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2:05 Speaker 5: but you're stocking.

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2:12 Speaker 4: know if I'm playing second best? Is it best day?

2:16 Speaker 5: If I go home?

2:17 Speaker 4: Why he can he be seen? If you don't even care?

2:21 Speaker 4: They I'm so stuck, id't way there's no one?

2:25 Speaker 5: Then maybe I'm just too excited to let you know.

2:29 Speaker 4: But they give you my time, going to try you home, and.

2:33 Speaker 5: You need to say now, is I can't stib the baby?

2:39 Speaker 5: In these days I'm.

2:41 Speaker 4: The best days I don't.

2:42 Speaker 5: Have In these days I'm the best days I don't have.

2:53 Speaker 4: Give me a reason why I feel so like tonight?

3:00 Speaker 4: Is it scares me this thing? Then I might have

3:03 Speaker 4: read here for nothing at all.

3:08 Speaker 5: God the toust on my shoes just to prove I

3:11 Speaker 5: can be you man using your parents. I don't need

3:15 Speaker 5: and I clean.

3:17 Speaker 4: I'mly dreaming up your lips. You know your sins for

3:21 Speaker 4: sadness is.

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3:26 Speaker 5: shoot trying to let you know.

3:29 Speaker 4: I want to give you a lot of mine. So

3:31 Speaker 4: I'm gonna try you home.

3:33 Speaker 5: I need to say it now because.

3:35 Speaker 4: I kiss I'm being baby told these days of the

3:41 Speaker 4: best days I will I need really scared of being only.

3:46 Speaker 5: Maybe I can be just a little hairstraw. I've never

3:51 Speaker 5: had of you. That's gave me reason believe in the

3:56 Speaker 5: days and for the best days I will have no

4:36 Speaker 5: maybe understood its side to let you know. I want

4:40 Speaker 5: to give you one to bite. I want to drive you.

4:44 Speaker 5: I need to say it now because I can't. I

4:47 Speaker 5: want thinking. Maybe I can get the.

4:52 Speaker 4: Best days.

4:52 Speaker 5: I won't be scared. Maybe I can be just on

4:59 Speaker 5: the lef stall. I've never let that's tv reason to.

5:05 Speaker 4: Me and the deeds and exis I'm the firsdays able me.

5:10 Speaker 5: I'm too excited, thank you what it can't be on mine.

5:16 Speaker 4: So I'm gonna talk you.

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5:21 Speaker 5: bathing made me thy days. On the Thursdays, I will

5:28 Speaker 5: be discussing ting be just a little a stall I've

5:36 Speaker 5: never ding. That's reason the lady dad.

5:43 Speaker 4: The beastday sail will maybe honest too time know what it?

5:48 Speaker 5: Can't you want?

5:50 Speaker 4: So I'm gonna talk.

5:52 Speaker 5: I need to see now scuse.

5:55 Speaker 4: I can't start basting may.

6:13 Speaker 5: Praise.

6:22 Speaker 6: If I was a bridge, would you open the door?

6:27 Speaker 6: If I was the grass, would you blow your law?

6:31 Speaker 6: If I was your body, you would just do work close?

6:36 Speaker 6: If I was would you blow your nose? Would you

6:40 Speaker 6: keep it? Would you eat it?

6:42 Speaker 7: I'm just trying to give myself a reason we're being around.

6:49 Speaker 6: If I was a front porch swing, would you let

6:51 Speaker 6: me hang? If I was a dance fall, would you

6:55 Speaker 6: shake your bang? If I was a rubber chick? Would

7:00 Speaker 6: you let me bounce?

7:03 Speaker 7: I'mping down inside your bank account?

7:07 Speaker 6: Would you trust me?

7:08 Speaker 5: I'm gonna break you.

7:09 Speaker 6: I'm just trying really hard to make you notice me

7:13 Speaker 6: being around. If I was a haircut, would where I have?

7:31 Speaker 3: If I was bath, could I clean your plant?

7:35 Speaker 4: If I was a carpet, would.

7:37 Speaker 6: You wipe your feet.

7:40 Speaker 4: Some time?

7:40 Speaker 6: To save me from love off the street?

7:44 Speaker 4: If you like me you love me?

7:46 Speaker 7: Why don't you get that on your knees and scrubby,

7:50 Speaker 7: I'm fel rubby.

7:52 Speaker 5: I'm just being around.

7:58 Speaker 3: I love that. I absolutely love that. That is called

8:01 Speaker 3: being around, and that is Dave Strong, who we have

8:05 Speaker 3: here with us live in studio. Let me get that

8:07 Speaker 3: that mic up there. How's it going, Dave?

8:10 Speaker 6: What's up? How you doing good?

8:12 Speaker 3: I can hear you. Mike's working. That's all the that's

8:15 Speaker 3: all the battle. Really nice if you're just joining us.

8:19 Speaker 3: Of course. This is Matt Connorton unleased. We are live

8:22 Speaker 3: from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three

8:25 Speaker 3: FM and Glorious Manchester New I'mpshire here on this Saturday,

8:28 Speaker 3: August thirty one, twenty twenty four, and Jenny is here

8:33 Speaker 3: of course at the news table, and Dave Strong is

8:37 Speaker 3: with us live in studio. He brought his guitar he's

8:39 Speaker 3: gonna play for us. And you brought your friend Tyler.

8:43 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's my son, Tyler.

8:45 Speaker 3: Well, that's your son. Hello. You don't look old enough

8:48 Speaker 3: to have us really wow, that's incredible. Are you also

8:51 Speaker 3: a musician? Tyler Goud? And pull that mic up?

8:54 Speaker 5: No, but I come from a musicians family.

8:58 Speaker 6: Okay, Tyler actually has done some of the artwork my

9:03 Speaker 6: digital releases and stuff. I'll take he took a picture

9:07 Speaker 6: and he makes like, you know, the things that go

9:10 Speaker 6: on Spotify and Apple Music. Yeah that say what like

9:14 Speaker 6: what I am? Says Dave Strong like being around on

9:17 Speaker 6: he does that stuff.

9:18 Speaker 3: Oh, very cool. I can't do much of music, but

9:21 Speaker 3: I can do like the art. Well, that's that's important.

9:25 Speaker 3: I mean, that's a huge part of it, especially in

9:26 Speaker 3: the era in which we live, you know, yeah, the

9:28 Speaker 3: visual aspect of it. Also before we get rolling here

9:32 Speaker 3: for those watching online, let me try to get this

9:35 Speaker 3: on the camera here for those watching online. So Dave

9:39 Speaker 3: brought so this is vinyl that we talk about vinyl

9:42 Speaker 3: a lot on the show. So this is your self

9:45 Speaker 3: titled album.

9:46 Speaker 5: Yep.

9:47 Speaker 3: When did this come out?

9:48 Speaker 6: I came out about a year and a half ago.

9:50 Speaker 3: Very cool.

9:51 Speaker 6: I'm working on releasing my second one soon.

9:53 Speaker 3: Okay, that one's going to get added to the office.

9:56 Speaker 3: Yeah that's that's yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

9:59 Speaker 6: I come bearing gifts.

10:00 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, no, that's very cool. Copyright now.

10:05 Speaker 3: Oh is one of these a uh oh. One of

10:09 Speaker 3: these is the Ramones cover, and one is yes, so

10:12 Speaker 3: what so most of these are originals? Correct?

10:14 Speaker 5: Yeah?

10:15 Speaker 6: Eight of the ten are originals, okay, yep, one's a

10:18 Speaker 6: Ramones song and one's Eddie Cochrane.

10:21 Speaker 3: Very cool, very cool. So thank you. Yeah, that's that's excellent.

10:24 Speaker 3: And you brought uh you brought us pins too. Probably

10:27 Speaker 3: can't see these as well on the camera, but no,

10:30 Speaker 3: that's great, thank you. Yeah, this is and this was

10:33 Speaker 3: released on Fameless Records.

10:37 Speaker 6: Yes, small little label out of Philly.

10:39 Speaker 3: Oh no kidding, how'd you? How'd you get connected with them?

10:42 Speaker 6: I've been playing music for a little bit now, and

10:46 Speaker 6: I have pitched a few ideas to Tim who runs

10:49 Speaker 6: the label in Philly, and you know, we just got

10:52 Speaker 6: talking through social media and like he liked what I

10:58 Speaker 6: was doing solo. Yeah goes. You know, now is a

11:00 Speaker 6: good time to put it out, So I said, all right,

11:03 Speaker 6: let's do it.

11:04 Speaker 3: Yeah that's awesome. And so I assume it's also available

11:07 Speaker 3: on CD and yeah, that'd be weird to just do

11:10 Speaker 3: a vinyl release.

11:11 Speaker 6: Streaming. Yeah, those ten songs are streaming, plus another ten

11:15 Speaker 6: songs on like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, deezer.

11:19 Speaker 3: All those Okay, is this your only full length album?

11:25 Speaker 3: Cause I noticed just looking online, it looks like you

11:27 Speaker 3: put out a lot of singles.

11:28 Speaker 6: Yeah. I do a lot of singles. So when I started,

11:32 Speaker 6: I was doing just band camp singles and then like

11:38 Speaker 6: like I said, my buddy was like, Yo, we can

11:41 Speaker 6: maybe do a compilation like CD tape record maybe, And

11:47 Speaker 6: that's how that happened. And that's the first ten songs

11:50 Speaker 6: that I put out. And since I've just I've been

11:54 Speaker 6: trying to be consistent with my singles. But but there

11:59 Speaker 6: is a plan probably lee in December. Loosely December is

12:03 Speaker 6: when the next ten songs will go off to press

12:05 Speaker 6: to be like the Dave Strong second album or whatever.

12:08 Speaker 6: I don't know the name of it. Yeah, yeah, it'll

12:10 Speaker 6: be like a blue one or something. It would be cool.

12:12 Speaker 6: And we almost sold out of those. I think we

12:14 Speaker 6: pressed three hundred and we're about to sell out of

12:17 Speaker 6: those and we're going to repress that one too, which

12:20 Speaker 6: is really cool.

12:21 Speaker 3: No, that's amazing. Good for you, man, Good for you.

12:25 Speaker 3: How do you Everyone always say it's this question, but

12:27 Speaker 3: how do you describe your music for someone who's never

12:29 Speaker 3: heard it? Because pretty eclectic stuff, Like I listened to

12:32 Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of your music online in

12:34 Speaker 3: addition to the tracks that you sent me, it's really

12:36 Speaker 3: eclectic and hard to uh. I mean, I wouldn't know

12:40 Speaker 3: what to tell somebody. Like if somebody said to me,

12:41 Speaker 3: describe Dave Strong, I'd be like, I don't know. I mean,

12:44 Speaker 3: there's definitely you know, there's a punk vibe there, but

12:47 Speaker 3: but a song like uh or be Around, It's like,

12:52 Speaker 3: I just love that so much. By the way, I

12:54 Speaker 3: love the lyrics, you know.

12:57 Speaker 6: But I mean, how do you cover? Yeah?

12:59 Speaker 3: What's that?

12:59 Speaker 6: It's a song?

13:00 Speaker 8: Yeah?

13:00 Speaker 3: Yeah? Like how do you how do you describe your

13:02 Speaker 3: music the people who've never heard it?

13:04 Speaker 6: Usually, so in general, I'll say it's like Green Day

13:10 Speaker 6: meets Weezer meets the Ramones or something like. I'll i'll

13:14 Speaker 6: kind of stereotype three popular bands that someone might have heard,

13:19 Speaker 6: you know. But it depends on on who I'm hanging

13:23 Speaker 6: out with. If if like a bunch of punk people

13:25 Speaker 6: are like, what do you sound like, I'll be like,

13:28 Speaker 6: I sound like I'm punk, I'm really punk, check me out.

13:31 Speaker 6: Or if like my mom or her friends are like,

13:32 Speaker 6: what what do you sound like, I'll be like, well,

13:34 Speaker 6: I sound like the Beatles, like a little faster, or

13:37 Speaker 6: like Eddie I do an Eddie Cochran song, which is

13:40 Speaker 6: like from the fifties, you know, so like I'll be like, yeah,

13:43 Speaker 6: maybe I'm like Geene Vincent on speed or something like that,

13:46 Speaker 6: you know, because some of the songs have upright bass.

13:49 Speaker 6: So I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and

13:51 Speaker 6: Oldies and the Beatles. I love harmonies and stuff like that,

13:57 Speaker 6: you know. And then then I got into like Nirvana

14:00 Speaker 6: and Ramones, so I keep it rock and roll, but yeah,

14:05 Speaker 6: like catchy poppy rock, I guess.

14:07 Speaker 3: Yeah. And so now do you always or do you

14:11 Speaker 3: usually play with a band or do you do a

14:13 Speaker 3: lot of because I think you had mentioned too you

14:15 Speaker 3: had recently done a solo show or last night you

14:16 Speaker 3: had done a solo shower.

14:18 Speaker 6: Last night, I did a full band show at O'Brien

14:21 Speaker 6: and that was awesome.

14:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great room.

14:24 Speaker 6: Yeah, it was great. There was a lot of people

14:26 Speaker 6: at it too. It was cool. Parking stunk well yeah, yeah,

14:31 Speaker 6: that are yeah, every supportive, great bands, really cool place.

14:36 Speaker 6: But I try to play live with a band as

14:40 Speaker 6: much as possible. If somebody asks me to play, I

14:43 Speaker 6: always ask my band first. Yeah, but you know, my

14:47 Speaker 6: drummer lives in Western mass My second guitarist lives in Connecticut, yeah,

14:53 Speaker 6: and my bass player lives in Barrington. So we're all

14:55 Speaker 6: like in different states.

14:57 Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, it's not like a as expensive or anything.

15:01 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we we are going to Germany too,

15:04 Speaker 6: are Yeah, no kidding, I mean the big shows when

15:07 Speaker 6: it matters. I mean I think every show matters. Yeah,

15:09 Speaker 6: but when when push comes to shove and like it's

15:13 Speaker 6: a Saturday night packed place, they're gonna be there.

15:17 Speaker 3: Yeah with me. Yeah, you know.

15:19 Speaker 6: But I'm playing next Saturday night in Portland by myself

15:23 Speaker 6: at spring Hill Tavern, Okay, And then I'm playing the

15:26 Speaker 6: week after the fourteenth at Gino's in Portland with a

15:30 Speaker 6: full band.

15:31 Speaker 3: Nice.

15:31 Speaker 6: So you never know, you never know what you're gonna get.

15:33 Speaker 6: I like to I don't like to say no to shows.

15:36 Speaker 3: Yeah.

15:37 Speaker 6: So like if a show is on a Wednesday night

15:39 Speaker 6: or something, it's gonna probably be just me right right,

15:42 Speaker 6: It's like a Saturday night, you know, it's gonna probably

15:45 Speaker 6: be the band.

15:46 Speaker 3: Portland's a great scene.

15:48 Speaker 1: Is that?

15:48 Speaker 3: Is that where you're because you're from Maine, right.

15:51 Speaker 6: Yeah, I live pretty close to Portland, maybe like thirty

15:54 Speaker 6: minutes from Portland.

15:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, people who don't know. I mean, it's

15:57 Speaker 3: it's kind of Portland's a lot like Boston. I feel

15:59 Speaker 3: in of the scene and the diversity of it and

16:04 Speaker 3: a lot of different kinds of music there. Do you play,

16:09 Speaker 3: So are you playing? It sounds like you play a

16:11 Speaker 3: lot every weekend. Do you have shows?

16:13 Speaker 6: I've been trying. Yeah, yeah, yep, it's been good.

16:16 Speaker 3: And then when you go to Germany, is the full

16:17 Speaker 3: band going with you?

16:19 Speaker 6: Yes, a variation of the band. My buddy Bernie, who

16:23 Speaker 6: plays bass for us, is going to stay home, but Lee,

16:28 Speaker 6: who plays guitar. It's funny Lee plays drums on a

16:31 Speaker 6: lot of this, a lot of the studio stuff. He's

16:34 Speaker 6: like my right hand man almost when it comes to

16:37 Speaker 6: this stuff. He doesn't play every show. Sometimes we play

16:39 Speaker 6: a three piece, but he always helps out in the studio,

16:43 Speaker 6: especially on this new album. He's gonna play bass in

16:45 Speaker 6: Germany and my drummer Jared is gonna is gonna come

16:49 Speaker 6: and play drums, so we'll do a three piece. Yea,

16:52 Speaker 6: have a full band in Germany.

16:53 Speaker 3: Okay.

16:54 Speaker 6: Yeah.

16:54 Speaker 3: It's nice that you have that kind of flexibility where

16:56 Speaker 3: you can, you know, you can kind of just make

16:57 Speaker 3: it work, you know, and change the configuration as you

17:01 Speaker 3: go if you need to. So that's pretty cool.

17:03 Speaker 6: Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's stressful as well.

17:06 Speaker 9: Yeah.

17:08 Speaker 5: How many?

17:09 Speaker 3: How many dates are you doing there?

17:11 Speaker 6: We're gonna be there for six days and I think

17:14 Speaker 6: we're gonna play four of them.

17:15 Speaker 3: Okay. Have you been to Europe before?

17:18 Speaker 6: I have been. I've played with my friend Jeff before

17:23 Speaker 6: over there.

17:23 Speaker 3: Yeah.

17:24 Speaker 6: We flew in to Spain, played two or three shows

17:29 Speaker 6: in like Madrid, leone wow, and then we flew to

17:34 Speaker 6: Amsterdam and played Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Yeah so, and I

17:39 Speaker 6: think that was like in eight days. We probably played

17:41 Speaker 6: four or five shows and eight.

17:42 Speaker 3: Days wow, no kidding.

17:44 Speaker 6: That was about five years ago. That was really fun.

17:46 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, very cool, very cool. Oh right before the

17:49 Speaker 3: pandemic right before yeah yeah, yeah, good thing. It wasn't

17:52 Speaker 3: four years ago you would have would have been able

17:54 Speaker 3: to go.

17:55 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.

17:57 Speaker 3: Now So okay, so I have to ask you this.

18:00 Speaker 3: So you've got I've been dying to ask you this question.

18:04 Speaker 3: You've got a brand new single that just came out,

18:07 Speaker 3: which we're not going to play today. Now. We love

18:10 Speaker 3: to play new stuff on the show. The only reason

18:12 Speaker 3: we're not playing this is called I Hate Joe King's Roommate.

18:15 Speaker 3: And the only reason we're not playing it. See, usually

18:18 Speaker 3: I make a radio edit if a guest has something

18:21 Speaker 3: and I want to play it, you know, And if

18:22 Speaker 3: they don't have a radio edit, I'll make a radio edit.

18:24 Speaker 3: I just go in, I reverse where all the swears are.

18:27 Speaker 3: And I don't mind doing that. You know, it takes

18:29 Speaker 3: me five minutes. I'm prety efficient at it. But I

18:31 Speaker 3: was listening to this track, and by the way, I

18:32 Speaker 3: love the song. It's a great song, but I thought

18:35 Speaker 3: there's so much here there would have to be reversed

18:39 Speaker 3: and it would kind of wreck the song. So I

18:42 Speaker 3: was like, I don't just artistically, I don't think I

18:45 Speaker 3: should mess with this one. But here's what I'm dying

18:48 Speaker 3: to know. I want to know there has to be

18:50 Speaker 3: a story behind this, right sure is? And who is

18:55 Speaker 3: Joe King? And why is his roommate upset you? So

19:00 Speaker 3: because I can't tell, Like, we learn a little bit

19:03 Speaker 3: about Joe King's roommate from the song. We learned that

19:07 Speaker 3: he's apparently a very upsetting person. But I don't know,

19:12 Speaker 3: you will think, but I don't know exactly and I

19:16 Speaker 3: don't know how about you can divulge, but I mean

19:18 Speaker 3: I have to ask. I'm very curious. The song made

19:20 Speaker 3: me very curious.

19:22 Speaker 6: All right, I'll be as forthcoming as I n be. Okay,

19:25 Speaker 6: So I wrote that song with my friend Pete Curtis,

19:31 Speaker 6: probably in like nineteen ninety seven. Oh, okay, nineteen ninety eight.

19:35 Speaker 3: Okay.

19:35 Speaker 6: I was in high school and he we were in

19:39 Speaker 6: a band called the Illegitimates. The Portsmouth punk scene was

19:43 Speaker 6: kind of cool and going on. There was a place

19:45 Speaker 6: called the Elvis Room. Oh yeah, that was one in

19:47 Speaker 6: Portland too, honestly, but yep, it was. It was thriving.

19:50 Speaker 6: There was great bands coming in and out of it.

19:52 Speaker 6: And you know, he was in a band, I was

19:56 Speaker 6: in a band, and we just ended up playing in

19:57 Speaker 6: a band, yeah for a bit, and we with that song.

20:00 Speaker 6: I hate Joking's roommate. So Joe King is the singer

20:05 Speaker 6: of this band, the Queers. They're like a popular punk

20:08 Speaker 6: band from New Hampshire. Yep, they tore everywhere. They're pretty

20:12 Speaker 6: famous now. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean he's written songs

20:15 Speaker 6: with like Joey Ramone, and you know he's played a lot.

20:18 Speaker 6: He plays a lot. He makes money off of music

20:20 Speaker 6: and he you know, I love the Queers. I was

20:23 Speaker 6: listening to him on the way home last night. You know.

20:25 Speaker 6: They were like one of the first punk bands I

20:27 Speaker 6: ever listened to. In my eyes, they're like the Ramones

20:30 Speaker 6: for me. Yeah. So I always looked up to Joe.

20:34 Speaker 6: A couple of my friends played in his bands and stuff.

20:38 Speaker 6: And Mitch, who is Joe King's roommate at the time,

20:44 Speaker 6: he was like this. I don't know if he was

20:47 Speaker 6: an army vet or if he was just like a

20:50 Speaker 6: hippie type dude, but he had he always had like

20:53 Speaker 6: a green long army coat and long orange chair. Scruffy dude.

21:01 Speaker 6: To be honest, really nice, Like usually he was very polite.

21:04 Speaker 6: He was like, hey man, how are you. That's all

21:08 Speaker 6: you would say, or like hey man, you know right,

21:11 Speaker 6: that's it. He wouldn't he wouldn't like try to get

21:13 Speaker 6: in conversations. He wasn't mean or anything. And we were

21:17 Speaker 6: just like always trying to hang out with Joe or

21:20 Speaker 6: try to talk to Joe and this guy was here

21:22 Speaker 6: and he'd be like, hey man, like we hate Joking's roommate. Yeah,

21:27 Speaker 6: you know, he lived above Series Street in Portsmouth, Like

21:31 Speaker 6: we thought we were the coolest people hanging out with

21:34 Speaker 6: these guys. Yea, but that's pretty much the story. Man

21:38 Speaker 6: in a nutshell?

21:38 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So did he hear the song?

21:44 Speaker 6: Or Joe has? Joe has heard the song? I sent

21:48 Speaker 6: him copy of it and we actually did a music

21:50 Speaker 6: video and everything. He's not in it, but I mean,

21:54 Speaker 6: he says he likes it. I don't know, he hasn't

21:56 Speaker 6: reposted it or anything, but yeah, he knows about it.

22:00 Speaker 6: And I don't know how to how would even get

22:02 Speaker 6: a hold of Mitch or anything, right, but a couple

22:04 Speaker 6: of people have asked me about it. Because Joe has

22:09 Speaker 6: had tons of roommates.

22:12 Speaker 3: That's that gives you plausible deniability. Because if Mitch ever

22:16 Speaker 3: turns up and he's like hey man, which which I

22:21 Speaker 3: assume is how he would open the conversation, right, hey man,

22:24 Speaker 3: kind of hurt my feelings. You can just say, Joe

22:27 Speaker 3: King's had tons of roommates, why do you think it's

22:29 Speaker 3: about you?

22:30 Speaker 6: As you talked about it on the air.

22:35 Speaker 3: But then you can say, well, yeah, but he's you know,

22:38 Speaker 3: Mitch is a common name. He probably had. It was

22:41 Speaker 3: probably somebody else named Mitch who was Joe King's roommate.

22:44 Speaker 3: Why do you think it's about you? Don't be a narcissist, Mitch.

22:47 Speaker 6: Why is everything about you? Mitch?

22:49 Speaker 3: I hate you that ye see, so it all comes

22:53 Speaker 3: full circle. Oh that's that's great. Okay, okay, yeah, I

22:59 Speaker 3: was hoping there was a story. I was I was

23:01 Speaker 3: actually afraid of asking you that it was going to

23:02 Speaker 3: turn out to be some you know, the fictional thing

23:05 Speaker 3: that you just made up to be funny. So I'm

23:06 Speaker 3: glad there's an actual story.

23:08 Speaker 6: Oh, it's real, real life. It happened a long time ago.

23:11 Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, you know resentments.

23:16 Speaker 3: Oh that's great.

23:17 Speaker 6: Yeah.

23:18 Speaker 3: So here's what I think we should do. I'll play

23:20 Speaker 3: another studio track, and then while that's playing, if you

23:23 Speaker 3: want to grab your guitar, and then when we come

23:25 Speaker 3: back from that, I'm dying here, you play live? Okay,

23:28 Speaker 3: what should I? Uh, let's see, because you sent me

23:31 Speaker 3: a few things. We played being Around, which again, I

23:35 Speaker 3: just I love that song so much. That is so fun.

23:37 Speaker 6: One good reason sort of like that one. It's a

23:39 Speaker 6: little kind of Kyle punky or h like I don't know,

23:43 Speaker 6: I didn't want to say hicck punk, but like a

23:45 Speaker 6: little more on the country punk side.

23:48 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, we'll play that one.

23:50 Speaker 6: Yeah, the twangy guitars. It's sort of like sort of

23:53 Speaker 6: like being around the closest one to it at least.

23:55 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool, So we'll give this a spin.

23:58 Speaker 3: This is uh, this is Dave strung. This is called

24:00 Speaker 3: One Good Reason. And then when we come back, Dave's

24:02 Speaker 3: gonna play live for us. So check this out.

24:28 Speaker 4: Jesus wants to.

24:29 Speaker 5: Wait with me.

24:30 Speaker 4: All we have could do is by you go in

24:33 Speaker 4: the met of therapy. I don't know I'm gonna make

24:35 Speaker 4: it to the night. The buck, ain't get the let school,

24:38 Speaker 4: and nothing.

24:38 Speaker 5: Ever turns out right.

24:41 Speaker 4: Make me one good reason? The house some mess tish

24:51 Speaker 4: staff tell tall as I as Diane and join to

24:54 Speaker 4: Bryan holds on every wall. Sometimes I wonder if it's

24:58 Speaker 4: something I did.

24:59 Speaker 5: Yes, this as we.

25:00 Speaker 4: Roll, Amy want.

25:03 Speaker 7: To do me soon.

25:09 Speaker 4: I've been working every day trying to.

25:12 Speaker 1: Make a living year very getaway.

25:14 Speaker 4: Well when I get home with that, so I've been

25:16 Speaker 4: just getting ride. I don't think you said she wants

25:42 Speaker 4: away with me.

25:43 Speaker 5: All we ever do is fighting.

25:45 Speaker 4: You can win them into dymasphy.

25:47 Speaker 5: I don't know we're gonna make it to the night,

25:49 Speaker 5: talks about getting kids at my school and nothing ever

25:52 Speaker 5: turns out.

25:52 Speaker 10: Rise and me want to do.

25:55 Speaker 5: Me soon.

25:57 Speaker 6: And he won't do me.

26:10 Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Dave, your songs are short, short,

26:14 Speaker 3: to the point. That's right, that's right. If you're just

26:17 Speaker 3: joining us, we have Dave Strong with us live in studio.

26:21 Speaker 3: Dave's gonna play for us. I'm dying to hear you play.

26:23 Speaker 3: So I'm gonna. I'm gonna this is a new one

26:26 Speaker 3: that you're gonna do.

26:27 Speaker 6: Yep. This is my newest release. It's going to be

26:31 Speaker 6: on in a seven inch EP that should be out

26:34 Speaker 6: next month. Oh okay, there are three orders up for it,

26:37 Speaker 6: but like you know, they should be in hand by

26:41 Speaker 6: the beginning of October at the latest. Okay, it's called

26:44 Speaker 6: I Hate Joking's Roommate. The the EP is called I

26:47 Speaker 6: Hate Joking's Roommate. It will it'll have that song. It's funny.

26:51 Speaker 6: I'll tell you a story about that after because it

26:53 Speaker 6: was supposed to be a children's EP. Oh really yeah,

26:55 Speaker 6: because the third song is called puddle Hop, which isn't

26:57 Speaker 6: released yet and I wrote it for my kids. Oh

27:01 Speaker 6: but the guy that put it out really like joking's

27:04 Speaker 6: roommate and that's I mean, we're just talking about how

27:07 Speaker 6: many swears were in that. So yeah, yeah, that through

27:09 Speaker 6: the children's story right out of the window.

27:12 Speaker 3: Oh I can see where that would be a problem.

27:15 Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's kind of a good I mean, it'll

27:18 Speaker 6: be three really awesome songs. This is probably one of

27:21 Speaker 6: my favorite ones I've ever written. And you know, all right,

27:25 Speaker 6: what a song about it? I want to hear it.

27:26 Speaker 3: Yes, here it goes.

27:29 Speaker 6: The song is called I want to know.

27:32 Speaker 7: If you could possibly leave the message and we'll get

27:37 Speaker 7: back to you quickly.

27:39 Speaker 6: I want to know what's on your mid You come out?

27:45 Speaker 6: Yes you did.

27:46 Speaker 7: When I saw you, I had to go back. There

27:50 Speaker 7: was something that catches my eye. Want to know what's

27:54 Speaker 7: on your MIDO come out? I see you win the

27:59 Speaker 7: corner in the middle of the night. My heart catches

28:03 Speaker 7: up because you're so out of sight.

28:05 Speaker 9: I know it.

28:05 Speaker 6: In the morning, it'll be all right. Hold it. Do

28:09 Speaker 6: you wanna come over?

28:10 Speaker 7: The night I woke up, you wore over my shoulder

28:14 Speaker 7: in I I'm so glad that I bothered stop on

28:19 Speaker 7: that corner the night you were there.

28:21 Speaker 6: You come out.

28:24 Speaker 7: And I knew we'd be in the forever and nothing

28:29 Speaker 7: can keep us from each other.

28:31 Speaker 6: Smile on your face tells me things.

28:33 Speaker 7: Your coogar come out.

28:37 Speaker 6: When I say you were in the corner in the

28:39 Speaker 6: middle of the night, my heart catches up because you're

28:42 Speaker 6: so out of sight.

28:44 Speaker 5: I know it.

28:44 Speaker 6: In the morning, it'll be all right or hot it?

28:47 Speaker 6: Do you wanna come over than that? A rat?

29:20 Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's awesome. Thank you for playing that. If

29:23 Speaker 3: you're just joining us, we have Joe Strong with us,

29:26 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Dave, Dave Strong, Dave Strong, I'm thinking of joke.

29:29 Speaker 3: I'm in my mind I've created an amalgam of Joe

29:33 Speaker 3: King and Dave Strong, I.

29:36 Speaker 6: Bet.

29:39 Speaker 3: But if you're just joining us, Dave Strong is here

29:42 Speaker 3: with us, alive in studio on the Saturday morning on

29:45 Speaker 3: Matt connorton Unleashed, and we're having a great time. Really,

29:48 Speaker 3: really we should talk about, uh that track. One good

29:52 Speaker 3: reason because you were telling us a little bit about

29:54 Speaker 3: it off air, and those pretty interesting.

29:58 Speaker 6: You were.

29:59 Speaker 3: You were talking about how quickly it came together and.

30:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So most of the songs on that record

30:08 Speaker 6: right there are done by myself, my friend Uri, and

30:16 Speaker 6: my friend Terry who plays upright bass and for this one,

30:23 Speaker 6: it's gonna either be the first or second number on

30:26 Speaker 6: the new record. And it was a whole It was

30:29 Speaker 6: almost a full different band. I had my buddy Luke

30:34 Speaker 6: was playing drums on it and Lenny Lashley was playing guitar.

30:40 Speaker 6: And Lenny Lashley is like a famous Boston musician. I mean, yeah,

30:45 Speaker 6: he's super cool. He plays in bands called Darkbuster and

30:49 Speaker 6: the Street Dogs, And you know, it was it was cool.

30:53 Speaker 6: I just recorded it up in New Hampshire and I

30:57 Speaker 6: sent him the track and by the next day he

31:00 Speaker 6: had all those awesome guitar riffs in there and stuff,

31:03 Speaker 6: and you know, I I thought it was really cool

31:08 Speaker 6: of him to do, you know, because yeah, he's a

31:10 Speaker 6: really cool, established musician, a really human being, and you know,

31:14 Speaker 6: he didn't have to play on my stuff, and it

31:16 Speaker 6: was really awesome for him to do it.

31:18 Speaker 3: Were you surprised at the turnaround time on that, like

31:21 Speaker 3: how quickly he got those back to here?

31:23 Speaker 6: That was pretty amazing. Yeah, I mean he's a true

31:26 Speaker 6: professional for sure.

31:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, that's fantastic. Are there other people you've

31:32 Speaker 3: worked with that you'd kind of put in that category

31:34 Speaker 3: where you're like Wow, this is this is amazing. This

31:37 Speaker 3: is one of my heroes.

31:39 Speaker 6: So far, I've I've worked with a couple of people.

31:44 Speaker 6: Kurt Baker out of Spain. I mean he's actually from Portland, Maine.

31:48 Speaker 6: He lives in Spain. Now he's on Wicked Cool Records,

31:53 Speaker 6: which is like Little Steven Okay, yep, from Bruce Springsteen's

31:58 Speaker 6: bands label.

31:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in Spain now, that's a big move.

32:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, he's doing really well. You know, he's put out

32:06 Speaker 6: a bunch of records and you know he kills it

32:09 Speaker 6: every time. But when he was in a band called

32:11 Speaker 6: the Leftovers out of Portland, Maine, and then he got

32:15 Speaker 6: signed to that guy from Bowling for Soup Jarrett Reddity

32:20 Speaker 6: name the lead singer of Bowling for Soup and guitarists.

32:24 Speaker 6: You know, Kurt Baker I kind of look up to

32:27 Speaker 6: because he's from Maine. He's a local dude, down to earth.

32:30 Speaker 6: He's a friend of mine now and he's just kind

32:33 Speaker 6: of like done it. You know, he keeps doing it

32:36 Speaker 6: and doing it good. He writes awesome songs and he

32:40 Speaker 6: gets recognized for the awesome songs.

32:41 Speaker 2: Yea.

32:42 Speaker 6: Even though he's a friend, I still really look up

32:45 Speaker 6: to him. You know, it's like a oh oh shoot

32:47 Speaker 6: moment every time.

32:49 Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt. Where do you record?

32:52 Speaker 6: It?

32:53 Speaker 3: Sounds like you've recorded in a lot of different places.

32:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't. I haven't found a place where, like

33:02 Speaker 6: I can say, is gonna be my new spot? You know?

33:05 Speaker 3: Yeah?

33:06 Speaker 6: But I I recorded that whole album that I gave

33:09 Speaker 6: to you, the Dave Strong LP or whatever, the self

33:11 Speaker 6: titled one. I recorded all ten of those songs at

33:17 Speaker 6: the wood Shop in I don't even know. I don't

33:22 Speaker 6: even know, like Kensington, New Hampshire is somewhere around there. Okay,

33:26 Speaker 6: it's called the wood Shop Studio up there.

33:28 Speaker 3: I feel like I've heard of Kensington. Yeah, is it north.

33:33 Speaker 6: So it's sort of near like Haveril.

33:37 Speaker 3: Oh okay, you know it's like on that It's like,

33:39 Speaker 3: oh it's on the border.

33:40 Speaker 6: Get on four for a second. Yeah, Atkinson's exactly studios

33:46 Speaker 6: in Atkinson.

33:46 Speaker 3: I know exactly where that is. Okay, Okay.

33:49 Speaker 6: So I've recorded those ten songs from that one, and

33:53 Speaker 6: then I recorded two more like the one that we

33:56 Speaker 6: just listened to, and I'm all these lips which is

33:58 Speaker 6: are like Asoleine's cover. But Nirvana pretty much made it popular.

34:03 Speaker 3: Yeah.

34:04 Speaker 6: Yeah, those those two songs will probably be on my

34:08 Speaker 6: next record. And I and I thought I had a

34:12 Speaker 6: groove going there, but it seems like now that I

34:15 Speaker 6: think about it, it was more like perfect for that

34:19 Speaker 6: time and the band that I was playing with.

34:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like.

34:24 Speaker 6: So I just thought, maybe you know I'm doing a

34:26 Speaker 6: new record, I'll move to a different place and check

34:27 Speaker 6: it out like that. So we did four songs in Salem,

34:33 Speaker 6: mass which we recorded with Tom Hamilton, who recorded Hate

34:39 Speaker 6: Your Friends the Lemonheads first album. Yeah, and that's kind

34:44 Speaker 6: of why we listened to being around. We were like,

34:46 Speaker 6: we gotta do something with Tom, like even though he

34:49 Speaker 6: didn't wasn't a part of engineering that song. Yeah, he

34:52 Speaker 6: was a part of engineering one of my favorite records ever. Oh,

34:55 Speaker 6: just Hate Your Friends by the Lemonheads. I love that.

34:57 Speaker 6: I love Evan Dando and I love the Lemonheads. Yeah,

35:00 Speaker 6: so I was like, I gotta I gotta somehow tie

35:02 Speaker 6: this Lemonhead's connection in right right, And I recorded I'm

35:06 Speaker 6: Late where I should go? That Lemonhead's being around the song.

35:13 Speaker 6: I think that's it. Oh, and I Hate Mondays. I

35:16 Speaker 6: did a song called I Hate Mondays okay, you know,

35:18 Speaker 6: which is kind of like I Hate Joking's Roommate, every.

35:20 Speaker 3: Other words that Ford, gotcha, gotcha.

35:24 Speaker 6: I'm not that angry really, yeah, yeah, I just get

35:26 Speaker 6: it out artistically, right.

35:28 Speaker 3: Well, that's I mean, that's the best way to do it. Yeah,

35:30 Speaker 3: that's the best way to do it. Create something absolutely.

35:32 Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite place that you've recorded.

35:36 Speaker 6: So far? They just keep getting better. I mean, so

35:38 Speaker 6: the last three songs I Hate Joking's Roommate, puddle Hop

35:43 Speaker 6: which isn't out yet, which I wrote, you know, it's

35:46 Speaker 6: like a kids type song, and then I want to

35:49 Speaker 6: know the one I just sang. I recorded up in

35:52 Speaker 6: North Conway at my friend Ryan's house. It's like a

35:57 Speaker 6: makeshift studio. They call it platypus. Okay, but yeah, it's

36:03 Speaker 6: just like it's it's on his land. It's a garage,

36:07 Speaker 6: you know that they've turned into a studio. It's like

36:09 Speaker 6: the size of this room really cool, you know, just

36:16 Speaker 6: a really chill type vibe, you know, and like, yeah,

36:19 Speaker 6: so far that's been my favorite place. Okay, going back

36:22 Speaker 6: with another band next weekend to record up there again.

36:25 Speaker 6: Oh okay, So the plan is eventually I'll find my

36:30 Speaker 6: home base right, you know, but until I'll keep trying

36:33 Speaker 6: these awesome places and they keep getting better and better.

36:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so

36:39 Speaker 3: many options to record now and so many places. You know,

36:42 Speaker 3: it's interesting too there it seems like there was a

36:46 Speaker 3: point where people, you know, as technology evolves and becomes

36:50 Speaker 3: more accessible to everybody, you know, people make all kinds

36:53 Speaker 3: of predictions about what technology is going to start to

36:55 Speaker 3: go away, or how things are going to change, or

36:57 Speaker 3: and what technology is going to stick around. And like,

37:00 Speaker 3: for example, vinyl records. You know, decades ago people said,

37:04 Speaker 3: you know, CDs would be the end of vinyl, and

37:06 Speaker 3: vinyl you know, still thrives. But with recording studios. You know,

37:11 Speaker 3: I remember years ago people saying, now with all these

37:16 Speaker 3: capabilities to just record on your own, recorded at home

37:19 Speaker 3: and whatnot, you know, recording studios are going to go away.

37:22 Speaker 3: But it didn't happen, and if anything, there's probably more

37:25 Speaker 3: of them than there were ten years ago, because you know,

37:29 Speaker 3: people like having all kinds of different options in terms

37:32 Speaker 3: of how they create their music. You know, some some

37:34 Speaker 3: people only want to be able to just do it

37:37 Speaker 3: at home, plug everything in, use pro tools, use ant

37:40 Speaker 3: modelers and all that, and you know, not have to

37:42 Speaker 3: go to a studio. Some people thrive on being in

37:45 Speaker 3: a studio and love and I find too, And I'm

37:47 Speaker 3: curious if you're like this. A lot of the people

37:50 Speaker 3: who seem to really thrive on being in a studio

37:52 Speaker 3: as you appear to really like having that, you know,

37:56 Speaker 3: like having an engineer, a recording engineer there who all

38:00 Speaker 3: also very often, you know, it happens organically, becomes sort

38:04 Speaker 3: of a de facto producer, you know, and they even

38:07 Speaker 3: even though maybe that's not why you're there necessarily, but

38:10 Speaker 3: they have input, they have ideas, and of course they

38:12 Speaker 3: know how to get the best sound with their equipment.

38:15 Speaker 3: Like do you find that and does that factor into

38:17 Speaker 3: because you've recorded a lot of different places, does that

38:20 Speaker 3: factor into your decisions on where to go?

38:23 Speaker 6: I you're exactly right with that. I mean, I've recorded

38:28 Speaker 6: at this place in Waltham, mass called Willie Mammoth Studios.

38:32 Speaker 6: I've heard of that a few times with my buddy Jeff,

38:35 Speaker 6: who I went overseas with and played the Spain shows

38:39 Speaker 6: and stuff.

38:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, and.

38:42 Speaker 6: The main producer in that, I mean, the one we

38:45 Speaker 6: worked with, I don't know there's probably a couple of

38:47 Speaker 6: people that run the board there. But I've worked with

38:49 Speaker 6: them a couple of times now, Actually I think I did.

38:53 Speaker 6: I did this documentary called Stick It to the Man

38:55 Speaker 6: there where we did a live session. Yeah, I've worked

38:58 Speaker 6: with a couple of times. It's Dave Minihan. Is his name.

39:03 Speaker 6: He He's from that band the Neighborhoods.

39:06 Speaker 3: That name has come up on the show a bunch

39:08 Speaker 3: of times.

39:09 Speaker 6: It's a rock star. Yeah, he's in the replacements now

39:12 Speaker 6: and isn't Isn't he?

39:14 Speaker 3: Is he Kirk Minihan's brother.

39:15 Speaker 6: I don't know Kirk Minihan.

39:17 Speaker 3: The Kirk Minhan's a sports broadcaster from Boston. I think

39:20 Speaker 3: they're related.

39:21 Speaker 6: You know, you could be right. I never even put

39:23 Speaker 6: the connection together.

39:24 Speaker 3: But and even even if they're not brothers, they have

39:26 Speaker 3: to be related something. Minihan's not a naming here all

39:28 Speaker 3: the time. But I think I think that they're actually brothers.

39:31 Speaker 3: But but but yeah, Dave Minahan, that name's come up

39:33 Speaker 3: heavy America. I think mention them. I don't know if

39:37 Speaker 3: you know them, Boston band. They've been on the show.

39:39 Speaker 3: I think they I think that's the first interview where

39:41 Speaker 3: I heard that name was from those guys I think

39:44 Speaker 3: they recorded there.

39:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a it's a heck of a place, man,

39:47 Speaker 6: It's he's so I think. So Rhino Records does this

39:54 Speaker 6: like best of the New York Scene, best of like

39:57 Speaker 6: you know Boston a compilation has the cars on it,

40:01 Speaker 6: the real kids on it, and the neighborhoods is like

40:04 Speaker 6: the first song on it, you know, yeah Mission Burma

40:07 Speaker 6: like all those classic punk songs.

40:11 Speaker 2: You know.

40:13 Speaker 6: So just that alone was like whoa. But but he

40:18 Speaker 6: also adds a really cool like vibe to the room,

40:21 Speaker 6: like he knows what what to what to look for.

40:25 Speaker 6: You know. At first, I was kind of nervous meeting

40:28 Speaker 6: him to tell you the truth, the human like us

40:30 Speaker 6: and yeah, of course and they he does a lot

40:33 Speaker 6: of real to reel you know, really like there's another guy.

40:39 Speaker 6: There's Mike, Mike Mike Kennedy from the All American Rejects.

40:44 Speaker 6: That's a huge band, huge famous band, and my buddy

40:47 Speaker 6: just went and recorded with him speak you know you

40:52 Speaker 6: you kind of I think a lot of people are

40:53 Speaker 6: doing that now, you know on their part time, like

40:57 Speaker 6: you get you go there for the talent and the

40:59 Speaker 6: vibe been like you know, it's cool. It's a cool feel.

41:03 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it also makes sense too, I think if

41:06 Speaker 3: you're you know, if you're in a big band like

41:08 Speaker 3: all American rejects for example, you know a lot of

41:12 Speaker 3: bands aren't. They're not touring as much now because it's

41:14 Speaker 3: gotten so expensive to travel. So you know, to be

41:17 Speaker 3: able to do something like that, you know, work with

41:19 Speaker 3: other bands, whether it's whether it's at a recording studio,

41:23 Speaker 3: building that or or or getting into some other aspect

41:27 Speaker 3: of the music business that helps you know, younger up

41:30 Speaker 3: and coming talent, you know it only which probably also

41:33 Speaker 3: is very fulfilling for for a lot of these folks too,

41:36 Speaker 3: to be able to do that, you know, to help

41:39 Speaker 3: the next generations that are coming up, and you know,

41:42 Speaker 3: once you know, once they've already got their fame, you know,

41:44 Speaker 3: why not pass on that knowledge and experience and those resources.

41:47 Speaker 3: But also too, it gives them something to do because

41:51 Speaker 3: you know, like I said, I mean, who was it

41:52 Speaker 3: that there was a band, a pretty big band recently

41:55 Speaker 3: that actually canceled their tour because of low ticket sales

41:58 Speaker 3: and they just said it's not what was it then?

42:01 Speaker 3: They just said it's not it's not worth it. Whereas

42:02 Speaker 3: it's not gonna we're not even gonna bother, you know. So,

42:07 Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if those guys are doing

42:08 Speaker 3: anything to help help other bands, but but maybe they are.

42:11 Speaker 3: But but it's great to make those connections.

42:14 Speaker 6: And it goes both ways too sometimes. I mean, like

42:17 Speaker 6: as far as Dave Minihan was everything I expected and more.

42:20 Speaker 6: That guy's like a top top shelf. Yeah, you know,

42:23 Speaker 6: he knows his stuff and he's been in some of

42:25 Speaker 6: the coolest bands. You know, like Billy Joe Armstrong from

42:29 Speaker 6: Green Day did Coachella with the Replacements. He like hopped

42:34 Speaker 6: on their tour. They didn't like ask him to do it.

42:37 Speaker 6: He came up to them and was like can I play?

42:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, like.

42:43 Speaker 6: Imagine that. Yeah, you know, like, holy crap, the stories,

42:47 Speaker 6: you know. But then I was like so stoked to

42:50 Speaker 6: go work with Tom Hamilton because the Lemonheads connection and

42:55 Speaker 6: the guy was sort of a mess, you know, like

42:57 Speaker 6: really the songs came out great, Yeah, they took like

43:01 Speaker 6: four or five months to finish. Yeah, you know, and

43:05 Speaker 6: I'm not going to talk to or anything. I'm not

43:07 Speaker 6: going to talk trash or anything.

43:08 Speaker 3: Sorry, We're we're on a delay. I caught it. I'm

43:11 Speaker 3: not going to talk that but yeah.

43:15 Speaker 6: Sorry, but he he wasn't what I expected really, you know,

43:18 Speaker 6: So that's what I meant. It goes both ways.

43:20 Speaker 3: Yeah.

43:21 Speaker 6: Sometimes you work with your idols and you love it.

43:23 Speaker 6: Sometimes you work with your idols and you learn a

43:25 Speaker 6: little bit, you know, of humility and like you're not

43:28 Speaker 6: exactly what you think they are. Yeah, and sometimes you

43:31 Speaker 6: just you work with your friends. Yeah, and for you know,

43:34 Speaker 6: you pay a lot of money to work with someone

43:36 Speaker 6: that you don't know and you don't get what you want.

43:38 Speaker 6: Or you pay almost nothing to work with one of

43:40 Speaker 6: your best friends and you make something together.

43:44 Speaker 3: Yeah.

43:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, and then someone else here is then like where

43:47 Speaker 6: did you go? Oh you didn't go to a five

43:49 Speaker 6: hundred dollars hour studio. You went to a twenty buck

43:52 Speaker 6: an hour studio?

43:53 Speaker 5: Right?

43:54 Speaker 6: Can I go there? Sure? I'll call Ryan and see

43:56 Speaker 6: if he can do it, you know. Yeah, that's what

43:58 Speaker 6: it's about nowadays. For me, at least, I'm trying to

44:00 Speaker 6: get the next I'm trying to make memories and make

44:04 Speaker 6: music with like up and coming people, new people.

44:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. We should

44:09 Speaker 3: clarify too, for anyone who's listening, who's confused? Obviously not

44:12 Speaker 3: the same Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. No, in case anyone thinks,

44:15 Speaker 3: you know, there's probably a million.

44:17 Speaker 6: I thought it was him for the longest time. I

44:20 Speaker 6: thought maybe when I walked into his house it would

44:23 Speaker 6: be the bass player of Varus Smith.

44:24 Speaker 5: Yeah.

44:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how much I know you're You're probably going

44:28 Speaker 3: there thinking I wonder if I ask him, will he

44:30 Speaker 3: play the bass line of Sweet Emotion? Yeah, Tom Hamilton's

44:35 Speaker 3: probably there's probably a million Tom Hamilton's out there. Those

44:37 Speaker 3: are both such common names, Tom and Hamilton. But yeah,

44:40 Speaker 3: well that's too bad that that he wasn't that great.

44:43 Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, they say don't meet your heroes,

44:45 Speaker 3: but then again, you know, some of your heroes turn

44:47 Speaker 3: out to be pretty awesome, so you know, that's that's

44:50 Speaker 3: the risk that you take. But but it sounds like

44:53 Speaker 3: you've had a lot of positive experiences and got to

44:55 Speaker 3: work with some great people. So that's awesome.

44:57 Speaker 6: Absolutely, that's awesome.

44:58 Speaker 3: I mean, have you have you I had moments along

45:00 Speaker 3: the way where you just kind of go, I can't believe.

45:02 Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm getting to do this and work

45:05 Speaker 3: with this person and have this opportunity you ever kind

45:07 Speaker 3: of just pinch yourself.

45:08 Speaker 6: And go, wow, absolutely. I mean there was a long

45:13 Speaker 6: time that I thought I deserved it more than I did.

45:18 Speaker 6: It's been very humbling lately. You know, I made a

45:21 Speaker 6: lot of changes, and I think I'm on the right

45:25 Speaker 6: path where I can acknowledge everything that's happening in a

45:29 Speaker 6: good way. Good I've learned. Yeah, which is you know,

45:33 Speaker 6: it's the light?

45:34 Speaker 3: Yeah. Was there was there anything specific that that kind

45:38 Speaker 3: of caused that? Or is that more just a gradual

45:42 Speaker 3: thing over time where you just kind of grow and evolve.

45:45 Speaker 6: And I mean I I guess I drank a little

45:50 Speaker 6: too much when I was younger, and like, you know

45:53 Speaker 6: that that might have put a stint on it. You

45:55 Speaker 6: know I would, I'll put it like this, you know,

45:59 Speaker 6: I thought, but I was entitled, you know, like, oh,

46:03 Speaker 6: I know how to play the song you have? You

46:04 Speaker 6: should really bring me. I'm on the record. You know

46:07 Speaker 6: I deserve this, No like blah blah blah, instead of

46:11 Speaker 6: you know, a hundred other people could be coming on

46:13 Speaker 6: this right, you know, you brought me instead of one

46:16 Speaker 6: hundred different people. I'm grateful, Like getting off the bus

46:21 Speaker 6: and being like where's the bar? Instead of like how

46:24 Speaker 6: can I help you carry something? Ye, just little things

46:27 Speaker 6: like that that you know, thinking back at it now,

46:32 Speaker 6: it's like, oh, just just do the next right thing

46:35 Speaker 6: now and you'll be good. There you go, There you go,

46:38 Speaker 6: last of the past, and the future is unknown.

46:40 Speaker 3: So yeah, exactly, exactly, No, I like that. Let's play

46:44 Speaker 3: another track. Let's see we should play because we played,

46:50 Speaker 3: we played being Around, and we played reason. Oh what's

46:56 Speaker 3: this one?

46:58 Speaker 6: Oh?

46:58 Speaker 3: I would? I really like this one.

47:00 Speaker 6: This is a cool pop song.

47:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's play this. If you are just joining us,

47:04 Speaker 3: we have Dave Strong with us, uh here in studio,

47:07 Speaker 3: and uh, let's see. Yeah, this is a good one.

47:11 Speaker 3: This is a track called I would. We're gonna give

47:13 Speaker 3: this a spin and then we're gonna come right back

47:15 Speaker 3: and talk with Dave a little bit more. But here

47:19 Speaker 3: we go. Oh here, we don't go. I made a mistake.

47:23 Speaker 3: We're about to go. Here we go.

47:46 Speaker 5: Please, it's not true.

47:51 Speaker 4: Whatever do.

47:56 Speaker 5: You go back? And James, I.

48:03 Speaker 4: Would if I couldn't for you.

48:08 Speaker 5: I would if I could, and I would if everybody

48:33 Speaker 5: says that I is saying maybe you and the rain,

48:39 Speaker 5: but maybe I'm the one too. Well, if I could

48:43 Speaker 5: go back and Jane byes for you.

48:47 Speaker 2: I.

48:49 Speaker 5: Would.

48:50 Speaker 4: If I could for you, I would.

48:57 Speaker 5: If I couldn't, and.

48:59 Speaker 4: I would.

49:01 Speaker 5: Use then if I because then if I because if

49:10 Speaker 5: I if I.

49:29 Speaker 4: For you, I would, If I could for.

49:36 Speaker 5: You, I would. If I cut the man, then.

50:01 Speaker 3: That is I would. That is Dave Strong who is

50:04 Speaker 3: here with us alive in studio on this Saturday morning.

50:08 Speaker 3: And Dave, so you were saying off air something really

50:11 Speaker 3: special about that track.

50:14 Speaker 6: Yeah, that was one of the first songs I ever

50:17 Speaker 6: recorded solo. I recorded all the parts myself on it,

50:23 Speaker 6: of the drums, the bass, the guitar. I went to

50:26 Speaker 6: the Atkinson studio well with my not myself. My daughter

50:30 Speaker 6: came with me and she sang all the harmonies and

50:34 Speaker 6: sang all the backups. So that's a real special one.

50:37 Speaker 6: Little girl and I would are pretty much just me

50:41 Speaker 6: and my daughter.

50:42 Speaker 3: Oh, that's really cool. That's really cool.

50:44 Speaker 6: Karra Strong shout out.

50:46 Speaker 3: Does she does she have music of her own too

50:48 Speaker 3: that she's doing or what's her her kind of musical trajectory? Yeah?

50:52 Speaker 6: She She hasn't released anything yet. I know she will.

50:56 Speaker 6: She's got a beautiful voice and she plays guitar really

51:00 Speaker 6: well too.

51:01 Speaker 3: Oh okay, very good, Yeah, very good. We are the

51:05 Speaker 3: time goes so quick. We are we're running out of time, Dave.

51:08 Speaker 3: But before we run out of time and we I

51:10 Speaker 3: do want to get this one last track and two

51:11 Speaker 3: nights in jail to end the show today. But by

51:15 Speaker 3: the way, is that based on any kind of a

51:17 Speaker 3: true story?

51:20 Speaker 6: Not particularly, I plead the fifth.

51:22 Speaker 3: Okay, that's well. I didn't know if maybe Joe King's

51:25 Speaker 3: roommate had done something to get you in trouble and

51:28 Speaker 3: then you want because that would be a reason to

51:29 Speaker 3: hate him.

51:30 Speaker 6: It's got it's got a teeny back story about a

51:34 Speaker 6: scorn lover type deal. But next time we'll talk about it.

51:38 Speaker 3: Understood, understood. Do you have any shows? Are you playing

51:42 Speaker 3: it all? This weekend?

51:44 Speaker 6: September seventh, I'm playing at spring Point Tavern in South Portland, Maine. Okay,

51:51 Speaker 6: that's just me acoustic, but it will be really fun.

51:53 Speaker 6: It's a great place, free parking, good food, it's in

51:56 Speaker 6: a really it's right on the water. It's a beautiful spot.

51:59 Speaker 3: Okay.

52:00 Speaker 6: And then September fourteenth at Geno's in Portland, Maine.

52:04 Speaker 3: Full band excellent, excellent and uh Where should people go

52:08 Speaker 3: to keep up with everything that you're doing online? Where's

52:10 Speaker 3: the best place to go?

52:13 Speaker 6: I'm Butcherman, Dave at Instagram dot com. That's me, okay,

52:17 Speaker 6: and then I'm Dave Strong Music and Dave Strong. Both

52:21 Speaker 6: of those are on Facebook right now. Okay, those are

52:24 Speaker 6: pretty much those have turned into my music.

52:27 Speaker 3: Yeah sites, you know, yeah, yeah, excellent.

52:29 Speaker 6: And the Spotify, Apple Music all that stuff.

52:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on all those streaming platforms. And the is

52:37 Speaker 3: it an EP that the Joe King song is on?

52:42 Speaker 6: Yep, that's going to be a four song like forty

52:45 Speaker 6: five record?

52:46 Speaker 3: Gotcha? Oh really? Okay?

52:47 Speaker 6: Oh?

52:47 Speaker 3: Very cool? And when is that out?

52:49 Speaker 6: We pressed one hundred of them, We've sold probably like

52:51 Speaker 6: thirty of them so far, and it should be out

52:55 Speaker 6: probably the first day in October around pok pre sales

52:59 Speaker 6: up right now at Critical Mass Records or you can

53:03 Speaker 6: hit me up on Facebook or Instagram and I can

53:06 Speaker 6: like get you one or something.

53:07 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, excellent.

53:09 Speaker 6: I'll be selling them at shows soon and you know, yeah,

53:13 Speaker 6: that'll be in hand hopefully by October.

53:15 Speaker 3: Oh very cool, very cool, awesome. Well, in a moment,

53:18 Speaker 3: we'll play this track. But Dave, thank you so much

53:20 Speaker 3: for coming in today, Thanks for having me. This has

53:23 Speaker 3: been wonderful, and of course thank you to our friend

53:25 Speaker 3: Charles Maddocks who joined us in the first hour. And Jenny,

53:29 Speaker 3: you want to plug your website.

53:30 Speaker 8: Absolutely you can come check me out at Jencoffee dot com,

53:33 Speaker 8: j E N N C O F f U I

53:36 Speaker 8: dot com. And there's an actual in depth interview new

53:39 Speaker 8: interview us up up right now. It's Spelfe from the

53:42 Speaker 8: Midnight Creative Collector.

53:44 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, definitely, definitely check that out absolutely absolutely, and

53:48 Speaker 3: if you missed any part of today's show, it will

53:50 Speaker 3: be up in just a little bit at WM and

53:51 Speaker 3: Hradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com.

53:55 Speaker 3: And we will leave you with this. Dave Strong, thank

53:57 Speaker 3: you again so much. And uh, this is called Nights

54:01 Speaker 3: in Jail.

54:01 Speaker 6: Thanks.

54:12 Speaker 5: I ruled this song. I'm rooting for you.

54:14 Speaker 4: I can tell me, tell me.

54:15 Speaker 10: Tell me what should I do?

54:16 Speaker 3: Look boping crazy, crazy crazy, And I'm gonna do this.

54:18 Speaker 5: Jew I'm being up all night running this on we

54:21 Speaker 5: do friends all nights of Jail.

54:23 Speaker 4: I'm just thinking of you fans, some nights of jail.

54:28 Speaker 5: Tell me what should I do?

54:31 Speaker 4: Tell me pretty if even tell me if this is.

54:34 Speaker 10: True, because Time fans some nights of jail.

54:38 Speaker 6: Writing this song for you. Maybe, yes said, I'm on

54:51 Speaker 6: the rule.

54:52 Speaker 3: I'm drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking.

54:54 Speaker 5: Out of control.

54:55 Speaker 6: Tell me, Prudy baby, tell me if this is.

54:56 Speaker 4: Jew I'm being on all night riding this one for you.

55:00 Speaker 10: Franco NAT's jail, just thinking of you, Fransom not to chail, tell.

55:06 Speaker 5: Me what you do. Tell me if.

55:10 Speaker 4: Anybody even tell me if this is true.

55:14 Speaker 10: Good time Fans' not to jail. This on you, fencil

55:58 Speaker 10: nuts jail, just thinking.

55:59 Speaker 5: Again you.

56:02 Speaker 4: Fans, I'm not to jail. Tell me what you're gonna do?

56:07 Speaker 10: Tell me everybody even telling him this.

56:09 Speaker 5: Is true.

56:11 Speaker 10: Because I fans I'm not to jail.

56:13 Speaker 5: Reading is of.

56:17 Speaker 6: S Fanco.

56:17 Speaker 4: I'm not to jail because that fans.

56:20 Speaker 5: I'm not to jail.

56:22 Speaker 10: Spansome, not to jail reading is of for you, spans

56:27 Speaker 10: I'm not to jail, Spensome, not to jail, Fancy, I'm

56:32 Speaker 10: not to jail.

56:33 Speaker 6: Running this off with you.

56:47 Speaker 5: Yet my lies be.

57:20 Speaker 9: User can set you hing this just thet there's no

57:33 Speaker 9: your unal thing him.

57:42 Speaker 4: That Histolo.

57:48 Speaker 5: Con It's no you still my ories you have mon

58:04 Speaker 5: you watch the ball. I'm MoMA bell the all the

58:13 Speaker 5: it's really his money hog another a fantast.

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