Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-25-23

Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options and social media links, contact in Folk Show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Thursday May twenty five, two thousand and twenty three.

And played a couple songs there at open today show. Usually we just play one. Once in a while, we'll do more than one because we have a great musical guest coming in today in the second hour who not only performs as a solo artist, but he also has a great band. So his name is Kevin Horn, and he's in a band called the Stone Road Band, and we've featured their music a number of times over the past couple of years. Actually, I really liked that band a lot. They've got some great studio tracks and also a live album called Live at Dusk.

So we played their track end of the line, and then we played a Friend of the Fire solo track from Kevin Horn. And he's coming in today in the second hour, and he's gonna bring his his acoustic guitar and play some songs for us. He also you might have me mentioned him. He plays frequently at the Hop Knot, our amazing sponsor at one thousand Olm Street, right across the street. They've got those delicious gooremet pretzels, they have an assortment of craft beer Thursday nights, say after Trivia night.

Saturday nights, they have live music from seven to nine pm, and Kevin does play there on many a Saturday night. So so that's another reason why you might have heard his name if you are a regular listener of the show. So he's gonna be coming in the second hour and I'm really looking forward to meeting him and hearing him play live for us. I think this is going to be really, really cool. So that's coming up. Also, I believe our friend Easyg's going to call in with his vaunted entertainment report, and I know that everyone is always on so much pins and needles for Easyg's entertainment report.

If you want to get in with oh you actually you know what before we go any further too, And for those of you watching online, I'll even hold it up so you can see it. Run, our friend run. True to his word, when I got here to the station, this was waiting for him. It's Kiss, fifty years of Rock's Greatest Showman, this wonderful magazine that Ron had talked about when he called into the show one day. And yes, it was waiting for me when I arrived here today. And in fact, oh, I guess I get to thank him because directly because Ron is on the line, Hello, Ron, Holy mister Cornetson.

I read a little a bit and I was very interested. I only got to page forty nine or something like that, but I really really wanted to drop it off. And I didn't appreciate show up at your show because I know you like to schedule people and I didn't want to, you know, just drop in. So I'm very glad you. That's why I'm calling him. I'm glad you found it. Yes, thank you, Ron. I appreciate this very much. I shall peruse it with rapped attention, and I do appreciate it. For any listeners who don't know Kiss happens to be my favorite band, my all time favorite band.

So yeah, it looks like there's a lot of cool stuff in here, very and some pictures. You do what you want. But if you've done re it and you think you're off set on it, why don't you pass it on to POULI because I know he likes Kiss too. Yes, I don't know, Uh, yeah, I will. I will see if he wants it when I'm when I'm done with it, I don't know. I don't know if he the way Paul uh talks about Kiss. My impression is that Paul was a big fan growing up, but is not so much a fan now. I think he's a casual fan, but not a die hard fan as I am.

So we'll see. Well, well, I will certainly offer it to him though, when I'm done with it, absolutely sure. Sure. Did you get the other little package that came with that? I did? Yes? The donuts? Yes, thank you, Ron, I appreciate that as well. Sustenance is is a good thing. I appreciate it, my friend. Thank you, Bye bye, all right, ron take care? Thank you. Yeah, So there you go, ron O our very kind friend. He's always been very generous with us here at w MNH and he's appeared, Uh, he's been on with us on Retrospectrum Radio with Policy on Friday Night's actually quite a few times now.

And he's very kind, very kind person. We love Run and I do appreciate that magazine tremendously. And I think our friend EASYG is on the line. Hello, very I thought of calling because I know you are the guests coming in at five o'clock. So yes, wow, this is the time the usually call in to do your report. Probably I didn't want to waste any minutes because the coming in forty five minutes. I know. I know that's how the audience feels as well. I know that everyone listening is going, let's not waste any time.

Let's get right into Easyg's entertainment report. We're very we're all very excited. I want to get one quick thing off my chest. I was watching me. I might have heard of him a w M j F. I don't know if it's real or not, but it looked like he's spit into the crowd. That was really bad. If you did that, that is very bad, especially with COVID, which is still with us to some degree. That's really disgusting. After that, I set the TV up. Was truly after that, I said, that's that's awful. But consider this easyg Now to you that might sound awful, But what if, what if in that crowd of people there was someone there who was such a big, big fan of MJF that they actually were perfectly happy to be spit on by him.

That's just disgusting. I agree, No, I do agree. I do agree. You should not you should not spit under any circumstances into a crowd of people. And um, I'm glad that you brought that up because I have to say, Eric and I commend you for this. I think we've all learned something here today. Yeah, we don't do that as gross the more you know, you know, it's what you call a teachable moment. Yeah, I mean, I know they want to be edgy and stuff, you know, any w stuff, you know, be a little more wild than WW.

But I thought that was, you know, out of line, that was out of line with the bad guy. You. M JF is a bad guy. Do you know what m j say on my contracts up? But everybody knows the contract not up behind me from any more years. He's not going anywhere. He signed He did sign some sort of an extension. Yes, but he likes to talk about the Bidding War of twenty twenty four, right, you know he's still gonna be there. It's just a bunch of talk at the TV. Just a bunch of talk on the TV. So anyways, enough of that wrestling crap.

Well to the more important stuff. Oh would you like would you like me to hit your theme music for your report? Yeah? One more quick thing. I know somebody's listening and it's a big room and it's going to be totally fake news. One more match for Hoolegan. I mean, nobody's going to sign on to that, especially Win seventy years old and agust you know, he's had his day in the sun. He's all think up seventy Hulk Cogan seventy years old and into the double digits in terms of the number of back surgeries that he has endured.

And w W can allow that on it. No, No, that that would be crazy. I think I did see something online about he was shining around about something like that, but I'm sure he doesn't mean it. I'm sure he's just working the fans, as they say, working the fans. Yeah he's not. He's not well liked the w W anymore. So Yeah, I don't think that he could take a body slam. I think he would probably be quite brittle. Yeah, I don't think it would be good enough enough of that, enough of that, uh tom foolery and chicanery, and dare I say, shenanigans?

Are you ready for your report? Yes? I'm right. Oh good that I'm around the way. Easy you want to know about stock market crashes COVID nineteen, drive buys, celebrity gossip. Easy Gee's Gotchatota swam because zat nutting but a jeep, thank bab bad? Are you ready for stock

find out? Ready? Let go? So for reasons I don't fully understand. Apparently EASYG could not hear his theme music and hung up because he thought that he'd been disconnected, and then he actually did go ahead and disconnect. EASYG. Is that you hello? Now we can't hear you hello? Well, this is a terrible law calamity. Something has gone horribly awry. EASYG is is not connecting. I don't know what happened. We might and I know this is uh devastating to even think about, to contemplate but we might not get one of Easyg's entertainment reports today, but hopefully he tries again.

He's welcome to try calling again. Oh, here we go. We'll see what happens. Hello, Hello, Yeah good disconnected all these cell phones, it's not real, not reliable. Sometimes I think you've been sabotaged. And do you know who I think the saboteur might be? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I keep an eye on that guy. Do you ever a serious question? Do you ever leave Bruce alone in a room with your cell phone? I don't think so now, yeah, I wouldn't if I were you. He's probably spit on it like m JF and it probably damaged the uh the internal uh electronics.

Let's go some more more interesting topics. Oh that fella. Yeah, you don't want to talk about him too much, because then he really will sabotage you. True, Yes, what do you have for us? ECG? Oh, no music to think? You already played it, already played it hung out? Yes you didn't hear it, but I did play it. There we go, so we'll get right to it. Because time is a ways. Time was dedicated to Letty passed away? Why not the Tina Turner in A long, Good life. Yeah, eighty three years old. And also I had written this before another famous uh, um lady, I like Marine Renee Witherspoon legally bond and on all kind of doeses the movies?

Rene, I mean Morner does this hundreds of movies? Probably able the yours? Do you mean Reese Witherspoon? Yeah, Rene, Renee Witherspoon? Yes, oh you Oh, Reese's sister? Okay? And uh did did she die? Also? Renee Witherspoon died? I think I messed her name. Everybody knows what is Renee Renee? Yeah, Renee Witherspoon. Yeah, that's Reese's younger sister. Spell the wrong, Yeah, I'm not a good speller. What what happened to Uh? What happened to her? Did you have the guy in her paciful fluid? No? I had her on the Rest be four?

But that added Tina Turner. Why not did they have Did they have Renee Renee Witherspoon in the death pool on the Morning Show? No? That Natina Turner either live in a Naughtina Turner or Renee Witherspoon. They've already had a couple of people that picked a couple of the people already. I think two or three uh people that passed away that the people have predicted. Fun fact, I just googled it. Did you know that Renee Witherspoon was Tina Turner's the president of her fan club.

Hey, it's possible. I read it on when they won the two thousand and eighth two thousand and eight championship. Yelled at at the ten times. Any, it's possible Renee Witherspoon. Yes, she won the two thousand and eight championship, very exciting, a big feather in her cap. I know, I know you remember that big, big, big sports man. I do remember that Renee going going on an event coming up next Monday. I believe it's gonna be a great weather. It's a free event. Bring your friends and your family. You know you will love this event.

It's two o'clock as a parade for the Memorial Day. Write down hum Street, Yes, about thirty minutes and then they have a nice thirty minute ceremony at veteran sparking with him even on a local band you know, um not trying toy by Central Memorial or West. And they have one of the dignitaries there and they say a couple of words and it's dignitaries. A nice thing to do. Now, this is gonna be great. So this is on Monday on Memorial Day. Yeah, two o'clock, two o'clock, very good. Yeah, and oh yeah in the it was funny because one of the questions on the morning show was um about cupcakes and of course, um, I knew the I knew.

The answer was, you know, like we throw the cupani as one of the big award years ago and the cupcake contest up in uh Canada was on the Food Channel. Apparently I'm you lost me. There was Renee Withers years ago for the best cupcake around and it was up in Canada. They were onto the contest. I guess something to do with um uh. The question was yeah, it wasn't really quick to Yeah it was queasy to cupcake the one award in Canada. But nothing. That was a question that has something to do with um the what or which been on the Food Network?

I guess certain date or something and it was it was cupcakes. Oh they weren't there, said, doesn't really make my sense to the conversation anywhere anywhere city cupcakes so tasty on Elm Street. Don't forget check out. They must be opened pretty soon eleven and nine, because it's any next month they do it cream Land on Valley Street summertime. They open up to nine pm to get your treats in your ice cream and all that fun stuff. And Queens City Cupcake is in a new location correct. Oh yeah, right down the street when they where they used to be.

Yup. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, where there used to be another company, another restaurant moving in there already, so there. It's great for the city, the City of Manchester. Yes, and then they got another event coming up. It's Pride months next month, as you well know. And although sometimes they have a Pride for rates on June seventeen, and I hear DG. Reckless might be there. Yes, it's Pride Festival at Bretman's Park. It's a free event. He starts from aut eleven o'clock. They'll be food, you have to pay for that oppositating to be music, like I said, would be reckless.

And I'm assuming the bathrooms will be open. The movie opened a Retroman's plot when they have an event and I know I don't remember what data it's gonna be what it was the open um ever ceremony outside and they point the pride flog up on the city Hall by the way, one year. Yes, I don't know what data is going to be, but I'm assuming it's gonna be up in the June. And by the way, just a reminder now, I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think he has much of a shot. But if you're interested in these pride events, enjoy them while you can, because I do believe that if on the off chance that Governor Ron De Santas of Florida is elected president on day one, he will issue an executive order outline being gay.

Yeah he's a roper president, but the just gives us something to do. But he has no shot to win, right, Yes, that is true. Yeah, Well anyway, moving on to another fun activity is movies in the park. It's gonna be different places here at Victory Park. They resally have some rapple fifty fifty and they have some oh yeah, they have some food. It's a great, great event and it starts at eight o'clock and obviously a free event to the families and friends anybody have because some food some ice cream, you know, obviously gonna pay for it.

Well, yeah, and they don't just hand out free ice cream. I'm sorry, they don't just hand out free ice cream. Don't they know? This is America? Everyone should have free ice cream. Well, then again, it's not that it's pretty inexpensive, you know. Yeah, yeah, I suppose movies. I suppose they be June's. If you're talking over each other, sorry, I was gonna say. I suppose if we default on our debt, If we go into default as of June first, the government wouldn't be able to afford free ice cream for us anyway, so it does make sense to charge for it, right.

Well, the first movie is on Flag Days May I heard this movie two and fourteen Flag Day Back to the Future. Then two weeks later they're gonna have Tough Gun Maverick, and then later on they're gonna have some other flicks. So we'll give into that later as we give in doing now. I guess people know about in July twelve, The Goodies, July twenty four to Cocoa, in August nine, World Classic et

Now, uh, so do they show at that? Do they show primarily classic films? Because it sounds like those are all older films, except for Top Gun Maverick, which is the sequel to the original topic. They really show, They really just show a collection. I mean we've asking people voted online this year believe I or not. Oh, that's a good idea. I actually want to see. I think that's it. I don't pouring rain, there's no there's no show because they can't set up the h They can't set up the screen with it's pouring rain.

But if it's just drizzling, they might, they might have possibility to do it. But if obviously, if it's pouring rain, you know, the in event it's canceled. That's always a tricky thing because sometimes it can start out as drizzle and end up in a typhoon. Yeah, well that's up to the uh the public television where they want to put it on or on it. So, yes, it does happen. Unfortunately, you always started their show and then uh yeah, and then and then then there's a typhoon. Yeah, well, I don't think that's gonna happen, but you never know.

They're could be a typhoon any moment. I could look out the windows, the time of year, the weather gets unpredictable. I could look out the window at any moment and there could be a typhoon happening. Yeah. Yes, anyways, we went on to a busy lady here a courseman, she's going to be Oh, your new music is available now and Spotify. Oh for her song smoke, we've played that on the show, I believe, yep, and and other events that come out of players and we'll get that other day. And she's back now at the Goat.

She's playing soon me twenty nine. I think I believe that's uh yeah, that turns day over at the four o'clock And obviously it's a free event, but she will have a donation. Jarns. Don't forget to tip the staff always nice. Do you also play six she'll be there again. Do you also have to tip the goat the go Yeah, there you go. Oh no, that's got a lot of other Sorry, I get confused. She's got a lot of those shows coming up. As yet, she's announced it, but some of them to be an ounce with some of them have been an ounce as he doesn't.

She has a list of a date, so we'll announce it until there is a data vail. People want to know what time the show was obviously, yes, so June fourth, he's going to be up five o'clock. I'm sorry, I'm saying not five o'clock. She's going to be there at noontime. On Quick six. You know it's where crew I always miss a name up or where about Tim Baines where Tim bubber Baines plays up in Maine on Quirk Twick. I believe is he related to Tim to Tim bains No, but that's where he's gonna play. I think it's on the same area.

It's a free event ours like well, I think that June fourties they should for a minute on Conquered five Colock another free event Courtyard to Marriot, and then she's flying at Strapper in Massachusetts at five o'clock Independence in another free event. On twenty step of June is he's playing right here in Matrix at the Foundary at six o'clock on me twenty six. Wait, who are we talking about? Thirty April Cushman. He's playing a hoptick and Conquered at Starter Company. Are we talking about April Cushman?

Yes? Oh, I thought you were talking about Robert Banns. You know, May twenty eight. He's playing the River Shied in Killington and that's May twenty even at noontime rivershed. Make sure you pronounce that correctly on the radio. Easy. Yeah. And then she got more music coming to as he's working with a top producer that's helped out of all the other top acts. So more songs are going to be on their way. Oh yeah, we got a little gig. Another gig coming up at Letty jazzm and mains. Who's going to be a man not jazz me Mann.

Yes, Cafe Laron on the North End. That's where Blake's used to be. It's right down to flee from the black room with the chicken tenders. Yes, I know exactly where there This Sunday for the brunch at eleven am to one, she'll be having brunch. Should be singing while people have brunch at the brunch hour, Oh the brunch hour. Yeah, and much news, a lot of man mccazey and he's still working on the new album their music. And then she's released a spot up by Applehole Platforms. What Christian Christine Niech is Christian stuff and Christian vach or another smoking mirrors.

I know you can say at going around Christian veach, Christian beaches, Yes, veach, Christian veach, right, I know you can do anyways, Wrap it up now because um so I was coming up for Katy Dobbins. He might have heard of that lady. Yes, my dad when her Yeah, six thirty a songwriters round up ten or fifteen dollars tickets and they're available and sail right on Emerius and then she's gonna be all yeah, doing eighth is gonna be an improv vision at jazz trio pianist Michael or not. And then she's gonna be, oh yeah, flipped the agu He's gonna be uh page, oh yeah.

Doing twenty eighth is a big one six o'clock. Simwright has round up with Jackie Thyan and Allie Bodrey. So if you haven't seen Alie Bodrey, go to see her amertus and tickets are ten to fifteen dollars and then she and then we can probably played us next week because I'm a twenty six. She's got a song coming out around real soon here, yeah tomorrow, and it's gonna be a season's change, and she's working on four more songs. All these artists are working on songs. That's great, a new song. People liking the new stuff.

And oh yeah, Mos had this in because he can get tickets for this event April Kursman again. September twenty fifth, tickets are on sale. It's for Indian Ranch and Jack Brown's tribute band Trailer Trash Funny Bands, Garlick Belive and he brought to it and you get tickets. Yeah, Indian Ranch dot com and the gate there at eleven o'clock and shows at noon. And this is mentioned August but at eighteens. But still tickets are able to Joe Nichols Manson and you know four ticket general mission is fifty fifty or forty dollars a day of the show and fifty dollars ahead of time.

No, I'm sorry, did you did you say fifty five dollars a day at the show and forty eight dollars ahead of time? Did you say Joel the rains Masson doors are A six shows at seven. Did you say Joe Nichols Moore the day of the show. Did you say Joe Nichols is touring with Manson. No, Joe Nichols Manson, that's his name. M A. S. O. N oh. I thought it was the country artist Joe Nichols and he was touring with Marilyn Manson. No, Joe Nichols and his other group, Yeah, Joe Nichols, another group called Manson m A s O N m A s O N. That would be Mason Mason.

Yes, you can understand my confusion. Is a big name, and I guess his name is Joe Nichols Manson. I think Joe Nichols Manson. I'll check on that next week. I'm maybe this two actle. I just I just the rains, That's what it is, the rains Manson. That's why I got mixed up. I just googled it. Apparently man apparently Marylyn Manson is trying to rehabilitate his image, so he's changed his name to Joe Nichols Manson and he's now a country artist. I'll check that night for next week. I'm making as I mixed up, And tickets are Vamba, a branch from manson dot com.

I figured it out. And also you get five hundred all of VIP tickets before at the table and they can get the skybox and those tickets are on sale. Name. I'll check that for next week, five hundred bucks for the VIP boy. I won't even I can't even say on the radio what I would expect for that kind of money. Yeah, we get tickets in the skybox and you probably get wait staff and all that stuff. M you know, I would imagine they come to your seat. I bought that. I got that at the years ago two thousand and one when I get some tickets from the owner at where I was working in back back in the day, and it got me tickets for the game.

And it was people to come to your seat, waitress and waitress like twenty rows in from the field that self this game and at free procting downstairs, and that was unbelievably fun. Wow, was that the best day of your life? Never get those thick again. So it was the best day of your life? You peaked in that moment. Is that what you're saying? It was fun on the best day in my life. But it's a lot of fun. I mean, you know, people come to you. You know you have to go to them up like twenty roads for the action.

Would you say, easyg top five in terms of days of your life? Top five? I don't know about that, Which is a fun day, you know, top ten top ten of your favorite days, best days of definitely, definitely definitely in the top ten. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I remember they won a loss. It was fun going have to worry about procting because you're prett procting right under the Yeah the arena. Wow, pretty fancy. Yeah, alright, So I'll check that next week. About then Amy where he's another band, Joe nichols Man messed up.

Yep, Well we'll talk about that next week. He does, he's still put your song done that you like there this week for Amana McCarthy, you're like the that song? Um, I think I would the name of now Sunset my favorite Amanda McCarthy sign. Oh yeah, yeah, one of your favorites. So and who and Eric Eric to rough up for your next act? Eric, who produced that? Do you remember who produced that? It was Christine Christian not Christine Christian, Christian Beach produced. Yes, all right, very good? Well, yes we will all right, we want like a guy says on the ESPN after Yeah, he said, forget that even Oh oh, I'm fortunateus.

He said, I'll try to do better the next time. Is that What he says is that his tagline, I'll try to do better the next time. Yeah, I thought it was going on, but half an hour show, I thought it was Boom goes to the Dynamite. I might have him confused with someone I'm not really a sports guy. All Right, Easy G, thank you so much. We'll let you go and I will play this wonderful track from Ana McCarthy. Al right, bye bye. Yeah. By the way, I did look it up online. Joe Nichols Manson. That is his new name, and he's over into country music and apparently he still plays the beautiful people, but now with a little bit of twang.

It's very exciting. All right here it is as requested by our friend EASYG. I do love this song. This is my favorite Amna McCarthy song. This is Sunset. We'll give this a listen and then we'll come back and we'll get into some stuff, some news of the day, and don't forget coming up in the second hour. We have a great musical guest in studio, Kevin Horn. We'll be here with us live. But here's some Amana McCarthy. This is called Sunset.

Having a fous hello as to say, and not so feel you singing be seen with your Melody's so sweet like Jerry on a Sunday after Monday adays, and my heart is so see the front. I know, I gotta let the sunset on you, now, sunset on you. Down. I know I can't let the sunset on you now, said good now as the counting sheet, just to figure out you can make these hous easy like my days. So I'm gonna check my God because I still want you, but I'm gonna call you. You may he listen mine knowing ever bigger by school, I love I again?

How so say to seeing the dreament I've been needing.

I know I gonta let the sunset on you now, said on you. Now. I know I can't let the sunset on you now, so I said on you now, sunset. No, I gotta let the sunset on you, now, sunset on you. That is from Alive at Dusk and we just happened a half here. Let me get that mic up for you there. Kevin Horn is here on the couch with us in studio. Oh, I'm got to adjust that, Cameron. Hi, Kevin. Hello,

Oh yeah, there we go. Now we can see I'm over here right there. There we go perfect all right, welcome, thank you, thanks so much for having me. So kind of funny we were talking off air and I was I was just telling you that we've actually been playing your music on the show for a couple of years, and surprise, you've been getting airplay here. Yeah. Yeah, because you know, we like to feature artists that are regular performers at the hopnot are you gonna be you're gonna be there coming up right, you've got a show coming up there?

Or do you I'm definitely there within the next month or so. I was gonna say, yeah, I'm there pretty often. See it seems like every six weeks or so, I see you pop up on the schedule. So yeah, and um, you know, some of the artists who performed there, we can't necessarily play on the show because they're you know a lot of them only do covers or you know, so they don't really have any studio tracks online. Or there's an artist somebody who was there who was kind of almost like a light jazz kind of thing, and it's like, yeah, that's not really appropriate for the show.

But I just say all that to say your music is awesome and perfect for the show. Not only your solo stuff. But the stuff with Stone Road Band, which you had mentioned to me off air, is no longer together. Yeah, it's this stuff you were just playing at and heard that in a while. It was nice to hear. But um, yeah, I missed those guys. But it just I'm up here in New Hampshire. Two of the guys were down in Rhode Island where we started, yeah, and then another guy down in mass So life just takes over. But we all we're all in good terms.

Yeah, yeah, cool but yeah good yea. And some of those songs or or maybe all of them, I don't know. I mean, do you still play those solo? Oh yeah, yeah quite a bit. Were you the chief songwriter in that band? Yeah, as far as lyrically and chord structure, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, those guys came in and brought all their magic to making the songs real and cool. Yeah, really good stuff, really good stuff. Um. Now do you always uh these days? Is it always just you solo acoustic? Or do you ever have anyone else with you?

It's mostly me? Yeah, yeah. Um. Do you do a mix of covers and originals or do you have enough originals to kind of fill the night I have. I have enough originals to do a night. Um that said, I play a lot of breweries and restaurants things like that. So um, breweries have been wonderful to artists and local musicians in that, like they let us play our original music. And yeah, they're looking to do I mean they're kind of a whole new thing in and of itself, you know. So um, they're looking for new cool things to to make their breweries seem a little more interesting than and they let us do original music, which is really cool.

So yeah, but I blended, I mix it in. But I try to do covers that maybe you don't hear all the time, right, right, But do you do any covers that are kind of obscure enough where some might not realize it's a cover where you have somebody come up to you and say, hey, I really like that that song and they have no idea that it's not yours. Yeah, maybe like, um, a fish song or two or something like that, and not everybody knows fish. And I try to do some fish once in a while, and yeah, stuff like that.

Yeah, yeah that's cool. Um, how many how many songs do you know? Can you put a number on it more than a hundred as far as what you probably yeah, yeah, yeah, but I run through probably a batch of like forty songs and then I just I try to, you know, rotate things in and out once in a while. Yeah, and you also give music lessons, correct. I was looking at your website. Yeah, I got my hands in a in a handful full of different things, and I stay pretty busy, m I do. I'm lucky. I got a lot of really great, talented, young budding musicians that I get to work with on pretty much a daily basis.

So I teach private lessons guitar and drums, um, and then I allo. So I have been doing these. I've had some wonderful opportunities with the town of Pelham, Manchester and Merrimack, and I've been doing these rock band camps where I'd bring kids together, so like a group of maybe four to five kids all together in one room and no experience necessary, but they just kind of come in and I just try to pick basic rock songs and they come in and oh, I want to play the guitar, I want to play the drums, and we kind of mix it up and as we go they slowly learn these rock songs and then by the end of the program, what what have you?

They know how to play some music, so and some of them have stayed on and so we've been able to kind of morph the band and I'm I'm happy to say that we got some really fun stuff planned for the summer and I think we're going to do a little show at the end of the summer. So it's pretty cool. How many how many kids right now? I've been doing Merrimack for about six months or so and it's been running around like ten kids, okay, um, but I break it up into two groups. We got ages eight to ten and then we do eleven to fourteen.

Okay, so um, Pelham is going to be more of it's kind of the same structure, and then Manchester as well. We're starting this summer with that. Do you ever run in any any kids who are um, I mean, you know, in theory, anyone can learn to play an instrument, But do you ever run into a kid who's just like, wow, this we have a prodigy here, like like, this kid learns fast. I had a student right right, So I started this right in the middle of COVID. Yeah, and um left my left the corporate world and decided to try some new stuff and felt like this was more me.

Yeah, um so, but yeah, I I was doing virtual lessons with this this this young kid, and he was like, yeah, I took I've taken some guitar lessons with a couple other people who it hasn't really worked out, and um, so they on to try my style. It got to the point where I was just like showing up on these zoom things with him, like he was entertaining me, and I'm just like, dude, I think it's you. There's probably somebody else out there because I'm more like chord structure and and and um teaching you know, how to become the music and you know, get into that kind of stuff and um and and he was just like you know solos, and I'm like, all right, buddy, somebody else is gonna take the reins from here.

Yeah. Yeah. And he was probably he must have been like nine or ten. Yeah he was. He was great. But but all the kids I work with, it's they all are in different stages and it's really fun to watch. Like, you know, some kids, they they struggle for a little bit and then all of a sudden, something just clicks like I've I've had some kids that join the rock band. Yeah, and sitting in my in my band room and just listen to me go wand three four. That's you know that it's fine, but like to play with other people.

It puts some things into context a little bit more for the kids. And yeah, so I've seen some kids like really like, holy moly, dude, just like three weeks ago you were struggling with this and now you're doing pills and yeah, it's cool. It's really cool to watch. That's got to be really satisfying. It is. It's amazing. I'm I'm lucky and a lot of the things that I do. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Well, uh so Kevin Horrn is here if you're just joining us, and he's gonna play for us, and I'm looking forward to here and you play live, I'll have to uh we have no way to really sound check ahead of time, but can you um, you know I so you know, I ride the faders, you know how it goes.

Yeah, yeah, my guitar sounds nice. Thank you. It's a Martin. Somebody else was in here with a Martin guitar recently might have been do you know Andrea Pequin. I think it was Andrea, who I might recognize. I see a lot of names. Yeah, yeah for sure, Yeah, yeah, you'd probably probably recognize her star. That's the fun thing about playing all these breweries and things I've I've become friends with a lot of really other great musician songwriters. My good friend Alie Bowdre and yes, Paul Nelson, um, good friends of mine that that have been really fun to get to know.

I think I've met Paul Nelson and Alie. You know, it's funny, believe it or not. I don't think I've ever met Ali Boudre, but I hear her. I hear about her all the time. She is a delight. Yeah, and we've we've played her music. She's got a great song called why Why I'm Not with You that we've played on the show. That is so good. Yeah. Yeah she she actually she and her husband run a brew bus as well. Yeah yeah yeah, the trivia the trivia guy. Yeah. So yeah, who's who's the laugh, right? I love I love talking with him, but um yeah they're actually uh so this this is a good little segue.

So, um my, I got I got three brothers, uh, one of which is my younger brother Sean, and tomorrow is his fortieth birthday. Oh, and I reached out to him and asked if there was anything that he requested for me to play today as kind of a birthday song. So I'm gonna play this song for him. So we're actually but speaking of Ali and they're taking us out on a Brew tour on Saturday, and I celebrate his fortieth. So very cool, looking forward to it. But yeah, so I'm going to play a song that he really likes.

It's uh, it's one that I actually remember and now. So this one's called Friend of the Fire.

Bear with me. It's been a little while on this one, no worse.

It's so full on trip and foe can anyone see? I'm still here by the bye with my own fear the way time and all its progress,

just a feel safe in my own way? Tick tick mm se like soon cross the water, times like to burn water. I can't want see me from here. It's getting so hard to think clear through life and all is madness. Treat away ever find her? Come to watch it burned down? So we can You cannot faith away? It sound to you to be sound find yours bed down now to feed my hands clean, Jose, look at me last by of you. I'm carried alone of me. You now come watching turned down so we can you can feed away. It's help to you to rep by your's fair.

No, come watch it burn down slowly and you can feed away. It's up to you to some the fighter cant get spread. Come watch it down, can feed away? Its sound to you to stop by your aunt. It's friend. Very nice. Hello, listeners, don't know why we're laughing. I'm sure that I'm sure the mike's didn't pick that up. But that was that was so perfect. Just as Kevin finished the song, we heard a horn outside. That was quite musical. Yes, how perfect was the timing? Yes, if you're just joining us. Kevin Horn is here with us live in studio sounding phenomenal.

Love that song. We've played the studio version of that on the show. Thank you, great stuff. And uh, this must be your brother Sean. Timothy Horn is in the Facebook live chat and says, I chose the most uplifting jam. Yeah it's um, that's a darker one, but you know, I like I like it. It's been a while. I haven't played that one in a while. So it was fun to Yeah, yeah, that's really good. Do you want to play another one? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Um. I've been working on new stuff finally, so I'm gonna play a new song.

Cool. It's called Strange Places.

Can't you fire your hands? And holy time to the fields? Right me? It hard too, And now it's all gone right, this takes the fall. It's time to break out all our secrets and now see ourselves and dry smother dots between the line. It seems when all life changes, mistake space, safety and the comfutle the space the end. So if the fight can hate us, the worst can begun. The broken record, break us whole time wrong, gonna get it fight now, he and it is just the first to make you feel I'll right hold down somehow wrong own this reason to believe we can breaking down the strangest face to be he o, balm down, all fall down.

So now now we breathe articles were nervous. Now it's sending out a rescue with some of the pieces. Tap the call if it feels like somehow we might clues can't try. We'll go around these on the way for us to the whole time. I'm gonna get it right now. The nder is just the person need to feel all right, hold down somehow or ell this reason to be that will come breaking down the strangest face the fans wearing all fall down. No, no, downright.

H That's a hit, dude, for real. I love the energy of that one. Thank you. That's really good, catchy as hell. Thanks. That's um. That's one that I said. It's new, but I actually kind of wrote it like a couple of years during a couple of years ago during COVID, Yeah, um, in bits and pieces and I it was actually a completely different song with a completely different chord structure behind it. But um, I came up with this chord structure and it kind of reminded me of that song that I never really quite attached myself too.

Yeah, and something about the feel of it, and I was like, I wonder if I just swap out some words and stuff and then and then maybe I can save some time and not have to write all these lyrics right right, Yeah, but yeah, thank you. Oh. I love it so that So there's no studio recording of that yet, you have, no No, I'm hoping within the next year, I really want to do a silo album. Yeah, yeah, I'm not there yet, but I've I've got hopefully something in the words. Yeah. We live in a time where you've got so many options, you know, as far as um, a lot of artists I interview now they do uh, they kind of you know, in terms of choosing whether to do singles or an album or a lot of artists now they kind of do it both ways.

You know, they'll put out a series of singles that will eventually become an album. Yeah, you know. But that's actually the last thing the Stone Road Band did was we had like I can't remember how many are it's like five or six tunes that became an EP. But it was during it was still COVID times, and um, we were trying to because we were all spread out, like how do we play together? And we started doing just virtual recordings. I recorded something to a click and then sent it off to our drummer and then he added to it, and we just kind of pieced it together and then sent it off to a producer to mix a master and then we just started releasing single single, single, and then it became an EP.

Yeah. Um, so so those songs. So, in other words, those songs were recorded without you actually being together in studio. Oh yeah, that's amazing. It's um, I always say, you know, I mean, the pandemic was awful, and but you know, we have to find those silver linings where we can. And I've always said that at least, at least it happened at a time when we have all this technology, you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean if this, if if it had been say the nineteen eighties, you know it would have been it would have been a lot different.

Stuck at home playing pong. Oh yeah, yeah, I imagine myself in the basement digging out VHS tapes of movies to watch with the family, you know. Um, so to so to have it happened at least, you know, in a time where we have all the technology, where you know, a lot of and especially with musicians, a lot of musicians really taking that opportunity to create and and and also too, a lot of musicians who were used to playing out all of a sudden didn't have any shows, who were like, well, all right, well I guess I'll make some music if I can't go out and play and um and record, like the process that you described with the Stone Road Band.

You know, so that's that's remarkable. It put I think it pushed pushed a lot of people into different forms of creativity, and it just if anything, it fostered more creativity because yeah, we there was a lot to think about at that time. There was a lot going on in twenty twenty and you know than of course the twenty twenty one. But yeah, um, yeah, so there was definitely a lot to write about, exactly exactly like I say, we got to find those silver linings where we can absolutely absolutely I'm doing what I'm doing now and might not have Yeah, there you go.

By the way, Jenny really enjoying the music. She said that song is so awesome, and Miriam Banish also joins us in the chatman says, wow, this is cool. So you've you've got some new fans there. Thank you. You want to you want to play another one? Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Dying to hear more so this one I went out to. Um, my wife and I took a trip to Ireland and Amsterdam last summer. Yeah, and I did tune this up. But um anyhow, we uh we it had been you know, a long couple of years obviously for everybody, and um, it was like this really nice, wonderful getaway to just get out of here and go experience some new things.

And my parents, my folks were over there and they were spending time in Ireland, so I got to spend some really special time with my folks. And where we came from, you know, the horns. Yeah, yeah, But anyway, we I'm kind of rambling because I'm trying to tune my guitar, but um, but we, the two of us, took a little special trip across over to the Netherlands and went to Amsterdam for I think four days nice and just really took in the culture and what was around us. We had never been anywhere like that.

And um, there was the place that we were staying. The gentleman had left a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret, and I said, you know, I never really played with a capo, and so we're just kind of sitting around hanging out, and um, anyhow, I started playing around and this riff kind of came out of it, and I kind of started playing with it, and out came this song. So I've been playing this a little bit this year. It's called drif. Okay, I talk a lot when I'm nervous. I'm sorry. It's all good on another road again, a little magic, take a little something.

Drif didn't roll away, burn a little time and stay. Something in the shadow saved me back and made me think again. I'm getting long.

Next time that you find me, Y'll be howling at the moon. I'm getting long almost. Oh, or a cross that line and find my way from all the lan o. Look, I'm so high to see what I wore behind and all that's out in front of me. Or out here I'm clearing a field ere then a birdep diving gently carried by the breezes. I'm getting long, stoo. If you can find me, I'll be smiling half way to the moon. Oh, I'm getting long, snow who or my line and find myself away from a lanews feel so could have been further from my mind, he said me.

The see't even realize that I'm I'm getting low stool. You can find me. I'll be up there bouncing around the moon. I'm getting low. So across that line and find myself away from all and noon I'm getting I'm getting loans to whoa, I'm getting lost across that line down't be fine to call something on the moon. Oh that is beautiful, thank you very much. What's that called again? It's called drift drift. Oh that is really nice. That is really nice if you're just joining us on the program. Kevin Horn is with us Alive in studio today on Matt Connerton Unleashed.

By the way, a new name in the chat room, Ali Seney, who I believe is also known professionally as a Lee Bow Drake Lovely Friends. She is in the chat room, and of course her husband Bill Seen he does trivia on the morning show on Wednesdays, The Morning Show with Peter White, which is weekday mornings seven to nine am. And Bill seene he does the trivia on there. He used to do it at our sponsor of the Hop Knot, but I think he got too busy. So now they have Broderick Lange who does trivia there on Thursday nights, and today is Thursday, so I should remind you, of course, if you want to sign up for trivia, just make sure you register ahead of time because those spots fill up very very quickly.

And also too they have live music every Saturday night, and Kevin is a frequent guest at the hop. Knot, Oh, I should? I probably have, because I know I mentioned it earlier and you weren't sure of the date. Right the next time you're there, I'm not. I want to say, maybe it's in July, actually, but maybe it might be June. I might have it here. I. Oh, you were just there recently, weren't you. Radio show host knows your schedule better than you do. I've got to get an updated schedule from Kenny because this show's um May thirteenth, which obviously already Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think it's the end of July.

Okay, yeah, I'll get an updated schedule from Kenny. But yeah, that's um very cool, very cool. You want to play one more? Sure? Yeah? Um m m yeah right. I do this one a lot, but I like it a lot and I'm nervous, so I'm gonna play something that I know. This song I wrote in the woods with my dog Brudhus so I called it Bruddhist time. No time exists Movember, okay, sins. The poetry aren't to the man, so who said easy to jump in his side? Now watching out and then leave to the other side where the lungs light around, don't gather the sinner and all to be found whether it's easier to stay on the ground nowhere never last food, I was deaf down and now to get along.

I ain't the fire but the slow kiss way disconcerting the nuncia which already miss. Well, it's a shame you bury the lie if you don't jump, never get high, nor won't watch your tea down to gown in. Then to the other side. We'nna be like loving to see that he going round? We come together to the sner and all to be found. Will as easier to stay on the ground here when the dolls wod always def coming bound? No, no, well, now going to feel safe? We're going to feel safe. Well, don't feels yin't no yeah, finds time exists, find them.

Remember, I can't preas here, for it's a shame. Merry life gap and don't jump you'll never get I don't know tea down't go only enne to the other side. Will be lolling to see that ain't going around

together to sit it old bound when it's easier to see I'm a down, oh go long, never loves but now we's deft combing down m long, nor whether it's easier to stay I'm abound we never loves will somehow can go found, whether it's easier to stay up and round or won't? No never love would always never dumbing bound nor round down that you don't have gone how

I don't know she come on to no no won't you no him down say come no no no, no, no no no who no, no, no whooo don't do I love it? Thank you, I love it. N. That is Kevin Horn. He is here with us live in studio on Matt Connerton unleashed from the studios of wm H ninety five point three FM. And Ali says, June twenty four, you are at the hop N it is thank you, Alie, Thank you Ali. And she also said a gorgeous version of Drift that you played earlier. Thank you very much. And uh, here's someone you might know, Norma Horrn.

Uh I know that, lady says it says, if you're right here in the living room, Hey, hey mom, very nice, very nice. Good to have supportive parents. They've been they've been coming out to my show since I was in marching band and concert band and all the band and now they're listening to me on the radio and still coming out to see me play. Oh that's awesome, that's awesome. Well we will, we will take a break, and we'll let Kevin settle in and get comfortable, and then we're gonna come back and uh and chat for a bit.

But uh, and we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, of course. But as we go to break, I'm gonna play another track from Kevin's old band, The Stone Road Band, the album Alive at us Scott. This is called so High Above. I don't think I played this one yet. Well let's give this a listen, and Kevin horror as You're so don't go anywhere, makes it so there. Welcome to the un as of the night school out in the world's blue. Well, I feel as if I could life. I felt to Moneys, to the sky, taken back, taken back by your world, the spoil someone in the warmer all around and around, light in light that keeps us un chow though, bursting the beauty of a world.

So your mean light strikes again and again, just so warm on the mound of the lone in the sound. So I am bone. He's away tonight. It feels I get stun It's been a lift in a spirit sunlight. So me you understand, So I am away. I love tonight? Why you want to night? Missing? The light has breath us steps and takes us down to the dark steps as we find ourselves inside it all. Save me for save me for you see she can around our war and around and around open arms that script heart and wide no when s alone, that resign in our hearts, our souls, our right and swem.

We can love wherever needs a find. So I am it's away close tonight because n he gets low the hearits alive. It's to me, you understand. So I your bone,

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What am I hearing? Oh? I'm hearing your phone? Oh my god. Even though I had my phone, no where, no one, no worries call, I didn't know even No, that's a first style. That was funny. I didn't know what I was like. I'm hearing U. I'm hearing myself but from a few seconds ago. No, no, it's all good. It's all good. Kevin Horn is with us live in studio this afternoon on Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire.

Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, set st etc. Today is Thursday May twenty five, two thousand, twenty three, and Kevin Horn is with us on the couch. He's um. He's gonna be performing live at the Hopknot, our amazing sponsor on June twenty fourth. By the way, today is Thursday, which means tonight is Trivia Night at the Hopknot.

Very popular feature there. If you're going to participate, starts at seven pm. Just make sure you call ahead to reserve a spot because those spots do fill up very very quickly. But our friend Kevin does play there. You've you've played there quite a bit. I mean, do you know how many times you've played at the Hopknot. Probably in the double digits, right, probably, Yeah, definitely. It seems like I can tell you're a popular act there because you show up on the schedule quite a bit. Yeah. I think it's been a couple of years now.

Yeah, playing there. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's great. And of course they've got those delicious scourmet pretzels and the assortment of craft beer and that Marsham other one they got with the chocolate Marshall. Oh man, do you have a of a favorite? Uh? That one? I mean, I know they got it like a good pizza one, I think as well. Um, but yeah, I definitely love that. I after when I get out of there, I'm usually pretty hungry at the end of a gig, so U'll usually grab that and uh and take that home. Yeah, that's my favorite, is the pizza pretzel?

Yeah? Absolutely absolutely. Um. By the way, so you were mentioning we were talking a little a little bit off air, and Uh, I'd mentioned one of the songs from from the band that you were in, the Stone Road Band and your cousin was the lead guitar player. You said, yeah, my cousin Mike. Yeah, amazing. We were talking about that song breakdown and the solo at the end, which is just just so nasty. You know, I'm in the best possible way. I know he's my cousin, but I always like, dude, that's like if we were famous, that'd be like an iconic guitar solo for real.

It's like that good. Absolutely, he's that good. Absolutely. Um and you told me too. That was the first band he was ever in. First band, Yeah, yeah, we were. We started as a cover band and um, and so we kind of got to learn to play together that way. And I lost my mind a little bit and started writing a lot of my own stuff and said, hey, I know we're all like in our late thirties and early forties, but you guys want to start an original band. Yeah, and so and then we took it from there. Wow. Um yeah, he's he's amazing.

Um. Now what about the other the other guys were they already experienced musicians at that point? Yeah. Brian Lowe was our drummer. Um, and he was just he's He grew up in Keen and so I think he was in a million bands and Keen and then moved down to Rhode Island and and um, he was just like I'm a drummer. I actually started. My first instrument was drums, and so it was always very important to me because I play very rhythmic um and a cuss of That's why I play a lot of acoustic guitar. But it was really important to me to have a really really good drummer and because, in my opinion, that's what really brings a band and takes it to another level.

And he was just he was one of those guys that just like studied all forms of drumming and just every song was just this different like, oh, I think I'm gonna try like a Louisiana shuffle on this. I'm like whatever, Yeah, as long as it sounds school and he would do it and just feel like that and then yeah, and then Phil Smith was our bass player. He's in another band called Tyrone Shoelaces, and he's just one of those master bass players that can just man, he just plays so melodically and he plays counter counter melodies to what I was doing with my voice and my chord structures, and so it was it really made for a very unique, four piece, very full sounding four piece rock band.

Yeah yeah, now you don't so you you lived in Providence then, or we did for like three years. Yeah, and then you moved back up here or you you moved I'd worry from originally how long is this show? Um? I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and my parents originally from New England. They're from Massachusetts, and my dad went to Ohio State, oh and the Ohio State. My band and then got a job and had me and my three brothers and anyway, so as we started to get a little older, all of our family was out here and we started gravitating towards coming out to New England.

And but at one point, so when I met my wife, who's from from here in New Hampshire, she went to grad school for to become a speech language pathologist. So we actually moved to Cleveland, oh for a best So we did some bouncing around. So I've lived out here for about twenty years, but left for a couple of We went to Cleveland for two years, and then that because of what I was doing for work at the time, brought me to Providence, Rhode Island, and then ultimately back here. Now were you playing music actively in Cleveland?

No, we had. We we just got married when we moved to Cleveland, and I was still very much wrapped up in the corporate world and doing that kind of you know, I used to It's funny, I do this kind of stuff now, but I look back and I used to wear like, you know, the button up shirt shirt, the nice cut hair and all that and all that stuff and ye, but yeah, I was doing that for a while, and so I just kind of when we got engaged and married and all that, I just kind of dug in my heels into what I was doing for work and didn't really play a lot of music.

But when we were in Cleveland, I think that's when I started because she was at school all the time and so it was just me and Brutus hanging around all the time in Cleveland, Ohio. So it's like what do I do? And so I would go and sit in the back room and just try to get creative in the evenings after work. And I think that's when I really started to because I'd always been a drummer in bands and I had done some writing, but that's I think when I really learned how to start writing songs. So then when I got to Providence and was now living in the first like arts scene I'd ever lived in in my life, which then that's you know, we started the band, and then it sparked all this creative energy, which then it took oh, all right, well I've been working on this stuff for the last couple of years, and so I wasn't playing out and I wasn't you know, active in the community or anything.

But yeah, until we came to Rhode Island. So what was the music scene like in Providence? Rich just really rich in art, music and poetry, just like anything. It was like kind of a dream come true for I never pictured myself in Providence Rhode Island. But then again, I never pictured myself in Cleveland, Ohio either, And I grew up in Ohio. I grew up in Columbus, but back in the eighties and nineties, Cleveland was not a place he went. But um, but we fell in love with that with Cleveland, and then we and then Rhode Island was just It's like I grew up just always being so fascinated by music, the culture of music, the culture of like the whole hippie movement in the sixties and all that.

I just I grew up thinking, you know, like I look at bands like the Beatles, like I love their music, but I almost find them and what they did and what they did as a band more interesting than their music in some ways. And um and and anyway, that's all to say that when we came to Providence, it was like it was this big, vast community of people, like you show up to an open mic and people would just sit in with you in play and and and it was like really really talented, Like holy moly, these people should be on the radio.

Yeah, and and I think that just really pushed me to want to write, like, you know, as best as I could. Right, I can relate to to what you were saying about the Beatles, um u, I because like I kind of feel that same way, Like I'm more interested in them as as people and and and you know, creating and and uh, you know that their process of creating then the music itself. And Yeah. That that's something I only just kind of figured out about myself recently, is that I can, you know, even if I, even if it's a band I don't necessarily care for, um, I can enjoy hearing them interviewed or watching a documentary because I'm still interested in the process even if I'm not necessarily a big fan of their music, you know what I mean?

Absolutely absolutely, I'm totally the same way I look at I remember there was I just don't like the Eagles. I just never really connected to that. It was just not my thing. But um I remember seeing a documentary on them and just feeling, yeah, what what? I just love music history and how bands interact and come together and come apart and fall apart, and you know, like flies.

There's a Beach Boys document or maybe it's maybe it's primarily about Brian and Brian Wilson doc on Amazon. I don't think it's that one. The one, the one that I'm thinking of I watched with my dad, which was a long time ago, because I think the one you're referencing is newer, Okay, I think. But I was fascinated by and I was never a big Beach Boys fan, but I was just really fascinated by the dynamic of you know, they weren't getting along and there's a point in the documentary where they explained that when the Beach Boys were touring, and you know, this was at the point where they all had facial hair, so it wasn't you know, you know, so it was a little bit later in their career, but they weren't getting along, and there were basically two factions within the band.

There was there was the Mic Love faction and the Brian Wilson faction, and they would actually enter from opposite sides of the stage it when it was time to go on, so the two factions didn't even have to directly hang out or interact. And I've always been fascinated by that because to me, you know, I've been in a lot of bands, and you know, I have a couple of the bands. Yeah, there might have been a little bit of drama, nothing major, but um but but of course nothing ever wear it, you know, no no fame or lots of money either.

So I think that's where a lot of the drama comes from, right, big egos. But I've always been fascinated by the idea of people making music together while not while actively not getting along, because it seems so strange, because it seems like making music is an intimate thing, and how do you go on stage with somebody you can't even stand to talk to off stage? Interesting, but then you got to go on stage and make music with them, And then I wonder too, just things about like making a set list. Yeah, like who makes a set list?

Like you do? You all get together and go over it. Is that like the one time of day where you all get along just long enough to make it. I guess we're I guess we're doing this for two hours. Yeah. Yeah, I've always interesting, Yeah, fascinated by that. I'm lucky in that. Yeah, I haven't. Really. I think one of my earlier bands, when I was in my twenty twenty one that I mean, that was all just like we're twenty twenty one, so we had egos the size of yeah, of this room, but uh, Stone Roll Band was definitely like and I think because we were older, it was more like family, like our our wives were friends and and all that kind of stuff and and it was like this kind of means to bring people together and have a good time, and and we were kind of brothers in that way.

I think just musically we connected and yeah, maybe outside of that we might not have like all come together and you know in other circumstances, but just something brought us together musically. That just um, But yeah, I do I do wonder like how like I think I grew up my favorite favorite band grown up. When I was a kid, the first concert I ever went to was well rock concert I ever went to was Aerosmith. Yeah, and I just think about like Steven Tyler and and Jail Perry and that toxic relationship that they've had for years.

But I you know, like toxic relationships, they keep coming back together and breaking apart and back together. But yeah, I don't know how you connect on stage that way. Yeah. Well, somebody left a listener left magazine for me because you know, my my all time favorite band is Kiss, Okay, and a listener left this for me here at the station. And you know, of course it's legendary, the original the original lineup not always getting along. Yeah, and uh, you know, and then they did the big reunion and then of course the original guys are out of the band again.

And but yeah, it's I've I've always been fascinated by that element. But um, so, uh, what's your trajectory in terms of are you just going to continue do you think to remain as a solo artist or do you think do you think you might get into get a band, get another band going, or even get the Stone Road band going again, or do you do you have plans or you just taking it as it comes. It's I've like I was saying earlier, is that I have my hands in so many different things right now. Where I'm I'm I'm teaching.

I work in a school journey day actually yeah, and then um so, and then once I'm out of school, then I bust right out and then I'm either teaching private lessons or I'm teaching guitar classes or the rock band camps. Yeah, and then on the weekends I'm running around town gigging, and so that's It's been a lot. But I've definitely I feel that creative poll to make something new, and I think it's probably going to be ultimately to start probably a solo album of some sort. And I would like to find some people to make some music together with for sure, because I do.

I just missed that element of Um. I think it just makes you a better writer and better performer because you've got something to play off of, and whatever that person on guitar is feeling that day is going to come back at you and sure inspire something, whether it's good or bad. Yeah. Yeah, So I missed that. And but at the core of it, like running a band and directing a band, that can also be very difficult. But oh yeah, I'm kind of an insane person, so I do. I like to torture myself and put like a thousand projects in front of me and try to figure out how to do it all.

I can relate to that. I can relate to that. But yeah, it's hard with a band. You know, you've got to work with everybody's schedules and then you got to deal with my extreme Like, dude, we could do this. We could do this right, like dude, like we were supposed to just be a cover band. We just played a bar right right now? Are do you play out every weekend most of the time, I've I think I had this past weekend off and then I got this upcoming weekend off and get to have some family time. But yeah, I think I'm playing almost every weekend in June and then July August.

I try to fill up because I've got more time because we're not in school. But oh yeah, yeah, good point. But I'll be doing like I said, I'll be doing rock band camps. So I'm doing rock band Camp and Merrimack through their parks and rec Mondays and Thursdays started in the middle of July and then um, Tuesdays will be in Manchester doing rock band camp. Then Wednesday will be rock band camps. And weekends I'll be playing around and yeah, hopefully in between doing some yardwork and maybe write a song.

Two. Yeah. Yeah, you had a lot going on. But that's great, good, good, good for you, man, good for you. Um, well we are we are approaching the end of the show. I'll probably close out the show with one more track from Live at Dusk, the live album with the Stone Road Band. Where was that recorded? By the way, That was recorded at a at a music venue in Providence called Dusk, So it was it was one of our We played there quite a bit and it was, um it was. It was a fun one. You've also we should mention too for people who want to look for it in the archive.

Um. You've also yeah, no worse, you've also allergies. Yeah, I know the here, I know the pain for me, it's usually in the morning, like I wait, I wake up and it's a sneeze a thon um. Um. But you've also you have been on this station before or not on the show, but you've been on Rob as a Vetos show. Yes, indeed my main man and Rob. I've been on his show here and then we did um the Pembroke Pembroke City Limited City Limits, which was an absolute blast. He has a really cool setup going out up there.

Oh yeah, yeah, I've been there. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, this time of year. Of course he records all the shows there instead of coming to do them here because uh, you know, he's got he does have such a great set up there. It's a beautiful space and it's just it's like I'm on the radio right now. That's You're just in this really cool garage with all sorts of cool stuff followed with place and just feel viby. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely this. I feel like I've and I've always wanted I've I grew up a nineties kid and like I feel like I'm on the Howard Sterns show.

Yeah, I'm on the couch and the I got the thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. Well, you know, I do have a little bit of old school shock jock in made though. Okay, but I've under the with the guidance of management here, I've I've gotten it under control. Okay, team the Beast Man, I've gotten it under control. I learned the hard way. But but I always say, you know, because occasionally somebody will ask me, Matt, what's your goal with your show or do you have an objective? Is is there an agenda?

I always say my one goal really with this program is to come in here every day, weekday, afternoons from four to six pm and spend two hours not getting fired. That's my that's my goal so far. So good. Congratulations, thank you, and this has been awesome. Thank you so much for having me. It's to be able to do this kind of stuff. Is nobody is really cool? Well, thanks for coming in and playing for us. Man, you have to sound incredible. Oh do you have anything this weekend? Do you anything you want to plug as far as shows coming up?

I don't. I'm just enjoying Memorial Day weekend. So happy birthday again to my brother Sean. He's turning forty, which is bananas. My parents, who I think are listening, they now have they're about to have four boys all in their forties. Oh very nice. And uh and you're gonna be at the hopnot on June twenty fourth, Yeah, and uh oh, and anything you want our listeners to know about where to find you online social media. You can find me at Kevin Horne music dot com. It's got all my information about lessons.

It's got all my information about my performance as well. I've got a page devoted to that. I'm on Facebook and Instagram and I don't. I tried TikTok and I freaked me out. I didn't really stand it. I couldn't figure it out. It was I was trying to make all these videos and I was like, oh my god, it's spilling like eight hours a day like making video. I can't it's too much. It's freaking me out. I'm not on there either. Yeah, it was overwhelming. We'll see. Well, you know, in what state is it? Is it Montana?

If you're in Montana, you can't even use it anymore. I did just it is. Yeah, I just heard that, which is great. Montana is a beautiful place where you should be doing anything. But TikTok. You should go to Glacier National Park and you get lost. There you go, there you go? All right? Well, Kevin, thank you again so much for coming in. Thank you absolutely, and if you miss any part of today's show it. We'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and my website Matt Connerton dot com. Don't forget Tonight is Trivia Night at the hopnot and uh that's oh and if you're listening live on is a coming up.

Next after this show is Through the Stage Door hosted by Rob Dyon and don't forget. Be back bright and early seven am for the morning show with Peter White. And I will leave you with one more track from the Stone Road Band alive at dusk. This is called Lighting Up. And thanks again Kevin, and thank you. We'll talk to you all a little bit later. By everybody,

Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-25-23

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