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Speaker 12: Today is a Saturday, April twenty five, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 12: For those of you who are listening live, Jenny is
Speaker 12: here of course at the news table. President and who
Speaker 12: I Am and Tras are here with us.
Speaker 11: Welcome back, Hi hi OHI.
Speaker 12: So of course Glow that is from Hot Wax. And
Speaker 12: now the last time you both were here, I think
Speaker 12: you were. Were you in the process of recording Hot
Speaker 12: Wax or what was the status of things at that point.
Speaker 5: It was a while ago.
Speaker 9: I believe we had just released it.
Speaker 5: Oh, it had just come out. Okay, okay, we just
Speaker 5: released it.
Speaker 9: We were having a show at Photies like that Saturday,
Speaker 9: and but yeah, no, it's it's still our mantra and
Speaker 9: it's uh, some of our favorite songs that we uh
Speaker 9: that we like to play together and yeah, Hot Wax.
Speaker 5: What is it about these songs that makes them special
Speaker 5: to the to the both of you that you like
Speaker 5: to play them together?
Speaker 9: Well as far as with the messages and the songs,
Speaker 9: and you know about you know, believing in yourself, believing
Speaker 9: in your surroundings. Yeah, enjoying what you're doing, have fun,
Speaker 9: but be real.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and and so.
Speaker 9: You know, being with Rex, that's it's very easy for
Speaker 9: me because he's a great guy to ben.
Speaker 11: And excellent and the in those songs of that album
Speaker 11: are legitimately all of your songs, but those specific ones
Speaker 11: are the ones that we've played live and a lot
Speaker 11: of people have given us a lot of good uh yeah,
Speaker 11: a lot of feedback for that, and we noticed like
Speaker 11: right right away that we actually had a lot of
Speaker 11: like an energy that people really didn't expect to happen,
Speaker 11: right because we we I think we've even said it
Speaker 11: before that our our first time playing together was like
Speaker 11: legitimately live. We didn't even rehearse it. We just like,
Speaker 11: was that a Jewel, No, that was at the Jungle?
Speaker 11: Was that the Jungle was actually Somerville.
Speaker 9: Yeah, some of Somerville masks at the Jungle Music Community
Speaker 9: Center And so yeah, right, we you know, we I
Speaker 9: approached Thrax and said, you know, he wants to join
Speaker 9: what's going on with who I am? And uh so
Speaker 9: I gave him some of my things, uh to work on,
Speaker 9: and yeah, just it just like we just went for it.
Speaker 9: You know, I had I had a live thing set
Speaker 9: up already, and I was like, hey, come join me
Speaker 9: and we'll we'll just see how it goes together live.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, was Jewel one of the early shows because I
Speaker 12: remember seeing you play together at Jewel.
Speaker 5: It was a first time. It was the first time
Speaker 5: I had seen you play together.
Speaker 9: And yeah, yeah that was the yeah Spelfy Fest.
Speaker 11: Okay, Yeah, because we had we had our our set
Speaker 11: that we had in the back room. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 11: and then we and then we had an impromptu jam
Speaker 11: randomly in the okay, and I think my buddy Brandon
Speaker 11: at the time was was singing.
Speaker 9: And then I forgot who was who was on Sean
Speaker 9: from Hole Loaf he was playing there. Oh, actually Sean
Speaker 9: and guitarists.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they joined on like midway through too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was. It was a good time. But yeah,
Speaker 9: but we had played probably a few shows before that.
Speaker 11: A handful of shows. Yeah, yeah, mostly like either at
Speaker 11: Photies or at at the time it was either the Jungle.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
Speaker 12: Was it was it easy playing live together right off
Speaker 12: the bat, or because I would think it'd be an
Speaker 12: adjustment for both of you, right, because Lacy, you were
Speaker 12: used to all right.
Speaker 9: Right, just you know, having the the keyboard drum following
Speaker 9: whatever I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is you know, it's a unique project that
Speaker 5: you've probably never done anything quite like this, I assume, or.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, this is a I mean, it was an
Speaker 11: idea that I've always wanted to be part of of
Speaker 11: a drummer and either keyboarders or DJ type of ensemble,
Speaker 11: Like I've always really wanted that to happen somehow organically.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And I I've known Lacey in the in the scene
Speaker 11: for quite quite a while.
Speaker 9: Right, We've known Yeah, we've known each other, been on
Speaker 9: bills together.
Speaker 11: It wasn't foreign, but it was like a hey, you
Speaker 11: want to try this? Like all right, it was it
Speaker 11: was like an offshoot thing because I like, I genuinely
Speaker 11: like the music as she as she said about about
Speaker 11: the message, right, and it's a lot of genuine feeling
Speaker 11: about that, and she has a lot of great story
Speaker 11: storytelling with that. And yeah, when playing with drums, I'm
Speaker 11: trying to match that. I'm not trying to take that away.
Speaker 11: And a lot a lot of people out there can
Speaker 11: like overplay if you're listening to something like oh I
Speaker 11: want to put my stamp on it. I just want
Speaker 11: to be able to play what's good good enough for
Speaker 11: the song and like try to see what I can
Speaker 11: do from there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And as I said, like when we played live, it
Speaker 11: was perfect, perfect feedback. So we're like, hey, you want
Speaker 11: to keep doing this? Yeah, and they live and then
Speaker 11: thus ensued the EP.
Speaker 9: Right yeah, right, And it just became a natural thing
Speaker 9: because we had after we had done a few live
Speaker 9: shows together we were like, hey, it's pretty cool. You know,
Speaker 9: we're having a good time and you know people are
Speaker 9: having a good time with us, and why not let's
Speaker 9: let's take some of these songs and put them together
Speaker 9: and you know, like some studio stuff with it. And
Speaker 9: so yeah, that's when, Yeah, we worked out you know,
Speaker 9: what we could both do for it, and and and
Speaker 9: the songs that we had played live and it kind
Speaker 9: of we got like Thrax said, we've gotten really good
Speaker 9: feedback from and and they're fun. Is a good representation
Speaker 9: of the you know, the forty minutes that we do. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so you know four songs just boom hit you with
Speaker 9: who I Am in thras Hot Wags, Who we are,
Speaker 9: what we do yep. And I think the e P
Speaker 9: is actually a really good representation of how we sound
Speaker 9: live like glow. You know, as long as I hit
Speaker 9: on my marks, right, you know that's what we sound like.
Speaker 9: You know what you hear on the EPs.
Speaker 11: I mean it's just like we've rehearsed it, right, yeah,
Speaker 11: just like exactly because we didn't reheard it, so we do.
Speaker 12: So the tracks on on Hot Wax on the EP,
Speaker 12: these are these are all the two of you, Yes,
Speaker 12: and then is there anyone else, any any other guests on.
Speaker 11: The technically technically yes, technically yes, you got you got.
Speaker 11: Brad very proud of that. I forgot what song right now?
Speaker 9: Oh it's not Open your Eyes. And Brad who plays
Speaker 9: for Cosmic Blossom and Dog a Dog and I know
Speaker 9: him him from back in the day Earthmark from Towns.
Speaker 9: It was just the band they used to, you know,
Speaker 9: they call themselves Towns. And so I just said, hey,
Speaker 9: you'd be interested in dropping a little bit for this,
Speaker 9: and he did. He sent me something. It was just
Speaker 9: a one take situation. You know, he's a pretty busy guy.
Speaker 9: He's very busy, and so he dropped it to me
Speaker 9: and I sit over to thre Ax and Threx is like,
Speaker 9: this is how it should go in the song. And
Speaker 9: I think I gave him some version and he's like, no,
Speaker 9: this is how it should go.
Speaker 5: In the song. I was like, yeah, exactly, it's it's perfect.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it sounds great in the song, and it's like
Speaker 9: totally Brad, It's really shows off what was just like
Speaker 9: a serious I was getting goosebumps again. Really man, it's good. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean it really makes that and it gives the
Speaker 9: song like life.
Speaker 11: That you know. As a side note, shout out to
Speaker 11: to to Brad and Nick and all them. Yes, Brad
Speaker 11: is just like living his life on on on like
Speaker 11: the most positive scale I could ever sees anybody do anything.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 11: There was a Jiggy had a birthday party over it
Speaker 11: shasking last year, right and ian Ian put it together
Speaker 11: from track Combes. Yeah, no rehearsal, no nothing. He just
Speaker 11: handpicked people like hey you want to play, Hey, you
Speaker 11: want to play? Hey you want to play? Like there
Speaker 11: were people from like what was it, Tray Combes and
Speaker 11: like the whole Loaf and Leon Trout, the main dude
Speaker 11: from Leon Trout showed up in either which way that like,
Speaker 11: nobody rehearsed. It's like, all right, cool, let's let's get
Speaker 11: up on there. Like while okay, so while I'm jamming
Speaker 11: Adam nowhere, Brad just shows up. He just gets to
Speaker 11: the front road. He gets to the front road, takes
Speaker 11: his guitar out and gets gets tune in and I'm
Speaker 11: like literally playing drums and he's doing that next to me.
Speaker 11: I'm like and because he had a show earlier. He
Speaker 11: had a show earlier I think with Dog eight Dog
Speaker 11: and then packed up and then came came over to Manchester.
Speaker 11: I'm like the demon, the real deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's.
Speaker 9: He's in my view, he's he's the best guitarist and.
Speaker 11: Our ye.
Speaker 9: I mean I've listened to everybody, you know, I had
Speaker 9: that radio station. I've heard them all and like everybody's good,
Speaker 9: but jeez, he's like a he's transcend I think. So
Speaker 9: listen to our listen to our album Hot Wax, go
Speaker 9: listen to Open your Eyes and you'll hear like just
Speaker 9: guitar work that it's just one take. And he told me,
Speaker 9: he goes, oh wow, that was such a such a
Speaker 9: fun time doing that, but he just did one take
Speaker 9: in his slend.
Speaker 5: Well maybe we should amazing, Maybe we should play that now.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, of course we do have the single that
Speaker 5: we're going to feature in just a little bit, but
Speaker 5: this might be a good time to play Open your Eyes. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and uh featuring Brad to Palma on guitar. Yeah, let's
Speaker 5: give this a lesson if you're just joining us, Who
Speaker 5: I Am and Thras are here with us in studio
Speaker 5: and this track is from the Hot Wax EP with
Speaker 5: Brad de Palma on guitar.
Speaker 3: M in the time. We as mosters copris for fa.
Speaker 1: Shift in time fo.
Speaker 9: To be free.
Speaker 13: Said, going back to the sea.
Speaker 1: Yep, you say, oh, say you got it.
Speaker 3: You know what you see to the term blow us.
Speaker 9: Living in the ground, it's not a waste birs tastes.
Speaker 1: Don't you think to look at.
Speaker 3: Least design all.
Speaker 8: The time, living on the time, looking class see what
Speaker 8: you find.
Speaker 6: Such s.
Speaker 5: That is open your eyes Who I Am?
Speaker 12: And tracks featuring Brad de Palma on guitar, and that
Speaker 12: is of course from the EP Hot Wax. And we've
Speaker 12: got who I Am and Thrax here with us in
Speaker 12: the studio. So lacy, for those who you've been on
Speaker 12: the show a number of times, you're not in the
Speaker 12: five five five time time this, third time, third time?
Speaker 5: Okay, not quite there yet, not quite there yet there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll get there and next time i'll you know,
Speaker 9: bring keys and we'll play music.
Speaker 12: Nice nice, Yeah. So for the uninitiated, who I Am?
Speaker 12: Where does the name come from?
Speaker 5: Who I Am?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 9: It's a good question. It's a it's kind of a
Speaker 9: two parter because I spell it who I Am.
Speaker 5: Yes, and it looks like a U R L.
Speaker 9: Yeah right right, I know and it's very confusing. And
Speaker 9: weirdly enough, I somehow got an email with that dot
Speaker 9: in there too, so I was like, I know, I
Speaker 9: was like, will it take this?
Speaker 5: I'm actually I'm actually surprised.
Speaker 9: Yeah, who dot I am at Comcast? Don't the man email?
Speaker 9: I don't care, say hi, say by whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 9: so who I am? The spelling comes from like, uh,
Speaker 9: will I am? Oh from black Eyed Peace when I
Speaker 9: was kind of creating who I Am. That was a
Speaker 9: very influential artist and in that time, so yeah, black
Speaker 9: Eyed Peas, especially the one album they played and then
Speaker 9: so so that's where the like spelling from it comes. Okay,
Speaker 9: it comes from there, but they the name who I
Speaker 9: Am is actually about you know, there was a time
Speaker 9: when I was doing like open mics and going through
Speaker 9: kind of discovery of who I was, what the you know,
Speaker 9: what music was going to be about for me, and
Speaker 9: you know, where it fit into my life and where
Speaker 9: it fit into the larger community as a whole, and
Speaker 9: so in observing and you know, being part of it
Speaker 9: and enjoying the whole scene, I started to you know,
Speaker 9: I just kind of said, look, the main thing is
Speaker 9: whatever you're going to do with your keyboards, you're singing
Speaker 9: your songs. You can only do what you are. You can,
Speaker 9: you know, make blues sounds or rock sounds or you know,
Speaker 9: symphonic sounds, whatever sounds you're going to make, and whatever
Speaker 9: songs you're going to make. But you can still only
Speaker 9: be your right. You can't be somebody else. It's not possible.
Speaker 9: So in your music, in your creation of what this is,
Speaker 9: it's you can only I can only be who I am, okay,
Speaker 9: and that that's it, you know, musically, story telling, song wise,
Speaker 9: performance wise, I can only be who I am. That
Speaker 9: is it. I cannot be any more than that. And
Speaker 9: that's if somebody else is being who they are, then
Speaker 9: I respect that and there's no other There's no way
Speaker 9: I'm going to say, well I need to be that right,
Speaker 9: because it's not possible to do that. So I am
Speaker 9: who I am.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 5: I like it all right. And tracks and by the way,
Speaker 5: you're you're definitely in the five Timers club.
Speaker 11: With various. I've been coming over since I was in
Speaker 11: married Iguana that first time with with Brett.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
Speaker 11: I did too, back at the old building. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 11: because then after that I I showed up with Rado
Speaker 11: and then yeah, with Sat and then and then I
Speaker 11: I I phoned in when he was a guest. Guest,
Speaker 11: Oh yeah for a little bit.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right, good memory.
Speaker 11: Well, and I think apart from that, it's been Harrison
Speaker 11: and dead Harrison. Well, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 11: Dead Harrison showed up to the old the old building.
Speaker 5: They were here. You guys were here here here. No,
Speaker 5: you guys were at the old building.
Speaker 12: You might not have been there that day, but probably
Speaker 12: because I remember Andre standing on the desk. What yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: you stood on the desk during the interview. He's making
Speaker 12: some kind of joke.
Speaker 11: And then I think twice here and I think us
Speaker 11: twice yeah right, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 10: Means you don't constitute as a guest anymore.
Speaker 5: You're now a friend of the show, which is like
Speaker 5: a level up from guests.
Speaker 11: Yes, it is like the Patreon level where like the
Speaker 11: more times I show up, except there's no money. Yeah,
Speaker 11: but yeah, I get no, No, he.
Speaker 10: Gets a raise.
Speaker 9: Yeah, get the raise.
Speaker 11: Now, wait, the same raise you get.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll have to give him an annual review.
Speaker 11: I've never had a review from you. Guys.
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely, definitely kind. So where's the name Thracks? And
Speaker 12: I know you told this story last time, but it's
Speaker 12: a great story.
Speaker 11: I think it is.
Speaker 5: I think it's interesting where the name Tracks comes from.
Speaker 11: So for the for the longest time, people know me
Speaker 11: for my regular name Axel obviously, Yeah, and that.
Speaker 5: Is your real name.
Speaker 11: That's my real name.
Speaker 5: Because I'm sure people wonder about that. It's not his
Speaker 5: real name, but it is.
Speaker 11: It's my real name. I can't fake that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The reason why I can't fake it is because I
Speaker 11: was made fun of my whole entire like academic career,
Speaker 11: bringing upbringing in my childhood, just because like the connection
Speaker 11: between Axel and Axle Roads, what's your last name Roads?
Speaker 11: It's always been that. It's always literally been that way
Speaker 11: for the kids. Teachers, doesn't matter, yea, So like, uh,
Speaker 11: what's it?
Speaker 12: What's as weird in a way because it's a cool name.
Speaker 12: Axel Rods are not Axel is a cool name. So
Speaker 12: it's it's so weird that people people made fun of
Speaker 12: the first thing.
Speaker 11: It's like the first thing. It's like in the early nineties.
Speaker 11: It was the early nineties, and that's just how it happened.
Speaker 11: It still happens to this day, not as frequent when
Speaker 11: it happens. I'm I'm at the point now where I'm like,
Speaker 11: never liked.
Speaker 5: That one before.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Like there was a point in time I was
Speaker 11: I named myself Smitty werben Yaegerman Jensen because he was
Speaker 11: number one. That that's when I was. I was hosting
Speaker 11: the show as a TJ's. Yeah, shout out to TJ's.
Speaker 11: It's no longer there. It's now a high rise building.
Speaker 11: So that's a separate issue. But like I I used
Speaker 11: to do like open mic nights, but I used to
Speaker 11: do I hosted shows like Club Realm two, which now
Speaker 11: is The Racks, But like I used to host shows there,
Speaker 11: used to host shows as Smitty whatever, like people just
Speaker 11: like vibe to. It was my raver days. It was
Speaker 11: my rave.
Speaker 1: But my.
Speaker 11: My way of getting two tracks is like a no
Speaker 11: a no brainer that I wanted to do like years years,
Speaker 11: years ago because I don't like my first name aforementioned
Speaker 11: being being bullied about it. So that's my actual middle name. Okay,
Speaker 11: come to find out.
Speaker 5: That's the part that's very interesting to me. The Thracks
Speaker 5: practice is actually your middle.
Speaker 11: Name it's my government god given name from from my parents,
Speaker 11: like they really liked guns n' roses and Anthrax put
Speaker 11: them together. But like for the longest time, I've been
Speaker 11: wanting to either change my name or uh just have
Speaker 11: I want that as a moniker more than my actual name,
Speaker 11: just because I fit more with that now than my
Speaker 11: actual name. And kind of like.
Speaker 9: The whole like where did the name who I Am
Speaker 9: in Thracks come from?
Speaker 11: I mean it's pretty much put them together, but like
Speaker 11: the I started using that for my like drum videos
Speaker 11: and all that stuff. Oh, really being integrated with Dead
Speaker 11: Harrison as well used as that name that it just
Speaker 11: it just goes with what like what I feel like
Speaker 11: who I am boom. Yeah, Like there's a whole correspondence
Speaker 11: between both of us that are like where we were
Speaker 11: trying to find who we were and it's ourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 11: it it just it didn't dawn on me until like
Speaker 11: one of the first like couple of times we were
Speaker 11: like jamming that it like that that makes sense of
Speaker 11: putting two of those like entities together.
Speaker 9: When I first met I think the first time I
Speaker 9: met you, you came on my radio show. Yeah, that
Speaker 9: was that the first time, I actually would like mess yeah,
Speaker 9: but dead Harrison.
Speaker 11: I think so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean maybe i'd seen you at a show or
Speaker 9: i'd been in the crowd or something. I don't know
Speaker 9: if we had met, not formally, no, but I think
Speaker 9: but I remember you saying like, I was like, you know,
Speaker 9: everybody introduced yourself, and I remember you saying like, you know,
Speaker 9: kind of wavering on what you were going to say.
Speaker 9: Your name was yeah, and I kind of and I
Speaker 9: was like, bring it and you go tracks. Tracks. I'm
Speaker 9: going by tracks. Tracks is what it is, you know.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 9: I mean we didn't get together until you your couple
Speaker 9: of years after that, but I I always remember.
Speaker 14: You saying that, like tracks, that's my name. Oh sorry,
Speaker 14: thank you, Sorry my people.
Speaker 9: Very excited.
Speaker 11: I haven't I have a knack for whoever I'm on
Speaker 11: this radio broadcast, very excited.
Speaker 9: I got over excited. I apologize.
Speaker 5: That's great, more pressure, but I'll never know, like I said, that's.
Speaker 9: His name, yeah right, but that you know, I was like,
Speaker 9: that's his name. You know, tracks?
Speaker 11: Am forgot like because you because I was also there.
Speaker 11: I think I showed up for Dank Sinatra as well,
Speaker 11: and uh, like the times that I was going in there,
Speaker 11: I didn't know like how to present myself. So that
Speaker 11: was that was a good point because I was like,
Speaker 11: on the precipice of that, I'm like, no, I'm going
Speaker 11: to stick to this because I'm like at that time,
Speaker 11: that's when I was, I was radiating on it, and
Speaker 11: I'm like, no, I need I just need to stick
Speaker 11: to it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was very cool. Yeah, and so it only
Speaker 9: makes sense to me. And then and the thing is, like,
Speaker 9: you know, I know I come up with like songs
Speaker 9: and stuff and the lyrics and whatnot, but but you know,
Speaker 9: the thing is we were like born on a live stage,
Speaker 9: and the live stage is who I am. In tracks,
Speaker 9: I mean, there's just no way to get around, you know.
Speaker 9: The drums are a part of who I am. Thing
Speaker 9: in tracks is the drums are that I've tried with
Speaker 9: other people who do drums and it has not worked.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know that. So so you've tried this.
Speaker 5: You tried this before.
Speaker 9: I've practiced with and played with other people and it
Speaker 9: just never really came out the way that I wanted
Speaker 9: it to sound.
Speaker 12: Was part of it because Thracks who were saying earlier
Speaker 12: there's a temptation in a situation like this to overplay.
Speaker 12: I mean, is that, Lacy, Is that part of what
Speaker 12: you ran into well with other drummers.
Speaker 9: I think what it became was certain people were in
Speaker 9: a niche as far as what they were going to
Speaker 9: do with with their instrument.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
Speaker 9: And my music demands you to be kind of very
Speaker 9: dynamic and ever flowing ye from genre to genre.
Speaker 5: Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 9: And you know Thrax can do all genres. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 9: and I do a lot of hip hop y kind
Speaker 9: of stuff too, So yeah, it's kind of my bread
Speaker 9: and butter. Yeah, I needs someone who can really you know,
Speaker 9: you know, put it out there, right. And that's not
Speaker 9: to shade on anybody else. It's just for my songs.
Speaker 9: That's what I need.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 9: But but yeah, no it didn't work.
Speaker 11: We've had this conversation. We've had this conversation that like
Speaker 11: hip hop and rap we're kind of a a thing
Speaker 11: for you to you you had a thing for like
Speaker 11: trip hop and like the R and B in hip
Speaker 11: hop area of like the early nineties, where like that's
Speaker 11: kind of like where I first started listening to hip hop,
Speaker 11: where when it was like ingrain to me like mid nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and like I still listened to old school hip hop
Speaker 11: and yeff, like I can name hundreds, but like that
Speaker 11: that clicked with me with with her because when when
Speaker 11: we had that conversation, like I got it now. Yeah,
Speaker 11: because like the approach to making certain songs if you
Speaker 11: have the if you have the influence of whatever it is,
Speaker 11: like if someone tells you hated that, I want the
Speaker 11: influence of blah blah blah blah. Okay, cool. I can
Speaker 11: think about that now. Most of what you gravitate with
Speaker 11: is like dance and and yeah dan hippin hip hop. Yeah,
Speaker 11: And I'm like that's brilliant. And what you can do
Speaker 11: with that is limitless. You can make that into anything
Speaker 11: you want to. It can't It doesn't have to be
Speaker 11: just rapper. It doesn't have to be just since you
Speaker 11: can do so many things with it.
Speaker 9: Right, I feel like, yeah, that's the in like can
Speaker 9: you know, look where Simpatico on on what we think
Speaker 9: music can be, Like you know in this kind of
Speaker 9: you know instance where you don't see there's no keyboard
Speaker 9: artists out there, who's the show? Yeah, there's keyboard artists,
Speaker 9: Like I know, you know, Crowley is incredible for HOLLOAF
Speaker 9: And you know there's some really good keyboard artists out there,
Speaker 9: but they're not the show, right, they're adding to the show, right.
Speaker 9: So that's kind of what we have is you know,
Speaker 9: who I am is the show, and the sounds coming
Speaker 9: from a keyboard are the show. They're not just part
Speaker 9: of a nuance or a mood that you're trying to
Speaker 9: set with other instruments. And right now, that's the only
Speaker 9: place you're really gonna hear keyboards and synth music unless
Speaker 9: you go to like, you know, one of those things
Speaker 9: where they got like a hundred wires coming out of
Speaker 9: the thing, you know, And that's cool too, that's like
Speaker 9: you know, deep sense stuff. But you know, what we're
Speaker 9: doing is unique. You know, we're like a musical unicorn.
Speaker 9: You won't find us anywhere. This is where you'll find this,
Speaker 9: and when we play for people live, it's like a
Speaker 9: you know, it's like a musical experience.
Speaker 11: She's not she's not kidding. It's very rare to show
Speaker 11: up to, like like saying, like the early earlier areas,
Speaker 11: like going to places that we've probably don't have any
Speaker 11: any business beings, and we we we get fans no
Speaker 11: matter where we no matter where we go. One case
Speaker 11: in point, Chickapee, that that was that was such an experience.
Speaker 11: I did not expect chick Pride that that was such
Speaker 11: a wonderful experience. The mayor of Chickapee came out and
Speaker 11: did a whole like drag drag lap that was amazing.
Speaker 11: But the the overall like uh unification of what of
Speaker 11: what we were doing was very very received in the crowd,
Speaker 11: Like as soon as we were done, as soon as
Speaker 11: we were done, we got like almost mobbed by by
Speaker 11: different people at different times, like I saw you're sad.
Speaker 11: That amazing, But like people we don't even know, like
Speaker 11: we I mean, you have your fans, I have my fans,
Speaker 11: We have our fans, but like it's different when we
Speaker 11: don't even know these people and they come up to
Speaker 11: us with like grins smiles.
Speaker 9: Like that was amazing.
Speaker 11: That was amazing, Like it's in real time. It like
Speaker 11: really solidifies us that we know what we're doing, we're
Speaker 11: having fun doing it, and we know for a fact
Speaker 11: that it's electrifying because we when we play in front
Speaker 11: of people, that's the response. It's like, oh, we keep
Speaker 11: telling us in real time.
Speaker 5: That's great.
Speaker 9: It is pretty great, and it's it's why I do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well we should. Uh so
Speaker 5: I think we should go ahead and do that world premiere?
Speaker 9: Is this the world premiere?
Speaker 11: This world wide?
Speaker 9: Is this?
Speaker 5: Has this been played on the radio before?
Speaker 1: Never?
Speaker 15: No one heard?
Speaker 11: No one heard?
Speaker 15: We did?
Speaker 11: We did the old card test.
Speaker 12: Hey, before we do that, we actually have a call
Speaker 12: curious it might be one of your fans, hope, so
Speaker 12: be Hi.
Speaker 5: Welcome to the show. Who's on the line, Uh, Cisco, Cisco,
Speaker 5: let's leus go? Yes, welcome to the show, Cisco. What
Speaker 5: do you have to say?
Speaker 15: I am well, I was listening to the program and uh,
Speaker 15: I just thought i'd call in and offer my two cents.
Speaker 9: Thanks Cisco.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, go for it.
Speaker 15: So a couple of things I don't know.
Speaker 1: Am I live?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you are alive on the airy wait.
Speaker 15: I have the audio turned off on my uh computer
Speaker 15: because I don't want to obviously peep. But just a
Speaker 15: couple of things. First of all, really beautiful story on tracks.
Speaker 15: I can't believe so the local musician I've known the
Speaker 15: longest is actually tracks and I can't believe all this time,
Speaker 15: I didn't think to ask in the origin of his
Speaker 15: name because I probably, like many, assumed a nickname that
Speaker 15: he gave himself. I did. It was actual middle days.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 12: It's wild, isn't that. That's why I wanted him to
Speaker 12: tell the story. That blows my mind.
Speaker 15: I really appreciate you giving that context.
Speaker 11: That was pretty cool, no problem, thank you for listening.
Speaker 5: I it was.
Speaker 11: It's something that I've been molling over for literally years
Speaker 11: by myself.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 11: And I didn't I didn't know if I really wanted
Speaker 11: to or not until like basically like last year, a
Speaker 11: couple of years ago. Yeah, that's a that's a real thing, man.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Per h.
Speaker 15: The second last thing, I don't want to interrupt the conversation,
Speaker 15: but as I listening, the second and last thing I
Speaker 15: want to share, and this is more for the throngs
Speaker 15: out there listening, is the who I am sharing about
Speaker 15: the musical vision for the band Sofa. So for everyone
Speaker 15: out there who hasn't seen who I Am in Trax Live,
Speaker 15: you know, they're talking about some special concert experiences, some
Speaker 15: of which I haven't been to. But for me personally
Speaker 15: as a big patron of the local music scene. I
Speaker 15: have to first of all, I put it like on
Speaker 15: my socials my friends know you know, I have friends
Speaker 15: far and live in the local music community. No, because
Speaker 15: I constantly put it out there that my favorite you
Speaker 15: find of twenty twenty five is who I Am in thrax,
Speaker 15: And I really appreciate Who I Am giving the content
Speaker 15: text of about the keyboard the keyboard slash scent piece,
Speaker 15: because what's funny is I never thought of it framed
Speaker 15: that way before, and it makes perfect sense. And for
Speaker 15: everyone out there, for all the you know, listens into
Speaker 15: the station who haven't seen Who I Am. It's one
Speaker 15: thing to listen to on the radio, but who haven't
Speaker 15: seen them live? I want everyone to give themselves an
Speaker 15: opportunity to see what who I Am is talking about
Speaker 15: in the flesh, because as much as I love music,
Speaker 15: and as I much other as I love keyboards and music,
Speaker 15: it's quite another to see what she means by the
Speaker 15: keyboard is is the music. It's the central piece. And
Speaker 15: so obviously with you know trax coming, I mean trax
Speaker 15: is the backbone that like obviously you know, but but yes,
Speaker 15: who I Am, you know, the keyboard is is the music?
Speaker 15: And it's that filling sound in the room that you
Speaker 15: know you don't need because I also listen to some loopers,
Speaker 15: you know, like some like Reggie Watts and and Mark Redla,
Speaker 15: but there's something that who I am does. It is unique.
Speaker 15: It is unique music, especially in the local scene that
Speaker 15: I've seen no one else do, where it manages to
Speaker 15: fill the room. And I always love that when an
Speaker 15: artist sometimes with just free instruments, gives a sense almost
Speaker 15: like of an orchestra because the sound is that filling
Speaker 15: and complete, and I just want to offer that to
Speaker 15: the masses as they got compulsion to come see them live, yes,
Speaker 15: listen to them on the radio.
Speaker 5: Well, very good, very good, Thank you well Cisco, thank
Speaker 5: you for calling.
Speaker 15: All Right, harry On, I will my stores you and
Speaker 15: I will let's see you guys in the car and
Speaker 15: talk about it in the word and you know, share
Speaker 15: the gospel from the mountaintops.
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, there you go. All right, Cisco, thank
Speaker 5: you for the call. We appreciate it, right, I love
Speaker 5: you guys, all right, man, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 11: So that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9: That's that's that's exactly.
Speaker 11: What I'm talking about, is people that actually know what
Speaker 11: we've been doing and seeing it. That's a that's a
Speaker 11: first hand testimony in real time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because we didn't know Cisco before we met, Like
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, I didn't know Cisco.
Speaker 11: Is he a musician, No, he's just uh an, he's
Speaker 11: a he's.
Speaker 9: A huge music supporter, and I think the musician things.
Speaker 11: He's like one of the biggest supporters of the New
Speaker 11: England scene as a whole.
Speaker 5: Yea great and.
Speaker 9: He's yeah, he's a wonderful person. Any right, huge supporter
Speaker 9: of the music scene.
Speaker 5: Outstanding shout in Nashua and.
Speaker 9: You thanks so much, just going. I mean, that's it.
Speaker 9: That's that's what he walked into that one day when
Speaker 9: he walked into Yeah, I mean Photies. Shout out to Photies.
Speaker 9: Love you, love your bodies. You know, Photies is where
Speaker 9: we created our hot wax. Here in Nashua are hot
Speaker 9: whacks like home. I would say, they've you know, allowed
Speaker 9: us to come in and just like overtake the place
Speaker 9: and really bring a vibe that like Cisco is saying,
Speaker 9: you know, we it's it's just a vibe you're not
Speaker 9: gonna hear anywhere else. And like even if you go
Speaker 9: to a synth concert like you know who, I don't
Speaker 9: know who plays synth anymore like like that. You know,
Speaker 9: maybe some eighties bands or somebody from the night like
Speaker 9: O M D.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: Maybe yeah, you know, but they're like up on a big,
Speaker 9: huge stage and everything's all separated, and you know, maybe
Speaker 9: Pink Pink Floyd show and that's where you get, you know,
Speaker 9: but that's mostly guitar. Come see who I am and
Speaker 9: Thrax and you'll get you'll get a full synth explosion.
Speaker 5: Very good, very good. Well let's get to this. So
Speaker 5: we've got out now anywhere?
Speaker 9: Yeh world leader.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 9: So so I I originally thought I would that we
Speaker 9: would do a Hot Wax two album and and that's
Speaker 9: that's and that's still coming. Hot Wax too is still coming, yeah,
Speaker 9: and and it's a continuation of our live songs that
Speaker 9: everybody loves. It's so starting to work on that, and
Speaker 9: then I kind of started getting a feeling of I
Speaker 9: need to write this kind of thing, yeah, this kind
Speaker 9: of music, and and I need to have this content
Speaker 9: come out. So I came up with a concept album.
Speaker 9: It's called Welcome to Dystopia, A Survivor's Scroll. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: the the content is much like our song Opened Your
Speaker 9: Eyes from Hot Wax. It's it's thoughtful and hopefully thought provoking,
Speaker 9: and it's about things that I think we all see
Speaker 9: and hear and experience, and it's you know, lean into
Speaker 9: this synth and and make it, make it become part
Speaker 9: of of a message. And that's what this first song
Speaker 9: is called Leader of the Pack from the album which
Speaker 9: should be out thinking maybe late summer.
Speaker 11: Cool.
Speaker 9: But we have two songs completed already. Uh, and we
Speaker 9: have one we're presenting here as our first single called
Speaker 9: Leader of the Pack.
Speaker 5: And this is not a cover.
Speaker 11: No, no, I know, I love that song.
Speaker 9: And it's weird how you I find sometimes like, yeah,
Speaker 9: the name of the songs, Like I have a song
Speaker 9: called Dreams. Yeah, it's not the Fleetwood Max song, right right.
Speaker 9: You know a lot of songs dreams there are, but
Speaker 9: so well, that's it. Yeah, just use the words that
Speaker 9: match for you.
Speaker 11: But so leader of the Pack and.
Speaker 9: It's it's a it's a concept.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I hope you all enjoy.
Speaker 5: All right, very good. Here it is. This is the
Speaker 5: world radio premiere of a Leader of the Pack from
Speaker 5: Who I Am and Thras.
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Speaker 3: You mean the back? You bad bad.
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Speaker 6: Attack the back.
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Speaker 5: You you there. It is Leader of the Pack.
Speaker 12: The new single the world radio premiere from Who I
Speaker 12: Am and Trax and I love it. That's actually my
Speaker 12: favorite of the ones that you've done together so far.
Speaker 5: I really like that one a lot.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, that's really good. That's really really good.
Speaker 12: Before we run out of time, So when's your next show?
Speaker 12: And where should people go online to keep up with
Speaker 12: everything that who I Am and Tras is doing.
Speaker 9: For sure, you can go to who I Am in
Speaker 9: Thracks on Facebook, on Instagram.
Speaker 5: Oh and remind people to how to spell because of
Speaker 5: who that I am.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes people know, and on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube all
Speaker 9: this basically all the streamers we're there, just type in
Speaker 9: who I Am in Thracks Also, our next show is
Speaker 9: coming up on May thirtieth, and it's a porch Fest
Speaker 9: down in Malden. And so I had to take a
Speaker 9: little break for the last couple months. And but so
Speaker 9: May thirtieth is when we're coming back and gonna hit
Speaker 9: the uh hit the porch down on on Bainbridge Street,
Speaker 9: fifty nine Bainbridge Street down in Maldon porch Fest.
Speaker 11: And that's my home, my hometown, okay for a while.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, very cool.
Speaker 9: And then just after that, keep your eyes open. Uh,
Speaker 9: we'll have some photies the spot, you know, uh terminus,
Speaker 9: we'll be at some places. I'm working out some dates
Speaker 9: for June and July and August.
Speaker 5: Outstanding, outstanding, come and listen.
Speaker 9: Then you know, find us online and uh listen to
Speaker 9: our music and pass it around.
Speaker 12: Very very good, very good. So in a moment, we'll
Speaker 12: we'll wrap up. We'll play one more track. We can
Speaker 12: play one more track from the EP. What what should
Speaker 12: we play? Do you have a we didn't play a
Speaker 12: New love or wait no, we didn't play that one right,
Speaker 12: or we didn't play Moon run.
Speaker 11: Ah, but we want to send people to the moon.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll play be a good example of
Speaker 9: the synth being the lead.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 9: When I play this live, I used all my limbs, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: use my foot to control the control certain aspects of
Speaker 9: the song.
Speaker 12: All right, beginning, so we'll give that a spin. Jenny,
Speaker 12: you want to mention your website and anything else you
Speaker 12: want people to know.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, if you want to check out the good trouble
Speaker 10: I get into, go do Gencoffee dot com j E.
Speaker 11: And then co O f f Ey dot com.
Speaker 10: And if you can't find me there, check out the
Speaker 10: mosaic Our Collective mosaic Arcollective dot com right here in
Speaker 10: the Queen City.
Speaker 12: All right, very good, And of course you can find
Speaker 12: me at Matt Coonnorton dot com. And you can find
Speaker 12: the show now at Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com.
Speaker 5: That just went live.
Speaker 12: Still got some things to do this to the site,
Speaker 12: but all the episodes are archived there, going all the
Speaker 12: way back to the very beginning to the summer of
Speaker 12: twenty eleven when the show originally launched, and so everything
Speaker 12: is right there.
Speaker 5: Let's see, okay, so we will again. Who I am
Speaker 5: in Thracks. Thank you all so much for having we
Speaker 5: appreciate it absolutely and we will end with this. This
Speaker 5: is Moon Run from the EP hot Wax.
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