Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-8-23

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The smallest act of aggression can be seen by either side is oh god. We have a a briefing News Bolton being published as we speak, the first struck for the Hello everyone, Jerry here. So I am taken over the airwaves. I've taken over the radio and now I want you all to understand that I am the supreme leader of rock and roll. But not just me, of course, I would like to welcome the brand new member of Jerry's rock and Roll Army that commander to the Supreme Leader man so can't be down. Hey, welcome everybody.

Here we go. It is that time again, Happy Friday. Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester and nope, Channel six. I did it again. Channel six now in Manchester and hello to Oliver Online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

Today is a Friday, September eight, twenty twenty three. It's so nice to have you all with me. It is Friday, my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. It's my long day and I do love it. So i do this show till six pm, and then I'm back tonight from eight to eleven PM for Retro Spectrum Radio with PAULI C. And I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with DJ Steve and of course Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. So that will be tonight. We have a very exciting and busy show for you today.

In a little bit, a little bit later in the hour, we're going to have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, and today the subject is the nineteen eighty two film The Collab as I think the Young people say, with Stephen King and George A. Romero called creep Show. It's an anthology anthology film, very very cool. This humidity makes it apparently I'm having trouble speaking. It's very very humid, and I thought it was going to open up and pour, but it never quite happened, but it could happen yet if you are in Manchester of course.

And then coming up in the second hour, we have a very special band here. We're gonna be joined in studio by the band Soda and that is spelled st Ah Soda. That song that you heard shadow at the top of the show, that is one of their songs. So we're featuring some of their music today and they're going to come in and play live in studio for us in the second hour and we'll chat for a bit. So really looking forward to that. Also, I am expecting a call. He did post a YouTube video saying he was going to call in Jerry Robinson himself from the band Jerry and the Scumbags.

Yesterday we featured all the entire eight tracks from the new album called Scum of the Earth and it also, in addition to Jerry Robinson on vocals, that features the guitar stylings of Eric Pincher also known as Eric Pilcher. For some reason, a stage name is Eric Pincher. I'm not sure why. I guess that sounds more rock and roll, right. Pilcher is kind of a weird name, but but pincher, it just sounds very very rock, very metal, and also of course Billy Painter on drums and yours. Well, I don't know if I shouldn't give it away, but let's just say there's a guy named Matzo who plays bass on the album.

So maybe we'll talk about that if Jerry calls in. But yes, so that was very exciting. Tons of positive feedback and it's already streaking up the charts. Yes, I think it's already cracked the Billboard Hot one hundred. So so we featured yesterday. We played the whole thing. You know, if you missed the show, go back and check it out. It was fun. We spaced it out, you know, didn't play the entire thing at once, but we spaced it out throughout the show, and tons of positive response and feedback on that.

So yeah, looking forward to speaking with Jerry Robinson today if he's if he's able to call in, and hopefully he does it soon because obviously we've got a lot going on as the show progress. But six zero three two five zero six ZO seven is a studio line six zo three two five ozho six zoo 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.

But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zero three two five ozho six zoo seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. By the way, another quick programming note two. For Monday of next week, we will have the world radio premiere of the brand new single from Sepsis. It's called Romance and Reality. Heard it today for the first time, really really good. So I believe it's already available online for your listening pleasure. But but we will have the world radio premiere the first time on FM Radio right here next week on the show end.

Oh well, I think I think I have an idea who this might be? Hi, Welcome to Matt Connor. It's an unleashed Is this hello? Matts? So this is Jerry Robinson. Oh, Jerry, I'm so glad you called my friend. The response to some of the Earth is just fantastic. I've played the whole thing on the show yesterday, and everyone loves it. I know, I thought that Lady I was having issues with my

cellular telephone and it just would not allow me to call in, but that guy said that I would call today. So you know, the reception has been very good so far. There has been I think guysens and dozens of streams. I believe I've said that in my previous video that I made. Yes, and of course I meant, did you hear those crisp, rocking guitar leads from eric a Pecha? Yes, I'll tell you what he really rips on that guitar. It's it's quite remarkable. Who knew, Jerry? I mean, I don't, no, I guess you know some people they say that like you like a child podgy or something.

So I think once he just picked up the guitar that I mean, it just the music started flowing through him and just the magic happened. Of course, your basslines are very, very very good. You held down the good middle end, the low end, and Billy he's just got those. He's like an animal from them. Upp it's I mean, he was just rocking those drums out. Yes, well he is from Idaho. That's how they do it there. And as far as my basslines, I have to tell you, the songs that you wrote just made it so easy to play along, to play the bass.

Really, it was effortless, to be honest with you, Jerry, but I'm glad that I'm glad that you're happy with it. And again, just an amazing response and reception to the album. Yes, it has been good. In fact, it's not the great news. And I know that you and all the other guys know about this, but that can really actually finally fade. Yes, we have a live show that it's coming up in two weeks. As you know, it is a private event. Sorry for everybody who wants to be there, but it is private. Unfortunately, maybe one day in the future we can do a public show.

But I believe it. Quote me if I'm wrong, but I believe there is two thousand, twenty five hundred people who are who are going to be there. I believe, So I believe that's correct. Okay, yeah, it's in that ballpark, of course. But yes, you know it's gonna be great and even better, we're gonna record the entire show live. I can't remember who's going to be opening the show. I think it's one of the acts that's been on one of your programs before. And I just I can't remember the name of the time. It'll it'll come back to me in the future.

Yes, but it's gonna be a great night. I'm really excited to be with all the people, hang out with all the fans, and get to finally show that when when you actually put your mind to it, you can do it. Instead of you know, sitting around videos and and and all that sorts of stuff saying that you're going to do it, we're actually out there, you know, putting mind to metal and making it work. Oh, mind to Metal. I like that. Oh I think I dare say there might be a song in there. Oh dah man. We just finished an album.

Now I have to write another one. We'll talk about that later. Also, my studio producer missed a b very very kindly offered for free course. Who I know that the Commander to the Supreme Leader's theme is quite long. The offered to do a mix, like a shorter version that would be perfect for your radio show. So if that is something that you would like in the future, of course I can organize that. If mister B would like to do that, that would be fantastic. I mean, you know, Jerry, I'm a little bit wary of him only because the name mister B. Sometimes I wonder if he might be involved in organized crime or something.

But having said that, yes, if you'd like to produce a shorter version of that that I can use for the intro on a daily basis, that would be fantastic because I do love it, so you know, I can absolutely and don't worry about mister B. Of course, he's not liking it. He's not like an Italian mobster or anything. He's actually a short white kid who is from Ireland. Oh right, oh and Irish, an Irish lad. All right, very good. Then, well, I in that part the terms of our contract, I'm not allowed to say his entire and name.

Plus I don't want some unnamed loser from New York accidentally, you know, coming across him and trying to use the services. Well, I think mister B would would know better than to get involved with anybody like that. I'll just I'll just put it that way. Yeah, absolutely, you know. It's it's great hearing from you again. Thank you so much for playing out Music again yesterday. That was an excellent show. I watched the whole thing. It was fantastic. I'm and really, I'm very excited to hear Eric Alan Pancher.

I'm really excited to hear his review of A creep show. That's a that's a great movie. And I said it in a previous video. Maybe you can pass it along to Eric that maybe he can do a review. It's a it's an awful, awful B movie called Lama Geddon, like the animal Lama and AMAgeddon put together called Lamageddon, and it's I mean, it's terrible, but it I just I couldn't help but watch it. It was horrible. Now when did that come out though, Because if it's if it's too recent, it wouldn't qualify as a classic film.

Oh that's a good point. Yeah, okay, Well, maybe maybe he can do like a like a schwarzenegga movie like like uh uh. He could do like Predator or a Racer that's a great movie, or even total recall, or what about Twins. I know a guy from New York who's about the same height as Danny DeVito who would probably enjoy a review of Twins. Oh that would be great, or a jingle all the way, probably the best Christmas movie you ever made, next to a Christmas story. Ah, of course, absolutely. Well, you know the holidays are I mean it is September, so the holidays aren't too far away.

That's right, that's right around the corner. We can make it work, yes, but listen, I know you have a very big show. Uh. Best of luck to your awesome musical guest today. I will call you in the future and maybe we can get something else walked out. Also, see you in two weeks when I fly up for that private show. All the best, Jerry, all right, thanks, Jerry, all right, very nice, very nice, the great Jerry Robinson of Jerry and the Scumbags. And uh, we did feature some of that that music yesterday.

Well actually we featured all of it yesterday and that was a lot of fun. And uh, what a what a great guy. And and by the way, can I just say I think he's also inspirational and motivational because you know, he talked about not just the music, but he also talked about the importance of actually doing something that you say you're going to do, not just you know, you keep saying it and keep saying it in a year after year after year. I mean, I know people, you know, you go back on YouTube or Facebook and you find videos from like ten, twelve, fifteen years ago talking about how they're gonna do this, they're gonna do that, and then they just never get to it.

But Jerry Robinson is a man of action, and I like that. Putting mind to metal, I like that a lot. I like that a lot, very very good. Well, thank you so much, Jerry Robinson for calling it. That does open up the studio line for you. Six o three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. I do want to say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. We'll see who we have in here, and then we'll try to get into some some stuff. As we say, Jenny of course is in the chat room and says shalom peeps.

Jay fed It joins us, of course from the great state of Vermont, says good afternoon everyone. Dylan Reynolds is in the chat. Very talented musician in his own right. He says, good afternoon. Jenny was commenting. She said, I love this, commenting on how much she likes that song Shadow from the band Soda, who is our musical guest today coming up in the second hour. Oh, Dylan really likes that that intro that Jerry Robinson, Well, mister b actually produced it. He said, what a legendary intro. I agree, I agree, absolutely really cool.

Miriam Bannish joins us in the Facebook live chat and and says, good afternoon. Dylan said, I've heard it has dozens and dozens of streams so far. Yes, multiple dozens, I believe. Oh, Jenny clarified. So the new single from Sepsis, Romance and Reality. It is currently only available to Patreons. So if you subscribe to Sepsis is Patreon, which you should, I recommend it, you can get the track now. But if you want to hear here on the radio, you got a tune in Monday if you're just joining us. Monday, we will have the world radio premiere of the brand new single from Sepsis, Romance and Reality.

And like I said, I heard it today, it's really really good. Eric Pilcher, Oh, we were just talking about you, He joins us in the Facebook laugh chat and says, hello peeps. Oh are you are you saying peeps? Because oh, never mind, I was about to make a really dumb joke that before the joke fell out of my mouth, I realized it doesn't work and doesn't make sense. So now you'll never know what the joke was, because it would have been really stupid. And I'm so glad I caught it before. I said. You ever do that where you make a joke and you realize right after you say it that the joke doesn't make any sense, and then you kind of feel self conscious because you were trying to be funny and everyone knows you were trying to be funny, but what you said wasn't even remotely funny, and it didn't even logically make sense, so it can't even Not only is it not a funny joke, Okay, it doesn't even qualify as a mildly witty quip or anything.

It's just a thing you said that immediately you're embarrassed by. That almost happened to me just now. I'll tell you that's a that's that's terrible when that happens. Eric Eric says, someone says today's review is my best work yet. Yes, someone did say that. Someone did say that, Yes, Eric's film review. Obviously I listened to them ahead of time, and uh it is I and I did tell I don't think he'll mind ever reveal this. This was a uh conversation we had online, but I did tell Eric, I said, Uh, it's been one of the nice things about working with him and him being a part of the show with these film reviews, and of course we do our weekly segment on Wednesdays too, But it's it's been nice, uh, watching the way the reviews have evolved over the last I think it's been a couple of years now, the way the reviews have evolved, the way Eric's approached it has changed, and uh, it's it's just been really cool.

I mean I thought they were good right from the beginning. But but but he continues to evolve and grow and how he how he does it, and I think that's really cool. Dylan Reynolds says, your guitar skills on the album were absolutely stellar. Do you teach lessons? Yeah, yeah, Eric Pilcher, like I said to Jerry, I mean, he just I will say this, the guitar tone you could cut glass with it, You really could. Those riffs, I mean just incredible. He's like he's like trying to think of it. Yeah, there really is no one to compare him to.

He's just that good. He's just that good. Carol's Warwitz joins us in the Facebook live chat. Dylan says, like, when you make a joke but it bombs so bad that it sounds like a statement, that happens to me a lot. I'll tell you what. Yes, And a couple of years ago on the show, this was a few years ago. Jeez, I've been here six and a half years now. I think hard to believe it goes so fast. I paid, I made a joke. I don't even remember who was in the room with me, but there was a reference. It was a political reference, but I guess it was just too much of a deep cut.

I made a reference to a moment in a two thy twelve presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, or a Mittens of Utah as I like to call him. And the joke was a reference to the phrase binders full of women, because that phrase was used by Mitt Romney during that debate, And I thought, I don't remember exactly what the context was, what the discussion was, I don't remember who was in the room, who was on the show with me that day, but I remember making reference to Mitt Romney's Binders Full of Women, and I swear to god, no one believes me because it sounds like this isn't even possible, but I swear to you it happened.

I delivered the line and I actually heard in my headphones. I could hear it an audible thud in the room of the joke hitting the floor. It was, And the people on the show with me, they're just staring at me, like what, And I'm like, oh my god, I just really bombed with that. But it wasn't even like it wasn't something where it was like the joke didn't make sense. The joke did make sense, and I thought it was really clever. And I heard a thud and I said, did you guys hear that? And nobody else heard it, but I swear that joke made a thud when it hit because it didn't hit.

I mean, it hit the floor, but it didn't hit the way I wanted it too. Very frustrating, But google Mitt Romney Binders Full of Women. You'll you'll get the reference if you don't know it. But apparently the people I had on the show that day, they just weren't having it. They did not see the humor and Mitt Romney's binders full of women. Uh, let's see. Bella Smith joins us in the Facebook live chat. Bella Smith is posting spam. All right, Oh, Dylan Reynolds, says George Lynch from doc and would be my guest, oh at regarding Eric Pilcher's guitar skills.

George Lynch, Yes, yes, yes, yes, m I was never that in a although, honest, Sleepless Night's a great song. That wasn't one of their singles, but Dream Warriors, I think it is the one everyone remembers the most right they had. They had a bunch of hits. I never got that much into dock and as much as I you would think that I, although I've seen them live, you would think that I'd be really into them, because I do love that music and I'm an eighties kid. But let's see, are we missing anybody in here?

Roniefervero from all the way from California, says, Hi, guys, hello Ronda. Uh, let's see, I think we got I think I mentioned Miriam's in there. Very good, very good. Let me give the studio line again and then we'll get into Uh, well, we'll see what we have time for. We are going to get to Eric Pilcher's classic film review very shortly. But six O three two five oh six O seven is a studio line six zo three two five zero six zoh seven. Oh. Before we go any further, two, I wanted to mention remind you, of course, our great sponsor, the hopnot right across the street at one thousand Elm Street.

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So that will be a lot of fun. Really looking forward to that this evening on retro Spectrum Radio, Jay fed in the chatroom says, I look forward to tonight with retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, I might get into just one quick thing here but before the film review, but I happen to see this. So I've been talking this week. The days kind of run together. You know what it is is so much not only is there always so much news, so much political news going on, which, don't get me wrong, it's a good problem to have when you're doing a show like this, but there's so much of it that the day's just run together.

But I have something kind of weird to share. But Shannon's on the line, so we'll grab this call first. Hi, Shannon, have no hello. I love listening to on Fridays because you were in prayer form, because it's your favorite day, it is, it's my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. Yes, and I was just going to request that you pretend I'm in the Facebook page tonight and say hi Shannon in the Facebook page, okay, or make something up? Okay, listening to an actual radio yes, sound something good? Yeah, yeah, I'll be listening.

Excellent. Well, we appreciate it. All right, you have fun tonight, all right, thank you, Shannon? Okay, all right, bye bye, all right, very good. That was our friend Shannon. Just quickly, I was talking earlier in the week about CNN. Well, let me back up a little bit. So yeah, I think it was yesterday because Billy Painter had called into and we talked about this a little bit. We're talking about bias and media and so forth. And you know, when you talk at cable news, obviously you know some easy examples.

You know, on the left you've got MSNBC and CNN, on the right you've got CNN and Newsmax. But I've noticed that CNN seems to really be turning on Biden. And it's not been subtle, and I wouldn't even say it's necessarily been incremental. It seems to be fairly abrupt. But they're really dogging him on his poll numbers. And because it's not just a matter of an approval rating at this point, it's a matter of you know, something like almost seventy percent of Democrats, registered Democrats, not just voters across the board, registered Democrats don't want him to run for a second term.

They want a different nominee. And I've noticed a split, by the way, So CNN seems to have really turned on Biden in a big way, while some of the personalities on MSNBC seem to be kind of sticking with Biden. For example, I heard Joy Read talking about, you know, all these these polls, well, whodo Democrats want if they don't want Biden? Nobody can answer that, But she talks about it in a way that's very dismissive and a little condescending, to be honest with you. You know, she was saying today.

I heard her today saying, well, you know, something like eighty percent of Democrats don't want Biden, But when you ask them who they do want, they can't tell you. Well, yeah, because they don't know who else is willing to run, you know, other than the obvious Kamala Harris. But and there's all this buzz around Gavin Newsom, but I'm pretty sure he's gonna run in twenty eight or thirty two even But but but the but the the change on on CNN has been so abrupt and obvious that Fox News actually was talking about CNN's coverage.

So you have and by the way, these cable news networks talking about each other isn't isn't necessarily new and not that unusual either, But actually have the audio of it here. They actually ran a montage of of CNN dogging Biden's poll numbers. They actually ran this on Fox News to show to demonstrate how CNN has turned on Biden. Here it is, it's only about a minute. Within his own party, You've got two thirds of Democrats saying they wish they had another Democrat to choose from. I'm sorry, this isn't the montage itself.

This is the segment, but the montage is within the segment from just a third of people in his own party say they are happy. That's Peter Doocey from Fox News talking with President Biden as the top of the ticket. Let's just stand. We have brand new CNN polling this morning, and the numbers are rough for President Biden. They could spell Trump for Democrats and the president's hopes for re election in twenty twenty four. Still early, but Biden's approval rating has shunk to thirty nine percent. Nearly sixty percent of voters think policies are making the economy worse.

Close to seventy percent of Democrats want somebody else to run for president, and the president's approval among Democratic voters that's slipping. There is no way to spend this. CNN reads the country's mood right now and finds that America is deeply unhappy with Joe Biden.

Oh that well, that was not much of a montage. They showed literally two clips. Two clips is not a montage. I wish I had played that before I shared it with you, because it really wasn't even worth it. But sometimes I forget so media. I like the site, and I get a lot of interesting, you know, because part of what I love to do is not you know, I enjoy discussing and analyzing politics, but I also enjoy discussing and analyzing the media apparatus that covers politics. But so I like media. It's useful for that.

But I forget sometimes that some of their titles on their articles are clickbait because the title of the article is Fox and Friends runs montage of CNN's relentless dumping on Biden's bad poll numbers. So from that title, you would think, okay, so they ran a montage of full, you know, all these different clips, which they could put together because there's a lot of it going on right now on CNN. It wouldn't be that hard to put together an actual montage. But it turns out that's not what they did.

They just showed a couple of just quick clips from CNN and that was it. But then you get this title that they ran a montage of CNN's relentless dumping on Biden. But there is relentless dumping on Biden going on, it says here. On Friday's edition of Fox and Friends, White House correspondent Peter Doocy reported on a brutal CNN poll out this week that showed, in the words of CNN's Dana Bash quote, Americans are deeply unhappy unquote with President Joe Biden, and Doocy included some clips two two, I guess two is some right, it's plural from CNN saying just that maybe, by the way, maybe these titles are AI generated.

I don't know media. I also found a few CNN clips that Doucy did not include. You can watch both montages below. Oh will this be like an actual for real montage if I play this, Let's see, let's see what this says? Oh, the rage and cage and James Carville he's in the clip. Well, that'll be exciting. Look, these polls seem to get at the elephant in the room when it comes to President Biden. For voters, it's his age that they're concerned about his mental acuity, his health. What does that tell us, Well, I guess to say the least that

the polls are not We're not great, and it tells us that, you know, voters expression some apprehension here. If it's it's pretty clear, I mean, it's not ourselsa you can say when you look at him. I mean, I guess the best thing you could say is not, if anything, they're worse for Trump. But there there is apprehension out there that's undeniable. But don't I point out, women lost an election since the Dabbs decisions, so you know we're supposed to lose in novemb and off it year, we didn't really look kind of tied.

So I don't know, but there is an attitude, by the way to just a comment on what Carville is saying there, there is an attitude among Democrats that because of abortion, because that issue in theory hurts Republicans, and I think, you know, in the example that he gives the recent elections, I think that that's probably there's some truth to that in general elections. But the thing is, if establishment Democrats like James Carville are going to hang their hats on that, they're going to be in for a pretty route awakening, I think, because you can't take that and say, okay, because of the Dabbs decision, there's no way Trump can be Biden because if you're looking at these polls and taking anything from them, look at the I mean, I saw a general election poll just the other day.

It showed them locked in a you know, within the margin of error, in a statistical tie right now. So you take nothing for granted, and that will be the undoing if Biden stays in again. I Mark Halperin said, Biden's definitely getting out. The decision has been made. But that is not filtering through the rest of mainstream media, which is very strange to me. We'll listen to the rest of this and then and then we're gonna get to Eric's review. But pulling adopt Scene or anybody else I've seen is not very good.

There was a memo my friend Jim a Scene said out and said Democrats need to quit bedwedding. My wife's already changed me to rub a sheets. I mean, but do you are you saying then that you're worried that you think the Democrats should be taking this Hope seat more seriously, well, I mean you know, it's typically in the August or September before the election. You know, I think predent Reagan's numbers were not Greatred and Clinton don't know. We're you know, starting to move up a little bit, the same thing at preason Obama.

But you can't look at this and I say that you can chart. It's just for me to come on television and say I don't find this along meing of troubling at all would be it would be stupid of me. I wouldn't do that. But there are there are people in your party, James who mister Carville the Rage in Cajun, which would be a great name for a wrestler. There probably has been a wrestler named the Rage in Cajun at some point. But there are people in your party who are complacent. Over on MSNBC, they're very complacent.

It's only on CNN where they're saying, oh, this is really bad. So the dynamics of it are interesting in terms of how media is reacting to it or in some ways not reacting. All right, let's do this, my friends. I want to get to this film review this week. Eric Pilchers. He's done a review of Creep Show the nineteen eighty two classic, written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero, a collab, as I believe the young people say, Well, I guess all films are collaborations of some sort, right, But this is really good.

Like I said, I think this is Eric's best work to date. So I really enjoyed listening to this and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you all. So we're gonna listen to the film review, and then we're gonna take a break, show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're gonna play another track from our musical guest today, Soda, who are going to be joining us in the second hour, and they're gonna play live in studio, so we're gonna do all that, and then we're gonna talk to those guys and hear some live music.

So lots coming up. So I think I already see musicians in the hallway in fact, so that's good. But yeah, here we go. This is Eric Pilcher's classic film review and the subject is nineteen eighty two's Creep Show. Check this out. I told you before, I didn't want you to read this crep I never saw us. It's crap in my life? Where do you get to who sells it to you? I'm talking to you, young man. You want to answer me when I'm talking to you. You remember who puts the freaking bread on the table around here?

Don't you stand? Don't be too hard on him. All the kids are reading My boy. Isn't all the kids? I want to know where this is going, Billy in the garbage, right into the freaking garbage. Now you got any smart mouth about that? In the books, he's keeping your dresser those one time a year underwear, those set Dan. You didn't have to hit him. Not only do I find out he's reading this crapp he's a snoop as well? Then for me to get your conflict day. The windows are open downstairs. I better get down a cloth and the rain will get in.

No, I'll do. And I got some garbage I want to throw away, Daddy, Please don't throw it away. I'm sorry. The next time, young man, I find you with a worthless piece of sh like this again, you want sit down for a week, buddy boy, Remember that tuck In anthologies have long been synonymous when not just horror films, but horror in television books, and even comics. This week's film is a homage to all of those means of media, but yet it found a way to stand all on its own as one of the greatest anthology films made.

Our next film honoring director George A. Romero this month is nineteen eighty two's Creep Show. This film teams up two masters of horror, with Ramero directing and the script being written by horror king Stephen King. The film features five tales of horror and has a star studded gas featuring Ted Danson, Ed Harris, hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrian Barbou and even Stephen King's stars in one of the tales. To tell the story of creep Show, we must first delve into some history. Creep Show was a homage to the ec comics of the fifties and sixties, the comics Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and Tales from the Crypt.

If that sounds familiar, it was because it was made into a very successful HBO series in its own right. These comics became insanely popular due to the stories in graphic artwork they depicted. Eventually, they became the target of politicians and parents alike. Such is the parent in the opening clip of this film. W was the opening clip of our review. Our next clips explain a brief history of EC comics. First, the late publisher William Gaines explains how the artwork drove the popularity of the comics, in what each prime artist brought to the table.

And then we will hear how the comics became targeted by politicians and parents and eventually led to not just their downfall, but the downfall of EC comics itself. In the nineteen fifties, if comics were killers and my o manner, publisher William M. Gaines was public enemy number one. My father had been instrumental in staught in comic books back in the thirties, and he had a whole stable of comics which included The Flash and Wonder Woman number of others, and he sold out his entire business to see He then went back on business and started little comic books for children he called the Outfit Educational Comics.

When Max Gaines was killed in an accident, Bill, who was planning to be a chemistry teacher, decided to concoct his own comic book formula. He changed the name to entertaining comics and started publishing Western war and crime comics. Eighteen fifty, editor Al Feldstein conducted a creepy experiment in an issue of Crime Patrol. We introduced the Crypt of Terror, and I kind of based it on what I've envisioned when I used to listen to Archoba's Lights Out or the Witch's Tale on radio. Gaines and Feldstein quickly realized that horror could be a hit.

We were so excited that we went ahead and changed the titles to Tales from the Crypt and the Vault of Horror. The Haunt of Fear soon followed, and by early nineteen fifty the first Horror comic books were selling half a million copies per issue. Russ Cochrane, who's been reprinting the original EC series, was typical of the kids that got hooked on EC Horror. I had about stopped reading comic books when I was fourteen fifteen years old. I'd sort of outgrown the superhero comics, and all of a sudden I picked up an EC comic.

Can hear were comics that were written better and drawn better than anything I'd ever seen before, and they hooked me right back in. Feldstein continued to create cover art and write stories based on Gaines's ideas, but they soon began to draw on a gruesome group of artists to bring EC's tales of terror to life. Every story was written for the artist who drew it. Graham always got the dripping, rotting corpses, slimy cookie stuff oozing out of the solid kind of things, and Johnny Craig, who wrote his own stuff.

Everything was nice, clean looking, except terrible things were going on in this beautiful, clean situation. Joe Orlando could go either way. He could have a clean job, or he could have an who's job, and he did a lot of either. Orlando himself remembers the awe inspired by another EC alumnus, Zack Davis in the Sweat, and we all envied him that he just toissed it off and he's just pure genius, you know. It was room and that he could do four complete pages a day if he wanted to, and we'd counted up.

Oh my god, he can make that much money. EC artists were among the most talented in the history of comic art. I and now Outcry leads to the end of EC comics, but not everyone appreciated the joke, and in nineteen fifty three a Senate subcommittee convene to find out if comics created juvenile delinquents. My name is William Dayes. I was the first publisherman these United States, the publisherror comics. I'm responsible. I start of him. If you remember Mayor Walker who once said, I never knew a woman to be ruined by a book, and I never knew what child would be ruined by a comic book.

There's just under nonsense. We were really the much shocked people in the world, and we discovered that we were these terrible people who were causing juvenile delinquency in America, which is what happened and would put us out of business. The controversy helped kill the horror comics, but he sees gore stories wouldn't stay buried. Since this film is a homage to the aforementioned ec comics, it couldn't just be a simple horror anthology on film. It had to have the look in the field of a comic book that had come to live.

Romero did this by using many tricks, such as bright vibrant lighting to indicate horror instead of implementing traditional cuts in the film, Romero and his crew used comic book blocks to indicate past sage is a time in text blocks to establish areas and if more time had passed or an exact amount of time. In our next clip, lead animator Rick Catizone speaks on how this comic look was achieved for the film by using animation and why it is so key to the film success. Right, a few reels and it's almost something that would be impossible to capture, and so they suggested that probably sell animation would be the better way to go with that, and so we created animation segments of the actual comic book that would cause it to blow down the street and land in the garbage can, soon still be able to open to the page that they needed it to, and then we would zoom in and do match dissolves.

The other part of the problem that they were dealing with was that Tom's creep at the window. The reason we're going to have a big crane pulled back over the whole neighborhood with the creep floating in the air and so on. And I believe that it was a budgetary consideration. I believe the crane was going to cost become a twenty thousand dollars shot probably, and that wasn't in the budget, and they thought, well, you know, it is an ec comic takeoff, and it seemed natural to have the creep through a flash of lightning and a dissolved change into an animated creep because the EC comic book characters were always hand drawn, so it seemed natural to go to a hand drawn creep as well.

The animation process was pretty involved, particularly with the creep, because you're trying to achieve a character, and of course you're trying to achieve motion that's interesting and believable, and so the process of course is doing drawings by hand, frame after frame. Actually we do key drawings first and then these are some of the drawings. You can see detail in the drawings. The key drawings are done first, and then I decide how many drawings should go in between, and then those are filled in afterwards.

Try and get the key poses first, to get the dynamic action for the main elements of the motion, and then we fill it in afterwards. And then he flies back over the neighborhood here of course, and then he points down towards the garbage can here near the end, and zooms in. It was really difficult in terms of drawing the hands. The hands on some of the parts of this are acting on a different level, but it was actually pretty difficult to draw because there's no flesh, and so when you have bony segments that are basically cylindrical, it became some very demanding drawing and it was one of the better challenges that I've had in my career.

As I stated early this week, I chose to do this review in this specific way because I felt that to choose just a handful of scenes from this great film would be way too difficult. That is, because all five stories shown in this film are truly great. There is no way or no fair way to choose which wants to include. To be honest, that could be a whole month of reviews all in itself. That's how great this film really is. Our final clip is our man of honor himself, George A. Romero discussing this film on a Pittsburgh talk show shortly before its release.

Of Note here how Romero separates this film from the horror films that were popular during the eighties, and he has a very special and hilarious story regarding the villains of the final story of this film different stories based on a young child's it's a comic book. It's I guess the real story of the movie is about a comic book. And we go into the comic book and there are five stories in the pages turn and the drawings turn into to live action and we see five stories. Yeah, well, thank you. It's it's a lot of fun.

Steve Wright's traditional Gothic horror. This isn't a typical has many of the horror films recently have been what they call Dyson slice slasher movies, and this isn't like that at all. It's uh, this is really gothic. Has its root in Gothic traditions, and Steve believes it's much more frightening when you know that something's behind the door. Your imagination makes it a lot more frightening. Once you see the monster, you start dealing with it. You can so sort of resolved. So much of the time and Creed Show has spent saying don't go in there, don't put your hand in that box.

And it's more anticipatory than it is shock, and it's it's one of the things about I mean, I like all the variety of the shows. As you say, do you know the five different stories? But there are certain parts of it that are really very very realistic, and those are the things that are most frightening, you know, dealing with the situation that could could possibly happen in life here. Yeah, I think it's hard for I would like to think that I will ever have to deal with three million cockroaches coming up up out of drains and things.

But that, you know, I understand you had a great search to find those bugs. Well it wasn't really a search. It's just that you know, and everyone says, boy, moviemakers really go to some extremes to pull off the scenes they need. The fact is, cockroaches are very expensive, plain old American styled cockroach couts at a laboratory bread under laboratory conditions fifty cents of teas, and we needed in order to fill that room about fifty thousand them, and it was actually more economic. We sent entomologists to Trinidad and they got the real article out of caves down there, and we have to go through government clearances and everything to bring them in and make sure that they were you know, they weren't infested with any, infected with anything and all that.

So it's all done on supervised program. These guys were big. They were, they were, But when you bring them, you bring them into this country. Cockroaches I thought were afraid of light. I mean, well, that's part of the trick. They don't take direction well, so you have to sort of trick them into doing things. And the only way we could get them to move one way or move another way would be to have they they'll run from light into darkness. So when we needed them to run that way, we would just make it dark over there and put a lot of light over here, and they don't go running that way.

You really can't get them to do very much. They don't have a big repertoire of talents, but they they're creepy. Oh yeah, that's true. Now, the book itself, the script was written by Steven Steve King. Yeah, Steve and I have become really good friends over this project, and we're going to do another. We're doing one of Steve's novels called The Stand, which was the novel right after The Shining, and that's hopefully we'll be one of the next projects that we do. Sadly, Romero's in King's version of The Stand was never made.

However, in good news, Unlike last week's film, this film found great success at the box office. It was released November tenth of nineteen eighty two and garnered over five million dollars it's opening weekend, making it the number one film that week. Overall, it made over twenty one million dollars, making it the highest grossing horror film for Warner Brothers that year. This film success also led to a revival for orientthologies both in cinema and TV. Tales from the Dark Side, which was created by Romero, Tales from the Crypt, and the Twilight Zone revival of the eighties all oh adeta gratitude to Creep Show for them being brought to the small screen in for theatrical releases.

Films such as Tales from the Hood in Monkey Shines became monumental classics in their own right and showed that I anthologies could be successful on the large screen as well. Without the success of Creepshow, one could argue that all of those would have never found the successes that they have. This film has spawned two sequels, one in nineteen eighty seven and a direct to video release in two thousand and seven. In twenty nineteen, the fledgling streaming service Shutter announced Creepshow would be made into a series.

It has aired since and was recently renewed for its fourth season, set to begin next month. This just shows the lasting legacy of this film and adds to the legend of two masters of horror. I hope you joined me. Next week when we continue our month long tribute to George A. Ramero, we will look at one of his rare non horror films, the nineteen eighty one drama Night Writers starring Ed Harris for WM and eight Hure and Matt Connerton Unleached. This has been a classic film review with Eric Pilcher.

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It's hard enough to know you've got them all treads you takled up. Then it makes them so sad one the step that you've lost your footing. Now you don't even know who your heart It could be that it could be you. What does your heart tell you that do poison the water? Poison the water and love me by high? The poison the water point in the water, love me by high. I don't cared to me. There's so much you know my mother me. I don't care. The love was true, I know, I don't know all I can do looking back?

The water was green, loving sense Why you get served me? Now it's turned to keep its way, so other lines of blood you share. It trickles down from your affairs, bulak faster and where where aware the loving soul could live like it? Just don't you find what your boys? The water boys, the water love be far mine your boys in the water, boyson the water. It was just not my mine water the water, boys in the water, the love be far the water by the water. It was not water,

your boyson, water my whoo. Boys in the water, poison the water. I'll be far high. Poison the water, poison the water. You're not hi. I love that. That is a soda and that is also the name of the project. And we have in studio on the couch. Casey Drone is here. Welcome back. Hey, thank you very much for having me. I say welcome back because you've been here with Afterimage, of course yes I have. So it's it's good to see you and I love this project. Thank you so much. We played what was it? The track that oh Shadow was the track that I opened the show with today, and but that's my favorite and that's the current single.

Is that correct? Soda is the current lead single. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, really good, really catchy. Thank you so much, very very catchy. So Casey is here and he's also gonna play live for us in studio. He's got his guitar so and we're gonna talk a bit and all of that good stuff. This is Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from these studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, where it did not quite open up. The sky did not open up in poor like I thought it was going to, which is fine, at least at least around here.

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By the way, Casey, so where does the name come from? Soda? So it's funny a little story. I was writing the song Soda about two two and a half years ago, and when it comes to lyrics, I tend to I like to do stream of consciousness a lot of the times, and I kind of let that breed where the lyrics take me. And as I was writing the instrumentals for the song, I kept hearing the phrase poison the water, poison the water as you're hearing the chorus. Yeah. And I don't know why I heard that phrase in my head.

It was just it kept like it repeating day after day, and I was like that, that's kind of cool. So I looked it up online and I was like, this probably is something to do with the bill. I'm sure there's something in that vein because I think it's I wouldn't consider myself a religious person, but I find a lot of the imagery and themes in the Bible very intriguing. I think you can pull a lot from that. Yeah, so I looked it up and it turns out that soda it's a story from actually very early Testament, and those that were thought to have cheated on their significant other were put through a trial of the poison water.

Oh, and if they drank the poison water and they died, they were guilty of cheating. If they survived, they were innocent, and those accused were called sota. Oh I'll be damned. Yeah, no, pun intended. So that's where that came from. Wow, Oh that's pretty cool. See if i'd be a little bit alarmed if I kept hearing that phrase over and over in my head, Oh definitely, you know, especially if it was the same voice that tells me to burn things, I'd be pretty freaked out. But but you created a song with it, so that's great.

So yeah, So, so you like the title so much you decided to also call the project. Yeah, it's really hard to come up with band names nowadays because every single band name has been taken, right, So I looked on Spotify at the time and there were no other sodas, so I said, you know what, I like it. We'll call the project Soda very cool. We have a question for you in the Facebook live chat, Isaac Banks is asking hashtag Soda what's your favorite song of Susanne Vega? Do you have a favorite Susanne Vega song?

I need to apologize to him. I don't even know who Susanne Vega is. I apologize, that's all right. I suspected that might be a kag Isazac Banks acts asks very strange questions. Yeah, it's from Greensboro, North Carolina. That's how they do it. Do you know the song? My name is Luca. My name is Luca. Oh sure, that's Suzanne Vega. Okay, I think that's I think that's our only really big hit though, So well that's my favorite. Then there you go, there you go. Well, you've got your guitar, you want to play something for us and dine?

Here, you play and then we'll talk some more. Yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna play. This is the very first original single that I ever released. This came out Saint Patrick's Day of twenty twenty one. It's called Dying Breath. All right, When you hear my name? Do you cry like God? Do? When you see my face? Do you die like God? Do? I can hear your voicing. I don't know how I should feel. I can see your smile, and I don't know if it's real. Is it the same for you? Woo woo woo, woa whoa, woa oh whoa. Everywhere I go I can feel you there, Even in my room, I can feel your stare.

God knows. I've tried to kill the shadows that remain, but when I'm on my own, I relive all the pain. Is it the same for you? But have you let it go? Is it a shame for you that we couldn't grow? I'm not sure why I care? Why I wanna know? Is it the same for you? Don't want to sleep because I know I'll meet you there, don't want away because the truth is hot too bad. God knows. I've try to kill the feelings that remain, but when I'm on my own, I know it's all in vain. There hasn't pean a second yet.

You haven't crossed my mind. You know I've tried with all my heart to leave it up behind. I'm holding on to something that I cannot fix this time. It's not so easy to except maybe you're doing fine, and yeah, maybe you're doing fine. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh whoa? Is it the same for? But have you let it go? Is it a shame for you that we couldn't grow? I'm not sure why I can't. Why I wanna know? Is it the same for?

There hasn't been a second yet. You haven't crossed my mind. You know. I've tried with all my heart to leave it up behind. I'm holding out to something that I can I fix this time. Is it the same for? Is it the same? Is it the same? Is it the same? As it the same? Is it the same? Is it the same? Is it the same for you? Very nice? Very nice? If you're just joining us? Casey Drone is here from the band Soda, is it who else has involved in that? With you? So? I initially asked my longtime friend from high school and drummer Johnny Dayshan.

I've known him for years. I've always wanted to be in a band with him. I just never have been up until this point. Yea, So it's a dream come true to be working with him. The bass player is actually my younger brother, Killian Drone and he is a senior in high school, so it's very cool to have him in the band as well. And then we've gone through various guitar players. Originally Brandon Curcio from after Image has helped fill in and he actually does all the solos that you hear on the recorded songs.

Oh okay, and he mixed and mastered my EP that was released today. Oh wow, but very cool. Lately, I've been working with Zoe Pancratz Harvey Olsen. She's been helping play guitar at some of our live gigs. So that's a wonderful addition because she just adds a lot to our sound. She's a phenomenal player, monster guitar player, so very excited to have her join. She joined earlier this spring. Okay, yeah, cool. Cool. It's nice too though that you know, if you have to you can always do it just by yourself too obviously, you know, des grab your guitar and do it that way too, so you have some flexibility.

Absolutely. It's it's funny because in Afterimage, it's always been a group effort when writing our songs with Soda, it's all me my band members don't mind that I do one hundred percent of the writing. I hand them the music, they listen to it and they play their parts. They'll embellish little things here and there. But it's the first project where I've kind of had complete creative control. Yeah, so it's nice and that it definitely gives me the opportunity. I wrote them, so I know everything, so I'm able to sit here today with my acoustic and play him for you.

So yeah, yeah, Now, so on the because we've played a couple of studio tracks. On the studio tracks, who who is I mean? Are you doing most of the or maybe all of it on the studio tracks? So I really admired how Dave Grohl the first food Fighters album was completely done by himself. Yeah. Unfortunately, I don't play drums and I'm not that much of a shredder on lead guitar. I'm very I'm pretty decent at rhythm guitar, but I wanted to try and do as much as I could buy myself. So on the EP, I recorded the rhythm guitar tracks, the bass tracks, and vocals.

Johnny Dayshaun played drums. He did a different percussion that you'll hear like tambourine and shaker and stuff like that. He provided some backup vocals, and then Brandon Cursio, like I said, he did all the lead guitar tracks and solos. Okay, okay, very cool. There's somebody in the chat room. I have a feeling he might be related to you, Dave Daron that's my dad. Excellent, excellent. Yeah, it's good to have supportive parents. Absolutely. Yep, you're getting some love in there too. A Miriam Banish says that was amazing.

She really liked the song you played. Thank you very much. Isaac Banks says, awesome. And do you cover tunes? Do you do any cover tunes? He's asking I do do some cover tunes. I'm actually going to play one for you guys today. But yeah, no, I like to cover all sorts of different stuff. Soda is very much in the realm of punk and SKA, so I like to do various covers. But in the past we've done American Jesus by Bad Religion. Actually on Spotify. The very first release that I put out was a cover of the Mighty Mighty Boss tones They will need Me Music, Oh no kidding, And it was really cool because I released it my first everthing was soda, and two weeks later they actually shared it on all their social media.

That's cool. Yeah, it was good, good, cool right off the bat. And did you did you know they were gonna do that? Like, did they contact you directly or they just did it? No. I'm Facebook friends with a couple of them, just having gone to the shows for years, and they're pretty open with their fans, which is really cool. But they're not really the type that, like you sent of a message and they'll get right back to you. You know that they're living their lives too, so I don't know. I guess one of them saw it and they really liked it.

They showed the rest of the band and then they shared it, so that was all on them. I had nothing to do with that, which was really cool. That's excellent. Oh, your dad says, your mom is there too. And brothers a phenomenal whole family listening in. How many brothers you have? I have four younger brothers. Oh my god. Oh yeah, big family, huge family, all boys. Oh no kidding? Are you so you're the oldest. I am the oldest. Yeah, are your brothers? Do any of them play play instruments, or just my brother Kellyan, who's in the band right,

A couple of my brothers. One of them played trumpet for a year or two and then he got sick of it, so he could have been my horn player, but he bailed right right ten years ago. Oh wow, no kidding, boy, Yeah, I can't imagine, you know, I my first sibling. I was already ten years old when my first sister was born. So it's like I kind of almost feels like I grew up an only child. But it's just it's hard. It's always been hard for me to imagine what it must be like to have that many siblings. You know, it must get crowded, I would think, But then again, you grew up with that, so you're used to it.

It's a full house, though, that's for sure. We're always doing something. Yeah, Yeah, that's cool. I saw somebody else pop in here too. Oh I can't find him now, Oh that's all right, they'll say. Oh, Jason Fetterson in the chat room. I was asking, now, this is a question that he asks everybody. He's asking, have you ever considered increasing the length of your beard? Now, that's a particularly interesting question for you. Since those of you only listening who can't see Casey does not have any facial air.

I don't so when COVID hit, I tried to grow a little got Yeah, it's not here anymore. So that's that's all I'll say about that. It is unusual, though, it seems like everybody asks facial hair these days. I know, you know, when you're able to grow it, it must be nice. You rarely see anybody clean shaving anymore. It's kind of funny. Oh, your dad says, ask Casey about his Kermit tattoo. He already asked that last time. We're getting repeat questions here. Yeah, I have a Kermit tattoo, Kermit the Frog right on my arm.

Oh okay, yeah, I love the Muppets, big Muppets fan. So for those that don't know me, I have a Kermit the Frog tattoo on my arms. My brothers make fun of me a lot for that. Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that. I don't remember asking you about that last time. Yeah, he called in. Oh he called it, he said, ask him about the Kermit tattoo. Now it's coming back like this might be a recurring. The studio line is open if you have any questions for casey six zero three two five six zero seven. Uh. Mike Pelapito from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our great sponsors, and I get to hang out with Mike tonight on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C from A to eleven PM.

He called you a very talented musician. Oh, thank you very much, very nice, very nice. Do you want to you want to play another song? Absolutely? Yeah, I'm gonna play an unreleased song. It has been recorded, just has not been released yet. Okay, this is called sunrise, all right. They see the winds of chain

up here after the rain, but only some might find where the sunlight lies. No matter how they mightter, you don't ever let it. Father,

you're strangling day, say you will live another day? Did you grow from the pain or just suffer in vain? Sometimes it's hard to find your own peace of mind. I lie awake, can think of you and other selfish things I do. I just can't understand how to make a mass. When will the sunrise? Sunrise? Had enough moonlight? Moonlight, So seek of the night, the night, bring on the sunlight, sunlight. My heart was on my sleeve. I know you watched it. Please hemorrhad dring in my hands. But still my love will stand no matter how much pain you feel.

Don't never doubt that you are real. You're not the only one

who's still searching for the sun. When will the sunrise sunrise hide enough moonlight? Moonlight? So sick of the night, then night, bring on the sunlight, sunlight? When will the sunrise sunrise hide enough? Moonlight? Moonlight?

So sick of the night the night? Bring on a sun that sun I like it. What's that called again? It's called sunrise? It's very nice. Thank you nice? Now? When is that? So? That's been recorded but it's not out yet? No, yeah, I was. I actually recorded seven songs in this Love Hate recording session, and it really took me some time to figure out what I wanted to be on the project and what I didn't want to be on the project, And that one ultimately did not make the cut because I felt that the recorded track really has a different feel to it.

I wanted to go for a police eighties like I was thinking that when you started playing that at the police. Yes, it has a very The bed's too big without you? Bring on the night that Those were the two big influences from it. Yeah, so it has a very eighties reverbi kind of reggae scot feel, and I thought that it kind of could stand out as its own single, So that'll come out at some point down the line, but just chose not to put it on this Love Hate release. Yeah, yeah, no, it's really good. Thank you.

Where did you How did you learn to sing? Did did you take lessons or you self taught or I learned to sing in my car? Because you have a very powerful voice like you project very well. Thank you very much. I played trumpet for almost ten years, and I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I know that makes sense. Ronnie James Dio, who I consider one of the greatest, most powerful singers of all time, often attributed his power and his voice from playing trumpet, and I never knew that out about Dio.

Yeah, he started out playing trumpet in various jazz bands. I fit, wow. I didn't know that. So we had a lot of air control, and I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I know that a lot of my favorite singers are punk singers and they yell, so I just kind of went for it and I found my own way without hurting my voice to project. Yeah. Yeah, no, that makes sense though about the trumpet, that totally makes sense. Do you ever does your voice ever hurt from that at all? Or you're pretty pretty good with it?

No, I've I know, early on in high school when I sing, I didn't really have much technique, not that I have any technique now, but I think I've kind of refined it a little bit to where I know what I'm doing a little bit more. But early on, when I do the kind of Dicky Barrett growl, yeah, I definitely would get a sore throat after that, but I've kind of figured out a way to do that where it doesn't hurt anymore. I can still get the growl. And I've also learned how to do a semi like vocal fry, which is using the higher end of your vocals.

I use a mix of the two, and I think just the power behind my voice kind of makes it so I don't hurt myself, which is Yeah, it's been a long time coming. Yeah, it's so important to to be able to do that without because you don't want to be you know, you don't want to be one of those guys who eventually, you know, your voice kind of blows out right. Uh, do you know? Uh Sam Beechard from House Lights and Always Forward the promoter, No, I don't. We we had we had him on the show and you'll you'll probably run into him at some point because he's doing a lot in the scene.

But yeah, we were talking about the importance of taking care of your voice and being able to sing without hurting yourself and getting a short throat because he does the he's does the growley stuff and the straight singing and and it's it's impressed. It's always impressed me. Uh, people who can really push their voices without without hurting themselves. I took vocal lessons over the years from a few different vocal coaches, and but I never I never got good enough to be able to I'm a good harmony singer, you know.

I can sing with other people and find the octave and kind of lock in, but on my own I get lost. But I remember it was a you know, even when I was taking lessons, it was a challenge for me to just being able to learn how to project without without hurting my throat right now. Yeah, No, for me, I've always been very insecure as a singer. I don't necessarily think that I have the best voice, but I enjoy bands where that's not really necessary. I love punk, I love Scott my favorite singer, Sticky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who I think he has a great voice.

But to you know, a common listener, they might say, what the heck is that all about? But so I think listening to bands like that really gave me the confidence to do my own thing and sing how I want to sing and be completely me. Does it? Does it? He have a thing I seem to remember a long time ago. I've never seen them live, but I remember seeing a video where he uh, and I guess it's something that he says sometimes live where he'll coming up on a chorus to a song, he'll yell out something like, sing along, but if you can't sing, do what I do?

You got it? I did that every show. I always laughed every single time. Yeah. Yeah. And in terms of so the songs, so the songs are completely written by you do the lyrics come first? And then it's very tough. I half the time I don't even know what I'm doing. A lot of times I'll write the instrumentals first, lyrics completely separate. I know a lot of singers write lyrics to the music. I don't do that at all. I like to write stories and versus completely on their own. And a lot of times what I'll do is I'll take influence from other songs that i'll hear in terms of how they do cadences, and I'll use the cadences from other songs to kind of figure out how I want to sing them.

Yeah, And that's just looking at the lyrics, and then I'll just try to cram them into songs that I write. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't have to go back to the drawing board. But every song that you'll hear from me today was something that there were two separate entities that kind of merged together after a little bit of working it. Yeah, yeah, Well do you want to Should we play another studio track? Absolutely? Go ahead? What what? What would you? Uh? Why don't you play love Hate?

That's gonna be the next single. We're hoping to record a music video for that at our next show, which I'll talk about a little later. Yeah, yeah, And so these are all from now. So this is one of the ones that came out today. Correct, Yes, you got it? And so are these? Are these a collection of singles or are they an actual EP? It's an EP? Yeah. So. The lead single, Soto was released two weeks ago and the three other songs were released today. Okay, gotcha, gotcha? All right, let's give this a listen.

This is love hate from Soda to tell her to my heart but my another soulver golling from the Star want me three shoulders, love to be alive and leave me in the town with other weather God? How much love to how much need to love you? So y want tell into trance? They brought me closer today so much I still want to tell you,

but I need to say my bad how much old love to be you. I'm gonna tell you I love to you with no gong so love song,

no w SNG love. Can't I be any more? Can't be any more? Can't be any more, can't be any more? Can't be anymore?

What God? So taking the snow, take snow, take the snow, make me stow. Yeah, that is love hate from Soda, which is spelled by the way s O T A H. So. In case you're looking up online. Uh, And Casey Drone is here with us in studio. He's on the couch, he's got his guitar, he's been playing some songs and we've been talking and having a great time this afternoon on Matt Connerton Unleashed. If you are just joining us and you'd like to to chime in six zoo three two five zero six zoo seven, the studio line is open six ZO three two five zero six ZO seven if you have any questions or feedback or anything at all for Casey and uh.

Yeah, we were talking off air while that song was playing. I was saying to you, who's who's the drummer on that again? Johnny DeShawn, Johnny DeShawn, Yeah, I gotta give gotta give him props exolutely really drives that song. And ye and yeah, we were kind of talking a little bit too. I was saying, how you know a lot of because it's it's easier than ever to do it if you want to have program drums. But but a song like that needs real drums. Absolutely. The energy is lost if you don't have the human touch.

Yeah, and I always felt that punk music is all about rawness, it's all about power. It's all about being completely authentic, and to do anything other than that just feels the opposite of punkin right right. Oh yeah, Oh, so here's another. I assume this is someone related to you, Jody West Drone. That's my mom. Oh, very nice. Yep, she says, Casey sounds amazing, and she said, Matt, you are great. Well, I like your mom. She's got she's got a good taste in radio hosts. Well, do you want to play another you want to play another live song for us?

Absolutely? Yeah. This is another original. This one actually has not been recorded yet, but I'm hoping to do so in the next few months. This is a song called rain. All right. Every day I'm wondering who I want to be, and every day I'm pondering how do you see me? And time? No, howll I can be? I see clearly the rain.

I find comfort in the pain. M M in the rain, in the rain, in the rain, in the rain. Oh, it's pretty,

very nice, very nice. If you're just joining us, Casey Drone is here. We've been talking about his project Soda. We've played some studio tracks and we have one more two that we'll we'll definitely get in before the end of the show, and he's been playing live in studio for us, and I want to make sure we before we I mean, we're not too too short on time, but I do want to make sure we mentioned You've got a show, who are you you playing with? Coming up? It's an important show. Yeah. I am actually opening up for Murphy's Law.

Oh yes, yes, Grade two in Manchester, New Hampshire on Friday, September twenty second, just days after both of them open up for Rancid at the House of Blues in Boston. It's funny. I got tickets to the Rancid show months ago before I even knew that this Manchester show is going to get announced, because I really wanted to see Murphy's Law. They used to tour with the Bosstones and Fishbone and all that back in the early nineties late eighties. Yea, So I was like, oh, I gotta go see that Rancid show.

And then just a few weeks ago it was announced they're playing in Manchester their own solo show, Murphy's Lawn Grade two. So I knew that I had to play that show. I was like, there's no way I am not playing the show. That it's ten minutes from my home. So I got on the bill and I'm going to be direct support that night. Excellent. Good for you, the full the full bands, full band that night. Yes, very good, very good. Tickets are on sale now if you go on our Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Soda Band, there's a link tree in our bio where you can directly buy tickets from me through the event bright link and that just you know, it helps the promoters see that I'm out there doing my best for the shows.

We've been putting out posters all over town at all the record record stores, music shops all around so excellent, excellent. Yeah, it's so important when you're working with promoters, you know, to to kind of kind of show your work in a way, you know, show the effort that you're putting in. Yeah, that's excellent. Will that be the biggest show that you've done today with this project? Absolutely? Yeah, it's it's so big that we are dubbing it our EP release party. We'll have physical CDs for thep we released today.

In the past, I have opened up with Soda for Sponge and really yes, that was back last spring, about a year and a half ago. I opened up for Hung Down in New Bedford. Yeah, and we also just recently opened up for this scott punk band out of Texas called Hans Gruber and the die Hards. They're they're starting to blow up right now. They're on Scott Punk International Records and they're they're really blowing up. They're they're on tour right now. So that was really cool to be able to open up for a fellow SKA band.

Yeah, yeah, no doubt, that's a cool name. Uh, your mom says in the chat room. Yeah, let's all go to the Jewel. That's where it is. I come to the Jewel Friday, September twenty second. It's gonna be great. Tickets on sale now, I'll be there, give you a free CD.

It'll be fun. She also said, how do you talk to an Angel? I don't know why she is that? Do you cover that song? I don't. I have no clue what that means, because there's a song called how do you talk to an Angel? I can't remember the guy's name though, but yeah, for some reason she said that in the chat room. Interesting, and Jenny is sharing all the links by the way to your Instagram. Thank you. Oh, she said, I was responding to someone else. Okay, sorry double double texting. That's right. Well did you want to play?

How many? How many of you done acoustics so far? Today? I have three? Three, I had one more that I had planned. If you would like me to yeah, yeah, let's do that. I want to make sure we get that in before we run out of time. Absolutely love hearing your play, so yeah, definitely awesome. Yeah, this is a cover. I know. It was requested earlier. It was asked if I do any covers. This is a drop kick Murphy's cover. Skinhead on the MBTA. All right, well, let me tell you a story about up big old skin Head.

On the Tragic and Faithful day, she put ten sets in his pocket, kissed his wife, and his family went to ride on the MBTA. But did he ever return? Now we never returned, and his fabe is still unknown. He may ride forever neat the streets of Boston. He's the skin had who never returned. Skinhead goes down to the Kendall Square station and he changes for your maker plane. The conductor says skin Had unneed a nickel skin that punches him in the brain. Did he ever return? Now? We never returned and his babe is still unknown.

He may ride forever neat the streets of Boston. He's the skin head who never returned. Now all night long, skin It drives through the station thinking what can I go when? See can apport to buy Cracking Chelsea or Rabundlin Rocksberry. But did he ever return? No, we never returned, and his babe is still unknown. He may ride forever neat the streets of Boston. He's the skin head who never returned. Skinhead's wife goes to the Kendall Square stay changes for Jamaica plane and through the open window she throws skin at her grenade as the train comes a rumble and through what did he ever return?

Now? He never returned and his fade is still unknown. He may ride forever eat the streets of Boston. He's the skin that who never returned? Right now, you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal how the skin head stole the train? What did he ever return? Now? He never returned and his fade is still unknown. He may ride forever eat the streets of Boston. He's the skin that he never returned? Well did he ever return? Now? We never returned and his babe is still unknown. He may ride forever, eat the streets up Boston, Eat the skin and who never returned?

You see the skin head? He never returned, I said the skin Well, he never returned.

Excellent, excellent, very good. Thank you. Yes, Casey Drone is here from Soda. And we should mention also After Image, which is the absolutely you're on here with before it. Did you want to catch us up on what's going on there? We were kind of talking off earlier. Yeah, well, After Image has been in the studio. We just recently recorded four new songs that will be out eventually. Don't hold your breath. It's gonna come out at some point. But we really want to make it big. We want to go over the top, have some music videos, have a nice release for that.

So it is coming. You just gotta be patient. Yeah, yeah, very cool, good good. Miriam Banish said in the chat room, Oh, that was so fun. And uh, Melanie La Liberty says, come on, he never returned. He returned apparently not. Oh, and your mother clarified. Someone had asked her what her favorite Jamie Walter's song was that how can You Talk to an Angel? I'm not going to cover it. Sorry, yeah, no you shouldn't. That's funny. I bet I know, I bet I know who was asking her that. And in the chat room too, some of the conversations are going in there.

So so how much music does Soda have released at this point, because you've got the four that just came out, right, Yeah, and I actually only have two other ones. I have Dying Breath, which I played acoustically earlier, and then that Bosstones cover. So okay. I In the next year, I'm hoping to get a lot of music out there. I have a full album written that needs to be recorded, but I have a about ten or eleven songs that are on the way excellent. Yeah, and uh yeah, it's cool too because they're the ones that you just came out with their lyric videos on YouTube, which is which is nice because you know, something I have to do when I'm getting ready for the show is I have to go through and make sure the songs, you know, I see if I need to make a radio at it.

But with you, that wasn't a problem because you don't have any swears in anything, so that was which was nice. I appreciate that very very conveniently. I'm forever making radio audits of things, which I don't mind doing, but but it's nice to not have to do it. Where do you record? By the way, we record in town at Blackheart Sound. If you know where the Manchester Music Mill is, right over on Elm Street, it's right behind there. Brandon my guitar player from Afterimage, and he's been doing all the mixing and mastering for me for Soda.

He kind of worked his way in there. That's where after Image records too, and that's what he does for his profession, so now he's kind of working their part time and he does a great job. So yeah, it's nice to just drive ten minutes down the road and record your stuff. Excellent. Yeah, and it must be nice to to record with somebody who already is so familiar with how you work. Right, absolutely, let's make it so much easier. Oh yeah, things go like we'll book a three hour session and we know exactly what we're going to be doing for that three hour session.

There's no room for like, well, we might get to this. It's we kind of have it locked in at this point where we work very well with each other. Yeah. Is it the same approach with Afterimage as it is with this project in terms of just you you go in knowing exactly what you're gonna do, and pretty much After Image is a different beast because the songs there are a little more conceptual, a lot longer. We're looking at like our latest batch material has I believe, an eight minute song and a nine minute song.

Those are not going to be recorded in the same sense as a three minute punk song, right, So we do those in pieces, like we'll have one session solely dedicated to drums, then the next one will be guitar and bass, and then eventually we'll get to vocal. So it's a very different approach when it comes to the After Image music. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, Melanie said she's fixated on that song. She says, I just think he would have returned at least once, you know, to the for the holidays or his mom's birthday.

Yeah, you know, as the song goes, and it's it's actually an old folk songs. It is. The Drop Kicks changed the lyrics a little bit, but it's uh. I believe it used to be called Johnny on the MTA and that's been around for about one hundred years. But I don't know that. The legend says he never came back, and we don't know where he is. Is he living in down there? We don't know. And Jay Fed said, thank you for not swearing. I'm not a fan of the profanity. Actually, you know, it's funny in that in Skinhead on the MBTA you might have noticed that there was a verse that I completely cut out.

It's because it's throne as Okay, well well done, Yeah, Melanie says, So he doesn't really know if he returned or not. We'll never know who knows And no, we'll never know just as the song goes. And if the original song is one hundred years old, then you know, he'd probably be passed on by now. Probably probably. Yeah. What should what should people know about? Where to find your music, website, social media, anything you want to make sure our listeners know about. Yeah, we're on everything. We're on Spotify, Apple Music, any streaming service that you can think of, we're on.

You can purchase our music or you can get it for free on our bandcamp, which is stah dot bandcamp dot com. We have a link tree which has all of our links on there. It's link tree dot Soda band and yeah, it has everything from our YouTube, music videos, the streaming links, tickets, tour dates, everything you could possibly want. March is on there as well. Yea, all on the link tree. Do you do all that yourself? All the social media stuff and everything? Is that all you? I do it? I run everything.

I make all the graphic design I actually do get some help from. My artwork is oftentimes done by Jerry Matts, who's a legendary punk ourist. He's been in the scene since the eighties from New York and he does a lot of my artwork for me. Oh cool, very cool. How did you get connected with him? So, as I've said about fifteen times already on this show, a huge Bosstones fan. He actually designed the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones logo. He did their bulldog, which I actually have tattooed on my arm right here.

Ye.

He various t shirt designs, and I'm in a Facebook group online for the Boss Tomes. He started posting his artwork. He's like, here's my original copy. So I messaged him, I said, would you be interested in doing art for me? He's like absolutely, So him and Dicky they've they've gone back since the eighties, he's like just a super nice guy and he's designed a couple of my merch designs. There's a shirt online that you'll see that has an angel on it and that was done by Jerry Matts, super talented guy.

Oh, very cool, very cool. Well, in a moment, we'll we'll play that last. We have one studio track that we haven't played yet. Better than you. Yes, yeah, I like this one a lot too. It's pretty cool. But yeah, this has been This has been wonderful, Casey, thank you so much for coming in and uh listen if you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in a little bit at WMH radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com. And uh, I'll remind everybody too, don't forget. I will be back tonight from eight to eleven pm for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec and I get to hang out with Paul and DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry for that.

I don't forget too. This weekend to visit our wonderful sponsor, the Hopknot right across the street at one thousand Elm Street, and make sure you check out soda and again it's spelled s O T A H. Does anybody ever get that wrong? Like on a flyer or anything? Does anybody ever screw up the spelling? Nobody has so far, but they all think it's a parody of like soda can, which it's not, as as I told you earlier. But because of that, I've actually made a Coca Cola parody shirt. So oh have you that's out there.

That's a good idea. That's a that's a really good idea. Casey, thank you again so much. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's always a pleasure to be on. Oh. Absolutely, And we will end with this. So this is called better than You. Uh, this is brand new out today. This is from Soda again s O T A H. And check this out. This is a This is a great track. I'll let you get to the show. You want to see me low see a couple of tists to make it me a better I see you thought go, but let us go. I'm about im, but I'm still doing better than everyone.

Never reprays and will buy many day. But somehow I know that it's not mad boy you and it's bloody the expo say to make the field prosy. I'm m be down, but I'm still there. Ain't done you, So what more do you want to go? Because I'm ready to go. I've had enough, but I'd like to both get her now. I can give you some ball. I love it. I'm like a joke. I could do gotter then I'd be no better than everyone ever reprays and they will buy many day. But somehow I know that is not bad for you, and it's gone Alex prosade to make the field proceed.

I'm gonta down on the field and better than you if everyone ever play with my bad today. But somehow I know that is not bad for you, and it's gone to the lex procede to make it feel crazy. I'll be down on this steel O the da that yo bter that Joe b that yo

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