Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-26-25 hour 2
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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody. If you're listening live.
Speaker 4: On Saturday April twenty six, twenty twenty five, we have
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Speaker 4: course at the news table and joining us in the studio.
Speaker 4: We've got the guys from Space Casino here. Welcome guys.
Speaker 5: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 4: Hey very well, very well, So looking forward to talking
Speaker 4: with you, getting to know you guys.
Speaker 3: But we're going to play a track first.
Speaker 4: And this is the Uh. This is the first single
Speaker 4: from the album Be So Cold. This is the first one,
Speaker 4: first single, yep and uh. And the album is what's
Speaker 4: the title again? Elephants in the room, elephants in the room.
Speaker 4: I look forward to asking you more about that too.
Speaker 4: I love the cover. I love the cover, by the way,
Speaker 4: the cover is really cool. Oh thank you, I thank absolutely.
Speaker 4: But we're going to give this a spin and then
Speaker 4: we'll come back and talk with these guys. And this
Speaker 4: is be So Cold. This is the band Space Casino.
Speaker 1: Dot your gold, you lot of Stoll.
Speaker 6: Said, don't want from the old long.
Speaker 1: Young man below, say.
Speaker 7: Not us don't do better? Mother still thought us to
Speaker 7: do with thromself come no want to lose that s
Speaker 7: do know that's a source clumb spots when you.
Speaker 1: Do don't down? Why you don't pay so good? Why
Speaker 1: you don't play so well? You got pay soccer?
Speaker 6: You needbe waiting anything? Say you need se.
Speaker 1: I pass the day?
Speaker 5: I feel like you must.
Speaker 7: That way of going up to Stoll back before all
Speaker 7: the strap.
Speaker 6: The sas is all time. I wrote a lot of
Speaker 6: ron on the face, so stressing would be so cool, mass.
Speaker 1: Cool, little miss so stub.
Speaker 3: Does that as catchy as hell? That is so good?
Speaker 4: Thank you got it absolutely. That is called be so called.
Speaker 4: That is the band Space Casino. And we've got let's see,
Speaker 4: we've got Jared Seamus and Nick with hear us today
Speaker 4: on the program.
Speaker 3: And who are we? You guys are a four piece?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 3: We're missing one guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're missing one. He was uh he was still
Speaker 5: on the coach when we left the V and B.
Speaker 4: Well at least you know where he is though, So
Speaker 4: he's not missing or abducted by aliens or something, because
Speaker 4: you just never know, You just never know.
Speaker 3: So uh so, guys, let's so, Jared, let's start with you.
Speaker 4: What do you?
Speaker 3: What do you do in the band?
Speaker 8: I play guitar. I play guitar, and I sing and
Speaker 8: occasionally I do bad stand up on stage.
Speaker 3: Due okay, very good, very good?
Speaker 5: And you, Seamus, I play the drums.
Speaker 3: You play the drums, excellent, and h Nick.
Speaker 9: A little bit of bass, little bit of vocals, Yeah,
Speaker 9: a little bit of this than that.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, very good. And what is the guy on
Speaker 3: the couch what does he do?
Speaker 5: He plays guitar and things too, all three of them,
Speaker 5: like they kind of switch off on like lead vocals,
Speaker 5: like the one who writes the song is kind of
Speaker 5: the one that sings it.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, songwriters, and we pretty split it up pretty evenly.
Speaker 4: I always think that's that's kind of a cool dynamic
Speaker 4: to have, you know, And now that I think about it,
Speaker 4: you know, I played in a bunch of bands, but
Speaker 4: I never played in something where more than one person
Speaker 4: would would take a turn at lead vocals. And you know,
Speaker 4: I think it probably gives you an opportunity to kind
Speaker 4: of add some texture to your overall sound, right, you know,
Speaker 4: different voices, different naturally bringing different personalities, and then you know,
Speaker 4: the songs are each their own kind of become their
Speaker 4: own character that way.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, exactly, and it kind of gives like you're
Speaker 5: like it, each of them has kind of their own vibe.
Speaker 5: Like so on the album, there's nine songs, yeah, and
Speaker 5: they each there's three each from like three from Nick,
Speaker 5: three from Jared, three from Chris, So it kind of
Speaker 5: you know, they they each have their own vibe and
Speaker 5: we kind of split them up, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it adds texture.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like it a lot.
Speaker 8: Do you do you.
Speaker 4: Deliberately split it three ways when you're when you're approaching
Speaker 4: picking the songs or does it just kind of work
Speaker 4: out that way?
Speaker 8: Or Yeah, when we're recording an album, we're like, all right,
Speaker 8: everyone picked three songs, okay of yours that you want
Speaker 8: to present that we work on those for a long time.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, that's very democratic, that way too, right.
Speaker 8: I tried it, yeah, because I've been in a lot
Speaker 8: of bands before as well, and like it's not always
Speaker 8: like that, and especially if you're a drummer or rhythm section,
Speaker 8: they don't get a lot of say naturally right. So
Speaker 8: I feel like with this project, it was really I
Speaker 8: was determined to make it as democratic and free. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 8: between everyone.
Speaker 4: That's really cool, so obvious. Question two I got to
Speaker 4: ask up front where does the name come from? Because
Speaker 4: Space Casino is a pretty cool name. Where does it
Speaker 4: come from?
Speaker 5: So we uh well, I I really love like the
Speaker 5: aesthetic of like space, and I also love gambling.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the opposite, I like the aesthetic of casinos.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't like Amblies much, but I love space.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, basically a culmination of our two favorite things, celestial
Speaker 9: objects and degenerating.
Speaker 8: Yeah okay, okay, both are a cold wasteland.
Speaker 5: Yeah fair, all right, you can just really get away
Speaker 5: with you know, it's casinos are like it's the most degenerate,
Speaker 5: Like it's the casinos are so funny because like it'll
Speaker 5: be like an old lady sitting at a slought machine,
Speaker 5: like putting a putting her retirement into a slot machine.
Speaker 5: And then there's like like a rich millionaire businessman, like
Speaker 5: all in the same all in the same spot. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just wasting money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny. I've only been in a casino once
Speaker 4: in my life because I'm not a gambler. But years ago,
Speaker 4: I had gone to see a show at Mohican Sun
Speaker 4: and my friend Dan and I we were just like,
Speaker 4: he wasn't either, but I was just like, you know,
Speaker 4: if I was wanted to just like walk through a
Speaker 4: casino just to see if it's like if it really
Speaker 4: is like what you see on.
Speaker 3: TV and in movies, and it kind of was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we just walked through it.
Speaker 4: But it was like, you know, I didn't have any
Speaker 4: interest in gambling, but it's it's interesting to walk through
Speaker 4: a casino, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a it's a it's an experience, like the lights,
Speaker 5: the sound, I mean, they do it all on purpose,
Speaker 5: but it's like just just walking through a casino, you
Speaker 5: get it's like a vibe, you know, it's yeah, it's
Speaker 5: an experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally totally. And where does a What about the
Speaker 4: name of the album elephants in the room. I'm curious
Speaker 4: about that too.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that was well that's Nick Nick's song. That's
Speaker 8: a line in a song by Nick.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yes, Nick's song Spaces, which is also you
Speaker 5: know because we're's Space Casino, but he says elephants in
Speaker 5: the room at one point in the song. Then I
Speaker 5: think it was actually Jared's idea, like what if we
Speaker 5: named the album elephants in the Room.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's the final song on the album.
Speaker 5: Ok.
Speaker 8: I get that at the end and kind of like yeah,
Speaker 8: you're like, oh, I get it, but it's not the
Speaker 8: name of the song, which is also I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that is cool. Yeah, and I like the
Speaker 3: cover art too. Who did the cover art?
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 8: Did you the cover art?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I did that, But it's really a photograph just put
Speaker 8: the colors adjusted and played with. So it's a photograph
Speaker 8: of a the ceramic mask that we found it.
Speaker 5: Will Yeah, yeah that that met like that mask we
Speaker 5: found and we were like we were actually looking for
Speaker 5: stuff for like we were like filming something, so we
Speaker 5: went to a Savers just to find like cool, fun
Speaker 5: cheap props and then I saw that and we were
Speaker 5: like whoa, this thing is awesome. Yeah, and then Jared
Speaker 5: took the picture and kind of.
Speaker 8: And I put the mask on top of an old
Speaker 8: symbol which reflected light in a cool way, and then
Speaker 8: I put like a little disco ball I had on
Speaker 8: the mask, and I just took a couple pictures and
Speaker 8: then yeah, it looks like that now it just looks
Speaker 8: like a weird alien head.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, coming out of a portal or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, it's cool, it's cool, I dig it. Is that
Speaker 4: your first full length release as a band.
Speaker 5: Or yes, so we have. We had one EP out
Speaker 5: with like four songs, but this is our first full album.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, how long have you guys been together? It
Speaker 4: has Space Seen been around for a while or.
Speaker 8: We've been playing for We've been playing together for probably
Speaker 8: like eight years. I think the Space Casino project is
Speaker 8: like five years old.
Speaker 5: Five years yeah. Yeah, well, because we started the first
Speaker 5: like Space Casino show with like January twenty twenty, and
Speaker 5: we were like, this is gonna be our year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then we didn't. We didn't play again until like
Speaker 5: a year and a half later. But that club closed,
Speaker 5: so yeah, yeah, yeah, the club. That club closed because
Speaker 5: of COVID. Yeah, and then we couldn't practice or do anything.
Speaker 5: But then then when once places started opening back up,
Speaker 5: like twenty twenty one, we we've been going pretty steady since. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: good good.
Speaker 4: During the during the pandemic, like well, like in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty when you guys, yeah, I mean, well what a
Speaker 4: way to start, huh.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but we we all we were even jamming
Speaker 5: together before that. We all went to the same high school.
Speaker 5: Oh exactly, yeah, oh cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, actually probably longer than eight years then probably like.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean jamming together. They they they went to
Speaker 5: Amherst and then me and my my friend Scott, who
Speaker 5: was also a musician, Like would I would drive up
Speaker 5: and party with them in Amherst? Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 8: Jamming ya drink and jam yeah all night.
Speaker 5: I got the I got the fun parts of college
Speaker 5: without without having to to actually learn anything.
Speaker 3: Without without the enormous loan.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Has it always been the same four guys?
Speaker 5: Is it always space?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: We had we had like our friend Scott was in
Speaker 8: the band's kind of it was kind of like a
Speaker 8: rotating chairs, but yeh of us three kind of always remain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and for the last we added Chris, but
Speaker 5: the guy on the couch like a few years ago.
Speaker 5: But like this, this lineup of Space Casino has probably
Speaker 5: been like the most consistent, like the four piece has been.
Speaker 8: You know, we kind of started the Space Casino projects.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, yeah, are you guys playing a lot
Speaker 4: of shows these days? Obviously you know where you're from,
Speaker 4: because we should say too you're from I forgot now,
Speaker 4: but it's Boston area.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yore, South Shore area.
Speaker 5: But we play a lot in like in Cambridge, Somerville,
Speaker 5: like you know, yeah, yeah, we love we love going
Speaker 5: out to Worcester. Have you ever been to Ralphs Rock Diner?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, legendary Yeah yeah, that place is so cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we we love playing at Real.
Speaker 4: I haven't been there in a very long time, but
Speaker 4: yeah I used to when I was still playing in bands. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we would play there. Yeah, that's a great well Wister.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they They used to be a
Speaker 4: place there called the a Trim. I don't think that's
Speaker 4: there anymore though.
Speaker 9: I don't know you heard of the Arimi iver been though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably gone. But that was a really cool
Speaker 4: place in Wister. There was a bunch of cool places.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, so you guys are but I can
Speaker 4: see where where with your like, do you feel with
Speaker 4: your sound that you're directly influenced by the Boston music
Speaker 4: scene because you you sound like you're of that area,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8: I don't know, we have a lot of different tastes. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I feel like there's a lot more hardcore punk and
Speaker 8: that kind of energy Boston. Yeah, but there's also a
Speaker 8: lot of few stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well we're a lot of times we're like the softest.
Speaker 5: We're not the softest, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 5: we're we're usually like the lightest band on the bill
Speaker 5: most of most like uh, there's a lot of really heavy,
Speaker 5: like hardcore, like hot punk, like that sort of scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but but I mean I would say we are
Speaker 5: still you know, we're still.
Speaker 8: Slightly we're kind of like heavier. So I guess that
Speaker 8: makes sense coming.
Speaker 5: From It's in the It's in the water.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I mean I was a big fan of
Speaker 8: Aerosmith in my younger days, not really these days.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you hear you hear the same six songs
Speaker 4: on the radio, Yeah, exactly, Like yeah, now, because I
Speaker 4: can imagine like the college crowd really getting into you guys,
Speaker 4: you know in the Boston area and and you know
Speaker 4: college radio and all that. So, now, do any of
Speaker 4: you also play in other projects? Because it seems like
Speaker 4: everybody we have on the show lately, everybody's got a
Speaker 4: million different different projects in addition to whatever they're on
Speaker 4: the show to talk about.
Speaker 8: Out I have we have yeah, actually couch Chris is
Speaker 8: playing in a acoustic duo with this uh with our
Speaker 8: friend Katie, and they're really good. They're called the Stops.
Speaker 8: I guess we'll give him a shout out.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 8: They do covers and originals acoustic duo. That's nice. So
Speaker 8: he does that. I also I have I've played another
Speaker 8: projects before. It doesn't always sometimes you don't have time
Speaker 8: for two projects, right right if you really want to
Speaker 8: get into something. But I know people are in like
Speaker 8: seven projects.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Oh there's some I don't I know, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't get how how people there's so many drummers
Speaker 5: Like that's like the joke is like, oh, like my
Speaker 5: drummer's only in four other bands?
Speaker 4: You know that's been Yeah, that that comes up a
Speaker 4: lot on this show. Yeah, every drummer is in multiple
Speaker 4: bands and I.
Speaker 5: Don't I don't understand. I can. I barely have time
Speaker 5: yeah to be in this band. Yeah, so shout out
Speaker 5: to to those drummers working hard out there. But oh yeah,
Speaker 5: space casino for me. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 8: We do sometimes make like short films we were talking
Speaker 8: about earlier, so that's kind of like a side thing
Speaker 8: we do.
Speaker 3: Oh school, Yeah, tell me more about that. I'm curious.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well we did.
Speaker 8: One forty eight hour film fests.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you get like a you get a couple
Speaker 8: of like, you get a line of dialogue to use,
Speaker 8: you get a character name, an occupation, and then you
Speaker 8: get everybody gets a different genre. So literally you get
Speaker 8: on Friday, seven o'clock, you get a you get all
Speaker 8: your criteria, you have to use the movie, and you
Speaker 8: have to turn it in two days later at seven o'clock.
Speaker 8: So take a weekend. It's fun, yeah, very cool. And
Speaker 8: then so we you know, we made like a little
Speaker 8: week Our genre was like crime genre, so we kind
Speaker 8: of did our own little like Tarantino movie where oh wow,
Speaker 8: yeah there's no gun involved.
Speaker 9: It's supposed to be like two minutes long, and we
Speaker 9: never have. We never leave enough time to actually edit
Speaker 9: and you know, yeah, we buy everything we come out with,
Speaker 9: like a fifteen minut movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah that doesn't count for anything. Yeah, but we have
Speaker 5: fun making it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The one of our my favorite one we did
Speaker 5: was is called the Florist Job because there was that
Speaker 5: was the the occupation they gave us was florists.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So it's like it's a florist that gets his wife
Speaker 5: is sick, so he gets involved in in in being
Speaker 5: like a getaway driver. It's really ridiculous, ridiculous, yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: but it's it's fun.
Speaker 4: So what what happens to these if you know, if
Speaker 4: if it's too long to enter into the festival or whatever,
Speaker 4: I can't win anything, I guess.
Speaker 3: But you done put them on YouTube?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, they're on They're on YouTube. Channel is.
Speaker 8: Channel is Big Monday Films. That's film Okay, company name.
Speaker 3: I got to check that out.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, there's a link on our on our website
Speaker 8: and our link Treekay. Yeah, very cool. Anyone's interested. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's all four band members playing and playing different characters.
Speaker 8: It's really funny.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That makes you guys unique.
Speaker 4: You're definitely the first band we've ever had on the
Speaker 4: show's like, oh, by the way, we also make short
Speaker 4: films and when we're all in the film, that's really cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really cool. And we put our we put our
Speaker 5: our music into the.
Speaker 8: Put us on the radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, smart. Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's great. That's really cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's fun. We have a lot of fun
Speaker 5: making them. We still have to make it's funny. We've
Speaker 5: made like two short films, but we still haven't done
Speaker 5: our own music video. We got to do that next.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's funny, that's funny, and he wants to help
Speaker 8: with that.
Speaker 4: Well, we should play another track we want to play.
Speaker 4: We talked about Summer Breeze.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it sounds great.
Speaker 5: Play that one. Next, This is a this is Nick's song.
Speaker 3: Okay, Nick on lead vocals on this one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the master mind of the band.
Speaker 3: All right, very good.
Speaker 4: If you are just joining us, we have Space Casino
Speaker 4: here with us in studio, and we're gonna hear another
Speaker 4: track from Elephants in the room, and this is called
Speaker 4: Summer Breeze.
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Speaker 3: I love it. That is so good. That is called
Speaker 3: Summer Breeze.
Speaker 4: The band is a Space Casino and we've got three
Speaker 4: quarters of Space Casino here with us in studio.
Speaker 3: Uh and I love that. Nick. I love your voice
Speaker 3: on that too.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: And that's actually you're you're playing the guitar solo on that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I wrote the bass track at first, and we
Speaker 9: kind of layered up everything. I love how the harmonies
Speaker 9: come together on that chorus. It's just like very very vast,
Speaker 9: like dense sound, which is really nice. And then on
Speaker 9: top I just laid a quick, beautiful guitar solo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, everything about that is really good. How about that?
Speaker 3: Is that a crowd favorite when you play that one live?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 3: Where did you record the album? Sounds incredible? Where so
Speaker 3: at A.
Speaker 5: Huge shout out Ugly Robot Studios, which is in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Speaker 9: Kevin Grady. Yeah, we really did a really nice job. Yeah,
Speaker 9: we recorded the whole thing there. It's also right down
Speaker 9: the street from my house, so that's nice. Nice, But
Speaker 9: we recorded the whole thing there. We met him through
Speaker 9: he's he's in a couple of bands.
Speaker 5: We met him through like, you know, doing shows, and
Speaker 5: then he mentioned that like he because he we met
Speaker 5: him at a he was doing a house show in
Speaker 5: his studio and then he but but he's he's done
Speaker 5: it up. You know, it's it's it's well done. And yeah,
Speaker 5: they do a lot of shows there, and so we
Speaker 5: met him through like playing music, and he mentioned that
Speaker 5: he he records bands. So then we decided to give
Speaker 5: it a try. And then we were like, oh definitely,
Speaker 5: you know, because at first we were like, well, let's
Speaker 5: go in and see see how it is. But then
Speaker 5: after a couple of sessions, we were like, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: we're definitely doing the.
Speaker 8: Whole albums work with. Yeah, he gets it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, good good sound engineer and also you know,
Speaker 5: gives good gives good pointers. But isn't like, you know,
Speaker 5: he's not trying to tell you. He's not trying to
Speaker 5: produce it. But you know, he'll throw out a suggestion
Speaker 5: and usually it's a good one. Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so many options as far as you know,
Speaker 4: especially in your area where you guys are from, there's
Speaker 4: a you know, it's funny too, because there was a
Speaker 4: time when people kind of predicted that recording studios would
Speaker 4: be a thing of the past at some point, because
Speaker 4: you have so many options now, Like you can you
Speaker 4: can record at home and come up with something that
Speaker 4: sounds like it was done in a million dollar studio,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but in reality, I mean, recording.
Speaker 4: Studios are still thriving, even though a lot of musicians
Speaker 4: are finding other ways to record too.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well the thing is, and we did we
Speaker 5: you know, we self recorded things in the past, and like,
Speaker 5: I mean, you don't know what you're doing, you're not, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I've heard, you know, some people are really
Speaker 5: good at it. But I think for us, we just
Speaker 5: wanted to focus the thing about when you're doing it yourself,
Speaker 5: you're also like you're you're not just focusing on the music,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It's nice to when you
Speaker 5: just have somebody else doing it for you. You don't
Speaker 5: have to worry about your dog crashing or you know,
Speaker 5: your your lexicon, you know. Yeah, so I think for
Speaker 5: us we were like, well, no, let's let's go to
Speaker 5: a studio, have them do it. That way, we can
Speaker 5: just focus on, you know, giving it the best takes
Speaker 5: we can, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel like nowadays you just
Speaker 8: have so many jobs as an artist. So you have
Speaker 8: like your marketer, that's true, your producer, everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So yeah, if you can afford it to take away
Speaker 8: one of those jobs, I feel like it's worth it
Speaker 8: helps focus on the other ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. You plan to record with
Speaker 3: him again in the future.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're working on like a new LP.
Speaker 3: Oh you are okay, yeah if you already started.
Speaker 8: We started recording like nothing, nothing to advertised yet, but
Speaker 8: on the horizon it will be coming out probably next year.
Speaker 3: Oh very cool, very cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah yeah, full full album yeah probably yea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah we might. I mean we might even just
Speaker 5: release a song, you know, the first song. We might
Speaker 5: just release it, see what happens. Yeah, Elevant's in the
Speaker 5: Room we released in January, so it's still kind of
Speaker 5: pretty fresh. But yeah, but there's no sense in.
Speaker 8: Uh, yeah, you can only play the same songs for
Speaker 8: so long. Yeah, so we got to come up with
Speaker 8: new stuff.
Speaker 3: Right right now. That makes sense. Do you guys do
Speaker 3: you play anything?
Speaker 4: Is there anything that you play live that you haven't
Speaker 4: that hasn't released been released yet that you're kind of
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes bands will kind of workshop material, you know,
Speaker 4: in front of an audience and.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah we've done that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: We try cycle in like a couple different tunes every
Speaker 9: show just to kind of keep it, you know, lively,
Speaker 9: keep it mixed up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we have a couple, you know, in the works.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And then sometimes we'll bring back like really old stuff,
Speaker 5: like one of the songs that like one of Jared's
Speaker 5: songs that he just went back to start recording is
Speaker 5: a song from like before even our first like LP
Speaker 5: really that he was but then he was well also go.
Speaker 8: We'll also play old songs like from the first EP,
Speaker 8: and like we'll change a part or modify it in
Speaker 8: a way or add add something new to it just
Speaker 8: to keep it fresh.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Do
Speaker 4: you guys want to play we should play another one
Speaker 4: from the album, of course.
Speaker 3: I Elephants in the Room. What do you guys want
Speaker 3: to play next? Totally up to you.
Speaker 8: I guess you give Chris the song, Yeah, rain I
Speaker 8: think maybe PASSI mena yeah, or we can do rain
Speaker 8: on too. Oh it's the the other like single maybe
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, right, it's a single, which one. Let's try
Speaker 8: rain on raining outside?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh that's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very very apropos Yeah, I guess it's supposed to
Speaker 4: rain all day from what I From what I understand.
Speaker 4: If you're just joining us on Saturday, we do have
Speaker 4: a space casino here with us alive in studio, and
Speaker 4: we're going to play another track from this incredible album,
Speaker 4: Elephants in the Room. And uh, this is a little
Speaker 4: bit slow to download. It will download, it's just being slow.
Speaker 3: Anything we should well, I'm waiting for that.
Speaker 4: Anything we should oh, Eric comes well, anything I'll ask anyway,
Speaker 4: anything we should know about this track before we play it.
Speaker 8: That's written by Chris from the couch all right, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I don't know. He's not here to talk about that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not here.
Speaker 9: If features some nice cowbo work from me, yeah, almost
Speaker 9: more of like an acoustic It was based around acoustic
Speaker 9: guitar at first.
Speaker 5: Okay, so maybe like a lighter sense of the album.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, very cool, So we'll give this a spin.
Speaker 4: This is called rain On and the band is Space Casino.
Speaker 1: I have come on, I can hardly see. So I
Speaker 1: got made you boy? Yeah, I you got mad you Bay.
Speaker 1: That's some wonder what boy knows? God do not need
Speaker 1: you man, but I do not need you man, Drayman
Speaker 1: hardly dreaming. I cat tream slow shot, not to Nyga
Speaker 1: s phone the sony sky looking at the snow.
Speaker 4: Another great track that is called rain On. That is
Speaker 4: from the album Elephants in the Room and the band
Speaker 4: is Space Casino. We have three of the guys from
Speaker 4: Space Casino here, and the gentleman who sings on that
Speaker 4: song and wrote it is He's so that's Chris from
Speaker 4: the Couch right, Yes, yes, but a great song though, yeah,
Speaker 4: really really good. And you know, we were kind of
Speaker 4: talking off air while I was playing. I said his
Speaker 4: vocal delivery, he kind of reminds me a little bit
Speaker 4: of Bono and it's really good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we were making we were we heard a little
Speaker 8: bit of Irish rogue in his singing in the studio
Speaker 8: once and it was a lot of fun. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 8: but yeah great, Yeah, like his his guitar parts, he
Speaker 8: wrote most of them. There really nice.
Speaker 3: Are any of those songs on the album?
Speaker 4: Is there anything that is difficult or was difficult to
Speaker 4: play live because it's, you know, the materials pretty sophisticated
Speaker 4: in terms of the different parts.
Speaker 9: And actually that song more than anything, I feel like
Speaker 9: Chris throws on like a kpeo. He switches from acoustic
Speaker 9: one show, then he'll do electric at the other show. Yeah,
Speaker 9: And it's just kind of it's always been one where
Speaker 9: maybe we don't want to play it, you know, I
Speaker 9: don't want to put my kapa on my guitar or whatever.
Speaker 8: Songs are definitely like trickier than others, but we play
Speaker 8: them all live. Yeah, that one particular is a little
Speaker 8: that's probably one of the trickiest, but it's a lot
Speaker 8: of fun too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's definitely for for me on the drums. There
Speaker 5: were definitely a few songs. There's another song another one
Speaker 5: of Christ's songs is called Pashmina Blues where I'm doing
Speaker 5: a pretty fast like high hat part and you know
Speaker 5: in the studio you get multiple takes so you can
Speaker 5: just do it. But by the end when we play
Speaker 5: that song live, by the end of that song, my
Speaker 5: right arm is like burning. And then I'm like why,
Speaker 5: why what was I doing in the studio?
Speaker 3: What was I on that day?
Speaker 5: But but it's it sounds great.
Speaker 8: It keeps us awake, you know, all the all the
Speaker 8: changes and little syncrasies.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is it important to you guys to be able to
Speaker 4: replicate that live exactly how you recorded.
Speaker 5: It or yeah?
Speaker 9: We we try to our utmost ability to Sometimes it
Speaker 9: doesn't come to fruition, but yeah, it's it's a challenge.
Speaker 8: It's it's nice to be challenged by our songs. Still.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sometimes life we'll even we we
Speaker 8: do do that. But sometimes we'll even try it. Well,
Speaker 8: like I said before, we would, uh, we change a
Speaker 8: little bit of the song to do live. So sometimes
Speaker 8: we'll yeah, we'll mess with the song.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we'll change it us. We'll change things up.
Speaker 5: But we do try to not we try not to
Speaker 5: let it be we like, we we try not to
Speaker 5: rely on the studio magic, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: Like if we like, we'll change it up, but not
Speaker 5: changing it in a way of like, oh, let's skip
Speaker 5: that part because it's too hard to replicate what you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Yeah, because sometimes it is, you know,
Speaker 5: it would be easy to do that. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 5: we try to We try to challenge ourselves to do it.
Speaker 5: They were definitely, I mean, for me, there were a
Speaker 5: lot of like like fills and weird little things I
Speaker 5: did in like I would practice. For the first few
Speaker 5: months after we released the album, I was practicing on there.
Speaker 5: I was listening to the album, practicing drums to my drums,
Speaker 5: like listening to my drums, trying to replicate what I
Speaker 5: did because I was like what what what did I
Speaker 5: do in the studio that day? Like what is this fill?
Speaker 5: But I eventually got most of it down. Sometimes I
Speaker 5: still struggle, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Personally, I feel like I don't even want it. If
Speaker 8: I go to a band, a band's show, a concert,
Speaker 8: I don't even always want to hear record perfect version
Speaker 8: of the song. I want to hear like a new tale,
Speaker 8: like a live, fresh on the spot take of it.
Speaker 3: That's how I tend to feel about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes it is. Sometimes it's upset, it's kind of
Speaker 5: it's kind of a letdown when it sounds exactly like
Speaker 5: the album, especially if the I mean, if it sounds
Speaker 5: exactly like the album but your your stage presence is
Speaker 5: like stunning, then that's one thing. But yeah, there have
Speaker 5: been times I've gone two shows where it's like it's
Speaker 5: just the band standing there and it sounds exactly like
Speaker 5: the album, and then they get off stage and it's like,
Speaker 5: I basically just I spent fifty dollars to listen to
Speaker 5: the album in a room.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Right right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did see like I had an experience I
Speaker 8: went to see in New Jersey. I went to see
Speaker 8: the Strokes opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the
Speaker 8: Strokes are like my all time favorite bands. Chili Peppers
Speaker 8: are in the top ten for sure. Yeah, but my
Speaker 8: favorite bands. They sounded exactly I was like, I was
Speaker 8: also very very far away from the stadium, but they
Speaker 8: sounded very album perfect really and it was great. I
Speaker 8: loved them. But then when the Chili Peppers came on,
Speaker 8: the Chili Peppers are jamming, They're throwing in little little
Speaker 8: jams in between songs, and the songs are playing are
Speaker 8: have a life of their own. Yeah, and uh yeah, so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I feel like they don't play
Speaker 5: anything the same way, at least not exactly. They're always.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to.
Speaker 8: Everyone knows.
Speaker 4: But he is an incredible bass player, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: I wish my fingers could move that fast. There's a
Speaker 4: guy who's been on the show. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you know, Aaron bid Uh. He's he's from up here,
Speaker 4: but he's he's been on the show and he's playing
Speaker 4: a bunch of bands. But but he does a lot
Speaker 4: of solo work too, and and he comes in and
Speaker 4: you know, he sets up this whole he's got this
Speaker 4: whole thing that he plays along too, that he'll he'll
Speaker 4: come in here and he'll he'll play and I just
Speaker 4: spend the entire time just watching his fingers because he
Speaker 4: can play like Flee you know, just incredible bass lines.
Speaker 4: And I'm just like, you know, I'm a bass player,
Speaker 4: so I'm just sitting there, you know, just just watching
Speaker 4: his fingers the entire time. But yeah, know, but yeah,
Speaker 4: Flee Flea is definitely one of the one of the greats.
Speaker 3: We should I want to make.
Speaker 4: Sure we have time to fit in one more, well
Speaker 4: technically two more, because we'll play one more now and
Speaker 4: then we'll play one more at the at the very
Speaker 4: end of the segment. But uh, the album is so good,
Speaker 4: I do want to make sure we have time to
Speaker 4: what what should we what should.
Speaker 3: We go to next?
Speaker 5: Mm hmm uh Spaces.
Speaker 4: Spaces Okay, oh yeah, that's a good one to play
Speaker 4: because we talked about that one earlier.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me get let me.
Speaker 3: Load that one up.
Speaker 5: This is where where the the album name comes from
Speaker 5: a lyric in this song.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, okay, okay, oh, very cool. Okay, So
Speaker 3: we'll give this a spin.
Speaker 4: And for those of you just joining us, we do
Speaker 4: have a Space Casino three quarters of the band Space
Speaker 4: Casino here with us in studio. And uh, this is
Speaker 4: this track. This is of course from the album Elephants
Speaker 4: in the Room. And this is on all the streaming platform.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep everything. Yeah.
Speaker 3: What about the original EP that you guys did, is
Speaker 3: that available everywhere?
Speaker 5: That's on everything too? Yeah, okay, and you can follow us.
Speaker 5: We always post everything on like our our Instagram is
Speaker 5: our main like where we update give updates on shows
Speaker 5: and stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very cool. All right, let's give this a spin.
Speaker 4: This is called Spaces and the band is Space Casino.
Speaker 1: What's as business? What song of a lesson? What song
Speaker 1: of the reason? Welcome to this basis play.
Speaker 6: We're not facetus with your fading with the elements the
Speaker 6: element sad.
Speaker 1: St time ned it.
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 1: What song? The song? What song? What sing?
Speaker 7: In between the tax sat by the location were talking
Speaker 7: about the said poke.
Speaker 6: Plays and seeing you at the teams wistmans and by
Speaker 6: the rays.
Speaker 1: So welcome mistments with these angle.
Speaker 6: Rons, my angwa this podcast Santa Paulsis with the elephants and.
Speaker 1: The elephants and the elephant your hord.
Speaker 6: It's the game blood Ramming all just the game blad
Speaker 6: ramming all your's the game blood Bramby.
Speaker 4: That is called spaces. The band is Space Casino. It's
Speaker 4: another great track.
Speaker 3: I love that. I love the whole vibe of that.
Speaker 3: That is so cool.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. Yeah, great job guys. That's another
Speaker 5: that's another nick song.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: I don't know what kind of demons are running around
Speaker 9: in my head, but it seems like a couple of
Speaker 9: my songs are all about anxiety, you know, yeah, yeah, habits,
Speaker 9: elephants in the room, yeah yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 3: But that's relatable things. We all things, we all deal
Speaker 3: with right, yeah, yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 4: What should we know about where people should go online
Speaker 4: to keep up with everything you guys are doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean just follow us on Instagram and Facebook
Speaker 8: and Twitter, web all that all that jazz.
Speaker 5: Yeah at Space Casino Band, right.
Speaker 8: Yes, at Space Casino Bands and uh yeah. From there,
Speaker 8: there's all in the bile. There's links to our website
Speaker 8: and our link tree, and you know, we're on Spotify
Speaker 8: and iTunes and YouTube.
Speaker 5: You can sign up for our email lists.
Speaker 8: We actually do have a you we did just make
Speaker 8: a up. We have an email list, yes, yeah, uh well,
Speaker 8: but we did just we made a promo video. You
Speaker 8: ever see hot Ones, uh the Internet show?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah where they eat the Yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: so on.
Speaker 8: Our YouTube page if you go to Space Casino Band
Speaker 8: on you tube. We did, like we have this fifteen
Speaker 8: minute hot Ones challenge where we actually ate increasingly spicier
Speaker 8: wings just like the show, and even we used even
Speaker 8: hotter sauce than the show. Really, yes, we used the bomb,
Speaker 8: which is featured on the show. That was one of
Speaker 8: the like five flavors we used. Okay, but it was
Speaker 8: very very hot. We also tossed the wings. We used
Speaker 8: the same container to toss all the wings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, accumulating basically all the all the hot sauces were
Speaker 5: on like every wing.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, then the hook at the end of the video,
Speaker 8: the last spiciest wing we ate. We immediately jumped on
Speaker 8: instruments and tried to play a song. Yeah, and it
Speaker 8: was painful. Yes, singing, We played singing.
Speaker 9: We played besto Cold oh well, while dying of hot
Speaker 9: wings eat stroke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5: That's and it's called Hot Boys Boys Okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Shout out to my brother Riley for being the host
Speaker 9: and holding it down. Yeah, absolutely hilarious work.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He was cracking this up the whole time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta check that. So that's on YouTube.
Speaker 8: That's YouTube.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I gotta check that out. That's very cool,
Speaker 3: very cool. And do you guys have anything this weekend?
Speaker 4: Are Well, I know you're yeah, probably you're not playing
Speaker 4: any shows right because you're up here for the weekend.
Speaker 8: But yeah, well next next week, next weekend, uh Friday
Speaker 8: and Saturday Friday, we're in Summerville at Union Tavern with
Speaker 8: a couple other bands. But then the day after Saturday
Speaker 8: we're in Roxbury, mass And we're playing our friend Luke's
Speaker 8: thirtieth birthday bash, and he's having a few different acts.
Speaker 8: He also performs. He is more like electronic music, so
Speaker 8: all sorts of different acts, plus a magician's gonna play
Speaker 8: there too. Okay, that's gonna be fun. That's that illusion.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, very cool, very cool, excellent, excellent. Well guys,
Speaker 3: this has been wonderful.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate the three of you coming in and
Speaker 4: we'll definitely do this again in the future as you're
Speaker 4: releasing new music and whatnot.
Speaker 3: I love your sound.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, yeah, thanks having love to come back.
Speaker 3: It's a good time, absolutely, absolutely, And what should we
Speaker 3: close out with?
Speaker 8: Maybe like gallons? Yeah yeah, yeah, maybe gallon gallons. I'd
Speaker 8: say gallons. It's a closer. Yeah. This this the lyrics
Speaker 8: to the song came to be in a dream?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, gallons of ink? Yeah, yes, it sounds like
Speaker 4: it's about getting a lot of tattoos or something.
Speaker 8: It's just about killer whales.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 8: It's good self interpretive okay.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, cool, And if you are listening live on Saturday,
Speaker 4: coming up in the third hour today, we have Lone
Speaker 4: Wolf James and guys, thank you again. We will close
Speaker 4: out uh this segment with another great track the band
Speaker 4: of Space Casino. The album is Elephants in the Room
Speaker 4: and this is called Gallants, Gallants, gallons you believe I
Speaker 4: do a radio show? Let me try that again. Gallons
Speaker 4: of ink buy Space Casino. Thanks again, guys, thank you,
Speaker 4: stay than going to the.
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