Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-23-26 hour 3

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3:36 Speaker 8: If that doesn't get you move and check your polse

3:38 Speaker 8: you might be dead. That is called thrash king. That's

3:40 Speaker 8: the radio edit, of course, from frequency overload from New York.

3:44 Speaker 8: Some real New Yorkers here, and let's get uh let's see.

3:47 Speaker 8: I think we have Tom Bush on the phone with us.

3:49 Speaker 8: Tom are you there?

3:51 Speaker 3: I am, we got the whole band.

3:52 Speaker 8: He oh, you got the whole band. Welcome guys, I'm

3:55 Speaker 8: really excited to talk to you. All right, every everybody

3:59 Speaker 8: in as orderly a fashion as you can. Please tell

4:01 Speaker 8: us who you are and what you do in the band.

4:04 Speaker 8: Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

4:06 Speaker 3: Kevin Dally drums.

4:08 Speaker 8: Welcome.

4:09 Speaker 3: Steve Little Bass. Hello, Steve Little play bass?

4:14 Speaker 8: Yes, excellent, he too.

4:18 Speaker 3: I am Corey Schaeffer. I play lead guitar and rhythm guitar.

4:21 Speaker 8: Hey, Corey. Okay, how you doing man?

4:24 Speaker 3: I am mister Bush vocals?

4:26 Speaker 8: All right, mister Bush, Hey man, you guys. Is that everybody?

4:29 Speaker 8: It's the four of you?

4:31 Speaker 3: Yep?

4:31 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, you guys are very very uh well, high

4:36 Speaker 8: energy obviously. It's but like I said, I mean that

4:39 Speaker 8: really gets the that really gets the blood pumping. And

4:41 Speaker 8: you guys are from Long Island? Is that correct?

4:44 Speaker 3: That's right? Yep?

4:45 Speaker 8: What does this scene like there? I mean, are there

4:47 Speaker 8: a lot of Is there a lot of hardcore bands there?

4:49 Speaker 8: You know, classic thrash and that kind of stuff, or

4:51 Speaker 8: you guys kind of I don't know the lay of

4:54 Speaker 8: the land there exactly. I mean, obviously you're in New York,

4:56 Speaker 8: but you know, there's a lot of different kinds of

4:58 Speaker 8: music there. But what you guys are doing, are there

5:00 Speaker 8: a lot of bands kind of doing something similar or

5:02 Speaker 8: are you guys sort of on your own in that sense?

5:05 Speaker 3: We're kind of on our own in the particular style

5:11 Speaker 3: that we play in.

5:12 Speaker 6: Yeah, but there is a lot of new metal, death metal,

5:16 Speaker 6: some hardcore and crossover band still around and we all

5:19 Speaker 6: play together.

5:20 Speaker 3: We're all friends basically.

5:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, Well that's good.

5:24 Speaker 3: There's a big local scene.

5:25 Speaker 9: The only thing, the only downside is there's not many

5:29 Speaker 9: good local venues to get ourselves.

5:31 Speaker 3: Out there on right.

5:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, that can be a challenge anywhere, you know, especially

5:35 Speaker 8: with what you guys are doing, because it's not like,

5:37 Speaker 8: you know, like if you're playing acoustic guitars, you know,

5:40 Speaker 8: you can do coffeehouses and stuff like that. But what

5:43 Speaker 8: you guys are doing, obviously, you need a stage where

5:45 Speaker 8: you can really I mean, I would imagine, you know,

5:47 Speaker 8: you get moshpits going and all that, so you need

5:50 Speaker 8: unied places that can really kind of contain what you're doing.

5:54 Speaker 8: Have you guys has has frequency Overload been around for

5:58 Speaker 8: a while. Have you guys been out this a while?

5:59 Speaker 8: Or how long has the band existed?

6:03 Speaker 3: About four and a half years.

6:05 Speaker 8: Also not that long, Okay, it's only been you know,

6:11 Speaker 8: a year.

6:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot for years though.

6:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's excellent. That's excellent. So tell me about Thrashking.

6:19 Speaker 8: Love that song. I did make a radio edit of

6:21 Speaker 8: it for our purposes here today, But I love that track.

6:26 Speaker 8: You know, it's the kind of thing if you're listening

6:27 Speaker 8: to it in the car, you're gonna end up getting

6:29 Speaker 8: pulled over for speeding. But tell me about thrash King

6:32 Speaker 8: and the inspiration behind that.

6:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe kind of like the road Rage.

6:35 Speaker 8: Song exactly exactly.

6:39 Speaker 6: The way that most of our songs come to come

6:45 Speaker 6: to life is the guys write it and then present

6:49 Speaker 6: it to me, and basically.

6:51 Speaker 3: The song dictates to me.

6:53 Speaker 6: I'm more like a conduit when I write the lyrics,

6:55 Speaker 6: like the song tells me what it is, yea. And

6:58 Speaker 6: for whatever reason, when I I heard that, it hit

7:01 Speaker 6: me like the good old you know, no fluff toxic Waltz,

7:09 Speaker 6: port Namash, you know, into the pit by by Testament,

7:14 Speaker 6: like a regular song, not trying to make any messaging

7:17 Speaker 6: to anybody, but Slam for Slam's sake, you.

7:20 Speaker 8: Know, yep, yep, I'd say it accomplishes that certainly. Is

7:24 Speaker 8: that must be a crowd favorite. Right do you guys

7:26 Speaker 8: play out a lot? Are you playing a lot of shows?

7:29 Speaker 3: Uh? We play.

7:30 Speaker 6: We kind of took a little bit of a hiatus

7:33 Speaker 6: to record the second album.

7:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we played. I guess it was a month ago,

7:40 Speaker 3: Spring Slaughter two.

7:42 Speaker 8: Okay, we played.

7:43 Speaker 6: Is that a place called Shakers over in Oakdale by us?

7:47 Speaker 6: We're playing but two weeks from today. Yeah, we're playing

7:51 Speaker 6: two weeks from today at a record store okay called

7:54 Speaker 6: record stop. Yeah, we played a record store. I talked

7:58 Speaker 6: to our video guy this morning. He might be down

8:00 Speaker 6: there and do a live stream on our Facebook page.

8:03 Speaker 6: We're trying to figure that out. And then we have

8:06 Speaker 6: another book, another gig booked for October twenty third, which

8:11 Speaker 6: is at one of the biggest stages around here called

8:14 Speaker 6: Stereo Garden, And that's with some other bigger bands, including

8:20 Speaker 6: a band called Anika that's kind of making a name

8:23 Speaker 6: for themselves in the city.

8:24 Speaker 8: Okay, excellent, excellent. It's cool that you're going to play

8:29 Speaker 8: a record store. I mean are there a lot of

8:31 Speaker 8: those there still or because I know, you know here

8:33 Speaker 8: in New Hampshire, there's a surprising you'd be surprised at

8:36 Speaker 8: how many there still are.

8:39 Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a couple of pretty good ones on

8:41 Speaker 6: Long Island. This one actually is a new location. It's

8:46 Speaker 6: in Patchog but nice when it was in a place

8:49 Speaker 6: called ron Kankama.

8:50 Speaker 3: We're talking about the eighties. I bought my first Mayhem album, now,

8:54 Speaker 3: my first Player album.

8:55 Speaker 4: Now.

8:56 Speaker 6: The name record Stop has been around forever, and when

8:59 Speaker 6: the two own is Bruce and his part and it

9:01 Speaker 6: sold out, somebody bought the name, you know, they bought

9:04 Speaker 6: the name as a franchise and moved it to Patcho.

9:07 Speaker 8: Oh wow.

9:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, most of my collection is from that store.

9:11 Speaker 8: Oh no kidding. Oh that's so cool.

9:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, the place was awesome back in the day.

9:18 Speaker 6: Bootlegs, Yeah, you know live Slayer albums that someone like

9:22 Speaker 6: recorded on a.

9:24 Speaker 3: I don't know, handheld radio and then put onto a record,

9:28 Speaker 3: you know, like an LP. Yeah, it was crazy stuff

9:31 Speaker 3: they had that. Yeah, this is Corey. I also like

9:33 Speaker 3: the fact that the vinyl is starting to come back

9:36 Speaker 3: a little bit. I me and my son were buying

9:38 Speaker 3: some vinyls and we played them. That's pretty cool. I

9:41 Speaker 3: liked doing that, you know.

9:42 Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh yeah, Well, Vinyl, I mean never really went away,

9:45 Speaker 8: but I think it was what was it twenty It

9:47 Speaker 8: was either twenty twenty four or twenty twenty three, was

9:50 Speaker 8: like the first year since the inception of CDs that

9:53 Speaker 8: vinyl actually out sold CDs. More people were buying vinyl

9:57 Speaker 8: than CDs.

9:58 Speaker 3: Yeah.

10:00 Speaker 8: Fun, Nothing sounds better than vinyl, you know, the warmth

10:02 Speaker 8: of it and everything. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

10:05 Speaker 6: Not only that, it's a it's a process. It's a

10:08 Speaker 6: chance to unplug, put it on. You're going to listen

10:11 Speaker 6: to the whole side now, right, you know, and then

10:13 Speaker 6: whip it. It takes away that that digital you know,

10:19 Speaker 6: I need immediate satisfaction and onto the next It takes

10:22 Speaker 6: that away, which is great.

10:23 Speaker 3: And you can also look at the artwork and read

10:25 Speaker 3: the lyrics again and all that other stuff. So that's

10:28 Speaker 3: that's kind of cool too.

10:29 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, that's one of the great things about

10:31 Speaker 8: physical media is you know, you know, when I was

10:34 Speaker 8: a kid, you know, I'm sure you guys were the

10:35 Speaker 8: same way. I Mean, I loved just looking at If

10:39 Speaker 8: I was really into an artist, I would buy everything

10:41 Speaker 8: that they put out, and I would look at even

10:43 Speaker 8: just like stuff like you know who their management company was,

10:46 Speaker 8: and you know, just any little, any teeny tiny speck

10:50 Speaker 8: of information I could find within the liner notes of

10:53 Speaker 8: the album or the cassette or the CD or whatever

10:55 Speaker 8: it was.

10:55 Speaker 3: I was.

10:56 Speaker 8: You know, that's that's how obsessive I could be with

10:59 Speaker 8: that stuff. And it's good. It's good that it's never

11:01 Speaker 8: gone away. You know, it's still even CDs. I would say,

11:06 Speaker 8: you know, five or six years ago, a lot of

11:08 Speaker 8: the guests that I would interview, they were like, CDs now,

11:10 Speaker 8: that's that's a dead medium. And now everybody's everybody's putting

11:13 Speaker 8: out CDs and and and a lot of artists, you know,

11:16 Speaker 8: major label artists of course always released on vinyl. But

11:19 Speaker 8: but even though a lot of independent artists now you know,

11:21 Speaker 8: it's expensive, but they're putting out vinyl. It's it's really amazing.

11:25 Speaker 3: Well, I still think that there's a lot of people

11:27 Speaker 3: out there now.

11:28 Speaker 9: That really want to have that that that physical piece

11:31 Speaker 9: of you know, music in the hand that they can

11:33 Speaker 9: take with them everywhere instead of you know, just this

11:35 Speaker 9: this digital.

11:36 Speaker 8: Copy right right.

11:40 Speaker 6: Absolutely, we we managed to find a really cool company.

11:47 Speaker 6: So we we have our first album, Fate Anthropic on

11:51 Speaker 6: vinyl at a place called Elastic Stage. Okay, So if

11:56 Speaker 6: you go on our website, frequency of olo dot com.

11:58 Speaker 6: You go down, you'll see off site merchandise and then

12:01 Speaker 6: merchandise directly from us. Okay, but you can you can

12:05 Speaker 6: link to Elastic Stage and they will make one off.

12:09 Speaker 3: You got to wait a few weeks.

12:11 Speaker 10: Oh my god.

12:11 Speaker 3: It doesn't cost us. We don't got to lay it

12:13 Speaker 3: all out.

12:14 Speaker 6: So you order it and it comes from in royal

12:17 Speaker 6: mail from England in a few weeks and you get.

12:19 Speaker 3: A copy of our album.

12:21 Speaker 8: Oh that's really cool. I love that.

12:24 Speaker 6: And then for us, because you know we have the account,

12:28 Speaker 6: I can get four or five at a discounted price

12:30 Speaker 6: for the merch table.

12:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

12:33 Speaker 10: Oh that's.

12:35 Speaker 8: That is a great concept. I'm looking at the website too.

12:37 Speaker 8: By the way, the website's really cool. I'm a website nerd.

12:40 Speaker 8: This is a very cool site. And I love the video.

12:43 Speaker 8: Can you tell me about we didn't talk about this yet,

12:45 Speaker 8: the video for Thrashking. Circling back to thrash King because

12:48 Speaker 8: I'm looking at it now, and you know what's what's

12:51 Speaker 8: interesting about this? It reminds me of something I was

12:52 Speaker 8: having a conversation with someone about this recently. How when

12:55 Speaker 8: I was a kid, you know, you'd see these videos

12:57 Speaker 8: on MTV and and sometimes artists who are like really

13:01 Speaker 8: super famous, they would have these videos that look like

13:03 Speaker 8: they cost millions of dollars, you know, to make. But

13:07 Speaker 8: now with the technology that we have, because I'm looking

13:10 Speaker 8: at the video for a thrashking and this would have

13:13 Speaker 8: been very expensive to do back in the day, but

13:17 Speaker 8: this looks like I mean, tell me about this video

13:21 Speaker 8: the making of it.

13:21 Speaker 3: So we're on Soday Records from Canada.

13:27 Speaker 8: Yep, love them.

13:28 Speaker 6: And so Sam said, listen, we're going to do the

13:33 Speaker 6: release this and that you really should have something visual

13:36 Speaker 6: for YouTube. We could get like an AI video done

13:41 Speaker 6: quick and release it at the same time. So we're

13:45 Speaker 6: going to cross reference the lyrics with give me a

13:48 Speaker 6: couple of sentences, a couple of ideas what the song

13:50 Speaker 6: is about. And now I said, I all this to

13:52 Speaker 6: the people that are upset. They're doing their day job,

13:55 Speaker 6: you know, like the rest of us. They're in the mud, yep.

13:58 Speaker 6: And then they go out to a frequent The Overload

14:00 Speaker 6: show and they're happy and they're in the pit and

14:03 Speaker 6: they're losing you know that they're they're losing their inhibitions

14:06 Speaker 6: and they're having a good time.

14:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, and about two hours later, really like by the

14:11 Speaker 3: next morning.

14:12 Speaker 6: There's the video don Yeah, glorious, And the cost of

14:17 Speaker 6: it was seventy five hours.

14:18 Speaker 8: Oh my god, that's incredible. Wow, that's amazing, zero to

14:26 Speaker 8: that a.

14:26 Speaker 3: Few years ago. Oh.

14:28 Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's cool when the guys turn into

14:31 Speaker 11: like warriors, when the guys comes up with his sword

14:34 Speaker 11: and he's like a.

14:34 Speaker 3: Superherol you know, because the lyrics they're raising your sword.

14:37 Speaker 6: So whatever program they use for that and translate the lyrics,

14:42 Speaker 6: it's amazing what they can do.

14:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really cool because I'm looking at it now

14:46 Speaker 8: and it's it's like, you know, the people in the

14:49 Speaker 8: video who are who are in the pit, like you

14:51 Speaker 8: don't they don't look like people that you would expect

14:54 Speaker 8: to see in the pit, So it's cool. So the

14:57 Speaker 8: whole concept is cool. You know, they're just regular people.

15:00 Speaker 8: They go to the show and uh oh they've even

15:03 Speaker 8: got thrashking on the on the back of their their phones.

15:05 Speaker 8: Oh that's really cool. Yeah, the video is awesome. I

15:07 Speaker 8: love this. Absolutely love this.

15:10 Speaker 9: It kind of shows, you know, like everyday people that

15:12 Speaker 9: you wouldn't think would be friends in their in their

15:15 Speaker 9: regular everyday life, but then once they get together, it

15:18 Speaker 9: come to over those show we're all friends and we're

15:20 Speaker 9: all in a pit and we're all there for one

15:21 Speaker 9: thing that we love.

15:22 Speaker 8: Yeah right, yeah, I love it. I love it. I

15:25 Speaker 8: love the whole I love that whole concept. That's that's amazing.

15:29 Speaker 8: So the first album, so thrash King is on the

15:32 Speaker 8: first album, correct, it is not this.

15:34 Speaker 3: The thresh King is the first release of what's going

15:38 Speaker 3: to be the second album.

15:39 Speaker 8: Oh gotcha?

15:40 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, what we did was.

15:42 Speaker 6: We went in and we recorded ten more songs, okay,

15:46 Speaker 6: thresh King being the first one of those. We mixed

15:50 Speaker 6: all drums and bass to completion, and now as we

15:55 Speaker 6: can we go back. Guitars, vocals, guitars, vocals. Our recording

16:00 Speaker 6: engineer is Joey Z from Life of Agony.

16:03 Speaker 8: Oh no kidding, nice.

16:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you look at.

16:05 Speaker 6: His schedule, he was on the tour with Keith Camputo

16:09 Speaker 6: playing bass for two months. Then they're going back in

16:12 Speaker 6: August to play I Guess Walking and the rest of that.

16:15 Speaker 3: So he's you know. He we got to kind of

16:19 Speaker 3: jump to Joey's studio and then back again as much

16:22 Speaker 3: as we can.

16:23 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's a that's a process. He's

16:26 Speaker 8: obviously a very busy guy. We also have Love and Bullets.

16:29 Speaker 8: Is that also going to be on the new album?

16:32 Speaker 3: That's on the first album?

16:33 Speaker 8: That's on the first album? Okay? Because that's the yeah, gotcha, gotcha? Yeah,

16:37 Speaker 8: because that's a great track too. We're actually going to

16:39 Speaker 8: play that in a few minutes at the end of

16:40 Speaker 8: our conversation. I made a radio edit for that too.

16:43 Speaker 8: And that's another that's another really great track. Is the

16:46 Speaker 8: the process for recording the new album? Has it been

16:49 Speaker 8: much different than doing the first one?

16:52 Speaker 3: It has been. The first one. We intended on doing

16:56 Speaker 3: a three song demo, okay, and we went through.

16:59 Speaker 6: A marketing agency and we came to him said, look,

17:01 Speaker 6: we have this three song demo, and he's like, great,

17:05 Speaker 6: A lot of our college stations are still album format.

17:09 Speaker 3: You need a full album.

17:10 Speaker 8: Yeah.

17:11 Speaker 6: So you got about five songs on there that we

17:14 Speaker 6: did at a studio and the other ones we did

17:17 Speaker 6: at Corey's house on Reaper and then had Joey mix

17:21 Speaker 6: it and master at his best that he could to get.

17:23 Speaker 3: It to the level of the other songs. Okay, so

17:28 Speaker 3: you'll see that on the liner notes.

17:29 Speaker 6: But yeah, it was a real process to get a

17:32 Speaker 6: full album together after we went there, so proud of

17:34 Speaker 6: ourselves for getting three done. The time we rented Voodoo

17:38 Speaker 6: Studios in Port jeff for two full days whole weekend there.

17:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's intense trying to get all that done

17:46 Speaker 8: in one weekend though. That's uh, I mean, what was that?

17:49 Speaker 8: I mean, was that challenging or did it flow pretty well?

17:52 Speaker 3: Or this is Kevin the drummer, And yeah, it was challenging.

17:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

18:00 Speaker 3: But we got it done.

18:01 Speaker 11: And everybody's real cool, you know, try to keep it

18:05 Speaker 11: light and ye, you know, joking.

18:06 Speaker 3: Around and uh, you know, we got it done.

18:09 Speaker 11: The first day we tried to we were thinking we

18:13 Speaker 11: were going to get like five or six done, and

18:16 Speaker 11: we only got like two done. So the next day

18:19 Speaker 11: we came in, I came in with a great attitude

18:23 Speaker 11: and just went in and we just crushed it. We

18:26 Speaker 11: crushed the rest of them.

18:27 Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely a challenging process, but we also had a

18:30 Speaker 9: great fun time doing it too, because Joe is just

18:33 Speaker 9: a great engineer to work with, and he makes the

18:35 Speaker 9: process just smooth and uh and really really fun to

18:39 Speaker 9: He motivated, really fun to do.

18:41 Speaker 3: He motivates us ten.

18:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Do you have a title?

18:45 Speaker 6: Another thing that he did that that adds that that

18:50 Speaker 6: thickness and warmth to it is they ran the digital

18:54 Speaker 6: signals from the drums and the two direct base ends

18:59 Speaker 6: through the old tape reel to reel machine really of course,

19:04 Speaker 6: not in the tape, just running the signals through those

19:07 Speaker 6: old handmade capacities and the wound ceramics and all of

19:11 Speaker 6: that then into pro tools.

19:14 Speaker 8: Really yeah, oh that's interesting.

19:18 Speaker 3: And then it's Kevin again.

19:20 Speaker 11: Whenever I would get a little stressed, I'd look up

19:22 Speaker 11: into the recording booth and Tom rs.

19:24 Speaker 3: Sanger is dancing with a life size skeleton.

19:28 Speaker 2: You know.

19:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I get right back on it. Yeah, Yeah,

19:34 Speaker 3: it's all good.

19:35 Speaker 11: It's exciting, and I think the songs are sounding great

19:38 Speaker 11: and look forward to getting some more out there.

19:40 Speaker 3: You know.

19:40 Speaker 8: Excellent. Yeah, do you have a title for the album?

19:45 Speaker 6: Most likely it's going to be one of two Relapsed

19:50 Speaker 6: into Rage or This Metal Life. Flip a coin on

19:56 Speaker 6: that one.

19:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are both good. I like Relapse

19:58 Speaker 8: into Rage though that one kind of something a little

20:01 Speaker 8: provocative about it, which I like. But did do you

20:05 Speaker 8: have any kind of an ETA on the new album

20:07 Speaker 8: or I know you don't want to put a hard

20:09 Speaker 8: hard date on.

20:10 Speaker 3: It, but definitely by the end of the year.

20:12 Speaker 6: I mean, we're I'm going back to do vocal tracks

20:16 Speaker 6: on one, possibly two tomorrow, so okay, yeah, so we'll

20:21 Speaker 6: have at least the next one done vocally and he'll

20:26 Speaker 6: be able to mix and master it after tomorrow.

20:29 Speaker 8: Oh excellent, Okay, all right, that's good. That's great. And

20:33 Speaker 8: then do you intend to keep releasing singles until you know,

20:37 Speaker 8: like when when the next one is ready? I mean,

20:39 Speaker 8: are you going to uh or are you going to

20:41 Speaker 8: hold out for the for the album at this point?

20:44 Speaker 3: No?

20:44 Speaker 6: No, according to our label and everybody else, really they

20:51 Speaker 6: want this constant gratification. They want singles, single singles, and

20:55 Speaker 6: then what we're going to do is we're gonna do

20:57 Speaker 6: the singles, then put it all together and well for

21:00 Speaker 6: it as a full download, full CD, full LP on

21:04 Speaker 6: vinyl the end of the year.

21:06 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, oh, very good, very good.

21:10 Speaker 9: Yeah.

21:10 Speaker 8: Soday Records they're sending us a lot of like really

21:13 Speaker 8: good artists. That's that's how we met you guys. And

21:16 Speaker 8: uh yeah, that's that's quite a label they've got. They've

21:19 Speaker 8: got some real talent there. So it's great that your work.

21:21 Speaker 8: How did you come to work with them? How did

21:22 Speaker 8: that come about?

21:26 Speaker 3: You don't even know, Corey doesn't even know all. So

21:30 Speaker 3: we have we have a local school.

21:34 Speaker 6: Teacher on Long Island and he has a streaming station

21:38 Speaker 6: called l I n L Long Island night Light. Okay,

21:42 Speaker 6: they started sending stuff to him, and he contacted me

21:46 Speaker 6: and said, hey, this is some of this stuff is

21:47 Speaker 6: going to go on that uh hammer and Anvil metal

21:50 Speaker 6: show that we were talking about that we kind of

21:52 Speaker 6: made up around frequency overload at the time.

21:55 Speaker 3: Oh and uh so I was like, oh that's crazy,

21:59 Speaker 3: that's cool.

22:00 Speaker 6: And then I started listening to some of this stuff

22:01 Speaker 6: and I said, holy crap, I got to send this

22:03 Speaker 6: guy an email and I said, listen, we we'd love

22:07 Speaker 6: to have representation and would you listen to ali stuff

22:10 Speaker 6: and give us an idea?

22:12 Speaker 3: And that's how it happened.

22:14 Speaker 8: Oh well, very cool. Well yeah, I mean, like I said,

22:18 Speaker 8: you know, they clearly know what they're doing and they're

22:20 Speaker 8: doing right by you guys, and that's that's wonderful. So

22:25 Speaker 8: what what's kind of the next Uh? Do you guys

22:28 Speaker 8: have any Are you playing any shows this weekend? Or

22:30 Speaker 8: when's when's your next show?

22:32 Speaker 6: Not this weekend, it's two weekends. Yeah, two weekends. So

22:36 Speaker 6: June sixth, Saturday, Patchog, New York. The doors open at

22:41 Speaker 6: six point thirty. It's at a record store called Record Stop. Okay,

22:44 Speaker 6: and we're playing with a couple of other bands, including

22:46 Speaker 6: Out Close and Dear Friends in Idiot Box and uh,

22:50 Speaker 6: we're looking to have a good time.

22:51 Speaker 3: It's a free show, all ages.

22:53 Speaker 8: Oh, very good. That's outstanding. Do you guys there aren't

22:58 Speaker 8: that many opportunities at least around here. I don't know

23:00 Speaker 8: what it's like there for even all ages shows anymore.

23:04 Speaker 8: I mean, what's it like there? I mean, obviously, because

23:06 Speaker 8: you want to get in front of a young crowd

23:07 Speaker 8: right when you can. You want to get those You

23:09 Speaker 8: want to get those young fans because they're the ones

23:11 Speaker 8: who you know, they're going to be sticking with you

23:12 Speaker 8: for for a long time if you you know, if

23:15 Speaker 8: you can get them to see you alive. I mean,

23:16 Speaker 8: are there a lot of opportunities to do all ages

23:18 Speaker 8: shows there There.

23:20 Speaker 3: Isn't a whole lot of opportunities.

23:22 Speaker 6: But Kevin and Steve came up with this great idea

23:26 Speaker 6: that we used last year, which we started booking our

23:29 Speaker 6: own shows. So we did in all ages what we

23:32 Speaker 6: call Pappy palooza. Oh, at a brewer in Riverhead. Yeah,

23:37 Speaker 6: each year we do this, uh, pappy palooza. First one

23:41 Speaker 6: was on my driveway and we ended up going to

23:43 Speaker 6: a brewery and they serve food there, et cetera. So

23:47 Speaker 6: it was all ages and it turned out to be

23:49 Speaker 6: a fabulous time.

23:51 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent, very good.

23:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, we packed the house. The fire marshal came. Actually, yeah,

23:58 Speaker 3: it was packed.

24:00 Speaker 8: Did the fire marshall give you our time or what?

24:02 Speaker 3: What?

24:02 Speaker 8: What was the result of that?

24:04 Speaker 6: He said, listen, guys, is not enough exits. You gotta

24:08 Speaker 6: do this, We gotta you gotta do it upstairs. Oh,

24:13 Speaker 6: we broke down, sent everybody upstairs and did like a

24:16 Speaker 6: Chinese fire drill with all the equipment running up and

24:19 Speaker 6: down and set up in the broom facing out into

24:23 Speaker 6: the restaurant.

24:24 Speaker 8: Okay, it was out of control.

24:27 Speaker 3: Wow, but but it went off like it like it

24:32 Speaker 3: was meant to be.

24:33 Speaker 9: And uh we finished that day out strong and it

24:36 Speaker 9: was great.

24:36 Speaker 11: Yea, and is gaining traction like it's it's becoming like

24:41 Speaker 11: a Long Island music festival that people are looking forward

24:44 Speaker 11: to and bands want.

24:46 Speaker 3: To get on the bill and play with us. Yeah,

24:49 Speaker 3: and uh, it's really fun. It's really cool.

24:51 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent. You guys are all four of you,

24:54 Speaker 8: you all New Yorkers like y'all grew up there, born

24:58 Speaker 8: and raised. Yeah, that's a great place to be for

25:01 Speaker 8: a musician, that's for sure.

25:02 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but right on the island.

25:06 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent. Yeah, good good, Well guys, Oh go ahead.

25:11 Speaker 11: I'm Kevin the Drama. I was from Nassau County, Okay,

25:15 Speaker 11: Long Island. These guys are in Suffolk County, so this

25:19 Speaker 11: was like the country to me when I grew up.

25:21 Speaker 11: But I moved out to Suffolk and I met Corey

25:25 Speaker 11: and we started this band and it's been it's been

25:28 Speaker 11: kicking ass for the last four years, four and a

25:30 Speaker 11: half years.

25:32 Speaker 8: That's great. Well, I look forward to seeing what you

25:33 Speaker 8: guys do into hearing what you guys do next and

25:36 Speaker 8: when the album comes out and everything, and we'll definitely

25:38 Speaker 8: have to have you back on, you know, as soon

25:40 Speaker 8: as you got as soon as you got something new,

25:42 Speaker 8: we will have you back on. Absolutely. And where's the

25:44 Speaker 8: best place to go online for everybody to keep up

25:47 Speaker 8: with what what you guys are doing. What frequency overload

25:50 Speaker 8: is up to.

25:52 Speaker 6: Definitely Frequency overload dot com because you can link out

25:56 Speaker 6: to all the socials and everything from there.

25:58 Speaker 3: But that's the basis.

25:59 Speaker 6: And if you go on there, you can join the

26:02 Speaker 6: mailing list and I always send out email blasts to

26:06 Speaker 6: let everybody know what we're up to, what we're doing.

26:09 Speaker 6: There's a blog page and we started adding what the

26:13 Speaker 6: new songs are about, one at a time.

26:16 Speaker 8: Oh interesting, so you'll.

26:18 Speaker 3: Be able to you know, get an idea of what's

26:20 Speaker 3: coming next.

26:21 Speaker 8: In other words, that's a cool idea. I've never really

26:24 Speaker 8: seen anyone do that. Oh okay, yeah, I'm looking at this. Uh,

26:28 Speaker 8: I'm looking at the blog page now. Yeah, so you

26:31 Speaker 8: got you know, boy and seed turn Okay, I see, Yeah,

26:33 Speaker 8: that's a that's a cool concept.

26:35 Speaker 3: I like that.

26:35 Speaker 8: That's a really good idea. That's a really good idea.

26:39 Speaker 8: And the way, and like I said, the way.

26:41 Speaker 3: What's going to get us out there?

26:43 Speaker 9: Getting ourselves out there and just try to really you know,

26:45 Speaker 9: engage with crowd and and and the public.

26:48 Speaker 8: And just get the word out right right absolutely well,

26:52 Speaker 8: in a moment, we're going to play the track Love

26:53 Speaker 8: and Bullets, of course from the first album. But I

26:56 Speaker 8: want to thank you guys, all four of you for

26:57 Speaker 8: being here today. Corey, Kevin, Steve, mister Bush. Thank you all.

27:01 Speaker 8: And like I said, I'm I became a as soon

27:03 Speaker 8: as I listen to you guys, I became an instant fan.

27:05 Speaker 8: I love this stuff. And of course the track that

27:08 Speaker 8: we're gonna play, Love and Bullets, as you said, that's

27:10 Speaker 8: from the first album, Fate Anthropic, And uh, I can't

27:12 Speaker 8: wait to hear what's next. But we'll let you go

27:15 Speaker 8: and we'll hit that track. But guys, Frequency Overload, thank

27:17 Speaker 8: you guys so much for being here today. This has

27:19 Speaker 8: been wonderful.

27:21 Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.

27:21 Speaker 8: Appreciate it absolutely. We'll do it again in the future,

27:25 Speaker 8: all right, take care, guys, Bye bye bye. All right,

27:29 Speaker 8: all four members of Frequency Overload and let's give this

27:33 Speaker 8: a spin. This is called Love and Bullets. This is

27:36 Speaker 8: from the first album, Fate Anthropic from Frequency Overload.

28:14 Speaker 6: We all git here a sovereign love and hostility.

28:19 Speaker 4: Ama, y'all, you gotta wake them because I will not relent.

28:26 Speaker 4: Return in this man on the yamoye fan, take.

28:29 Speaker 3: Up the bread out of this hot to the Dutch.

28:31 Speaker 4: Why now you re all like I love you too much?

28:33 Speaker 5: So won't something?

28:34 Speaker 10: I will play a ball.

28:36 Speaker 3: Listen for dad to his favorite result.

28:38 Speaker 4: Enjoyed the compil I will it will be fun before

28:41 Speaker 4: the seven I will give.

28:42 Speaker 5: You the god oh bad bullets swing up that bullet

28:48 Speaker 5: right and fortnight. Oh wait you in the funeral room.

28:52 Speaker 2: I went to nest week.

28:53 Speaker 3: You will so happy if they could be sick.

28:56 Speaker 4: I want to something, but to get there. Take see resolutions.

28:59 Speaker 4: You are working, okay, I have to drill that I

29:02 Speaker 4: wore the cake. The day is scumbled that they start

29:04 Speaker 4: to wallad. If it's a rache and that's the bride,

29:07 Speaker 4: they explode, So then we wont that the left on

29:09 Speaker 4: the spray away they get the funeral.

29:11 Speaker 5: Bullet wooday boo, sad blast string up now, bullet rice.

29:19 Speaker 3: And cot knights away.

29:20 Speaker 2: They get the funeral now and then that spree.

29:43 Speaker 5: That bullets string up down bullets rice and.

29:49 Speaker 3: Quad knights away.

29:50 Speaker 5: They get the funeral that way.

29:51 Speaker 4: The next break you gotta wake up because I will

29:54 Speaker 4: not release return investment on the yam Away test stick

29:58 Speaker 4: up the break Down. Its host of the dun Whyn't

30:00 Speaker 4: you realize I'm look you're too good?

30:02 Speaker 5: The Monterrey something I will play along.

30:05 Speaker 4: Listened with dad to his favorite song. They're trying to

30:08 Speaker 4: tuck him out with. This will be Father the call,

30:10 Speaker 4: it said.

30:10 Speaker 7: Another Thigures of God, Oh said.

30:13 Speaker 5: Bulls drag down, bullet right and one night, Oh way

30:20 Speaker 5: to get the beautiful? Now where did that screak?

30:43 Speaker 2: We have not a story with a normal God plan.

30:46 Speaker 5: The birl found out behind.

30:48 Speaker 3: Him the best man, I'm not.

30:50 Speaker 4: There their life, No now me Donna last, he family deliminated.

30:53 Speaker 4: If I don't wanna last, don't remember the hop we're.

30:56 Speaker 8: Having your room got into no mom, love and bullets.

31:26 Speaker 8: That is Frequency Overload. That's uh like I said, that'll

31:30 Speaker 8: get the blood pumping love it and those guys were

31:33 Speaker 8: a lot of fun to talk to. Frequency Overload dot

31:36 Speaker 8: com is the website. Check out what they're doing. That

31:38 Speaker 8: is from their first album, Fate Anthropic And of course

31:41 Speaker 8: earlier we played the brand new track Thrash King and

31:45 Speaker 8: you'll be hearing that again and we'll put that in

31:47 Speaker 8: rotation on the show. I've been sent something, so this

31:50 Speaker 8: is we've played this artist before. I'm gonna kind of

31:53 Speaker 8: seek in something here. I cannot reveal the true identity

31:57 Speaker 8: of this person, but they are called Hurricane, and uh

32:01 Speaker 8: check this out. Here's here's a new song from Hurricane.

32:27 Speaker 12: Innocent eyes with a sneaky little grin.

32:33 Speaker 3: Candy coated with a pinchive sing.

32:38 Speaker 8: She's a little bit sweet, but full of spies.

32:44 Speaker 3: Just don't cross that lot.

32:47 Speaker 12: She won't sing twice.

32:53 Speaker 7: She's a sportful of silver in aself.

32:58 Speaker 5: A double barrel and double is not hard to tell.

33:03 Speaker 7: She can throw yours, make you feel free.

33:09 Speaker 5: Try to steal herself.

33:14 Speaker 8: It's a shot of misery.

33:26 Speaker 13: She's trouble in heaven knows, sweet as hell, lim it's

33:34 Speaker 13: just the way it goes, a broken melody.

33:38 Speaker 10: You're written for a perfect.

33:40 Speaker 12: Song, been singing that song for far too long. She

33:43 Speaker 12: can bring you pee, so bring you all.

33:46 Speaker 8: It all depends on what you're asking for.

33:51 Speaker 7: She's a spool for the sugar in a shotgun shell.

33:57 Speaker 7: A double barrel of trouble is not hard to hell.

34:02 Speaker 12: She can pull your.

34:05 Speaker 5: Make you feel free to try to steal the sut.

34:12 Speaker 8: It's a shot of misery.

34:17 Speaker 12: Love her right, She'll show you her soul.

34:22 Speaker 13: But if you cross that line, it's not a side

34:25 Speaker 13: you wanta go.

34:30 Speaker 10: She's a sport.

34:31 Speaker 7: Sugar, a shotgun shell, a double barrow and trouble.

34:37 Speaker 5: It's not hard to tell.

34:42 Speaker 12: The sugar with the wall inside, the hellish little angel,

34:50 Speaker 12: the most dangerous kind.

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41:20 Speaker 8: a blur, but I love that song. That is really

41:24 Speaker 8: really good. And before that, we also heard the world

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41:30 Speaker 8: The song is also called Replaced by Robots. But then

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42:20 Speaker 8: are a fan of the show. Today is, of course,

42:23 Speaker 8: for those of you listening live. It is Saturday May

42:25 Speaker 8: twenty third, twenty twenty six, of course, and we wish

42:30 Speaker 8: a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend to everybody. As

42:34 Speaker 8: you know, of course, we remember our fallen veterans on

42:38 Speaker 8: Memorial Day. And Memorial Day also the unofficial start of summer.

42:43 Speaker 8: So I love, you know, Summer's my favorite time of year. Obviously,

42:48 Speaker 8: I love this weather. Finally, we went through a rough

42:50 Speaker 8: winter here. I mean, you know, we didn't get that

42:52 Speaker 8: much snow in the grand scheme of things, although we

42:54 Speaker 8: got that once starm that was really big. But it

42:56 Speaker 8: was a very very cold winter here in the Northeast.

42:58 Speaker 8: So really looking for summer, and I love that we're

43:01 Speaker 8: finally getting some hot weather. And for those of you

43:03 Speaker 8: who don't know, I'll just tell you I'm strange. I'm

43:06 Speaker 8: one of those people who not only do I not

43:09 Speaker 8: mind the heat, I actually enjoy the heat when it's

43:11 Speaker 8: ninety degrees out.

43:13 Speaker 3: I like that.

43:14 Speaker 8: I know I'm strange. Don't get me wrong. I don't

43:16 Speaker 8: like the humidity. A dry heat's always better. But even

43:18 Speaker 8: when it's humid, I can. I can handle it. So

43:21 Speaker 8: I was telling someone the other day that I said,

43:24 Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, if I'm out in the heat

43:28 Speaker 8: for an extended period of time, to walk into an

43:31 Speaker 8: air conditioned room does feel really good. However, if I'm

43:35 Speaker 8: in an air conditioned room for more than a couple

43:38 Speaker 8: of hours. To walk out of that and back into

43:41 Speaker 8: the heat also feels really good to me. It feels

43:44 Speaker 8: like a warm hug because after a while, I don't

43:46 Speaker 8: want to be in an air conditioned room. I actually

43:48 Speaker 8: want to experience the heat again. I'm very strange, but

43:51 Speaker 8: that's me. I'm impervious to heat. What can I say.

43:54 Speaker 8: We've got a little bit of time left in today's show.

43:56 Speaker 8: I want to hit some music news. We did something

43:58 Speaker 8: earlier in the show, a couple of things. We'll see

44:00 Speaker 8: how much of this we get to. We love music

44:03 Speaker 8: industry news on the show. This is from digitalmusicnews dot com,

44:06 Speaker 8: one of my favorite websites for music industry news. And

44:09 Speaker 8: you know we someone even commented me about it recently.

44:12 Speaker 8: You know, you guys, you beat up Live Nation and

44:15 Speaker 8: Ticketmaster quite a bit on the show. Well, they are giants,

44:18 Speaker 8: or they are a giant, because it really is all

44:20 Speaker 8: one company. It is a monopoly. They can take it.

44:22 Speaker 8: They can take us throwing shots at them, but there

44:24 Speaker 8: is now they are being threatened with being forced to

44:28 Speaker 8: break up. Dozens of state attorneys general around the country

44:33 Speaker 8: are now demanding that Live Nation and Ticketmaster that this merger.

44:38 Speaker 8: When did they merge? I mean it had to be

44:39 Speaker 8: at least a decade ago, right, that this merger be

44:42 Speaker 8: undone after all this time, and that they be split

44:45 Speaker 8: up because they are simply too powerful, too much of

44:47 Speaker 8: a monopoly. And I'll tell you a lot of people

44:49 Speaker 8: in the music industry would really applaud that would love

44:52 Speaker 8: to see Live Nation and Ticketmaster finally being separated. But

44:56 Speaker 8: this is the article from Digital musicnews dot com. Live

44:59 Speaker 8: Nation ticket Master must be separated, say dozens of US

45:03 Speaker 8: state AG's demand in stepped up court filings. So this

45:07 Speaker 8: is what's happening, a group of state attorneys general. And

45:12 Speaker 8: by the way, it is the plural. And I'm glad

45:15 Speaker 8: they got it right in the article because I hear

45:17 Speaker 8: a lot of people get this wrong. I even hear

45:19 Speaker 8: journalists who should no better get this wrong. The plural

45:23 Speaker 8: of attorney general is not attorney generals. I hear people

45:28 Speaker 8: get that wrong all the time. The plural of attorney

45:31 Speaker 8: general is attorneys general. They're not generals, So it's not

45:36 Speaker 8: attorney generals. They don't serve in the military. They are

45:40 Speaker 8: attorneys and general as in a general attorney serving the

45:45 Speaker 8: you know, representing the community that for whom they've been

45:50 Speaker 8: elected to represent, whether it be a state attorney general

45:53 Speaker 8: or the United States Attorney general, they are attorneys general,

45:58 Speaker 8: that is the plural, very much a stickler for that

46:01 Speaker 8: kind of thing. I cringe every time I hear you know,

46:04 Speaker 8: some politicians say attorney generals. It's like, no, that's wrong,

46:08 Speaker 8: and you sound dumb. Okay, anyway, Sorry, I'm very judgmental

46:11 Speaker 8: when it comes to that. On Thursday, May twenty first,

46:13 Speaker 8: the coalition of over thirty state attorneys general that sued

46:18 Speaker 8: a Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a trial that found

46:21 Speaker 8: the live events giant to be in violation of antitrust law,

46:24 Speaker 8: has demanded that Live Nation sell ticket Master. The States

46:29 Speaker 8: laid out their proposal in a much anticipated legal brief,

46:33 Speaker 8: asserting that the only way to fix the live music

46:35 Speaker 8: business is to force the companies to split it says

46:40 Speaker 8: here okay, The States wrote in their filing quote in

46:47 Speaker 8: order requiring Live Nation to divest Ticketmaster such that is

46:51 Speaker 8: capable of restoring competition for primary ticketing contracts with major

46:55 Speaker 8: concert venues, Plaintiffs are evaluating the scope of assets, contracts, personnel,

47:03 Speaker 8: and systems that would be necessary for a standalone Ticketmaster

47:06 Speaker 8: to effectively compete in the market for primary ticketing services

47:10 Speaker 8: to major concert venues unquote. The States are also requesting

47:15 Speaker 8: that Live Nation be forced to divest a sufficient number

47:19 Speaker 8: of amphitheaters and face restrictions on acquiring new ones. Further,

47:24 Speaker 8: they demand monetary damages for a quote overcharges on ticketing

47:28 Speaker 8: fees paid by residents of the plaintiff states unquote, as

47:32 Speaker 8: well as the handover of quote ill gotten profits derived

47:36 Speaker 8: from ticketing fees during the time of the unlawful monopoly unquote.

47:41 Speaker 8: Live Nation, for their part, will be filing formal motions

47:44 Speaker 8: and opposition in the coming weeks. The company is likely

47:46 Speaker 8: to argue that the case can be resolved simply by

47:49 Speaker 8: changes to its business practices which were previously agreed upon

47:53 Speaker 8: with the Department of Justice, such as limiting its use

47:56 Speaker 8: of exclusive contracts. Dozens of states and the DEJ sued

48:00 Speaker 8: Live Nation in twenty twenty four, alleging that the company

48:03 Speaker 8: which which acquired Ticketmaster in an approved merger in twenty ten. Okay,

48:07 Speaker 8: so even longer than I thought. I said, what ten

48:10 Speaker 8: years ago? They actually merged back in twenty ten, so

48:13 Speaker 8: sixteen years ago, that this had grown into a monopoly

48:18 Speaker 8: that has dominated the live music industry for years. To

48:21 Speaker 8: put it mildly, but just a week after the case

48:25 Speaker 8: went to trial, the DOJ agreed to a sweetheart deal,

48:29 Speaker 8: blind siding the court. However, the States steemed the deal

48:32 Speaker 8: insufficient and not in the public interest and pushed ahead

48:36 Speaker 8: with the trial, asserting that the breakup of the two

48:38 Speaker 8: companies was the best path forward. On April fifteen, the

48:42 Speaker 8: jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster had operated a monopoly,

48:46 Speaker 8: dominating the market for ticketing services and the use of

48:49 Speaker 8: amphitheaters and illegally trying to use I'm sorry, illegally tying

48:55 Speaker 8: the use of its venues to its promotion services. So

49:00 Speaker 8: and again, we've talked about that on the show. That's

49:02 Speaker 8: the end of that article, but we've talked about that

49:04 Speaker 8: last part on the show. You know, when you when

49:06 Speaker 8: you try to induce someone into doing a particular type

49:09 Speaker 8: of business with you, or maybe they're already doing that

49:12 Speaker 8: business with you, but you're trying to get them to

49:14 Speaker 8: shut up and stop complaining about it. You might say, well,

49:18 Speaker 8: you know, if you cease to do business with us

49:22 Speaker 8: in this modality, we might also stop doing business with

49:26 Speaker 8: you in this other thing.

49:27 Speaker 3: You know.

49:28 Speaker 8: So if you're a company that maybe you own multiple

49:30 Speaker 8: venues and you want to sever your your relationship with

49:35 Speaker 8: Tickemaster in terms of servicing a particular venue, well they

49:39 Speaker 8: might say, okay, well, then we're also going to service

49:42 Speaker 8: our relationship with you with these other venues that you

49:45 Speaker 8: definitely definitely need us for. Is that illegal? Is that

49:50 Speaker 8: predatory a predatory business practice? Or is that just playing hardball?

49:55 Speaker 8: Is that just being tough? Now? I don't know where

49:57 Speaker 8: the line is. We've talked about that on the show before,

50:00 Speaker 8: but these state attorneys general they seem to have an

50:03 Speaker 8: idea of where the line is, and they're now aggressively

50:07 Speaker 8: once again going after Live Nation and Ticketmaster. I don't

50:10 Speaker 8: know if these dozens of US filings, US state filings,

50:15 Speaker 8: I don't know if these are going to amount to

50:17 Speaker 8: anything in the end. I don't know. It's not the

50:20 Speaker 8: federal government this time going after them in this instance,

50:23 Speaker 8: although the federal government does go after Live Nation for

50:25 Speaker 8: other things. This is I mean, the DOJ has suit

50:29 Speaker 8: Live Nation more than once. This is individual state ags

50:32 Speaker 8: going after Ticketmaster and Live Nation and saying they must

50:35 Speaker 8: be separated. They are too powerful of a monopoly very quickly.

50:44 Speaker 8: In somewhat related news, I just thought this was interesting

50:48 Speaker 8: and we'll have to end on this. We don't have

50:49 Speaker 8: much time. This is also from Digital Musicnews dot Com.

50:52 Speaker 8: Ontario our neighbors to the north up in Canada. Ontario

50:58 Speaker 8: begins enforcement of a it's hardline ticket scalping ban, the

51:02 Speaker 8: most aggressive ticket resale law in North America. Ontario's ban

51:08 Speaker 8: on resale for profit is now the most aggressive ticket

51:12 Speaker 8: resale law on the continent, overtaking Maine's ten percent resale

51:17 Speaker 8: price cap that passed in June twenty twenty five. The

51:20 Speaker 8: Canadian province now joins Ireland, Denmark, Italy, and France in

51:25 Speaker 8: banning ticket resale for profit, while the UK and select

51:28 Speaker 8: states in the US only have proposed caps. The Ontario

51:33 Speaker 8: government has successfully enacted a ban on ticket resale above

51:36 Speaker 8: the original face value, just two months after Ontario Premier

51:39 Speaker 8: Doug Ford announced the reform. The government has begun enforcement

51:44 Speaker 8: ahead of the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup, which

51:46 Speaker 8: starts on June twelve in Ontario. So if it wasn't

51:51 Speaker 8: for the FIFA World Cup, I wonder if any of

51:53 Speaker 8: this would even be on the radar of any of

51:55 Speaker 8: these people. Remember, Doug Ford's brother was a Tom Ford,

52:00 Speaker 8: an interesting person. The reform passed is part of the

52:04 Speaker 8: Ontario government's latest budget bill, which received royal assent on

52:09 Speaker 8: April twenty four. Schedule sixteen of the bill amends the

52:12 Speaker 8: Ticket Sales Act of twenty seventeen to require that quote,

52:15 Speaker 8: a ticket may only be made available for sale on

52:19 Speaker 8: the secondary market for an amount that exceeds the total

52:21 Speaker 8: price paid when the ticket was purchased from the primary seller,

52:25 Speaker 8: plus any applicable fees, service charges and taxes charged by

52:29 Speaker 8: the secondary seller or operator of a secondary ticketing platform. Unquote.

52:34 Speaker 8: That's a lot of words, but it sounds like they

52:37 Speaker 8: want to put a cap on what you can resell

52:39 Speaker 8: a ticket for, So you can't buy a ticket for

52:43 Speaker 8: ten dollars and then turn around and resell it for twenty.

52:47 Speaker 8: It says here the significant amendment to the Ticket Sales

52:50 Speaker 8: Act comes even I'm sorry, comes seven years after a

52:53 Speaker 8: failed reform bill which proposed capping resale price at fifty

52:57 Speaker 8: percent above face value. The Ontario government has taken swift

53:03 Speaker 8: action to ensure that ticketing platforms comply with the new regulation,

53:06 Speaker 8: including sending notices to vendors for upcoming inspections. So the

53:12 Speaker 8: article goes on from there, but Ontario is taking this

53:16 Speaker 8: pretty seriously. Again, I have to wonder if this, if

53:19 Speaker 8: any of this, would be on their radar were it

53:23 Speaker 8: not for the FIFA World Cup, because tickets to that,

53:28 Speaker 8: I assume are very expensive and they don't want the

53:32 Speaker 8: scalping going on. So we'll see. But that is up

53:35 Speaker 8: at Digital Musicnews dot com if you want to read

53:37 Speaker 8: the entire article. It does get pretty deep into the weeds.

53:40 Speaker 8: But I think we're going to close out today's show

53:42 Speaker 8: and again thank you everyone who joined us today on

53:44 Speaker 8: the show. Of course we had Danny from the Velt,

53:46 Speaker 8: we had the guys from Frequency Overload, and of course

53:49 Speaker 8: John Poussett Dart, who is going to be playing right

53:52 Speaker 8: here in Manchester at the Rex Theater on June fifth.

53:55 Speaker 8: Show starts at seven thirty. You can get tickets online.

53:59 Speaker 8: Always love talking with him, and once again I do

54:03 Speaker 8: want to thank and I'll hold the shirt up for

54:05 Speaker 8: our online video viewing watchers and listeners if you see

54:10 Speaker 8: the video on YouTube or Facebook or wherever. Our friend

54:13 Speaker 8: grim Rock he sent us two shirts, one for Jenny

54:15 Speaker 8: and one for I and also included a sticker, and

54:18 Speaker 8: grim Rock will be here with us live in studio

54:20 Speaker 8: next week. So he's in Pennsylvania, but he's on tour

54:24 Speaker 8: and he's coming our way. He will be here live

54:27 Speaker 8: in studio next week May thirtieth on the show, and

54:31 Speaker 8: he's going to be playing that night. Jenny and I

54:33 Speaker 8: will go see him at the Spot in Nashua, a

54:36 Speaker 8: great place. We've not actually been to the Spot. We've

54:39 Speaker 8: had Mike McDowell from the Spot on the show, but

54:42 Speaker 8: we have yet to attend his wonderful venue which I

54:44 Speaker 8: see and hear nothing but great things about. And grim

54:47 Speaker 8: Rock is going to be there live that night and

54:49 Speaker 8: we finally get to see him live. So we're really

54:51 Speaker 8: looking forward to that. So I think to close out

54:52 Speaker 8: today's show, we'll close out with another grim Rock song.

54:55 Speaker 8: We played don't You earlier in the show. Maybe we'll

54:58 Speaker 8: play Angry. That's a good way to good way to

55:01 Speaker 8: end the show. So if you miss any part of

55:05 Speaker 8: today's program, it'll be up in just a little bit

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55:17 Speaker 8: be adding a lot more of show related content to

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55:23 Speaker 8: if you don't know, I am a certified hypnotherapist. So

55:25 Speaker 8: if you need to quit smoking, lose weight, deal with phobias,

55:28 Speaker 8: et cetera, et cetera, look me up again. You can

55:30 Speaker 8: do that right online Matt Connerton dot com. You can

55:32 Speaker 8: book a free fifteen minute consultation with me. I would

55:35 Speaker 8: love to talk with you, answer any questions that you

55:37 Speaker 8: have and help you if you decide to hire me

55:40 Speaker 8: to do so, and I hope that you do. And

55:42 Speaker 8: we will close out today's show with the track Angry Again.

55:46 Speaker 8: This is another great song from our friend grim Rock.

55:49 Speaker 8: He's got a real sort of old school low fi

55:52 Speaker 8: garage rock vibe to what he does and we absolutely

55:55 Speaker 8: love it here and he will be here with us

55:57 Speaker 8: live in studio next week. Oh, this song is really short,

56:00 Speaker 8: you know what, I think I'll play Abyss instead. Angry

56:04 Speaker 8: is a good song, but it's it's only a minute

56:05 Speaker 8: in twenty five seconds, and we have more time than that.

56:07 Speaker 8: Let's play Abyss. We'll go with this one and then

56:09 Speaker 8: maybe we'll even sneak, angry and at the end if

56:11 Speaker 8: we have time, but this will be a good way

56:12 Speaker 8: to close out today's show. That's gonna do it for us.

56:14 Speaker 8: For now, I'll talk to you a little bit later.

56:16 Speaker 10: Bye. Everybody's relious exists.

56:50 Speaker 3: Deep.

56:53 Speaker 2: We're a Chad Mack chaotic. I can have a lot

57:03 Speaker 2: of thiss this some woman of fame, damage to afflicted

57:30 Speaker 2: time and a famn my math wrong. Well, Robil, now

58:04 Speaker 5: To hold