Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-22-26 hour 2

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4:34 Speaker 5: I've left my mouth on the dirty streets, and every maid of bast pin in your bread. Another coat of pain of a white bosh breaks my prayer.

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5:07 Speaker 9: Oh yeah. If that doesn't get you move and check your pulse, you might be dead. I love it. That is punch drunk. The band is bf Raid, Boston's Final Raid. And we got a couple of the guys from the band here with us. We're gonna talk to them in just a moment, but welcome everybody. We have entered our number two newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere.

5:32 Speaker 9: Go to Matt condorton dot com slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, August twenty two, two thousand twenty six. Let's get these mics on. So we've got Bruce Owens returning to the show and Jamie Forbes with us as well from the band bf Raid Boston's Final Raid. How you doing, guys, doing well? Welcome, Welcome, and combat So this is very new. This just came out end of July. Correct. Yep, the album Combat Zone fantastic.

6:06 Speaker 2: Yeah.

6:07 Speaker 9: I listened to the whole thing really good. I love it. Oh and I got, of course the package you sent with the flash drive and everything.

6:13 Speaker 10: Oh.

6:13 Speaker 9: Speaking of which, Yeah, you did walk in with a bag of stuff, didn't you. Oh my god, you guys, You guys takes such good care of us. Here, I'm gonna for those of you watching the video, I'm gonna put the uh put this back on myself for a minute. So we got a bag here with the band's logo on one side. Oh, and of course combat Zone, the album on the other. And this is a This feels like there's a lot of stuff in here. Oh my god. So the vinyl a vinyl copy. There's the front, there's the back of combat Zone.

6:48 Speaker 11: Oh that's the first album.

6:49 Speaker 9: Oh, the first album. I'm sorry, I rate it again, which goes with the T shirt that I'm wearing because you're you were generous last time too and brought brought goodies. So I'm wearing the T shirt. That's the first album. Yep.

7:01 Speaker 9: Oh this is Yeah. These have the stick some these have more. Oh Jenny loves stickers, by the way, I don't know if you remember that, you remember that from last time? Yeah, thank you so god. These these are full of full of stickers. And let's see what else. Oh got a shirt a shirt for new album. Oh yeah, for the new album combat Zone. Wow. Look at that. I'm trying to describe describe this all the best I can for our our audio listeners. But very nice, very nice.

7:32 Speaker 10: Matt Bruce's Santa Claus, he really is.

7:36 Speaker 9: This is incredible. No listen. Sometimes guests bring us goodies.

7:40 Speaker 12: But this is.

7:43 Speaker 13: Way above and beyond.

7:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, and he did that last time too. I remember too, he brought us more stuff than any other guest ever has.

7:49 Speaker 10: He's second, he's second to Gene Simmons, but he doesn't you for it.

7:53 Speaker 9: So we got yeah, two shirts, one for me, one for Jenny. Thank you so much. And what is in this?

7:57 Speaker 2: Oh?

7:58 Speaker 9: This is interesting? Okay, So here's a box. It's got the a variation of your logo from the Bruins, the Boston Bruins. I'm not a sports ball fan, so I'm slow on that, but uh I got Oh by the way, we still use the last time you brought us a mug. We still we still use that mug. Oh is it? Yeah? So this is oh my goodness, me open this up here? Very nice. Another thermis if you will. Would thermists be the right term?

8:31 Speaker 11: Or travel mug?

8:32 Speaker 9: Travel mug? Yeah, very cool. And it's got the graphics for the boy. This is this is the real deal too, Like this is not a cheap thing. No, this is this is really.

8:44 Speaker 11: I use mine every day.

8:45 Speaker 9: Oh my god. Yeah, very cool. It looks like this two of them here, so wonderful. Thank you so much. Whoop's put that down for a second because I see yet something else in here. Uh b fraid uh what would you call that? A bottle opener?

8:59 Speaker 2: Yeah?

9:00 Speaker 9: See, I don't drink, so I don't know rarely opened bottles. But these are very cool. Thank you got two of those too. Thank you guys so much. You really are Santa. It's amazing, amazing.

9:13 Speaker 10: Next time you see, like, if you happen to watch Coach and bro like Coach, make sure he has the mug visible on his desk.

9:19 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh, absolutely, absolutely, Well, geez, you know what you gave me an idea. If I put this right here, there you go, there we go. Excellent. That's a very good I get that. That's right exactly exactly. Wow, thank you guys.

9:36 Speaker 14: Well, it's funny because since the new album came out and I didn't tell you Jamie yet, I was checking out on merch logs Now merch is blowing up good, excellent, big time. I mean numbers that are really impressive.

9:52 Speaker 10: So I think I think with the shirt, whether you like the band or not, it's a cool shirt.

9:57 Speaker 9: It is a cool shirt. Yeah, yeah, absolut.

10:00 Speaker 10: And what we had to do to what Bruce had to do to get the image.

10:03 Speaker 11: Yes, but you were involved in a lot of that too.

10:06 Speaker 10: Well no, I mean you had to deal with that.

10:09 Speaker 9: You know, what did you have to do to get the image?

10:11 Speaker 14: Well, when we first started looking for the album art, Matt is big against AI. Okay, so we were like, okay, we're going to use a photograph. And we found a photograph of the Grain Street in like the nineteen seventies with a seventies car on one side. It was daybreak, so there was a prostitute walking down the street ending her shift and a blue collar guy walking in the other direction starting his ok we thought it was perfect. It took me a month to hunt down the guy that owned the rights to the picture, and he wanted us to pay pretty much our recording budget.

10:55 Speaker 11: Licensed professional.

10:56 Speaker 10: Was this the professor or yeah, I.

10:59 Speaker 14: Don't even want to say what schoolies from but he wanted a lot of money. Yeah, So we kept hunting. We found a picture we liked in the City of Boston archives of a theater in nineteen sixty three.

11:13 Speaker 9: Yeah.

11:14 Speaker 14: City of Boston said, go ahead, use it free album for free? Oh no kidding, excellent, Yeah, We're like great. We put it on some of the March, and it started getting rejected because there was a woman on one of the posters in the theater that was scantily dressed, and AI kept saying.

11:35 Speaker 11: Oh, that's a naked woman. Oh okay, and it kept bouncing it.

11:39 Speaker 14: So we were like, we don't want to upload the album cover to platforms and have the same problem because it isn't a human looking at it and the album's getting rejected. So we finally found the cover art we're using from this guy, Robit Post. He was awesome, he worked with us, he gave us a great price.

11:59 Speaker 9: Yeah.

12:00 Speaker 14: So the post artworks on the front City Boss not work is in the back, and another guy gave us artwork for the inside.

12:12 Speaker 11: Of the CD.

12:13 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, No, it came out great.

12:15 Speaker 11: Yeah.

12:16 Speaker 10: Wasn't there any problems? Wasn't there some problems with this platform wise in the beginning?

12:21 Speaker 11: Yeah, well not make up bounds because of the City of Boston picture.

12:25 Speaker 10: No, this one that we have now, no, No, it's been smooth.

12:28 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh good good.

12:30 Speaker 10: So it was a process just to have the art. Yeah, but we would dead set on combat Zone.

12:36 Speaker 9: Yeah.

12:36 Speaker 10: While worth it where everybody says, oh that the naked eye.

12:40 Speaker 11: Yeah, and even if you don't know the band.

12:42 Speaker 14: I don't think there's any T shirts out there with the Naked Eye in the Pilgrim Theater on it. So, right, anyone who's like a Bostonian just like seize the shirt and they love it.

12:53 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Awesome.

12:55 Speaker 10: I've had several people like again, like you know, friends of ours that are not into the band, but like I want that shirt. Yeah that's great, you know, like an NWA shirt, you know that's the Yeah. I almost wore one because I heard you were into it.

13:09 Speaker 9: Yeah it was I was like, uh well, anything kiss related is a good choice too. My favorite band.

13:14 Speaker 14: So and the cool thing about having that Naked Eye on the cover is Naked Eye was on Washington Street in Boston.

13:23 Speaker 9: Okay.

13:24 Speaker 14: Its address was six six six Washington Street, kidding, Yeah, the most.

13:33 Speaker 11: Club in Boston.

13:34 Speaker 9: Yeah, six oh wow, Oh that's cool.

13:38 Speaker 10: I work in the Seaport, so, like I took a stroll over there a couple of weeks ago just to yeah, try to feel it. Yeah, I mean there's still some structure there, but it's like the seaport alone was packing lots thirteen years ago and now it's a whole city. Oh yeah, but the ghosts are there in the combat zone.

13:57 Speaker 9: Right right, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. So is that kind of the theme of the album, I mean, tell us about the album.

14:04 Speaker 4: So.

14:05 Speaker 14: Not really by design, but it evolved to be what I call an auto audio documentary about Boston because a lot of the songs are really autobiographical, with the exception of Bullets from the Board, but even the songs that Billy wrote are really about his past experiences growing up in Boston, first meeting.

14:30 Speaker 11: His wife on Causeway Street, things of that nature. So there's a lot of songs. Punch Drunk is about our hometown.

14:38 Speaker 10: Ultimately, it starts in our hometown, on our block that Bruce and I grew up on and Billy on the other side.

14:45 Speaker 14: We grew up in the same neighborhood, but Jamie's younger than me, so you know, we didn't really meet each other until a little bit later, you know, when I was in my early twenties, Jamie was in his late teen But yeah, so we grew up with the same kind of experience and people. So Punch Trunk is about I was driving through Malden and in its core it's a very crude song, but I've hidden the crudeness of what it's about. But I was driving through Malden and I was remembering an encounter with a young lady as I was driving by her house.

15:28 Speaker 14: Then I get a couple of blocks away and I can remember an encounter, another one a few blocks down, and then I drove by our rehearsal studio and I'm looking around and I could still see that the city has totally changed, but there were like little places where I can remember maybe a fight here or a kissed there, or and still kind of left my mark in the city.

15:55 Speaker 11: So our hometown has totally changed.

15:59 Speaker 10: Just three days ago, I was. I was on the phone with them and I had to because my family house is still in that town. Yeah, And I was like, Bruce, would you I went to all the areas that mentioned in the song, that are all, but I was just sending them video footage, just like clips, right, because he was trying to put the put together a video, and he did end up using some okay, But like the boneyard is mentioned in the song, Bruce, was the boneyard the graveyard or was it in the back of the graveyard.

16:32 Speaker 11: There was a graveyard.

16:34 Speaker 14: If you left our high school, there were train tracks right there, which had a live train back in the day.

16:40 Speaker 9: Oh okay, so you come.

16:41 Speaker 14: Out of high school, go by the tracks, and there was a hole that probably the generation before me had ripped in the chain link fence. She could go into the graveyard and you were hidden away and people could smoke various things or fronk beers back there. Yeah, And it's so funny that, like we would it was called the boneyard because a free roll was called a bone back then, okay, and people will go to the boneyard. And like Jamie was like younger than me, and by the time I had moved on and I was hanging out in clubs, him and his teenage fronts were drinking in the boneyard.

17:22 Speaker 14: It was like a past on kind of thing from And I'm sure there's kids that are drinking in the bone yard right now, right, So it's kind of a cool little area, but it's right in the middle of downtown, kid, and the cops can definitely see what's.

17:35 Speaker 11: Going on, but you just kind of leave people alone.

17:38 Speaker 9: Oh really, we know where you.

17:39 Speaker 10: Are, right right, yeah, thing, yeah, yeah, it's turn into a condo haven you know what I mean, because it's right next to the Orange line. So it's just like the workforce, that makes sense. Yeah, and there was generations of families that have been there for fifty sixty years. Yeah, it's no more.

17:58 Speaker 11: Yeah, our dad's and the last went to Malden to High before we did.

18:01 Speaker 9: Oh really yeah, oh wow, yeah, no kidding, no kidding. So where did you record this? Because this album took a long time, right, like it seems like like almost two years and you got Yeah, and you guys really and part of why I know that is because you guys were really documenting it on on social media as you were recording.

18:19 Speaker 10: Well, as soon as we finished Rated Again, we went right to work. It was almost like having a second child before thinking about it. We don't do this now, we might not do it, so like we were just committed to it. You know, we're not spring Chicken. So we just we went right to work on the second one. Yeah, right after Rated Again was released.

18:38 Speaker 9: Wow.

18:39 Speaker 14: So we used the same studio the record co okay, and we like the place. It feels like home to us, and we used to same engineer who is.

18:51 Speaker 11: A genius.

18:52 Speaker 10: Yeah, if it wasn't for the engineer, you know what I mean, it wouldn't have been an automatic. We would have went back there. But yeah, since he you know, he was like the fifth member, okay, Yeah, and it was just like knows our nuances, knows our moods, yep, yep. But most important, he's knows my drums, Like he mixed my drums better than any project I've ever been in. Yeah, because he's a drummer, so he was, oh perfect, I had that advantage perfect.

19:20 Speaker 9: Yeah.

19:20 Speaker 14: Yeah, he really knows us well and what we want and how to communicate with us. And I'll give him a shout out. He actually just opened up his own recording studio okay and Waltham called One Horse Recording. It's the old Welly Mammoth studio set was owned by David Minihan from the neighborhoods.

19:40 Speaker 10: Oh no kidding.

19:41 Speaker 14: So he bought that and it was one last track I had to do, and I went over to the new studio to do that track.

19:51 Speaker 11: Yeah, and it's beautiful, it's really nice and it was easy to work in.

19:55 Speaker 10: So yeah, well you can't leave out where the record cole was.

20:00 Speaker 11: Yeah, so that was the inspiration for a lot of the album too.

20:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, right in the heart of methadone mile. Oh really right, you're in the middle of it. It was like this look, you know gem in this you know, dark place, and it did inspire you know a lot, you know, a lot of the attitude, the nastiness, you know, the ugliness of the world too. But it's really in the middle of the method.

20:28 Speaker 14: The Greatest Show really was kind of born during the Rated Against sessions because there's these giant windows in the recording studio that look out right at the middle of mass and casts and we could watch drug deals every day.

20:46 Speaker 10: I had some day I had some recorded. Bruce was like, no, no, no, no, really like stuff that would go good with a video, but it would have been in Yeah.

20:54 Speaker 14: And one of the things was we would see, you know, these young pros institutes like twenty feet away from us on the other side of the glass, and at first you have this voyeuristic kind of thing, and then after a while you kind of get sick to your stomach because these girls are whacked out on drugs.

21:14 Speaker 11: They can barely stand up. There's strangers picking them up.

21:18 Speaker 14: And that's what really got me to write The Greatest show in town because you know, these girls to treat it as adult entertainment. And I know some people have the libertarian idea about prostitution and people can do with their body what they want to do, but most of these girls that are out there aren't doing it because they want to do it a lot of times to being forced to be out there. And what really hits me the hardest, and I kind of make a point of the song, is probably like ninety percent of these girls have been are victims of sexual abuse.

21:58 Speaker 14: And it hits me hard that when they're young girls and their abuse, all of us want to get the pitchforks, graub the abuser and drag them out and do whatever to them. Right they hit eighteen, they kicked out the system and they end up on the streets and now they're a cautionary teal while people drive by in point and laugh and it's like, well, why did you care so much about that girl two years ago when she was seventeen sixteen, But now that she's eighteen nineteen, now it's a joke and it's not.

22:32 Speaker 9: I mean, that's a really good insight.

22:34 Speaker 11: You know, they're in rough shape, and.

22:37 Speaker 10: Society, all of them looked like junkies either, like somewhere in the early stages that you would you wow, you know what I mean, right right. I think the thing that disturbed me the most about those visuals was, you know, those addicts having no control of their body, you know, and having you know, they were just yeah, I know what you mean.

22:59 Speaker 15: Yeah.

23:00 Speaker 14: And the freaky thing was there was a four to one fifty at Boston Police if you're listening, that will pull up in the alley across from the studio every day at ten, I mean eleven am on the dot really and it will pull in in a line with form and they would just start selling fentanyl. Really, And it was every day at and I'm like, if I can see this and the police stations down the street, why don't you see this?

23:30 Speaker 9: Right?

23:31 Speaker 14: And every day at eleven, the guy would pull into the same alley, everyone would line up. Noontime, he'd do another lot loop around the block and boom. And he was also coming back and checking on.

23:43 Speaker 9: The girls, okay, whether he.

23:45 Speaker 14: Was supplying them with fetanyl or he's trafficking them. But it was like this one truck and then we go back to the studio months later, same truck eleven o'clock on the dot.

23:57 Speaker 10: Wow, So remind you this is this is thee we recorded both these records.

24:02 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, in the inside of the studios. Gorgeous.

24:05 Speaker 11: Yeah, but you're looking through that glass and it's like, wow.

24:09 Speaker 9: Wow, that's that's incredible. I think we should play another What do you guys want to play?

24:15 Speaker 10: You can pick on the subject and greatest show from what we were just talking about.

24:20 Speaker 11: You might still play the greatest show since we were just talking about it. What it's about.

24:24 Speaker 14: And it was also inspired loosely on the Robin Benedict murders. Okay, so Robin Bennet got murdered in the Combat Zone. Okay, by a tough professor. It was a huge case in Boston in the eighties. Okay, So part of the song is about the last first it's about how these girls are kind of nameless and throwaway and they just disappear.

24:49 Speaker 9: Okay, So all right, let's give this a spin. This is the opening track on the album. By the way, the album is Combat Zone and by bf Raid Boston's Final Raid, and this is the greatest show in town.

25:17 Speaker 5: I'm trying a book that fished your rides, not a fix from rap not don.

25:25 Speaker 16: No nos, this is your fuck and.

25:27 Speaker 3: A night time chat.

25:39 Speaker 6: Les travel it sell ben and you drag your whistletown to town.

25:47 Speaker 3: You're not gona buff.

25:48 Speaker 6: On the back of the bus just waiting to touchdown.

25:54 Speaker 3: You un let all let him know you're turning fine.

26:02 Speaker 1: Most then you dripped away.

26:04 Speaker 7: With a bottle of john stop whine, screaming like a connibal buck up, working off your latest bucker.

26:17 Speaker 17: Shlemans who gather around to see the brainy show in town puffies off remembrance, but they can't also help you, folkis.

26:32 Speaker 1: I could even have a shave and pain, but what not happy your eyes shine?

26:41 Speaker 5: A bus of tears want you by yourself out here to go, so you climb a coat.

26:49 Speaker 6: Another bucket moves, another jail away from home.

26:53 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, streaming like a cannibal bunk up.

26:59 Speaker 3: Or not your nat is looker.

27:03 Speaker 1: You're the festial to be bounds.

27:07 Speaker 18: The greatest show with time stup right up, screaming like a coble.

27:42 Speaker 1: Balker working off Your.

27:45 Speaker 3: Name is poker.

27:48 Speaker 6: You're the festival to be bound form the great show.

27:54 Speaker 3: Sier by, let me fist of fun tonight. Are you looking at Patty.

28:04 Speaker 13: Let They got on a little show for you.

28:06 Speaker 3: That's telling pre contunity. Who was the cattery, the name.

28:18 Speaker 1: Or the demas taper and they all worth the say.

28:26 Speaker 3: They don't know she suffered.

28:29 Speaker 16: Summer room Chatre would get in tush where they or you remember or.

28:44 Speaker 6: Super name Moon else your name somewhere a long dollar road, wouldn't.

28:51 Speaker 1: No one's better shadow to They would.

28:53 Speaker 3: Have already even know.

28:58 Speaker 2: That everyone that you you.

29:02 Speaker 1: Without soul, but not you. You'll stay in because you have nowhere you go. No, no, no, no scream just like a cannibalbager. Can your minger has your.

29:18 Speaker 5: Final bucker, you were the best in town.

29:24 Speaker 17: That's a great show in town.

29:38 Speaker 9: That is the greatest show in town. That is the opening track of the new album combat Zone from b f Raid Boston's Final Raid. And we've got Bruce and Jamie from the band here with us in studio and uh no, we were kind of talking off air. That's a that's a very strong, strong opening track. And uh, Bruce, you were just telling me too that you know, Uh listeners might fan might recognize that voice from the first album, the voice of the female in that song.

30:05 Speaker 14: Yes, so on the opener for Rated Again, Hollywoodwood Snakes. We used a front of ours gen cous Growth shut out to Jen and she's an actress. She's been in I don't know if you've seem Blown Away with Mark Wahlberg. Oh yeah, yeah, she's in that. She plays the nurse oh Noka. She's been in a bunch of stuff. But she does voice over work and she DJs, so she has that group voice. So yeah, we brought Gen back to do.

30:31 Speaker 11: I didn't know that.

30:31 Speaker 10: Now I have to watch the movie.

30:33 Speaker 8: Yeah.

30:33 Speaker 14: Yeah, she's the nurse that gives Mark Wahlberg the asprom with a thick Boston accent.

30:38 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, Jamie, we were talking off air too. Well, actually, Bruce was telling me about this before you got here, because you got here a little bit before you about you've been getting some the band has been getting some exposure on the Coach and Bro Show.

30:53 Speaker 10: Yes, yes, Vince Russo and Jonathan Coachman. I mean I've I've been friends with Vince for probably about a decade. And it all because you know the heat he gets Judy Bagwell on a poll match, right, he gets blamed for the death of w CW so like he gets attacked a lot on social media. So I used to go in there and defend him because I thought his creative and his writing was great. And after due time, he started taking notice and he was like, hey, hey, thank you, I appreciate that. Next thing, you know, he's following me.

31:26 Speaker 10: Next thing, you know, I'm in his fantasy baseball league or whatever, and like, you know, so we we've corresponded over the years. He collects album he collects albums, he likes music, he likes Kiss.

31:37 Speaker 9: He's a big Kiss fan.

31:38 Speaker 10: Yes, so we you know, we just I would talk to him about non wrestling things. So he started this show with Coach about a year year and a half ago, and they're the they're the ones who don't glaze like they they're constructive criticism where wweaw they want people to just put them over. Yeah, so they have an objective show. So Coach got fired from Sirius from Busted Open, and now they're in the process of, you know, trying to do their own radio show. But through the connection, you know, I sent them some merchants, the albums and the music, and they says, we're going to use this.

32:25 Speaker 10: So before the show starts, they run it through and then they mention us all the time.

32:31 Speaker 9: Oh fantastic.

32:32 Speaker 10: So with the new album they've been waiting for, so as they as they keep growing, you know, we're going to be their music people because it's not going to cost them anything for one. But they're also helping. Vince is helping me out. He was here, he was here in May, did some convention and I went out and met him and he's working with ICP with j c W right now and they're trying to get that. So if they come to Boston, we could end up being on a show with ICP. Oh, it's cool, be it with those Juggalos they're crazy right right.

33:03 Speaker 10: But the day there and they got quite a following, so I'm trying to keep that content. Bruce does all the promotions, so I try to do it from a different angle so that way we can complement each other and just work different avenues. So Vincent Coaches have been really big supporters of us.

33:19 Speaker 9: Oh that's excellent.

33:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, if you watch the show, they'll be mentioned.

33:23 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll have to check it out.

33:24 Speaker 10: Because I go by an alias. I work at a love firm, so they don't want me using my real name. Oh no kidding. So I'm Jimmy Fingers nineteen. Okay, that's my alias.

33:35 Speaker 9: No kidding. Oh wow, that's cool. That's cool, very good, very good. Yeah, I'll have to check that out. That's awesome.

33:43 Speaker 9: Any any other unusual sort of avenues for a promotion that you guys have done or.

33:49 Speaker 14: Oh yeah, you know my background is pretty much marketing. Yeah, and that's been since like high school. I worked in a print shop in high school, so Fraid always had the best flyers and stickers and things of that nature.

34:04 Speaker 11: So we've been blessed, you know.

34:11 Speaker 14: As far as radio promotion, a lot of the local shows like New England Rock and Metal Radio and the WNS just picked us up good, and then a lot of the international stations and not picking us up. And we got picked up by another station in Mexico this week. Oh excellent contacted us out of the blue and it's a pretty big show that's been around for forty years.

34:37 Speaker 11: So it's funny.

34:39 Speaker 14: Two years ago when we sat here, a friend of ours was in paper Jam and said to Sheila and Tony, hey you should check out this band bf Raid, And they did the write up on us and they said, oh, you should check out Matt Show and Your show was the first show we did, so it was just like a project from us for us. And then after we did paper Jam and you, people started contacting us and we're like, wow, what is this and it just started to take off. And now with the second album, the momentum is kind of crazy because our streaming stats beyond what we expected.

35:21 Speaker 14: Like I was telling Jamie earlier, our merch sales through the roof and it's good and it's sad because we put merch out there for pretty much at cost. We make nothing on merch, so we want to just make it available. And I'm like, wow, you know if I mark that up a little bit, you know, but it's just good that people are buying shirts and mugs and listening to the music and stuff. So yeah, we use every avenue you can think of.

35:48 Speaker 10: So speaking of the merch, like now my jeep is filled with shirts and I'll pop them out, you know, and other wherever I'm at, people say, hey, you got that shirt, because because what we do on our site is we take pictures of people holding up our shirt. And now that library is getting big so that people want the shirt. But back to this, you know, talking about the promotion pot like that he's got all of the music thing going, so outside of the wrestling thing going. I a big fantasy football player, so like I have friends over at Sirius on the football shows.

36:26 Speaker 10: They got the stuff, and every now and then they'll play a cut and transition and that's outside the music run, but it's still promotion because someone's going to say who was that and they're going to be able to tell it. So like we're complimenting each other by doing different things once again, you know what I mean. He does way more than I do, but I try to help him by doing something different the same thing.

36:49 Speaker 9: It's excellent, mmy.

36:50 Speaker 14: It's to one guy in the band that will like jump in and give me a hand with the marketing and the promotion. And I can bounce stuff off of him and he'll say, yeah, I like that, or can you change this?

37:00 Speaker 11: Can you change that?

37:01 Speaker 9: So it does help to work off of absolutely.

37:06 Speaker 10: I think. I think ultimately Matt would be what would would be on my dream is that, you know, again where we're not under pressure by a record company or management. We you know, we're we're a little a little bit older, so we're doing this for the love of it. Yeah, and then if we have a professional product, which we do, maybe maybe it shows up in a movie, right, you know what I mean, or maybe sets a scene, you know, like, well.

37:33 Speaker 11: We don't have labor pressure, but we put the pressure on ourselves.

37:36 Speaker 9: Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

37:39 Speaker 10: It's not always fun, but we we but butt horns. But I think it's so far more important because we are The shows we've done is non existent, but we have a catalog now, so I think the next phase for us would be to now play that catalog and within the time, people are getting to know the material. So if someone shows up to a show, they're gonna know what opposed to like, oh, here's our new song that we've you've never heard exactly that they hearing it in it's in its full form now.

38:12 Speaker 9: Right right exactly.

38:13 Speaker 11: Yeah.

38:13 Speaker 14: I think the most interesting thing about Combat Zone is how naive we were heading into the studio to do ten songs. Yeah, And it was like we actually mapped out ten songs in the first day, yeah, which was insane, and we didn't even think, you know, we said, okay, let's do this, and it was kind of funny because we didn't think about our physical limitations.

38:42 Speaker 11: We're still thinking like we're twenty sure sure and.

38:46 Speaker 14: Driving home from the first day of twelve hours of playing guitar, I could barely hold my drive my steering wheel.

38:53 Speaker 9: Wow.

38:53 Speaker 14: From Boston to New Hampshire, my hands were like robbing. I had to get some and be in the studio the next day.

39:01 Speaker 9: Yeah.

39:02 Speaker 10: Yeah, we did two. We scheduled two back to back twelve hour block good lord and during a snowstorm. Well, the first day wasn't the snowstorm, but like you know, I I had the first days of the drums right, yeah, so I had to pound them for twelve hours because it was like you know, test you know, sound levels for the first three hours.

39:26 Speaker 9: That's the most physical instrument you're using, all four limbs.

39:29 Speaker 10: Well, I wasn't thinking about that, but then we had some friction, right, and we didn't start our first track or complete our first track till like four thirty in the afternoon, and we were there at ten yeah oh wow. And then once we hit our stride, we just kept going, kept going. So after the twelve hours, I'm like, what is this.

39:50 Speaker 14: Well, it's funny because I know you're not a sports guy, but I know you know, the analogy of when the coach comes out to the mound and asks the pitcher for the ball.

39:59 Speaker 9: Yeah.

40:00 Speaker 14: So, after Billy had been singing for what about eight hours, I could hear it in his voice, and I walked into the little booth.

40:09 Speaker 11: Bill's in me and I'm like, Bill, give me the ball. You're done. And he's like really, and I'm like really, and he's like okay. So he was done for the day.

40:21 Speaker 14: And then I started to work on guitar parts and Billy and Matt had left and it's just me and Jamie And like ten thirty, Jamie comes into the booth I'm working and he's like, Bruce, give me the ball.

40:35 Speaker 9: Really, And I'm like and he knows me.

40:39 Speaker 14: We've known each other forty years my playing, so I didn't even argue with him. Yeah, and he's like, you know, you're off, And then my adrenaline was going. I didn't notice, and like I said, it wasn't until I got in the car and I couldn't grab the staring wheel.

40:53 Speaker 11: I'm like, yeah, my hands are shot.

40:56 Speaker 1: Mind you.

40:57 Speaker 10: This is January, right, Yeah, And more pressure came on us because now the forecasts were in. Now we booked the double twelves and now we know that, like the blizzards come, but we still drove in the next day.

41:12 Speaker 9: I remember seeing this on social media.

41:14 Speaker 10: Yeah, it was like, okay, guys, curfew, you guys gotta leave at one. So that kind of slowed up the process because even if Bill couldn't sing, Bruce and I could have did all out fixes, you know, chrackened up all on blue suns. Like there were points in time where I got the yips where I was trying to play you know, a double bass segment that was just pretty basic and I couldn't do it. But it wasn't just that. It was like I couldn't complete a role, like my sternum was just on fire. And after that first night on twelve hours, I remember talking to the Road, Jamie Road, the engineer, and he was like, dude, you just played for twelve hours.

42:00 Speaker 10: Uh, because I'm thinking it's like, oh, my heart's gonna stop, like you know, my hypochondriac so back pain. I'm like, am I going to die out? And he's like, dude, just go home and take a rest and then But I mean, but the drums have to be done first, because there's a lot of gee to move. So there was just extra pressure and the next day I was refreshed. I fixed everything that I had to fix, and then we were kicked out. But then again that set us back, what Bruce a month and a half two months, because we had to book again and we couldn't go back till.

42:34 Speaker 11: March, which there was another snowstorm.

42:37 Speaker 9: Oh figures that figures we should Oh yeah, the time, the time is uh slipping away from us. Let's but let's play another I do want to play another studio track, but uh, you guys can pick whatever.

42:53 Speaker 11: Down but not out do it.

42:56 Speaker 10: Yeah, because that's a quickie.

42:57 Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, let's give this a spend down but now and this is from the brand new album from b f Raid Boston's Final raid, combat Zone out now, but let's give this a spend down but not out.

43:17 Speaker 1: Condujon Indujon.

43:19 Speaker 5: My mind is in a days you way from too well, things to make great.

43:24 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that you want from my life. All I can say is that I'm trying to keep you satisfied. It's thee of that things have I gone the way we plan. I wish you weren't sort of this second in all chest without you, it's some brand new tape without you. Love, sure five by way, but just in case, Oh there's.

43:48 Speaker 3: Any town I'll have might be down.

43:51 Speaker 1: Oh but I have treasures pleasure as well.

43:55 Speaker 3: I can go to some can serve you all.

43:59 Speaker 1: We had fun, just tossing back and forth.

44:02 Speaker 17: That's why let me take it is told like living with a never ending case of burning the dreams.

44:08 Speaker 5: We walk said, Oh my god, I truly thought that what we had would be like gone fun now and no love had some time.

44:17 Speaker 1: To reflect in your hotton and on your reason neglect. But just the case, oh you have any town, I'm mighty down.

44:27 Speaker 3: Oh I know now.

45:20 Speaker 1: The overing next morning, Well what is this boy you do? Screaming or dreaming of sharing my life with you? Prefletion, condemntion, it's.

45:35 Speaker 3: Now ceased to me.

45:37 Speaker 1: My dad's wish me lave wish at the metal brass on me.

45:41 Speaker 3: Worry it's not.

45:42 Speaker 6: For me, and I'll find it like this night screaming thing you don't get to nextss to much stress.

45:47 Speaker 1: You forget less freak go seen it go.

45:50 Speaker 13: It's got to go so many I'm.

45:51 Speaker 3: At all were to go by Dona goss I may not go.

46:15 Speaker 9: Down but not out. And that is from the new album combat Zone from bf Raid Boston's Final Raid. And of course we've got Bruce and Jamie here in studio with us. Guys. This has been wonderful. The time does go quickly. We will we will get in another track at the end of the segment. But what do you guys have coming up? Are you playing some shows to promote the album or have you? Have you been busy?

46:36 Speaker 14: Everything's like really focused on promoting the album right now, because you know, it's been two years of writing, recording, oh yeah, and just scheduling this.

46:49 Speaker 10: So we're in a little burnout right now.

46:51 Speaker 11: Yeah, we're fried.

46:53 Speaker 9: Understandable, understandable.

46:55 Speaker 14: Jamie and I work together a lot. Me and Jamie worked together more than anyone else in the band. Yeah, And it's always been like that in our relationships going back forty years. Like Jamie will just call me and say, let's work And even when he was like, you know, seventeen eighteen year old kid, he would call me up and say let's put some work in. It would just be me and Jamie and we haven't even played together, which is really rare because we're just like really cooked. But I'm writing I bought a violin, Oh okay, so I'm trying to teach myself violin.

47:24 Speaker 9: Oh wow.

47:25 Speaker 11: And I picked up an eight string guitar.

47:27 Speaker 9: So cool. There's that.

47:29 Speaker 14: So there's always the creative thing going on, but we really haven't gotten together. So right now the focus is

47:38 Speaker 14: really focusing on promoting the album. I have some ideas if we decided to do something live, and I have a couple of promoter friends that have reached out to me, But right now the focus is just like getting this music out.

47:51 Speaker 9: There, outstanding, outstanding. Where should people go on line to keep up with everything that you guys are doing.

47:57 Speaker 14: Befrey dot com. Okay, so we were lucky enough to get that url early. Yeah yeah, yeah, so we have bfrai dot com. Go to the Facebook page, but be afraid dot com. You can stream the music right on our website for free. This pictures the latest news is there. There's us on your show. You got Instagram too, right, We have Instagram, We have x we have linked free band camp, so almost every marketing media outlet you can think of you can find us. But like I had a friend sign up for Amazon just to listen to the album this month.

48:35 Speaker 14: Oh cool, But I told him you don't have to. You can actually stream it for free on be afraid dot com or band camp and then every once in a while. Right now, it's like five bucks on band camp. Yeah, just because a promotional company told us, don't give it away. Yeah, charge the five bucks, and then when you do give it, give it away it has a little bit more value, right, So agreed, there's some band camp Fridays where we'll take that five bucks off of there, okay, and people can just download it, download it for free.

49:10 Speaker 14: But even when it's there for free, I'll see French store wars like ten bucks here and there, which is nice because that's cool.

49:16 Speaker 11: It covers PR a little bit.

49:17 Speaker 10: So the Facebook page has like most of the current pictures and the the video documentation and the videos Bruce have been creating for it. So like, definitely there's a lot of traffic there okay that you can see more visually.

49:34 Speaker 9: Yeah. Absolutely.

49:36 Speaker 11: There's a lot of dumb stuff on there too, which is great.

49:39 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, that's fun. That's fun.

49:41 Speaker 10: I should have recorded the fights because I could have just set up the phone and not recording. Yeah, there was some good ones.

49:51 Speaker 9: Really Yeah, Well, guys, congratulations on the album really really good. Yeah.

49:57 Speaker 14: Yeah, appreciate everything you and gend have done for our sand yes, oh glad to do it.

50:03 Speaker 9: Yeah.

50:03 Speaker 11: The great music community in New Hampshire.

50:05 Speaker 10: You make us feel famous, man.

50:07 Speaker 9: Oh try for you. Thank you very much and thank you for all the goodies too.

50:12 Speaker 12: Yeah.

50:13 Speaker 9: You guys are by far the most generous guests I've ever got on the show, by far. My God, you're think of bullets, you think, Yeah, let's go with bullet.

50:22 Speaker 10: Bullets is a composition, dude, And there's songs within the song and you can try to figure out the lyrical content what's it about? But it's the.

50:33 Speaker 14: This is the only song on Combat Zone that really isn't about Boston, growing up in Boston, Okay.

50:40 Speaker 11: It's about the shootout at the Okay Corral.

50:42 Speaker 9: Oh really okay.

50:43 Speaker 14: And if you get into the history of it, and it's too long to get into, but it was actually funded by JP Morgan and Wells Fargo and they were paying white europe to go around and shoot all these people really because they were raw the stage coaches that Wells Fogo.

51:02 Speaker 11: Owned, oh wow. And it went all the way up to President Chester author, he was involved.

51:09 Speaker 14: He gave the pardon to White Up and the Rothschilds and the Royal family were involved too in Europe. Wow, because he wanted to invest in America, but they wanted it cleaned out right, So yeah, Wells Fago which was two men, Wells and Fogo who owned American Express. We're paying White Up to kill these people.

51:32 Speaker 10: Oh wow, it's all behind the scenes, how the countries, the.

51:38 Speaker 14: Board is solved, like the board of directors of these companies were paying for the bullets for Wide Up to just go out and kill people with no judge of jury.

51:48 Speaker 11: Yeah, just to go out and blow people away.

51:51 Speaker 10: All that actual, all factual stuff that is wild.

51:54 Speaker 9: That is wild.

51:55 Speaker 11: We thought so too, so we hadn't made it make it a song.

51:58 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, well Gray, way to end the segment, and guys, thank you again so much. Of course A Russ Owens and Jamie Forbes from the band bf Raid Boston's Final Raid. We're gonna spin that in a second. If you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. We have Elder p Sloan coming up in the third hour, but right now we're going to close out our number two with bullets from the board from the new album combat Zone brand New from bf Raid Boston's Final Raid and again, guys, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you.

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