Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Alana Corvette
Speaker 1: But we have speaking of music, we've have in the
Speaker 1: studio right now. The band a lot of Corvette and
Speaker 1: one of these guys, Huey the Gecko, has been here.
Speaker 1: You've been here a number of times? How many times
Speaker 1: you've been on the show? Are you in the five
Speaker 1: Timers club at this point on the show?
Speaker 2: I think this might be four?
Speaker 3: Is this four?
Speaker 2: I think we might be edging on the five club?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, so this is this is
Speaker 1: four and uh, but this is the first time with
Speaker 1: this band. And I'll let you, I'll let you introduce
Speaker 1: your your bandmates here and well guess.
Speaker 2: The common theme is for right, So this is our
Speaker 2: four appearance here. We're a four piece band and we're
Speaker 2: four piece man. Uh, let's see, we're New Hampshire, Indy
Speaker 2: right now. That's our genre and yeah, our our our
Speaker 2: music began as an instrumental I joined the group and
Speaker 2: so it was like a corvette. It was hurtling down
Speaker 2: the highway and and I hopped on in it. And
Speaker 2: then I said, well, what better name? Then? Then let's
Speaker 2: let's go with a Lona Corvette. So yes, uh, and
Speaker 2: so that was kind of a mind a little bit
Speaker 2: of a we had we had a different band name,
Speaker 2: but it was it was like it was taken. Uh,
Speaker 2: it wasn't able to be like, we couldn't we couldn't
Speaker 2: use it in terms of marketing or distributing, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm super I'm super curious. Now what was the name?
Speaker 2: We were going to be the Soggies. Okay, and there
Speaker 2: happens to be a few bands that are already operating
Speaker 2: under that.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So so the I don't want to say had
Speaker 2: more originality the A lot of Corvette thing, but it's
Speaker 2: it was available. Yeah, okay, so that makes sense. So
Speaker 2: originally we I didn't without a tea because I thought
Speaker 2: the Corvette was a brand, but I realized it's the
Speaker 2: warship thing. I didn't realize there was the military thing.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So the Corvette's actually not trademarked, and neither
Speaker 2: is the word Alana.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we were free and clear after that.
Speaker 1: So and uh, yeah, the odds seem low that you're
Speaker 1: gonna run in a problem with the name Alana Corvette.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably good. You're probably good.
Speaker 2: And that was all it took. Really, So once we
Speaker 2: had the like I said, the four piece band, the
Speaker 2: Love and Piece music. So we got the right direction,
Speaker 2: the right message. Uh, we kind of just jammed and
Speaker 2: the jams have been coming together in different ways. One
Speaker 2: of them that you're here today, has a little bit
Speaker 2: more of a Latin feel. One of them is a
Speaker 2: little bit prog rocky, but we're doing the acoustic version
Speaker 2: of it. So we have a variety of different genres.
Speaker 2: But we pretty much just call it in New Hampshire,
Speaker 2: Indie because right now we're just a we're an independent
Speaker 2: rock band doing the thing.
Speaker 1: All right, and uh, let's uh, let's hear from your
Speaker 1: your cohorts here. Well, you can introduce this Joleman because
Speaker 1: he's not on Mike, and then we'll well.
Speaker 2: Mike, my Bassis has been with me and a lot
Speaker 2: of other projects. You guys might be familiar with him.
Speaker 2: He appeared with me before on the show.
Speaker 1: That's right, I remember that, Yes, so Mike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Mike, welcome Steven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's up. I'm Steve Colveck, guitar player for a
Speaker 5: Lot of Corvette.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, me and Brad kind of we started off the
Speaker 5: job with a bunch of originals from our last project.
Speaker 5: So okay, kind of fully developing him now with the
Speaker 5: full bands and kind of solely building momentum as the
Speaker 5: snowball rolls downhill.
Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. Yeah and you sir.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm Brad playing the drums. Excited to be here.
Speaker 6: Excited to play an acoustic set too, not something we
Speaker 6: do too often. But we've got the cajone and the
Speaker 6: bongos here, right, a rock.
Speaker 1: Good creative challenge, yes, yes, outstanding. Well, I'm very curious
Speaker 1: to hear you guys play now. We'll have to kind
Speaker 1: of we have no way to sound check because we're
Speaker 1: already live on the air, but well I'm used to
Speaker 1: riding the faders, so but I'm very curious. Oh, Aaron
Speaker 1: Billado is in the Facebook live chat and he says,
Speaker 1: is that Alna Corvette? It sure is so welcome eron. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about you. Aaron Billadeau. Of course, a
Speaker 1: very talented musician. He's been on the show a number
Speaker 1: of times. And actually, Huey you and at least once
Speaker 1: you and Aaron played together on the show, right, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember you guys performing that Doctor Miller Ram song.
Speaker 2: My second air in appearance. Actually might put us at
Speaker 2: the five.
Speaker 3: You might be in the five time ers club as
Speaker 3: of today.
Speaker 2: I didn't yep, I didn't realize because I've been on
Speaker 2: twice with Aaron.
Speaker 1: Now you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go,
Speaker 1: There you go, and uh oh, and Ricky Mapleton joins
Speaker 1: us as well. Hello. All right, I'm dying to hear
Speaker 1: you guys play, so I'll turn it over to you
Speaker 1: and like I said, i'll ride the faders.
Speaker 3: I'll uh make it sound good.
Speaker 5: But all right, I'm gonna move this to try to
Speaker 5: pick up Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good idea. That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Searcher first, Yeah, all right, thank you guys. This is
Speaker 2: Searcher by Alana Corvette.
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Speaker 8: Gone, try it?
Speaker 2: Why not?
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Speaker 9: for meaning. Feeling all right, meaningless nights, feel out the sights.
Speaker 2: Meaningless nights feel out the sights.
Speaker 7: See God.
Speaker 9: Searcher, See God Searcher.
Speaker 7: Believe in.
Speaker 9: Then you got a feeling all right, search for meaning,
Speaker 9: search for reson, believe in, believe in, see.
Speaker 7: God, searcher.
Speaker 8: Where you meant for this? It was live worth the shot.
Speaker 4: Got very nice, excellent, very nice.
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: Corvette here with us, a live in studio on this
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. So what's the songwriting process like with you guys?
Speaker 1: You all write together or how does that work?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a good question. Actually what we've been
Speaker 5: doing for a while. So me and Brad were in
Speaker 5: a band for a while. We had some ideas that
Speaker 5: were undeveloped and things that we were kind of had
Speaker 5: in our back pocket for a while. Yeah, and uh yeah.
Speaker 5: So as we got Mike and the band and then
Speaker 5: Matt and the band, we said, hey, we got all
Speaker 5: these ideas, let's start developing them further. And the way
Speaker 5: it'll kind of work is someone will come in with
Speaker 5: an idea and then be it like a bassline or
Speaker 5: just a guitar riff or something like that, and then
Speaker 5: we'll just kind of jam on it and just see
Speaker 5: where it goes. And kind of a lot of it
Speaker 5: like writes itself almost I think that with music, it's
Speaker 5: like if it doesn't right itself in thirty seconds, you're
Speaker 5: like forcing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how did this How did this band come up?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like have you all worked together before
Speaker 1: in some configuration?
Speaker 2: So the thing that he mentioned there prior Distant Wave
Speaker 2: was you Brad and Ryan if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ryan Martineau from the Whole Loaf.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we thought on you.
Speaker 2: He'll be We'll be in our show tonight when we
Speaker 2: play at Terminus. So very good if funny. How like
Speaker 2: you said, musicians travel similar footpaths. Yes, and me and
Speaker 2: Mike you've met. We were a package there.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were.
Speaker 2: Working on a project with two other musicians called Temporal Rift. Okay,
Speaker 2: and uh, we're working on a dual drummers thing really,
Speaker 2: and one of our drummers is learning from the other drummer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so when he gets to that area, we're ready to
Speaker 2: pursue that in terms of looking for gigs and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. But we're just in a little bit of
Speaker 2: a development phase and we wanted to do something where
Speaker 2: we could gig and whatnot. So these guys had lost
Speaker 2: that third piece and like it was, you know, stepped
Speaker 2: in there and he got with them prior to me
Speaker 2: joining the group, and they were working on this instrumental
Speaker 2: called Space and Paula that they play and I really
Speaker 2: liked it. Yeah yeah, and they they sent it to
Speaker 2: me and were like, you put some lyrics on it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I did, and they thought it
Speaker 2: was not half bad. And that was the beginning of it.
Speaker 2: And then we've been doing that kind of the one
Speaker 2: we just did just now. Brad's a counter, he's our drummer.
Speaker 2: He likes this five to seven song there, so every
Speaker 2: now and then it's thirty seconds every now and then,
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 5: Both like oh yeah, gotcha and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that one's a little tricky.
Speaker 1: Now, do you guys have plans to uh? You would
Speaker 1: send me a demo, but do you guys have plans
Speaker 1: to get into the studio?
Speaker 2: And so yeah, Jim Hurley, I see you. We're gonna
Speaker 2: come down to uh Shatterstar Productions as he calls his
Speaker 2: uh studio and do the whole sixteen mics instead of
Speaker 2: one condenser mic in the corner. Yeah, that'll make it
Speaker 2: sound a little better.
Speaker 5: We just have like bad iPhone demos and stuff that
Speaker 5: I recorded on like my two interface and into it
Speaker 5: like a cheap dog, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I said to him, think about like you're
Speaker 2: hearing the clash and like a shady club.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, excuse about that.
Speaker 2: I did the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you did. I caught it. We're on it way,
Speaker 1: We're on it away. I caught it, no problem.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 1: Eleanor is in the Facebook live chat, she says, Ilana
Speaker 1: Corvette tonight at Terminus Underground. Yes, yes, we had, uh,
Speaker 1: we had Eleanor and spelfe and Andrea on the show
Speaker 1: with us a couple of weeks ago talking about all that,
Speaker 1: all the goings on there, and and Jenny. We should
Speaker 1: mention too. Jenny's art is currently hanging there as well.
Speaker 10: Yes, actually twelve of my pieces are in there. I've
Speaker 10: never actually had them all together like that. Actually, I
Speaker 10: just did an interview with Spelfey yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you'll see some of my acrylics on camp on Yeah,
Speaker 10: acrylics on canvas. They're my darkest pieces actually beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 10: you'll have that mediums that artists invest themselves into. I
Speaker 10: can't wait to look at that.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to explore the gallery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that awesome, thank you.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Aaron also says, sounds great boys, see you
Speaker 1: tonight at Terminus.
Speaker 3: Is he performing or is he just kind.
Speaker 2: Of I think he's just going to be there for support.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very cool, and uh hello to Charmaine Charmaine
Speaker 3: Davis Elliott also in the Facebook live chat.
Speaker 1: Hello, and I just want to make sure I don't
Speaker 1: miss anybody. I have more than one chat room to
Speaker 1: look at now with the software amusing. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys want to play another one?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Much as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I see, oh I see, uh I do
Speaker 1: see more people now. Andrea Dumont says, what's up kids?
Speaker 1: Andrea of course from Terminus and the Midnight Creatives Collective,
Speaker 1: and of course from the band.
Speaker 2: Dad Harrison great sound man, he's really good with the sound.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And also Philip McDuffie is in the chat. Hello,
Speaker 1: says uh, Phil says good and beep An Art also
Speaker 1: in there, another loyal listener.
Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, what do you guys? Uh you want
Speaker 3: to play another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. You got another one for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if.
Speaker 2: You're in San Diego, where in the world is the
Speaker 2: Lana Corvette.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you are just joining us, A lot of
Speaker 1: corvette is with us.
Speaker 3: They're right here at W.
Speaker 1: M and H Live in studio.
Speaker 9: She's a queen of scorn, scorching the ground around us
Speaker 9: with beer, leaving the whole world tourn She's got an
Speaker 9: avoidable fixture and a poisonous mixture called life. She's queen
Speaker 9: of scorn, leaving the whole world torn. She's a queen,
Speaker 9: but there ain't no thrown. She's sing with the vibe.
Speaker 9: She's been thrown. She's a queen, but there ain't no thrown.
Speaker 2: Reverse engineer, get out of here. King of feeding.
Speaker 9: Flames, sign of air, say I'm getting there where. She's
Speaker 9: a queen of scorn, leaving the whole world torn.
Speaker 11: She's a cream, but there ain't no thrown. She's still
Speaker 11: with those dots. She's been thrown. She's a cream, but
Speaker 11: there rain no thrown. She's a green, but there rain'
Speaker 11: no throwed. She's stealing with those hearts. She's been thrown.
Speaker 11: Scream with the rain no throat.
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. We have a lot of corvette
Speaker 1: here with us, live in studio this morning. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and uh are.
Speaker 3: You guys playing a lot of shows. Are you doing
Speaker 3: a lot out there?
Speaker 5: Or this is our first gig tonight? Actually this is it.
Speaker 5: This is the debut man.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wonderful, the world premiere of a Lot of Corvette.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: And now do you guys all well, actually, Hue, let
Speaker 1: me ask you first, because you've you've always got your uh,
Speaker 1: you've always got a lot going on. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you have other projects that you're that you're doing uh
Speaker 1: as well right now?
Speaker 3: Or are you just kind of focused on a lot
Speaker 3: of Corvette.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I appreciate you saying. I kind of feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, uh, how do you say that? It's like
Speaker 2: when somebody says how you're doing? You stay busy, right,
Speaker 2: but they just asked how you're doing, and it's like,
Speaker 2: so we're never too busy for each other. The music,
Speaker 2: which is good, yeah, and we all are involved in
Speaker 2: a lot of things. But Steven and I actually showed
Speaker 2: up at Pembroke City Limits just recently excellent. We were
Speaker 2: part of this project called Side Note. He was playing
Speaker 2: the guitar for them and I was playing auxiliary instruments
Speaker 2: like the cahonne and some war drones. And stuff. I
Speaker 2: didn't even know he was gonna be the guitarist, Okay,
Speaker 2: but I know you from somewhere, and so it's funny
Speaker 2: the we're hoping to get in the PCL there with
Speaker 2: Rob and maybe we'll get this outfit in there doing
Speaker 2: an acoustics ceter who knows. There you go, But we're
Speaker 2: We've been enjoying our time spent there, uh, And I've
Speaker 2: enjoying the opening their beautiful area and building. I like
Speaker 2: what they're doing with the food too.
Speaker 1: I stopped in there the other day for the first time,
Speaker 1: and it's it's much bigger in there than I imagined.
Speaker 5: I was surprised they got a perfect venue for just
Speaker 5: live music and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I guess the people, not the place,
Speaker 2: but I regardless, you know, the uh the strange in Manchester.
Speaker 2: The Whole Loaf played there the other day and it
Speaker 2: was a free show. So they're playing with us tonight,
Speaker 2: and we felt like the need to support and not
Speaker 2: just the need, but we were building some community there.
Speaker 2: You were using the jump rope inside the change crew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a jump rope.
Speaker 2: I brought it.
Speaker 1: You brought the jump rope.
Speaker 5: You're doing like double dutch in front of the stage.
Speaker 2: I won't do that again. We got the message I
Speaker 2: won't do that again.
Speaker 1: So why is that?
Speaker 2: I think there's no pool rules sign outside, but I
Speaker 2: think we might have stretched the limits there a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to have a jump rope.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it wasn't explicit, but yeah, it's one
Speaker 5: of those like unspoken.
Speaker 3: Like a liquor commissioner rule or something.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like, don't don't leave with your beard,
Speaker 5: don't bring your jump rope in.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, but you know, uh, the terminus, I
Speaker 2: think there might be a little more leeway. They are
Speaker 2: a rehearsal space, so maybe they would be all right
Speaker 2: with the jump rope.
Speaker 5: We're looking frisbee this time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Frizze, bring in some bubbles.
Speaker 1: I can imagine Frisbee being a problem.
Speaker 2: Just bubbles.
Speaker 1: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 2: We got a couple of bubble girls that are just
Speaker 2: gonna hang out and blow bubbles right right.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Green Jelly slash Green Jellow is gonna
Speaker 1: be there on the twenty seventh, and I'm sure they'll uh.
Speaker 2: We need to link up because you know how I'm
Speaker 2: a little wild.
Speaker 3: They'll they'll push whatever back.
Speaker 2: You need to link up on that. Yes, yes, I've
Speaker 2: seen what they do.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They were on the show a number of months
Speaker 1: ago when they played in Manchester. We had them on
Speaker 1: and then Bill Man Speaker was like, yeah we should,
Speaker 1: uh we when we come back through the area, we
Speaker 1: should play somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. Aaron's name is on the tip of
Speaker 2: my tongue. He put me onto them.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 10: And then who got them booked?
Speaker 1: You did?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, forever.
Speaker 2: I just don't have capes.
Speaker 10: Eleanor and I are are going to pull that in
Speaker 10: our or resumes forever.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, for her too. I you know, like
Speaker 2: you mentioned, we're not giving a bunch of places right now.
Speaker 2: This is our first one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And uh, I've been also just kind of on a
Speaker 2: road to recovery, and I wanted to just say, like
Speaker 2: to Eleanor and Andre, thank you so much for putting
Speaker 2: us on, because like it just gave me a lot
Speaker 2: of hope, It gave me a lot of resurgence. So
Speaker 2: that was really important that you guys gave us the
Speaker 2: ch hands and put us onto it. So I really
Speaker 2: want to say thank you for that because that touches
Speaker 2: place in my heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Now resurgence from from what you were.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I've been sober for like sixteen months.
Speaker 3: Okay, congratulations, no.
Speaker 2: Whatever, it is like I went to a point where
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, like the jump rope. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I pushed the boundaries sometimes. So yeah, yeah, now I'm
Speaker 2: polishing it and getting under control.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you. I have to say,
Speaker 1: you look healthier than I've ever seen you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a different hui. Yeah, well I'll still always
Speaker 2: be huie.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean not that I thought there was
Speaker 1: any issue before. I like, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that the men it was fun too.
Speaker 3: But but you do look healthier.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now, Oh, turn that mic around, Mike,
Speaker 1: if you would. I want to ask you, do you
Speaker 1: if you have other Do you have other projects you're
Speaker 1: involved in or you just focused on a lot of Corvette.
Speaker 12: Or yeah, I have a reggae band.
Speaker 1: Uh. We're called Boom Lava.
Speaker 3: That's a cool name.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we we do like a lot.
Speaker 1: We do quite a few shows.
Speaker 12: We got one in this place called the Canteen Brewery,
Speaker 12: Sterling Street. Devin's coming up on Friday at the end
Speaker 12: of August. Leave that's the twenty second or twenty third.
Speaker 12: And then we got another one in Rochester, mass which
Speaker 12: is I don't know exactly the details, but it's on
Speaker 12: the Facebook.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but Boom Lava. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 3: We do a lot.
Speaker 12: We do originals, we do covers, and we're just all
Speaker 12: about the reggae, the love and that energy. You know.
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool, and Brad, just a lot
Speaker 1: of Cotte for me right now, let me I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you're Mike is I mean, I'm go ahead and say
Speaker 1: that again.
Speaker 3: Oh I found you? Yeah, I found you. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: say that again, sir.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, just saying not in any other projects at
Speaker 6: the moment, just focusing on a want of Corvette.
Speaker 1: But you're a drummer, yes now? Is so the reason
Speaker 1: this surprises me? And you might already know where I'm
Speaker 1: going with this, I know, Jenny does. Every drummer that
Speaker 1: we ever have on the show is in like ten
Speaker 1: or twelve different bands, because drummers are the hardest to find,
Speaker 1: and and this is your only band.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Don't steal yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: We're not shopping him around like every every band we have,
Speaker 1: like the drummers in multiple bands.
Speaker 3: And I have a theory about why that is.
Speaker 1: I think it's because when you're growing up and you
Speaker 1: first want to you know, get you get interested in
Speaker 1: playing an instrument, you have to talk with the parents about, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to play something.
Speaker 3: If you say.
Speaker 1: Drums, drums and maybe the tuba or the two, they're
Speaker 1: going to actively try to talk you out of and say,
Speaker 1: how about something a little quieter, you know, because nobody
Speaker 1: wants all that noise in their house, if if if
Speaker 1: their parents, they don't want their their kid banging on
Speaker 1: a drum set all night. So that's my theory. So, uh, well,
Speaker 1: good for you. I'm glad that you know. This is uh,
Speaker 1: this is it for you.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 2: It's funny with the projects with me, like I definitely
Speaker 2: need a little bit of like equilibrium, like logic and reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and he provides it.
Speaker 2: It's not easy to provide that.
Speaker 3: No, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And so speaking of instruments too, So you're you're playing
Speaker 1: the bongos, is that the correct name for what you're
Speaker 1: doing or is that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then That's why I sometimes use the term auxiliary
Speaker 2: instruments too, if it's if it's going to be a
Speaker 2: different bongo or a little hand drummer or whatever.
Speaker 3: But because I usually see you playing a guitar, that's
Speaker 3: why I wondered.
Speaker 2: It's usually I carry around a little If you've ever
Speaker 2: seen me out on the sometimes out on the town,
Speaker 2: I'll have a little tiny minutes your pair. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I derive a lot of my cont It's funny we
Speaker 2: have a common friend in here. He hosts this strange
Speaker 2: grew open Mike's. His name is Scottie Armstrong and uh,
Speaker 2: he's the drummer. And I didn't know anything.
Speaker 3: How many bands to see him?
Speaker 2: D know none. I don't think that's crazy. And one
Speaker 2: and he's he's like a secret agent.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: He comes in every now and then. Have you ever
Speaker 2: heard of Jordan Quinn. Yes, he comes in and does
Speaker 2: work with her accompaniments. He's like a secret agent. I'll
Speaker 2: back you up when you need it, you know.
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, But with Scotty the for me conceptual wise,
Speaker 2: with the bongos, he said to me, you need to
Speaker 2: learn how to write the drum parts, little snare things there,
Speaker 2: and you need to learn your fat backs and you
Speaker 2: need to carry around a set of bongos and learn thetaz.
Speaker 2: And then once you do, when Brad says something to
Speaker 2: me like five seven, yeah, I'm looking at him like
Speaker 2: is that reptile for I don't know? Yeah, And then
Speaker 2: but now I can understand because I'm trying to put
Speaker 2: some of the work in So yeah, yeah, still wear
Speaker 2: a lot of work in progress.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, no, that's cool. Uh do you do that
Speaker 3: on all the songs that you do?
Speaker 2: Or we have two Latin ones. We have a good
Speaker 2: one called Queen of Scorn, and then we have the
Speaker 2: other one. Is that's the only one pain?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah that was like a funk groove kind
Speaker 5: of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bongo layered on on Pain on my mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, so that one and Queen, and then
Speaker 2: I do a touch of like lead guitar ish, just
Speaker 2: like playing guitar, like some wah Wan stuff on like
Speaker 2: we play come Together. We're gonna play that tonight and
Speaker 2: then we're gonna play my song. I actually play rhythm on.
Speaker 2: We have one song we play called Sewer Person and
Speaker 2: that's a huge song, as you can tell. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: but it made it over into the Yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: got a cool energy.
Speaker 3: I feel like that song has a story.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sewer person is like about somebody that's like sitting on
Speaker 2: the stoop that you're not sure if they might have
Speaker 2: some stuff that you might not want to contract, but
Speaker 2: you definitely want to share the joint with them and
Speaker 2: maybe rip off the end of it, you know. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's like you don't want to turn away
Speaker 2: from that person. You want to listen to their story,
Speaker 2: and you want to treat them listening because we're all
Speaker 2: sewer people. And I don't care if it's out of
Speaker 2: AA meeting or they're sitting on that stoop. Wherever that
Speaker 2: person is that needs to be heard. It's just like
Speaker 2: the musicians, listening is their most powerful tool.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So I try and you know, listen to a person
Speaker 2: even if they're from the sewer.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, very good. And but in a situation like that,
Speaker 1: you don't call the.
Speaker 3: Person a sewer person.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a sewer person, but.
Speaker 3: You don't say you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't address them as such because they might take
Speaker 1: it wrong.
Speaker 2: Amen, you know, I hope they never do. I honestly
Speaker 2: hope they never do.
Speaker 3: Oh, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 3: How many songs do you guys? I know you just
Speaker 3: wanted to do the two today, But do.
Speaker 1: You guys have a lot of material that you've written
Speaker 1: together as a band?
Speaker 5: Yes, all together with what we've written, I think we
Speaker 5: have like forty minutes of material right now. We probably
Speaker 5: have like seven or eight songs.
Speaker 2: I think maybe nine if.
Speaker 5: It might be nine. Yeah, and then a couple that
Speaker 5: are in the works, aren't ready to come out yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Oh very cool, excellent ectually.
Speaker 2: Yeah that leave it where it Lies.
Speaker 5: It's still a little rusty, yeah that I know. It's
Speaker 5: too good to drop. Yeah. We got this one, this
Speaker 5: one riff that that I just came up with a
Speaker 5: couple of days ago. We call it leave It where
Speaker 5: it Lies. It's like it's kind of like a big
Speaker 5: kind of bridge or like a chorus kind of thing.
Speaker 5: We just play it over and over again to keep
Speaker 5: it fresh. But we need to add more parts to it.
Speaker 5: It just hasn't it's not ready yet. It hasn't emerged.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but I like it. Also, the thing
Speaker 2: we really needed is Steven's leadership. He like comes up
Speaker 2: with some progressions. He's out there playing rhythm and lead
Speaker 2: on his own holding in the fort, you know, and
Speaker 2: he does that for us, and we need him to
Speaker 2: do that and he does it. So it's it's not
Speaker 2: an easy task. And you know, thank you because like
Speaker 2: the songs are coming out great with those progressions coming together.
Speaker 3: So excellent, excellent.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have somebody new in the chat room.
Speaker 1: Hermit Starky says, good morning, Matt and Jen. We say,
Speaker 1: how are you from us, Hermit Starky. We are a
Speaker 1: singing group quartet. We are from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Oh no, really, what was.
Speaker 1: Hope the rappers say earlier about bots. Yes, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of I don't know if this happened, if
Speaker 1: this has happened any of the times you've been honest.
Speaker 2: We say hello to North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Yes you speak.
Speaker 5: Hermit. Yes, that's our new band name. If Alana Corvette's taken.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. Yes.
Speaker 1: We get a lot of people, uh in the chat
Speaker 1: room who are from Greensboro, North Carolina, and they're all
Speaker 1: in these pop singing groups and they all talk about
Speaker 1: how they sing and dance.
Speaker 2: We always say about Alana Corvette, right, we always say
Speaker 2: she's not popular, she's not shy, but be careful, she
Speaker 2: might be a guy or ai.
Speaker 1: Uh huh ah, yes, yes, yes, very good. Does the
Speaker 1: name uh we talked about the name where it came from.
Speaker 1: But does it have a special meeting or did it
Speaker 1: just sound.
Speaker 2: Cool or it's the logo? So for us, we're a
Speaker 2: little bit camera shy. Yeah, yeah, right, no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I'm not. But you know, we're working on the whole
Speaker 2: pictures like thing, and right now it's just been easier
Speaker 2: to do concept art. Okay, and with Elana the corvette, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we can draw it. Yeah, we could have somebody paint it.
Speaker 2: We should have some people paint it because I want
Speaker 2: to work with oils and acrylics and commission someone for
Speaker 2: art rather than doing digital art. Right whatever, But the
Speaker 2: digital art thing, we had to get something out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So it came together easier with that. So it was
Speaker 2: a means it's it's like the whole thing. It's a vehicle.
Speaker 2: So you know when we and we use that to
Speaker 2: just produce you know, I think the logo looks nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we'll look down the line as far as what
Speaker 2: we do for merch maybe a T shirt. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: then then well then we'll really be.
Speaker 7: Like, oh, what do we like about this logo?
Speaker 2: Because once the D shirt it gets a little more
Speaker 2: you really want it to be nice.
Speaker 3: Then it's real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's a cool it's a cool name. It's
Speaker 3: a cool logo. I dig it. Did uh?
Speaker 1: Did you guys all agree on it right away on
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 5: Or pretty much? We're kind of like, it's still in
Speaker 5: the works, but it's kind of the best name we
Speaker 5: got so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember any of the others we
Speaker 1: talked about one that you rejected? But the sagis But
Speaker 1: do you remember I love Have.
Speaker 2: You ever heard you've heard the Mookie Blaylock thing? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Pearl jam Yes, they were in our Mookie Blaylock phase.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Where we're just we're shopping right But we like Alana
Speaker 2: right now, Corvette and I think that's the thing we
Speaker 2: might be married to for a bit. But the SAGI is,
Speaker 2: it's going to hold a place in our heart for sure.
Speaker 2: But that band from New Jersey, they're wrapping it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I gotta let him have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. For those who don't know.
Speaker 1: So Mookie Blaylock was the original name Pearl Jam had
Speaker 1: and he's a baseball player, right basketball? Oh?
Speaker 3: Basketball?
Speaker 1: Okay, And then I think they did did the guy
Speaker 1: or is the state threaten to sue them?
Speaker 3: Is that what it was?
Speaker 2: The basketball player was going through some legal issues of
Speaker 2: his own, so it became a thing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yes, I didn't know about that part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So then they weren't with Pearl Jam.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably a good decision. Yes, seems
Speaker 1: like they they sold a few records.
Speaker 2: Where it's just it's funny, like you said, the promoting
Speaker 2: thing with the different social media's and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: where your intention and your message is the most important thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's funny. We we we try and stick with
Speaker 2: our integrity with that within our songs and the music
Speaker 2: and as far as the marketing goes, we're trying to
Speaker 2: do something that serves a purpose as far as you know,
Speaker 2: helps us reach an audience more and with the Latin songs,
Speaker 2: that's even where for me, I've and we've talked about
Speaker 2: incorporating some Spanish eventually into it. Yeah, because we're in
Speaker 2: southern New Hampshire, so we don't want someone to walk
Speaker 2: through the door of a bar that speaks maybe Spanish.
Speaker 2: We don't. We don't want to alienate half our audience
Speaker 2: right out the gate.
Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting you. So do you speak Spanish?
Speaker 2: Uh? Poco, uh, tank twetatto, peril, nothings meto. It means
Speaker 2: have caution, but do not have fear. Oh okay, so
Speaker 2: I a few things.
Speaker 3: That's more than I took three years.
Speaker 2: Like say, if like a grandmother came to a wedding
Speaker 2: and nobody else there spoke Spanish, I'd be like, I
Speaker 2: got you, Oh can chat? Yeh know, you know, but
Speaker 2: you know when I'm called upon. Yeah, we're not going
Speaker 2: to add all kinds of languages into it, but we
Speaker 2: just we want to be approachable and we want to
Speaker 2: approach all audiences. So how can you say you do
Speaker 2: that if you're not actually trying to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're really trying to cover like a wide range
Speaker 5: of sounds and genres to not get too locked into
Speaker 5: one thing with like, oh, we're just gonna sound like
Speaker 5: Cage the Elephant, Indie Clone or something right r.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just had the artist in here. We're working
Speaker 2: with a rapper, so we can maybe have a hip
Speaker 2: hop song or too cool so that you can say
Speaker 2: we don't cover that genre to.
Speaker 3: Right, right, you're working with somebody already.
Speaker 2: Yeah who Melissa, Yeah yeah, Lash Melissa Lash l a chat.
Speaker 2: I wonder correctly too, but I believe it's Melissa Latch,
Speaker 2: so yes.
Speaker 3: Latch okay, and she's got what she's gonna rap on
Speaker 3: a song or so she.
Speaker 2: Has an original it's called money, like I think money
Speaker 2: something problems, Sorry about that, Okay, I'm catching up on that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a new and uh where we've currently been
Speaker 2: creating like an instrumental that could be a backing for it, okay,
Speaker 2: and then whether it she joins a project or whatever.
Speaker 2: But that's like a thing where I created an accompaniment
Speaker 2: for her. She's doing a lower water festival this weekend
Speaker 2: for Cambodia, like it's a it's like an awareness type
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 5: And the low folk fest down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so I created this like a traditional Cambodian
Speaker 2: backing track for her, and then she was like, could
Speaker 2: you also create a backing track for my wrap thing?
Speaker 2: And I was like, well that's no, I need a
Speaker 2: drummer and a bassist. Yeah, so that's now we're here.
Speaker 2: So you you you created a Cambodian a traditional Cambodian
Speaker 2: like accompaniment. It's got like yeah, it's got like mallets
Speaker 2: and like clovs and like a I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: got the use of like instruments that are more traditional
Speaker 2: worldly type.
Speaker 5: Of you know, like boards of Canada. Yeah, this is
Speaker 5: like Boards of Cambodia.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's got a little a little synth thing
Speaker 2: that you think, like you're walking by the little water
Speaker 2: thing and.
Speaker 7: It's how do how does this even happen?
Speaker 3: That you like, how do you even know to do well?
Speaker 3: I always learn things from you.
Speaker 5: You got to just point.
Speaker 2: So I feel like if like if I if I
Speaker 2: say no to branching out type of thing recently, it's
Speaker 2: only because I'm working on that trying to but but
Speaker 2: but in general I try and branch out because I
Speaker 2: I think that it's it's funny that whole keeping your
Speaker 2: ear open. I lose the humility and in the very
Speaker 2: second when I don't do it, like when I uh,
Speaker 2: but it's almost like you can learn lessons from every
Speaker 2: type of person out there. Oh yeah, And even if
Speaker 2: I think at first, like maybe this guy plays just
Speaker 2: down home country and whatever. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I'm like, did I just learn to play like a
Speaker 2: nice transition from a minor to like a d from
Speaker 2: that guy, even though he just plays down home country.
Speaker 2: So I try and pick up everybody's little tricks. They
Speaker 2: got up their sleeves and adam in my book. And
Speaker 2: like I said, this woman Melissa, she may be a rapper,
Speaker 2: but she's Cambodian. She has this all this heritage and
Speaker 2: stuff and these auxiliary instruments their father left behind. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, tink tink tink, set up in front
Speaker 2: of the condenser. Mic ooh that's a neat sound.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I just love and you do like to experiment.
Speaker 2: You know, when you find an instrument in the basement
Speaker 2: and somebody tells you about how good it is, but
Speaker 2: it's dusty, like to I like to clean it up
Speaker 2: and record it and go now it really sounds good
Speaker 2: on the track. So I really like to find where
Speaker 2: we can. And you have to hear each other and
Speaker 2: work together. Yeah, if I didn't listen to the what
Speaker 2: these guys come up with. They make most of the instrumentals.
Speaker 1: I just sing.
Speaker 2: So in this group, it's so like, I really really
Speaker 2: have to listen. Yeah, and if I and if my
Speaker 2: vocals come in and it's it doesn't do their instrumental
Speaker 2: justice start over?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: That that can be When they say to me, Hey,
Speaker 2: that one wasn't it. Sometimes I'm like, let me go
Speaker 2: on the porch. You cry. I'm just.
Speaker 3: Oh, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: So, are you gonna record with her or is she
Speaker 3: just gonna play live with you.
Speaker 2: Or development as a lot of corvette. We're working on it.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, but have some like backup vocals or something
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 2: She's got a very Donna with the dead vibe. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, she's a preaching peace and movement and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden belts out a note and you go,
Speaker 2: I kind of think that does fit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1: Now what uh before we run out of time to
Speaker 1: uh what do you obviously you've got the show a
Speaker 1: terminus tonight?
Speaker 3: And then are you do you have more shows lined up?
Speaker 3: Or what's uh?
Speaker 5: Hit us up on Facebook? Man, We're ready to play?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you guys are a pretty new project.
Speaker 1: So well, I think it's very cool that you came
Speaker 1: in here to play and uh and we got to
Speaker 1: kind of you know, present you having us.
Speaker 2: My buddy there, Jim Hurley with Turbocats.
Speaker 3: Oh, Turbocats was on the show.
Speaker 2: The drummer was here too.
Speaker 3: I think I think the whole band, the whole band
Speaker 3: was here, right, Jenny, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think Jim the drummer there. He's older it than the
Speaker 2: rest of the group. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He has a barbecue like a little party. We'll play
Speaker 2: at that. Yeah, that's our next thing we have. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: but you know, so we like to get a real
Speaker 2: gig out there. And yeah, you know, it's some at
Speaker 2: a venue. But I love Jim and I appreciate him
Speaker 2: for putting us on on that. That's good vibes. So
Speaker 2: keep the keep the dream going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you work a lot with Jim.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Jim's a great guy.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, Dream Alive and Turbocats is great. We like
Speaker 3: them very very much.
Speaker 2: My cat looks like a cow mu yow. Genius.
Speaker 1: And where should people go online to keep up with
Speaker 1: everything you guys are doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're at a lot of Corvette on Facebook right now.
Speaker 2: We'll get on the Instagram. Sorry about dragging my heels everyone, but.
Speaker 3: Right now it is a new band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have any demos or music out there
Speaker 2: right now, guys, but once we do the show tonight
Speaker 2: at Terminus, you'll be able to see us on Facebook.
Speaker 2: So support Midnight Creative Collective, support Terminus Underground because they're
Speaker 2: supporting live music absolutely.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, guys, Thank you so much, and we'll have
Speaker 1: to do this again in the future. And I really
Speaker 1: dig what you're doing and I look forward to premiering
Speaker 1: some studio tracks too when you're ready right on.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having us much appreciate
Speaker 3: It absolutely guys, Thank you so much.
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