Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-19-25 hour 3

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1:54 Speaker 4: Noddy's everywhere he leaves here, well he leaves here. Well that's out in here.

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2:17 Speaker 10: Polish Polish, right, I love it.

2:37 Speaker 13: That is backwards down a hill and that is the Stiff Tones, and we have the Stiff Tones with us live in studio. We're going to talk with them in just a moment and they're gonna play. So really looking forward to this. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number three Newmarrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three f M and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Also so you can stream the show from anywhere, go to Matt connorton dot com, slash live and of course today is Saturday, July nineteen, twenty twenty five.

3:08 Speaker 13: Jenny is here of course at the news table. And by the way, Jenny and I are going to be later on this evening. Under the Horizon is playing at nine pm at Jewel Nightclub here in Manchester and we love Under the Horizon, So come down and say hello.

3:26 Speaker 10: It's going to be a gonna be a great show. Is that is tonight?

3:30 Speaker 13: That is tonight if you are listening live, Yeah, come say hello, come see under the horizon, and there's a bunch of Scarecrow Hill is going to be there tonight too. We've had them on the show. Another another great band. But right now, so we've got the stift Ons here with us in studio. Now, I'm going to bring these mics up. I'm using a little bit of a different microphone configuration than we usually use here, so we'll see, we'll see. Make sure I can hear everybody.

3:57 Speaker 8: Go ahead, and.

4:00 Speaker 10: Oh I can't hear you at all. I think I know why. I think I know why. Okay, let's try. Oh I hear something. I hear a lot of things.

4:09 Speaker 13: Now, okay, let's see get turned that one up, turn that one up. And oh, I wasn't strum that guitar a little bit. If you would please, actually you could both, Actually you should both strump.

4:26 Speaker 14: We came out, came out a little bit while I was sitting here.

4:29 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's okay.

4:29 Speaker 14: I think my guitar gets nervous as I am. Maybe perhaps all.

4:34 Speaker 13: Right, cool, let's do this. Let's have you, let's have you introduce yourselves. Please, Well, I guess, uh where the stiff tones.

4:46 Speaker 14: I'm sean. This is Rachel my wife, and uh, we're from I'm from southern Illinois, she's from New Hampshire. I like to joke that she exited her and exit her. It's just Dan go to jokes. We've been travel in the country for about five years, living in the back of our Cadillac hearse playing and singing for our supper and hundreds of towns all over the country.

5:09 Speaker 10: Yeah.

5:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, we quit being grown ups and I got away from Yeah, COVID trust is how I was a nurse, you know, and yeah, COVID stress, oh no doubt.

5:18 Speaker 10: Yeah.

5:19 Speaker 2: After that, we were like, what we have choices, Like, we don't have to have all this stuff.

5:24 Speaker 10: That's okay, we're on a delay. I caught it shipwreck.

5:26 Speaker 2: I was saying, ship we don't have to have all this stuff, and so yeah, whatever we can fit in the hurst, we can take with us. Yeah, so that's what we did.

5:37 Speaker 14: So that's what we did. We we kind of ran away with the proverbial circus. So we kind of call ourselves the rock and roll devible circus versus a revival. Okay, So that's basically where you take instead of just reviving something, you take the good parts of it. And you form something new with it.

5:54 Speaker 10: Okay.

5:56 Speaker 13: By the way, I just want our listeners to know too. I can confirm so the Hurst thing is not a gimmick.

6:01 Speaker 10: That is real. There's an actual hearse outside.

6:04 Speaker 2: Her name is Tanya.

6:05 Speaker 10: Oh yes, I noticed that on the license plate.

6:07 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, people think that Tanya and I'm not.

6:10 Speaker 10: I'm why, well, why is the Hurst Tanya? Why is it?

6:13 Speaker 14: Okay? So everybody, a lot of folks get a hearse and they immediately want to name it. You get Patty on the license plate.

6:20 Speaker 2: Either for this is our age showing like if you're older, then you know who Patty Hurst is.

6:26 Speaker 14: We're like, okay, well I get it. That's funny. But wouldn't it be even cooler if we got one and we switched it to her music people at Pillow name.

6:34 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:34 Speaker 2: So when she when she was kidnapped and then she joined the People's Liberation Organization, she changed her name to Tanya. And one of our favorite bands happens to be a band named Camper van Beethoven, and they have an album called Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. On this album is a song called Tanya and it's so we have to I mean it was just meant to.

6:53 Speaker 14: Be because she used to be a funeral carriage, you know, and now she's a rock and roll rock.

6:57 Speaker 2: Now she's eleven rock and roll tor queen.

7:00 Speaker 14: Okay, okay, kind of a you know, that's kind of why that how that happened?

7:03 Speaker 10: Now?

7:03 Speaker 13: Do you so you travel all over the country. So do you have a show in the area and that's why you're you're here or how how does your tour routing work?

7:10 Speaker 2: So in July, So, I, like I said, I'm a New Hampshire native and my father and my wicked stepmother wicked being New England wicked, nobody else gets out of it. I'm like my wicked step I.

7:20 Speaker 8: Don't like her.

7:21 Speaker 2: I'm like, no, she's wicked.

7:22 Speaker 15: Good.

7:22 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, my wicked step mother. They live up here, and so we come up in July and split in stack wood and fill the woodshed and do some odds and ends and stuff to keep them, you know, going up on the hill while we're running around and okay, so, but he's from Illinois and that's where we So that's what we're up here. Yes, we do have actually a show. When we get done here, we head over to Leven in New Hampshire excellent, playing over the road house Mall, and then next week in we're over in Vermont and then then we head out.

7:48 Speaker 10: Okay, back on the road. Okay.

7:50 Speaker 13: Is it challenging that, I mean, this is an unconventional uh lifestyle, right, it.

7:58 Speaker 16: Is.

7:58 Speaker 14: It is difficult.

8:00 Speaker 2: But so it was paying a mortgage and so, you know, so just making sure the lights are turned on and raising children and you know, and just getting by and life. So it's just it's just different. It's just a different complicated. I mean, I've been just as broken, just as frustrated when I was a nurse, as a as I am as a rock goddess.

8:18 Speaker 10: That makes sense.

8:18 Speaker 2: But I you know, this today was the first time I've had to set an alarm clock.

8:21 Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, kind of.

8:25 Speaker 14: On a different time schedule now. Yeah, you play late a lot of times. Then you sleep in a little bit, you sleep until the sun warms, you up when.

8:33 Speaker 2: You want, and you wake up when you want. For the most part. Yeah, there's you know, there's also those fifteen hour drive days, you know, because you guys, you got to get there or you know the side of the road, you know, tire changes or you know, I mean there's but again, you know you have those, you have roof leaks, and you have you know things, life, life happens. We have five children between the two of us. They're grown. Yeah, so yeah, we're pretty well adapted to, you know, dealing with the litany of issues that can come up on the road.

8:57 Speaker 13: Yeah, and have you been doing this since because you said so, COVID was kind of your breaking point right as far as nursing.

9:04 Speaker 2: Well, my girlfriend passed away suddenly on me, and girlfriend like friend friend and passed away suddenly on me. And it was one of those moments where I was forty five and I was like, man, my life was already half over, and you know what am I gonna do? And so I started travel nursing and we did that for a while, trying to scratch that itch. And because I was a military brat, so I grew up moving around a lot, and I'd been stuck in Illinois for like thirty years, and so he agreed with me. Yeah, and then yeah, we started singing together because he was a musician.

9:37 Speaker 2: I met him at an open mic and I'm dominating this conversation, but anyway, and music has always been very therapeutic to me in a different kind of way. I was never a maker of music or creator. I was an appreciator. I knowsh long story, extremely long. We met an open mic and then we started playing together gosh what twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and he had to rule no girlfriends in the band, so we had to get married.

10:06 Speaker 14: If you're in a band, it's already like having three girlfriends at the same time.

10:09 Speaker 2: So we were together as friends with extraordinary benefits for the first seven years and we've been married for the last seven fourteen years together. But anyway, we had to get married so we could be the stiff tones starting to open mic thing and traveling around with the travel nursing and kind of getting you know, like a hey man, what are you doing here? Can't have a vibe and so we're like, yeah, we'll try it. And it's nothing like what we thought. And we were completely naive and we weren't that good and blessed everybody and curse everybody that really cursed.

10:39 Speaker 2: But what are you doing here? I think, Yeah, that's how you get gas money. You're either really good.

10:43 Speaker 14: Or really That was also one of our tactics later as a later as a band. I'll pass this out for any fledgling bands out there listening. Go out there and do it. And the reason for it is if you're even if you're awful like we were, eventually somebody will pay you to.

10:58 Speaker 2: Leave first, and perspective is everything and.

11:05 Speaker 14: Just start setting up camp and they'll just be like, all right, we're gonna pay you to get out of here.

11:10 Speaker 3: The toilet paper.

11:11 Speaker 10: That's right, right, very good.

11:16 Speaker 13: Well, I uh, it's it's it's gonna be hard to avoid these puns. I'm dying to hear you play, so I said to Jenny earlier. I was like, before before the sentence even made it out of my mouth, fully I started. I started to say I'm dying to see the hears. I got as far as I'm dying, and then I'm like, oh, I'm making a pun. You're very penny, but but yeah, there is a there is a legit hearse out there.

11:39 Speaker 14: Yeah.

11:40 Speaker 2: Yeah. And just for the record, the name the stiff Tones came before.

11:43 Speaker 10: The wondering about people.

11:46 Speaker 2: I just assumed, Okay, our last name is Steve, and well my mine is now adopted it okay, And so growing up his nickname was Stiffy. So the little town where we're from, everybody knows him as Stiffy. That's how I met him with true when we were when he would do the open circuit, they would call anybody you could get up there and they'd say it was Stiffy and the stiff Tones.

12:05 Speaker 14: I mean, as much as I love Tom Petty and I really do, but I don't want to be known as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I want to be like the Stones or something band, right, and it was just the two of us.

12:14 Speaker 2: So it can't be Stiffy and the stiff right, right, right right?

12:18 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:18 Speaker 14: Very strange thing, wouldn't it.

12:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, that would be that would be yeah. Well very good. Okay, Well I I am.

12:24 Speaker 13: I'm eager to hear you play. You sound You sounded phenomenal during the soundcheck, so this is going to be killing me here.

12:32 Speaker 14: Ah, I want to play the song about a little hometown. Sure, Okay, So I guess we'll do a song for you about our little hometown. It's on our first album is about to come out in September, and it's kind of give you it's the meson scene of the album. Okay, it's kind of the just you know, it's a it's a little corner towns where it all started. There's trains, coal mines and uh industry that has gone kind of vibes. So anyways, we're this album starts. I think we'll start there.

13:01 Speaker 10: Okay.

13:02 Speaker 14: It's a song called Midwestern Town. It's just kind of a love song to your hometown kind of song.

13:08 Speaker 10: All right. The Stifftones Live in Studio.

13:36 Speaker 4: Has a story. They have to stay in in this town.

13:45 Speaker 4: Most were passing through here and faith.

13:49 Speaker 12: Had decided let them down.

13:58 Speaker 4: Have chat out to you?

14:01 Speaker 8: What time would do?

14:07 Speaker 4: God back my bags and say goodbye?

14:11 Speaker 11: Hand catch next train home?

14:13 Speaker 5: Do you.

14:15 Speaker 11: Home?

14:15 Speaker 3: To you?

14:19 Speaker 4: Mid Western Town?

14:21 Speaker 12: Western Down?

14:23 Speaker 3: Your lime? You're my home?

14:29 Speaker 4: Let me mid Western Town.

14:31 Speaker 12: In Western Town, don't let me go.

14:36 Speaker 3: You gotta let me go.

14:39 Speaker 8: Don't you let me go?

14:45 Speaker 4: You gotta let me go. This place is like a heaven on where trees they go today.

15:02 Speaker 17: I should have left you, ride away and never speak a single night.

15:10 Speaker 7: Single.

15:13 Speaker 17: But if I had half chance, I'll tell you what the time would do. Lad back my bags and say goodbye?

15:28 Speaker 11: Can catch next train home?

15:30 Speaker 1: Do you.

15:32 Speaker 11: Home?

15:32 Speaker 1: Do you.

15:36 Speaker 4: Midle Western Town.

15:37 Speaker 12: In Western Down?

15:40 Speaker 8: You're my home?

15:43 Speaker 4: You my home? Mid Western town, Western time down, you let me go, you gotta let me.

15:56 Speaker 11: Go, won't you let me go?

16:02 Speaker 4: Catalatica? Tell me baby, where it's that you usly.

16:53 Speaker 18: Tell me?

16:54 Speaker 4: Never make it out.

16:56 Speaker 7: But maybe we could share around dream share, oh dreams.

17:05 Speaker 4: Mid Western town.

17:09 Speaker 17: Down, Jumama, mod Western town.

17:20 Speaker 3: Down, let me go, you gotta let me go, let me go, you gotta let go.

17:42 Speaker 10: Oh that is so good, beautiful, that is so good. We've got the stiff tones here with us.

17:48 Speaker 13: Alive in studio, and uh, how many like, how many songs do you have? Probably quite a few at this point right in terms of original music, we do have a few.

18:01 Speaker 1: We do well.

18:02 Speaker 2: We're getting ready to release our debut album on September twenty first, hopefully.

18:07 Speaker 10: Oh I'm excellent, excellent, Yeah, And so there.

18:10 Speaker 2: There'll be nine original tracks on there in one cover. And then we have the good meat and potatoes of our second album already well in him on that largely so we've been Most of these songs that were that we're performing today and that are going to be on the album are all songs that were written either right well before Sewn and I met, or write as we met, or you know, after and so yeah, fourteen years, he and I have been kind of working on some of these same songs, but we didn't go into this with the idea that that's what we were doing, because again, I was a nurse and I was a mother, and that's what I you know.

18:50 Speaker 2: I sang with him and harmonized with him when he would practice and play because it was fun and I love to sing, you know, and I sang growing up and whatever.

18:56 Speaker 7: But like.

18:58 Speaker 2: Run away and join the circus. It's crazy now, I mean, like, yeah, I had my pH d and Karen, you know, like I had the hair cut for a while living in a hearse what no, right, Yeah, So.

19:11 Speaker 14: The one cover we do is a cover by a guy named Johnny Hickman. I want to mention that, so not all Heroes capes. So the reason it's on there is because it's it's our bat signal song and it's at the very very end of the album. So so anyways, that's kind of that was the first song. Okay, so the album actually was kind of written around the idea of putting that song at the end of the album.

19:38 Speaker 10: Yeah, why is that, like why it belong there?

19:43 Speaker 11: It's I don't know.

19:44 Speaker 14: For whatever reason. Well, Rachel probably tell you.

19:46 Speaker 2: One of the reasons is, you know, is a bad signal, you know. And when Shawn and I were first dating and becoming friends, anybody that knows us knows we know how to fight very very much. Yeah, we perfected it like it's very early on, and we'll get there's where's much brother and sister and a mother and son and and and it's like it's crazy. But when we would break up, and because we again we had five children between the two of us, it was just complicated and missing. We'd break up and he'd go home and he'd post this song on the internet because Facebook was new at the time.

20:19 Speaker 2: And I knew that I was the treacherous woman in that song. So even though he didn't write it, it was but so but I knew it was time for me to call him up because he was thinking and.

20:28 Speaker 14: Johnny, Johnny's my favorite guitar player. Without him having been a guitar player, he heard his work in the band Cracker, I would have never picked up a guitar.

20:38 Speaker 17: Yeah.

20:38 Speaker 2: I actually got to shake his hand and say it. And so he gave us his permission for this song to be or not that this song. We'ren't doing it right now, but that song to be at the end of the album. Oh okay, Yeah, and we re arranged it a little bit and but yeah, given us his permission.

20:53 Speaker 10: Very cool. Now where you might have mentioned it earlier, but where are you recording the album?

20:58 Speaker 14: Everywhere?

20:59 Speaker 10: Everywhere episode?

21:00 Speaker 14: We were as we were right in we were here listening to you guys talk about that on the show, and I was like, oh my goodness, way to the hear hear from us. So we're putting this album together in the most unconventional way you could possibly about imagine over the course of the last four years, being run around the country singing for our supper. So we started putting the album together like in different places. So part of the album, the first part of the end of the album.

21:25 Speaker 2: Firstly, we just recorded tracks of my dad's garage, of my dad's kitchen.

21:29 Speaker 14: Just the other night that we recorded for it would have happened.

21:33 Speaker 2: We we went all the way to California, southern California.

21:36 Speaker 14: To record the like the end of the album.

21:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where Backwards Down a Hill was recorded. Yeah, because when we first went out on twenty twenty one, we went out with the intention of recording this album, and at that time, Backwards Down a Hill was going to be maybe was going to be on the album. But the only thing we left that day with was Backwards Down a Hill. An education, that's right, Yeah, very good, very good education, and realization that we needed more education.

22:03 Speaker 14: And so so the back of the album is more like recorded in California. But then everything kind of goes like in a Quentin Tarantino style, everything goes backwards. After that, Backwards down a Hill, we just cursed ourselves and didn't even know it.

22:16 Speaker 3: We went in there.

22:17 Speaker 14: We recorded a version of the last song in the album, Father Winter, and it was awful.

22:23 Speaker 10: Really, Yeah, we did.

22:24 Speaker 14: The one thing that we were asked not to is to not not not ruin the song in the Chili, and so we did in the studio that it was originally recorded with the.

22:33 Speaker 2: Original engineer that recorded the original.

22:37 Speaker 11: We did.

22:37 Speaker 2: We could have fanned ourselves in front of them anymore situation.

22:43 Speaker 14: So we tucktail and we went all We drove all the way back to New Hampshire. In our hearse there's a story about paying the band the engineering change the story for a year older. But we get we make it back and then we get stranded on the mountain in the winter time.

22:58 Speaker 2: Uppear Oh my god.

23:00 Speaker 14: Yeah, So anyways we uh recomposed that song. Yeah, while we're living in a tent. Oh wow, side of the mountain.

23:09 Speaker 2: Would couldn't would stay warm?

23:12 Speaker 14: And then we went to uh, we went to uh. We recorded that with Chuck melching down.

23:16 Speaker 2: And in New Market where I got kicked out of the first grade.

23:20 Speaker 14: So Father Winter was recorded here in New Hampshire. It's the last last last track on the album. Okay, So I know it's a lot of discon convuluted story, but all ties into a big theme.

23:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're from a movie.

23:33 Speaker 14: Yeah there's a movie, or at least a really uh seedy, grainy YouTube video.

23:41 Speaker 10: Started you what your role is like?

23:46 Speaker 14: Man, I'm hovered on the button.

23:50 Speaker 2: Okay.

23:51 Speaker 10: Anyway, by the way, I do have to ask, why did you get kicked out of the first grade?

23:55 Speaker 14: Oh boy? This is glorious?

23:56 Speaker 10: Is Yeah?

23:57 Speaker 14: She was on an army brap. Go ahead, Rachel, tell the story.

23:59 Speaker 2: It's really it's not that good. So I was, I was in military, brought my birthdays in October when we moved to Germany and and they let you start kindergarten at like age four over there, yeah forgotten.

24:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, So I.

24:12 Speaker 2: Finished kindergarten where they originally originated it, and it came back to the US and they let me start the first grade. And then they realized I didn't meet the age requirement. They sent me home with a note pinned to my shirt telling me that I was not allowed to come back anymore.

24:28 Speaker 12: I was.

24:29 Speaker 2: I loved school.

24:30 Speaker 8: I was so mad.

24:31 Speaker 10: I was wow.

24:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, and then I was traumatized after that.

24:37 Speaker 10: Yeah, I can imagine.

24:40 Speaker 14: Wow.

24:40 Speaker 10: Well, on that note, we want to play another song? You want to hear you want to play another one. I'm not to hear another one, Okay, So I can't. I can't even help it. I literally just said it.

24:50 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, give me the second week, give it a little too.

24:55 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, we'll play one.

24:57 Speaker 14: Rachel can talk about this one if she wants. But this is we're gonna do called starting over. And if you're old, if you're you're old enough to have had to do this before.

25:05 Speaker 2: So I tell you this song is. We released it as a demo version on Backwards down Hill, so there is a B side out there. It's a demo and I recorded it in southern California, and the reason why we had to come to New Hampshire re recorded it is because when I recorded it and sounder in New Hampshire, I didn't realize till we got back here that was Stotova. I was like, what I'm like, I'm not. I haven't lived in New Hampshire since Ye, this is where I learned how to speak. But yeah, since so I had to come back to New Hampshire so I could re record it, Chuck Melchin, and so I could start over, starting over.

25:36 Speaker 2: But the one that's on the internet right now, I'm stott Ova.

25:41 Speaker 12: Yeah.

25:42 Speaker 2: So, and then the other side of this story song is the internet version is explicit. We won't do the explicit.

25:49 Speaker 10: Version today, thank you.

25:50 Speaker 2: But it's a beautiful song about starting over and if you're gonna, you know, do it, you might as well do it big. So the F word is all through it.

26:00 Speaker 10: I said, yeah, but not this time, but not this one. We're on an eight second to laugh your slip it happens.

26:05 Speaker 2: No, yeah, we got this one down.

26:07 Speaker 10: Okay, all right, thank you.

26:09 Speaker 14: She says that.

26:10 Speaker 10: All right. The Stiff Toones live in studio, so we're playing.

26:31 Speaker 12: Tell me to just see that.

26:35 Speaker 8: I couldn't look away.

26:39 Speaker 12: I don't know where I'm calling. It's a journey out of it and I don't know where. I'm cold.

26:50 Speaker 2: Just then, I can't stay.

26:53 Speaker 12: Now starting over, a starting over.

26:57 Speaker 16: Maybe this time I can get him starting over, I'm starting over.

27:04 Speaker 2: Maybe the time marking get here right.

27:07 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't play no list because I'm leaving with no regrance.

27:15 Speaker 12: No, I wouldn't hold children for me.

27:21 Speaker 6: Now for me, keep looking now for me, keep looking now?

27:33 Speaker 12: Tell me, did you feel that.

27:36 Speaker 16: Something's gone to change? It's been coming for so long? Honey, I can't wait.

27:47 Speaker 12: I don't know.

27:49 Speaker 8: I'll go.

27:51 Speaker 12: Just there.

27:52 Speaker 16: I can't stay and now starting over, starting over?

27:58 Speaker 17: Maybe the simmaking in it right, I'm starting over.

28:03 Speaker 12: I'm starting over. Maybe this time I can't get it right.

28:08 Speaker 16: But it's brooking, its time maybe, and it's desperate. It's hand May see, there's at least somewhere for you.

28:19 Speaker 15: Inform me, in for me, looking for me, traditional.

28:48 Speaker 12: Telling me that you hears it times taking away, come with me, hand mid because I'm living at it.

29:02 Speaker 16: I don't know I'm calling, just that I can't stay and now I'm starting over, starting over, maybe this time back, get here right. I'm starting over, starting over, maybe this sipping.

29:20 Speaker 8: Back and get it ride.

29:23 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't place opens because I'm living with no regrets. No, I wouldn't hold Joeldren for me, for me, for me,

29:47 Speaker 16: I'm starting over.

29:49 Speaker 12: I'm starting over, maybe this time back.

29:52 Speaker 8: And get here right.

29:54 Speaker 12: I'm starting over. I'm starting over, maybe this time back and right.

30:01 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't please movements because I've got no freaking regrets.

30:08 Speaker 4: No one wouldn't.

30:11 Speaker 7: For me.

30:30 Speaker 10: I love it. The Stiff Tones live in studio. That is so good. Rachel here with us. Oh, that's okay, no worries, no worries. No, you sound amazing. Is this some now? Is this the earliest in that Is this the earliest in the day that you've sung in a long time?

30:47 Speaker 14: Yeah?

30:48 Speaker 8: Probably?

30:48 Speaker 12: Yeah?

30:49 Speaker 10: Yeah? Is that is that different?

30:51 Speaker 1: Or?

30:52 Speaker 13: Because you know, sometimes somebody will will come in and they will perform and they'll say it's it's unusual, like they feel like they sound different or something, and and for a lot of people they don't notice any difference.

31:02 Speaker 2: But I think I'm a two packag day reform smoker.

31:06 Speaker 14: Yeah. Some days I get up and like, oh, I'm feeling I'm sound a rough track something yeah, and she's like, well, it's not sound like Rover on the recording.

31:21 Speaker 2: My biggest issue is just comfort.

31:23 Speaker 10: Yeah.

31:24 Speaker 2: They have really bad stage right, and then get in my head and then yeah, they'll start getting tight and pitchy, and then I start sweating and I'm like, I don't know. Whole thing is just like.

31:32 Speaker 14: If I get nervous on stage, it looks like I'm doing metaphetic means I start sweating, I'm going like really yeah, yeah, like speed racing through my songs.

31:39 Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, it's crazy doing except that you love so much but you're so scared to do.

31:44 Speaker 13: Like yeah, well, I used to play in bands, and you know, for me, the way it would always work is I'd be nervous right before, but then once I was on stage.

31:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get in it.

31:53 Speaker 10: Then then you're yeah, yeah, exactly.

31:55 Speaker 2: Like you're up there and you've got like one person just sitting there staring at you, and you're like, yeah, the whole or if it's somebody that you know.

32:01 Speaker 13: But there's value in that too, right, because on the one hand, yeah, it's you know, you feel that anxiety and whatnot. Sometimes in the moment, you might wish you didn't feel that, But then again, if that went away, wouldn't that also be kind of a bummer, because then you'd.

32:13 Speaker 10: Start to question, like, is this is this no longer exciting?

32:17 Speaker 2: That's what I learned about is tell yourself, it's not anxiety, this is this is not me being afraid. This is me being excited. And it's in that emotion you Other people tell you that that's that's fear that you're feeling that way, but they're not in your meat too, they don't actually know what you're feeling, right exactly. You get to say that this moment, I'm not afraid, I'm excited excited, ye And I'm I'm worried that I might do it wrong, but I'm gonna have so much fun that it's okay. Ye I'm gonna be have more fun than I'm gonna be scared.

32:44 Speaker 10: It's ultimately, it's a good kind of nervous, you know.

32:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, psych yourself, lie until you believe it.

32:50 Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, exactly, exactly yea.

32:53 Speaker 2: And that what they're teaching is now these days And you.

32:57 Speaker 10: Said, Rachel, you said you used to be a smoker. Yeah, how'd you quit. I'm curious because I'm a hypnotherapist.

33:02 Speaker 13: I help people quit smoking, So whenever someone tells me they used to be a smoker, I'm like, oh, how'd you quit?

33:07 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I was a nurse for eighteen years, and so there would be many and I was icey nurse and a dialysis nur, so there'd be many shifts that I would go twelve to eighteen hours without being able to smoke. So I've got some pretty good control over stuff when I have control, but I also have an inability or ability to have no control. Yeah, that being said, when we started doing running around the country, smoking as expensive and I smoked mentals and my throat started burning a lot. And then so we started smoking his cigarettes to save money, and we would share because I didn't smoke quite as much.

33:39 Speaker 2: And then we started smoking a loose leave and we were smoking out of a pipe because it was just even that cheaper. And it got down to the point where we were literally smoking the equivalent of three cigarettes a day between the two of us out of a pipe.

33:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's.

33:51 Speaker 2: Messy, it stinks only sometimes, but it wasn't nearly as pleasurable as we wanted it to be as we remembered it being when we first started SMA, and so you guys to the point that you were like you what we did is we went to we went to California.

34:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, and I bought an ounce.

34:06 Speaker 2: We for like forty dollars.

34:07 Speaker 14: We bought two three, And I thought, every time I'm gonna every time I crave a tobacco, I'm gonna have my pre roll up here and I'm just gonna smoke until I need to lay down there you go, And I did. About about a day into this process, I'm like, I'm pretty good.

34:22 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:23 Speaker 14: Then you know, then I'm having crazy dreams occasionally.

34:26 Speaker 2: But you know, once a while, I'll be like somebody's near us and I'll take a job office because I still like that. You know, it's pretty much not enough to smoke against.

34:33 Speaker 14: Got over it.

34:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, if I lived a seventy five.

34:37 Speaker 14: Yeah, we're firing back time.

34:39 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yea maybe that long seventy five.

34:41 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, make seventy five package.

34:45 Speaker 16: No.

34:45 Speaker 13: The thing is, though, like you were saying, once you get down now, like if you're smoking the equivalent of three cigarettes a day, it's like two of us.

34:52 Speaker 14: Like they were like what are you doing?

34:53 Speaker 7: Man?

34:54 Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, at that point it's like, yeah, you might as well just be done with it. Yeah yeah.

34:58 Speaker 13: Did you notice some like without smoking? Did it change your like for either of you? Did it to change your voices or gain twenty?

35:08 Speaker 10: Well?

35:08 Speaker 14: Yeah, so I feel I feel like my voice is husky now.

35:11 Speaker 4: That it needed to be.

35:12 Speaker 10: Oh really, I don't know for sure, but possibly. Oh that's interesting.

35:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't really noticed a difference.

35:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm most curious about that too. Yeah. Well, do you want to you want to play another one?

35:24 Speaker 8: Of course?

35:25 Speaker 11: Do the almost like these times?

35:28 Speaker 8: The sure?

35:31 Speaker 3: Sure?

35:31 Speaker 14: Yeah, because I mean we didn't have a game give you Yeah.

35:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's good to keep it loose for this show. That's kind of how we do it anyway.

35:39 Speaker 2: We never run with a set list, we try.

35:41 Speaker 1: Yeah.

35:43 Speaker 13: Yeah, well, not not being chained to a set list that gives you some flexibility too, because you can kind of read the room and kind of figure out what you think people might want to hear and just what the vibe is, you know.

35:52 Speaker 10: Yeah.

35:53 Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately for him, I only knew a handful of songs because I was raised not allowed listening to secular music. So really, yeah, so there's a lot of songs like I have made it. I can sing, I can, but he's he's an encyclopedia of music.

36:07 Speaker 14: Yeah mm Hmmber curious, Lets do it. So this song is is kind of a song. I want to preface this with This song is about polarity, okay, and uh, getting the fear.

36:29 Speaker 2: Not picking, and it's about not picking. It's picking sides.

36:32 Speaker 14: Yeah, because but this in my world, this is a song about you can, I don't know, just love, try to love people, try to love.

36:42 Speaker 2: Your name, cushion show that kind of thing.

36:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, because it's kind of it's a friend language language.

36:49 Speaker 10: All right. Now, I look forward to it. I look forward to her in this one, just a little bit. No Worries.

36:53 Speaker 14: This is the last track that we have on the album. This is ours, and it's immediately followed by that Johnny Hickman's song.

37:00 Speaker 10: Okayed the whole album around okay.

37:03 Speaker 14: So yeah, the first song and then starting over is kind of the middle way point where you l over six track six instantly Okay. This is towards the end of the album.

37:13 Speaker 13: All right, song before I think at the doctor to be safe, no worri al right, at the sift ones live in studio.

38:13 Speaker 16: Times at all, understand these times at all.

38:18 Speaker 11: I don't understand these times at.

38:21 Speaker 12: All, Understand these times at all.

38:25 Speaker 11: One's offended, but everyone wants.

38:27 Speaker 8: To shut on.

38:29 Speaker 12: Understand there's times.

38:31 Speaker 11: At all one's offended, everyone wants.

38:34 Speaker 12: To shut on. Understand there's times at all.

38:38 Speaker 7: Look over there, don't say your fear.

38:42 Speaker 8: They're over there, they're coming here.

38:47 Speaker 4: I don't understand, just don't understand.

38:50 Speaker 8: I don't understand.

38:52 Speaker 11: I just don't understand every.

38:57 Speaker 7: Time, these times, these times.

39:07 Speaker 11: Little understand these times at.

39:10 Speaker 12: All, understand these times at all.

39:14 Speaker 11: Little understand these times at all.

39:18 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

39:21 Speaker 11: People needing forgiveness, People want to judge.

39:24 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

39:28 Speaker 11: People needing forgiveness, people want to judge.

39:31 Speaker 12: I don't understand the times at all.

39:34 Speaker 11: Look over there, don't think if they're over there, they're almost I just don't understand. I just don't understand.

39:52 Speaker 7: These times, these times, these times.

40:55 Speaker 11: I of understand these times at all.

40:58 Speaker 12: I don't understand in these times at all.

41:01 Speaker 11: Well I have understand these times at all.

41:05 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

41:08 Speaker 11: Yeah they got something, got something you want.

41:12 Speaker 12: I don't understand. There's times at all.

41:15 Speaker 11: Don't you got something that everyone wants?

41:19 Speaker 12: I don't understand theree times at all.

41:22 Speaker 14: Look in the mid don't seen here, They're always here, they're in the mid.

41:32 Speaker 11: I just don't understand. I just don't understand.

41:40 Speaker 7: There's times, there's times, these times.

41:47 Speaker 11: I have understand these times at all. I have understand these times at all.

41:54 Speaker 7: I understand these times at all.

41:57 Speaker 11: I haven't understand these times.

42:11 Speaker 10: Wow, awesome, that is so good. That's right, that's right. The stiff tones here with us live in studio sounding amazing. That was fantastic. That was fantastic.

42:24 Speaker 13: If you are just joining us, this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious a Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course you can stream us at Matt connorton dot com slash live and uh yeah, great song and yeah, very very appropriate, I would say, uh for the times that were in certainly I.

42:45 Speaker 2: Started writing that in twenty fifteen.

42:49 Speaker 14: Yeah, it was like, you know what they're gonna do always, Yeah, we're gonna get every one of us fighting each other for every damn.

42:54 Speaker 10: Yeah.

42:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So in twenty sixteen it kind of really ping got to pay and it was up here in twenty twenty when or during the COVID in twenty twenty when we really you know, you started really seeing the polarity in the country where you know, like in polarity being everything, if there's something for us to stand against each other as regular folks, all yeah, yeah, we keep picking the wrong Yeah, we keep picking the wrong person to fight with. But anyway, and so twenty twenty four is when we finally released that song and it was nominated for Song of the Year.

43:28 Speaker 2: Oh for josh for Joshua Joshua Tree, California, Oh Wow. It features Victor Krumanacher and Jonathan Tagle of Campra Van Beethoven's.

43:37 Speaker 14: Okay, so We're standing on shoulders of Giants.

43:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Kyle Mayor.

43:41 Speaker 2: Of September Morning is on the drums on that, and he also helped us do the mixing mix and then on the album, Victor and Jonathan are both on a couple of songs on that, and then we have our we have several friends and Kyle's on drums and he's helping us with the mixing in the final engineer.

43:54 Speaker 14: So we kind of went around the country getting all of our friends together to record all the different parts.

43:58 Speaker 2: The North Carolina favor it's on there. We have Illinois people on there. Yeah, anywhere we could.

44:04 Speaker 14: Be recording the garages and basements and caves and Tanya the car. Yes, it might be the first album ever have tracks recorded in Hurst. I don't know for sure, but because I mean it should be the stiff tones, I mean, I guess, yeah.

44:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there was enough Bruce sessions in there. Trying to right right anyway, how are we on time?

44:26 Speaker 3: We're good, We're good.

44:27 Speaker 10: We got probably probably do one more in a couple of minutes. I'm curious.

44:31 Speaker 13: So in terms of like I said, you know, because we talked about it a little bit earlier, this is such an unconventional approach, you know, travel in the country and rehearse and so forth and doing this. Is there anything that's really surprised you over these over these years, this news.

44:45 Speaker 14: Is a bunch of yeah, yes, that to answer your question, absolutely, you know, uh, I thought, my god, California is crazy and we're gonna get there and it's gonna be all this these things and can see on the news, right, it wasn't any of those things, right, thought the same thing about Texas. You know, oh god, Texas is going to be this way in South Kote. I can name every state that we have and every place that we've been, and you think it's going to be a way and you're like, wow, you know what, people are just people in here.

45:13 Speaker 2: So but then also the other thing though, was that each individual state really is so individuals. On the contrary line, it really like things, you know, the landscape shifts that the culture shifts, you know, And that's the other thing that is seeing all of the different cultural differences just in even traditional rural America, you know, where you don't think that you have that culture, and there's so much the eclectus melting pot of it, like the beauty, the true, true raw beauty of what America the beautiful is melting pipe.

45:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, that you can go anywhere everywhere here and see all the wonders of the world. I mean, we've been traveling for a couple of years now, we we scratch the surface.

45:59 Speaker 14: Yeah, But mostly the most surprising thing for me, as honestly is the fact that no matter how far you travel, where you go once and needs of people doesn't change.

46:08 Speaker 2: Right, right, the regular people like us, us people. Yeah, yeah, we're just regular people.

46:13 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good insight.

46:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful and it's good to know. There's so much fear that's created, like the sponsors, and there are there are they're legitimately bad people out there, yes, but there's legitimately good people out there. You seek, you will find what you seek. So look for the good. Be the good, Do the good, you know, And if you I mean or of being a whole, I don't care.

46:33 Speaker 8: You can be a whole.

46:33 Speaker 2: It's not up to me. Just if you want to be one over there, right, we have.

46:37 Speaker 14: We actually have a song for that too, but that's that's on the album.

46:42 Speaker 2: We wrote that up here and we actually wrote that Harley Jackson.

46:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. And do you have any advice for for people who not not necessarily want to buy hers, but just just for people who want to.

46:54 Speaker 15: Do what you do?

46:54 Speaker 10: You know a lot of young independent artists.

46:56 Speaker 5: I do.

46:57 Speaker 14: And I'll give you the first piece of advice that my friend Turk gave me right before we left the emotion.

47:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then he died and.

47:06 Speaker 14: He was young, he was all right, you know, I mean he's like he's dead. So yeah, So as your question, yeah, man,

47:19 Speaker 14: make it happen, make it happen, go for it. Do it now, not later than later.

47:25 Speaker 10: Right sure?

47:26 Speaker 8: Yeah?

47:27 Speaker 11: Man?

47:28 Speaker 10: Do you want to you want to play one more?

47:30 Speaker 14: Yeah, we'll play that one for you. So this is the end, the in the end of the album and this song okay, and this is.

47:38 Speaker 2: The name of the album. Is Existentialism on Main Street Follow you Do?

47:41 Speaker 10: Okay, it is.

47:44 Speaker 2: It's kind of we don't want to say it's a concept album, but it kind of is kind of we have to plan each song and how they're going to be in trock order and different things that they weren't written in secession or anything. But the plan is for you to put it on repeat all and when you get to the very last song, it should kick right back to the first song and you should feel like you just went on a journey that you can't want to go on again. Yeah, okay, that's that's kind of what our goal is.

48:11 Speaker 10: Okay. Nice The Stiff Tones and.

48:14 Speaker 2: I Forgot.

48:25 Speaker 1: H h.

48:38 Speaker 7: M hmm.

48:58 Speaker 14: Okay, you is our streaming up all the rich another years over.

49:08 Speaker 12: It's gone lunts that breach.

49:12 Speaker 17: I'm no here son, Well, I guess I've got friend, Well, yes, I do.

49:25 Speaker 12: Now five the winter is here and he's leaning hold me.

49:38 Speaker 6: I don't want your money and I don't want your power.

49:45 Speaker 11: I don't want your love.

49:48 Speaker 12: I ain't got time for night. I shot over unless it comes three.

50:00 Speaker 3: Mhm listen, indeed, no five.

50:06 Speaker 12: The winter is it and he's leaning call me. She steps Tom beggars for her.

50:22 Speaker 7: Yeah, she used it.

50:23 Speaker 12: Will shoot five of it tonight this soccer Lemmys five. Winter can't break your space.

50:43 Speaker 1: Mm hm hm hm.

51:22 Speaker 4: Love is a lesson. Love is a curse, depends on the lover has.

51:32 Speaker 12: A witch all his words through the seasons. I'm a sweet church. Holdy is indeed now five the winter is here.

51:52 Speaker 19: And he is leaning home mes leading.

52:04 Speaker 8: Me leaning, ho me, Well he's leaning.

52:25 Speaker 14: H h caodies scream and oh hurry.

52:44 Speaker 10: Oh that is so good. That is so good.

52:49 Speaker 13: The Sifftons live in studio here with us, uh Rachel and Shawn are here and that was amazing. Thank you so much for coming in and playing absolutely Now for our listeners who are tuning in live on Saturday, So where's your next show?

53:03 Speaker 10: Where are you off to? After this, we head to.

53:06 Speaker 2: The roadhouse, uh, powerhouse, mall yeah, over in Levin in New Hampshire four and then or two wish to four and then the following weekend we're at the Scutiny Festival over in Vermont, and then we head to New York and uh, yeah, it'll be probably next year before we back up here again, but we come. We do try to come up. Yeah, we were considering coming up for snow season and helping shovel and we did spend yeah, yeah, we spent a couple of winters up here. We did like five winters. Like when I was a travel nurse.

53:39 Speaker 2: We specifically took contracts up here so I could be you know, to help, you know with the shovel and my dad and my wicked my wickeds to that mother. I've had some you know, health issues and stuff and so dad like that flat land up Yeah, shovel snow for real.

53:56 Speaker 3: Welcome to the Mountain sun right right?

54:01 Speaker 10: Well, very good?

54:01 Speaker 13: And where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing. Where's the best place to go?

54:05 Speaker 2: The stiff Tones dot com. Yeah, and we're very heavily active on Facebook. Yeah, we're gen x and so that's kind of you know, that's where we fell after MySpace. Yeah, and that's where we're comfortable. Yeah, but I do we do have a website that I somewhat maintained, but our bands in Town link is on there. There's you can find links to everything, like if you're interested in your I G page and all that stuff.

54:26 Speaker 14: But you can also send hate mail at gmail dot com.

54:31 Speaker 2: Wept all hate mails.

54:34 Speaker 8: Very good.

54:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, I like my coffee suite and my male bitter Yeah yeah like that.

54:42 Speaker 10: Well, very good. Thank you so much. This has been wonderful and we are the time does go quickly.

54:48 Speaker 13: I do want to remind people too, if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up at so at nine pm tonight, Yeah, we're going to be at Jewel to see Under the Horizon and it's a it's a big event.

54:59 Speaker 10: Actually there's a three day event going on, but we're we're mainly going.

55:02 Speaker 13: To see uh see them, and that's why we're twins Today. We've got the matching Under the Horizon Shurts Uh and Uh and of course Uh Scarecrow Hill is going to be there to another great band we've had on the show and Uh, Jenny, do you want to mention your website.

55:16 Speaker 10: You've been up to a lot of stuff as usual.

55:18 Speaker 19: Man, the latest is up on the website, so go check it out at Jencoffee dot com.

55:23 Speaker 10: J E n n C O F f uy dot com. Let's see what kind of good trouble getting into good trouble? Yes, yes, and let's see.

55:32 Speaker 13: And of course, uh, if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m n hradio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com. And thank you everyone who joined us today, Lydia ready and uh Tony from Flair and again Rachel and Sean from the Stiff Tones, thank you both so much. Than this has been wonderful and that's gonna do it for us for now. We hope to see a jewel tonight.

55:53 Speaker 2: And uh go out enjoy live music.

55:56 Speaker 13: Absolutely, it's very very important and we'll we'll talk to you a little bit later by but.

56:10 Speaker 20: It's only started now. We're not at the end like you think you're gonna do it all again. We're getting older about our mind. It starts to shrink. He can just get his paper and a knife is pen. Someone finds out, so we stop to reassure them that.

56:35 Speaker 12: We haven't lost our minds. But they don't even know the half.

56:42 Speaker 2: Of what she'll do when they forget about the don't it's all a little secret ticky.

56:52 Speaker 4: It's not, it's all.

56:55 Speaker 3: And that I don't know read.

56:58 Speaker 12: Just exact till it's all scarce a.

57:05 Speaker 5: Hand again, hide so just get that high.

57:22 Speaker 2: We need to stop and think.

57:24 Speaker 4: We can't get caught this way.

57:27 Speaker 2: They'll say you're dumping the head.

57:31 Speaker 20: Don't go to your room, lock your doors and hide away, changing your skin from white to red.

57:41 Speaker 9: You got too far this time, no point did you give it up. You can't just leave it all be high,

57:51 Speaker 9: and if you try to move on.

57:53 Speaker 15: From the pat that you'll.

57:56 Speaker 7: Still have to play on the lead. It's a little secret ticking.

58:04 Speaker 5: So it's a scan and I don't know the region. Just give that exactly, it's all. It's all skin the only answer.

58:20 Speaker 10: So I just gave gout.

58:34 Speaker 8: Control.

58:34 Speaker 2: I'm so and stopped for water.

58:37 Speaker 20: Common pridle about my problem wasn't perfect for worth it.

58:40 Speaker 12: It might have been.

58:44 Speaker 8: Like I want to get him and just at.

58:49 Speaker 12: It's okay, noble guessing.

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