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Speaker 16: Welcome back everybody. We are well into our third hour
Speaker 16: New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
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Speaker 16: two thy twenty four and we just heard a track
Speaker 16: called four and Ever and that is wisely done and
Speaker 16: we have Stephen Michael Done is here with us live
Speaker 16: in studio. Hello, welcome. Oh I don't have your mic up.
Speaker 16: I apologize for that. Let's try that again.
Speaker 17: Hello, Hello sir, there we go.
Speaker 16: We switched switched on Mike's at the last minute there,
Speaker 16: but now that sounds good, so welcome. It has been
Speaker 16: quite a long time since.
Speaker 17: You and I talked, Yes, sir, it's been a lifetime.
Speaker 16: I have interviewed you before. What it must have been like,
Speaker 16: literally like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 17: Yes, is that even possible?
Speaker 16: It's amazing. That doesn't even seem possible to me. It's
Speaker 16: funny because you would uh you had reached out to
Speaker 16: us and you had mentioned at the time you were
Speaker 16: in the band Supplication, and I remember, I think in
Speaker 16: your message you said something like I don't know if
Speaker 16: you remember me or and I was like, oh, of
Speaker 16: course I remember the band. And then I saw your
Speaker 16: picture on Facebook and I was like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 16: totally remember you. But uh yeah, so that was yeah,
Speaker 16: that was quite some time ago. And you said I
Speaker 16: actually interviewed you twice back then.
Speaker 17: Yeah. Yeah, one was with our drummer and bass player,
Speaker 17: and the second one was just the bass player.
Speaker 16: Okay, Scott, right, Scott Perry. Yeah, Scott and I are
Speaker 16: still in touch. He did a podcast a few years
Speaker 16: ago called Courtesy Call, and I was I was involved
Speaker 16: in that a little bit, helped him with that.
Speaker 17: But oh fantastic.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I remember the interview with What
Speaker 16: I remember about the interview with you and Scott is
Speaker 16: that you were relentless and picking on him, you know,
Speaker 16: and it was it was in a fun way. Yeah,
Speaker 16: you know, it was obviously there was camaraderie, although there
Speaker 16: were a couple of moments there where he did seem
Speaker 16: legitimately frustrated.
Speaker 17: But I don't know, if you know the Jason Newstead
Speaker 17: situation where they where they hazed him ridiculous. Oh of course, yeah,
Speaker 17: that was it was we were kids and kind of ales,
Speaker 17: you know, that's it's what happens. He was new, No,
Speaker 17: it was.
Speaker 16: It was fun though. It was funny and all those
Speaker 16: all those interviews are still available online too. But jeez,
Speaker 16: I might have to go back and revisit that. Yeah,
Speaker 16: that was that was fun. But now how long were
Speaker 16: how long did you guys work together? In Supplication? That
Speaker 16: that was a while, right that that band went on?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean we took a four year hiatus just
Speaker 17: for families and issues and things, and we came back
Speaker 17: last year. Actually, okay, you know, stronger than ever. We
Speaker 17: got a new bass player. Oh very good fits the band,
Speaker 17: and there was no hazing period necessary. Yeah, we are
Speaker 17: all adults. Is a different time, yeah, yeah, no, it's
Speaker 17: like fifteen years.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 17: I started in seven with them and wow around COVID area,
Speaker 17: took a break, yep, and then back at it.
Speaker 16: So Supplication so that exists. Now you guys are still
Speaker 16: doing that outstanding Good for you, Good for you. And
Speaker 16: in addition to that, so we have wisely done is
Speaker 16: the official name of this project.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and this and this is all you correct, Yeah,
Speaker 17: doing the drums, bass, guitars, vocals, mixing. I had to
Speaker 17: reach out for artwork. I wanted to do it myself.
Speaker 17: I'm somewhat of an artist, yeah, painter, but uh yeah.
Speaker 16: What what went into the decision to And obviously, like
Speaker 16: I said, you know, you've still got the band supplication,
Speaker 16: But what went into the decision because that's a lot
Speaker 16: to take on. Like, I've always been really impressed. You know,
Speaker 16: I'm a musician. I've played in bands, but I've never
Speaker 16: done anything where and I've always kind of wondered what
Speaker 16: it would be like to do something where I'm doing
Speaker 16: everything myself and it's, you know, entirely my vision, which
Speaker 16: it sounds like it would be very rewarding, but it
Speaker 16: also sounds like a hell of a lot of work
Speaker 16: and just an enormous challenge. So what what went into
Speaker 16: your decision to do this project?
Speaker 17: Originally I had a friend who was going to going
Speaker 17: to do vocals and he hevy already he took his life.
Speaker 16: So, oh my god, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 17: Wow, I decided just to keep on trucking.
Speaker 16: Yeah, oh wow, that's terrible. So he was going to
Speaker 16: do the vocals and you were going to do everything else?
Speaker 16: Was that the original plan?
Speaker 17: Yeah, and I'm just like, no, I'm going to do
Speaker 17: this yeah wow.
Speaker 16: Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 1: But so.
Speaker 5: Was this?
Speaker 16: Is this the first project where you've done lead vocals.
Speaker 17: I've dabbled in doing solo stuff before, but never. The
Speaker 17: music was never this well put together. It was never
Speaker 17: I never saw it as presentable. Yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 17: but there was a copyright claim issue and that had
Speaker 17: a lot to do with the naming of everything. But
Speaker 17: I took a few years back, step back, and really
Speaker 17: worked on my songwriting and came back with this wisely
Speaker 17: done project.
Speaker 16: What was the I'm fascinated. Anything involving copyright and trademark
Speaker 16: is fascinating to me. Like what happened? What was the issue?
Speaker 17: So I didn't know because I'm I'm foolish and this
Speaker 17: was beyond my time. But there was a band whom
Speaker 17: name was sam Hean, but they didn't copyright the name,
Speaker 17: and for me, it was a super I had a
Speaker 17: super like black metal mindset.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 17: Yeah, so I thought that was perfect, perfect name, perfect name.
Speaker 17: Didn't look into it, just like released the album, you know,
Speaker 17: Oh no kidding, yeah. Yeah, you know, it didn't go anywhere,
Speaker 17: but that's fine. And they talked to me like hey,
Speaker 17: and I was like, oh ho, I didn't know.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, a lesson learned.
Speaker 17: Yeah quite Yeah.
Speaker 16: Now does any of this music and uh and we'll
Speaker 16: play some more of it as we go. But does
Speaker 16: any of this also cross over into Supplication or are
Speaker 16: you keeping this all completely separate?
Speaker 17: Yeah? No, I was really influenced by black metal music
Speaker 17: and I was trying to bring that into supplication and
Speaker 17: it didn't work. It didn't jive with the guys, It
Speaker 17: didn't you know what I mean. So this is all separate.
Speaker 16: Okay, Okay, that surprises me actually that you weren't able
Speaker 16: to because from what I remember about Supplication, I mean,
Speaker 16: it's pretty pretty well. The sound may have changed, though
Speaker 16: I haven't heard you guys in a in a long time.
Speaker 17: More less shreddy, more consistently groovy okay you know, slam
Speaker 17: yeah yeah yeah, chugging along.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and with this material, I mean, do you have
Speaker 16: any plans to perform this in any way? I'm not.
Speaker 16: I'm not sure how you would do it. It's just you.
Speaker 17: But there is a one man band out there called Putrid.
Speaker 17: Pile who goes out and tours and he's he's a
Speaker 17: legend now, but he's been doing that for like twenty years.
Speaker 17: I couldn't see myself doing that, but I could see
Speaker 17: myself consistently releasing records. Yeah, you know, in a timely manner.
Speaker 16: And this has a lot of tracks, which is interesting
Speaker 16: to me because you know, we live in a time
Speaker 16: where you can you can do it so many different ways.
Speaker 16: You know, some artists just released singles. Some artists will
Speaker 16: release a series of singles with the goal ultimately for
Speaker 16: it to become an album. You know, sort of the
Speaker 16: inverse of how it used to be. You release an
Speaker 16: album and then you release singles from the album. Some
Speaker 16: artists just only release singles and that's all they ever do.
Speaker 16: Some release an EP. You know, we had the Forest
Speaker 16: Forgets on in the first hour, and they have an
Speaker 16: any EP that just came out. We went into your
Speaker 16: decision to make a full album because again, it's like
Speaker 16: you've already you've already taken on the responsibility of doing
Speaker 16: this all yourself. You're not only doing it all yourself,
Speaker 16: but you're you're made a whole album out of this.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean that was the goal to begin with.
Speaker 17: It was never It was never about you know, getting
Speaker 17: music out there and just doing it. It was doing
Speaker 17: it for myself and doing it for doing it for them,
Speaker 17: for the memory of it.
Speaker 16: Yeah. But is it uh? Is it something that I
Speaker 16: don't know if? Well? Is there less pressure in terms
Speaker 16: of liking supplication? Obviously being in a band with a
Speaker 16: bunch of guys, you know, you want to do as
Speaker 16: much as you can in terms of you want as
Speaker 16: large an audience as you can get and whatnot and
Speaker 16: play all these shows and stuff. So is this as
Speaker 16: a solo project, is this more kind of you don't
Speaker 16: have that pressure?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I can just pretty much do what I want.
Speaker 17: I you know, just I suppose I can release singles
Speaker 17: and do everything like that. I just wanted to get
Speaker 17: this out there.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 17: I have I have my next record in mind, you know,
Speaker 17: I just want to keep going with some music.
Speaker 16: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh that's that's awesome. Uh, well, we
Speaker 16: can play another track. Do you have a what what
Speaker 16: do you have in mind? And put you on the
Speaker 16: spot here?
Speaker 17: How about praise? Praise?
Speaker 18: Gotcha?
Speaker 16: Any kind of a story behind this?
Speaker 17: Yeah? Absolutely, it's basically you know, reflecting on my upbringing
Speaker 17: and now that I have a sun, how it reflects
Speaker 17: with him and how it's basically full circle.
Speaker 16: And yeah, so this is a very personal song. Yeah,
Speaker 16: sounds like yeah.
Speaker 17: This whole album, it's very different from Supplication. It's which
Speaker 17: which is you know, normal death metal. This is very
Speaker 17: personal everything on the record.
Speaker 16: So yeah, all right, let's give this a listen. This
Speaker 16: is wisely done and the track is called Praise.
Speaker 12: So say.
Speaker 19: Why go got My mom now.
Speaker 12: Said so sorry, I had I time.
Speaker 19: Mom, right I show.
Speaker 12: Oh yo go so yes, why I go by a by.
Speaker 14: Sash got swash.
Speaker 12: All by night Bob.
Speaker 2: Ar yaas Yeah, Bo called our frid by time tiht bang.
Speaker 19: Nice Si donn barb.
Speaker 12: Five bottle short. I say, I just had my back
Speaker 12: on our shirt. The shirt.
Speaker 18: Well love shalt oh sir Sie, why a got salt?
Speaker 19: H got ship shut up shot rock fly Sho.
Speaker 16: The track is praise the artist is wisely done here
Speaker 16: with us live in studio, and yeah, we're talking off
Speaker 16: air a little bit about the track. You know, you
Speaker 16: were pointing out how you kind of do a thing
Speaker 16: there where the chorus that actually slows down instead of
Speaker 16: speeding up like you might like you might expect, and
Speaker 16: it sounded like too. Was there another were the vocals
Speaker 16: layered in that?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Sounded yeah, it kind of added some texture to it
Speaker 16: that I liked.
Speaker 17: I am not brave enough to do a solo take
Speaker 17: right right.
Speaker 16: I'm always fascinated too by singers who can do that.
Speaker 16: We talked about this a little bit with Griffin from
Speaker 16: the Forest Forgets. You know, in their music, you know,
Speaker 16: he sings it clean for the most part, but then
Speaker 16: there's some there's some screams, usually kind of toward the
Speaker 16: end as the song builds. But to be able to
Speaker 16: sing like that, what what is your like? Do you
Speaker 16: have any kind of a protocol to kind of protect
Speaker 16: your voice, protect your vocal chords, because I would imagine that.
Speaker 16: I mean, if I tried to do that, I'd probably
Speaker 16: destroy my larynx or something. Do you how do you
Speaker 16: do that? And how do you learn to do that?
Speaker 17: Basically singing along to songs you like songs, you know,
Speaker 17: but if there's any pressure in your throat or anything
Speaker 17: like that, you're not doing it right. You're supposed to
Speaker 17: come from your gut, yeah, you know, the tone comes
Speaker 17: from your throat. If you think of it like that. Yeah,
Speaker 17: and also how you position your tongue if you put
Speaker 17: it in the roof of your mouth and.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't want to yeah yeah, yeah. Griffin was
Speaker 16: kind of saying too, if as long as like it's
Speaker 16: not it sounds difficult, but it's not difficult if you
Speaker 16: learn to do it correctly, which is important too, because
Speaker 16: if you learn to do it correctly, you're a lot
Speaker 16: less likely to hurt yourself, you know, because there's no
Speaker 16: shortage of stories of you know, singers who've had to
Speaker 16: have you know, usually as when they get older, they
Speaker 16: have to have throat surgeries and you know, because they've
Speaker 16: put all this stress and strain on their vocal cords
Speaker 16: over the years. But was it, uh, have you always
Speaker 16: been able to do that? Because I would imagine like,
Speaker 16: do you do backing vocals in supplication?
Speaker 17: Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, so you already had that that skill, Yeah,
Speaker 17: pretty much. It was it was learning to try to
Speaker 17: to sing normally. That's the key.
Speaker 16: That's the hard right, right, There's that it's it's kind
Speaker 16: of a famous among musicians. What is it called the
Speaker 16: zen of screaming? Do you know the she's a teacher, Yeah,
Speaker 16: she's a vocal coach.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I think it's called the Zen of Screaming and uh,
Speaker 16: and she has a DVD or now you know, you
Speaker 16: probably just stream it now. But that that I've been
Speaker 16: hearing about from from singers who sing those aggressive vocals
Speaker 16: for probably twenty years now. But but I guess she
Speaker 16: kind of she's known. I wish I could remember her name,
Speaker 16: but I guess right, I guess she's known for being
Speaker 16: kind of the best teacher in terms of again, how
Speaker 16: to do that, how to do that safely. But when
Speaker 16: you're recording this music and you're singing like that, you
Speaker 16: have to take Do you have to take breaks and
Speaker 16: kind of let your your vocal chords recover or are
Speaker 16: you able to just maintain that?
Speaker 17: No, I can pretty much roll with it. I'll do
Speaker 17: a verse, you know, I'll I'll mix it a little bit.
Speaker 17: I'll do the underlaying verse and then just move on.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 17: So I mean I can do it for six hours
Speaker 17: just wow, well, you know, just kind of I guess
Speaker 17: it ebbs and flows. Yeah, I'm not screaming on minutes
Speaker 17: on end, right right, right?
Speaker 16: And can you tell me about your recording process. I'm
Speaker 16: you know, I'm a recording nerd. I love hearing about
Speaker 16: this stuff, and you know, it's funny, just as we
Speaker 16: were talking earlier about especially you know since the last
Speaker 16: time I interviewed you. Uh, there's so many different ways
Speaker 16: now to release music. There's also so many different ways
Speaker 16: now to record music. You know, you can you can
Speaker 16: go to a recording studio like a lot of our guests,
Speaker 16: for example, they go to Eric Sotter at Blackheart. You
Speaker 16: can do that and and get great results. But you
Speaker 16: can also if you know what you're doing, you can
Speaker 16: record in your living room and get great results too.
Speaker 16: What's what's your process?
Speaker 13: What?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 16: How did you record this music?
Speaker 17: This is as de i y cheap as possible, the
Speaker 17: total black metal essence if you know anything about black
Speaker 17: metal recording on a little you know, tape tape recorder, yeah, essence.
Speaker 17: But now new in the new age, just starting mostly
Speaker 17: USB USB microphones, electronic drums. I got an SD twelve
Speaker 17: hundred kit and that I tweaked it to make it
Speaker 17: sound as real as possible, so hopefully you wouldn't be
Speaker 17: able to tell. But as actual writing and that goes,
Speaker 17: I start with guitar, get the skeleton of the song,
Speaker 17: and then I'll click it out with a metronome and
Speaker 17: then record drums to the scratch guitar, oh for real interesting,
Speaker 17: and then I'll do real guitars over that and real
Speaker 17: you know everything else.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so for you, So it's easiest to get that
Speaker 16: scratch guitar track down first, so you know where you
Speaker 16: are in the song, and then you do the Yeah,
Speaker 16: the drums do sound realistic. That's another thing too, that's
Speaker 16: amazing about I know, because there was a time when
Speaker 16: you know, you could tell right like like twenty years
Speaker 16: ago if you heard something I mean, not necessarily something
Speaker 16: recorded with a drum machine and a million dollar studio,
Speaker 16: because they would obviously have a very very good drum machine.
Speaker 16: But you know, if you listen to somebody's demo and
Speaker 16: it was done with a drum machine, you could tell, yeah,
Speaker 16: you know what I mean. But now the drum sounds
Speaker 16: are so. We had a guest on a couple of
Speaker 16: years ago. I forget his actual his government name as
Speaker 16: they say, but he has a project called Downhill Rollers
Speaker 16: and it's all him and I just I was floored
Speaker 16: when he told me that those were pre program drums
Speaker 16: on pro program drums on his tracks, because they sounded
Speaker 16: so realistic. I was like, I can't believe you got
Speaker 16: such a realistic you know, I mean, it really does
Speaker 16: sound like a live drummer. I know some of these
Speaker 16: programs too, they have I think they just call it
Speaker 16: a humanizer effect, where you can that you can put
Speaker 16: on so that it so that it's not quite perfect.
Speaker 17: So that that sounds wild to me. I know, right, No,
Speaker 17: this is not quantized to be corrected. This is not
Speaker 17: you know, this is not that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no, so that's uh, that's amazing. Is the process?
Speaker 16: Like if you could put an average on it, how
Speaker 16: long does it take? How long did it take you
Speaker 16: to record each track?
Speaker 17: Each song on this album, between like writing itself and
Speaker 17: recording and everything that goes along with it, probably one
Speaker 17: hundred hours of track no kidding, wow, I mean that's
Speaker 17: a lot of mixing and too, So that's accounting everything.
Speaker 16: So you do all the mixing yourself and everything.
Speaker 17: Yes, unfortunately that is the most tedious. I dislike that
Speaker 17: the most.
Speaker 16: Yeah yeah, well yeah, You're fatigue is probably a big problem,
Speaker 16: right sir.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if you guys know that.
Speaker 17: Me where it's a I've been working on my record
Speaker 17: for six hours all night and now it sounds worse.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, yeah do you have to Yeah for listeners
Speaker 16: who don't know, uh, you know, if if you listen
Speaker 16: to something over and over again as you're working on it,
Speaker 16: you kind of get you know, part of it is psychological, right,
Speaker 16: you kind of get sick of it, and part of
Speaker 16: it I think, I think there is a physical ear
Speaker 16: fatigue too that can happen, especially you know if you've
Speaker 16: got your headphones really loud because you don't want to
Speaker 16: miss anything, but then you know, you start to get
Speaker 16: your ears are ringing. You've got tonight, this and the
Speaker 16: you know, the whole deal. So yeah, I mean you
Speaker 16: probably I assume over the course of this project there
Speaker 16: were probably many a moment that you had to just
Speaker 16: get up and walk away from it.
Speaker 17: Right you know, yeah, no, absolutely, it I I quantify
Speaker 17: like trying to move a mountain with a bucket. It's
Speaker 17: like just a little bit at a time. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 17: it's a daily process. It's something you got to do
Speaker 17: every day. It's like working out, you know, Yeah, you've
Speaker 17: got to do it, got to build momentum and.
Speaker 16: You know, yeah, how do you say motivated? I mean
Speaker 16: do you over the course of recording this, did you
Speaker 16: ever have a moment where you thought, I don't know
Speaker 16: if I don't know if I'm on the right the
Speaker 16: right track here, no pun intended.
Speaker 17: But yeah, only all the time? Yeah really, yeah, no,
Speaker 17: I I was pretty dead set on what I wanted
Speaker 17: to do. There was there was a few songs that
Speaker 17: didn't make the record. Yeah, but motivation wise, it just
Speaker 17: came from came from losing my buddy.
Speaker 16: H So, yeah, do you plan to You strike me
Speaker 16: as someone who probably writes a lot. I assume you
Speaker 16: have other music that you've written. Do you plan to
Speaker 16: continue past this album? Do you plan to do another
Speaker 16: one in the future? Yeah?
Speaker 17: My next one is Uncherished. I have nine songs ready
Speaker 17: for it.
Speaker 16: Oh wow. Yeah, yeah, so you're already you're already working
Speaker 16: on it.
Speaker 17: I've been. I've been sitting on this record for a
Speaker 17: little while.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so.
Speaker 17: You know, over the past few months, just been writing
Speaker 17: and letting those juices flow and all that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. Well, let's yeah, let's play Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 16: we got plenty of time. Let's play another one. What
Speaker 16: should we play next?
Speaker 17: Queen or King Ween or King?
Speaker 16: All right? And why am I not seeing that I'm
Speaker 16: seeing Queen of Queen of Escalation?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Oh is that it?
Speaker 17: Yeah? Let's roll with that.
Speaker 16: Oh, I see you weren't saying okay queen or uh
Speaker 16: I'm sorry. Oh you were offering me two options because
Speaker 16: you have you have Queen of Escalation and King of inattention.
Speaker 17: Okay, all right, I'm taking shots at myself and everyone else.
Speaker 16: What's the okay, so Queen of Escalation will play and
Speaker 16: what's a story behind this one?
Speaker 17: Just a significant other at the time and a relationship song. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 17: Can never win, you can never get ahead. You can
Speaker 17: never You know, everyone's been there, so I hope not everyone.
Speaker 16: But I have to ask has she heard this that
Speaker 16: you know of?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 16: And what how do she like it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 17: Just into it?
Speaker 16: She is good?
Speaker 17: Okay, good, no love loss?
Speaker 16: Okay, that's good. All right, Let's give this a listen.
Speaker 16: This is Queen of Escalation by Wisely Done.
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Speaker 12: Wonder my why er song? Let's for a job?
Speaker 7: Friens you so.
Speaker 12: Want so true to nuts.
Speaker 10: I'm outside of low.
Speaker 7: Sight so I'm called.
Speaker 12: Oh I'm going to have to follow their happiness.
Speaker 10: Oh I'm sounds the sun.
Speaker 12: See that's song of the Alser?
Speaker 7: What talk?
Speaker 10: What podcast?
Speaker 12: Why Wow?
Speaker 10: Your bag back?
Speaker 13: Not suck?
Speaker 12: John?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 11: Not?
Speaker 16: That is Queen of escalation. The project is wisely done
Speaker 16: and we have Stephen Michael done with us here live
Speaker 16: in studio, and that is all him and very very cool.
Speaker 16: Now are you in terms of going forward with this?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 16: Will? Because you you mentioned was it I forget enough?
Speaker 11: It was?
Speaker 16: Oh no, it was on Eric. Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 16: the next project. You've already got songs written and ready
Speaker 16: to go. Yes, do you have a theme in mind
Speaker 16: for that project as well, because this one seems to
Speaker 16: have you know, you told us kind of the backstory
Speaker 16: of how this came about. Is is there some sort
Speaker 16: of a theme with the next album or is it
Speaker 16: just going to be more of a collection of songs or.
Speaker 17: In the same way that this is a collection of
Speaker 17: songs we're loosely based around you know, myself and everything
Speaker 17: in my life. Yeah, it'll be more of the same. Yeah,
Speaker 17: but the music is I think stepped up, and I
Speaker 17: I I'm definitely taking notes from this album.
Speaker 16: Yeah. Yeah. Will you will your approach change or I
Speaker 16: mean in terms of because again, you know, you're doing
Speaker 16: everything yourself, so that gives you the freedom to really
Speaker 16: kind of do it however you want. Will your your
Speaker 16: process change at all? Or do you think you're gonna
Speaker 16: do it pretty much the same way.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna do it the same way. The songs are
Speaker 17: a little simpler. I can do more layers with guitars
Speaker 17: and more harmonies, more solos. Yeah, yeah, improve to me anyway. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: it feels it feels good to me. They feel good.
Speaker 16: Do you intend to bring in any guest musicians or
Speaker 16: guest vocalists or anything like that, or is it important
Speaker 16: to you to kind of keep this, keep this as
Speaker 16: your you know, your expression and so forth.
Speaker 17: I'd never considered it to be honest. Yeah, I think
Speaker 17: I'm just gonna keep it just just from how from
Speaker 17: how it started with me and my buddy. I think
Speaker 17: I'm gonna keep it just me.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Does anybody from Supplication ever
Speaker 16: say hey man, i'd like to I'd like to help
Speaker 16: you with this or do they do they understand that
Speaker 16: this is this is yours and you want to keep
Speaker 16: it separate.
Speaker 17: No, they're they're definitely cool with it. They they helped
Speaker 17: me pick songs and yeah, you know good. You know,
Speaker 17: it's not like, oh yeah, he's he's doing his thing
Speaker 17: when he has time, right right.
Speaker 16: No, that's good, that's good that there's no issues there.
Speaker 17: But that's how this whole thing came about.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 17: I was like, you know, we're not really getting a
Speaker 17: lot of things done in the band. It's taken a
Speaker 17: long time. It's taken years. I'm just gonna learn how
Speaker 17: to play drums. Yeah, and then you know, ten fifteen
Speaker 17: years later.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we should explain to people too who are listening
Speaker 16: who might not know. You know, we've referred to this
Speaker 16: genre as black metal. Can you define that for our
Speaker 16: listeners who.
Speaker 17: Well, it's definitely not true black metal because that matters
Speaker 17: because these people are very elitist and categorical and keeping
Speaker 17: and don't listen to me. It's metal with some black
Speaker 17: metal influences. Okay, but definitely has the spirit, yeah, the
Speaker 17: lo fi spirit.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, black metal itself like from the eighties, like the
Speaker 17: whole you know, Norwegian stuff, Yeah, Satanic panic and all that.
Speaker 17: And then forty years later it's just kind of a influence.
Speaker 16: Yeah. I mean it's tricky when you get into genres
Speaker 16: and labels and everything, because you're right, I mean, people
Speaker 16: people argue over you know, what is well, first of all,
Speaker 16: people have difficulty even agreeing what is quote unquote metal.
Speaker 16: You know, some some people have a very narrow definition
Speaker 16: of metal. Some people think that only the very heaviest
Speaker 16: of metal is truly metal. Yeah, and some people think
Speaker 16: a band like Poison, you know, we used to call
Speaker 16: it hair metal. You know, it's like, well metal though,
Speaker 16: is that? You know, it's it's uh, you know, nobody agrees.
Speaker 17: Or a kid might say now like oh Disturbed or
Speaker 17: five Finger Death Punch like yes, okay, they are they
Speaker 17: are metal, yes, but whether or not those who are
Speaker 17: into metal like them.
Speaker 16: Right, Yeah. Yeah, I worked in so I used to uh,
Speaker 16: well when an interview do before I was working there
Speaker 16: actually at Strawberries you remember Strawberries, Oh yeah, I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 16: And and then eventually Fye because they bought us. But
Speaker 16: I worked in different locations over the years with that company,
Speaker 16: and there was one there was one location. You know
Speaker 16: how the CDs, remember, they would be broken out back category,
Speaker 16: so you add most of the stores, you know, like
Speaker 16: anything popular. You know, we had like we had a pop,
Speaker 16: R and B rock section which is what dominated the store,
Speaker 16: which would basically, you know, like you would have Disturbed
Speaker 16: in there, but you would also have Jennifer Lopez in
Speaker 16: There was just kind of everything sure, you know, everything
Speaker 16: that wasn't cansidered quote unquote niche or niche I guess
Speaker 16: now everyone says niche, but.
Speaker 17: There was world.
Speaker 16: Yeah, there was one location that I worked in that
Speaker 16: actually had a metal section because I guess they felt
Speaker 16: that it I can't remember which one it was, but
Speaker 16: I guess they felt that it was appropriate for that location.
Speaker 16: But it was weird because I always thought it was
Speaker 16: just awkward because inevitably, you know, people would come in
Speaker 16: and they'd be looking for things in the metal section
Speaker 16: that wouldn't be there that they thought should be there,
Speaker 16: but they'd be in this broader pop rock section and
Speaker 16: there and there'd be people who would be like, well,
Speaker 16: you know, they'd find things in the metal section that
Speaker 16: you know, they didn't think should be there, and they
Speaker 16: would would complain about that. And that same location we
Speaker 16: also had a punk section, and you can imagine what
Speaker 16: a nightmare that would be, you know, because you know,
Speaker 16: you put Green Day in there and then people are
Speaker 16: mad about it. You have great well, you know, we
Speaker 16: generally consider them a punk band, but why they're not
Speaker 16: real punkin.
Speaker 17: You know, it's just like, do we need a pop
Speaker 17: punk section?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 16: It just we probably should have had one. But you know,
Speaker 16: when you get into the labels and the genres and everything,
Speaker 16: it's tricky.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I've found so many random fines and fantastic albums
Speaker 17: just through through looking. I missed, I miss actual CDs? Yes, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 16: Do you plan to release release this on or maybe
Speaker 16: you already have a CD?
Speaker 17: Or I want to get it picked up my label
Speaker 17: and just do a small yeah, you know, one hundred
Speaker 17: five hundred thousand whatever it is.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. His supplication. Do you
Speaker 16: guys have anything out on CD earlier?
Speaker 17: Yeah? I almost gave you one, but I'm a terrible
Speaker 17: test that's all right. It was from two years ago.
Speaker 17: We had an album. Okay, I can't tell you a
Speaker 17: little record label, but yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll have we'll
Speaker 17: have a new EP coming out next year. Oh excellent, excellent,
Speaker 17: we got eight songs.
Speaker 16: That's another thing I remember from my days at Strawberries
Speaker 16: was when everyone would talk about, oh see, you know,
Speaker 16: because like I was working there when Napster first became
Speaker 16: a big deal, and uh, everybody was like, oh, that's
Speaker 16: the end of CDs, you know, and then Napster kind
Speaker 16: of faded. But then Spotify came in and you know,
Speaker 16: iTunes and everything, and everybody was like, oh, that's the
Speaker 16: end of CDs. And here we are in twenty twenty
Speaker 16: four and there's still you know, like our first guests,
Speaker 16: the Forrest Forgets gave us a CD. You know, there's
Speaker 16: still lots of CDs. Guest, Yeah, all right, that's all right.
Speaker 16: It's the thought that counts.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I did. I was, I was here, I was
Speaker 17: on the throne. I'm like, yeah, I should totally get
Speaker 17: them something, right.
Speaker 10: But you're no, I didn't need to know where you
Speaker 10: were thinking.
Speaker 17: Oh come on, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 16: It's fine. Some of them were men. We do our
Speaker 16: best thinking there, right.
Speaker 17: I was on the drum throne.
Speaker 16: Right, that's that's that's clearly what you meant.
Speaker 17: Yes, highlight.
Speaker 16: And what about any kind of visual representation for any
Speaker 16: of these songs? You plan to do any any kind
Speaker 16: of videos or anything.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you know Rob Thomas kid very well, Yeah he does,
Speaker 17: he does his video.
Speaker 16: Oh he's killing it right now.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, he found his.
Speaker 16: Fourth Kind films niche yep, yep, Yeah, Rob's doing great.
Speaker 16: I've interviewed him. He actually, he might hold the record
Speaker 16: for a number of times interviewed by me. Oh, I've
Speaker 16: probably interviewed him. Not quite double digits, but close.
Speaker 17: He is relentless in his work.
Speaker 16: Yes, yes, and he's fascinating to talk to, a great guy,
Speaker 16: so talented. But I think the next time I interview him,
Speaker 16: because I'm sure we'll have him on the show again soon.
Speaker 16: Uh it may it may not be as Kadaver, it
Speaker 16: may be as as as Rob. Because I think he's
Speaker 16: kind of now that he's so successful with Fourth Kind Films,
Speaker 16: I think he's kind of leaving Kaydaver behind.
Speaker 17: Yeah yeah, yeah, sorry, I didn't know it on the spot,
Speaker 17: but oh.
Speaker 16: The Fourth Kind of Films Yeah yeah, yeah, but no,
Speaker 16: he's he's doing fantastic. Yeah, so you're gonna do a
Speaker 16: video with him? Yeah, excellent, very cool. Do you know
Speaker 16: what what track yet?
Speaker 17: Or I have absolutely no idea? Yeah, it's such a
Speaker 17: It was pulling teeth trying to figure out which songs
Speaker 17: I was gonna play here?
Speaker 16: Yeah, the way here Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 16: Well we do, we have time, we'll we'll play uh,
Speaker 16: we'll play one more. In a moment, I was thinking
Speaker 16: maybe we should play the We'll play the King of
Speaker 16: an attention since we played the Queen of Escalation.
Speaker 17: All right, sounds good?
Speaker 16: And I have a feeling and not just because of
Speaker 16: the royalty presented by the titles, but I have a
Speaker 16: feeling these are these are these songs connected? Is this
Speaker 16: also a relationship related song?
Speaker 17: Yeah? Yeah? Taking shots at myself this time?
Speaker 16: Ah yes, same same relationship.
Speaker 17: Though, or that and with added context of my son.
Speaker 17: Oh okay, he's uh, he's a very bright little boy,
Speaker 17: but he's also he's also special needs. Okay, Okay, there's
Speaker 17: there has been blame and there has been heartache and
Speaker 17: it's been a long road.
Speaker 16: Yeah no, that's that's uh, that's challenging though, So you know, good,
Speaker 16: good for you to be able to handle that, Oh,
Speaker 16: thank you and absolutely absolutely. And where should people go online?
Speaker 16: I want to make sure everyone knows where to find
Speaker 16: your music. Where's the best place to go?
Speaker 17: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, pretty much all the little streaming services
Speaker 17: that people use and don't. Yeah, yeah, right now. You
Speaker 17: can get hold of me pretty much every day on TikTok. Okay,
Speaker 17: that's been a big thing at Stephen Michael Dunn. But
Speaker 17: I'm always posting wisely done stuff and I'm posting supplication stuff.
Speaker 16: And yeah, excellent, excellent, very good. So we'll we'll hit
Speaker 16: that track in a moment. And Jenny, you want to
Speaker 16: plug your your website, sure you.
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Speaker 20: And don't forget one of my paintings is hanging at
Speaker 20: the Mosaic Art Collective, part of the Full Circle the
Speaker 20: Speed of Light Show, which is on exhibit for the month.
Speaker 20: Check it out at sixty six Hanover Street here in
Speaker 20: the Queen City.
Speaker 16: Yes, and that will be up until the end of September,
Speaker 16: the end of the month. Yeah, the painting, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 16: very good.
Speaker 20: And they are doing in our call right now. For
Speaker 20: the next show on spell Bounds. We'll go check it out,
Speaker 20: submit your.
Speaker 16: Work, yes, yes, and let's see so if you miss
Speaker 16: any part of today's show and we'll be up in
Speaker 16: just a little bit at wmnhradio dot organ in my
Speaker 16: website Matt Connorton dot com. Thank you again, of course
Speaker 16: to the Forest Forgets for joining us in the first
Speaker 16: hour and of course in the second hour we had
Speaker 16: justin from four HM Clothing along with Joey Painter here
Speaker 16: and really loved speaking with them and Stephen Michael done.
Speaker 16: Thank you again so much, my friend for reaching out.
Speaker 16: It's great to see you. It's been it's been a
Speaker 16: long day as well.
Speaker 17: Yes, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 16: Where do the years go? And as we get older
Speaker 16: the time goes quicker if you notice, absolutely it's not
Speaker 16: a good thing. It's not a good thing.
Speaker 17: I don't remember. But what did you eat last week? Exactly?
Speaker 15: All right?
Speaker 16: So we will we will close out with this. This
Speaker 16: is uh wisely done, is the project, and this is
Speaker 16: called King of Inattention.
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