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5:02 Speaker 12: much and that's a great way to kick off this

5:04 Speaker 12: week's Matt Connorton Unleashed. Hello everybody, We are live from

5:08 Speaker 12: the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM in

5:12 Speaker 12: glorious but very wet and rainy Manchester, New Hampshire. The

5:15 Speaker 12: song you just heard is called Max Scene and the

5:17 Speaker 12: band is The Forensics. They are from the UK, and

5:21 Speaker 12: that is the American radio premiere of that track. You

5:24 Speaker 12: have not heard that anywhere else in the United States.

5:27 Speaker 12: The song will be released, of course, officially on all

5:29 Speaker 12: the stream streaming platforms and everything on the twenty third

5:33 Speaker 12: of May this month, so soon soon, and then the

5:36 Speaker 12: band is going to be here on the show, not

5:38 Speaker 12: here in person, of course, but joining us from across

5:41 Speaker 12: the pond on the thirty first of May. So really

5:43 Speaker 12: looking forward to talking to them. But that is the

5:45 Speaker 12: American radio premiere of the new track from the Forensics.

5:47 Speaker 12: It's called Max Scene. And we'll probably hit that again

5:50 Speaker 12: in the second and third hour two just to make

5:52 Speaker 12: sure that no matter when you tune into the show,

5:54 Speaker 12: you get to hear it. Because that is a great,

5:56 Speaker 12: great track. I love that so much and really looking

5:58 Speaker 12: forward to talking with those But you heard it here

6:01 Speaker 12: first on Matt connorton Unleashed here on WM and H

6:05 Speaker 12: ninety five point three FM. So today is Saturday, May ten,

6:09 Speaker 12: twenty twenty five, flying solo this morning. But Jenny will

6:13 Speaker 12: be back next week. She is in the chat room

6:15 Speaker 12: though I did see her in there. So but we've

6:17 Speaker 12: got a great show ahead for you. In just a

6:19 Speaker 12: couple of moments, we're gonna be joined by Awaiting Abigail.

6:25 Speaker 12: We did talk to James from the band briefly a

6:27 Speaker 12: little bit a few weeks ago. But if you are

6:29 Speaker 12: watching live, if you're watching the video feed on Facebook

6:33 Speaker 12: or YouTube or wherever you might see it, I do

6:35 Speaker 12: have my Awaiting Abigail shirt. They sent us a package

6:37 Speaker 12: of stuff, which is so much fun. And I'll tell

6:40 Speaker 12: you what these Texas bands especially, they do that, or

6:43 Speaker 12: Grim from Pennsylvania obviously, artists that we have joining us

6:48 Speaker 12: in studio who are from the area, they'll they'll bring

6:51 Speaker 12: stuff with them. But we always appreciate that a little

6:53 Speaker 12: bit of extra effort that it takes to actually put

6:55 Speaker 12: something in the mail and send it to us. So

6:57 Speaker 12: Awaiting Abigail sent us an amazing package of stuff, and

7:00 Speaker 12: they sent shirts for Jenny and I and a bunch

7:02 Speaker 12: of cool stuff. So we love getting We love getting

7:05 Speaker 12: stuff from our guests, and it's not something that we

7:07 Speaker 12: in any way require or request. They just do it

7:10 Speaker 12: and we love it and we appreciate it and appreciate

7:12 Speaker 12: them and looking forward to getting to talk to members

7:15 Speaker 12: of Awaiting Abigail. I'm not sure how many members are

7:17 Speaker 12: going to be joining us on the line. We are

7:19 Speaker 12: going to be doing a little bit of an experiment

7:21 Speaker 12: this morning. So if you listen to the show last week,

7:24 Speaker 12: we made radio history here or Matt Connerton on Leashed History.

7:30 Speaker 12: Sorry if I'm stumbling a little bit here. My full disclosure.

7:33 Speaker 12: I'll just say this right up front. My allergies have

7:35 Speaker 12: been brutal lately, so I need a gulp of water.

7:41 Speaker 12: It'll probably be having many many gulps of water to

7:44 Speaker 12: get me through the show today because I've just got

7:46 Speaker 12: all this congestion and you know, the pollen's been really bad.

7:48 Speaker 12: And then it rains, and I don't like the rainy

7:50 Speaker 12: weather because it's dreary and it makes me tired, but

7:53 Speaker 12: as it does affect a lot of us. But then

7:55 Speaker 12: I hope, well, at least it'll wash away at the pollen,

7:57 Speaker 12: some of the pollen, but I don't think it actually

7:59 Speaker 12: works out because I still feel very congested and allergy ish,

8:05 Speaker 12: if that's a word, which it's not. Anyway, Last week

8:09 Speaker 12: on the show, because Skype has been discontinued, so we

8:13 Speaker 12: used WhatsApp for the first time on Matt Connerton Unleashed

8:18 Speaker 12: our friend at Charles Richardson, host of The Charles Richardson Show,

8:20 Speaker 12: joined us from Florida using WhatsApp. Went okay. The only

8:25 Speaker 12: problem with WhatsApp is if you're using it on the desktop.

8:29 Speaker 12: I haven't figured out yet how to because it's really

8:31 Speaker 12: it's designed to be a phone app. I haven't figured

8:33 Speaker 12: out how to answer on the desktop. So there's probably

8:39 Speaker 12: a way to do it. But when I called so

8:41 Speaker 12: I had to call Charles, but he wasn't able to

8:44 Speaker 12: answer on his computer. He had to use his phone

8:47 Speaker 12: to answer, and he wanted to use his computer because

8:50 Speaker 12: he's got his professional mic setup and everything that he

8:52 Speaker 12: uses for his show. Sounded really good anyway, The sound

8:55 Speaker 12: quality was great, but would have sounded even better if

8:58 Speaker 12: he was able to actually use his microphone instead of

9:00 Speaker 12: his phone. But there doesn't seem to be a way.

9:03 Speaker 12: I'm sure, there's a way. I just haven't figured it

9:05 Speaker 12: out yet to use WhatsApp where you can just answer

9:07 Speaker 12: it on your computer, so it's a little trickier. So

9:11 Speaker 12: I came up with another solution, another service. I don't

9:14 Speaker 12: want to say what it is. I don't want to

9:16 Speaker 12: give away too much proprietary information, but it is something

9:18 Speaker 12: that I'm already used to using. And I sent James

9:21 Speaker 12: a link to this other service. Will we'll see if

9:25 Speaker 12: that works. He has the studio line number, so if

9:28 Speaker 12: that doesn't work, he can call the studio line. But

9:30 Speaker 12: we're gonna kind of use Awaiting Abigail as our guinea

9:32 Speaker 12: pig to make sure that the way we're doing it

9:35 Speaker 12: now works. Because Skype is no more. This little notification

9:39 Speaker 12: popped up that said Skype is discontinued or being discontinued,

9:43 Speaker 12: and now you can use Google Teams. But that's that's

9:46 Speaker 12: not what we need for this. So anyway, so we'll

9:49 Speaker 12: see what happens. We'll see what happens. But so Awaiting

9:52 Speaker 12: Abigail is going to be joining us. I got to

9:54 Speaker 12: keep an eye on that for when they pop in

9:56 Speaker 12: to the I think I'll hear I think I'll hear

9:58 Speaker 12: something in my headphones, a chime or something when they arrive.

10:01 Speaker 12: Coming up in the second hour, we have Trawl from Portland, Maine.

10:05 Speaker 12: These guys I've been aware of for a while, saw

10:07 Speaker 12: them live once. Great great band. They're driving down. I hope,

10:12 Speaker 12: I hope they travel safely in the rain. It's pouring outside,

10:16 Speaker 12: but they're coming down from Portland, so really looking forward

10:19 Speaker 12: to meeting them. And then in the third hour, we

10:21 Speaker 12: have Mike Frasier, who is driving here all the way

10:25 Speaker 12: from Seattle. No, I'm kidding, he is from Seattle, but

10:27 Speaker 12: he's actually on tour right now, but the way the

10:30 Speaker 12: tour routing worked out, he's able to come and join

10:32 Speaker 12: us here on the program. Jenny and I met Mike

10:36 Speaker 12: might have been a year ago at the shas Skiene

10:38 Speaker 12: in Manchester. He was playing a show there, and he's

10:42 Speaker 12: got a fascinating backstory. He's really been through a lot,

10:46 Speaker 12: but I think he's well play. We actually did a

10:49 Speaker 12: world premiere of his newest single, April Days here on

10:53 Speaker 12: the show a couple of months ago. But really looking

10:55 Speaker 12: forward to having him and talking to him. Some more

10:57 Speaker 12: really interesting guy and a very talented musician. Oh h

11:00 Speaker 12: we've got him coming on in the third hour, So

11:03 Speaker 12: lots to do today on the show. We've got a

11:05 Speaker 12: very busy show ahead of us. But welcome everybody if

11:07 Speaker 12: you are just joining. This is Matt Condorton Unleashed and

11:09 Speaker 12: we are live from the studios of w m n

11:12 Speaker 12: H ninety five point three FM. And of course, for

11:14 Speaker 12: all your streaming options, you can go to my website

11:17 Speaker 12: Matt conorton dot com slash live and you can join

11:20 Speaker 12: the audio stream there. You can click a link to

11:23 Speaker 12: join the video stream if you'd like to.

11:25 Speaker 9: Uh.

11:27 Speaker 12: Oh, I just heard a chime. That's a good sign.

11:29 Speaker 12: That's a good sign. I think this is gonna work. Okay,

11:31 Speaker 12: let's see now I have to add. I just clicked

11:37 Speaker 12: add to the stream and I hear I hear things.

11:42 Speaker 12: That's a good sign. I think this is gonna work.

11:44 Speaker 12: Can you hear me?

11:46 Speaker 13: Yes, I can hear you.

11:47 Speaker 12: Hey, all right, it works. It works. We're using uh,

11:50 Speaker 12: we're using some different software than we're used to using

11:52 Speaker 12: because Skype is Skype is, Skype is no more. Okay, wonderful,

11:56 Speaker 12: wonderful awaiting abigail, Ladies and gentlemen, who do we have uh,

11:59 Speaker 12: who do we have? Joined us? On the on the

12:01 Speaker 12: line here.

12:02 Speaker 13: Yeah, so this is Abigail Hill.

12:04 Speaker 12: I'm the singer of Awaiting, okay, and who and and is.

12:10 Speaker 13: Just I think James is supposed to join as well.

12:13 Speaker 12: Hm hmm okay, wonderful. So if I hear another chime,

12:17 Speaker 12: I'll know to uh, I'll know to add him. Okay, excellent, excellent.

12:22 Speaker 12: I'm just gonna adjust something here. I'm sorry I'm doing

12:24 Speaker 12: this live on the air, but I just want to

12:26 Speaker 12: make sure this is working, okay, because we're doing a

12:29 Speaker 12: little bit doing this a little bit different. So Abigail, Yeah,

12:32 Speaker 12: so welcome to the program. I became well. First of all,

12:34 Speaker 12: thank you for the wonderful package that that the band

12:37 Speaker 12: sent us. And I wear my uh waiting Jenny and

12:41 Speaker 12: I we wear our Awaiting Abigail shirts proudly and tell

12:46 Speaker 12: us about you know, we kind of got when James

12:48 Speaker 12: was on with us. Oh, I heard another chime. Let's see.

12:54 Speaker 9: What's going on up James?

12:57 Speaker 12: Welcome?

12:58 Speaker 9: What's up? Hey?

12:59 Speaker 12: This new software I'm working see I'm using seems to

13:02 Speaker 12: be working great. So thank you for thank you for

13:05 Speaker 12: kind of being our guinea pigs with us this morning.

13:08 Speaker 9: Hey man, we don't ever mind it. We're guinea pigs

13:10 Speaker 9: for a lot of stuff. We dig it.

13:11 Speaker 12: There you go, there you go. I'm relieved that it

13:13 Speaker 12: works and we're all able to talk. So yeah, I

13:15 Speaker 12: was about to ask, Abigail, can you kind of tell

13:18 Speaker 12: us now you told us when we had you on before,

13:21 Speaker 12: kind of the history of the band how it all

13:22 Speaker 12: came together and uh, But I'd like to hear a

13:25 Speaker 12: little more too, from Abigail's perspective, because it's a unique

13:28 Speaker 12: project in the sense that you know, it's multi generational

13:32 Speaker 12: and there's even a father and a daughter combination in

13:35 Speaker 12: the band, I believe, and the whole deal. So it's

13:38 Speaker 12: really interesting how this band uh formed, And Abigail, I'd

13:43 Speaker 12: like to learn a little bit more about you and

13:45 Speaker 12: how you became a part of the band that is

13:47 Speaker 12: now awaiting Abigail.

13:50 Speaker 14: Yeah, so I started off in musical theater when I

13:53 Speaker 14: was four, and when I was a little bit older,

13:56 Speaker 14: I went to this like in town in Tomball was

14:00 Speaker 14: this rock club thing.

14:01 Speaker 13: It is called all about.

14:03 Speaker 14: Music and Arts, and I actually got into a rock

14:07 Speaker 14: band with that, but it wasn't like a like a

14:09 Speaker 14: big rock band.

14:09 Speaker 13: We would just like practice covers just so we get

14:12 Speaker 13: the feel of it.

14:13 Speaker 14: And then I now am then college at ET Arlington,

14:17 Speaker 14: and I was like really wanting a band because I

14:20 Speaker 14: also make my own music. I do pop as well,

14:23 Speaker 14: but I kind of wanted a band to like help

14:26 Speaker 14: me out and like collaborate because I love collaborating. And

14:29 Speaker 14: so I got on this app called band Mix, and

14:32 Speaker 14: that's actually where I found James and he messaged me

14:35 Speaker 14: and I did an audition from the Pretty Reckless.

14:39 Speaker 13: We just did a video audition.

14:41 Speaker 14: He liked it, and then we he ended up flying

14:45 Speaker 14: me out to do a band rehearsal because I was

14:47 Speaker 14: in Houston for the summer, and.

14:50 Speaker 13: We did a band rehearsal with the full band. They

14:52 Speaker 13: liked me. So then there was the last test.

14:55 Speaker 14: The last test was to see if I could songwrite

14:58 Speaker 14: and then do in the studio to make sure, like

15:01 Speaker 14: you know, I was the one because he had a

15:03 Speaker 14: couple of other options, and.

15:05 Speaker 13: So I song wrote. I worked with my boyfriend, he's

15:08 Speaker 13: actually right here.

15:10 Speaker 14: We worked at meals on wheels together, so I would

15:12 Speaker 14: songwrite like in between the routes and stuff, and I

15:18 Speaker 14: ended up songwriting all four of the EPs, all four

15:21 Speaker 14: of the songs off of the EP of Bad Mind

15:23 Speaker 14: and he liked it.

15:25 Speaker 13: So we went into the studio and I guess the

15:28 Speaker 13: studio person he said that he liked me. So that's

15:32 Speaker 13: kind of what got me into the band.

15:33 Speaker 12: And yeah, so it's interesting that you mentioned so you

15:37 Speaker 12: had initially you had auditioned for the Pretty Reckless, and

15:41 Speaker 12: then you were able to use that audition to show

15:43 Speaker 12: that to James.

15:45 Speaker 14: I did it, auditioned for the Pretty Reckless, but he

15:48 Speaker 14: wanted me to sing a pretty reckless song.

15:50 Speaker 12: Oh I got you, okay, Yeah.

15:52 Speaker 7: Yeah, I just gave it.

15:55 Speaker 9: I just gave her a cover, a couple of cover

15:57 Speaker 9: songs to learn.

15:57 Speaker 15: You know.

15:57 Speaker 9: That was kind of like our initial screening is like

16:01 Speaker 9: and then you know, she made the she made a

16:04 Speaker 9: short order because those were you know, we could tell

16:07 Speaker 9: she really had some chops from that, and so I

16:10 Speaker 9: was like, well, the next real test is gonna be,

16:14 Speaker 9: you know, can she write songs? So we had four

16:16 Speaker 9: tracks already, the four tracks are on the EP. Those

16:19 Speaker 9: already existed before Abby was around, and uh, we were

16:22 Speaker 9: just kind of struggling to find a singer. I mean

16:25 Speaker 9: we were pretty selective, so we turned a couple of

16:28 Speaker 9: people away. But anyways, it's crazy because you know that

16:31 Speaker 9: music's uh everywhere, at least for a small band. And uh,

16:36 Speaker 9: that those four songs, she laid those down and just

16:40 Speaker 9: a couple hours, Uh after only rehearsing with us one time.

16:45 Speaker 12: Yeah, when something, when something comes together quickly like that,

16:48 Speaker 12: that's how you know you've really got something when it's

16:51 Speaker 12: you know, it just makes it kind of seem like

16:53 Speaker 12: it's fate.

16:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, totally, So, so.

16:57 Speaker 12: That's very cool. Are you working on You've got the

16:59 Speaker 12: four tracks that you've released from the the ep Bad Mind.

17:03 Speaker 12: Do you have more stuff you're already working on?

17:05 Speaker 14: Yeah, we do, actually, so we're actually doing a couple

17:11 Speaker 14: from my actual originals from my pop stuff. One is

17:15 Speaker 14: called Anxiety, so we transformed that into a rock song,

17:19 Speaker 14: and then they also had another rock song that they

17:21 Speaker 14: kind of wrote together, and so I just made lyrics

17:24 Speaker 14: to that, and you've been performing that live.

17:26 Speaker 13: It's called left Out.

17:28 Speaker 14: So we're gonna go in the studio and get that

17:30 Speaker 14: ready and then tonight actually we have a performance as Kida.

17:34 Speaker 13: So we're actually doing a new one that was also

17:38 Speaker 13: from my pop stuff. It's called fun House. So we're

17:42 Speaker 13: kind of getting new tracks out as well.

17:44 Speaker 12: Yeah, excellent. And where did you the ep? Bad mind?

17:48 Speaker 12: Where did you record this? Because it sounds phenomenal.

17:52 Speaker 9: Yeah, Alex Gerst in Empire Sounds Studio and Dallas. He's

17:59 Speaker 9: absolutely a legend and the production is top quality. And

18:04 Speaker 9: to be honest with you, we had originally gone in

18:06 Speaker 9: there with a different vocalist and he and I have

18:10 Speaker 9: been friends for a long time. We recorded with his

18:12 Speaker 9: dad and we're kids and we were playing and vocal bands,

18:15 Speaker 9: and you know, making the CD was a huge deal.

18:17 Speaker 9: So we've known him for a long time. But he's like, dude,

18:19 Speaker 9: this music's too good. You got to find the right person.

18:22 Speaker 9: But he's absolutely a legend. I mean, he does a

18:25 Speaker 9: lot of a lot of stuff that people can google

18:27 Speaker 9: him and check him out. He definitely he's definitely like

18:31 Speaker 9: an additional member of the band when we're working on stuff.

18:34 Speaker 12: Yeah, oh that's great. And what's the what's the live situation? Like,

18:39 Speaker 12: are you able to uh, are you able to do

18:41 Speaker 12: some live shows or because when you've got a you've

18:43 Speaker 12: got a large lineup of people and obviously it's you know,

18:48 Speaker 12: like we said, it's multi generational. I'm sure everyone has

18:50 Speaker 12: different levels of commitments and obligations that they have to fulfill.

18:54 Speaker 12: So I'm really curious about the touring situation.

18:57 Speaker 9: Yeah, so we're we're playing tonight actually here locally and

19:00 Speaker 9: for worth. Actually, yeah, we're Everybody is very easy to

19:05 Speaker 9: work with and it is a multi uh generational. It's

19:09 Speaker 9: pretty funny. We've got we've got pretty much every decade covered.

19:12 Speaker 9: But yeah, it's something that we all enjoy and so

19:16 Speaker 9: we're able to make time for it. We rehearse sometimes

19:21 Speaker 9: every week, sometimes every other week, but uh, we have

19:24 Speaker 9: our shows basically scheduled a month apart. As far as

19:29 Speaker 9: the touring situation will probably be like Weekend Warriors for

19:33 Speaker 9: a while. On that we've got. I wish that I

19:36 Speaker 9: could break it right now because it'd be kind of

19:38 Speaker 9: a huge deal. But we've got a little mini tour. Yeah,

19:40 Speaker 9: we've got. I just can't I asked, Uh, I asked

19:43 Speaker 9: the person that's putting it on, and I can't do

19:45 Speaker 9: it yet, but uh, stand by for a huge announcement

19:48 Speaker 9: for a little mini tour down in Florida coming up

19:51 Speaker 9: in September.

19:52 Speaker 12: Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, is that where you're from?

19:55 Speaker 12: Are you all in Florida?

19:57 Speaker 13: We're from We're based in Dallas, tex Oh.

20:01 Speaker 12: That's right, right, yeah, but to get to Florida's probably

20:04 Speaker 12: not not too bad. What what's the scene like in

20:08 Speaker 12: Dallas right now? From what I've heard from other guests,

20:10 Speaker 12: it's pretty good. There's a lot of really good bands

20:12 Speaker 12: there is that. Is that true?

20:14 Speaker 13: Yeah? I would say that's pretty true. There's definitely a

20:18 Speaker 13: lot of live music down there, and there's different genres too,

20:21 Speaker 13: which is really cool.

20:23 Speaker 12: Excellent, excellent. Do you have other do you have other

20:25 Speaker 12: bands that you kind of you know, it tempts to

20:27 Speaker 12: happen organically. Are there other bands in the area that

20:29 Speaker 12: you've kind of teamed up with as far as playing out.

20:33 Speaker 9: For sure? Yeah, for sure. Initially your buddy Mike from

20:37 Speaker 9: Moonfallen we played their first show, was our first show

20:41 Speaker 9: also back in December.

20:43 Speaker 12: Yeah, oh, very cool.

20:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, so we kicked that. We kicked the whole thing

20:47 Speaker 9: off with a women and metal show that was five

20:51 Speaker 9: female fronted bands, and man, it really set the tone

20:53 Speaker 9: for everything that we have done because we hung out beforehand,

20:59 Speaker 9: did like a pre show photoshet and like seeing the

21:02 Speaker 9: girls with Abby and like, it was just really cool.

21:04 Speaker 9: It's like a networking type of thing that I think

21:07 Speaker 9: has really paid dividends for you know, the whole, the

21:11 Speaker 9: whole thing so far.

21:12 Speaker 12: Well, I can tell you ever since we met Mike Woolsey,

21:16 Speaker 12: he's been He's sent us so many We've met so

21:18 Speaker 12: many great Texas bands and artists through him. You know,

21:23 Speaker 12: he refers people to us, and and it's it's been

21:25 Speaker 12: really great. You know, he's a great guy, and it's

21:28 Speaker 12: we've met so much great talent through him. I mean,

21:30 Speaker 12: Jenny can attest to that too. You know, she does

21:32 Speaker 12: all the booking, and you know, we love whenever Mike

21:35 Speaker 12: refers anyone to us, we know it's going to be

21:37 Speaker 12: someone of great quality. I can't remember if we talked

21:40 Speaker 12: about this, h when you were on the show with

21:42 Speaker 12: us before, James, But you've also got and I referenced

21:46 Speaker 12: a father daughter duo in the band, which is pretty

21:50 Speaker 12: unusual Mike and Corey.

21:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's super funny. Man Like. So, Corey actually was

21:57 Speaker 9: a former student of mine when I was teaching school

22:02 Speaker 9: public school band. So she was a percussionist in one

22:06 Speaker 9: of my early bands. I was like, I don't know,

22:08 Speaker 9: maybe four years out of college or something, and she

22:12 Speaker 9: was a great percussion student. And I didn't really stay

22:15 Speaker 9: in touch with her. But I connected with her dad

22:20 Speaker 9: through a local flying club, like a general aviation club,

22:25 Speaker 9: and we kind of made the connection and it was like, what, like,

22:28 Speaker 9: your last name is Tulfa. That's a unique name. And

22:31 Speaker 9: he's like, oh my gosh, you're mister Smith from whatever.

22:34 Speaker 9: But both but both of them are super cool, like

22:36 Speaker 9: they're literally down for anything. Like I could call them

22:39 Speaker 9: up today and say, hey, you know, y'all want to

22:41 Speaker 9: go to jump in the car and go to road

22:44 Speaker 9: trip or something, and they'd be like, yeah, we're in.

22:47 Speaker 9: And I knew Corey's background. You know, the percussionists in

22:51 Speaker 9: a public school at least around here have to learn

22:53 Speaker 9: a lot of keyboarding skills, not just drums, so I

22:57 Speaker 9: knew that. I knew she would be perfect for or

23:00 Speaker 9: you know, to put behind a keyboard for samples and

23:04 Speaker 9: different stuff like that. And then Mike has played guitar.

23:09 Speaker 9: He's the oldest. I'm gonna out him on this. He's

23:11 Speaker 9: the oldest. He I think he's sixty two right now,

23:14 Speaker 9: but he looks like he's like like in his forties.

23:16 Speaker 9: But yeah, anyways, yeah, so he's the oldest sixty two,

23:20 Speaker 9: and Abby's youngest twenty. But anyways, Mike had Put has

23:23 Speaker 9: played guitar for a long time, huge kiss fan to

23:26 Speaker 9: the Freest Guy, and so yeah, so I knew I

23:29 Speaker 9: could wrangle him in, Like he's kind of like you

23:32 Speaker 9: just say the word, and both of them are like that.

23:34 Speaker 9: They just show up and they're down through anything.

23:36 Speaker 12: Mm hmmm, Oh excellent. Now, so who's responsible primarily for

23:41 Speaker 12: the songwriting? Because the songs are really good? You had

23:44 Speaker 12: sent us a couple of singles which we did play

23:47 Speaker 12: the last time we talked to you, James, but but

23:50 Speaker 12: then I ended up playing an extra song. I played

23:51 Speaker 12: that song I Hate You, which I love that is

23:54 Speaker 12: so so catchy. But who wrote these primarily? Like, who's

23:59 Speaker 12: the print songwriter around these?

24:03 Speaker 13: Yeah, I would say I do.

24:06 Speaker 14: James kind of gave me. He gave me the like

24:08 Speaker 14: the soundtracks. Yeah, And what I did was I would

24:11 Speaker 14: just songwrite over them. And since I used to do

24:13 Speaker 14: like well, I still do pop music. But since I

24:17 Speaker 14: do pop music, I.

24:18 Speaker 12: Kind of know how to make it kind of catchy,

24:20 Speaker 12: makes sense.

24:21 Speaker 13: I think that's why it's fun to like transform it

24:24 Speaker 13: into a rock song. It's really fun.

24:26 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, yeah, especially like I said, I Hate You

24:28 Speaker 12: as such a great hook. You know, it's infectious and

24:31 Speaker 12: uh no, really good stuff that makes sense. I mean,

24:34 Speaker 12: is that is that kind of your prior to being

24:37 Speaker 12: in A Waiting Abigail? Did did you ever you know,

24:40 Speaker 12: because obviously you you've written a lot of pop music,

24:44 Speaker 12: but had you ever written anything quite like this where

24:48 Speaker 12: you're going into it with that sort of rock sensibility

24:51 Speaker 12: or is this kind of new for you?

24:54 Speaker 13: This is kind of new for me, So.

24:55 Speaker 14: I think it's kind of cool to to met in

24:58 Speaker 14: what I've known and I'm kind of of learning.

25:00 Speaker 13: More as I go.

25:02 Speaker 12: Yeah. Yeah, well you're off to a great start. So

25:04 Speaker 12: that's excellent. That's excellent. And have you done any videos?

25:08 Speaker 12: Does A Waiting Abigail have any videos yet? Any music videos?

25:11 Speaker 13: Yeah?

25:12 Speaker 6: We do.

25:12 Speaker 14: We actually have two out. We have Bad Minds and

25:15 Speaker 14: then we also have Falling Under, which actually just came out.

25:18 Speaker 12: Okay, I gotta check that out. Yeah it out? Yeah,

25:23 Speaker 12: very cool, very cool. So what what is the what's

25:27 Speaker 12: kind of the future trajectory as far as new music?

25:30 Speaker 12: I know you've got some stuff you're working on, but

25:33 Speaker 12: this EP is relatively new, right, so you probably you

25:37 Speaker 12: probably aren't in a big hurry to get new stuff out,

25:39 Speaker 12: I would assume, but maybe not.

25:41 Speaker 9: Well, it's funny, Matt, because as you know, like the

25:44 Speaker 9: social media monster and you know, just the scene as

25:49 Speaker 9: it is, it's hungry and like if you feed it

25:52 Speaker 9: it once more and yeah, so we actually yeah, and

25:55 Speaker 9: so we've got like four or five.

25:58 Speaker 16: New originals and uh, I don't have an exact plan yet,

26:02 Speaker 16: but there definitely will will be more music in the

26:04 Speaker 16: next couple of months, probably like a single, A side

26:07 Speaker 16: B side thing and then maybe another EP before the

26:12 Speaker 16: end of the year.

26:12 Speaker 9: We write music really fast. It's just a matter of

26:16 Speaker 9: you know, getting into the studio. And we even work

26:19 Speaker 9: pretty quickly in the studio because uh, we go in

26:22 Speaker 9: there with a click track already with the scratch parts down.

26:27 Speaker 9: I use the same software as Alex, so we're able

26:30 Speaker 9: to Yeah, we're able to move. We're able to move

26:32 Speaker 9: pretty quickly. It's just a matter of actually balancing that

26:36 Speaker 9: with supporting it live. But yeah, it's definitely like, gosh,

26:40 Speaker 9: that thing's only been out since December, but like everybody

26:44 Speaker 9: digs all four songs and it's like we've got to

26:46 Speaker 9: get we've got to feed the monster.

26:49 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, that is a big challenge in

26:52 Speaker 12: the social media environment that we're in. You're right, and

26:55 Speaker 12: it's it's it's hard to keep up with it all too,

26:59 Speaker 12: you know, with so many different social media services and

27:02 Speaker 12: and so many different ways now that you can connect

27:05 Speaker 12: with fans, which is great in the sense that there

27:07 Speaker 12: are many ways that you can connect with fans, but

27:09 Speaker 12: also it can be a little overwhelming at times and

27:12 Speaker 12: trying to figure out how to navigate well, how do

27:14 Speaker 12: we how do we keep people interested? How do we

27:16 Speaker 12: keep people engaged? You know, engagement is a word that

27:19 Speaker 12: you hear a lot when we're talking about social media

27:21 Speaker 12: and marketing anything really, but but especially music, and how

27:26 Speaker 12: do you balance that with you also don't want to

27:28 Speaker 12: oversaturate and you want to make sure that whatever you're

27:30 Speaker 12: putting out isn't rushed, that it's of quality. So it's

27:35 Speaker 12: a lot too, it's a lot to kind of navigate through.

27:38 Speaker 12: But uh, you know, but but so far, it seems

27:40 Speaker 12: like you're doing great. You've definitely got some some momentum

27:43 Speaker 12: behind you. And I'm really excited to see what awaiting

27:47 Speaker 12: a gap. Uh, I can't say it all of a sudden,

27:49 Speaker 12: awaiting Abigail I'm excited to see, uh, to see what

27:53 Speaker 12: you have in the future and and you've got and

27:57 Speaker 12: I'm really excited too to hear what this big announcement

27:59 Speaker 12: is that you can't tell us yet, but can you

28:01 Speaker 12: give us a hint, any any hints you can offer.

28:06 Speaker 9: I could say, just it's gonna be Florida, it's gonna

28:09 Speaker 9: be September, and it's going to be a national act. Okay, yeah, yeah,

28:14 Speaker 9: little four day mini tour with them, and it'll definitely

28:18 Speaker 9: be somebody. It's somebody that people will definitely know, and

28:21 Speaker 9: it'll it's a great matchup for.

28:23 Speaker 12: Us, not a not a not a national act you

28:26 Speaker 12: might have mentioned earlier in the conversation by any chance, No,

28:29 Speaker 12: okay yet, Okay, okay, it's it's coming though, I'm sure

28:34 Speaker 12: it's coming.

28:35 Speaker 9: It's it's our goal.

28:36 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very good. Well listen, it's wonderful to

28:40 Speaker 12: speak to you both this morning. James, of course we

28:42 Speaker 12: had talked before, and Abigail, it's nice to meet you.

28:45 Speaker 12: And uh, absolutely, we'll definitely do this again in the

28:48 Speaker 12: future as you have more music coming out or and

28:51 Speaker 12: and if you want to come back on to when

28:52 Speaker 12: you can make make that announcement formally, Uh, you know,

28:55 Speaker 12: we we Jenny and I are both big fans and

28:57 Speaker 12: we want to support what you're doing. And I did

29:00 Speaker 12: get a lot of positive feedback too from from before

29:02 Speaker 12: when I played those songs on the show and I

29:05 Speaker 12: was thinking about ending the segment with I'm gonna let

29:09 Speaker 12: I told you what my personal favorite is, but I

29:11 Speaker 12: want to let the two of you choose, because I

29:14 Speaker 12: don't know if there's something you're pushing more than more

29:17 Speaker 12: than something else from the EP bad mind. But what

29:19 Speaker 12: would your what would your preference be, James and Abigail,

29:22 Speaker 12: what would your preference be that I that I closed

29:25 Speaker 12: the segment with.

29:26 Speaker 9: I'll let the little lady pick.

29:28 Speaker 12: Okay, I guess I.

29:33 Speaker 13: Hate you such your favorite?

29:35 Speaker 12: I would yeah, perfect, perfect, Yeah, I I hate you

29:42 Speaker 12: as my favorite. That is so catchy, Like I said,

29:44 Speaker 12: I you know, after I played it on the show,

29:46 Speaker 12: I played it a bunch of times after we got

29:48 Speaker 12: off the air that day. I was just like, this

29:49 Speaker 12: is just such a great track, so so wonderful. All right,

29:53 Speaker 12: well listen, we'll uh, we'll wrap up with that. We'll

29:55 Speaker 12: let you go and then I'm gonna hit that track.

29:57 Speaker 12: But Abigail and James so nice to talk with. Thank

30:00 Speaker 12: you both this morning on Matt connorton Unleashed. I wish

30:03 Speaker 12: you continued success and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

30:07 Speaker 9: Thank you.

30:07 Speaker 12: Okay, thank you, Okay, you got it. Thank you. Take care,

30:10 Speaker 12: bye bye bye.

30:13 Speaker 9: All right.

30:13 Speaker 12: Wonderful. So that is James, of course had been on

30:16 Speaker 12: the show. We talked with him a few weeks ago,

30:17 Speaker 12: and I was wonderful to get to speak with Abigail

30:19 Speaker 12: as well, the lead singer of Awaiting Abigail, and we're

30:23 Speaker 12: gonna play this track again. This is this is so

30:26 Speaker 12: so good. This is called I Hate You. This is

30:28 Speaker 12: from the EP called Bad Mind. And we might actually

30:34 Speaker 12: we might actually sneak another one into We might play

30:36 Speaker 12: a couple of these. If you are listening live on

30:38 Speaker 12: Saturday morning. Trall is coming up next. I've been notified

30:41 Speaker 12: that they have arrived, so we're going to get them

30:43 Speaker 12: in the building. I'm really excited to talk to those

30:45 Speaker 12: guys as well. And of course in the third hour,

30:47 Speaker 12: we have Mike Frazier joining us, so we've got a

30:49 Speaker 12: lot of show left to go. But check this out.

30:52 Speaker 12: This is catchy as hell. This is called I Hate You,

30:54 Speaker 12: and the band is awaiting Abigail, Oh.

31:02 Speaker 17: Good fear cheez, what's weird? I hate her so much?

31:07 Speaker 17: I'm not doing this today.

31:09 Speaker 1: Let's go a long way quick, let's go.

31:13 Speaker 15: Whatever you show up, you always happen by your fingers

31:20 Speaker 15: and crows and reads him nice?

31:26 Speaker 12: No, why no when you hate came? But I see you?

31:38 Speaker 17: Why you so?

31:41 Speaker 7: Why so way? Worry you say? Moliday so chest Why

31:59 Speaker 7: by and.

32:08 Speaker 8: By you know sk.

32:17 Speaker 7: Grace bol, This says Bol.

32:31 Speaker 17: You played the game, but no, you would just play.

32:37 Speaker 17: We're all her for all the shame? Why I so?

32:46 Speaker 7: By? Eyre?

32:48 Speaker 14: So way?

32:52 Speaker 7: Mary? You say?

32:55 Speaker 18: Are day.

32:57 Speaker 9: So?

32:59 Speaker 1: Why ye so away?

33:03 Speaker 17: Why why.

33:13 Speaker 9: Ye?

33:25 Speaker 19: I been trying to find y'all?

33:27 Speaker 17: Did you know what happened to?

33:29 Speaker 20: What?

33:30 Speaker 8: Yes?

33:31 Speaker 17: And if everything she's totally deserves you?

33:36 Speaker 9: Are you?

33:37 Speaker 17: Why now you're the one? Five face b.

33:45 Speaker 4: Loud?

33:48 Speaker 7: Why I am so? Why eyes soway.

33:57 Speaker 17: Marry day by day.

34:02 Speaker 14: So jo b? I hate?

34:13 Speaker 9: What is? I hate?

34:22 Speaker 7: What idea.

34:30 Speaker 17: Than whistles though dissumption entangled.

35:36 Speaker 7: In for mind, Give me my comper for your paper, hide.

35:45 Speaker 17: I see, stow your footstot your lies and well fast

35:50 Speaker 17: and then make happier on.

35:52 Speaker 15: The back.

35:56 Speaker 21: Holding nun bias day, got a mess of I'm trying

36:00 Speaker 21: to pry great.

36:02 Speaker 22: Trying du been chop me how fine becking.

36:05 Speaker 9: Me all.

36:07 Speaker 7: Cho may be telling me.

36:13 Speaker 22: Falling under fall and that's stipulated the best fun recycle

36:20 Speaker 22: this in the trust.

36:24 Speaker 7: Falling under fall.

36:26 Speaker 17: And that's stipulated. I felt that now I see.

36:33 Speaker 23: Falling nonders, falling nono, falling non nose but.

36:50 Speaker 8: Fallen.

36:50 Speaker 24: London tells me, don't you worry, You'll be up and

37:00 Speaker 24: you'll be fine.

37:03 Speaker 17: Get here, kay, time see through your f sal eyes

37:11 Speaker 17: and ravel fast happened in the past corner. You're holding

37:20 Speaker 17: on by a straight You're the message.

37:23 Speaker 21: I'm trying to break break trying to control me how

37:28 Speaker 21: my recking.

37:29 Speaker 7: Moods Chayes, Maybe tell.

37:34 Speaker 22: Me break falling under fall and fast stipulated the best

37:42 Speaker 22: on the cycle of the seat in the falling under

37:49 Speaker 22: fall and fastipuates it like the fast see.

37:57 Speaker 23: Fun unders stuff, falling unders, falling nonders good, falling under.

38:19 Speaker 1: Falling no nerves go.

38:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, breathing out outside her mother's.

39:02 Speaker 17: Not okay.

39:04 Speaker 19: Two full telling mon che but no, no, every everything

39:12 Speaker 19: seems fine. It's fine, not doing my fane when your world.

39:19 Speaker 15: Is going to cease this.

39:20 Speaker 1: You just got to remember this one me by.

39:25 Speaker 17: What's happ in front.

39:26 Speaker 21: Of theF That's all you got to do?

39:32 Speaker 17: What's happ in front of me?

39:33 Speaker 15: Happens supine a fad mine?

39:39 Speaker 17: What's happen in front of the epsodes? What's epp in

39:43 Speaker 17: front of the essence?

39:45 Speaker 9: What's eve in.

39:46 Speaker 13: Front of the essen?

39:48 Speaker 7: Don't you gonna do anything?

39:50 Speaker 14: My life?

39:51 Speaker 7: Bad mindne.

39:57 Speaker 17: Mad? They always tell.

40:05 Speaker 7: Me you got to be brave, But what the hell

40:09 Speaker 7: is that you to pay?

40:11 Speaker 21: You at your worst and badrive to know mine? Don't

40:18 Speaker 21: you at your cousin making thing to the sumo sound true?

40:24 Speaker 17: I got a pen's a listening tears allow you just

40:28 Speaker 17: got to.

40:28 Speaker 21: Some members find they se what's set in front of

40:33 Speaker 21: the athen That's all.

40:36 Speaker 8: You got to do?

40:39 Speaker 17: What set in front of the.

40:41 Speaker 14: Just said?

40:43 Speaker 7: A fat mine?

40:46 Speaker 17: What's that in front of the essence?

40:49 Speaker 22: What's happen in front of the essence?

40:52 Speaker 17: What's set in front of theessence? I tell you gotta

40:56 Speaker 17: do this in my life.

40:58 Speaker 7: A fast.

41:11 Speaker 17: Wants you'll have to keep it in.

41:15 Speaker 22: That ships out high things you feel like you won't

41:19 Speaker 22: keep better again?

41:22 Speaker 7: You got over the sky and mine.

41:28 Speaker 14: You be a.

41:31 Speaker 7: What you wanna or come this time.

41:34 Speaker 22: I'm here with you.

41:36 Speaker 1: Just take my big.

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41:52 Speaker 17: What's up in front of things?

41:54 Speaker 9: Them?

41:56 Speaker 17: What's up in front of bee?

41:57 Speaker 7: That them?

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50:19 Speaker 12: Oh that is so good. That is Braggadocio and the

50:22 Speaker 12: band is Trall and we've got Troll here with us

50:26 Speaker 12: live in studio. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we

50:29 Speaker 12: are live from the studios of w MNH ninety five

50:33 Speaker 12: point three FM and glorious, very rainy and wet, Manchester,

50:36 Speaker 12: New Hampshire, if you are listening live on Saturday May ten,

50:39 Speaker 12: twenty twenty five, and so happy to have you with us.

50:43 Speaker 12: That is a world radio premiere of that track, by

50:44 Speaker 12: the way, that has not been heard on the radio

50:47 Speaker 12: prior to today. So we do love the world radio premieres.

50:50 Speaker 12: And we've got the members of Trall all four guys

50:52 Speaker 12: are here with us live in studio. Welcome, gentlemen. Hello,

50:57 Speaker 12: let's do this. Let's start with you, sir. We'll go

51:00 Speaker 12: around the room and tell us who you are and

51:02 Speaker 12: what you do in the band.

51:03 Speaker 5: I am Sean. I am the singer of Well. I

51:06 Speaker 5: make mouth noises. Let me get that right, I make

51:08 Speaker 5: mouth noises for troll all right, welcome shot.

51:11 Speaker 12: I'm Adam. I hit things, Adam, you hit.

51:13 Speaker 28: Things, okay. I played guitar, justin you play guitar. Very good, seth.

51:18 Speaker 28: I play the big guitar or also known as the bass.

51:21 Speaker 12: The bass. Yes, yes, well, welcome, by the way, I

51:25 Speaker 12: did enjoy we were talking off here. I really like

51:27 Speaker 12: that that bass solo there and braggadocio. That's really good.

51:31 Speaker 28: Thank you so much.

51:32 Speaker 12: That was fun to do that every band has to

51:34 Speaker 12: have a bass solo song. Well actually a lot of

51:37 Speaker 12: bands would disagree with that, but I'm all for.

51:39 Speaker 28: It anytime I can sneak one in there, I'm always psych.

51:43 Speaker 12: Absolutely absolutely man. And by the way, so I appreciate

51:47 Speaker 12: you guys traveling too. You know, we have a lot

51:49 Speaker 12: of artists on the show from various parts. We just

51:54 Speaker 12: talked to awaiting Abigail from Texas, of course, and they

51:57 Speaker 12: skyped in or what we're using in place of Skype

51:58 Speaker 12: now because Skype is apparently away. But usually you know,

52:01 Speaker 12: when people are joining us live in studio, they're usually

52:04 Speaker 12: you know, maybe within within an hour max. But you

52:06 Speaker 12: guys drove all the way down from Portland on a

52:08 Speaker 12: rainy Saturday morning. So I really appreciate that you're here.

52:11 Speaker 28: Yeah, absolutely pleasure.

52:12 Speaker 12: And of course our friend Nathan Hill, he's in the

52:15 Speaker 12: chat room. He was, he drove a long way too

52:17 Speaker 12: to get here. He was on the show recently, and

52:19 Speaker 12: uh so I think he's the one who actually connected

52:21 Speaker 12: us with you guys, who connected Jenny. Yes, but we've

52:24 Speaker 12: been aware of you for a long time. I certainly

52:27 Speaker 12: have in fact, j Bellow from Chasing the Devil he

52:30 Speaker 12: had said something about you guys in the chat room

52:32 Speaker 12: I think a couple weeks ago, and he might be listening,

52:33 Speaker 12: HJ And yeah, he said, because I think they did

52:36 Speaker 12: they play a show with you. Yeah, we resent with them.

52:39 Speaker 28: That was the last summer show.

52:40 Speaker 12: Yeah, no, Chasing the Devil's last July. Yeah, oh very cool. Great,

52:45 Speaker 12: dudes love Chasing the Devil.

52:47 Speaker 5: Would love to get, you know, hooked up with them

52:49 Speaker 5: again because they put on a hell of a show.

52:50 Speaker 12: So oh absolutely absolutely, Yeah, They're incredible. And I've known

52:54 Speaker 12: Jay forever, uh since back in his purge d I days. Yeah,

52:58 Speaker 12: long time, long time. But yeah, so I've been and uh,

53:02 Speaker 12: forgive me, my allergies have been out of control. And

53:05 Speaker 12: then I hope the rain washes away to the pollend,

53:07 Speaker 12: but it doesn't seem to work that way. So if

53:10 Speaker 12: I a couple of times, that's why I'm sorry. I'm

53:12 Speaker 12: not sick. I'm just uh, it's a it's a rough spring.

53:16 Speaker 12: But uh but yeah, so I've been aware of you

53:17 Speaker 12: guys for a while. I've seen you live. I can't

53:19 Speaker 12: remember where it was. It might have been a few

53:22 Speaker 12: years ago.

53:23 Speaker 28: Oh yeah, if you played a few years ago, we

53:26 Speaker 28: played We've played a couple of places in Manchester. We've

53:28 Speaker 28: played at Jewel right up the street, that's where it was, Okay, yeah,

53:31 Speaker 28: I remember.

53:32 Speaker 5: Jewel, And then last time we were down here we

53:33 Speaker 5: played at the Goat. We played with the Blackstone Cherry.

53:36 Speaker 5: It was a little mini run we did for we

53:38 Speaker 5: had our CD release, and then we played two shows

53:41 Speaker 5: back to back with Blackstone Cherry once in the Goat

53:44 Speaker 5: down here, and then we went to Wally's in.

53:46 Speaker 12: Hampton Beach to you know, oh, very cool, finish that out.

53:49 Speaker 12: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember seeing you guys a Jewel.

53:52 Speaker 12: That's that's the show I was at, and yeah, we

53:54 Speaker 12: were just very impressed. But you've been around for a while,

53:56 Speaker 12: like right, Parl's been around for at least five or

54:00 Speaker 12: six years.

54:00 Speaker 28: Right, Yeah, we started in about I think June of

54:03 Speaker 28: twenty eighteen, so it's been next month will be seven

54:08 Speaker 28: years for trial, So.

54:09 Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, same lineup or has that changed over the years.

54:13 Speaker 28: It just changed a little. Sean and I have been

54:16 Speaker 28: in the entire time, and we've known Adam and Justin

54:21 Speaker 28: for for a very long time and they've been friends

54:23 Speaker 28: and fellow musicians, and Adam and I were in a

54:25 Speaker 28: band together for a long time. But Justin on guitar

54:30 Speaker 28: came in almost five years ago, and then and then

54:34 Speaker 28: Adam came in three years ago. So we've been the

54:36 Speaker 28: same lineup for three years and I really feel like we've,

54:40 Speaker 28: in my opinion, kind of hit our stride with the

54:42 Speaker 28: line I feel like this is the lineup. Yeah.

54:45 Speaker 12: Yeah. In terms of your live shows, does any of

54:48 Speaker 12: the early material survives that carried forth?

54:51 Speaker 9: Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

54:52 Speaker 5: We play a lot of you know, everything that we've written.

54:55 Speaker 5: We pretty much play okay, kind of in a rotation

54:58 Speaker 5: depending on you know, where we are, who we're playing with.

55:01 Speaker 5: We try to cater to the set, you know, who's there.

55:05 Speaker 5: You know, if it's heavier, we might tend to push

55:07 Speaker 5: ourselves a little bit in the heavier direction. But we

55:10 Speaker 5: play pretty much everything. I think there's two songs that

55:12 Speaker 5: we just kind of retired based on we wrote them

55:17 Speaker 5: and we like them, and then it's like, yeah, kind

55:20 Speaker 5: of outgrew it. It's just not it doesn't hit the

55:22 Speaker 5: way it hit when we wrote it.

55:23 Speaker 12: Yeah. I'm always curious because I've been in bands where

55:26 Speaker 12: sometimes if there's a change in members, you know, there's

55:29 Speaker 12: sometimes there might be somebody in the band who's like, ah,

55:31 Speaker 12: that's from before, we shouldn't do that, which which I

55:34 Speaker 12: would always fight against because I was always like I

55:36 Speaker 12: was in a band called My Life Crisis, which went

55:38 Speaker 12: through a lot of different permutations through through the years,

55:40 Speaker 12: and I was always like, well, I know these songs

55:42 Speaker 12: are from a from an old lineup, but still, you

55:44 Speaker 12: know these are songs that we made. I mean, we

55:46 Speaker 12: made this music. It's our music.

55:47 Speaker 18: A good song is a good song exactly worth it

55:50 Speaker 18: didn't play it exactly, and it's heartbreaking to have to

55:53 Speaker 18: retire something just because you know, like if you've got

55:55 Speaker 18: one guy in the band who's like, a, I don't

55:57 Speaker 18: want to play that anymore because you know that's tied

55:59 Speaker 18: to a previous lineup, and it's like, oh come on man.

56:02 Speaker 12: I've done that a few times.

56:03 Speaker 18: And it's like if the guy who left actually wrote

56:05 Speaker 18: the song like that was his baby, yeah kind of

56:07 Speaker 18: understand it.

56:07 Speaker 12: Yeah, I yeah, I can kind of understand. Although that

56:11 Speaker 12: ended up in the band I was talking about that

56:13 Speaker 12: I was in that that did become a big point

56:15 Speaker 12: of contention. It all worked out in the end, but yeah.

56:19 Speaker 28: Yeah, and we kind of like let the the people

56:21 Speaker 28: tell us what they want to hear too, because a

56:23 Speaker 28: lot of times we'll reach out and say, hey, what

56:24 Speaker 28: do you want to what do you want to see

56:25 Speaker 28: this weekend? And and some of our older songs people

56:29 Speaker 28: want want to see live. So we're you know, we

56:31 Speaker 28: actually close with car chard on and it's like it

56:36 Speaker 28: was one of the first songs we ever wrote, and

56:38 Speaker 28: it's literally been our closer for.

56:41 Speaker 12: Like our entirety of the band.

56:43 Speaker 5: Yeah really, yeah, yeah, it was the first song we

56:45 Speaker 5: recorded and put out, and honestly, like when we got

56:49 Speaker 5: it going, it was just a hey, we got to

56:51 Speaker 5: have something to show what we're doing, like we are

56:53 Speaker 5: playing shows. But car Chardon was the first one we recorded,

56:56 Speaker 5: and Seth sold like a bunch of comic books to

56:58 Speaker 5: help pay for it and stuff like that. Yeah, Like

57:01 Speaker 5: it was funny because the conversation we had the songs

57:03 Speaker 5: about a shark from the point of view of a shark. Yeah,

57:06 Speaker 5: and Seth sould the Batman comic book that had a

57:09 Speaker 5: shark on the cover, and we were about it was.

57:12 Speaker 28: Like Batman two fifty one there it is, Batman fights

57:15 Speaker 28: a Shark. It's the one with Joker on the cover

57:18 Speaker 28: with the with the actual playing card really and it's

57:21 Speaker 28: an iconic cover and I ended up parting ways with

57:25 Speaker 28: it to get the money to to go record that song. Yeah,

57:29 Speaker 28: but I don't regret it. I don't regret it, and

57:31 Speaker 28: I'll buy it back some days.

57:32 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can always get it back later.

57:35 Speaker 5: First there we recorded, and it's been our closer ever since,

57:38 Speaker 5: just because we feel like it's just a fun song. Yeah,

57:40 Speaker 5: it always is a good time and people when we

57:43 Speaker 5: first played it. I remember the faces. People were like, Okay,

57:45 Speaker 5: they were getting into all the stuff we'd done and

57:47 Speaker 5: this song came on and they weren't anticipating what would

57:49 Speaker 5: happen towards the end of it, and they were like,

57:52 Speaker 5: what just occurred was not in my purview of what

57:57 Speaker 5: was going on this entire set. And so it's it's

58:00 Speaker 5: been one of those fun surprises. If you've never seen

58:02 Speaker 5: us and you come see this and you hear that song,

58:04 Speaker 5: you're like, what was that?

58:06 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Is it being a band

58:10 Speaker 12: from Portland?

58:11 Speaker 9: Is it? Uh?

58:12 Speaker 27: Is it?

58:13 Speaker 12: This might be a strange question. I don't know. Is

58:15 Speaker 12: it hard to stand out there when you're first starting

58:17 Speaker 12: to build a following because people say this about Boston, like,

58:20 Speaker 12: if you're a Boston band, there's so many Boston bands,

58:22 Speaker 12: it's hard to stand out, and like up here it's

58:24 Speaker 12: a little easier. But but Portland, for as long as

58:27 Speaker 12: I can remember, has always had a pretty incredible music

58:29 Speaker 12: scene too. It seems like there's a lot of really

58:31 Speaker 12: good bands in Portland. I mean, is that is it competitive?

58:34 Speaker 12: Like what's the I haven't I used to do a

58:36 Speaker 12: lot in Portland. I used to promote shows and stuff

58:38 Speaker 12: when I was more into that part of the business.

58:40 Speaker 12: But but but I've been kind of disengaged from Portland

58:43 Speaker 12: as a city for a long time, so I don't

58:45 Speaker 12: really know, like what the vibe is there now.

58:48 Speaker 28: Yeah, i'd say it is. It is tough to stand out.

58:51 Speaker 28: I think it's just about kind of finding your other peers,

58:53 Speaker 28: your other bands that like you fit well with, yeah,

58:56 Speaker 28: and kind of trying to create critical mass with like

58:59 Speaker 28: two or three bands that like everyone will come out

59:02 Speaker 28: and see and the and the audience makes sense, which

59:04 Speaker 28: has been a rotating cast over the years because a

59:07 Speaker 28: lot of bands, you know, fall off and break up

59:10 Speaker 28: and new bands are always popping up, so we're always

59:14 Speaker 28: trying to find new bands to play with that that

59:17 Speaker 28: are exciting to us, that we like their sound. But

59:20 Speaker 28: Portland in general is is tough because you've got a

59:23 Speaker 28: lot of tourism and you kind of got this whole

59:27 Speaker 28: upper end rising up with all the you know, luxury

59:31 Speaker 28: condos and whatnot, and so you've got you've got kind

59:33 Speaker 28: of two Portland's. You know, you got the the sort

59:36 Speaker 28: of the tourists and and sort of higher priced end,

59:39 Speaker 28: and then you've got your your bars and clubs and

59:42 Speaker 28: you know, sort of the local scene end. And and

59:46 Speaker 28: there's a lot of clubs that don't cater to rock

59:48 Speaker 28: and metal, and there's a there's a few that do,

59:51 Speaker 28: and those are always a moving target. And uh, it's

59:54 Speaker 28: it's been tough through the pandemic, like