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Speaker 3: Nothing.
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Speaker 6: Every day.
Speaker 2: It's a fine, but it's not for you. Nothing feels right anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm aging not of anything.
Speaker 3: Nothing's really it's just that day and everything I'm not.
Speaker 4: Every day.
Speaker 2: It's a fight, but it's not for you. Nothing feels right any harm. I'm hating, not of everything, nothing really, it's just.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 2: I'm old that's a bad true. Every day it's a fine.
Speaker 4: But it's not for you.
Speaker 2: Nothing feels right anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm aging, not of everything.
Speaker 3: Nothing's real.
Speaker 5: It's just a thing.
Speaker 8: I love that that is. Nothing's real, It's just a thing.
Speaker 9: The album Aaron and the Argonauts, our friend Aaron Billado, who is here with us live in studio.
Speaker 8: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 9: We have entered our number three New Marrow trace Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is Saturday June twenty one, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here of course at the news table.
Speaker 10: Present and accounted for. And if you want to make your own tie di I go down to the Great North Ale Works today from one to six.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, right now, and let me get that camera on and let me get that mic up, and let's see. So we have Aaron billideo here with us live in studio, and Aaron is if you're just listening that that's great. It is a radio show first and foremost. But you got to see the video because Aaron's got his whole He's very self contained, if you will, He's got this whole set up here just like last time on the show. Are very similar. Let's see, let's make sure this is working. Aaron, can you uh ooh, I can hear you.
Speaker 9: Let's see if we can hear say something into that mic?
Speaker 3: If you would test saying saying stuff into the Micoh.
Speaker 8: This sounds good, sounds good. Yeah. So Aaron is going to how many songs are you playing for us? Aerin?
Speaker 3: I got five for you?
Speaker 8: You got five? All right? Very good.
Speaker 9: So we're gonna do, uh, you know, like we did last time when Aaron was here. He's gonna play live and then we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit afterward and uh catch up on everything he's doing.
Speaker 8: But I'm excited for this. This is always a lot of fun. So, Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Are you do you want to tell us anything about what you're gonna play before you play it, or you just want to jump in or no.
Speaker 3: Well this first song is off my last album, Aeron in the Argonauts. It's called the End of Time.
Speaker 8: All right, The End of Time Eron Billodoh live in studio.
Speaker 4: Forever.
Speaker 11: Sound, very fine, Year of Time death, the end of the ball, when the.
Speaker 5: Year was till then?
Speaker 6: Were in trip with your hand?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Well you see where you read there? The time to meet?
Speaker 5: Will you still be my friend?
Speaker 11: Drug out of this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No time?
Speaker 4: Uh du.
Speaker 5: Drug help be foll.
Speaker 4: A lot of consciousness?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no time?
Speaker 4: Well draft, well you we did the time with me.
Speaker 9: Aaron Bildeo is here with us live in studio, and uh, like I was saying before, if you're just joining us, I suggest you check out the video. So Aaron's got a got a whole self contained setup. So he's playing the bass live and singing and he's got this Uh, I don't know. Well, after his set we'll ask him more because I I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to that kind of thing. I like to know all the details about that stuff and and how he does it because it's amazing to me. But but that's all him that you're hearing in the studio today on this uh this Saturday morning, and Aaron is switching bassis.
Speaker 9: Oh here we go, let me turn that that mic back on there.
Speaker 3: All right, he has a bunch of news stuff. It's not out yets ago.
Speaker 8: Okay, very cool.
Speaker 3: This first song is called ten PM.
Speaker 8: Oh technical difficulty, no worries, extent Madre.
Speaker 9: I am.
Speaker 3: We met, I sweet it soundly sweet. I'm the one that people out of her jar if we met soon you know, good things sell. We the son found by a dans thirty playing her home and you find me then I find.
Speaker 5: Out of the stars for.
Speaker 12: Hours and ours let me get.
Speaker 3: In front of the Freds and it was all it was all I was the start about the songs.
Speaker 12: My name care, I knew how to wait, that I wanted to be with you, hey one not I knew what.
Speaker 4: I needed to do.
Speaker 3: Wow behind happy to be my.
Speaker 5: To be mine?
Speaker 3: All right? That was ten PM. That was about my wife Amy.
Speaker 8: Very nice, very nice, oh very sweet.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: So, uh, last year I had cancer and the way I deal with it is, uh, I write songs. So this song is called the Passenger Wait to this gotten bad.
Speaker 5: All the passengers.
Speaker 13: Grow brows and copy sabby.
Speaker 14: Inside Yes, turning the light flow their eyes where your part all around that.
Speaker 5: I don't let not real.
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 13: See hone, every brother take that take away creepy.
Speaker 5: There's no who very pun roll.
Speaker 15: No matter what I say, why I think what I said? Yes,
Speaker 15: the turn of the lightnow their.
Speaker 7: Eyes with your my all.
Speaker 6: That's that's one name.
Speaker 4: And that.
Speaker 8: That's one name, dude. That's my favorite song of yours that I've ever heard. I love that. That is so good.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that is really cool. Fortunately we can all some of us in the room can that. You can totally relate.
Speaker 9: I love that song.
Speaker 8: I really really do. Hopefully more people can't really Hopefully the thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This next song is This next song is called on what You're on.
Speaker 4: You Jason I.
Speaker 3: Again bah long talk me me Yes, super.
Speaker 1: Jay thing Hod surpise what calibizay and I sell miss soos wild guys.
Speaker 3: I can't be hon us here wrong. That's far as he's gone all about.
Speaker 5: Well home, I tell you, I can't be almost here wrong.
Speaker 4: That's far as You're.
Speaker 5: Gone on my way home. I can.
Speaker 15: F friends fay s his fay.
Speaker 3: You just walk away, but I'm still here.
Speaker 4: I seemed a huge hell through I have.
Speaker 16: It's got stop postity start.
Speaker 15: Really, guy, I can't be an't on here.
Speaker 3: That's far you gone on my way home? I tell I can't be ant my gear round.
Speaker 5: That far you gone on my way hold.
Speaker 15: I tell you.
Speaker 5: Like I can't be young us here. That's far you.
Speaker 4: Gone on my wet hold.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you I can't be almo that bar who down?
Speaker 8: I love it. That is so good.
Speaker 9: I love the energy of these all right, if you're just joining us, Aaron Bildo is here listening studio.
Speaker 3: So this next song I'm about to play. It's it's probably over. I don't know, twenty four years old, maybe two thousand and one.
Speaker 8: Okay, wow, we're going back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wrote it back with an old band called Perfectly Normal. Okay, way way way back in the day. I wrote the baseline and brought it in and we all put it together, all right, Aaron, This next song is called eclip all right,
Speaker 3: sad dad?
Speaker 5: What the trap?
Speaker 16: Reflecting Western celebrate Marco or.
Speaker 3: A rubber day job trying to be that used for sex years.
Speaker 5: Moon's alive.
Speaker 15: I can't tell beauty out of the sub.
Speaker 16: Continue way that y'all have a scene that you see.
Speaker 17: Finally by those things that you always wanted to do.
Speaker 3: You know the season A lot no.
Speaker 7: It out.
Speaker 17: Now the celebration food is the first by lease three yes keeping time with a rid Hey to the home, the speak this type of time, but number one.
Speaker 18: Io Jesus, time to ride head.
Speaker 4: You a.
Speaker 11: Safety class I the sun wonder that's kind of a.
Speaker 4: Home now I feel loss So you talk bron out.
Speaker 16: Side, why you uh trut just the pocket world at this around it and feel alive to takenifi be u shot pick n see order slides up it and uh.
Speaker 17: Futafi contensation.
Speaker 15: Five times to the line.
Speaker 3: I knew that uman p far.
Speaker 14: Inside a line, but the mind.
Speaker 15: Won't we pay what it's already here.
Speaker 19: My eyes I.
Speaker 17: Clear out kind of knock here your juiceless plass.
Speaker 14: Time to side, looking to the A had seen this time of the ride.
Speaker 15: To a home.
Speaker 5: Stay spress type of sign from.
Speaker 15: The one after time the five hey you a home.
Speaker 5: Stay the press type of sun the one.
Speaker 4: That's time of.
Speaker 16: Home Now I feel live you tongue fro Rodney, what do I ride?
Speaker 19: Took a five world, I'd been RIDI and the lies to take a five to look to the uh sal based on the ordered flies up, pison up bop a five contrabas.
Speaker 8: All right, I'll do it all right.
Speaker 9: Aaron billideo is here with us live in studio. So just played a great said I love those. What we'll do is, let's play a studio track here while let me turn that off while while Aaron moves over to the chair or as they used to do on the Tonight Show, while Aaron moves to the couch to sit next to Johnny. Well, that goes that goes back anyway. This one's called song of Temptation. This is another great studio track from Aaron and the Argonauts. And then we'll catch up with Aaron.
Speaker 4: Me and the r.
Speaker 18: We're going to stand dispray, be re sway.
Speaker 5: Not tim patient of that.
Speaker 7: Band of colors.
Speaker 6: Without fear.
Speaker 8: Recently Arnos.
Speaker 6: Argonized sighs to the starboard side.
Speaker 7: There's something in the scene.
Speaker 6: Time to.
Speaker 8: Speak that is called song of Temptation.
Speaker 9: That is from Aaron and the Argonauts by Aaron Billideau, who is here with us in studio. Let me get that Mike on there Aaron, great stuff. I always enjoy your live set. So oh I can't hear you and I don't know why. Oh I do know why. Let's try that again. There we go, there we go, Sorry about that. Hey, everybody welcome if you are just joining us. Of course we do have Aeron Billido here with us live in studio. And yeah, that song was what was that song on that?
Speaker 8: I said that was like my favorite passenger.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 8: That is so that is so good. Now that one's not out yet?
Speaker 3: Correct, No, no, no, I have a whole bunch of songs I'll be playing tonight. They're all new, actually almost all of them first half set.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, yeah, so we should talk about that where you're playing tonight.
Speaker 3: Yes, so, uh I have a chea sheet.
Speaker 8: Ah, very good.
Speaker 3: I have a cheat sheet. Yes, I learned it from Saviano Hue the goodgo.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, yeah he does do that, doesn't he. That's funny?
Speaker 3: Yeah? All right, Yeah tonight I'm playing at Terminus Underground at one thirty four Haynes Street, Nashre in New Hampshire. Yes, I'm playing with Atlantic Corvette. That with Huey the Gecko.
Speaker 8: Yes, of course, Paradise and the whole Loaf okay, oh wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm going on I think at eight eight thirty, yeah, somewhere around there. I'm going first, Okay, So if you want to see me, get there early. And they're gonna have hamburgers and hot dogs. They're grilling outside.
Speaker 8: Oh no kidding. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well it is that time of year, I guess. Yeah, it's time for some uh some summertime grilling.
Speaker 8: Very nice. So is everything that you're playing tonight? Is it all new stuff?
Speaker 3: Are you playing? I got about seven songs, brand new songs I just wrote, So I'm going to be playing those tonight, okay, and then I'm going to fill up the rest I set with you know, my uh old stuff. Yeah, no, not really that old. You know, I just got the album came out in November.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, I was gonna say Earning the Arnauts. Yeah, not that not that long ago. So when you is it? Is it hard?
Speaker 9: I mean again, I I know we talked about this last time you're here, but it's so impressive to me that you're able to set all that up and and be the self contained. You know, they used to call that a one man band, right, right, it's completely self contained.
Speaker 3: You look up a drum to one one heel and the other.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's all they used to do at old school. Yeah, I mean, is that challenging.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's tough.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm always on the search for a drummer or uh and a keyboard player. Yeah, and it's hired. I've been trying to put together a a three piece for a few years now. I played with people. I have a couple of drummers. I brought a drummer in last time. He he played on All Aaron and the Argonauts, okay, the whole album. But he doesn't you know, he doesn't play out.
Speaker 8: Oh so who is it?
Speaker 3: Jason Staples? Okay, you know that's the guy I brought in last time.
Speaker 8: Oh gotcha? I was gonna say the name is familiar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, gotcha. I mean, if you want to find him, he at Jason Staples drum Lessons online. Yeah, it's pretty easy just to look on YouTube.
Speaker 8: But he doesn't play out at all.
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't leave the house, but he gives lessons at his house.
Speaker 8: Gotcha?
Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, I worked with him for a good like eight months or so, and right before my surgery was coming up, and right right right before the surgery, it was like a big sprint to get all his drums recorded. So you know, I got everything together and we set it all up at his house and we spent a few days on it and it was pretty good. Yeah, you know you're hearing what we got from it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So what's what's the plan for the new material as far as recording or maybe have you already started recording.
Speaker 3: It or oh yeah, yeah, I mean, uh, you're kind of hearing a little of the backing tracks, you know, minus my my vocals and the base, but the base and vocals, like, I've got the scratch tracks recorded for all of it, okay, you know so far.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: I'll get to it. Like I put my albums out every fall, usually about October and November is when I put them out, so I get some time. I actually, like way ahead of schedule.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so that's good. Yeah, it will be a full album or an EP.
Speaker 3: Or probably Yeah, I put out full albums. Yeah, I've put out singles before, but uh, yeah, you know, I don't I don't make any money so I'm just gonna I'm gonna do it the way I remember. You know, I grew up in the in the nineties, you know, and it was all CDs and stuff.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't stop writing. And it never it never ends for me. Yeah, my brain's alway going. It wakes me up at three in the morning and then I'm downstairs working on ideas.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so so it just it just never stopped. So I put out an album a year I've been putting out. I put out kind of like this weird techno album called Drifting Signals a couple of months ago you did, Yeah, and that was a YouTube project where every week I did free form synth exploration is what I called it, Okay, And I set up all my stuff, usually like in the middle of the night. Yeah, and I put like a GoPro my forehead, and I put a bunch of cameras at all the synthesizers and stuff this out. Yeah, and they're all about fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, when I once I was done, I did six weeks in a row of this and
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I could just put this out.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: There's a few of the episodes like episode five is like my underwater episode where a tribute to my fish. Yeah, it's like my favorite one out of it. So I put it out so basically I can listen to it.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've been doing a weekly YouTube show every single week. Yeah, where I put h I produced like a song a week, yeah, of all my old material okay, because you know, you know what is it was it like fifty two weeks in a year and I got over fifty two songs. Yeah, you know, so I figured, you know, what a great way to you know, I got plenty of I got plenty of material, and I started doing that. I was putting out all these like uh these fun videos, all like creative different videos, and the I've you started stacking up, started stacking I'm getting like two thousand views on my shorts now, which which is a lot for like a middle aged man.
Speaker 8: Sure sure yeah.
Speaker 3: And it took a while, and I've I've been having guests lately, yeah, coming and perform. Yeah, I had six minds combined. Okay, he came over and he did a song. Uh, I got I got everybody on here. Let's see here I had, Oh, I had Michael Mandonka from a Land of Corvette, the bass player, and we did it like a duet together like a bass Uh.
Speaker 8: I have to check that out.
Speaker 3: For Adam, Jocelyn from Able Blood came and he he did a song. Oh cool, this guy, uh George Daher and he played keyboards and he goes by the Trypto Phantom and he did an episode. So like I'm always looking for guests, I got some people lined up coming up. I'm gonna I'm gonna start focusing on bass players, I think. Yeah, you know, so I've been reaching out to bass players that have their own their own solo thing, and I got a couple of guys lined up, and I'm gonna be reaching out to more.
Speaker 8: Very cool.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a bass player and you're listening and you know me, I'm probably gonna I'm probably gonna end up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's awesome. What's the Chateau bill.
Speaker 3: That I So that's just uh just the name of the show that I call it. So I call it Live from Chateau and uh that that's the song A week Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9: Well's cool too that you're you know, you're you're doing unique things that you know trying. I mean, it's not like you're you're just doing a concept that everybody else is already doing, you know what.
Speaker 3: I mean, right right? Yeah, Well, I mean it's like the thing is, like, uh, booking shows for my act is hard, really hard. Yeah, I know, especially like I'm not that kind of guy. I'm not really good at it.
Speaker 8: Well yeah I try, but what you're doing is unique. Yeah, but I'm good at that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, booking has been really hard for me. So I figured, you know, I could just get to more people online than at a club on a Monday, right, you know, So like I'm trying to book less shows. So right now, I got like every other month, Yeah, I got a gig, put more effort into those instead of a lot of little gigs. Yeah, and then put like most of my effort into online, you know. And I'm hoping for a good turnout tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 8: No, that's a strong that's a strong lineup. And of course Terminus is wonderful.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that place. I played their charity show back in December.
Speaker 8: Oh, very cool. Yeah, I was gonna say, I know you've played there, befo, how many fames have you played there?
Speaker 3: Just one? So fun?
Speaker 8: Just one other time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, No, I always tell everybody who hasn't been there before. It's like when you walk into that room, it's like walking into another world.
Speaker 3: Right right, it was. It's it's like Halloween all year round.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah yeah. And they, you know, obviously, are doing a lot for the scene, which is wonderful. Yeah, we need more of that.
Speaker 3: It's nice. It's nice. It's clean in there. You know, they don't they don't serve alcohol, so so you don't have that environment.
Speaker 9: Well that's true too, yeah, which is good, Which is good. And then oh I should I'm gonna for people watching online. I'm gonna put the camera on me for a second because I want to hold up this wonderful shirt. And you brought one for Jenny as well, so very cool. And Amy designed this isume. Oh you did, okay, because I know she, I know she does that kind of stuff, but she did.
Speaker 3: She does all my photography work. Oh right, right, okay, So you say anytime you see anything I put up, that's a photograph, it is from her.
Speaker 8: Oh I got you okay, and this cool sticker too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll have these for sale tonight at the Terminus Show.
Speaker 9: I like the QR code attached to the sticker, and that's that's cool. I don't know if I don't know if people can see it well enough on camera, but I'll take a picture of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it sends, it sends people right to my link tree. Perfect link tree has everything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, that's excellent. Excellent.
Speaker 9: Now are you are you entirely focused on the solo well, I mean you did mention, you know, trying to get other people involved in it, But I mean is that your primary focus? Are you playing in a band as well or anything?
Speaker 3: Or no, No, I'm not playing in a band of I'm just focused on my solo stuff. And if I can put together a three piece that you know, that's the ultimate goal in the end. But until then, I'm not going to stop.
Speaker 8: Yeah. No, that's that's good.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know this gives you the way you're doing this, It gives you total control over what you're doing right, right, and and how you do it, and you know you don't have to argue with band band members.
Speaker 3: And right, but everything lands on you, and your failure or success all all lands on you.
Speaker 9: It's all your Oh something too funny that happened off air. So in the last hour we had the Murphy Clark band, right right. So so you were here getting ready to come in for hour three and in the hallway you you said to Mike Clark, you said, I recorded with you twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, his studio, his story is gorgeous. It's got it's got like this like an old barn field, but then it was all redone inside. Yeah, it's really nice.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then he's got this like almost like an apartment in the back u for for for the band to relax, and it's I mean when I was there twenty years ago, you know, they had the Nintendo and a big TV. I'm sure he's upgraded since then. I would imagine, yeah, the new stuff, but it was all brand new, top of the line back then.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was a change of season.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The metal band, yep, that's that's really like kind of I think that's like a more folk centric type of music that he studies focuses on. Yeah, you know, most of most of his people, I think I like folk music, so I feel like we were kind of the odds going in there.
Speaker 8: Now, I'm curious, did he remember, like when you said change of season, did he remember? Yeah, no, clue, Yeah, it was twenty years ago. And plus he's had a lot of people in it now. He sounds like he's pretty busy there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's uh he does very good work.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, it sounds I wish I could afford him. Yeah, you know, but uh, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: And like I said, you know, the money's not going to stop me either.
Speaker 9: Right right.
Speaker 8: What is your recording process, because you do it all like you're not working with a studio at all, right, all in.
Speaker 3: It's all in house. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's just it's on a laptop through ableton yep, you know. And uh, you know, I got I got a real drummer for the first time for the last album. All my other stuff has been a drum machines, you know. So that was really interesting. That was like that was the first time I felt like I was actually like starting to do something professional or not even professional, but like, yeah, I know, I felt like I was doing real work recording a drum set with all the mics and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I mean my setup right now is pretty much me at home smoking weed and playing with my keyboard and playing with my bass and coming up with all this weird stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Do you uh in terms of these songs, so do you have any oh you said the fall, right, do you plan to do any videos for these?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I uh, I'm thinking about one right now, but I usually do about two, like like like scripted videos. Yeah, because our albums.
Speaker 8: The last album I remember you had a video for Brian yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, and the End of Time I did. I did as well, right right, and that that featured Gary Smith. Mister Gary Smith the hardest working musician in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8: I say that all the time because his name comes up constantly on the show. I always say, yeah, he's the busiest musician I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's he's he's like in seven bands and uh then he does all his like other stuff like studio work and whatnot. Yep, yep, oh, man, I don't know how he does it. He's everywhere.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, he really is.
Speaker 3: But he was he he came up to my house like he recorded. He sent everything over over the internet. But when it came time to do the video, he came to my house. Yeah, and that was the first time we met in person. I asked him to climb up into my attic through a little hole, right, So the whole video is filmed in the attic with these old, like square nails sticking out out of the ceiling right in the head. Yeah, and he did it. He went up there and like a champ. Yeah, and uh we filmed that video. So that video is awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's one of my best videos.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then we did Grind with my wife and that was like a whole cast of characters on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So you plan on doing more?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, new material. I have no idea what I'm gonna do yet, but I've been like, I've been tossing ideas around.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm only like halfway through the writing process, so I get a little ways to go.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: It's funny how sometimes some people who are not I don't know, social media savvy or whatever, some people have this perception that that music videos are like a dead medium, you know what I mean, Right, Because MTV obviously hasn't for a couple of decades now, really been.
Speaker 3: But really still making them.
Speaker 8: And there's more more videos than ever really, right, they're.
Speaker 3: Still pomping money and do these big videos millions of dollars, so they must be doing something.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and the technology is advanced now where you know, anybody can do it.
Speaker 3: And the new U what is it the vo three or whatever is the Google? The new Google? Oh ay that making making the sasquash of logs and all them. Oh my god, they're so good. Yeah, all these things. It's it's blowing my mind.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a lot to keep up with.
Speaker 3: I can't do it, you know what. I'm actually like, I'm trying to, like uh uh uh do everything as practical as possible lately, you know, like like I don't care if it looks cheesy. That's almost the point. Sure, sure, you know, uh man, because it's scary because you can make like beautiful, polished videos now with with just prompts. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you just tell it what you want and I'll do it.
Speaker 8: Same with music.
Speaker 9: We're actually we're talking about that with the Murphy Clark guys like Souno dot com and these we've done it live on the show. Is just an experiment and the stuff it spits out is really good.
Speaker 3: I've I've used I've used it to separate tracks from old recordings of mine so that I can perform on live No kidding, right right, I've done that. Like uh Me and Huey the Gecko put out an album a few years ago called Pink Chicken, and yeah, I wanted to do some stuff off of that with him, but I didn't have anything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't like like that.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of sending back and forth, and he's like, so he had most of uh uh, like the drums and stuff. I didn't have any of it. So so I used a eye to separate it all and it worked, No kidding. It blows my mind, but I mean, uh I U. I use it to like describe my videos online.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: It just it gets you through all the writing process instantly. I don't mind that, Yeah, I don't mind. I use it a little bit to help me design for flyers. Uh and that's about it. Yeah, you know, but I do use it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's scary how like how it can write hit songs and pop songs and they sound so good. I know, it's just putting everybody out of business.
Speaker 9: Some of the things that Suno has generated actually get stuck in my head and it's like, oh.
Speaker 3: No, because it's got an algorithm for you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly exactly, it's it's it's incredible. Of course, the sharks are already circling on that too, like Suno and Udio. There's a lot of people who want to see those go away. But I don't think you can put that genie back.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's it's out there. It's like Napster.
Speaker 9: You can't stop right right, Yeah, you got to adapt, and you know, the music industry figure out how.
Speaker 3: To you know, after after Napster, everybody I learned that, all the all the artists learned that if you just give your music away, you can put the butts in the seats and I sell the tickets, and that's how that's how they got to make money moving forward.
Speaker 9: Right right, which was really kind of the business model anyway. Just I mean, you always made more money, you know, big big By.
Speaker 3: The artists never made money off the album exactly. It was always off merch and seats at the shows.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, exactly. I remember when I was a kid reading this was when I first kind of realized this. I was reading an inter you with meat Loaf and he was talking about how, you know, people think that people assume that bad Out of Hell, which sold you know, how many ever gazillion copies, made him rich.
Speaker 8: And he's like, no, right, yeah, yeah, I mean that's what he said.
Speaker 9: That and touring and he said he's the said he made he would get something like a quarter, like like literally twenty five cents per unit right for for albums sold.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 8: It's like it kind of opened my eyes. So so that's how that works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, the record company get recoups all that money yep, yep, you know, forever, and they make you a big name for that. You can make your own money somewhere else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, which is that there's value in that, right, But but yeah, it's a it's an interesting time to be alive, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: That's for sure. So you now, do you know when your next show is? After after the show tonight or you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Just kind of okay.
Speaker 3: So so I got like three more shows after this. I got August twentieth, the sand Down Farmers Market, yeah, play in the apartments market, and August thirtieth, I am playing the Keen Music Festival.
Speaker 8: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about that. I've I've been trying for like three years now, and so I got in this year.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: And then October twenty fifth, I'm playing Grafton Palooza.
Speaker 8: Okay, which is a new festival show. Oh that's new okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but you know it seems like he's gathering up a bunch of names. So yeah, sweet, excited for that one as well. I'm excited.
Speaker 8: No, that's good. That's good. Yeah, because you mentioned it, it's hard to find find venues to play, right, Yeah, I would. I would think you'd be kind of a dream.
Speaker 9: A dream performer for a lot of venues because you're because you are self contained, right, right?
Speaker 8: Is it that they just don't get it? They just don't get what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Like, honestly, if I knew what it was, then i'd be able to.
Speaker 9: Fix it, because I'm sure that happens too, especially if you're dealing with somebody who maybe as a club owner, but they're you know, maybe they're.
Speaker 3: Just they just don't get it.
Speaker 8: They're just older and they don't you know, you explained to them.
Speaker 3: Most solo guys have a guitar, or exactly most most of the time they have an acoustic guitar.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm, yeah exactly. So you tell them or you show them what you're doing, and they're like.
Speaker 3: Right, when I decided I was going to start doing this, I wanted to be different. Everybody out there goes out of your guests that play music, they play on acoustic guitar. And anytime you have somebody like like ce Bbie when she came in on a keyboard or an electric guitar, or if I see a bass player come into your show, I'm on it.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 3: But you know a lot of times when once the acoustics starts strumming, I'm I'm I'm out.
Speaker 8: Yeah a little bit, you know, you know what you're getting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3: I'm you know, I wanted to I wanted to be something different that I enjoyed. I wanted to see someone do No.
Speaker 8: I love it. I love it. I think it's awesome than you do.
Speaker 9: You get people who when you when you do play live, like do people come up to you afterward and they're like kind of surprised, like like does it end up being something different than what they were expecting maybe.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, I mean if there's people there, like I've played the empty houses before, you know, and you just play it like a practice.
Speaker 8: Sure, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I usually get really really good reception yeah, from people to play live because they've never seen anything like.
Speaker 8: It, right exactly?
Speaker 9: Yeah, who, like, is there somebody out there who does something even remotely close to what you do that you can think of, or.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of busking people like, oh yeah, you use like like pedals, use a loop stations?
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's that's about it. I haven't really seen any like that I know of that I can think about the top of my head bass players that do anything like this.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I was curious partly because I wondered if if there was someone you kind of tried to pattern your process after.
Speaker 3: Or like it stole from everybody? Yeah, a little bit from everybody.
Speaker 8: Yeah No, but you've.
Speaker 9: Made it your own and it's it's really unique. So I think that's I think that's amazing everything that you've recorded, because you have recorded all the time goes so quick, but you have recorded a lot of music.
Speaker 3: Is it all seven albums I've put out and.
Speaker 8: It's all online, it's all it's all in band camp, it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, the old disttro Kid they give it to everybody.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, yes, very good, very good. So we should remind people one more time about tonight's show.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'll be playing at Terminus Underground, Yeah, Haynes Street in Nashville and New Hampshire. All right, I'm gonna be playing with Atlanta Corvette with the great Huey the Get Go.
Speaker 8: Yeah. We love Paradise and the Whole Loaf. Great great bands.
Speaker 9: We haven't We've had all of them, except we haven't had Paradise, have we, I don't.
Speaker 10: Think so they're just called Yeah, you should have them contact me.
Speaker 8: We had somebody on the show with that in their name, right, yes, yeah, but not but not just Paradise. But yeah, it's just two of them.
Speaker 3: I think a keyboard play. I haven't seen them yet, but I think it's just two of them. It's a dual.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, we'll have to h we'll have to get them on and you know, and obviously we love what what they do, Eleanor and Andre, what they've done with.
Speaker 8: Amazing, amazing, very good, very good.
Speaker 9: In a moment, think think about I'll let you think about this while Jenny uh talks about what's going on tomorrow. But think about what you want me to play to end the show. I'll play one more track from Aaron and the Argonauts, one more studio track.
Speaker 8: But Jenny, what's going on tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Speaker 10: Are you gonna find Matt and I at the Great North Airworks for the Sunday Shakedown from one to five pm. Join artisans, local vendors, all kinds of great stuff there if you want to take a tootle down there today. They're also doing me here on tied I. I made myself a zip up last year. It came out really great. Yeah, so check out the Great North Airworks. They are located right here in the Queen City on holt.
Speaker 8: A ten fifty holt ap And you said it's one to five, one.
Speaker 10: To five, Yes, tomorrow, the Artisan the Sunday Shakedown, the Great Artisan Event. There's going to be lots of great yeah sorry, small business companies there.
Speaker 3: He'll croft.
Speaker 8: Jewelry, all kinds of goodies and then down and check it out. And there's something there today too.
Speaker 10: Right today, they're doing make your Own Tied Eye this afternoon.
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, they do.
Speaker 10: You usually have t shirts and sweatshirts and all kinds of fun stuff and the lady that does it is just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 8: I made myself a gorgeous zip up last year. Yeah, fishes in town, so it's a it's a weekend for tid.
Speaker 10: Eye for tied Eye and they have a great Tied I beer. So check out Great North Airworks.
Speaker 8: And you should plug your website too, because you've been doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you want to find out more about me in the trouble that I get into, go to Gencoffee dot com, j E N N c O F F e y dot com.
Speaker 9: And by the way, our friend Slicko who called in earlier too, he's got a show tonight, hip hop show at Club Madison and Hampton. I'm not familiar with Club Madison, but it sounds like it's a new new venue. But I was great to hear from him because it's been literally years since we've since we've really talked.
Speaker 8: To him as from the past.
Speaker 3: Don't be so distant.
Speaker 9: And also to just keep an eye on your social media because I believe this afternoon, Eric Pilcher and I will do another live stream of our podcast Tough Bumps. Uh so that will be today as well. So yes, yes, so always a lot going on. But thank you to everyone who joined us today. Of course Moonlight Eclips who joined us online all the way from Ireland, and uh, let's see. And then of course we had the Murphy Clark Band in the second hour, so thank you to Brian Murphy and Mike Clark. And if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot organ on my website Matt connorton dot com.
Speaker 9: And of course Aaron Billidoh, thank you so much, always always so much fun to have you on. And uh, good luck tonight at the show of course at Terminus Underground in Nashua.
Speaker 3: And what should we play it on the show, Hiding behind the Sun.
Speaker 9: Hiding behind the Sun from Aaron and the Argonauts. Let me get that all right, Very good, very good, and thank you again, thank you.
Speaker 8: Everybody, thank you for having me.
Speaker 9: We joined us today. Absolutely we will do it again in the future, and we'll close out with this. This is Hiding behind the Sun from the album Aaron and the Argonauts by Aaron Bilodeo.
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