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17:05 Speaker 4: What a beautiful song? That is April Days by Mike Fraser.

17:07 Speaker 4: And he is here with us, live in studio. We're

17:11 Speaker 4: gonna talk with him, He's gonna play for us. This

17:12 Speaker 4: is gonna be great. If you are just joining us.

17:15 Speaker 4: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the

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17:22 Speaker 4: very wet, Rainy, Manchester, New Hampshire, of course also streaming live.

17:26 Speaker 4: If you go to Matt connorton dot com slash live

17:28 Speaker 4: you can find all your live streaming options, social media links, contact,

17:31 Speaker 4: infoshow archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, May tenth,

17:36 Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, and I'm gonna bring that Mike up here,

17:40 Speaker 4: and Mike Fraser is here. Hello, sir, Hello, We'll turn

17:44 Speaker 4: you up a little here.

17:45 Speaker 14: Make sure reel good to be here.

17:46 Speaker 4: Sounds good, sounds good? All right, love that song April Days,

17:49 Speaker 4: Thank You really good. Yeah, we played we played that

17:52 Speaker 4: for the first time, maybe a couple months ago. I

17:55 Speaker 4: think Sweet you had first sent us a single and

17:57 Speaker 4: Jenny and I met you at the Shaft Skiine. I

18:02 Speaker 4: don't remember by time. It all becomes a blur, but

18:05 Speaker 4: it was I remember it was cold.

18:07 Speaker 14: Yeah, it was November.

18:09 Speaker 6: It was.

18:11 Speaker 14: Towards the end. Well it's middle November of last year. Okay,

18:15 Speaker 14: I think it was the eighteenth or something like that. Okay,

18:19 Speaker 14: around then, yeah, and it was it was a little

18:22 Speaker 14: chilly that day.

18:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, you were playing there. Jesse Coffee, who is Jenny's Sun,

18:27 Speaker 4: was playing that. Yeah, so that's that's the main reason

18:29 Speaker 4: that we were there and we saw you and we

18:31 Speaker 4: had to talk to you because we were just very impressed,

18:34 Speaker 4: not only with your set but your story. You've you've

18:38 Speaker 4: you've been through some stuff, my friend, you have been

18:40 Speaker 4: through some stuff. But and well we'll get into all

18:43 Speaker 4: of that, I'm sure, but also you're you're not from here.

18:46 Speaker 4: You're on tour right now.

18:47 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, originally from My wife and I were from

18:50 Speaker 14: the Shadow Valley from Winchester, Virginia, like our west of DC, Okay,

18:53 Speaker 14: and we live in Seattle now. We moved up to

18:56 Speaker 14: the northwest in August of twenty two. But yeah, we're

19:00 Speaker 14: playing some shows around the Northeast and also getting neurology

19:04 Speaker 14: appointments while I'm back in town. So you know, it's

19:12 Speaker 14: good to be back here though, and be able to

19:14 Speaker 14: be on the road because I mean, I said last

19:16 Speaker 14: night in Boston. The last time I played in Boston

19:19 Speaker 14: was May of twenty twenty three. Yeah, and I'm usually

19:22 Speaker 14: up in the Northeast at least a couple of times

19:24 Speaker 14: a year, and you know, prior to moving to Seattle

19:28 Speaker 14: even Yeah, and so last year really made that difficult.

19:35 Speaker 14: I'm glad we at least got to get to Manchester. Yeah,

19:39 Speaker 14: but yeah, I mean happy to dive into that.

19:41 Speaker 4: And where are you playing tonight?

19:44 Speaker 14: We're playing at Tourists in North Adams tonight.

19:46 Speaker 4: Okay.

19:47 Speaker 14: Yeah, so it's been nice to get a little Northeast vibe.

19:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, because we'll.

19:53 Speaker 14: Be in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow, and then we're coming back

19:56 Speaker 14: up playing Queens and Jersey. Okay, so yeah, hitting some

20:00 Speaker 14: spots I haven't been to in a while.

20:02 Speaker 4: Oh and you brought us a beautiful vinyl record by

20:04 Speaker 4: that way, Yeah, and uh, later I'll take a picture

20:07 Speaker 4: of it and I'll post it later because I don't

20:09 Speaker 4: have a camera on me. But but this is actually

20:11 Speaker 4: maybe well actually maybe for those watching online, Oh, I

20:15 Speaker 4: figured out a way I can show it. Sweet there

20:17 Speaker 4: we go. If you're watching live, you can see Beautiful

20:20 Speaker 4: April Days, the uh, the name of the album, and

20:24 Speaker 4: of course the name of the song that we just played,

20:26 Speaker 4: the great studio track. And yeah, absolutely absolutely I love

20:30 Speaker 4: that this is Seattle, assume in the cover.

20:32 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, that's in the neighborhood we live in Ballard.

20:35 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, right on Ballard. Ave.

20:38 Speaker 12: Yeah.

20:39 Speaker 14: And you know, I showed that record to someone the

20:41 Speaker 14: other day. I said, you know, it's really going for

20:44 Speaker 14: that free wheeling vibe, same aesthetic. But and they were like, well,

20:48 Speaker 14: you know, Dylan really screwed up not putting a cute

20:51 Speaker 14: dog on the cover, so we put Conoli, our Boston

20:55 Speaker 14: terrier on with us.

20:56 Speaker 16: Oh.

20:57 Speaker 14: Very yeah, she adds a vibe for sure.

20:59 Speaker 4: Yeah.

21:00 Speaker 10: Yeah.

21:01 Speaker 4: By the way, I'm always impressed with because you've got

21:04 Speaker 4: the harmonica. Yeah yeah, and you've got what do you

21:06 Speaker 4: call that that where that you put it in that

21:08 Speaker 4: contraption harpholder, I guess okay, yeah, I'm always impressed with

21:13 Speaker 4: that because when you do that, you're playing guitar. You're

21:14 Speaker 4: literally playing two instruments at once. So that always impresses me. Thanks.

21:19 Speaker 14: Thanks. I mean I literally learned how to play along

21:22 Speaker 14: to like any of the songs on Harvest and that

21:25 Speaker 14: was like, all right, well.

21:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, is he your biggest influence?

21:29 Speaker 14: Neilia, I'm being top for sure. Yeah. Well, which I

21:33 Speaker 14: got a great story about which I'll dive into. Getting

21:36 Speaker 14: brain surgery here shortly. But what the surgeon told me

21:39 Speaker 14: after surgery was a real ego boost for sure. Okay, okay,

21:43 Speaker 14: it involves Neil as well.

21:45 Speaker 4: So for those of you just tuning in, because you

21:48 Speaker 4: probably have not heard I'll talk about the brain surgery,

21:51 Speaker 4: you probably haven't heard a guest say that before on

21:53 Speaker 4: this show. But like I said, so, if you're just

21:56 Speaker 4: tuning in, not only do you want to keep listening

21:58 Speaker 4: for the music, but you want to hear Mike's story

21:59 Speaker 4: because you have been through it. But yeah, you want

22:03 Speaker 4: to play something to set us out.

22:04 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll start with this. So essentially, for two years,

22:11 Speaker 14: I had been dealing with the worst mental health and

22:14 Speaker 14: physical health crisis in my life. I didn't know what

22:18 Speaker 14: was wrong with me for years. Found out on April

22:23 Speaker 14: seventeenth of last year, I get admitted to the hospital

22:26 Speaker 14: in Virginia when I was supposed to be on tour.

22:28 Speaker 14: I had started going unconscious and I happened to be

22:33 Speaker 14: at lunch with my doctor son in Virginia and he

22:36 Speaker 14: saw me go unconscious for about fifty seconds. His dad

22:40 Speaker 14: and his dad got me an MRI the next morning.

22:42 Speaker 14: I would have been in the van all the way

22:44 Speaker 14: to New Jersey to start the tour. I was going

22:46 Speaker 14: unconscious again before the MRI and I get admitted to

22:49 Speaker 14: the hospital. That day I get diagnosed with temporolo of epilepsy.

22:54 Speaker 14: And the neurologist, this guy, doctor lyons, he looks at me,

22:59 Speaker 14: and he says, every single time you felt nauseous for

23:01 Speaker 14: the last two years, and every single time a doctor

23:04 Speaker 14: has told you you have really bad acid reflux, you've

23:07 Speaker 14: actually been seizing. And it usually usually happened when I

23:11 Speaker 14: ate and I had a mass on my right timpoorlope

23:14 Speaker 14: called cortical dysplasia, which I was a congenital defect that

23:21 Speaker 14: I didn't know was there and took twenty nine years

23:24 Speaker 14: for them to find it and for two years of

23:28 Speaker 14: countless seizures until I started going unconscious. Usually when it

23:32 Speaker 14: would happen, I would I feel like I was getting

23:34 Speaker 14: stabbed in the stomach. Oh my gosh, cruciatingly painful, and

23:38 Speaker 14: it affected my mind tremendously.

23:40 Speaker 4: Too, imagine.

23:41 Speaker 14: So you know, years of dealing with that, you know,

23:44 Speaker 14: I finally get this diagnosis, and it sure was some

23:48 Speaker 14: good news for me in that regard, because I finally

23:50 Speaker 14: knew what was wrong and So this first one off

23:53 Speaker 14: play I wrote about two weeks after the surgery, okay,

23:57 Speaker 14: and it's called What's wrong with Me?

23:59 Speaker 8: All right, my darling, I've gone like the.

24:26 Speaker 18: Willow ma Lee's laid bath.

24:34 Speaker 12: And the cold.

24:40 Speaker 14: My heartaches from something I can't see it.

24:49 Speaker 12: My mind feels as.

24:54 Speaker 14: Of control. My the darkness, it steals away my memory.

25:10 Speaker 11: Give me.

25:12 Speaker 14: A break from the pain. Medication has sah lends the melody,

25:29 Speaker 14: and no one seems to understand him but me. I've

25:58 Speaker 14: wandered this world without answers, hiding my pain from those

26:12 Speaker 14: as I smile, though I am weary, always can put.

26:30 Speaker 12: On a show.

26:33 Speaker 1: That's right.

26:35 Speaker 14: My darkness, it steals away my memory.

26:45 Speaker 11: Give me.

26:47 Speaker 12: A break from the pain.

26:54 Speaker 14: Medication has sidles the melody. No one seems to understand.

27:09 Speaker 20: Me, and one day they will find what's wrong with.

27:21 Speaker 16: Me?

27:28 Speaker 3: They sure did.

27:30 Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful. Thanks Mike Fraser is here with

27:33 Speaker 4: us live in studio and uh no, that was great,

27:37 Speaker 4: thank you. What so that was written obviously before they

27:40 Speaker 4: had a diagnosis.

27:42 Speaker 14: Yeah, well, no, that that was written. That was after

27:46 Speaker 14: the diagnosis.

27:47 Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that was the.

27:49 Speaker 14: First one I finished after surgery.

27:51 Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that.

27:53 Speaker 14: The the only song I wrote, well, like, I really

27:56 Speaker 14: finished beforehand while I was still in the hospital was

27:59 Speaker 14: the title track April Days, which I'll finish.

28:01 Speaker 16: With that one.

28:02 Speaker 14: Yeah, but yeah that you know, for the first first

28:06 Speaker 14: like week, I couldn't play guitar or really sing at all. Yeah,

28:12 Speaker 14: which was scary for a minute for sure. I mean

28:15 Speaker 14: I was also in unimaginable pain. I mean I didn't

28:18 Speaker 14: sleep for like two and a half weeks. And you know,

28:22 Speaker 14: from my case, you know, brain surgery was the best

28:25 Speaker 14: option because they also weren't sure if it was cancer

28:28 Speaker 14: or not.

28:28 Speaker 4: So oh okay, you know it until they went in.

28:32 Speaker 14: I yeah, yeah, so they you know, while I'm sitting

28:36 Speaker 14: in the hospital on the seventeenth, the neurologist comes in.

28:40 Speaker 14: It's just my wife and him and I in there,

28:42 Speaker 14: and uh, I had three seizures in front of him

28:44 Speaker 14: right in that moment. He was watching it on the

28:48 Speaker 14: EG and he was seeing they were all coming from

28:52 Speaker 14: that that mass. So he was confident it was that

28:55 Speaker 14: what is what was causing it, right, But they weren't

28:58 Speaker 14: confident as if it was cancer or if it was

29:00 Speaker 14: cortical dysplaysia. Okay, so you know, as I said, best

29:05 Speaker 14: option was to cut it out. And but for me,

29:06 Speaker 14: I mean I was like, yeah, that do it, no

29:09 Speaker 14: matter what I mean, because in my mind it was like, well,

29:13 Speaker 14: there's my way out, especially because of the way that

29:16 Speaker 14: affected me mentally.

29:17 Speaker 4: Oh, I can imagine that was that was to me.

29:19 Speaker 14: That was even worse the fact that you know, I

29:22 Speaker 14: couldn't even really I couldn't eat without having a seizure

29:24 Speaker 14: at that point. Every time I ate, it happened. But

29:27 Speaker 14: for me, it was like I was the most depressed

29:30 Speaker 14: I'd ever been in my life.

29:32 Speaker 4: Yeah.

29:32 Speaker 14: And uh, I mean my wife saved my life at

29:35 Speaker 14: that point. A couple of days prior to getting the diagnosis,

29:38 Speaker 14: I was on the ledge and she really saved my life.

29:41 Speaker 1: Wow.

29:42 Speaker 14: And you know, getting that diagnosis though, it was like, well,

29:46 Speaker 14: this is my way out, you know, I know what

29:48 Speaker 14: it is now.

29:49 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's frightening to hear that, right, But at

29:52 Speaker 4: the same time, it's like, at least now I know.

29:54 Speaker 12: Yeah.

29:55 Speaker 14: I mean, I like, I I wasn't. It's weird, Like

29:59 Speaker 14: I wasn't frighten by it.

30:00 Speaker 1: I was.

30:01 Speaker 14: I was elated to know what it was, you know,

30:04 Speaker 14: I was more frightened not knowing what that that was

30:07 Speaker 14: really it because it had just been years of the

30:10 Speaker 14: misdiagnosis and then it just kept getting worse and worse.

30:14 Speaker 14: From what I understand, you know, that's kind of the

30:15 Speaker 14: way that epilepsy works. It's like a computer, it just

30:17 Speaker 14: gets smart, like it upgrades. Especially so my mine was,

30:22 Speaker 14: you know, it's just getting to the point where I

30:23 Speaker 14: was going unconscious. So that's how I found it. But yeah,

30:28 Speaker 14: it was, Uh, it was quite the time, to say

30:31 Speaker 14: the least. And then so I go through with the

30:33 Speaker 14: surgery and then the like I said, the first week

30:37 Speaker 14: or so couldn't play at all, but then you know,

30:40 Speaker 14: I had the rest of May and then June and July.

30:45 Speaker 14: Really I just wrote constantly, and uh, what was a

30:49 Speaker 14: real trip was the way that after they took this

30:53 Speaker 14: mass out of my brain, I didn't realize how much

30:56 Speaker 14: it had been affecting writing, you know, from I remember,

31:00 Speaker 14: I remember it was really like the end of twenty

31:03 Speaker 14: twenty three, I started noticing, you know, just how difficult

31:08 Speaker 14: it was to write. I mean I would sit down

31:11 Speaker 14: and just play and play and play. Nothing like melodies

31:15 Speaker 14: would come about, but just couldn't put the connection.

31:18 Speaker 4: And at the time you probably thought it was writer's blocky.

31:21 Speaker 5: Yeah.

31:21 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, you know, I was just like, well,

31:23 Speaker 14: I'm just working a lot.

31:25 Speaker 4: Yeah.

31:27 Speaker 14: Also mentally I'm struggling. Physically, I'm struggle. I'm just like,

31:31 Speaker 14: it's just probably a bunch of things at play here.

31:33 Speaker 14: But it was crazy, like they you know, a couple

31:37 Speaker 14: of weeks after, I'd say, well, it was about it

31:39 Speaker 14: was about a month or month and a half after surgery.

31:43 Speaker 14: I'm sitting down reading my wife's book, Steph Bruno. She's

31:47 Speaker 14: an author. She wrote this book called The Recipe for Yellow,

31:50 Speaker 14: and I'm reading her novel and it was wild, Like

31:54 Speaker 14: I flipped. I get like twenty pages in and I

31:56 Speaker 14: was like, this is the fastest I've ever been able

31:59 Speaker 14: to read. And I remember texting the doctors. I was like, so,

32:03 Speaker 14: before the surgery, you said my IQ might go up

32:06 Speaker 14: a little bit, which I was really having a field

32:09 Speaker 14: day with interesting. Yeah and uh but but that's what

32:13 Speaker 14: I guess. You know, when I started writing again, it

32:16 Speaker 14: was just like the ease at which was pretty profound.

32:20 Speaker 4: Yeah.

32:20 Speaker 14: I was like, they literally removed a block a lot

32:23 Speaker 14: in a lot of ways, and it just was easier

32:26 Speaker 14: to get in that flow state for sure of just

32:28 Speaker 14: like sitting down. Yeah, I would do this like admititay,

32:32 Speaker 14: I do some yoga and then just like start ripping

32:34 Speaker 14: through songs.

32:34 Speaker 12: Yeah.

32:35 Speaker 14: It was It was sweet. It was definitely unlike any

32:37 Speaker 14: writing experience I've had in the past. And you know it,

32:42 Speaker 14: like I think I wrote twenty songs for this record,

32:45 Speaker 14: but we recorded it four months after the surgery, so

32:48 Speaker 14: it was like twenty songs in four months.

32:49 Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, it's pretty good. Yeah, and how

32:52 Speaker 4: did you record this? By the way, So so we.

32:56 Speaker 14: There's a studio house in Ballard in Seattle. Multiple bands

33:01 Speaker 14: live at this house and it's been a banded house

33:04 Speaker 14: since the nineties. So I'm always wondering, like, you.

33:06 Speaker 4: Know, who's oh yeah there, especially.

33:10 Speaker 14: Being in Seattle and you know, being a big punk

33:13 Speaker 14: rock fan, I was always wondering, like, oh, no doubt,

33:15 Speaker 14: I wonder who's walked through here. So I'm getting my tuner.

33:19 Speaker 14: But yeah, so I essentially I got a few of

33:24 Speaker 14: my friends from the East Coast, my buddy Samir, Matteo

33:27 Speaker 14: and Mark they flew in from Jersey, and then I

33:31 Speaker 14: had friends from Seattle just come in and play steel

33:36 Speaker 14: and fiddle all sorts. Of different stuff. It was cool

33:38 Speaker 14: like East Coast West Coast vibe. Yeah, but we tracked

33:41 Speaker 14: it all live in the basement, really leaned into the

33:43 Speaker 14: after the gold Rush. Yeah, like I was saying, yeah,

33:46 Speaker 14: and which does time to this story? After I got surgery,

33:51 Speaker 14: the surgeon comes.

33:52 Speaker 12: In my room.

33:54 Speaker 14: I remember, right before I went out for the Antesia hit.

33:57 Speaker 14: He looks at me, uh, and he goes, well, hey, man,

34:01 Speaker 14: are you gonna are you gonna listen to fish? Will

34:03 Speaker 14: you operate on my brain? Because I was told like

34:06 Speaker 14: a couple of days before the surgery he was seeing

34:09 Speaker 14: fish at the sphere.

34:10 Speaker 4: Oh no kidding.

34:11 Speaker 14: I once again had a field day with that. I

34:14 Speaker 14: mean I was telling everyone like, yo, a fishhead's operating

34:17 Speaker 14: on me or what that's gonna be? Like, right, I

34:21 Speaker 14: wonder what's gonna go down. Well, right before I the

34:26 Speaker 14: Antesia hits, I look at him and like, yeah, you're

34:28 Speaker 14: gonna listen to some fish. He was like, actually no,

34:30 Speaker 14: I was wondering if you were on Spotify I was

34:32 Speaker 14: gonna play your music? And I was like, oh, yeah

34:34 Speaker 14: I am, and then I went unconscious.

34:36 Speaker 4: Yeah.

34:37 Speaker 14: But so he comes in my room after the surgery

34:40 Speaker 14: and he's like congrats, Mike, I got everything. He gave

34:44 Speaker 14: me a fist bump and he goes, uhcause, just so

34:47 Speaker 14: you know, while I was operating on your brain, I

34:48 Speaker 14: was listening to music the whole time. I really like it.

34:51 Speaker 14: You sound like Neil Young. Oh that's cool, that's cool,

34:54 Speaker 14: which my wife was like, yeah, of course he loved

34:57 Speaker 14: hearing that.

34:58 Speaker 4: Yeah, but.

35:00 Speaker 14: Yeah, I so yeah, I really leaned into that, you know,

35:04 Speaker 14: after the goal versus. I love the way that he

35:06 Speaker 14: made that record at that because it was his house

35:10 Speaker 14: and to pang A Canyon. Yeah, we really went for

35:14 Speaker 14: that feel.

35:15 Speaker 6: Yeah.

35:15 Speaker 4: Sure, no, I think you achieved it. Absolutely appreciate that.

35:20 Speaker 14: But yeah, woman, just roll a couple more.

35:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's do it. I'm down here more.

35:25 Speaker 14: Well, you know, the one I there was like, yeah,

35:29 Speaker 14: the like I said, wrote a bunch of songs for it.

35:32 Speaker 14: One in particular was that it was just really profound

35:36 Speaker 14: out all came about. It was the first time I

35:38 Speaker 14: ever had like a dream about like melody and lyrics. Okay,

35:43 Speaker 14: that never happened to me before. And every time I

35:45 Speaker 14: saw an interview of a songwriter talking about that, I

35:48 Speaker 14: was like, no, way right, people just say that for

35:52 Speaker 14: interviews right right, it does sound good, but it finally happened.

35:58 Speaker 14: So so, uh, I wake up immediately like on my phone,

36:02 Speaker 14: recorded just this melody. Uh, And I had this line

36:07 Speaker 14: imagine a world without Empires, and I you know, I

36:12 Speaker 14: got the I got the melody for it. I just

36:14 Speaker 14: lay it down real quick, just immediately wake up, sing

36:16 Speaker 14: it and wrote, got up, wrote the lyrics for it

36:21 Speaker 14: in like twenty minutes.

36:23 Speaker 4: Nice.

36:23 Speaker 14: And but then I quickly was like, well, Imagine might

36:28 Speaker 14: be a little leading, a little too into John Lennon there,

36:30 Speaker 14: so I didn't want to rip off too much. So

36:34 Speaker 14: then it switched it to Envision, Okay, okay, yeah, So

36:38 Speaker 14: so that you know, that was like the first time

36:40 Speaker 14: that had ever happened for me, which was real cool

36:44 Speaker 14: to say the least. And and that you know that

36:47 Speaker 14: like the I think the overarching theme of the record,

36:51 Speaker 14: you know, it's not just like an epilepsy brain surgery record.

36:54 Speaker 14: I think it is this concept of like healing, yeah,

36:58 Speaker 14: just in general and not even just like me any person.

37:03 Speaker 14: And also the planet. That's that's the big thing, And

37:06 Speaker 14: that was that was the big thing about this song too.

37:08 Speaker 14: It's just this idea of like, well if we stop

37:11 Speaker 14: building bombs and build a better future, you know. And

37:14 Speaker 14: like last night, I tried this vibe where I told

37:18 Speaker 14: everybody close their eyes, take a deep breath. You know,

37:22 Speaker 14: picture the children of Palestine are free. There's no more

37:25 Speaker 14: bombs being dropped. People have you know, clean soil, clean

37:29 Speaker 14: air to drink, clean clean, clean air to breathe, clean

37:32 Speaker 14: air to drink. And that was kind of the whole

37:35 Speaker 14: idea of this song. It's just like what it would

37:37 Speaker 14: be like if we stop building bombs, right, So it

37:41 Speaker 14: seems like, why, you know, shouldn't be that crazy of

37:44 Speaker 14: a concept, right exactly, But that, yeah, that's what this

37:47 Speaker 14: one was. Vib I'm we do rip that one?

37:49 Speaker 4: Yeah please, yeah, hear it.

37:52 Speaker 14: Let me tune up a little bit, but yeah, you know,

37:56 Speaker 14: just to have the like the melody, and of course

37:59 Speaker 14: you know it's still kind of that like classic folky melody.

38:03 Speaker 14: So now it wasn't like I woke up with some life,

38:05 Speaker 14: right right, but you know, just to have that happen

38:13 Speaker 14: was pretty cool.

38:16 Speaker 4: If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser is here with

38:18 Speaker 4: us live in studio.

38:21 Speaker 16: All right.

38:22 Speaker 14: This one's called World Without Empires. Imagine what that could

38:25 Speaker 14: be like? Vision a world without Empires, where people can

38:40 Speaker 14: live without fear of tyrants bombing their city, destroying what

38:48 Speaker 14: they hold dear. One day, it won't be too crazy

38:57 Speaker 14: to think of how it could be our world without empires,

39:05 Speaker 14: living harmonious sleep. Well, the Earth is finally saved. The

39:15 Speaker 14: walls are crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll

39:23 Speaker 14: happen somehow. Vision a world without Empires. The wars would

39:51 Speaker 14: be obsolete. Why would you build an army if killing

39:59 Speaker 14: wasn't in me? Well, the Earth is finally saved, the

40:07 Speaker 14: walls all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll

40:16 Speaker 14: happen somehow. Well, the Earth is finally saved, the walls

40:43 Speaker 14: all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll happen somehow. Yeah,

40:55 Speaker 14: I'm sure it'll happen somehow.

41:06 Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful, Absolutely beautiful. If you're yeah, I

41:11 Speaker 4: hope so, huh If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser

41:15 Speaker 4: is here with us, alive in studio and that's on

41:20 Speaker 4: April days, I assume, right, Yeah, yeah, that definitely captures

41:29 Speaker 4: that Neil young vibe. Who your going?

41:31 Speaker 14: Thanks?

41:31 Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, We don't have a ton of time. You

41:35 Speaker 4: want to play another one.

41:36 Speaker 14: Yeah, you want to finish with the April Days.

41:39 Speaker 4: You want to well, okay, well we're finishing with that one.

41:41 Speaker 4: We don't have to rush quite yet.

41:44 Speaker 14: But uh yeah, I could do. I could do one

41:48 Speaker 14: from Secrets of Atlantis.

41:50 Speaker 4: Okay, I just selfishly want to hear you play more.

41:52 Speaker 4: You sound so good man.

41:53 Speaker 14: Thanks you really do you really do?

41:55 Speaker 4: Absolutely?

41:56 Speaker 16: Thank you?

41:57 Speaker 14: Well, yeah, well I I'll do. I'll do love you forever.

41:59 Speaker 14: That one's uh so, Secrets of Atlanta's was a record

42:03 Speaker 14: I made during the pandemic, record like three records in

42:07 Speaker 14: those few years, and I put this one out April

42:11 Speaker 14: twenty sixth of last year. Surgery was April twenty fifth,

42:15 Speaker 14: excuse me, so surgery was not planned, record was still planned,

42:20 Speaker 14: records still was released. And Steph took this photo of

42:25 Speaker 14: me with the bandage on my head holding the LP

42:28 Speaker 14: like half awake in the bed.

42:30 Speaker 4: Like oh okayd wow, but this one, you know.

42:36 Speaker 14: So there's a little bit of a dare I say,

42:40 Speaker 14: friendly competition between Steph and I when it comes to writing.

42:43 Speaker 14: Unbelievable writer, and that was made really apparent when we

42:46 Speaker 14: got married, especially during our vowels. You know, I was

42:50 Speaker 14: like all right, I'm gonna blow everyone away here I

42:53 Speaker 14: write these really, I'm like, we get married under the

42:56 Speaker 14: Redwoods in Santa Cruz. So picture that we're under the

42:59 Speaker 14: red It's a bunch of people sitting. It's this beautiful backdrop,

43:04 Speaker 14: and the place is losing it. I mean, everyone's crying

43:07 Speaker 14: their eyes out. The redwoods themselves are crying. I mean,

43:10 Speaker 14: the place is going nuts. Then Steph reads hers and

43:13 Speaker 14: not only does everyone cry, but they also laughed. And

43:16 Speaker 14: that's when I knew I should have added one joke.

43:18 Speaker 14: Because she she ends hers with everyone here knows the

43:21 Speaker 14: best songs. The ones you write about medn't top that one.

43:26 Speaker 14: So she writes this book, The Recipe for Yellow, which

43:29 Speaker 14: is about four generations of women living together in house

43:32 Speaker 14: in Virginia, very timely with Mother's Day tomorrow. So I

43:36 Speaker 14: wrote this one about her cosmic relationship with her grandma,

43:39 Speaker 14: who passed away visits her in her dreams. That's so

43:43 Speaker 14: this one's all right. I have to hold the guitar

43:48 Speaker 14: this way. There's like a loose bracing in it.

44:00 Speaker 4: Here it are okay, Yeah, it sounds great.

44:02 Speaker 14: Yeah, the cosmic wonders around you, the violid aura of.

44:20 Speaker 18: J gateways to endless evotion, a place where there is

44:33 Speaker 18: no pay.

44:38 Speaker 22: I wanna love you for ever, but I know time.

44:47 Speaker 8: Is a line.

44:53 Speaker 14: I know we'll be back to get.

44:58 Speaker 8: Next live.

45:13 Speaker 14: Vibrations from their demention.

45:20 Speaker 23: They've visit me in my dream, leave me behind my

45:29 Speaker 23: earthly body.

45:34 Speaker 22: And travel with you in p he. I wanna love

45:43 Speaker 22: you forever, but I know time is a live.

45:55 Speaker 12: I know we'll be back to get.

46:00 Speaker 14: Next.

46:01 Speaker 1: Lo.

46:16 Speaker 20: I wanna love you forever, but I know time.

46:25 Speaker 12: Is a live.

46:30 Speaker 24: I know we'll be back to againther. I know we'll

46:38 Speaker 24: be back to againther. I know we'll be back to again.

46:50 Speaker 8: Next li.

46:57 Speaker 1: O.

46:57 Speaker 4: It's beautiful and I know I keep saying the same

46:59 Speaker 4: thing after every song, but they are their beautiful son.

47:01 Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that absolutely. If you're just joining us,

47:05 Speaker 4: Mike Frasier is here with us live in studio on

47:08 Speaker 4: this Saturday morning. Hey, before we uh, before we head tour,

47:12 Speaker 4: because I know you want to finish with April days. Yeah,

47:14 Speaker 4: I want to remind people where you're gonna be tonight.

47:16 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll be over in North Adams tonight at Tourists Okay, Planet.

47:20 Speaker 4: Eight excellent, excellent, Yes, and then uh, and then from there,

47:24 Speaker 4: where do you go from there?

47:25 Speaker 14: Pennsylvany, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow okay, place called the record shop okay.

47:29 Speaker 14: And then we'll be home for a little bit. Uh,

47:31 Speaker 14: gotta get a could get an EG and then uh,

47:35 Speaker 14: I'll go back up the Northeast. I got a couple

47:38 Speaker 14: more shows and some shows in Virginia.

47:40 Speaker 4: So okay.

47:41 Speaker 14: Trying to get back to Manchester in the fall, for sure. Yeah, yeah,

47:44 Speaker 14: I hope so good time to be here for sure. Yeah, absolutely, yes,

47:48 Speaker 14: we'll be back for sure.

47:49 Speaker 4: Where should people go online to? Where's the best place

47:51 Speaker 4: to go to keep up with everything that you're doing?

47:52 Speaker 14: Mike Fraser via mainly on Instagram is the one I'm

47:55 Speaker 14: probably most active on, okay, uh, the one that I

47:59 Speaker 14: remember to update regularly, gotcha, Yeah, that's probably the best one.

48:04 Speaker 14: Or Geneva Records dot Com. Oh okay, yeah, I started

48:07 Speaker 14: a record label back in twenty fifteen to put out

48:11 Speaker 14: my friends. Oh, just use it to put out my

48:13 Speaker 14: own records.

48:14 Speaker 4: Oh, no kidding? Yeah, so oh very cool. Yeah I

48:17 Speaker 4: have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, for sure, very

48:19 Speaker 4: curious about that.

48:20 Speaker 14: Thanks. Got Steph's book on there too?

48:22 Speaker 4: Oh nice?

48:23 Speaker 14: Yes, and What's what's the book called the Recipe for Yellow?

48:25 Speaker 4: The Recipe for Yellow?

48:26 Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, yeah, perfect time to pick that up before.

48:29 Speaker 14: It's a good Mother's Day gift for sure.

48:30 Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, all right, Mike Fraser live in studio. He's

48:35 Speaker 4: gonna play April Days for us.

48:38 Speaker 12: Thanks.

48:38 Speaker 14: Yeah, I figured, you know, and with this one, because

48:42 Speaker 14: you know, like I said, this was the U. This

48:45 Speaker 14: was really the only song I finished before surgery. Oh okay,

48:51 Speaker 14: you know, I'm if you picture this, I'm laying in

48:53 Speaker 14: my hospital bed. I got the eg on my head

48:57 Speaker 14: and uh got the ek geo in my heart. And

49:01 Speaker 14: they were kind enough to let me have the guitar

49:03 Speaker 14: in the room so my friends would come down and visit.

49:06 Speaker 14: One in particular, my buddy Mark Masefield. He brought his

49:08 Speaker 14: accordion to my room and yeah, he'd play well, I

49:11 Speaker 14: got my blood drunk. Oh wow, he was playing take

49:15 Speaker 14: me out to the ball game.

49:17 Speaker 4: That's funny.

49:19 Speaker 14: But but yeah, I this was one. Like you know,

49:22 Speaker 14: I had the melody too before I got admitted, and

49:25 Speaker 14: I was just you know, kind of putting it all

49:28 Speaker 14: together with him while I was well, I was a

49:30 Speaker 14: waiting and yeah, this is like I think The overarching

49:35 Speaker 14: idea is like healing. Like I said, the mind, the earth,

49:39 Speaker 14: your everything. Yeah, and I'll do the I'm gonna heal

49:43 Speaker 14: thing to finish. So anybody out there listening, you can

49:45 Speaker 14: sing along to It's real, It's real, easy, all right?

49:56 Speaker 12: Can you hear that?

49:57 Speaker 17: All right?

49:58 Speaker 4: That sounds great?

50:04 Speaker 14: April days if coming gone. Spring, rain is rolling on.

50:11 Speaker 14: My heart breaks without a song. The road starts to wind.

50:18 Speaker 14: They're funding war so they last been. Times are coming fast?

50:25 Speaker 14: Will peace get a chance?

50:28 Speaker 12: Who would have known?

50:32 Speaker 14: I've been feeling like something is wrong. The voice in

50:39 Speaker 14: my head has been here for too long. One day

50:47 Speaker 14: I will get to live live again. Laying in my

51:08 Speaker 14: hospital bed, the sun shining on my head, the doctor

51:14 Speaker 14: stopped bye, said they know what's the cause. I've been feeling.

51:24 Speaker 20: Like something is wrong. The voice in my head has

51:30 Speaker 20: been here for too long.

51:34 Speaker 14: One day I will get to live life again. I'm

51:56 Speaker 14: happy to be alive. The worst days are long behind,

52:03 Speaker 14: healing from all the time spent in pain. I've been

52:13 Speaker 14: feeling like something is wrong.

52:18 Speaker 21: The voice in my head has been here for too long.

52:25 Speaker 21: One day I will get to live life with him.

52:46 Speaker 14: All right, we'll do that. We'll do this sing long

52:48 Speaker 14: while so I should know too. I'm a year seizure

52:53 Speaker 14: free as of the that's four twenty and so it

52:57 Speaker 14: was real good getting back up to the Northeast. But yeah,

53:03 Speaker 14: here's here's the singalong song. So I wrote this one

53:06 Speaker 14: just really to sing in my head while I walked around.

53:09 Speaker 14: But we'll do the singalong part too. So here's what

53:11 Speaker 14: Here's what I say. Anybody out there listen. I'm gonna heal.

53:17 Speaker 14: I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal my mind. I'm

53:24 Speaker 14: going to heal. I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal

53:30 Speaker 14: my mind. We're gonna heal. This is the part. We're

53:36 Speaker 14: gona heal. We're gonna heal our mind. We singing together.

53:41 Speaker 14: Come on, we're gona heal. We're gona heal. We're gonna

53:48 Speaker 14: heal our minds. Everybody out there, if you're out there,

54:09 Speaker 14: we're gone heal.

54:12 Speaker 12: We're going to heal.

54:14 Speaker 14: We're gonna heal our minds. One more, We're going heal.

54:21 Speaker 14: We're going to heal. We're gonna heal ourmids.

54:28 Speaker 20: I want to be jo just fine, all.

54:34 Speaker 4: Right, Oh, Mike Fraser, thank you so much, my friend.

54:37 Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much and having me. How

54:40 Speaker 4: many dates left on the tour? We got five more shows,

54:43 Speaker 4: five more shows. Awesome, awesome. Well, the next time you're

54:48 Speaker 4: out on tour and you're coming this way, we're gonna

54:50 Speaker 4: have to have you back.

54:50 Speaker 14: I would love to be back.

54:52 Speaker 4: This is This has been wonderful.

54:54 Speaker 14: Thanks to start in the morning.

54:55 Speaker 4: For sure, You're probably not used to sing this early.

54:58 Speaker 14: Hu, I've been getting a good routine, like I'll wake up.

55:02 Speaker 14: I've been starting awake early because STEP's a substitute teacher too,

55:05 Speaker 14: so I'll wake up, make her breakfast, and then I'm like,

55:07 Speaker 14: all right, well I'm up. I may as well, you know, yeah,

55:09 Speaker 14: start my day nice, yes, yes, all.

55:13 Speaker 4: Right, Well, thank you Mike, and of course if you

55:15 Speaker 4: missed any part of today's show, it will be up

55:17 Speaker 4: in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot org

55:20 Speaker 4: and of course my website Matt connorton dot com. And

55:22 Speaker 4: thank you of course to uh we had awaiting Abigail earlier.

55:25 Speaker 4: And then of course Trall great band from Portland, Maine,

55:28 Speaker 4: and last but certainly not least, Mike Frasier from from

55:32 Speaker 4: Seattle and early on tour. Yeah, yeah, exactly, well, yeah,

55:36 Speaker 4: you're on the road, you're kind of from everywhere, right,

55:40 Speaker 4: all right, you absolutely that's gonna do it for us.

55:42 Speaker 16: For now.

55:43 Speaker 4: We'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye,

55:46 Speaker 4: all right.

55:48 Speaker 13: Just can't forget all the places where we've been, man,

55:54 Speaker 13: I just get a rays all the things out we

55:57 Speaker 13: have seen. Now you away, because I'll see you with

56:05 Speaker 13: my dreams. Oh please not.

56:09 Speaker 11: I see.

56:11 Speaker 15: Seven dear friends, god fish snads swimming against the side,

56:49 Speaker 15: the morning ring swinging green fans us loder and white.

56:56 Speaker 16: Mass by the grease and be everything something. It's an even,

57:05 Speaker 16: don't we a.

57:08 Speaker 1: Sothing? Said last tell us.

57:10 Speaker 9: Then he said it's like these things, then says some

57:19 Speaker 9: things we have seen the say the teams.

57:30 Speaker 11: Don't please a passing.

57:34 Speaker 9: Seven ths mess.

57:45 Speaker 1: Seen standing around the ceiling.

57:57 Speaker 15: You feel like it's able mm hm three bios of sevening.

58:04 Speaker 1: It's still there.

58:05 Speaker 17: They don't sun you ways n the season and this

58:12 Speaker 17: house saynsday bout saying.

58:16 Speaker 16: He leave got away your mess and no.

58:32 Speaker 9: Se seven free said said say.

59:34 Speaker 1: You say say said