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Speaker 13: The track is ex Americana, the band is Jersey Calling, and they are here with us. We're gonna speak with them in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two Numarrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact in Fosho archives, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 13: Today is a Saturday, June twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course at the news table and joining us in studio. Let me get those mics on. We've got three members of the band Jersey calling. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 12: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 13: Wonderful to have you here. I love, like I said, I love that song. Actually I love all of them that I've listened to. Great, great stuff. Let's start with you, sir. Let's go through and each introduce yourselves and tell us who you are, what you do in the band.
Speaker 14: Hi, my name is Sean, and I play lead guitar in the band. And if they're really nice to me, they let me sing.
Speaker 15: Oh, okay, all right, good good Hi Victoria, and I am cold lead singer.
Speaker 9: And yeah, it's about it.
Speaker 4: It play a little tamburine. That's about it.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, excellent.
Speaker 1: And you.
Speaker 12: My name is Josh. I play guitar, and I also sing. I played guitar worse than Sean. I sing worse than Victoria. I also love that Sean went first because he's the shyest member. Oh no kidding, it's exciting.
Speaker 13: Yeah, throw deep end, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 11: So what now?
Speaker 13: So you're on a big national tour, right you've been? Uh it looks like you play a lot of shows from what I saw online.
Speaker 12: You know, we give that impression. No, this is just a weekend thing, man.
Speaker 13: Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah. We all have full time jobs and families, so like on the weekends sometimes we get real squirrely and we're like, let's drive as far as possible. Oh okay, okay, And that's what we did this weekend. We uh, yesterday we played in Boston, and tonight we're playing in western Massachusetts in Westfield.
Speaker 13: Okay, excellent, excellent. Yeah, Because I was looking at at your stuff online, it looks like you've like, how how far have you gone with this as far as shows, Like, how far have you traveled?
Speaker 11: I think the farthest is Nashville?
Speaker 13: Yeah, nice, Okay, sure, which is.
Speaker 11: A ton of fun.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: It's funny because people have misconceptions about Nashville. They think it's, you know, like it's all just country music and cowboy boots and everything. But obviously, I mean, you know, Jersey Calling played there, so there's there's a market for a lot of different kinds of stuff overall.
Speaker 11: It's just it's a music city.
Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, we played.
Speaker 12: We played with some pretty pretty red punk bands down there, Graveyard Kids, and uh, oh my god, why did I why did I put myself out there living living with Okay, Yeah, yeah, there we go, We got there.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah. How long has this band existed? How long has Jersey Calling been around?
Speaker 12: That's a complicated question, Matt.
Speaker 13: We have we have we have time.
Speaker 12: We have time, all right. So so the short, the shortest answer I can give is that, like we started when we were like, I don't know, nineteen or twenty back in two thousand and two, okay, we played as a band. We we played pretty much locally exclusively, okay, for like three years. And then after that we like kind of, you know, adult life got in the way. We all started like focusing on getting a meaningful job, starting, starting a family and all that stuff. And then in twenty twenty, when the pandemic hit, I wrote a bunch of new songs and I called up Sean and Randy, and Randy's our bass player, he's not with us today, and they said that they wanted to play them like they would be down to record them with me.
Speaker 12: And right around that same time, I met Victoria here and we started dating, and I thought I would try to impress her with my singing and guitar playing, and then I heard her singing, and I was like, ah, I have completely overestimated my ability.
Speaker 13: Oh no, oh that's funny.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I was excited for you to come over, and then when you brought your guitar, I'm like, cool, we'll both sing together.
Speaker 4: I heard it.
Speaker 15: He knew because I watched you on Facebook, because like you, he had like this live concert series like he was doing for twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: So you did that, So I knew you.
Speaker 12: You knew you were better.
Speaker 4: No, well, I knew you could, and so I was excited. I'm like, yeah, let's hang out and yeah. So the rest is history, man.
Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, yeah, so well yeah, since twenty twenty, we've been playing pretty pretty much NonStop.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty three was when our newest member, John, our drummer, came on and he and Randy are together at the hotel room now okay, taking care of a taking care of a mishap from earlier.
Speaker 13: Oh I got you, Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 15: Yeah, travels tough man. It is especially earlier. It's just it's early morning, yeah, the morning.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 16: It is.
Speaker 13: So is your drummer, what's his name?
Speaker 12: John?
Speaker 13: John?
Speaker 16: Is he?
Speaker 13: There's been a trend on the show recently, well at least last couple years, especially with with everybody who comes on. Everybody's drummer is in like ten different bands? Is John and ten different bands?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I assume he's in the band that just left.
Speaker 13: I don't actually no, oh yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 12: That could be why he left. He's like I got to go back to the hotel room. I'm like, okay, John, yeah, going to his next his next gig with the other band.
Speaker 13: Yea, absolutely, yeah, it's amazing. And you know, bass players can be hard to come by too, But but drummers especially, like everybody's everybody's drummers in all kinds of different bands.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Man, guitarists are a diamond dozen. Like everyone plays guitar.
Speaker 13: It is true. I mean as a bass player, I say that, you know, no offense, but no, yeah, no, but it is true. Yeah, guitar players are everywhere. Yeah, yeah, what do you what do you think it is with drummers? Why are drummers so hard to uh?
Speaker 11: You ever?
Speaker 12: Have you ever tried to play drums? No, it's it's so hard.
Speaker 13: Well, yeah, because you got to use all four of your limbs. That looks like too much for me.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's way too much. I can't coordinate my feet with my hands like that.
Speaker 15: No, my my brain and my feet have never communicated properly.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 14: And you know what I think it is, as the parents of a drummer, it's a very special person that allows their kid to bring a drum set into the house.
Speaker 13: And that's always yeah, and so just.
Speaker 14: That there are not a lot of people that get into it super early, and and that's why they're in such high demand. I tell my kid all the time, you will always have work if you stick with us.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah, that and maybe the tuba. You don't necessarily want your house either.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 13: Unless you're a mummer, like yeah, yeah, yeah, the clarinet anything.
Speaker 12: I feel like the clarinet is way more annoying because you get that squeaky sound when they're learning. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
Speaker 4: And my sister did that, she really.
Speaker 12: Yeah, any read instrument you're gonna get that squeak.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Now I'm curious about the name Jersey calling, uh what. I assume it has something to do with New Jersey, but but I don't know, maybe not or from Oklahoma, I'd be a great twist.
Speaker 12: So when we when we formed the band, Sean and I were listening to a lot of the clash and nice, So we thought the Jersey calling would be a cooler band name than the band that we were in at the time, which was called burn Kate.
Speaker 11: Oh we got mis builled a lot as burnt Kate.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, Oh for really? Yeah yeah, burning burning Kate, Burning Cake. Yeah, it was no one ever got the name right.
Speaker 13: Well, now I'm curious where that name came from.
Speaker 12: What was that about, Sean, Why don't you take this one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 14: Yeah, my my sister suggested My sister was Kate, and uh she told us that we were going to suck, and I forget exactly what was said in response, and she said, well, why don't you just call the band burn Kate? And it stuck because we were what seventeen at the time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was, you know, a little aggressive back and forth sibling rivalry. Yeah thing, that's cool, good time.
Speaker 11: Yeah all right.
Speaker 13: So then so Jersey calling, so it just sounded it just sounded cool, and it.
Speaker 14: Sounded cool, and I think we just kind of ram with it. Yeah, Like I think we made stickers, and uh, it just kind of stuck from me.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Once we had like T shirts and stickers made, We're like, all right, we're stuck with this now. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 13: I'm also so I'm curious about the lyrical themes in your songs. It seems like there's there's a slight political bent. Maybe I don't know, you can never be sure because you know, it's it's kind of ambiguous, so maybe maybe maybe not, Maybe I'm reading into it. I don't know, but I'm curious about lyrical themes. It seems like it seems like the songs not just not just ex Americana, but the other ones I listened to too, there's they've got that well, there's that punk ethos where you want to appeal to people who are not uh you know, to uh you know, you want to appeal to working class people.
Speaker 13: I guess is what I'm trying to say, you know what I mean? And yeah, I mean, am I am I getting the right vibe with what I'm what I'm hearing in your lyrics?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I I I would say so. I mean, I feel like ex Americana is a lot more explicitly. So, yeah, any song that we've done so far. But on the album Parasocial Security, I mean there there are plenty of songs with political themes, like Gods and Cowboys is about imperialism. Uh, You've got astilll Auego, which is kind of a working class kind of song. Yeah, got uh Queen of the Unclean, which is about trans rites social media content, about social media, and then you.
Speaker 15: Got a little bit of love in there. So like you know, you got you got political, you got you know, social rights, you got the you.
Speaker 4: Have we run the gamut.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I mean like I feel like if I tried to write only political songs, I would run out of material really quickly, because I'm uh not smart enough to do that.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: No, I think that's what part that's part of what me and listening to your music though, is is the theme the themes of because I love that stuff anyway. You know, we actually do politics on the show a long time ago, and we had to take it out, but but now it's, you know, we we stick to interviews with musicians. But but it's but I like that kind of I like music with a message and a point of view and and all that, So I think that's That's what part of what drew me into because when I was listening, because then I you know, obviously I listened to the tracks you sent, and then I went online and just listen to everything I could find of of Jersey Calling.
Speaker 13: Thank you, thanks dud, absolutely absolutely, Well, do you want to play another? As long as we're talking about all this great music, you want to play another studio track? And then we'll talk some more.
Speaker 12: Yet for that, what should we go with next?
Speaker 13: Let I'll let you all pick, assuming I don't know if you remember what you sent me. Uh uh, there's a Backseat Driver also, luego. Oh, maybe we should play that one because you mentioned that one.
Speaker 12: Yeah sounds good. Yeah yeah, that's a crowd pleasers.
Speaker 4: That's a wake up song.
Speaker 13: Yeah, oh definitely. I'd say these are all wake up songs. Yeah, yeah, they're all. They're all pretty pretty high energy. What should we know about this one? Anything you want to tell us? Anything special about this one? We should know before we hear it.
Speaker 12: Sure. A little fun fact about it was that I wrote this song for my kindergarten class. I'm a teacher okad during the day, Yeah, oh cool, I'm a Spanish teacher and so I wrote the chorus Asta Asta Asta lawego, just to teach them how to say goodbye. And I was after after Leslie do it a little bit, I'm like, this will be a cool punk song. Yeah, And so I wrote a verse with a lot of a lot of the F word in it. Okay, you know that that works the clear and clean verse you sent me.
Speaker 13: You sent me the radio edit all right, which say man.
Speaker 12: Like you're gonna get canceled for this.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, and ire I pre screen everything. I'm super I mean, granted if you if you'd sent me the the raw version. And I because sometimes people will send me stuff and it's like, oh I can't play that, but I can make Sometimes I'll make my own radio edit. I just I call it the poor man's radio edit. I just just reverse where the swear is.
Speaker 12: It's so funny because like I never thought the ostill aego. We get played on the air, so like we're in the studio and he's like, should we do a radio edit of this? And I was like, no, no one's gonna want to hear this song on the air. And then like we're back.
Speaker 11: You never know.
Speaker 12: Fast forward a few months and like the main radio station in our area, WMMR out of Philadelphia. They're like, we got they picked us as the local artist of the month.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 12: And the guy's like, hey, do you have radio edits of any of the songs on them there? I'm like, oh, well, this track's clean. This track's clean. I'm like, can we have a radio editive backseat driver? And he's like, what about astill aweg?
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, come on.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 15: Sometimes it just feels good to be a little right, especially about the right thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 4: We did that. I was like, oh no, this is I'm like, this is gonna happen. I think, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: So we ended up going back into our our studio and uh and coming up with not you instead of you know.
Speaker 13: Okay, yatcha yatcha better lyric? Yeah yeah, I love it. All right, all right, let's give the suspend. This is the radio d at the clean version of Asa Luego. The band is Jersey College.
Speaker 1: Stop, We back your Lord.
Speaker 8: We beck to mot in spread way too long Now No No, And he's for spinning and the wind.
Speaker 3: We bedcorn cott in our Pleasures, rotten from Soldiers in the touches.
Speaker 4: To the workers in the fields.
Speaker 1: Now onegether push back together.
Speaker 8: Spass train said, minds build the race burning its.
Speaker 1: Sign right now it's tray stream tail. We play not you not you, not you not you, You're cold.
Speaker 5: Not your house stop stop stop stop, strap us stop stop, snows stop.
Speaker 8: You chut to sup We strike a trailer. We kept our massr bid.
Speaker 9: I'll talk to Bristo in the machine.
Speaker 4: Now we're exhausted.
Speaker 5: We've been accosted to find a copy.
Speaker 8: Sutucated very six fifteen.
Speaker 1: Not stand united.
Speaker 10: One day Society.
Speaker 8: Runs up and gets a master's almost massive stick.
Speaker 9: But the firspirit suker sitting on incumber.
Speaker 1: Now, you're not you're not You're not You're.
Speaker 10: You're going stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop.
Speaker 13: I love it, Asa Luego. The band is Jersey Calling. That is very, very catchy, high energy. I always say when I play something like that, if it doesn't get you moving, check your pulse, you might be dead. But uh, we've got three of the members of Jersey Calling here with us in studio. And how much how much music have as the band recorded? Do you have a lot at this point?
Speaker 12: Yeah, we have a good amount online. So we have three three full length albums, Daddy Reissues, Punk Rock Retirement and Parasocial Security. Yeah, and then we have two single releases, Projections, which is actually two songs, it's Projections and poster Girl. And then we just released x Americana two weeks ago.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, excellent. Now do you have do you have physical CDs or do you just put things out online? Okay?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we get CDs of all our albums. We have vinyl of Parasocial Security, and then we also have a seven inch vinyl of these single projections with the B side being a poster Girl.
Speaker 13: Oh no kidding. Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we haven't done a we haven't done a physical release of x Americana because I mean I was kind of thinking we'd save it for our next album, which will be sometime in twenty twenty six. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's just it's so expensive to get everything pressed at this point. Man, Like those seven inches were like, we're basically cost because it's it's tough to jack up the price of something with only two songs on it. Oh yeah, it's hard to justify.
Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's something that's been a subject on the show lately too with a lot of our guests, is you know, physical media because for a long time, so I've I've only been doing the show here at WMNH for about eight and a half years, but I've been interviewing bands for like twenty years, and and there was a period maybe ten years ago, maybe a little more, there was a period where everybody I would talk to would say, now, physical media is dead. We're just putting everything online, just Spotify and everything.
Speaker 13: And then, like, especially probably in the last five years, I feel like there's been this reversal where obviously, yeah, you do have to put everything online, that's important and that that should be the number one priority, but there's been a real recommitment to CDs. And of course vinyl never went away. Some people think Vinyl like they just stopped making vinyl at one point and then it came back, but it really never went away. But there's been a resurgence with that. I think it was it was either twenty twenty three or maybe twenty twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs since CDs became the primary medium.
Speaker 13: So but my theory with that is I think most people who buy vinyl they never even open it because if you're really a fan of an artist, like a lot of people who buy vinyl probably don't even have a record player, you know. They just buy it because if you really want to support that artist, you know, and then you can mount the cover art on the wall or something.
Speaker 12: But the cover art does look really cool, especially on vinyl, because it's yeah big, you know, oh yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 12: What's crazy to me is like the amount of young people that are really into vinyl. Yeah, oh yeah, like the students that I teach, Like I have a sixth grade kid who he's like really into vinyl and tapes and CDs, like like if it's if it's physical music, he is into it. Yeah, And I suspect like the streaming maybe is the introduction to that music. Yes, but if he likes it, he's going out and he's seeking out the physical album.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean that's I think that's super cool, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 15: I like that there's like that option though, So like before, like you kind of had to either hear them live or just buy it and then listen and decide whether you like it or not. I kind of like that you can listen first and go no, I want that, like, you know, like that, I don't know if the hopes no, that would have saved me.
Speaker 12: That would have saved me some money in the nineties, man, that really would have absolutely absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I I think it's yeah, it's nice. That's a great point, Victoria, because don't get me wrong, Like I have memories of being a kid going to the record store and you know, flipping through things and finding things that look interesting. Oh, this looks like this has a cool cover. Maybe this will be cool, maybe it won't, but I'll take the risk and buy it, you know. But now it's like, you know, there's no there's no guesswork, and you can find anything that that's some of the you know, because I'm I'm Generation X. My generation is really the last generation to grow up without the Internet.
Speaker 13: So I can still remember, like if there was a song that just popped into my brain one day and I'm like, oh, I haven't heard that in a while. I'd like to hear that. Well, what am I going to do if I don't. If I don't have it myself, I don't know anyone who has it. I mean it's you know, but now I can just go online and find it. It's amazing. We had an amazing time.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 12: It is pretty crazy. I remember like I would I would hear I would hear a single on the radio or I'd see it on like MTV or something. Yeah, and then you had no choice. You had to go out and buy the album because like the single wasn't available or whatever. Yeah, and then you listen to the album and it's like I hate every other Yeah, I hate. I have eleven tracks of Garbage and I have one song that I.
Speaker 11: Want to hear yeap.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah that was fifteen dollars of my Heart Earned Allowance yep.
Speaker 11: Stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, taking the rash out and moments and lawns.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I used to. I used to record off the radio too, oh yeah, ye save that way, just recorded off Oh my god, I.
Speaker 12: Forgot that yeah yeah oh yeah, I mean technically, like that's word admitting to crimes now, right, like this is this word. This is like a confessional. Yeah, like we shouldn't be that.
Speaker 13: That's true, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 13: I would record with the VCR. I would record videos off of MTV. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 12: The FCI has entered the.
Speaker 13: Absolutely Oh our friend Marian vanishes in the chat room.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 13: She has a question. She says, I'd like to know bands are artists that might have inspired them? Yeah, great, great subject. I want to know that too, Like who are your inspirations? Who are your influences?
Speaker 12: I'm gonna throw at the sewan again because I haven't heard his voice in three minutes.
Speaker 11: Oh okay.
Speaker 14: From a guitar playing perspective, there are three guitars that I really like. James Bowman from Against Me, Jerry Garcia from The Rateful Dead, and Slash. Those are the three, And there are three very different guitarists, but there are three people that I like. Those are the solos I try to learn and then try to just see what I can fit in in Jersey calling songs.
Speaker 12: I want to put those three in a room together. Yeah, yeah, I want to see those three guys in a room together just hanging out that rate.
Speaker 13: Well on one of them would be hard Geregresy has been dead for like twenty years, yeah, thirty years? Things about music, Yeah, Jerry has left the building. Yeah yeah, how about you, Victoria?
Speaker 15: So my influences include uh, Haley Williams from Paramour, Lizzie Hale from Hailstorm, and Amy Lely from Evanescence.
Speaker 4: Those are like my three very big ones.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but I you know, kind of like runs the gamut because I'm I'm also in cover bands and I kind of grew up on cover bands my dad did, so, yeah.
Speaker 4: I I grew up on like, you know, Green Day.
Speaker 15: And actually and I'm a really funny one just because I think it's funny. Because I like butt rock, so.
Speaker 4: I like Pearl Jam and you know what har like like, I I love that, I like it.
Speaker 12: I like it.
Speaker 15: I like a lot of different, you know styles, but Avril Lavine like when she started coming out, I learned how to sing like I just sucked in Helium because of Brettey Spears. Oh yeah, yeah aad so like, you know, different, I have all these different influences and those so far, those three though, and I just got to meet Lizzie Hale and that was the best day of my life.
Speaker 13: Oh nice, very cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So and then our wedding was the best day, but first, you know, it was you don't have to say, I'm just saying, but yeah, so those.
Speaker 13: Mine excellent, excellent. You must hear a lot of new stuff too being a teacher.
Speaker 12: Not really because I feel like like a lot of the kids nowadays, as far as rock is concerned, they listened to the same music that I listened to as a kid, so like like I'm big into like nineties punk and ska. It was a big SKA kid too, Yeah, and then they they go back even further, like like the same sixth grader the other day was like, hey, mister Kate's, uh you ever listen I'm a minor threat and I'm like, no, man, you're a lot more hardcore than Like I'm waiting for him to call me a poser.
Speaker 13: Now it's gonna happen.
Speaker 12: But like I don't know, like Green Day, Bad Religion, No Effects against Me. Really love Laura Jane Grace's solo stuff too. And then on the SKA side, I really I love Less than Jake. They were one of my favorite bands coming up. And then as far as like newer stuff, like I don't know Frank Turner, I really like Frank Turner. What's cool is like playing these shows we get to hear some like local bands that we actually like and I would probably never hear of like if it weren't for this, Like last night when we played with Futon Lasagna, that band was rad, but that was a really good band.
Speaker 12: They were also, they were really good. And then the Prozacs tonight they're a great band too. And then from around our area we got a backyard Superheroes that we just played with and title Holder like, there's a lot of really good, undiscovered talent out there, and uh, I think that's one of the coolest things about being in a local band is like you get to you get to hear these things.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Miriam was saying she was getting a little bit of a dead Milkman vibe from the last song we played.
Speaker 12: I guess that is a that is the biggest Philly compliment that you can receive. I appreciate that. Oh my god. Yeah, Like they're legends. Yeah, I'm like, I'm pretty sure they're going to build a statue of those guys next to the statue of Rocky Balboa that we have.
Speaker 13: Nice.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that'suns accurate.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Hey, we were talking about it earlier. Should we play this? We haven't planned this, but this track Queen of the Unclean yeah, we should give this a spin. What what should we know about this?
Speaker 12: So, like I said a little bit earlier, it is about trans trans writes. It is like I feel like upon a cursory read of it, you would never get that. You really have to kind of like read the lyrics, and then upon reading it a little bit more, it's like, oh, all right, I kind of get what they could be talking about here. I didn't want to make it super explicit because I don't know. Like, here's the thing, I'm not a trans person. I can't really speak for that community. It's really a song about like empathy because like, I don't know, I feel like all people should have rights exactly.
Speaker 12: I know that's a really radical view.
Speaker 13: Now, it's so crazy, like look at this guy.
Speaker 12: But yeah, that's why I wrote that. I don't know, man, like, because I saw all the like outrage coming from like certain media sources and even like you know, like older friends and family members, and I'm just like why, like why, like why we can be this upset? I can something that doesn't affect you at all.
Speaker 13: I can relate to that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well, let's let's give this a spin. This is called Queen of the unclean, and the band is Jersey Colling.
Speaker 4: It's me that's keeping you a week all night.
Speaker 1: It's me triggering a poor fight. It's me. I'm your worst fear.
Speaker 12: Suck a light, it's me.
Speaker 1: Trust me. It's me.
Speaker 12: You're lending firsts of here.
Speaker 8: It's me for reinning for your company here.
Speaker 1: It's me.
Speaker 8: In the Antheli fantom you read.
Speaker 1: There, it's me, just me. I never won into bate.
Speaker 6: A symptom of or just try me, Lnna. It's me and the culture you deny. It's me in the inter kitchen you didn't cry. It's me and the population villa By.
Speaker 1: It's me, just me, I never won into bate.
Speaker 7: A sentam of me, or can try dream LNA identity, identity.
Speaker 1: Your strip, don't late my agency, don't let my dou medity and lay on me. I'm saying some.
Speaker 7: Bread dy someth Bredby is buried on near by a tree.
Speaker 1: It's my existence. Blasphemy.
Speaker 2: You're queen of me, you're plays.
Speaker 1: Who whoa whoa whoa. I never won inter be.
Speaker 8: A symbol of your vicious SNA.
Speaker 5: Musty sign my fiddy strip.
Speaker 7: Don't read my agency, stole my tom menylay on me, I'll say start bred So Bredity is buried on no gread tree, my sisters, Blaspha by your queen on me a clay, take away your tay, Silence, say my yarn, Jimday, Sanity, Sanity, so package just.
Speaker 1: On me.
Speaker 13: I love it, Queen of the Unclean. The band is Jersey Calling. I'm glad that came up in conversation because we hadn't planned to play that one, but uh, I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 12: That one's more of a deep cut. That is that is not that is not one of our most popular songs.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, it's catch me.
Speaker 12: I like playing it because I don't know, like I get to hear his solo live and I get excited about that. Yeah. Yeah, Now that is really good that Randy. He's got a really rad bassline on that, so it's fun for us to play.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 13: The band is Jersey Calling. They are here with us in studio. And now what is you're so you're in the area on your way to where do you have a show tonight?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Where are you playing tonight?
Speaker 12: We are at Hutkey's at the Nook And that is in Westfield, Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts, and we're playing with all right, here we go. I can do this, uh overy easy,
Speaker 12: m J Bones always Manic and the pros X okay, And I think I got all of them there. Yeah, And I'm sorry if I missed anybody. I'm a jerk, right for Yeah, that was four plus us. Yeah, I think I got them all, he said, fo Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: I just making sure the song is the song.
Speaker 12: The show is presented by four thirteen SKA uh and it starts tonight at uh oh man, I want to say seven pm. Yeah, that sounds that sounds close to right.
Speaker 18: Sure.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know what if you get there a little bit.
Speaker 12: Early, I'm sure there's food available. It's delicious. Grab a beer.
Speaker 4: You remember, hang out with us?
Speaker 13: You did great?
Speaker 4: I did, okay, he did awesomely appreciate that start, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 11: I did my best.
Speaker 4: Oh yeoh, what's up guy?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's our drummer player Money, Randy and Johnnery.
Speaker 13: The rhythm section has has arrived, has arrived.
Speaker 11: What's up?
Speaker 13: Yeah, Well we'll get we'll get these guys hooked up with microphones. But while we do that, Jenny's helping to get them seated here.
Speaker 11: Thanks Jenny.
Speaker 13: Let's let's listen to another one of the studio Should we play a Backseat Driver? That's why of the studio tracks.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's definitely one of our bigger hits because Victoria sings it and her voice.
Speaker 13: Oh nice nice. Let me uh just getting this one loaded up here and uh, by the way, where are all these recorded? Because everything sounds so good.
Speaker 12: Almost everything that we've recorded has been through the Gradwell House, which is a studio in head and Heights, New Jersey. Almost every track is mixed, mixed and and and mastered by them. So mixed by Matt Weber and mastered by Dave Downham and they're co owners. Okay at these yeah, okay, okay, people excellent people.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, no, everything sounds really good. All right, let's give this s spend. This is Backseat Driver and the band is Jersey Calling.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Crowns.
Speaker 5: To your Cattle lack like a memo or tube for you're broken back, carrying across.
Speaker 4: Like a man some good through two seeds and you've got.
Speaker 15: Really slightly hunched took an illinger and focus and I'm still covering in the.
Speaker 19: Vaccine on every car ride I like you so, I love you so like you, I you so, I like you used to lie to myself too.
Speaker 5: And when it's on Chelsea, be all e's out ready Moore, I burst.
Speaker 1: Out just at West Coast. I'd kist dam sure, because I've read out every time I've bread out, time I've seen.
Speaker 8: You, don't quite a little talk to me me, but I can't remember all the.
Speaker 4: Time the term had you.
Speaker 8: Now you suppressed.
Speaker 19: I'm a too when I speak, but that I speak at all, And all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Now you're a greed.
Speaker 8: You might never come from a century.
Speaker 4: You let me bleeding out in the backs, eating on every code.
Speaker 1: Y soon.
Speaker 11: You soon like you?
Speaker 1: Like you soon?
Speaker 9: I you so lied to myself too.
Speaker 1: In the hollow I was on in Jersey. Gad.
Speaker 4: I'll leave South thirty more at first.
Speaker 1: I'll just head of west cause.
Speaker 4: I can't stand off. I'm sure because I.
Speaker 20: Read out every time I read out, any time I see you, I U.
Speaker 9: I used to lie. I used to I used to lie,
Speaker 9: I U S. I used to lie.
Speaker 7: To you.
Speaker 9: I used to and I used to lie to myself.
Speaker 1: Tell how.
Speaker 11: I love it?
Speaker 13: That is so catchy. Backseat Driver and the band is a Jersey calling and we have. So let's see. I'm gonna get those mics up here because we have been joined in studio. I'll put the camera on them too for the stream here we've got two Well, basically the rhythm section is here, so let me turn those on and okay, we should be good. Hi guys, Oh good, I can hear you. Okay, welcome, all right, so who are you? Please introduce yourselves? Introduce yourselves please, John the drummer, Welcome, Randy the bass player, Randy the bass player, welcome.
Speaker 11: Get full of money man.
Speaker 12: Oh no, no one was going to throw your name under the bus man.
Speaker 13: We'll do that. Well. You know, as a fellow bass player, we we own up to our responsibilities. Right if we make a mistake, we acknowledge that we uh we we made an error, right.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, owning your mistakes is key.
Speaker 13: Yes, exactly. There you go, there you go. Well, welcome guys, yeah, absolutely absolutely. So, well let's let's do this. Tell us about your because we were talking about influences earlier, and I'm curious to hear what what you guys influence his inspirations musically and so forth.
Speaker 21: John, I have a big range. I would go from like led Zeppelin to the Who and then the past. I don't know, ten to fifteen years. I really got into the Ramones Yeah. And Social Distortion Yeah. And Jersey Colin Yeah.
Speaker 12: Good answer, good choice, Like a snake eating itself for our own influence.
Speaker 11: A lot of my influences line up with Josh's nineties punk, you know, skate Punk, Green Day, Penny Wise, Offspring, Bad Religion, Yeah, yeah, descendants obviously.
Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, you named a lot that I didn't name, and good choice.
Speaker 11: I heard what you said, so I wanted to add to it.
Speaker 13: Excellent. Now what was this? While that song was playing, I heard something about and the word contiguous made its way into Oh my gosh conversation.
Speaker 12: I'm so glad you.
Speaker 13: Brought that up, aren't you. I thought you might be from the conversation.
Speaker 14: So my family and I I got two little kids, and we go on car trips. We desperately try to keep them entertained iPad's help, but we also have this licensed plate game where it's more involved than just counting how many different states you see, but you have to get a total of states that are all contiguous with one another. So like if you see a Wyoming plate, in order to count it in the total, you got to connect it all the way to in this case, like New Hampshire. Yeah, and anyway, So I've been playing that and they've all been making fun of me.
Speaker 11: The whole people.
Speaker 12: We think it's adorable.
Speaker 11: Man. I like that. Your rule is you can't write down a plate for the state that you're in.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to wait until you get out of that state and then see that state's plate in another state.
Speaker 12: I was trying to help you by naming license plates that I saw, and I realized very quickly that I did not understand the game. And I'm just I'm I'm not good at it. I did not understand how to play.
Speaker 11: In Pennsylvania like sixteen times.
Speaker 12: You know, it's fun to say. It's just you know, it's kind of like Transylvania.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 13: Well, very good, and it's educational, right. It teaches the kids.
Speaker 12: It does geography, yes exactly. Yeah, shout out your kids say their full names.
Speaker 11: Don't do that.
Speaker 12: I don't.
Speaker 13: She loves what if you just say that the name of the one that would be excited.
Speaker 11: My daughter hates the spam.
Speaker 13: Oh really, yes, why.
Speaker 14: I think the biggest reason is because I'm here and not hanging out with her. We're also loud and she doesn't.
Speaker 13: Like oh really okay, okay, well that's fair.
Speaker 14: But it's it's very adorable how much she hates brilliant and she really she dives into it.
Speaker 4: But Swift for her swift.
Speaker 12: I think she loves to hate him. I think that's what it is. I think like she gets a kick.
Speaker 11: Out of it. She does.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, well that's better then, yeah. Yeah, do you guys all like, do you have a van you all like ride together? How does that work as far as travel? Because there's five of you so much.
Speaker 11: We're in a big cab pickup truck that I own. Oh really I want a trailer.
Speaker 13: Okay, so everybody's able to fit inside the truck us.
Speaker 11: The back to in the front. Oh comfy too.
Speaker 12: It yeah yeah yeah, super roomy, like way way better than I would think.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. That's the way to do it, right, because I've met bands who you know, they've got like three cars, you know, rolling, and it's like, uh, it's also.
Speaker 12: Convenient that none of us breaks six feet in height, like like we're all pretty short.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, is that by design?
Speaker 11: Is that was that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: There's a rule yeah, environment yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you gotta be under five ten. You can't be in his band.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, that's awesome. Well, and you know that's reasonable. I mean five nine is a national average, right, so you know it doesn't doesn't close you off too much.
Speaker 12: John showed up for the audition. I was just like, okay, check right.
Speaker 4: Next to him, kind of like measured it up.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah. Now, so how long have each have you been in the band.
Speaker 11: I've been in the band.
Speaker 21: It'll be two years in September.
Speaker 13: Are you the newest member? You're the newest member? Okay? Than is Randy the second newest?
Speaker 12: Randy's a founding member.
Speaker 11: Founding I'm a day one higher right.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, so it's the second newest. You're the second newest Victoria okay, gotcha, gotcha? Okay, all right? Was so there was another was there a previous female.
Speaker 11: Singer or no?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 12: Originally it was just me.
Speaker 13: So you were doing all the vocals originally yeah yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, so that like that was not not that good. So now we have Victoria to make us sound.
Speaker 11: Good.
Speaker 13: Yeah, which is nice.
Speaker 15: I think it's something different. I don't know that it makes it better.
Speaker 12: I think, all right, all self deprecation aside. I think the the dueling male and female vocals are really cool. Like, I think it makes it more interesting to listen to. I love Victoria's voice. I love the way our voices work together.
Speaker 14: I think it just adds another I think a little bit more depth to our songs. I think there's there's a story that Victory is able to tell with her voice. That and and give something to the lyrics that we write that might not have been there when we wrote them down at first.
Speaker 12: So yeah, I think it helps you class and class absolutely, yeah, class.
Speaker 13: No, that's fantastic. Well, listen, the time goes quickly. Unfortunately, I do want to get one more song in which we'll we'll play in a moment, which is the one that you sent that we didn't play yet. It was uh oh yeah projections that came up in the conversation earlier. But we're gonna play that in a moment to end the segment. But thank you all, all five of you for being here. This has been wonderful.
Speaker 11: Thanks absolutely sorry about ringing your doorbell. Wanted to come in.
Speaker 13: It's all good, it's all good. I'm glad.
Speaker 11: I mean, you got rules for a reason.
Speaker 13: That's that's right.
Speaker 11: You didn't the thing.
Speaker 12: That's my fault. I didn't know you guys were coming back. I'm sorry.
Speaker 13: That's all right, that's all right. I like the spontaneity and it's very punk. You know, your ring a doorbell, you're not supposed to ring.
Speaker 11: This something something right.
Speaker 12: I like to think Randy's outside going, don't tell me what to do.
Speaker 11: You're not my real dad, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 13: You're not the boss of me.
Speaker 11: We have a music video for this song that you're about to play. It's pretty fun.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, we have a ton of music like we have a good amount of music videos for a local band. Man like yeah, over ten music videos on YouTube.
Speaker 13: Oh nice. Wow.
Speaker 12: Please if you're listening, check us out on YouTube. We put a lot of work in those videos. Man, there were a lot of fun to make and they're time consuming. Man, music videos take forever.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, I will. I will check those out definitely. For those listening live on Saturday, let's remind people where you're playing tonight.
Speaker 12: Huckey's at the Nook. Westfield, Massachusetts. I want to say the addresses eight Franklin Street. You know what, I'm just gonna go with it. I think that's right. I'm not even going to check my phone. Eight Franklin Street, Westfield, Massachusetts. Hockey's at the Nook. Yeah you say that, you know I'm probably messing that up. I'm so confident about the address that it's like hootkeys.
Speaker 13: Very good. And then where do you go from there?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 11: Is that?
Speaker 13: Uh, do you have a show tomorrow night as well? Or you go back?
Speaker 11: Oria has a show.
Speaker 12: Victoria is playing with her cover band back in New Jersey. Okay, so so so tonight after the show is done, I am drinking a lot of pre workout energy drink and then I'm driving overnight and I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Speaker 21: Ye shows with Ramon in September.
Speaker 13: Yeah, September.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Yeah, September. We're playing at the More, Yeah, Ardmore Theater in Philly and uh, opening up for Marke, which is pretty pretty freaking cool.
Speaker 11: That is cool.
Speaker 13: That's very cool, very cool. Well listen, thank you again. I appreciate all of you coming in. This has been amazing. We will do it again in the future as you're releasing new music, you know, or next next time you're in the area, and uh, you know, and even if even if you want to do it sooner, you know, we can always do it, do it online or something. But but we're big fans love Jersey Calling. So we're gonna play this in a moment. And uh, if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Lou Antonucci is with us and really looking forward to talking with him.
Speaker 13: But we will close out the segment with this. This is called Projections and the band is Jersey Calling, and thank you all again. That's the wrong song. You know, you know it's funny. Let me turn those mice back on for a second. You know what's funny about that is it did sound familiar to me. When it started, I was like, oh, those are the same chords.
Speaker 12: I was just like, I'm like rocking thee yeah, yeah, the all punk rock sounds, the Adventures of live Radio my friends.
Speaker 13: All right, I'm gonna try that again. But see, Randy, did you notice, though I'm a bass player, I took responsibility just like that's what we do. That's what bass players do.
Speaker 4: I mean, we need guys to write a book.
Speaker 12: Bacon's virtue.
Speaker 13: That's that's right.
Speaker 11: I like it.
Speaker 13: I like it all right here it is. This is projections, and this is Jersey calling on your feet.
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