay, can you tell us again about and I'm sure we talked about it last time, but your recording process? Am I am? I remembering correctly that you do everything yourself.

18:36 Yes, I do everything in house. I have a little home studio.

18:40 I have drum kits, bass guitars. I have everything at my disposal here. I do all the recording and all the vocals and things, and you know, I preliminarily mix them, you know. And now, like I said, I send them Matt. But before I was actually doing the mixing stuff here, and I was getting the aid of like you know, the emastering kind of thing online to help me make some master better you know, than what I could. Yeah, but I have an advantage now. So yeah, now that's that's great to be able to do everything yourself.

19:12 Have you done it that way from the beginning, Yes, I have. I've played with bands before and different things. Yeah. You know, I lived just far enough south of Pittsburgh that I'm in a little spot that just you know, everybody wants to play cover tunes and you know, hit the bar scene on the weekends and make the guaranteed money, and nobody wants to take the risk, you know, to play stuff even in the spot that you know I keep pushing too. You know. Yeah, they're just not comfortable with, well, we're not making any money on it, you know, we're doing it here, you know, right, and it's just kind of been whatever.

19:42 I mean. Hopefully one day I get to have a full band to play out with. You know, that'd be really really cool. So what is it like now when you play out? Is it? Is it just you? Or does anyone ever join you? Or how does that work? Well? It's just me. So what I have is I have all the backing tracks on the table with minus every guitar part and all the vocals. Okay, so it kind of puts me this a lot where I have to play the guitar and then I break from the rhythm guitars to play the lead guitar, and it sounds a little thin through those areas, but you know, it shows that I'm doing it, you know what I mean?

20:11 Yeah, And that's that's more important to me than the overall thing. You know, give you a little different performance, show that I am doing it, and I do all the vocals, and don't you just a cool one because you know, I have that backing vocal in it and I actually have to take real quick breath to put all that stuff in together. I actually, I actually do play it and it does actually sound like that in there. So yeah, live, yeah, oh, that's cool, but yeah, I can see where that would be a challenge to do that.

20:40 Oh yeah, especially at the end, you know what I mean, right right, Yeah, no doubt. How long do you play for? When you play out? How long of a set do you do? Generally forty to forty five minutes, depending on where I'm at sometimes, you know, I hit a lot of open mics around the area to try to get some local action. Yeah, which I do have some news that nobody knows yet, oh that you're going to share it here? Yeah, I don't know. Awesome. They haven't announced it announcement, but I got an email this morning from Millville Music Festival and that's just that's around the Pittsburgh area and it's a it's a really large festival and they have like three hundred local bands and stuff like that.

21:12 Yeah, and I got selected for it. So May eighteenth, Oh, I can't say much more than that because I don't they have to confirm times and you know all that. But May eighteenth, I will be playing a festival there. So that'll be two festivals now that I'm guaranteed this year. And I was waiting for a third one from Morgantown. So hopefully I get that one as well. Oh congratulations. Yeah. Festivals are are huge, are key for really helping you to build a fan base because it gets you in front of a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't know you at all necessarily, you know, And so that's that's fantastic now is so you mentioned there's another festival that you're already confirmed for.

21:49 H yeah, July fifth. It's a Lambfest. It's an inaugural festival. It's going to be near Eerie, PA in Linesville, Pennsylvania. Okay, And it's a are doing four weekends like a ton of artists And I'm on the inaugural weekend day Friday, the fifth, and I'm actually the third act I think, or second act or something like that on the second stage. So okay, it'll be really cool. It's all open air. I can't wait. I love playing open air shows, do you Yeah? Why what is it about it that you like? It's just the environment, you know, you's just not closed in, you know, the sound just travels, and just it's the people.

22:27 It's just it's a whole different thing, you know. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, When when you play out do you do the whole because obviously if people have seen you online, you know you're you're You've got a whole vibe going. I don't know quite quite how else to describe it, but it's it's kind of theatrical and whatnot. Do you do that for all your live shows? I do it for most of them. So if I do an open mic and it's an acoustic or it's something that I know and I'm going to play only like three or four songs, I don't get all painted up.

22:57 But you know, for my normal shows and the festivals and things like that, I definitely get painted up for sure. Yeah. Yeah, Are there any live videos of you online? Or obviously have videos, but do you have any? I'm curious, if partly just selfishly, I'm curious to see what it's like live. Do you have anything live recorded? Yes? I do. I have on my YouTube page a bunch of live stuff. And actually it's funny should ask that I had an incident where I was at the Rock Room in Pittsburgh. I think it was this past September, I think where the YouTube I was going to stream the whole thing and my wife was helping me stream and the stream failed and somehow or another I ended up with a video that had like like a portion of the product and the whole Grim Rock Radio, but it was in great quality.

23:45 Like I was like, I was really kind of I couldn't believe my phone with the mic and it took that yea, but apparently she had took that in between and went back live. Well live sounds terrible because of the because of the situation. It was a small thing. It was very loud. Yeah, my mic didn't do very good job and it was really jittering on the YouTube. But I ended up finding that and I actually just posted that. I don't know, I think this past Tuesday or something, but grim Rock Radio live performance at the Rocker Room in Pittsburgh is one of the last ones I posted.

24:18 I posted up for the hard Rock in Pittsburgh not too long ago. That one's audio. I lost the video, But I have other video live videos on there. Yeah yeah, different places. Yeah yeah cool. Now I'm curious to to take a look at those. Do you have other artists in the area that you play with in terms of that you opened for or they opened for you. Yeah, there's several people. I've made a lot of friends, you know, with that and Chocheck's one of them. Synaestigie is another one. Vernautica. Just a whole bunch of people around within the region you know that I've talked to are opened for played with ya.

24:56 But I keep I keeping a a really good contact with like Choshek though, especially Jeremy the bass player. We talk all the time. We actually talked this morning before I come on. But yeah, I mean it's just you make a bond, you know, with some of these some of these musicians, and you know, you're usually somewhere where everything or everybody's at. God Hates Unicorns is another one around the area that I'm friends with, you know. Just that's a great name, it is. They're a great band too, they really are.

25:24 Oh we might have to get them on God Hates Unicorns. That's a fantastic name. Very cool. I mean, but you're you kind of stand out right, I mean, obviously for what you're doing. You're you're I mean, is there anybody in your area who's doing anything like what you're doing it? It just seems like the grim rock is so unique with the whole vibe and your sound too. I can't think of anybody, I mean, Lewis Tivee from what I recall when we had him on a little bit of I can I can see why the two of you are able to work together.

26:01 But you've got a unique sound. It's got a little bit of a I know we talked about it before, but to me, it's it's got a little bit of almost a garage rock kind of vibe to it. And uh, I don't know. I mean, is there anybody there who's doing anything like what you're doing? I don't think. So. You know, there's a band that's around the area that has I think they wear a mask that they're called thirteen o'coll. I've talked to them. They play some different places. I hope to play a show with them. But yeah, outside of that, I don't There's not very many people that I know around here that's, you know, got a stage thing like that or sounds like that.

26:39 And you're right, it is more garage rock, you know, because I'm a I'm a fan of like especially the late sixties garage rock sound, you know, that raw sound, and I try to I try to reproduce that, yeah, you know, faithfully, you know, but you know, update it like I do. You know, what I mean. Yeah, Uh, Stephen van Zandt used to have a show. I don't think it exists anymore, or maybe it hasn't for a long time. I don't even remember what it was called. I don't know if you ever heard it, though it was, but it was all That's what it was about.

27:05 His His show, I think it was on satellite radio, was all about garage rock because there's so much of that stuff that you know, most most people aren't even aware of, or bands that they might have heard of but have never actually listened to. But it's a it's a fascinating genre. And I really like that production style and like I said, that song, don't you, I just like, you know, it's got that whole vibe to it, and I just really love it, you know, and it's catchy as hell too, you know, it's just really it gets stuck in your head.

27:35 Yeah, I like that in grim rock radio like the two that I really like playing live, and they're more the commercial sounding, you know, thing that maybe somebody would play on a radio, a real radio, you know, mainstream radio, yeah, versus maybe the rest of them. Even though I, you know, I do try to keep everything somewhat that it could get moved over, but it's still kind of the indie style, you know thing. I try. I try to blend it the best I can. Are people surprised when you play out, when you when you are painted up, and it's because it's almost visually it's it's got a little bit of a goth vibe.

28:11 But then it's it's not that. Do you surprise people? And if and if you do, is it fun to surprise people? Because I would imagine it is. I think I do. I think I catch people off guard with that because I think they're expecting like slip nods and they see this and they're like, oh, this guy's gonna be aultra heavy, And you know, I think I've gotten a couple of shows, like the Rocker Rooms one of them that I think that they thought maybe I was maybe heavier than I was, you know, and I ended up being like I felt like I was like, uh, you know, like light rock, like air Supply and that whole thing, because those guys were heavy and they were I mean, they were lights out bands.

28:44 I mean I loved it. Yeah, But I think I do catch people off guard with that, you know, and and once you know, people see me a look like that. I think they you know, they're they're in the perception they have of it changes and they're like, wow, this guy, you know, he actually sounds all right, you know, at least I hope. So yeah, yeah, that's gotta be fun though, too, right. I mean, at least I know that if I were in that position, I would take some sort of perverse joy in that, Like people think that one thing is about to happen and then it turns out to be something else, and just just seeing the surprise on people's faces, I would think that would be fun.

29:15 Oh it is. You know. You can open the show and you're like, you know, and then you just start into something. You don't really even introduce yourself, you know. Like that's one of the things that I do every show, is I do not introduce myself right away. Yeah, I'll rip out a couple tracks and then I'll tell you who I am. If you haven't figured it out by then, right, you know, but I'll do that. And you know, another thing to do is I travel like that. So if I have a g like the Green Beacon Galleries June eighth, that's in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

29:42 So I'll travel that in my paint. So usually when I do that kind of stuff, I'll like stop in a store a couple of monster or something, and I'll either scare the crap out of everybody, or somebody take a picture. I had somebody say it's not Halloween. I'm like, yeah, it is so cool, and I'm like, can I have your picture? I'm like yeah, you know little kids running away? Was running away? You know in a dollar story. You know, Oh yeah, hey, I come out of his sheets. I picked up it's talking about Angel.

30:09 I come out of his sheets up where she lives at to travel to Cleveland for the first photo shoot for abyss Yea, And this lady was like in her thing and she cracked her window in her car. You can I'll have to have Angel send you this. She cracked her window in her car and she's like, why are you so scary? I'm like, do I look scary? She's like yeah. I'm like, but I'm not really scary. She's like no. I'm like yeah, I'm like, hey, can I get a picture with you? She's like uh, And then she did like I think reluctantly.

30:37 But I ended up posting on my web page. She was really cool about it afterwards, but oh okay, oh yeah, she cracked her window in all Man, I rolling into a gas station and eerie after a gig that that's a whole nother thing there, Like I thought the guy was going to hit the alarm. Oh really Yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to pay for my gas so i can get home, you know. Like, Yeah, if you walked into a bank like that, they would hit the alarm. I'm sure, Oh yeah, I wouldn't make it out of there. I'd be taking I'd be detained fairly fast.

31:06 I'm sure. No, not like that. I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't advise it, but yeah, I think like that either they would not they would not let you on. I'm sure. Yeah. I don't know if you're a Kiss fan, but hearing you talk about that reminds me of Uh, there's these pictures of when Kiss first started, of them in New York City and interacting with different people. And it's New York, so you know, people don't really they expect to see everything and anything. And there's these pictures of Kiss, like sitting on park benches with these these old people who are just kind of smiling serenely at them because they don't know

31:47 what's going on, but they're kind of having fun with it, and they're they're great pictures. I would encourage anyone to uh just uh google that like Kiss New York City park bench or something. You'll you'll see all these really fun pictures of of Kiss when they started, and you know, but again it's it's New York too, so people were less uh shocked, I guess, and more just kind of interested in but because you know, you'll see everything in that city. But uh no, that's a that's awesome. Yeah, I mean, and I would imagine two other musicians must uh like after a show, after they see your set, you know, they they probably uh they're they're probably expressed their surprise at at uh at what you at what they saw.

32:30 And I'm sure that opens up a lot of opportunities too, because if you can surprise people, especially if you can surprise your fellow musicians in that way and and in a positive way because you've got such a cool sound, that helps you to kind of build build those connections because they're going to remember if you if you can surprise someone, they're going to remember you. Whereas if otherwise, you know, you might just be another fellow musician, or you might just be if it's someone who's seen you, somebody in that audience who's seen you for the first time, you know, just another just another rock and roll show, right.

33:05 But if you can surprise people, they will absolutely remember you. You will be indelibly etched in their brain. And I think that's I think that's a very cool element to what you do. Is is that that surprise where the the image you see visually isn't necessarily doesn't necessarily evoke what what is coming. And I think that's really cool.

33:27 Oh yeah, and that's how I end up getting the hard rock Pittsburgh gig, really was because it's you know, a different band, the message being like, hey, there's an opportunity you might want to check this guy out. And that's how I ended up getting that. And you're right, I mean, a lot of connections can be made, you know, because of that. And I really believe that, you know, I mean, I know, a paint up, but I really believe if I did not have the face painting and a persona that was out there like that, I wouldn't be seen the same, you know what I mean, I definitely agree with that.

33:57 Yeah, yeah, very cool. Well, in a couple of moments, uh, Graham, we're gonna play this this track abyss uh, which you were you were talking about earlier. But so so this is not officially ol gr five. Do do we have any kind of an e t A on on when this is going to be released? So I would like to tell you yes I do. But I've been at this for a while, you know, I'm just trying to make sure everything is right. Yeah, you know, and it's taken me way longer, you know, with other commitments and things that's going on.

34:27 And I wish I could have a time or a time frame, but I'm just you know, I'm hoping a month or two, you know, more pressing on with this to get it released. So yeah, excellent. And this track abyss, this has not been heard anywhere on the radio yet and I actually was played on an independent radio station before. Yeah, oh okay, I was going for the world radio premiere. But I know, I wish I could have told you. I didn't want to tell you otherwise, you know. Yeah, no, better better to be honest. I appreciate that.

34:58 Yeah, I mean I would have love afford to be a premier, believe me, but it's not. Yeah, that's all right, we'll get the next one. But where should people go online? Where's the best place for people to go to keep up with everything that you're doing. Best place is grim rockandroll dot com all spelled out all one word, and you can find me everywhere that way. And actually if you put Grim rock and Roll spelled out anywhere, you can find me. So yes, yes, absolutely, and you are very googleable, as I like to say, which is important, so very I mean, I'm surprised I come up the way I do.

35:31 Yeah, well that's a good thing. That's that's good. All right, Grim we're gonna we're gonna hit this track abyss uh. We'll let you go in a moment. But thank you again for joining us today, and thank you for the wonderful package. Like I said, unfortunately our video component isn't working this morning, but Jenny and I will take a picture of it later, and we're also gonna take a picture of us and our We've both got our Grim shirts on, our Grimrock shirts that you sent us before. We love these and we wear them any chance that we get, so we appreciate that and really love the music, love what you're doing.

35:58 I definitely appreciate being on here for a second time. I'm really really thankful for that, and I appreciate it all the time you have given me. And I'm glad you like the stuff. Man. That's that logo, suf man, I'm telling you I love that logo. I really do. It's on my computer. Yeah. Yeah, she's got the sticker on her computer too. Yeah. I put the new one on there too, Yeah yeah, absolutely absolutely all right, grim thank you, thank you so much, grim Rock, and we will wrap up the segment with this.

36:45 This is abyss. Do you talk of bills? Were my shot? Soul sills? My chaotic mind? Can and the lot of fils is some women in fame, damage inflicted time and it fim my math from where rap fl tipoln nothing is right, the weather chipol fine jot and a doll about my life of controlling me refusing the sab freeze. Why caam our job? Well, A side is out of MI when I'm gonna sat uh you folks, American citizens, I am yet where were you born? Missus? What little Telphia? My name is Vargas in jail see who's here.

40:46 Sure, mister Vargus, I'm in the trail of another dope ring. I'm in the trail of a chocolate soda from my wife, Your wife, Jey, your bride office. Hey, can I get through? I want to talk up here about how you crack that brandy. Why? Yeah, you caught the big boys, only one of them. The Grandies are a big family. Good night, no purchases, mister Kay, you American? This noise, okay, really the noise in my head?

41:19 Like, do you realize it's the very first time we've been together in my country? Do you realize I haven't kissed you over an hour? Can't buss off? No? Say you come? Like what happened? That car that just passed is exploded? That I don't know. I'll have to try to find out. You've better not coming east closer. We'll have to post before in Minnesota. I'm afraid, like Zusie, please be careful staring. With this sprawling, impeccable tracking shot that comes in at over four minutes, and it concludes with dialogue and a car exploding, we are brought into one of the highest regarded film noirs in cinema history.

42:15 This film is from nineteen fifty eight and it is directed by Orson Wells. Following ten years away in Europe, I present to you Touch of Evil. The film stars Wells as corrupt cop Hank Quinlan, who is investigating the car bomb explosion that kills a man and his stripper girlfriend. His plans in getting a corrupt conviction are thwarted by special Prosecutor Miguel Vargas played by Charlton Heston and his newlywed American wife Susy played by starlet Janet Lee. The conflict between Quinlan and Vargas takes center stage early.

42:58 Quinlan is highly regarded by people in the area for his high conviction rate that is obtained by dubious means. Right away, we can see here and feel the tension between the quote unquote do gooder that is Vargas and the corrupt Quinlan. Our first scene is the first encounter that two have with each other. Then in the second scene where Vargas confronts Quinlan over planting evidence to secure a confession and hopeful conviction on a man that is secretly married the male victim's daughter, really pay attention to the tension in the first scene and how they interact with each other.

43:47 In the second scene, Vargas becomes more apt at butting heads with Quinlan and doesn't have fear of him. In the second scene, we should also tell you about my wife why it was accustaned in the street a little while ago and led across to some guve on your side of the border. H Parker's family. She's been getting into quite a lot of trouble tonight. Can you describe this man of the first one? Young a king man not exactly exactly says she was taking this guy by force? Not by force. No one of the grandees was their weak, short fat with a mustachecription.

44:29 I haven't run into him. What they call him uncle Joe man? That's right? Go on, what do you mean going? I've told you what happened. Aren't you going to do something about it? I'm making a charge, gonna ask a writer. Isn't that police procedure in Mexico? Proceig your wife was a say she was just say she was molested, physically molested. Nobs language. I do explained the fact that your wife allowed herself to be picked up by was picked up Now, Hank, I think we're getting off of the wrong tech here and this good luck and young man was a friend of it, obviously not you wouldn't call that getting picture from now.

45:03 We mustn't forget, must be that mister Vocas is not a witness stander. Hank's a born lawyer, you know, lawyer, and a lawyer or a lawyer cares about it the law. You are a policeman, march you you don't seem very fond of the job, bloody of soldiers who don't like war. It's a dirty job forcing the law. But it's what we're supposed to be doing. Is and I don't know about you. On a murderers loose, I supposed to catch him. Well, pete, let's get back to civilization. Let's go had tolsdry. You gotta get some rising.

45:49 Not a chance of that. They got to be dead. And now the second scene, where is it? Foun what partner? Come here along? I don't even know there's sanches? All right, boy boy, come in here now? In English? Just how much dynamite was it you stole? What good would it be to tell you that I've never seen anything? He did? All he could keep it away from his daughter. She stamps and haired a million bucks, so naturally you just moved in. He merch and I were marrying secretly million bucks. Ain't no secret about that.

46:21 Gods, candy changees. Well, why don't you let up for a man? Got yourself this highway out in to the explosive's been in, stole ten sticks and no, well Ick has done it again. He's nailed his man thanks to you. Pardon me. The dynamite had been a snake then in the battle, but would have been was chief cool? And I keep you in form bargains, so I'm doing it. This is it we broke in the case. Rudy Lineker has blown up with eight sticks of dynamite and Sancho's stole ten. That leaves two and we found them both.

46:52 You heard that, boy, We found the dynamite. That's imposta. We found two sticks, like, what's right number? Where did you find this? Where you at the stas? Of course, what are you trying to do? Trying to strap you to the electric chair. We don't like it when people are brown to jelly in our town. There's an old lady on main street last night I picked up his shoe. Shoe had a foot in it. We're gonna make you pay for them. They're trying to railroad me. I don't know why. I never stole any dynamite, so you know, send for mother.

47:29 He swears on his mother's grave that there has never been any dynamite in this apartment. Sure, sure, take him in booking, let's go. You say you've found this dynamite air bathroom, Pete found it. Can't you do something to help me? What are you scared of? That stuff is nearly easy to blow up, as people seem to think. It doesn't go off quickly. You found the dynamite in this box? Yeah, he founded towards you. Then I looked in that box just now. There wasn't anything there.

48:15 I know how you feel. Do You'm sure? I do? Few people are touchy. Film You Are is known for its plot twists and turns. These turns are often loaded with gross betrayal. We are left wondering at the end of the film, did anyone have intentions without ulterior motives? This film carries that theory to the next level, even when seemingly detached from the wicked ways. Within the world of this film, the characters go into the dark recesses of their minds, and souls, and generally it is under the guise in belief.

48:56 The end justifies the means. Next, we will hear Quinland implicate Vargas's wife for a drug induced murder. The truth is she has been taken to a remote hotel for her protection, but unbeknownst to her husband, the hotel is owned by Joe Grandy, the brother of a major narcotics stealer that Vargas has put away. They use this to terrorize her and drug her. This sets up Quinland starting to lose his grip on the corrupt world he helped cultivate by murdering Grandy and setting up Susie for the crime.

49:37 What Vargas's wife an arcotics ramp one of the boys that was on this wild party game of the buzzy. I just related to the vice voices Anonymous, the hotel rich room mate. Anyway, things got a lot of control. Will be surprised what they find. But what about me, Hans, what do I do? Keep back them, break him, break him, put up there for him. Let's see what you were? The key told you about you up here for a reason. No drinking, don't ury lester, h No, No, really bad you no As with any noir film, there has to be a climactic ending touch of evil certainly delivers that as Vargas and Quinland meet for a final showdown.

52:26 In this scene. Notice how Quinlan, despite being figured out, despite being at the end of the road, refuses to back down. He has been defeated, his corrupt reign is over, but yet he is still defiant in the face of law and order that is represented by Vargas well keptain. I'm afraid this is finally something that can't talk you away out of it. You want to bet you killed him? Veris come my dollar? Give me my gun back? You don't know. It's just telling me you killed Pete? Bullets from your gun? Do you think anyone would believe that?

53:17 They always believe me anyway. I never believed I killed him. A gon. You're resisting arrest? How could you arrest me here? This is my country and this is where you're gonna die. There wasn't no miss focus. That was it to turn you around. I don't wanna you turn him back unless you rally try to run for it. Mmm.

54:14 What is she there? They can bring my wife. She's in the car. That's Mensi's he's dad. Quinlan's been shot too. He's lying by the recorder down there. I've got it all on tape. You sure you got enough? Pardon enough? Go play it back. You'll see Susie right.

54:40 Well, these years you've been playing me for a second, taking evidence, aiding justice partner. Hang, Susie, it's all over, Susie. I'm taking you home home minute, your friend know what it was in Gilly Gilly. Hang. No, I ain't working for foss Okay, here it is still doing. That's the second bullet I stopped for you. For anyone that has never seen a film noir, or even if you are well versed to the genre, this film is a mussy. It is filled with suspense, beautiful cinematography, in biting dialogue, all well known aspects of the film noir genre.

55:40 It is the quintessential noir. Sadly, people did not feel the same way. Upon release, the film was disregarded by critics and would be Wells's last American made film before he went back to Europe. Much like the earlier reviewed Magnificent Amberson's, Wells's final vision did not make it to the big screen. He lost final editing when he refused to come to a redubbing following a memo he sent to the studio. Unlike the Magnificent Amberson's, his original vision was able to be restored in nineteen ninety eight.

56:21 What they did is followed the same memo Wells sent to the studio in post production. That version has garnered mass acclaim and led to the film being deemed culturally significant. Sadly, Wells would never see or hear this. He would never take part of the acclaim because he died thirteen years prior in nineteen eighty five. Regardless, the film has left a lasting impression on cinema, film reviewers, film instructors, film students, and even those who have casual We watched it. You owe it to yourself to view this film and enjoy it.

57:06 For WMNH and Matt Connorton Unleashed, this has been a classic film review with Eric Pilcher.

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