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going away. That is call me Frank. That's the name of the song. The band is Be's Deluxe, and we have a Conrad war and Carol band here with us, alive in studio. Jenny is here, of course, at the news table. Conrad you might remember at the old at the old studio, we had a news desk. Now we have a news table,

ironically a table that I have at home, the identical table. Yes, regularly. So I'm very calm and comfortable here. And Carol welcome. This is your first time on the show. So nice to get to meet you. Finally. We heard a lot about you last time when Conrad was here, but nice to nice to meet you in person. So and of course the band is Bees Deluxe. Will play some more Bees Deluxe a little later, but uh so and by the way, so Conrad, you brought me this, uh Bees Deluxe hallucinate And there's a lot of music on your twelve tracks.

Is this all? Is this all original? Yes, it's an all original album, outstanding. Yeah, I look forward to listening to this and what you just heard was Carol playing harmonica. Frank, Oh, very good, very good. Mistakes were mine? No, it sounds sounds great, so so Carol. So you you play harmonica on that and you play piano correct? Yeah? Keyboards, keyboards when you play live? Is it? Because I know from our previous conversation Conrad that this band, you know, it's got different You can kind of play with the configuration a little bit, right, depending on on who's available.

You can be a quartet, you can be a tree, you can be a duo. How often do you play as a duo? Does that happen a lot? Almost never, thank goodness. Frightening. Really, we're booked to play Darryl's House as a trio with acoustic upright base. Oh yeah, the Darrel's House. That's gonna yeah, that's going to be a challenge and acoustic piano. Oh very cool. You're not going to be actually on Live at Darrel's House, right, you're playing the venue. We're playing the venue because some people might not realize.

So so I think our listeners are probably familiar with Live at Darrel's House. But Daryl Hall, She's must have been like, what five or six years ago now he opened that that he opened a venue called Darrel's House. Yeah, in New York. Okay, okay, yeah, it looks really cool just from what I've seen of the h of the will will he be? Is there any chance he'll be there? Will he? But?

Do they really? It's almost like he's there statue and we certainly won't be seeing John Oates there. We know that that was a big few being over the publishing, right, yes, yes, things things went awry. See that could happen to the two of you. Someday you might be feuding over publishing. We're already talking to lawyers. Yes, So how often do you play out? How often does Bes Deluxe play out? When you were here last time, it sounded like you had a lot of shows. Well, pretty busy. We're playing today and tomorrow, and we're booking up the December and festivals next year.

Yeah. Tomorrow we're at the press room in Portsmouth. Oh that's a yeah, excellent, And then we're back at Boston City Winery on May twenty fifth. Okay, okay, good. Did they have some kind of game there or is that like you posted a picture announcing that you had tickets for sale for this show at the Boston City Winery. But you have a picture of somebody with balls in their hands. Ignore those Ignore Did you read the caption? Oh there must be a joke of some kind. Oh my, it's just for fun. I'm thinking there's a game involved here, like I get to throw something.

But maybe we should do that. We could have ax throwing. Oh we do have that here in Manchester, you know, we we actually do have invent Well, not only that, but we had h We had Ricky Mapleton on the show recently and he has a song called Acts Throwing and it's literally about little axe. Yes, it was styrofoam. It was a toy axe. Just to be clear. We don't want to get I want to get me in trouble. And nothing was thrown, Nothing was throw That's right, that's right. Uh So, now, Carol, how did you become involved in this with with Conrad in this project, I mean the project called Beast Deluxe.

Yes, well, I was playing jazz in clubs around Boston with other groups and we ran into each other. At Johnny D's right, I started playing the grand piano ryles jazz. I can take you away from all of this and give you a place in that acid blues band. What do you say? Yeah? So here I am okay? And how long ago was that? It was probably eight years ago? Oh okay, super playing together a long time while. Yeah, excellent. And they were playing like busting over like the girl from Don't Be Don't Be, so don't because this is it's more fun.

Yeah. Yeah, and the senior band member at this point, oh okay on the management track. Yeah, now, who else? Who else is in the band with you? Who used to be in the Fabulous Picasso's They were like a never they were like a Nirvana band all over America. Okay, And we found him because I ran an ad on Craigs. It's looking for the next Bernard Purdy. Yeah, he knew who that was. And he knew who that was and said, yeah, I'm on Okay, that's a good way to do it. That's a good way to screen, you know, somebody who knows exactly what you're looking to get you away from the Geezer Butler's exactly exactly.

Nothing wrong with Geezer Butler though, No, but it's different, right right. I know you're still a multi Crew fan, So

yeah, I am right, well, and you mean you mentioned Geezer Butler, I'm a very big Black Sabbath fan. Yeah, very big Sabbath fan. Yeah, absolutely. So, Now when you play out, is it originals and is it a mix of originals and covers because I know you also do some covers or how does that work out of that? It's a mix. We try not to scare people off too much with too many originals all in a row, and you have to give them something they know right now and then. Yeah, but we do have a fair amount of originals.

We could do an entire night of just originals. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Like, how how many original songs does this project have? Do you think? Can you put a number on a rough number on how many? No, I mean just generally like, how how many how many songs has Bees de LOCs written and recorded? Would you say a lot? Yeah? I don't know what you think somewhere between thirty and eighty. Oh that's quite a bit, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And even when we play a cover though it's an original because we kind of go off the tracks with it.

Yeah, And people will say why don't you play a cover song? And we'll say, we just did right right, Yeah, dude, are some of the covers you do covers that maybe not everyone. I mean, obviously you can change them up a little bit, but maybe some two that aren't necessarily well. That's the other perfect criterion is we try not to do the thriller is Gone. Yeah, because you can got any blues bar in America and there'll be five white guys up there playing the thriller is Gone. Yep, yep. So we'll pick a song that was a B side in the sixties or the fifties.

Okay, that only that most people won't know, won't recognize, but they'll recognize the style. Yeah, although, oh who was that? And we got that's Bobby Blue Bland. They've heard of bb King, but they haven't heard of Bobby Blue Bland, right, unless the real blues of ficionados, right, or will take a song by Burt bacorek or Eda James or Billie Holiday and play that and bring it up to the twenty first century. We do say a little prayer which is oh do yeah, which Conrad sings. Yes, Yeah, it's our drag show song, but but we put a whole new spin on it.

Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool. That's cool. Do you ever have anyone so, has anyone ever complained like, why don't you? Why don't you play it the way it was recorded? Have you ever gotten that one? No. The problem we have with some audiences, especially if they've had a couple of drinks, is they come and they beg us to play Tom Petty songs. Really and Hotel California, Oh you for that? Oh sure? Really? So there's this kind of list of songs that everybody knows and wants to hear every single night, and you've got to judge that bullet somehow diplomatically.

Yep. Sometimes I'm not very diplomatic about it. What do you why? What do you? What do you? Well, I'm if I'm being very diplomatic, I'll say that's a really great idea. Come and talk to me when we have a break. Yeah, and that hopefully by that they've gone to the bathroom that they're going to be cow upups and I've forgotten about about it. Yeah. The worst case scenario is the bar made from a club we were playing came up to me and I said, hey, we don't do requests, and she said, no, I work here, you don't have to play anymore we're closing.

Oh, I went, oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were gonna ask me for Tom Betty's. We do acquiesce to the audience if they if they seem to be dancing and having a great time, we'll try to keep things up beat. Yeah, and if they're if they're crying for a twelve bar blues will give them what they want, right right. Yeah. And between the two of you, I mean, you must know a lot of songs that we have a spreadsheet about two hundred songs on it, no kidding, Yeah, with what key it's in, how we play it, and where there's a sample of it that a sub bass player can go and learn it.

Okay, Yeah, which is helpful because sometimes we have a sub bass player really uh like like often or just occasionally. It depends which part of the country we're playing in. Pennsylvania will play with Jeff Lopez, who I used to play with at cbgbi's Oh okay, so he and I old friends and he's written charts for what he plays with us. Yeah. So, and then when we play here, we'll play with Aldo, who plays bass with Charlie Sawyer, who's an old friend of BB Kings, so he knows our repertoire. Oh okay, so that switches up according to what part of the country.

Oh interesting. You know, we're going to Rockland, Maine to play Monday night blues for Paul Benjamin and we'll take Adam uh Sandowski with us. He can't go to Pennsylvania because he teaches music therapy at Boston mass General to kids. Oh no, kidding, So he has to be at work on Tuesday morning at nine am. Yeah. Yeah, So that that's the that's the situation that we're in, is like who can do what where? Yeah? Yeah, it's interesting that, you know, to have something where you can play with different people and literally in different parts of the country.

That's well, it's lots of fun too, because it gives us When we play with Jeff, we sound a little different than we play with animates and it's it's all good, but it's it's different and it's fun. Yeah, keeps us on, keeps it fresh. Yeah, that's that's really cool. So that song called Me Frank, why is it tell us about call me Frank? Do you know who Frank stands for? Uh? Who Frankenstein? Okay, all right, you do say Frankenstein and there right, so when I'm home, I take the bolts out of my neck. I have to listen to the words.

And the bride of Frankenstein she's got really curly hair. Okay if you remember in the classic movies, yeah, yeah, so she has to comb her hair right. Oh that makes sense. Okay, that's why the castle is in flames. And then and the villages are with pitchforks coming for us. Oh okay, got Halloween song? Oh very good, very good? Do you do you play that one out or do you just save it for awl? We do, and we fight about it because Carol will play harm on a up for twenty five minutes unless I stopped until I run out of breath.

Really yeah. Now do you both on the on the studio recordings? Do you both play multiple instruments or do you do you? Conrad? Do you stick to guitar and vocals or a whole bunch of stuff in there? He plays the coronet? Really yeah. I also play something on my iPhone called chaos Elator. So so it's a synthesizer on a phone and I can play it into a into a microphone and record that. Really yeah. And channel plays keyboards and harmonica and things, back up vocals, and she wrote one of the tracks on there called how to Play ninety six Tiers?

Okay, oh, she's a writer play. Yeah, yeah, so that's that's all you on that. Yeah we should maybe we'll uh because that's Conrad sent me that one. Maybe we should play that kind of gives us a listen. Yeah, it's a short, a short song, but it's a one. Tell them why you wrote it? I specialize in short songs. This that song I wrote because we had a dear friend that we used to stay with when we couch surfed in Brooklyn. His name was Jr. And he died. This album Hallucinatee is dedicated to him. But when we would crash at his house, he would he was a keyboard player as well, and he would say, can you teach me how to play ninety six tiers?

The one by them is sious, that's it and you know D D D D. So we we would go over it and over it. And this is not that song, but it's it's an homage. Okay, interesting, Yeah, all right, let's give this a listen. Here it is, this is how to play in ninety six years h that's pretty how to play a ninety six tears hero old band? So you uh uh no, that's that's very nice. The melody reminds me of something, but I can't I can't quite place it, Little Dave Brubeck. Don't you think maybe I feel like there's a specific song?

Are you accusing me? No? No, no not, although that is a subject we've discussed many times on the show over the years, plus on another show that I do. But no, it's just it's it's evocative of a specific song, but I can't quite place it. Something pop like I live in fear that I'm going to rewrite. Really it's already gone to number one on the charts, right right, and yeah then you end up getting sued and the whole deal. Yeah that would be good for us. Yeah, that's good publicity. Just spell our name right right, So if anybody has written that song, come after me, please.

There's something Carol came about it that I'm hearing. It was a big influence in my younger days. Who who She influenced everybody who played the piano. Yeah, no, that makes sense. That that absolutely makes sense. By the way I'm looking at the cover. So I will Actually I can hold for people watching on Facebook. I can hold this up to the camera. The ca is currently working, but uh, and of course people can look at it online. But what what can you tell us about the cover? It's it's a little bit I'm actually disturbed by it.

That's that's good, is am am I supposed to be? I wasn't sure if if if I was supposed to be. Yeah, but yes, I mean, you know, and we were talking earlier about Black Sabbath. It could almost be an early Black Sabbath cover. The cover is by an artist named Wendy Brusick who lives in Cranston, Rhode Island. She was a friend of mine from high school. Oh and she's a successful artist. The second piece of artwork that she has let us use her other one was Anxious Man on our single Nitro and and uh yeah, so anything you want to so so yeah, so she's come to our shows and she's shown around and yeah, she's kind of a surrealist.

Her her her visions, uh sort of mesh with our music. I think. Okay, yeah, I don't even know how to describe this. It's just form of surrealism. But it's like the album is called hallucinate, So if I were to hallucinate something, I might see that. I I it's yeah, that's interesting. But yeah, I encourage people to check it out. Yeah, I remember it's probably on your website. I remember we talked about another some other cover art that you had before, so I assume that was also her also Wendy, Yeah, I can't Wendy brusk dot com.

Okay, does she does? She? Does? She do a lot of cover art for musicians or No? I think we're the only artist she works with. Oh wow, Yeah, No, she mostly shows in museums and galleries and things like that. Oh cool, cool, very nice, very nice. So I find there's a huge association between visual art and oral art. Yeah. So if I pick up an old copy of say Blind Faith or Cream or Jimmy Hendrix, if I look at the album cover, I could hear all those tracks in my head. Yeah, they're deeply associated with the visual and we try to reinforce that.

Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Yeah, what was he? What was the album you had? Do you remember what album it was? When when you were on the show with us Nobody Voice of Dog, Oh, Voice of Dog. Yeah, I feel like I feel like we had a conversation about that about that album cover too, did we You got good memory? Mate? I feel like I'm trying to find the Uh that was a bee on an with an eagle? Was it? And I remember some somebody said to you, somebody said, oh, I get it. It's an eagle and a bee. It's a beagle, so it's a voice of dog, which was a huge leap.

And wow. Yeah, I'm trying to find Oh, yeah, yeah there, yeah, we did. I remember we talked about this. Yeah, that's a bad that's also disturbing. But but that's uh, now, did Wendy do that one? No? No, you did that one? And that album is dedicated to the policeman who caught Son of Sam. I don't remember. Did we talk about that. I don't remember that. Oh, tell tell us about that. That's you know who Son of Sam is. Yes, but explain for our listeners who might not know younger. You know, we have a young hip audience.

If you live in New York in the seventies, you would have seen in the newspaper every day that some guy his real name is Daniel, but he called himself Son of Sam, serial killer with shooting people in their cars at night,

and he said that the dog next door told him to do it. Yeah, so this album is dedicated to the policeman who called him. Oh okay, gotcha. Yeah, you'll find that in the liner notes. Okay, yeah, this this cover is uh yeah, it's a like a bee with a yeah with a uh. Eagles said, well, Conrad's an artist as well. Yeah, but it's it's cool. No, it's it's really cool. It's very striking and it's not something you'll forget if you look at it. And the confused matters even more. The first track on the album is Cooled song number nine.

Yes, yes, yeah, we definitely talked about that when you're what you were on with us last Yeah, I'm looking yeah, I'm looking at it on band camp song number nine yeah, oh yeah you had a song. You have a song called beer that I think we played before. Yeah, some of these were really interesting Beer Flat Earth Conspiracy. That one's fun. Oh really yeah, Yeah, that's a fun.

That's a that's a fun of the band. Now are any of these re recorded on the new album Hallucinate or are these all new? I think that there's one track we've picked up, uh que Nitro. Okay, yeah, we put Nitro on it. Okay, I gotcha. That's got Poggy Bell. So the drummer on Nitro lives in Philadelphia and he's very famous. He's played with David Bowie, Chuck Khan, people like that. And when when COVID hit, he had a studio and nothing to do. So I sent him a demo and he said, I love this, Let me play drums on it.

So he played drums and sent me the drum tracks back, and then I went to Joe Egan studio in Hyde Park and we put the drums and my vocals that I'd done at home and the guitars and glued them all together like spaghetti. Well, lasagna Is I agree with much as I love spaghetti, I agree with your Carolasagna is a better you know, because it's kind of layered. Yeah. Is that is that how you recorded? This? Is that how you recorded? Everything's recorded different ways? Okay, so we did. We did an album earlier on where we hung two microphones from the ceiling and everybody played, but this one was done in pieces.

We do. We've worked for about an hour a week. We go into the studio. We'd work for an hour and then stop, go drink coffee, go play a gig, and next week come back and do another work. So that was done like lego building, like making a pyramid out of magticks. So I'm not sure which way we prefer. Yeah, yeah, which, So it was a surprise almost to us as well when we heard the final fit because it had come together in such such a fractious kind of way. Okay, yeah, because everything, you know, everything that we've played that I've heard of you, it all sounds really good.

You know, it doesn't sound like you know, like you said, it was put together in a fractus way. But it doesn't. It doesn't sound like that. It's it's all it's fractious word. I think I just made that up. No, I think practice, practice is the word. I think practice is the word we should play. Uh, let's play something from Voice of Dog, just because I remember really getting a kick out of this. Well, there's a couple of these. Actually, let's play Flat Earth Conspiracy. Now you now now the studio version, though, is you on vocals?

That? Oh that's you? Okay, that's you doing the studio version. Okay, Yeah, let's let's play that. This is this is a fun song. And then we'll uh and then afterward we'll play one of the other ones that you sent me for today. Yeah yeah, but yeah check this out. Flat Earth Conspiracy with Caroline vocals from Bees Deluxe. It's flatten.

We can walk to the edge and that's a fac The sunflies around there while we sit still, and that's true. The moon is made of green cheese. That is sixty wild people killed and hate the diners, and we won the world where all be so work and that's no life. If you don't believe me, look in the sky it's not blue. Flat Earth Conspiracy by bees Deluxe. I love that song. That's fun. What kind of reaction does that get? Live? Are people they I don't think they hear the woods. They just hear the big beat and that ascending series of chords like they'd balie pop song.

Yeah yeah, and then at the end, I'm afraid I don't have that ring modulator anymore. But that's nice. It's an homage to get back. Yeah, that's that solo is so cool. I wanted to ask you how you did that's alator? Okay? People hate that. It makes people run for the exits, does it really, I love it. But yeah, yeah, it's a little disconcerting for most listeners. I I can imagine, because well I would imagine it's a bit of a surprise, right, But it's so cool. I love the way that sounds. But uh, did you write the lyrics, Carol?

No, no, con you oh you wrote you wrote the lyrics and Carol sings that. Okay, Yeah, I love the part about the moon. That's great. No, I was curious what kind of a reaction it gets, because if flat earth conspiracy has gotten really uh big, you know, I mean you can go on YouTube and type it in and see thousands of right, most of the NBA players I believe in Now, I don't know. It's it's wild, it's it's it's really incredible. No, that's a that's a very very cool. Yeah. Well I think that's where it started, right the moon landing doubters and then but you know what's interesting, Uh, flat earth conspiracists they kind of exist in their own I was gonna say, in their own world, but they don't believe in a world the way we do.

But but they're kind of like, you know, because you've got a lot of conspiracy theorists these days, and we have for a while, they've been with us, with us for a while. But but flat earthers are kind of in their own lane, and that I've met flat earthers who actually don't believe in any other conspiracies, but they believe in that one. And I've also met people who are hardcore conspiracy theorists who believe, you know the world is really run by reptiles and whatnot, who believe in any crazy conspiracy theory you put in front of them except flat Earth.

They think flat Earth is silly. Yeah, it's it's weird how how it's so, it's it's kind of got its own lane. It's uh, well they're particular about the conspiracy, yes, yes, but uh yeah, it's it's uh, it's fascinating stuff. Beer was the other one I remember we we maybe maybe we'll play that one later too, But that that was another one that I remember thinking was was particularly fun. But what what is the songwriting process like? Because I mean, I don't feel like you know your songs. They're they're not I don't think anything is like super serious, right, They're all kind of it seems like they're they're kind of fun, Like do you have anything that's like really serious and heavy in terms of lyrical content or they all kind of serious?

Is that? Yeah? I don't think we played that one. Is that on the new one? I don't think it's on that. We haven't recorded it. We played what what What's that one about? But Conrad knows firsthand what that's like. Oh, you've been in jail? No, okay, because that would be pretty serious if no. But uh well even ACU, I mean, you know, uh, that's a serious sound. Johnny Cash had some fun with it. The point of Letter from Jail is that that's what it feels like to be in jail when the one you love is outside and you can see them.

The lyrics are every day is the same. Here's a letter from Jail is the same. Yeah, but you're right, most of the stuff has has a kind of ironic or satiric age to it. So very recently, including reviews of this album Hallucinate, we got compared to a cross between Willie Wonker and Frank Zappa, no kidding, so, and I think that's in difference to the lyrics and not to the music. Yeah, because for the music to work for us, I feel it has to have a groove. It can't just be a wash of sound. It's got to have a pulse to it that stirs you.

And that's where that's usually where we start. Obviously you get the Seely Dan compared I saw on your website Seely Dan if Seely Dan played the Lose, you know. But yeah, when you play live, do you do like really long sets, because it seems like you could, right, you've got the material, plus you've got the covers. Do you ever do like a full night at a bar someplace where it's like three hours of dinner. It's known to do three hours without taking a break, without taking a break. Really, that's unheard of.

Wow. When we play Grumpies and found Us, we'll play from nine till one in the morning, and you're right, if the kids are dancing, we're going to stretch. So at that point we're a jam band. And then if we play a listening room like the Haymarket Lounge of Boston City Winery May twenty fifth, the audience is seated and they've got a glass of wine and a plate of food, we'll play the more introspective instrumental stuff that's shorter and to the point, so that's where we would play how to Play ninety six tiers and the audience loves it because they're there to listen to music they haven't heard before, whereas you know, the kids in the die bars, like we played Vincent's in Worcester where they get out of control and we're playing up tempo stuff and we're stretching it and having fun with it.

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Do you have any other bands that you play with, You know, sometimes it happens organically, bands kind of team up with other bands. Well, we're I think sometimes I think of us as cannon for the So we'll play and we'll open for Mike Zito, or we'll open for Joanna Connor and we're playing so they don't have to play for three hours, play for an hour and a half and we play for an hour. So we're picking up break crumbs off the table. But we're playing to the audience that hasn't heard of us.

But they like what we do and they go, oh, that's not just one four or five four one that blues. It's got an edge to it and I like it because I'm comfortable with it. But it's different. Yeah, so that works for us. To play for stuff like that, like if we play the bull run in Shirley. Ronnie Earl was sitting with us and he'll say, what do you want to play one? He says slow blues you may yeah, okay, loved me Yeah, yeah, yes, simple enough to do. He accused us of playing all the notes. Yeah. I think one time he said, Wow, you guys play like all the notes.

That's cool. That's cool. Hey, if you have any questions. By the way, the studio line is open. If you have any questions for for the band. We've got Conrad War and Carol Band here with us from Bees de Lux Live in studio. You can give us a call. Six O three two five O six seven six O three two five O six seven. I was thinking, Conrad, maybe we'll uh, we'll play that other what's the other track that you sent us? Uh? Oh, sharkskin Suit? Sorry, I accidentally started playing it again before I meant to.

Yeah. I really like this one a lot too. Is there a story to this? No, it's entire Yeah, yeah, all right, oh fair enough. Hey, sometimes those are the best songs. Is that a shark? Are you wearing a shark skin suit? Conrad? It's gonna be shiny. We were actually talking earlier off air about how much Conrad resembles and Carol you pointed it out. Conrad kind of resembles Peter White, host of the Morning Show with Peter White. I should take a picture. I gotta before before you guys leave today. You know, we'll get pictures of course for social media.

I had to take a picture of you next to that. Yeah, I'm really glad. I'm glad you noticed that, Carol, because you're right. You could you could be you could definitely be related to Peter. All right, Uh, let's give this a listen. This is bees to lox. This is called shark skin suit. All the girls saying he looks so fine, all the boys of grin. He's looking sharp today and his cowboy boots and a sup food on b He's tole Lea the Dream and looks nothing like me. By better me. It can all the queen so much better as me, And it's shiny shocks can soon's the game of the time, and it's wool Brad the worker seemed to sweep well, love to ruble the queen is heat?

Can the princess are asleep? The door said a squat. The snow was bad lay and better as it can all. It's so much better as me. And it's shy you shocks can't so bad.

We can all greeny do so much atter than me. He have a shiny blue sharkskin soon. Still friends saying he's a king on the street, the boys on the staff that he can't be beat. He got the concrete arms and the hair like silk, the why green smell. He said,

he can all green. He's so much better. Have a shiny blue shark skin soon. That's got a nice groove sharkskin suit that is Be's deluxe. And we have Conrad war and Carol Band here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning. Matt Connorton unleashed. Oh, by the way, I do want to say hello to Charles Richardson, who is in the Facebook live chat and of course a host of the Charles Richardson Show. And he says, hey, there, I'm still a lot. So that's some good news. Yeah, well done. We're glad Charles.

Yeah, he had a bit of an issue. We won't go into the details here, but medically obviously, so we're glad that we're glad you're okay, Charles, and and we hope for for you a full recovery, which we know will happen. But uh so, now what's so what's on the agenda for for Bees de Lux? You've got when's the next show you've got coming up? Just afternoon after this afternoon? Right right when? Where is that Tree House Brewery in Teeksbury? Okay? And tomorrow morning we're at the press room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Okay. We kick off at eleven a m. Yeah, and then May twenty fifth, we're back at Boston City Winery the Haymarket Lambs Okay. And parking is validated, Oh good, it's it's It can be challenging down there because that's right near the Boston Garden. Absolutely for Yeah. If the Bruins are playing, we're done for. There's valid dated parking in the Haymarket Lounge. Excellent. People don't have to worry. They can just zip right up there, park their car, get a ticket and have it validated and parking is practically free.

Excellent. Good good. By the way, is it difficult, you know, because you mentioned tomorrow you've got the show at eleven am, play that early. Is that is that difficult at all vocally too early for acid blues, But yeah, yeah, because I know, I know some some vocalists have a hard have a little bit of a it's a challenge, you know. We even see it here because you know, we have people who sometimes play live in studio and since we've been on Saturday mornings, you know sometimes you know, it's a little bit of a challenge for them to kind of get their voices warmed up first thing in the morning.

Well, we have a work around for that. Yeah, we don't actually sing. Yeah, we vocalize. We sing in the car all the way up. In the car, we sing all sing along with the radio all the way up, don't we. Well that's how I learned. Yeah. Yeah, Oh that's smart though. That's a good that's a good idea, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. The worst thing is playing outdoors in the winter. Oh and that's when we've we've done that at certainly had to wear gloves and the scarf and a hat, and of course the audience had blow heaters and we're on a stage breezing.

During COVID there was more of that playing outside freezing, No doubts, you know, we couldn't play indoors. Yeah, yeah, pick us outdoors and you'd be fine. Yeah, now worse than the vocal. So your fingers, because if you we did a tour where we played every night for about two weeks and we got to Brooklyn. We were playing Rocky Solomon's and my fingers didn't work, and so Alas said, put them in ice water and eat an aspirin. So for half an hour before we went on, I put put my left hand in a bucket of ice water and had an aspirin and then I could play.

That worked. Yeah. Wow, Well, I mean the Celtics have a swimming pool full of ice. Oh when you're not you don't feel any pain, right yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's to get the muscles going again. Okay, okay, wow, oh that's good. Were you were you skeptical or were you like, no I try anything at that point? Yeah, understandable. Yeah. Roy would in the l O would play with gloves on really yeah, lead the gloves. But I think he was miming. I think somebody else. It's interesting. You know you you you meant you refer to Moley Crew earlier.

Ye, when when I think about miming, I think of Nicky six the basis there's a lot of accusations that he doesn't really play. And I think of Vince Neil who clearly can no longer sing, because we were talking about difficulties singing in the morning. But did you hear the Mike Most tape, which one he's got a click track tape in the least on YouTube? Yeah? I did hear that. Yeah, it's it's pretty scary that you pay one hundred bucks for a ticket to go and see a band and you're basically listening to a digital recording.

Yeah, there's a lot of that these days, it would seem. Yeah, but yeah, Motley Cruz seemed to be the worst defenders. No, no, not as bad as well. Yeah, well that's a different Yeah, you're now you're dating. That's a little bit of a different thing. Yeah, oh no, we all remember milliev I mean they're you know, they're legendary for that reason alone, not because they had a couple of hits, but you know, yeah, but yeah, I mean that's, uh, the legend lives on Milli Vanilli. One of those guys, aren't they both dead?

One of them is dead, I know, But yeah, yeah, you remember that and then they they actually tried to learn to sing and they went on our Cineo hall and sang for real, right, and it was kind of terrible the name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was it was it was too late, it was too late. No. But so you've got a lot going on. That's great. Where should people go online? Dot com? Okay, well, so they can chat with us on Facebook, Facebook dot com. Slash Beast Deluxe excellent? Yeah, excellent? Yeah, and uh is this out and available now?

The new the latest recording an old major streaming platform. Outstanding? Outstanding. Well, this has been wonderful. Thank you both. I think we'll because we were talking about it. I think we'll end the segment with that song beer because I just and I'm not even a drinker. I don't even drink beer, but I just remember I really liked the song from Bees Deluxe. But thank you both. Conrad, wonderful to see you again. And Carol, it's nice to finally get to meet you. Thanks for having us, Thanks for having us, Jenta, Matt, nice new digs everybody, and we will get we will get a picture of you next to the Peter White sign there and stick around if you're listening Live.

Coming up in the third hour, Casey Darren returns, of course, the band Soda, and we have a world radio premiere of the brand new single called Division Line. But here it is. To close out the segment, this is Beer from Bees Deluxe and the album Voice of Dog and Conrad Carol. Thank you again, both so much. Thank you. I want you, but I need to be here. I need you, but I won't a bear. It's cold outside, but I need to be here. I like you, but I need to be here. I remember you. I won't a bear. You can stalk outside, but I need a bear.

I'm lead with you for I need a bear. I am long gone and I won't appears talking here and I need be talk put a I don't know how even this

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