Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-14-23

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For all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is a Thursday, September fourteen, two thousand, twenty three, and joining me live in studio at the Newsdesk making his triumphant return. Mike Lachlan is here. Hello, sir, Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, yes. And that opening song was nothing left to say, which is a great, great song you were telling me off air that's is. Did you say it's your favorite that you've ever recorded. It's right up there, It's very least, it's right up there, I would say.

But how about Shauno Led on the drums? Yes, absolutely amazing at that, absolutely amazing. How about that theme song of Matt Connerton's Yeah that is that was recorded by Jerry Robinson of Jerry and the Scumbags, and he's got his new album Scum of the Earth and he recorded that. Well. The thing is, so the point of that little track there is to sort of announce to the people the arrival of yours truly the you know, because he has Jerry's rock and roll Army, and I am the commander to the supreme leader of the rock and roll Army.

Which is a very prestigious position. I never thought of myself as a military man, but when he made me the commander to the Supreme Leader, I, you know, really, the only questions I had were do I have to wear a uniform? And how much power will I have? And it turns out it's a very very powerful position. And by the way, if that sounds concerning at all, don't worry. You can trust me with immense power. No one's ever said that ever, So I do trust you, Thank you, thank you. Yes, yes, i'd be kind of a colonel.

Well, I don't know. You'd have to ask Jerry, but he is recruiting more members every day. It's it's it's it's it's it's a whole army. It's great, it's great. Here's a question from Matt Connerton. Though, yes, could this army beat the Kiss Army in a fight? That's well, let's not. Let's not get carried away. Oh no, I mean, my goodness, no, I mean the Kiss Army. There's fire breathing, and it's a whole thing. You'd know better than me. Yes, yes, but it is. It is quite an honor, of course, to be the commander to the supreme Leader.

I mean just the title. It just sounds so powerful and I can, you know, commit war crimes whatever. It's great. I have free reign. Is there a tribunal? Not yet. It's a rock and roll army, so we're not governed by international law. We do have a call. We'll see, Uh, we'll see who's on the line here. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this hello, Matt? So, this is Jerry Robinson. Oh, Jerry Robinson. Wonderful to hear from you, my friend. Yes, it's very good. Listen. I was listening to you live.

And of course I have to defend my rock and Roll Army. So I mean, I guess if you want to go base off of like total member members, I mean obviously like we're a new outfit. I don't think I think all the kiss on me fans out there could like to swarm us, like take a sofa, but I think like pounds per pound, of course, I think that I think we could put up a pretty good fight. Well that would would It would put me and perhaps perhaps I should have disclosed this to you sooner, Jerry. It would put me in a little bit of a compromised position because, as I'm sure you realize, Kiss is my favorite band.

I consider myself a member of that army. But I don't think there's a direct conflict of interest unless there were to be actual conflict, right of course. I mean unless like Gene Simmons, like you know, you know, bass play bass player, the bass player. Of course, if he hits you up and said listen, I hate a little rock and roll dick that you've got going on, then of course it has some issues. But I don't think there's going to be any problem, right, And I will say this, Jerry, Gene Simmons now ever, offered to make me the commander to the Supreme Leader of the Kiss Army.

So you've actually got one up on him there. That this pretty true. Listen, who is it that you have in today in studio with you? Yes, this is Mike Laughlin, a very talented musician, and he has expressed interest in the army, the rock and roll army. Of course, mister Mike, I would be just absolutely ecstatic if you would accept my invitation. Of course, now it would be a colonel in Jerry's rock and Roll Army. I would I would love that because When I was a child, one of my heroes was Colonel Sanders.

Ah, so I would love to be a colonel very nice, very nice. Well, many could be the Cardinal of rock and roll, and of course when we stopped going on tour, you can also be like the cardinal of like the eleven or spices and the fried chicken and the whatnot. I've never had a greater honor. So so in other words, he'll be in charge of caterine, is what you're saying. Yeah, exactly on every day we have to be big and strong. That's right, that's right, Well, very good. I'm excited this rock and roll army is growing by leaps and bounds.

Yes, it's very very good. Also, I wanted to call you because a certain somebody who will remain unnamed, mentioned that he might try to crash your party today on your show. So I just wanted to give you a little heads up. You know, I've got spies everywhere in the rock and Roll army, so I just wanted to give you four warning. If a sudden somebody tries to show up and cause problems, then I can of course call the rock and Roll security right over and get everything taken care of for you. Oh, I appreciate that, Jerry.

Yes, I've also In fact, Mike and I were talking about that individual earlier. There might be an interloper. And I'll use any excuse to use that word. It's such a great word. An interloper might might be trying to call in at some point today. Exactly. Yes, Well listen, I hope, I hope both of you have a great rest of your day. Congratulations on your new position, Mike. Put the rock and roll Army. Great song, by the way, great song. All right, Thank you, Jerry, thank you, thank you very much. All right bye, Jerry, all right bye.

Oh, very nice. It's always wonderful to hear from Jerry Robinson, of course, Jerry Robinson and the Scumbags and Jerry's rock and roll Army. It's very exciting. And congratulations Mike. I thank you. Nothing else to say, nothing to say here. But here's the question I have for you now, Matt. Yes, have you had a song written about you before? Is this your first one? Oh? That is a great question. I've had not written about me. I mean, I've had people record theme music. I was using a different theme song until recently that someone else recorded specifically for me, but it was a couple of years old, time to freshen it up.

So so I think that was the first actual song about me specifically. Does it feel do you feel honored? We'll feel like that's you know how like people say, like, you know, hey, there Delia was written about some girl. You know, there's those timeless things about some girl. Get a song written by her, or Taylor Swift has a song written about John Mayer or something. Right, you know, you have a song written for you? Does that feel special and unique? It does? It? Does? I mean I'm more excited just to be the commander to the supreme leader.

But the song itself is it's very exciting too, and it very it's very uh you know, it gets the adrenaline pumping, you know, it's very high energy. It's got that you know, that guitar riff that it's a good riff. Yes, it's a good riff. And I think because you've had a song written about you, and then I personally have at least to my knowledge, I haven't checked Taylor Swift's latest album. Ah, but uh, I don't have a song written by me, so that you know that'll put the rank that can put the ranking right right, I'm okay with that.

Yes, well, very good, by the way. So Mike did bring his guitar and he's gonna play a few songs in the second hour, So really looking forward to that. When was the last time you're on? Was it maybe six months ago or something like that? In this spring, I think time really gets gets very blurry. Although I always remember, I'm sure we've talked about this before. I can always remember, though, exactly how long I've known you. It's this time of year. We mentioned that it's probably like this today, which it's probably twenty years ago, twenty two years ago, it was.

It was a few days after nine to eleven, was of the first time I met you. Yeah, that's true. So if from ever you know, because most people you try to think, hm, how long have I known that person? But you I have, I can always pinpoint it to the month. Sorry, Yeah it is. Unfortunately, yeah it would be. It would be nice if it was something positive. But yes, you and you and Scrimmy, I met yeph In conquered at the at the Strawberries and conquered. But yeah, so Mike's gonna play for us in the second hour.

In the first hour we're gonna talk and if you'd like to join the discussion, the studio line is open six zero three two five zero six O seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat and we will say hello everybody in there. But the best thing to do so that we can here and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zo three two five zero six zero seven.

Let's see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook lave chat, one of our great sponsors here at w M ANDH, and of course I get to hang out with Mike from Queen City Cabinetry every Friday night for retro Spectrum Radio right here from eight to eleven PM with Pauly C and DJ Steve. Jenny of course is in the chat and says shalom peeps. Also Crystal our friend from the great state of Illinois, Melanie La Liberty and Jay Fed, both from Vermont, joined us in the chat room. Easyg. Eric Gagnan is in the chat as well as Tom Blanchard.

Oh, Jenny says, did you know I'm the T shirt girl? So love being the T shirt girl? Yes? And Jerry's rock and roll Army. Jenny's the T shirt girl. I think she's higher ranked than me probably, yes, yes, yes, Jay Fed says, Wow, what is the initiation to get into the army? Oh? I don't think there is one, at least I hope not. I hope there's not something that I wasn't aware of. Wait, you didn't have initiation? No, No, I was just invited to join, and of course I accepted, you know, anything with commander in at the job for me because it just sounds so powerful.

Of course, I'm going to say you're lucky because I was initiated and I couldn't walk for a week. Oh, oh my goodness, I'm afraid that I do. And suddenly I'm very concerned. Melanie says. Jay wrote a poem. Oh in regard to your question about is anyone ever writ in a song about me? Melanie says, Jay wrote a poem about you once you still live in Nantucket right, I certainly did not. How dare you? Uh? And Dylan Reynolds, another very talented musician in the chat room, says, welcome to the army. Very nice, very nice.

Uh. Let's see. So Mike, Uh, what's uh? What have you been doing musically since we since we last had you on? Are you? Are you still doing the solo thing or you are you playing with other musicians? Are you recording? What's been what's been going on? What's the the four one one, which I think is what the young people say. I think the kids do say that. Yes, you know, I like to keep the show young and hip. Well yeah, the kids, I mean, I know they say hip too. Yes, I have been playing out by myself doing the solo thing and yeah, and I am recording as well with the great drummer you heard in that song, Sean Rolette, who was was gonna make it here today but he couldn't.

But so to Sean, uh, he'll be here next time I'm here, I'm sure. But he's great. And we've been recording some of my new music. So yeah, that's kind of it. Nothing groundbreaking, I mean, unless you mean playing at Madison Square Garden a couple of weeks. Oh, I mean yeah, Well, being a colonel's already paying off. I mean that's how I got in. You've had a long association with Sean. Is it a letter wallett ole French? So I'm sure there might be a pronunciation thing if you being specific, because I'm Laughlin.

I think you say that correctly. I think you said that correctly. I always say Lachlan. Yeah, okay, so many don't. That's the Irish way of saying because it looks like law. Many people say that because it's just so oolette olette. I don't know the correct way he'd want it to be said. Yeah, whatever, But you've worked with him for a long time, it seems yeah, for like sixteen years now, wow, sixteen sixteen or seventeen years now. He was the drummer in what he drummed in Glorious Noise? Correct, he was at first he was in can give it?

Let me give you the downlow on the Sean Boulette story. Yes, yes, he could give you a better version of it. But Sean and I, do you remember I was in a band Mantra, and we had a drummer at the time called Gary Mayhew. Fantastic drummer as well. Yes, yes, I remember Gary, Yep, we had we had a band room and the band room next to us. I remember that room. It's a great band room. Yeah. You used to record your show there, yes, the other show. Yeah. But in that room, Sean had a band and Sean's band another really good band called Hedera.

They were rehearsing and Sean. They had off an on time and Sean eventually heard us playing and he goes like, oh, I'll you know, if you want to record, I'll record you a free And I was like, that's the best deal of all time, right, and you'll play on it too. Okay. Well, you know what's funny about that, though, When somebody says they're going to do something like that for free, you never really know what you're getting into because it could be free for a reason, right it Well maybe it was maybe he just wanted to play, but like but but in this case, it worked out very well.

It was well, first of all, Sean's a great guy. Yeah, cool dude, but he also was a great drummer, and it was like, okay, you want to record me and we'll do this. Okay. So we started playing and I had a bunch of songs since that iteration of mantra broke up. It was like, okay, I have a bunch of songs I want to get out. So me and him started playing the songs I had. We recorded them and just started playing around and we recorded like five or six songs and that was one of them. Yeah, that song. I mean, it's kind of me and him talk about it as it was done in two two days.

We just wrote it. It came it was clearly improved. Yeah, vocals everything, oh wow. So and then we did a second take to clean it up and that was it. That was it, that's all done. Wait, so I see I didn't realize something. So so the lyrics were improved, you didn't everything just on the spot. I didn't realize that. It's like that divine channeling thing. It just all came out like just bang that I didn't I didn't know that. Even the lyrics. No, it was accidental, perfectly, synchronistically perfect.

Wow. Yeah, oh that's crazy. I mean maybe I cleaned up a word or two because I just was mumbling in key yeah your word, yeah, that world fit. But like it's one of those every songwriter knows this too. Is that is that like some of the best songs just fall out of you. Yeah, And that was one of those songs. Wow, just fell out and I was like, all right, today, it was a good day. You know, that's

has that happened with other songs where the lyrics just sort of you you were able to just sort of improve them because your lyrics are are you know, you're You're a really good lyricist. So that's why I was so surprised. I didn't know. I knew just from previous conversations that there was a lot of spontaneity to those recordings, but I didn't know that the lyrics actually you improv. Are there other songs like that? I would say the majority of songs I write. Again, you've been in bands, you know, singers the best.

A lot of times when you're recording and just kind of or jamming with people or just sitting in your room playing, sometimes they just fall out of the sky. Yeah, And you'll start like playing a couple of chords and then a phrase will come out and then accidentally they'll all kind of work out. Like to me, the best songs are not the ones that you sit there and pine over and just like you kind of just they get they get there and they kind of give they give themselves to you. Yeah, it's not conscious even I don't think if the more you think about both writing music and lyrics for me and I think other songwriters will tell you, I think it becomes it's differ it's a different entity.

I think the best ones kind of it's like you're presented something and if you get that chance to take it out of the sky and then you can they give themselves over. Because I always say that I don't think a lot of songs, I don't think I wrote that kind of co wrote them and whatever would ever that means whatever the it's like a weird channeling thing because I don't know, it's it's magical. I don't know. It sounds kind of corny, but like, yeah, that's how I feel. So do songs Do songs just sort of come to you even when you're not or do you have to be sitting there with a guitar and something will sort of occur to you?

I would say most of the time in the guitar. I've had two or three in the shower. Yeah, just sitting there and you'll hear an entire like nothing left to say. There's a background. The background pieces came to me in the shower. Could hear like a horn, I could hear like the melody the count of over the top, and I was like, Oh, that all came to me one day. There's a couple of other songs like that. But for the most part, it's just sitting there with a guitar and then getting lucky. It's like I've heard someone else say, it's like fishing and you get lucky.

You like throw, You keep throwing the line out and then you catch one. Yeah, some days you don't. I play the guitar every day, probably maybe for five minutes sometimes, but something comes out. Yeah, and then the good ones and the bad ones. You there was and run back in the water. Right, right? Question for you in the chat room, Melanie is asking you know that because you're you're talking about it's almost like you co write the songs. Uh, can it become an evil entity? Well? I assume not, because you've never played in like a death metal band or anything that I know of, Right, So

I've never I mean, I've written crap that I'd like, I'd say that would be bad, that might be from a you know, because there is a Satanic portal apparently that goes around and hovers over people. So maybe you've had that happen. I've yes. I mean it's like, oh, tempted you, this is a great one. This is a fantastic song. And then I go, yes it is, and then oh, that's a piece of crap. There's plenty of that, so maybe that's the melody also said, Uh, he sits in the shower, like in the tub with the shower on.

That's weird. Did I say sit in the shower? Maybe you did. Yeah. If I did, then I'm very sorry because that sounds disgusting. It does, it does? I don't like bath right, yes, yeah, because you're you're sitting there in your own filth. Nobody ever thinks of it that way. Nobody ever thinks of that like, oh, it's nice, nice to take a bath. No, you're sitting there in your own filth. It's that. I'm also a tall fella, so it's like uncomfortable. Maybe here it might be the answer. Maybe I haven't been in the right bathtub maybe, or maybe it's when you're in the bathtub that you're most vulnerable to an eval entity giving you bad song ideas.

We're going with that one mm and j fed is asking, Mike have you ever considered growing a beard? I've never seen you with facial health. I had. I had a full on back in the day, full beard before I knew you. When shortly I think around the time, either shortly after maybe shortly before, did you you got a beard? Oh yeah, I'll tell you off the I'll tell you a story off the mike, Okay, But yeah, I don't remember you with a beard for some reason, I've never had I would say I've never had a butel castro oh okay, or but you had like scruff.

No, I've had a pretty solid beard. Okay, and it was right around that time. Maybe I do remember. Actually, once I tell you, you might remember, but I would feel like I can't tell you on the a Okay because this is a story. He goes with it, Okay, Melanie said yes, he said sit apology accepted. Melanie, I thank you for accepting my apology or my heartfelt turn of events there. I can't believe I said sit in the shower, I know, right, unless that was like coming down off heroin. Oh my goodness. I can't see a reason.

I mean, that's the only reason. How it's Jay Fed says maybe it needs to be an ice bath. He's a big proponent of the ice bath. I've never done it me. Neither sounds terrifying to me, you know, hypothermia and things like that, although Jay Fed and others claim that there are incredible health benefits. I've done the health shower, I mean the cold shower. Yeah, I've like turned that on to go. I've done it for you, sitting in there for a one minute. Yeah, and the same thing as the tub. But I can't sit in a bathtub because it's who does that, right?

Right?

And so I stood in the shower for freezing cold one minute just to do it. There's a guy named wim Hoff, I think it is his name. Heard of him, and he's the fellow who recommends it's like extreme heat, extreme cold. And I did it. It was painful. I did it like three times and I said enough enough. Now, what's the what's the reason for that? Why does he promote that it's supposedly I remember listening to him in an interview and it's something about it's it boosts up the adrenaline of your so like therefore your body fights off, like it sends out this burst of adrenaline because you're dealing with the cold, because it's survival mode, you know, so like it's getting your it's getting the body kind of going.

So it kind of awakens you kind of a way. Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of that. That's why he's whim hoff and I'm not. I guess, so, I guess. So Mike Laughlin is here if you're just joining us, and you can join us two at six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven.

We we talked to last time you were here about the problem you were having with your throat, and you told me something off air that was interesting that it's it's actually so when you were here the last time, when we talked about it, you didn't know yet. From what I can recall, you didn't know yet exactly what was going on. I don't think you hadn't gotten a diagnosis. I'm alright, alright, I knew, I knew. Maybe I didn't say anything to you, so I apologize, But it's I have a thing called muscle tension dysphonium.

Okay, and I always say to people who have you've heard Robert F. Kenney Junior talk. He's probably the most famous person who has something like this. Yeah, he has a thing called

it's the I told you before Now I'm forgetting. Uh, it's it's he has the more extreme version. Yeah, his spasmatic dysphonium. Okay, And so his his voice is constantly fluttering. That's why it sounds. So it sounds like he's joking a lot, right, right, I can't listen to him. It's well, he acknowledges. I've heard him interview and he says, if you want to turn away, I understand because he couldn't listen to himself forever. And he will say. I've heard him say that it's much better now than it was a year ago.

He had to get a special surgery. Can't imagine what it was a year ago. Yeah, so you have what he has, not the same thing, the same it's in the same family, Okay, mine's mine's more it's it's a tightness of the vocal cords. Okay. But mine's not constantly doing that. Okay, It's more like it it gets sat occasionally if I overdo certain things. It's also possibly psychological I've heard so I don't know. I don't know what that. I don't I'm not conscious of any kind of anxiety or anything like that, but there might just be something my body's doing, like if I I'm not supposed to, like if they get angry and start screaming.

Yeah, that's not good for my voice, right, I have had to learn to kind of. I was going to vocal therapy, and the vocal therapist taught me how to sing a little differently and how to use my voice. I took these exercises. It's boring, blah blah blah. But does that help? I would say it did. I didn't see the progress as fast as I wanted to, so I stopped going Yeah, well what would so what what would you do? Uh? It would just like exercises like type of things? What do you mean? Yeah? Like what would what would it be like?

The you know, like regular vocal exercises like doing do re me but doing it in a you do a certain way you do that you also kind of I'll get away from the microphone for a second and go like I do things like this, Okay, that's the most annoying thing ever sounds like a bee. Yeah, but like it's just it's things to kind of release tension, Okay, and it's it's a combination of things. I think there might be something to do with diet. It's a whole but I've read up on a lot and it sounds like it's a lot of psychological things.

And yeah, the cruel and more fortunate thing is that sometimes alcohol makes the voice, makes my voice feel easier to sing. Yeah, So I will have the occasional drink before the shot just to loosen myself up, and I feel if I feel loose, I've done some exercises before. I'll do some like stretching just to kind of get that area of not a massage therapist, yeah, kind of get me going. I'm sure as the mesmer mesmerist, there might be some hypnotism stuff involved. Who knows, I don't know. I don't know, because I'm not a consciously anxious person, right, that doesn't mean that I don't have stuff in my body that's right that way, right, right?

Yeah, Yeah, very often those things and you know I know this from being a hypnotherapist certainly, but very often things that are are kind of bothering us mentally or psychologically that we're not dealing with, Like we don't think about them consciously, so we're not dealing with them. But they have a way of manifesting themselves physically within us. So yeah, that's very possible. So uh, but there's no it doesn't hurt, right, there's no pain associated with it. It's it can be disc it can be uncomfortable really.

Yeah, Like it'll be times when it's pretty tense and pretty tight that I just don't want to talk. Yeah, it doesn't hurt. That's the wrong word. It just feels tight. Yeah, kind of like I'm annoyed. I don't want to speak anything. I don't want to speak at all. It's hard to describe, but like it's there's definitely those moment I was feeling it the other day, really yeah, and I'm conscious of it right now, but like it's not overwhelming, so you just kind of deal with it. Yeah, I mean it might even be it's a it's an it happens more to people in their thirties, which they cross like their mid thirties.

Oh, so it's not like a young person's thing. It's it might just be aware and tear thing who knows and so yeah, yeah, interesting. Our friend Shannon is online. Hi Shannon, Hello, Hello, Hello Hello, this Humming hill like just going like that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, I've done stuff like that. Like it's like I said, like making weird like noises and stuff like that. It's just loosens it. It's a tech. I have a straw, a straw technique, the growth through a straw. Huh, what are you? Do? You know any secrets do I don't.

I just thought Humming did something, Humming did something for something. I forget. I just forget what it was. I didn't. Also, that was it. That's a song, isn't it. Humming does something for something? That's right? I might be confused slay or something. Yeah, it's evil. No, I don't know. I mean it might help. I don't know. But okay, that's curious. All right, thank you, all right, thank you for the call. Bye bye. Has it gotten any better or worse? Uh? I just kind of deal with it. It's one of those things.

When it first the first six months or so I had it, it was I will genially say, when I first got it was super depressing. Yeah, because that's a that's my I always say it's something. It's just it's a way, it's a livelihood thing. Yeah, something I'm good at. It's something I love doing. Yeah, so it's like a real bummer. Yeah, And that was pretty depressed for a while. And then whether it whatever stroke of luck you want to call it, if it's a stroke of luck, is then COVID happened and I couldn't say anyway, So I got I got a little chance to kind of rest it.

And oh that's interesting. Well I always say it with you know, with the pandemic, we have to find those silver linings where we can. Yeah. So so then when you started, when you started being able to sing again, Uh was it so it wasn't as bad as when it first happened. It's no, it's it's I mean maybe it's more like I've learned to deal with it, so I'm not thinking about it as much. But yeah, I still get like before a gig, I feel tight, Yeah, like okay, like I bring gum I'm doing right now, and or like like I've become addicted to cough drops, not because I have a cough, just because I like sucking on.

Oh that's gonna sound bad. I like, uh, I like to fit that feeling of having that and just kind of the constant kind of lozenge feel. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm not even sure if that's good for it. Might not be good for it even, but it might be psychological for me. I don't know. It's those weird things where and because every time I sing, it doesn't matter like this is my my problem or my benefit, whatever you want to call it is. It's I can't go half ass when I sing. Yeah, I kind of give it everything. So no matter if I'm playing just a random pub down the road for a bigger show, I can't just go I'm gonna take it easy tonight.

I just don't know how to do that, not me, so I just have to cut back. I don't play as often as I Like before, when I was in a band, we'd have rehearsal three nights a week maybe, oh yeah, and then having gigs, so I was singing probably four four nights a week. Yeah, And now I don't do that. Yeah, I play infrequently, so really like how infrequently? A couple times a month? Yeah? Yeah, like probably three times a month. Okay, okay, well you're still able to do it though, So that's good. Yeah, it's it is what it is.

I mean again, the people have worse problems. Oh yeah, I don't try to to like I try to put in perspective, but I can. I can still do it. Yeah, it's just a I don't know. Hopefully we'll just go away. Yeah. Yeah. And and let's go back to too, because you mentioned recording, So are you are? Are you and Sean are are you recording an album or what? Or an EP? Or just some singles? Okay, So during the whole twenty twenty thing, I started writing songs just because, I mean everyone did something. Yeah, I guess I also learned to cook.

But uh oh, I was just like I gotta do something. I was like, I gotta write some songs. And I started noticing that it wasn't conscious. It was the songs I was. I mean, you've heard the songs I've played for most of since you've known me. Yeah, the songs took on a different persona than the stuff I've done before. I think because I was playing them from a singer songwriter perspective. It's just me and a guitar, and there was no I didn't envision a band behind me because I wasn't doing that. Yeah, So they came out both as I'd say, much more singer songwritery and much more poppy positive.

I don't that's not the right word, but like it. They don't my other songs. There's a lot of moody stuff. I had a lot of atmospheric stuff I had, and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna write some just good tunes, just good tunes. And yeah, I got a few good tunes out of it. So like and so the stuff I'm doing with Sean, and it's hard to we haven't played as much as we should. It's hard to align schedules still, but oh yeah, we've we've got like six or seven blueprints of songs we've been working on so and then some further along than others.

Yeah, but it's it's I'm never gonna stop doing it. And I have I probably have forty new songs really in different stages when I'm saying that, not all fully lyrics, not all, but like there's I have the arrangements for probably forty and yeah, and I'm pretty not all of them. I have like my ideal if this is a perfect world, and I was like, gonna go check into an electric Ladyland Studios or something. I think I would do an acoustic album and an electric album and have like that kind of dichotomy.

But like, yeah, because there's there's definitely tones to each different. There's there's about ten songs. I think the best ten it would be for that one, and then the best ten it would be for that one, and probably go from there. But yeah, we'll see. Hopefully I can do something with it. But it's so hard. But if someone has any big money and they want to let me record in a nice studio for free, I mean, and you can have the accolades you recorded my songs. That's right, Please let me know. Call on to Matt Show that's right.

And is Sean playing drums or okay? And is it just just two of you for now? Okay? Because like much like nothing left to say. Uh, we did all that ourselves. I did all the other instruments except from maybe the bass might have been the bass part might have been someone else. I know I played it on a take. We might have kept that. It might have been somebody. It might have been Scrimmy or John. Oh, I can't. But I did all the guitar and the keyboard stuff, and then Seawan did all the drumming and different this.

He might have done some other percussive stuff on that too. Oh, but that was just the two of us. That's the same thing. We'll see. I think that when Sean comes here, he will we can talk about that more and full because we've had discussions about we have ideas for stuff, but it's not far long enough you have to talk about seriously, It's pretty cool though, that you can do this with just the two of you. It's modern technology, it's we know each other so well musically. That and also here's here's a fact about my songs.

I don't I'm no shredder, right, I don't, but I do have an ear for how a song should be. They're not they're not dream theater, right, I mean, so it's not like it's it's just it's they're songs. No, No, it's and there's there's some songs I've had in the past a little more difficult, but I would say for the most part, these are just they they're flow songs. They kind of just they're they're they're catchy melodic tunes. Yeah, and yeah, that's what I can say I mean, it's just to me. At the end of the day, I'm not I think about the lyrics I write.

I think about the songs, but I'm more about the melody and anything else. That's my thing is like that, that's the thing that sticks with me when I read. So I'll play a bunch of chords and if the melody sticks with me, I'll remember that two days later if I haven't played that song, Yeah, I look at the melody. I got that cool. And na's the thing that you remember anyway in a song, if anything, you know, it's the whether. Just don't stop believing whether whatever, it doesn't matter what it is, it's the melody, absolutely if it sticks with you.

And I think, while I said, I'm no shredder, I'm not the greatest guitar player. I'm not the greatest singer. I'm not the greatest anything. But I think I've a really good ear for melody. That's my gift. And I don't think you can teach that. I think it's a gift. I don't believe that's something you can learn. Yeah, like a great painter with an eye, whoever like painted the great who's the great picture over there? Oh? Yes, the giant cardboard Peter whitehead. Yes, whoever did that shout out to you because I couldn't do that.

Yeah, that was our friend Gonzo and yeah and it and it's it's wonderful too, because darre mean the and I want to stare right back at him and say, don't look at me. Well if you notice, uh And of course those of you people just listening can't see it, but if you're watching online you can see. If you notice, the eyes do follow you, Mona, Lisa M. Yeah, and he smiles and it's nice. You know. I remember when the giant cardboard Peter whitehad first appeared in the studio. I found it a little unsettling, like whoa, that's a because that's a giant cardboard head.

But now I find it comforting, or I find him comforting, you know who. He looks like who a punk rock Orville Reddenbocker. And that is why you are the Colonel slash caterer for Jerry Robinson's rock and roll arm. I mean, there are there are other reasons, but I can't go into them. Yeah, I think he looks a little bit like Sam Seeter from the Majority Report. You know, Sam, you know, Sam Seeter looks like a drawing. Though. To me, he has his eyebrows and he has to reflect, he has a his face looks like like some character from an art cartoon.

I know exactly what you mean. His expressions, his eyebrows, like his his glasses, and yeah, he looks more like a drawing. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. Joe Friday joins us in the Facebook live chat and says shout out to Jen h and Jenny said, that's one thing. Uh, the pandemic increased a lot of creativity maybe, I hope so. I think it definitely got people to do something. I mean, we all remember everyone was making sour dough bread and I remember asking someone, why don't you make a different kind of bread.

Billy Painter joins us in the chat. He says, Roy Orbison glasses. Oh on the giant cardboard, Peter, I see what he means. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that for any woman. WHA did you hear that? I heard him thinking to me, yes, yes, let's see. We also have a Night's Skylard or Skylard in the chat room. Who I'm pretty sure it's from Greensboro, North Carolina. Night Skylards says, hello, hashtag Matt from US. Good afternoon. We say, who's this person from us? Well, this person is Mike Laughlin. And Night Skylard also says, hi, hashtag gen coffee from us.

We are listening to this person Melanie law Liberty. We say, it is a good question. Is this person's middle name Bought? I think so. Night Skylard also says, we are from Greensboro, North Carolina. Oh, how did I know? How did I know? What did they have for lunch today? Oh that's a good question, Yes, Night Skylard, what did you have for lunch? We'll see if they Sometimes specific questions like that are become confusing to our friends in Greensboro, North Carolina. We're apparently the college theist quite the AI program US.

Oh, Night Skylard, Oh did we did we get an answer? Oh no, Night Skylard said, you said it from us. Well, that wasn't the question. What is the magic eight bells? They now, Oh we got an answer. Night Skylard says, we just ate Taco bell hashtag Matt. There you go, Well what did you what did you have from Taco Bell? Nights Skylard play this game all day six three two five oh six zero seven. The studio line is open if you have any questions or comments or anything at all. For Mike Laughlin, who is going to u in the second hour, He's going to play a few songs live for us, really looking forward to that.

When you play out when you play out shows, do you still play songs that go way back, like like the early stuff, all the way back to the band something, because I think that that's a band you were in when I first met it, right you were in? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do not much because again, those songs are harder to do with me and a voice and a guitar to get the effect because some of them were built on sound and not chords. Even there's kind of a there's a kind of vibe created, Like there's a song called Buried in You which was on that which I can't I just can't play it.

I mean I've I've messed around with someone to try and rearrange. I do it all the time. I'll rearrange the songs. Yeah, but it doesn't it's not worth doing it. Let's stay where it stays and I can play other songs. I mean this this plenty. I definitely, as I do do that. I've played song of Ascension from that time, which is an old song, which I'll played that sometimes. I think, I remember that one you've heard, You've heard a bunch of them, End of the World. I've done that once or twice. But like I let those songs work better in a band situation.

Yeah, I don't feel the need to play them like I don't if I had a full band, i'd be different conversation, but like it, don't feel the need. And some of them, like under the World, if I'm playing at some bar that song, my voice would become an annoyance because it's like, I really go there's a part, there's a there's a top to that song, which is back when my voice was strong. Yeah, I gotta get up. That was like you read you could scrape the clouds with that one. It's sawing some good days, yeah, and that would that's not appropriate for it's That's the weird thing doing this kind of thing is when you go to a club to see a band, the people are there to see the band or see music.

When you're playing at pubs and restaurants that kind of thing, they're there for food and the night out with their friends or family or whatever, and the music is kind of a nice accompaniment. Yeah, it's a nice add on it's soundtrack. It's it's not the same thing as I won't play the places where I'm sonic wallpaper. I won't do that. Yeah, I don't. I always say I'm not in the marin Era restaurant crowd. I don't. I'm not from my corner. Like, I do understand that some songs are just not going to fit in a venue because it's two.

It's not meant for that, So I choose my songs based on that sometimes. Yeah, it's just the way it is. It's just yeah, yeah, well you have you have a lot. You've written so much that you have a lot to choose from too, which is nice. And I'm mostly playing, honestly now, the majority of the stuff I play now, other than the cover songs or the new stuff. Yeah, I just want to focus on it. And they're also just they said they're more song catchy songs that are like they I'm excited for playing them one, but they're also just they fit that kind of venue better.

They're just that kind of vibe. So whatever I mean, I'm lucky to have those, I guess, and I'll take I'll take them over most people's songs about that. There you go, you go. Oh we did get an answer, Night Skylard says, we add soft talk goes and nachos a little vague corn tortilla. So they said soft taco okay, soft off okay, flower and nachos. All right, Where does what's the best non taco bell restaurant in Greensboro? Oh? Good question, Like, what's the local restaurant? No chains? M hmm. I want to answer because I'm flying to Greensboro to do a show in one week.

Oh wow, yeah, one one show. Joe Friday in the chat room said, diarrhea special. That happens to me if I eat pizza hut that's not real pizza, great breadsticks. But yes, oh yes, Night Skylard says, we say, Mike, good question. I'll wait for a better answer. Yes, yes, let's see. So, uh, where do you do you have favorite places that you play when you when you play out? Yeah, I there's people there. There's reasons for the different reasons for different places, just like the people who There's a place called the White Mountain Tavern in Lincoln.

Love those guys, they're just Dave and Melissa. They're just cool people to me. Defiant Records in Laconia is a new place by the Colonial Theater. Remember the Colonial Theater. Yes, the record store right next to it now with the pub ok idea. Yeah, and actually you know who provides the records there is Do you know Gavin McDaniel the band Do you know the band is the Noise? Yes, Okay, I interviewed them. I used to play with them years ago, and I think he's the guy who now provides a lot of their albums.

There like so cool place. I love Kristin, the owner there too, and it's a cool place. There's a place in Plymouth called the Last Chair, which is probably my with the mixture of the location, the people, the reception, the food, it's probably my favorite place to play. Yeah, it just for all the ingredients combined. But like, yeah, it's I can't play much down south here. It's because I don't know if you know the rules there's it's you. I have you go through agencies and I won't mention any names because I want to be an a hole about it, but you have to, like you have to go through certain people, or you can't get in because they run every club.

Yeah, like you we go through our agency, or you can't get it, can't get in right right, I quit. Sounds like I'm not gonna. I can't play off in anyway. So it's not worth it to me. Yeah, the hustle, so it's not like I'm losing that much. So oh, we did get an answer to that last question. Night Skylard says at high Point Road close to Groomtown in Greensboro, North Carolina. Never mentioned the name of the place, but it's at high Point Road close to Groomtown in Greensboro, North Carolina, apparently is where you can get I don't even remember what the question was.

Now, is it what's the best non chain restaurant? Yes, yes, yeah, don't know, but but it's at high Point Road. If that helps. So when you go to play that show there, ask for I'll write that down, ask for high Point Road and I'll just am I knocking on a door. Yeah, just knock on somebody's source to say hey, I'm looking for a high Point Road. And if they don't know where high Point Road is, you can just say, well it's I'm told it's close to Groomtown in Greensboro. Who is what's their name again? What is their collective name, Night's Skylard?

Is it one person who knows. I don't want to be disrespectful, but I'm just trying to I'm trying to nail it down because they seem very informative. Yes, and so when I go there, maybe I should just look them up. Oh yes, look up? What is their real name? As far as I know, it's nights Skylard. Is that is Skylard? Is that is that British? I don't know. I think it's a common name in Greensboro, North Carolina. It's like a family, uh that that you know, the Skylards, they run that city. It's not Oh yeah, I see what you're talking about.

Yeah yeah, yeah. Hello to Eric Street in the Facebook lave chat, Oh Night Skylard says, we are five members. We are a pop singing group USA. Are they from South Korea? No, They're from Greensboro, North Carolina. How dare you? Well? Where where are you originally? Soap? So? Can I look you guys up online? Because I think I want to promote you to the world. Here on the Matt Connerton Unleashed Show. Where would we look you up online? And are you from South Korea? That's a good two questions. That is a good two questions.

Night Skylard will probably I'm gonna make a prediction, it's probably going to say that they are. They have a karaoke show coming up at I think it's us Saint Pious the Tenth Church in Greensboro. Have you have you heard this before? Oh yeah, not necessarily from Night Skylard, but from other people from Greensboro, North Carolina. Are they your town? Is health? Is Greensboro, North Carolina? Your your hotbed of the Matt Connerton on these show. Yes, we have two hotbeds of course, Manchester, New Hampshire and Greensboro, North Carolina, your sister city.

We have quite a fight. Yes, if we have quite a following there, Night Skylard says, we have a Facebook like page.

We need to look this up. That's not much their trust me. Well we are. We are almost at the top of the hour, so I'm looking forward to hearing you play. So what we'll do is we're gonna play another one of your your studio tracks from the band Mantra. Actually this was recorded in that bandroom we were talking about, right, Don't Mess with Texas, same time, same batch of songs, same time periods. Soon and Sean recorded this. Yep, very good, very good. Who else is on this track with you? Because this is you recorded this live with the full band?

Right? Or did this is just me and Sean? And maybe again, maybe maybe a Bassis stepping in, maybe to fill out my lack of bas skills. They might have stepped in and done something better than me. Oh, I gotcha. Okay, So we're gonna play the track. It's called Don't Mess with Texas, and we're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors. And then when we come back in the second hour, Mike is gonna play live for us. By the way, night Skylard in the chat room, says hashtag Matt Connerton. We will be performing at the karaoke at Center City Park, downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.

Saint Pious tenth in Manchester is where Robbie Oh does his funeral gigs. I don't know who Robbio is. Okay. First of all, what kind of a karaoke special is where the funeral gigs up? Second of all, everyone, everyone listening to this needs to go to Greensboro, North Carolina, or if I have someone who you know and check this out and film it, because I bet you I'm going out. This is amazing. I bet you they're amazing. I'm a full blown fan without even hearing it. Yes, oh, aren't we all? And uh yeah, all right we got two.

Oh we have many smiley faces from night skylard. All right, very good, love you. Let's let's give this a listen. This is uh, don't Mess with Texas? Do you do you play this one I've ever heard? Or not not? Maybe one's just as a giggle, but like it doesn't it's timely. It's a timely song about the old. Yeah. This this was sequel to g W the second not George Washington, but the other one, right right, that's all. Oh, Joe Friday says Robbie. Oh can pull off a karaoke gega to a funeral? Yeah you can?

They go the big Oh? I remember I know Robbie. All right, here it is. This is Don't Mess with Texas. This is a great song. Check it out once again, the amazing Marie. This. This next song is uh, this one's for everyone's favorite fellow. This one's for g wn.

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Hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact in Folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday, September fourteen, two thousand twenty three. We have a great guest with us today. Mike Laughlan is here with us and he is now migrated over to the couch and he's gonna play some He's gonna play some songs for us. Really really looking forward to this.

Mike, welcome back if you're if you're just joining us, our second hour listeners will be hearing you for the first time today. And I just got back from h I took a quick break and went down to North Carolina. Oh yeah, down to Greensboro. Yeah, what did you? Did you see some karaoke? Not yet, but I heard there was a great performance coming up in a couple of days. Yes, well you know, night Skylard does say in the Facebook live chat, Mike, we sing and dance, become a quartet. We say from us, we say thank you, and we say I'm your biggest fan.

By the way, Jenny says that song was awesome. She really liked that Don't Mess with Texas. Thanks Jenny. Oh and apparently night Skylard liked it as well. That's okay, I can walk out it right now. Night Skylard says, a good catchy song, we say,

I want them to sing it karaoke. Yes, well, we'll turn it over to you, Mike. I'm looking forward to looking forward to hearing you play cool and I'll let you if you want to introduce the songs or however you want to do it, certainly. Oh yeah, this is a song called the Bottom. This is one of the ones I've been working on. So oh so this is new. This is why I haven't heard it. You got it? That's one thought i'd play some new stuff again. All right? Then? Hello, lights your minds to night Moon. She hangs like he's burning bright, but it don't feel right.

You'll blow, won't bring me the answer? Well, i'm not reading in the side.

I need a break from my mind. Give me to try, and don't ask why I'm just saying this. Father. I see the chalkiest cloud on the road ahead, on my wet chees, the bottom. The choice is my bood. It's the choice that I drift on my wet chee, the bottom on my wet chee, the bottom in on my mind. She caught my eye, Christ up in damage and danger is lucky lady, Will you be in mind tonight? Rull the dice with the stranger. I'm not reading the sign. I need a break from my mind. Give it a try, and don't ask why I'm just stalling this.

Father, I'm real firing horn hell her. That's what she said. On her way, eat cheese the bottom. I'll grab the bottle and I'll eat you in beil on our way, eat cheese the bottom on our we eat cheese the bottom. Hey,

I'm not eating the size. I need a break from my mind.

Give it a try, and lone ass why I'm just stealing this for the right. Oh, I'm half firing holy water, that's what she said. All I'm wet chee the bottom. Now grab the bottle and I'll beat she win ben on my weed cheese. The bottom I see in the talk is cloud on the road head on my weed chees the bottom. The shust is my bood. It's the hustead I dream on my we e chee. The battom on my weed e chee, the battom on my weight. Mhm, I love it. That's awesome, dude, Thanks man, very very cool. If you're just joining us.

Mike Laughlin is here with us live in studio. He's playing a few songs for us. And uh so that's how new is that? You said, that's pretty recent I wrote it. Yeah, it's a newer I mean it's last two years. Yeah, yeah, I haven't. Yeah, and that's one of the ones you and Sean are working on recording. Yeah, very nice, very nice. Yeah, it's it's a have you seen I don't like giving away songs like what they are about, and it's not really about whatever. This isn't giving anything away. But yeah, have you seen the movie uh Star was Born?

You know, I'm Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper one I have not? It is very good, is it? And Bradley Cooper is amazing in it? And I remember watching that and I was like, I want to try and write a song as if I was that character. It was like an experiment more than anything. I was like, I'm gonna try and come up with an interesting way to write a song. And I was like, this is a song. I would have written this as him. Oh okay. Interesting. It's a good movie though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jenny Jenny said in the chat room kick Ass.

She really liked it, and uh night, Skylard says, woo awesome. Mike Lacklan right from us once again, Skylard,

you we they are the best, and Melody Liberty said the bottom this guy is such a perv. I don't think it's uh fat bottom girls. I stole it from them, right right. It's probably good that you explained. It's okay. I think whatever you want. I shouldn't explained. I don't like that, but made me think like that was the experiment I was doing. How about that? Yeah? Yeah, no, that's cool. That's cool. All right, Well you want to play another one? I'm

impend to the one that guitar sounds really good? Does it? I can't tell what the headphones on what sounds good or not? Yea, my voice sounds weird? Really? Can I take it off when I'm playing? Oh? Absolutely, it sounds weird to me? Absolutely? Yeah. The only reason you'd really need him is if, you know, if we get a call, because you'll put him back on when I've done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah yeah, yeah, I can play another new one, I guess. Yeah, this is my newest one I've been playing out.

Uh, it's called the sentimental kind. Okay,

we'll start sitting there twisting wine. She was staring at the wall on the loute line, a bribing memory place in her mind. Curiosity, it comes to your mind now, I I'm not gonna say she's wrong, all right,

but I can tell she's the siner man til kind. We'll thought. I took a chance to make her smile, so I played the food, but done in style, and when she looked at me with some surprise,

I have the melody behind those eyes. Now I'm not gonna tell you all this byhind, but I can't see the siner man an okind. I'm on, babyes and women everything. I wanna see the wo fa you see, but the flies and bundles on her mind. I can see your sin, a man okind. Oh, Now, I'm not gonna up till all is fiekind, But I can't see the sin a man of kind. Come on, babies and man everything. I wanna see. The woes in me you see, but the flies and ubers on her mind. I can't see your sin, a man of kind. I wanna share the things I have in me, complicated it with the sim place to see.

Can you see what lies behind these eyes? Do you see? I'm sin a man of kind,

he outstanding, outstanding missy, missie. Yes, yes, if you're joining us. Mike Laughlin is here with us in studio. By the way, Nights Skylard did apologize for forgetting your name wrong. I forgot their name too, so it's okay. Uh, let's see. DJ Steve is on the Facebook live chat. I get to hang out with J Steve every Friday night for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C from eight to eleven pm here at w m n H ninety five point three FM, along with of course, uh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry also joins to sign that show.

DJ C says, good afternoon, great show, awesome tunes, very nice. So you've got a new fan there, Thank you, sy and night Skylard said, great tune from us. It was written by them. Wow, So I did take it to be honest. I had no idea. I had no idea. That's astounding. You did tell me off air that the band Floodwatch actually covered one of your songs, which I didn't realize. Yeah, nothing left to say the one you opened the show with, Yeah, amazing. They were probably probably my favorite band in New Hampshire, no kidding.

When they were Yeah, I remember interviewing them a long time ago. Are they still together. I don't think so. I don't. It's been a while. Yeah, so they were just I don't know, there was something they had to have, this grit and soul that I love and this kind of they were like Johnny Cash if he picked up it was like a darkness and mood to them. That was just amazing to me. Yeah, he had a Dave had a great voice and their songs were great. Yeah. So they were unique too, so no one else sounded like them.

I'll have to see if I can find that song online. Flood Watch would be a very appropriate name for for now, it's maybe they should reunite. It seems like around here we're always having floods. It was a weird summer. Absolutely, absolutely, Do you want to play one more? You said you wanted to do three? I could do one more. I guess do one more. I'll maybe I'll do one from the past before I play. Yes. So I was thinking about this the day as a person who interviews musician musicians, Yes, who's the best interview in rock?

Like what musician is the best. I think I know the answer, but what's why what you Noel Gallagher? Yeah, I think it is just so candid and funny. Yeah, and you don't get It's one of the reasons why I find music. Music interviews are bland as can be for the most part, especially now because everyone's I think since the cell phone, the iPhone. I think honestly, one of the reasons why rock there's no rock stars is because of the cell phone, because everything and then social media you can see everyone's movements and what they're saying, and no one wants to be heard saying the wrong thing.

So what Axel Rose might have said nineteen eighty eight, or what Led Zepplin might have done on tour Milwaukee in nineteen seventy four, or you know all these things, Yeah, you didn't have that with a cell phone. So, like, everyone's so careful. So when you hear someone like Noel Gallagher just get up there and say anything, it's like God, yes, and he's hilarious. Yeah yeah, so yeah, i'd probably agree with you. I would also put probably out Scooper in the mix. I haven't heard him in a long time interview, so I don't.

His interviews are always really interesting. But I know what you mean. You know it's funny, uh you know, as you know, Kiss is my favorite band, But I've never enjoyed their interviews much because they tend to be very They're so mindful of everything that they say. They're almost it's a business for them. They're they're almost too careful. They did open up, they were recently interviewed by Howard Stern, and you know, now that they're in their seventies, there they open up a lot more. But Gene Simmons in particular has always been so guarded about what he says.

You know that, you know, I'd never feel like I like I'm learning much, And now that I'm thinking about it, that's actually true of a lot of a lot of the musicians I grew up loving are like that. But but now even more so, You're right. I mean, social media really changed the dynamics, and now everyone's very worried about saying the wrong because I think every I've had this theory that everything in public life would last since the phone own his optics, everything, because you could get in trouble at work, you could your your could get sacked from your job.

You could your sales from your album go down if you're a musician. There's a million factors of this. So it's saying the wrong thing now because the Twitter mob could eat you alive, or there's a picture of you which Iggy Pop in nineteen eighty wouldn't have to worry about. You know, it's like it's but now it's like everyone is careful that it's that kind of that lack of danger is in the air, like that kind of one of the beautiful things about rock and roll is and I mean rock and roll loosely isn't music really, but like is the kind of the rock star idea was the kind of care freeness.

I mean, we don't care but now but like so you don't. I think it's one of the big reasons why there was no rock stars because if you think of imagine Jim Morrison, imagine David Lee Roth in his prime. Now you wouldn't be allowed to be that guy yeah loud, like you know what I mean, But like it's it's not it'll be frowned upon. So but my always I always come back to this is I think that it's kind of nonsense because especially with Jim Morrison and with David Lee Roth. I know, maybe more girls who like The Doors and Men and Aerosmith, and I know so women love those bands too.

It's not like it's not like, oh, every every woman's like what a what a misogynist? Like it's a weird rock and roll always had this mystery danger area. It's like this weird fantasy that would like I remember hearing Cheryl Crowe say that she lost to Virginia to Robert Plant because it was the way he made her feel when he sang like he was like the way that she was like, Oh, there was something about the way he's saying that just made me, you know. Yeah. And there's something about rock stars that are like that that you can't put in a box.

Yeah, And it's something interesting that it's not we can't behave that way now for a billion reasons. But I think the energy of that is gone, you know what I mean. I think there's an energy that was existed. And here's here's here's a full disclosure. I was not a Kiss fan. I'm not a Van Halen fan, So I'm not like I'm like, oh yeah, but I'm just saying the rock star idea that we have in our head of Steven Tyler and all those guys and gals too, like like a Courtney Love

that they're so free spirited, and the free spirit seems to me, to me, it's been caged, like the energy is caged right now, and it's like run, name me the biggest rock star in America. Well, I would say while Metallica is still huge, they might be, but I would say food fighters are big. Well, that's I was thinking about Dave Grohl actually while you were talking, because there's an example of somebody he is. But here's my bigger point. I'm gonna get to Yeah, Dave, girls like fifty two? Yeah, where's the twenty three rols?

Right? Where the young? That's because rock and roll, let's be honest, is a young person's thing, the same way rap as a young person's thing. It's the energy to a youth. Metal and punk those are like yeah, like kids like having the energy and going out and feeling that kind of youthful vibe. If we're all going to experience this together, Yeah, And I just feel like Mattel is something about these old kids are listening to older bands now because that's all there is for rock, there's no I mean maybe is the biggest band imagine Dragons.

See. I think there's a lot of I think if you go on Spotify or or on other sides like band camp, I think they're I guess I see it a little bit differently in that I don't think there's there's certainly not a lack of rock bands. That's when I'm getting the cultural the cultural impact. But how do you break through? But is it is that because of what you're talking about in terms of everyone has to be more careful or is it more just everything's changed because the Internet changed the dynamics of everything, many variables.

I think it's not just one, but I think it's a combination of you put all that stew together. There's no young rock bands that are the way when we were younger, rock was big. You could turn on rock was the king, right And I know and again I mean rock rap two like you could you could listen to Tupac Biggie, You'd have Nirvana, you'd have Sound Garden, you'd have Metallica. These were bands that were like on the radio as top top one hundred bands. Yeah, like these are they permeated culture there's none of that now that don't that doesn't get through.

It's all the same Swedish producer kind of making the same four or five people and just it's and then I mean, I'll give credit to Ed Shearon because he does I think he does his own stuff. It's not my thing, but like I think he. I think Taylor Swift, even though she has like fifty producers, I think she writes most of her songs. I believe, so I'll give credit. But like as far as that rock energy, Ed Sheer and Taylor Swift don't give off the rock five. They're not like they're not like the kind of thing you put your imagination to and go, you know, like that kind of like poster on the wall, like, oh there's something about them.

I want to like, I said those guys I mentioned before, Well, you know, twenty years ago, Jean Simmons was saying that at that time that and maybe this wouldn't hold up now, but he was saying then that that hip hop artists whore the new rocks start. There was some of that, and I think that because because they had at that point some of that same energy that maybe the early rock stars had. I think that that did happen. It did trends, it did move. But I think it's a lot of combinations of factors here.

It's just weird to me. It's like I keep saying, when whenever I got these conversations at bars or with other people, like where are the twenty three year olds? Okay, where are they beating perm and the culture? I don't mean because all the people we've mentioned, including including Ed Sheer and including Taylor Swift, are all in their thirties. I believe, no, not, you can't play in your thirties. I mean the emerging artists young, the movement of youth. The same way in the sixties and the seventies and the eighties and the nineties, there were all people in their early twenties, right, So I don't know what's happened.

I don't is part of it is learning the guitar too too much because they're distracted by so many things and it just takes too much alone time. I don't know. I don't know the answer. It just there's a lot of it's sad to me, and it sounds like old man on the But like I do believe, and I've heard you know who Rick Biado is no great music YouTube channel musician, and I've heard him discuss something like this too. Is it just is it's it's it's weird to not see it existing anymore. It's like no one's playing songs like that anymore, like in the again, in the culture, that's my thing.

Of course there's always bands it exists, but right, but but somebody is playing songs like that though somewhere, but somewhere, but it's an ocean Somewhere's my point. I mean, the kind of the kind of the way it dictated culture, the way it was like in the sixties you had the Stones and the Beatles, and the fact that Crosby, Stills and Nash was listened to by sixteen year olds. Imagine that Now that doesn't sound sixteen year old music. True, Now that doesn't the same way jazz Maybe Frank Sinatras and telling sixteen year old music either, But like there's something about the energy of those whether it was jazz, whether it was Elvis, whether it was Sinatra, whether it was punk rock, whether it was metal, whether it was grunge, whether it was all the way up to like the Strokes or something.

What happened after that I don't know. I just and that coincidentally is the same time the iPhone came in coincidentally, right around that late two thousands. Yeah, the knots is it is there Maybe just maybe there's just not as much to rebel against anymore. There's always, but there's always it's always youthful rebellion. You just get mad at every I mean, think about half the stuff I remember myself and other people just being mad about was not real. You just have that. It's just that energy to say fu, it's a big middle finger whatever whatever it is.

And so there's obviously kids doing that. I just think it's like, I don't I don't know. It's a weird time. It's a weird, but I feel like it's it's it's waiting to burst through. I know that it's going to it's going to again. I just don't know who it will be. There's a couple of artists who have heard. There's a guy Nay Maren who I always shout out, Oh, Jenny is a big fan of his. He's Prince. I want to curse it, I won't. He's so good. Yeah, and he's unique. He's a person that I would say is pretty great.

He's a rap, he is rapid, he can do everything, do everything, you can play guitar, he's like Prince. Yeah, he's just like a supernova. Yeah. But I don't I don't know, to be fair, I don't listen the way I used to listen as much. I don't much scouring music the way when we worked in a music store. You can scour through the three days, right, I don't know what the kids are listening to when when you're when you play your next song. While you're doing that, I'm gonna pull up the current Billboard Hot one hundred.

I want to look at it. I bet there's a lot of bad Bunny, a lot of a lot of people with the name Lil But but even but even even those people, that's not. I guarantee you most rap fans will say that's not. But it becomes weird. It's big. It's like every older generation says, the new thing sucks, right, you know what I mean? But like, is that ever true? You know, like no, no, I've probably said this you before. But my my dad, who listens to the show, you know, he's I think he's seventy six years old now, and he to this day.

So he lives on the Sea coast and uh, he loves listening to college radio like he loves wunh because my dad, no matter how old he gets, he still loves hearing new music. It's great and new rock bands. That's how he's that's how he's always been. Because most people, I feel like, by the time they hit thirty, it's like it's just natural. It's like they just go, Okay. All the music up to this point was really good, and anything that comes comes out after this point in my life, I'm going to hate. Which musicians don't think that.

That's no, that's because yes, you're right, but but but Normy's quote unquote do think that most people think associate music with youth, right, I remember what being sixteen years old driving in my car with my friends and I heard that song and then but your musicians don't think that way, right, There's it's just that's why those people join bands or become obsessive whatever. Yeah, like the Captain, But it is a thing. But I do think there were people who are older, like who are part of the sixties generation and who would listen to nineties rock and still understand it.

Yeah, whereas I don't think that's true of now. It's a different It's insanely simple. And I don't mean simple as in the chords, I mean as in it's really I've heard enough again because I I'm around, I heard enough kids stuff, you know. And and they don't like it either. They prefer music from other time. Yeah, they have Tupac shirts and Metallica shirts and Nirvana. I was gonna say, I see a lot of young people wearing Nirvana shirt and and that's it's both amazing and really great, but it's also sad to me because you're supposed to rebel against the prior generation.

That's your job kind of, it's your job as a teenager. And and but it's not. I don't know, it's it seems like we're in a stuck place right now, and I just hope we get out of it soon. So I'll put you know what you actually played my song I heard yesterday on the air. I'm like, don't let the music stop. Don't let the music stop, don't let the don't let don't let the passion go away, don't let the spirit. That's to me is this thing as a person for me art matters to me. It's like that's like my amoda religious person, but like that is the closest thing to God for me.

It's when I that's what I take, like feel as much as I love movies, I take it seriously. I do really love movies and music and art because that is my I think that's the creative, that's the closest thing where some people can go for that. Everyone's not going to be religious, but I think there are ways to access access that for other people. And that's it from me. And so when I talk about it, I think I take it more serious than other people. And because most people it's just their lives and they want to have fun and that's totally normal and understandable, but it's not that way for me.

Right So, Like if I get more passionate about it, it's not because I'm better or anything like that, just that it matters more, you know. And And so I don't know that was why am I talking so seriously on the show. This is a comedy show, right man. You know, it's it's it's whatever it is at any given moment. But but I totally totally get what you're saying. Yeah, it's it's it is, and it's no no soap fuck necessary. It's just it matters to me, and I know it matters to a lot of people. And I just that spirit of art I feel is in a weird place and I just am longing for I'm longing for the Quentin Tarantinos and the Kurt Cobain's and the whoever to kind of bust through just that kind of thing to kind of go, wow, what was that?

Because when I first saw Quentin Tarantino movies, I was like, what is this? Right when I first heard Nirvana, you were kind of more of a hair metal Would you call it hair metal? Would you call eighties rock? I don't know what you I didn't like that. I did like guns and Roses, but I didn't call it that. I love guns through it. But like when I heard Nirvana or whatever it was, for me, that was a what is this moment? And I think those I imagine being like a fifteen year old right now, what is there?

What is this moment? Like that's a cool thing. Every person should experience that and because it kind of changes you and for me, that's part of the reason why I'm picking up a guitar. Right now and holding a guitar is because I heard that went that's amazing, that's amazing, And I don't know what that is. I don't know what that is right now? What is the inspirational? Who are the inspirations I don't have? I can't think of one. And I don't mean that to be mean. I just don't hear anything. I mean the majority of anything that really excites that.

I can see me being fifteen year old me going whoa you know? Who knows? Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I would have said something else, But I was also not the kind of kid who said that often. Yeah, so who knows. I'll shut up. All right, Mike Laughlin is in studio with us, and you're gonna play Uh, don't let the music stop. Yeah, I'll play that. It's been a long time since I played this one. Awesome. If I forget the words, go with it. I'll have a who is our friends in Greensboro again? Oh? Yes, Night's Skylard, Night's Skylard.

If I forget the words to my song,

I know you know them. That's right, So send them to Matt and we'll start again. All right, Here we go sum much for opportunity. So much for all the best, these lies they've gone from my head,

so much for the fire baptism a man desire, we live them burn out, I guess, and talking about love, shocking about love, chocking about love, shocking about love. So much for the prophecy, so much for brown out bliffs. I blame. Now look what I meant, So I swim a little closerver my hands won't touch as reach out for you. B

shogging by love, shogging by love, shogging by love, shogging by love.

Now soul, cister, shine out here in the dark, and you made up your mind. Here now I'm making a noise and cut water. Red bird streets in my heart. Come on now, come on now, don't let them use its stark. So much for the hijack nights and dances in the dark. Where are you and where is the spark? Here comes the ocean to wash away the paint, Bunny and Clyde, Or watch the bullet's bread shocking my love, shogging about love, shogging about love, food

shogging about love, my soulcyster, shine out here in the dark, and you made up your mind. And now I'm becking ann and you with bird streets in my heart. Come on now, come on now, don't have a music star on. No socister is shine out here in the dark, and you'll made up your mind. And now I'm making a noise and cold re burn straight from my heart. Come on now, come on now, don't let music stop. Don't let music stop. Don't let music it stop.

Don't let music stop. Awesome Mike Laughlin live in studio with us. By the way, Mariam banishing the chat room says, nice voice really like in this, thanks man, Gal. I was struggling so really yea, yeah I could. I was getting night wow and night Skylard says, uh oh awesome hashtag Michael Laughlin, we said from us, so they learned your name. By the way, I did look up the Billboard Hot one hundred and you were right about what part the lills. Yeah, and just said no, no real rock bands. And I mean I didn't scroll down too too far, but yeah, you're right.

It's just is what it is. I don't again, it doesn't it's not even that it's rock. That's a personal thing for me, and I would think it always exists because here's

there's something attractive and tangible about seeing people play things that are real and getting up there and sweating and making mistakes even but hearing and seeing that that energy of people who created something coming together and using organic materials. Yeah, I don't know what that. It's why I always love Jack White, he says say something about that too. It's like that level of he would he would buy crappy guitars and just struggle with them. And you don't have to go that far. But there's something about we all know we see if you go out and see people and you see them play, there's something just different than hearing someone press a button, you know what I mean.

It's why it's why rap. I used to a couple of rap concerts when I was younger. It was not good. Now sometimes you get like the Roots, but they're not really just rap. Like there's it's something about just that beat. Rhythm doesn't work by itself live. You need more tones and there's no if you're not playing something, it doesn't work live. I have a theory about that. I think that, yeah, And it does work better when it's like like the Roots, where you have an instrument. Snoop Dogg doesn't too sometimes the band Yeah, yeah, I think it works better with with I think it works better that way because the problem is if if if it's just beats with you know, a little bit of synth and whatnot, it doesn't create a wall of sound.

You have to have the wall of sound otherwise it sounds thin. Yeah, because I've been to rap shows where I've felt that too. It's like, you know, and I I love hip hop actually, but but live in some cases it just doesn't work as well because you if you don't have a wall of sound, the ears get bored, you know, your ears. It's like because when you're listening to there's something about it's like a recipe. Okay, so when you have if you just have, if you have no salt or any spice, it's it might be delicious fish or whatever, chicken or something.

Yeah, but if there's nothing else to preoccupy you your palette, it's just one note and after the fifteenth bite, it's like the same thing you need to have. There's something too. It's like an orchestra. You have the violin and the whole. There's all these layers that kind of contribute to that whole that make it interesting to the ear. And even in something like pop music when you have a guitar, a bass, a drum, a piano or something, and even a voice, different voices, background vocals. Yeah, there's something about that, that's all.

It's the hit some kind of harmony frequency that's appealing to people. Yeah, and I think that you can tell now. And because because of AI and because of auto tune, I don't know, there's something inauthentic. I'd rather see someone struggle, but I would be really them yea, than have it be. I mean, if you can't do it at all, then you shouldn't be doing it right. I'd rather hear you struggle a little bit. Like I really did struggle singing that last song. Really. It was like there's a couple of times I had to kind of go tune it down, just go in different directions.

I've seen people I know who can sing struggle. Sometimes it's like now you go all right, but like it feels like you're in the moment and you're seeing someone delivers something right, authentic, right, and you can't trade that. You can't just listen to the alban home, right, you know, Glenn ar j will Let, the People's mayors and the Chatwman says music lives in a life of its own throughout the global universe, coming from all cultures throughout. Great show. Thank you, thank you, Glenn Global universe.

Wow deep, I think I know what he means. Yeah, no, I do too, I do too. Jay Fed said, do you need Matt to swab your throat? I'm not a medical professional, Jay, Jay Fed, I don't think I can help. After the show, Matt, right, well we are. We are just about out a time. Mike. This is wonderful as always. Great to see you and sound great and I love the new songs. When's your next We should plug? Do you have anything coming up this weekend or no, I'm the end of the month. I'm playing at Defiant Records on a Friday.

Whatever. That is the twenty nine. Thank you some of that. Okay, yeah that's I've taken some time off, so yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all good. I don't I don't expect It's one of those things. But I don't expect people to come to the shows like this. It's not a band thing. It's like again I said it before earlier, it's like, you know, people are out. If you're there, cool, if you're in town, stop on in have a drink, some hang out, listen to something. I'm not good at promoting this kind of thing, So it is what it is, very good.

And and for people who want to keep up on what you're doing, should they just follow you on social media? You can. You can contact the skylards. They have whatever they are, they have all my info. I'm not. I stay off the kind of socialist for my music. As far as promotion. I have my Facebook page. Well I was going to say usually, but but I've only usually do that with my friends or people have met, so I'm not really Again, I'm not good at selling myself for this. It's not something I actively because what I'm doing is I always say it's the commerce, not the art phase of this.

Yeah, so it's not a for the most like seventy five percent of my gigs, I'm playing cover songs, right, So it is what it is. I don't need to find I should put myself out there on other sites like I did. There are places like you know sound soundclouds still exist. What are the places now, Matt? What are the kids using now? For the band? Camp is a big one, okay, band camp dot com. But I'm done recording my stuff. I will go on to those kind of places and put stuff out excellent. I will do that eventually, But as far as coming to see me play, I'll be a Madison Square garden.

I think I'm going to the Los Angeles the tweet whatever it's called, the Tweeter Center, and now in Harbor Lights whatever it is, the Cambridge I'm doing. Uh, I'm playing Wembley Stadium in October. Good for you. Great Pyramid of Giza November and Antarctic, the Health Poll at the Penguin Coliseum in December. You should do the whole pyramid circuit. Oh, the Mayan Ones beautiful. I did that last year. Yeah, very good, Mike, Thank you again, my friend. And uh, if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com.

And tomorrow's Friday, so don't forget tomorrow. On the show. Of course, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, as we do every Friday, and then we also have a band Able Blood. We'll be our musical guest tomorrow. And I was thinking to close out, I won't have time to play the whole thing. But I was thinking maybe born again by glorious noise, good closing track, Shoot, go forward, Yeah, all right, all right, so we'll give this a spin. Thank you again the great Mike Laughlin. And that's it for us for now.

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