Matt Connarton Unleashed: 6 Minds Combined

0:00 Speaker 1: Well right now, joining us alive in studio and let me get that mic up there. We have Rick Everhard, better known as six Minds Combined. Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome to the program. We're going to play some of your tunes and get to know you a bit. And I have to tell you so. And I didn't mention this off air, but so last night on Friday nights, I'm here too. I do a show called retro Spectrum Radio with Polly c. Polly sees the host. I'm his co host on that program, and he always asks me during the show what do I have coming up the next morning?

0:32 Speaker 1: On Matt connorton Unleashed, And he loves the name six Minds Combined. He absolutely loves it. He thinks that's like the coolest name ever. So before we play the first track the single, let me get the obvious question out of the way. Where's the mine? Where does the name come from? Rather six Minds Combined?

0:49 Speaker 2: So actually it's it's not a long story, but but there's so when I first started making music, way back when I was eighteen, I I I came up with a name and I was like, oh, I like this name. It works. But it didn't work for everything that I was making. So so I was like, oh, well, let's let's try this name, and then this name and then this name, and it eventually it became six different names. So I went by I went by Schitzo for a little while. Yeah, and then uh. And then one day I was like, so, so there was another artist, underground artist at the time that was going by the same name, and so I was like, you know, I can't really like bite off this guy.

1:34 Speaker 2: I got all my own names, you know, so so why don't I just stick to to those depending on what I'm working on at the time. Yeah, and uh. And then one of my songs that I wrote, I had wrote, uh, something like with these six minds combined, and and I read it off and I was like, wait a minute, that's perfect. So so that's that's basically where that came from.

1:58 Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. By the way, who I am is in the Facebook live chat and says yes six MC, I'm sure, oh oh MC and two exclamation points.

2:08 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:09 Speaker 1: Yes, we were talking off air too. You were on Lacey's show recently? Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, she was here and a while ago and brought her keyboard and played live for us at the studio. It was a lot of fun.

2:22 Speaker 3: Yeah.

2:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a song called Oh let Me Know when It's Time to Rock that was stuck in my head for months after hearing it. Wow, but let's do this. Let's play this track now. This is the single day Dreaming. I have a radio edit of it here. We'll listen to this and then we'll come back and talk about it and get to know more about what you're doing. But if you are just joining us live, we have right here in studio. Six minds combined, and check this out. This is called daydreaming.

3:02 Speaker 4: Six minds combined. Minds combined dangerous.

3:25 Speaker 2: Sometimes I get to thinking about all the things I'm missing. I get so many inklings to do. Should be rid slifting what mind dismissing? Time persists too, mind back, mind starts drifting. I find myself in vel loved, helpless as to where I'm visiting. Dimension shifting, vented and burst up of our sentence, left intact on wrecking what we've left untouched. The future is not above us, but right in front of us. Enough of not embracing faid, it's plain to see the change we.

3:54 Speaker 4: Need to make. Its time to shape the tree. What could this mean?

3:58 Speaker 5: I'm ddree I see the scene, nom men to see misleeeding me.

4:05 Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.

4:08 Speaker 5: I see the scene, the men to see misteaeding.

4:12 Speaker 4: Different directions, FECs.

4:14 Speaker 2: My mind is left invested in this fanta see it's fans. I see you're run me, screaming at me, laughing, crying, funding lights so bright, the sight is like a dream.

4:23 Speaker 4: It's me. I'm standing.

4:24 Speaker 2: It's outstanding, handing me the trophy, holding hands, whip, woopy.

4:28 Speaker 4: Hugs and speeches, leeches.

4:29 Speaker 2: Creeping me out, sneaking past the popper Rotzzi. Whoops, they got me shot outside, accosted at the Boston Market. Stars are made this way. Let's like the spark Let's fight the darkness. Harkness holding up the gate. It's time to fade away.

4:44 Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.

4:47 Speaker 5: I see the scene, not meant to see misleeeding me.

4:51 Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.

4:55 Speaker 5: I see the scene, nom men to see I'm misleeding me,

5:02 Speaker 5: misteed me.

5:07 Speaker 2: The stakes are racing, lifting faces, journing to change places, aces saved in case adjacent to the Jack of Space, wasted place it face down, passive takedown, patients gaining me the high ground, chasing faithless vagrants aimlessly down past. They want to try it now. I do want to die now, but want to fly. This guy's the limit, getting like to find out what's next to my route to try.

5:27 Speaker 4: I'll get it.

5:28 Speaker 2: I'll win the contest of constant progress on top of the charge with my songs about this and the roll up doubtless. No mouth, don't shout with us when we buffed down, shouting I'm out shame, come out shame.

5:38 Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.

5:42 Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenzacen misleeding.

5:46 Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.

5:49 Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenza misleading.

5:56 Speaker 4: Miss me? Yeah?

6:08 Speaker 3: Could this mean? Is it just a day dream?

6:23 Speaker 4: What could this mean? What could this mean?

6:38 Speaker 1: I like that that is daydreaming, and that is six minds combined. And we have six minds combined here with us live in studio. Yeah, great track, awesome?

6:47 Speaker 2: I love that.

6:48 Speaker 1: Is that you singing as well?

6:50 Speaker 2: Yes?

6:50 Speaker 1: Oh so you do? You do all the vocals?

6:51 Speaker 2: All the vocals?

6:52 Speaker 3: Is me?

6:52 Speaker 1: Oh excellent? Now what about the instrumentation do you play as well?

6:56 Speaker 2: Or so. Actually all the all the music off of this album was all made by Chris carwellos okay, good friend of mine. He's uh he's doing a drum and based thing as Skinny Jeans.

7:09 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, from the area or where christ the area? Oh okay, okay, very good.

7:13 Speaker 2: He actually lives in Conquered I think.

7:16 Speaker 1: Oh okay, And how did you connect with Chris to work on this project?

7:19 Speaker 4: So?

7:19 Speaker 2: Actually, uh, I've been I worked with Chris for for like eight years, just making music, hanging out, having fun, you know, making stuff for us, you know, just just just to do it. Yeah. And actually I got I got mixed up with him because I got into some trouble and I had to do some community service, so I went, Uh my friend Gillian Anderson introduced me to Tom Lopez, who was at the time the vice president of Positive Street Art. Okay, and I had to do some community service. So I did all my community service through Positive street Art, which was It was great.

7:55 Speaker 2: It was so if if anybody has has community service, need to work out, definitely, you know, uh, look us up and and uh and and get involved. But it's positive straight out changed my life. I met a whole bunch of people through them, I obviously, you know, I got I got my act together, and uh, it's it's just been great, great, it's a great organization and uh. But anyway, so so through that doing the different events that we do, I ended up meeting uh Chris at we we had a dance program going on for a while, so he would come to that every every week or every other week, whatever it was.

8:38 Speaker 2: And I met him there and we we hit it off right away. Yeah, and uh and uh. He he mentioned that he was you know, he was a producer, he made music in the past, and I was like, oh, we should work on something together. So he he gave me everything that he had in his archive and he's like he's like, you know what, I really like you. I trust you. Here, take all the and see what you can do with it. And so I wrote to a couple of the tracks that he gave me and he's like he's like, wow, you know this is this is this is cool.

9:10 Speaker 2: Let's let's keep working together. So he started coming over like once a month, with once every couple of weeks, and he would pump out like five minute beats and then we would sit there for hours and we would just write to it back and forth, and we must have made well over one hundred songs together. And so I'd say somewhere abouts a year ago we had we had made that song Daydreaming. He used the this this instrument called the machine, and he like recorded a couple of vocal samples and just turned it into this sick beat.

9:48 Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, this is really cool. And and I was like, it feels kind of like daydreamy, and he's like yeah, and so it just it just went from there, you know. And and and I think it was like two or three days and we had the song done yep. And so shortly after that he had, you know, he had things going on in his life. I had things going on in my life. And he's like, he's like, you know what. We sat down and we talked, and he's like, he's like, I'm going to take a different direction with my music right now.

10:16 Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to do this this drum and bassed thing. And and he's like, but I wanted to let you know that anything that we've worked on up until this point is yours. Do whatever you want with it. Rewrite the lyrics, use the lyrics, whatever you want to do. And I was like, you know what, I should do something with this. So so I put it out in the universe, you know that I wanted to start, you know, chasing the dream, right. So so somehow the universe answered and they introduced me to Eleanor Luna from Midnight Creatives Collective and she she's they are are became my manager.

10:58 Speaker 3: You know.

10:59 Speaker 2: I mentioned my ideas and she's like, we can do this for you. So so it's just been it's been a ride since then. But we I picked uh seven of the songs that I had been working on, and I went to uh toy Bok Studios with mister good Bars.

11:18 Speaker 1: Yes, ye, yeah, he was on the show a couple of months ago, I think I think it was a couple of months ago. Yeah, yeah, he's he's great.

11:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great. Dude's phenomenal. He knows what he's doing.

11:28 Speaker 1: Absolutely and he works with so many different genres too.

11:31 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, yeah, so many different genres and he's good with with all of it.

11:35 Speaker 1: Yeah.

11:35 Speaker 2: He's just got a huge talent for music and and putting it all together. He also does cinematography, so he.

11:43 Speaker 1: I didn't even know that.

11:45 Speaker 2: Yeah. He he made the Daydreaming official music video that's on YouTube. Oh okay, yep. So, so we had a party. He came over, I had a few people over and and we created the ambiance and and he did all the recording and and then put it all together afterwards. But anyway, so, so I had the beats, I had the I had the lyrics. I have a home studio. It's not that great, but but I don't know all the technical things, you know, the tweaks in this that. So I was like, I want to get this professionally recorded.

12:20 Speaker 2: And Eleanor introduced me to mister Goodbar's. I went over and he's like this, this stuff is great. He's like, let's do this. So we we laid down all the lyrics onto the tracks, and then he did He worked his wizardry magic and made it sound ten times better than I could have ever hoped. And uh and and it became the album. Eleanor uh then she she, you know, put the booklet together. I had my friend Hegan Fitzgerald art by KF that did the artwork for the album.

12:51 Speaker 1: We should mention and and I'll hold it up too for I mean, they won't be able to see it super well. But for people watching online, yeah, you brought in you brought in a few copies of the and I just want to say too, it's impressive. So you know, it's a conversation that comes up a lot on the show with guests, you know, whether you know physical media, you know, are you gonna are you gonna put something out on physical media or not? And and a lot of our guests really are putting out CDs. But you you kind of went all out with this too, because you know, you've got the book and you know you've got all the lyrics and everything, you know, full liner notes, all of that, which is really cool.

13:28 Speaker 1: And I love the artwork. So but yeah, for people watching online you can kind of see it's it's impressive, but yeah, go ahead.

13:37 Speaker 2: Cool. So actually about the CD, I don't know. It was like fifteen six and sixteen hundred bucks. We went through Super Dupes yep, and got them all printed up. They're right in Salem, right, Yes, yes, I I am if I meet anybody in person. And actually I figured, since we're on the radio here, if anybody wants to reach out to me, I will give them the free a free CD. So I don't want to. I'm not trying to make money off the CDs. I feel like I feel like like music itself should be as free as it could possibly be.

14:13 Speaker 2: The things that I feel like artists should get paid for is shows, merchandise and things like that. But the music, I just want to get it out there. I got a message. I want people to hear it. That's again why I put the lyrics in there too, because I want people to know what I'm saying and understand the message that I'm trying to portray, you know, like a it's like uplifting, like let's let's make some stuff happen together, you know, you know, forget all this negativity and and all the bad stuff that's happening in the world.

14:44 Speaker 2: Like let's let's let's ignore that and and let's move forward in a progressive way. You know. At the end of one of my songs and one of my lyrics, I say, we can be we without being forced, and and that's I really feel strongly about that. You know. I feel like like there's there's too many organizations and people that are they're just doing it for themselves, you know, and they're trying to be the better of of whatever they're they're into. They're trying to be the best. I'm looking at it differently.

15:13 Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think that I can be my best without somebody helping me become my best. Right, I wouldn't have been able to get as far as I've gotten with the music in these past few months if it wasn't for Eleanor at Midnight Creatives Collective. Yeah, she's she's really taken, taken the bowl by the horns.

15:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what what she's doing there is phenomenal.

15:34 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's it is great. And if if there are any aspiring artists, musicians, painting artists, pencil artists, crafts, like whatever you do, check it out Midnight Creatives Collective. She they will, they will help everybody. So the idea is to basically have like a business bar where people can come together and they can collaboratively work on whatever art projects they have going on. And at the same time, she also does like this this management. Yeah, and she's been picking up quite a few clients lately, so get on the list.

16:11 Speaker 2: As soon as I.

16:12 Speaker 1: Was gonna say, I think she's assigned a couple more.

16:13 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No.

16:16 Speaker 1: She's doing great stuff there, and so I'm associated now too, tangentially, but I'm doing I don't know if you know this about me. I'm also a certified hypnotherapist. Oh really, and I'm now available Mondays and Tuesdays if someone wants to book a session with me in Nashua at the Business Bar.

16:32 Speaker 2: Oh cool, they can do that.

16:33 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:34 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Oh so you're involved with her too, yeah.

16:36 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've known Eleanor for probably twenty years. Oh wow, yep, yep.

16:40 Speaker 6: Absolutely highlighted my artwork in the month of August. They took twelve of my darkest paintings and put them up.

16:47 Speaker 2: Oh cool, yep, yep. Yeah, she's pretty awesome.

16:51 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.

16:52 Speaker 2: Yeah. The whole organization, like the idea that they have for it and everything that they're doing. They actually they just opened up another room in the building that they're at where they want it's gonna be like a community jam space. Okay, So anybody you know, bring your guitar down, bring your keyboard down, bring your bring your amp and your microphone, and let's all hang out in that room together and just jam out, you know, makes them makes them have some fun.

17:18 Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Well we should play another track. I'll let you pick what. Uh what should we play next?

17:25 Speaker 4: So?

17:25 Speaker 2: Uh, my my favorite song off the album is Running through a Mansion.

17:30 Speaker 1: Okay, you know what's cool?

17:32 Speaker 2: I was.

17:32 Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because, uh, that's actually my favorite too.

17:35 Speaker 2: Oh cool.

17:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this one. So we'll give this a spin. Yeah, if you didn't pick this, I was gonna close the segment with it when we get to the top of the hour. But I'm gonna gohead and play it now. Cool and yeah, this is my personal favorite. You know, and your your tracks, I mean they're they're unique, you know. It's it's this song especially, it's it's like nothing I've ever heard before you did. How do you Everyone always say it's this question about how do you define your music for someone who's not heard it.

18:02 Speaker 1: Do you call it alternative hip hop? Because that's the first thing that came to behind when I was listening. It's like all hip hop.

18:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably what I would classify it as. I tell hip people hip hop because it's got rap in it. Yeah, rap is significantly, you know, a big part of the hip hop scene. So so that's what I start with. But I'm like, but it's not just hip hop, right, Like, you really got to check it out and listen to it because every song is different. Every song's got its own cadence and feel to it. And if you don't like one song, you might like the other six, so it's worth checking out.

18:35 Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, very good? Well check this out. This is called running through a mansion and this is six minds combined.

19:00 Speaker 4: M Well you know, will you know? Will you know that you got this? HM?

19:14 Speaker 7: Said?

19:14 Speaker 4: Well, you know? Will you know? Will you know that you got this?

19:22 Speaker 1: HM?

19:25 Speaker 2: Running through a mansion? Answer in a standing question? Left are going through room through? Bobas I know you left me questions to me as fest to ring obsessing all my lessons learned. I think I've earned some rest against It's time to burn the desperate yearning for Lott's to cope with later greater understanding handling matters as a man in standing a foot what we know is right, and making not demands and never given into ghosts, just hoping for for change.

19:45 Speaker 4: It never comes as long as you don't run.

19:47 Speaker 2: It's fundamentally U Central Central Intel spelled it out. It sounds a bit like self half wellness, You've already won. It's all about to combine. Some time is an illusion. You can do it because you've done it someday, some day, prove it to yourself. And that's enough to use the runway claims taking off about the skies and bids to try to find us, flying freely, feeling fund and finding flight beast, not to find us climbing higher than we dared you scared to fall back to the ground, resounding off the atmosphere.

20:08 Speaker 7: It's clear, will never come back now, Oh no, we're all outday.

20:24 Speaker 4: Painting on this. Can our spots leave? We'll burning like the stars. We've got scars as we from them, working hard. So well, you know, will you know? Will you know that you got this? Hmm? Sen, Well you know, will you know? Will you know that you got this? Hm?

21:14 Speaker 2: I feel a little bit of I've just read a lot a lot of lyrics. Need a bit to sit and settle myself down before I hear it. Fear is nothing to do with the science system. Listen, serious, gear up, dust off, stript rust off. You can drive a Numkin ver six off this path that at last I have found so many floors and lock doors are torn down? How many more before I'm forced to lay down and take a break, before I break and fade out. Listening to this, it's got me thinking about what's missing. It's insensitive, obsessing over every single mistake, taking time and making rhymes to take my minds up, all the sickness witness in between the lines of something written.

21:46 Speaker 4: You got this, you got this?

21:48 Speaker 5: Shut h.

22:09 Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that you got this?

22:19 Speaker 7: Said?

22:20 Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that you got this?

22:28 Speaker 8: M You can through these windows, watching people following wind blows, holding on the hope that no wind, Folks beneath the way they can't regetting their burdens, hurting inside them out, trying trying to be something someday, some way, somehow, someone that they can be proud of, shure the world what they climbed out of, holding onto who they were while turning into something more, be putting keys in their own doors, ensuring needs to just be sure so they won't.

22:48 Speaker 4: Need to need no more.

22:49 Speaker 2: Indeed, we plead to leave this core, imploring we don't need to work, and we can be without being forced, without be forced, without being forced big without being forced, without.

22:58 Speaker 4: Being for.

23:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome.

23:21 Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that is my favorite. That is running through a mansion. That is six minds combined. Who is here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning. There's a line in there too, watching Uh was it watching people? Watching people falling over when the wind blows? It just Uh, you couldn't have predicted when you wrote that song. But when I when I hear that, I immediately think of I just have visions of all these videos that I've seen, Uh in Florida, Yeah, the hurricanes, like literally people being knocked over by the wind.

23:52 Speaker 1: But yeah, such a great track. And uh, I love your your singing voice too. You remind me of somebody, but I can't quite place who when when you're singing, has anyone ever told you that you were anyone?

24:04 Speaker 2: I've heard every single person that says I sound like somebody says I sound like somebody different?

24:07 Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding. Oh that's interesting. That's interesting, is it? I assume it's not. But is it difficult to shift gears live between singing and rapping? It's probably pretty natural out.

24:19 Speaker 2: Imagine it is, especially I've I've practiced, practiced these songs hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times. So it's so it's like, uh, and I listened to them every single day, you know, my my music is my favorite music.

24:31 Speaker 1: Yeah.

24:32 Speaker 2: So so when when I first write the songs, they they don't sound the way they do at the end, like I have to find, I have to find, like I write first, and then I'll find the cadence and I'll i'll create the melodies and things like that. So so a lot of those words I wrote them as words first, and then I would listen to and go, oh, well, this would sound good with some sort of melody here, okay, And and then and then I would adapt the words to to work for that melody.

25:00 Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, that song in particular has a lot of words in it.

25:04 Speaker 4: Yeah.

25:04 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's got the most words on the album.

25:07 Speaker 1: Is that? Is that challenging for you or I?

25:10 Speaker 2: I have a horrible memory, so it's really really hard to remember all my lyrics. And I've I've made like I've like I said before, I've made hundreds of songs. Yeah, past I don't remember any of them. You know. Actually, one thing I do remember, though I can't I can't say it because there's there's bad words in it. But the very first the very first four bars I ever wrote. It's stuck in my head forever, that'll never go away. But yeah, so especially that song, it is hard to remember the lyrics, but it's I almost use like a visual and and like the the fact that it that the things rhyme that that helps a lot.

25:52 Speaker 2: And and like if I if I say the first line, it triggers the second line in my mind. Yeah, the second line triggers the third, and then the fourth. So if I jump in the middle of a song and try to start it, I'm so lost. I have to start from the beginning.

26:08 Speaker 1: That makes sense. That makes sense. That's something too. You know, there are people who who don't like hip hop, and I always tell them one thing that I just feel nobody ever brings us up either. Something that I feel that people who rap don't get enough credit for is the memory skills. Yeah, because you know, your typical rock song it's pretty easy to remember. You know, you listen to it a few times, you know, verse course verst course, you know you get the lyrics. But your average hip hop song has a lot more lyrics.

26:41 Speaker 1: Ye packed into it than your average rock song. So there's you've really got to have good memory skills or you know, or find some something that works for you mentally, like the way that you described where you can recall all of that and even and also two with a rock song, if you do mess up a lyric, it's pretty easy to recover from it. But I would imagine a song like running through a mansion if you mess something up as you're performing it live, you know, I mean in your mind that there must be like a little bit of a hiccup there, like uh oh yeah, yep, does that ever happen?

27:16 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it happens all the time. Yeah. And that's another thing like I want to put out there is like everybody makes mistakes, you know, and especially in live shows, there's a lot of pressure that you're under being in front of even if you're in front of ten people, if you're in front of one hundred people, there there's pressure to do a good job, and that on top of all the other little things. It's, you know, anything can make you skip up, mess up. I was at I host an open mic for through Positive Street Art once a month.

27:48 Speaker 2: The next one's October eighteenth. At the last one I was at was also my record release party, and I was I was performing the song Champion, and I forgot the first word. Oh no, So I had to restart the song two times and and and I like, I I was perfectly fine. I was calm, like I was. I wasn't nervous at all. And then I forgot that first word and then then like my anxiety shot to the roof and I started I started all like panicking right there. I'm like, oh God, what do I do. I can't remember. I can't remember.

28:20 Speaker 2: So I just I like centered myself and I just press play, and then the lyrics all showed up. Yeah, yeah, it was well. So the we haven't mentioned it yet. The name of the album is Issue zero.

28:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was curious about that. The title.

28:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, so so I'm I'm into like comic books and series and things like that, so I like to I like to integrate all my passions and and my hobbies into everything I do. So so with the with the name of the album, I was like, I wanted to be the first of something so like in like issue or or something like that. But but it's it's kind of like the before album. Okay, you know, I'm just coming out. Everybody's getting getting to know me, so it's not the first one. Yeah, it comes before that, so it's zero, so it's it's issue zero.

29:13 Speaker 2: And then that's that's basically why.

29:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Well, we should play another track. What do you want to?

29:20 Speaker 4: Uh?

29:20 Speaker 1: Where where should we go next?

29:21 Speaker 2: Let's go with Champion.

29:23 Speaker 1: We'll go with Champion. And that was that was not one of the ones.

29:27 Speaker 2: I needed a radio edit for. And that one's that one's a it's a little more melodic than the other stuff.

29:33 Speaker 1: Okay.

29:34 Speaker 2: And then my song in your Hands, I feel like that's the closest to like a rock song that I have. Oh really, uh yeah, so maybe we'll play that at some point too.

29:42 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cool. All right, let's give this ha spend. If you are just joining us, we have six minds combined here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning, and this track is called Champion.

30:16 Speaker 4: Okay, we really yea when nobody wants to me that.

30:22 Speaker 3: Yap ya?

30:24 Speaker 4: What do we run to? We need someone's you need finds through? What if we're running the wrong way? And how do we know with what if we do ourselves today, and how we show me the right path.

30:50 Speaker 2: And give me from all this darkness.

30:54 Speaker 4: Or sharpen my knife hand and be out on my tar.

31:00 Speaker 2: Who do we become when there's no one to take the far the one to make the sacrifice, no one to make that final call? Who do we become when someone threatens those beloved above and below? We'd go to the deepest depths to hold that crutch, hold that crutch.

31:16 Speaker 4: I judge my fair share of.

31:20 Speaker 5: Square swearing love in love has somewhere off in.

31:25 Speaker 2: Sart shared I often got off God after our mer

31:34 Speaker 2: sign and a normally normally a normal guy, but I'm not just me.

31:40 Speaker 4: Might want to see what I might decide.

31:42 Speaker 2: I gotta not just be, gotta be the best of my monsters. I normally intent to intensified the descent, to pretend to decide that this that's decided to repent, invent a sentiment for desensitized descent, commending me every simple step a symbol. Who do we turn to when we burnt through?

32:02 Speaker 4: Well?

32:03 Speaker 2: Are hero bros? And hear go stewing brose to becomposed to beat this? Those noose also just thrown in pits of bones no fits in. Those that lived there sold this pigs to stuff and filled their bellies with these demon fixings. Hm hm nice short song.

32:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is a short one.

32:20 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:21 Speaker 1: That is called Champion. That is six minds combined here with us live in studio on the Saturday morning. By the way, you are getting a lot of chat room love. We should uh mention some of these folks, uh I Jones is that he said a y E Jones A Jones A Jones. Uh says a lot of very positive things including I'm so proud of.

32:41 Speaker 2: You dude, yep, which is uh.

32:42 Speaker 1: Which is very nice.

32:44 Speaker 2: A good friend of mine.

32:45 Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent Eddie uh seven two three oh says love you six mc uh. Let's see who else who I am we mentioned is in there earlier being very supportive. We appreciate that, uh. Andre Dumont of course. In the Facebook live chat this morning, Andre says, this show has amazing local variety. Does New Hampshire even realize the local talents? Yeah, there's a lot of talent here. You know, sometimes somebody will ask me, you know, how does you know Jenny does all the booking, and somebody will ask me how does Jenny find all these artists?

33:18 Speaker 1: And it's like, well, there's so much great talent out there, so many uh, you know, and not just here but all over the all over the world. Really, we live in a time where it's easier than ever to create music and then share it with the world, you know, with the globe.

33:33 Speaker 6: And a lot of times it's when an artist says can I, all.

33:37 Speaker 2: They do is ask, right, that's it. Well, that's that's the huge thing, is uh any opportunity. There are tons of opportunities out there, and you just gotta you gotta see them, you know, if you if you see something, yeah, see something, say something, you know, like the like the radio shows, I would have I would have I would have never done this myself. But knowing knowing the people that I do it gives me the confidence, you know. So but yeah, you know, get out there, if you if you're if you're making music for yourself and you think it's good, you know, show show it to some people, see if they think it's good.

34:13 Speaker 2: And if they think it's good, then show it to more people. You know, get get on the radio, talk to you know, reach out, get a hold of eleanor at the MCC and she can make it happen for you.

34:25 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. By the way, can you tell us a little bit more about positive street art because it sounds like so it sounds it sounds like you have to do that because of community service. But it worked out great obviously, it's it helped you turn things around and you're you're still working with the organization.

34:41 Speaker 2: Yes, so I'm I'm on the board. Excellent. Yeah. So, so I I had to do my community service and I had one hundred hours I had to do. So I worked with Paul Sheha at Great American Downtown on Sundays doing the Farmer's Market. And then I worked with Tom Lopez painting murals. You know who who who doesn't want to paint murals for community service? So I had such a great time doing it that I continued to volunteer with them afterward. And I just really wanted to like it. It was very fulfilling, you know, So I was like, I want to be a part of this.

35:14 Speaker 2: And then you know, one thing led to another and they finally asked me, They're like, well, you're you're such a huge part, you know, you're always helping us out. Why don't you join our board, and I was like, I'll do it. Yeah. I was like, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'll do it. You know, I'll take the opportunity. I'll make it out. But through positive street art many many. Ramirez is our lead painter. I don't know what title he goes by now, but he does most of the murals or organizes them.

35:43 Speaker 2: But he he was leaving an apartment way back shortly after I've got involved with them, and I was looking for a place and he's like, Oh, there's an apartment in my building that's opening up. Why don't you check into that? So I checked it out. I was like, this is perfect. Ended up living there for sixty years. But after I got the place, the landlord showed up three weeks later and he goes He goes, hey, man, I heard you're a carpenter. You want a job? And I was like, yeah, I'll take a job. So I've actually been at that company for eight years now.

36:15 Speaker 2: It's the best company I've ever worked for in my life.

36:18 Speaker 1: Excellent.

36:19 Speaker 2: That's Turncycle Solutions out of Nashville. It's a general contracting and weatherization company. But anyway, so positive street art, you know, years go by. I'm involved with all their different programming. I try to be as involved as I possibly can.

36:39 Speaker 2: A little over a year ago, I came up with the idea. I was like, you know what, I want to start doing something with my music. Why don't I try to do that through positive street art. So I talked to them and I brought up the idea of starting an open mic, and and they're like, yeah, that's a great idea, so let's do it. So almost every almost once a month, I've been I've been putting on the the open mic. It's called Vicus Fox, which is Latin for Voice of the City or voice of the street, and it's it hasn't really taken off yet.

37:13 Speaker 2: I've been doing it for over a year, but hopefully now that you know I'm getting out there personally and I'm trying to get as noticed as possible, other people will be. They'll they'll want to come just to see me, and maybe I could get some of them on the mic exact, you know, because That's what I'm all about. I want to I want to bring everybody up. I want to get everybody together. I want I want I want to collaborate with people. You know, I'm anybody, you know if you know, uh yeah. So so that's that's a That's a huge thing that I that I want to mention is I'm all about collaboration.

37:50 Speaker 2: You know, I'll work with anybody, and I want to work with people. I want I want to you know, share my talent with other people, motivate other people. They do the same thing that I'm doing right now.

38:03 Speaker 1: So what I what I love about the whole you know, your your whole story, the trajectory of we talk a lot on the show about taking negative things, taking negative experiences, and creating something positive out of them, right, creating art. You know, people take trauma and then they make music with it, you know, but your your story is an example of that, but even on a on a higher level, because you got into some trouble, right, so you had to do community service, but you did that with positive street art and then all the great things that came from getting involved in that.

38:38 Speaker 1: So it's it's like, you know, it's like, you know, taking something negative and creating art with it, but on steroids, it's you know what I mean, It's like, that's that's such a great story.

38:48 Speaker 2: And once you start that trajectory. It just keeps going. You know, if you have the positive mindset and you put that out in the universe, it's going to keep flooding you with positive things. Yes, you know, I've over the past eight years, my life is completely turned around.

39:01 Speaker 3: You know.

39:01 Speaker 2: I'm I'm I own the nicest car I've ever owned, the best job I've ever had, and I'm doing something with my music finally, and I'm I'm meeting up with a mortgage guy to try and buy a house. None of this stuff was was even a thought in my mind eight years ago. And then I got involved with positive street art and and everything changed from yea, you know, all that all that positivity that I was involved with just surrounded my life, and I just, you know, I kept taking every opportunity that came, and here I am today on Matt Connerton Radio.

39:35 Speaker 1: And no, We're glad you're here, and yeah, and and so much of it too. I think it is, you know, surrounding yourself with positive people. Because sometimes I think Jenny and I've had conversations about this with someone we know off air. You know, the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are going to lift you up. And be good for you and be positive for you and staying away from people who are only going to bring you trouble, right, you know that's that that's such a huge part of it.

40:10 Speaker 2: Now.

40:10 Speaker 1: By the way, So when you play live, do you do you ever perform with a band or is it just you with backing tracks or out? Does that work?

40:16 Speaker 2: So it's right now, it's me with backing tracks. But I would I would like to get together with a band and and some other solo artists that play instruments. I want to do.

40:26 Speaker 3: Uh.

40:27 Speaker 2: I want to do an acoustic version of the album as well. Yeah, change up the lyrics a little bit, Yeah, the melodies and things like that, and you know, create a whole nother project with the same project. Yeah, you know, and and and again, uh, work with other people so that you know, we can bring this whole collective of people up. I uh, I'm I'm working on some some music videos and uh, and like like promo videos and things like that to try and you know, on social media, to try and get people interested and listening.

41:05 Speaker 2: So ideas for that, you know, they're like, there's there's so much you can do, and I only have so many ideas So if anybody wants to throw some ideas at me and and and maybe work with me or or whatever, you know, I'm down for it. Yeah. I wanted to mention I don't know how much time we have left, but uh, I have a I do have a show coming up. Oh yeah, yeah, in November, November twenty fourth. It's going to be at the Jewel. We'll be there right across Yeah, Sealfie we're involved.

41:32 Speaker 1: Yep.

41:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So I don't know how the lineup is going to go or anything like that, but but show up at the beginning, stay till the end, and you'll get to see me perform.

41:40 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, looking forward to that. Yeah, Spelfiefest is going to be great if you go to actually, if you go to Midnight Creatives Collective dot com Midnight Creatives Collective. Want to make sure I say it right. Sometimes I mess it up. But if you go there, Yeah, you can actually get tickets right through the website.

41:57 Speaker 2: Yep.

41:57 Speaker 1: And Jenny and I are going to be there. Jenny's gonna a take, She's she's been making some amazing things and I'm going to do I'm not sure exactly what it's going to be. I'll kind of read the room and see what people want. But I'm going to do some kind of a hypnosis demon straight.

42:11 Speaker 2: Oh cool. Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice to see.

42:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'll be That'll be a lot of fun. So yeah, So Spelfi Fest coming up, Yeah, November twenty fourth at Jewel Yeah, it is right, I forget that it's.

42:21 Speaker 2: Right across the street. And that's it's also a benefit for rare pain disorders. Yes, they wanted to make sure that I mentioned that.

42:28 Speaker 6: Ye re the RSA organization that reflects sympathetic dystrophy. I do have CRPS. Okay, yep, So I'll be saying a few words on behalf of the organization. But they're super excited about this happening because it's it's it's rare to have fundraisers for rare diseases. We don't get a heck of a lot of attention, so this is super important.

42:51 Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, we're uh, yeah, we're very excited about it. It's going to be amazing. And also, are you already working on the next album.

43:01 Speaker 2: Or so right now, I'm I'm focusing more on trying to get the live shows going. Yeah, And and.

43:09 Speaker 1: Because you strike me as somebody who's probably always writing.

43:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, always, so so I am you know. I actually uh, one when I was in the studio getting all the stuff together, good Bars hooked me up with with a beat that is going to be on the next album. Cool. Yeah, and uh, and I have a couple other tracks that I've worked on in the past that I that I think are going to be good for the next album. So I would say yes a little bit. Yeah yeah, so so hopefully within the next year I'll have that out. But again, I want to I want to work with people I want, you know.

43:43 Speaker 2: So if if somebody's got a beat and and they want they want they have, you know, a space that's open on it, and they want you know, some talented lyrics on there, then you know, hit me up. I'll jump on the beat. We'll we'll turn it into a video and yeah, we'll get it out there as soon as possible.

44:01 Speaker 1: By the way, good Bars is in the chat room and says six MC is the truth.

44:04 Speaker 2: Yeah there you go.

44:05 Speaker 1: You go absolutely, no, that's that's fantastic.

44:10 Speaker 4: Well we will.

44:10 Speaker 1: Uh, we are approaching the top of the hour, So did you want to finish out with in your hands.

44:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do that.

44:16 Speaker 1: You mentioned that one and you were saying this one is kind of the closest thing you have that's to a rock song.

44:21 Speaker 2: Okay, all right until the next album because until yeah, yeah, just the beat that I got from Good Bars, that's that's like a solid rock song. Okay, it's gonna be good.

44:29 Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool? And uh so before we play this and finish out, what should people know about how to find you online? Anything specific? You want to make sure people know about how to how to reach out to you, follow you keep up with everything.

44:41 Speaker 2: That so six Minds combined obviously issue zero I'm on so YouTube has got this weird thing where you have to like claim your channel and it's a process.

44:52 Speaker 1: Yeah.

44:53 Speaker 2: So the the the music video Daydreaming is on It's on my channel, and then the album is on. Uh it's on the music YouTube, but it's under topic or something like that. Ye like claim it. They do weird, right, I know. But it's on it's on YouTube music, it's on Spotify, it's on uh Apple Music, it's on band camp. We Uh, what was I gonna say?

45:26 Speaker 1: It's on all the.

45:27 Speaker 2: Stream Yeah, yeah, it's on everything.

45:31 Speaker 1: We should say too. It's the number six, not six spelled out for the right. I mean, I assume if you search it with six spelled out you still come up. But maybe just I hope so. But you just make sure people know.

45:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can. You can find it on on on any of the any of the streaming platforms