Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-17-25 hour 3

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4:44 Speaker 6: Oh that's nice. That is called tonight and that is

4:47 Speaker 6: moonlight ride. And we are going to speak with uh,

4:51 Speaker 6: speak with these fine folks in just a moment. If

4:53 Speaker 6: you are just joining us, we have entered our number

4:55 Speaker 6: three new Marrow trace Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we are

4:58 Speaker 6: live from the studio of WMNH ninety five point three

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5:05 Speaker 6: out this this Saturday, but maybe the sun will come out,

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5:44 Speaker 6: be here with you on this Saturday. I hope you

5:46 Speaker 6: are enjoying the program, and we've got let's see Jesse

5:49 Speaker 6: and Michelle from Moonlight Ride. Hello, welcome, Hey, how are

5:53 Speaker 6: you doing good? Good are you both?

5:55 Speaker 2: Now?

5:55 Speaker 6: You're Jesse Johnson. Correct, are you Michelle Johnson? No, not yet,

6:01 Speaker 6: not yet? Interesting? Why is there? Are there a wedding

6:06 Speaker 6: bell or or are you hinting at something?

6:08 Speaker 7: We just got engaged a few weeks ago.

6:10 Speaker 6: Congratulations. Well that's wonderful, so we're breaking news here in

6:16 Speaker 6: the interview. Very well, congratulations on that. So Moonlight Ride,

6:19 Speaker 6: of course, is a project that you do together. So Michelle,

6:22 Speaker 6: that's obviously you on vocals, yes, and then uh, and

6:26 Speaker 6: what else do you do in the project or do

6:28 Speaker 6: you strictly sing? Her?

6:30 Speaker 7: I do vocals, and I do a little bit of keyboard, keyboard, Okay,

6:33 Speaker 7: you hear keyboard?

6:34 Speaker 4: That's me?

6:35 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, very good. And Jesse, what do you do?

6:38 Speaker 4: Pretty much? Everything else?

6:39 Speaker 6: Everything else?

6:40 Speaker 4: Yeah?

6:41 Speaker 2: Yeah.

6:42 Speaker 4: I started out as a bass player, oh you did, okay,

6:45 Speaker 4: as you are, and over the years have started playing

6:48 Speaker 4: guitar and delved into singing myself. And yeah, I've been

6:54 Speaker 4: in all kinds of bands over the years. So yeah,

6:57 Speaker 4: when she and I met, she had hinted around that

7:00 Speaker 4: she played music too, and I'm like, well, what a

7:03 Speaker 4: perfect thing for us to do.

7:04 Speaker 6: Together, you know, right, yeah, when you first met so before,

7:08 Speaker 6: so forgive it, you know, if I ask anything that

7:11 Speaker 6: you don't want to talk about, I just tell me.

7:14 Speaker 6: But I am curious. I did what started first, the

7:17 Speaker 6: music or the relationship?

7:19 Speaker 7: The relationship?

7:20 Speaker 6: The relationship started first? So yeah, okay, well.

7:23 Speaker 1: Kind of, I guess.

7:24 Speaker 7: I had heard at work that this guy had a band.

7:27 Speaker 3: Okay, oh interesting, and I asked my friend, Hey, you

7:31 Speaker 3: want to go support this guy who has a band

7:33 Speaker 3: at work?

7:34 Speaker 6: Oh?

7:34 Speaker 7: Okay, and we went out to see him.

7:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, and at the time, I was in a cover

7:39 Speaker 4: band called Full Throttle. We were playing, you know, the

7:42 Speaker 4: typical classic rock that plays in this area. Sure, and

7:47 Speaker 4: over time we decided we'd start working on some original music.

7:52 Speaker 4: And of course, actually what happened was COVID hit. When

7:57 Speaker 4: we first met that kind of squashed Full Throttle, we

8:01 Speaker 4: were doing really well, playing a lot, and yeah, of course,

8:04 Speaker 4: nobody could do anything during the COVID years. So yeah,

8:07 Speaker 4: as we started to get to know each other, she

8:10 Speaker 4: mentioned she sang a little and played piano, and I'm like, well,

8:13 Speaker 4: what a better thing to do during these times than

8:17 Speaker 4: stop playing some music together?

8:18 Speaker 6: And you know, okay, yeah, but did you did you

8:23 Speaker 6: start dating before that or after?

8:27 Speaker 3: Uh?

8:27 Speaker 6: We were dating before, Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, because

8:31 Speaker 6: it makes a better story if it's the other way around,

8:33 Speaker 6: doesn't it Like like like like someday when you're famous,

8:37 Speaker 6: do you have a documentary about you? You know, you

8:39 Speaker 6: kind of want this story to be the other way.

8:42 Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe not, but uh no, that's cool though,

8:45 Speaker 6: that's cool and uh so and it's interesting too. So

8:52 Speaker 6: do you You probably don't still work together, right or

8:55 Speaker 6: maybe you do?

8:56 Speaker 3: We do you do?

8:57 Speaker 6: Okay? Yeah?

8:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't work side by side.

9:00 Speaker 6: Okay.

9:00 Speaker 4: We both work for Sancho's Hospital and yeah, she's an

9:05 Speaker 4: occupational therapist. I work in their their facilities department, and

9:11 Speaker 4: that's kind of how we met.

9:12 Speaker 6: Oh okay, cool. I saw I saw a statistic once.

9:15 Speaker 6: This was years ago, but it probably still holds up.

9:17 Speaker 6: That that's I don't remember the numbers, but that was

9:20 Speaker 6: like the majority of married people they they met through work.

9:25 Speaker 6: That's like super common. My stepmother was an occupational therapist,

9:31 Speaker 6: so I know a little bit about that. No, but

9:33 Speaker 6: that no, that's that's that's really cool. So now so

9:37 Speaker 6: the song, the song we displayed tonight, you had mentioned

9:42 Speaker 6: off air that there's a video for that that just

9:45 Speaker 6: correct just went up or recently or a few weeks ago.

9:48 Speaker 6: Oh okay, so that's very new.

9:49 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we just got a YouTube page together, because,

9:54 Speaker 4: as you know, it's not like the old days where

9:57 Speaker 4: you'd get you'd try to go out and grind in

9:59 Speaker 4: the clubs and find a record company or if record

10:02 Speaker 4: company finds you, right, and you know, you go through

10:06 Speaker 4: that whole process of just killing it in the buyers

10:08 Speaker 4: and killing in the buyers and playing and playing. Today

10:11 Speaker 4: with social media, we found that YouTube and doing our

10:15 Speaker 4: own thing like this was kind of the easier way

10:19 Speaker 4: to promote ourselves. And yeah, it's it's weird today the

10:24 Speaker 4: music scene as you know as well, how it is.

10:27 Speaker 4: You know, it's all streaming and people like your guests

10:32 Speaker 4: from earlier, you're talking to people from Australia and England

10:35 Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's just a whole different world

10:38 Speaker 4: these days.

10:39 Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, the Internet is uh, you know, it changed

10:43 Speaker 6: everything and the first big you know, because I'm old

10:46 Speaker 6: enough to remember, Well, it's funny, so you know, I'm

10:49 Speaker 6: I'm Generation X and that's really the last generation that

10:53 Speaker 6: grew up without the Internet. You know, anyone who grew

10:57 Speaker 6: up after us, they don't they don't know just how

10:59 Speaker 6: different it really was. And it's funny too, because I

11:03 Speaker 6: think back, I mean, not just as it applies to

11:05 Speaker 6: the music industry, but as it applies to everything, just

11:07 Speaker 6: life in general. I don't I don't know if either

11:10 Speaker 6: of you experienced this, but when I think back, it's

11:12 Speaker 6: almost hard to remember, Like it seems like another lifetime ago.

11:15 Speaker 6: It's almost hard to remember what it was like to

11:17 Speaker 6: even function without the Internet. I mean, I remember things

11:22 Speaker 6: like I remember going to the library and looking up

11:25 Speaker 6: information and encyclopedias, you know what I mean. It's like

11:29 Speaker 6: like and it seems so crazy now to it. It

11:32 Speaker 6: seems like another lifetime ago. It seems like it was

11:35 Speaker 6: another world, like like like I grew up in an

11:38 Speaker 6: alternate universe, but now I'm here in this one. That's

11:41 Speaker 6: how I sometimes, you know, and I don't, and I'm

11:44 Speaker 6: but I'm not one of these people who because I

11:47 Speaker 6: see I see this on I see this happen on

11:49 Speaker 6: social media, like I see people my age and younger

11:52 Speaker 6: do this thing like complaining, like you know, well, back

11:55 Speaker 6: in my day, everything was better because life was simpler.

11:57 Speaker 6: It's like, was it though, I mean, it was simpler

12:01 Speaker 6: in some ways. Right, pre Internet. But was it really

12:03 Speaker 6: like if you wanted to know something and you had

12:06 Speaker 6: to go to the library to look up look something

12:08 Speaker 6: up into encyclopedia, well that wasn't simpler. I like the

12:11 Speaker 6: way it is now. If I want to know something,

12:13 Speaker 6: I can just google it, you know what I mean.

12:14 Speaker 7: It's very nice to have everything at the tip of

12:16 Speaker 7: your fingers, exactly.

12:18 Speaker 6: I wouldn't trade what we have now to go back

12:20 Speaker 6: to what it was.

12:21 Speaker 2: You know.

12:22 Speaker 6: That sounds awful now, but and it wasn't. It was fine.

12:25 Speaker 6: That's you know, that's all we knew growing up. But

12:28 Speaker 6: I say all that to say I like the way now.

12:33 Speaker 6: You know, the music industry has completely changed, But I

12:36 Speaker 6: think so. I'm an optimist. I think it's changed for

12:38 Speaker 6: the better because I love that I can you know again,

12:43 Speaker 6: don't get me wrong. Growing up, I have wonderful memories

12:45 Speaker 6: of going to a music store and flipping through the

12:47 Speaker 6: vinyl or flipping through the CDs and finding stuff. That's

12:50 Speaker 6: all cool, great memories. But now like I can, I

12:54 Speaker 6: can talk to a band from Australia, I can talk

12:57 Speaker 6: to somebody from the UK who I otherwise would not

13:00 Speaker 6: have been connected to because they're not you know, quote

13:02 Speaker 6: unquote famous yet yet. But you know, couldn't do that.

13:07 Speaker 6: You know, if if if i'd you know, been doing this,

13:10 Speaker 6: you know in the eighties, you know, that wouldn't have

13:12 Speaker 6: been an option, you know what I mean, Right, So

13:15 Speaker 6: I love the way it is now. And and and

13:18 Speaker 6: to your point Jesse about you know, making you know,

13:21 Speaker 6: getting a YouTube account, making videos and using that to

13:23 Speaker 6: promote your music. You know, couldn't do that do that before.

13:27 Speaker 4: So, like you said, it's because it's pros and cons

13:30 Speaker 4: mat you know, sure, but I think the pros outweigh

13:32 Speaker 4: the cons personally. Yeah, but I'm also someone who embraces

13:36 Speaker 4: technology and you know, but but you're embracing it too, obviously.

13:39 Speaker 4: And how you promote your music.

13:40 Speaker 3: Definitely, we're learning a lot recently. Yeah, we're making our

13:44 Speaker 3: own video. We're going on YouTube. There's so much out

13:47 Speaker 3: there to learn how to do what we need to do.

13:51 Speaker 3: We're trying to put some video to our music, so

13:53 Speaker 3: because that's what people like to see as they listen.

13:57 Speaker 4: So and the same thing, we recorded our album at home.

14:02 Speaker 4: You know, you didn't have home studios years ago.

14:05 Speaker 6: Right, So, I mean you could, but it was hard.

14:09 Speaker 6: It was much harder, and for most people that meant

14:13 Speaker 6: a four track taskam recorder to make a demo right.

14:17 Speaker 4: Right, right, And today there's just so many tools that you.

14:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think it's an amazing time to

14:23 Speaker 6: be alive. I embrace all of it technology, I embrace

14:26 Speaker 6: all of it absolutely. But yeah, so you have the

14:30 Speaker 6: right attitude about it, because, like I said, there's some

14:32 Speaker 6: people some people are like, oh, some people want some

14:36 Speaker 6: people want it to be so much the way it

14:38 Speaker 6: used to be so badly that they'll they'll kind of

14:40 Speaker 6: delude themselves into believing that it is. I'm thinking of

14:44 Speaker 6: a specific guest who's been on the show, and I

14:46 Speaker 6: won't say who they are because I really like them

14:48 Speaker 6: because they're good people, but that my conversation with them,

14:51 Speaker 6: there was a lot of in their minds it was

14:56 Speaker 6: clearly still twenty years ago, maybe even thirty years ago,

14:59 Speaker 6: you know what I mean.

15:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like and it's it's difficult to change

15:06 Speaker 4: with the times, but I think if you can and

15:09 Speaker 4: if you embrace that, like you said, there are so

15:11 Speaker 4: many more opportunities. There's no way we could reach the

15:14 Speaker 4: people that were reaching today in the past.

15:18 Speaker 6: M Yeah, absolutely, on so the so these songs, these

15:25 Speaker 6: were all recorded at home.

15:27 Speaker 4: They were they were there's songs that I had written

15:31 Speaker 4: years ago.

15:31 Speaker 2: Matt.

15:32 Speaker 4: Actually, it's funny that you mentioned the four track demo

15:35 Speaker 4: because that's where they started years ago on a task

15:39 Speaker 4: him four track that I had recorded and I threw

15:41 Speaker 4: them on a shelf because I've been through all different

15:46 Speaker 4: bands and situations over the years that I just kind

15:48 Speaker 4: of recorded them and forgot about them. And then when

15:51 Speaker 4: Michelle and I put this project Moonlight Ride together, it

15:55 Speaker 4: kind of picked up where my last cover band I

15:58 Speaker 4: was telling you about, Full Throttle, left off, and we

16:01 Speaker 4: were playing music for ourselves and for our friends because

16:05 Speaker 4: there wasn't anything else to do with COVID. And then

16:08 Speaker 4: we started getting some local gigs playing around in Hudson

16:11 Speaker 4: and up and hooks it, and we were asked to

16:14 Speaker 4: play by our work, the hospital, to do their Christmas parties.

16:19 Speaker 4: And they have a project at our work called Project

16:22 Speaker 4: Search that helps handicap kids get jobs and employment and

16:27 Speaker 4: move on. And we've played their graduations and whatnot and

16:30 Speaker 4: done some of the shows with the covers. Well, meanwhile,

16:34 Speaker 4: I found these songs that I had written and thrown

16:37 Speaker 4: on a shelf and Michelle and I were talking and

16:39 Speaker 4: we're like, well, why don't we record them? And so

16:41 Speaker 4: we bought the stuff to make a home studio and

16:45 Speaker 4: put this together kind of on a whim. And then

16:49 Speaker 4: Michelle said to me, well, maybe we should do something

16:51 Speaker 4: with these songs because they're pretty good, and I'm like,

16:53 Speaker 4: you think so? So we put the CD together and

17:00 Speaker 4: as she said, we learned how to navigate YouTube and

17:04 Speaker 4: we're making videos. We're currently working on our second video

17:07 Speaker 4: right now for the second song in the CD called

17:11 Speaker 4: down in a Hole, which is a little bit heavier

17:14 Speaker 4: than Tonight, and I sing that one. So if we

17:17 Speaker 4: go to music break, maybe we can play that song.

17:20 Speaker 6: Why don't we play it now?

17:21 Speaker 4: Sure?

17:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this one a lot. If

17:24 Speaker 6: you are just joining us, we have Jesse and Michelle

17:26 Speaker 6: from Moonlight Ride here with us, live and studio, and yeah, we'll.

17:31 Speaker 4: Play let's play that one next, Down in a Hole?

17:34 Speaker 4: Down in a Hole?

17:35 Speaker 6: Is there a story behind this one? I guess They're all.

17:42 Speaker 4: Just little experiences, life experiences that I've had. And yeah,

17:46 Speaker 4: kind of you know, as we weave our way through

17:50 Speaker 4: writing songs and making songs, just yeah, kind of life experiences.

17:56 Speaker 4: I guess yeah, we all go through different things.

17:58 Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely all right, hear it is down in a hole,

18:01 Speaker 6: this is moonlight ride.

18:27 Speaker 4: There was a time.

18:31 Speaker 8: It was a time let's sell on lagoon. I had

18:36 Speaker 8: no love, I had no one. Two would come out.

18:44 Speaker 1: It was a boy.

18:47 Speaker 8: I needed time and time be groove to love weed

18:56 Speaker 8: certain things too broon.

19:15 Speaker 2: Down in a hole.

19:19 Speaker 5: I'm feeling down. I'm sick and so low, feel out

19:24 Speaker 5: of control.

19:27 Speaker 9: I'm feeling down a feeling and so low and insane.

19:35 Speaker 5: I'm feeling love and love and bumping upside down.

19:43 Speaker 1: Don't feel letting know put down past my time.

19:51 Speaker 10: I'll looking down and stand every lid, going upside down,

19:59 Speaker 10: speaking rounding around like a man around.

20:19 Speaker 8: Down in a hole.

20:23 Speaker 5: I'm feeling down, up, sinking, so low, feel out of control.

20:31 Speaker 9: I'm feeling down and feeling so low.

20:35 Speaker 8: Please help me, please, I'm begging you down the body

20:43 Speaker 8: s up.

20:44 Speaker 1: With my hands.

20:47 Speaker 8: Spinning rounding around a mine my brain to kick it

20:56 Speaker 8: down again, back.

20:58 Speaker 1: Into a hole.

21:15 Speaker 5: Down in a hole, I'm feeling down of sink and

21:22 Speaker 5: so low, feel a lot of control. I'm feeling down

21:29 Speaker 5: and feeling it's so low, down in a hole, I'm

21:36 Speaker 5: feeling down of sinking so low, feel a lot of control.

21:43 Speaker 9: I'm feeling down. I feeling it's so low, down in

21:48 Speaker 9: a hole.

21:53 Speaker 6: That is down in a hole. That is Moonlight Ride.

21:56 Speaker 6: And we have a Jesse and Michelle from Moonlight Ride

21:58 Speaker 6: here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.

22:02 Speaker 6: But so we're talking off air while as long as plained,

22:05 Speaker 6: and Jesse revealed something fascinating. Jesse Johnson the original bass

22:09 Speaker 6: player for Malia Ridge. Oh I did. I'm sorry your

22:12 Speaker 6: mic isn't I'm sorry. There we go.

22:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I had a mutual friend. His name is

22:17 Speaker 4: jim Corey, who's the lead one of the lead guitarists

22:21 Speaker 4: of maliar Age. Tony Nichols is kind of the main guy.

22:25 Speaker 4: Malia Rage was his project. He's also lead guitarist and

22:29 Speaker 4: the main songwriter. But I knew Jimmy from high school

22:33 Speaker 4: and over the years got a call from him saying, hey,

22:37 Speaker 4: we need a bass player. You want to try out

22:39 Speaker 4: for our band? And I went down and did it.

22:42 Speaker 4: And at the time I wasn't really into metal metal.

22:45 Speaker 4: I was in the Aerosmith Judas Priest Alice Koopa, which

22:50 Speaker 4: this is the late eighties, So yeah, I mean that

22:52 Speaker 4: was kind of metal for its time, but bands like

22:54 Speaker 4: Megadeth Metallica were up and coming and becoming popular in

23:00 Speaker 4: those days, and that's kind of where Malia Age was.

23:03 Speaker 4: And yeah, we got lucky enough to get signed to

23:06 Speaker 4: Epic Records. We did a few albums for Epic and

23:10 Speaker 4: some videos that were on the head Banger's Ball on MTV.

23:13 Speaker 4: They were they were in the rotation there for a while,

23:17 Speaker 4: and we had some success for for quite a while,

23:21 Speaker 4: and then grunge came in and really threw a monkey

23:24 Speaker 4: wrench in the music scene, which changed metal a lot

23:27 Speaker 4: and stuff. But yeah, Malia, they had some really good

23:32 Speaker 4: success with me and without me. After I left the band,

23:35 Speaker 4: they continued on for quite a while and had Silly

23:39 Speaker 4: Earner from god Smack. He played on a couple of

23:42 Speaker 4: CDs and played drums. He wasn't singing then, yeah, and yeah, yeah,

23:47 Speaker 4: and yeah, the band kept going and actually still is

23:52 Speaker 4: kind of active. I'm still friends with the guys and

23:55 Speaker 4: and see Jimmy from time to time, and yeah, have

23:57 Speaker 4: been in and out of the band, and wow.

24:00 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty cool. What was the biggest video that

24:04 Speaker 6: that you were in when you were in Malai.

24:07 Speaker 4: Rage. Well, two videos were really popular on MTV for

24:11 Speaker 4: a while. The first album, which was called Kill to Survive,

24:15 Speaker 4: had a song called the Beginning of the End which

24:18 Speaker 4: was played quite a bit. And then our second studio album,

24:23 Speaker 4: Solitary Solitude, had a song called the Witching that that

24:27 Speaker 4: got a lot of airplay. That was a fun video

24:30 Speaker 4: doing that one.

24:31 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, well I rage on tour with Gang Green

24:35 Speaker 6: February thirteenth. I pulled up a video and it's like

24:39 Speaker 6: this thing scrolling over the video for the Beginning of

24:42 Speaker 6: the End as a song. That's wild. Yeah, because I

24:50 Speaker 6: remember Malira, because I.

24:51 Speaker 4: Used to watch a Big Ball of course, Yeah, of course,

24:53 Speaker 4: I mean that that was the play the place to

24:55 Speaker 4: catch all the new music at the time. You know,

24:57 Speaker 4: MTV was huge then, and yeah, yeah, and the Headbanger's

25:02 Speaker 4: Ball was a big thing.

25:03 Speaker 6: Yeah.

25:03 Speaker 4: We toured with Gangreen, and we toured with Metal Church

25:05 Speaker 4: if you know who Medal Church is. Yeah, of course, yeah,

25:09 Speaker 4: of course, did a lot of small tours and small

25:12 Speaker 4: shows going through New York with bands like Testament and

25:18 Speaker 4: Suicidal Tendencies and yeah, stuff like that.

25:22 Speaker 6: I see you in the video, but I can't although

25:24 Speaker 6: I can't actually tell it to you because your hair

25:26 Speaker 6: is in your face. Yeah my hair was a lot

25:28 Speaker 6: longer than Yeah, yeah, mine too, I can relate to that.

25:31 Speaker 6: But yeah, wow, that's that's really cool. That's really cool.

25:34 Speaker 6: So so you guys were Yeah, so you guys were

25:37 Speaker 6: doing pretty well and and then, like you said, grunge

25:41 Speaker 6: came in and it changed everything because this is more

25:45 Speaker 6: I mean, it's heavy, it's not hair metal, no, no,

25:47 Speaker 6: but but but really it wasn't just because when people

25:50 Speaker 6: talk about grunge coming in, you know, it didn't just

25:54 Speaker 6: kill hair metal. It affected anybody that wasn't that wasn't alternative.

25:59 Speaker 4: Right and absolutely yeah, absolutely yeah.

26:02 Speaker 6: So it affected you guys, but probably not as much,

26:05 Speaker 6: right like the like because the hair metal bands all

26:09 Speaker 6: of a sudden, we're not.

26:10 Speaker 4: Cool, yeah, warrant poised in all the you.

26:13 Speaker 6: Know, rat whereas bands like Malayah Rage, I would argue,

26:18 Speaker 6: we're still cool, but suddenly not as cool, just not

26:22 Speaker 6: as prominent.

26:23 Speaker 4: I would say, definitely cool.

26:25 Speaker 6: We were always cool, yeah, but you know what I mean,

26:27 Speaker 6: But just in terms of in terms of public perception,

26:30 Speaker 6: in terms of what people were listening to, what the

26:31 Speaker 6: kids were listening to Yeah.

26:33 Speaker 4: You know, you know, as we know over the years,

26:36 Speaker 4: music has changed that. I mean, yeah, you had the

26:38 Speaker 4: thirties and the forties that were the swing generation, and

26:42 Speaker 4: then the fifties rock and roll. Now you hit the

26:45 Speaker 4: eighties and you kind of get this pop rock. Yeah,

26:49 Speaker 4: and today, as we were talking, you know how music

26:51 Speaker 4: has changed. Now we're kind of all over the place

26:54 Speaker 4: because of the way music is marketed these days, you know. Yeah,

26:59 Speaker 4: and going back to our conversation earlier, you and I

27:03 Speaker 4: when we were off air, that kind of reflects why

27:05 Speaker 4: our CD, Michelle and Mine Moonlight Ride is it's also

27:09 Speaker 4: all over the place. The first song you played tonight

27:12 Speaker 4: was kind of a pop ballad. Down in a Hole

27:15 Speaker 4: is a little bit heavier. We have some songs on

27:18 Speaker 4: their Live for Today that's a little bit heavier, and

27:21 Speaker 4: then we have baby Come with Me that's kind of

27:24 Speaker 4: Beatles Beach Beach Boys influenced with the handclapping and the

27:30 Speaker 4: bop duop type stuff. So yeah, yeah, you know, music

27:35 Speaker 4: over the years has changed, and again that is kind

27:39 Speaker 4: of reflected in what we're doing here. We're kind of

27:42 Speaker 4: hard to nail down as far as when people ask us, well,

27:46 Speaker 4: what's your CD about. You know, it's all over the place,

27:49 Speaker 4: and I hope that's a good thing.

27:51 Speaker 6: Like I think. So, you know, some people like.

27:54 Speaker 4: One genre of music and one genre only, and I.

27:57 Speaker 6: Don't trust those people. I don't people only like one thing.

28:01 Speaker 6: It's like there's something wrong with them. Well you know

28:04 Speaker 6: what I mean, Like there's something defective in a person

28:06 Speaker 6: who only likes one thing. Yeah, you know what I mean.

28:10 Speaker 4: I agree with you totally, and that's kind of I

28:13 Speaker 4: We're all over the place. When I was talking to

28:15 Speaker 4: Michelle while we were creating this CD, you know, I

28:19 Speaker 4: was like, oh, how is this going to do because

28:22 Speaker 4: it's so diverse, And she thought, if I'm not mistaken,

28:27 Speaker 4: that it was a good thing.

28:29 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely yeah. I think most of us

28:34 Speaker 3: enjoy multiple genres.

28:35 Speaker 6: Oh absolutely yeah. Of course. Of course, I'm curious about

28:38 Speaker 6: your musical background, Michelle, did you I mean, I assume

28:41 Speaker 6: you weren't a bass player in a famous band prior

28:45 Speaker 6: to prior.

28:46 Speaker 3: To this, But yeah, I would say my story is

28:48 Speaker 3: completely different. I think I'm a more typical kid who

28:53 Speaker 3: maybe was in high school band I played the French horn. Yeah,

28:57 Speaker 3: I went to college for something completely unrelated, But I

29:00 Speaker 3: was in the choral society. Yeah, then you know, started family,

29:04 Speaker 3: And then my neighbor talked to me about.

29:09 Speaker 7: Barbershop. I was in a barbershop group for a.

29:13 Speaker 6: While, you were, I was. That's interesting because I've always

29:16 Speaker 6: my perception has always been that that's probably very challenging

29:18 Speaker 6: to do, I would think, because it's one this is

29:23 Speaker 6: just my perception. I've never done anything like that, but

29:25 Speaker 6: I I would imagine, well, like myself, like, I'm not

29:29 Speaker 6: a good singer, except I'm not a bad harmony singer.

29:32 Speaker 6: I can kind of find the octavan lock in, but

29:34 Speaker 6: I can't sing on my own. I get lost. But

29:37 Speaker 6: what if you're doing if you're doing that, if you're

29:40 Speaker 6: doing barbershop, like, you've not only got to be able

29:43 Speaker 6: to pull off harmonies, you've got to be able to

29:45 Speaker 6: do it flawlessly. That's my perception. It's like being an

29:48 Speaker 6: air traffic controller. You have to be perfect. You can't

29:51 Speaker 6: make any mistakes. Am I right about that?

29:54 Speaker 1: Well?

29:54 Speaker 3: I think you have to be somewhat precise because you're

29:56 Speaker 3: singing along with someone, and if you're not right on,

30:00 Speaker 3: there's that weird.

30:01 Speaker 6: Yeah, like you can't be off at all with that

30:05 Speaker 6: is my perception.

30:07 Speaker 7: I think I agree with that.

30:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, there's no room for error. So I mean

30:12 Speaker 6: that is that challenging to do? Or maybe it can.

30:15 Speaker 3: I think you're in a high school band and I'm

30:17 Speaker 3: in the French horn section and we don't all play

30:20 Speaker 3: the same notes. Yeah, so you're already hearing some harmonies there.

30:23 Speaker 6: So your brain's already trained right to do that. Okay,

30:26 Speaker 6: that makes sense. That makes sense.

30:27 Speaker 3: And then for singing, it's a nice challenge because when

30:30 Speaker 3: you get it very rewarding.

30:32 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, how long did you

30:34 Speaker 6: do that?

30:35 Speaker 7: For just a couple of years.

30:36 Speaker 3: But after that, whenever I hear a song on the radio,

30:40 Speaker 3: I try to find the harmony and so on with

30:42 Speaker 3: the harmony, and I find that very enjoyable.

30:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Now, So the Jesse

30:50 Speaker 6: the songs are all. Did you write all these that

30:53 Speaker 6: you've recorded so far? Yeah?

30:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I said, I kind of wrote them years

30:57 Speaker 4: ago and threw them on a shelf and forgot about him,

30:59 Speaker 4: and then pulled them out and started listening to them.

31:03 Speaker 4: And of course we revamped them because when I wrote them,

31:06 Speaker 4: I didn't know someone who sang as well as Michelle. Yeah,

31:09 Speaker 4: and I leave a lot of the harmony work and

31:12 Speaker 4: all that to her. I just kind of put down

31:15 Speaker 4: my pots and I say, here you go, and she

31:18 Speaker 4: goes into the room like a mad scientist and starts

31:21 Speaker 4: playing on a piano and finding all these different harmonies

31:24 Speaker 4: and notes. And when you listen to the CD, you'll

31:26 Speaker 4: realize that a lot of the harmonies and backing vocals

31:29 Speaker 4: are all her.

31:31 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, oh, very cool, very cool.

31:35 Speaker 4: And of course when I wrote the songs, they didn't

31:37 Speaker 4: have piano either, so yeah, it's great having her to

31:40 Speaker 4: collaborate with and put her touches on these songs. So

31:44 Speaker 4: they're kind of getting revamped as well.

31:46 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, oh excellent. Yeah. We were also talking off

31:50 Speaker 6: her a little bit about when you play out. So

31:52 Speaker 6: right now it's just the two of you when you

31:53 Speaker 6: play out, but you've thought about adding additional musicians, right,

31:58 Speaker 6: But then that becomes is it worth it to do that?

32:02 Speaker 4: Well, you've been in band yourself, Matt, and you know,

32:05 Speaker 4: the more people that are involved, sometimes it gets complicated.

32:09 Speaker 6: Yes.

32:10 Speaker 3: So we were really impressed listening to your guests just

32:14 Speaker 3: before us and how they managed with just the two

32:16 Speaker 3: of them to get out there and have a full

32:19 Speaker 3: sounding band and experience.

32:23 Speaker 6: I think in their case though, if I understood correctly,

32:26 Speaker 6: with Andre and Sasha, it sounds like they have other

32:28 Speaker 6: band members live, but just but they can do because

32:32 Speaker 6: I think I can't wait to have them in studio

32:36 Speaker 6: and sit down with them because I want to know

32:37 Speaker 6: everything about I mean that you know, they're originally from

32:39 Speaker 6: Russia and everything. I just want to know everything about them.

32:41 Speaker 6: But it sounded like because I thought Andre said something

32:45 Speaker 6: about having a live drummer who plays on pads, but

32:49 Speaker 6: but but he aments it. Yeah, correct, Yeah, I want

32:55 Speaker 6: to see what their live setup is like, that's really

32:58 Speaker 6: interesting to me.

32:59 Speaker 4: They out did great.

33:00 Speaker 6: But in a sense though, but it's not actually drastically

33:03 Speaker 6: different from what you're doing, right because you've got when

33:05 Speaker 6: you live, do you have the do you have those

33:08 Speaker 6: electronic drums playing machine? Use a drum machine live? Yeah,

33:12 Speaker 6: so actually it is kind of the same same idea. Yeah, yeah,

33:17 Speaker 6: but yeah, when you when you start adding people, yeah,

33:20 Speaker 6: it doesn't get complicated. Then you got to work around

33:21 Speaker 6: everyone's schedules and you know, like right now, if you

33:25 Speaker 6: get an offer for a show, you know, it's just

33:27 Speaker 6: you just decide to get together. But then you know,

33:31 Speaker 6: you have a whole band that you got to check

33:33 Speaker 6: with everybody. And that's one of the things I don't

33:35 Speaker 6: miss about playing in bands. It's like you get to

33:38 Speaker 6: check with everybody and then somebody says, oh, yeah, I

33:40 Speaker 6: can do it, and then they tell you, oh no,

33:43 Speaker 6: actually I was wrong, I can't do that show right. Yeah,

33:47 Speaker 6: that sucks.

33:50 Speaker 4: So with that, we're we're trying to figure out too,

33:53 Speaker 4: where like do we just pursue the original music or

33:56 Speaker 4: do we do our cover shows and mix it with

33:59 Speaker 4: the original must I don't know. We're pretty open minded,

34:03 Speaker 4: so yeah, whenever comes along comes along.

34:06 Speaker 6: I guess do you know a lot of covers together.

34:08 Speaker 1: That you've played?

34:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, we have quite a few.

34:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, we probably have about fifty songs ranging from the

34:15 Speaker 4: early sixties to modern time. And of course, just being

34:18 Speaker 4: the two of us, we have to be very selective.

34:21 Speaker 4: What is going to work for two people, you know, piano,

34:24 Speaker 4: guitar and just two vocals, and using the tracks that

34:28 Speaker 4: we use to play along with us so that we

34:31 Speaker 4: can sound full, you know.

34:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, is it important to you with the studio tracks?

34:38 Speaker 6: Is it important to you to replicate them as close

34:42 Speaker 6: as possible live or do you kind of approach it

34:45 Speaker 6: more like, well, it's live, it might sound a little

34:48 Speaker 6: a little more stripped down, but that's okay. Or yeah,

34:52 Speaker 6: I think live we are a.

34:53 Speaker 4: Little more stripped down because we're not layering all kinds

34:57 Speaker 4: of stuff. We want to sound as authentic as we can.

35:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, guess that's probably better, right, because you know, because

35:06 Speaker 6: a lot of bands, bands or duos or even solo artists.

35:11 Speaker 6: But I think it's it's I think it's more of

35:12 Speaker 6: a band thing than anything. They're very and don't get

35:16 Speaker 6: me wrong, I respect this, but a lot of bands

35:17 Speaker 6: are very committed to this idea. Maybe Malaia Rage was

35:20 Speaker 6: like this. I don't know that. You know, whatever we

35:22 Speaker 6: do on the record, we have to be able to

35:23 Speaker 6: replicate that live. And just a random example, Queen's Reich.

35:29 Speaker 6: I remember the first time I ever saw Queen's Reich

35:31 Speaker 6: live and I went with a friend and his great

35:33 Speaker 6: show and everything.

35:33 Speaker 3: It was.

35:35 Speaker 6: It's kind of at the height, actually at their peak.

35:39 Speaker 6: So on the Operation Mind Crime tour, I think, uh

35:43 Speaker 6: oh no, it was on the Empire's tour. Maybe I'm

35:46 Speaker 6: not sure. It's all a blur, but the point is

35:49 Speaker 6: I remember saying to my friend, Wow, they sound great,

35:51 Speaker 6: great show and everything, but they're they're very precise, like

35:55 Speaker 6: they're playing everything exactly the way it is on the record.

35:59 Speaker 6: And I understand why some bands do that, but I

36:04 Speaker 6: also think it's kind of cool if maybe not everything

36:07 Speaker 6: is exactly the way it is on the record, if

36:09 Speaker 6: maybe live it is a little more, especially when it's

36:12 Speaker 6: a band where maybe they've they've recorded something that's really

36:16 Speaker 6: sophisticated and complex, and then they go out and play

36:22 Speaker 6: and you know, maybe they're a band that doesn't usually

36:25 Speaker 6: have any synthesizer, but they have this one song that

36:27 Speaker 6: has synth, so then they have to decide, well, when

36:29 Speaker 6: we play this live, what do we do? And if

36:31 Speaker 6: they decide to just ditch the synth and turn up

36:33 Speaker 6: the guitars, personally, I'm all for that. Great. Yeah, it's

36:37 Speaker 6: gonna sound louder and heavier and more raw live than

36:40 Speaker 6: it does on the record. Cool. I want to hear

36:41 Speaker 6: how it sounds live. I'm excited to hear how it

36:43 Speaker 6: sounds live. I don't need it to sound like it

36:45 Speaker 6: does on the record, you know what I mean. But

36:47 Speaker 6: I also know but some people are like, no, no,

36:49 Speaker 6: we have to be able to replicate what's on the record,

36:51 Speaker 6: or we can't do it live.

36:53 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think both ways are good. I

36:57 Speaker 4: think it's great when a band can go out there

37:00 Speaker 4: like Queenswick for example. We just saw Jeff Tait not

37:03 Speaker 4: too long ago.

37:03 Speaker 6: Oh ok at the Tupelo Yeah yeah, yeah, he was great.

37:07 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's it's nice when they can get out

37:10 Speaker 4: there and they just kick it. They do it like

37:12 Speaker 4: on the album. But I also like it when bands

37:15 Speaker 4: changed things up. And it's kind of the approach that

37:18 Speaker 4: we take where I'm sure you remember the MTV unplug

37:21 Speaker 4: shows that a billion bands did.

37:24 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's.

37:25 Speaker 4: Kind of how Michelle and I approach our live shows.

37:28 Speaker 4: It's more of a stripped down acoustic you know, we

37:31 Speaker 4: try to really make the vocals stand out. Of course,

37:34 Speaker 4: her harmonizing and her harmonies are great, which really makes

37:39 Speaker 4: this a lot easier. But we kind of take our

37:41 Speaker 4: show and it's a little more of a stripped down

37:44 Speaker 4: show live.

37:45 Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh that's cool, that's cool. Are all the are

37:50 Speaker 6: all the songs that you've recorded? Do you do you

37:51 Speaker 6: do all those live? Or does it depend on how

37:53 Speaker 6: much time you have in the set or we've actually.

37:56 Speaker 4: Taken a small hiatus from gigging live so we could

37:59 Speaker 4: work on this. Yeah, so we don't have any live shows,

38:02 Speaker 4: and most of the stuff we've done in the past

38:05 Speaker 4: has all been the cover work that we were telling

38:07 Speaker 4: you about. And yeah, since we started recording this and

38:10 Speaker 4: working on videos, it's so much work met oh yeah

38:13 Speaker 4: to get the videos and every hours and hours that

38:16 Speaker 4: we kind of took a little break from playing live

38:19 Speaker 4: so we could get this out. Yeah, get it up

38:21 Speaker 4: onto YouTube, get it on streaming. We're trying to work

38:23 Speaker 4: on getting Spotify going. I mean, you know, this is

38:27 Speaker 4: all new to us, so yeah, we're learning it as

38:29 Speaker 4: we go. It's exciting though, too, right, that part of it.

38:32 Speaker 4: Some people get intimidated by that part of it, all

38:35 Speaker 4: the learning. But I get the impression this is just

38:37 Speaker 4: the vibe.

38:38 Speaker 6: I'm getting that that you're both kind of excited about

38:40 Speaker 6: learning and really embracing that part. Instead of just saying, oh,

38:45 Speaker 6: this is too much, is overwhelming. It sounds like you're saying, well, yeah,

38:48 Speaker 6: it's a lot, but we're here for it. We want

38:51 Speaker 6: to do this.

38:51 Speaker 7: Yeah learn.

38:52 Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's good because some people. The thing

38:58 Speaker 6: is that I tell because a lot of it industry.

39:00 Speaker 6: People listen to the show, and what I say all

39:03 Speaker 6: the time is all of these tools they're designed, like Spotify,

39:08 Speaker 6: for example, they're designed for you to be able to learn.

39:10 Speaker 6: So because some people you know, especially you know people

39:14 Speaker 6: who you know like my age or even people younger

39:18 Speaker 6: than me, will get or like the people I referred

39:21 Speaker 6: to earlier, who kind of were existing like twenty years ago,

39:24 Speaker 6: but trying to apply twenty years ago to today, they

39:28 Speaker 6: get discouraged because they think, oh, this is too complicated,

39:30 Speaker 6: I can't learn it. And the only reason they can't

39:33 Speaker 6: learn it is because they've told themselves they can't learn it.

39:36 Speaker 6: And if they just tried to learn it, they could

39:38 Speaker 6: because these things are designed for you to be able

39:40 Speaker 6: to learn. Spotify is designed for you to be able

39:42 Speaker 6: to learn how to use Spotify to promote your music.

39:45 Speaker 6: That's literally what it's there for. And and but but

39:48 Speaker 6: people kind of psych themselves out, you know. It's like

39:51 Speaker 6: it's kind of it's technophobia, but it's a it's a

39:53 Speaker 6: different kind. It's like, you know, I geez, I mean,

39:56 Speaker 6: I remember when I was when I was in high school.

39:59 Speaker 6: This this is when I first observed this. I had

40:01 Speaker 6: a retail job, and I had to. I was good

40:03 Speaker 6: at training people, so that even though I was I

40:05 Speaker 6: was in high school, I was just a kid. But

40:07 Speaker 6: they let me train other people on the cash register.

40:10 Speaker 6: And sometimes someone who had never worked a cash register before,

40:13 Speaker 6: and you know, usually an older person, they'd be very intimidated,

40:16 Speaker 6: just terrified of running a cash register, you know, which

40:21 Speaker 6: seems like the easiest thing in the world. But the

40:23 Speaker 6: only reason it was frightening to them was because they

40:26 Speaker 6: told themselves it was hard. They had already determined in

40:29 Speaker 6: their brain this is hard, I can't do it, and

40:31 Speaker 6: it's like, just do it and oh and then it's like, oh,

40:34 Speaker 6: this is actually pretty easy. Well y, I no kidding.

40:37 Speaker 6: It's designed to be easy. It's designed for anyone to

40:39 Speaker 6: be able to do this. So anyway, I say all

40:42 Speaker 6: that to say, I think you have the right approach,

40:44 Speaker 6: on the right idea, and I wish more people had

40:46 Speaker 6: that idea, you know. I mean, it's one thing for

40:48 Speaker 6: you know, a twenty year old kid who grew up

40:50 Speaker 6: with the internet. It all seems easy to them, not

40:53 Speaker 6: because they're smarter, but because they grew up with it.

40:57 Speaker 6: So to them it's easy. But to people like us

40:59 Speaker 6: who didn't up with it. Like I said, you know,

41:01 Speaker 6: you can really trap yourself into thinking it's hard. It's

41:04 Speaker 6: not hard.

41:05 Speaker 3: There's a lot of resources out there to learn. Yeah,

41:08 Speaker 3: you can look up a lot of things that help

41:10 Speaker 3: you step by step.

41:11 Speaker 6: Absolutely.

41:12 Speaker 4: Yeah.

41:12 Speaker 6: I mean that's what you YouTube. You can learn anything

41:15 Speaker 6: you have to do. There's a million different YouTube tutorials

41:17 Speaker 6: on a million different things you can you can learn

41:19 Speaker 6: any of this.

41:20 Speaker 10: Yeah.

41:21 Speaker 6: And then once you've learned it, then you have control.

41:23 Speaker 6: You have control over your music, yes, and how it's

41:26 Speaker 6: marketed and what you do with it now it's distributed,

41:29 Speaker 6: all of it.

41:30 Speaker 4: Yeah. And this goes back to earlier in our conversation

41:33 Speaker 4: where we were saying, you know, the music industry has changed,

41:37 Speaker 4: and if you can embrace the change and learn from

41:40 Speaker 4: it and do this Because we started with you know, okay,

41:44 Speaker 4: we have to build a home studio. We have to

41:46 Speaker 4: learn how to do this, and we've done it, and

41:48 Speaker 4: then we started learning like we have to create a

41:51 Speaker 4: video and put it up on YouTube so people can

41:55 Speaker 4: see this stuff. And we started with Facebook actually yeah,

41:58 Speaker 4: and we have a Facebook page moon Light Ride for

42:01 Speaker 4: you guys that are listening, and we have a YouTube

42:03 Speaker 4: page Moonlight Ride, yep. And you know, we had to

42:08 Speaker 4: learn all of these skills, and we've done it and

42:11 Speaker 4: it's been very time consuming, which is why we said

42:14 Speaker 4: to you a few minutes ago, Matt, that we kind

42:15 Speaker 4: of took a little break from playing live so we

42:17 Speaker 4: could get this music out there in many different ways,

42:21 Speaker 4: in many different places. And then once we get it

42:25 Speaker 4: all out there and people start learning who we are,

42:29 Speaker 4: then we figured, well, okay, we'll go back out and

42:31 Speaker 4: start doing some live shows and promoting our original music,

42:35 Speaker 4: because we started out as a cover band really, the

42:37 Speaker 4: two of us, you know, yeah, we did. Yeah.

42:40 Speaker 6: How long were you playing out before you decided to

42:42 Speaker 6: dig into the original material? Oh?

42:45 Speaker 4: Three years? Four years?

42:46 Speaker 6: Wow, that's what I was thinking a while.

42:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we weren't doing a lot

42:51 Speaker 4: of shows because we work full time jobs and yeah,

42:54 Speaker 4: we have lives, and so we were playing you know,

42:57 Speaker 4: here and there once a month or whatever, just doing gigs,

42:59 Speaker 4: and then, like I said, I kind of accidentally came

43:02 Speaker 4: across these songs that were on cassette on a shelf

43:06 Speaker 4: and we started talking and working on this and saying, hey,

43:10 Speaker 4: let's do this, you know, let's let's see what happens.

43:13 Speaker 7: It's very exciting.

43:14 Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that is very very cool. Well, let's let's

43:17 Speaker 6: get the time goes quickly. But let's play another track.

43:21 Speaker 6: I'll let you, I'll let you all pick.

43:23 Speaker 4: Oh, you pick one, Michelle about one that we both

43:26 Speaker 4: sing on.

43:27 Speaker 6: Oh, that'd be cool.

43:28 Speaker 4: You want to go with is it baby come with Me?

43:30 Speaker 4: Is that the one that has it's it's kind of

43:33 Speaker 4: a poppy song.

43:34 Speaker 7: I mean, don't hold back?

43:39 Speaker 4: I think is okay?

43:40 Speaker 7: Don't hold bah?

43:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, I've forgotten the names of my own stars.

43:47 Speaker 6: It happens. You write a lot of songs. That happens. Yeah,

43:50 Speaker 6: all right, so we're gonna you want to go with

43:52 Speaker 6: that one? Don't hold back?

43:53 Speaker 2: Sure? Please?

43:54 Speaker 6: And uh I got that loaded up. Okay, if you're

43:57 Speaker 6: just joining us, we've got Moonlight Ride here with us

43:59 Speaker 6: in studio, and let's give this a spin. This is

44:02 Speaker 6: called Don't hold Back.

44:10 Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm. When I think about you, I didn't I

44:36 Speaker 2: live without you.

44:40 Speaker 11: These days are series and the day I found you

44:50 Speaker 11: to see my life surround you.

44:54 Speaker 1: A new be by. If you're in sweet button of my.

45:15 Speaker 2: Longing body, I'm don't you ever go away? I want

45:30 Speaker 2: you for my own own the water be on long home.

45:36 Speaker 8: Don't you tell me what you.

45:43 Speaker 11: Want?

45:44 Speaker 1: You say on my other.

45:47 Speaker 2: Until the end of time, send my si sadly.

45:58 Speaker 1: Did you give my hug?

46:00 Speaker 4: Or you.

46:05 Speaker 12: Feeling when you spied? My arms are reaching for you?

46:19 Speaker 12: Will you be my guiding glad?

46:25 Speaker 3: But you want you up by want you up, but.

46:32 Speaker 1: You want to upd but you want du up that

46:40 Speaker 1: you want doup but want du up but you want

46:47 Speaker 1: to up do but you want you up bast Now

47:00 Speaker 1: the time has stopped up.

47:03 Speaker 2: You said to be the on My love is goway.

47:14 Speaker 2: I'm trying to restraint, IM trying to ref.

47:22 Speaker 1: Holding him back.

47:23 Speaker 9: Un be.

47:29 Speaker 2: I can't resist though the cloudy way stunning yet stronger

47:50 Speaker 2: I could, feeling off my bed.

48:01 Speaker 4: Very nice. Oh oh, there's a little trou cool.

48:12 Speaker 6: I came in a little little quick there as a

48:14 Speaker 6: radio guy. That's a no no, well not necessarily because

48:18 Speaker 6: there was no vocal there at the end, So I guess,

48:20 Speaker 6: I guess I'm all right. Very nice, so very nice.

48:24 Speaker 6: That's called don't hold back if you are just joining us.

48:26 Speaker 6: We have Jesse and Michelle from Moonlight Ride here with

48:29 Speaker 6: us in studio, and yeah, we were kind of talking. Uh,

48:33 Speaker 6: we were talking off their about the music video which

48:35 Speaker 6: I'm gonna check out later for what was the song

48:37 Speaker 6: again Tonight Tonight and all the work that that is.

48:41 Speaker 6: And you know, that's another interesting thing that's kind of changed,

48:44 Speaker 6: but not in the way that some people think. Because

48:46 Speaker 6: with music videos, a lot of people people who uh

48:50 Speaker 6: don't know, they they assume that music videos are dead because,

48:54 Speaker 6: you know, because MTV doesn't really play them anymore and whatnot,

48:57 Speaker 6: and VH one probably doesn't either. But but in reality,

49:00 Speaker 6: there's more music videos than ever on YouTube. You know,

49:02 Speaker 6: everybody does a music video now, and some major label

49:05 Speaker 6: artists who have, of course, you know, gazillions of dollars

49:07 Speaker 6: will you know, they've got an album and they'll make

49:10 Speaker 6: a video for every album. You know, Metallica has done that,

49:13 Speaker 6: Beyonce has done that. So really, I would argue music

49:16 Speaker 6: videos are more more important than ever.

49:18 Speaker 3: I think we get a better response on Facebook when

49:22 Speaker 3: we first start, when we put our first video out.

49:25 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I believe it, no doubt, Yeah yeah yeah.

49:28 Speaker 4: And we have put our entire album on YouTube as songs,

49:33 Speaker 4: you know, just yeah, it's got the album cover on it.

49:37 Speaker 4: And but we made when we made the video for

49:40 Speaker 4: the song Tonight, I think it's much more interesting for

49:43 Speaker 4: people to watch, so I think hopefully we'll catch people's attentions.

49:47 Speaker 4: So if you guys are listening to us, type in

49:49 Speaker 4: tonight Moonlight Ride and you can see our video.

49:53 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, excellent. And you said, did you start working

49:58 Speaker 6: on the next one or you're planning to or we did.

50:00 Speaker 7: We started working on Down in a Hole, Okay, do.

50:02 Speaker 6: You have any kind of an eta on that?

50:04 Speaker 4: Or we're hoping within the next couple of weeks that

50:07 Speaker 4: will be finished and out.

50:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, very good.

50:10 Speaker 4: It spends on how much time Michelle wants to put it.

50:13 Speaker 4: She also is doing a lot of the videography for us.

50:16 Speaker 4: It's she she does a lot in this project that

50:20 Speaker 4: kind of doesn't get a showed as much or talked about.

50:24 Speaker 4: But like I said, she she does all the harmonies

50:26 Speaker 4: and all the piano work, and she's done a lot

50:29 Speaker 4: of the research getting us on YouTube and putting the

50:31 Speaker 4: video together and making the video. So I commend her

50:35 Speaker 4: tremendously and really appreciate all of her work and hard

50:39 Speaker 4: work that she does to get help me get this

50:41 Speaker 4: music out.

50:42 Speaker 7: Well, we're trying to get up with the times.

50:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah, excellent, excellent. No, I think you're

50:47 Speaker 6: on the I think you're on the right path. We

50:50 Speaker 6: should we gotta, we gotta wrap up in a in

50:54 Speaker 6: a moment. What should we What should we close out with? Uh?

50:57 Speaker 6: What we'll close out our conversation.

50:59 Speaker 2: With h what?

51:01 Speaker 6: We played a couple pop songs? What's the heavier one?

51:04 Speaker 4: Let me hold on? Let me put grab the CD

51:06 Speaker 4: so I can see the title tracks. Like I said,

51:09 Speaker 4: I kind of forget the names of our own songs.

51:11 Speaker 4: We're doing so much right now.

51:13 Speaker 6: Oh who did the cover art? By the way on

51:15 Speaker 6: the CD. That's a combination of the two of us.

51:17 Speaker 6: Oh cool, Okay, what do you think shell to me?

51:20 Speaker 4: Maybe?

51:21 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a great song.

51:22 Speaker 4: Okay, this one's a little bit heavier. This is probably,

51:25 Speaker 4: you know, a little bit more rocking.

51:28 Speaker 6: Okay, So we'll play that in a moment. I just

51:30 Speaker 6: wanted to have it ready. But before we do that,

51:32 Speaker 6: So where should people go online to keep up with

51:35 Speaker 6: with everything that you're doing, with everything Moonlight Ride is

51:38 Speaker 6: doing well?

51:39 Speaker 3: We definitely have our Facebook page. That's where we started out,

51:44 Speaker 3: so it's Moonlight Ride, and then where we started our

51:47 Speaker 3: YouTube channel, a few weeks ago. It's Moonlight Ride twenty

51:52 Speaker 3: twenty five. We have the album up there, like Jesse said,

51:56 Speaker 3: we have the video up there. We hope to put

51:59 Speaker 3: our new video on there in a few weeks. So

52:02 Speaker 3: that's Those are all great places to find us.

52:05 Speaker 6: Excellent, excellent.

52:06 Speaker 3: We're definitely looking into expanding. We're going to be researching

52:11 Speaker 3: Spotify and how to do that, so look for us

52:14 Speaker 3: there soon.

52:15 Speaker 6: Yeah.

52:15 Speaker 4: You hit us up on Facebook though, and let us know.

52:18 Speaker 4: If you like what we're doing and you want a CD,

52:21 Speaker 4: contact us because we've been getting our CDs a physical

52:25 Speaker 4: copy for people if they like one. That way, it's

52:28 Speaker 4: an easy way to contact us, So hit us up

52:30 Speaker 4: on you on Facebook.

52:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's cool too that you're doing physical CDs. Actually,

52:35 Speaker 6: I think we had talked about that off air too.

52:36 Speaker 6: You love CDs. You've got a huge collection.

52:38 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh yeah. I'm the type of guy who

52:40 Speaker 4: I like, I like the artwork, I like, you know,

52:43 Speaker 4: the old days of the albums. We open them up

52:45 Speaker 4: and you get these double albums with pictures and the

52:48 Speaker 4: credits of who played on it and all that stuff.

52:51 Speaker 4: So we tried to do that with our CD as well.

52:52 Speaker 4: And yeah, we have a copy for you and Jen too.

52:55 Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah. I've noticed over the

52:58 Speaker 6: past five or six years, see have really come back

53:01 Speaker 6: as far as you know, artists releasing CDs. I was

53:03 Speaker 6: surprised when I was talking to in the first hour

53:06 Speaker 6: Killing Flaw and I mentioned that, you know, they're from Australia,

53:10 Speaker 6: and I guess in Australia nobody cares about CDs anymore.

53:13 Speaker 6: But that's one of the things that's interesting too over

53:15 Speaker 6: the years, to see how technology changes and what technologies

53:18 Speaker 6: go away, what technologies hang around, what technologies kind of

53:22 Speaker 6: go away but kind of come back.

53:23 Speaker 3: You know.

53:24 Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like vinyl has a huge resurgence.

53:27 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and it never really went away. But I

53:29 Speaker 6: think I want to say it was either twenty twenty

53:33 Speaker 6: two or twenty twenty three was the first year on

53:35 Speaker 6: record since CDs came out that vinyl actually outsold CDs.

53:40 Speaker 6: Oh is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Vinyl is here.

53:43 Speaker 6: But my theory though, is that most I don't know

53:45 Speaker 6: if it's most people, but who knows, But I think

53:48 Speaker 6: there's probably a large percentage of people who buy vinyl

53:50 Speaker 6: who never actually open it, just buy it because if

53:53 Speaker 6: you're really into an artist and you just you know,

53:55 Speaker 6: I mean, we actually have a record player here in

53:57 Speaker 6: the studio because one of the one of the other hosts,

53:59 Speaker 6: one of the their host brought it in. And we

54:01 Speaker 6: do have a CD player that I've never used, but

54:03 Speaker 6: Rob as a Vito, who host granted State of Mind here,

54:05 Speaker 6: he uses it. But but yeah, vinyl is uh like,

54:09 Speaker 6: if you're really into an artist and you just want

54:10 Speaker 6: to support him, it's cool to have and you know,

54:12 Speaker 6: you can mount the cover on your wall or something

54:14 Speaker 6: or do whatever with it, you know. But but no,

54:17 Speaker 6: but thank you for bringing us a CD. That's very nice.

54:19 Speaker 6: Thank you for having us. Absolutely absolutely we will do

54:23 Speaker 6: it again in the future as you're releasing new music

54:25 Speaker 6: and we'll definitely do that. And uh so we're going

54:27 Speaker 6: to play that track in a moment shelter me and

54:29 Speaker 6: thank you everyone who joined us today. Of course, we

54:31 Speaker 6: had a very busy show killing Flaw from Australia, and

54:35 Speaker 6: then we had Ryan Redwood from the UK his great

54:37 Speaker 6: track Tomorrow, such a great single. We had Major Moment

54:41 Speaker 6: from Boston and really looking forward to having them on

54:44 Speaker 6: for a full conversation, and of course we finish off

54:47 Speaker 6: today with the Moonlight Ride, and thank you both so much.

54:50 Speaker 6: If you miss any part of today's show it we'll

54:52 Speaker 6: be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot

54:55 Speaker 6: organ in my website Mattconnerton dot com. And Jenny's not

54:59 Speaker 6: here this week, but she'll be back soon, but visit

55:02 Speaker 6: her website Jencoffee dot com. She is always up to

55:06 Speaker 6: a lot of great, very positive stuff. Very proud of her.

55:09 Speaker 6: And she was actually just on a It's on her website.

55:12 Speaker 6: I'm also gonna put it on YouTube. But she was

55:15 Speaker 6: on Bob Henley's radio show again in New York City.

55:20 Speaker 6: She didn't go there for it, she called in, but

55:22 Speaker 6: she was on that show for a segment talking about

55:24 Speaker 6: healthcare and the health insurance industry that just went up.

55:28 Speaker 6: That was yesterday. I think was the interview or was

55:31 Speaker 6: it the day before, but it just went up yesterday. Anyway,

55:33 Speaker 6: it's online, it's available, it's on her website, and so

55:37 Speaker 6: check that out. And we will leave you with this.

55:40 Speaker 6: This is shelter me, This is Moonlight Ride.

56:23 Speaker 1: You to me tis a child? Think holm in this spill?

56:32 Speaker 1: Your spill is good?

56:38 Speaker 9: How tired about half Diner?

56:41 Speaker 1: Loose? How found Dad? Go right the blue, Help it be?

56:57 Speaker 1: Shall it be.

57:00 Speaker 6: With me?

57:03 Speaker 13: If it's please release, if it's so weak, nocturnal care,

57:15 Speaker 13: You'll never think, Just be willing.

57:20 Speaker 8: A page, just lost a fight, the dust proroted run.

57:46 Speaker 8: You'ly can still your seva choice without a sound?

57:56 Speaker 10: My heads a time?

58:01 Speaker 9: How could boot comes?

58:04 Speaker 1: Living high child and route you feel my head comfort

58:20 Speaker 1: be sheltered, be the help of bee, give me, please,

58:29 Speaker 1: please your leads. I feel so weird.

58:36 Speaker 10: Nocturnal cad You're never there, Just be waiting. I rageous lust.

58:46 Speaker 10: I back the dust prooted rod?

59:09 Speaker 4: What did I do?

59:11 Speaker 8: What did you know?

59:16 Speaker 3: Did this?

59:18 Speaker 5: Can't I need to know?

59:24 Speaker 9: I just can't speak of it today. I can't see

59:33 Speaker 9: the fire with the single