Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-27-26 hour 3

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4:35 Speaker 6: As I like to say. If that doesn't get you moving,

4:37 Speaker 6: check your pulse, you might be dead. That is so good,

4:40 Speaker 6: That is faithless. The band is Despire and we've got

4:43 Speaker 6: Rob the vocalist from Despire here on the line with us, Rob, Rob.

4:46 Speaker 6: How do you say your last name?

4:47 Speaker 7: By the way, Melvagna, Well, that's the americanized way in Italy,

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4:54 Speaker 6: Silent, oh Melvano. Okay, all right, very good, very good.

4:58 Speaker 6: By the way, is it just your do do you

5:00 Speaker 6: have any of your bandmates with you? Or are we

5:02 Speaker 6: just talking to you right now?

5:05 Speaker 7: No, it's it's just just me right now. Sorry, they're

5:08 Speaker 7: all listening on the link.

5:09 Speaker 6: Oh okay, okay, cool, well, yeah, welcome to the show.

5:13 Speaker 6: Like I said, I love that track. And is this

5:16 Speaker 6: so the name despire that's a comp Is that a

5:19 Speaker 6: combination of despair and inspire? Is that correct?

5:22 Speaker 8: Yes? It is.

5:24 Speaker 7: You know, we wanted to take the two emotions of

5:26 Speaker 7: you know, the lowest of the lows and the highest

5:29 Speaker 7: of the highs, you know, and kind of put it

5:31 Speaker 7: together and you know, come up with that made up

5:34 Speaker 7: name there. But you know, we because everybody goes through that,

5:39 Speaker 7: you know, and that's kind of what leads you to

5:42 Speaker 7: either be successful or you know, to deal with your

5:46 Speaker 7: problems in life, right you know, so we wanted to

5:50 Speaker 7: take those two emotions and combine them right.

5:52 Speaker 6: Right now, that makes sense? And you guys have been

5:54 Speaker 6: together since twenty fifteen, is that right?

5:58 Speaker 8: Yep, so I love it.

5:59 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, we we've played with each other before this,

6:03 Speaker 7: you know, we we've all been very good friends in

6:05 Speaker 7: the in the industry, and uh we've played formations of

6:09 Speaker 7: other bands, and then then we happened to get together

6:12 Speaker 7: and uh start jamming and writing some music. And one

6:17 Speaker 7: of our earlier songs, which is on our first EP, Black,

6:20 Speaker 7: the song is got in the hands of Joey Z

6:23 Speaker 7: from Life of Agony, who reached out and said, you know,

6:26 Speaker 7: I like this, what are you guys doing. I'd love

6:29 Speaker 7: to record some of your new stuff, and hence that's

6:32 Speaker 7: what led to our first DP Irritation, which Joey Z

6:36 Speaker 7: from Mike Agony produced, which inevitably got us signed to

6:39 Speaker 7: Pavement Records.

6:41 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I mean connecting with Joey Z. That's uh.

6:44 Speaker 6: You guys got off to a great start early on.

6:46 Speaker 6: That's that's amazing. Life of an Agony of course, such

6:50 Speaker 6: a great band. But oh that's that's uh so cool.

6:54 Speaker 6: I mean you probably learned a lot from him, I

6:55 Speaker 6: would imagine.

6:58 Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, you know what was great was you know,

7:02 Speaker 7: I was a Life of agony fan, you know, before that,

7:05 Speaker 7: and I learned a lot from him, not only in

7:08 Speaker 7: the studio, but.

7:12 Speaker 8: Just in general.

7:14 Speaker 7: In life itself. You know, he's a very down throat guy.

7:17 Speaker 7: We became friends, you know, so it was a big

7:21 Speaker 7: eye opener on how things are done in an industry

7:23 Speaker 7: and how he brought out, you know, certain aspects of

7:26 Speaker 7: the band and recording.

7:28 Speaker 8: You know, we just worked well together.

7:30 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And then now tell us about so

7:35 Speaker 6: present day Faithless. I know that's the newest that came

7:38 Speaker 6: out pretty recently, right, the new single Faithless.

7:42 Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know we aren't with Pavement any longer.

7:46 Speaker 6: Okay.

7:46 Speaker 7: You know, things happened in twenty twenty with COVID. You know,

7:52 Speaker 7: the band itself went through a lot of changes and

7:55 Speaker 7: unfortunate deaths in our first drummer passed away and family members, mothers, fathers.

8:04 Speaker 7: After COVID, and then I had a health scare. I

8:07 Speaker 7: was diagnosed with cancer, went through my treatments, and in

8:11 Speaker 7: this process a drummer that was with us. We had

8:14 Speaker 7: about seven songs that we had written. So Griffin went

8:18 Speaker 7: in the studio recorded the drums because we you know,

8:21 Speaker 7: we knew that we were going to be coming back

8:23 Speaker 7: out once I got the clear and okay, you know,

8:26 Speaker 7: we started recording some songs and it was time to

8:28 Speaker 7: release them, you know. And now we have big news

8:32 Speaker 7: coming up in the upcoming weeks. We have some offers

8:35 Speaker 7: on the table that we will be announcing shortly for

8:39 Speaker 7: these upcoming singles that will be released.

8:41 Speaker 6: Oh, excellent, excellent. As far as the cancer, I mean,

8:46 Speaker 6: you're you're you free and clear now clear of it.

8:49 Speaker 7: Yeah, right now. I reached one hundred percent remission. So

8:53 Speaker 7: things are looking good, you know, and it it just

8:56 Speaker 7: made me stronger as a person and to move forward,

9:00 Speaker 7: you know, and do what I love.

9:02 Speaker 9: Yeah.

9:02 Speaker 6: Oh, that's good for you. I'm glad to hear that.

9:05 Speaker 8: Wow.

9:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, And you guys have been through a lot, I

9:08 Speaker 6: mean obviously. Yeah. It's interesting how COVID even even now

9:13 Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six. It it comes up in a

9:16 Speaker 6: lot of conversations on the show because it just affected

9:19 Speaker 6: so many people. And you know, when you're when your

9:22 Speaker 6: whole thing is, especially if you're playing live music, you know,

9:25 Speaker 6: it really it really affected uh everything exactly.

9:29 Speaker 8: That's kind of what happened. You know.

9:31 Speaker 7: The momentum of the band was really going well.

9:33 Speaker 8: And you know, the world stopped.

9:36 Speaker 7: Yeah, and we're not Metallica, and you know what I mean.

9:38 Speaker 7: So it's like thoughting over again.

9:40 Speaker 6: Absolutely, especially where you are too, because you're in New

9:44 Speaker 6: York and and uh man, I mean New York City

9:48 Speaker 6: really got hit hard. I mean that was that was

9:51 Speaker 6: really for a while. That was kind of the epicenter

9:53 Speaker 6: in the country for for COVID nineteen. It just just

9:56 Speaker 6: just awful. Are you guys ever everybody who's in the

9:59 Speaker 6: band now, are you all from New York?

10:02 Speaker 5: Uh?

10:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, We're all from Long Island, New York.

10:06 Speaker 7: You know, like I said, we've been brothers forever. You know,

10:10 Speaker 7: it feels like, you know, it's like having another marriage.

10:13 Speaker 7: But we're all great friends.

10:15 Speaker 8: You know, we're all.

10:16 Speaker 7: Within you know, a half hour of each other. Yeah,

10:19 Speaker 7: a couple of guys live very close, and then the

10:22 Speaker 7: rest of us are within twenty minutes of a half

10:24 Speaker 7: hour of each other. And then recently, we just announced

10:27 Speaker 7: that the newest member, our newest drummer. She is incredible,

10:32 Speaker 7: Bobby Dima went through a lot of auditions and drummers

10:36 Speaker 7: and she just is filling the gap and bringing a

10:40 Speaker 7: whole new energy to the band.

10:42 Speaker 8: So you know, I just wanted to give a formal

10:44 Speaker 8: welcome to her on the air.

10:46 Speaker 6: Oh very cool. Yeah, congratulations to her. That's awesome. That's awesome.

10:51 Speaker 6: Do you feel like I'm curious being from New York

10:54 Speaker 6: and such a part of the scene there, do you

10:58 Speaker 6: feel like New York has shaped your because there's such

11:01 Speaker 6: a rich history of heavy music coming out of that area.

11:04 Speaker 6: And we had a actually just recently, we had Frequency

11:08 Speaker 6: Overload on the show, and you know, they're from there obviously,

11:10 Speaker 6: and they're amazing. But I mean, does do you think

11:13 Speaker 6: is there I guess what I'm trying to ask is

11:15 Speaker 6: is there a New York sound as far as heavy music,

11:17 Speaker 6: like what you guys are doing. Is there a New

11:19 Speaker 6: York sound? And are you what you do?

11:23 Speaker 7: It's a great question because I actually think there is,

11:27 Speaker 7: you know, and it goes way back to the days

11:30 Speaker 7: of you know, when the thrash metal and spemale, when

11:33 Speaker 7: you had like bands like Anthrax, and then the hardcore

11:36 Speaker 7: scene with like Biohazard and Life of Agony, you know,

11:38 Speaker 7: and Sheer Terror and all these bands that came out

11:42 Speaker 7: of the area. And then of course there was the

11:44 Speaker 7: glam movement too, you know, New York dolls and kiss,

11:47 Speaker 7: and so I think the East Coast in general, New

11:51 Speaker 7: York area and up towards your area, it's it's a

11:54 Speaker 7: it's a different roarer, more in your face, I feel,

12:00 Speaker 7: isle of music, you know. So yeah, I do think

12:04 Speaker 7: even though music has changed tremendously, and and the scene

12:07 Speaker 7: itself has changed tremendously, not just here in New York

12:10 Speaker 7: but throughout the United States. You know, in the old days,

12:14 Speaker 7: there was so many clubs and everybody came out to

12:17 Speaker 7: see music, and that was the only way was to

12:19 Speaker 7: go to sea band's live.

12:20 Speaker 8: You know.

12:20 Speaker 7: Nowadays, with social media and YouTube, you don't have to

12:22 Speaker 7: go anywhere. You know, everything's there right the ship to

12:25 Speaker 7: your thing is. But I think that you definitely can

12:30 Speaker 7: tell the sound of our our music and where we're

12:32 Speaker 7: from geographically. So I do do feel that there is

12:35 Speaker 7: a certain sound that comes out of New York. It's

12:39 Speaker 7: the aggression, it's the in your face, you know.

12:43 Speaker 8: And then just the way of.

12:44 Speaker 7: Living out here, the fast pace and of society in general,

12:49 Speaker 7: and people are so stressed and it comes out.

12:51 Speaker 8: In the music.

12:52 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, What is your for the track faith list,

12:58 Speaker 6: which which again I love, it's just so good. Is

13:02 Speaker 6: this part of a larger project now? I mean, do

13:04 Speaker 6: you have a because there's so many different ways to

13:06 Speaker 6: release music now. Is is it part of an EP

13:09 Speaker 6: or an album or are you just releasing singles at

13:11 Speaker 6: this point? What's what's kind of your your plan?

13:15 Speaker 7: Okay, so you hit it on the head.

13:17 Speaker 8: I mean, like music has changed, you know.

13:20 Speaker 7: No longer are the days of where I can run

13:22 Speaker 7: to the store and I was waiting for that Iron

13:23 Speaker 7: Maiden record to come out, hit the album cover and

13:26 Speaker 7: I wanted to read the liner notes and you know,

13:29 Speaker 7: immerse myself in it while I was in to music. So,

13:32 Speaker 7: you know, people unfortunately, people's attention span is a lot

13:36 Speaker 7: less nowadays, and they want not so much instant gratification,

13:41 Speaker 7: but they want to hear a song and they want

13:43 Speaker 7: to move on to the next, you know, band and

13:45 Speaker 7: put it in their playlist. So we what we plan

13:49 Speaker 7: on doing moving forward right now is we will be

13:52 Speaker 7: releasing singles as they come up, and then as we

13:57 Speaker 7: finished writing them. And then our plan is once we

14:00 Speaker 7: released these next group of writings that we had, we're

14:03 Speaker 7: gonna put together an EP or an album of them

14:07 Speaker 7: so everybody can get it as like a special order

14:10 Speaker 7: or through a company or whatever. This way they can

14:13 Speaker 7: have everything encompassed in a CD vinyl, but the initial

14:18 Speaker 7: release is gonna be based on singles. You know, every

14:22 Speaker 7: one of the Fire songs, aside from the first couple albums,

14:28 Speaker 7: they each song is different.

14:30 Speaker 8: You know.

14:31 Speaker 7: So if you take a listen to our songs when

14:32 Speaker 7: we write, they will have a different feel, different emotion,

14:36 Speaker 7: or a different story to tell. I think we did

14:39 Speaker 7: that intentionally. We want We didn't want to be usic.

14:41 Speaker 7: You know, this album sounds like this, Like the new

14:44 Speaker 7: single that will be dropping the beginning of August and

14:47 Speaker 7: of July is a total different sound for us. It's

14:51 Speaker 7: still heavy and it's dark, but it's different. It's in

14:55 Speaker 7: a different direction from the rest of the music that

14:57 Speaker 7: we have out.

14:58 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, yeah, you're your trajectory as far as the singles,

15:03 Speaker 6: and then eventually, you know, they coalesce into an EP.

15:06 Speaker 6: That's that's how a lot of artists seem to be

15:07 Speaker 6: doing it now too. It's kind of the kind of

15:09 Speaker 6: the inverse of what it used to be. You know,

15:11 Speaker 6: when I was growing up, it was you know, a

15:15 Speaker 6: band might release a single for an upcoming album. Single

15:18 Speaker 6: goes to radio six eight weeks before the album comes out.

15:20 Speaker 6: Then the album comes out, and then if everything goes well,

15:23 Speaker 6: you know, there might be a second single, there might

15:25 Speaker 6: be a third single. But now a lot of artists

15:27 Speaker 6: are doing it, you know, the inverse of that, like

15:29 Speaker 6: you described, you know, you release a series of singles

15:32 Speaker 6: that will eventually coalesce into an EP or an album.

15:35 Speaker 6: Just kind of the and it, you know, and it

15:37 Speaker 6: makes sense. You know, you got to feed the algorithm.

15:38 Speaker 6: You got to keep people interested.

15:40 Speaker 7: And exactly yeah, you have to be relevant. You know,

15:44 Speaker 7: you have to keep it exactly what you said. You

15:47 Speaker 7: have to keep it rolling. You know, a good a

15:50 Speaker 7: good food of thought is you know, every five to

15:53 Speaker 7: six weeks if you can, you know, if you have

15:56 Speaker 7: the music written, you know, try to release something. You've

15:58 Speaker 7: got to keep yourself in everybody space, right, And that's

16:01 Speaker 7: kind of how the music business is now. Yeah, it's

16:05 Speaker 7: not a collective work because an album, people are going

16:08 Speaker 7: to listen to it, unfortunately for you know, another two years.

16:12 Speaker 7: So you've got to keep yourself relevant by throwing things out.

16:15 Speaker 6: Yea. And what's the live uh kind of touring situation

16:20 Speaker 6: for you guys, because obviously you're in an area where uh,

16:23 Speaker 6: you know, there's there's such a great array of venues

16:27 Speaker 6: you can play out. Imagine, you know, it's such a

16:29 Speaker 6: vibrant scene there in New York. Are you guys playing

16:32 Speaker 6: out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows,

16:33 Speaker 6: You're going on tour? What's what's been happening there?

16:36 Speaker 7: Well, we so before all this happened, you know, we

16:39 Speaker 7: were ramping up. Uh we we did a tour Boba

16:42 Speaker 7: Flex and then we toured Canada and the Northeast with

16:46 Speaker 7: Life of Agony Nice. So we were ramping up and

16:49 Speaker 7: we were just about ready to do a European leg

16:52 Speaker 7: and get into the festivals. And then, like we were

16:54 Speaker 7: talking before, Bam COVID hit. So our trajectory now is

17:00 Speaker 7: we're building up the fan base. If a good tour

17:04 Speaker 7: came up, you know, obviously it would be on the table.

17:07 Speaker 7: But we are really looking for a lot of like

17:09 Speaker 7: fly dates. We're trying to get into the festival scene.

17:13 Speaker 7: You know, we do want to actually come up to

17:16 Speaker 7: your area. We're looking into New Hampshire. We have right

17:20 Speaker 7: now we're all working on dates in New Jersey, Connecticut,

17:24 Speaker 7: North Carolina. We have a show which is our comeback

17:28 Speaker 7: show on Long Island October sixteenth in New York. That's

17:35 Speaker 7: a Friday night. That is our next show that we

17:38 Speaker 7: have on the books. You know. That's kind of where

17:41 Speaker 7: we're looking to be right now. The scene here, you know,

17:43 Speaker 7: and I'm sure it's.

17:45 Speaker 8: Kind of like that everywhere.

17:46 Speaker 7: Unfortunately for original music, it's very hard.

17:51 Speaker 8: It's not like it used to be.

17:52 Speaker 7: Every club, every bar wants cover bands and tribute bands now,

17:57 Speaker 7: taking nothing away from those bands. You know, the club

18:01 Speaker 7: owners they don't care anymore honestly about promoting original music.

18:05 Speaker 7: It's all about, you know, the money and how what

18:07 Speaker 7: they can put in their pockets and how many people

18:09 Speaker 7: you can get through the door.

18:09 Speaker 8: And sure, you know, and it's changeable.

18:13 Speaker 7: Back in the day, I'm sure you remember in the eighties.

18:15 Speaker 7: I mean, people went out to see music they didn't know.

18:20 Speaker 7: They wanted to reach out and find new bands and

18:23 Speaker 7: new things that would turn them on. And it's kind

18:25 Speaker 7: of not like that anymore. So you have to your

18:28 Speaker 7: job as someone in a band is a lot harder now,

18:32 Speaker 7: you know, from from my perspective, Yeah.

18:35 Speaker 6: Well, now you're competing with so much. You know, you're

18:39 Speaker 6: you're competing with Netflix and and uh and YouTube and

18:45 Speaker 6: and uh, you know, and and gaming and and all

18:48 Speaker 6: of it. There's there's so many things now. There's a

18:50 Speaker 6: lot more things that you can do at home now,

18:53 Speaker 6: uh instead of going out that you couldn't do before.

18:56 Speaker 6: So so that's that's always a challenge.

18:59 Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, that's like what I said before. You know,

19:01 Speaker 7: people don't need they don't have to go to see

19:03 Speaker 7: a band.

19:04 Speaker 8: You know, videos are put on YouTube.

19:06 Speaker 7: They could sit in their house, not spend any money

19:08 Speaker 7: and watch a video of the band live or a

19:11 Speaker 7: live stream and.

19:12 Speaker 8: There it is.

19:13 Speaker 7: Yeah, which to me takes away from the whole purpose

19:16 Speaker 7: of live music. I like the vibe with the audience

19:20 Speaker 7: and the sound of a bass drum just like crushing

19:23 Speaker 7: your ribs, and when you're there, it's like you can't

19:27 Speaker 7: experience that sitting in your living room.

19:28 Speaker 6: Exactly. Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I agree. So October sixteenth

19:35 Speaker 6: is the next show for you guys, and you've got

19:37 Speaker 6: some other opportunities coming up, it sounds like, So that's

19:39 Speaker 6: that's great.

19:40 Speaker 7: Yeah, we're we're working on a lot of opportunities that

19:43 Speaker 7: will be announced in the upcoming weeks. So we'll be

19:46 Speaker 7: around Okay, you know, we're going to be heading out

19:49 Speaker 7: there and then especially going into next year, in the

19:52 Speaker 7: next festival season, you know you'll be seeing this fire

19:55 Speaker 7: a lot more.

19:56 Speaker 6: Oh, fantastic, fantastic in a in a man. Well, we'll

20:01 Speaker 6: let you go on. We're gonna play. I've got another

20:04 Speaker 6: track here that I'm going to play at the end

20:06 Speaker 6: of our conversation, Blue Sky Reborn. You've got a This

20:10 Speaker 6: is really and this show is a different side of

20:13 Speaker 6: you guys. Great song, but you've also got a guest

20:17 Speaker 6: vocalist on this.

20:19 Speaker 7: Yeah, so Alicia Rose. You know, I thought that she

20:24 Speaker 7: had the perfect voice. She's she's a local musician from

20:27 Speaker 7: our area and she has a great tone to her voice.

20:31 Speaker 7: And the story of Blue Sky I felt and the

20:34 Speaker 7: band members in the band, we all discussed this and

20:36 Speaker 7: we felt that.

20:36 Speaker 8: It would fit perfect with what we were looking to do.

20:39 Speaker 7: So the original song Blue Sky, which is on our EP,

20:43 Speaker 7: it was written based on Unfortunately in my life I

20:47 Speaker 7: had about seven times happened to me I had to

20:49 Speaker 7: deal with suicide. So when the song was written, it

20:53 Speaker 7: was about the what the people who are left behind

20:57 Speaker 7: have to deal with and how you need to find

20:59 Speaker 7: ways of moving forward. That's kind of what the song

21:03 Speaker 7: is about. And now it's also taken on if a

21:06 Speaker 7: loved one has passed, you know, how how do I

21:07 Speaker 7: get through this? So we wanted an answer to that,

21:11 Speaker 7: you know, we thought, let's do this acoustics, show a

21:14 Speaker 7: different side of the band and show someone which is

21:17 Speaker 7: her part answering back to you when you're asking them

21:21 Speaker 7: you know, I'm looking searching for Blue Skies, you know,

21:22 Speaker 7: I miss your voice. And now this person is answering

21:26 Speaker 7: you back and kind of saying, look, everything's okay, nothing

21:30 Speaker 7: was your fault, but I'm here for you. So that's

21:33 Speaker 7: kind of what Blue Sky Reborn is about.

21:35 Speaker 6: Okay, okay, Yeah, it's a it's a great song. And

21:40 Speaker 6: by the way, did you say so seven times you've

21:43 Speaker 6: you've dealt with the people you know who've committed suicide.

21:47 Speaker 7: Unfortunately, and they between family members and very close friends.

21:53 Speaker 7: You know, it's something Depression is real. Yeah, you know

21:59 Speaker 7: a lot of times you don't you don't know it.

22:02 Speaker 7: With the people that are going through it, they kind

22:04 Speaker 7: of just do it, yeah, you know, and it catches

22:06 Speaker 7: it by surprise, you know. But there are places out there,

22:10 Speaker 7: people to talk to, you know, and thank god, I

22:13 Speaker 7: have music, and you know, that's one way myself and

22:17 Speaker 7: the band members can talk about things. But hopefully it

22:22 Speaker 7: touches something and someone else and they're able to hear

22:25 Speaker 7: something and it helps them. Yeah, part of being an artist,

22:28 Speaker 7: you know, you want to help people. But unfortunately, yes,

22:31 Speaker 7: I had, I had to deal with that. I don't

22:32 Speaker 7: I don't want to deal with it anymore.

22:34 Speaker 8: But you got to find a way to.

22:36 Speaker 6: Continue, absolutely absolutely, And no. And I like what you

22:41 Speaker 6: said about depression too, you know, as someone who I myself,

22:43 Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not suicidal, but I do deal with depression.

22:46 Speaker 6: And it's uh, you know, mental health is something that

22:49 Speaker 6: a lot of the stigma has gone I think is

22:51 Speaker 6: a lot of the stigma has faded, but it's still

22:53 Speaker 6: something that we probably don't talk about enough.

22:56 Speaker 7: And yeah, it's you know, people do it, anxiety and

23:00 Speaker 7: depression and the way society is and the best thing

23:04 Speaker 7: to do is find an outlet. You know, ending your

23:08 Speaker 7: life is not the answer, right because life is beautiful,

23:12 Speaker 7: you know, as there are things nature, you know, the

23:17 Speaker 7: materialistic things in the world don't mean anything. You know,

23:20 Speaker 7: family health, you know, and being able to just experience

23:24 Speaker 7: what you have and the good things in life, you know,

23:27 Speaker 7: so there's so many ways you could talk your problems

23:30 Speaker 7: out nowadays, you know, so don't be afraid to ask

23:33 Speaker 7: for help, right right.

23:35 Speaker 6: Very well, said very well, said Rob. Before we let

23:39 Speaker 6: you go, and we're going to hit that track. But

23:41 Speaker 6: where's the best place for people to go online to

23:43 Speaker 6: keep up with everything that Despire is doing.

23:47 Speaker 7: Despire dot com is our website, but really social media yeah, Facebook, Instagram,

23:54 Speaker 7: you know, those are the best place. We have a

23:57 Speaker 7: social media presence, you know, we send out newsblasts, we're

24:02 Speaker 7: always posting, so you'll definitely be able to find Aspire.

24:06 Speaker 7: You know, you can google our name, you'll see.

24:08 Speaker 8: All kinds of things about us.

24:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, we're on Spotify, all the major digital networks you can.

24:14 Speaker 7: You can download our music YouTube, so we're around.

24:19 Speaker 8: Yeah.

24:19 Speaker 6: Absolutely, Well that's another thing that's really changed, huh room

24:23 Speaker 6: Before I it used to be social media. It changed everything.

24:26 Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yeah, it's it's crazy and we we again,

24:31 Speaker 7: you know, I'll even I'd like to speak to you

24:33 Speaker 7: about it another day too. We do want to come

24:35 Speaker 7: up to New Hampshire. We actually started looking into it,

24:38 Speaker 7: so maybe we can sooner than later get ourselves up there.

24:41 Speaker 7: And and bring our crazy show. Because a Thespire show

24:45 Speaker 7: is not just five guys and I will say four

24:47 Speaker 7: guys and a young lady up on the stage. We

24:51 Speaker 7: put on an event because we come from the Iron Maiden.

24:55 Speaker 7: You know. To me, when you go see a band live,

24:58 Speaker 7: the music, yeah, you know wants music to be good,

25:00 Speaker 7: but you want to escape reality, you know, you want

25:03 Speaker 7: to come see a show exactly.

25:05 Speaker 8: That's what we do.

25:06 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh hell yeah, yeah.

25:07 Speaker 7: No, definitely We'll be seeing you up in New Hampshire,

25:09 Speaker 7: in that New England area real soon, I hope.

25:11 Speaker 8: So.

25:11 Speaker 6: I would love it. I would love it absolutely. All right, Rob,

25:14 Speaker 6: we'll let you go. We're going to hit that track

25:16 Speaker 6: Blue Sky Reborn. But thank you so much for joining us,

25:19 Speaker 6: and thank you for being flexible about the the WhatsApp

25:23 Speaker 6: and the phone line and everything. We appreciate that as well.

25:26 Speaker 7: No problem, Matt, and I want to thank you for

25:29 Speaker 7: your time and having to fire you know, grace your

25:32 Speaker 7: ailways and to speak with us.

25:34 Speaker 8: I appreciate it.

25:35 Speaker 6: Oh absolutely no, we appreciate you. Rob. All right, thank

25:38 Speaker 6: you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

25:41 Speaker 7: We will all right, see you that everybody, By all right.

25:45 Speaker 6: That is Rob from the band Despire and again this

25:49 Speaker 6: track shows a different side of the band and their sound.

25:52 Speaker 6: But this is really good. This is Blue Sky Reborn

25:56 Speaker 6: with Alicia Rose is also on the track singing this

26:00 Speaker 6: is really good. Check this out, scream.

26:38 Speaker 1: I love you, mister sonny a voice dream.

26:46 Speaker 10: We don't feel an you by my side, raid angered

26:54 Speaker 10: by the answers to wild ba, I'll keep it bottled

27:02 Speaker 10: and leave inside. M hm, hope you now at peace, suffering.

27:25 Speaker 11: Covets hope you know it. Peace suffering conveys, scream.

27:37 Speaker 12: And shout, I from my way out to us and

27:40 Speaker 12: not under reach on my head shot in the spell,

27:47 Speaker 12: close my eyes and flyer.

27:52 Speaker 11: Then sensing for blue skies so and sunset.

27:59 Speaker 1: In dog your cries your.

28:03 Speaker 11: Sor is a bird been such a for b Scotch

28:11 Speaker 11: so the sunset him the dog guy near your cries

28:18 Speaker 11: you so is that bird?

28:37 Speaker 13: Sorry, lestitude, It's nothing needed wrong at peace in your mind.

28:44 Speaker 13: Tomo is with you already ever saught you know, close

28:49 Speaker 13: your eyes and s.

28:53 Speaker 1: Been such as for peace scs so you as.

28:58 Speaker 13: Sunset in the dogs masson he's a rayes be sexual

29:10 Speaker 13: stares so sns.

29:15 Speaker 1: In the dog cause massoniadis Henry World, who.

29:47 Speaker 11: Wo bring such a for the disguiest sort sort? Heman

30:32 Speaker 11: dog acries us and Red being such a for girls

30:41 Speaker 11: scys sort and songs hem the Dog act you.

30:51 Speaker 14: So you're listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on WM and

31:22 Speaker 14: H ninety five point.

31:23 Speaker 6: Three Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live on WMNH

31:34 Speaker 6: ninety five point three FM. And of course thank you

31:37 Speaker 6: again to Rob of course from the band Despire. I

31:42 Speaker 6: really enjoyed talking with him. And in just a couple

31:44 Speaker 6: of minutes we're gonna have the guys from the band

31:47 Speaker 6: The Rift joining us now again if you are just

31:51 Speaker 6: tuning in, today has been an adventure on the show,

31:53 Speaker 6: or a misadventure, if you will, because all of the

31:56 Speaker 6: guests that I had booked today were supposed to be

31:58 Speaker 6: joining us via WhatsApp app. All four guests shows WhatsApp

32:02 Speaker 6: as their platform of choice, and WhatsApp has temporarily suspended

32:07 Speaker 6: my account, so I've had to communicate with everybody by email,

32:10 Speaker 6: Hey can you call the studio line instead? And everyone's

32:13 Speaker 6: been cool about it so far. Hopefully it all works

32:14 Speaker 6: out with The Rift, our final guest of the show today.

32:19 Speaker 6: I know they have the studio line number, so hopefully

32:21 Speaker 6: they'll be calling because WhatsApp says I've been doing something

32:25 Speaker 6: spammy or suspicious or whatever. I'll have to figure that

32:28 Speaker 6: out later. But it's never given me any trouble before,

32:31 Speaker 6: but it's given me nothing but trouble today. But that's okay.

32:34 Speaker 6: That is the adventure of live radio. By the way,

32:37 Speaker 6: Hello to my friend Stacy and her dad who are

32:39 Speaker 6: listening to the show. Stacy apparently a big fan of Despire.

32:44 Speaker 6: Really like that band, so and I should say hello

32:49 Speaker 6: too to everybody in the chat room just quickly, and

32:52 Speaker 6: then we're gonna play Recapture Code by the Rift, a

32:56 Speaker 6: great track. I think you'll all enjoy that. But Beepinard

32:59 Speaker 6: is in the chat rooms. Good morning everyone, bf Raid says,

33:02 Speaker 6: good morning Matt and Jen great shirt. Yes, of course

33:05 Speaker 6: I am wearing my bf RAID shirt Boston's Final Raid.

33:08 Speaker 7: Uh.

33:08 Speaker 6: They're gonna be on the show with us in August.

33:10 Speaker 6: Can't wait for that. Jenny is in the chat and says,

33:12 Speaker 6: I love this. His accent is so awesome a real

33:15 Speaker 6: New Yorker, referring of course, to Rob from the band

33:19 Speaker 6: Despire and our friend Isaac Banks is in there as well,

33:22 Speaker 6: and hello to all of you. Let's go ahead and

33:24 Speaker 6: play this. Let's see. This is called recapture code and

33:28 Speaker 6: the band is the Rift, So you do what your.

34:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the.

34:02 Speaker 3: Yeas top existiens.

34:05 Speaker 4: Lesson I show back and cross the law for progress.

34:11 Speaker 1: For not sex, make it brilliant.

34:15 Speaker 3: Season more perciently the my phrase killing competition. Just give

34:24 Speaker 3: me sol something mak the shadows board to crash, so

34:46 Speaker 3: s more.

34:54 Speaker 1: One a life.

34:59 Speaker 9: Destroyer ourselves destroying ourselves over its.

35:07 Speaker 1: Head to having me entii out the world.

35:13 Speaker 3: And shall feeling seems you want you to try to

35:26 Speaker 3: show sec nate your stuff that Sita and yeah joality.

35:34 Speaker 9: Last enough forget the same telesis as spring destruction.

35:44 Speaker 1: Just Canley.

35:47 Speaker 3: Stuffing the shadow chaation to crush, said sad.

36:14 Speaker 1: One will.

36:19 Speaker 9: Destroying asels destroy oursels as.

36:27 Speaker 3: Actually having.

36:30 Speaker 1: Tire that shall thing?

38:31 Speaker 6: Oh I love that. That is recapture code. The band

38:34 Speaker 6: is the Rift and let's see. I think we've got

38:37 Speaker 6: Urus from the band here on the line with us. Hello,

38:42 Speaker 6: Hey guys, what's going good?

38:43 Speaker 1: Good?

38:44 Speaker 6: Welcome to the show. Am I saying your name correctly? Ris? Aris?

38:48 Speaker 5: Yeah?

38:49 Speaker 7: Oh?

38:50 Speaker 6: Aris? Okay? You probably run into that a lot. Not

38:51 Speaker 6: an amy here every day.

38:53 Speaker 15: Is it just.

38:56 Speaker 11: Is it just you're.

38:59 Speaker 6: Okay good? Is it just you or the other guys

39:02 Speaker 6: with you?

39:04 Speaker 16: No, I do have our drummer here as well, So

39:09 Speaker 16: Garrett go ahead and say, lo hey guys, Hey Garrett.

39:12 Speaker 6: Well that's an easy name. So yeah, welcome to the show, guys,

39:17 Speaker 6: and thank you for being flexible about you know, we're

39:20 Speaker 6: supposed to use WhatsApp and all the guests that I

39:22 Speaker 6: have on the show today shows What's Happen. Of course

39:24 Speaker 6: today WhatsApp is not working for me, so uh so

39:27 Speaker 6: I appreciate you being flexible. But I love that track

39:29 Speaker 6: Recapture Code. It's you know, it's heavy, it's it's but

39:33 Speaker 6: it's also it's got a groove to it, and it's

39:35 Speaker 6: got some interesting time changes in there too, really really good.

39:40 Speaker 6: Can you talk about the song and about what the

39:42 Speaker 6: what the meaning of it is? I mean, it kind

39:44 Speaker 6: of gives you an idea, you know that you know

39:46 Speaker 6: they want us to be robots and whatnot, but I

39:48 Speaker 6: really want to explore that what is the song about?

39:52 Speaker 16: Oh yeah, no, I mean, thank you, like really kind words,

39:56 Speaker 16: thank you guys for having us on of course, yeah,

40:00 Speaker 16: all sorts of weird, crazy changes in the song, but yeah,

40:04 Speaker 16: I mean in terms of like the meaning of the song,

40:06 Speaker 16: where you know, we're just like, really, you know, against

40:10 Speaker 16: a lot of this AI music stuff that you're seeing

40:13 Speaker 16: out there, and you know, just the idea that you know,

40:18 Speaker 16: some of these giant corporate CEOs are gonna, you know,

40:22 Speaker 16: try to run the music industry and basically admitted as

40:26 Speaker 16: much that they stole you know, all the music illegally

40:30 Speaker 16: from artists and now they're just like, yeah, we're gonna

40:34 Speaker 16: make all that money, you know, you know, I don't

40:36 Speaker 16: I don't know where we came to where we thought,

40:39 Speaker 16: you know, that was a good idea, as you know, society,

40:42 Speaker 16: but yeah, it's sort of our our uh you know,

40:46 Speaker 16: revenge statement against those guys.

40:49 Speaker 6: Yeah. That's a subject that comes up a lot on

40:51 Speaker 6: the show too. As we are and and really I

40:54 Speaker 6: think we're just in the very early stages of the

40:56 Speaker 6: AI what I call the AI era, and how it's

40:59 Speaker 6: already impacting the music industry and uh, and how we

41:03 Speaker 6: navigate through it. And I'm not sure. I mean, obviously

41:05 Speaker 6: you can't shove that tooth based back in the tube,

41:09 Speaker 6: but you know, but it's it's very interesting times, uh

41:14 Speaker 6: that we live in your your music. I mean, do

41:18 Speaker 6: you approach and I did listen to We're gonna play

41:20 Speaker 6: another track of course of yours at the end of

41:22 Speaker 6: our conversation today. But does everything that you guys do,

41:25 Speaker 6: do you try to have a do you try to

41:27 Speaker 6: address an issue with it? Does it all or or

41:30 Speaker 6: or a specific theme? Does it all have a meaning

41:33 Speaker 6: in terms of how you approach the lyrics?

41:36 Speaker 16: I mean, it depends on the song. Sometimes, you know,

41:40 Speaker 16: we just uh yeah, we write you know, I tend

41:44 Speaker 16: to We tend to write you know, kind of rebellious

41:47 Speaker 16: rock anthemic tracks and that's just something that kind of

41:51 Speaker 16: comes out naturally. So I think we always try to

41:53 Speaker 16: just do whatever comes out naturally, and that just happens

41:57 Speaker 16: to be something that we do do a bit of.

42:00 Speaker 16: But uh, you know, we do have just tracks that

42:03 Speaker 16: are like, you know, kind of all over the place too.

42:07 Speaker 16: You know, we have tracks about you know, dancing with

42:11 Speaker 16: girls and stuff. So we are very much all over

42:15 Speaker 16: the place.

42:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's not all you know, a super serious

42:18 Speaker 6: message heavy no, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes

42:22 Speaker 6: sense now, is the uh so the track Recapture Code.

42:26 Speaker 6: Is that part of or is it going to be

42:29 Speaker 6: part of an album or an EP or are you

42:31 Speaker 6: just releasing singles at this point? What's your approach to that?

42:36 Speaker 16: Yeah, No, we we do have an album. I mean

42:38 Speaker 16: it's a part of an album called Metamorphosis that we've

42:42 Speaker 16: been kind of just releasing singles every so often with it,

42:48 Speaker 16: and you know, we have a few more to release

42:51 Speaker 16: before the full things out. Okay, but yeah, just it

42:55 Speaker 16: seems like the way to go nowadays is just to

42:57 Speaker 16: get more releases and so everything's a single until it's

43:00 Speaker 16: you know, on the album, right, because you get more

43:03 Speaker 16: kind of juice out of it that way. So that's

43:06 Speaker 16: what the strategy has been behind that.

43:08 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's something we talk about a lot on the

43:10 Speaker 6: show too. How it's kind of a lot of artists

43:12 Speaker 6: now do the inverse of what you know, the model

43:15 Speaker 6: used to be, you have an album, You've got the

43:17 Speaker 6: first single that goes to radio six eight weeks before

43:19 Speaker 6: the album, then the album comes out, and then if

43:22 Speaker 6: everything goes well, you have a second single or even

43:24 Speaker 6: a third single. But now a lot of artists seem

43:27 Speaker 6: to be doing the inverse where they're releasing a series

43:29 Speaker 6: of singles that eventually coalesce into an EP or an album.

43:32 Speaker 6: And I think that that that seems to be working

43:34 Speaker 6: for for a lot of people, seems to be working

43:36 Speaker 6: well for you guys, and so that's great. And you guys,

43:41 Speaker 6: are you're from Los Angeles? Correct?

43:45 Speaker 16: Originally?

43:46 Speaker 8: Yeah?

43:47 Speaker 16: And then my Garrett is is based down in San Diego. Okay,

43:52 Speaker 16: he actually managed his school of rock down there.

43:56 Speaker 6: Oh no, nice, But originally I'm from Denver, Man, Oh wow, Okay, okay.

44:04 Speaker 17: So rocking out in the kind of like Stone or

44:08 Speaker 17: Doom kind of style rock Denver rock out there for

44:11 Speaker 17: the last fifteen years. Yeah, but yeah, and then Aris

44:16 Speaker 17: and I met a couple of years ago via Craigslist,

44:20 Speaker 17: which is the best place to find your band mates.

44:24 Speaker 17: Still yeah, and yeah, just been rocking out, you know.

44:27 Speaker 17: He just needed help out with a couple of gigs

44:30 Speaker 17: filling in and then it turned into something that was

44:31 Speaker 17: more serious. And then here we are doing a little

44:35 Speaker 17: tour this week.

44:37 Speaker 6: Excellent. Yeah, I think you had mentioned that in an

44:39 Speaker 6: email too, So tell me about the tour.

44:43 Speaker 8: Yeah.

44:43 Speaker 16: Actually, we just got back into LA this morning. We've

44:46 Speaker 16: been up and down the West coast for the last

44:48 Speaker 16: like ten days. Oh wow, we drove through the night

44:53 Speaker 16: to be with you guys on the station.

44:55 Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you.

44:56 Speaker 16: We were just in San Francisco last night. Great show

45:01 Speaker 16: in the Bay Area in PACIFICA. It was uh yeah,

45:06 Speaker 16: it was unusually hot like up in Seattle and and

45:10 Speaker 16: uh the Northwest, but good old day area still still

45:14 Speaker 16: cold and rainy and uh a good.

45:18 Speaker 6: Time, excellent, outstanding. And So I'm curious about because you know,

45:23 Speaker 6: I've been in a lot of bands, but I've never

45:25 Speaker 6: been in a band that you know, has some progressive elements,

45:29 Speaker 6: you know, the time changes and things like that. How

45:32 Speaker 6: difficult is it to play these songs live? I mean,

45:34 Speaker 6: do they become like second nature or you know, something

45:37 Speaker 6: like recapture code? You know, we mentioned the time changes.

45:39 Speaker 6: I mean, are are these are these difficult to to

45:42 Speaker 6: kind of pull off live? Especially like for you, Garrett,

45:45 Speaker 6: I mean, you're you know, you're you're keeping time right,

45:47 Speaker 6: So it's got to be it's got to be a

45:49 Speaker 6: challenge to learn them.

45:51 Speaker 17: It was super hard to learn these tunes, but like

45:55 Speaker 17: not not crazy hard, but we kind of get old

46:00 Speaker 17: school and we're putting it together live on stage, you know,

46:04 Speaker 17: running tunes that sometimes we haven't played together in a while,

46:09 Speaker 17: just as it is, and you know, a couple of

46:11 Speaker 17: shows is worth a thousand nights in the.

46:14 Speaker 8: Rehearsal room, you know what I mean.

46:16 Speaker 17: So a lot of these songs are getting worked out, like,

46:19 Speaker 17: like I said, the kind of old school where it's like,

46:20 Speaker 17: you know what that works on the record live, you know,

46:25 Speaker 17: we can adjust things a little bit too, but it

46:29 Speaker 17: is an absolute marathon of drumming, Like it's like thirty

46:35 Speaker 17: minute set. But thanks theris for right, it is. It's

46:40 Speaker 17: a marathon of drumming because you know, it's got lots

46:42 Speaker 17: of changes, lots of slow kind of or maybe halftime

46:46 Speaker 17: intros that end with like a double time you know,

46:50 Speaker 17: our quadruple kind of four on the snare kind of

46:53 Speaker 17: end up feel, which is like you know, starting slow and.

47:00 Speaker 8: Fast and like a marathon.

47:01 Speaker 17: You're like, okay, we've gotta do this six more times, right, It's.

47:07 Speaker 8: So much fun.

47:08 Speaker 6: Yeah.

47:08 Speaker 16: Yeah, they can be challenging for sure, Yeah.

47:11 Speaker 6: No doubt, no doubt. I'm also impressed that because you

47:16 Speaker 6: guys are a three piece, right, there's there's only three

47:19 Speaker 6: of you in the end, but you've got a huge sound.

47:21 Speaker 16: We don't use any tracks live. So everything you hear

47:24 Speaker 16: is us playing like you know, like Rush or something.

47:28 Speaker 16: We just we just go out there and.

47:29 Speaker 8: We do it and.

47:33 Speaker 16: Unlike Rush, we're not that great. But no, but that's

47:38 Speaker 16: that's like our.

47:40 Speaker 8: Goal to get to that point.

47:42 Speaker 1: Yeah.

47:42 Speaker 6: Yeah. Is that something that's that you guys had from

47:46 Speaker 6: the beginning, that ability to to put out such a

47:49 Speaker 6: big sound or is it something you had to work on?

47:51 Speaker 6: Because I'm always impressed when I when I when I

47:53 Speaker 6: see I hear a three piece band that can have

47:56 Speaker 6: a big you know, it's one thing if it's you know,

47:58 Speaker 6: a three chord punk band, but what when it's what

48:01 Speaker 6: you guys are doing and you've got that big sound.

48:04 Speaker 6: Was that a challenge at any point to replicate live

48:06 Speaker 6: or did that come naturally?

48:09 Speaker 1: No?

48:10 Speaker 16: I think I mean for me, I think it came

48:12 Speaker 16: really naturally just because of the way uh, you know

48:16 Speaker 16: we play uh and and again it's like when we're

48:19 Speaker 16: recording and writing these songs, it's nothing that we ever did.

48:22 Speaker 16: I felt like this uh force, you know, like we

48:26 Speaker 16: were trying to sound a certain way on the recording. Yeah,

48:30 Speaker 16: so that's just kind of like what comes out, and

48:34 Speaker 16: you know, I just kind of channel everything through my

48:36 Speaker 16: Masa boogie and then get that big old kind of

48:40 Speaker 16: classic guitar rock sound. And yeah, our bass player fills

48:45 Speaker 16: it out too. He's incredible.

48:47 Speaker 17: Yeah, the bottom tends to drop out with a lot

48:50 Speaker 17: of times when you have a single guitar, you know,

48:52 Speaker 17: go to a solo, right, I mean, you have no

48:55 Speaker 17: rhythm underneath it. So it's a huge credit to him.

48:59 Speaker 17: He can totally work magic and somehow be able to

49:03 Speaker 17: like fill that up, you know what I mean. Yeah,

49:07 Speaker 17: you know, I wish he was here now, but because

49:08 Speaker 17: I have no idea how he does it, but it's awesome.

49:11 Speaker 16: Yeah, And I think a lot of that has to

49:13 Speaker 16: do with the bass. Like I think, to me, you know,

49:16 Speaker 16: when you have like a counterpoint in the bassline during

49:19 Speaker 16: a song and then the guitar is kind of accenting that,

49:23 Speaker 16: not necessarily copying it, that kind of makes it sound

49:28 Speaker 16: bigger too, I.

49:29 Speaker 6: Think, yeah, absolutely absolutely, And I'm curious about that too.

49:34 Speaker 6: As a bass player myself, I assume he's not playing

49:37 Speaker 6: a four string, does he? Does he have a five

49:39 Speaker 6: string or or something?

49:41 Speaker 16: I figured, yeah, I think he's got the five string.

49:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, I figured, I think he did that.

49:47 Speaker 17: So he didn't have to tune as much, right, but

49:50 Speaker 17: then it's like this crazy like transposing nightmare.

49:55 Speaker 8: So yeah, he's done a lot of work for sure.

49:59 Speaker 7: Yeah.

50:00 Speaker 17: Yeah, everything with the computing.

50:01 Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt. Do you guys have any kind of

50:07 Speaker 6: when you play live, any kind of effects or anything

50:10 Speaker 6: that you guys use as far as visually, I'm curious

50:12 Speaker 6: about the visual presentation or maybe not. Maybe you just

50:16 Speaker 6: get on stage and play. I don't know, but it

50:18 Speaker 6: seems like your music would would lend itself to some

50:21 Speaker 6: sort of I don't know, even something as simple as

50:23 Speaker 6: a screen behind you or something like that, but anything.

50:25 Speaker 16: Like that live, yeah, totally. You know, we really like

50:31 Speaker 16: when people come to see us. We want them to

50:33 Speaker 16: kind of have a memorable experience and even if they're

50:37 Speaker 16: like God, that band really sucks, I hate that singer

50:40 Speaker 16: or whatever, we want them to be like that was,

50:43 Speaker 16: you know, cool presentation. So we have some things that

50:47 Speaker 16: we do. We have these really cool like we call

50:51 Speaker 16: them light boxes where we kind of stomp on them

50:54 Speaker 16: and there's like a it's like a platform. We have

50:58 Speaker 16: kind of like an amp about the size of it,

51:00 Speaker 16: like a combo, but there's a flood light inside of them, okay,

51:03 Speaker 16: And so when we step on those like you would

51:06 Speaker 16: a guitar pedal and it shoots a flood light up

51:09 Speaker 16: at us, so it's kind of cool. And then I

51:11 Speaker 16: have I have this really over the top like show

51:15 Speaker 16: kind of guitar that's like custom piece. It's like acrylic

51:20 Speaker 16: and it lights up blue. And then I put some

51:24 Speaker 16: custom pickups in there, so it's like Seymour dunkins it

51:26 Speaker 16: would sound good to play, so that that thing always

51:31 Speaker 16: gets a lot of kind of and the playing. But yeah,

51:34 Speaker 16: we're always looking to kind of push the envelope because

51:38 Speaker 16: you know, at the end of the day, like you know,

51:40 Speaker 16: you're there to entertain people, and you know it's it's

51:43 Speaker 16: a it should be a visual kind of audio experience,

51:47 Speaker 16: you know, to some degree.

51:48 Speaker 6: I think right right now that makes sense. And like

51:51 Speaker 6: I said, I mean, your sound definitely I think lends

51:54 Speaker 6: itself to that. Oh, by the way, so the the

51:57 Speaker 6: the obvious question I didn't ask yet, where does the

51:59 Speaker 6: name come from? The Rift?

52:03 Speaker 16: Yeah that you know, back in the day, I and

52:08 Speaker 16: I still am a big Disturbed fan, and they had

52:13 Speaker 16: a song off of ten Thousand Days. I think it

52:16 Speaker 16: was called.

52:19 Speaker 8: The Abyss.

52:20 Speaker 16: But like one of the first lines, for whatever reason

52:23 Speaker 16: in that song, that Dreamian saying was like something about

52:26 Speaker 16: the rift, and I was like, God, that's so cool.

52:29 Speaker 16: It's just stuck in my head.

52:30 Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go, There you go. Yeah, Disturbed is funny.

52:34 Speaker 6: I still remember the first time I heard Stupefy, So

52:36 Speaker 6: the first time I ever heard Disturbed, I was.

52:38 Speaker 16: Like, wow, yeah, that's an awesome yeah, awesome record.

52:42 Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely. So you just got back from a tour, No,

52:47 Speaker 6: so what's next for you guys? Are you going back

52:48 Speaker 6: out on tour or what's well?

52:50 Speaker 16: Yeah, we got two dates back in so cal to

52:55 Speaker 16: finish up on the tour. So tonight we have a

52:57 Speaker 16: big it's like a big festival at this really famous

53:00 Speaker 16: punk rock venue in Anaheim, California, called the doll Hut, okay,

53:05 Speaker 16: and so it's like indoor outdoor stages. So we'll be

53:08 Speaker 16: going on I think in nine tonight, okay. And there's

53:14 Speaker 16: some really great bands headlining tonight too, and then tomorrow

53:18 Speaker 16: at the Redwood Bar in La Downtown is the last

53:22 Speaker 16: show for us, and then uh, we'll probably take a

53:25 Speaker 16: little breather after that.

53:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys have been working hard and.

53:30 Speaker 17: See our family and yeah, go back to work.

53:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt in a moment, we're

53:38 Speaker 6: gonna play because I want to play another song. At

53:40 Speaker 6: the end of our conversation, I was thinking about playing

53:41 Speaker 6: this track Lightning. What should we know about this? Anything

53:45 Speaker 6: we should know about this before I play it.

53:49 Speaker 16: Yeah, it's a super cool track.

53:52 Speaker 8: You know.

53:53 Speaker 16: I've always been a huge fan of of Thunderstruck.

53:58 Speaker 8: By A C. D C.

53:59 Speaker 16: Yeah, And I mean it's like one of the most iconic,

54:02 Speaker 16: you know, songs, right, So I really wanted to try

54:05 Speaker 16: to create something that was, you know, obviously inspired by

54:09 Speaker 16: that and like kind of a modern take on that.

54:14 Speaker 16: And then I had a We had our good buddy

54:18 Speaker 16: Chas Leon, who sings for Kings and Thrash with Dave

54:22 Speaker 16: Elson and the ex megadesk guys that are out there

54:26 Speaker 16: crushing it.

54:27 Speaker 8: He did some guest vocals.

54:29 Speaker 16: I used to play with Chaz and uh like a

54:32 Speaker 16: sound Garden tribute band really, and so that was kind

54:37 Speaker 16: of how we became good buds and stuff. But yeah,

54:40 Speaker 16: he does some guest vocals on the track, and it's definitely,

54:45 Speaker 16: I think live one of our our fun songs. People

54:48 Speaker 16: start singing the little chant thing along and and it's

54:52 Speaker 16: a good time.

54:53 Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, no, I think I think the audience will

54:57 Speaker 6: enjoy this. And okay, so before I let you guys go,

55:00 Speaker 6: so we are going to hit that track and and

55:01 Speaker 6: and again, thank you both Arison and Garrett for joining

55:05 Speaker 6: us today. Where's the best place to go online to

55:08 Speaker 6: keep up with the Rift with everything you guys are doing.

55:12 Speaker 16: Yeah, you just go on to their riftofficial dot com.

55:16 Speaker 16: We've got any social thing that you want to go

55:19 Speaker 16: on to Instagram, uh, the double Underscore, Rift, Spotify, were

55:26 Speaker 16: we're pretty much everywhere. But yeah, the Rift offficial dot

55:28 Speaker 16: com is sort of our our hub and you can

55:30 Speaker 16: go on there and check out all of the merch

55:33 Speaker 16: and all the all the tour dates and stuff. We're

55:36 Speaker 16: on there too. So yeah, and then yeah, like I said,

55:39 Speaker 16: any social platform you want to check us out on until.

55:41 Speaker 8: They listed there?

55:42 Speaker 6: Excellent, excellent. Well again, thank you guys for joining us.

55:45 Speaker 6: We'll definitely have to do this again in the future

55:47 Speaker 6: as you have more music coming out. It sounds like

55:49 Speaker 6: you got a lot going on, so uh it will

55:52 Speaker 6: be uh, we'll be able to have you back on soon,

55:54 Speaker 6: I'm sure, and I appreciate I know it's kind of

55:56 Speaker 6: early there. Uh you know, you guys are what are

55:58 Speaker 6: your three hours behind us? So it's uh and and

56:01 Speaker 6: and you're you've been busy, so I appreciate busy touring.

56:04 Speaker 6: So I appreciate you joining us this morning. And and

56:06 Speaker 6: uh and thank you for being flexible about the WhatsApp thing.

56:09 Speaker 16: Oh, thank you so much for having us on the show.

56:12 Speaker 16: You guys rock and uh yeah, keep keep sharing you know,

56:17 Speaker 16: awesome music and doing what you guys do.

56:19 Speaker 6: Man, we'll do, we'll do. Thank you. We're gonna hit

56:21 Speaker 6: this track Lightning, so we'll let you guys go, but again,

56:24 Speaker 6: thank you both so much and we'll talk again soon.

56:28 Speaker 16: Thanks guys, walking on you got it?

56:29 Speaker 6: Bye bye. All right. That is Airis and Garrett from

56:32 Speaker 6: the band The Rift, and let's give this a spin

56:36 Speaker 6: and then we'll come back. And right at the end

56:38 Speaker 6: of the show, I'm gonna tag you with a couple

56:40 Speaker 6: of programming notes that I want you to be aware of.

56:42 Speaker 6: But here's another great track from The Rift. This is

56:44 Speaker 6: called Lightning.

57:29 Speaker 1: B F.

57:51 Speaker 15: B Shock Ways crossing on the Cone cross so far

58:21 Speaker 15: that I know, I cause.

58:22 Speaker 1: Nothing in me cose he's head, but I can't.

58:26 Speaker 3: Buying a cry.

58:30 Speaker 7: This guy start to jump.

58:41 Speaker 1: Come you know, Mastraye.

58:51 Speaker 3: Loogainst Ill, He's you d swing.

59:12 Speaker 15: From the t sun to the South with your heart

59:16 Speaker 15: out to the fat glass.

59:18 Speaker 3: No starting to arrest your chatiac. Cheap trumble back, trumble

59:22 Speaker 3: back cross, let's.

59:28 Speaker 16: Start to jump.

59:36 Speaker 1: Trouble you.

59:43 Speaker 3: Strie runner, You see Ben