Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-30-26 hour 1

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4:03 Speaker 3: Gotass? Hey, welcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again.

4:36 Speaker 2: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Uh, kind of cold and windy, actually, it's gonna be it's gonna be almost winter up north in the state today. If you are listening live, of course, it is Saturday May thirtieth, twoy twenty. We are live of course from WMNH and you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt Connerton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

5:14 Speaker 2: And don't forget our brand new site, well new ish, it's been up for a couple months now, maybe Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com where you can get access to the full archive of the show and additional content of course at that website as well, Matt Conderton Unleashed dot com that just went up recently and very proud of that. So we have an exciting show for you today. It's kind of a Pennsylvania vibe here on the show because we have two great guests and they're both from Pennsylvania. So there you go, and no one of them is not Tony D. I just when I think of Pennsylvania, I think of Tony D. If you're a long time listener of the show, if you've been with Matt Connorton Unleashed for a long time, you'll know the reference.

5:54 Speaker 3: He's a part of the lore here.

5:57 Speaker 2: Oh and our friend Fred Bonig, who we used to hear a lot when we're on in afternoons from the Daily Ripple and of course Ripple Radio. He used to call us a lot. He's he's from Pennsylvania as well. But no, the reason today is a Pennsylvania centric show is in just a few minutes we're gonna be joined by Robin Ross via Microsoft Teams, who is from Pennsylvania, and justin I cannot wait to talk to Robin Ross, because we've got a song we're gonna play. We're gonna play the newest single in just a moment.

6:24 Speaker 2: It's called All I Want Is a Lover, And then we're going to talk via teams with Robin.

6:30 Speaker 3: And I love the sound. I love the vibe, kind of a low fi thing.

6:35 Speaker 2: Actually, well, you know what, and maybe that's something about Pennsylvania because our other guest also does kind of a kind of a low fi garage rock vibe is probably the best way to describe him. Grim Rock, who is going to be here with us in studio now. Grim Rock has been on the show several times over the years a bunch of times, and we like to feature his new music whenever he releases something new.

6:56 Speaker 3: Jenny and I are both big grim Rock fans. He is on tour right now.

7:00 Speaker 2: He's going to be playing tonight in Nashua, and later on in the show he's going to We're gonna get to finally meet him. He's going to be here with us live in studio later on today in the program. So cannot wait to meet grim Rock. And I should mention the show that he's playing tonight in Nashua. Again, like I said, he's on tour, So tonight the show is at the Spot, which Jenny and I have not been to before, but we have had. Mike McDowell, also known as the Healer. He is the owner and proprietor of the Spot in Nashua.

7:32 Speaker 2: He's been on the show with us, and a great guy and love what he's doing there. Looks like they're having a lot of success and it's an opportunity to what's really cool about the spot is it's an opportunity to offer all ages shows because most shows at venues, you know, they're either eighteen plus or twenty one plus, you know, I mean, I'm not talking about arena shows, but shows at clubs and bars and stuff, you know, they're usually either eighteen or twenty one plus. So it's hard to find opportunities for all ages shows.

8:04 Speaker 3: But it's such an.

8:06 Speaker 2: Important thing because you know, you want to be able to get live music in front of in front of young people, right because if you're trying to build an audience, if you're a musician and you want to build that audience for the future, you've got to appeal to the young people.

8:19 Speaker 3: So we've had in New Hampshire.

8:21 Speaker 2: You know, there have been some all ages venues that have come and gone over the years, but they're not They are just not that many. And I'm sure there's some right now operating that I'm just not aware of. But I was thinking about I was saying about this last night the Sad Cafe, which was in Plastow. I was in some bands over the years that you know, we did a lot of business with the Sad Cafe. That was a really cool all ages place, and there was, of course back in the nineties, and I'm not sure when they closed exactly, it all becomes a blur, but there was Cafe Eclipse.

8:53 Speaker 2: People local to the area might remember Cafe Eclipse and Conquered and that was a great place. I spent a lot of time there. But that was an all ages room, you know, no alcohol, it was.

9:01 Speaker 3: It was all ages. So I love seeing that kind of thing. It's so important.

9:06 Speaker 2: And this is an all ages show tonight at the Spot. No alcohol, so you know, bring your kids, come check out some live music. The name of the show is Demons at the Disco and it's got two artists on it, grim Rock and of course the Melted Chapsticks, who have never been on the show with us, but we'll have to get them on and we'll get to meet them tonight. But Demons at the Disco live alt rock, glam and punk music, mocktails and cava, late night bites, dance floor fun and door prizes. So you've got Melted Chapsticks and grim Rock will be opening tonight at the Spot.

9:41 Speaker 2: Show starts at eight pm. Ten dollars cover all ages. Yeah, and music starts at eight. So that is the spot in Nashua, New Hampshire. So if you are listening live on Saturday, we hope that you join us tonight. Come say hello to Jenny and I, come see Grimrock, and we're curious to see the Melted Chapsticks as well. But we're really excited to meet grim Rock. So uh, like I said, he is on tour, he is, but he resides in the great state of Pennsylvania, as does our first guest, who are going to speak with in just a moment, Robin Ross.

10:09 Speaker 3: So without further ado, let's get to the single. I really like this a lot. I love the sound, I love the vibe. Check this out.

10:16 Speaker 2: This is called All I Want Is a Lover by Robin Ross and the Melodnes. If I'm saying that correctly, is it Melodnes Emmy l O D Y And yes, we'll find out when we talked to Robin Robin Ross and the Melodines All I Want Is a Lover And then on the other side of this we'll talk with Robin.

11:01 Speaker 6: Oh, I want to recover.

11:05 Speaker 5: All I Want to be.

11:08 Speaker 6: It's free three I can out of the Knights preaching to wi whatever I like, never ding, It's all right, It's all in my side.

11:29 Speaker 9: Discover, I love.

11:36 Speaker 6: Have lovers, my.

11:42 Speaker 5: Three, I can out of the Knights, preaches.

11:47 Speaker 3: To whatever I like, cabag dreaming, It's.

11:51 Speaker 6: All right, It's all in my side. All love the other, all want to discover. Oh my one is the.

12:08 Speaker 5: D three.

12:12 Speaker 6: D need think of my song dad an this strong Yah need taking my tongue days I go with strong as our wall.

12:28 Speaker 10: Is a lover, It is the Big three.

12:34 Speaker 6: All my wan is a lover that I will discover. All one is a lover, my.

12:49 Speaker 5: All over.

12:53 Speaker 6: And on my bad fall over.

12:59 Speaker 9: May I love it?

13:39 Speaker 2: All I want is a lover by Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines And let's see. I think we've got Robin with us via Microsoft Teams. Hello, Robin Man, How.

13:49 Speaker 3: Are you good? How are you welcome to the show. Yeah, love morning, Good morning. I love that song.

13:56 Speaker 2: I don't know if you I don't know if you were listening. And I was talking, uh before we introduced it. I was saying, how it's a very Pennsylvania theme today on the show, because we also have grim Rock coming on later on the show. Later on in the show, I don't know if you know grim rock, but he's from he's from your state, all right, he's gonna be uh.

14:15 Speaker 3: Right, that's right, that's right. Yeah. A lot of great a lot of great music comes out of there.

14:20 Speaker 11: Yeah.

14:20 Speaker 3: I love that song, and I really I really liked the whole vibe and your sound.

14:24 Speaker 2: And I was listening to I was listening to the album, of course. But this is not This is not on the newest album. Correct, This is a standalone single.

14:36 Speaker 12: This.

14:36 Speaker 4: Yeah, both, we released this as a single and it's on an album too. It's on the first album.

14:41 Speaker 3: Oh, it's on the first album.

14:42 Speaker 2: Okay, So it's not on mind Space, correct, It's Space, Okay, gotcha?

14:48 Speaker 4: First albums come on In. And there's a song called come on In on mind Space, so it's a We played a little twist with releasing the song after the album of a come on In, right, So this song is on that one, and we released it as a single when it got picked up by the Margo the television show.

15:14 Speaker 3: So yeah, Well I.

15:16 Speaker 2: Wanted to ask you about that because that is kind of an interesting It is a twist the way you did it, but that makes sense because you've had some success with this song All I want is a lover landing on what is it on Apple TV Plus and Peacock Margo's Got Money Troubles as the name of the show, and the song landed in the show.

15:33 Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, I know it's on Apple. I'm not sure about Peacock, but I know it's on Apple.

15:39 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Yeah, that's that's amazing because anytime you can get I mean, it's so important, and people outside the industry won't necessarily realize this, but if you have a song, if you can get it placed in a television series or in a film or anything like that, it really, I mean, it can kind of change your world professionally. It can make a huge difference and introduce an audience to your music who otherwise would not, you know, necessarily be aware of it. It's so amazing, so good for you that that is wonderful that that has happened.

16:16 Speaker 2: And so obviously I assume the process was and you know, where a lot of us who listen to the show, and if you're on the show where music industry nerds, I assume the process was. So once the song was you found out the song was placed in the series, then you said well, we need to put this out as a single even though it's on even though it's on an earlier album.

16:34 Speaker 3: Is that correct?

16:36 Speaker 4: Yeah, we wanted to market it more.

16:38 Speaker 3: Yeah makes sense.

16:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's do you know what what's worked?

16:44 Speaker 2: You got to do what works right exactly exactly. If something catches on that you weren't expecting, you know, you still got to go with it. Absolutely, it says here. So I haven't seen the full disclosure. I've not seen the television series, but it says or it was placed during a pivotal scene in episode two. And does this you know, does this experience of having having a song appear in the show like that, does that kind of does that change your approach to to songwriting and creating music at all?

17:17 Speaker 2: I mean, now that this has happened, do you kind of have an eye toward doing more of that, making music that you hope will be placed in a film or a series, or are you just kind of continuing on doing what you're doing, or how do you approach that now that you've had success with this song?

17:35 Speaker 4: No, not changing anything, Yeah, just just right from the heart. Yeah, and you know that's really your My best advice is the many you try to kind of adapt to things. You're you're you're not you're not you're not you anymore so to speak, right, so, uh, I mean you are I get it if especially if they're you know, if you're your conductor and they're paying you different story. Uh, But I would know I would not change a thing. I would. I would just keep keep being free with with writing and and let's let the wind blow where it may, you know, and so far sometimes you never know what what hits.

18:23 Speaker 4: So I think being on the soundtrack Matt is More has had more of a kind of cool feeling, I guess you know from from you know, there's Dire Straits on it, there's Shania Twain, there's Billy Idle, There's there's even more people on it. I can't even I mean, reap It McIntyre, all this long list and then there's me. So that you know, it's like so so that that actually means a little bit from an artist perspective, as you know, it's kind of cool to be on a nice collective sound So that's that had more of an impact on MEI I think than the show.

19:04 Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, it can take I mean, now we don't have albums but I mean, you know, like you know, if we pretend we had an album, that would be an album put on the wall, you know, right, So you know, so that's kind of cool. I mean there's a lot of great movie tracks that you know, a lot of great soundtracks and people that are only in soundtracks, you know, to get back to Aerosmith, and you know, there's a whole bunch of bands that do soundtracks and it's cool, absolutely.

19:33 Speaker 2: And I like what you said too about how it doesn't you know, having that success, it doesn't change your approach. You know, you're gonna continue to do you know, make music from your heart. And I think that's I think that's smart because if you, as you said, you know, if you're chasing something, you know, you're not gonna you're not gonna make music that You're not gonna be the best version of yourself as a musician and as an artist. I guess is what I'm trying to say. And the example I always like to go back to when I talk about this with people is, you know, if you think back to Seattle, uh, when grunge was about to be ascendant, you know what if Kurt Cobain had said you know, I just you know, hair metal is big right now, we should try to sound like Motley Crue, you know.

20:13 Speaker 2: Then you know that then we never we never would have gotten Nirvana, you know what I mean. So it's it's better to to make music that you want to make rather than trying to chase something and and uh and fit in somewhere, because that that has a way of backfiring because then it's not authentic.

20:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you could actually have success with it, and then you're not that there's anything wrong with it, But then you you could be stuck with writing for stuff that maybe you're not you're not, you know, you're not. Your heart's not in it exactly exactly, you know, But if they pay you, then that's yeah, that's it, doesn't you know, that's not a bad thing either.

20:52 Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

20:53 Speaker 9: Right?

20:54 Speaker 3: Of course, Well, you gotta make a you gotta make a living.

20:57 Speaker 4: Well, it's you know, you got to go to work. So if you can make money with music, you know, that's always a you know, that's less work that you have.

21:05 Speaker 9: To do, so to speak, that's true, that's true.

21:08 Speaker 2: I'm really curious about your influences because obviously, you know, I listened to a song like that, and I listened to the mind Space album, and you know, at the end of our conversation, we'll play something from the from the the newest album, mind Space. But I'm curious about your influences because I hear a lot of different things in in your in your music. But I also but I also love the production. And you know, I'm a I'm a recording nerd. I'm gonna actually, well, let me let me approach the question this way.

21:34 Speaker 2: So I'm curious about your approach to production because you've got you know, it's it's a little bit low fi in the sense that it's not you know, it doesn't sound super slick or anything, you know, but it certainly sounds really good sonically. It sounds modern in the sense that the production is there clearly, but but without maybe some of the bells and whistles like you've You've got kind of a it's almost timeless really, the sound that you have. And like I said, because I also listen to the album, and so I'm curious about your approach to production and and also, uh, you know, influences and how you approach your music, because like I said, you're doing something that you really don't hear that much of anymore, but it sounds so so good.

22:18 Speaker 4: Thank you.

22:19 Speaker 3: Absolutely.

22:21 Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, my approach is changing, Matt, really, it's it's it's probably evolving too. I'm working on my I'm working on an album now on my on my progressive side with Jack Smay's. Right now, we've got like another month before it's probably out. And Uh, I've used this album to really scale up the production side of things. I took some took some courses and we went back to like square one kind of courses to earn what was what you know with prot I'm learning with well, well, I guess with digital any doll, I use pro tools, you know, I don't.

23:04 Speaker 4: I feel like I was a disadvantaged for probably the first couple of hour albums because of my lack of knowledge of pro tools, you know, just learning it sure, And now this album, I think I've gotten more. The learning has gotten more into the production end, doing you know a lot more bust compression and parallel compression. These things of these nature make it so things are changing from Uh. From the studio perspective, I do the you know, I'm I have a studio here in Paka and I've had it for about five years now, four years, you know, and it started out as a laptop, you know what I mean, probably the same old story.

23:52 Speaker 4: Sure, thirty years ago I had I went to school for audio engineering and was in the music business and doing or recording analog recording, which I would really love to do again. But uh yeah, so I you know, I I and I actually have used some of my older recordings and they still hold up. It's amazing. So I've had a learning curve with pro tools kind of on the first go around, and then like I got more into the how to you know, do your production in the box so to speak. I do have a nice SSL board that I I go through for all my microphones.

24:36 Speaker 4: So I get I get the analog h you know, uh a grime, I guess you want to call it. I get that, then get that going to tape, and then if I want, I can use the SSL for another another if I wanted to do the mixing on it too. But I've I've gotten better at doing in the box and and actually prefer it, you know, with doing So that's kind of what's new with the with the production end. So look forward to the stuff sounding. It should sound better every every album, and I think, yeah, if you go, if you if you progress through the last I put out six or seven six albums in the past four or five years, and I guess it's a good problem.

25:21 Speaker 4: But I still have two albums of material that I need to record, so I need to get better at efficiency, if you know what I mean, which is a real big thing with with pro tools or any any kind of production can it can drag on forever and that's not going to help the song count. So you know. So it's like but it's it's the old age question quality first quality, you know what I mean? Right, try to find a happy, happy groove sort of sort of in the middle. Maybe you could do an album every three months maybe or something like the recorded and get get the production done in three months, yeah, something like that.

26:07 Speaker 4: So you know, so look that that'll be next month with and Jack Smays has an old album out too, so they're from the nineties, so we're more of a pre grunge nineties if you will. Sure, I don't know if you like that stuff like Pink Floyd Rush, Oh yeah, Eppelin, I would say that that kind of those are my influences too, okay, you know you're talking about and then the new the new stuff. I tend to be more of the writer, so you might notice that the songs get a little more spacey. And I work with Caitlin.

26:48 Speaker 4: She's one of the singers in the band, and she's a real good space cadet if you will, if you know what I mean, you can travel. And she has a wonderful voice. So if you hear you know, like follow or something like that on mind space, that's a collaboration between her and I. I just you know, you know, and those are the kind of things that I get feedback that people like. They like the you know, the theory of expanding your own mind, you know, and you know, we really can go anywhere we want in the not in the literal sense, but certainly in your mind.

27:31 Speaker 4: And and and people should dream big, you know, you know what I'm saying. That's that's more of the the philosophy of the music. And then the other Jojo she likes to write about a party every time, so we have to control her, understood. She's not really a big party here, but she she knows how to write it.

27:56 Speaker 3: Funky okay, all right?

27:59 Speaker 2: So now so when we talk about these other people, do they make up because it's Robin Ross and the melodynes?

28:04 Speaker 3: Am I saying that correctly? Melodnes? Yeah, you know what does that mean? What is a what is a melo dyne?

28:12 Speaker 4: It's a melody. It's it's melody, a melody, and that's just it's like a possessive name for melody. So one of my it's better than melodies, right right, So, but that it's kind of that. And I mean I've used I used melodine in pro tools and that's where the name like popped in my head.

28:38 Speaker 3: Oh, I gotcha, okay.

28:40 Speaker 4: And they're editing on melodine and uh, you know that's I forgot to give him, give him that name. Yeah, there is quite a slew of them. Actually, there's it's almost like a I don't know, there's there's probably eight or ten of them altogether. But there's a hardcore five six Wharton Tears, who is actually a pretty popular name in the more of the punk New York scene back fun City. It's the name of the yeah, and so he's he's a big influence on the percussion, like the writing, and he helps me do I guess we're like producing, you know, like vocal producing.

29:29 Speaker 4: You know this harmony here, this harmony there, this vocal here, this vocal out cut this section out of this song. That that kind of producing. He's really really, really talented at it. So I get to work with and he's got a recording studio. He's the same as you and me as a recording nerd, and he's always him and I are like neighbors, but we were always mixing in our own studio, so we don't see each other much.

29:57 Speaker 13: Right.

29:59 Speaker 4: Uh, there's o Joe, she leads sings and she probably lead rights as far as lyrics go. Then there's like Tony, He's he's kind of a on the side. He plays percussion, sings. He's the mostly the guy the campfire and the moon voice. He's kind of got a Frank Sinatra Joe Cocker voice,

30:27 Speaker 4: which is pretty cool. And then there's Caitlin Albrett, who who's got a great voice and full of energy and uh, she plays the gamba and also some other percussions and she sings. So we got you know, I have Joe Torrez who plays bass and he comes from Florida to do gigs, So wow, Yeah, he works in he works in Washington, lives in Florida, so he'll come to PA for a weekend instead of going home to Florida one one weekend a month.

30:59 Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.

31:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I've been. I've been. Yeah, I've been writing. Like he's in Jack Smaid's too. He's a bass player in Jack Smide. He's also and I went to high school with him basically ten years old. So we're lifelong musicians. I guess together, locked forever. That sounds like, yeah, yeah, he's and he's he's super he's actually super awesome on the bass.

31:26 Speaker 9: Uh.

31:27 Speaker 4: So those that's kind of rounds out the current melodine staff. I've had, like, uh, Emery Rhoades, she's been chill, come and go. She's another vocalist. She's on mind Space, and uh, there's a few others. There's t w and then there's others too. I've got people that do gigs with me too that they're not on the album, so that people will come up and just do Tina will sing. I have a piano player that comes up, so everybody, y, we got t shirts and everything for being a melodye. Yeah, like joining a club.

32:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was curious about that too, to ask you about the live situation if you're if you're touring at all, and if you're if you're able to play these songs out, and I would imagine too obviously when you're playing them live, you know, depending on who you're playing them with, because you know, you do have some flexibility there. Do the songs change much when you do them live? Or they kind of strip down?

32:27 Speaker 11: You know?

32:27 Speaker 3: How does that? How does that work? How do you approach that playing these songs live?

32:33 Speaker 4: We'll play them as long as possible, Yeah, whatever version of it, as long as possible the version we play. Yeah, so ye and uh, and we might extend them to like a solo or something like that, you know, like an end of a song. We just might keep the chords going and change it to a jam.

32:54 Speaker 9: Yeah.

32:55 Speaker 4: So those are the things that I like to do. We don't lay out too much, but we do play usually local place called Fauci and we we I don't know, we don't get We get like sixty seventy people there and they I think the biggest thing people say is that we're just really fun and entertaining, like to we're like, you know, it's not like we're this real serious you know, nothing against black Sabbath or anything like that, but no serious theme if you will know, no dark message you know right right, No, no, no corny message either, you know what I mean.

33:39 Speaker 4: We just kind of we like to sing with you, you know what I mean, not at you, so to speak.

33:45 Speaker 3: Well that makes sense. Yeah, I like that.

33:47 Speaker 4: I like that. Actually, yeah, we have a lot of sing alongs. Yeah, marsh We have a song called Marshmallow Blues that is a it's basically a marshmallow war between us and the crowd. Okay, yeah, it's quite quite a video that.

34:06 Speaker 3: The venues love that. Well, we we do.

34:11 Speaker 12: We do.

34:11 Speaker 4: Let we ask before we do we Oh that's good. They really do clean up quite well. Okay, they're not as long as you get him right away.

34:21 Speaker 14: Right.

34:23 Speaker 4: So we have, you know, songs that people sing along with. We have songs that people throw like food fight, marshmallow kind of thing.

34:33 Speaker 10: You know.

34:33 Speaker 4: I think we have like a Bee fifty twos vibe with the girl singers and all that kind of stuff. And I think I'm a little like the guy from Bee fifty two is also.

34:45 Speaker 3: Fred Schneider.

34:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not like he's no hero of mine. Don't get me wrong, But people say when I sing, I sound like him. So what am I gonna do? You know?

34:56 Speaker 8: So?

34:56 Speaker 3: Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, I don't. I don't quite hear it, but I mean, I.

35:01 Speaker 4: Don't say too much though, you're nothing me too much.

35:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

35:08 Speaker 4: Maybe it's a couple of songs that i'm i'm i'm I'm working on trying to do a little Bee fifty two ish with these girls. Yeah, yeah, and you know that that was pretty there's nothing wrong with that stuff, so right, So, but live live would be great. I'd love to hook up with theaters. It's really what I would I don't really want to do bar gigs all over the place because I'm I'm constantly in the recording studio.

35:38 Speaker 4: But I would like to do if like a one hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty, or open up for a you know, a bigger, bigger act at like Newton Theater and over in PA and Jersey at any theater for that matter. Sure, I think theater is more of a you know, better way for us to We could sell tickets that way, you know, people know you're coming,

36:04 Speaker 4: and as long as we could stay somewhat local. I think we could, we could handle it. So that's kind of where I'm at with the gigs. Okay, I would love to book some theaters, get some songs and gets some success, and if that happens, I would love to book more theaters, if you know what I mean.

36:20 Speaker 2: So absolutely no, I can see that. I can uh, I can definitely imagine imagine you doing this in a theater.

36:28 Speaker 3: We should mention too.

36:29 Speaker 2: There's a video for the song Campfire on the Moon, yeah, which I just which I just pulled up. Yeah, tell us about this video because I see uh yeah, well literally, I mean, you know, the the video is, uh, you know, matches the title of the song Campfire on the Moon. What can you what can you tell us about this? The making of this and whose whose concept was? I mean, I I assume that it was your idea, right, the video itself, the the content of it.

37:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, the concept of the song was my my, my, my, my doing.

37:08 Speaker 9: Yeah.

37:09 Speaker 4: The video creation, uh is done by my wife, Tina,

37:14 Speaker 4: and she does all the videos.

37:16 Speaker 3: Okay.

37:18 Speaker 4: She's also my publisher, my agent, my partner in life.

37:23 Speaker 3: So excellent.

37:24 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, Mary a publisher. If you're a musician.

37:28 Speaker 3: Oh is that is that? Who is with you? On the cover of All I Want Is a Lover the single the picture there, No.

37:35 Speaker 4: That's Joe.

37:36 Speaker 3: That's Joe, gotcha.

37:38 Speaker 4: She's singing it. That's her song.

37:39 Speaker 3: Oh I gotcha.

37:40 Speaker 4: Okay, that's Joe. That's we call her Jojo. No, Tina doesn't. She doesn't show her face too much, but but she'll, uh, she's on a couple of tracks. She can sing some, but she does a lot of the all of the administration, handling all of like be in my you know, radio stuff even like this like with you, she's handling all the everything.

38:07 Speaker 3: Excellent.

38:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's why I mean if you, if you're a musician, try to marry a publisher and then you split them. I mean, the publishers make as much money as.

38:18 Speaker 2: You do, exactly, exactly. Yes, if you can own some some publishing, you're in good shape. And and that you know, that kind of goes back to what we were talking about earlier with the placement of that song, uh in the series and on that soundtrack.

38:31 Speaker 3: You know that's uh yeah, you know you get get that publishing. By the way, too.

38:37 Speaker 2: As I'm looking at I'm looking at your video channel here on YouTube. I also wanted to ask you about because you have another project, Robin Ross and the tw Howlers, and I'm wondering how that differs from Robin Ross and the Mellowdnes.

38:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an EP. It's it's a little more folkadelic Okay, Americana. I'd almost say, like Americana and Rolling Stones, so you get a little I would be the Rolling Stones and TW would be the folk with the Americana, so it's more like a I think it's like a Stone's Rolling Stones and Americana kind of a blend. Yeah, uh, and that's like, that's an EP. I wrote those songs, uh. I think there's five of them on there, and there's I wrote three of them, but they're all collaborated together with TW. So he would like I wrote the music, maybe he wrote the lyrics, or he wrote the A song and a lyric and I did a guitar on it or something like that.

39:50 Speaker 4: Sure, you know, so it's just a And then we had people that are actually the Melodines. Again we pulled from the Melodine Crew and they became Howlers. Okay, so there are some melon that are only Meladin's and then there are some Melodions that are Meladins that are howlers. Yeah, and tw is a he's a it's kind of a drifter guy travels around the country with his guitar and a backpack, and uh, he gets by and so he comes by every when it gets warm, like you know, spring and fall. So I guess that fall.

40:32 Speaker 4: We put together a bunch of songs and we recorded him and then they spent you know, two months producing it and put it all together. So it's out. I mean, Meladion's has another album out. Jack Smay says, an, I have a solo album out too, that's mostly instrumental, and that's just my name, Robin Ross,

40:57 Speaker 4: and that's more of uh, it's more easy listening. Pink Floyd, Like I've had people say it reminds them of pink smells like pink Floyd was exact word. They smells like pink Floyd. I don't know what pink Floyd smells like.

41:15 Speaker 3: I don't I don't either, but yeah, I think I might like to know, but I don't know. Well, just well assume it smells good.

41:25 Speaker 4: Yeah. That was a Russian blog that said that about not that album.

41:29 Speaker 3: Oh I wonder if something I lost in translation then.

41:33 Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe, but it sounds great. Yeah, So that's more of you can hear some songs that are really deep rooted on acoustic guitar that are i'd say like either Pink Floyd led Zeppe on a combination of both from their influences. You know, just real coffee music if you will in the morning. Yep, driving music if you gotta you know, you got like a trip to go or something on the cards. It's like that kind of music, if you know what I mean.

42:05 Speaker 3: Gotcha, Yeah, absolutely absolutely, yeah, Well, very good.

42:11 Speaker 4: That's it. And Jack Smay's Jack Smays is we got one common and it's it's it's really heavy, I mean from a percussive side, really okay. Yeah, well we got some some dark like Jack Smays is the dark side of Me if you will, okay, And the melodions is like the the the yang I guess the other side, gotcha, gotcha, And there's the stuff in between.

42:40 Speaker 3: So very good, very good. So Robin that this has been wonderful.

42:46 Speaker 2: Robin Ross, Like I said, I really like your sound or sounds because you've got a variety of projects that all sound a little bit different, but really love what you're doing. I'm glad you're able to join us this morning. Where should our listeners go? Where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing musically, whether it's you know, whether it's Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines or anything else that you're doing.

43:07 Speaker 4: Robin Ross Music is dot com. That's a that's a really easy one. Yeah, just my name and music. And then YouTube. There's a lot of you know, if you look up YouTube and just google Robin Ross, maybe put in video or something like that. I think we have like fifty or sixty videos up up there.

43:28 Speaker 3: You got a lot. Yeah, I'm looking at the YouTube channel. Yeah, you've got a lot there. That's great.

43:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks absolutely so those those two are probably your best. I mean, YouTube music is good too, you know, if you want to like listen to the whole album. Yeah, that's a really good one. But Robin Ross Music will take you to my website and then you can go you go anywhere from there.

43:54 Speaker 2: Absolutely So one other question before we let you go, I'm gonna kind of put you on the spot here, but we're gonna close out the segment with something from mind Space. But what would you what would your choice be ideally that we play to close out the segment from Mindspace. I'll let you pick the song.

44:16 Speaker 4: I think we're going mind Space, right, I think mind Space go with the title track. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one's kind of where that's the whole theme of the the LP.

44:25 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, that's a great choice. I like that one a lot.

44:30 Speaker 2: All right, so we will that'll be our closing our closing track here, So Robin, thank you again, Robin Ross. Of course, Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines, thank you for joining us.

44:39 Speaker 3: We'll let you go. We're going to hit that track.

44:41 Speaker 2: But as you're releasing more and more music, we'll definitely have you back soon because you're doing a lot of great stuff, and I'm sure we'll talk to you again in the very near future.

44:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, the next couple of months would be great, Matt. When I reach out to you when I get the next ALP, which I'm expecting in you know, say, July fourth, that's kind.

45:01 Speaker 15: Of my goal.

45:02 Speaker 2: Fantastic, All right, well, we look forward to that. Yeah, yeah, keep us posted. We'll get you booked and we'll get you back on.

45:07 Speaker 4: We'd love that, all right, all right, Robert New Hampshire.

45:11 Speaker 3: Right, what's that?

45:12 Speaker 4: Take care in New Hampshire.

45:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, here of here in New Hampshire. We sure are, we sure are.

45:17 Speaker 2: It's not very summary today it's cold and windy and rainy and uh, but it'll be summer soon.

45:24 Speaker 4: Thanks week.

45:25 Speaker 3: There we go.

45:27 Speaker 2: All right, Robin Ross, thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. Take care, thank you, got it all right? That is the great Robin Ross. The album is Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines.

45:36 Speaker 4: Uh.

45:36 Speaker 2: The the album is called mind Space. And we're gonna play the title track from mind Space. I was kind of hoping he'd pick this one, actually, but I did want him to. I didn't want him to have the choice, but well might We might play some more later in the show as well.

45:50 Speaker 3: But here it is. This is the title track from mind Space from Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines.

46:00 Speaker 9: M I was dying, went to.

46:04 Speaker 14: Bed, so many things in my hand.

46:10 Speaker 13: I see my zup asleep, lying on birth the sheets.

46:17 Speaker 16: It was a Thursday afternoon, and then Friday thing to zoon, Saturdays coming gone.

46:29 Speaker 5: Now it's Sunday.

46:31 Speaker 14: We went on.

46:35 Speaker 13: To the stars, then a bird led up house on an also sun to sue, no one else here, just.

46:47 Speaker 14: Me s.

47:04 Speaker 6: Not around.

47:05 Speaker 14: You may calls dear the news, the b stars into face, I'll never forget be here.

47:17 Speaker 7: You don't regrets.

47:19 Speaker 6: It was on Thursday after.

47:22 Speaker 17: And then Friday into Suo Saturdays.

47:28 Speaker 6: I'm in.

47:30 Speaker 17: Last Sunday space space on the empty of the ship.

47:46 Speaker 6: Nasreds.

47:53 Speaker 5: I would take you at the trip on the blo.

48:00 Speaker 6: Stars, the world let on foes.

48:05 Speaker 5: By also scud a city, no one else just.

48:13 Speaker 4: But series.

48:20 Speaker 5: Was finn a gaptain of the ship.

48:28 Speaker 18: I has I would take more n I'm gonna bla sons and no word. Then that sound one of that song sa No Moss.

49:28 Speaker 2: That is Robin Ross and the Mellow Dines. That is mind Space, the title track from their newest album. And thank you again to Robin Ross for joining us Robin Ross music dot com if you want to keep up with everything that he's doing, because he is making a lot of music and he's got another EP coming soon, so we will be talking to him in the very near future. And we are going to sneak in one more track from the album mind Space, just because we talked about it. I'm gonna play this one, Campfire on the Moon.

49:54 Speaker 2: We have time we can fit this in, but if you are listening live on Saturday, May thirtieth, welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we have a Like I said before, we have a very Pennsylvania centric show today because coming up later on, we've got grim Rock who's gonna be with us. He is from Pennsylvania, but he's gonna be your live in studio because he's currently on tour. He is playing a big show tonight in Nashua at the Spot. We'll talk all about that. Cannot wait to finally meet grim Rock in person live on the show.

50:22 Speaker 2: He's gonna be here later on, but let's play this. This is another track. Like I said, we're talking about the video. You can find the video on YouTube. This is Robin Ross and the Mellowdines and this song is called Campfire on the Moon. After that, we're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors as we prepare for our number two new Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed. On this rainy, wet snow up north, there's literally in higher elevations, there's literally supposed to be snow today. We're not gonna see any here down where we are, but it's going to just be rainy and crappy all day.

50:54 Speaker 2: But that's all right because we'll stick together all right.

50:57 Speaker 3: Here it is camp fire on the moon. Robin Ross and the melodines.

51:06 Speaker 19: H Campfire on the Moon, Suzon Shipper Zoo beaches in Sandy, Dude, lagoons are on the moon, Campfire on the moon, singing a campfire zoom.

51:25 Speaker 20: And in another beer, boy, am I glad we're here?

51:30 Speaker 5: It's his city, It's it's your sil it's de Si right now.

51:42 Speaker 19: Uh huh, Campire on the moon hanging out all this, dude, Oh it don't leave to zoom maybe not on June and in.

51:54 Speaker 20: Another beer, singing like Bob, we're open on at all.

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52:19 Speaker 5: Then it didn't say to this sound the mountain and the team.

52:26 Speaker 21: Tack really signing down because of tell the other side.

52:42 Speaker 5: He jumble went on back some work. They will fight around sit I ever know of this same it's the sun that fire out of space.

52:59 Speaker 20: What a crazy place on another shot us down in all we got.

53:07 Speaker 5: Oh we don't live at all, at least not till next fall.

53:11 Speaker 19: The Empire halping spaces hanging on the moon man's phades.

53:16 Speaker 9: It's it's just.

53:21 Speaker 5: It's it's this when it's it's just.

53:24 Speaker 22: So right down.

53:28 Speaker 9: Uh huh.

53:31 Speaker 20: The bire all the moon singing a nothing too so much more good drink, and I haven't slept the way I hope we would have happened to go.

53:43 Speaker 5: If it's it only made it so Empire all the moon. I'm gonna leave too soon. It's deceit, it's just sit.

53:55 Speaker 9: It's just si.

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54:17 Speaker 5: Thrown in the bust.

54:19 Speaker 3: It's too soon, But I wanna stay here all day, stay.

54:25 Speaker 5: All man, I'm going nowhere. Everything will be there all day, leave to night.

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