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I assume this is the whole band. I mean, you know, usually if there's five five people, that's that's the whole I don't think I've ever interviewed a band. We got some bread crumbs here and there, but we're the whole loaf. We try to have the whole loaf fun, not just a few slices, you know, yes, one sandwich, don't cut it, you know, that's that's right. You gotta do what you gotta do. Well, let's let's start with you. I'd like to go around, have you each introduce yourselves and tell us, tell us who you are, what you do in the band.

And I'd like to start with you because, for one thing, I met you already. Yeah, so you have an advantage oh god, I didn't realize that. And you're the bass player, correct, I am the bass player. I'm also a bass player. We have to stick together. I don't feel that, uh, I don't feel that we get enough credit for what we do. Absolutely, and you deserve credit for those baselines. Yeah, Ryan, I'm the bass player. You know. Charlie's my main guy. And you know, I take a lot of inspiration from Phil Lesh and Jack Cassidy and kind of bass players who aren't really bass players.

So I try to be emblematic of that style. Interesting. I want to come back to that afterward. But uh, and you, sir, yes, Oh, I can't hear you. I'm sorry, hang on, something's uh why can't I hear you? I think I know why I can't hear you. I'm still getting used to the new studio. Yeah, oh I can't. I can't hear you. There we go. Nice. Hey everyone, this is Charlie Kenny and I bank stuff professionally and drums on the side the loaf. Very good, yeah, Charlie, alrighty, welcome Charlie. That's our guy.

Congratulations on the banging and and uh and you, I'm Sean. I like that jacket. By the way, you thank you. I play organ and keyboards and you gotta talk right into that. Yeah, sorry, that's uh yeah, there you go. I'm Sean Crowley and I play organ and keyboards and I sing thank you very good? Yes that that it droops? I know. And you, sir, I'm Jack. I am one of the two guitarists in this band. I try to write more simple stuff as Kyle likes to take a more jazzy approach. But I think that that balance is something that, you know, kind of sets a support.

I would say, so, okay, and you, sir, my name is Kyle. I usually try to play the triangle whenever I can. That's my favorite instrument and it really blends together with our sounds. Sometimes they'll bring out the bongo, but I guess recently I've been playing the guitar. Okay, well, very good. Now. Now, has the band always been the five of you? Yep? For the most I think that's a bit of a gray area rest of it. We kind of came in at different stages, but for the most part, yeah, okay, how long has the whole of existed?

So that's a showing question. Kyle and I started in January twenty twenty three. Okay, and between then and beginning of May, we slowly picked up everybody. Okay, so it was first me and Kyle, then we picked up Charlie actually in February, Jack sometime in early March, and Ryan was beginning of May. Okay, we stole Ryan. We did. We just kind of told we've got that Strange Brew. Yeah, yeah, so it sounds like there's a story. Yeah. So essentially without the Strange Brew being how it is, without Mitch the owner, without Howard who runs the Sunday night open Mike Blues Jam, and without all of his crew, John madeiros Mark, Steve, everybody there, like, we wouldn't have met.

So without that place being there, this band wouldn't have really ever gotten off the ground and it wouldn't have really even existed. So we definitely owe quite a bit to that place, which is why we love coming up to Manchester because it's like we kind of consider this place as like a home to us, as like, yeah, like our first stomping ground. So we also come and share for our story and be able to hang out. Where are y'all from? Different? So I'm from a dunstable Massachusetts a cow town. I was gonna say, I don't even know where Dunstable is there twice a week.

Yeah, yeah, it's just south of Nashua, New Hampshire, around the line, right right over the border. Okay, okay, are you guys all from mass or Yeah? I live way out way out east to the Northore. Okay, how about how about the rest of you guys. Are I'm the only New Hampshire in the band, you're the only one? Yeah? I was originally from Salem, but I just moved to Manchester a year ago. Oh okay, okay, very good, very good. It's interesting about the strange Brew I've heard. I've heard that from other people too.

It's a that's a that that's one of the places that's really good to kind of meet and network with other musicians. Yeah. Yeah, and you guys have a it's a relatively new project, it sounds like. But you've you've already got a whole bunch of well we'll we'll play more too as we go along, But you've already got a bunch of great sound in studio tracks, one all home produced too. For it's really all the of work, yeah, mixing, mastering, right, that I have a little like home studio set up in my basement with like nice that's the benefits of having a dad who's also a musician play with all his fun toys.

Oh, very cool, very cool. Y cracks are fresh out of the Kenny basement, No kidding. Yeah, Left Turn in Halifax Blues we're both recording in a recording studio, which we mixed, and the rest of them they were recorded in Charlie's basement kind of Oh okay, in practice we record everything, okay. So where where we're Left Turn and Halifax Blues recorded? That was in Cambridge. I work at a studio called Blink Music. Oh okay, cool, So we just kind of got a time there and we recorded and we mixed. It took abu I think like a month to mix that.

We pushed it out on Halloween. Oh, no kidding, Okay, okay, very cool. That's the only track we've released so far, but everything else has just been unreleased from the vaults. Yeah, okay, we're on the way though too, yeaheah. Definitely. All of the unreleased stuff is cataloged and available on our website. Oh, what's the website. It's www dot the whole loaf. Dot net one more time. Dot net Yeah, okay, that's how you know. It's official dot net, not dot com right right. We're dot org yet, but we hope to get there.

Maybe at dot gov if we're lucky dot gov. There you go. Oh yeah, bass players, tell me why do you like? Who do you like again? And why do you like them? I want to go back to that. Oh okay, So I'm a massive, massive Deadhead. Yeah. A friend of mine got me into him almost ten years ago, and I really really just love their sound. I just think what they do is amazing, especially Phil Lesh. He's the bass player for the Dead and if you listen to his stuff, he plays things very melodically, and he doesn't attack a certain song, and he doesn't attack how the song is structured.

He just kind of plays what he wants to and he plays and if you hone it in and you just listen to his bass playing, it's really not a bass part. Yet somehow, the way he layers in and the way he's able to dive in and out of the rhythm and the melody, it's absolute insanity and it somehow works with everything that's going on. Same with Jack Cassidy to a degree. He was the bass player for Jefferson Airplane, and he does a very similar thing, especially if you listen to any of the live stuff that he played with Country Joe and the Fish or even Jefferson Airplane is kind of all over the place and stuff.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I saw. I can't. I don't know about Phil Leash. I mean I know who he is, obviously, but I never listened to much Dad, But I know what you mean about Jack Cassidy now that you bring it up. Yeah, yeah, I can. I can definitely hear that. Okay, Yeah, I was. I was curious. As a bass player, my holy trinity of like bass players is Phil Lesh, Jack Cassidy, and John Paul Jones. Oh nice Jaul Jones. Those are my three major inspirations. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Ryan as a bass player does bring He has more of like a melodic style, which like from the rhythm ppe active like from the drummer.

It opens up like different opportunities to kind of like make the beat a little more interesting. Yeah. So it's a cool dynamic. They're both in love with each other. They really love each other a lot. We have this like telepathic thing where I can just we're in the middle of a jam or a song, and I can just look at him and he knows exactly what I'm thinking, Yeah, and he just brings it right there, and it's the thing of magic. It's the universal unspoken relationship between the bassis and the drummer.

Yea where it comes about. Yeah, that's awesome, very good, very good. Now, what about in terms of songwriting, you guys all write together or how does that work. It's a little funny. We kind of all write songs separately, so we end up with a pretty wide range of sounds. Like if you listen to the difference between Left Turn and Halifax Blues, it's it's very very different. I think you two, Sean and Kyle wrote Halifax Blues together and then kind of brought it to the rest of us and we made our parts for it.

And Left Turn I wrote just a RIF four and send it off to Kyle and Sean, and next thing we knew we had a song. So we don't really have a set process, I don't think. Yeah, it's it's a very collaborative process. So kind of how it works is somebody comes up with a song idea, be it Jack or Kyle and Sean or just Sean, Kyle, whatever, Charlie, even myself, and we get together when we practice and we just say, hey, here's a song idea, here are the chords, and we just kind of build it up from there. Okay.

That's one thing I really like is I like having that collaborative process instead of somebody just writing a song and saying, hey, here's how it needs to be. I like the collaboration. Yeah. Yeah. I have a hunch too that do these change live sometimes because it seems like the style of what you're doing, you know, you've got room to breathe, it's built around improv Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say that's another That's another facet to the songwriting is a lot of times we'll just have a rehearsal and do a warm up jam and I'll just kind of make something up.

We do two of those a week. That's roughly four new songs a week. Wow. Yeah, So how many songs do you guys have currently? We have four hundred and sixty. Well, each of them are at different stage with all the ideas, So like somebody gets an idea, even if it's like a five second little thing. You send it to Sean, he catalogs it, and then we go back and we rephrase them and work on them together, bring them to the whole band, and then everyone kind of gets a chance to write on it. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty.

Best thing about having Sewn in the band for us is his uh yeah, this is his cataloging ability, because he will note down every single little riff idea for its and it all gets neatly organized in our dropbox. So we could be able to even it's something like back four months ago and it was just like a random get together, he'll still have a little note for it. We can go back and revisit it. It can it can be. It can be as simple as just a song title that doesn't have a lyric, or that doesn't have any lyrics, or doesn't even have any chords, and it goes and the idea is folder.

Yeah. Oh that's good. It's good. Good to have somebody who's super organized. Can

that's the saving grace? Yeah. Yeah. It might be a freak of nature, as Ryan often says, but you know it keeps us organized. Yeah, yeah, no, that's good. That's important. We should since we were talking about it, we should play this track Halifax Blues. So this is the other one that was recorded at the studio that you work at. Any any any story behind the song or is there? Kyle and I were just sitting in my bedroom one day and he goes, wow, you can really make a song with anything, and he starts playing this this weird uh whatever theory you want to attached to.

He started playing that, and then all of a sudden, I start playing a one to five under that, and it's like, wow, I guess you're right. We can make a song anything. That was the first song we released. Yeah, but why Halifax Blues? What's the significance or is there any right? Yeah, I couldn't tell you that. Just yeah, that was one that just kind of spawned. We don't write this, we don't just transmit them. Yeah, they kind of sometimes get delivered to us straight into our brains like radio towers.

Exactly. Alright, I like it. The song storks brought that one. I think is a divine delivery. Very title. There we go. That's another one. There you go. The idea is folder put the folder, Yeah, alright, in it down as we speak. Well, now we definitely have to listen to this all right, let's check this out. This is Halifax Blues. The band is the Whole Loaf. Love the top act who rolls around down cigarettes fo drowning me. How I got the windows down to let it all out and wearing Baba suits. I can't let on the facts.

Please run the top of dog who wants to love? When I see him? Pretty lady can help myself, don't you got me rolling a round and chasing my tail and wearing dub my doors. I got the elephants please. That is Halifax Blues. The band is the Whole Loaf, and we have the whole Loaf with us in studio, literally the entire band. Hey, where's the name come from? By the way, Jean, there's got to be a story behind the name. Yeah. I just woke up one morning and it was in my head and I thought to myself, Wow, See when when I was looking for all the musicians before I met these guys, I thought, well, I want to start a band that does everything.

I want to have no restrictions. I want everybody to play what they want the way they want, and I want everyone to compromise rather than people say no. I don't want to do that, so we can't do that. So I don't know, I just kind of woke up one morning and it was in my head. I'm like, wow, the whole loaf, the whole spectrum, spectrum of music. And uh, you know, at first everybody hated it. They're like no, no, what is that. Then it slowly grew on everyone and they're like, yeah, okay. So I was saying like, yeah, just let it, let it sit for a little bit and if we come up with anything better, we'll take that.

And we never did, so it stuck. It did. Did you did you think about consider some other name? I love rejected band names. Did you have other names that you were thinking about? Or

I don't. I don't really know that we had any that stuck. I know we had a side project with when I was one of the band, one of the cover bands I was in broke Up. So I took some of these guys from the very beginning to you know, kind of fill in for one of the shows and it was us three yeah, and the band name was called Zeke and the Zamboni's Oh that's cool. There was also oh sorry no, I was just going to say as for our rejected band names. I don't know that there were any that we remember. Yeah, on a personal note, like by the time I joined the band, name was already kind of there.

Yeah, Like, as I forget who said it earlier, I want to say it was Kyle, Who's like they basically just stole me. They just picked me up and said, yep, you're with us, and I said, all right, I guess. So. Yeah, we convinced him to come to a practice and after a couple of songs, we're like, yeah, you're the guy. Well, well you're the guy, time out, time out. How it actually happened was Kyle messaged me. We had played at the Brew a couple of times, and he said, you know, we're looking shopping around for a bass player.

Would you be interested in filling in if we have any shows coming up? And I said, yeah, sure, I don't mind filling in. I'm not really in any projects, like let me know. He's like he's like, all right, great, solid. Well, after a while, you know, they said, hey, we have a gig coming up. Do you want to fill in? And I said yeah. So I came through for a few practices to practice for the gig and then eventually it was just like, yep, you're the guy we want. You're right. Yeah, So that's nice when you know, when it's organic like that.

Yeah, then it's when when it's easy to put a band together like that, then you know you've really got something, you know well, And yeah, my introduction story to these two over here, for it's like, I'm not really a big fake guy, but the amount of pieces that had to go together in order to make this introduction happen was super random. Really. It was at the time I was in another college band called Night Visions, and we had hosted a show in our college apartment basement at some point, and at the time one of was my brothers, i'd say, a friend from middle school his name was Brenner, happened to see that I was a drummer and like just turd through the grape vine for that I was able to play drums or and then it was a random January day where it's I had never really interacted with him much, but he just like hit me up on Snapchat out of the blue, just like, Hey, I was looking to start up a new project, would you be interested to go play drums on it?

And at the time for it's I was like, I love playing with my college band, but also like I was open to experimenting with new styles. Yeah, and like my college band was more of a I wouldn't say like scripted, but more of that, Like it's kind of like a set party. Were playing with these guys. It was like the first time I played with them at Dargan Hall, we just went off on a whole, like twenty minute jam session for just making stuff up. We went on a journey first. The first song he jammed out together it is called lock Me in the Cupboard, their first original jam.

And it's kind of funny because that first session was January February twenty fourth of twenty twenty three. Do you know the time too, Probably around six o'clock And I was definitely wearing this jacket. Wow, all right, Yeah, for context, this is Sean's outfit every day, all the time. He changed my shirt. Yeah, it's a good look every once in a while. Excuse me, it's too bad that people can't see it. You look like you stepped out of the time the listeners where Sean looks like he was just born in the wrong generation traveler straight out of the sixties right right.

Well, actually the shirt though, is not that unlike Ryan's shirt there just no just see, you guys can have matching jackets. Then we could go full sixties, get the haircuts us Sean and the Crowleys. Now do you guys play out a lot? You are you playing out every week or how often we wish? Yeah? Well, actually in May we are playing every weekend for the most part. Yeah. It comes in births. Yeah. So we have three shows coming up in May. We have a show May fourth at Sammy's Patio down in Revere. Then the weekend after on May eleventh, we're playing at Strange Brew Tavern home Turf.

And then the weekend after that, on May eighteenth, we're opening porch Fest down in Malden, Okay. Now, what is that porch Fest? Is that a big multi day thing. No, it's just a small one day festival. Starts at noon. We'll be playing noon to one. It's put on by the Porch Juke Joint down in Malden Medford area and they set it up outside and it's kind of a free event for the public. They actually partner with the City of Malden to put it on. Oh cool, cool, very cool. Do you guys ever, do you ever do anything acoustic or is it always electric?

It seems like your music would you know you could? You could probably play in a lot of different configurations. I'm the big acoustic guy over here. I mean, we love to play some hog blues. That's a that's a genre we created where we get some acoustic guitars and we just kind of have some fun. Well, it's less of a genre and more of our unique style. He knows all the all the cool chords, and I kind of just pick out melodies by ear. Yeah. John plays strictly from the ear. He has no idea what music theory is, but it's actually incredible, Like he listens to so much music, so he just picks it up by ear, and I'm the opposite.

I like to study. I teach guitar too. It's great. I like to study all that. So it kind of works very well when we play together. Yeah, because I could do something that's decently cool, and then he could tell me what it is that I did, and then I'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I can relate to Like I don't know any theory I can, so I can I can relate I I also I played by ear yeah, and I could never understand. But I'm not good at math, and I think that's I think that's why because it is is math, right, I mean basically like math.

Yeah yeah?

And how long do you guys play when you when you do a set, because I would imagine again with these songs, you know you can you can kind of open them up and let them breathe. Do you do you have you done like multi hour sets or so? Typically when we are the only band playing that night. So for example, at Strange Brew, the last gig we had at Strange Brew February fifteenth, we were the only band there. Same with the gig coming up on May eleventh. We usually play about three hours. Wow, yeah, no kidding.

I play a full three hour set, two sets with like a fifteen to twenty minute break in between. Yeah. Yeah, oh that's really good. Is it all originals? Do you do any do you throw some covers in there? Or there's plenty of covers? Yeah? Are there? We we like our covers. Yeah yeah. You know some of these guys keep saying like, oh, well, we can't be at cover bands. You know, we got to do originals. And I always keep saying there's way too many good songs out there to not play well. It's kind of goes back to what Sean was saying about the idea behind the whole Loaf name for in, just like our inclusive vibe that we have, it's we still want to be able to mix in for those covers, right as well as the originals.

Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. And is it challenging with five of you in in the band? Is it? Is it challenging in terms of scheduling like getting together for rehearsals and booking shows and whatnot? Is that actually all We all chip in a little bit on on getting shows, doing all kind of all that kind of work. But we have set days where we practice. Yep, I wouldn't say it's too much of a struggle. We rehearsed twice a week consistently. If someone is out one of those days, typically the rest of the guys will do something, whether it's recording or rehearsal with one less person.

And then as for shows, those usually work out pretty good too. Yeah good. And it goes back to acoustic thing too, Like we're hosting an open jam in Nashua and it's just going to be the two of us meet and Kyle at the Kaba Bar. Yep, oh, very good. Well, when it comes to gig for it's we don't. I would say, we don't operate in. Let's find a day convenient for us and then we'll figure out our schedule. It's more we get offered today and we'll cancel everything else that's going off to go. Yeah, yes, that is accurate.

There you go, there you go. Oh and how did you how did you get in? We we ended up not Jenny and I weren't able to stay for your set that night. But you guys played at the Midnight I never got the name right, Midnight Creators Collected, Midnight Creators Collective. Thank you. Yeah, Eleanor is amazing. She's she's doing a great job with that. But how did you guys get involved with that? With with playing that uh, that show? We didn't play that show. We didn't play that show. We were just there. We got invited.

Oh I thought you guys played that night. No, no, no, no, just visiting. We got offered. It was all because of Greg He I honestly don't know his last name. I wish I did, but he is the proprietor of the Kava Bar down in Ashua Rude Awakening Kaba Bar. Check it out. It's a very interesting spot. We played there a couple of times and we're we're doing a reoccurring open mic now month. Okay, it's the last Saturday of every month, So come down and either play with us or play by yourself pretty much do whatever you want.

Yeah, yeah, you're not you're not gonna. We're not. We're not sour dough people. We're very friendly. Yeah, we're like but but yeah, Greg he's the owner there, and he mentioned how Eleanor was the main investor trying to get something going in the Nashuay area. And then another friend of ours who's actually he takes lessons from Kyle Mike McDowell offered sent us like a Facebook thing inviting us to it, and I said, hey, we should go check it out. See if it's beneficial. See what's going on there.

Yeah, it's uh yeah, it's a cool h it's a cool space. We should we play another song if you guys want to pick something. Uh, what's uh do you have? Do you have the list? Let's see we've got do see the way maybe oh yeah, is a good one. Did we did we send them New Canan Blues. No, that's disappointing. Yeah, but I do have pink Gypsy that any uh. Now this is one of the basement recordings. Yes, yeah, okay, cool Kyle and I wrote this one right most part and this one. And I'll say too for saying, like playing wise for the take that we got from that we sent in for this take, it wasn't perfect for like there there there are a few little mistakes here there, but like the mixing engineer has to has to say that, you don't don't tell them that, Charlie, you can say that, you could say that, just don't tell them the times fan, I'm just saying what I this gives you a taste of our more like raw like this was just a one take, like we just hit record and went for it, all right.

Cool. This was the This was a standard Tuesday night for us, all right, So we'll get a sample of the whole loaf on a standard Tuesday night. Here it is. This is pink Gypsy. Let's check it out. That man mandance up to charge your basic saving man give bus pallid the pigture said tell from your game. Manager put on the side of the more bensun said he was besides being maybe got a pleasent a man side that an I'm got to kill your mother? What about your money? Down? Oh the head him nighber's way but to beat you?

And what's up? And see said it the ste of that gas m no casting a dress on the storming down in the middle of the road. The baby had a home in the blast in the way. That's look at both place on the snake all twn do bor or the mexical your b gol the son of the medical in the sun came in on the gypsy

saying, hey, by, don't understand on what you get in the ham and the head of gin of head loved man that ain't too good? Old man was right to ban as a gun in a place on God's motors? What fat last man? Why don't you join me? Man man and gypsues the big site. Won't you go with men? Got my staff, I'm my girl. God b gets all a week and hear it on the road.

Make it pretty far. I've been you don't believe in men? Coma gets up? I can play fu game. Don't you will get already. I still don't adjas meet to sto all right? That is uh. I think Gypsy very good. That is the Whole Loaf in studio with us. No, I like that a lot. And I was saying off air that you get a really good recording there in the in the basement there, So that's no, that's really good. Guys, We're all we're the time goes quickly before we run out of time at the end of the hour, and we'll finish off with one more song.

We won't be able to fit fit the whole thing, but we'll we'll play a little something at the end. But what should people know about? Where to find you online? How to keep up with everything that you're doing? Website, social media, all of that. So we have our own website, beautifully crafted by yours truly. It's www dot the Whole Loaf dot net. Don't forget the ww dot because I might have screwed up some DNS settings by accident. Sean Crawley, Sean Crawley, everyone, I'm here all day. Actually I'm here for the next ten minutes.

Are you Are you serious about the DNS settings. I'm a web designer, so I'm just curious. I'm yeah the geek and me is like, what Google domains? Just switch the Squarespace and our site doesn't come up if you don't put the WWW. Really yeah, I still have to look into that. I just haven't had the time. Weird, Yeah, but uh Google. Know what's funny about it is because anybody who knows me knows so I always cringe when I hear people say the WWW, like I hear it in radio ads still in the year twenty twenty four, and I'm like why.

And I've been saying that for twenty years, so I was kind of thinking that when you were saying it, But now that you've explained why you have to do that, it makes sense. But it's also like, wow, that's so weird. Yeah, I can I have Google to think. Wow, Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, I have a couple of minutes during the day. John's really broken up about it. Yeah, yeah, he hasn't slept in days. Oh, it would frust It would frustrate me to no end. I'd be like, I wouldn't sleep ever again until I hadn't figured out I'd be so I'd be so upset.

It's a one who hasn't written a song about it yet, to be honest. Oh, I don't start anyway. Our other socials besides the Whole Loaf dot net, you could find us on Instagram and TikTok at the dot Whole Loaf. That's it. Facebook, I believe is the Whole Loaf. Ryan can probably confirm that for me. That would be confirmed. Yes, YouTube as well as The Whole Loaf, and I don't know what else we have. We're on Spotify, we have Halifax Blues and Left Turnout, and we'll be releasing some more music shortly.

Yeah, it's all the music are is on all major streaming services far as we use one of those distribution services for it. Make sure that all the songs get released everywhere. Excellent more, I would say, if you'd have to pick one to go to for it's the instam and our bio. We have a link tree that will redirect you to all of our other associated websites, So that's probably the easiest way to get to know the Whole Loaf. More importantly, too, if you go to our website and you go under I want to say it's media, and you go on archive Media Archive sessions, it is I'm looking at it.

I'm looking at it right now. If you go to Media Archives sessions, that's pretty much everything we've ever done, every practice, every practice, every gig, everything. We record everything we've ever done. So you can scroll through, pick a random thing and you can see everything that we play during that practice or what have you, gig whatever. Yeah, yeah, actually sorry, it's it's it's recordings, not sessions, so it's media radio and Sean. How many recordings did we are we at? Now? Oh? Dear god.

So as I said, we're at four hundred and sixty eight originals and the recordings themselves covers originals. All the session stuff is well over a thousand. I lost track. Yeah, I'm looking at the page. Yeah, it's got Each one has the date rehearsal at Charlie's house, rehearsal at Kyle's house. Yeah. Wow, I'm a this is cool. It's really cool to do that, and then if you click into the date, it gives you the set list, and then if you click each song in the set list, it will bring you to a Google page to play it.

Oh my god. Wow. So you can hear all of our music for free on our website. W so not only can you see the evolution of how songs develop over time, but we also include h what they're called like intermission snippets, but also just some of the fun like banter moments. Yeah, we have in practice those areas. Oh that's awesome. No, good for you guys, Good for you for doing that. Thank you. I went to the the reason, I pulled up the website on the browsers. I was like, I gotta test this, and su I typed in the whole loaf dot net.

Nothing happened, it said not secure or something. I put in the WWW, and it took me right to it. Yeah, I'm just I just have to go in and set up a redirect. But we don't even have a Squarespace account yet, so I'm gonna have to create that to access the domain again and then make the edits do some surgery. That's crazy that you have to do that, And I've been putting it off because I want to wait until I have time to actually sit down and go through all of the I'm essentially going to be exploring a completely new platform from scratch, so I want to make sure I do it thoroughly rather than yeah, I can relate to that because I'm the same way with stuff like that.

It's like, I'll have something that I really want to do, like something like this would be driving me nuts, But at the same time, it's like, but I need to find time where I can just sit uninterrupted for what could potentially be several hours. And so it's that battle that goes on in my mind. It's like, Oh, I really got to get this done because this is killing me. But I got to wait for a time when I can really dig into it because I know it's going to be so I can I can relate and instead of just going to like a provider that could do it for us, or it's I think we want to take the time to get the experience of like figuring out how all these pieces come together.

And we also have an idea too, it's we're also interested in starting up a record label to records, So being able to have all these tools and our disposal would be cool to have for when we venture. Yeah, definitely, what's it gonna be called? Unslice mind? Well sliced right right, gotcha? There's no point in putting it back together,

I gotcha. We just have a couple we'll hear a little bit of a should we do black and white radio and white? I don't know why I said black and white radio? Obviously it's just black and white. Want you want to do our garage floors? Yeah? Well this is going to be our next next single state yet but this is it and the B side is going to be fullsome Prison Blues. Oh no kidding. One is by Jack Codges. Very cool. I didn't write fullsome Prison right right right. Anybody's wondering. I got to mention that one's a cover.

You didn't tell me that. How long has this been going on? Well, guys, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. It's great to meet all of you and have you in and I've really enjoyed the discussion. I'm a big fan of your music, and so thank you for coming in today. Thank you for having us absolutely, thank you very muchy Man, Before we get off the air, man, I wanted to give you our first official piece of band merch. Some stickers, oh, very for you and two for Jen who unfortunately couldn't be here in the studio.

Yeah, thank you, Yeah, of course, very nice, very nice. I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, she's got Fox and the Flamingos gave us a couple of stickers too, and I was saying, you know, Jenny, she likes to put stickers on her laptop. Perfect. She's got stickers all over them, so she'll love those. Yeah, thank you very much, thank you, thank you for having us absolutely and if you've missed any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at w n H radio dot organ on my website Matt Conorton dot com.

And we'll leave you with a little bit of garage floors from the whole Loaf. Thanks again, guys, Thank you you. Pascat Attra

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