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dude, w rip the you can call me frank, don't the frankist.

You can't told my wife the pride of FALCONSTI I don't lie, I don't

care, I don't I don't care. When I'm hold I take out all

my pale when she's here. She called to her her, I don't mind,

I don't care, I don't mind, I don't mesh sor from arding

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

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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

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