Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-19-25 hour 2
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Speaker 10: Scream Oh that is so good? That is Unleash the
Speaker 10: beast and the band is Warhog. Welcome everybody, if you
Speaker 10: are listening live on Saturday, April nineteen, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 10: We've just entered our number two New Marrow dose of
Speaker 10: this week's Matt connorton Unleashed and we are live from
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Speaker 10: Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here, of course at
Speaker 10: the news table, present and account of and in addition
Speaker 10: to her bunny ears as she's wearing because it is
Speaker 10: Easter weekend, we are both wearing our Warhog shirts.
Speaker 2: We are twining.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, we never do that, but we've both got
Speaker 10: our Warhog shirts on because we love Warhog love talking
Speaker 10: to these guys. We've got Scott Beatley from Warhog is
Speaker 10: on skype with us. Hopefully this is work. Can hey, Scott?
Speaker 10: Can you hear me?
Speaker 11: Hey? I can't, can you hear me? Yes?
Speaker 10: Yes, welcome, Welcome morning, Welcome to the show. You never
Speaker 10: know with Skype, I actually just saw a notification that
Speaker 10: said that Skype is ending in May, and then we
Speaker 10: have to use Google Teams. Now I guess Google Teams
Speaker 10: is replacing Skype, so we'll have to figure that out
Speaker 10: for the for the for the future. But always always
Speaker 10: great to have you on the show. Of course, you're
Speaker 10: the singer and guitarist and Warhog and we we do
Speaker 10: enjoy Warhog. And is that the newest single Unleash the Beast?
Speaker 11: It was until yesterday.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, what's what's the newest one?
Speaker 11: The newest one that we dropped yesterday is called Future Shock.
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, excellent, Yes we will, we'll play that. We'll
Speaker 10: play that at the end of our conversation. So that
Speaker 10: just came out. So that's brand new.
Speaker 11: Yes, yeah, absolutely excellent. It's fresh.
Speaker 10: So I assume it's out on all the streaming services.
Speaker 10: And has that been played on has that been played
Speaker 10: on the radio at all yet?
Speaker 11: No, not that I am aware of you. You might
Speaker 11: be the first. You probably will be.
Speaker 10: Let's assume that we are because we love to do
Speaker 10: we as as you know, we love to do the
Speaker 10: world radio premieres here on Matt Connor, so that we'll
Speaker 10: we'll make this a world radio premiere. And that is wonderful.
Speaker 10: That is wonderful. Now these now, these tracks are these?
Speaker 10: Are these part of an album? Are you just releasing
Speaker 10: these as singles at this point?
Speaker 11: No? They we are. We have a full uh four
Speaker 11: track EP coming out at the end of probably a
Speaker 11: mid July.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 11: We were originally we were originally going to drop a
Speaker 11: third EP in the Dystopian Chronicles series earlier this year,
Speaker 11: but after working with kind of our PR marketing team
Speaker 11: that we're working with, they asked us to hold on
Speaker 11: to it and release it in the summer, and that
Speaker 11: gave us an opportunity to release a couple of the
Speaker 11: other tracks as singles. The original plan was just to
Speaker 11: drop Unleash the Beast in January and then the whole
Speaker 11: EP in March, but instead where we did Future Shock
Speaker 11: this weekend, and we've got another one that will release
Speaker 11: i think in June, mid June, okay, before releasing the
Speaker 11: full in July.
Speaker 10: Now did they ask you, I'm curious about that, you know,
Speaker 10: because I'm a music industry guy, Did they ask you
Speaker 10: to do that because you kind of want to, you know,
Speaker 10: you've got to feed that machine. We live in an
Speaker 10: era where you know, it's it's it's really different than
Speaker 10: it used to be, obviously, Like you know, I'm old
Speaker 10: enough to remember when I was growing up, it was
Speaker 10: the standard thing pre internet was you release an album
Speaker 10: or an EP, and then you release a series of
Speaker 10: singles or the first single comes out six to eight
Speaker 10: weeks before the album, but everything else comes out afterward.
Speaker 10: And now it seems to be it's really kind of inverted, right,
Speaker 10: you know, Yeah, most artists now are releasing you know,
Speaker 10: because you have that option with social media. You can
Speaker 10: put out a single and promote it and then those
Speaker 10: singles eventually form an EP or an album. And is
Speaker 10: that is that what the PR company kind of said,
Speaker 10: you know, let's let's do that instead.
Speaker 11: And so I think there was also a mix of,
Speaker 11: you know, just kind of the way that the band
Speaker 11: works and the year that we had with Robert and
Speaker 11: getting him kind of up to speed, but also catching
Speaker 11: up from those several months where we didn't have a drummer.
Speaker 11: You know, we were just hitting them with music, kind
Speaker 11: of constantly, and and you know, we we had planned
Speaker 11: with with those folks the C Square to you know,
Speaker 11: they they gave us a cadence of dates that were like,
Speaker 11: all right, you know in twenty twenty four, on this date,
Speaker 11: you're going to release a single, then this single, and
Speaker 11: then this EP, and then this single, then this single,
Speaker 11: then this EP. And just because of the way we
Speaker 11: were trying to you know, do all the shows that
Speaker 11: we were doing and all the stuff, it was like,
Speaker 11: all right, this is due on you know, no November
Speaker 11: twenty second. So we were turning it in like November
Speaker 11: twenty first, and they were we weren't really giving them
Speaker 11: a chance to do their job. Yeah, And so they
Speaker 11: this year were like, all right, knocking off, if this
Speaker 11: thing is done, let's sit on it and give us
Speaker 11: a chance to do our thing. And we're like, okay, sure. Yeah.
Speaker 11: So I think I think that is some of it too,
Speaker 11: where we just they wanted to have an opportunity to promote,
Speaker 11: you know, to help us promote this and to do
Speaker 11: some press for it and hopefully get more ears on
Speaker 11: it than I think the last couple of things that
Speaker 11: we've released have have put out. So yeah, that answers
Speaker 11: your question. But that's I think that's my sense of
Speaker 11: what why we're doing exactly what we're doing right now.
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, it does answer it. And I think that
Speaker 10: that makes a lot of sense, because you know, I
Speaker 10: think as an artist you probably I feel like a
Speaker 10: lot of artists, and I know from my own experience
Speaker 10: and playing in bands, if you records something and you're
Speaker 10: really happy with it, you want to get it out
Speaker 10: to the world. You want everybody to hear it, and
Speaker 10: then you've got to kind of it's hard sometimes, I think,
Speaker 10: to kind of rein that in and say, well, we
Speaker 10: need to we need to go about it the right
Speaker 10: way because in the long term, you want to impact
Speaker 10: the largest possible audience that you can, growing your fan base,
Speaker 10: so you've got to approach it with a lot of strategy.
Speaker 10: But there's also that short term impulse, you know, and
Speaker 10: and there's that short term gratification that comes with putting
Speaker 10: something out and people like it, they respond to it.
Speaker 10: But you know, it's I hate to use the cliche,
Speaker 10: but it does fit. It's a marathon, it's not a sprint,
Speaker 10: and you want to make you want to get the
Speaker 10: most out of what you've put all this hard work
Speaker 10: into all this music that you've recorded, you want to
Speaker 10: get the most out of it in terms of the
Speaker 10: impact with a fan base and expanding that fan base.
Speaker 10: So I think it makes a lot.
Speaker 11: And at this point, we're used to sitting on songs
Speaker 11: that we love for a year before anybody gets to
Speaker 11: hear them. Yeah. So one of the ways we've one
Speaker 11: of the ways I think we've kind of alleviated for
Speaker 11: ourselves as we started a Patreon And kind of the
Speaker 11: conceit of the Patreon is if you sign up, you know,
Speaker 11: we'll we'll basically get you into a couple of shows
Speaker 11: no cover charge. But what we're doing with it is
Speaker 11: the promise of every month we're releasing songs that we
Speaker 11: haven't released yet in their demo form. Oh So it's
Speaker 11: a way, it's a way for us to not have
Speaker 11: to sit on some of that music for as long
Speaker 11: as we are, and we can kind of share it
Speaker 11: out with a you know, the folks that are that
Speaker 11: are subscribing and supporting us, you know, we're able to
Speaker 11: share some of that stuff out and explain where we
Speaker 11: are in the process and say, you know, a lot
Speaker 11: of times it's what's a month. I do it at
Speaker 11: the beginning of every month, and so it's like, you know,
Speaker 11: here's what we're working on the studio. It's this track
Speaker 11: or this EP, but here's a song that we're probably
Speaker 11: going to release in May of twenty twenty six. You know,
Speaker 11: I would just throw out the working demo version of it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: kind of people get you're kind of the process, you know,
Speaker 11: they can hear it the way we're learning it and
Speaker 11: listening to it and kind of getting used to it,
Speaker 11: you know, and then down the line we released the
Speaker 11: real thing. And then that's the other kind of the
Speaker 11: benefit of the patreons. We give the music the weekend,
Speaker 11: the finished versions away downloadable with all the tagged art
Speaker 11: and stuff, yeah to the Patreon.
Speaker 10: So I think that's a fantastic concept for the Patreon.
Speaker 10: I really do, because I know, yeah, yeah, because I know,
Speaker 10: like as a fan, if I'm really into an artist,
Speaker 10: I love and and some people don't care about this
Speaker 10: kind of thing, but some people really are get really
Speaker 10: into it if they're if they're very passionate about an artist.
Speaker 10: I love getting to hear demos, you know, for something
Speaker 10: that's going to be recorded in the studio. Or or
Speaker 10: it has been recorded and it's just not out yet,
Speaker 10: or if I've already heard the studio version because it's out.
Speaker 10: But so I'll just give you an example. My all
Speaker 10: time favorite band is Kiss, and I love getting to
Speaker 10: every time I find it new demo because YouTube is
Speaker 10: heavily popular, populated, you know, more and more so all
Speaker 10: the time with with Kiss, demos that uh, you know,
Speaker 10: that that people hadn't heard before. And I love hearing
Speaker 10: demos of of into a studio album and it's just well,
Speaker 10: here's this demo that somebody found and now it's on
Speaker 10: YouTube and I get to hear it, and I love
Speaker 10: that kind of stuff, you know, hearing the raw you know,
Speaker 10: you know that that raw material that ultimately forms into
Speaker 10: what happens in the studio. I think that's great. So
Speaker 10: I love that concept.
Speaker 11: Thanks. Yeah, I'm the same way. I think it's a
Speaker 11: lot of fun to listen to, you know, your favorite
Speaker 11: artists in a way that is not the packaged product
Speaker 11: that they usually let you listen to. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, And I don't even mind if it's you know, obviously,
Speaker 10: if if it's a demo, it's a little rough, it's
Speaker 10: not going to be you know, fully mixed and mastered.
Speaker 10: But but but I kind of like that too, Like
Speaker 10: I don't I don't mind hearing something that it's it's not,
Speaker 10: you know, super polished. I like, I like hearing the
Speaker 10: raw stuff. So that's that's a great concept. And you know,
Speaker 10: and I and I think for it it it kind
Speaker 10: of not only not only do you get to share
Speaker 10: that with the fans, but I think for for fans
Speaker 10: who you know, it kind of it's it's kind of
Speaker 10: like they're they're in the inner circle then, right, It's
Speaker 10: like they're in on something that other people aren't necessarily
Speaker 10: in on. And I think, I think that's uh, I
Speaker 10: think that's that's awesome. And then and then they get
Speaker 10: the single too early if they joined the Patreon they
Speaker 10: get when the single finally does come out, they get
Speaker 10: it a little bit early.
Speaker 11: I assume, Well, yeah, usually, I mean, unless the single
Speaker 11: is a standalone thing. Okay, most of our singles are
Speaker 11: gonna be or of a of a bigger thing, an
Speaker 11: EP or an album, and so we'll give them the
Speaker 11: full EP.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 11: That way, they just get it all kind of when
Speaker 11: it's all all said and done. But that's just because
Speaker 11: a lot of our you know, there's like the whole
Speaker 11: band camp side of it, like we don't we have
Speaker 11: a couple of singles like klopperk Man and then the
Speaker 11: Warhog Song are there kind of their own little things,
Speaker 11: So we'll give them those. But these two, the at
Speaker 11: least The Beast and Peter Shock, those are gonna be
Speaker 11: part of that third EP, so we'll just give them
Speaker 11: that when it's it's.
Speaker 10: Finished, Okay, okay, excellent, And so that thirty p so
Speaker 10: that's going to be the Dysopian Chronicles Volume three.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, we're finally wrapping it up. I'm really excited
Speaker 11: to have that whole thing kind of finished. It's been
Speaker 11: a it's been an interesting adventure, but I'm excited for
Speaker 11: it to be done and out in the world.
Speaker 10: Over the course of doing this series, have you released
Speaker 10: music that's not a part of the series itself, that's
Speaker 10: separate from it, or is everything that you've released since
Speaker 10: you put out Volume one has it all been a
Speaker 10: part of the Dystopian Chronicles.
Speaker 11: It's all been part of the Dystopian Chronicles.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Is that hard to keep to that?
Speaker 10: Like, do you guys ever come up with something that
Speaker 10: you really think is is really good that you want
Speaker 10: to work on, but it just doesn't fit the concept
Speaker 10: of what you've been doing, so you have to put
Speaker 10: it aside. I mean, does that ever happen?
Speaker 11: Oh? Absolutely, We're definitely yes. And and EP three became
Speaker 11: what it is kind of because of that reason. There
Speaker 11: was so we had. The original idea was we were
Speaker 11: gonna put out a second album, and when we when
Speaker 11: we released the first one and we only got so
Speaker 11: much kind of push because it was just one thing
Speaker 11: at one time, we decided to break up album two
Speaker 11: into these three EPs. And the original idea was EP
Speaker 11: one and EP two would be a collection of you know,
Speaker 11: four or five four or five minute long songs. They
Speaker 11: would be like your traditional EPs. Yeah, and then the
Speaker 11: third one was going to be this big, huge, kind
Speaker 11: of epic thing that Eric had worked on and written
Speaker 11: and that was twenty three minutes long. It was this big, huge,
Speaker 11: sprawling epic song, and that was gonna be EG three.
Speaker 11: We're gonna release it by itself. Oh wow. Yeah, And
Speaker 11: that was the plan. And then while we were you know,
Speaker 11: getting Robert acclimated to the band and him learning material
Speaker 11: and doing shows and recording all these these cracks that
Speaker 11: we wanted to get caught up on. We were writing
Speaker 11: new material for the future, and when we got to
Speaker 11: a certain point the c squared the our pr and
Speaker 11: marketing folks were asking us for a single ahead of
Speaker 11: the EP, and we were like, well, there's just the
Speaker 11: one song. It's twenty three minutes long, like it is
Speaker 11: gonna be what it is, and they were like, that's
Speaker 11: we should really maybe think about doing a traditional EP.
Speaker 11: And we're like, oh good, we can just move that
Speaker 11: big twenty three long, three minute long song somewhere else
Speaker 11: and we can place some of these numerous songs that
Speaker 11: we've written that we're really excited about and get them
Speaker 11: out there sooner. We kind of shifted gears at the
Speaker 11: very beginning of the year. I meet like December of
Speaker 11: last year and said, okay, let's change. EP three will
Speaker 11: be these four songs, and we picked the songs and
Speaker 11: I at least the Beast was a completely new composition.
Speaker 11: Like Eric had had this riff in his mind, it
Speaker 11: was kind of already working on this idea and then
Speaker 11: he and I just kind of wrote the lyrics for
Speaker 11: it and it came together pretty quickly, so but like
Speaker 11: future Shock is something that we've had in the songs
Speaker 11: that were written folder on dropbox for like two years. Uh,
Speaker 11: follow is going to be on there. And then there's
Speaker 11: this the closer for the EP and kind of the
Speaker 11: whole Dystopia Chronicles as a as a whole. Is this
Speaker 11: song called Stewards of a Broken World that I'm really
Speaker 11: excited about. I think the guys are really excited about
Speaker 11: getting it out there. It was one of these things
Speaker 11: that I wrote and what I shared with the band
Speaker 11: everybody kind of collectedly was like, this was awesome and
Speaker 11: it sucks that we're gonna have to sit on this
Speaker 11: for a really long time. Yeah, we all knew it
Speaker 11: was gonna be fun to play live. It's gonna be
Speaker 11: a it's a very kind of anthemic. I don't know it,
Speaker 11: it'll be fun. I'm excited for it to come out.
Speaker 11: But yeah, yeah, we definitely have stuff that we sit on.
Speaker 11: But then this one, like I said, is a good
Speaker 11: example of, oh, let's just switch gears a little bit,
Speaker 11: and maybe we're releasing these a little earlier that we thought.
Speaker 10: So yeah, yeah, no that makes sense. So so for
Speaker 10: those who don't know what is the Dystopian chronicles and
Speaker 10: and what's kind of the concept here and is it
Speaker 10: a is it a story or is it more of
Speaker 10: a is it a broader concept or or what is
Speaker 10: the Dystopian chronicles.
Speaker 11: It's kind of an anthology, I guess it's it's not
Speaker 11: a it's not a fault conceptual narrative. Like calling the
Speaker 11: Voyager was. You know, we had some songs that we've
Speaker 11: put together that we're all just kind of depressing and
Speaker 11: I like not very hopeful and and so as that
Speaker 11: theme kind of just took its its shape with the
Speaker 11: leftovers from the Voyager writing process, we started thinking about, well,
Speaker 11: we can just write all these songs that are all
Speaker 11: kind of you know, the future is bad, bad things
Speaker 11: are happening, What are the what are the reasons that
Speaker 11: society is you know, uh rumbling or whatever, And so
Speaker 11: we just every song has that kind of bend to it,
Speaker 11: but they're not necessarily connected. It's just that that undercurrent
Speaker 11: theme of of you know, what's going on in the
Speaker 11: world and why are things this way? And why are
Speaker 11: we doing anything to make any of it better? Stuff
Speaker 11: like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the uh the Cybertooth song is is so that
Speaker 10: that's like my personal favorite. I love that, But which
Speaker 10: one is that on?
Speaker 11: I forget now, that's that's I think the opening crack
Speaker 11: of Volume one.
Speaker 10: That's all. That's the opening around Volume one. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 10: just love that song. It's it's so catchy and fun
Speaker 10: you know that was that that was not depressing it well,
Speaker 10: I mean, I guess it's it's depressing in the sense
Speaker 10: that that's the concept is scary, but it's also funny
Speaker 10: and the song is funny.
Speaker 11: For sure, for sure, and that's kind of the you know,
Speaker 11: it's thematically. Some of the stuff is just dark, but song,
Speaker 11: the song, they're all kind of their own thing. But yeah,
Speaker 11: like you'd say, oh yeah, the song about a the
Speaker 11: Hunt of the cyber Tooth doesn't sound depressing at all,
Speaker 11: but we're like, I mean, it's like a takes place
Speaker 11: in the world where the cops have no control, so
Speaker 11: they just tend out a killing machine every night to
Speaker 11: get hunt down criminals indiscriminately. Like that's bad. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 11: you know we released and now like, look at what's
Speaker 11: happening with like ice and stuff.
Speaker 12: Yeah, maybe maybe something not so far off so right,
Speaker 12: you know, but that's that's part of the you know this,
Speaker 12: All the all the best dystopian works are wrapped in fantasy.
Speaker 11: And then when you take that kind of veneer away,
Speaker 11: you're like, oh no, this is this is bad. This
Speaker 11: is already bad. We're already in this bad spot.
Speaker 10: So well, that's that's the thing, right, I mean, that's
Speaker 10: that's how you can connect with people with something like that.
Speaker 10: That's fantasy. I mean obviously, you know, people enjoy all
Speaker 10: kinds of you know, whether it's music or books or
Speaker 10: films or you know, all kinds of sort of fantasy
Speaker 10: type stuff. But I think the fantasy stuff that resonates
Speaker 10: the most with people is where Okay, this is fantasy,
Speaker 10: it's fiction, but this could actually happen, and you know,
Speaker 10: and it kind of gets those neurons fireing and and
Speaker 10: and makes you think a little bit and and I
Speaker 10: think that's I think that's really cool about what you're doing.
Speaker 10: I think that's that's part of what's a big draw
Speaker 10: with your music. I mean, obviously the songs are very
Speaker 10: catchy and and really good hooks, and and the playing
Speaker 10: is phenomenal, and your vocals and all of it. You've
Speaker 10: got the whole package. But I think also it resonates
Speaker 10: with people because there's something there that they can that
Speaker 10: they can kind of analyze and think about.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, that's I mean, that's the idea, right, Yeah,
Speaker 11: we could we could go out there and write fluff
Speaker 11: about stuff that doesn't matter, or we can write about
Speaker 11: stuff that matters, you know, Like I I think three
Speaker 11: of us, three of us in the band will have kids,
Speaker 11: and you know, every day I wake up to a
Speaker 11: fresh new hell of this world that we're living in,
Speaker 11: and I can't help but wonder, like, what is what
Speaker 11: is it that we're leaving for this next generation or two,
Speaker 11: you know, And and that's that's definitely on my mind
Speaker 11: every time I sit down with a guitar and start
Speaker 11: working on something, or at least it has been for
Speaker 11: these last couple of years.
Speaker 10: So yeah, Uh, do you write all the lyrics?
Speaker 11: No, Eric and I probably share. I think probably Eric
Speaker 11: and I if you hadn't split it and you really
Speaker 11: went down into the math, I'd say it's probably like
Speaker 11: a sixty to forty split, where Eric does does the
Speaker 11: sixty percent of the writing and I write forty of
Speaker 11: the writing. And that and that's music and lyrics. Eric
Speaker 11: is a really good songwriter in his own in his
Speaker 11: own right, and he has his own distinct style. A
Speaker 11: lot of times, what will happen is Eric will write
Speaker 11: something that he Whenever I write, I sit down, and
Speaker 11: you know, the way my brain works is it goes okay,
Speaker 11: and don't forget you'd have to do these things at
Speaker 11: the same time. So the guitar parts that I write
Speaker 11: tend to enable me to sing, whereas Eric doesn't really
Speaker 11: do that. He just writes the guitar part and puts
Speaker 11: the song together and then we'll put lyrics to it
Speaker 11: without trying to do them at the same time. And
Speaker 11: so my job is usually to take Eric's lyrics and
Speaker 11: write them into something that I can sing. And sometimes
Speaker 11: that's an extensive rewrite, and sometimes it's just paging a
Speaker 11: couple of words or pulling a couple of syllables out
Speaker 11: or little stuff like that. But I'd say it's probably
Speaker 11: probably sixty forty just for no reason other than that,
Speaker 11: it's just is what's been working for us, right. I mean, Eric,
Speaker 11: when I played together in a band a long time ago,
Speaker 11: when I was the kind of the primary songwriter, and
Speaker 11: I probably wrote ninety five percent of the music, you know,
Speaker 11: So I'm happy to let him take the wheel and
Speaker 11: drive on the majority of this stuff now. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: we do definitely share.
Speaker 10: Yeah, oh excellent, excellent. And what about as far as
Speaker 10: live shows, are you guys playing a lot or I
Speaker 10: know you've been really focused on the you are you're
Speaker 10: doing a lot of shows.
Speaker 11: Good, Yeah, I was looking at it. We've got we
Speaker 11: did seven shows already this year. I think the last
Speaker 11: show we played was in mid March, and then Eric
Speaker 11: and his wife were expecting another kid who was born
Speaker 11: Monday or Tuesday, I think maybe Monday night. So they
Speaker 11: that's why he's not here today because they're they're doing
Speaker 11: baby stuff this morning.
Speaker 13: That's understandable, Yeah, exactly, and and so uh so we
Speaker 13: had taken kind of mid March through mid May off
Speaker 13: and black that off the of the calendar, just because
Speaker 13: we didn't want to like, you know, be setting up
Speaker 13: for a gig.
Speaker 11: And then Corey to call and be like, I can
Speaker 11: go make it the labor you know, in March in April.
Speaker 11: But we're going to start back up again here in
Speaker 11: the next couple of weeks in May, and we've got
Speaker 11: two shows in May. I show booked in June and
Speaker 11: July and August and September, so we're booked all the
Speaker 11: way out kind of into the ball.
Speaker 10: So oh excellent, excellent, Yeah, playing a lot.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So the music that you're sitting on, is it, like,
Speaker 10: do you ever get tempted to sneak something of that
Speaker 10: into the live set or are you guys pretty Oh no.
Speaker 11: No, No, it's easy to do that because we don't
Speaker 11: really the way that with Eric and I and the
Speaker 11: way that just our band is operating. This is gonna
Speaker 11: sound terrible when I say it out loud, but the
Speaker 11: other guys aren't really required to write a song. Oh. So,
Speaker 11: like I'll a lot of our demos when Eric finishes
Speaker 11: a song, When I finish a song, it's got MIDI drums,
Speaker 11: Like we'll program our own drum parts and stuff. And
Speaker 11: I can play bass, and Eric can play bass, and
Speaker 11: Eric can sing, and so he'll do all the vocals
Speaker 11: on all of his songs. Yeah, and then I'll do
Speaker 11: all the you know, so like I'll just we'll just
Speaker 11: kind of package our songs together. Yeah, And so what
Speaker 11: what ends up is we don't really work up a
Speaker 11: song as a whole band until we're ready to add
Speaker 11: it to the set. List, okay, which means we have
Speaker 11: recorded it and are ready to release it. Like right
Speaker 11: now we are in the studio working up Unleash the
Speaker 11: Beast and Future Shock and Stewards of a Broken World
Speaker 11: so that we can start playing them in May to
Speaker 11: promote EP three.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, So yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 11: Which is if I mean, and you know, like it's
Speaker 11: kind of not the most uh, I don't know, genuine
Speaker 11: kind of four guys in a room, you know, cranking
Speaker 11: out music together. But I have a feeling that that's
Speaker 11: how a lot of other folks do it. Well, they'll
Speaker 11: just you know, pretty sure, Iron Maiden gets together once
Speaker 11: a year and everybody brings their demo tapes and they're like, well,
Speaker 11: here's the six songs I wrote, here's the six songs
Speaker 11: I wrote, and here's the and then they just kind
Speaker 11: of like pick the ones that they're all going to learn,
Speaker 11: and then they just spend three weeks learning in them
Speaker 11: and then record them. You know. So that's kind of
Speaker 11: what we do. We kind of just do the same thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's no right or wrong way
Speaker 10: to do it, you know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it works for it works for us. But but
Speaker 11: what's nice is we're not. When we play shows now,
Speaker 11: we're really consistent and you know, we're really just nailing
Speaker 11: the crap out of the songs that we're playing, and
Speaker 11: then as we rotate stuff in, we can rotate older
Speaker 11: stuff out, and yeah, I think it helps folks kind
Speaker 11: of get familiar with the new material as well, because
Speaker 11: we kind of play in the same spots and you know,
Speaker 11: the same uh, the same set orders and stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, what what is the live show like in terms
Speaker 10: of are there any theatrics? Do you use any special effects?
Speaker 10: Because yeah, your music certainly lends itself to that. I
Speaker 10: would think.
Speaker 11: Yeah, departing on the venue, we we do a couple
Speaker 11: of couple of different things. But like this place in
Speaker 11: Dallas called Freeze, which is kind of a legendary local venue,
Speaker 11: Like Nirvana played there in the early nineties before they
Speaker 11: kind of like really blew up. Everybody has played at
Speaker 11: Grease that that comes through and they've got an amazing
Speaker 11: digital display behind the drums, and so we can go
Speaker 11: in there with videos and just all sorts of animated
Speaker 11: stuff and so we've we've experimented with like every song,
Speaker 11: it's a different backdrop. Oh cool, right, so we played
Speaker 11: the Ciber two song You've got the dyscopian kind of
Speaker 11: alleyway that that cover art sat on. When we play
Speaker 11: some of the other stuff, you know, we change up
Speaker 11: the you know, the the backdrop changes and the the
Speaker 11: you know, the Warhog logo will come in and out
Speaker 11: and stuff. But what we've started doing this year, which
Speaker 11: I really love, is we have a Warhog pop doom
Speaker 11: that the night of the show, we just kind of
Speaker 11: grab someone from the audience and designate them as the
Speaker 11: war Hog and we close our show with the song Warhog.
Speaker 11: And there's this kind of in the middle of it,
Speaker 11: there's this big kind of gang chant that's we call
Speaker 11: upon the war Hoog and.
Speaker 14: Coming out did we go into the carsonal So, now
Speaker 14: what we've got is put endless boor mask. They had
Speaker 14: like a shield and an axe and they've got there's
Speaker 14: like a shirt and everything. They come out and they like,
Speaker 14: you know, ramp up the crowd, and if we've.
Speaker 11: Got some shwag, they'll throw swag out and you know,
Speaker 11: or they'll throw t shirts out, and uh, they just
Speaker 11: want to come out and ramp up the crowd like
Speaker 11: a mascot. And then they just disappear off the side
Speaker 11: of the state when it's done, and then we finish
Speaker 11: the set. But that's what we're doing now, is we've
Speaker 11: got we've got a warhog that actually comes out, and
Speaker 11: I think what we're gonna start doing is its incorporating
Speaker 11: that with some of the back ground images and put
Speaker 11: him in places so that if you're it's the first
Speaker 11: time you've seen us, and you're seeing us at Creese,
Speaker 11: you know, we start the first song and there's our
Speaker 11: big backdrop, and the war hog will be in there somewhere,
Speaker 11: and the three songs later will change it and there
Speaker 11: will be a new backdrop, but that that will die
Speaker 11: will be in there somewhere. But by the eighth or
Speaker 11: night song, when the actual warhog comes out in the flesh,
Speaker 11: it's like, oh, this is the thing. They've been teasing
Speaker 11: this and now it's here looking me in the in
Speaker 11: the eye, you know, like that's that kind of those
Speaker 11: kind of theatrics are limitually manageable in a small venue,
Speaker 11: and we we do that in the small venues too.
Speaker 11: My sister was actually just the warhog at our last show.
Speaker 11: Was really funny. Yeah, So man or woman whoever wants
Speaker 11: to be the Warhogs who can make it happen.
Speaker 10: So that's fantastic. That's fantastic.
Speaker 11: I love that.
Speaker 10: Is there any video of that on YouTube?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, uh yeah, if you go to our YouTube page,
Speaker 11: I'll pull it up real quick. There is a video
Speaker 11: see Warho Warhog Unleash the Bees. I think there's a
Speaker 11: video of someone doing the Warhog.
Speaker 10: I gotta check that out.
Speaker 11: It's pretty funny, it's it's pretty and there's plenty of
Speaker 11: pictures online of of people doing it too. But but yeah,
Speaker 11: I'm pretty sure we've got footage of it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'll check that out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's really funny, it's it's it's always a good time.
Speaker 11: There's definitely pictures of it, okay, yeah, on our Facebook
Speaker 11: and probably on Instagram. There's definitely pictures from the recent
Speaker 11: shows of the war Hog out there doing their thing.
Speaker 11: Oh yay, it's great. We have we We recently did
Speaker 11: a Vakan Metal festival in Germany. They did a every
Speaker 11: year they do a battle the bands where they get
Speaker 11: uh you know, international unsigned independent bands and opportunity to
Speaker 11: kind of fight their way to many We competed in
Speaker 11: that and we we won Dallas and went down to
Speaker 11: Austin he did at the state level and uh, and
Speaker 11: it was real fun because we the last song we
Speaker 11: did was Warhog and these people had no idea who
Speaker 11: we were, what we sounded like, and we just got
Speaker 11: to go out there and play our thing. And then
Speaker 11: all of a sudden, you know, the guy jumps out
Speaker 11: on stage and he's got packets of uh, there's these
Speaker 11: and stickers, and it's like in the audience, I was
Speaker 11: just like looking at people's eyes that were just so
Speaker 11: hilariously entertained by it, because I don't think anybody was
Speaker 11: expecting that like a little you know, like a little
Speaker 11: everybody gets four songs and then you disappear kind of show, right,
Speaker 11: it's always it's a free to do that. People really
Speaker 11: enjoy it.
Speaker 10: So, oh that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Yeah, I'll look on
Speaker 10: your YouTube page see if I can find I gotta
Speaker 10: see this, but very very cool, Yeah, Scott, What should
Speaker 10: people know about how to find you guys online? Is
Speaker 10: is warhog band dot com the best place to go
Speaker 10: as far as keeping up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 11: Yeah, warhog band is great because from there you can
Speaker 11: get everywhere Facebook, Instagram, Picktock, Blue Sky. All the social
Speaker 11: media's we are warhog DFW. Okay, it's just Dallas Warworth. Yeah,
Speaker 11: warhog DFW on all the social media. Facebook, we're really active, Instagram,
Speaker 11: We're really active. So if you kind of want to
Speaker 11: get your bang for your buck and interact with us,
Speaker 11: that's where I would start. Okay, If you need help
Speaker 11: find any of those things, yeah absolutely, warhog band dot com.
Speaker 11: But warhog band dot com has all of our merch
Speaker 11: and that's where you can buy our music and all
Speaker 11: that stuff.
Speaker 10: So great website. By the way, who does the website?
Speaker 10: Do you do that yourself?
Speaker 11: Eric does?
Speaker 10: Eric does? Yeah, he does a great job. You know,
Speaker 10: I'm a marketing guy and I pay a lot of
Speaker 10: attention to websites. And there's a lot of there's a
Speaker 10: lot of bad websites out there that the musicians. But
Speaker 10: but you guys have a great site. It's easy to navigate,
Speaker 10: but also very visually appealing and engaging, and it's you know,
Speaker 10: there's a lot there, but it's not overly busy. It's great.
Speaker 10: It's it's kind of the perfect, the perfect banned website.
Speaker 10: To be honest with you, it's really good.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I know I pay a lot of attention to that
Speaker 10: kind of thing. But very good, very good, well Scott
Speaker 10: Beatley of Warhog. We really appreciate you, uh joining us today.
Speaker 10: Oh and and please you know tell Erica I said,
Speaker 10: congratulations on the I will.
Speaker 11: I think he's probably listening right now, so you probably
Speaker 11: just called him live.
Speaker 10: Very yes, congratulations Eric if you are listening, and uh,
Speaker 10: in a moment, we're gonna do so. This will be
Speaker 10: the world radio premiere of the brand new track Future
Speaker 10: Shock uh from Warhog, and UH looking forward to sharing
Speaker 10: this with everybody you know, Jenny and I. We we
Speaker 10: love everything you guys do. You guys are amazing so
Speaker 10: and we.
Speaker 11: Love you guys supporting us every time I see y'all
Speaker 11: in the feed and you're wearing your Warhog shirts just
Speaker 11: I'm yeah, you've seen me do it. I share it
Speaker 11: with our folks. I think it's amazing. I love it.
Speaker 11: So thank you guys for supporting us all the way
Speaker 11: from from New Hampshire. It's it's really awesome.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, very very happy to do it. So
Speaker 10: so Scott, we'll let you go and then we're gonna
Speaker 10: we're gonna do that world premiere. But thank you so much,
Speaker 10: my friend, and well as always of course we'll definitely
Speaker 10: do this again in the uh in the future as
Speaker 10: you continue to release new music and we love being
Speaker 10: able to just support everything that you're doing. So thank you, Scott,
Speaker 10: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 11: Heppy Easter, y'all have great weekend. You got it.
Speaker 10: Happy Easter. Take care all right, bye bye bye bye,
Speaker 10: all right. That was Scott Beatley from the band Warhog.
Speaker 10: And without further ado, here it is. This is the
Speaker 10: world radio premiere. This has not been played on FM radio.
Speaker 10: This is brand new from Warhog. This is called Future Shock.
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