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Speaker 7: All right there it is the new single from Warhog that is called Starflight. And welcome everybody. We have entered our number three new Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. You can stream the show from anywhere or go to Matt connorton dot com slash Live. Jenny is here of course at the news table and joining us via Microsoft Teams. Let's get this up here. We have Scott Beatley returning to the show from the band Warhog.

Speaker 7: Of course. Hello Scotty, hey, how are you all doing very well? Very well? It's wonderful have on. I love this of course. The new ep Ethereal Journey brand new from this just came out. What April wait is this?

Speaker 3: How yet?

Speaker 5: No it's not.

Speaker 7: Oh, it's about to be. Yeah.

Speaker 8: We dropped the single Starlight last month on the I think the tenth, the sixth of the tenth, I'm I think it was the sixth, just about a month ago, okay, and then the.

Speaker 5: Rest of the EP is out on the tenth of April.

Speaker 7: Oh okay, wow, okay, so coming right up. Very very cool. By the way, I apologize, I think I might have said starflight, but it's Starlight, Yeah, Starlight.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 7: I think I might have said starflight because I'm you know, the lyrics. I'm thinking about a starflight, I guess as as we all are.

Speaker 8: Yeah, launching. I I've been keeping track of that. I knew that was coming, but I didn't realize the timing of it was so kind of perfect that it's the EP is going to release the.

Speaker 5: Day that they come back.

Speaker 7: Oh that's cool.

Speaker 5: Yeah, it was kind of fun.

Speaker 7: So that's awesome. That's awesome. So tell us about the inspiration for this for this EP.

Speaker 5: So the EP's kind of got a funny story.

Speaker 8: It's the redheaded stepchild of sorts we had. Originally we were working on our last bunch of EPs. Ethereal not in the Ethereal Journey. That's this one dystopian chronicle. Oh yes, yes, right, we had We had originally planned that to be an album with six or seven songs, and then we had actually written Ethereal Journey to be kind of the big third act of that album, and our PR folks that we were working with at the time were like, hey, you really shouldn't do that. You should break this up into multiple, multiple EPs.

Speaker 8: And then we got to a point where we needed they wanted us to do more singles and you know, individual songs than just release one EP that was one twenty three minute long song, and so we kind of did that, and we just kept putting off Ethereal Journey. We were like, all right, well we'll just do this next is its own thing, and and so that's we just finally got to this point. It was just kind of a coincidence that the song that was gonna go with it ended up being Starlight. Oh yeah, those two songs together were kind of the ones that we really wanted to release.

Speaker 8: Starlight we needed to release it with something, and the next thing that we knew we wanted to release to his Ethereal Journey. So it was like a let's just do like a space adventure themed EP and and and.

Speaker 7: Just go from there right right. Something I want people to know, and I'm sure you want them to know this too, is you got to go online and see the video. I love the video for Starlight.

Speaker 5: Thank you.

Speaker 7: I'm curious to know more about about that because you know, you guys are in your your your space suits. I guess would be the uniforms. Uh, it's just it's just you know, and you're you're just playing the song, but it's it's it's a lot of fun. I really like the video.

Speaker 5: Thanks.

Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, first, real quick, before we jump into all that stuff, I just want to say hi to gen and and say that as much as we've been able to, we've been following kind of your advocacy stuff with the healthcare and all that. You know, it's really inspiring. You're doing a lot of great work and I just hope that you are seeing the results out of it that you want to see out of it. I just wanted to say that up on the top of the conversation.

Speaker 7: So oh, very nice, doing my best. And and by the way, she is wearing her WARHOWG shirt. We are today as am I we're both wearing our WARHOWG shirts.

Speaker 9: You are one of my favorites, so you're working quite a bit with me.

Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 5: So so yeah, the video.

Speaker 8: When we had this song put together, one of the things we knew we wanted to do was do what actual proper music video for YouTube. Like all the stuff we have right now is just kind of stuff we've made for ourselves and it's just live shots and whatever. So we started talking about, like, well, what's it take logistically to to do something at that level, and we decided that we were doing for Starlight because it's kind of that anthemy, it's kind of it's very single perfect with the catchy chorus and all that, and it's under five minutes long, so that's also nice.

Speaker 8: So we really just kind of settled on this idea of like, well, let's just get Amazon Prime spacesuit costumes and let's just we'll just do it the easiest way we can think of. Eric's, for lack of a better title, ex brother in law is a professional documentary filmmaker and so he signed up to help us with this and he did a great job. I mean, his camera work is really awesome and he had a drone, and he really knew.

Speaker 5: What he was doing.

Speaker 8: He had done he's done some music videos before, and we just rented out this place that has this huge led wall, and it was like, all right, well, let's just let's just make it look silly and also make it look serious like they want, you know, like, obviously we're four dudes in just the cheapest NASA knockoff costumes, and like our drummer is wearing a space helmet through the whole thing, which is a whole other story.

Speaker 7: That's true. You never actually see your drummer. He's got the helmet of the whole time.

Speaker 8: Yeah, and so we, you know, we were like, it's gonna look ridiculous, So let's just kind of play it serious and ridiculous at the same time, and hopefully it comes across, because like, the last thing I want is people thinking, oh, these guys think they look cool, but they look like a bunch of idiots. Right, No, we we know we look like idiots, but we also know that are we believe ye know that the song is really good, so it kind of shouldn't matter what.

Speaker 7: We look like, right right, Yeah, all right, so why is the drummer wearing the helmet.

Speaker 5: So the on this EP we so.

Speaker 8: Our our drummer, Robert left the band at the end of last year. He left our in our yeah after our final show in in December, and we knew we wanted this to come out. So we were working with another drummer, a friend of ours through another band called the Humanist Project based out of I guess, Houston and somewhat Florida. These guys that Eric knows, their drummer is a dude named Chris Lucci and he is a total monster. And you know, Eric took this opportunity to work with him on the whole So Chris did the drums for the whole EP.

Speaker 8: Okay, so that's so it's Timmy here on Starlight and Ethereal Journey and then Doctor Doctor. But of course to shoot a video in Dallas, Texas, we needed a human drummer that we could have access to for a day, right, And so so our our original drummer from like when we were all in a like our young adult band, Blake knew we were looking for a drummer and said, hey, I'll help fill out for some gigs if you guys need me. And so we just pulled him in and said we'll just sit behind the can't wear this space helmet.

Speaker 8: He was He was like, I mean true heroics there, because that's three hours in a room without air conditioning, under lights and fog, and that big led wall was hot. He wore that thing and performed for like three straight hours and it was he handed me that helmet afterwards and it was disgusting. Yeah, but that but Blake has decided to to stay with us full time and be our drummer going forward. So okay, that's that's that is our drummer, Blake. But he wanted he didn't want to he wanted to wear that helmet.

Speaker 8: That was kind of his idea because he didn't want people to misunderstand that that's not him playing drums. Didn't want to like, you know, steal any of Chris's thunder because Chris did such a great job on the on the track. But Blake is also a total monster.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and we're really excited to work on some new stuff with them, so oh fantastic.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So when you play the song in the video, how many how many times do you have to run through it? Like during that because you said it was a three hour shoot.

Speaker 5: Yeah, we probably did it. I'd say ten eleven, twelve times.

Speaker 8: Maybe, Yeah, we just we just would play it and then we would reset and just play it again, and reset and play it again.

Speaker 5: It was it was pretty ridiculous. It was just non stop.

Speaker 8: Every six seven minutes were play the song over and over again. The best was when there's a couple of slow motion shots in the video that Jonathan's camera would film at forty eight frames per second, so he was able to film us at high speed and then slow us down oh slo mo, which meant we had to mime to the song at two hundred percent speed, which was really hard to do, only because it sounded so ridiculous. And you know, you play things fast in a band, in a metal band, but like to hear a song and like trying to play along with it in mime and then like do the vocals and stuff.

Speaker 9: It was.

Speaker 8: It was pretty silly. I'm surprised we've got any good footage at all, but there you go.

Speaker 5: We saved that one for the end because we knew after that we'd be done. Yeah.

Speaker 7: Yeah, Like I said, the video came out great. I love the video, Thank you. So I'm curious about the title track. So the title track is twenty three minutes. Is that the longest that's got to be the longest song you guys have done? Right?

Speaker 10: Oh?

Speaker 8: Yeah by far?

Speaker 7: Yeah?

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the thing Eric wanted.

Speaker 8: Eric's always wanted to do a really long, epic, continuous song like that.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 8: One of our favorite bands growing up is Dream Theater and they they had an EP that came out one time called Change of Seasons and it was like one side A was this one song called Change of Seasons that was I don't know, five or six movements and it was twenty two something minutes long. Yeah, and the rest of it was all live recordings and and he was like, I want to do that someday.

Speaker 5: And so that idea has stuck with him.

Speaker 8: As soon as we started Warhog and we started writing slower, longer songs and was like, oh, this song's ten minutes. Oh, this song's also ten minutes. This he immediate was like I'm gonna do ethereal Journey and I was like, all right, you like go nuts?

Speaker 5: He did.

Speaker 8: He showed up with it one day, yeah, and uh so, yeah, that's just it. It was just his little challenge to himself to write something that long and continuous, and then for us to all kind of start learning it and recording it, and.

Speaker 5: It was a it's been it's been fun.

Speaker 8: I'm glad that we finished it so that other people can listen to it, because we've been enjoying it for I probably a year or so now, sure, and knowing how kind of ridiculous it is, but.

Speaker 7: Well but interestingly. So, you know, when I listened to it, it doesn't seem like at the end of it, it doesn't seem like twenty three minutes has gone by, which and I mean that in the best possible way. Yeah, it's it's like like there's a band. There's a band in our area called Able Blood, and they have a song called mental Note that's eleven minutes. But I remember telling those guys, you get to the end of it, you don't feel like it was eleven minutes. Somehow it seems like half that. And I get the same feeling listening to Ethereal Journey.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it's long, but at the end of it, I don't feel like it's been twenty three minutes. It keeps me engaged when I listen to it, so I you know, I think that's your credit. I think it came out great. I really like it a lot, and I encourage people to listen to it and invest invest the time to listen to it because it's really good, really good.

Speaker 5: Thanks, thank you. Yeah, now'll he will love to hear that.

Speaker 7: I agree.

Speaker 8: It's it's fun to go back, even for me to listen to because I I still you know, like obviously I recorded singing it, but I don't know that I know the lyrics all the way through, Like I don't know that I've got to memorize because I've always had the sheet in front of me because it is like nine verses or something music, right, you know, to where I'm just trying to figure out what I'm what comes next? Oh yeah, it's this part, you know, And so I'm always kind of even when I listen to it, I get taken on that little adventure myself.

Speaker 8: Yeah, oh yeah, this is this is the part where the drums kick in, right, So it's fun. It's a fun little tune because that's what only knows if we'll work it up live and play it.

Speaker 7: I was curious about that. Yeah, that was gonna be my next question. Actually, do you have plans to play that live, but.

Speaker 5: We've talked about what it would look like. I mean, the reality is.

Speaker 8: It would take up so much of our set to do just the one thing we've talked about doing, like let's pick the ten minutes that would be the best to do and kind of like hit all the spots. So we'll maybe start looking at that this summer. But yeah, I honestly, I honestly don't know if well we'll do that. It might just be something fun that we recorded, and you know, you just got to imagine what it would sound like live.

Speaker 7: And the story that you're telling in that song, it's kind of I mean, that's the main crux of the story, right like Starlight's kind of the the introduction. You know, here we are, we're going to space and then and then Ethereal Journey is the story.

Speaker 8: Right Well, yeah, they're not really related, they're just they're just con winceiate deadally themed. Okay, Similarly, right like Starlight was a thing that I mean in my head, Eric had already written Ethereal Journey.

Speaker 7: I knew what it was.

Speaker 8: I'd been you know, I had recorded demos of it for us to work through. Oh okay, you know, probably back in twenty twenty three. Okay, right, so by the time I'm writing Starlight two years later, I'm not thinking, oh, these two songs are all related, oh, because there was so much time between them.

Speaker 7: Oh interesting, Okay, yeah, because.

Speaker 8: Because I remember the plan was to release it as the follow up from our first album, right, so like we've we've just been waiting to get this one out the door. Yeah, it just so happened that the timing was like, oh, what are the two songs ethereal Journey and Starlight? Of course they would be right, right, No, that makes sense. Yeah, so yes, Starlight's different. It's just it's it's kind of my you know, let's send a bunch of dudes up into space and send them on a ure where Eric's is more like it's, you know, apocalyptic future we've got to send It's kind of it's kind of almost Hail Mary ish in a way.

Speaker 8: Of course, I know that that had nothing to do with it, because he had not read that book and that movie was like years from being made, sure, but it's like, you know, the planet is super dying and we get a strange message and he, you know, the the lone Traveler gets sent off to go find out what the message is, and it's not necessarily help.

Speaker 5: It's someone.

Speaker 8: It's someone or something that transforms this guy into a god, basically gives him all this cosmic power, and then instead of coming back to help the earth, he's going to come back and conquer it, you know, right. It's just kind of a weird you know, that's that's kind of the story of Ethereal Journey.

Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, and then so and then you you close it with You've got the cover of Doctor Doctor by UFO, which and by the way, you know, some people are going to listen to it and not realize it's a cover, you know, some people obviously. I'm sure you have fans who may maybe have even told you, Oh, I didn't realize that first of that was a cover, because not everyone knows UFO obviously. But I really like that too, and I'm really I'm curious why you chose that song. And uh yeah, I mean I guess, I mean the name of the band it's taken from obviously fits the Uh.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, of course that is I've I literally had not put that together until you just said it.

Speaker 5: That's hilarious.

Speaker 7: Oh, that's funny.

Speaker 5: How could I even miss that? My god?

Speaker 8: I wish you could see me like I'm doing the whole like Captain Picard face palming thing, like what am I?

Speaker 3: So?

Speaker 5: I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan. I always have been me too.

Speaker 7: Yep.

Speaker 8: And and and if you've ever seen them in concert, they're kind of you know, between bands.

Speaker 5: They always play house.

Speaker 8: Music, yes, but Iron Maidens like, all right, guys, everybody walked to the stage. Music is a live track of Doctor Doctor by UFO from the Strangers in the Night Oh live record.

Speaker 5: And they've been doing that for decades.

Speaker 8: Every time I've seen Iron Maiden since the nineties, they've come out to Doctor Doctor.

Speaker 7: Okay, and Eric and I went.

Speaker 8: And saw them a few years ago. We just happened to be at the same concert together, standing on the floor next to each other, and Doctor Doctor comes on, and I don't I don't know that he ever witnessed that, but like, the crowd goes nuts. It's like it's that first step into an Iron Maiden concert, which for so many of us is basically like going to church. You know, It's like here we go, right and the crowd gets real amped up and we're all.

Speaker 1: Singing doctor, Doctor Please, and he's like the.

Speaker 8: Song rocks and I was like, yeah, it does, and I knew it. I like, I've recorded demos of it myself just for fun, and I was like, we should, we should do this, and he was like absolutely. Which Eric is not one usually for covers, because I think a lot of times when you cover someone's music, it comes with a lot of expectation, right, like what bands do you really love and what bands are you trying to sound like? And can you pull it off? And and a lot of times it's best left I think avoided, right.

Speaker 8: But Eric was kind of like really keen on this idea of mine, which also he's usually not keen on my ideas anyway. So I worked on a I just worked this this version up, and uh, you know, we kind of went with it. And then when we had the EP and we were like, all right, well, we've got Starlight, we've got Ethereal Journey, we need something else to kind of round it out. And we really didn't have anything unreleased that we were waiting to release that isn't part of our next album, and so we just kind of were like, well, what's could we should we do Doctor Doctor?

Speaker 8: And was like, yeah, that would be fun because then it's like a it's a cover that we could probably release and that'll be fun and people that might listen to the original might find our cover and then find us and be like, oh these guys are you know, kind of they're they're heavy metal, they're doing something interesting, and just give us one extra thing that maybe could end up on the radio somewhere. There's a there's a guy in Dallas, Chaz he Chas Knight. He does a local show and one of his kind of recurring things is he'll do a show he hasn't maybe done it a while or I have not caught it, but he does like rock he calls it rock star karaoke okay, and the whole the whole program of that hour long show is covers by other bands.

Speaker 8: So he'll do like Pantera's cover of what is it Planet Caravan? Or like the Faith No More War Pigs, right, So like and I was like, oh, this would be a good way to get on that. We could be like a local band. One be a local band, but two having a cover that's kind of radio worthy. So you know, it was like, well, let's just throw Doctor Doctor together and put that out there with it, and it turned out to we had fun doing it, and yeah, I think it turned out pretty well. And like you mentioned that, I still can't believe that completely my mind.

Speaker 5: UFO. Uh And that's so funny. You think I'm kidding about that.

Speaker 8: But if you look anywhere that we've talked about the EP, that's not mentioned because I had not put that together somehow. I was just I'm so focused on it being like a cover and like, I hope this goes over well. I hope people, you know, like, oh, why Doctor Doctor, why are you guys doing the cover the UFO.

Speaker 5: But I never I really never put that together. I can't believe it.

Speaker 7: That's awesome. That's funny. So did did the song get on that show?

Speaker 5: We haven't released it yet. You're the you're if you're gonna play it, you're the first person to do it.

Speaker 7: Oh nice, nice, I am gonna. I am going to play it at the end of our conversation. So very good, very good. It'll be the world radio premiere of that track. I love it. We love those now and when you when you do a cover like that, is that. Did you say that's the first time you've done a cover in Warhawk.

Speaker 8: Yeah, like an official cover of someone else's stuff. I mean we've we've early early days, we played like a Black Sabbath song at a at a gig one night because we needed something to fill the space. Yeah, you know, like we only had ten minute long songs. We needed something that was only five minutes. You know, it's like, Okay, let's just play this.

Speaker 5: So so when you yeah, we don't really do covers, So.

Speaker 7: When you do, when you record a Doctor, Doctor, were you i mean, did you feel like you wanted to keep it close to the original or were you more concerned with kind of putting your own stamp on it or what was your approach there.

Speaker 5: I'd say about fifty to fifty.

Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I don't.

Speaker 8: I don't love covers that very wildly from their original, with the exception of like all Along the watch Tower. I think is like when you try to reinvent a song, that's the gold standard, and we definitely weren't going to try and do that.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, but I also didn't I didn't want to make it a joke. I didn't want to I didn't want to force it into something that it wasn't. So I think I just maybe slowed it down just a hair and I took some of the guitar noodling away, Like the intro's got this really great shanker kind of improv solo that every time I've listened to it live, it's it's a little bit different. It's got a little bit of a different flavor. And then I can't really do that as one guitar player, right, So, you know, we did the harmonies and I kind of did it well, if Eric and I were going to do this live, what would it sound like.

Speaker 8: So I worked out the two parts and then we kind of just all right, okay, So it's got the chug in the background, it's got some different rhythms going on, you know, held out chords and some other stuff that I like to do. So I kind of made it ours without without really taking it too far from.

Speaker 5: I think what the original version is, which is just kind of like a heavy.

Speaker 7: Yeah U, which is what we love so right right, absolutely absolutely, So the ep Ethereal Journey comes out April tenth, and then it's going to be on all the streaming platforms. I assume that's correct. Excellent, excellent, and then are you playing these out live already or yeah.

Speaker 5: We had a show in.

Speaker 8: March in Houston, Okay, our first kind of show with Blake, our new guy who's along with us. We've got four shows that we're doing. I dare to call it a tour. It's really more like an extended weekend. But we're doing four nights in four states back to back here in a week or in a week and a half. We're doing Joplin, Missouri. That we're doing Louisville, Kentucky, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Nashville, Franklin, Tennessee. Kind a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We're gonna go play with some friends of ours called Salem's Child.

Speaker 8: They're based out of Fort Wayne, kind of Cocomo, Indiana.

Speaker 7: Okay.

Speaker 8: We're playing with well, a bunch of great bands just kind of all along the the trip, and that'll be kind of our ethereal journey, right and we're gonna you know, Starlight is the big one from that. Yeah, and uh so we're excited to play a bunch and get it out there. And it'll be nice that we have an EP that'll be out, the video will have been out, so hopefully people will have checked all of that stuff out and kind of know what they're getting into. We're not bringing the space suits or anything.

Speaker 7: I was about.

Speaker 8: I was about to ask you that, Yeah, it'll just be us in our you know, in our regular stage gear. But yeah, you know, we've got them, so who knows what will happen to them, right right?

Speaker 5: They might end up in the mix at some point.

Speaker 7: See and then uh, and then so what's what's next for you guys after this? Because you're always working on music.

Speaker 8: We are, we are, We've got We've got a couple of things, I you know, with Blake coming in, we want to give him an opportunity to kind of work himself into the band. So there's some smaller projects that I think we're gonna try and get out this year.

Speaker 5: One of them is, Uh, I've.

Speaker 8: Been teasing it on on YouTube if anybody has been paying attention, But I've been working on an EP celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Transformers, the movie Oh No Kidding, that we're going to release as Warhog. And it's because that soundtrack had a bunch of like really great kind of eighties rock tunes, including the Transformers theme. So I've I've been doing them and putting them on YouTube, and we're going to get Blake in the studio and he's going to do the drums on him, and Eric's going to mix and master them, and we're going to release those as just a fun EP, I think at the end of the summer, and then we've got we're gonna try and get in and do it live studio recording with Blake and just knock out a couple of the songs that we're playing on this little tour, and then because we're going to do a full album at the end of the year, start working on this thing called The Collector that we've been we've been developing in the background, and hopefully it'll come out early twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 8: The nine songs all kind of intentionally five minutes or less, very kind of straight up traditional metal, half concept.

Speaker 5: Album, but it's it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 8: We're some of the songs were really really excited about, and but it's gonna be kind of, I think our big eggs in a basket moment where we're gonna put all of our effort into this thing. We're gonna get it sounding perfect and then we're gonna hopefully start shopping it around to labels and see if we can do something with it.

Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be Maybe we're hoping.

Speaker 8: That it'll be the thing that starts to really push us forward in a lot of ways.

Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Well, you guys are already doing great stuff. Love to see it, absolutely, absolutely love the EP, so Scott in a moment, we'll let you go. We'll hit that track Doctor Doctor, the world radio premiere of We're discover of Doctor Doctor by UFO. But where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that you guys are doing as a band.

Speaker 8: It's social media, Facebook and Instagram. We are at warhog DFW. That's warhog w a r h og dfw like Dallas for Worth and our website warhog band dot com. But we're real active on social media all the time, so anything that we're up to, you will find out about it that day. We would love to get more followers and more folks getting years on our stuff, so we're on all streaming platforms. We've got a YouTube channel. We're pretty easy to find once you start looking for.

Speaker 7: Us absolutely And speaking of the YouTube channel again, I cannot stress enough to our listeners. Please go check out the video for Starlight. It's really really fun. I just absolutely love it, absolutely love it. All right, Scott Beatley of Warhog, thank you so much my friend for joining us today. We'll let you go and we're going to hit that track. But always love talking with you and thank you. Absolutely love the music, and I'm sure we'll talk again soon. You guys are always up to something, so I'm sure we'll be talking again soon.

Speaker 5: Absolutely.

Speaker 7: All right, you guys have a great Thank you you two, Scott, thank you, bye bye bye Jen. All right, that is Scott Beatley of war Hog. And right now, okay, so this is I get to use the bumper. This is the world radio premiere because this is not out yet. The EP comes out April tenth, so you know the single Starlight, you can find that, but the EP comes out on the tenth, so you will not hear this anywhere. What we're about to play UFO Doctor Doctor as covered by Warhog. Here we go.

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Speaker 7: You heard it here first. That is the world radio premiere of Warhogs cover of the UFO song Doctor Doctor. It's on, of course, Warhog's new ep Ethereal Journey, which comes out April tenth. The single is out now, Starlight, And again I cannot stress enough. You must, you must not right now, wait till the end of the show. You must go to YouTube and check out the video for that. We love Warhogs so much too. Jenny and I both have our warhowg shirts.

Speaker 9: On Today Winning Today.

Speaker 7: Such a great band. We've had a lot of great bands from Texas on the show, but actually Warhog is absolutely one of our favorites. So oh yeah, yeah, definitely, and thank you again to Scott Beatley of Warhog for joining us on the show today. So quick. Music news billboard dot com has this article up Here are Latin music's biggest lawsuits and legal cases, including Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, and more. I remember Daddy Yankee, and of course we all know Bad Bunny. It says here Latin music stars are facing big legal battles, including a massive reggae tone case, a nasty divorce turned rico suit, and a looming fight over a leaked sex tape.

Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, Well, so much going on in the world of Latin music. For some reason, that seems to be the most litigious genre at the moment, which is why we're talking about it. There's always like hip hop always has a lot of lawsuits, and you know, and there's always there's always lawsuits in every genre of music. But right now Latin music seems to be where a lot of attorneys are able to charge legal fees. It says here Latin music is as popular as ever, which is true. As a genre, it's really exploded.

Speaker 7: So it makes sense that stars like Bad Bunny are embroiled in a growing number of major legal battles in US courts. As the old music lawyer adage goes, where there's a hit, there's a writ. In other words, where there's where there's hit songs, there's money to be made and someone to sue very often. The genre has boomed in recent years, becoming the fastest growing core music genre in the US and hitting a record breaking one point four billion in revenue in twenty twenty four, making the genre's third consecutive year passing one billion dollars.

Speaker 7: The Recording Industry Association of America's Matt Bass said in an October report, quote, Latin music is in the US continues to gain popularity and generate generate increased value thanks to the incredible artists whose music connects across language and geographical barriers unquote. All that explosive growth again, this is from Billboard. All that explosive, explosive growth has been fueled not only by the global superstardom of Bad Bunny, who played this year's Super Bowl and cleaned up at the Grammy Awards, but also by the rise of artists like Colombian star Carol G or Carol.

Speaker 7: It might be Corol. I'm not sure k A r O L. It looks like Carol, but it might probably not. Carol doesn't sound like a particularly Latin sounding name, does it Carol? It's probably Corol G. And regional Mexican powerhouses and I'm sure I'm going to butcher these apologize in advance. Fuere's a regeda and or regeta and pezo pluma or peso pluma. But with great success comes great disputes. Reggaetne stars like Bad Bunny himself or facing unprecedented litigation over how key elements of their music are covered by copyright laws.

Speaker 7: This is where it gets interesting and something we talk about all the time on the show. This always comes up copyright infringement, copyright laws, intellectual property, all of it. Especially with the rise of other big names like Dell Records founder Angel DVR, are fighting criminal charges that could put them behind bars for years. Still, others like Daddy Yankee are using the courts to bring their own stunning allegations against others. To get you up to speed, here here's Billboard's quick guide to Latin music's major lawsuits, criminal cases, and legal battles.

Speaker 7: We break down five major cases and everything you need to know about them, followed by five more key legal disputes to watch in the months ahead. So I don't know that we'll get through all these. We'll try to speed through these because there's a lot here. Okay, So Reggaetnes jaw dropping copyright case, this is the first one. There is no bigger Latin music legal battle than the sprawling copyright lawsuit over the origins of Reggaetnes dembo rhythm. The boom of boom boom chick, boom a boom chick used in nearly Oh yeah, it used in nearly every song in the genre.

Speaker 7: Yeah, you know exactly what I'm even though I know exactly even though I'm butchered it. We all know exactly what that is because we all hear it. You know, if you're in Manchester on a summer day, when everyone's got their windows down in their cars, you'll certainly hear that coming out of many many cars. We hear it in our neighborhood quite a bit. That if you don't know what that is, let me see if I can do it again, but not do it so clumsily. The boom che boom chick boom che boom chick use And I wish I knew how to beatbox.

Speaker 7: I could replicate that perfectly, But you all know what that is. The case claims that crucial Now this is interesting. I've wondered about this. So the case here claims that that crucial element was essentially stolen from a single nineteen eighty nine song, and that it's time for the music business to pay up. So that beat, that rhythm that you hear in all those reggaetne songs that hear coming out of everybody's cars in the summertime, Uh.

Speaker 9: That's really that young. I thought it was older than.

Speaker 7: Somebody has traced that back to a single from nineteen eighty nine and says, pay me. The scale of the case is staggering. It targets bad Bunny Corol, I still not to say. I'm gonna say Corol, g Daddy Yankee and more than one hundred and fifty other artists as defendants, plus units of all three major music companies, claiming that nearly two thousand of their songs were illegal. If successful, it would mean that almost all reggaetone artists would need to pay licensing fees to use a core aspect of the genre.

Speaker 7: I don't think this lawsuit's going to be successful to you, No, especially I think it's that young, especially since now there will be dispute over this detail. By the way, we're definitely not going to get through all these, but this one's fast nat to me. We might just stay on this one for a while. Gene Simmons was saying it was in you know, when he the little controversy it blew over fairly quickly about who wrote the song Beth and he was saying didn't really write it. And Jane was making some rather ignorant comments about Peter's not a real musician because he's a drummer, so he's not technically a musician because you can't.

Speaker 7: You can't copyright. You can't trademark a beat like you can a melody or something, which actually is definitely not true. He's wrong about that. I'm sure there are very specific, very specific beats that have been copy copyright Well, that's you're talking about a bassline. But but I'm sure I can't think of a really good.

Speaker 9: A baseline and a drum No. But but how can you call a drummer not a musician.

Speaker 7: The same, right? His comment was very very ignorant, and he does know better. But but but I'm sure, I'm sure it's happened. I'm sure there have been specific beats have been copyrighted. But to but to I mean, how's this gonna going? How are you gonna You're gonna sue all? You're gonna basically sue an entire genre over over a beat that is very common a money grape, So it says here. As experts previously told Billboard, the case could have a disruptive effect on reggaetne yeah no kidding, a booming genre that's risen alongside Bad Bunny, from the clubs of Puerto Rico to the very top of the global music business.

Speaker 7: This case is jaw dropping, said Jennifer Jenkins, a Duke University law professor. Quote. If they win, this would confer a monopoly over an entire genre unquote. A judge refused to dismiss the case in twenty twenty four in following a key hearing in December. It's now primed for a major ruling on crucial questions, which will determine whether the lawsuit is dismissed or can move ahead to a jury trial. Stay tuned. I predict it's dismissed.

Speaker 9: I hope though, because that would be quite a bit of waste of money, waste of time.

Speaker 7: Yes, we'll try too, Oh yeah, we'll try to get a couple more of these and Daddy Yankees Bombshell divorce battle. I don't even remember what Daddy Yankee's big hit was. I mean, we're like the Nankees. No, no, damn no, this is Damn Yankees is not a Latin band.

Speaker 9: Oh yeah, sorry, no, Daddy Yankee, Daddy Yankees.

Speaker 7: I don't remember what the big hit was.

Speaker 9: I remember, I can't hear anything out of my riding.

Speaker 11: I know.

Speaker 7: In December twenty twenty four, Daddy Yankee again, this is from Billboard, filed for divorce from his wife of thirty years. The two have been duking it out in court ever since, not just over the marriage dissolution, but the bombshell accusations of stolen money, defamation, and racketeering. A few weeks after the divorce started, Yankee sought an injunction over accusations that and I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher this Meridies Gonzales had withdrawn tens of millions from his l cartel records his record com Then in March twenty twenty five, he foiled the lawsuit, claiming he discovered mismanagement and a defamatory campaign by Gonzalez.

Speaker 7: Though that case later settled. Daddy Yankee went nuclear in December, filing a rico lawsuit against Gonzalez and his former manager Rafie Pina or Pena, of scheming to steal songwriting royalties during a nearly decade long racketing conspiracy in which they quote systematically inappropriate misappropriated publishing income unquote. Her lawyer denied the accusations at the time, telling Billboard they were a fabrication created by Daddy Yankee to gain a tactical advantage in their divorce proceedings, but the case remains pending.

Speaker 7: Okay, this one we're gonna skip. I'm gonna we have limited time. We're gonna get one more in, but I'm gonna find I want to find one that looks like it's quick and the sex stape one will skip because it's a Saturday month. Yeah, all right, let's do this other Bad Bunny one quickly.

Speaker 9: Yes, I was gonna remention Mosaic.

Speaker 7: Yeah, let's do that. I'll tell you what. We'll share the link out to this article on social media because there are some other interesting cases, but I think we tackled the two that are the most interesting. But it's at billboard dot com. The title of the article is here are Latin Music's biggest lawsuits and legal cases, including Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, and more So. We do love a good lawsuit in the music industry. It's always fascinating and there's always somebody issuing somebody. It's a very litigious industry.

Speaker 7: But yes, Jenny, you're going to mention Mosaic Art Collective again.

Speaker 9: My favorite place in the city. Yes, Mosaic Are Collective is having a opening on April eleventh, from five to seven. It's the opening of the juried exhibit of Clear to Me, which is a play on light and shadow. It's going to be a really, really beautiful phibit. I do encourage you to come down, Matt and I will definitely be there. And then also coming up on the let me double check the day, fifteenth of April is Community Studio. You can join us at the gallery and create in the gallery from five thirty to seven thirty pm and all are welcome.

Speaker 9: There will be some supplies there, so don't worry if you don't have any. It's about getting together and being in community with one another and being creative because art is fun, as one of my very favorite high school friends constantly tells me, and who actually is an inspiration to me. Also coming up is an open call which is open right now called Shaping Ourselves. This exhibit is about how we define ourselves and I encourage you to go to Mosaic Artcollective dot com where you can find a deeper meat write up into what this call is about.

Speaker 9: There are open calls throughout the year. Please don't let money be a barrier. If there is a financial situation, feel free to reach out to the gallery. You can submit up to four pieces of work for any exhibit. The cost for submission is ten dollars and the gallery itself is located at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two to one here in the Queen City of Manchester. That's sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two to oh one in Manchester, and you can get more information at info at mosaic Arcollective dot com.

Speaker 9: Please do dum down and see us. I'm very proud and honored to now be a member of the board of directors and looking forward to some really great things that are coming at the gallery. Stay tuned because some big things coming up, including a big move you're going to want to know about, and a more accessible and more inclusive gallery is always what we strive to be, so please do join us.

Speaker 7: Very good, very good, and again congratulations you're the vice president of the board.

Speaker 9: I am. It was a decision that I actually wasn't sure about it first, and it was really it was humbling to see that they had that kind of faith and desire to have me on the board. So I'm hoping to bring to it the best that I can.

Speaker 7: Very good, very good, all right, and if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WM Andhradio dot Oregon. Of course, at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And if you haven't been to my website recently, please check it out. It's had to redesign. It looks very sleek and very user friendly, easy to navigate. I think you'll like it, and you can book a session there with me. I am, of course, a certified hypnotherapist. I can help you quit smoking, reduce stress, all kinds of great stuff, So hit me up.

Speaker 7: Consultation is always free. Go to Matt Conorton dot com to do that.

Speaker 9: Is there gonna be a Tough Bumps this weekend?

Speaker 7: Yes we will be, yes, oh yeah, which reminds me Happy Easter everybody. For those who oh yeah, so celebrate, I don't. We don't really do much for research.

Speaker 9: I can't have the sugaries anymore. I don't even want to pick about it.

Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, uh not a not a big deal in our household, certainly. But but if you celebrate.

Speaker 9: Up discussing current or past wrestling events.

Speaker 7: So the main event on Tough Bumps, because we have the undercard where We have various news subjects in wrestling that we cover, but the main event will be WrestleMania five, which is my favorite WrestleMania. Why why? Yeah, the main event was Macho Man Randy Savage, my favorite wrestler of all time, defending the world title against Hulkogan.

Speaker 9: That's really your favorite match.

Speaker 7: That's my favorite WrestleMania.

Speaker 9: That's your favorite WrestleMania favorite.

Speaker 7: No, no, that's my favorite. No, me neither. But when I was a kid, you know, he loomed large in my childhood and Mocho Man was my favorite, and he was in the main event of WrestleMania.

Speaker 9: I always loved Piper and I have in the Junkyard Dog, and that.

Speaker 7: That one was special to me because at that time they were still obviously you could get it on pay per view, but they also were doing closed circuit I don't know if you remember this when So, for example, the Capital Theater in Conquered or Capital or now it is the Capital Center. When I was a kid, it was called the Capital Theater. I don't know why they changed the name, but they would show they would show events on close circuit TV. So, oh wow, my friends and I went to see WrestleMania five on closed Circuit at the Capitol Theater.

Speaker 7: Oh wow, No, so that's that's a nice memory that I've attached to it. It's the one time I ever did that. Growing up, I.

Speaker 9: Watched them Saturday mornings growing up with a particular friend, This girl and I would get together and we would literally eat sour pickles and Oreo cookies, yeah, drink soda and watch Saturday Morning wrestling.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 9: But after it went pay per view, I went bye bye.

Speaker 7: So WrestleMania five will be the main event subject this weekend on Tough Bumps. Please like and subscribe on YouTube or subscribe to it on the platform of your choice where you get your favorite podcasts. And you can subscribe to this show too on your platform of choice because it is a live radio show, but obviously it becomes a podcast as soon as we're done. All right, we're going to end the show.

Speaker 9: Oh yes, And if you want to know more about me and all of the good trouble that I get up to, and there will be some more videos going up from this week's trip to DC at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N C O F f U I dot com.

Speaker 7: Very good, So we're going to close out, and I didn't tell Scott we were going to do this. This was kind of a spontaneous decision. But we're going to close the show today with one more war hoog song because it happens to be my personal favorite warhock song ever, Hunt of the Cybertooth.

Speaker 9: This sounds awesome.

Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, we love I love that one, Hunt of the cyber Do.

Speaker 9: You like the other one that they have their name in that it's Warhaws.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I love all their songs. They're such a great band from from Texas like this, but we love a Hunt of the cyber Tooth. So we will end with this, and that's going to do it for us for now. We'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye bye.

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