Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-16-25 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W m n h rips the Nobles.

0:04 Speaker 2: When Mattso wakes up in the morning, he gets into

0:07 Speaker 2: the shower and to the top of his lungs.

0:10 Speaker 3: He sings, I do what I want because I can't

0:18 Speaker 3: have it all right.

0:20 Speaker 2: I'm back to the radio show now, all the best cherry.

0:44 Speaker 4: Shutting it out.

0:44 Speaker 1: I'm feeling all right.

0:46 Speaker 5: I'm feeling real fast. Oh my gird above at the range.

0:50 Speaker 5: I'm leaving it on, singing in hand, going to see

0:54 Speaker 5: this band.

0:55 Speaker 6: For the first time, doing my shoes.

0:58 Speaker 7: You're feeling the grooves they get together live in second set,

1:11 Speaker 7: I'm singing along.

1:12 Speaker 1: I'm moving to the group. There's a crown of front

1:15 Speaker 1: with a rulaho bout the way, seams stuck going off

1:20 Speaker 1: and we lockediz and dancing those tunes. She grabbed my

1:24 Speaker 1: hand and gave me a kiss.

1:25 Speaker 3: It was all the two sol live music.

1:29 Speaker 1: I'm seeing mysel there for live music. Come on, let's

1:35 Speaker 1: go for live music.

1:38 Speaker 6: It's still in the groove for live music.

1:43 Speaker 3: We let me move.

2:20 Speaker 5: After the show, we went out back open near the stage.

2:25 Speaker 5: To my surprise, was with the band and her name

2:28 Speaker 5: was Page Scribble and know.

2:30 Speaker 4: With all her teats.

2:31 Speaker 1: Right after the show, from man in New York BA.

2:36 Speaker 6: She said, come on, let's go three more shows.

2:48 Speaker 1: And if I go aheading home and not load back

2:52 Speaker 1: your page right find my side. Got a band of

2:54 Speaker 1: our five as lady, we're back at the page.

2:58 Speaker 5: You can't sitting to having some sad to watching our

3:02 Speaker 5: kids enjoying the show.

3:05 Speaker 3: Live music.

3:06 Speaker 1: I'm seeing the muscle beful live music.

3:11 Speaker 5: Come on, let's go for live music, stealing neckge live music.

3:20 Speaker 8: Let them.

4:39 Speaker 9: All right that has lived for live music. The band

4:41 Speaker 9: is jam Demic and we've got the guys in studio

4:44 Speaker 9: with us. We're going to speak with them in just

4:46 Speaker 9: a moment. But welcome everybody. We have entered our number

4:48 Speaker 9: three New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed. We are

4:52 Speaker 9: live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point

4:55 Speaker 9: three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are

4:58 Speaker 9: listening live today Saturday, August sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Jenny

5:03 Speaker 9: is here as well at the news table and let's see.

5:07 Speaker 9: Let me get these mics up here, because we got

5:09 Speaker 9: the guys here. We gotta got a full room here.

5:11 Speaker 9: We got all five guys here. I think we should

5:14 Speaker 9: let's do this first. Let's start in the corner and

5:17 Speaker 9: we'll go around and have you each introduce yourselves and

5:20 Speaker 9: tell us what you do in the band, and we'll

5:22 Speaker 9: start with you over here.

5:23 Speaker 10: Sir, Hi, my name is Chris Volpi Elvin, Hollis, and

5:26 Speaker 10: I'm keys and blues harp.

5:29 Speaker 9: Okay, welcome Chris, and.

5:30 Speaker 10: You Rob McAlpine, Chester, New Hampshire, drums, vocals, percussion.

5:35 Speaker 9: Okay, welcome and you hey, do what.

5:37 Speaker 11: I'm Joe Birch and I play lead guitar and the

5:40 Speaker 11: only guitar.

5:41 Speaker 9: Okay, all right, very good? And you, Oh, Eric, hang on,

5:45 Speaker 9: I'm sorry. For some reason I cannot hear you. What's mike?

5:49 Speaker 9: Let me turn this up now, I got you. I

5:52 Speaker 9: guess got it. Why is this so quiet? We planned

5:55 Speaker 9: it that way. This is quieter than usual. Oh think

6:00 Speaker 9: I found you?

6:01 Speaker 1: Check one too, I gotcha.

6:02 Speaker 9: There we go. There you are all right.

6:03 Speaker 1: I'm Eric McIntyre. I'm also from Hollis, New Hampshire, and

6:06 Speaker 1: I play bass, lead singer and kind of band manager.

6:10 Speaker 9: Okay, Oh you got your hands full? Yeah, and you, sir.

6:15 Speaker 12: I play the tenor sacks and also alto and baritone.

6:18 Speaker 9: Okay, And from hollist as well. So your name again,

6:20 Speaker 9: I didn't quite have Drew Arthur, Drew Arthur, all right,

6:23 Speaker 9: welcome Drew all right. So well it was wonderful that

6:25 Speaker 9: Now is there anybody else who's who participates in the

6:27 Speaker 9: band who isn't here or is it because.

6:28 Speaker 1: We have a sound guy, Kevin Kirsted Okay, so he

6:32 Speaker 1: comes with us and helps produce our sound, comes to

6:35 Speaker 1: our practice every now and then, typically in our rehearsal

6:37 Speaker 1: space at Big Bear I'm down in Brookline. We do

6:40 Speaker 1: most of our own mixing. Yeah, while we're practicing and rehearsing, okay,

6:44 Speaker 1: but for gigs, it's nice to have somebody out in

6:46 Speaker 1: the field.

6:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's something a lot of

6:50 Speaker 9: bands don't have, is kind of a dedicated sound guy,

6:53 Speaker 9: because you know, you're you gotta play. You go to

6:55 Speaker 9: play these places, especially if you're playing a new place, right,

6:58 Speaker 9: you're kind of at the mercy of whoever's there. Yeah,

7:02 Speaker 9: I mean we do, like obviously, we prefer to play

7:04 Speaker 9: places that have a dedicated sound system and a sound

7:08 Speaker 9: engineer so we don't have to lug our pa.

7:11 Speaker 1: I mean, I think every band's dream so as we

7:14 Speaker 1: grow it's obviously one of the things that we like

7:17 Speaker 1: to do. But there's also gigs like Panucci's Alehouse in

7:20 Speaker 1: Nashua where we have to bring our own stuff and

7:24 Speaker 1: we want to pay homage to that were their first

7:26 Speaker 1: ones to give us a gig back in the day,

7:28 Speaker 1: so we always made we always circle back there every

7:31 Speaker 1: year or two at least to play one Gigah. We

7:34 Speaker 1: just love playing downtown Nasha as well.

7:36 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, absolutely no, it's wonderful there, very good. So

7:39 Speaker 9: now tell us about that song live for Live music.

7:42 Speaker 9: How long has that been out?

7:44 Speaker 1: Well, we really Oh no, it's actually been out. It

7:48 Speaker 1: got released on June twenty eighth out into the streaming web,

7:51 Speaker 1: so it's pretty much available. Ok We we wrote it

7:55 Speaker 1: this winter. I think we started on it in February

7:57 Speaker 1: and it was really Druze kind of vision to come

8:01 Speaker 1: up with it, and he wrote kind of really the

8:04 Speaker 1: chord progression and what we're gonna do, although it's I

8:07 Speaker 1: think it's a two chord song, so it's not a

8:08 Speaker 1: huge progression.

8:09 Speaker 12: Well okay, it's it's started off as kind of a

8:11 Speaker 12: play for if if you ask Alexa to play a

8:14 Speaker 12: song on Spotify, Yeah, if you ask her to play

8:16 Speaker 12: Jimmy Hendrix, It'll say live at Fillmore East, and so

8:20 Speaker 12: I kept feeling like, I love that play on Live

8:22 Speaker 12: for Live for and so kind of we're riffing on

8:25 Speaker 12: that a little bit and then and then you know,

8:27 Speaker 12: this is the great thing about playing with this band

8:28 Speaker 12: is you come with just a couple of chords and

8:31 Speaker 12: and it's there's really no predefined Hey, you've got to

8:34 Speaker 12: play this part or you got to play that part.

8:35 Speaker 12: It's let's just see what comes out of it, starting

8:38 Speaker 12: with a riff. And so we we did that once

8:39 Speaker 12: and then then Eric and I just kind of hooked

8:41 Speaker 12: up on some of the lyrics and next thing I know,

8:43 Speaker 12: we had we had the full song.

8:44 Speaker 9: Oh that's cool. I always say, too, when when it

8:46 Speaker 9: when it comes easy like that, right, that's how you

8:48 Speaker 9: know you've really got something. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

8:51 Speaker 1: The the music just tells me what to write, because

8:54 Speaker 1: I wrote the lyrics in this song with some of

8:57 Speaker 1: Drew's foundation, and the other guy's really produced a lot

9:00 Speaker 1: of the music side of it.

9:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, we wrote it.

9:03 Speaker 1: It's actually a love story about kind of our cheating

9:07 Speaker 1: rock and roll love story. I should say, if you

9:10 Speaker 1: listen to what. I go to the show with my girlfriend.

9:12 Speaker 1: Then I end up meeting this girl behind the stages

9:15 Speaker 1: in the band and then having kids and coming back

9:17 Speaker 1: in the circle. So my girlfriend, I didn't think, is

9:20 Speaker 1: very impressed with the song. But I didn't even realize

9:23 Speaker 1: that when I was writing it. It just flowed. The

9:25 Speaker 1: music told me what to put on paper, and we

9:28 Speaker 1: kicked it around at a rehearsal and practice a few

9:30 Speaker 1: times and realized, yeah, let's let's get this in the studio.

9:32 Speaker 9: Kind of like your own version of uh love the

9:34 Speaker 9: one you're with right, Yeah, Yeah, we like the Isley

9:38 Speaker 9: Brothers version.

9:40 Speaker 1: Got killer groove to it, right, But yeah, speaking coming

9:43 Speaker 1: back to the Range, that's I don't know if you

9:45 Speaker 1: guys have ever been there before, but it's an outdoor

9:47 Speaker 1: venue in Mason, New Hampshire.

9:48 Speaker 9: I've heard a lot about it.

9:50 Speaker 1: It's just the place is magical. It's family run and

9:54 Speaker 1: we we love playing there for their cruise nights. Yeah,

9:57 Speaker 1: our date this year got rained out, but we've been

9:59 Speaker 1: there a couple time in the past few years and

10:01 Speaker 1: I go to shows there a lot. And it's right

10:03 Speaker 1: down the road from my house in Hollis and it's

10:05 Speaker 1: in the middle of the Woods, and like I said,

10:08 Speaker 1: it's magical, so we wanted to write a story. Yeah,

10:12 Speaker 1: I love story about it, and that's that's what came out.

10:15 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, very cool. So how long has jam Demick

10:19 Speaker 9: been around cause I assume it hasn't been the same

10:22 Speaker 9: lineup the entire time the band is, or maybe it has,

10:24 Speaker 9: I don't know.

10:24 Speaker 1: We've had a couple different iterations. We had a previous drummer,

10:28 Speaker 1: Chris McCartney, that kind of got us started. I think

10:30 Speaker 1: we started shortly before COVID. It was probably twenty nineteen,

10:35 Speaker 1: end of twenty nineteen around. I always have parties at

10:37 Speaker 1: my house because I live on the lake in Hollis, Yeah,

10:40 Speaker 1: and I've always you know, Joe's played there several times

10:43 Speaker 1: with his band, So I was always hiring bands to

10:45 Speaker 1: come and play and selling tickets and having people in

10:47 Speaker 1: the backyard, yeah, tents and food trucks and it was just,

10:51 Speaker 1: you know, a big event. And every time I'd go

10:53 Speaker 1: to hire a band, it's more and more money for

10:55 Speaker 1: a PA. And I figured, you know what, wouldn't it

10:57 Speaker 1: be great to have my own PA and my own band.

11:00 Speaker 1: And I had dabbled with bass a little bit and

11:02 Speaker 1: then after one of the open mics that we did

11:05 Speaker 1: kind of at my house jam parties during Halloween. I

11:08 Speaker 1: thinks's Chris came down and played some harp. Joe was

11:11 Speaker 1: playing guitar. There was the electronic drum kit in the corner. Yeah,

11:16 Speaker 1: and I think that started the juices flowing. And then

11:18 Speaker 1: Chris's wife sent a message to me and said, hey,

11:21 Speaker 1: Chris had a great time playing music. You guys should

11:24 Speaker 1: start a band.

11:25 Speaker 11: Yeah, that was the end. That was the beginning of it.

11:26 Speaker 11: Oh wow.

11:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Covid hit and you know, we we

11:30 Speaker 1: really kind of had to take a year off. Yeah,

11:33 Speaker 1: talked a lot about what to do, but maybe not

11:36 Speaker 1: a year. But we we would separate in the backyard

11:39 Speaker 1: by fifty feet with you know, fifty foot xl R cables. Yeah,

11:43 Speaker 1: it was a little ridiculous, and that's where the name came.

11:48 Speaker 9: So yeah, so I wondered about that.

11:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, to play on the pandemic and our first actual

11:52 Speaker 1: band name was Covid Operations And that lasted about ten

11:57 Speaker 1: minutes and then we realized that's not something we ever

12:01 Speaker 1: want to have in a band. You know how band

12:04 Speaker 1: practices go. There were other influences in the room.

12:06 Speaker 9: I love I love hearing about rejected band names.

12:09 Speaker 1: That's ally So yeah, that was it, that one uh

12:11 Speaker 1: that we thought that was pretty pretty catchy. And then

12:14 Speaker 1: our old keyboard player, Nick George's came up with jam Demic.

12:19 Speaker 1: We're just kicking ideas around one night and that was

12:21 Speaker 1: just in passing and I jumped on it, and Facebook

12:25 Speaker 1: slash jamdemic was available, jamdemic dot com was available, so

12:29 Speaker 1: we just embraced it. And the nice thing about that

12:32 Speaker 1: is we're the only band in the world jam Demic.

12:34 Speaker 1: You we show up no matter where you are, and

12:37 Speaker 1: it's nice to have something original like that.

12:39 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's That's important when picking a band name is

12:42 Speaker 9: is you know, coming up with something that's that's you're

12:44 Speaker 9: not gonna find out, oh, you know, ten other bands

12:47 Speaker 9: already have this name.

12:48 Speaker 1: And yeah, I think the key to finding a band

12:51 Speaker 1: name now is to buy one of those magnetic poetry

12:53 Speaker 1: kits and you throw it on the fridge and you

12:55 Speaker 1: take all the connecting words off, and you put all

12:57 Speaker 1: the nouns on and you just picked three of them

12:59 Speaker 1: and and there's your band names.

13:01 Speaker 11: Good for lyric writing too, Well.

13:04 Speaker 1: That's what Tom Petty did. I heard they wrote a

13:05 Speaker 1: whole album based on one of those magnetic kits Relliant. Yeah,

13:10 Speaker 1: I don't know what album it was, but I read

13:11 Speaker 1: that somewhere recently online that they wrote a whole album

13:14 Speaker 1: based on one of those kits. Every song is based

13:17 Speaker 1: on one of those magnetic kits. Just by taking the

13:22 Speaker 1: shows goes to show you how much of a master

13:24 Speaker 1: Tom Petty was as a lyricist. Right to be able

13:26 Speaker 1: to write all that, right, that's impressive.

13:30 Speaker 9: So when you guys, you probably these songs, I would

13:34 Speaker 9: imagine they do. They change when you play them live,

13:36 Speaker 9: Like a song like live for live music. If I

13:38 Speaker 9: were to hear you live, it's not gonna sound exactly

13:41 Speaker 9: like that, right, because it seems like it kind of

13:43 Speaker 9: gives you some freedom to, you know, if you want

13:45 Speaker 9: to play it longer, if you want to extend the

13:47 Speaker 9: solo or something.

13:48 Speaker 13: Yeah, a song like that, definitely it has some space

13:51 Speaker 13: in the middle where you can take off and just

13:53 Speaker 13: bring it to somewhere else. And that's what we like

13:56 Speaker 13: to do, kind of like as the name, like you know, jams,

14:00 Speaker 13: but we can just jam and see.

14:02 Speaker 11: Where it goes.

14:03 Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of improv I can imagine. Yeah, yeah,

14:06 Speaker 9: I can imagine. So a song like that, so obviously

14:12 Speaker 9: you know the length that it is the studio version,

14:14 Speaker 9: it's is good for radio. But I mean, and that's

14:16 Speaker 9: like how long does a song like that get when

14:18 Speaker 9: you play it live? Does it pass like six seven minutes?

14:21 Speaker 4: Or it can?

14:23 Speaker 1: I mean I would say some of our extended cuts

14:25 Speaker 1: of different things can go up to ten minutes. Yeah,

14:29 Speaker 1: like we like a lot of Jerry band stuff as well. Yeah,

14:32 Speaker 1: like what that's what Leve will make you do, and

14:35 Speaker 1: that can just go solo after solo and just change

14:38 Speaker 1: your tone a little bit on you know, like Jerry

14:40 Speaker 1: used to do, or Drew will change his tone on

14:42 Speaker 1: the sacks and yeah, Chris will go round on keys

14:46 Speaker 1: and then he'll pick up the harmonica.

14:48 Speaker 9: Yeah.

14:49 Speaker 1: I just sit back and watch, yeah, and it's it's nice.

14:53 Speaker 1: But yeah, I would say it depends on also the

14:55 Speaker 1: gig that we're doing, Yeah, and looking at the crowd

14:59 Speaker 1: and kind of I guess that's all decisions that we

15:01 Speaker 1: make on the fly.

15:02 Speaker 9: Sure, sure, so you really know.

15:04 Speaker 1: It's it's kind of an open uh an open book.

15:07 Speaker 9: But it's important right to play with people who you

15:09 Speaker 9: kind of have. It becomes kind of intuitive right when

15:12 Speaker 9: you're I'm fascinated by because I've been in a lot

15:14 Speaker 9: of bands, but I was never in a band where

15:16 Speaker 9: you kind of had that sort of freedom.

15:19 Speaker 10: To Yeah, so that's that's that's the tricky thing, right.

15:22 Speaker 10: It's it's this opportunity to express yourself and and to

15:25 Speaker 10: and to go on flights. But you have to do

15:28 Speaker 10: coordination too, right, You've got to be able to communicate.

15:31 Speaker 10: And I think it's something that a lot of bands

15:34 Speaker 10: probably aspire to, and I know we are constantly aspiring

15:37 Speaker 10: to be a better jam band. Yeah, it's not something

15:40 Speaker 10: that necessarily just happens. You have to You kind of

15:43 Speaker 10: have to plan for it and then sort of step

15:46 Speaker 10: away and let it happen. It's tricky. So yeah, you know,

15:50 Speaker 10: so writing a writing a song like like libal live music,

15:55 Speaker 10: we we we knew that. Okay, we want this to

15:58 Speaker 10: be a jam song. We want to we want to

16:00 Speaker 10: field in areas where this can just take we can

16:03 Speaker 10: just take it for a ride. Yeah, And what Eric's

16:05 Speaker 10: talking about passing around solos is great, but then sometimes

16:09 Speaker 10: there'll be a synergy and two guys will lock onto

16:12 Speaker 10: something and it starts. You can start taking it somewhere else. Yeah,

16:15 Speaker 10: and that's when it gets really fun.

16:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can imagine. So does it ever go wrong?

16:23 Speaker 3: Does it?

16:23 Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah, it takes a lot of fine tuning.

16:25 Speaker 13: Yeah, but without taking that chance, you can't, you know,

16:28 Speaker 13: maybe come up with something great, right, right, And it's

16:31 Speaker 13: nice when it pays off and something really walks in.

16:33 Speaker 10: Yeah, And it's just fun too. It's kind of like

16:36 Speaker 10: when it when it crash. If it crashes, you're kind

16:38 Speaker 10: of like, oh, well it didn't work, but that was

16:40 Speaker 10: really fun trying, right, you know. Yeah, it's not the

16:43 Speaker 10: end of the world. Yeah, the song doesn't stop.

16:45 Speaker 11: Bob Ross's a happy accident, right right, right.

16:49 Speaker 9: And if you're and if you're playing original music in

16:51 Speaker 9: front of a crowd, I mean, they don't they don't

16:52 Speaker 9: necessarily know, right exactly, they don't know. They don't know

16:56 Speaker 9: that didn't quite work.

16:57 Speaker 1: It's one of the best things about original music. When

16:59 Speaker 1: you're paying playing a cover, you know, I mean I

17:01 Speaker 1: like to play covers the way they should be played,

17:04 Speaker 1: and Chris likes to add a personal flare to it,

17:07 Speaker 1: and I always like to stick somewhat rigid, so you know,

17:10 Speaker 1: we we bounce back and forth on that. But I

17:12 Speaker 1: think some of the covers we do, you know, people

17:14 Speaker 1: expect it to be that way, and any mistake is

17:17 Speaker 1: a glaring mistake. Usually you know, that was only a

17:20 Speaker 1: half away from the right note. You know, things like that.

17:24 Speaker 1: It just people will notice it. But then again, as

17:26 Speaker 1: a musician, most people don't notice it in the crowd, right,

17:29 Speaker 1: they're drinking, they're chatting. Right, You shouldn't worry about that

17:33 Speaker 1: stuff because it happens everybody.

17:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, I just feel like with covers too, I see,

17:38 Speaker 9: I like it if it's not exactly you know. My

17:41 Speaker 9: thing is if I want to listen to the original,

17:43 Speaker 9: I can go listen to the original, like I want

17:45 Speaker 9: to hear your interpretation of it, you know what I mean?

17:48 Speaker 10: More interesting?

17:48 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:50 Speaker 1: Sometimes I think as a as the lead singer or

17:52 Speaker 1: a singer, I want to sing it that way. Yeah,

17:56 Speaker 1: And it's it's because it's locked in my head. It

17:58 Speaker 1: allows me to produce it better because I've I've got that.

18:01 Speaker 1: And then the reason I like the song is because

18:03 Speaker 1: of the way they sang it. That little bass riff

18:07 Speaker 1: or whatever riff was in there. So I think, paying

18:10 Speaker 1: make sure make sure some of that's in there for me.

18:12 Speaker 1: But again, that's kind of what's nice about it. Chris

18:14 Speaker 1: is the ying and I'm the yang.

18:16 Speaker 10: And you'll always be pulling away from that.

18:18 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just the way it is. And then there's

18:20 Speaker 1: a compromise. We're a democratic band, so we vote on

18:23 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, right, is nobody's decision. You know,

18:26 Speaker 1: I might lay an idea out there, but we will

18:29 Speaker 1: vote on it and majority wins.

18:31 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, something We're working on him.

18:35 Speaker 10: You know, he's coming along right, right.

18:39 Speaker 9: What what what do you guys do for covers? Because

18:41 Speaker 9: I always think, you know, you can kind of figure

18:43 Speaker 9: out about someone's influences by what they cover, right, Like,

18:47 Speaker 9: what do you guys? What do you guys do for covers?

18:48 Speaker 10: All right? My favorite cover is the other one by

18:51 Speaker 10: Grateful Dead. We just love that thing because it's so

18:55 Speaker 10: it's you can take that anywhere. Yeah, so that's my

18:59 Speaker 10: favorite cover to play.

19:00 Speaker 9: Well, what's yours one of my favorites as well.

19:02 Speaker 10: That has a lot of decent drums in it.

19:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, like that one.

19:07 Speaker 13: This is Joe speaking, but that one's way out in

19:09 Speaker 13: you know, left field, but which is which is fine

19:12 Speaker 13: to do that, but I sometimes try to ground it

19:15 Speaker 13: a little bit. My influences were like Hendrix and you know,

19:19 Speaker 13: bluesy guitarist things. But but you also use that type

19:23 Speaker 13: of style on top of a like a psychedelic groove

19:26 Speaker 13: like like that one. Yeah, and I think it kind

19:29 Speaker 13: of like homes hondes it in a little bit and

19:32 Speaker 13: rounds it. Yeah, and but I can I could get.

19:35 Speaker 11: Out there too, you know, which is a lot of fun.

19:37 Speaker 9: Sure, sure, Yeah.

19:39 Speaker 1: We play a lot of dead covers. I mean, I

19:40 Speaker 1: love trucking and things. But I think some of our

19:43 Speaker 1: favorite new recent ones that we've been doing is Light

19:46 Speaker 1: Up or Leave Me Alone by Traffic. I really enjoy

19:48 Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, It's just such a great song and

19:51 Speaker 1: I love to sing it. It's just something about Jim

19:54 Speaker 1: Vivaldi's voice on that. A lot of people think it

19:56 Speaker 1: was Stephen Winwood singing it, but it's not.

19:59 Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't. I don't think I even realized.

20:01 Speaker 1: Yeah it's Vivaldi. It's the other guy in the band.

20:04 Speaker 1: Oh and it's just uh, I love singing that song

20:08 Speaker 1: and something about it, you know, you get to really

20:10 Speaker 1: get in on it.

20:11 Speaker 3: Yeah.

20:11 Speaker 1: We do a Long Way to the Top by a

20:13 Speaker 1: c D. I mean, that's a lot of fun. We

20:15 Speaker 1: haven't played that in.

20:16 Speaker 9: A year or two.

20:16 Speaker 1: I also really like one of the songs Joe brought

20:18 Speaker 1: in them changes by Buddy Miles, Yeah with you know,

20:21 Speaker 1: made famous by Jimmy Hendricks. Of course. It's just he's

20:24 Speaker 1: just such a good front front man showman on that

20:28 Speaker 1: and great guitar work. It's just a lot of fun

20:30 Speaker 1: to play.

20:33 Speaker 9: Now when you so, when you guys play out, you

20:35 Speaker 9: you probably do long shows, right, like you'll do I

20:38 Speaker 9: can imagine, right, you play a long set probably like

20:41 Speaker 9: you're you don't seem like a band that's gonna get

20:43 Speaker 9: up and do a thirty minute you know.

20:45 Speaker 1: Now we'll go over an hour hour and up to

20:47 Speaker 1: an hour and a half. Yeah, a few minute break

20:50 Speaker 1: usually play Yeah, two long sets yeah for the most part.

20:53 Speaker 1: Depends on really what the venue wants as well. Yeah,

20:55 Speaker 1: they'll dictate, or we're doing a private party, we could

20:59 Speaker 1: play for two two and a half hours straight.

21:01 Speaker 11: Yeah.

21:02 Speaker 13: That's one thing when I go in and see a band,

21:04 Speaker 13: it's just always inevitable that I walk in and the

21:07 Speaker 13: band takes a break right away. Yeah, and it's like

21:09 Speaker 13: they don't you don't see him for like twenty five minutes. Yeah,

21:12 Speaker 13: and you know, and then then it's time, you know,

21:15 Speaker 13: we'll go on somewhere else. But it's nice when yeah,

21:18 Speaker 13: a band is there to play and they just yeah

21:20 Speaker 13: deliver the.

21:21 Speaker 9: Oh absolutely in music because when bands take breaks to

21:24 Speaker 9: it's never as long as you know, it always ends

21:27 Speaker 9: up being much longer than what it's supposed to be. Yeah,

21:29 Speaker 9: you know, like we're going to take a ten minute

21:31 Speaker 9: break and then you know, a half hour later there finally, yeah,

21:35 Speaker 9: they're getting back up there. Yeah, now tell us about this.

21:40 Speaker 9: So this other track, So we we played Live for

21:43 Speaker 9: Live Music to open the show, But you've got this

21:45 Speaker 9: other song that that I think we should play in

21:48 Speaker 9: a moment. But this is already getting some airplay on radio.

21:50 Speaker 9: You're already getting traction with this one.

21:53 Speaker 1: Well, we got traction with Live for lad Music. As

21:55 Speaker 1: I said, it was played on another major station on Boston.

21:59 Speaker 1: Oh the new but the new one is not be

22:01 Speaker 1: and played.

22:01 Speaker 11: This will be.

22:02 Speaker 1: This will be a world radio premiere if you choose

22:04 Speaker 1: to play took Me Down. And that's ironically that's another

22:08 Speaker 1: love story. I think that's a whole nother story in itself.

22:10 Speaker 1: Because I tend to write lyrics that are based on

22:13 Speaker 1: tragic love stories or just maybe how much I had

22:18 Speaker 1: to drink the night before old college, you know, just

22:21 Speaker 1: more drug sex and rock and roll. And yeah, Chris

22:24 Speaker 1: is the other writer, and he tends to write songs

22:27 Speaker 1: that are just much more in depth and thoughtful. Or

22:31 Speaker 1: you know how many mushrooms it takes to get to

22:33 Speaker 1: the fifth dimension?

22:36 Speaker 9: How many.

22:38 Speaker 1: We don't know, we're still researching, Okay, But so I

22:42 Speaker 1: think it's just it's an interesting difference. And that's I

22:45 Speaker 1: think also add some variety, but took me down as

22:48 Speaker 1: as a reggae themed jam love story that I wrote

22:52 Speaker 1: as well. These guys wrote the music I wrote.

22:55 Speaker 12: I wrote the lyrics, and you'll hear it in the song,

22:57 Speaker 12: right this This is one of those songs when you

22:58 Speaker 12: hear you go, okay, I can see where this this

23:00 Speaker 12: band can go in a lot of different directions on

23:03 Speaker 12: anyone given night. There's there's a lot of different places

23:05 Speaker 12: this one can take off or come back to. And

23:09 Speaker 12: and yeah, I think it's a it's a showcase for

23:11 Speaker 12: us of of like I said, Eric's Eric's writing of

23:13 Speaker 12: being able to come up with with lyrics to two

23:15 Speaker 12: different jams we do. I mean, this was again one

23:17 Speaker 12: that we literally, CHRISTI goes, why are we even thinking

23:21 Speaker 12: about covering another song?

23:22 Speaker 9: Like, let's make our own original?

23:24 Speaker 12: And within within I think five minutes, we had a

23:26 Speaker 12: good groove going going, we had we had a hook

23:28 Speaker 12: we wanted to do, and within another practice it was okay,

23:32 Speaker 12: we've got something.

23:32 Speaker 11: We've got something here.

23:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh very cool.

23:35 Speaker 11: Yeah.

23:35 Speaker 9: I got to ask you, is there is there an

23:36 Speaker 9: actual band named Tweezer?

23:38 Speaker 3: No?

23:38 Speaker 9: No, this is a fish reference. Oh this is the

23:40 Speaker 9: you know, the infamous Tweezer. Oh okay, encore song. I

23:45 Speaker 9: don't know if there was a Weezer.

23:46 Speaker 1: Covering somewhere in the world. A band is writing that

23:52 Speaker 1: down right now?

23:52 Speaker 9: That's right, I hope, so, I hope. So all right,

23:55 Speaker 9: so let's give this a spin. And uh so this

23:58 Speaker 9: is a World Radio premiere which we as you get

24:00 Speaker 9: the special World Radio Premiere bumper, which I will use

24:04 Speaker 9: any excuse to play that. But let me make sure

24:08 Speaker 9: I got the track pulled up here?

24:10 Speaker 11: Where did it go?

24:11 Speaker 3: Where did it go?

24:12 Speaker 9: I had it? Oh, took me down, took me down

24:17 Speaker 9: there it is found it? Okay, so here we go.

24:20 Speaker 9: So this is the World Radio Premiere. I'm having trouble

24:24 Speaker 9: loading it up. There we go. I got it. This

24:27 Speaker 9: is the world radio premiere, first time ever. You'll be

24:30 Speaker 9: hearing this on the radio on Matt Connorton unleased here

24:32 Speaker 9: on WM and H ninety five point three FM. This

24:35 Speaker 9: is Jandemic with took me down.

25:10 Speaker 4: Surely I was, darling.

25:13 Speaker 6: It's beautym at the beast.

25:16 Speaker 4: You gave your lave.

25:17 Speaker 6: It took me down. He stole my heart with diesel.

25:21 Speaker 6: You drag me into your will.

25:35 Speaker 1: Heart opened up my eyes. You're my partner him this world,

25:41 Speaker 1: My heart is hypnotis for you.

25:57 Speaker 3: It tucked me down and tupped me down and took

26:09 Speaker 3: me down, up and took me down.

26:29 Speaker 4: Don't it happened with you?

26:31 Speaker 6: It's the joy of my life.

26:34 Speaker 1: I love you so much, baby, I love you. I

26:37 Speaker 1: saw my mine build this joy together, the honey bond,

26:54 Speaker 1: this pack of life. Take this ring, my darling girl.

26:59 Speaker 1: Won't you see my wife.

27:01 Speaker 3: Y talk me down, tuk me down and to me down,

27:32 Speaker 3: then took me.

27:32 Speaker 4: Down surely almost darling.

28:45 Speaker 1: It's beauty at the beast.

28:48 Speaker 4: He gave you lave.

28:49 Speaker 1: It took me down and stole my heart with easel.

28:53 Speaker 5: You wrap your arms around me, then you can oom

29:08 Speaker 5: me also type, wrap your.

29:11 Speaker 1: Arms around me, jump and move me up to my life.

29:15 Speaker 3: For years.

29:29 Speaker 1: It took me down, then tut me out and talk

29:41 Speaker 1: me down.

29:46 Speaker 4: And talk me down.

30:41 Speaker 9: I love that. I didn't even want to talk over

30:43 Speaker 9: the fade. That is called took Me Down. The band

30:45 Speaker 9: is Jam Demick and we've got jan a Jam Demic

30:48 Speaker 9: here in the studio with us, and that is called

30:51 Speaker 9: took Me Down. And that is a world radio premiere

30:53 Speaker 9: here on Matt Connorton Unleashed. Very honored to play that,

30:57 Speaker 9: be the first ones to play that on the radio.

30:58 Speaker 9: So now a great job, guys. I love that. Thank

31:00 Speaker 9: you so much, really really good.

31:02 Speaker 3: Yeah.

31:02 Speaker 9: So tell us we're talking off here about where there

31:04 Speaker 9: was recorded and you mentioned a name that comes up

31:07 Speaker 9: a lot on the show.

31:08 Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, Boardhouse Productions out of Brookline. So Pete, Mick

31:13 Speaker 1: and Blake are the guys that had that place up

31:16 Speaker 1: and he's you know, in Brookline, New Hampshire. And you know,

31:21 Speaker 1: we are the resident band at a place called Big

31:24 Speaker 1: Bear Lodge, which is part of Andrea's Art Institute. It's

31:27 Speaker 1: an outdoor sculpture park and they have an events center

31:29 Speaker 1: up there and we've had an opportunity to come in

31:32 Speaker 1: and help them with their concerts, okay, and they're like, hey,

31:35 Speaker 1: you can use the stage every week for your rehearsal.

31:38 Speaker 1: So we it was great. We got all the gear

31:40 Speaker 1: out of my house and moved it up over there,

31:42 Speaker 1: so we get to rehearse on a stage. And just

31:45 Speaker 1: turns out Pete lives right down the road from that

31:47 Speaker 1: and Joe's played there before. Aerosmith that apparently has played there,

31:52 Speaker 1: We're not quite sure roots of creation. Just a bunch

31:55 Speaker 1: of Jay Giles band, a bunch of different people have

31:58 Speaker 1: played there. So having having that connection, Pete came in

32:02 Speaker 1: to help us with sound initially and donated a console,

32:06 Speaker 1: a newer console and all the rolland console to help

32:09 Speaker 1: the room kind of get a kick. We used our

32:11 Speaker 1: PA gear for the band as the house stuff. Yeah,

32:16 Speaker 1: And it was just that relationship with Pete developed, and

32:19 Speaker 1: then when we were ready to start producing these originals,

32:22 Speaker 1: that logical choice was to go down the road to

32:24 Speaker 1: Pete studio. Boardhouse Productions.

32:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Boardhouse. That name comes up a lot on

32:28 Speaker 9: the show. And you mentioned a couple again when we

32:31 Speaker 9: were talking off air Fox of the Flamingos that recorded there, right, and.

32:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, Cosmic Blosso. He also does the sound for bad Fish,

32:40 Speaker 1: which is a Sublime tribute band. He also does all

32:43 Speaker 1: the productions or the majority of the man does sound

32:46 Speaker 1: on the road for Roots of Creation Okay, which is

32:49 Speaker 1: a real popular and grateful dub God bless those guys

32:53 Speaker 1: have really made a big name for themself and in

32:56 Speaker 1: this area and nationwide, really making a difference out there.

32:59 Speaker 1: So I think what Cosmic Blossom, There's a bunch of

33:01 Speaker 1: other bands that have come in and out of there

33:03 Speaker 1: that my apologies for not remembering them all. Pete has

33:06 Speaker 1: also worked I think with Peter Frampton, he did some

33:08 Speaker 1: stuff with He worked with Warren Haynes. Yeah, a long

33:12 Speaker 1: list of people, Yeah, Skinner and there's a long list

33:14 Speaker 1: of people that Pete's worked with. Wow, that's you know,

33:18 Speaker 1: it's just a logical choice to go there. And as

33:20 Speaker 1: you've heard, we love it. Yeah, he really is a

33:23 Speaker 1: master engineer.

33:24 Speaker 9: Yeah, And tell us about that song and what happens

33:26 Speaker 9: towards the end there is that that's pretty cool.

33:28 Speaker 1: That the little gnome dance. Yeah, thank you Pete for

33:31 Speaker 1: inventing that.

33:32 Speaker 10: So, yeah, there's this is I think I'm guilty of

33:34 Speaker 10: the numb dance yeah, maybe I am. I always always

33:37 Speaker 10: I love those like kind of psychedelic little like ditties

33:41 Speaker 10: that sometimes hear old old psychedelic songs, like some Floyd

33:45 Speaker 10: songs like for instance, you know c Emily play there's

33:48 Speaker 10: that weird little harpsichord thing that goes on if you're

33:52 Speaker 10: familiar with that too. But anyway, so I don't know,

33:54 Speaker 10: that's part of like my musical DNA's he's weird like renaissance,

33:57 Speaker 10: he's psychedelic things. And so I started doing that, and

34:02 Speaker 10: Joe immediately hurt and fell in with that. And that's

34:07 Speaker 10: the magic that I loved. What happens when especially Joe

34:12 Speaker 10: Joe jo key into something and it becomes more than

34:16 Speaker 10: just a passing thought that I might have had. It

34:18 Speaker 10: suddenly becomes part of the song.

34:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, and it fits, Yeah, it fits a little breakdown

34:22 Speaker 9: fits perfectly. Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah.

34:25 Speaker 1: So in the studio when we played that, Pete got

34:28 Speaker 1: up from behind the console and did this little called

34:30 Speaker 1: it called it the Fairy Gnome Dance because it sounds

34:33 Speaker 1: a little you know, medieval, yeah, psychedelic, and it's it's

34:38 Speaker 1: it's just a different genre mix right into the reggae song. Yeah,

34:41 Speaker 1: you know, it's weird, but.

34:42 Speaker 9: It works totally.

34:44 Speaker 1: So it's just kind of funny. We talk about a

34:45 Speaker 1: week it's called the Gnome Dance, part of the Fairy Dance.

34:48 Speaker 11: It's just funny.

34:49 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's awesome. I love it and you should

34:52 Speaker 9: tell us you more about your involvement a Big Bear.

34:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as I said, with a resident band over there,

34:57 Speaker 1: and we helped produce the shows. I mean, I'm the

35:00 Speaker 1: one of the audio engineers, if you want to use

35:02 Speaker 1: that term loosely. I'm fairly new to all this stuff

35:05 Speaker 1: really obviously mix it all with my band, so I

35:07 Speaker 1: understand how to get the best sound out. My ears

35:10 Speaker 1: tell me what to do, but Pete has shown me

35:12 Speaker 1: a ton also Willie Walker from a band called the

35:15 Speaker 1: Mighty Colors. They've played with us at Big Bear. So

35:19 Speaker 1: we started an annual benefit over there for Earth Day.

35:23 Speaker 1: So we go in, we played for free. We pulled

35:25 Speaker 1: in the Mighty Colors. They played for free, and we

35:27 Speaker 1: sold tickets to the event and packed the room and

35:30 Speaker 1: made you know, Andrea's Institute, the nonprofit, a couple thousand dollars,

35:35 Speaker 1: and beaver Brook as well made a little bit of money,

35:38 Speaker 1: which is an environmental cause, so that was our goal

35:40 Speaker 1: is to raise and we just wanted to play in

35:43 Speaker 1: the room. That opportunity of us setting that benefit up

35:47 Speaker 1: now was a yearly opportunity. So last year we pulled

35:50 Speaker 1: in a morphous band with one of the original New

35:53 Speaker 1: England jam band guys, Peter Prince and Peter Prince in.

35:57 Speaker 6: Moon Boot Lover.

35:57 Speaker 1: Moon Boot Lover wasn't there, but Peter was just an

36:01 Speaker 1: amazing guitar player, singer, just unbelievable stage presence. Yeah, total

36:06 Speaker 1: rock star and his list of accolades just goes on

36:09 Speaker 1: and on and on. So having us being able to

36:12 Speaker 1: pull that show off, we ended up being asked to hey,

36:16 Speaker 1: do you want to help run shows and produce? So

36:18 Speaker 1: all we've done is try to help you push the

36:21 Speaker 1: technology over there, get better, get better console, better equipment,

36:25 Speaker 1: better lighting. So I install all DMX lighting, concert lighting,

36:29 Speaker 1: did all the got new parts of the stage really

36:32 Speaker 1: kind of the stage and sound manager and lighting guy

36:35 Speaker 1: over there, and it's been wonderful for networking. We've been

36:39 Speaker 1: able to network with you know, the Soggy Pull boys

36:42 Speaker 1: were just standing there. Recently have put you a feather

36:44 Speaker 1: in my cap for mixing them, and thank God for

36:47 Speaker 1: Willy from the Mighty Colors came in and helped me out.

36:50 Speaker 1: So he was lead, and I'll take a one engineer

36:52 Speaker 1: stage hand that day. And yeah, there's other guys that

36:55 Speaker 1: are willing to help, so they come in and I'll

36:57 Speaker 1: either have them be lead on the console or or

37:00 Speaker 1: I'll be lead and they'll it's just a great relationship.

37:02 Speaker 1: No one gets paid, but being able to have the

37:05 Speaker 1: room and what it's done for just our stage presence

37:09 Speaker 1: and everything has been it's been instrumental.

37:12 Speaker 13: It's an old ski lodge actually from oh really yeah,

37:15 Speaker 13: used to be Musket Mountain or Big Bear really been

37:18 Speaker 13: a couple of different names, but I remember skiing there

37:20 Speaker 13: when I was a kid, and yeah, it's like an

37:22 Speaker 13: old you know, cathedral ceiling. It's a great hall, great

37:26 Speaker 13: sound in there and just a you know, very vintage

37:28 Speaker 13: feel too.

37:29 Speaker 9: Yeah.

37:30 Speaker 1: Probably one of the best sounding rooms in New Hampshire

37:33 Speaker 1: without a doubt, just because of all the wood. And

37:36 Speaker 1: we're looking at upgrading the PA equipment pretty soon so

37:38 Speaker 1: I can get my stuff out of there and getting

37:41 Speaker 1: a really really nice system that's going to arrival almost

37:43 Speaker 1: any PA in southern New Hampshire.

37:45 Speaker 9: Oh wow.

37:46 Speaker 1: So we have a really also close relationship with Metronome Studios.

37:50 Speaker 1: They're right in Brookline as well. We don't record there,

37:53 Speaker 1: but they also produce all the lighting and video up

37:56 Speaker 1: at Guildford for a bank in New Hampshire. Having those

38:00 Speaker 1: guys and they've been coming to help us out with

38:02 Speaker 1: a little bit of sound. We just put a brand

38:04 Speaker 1: new Barringer Wing forty eight channel console and Digital Snakes

38:08 Speaker 1: really upgrading everything so it's got the best sound and

38:11 Speaker 1: they've come in and helped me configure it. Pete came

38:13 Speaker 1: in for five or six hours the other day on

38:16 Speaker 1: no charge at all to help us configure this stuff.

38:18 Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a family atmosphere. And it's

38:21 Speaker 1: it's because this place is in a nonprofit and it's

38:24 Speaker 1: a free outdoor sculpture park that anybody can come at

38:27 Speaker 1: any time, open three hundred and sixty five days a year.

38:31 Speaker 1: But the Welcome Center has this amazing performance venue and

38:34 Speaker 1: they run concerts to try to get funds in to

38:37 Speaker 1: raise money for their nonprofit. It's a good yin yang relationship.

38:40 Speaker 1: I love it and it really helped the band out.

38:43 Speaker 10: Yeah, it has, and a lot of people don't know

38:47 Speaker 10: about it because it went from being this skilage and

38:52 Speaker 10: this entertainment, you know kind of venue that then switched

38:56 Speaker 10: to a more that nonprofit than the artists thick side.

39:02 Speaker 10: The Sculpture Park is amazing. It's all outdoors on these

39:06 Speaker 10: trails and mountains on the mountain, and they have a

39:11 Speaker 10: residency program where these sculptures come from all over the

39:14 Speaker 10: world and spend whatever what like six weeks three weeks,

39:19 Speaker 10: and they're given a stone right or whatever medium they

39:23 Speaker 10: metal and they create work that then lives at the site.

39:28 Speaker 10: And so what Eric's done is kind of brought this

39:32 Speaker 10: closer to the community by reviving the sort of local

39:37 Speaker 10: connection that Big Bear used to have for like local

39:40 Speaker 10: music and people just going there to enjoy music. So

39:43 Speaker 10: it's kind of a new a symbiotic relationship. I think

39:47 Speaker 10: it's been great for both parties.

39:49 Speaker 11: Really has Yeah.

39:50 Speaker 9: Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, that's great. That's great.

39:52 Speaker 10: And where is that?

39:53 Speaker 1: So that's in Brookline, brook Line, New Hampshire, right across

39:56 Speaker 1: from the Alamo, which is a little barbecue restaurant.

39:59 Speaker 9: Okay, okay cool. Eric's done a great job decking the

40:02 Speaker 9: place out with video.

40:03 Speaker 1: Also, Oh really, uh yeah, it's really nice. So we

40:06 Speaker 1: have we just put in a ten ADP stage camera

40:09 Speaker 1: very much like yours there, so coming in the ceiling

40:12 Speaker 1: and we Dave Peas who's a volunteer over there also

40:16 Speaker 1: works for Pepperal Community Media. He's our video guy. He

40:19 Speaker 1: comes in has four ten ADP cameras or three ten

40:22 Speaker 1: ADP plus the stage camera that I just installed, and

40:25 Speaker 1: we have a video aggregator. So for shows we'll actually

40:29 Speaker 1: record all the stems on the digital console, all the

40:33 Speaker 1: wave files from every every channel, and we'll also have

40:37 Speaker 1: all this awesome video and then we're pitching that back

40:41 Speaker 1: to the bands because it's great for promo, right, having

40:45 Speaker 1: really good quality all the different cuts, and that helps

40:49 Speaker 1: us defer our costs from every concert make a little

40:52 Speaker 1: bit of money back. So it's really reasonable and it's

40:55 Speaker 1: so far it's been good. Some of the bands have

40:57 Speaker 1: wanted to do that. And now for us, every practice

41:00 Speaker 1: we get it for free. So I'm sticking the the

41:02 Speaker 1: SD card in we can record every practice. I then

41:05 Speaker 1: bring it home, pulled into to reaper our daw and

41:08 Speaker 1: then we put it up on Google Drive so we

41:10 Speaker 1: can hear our progress every week and our whole history

41:13 Speaker 1: is up there that we can go back on and

41:16 Speaker 1: look at our catalog and run a spreadsheet of everything.

41:18 Speaker 1: It's you know, I'm I'm pretty anal about that.

41:21 Speaker 11: Eric's the technical guy.

41:23 Speaker 1: I do all the social media. I do all the booking,

41:27 Speaker 1: all the promoll, everything that that is frontward facing is

41:32 Speaker 1: me because that's what I do for a living. I'm

41:35 Speaker 1: you know, I do digital marketing and kow and websites

41:38 Speaker 1: and stuff.

41:38 Speaker 12: So if you've ever seen Semi Pro with Will Ferrell,

41:42 Speaker 12: he's a character in that called Jackie Moon.

41:44 Speaker 9: Jackie Moon is you know, the he's the he's the

41:47 Speaker 9: you know, star player, he's the coach, he's the owner.

41:50 Speaker 12: And so a lot of times I refer to Eric

41:52 Speaker 12: as our Jackie Moon because he's in the band, he's

41:56 Speaker 12: our manager, he's you know, the number one sound engineer.

42:00 Speaker 3: Right.

42:01 Speaker 12: But but you know, honestly, that the breakthrough for us,

42:04 Speaker 12: right having that access to that space at Big Bear,

42:06 Speaker 12: having that as a space, you know, set up and

42:08 Speaker 12: dedicated for us to be able to utilize that was

42:11 Speaker 12: I think a big breakthrough for us, and being able

42:13 Speaker 12: to work on original material because like we talked about, right,

42:16 Speaker 12: it's it's it's not the first idea, that's the best idea.

42:19 Speaker 3: Right.

42:19 Speaker 12: It's like Chris said, he puts that you know idea out,

42:22 Speaker 12: Joe latches onto it, Drew latches onto it, Rob what

42:25 Speaker 12: and it becomes something you didn't ever intend to in

42:27 Speaker 12: the beginning. And so just you know, by virtue of

42:29 Speaker 12: having some time and space in our calendars over the winter,

42:33 Speaker 12: Eric wi always.

42:33 Speaker 9: Make sure everything we do is recorded.

42:35 Speaker 11: I hear it from him.

42:36 Speaker 12: If I turn off that mic for ten seconds, I

42:38 Speaker 12: hear about it the next ye But then allows us

42:40 Speaker 12: to go back through and go, oh that really worked.

42:41 Speaker 9: Oh we could piece these together.

42:43 Speaker 12: Hey, let's work on developing this one a little bit more,

42:45 Speaker 12: and you make progress in a really, you know, much

42:47 Speaker 12: quicker fashion than if you just try to you know,

42:49 Speaker 12: go in and hammer it out over over five to

42:51 Speaker 12: six hours, right, just kind of organically let it build.

42:54 Speaker 12: Come back to it each week and see what. See

42:56 Speaker 12: what comes you know, comes naturally.

42:57 Speaker 9: To Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, No, that's great. That's

43:00 Speaker 9: that's really cool that you guys have that. Now, what's

43:03 Speaker 9: what's kind of the are you playing a lot of shows?

43:05 Speaker 9: Have you been playing a lot of shows over the summer,

43:07 Speaker 9: or what's kind of been.

43:08 Speaker 1: Usually take a break in June July or really I

43:11 Speaker 1: think the end of June was our last show, okay,

43:14 Speaker 1: and then we usually take July off. Everybody's on vacation.

43:17 Speaker 1: It's a nightmare. Try to do all our booking in February, March,

43:21 Speaker 1: and April.

43:22 Speaker 9: Oh year, oh really, and then.

43:23 Speaker 1: We'll leave a couple of weekends open and some benefit

43:27 Speaker 1: or festival or something might come up and we've done.

43:30 Speaker 1: Like last year, we had a wedding and I can

43:34 Speaker 1: show this. This is the Camp Paul poster.

43:35 Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, we do.

43:37 Speaker 1: Uh, we do custom posters and stuff for special events.

43:40 Speaker 1: And these people wanted to have a jam wedding, isn't it.

43:45 Speaker 1: So they ended up hiring hiring us to play this

43:48 Speaker 1: wedding festival.

43:49 Speaker 9: Feel did you draw it yourself?

43:51 Speaker 3: But you.

43:53 Speaker 1: Guys talking about AI, right, I don't have a graphic artist,

43:56 Speaker 1: so we end up using some AI And then I'm

43:58 Speaker 1: a little bit I'm dany just with the graphic art.

44:01 Speaker 1: So I'll get in there and I'll do we'll touch

44:03 Speaker 1: up and obviously make all of the the wording and

44:05 Speaker 1: the lettering. I really do like how that you can

44:10 Speaker 1: tell AI is amazing for drawing stuff. But it can't

44:12 Speaker 1: spell at all, Like it'll take me a hundred times

44:16 Speaker 1: to get it to spell this, even though I put

44:18 Speaker 1: it in quotes and tell it what to do. You know,

44:20 Speaker 1: obviously this is a Chris is an artist, right, so

44:23 Speaker 1: that we have this discussion all the time. You know,

44:26 Speaker 1: it is his art getting stolen, and then if I

44:30 Speaker 1: ask it to paint a tar painting or something, is

44:33 Speaker 1: his art going to show up one day on a poster.

44:36 Speaker 1: But yet for a band it we don't You don't know.

44:38 Speaker 1: We don't have any money to put much towards this week.

44:41 Speaker 1: We have an expensive PA and we put everything we

44:43 Speaker 1: have in our time, But I can't hire a graphic

44:45 Speaker 1: artist at our small size forever doing Northlands or something

44:49 Speaker 1: we get picked for the side stage. Yeah, I'll hire

44:51 Speaker 1: somebody to actually draw a real poster. Sure, But AI

44:54 Speaker 1: has helped us out tremendously to get that promo out there.

44:57 Speaker 10: Okay, oh cool, all right, no, no shame man. I

45:01 Speaker 10: think that AI is great for stuff like that. It's perfect,

45:04 Speaker 10: you know, because you're not asking it to replace, you know,

45:07 Speaker 10: a great artist. You just want an awesome marketing image.

45:11 Speaker 10: That's what Hey, guy's freaking great at.

45:13 Speaker 1: Exactly who originally drew.

45:16 Speaker 10: This, No, nobody. It's probably it's a composite, man.

45:20 Speaker 1: So that's what I don't know if we know, no

45:22 Speaker 1: it is.

45:22 Speaker 10: It's not just taken from somebody. It's a composite that's

45:25 Speaker 10: been taken from many places.

45:27 Speaker 1: I hope. So that's the only thing that I worry about.

45:30 Speaker 11: What it will take everything eventually.

45:34 Speaker 10: Yeah, but here's the thing. It'll never be as creative

45:38 Speaker 10: as human beings are.

45:39 Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, No, that's true. That's true.

45:42 Speaker 3: You know it.

45:43 Speaker 10: If it comes down to it taking my image and

45:47 Speaker 10: putting it on something, why does that bother me? Because

45:51 Speaker 10: I think I'm owed something for that image. I personally

45:54 Speaker 10: don't feel that way. That's business. That's not art. That's

45:58 Speaker 10: what you do as a you know, for a job.

46:02 Speaker 10: I make images, But that's not really that's not great art.

46:05 Speaker 10: That's not pulling something from your soul, right, And AI

46:08 Speaker 10: doesn't have a soul to pull from, right. If anything,

46:11 Speaker 10: I would see it's not going to And what I

46:12 Speaker 10: would always see is that stuff's advertisement for my art.

46:16 Speaker 10: Like even people like putting their pictures of their paintings

46:19 Speaker 10: online and they put big copyright signs and stuff. Who cares, right,

46:23 Speaker 10: I'd somebody who wasn't going to see or buy your

46:25 Speaker 10: art anyway, and you're onto the next painting, and you know,

46:29 Speaker 10: guess what, You've actually got free advertising? Right, I don't

46:33 Speaker 10: see a problem.

46:33 Speaker 9: That's a good way.

46:34 Speaker 1: You're an artist too, so you know what I mean.

46:36 Speaker 1: That means a lot.

46:38 Speaker 9: It does, Yeah, it does.

46:39 Speaker 1: I just don't want to steal anybody's stuff yet, right.

46:42 Speaker 1: I did plenty of that when I was a kid,

46:43 Speaker 1: stealing from Microsoft and all those downloads, those games.

46:48 Speaker 9: Oh didn't we all didn't we all? Well, so we

46:54 Speaker 9: are running out of time. I do want to make sure.

46:56 Speaker 9: So now, do you have anything coming up?

46:57 Speaker 1: And do we have two gigs next week? Weekend? We're

47:01 Speaker 1: doing the Roud and Bush Community Block Party in Westford, Massachusetts.

47:05 Speaker 9: Okay.

47:06 Speaker 1: That's kind of a public event for the folks, the

47:08 Speaker 1: fine folks of Westford, mass Okay. And that's a benefits

47:11 Speaker 1: show that that we're going to help them do. And

47:12 Speaker 1: then we're playing the Tiki Bar at Nashoba Valley on

47:17 Speaker 1: the twenty third from eight to eleven. And then we

47:20 Speaker 1: are the next show after that, I believe is Pinucci's

47:23 Speaker 1: on September fourteenth. Excellent and that's on the deck right downtown,

47:27 Speaker 1: which is going to be a fun show. I play

47:29 Speaker 1: a lot of Grateful Day. We got a Manchester cuts,

47:33 Speaker 1: concered conered cockered we do yeah, yeah, the old Thursday's

47:36 Speaker 1: underground music.

47:37 Speaker 9: Stage, so it used to be a Manchester one.

47:39 Speaker 11: Yeah.

47:39 Speaker 1: And then we're also playing Old Home Days in Hollis

47:42 Speaker 1: on September twentieth, and then I think October tenth, we're

47:47 Speaker 1: doing a private party in Milford. October eleventh, we're playing

47:49 Speaker 1: Milford Pumpkin Fest along with you know, Fox and the

47:52 Speaker 1: Flamingo Yeah, and all these other bands that are local

47:54 Speaker 1: out of the area. Cosmic Blossom I think is also

47:57 Speaker 1: playing excellent. It's just a great line up that weekend

48:01 Speaker 1: of really good music.

48:02 Speaker 9: Yeah.

48:03 Speaker 11: Yeah.

48:03 Speaker 1: And then I think Old Home Days that one good

48:06 Speaker 1: Thing took Me Down. That's the release date for that song.

48:08 Speaker 9: It's perfect.

48:09 Speaker 1: It's kind of going to be your release party.

48:11 Speaker 9: Yeah.

48:11 Speaker 1: And there'll be a couple thousand people in the field,

48:14 Speaker 1: and we're getting the sound professionally, professionally produced by AE Events,

48:17 Speaker 1: so that's great. We don't have to lug our pa.

48:19 Speaker 1: We'll have a professional stage, professional sound.

48:22 Speaker 9: Yeah.

48:22 Speaker 11: But was here here.

48:27 Speaker 9: We appreciate it.

48:28 Speaker 1: And again we appreciate everybody that's kind of given us

48:30 Speaker 1: the support, and Pete for helping us get to that

48:32 Speaker 1: next level, andres and Big Bear for giving us a

48:35 Speaker 1: little opportunity as well, and for you right for for

48:38 Speaker 1: having us in. Oh wonderful. We're honored, happy to do it.

48:41 Speaker 9: It's great to meet you guys, and I love what

48:43 Speaker 9: you're doing, so thout you so much. Absolutely, we'll keep.

48:46 Speaker 1: You informed of any new releases we have. They're coming

48:48 Speaker 1: out soon. We got two more in the works, so

48:49 Speaker 1: you do okay. Yeah, so we'll be releasing two more

48:52 Speaker 1: probably in the next few weeks.

48:53 Speaker 9: Oh wonderful. Yeah, send them to us. We'll play well,

48:55 Speaker 9: we definitely will. We'll give them the world radio premiere treatment.

48:58 Speaker 1: Awesome.

48:58 Speaker 9: Absolutely. One under one other thing. Where is the best

49:01 Speaker 9: place for people to go online to keep up with

49:03 Speaker 9: everything that you're doing.

49:04 Speaker 1: You go to jamdemic dot com. Okay, and that's pretty

49:07 Speaker 1: much the hub of all of our stuff. We'll be

49:09 Speaker 1: doing a new website for that pretty soon because now

49:12 Speaker 1: that we're out there on the streaming web, we've got

49:14 Speaker 1: to really re rethink everything with these you know, the

49:18 Speaker 1: radio shows and the radio event the other day. There's

49:21 Speaker 1: a lot of new stuff that we've got to put

49:22 Speaker 1: up there.

49:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, of course we do have a pretty active Facebook

49:26 Speaker 10: page though, we do, and.

49:27 Speaker 1: We're on Instagram. We're on band camp and jam base

49:31 Speaker 1: and bands in town pretty much everywhere. Yeah, you know,

49:35 Speaker 1: you got to keep up on all that stuff, that's right.

49:37 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a lot to keep up with. But yeah,

49:39 Speaker 9: but yeah, you got.

49:40 Speaker 11: To do it.

49:41 Speaker 1: You got to do It's part of the deal. If

49:43 Speaker 1: you want to grow and you want to get better gigs,

49:45 Speaker 1: and you want to market yourself, you've got to market it.

49:47 Speaker 1: And I think that's that's something that I'm starting to

49:49 Speaker 1: get into helping other bands out my digital marketing experience

49:53 Speaker 1: and seeing how we've grown this.

49:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of.

49:57 Speaker 1: Opportunity for me to help other bands that just don't

50:00 Speaker 1: don't have a guy in the band that can do

50:01 Speaker 1: this right, So I encourage them to reach out to me.

50:04 Speaker 1: I'm more happy to guide them and give them some

50:06 Speaker 1: free advice or hook them up with an invoice if

50:09 Speaker 1: they want me to help him out.

50:10 Speaker 10: Yeah, seriously, it's it's makes all the difference.

50:13 Speaker 3: You know.

50:13 Speaker 10: We've come very far, we feel in three years you know, yeah,

50:17 Speaker 10: or three to five years. You know that we never

50:20 Speaker 10: expected and a lot of it's Eric's talent and dedication

50:24 Speaker 10: to getting the word out and to collaboration. He's kind

50:28 Speaker 10: of a collaborative marketer. He doesn't try to shove anyth

50:30 Speaker 10: down your throat, but he finds the sweet spot where

50:32 Speaker 10: everybody benefits.

50:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's good, yea, thank you, excellent, excellent. Well guys,

50:38 Speaker 9: thank you so much, jam Demic. This has been wonderful

50:40 Speaker 9: and we'll definitely do this again in the future. And

50:43 Speaker 9: like I said, you know, send us your music as

50:44 Speaker 9: you got it and we'll play it.

50:45 Speaker 1: Thanks Matt, Thanks Jen, thank you.

50:48 Speaker 9: And before we go to Jenny, you want to remind

50:50 Speaker 9: everybody of your website where to keep up with everything

50:52 Speaker 9: you were doing, because you got a lot going on.

50:54 Speaker 9: I do, and I'm getting into more and more good trouble.

50:56 Speaker 9: If you want to find out what that is, just

50:58 Speaker 9: come check out Jen Coffee dot com, j E N

51:01 Speaker 9: N c O f f uy dot com and stay

51:03 Speaker 9: tuned for a new publication. Yes, yes, absolutely yes, and

51:07 Speaker 9: you can keep up with me at Matt Connorton dot com.

51:10 Speaker 9: And I believe Eric and I are going to do

51:12 Speaker 9: a new Tough Bumps podcast this weekend too, so you

51:15 Speaker 9: can check that out. Uh and if you miss any

51:18 Speaker 9: part of today's show, it will be up in just

51:19 Speaker 9: a little bit at w M n H Radio dot org.

51:23 Speaker 9: I need some caffeine. And in my website Matt Connorton

51:26 Speaker 9: dot com, you can tell I start, I start buffering

51:28 Speaker 9: when this is the morning still when I'm under caffeinated. Yeah,

51:32 Speaker 9: and uh so that's gonna do it for us for

51:34 Speaker 9: now again. Jamdemic, Thank you, jamdemic, thank you so much,

51:38 Speaker 9: thank you, thank you, and uh, we'll talk to you

51:40 Speaker 9: a little bit later.

51:41 Speaker 3: Bye.

51:41 Speaker 9: Everybody, you're listening to Matt Connorton unleash on w M

51:48 Speaker 9: and HNWTY five point three and now the American radio

51:53 Speaker 9: premiere of the new single by three Time seven. This

51:57 Speaker 9: is called dressing for the weather.

52:09 Speaker 4: And dressing fall the weather.

52:11 Speaker 8: I want, oh.

52:14 Speaker 1: Dressing mottle weather world.

52:17 Speaker 4: Never mind the weather.

52:18 Speaker 14: I can make it better.

52:19 Speaker 15: I can make a shine.

52:20 Speaker 3: Shine shine.

52:24 Speaker 1: Like the whether I want.

52:27 Speaker 14: There ain't no stormy Monday, gonna breathe read done.

52:36 Speaker 4: Because I'm racing high.

52:40 Speaker 16: I stand a little taller now.

52:44 Speaker 14: It only takes a little mom It takes a little money.

52:46 Speaker 15: Takes a little only takes a little harm, It takes

52:50 Speaker 15: a little hard.

52:51 Speaker 4: Now, if I didn't know any better, I play the

52:56 Speaker 4: weather to.

52:58 Speaker 3: Now have me my favorite hit.

53:00 Speaker 8: You you see, I'm dressing on the water.

53:03 Speaker 1: I want, oh, dressed up all the wather.

53:08 Speaker 15: I never mind the weather.

53:11 Speaker 1: I can make it better.

53:12 Speaker 4: I can make it shine, shine, shine.

53:17 Speaker 8: Like the weather I want.

53:18 Speaker 4: I'm dressing for please, guys, now the please.

53:22 Speaker 1: Oh I'm dressing for me.

53:25 Speaker 4: I'm dressing for me. I just not die.

53:29 Speaker 8: The lever didn't take just a minute because I know,

53:34 Speaker 8: Oh no, it only takes a little.

53:38 Speaker 1: It takes a little let it takes a little all on.

53:40 Speaker 15: It takes a little drop, it takes a little.

53:43 Speaker 14: Short whatever the weather when making it better, I had

53:51 Speaker 14: in my favorite suit. I'm dressing on the weather our world. Oh,

54:00 Speaker 14: dressed upon the weather world and pulling must calf together

54:08 Speaker 14: all the way the tarn and pray the side.

54:18 Speaker 1: Out every time.

54:24 Speaker 3: That's what.

54:27 Speaker 16: Wild, That's what I need, what I need.

54:33 Speaker 3: It's t.

54:37 Speaker 4: Let us stop about that, A.

54:39 Speaker 3: Stop from me.

54:42 Speaker 4: Dressing for the weather to dressing forever.

54:50 Speaker 15: I'm not dressing, Oh, I.

54:55 Speaker 3: Dress from me from me.

55:03 Speaker 9: Mm hmmm, h.

55:14 Speaker 15: M hmmm.

55:17 Speaker 9: Mm hmmm.

55:25 Speaker 8: Out in the valley where the west wind bad.

55:32 Speaker 4: I got a place and nobody no.

55:38 Speaker 3: See it.

55:39 Speaker 8: Now you drinking boy, myself dringing on my life and

55:44 Speaker 8: drinking on my health. God the mind ain't gonna come

55:47 Speaker 8: and shine a light on speed.

55:52 Speaker 9: How I was raised on.

55:53 Speaker 1: The Colorado saands.

55:58 Speaker 16: Groop of the small on town, trying to be on

56:02 Speaker 16: name Me and my friend calls a rap rock track

56:09 Speaker 16: over Ji stall and nickel candy shack, Lord of mine

56:13 Speaker 16: and on come and shine a lot of speed?

56:18 Speaker 15: Who out of towning I was seven years old. I

56:25 Speaker 15: don't know when I was called been doll man on

56:32 Speaker 15: friend and toll.

56:33 Speaker 1: Me and his guitar kept up.

56:35 Speaker 15: Beat the ghettle though he didn't gat fall.

56:38 Speaker 16: Lord of mine ain't on a COmON shineing lot of speed.

56:45 Speaker 8: Urry around crazy like a doll.

56:51 Speaker 9: I couldn't see too the fig head of smile.

56:57 Speaker 15: Spend six mons in the dog the tail that surprising

57:02 Speaker 15: pain when you're raising little tail, Lord tonight it on

57:06 Speaker 15: the color shine it.

57:07 Speaker 9: I don't feed.

57:23 Speaker 15: What I wanna say, what I wanna know, what.

57:29 Speaker 9: I don't wanna say.

57:32 Speaker 4: I can't help my soul.

57:35 Speaker 15: What you wanna feel?

57:38 Speaker 3: We can make your retail what you.

57:41 Speaker 1: Wanna feel, can't I counsie.

58:12 Speaker 8: Hide in the valley in the west wind blow, I

58:19 Speaker 8: got a place, and nobody all.

58:26 Speaker 3: Saying.

58:26 Speaker 16: Now you are thinking by myself, thinking about my life,

58:31 Speaker 16: thinking about my health. Lord of Mind, ain't gonna come

58:34 Speaker 16: and shine a lot off me, a f of rude,

58:40 Speaker 16: fan of HAMDM. Keep all things my grandma say, hair,

58:53 Speaker 16: my heart and a ham and me that's a whole

58:58 Speaker 16: lot of wealth.