Matt Connarton Unleashed: Aaron Bilodeau presents Aaron and the Argonauts

0:00 Speaker 1: That is nothing's real. It's just a thing by Aaron Billadeau,

0:03 Speaker 1: who is here with us the new album Aaron and

0:05 Speaker 1: the Argonauts, and Aaron's going to play for us in

0:08 Speaker 1: a minute. Really looking forward to this. This is Matt

0:10 Speaker 1: Connorton Unleashed. We have entered our second hour on this Saturday,

0:14 Speaker 1: November twenty third, twenty twenty four. We are live from

0:18 Speaker 1: the studios of w m n H ninety five point

0:20 Speaker 1: three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here

0:24 Speaker 1: at the news table and Aaron Billodeou is here. He

0:29 Speaker 1: is all set up. Now I'm going to turn this

0:31 Speaker 1: on and let's see if we can hear you. Hello, Eron,

0:35 Speaker 1: see I think I might. Oh, there we go say

0:39 Speaker 1: that one more time, Eron, Hello testing one two, there,

0:43 Speaker 1: we got we got you, We got you. Aaron is

0:46 Speaker 1: So for those of you, let me go ahead and

0:47 Speaker 1: put the camera on you. For those watching online, actually

0:50 Speaker 1: let me put on a little bit of a wider

0:51 Speaker 1: shot here, because Aaron is entirely self contained. He's got

0:56 Speaker 1: this whole setup and it's all but it all just

0:59 Speaker 1: plug into one channel on our board, which is amazing.

1:03 Speaker 1: And do you want to tell us any or or

1:05 Speaker 1: or do you prefer to keep the mistique of it all?

1:07 Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive. Soon's Aaron's gonna play some live songs

1:13 Speaker 1: for us and then uh, and then he's going to

1:15 Speaker 1: go over to the chair, and I kind of like

1:16 Speaker 1: the tonight show. He's gonna go over to the chair

1:19 Speaker 1: and we're going to talk. And Amy is here and

1:21 Speaker 1: Jay is here as well, and so looking forward to this.

1:23 Speaker 1: But I'm dying to hear you play and uh play

2:00 Speaker 1: the Yah.

2:03 Speaker 2: You're the best seller. Frick we roll these.

2:07 Speaker 3: Wag no tepication of man today God parents, old.

2:13 Speaker 4: Brother without fears.

2:18 Speaker 2: We sell the r I was like my.

2:23 Speaker 5: Pride park outside the Serbec side.

2:47 Speaker 4: There's something in the sa.

3:39 Speaker 6: Fiter ro five fiveer.

3:47 Speaker 7: We'll call you like fiveter fiter rock five fiveer from

4:00 Speaker 7: oil like fast fast roast bad fast, the bil life fast.

4:16 Speaker 8: There that ship of a Sirens billies will never be.

4:23 Speaker 4: For real, that dis God the matters of the heart.

4:28 Speaker 4: See still be my hair. I'm not forever carbon outside

5:18 Speaker 4: then the starboard side, right.

5:24 Speaker 2: Thank you.

5:26 Speaker 3: That song was called song and Temptation. This next song

5:29 Speaker 3: is called slow clap mm hmm.

5:35 Speaker 1: Hold right, all right, I would be.

5:44 Speaker 8: One the song don't still almost crag with the bowl

6:07 Speaker 8: No the void happiness.

6:20 Speaker 6: Go by.

6:23 Speaker 8: Through the night break A side echo back.

6:30 Speaker 2: The void.

6:38 Speaker 8: Wariness by.

6:47 Speaker 2: Queen Yeah.

7:10 Speaker 8: Godl wearness.

7:14 Speaker 6: To the bar.

7:19 Speaker 4: That be clean face.

7:24 Speaker 7: Cards StarLAN wearness.

7:32 Speaker 6: To the fire.

7:36 Speaker 2: That be Please, which one is pall bad on the way.

8:37 Speaker 4: On the wat I want to breas bump off the dods.

8:47 Speaker 4: It's the only think about my my heart, and never

8:52 Speaker 4: time to think of you.

8:56 Speaker 2: It closed me away, It closed me.

9:00 Speaker 6: Oh I had.

9:30 Speaker 4: I wanna be stoned up that I hide. It's the

9:35 Speaker 4: only scene to cross my my hide. An got be

9:40 Speaker 4: the time to take off? He spose you all hidepose.

9:47 Speaker 6: You know I hid.

9:50 Speaker 2: I'm gared of Oh.

9:55 Speaker 8: Well you understand I can't be crush?

10:01 Speaker 3: What is that.

10:04 Speaker 9: You won't come to me?

10:32 Speaker 4: I'm a lad.

10:37 Speaker 6: I wanna be drunk up a high.

10:42 Speaker 4: It's the old mis thing across my my hide to

10:47 Speaker 4: man every time I think or go.

10:52 Speaker 6: It bots be away. Suppose you I had.

11:42 Speaker 2: M hm.

11:59 Speaker 9: Six, I was called do you had a son?

12:15 Speaker 8: Your second?

12:19 Speaker 6: Big God?

12:22 Speaker 4: Where by.

12:28 Speaker 6: Okay big had a son?

12:39 Speaker 2: You travel.

12:42 Speaker 6: So far away? Father? Now body.

12:57 Speaker 2: Big on the fund.

13:09 Speaker 6: A side hold on time so you don't die.

13:17 Speaker 8: If you want to go, go horrah, just take your

13:24 Speaker 8: thumb up to die.

13:35 Speaker 10: Be me.

13:37 Speaker 8: Ap to the guy.

13:42 Speaker 6: Wh ray lie.

13:49 Speaker 4: Not he has a sign mm hmm deep.

14:04 Speaker 6: From this world one man, Tony hot be had the

14:21 Speaker 6: side got holdni.

14:37 Speaker 2: Do you want to go to?

14:45 Speaker 6: Just be your comb up to this guy.

14:54 Speaker 2: Tack it with the alience.

15:08 Speaker 3: All right, I have one more song to you called Grind.

15:12 Speaker 3: This is gonna be a clean version.

15:14 Speaker 2: If you like this song, the official video for it

15:18 Speaker 2: just went up at ten o'clock.

15:23 Speaker 9: We'll catch it on YouTube.

16:00 Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know.

16:05 Speaker 8: What head well my head pay every day every day?

16:11 Speaker 10: Why every day?

16:15 Speaker 4: Ride a day crime and the day every day? Every day?

16:24 Speaker 6: Ride at day, ride every day? Cry well my head.

16:37 Speaker 7: As day.

16:38 Speaker 2: You know where tay what I mean?

16:44 Speaker 11: What the heck?

16:45 Speaker 2: I apostasy a day every day?

16:52 Speaker 9: And you proy crime?

16:55 Speaker 8: You pron tesday crime, you.

16:58 Speaker 9: Proun from.

17:04 Speaker 10: West bare.

17:20 Speaker 4: Day from a jay.

17:29 Speaker 8: Wow glass.

17:42 Speaker 6: Well that film I'll be first.

17:49 Speaker 1: To all right, thank you you. The great Aaron Billado

18:01 Speaker 1: is here with us live in studio. We're gonna play

18:03 Speaker 1: another studio track. While Aaron gets uh settled in, We're

18:07 Speaker 1: gonna talk a bit about the new project and uh

18:09 Speaker 1: and all that goes with it. So, uh, check this out.

18:12 Speaker 1: This is called the End of Time. This is from

18:15 Speaker 1: the album Aaron and the Argonautsture.

19:33 Speaker 4: Still be.

20:00 Speaker 1: Come all right, that is the end of Time. That's

21:26 Speaker 1: from the new album Aaron and the Argonauts. Aaron Bildeo

21:29 Speaker 1: is here with us, and Aaron, you brought a couple

21:32 Speaker 1: of fine people with you as.

21:33 Speaker 9: Well, Yes, yes I did.

21:34 Speaker 3: I brought the drummer of this album, Jason Staples and

21:38 Speaker 3: my wife, Amy Bildto.

21:40 Speaker 1: Well, welcome to everyone. Welcome Aaron. So tell us more

21:43 Speaker 1: about so the video. We want to make sure people

21:44 Speaker 1: know about this. So the video for Grind that just

21:47 Speaker 1: dropped today.

21:47 Speaker 3: Yes, that just dropped that at the beginning of this

21:50 Speaker 3: interview at ten o'clock. Excellent, So as of now, I

21:53 Speaker 3: wanted to put it up as soon as like I

21:56 Speaker 3: played it.

21:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

21:58 Speaker 1: That's perfect. That's perfect. And the video now, so Amy,

22:02 Speaker 1: we're gonna make you talk because you had said something,

22:04 Speaker 1: you had said something off air about how much fun

22:07 Speaker 1: it was to make that video. Oh it was a blast.

22:10 Speaker 1: So what what do you like? Are you do you direct?

22:12 Speaker 1: Do you film everything?

22:13 Speaker 9: Do you know Aaron did all of it. She's the

22:16 Speaker 9: female voice that the song.

22:19 Speaker 1: Oh you're on the song yeah, yeah, yeah.

22:21 Speaker 9: And then yeah, you can hear her in the video.

22:23 Speaker 9: It's explicit, so.

22:25 Speaker 3: You can hear it swear right right, all those all

22:27 Speaker 3: those clicks yard, Oh, I got you edit.

22:31 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I appreciate that. Appreciate that. And then so now, Jason,

22:36 Speaker 1: how did you get involved in this project? You're you're

22:38 Speaker 1: one of the Argonauts.

22:39 Speaker 11: I yeah, since since band mix. Aaron reached out to

22:44 Speaker 11: me lastly a year and a half ago and about

22:51 Speaker 11: about doing a project. And at the time, my house

22:53 Speaker 11: was under construction and stuff like that, so I couldn't

22:57 Speaker 11: do anything. So I'm like, I'll get back to you.

22:59 Speaker 11: I get I'm like, but you know, I kept we

23:02 Speaker 11: kept bouncing back and forth like hey, like, my I'm

23:05 Speaker 11: still not back in my house yet, but once as

23:07 Speaker 11: soon as I am, I'll let you know.

23:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got back in my house and he did, yeah.

23:12 Speaker 3: You know, and I went right to his house and

23:14 Speaker 3: he his his wife was all freaked out because the

23:17 Speaker 3: stranger was showing up.

23:18 Speaker 1: Right right parrel house.

23:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we just started, uh playing from brand

23:26 Speaker 3: new songs from scratch. We played a couple of my

23:28 Speaker 3: old songs, just you know, to get the groove down,

23:31 Speaker 3: and then we just started writing and writing and writing,

23:33 Speaker 3: and it really took most of the year.

23:36 Speaker 9: To write and record.

23:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the meaning of like what is an argonaut?

23:42 Speaker 3: So so that's that's that's the old Greek stories. Uh

23:47 Speaker 3: uh there a group of travelers. One of them was Hercules,

23:50 Speaker 3: uhh and you know they were set off on on

23:54 Speaker 3: on a quest. It's the old movies like Clash of

23:57 Speaker 3: the tight Ends, U Jason and the Argonauts, Hercules, the

24:00 Speaker 3: old fifties sixties movies with the stop motion. I used

24:04 Speaker 3: to really like those when I was a kid, and uh,

24:07 Speaker 3: you know, I was just sitting there smoking and uh

24:10 Speaker 3: it just came, you know, it came to me and

24:11 Speaker 3: I thought it sounded neat and I went with it.

24:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know.

24:15 Speaker 3: And then so like the album has a three songs

24:18 Speaker 3: on it that are kind of loosely based on like

24:21 Speaker 3: the old movies. Uh, Like the intro overture for the Argonauts, right,

24:26 Speaker 3: and it starts off with like drums in the background

24:29 Speaker 3: and it builds up the horns and war.

24:32 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's awesome, and it's like the opening.

24:35 Speaker 3: Credits to those old movies, you know, because they had

24:37 Speaker 3: all the credits at the beginning. Yeah, back in the

24:39 Speaker 3: old movies, and they would have all this epic music

24:42 Speaker 3: and then these cards like you know, changing around of

24:44 Speaker 3: like different gods and stuff.

24:46 Speaker 9: You know, So that's that was kind of you know,

24:49 Speaker 9: it was all very loosely based off of that old stuff,

24:53 Speaker 9: right right.

24:53 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool.

24:54 Speaker 9: Yes.

24:55 Speaker 1: Now, so when you play a lot now, obviously, as

24:58 Speaker 1: as we said here, you're entirely self contained, which is

25:02 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. But when you when you play

25:05 Speaker 1: live in venues, obviously we don't have a lot of

25:07 Speaker 1: room here, so this is necessary. But do do jay

25:10 Speaker 1: and and and you're amy perform with you No, No,

25:14 Speaker 1: it's it's the same.

25:16 Speaker 9: Well, I've never performed on a song except for Grind.

25:18 Speaker 1: Oh so maybe when so when he plays Grind, maybe

25:22 Speaker 1: that's something we've died. And yeah, the little stage right, Oh,

25:27 Speaker 1: she doesn't really have.

25:28 Speaker 3: A stage fright because uh, we we had like a

25:30 Speaker 3: performance part of the Grind video, right and she she

25:34 Speaker 3: uh was up there performing with me and we had

25:36 Speaker 3: like a whole crew of people, yeah, you know, dancing

25:40 Speaker 3: and everything.

25:40 Speaker 9: It was it was kind of like a mock performance,

25:42 Speaker 9: but she was getting into it.

25:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so I think she'll just she'll be fine,

25:47 Speaker 3: you know if I make an edit, yeah, for when

25:49 Speaker 3: she wants to join me, right right, you'll pull out

25:52 Speaker 3: her vocals and then she can do it.

25:53 Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. Now is there anyone

25:56 Speaker 1: else on the album?

25:57 Speaker 4: Uh?

25:57 Speaker 10: So?

25:58 Speaker 9: Uh you know, it's just it's Jay. It's Gary Smith.

26:03 Speaker 1: Oh Gary Smith.

26:04 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, from Fox and the Flamencos and various other

26:07 Speaker 9: Oh my god, like RDV.

26:10 Speaker 1: He's one of the busiest people I know.

26:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like in six bands right off the top

26:14 Speaker 3: of my head, Cosmic Bloss and he's in like all

26:16 Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, and so thing the get Gos on

26:20 Speaker 3: this album, he's on He's been on Everything's Destroyer. Yeah,

26:23 Speaker 3: and of course my wife Amy.

26:25 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, very good, very good. This is not your

26:28 Speaker 1: first full length.

26:29 Speaker 3: No no, no no, it's my fourth, your fourth okay

26:33 Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and my fourth full length. And then I

26:36 Speaker 3: also have an EP out there and a collab album

26:39 Speaker 3: as well with he Oh okay, right right, Yeah, I

26:42 Speaker 3: got a bunch of stuff out there.

26:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you like it, yeah, yeah, Are

26:46 Speaker 1: you playing out.

26:47 Speaker 3: Much or a little bit I guess some shows coming up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

26:52 Speaker 3: let's see here. Okay, So December seventh, I'm playing at

26:55 Speaker 3: the Pophole Theater in Shelburne, Falls, mass And it's a

26:59 Speaker 3: it's a movie. So I'm gonna be opening up an

27:01 Speaker 3: old nineteen seventy five film called A Face in the

27:04 Speaker 3: Crowd I've never seen. It's an Andy Griffith movie. It's

27:07 Speaker 3: a black and white, but I'm gonna be opening I'm

27:10 Speaker 3: gonna be doing a half hour before that movie starts,

27:13 Speaker 3: and then this one's cool.

27:15 Speaker 9: This one was just added.

27:15 Speaker 3: So December fourteenth, at eight pm, I'm gonna be doing

27:18 Speaker 3: the Jimmy's Deadheads X mess in Hell at Terminus. Okay,

27:23 Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be doing a set at Terminus December fourteenth.

27:27 Speaker 3: And this is this is gonna be a benefit show

27:29 Speaker 3: for my friend Ben, who has he's been doing an

27:32 Speaker 3: annual toy Drive now for the last eighteen years. You

27:36 Speaker 3: know Ben from Change the Season. Yes, yes, he was

27:38 Speaker 3: the singer of Changing Season and he's been doing this

27:41 Speaker 3: like since we were in the band. Like his first

27:44 Speaker 3: toy Drive was a show we did at the Spider Room,

27:48 Speaker 3: No kidding, Yeah, called a clause for rock oh wow.

27:51 Speaker 9: And you know, I don't know how much he raised it.

27:53 Speaker 9: I don't think it was that much.

27:54 Speaker 3: Maybe a couple hundred bucks sure, But last year he

27:57 Speaker 3: raised seven thousand dollars.

27:59 Speaker 7: Wow.

28:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he he.

28:01 Speaker 3: He used to like make videos of himself going shopping

28:04 Speaker 3: at like toys, r US and all that, make a

28:06 Speaker 3: big production of it. I think he still does because

28:09 Speaker 3: he's got he's got a channel called Bike's Beards and Bruce.

28:12 Speaker 1: I remember checking it out after you. I was like,

28:14 Speaker 1: oh my god, there's Ben.

28:15 Speaker 9: Yeah.

28:16 Speaker 4: Yeah.

28:17 Speaker 3: So anyways, Uh, they're uh they're raising money for child

28:22 Speaker 3: health uh the Child Health Services.

28:25 Speaker 9: Here in Manchester.

28:26 Speaker 1: Yeah.

28:26 Speaker 9: Uh and uh if you want, you know, just go.

28:29 Speaker 9: There's pictures of him.

28:30 Speaker 3: Going there every year, videos of him going there every year. Uh,

28:34 Speaker 3: and and loading and filling this room up. You know,

28:37 Speaker 3: first it was just a couple of tables back in

28:39 Speaker 3: the day, and now it's the entire room. Yeah, he

28:42 Speaker 3: fills it up and it's a big production. So I

28:45 Speaker 3: definitely recommend donate to this charity. I don't like donating

28:48 Speaker 3: anybody else. Uh, nothing else goes anywhere else. He spends

28:51 Speaker 3: every dime on toys and then drops them off. Yeah,

28:55 Speaker 3: so this is a great charity. Go to the show

28:58 Speaker 3: Terminus Uhumber fourteenth, or just go to his website.

29:03 Speaker 9: He's got to go fundme h. You can donate there.

29:06 Speaker 1: Terminus is a great place, absolutely.

29:08 Speaker 9: I haven't played there yet.

29:10 Speaker 1: Oh you've been there.

29:11 Speaker 9: I've been there. I've been there to see Atlanta Corvette.

29:14 Speaker 10: Ye.

29:15 Speaker 9: I was supposed to play that show, but I got

29:17 Speaker 9: sick over the summer. Yeah, so I could. I couldn't

29:19 Speaker 9: play that show at that point.

29:21 Speaker 3: But I'm going to play now, so yeah, excellent, let's

29:26 Speaker 3: see here and then I don't have anything for a

29:28 Speaker 3: long time until October.

29:30 Speaker 9: I'm going to be playing Grafton Palooza, which is a

29:33 Speaker 9: new show out there.

29:34 Speaker 3: Really Yeah, yeah, so that's gonna be uh October eleventh,

29:38 Speaker 3: way way out then.

29:40 Speaker 9: Yeah, those are my shows right now.

29:42 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent. Is it difficult to find because what

29:46 Speaker 1: you do is obviously very unique?

29:48 Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's insanely difficult to find gigs.

29:53 Speaker 3: I've been told I don't fit in a lot of places,

29:55 Speaker 3: and a lot of places just don't respond. Yeah, you know,

29:58 Speaker 3: and it's hard like I don't have like I don't

30:00 Speaker 3: have a live band with me and it's it's people

30:03 Speaker 3: just like don't understand it if you explain it right,

30:07 Speaker 3: you know, So I don't know, like, you know, I

30:09 Speaker 3: keep grinded, yeah, you know, and I get gigs here

30:12 Speaker 3: and there.

30:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know when you do play out though,

30:17 Speaker 1: like if you're on a show with other with with

30:19 Speaker 1: like full bands, I bet they love you, yeah, because

30:21 Speaker 1: you're set up and takedown.

30:23 Speaker 9: So I'm great for opening any band.

30:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, act because yeah, it's I'm I'm out in like

30:30 Speaker 3: a couple of minutes, you know, off on the side stage,

30:32 Speaker 3: and then it.

30:33 Speaker 9: Takes me forever to pack up there. But right right,

30:35 Speaker 9: I can get everything off the stage within a couple

30:37 Speaker 9: of minutes. Yeah, you know, it's really nice.

30:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's amazing. Is it easier doing it this

30:43 Speaker 1: way because it's all you or like, do you ever

30:46 Speaker 1: have moments where you think this would be easier with

30:48 Speaker 1: a band?

30:48 Speaker 10: Oh?

30:49 Speaker 9: Yeah?

30:49 Speaker 3: So so the Erin and the Argonaut's idea first came about.

30:54 Speaker 3: I wanted a live band, yeah, to play this album. Yeah,

30:58 Speaker 3: And the idea was to form, you know, a live

31:02 Speaker 3: band and call that band.

31:05 Speaker 1: OK.

31:05 Speaker 9: And you know I tried, I.

31:07 Speaker 3: Tried, I tried to try it and it just didn't happen. So,

31:12 Speaker 3: you know, like it's either that or don't play right,

31:15 Speaker 3: you know, So I do what I gotta do, yeah,

31:18 Speaker 3: to get my show out.

31:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly. How did you, like, do you record

31:23 Speaker 1: this on your own.

31:24 Speaker 9: Or a studio?

31:25 Speaker 1: No kidding?

31:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, I recorded, yeah, on a laptop.

31:29 Speaker 3: Most most of it's at my house and then I

31:31 Speaker 3: bring all my stuff over to his house and I

31:34 Speaker 3: record all his.

31:34 Speaker 9: Drums there on drum days.

31:37 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, this was quite an experiment that I've never

31:41 Speaker 3: recorded drums like this before. I've only done like two

31:44 Speaker 3: mics in a room before, and this was like a

31:46 Speaker 3: whole bunch of mics.

31:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, for the first time. So like, uh, it was

31:50 Speaker 9: a lot of trial and error.

31:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. No, that's a great experience though. So Jason,

31:56 Speaker 1: in terms of your becoming a part of the project,

31:59 Speaker 1: have you ever done because this is, like I said,

32:01 Speaker 1: it's pretty unique, right, Yeah. Is this the most unusual

32:04 Speaker 1: thing you've done in terms of playing drums more or less?

32:07 Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I've figured I'm more like a I'm

32:09 Speaker 11: a I'm a prog like metal rock jazz, yeah, you know,

32:13 Speaker 11: And I mean I've played I played in everything from

32:16 Speaker 11: jazz bands to to metal bands. And actually we never

32:18 Speaker 11: played gigs. We never played gigs together, but actually played

32:22 Speaker 11: a lot of shows at my rock club. That changes,

32:25 Speaker 11: He's play in the day. I put in a band,

32:28 Speaker 11: Akila Dama.

32:30 Speaker 10: You know.

32:30 Speaker 11: So but as far as being as far as uniqueness,

32:33 Speaker 11: this is the most unique I've done, like band wise.

32:36 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:38 Speaker 1: So, so how does that work in terms of like

32:41 Speaker 1: what you're going to play? Like Aaron, do you do

32:43 Speaker 1: you explain what you're looking for? Or Jason do you

32:45 Speaker 1: just kind of feel your way through it? Or I

32:47 Speaker 1: mean how does how does that work a little bit

32:50 Speaker 1: of both? Yeah?

32:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, Sometimes it's jamming, yeah, and sometimes like I just

32:55 Speaker 3: write the songs at home and then I throw it

32:57 Speaker 3: on the Googles drive and I send it to him

32:59 Speaker 3: and then go to his house and I play it

33:02 Speaker 3: and we work it out. Yeah, you know, so it's

33:04 Speaker 3: kind of like a half and half thing.

33:06 Speaker 9: You know.

33:06 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's you know, just formed together and sometimes I

33:10 Speaker 3: bring him.

33:10 Speaker 1: Songs, right, I would imagine too, So as you're as

33:14 Speaker 1: you're recording, and you know, and you're doing it yourself,

33:17 Speaker 1: using able to the songs probably change from what you

33:21 Speaker 1: originally had in mind, right, I would imagine that I write,

33:23 Speaker 1: I write like.

33:24 Speaker 3: Drum machine stuff, yeah, you know, and enable him so

33:28 Speaker 3: you know, I'll do like a like a techno drum

33:31 Speaker 3: plate and then I bring it to him and he

33:33 Speaker 3: throws his drums on there.

33:35 Speaker 9: You want to pull him out.

33:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, But doing it the way you do it allows

33:38 Speaker 1: for a lot of experimentation obviously, you know, because I'm

33:41 Speaker 1: sure you have like when you first conceive of a song,

33:44 Speaker 1: I'm sure you have ideas of what it's going to be,

33:45 Speaker 1: and then it ends up being something.

33:46 Speaker 9: I'm always open.

33:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's kind of nothing.

33:49 Speaker 9: Nothing is absolute, you know what it's going to be

33:51 Speaker 9: like this.

33:52 Speaker 11: Right, that's kind of the adventure of it, right, Yeah, Yeah,

33:55 Speaker 11: but that was that was Hiding behind the Sun too,

33:57 Speaker 11: because I play I play a lot of like weird

34:00 Speaker 11: math stuff, like on my own practicing like nobody else

34:03 Speaker 11: but myself, like I record it, yeah you know, and

34:06 Speaker 11: on my go pros and stuff. And he saw one

34:08 Speaker 11: that I did, and he's just like, hold on and

34:11 Speaker 11: he went he wrote, he wrote Hiding behind the Sun,

34:13 Speaker 11: which changes from five to three to four and then

34:16 Speaker 11: back and back and forth and through.

34:19 Speaker 9: Different time signatures.

34:21 Speaker 10: In it.

34:21 Speaker 1: How many three?

34:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, five four and then three and then four four.

34:26 Speaker 9: Yeah wow yeah and then back again.

34:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I want I wanted to see if

34:32 Speaker 3: I could do it like Pink Floyd did it with money. Yeah,

34:34 Speaker 3: you know, so like they switched back and forth, true,

34:39 Speaker 3: from jazz times to rock time?

34:40 Speaker 9: Right?

34:41 Speaker 1: Has your approach changed over the years with uh, with

34:45 Speaker 1: with what you're doing with your solo work?

34:47 Speaker 3: I mean, oh yeah, I mean every year it's different. Yeah,

34:49 Speaker 3: you know, every year you gross more, you want to

34:52 Speaker 3: try it. Like what one year I did a techno album,

34:54 Speaker 3: you know, you know, yeah, a couple of years ago,

34:56 Speaker 3: and uh, that was very different, you know, and my

35:00 Speaker 3: first album is very different from myself. I feel like

35:03 Speaker 3: everything's getting gotten more smooth as far as the sound,

35:08 Speaker 3: the songs themselves, that have been.

35:10 Speaker 9: Better every year.

35:13 Speaker 3: It's it's amazing. It's it's just it's like a reflection

35:19 Speaker 3: of your whole year. It's because I put out an

35:22 Speaker 3: album once a year. Now, it's my goal every fall

35:26 Speaker 3: put out a full length.

35:27 Speaker 1: Okay, are you already working on the next one?

35:29 Speaker 10: No?

35:29 Speaker 9: No, no, I'm not.

35:33 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be taking the old Christmas break right then

35:36 Speaker 3: and then come back and start fresh. Yeah, you have

35:38 Speaker 3: to take a couple of months off, you really do. Yeah, yeah,

35:42 Speaker 3: I learned that like right away.

35:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, so grind is the first video? Do you have

35:45 Speaker 1: plans to make more videos from this album?

35:47 Speaker 3: So that's not the first video that there's this video

35:50 Speaker 3: for the End of Time. That was the first video

35:53 Speaker 3: and that came out like a month ago. Oh I

35:55 Speaker 3: didn't realize. Okay, I'll go back and check that out. Yeah,

35:57 Speaker 3: the video is awesome. It's I want to to do

36:00 Speaker 3: a film noir look to it. So uh yeah me Jay.

36:06 Speaker 3: And then I got Gary on that video too, so cool.

36:09 Speaker 3: I made him climb through like a little covey up

36:11 Speaker 3: to my attic and filmed him in my attic, you know,

36:16 Speaker 3: with Dale sticking out of that.

36:18 Speaker 9: You got to watch your ahead otherwise you're gonna need

36:21 Speaker 9: a tennis shot.

36:22 Speaker 6: Right.

36:23 Speaker 3: It's a great video. My wife thought it was my

36:26 Speaker 3: best video yet when I did it.

36:28 Speaker 9: Yeah, I shoot some of it, Yeah, shoot some a

36:32 Speaker 9: little bit of it, all the all the scenes where

36:34 Speaker 9: the camera's floating on me.

36:36 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, oh very cool.

36:38 Speaker 9: Yeah.

36:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'll have to check that out. And that's

36:41 Speaker 1: cool that Gary Smith is in that. Yeah, he's been

36:43 Speaker 1: on the show a bunch of times and actually very cool.

36:46 Speaker 1: Is there anything we didn't mention that you have coming up?

36:48 Speaker 1: I only ask because you you came extra prepared. You

36:51 Speaker 1: brought a piece of paperwork.

36:52 Speaker 9: No, no, I mean the big things that were the gigs.

36:56 Speaker 1: Very good and so this is out on all the

36:58 Speaker 1: streaming platforms, correct, Yeah, yeah, any plans to make physical

37:01 Speaker 1: copies of anything or maybe you already have or that's

37:04 Speaker 1: something every every everybody agonizes over do we do that

37:07 Speaker 1: or not?

37:07 Speaker 3: You know why because it because it because it's like

37:10 Speaker 3: fifteen hundred to three thousand dollars and then it's like

37:13 Speaker 3: a four to six month wait. Yeah, you know, it's

37:16 Speaker 3: just it's such a chore, right right, Like I want

37:20 Speaker 3: it and it's but it's it's a it's a lot. Yeah,

37:22 Speaker 3: they'd like to get it out on time, right, it

37:25 Speaker 3: just is the nightmare. It never happens, right.

37:29 Speaker 9: Maybe next year? Yeah?

37:31 Speaker 1: And do you have any other projects that you're doing

37:32 Speaker 1: or are you just focused on solo stuff?

37:34 Speaker 3: That's it. It's been the solo stuff, you know. You know,

37:39 Speaker 3: I have friends and if they uh, if they asked

37:41 Speaker 3: me to come help home and stuff, you know, I

37:43 Speaker 3: will Yeah, but uh yeah, that's that's just been it

37:46 Speaker 3: very cool.

37:47 Speaker 10: Oh.

37:47 Speaker 3: Another thing about the grind video let me let me

37:50 Speaker 3: do this shout out is uh that was filmed at

37:53 Speaker 3: Jim Hurley's place.

37:57 Speaker 9: Turbo Cats.

37:58 Speaker 3: Oh you've met him, he was there in here not

38:00 Speaker 3: too long on the show, ye, and he Jim Hurley

38:03 Speaker 3: plays the grinder.

38:04 Speaker 9: Yeah, so he plays he plays like the.

38:09 Speaker 3: Antagonist, you know, yeah, chasing, chasing, chasing me around with

38:14 Speaker 3: his grinders.

38:16 Speaker 10: You know.

38:16 Speaker 9: So he did a great job doing that.

38:20 Speaker 1: Jason, do you have any other Every drummer we have

38:22 Speaker 1: on the show is in like ten different bands. You

38:23 Speaker 1: must have something.

38:24 Speaker 11: No, I'm honestly like, is this is it like I'm

38:27 Speaker 11: trying to find you know, I live, I live right

38:29 Speaker 11: on the mass New Hampshire border and nobody, nobody around

38:32 Speaker 11: me wants to play anything other than metal or like

38:36 Speaker 11: maybe blues or whatever, and you know, and I'm I'm

38:39 Speaker 11: I'm a weekend Warrior I have you know, so yeah,

38:42 Speaker 11: exactly that too. So it's just like and it's something

38:45 Speaker 11: like I have you'll see in the video. Then at

38:49 Speaker 11: the end of the time that my kit, like I

38:51 Speaker 11: don't travel with that like I don't. That's why I'm

38:53 Speaker 11: a studio drummer because I have my kit the way

38:56 Speaker 11: that I want to, you know, and it's just like

38:58 Speaker 11: and I when when we were getting the project together

39:02 Speaker 11: was when I was finalizing my room, you know, like

39:05 Speaker 11: I said, in other projects around my house. So it

39:07 Speaker 11: was like I already I built the I built the room,

39:10 Speaker 11: and I'm building the studio around my drum set. So

39:13 Speaker 11: you know what anybody is, He's available for studio work. Yeah,

39:17 Speaker 11: come to me, come to me, and I will play anything.

39:20 Speaker 9: Yeah. And also he's got Jay Staples lessons.

39:22 Speaker 1: Yeah.

39:23 Speaker 9: Oh if if you're interested in drum lessons.

39:25 Speaker 1: Oh okay, very cool, very cool. Yeah. The drummers are

39:29 Speaker 1: most of the drummers we know. They're they're in so

39:31 Speaker 1: many different bands. And you know, my theory has always

39:34 Speaker 1: been when you first have the conversation with the parents

39:36 Speaker 1: about you know, you want to play an instrument, and

39:38 Speaker 1: if you tell them the drums, they they try to

39:40 Speaker 1: talk you out of it because because they don't want

39:42 Speaker 1: all that sound.

39:44 Speaker 11: My dad was blaring music when I was little. He's

39:46 Speaker 11: just like, nope, I'm turning the radio all.

39:47 Speaker 1: The way up.

39:48 Speaker 10: Yeah.

39:48 Speaker 9: You know, my father was a drummer.

39:51 Speaker 1: Yeah no, that's uh, that's good. That is uh, that

39:55 Speaker 1: is yes, excellent, excellent.

39:57 Speaker 9: I played the clarinet.

40:00 Speaker 1: Yuh oh, very good. All right, outstanding. Well we will

40:04 Speaker 1: will close out the segment. But thank you guy. Yeah,

40:08 Speaker 1: the time goes so quick, but thank you so much

40:10 Speaker 1: for coming in, all three of you. And you know, Aaron,

40:12 Speaker 1: I love what you're doing. It's it's very unique, it's cool,

40:15 Speaker 1: it's fun.

40:16 Speaker 9: I'll definitely see you next year.