Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-3-25 hour 2

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3:06 Speaker 7: That is a scrape the dirt from the band Able Blood and the album arrival of the waves. And we've got Able Blood here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here on Matt Condorton Unleashed. If you are listening live today is a Saturday, May third, twenty twenty five, and you get those mics up there, gentlemen, welcome back to the show.

3:28 Speaker 6: Hey Matt be thanks for having us.

3:31 Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely so let's start for the uninitiated, for those who don't know Adam, let's start with you. Tell us who you are and what you do in the band.

3:37 Speaker 6: Please. I'm Adam. I play guitar and do the lead.

3:41 Speaker 7: Vocals, all right, and you, sir.

3:43 Speaker 8: Malcolm, I play guitar and I do face as well, all right, and you Jim, and I do drums caussion all right.

3:51 Speaker 6: Very good.

3:52 Speaker 7: And I'm going to just these cameras here for for those watching the stream online. But you guys have what's been going on since, because I know there's news right since the last time you were here. You guys always have a lot going on. It's cool, But I think the last time we had talked to you had just signed with the label. Is that correct?

4:11 Speaker 6: Yeah, we signed like a basically a distribution deal for Arrival of the Waves with Argonauta Records.

4:18 Speaker 7: Okay, And the result of that has been now you've released the album on CD.

4:23 Speaker 6: Correct, YEP came out yesterday?

4:25 Speaker 7: Actually, oh, congratulations, congratulations, And why the decision to do to do that? Because one of the things that comes up a lot on the show, and I'm sure we've talked about it before too, is physical media because obviously over the years, you know, in fact, I think I remember talking about this with you guys specifically back when, way back when I worked for Strawberries, which then of course became f YE, and people would people in the industry were talking about, oh, eventually CDs are going to go away and everything is going to be digital, especially when I was there when Napster came in, and then it was like, oh no, this is the beginning of the end, you know, and you know music is free now and and you just download it and and all that so and all the panic that was uh that was happening at that time.

5:14 Speaker 7: And then there was this kind of this period where, you know, when Spotify came in and everything and things kind of settled down. But then a lot of the guests that we would have on the show, for example, they were kind of done with uh, with CDs, and no one was doing vinyl. Vinyl apparently is very expensive, and it was just everything was, oh no, we're just putting our music online now, and that seemed to be the trend for a long time, and then in the past few years it seems like everybody now is really has recommitted to physical media.

5:44 Speaker 6: And people miss interacting with the music. Oh yeah, you know, like opening a case and reading the lyrics and seeing the artwork and yep, you know. So yeah, it's a sense they own it.

5:55 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. I always you know, when I was a kid and I first started buying music, I always loved looking at liner notes, especially if I was really into an artist. You know, I would geek out on just you know, I actually wanted to know the name of their management company and.

6:08 Speaker 6: Who did the artwork? Who did the artwork?

6:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, who was the engineer in the studio, all that kind of that kind of stuff that you know that most people wouldn't even care about, but I loved, you know, and if the lyrics were in there too, that was huge. It was like wow, you know, and we didn't have the Internet yet when I'm old enough to you know, my generation Gen X really the last generation to grow up without the Internet, so so it couldn't just look up lyrics, you know, if if you weren't sure, if you know, if you're hearing something correctly, you got to look at the liner notes, and if the lyrics aren't there, then you know, maybe ask your friends, Hey, what do you think he's saying there?

6:41 Speaker 6: I don't know what he's saying. I remember waiting, waiting in between songs on the radio, like just praying that your favorite song would come on, because there was no other way you're going to hear it unless you know, you had eight bucks or whatever seven ninety nine to go to this tape store and get it. Yeah, but you still had to wait. Oh yeah, Like now it's I just go on out music and it's on and I love that.

7:02 Speaker 7: Oh yeah.

7:02 Speaker 6: I love to be able to like scratch that itch when it comes. But yeah, just being able to actually have it is Oh, it is just yeah, so much more satisfying.

7:12 Speaker 7: Yeah.

7:13 Speaker 6: And then the old midnight releases.

7:15 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I was at Rocket Records at midnight when Sepulteur released Chaos.

7:20 Speaker 7: Ad No kidd Oh yeah, oh well that's cool.

7:22 Speaker 6: You still love that stuff?

7:24 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I do like the way things are now better though, because sometore, because every once in a while, I'll hear somebody say, you know, especially online, you see this stuff that's uh uh, I call it old man syndrome. You know, back in my day, everything was so much better because you know, as somebody will say, like, oh, I liked it better when I was a kid, you know, because it was everything was simpler, and you go to the record store and you you know, you'll you seek out stuff that looks interesting and whatnot.

7:49 Speaker 7: And I always say, yeah, I have wonderful memories of that myself. I'm old enough to remember that. But I wouldn't trade what we have now to go back to that. I mean, no, it's astonishing when you think about it. And again, and you know, people growing up now don't know, but what it was like before we had this but you know, now, if I want to hear something, I can hear it, don't. I don't have to look for it. I don't have to hope it comes on the radio. I can just go online and get it and there it is there.

8:17 Speaker 6: Yeah.

8:17 Speaker 7: You know, we've never had we never had this level of instant gratification, and there may be some negative effects with that in terms of people just valuing music less and so forth, because it's so easily accessible. And I understand that, but still I wouldn't. I wouldn't trade where we have now.

8:31 Speaker 6: To go back. I'm still love vinyl though. Yes, I'm a huge Vinyl.

8:35 Speaker 7: Yeah.

8:36 Speaker 8: I'll go down rabbit holes where I'll just remember songs, yes, from high school and oh that makes me think of this song, and then that makes me think of this song, next thing, you know, and more albums.

8:46 Speaker 6: I do it when I'm talking to people. I'll be like, yeah, you know, you ever heard this song? You ever heard this song? And then I have to give people ten second clips of because I can just pull them up on my phone and be like, oh, you have to hear this yep, yeah, you know, even if they care or not, Yeah, but do you remember hearing it.

9:01 Speaker 8: Do you remember the days of like when you're going on a road trip or going somewhere, you had to you had to kind of pick and choose what you were bringing with you, you know.

9:09 Speaker 6: And you get all the CDs and yeah organized and put them on underneath the sun visor. Yeah yeah.

9:16 Speaker 8: When when the biggest seller marshals was those freaking CD organizers.

9:20 Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah yeah. Who didn't have those? Yeah yeah?

9:24 Speaker 9: And how dangerous was it driving down the road trying to fish through CDs?

9:28 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah. I almost wonder if there's fewer car accidents now statistically for that reason.

9:36 Speaker 6: You used to. I used to have a cardboard box full of tapes without the cases, really like grab it from the back seat, put it on the front seat and dig through it and then just put it, you know, and then put them in the tape player. So yeah, I was way more distracted then.

9:51 Speaker 9: Yeah, I totally would be now. I totally miss rewinding tapes to hear the song on wander.

9:57 Speaker 6: It was always the best when the best songs were the first and last on a tape, because then you could just flip it.

10:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, easy to find them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those those were the days. Was it always from when you guys first recorded Arrival of the Waves. Was it always your intention to eventually do a CD or we.

10:16 Speaker 6: Were like probably more like wanted to do vinyl probably more, but this was this was a an easy quick way to get get them out and starting. It is very expensive. Yeah, and people are buying CDs again, so it's it's it. I think it's a fair trait. You know it. People are gonna will be purchasing this, I know it.

10:39 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's surprising to me at shows the amount of people we see asking for CDs buying them from other bands. Because we're a little lazy as a band when it comes to merch.

10:50 Speaker 6: We never put March out. We bring it sometimes and then we don't put it out, and then sometimes we don't even like we'll remember like, oh did anybody think about bringing the merch and when we're already at the show.

11:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, so yeah, we got to get way better about that. Well, we we're kind of forced to.

11:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, there's some able blood on the walls of Matt's office.

11:11 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely there is. Yeah, absolutely, we should take pictures and put that online.

11:18 Speaker 6: Actually see that.

11:20 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yep, we got we got your stuff. Hanging.

11:24 Speaker 8: It's kind of a game between bands when you play venues like in Boston to find your buddy sticker and take a picture of it.

11:30 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, totally, totally, yep, yep. The tricky thing about merch because we had I don't know if you know Echo Ray the rock and Redhead, I've heard the name. Okay, she was on the show with us recently, and you know she does she does the merch for for some bands like Wale Wolf James. You know she helps because she was up you know, at shows she helps to sell it. Because she was saying, and it's interesting, I've never really thought about this before, this specific thing, but she was talking about how a lot of bands miss out on selling merch because the best time to make a sale if someone wants to buy your T shirt or your seed or whatever if you're playing a live show, is right when you get off stage.

12:06 Speaker 7: That's when that's when they're like, yeah, I want I want something of theirs. I want to get a shirt, or I want to buy that CD, or or at least get a sticker or something. Right. But the problem is if you don't have somebody with you to handle the merch sales, then you're missing out because when you're done playing, unless you're the last band on you, you probably got a hurry because an ex band's got to get on. Yeah, and every second that's ticking by while you're busy breaking down your stuff and trying to get off stage, the interest is is waning.

12:37 Speaker 7: You know that that person who maybe when you first finished your show, was like, oh, I got to get something.

12:41 Speaker 6: And then they're like, I'll get a beer.

12:43 Speaker 7: I'll go yeah, exactly, exactly, yeah, yeah, And I'd never thought of it that way until she pointed that out, But she's absolutely right. So that can be a that can be a real challenge for a lot of dans.

12:54 Speaker 8: We will have a merch person for our next couple of shows.

12:56 Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent, our next.

12:58 Speaker 6: Show, though we won't actually have physical CDs because they're not going to show up here until May ninth. Okay, but you can order them online through the Argonauta website now and they will actually send them to you right away. Oh perfect. You can buy them from us too in a couple of days, yeah, which will be for us more beneficial. But I wouldn't tell you not to go to arnaut because they helped us out a ton, right, you know, buying it from there is also good.

13:27 Speaker 7: I think the last time, the last time you guys were on the show, I think you had just signed that distribution deal.

13:33 Speaker 6: Was Yeah, it was we signed it back in September.

13:36 Speaker 7: Okay, Okay. And then are they so are they putting the CD in stores or is it more online distribution or I.

13:47 Speaker 6: Don't know what they're doing in Italy. I know that they've got it up on their website.

13:54 Speaker 7: Is that where they're from.

13:54 Speaker 6: Yeah, they're out of Italy, So what they're doing in Europe, I have no idea, to be honest with you. Probably should ask some more questions about that. Here my plan is, and I've got a couple of record stores already, like bull Moose has said that they'll sell it, and then I've talked to Infectious Grooves over in Amherst Cool and uh, there's a few other places that are interested in selling it. So I'm just going to bring them, bring them to them and put physical copies in the stores. And then we're gonna have we have a band camp page.

14:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, and so we'll sell merch off of that because when we're getting T shirts done and all that so we're going to have that stuff up on our band camp page really shortly.

14:33 Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent if you are just joining us, we have able Blood here with us live in studio. And yeah, that's another thing too that has survived is music stores, you know, record stores, and because that's another thing people thought was just going to go away, you know and eventually, but but they're still here.

14:52 Speaker 6: You google just New England record stores and the list is huge.

14:56 Speaker 7: Yeah. Huge. Yeah.

14:57 Speaker 9: I think Vinyl keeps it alive, big time. The set tapes are actually making a comeback, so yeah, funny.

15:03 Speaker 8: A lot of bands are releasing singles and stuff on that.

15:06 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, well, funny thing about cassettes. It was I think it was about five or six years ago. I may have talked with you guys about this before. I'm not sure I've told this story a bunch of times. But I was on I was on band camp actually, I was just looking for for bands in the area and I stumbled upon I think the first one I found. I don't remember who they were, but they were like a like a super indie band from Keene, uh probably Keen State College students and uh. And I noticed they were selling cassettes.

15:32 Speaker 7: And at first I thought it was a joke. I was like, what, they have a cassette? And I thought maybe it was just a novelty that they just decided to do for the hell of it. And then I realized as I'm looking around there were I was finding more and more bands that were doing cassettes, and I was like, oh my god, is this real.

15:49 Speaker 8: I think it's really inexpensive to do. I haven't probably do it recently, but probably yeah. And you can record at home with a little task cam, yeah, you know. And I even looked up the prices of those things. Those things are the roof? Are they four tracks and eight track recorders? Yeah, I have, like you can pay hundreds of dollars for these things.

16:06 Speaker 6: Now.

16:06 Speaker 7: Yeah, I had one back in the day. It probably cost me one hundred bucks.

16:09 Speaker 6: I think maybe. Yeah, yeah, they're they're worth way more than that now.

16:12 Speaker 7: No kidding. Interesting. Interesting, but yeah, it was stunned to see that cassettes and I was like, well, I mean wow, and then uh, you know, but but as somebody who buys one of those, they probably most people probably never play them. They just if you're really a fan of that artist, you know, right, if you don't even have anything to right.

16:29 Speaker 6: Which goes back to people want something that they feel they own.

16:32 Speaker 7: Exactly, yeah, exactly. We actually have a this is relatively new to the station, a record player here that we can plug in. It actually belongs to one of the guys who does a show here, Ryan Sherman, but he brought it in and he put a sticker on it that said, you know, anyone can use it, So we actually have that option. And we've always had a CD player. I think Rob as a Vito of Granted State of Mind is the only one who actually uses it. But we do have a CD player here that that is functional. It does work.

17:00 Speaker 7: But but uh but yeah, to see cassettes, uh, you know, coming back was was really shocking. That's something we definitely do not have here as a cassette player.

17:11 Speaker 9: I'd love to release our album on eight track. I think that would be really cool.

17:15 Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be a way to have nobody but let's throw that money away.

17:20 Speaker 7: Right in the middle of a song, it.

17:22 Speaker 6: Clicks so that I had to go to the next track.

17:24 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that would be that would be fun.

17:27 Speaker 6: Program.

17:30 Speaker 7: When I was a kid, I had do you guys remember to XL. It was a little robot but it played, but it played eight track takes.

17:37 Speaker 6: I do remember that, yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:40 Speaker 8: That was my first stereo was the Yorks all in one. They had the record player, cassette player, eight track really a MFM, and I remember I got a bunch of eight tracks for Christmas one year. And it's obvious my my father just grabbed him from the bargain bin. But there was some cool stuff in there.

17:55 Speaker 6: Really.

17:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, I got into ten CC because of that.

17:58 Speaker 7: Oh no kidding.

17:59 Speaker 10: I think my dad got mine from sears.

18:01 Speaker 7: Really.

18:02 Speaker 9: I actually have a working eight track at home, you do. I got a big console record player with radio and eight track and it all works.

18:10 Speaker 6: I even have Black Sabbath. We sold our soul over rock and roll on eight tracks.

18:13 Speaker 1: Wow.

18:14 Speaker 6: Yeah, and it plays perfect.

18:16 Speaker 7: Does it?

18:17 Speaker 6: Yeah?

18:17 Speaker 10: Why did they call it eight track? Does it only hold eight songs? Or was it because of the no recording?

18:24 Speaker 7: Well there's because there's only four tracks, right, But I guess if there's only four songs, No, there's only no, but there's only four there's only four not I don't recording tracks?

18:34 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.

18:36 Speaker 7: Like you'll have more than one song on a track. But it's but but I think, but do they call it eight track because it's stereo? Is it? So it's four it's four tracks, but they're stereo, so it's eight tracks. I could google it now, but now I've actually always kind of wondered that myself, like why they call it? Why they call it?

18:55 Speaker 10: I asked all the weird questions.

18:56 Speaker 6: No, that's actually great.

18:58 Speaker 5: It is.

18:58 Speaker 6: Actually that is an ever thought of it.

19:00 Speaker 7: That is a great question. I'm going to google it. I'm going to google it on my phone. I'm really curious, all right.

19:05 Speaker 6: Or challenge a listener to call in learning, Yeah, Learning with the able one call and tell us what why it's called an eight track?

19:12 Speaker 10: Like that learning with Abel Blood.

19:14 Speaker 7: Why is it called an eight track?

19:16 Speaker 10: You guys are close to the five Timers Club.

19:19 Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys will got to be like on the.

19:21 Speaker 10: Show at least four times now.

19:23 Speaker 6: I think this is our fourth time. I've been twice. I've actually been on with Matt. This is my fifth time. Oh, I was in a band ten or fifteen years ago, so i'd make the five timer today.

19:33 Speaker 1: Yeah.

19:35 Speaker 6: We were a band called Buck fifty five and we went up when Matt was in Franklin.

19:39 Speaker 10: Now you don't play the air horn the airhorn air horn moment, I forgot about the airhorn. Five timers club is an air horn.

19:46 Speaker 7: I haven't used the airhorn in so long, so it says here. An a track tape is called an eight track because it contains eight parallel tracks of magnetic tape each. Each tape has four programs of music, with two tracks left and right channels on each program totally eight tracks. So I was my theory, was.

20:06 Speaker 6: You your right? So I would give you the points?

20:08 Speaker 7: Yeah sort of, yeah, I would. I would take the points. I would accept those points. I think I was kind of right. The format allowed half a point half a point. This format allowed for stereo sound to be recorded and played back. Okay, so there you go. That's why it's called that.

20:25 Speaker 10: Yes it did involve stereo.

20:26 Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, yes, yes yes. Do you guys plan to do vinyl or are you undecided?

20:32 Speaker 6: Or we would love to? Yeah, it's just coming up with the right amount of money and time yeah to do so oh yeah yeah.

20:39 Speaker 8: Jimmy mentions it about once every week. Really, I do because I want to copy so bad.

20:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, now that would be pretty cool. I mean nothing sounds better than vinyl.

20:48 Speaker 6: It's warm, it's it's just you know, absolutely now.

20:51 Speaker 7: You guys would sound would sound amazing on a vinyl record? Is that?

20:54 Speaker 6: Like?

20:54 Speaker 7: Does Argonauta do they do? They do though?

20:56 Speaker 6: Oh sure, yeah, sure, yeah they want to do so I'm right now, are our following isn't as big as we'd like it to be and as big as I think it will be eventually. So they wanted to do CD first, oh and and until we built up an audience, and then vinyl is definitely on the table.

21:14 Speaker 7: Yeah.

21:15 Speaker 6: At that point, you know, if we sell out of these CDs, I think we've got a pretty strong case.

21:21 Speaker 7: Good good, Now, how did you connect with them? How did that? How did that come out?

21:24 Speaker 6: I just hit the contact us button on their website for real, Yeah yeah, And I sent them a streaming link and they wrote back to me a few days later. I did it. I got on this kick last summer and I sent it out to a bunch of labels and they came back and was like, this is exactly with the offer that we wanted, you know, because we all got mortgages to pay, so we can't we can't go on tour really, you know, we can do periodic stuff out of the area. But and they were you know, the way we worked it out, we get to keep the rights to the songs.

21:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, and we don't. They're not expecting us to tour. This is basically just, hey, we're going to distribute, distribute this for you, and you know, we'll go after everybody's happy. In two years, we'll figure it out what we're going to do next.

22:08 Speaker 7: Oh very cool. Yeah yeah, yeah excellent. So there's a possibility of releasing another album through them, and.

22:13 Speaker 6: Oh definitely definitely. Yeah.

22:15 Speaker 7: Yeah, if you guys already, are you already working on new stuff?

22:19 Speaker 6: We've got some new stuff we've been working on over yeah, over the winter. We've got pretty much two finished songs and another two bare bones like that we're starting to work on now.

22:30 Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent.

22:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we've just been pushing Rival of the Waves as much as we can.

22:36 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, is the is the cover? I assume the cover is the same on the physical CD as it is on band camp. Yeah okay, yeah, okay, yeah, I really like the cover. I find myself because I have it pulled up here, I find myself just kind of staring at it.

22:48 Speaker 6: I love the blues in there like that, you know. And it's fun because now I can tell people when when I'm in you know, telling them, hey, I'm in a band, blah blah blah, you know, the typical and and I'll be like, don't listen to the Red, listen to the Blue, or listen to the Red because it has this song on it. But I call them the Red the Blue song albums. I do love the baroness. Did that when you guys posted it up? Yeah? Yeah, nice?

23:13 Speaker 7: Who did that?

23:16 Speaker 6: Who did the oh? The cover? I did the artwork for the cover. You did the artwork?

23:20 Speaker 7: That's right, Okay, that's right. I remember talking about that.

23:23 Speaker 6: Yeah.

23:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, did you do it all digital? Did it come from like a painting or a drawing or something that you did?

23:28 Speaker 8: It was a rough sketch that was it was literally like like stick figure.

23:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, put into AI and like people on AI.

23:37 Speaker 8: But it helps people that aren't. I don't know, I'm not like, I can't I get you. You have a lot of fun with it.

23:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely no, I think that's I think that's very cool. What was the You also had the cover for oh yeah, yelephant one face with the Elephant keeping with the Red One.

24:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, the Red One, the Red album.

24:04 Speaker 7: I like that one too. Did you do that cover?

24:06 Speaker 6: Our old bass player actually did that album cover?

24:08 Speaker 7: Oh really? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah that was pretty cool too.

24:13 Speaker 8: Who he's coming back to join us?

24:15 Speaker 6: Yes? Really a recording with us?

24:18 Speaker 7: Oh wow?

24:19 Speaker 6: We got invited to do a HIGHUS cover album. Really yeah, So we're going to do what we'd be doing a track for. It is this guy or this magazine. I don't know where they're located. I haven't done a lot of research on him. It's called Witching Buzz. Okay, so it's like an online magazine.

24:36 Speaker 7: Okay.

24:37 Speaker 6: He's putting together a twenty song compilation of all Kias covers.

24:40 Speaker 7: No kidding.

24:41 Speaker 6: Yeah, we got invited to do that, and so we asked him if he wanted to do the recording with us, and he was like hell yeah, okay. Yeah.

24:48 Speaker 7: So so he's not coming back to the band permanently, but just.

24:50 Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, but he's gonna do that. He's going to record the track with us.

24:53 Speaker 7: Okay, Oh, very cool.

24:54 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're excited.

24:55 Speaker 7: Any kind of a timetable on that or August we have to have it in Okay, okay, when it's going to get released, okay, And what's.

25:04 Speaker 6: The name of the magazine, Witching Buzz?

25:06 Speaker 7: I'll have to look that up. Yeah, well that's interesting. That's very cool. That's very cool. We should talk too about how does uh And again, I'm fascinated by this kind of thing. We've talked about it before, but newer listeners UH may not know. The way that you guys handle the bass situation is really interesting to me. And I wish I could remember who it was we had somebody else on the show who did something similar to what you guys do. It might come to me.

25:35 Speaker 10: I don't know if you guys know this, but you come up on the show a lot. Really, Yeah, yes, we hear your name a lot.

25:41 Speaker 7: Yeah, guys, you guys do. Your name comes up on the show quite a bit.

25:45 Speaker 6: Well, that's fun. We're finally one of the cool kids.

25:47 Speaker 5: Ye.

25:49 Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.

25:49 Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm one of the cool kids, so me saying your name might not be.

25:52 Speaker 6: Oh, it's definitely cool, all right.

25:54 Speaker 10: I can't honestly tell you how many people, how many bands and artists we've had in here. Yeah, I've brought you guys up.

26:00 Speaker 7: It's Yeah, your name does come up a lot. Your name does come up a lot. I wish I could remember who else it was who had a similar setup.

26:09 Speaker 6: Say Trading Tombstones. They do it.

26:11 Speaker 7: We had them on the show. I think that that must be it. I'm pretty sure that's it. Yep.

26:15 Speaker 6: Those guys are awesome. Yeah, I love them.

26:17 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, amazing. But can you describe for us how you how you do that again?

26:23 Speaker 6: Oh? Sure.

26:23 Speaker 8: It's so we're using an A B Y pedal that it can be either A B or both.

26:29 Speaker 6: So that comes.

26:30 Speaker 8: Uh, we have one line coming out of the guitar into that it splits the signal, so one signal goes into for both of us. One signal goes into a regular guitar pedal board then out into a guitar amp. Second signal splits into an octave pedal, so it drops the signal you know, two octaves, and then into a bass amp. So it's it's limiting in it like we've got them set up to where they only track. It's the boss oc five pedal, which is incredible. Yeah, you can set it up to try at the lowest two notes up down to the lowest two notes of anything you play, and it's limiting in that, you know, it's just tracking bass notes for all the chords, but it puts up an absolute wall of sound.

27:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, really does. It's it's jarring sometimes when it picks in. It took a little bit to get used to it. And then if we play a show where someone's backlining that's got a serious bass rig, it's yeah, it's like but yeah, bands.

27:29 Speaker 6: Joke about kicking their bass players out and doing the same thing.

27:32 Speaker 7: Yeah.

27:34 Speaker 8: Yeah, we're putting bass players out of work, and we we got we got the inspiration from I think Local h was the first band I heard that did that, and I guess what they did. That guy had like a separate bass pick up with a separate output on his guitar. But there's a band called Telekinetic Yetty that does it. It's just a two piece band.

27:57 Speaker 6: And I've heard the name, but I don't really actually played over across the street not that long ago.

28:02 Speaker 7: It might be why I heard the name. Yeah, so they do that.

28:04 Speaker 6: Ye oh yeah. That was actually like the real inspiration for us to do it. Yeah, was because of them. Okay, like all right, these guys are doing it, we can try it, let's let's give it a shot. Yeah. Yeah, you know, after a few maybe a month or two of really practicing and practicing and it really started to feel comfortable, so he just kept it doing it.

28:27 Speaker 7: Does anything ever go wrong with that live? Like where you go?

28:30 Speaker 8: That's not other than one of you know, occasionally forgetting to kick both signals on.

28:34 Speaker 6: Ye yeah, yeah, it is just yeah, not hitting the pedal the right yeah, both on the same time.

28:42 Speaker 9: So but when we played Maryland Doomfest last year, yeah, literally the bass.

28:47 Speaker 6: Was rattling my my, my rib cage. Wow. Awesome. Yeah, to do with the with the guy that was doing the sound there. Really, oh man, he was amazing.

28:58 Speaker 7: Really. Yeah, that's cool because he never know what you're getting with those festivals, right right far Yeah yeah.

29:05 Speaker 6: And yeah, this guy knew exactly what he was doing. And when he came back over, I was I was unsure whether he even thought were a good band or something or anything, you know, because he was in a rush. He's a pretty lunchy guy, and he was, you know, kind of short with his answers and stuff. Yeah, but he came back over and I said, hey, thanks man, that sounded phenomenal and he goes, you guys are absolutely incredible, and I was just like it was the biggest compliment from a guy that was a very few words, you know.

29:31 Speaker 6: Yeah, and he was just like complimenting as well. He's like trying to get us off the stage.

29:36 Speaker 8: That was a great experience and that like we got on that last minute and we got literally the first band the first day Thursday at like four fifteen were playing Yeah, and it was you know, and you got to think, this guy's got what sixty three bands, he's got to get on and off a stage over the court.

29:52 Speaker 6: Yeah.

29:52 Speaker 8: Yeah, because they they one of the it was a two venue festival for a while, they canceled one venue like last minute. Yeah, so they had to cram everybody into two stages on this one place that you know, once one band ended on one stage, there was a five minute window where the next band would go on on.

30:09 Speaker 6: A second stage.

30:10 Speaker 8: But I mean, we're kind of tooting our on horn here, but it felt great that to go there and we're just like I don't care when we're all like, I don't care when we're on.

30:18 Speaker 6: We're just gonna cry. We just want to do the we can.

30:20 Speaker 7: Yeah.

30:20 Speaker 8: Yeah, And they invited us back this year, gave us a Friday night slot and excellent.

30:26 Speaker 6: I literally was wheeling my bass lamp out the door. Yeah, and the the promoter that ran the whole thing opened the door, walked outside with me and he's like, you guys were the first to play. He's like everybody, like every someone has to start the festival. Yeah, and he goes and you guys didn't complain and you guys just nailed it. He's like, you're invited back next year. I had goosebumps. Yeah, Like it was just like the nicest thing for him to say. You know, that's what you do. I mean, you just go and you don't complain.

30:57 Speaker 6: You play as hard as you can, no matter what your situation. Like that's a big you know, like like stage to be able to get on. Yeah, I don't care what time we were going on, Like, I don't care if we had to play two hours before the next band, you know, in the afternoon. It was like we were going to go when we were going to rocket as hard as we could. Yeah, and it got us a spot immediately invited back. It's five minutes of being off stage, but we have four new England bands that are going to be there this year.

31:24 Speaker 6: Oh so dust Profits going to be there. Oh yeah, Benthic Realm from Worcester, those guys are insane. Coma Hole is going to be there, Toma Hole from Rhode Island is going to be I don't know them, Versa they're from Connecticut. They're going to be there, ursay. Yeah, so it's five five New England bands, like yeah, yeah.

31:42 Speaker 7: The only one I'm really familiar with of those is Dust Profit. I used to be in a band with Auto years ago, but I love Dust Profit.

31:49 Speaker 10: Yeah, but it's my favorite.

31:51 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah.

31:52 Speaker 6: Yeah.

31:52 Speaker 8: They've been awesome with us too, like as far as like when we started doing shows, they got us on a lot of shows.

31:58 Speaker 6: We've done a lot of work. We try to cross promote, Like I see a dust Profit flyer, I'm posting it on my pages and Auto does the same thing for us. Oh yeah, So it's it's it's nice to be helpful like that with other bands.

32:11 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, and Auto is Auto is amazing.

32:15 Speaker 6: Yeah.

32:16 Speaker 8: He great story about Otto. We saw we did a show with them at Jewel Yeah. And you know how that that that ventilation duct is right in the front of jewel. I saw him bounce his head off that and not miss a beat. Keeps saying that and just.

32:30 Speaker 6: Just rubbing his head. Yeah, but he didn't miss a beat the showing on. Yeah, good on him. Yeah, I can take a punch.

32:36 Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely if you're just joining us out. We've got able Blood here with us live in studio and h are you guys? So you playing a lot of shows? It sounds like you've been pretty busy.

32:48 Speaker 6: Busy planned. Yeah, this summer. We've got eight or ten shows on the books right now. Yeah, we're trying to do like twice a month at this point. Yeah, we're pretty much there. Yeah, you know, nothing in December yet, but we're booked all the way out till November.

33:04 Speaker 1: Yeah.

33:05 Speaker 7: Good, Yeah, very good, very good? Is there? Like, do you guys have a favorite place or any favorite places to play that that we should know about?

33:14 Speaker 6: I mean, I like playing Codo both Kodos o'bryan's and Allston O'Brien's. Yeah, soft spot in my heart for that. That's where we played our first gig. Oh it is.

33:25 Speaker 9: Yeah, Oh that's cool. That's a good way to say. And we can't ignore Bad Burger because that show was amazing.

33:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, we played back in March, and they're putting on some great shows.

33:37 Speaker 8: Oh wow, oh very and I'm seeing post where a lot of other shows there are just absolutely packed.

33:42 Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's it's cool to do a good job.

33:45 Speaker 8: What I liked about that show is there were a lot of people there that had no idea who was playing, didn't know any of the bands. They just knew that they had, you know, that kind of music on. It's heavy music on, and we brought a we brought a hip hop band up from from Fitchburg.

34:01 Speaker 6: Yeah, that it exactly.

34:03 Speaker 8: The reaction we had with him is like, oh, what's this hip hop band doing on a metal bell? Within half a song, everybody was up there and they lose their mind for them.

34:11 Speaker 6: Joe Grizzly, Okay, incredible.

34:14 Speaker 7: Yeah Joe Grizzly is that's what they're called.

34:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, oh wow, pure talent.

34:17 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh very cool, very cool.

34:20 Speaker 9: But like you said, Malcolm, that like that venue seems to have the old school people just show up to see music. They don't even know who's playing, don't even care if they just want to see live music.

34:31 Speaker 6: Don't see that a lot, and you don't you see that at Geno's up in Portland, and that's about it. Yeah, that's about it. They seem to have a built in audience, but everywhere else, Yeah, you got drag people.

34:41 Speaker 7: Yeah show yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Do you by the way, do you guys have any videos? Do you have any music videos?

34:50 Speaker 6: Just we have one for you do It was kind of a it was a it's super good it is.

34:59 Speaker 7: I'll have to check it out because your music what seems like it would.

35:03 Speaker 6: That Hard to Be a God cut.

35:06 Speaker 8: It's called so there's a uh, probably the most twisted, weirdest like fantasy sci fi Russian movie you'll ever see. It's called Hard to Be a God. And I pulled a bunch of video from that and kind of mashed it together. Okay, and it really fits magically, like it's really good.

35:24 Speaker 7: Oh I got it. I gotta check it out. Yeah, yeah, because your your music for me, and I'm sure it's the case for a lot of people. Uh, when they listen to it, it's it just evokes a lot of imagery. You know.

35:36 Speaker 8: I'm trying to learn some kind of like well learn hack some kind of animation to where I can get you know, an easy way to do animation and put it to some of the music.

35:46 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it seems like it would lend itself to that. Who right, Adam, You write the lyrics.

35:51 Speaker 6: Right, Yes you do? I do?

35:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, what's your because the songs are you know, pretty dark.

36:00 Speaker 6: Like he's the happiest person any of us know. Yeah. Yeah, well that's good. I get my outlet through the lyrics, I guess.

36:07 Speaker 7: But that makes sense.

36:08 Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. I it's hard to really pinpoint, like I like, I have all these like unfinished stories in my head, and then they just do snapshots of these stories. Yeah, into the into the for the lyrics. Yeah, is really what it is. And I don't think I'll ever finish these stories, right, or even really start them for that matter. Well that's good because people are going to keep buying the next albums have finish.

36:37 Speaker 7: There you go, there you go. Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.

36:40 Speaker 6: What it is like Coheat and Cambria.

36:42 Speaker 8: I just found out, like every one of their albums it's part of like a comic book, like this grand story.

36:47 Speaker 7: I didn't know that.

36:48 Speaker 8: So they have like twenty albums that are this ongoing story. Yeah, I know, idea and from well, from what Bruce and Brian from TFR. I don't know if you know those guys, no local hardcore band? Oh they're like, yeah, I guess uh. The guy started a band simply to kind of forward to push the comic book. Really and Coheat and Camber you got huge, See.

37:08 Speaker 7: I didn't. Wow, I had no idea. I never knew that. Do they really have twenty albumshing camera?

37:12 Speaker 8: I don't know they have a whole bunch more than yeah, they just dropped the new album.

37:18 Speaker 7: Did they?

37:19 Speaker 6: Yeah?

37:19 Speaker 7: Okay? Interesting? Interesting? Yeah, I never knew that about them. Do you guys have anybody that you're playing a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes it happens organically. Band's kind of team up? Is there is there anybody that you've been playing a lot with?

37:31 Speaker 8: It was Benthic Realm, Benthic Realm with them.

37:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta check them out. Yeah, amazing.

37:36 Speaker 7: They're from keen as a Whister Oh Whister.

37:39 Speaker 8: Yeah, I believe you even said it, Wista. You can tell him I didn't grow up here because I said Worcester, So.

37:45 Speaker 6: You're familiar with the band Conkleeve.

37:47 Speaker 7: I grew up here. I still don't know the right way to say it. Uh, Conclave.

37:50 Speaker 6: Yes, the drummer from Conclave is the drummer of Benthic.

37:53 Speaker 7: Realm Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha.

37:55 Speaker 6: A good drummer, very good.

37:57 Speaker 7: Off to look them up. Yeah yeah. Anybody else you guys play a lot with.

38:01 Speaker 6: Or legally, it's been a real mix of bands, Rod, Iron Hecks, Iron Boys. Yeah. We probably played more shows with them than anyone else on purpose too, because I love playing with those guys.

38:16 Speaker 8: The thing is, even if we don't play a show with him, Jason usually shows.

38:20 Speaker 7: Up really yeah. Yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Now are you doing any any special events? Are you doing any in store events or anything for their.

38:32 Speaker 6: I have talked to Bull Moose Music and they are on board with it. They had just started. The email I got back was they had just did a in in store. I don't know which store they did, They get eleven eleven stores still and they said it went really, really really well. So they definitely wanted us to come and do some in stores. Yeah, so I'm supporting. I sent out I think to eighteen or nineteen different places asking if they were interested in doing in stores. Yeah, they're the only ones that have gotten back.

39:04 Speaker 6: A lot of places don't have a lot of room.

39:06 Speaker 7: Well, yeah, that's the thing.

39:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, and we don't want to We're not going to do it. We're not intending on doing a full band thing. We're just going to do a couple of amps and a cahone, like jimmylakes to Oh, he can just beat on the cahone. And we've done that, Like even at the end of Arrival of the Waves, we did a stripped down version of Keeping Pace with the Elephants, Yeah, and Jimmy played cahone and Malcolm played acoustic. Yeah, and I just took the fuzz off my electric and we just did it up. So we've done that several times a different open mics and stuff like that.

39:37 Speaker 6: So it would be I thought it would be fun and it would be like a fun way to promote the album one and get people into the record stores.

39:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah. That's another thing that's that still goes on today that I didn't think we'd see in twenty twenty five is in store events record stores, in store events with bands, and it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool, good good good stuff. Do you guys have any ones at your next show. Do you have anything this weekend or.

40:02 Speaker 8: Not this weekend, but Tuesday we're at the Middle East.

40:05 Speaker 7: Oh cool?

40:06 Speaker 6: Upstairs?

40:06 Speaker 7: Oh very good.

40:07 Speaker 8: We're supporting a band called Castle out of San Francisco, and Benthic Realm is on.

40:13 Speaker 6: The bill as well.

40:14 Speaker 7: Oh nice. Nice.

40:15 Speaker 8: And that's the one that we kind of had to get our crap together because they're like, oh man, we're playing in the Middle East.

40:20 Speaker 6: We have no merch whatsoever.

40:21 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:23 Speaker 8: Shout out to Printorium in Wilton, New Hampshire, who is getting his shirts on short notice less than a week. Oh okay, turned around in order for a bunch of shirts for us.

40:31 Speaker 7: Okay, Printorium, yeah in Wilton. Yeah. Do they do what else do they do? They do everything or.

40:36 Speaker 6: Any kind of apparel? Yeah?

40:38 Speaker 7: Really yeah, interesting? Interesting?

40:40 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, super fast.

40:41 Speaker 7: Really yeah, that's good.

40:43 Speaker 6: That's good.

40:44 Speaker 9: This is one of those shows that we would go even if we weren't playing, so to be able to have a bonus.

40:49 Speaker 6: Yeah, I had a ticket, all righty.

40:50 Speaker 7: Oh that's funny, very cool. And then what do you what do you have after that? What's the next one after that? Do you know?

40:57 Speaker 6: Off May twenty fourth, we're playing at Charlie's hit Ill.

41:00 Speaker 7: That's a venue I've heard so much about over the past year.

41:03 Speaker 6: It's pretty cool.

41:04 Speaker 8: It's an interesting place. Yeah, it is interesting. There's no other place.

41:07 Speaker 7: Like yeah in one way, like what's unique about it?

41:10 Speaker 8: Well, number one, it's the the official Cannabis Church of New England.

41:13 Speaker 6: It is status there and it's uh wild. I think it's an old like motorcycle garage or something like that they converted. It's a big building. Yeah, and it's in the backyard of some guy's house. It's it's literally an underground venue.

41:29 Speaker 7: Oh no kidding.

41:30 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's cool. I think that we had seven bands playing that day.

41:33 Speaker 6: Yeah.

41:34 Speaker 8: They just had a death metal fest there. Oh really yeah, Bonginator Bonginator headline.

41:40 Speaker 6: I mean it's a legit venue, it really is. Yeah.

41:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I've been hearing, i think for two years now, I've been hearing so much about.

41:48 Speaker 6: Charlie's What Adam third show, the fourth, third or fourth?

41:52 Speaker 7: Oh, that's very cool.

41:54 Speaker 8: That's where we met dust profit kidding Okay.

41:57 Speaker 6: Yeah, first time we played there.

41:58 Speaker 7: Well that makes sense, that makes sense. So as we approach the top of the hour, too, So what should people know about how to keep up with everything that you guys are doing, and also of course how to get the CD now that the CD is.

42:10 Speaker 6: Out, Well, the CD can go to Argonauta Records. I think it's Argonauta dot com I believe is the website. If you google Arganada Records, it's going to take you right there. Yeah, and then just on the search on their store, just searchable Blood. You can buy it through them. And like I said, by the ninth I'm supposed to have all the CDs physical copies here and we're going to be putting them up on our band camp page, which would be bandcamp dot able Blood six oh three, I think is what that is. I don't know all the band all of our emails off the top of my head.

42:45 Speaker 6: I just click the favorite. Yeah. The best way to acquire a CD is coming to a show. Come to a show starting so the May twenty fourth show, we will have CDs available then, okay, but this Tuesday, I don't Well, they haven't shown up in the mail yet, so I don't think we'll have physical copies for the mate or this Tuesday.

43:07 Speaker 8: But after that I selling what we have left of keeping pace well of course.

43:12 Speaker 6: Yeah, So we'll have physical copies of Keeping Pace with the Elephants Limited edition limited edition. We've been kicking around the idea of taking that down, so it will be a very limited edition at some point shortly.

43:24 Speaker 7: That's interesting. Why have you been thinking about taking it down?

43:27 Speaker 6: Do some re recording of the songs, like re imagine them? Yeah, I think it's time because yeah, even the ones we play live off of that have just kind of taken on their own life. Oh okay, that's the hard part about recording stuff. I mean, you got to have it out there. But I don't play even songs on arrival the same way I played them when I recorded them.

43:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, the songs kind of evolve and change over time, so I can't confirm. Argan out of records. Dot com is the website. That's a nice website, too.

43:56 Speaker 6: Very nice website. They have a great gig going over there.

44:00 Speaker 7: I'm kind of I'm a web design nerd, so I pay a lot, Like I'm very impressed like when I see a website, because I see so many bad websites and this is a great website.

44:08 Speaker 6: So that's so.

44:10 Speaker 8: And if you're into that kind of music, like ARGONAUTI you could literally throw a dart at the wall and whatever bandit sticks in.

44:17 Speaker 6: Yeah, by yeah, they've probably really they have a remarkably large amount of New England bands on their label, do they? Oh yeah? Oh I could. I could think of seven or eight off the top of my head. Oh wow, and that could be even more than that.

44:31 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot of stuff here that's really cool. Yeah. I'll have to do a little bit of exploring on that that website, because that's that's awesome. Yeah, very cool, very cool.

44:42 Speaker 6: And of course the Maryland Doomfest coming up in.

44:45 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and that's in June.

44:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's June twentieth. The weekend that's in Maryland, Frederick, Maryland.

44:52 Speaker 7: Frederick, Maryland.

44:53 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, it's got Cafe six eleven is the name of the venue? Okay, really really neat little venue?

45:00 Speaker 7: Is it the whole weekend?

45:01 Speaker 6: Is it? Yeah? It's four days it starts Thursday, okay wow. Yeah. The week before that we're playing at the Button Factory, which I had never I didn't know they were doing shows until we got invited over at what's the local station or the sportsmouth will be there. W S C S I think that is it.

45:22 Speaker 7: Yeah.

45:22 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we'll be playing there with a couple other band, Miracle Blood and I feel awful that I can't remember the other band. But it's going to be a really good show.

45:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's really cool. That's a great station too. They do a lot for for local and independent and artists and yeah really really, uh they're they're an important part of the music scene.

45:45 Speaker 6: And then we're back at Bad Burger August YEP.

45:49 Speaker 7: Oh cool, excellent, excellent. Yeah, sounds like they're doing great stuff there too. That's good. That's good, especially whereas they because they've only been open for it's been has it been less than a year?

45:59 Speaker 6: Maybe maybe a little maybe around that around the year.

46:02 Speaker 7: Still kind of a new place.

46:03 Speaker 6: Yeah.

46:03 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's cool that they're supporting music like that.

46:05 Speaker 6: Yeah.

46:05 Speaker 8: Joe who does the booking there, it does a great job, and I love I love their attitude too. People are eating, They're like, hey, they'll make an announcement. Hey, folks, music's about to start. So if you don't like this music, eat up and get out.

46:17 Speaker 7: Yeah.

46:18 Speaker 6: Codo kind of does that too.

46:20 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Well, guys, thank you all so much. Adam and Malcolm and Jimmy. I appreciate all three of you coming in. Thanks and uh check out uh yeah, go online. You can order of course Arrival of the Waves from Able Blood, and we should close out with I was thinking because it's kind of my personal favorite. It's a long track, but mental note, I still love this song so much, love it. I still love this song and it kind of takes you on a ride, you know, takes you on a journey.

46:48 Speaker 7: So good stuff. And if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. We have Etch and the Young's coming up in the third hour and they're going to play and looking forward to that. But we will close out this hour with this from the album Arrival of the Waves. The band is Abled Blood. This is mental note and guys, thank you again so much.

47:06 Speaker 6: Thanks Matt.

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