Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-30-26 hour 3
Game Plan
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Speaker 4: All right, that is you belong you see. That is
Speaker 4: grim Rock and we've got grim Rock with us and
Speaker 4: we're going to introduce him in just a moment. Jenny
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Speaker 4: listening live. Today is Saturday May thirtieth, two thy twenty six.
Speaker 4: Grim Rock is on tour and he's been on the
Speaker 4: show with us a bunch of times, but now we
Speaker 4: get to actually meet him. He is here with us
Speaker 4: live in studio. Let me get that mic on there,
Speaker 4: We've got the He's actually going to play a song
Speaker 4: for us in a moment. But hey, Grim, let's see
Speaker 4: I cannot hear you. Let me figure out why. Oh
Speaker 4: I think I hear something. Hey, welcome, Oh I can
Speaker 4: hear you. That's even more than half the battle Welcome,
Speaker 4: And uh, let me put that camera on. So if
Speaker 4: you are just listening to the audio of the show,
Speaker 4: when you get a chance, check out the video because
Speaker 4: Grim is in his full He's in his full regalia,
Speaker 4: he's got the makeup on. Everything is wonderful, very very cool.
Speaker 4: Strum that guitar for me a little, would you. Oh
Speaker 4: that sounds nice. That sounds nice. The headphones. So Grim's
Speaker 4: gonna play something for us, and then we're gonna we'll
Speaker 4: play another studio track and then we'll come back and talk.
Speaker 4: Uh take this opportunity to speak with Grim Rock here
Speaker 4: in studio. But what are you gonna play for us today?
Speaker 5: I am going to play the track don't you that
Speaker 5: you play? I'm gonna attempt to play it on the
Speaker 5: acoustic for you. But that way, this will be the
Speaker 5: first time I've actually played it on here, so really yeah,
Speaker 5: So we're gonna give it a shot to see what happens.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, all right, all right, this will be great?
Speaker 4: All right, grim Rock live in studio.
Speaker 6: Leave me something in your fall, no idea your mind.
Speaker 6: The clock is known aspen and leave lost my mind.
Speaker 6: Don't you go running away? Don't you know what you mind?
Speaker 7: Find?
Speaker 1: Don't you know you running high?
Speaker 5: Don't you don't you.
Speaker 2: Tell me something? Meaning fall?
Speaker 5: No out there your fan.
Speaker 2: Will is stole it?
Speaker 5: Turn really lost?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Don't you go running away? Don't you know what you
Speaker 1: ma fan? Don't you know you running in hard?
Speaker 5: Don't you don't?
Speaker 1: Don't you go running away?
Speaker 5: Don't you know you know what you mad fan?
Speaker 1: Don't you know you know you running hard?
Speaker 5: Don't you know?
Speaker 8: Don't you don't tell?
Speaker 5: Don't you don't?
Speaker 4: All right? Grim Rock live in studio with us. We're
Speaker 4: going to talk to Grimrock in just a moment, and uh,
Speaker 4: this is this is really cool. It's wonderful to have Mark.
Speaker 4: And we'll talk all about tonight. We'll talk all about tonight.
Speaker 4: He's going to be playing a big show tonight at
Speaker 4: the Spot in Nashua. But right now, here's another studio
Speaker 4: track from Grimrock. This is called Abyss.
Speaker 8: It's a dark.
Speaker 9: Exists you thought of bills, where my shot soul sills,
Speaker 9: my chaotic mind can and a lot of blss.
Speaker 8: Some women in name image inflicting time and I fam
Speaker 8: my man wrong well Robil.
Speaker 2: You bo.
Speaker 8: Nothing is right?
Speaker 5: The weather t fol is five, shot at a dog about.
Speaker 8: My life, controlling me, refusing to save me? Freeze, Why
Speaker 8: can high job?
Speaker 3: Where am shot?
Speaker 2: Shot?
Speaker 4: That is Abyss and that is grim Rock and grim
Speaker 4: Rock is here with us a live in studio today
Speaker 4: on Matt connorton Unleash. Hello, grim Hey, how are you good? Good?
Speaker 4: You sound great. It's wonderful to finally meet you. So
Speaker 4: you've been How when was the first time you were
Speaker 4: on the show? I mean it was a few years ago, right,
Speaker 4: it was a couple of years ago. Yeah, it had
Speaker 4: to be at least a few because I remember, I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure the first time we played don't You, which
Speaker 4: was the first single of yours that we ever played
Speaker 4: on the show, we were still at the old because
Speaker 4: we haven't always been in this studio. We used to
Speaker 4: be down on Elm Street and we moved here maybe
Speaker 4: two and a half years ago. So yeah, so it's
Speaker 4: been a while. It's been a while. How many times
Speaker 4: have you been? Are you in the five timers club?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: No, this will be four with me being here live.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, doesn't that count as two for him? Why?
Speaker 10: What do you mean because he traveled over two thousand miles?
Speaker 4: Oh, two thousand miles.
Speaker 5: I don't have any miles. I don't think it's too
Speaker 5: It was like six hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it might be a little bit. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: you're from Pennsylvania. By the way, it's been a I
Speaker 4: don't know if you know, this has been a very
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania show today because it just going and this this
Speaker 4: was not planned. It just worked out this way. The
Speaker 4: guess we had in the first hour Robin Ross is
Speaker 4: also in Pennsylvania, Rob and Ross and the mellowdnes So
Speaker 4: it is just funny how that worked out. But so
Speaker 4: you're on tour, where did you play last night? Or tonight?
Speaker 5: The first night of the tonight, he's the first night.
Speaker 5: I actually stopped at the spot just to see the
Speaker 5: place and make the owner and pass some stuff out
Speaker 5: and just you know, try to track people.
Speaker 4: Tonight, you know, excellent, excellent, Yeah, Jenny and I haven't
Speaker 4: been there yet, so this will be our first time there.
Speaker 4: We Yeah, we had Mike McDowell, the owner, also known
Speaker 4: as the Healer. I don't did he introduce himself to
Speaker 4: you that way?
Speaker 5: Uh No, Actually, I just I caught him behind the
Speaker 5: you know, the boar.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I was half kid. I don't think he
Speaker 4: actually introduces himself as the Healer. But uh, but that
Speaker 4: is a moniker that he hasked. No, but he's he's
Speaker 4: a great guy. So he was on the show back
Speaker 4: before he had even opened. He was talking about it,
Speaker 4: and uh, I thought it was very positive that because
Speaker 4: it's not I don't know what. I'm curious, like what
Speaker 4: it's like in your area as far as this goes.
Speaker 4: But in this area, it's really hard to find all
Speaker 4: ages shows and and venues that will have all ages events.
Speaker 4: There just aren't many, you know, because you know, if
Speaker 4: you go out to a club or a bar, it's
Speaker 4: it's usually either eighteen plus or twenty one plus. It's
Speaker 4: hard to find all ages venues anywhere.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: We've had We've had some over the years, and there
Speaker 4: might be some in the area that I don't know about.
Speaker 4: But there's you know, there are few and far between,
Speaker 4: you know, or there's always promoters to who will And
Speaker 4: I did some of this back in the day. You know,
Speaker 4: you throw a show at an elkslodge or something and
Speaker 4: then it's all ages. You let people in because you're
Speaker 4: not serving alcohol. But but I think it's really cool
Speaker 4: that you're playing an all ages show at the spot,
Speaker 4: And uh, that's a that's a really such a service
Speaker 4: to the community what they're doing by providing an all
Speaker 4: ages of venue for for people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely a good thing. You know, back home,
Speaker 5: there's not very much of that either, you know really Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's either bring your own bottle kind of club
Speaker 5: or you know, it's an eighteen plus you know. Ok,
Speaker 5: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Have you been able to play all ages shows before?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like, okay, so there are there are opportunities where you live,
Speaker 4: there's just probably not many. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's good.
Speaker 4: That's good. Now do you know anything the band you're
Speaker 4: opening for, the Melted Chapsticks, Do you know anything about them?
Speaker 5: I absolutely don't. I checked. When I found out who
Speaker 5: it was, I went and listened to some of their
Speaker 5: music so I could see what they sounded like. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, I talked to his name Mike,
Speaker 5: Mike McDowell. No spot, no, no, he goes by King
Speaker 5: Chapstick or something on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Jenny and I don't actually know them, believe
Speaker 4: it or not, but.
Speaker 5: I was talking. I was talking to him back and
Speaker 5: forth here and there. So yeah, gett a feel for everything. Okay,
Speaker 5: it sounds like it's gonna be really cool, you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, outstanding. And then now where do you
Speaker 4: go after tonight? Where's your next stop.
Speaker 5: After we Well, we'll stay here tonight, we'll leave tomorrow
Speaker 5: and then I'll be in near Cleveland, Ohio will be
Speaker 5: my next one.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, okay, how far are you going with this store?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: How far? Where are you going?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: This is the Furthest. Okay, this is absolutely the Furthest. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. All of the other stuff's
Speaker 5: like three four hours tops, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah for now. Yeah. Yeah, Well it's not like
Speaker 4: gas is expensive or anything, right.
Speaker 5: You know, the way you know you play music and stuff,
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's you got a lost leader at
Speaker 5: the very beginning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that is very true. That is very true.
Speaker 4: You know, even before gas prices went went way up
Speaker 4: like they have. There there's been many you know, there's
Speaker 4: been national touring acts that have had to, uh really
Speaker 4: kind of cut down on the touring just because it's
Speaker 4: so cost prohibitive these days with with the inflation and everything.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but and then you get the national touring acts,
Speaker 5: so it charged so much money, you know, to even
Speaker 5: go see him. I mean, I get I get that
Speaker 5: they're they're the you know, big name bands and stuff
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Wow, some of the prices man, oh yeah, ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's incredible. Now when you play tonight, So is
Speaker 4: it just you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just gonna be a mean And how does
Speaker 5: that work?
Speaker 4: So for our listeners who are not familiar with you,
Speaker 4: I know we've talked about it when you've been on
Speaker 4: the show, but I mean, how how does does that
Speaker 4: work when you're you know, because obviously you know your
Speaker 4: sound is sounds like a full band on the studio albums,
Speaker 4: So what do you do to kind of replicate that
Speaker 4: live or how do you approach that?
Speaker 5: So basically, I do the recording of the tracks at
Speaker 5: the house, with the exception of cast a Shadow, I
Speaker 5: did that in the studio studio, okay, But I play
Speaker 5: my own instruments, all of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so in the very end when I go to
Speaker 5: get the when the track's finished and I need a
Speaker 5: backing track, then I just get rid of like all
Speaker 5: the guitars, all of them, and all the vocals except
Speaker 5: for maybe a few backup vocals depending on the track itself, okay.
Speaker 5: And then when I go to play it live, I
Speaker 5: play it off tablet.
Speaker 4: Oh gotcha, Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 5: So it's still there, you know, but it's just missing
Speaker 5: all this the main stuff. That way, you can hear
Speaker 5: when I make mistakes or ad lib or something's a
Speaker 5: little bit different with the song, you can hear that
Speaker 5: it's actually me playing against that track. It's not, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not live sinking anything.
Speaker 4: Right, That makes sense?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 4: Does anything ever go wrong with that?
Speaker 5: My first gig, man, I'll tell you what I think
Speaker 5: I probably told you on so and you know, mister Phil,
Speaker 5: he was a great guy for the whole thing was
Speaker 5: the Green Beacon Gallery, Believe it or not. Okay, I
Speaker 5: played there a bunch ever since. Yeah, my first gig,
Speaker 5: you know, I was at home and I had my
Speaker 5: setup and I was like, yes, this stuff works, I'm great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well I took a bunch of stuff with me that
Speaker 5: worked at home, and it didn't work with the system.
Speaker 5: Oh no, Oh it was a mess. But I got
Speaker 5: through it, you know, and he was very patient with
Speaker 5: me and it was really cool. Well, like I said,
Speaker 5: I've been back lots of times at that place.
Speaker 4: So yeah, oh, excellent, excellent. How long are you playing
Speaker 4: for tonight? How long have a set to you have?
Speaker 5: It depends there was a third band on there. I
Speaker 5: think they something happened that they're not there now. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: and I know there's another person going to do an
Speaker 5: act in between. Oh really, so I think originally it
Speaker 5: could have I'm going to guess forty minutes.
Speaker 4: Okay. So yeah, is that kind of what you're used to?
Speaker 4: I mean, like, have you ever had to play like
Speaker 4: a really long set?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. I played shows that were two hours?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everything in the book, man, I was like one through.
Speaker 5: I was like trying to remember stuff. By the end,
Speaker 5: I'm like, maybe i'll play something again, you know, like
Speaker 5: just to bring it back, you know, rough play two
Speaker 5: ours shows a couple of different times. Oh okay, that's long.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So I want to talk about your sound
Speaker 4: because I describe it, you know, I always talk about
Speaker 4: it on the show before we play something of yours,
Speaker 4: that you've got kind of a it's kind of a
Speaker 4: low five garage rock sound. That's how I describe it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that is that how you describe it to
Speaker 4: people who haven't heard you yet if they're curious about
Speaker 4: what to expect.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know, I always say garage rock, and I
Speaker 5: don't know if people really know what that is, you know,
Speaker 5: but you know, I'll say it, or I'll say alternative rock,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, because that alternative rock could
Speaker 5: be anything from mellow to grungey to you know, that
Speaker 5: raw sound or whatever. You know. Yeah, but yeah, so
Speaker 5: I just either those two words. You know, it depends
Speaker 5: on what I'm talking to. If it's a musician, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 5: it's garage rock, you know. If it's a regular person,
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, it's it's all rock, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean in the nineties, alt rock
Speaker 4: really kind of became a catch all term for anything
Speaker 4: that well, you know, like sort of in the post
Speaker 4: in the post hair metal period, all rock, I feel like,
Speaker 4: became a catch all for anything that wasn't hair metal. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: and then eventually it just became everything because you know
Speaker 4: everything was alt rock.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and post your Children collect a Soul together
Speaker 5: with Nirvana. Yeah, that's all alternative rock.
Speaker 4: Right right right. So for those for those who have
Speaker 4: not seen you again, if you're only listening to the
Speaker 4: audio version of the show, I said, yes, you check
Speaker 4: the video and you know they'll do lots of pictures
Speaker 4: and stuff. But so you've got the whole, You've got
Speaker 4: your outfit, you've got your face paint. How long does
Speaker 4: it take to put all that together?
Speaker 5: That's that's my every person, every makeup artist's dream right here.
Speaker 5: My wife does it. Yeah, and it takes about, I
Speaker 5: don't know, twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Oh that's it.
Speaker 5: I'm around there.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm not bad.
Speaker 5: Like if I did it, it would look terrible when
Speaker 5: I'd be done in five minutes and yeah, it'd be
Speaker 5: a mess. You No, she she she does it for
Speaker 5: me every time. Iday. Oh okay, appreciate it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: she does it everything for me. Like with this, it's
Speaker 5: it's I'm grateful, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Oh that's excellent. Yeah, I mean I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be like if I had to do that, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be able to do it myself either.
Speaker 5: Oh no, it looks terrible if it looked like if
Speaker 5: I was just like four and just took a crayon
Speaker 5: on a piece of paper, or oh yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 4: I can't draw so like anytime, Like you know, when
Speaker 4: I used to dress up for Halloween. If my favorite
Speaker 4: band is Kiss, But if I were dressing up as
Speaker 4: a Kiss member, somebody would have to do my makeup
Speaker 4: for me. I literally could not. I just wouldn't have
Speaker 4: a clue to how to even do any of that myself.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it would it would be a mess. Now
Speaker 4: have you ever I know I've asked you this before,
Speaker 4: but again for people who are just learning about you,
Speaker 4: have you ever played a show without the makeup?
Speaker 5: I do from time to time. It just depends on
Speaker 5: what it is. Yeah, you know what I mean. If
Speaker 5: it's like an open mic or something somewhere, it's only
Speaker 5: going to be a couple of tracks or something. I
Speaker 5: probably I don't paint up. I probably should, you know,
Speaker 5: I think I've said that before. I probably should just
Speaker 5: to go do it, right, But the amount of time
Speaker 5: it takes to do that, by the time you get
Speaker 5: up there and you wait and you get your two
Speaker 5: three tracks or whatever, it's I just usually just got myself,
Speaker 5: you know, and people have no idea who I am
Speaker 5: because I look like everybody else at that point.
Speaker 4: Right, So, is there is there like a transformative thing
Speaker 4: that happens when you put the makeup on? You know,
Speaker 4: I've I've heard like Gene Simmons describe, you know, when
Speaker 4: when he puts the makeup on and he becomes the demon.
Speaker 4: It's like a completely different mindset, Like does that happen
Speaker 4: for you anything like that?
Speaker 5: Well, you know on stage, yeah, I mean you got
Speaker 5: to take on what you look like, you know, just
Speaker 5: it's it's a completely different atmosphere and you're in front
Speaker 5: of all these people and you have to you know,
Speaker 5: your job is to entertain them. You know, whether you're musician,
Speaker 5: you're like, oh my art is my art? That your
Speaker 5: your job is to entertain the people that they are there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's four first and foremost. So you got to give
Speaker 5: them something so that, you know, be painted up like
Speaker 5: us and give them a show, you know, in along
Speaker 5: the lines with that, you know, that's that's really what
Speaker 5: you know, is the transformative part you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: We have some people in the chat room. Let's see.
Speaker 4: Oh we have some, Yeah, we have some. Vincent Julian
Speaker 4: Johnson is that someone you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know Vinnie. Oh yeah, yeah, Vinny's awesome.
Speaker 4: Thank him, yep, he says, Oh, he posted a bunch
Speaker 4: of things in here. He said, let's go grimmer Man.
Speaker 4: Uh Grim, Rock, I'm I'm tuning in, brother, let's go.
Speaker 4: Let's see. Oh. Lacey, our friend, Lacey who I am,
Speaker 4: says I have a great show. Thank you, Lacey. If
Speaker 4: you're still listening, Rock and Robin says, thanks so much
Speaker 4: for having me on today. Oh yeah, that was Robin,
Speaker 4: Robin Ross. We had on in the first hour. Another Pennsylvanian.
Speaker 4: Thank you us. Yep, thank you Robin for joining us.
Speaker 4: Melvin Crockett Junior says, my guy Grim.
Speaker 5: That is the guy that did the video for Abyss.
Speaker 4: Oh, no kidding, okay, Oh excellent, excellent.
Speaker 5: He did a fantastic job on that video.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, Vincent says, that's my guy. I love the
Speaker 4: guitar riff. Go Grim. Uh, let's see. Vincent also said,
Speaker 4: damn Grim, I see you, brother. I can't wait to
Speaker 4: do a feature with a hip hop twist. Ah, what
Speaker 4: does that mean? Interesting?
Speaker 5: So he's he's an artist. He does you know, hip
Speaker 5: hop and rap and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, and we've talked about a collaboration. So okay,
Speaker 5: So it's you know that the things that I do
Speaker 5: he doesn't usually do, and the things he does I
Speaker 5: don't usually do. So it's going to be kind of
Speaker 5: kind of really unique, Yeah, for both of us to
Speaker 5: get together to do something. But oh yeah, we're going
Speaker 5: to do something. I don't know what yet. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: we're we're gonna figure something out.
Speaker 4: Oh excellent. Yeah. Yeah. He also said in the chat,
Speaker 4: a grim tell them to give you a boy a
Speaker 4: shout out for grind Squad music group.
Speaker 5: That's his that's his group.
Speaker 4: Oh excellent. Okay, okay, well, very good, very good. I
Speaker 4: wonder if that's who If somebody was trying to call
Speaker 4: the studio line, I wonder if that's who was calling
Speaker 4: eight seven eight? Is that a familiar aera code? I
Speaker 4: don't know what that was, Okay, yeah, no idea that
Speaker 4: might have just might have been spamed.
Speaker 5: Who knows your extended car warrants? You want to renew it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I get a lot of those, So are
Speaker 4: people surprised at at shows? If someone's there at a show,
Speaker 4: Like if people who go to the spot tonight who
Speaker 4: are not familiar with you haven't heard your music yet,
Speaker 4: do you expect that they will be surprised when because
Speaker 4: your your image with the paint? I mean, the first thing,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you've heard this, and I probably even said
Speaker 4: this to you, The first thing I think of is
Speaker 4: King Diamond when I see the paint. But you're you're
Speaker 4: not that right, so you know you're not gonna get
Speaker 4: up there and be like you know, it's it's like
Speaker 4: we talked about, it's garage rock. So there's that cool,
Speaker 4: which I think is cool, that that contrast between what
Speaker 4: what you appear like visually and what comes out. But
Speaker 4: I mean, do you run into that a lot where
Speaker 4: people are just like, oh, just really taking aback?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah I get that, And you know it's
Speaker 5: okay because I like that element of surprised.
Speaker 4: You know, well, I was gonna say it must be fun,
Speaker 4: Oh it is, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know I'll play some play a couple of wrists
Speaker 5: or whatever, you know, don't warm up, might play something
Speaker 5: a little heavier, you know what I mean then yeah,
Speaker 5: I go into my first track, my first couple of tracks,
Speaker 5: I do play them a little heavier than you know
Speaker 5: what it's recorded, but then you know, I'm in and
Speaker 5: out of things, you know what I mean. So when
Speaker 5: you get to that part, everybody's like like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh that's cool.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's It's like I said, I've never had
Speaker 5: really any any negativity you know with it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: dooring a live thing. Yeah, I mean I'm sure if
Speaker 5: I got bigger, you know, somebody be upset about it,
Speaker 5: you know, like you don't look.
Speaker 4: Like that, right right, you know whatever, Hey, uh no,
Speaker 4: I think that's cool. Like I said, I think that
Speaker 4: that that contrast is really cool. Maybe, but yeah maybe,
Speaker 4: like if you showed up to an open mic with that,
Speaker 4: you might get you might get some some puzzlement from uh.
Speaker 5: Especially if I showed up with that acoustic with that,
Speaker 5: you know, right right, I'm playing mellow just like I
Speaker 5: did there, you know.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, no doubt when like, what was the idea,
Speaker 4: what was the genesis behind this, behind the image of
Speaker 4: grim Rock, but actually visually.
Speaker 5: It actually was a Halloween costume. Yeah, and she knows this.
Speaker 5: I tell her story all the time, and she's here
Speaker 5: to severify this whole thing. So it was actually a
Speaker 5: work costing party. We actually met at work, and you
Speaker 5: know it's probably not as you know, we met at work.
Speaker 4: And statistically that's very common.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so here we are a bunch of years later. Anyway,
Speaker 5: we had this work party and went together and I
Speaker 5: used to be I've said it before. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: fourteen years sober now, but I've used to be a
Speaker 5: heavy drinker before. And so I went to this party.
Speaker 5: I was already tanked up and I went with her
Speaker 5: looking like this, and I was running behind people. You know,
Speaker 5: I didn't even talk. It just it just made people upset,
Speaker 5: you know, like the whole thing, like, oh, you know
Speaker 5: he's but you know, from there, I was like, I
Speaker 5: am going to use this one day, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. I had no idea what I was going
Speaker 5: to do. And I used it for a couple of
Speaker 5: different calloweens. Yeah, and it modified, you know, I modified it,
Speaker 5: you know, a couple of different times to this gentlemanly
Speaker 5: grim yeah kind of look yeah, you know versus the
Speaker 5: halloweenish one, you know what I mean. Okay, she'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's kind of evolved.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's definitely evolved. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh very cool. You said fourteen years sober?
Speaker 5: Fourteen years sober for you? Good for you.
Speaker 4: I don't think we've ever talked about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I don't. I don't think we have.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean is that something you talk about openly?
Speaker 5: Or oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: How did you?
Speaker 4: How did you stop when you stopped?
Speaker 5: Oh well, that's that's an interesting story itself. Is it
Speaker 5: that one will have to talk about offline?
Speaker 4: Oh? Really? Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, it's really it's really an interesting, interesting story.
Speaker 5: And you know, yeah, some people know it, and I
Speaker 5: don't care that people really know it, know it? Yeah,
Speaker 5: just that you know we're work at now.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I mean? Gotcha? Gotcha understood? Understood? Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: good for you? Though. How do you like, how do
Speaker 4: you stay? I mean, if you can answer this, like,
Speaker 4: what's what's your biggest motivation to stay on the path
Speaker 4: that you are? As far as that and not, uh, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's it's been so long that it's doesn't even
Speaker 5: really bother me or me anymore. That's good, that's the thing.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: But I've heard people, you know, in in some of
Speaker 5: the meeting rooms and whatever. Say, oh, I was thirty
Speaker 5: years and fell off. You know. Yeah, that kind of
Speaker 5: bothers me, you know what I mean, thinking that, you know,
Speaker 5: thinking that that may be a possibility. But you know,
Speaker 5: I the way things are really, you know, I just
Speaker 5: don't I don't see that happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, you know, I mean yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean it's well, I mean, everyone's different, and but it
Speaker 4: sounds like you, you know, mentally obviously you don't miss it,
Speaker 4: and so it sounds like you're probably just you know,
Speaker 4: I mean again, everyone's different. You know, some people once
Speaker 4: they're done with it, they're done with it and that's it,
Speaker 4: which is what it sounds like. You know, it sounds
Speaker 4: like is your situation. But yeah, you do hear people say,
Speaker 4: you know, I struggle with it, you know, decades every day.
Speaker 4: It's hard, you know. But but but it sounds like,
Speaker 4: but everyone's brain is wired differently, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And it sounds like you're fortunately, you know, you just
Speaker 4: sounds like you don't even like, don't even think about it, right,
Speaker 4: it's just in your past.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you know it's crazy because you know I
Speaker 5: used to be a really bad drinker. I mean, it
Speaker 5: really was, you know, and it became really problematic, you know,
Speaker 5: and I wasn't willing to see it at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but it's funny because you know, my takedown was you know,
Speaker 5: I had a friend that I hung out with that
Speaker 5: we got loaded up and we played music. So when
Speaker 5: we went and played out and things like that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, it was bar music, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And it was crazy as I can play all these
Speaker 5: places now and not even think about it.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I can watch all these people fall over and hit
Speaker 5: their head and stuff, you know, coming out the door
Speaker 5: or whatever, and I just laugh at him or whatever.
Speaker 5: But no, really, you know, it just doesn't bother me anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good for you. You know, you have to unwire
Speaker 5: what you had in there, hardwired. I guess there's something
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know a bit about it, but it's not a
Speaker 4: problem that I've ever had. But I work as a
Speaker 4: hypnotherapist and I help people too, mostly with an addiction
Speaker 4: that I help people to quit oking. But but but
Speaker 4: it's interesting. It's it's one of the things that is
Speaker 4: similar is if you talk to do you smoke no
Speaker 4: good good good for you. Yeah, if you talk to smokers,
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of a similar thing where some
Speaker 4: smokers will tell you or or ex smokers will tell you, yeah,
Speaker 4: I just I I quit and that was it, and
Speaker 4: I I just I don't miss it, and I feel
Speaker 4: so much better. And but there's there's some people who
Speaker 4: will tell you. And this was kind of my mother's
Speaker 4: excuse why she went back to it. You know, she
Speaker 4: would talk about, how, oh I I it's it's a
Speaker 4: daily struggle for me. Every day I have to resist
Speaker 4: the urge to smoke a cigarette, which she did for
Speaker 4: a few years. She did resist, and then eventually she
Speaker 4: went back to it. But but so much of that
Speaker 4: too with with cigarettes. The psychological addiction is so much
Speaker 4: more powerful than the physical addiction, than the chemical addiction.
Speaker 4: And it's it's a you know, because people think, oh,
Speaker 4: y know, once the nicotine is in you, once you've
Speaker 4: been addicted to it, and those brain receptors are active
Speaker 4: and expecting it, that it's just that you're just stuck
Speaker 4: with that forever, and it's not true. It's but it's
Speaker 4: it's the psychological addiction, you know, right, right, but but
Speaker 4: it sounds like it was kind of like that with
Speaker 4: you with alcohol and then so once you were done
Speaker 4: with it, you were just done with it.
Speaker 5: And yeah, life is better without it. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, Eleanor is in the Facebook live chat Eleanor
Speaker 4: Luna of course we love Eleanor from New Hampshire Underground
Speaker 4: and she says, we can't wait to see you tonight,
Speaker 4: grim Rock and thank you Matt Connerton, thank you Eleanor. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we haven't seen Eleanor in in a while. Actually, Eleanor
Speaker 4: and Andre, so that'll be great. Yeah, and of course,
Speaker 4: uh that I believe it's if I remember correctly, it's
Speaker 4: through Eleanor. That's how we met Mike McDowell from the spot.
Speaker 4: So because I know they do a lot of work together.
Speaker 4: New Hampshire Underground another great great venue in uh in Nashua.
Speaker 4: We should play I think we shoul play a song
Speaker 4: I was thinking about because you mentioned cast a Shadow.
Speaker 4: We should give that a spin and then we'll come
Speaker 4: back and talk some more. But tell us about that,
Speaker 4: tell us about the video too. The video for Abyss
Speaker 4: for Caster Shadow was a cast Shadow? Was that the
Speaker 4: one that that the video?
Speaker 5: No Melvin Crockett did the video for abyss.
Speaker 4: Oh for abyss Oh. Okay, well tell tell us about
Speaker 4: cast oh. I remember why cast a Shadow came up
Speaker 4: because you were talking about recording that differently than right.
Speaker 5: That was actually Rhythm Mouse Studios. I didn't record any
Speaker 5: of it at the house.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, that's what it was. Yeah. Yeah, what was that like,
Speaker 4: because you obviously this was a change in process for
Speaker 4: you recording this track. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I've been in the studios before, you know, so
Speaker 5: I knew the process generally. Yeah, it's been so long
Speaker 5: since I've been in there, you know, and working by
Speaker 5: yourself all the time pretty much, you know, pushing plays
Speaker 5: like hey, you know, look at her and be like, hey,
Speaker 5: what's this sound like? Well it sounds good. Maybe it does,
Speaker 5: maybe she doesn't. I don't know. YEA honestly telling me,
Speaker 5: you know, just to make me happier, not to be honest,
Speaker 5: but uh, but to go into the studio and actually
Speaker 5: have somebody there it says, hey, do this again, Hey,
Speaker 5: try this, Hey, let's try this again. You know, that
Speaker 5: extra little bit of guidance. You know, I really appreciate
Speaker 5: it from mister Bob, you know what I mean? He uh,
Speaker 5: he was. He was fantastic trying to put it all together,
Speaker 5: you know, and we talked a lot through it, you know,
Speaker 5: because I think I was the heaviest artist he's actually
Speaker 5: recorded at this point.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh wow, Well, like what kind of stuff was
Speaker 4: he used to, uh, recording like this? More like singer songwriters?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. You know, there's a guy that's
Speaker 5: there like all the time. His name is Alli Bravery,
Speaker 5: and his stuff is really cool, it really is, but
Speaker 5: it's it's light compared to, you know, my stuff. To
Speaker 5: the recording process, I'm sure it's a lot different.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So have you only done the one song with.
Speaker 5: Him at this point? Yeah, I was. I actually had
Speaker 5: some time schedule with them, but we had some things.
Speaker 5: There was a bunch of things that happened at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the year. Yeah, And of course, you know,
Speaker 5: it goes everything gets delayed and delayed, and then now
Speaker 5: I'm running back and be like, Okay, after I do
Speaker 5: these shows, I'm gonna go back into the studio, you
Speaker 5: know kind of thing, and yeah, I'm opening and get
Speaker 5: the rest of this done.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It took it took forever to do do g R five. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's actually two separate sets of mixes for that for
Speaker 5: a lot of those tracks.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the original mix for You Belong you see, I
Speaker 5: think is the one you might have played, and I
Speaker 5: think don't use it. The one you play is the
Speaker 5: original mix work. And those mixes were done at the
Speaker 5: house before Matt Kirshner got him, before I got picked
Speaker 5: up by Golden Robot Records. So oh, I already had
Speaker 5: him released through Districtated, you know, over Spotify and everything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So when I got picked up from Golden rot Records
Speaker 5: and you know, got involved with Matt Kirshner and stuff,
Speaker 5: I ended up sending everything to him. Yeah, he remixed
Speaker 5: them all. And that's the mixes that are on the
Speaker 5: g R five for Golden Robot Records.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, gotcha, Okay, I did not realize that. Interesting.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's give this suspend. This is cast
Speaker 4: a Shadow. If you're just joining us, grim Rock is
Speaker 4: here with us in the studio. He's going to be
Speaker 4: playing tonight at the spot in nashaua uh so, uh
Speaker 4: but here it is. This is Castle Shadow and this
Speaker 4: is Grimrock.
Speaker 11: Web Strey Mountains were stand our flood.
Speaker 2: And that Mary.
Speaker 3: I'm told man, they'll be playing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that we're liveing away the cron move.
Speaker 3: I'm just say some of me.
Speaker 2: The castle sad soald, it's just so.
Speaker 11: Movie h.
Speaker 2: Brownstone and brains in the face and the mounta in
Speaker 2: on the stars stone, the shadow me.
Speaker 3: There's no rain.
Speaker 2: I'm not fine. It's just my pain. It's some kind
Speaker 2: you o. The PRTs, the phone a thing away, not
Speaker 2: this taste f name it cast a shadow. It's parts
Speaker 2: in sound of name it cast a saddle? What this taste?
Speaker 4: Shadow that has cast a shadow? By grim Rock and
Speaker 4: grim Rock is here with us live in studio. He's
Speaker 4: going to be playing tonight at the Spot in Nashua,
Speaker 4: opening up for the Melted Chapsticks and show starts at
Speaker 4: eight pm. Ten dollars admission. It is all ages, which
Speaker 4: is very cool and we're excited about that. Oh I
Speaker 4: should mentioned the name of the show is Demons at
Speaker 4: the Disco Live alt rock, lamb and funk music, mocktail, Zankava,
Speaker 4: late night bites, dance floor, fun and door prizes. Very cool.
Speaker 4: So the Melted chap Six and grim Rock tonight again
Speaker 4: starts at eight o'clock. If you are listening live on Saturday,
Speaker 4: of course May thirtieth, eight o'clock. It is an all
Speaker 4: ages show, which is uh which is extremely cool. So
Speaker 4: and grim Rock is here with us in studio for
Speaker 4: the first time. So we've we've talked, we've had you
Speaker 4: on the phone many times, but it's great to finally
Speaker 4: meet you. And again I will just remind you if
Speaker 4: you are listening to the audio version of the show,
Speaker 4: please check out the video we're streaming right now on
Speaker 4: Facebook and YouTube, and you know, you can always find
Speaker 4: it later. But grim is in all of his uh
Speaker 4: is this Is this what you've worn like since the
Speaker 4: beginning of developing this image or has that changed over
Speaker 4: over time?
Speaker 5: That's changed?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess that's more modified now than it was.
Speaker 5: You know, I had when I first did it as
Speaker 5: the Halloween costume. I got like a youth suited like
Speaker 5: a Salvation army and yeah, we spray painted it and
Speaker 5: did all kind of crazy stuff with it to make it,
Speaker 5: you know, ghostly for costume, you know. But the face
Speaker 5: paint it was pretty much the same. It was white,
Speaker 5: but the little the circles were little and I had
Speaker 5: a lot more stitches, you know, a lot more stitches
Speaker 5: on my mouth, you know, Okay, and a lot of
Speaker 5: that got modified, you know. Now it's just the poor
Speaker 5: and the bigger eyes, you know. But it's the same premise,
Speaker 5: Like if you look at the first picture, you look
Speaker 5: at this name, like, oh yeah, that's the same guy.
Speaker 5: It's just looks newer picture than the other one, you know.
Speaker 5: But of course now I'm just in the straight black.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm to ask you this is from
Speaker 4: a practical standpoint. Do you get hot when you're on
Speaker 4: stage wearing that?
Speaker 5: Yes? Yes, And that's why I have two different sets
Speaker 5: of makeup for the for stuff.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I think we talked about this before too. I gotta
Speaker 5: thank Gene Simmons. You talk about Gene Simmons. I gotta
Speaker 5: thank Gene Simmons because I found a video of him
Speaker 5: making up his daughter and his signature face thing, and
Speaker 5: he had let people know what the makeup was, and
Speaker 5: it's actually like a clown white makeup, so it's a
Speaker 5: different type of makeup. And I was wondering how, you know,
Speaker 5: he got up there because when I was wearing this,
Speaker 5: because this stuff's a temporary one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I'll put the heavier one on the night because I'll
Speaker 5: be sweating, you know and stuff. Yeah, but uh, I
Speaker 5: was wondering how the heck they did that, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean up there playing, you know, and you
Speaker 5: can you can see them like they're damp, but nothing's
Speaker 5: really running. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, they do that,
Speaker 5: you know. But I saw that video and I ended
Speaker 5: up ordering Maren's the company. I ended up ordering a
Speaker 5: tub of this stuff. I was like, well, if this
Speaker 5: thing works, and I got a tub of it now,
Speaker 5: and uh yeah, that's what I used for the base cut.
Speaker 5: And let me tell you this stuff, it stands up.
Speaker 5: But I did know I did do something though. I
Speaker 5: left the black the regular because as I as I
Speaker 5: get warmed up and starts sweating and it starts to run,
Speaker 5: it started it looks kind of cool, you know, because
Speaker 5: it kind of alters my image through the night, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so I didn't order the other paint to
Speaker 5: make it so it stays. I thought it was kind
Speaker 5: of cool to it because I found that out at
Speaker 5: that metal fest last year in the middle of July.
Speaker 5: You know, the white was I mean, it was just
Speaker 5: stuck there and other stuff was just running off me.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Yeah, that's kind of cool. I wonder though,
Speaker 4: do you ever have a Have you ever been tempted
Speaker 4: to just not do the makeup?
Speaker 9: I have?
Speaker 5: But you know, it's just my image. Yeah, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, especially when I play a wall set
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna have that, I'm gonna be plugged in
Speaker 5: right right, you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, that makes sense, that makes sense. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I can imagine it's tempting on a hot day to
Speaker 4: just I don't know, now, do you do you get
Speaker 4: an opportunity to play with a lot of different uh,
Speaker 4: because what you're doing is unique enough where I would
Speaker 4: imagine as far as playing shows, you fit in kind
Speaker 4: of with uh, Like, you don't necessarily fit in anywhere perfectly, right,
Speaker 4: because while you're doing is unique. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: sometimes that can be an advantage where you actually, like
Speaker 4: not fitting in helps you fit in more places, if
Speaker 4: that makes sense?
Speaker 5: It does?
Speaker 4: I mean, have you found that, like, are there are
Speaker 4: there other artists in your area back in Pennsylvania who
Speaker 4: you play a lot of shows with because you just
Speaker 4: fit well with them, or yeah, there's.
Speaker 5: A few of them that I played with, you know, consistently,
Speaker 5: And then you know, I get to I get to
Speaker 5: play all kinds of different places with all kinds of
Speaker 5: different bands. Yeah, and you know, there was some you
Speaker 5: know that I got in there and like I played
Speaker 5: at the Rock Room in Pittsburgh. I love that place.
Speaker 5: The bands that were in there were ultra heavy, and
Speaker 5: I sounded like air supply compared to them, you know.
Speaker 5: But then I had other places I went to and
Speaker 5: I was the heaviest of everybody there, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. Or you know, the we had a guy
Speaker 5: we played with. His name is you know, I don't
Speaker 5: know if you talk to him Silicon Kong. His stuff
Speaker 5: is so different that his stuff's different and my stuff's heavier.
Speaker 5: And then we had like Choshack you might. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you talked to them either. Their stuff's like
Speaker 5: in between everything. Their stuff's gotten progressively heavier though.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so I mean it's just, you know, Perishabules are
Speaker 5: like more punky kind of you know. So I kind
Speaker 5: of fit in with a lot of different bands, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. Yeah, I can get plugged into anything,
Speaker 5: like you're just playing whatever.
Speaker 4: But that makes sense, that makes sense. Oh, we have
Speaker 4: Jenny the the Trolls, have shown up. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna read their comments, but I don't I don't mind
Speaker 4: the trolls though. I think it's funny. We have, Uh,
Speaker 4: how do you even say that, Blacker REGI, I don't
Speaker 4: know how to say that. Who else?
Speaker 8: We have?
Speaker 4: Mister Taco sixty six. We know that name. We know,
Speaker 4: we know mister Taco. And Ben Gleck is in there.
Speaker 4: That's interesting, Yeah, we have. They usually show up. So
Speaker 4: I do a podcast called Tough Bumps about wrestling on Sundays,
Speaker 4: and that's where we usually see some of these people.
Speaker 4: But they're they're they're they're aligned with a podcaster from
Speaker 4: New York City who has been going around saying that
Speaker 4: my show is canceled, you know, the show that I'm
Speaker 4: literally sitting here doing right now. Oh yeah, he tells people,
Speaker 4: but he does that like every six months or so.
Speaker 4: He'll tell any one who will listen that I'm not
Speaker 4: on the air anymore. Right in the WMNH parted ways
Speaker 4: with me, and you know, meanwhile, I've been here for
Speaker 4: over nine years and uh.
Speaker 5: Well since the runner, they can know that I actually
Speaker 5: sponsored a wrestler for a while. You did, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: talk about that. So a guy from New York. Actually
Speaker 5: name was Jay Flyer, and he was an amateur wrestler,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It was running through like
Speaker 5: pcw A and and all the those kind of leagues.
Speaker 5: And I actually sponsored him a while. Actually the theme
Speaker 5: song for him and everything.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: And one of the shows I actually got to go
Speaker 5: to was a Hamburg PA and we went out there
Speaker 5: and I actually got to get in the ring with
Speaker 5: oh man name just slip my. He was a referee,
Speaker 5: a big name referee.
Speaker 4: Earl oh Earl Hebner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I actually got to get I guys stand
Speaker 5: in the ring with him and hold the Intercontinental thing
Speaker 5: in my gear. I went like this and uh stuff
Speaker 5: and you know, and so that was pretty cool, you
Speaker 5: know that that happened.
Speaker 4: So yeah, oh, excellent, excellent. Are you? Are you a
Speaker 4: wrestling fan just generally or you know, I like.
Speaker 5: The old school wrestling, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 5: don't really get to I don't really watch much TV
Speaker 5: as it is, you know what I mean. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: if something's on, you know, I'll watch it, but you know,
Speaker 5: I don't go out of my way to actually watch it,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just as well. Too much isn't good for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's just always bad news on a TV.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: At least at the end of the newscast they used
Speaker 5: to do like, oh, we found a rescued a puppy
Speaker 5: and it was a happy story. Right. They don't even
Speaker 5: do that anymore. Next hour we have doom.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Well, I think maybe we should plan another studio track.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna find uh. I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 4: playing the right mixes, though, so let me let me
Speaker 4: find Oh.
Speaker 5: You're fine with that. I was just like, yeah, because
Speaker 5: it was an interesting facet to that jure if I've
Speaker 5: took forever to put together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, I think I found Oh what is this stone?
Speaker 5: That's not even that's not even that's a demo track?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, because I didn't recognize the title. That's why
Speaker 4: I was wondering. Yeah, let's see. Oh is this it?
Speaker 4: What is this hashtag? M Oh, that's a that's what
Speaker 4: what is this hashtag? Nms? The Grim tracks?
Speaker 5: Oh, that's the podcast.
Speaker 4: Oh is that a podcast that you do?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, Actually it is two guys as the one guy
Speaker 5: in the UK and one guy in Canada, and they
Speaker 5: do like an independent music podcast.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, oh yeah, excellent. Umm, yeah, I'm having
Speaker 4: trouble just finding good.
Speaker 5: City has a new mix.
Speaker 4: What is it city?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's City twenty twenty four mix or whatever. It's
Speaker 5: not new, but it's new or oh.
Speaker 4: That would be.
Speaker 5: It's probably something we haven't heard. Yeah, it's actually out
Speaker 5: the R five VP. Oh I mean uh Grimwork Radio EP.
Speaker 4: Oh I found it? Yeah yeah, oh cool. Yeah, let's
Speaker 4: give this. Yeah, I haven't heard this. Let's give this
Speaker 4: s spend if you're just joining us, we do have
Speaker 4: grim Rock here with us, live in studio. He's on tour.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be playing tonight in Nashua at the Spot.
Speaker 4: But I have not heard this. Let's give this a spin.
Speaker 4: This is grim Rock City, the twenty twenty four version. Here,
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 3: Just na road to Ben.
Speaker 7: I'm going down now.
Speaker 2: Waiting now you come around.
Speaker 10: Not kill me.
Speaker 3: Everything now, Just why.
Speaker 2: You can't say how pa.
Speaker 10: Roll with the traffic.
Speaker 2: Let's just not enough to laugh the bustle on the page.
Speaker 4: Yes, well that is cool. That is City, the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four version. That is Grimrock and he is here
Speaker 4: with us live in studio. He's going to be playing
Speaker 4: tonight at the spot in Nashua. Really looking forward to
Speaker 4: that along with Melted Chapsticks and now it's gonna be
Speaker 4: very cool. Show is at eight pm, ten dollars cover,
Speaker 4: but it is all ages, no alcohol, Demons at the Disco.
Speaker 4: That is the name of the show tonight. I like
Speaker 4: that name. That'd be a good name for a band,
Speaker 4: Demons at the Disco. Yeah, definitely, yeah, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 4: that'll be cool. Oh so you were saying while we
Speaker 4: were off air, while we were playing that song, that
Speaker 4: the video because I really liked the video for that,
Speaker 4: because I love images of city skylines and all that
Speaker 4: always have, especially at night, And you said that was
Speaker 4: made by Lewis. Is a Tivvy or tivy?
Speaker 5: It's tvvy.
Speaker 4: It is Tivvy. He was on the show with us
Speaker 4: like maybe three or four years ago. It was definitely
Speaker 4: when we were at the old studio. Of course, he's
Speaker 4: in the UK, so it was remote, right, But you
Speaker 4: were saying, he's deployed right now. Yeah, he's actually deployed
Speaker 4: right now, so in in Poland. You said, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah,
Speaker 4: I remember him talking about that, that he was in
Speaker 4: the military. But also just such a such a good
Speaker 4: musician too. Oh yeah, really really like his stuff and
Speaker 4: he was he was great to talk to. Now, as
Speaker 4: far as as far as studio releases, what's next for you?
Speaker 4: Because you're always writing, right You're it seems like you're
Speaker 4: always writing and recording.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I got stuff. Fuck out kind of things
Speaker 5: I have, like I couldn't say him a like twenty
Speaker 5: five starter tracks or something, Oh my god, fished through. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you know, I'm trying to put like a good
Speaker 5: good list together for this Cast of Shadow album, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. Yeah, it's actually gonna be a
Speaker 5: full while, Okay, any end and I'm gonna go out
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna go out on a limb. You know,
Speaker 5: I wanted d R five to be ten or twelve tracks,
Speaker 5: but I think this is gonna be the one that's
Speaker 5: gonna be ten or twelve tracks. Okay, Yeah, I got
Speaker 5: I got enough starters that I can I can just
Speaker 5: go back and and look through and you know, shape
Speaker 5: a sound for the album, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, outstanding? Well, so, uh oh, time is short?
Speaker 4: Where should people go online to keep up with everything
Speaker 4: that you're doing?
Speaker 5: I would go to grim rockandroll dot com I'll spell
Speaker 5: it out, rock and roll, A and y Grim rock
Speaker 5: and Roll, get dot com you go everywhere from there, okay,
Speaker 5: and if you do the AT symbol Grim rock and Roll,
Speaker 5: I'll spell it out. You'd find me everywhere that way
Speaker 5: on social media's and YouTube.
Speaker 4: All right, outstanding, outstanding. So again just to remind everybody
Speaker 4: tonight eight pm at if you are listening live on Saturday,
Speaker 4: of course May thirtieth, Grim Rock opening for the Melted
Speaker 4: Chap six at the Spot. It is in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: It is all ages ten dollars cover and please come
Speaker 4: say hello. Of course we'll be there. Jenny and I
Speaker 4: will be there. Sounds like Eleanor will be there, so
Speaker 4: that's cool. Hopefully Andrea is there too, and no, I'm
Speaker 4: sure it'll be a great and like I said, it'll
Speaker 4: be our first time there too, so it'll be it'll
Speaker 4: be wonderful to finally see what what they've done with
Speaker 4: the place and what they're doing.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited. Look, it looks super really excited about
Speaker 5: the menu too.
Speaker 10: Oh really yeah, yeah, I like all kinds are really
Speaker 10: cool coffees and seasons.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'm excited.
Speaker 4: About that oh good, very very good, excellent.
Speaker 10: Always check out the Mosaic Are Collective. The next opening
Speaker 10: is on June thirteenth, the Human Canvas from five to
Speaker 10: seven pm, and that's actually going to be at our
Speaker 10: new location on Chessnut Street. We are expanding the gallery.
Speaker 10: We're really excited about this, so definitely come on down
Speaker 10: and check it out. And as usual, you can always
Speaker 10: keep up with my good troubles at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 4: J E N N C O F f uy dot com.
Speaker 4: Well very good, and of course you can find me
Speaker 4: at Matt Connor t dot and also check out the
Speaker 4: new site Matt connorton unleashed dot com for even more
Speaker 4: content and the searchable archive of the show. You can
Speaker 4: find our previous conversations with Grimrock there as well. So
Speaker 4: uh so we're looking really looking forward tonight. This will
Speaker 4: be great, Grimrock, Thank you again so much.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you. I really appreciate you the opportunities that
Speaker 5: you've given me and to be here. It's just it's
Speaker 5: like the cherry on top of the icing of the
Speaker 5: cake or whatever, you know, Oh wonderful, appreciated.
Speaker 4: Absolutely personal, and if you miss any part of today's show,
Speaker 4: it'll be up in just a little bit at wm
Speaker 4: andhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot
Speaker 4: com and of course Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com. And
Speaker 4: I was saying about closing the segment with Haunted. What
Speaker 4: do you think?
Speaker 5: There you go?
Speaker 4: We didn't play that one yet, right, You do have
Speaker 4: a lot of music. Yeah, let's play this one. This
Speaker 4: is a good one. This is Haunted from Grimrock. And uh,
Speaker 4: we'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody, No.
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