Matt Connarton Unleashed: Abel Blood

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2:15 says Star walking back the moon. That in every day. Very nice. That is scraped the dirt from able Blood. And these guys are here with us in studio, and able Blood is here. Welcome guys. How's it going, Matt? Very well? Very well? Adam, let's we'll start with you'll tell us who you are and what you do in the band. Oh, I'm Adam. I'm the lead singer and uh lead guitar player and uh swapping off bass duties. Okay, very good, very good. And Jim Jim de Luca, i'd play drums all right, and Malcolm Cells I play rhythm guitar and sink back up and half the bass, half the base and half the bass.

3:39 Okay, So so on the record, so well, so how does that work live? Then? Oh? It's pretty cool. We use a splitter aby wise splitters and really yeah, it really drives it home, no kidding. Yeah. People keep coming up and asking us too, They're like, how are you doing this? You had no bass player, there's a there's a I'm like, no, we're bass players. We're all we're both bass players, and they're like the low ends there. Yeah, they just they they are like where is he? And uh yeah, but it works. That's incredible.

4:05 I've never heard of anyone doing that before. Yeah, do you know if anyone else who does it that way? I've never Royal Blooded yet, Connectic Jetty really yeah, they'll be fans out there that never would have even occurred to me. But that's that's brilliant. That's really cool. I think the most famous fan that did it was I think local h Yeah, that's that's true. Okay, I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Wow, that's cool though. All right. Yeah, well it seems to work. Huh yeah, we definitely so.

4:37 So in studio what do you what do you just? How does it work in studio? In studio we had it, we had a bass play. Yeah, we had a bas player okay, gotcha, but not like an official member officially, it's just the three of you. Yeah, it's just the three of us here, okay, okay. And we were kind of talking off air two about I opened with a mental note, it's just such an epic song and what is it about? Eleven and a half minutes, eleven and a half minutes, but it's so like we were talking off air, it goes by quickly.

5:03 It doesn't feel like it's that long, right, And the response in the chat room was very positive. People were really digging it so so really well, I think, like like you two guys too, We've I've listened to the album probably four times today, really yeah, just and I always thought like too long, but then I'm listening to it, it's like, wow, that kind of yeah, before you know it's over, Yeah, yeah, because it just it pulls you in and you get so in tune to it that next thing you know is, oh, the song's over, Like oh my god, I can't believe it's been twelve minutes, but yeah, eleven and a half minutes or whatever it is.

5:39 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I feel like all these songs have kind of an uh, I mean, mental note probably because it's so long. It's particularly epic was the word I used. And I think one of you had said that. That was the second second time today. That's someone had said that to us. Yeah. Yeah, but all the songs, I feel like have kind of a big sound we're going for. We want to be Loud We want to be like like our description usually is, we try to be a wall of sound. Yep, yeah, that's what we want.

6:07 Oh, that's funny. I was talking to yesterday. We had on a guest Mike Laughlin, who's I don't know if you guys know, I'm very, very talented singer songwriter. He does kind of mostly displays by himself acoustic. But we were talking about that how how important it is, especially with a live show, to have that wall of sound. I love being swallowed up in it. Yes, yes, exactly, exactly. And this just came out today, right arrival of the waves of the new albums today. Yep, where do you guys record this?

6:38 Woman? Recorded in Jaffrey at Loudsun Studio. Okay, we did the recording and mixing there with Ben Rogers. Guys. Excellent. This is the second time we had recorded an album with him, and then we had it mastered here in Manchester at black Heart Sound. Okay, that's yes, that's the name. I hear a lot of these tremendous job. Absolutely everything I've heard is positive, both in terms of hearing people talking about him and when I've literally heard on the show. It seems like, we've had a bunch of artists on who who've hyeah, he's worked with ata.

7:09 I gotta get him on the show. Yeah, yeah, definitely a couple bands. Yeah, pretty good, well, incredible, very talented guitar player. What what bands is he in? Do you no? Offhand? Magnetarnet Crown Visions. He does one with his girlfriend and it's it's oh, no kidding, it's uh, I'm familiar with magnetar. Yeah, yeah, I gotta yeah, I definitely have to get him on that. I didn't realize. I didn't realize that was him in that band. So this, uh so, what what went into the decision to do I mean, it's yeah, it's it's a it's an album nine tracks.

7:43 What went into the decision to do a full album? Because obviously we live in an era. I mean, we're all old enough to remember when it was, you know, either make an album or maybe an EP. But most bands make albums right back in the day, and now we live in a time when you can kind of do it. There's many different ways to do it. You can make an album, you can make an EP, you can just release a bunch of singles. Maybe you release a single once a month and eventually it makes an album. What went into the decision to do a full album?

8:08 I have a reputation of pooping songs out. Yeah, so we have a bunch. Yeah, And I knew when you were looking at me that that's what you were thinking too. Well. I was thinking, can we say poop on the radio? Yeah? Yes you can, yes, yes, pop. So yeah, we had them and and we're pretty tight. We practice, you know, regularly, so going into the studio, we crack these all out in less than two full days. We're able to get everything recorded. Yeah. So yeah, we went and prepared, so we were like, let's just do it.

8:47 Let's gets to be honest, I'm sure we would have been able to decide which songs to put on the album what's not So it worked out very well. Is there also an advantage to doing it? I mean, obviously when you're doing it quickly, like the pressure is on. But at the same time, I would imagine you you are able to capture some degree of spontaneity when you're not doing it over and over again. Yeah, you know, yeah, totally. Well. Mental note particularly that's that song is It's a different song every time we play We did that on one take, no kidding, one take on I think everything was one take.

9:22 Yeah, pretty much about but we took a month off of gigging and just practiced over and over and over, so, you know, because we're kind of cheap and we didn't want to waste money in the stud. Yeah. Oh that's another that's another good reason to to get it done quickly. Adam put it good. We were well prepared to do that, so yeah, we went in with the with the with an agenda, and we completed it. Yeah, and mental note you said, mental notes kind of different every time you play it. Yeah, it's it's a jam like you jam it, so it's it's We were nervous to record it only because we wanted to capture the feeling that we normally have with it.

10:00 But it's always different. So we were just like, all right, let's just go in and do it. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And we were just like as soon as we were done. Normally, I don't know how long we usually play that song for. It's a different length every time we stopped and we asked Ben when we recorded it, We're like, how long was that one? And he's like eleven and a half minutes. We're all jaws all dropped. We're like, yeah, it was it was we thought we were playing for like six or seven though, it was gonna be like seven seventy eight minutes.

10:28 Yeah. Oh that's funny. Oh that's cool. And so so you didn't even have any time in mind. You just kind of just when it was done, and when it was done, it was done. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, because that's the only really long one. The rest of the tracks are all, you know, three four minutes for the average length song. Yeah. Yeah, I mean our first EP had a had a nine and nine and a half minute song, Fire on the Hillside, so real. Yeah, So it was kind of I thought it was kind of cool to come back with this album and do another finale if you if you would, Yeah, yeah.

10:55 Has the sound Did the sound change at all between album progress? Yeah, we got a lot more psychedelic. We kept the heavy, but the heavy feels heavier. That's good. Yeah, yeah, very cool. We've got able blood here with us in studio with Ronda Fervero from California is in the Facebook live chat and said wall of sound, a phrase coined by phil Specter. Indeed, I didn't know that. I didn't know that's where the term came from. Yeah, very cool. Uh, speaking of where things come from, where does the name come from?

11:28 Able Blood? So we're Jimmy and I grew up in the Brookline Hollis area and there's a cemetery on the Nashua and Holliess Line Pineal Cemetery and it's famous for having being probably the most haunted cemetery in New Hampshire, and it's haunted by the spirit of able Blood. Okay, Yeah. There was actually a finger on his gravestone and when kids would go there at night, the finger would be pointing up during the day and at night a lot of people would say that the thinker would be pointing down towards the ground.

12:01 If you go online and look it up, there's a whole Oh yeah, it's Weatherby did a story on him real Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever go there? Yeah? Yeah, you've all you've a well. Thirty years ago, Jimmy and I were in a band together and we used to jam on the property that bordered the cemetery, No kidding. Yeah, do you ever see anything or hear anything or cool? Yeah? And you know, the headstone's been vandalized. And yeah, I think they've actually taken the headstone out. Oh yeah, I think it's that it's at the Holest police department.

12:34 I believe that's how the story goes. Oh wow, yeah, interesting, it's an interesting story looking up sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, we should all get arrested so we can take a picture with the headstone. There we go. That would be very very rock and roll. That would be so metal. I originally thought before he joined the band that it was a biblical rafflers to us. That's what I vengeance from the earth. Yeah, this is just as cool. Yeah Blood was actually a person. Yeah yeah, that is pretty cool. And what a badass name to have, Able Blood.

13:06 If if able Blood were alive today, he wouldn't no doubt he'd be proud be playing and be playing in a metal band. You would have to Yeah, I don't know. I see him as like a Polka kid. Yeah yeah, there you go, perfect play. Yeah, bring it together and and the album is called Arrival of the Waves. Oh and by the way, I should hold up for for people watching online. I'll hold it up so the to the camera. There you can see it. Very cool. Artwork. Yeah, you were telling me about how the how the artwork came about.

13:44 Actually, Malcolm would be much better to explain. Yeah, yeah, how did you uh, how did you come about this? Uh this out this outwork artwork? I do a lot. I started playing with AI art Generation, Yeah, and I would, uh, I'd create images and then kind of tweak them in Photoshop and yeah, I got really into a Polish artist, bec Synski, and it's really it's disturbing stuff, but it's it's it's really neat art. So yeah, I try to do stuff in his style. So that's yeah, that's like I always wanted to draw our paint and I never really could, so yeah, the AI kind of Yeah.

14:21 So when you're when you're coming up with these, do you go into the generator and then I know a little bit about it, So do you do you type in a prompt like imagine, I don't know what you would type in for prompts to get these images, to be honest with. The cover is Arrival of the Waves. I typed in Arrival of the Waves, put in a couple of operators that got me the style and colors that I wanted. That's kind of smoothed it. And yeah, that's cool because it's you know, in a way, it's not what I would expect with that prompt, if that makes sense.

14:57 Were you surprised at the image it generated. I'm constantly surprised at some of the things that generates. I'll do like experiments where I will I'll pick an album and I'll take every every song title, yeah, and just do an art prompt on that, kidding, and it gets some pretty cool stuff. And I've actually started writing, you know, poetry and lyrics based on the photos I get back. Oh, no, kidding. Artwork it generates because it doesn't always it's not like a one to one you know, matchup as far as you know what you put in and what you get out, So it always spits out something kind of neat that that, you know, sometimes sparks something in me.

15:31 Yeah, so next album, yeah, and then and then so all the images in the artwork, they were all done that way. Yes, all right, I have to ask you so And unfortunately, well I'll hold it up for the camera again for people watching on video people listening won't know. But I am very curious what prompt generated that. I think that prompt was keeping Pace with the Elephants, which is the name of the Oh, yes, okay, I see it now. I didn't even see it at first looking at it. That's why I looks like an elephant with palettes on it.

16:03 Yeah, yeah, but no, but it's cool. It's a cool I didn't know what I was looking at. That's why I was so curious about it. But it looked interesting. But that makes sense now I see it. And I loved on the cover of the little I don't know if you want to call it a being, but whatever that little being is, I think that's awesome. I love I've always loved that. Yeah, I'll hold it up again for the camera. It's and people can, obviously, you know, go online, go on band camp and you'll you'll find it. But I think that yeah, And I think that's why I said for that prompt, I wouldn't have expected necessarily this image because like I would expect that being to be a surfer, but that's not a surfer.

16:45 It's it's just interesting. It's fascinating me. But it used a lot to the imagine. Yeah, which is cool. Yeah, yeah, oh we should mention two Adam you it's funny and and this has happened to me before. It it's inevitable. But when you guys got here, I think the first thing you said to me was we had met before. Yeah, yeah, and it was like thirteen years ago. You were in the band Buck fifty five. Yes, and that and that's still online. People can still go on. Yeah, it's on a reverb nation. Whatever happened to that band anyway?

17:18 Well, we lived far apart. Yeah, so yeah, it was it was harder and harder to get to practice. Yeah, you know, we're still friends. Actually saw him two weeks ago. Oh good. Yeah, yeah, we still see each other all the time. Yeah, very cool. Excellent, excellent, Well let's psalm. Let's do this. Let's play another track from the new album just out today, Arrival of the Waves from able Blood and what would you guys? I'll let you guys pick what would you like? Lection? Yeah, let's do a reflection, all right, anything you want us to know about this song before we before we play the song's a trip that are probably our most psychedelic songs the album, okay, and probably the quick We wrote this literally in minutes, yeah really, yeah, the whole thing came together, Yeah, within within twenty minutes.

18:03 Yeah, we had all the parts written out. Oh no kidding, ready to go? Yeah, okay, all right, very cool. Let's check this out. This is Reflections, brand new from able Blood. That's a cool instrumental. That is Reflections. The band is able Blood. We've got the guys in studio with us, and we've been talking and we're gonna talk some more. But we've got the guys from able Blood here in studio with us. Do you guys play out a lot? You playing a lot of shows? Quite a bit? Yeah, quite a bit. We go play on Saturday night.

22:57 We're gonna be up in Maine at Charlie Hill. Yeah, playing with your friends Crooked Cash. Yes, I said hi by the way, Yes, yes, Yeah. We had those guys on a number of months ago and they're coming back soon. Yeah. Really really good, Jenny said in the chat room. I really love this music. Yeah, than Jenny, Thank you, Jenny, Absolutely really good stuff. When you guys, you mentioned a song like mental Note, it kind of changes every time you play what about what about the other songs? Do any of the other songs change or is it really just Mental Note?

23:28 Because it's such a jam. I think my solos kind of change here and there. I don't like. I don't memorize any of them. So the solos might change a little bit, but the meat and bones of the songs stay pretty close to the same every time. Yeah, I might have a little bit different tone if I've thrown my my pedal board bag around a little bit, and some of the knobs might be turned, so he might sound a little different tonally, But otherwise we've made the mistake when we do a mental note live, like it's all the pedals and we just crank them all the show and just you know, another wall of sound, and I've made the mistake of you know, not touching my board after a show mental note.

24:11 The next night I go to sound check, I crank every knob on my delay pedal, and the next time I go to play, everything will be going when I turn it back on the next day. What it is matters is we kept the song in the exact same way that we created it. We created it with no boundary. We I think that jam Adam just started playing the beginning part. I came in on drums, Malcolm came in on guitar, and it just ended up jamming it for a huge length of time. We because we've been playing together for a while, we kind of know what each other do.

24:45 And the song came to an end, We're like, oh my god, we gotta record that. I also think Malcolm and I had just gone to see Godspeed You Black Emperor not long before that very noise rocky who would sound. Yeah, yeah, so we had just seen them. They were very noise rocky sound you know. So so everybody we really inspired after We did it the same way. We just jammed it and ended it when we felt that it was time to end the song. Yeah, And it held that way all the way through going in the studio and recording the album.

25:19 We did it the same, the same way. We've recorded everything live except for the vocals, so we were able to just literally jam these tunes. Oh wow. Yeah, have you guys been together a long time? How long has this band been around? Jimmy and I have been jamming while pre Pandemic. We were actually in a band about thirty years ago together, a band called No Thanks. We're like a y metal band. Yeah yeah, early nineties, and then took a long, long, long break. But we started doing this again probably in twenty twenty nineteen.

25:51 We took a break at the beginning of the pandemic for a little while, just until we could figure out what was going on. And then after that we got together and Jimmy and I have been like the constant. We've had members come and go yeah, and then Malcolm has been with us for who's never hearing, Who's never gonna go. We're not gonna allow We're gonna break his leg. He's gonna be the first one that we don't allow to get that. So it's kind of settled into this is what we are now. Yeah, very cool. You big Spinal Tap guy?

26:24 Oh I love that movie. Anything those guys touch, yeah, yeah, goes to eleven. Yeah. The other show that I'm on on Fridays hosted by Police. We always kind of break his balls because he's never seen Spinal Tap. See that's one of those and he would love it, and we're always telling him, dude, you'd love it. I'm I have a reputation of never seen having seen a film, and I've seen it. Yeah, I've actually seen six movies. I would love to watch Spinal Tap for the first time again. Yeah. Yeah, that's something though.

26:54 You may have to suspend that friendship so that I know that connection is may I know it's like, you know, not grounding an amp or something like that. Something bad's gonna happen. Yeah, he's he's also never seen Purple Rain and that one. I've never seen Purple You've never seen? Wow? I love the album. Yeah, but no, I've never watched the movie. Oh, you gotta see it. A prince is acting as pen No, I'm kidding. Actually he's not that great, but much better musician than an actor. No, but the film, it is an incredible film.

27:28 You should see it. Even like Morris Day at the time, seeing those guys perform live, Oh yeah, crap. Yeah, yeah, that band was full of talent. I wish I had seen them live, Like, yeah, me too, me too, Yeah, I would have loved that. Well, I guess technically they're still I think. I think they still tour more day. I think, yeah, I think they just call it Morris Day or something. They don't have to call it Morris Day in the time anymore. But I think it's essentially the same band, which have a different name that they go by now.

27:55 Rona Ferverro in the chat room, our friend from California. She says the guitar work in that last song, Reflections had a really cool Robin Trauer vibe. Oh, gridge of Size is one of my favorite tunes, and that's the sound I was going for with the Oh I'm gonna freaking cry scaled it. Well done, Rhanda, well done. Yeah. Yeah, you guys were kind of talking off air too while the song was planned that it's been a good day in terms of the response to the good feedback. Yeah, absolutely, Any anything in terms of feedback that's really kind of surprised you, Like, oh, I wasn't expecting someone to well, people other than people were friends with were related to liking it surprises me.

28:37 Yeah. I had a plant manager at my company out of the Blue asked me for a copy the other day, and he sent me an album review this morning, really and he used epic and hypnotic for mental note. Oh, And I was like just blown away that this guy actually took the time, you know, out of his day, and he was like, after the third time I've listened to it twenty four hours, I'm like, are you kidding me? So it was funny that we actually got somebody to listen to this album more than once in that short of a time.

29:07 Yeah, Oh that's really cool. And with mental note, anytime, you know, you have eleven and a half second song, you wonder how that's going to be received some people, And so far it almost seems like it's the favorite on the album. So far, so good. Yeah, from the feedback that I've gotten anyway. Yeah, you know though, like all these songs are cool, but mental note is is you know, it's like, all right, so an eleven and a half song was well received, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just never know.

29:32 I mean that's part of the adventure of it in a sense, right, Yeah, but uh yeah, that's that's really cool. Do you do you play any of the older songs live? Still? We do a lot lately. We've been doing two songs off the album. We remember promoting the new album, you know, for quite a few months now, like yeah, mostly new stuff, but they're going to end up making most of the songs will end up making the way back into the rotation. I'm looking at I'm looking back at it. These songs are really viable songs, and they're really good.

30:08 I think I could have gone back and nit picked them a little bit more on the recordings Yeah, but they're good songs and they we do rotate them in. We do rotate them in. Yeah, And the EP was very well received. It was well received. Yeah. Yeah. And on this new album, the bonus track at the end is the title track off our first EP, Keeping Pace with the Elephants. Oh. That's why it's called slight, Return and Return because we do it differently on this album, because this one we do a stripped down acoustic version and I play on a Cohne rather than a drum set.

30:41 Yeah, it came out and it still sounds really heavy, really great about Ben Like the drum sound he got out of that cane was unreal. Yeah, and it ties Malcolm into the first album because he wasn't around for the first album, so it kind of brings him back to it. So because of that, we play Keeping Pace with the Elephants live a lot right now because it is a song that's on the album, and if if people haven't heard the first album, they hear that song and then they go back and they you know, investigate that we have another album, and they listen to them.

31:12 They just Keeping Pace with the Elephants again and then they hear the full band version. That's you know, full on distortion everything, and it's you know, we thought it would kind of be a neat little thing to do. Yeah. Yeah, plus Adam and I and Malcolm, we'll do open mics some nights, doing stripped down versions of our songs, kind of kind of how that was born too. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Yeah, we'll pick an open mic every once in a while, and yeah, we'll just show it as a band. Yeah. Oh wow, I'll just do it.

31:38 Oh, very cool. It's cool to have that kind of flexibility to do that. Yeah. I wrote everything that we've recorded on an acoustic guitar. Oh yeah, pretty pretty. So they translate quite well. Yeah. Yeah. You ever have anything that doesn't translate that you write it on the acoustic and then you go, I don't know if this works plugged in. We haven't come across the thin. Yeah, he's brought stuff to us that I've been like, you know, I don't know if that'll work with distortion. This will be a melaw song.

32:05 Yeah. We kicked the pedals and it's like that sounds good. I want to hear it distorted like really, like, yeah, kept them past work that way. It was an acoustic song and Jimmy's like, I want the fuzz pedal on on that, and we did it, and we were like, whoa, all right, let's do it. It was the last song I thought we were gonna put fuzz on. I think it was, Keith Richards said in an interview once though. If it doesn't work with just an acoustic guitar, right, it's you know, yeah, right right, Well we should Uh yeah, we got time, why don't we?

32:36 Uh you want to give that one to listen? Kept them past because I think you had said you were that was the original single, right that you were kind of using. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's let's give this one a spin. All right, this is kept Uh, I'm sorry. I kept them past from Able Blood and the brand new album out today, Arrival of the Waves. Check this out. I would see him for a while. It's like a knight that never ends. Appreciate the final things for the Dolls, got a blue Ones and alone, spaced for a kid a little while, A little wine would you put down on the gas?

34:35 Tiny missed up, Pony to one from the water Only carry came an hour for Our Pass, Kept them passed by Able Blood from the brand new album Arrival of the waves. We've got these guys in studio with us, and uh, you guys, uh you go for those long uh the you know, the decay with the feedback a lot of Yeah. I like that. I like that a lot. Yeah. I think that's part of what gives it that epic quality. It doesn't seem like a lot of bands really do that anymore. I mean, that's probably more than I realized.

35:55 But I don't know, I feel like it's been a while since I've kind of heard that ending to a song. You know, I'm too lazy to figure anything else out. I just hit that last note and let it ring. Yeah, yeah, it works, It works. It's bringing me back to spinal tap. You can just hit that, go out and have a fight, right right, it's just sustained. Yes, don't touch that. Use that time to put your pedals back to where they belong. Right now, what do you guys have coming up? As far as you got any shows this weekend?

36:24 You must be playing somewhere September. Yeah, this Saturday night, we're up in Charlie's Hill and h up in Lebanon, Maine. Okay, the end of the month with September twenty ninth. We're actually here in town on Elm Street. We're at Top Shelf Tattoo Excellent. Yeah, we're gonna be playing with dust Profit. Yeah. I used to be in a band with Auto from Yeah Yeah, yeah, and Trading Tombstone is gonna be on that bill. And there's a band coming up from Philadelphia called shadow Witch. Okay, we're really looking forward.

36:59 We're playing super Show yeah yeah, yeah, which playing shows has been great because we've talked about this. I love shows we get on where it's like four bands and nobody sounds, you know, and you just, yeah, just make some buddies and listen to a whole bunch of different kinds of music. It is really great playing with like out a lot. Like we've gotten to know so many bands around the area, and yeah, like love all of them, you know what I mean, as people love their music. Yeah, you know, it seems like you guys too, can kind of fit in with different like you know, yeah, you fit in with metal bands, but you also probably fit Yeah.

37:36 I think in the beginning we had a trouble getting gigs because people didn't know where to put us. Yeah, because we had heavy riffs, so we couldn't we could play with hardcore bands, but we didn't quite fit in with that, and then we will play with some metal bands and we didn't quite fit in that. So they're just trying to figure us out. But we're starting to get quite a bit of games. We're also playing October twenty second at Pub on the Park in Cranston, Rhode Island, Okay, and then November twenty six we're backup in mail.

38:07 You have to change that sixteenth November sixteenth, another show, another show with dust profit Yes, oh, very cool, outstanding, outstanding. Oh. Jenny shared the link in the chat room two to band camp and I assume this is on all the streaming services right, yeah. I was all released at midnight. The only one it wasn't on this morning was Pandora. Okay, yeah, it'll be there, it'll be there. Yeah, it's definitely on Spotify, It's on Amazon Music, Apple Musical Music. Outstanding, outstanding. And you've got physical copies physical CDs.

38:42 Appreciate, I appreciate you you guys bringing those in. Was that was that a difficult decision whether or not to make physical discs or no, we just didn't know if we wanted to do vinyl or CD. I think we wanted to do vinyl, but it's expensive. Yeah yeah, yeah, I think I exclusively. We'll say, don't rule it out because it's a possibility that it's coming. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, I'd like to see that artwork in a big gun. That's the that's the beauty of the most beautiful part about the vinyl is being able to put the big, huge artwork on it.

39:15 Oh yeah, yeah. Well I can remember buying stuff simply because of the artwork. Oh yeah, and being like, Okay, I'm going to roll the dice on this because if they like this art. That's how you found music back in the day when you didn't have Internet, you didn't have any other way to to you know, when you were in the mood for something new, you went to the local record store and you stopped looking at artwork. Yeah. It was either doing that or Headbanger's Ball. It was the only two ways I knew it was getting it twenty minutes.

39:41 Yep, I missed them both. I've got somewhere in a storage unit, there's I've got a bunch of vh old VHS tapes, so of Headbangers Ball. I'm sure they don't play anymore, even if I had anything to play them on. They're probably all super damaged and and all that. But now where should people I want to make sure two people know where to go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing as far as shows and whatnot. We keep our Facebook, Able Blood Facebook up to date most Yeah. I'd like to say I'm good with the Instagram, but I'm not.

40:16 Yeah, I don't keep it up very well. Yeah, but I do post on there fairly frequently. Jimmy does the EPKA. He keeps that up to date. And uh, you can go there and you can see past shows, upcoming shows, videos, The bio links to all our socials. Okay, excellent, excellent. I think to get the the most current stuff is probably our Facebook page. Yeah, okay, okay, And we should make sure people know too. Able is ab e L just so no one's misspelling it looking for you guys, Yes, although if you google it the other way you probably still come up.

40:58 I would, I would hope. But you come up with able Blood and savable yeah, oh okay, come up when you do it? Yeah? Yeah. And then obviously this this album is fresh, it came out today. But are you already thinking about the next one, because you said you were about halfway done writing, yeah, the next one. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be heavier too. Yeah. Really, and the song Arrival of the Waves will probably end up on that album. Yeah. So, oh so there's an actual song called Arrival of the Waves. Yeah, that's how we got the name.

41:29 Yeah. Yeah, so we like to I like to do little homages to, you know, bands that I like, and this might be our homage to led Zeppelin. Oh kidd okay, you know, like they had houses all the holy was on what physical graffiti? Yeah, maybe we'll do something like that. Or we'll just put a rival on the of the Waves yea on the next album. Or we'll just steal a bunch of blues music and we could do that. Ah. Yes, that's been a subject on Retrospectrum Radio with Police. The other show that I'm on later on Fridays is led Zeppelin and their uh plagiarism, some of which is really blatant.

42:04 Yeah. I can't believe that they won that case against what was it Targas or Targus or whatever. Oh no, sorry, I don't want to get into this now. View I know, I know, I know what you're talking about. No, it's it's what was the name of the band anyway? Yeah, yeah they did when the Zeppelin won that one, didn't they because it's really just one part of it that's the same. But man, some of them well yeah, yeah, the main riff, but some of those uh yeah, some of those songs that they took from blues artists.

42:40 Like it's not even just the riffs, it's like it's like the lyrics too. It's like, oh my god, just shameless. I mean, I love Zeppelin, no offense. I mean, you've you've got the shirt, but uh but yeah, they even stole a song from Joan Baiaz. Did you know that? I don't remember what song it is, but yeah, there's a song. I only know this because Paul see those of Retrospection Radio brought us my attention. There's a Joan Baia's song that they lift it and it's and when you hear it, it's like it's obvious, Like it's not even ambiguous, it's really obvious.

43:14 It's like, oh my god, crazy. Yeah. Yeah, well, guys, this has been wonderful. I really I really appreciate y'all coming in. We'll we'll close the show out with one more track and guys, thank you again and it's been great absolutely, And what song would you like to close with? Needs to live? Anything? Anything? Uh? Why this one? Anything we should know about our most wall of sound? Wally sound? Oh is it? Yeah? Oh? Very long? Yeah, all right, all right. We love how it starts off mellow and then just smacks you in the mouth.

43:51 Really yeah. I kind of want you to tell the story but behind seven dead? Oh oh I'm curious. Oh seven dead story? Oh well that's I was watching a publisher's clearing house commercial one day and I couldn't come up with any lyrics. Yeah, and so I wrote the song about a publisher's clearing house giveaway. Yeah, yeah, that was it. I mean it was. Yeah. I'm kind of a strange topic for a band that's heavy. But why seven dead? How did you get seven bad from? Well? You know, I always imagine like really old people winning the publishers clearing house and you were winning seven thousand dollars a day for people dead.

44:30 Seven of them are dead every week. I don't know. Okay, Yeah, you ever read a song about like consumer cellular or anything? That might be the next subject I talk about maybe maybe a cathet or commercial on I'm working at a concept album about boost Mobile. Yeah, excellent, excellent. All right, that's a little younger generation though, that's not really want to connect with the kid we're gonna get You're gonna get old though, they will. Adam keeps me thinking though. On our first album, the first track of the album is called The Day that Moby Died yea, and people thought he was targeting the rapper Moby Yeah yeah, which we were.

45:13 We had a review. Somebody reviewed our album and tagged him in it.

45:19 That's fantastic, not that not that we wouldn't want to get in an argument with Mobi, right, I mean right, you know, good publicity. Melanie said in the chat room. I love doing the publishers clearing house. I will do it for years. Uh convinced we are just a week away from being millionaires. You can all you can already be a winner? Is that clears? Okay? All right, we gotta go. So we're gonna listen to this. This is needs to Live from the band Able Blood. Check this out. Thanks guys. M little By Sully Terrets on the hours,

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