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 entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three FM Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere in the world. Go to Matt Connerton dot com slash live for all your streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Jenny is here of 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 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 from the album Be So Cold. This is the first one, first single, yep and uh. And the album is what's the title again? Elephants in the room, elephants in the room. I look forward to asking you more about that too. I love the cover. I love the cover, by the way, the cover is really cool. Oh thank you, I thank absolutely. But we're going to give this a spin and then we'll come back and talk with these guys. And this is be So Cold. This is the band Space Casino.

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Speaker 1: I pass the day?

Speaker 5: I feel like you must.

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Speaker 6: The sas is all time. I wrote a lot of 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. That is the band Space Casino. And we've got let's see, we've got Jared Seamus and Nick with hear us today 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 on the coach when we left the V and B.

Speaker 4: Well at least you know where he is though, So he's not missing or abducted by aliens or something, because 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 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, a little bit of this than that.

Speaker 3: Sure, sure, very good. And what is the guy on the couch what does he do?

Speaker 5: He plays guitar and things too, all three of them, like they kind of switch off on like lead vocals, like the one who writes the song is kind of 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 to have, you know, And now that I think about it, you know, I played in a bunch of bands, but I never played in something where more than one person would would take a turn at lead vocals. And you know, I think it probably gives you an opportunity to kind of add some texture to your overall sound, right, you know, different voices, different naturally bringing different personalities, and then you know, the songs are each their own kind of become their own character that way.

Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, exactly, and it kind of gives like you're like it, each of them has kind of their own vibe. Like so on the album, there's nine songs, yeah, and they each there's three each from like three from Nick, three from Jared, three from Chris, So it kind of you know, they they each have their own vibe and 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 picking the songs or does it just kind of work out that way?

Speaker 8: Or Yeah, when we're recording an album, we're like, all right, everyone picked three songs, okay of yours that you want 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 of bands before as well, and like it's not always like that, and especially if you're a drummer or rhythm section, they don't get a lot of say naturally right. So I feel like with this project, it was really I was determined to make it as democratic and free. Yeah yeah, between everyone.

Speaker 4: That's really cool, so obvious. Question two I got to ask up front where does the name come from? Because Space Casino is a pretty cool name. Where does it come from?

Speaker 5: So we uh well, I I really love like the 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 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 with you know, it's casinos are like it's the most degenerate, Like it's the casinos are so funny because like it'll be like an old lady sitting at a slought machine, like putting a putting her retirement into a slot machine. And then there's like like a rich millionaire businessman, like all in the same all in the same spot. Yeah, just wasting money.

Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny. I've only been in a casino once in my life because I'm not a gambler. But years ago, I had gone to see a show at Mohican Sun and my friend Dan and I we were just like, he wasn't either, but I was just like, you know, if I was wanted to just like walk through a casino just to see if it's like if it really 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 interest in gambling, but it's it's interesting to walk through a casino, you know.

Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a it's a it's an experience, like the lights, the sound, I mean, they do it all on purpose, but it's like just just walking through a casino, you get it's like a vibe, you know, it's yeah, it's an experience.

Speaker 4: Yeah, totally totally. And where does a What about the name of the album elephants in the room. I'm curious about that too.

Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that was well that's Nick Nick's song. That's a line in a song by Nick.

Speaker 5: Oh okay, yes, Nick's song Spaces, which is also you know because we're's Space Casino, but he says elephants in the room at one point in the song. Then I think it was actually Jared's idea, like what if we 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, you're like, oh, I get it, but it's not the name of the song, which is also I like that.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that is cool. Yeah, and I like the 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 the colors adjusted and played with. So it's a photograph of a the ceramic mask that we found it.

Speaker 5: Will Yeah, yeah that that met like that mask we found and we were like we were actually looking for stuff for like we were like filming something, so we went to a Savers just to find like cool, fun cheap props and then I saw that and we were like whoa, this thing is awesome. Yeah, and then Jared took the picture and kind of.

Speaker 8: And I put the mask on top of an old symbol which reflected light in a cool way, and then I put like a little disco ball I had on the mask, and I just took a couple pictures and then yeah, it looks like that now it just looks 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 your first full length release as a band.

Speaker 5: Or yes, so we have. We had one EP out with like four songs, but this is our first full album.

Speaker 4: Okay, okay, how long have you guys been together? It has Space Seen been around for a while or.

Speaker 8: We've been playing for We've been playing together for probably like eight years. I think the Space Casino project is like five years old.

Speaker 5: Five years yeah. Yeah, well, because we started the first like Space Casino show with like January twenty twenty, and we were like, this is gonna be our year. Yeah, and then we didn't. We didn't play again until like a year and a half later. But that club closed, so yeah, yeah, yeah, the club. That club closed because of COVID. Yeah, and then we couldn't practice or do anything. But then then when once places started opening back up, like twenty twenty one, we we've been going pretty steady since.

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, good good.

Speaker 4: During the during the pandemic, like well, like in twenty twenty when you guys, yeah, I mean, well what a way to start, huh.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but we we all we were even jamming together before that. We all went to the same high school. 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 Amherst and then me and my my friend Scott, who was also a musician, Like would I would drive up 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 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 the band's kind of it was kind of like a rotating chairs, but yeh of us three kind of always remain.

Speaker 5: Yeah, and and for the last we added Chris, but the guy on the couch like a few years ago. But like this, this lineup of Space Casino has probably 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 of shows these days? Obviously you know where you're from, because we should say too you're from I forgot now, 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, like you know, yeah, yeah, we love we love going 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 yeah I used to when I was still playing in bands. Yeah, we would play there. Yeah, that's a great well Wister. I don't know if they They used to be a place there called the a Trim. I don't think that's 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 place in Wister. There was a bunch of cool places. But but yeah, so you guys are but I can see where where with your like, do you feel with your sound that you're directly influenced by the Boston music scene because you you sound like you're of that area, 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, I feel like there's a lot more hardcore punk and that kind of energy Boston. Yeah, but there's also a lot of few stuff.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Well we're a lot of times we're like the softest. We're not the softest, you know what I mean, Like we're we're usually like the lightest band on the bill most of most like uh, there's a lot of really heavy, 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 still you know, we're still.

Speaker 8: Slightly we're kind of like heavier. So I guess that 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 Aerosmith in my younger days, not really these days.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 4: Yeah, well you hear you hear the same six songs on the radio, Yeah, exactly, Like yeah, now, because I can imagine like the college crowd really getting into you guys, you know in the Boston area and and you know college radio and all that. So, now, do any of you also play in other projects? Because it seems like everybody we have on the show lately, everybody's got a million different different projects in addition to whatever they're on the show to talk about.

Speaker 8: Out I have we have yeah, actually couch Chris is playing in a acoustic duo with this uh with our friend Katie, and they're really good. They're called the Stops. 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 he does that. I also I have I've played another projects before. It doesn't always sometimes you don't have time for two projects, right right if you really want to get into something. But I know people are in like seven projects.

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Oh there's some I don't I know, I don't. I don't get how how people there's so many drummers Like that's like the joke is like, oh, like my drummer's only in four other bands?

Speaker 4: You know that's been Yeah, that that comes up a lot on this show. Yeah, every drummer is in multiple bands and I.

Speaker 5: Don't I don't understand. I can. I barely have time yeah to be in this band. Yeah, so shout out to to those drummers working hard out there. But oh yeah, space casino for me. Yeah, we do.

Speaker 8: We do sometimes make like short films we were talking about earlier, so that's kind of like a side thing 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 of like, you get a line of dialogue to use, you get a character name, an occupation, and then you get everybody gets a different genre. So literally you get on Friday, seven o'clock, you get a you get all your criteria, you have to use the movie, and you have to turn it in two days later at seven o'clock. So take a weekend. It's fun, yeah, very cool. And then so we you know, we made like a little week Our genre was like crime genre, so we kind of did our own little like Tarantino movie where oh wow, yeah there's no gun involved.

Speaker 9: It's supposed to be like two minutes long, and we never have. We never leave enough time to actually edit and you know, yeah, we buy everything we come out with, like a fifteen minut movie.

Speaker 5: Yeah that doesn't count for anything. Yeah, but we have fun making it.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Yeah. The one of our my favorite one we did was is called the Florist Job because there was that 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 is sick, so he gets involved in in in being like a getaway driver. It's really ridiculous, ridiculous, yeah yeah, but it's it's fun.

Speaker 4: So what what happens to these if you know, if if it's too long to enter into the festival or whatever, 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 and our link Treekay. Yeah, very cool. Anyone's interested. Yeah, it's all four band members playing and playing different characters. 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 show's like, oh, by the way, we also make short 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 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, that's great. That's really cool.

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's fun. We have a lot of fun making them. We still have to make it's funny. We've made like two short films, but we still haven't done our own music video. We got to do that next.

Speaker 8: Yeah, that's funny, that's funny, and he wants to help with that.

Speaker 4: Well, we should play another track we want to play. 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 here with us in studio, and we're gonna hear another track from Elephants in the room, and this is called Summer Breeze.

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Speaker 3: I love it. That is so good. That is called Summer Breeze.

Speaker 4: The band is a Space Casino and we've got three quarters of Space Casino here with us in studio.

Speaker 3: Uh and I love that. Nick. I love your voice 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 kind of layered up everything. I love how the harmonies come together on that chorus. It's just like very very vast, like dense sound, which is really nice. And then on top I just laid a quick, beautiful guitar solo.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, everything about that is really good. How about that? 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 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, we recorded the whole thing there. It's also right down the street from my house, so that's nice. Nice, But we recorded the whole thing there. We met him through he's he's in a couple of bands.

Speaker 5: We met him through like, you know, doing shows, and then he mentioned that like he because he we met him at a he was doing a house show in his studio and then he but but he's he's done it up. You know, it's it's it's well done. And yeah, they do a lot of shows there, and so we met him through like playing music, and he mentioned that he he records bands. So then we decided to give it a try. And then we were like, oh definitely, you know, because at first we were like, well, let's go in and see see how it is.

Speaker 5: But then after a couple of sessions, we were like, oh yeah, 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, gives good gives good pointers. But isn't like, you know, he's not trying to tell you. He's not trying to produce it. But you know, he'll throw out a suggestion 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, especially in your area where you guys are from, there's a you know, it's funny too, because there was a time when people kind of predicted that recording studios would be a thing of the past at some point, because you have so many options now, Like you can you can record at home and come up with something that sounds like it was done in a million dollar studio, you know.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but in reality, I mean, recording.

Speaker 4: Studios are still thriving, even though a lot of musicians are finding other ways to record too.

Speaker 5: So yeah, well the thing is, and we did we you know, we self recorded things in the past, and like, I mean, you don't know what you're doing, you're not, Yeah, I mean I've heard, you know, some people are really good at it. But I think for us, we just wanted to focus the thing about when you're doing it yourself, you're also like you're you're not just focusing on the music, you know what I mean. It's nice to when you just have somebody else doing it for you. You don't have to worry about your dog crashing or you know, your your lexicon, you know.

Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think for us we were like, well, no, let's let's go to a studio, have them do it. That way, we can just focus on, you know, giving it the best takes we can, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel like nowadays you just have so many jobs as an artist. So you have like your marketer, that's true, your producer, everything.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So yeah, if you can afford it to take away one of those jobs, I feel like it's worth it helps focus on the other ones.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. You plan to record with 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 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 release a song, you know, the first song. We might just release it, see what happens. Yeah, Elevant's in the Room we released in January, so it's still kind of pretty fresh. But yeah, but there's no sense in.

Speaker 8: Uh, yeah, you can only play the same songs for so long. Yeah, so we got to come up with new stuff.

Speaker 3: Right right now. That makes sense. Do you guys do you play anything?

Speaker 4: Is there anything that you play live that you haven't that hasn't released been released yet that you're kind of Sometimes sometimes bands will kind of workshop material, you know, 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 show just to kind of keep it, you know, lively, 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, like one of the songs that like one of Jared's songs that he just went back to start recording is a song from like before even our first like LP really that he was but then he was well also go.

Speaker 8: We'll also play old songs like from the first EP, and like we'll change a part or modify it in a way or add add something new to it just to keep it fresh.

Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Do you guys want to play we should play another one from the album, of course.

Speaker 3: I Elephants in the Room. What do you guys want to play next? Totally up to you.

Speaker 8: I guess you give Chris the song, Yeah, rain I think maybe PASSI mena yeah, or we can do rain on too. Oh it's the the other like single maybe Oh yeah, right, it's a single, which one. Let's try rain on raining outside?

Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh that's true.

Speaker 4: Yeah, very very apropos Yeah, I guess it's supposed to rain all day from what I From what I understand. If you're just joining us on Saturday, we do have a space casino here with us alive in studio, and we're going to play another track from this incredible album, Elephants in the Room. And uh, this is a little 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, anything we should know about this track before we play it.

Speaker 8: That's written by Chris from the couch all right, Yeah, 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 more of like an acoustic It was based around acoustic 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. This is called rain On and the band is Space Casino.

Speaker 1: I have come on, I can hardly see. So I got made you boy? Yeah, I you got mad you Bay.

Speaker 1: That's some wonder what boy knows? God do not need you man, but I do not need you man, Drayman

Speaker 1: hardly dreaming. I cat tream slow shot, not to Nyga s phone the sony sky looking at the snow.

Speaker 4: Another great track that is called rain On. That is from the album Elephants in the Room and the band is Space Casino. We have three of the guys from Space Casino here, and the gentleman who sings on that song and wrote it is He's so that's Chris from the Couch right, Yes, yes, but a great song though, yeah, really really good. And you know, we were kind of talking off air while I was playing. I said his vocal delivery, he kind of reminds me a little bit of Bono and it's really good.

Speaker 8: Yeah, we were making we were we heard a little bit of Irish rogue in his singing in the studio once and it was a lot of fun. Yeah, Yeah, but yeah great, Yeah, like his his guitar parts, he 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 play live because it's, you know, the materials pretty sophisticated in terms of the different parts.

Speaker 9: And actually that song more than anything, I feel like Chris throws on like a kpeo. He switches from acoustic one show, then he'll do electric at the other show. Yeah, And it's just kind of it's always been one where maybe we don't want to play it, you know, I don't want to put my kapa on my guitar or whatever.

Speaker 8: Songs are definitely like trickier than others, but we play them all live. Yeah, that one particular is a little that's probably one of the trickiest, but it's a lot of fun too.

Speaker 5: Yeah, there's definitely for for me on the drums. There were definitely a few songs. There's another song another one of Christ's songs is called Pashmina Blues where I'm doing a pretty fast like high hat part and you know in the studio you get multiple takes so you can just do it. But by the end when we play that song live, by the end of that song, my right arm is like burning. And then I'm like why, 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 changes and little syncrasies.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 4: Is it important to you guys to be able to replicate that live exactly how you recorded.

Speaker 5: It or yeah?

Speaker 9: We we try to our utmost ability to Sometimes it 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. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sometimes life we'll even we we do do that. But sometimes we'll even try it. Well, like I said before, we would, uh, we change a little bit of the song to do live. So sometimes we'll yeah, we'll mess with the song.

Speaker 5: Yeah, well we'll change it us. We'll change things up. But we do try to not we try not to let it be we like, we we try not to rely on the studio magic, you know what I mean, Like if we like, we'll change it up, but not changing it in a way of like, oh, let's skip that part because it's too hard to replicate what you know what I mean, Yeah, because sometimes it is, you know, it would be easy to do that. Yeah, yeah, but we try to We try to challenge ourselves to do it. They were definitely, I mean, for me, there were a lot of like like fills and weird little things I did in like I would practice.

Speaker 5: For the first few months after we released the album, I was practicing on there. I was listening to the album, practicing drums to my drums, like listening to my drums, trying to replicate what I did because I was like what what what did I do in the studio that day? Like what is this fill? But I eventually got most of it down. Sometimes I still struggle, yeah, yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 8: Personally, I feel like I don't even want it. If I go to a band, a band's show, a concert, I don't even always want to hear record perfect version of the song. I want to hear like a new tale, 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 it's kind of a letdown when it sounds exactly like the album, especially if the I mean, if it sounds exactly like the album but your your stage presence is like stunning, then that's one thing. But yeah, there have been times I've gone two shows where it's like it's just the band standing there and it sounds exactly like the album, and then they get off stage and it's like, I basically just I spent fifty dollars to listen to 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 went to see in New Jersey. I went to see the Strokes opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Strokes are like my all time favorite bands. Chili Peppers are in the top ten for sure. Yeah, but my favorite bands. They sounded exactly I was like, I was also very very far away from the stadium, but they sounded very album perfect really and it was great. I loved them. But then when the Chili Peppers came on, the Chili Peppers are jamming, They're throwing in little little jams in between songs, and the songs are playing are have a life of their own.

Speaker 8: Yeah, and uh yeah, so.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I feel like they don't play 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. I wish my fingers could move that fast. There's a guy who's been on the show. I don't know if you know, Aaron bid Uh. He's he's from up here, but he's he's been on the show and he's playing a bunch of bands. But but he does a lot of solo work too, and and he comes in and you know, he sets up this whole he's got this whole thing that he plays along too, that he'll he'll come in here and he'll he'll play and I just spend the entire time just watching his fingers because he can play like Flee you know, just incredible bass lines.

Speaker 4: And I'm just like, you know, I'm a bass player, so I'm just sitting there, you know, just just watching his fingers the entire time. But yeah, know, but yeah, 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 technically two more, because we'll play one more now and then we'll play one more at the at the very end of the segment. But uh, the album is so good, I do want to make sure we have time to 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 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 a lyric in this song.

Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, okay, okay, oh, very cool. Okay, So we'll give this a spin.

Speaker 4: And for those of you just joining us, we do have a Space Casino three quarters of the band Space Casino here with us in studio. And uh, this is this track. This is of course from the album Elephants 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 that available everywhere?

Speaker 5: That's on everything too? Yeah, okay, and you can follow us. We always post everything on like our our Instagram is our main like where we update give updates on shows and stuff.

Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very cool. All right, let's give this a spin. This is called Spaces and the band is Space Casino.

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Speaker 4: That is called spaces. The band is Space Casino. It's another great track.

Speaker 3: I love that. I love the whole vibe of that. That is so cool.

Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. Yeah, great job guys. That's another that's another nick song.

Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 9: I don't know what kind of demons are running around in my head, but it seems like a couple of my songs are all about anxiety, you know, yeah, yeah, habits, elephants in the room, yeah yeah, yeah, Well.

Speaker 3: But that's relatable things. We all things, we all deal with right, yeah, yeah, very very cool.

Speaker 4: What should we know about where people should go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean just follow us on Instagram and Facebook 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, there's all in the bile. There's links to our website and our link tree, and you know, we're on Spotify 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 a up. We have an email list, yes, yeah, uh well, but we did just we made a promo video. You ever see hot Ones, uh the Internet show?

Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah where they eat the Yeah yeah yeah, so on.

Speaker 8: Our YouTube page if you go to Space Casino Band on you tube. We did, like we have this fifteen minute hot Ones challenge where we actually ate increasingly spicier wings just like the show, and even we used even hotter sauce than the show. Really, yes, we used the bomb, which is featured on the show. That was one of the like five flavors we used. Okay, but it was very very hot. We also tossed the wings. We used the same container to toss all the wings.

Speaker 5: Yeah, accumulating basically all the all the hot sauces were on like every wing.

Speaker 8: Oh okay, then the hook at the end of the video, the last spiciest wing we ate. We immediately jumped on instruments and tried to play a song. Yeah, and it was painful. Yes, singing, We played singing.

Speaker 9: We played besto Cold oh well, while dying of hot 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 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, very cool. And do you guys have anything this weekend?

Speaker 4: Are Well, I know you're yeah, probably you're not playing any shows right because you're up here for the weekend.

Speaker 8: But yeah, well next next week, next weekend, uh Friday and Saturday Friday, we're in Summerville at Union Tavern with a couple other bands. But then the day after Saturday we're in Roxbury, mass And we're playing our friend Luke's thirtieth birthday bash, and he's having a few different acts. He also performs. He is more like electronic music, so all sorts of different acts, plus a magician's gonna play there too. Okay, that's gonna be fun. That's that illusion.

Speaker 3: Oh okay, very cool, very cool, excellent, excellent. Well guys, this has been wonderful.

Speaker 4: I really appreciate the three of you coming in and we'll definitely do this again in the future as you're 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 close out with?

Speaker 8: Maybe like gallons? Yeah yeah, yeah, maybe gallon gallons. I'd say gallons. It's a closer. Yeah. This this the lyrics to the song came to be in a dream?

Speaker 4: Oh okay, gallons of ink? Yeah, yes, it sounds like 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, coming up in the third hour today, we have Lone Wolf James and guys, thank you again. We will close out uh this segment with another great track the band of Space Casino. The album is Elephants in the Room and this is called Gallants, Gallants, gallons you believe I do a radio show? Let me try that again. Gallons of ink buy Space Casino. Thanks again, guys, thank you,

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