Matt Connarton Unleashed: Adam Steglich of EverFelt

0:00 Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk over the end of it.

0:01 Speaker 1: That's so cool.

0:02 Speaker 2: That is Reach, the band has Ever Felt. The show

0:05 Speaker 2: is Matt connorton Unleashed.

0:07 Speaker 1: We are live.

0:07 Speaker 2: We have entered our number two new Marrow Dose on

0:10 Speaker 2: this Saturday morning. Jenny is here of course as well

0:13 Speaker 2: at the news table account for and we have joining

0:17 Speaker 2: us via Skype. Adam Steglitz is here from the band

0:20 Speaker 2: Ever Felt.

0:20 Speaker 3: Hello, Adam, Hey, how you guys doing good?

0:23 Speaker 1: Good?

0:24 Speaker 2: Welcome back? Last time we last time we talked to

0:27 Speaker 2: was a couple of years ago, I think right two

0:29 Speaker 2: or three.

0:29 Speaker 3: Years ago, twenty.

0:32 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two. Wow.

0:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I love the new I love the new

0:36 Speaker 2: material from the the EP, the self titled EP, and

0:40 Speaker 2: Reach is the first single off of that.

0:43 Speaker 1: Correct, Yes sir, yes sir, Yeah, really good, really good.

0:47 Speaker 1: I love all of these.

0:48 Speaker 2: I listened everything that you sent us and just just

0:51 Speaker 2: great stuff. Has the sound changed, I feel like it

0:55 Speaker 2: might have changed a little bit from when we had

0:57 Speaker 2: you on before, kind of evolved a bit.

1:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we we've had a few different changes. So

1:03 Speaker 3: we have a new drummer. He joined the band about

1:06 Speaker 3: nine months ago. He's on this EP, and we now

1:09 Speaker 3: have a new bass player too, but he's the bass

1:11 Speaker 3: player that we had before is on the EP. But

1:14 Speaker 3: we have a new bass player now that's joined and

1:15 Speaker 3: they're gonna play our first show with us October fifth

1:18 Speaker 3: and Evansville, Indiana. But but yes, yes, definitely, it evolved

1:23 Speaker 3: in you know, and and playing it, playing it live,

1:25 Speaker 3: and then and then working on it and then having

1:27 Speaker 3: Corey being able to do two different tracks on it.

1:30 Speaker 3: Actually we were able to go to Loud and Clear

1:33 Speaker 3: Studios in Kentucky and do it with a real producer, Shelby,

1:36 Speaker 3: and he did a great job and we were you know,

1:38 Speaker 3: we were able to do those five songs in two days.

1:41 Speaker 3: So we were really happy with you know, him being

1:43 Speaker 3: able to you know it. Really we were ready, you know,

1:46 Speaker 3: we were really ready to go and record him. But

1:48 Speaker 3: at the same time, you know, the atmosphere was just

1:50 Speaker 3: so nice and comfortable for us when we it was

1:53 Speaker 3: like being it was like being at our practice studio

1:55 Speaker 3: where we went to records, So it was nice.

1:57 Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic.

1:58 Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear more about that because obviously because

2:01 Speaker 2: you guys are Chicago based correct.

2:04 Speaker 3: Oh no, we're actually Southern Illinois.

2:06 Speaker 1: Oh, southern Illinois.

2:07 Speaker 2: Oh so you're not that far from Okay, I was

2:10 Speaker 2: thinking more Chicago area. So so actually, so to go

2:13 Speaker 2: from there to Kentucky, it's not that that much of

2:15 Speaker 2: a haul.

2:17 Speaker 3: No, it's it was to where we recorded. It was

2:20 Speaker 3: only a little over an hour from where I lived.

2:21 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay.

2:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm curious to know more about that, your

2:26 Speaker 2: experience at that studio and the producer that you worked with,

2:28 Speaker 2: because you've got so many options now, as you know,

2:33 Speaker 2: in terms of recording, there's there's a million recording studios,

2:36 Speaker 2: you can record at home, There's so many different ways

2:38 Speaker 2: you can do it. So but it sounds like you

2:40 Speaker 2: really enjoyed your experience recording at that particular.

2:43 Speaker 3: Studio most definitely. I mean, honestly, we were able to

2:47 Speaker 3: stay there also, and so you know, it was a

2:51 Speaker 3: two day experience where the whole band we stayed there,

2:54 Speaker 3: we recorded, we were able to do the scratch tracks

2:56 Speaker 3: all live together, and then we're able to go back

2:59 Speaker 3: in on the you know set and being able to

3:02 Speaker 3: get I mean, honestly, we were only going to do

3:03 Speaker 3: a four song EP to begin with, but it went

3:06 Speaker 3: so well and everything was like I mean happening like

3:09 Speaker 3: magic magically, I would have to have to say it

3:11 Speaker 3: that way, because honestly, on the ball, I did two

3:14 Speaker 3: vocal tracks for each song and we literally I didn't

3:17 Speaker 3: have to go back and redo anything. We were really ready,

3:20 Speaker 3: you know, we practiced, We were ready for the studio times.

3:23 Speaker 3: So you know, when you pay for the time, you

3:25 Speaker 3: know you want to make sure that you capitalize on it.

3:28 Speaker 3: So when we got done with the first four, we

3:30 Speaker 3: still had enough time where Shelby was like, Hey, if

3:33 Speaker 3: you guys want to do a fifth song, you gotta

3:35 Speaker 3: to let me know now. We need to get it done,

3:37 Speaker 3: and so we did. We chose to do River, which

3:40 Speaker 3: was the fifth song on the album. Which is that

3:42 Speaker 3: ended up being an eight minute, twenty three second song.

3:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's great, I want to do another song.

3:52 Speaker 1: So you had to seize the opportunity.

3:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, most definitely. You know, River was the song

3:59 Speaker 3: that started ever really. You know, ever Felt began with

4:02 Speaker 3: my best friend Charles Lingerfeldt, who passed away in twenty

4:05 Speaker 3: twenty one. We had a band called Angerfelt before then,

4:08 Speaker 3: and his last name is linger Felt, so I wanted

4:10 Speaker 3: him to be forever Felt in the music that we do,

4:13 Speaker 3: and River was his original melody, so you know, that

4:17 Speaker 3: song was really important to us as a band. So yeah,

4:20 Speaker 3: so it was really cool to put him on the

4:22 Speaker 3: first EP, put his song on there, So that makes sense.

4:26 Speaker 1: I mean how prepared?

4:27 Speaker 2: I mean, did you guys in order to be really

4:30 Speaker 2: prepared for this experience, because when you're going into a

4:35 Speaker 2: studio and it's, like you said, you're paying for the time,

4:38 Speaker 2: so you want to be efficient, but of course you

4:41 Speaker 2: also want to get the best possible performance that you can.

4:43 Speaker 2: So were you guys like rehearsing like five nights a

4:46 Speaker 2: week leading up to when you went to the studio.

4:48 Speaker 2: I mean that must have been intense. I mean, what

4:50 Speaker 2: was that like?

4:51 Speaker 3: We played Since the last time I talked to you,

4:53 Speaker 3: we've played eighteen shows. Oh wow, okay, well, you know,

4:57 Speaker 3: also playing those you know, playing those songs. So we practiced,

5:02 Speaker 3: We kept our normal practices, but we practiced, you know,

5:05 Speaker 3: every Sunday. We practice every Sunday, so we practice every Sunday.

5:09 Speaker 3: Plus we had a couple of shows right before, so

5:12 Speaker 3: really it was more of just having two really you know,

5:15 Speaker 3: six hour practices, really honing in on what we wanted

5:19 Speaker 3: to do and being ready to go there. And when

5:21 Speaker 3: I do the vocals, I mean when I practice vocals,

5:23 Speaker 3: I practice at home too. You can't and being if

5:25 Speaker 3: you really want to do this and be good at it,

5:27 Speaker 3: you can't just practice at practice, and so you also

5:30 Speaker 3: have to practice at home. And so I even like

5:32 Speaker 3: when I do the vocals, I practiced my vocals all

5:34 Speaker 3: compelled without even the music at home. So you know,

5:38 Speaker 3: we really that's how well I know the songs, you

5:40 Speaker 3: know what I mean? So when you really so when

5:43 Speaker 3: we had that opportunity and we had no idea that

5:45 Speaker 3: going there, that Shelby was going to be such a

5:47 Speaker 3: cool dude, and and and and really made us feel

5:51 Speaker 3: very at home, like it felt like a home situation.

5:53 Speaker 3: I don't know how it's to describe that, but it

5:56 Speaker 3: really made us feel like we could just be ourselves.

5:58 Speaker 3: And so that allowed us to just really let go

6:01 Speaker 3: and just let the music do what it needed to

6:04 Speaker 3: do to you know, take us to that place to

6:05 Speaker 3: channel what you hear on the EP.

6:07 Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, well that makes a huge difference. I mean,

6:10 Speaker 2: I know from my own experience with recording, there's nothing

6:12 Speaker 2: worse than if you go to a studio and you've

6:15 Speaker 2: got a limited amount of time and you're dealing with

6:17 Speaker 2: an engineer or a producer who's maybe a little grumpy

6:19 Speaker 2: or maybe they just you know, they're just not the

6:22 Speaker 2: friendliest because to them it's just a job. But it

6:25 Speaker 2: sounds like with Shelby, like he really he really cares

6:28 Speaker 2: about what he's doing and goes out of his way

6:30 Speaker 2: to make it feel comfortable.

6:31 Speaker 3: So that's great, he really did.

6:33 Speaker 1: Man, what's the name of that studio again?

6:36 Speaker 3: That's Loud and Clear Studios in Paducah, Kentucky.

6:39 Speaker 2: Okay, And how did you find how did you find

6:41 Speaker 2: that studio? Like what went into because obviously you had

6:44 Speaker 2: no way of knowing for sure that it was going

6:47 Speaker 2: to be such a great experience. What went into choosing

6:49 Speaker 2: that studio, because again, you have so many different options

6:52 Speaker 2: these days.

6:54 Speaker 3: Well, I actually was we were trying to find a

6:56 Speaker 3: studio that was, you know, budget friendly, but also that

7:00 Speaker 3: had had a good you know track record with our

7:03 Speaker 3: kind of music in a sense. Yeah, but also we

7:05 Speaker 3: were looking for something that was within a two hour

7:07 Speaker 3: drive of us. Without having that way, you know, we

7:10 Speaker 3: didn't know if we'd find a place we could stay at,

7:12 Speaker 3: but we did. But We didn't know that, you know,

7:14 Speaker 3: so in case we did have to travel back home

7:16 Speaker 3: for whatever reason, we didn't know how long it would take.

7:18 Speaker 3: We didn't know a lot of those things. So yeah,

7:21 Speaker 3: so we were definitely wanting to find something within driving distance,

7:23 Speaker 3: but also somebody who you know. And then when I

7:25 Speaker 3: got a hold of him, his rates were great and

7:28 Speaker 3: he was, you know, just like you could just tell

7:30 Speaker 3: his energy was you know, he cared about what he does. Yeah,

7:32 Speaker 3: and there is that it's his name involved with. He

7:35 Speaker 3: cares about the music itself and that matters well.

7:38 Speaker 2: It shows too in the final product. Did he do

7:41 Speaker 2: the master in as well or did you have to

7:43 Speaker 2: take that somewhere else?

7:44 Speaker 3: No, we wanted him to do the mixing, no mastering,

7:47 Speaker 3: since he recorded it, you know, we felt that be

7:49 Speaker 3: the best fluid way to do it.

7:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's excellent, excellent.

7:55 Speaker 2: Now the uh, do you have more music that you're

7:58 Speaker 2: that you're working on, because I assume you additional songs

8:00 Speaker 2: that you play live, right.

8:02 Speaker 3: Oh, definitely, yes, sir. So we actually have those five.

8:07 Speaker 3: We actually have another thirteen songs. Oh okay, yeah, But

8:11 Speaker 3: what the plan is is, I don't know what time

8:13 Speaker 3: next year, yet. But next year we're gonna be working

8:16 Speaker 3: with Shelle Beegan and we're gonna be doing our first album.

8:18 Speaker 3: And so what's gonna happen is we're gonna take the

8:20 Speaker 3: five songs from the EP remaster and with the new

8:22 Speaker 3: bass player a couple other things we want to remaster

8:25 Speaker 3: on them on those songs, and then an additional seven songs.

8:29 Speaker 3: So it's gonna be twelve song album. Oh, We're gonna

8:31 Speaker 3: be released in next year. So we just wanted to

8:34 Speaker 3: get the EP out there with the new drummer and

8:36 Speaker 3: really have something that we can, you know, have let

8:39 Speaker 3: the people here while we're working on shows behind the scenes,

8:41 Speaker 3: and then also you know, an album too. So and

8:43 Speaker 3: then November tenth, we're actually working with Rudwood Creative to

8:48 Speaker 3: create our first official music video for Reach.

8:50 Speaker 1: Oh excellent.

8:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're we're really excited about that.

8:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Do you already have the concept and everything?

8:57 Speaker 2: Are you still in the process of figuring that out?

9:00 Speaker 3: We have some of the concept. You know, Reach is

9:02 Speaker 3: really about, you know, we've all been found broken alone

9:05 Speaker 3: in that hole, reaching out and in that desolate place

9:08 Speaker 3: you find that that it's in that place where you

9:11 Speaker 3: realize that in order to truly reach out, you must

9:13 Speaker 3: first reach in and then so it's it's philosophical, but

9:18 Speaker 3: you know, the idea is like almost like the concept

9:21 Speaker 3: and theme of the music video is almost like the

9:24 Speaker 3: light you see when you're reaching through the dirt of

9:26 Speaker 3: a buried grave. You know, the first light you see

9:28 Speaker 3: is the very light at the end of the music

9:29 Speaker 3: video that brings us all together as a band, or

9:32 Speaker 3: that kind of concept. So we're going with that, but

9:34 Speaker 3: it's also going to be like in the Woods and

9:36 Speaker 3: the dude. The dude Trey Rudd from Rudwood Creative. He

9:40 Speaker 3: actually is somebody that we found through Shelby and he's

9:46 Speaker 3: really good. He's also based in Kentucky, but we've seen

9:48 Speaker 3: some of the work and the videos he's done. So yeah,

9:50 Speaker 3: it's gonna be like a six hour video shoot that

9:53 Speaker 3: we're going to do on November tenth.

9:54 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Yeah, I feel like it's so important too

9:58 Speaker 2: to do to do music video, which to some people,

10:01 Speaker 2: to people who don't know that might sound odd in

10:05 Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty four because I forget who We

10:07 Speaker 2: were talking about this recently on the show, but we're

10:10 Speaker 2: talking with someone about how some people have a misperception

10:12 Speaker 2: that there are no music videos anymore because you know,

10:15 Speaker 2: MTV doesn't play music videos anymore or VH one or anything.

10:18 Speaker 2: But actually, because of YouTube, I would say music videos

10:21 Speaker 2: are more important than they've ever been because it's something

10:23 Speaker 2: that you can really use to promote your music, to

10:26 Speaker 2: share out on social media and all of that.

10:30 Speaker 3: Because you know, attention span is so because of the

10:32 Speaker 3: advent of social media and phones, attention spans like next

10:36 Speaker 3: to nothing. And so because of that, you know, you

10:39 Speaker 3: really want to have those captivating images that get people

10:41 Speaker 3: to keep listening. And so that's the reason for the videos,

10:45 Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, you know, and honestly, I see why.

10:49 Speaker 3: I mean even myself. I mean, I'm sure you understand too.

10:51 Speaker 3: You know, like it's easy to get there's so much

10:53 Speaker 3: music out there. You really want to try to find

10:55 Speaker 3: a way to create your own path, Yeah, and without

10:59 Speaker 3: try trying to do that, you can't really try to

11:01 Speaker 3: do that, you and you just have to let it,

11:04 Speaker 3: you know, Like for instance, with our music, with Corey

11:06 Speaker 3: and Jacob and I writing this music, I have to say,

11:10 Speaker 3: like it kind of in a sense happens to us

11:12 Speaker 3: because we allow the music to create and write the

11:15 Speaker 3: songs and so, you know, and then we just we

11:19 Speaker 3: allow whatever whatever happens to us as we're working on

11:21 Speaker 3: it to you know, we record that, we come back,

11:23 Speaker 3: we whittle that down. So it's really just something that

11:26 Speaker 3: kind of writes itself through us, as long as we're

11:27 Speaker 3: allowing ourselves to be the channel for the music instead

11:30 Speaker 3: of trying to control it too much.

11:31 Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I like that. I like that.

11:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, something we talk a lot on the show about

11:37 Speaker 2: as well with with our guests, as the process of

11:41 Speaker 2: creating and writing. And I think the you know, from

11:44 Speaker 2: my own experience, I think the best way is when

11:46 Speaker 2: you're not trying to force it to You're not saying, Okay,

11:49 Speaker 2: we're going to try to make this sound like this,

11:51 Speaker 2: or we want to sound like that, but rather just

11:55 Speaker 2: kind of letting it be organic and letting it kind

11:57 Speaker 2: of as you describe it, which I think is great,

11:59 Speaker 2: letting it kind of have come through you.

12:01 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.

12:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so that's that's great.

12:05 Speaker 2: At this point, are you all it sounds like the

12:07 Speaker 2: whole band rights together.

12:09 Speaker 1: Is that is that accurate? Yes?

12:10 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we we write together a lot of times,

12:14 Speaker 3: like with with the five songs in the EP. For instance,

12:17 Speaker 3: you know, the original melody of River obviously came from Charlie,

12:20 Speaker 3: my buddy that passed, but yeah, we turned it into

12:22 Speaker 3: something completely you know, its own, forever felt, you know,

12:25 Speaker 3: but the original melody came from him. But Jacob really

12:29 Speaker 3: worked on that, and Jacob brought a rhythm guitarist. He

12:31 Speaker 3: brought into the fire, the original rift for into the

12:34 Speaker 3: fire and gave it away. He brought those songs to

12:37 Speaker 3: the table, and then the other ones Reach and Lie

12:40 Speaker 3: and and and River were all that we kind of

12:42 Speaker 3: came up together. Corey brought Reach, you know, the original Reach,

12:45 Speaker 3: but a lot of the newer stuff that you're going

12:47 Speaker 3: to be hearing on the album is stuff that Corey

12:49 Speaker 3: brought to the table. He would he has this terrible,

12:53 Speaker 3: crazy habit of he'll he'll write a rift that he loves.

12:56 Speaker 3: He'll be at home and he tries to call me

12:58 Speaker 3: and play it for me over the phone.

13:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

13:01 Speaker 3: I can't ever understand hardly any of it. But by

13:03 Speaker 3: the time we get to the studio, I mean, by

13:05 Speaker 3: the time we get to the studio to work on it,

13:08 Speaker 3: you know, it's just and it's it's really kind of

13:10 Speaker 3: crazy too. Sometimes Corey will he'll write a rift for

13:13 Speaker 3: a song and he'll just kind of just tell me

13:16 Speaker 3: the words that come to him when he wrote it,

13:18 Speaker 3: like the concept and the theme for instance, and I'll

13:22 Speaker 3: just go with that, and so it just, you know,

13:24 Speaker 3: it just depends. But yeah, a lot of our creative

13:28 Speaker 3: process is really bringing whatever rift or whatever we're doing

13:31 Speaker 3: to the table and freestyle creating right then and there.

13:34 Speaker 3: And while we're freestyle and we record what we're doing,

13:37 Speaker 3: and I'll try all these various different focal patterns and

13:39 Speaker 3: whatever the music naturally makes me talk about. Yeah, when

13:44 Speaker 3: I'm singing is what the song ends up being about.

13:46 Speaker 3: So I want to I literally literally want to allow

13:49 Speaker 3: the music, whatever the music makes me do, to allow

13:52 Speaker 3: it to take it to the direction of the song.

13:53 Speaker 3: So that way it's all fluid, you know, and right

13:57 Speaker 3: right and and really it is. It is kind of

13:59 Speaker 3: a chance when you really allow yourself to be captured

14:01 Speaker 3: by the music, it can really allow it through you.

14:03 Speaker 3: What I mean. Sometimes when that happens, I have a

14:07 Speaker 3: hard time reproducing it really. Yeah, yeah, you know what

14:11 Speaker 3: I mean, Like you go back and you're like, man

14:13 Speaker 3: that you listen to the recording, You're like, how did

14:15 Speaker 3: we do? How did we actually do that? Like, and

14:17 Speaker 3: then you have to try to go back and remember

14:19 Speaker 3: you know sometimes when you really get lost in it,

14:22 Speaker 3: you know, right right, Yeah, And that's that's the beauty

14:26 Speaker 3: of it, you know, that's really the beauty of music.

14:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the challenge of trying to find your

14:30 Speaker 2: way back to that magic moment. Yeah exactly, Yeah, I

14:34 Speaker 2: know exactly what you mean. Uh do is there a theme?

14:38 Speaker 2: Do these songs have a through line on this EP?

14:41 Speaker 2: Because listening to them, I kind of feel like I

14:45 Speaker 2: couldn't quite detect what it might be.

14:47 Speaker 1: And maybe there isn't one.

14:48 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I just perceive there possibly being a theme

14:52 Speaker 2: because these songs fit together so well. But I'm curious,

14:57 Speaker 2: is there an overlying theme to to the EP?

15:01 Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, So every song on the EP, from Reached

15:05 Speaker 3: End of the Fire to River to Gave It Away,

15:06 Speaker 3: they all have to do with the various themes that

15:09 Speaker 3: we all face as a human race, Like they all

15:12 Speaker 3: have to do with like, for instance, Gave It Away

15:14 Speaker 3: is about you know, being willing to sacrifice even when

15:17 Speaker 3: no one else sees it, for the thing you love,

15:19 Speaker 3: you know, into the fires, being willing to brave the

15:22 Speaker 3: fires of life to burn away the parts of you

15:24 Speaker 3: that aren't you rivers about life. So for me, it's

15:26 Speaker 3: really all about these philosophical themes that we all think

15:29 Speaker 3: about and deal with on the daily basis. Yeah, really,

15:32 Speaker 3: the that's really the overlying theme of everything that we

15:36 Speaker 3: do as ever felt really. Yeah, as a writer, I

15:39 Speaker 3: published my first book in two thousand and four called

15:41 Speaker 3: Winds of Perception Scratching the Surface. And even that was

15:44 Speaker 3: a book of poetry where I really wanted to take

15:48 Speaker 3: my style of writing and address the various themes that

15:52 Speaker 3: we face as humans and so in a philosophical way.

15:55 Speaker 3: And so that's really really what it is, is about

15:58 Speaker 3: getting in tune with oneself and becoming who you're really

16:00 Speaker 3: supposed to be. That's that's really the the ideas, you know,

16:03 Speaker 3: you know, even even when you're talking about and reach,

16:06 Speaker 3: when you talk about the chorus bleeding out to keep

16:08 Speaker 3: the mind new, what talking about there literally is I'm saying,

16:11 Speaker 3: you know, everything's about the mind. You know, everything's about

16:14 Speaker 3: people get caught in their head and they get caught

16:16 Speaker 3: in the mental of it, and they forget the soul.

16:18 Speaker 3: And so your souls bleeding out just to concentrate on

16:21 Speaker 3: the mind and so and to concentrate on and and

16:23 Speaker 3: the things we worry about in life where we get

16:25 Speaker 3: caught in our head, you know, right, And so that's

16:28 Speaker 3: really the the overlying theme is like learning how to

16:32 Speaker 3: find oneself. Like the song Stranger is going to be

16:34 Speaker 3: on the album, it's really that that song, you know,

16:36 Speaker 3: also is about, you know, realizing that the stranger that

16:40 Speaker 3: is within you is the real you. And so that's

16:43 Speaker 3: the idea, is to shed all the chains and the

16:47 Speaker 3: the preconceived notions that you were that were ingrained in

16:50 Speaker 3: you when you were younger and really become the you

16:52 Speaker 3: that you really are and what you're meant to be here,

16:54 Speaker 3: you know. And so that's the overlying theme.

16:58 Speaker 1: No, I like it.

16:58 Speaker 2: You know what's cool all this too, is there's a

17:02 Speaker 2: very positive message to it all. I mean, you can

17:06 Speaker 2: really get a lot out of it. But it's interesting

17:08 Speaker 2: because the sound of the band sort of the sort

17:13 Speaker 2: of psychedelic but metal. I don't know exactly how you

17:17 Speaker 2: would describe it. You guys are unique, I think, but

17:20 Speaker 2: but you almost if you didn't know and if you

17:23 Speaker 2: didn't hear the lyrics, if you just heard the music,

17:25 Speaker 2: you almost might think it was kind of a dark,

17:27 Speaker 2: brooding thing, but there's some really positive messaging in the

17:31 Speaker 2: lyrics and what these songs are about. And I think

17:34 Speaker 2: that's really cool.

17:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, because we want to, you know, and thank you

17:38 Speaker 3: very much for saying that, we want to relate to

17:41 Speaker 3: the dark tunnel with our listeners that they are also

17:43 Speaker 3: in or they've been in before. But we also talk

17:45 Speaker 3: about the door we found. We also want to talk

17:48 Speaker 3: about the light that we found within the darkness, because

17:50 Speaker 3: the candle flame flicker is never so bright as in

17:53 Speaker 3: a dark room. So for that reason alone, that's the

17:57 Speaker 3: reason why we bring that dark brooding sound, because you know,

17:59 Speaker 3: in order truly you know, and and counter true light,

18:03 Speaker 3: you have to be willing to brave the darkness.

18:04 Speaker 1: Yeah. I like it.

18:06 Speaker 2: I'm someone I struggle with depression and when I listen

18:11 Speaker 2: to that song, when I listen to reach, you know,

18:13 Speaker 2: that's I kind of it. It clicked with me, I

18:17 Speaker 2: think for that reason, and so I was able to

18:20 Speaker 2: take something from that that that's uh, you.

18:23 Speaker 1: Know that I really like. I really like that song

18:25 Speaker 1: a lot.

18:26 Speaker 3: Thank you, man, I really appreciate that. Matt.

18:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, absolutely, absolutely what's your stage show, like, do

18:31 Speaker 2: you guys have any kind of because you know, with

18:34 Speaker 2: your sound it would lend itself to something kind of

18:37 Speaker 2: dramatic or maybe not maybe maybe just do kind of

18:40 Speaker 2: a you know, you just you just play. I don't know,

18:43 Speaker 2: I mean, do you have any kind of any kind

18:44 Speaker 2: of a stage show or or do you.

18:46 Speaker 3: Just I mean, I will say this, We we definitely

18:49 Speaker 3: put on a show. Yeah, yeah, all over the stage.

18:53 Speaker 3: But uh, but we are just now working on the fog,

18:57 Speaker 3: the lights, the we're actually working on with my new

19:00 Speaker 3: bass player, we're working on an introduction and entire introduction

19:03 Speaker 3: to our show before we come on stage. So we're

19:06 Speaker 3: getting all of the extras together now for this next

19:09 Speaker 3: coming year. But honestly, I don't know if you've seen

19:13 Speaker 3: any of our live videos. I think you have. We

19:16 Speaker 3: we get down. Yeah, I've seen a lot of bands

19:18 Speaker 3: stand up there and just play. That's not what we

19:21 Speaker 3: do right, right, And And I pride myself on really

19:26 Speaker 3: being able to allow myself to truly become the channel

19:29 Speaker 3: on stage for the music and honestly hit every note,

19:33 Speaker 3: but get down and and and and that takes practice.

19:36 Speaker 3: Like when I play on I practice at practice. It's

19:38 Speaker 3: like I'm performing and I'll tell you what last last Sunday,

19:42 Speaker 3: because we just had got this new bass player. So

19:44 Speaker 3: it's been about a month now and he's gonna play

19:46 Speaker 3: his first show with us on October fifth. But last

19:49 Speaker 3: Sunday was our first like six hour practice where we

19:51 Speaker 3: went through the set twice and and I gotta tell you,

19:55 Speaker 3: I was hurting the next day, man, because we hadn't

19:57 Speaker 3: had like a you know, we had like a kind

19:59 Speaker 3: of a break there for like three weeks where we

20:01 Speaker 3: didn't have a show or anything, and we didn't practice

20:03 Speaker 3: because of other family stuff and all that. You know. Yeah,

20:06 Speaker 3: but but yeah, yeah, so uh really excited to get

20:10 Speaker 3: the new bass player because not only is he bringing

20:12 Speaker 3: some awesome thump into the bass on some of our

20:15 Speaker 3: songs that we didn't have before, but also he's like

20:19 Speaker 3: a whiz when it comes to like light and fog

20:21 Speaker 3: and all this other stuff.

20:22 Speaker 1: So good.

20:22 Speaker 3: So yeah, so I'm super excited about that. He's gonna

20:25 Speaker 3: We're working on a projector screen behind us instead of

20:28 Speaker 3: a banner I trying to get.

20:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine that with your music. I can

20:32 Speaker 1: imagine a projector's screen.

20:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to we want to project some images

20:36 Speaker 3: and yeah, and uh and really take people on that

20:39 Speaker 3: give him an experience, you know.

20:40 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, hmm.

20:41 Speaker 2: Do you have to uh do you do anything to

20:44 Speaker 2: take care of your voice, like uh, lemon or anything,

20:48 Speaker 2: because you you obviously with what you're doing.

20:50 Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty intense. Your vocals are pretty intense.

20:54 Speaker 3: Thanks man. Yeah, yeah, uh so, honestly, I don't smoke.

20:58 Speaker 3: Another one, good number two is I do breath work

21:02 Speaker 3: and chakra work every day.

21:03 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, okay.

21:05 Speaker 3: Yes, and so that's been something I've found that's totally

21:08 Speaker 3: changed the whole game for me when it comes to

21:10 Speaker 3: being ready for the stage and being able to hit

21:12 Speaker 3: everything and do what I do. And also a workout

21:16 Speaker 3: regiment is important twice a week. But on stage, I

21:20 Speaker 3: drink let me tell you what it is. On stage.

21:23 Speaker 3: I don't drink alcohol. I do particulars in marijuana, but

21:29 Speaker 3: I do drink alcohol. Really, so I don't have alcohol

21:33 Speaker 3: on stage, So I drink what does she do with

21:35 Speaker 3: my chakra tea?

21:39 Speaker 1: But yeah, I've heard of that.

21:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I drink that on stage. And then I

21:44 Speaker 3: also always have a blue Gator. I don't know what

21:46 Speaker 3: it is about the blue, the blue gatorade. But it's

21:49 Speaker 3: really soothing if you need something to drink on stage

21:51 Speaker 3: other than water. Yeah, anyone's listening to this. That's a singer. Oh,

21:56 Speaker 3: here it is. I don't know why she put in here.

21:58 Speaker 3: I want it here. This is it's the organic throat

22:00 Speaker 3: code is what it's called. It is made of slippery elm. Yeah, okay,

22:05 Speaker 3: slippery elm tee. So if if you do vocals where

22:09 Speaker 3: you go back and forth between the heavy and the lights,

22:11 Speaker 3: this is really nice to have on stage.

22:13 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah.

22:15 Speaker 2: I mean we have a lot of musicians who listen

22:16 Speaker 2: to the show, so that might be very helpful to someone.

22:19 Speaker 1: Yeah.

22:20 Speaker 2: That really caught my attention to what you were saying

22:22 Speaker 2: about the breath work, because so I don't know if

22:24 Speaker 2: you know anything about my background, but I'm also a

22:26 Speaker 2: hypnotherapist and I use a lot of breath work in

22:29 Speaker 2: my sessions with my clients, so I know the value

22:32 Speaker 2: of that and all kinds of applications for it.

22:35 Speaker 3: It's mind blowing.

22:36 Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

22:37 Speaker 3: People that are if you're if you're an artist in

22:40 Speaker 3: anybody anyway, it don't matter what walk of life you're in.

22:42 Speaker 3: Definitely look into the chakra and breath work is very important,

22:46 Speaker 3: the chanting, all of that I do. I do it

22:49 Speaker 3: every day. I have a forty minute drive to work

22:51 Speaker 3: in the morning, so I do it every day on

22:53 Speaker 3: my way to work. The breath work. They don't do

22:56 Speaker 3: much meditation then, but be a little dangerous, right. But

23:01 Speaker 3: I also there's also like this what's it called Ancient

23:07 Speaker 3: Meditations on Facebook where they have like this the sounds

23:11 Speaker 3: the different frequencies that you can use to listen to

23:13 Speaker 3: while you're doing it. Oh okay, yeah, so that's also

23:16 Speaker 3: a cool thing to utilize if anybody's also listening. But yeah,

23:20 Speaker 3: being a hypno therapys you said you're a certified hypno therapist, right, Yes,

23:24 Speaker 3: that's phenomenal man.

23:25 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been doing it about twenty years now. And uh,

23:28 Speaker 2: you know, I help people to quit smoking. That's like

23:31 Speaker 2: the number one thing. But you know, it's got a

23:32 Speaker 2: lot of a lot of different applications. But uh yeah,

23:36 Speaker 2: and you know, we do a lot of breath work,

23:37 Speaker 2: and when I'm taking the client into a state of hypnosis,

23:40 Speaker 2: we do a lot of a lot of breathing and

23:43 Speaker 2: sometimes people kind of chuckle when I say now I

23:45 Speaker 2: want you to breathe, and they're like, well, I already am,

23:47 Speaker 2: or i'd be dead. And it's like no, no, no,

23:49 Speaker 2: I want.

23:49 Speaker 1: You to really breathe. Yeah, and then we get in

23:52 Speaker 1: all of that and when you people the.

23:55 Speaker 3: Four seven eight breathing technique, you know, the nose and

24:01 Speaker 3: the mouth of all of that, when they really do

24:04 Speaker 3: it that you just I've done it with my wife

24:07 Speaker 3: and a few other friends and they're like, wow, you

24:09 Speaker 3: could just see the look of surprise in their face

24:11 Speaker 3: when you can just tell when you really control your breathing,

24:14 Speaker 3: it takes you to another place. Yep, yea, And it

24:17 Speaker 3: honestly helps you get to center.

24:19 Speaker 2: And so yeah, I tell everyone it's kind of like

24:22 Speaker 2: hitting the reset button. You know, if you're having a

24:25 Speaker 2: difficult day, a challenging day, you need to de stress

24:28 Speaker 2: for a minute and you need to just kind of

24:29 Speaker 2: reset everything, you know, just just stop and do the breathing,

24:33 Speaker 2: and it just kind of, like I said, it just

24:36 Speaker 2: kind of helps you reset.

24:37 Speaker 3: You know.

24:37 Speaker 2: It's like like pushing the button on the video game

24:39 Speaker 2: when you want to start over.

24:40 Speaker 1: You know, That's how I think of it.

24:44 Speaker 3: It truly does.

24:46 Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, too, something else you mentioned that

24:48 Speaker 2: that also really caught my attention.

24:50 Speaker 1: So you're you're a published.

24:51 Speaker 3: Author, Yes, sir, yep. I published my first book, well,

24:56 Speaker 3: my only book in two thousand and four, is called

24:58 Speaker 3: Wins of Perceptions in the Surface. You can get it

25:02 Speaker 3: at Amazon dot com. But I also have a Facebook

25:05 Speaker 3: page called Stirring to Wake. I'm always working with the

25:08 Speaker 3: Everfelt page, so I don't really post a lot of

25:09 Speaker 3: the writings, but yeah, yeah, a lot of the writing

25:12 Speaker 3: is on there. But yeah, I've been writing ever since

25:15 Speaker 3: I can remember.

25:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh interesting, Okay, very cool. Do you have

25:19 Speaker 2: any plans to do another book?

25:21 Speaker 3: I do. If I am not playing stadiums or arenas

25:24 Speaker 3: by the time i'mty five, I'm just gonna write the

25:27 Speaker 3: novel I've been thinking. I've been where I started a

25:29 Speaker 3: novel too, but it's like this whole you know, it's

25:33 Speaker 3: this experimental fantasy obviously, but but you know, yeah, I've

25:40 Speaker 3: I've told you know, min named Corey my my lead guitars,

25:43 Speaker 3: Corey Robinson. You hear how amazing he is, Yeah, in

25:46 Speaker 3: person to the most humble badass I know. I also

25:49 Speaker 3: have this awesome Japanese piece. He just did this tattoo

25:51 Speaker 3: work he just did on my arm. That's so sick. Man. Yeah,

25:55 Speaker 3: he's super talented and as super cool dude, but uh oh,

25:59 Speaker 3: I was minding his goal. You know. He's he just

26:01 Speaker 3: turned forty four. I'm forty two in October. Second here

26:04 Speaker 3: in a couple of days, we're hoping to be playing

26:07 Speaker 3: arenas and stadiums by the time we're fifty with this music.

26:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're not.

26:12 Speaker 3: We might just you know, well look at others, but

26:17 Speaker 3: we'll see.

26:17 Speaker 1: The universe will give you that schedule.

26:20 Speaker 3: You know. I love that you spoke that into existence

26:24 Speaker 3: just now, my friends.

26:25 Speaker 1: There you go, there you go.

26:26 Speaker 2: Well, Adam, I really appreciate talking with you this morning.

26:30 Speaker 2: I was thinking we might end the segment with The Lie,

26:33 Speaker 2: which is another great another great track, great track from

26:36 Speaker 2: the EP man. Anything we should know about this before

26:39 Speaker 2: we play it.

26:41 Speaker 3: The Lie is, you know, a song that is all

26:45 Speaker 3: about everything we're hearing about coming through our screens, our TVs,

26:49 Speaker 3: our phones, even the lies that we tell ourselves. But

26:52 Speaker 3: mostly it's about the Global League, keeping the foot on

26:54 Speaker 3: the man, you know, hiding under the lies they you know,

26:58 Speaker 3: they tell. The truth begins to fade and and I

27:02 Speaker 3: think we can all relate to that, and I'm sure

27:05 Speaker 3: we're all tired of the lies.

27:06 Speaker 2: So all right, so we're gonna end with that track.

27:09 Speaker 2: But before we go, Adam, please let everyone know where's

27:12 Speaker 2: the best place to go online to keep up with

27:14 Speaker 2: everything that you're doing, everything that ever Felt is doing,

27:17 Speaker 2: any anything you want our listeners to know about.

27:19 Speaker 3: Yes, everfelt dot net. That's our website where you can

27:23 Speaker 3: access all of You can listen to our EP on

27:26 Speaker 3: our on our streaming music player at the bottom of

27:27 Speaker 3: the site. You can all you can listen to it

27:29 Speaker 3: while you're scrolling through the pages, so you can contact

27:32 Speaker 3: us there. You can go to our social media platforms

27:35 Speaker 3: from that ever felt dot net. Come check us out.

27:38 Speaker 2: All right, very good, So we're gonna hit this track,

27:40 Speaker 2: so we'll let you go. But Adam again, thank you

27:42 Speaker 2: so much. I really enjoyed our conversation and we'll definitely

27:45 Speaker 2: do this again in the future.

27:47 Speaker 3: Yes, sir man, it's always a pleasure talking to you. Man.

27:50 Speaker 1: All right, Adam, take care, thank you, Bye bye bye bye.

27:53 Speaker 1: All right.

27:54 Speaker 2: That was Adam Seglitch from the band ever Felt. We're

27:57 Speaker 2: gonna play this track the Lie, and then when we

27:59 Speaker 2: come back Jenny and I will talk a little bit about, well,

28:02 Speaker 2: she's got a big trip she's going on very shortly,

28:05 Speaker 2: and we'll also talk a little bit about paper Jam

28:08 Speaker 2: magazine doing some more stuff with them.

28:10 Speaker 1: But check this out. This is called The Lie and

28:12 Speaker 1: the band is Ever Felt