Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-10-25 hour 2

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3:50 Speaker 1: Oh that is so good. That is Braggadocio and the

3:53 Speaker 1: band is Trall and we've got Trall here with us

3:57 Speaker 1: live in studio. This is Matt Connerton and Lee th

4:00 Speaker 1: We are live from the studios of w m NH

4:03 Speaker 1: ninety five point three FM and Glorious, very rainy and

4:06 Speaker 1: wet Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live on

4:08 Speaker 1: Saturday May ten, twenty twenty five, and so happy to

4:13 Speaker 1: have you with us. That is a world radio premiere

4:14 Speaker 1: of that track, by the way, that has not been

4:16 Speaker 1: heard on the radio prior to today, so we do

4:19 Speaker 1: love the world radio premieres. And we've got the members

4:22 Speaker 1: of Trall. All four guys are here with us live

4:24 Speaker 1: in studio. Welcome, gentlemen. Hello, let's do this. Let's start

4:30 Speaker 1: with you, sir. We'll go around the room and tell

4:32 Speaker 1: us who you are and what you do in the band.

4:34 Speaker 6: I am Sean. I am the singer of Well. I

4:37 Speaker 6: make mouth noises. Let me get that right. I make

4:39 Speaker 6: mouth noises for troll. All right, welcome shot.

4:41 Speaker 8: I'm Adam. I hit things, Adam, you hit.

4:44 Speaker 1: Things, okay. I played guitar, justin you play guitar. Very good, seth.

4:49 Speaker 1: I play the big guitar, or also known as the bass,

4:52 Speaker 1: the bass. Yes, yes, well welcome. By the way, I

4:55 Speaker 1: did enjoy we were talking off here. I really like

4:57 Speaker 1: that bass solo there, braggadociow. That's really good. Thank you

5:02 Speaker 1: so much.

5:02 Speaker 8: That every band has to have a basilo song.

5:07 Speaker 1: Well, actually a lot of bands would disagree with that,

5:09 Speaker 1: but I'm all for it. I can sneak one in there.

5:12 Speaker 1: I'm always like absolutely absolutely man. And by the way,

5:16 Speaker 1: so I appreciate you guys traveling too. You know, we

5:19 Speaker 1: have a lot of artists on the show from various parts.

5:24 Speaker 1: We just talked to awaiting Abigail from Texas, of course,

5:27 Speaker 1: and they skyped in or what we're using in place

5:29 Speaker 1: of Skype now because Skype has apparently gone away. But

5:31 Speaker 1: usually you know, when people are joining us live in studio.

5:34 Speaker 1: They're usually you know, maybe within within an hour max.

5:36 Speaker 1: But you guys drove all the way down from Portland

5:38 Speaker 1: on a rainy Saturday morning. So I really appreciate that

5:41 Speaker 1: you're here. Yeah, absolutely pleasure. And of course our friend

5:45 Speaker 1: Nathan Hill, he's in the chat room. He was, he

5:47 Speaker 1: drove a long way too to get here. He was

5:48 Speaker 1: on the show recently, and so I think he's the

5:51 Speaker 1: one who actually connected us with you guys, who connected Jenny. Yes,

5:54 Speaker 1: but we've been aware of you for a long time.

5:57 Speaker 1: I certainly have. In fact, Jay Bellow for I'm Chasing

6:00 Speaker 1: the Devil, he had said something about you guys in

6:02 Speaker 1: the chow room I think a couple weeks ago, and

6:03 Speaker 1: he might be listening hyj and yeah, he said, because

6:06 Speaker 1: I think they did they play a show with you.

6:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, we've pased with them, uh the summer show, yeah,

6:11 Speaker 6: non po Chasing the Devil's last July.

6:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh very cool.

6:16 Speaker 6: Great, dudes, love Chasing the Devil. Would love to get

6:18 Speaker 6: you know, hooked up at them again because they put

6:20 Speaker 6: on a hell of a show.

6:21 Speaker 1: So oh absolutely absolutely Yeah, They're incredible. And I've known

6:24 Speaker 1: Jay forever, uh since back in his purge d I days. Yeah,

6:28 Speaker 1: long time, long time, but yeah, so I've been uh,

6:33 Speaker 1: forgive me, my allergies have been out of control, and

6:36 Speaker 1: then I hope the rain washes away to the pollend,

6:38 Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem to work that way. So if

6:40 Speaker 1: I a couple of times, that's why I'm sorry. I'm

6:43 Speaker 1: not sick. I'm just uh, it's a it's a rough spring.

6:46 Speaker 6: But uh.

6:47 Speaker 1: But yeah, so I've been aware of you guys for

6:48 Speaker 1: a while. I've seen you live. I can't remember where

6:51 Speaker 1: it was. It might have been a few years ago.

6:54 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, if you played a few years ago, we played.

6:57 Speaker 9: We've played a couple of places in Manchester. We've played

6:59 Speaker 9: a Jewel right up the street that's where it was. Okay, yeah,

7:02 Speaker 9: I remember.

7:03 Speaker 6: And then last time we were down here we played

7:04 Speaker 6: at the Goat. We played the Blackstone Cherry. It was

7:06 Speaker 6: a little mini run we did for we had our

7:10 Speaker 6: CD release, and then we played two shows back to

7:12 Speaker 6: back with Blackstone Cherry once in the Goat down here,

7:15 Speaker 6: and then we went to Wally's in Hampton Beach to

7:18 Speaker 6: you know, oh very cool, finish that out.

7:20 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember seeing you as a jewel.

7:23 Speaker 1: That's that's the show I was at, and yeah, we

7:25 Speaker 1: were just very impressed. But you've been around for a while, right,

7:28 Speaker 1: Pral's been around for at least five or six years, right, Yeah.

7:31 Speaker 9: We started in about I think June of twenty eighteen,

7:35 Speaker 9: so it's been next month will be seven years for trial.

7:39 Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, same lineup or as it changed over

7:43 Speaker 1: the years.

7:43 Speaker 9: It just changed a little. Sean and I have been

7:46 Speaker 9: in the entire time, and we've known Adam and Justin

7:51 Speaker 9: for for a very long time and they've been friends

7:54 Speaker 9: and fellow musicians, and Adam and I were in a

7:56 Speaker 9: band together for a long time. But just on guitar

8:00 Speaker 9: came in almost five years ago, and then and then

8:04 Speaker 9: Adam came in three years ago. So we've been the

8:06 Speaker 9: same lineup for three years, and I really feel like we've,

8:10 Speaker 9: in my opinion, kind of hit our stride with the

8:13 Speaker 9: line I feel like this is the lineup.

8:15 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. In terms of your live shows, does any

8:18 Speaker 1: of the early material survives that carried forth? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

8:23 Speaker 6: We play a lot of you know, everything that we've written.

8:26 Speaker 6: We pretty much play okay, kind of in a rotation

8:29 Speaker 6: depending on you know, where we are, who we're playing with.

8:31 Speaker 6: We try to cater to the set, you know who's there.

8:35 Speaker 6: You know, if it's heavier, we might tend to push

8:38 Speaker 6: ourselves a little bit in the heavier direction, but we

8:41 Speaker 6: play pretty much everything. I think there's two songs that

8:43 Speaker 6: we just kind of retired based on we we wrote

8:47 Speaker 6: them and we liked them, and then it's like, yeah,

8:50 Speaker 6: kind of grew it. It's just not it doesn't hit

8:53 Speaker 6: the way it hit when we wrote it.

8:54 Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm always curious because I've been in bands where

8:57 Speaker 1: sometimes if there's a change in members, you know, this

9:00 Speaker 1: is sometimes there might be somebody in the band who's like, ah,

9:02 Speaker 1: that's from before, we shouldn't do that, which which I

9:04 Speaker 1: would always fight against because I was always like, I

9:07 Speaker 1: was in a band called My Life Crisis, which went

9:08 Speaker 1: through a lot of different permutations through through the years,

9:11 Speaker 1: and I was always like, well, I know these songs

9:13 Speaker 1: are from a from an old lineup, but still you

9:15 Speaker 1: know these are songs that we made. I mean, we

9:17 Speaker 1: made this music. It's our music.

9:18 Speaker 8: A good song is a good song exactly worth.

9:20 Speaker 1: It it exactly, And it's heartbreaking to have to retire

9:24 Speaker 1: something just because you know, like if you've got one

9:26 Speaker 1: guy in the band who's like, I don't want to

9:28 Speaker 1: play that anymore because you know, that's tied to a

9:30 Speaker 1: previous lineup, and it's like, oh, come on, man, I've.

9:32 Speaker 8: Done that a few times.

9:33 Speaker 7: And it's like if the guy who left actually wrote

9:35 Speaker 7: the song, like that was his baby, Yeah kind of

9:37 Speaker 7: understand it.

9:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can kind of understand although that that

9:42 Speaker 1: ended up in the band. I was talking about that

9:44 Speaker 1: I was in that that did become a big point

9:46 Speaker 1: of contention. It all worked out in the end, but yeah.

9:49 Speaker 9: Yeah, and we kind of like let the the people

9:52 Speaker 9: tell us what they want to hear too, because a

9:54 Speaker 9: lot of times we'll reach out and say, hey, what

9:55 Speaker 9: do you want to what do you want to see

9:56 Speaker 9: this weekend? And and some of our older songs people

10:00 Speaker 9: want want to see live. So we're you know, we

10:02 Speaker 9: actually close with car chard On and it's like it

10:07 Speaker 9: was one of the first songs we ever wrote, and

10:09 Speaker 9: it's literally been our closer for like.

10:12 Speaker 6: Our entirety of the band.

10:14 Speaker 1: Yeah really yeah, yeah.

10:15 Speaker 6: It was the first song we recorded and put out

10:17 Speaker 6: and honestly, like when we got it going, it was

10:20 Speaker 6: just a hey, we got to have something to show

10:22 Speaker 6: what we're doing like we are playing shows. But car

10:25 Speaker 6: Chardon was the first one we recorded, and Seth sold

10:28 Speaker 6: like a bunch of comic books to help pay for

10:30 Speaker 6: it and stuff like that. Like it was funny because

10:32 Speaker 6: the conversation we had the songs about a shark from

10:35 Speaker 6: the point of view of a shark, and Seth sold

10:38 Speaker 6: the Batman comic book that had shark on the cover,

10:41 Speaker 6: and we were.

10:42 Speaker 9: Saying about it, like Batman two fifty one. There it is,

10:45 Speaker 9: Batman fights a Shark. It's the one with Joker on

10:48 Speaker 9: the cover, with the with the actual playing card, really

10:51 Speaker 9: and it's an iconic cover and I ended up parting

10:56 Speaker 9: ways with it to get the money to to go

10:58 Speaker 9: record that song. Yeah, but I don't regret it. I

11:01 Speaker 9: don't regret it, and I'll buy it back some days.

11:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, there you go. You can always get

11:05 Speaker 1: it back later.

11:05 Speaker 6: First there we recorded, and it's been our closer ever since,

11:08 Speaker 6: just because we feel like it's just a fun song. Yeah,

11:11 Speaker 6: it always is a good time. And people when we

11:13 Speaker 6: first played it, I remember the faces. People were like, Okay,

11:16 Speaker 6: they were getting into all the stuff we'd done and

11:18 Speaker 6: this song came on and they weren't anticipating what would

11:20 Speaker 6: happen towards the end of it, and they were like,

11:23 Speaker 6: what just occurred was not in my purview of what

11:28 Speaker 6: was going on this entire set, And so it's just

11:30 Speaker 6: been one of those fun surprises. If you've never seen

11:32 Speaker 6: us and you come see us and you hear that song,

11:34 Speaker 6: you're like, what was that?

11:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's pretty cool. Is it being a band

11:41 Speaker 1: from Portland? Is it? Uh? Is it? This might be

11:45 Speaker 1: a strange question. I don't know. Is it hard to

11:46 Speaker 1: stand out there when you're first starting to build a

11:48 Speaker 1: following Because people say this about Boston, like, if you're

11:51 Speaker 1: a Boston band, there's so many Boston bands, it's hard

11:53 Speaker 1: to stand out, and like up here it's a little easier.

11:56 Speaker 1: But but Portland, for as long as I can remember,

11:58 Speaker 1: has always had a pretty incredible muse seem too. It

12:00 Speaker 1: seems like there's a lot of really good bands in Portland.

12:03 Speaker 1: I mean, is that is it competitive?

12:04 Speaker 5: Like?

12:04 Speaker 1: What's the I haven't I used to do a lot

12:07 Speaker 1: in Portland. I used to promote shows and stuff when

12:09 Speaker 1: I was more into that part of the business. But

12:12 Speaker 1: but but I've been kind of disengaged from Portland as

12:14 Speaker 1: a city for a long time, so I don't really

12:16 Speaker 1: know like what the vibe is there now.

12:19 Speaker 9: Yeah, i'd say it is. It is tough to stand out.

12:21 Speaker 9: I think it's just about kind of finding your other peers,

12:24 Speaker 9: your other bands that like you fit well with, yeah,

12:27 Speaker 9: and kind of trying to create critical mass with like

12:29 Speaker 9: two or three bands that like everyone will come out

12:32 Speaker 9: and see and the and the audience makes sense, which

12:35 Speaker 9: has been a rotating cast over the years because a

12:37 Speaker 9: lot of bands, you know, fall off and break up,

12:40 Speaker 9: and new bands are always popping up, so we're always

12:45 Speaker 9: trying to find new bands to play with that that

12:48 Speaker 9: are exciting to us, that we like their sound. But

12:51 Speaker 9: Portland in general is is tough because you got a

12:54 Speaker 9: lot of tourism and you kind of get this whole

12:58 Speaker 9: upper end rising up with all the you know, luxury

13:01 Speaker 9: condos and whatnot, and so you've got you've got kind

13:04 Speaker 9: of two Portland's. You know, you've got the sort of

13:07 Speaker 9: the tourists and and sort of higher priced end, and

13:10 Speaker 9: then you've got your your bars and clubs and you know,

13:13 Speaker 9: sort of the local scene end, and and there's a

13:17 Speaker 9: lot of clubs that don't cater to rock and metal,

13:20 Speaker 9: and there's a there's a few that do and those

13:22 Speaker 9: are always a moving target. And uh it's it's been

13:25 Speaker 9: tough through the pandemic, like the you know, some of

13:28 Speaker 9: them didn't survive, and uh so we're we're always trying

13:33 Speaker 9: to like take the pulse of like, okay, what's happening now,

13:36 Speaker 9: you know, where should we be playing now?

13:37 Speaker 1: What?

13:38 Speaker 9: What places should we be looking to play if we

13:41 Speaker 9: haven't yet. So it's I think it it's literally changes

13:45 Speaker 9: probably every six months to a year, So it's yeah,

13:48 Speaker 9: it's hard, like and I don't I don't think it

13:50 Speaker 9: used to move that quickly. Things seem to stay the

13:53 Speaker 9: same for every couple of years, but now things move

13:55 Speaker 9: so quickly. But yeah, that's interesting.

13:58 Speaker 8: Yeah, I call it a snow globe effect. And I

14:00 Speaker 8: saw it. I used to. I grew up in mass

14:02 Speaker 8: and played in bands from Boston.

14:03 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like every couple of years, you just kind

14:05 Speaker 7: of shake up the snow globe and put it back down.

14:07 Speaker 7: And this guy's moved over here, and this guy's moved

14:09 Speaker 7: over here. This guy retired and left, and but this

14:12 Speaker 7: dude came out of nowhere and now he took his spot.

14:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's still the same core group of people.

14:16 Speaker 8: You've just kind of shaken it up a little bit.

14:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Are there bands

14:21 Speaker 1: that you're you know, because it does happen organically? Are

14:24 Speaker 1: there other bands in Portland that you play a lot

14:26 Speaker 1: of shows with that you've kind of sort of teamed

14:28 Speaker 1: up with maybe, just like I said, sometimes it just

14:31 Speaker 1: kind of happens, you know.

14:32 Speaker 7: I think it's cyclical, kind of like rotation, Like he's

14:36 Speaker 7: six months and you just kind of latch on.

14:38 Speaker 6: Yeah, and then it's like like Seth was saying, a

14:41 Speaker 6: lot of bands, unfortunately, they just that they retire, They

14:44 Speaker 6: they're done playing, and that's kind of crappy. We like,

14:49 Speaker 6: you know, some of the bands that we really like,

14:51 Speaker 6: they just decided it wasn't within them and they moore

14:55 Speaker 6: they didn't have the drive so they kind of just

14:58 Speaker 6: laid it to rest. And it's like, well that stinks.

15:01 Speaker 6: I really like, we really liked playing with you guys,

15:03 Speaker 6: and they're like, yeah, well we got other projects coming out,

15:06 Speaker 6: and it's like, well, let us know, we'd love to

15:08 Speaker 6: connect with you and do it again. And yeah, it's

15:10 Speaker 6: it's always a matter of if those people are coming

15:13 Speaker 6: back into the scene or if they just they did

15:15 Speaker 6: lay it to rest and they're just they're moving on.

15:17 Speaker 6: So yeah, it's hard, it's it is very competitive up there.

15:21 Speaker 6: But a big thing for us is we just want

15:23 Speaker 6: to have fun. Yeah, and if you're having fun, you're

15:26 Speaker 6: doing it right.

15:26 Speaker 1: Yep.

15:27 Speaker 6: If you're not having fun, you screwed up somewhere and

15:30 Speaker 6: you need to fix that.

15:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

15:32 Speaker 9: And we also play in New Hampshire quite a lot.

15:35 Speaker 9: But yeah, we've actually i'd say we probably played in

15:37 Speaker 9: New Hampshire half the time.

15:39 Speaker 6: Probably you're a little more than half the time.

15:40 Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got often enough where we could like apply

15:43 Speaker 9: for residency and save some money on taxes or something.

15:46 Speaker 6: But right, right, the next two shows are actually in

15:48 Speaker 6: New Hampshire, yeah, are yeah, yeah.

15:50 Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, so we should mention those. Yeah.

15:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, let's see Friday, so less than two weeks away.

15:58 Speaker 9: Friday May twenty third, we're at the Stone Church in Newmarket, excellent,

16:04 Speaker 9: and then our next show after that is Sunday, June

16:07 Speaker 9: twenty second, we're playing Seacoast Metalfest at the Garage at

16:12 Speaker 9: the Governor's in in Rochester. Okay, I'm sure, so those

16:16 Speaker 9: are our next two Showsky and then we're actually playing

16:18 Speaker 9: in Manchester Way later this year. It's on the books,

16:21 Speaker 9: it's it's been floated out there, but not like it's

16:24 Speaker 9: it's public, but they're not pushing it yet.

16:26 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:27 Speaker 9: It's Friday, November seventh at the Shaskiene with with Polka

16:32 Speaker 9: Dot Cadaver.

16:33 Speaker 1: Oh. It'll be a cool show. Yeah. I don't know Polka,

16:37 Speaker 1: but that's a cool name. I'm very I'm very intrigued

16:40 Speaker 1: just from the name.

16:41 Speaker 9: They're a crazy band. They are from kind of in

16:45 Speaker 9: Baltimore slash Baltimore slash Maine. They've got members kind of

16:49 Speaker 9: in both places, but they're they're kind of derived from

16:54 Speaker 9: the members of Dog Fashion Disco, who were a band

16:57 Speaker 9: for for.

16:58 Speaker 1: From late from Baltimore. I remember them. I saw I

17:02 Speaker 1: saw them in Boston. Wow that yeah a long time ago.

17:06 Speaker 1: Oh my god.

17:06 Speaker 9: All the same guys in both bands. They actually play

17:09 Speaker 9: songs from both. So yeah, OK, we're excited to do

17:11 Speaker 9: We're doing a two show run with them in November

17:13 Speaker 9: this year.

17:14 Speaker 6: So Jason are just absolutely amazing dudes to work with

17:17 Speaker 6: and we love, you know, hanging out with them and

17:19 Speaker 6: being able to do this and last year we were

17:21 Speaker 6: gonna play down here, but somebody in the band caught

17:25 Speaker 6: the plague. Oh and we had to kill off two

17:28 Speaker 6: shows just because still Seth was sick and yeah, and

17:31 Speaker 6: it happens. And honestly, they were really nice and said, hey,

17:35 Speaker 6: let's do this again. You know, we don't care you

17:38 Speaker 6: guys got sick. You know it was actually didn't you

17:41 Speaker 6: go down and cover? Yeah?

17:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, band played instead, Oh kick over.

17:45 Speaker 6: For one of our spots. But it was It was

17:47 Speaker 6: really cool and they were super nice to be like, hey,

17:49 Speaker 6: let's do it again. We're really excited about playing with

17:52 Speaker 6: you guys. Yeah, we were like absolutely, because Seth and

17:54 Speaker 6: I have been listening to the Dog Fashion Slash Polka

17:57 Speaker 6: Dot for for forever twenty five years now, almost thirty years.

18:01 Speaker 6: However long they've been a band.

18:02 Speaker 9: So talking about bands with longevity from Maine, though Adam's

18:07 Speaker 9: band Loki has been around for twenty five years. Wow,

18:11 Speaker 9: in some former fashion.

18:12 Speaker 8: I've only been in it for like eighteen Yeah.

18:15 Speaker 1: Oh is that all? And we were eighteen. We were

18:17 Speaker 1: in that band together for seven years.

18:19 Speaker 3: Oh.

18:20 Speaker 9: So that's where Adam and I know each other from.

18:21 Speaker 9: So we collectively have a decade of rhythm section jamming.

18:25 Speaker 6: So so it's funny that the band Loki comes up

18:28 Speaker 6: because before either of these guys were involved, I was

18:32 Speaker 6: roommates with the drummer for a while and it was

18:34 Speaker 6: actually the roady for Loki for a couple of years,

18:38 Speaker 6: and then like I moved out with my current wife

18:40 Speaker 6: and you know, stopped doing roady work for them. But

18:42 Speaker 6: then these guys came in. And it's funny because Justin

18:45 Speaker 6: and I about the same time that these guys started

18:48 Speaker 6: with Loki. Him and I had a band together like

18:51 Speaker 6: forever ago, and it was interesting.

18:55 Speaker 9: And actually, actually Adam and I met Justin because Loki

18:59 Speaker 9: played with one of his former bands probably.

19:03 Speaker 1: Yeah twenty eight eight or something like that. Yeah, I'm

19:06 Speaker 1: gonna say eight. Yeah what we're saying. I'm feeling it anyway.

19:14 Speaker 6: Week. Yeah, you don't look a day under fifty bunch.

19:20 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Wow. Wow. By the way, So where

19:23 Speaker 1: does the name come from? Troll? What does that mean?

19:26 Speaker 9: So troll is something that I just you know, I

19:29 Speaker 9: I searched for a long time for I love one

19:33 Speaker 9: word band names. Yeah, you know, Rush, Tool, Primus, Clutch, Clutch,

19:38 Speaker 9: bands like that, And it's so hard to find a

19:42 Speaker 9: one word band name that just hits. It has you know,

19:45 Speaker 9: one syllable, and I liked troll. It also means, you know,

19:49 Speaker 9: like with a trolling net, you're you're you're dragging behind

19:52 Speaker 9: a boat. It's like, you know, like picking up the

19:55 Speaker 9: sea life and all that. But but it also means

19:57 Speaker 9: to search, to troll through something, to search through something. Yeah,

20:00 Speaker 9: And I thought it was cool because you know, you

20:02 Speaker 9: can kind of apply the meaning to search to anything,

20:04 Speaker 9: you know, whether you're looking for you know, just like uh,

20:08 Speaker 9: you know, friendship or or like, uh, you know, a

20:11 Speaker 9: good time, or like searching for meaning in something like,

20:14 Speaker 9: you can kind of apply that to just about anything.

20:17 Speaker 1: So I thought it was a cool name. And yeah suck, Yeah, yeah, totally,

20:20 Speaker 1: it's funny. So I didn't know what trill meant, but

20:22 Speaker 1: then when you explained it, but I don't know, maybe

20:24 Speaker 1: in the back of my mind I did know, maybe subconsciously,

20:27 Speaker 1: because when when you said it had something to do

20:29 Speaker 1: with voting and you know, yeah, like a troller net. Yeah,

20:32 Speaker 1: for some reason, that was like, oh that makes sense. Yeah, no,

20:37 Speaker 1: very cool. And what about the logo was that you

20:40 Speaker 1: that was me too? Yeah?

20:41 Speaker 6: Yeah, our stuff like art wise is Seth. Okay, this

20:47 Speaker 6: is a mad genius when it comes to the artwork

20:49 Speaker 6: and setting things up. So like the CD designs. He

20:54 Speaker 6: doesn't do the cover art, that's somebody. We have a

20:57 Speaker 6: couple of different people we've used for that, but okay,

20:59 Speaker 6: I mean any T shirt you see is Seth. The

21:02 Speaker 6: original logo of the shark with the triangle is Seth.

21:05 Speaker 6: I mean, Seth is a mad genius when it comes

21:07 Speaker 6: to art and that's kind of our blessing.

21:10 Speaker 9: Yeah, I appreciate that and the things that I know

21:13 Speaker 9: I can't do. I you know, I love to find

21:16 Speaker 9: other artists. I'm always out there on like Instagram looking

21:19 Speaker 9: for other artists. I like, if there's something I'm trying

21:22 Speaker 9: to accomplish, I'll commission somebody else. A lot of the

21:26 Speaker 9: covers of our EPs were commissioned. Actually, the guy who

21:28 Speaker 9: did our previous one was a tool poster artist. He's done,

21:33 Speaker 9: He's done. The one for Cosmic Aquatic was actually done

21:36 Speaker 9: by a tool poster artist named George Malonas out of Greece.

21:41 Speaker 9: Oh wow, really cool. So and we've had people from Oliver.

21:43 Speaker 9: Actually our our latest EP, Tempests, the cover was paint

21:48 Speaker 9: was painted it's actually an oil painting that was done

21:52 Speaker 9: by a lady named Colleen Woodward right here in New Hampshire.

21:55 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

21:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, so it was actually hand painted and then I

21:59 Speaker 9: had it scanned and archived at a at a place

22:03 Speaker 9: so that we could make it into the album cover.

22:05 Speaker 6: But oh wow, we did buy the painting too to

22:08 Speaker 6: support local artists too, because yeah, yeah, because because it's awesome. Yeah,

22:12 Speaker 6: great portrait and we love it.

22:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Is that challenging when you're when you're

22:18 Speaker 1: talking to somebody about art artwork, like, because you've got

22:22 Speaker 1: to be able to communicate to them, Yeah, what you

22:24 Speaker 1: have in mind? I mean, is there some trial and error?

22:28 Speaker 1: Like if you're working with someone you've never worked before,

22:30 Speaker 1: like an artist you've never worked before before, but you're

22:33 Speaker 1: interested in having them do something. Is it is it

22:35 Speaker 1: challenging to get them to kind of come up with

22:39 Speaker 1: something that matches the vision that.

22:40 Speaker 9: You have Sometimes? But I try to like meticulously look

22:44 Speaker 9: for an artist that I just love their style. Yeah,

22:46 Speaker 9: and I know that whatever they do, and I've always

22:50 Speaker 9: found you know, if you let an artist do what

22:54 Speaker 9: they're best at, they're gonna it's gonna be awesome. So

22:57 Speaker 9: like sometimes if you give And I'm the same way

23:00 Speaker 9: when because I help other bands with graphic design and

23:03 Speaker 9: flyers and sometimes album art as well. And the more

23:08 Speaker 9: the more you try to give them, the more you're

23:10 Speaker 9: kind of pigeonholing them. Yeah, And I think the less

23:13 Speaker 9: sometimes you can give somebody it like it lets them

23:15 Speaker 9: do what they do best. So I try to just

23:18 Speaker 9: like pick the right artists and put the trust in

23:20 Speaker 9: them to do the right to do the thing that

23:22 Speaker 9: we asked and let them. But so and so far

23:25 Speaker 9: it's worked out, you know. And there's been a few that,

23:28 Speaker 9: like I tried to have an artist do something and

23:30 Speaker 9: then we didn't really like the result, and we just

23:32 Speaker 9: won't We just won't use it. You know, Well, it'll

23:35 Speaker 9: be in the archives or maybe we'll use it later

23:37 Speaker 9: for a flyer or something less, you know, dire it

23:40 Speaker 9: just you know, it's not gonna be the album art,

23:41 Speaker 9: but it might be like a flyer later on or something.

23:44 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, are you ever surprised, like hopefully pleasantly,

23:48 Speaker 1: But do you ever got into a situation where they

23:50 Speaker 1: come up with something that's totally not what you had

23:52 Speaker 1: in mind, but it's so good that you're like yeah,

23:54 Speaker 1: let's go with it.

23:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, totally. The actually our album cover for from the

23:59 Speaker 9: Mark Depths. It was our second EP. I actually commissioned

24:04 Speaker 9: a an NFT artist because at the time, like right

24:07 Speaker 9: during the pandemic, that NFT movement with art was just

24:11 Speaker 9: going crazy. Yeah, and this guy really didn't want to

24:13 Speaker 9: do just regular commission work because they were making way

24:16 Speaker 9: more money putting it out on like Open Sea as

24:19 Speaker 9: an NFT and then selling it for like thousands of dollars.

24:22 Speaker 9: So but I found this guy. He he's from Washington State,

24:27 Speaker 9: and yeah, he he was just like, yeah, okay, I'll

24:31 Speaker 9: try this, and I gave him a bunch of ideas

24:33 Speaker 9: and he came up with this like monstrosity of like

24:37 Speaker 9: deep sea diver helmet with like all these various sea

24:40 Speaker 9: life like eels and fish and everything, and it's all

24:43 Speaker 9: like in this one crazy it's you go go out

24:46 Speaker 9: there and look at it. But it's a I could

24:48 Speaker 9: have never like given him that as a direction. He

24:51 Speaker 9: just was like, all right, here's here's your album cover.

24:53 Speaker 9: And I'm like, yeah, this is so cool. All right,

24:54 Speaker 9: We're running with it.

24:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, sometimes yeah, it's it's awesome to be surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent.

25:03 Speaker 1: And then do you guys all have to you all

25:04 Speaker 1: have to agree on it, right, like once you've got

25:06 Speaker 1: the art like everyone, do you ever have a situation

25:09 Speaker 1: where maybe maybe one of you isn't quite feeling it?

25:11 Speaker 6: Like yeah, we're all pretty much on the same boat

25:16 Speaker 6: with a lot of stuff. It's it's it's really just

25:20 Speaker 6: a matter of working together. And when you do it well,

25:24 Speaker 6: like we've done for three straight years now, it's almost

25:28 Speaker 6: too easy. We we write new songs quickly. When Seth

25:33 Speaker 6: comes up with an idea for something like art wise,

25:36 Speaker 6: we're like, can you make a green?

25:38 Speaker 1: All right?

25:39 Speaker 6: Cool?

25:39 Speaker 1: Perfect?

25:40 Speaker 6: There it is. I mean, lyrics are something we goof

25:43 Speaker 6: around with and it's it's just simple. We get together,

25:47 Speaker 6: we have fun. We write stuff that you know, fun

25:50 Speaker 6: we want to write. Yeah, fun is the key to

25:53 Speaker 6: getting the forward progression that we have had for the

25:56 Speaker 6: last three years. It's just we have fun. I mean,

26:00 Speaker 6: you'll see us on stage. We're goofing off, we're being stupid,

26:04 Speaker 6: we're having fun and we're playing the music. Yet nothing

26:10 Speaker 6: straight face.

26:11 Speaker 9: You know, we're serious in terms of like practicing and

26:14 Speaker 9: making sure that like you know, we can we can

26:16 Speaker 9: play well, we can deliver well, we're on time. We're

26:19 Speaker 9: that band that's like, you know, we're like the considerate

26:21 Speaker 9: ninjas of like load in, load out, you know, like

26:25 Speaker 9: I want to make sure that like the night runs

26:27 Speaker 9: good and like we're we're professionals, but at the same time,

26:30 Speaker 9: when we're up there, we're gonna have a blast.

26:32 Speaker 1: We have fun. So yeah, yeah, that's really cool. And

26:34 Speaker 1: when it's when it's easy like that where where you're

26:37 Speaker 1: all on the same page and it's no and nobody's arguing, nobody,

26:40 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's you know, hold on to

26:41 Speaker 1: that because that's great. Man's that's when you know you've

26:46 Speaker 1: really got something. When everyone's moving in the same direction

26:48 Speaker 1: and it's it's not hard, it's not contentious, it's just

26:52 Speaker 1: you know, no anxiety. That's that's fantastic. So yeah, you

26:56 Speaker 1: guys are definitely on the right track. Uh, speak of tracks,

26:59 Speaker 1: I think we should play it other one. Yeah, what

27:01 Speaker 1: should we plan next? And then we'll talk some more.

27:03 Speaker 6: I always pointing at me, no ah, geez. Honestly, I

27:09 Speaker 6: think a really good one to play would be Majesty.

27:11 Speaker 6: It's one we've been really hitting off with live it's

27:15 Speaker 6: a fun track. That's to kind of talk about Tempest

27:19 Speaker 6: real quick. This whole album was a really different direction

27:22 Speaker 6: for us as a band. Braggadocio was a very fun

27:25 Speaker 6: song that we we always write fun stuff, and this

27:29 Speaker 6: album happened to be a little bit darker, hence the

27:31 Speaker 6: name Tempest, and the artworks a little bit darker in color,

27:34 Speaker 6: and the lyrics are all a little bit darker in style.

27:37 Speaker 6: But majesties about friends who aren't really friends. They're kind

27:41 Speaker 6: of backstabbing jerks that come back into your life and

27:44 Speaker 6: they're like, hey, buddy, let's be friends again. It's like

27:46 Speaker 6: the last time you were around, I lost my cat,

27:50 Speaker 6: my car got stolen, and I somehow was negative three

27:53 Speaker 6: hundred dollars in my bank account. Okay, let's see how

27:56 Speaker 6: this burns me again. So it's talking about people that

27:59 Speaker 6: just a shadow I lose my cat. Yeah no, no,

28:04 Speaker 6: no worry.

28:05 Speaker 1: No, Well let's give the suspend if you are just

28:10 Speaker 1: joining us. We've got the members of trall here with

28:13 Speaker 1: us alive in studio, and uh, this is called Majesty.

28:29 Speaker 4: Hello Bell, my old brands, It's good to see you.

28:34 Speaker 5: L Yeah, it's been up long.

28:37 Speaker 4: Lound spent you.

28:38 Speaker 2: Broke behind with your hand a minute quite sure that

28:44 Speaker 2: it's off Cone Bacon to kind of.

28:50 Speaker 5: Have you played a Fellows sunles Go Temasion by Joe.

29:11 Speaker 3: Brays the Princess Scott bullying from the infusion of the.

29:30 Speaker 2: Line the one is just that it with that, I

29:34 Speaker 2: can't fall on the mind.

29:36 Speaker 5: The Mills inst tune is a boring verny trasing.

29:42 Speaker 3: And now it is time to travel.

29:44 Speaker 5: When your face down the bar, then turn.

30:00 Speaker 4: A missing My dolls said your face this place just Mason,

30:29 Speaker 4: You're make make what I said?

30:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I want to say, y'all h.

30:51 Speaker 2: B want the value bad decide So what.

31:06 Speaker 5: The time has come from?

31:08 Speaker 2: This funny come to his fee talking minds sometimes then

31:14 Speaker 2: a lot the first field of web stars page the

31:18 Speaker 2: time stories down. This tender sum is to wislve the spile,

31:24 Speaker 2: the groom mild. You'll find the fractions and you.

31:36 Speaker 4: Turn confusion. I go.

31:47 Speaker 5: Crazy, so.

32:00 Speaker 1: Mhm, as I like to say. If that doesn't get you,

32:02 Speaker 1: move in check your pulse. You might be dead. I

32:04 Speaker 1: love that. That is majesty. The band is trall. We've

32:07 Speaker 1: got troll here in the studio with us, and uh yeah,

32:10 Speaker 1: that's another great track and uh, well done, guys, well done.

32:13 Speaker 1: Where do you record? By the way, everything sounds really great.

32:16 Speaker 1: Where do you Uh, I'm always it's all pre recorded.

32:20 Speaker 8: It's actually not even asked all ai.

32:25 Speaker 6: It is pretty amazing what you can do now with Tempest.

32:28 Speaker 6: We actually kind of piecemealed this together. We uh, we're

32:32 Speaker 6: big supporters of things. That's you know, that helped things.

32:38 Speaker 6: That's that's the whole point of what we're doing is

32:40 Speaker 6: just try to be positive in this dark world. And

32:43 Speaker 6: Adam actually was able to win from Seth one. See

32:47 Speaker 6: that's right, Adam used it. But we got some studio

32:50 Speaker 6: time at Halo Studios up in Maine. Yeah, because we

32:54 Speaker 6: uh the Marcathon Mark Kurto up and c hy Y

32:57 Speaker 6: for the benefits the Center for Grieving Children. So Seth

33:00 Speaker 6: won studio time for Halo bidding on that. So we

33:03 Speaker 6: went up and said, Adam, you have studio time, let's

33:06 Speaker 6: go do five songs. You've got you know, a day,

33:09 Speaker 6: And he did it and not even a day and

33:12 Speaker 6: crushed it. And with the guitars and bass. We actually

33:17 Speaker 6: do it in house because Uncle Justy over here owns

33:20 Speaker 6: the Cold Northeast Studios, so we have our own little

33:24 Speaker 6: situation in there where we were able to you know,

33:27 Speaker 6: piecemeal together the guitars and make them sound you know,

33:30 Speaker 6: like guitars and stuff. Yeah, kind of just does a

33:34 Speaker 6: great job. He's gonna downplay himself, but he does a

33:36 Speaker 6: fantastic job when it comes to recording that stuff.

33:39 Speaker 8: Because you said you'd.

33:40 Speaker 6: Buy me a hot dog later. Nice, But then that

33:46 Speaker 6: was all in house with guitars and then vocals. We

33:49 Speaker 6: actually worked with John Wyman. I believe this sounds good.

33:57 Speaker 6: He's an amazing, amazing per to work with.

34:00 Speaker 8: He's he's a little busy right now. He's working with

34:02 Speaker 8: the small band called the Pretty Reckless.

34:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that Alim came up this morning on the

34:07 Speaker 1: show when I was talking to Waiting Abigail.

34:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, it was funny. He was like, I've got a

34:11 Speaker 6: few weeks before I have to go to New York

34:13 Speaker 6: to record with the Pretty Reckless. And we're like, yeah,

34:16 Speaker 6: well we'll come in to do vocals. So yeah, I

34:18 Speaker 6: did five sessions and worked with him, and it was

34:22 Speaker 6: just amazing because he was sitting there He's like, how

34:24 Speaker 6: do you feel about that? And it didn't realize until

34:26 Speaker 6: after they'd talked about the Wyman effect with the vocals,

34:29 Speaker 6: and it's basically he's gonna make you realize you wanted

34:32 Speaker 6: to do something. But it was his idea and it

34:34 Speaker 6: was perfect because everything he came up with that helped

34:38 Speaker 6: me push past where we'd been before. It was just

34:42 Speaker 6: it's what needed to be there.

34:43 Speaker 8: And Seth and I have worked with him for years.

34:46 Speaker 8: We did all of anytime that I was in Loki.

34:48 Speaker 7: All the Logi records were done by oh By Wyman,

34:50 Speaker 7: so we already knew like his style and he just

34:52 Speaker 7: he has a good producer, has a way of just

34:55 Speaker 7: pulling that little extra out of you and he's just

34:58 Speaker 7: always been great with that. So we've got and the

35:00 Speaker 7: chance to work with them before and we're like, Sean,

35:02 Speaker 7: we want to get we want to give you a

35:04 Speaker 7: little bit, a little taste of that.

35:05 Speaker 6: Yeah, having that opportunity was fantastic. I highly recommend if

35:09 Speaker 6: he has the time, people like book him to do

35:12 Speaker 6: your vocal anything, record anything. He's fantastic.

35:15 Speaker 7: It's funny because he has a psychology degree and one

35:17 Speaker 7: day I asked him, like, how does that actually play

35:20 Speaker 7: out in music?

35:20 Speaker 8: He goes more often than you think.

35:22 Speaker 7: Oh I bet, and then I bet after Yeah, coming

35:25 Speaker 7: out of a session you're like, oh that's why.

35:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but it was it was piecemeal together and

35:30 Speaker 6: then we had him mix it and then Pat Keene

35:34 Speaker 6: mastered it for us for this new album. So it's

35:36 Speaker 6: most a lot of it. Actually, I think almost all

35:38 Speaker 6: of it has been in house, except for the last

35:40 Speaker 6: couple we've gone a little bit outward.

35:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, that alsounds I mean, you know,

35:45 Speaker 1: the final product sounds great, really really good. Absolutely do

35:50 Speaker 1: you sell you You brought us a couple of physical copies.

35:52 Speaker 1: You sell those at shows, and absolutely the thing that's

35:56 Speaker 1: I was talking to I forget who it was now.

35:57 Speaker 1: It's probably a conversation I've had with a lot of guests,

35:59 Speaker 1: but there seems to be I feel like in the

36:01 Speaker 1: last five or six years kind of a newfound, uh

36:04 Speaker 1: focus on physical media because I've been I've been interviewing

36:08 Speaker 1: bands on the radio for a very long time, and

36:10 Speaker 1: there was definitely a period where nobody was doing that,

36:17 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, where it was like everything

36:19 Speaker 1: was everything was digital, or there was even a period

36:23 Speaker 1: where and I'm glad this is passed, but there was

36:26 Speaker 1: a time when so everyone would release everything digitally, but

36:30 Speaker 1: they would show up. This was before I was at

36:32 Speaker 1: W M and H. But they would show up with

36:35 Speaker 1: a CD. They'd do the classic, not even in a case,

36:40 Speaker 1: just handy a CD with and they or not or

36:43 Speaker 1: sometimes not even a slips like on a finger you

36:46 Speaker 1: know here you go it's like, well that's such that yeah,

36:49 Speaker 1: exactly exactly, although we do actually so here we have

36:53 Speaker 1: a CD player. I think Rob as a Vido who

36:55 Speaker 1: has a show here called Granted State of Mind on

36:57 Speaker 1: Friday nights. I think he's the only one who uses it.

36:59 Speaker 1: But we do have one, and we even have a

37:01 Speaker 1: turntable here now. One of the guys who wants the

37:03 Speaker 1: show here brought it in and he said, you know,

37:04 Speaker 1: whoever wants to use it can so so that's pretty cool.

37:08 Speaker 1: But and vinyl too, like there seems to be a

37:11 Speaker 1: new focus on vinyl.

37:13 Speaker 6: They're all about the really and so getting a little

37:17 Speaker 6: circumvent there like a big thing for us has always

37:19 Speaker 6: been physical first, then digital. Yeah, and some friends of

37:23 Speaker 6: ours that do a podcast actually noticed that data. Remember

37:27 Speaker 6: just recently did the exact same thing where they released

37:30 Speaker 6: all the physical stuff for their album and then said

37:33 Speaker 6: in a month you can have the digital. They were

37:37 Speaker 6: like you guys kinda kind of did that first. And

37:40 Speaker 6: it's like, I mean we like physical stuff. Seth and

37:43 Speaker 6: I are huge in the vinyl and collect Like I

37:46 Speaker 6: had a huge CD collection up until recently and I

37:49 Speaker 6: still have one. Yeah, he still has one. I mean

37:51 Speaker 6: you still use an iPod to hold your music, so wow.

37:54 Speaker 6: But the physical part has always been huge for us

37:57 Speaker 6: because I grew up going to CD in rec stores,

38:01 Speaker 6: buying as much CDs as I could, and then like

38:04 Speaker 6: my parents being like, where are you going to keep

38:05 Speaker 6: all this crap? You have like three hundred CDs in

38:09 Speaker 6: your bedroom and you have like two milk crates that

38:11 Speaker 6: are just overflowing. It's like, yeah, I don't care, I

38:14 Speaker 6: need CDs. Yeah, that was a big thing, was physical.

38:17 Speaker 6: Seth and I've always talked about we want to make

38:20 Speaker 6: sure we do it right by what we would want

38:23 Speaker 6: when we were kids, because I know as a kid

38:26 Speaker 6: growing up, if I got a new CD, that was

38:28 Speaker 6: my world. Yeah, like the month that was the greatest

38:31 Speaker 6: thing ever off of the enjoyment of the music was

38:33 Speaker 6: sitting there like opening up the CDs.

38:35 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the lyrics totally. Yeah.

38:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very important part for us, and also got

38:43 Speaker 9: to shout out Bull Moose Music because Bull Moose has

38:46 Speaker 9: carried all of our EPs. I know that there's one

38:50 Speaker 9: down here, and then there's one in Portsmith. I think

38:52 Speaker 9: there's one in Keen, but yeah, they there. You know,

38:56 Speaker 9: there's i think ten record stores and they've carried our

38:59 Speaker 9: stuff for the high time and it's it's been huge.

39:01 Speaker 9: We all grew up buying records there and yeah we

39:05 Speaker 9: have you know, some of us have big vinyl collections

39:07 Speaker 9: as well.

39:08 Speaker 6: And okay, you have a big vinyl collection. I have

39:10 Speaker 6: like thirty or forty. You've got way more than me.

39:13 Speaker 8: So yeah, I have a little.

39:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, so I'm a big I'm big into the vinyl.

39:19 Speaker 9: But but eventually for us, it's a goal, it's a dream.

39:24 Speaker 9: I'd love to press something on vinyl. Yeah, even if

39:28 Speaker 9: it's kind of like a collected you know, piece or

39:32 Speaker 9: or you know, some interesting idea.

39:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, we've we've played around with the idea for a

39:36 Speaker 6: while now with you know, kind of not even like

39:39 Speaker 6: the greatest hits, just a we've done so far four EPs,

39:42 Speaker 6: and it's like we could take a couple of songs

39:44 Speaker 6: off each of them, and we've played around with like

39:46 Speaker 6: calling it like the chum bucket and other things to

39:49 Speaker 6: just kind of make it like this is a vinyl

39:52 Speaker 6: because Set's pressed vinyl before with one of his previous vans. Oh,

39:56 Speaker 6: and I've never had that opportunity, and it's like I

39:59 Speaker 6: wouldn't mind my own vinyl.

40:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's kind of this ultimate right of passage, I think,

40:05 Speaker 9: because you know, I mean, for the for the longest

40:08 Speaker 9: period of recorded the recorded music industry, vinyl was king,

40:14 Speaker 9: and then you had your CD era in the nineties

40:17 Speaker 9: and early two thousands. But it's just a lot of music,

40:20 Speaker 9: you know, was that's the format that it was created.

40:24 Speaker 1: To be on and nothing, nothing sounds better is a

40:28 Speaker 1: kind of a rite of passage to it.

40:29 Speaker 6: So we're hoping to get that soon. I say soon,

40:32 Speaker 6: but we're hoping to do that at some point in

40:34 Speaker 6: the near future, as long as Adele and Taylor Swift

40:37 Speaker 6: don't mess that up and buy all the vinyl in

40:39 Speaker 6: the world.

40:40 Speaker 4: You know.

40:42 Speaker 1: Years. Yeah, Yeah, it's hard to get in the schedule.

40:45 Speaker 8: Just be Jack White sitting in a back room in Nashville, US.

40:49 Speaker 6: Good, very cool.

40:54 Speaker 1: And then so what's what's kind of the uh, this

40:56 Speaker 1: has been out for a little while, right or how

40:58 Speaker 1: long has this been out? Tempest? So we released that

41:01 Speaker 1: in October of last year, October twenty twenty four. Okay, yeah,

41:05 Speaker 1: it's not too too long. So do you have are

41:07 Speaker 1: you already planning for the next.

41:08 Speaker 6: One or are you so we have already started? Yeah, Yeah,

41:13 Speaker 6: we've got some fun stuff. It's it's we always kind

41:16 Speaker 6: of find ourselves in these situations when we're writing that,

41:19 Speaker 6: you know, what, what are we listening to and what's

41:22 Speaker 6: kind of driving us into certain directions. And then honestly,

41:27 Speaker 6: we got this new song called Autumn and a Car

41:29 Speaker 6: that I can't wait for people to hear it. Yeah,

41:32 Speaker 6: it's really fun. I love the way we've written it

41:34 Speaker 6: and you know, put it together. We have another one

41:37 Speaker 6: that we're working on that's interesting. Yeah, but we're working

41:42 Speaker 6: our way around building it properly. And we just had

41:45 Speaker 6: practice past Thursday night and we did we kind of

41:49 Speaker 6: pieced together two songs that are in the beginning stages

41:52 Speaker 6: that I think they'll definitely end up on the next EP.

41:54 Speaker 1: Year.

41:55 Speaker 8: I think writing for us never really stops. It's just

41:57 Speaker 8: a perpetual thing.

41:58 Speaker 7: And then at some point we're like, al right, we

42:00 Speaker 7: got enough, let's yeah, let's fine tune these five and

42:03 Speaker 7: stick them out. Yeah, we can be working on those

42:06 Speaker 7: and still end up coming up with more riffs and

42:07 Speaker 7: it's like, oh, well, just say that for the next record,

42:10 Speaker 7: right right.

42:10 Speaker 9: So the forty p's that we have have been uh

42:15 Speaker 9: every year. So one was shark Pinata, twenty two was

42:20 Speaker 9: from the Murky Depths, twenty three was Cosmic Aquatic, and

42:23 Speaker 9: then twenty four was Tempest. So yeah, I don't know

42:26 Speaker 9: if we'll be able to do the fifth one in

42:29 Speaker 9: this physical year. We'll see, Okay how quickly writing it

42:32 Speaker 9: would make. Yeah, it might be a Christmas. It might

42:36 Speaker 9: be a very Christmas. Who knows, Yeah, yeah, the.

42:40 Speaker 6: Very sharky Christmas, very sharky Christmas.

42:42 Speaker 1: Right right, right, Well we should uh we should play

42:49 Speaker 1: another one. What do you guys want to play next?

42:51 Speaker 8: Well?

42:51 Speaker 1: Here another studio track here, so here so so yeah, yeah, yeah,

42:55 Speaker 1: we were talking about this one earlier. What what should

42:57 Speaker 1: we know about this before we hear it anything.

42:59 Speaker 8: I always thought it was going to be like the

43:00 Speaker 8: radio hit. Really.

43:02 Speaker 1: I thought it was the closest.

43:03 Speaker 8: We've come to like a standard format.

43:06 Speaker 6: It's pretty solidly there, It's it's yeah, a little bit

43:09 Speaker 6: less heavy, yeah, it's a bit less heavy.

43:12 Speaker 2: It is.

43:12 Speaker 6: Again, like I said before, the music for this album

43:16 Speaker 6: and lyrical content was a lot darker. So this one

43:20 Speaker 6: is about a lot of people in this world. Know this,

43:24 Speaker 6: somebody cheating on you with their cell phone and you know,

43:27 Speaker 6: you're laying in bed, you just got home from a

43:30 Speaker 6: fifteen hour shift and you lay down and you're like,

43:32 Speaker 6: why are they on their phone? It's three in the morning.

43:34 Speaker 6: What is going And that's you know, the whole thing

43:37 Speaker 6: is somebody using their cell phone to be a dirt bag,

43:41 Speaker 6: you know, to not be a good person. And yeah,

43:45 Speaker 6: it stinks.

43:46 Speaker 1: Absolutely well, yeah this will be relatable for a lot

43:49 Speaker 1: of people, no doubt, no doubt. Well let's give this

43:51 Speaker 1: a spend. If you are just joining us, we have

43:53 Speaker 1: troll here with us in studio and this is called sell.

44:14 Speaker 5: I see on your boat.

44:20 Speaker 4: Writing up the night.

44:24 Speaker 1: Night Smoke and the so.

44:30 Speaker 5: So nice. I'm gonna sell you something.

44:36 Speaker 4: I get some sody to. It's a mootus the file.

44:44 Speaker 5: Because I lost my state, but I know this still

44:50 Speaker 5: going on there.

44:53 Speaker 4: Wh when we set.

44:57 Speaker 5: I'm missing files, I'm enjoying I got It's time that

45:28 Speaker 5: you live in a satured world while those words and

45:36 Speaker 5: deals make that's.

45:38 Speaker 4: Tad and what you did was lost.

45:43 Speaker 5: I'm sure your sty.

45:47 Speaker 1: I guess I'm solidly.

45:51 Speaker 4: There's no mos.

45:55 Speaker 5: The sun of my life. You don't know this time

46:01 Speaker 5: going on? Oh wait, wait second, I'm miles of no

46:13 Speaker 5: way that.

46:16 Speaker 8: I got that.

46:53 Speaker 5: I'm gonna say, your son, but I guess I'm sadly say.

47:02 Speaker 1: More, but I know the step up the.

47:20 Speaker 4: Miles.

47:20 Speaker 5: So enjoying.

47:27 Speaker 4: What I know this going over.

47:36 Speaker 5: A mile, so.

47:40 Speaker 1: Ben, that is called Jaws. The band is Troll and

47:55 Speaker 1: that is really really good. I can see I can

47:57 Speaker 1: see where you guys would think, you know, this might

47:59 Speaker 1: be a radio hit, because that's yeah, it's catchy as hell,

48:02 Speaker 1: really good, thanky and relatable you know, lyrics as we

48:05 Speaker 1: were talking about before.

48:06 Speaker 8: So it's all that good nineties music we grew up

48:09 Speaker 8: listening to.

48:09 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt, absolutely absolutely. So what's

48:14 Speaker 1: what's what's next for you guys? Like, what's kind of

48:16 Speaker 1: the short term or the long term lunch future?

48:21 Speaker 8: Right?

48:21 Speaker 6: He owes you a hot dog? Yes, well long longer term.

48:27 Speaker 6: I mean, we're just gonna keep grinding away at what

48:31 Speaker 6: we're doing. We're having fun writing music together we're doing

48:36 Speaker 6: just what we want to do. It's weird to say

48:39 Speaker 6: that as a band because we've all been in bands

48:41 Speaker 6: where it's like, okay, just just keep working, just work,

48:44 Speaker 6: and it's like this isn't work anymore. It's it's fun. Yeah,

48:48 Speaker 6: we go to practice, we hang out for a bit,

48:51 Speaker 6: you know, talk about crap, and then we write these

48:55 Speaker 6: great songs that we have fun writing and recording. And

48:59 Speaker 6: I think, I mean, we've got a really good slew

49:01 Speaker 6: of shows this year.

49:05 Speaker 1: Definitely.

49:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's shaping up to be probably our

49:09 Speaker 9: our busiest year ever in terms of shows. You know,

49:14 Speaker 9: we we were just getting going before the pandemic. You know,

49:17 Speaker 9: we had like one solid year to really play and

49:20 Speaker 9: then from then, you know, it was kind of a

49:22 Speaker 9: gradual slow climb back to normal, you know, playing shows.

49:28 Speaker 9: But this year is shaping up to you know, we're

49:30 Speaker 9: just we're taking on a good amount of shows and

49:33 Speaker 9: and not necessarily because we've done we've had the honor

49:37 Speaker 9: of doing some bigger stuff. We've you know, open for

49:39 Speaker 9: some cool national acts and things. But this year it's

49:43 Speaker 9: really been a lot about our own shows, you know,

49:46 Speaker 9: building our own shows and figuring out kind of our

49:50 Speaker 9: way to be sustainable, no matter if we're playing at

49:54 Speaker 9: a big room or a small room with a killer

49:57 Speaker 9: PA sounds some more like barely any sounds some you know,

50:01 Speaker 9: just learning how to be you know, work together as

50:03 Speaker 9: a team and be super sustainable.

50:05 Speaker 6: And not only that, just just focus on having fun.

50:08 Speaker 6: That's the big thing. Every show we've played this year,

50:12 Speaker 6: it's just the main priority. Like, yes, there's four people here,

50:16 Speaker 6: just have fun. Yeah, just have fun because guess what

50:18 Speaker 6: four people or four thousand people. If you put on

50:21 Speaker 6: the same show and have fun, everyone will know it

50:24 Speaker 6: and feel it. And we've had shows in recent memory

50:29 Speaker 6: that we're like, yeah, there is four people here, so

50:31 Speaker 6: this is a really fancy practice. But we're just gonna

50:33 Speaker 6: still have fun with it because if I'm not putting

50:36 Speaker 6: my all on the stage, I know people will notice it, right,

50:39 Speaker 6: And Adam will definitely feed off of my energy, and

50:42 Speaker 6: I feed off of his and justin I mean, we

50:44 Speaker 6: all feed off of each other. When the songs start

50:46 Speaker 6: going and our sample pad hits and we hear like

50:49 Speaker 6: the intros we use and all the sound effects, yeah,

50:54 Speaker 6: we have this grow and we can like look at

50:57 Speaker 6: each other and it's just like this almost like like a.

51:02 Speaker 7: Like a.

51:03 Speaker 6: A crap eating grin where you're just like, we're gonna

51:07 Speaker 6: have fun. Yeah, and it's just you look at each

51:09 Speaker 6: other and then it's like there it goes yea and again.

51:13 Speaker 6: Having fun it relaxes you when you're on stage. I've been.

51:17 Speaker 6: I know, we've had shows where we've traveled like two

51:19 Speaker 6: hours to get there. Yeah, it's stressful. You're driving for

51:22 Speaker 6: two hours and you don't know if anything's gonna show.

51:24 Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden you look out there

51:26 Speaker 6: and you're like, wow, there's a lot of people here. Yep, Oh,

51:29 Speaker 6: there's our sound effect. It's rolling And I look back

51:31 Speaker 6: at Adham and he's just smiling, and then I look

51:33 Speaker 6: at Seth and he's got the same smile on. And

51:36 Speaker 6: Justin just looks at me like don't fall on my stuff,

51:39 Speaker 6: like don't touch me. Yeah, and then we get going

51:42 Speaker 6: and it's it's fun. We have fun. That's it.

51:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can say no, that's that's great. That's the key.

51:49 Speaker 1: That's the key. Right. What should people know about where

51:53 Speaker 1: to find you guys online? And where's the best place

51:54 Speaker 1: to go?

51:55 Speaker 9: So best place to go trillband dot com. It's got

51:59 Speaker 9: every thing, all of our links to all of our

52:01 Speaker 9: social media.

52:03 Speaker 1: It's a good website. By the way. I'm a web

52:05 Speaker 1: design nerd. I pay a lot of it. I'm like

52:08 Speaker 1: like like the guy from Rock, except I critique websites.

52:11 Speaker 1: But no, but it's a good site because I say

52:15 Speaker 1: that because there's a lot of a lot of musicians,

52:17 Speaker 1: as I'm sure you guys know, have terrible websites and

52:19 Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, what are you doing.

52:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, that's the best hub to go. We're

52:24 Speaker 9: also on all the all the sites out there, you know,

52:27 Speaker 9: everything from like the Spotify and your Apple Music and

52:29 Speaker 9: your band camp and but and then you know, we're

52:33 Speaker 9: out there brick and mortar record stores as well, all

52:35 Speaker 9: those outlets.

52:36 Speaker 6: So yeah, come bind us on all the social medias.

52:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, find us.

52:40 Speaker 6: Yeah, we love hanging you know, we love talking with people.

52:42 Speaker 6: We make friends like Nate Dog shout out, shout at

52:47 Speaker 6: Nate Dog. But we love you know, we love interacting

52:50 Speaker 6: with people and and just hit us up. We love

52:53 Speaker 6: talking to people. If you find our music and you

52:55 Speaker 6: dig it, let us know. We love to hear it

52:57 Speaker 6: because it makes us feel like we did right by going. Hey,

53:01 Speaker 6: this was fun to write, and then yeah, somebody's like

53:03 Speaker 6: that song really cool. It's like, Okay, we didn't we

53:06 Speaker 6: didn't miss this one, right.

53:07 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Like, well, listen, I want

53:15 Speaker 1: to thank all four of you for coming in. This

53:16 Speaker 1: has been great, Sean Adam Seth justin. Thank you all,

53:20 Speaker 1: thank you for having me, thank you, thank you so much. Absolutely,

53:22 Speaker 1: thank you for for coming all this way too. That's uh,

53:24 Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit of a haul in

53:25 Speaker 1: the rain, so I really appreciate you guys. And we

53:27 Speaker 1: will of course close out the segment with let's see

53:30 Speaker 1: what what can we ow? So s that's the one

53:31 Speaker 1: we have not played yet?

53:33 Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.

53:34 Speaker 1: And what should we know about this one anything?

53:36 Speaker 6: Here's the deep one, here's the Here's well, this is

53:38 Speaker 6: the second deep one. I'll say on the album. The

53:40 Speaker 6: one track that I think you mentioned you might play

53:42 Speaker 6: later is called Nova. That one's for loss. If you've

53:46 Speaker 6: ever lost anyone, family, friend, pet It's it's not meant

53:50 Speaker 6: to be happy. I we'll save that for the next

53:53 Speaker 6: time we come down here to talk with you, Matt.

53:56 Speaker 6: But so os is it's written from a very dark

53:59 Speaker 6: place in my own and it Honestly, the one thing

54:01 Speaker 6: I will say about this song is if you need help,

54:05 Speaker 6: ask for help. Yes, whether it's mental, financial, religious, it

54:12 Speaker 6: doesn't matter. There are people in this world who will

54:15 Speaker 6: talk to you, who will listen to you, who will

54:17 Speaker 6: help you. And if you don't ask for help, what

54:19 Speaker 6: are you doing. You're messing yourself up. You're not getting

54:23 Speaker 6: the the energy that you need in your life to

54:26 Speaker 6: be a good person, to go further and maybe change

54:29 Speaker 6: somebody else's life. Yes, I know from writing the lyrics

54:33 Speaker 6: to this song, I was in a very bad place

54:38 Speaker 6: and honestly it was I don't remember who it was

54:40 Speaker 6: in the band, but somebody sent me a message and

54:42 Speaker 6: it just changed. It flipped the switch and it was

54:46 Speaker 6: to get you a hot there.

54:46 Speaker 8: It is lot.

54:47 Speaker 6: It was a hot dog talk, but it changed perspective

54:52 Speaker 6: and gave me a new focus to keep my head

54:56 Speaker 6: above ground. And honestly, if it weren't for these guys,

54:59 Speaker 6: these are my best friends. For warrant. For these guys,

55:01 Speaker 6: I wouldn't be here. And this song is my way

55:04 Speaker 6: of saying, if you need help, please please, for the

55:07 Speaker 6: love of whoever you pray to, it doesn't matter ask.

55:11 Speaker 6: There are priests they're a psychologists. There's your best friend,

55:13 Speaker 6: there's your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your dog,

55:16 Speaker 6: your cat, your bartender, your bartender, your bearded dragon, or

55:19 Speaker 6: the urn that's on your mantle that is your great grandmother. Yeah,

55:23 Speaker 6: talk to somebody because getting that help can change your

55:28 Speaker 6: entire world, and you may end up doing something that

55:32 Speaker 6: changes somebody else's world that keeps them here. And that

55:34 Speaker 6: person who knows, they could cure cancer, they could be

55:38 Speaker 6: the next president, they could be who knows. But if

55:41 Speaker 6: you don't ask for help, you're just shooting yourself in

55:44 Speaker 6: the foot and it's not okay. So talking is huge,

55:48 Speaker 6: and mental health is a big thing that is still

55:52 Speaker 6: stigmatized negatively.

55:54 Speaker 1: Absolutely.

55:55 Speaker 6: So if you have even here, I'll say it right now,

55:58 Speaker 6: if you want to talk to us, will listen, get

56:00 Speaker 6: us up on all our social media's, send us an email,

56:04 Speaker 6: We'll talk with you.

56:05 Speaker 8: We have.

56:06 Speaker 9: We've done it a lot too. You know, people have

56:07 Speaker 9: reached out and it's something that like I'm proud of that. Like,

56:12 Speaker 9: you know, since this song has come out, I've had

56:14 Speaker 9: a lot of people kind of reach out to us.

56:16 Speaker 1: Wow.

56:16 Speaker 6: And some good friends of ours reached out.

56:19 Speaker 1: Wow.

56:19 Speaker 9: I absolutely I love that aspect of it, like, please

56:21 Speaker 9: reach out to us. We'd love to talk, you know,

56:23 Speaker 9: with you about anything. It doesn't have to be about

56:25 Speaker 9: deep stuff. It could just be like talk about our

56:28 Speaker 9: favorite music order, had some.

56:29 Speaker 6: Terrible day, my car broke down, Like, yeah, we'll talk

56:31 Speaker 6: about you. Yeah, come to a show and talk to us,

56:34 Speaker 6: because that's even better. Because then if you need a

56:36 Speaker 6: hug because you're feeling depressed enough that you might try

56:40 Speaker 6: to do something, I'll hug the crap out of you.

56:43 Speaker 6: I'll stand there all night and drink pepsi and hug you.

56:45 Speaker 8: I'm hugged bunny.

56:46 Speaker 6: Yeah, right there. It's we want people to be here

56:50 Speaker 6: because not only are you here, but you can make

56:54 Speaker 6: a difference in this world, whether it's positive negative it

56:57 Speaker 6: you might change the whole perspective of something. He's life. Yeah,

57:01 Speaker 6: if you just take one second to send a text message,

57:03 Speaker 6: a phone call, an email, drive twenty minutes to your

57:07 Speaker 6: grandmother's house and see how she's doing, sit down with her.

57:12 Speaker 6: What are you doing. You're making somebody's day better and

57:14 Speaker 6: it could be your day. So ask for help. That's

57:17 Speaker 6: what I'm saying.

57:17 Speaker 1: No, very very well said. I love it. I absolutely

57:20 Speaker 1: love it awesome. Well now I'm especially excited to play this,

57:24 Speaker 1: so guys, thank you again. And if you are listening

57:27 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, We've got Mike Frasier coming up next.

57:30 Speaker 1: But we will close out this segment with this. This

57:32 Speaker 1: is SOS. The band is Trall and thank you so much, guys,

57:36 Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.

58:23 Speaker 6: I'm just saying.

58:29 Speaker 5: Trying to class roun the road.

58:37 Speaker 1: Only see upsas my friend.

58:44 Speaker 5: Call guys.

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59:12 Speaker 3: Hown and solid?

59:15 Speaker 4: How me in solid?

59:22 Speaker 6: All these TV fans inside and.

59:28 Speaker 5: Voice is coming my mind.

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