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Matt Connarton Unleashed: 6 Minds Combined
Speaker 1: Well right now, joining us alive in studio and let
Speaker 1: me get that mic up there. We have Rick Everhard,
Speaker 1: better known as six Minds Combined. Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome
Speaker 1: to the program. We're going to play some of your
Speaker 1: tunes and get to know you a bit. And I
Speaker 1: have to tell you so. And I didn't mention this
Speaker 1: off air, but so last night on Friday nights, I'm
Speaker 1: here too. I do a show called retro Spectrum Radio
Speaker 1: with Polly c. Polly sees the host. I'm his co
Speaker 1: host on that program, and he always asks me during
Speaker 1: the show what do I have coming up the next morning?
Speaker 1: On Matt connorton Unleashed, And he loves the name six
Speaker 1: Minds Combined. He absolutely loves it. He thinks that's like
Speaker 1: the coolest name ever. So before we play the first
Speaker 1: track the single, let me get the obvious question out
Speaker 1: of the way. Where's the mine? Where does the name
Speaker 1: come from? Rather six Minds Combined?
Speaker 2: So actually it's it's not a long story, but but
Speaker 2: there's so when I first started making music, way back
Speaker 2: when I was eighteen, I I I came up with
Speaker 2: a name and I was like, oh, I like this name.
Speaker 2: It works. But it didn't work for everything that I
Speaker 2: was making. So so I was like, oh, well, let's
Speaker 2: let's try this name, and then this name and then
Speaker 2: this name, and it eventually it became six different names.
Speaker 2: So I went by I went by Schitzo for a
Speaker 2: little while. Yeah, and then uh. And then one day
Speaker 2: I was like, so, so there was another artist, underground
Speaker 2: artist at the time that was going by the same name,
Speaker 2: and so I was like, you know, I can't really
Speaker 2: like bite off this guy. I got all my own names,
Speaker 2: you know, so so why don't I just stick to
Speaker 2: to those depending on what I'm working on at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and uh. And then one of my songs that I wrote,
Speaker 2: I had wrote, uh, something like with these six minds combined,
Speaker 2: and and I read it off and I was like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, that's perfect. So so that's that's basically
Speaker 2: where that came from.
Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. By the way, who I
Speaker 1: am is in the Facebook live chat and says yes
Speaker 1: six MC, I'm sure, oh oh MC and two exclamation points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were talking off air too. You were on
Speaker 1: Lacey's show recently? Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, she was
Speaker 1: here and a while ago and brought her keyboard and
Speaker 1: played live for us at the studio. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a song called Oh let Me Know when
Speaker 1: It's Time to Rock that was stuck in my head
Speaker 1: for months after hearing it. Wow, but let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's play this track now. This is the single day Dreaming.
Speaker 1: I have a radio edit of it here. We'll listen
Speaker 1: to this and then we'll come back and talk about
Speaker 1: it and get to know more about what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But if you are just joining us live, we have
Speaker 1: right here in studio. Six minds combined, and check this out.
Speaker 1: This is called daydreaming.
Speaker 4: Six minds combined. Minds combined dangerous.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I get to thinking about all the things I'm missing.
Speaker 2: I get so many inklings to do. Should be rid
Speaker 2: slifting what mind dismissing? Time persists too, mind back, mind
Speaker 2: starts drifting. I find myself in vel loved, helpless as
Speaker 2: to where I'm visiting. Dimension shifting, vented and burst up
Speaker 2: of our sentence, left intact on wrecking what we've left untouched.
Speaker 2: The future is not above us, but right in front
Speaker 2: of us. Enough of not embracing faid, it's plain to
Speaker 2: see the change we.
Speaker 4: Need to make. Its time to shape the tree. What
Speaker 4: could this mean?
Speaker 5: I'm ddree I see the scene, nom men to see
Speaker 5: misleeeding me.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, the men to see misteaeding.
Speaker 4: Different directions, FECs.
Speaker 2: My mind is left invested in this fanta see it's fans.
Speaker 2: I see you're run me, screaming at me, laughing, crying,
Speaker 2: funding lights so bright, the sight is like a dream.
Speaker 4: It's me. I'm standing.
Speaker 2: It's outstanding, handing me the trophy, holding hands, whip, woopy.
Speaker 4: Hugs and speeches, leeches.
Speaker 2: Creeping me out, sneaking past the popper Rotzzi. Whoops, they
Speaker 2: got me shot outside, accosted at the Boston Market. Stars
Speaker 2: are made this way. Let's like the spark Let's fight
Speaker 2: the darkness. Harkness holding up the gate. It's time to
Speaker 2: fade away.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, not meant to see misleeeding me.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, nom men to see I'm misleeding me,
Speaker 5: misteed me.
Speaker 2: The stakes are racing, lifting faces, journing to change places,
Speaker 2: aces saved in case adjacent to the Jack of Space,
Speaker 2: wasted place it face down, passive takedown, patients gaining me
Speaker 2: the high ground, chasing faithless vagrants aimlessly down past. They
Speaker 2: want to try it now. I do want to die now,
Speaker 2: but want to fly. This guy's the limit, getting like
Speaker 2: to find out what's next to my route to try.
Speaker 4: I'll get it.
Speaker 2: I'll win the contest of constant progress on top of
Speaker 2: the charge with my songs about this and the roll
Speaker 2: up doubtless. No mouth, don't shout with us when we
Speaker 2: buffed down, shouting I'm out shame, come out shame.
Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenzacen misleeding.
Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenza misleading.
Speaker 4: Miss me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Could this mean? Is it just a day dream?
Speaker 4: What could this mean? What could this mean?
Speaker 1: I like that that is daydreaming, and that is six
Speaker 1: minds combined. And we have six minds combined here with
Speaker 1: us live in studio. Yeah, great track, awesome?
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Is that you singing as well?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh so you do? You do all the vocals?
Speaker 2: All the vocals?
Speaker 3: Is me?
Speaker 1: Oh excellent? Now what about the instrumentation do you play
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 2: Or so. Actually all the all the music off of
Speaker 2: this album was all made by Chris carwellos okay, good
Speaker 2: friend of mine. He's uh he's doing a drum and
Speaker 2: based thing as Skinny Jeans.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, from the area or where christ the area?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 2: He actually lives in Conquered I think.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And how did you connect with Chris to
Speaker 1: work on this project?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Actually, uh, I've been I worked with Chris for for
Speaker 2: like eight years, just making music, hanging out, having fun,
Speaker 2: you know, making stuff for us, you know, just just
Speaker 2: just to do it. Yeah. And actually I got I
Speaker 2: got mixed up with him because I got into some
Speaker 2: trouble and I had to do some community service, so
Speaker 2: I went, Uh my friend Gillian Anderson introduced me to
Speaker 2: Tom Lopez, who was at the time the vice president
Speaker 2: of Positive Street Art. Okay, and I had to do
Speaker 2: some community service. So I did all my community service
Speaker 2: through Positive street Art, which was It was great. It
Speaker 2: was so if if anybody has has community service, need
Speaker 2: to work out, definitely, you know, uh, look us up
Speaker 2: and and uh and and get involved. But it's positive
Speaker 2: straight out changed my life. I met a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of people through them, I obviously, you know, I got
Speaker 2: I got my act together, and uh, it's it's just
Speaker 2: been great, great, it's a great organization and uh. But anyway,
Speaker 2: so so through that doing the different events that we do,
Speaker 2: I ended up meeting uh Chris at we we had
Speaker 2: a dance program going on for a while, so he
Speaker 2: would come to that every every week or every other week,
Speaker 2: whatever it was. And I met him there and we
Speaker 2: we hit it off right away. Yeah, and uh and uh.
Speaker 2: He he mentioned that he was you know, he was
Speaker 2: a producer, he made music in the past, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, we should work on something together. So
Speaker 2: he he gave me everything that he had in his
Speaker 2: archive and he's like he's like, you know what, I
Speaker 2: really like you. I trust you. Here, take all the
Speaker 2: and see what you can do with it. And so
Speaker 2: I wrote to a couple of the tracks that he
Speaker 2: gave me and he's like he's like, wow, you know
Speaker 2: this is this is this is cool. Let's let's keep
Speaker 2: working together. So he started coming over like once a month,
Speaker 2: with once every couple of weeks, and he would pump
Speaker 2: out like five minute beats and then we would sit
Speaker 2: there for hours and we would just write to it
Speaker 2: back and forth, and we must have made well over
Speaker 2: one hundred songs together. And so I'd say somewhere abouts
Speaker 2: a year ago we had we had made that song Daydreaming.
Speaker 2: He used the this this instrument called the machine, and
Speaker 2: he like recorded a couple of vocal samples and just
Speaker 2: turned it into this sick beat. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is really cool. And and I was like, it
Speaker 2: feels kind of like daydreamy, and he's like yeah, and
Speaker 2: so it just it just went from there, you know.
Speaker 2: And and and I think it was like two or
Speaker 2: three days and we had the song done yep. And
Speaker 2: so shortly after that he had, you know, he had
Speaker 2: things going on in his life. I had things going
Speaker 2: on in my life. And he's like, he's like, you
Speaker 2: know what. We sat down and we talked, and he's like,
Speaker 2: he's like, I'm going to take a different direction with
Speaker 2: my music right now. You know, I'm going to do
Speaker 2: this this drum and bassed thing. And and he's like,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to let you know that anything that
Speaker 2: we've worked on up until this point is yours. Do
Speaker 2: whatever you want with it. Rewrite the lyrics, use the lyrics,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. And I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I should do something with this. So so
Speaker 2: I put it out in the universe, you know that
Speaker 2: I wanted to start, you know, chasing the dream, right.
Speaker 2: So so somehow the universe answered and they introduced me
Speaker 2: to Eleanor Luna from Midnight Creatives Collective and she she's
Speaker 2: they are are became my manager.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I mentioned my ideas and she's like, we can do
Speaker 2: this for you. So so it's just been it's been
Speaker 2: a ride since then. But we I picked uh seven
Speaker 2: of the songs that I had been working on, and
Speaker 2: I went to uh toy Bok Studios with mister good Bars.
Speaker 1: Yes, ye, yeah, he was on the show a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, I think I think it was a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. Yeah, yeah, he's he's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great. Dude's phenomenal. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and he works with so many different genres too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, yeah, so many different genres and he's
Speaker 2: good with with all of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's just got a huge talent for music and and
Speaker 2: putting it all together. He also does cinematography, so he.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He he made the Daydreaming official music video that's
Speaker 2: on YouTube. Oh okay, yep. So, so we had a party.
Speaker 2: He came over, I had a few people over and
Speaker 2: and we created the ambiance and and he did all
Speaker 2: the recording and and then put it all together afterwards.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so, so I had the beats, I had
Speaker 2: the I had the lyrics. I have a home studio.
Speaker 2: It's not that great, but but I don't know all
Speaker 2: the technical things, you know, the tweaks in this that.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I want to get this professionally recorded.
Speaker 2: And Eleanor introduced me to mister Goodbar's. I went over
Speaker 2: and he's like this, this stuff is great. He's like,
Speaker 2: let's do this. So we we laid down all the
Speaker 2: lyrics onto the tracks, and then he did He worked
Speaker 2: his wizardry magic and made it sound ten times better
Speaker 2: than I could have ever hoped. And uh and and
Speaker 2: it became the album. Eleanor uh then she she, you know,
Speaker 2: put the booklet together. I had my friend Hegan Fitzgerald
Speaker 2: art by KF that did the artwork for the album.
Speaker 1: We should mention and and I'll hold it up too
Speaker 1: for I mean, they won't be able to see it
Speaker 1: super well. But for people watching online, yeah, you brought
Speaker 1: in you brought in a few copies of the and
Speaker 1: I just want to say too, it's impressive. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's a conversation that comes up a lot on the
Speaker 1: show with guests, you know, whether you know physical media,
Speaker 1: you know, are you gonna are you gonna put something
Speaker 1: out on physical media or not? And and a lot
Speaker 1: of our guests really are putting out CDs. But you
Speaker 1: you kind of went all out with this too, because
Speaker 1: you know, you've got the book and you know you've
Speaker 1: got all the lyrics and everything, you know, full liner notes,
Speaker 1: all of that, which is really cool. And I love
Speaker 1: the artwork. So but yeah, for people watching online you
Speaker 1: can kind of see it's it's impressive, but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Cool. So actually about the CD, I don't know. It
Speaker 2: was like fifteen six and sixteen hundred bucks. We went
Speaker 2: through Super Dupes yep, and got them all printed up.
Speaker 2: They're right in Salem, right, Yes, yes, I I am
Speaker 2: if I meet anybody in person. And actually I figured,
Speaker 2: since we're on the radio here, if anybody wants to
Speaker 2: reach out to me, I will give them the free
Speaker 2: a free CD. So I don't want to. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to make money off the CDs. I feel like
Speaker 2: I feel like like music itself should be as free
Speaker 2: as it could possibly be. The things that I feel
Speaker 2: like artists should get paid for is shows, merchandise and
Speaker 2: things like that. But the music, I just want to
Speaker 2: get it out there. I got a message. I want
Speaker 2: people to hear it. That's again why I put the
Speaker 2: lyrics in there too, because I want people to know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying and understand the message that I'm trying
Speaker 2: to portray, you know, like a it's like uplifting, like
Speaker 2: let's let's make some stuff happen together, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: forget all this negativity and and all the bad stuff
Speaker 2: that's happening in the world. Like let's let's let's ignore
Speaker 2: that and and let's move forward in a progressive way.
Speaker 2: You know. At the end of one of my songs
Speaker 2: and one of my lyrics, I say, we can be
Speaker 2: we without being forced, and and that's I really feel
Speaker 2: strongly about that. You know. I feel like like there's
Speaker 2: there's too many organizations and people that are they're just
Speaker 2: doing it for themselves, you know, and they're trying to
Speaker 2: be the better of of whatever they're they're into. They're
Speaker 2: trying to be the best. I'm looking at it differently.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think that I can be
Speaker 2: my best without somebody helping me become my best. Right,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been able to get as far as
Speaker 2: I've gotten with the music in these past few months
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Eleanor at Midnight Creatives Collective. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's she's really taken, taken the bowl by the horns.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what what she's doing there is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's it is great. And if if
Speaker 2: there are any aspiring artists, musicians, painting artists, pencil artists, crafts,
Speaker 2: like whatever you do, check it out Midnight Creatives Collective.
Speaker 2: She they will, they will help everybody. So the idea
Speaker 2: is to basically have like a business bar where people
Speaker 2: can come together and they can collaboratively work on whatever
Speaker 2: art projects they have going on. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: she also does like this this management. Yeah, and she's
Speaker 2: been picking up quite a few clients lately, so get
Speaker 2: on the list. As soon as I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, I think she's assigned a couple more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 1: She's doing great stuff there, and so I'm associated now too, tangentially,
Speaker 1: but I'm doing I don't know if you know this
Speaker 1: about me. I'm also a certified hypnotherapist. Oh really, and
Speaker 1: I'm now available Mondays and Tuesdays if someone wants to
Speaker 1: book a session with me in Nashua at the Business Bar.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, they can do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Oh so you're involved with her too, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've known Eleanor for probably twenty years. Oh wow, yep, yep.
Speaker 6: Absolutely highlighted my artwork in the month of August. They
Speaker 6: took twelve of my darkest paintings and put them up.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, yep, yep. Yeah, she's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The whole organization, like the idea that they have
Speaker 2: for it and everything that they're doing. They actually they
Speaker 2: just opened up another room in the building that they're
Speaker 2: at where they want it's gonna be like a community
Speaker 2: jam space. Okay, So anybody you know, bring your guitar down,
Speaker 2: bring your keyboard down, bring your bring your amp and
Speaker 2: your microphone, and let's all hang out in that room
Speaker 2: together and just jam out, you know, makes them makes
Speaker 2: them have some fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Well we should play another track.
Speaker 1: I'll let you pick what. Uh what should we play next?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Uh, my my favorite song off the album is Running
Speaker 2: through a Mansion.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what's cool?
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because, uh, that's actually my
Speaker 1: favorite too.
Speaker 2: Oh cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this one. So we'll give this a spin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you didn't pick this, I was gonna close the
Speaker 1: segment with it when we get to the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. But I'm gonna gohead and play it now.
Speaker 1: Cool and yeah, this is my personal favorite. You know,
Speaker 1: and your your tracks, I mean they're they're unique, you know.
Speaker 1: It's it's this song especially, it's it's like nothing I've
Speaker 1: ever heard before you did. How do you Everyone always
Speaker 1: say it's this question about how do you define your
Speaker 1: music for someone who's not heard it. Do you call
Speaker 1: it alternative hip hop? Because that's the first thing that
Speaker 1: came to behind when I was listening. It's like all
Speaker 1: hip hop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably what I would classify
Speaker 2: it as. I tell hip people hip hop because it's
Speaker 2: got rap in it. Yeah, rap is significantly, you know,
Speaker 2: a big part of the hip hop scene. So so
Speaker 2: that's what I start with. But I'm like, but it's
Speaker 2: not just hip hop, right, Like, you really got to
Speaker 2: check it out and listen to it because every song
Speaker 2: is different. Every song's got its own cadence and feel
Speaker 2: to it. And if you don't like one song, you
Speaker 2: might like the other six, so it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, very good? Well check this out. This
Speaker 1: is called running through a mansion and this is six
Speaker 1: minds combined.
Speaker 4: M Well you know, will you know? Will you know
Speaker 4: that you got this? HM?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 4: Well, you know? Will you know? Will you know that
Speaker 4: you got this?
Speaker 1: HM?
Speaker 2: Running through a mansion? Answer in a standing question? Left
Speaker 2: are going through room through? Bobas I know you left
Speaker 2: me questions to me as fest to ring obsessing all
Speaker 2: my lessons learned. I think I've earned some rest against
Speaker 2: It's time to burn the desperate yearning for Lott's to
Speaker 2: cope with later greater understanding handling matters as a man
Speaker 2: in standing a foot what we know is right, and
Speaker 2: making not demands and never given into ghosts, just hoping
Speaker 2: for for change.
Speaker 4: It never comes as long as you don't run.
Speaker 2: It's fundamentally U Central Central Intel spelled it out. It
Speaker 2: sounds a bit like self half wellness, You've already won.
Speaker 2: It's all about to combine. Some time is an illusion.
Speaker 2: You can do it because you've done it someday, some day,
Speaker 2: prove it to yourself. And that's enough to use the
Speaker 2: runway claims taking off about the skies and bids to
Speaker 2: try to find us, flying freely, feeling fund and finding
Speaker 2: flight beast, not to find us climbing higher than we
Speaker 2: dared you scared to fall back to the ground, resounding
Speaker 2: off the atmosphere.
Speaker 7: It's clear, will never come back now, Oh no, we're
Speaker 7: all outday.
Speaker 4: Painting on this. Can our spots leave? We'll burning like
Speaker 4: the stars. We've got scars as we from them, working hard.
Speaker 4: So well, you know, will you know? Will you know
Speaker 4: that you got this? Hmm? Sen, Well you know, will
Speaker 4: you know? Will you know that you got this? Hm?
Speaker 2: I feel a little bit of I've just read a
Speaker 2: lot a lot of lyrics. Need a bit to sit
Speaker 2: and settle myself down before I hear it. Fear is
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the science system. Listen, serious, gear up,
Speaker 2: dust off, stript rust off. You can drive a Numkin
Speaker 2: ver six off this path that at last I have
Speaker 2: found so many floors and lock doors are torn down?
Speaker 2: How many more before I'm forced to lay down and
Speaker 2: take a break, before I break and fade out. Listening
Speaker 2: to this, it's got me thinking about what's missing. It's insensitive,
Speaker 2: obsessing over every single mistake, taking time and making rhymes
Speaker 2: to take my minds up, all the sickness witness in
Speaker 2: between the lines of something written.
Speaker 4: You got this, you got this?
Speaker 5: Shut h.
Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that
Speaker 4: you got this?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that
Speaker 4: you got this?
Speaker 8: M You can through these windows, watching people following wind blows,
Speaker 8: holding on the hope that no wind, Folks beneath the
Speaker 8: way they can't regetting their burdens, hurting inside them out,
Speaker 8: trying trying to be something someday, some way, somehow, someone
Speaker 8: that they can be proud of, shure the world what
Speaker 8: they climbed out of, holding onto who they were while
Speaker 8: turning into something more, be putting keys in their own doors,
Speaker 8: ensuring needs to just be sure so they won't.
Speaker 4: Need to need no more.
Speaker 2: Indeed, we plead to leave this core, imploring we don't
Speaker 2: need to work, and we can be without being forced,
Speaker 2: without be forced, without being forced big without being forced, without.
Speaker 4: Being for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that is my favorite. That is
Speaker 1: running through a mansion. That is six minds combined. Who
Speaker 1: is here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: There's a line in there too, watching Uh was it
Speaker 1: watching people? Watching people falling over when the wind blows?
Speaker 1: It just Uh, you couldn't have predicted when you wrote
Speaker 1: that song. But when I when I hear that, I immediately
Speaker 1: think of I just have visions of all these videos
Speaker 1: that I've seen, Uh in Florida, Yeah, the hurricanes, like
Speaker 1: literally people being knocked over by the wind. But yeah,
Speaker 1: such a great track. And uh, I love your your
Speaker 1: singing voice too. You remind me of somebody, but I
Speaker 1: can't quite place who when when you're singing, has anyone
Speaker 1: ever told you that you were anyone?
Speaker 2: I've heard every single person that says I sound like
Speaker 2: somebody says I sound like somebody different?
Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding. Oh that's interesting. That's interesting, is it?
Speaker 1: I assume it's not. But is it difficult to shift
Speaker 1: gears live between singing and rapping? It's probably pretty natural out.
Speaker 2: Imagine it is, especially I've I've practiced, practiced these songs
Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times. So it's so
Speaker 2: it's like, uh, and I listened to them every single day,
Speaker 2: you know, my my music is my favorite music.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so when when I first write the songs, they
Speaker 2: they don't sound the way they do at the end,
Speaker 2: like I have to find, I have to find, like
Speaker 2: I write first, and then I'll find the cadence and
Speaker 2: I'll i'll create the melodies and things like that. So
Speaker 2: so a lot of those words I wrote them as
Speaker 2: words first, and then I would listen to and go, oh, well,
Speaker 2: this would sound good with some sort of melody here, okay,
Speaker 2: And and then and then I would adapt the words
Speaker 2: to to work for that melody.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, that song in particular has a lot of
Speaker 1: words in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's got the most words on
Speaker 2: the album.
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that challenging for you or I?
Speaker 2: I have a horrible memory, so it's really really hard
Speaker 2: to remember all my lyrics. And I've I've made like
Speaker 2: I've like I said before, I've made hundreds of songs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: past I don't remember any of them. You know. Actually,
Speaker 2: one thing I do remember, though I can't I can't
Speaker 2: say it because there's there's bad words in it. But
Speaker 2: the very first the very first four bars I ever wrote.
Speaker 2: It's stuck in my head forever, that'll never go away.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so especially that song, it is hard to
Speaker 2: remember the lyrics, but it's I almost use like a
Speaker 2: visual and and like the the fact that it that
Speaker 2: the things rhyme that that helps a lot. And and
Speaker 2: like if I if I say the first line, it
Speaker 2: triggers the second line in my mind. Yeah, the second
Speaker 2: line triggers the third, and then the fourth. So if
Speaker 2: I jump in the middle of a song and try
Speaker 2: to start it, I'm so lost. I have to start
Speaker 2: from the beginning.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That makes sense. That's something too. You know,
Speaker 1: there are people who who don't like hip hop, and
Speaker 1: I always tell them one thing that I just feel
Speaker 1: nobody ever brings us up either. Something that I feel
Speaker 1: that people who rap don't get enough credit for is
Speaker 1: the memory skills. Yeah, because you know, your typical rock
Speaker 1: song it's pretty easy to remember. You know, you listen
Speaker 1: to it a few times, you know, verse course verst course,
Speaker 1: you know you get the lyrics. But your average hip
Speaker 1: hop song has a lot more lyrics. Ye packed into
Speaker 1: it than your average rock song. So there's you've really
Speaker 1: got to have good memory skills or you know, or
Speaker 1: find some something that works for you mentally, like the
Speaker 1: way that you described where you can recall all of
Speaker 1: that and even and also two with a rock song,
Speaker 1: if you do mess up a lyric, it's pretty easy
Speaker 1: to recover from it. But I would imagine a song
Speaker 1: like running through a mansion if you mess something up
Speaker 1: as you're performing it live, you know, I mean in
Speaker 1: your mind that there must be like a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hiccup there, like uh oh yeah, yep, does
Speaker 1: that ever happen?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it happens all the time. Yeah. And that's
Speaker 2: another thing like I want to put out there is
Speaker 2: like everybody makes mistakes, you know, and especially in live shows,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of pressure that you're under being in
Speaker 2: front of even if you're in front of ten people,
Speaker 2: if you're in front of one hundred people, there there's
Speaker 2: pressure to do a good job, and that on top
Speaker 2: of all the other little things. It's, you know, anything
Speaker 2: can make you skip up, mess up. I was at
Speaker 2: I host an open mic for through Positive Street Art
Speaker 2: once a month. The next one's October eighteenth. At the
Speaker 2: last one I was at was also my record release party,
Speaker 2: and I was I was performing the song Champion, and
Speaker 2: I forgot the first word. Oh no, So I had
Speaker 2: to restart the song two times and and and I like,
Speaker 2: I I was perfectly fine. I was calm, like I was.
Speaker 2: I wasn't nervous at all. And then I forgot that
Speaker 2: first word and then then like my anxiety shot to
Speaker 2: the roof and I started I started all like panicking
Speaker 2: right there. I'm like, oh God, what do I do.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I can't remember. So I just I
Speaker 2: like centered myself and I just press play, and then
Speaker 2: the lyrics all showed up. Yeah, yeah, it was well.
Speaker 2: So the we haven't mentioned it yet. The name of
Speaker 2: the album is Issue zero.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was curious about that. The title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so I'm I'm into like comic books and
Speaker 2: series and things like that, so I like to I
Speaker 2: like to integrate all my passions and and my hobbies
Speaker 2: into everything I do. So so with the with the
Speaker 2: name of the album, I was like, I wanted to
Speaker 2: be the first of something so like in like issue
Speaker 2: or or something like that. But but it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of like the before album. Okay, you know, I'm just
Speaker 2: coming out. Everybody's getting getting to know me, so it's
Speaker 2: not the first one. Yeah, it comes before that, so
Speaker 2: it's zero, so it's it's issue zero. And then that's
Speaker 2: that's basically why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Well,
Speaker 1: we should play another track. What do you want to?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Where where should we go next?
Speaker 2: Let's go with Champion.
Speaker 1: We'll go with Champion. And that was that was not
Speaker 1: one of the ones.
Speaker 2: I needed a radio edit for. And that one's that
Speaker 2: one's a it's a little more melodic than the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And then my song in your Hands, I feel like
Speaker 2: that's the closest to like a rock song that I have.
Speaker 2: Oh really, uh yeah, so maybe we'll play that at
Speaker 2: some point too.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cool. All right, let's give this ha spend.
Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have six minds
Speaker 1: combined here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: and this track is called Champion.
Speaker 4: Okay, we really yea when nobody wants to me that.
Speaker 3: Yap ya?
Speaker 4: What do we run to? We need someone's you need
Speaker 4: finds through? What if we're running the wrong way? And
Speaker 4: how do we know with what if we do ourselves today,
Speaker 4: and how we show me the right path.
Speaker 2: And give me from all this darkness.
Speaker 4: Or sharpen my knife hand and be out on my tar.
Speaker 2: Who do we become when there's no one to take
Speaker 2: the far the one to make the sacrifice, no one
Speaker 2: to make that final call? Who do we become when
Speaker 2: someone threatens those beloved above and below? We'd go to
Speaker 2: the deepest depths to hold that crutch, hold that crutch.
Speaker 4: I judge my fair share of.
Speaker 5: Square swearing love in love has somewhere off in.
Speaker 2: Sart shared I often got off God after our mer
Speaker 2: sign and a normally normally a normal guy, but I'm
Speaker 2: not just me.
Speaker 4: Might want to see what I might decide.
Speaker 2: I gotta not just be, gotta be the best of
Speaker 2: my monsters. I normally intent to intensified the descent, to
Speaker 2: pretend to decide that this that's decided to repent, invent
Speaker 2: a sentiment for desensitized descent, commending me every simple step
Speaker 2: a symbol. Who do we turn to when we burnt through?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Are hero bros? And hear go stewing brose to becomposed
Speaker 2: to beat this? Those noose also just thrown in pits
Speaker 2: of bones no fits in. Those that lived there sold
Speaker 2: this pigs to stuff and filled their bellies with these
Speaker 2: demon fixings. Hm hm nice short song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is a short one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That is called Champion. That is six minds combined here
Speaker 1: with us live in studio on the Saturday morning. By
Speaker 1: the way, you are getting a lot of chat room love.
Speaker 1: We should uh mention some of these folks, uh I
Speaker 1: Jones is that he said a y E Jones A
Speaker 1: Jones A Jones. Uh says a lot of very positive
Speaker 1: things including I'm so proud of.
Speaker 2: You dude, yep, which is uh.
Speaker 1: Which is very nice.
Speaker 2: A good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent Eddie uh seven two three oh says
Speaker 1: love you six mc uh. Let's see who else who
Speaker 1: I am we mentioned is in there earlier being very supportive.
Speaker 1: We appreciate that, uh. Andre Dumont of course. In the
Speaker 1: Facebook live chat this morning, Andre says, this show has
Speaker 1: amazing local variety. Does New Hampshire even realize the local talents? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent here. You know, sometimes somebody
Speaker 1: will ask me, you know, how does you know Jenny
Speaker 1: does all the booking, and somebody will ask me how
Speaker 1: does Jenny find all these artists? And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: there's so much great talent out there, so many uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and not just here but all over the
Speaker 1: all over the world. Really, we live in a time
Speaker 1: where it's easier than ever to create music and then
Speaker 1: share it with the world, you know, with the globe.
Speaker 6: And a lot of times it's when an artist says
Speaker 6: can I, all.
Speaker 2: They do is ask, right, that's it. Well, that's that's
Speaker 2: the huge thing, is uh any opportunity. There are tons
Speaker 2: of opportunities out there, and you just gotta you gotta
Speaker 2: see them, you know, if you if you see something, yeah,
Speaker 2: see something, say something, you know, like the like the
Speaker 2: radio shows, I would have I would have I would
Speaker 2: have never done this myself. But knowing knowing the people
Speaker 2: that I do it gives me the confidence, you know.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, you know, get out there, if you
Speaker 2: if you're if you're making music for yourself and you
Speaker 2: think it's good, you know, show show it to some people,
Speaker 2: see if they think it's good. And if they think
Speaker 2: it's good, then show it to more people. You know,
Speaker 2: get get on the radio, talk to you know, reach out,
Speaker 2: get a hold of eleanor at the MCC and she
Speaker 2: can make it happen for you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. By the way, can you tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit more about positive street art because it sounds
Speaker 1: like so it sounds it sounds like you have to
Speaker 1: do that because of community service. But it worked out
Speaker 1: great obviously, it's it helped you turn things around and
Speaker 1: you're you're still working with the organization.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I'm I'm on the board. Excellent. Yeah. So,
Speaker 2: so I I had to do my community service and
Speaker 2: I had one hundred hours I had to do. So
Speaker 2: I worked with Paul Sheha at Great American Downtown on
Speaker 2: Sundays doing the Farmer's Market. And then I worked with
Speaker 2: Tom Lopez painting murals. You know who who who doesn't
Speaker 2: want to paint murals for community service? So I had
Speaker 2: such a great time doing it that I continued to
Speaker 2: volunteer with them afterward. And I just really wanted to
Speaker 2: like it. It was very fulfilling, you know, So I
Speaker 2: was like, I want to be a part of this.
Speaker 2: And then you know, one thing led to another and
Speaker 2: they finally asked me, They're like, well, you're you're such
Speaker 2: a huge part, you know, you're always helping us out.
Speaker 2: Why don't you join our board, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. Yeah. I was like, I don't know
Speaker 2: what I'm doing, but I'll do it. You know, I'll
Speaker 2: take the opportunity. I'll make it out. But through positive
Speaker 2: street art many many. Ramirez is our lead painter. I
Speaker 2: don't know what title he goes by now, but he
Speaker 2: does most of the murals or organizes them. But he
Speaker 2: he was leaving an apartment way back shortly after I've
Speaker 2: got involved with them, and I was looking for a
Speaker 2: place and he's like, Oh, there's an apartment in my
Speaker 2: building that's opening up. Why don't you check into that?
Speaker 2: So I checked it out. I was like, this is perfect.
Speaker 2: Ended up living there for sixty years. But after I
Speaker 2: got the place, the landlord showed up three weeks later
Speaker 2: and he goes He goes, hey, man, I heard you're
Speaker 2: a carpenter. You want a job? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll take a job. So I've actually been at that
Speaker 2: company for eight years now. It's the best company I've
Speaker 2: ever worked for in my life.
Speaker 1: Excellent.
Speaker 2: That's Turncycle Solutions out of Nashville. It's a general contracting
Speaker 2: and weatherization company. But anyway, so positive street art, you know,
Speaker 2: years go by. I'm involved with all their different programming.
Speaker 2: I try to be as involved as I possibly can.
Speaker 2: A little over a year ago, I came up with
Speaker 2: the idea. I was like, you know what, I want
Speaker 2: to start doing something with my music. Why don't I
Speaker 2: try to do that through positive street art. So I
Speaker 2: talked to them and I brought up the idea of
Speaker 2: starting an open mic, and and they're like, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a great idea, so let's do it. So almost every
Speaker 2: almost once a month, I've been I've been putting on
Speaker 2: the the open mic. It's called Vicus Fox, which is
Speaker 2: Latin for Voice of the City or voice of the street,
Speaker 2: and it's it hasn't really taken off yet. I've been
Speaker 2: doing it for over a year, but hopefully now that
Speaker 2: you know I'm getting out there personally and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get as noticed as possible, other people will be.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll want to come just to see me, and
Speaker 2: maybe I could get some of them on the mic exact,
Speaker 2: you know, because That's what I'm all about. I want
Speaker 2: to I want to bring everybody up. I want to
Speaker 2: get everybody together. I want I want I want to
Speaker 2: collaborate with people. You know, I'm anybody, you know if
Speaker 2: you know, uh yeah. So so that's that's a That's
Speaker 2: a huge thing that I that I want to mention
Speaker 2: is I'm all about collaboration. You know, I'll work with anybody,
Speaker 2: and I want to work with people. I want I
Speaker 2: want to you know, share my talent with other people,
Speaker 2: motivate other people. They do the same thing that I'm
Speaker 2: doing right now.
Speaker 1: So what I what I love about the whole you know,
Speaker 1: your your whole story, the trajectory of we talk a
Speaker 1: lot on the show about taking negative things, taking negative experiences,
Speaker 1: and creating something positive out of them, right, creating art.
Speaker 1: You know, people take trauma and then they make music
Speaker 1: with it, you know, but your your story is an
Speaker 1: example of that, but even on a on a higher level,
Speaker 1: because you got into some trouble, right, so you had
Speaker 1: to do community service, but you did that with positive
Speaker 1: street art and then all the great things that came
Speaker 1: from getting involved in that. So it's it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, taking something negative and creating art
Speaker 1: with it, but on steroids, it's you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's like, that's that's such a great story.
Speaker 2: And once you start that trajectory. It just keeps going.
Speaker 2: You know, if you have the positive mindset and you
Speaker 2: put that out in the universe, it's going to keep
Speaker 2: flooding you with positive things. Yes, you know, I've over
Speaker 2: the past eight years, my life is completely turned around.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I own the nicest car I've ever owned,
Speaker 2: the best job I've ever had, and I'm doing something
Speaker 2: with my music finally, and I'm I'm meeting up with
Speaker 2: a mortgage guy to try and buy a house. None
Speaker 2: of this stuff was was even a thought in my
Speaker 2: mind eight years ago. And then I got involved with
Speaker 2: positive street art and and everything changed from yea, you know,
Speaker 2: all that all that positivity that I was involved with
Speaker 2: just surrounded my life, and I just, you know, I
Speaker 2: kept taking every opportunity that came, and here I am
Speaker 2: today on Matt Connerton Radio.
Speaker 1: And no, We're glad you're here, and yeah, and and
Speaker 1: so much of it too. I think it is, you know,
Speaker 1: surrounding yourself with positive people. Because sometimes I think Jenny
Speaker 1: and I've had conversations about this with someone we know
Speaker 1: off air. You know, the importance of surrounding yourself with
Speaker 1: people who are going to lift you up. And be
Speaker 1: good for you and be positive for you and staying
Speaker 1: away from people who are only going to bring you trouble, right,
Speaker 1: you know that's that that's such a huge part of it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, So when you play live, do you
Speaker 1: do you ever perform with a band or is it
Speaker 1: just you with backing tracks or out? Does that work?
Speaker 2: So it's right now, it's me with backing tracks. But
Speaker 2: I would I would like to get together with a
Speaker 2: band and and some other solo artists that play instruments.
Speaker 2: I want to do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I want to do an acoustic version of the album
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, change up the lyrics a little bit, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the melodies and things like that, and you know, create
Speaker 2: a whole nother project with the same project. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and and and again, uh, work with other people so
Speaker 2: that you know, we can bring this whole collective of
Speaker 2: people up. I uh, I'm I'm working on some some
Speaker 2: music videos and uh, and like like promo videos and
Speaker 2: things like that to try and you know, on social media,
Speaker 2: to try and get people interested and listening. So ideas
Speaker 2: for that, you know, they're like, there's there's so much
Speaker 2: you can do, and I only have so many ideas
Speaker 2: So if anybody wants to throw some ideas at me
Speaker 2: and and and maybe work with me or or whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm down for it. Yeah. I wanted to
Speaker 2: mention I don't know how much time we have left,
Speaker 2: but uh, I have a I do have a show
Speaker 2: coming up. Oh yeah, yeah, in November, November twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: It's going to be at the Jewel. We'll be there
Speaker 2: right across Yeah, Sealfie we're involved.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So I don't know how the
Speaker 2: lineup is going to go or anything like that, but
Speaker 2: but show up at the beginning, stay till the end,
Speaker 2: and you'll get to see me perform.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, looking forward to that. Yeah, Spelfiefest is going
Speaker 1: to be great if you go to actually, if you
Speaker 1: go to Midnight Creatives Collective dot com Midnight Creatives Collective.
Speaker 1: Want to make sure I say it right. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: mess it up. But if you go there, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can actually get tickets right through the website.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And Jenny and I are going to be there. Jenny's
Speaker 1: gonna a take, She's she's been making some amazing things
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do I'm not sure exactly what
Speaker 1: it's going to be. I'll kind of read the room
Speaker 1: and see what people want. But I'm going to do
Speaker 1: some kind of a hypnosis demon straight.
Speaker 2: Oh cool. Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'll be That'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So Spelfi Fest coming up, Yeah, November twenty
Speaker 1: fourth at Jewel Yeah, it is right, I forget that it's.
Speaker 2: Right across the street. And that's it's also a benefit
Speaker 2: for rare pain disorders. Yes, they wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: that I mentioned that.
Speaker 6: Ye re the RSA organization that reflects sympathetic dystrophy. I
Speaker 6: do have CRPS. Okay, yep, So I'll be saying a
Speaker 6: few words on behalf of the organization. But they're super
Speaker 6: excited about this happening because it's it's it's rare to
Speaker 6: have fundraisers for rare diseases. We don't get a heck
Speaker 6: of a lot of attention, so this is super important.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, we're uh, yeah, we're very excited about it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing. And also, are you already
Speaker 1: working on the next album.
Speaker 2: Or so right now, I'm I'm focusing more on trying
Speaker 2: to get the live shows going. Yeah, And and.
Speaker 1: Because you strike me as somebody who's probably always writing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always, so so I am you know. I actually uh,
Speaker 2: one when I was in the studio getting all the
Speaker 2: stuff together, good Bars hooked me up with with a
Speaker 2: beat that is going to be on the next album. Cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and uh, and I have a couple other tracks that
Speaker 2: I've worked on in the past that I that I
Speaker 2: think are going to be good for the next album.
Speaker 2: So I would say yes a little bit. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: so so hopefully within the next year I'll have that out.
Speaker 2: But again, I want to I want to work with
Speaker 2: people I want, you know. So if if somebody's got
Speaker 2: a beat and and they want they want they have,
Speaker 2: you know, a space that's open on it, and they
Speaker 2: want you know, some talented lyrics on there, then you know,
Speaker 2: hit me up. I'll jump on the beat. We'll we'll
Speaker 2: turn it into a video and yeah, we'll get it
Speaker 2: out there as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: By the way, good Bars is in the chat room
Speaker 1: and says six MC is the truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah there you go.
Speaker 1: You go absolutely, no, that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Well we will.
Speaker 1: Uh, we are approaching the top of the hour, So
Speaker 1: did you want to finish out with in your hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that one and you were saying this one
Speaker 1: is kind of the closest thing you have that's to
Speaker 1: a rock song.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right until the next album because until yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: just the beat that I got from Good Bars, that's
Speaker 2: that's like a solid rock song. Okay, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool? And uh so before we play this
Speaker 1: and finish out, what should people know about how to
Speaker 1: find you online? Anything specific? You want to make sure
Speaker 1: people know about how to how to reach out to you,
Speaker 1: follow you keep up with everything.
Speaker 2: That so six Minds combined obviously issue zero I'm on
Speaker 2: so YouTube has got this weird thing where you have
Speaker 2: to like claim your channel and it's a process.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the the the music video Daydreaming is on It's
Speaker 2: on my channel, and then the album is on. Uh
Speaker 2: it's on the music YouTube, but it's under topic or
Speaker 2: something like that. Ye like claim it. They do weird, right,
Speaker 2: I know. But it's on it's on YouTube music, it's
Speaker 2: on Spotify, it's on uh Apple Music, it's on band camp.
Speaker 2: We Uh, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 1: It's on all the.
Speaker 2: Stream Yeah, yeah, it's on everything.
Speaker 1: We should say too. It's the number six, not six
Speaker 1: spelled out for the right. I mean, I assume if
Speaker 1: you search it with six spelled out you still come up.
Speaker 1: But maybe just I hope so. But you just make
Speaker 1: sure people know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can. You can find it on on
Speaker 2: on any of the any of the streaming platforms
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