Matt Connarton Unleashed: Alana Corvette

0:00 Speaker 1: But we have speaking of music, we've have in the studio right now. The band a lot of Corvette and one of these guys, Huey the Gecko, has been here. You've been here a number of times? How many times you've been on the show? Are you in the five Timers club at this point on the show?

0:13 Speaker 2: I think this might be four?

0:15 Speaker 3: Is this four?

0:17 Speaker 2: I think we might be edging on the five club?

0:19 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, so this is this is four and uh, but this is the first time with this band. And I'll let you, I'll let you introduce your your bandmates here and well guess.

0:30 Speaker 2: The common theme is for right, So this is our four appearance here. We're a four piece band and we're four piece man. Uh, let's see, we're New Hampshire, Indy right now. That's our genre and yeah, our our our music began as an instrumental I joined the group and so it was like a corvette. It was hurtling down the highway and and I hopped on in it. And then I said, well, what better name? Then? Then let's let's go with a Lona Corvette. So yes, uh, and so that was kind of a mind a little bit of a we had we had a different band name, but it was it was like it was taken.

1:13 Speaker 2: Uh, it wasn't able to be like, we couldn't we couldn't use it in terms of marketing or distributing, et cetera.

1:20 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm super I'm super curious. Now what was the name?

1:23 Speaker 2: We were going to be the Soggies. Okay, and there happens to be a few bands that are already operating under that.

1:29 Speaker 1: Yes.

1:29 Speaker 2: Yeah. So so the I don't want to say had more originality the A lot of Corvette thing, but it's it was available. Yeah, okay, so that makes sense. So originally we I didn't without a tea because I thought the Corvette was a brand, but I realized it's the warship thing. I didn't realize there was the military thing. Oh okay, So the Corvette's actually not trademarked, and neither is the word Alana.

1:53 Speaker 4: Ah.

1:54 Speaker 2: Yes, so we were free and clear after that.

1:57 Speaker 1: So and uh, yeah, the odds seem low that you're gonna run in a problem with the name Alana Corvette.

2:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably good. You're probably good.

2:05 Speaker 2: And that was all it took. Really, So once we had the like I said, the four piece band, the Love and Piece music. So we got the right direction, the right message. Uh, we kind of just jammed and the jams have been coming together in different ways. One of them that you're here today, has a little bit more of a Latin feel. One of them is a little bit prog rocky, but we're doing the acoustic version of it. So we have a variety of different genres. But we pretty much just call it in New Hampshire, Indie because right now we're just a we're an independent rock band doing the thing.

2:37 Speaker 1: All right, and uh, let's uh, let's hear from your your cohorts here. Well, you can introduce this Joleman because he's not on Mike, and then we'll well.

2:44 Speaker 2: Mike, my Bassis has been with me and a lot of other projects. You guys might be familiar with him. He appeared with me before on the show.

2:50 Speaker 1: That's right, I remember that, Yes, so Mike.

2:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Mike, welcome Steven.

2:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, what's up. I'm Steve Colveck, guitar player for a Lot of Corvette.

3:01 Speaker 1: Yeah.

3:01 Speaker 5: No, me and Brad kind of we started off the job with a bunch of originals from our last project. So okay, kind of fully developing him now with the full bands and kind of solely building momentum as the snowball rolls downhill.

3:13 Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. Yeah and you sir.

3:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm Brad playing the drums. Excited to be here. Excited to play an acoustic set too, not something we do too often. But we've got the cajone and the bongos here, right, a rock.

3:26 Speaker 1: Good creative challenge, yes, yes, outstanding. Well, I'm very curious to hear you guys play now. We'll have to kind of we have no way to sound check because we're already live on the air, but well I'm used to riding the faders, so but I'm very curious. Oh, Aaron Billado is in the Facebook live chat and he says, is that Alna Corvette? It sure is so welcome eron. Yes, we're just talking about you. Aaron Billadeau. Of course, a very talented musician. He's been on the show a number of times. And actually, Huey you and at least once you and Aaron played together on the show, right, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember you guys performing that Doctor Miller Ram song.

4:01 Speaker 2: My second air in appearance. Actually might put us at the five.

4:04 Speaker 3: You might be in the five time ers club as of today.

4:06 Speaker 2: I didn't yep, I didn't realize because I've been on twice with Aaron.

4:09 Speaker 1: Now you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go, There you go, and uh oh, and Ricky Mapleton joins us as well. Hello. All right, I'm dying to hear you guys play, so I'll turn it over to you and like I said, i'll ride the faders.

4:21 Speaker 3: I'll uh make it sound good.

4:23 Speaker 5: But all right, I'm gonna move this to try to pick up Yeah.

4:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good idea. That's a good idea.

4:28 Speaker 2: Searcher first, Yeah, all right, thank you guys. This is Searcher by Alana Corvette.

5:00 Speaker 7: H Searcher, See.

5:08 Speaker 8: Gone, try it?

5:13 Speaker 2: Why not?

5:15 Speaker 9: Life's worth the shock? Search for meaning, search for reason, Believe.

5:23 Speaker 7: In the believe in the.

5:30 Speaker 9: Meaningless nights. Flock sides. Meaningless nights, belock sides. Search for reason, Believe in the meaningless night, Believe in the see gone, seekne searcher, m HM, see God. Search for reason, search for meaning. Feeling all right, meaningless nights, feel out the sights.

6:27 Speaker 2: Meaningless nights feel out the sights.

7:15 Speaker 7: See God.

7:26 Speaker 9: Searcher, See God Searcher.

7:32 Speaker 7: Believe in.

7:33 Speaker 9: Then you got a feeling all right, search for meaning, search for reson, believe in, believe in, see.

7:51 Speaker 7: God, searcher.

7:58 Speaker 8: Where you meant for this? It was live worth the shot.

8:04 Speaker 4: Got very nice, excellent, very nice.

8:19 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have a lot of Corvette here with us, a live in studio on this Saturday morning. So what's the songwriting process like with you guys? You all write together or how does that work?

8:31 Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a good question. Actually what we've been doing for a while. So me and Brad were in a band for a while. We had some ideas that were undeveloped and things that we were kind of had in our back pocket for a while. Yeah, and uh yeah. So as we got Mike and the band and then Matt and the band, we said, hey, we got all these ideas, let's start developing them further. And the way it'll kind of work is someone will come in with an idea and then be it like a bassline or just a guitar riff or something like that, and then we'll just kind of jam on it and just see where it goes.

9:01 Speaker 5: And kind of a lot of it like writes itself almost I think that with music, it's like if it doesn't right itself in thirty seconds, you're like forcing it.

9:09 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, and how did this How did this band come up? Because I feel like have you all worked together before in some configuration?

9:17 Speaker 2: So the thing that he mentioned there prior Distant Wave was you Brad and Ryan if I'm not mistaken.

9:24 Speaker 5: Yeah, Ryan Martineau from the Whole Loaf.

9:26 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we thought on you.

9:28 Speaker 2: He'll be We'll be in our show tonight when we play at Terminus. So very good if funny. How like you said, musicians travel similar footpaths. Yes, and me and Mike you've met. We were a package there.

9:39 Speaker 1: Yes, we were.

9:40 Speaker 2: Working on a project with two other musicians called Temporal Rift. Okay, and uh, we're working on a dual drummers thing really, and one of our drummers is learning from the other drummer. Yeah, so when he gets to that area, we're ready to pursue that in terms of looking for gigs and stuff like that. But we're just in a little bit of a development phase and we wanted to do something where we could gig and whatnot. So these guys had lost that third piece and like it was, you know, stepped in there and he got with them prior to me joining the group, and they were working on this instrumental called Space and Paula that they play and I really liked it.

10:19 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and they they sent it to me and were like, you put some lyrics on it, and I was like, I did, and they thought it was not half bad. And that was the beginning of it. And then we've been doing that kind of the one we just did just now. Brad's a counter, he's our drummer. He likes this five to seven song there, so every now and then it's thirty seconds every now and then, it's not.

10:43 Speaker 5: Both like oh yeah, gotcha and all that stuff.

10:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that one's a little tricky.

10:51 Speaker 1: Now, do you guys have plans to uh? You would send me a demo, but do you guys have plans to get into the studio?

10:56 Speaker 2: And so yeah, Jim Hurley, I see you. We're gonna come down to uh Shatterstar Productions as he calls his uh studio and do the whole sixteen mics instead of one condenser mic in the corner. Yeah, that'll make it sound a little better.

11:13 Speaker 5: We just have like bad iPhone demos and stuff that I recorded on like my two interface and into it like a cheap dog, you know.

11:20 Speaker 2: So yeah, I said to him, think about like you're hearing the clash and like a shady club.

11:25 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, excuse about that.

11:27 Speaker 2: I did the thing.

11:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you did. I caught it. We're on it way, We're on it away. I caught it, no problem.

11:33 Speaker 3: By the way.

11:34 Speaker 1: Eleanor is in the Facebook live chat, she says, Ilana Corvette tonight at Terminus Underground. Yes, yes, we had, uh, we had Eleanor and spelfe and Andrea on the show with us a couple of weeks ago talking about all that, all the goings on there, and and Jenny. We should mention too. Jenny's art is currently hanging there as well.

11:51 Speaker 10: Yes, actually twelve of my pieces are in there. I've never actually had them all together like that. Actually, I just did an interview with Spelfey yesterday.

12:00 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so.

12:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, you'll see some of my acrylics on camp on Yeah, acrylics on canvas. They're my darkest pieces actually beautiful. Yeah, you'll have that mediums that artists invest themselves into. I can't wait to look at that.

12:16 Speaker 5: Looking forward to explore the gallery.

12:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, that awesome, thank you.

12:20 Speaker 1: And yeah, Aaron also says, sounds great boys, see you tonight at Terminus.

12:24 Speaker 3: Is he performing or is he just kind.

12:25 Speaker 2: Of I think he's just going to be there for support.

12:28 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very cool, and uh hello to Charmaine Charmaine Davis Elliott also in the Facebook live chat.

12:34 Speaker 1: Hello, and I just want to make sure I don't miss anybody. I have more than one chat room to look at now with the software amusing. But yeah, you guys want to play another one?

12:46 Speaker 8: Yeah?

12:46 Speaker 5: Much as well.

12:47 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I see, oh I see, uh I do see more people now. Andrea Dumont says, what's up kids? Andrea of course from Terminus and the Midnight Creatives Collective, and of course from the band.

12:58 Speaker 2: Dad Harrison great sound man, he's really good with the sound.

13:01 Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And also Philip McDuffie is in the chat. Hello, says uh, Phil says good and beep An Art also in there, another loyal listener.

13:14 Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, what do you guys? Uh you want to play another one?

13:17 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. You got another one for you?

13:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, and if.

13:23 Speaker 2: You're in San Diego, where in the world is the Lana Corvette.

13:27 Speaker 1: Yes, if you are just joining us, A lot of corvette is with us.

13:32 Speaker 3: They're right here at W.

13:33 Speaker 1: M and H Live in studio.

13:51 Speaker 9: She's a queen of scorn, scorching the ground around us with beer, leaving the whole world tourn She's got an avoidable fixture and a poisonous mixture called life. She's queen of scorn, leaving the whole world torn. She's a queen, but there ain't no thrown. She's sing with the vibe. She's been thrown. She's a queen, but there ain't no thrown.

14:29 Speaker 2: Reverse engineer, get out of here. King of feeding.

14:33 Speaker 9: Flames, sign of air, say I'm getting there where. She's a queen of scorn, leaving the whole world torn.

15:00 Speaker 11: She's a cream, but there ain't no thrown. She's still with those dots. She's been thrown. She's a cream, but there rain no thrown. She's a green, but there rain' no throwed. She's stealing with those hearts. She's been thrown. Scream with the rain no throat.

16:00 Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. We have a lot of corvette here with us, live in studio this morning. Yes, yes, and uh are.

16:10 Speaker 3: You guys playing a lot of shows. Are you doing a lot out there?

16:12 Speaker 5: Or this is our first gig tonight? Actually this is it. This is the debut man.

16:17 Speaker 1: Oh wow, wonderful, the world premiere of a Lot of Corvette.

16:21 Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.

16:24 Speaker 1: And now do you guys all well, actually, Hue, let me ask you first, because you've you've always got your uh, you've always got a lot going on. I mean, do you have other projects that you're that you're doing uh as well right now?

16:35 Speaker 3: Or are you just kind of focused on a lot of Corvette.

16:37 Speaker 2: It's funny. I appreciate you saying. I kind of feel like, you know, uh, how do you say that? It's like when somebody says how you're doing? You stay busy, right, but they just asked how you're doing, and it's like, so we're never too busy for each other. The music, which is good, yeah, and we all are involved in a lot of things. But Steven and I actually showed up at Pembroke City Limits just recently excellent. We were part of this project called Side Note. He was playing the guitar for them and I was playing auxiliary instruments like the cahonne and some war drones.

17:06 Speaker 2: And stuff. I didn't even know he was gonna be the guitarist, Okay, but I know you from somewhere, and so it's funny the we're hoping to get in the PCL there with Rob and maybe we'll get this outfit in there doing an acoustics ceter who knows. There you go, But we're We've been enjoying our time spent there, uh, And I've enjoying the opening their beautiful area and building. I like what they're doing with the food too.

17:32 Speaker 1: I stopped in there the other day for the first time, and it's it's much bigger in there than I imagined.

17:36 Speaker 5: I was surprised they got a perfect venue for just live music and stuff.

17:41 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely yeah.

17:43 Speaker 2: But I mean, I guess the people, not the place, but I regardless, you know, the uh the strange in Manchester. The Whole Loaf played there the other day and it was a free show. So they're playing with us tonight, and we felt like the need to support and not just the need, but we were building some community there. You were using the jump rope inside the change crew.

18:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a jump rope.

18:07 Speaker 2: I brought it.

18:07 Speaker 1: You brought the jump rope.

18:09 Speaker 5: You're doing like double dutch in front of the stage.

18:10 Speaker 2: I won't do that again. We got the message I won't do that again.

18:14 Speaker 1: So why is that?

18:15 Speaker 2: I think there's no pool rules sign outside, but I think we might have stretched the limits there a little bit.

18:21 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to have a jump rope.

18:23 Speaker 5: Well, I mean it wasn't explicit, but yeah, it's one of those like unspoken.

18:27 Speaker 3: Like a liquor commissioner rule or something.

18:29 Speaker 5: It's kind of like, don't don't leave with your beard, don't bring your jump rope in.

18:33 Speaker 1: Right right?

18:33 Speaker 3: Yeah?

18:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, but you know, uh, the terminus, I think there might be a little more leeway. They are a rehearsal space, so maybe they would be all right with the jump rope.

18:45 Speaker 5: We're looking frisbee this time.

18:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Frizze, bring in some bubbles.

18:49 Speaker 1: I can imagine Frisbee being a problem.

18:50 Speaker 2: Just bubbles.

18:51 Speaker 1: Oh, there you go.

18:52 Speaker 2: We got a couple of bubble girls that are just gonna hang out and blow bubbles right right.

18:56 Speaker 1: Well, you know, Green Jelly slash Green Jellow is gonna be there on the twenty seventh, and I'm sure they'll uh.

19:02 Speaker 2: We need to link up because you know how I'm a little wild.

19:05 Speaker 3: They'll they'll push whatever back.

19:06 Speaker 2: You need to link up on that. Yes, yes, I've seen what they do.

19:10 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yep, yep.

19:12 Speaker 1: Yeah. They were on the show a number of months ago when they played in Manchester. We had them on and then Bill Man Speaker was like, yeah we should, uh we when we come back through the area, we should play somewhere.

19:22 Speaker 2: It's so funny. Aaron's name is on the tip of my tongue. He put me onto them.

19:25 Speaker 3: Oh really yeah?

19:26 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?

19:27 Speaker 10: And then who got them booked?

19:28 Speaker 1: You did?

19:29 Speaker 2: Ye?

19:29 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, forever.

19:32 Speaker 2: I just don't have capes.

19:34 Speaker 10: Eleanor and I are are going to pull that in our or resumes forever.

19:39 Speaker 2: Yes, you know, for her too. I you know, like you mentioned, we're not giving a bunch of places right now. This is our first one.

19:46 Speaker 1: Yeah.

19:46 Speaker 2: And uh, I've been also just kind of on a road to recovery, and I wanted to just say, like to Eleanor and Andre, thank you so much for putting us on, because like it just gave me a lot of hope, It gave me a lot of resurgence. So that was really important that you guys gave us the ch hands and put us onto it. So I really want to say thank you for that because that touches place in my heart.

20:05 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Now resurgence from from what you were.

20:10 Speaker 2: I'm like, I've been sober for like sixteen months.

20:13 Speaker 3: Okay, congratulations, no.

20:15 Speaker 2: Whatever, it is like I went to a point where it was like, you know, like the jump rope. Yeah, I pushed the boundaries sometimes. So yeah, yeah, now I'm polishing it and getting under control.

20:26 Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you. I have to say, you look healthier than I've ever seen you.

20:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a different hui. Yeah, well I'll still always be huie.

20:34 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean not that I thought there was any issue before. I like, I didn't know.

20:38 Speaker 2: I didn't know that the men it was fun too.

20:41 Speaker 3: But but you do look healthier.

20:42 Speaker 2: Thank you.

20:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now, Oh, turn that mic around, Mike, if you would. I want to ask you, do you if you have other Do you have other projects you're involved in or you just focused on a lot of Corvette.

20:54 Speaker 12: Or yeah, I have a reggae band.

20:56 Speaker 1: Uh. We're called Boom Lava.

20:59 Speaker 3: That's a cool name.

21:00 Speaker 8: Yeah.

21:00 Speaker 3: Yeah, we we do like a lot.

21:02 Speaker 1: We do quite a few shows.

21:04 Speaker 12: We got one in this place called the Canteen Brewery, Sterling Street. Devin's coming up on Friday at the end of August. Leave that's the twenty second or twenty third. And then we got another one in Rochester, mass which is I don't know exactly the details, but it's on the Facebook.

21:26 Speaker 1: But yeah, but Boom Lava. Yeah, we do.

21:28 Speaker 3: We do a lot.

21:29 Speaker 12: We do originals, we do covers, and we're just all about the reggae, the love and that energy. You know.

21:34 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool, and Brad, just a lot of Cotte for me right now, let me I'm sorry, you're Mike is I mean, I'm go ahead and say that again.

21:46 Speaker 3: Oh I found you? Yeah, I found you. Yeah, I say that again, sir.

21:50 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, just saying not in any other projects at the moment, just focusing on a want of Corvette.

21:55 Speaker 1: But you're a drummer, yes now? Is so the reason this surprises me? And you might already know where I'm going with this, I know, Jenny does. Every drummer that we ever have on the show is in like ten or twelve different bands, because drummers are the hardest to find, and and this is your only band.

22:11 Speaker 3: That's amazing.

22:15 Speaker 2: Don't steal yeah, yeah, it's true.

22:20 Speaker 1: We're not shopping him around like every every band we have, like the drummers in multiple bands.

22:25 Speaker 3: And I have a theory about why that is.

22:28 Speaker 1: I think it's because when you're growing up and you first want to you know, get you get interested in playing an instrument, you have to talk with the parents about, hey, I want to play something.

22:35 Speaker 3: If you say.

22:36 Speaker 1: Drums, drums and maybe the tuba or the two, they're going to actively try to talk you out of and say, how about something a little quieter, you know, because nobody wants all that noise in their house, if if if their parents, they don't want their their kid banging on a drum set all night. So that's my theory. So, uh, well, good for you. I'm glad that you know. This is uh, this is it for you.

22:56 Speaker 11: Man.

22:56 Speaker 2: It's funny with the projects with me, like I definitely need a little bit of like equilibrium, like logic and reason.

23:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and he provides it.

23:06 Speaker 2: It's not easy to provide that.

23:10 Speaker 3: No, that makes sense.

23:11 Speaker 1: And so speaking of instruments too, So you're you're playing the bongos, is that the correct name for what you're doing or is that? Yeah?

23:18 Speaker 2: And then That's why I sometimes use the term auxiliary instruments too, if it's if it's going to be a different bongo or a little hand drummer or whatever.

23:25 Speaker 3: But because I usually see you playing a guitar, that's why I wondered.

23:30 Speaker 2: It's usually I carry around a little If you've ever seen me out on the sometimes out on the town, I'll have a little tiny minutes your pair. But yeah, I derive a lot of my cont It's funny we have a common friend in here. He hosts this strange grew open Mike's. His name is Scottie Armstrong and uh, he's the drummer. And I didn't know anything.

23:49 Speaker 3: How many bands to see him?

23:50 Speaker 2: D know none. I don't think that's crazy. And one and he's he's like a secret agent.

23:55 Speaker 1: I can't.

23:55 Speaker 2: He comes in every now and then. Have you ever heard of Jordan Quinn. Yes, he comes in and does work with her accompaniments. He's like a secret agent. I'll back you up when you need it, you know.

24:06 Speaker 3: Interesting?

24:07 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, But with Scotty the for me conceptual wise, with the bongos, he said to me, you need to learn how to write the drum parts, little snare things there, and you need to learn your fat backs and you need to carry around a set of bongos and learn thetaz. And then once you do, when Brad says something to me like five seven, yeah, I'm looking at him like is that reptile for I don't know? Yeah, And then but now I can understand because I'm trying to put some of the work in So yeah, yeah, still wear a lot of work in progress.

24:39 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, no, that's cool. Uh do you do that on all the songs that you do?

24:43 Speaker 2: Or we have two Latin ones. We have a good one called Queen of Scorn, and then we have the other one. Is that's the only one pain?

24:52 Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah that was like a funk groove kind of thing.

24:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bongo layered on on Pain on my mind. Yeah yeah, okay, so that one and Queen, and then I do a touch of like lead guitar ish, just like playing guitar, like some wah Wan stuff on like we play come Together. We're gonna play that tonight and then we're gonna play my song. I actually play rhythm on. We have one song we play called Sewer Person and that's a huge song, as you can tell. Yeah, but but it made it over into the Yeah, and it's got a cool energy.

25:29 Speaker 3: I feel like that song has a story.

25:32 Speaker 7: Uh.

25:32 Speaker 2: Sewer person is like about somebody that's like sitting on the stoop that you're not sure if they might have some stuff that you might not want to contract, but you definitely want to share the joint with them and maybe rip off the end of it, you know. But you know, it's like you don't want to turn away from that person. You want to listen to their story, and you want to treat them listening because we're all sewer people. And I don't care if it's out of AA meeting or they're sitting on that stoop.

25:56 Speaker 2: Wherever that person is that needs to be heard. It's just like the musicians, listening is their most powerful tool.

26:02 Speaker 3: Yep.

26:03 Speaker 2: So I try and you know, listen to a person even if they're from the sewer.

26:07 Speaker 1: Oh okay, very good. And but in a situation like that, you don't call the.

26:11 Speaker 3: Person a sewer person.

26:12 Speaker 2: Well, I'm a sewer person, but.

26:13 Speaker 3: You don't say you don't.

26:15 Speaker 1: You don't address them as such because they might take it wrong.

26:18 Speaker 2: Amen, you know, I hope they never do. I honestly hope they never do.

26:25 Speaker 3: Oh, very cool, very cool.

26:28 Speaker 1: How many?

26:28 Speaker 3: How many songs do you guys? I know you just wanted to do the two today, But do.

26:32 Speaker 1: You guys have a lot of material that you've written together as a band?

26:35 Speaker 5: Yes, all together with what we've written, I think we have like forty minutes of material right now. We probably have like seven or eight songs.

26:42 Speaker 2: I think maybe nine if.

26:44 Speaker 5: It might be nine. Yeah, and then a couple that are in the works, aren't ready to come out yet.

26:48 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Oh very cool, excellent ectually.

26:51 Speaker 2: Yeah that leave it where it Lies.

26:52 Speaker 5: It's still a little rusty, yeah that I know. It's too good to drop. Yeah. We got this one, this one riff that that I just came up with a couple of days ago. We call it leave It where it Lies. It's like it's kind of like a big kind of bridge or like a chorus kind of thing. We just play it over and over again to keep it fresh. But we need to add more parts to it. It just hasn't it's not ready yet. It hasn't emerged.

27:14 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but I like it. Also, the thing we really needed is Steven's leadership. He like comes up with some progressions. He's out there playing rhythm and lead on his own holding in the fort, you know, and he does that for us, and we need him to do that and he does it. So it's it's not an easy task. And you know, thank you because like the songs are coming out great with those progressions coming together.

27:36 Speaker 3: So excellent, excellent.

27:39 Speaker 1: By the way, we have somebody new in the chat room. Hermit Starky says, good morning, Matt and Jen. We say, how are you from us, Hermit Starky. We are a singing group quartet. We are from Greensboro, North Carolina.

27:54 Speaker 3: Oh no, really, what was.

27:56 Speaker 1: Hope the rappers say earlier about bots. Yes, we have a lot of I don't know if this happened, if this has happened any of the times you've been honest.

28:04 Speaker 2: We say hello to North Carolina.

28:06 Speaker 3: Yes you speak.

28:11 Speaker 5: Hermit. Yes, that's our new band name. If Alana Corvette's taken.

28:16 Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. Yes.

28:17 Speaker 1: We get a lot of people, uh in the chat room who are from Greensboro, North Carolina, and they're all in these pop singing groups and they all talk about how they sing and dance.

28:25 Speaker 2: We always say about Alana Corvette, right, we always say she's not popular, she's not shy, but be careful, she might be a guy or ai.

28:33 Speaker 1: Uh huh ah, yes, yes, yes, very good. Does the name uh we talked about the name where it came from. But does it have a special meeting or did it just sound.

28:44 Speaker 2: Cool or it's the logo? So for us, we're a little bit camera shy. Yeah, yeah, right, no, I'm just kidding. I'm not. But you know, we're working on the whole pictures like thing, and right now it's just been easier to do concept art. Okay, and with Elana the corvette, Yeah, we can draw it. Yeah, we could have somebody paint it. We should have some people paint it because I want to work with oils and acrylics and commission someone for art rather than doing digital art. Right whatever, But the digital art thing, we had to get something out there.

29:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, So it came together easier with that. So it was a means it's it's like the whole thing. It's a vehicle. So you know when we and we use that to just produce you know, I think the logo looks nice. Yeah, and we'll look down the line as far as what we do for merch maybe a T shirt. Yeah, so then then well then we'll really be.

29:39 Speaker 7: Like, oh, what do we like about this logo?

29:41 Speaker 2: Because once the D shirt it gets a little more you really want it to be nice.

29:45 Speaker 3: Then it's real.

29:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, exactly, exactly.

29:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's a cool it's a cool name. It's a cool logo. I dig it. Did uh?

29:52 Speaker 1: Did you guys all agree on it right away on the name.

29:55 Speaker 5: Or pretty much? We're kind of like, it's still in the works, but it's kind of the best name we got so far.

29:59 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember any of the others we talked about one that you rejected? But the sagis But do you remember I love Have.

30:06 Speaker 2: You ever heard you've heard the Mookie Blaylock thing? Yeah, Pearl jam Yes, they were in our Mookie Blaylock phase.

30:14 Speaker 3: Yeah.

30:14 Speaker 2: Where we're just we're shopping right But we like Alana right now, Corvette and I think that's the thing we might be married to for a bit. But the SAGI is, it's going to hold a place in our heart for sure. But that band from New Jersey, they're wrapping it. Yeah, so I gotta let him have it.

30:29 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. For those who don't know.

30:31 Speaker 1: So Mookie Blaylock was the original name Pearl Jam had and he's a baseball player, right basketball? Oh?

30:37 Speaker 3: Basketball?

30:37 Speaker 1: Okay, And then I think they did did the guy or is the state threaten to sue them?

30:42 Speaker 3: Is that what it was?

30:44 Speaker 2: The basketball player was going through some legal issues of his own, so it became a thing.

30:48 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yes, I didn't know about that part. Yeah, So then they weren't with Pearl Jam.

30:52 Speaker 3: I don't know.

30:52 Speaker 1: I think it was probably a good decision. Yes, seems like they they sold a few records.

30:57 Speaker 2: Where it's just it's funny, like you said, the promoting thing with the different social media's and stuff like that, where your intention and your message is the most important thing. Yeah, so it's funny. We we we try and stick with our integrity with that within our songs and the music and as far as the marketing goes, we're trying to do something that serves a purpose as far as you know, helps us reach an audience more and with the Latin songs, that's even where for me, I've and we've talked about incorporating some Spanish eventually into it.

31:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, because we're in southern New Hampshire, so we don't want someone to walk through the door of a bar that speaks maybe Spanish. We don't. We don't want to alienate half our audience right out the gate.

31:39 Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting you. So do you speak Spanish?

31:41 Speaker 2: Uh? Poco, uh, tank twetatto, peril, nothings meto. It means have caution, but do not have fear. Oh okay, so I a few things.

31:51 Speaker 3: That's more than I took three years.

31:52 Speaker 2: Like say, if like a grandmother came to a wedding and nobody else there spoke Spanish, I'd be like, I got you, Oh can chat? Yeh know, you know, but you know when I'm called upon. Yeah, we're not going to add all kinds of languages into it, but we just we want to be approachable and we want to approach all audiences. So how can you say you do that if you're not actually trying to do it.

32:16 Speaker 5: Yeah, we're really trying to cover like a wide range of sounds and genres to not get too locked into one thing with like, oh, we're just gonna sound like Cage the Elephant, Indie Clone or something right r.

32:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, you just had the artist in here. We're working with a rapper, so we can maybe have a hip hop song or too cool so that you can say we don't cover that genre to.

32:34 Speaker 3: Right, right, you're working with somebody already.

32:37 Speaker 2: Yeah who Melissa, Yeah yeah, Lash Melissa Lash l a chat. I wonder correctly too, but I believe it's Melissa Latch, so yes.

32:54 Speaker 3: Latch okay, and she's got what she's gonna rap on a song or so she.

33:00 Speaker 2: Has an original it's called money, like I think money something problems, Sorry about that, Okay, I'm catching up on that. Yeah, this is a new and uh where we've currently been creating like an instrumental that could be a backing for it, okay, and then whether it she joins a project or whatever. But that's like a thing where I created an accompaniment for her. She's doing a lower water festival this weekend for Cambodia, like it's a it's like an awareness type of thing.

33:30 Speaker 5: And the low folk fest down there.

33:31 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so I created this like a traditional Cambodian backing track for her, and then she was like, could you also create a backing track for my wrap thing? And I was like, well that's no, I need a drummer and a bassist. Yeah, so that's now we're here. So you you you created a Cambodian a traditional Cambodian like accompaniment. It's got like yeah, it's got like mallets and like clovs and like a I don't know. It's got the use of like instruments that are more traditional worldly type.

34:05 Speaker 5: Of you know, like boards of Canada. Yeah, this is like Boards of Cambodia.

34:09 Speaker 1: Okay.

34:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's got a little a little synth thing that you think, like you're walking by the little water thing and.

34:17 Speaker 7: It's how do how does this even happen?

34:20 Speaker 3: That you like, how do you even know to do well? I always learn things from you.

34:25 Speaker 5: You got to just point.

34:28 Speaker 2: So I feel like if like if I if I say no to branching out type of thing recently, it's only because I'm working on that trying to but but but in general I try and branch out because I I think that it's it's funny that whole keeping your ear open. I lose the humility and in the very second when I don't do it, like when I uh, but it's almost like you can learn lessons from every type of person out there. Oh yeah, And even if I think at first, like maybe this guy plays just down home country and whatever.

35:05 Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, I'm like, did I just learn to play like a nice transition from a minor to like a d from that guy, even though he just plays down home country. So I try and pick up everybody's little tricks. They got up their sleeves and adam in my book. And like I said, this woman Melissa, she may be a rapper, but she's Cambodian. She has this all this heritage and stuff and these auxiliary instruments their father left behind. And I'm like, yo, tink tink tink, set up in front of the condenser.

35:36 Speaker 2: Mic ooh that's a neat sound.

35:37 Speaker 8: Wow.

35:38 Speaker 3: So I just love and you do like to experiment.

35:41 Speaker 2: You know, when you find an instrument in the basement and somebody tells you about how good it is, but it's dusty, like to I like to clean it up and record it and go now it really sounds good on the track. So I really like to find where we can. And you have to hear each other and work together. Yeah, if I didn't listen to the what these guys come up with. They make most of the instrumentals.

36:03 Speaker 1: I just sing.

36:04 Speaker 2: So in this group, it's so like, I really really have to listen. Yeah, and if I and if my vocals come in and it's it doesn't do their instrumental justice start over?

36:15 Speaker 1: Yep.

36:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes sense.

36:17 Speaker 2: That that can be When they say to me, Hey, that one wasn't it. Sometimes I'm like, let me go on the porch. You cry. I'm just.

36:26 Speaker 3: Oh, very cool, very cool.

36:28 Speaker 8: Uh?

36:28 Speaker 3: So, are you gonna record with her or is she just gonna play live with you.

36:32 Speaker 2: Or development as a lot of corvette. We're working on it.

36:37 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, but have some like backup vocals or something like that.

36:41 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh very cool.

36:43 Speaker 2: She's got a very Donna with the dead vibe. Yeah yeah, all right, she's a preaching peace and movement and then all of a sudden belts out a note and you go, I kind of think that does fit.

36:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool, very cool.

36:57 Speaker 1: Now what uh before we run out of time to uh what do you obviously you've got the show a terminus tonight?

37:02 Speaker 3: And then are you do you have more shows lined up? Or what's uh?

37:05 Speaker 5: Hit us up on Facebook? Man, We're ready to play?

37:07 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you guys are a pretty new project.

37:10 Speaker 1: So well, I think it's very cool that you came in here to play and uh and we got to kind of you know, present you having us.

37:18 Speaker 2: My buddy there, Jim Hurley with Turbocats.

37:20 Speaker 3: Oh, Turbocats was on the show.

37:22 Speaker 2: The drummer was here too.

37:24 Speaker 3: I think I think the whole band, the whole band was here, right, Jenny, Yeah, I.

37:27 Speaker 2: Think Jim the drummer there. He's older it than the rest of the group. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

37:32 Speaker 1: Uh.

37:32 Speaker 2: He has a barbecue like a little party. We'll play at that. Yeah, that's our next thing we have. Okay, okay, but you know, so we like to get a real gig out there. And yeah, you know, it's some at a venue. But I love Jim and I appreciate him for putting us on on that. That's good vibes. So keep the keep the dream going.

37:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you work a lot with Jim.

37:55 Speaker 12: Yeah, Jim's a great guy.

37:56 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, Dream Alive and Turbocats is great. We like them very very much.

38:02 Speaker 2: My cat looks like a cow mu yow. Genius.

38:09 Speaker 1: And where should people go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing.

38:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're at a lot of Corvette on Facebook right now. We'll get on the Instagram. Sorry about dragging my heels everyone, but.

38:19 Speaker 3: Right now it is a new band.

38:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have any demos or music out there right now, guys, but once we do the show tonight at Terminus, you'll be able to see us on Facebook. So support Midnight Creative Collective, support Terminus Underground because they're supporting live music absolutely.

38:33 Speaker 1: Absolutely well, guys, Thank you so much, and we'll have to do this again in the future. And I really dig what you're doing and I look forward to premiering some studio tracks too when you're ready right on.

38:46 Speaker 5: Thanks for having us much appreciate

38:47 Speaker 3: It absolutely guys, Thank you so much.