Matt Connarton Unleashed: Best Not Broken returns

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We have an entire show of returns today actually, which is cool. But we have two thirds of the band best not broken. We have Eric and Carlo here. How are you guys? We're great, a little groggy, super good. The earliest radio show we've ever done. But is it I think so? It's got to be right. We don't usually take engagements before noontime. Well, we're very honored. Wait you told me it was noon. That's because I was tired. There was another time change exactly. We do an extra one now. But this is cool.

Now, this is a fun new location. A what a cool spot. Yeah it is. It is nice. Yeah, thank you, no, thank you for joining us. Yeah, we've been here since what's it been November? I think so November when we moved in here. I can't even remember. Now it all runs together, yeah, but yeah, yeah, no, we really like it here. It's nice, it's new everything's very clean. It's uh, it's quite nice, quite nice. But h and by the way, that track, I love that song, Human Emotion. That's one of the ones we played the last time you guys there, and we'll play some more later in the hour too.

But you guys have a big show coming up. We should mention that right off the top, because we do have some tickets to give away. Yeah, that's right, we do, we do. Yeah, So we're going to be next this coming Friday down at Blue Ocean Music Hall with Barry Goodrow, the original guitarist from the band Boston Yes, and his new band, I say new band. He's been winning the loup. But Barry Goodrow's Engine Room is the name of the band, and they've got some awesome stuff. But they actually do some Boston tunes as well.

So you know, you come to a show like that, you get some new stuff and you get some some classics. It's gonna be a fun one. So we're looking forward to it. That'd be weird if you didn't do some Boston songs. It would make it would be really weird. But I'll tell you what, Boston's not easy to cover, right, I mean, obviously dope is along with Yeah, I'm not easy to to cover some of those students. But the guy, forget the singer's name, I can't remember, but he's been with him for a while and he does a great job and they do some cool stuff.

I know that at one point they had Michael Sweet from Stryper singing with him, but I don't think. I don't think that's still the case, is it. I don't. I don't think he's still Okay. Thanks, so, yeah, yeah, it'd be yeah, i'd be weird for him not to do some Boston songs. Yeah, I uh. Somebody actually it was Polly Seeve texted me and he said he's going to see Colin Hay no kidding, and uh And I I asked him, I said, do you think he'll do any men at work songs? Because I heard sometimes he doesn't just to be a jerk, which isn't which isn't true.

But can you imagine how angry people will be they want to see Colin Hay disappointed and he didn't play you know, down Under or something. I did see Colin Hay and yeah, and I was looking forward to that too, and unfortunately he did it. Although I think he waited at the very end. So really, oh really, is he really going to play it? Oh wow? Oh no kidding. Yeah, they had a bunch of hits men at work, but that's the one everybody remembers. Yeah, probably the one thing he probably probably, I'm sure.

Well, I'm had to play this so many Oh my gosh, I'm sure. But I'm sure he doesn't mind the royalty checks, right, yeah, I think he's still getting those. There were some weird stuff going on with that band in the royalties, I think. Oh really, I think he's still getting that happens that unfortunately. Yeah, well yeah, Boston was one of those bands too. Actually oh yeah, no doubt. So that's gonna be uh yeah, so Jenny and I will be there. That'll be uh Friday, April fifth, Yeah, yeah, next Friday.

I appreciate you guys coming down. Thanks, thanks for doing it absolutely and getting dragged to amusing are you kidding? Like all excited? I can't wait. That's great. Trying to figure out what I want to wear. Well, you know, Blue Ocean is a cool venue. Have you been to Blue Ocean? Sure? Okay, it's really a cool, great room. Yeah, yeah, it's right on the water, so you look out the back windows and literally like you could jump out into the ocean. The first time we played their Carl, I don't know if you remember, but they brought us to the green room in the back and it was like a really stormy day.

The waves were crashing up against the side and I literally thought like we were gonna it was gonna break the windows, we were gonna get watching in a like you feel like, I don't want to say the Titanic, but it feels like you're in a boat and the waves are just smashing up against the side of the building and you're wondering if you're going to live through it. Totally for some vitamin c oh I hope it's low tide. You can actually you can walk right out out of the beach and you know, go ten minutes early and check out the beach.

Get there early because and there's a restaurant right next door called it's called Sea Glass, right or fig Glas Sea Glass. You should definitely go there for a drink or something because the view is extraordinary. Really okay, cool, fun, Wow, we're looking forward to that. We're looking forward to that now. I was id even more now, Yeah, Yeah. Now is it just you guys and very Goodrow's engine rumor is there another opener or just us? It's just two of us Verry, Yeah, excellent, excellent. How did that come about?

Like, uh, do you know Barry Goodrow personally or did somebody reach out to you and offer you the show? Yeah? Basically, so we've we our manager is often looking into these things. Yeah, and I think he reached out. It kind of went through Live Nation and he reached out to those guys. They decided it would be a good fit. There's some crossover between us and Barry because Barry's kind of played this circuit, Oh yeah, in this area for a while. And I think there are some musicians that we've played with that have played with him.

Sure, neutral and so, uh anyway, they decided it would be a good fit, and uh so we were excited to take it. Yeah, yeah, outstanding. Yeah, so that will be That is a Friday, April fifth. Hello to easy G in the Facebook live chat, who says happy Easter weekend. I always forget when Easter is because it sneaks up because it's a different time. I know, so early this year it seems early. It does. Yeah, we got another snowstorm coming next week? Is that true? Really? Yeah? I just oh, no, for real, I just saw that.

I saw that last night. They're talking about a foot of snow really? Oh yeah, for sure Wednesday Thursday. Oh wow, wouldn't that be something? Wow? Wow, you're the bearer. Something will happen, a warm front will move. And you gotta see this guy. I took a picture of him. I'll post it later. You got you gotta see his uh morning morning uh appearance. I don't know, mourning the microphone holding him up. Mornings are rough. It's yeah, it's not far from what he looks like after a gig. Actually really kind of look.

It's easy, gess in the chat room, I have to ask you the question he always loved to ask bands, have you played in Canada? M Uh have we played in Canada? No? I don't think we have. No, No, we have not. We've seen bands in Canada, yeah, but we haven't played in Canada. A good question though, Yes, Yeah, he just likes to know if people have gotten to go go to Canada play it's his standard. We haven't done it. I wonder if EG feels that we're helping him by doing that. Or if he feels we're stealing his thunder.

He usually likes to have the question asked though. Yeah, but he well, he loves to asking himself unless he just wha has uh abdicated that authority to us? Which he made very well? Is easyg from Canada? Or is no? No, he's from Manchester? Is yes originally but his last name's Gagnan and that's kind of a French name, right, Yeah, maybe is the ancestry. Maybe maybe we should? Uh, we should play another song? Uh? You sent me a bunch of them? What what should we play next? I'll let you guys pick. Oh, let's see what did we I'm trying to remember what we sent over.

I think we sent uh, I think we sent Oh you know what? We can play this will this will send it off in a different direction. I said a song called make Belief Celebrity. This is not a song that's on our latest album. We're not going to do it, but we can do it now early in the show and I can tell you about it. Cool. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't remember this one from last time, so this has not been Is this a world radio premiere? Uh, It's quite possible. Because I don't think anyone's I don't think anyone's picked it up.

So deep cut, deep cut nice call it a radio premiere. I'd say, we like the world radio premiere here, so we'll just assume that it is. Yeah, so this is the World Radio the World Radio Premiere, Make Leaf Celebrity from the band Best Not Broken. And you wanted to tell us or do you want to tell us about it after? Well, I'll tell you about it after I have to hear it again. Remember what it's about, gotcha? Gotcha for a while? All right, check this out here. It is Make the Leaf Celebrity. Bye, that's not broken.

You drove into the sunset waven like a queen, s that you had it all that you made me set your oven on from mister ordinary.

Now I've had some time reflecting on the change, learns to play guitar, ven Check wrote Thomas songs. Now it's hard, dromme, I gotta helpshun ride and a top nay pray, semon breach bo babies, even got bake kids that I never get away from the Bumperanzi flash from the drop from pants baby kid yours. Because you you think I'm just like everybody else, but I don't make bully. So I'm ready. So I hit the road from Boston to Illy. Got in on Tourage Fell. The style is tough, it's gay. But the house down south where the Flavos play, think of you win s.

Wait now, baby, who's the ordinary? I've got the boy shot fans of the bar scene on your Rianna Show coming on TV. I got the hot Shakespeare the backstage past when I have my kids a baby. Your ask because you you think I'm just like everybody else, but you don't know. I've got a fill sat ride and a dog by friends him a leash. But baby, it's even back bay kids back get away from the proper. Because you you think I'm just like everybody else, but I'm a make Believe cebady. All right, that is the world radio premiere Make Believe Celebrity.

The band is Best Not Broken, And Jenny and I are sitting here with two thirds of Best Not Broken here live in studio. Great track. I love that, Thank you, thank you. Yeah that we released it, I think twelve years ago. No, what's the world radio premiere of a song that's twelve years old? Wow? Yeah, No, we just never did anything with it, and I figured that would be kind of fun. You play it live. Not right now, no, because no one really knows it, you know, it's just on it. It's I think it's on our first album that we ever put out, and it was just sort of one of those tracks that we put on there.

We wanted to do something with it, and then we sort of just moved on. But yeah, at the time, I was just Carlo had me thinking. There's a guy in the band at the time named Scotty. He's infamous in southern New Hampshire. Scotti Hollywood is his name, and he had a video planned for this song and literally, this is no joke. Down at the Manchester the Mill here, so we used to practice down the street in one of the in the mill building and he rented a room. He had a bed, right, He bought a bed and he built a round It was like a round bed with these little platforms on the side, and this was this bed was going to be part of the scene for this video and the room was all decked out with different colors and murals on the wall.

We never shot the video, but Scotty probably is still paying for that room over there. But I was waiting for the video to be I think I'm glad we never shot that video. I think that's probably why I pulled the plug. I was like, this is going the wrong direction. Yeah, oh wow, wow, so you got But you guys don't currently play that song live. We don't know. I think we've maybe played it once. Yeah, yeah, maybe once. Yeah, I don't know. That's great, very very catchy it is. Yeah, yeah, that's a silly one.

It's it was sort of it so we uh, the band was, you know, we sort of started in Manchester and I remember there were a bunch of bands around at the time and none of them really had any chance of making it, but everyone thought we were like the next big thing, right, So this is sort of like, well, even if we don't make it, we can pretend right, right, and these are the things that might happen, right, but sort of poking fun at ourselves. Yeah, it was a fun tune. It would be a good video. We just never got to it.

Yeah. Yeah, well there's there's still time, still time, I dig it. Yeah, thank you. We've got best not broken here And we've been talking about the big show coming up on April fifth at Blue Ocean And is that in Salisbury, Salisbury, Mass, Salisbury, Mass. Yeah, yeah, Jenny and I are going to be there and you get to see Barry Goudrou's engine rooms. Have they put out music as do they have out? Yeah? Yeah they have does it if you listen, does it kind of sound like Boston or does it sound different?

No, it's got a different sounded. I wouldn't say Boston because the vocals are not. Oh yeah, you know, and certainly the layered guitars are different. But it's it's very listenable. It's very good. Yeah, all right, very good. Yeah, it's it's I would consider similar to a similar genre to Boston, you know, like some guitar harmony stuff, perhaps a little more uh bluesy, yeah, a little more soulful, but it's it's good, good music. Yeah, cool, Yeah, I'll have to check that out. And well, of course then we're gonna hear them live on the fifth, so that's very cool.

Have you guys been playing out a lot? Have you been doing a lot of shows? Are just kind of we're kind of getting back in the game. So winter is usually a little slow for us and kind of ramping up for the summer season. But we've been we've been doing some cover stuff, you know, and and having some fun and uh, kind of getting ready to launch launch the summer. Yeah, you got a lot of shows playing for this enough. Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. I saw somebody in the building. I was like, there's a I know who it was.

But we have a running you know, we talk on Retrospectrum Radio about Paul Paul sees a ghost, but he hasn't seen he hasn't seen the ghost here in the uh, in the building, in the building that we used to be Buddy, what's that. There's a visitor on the that's a surprise. Wandered in that. Hey, Peter, no owner, just a Doug. Yeah, yeah, I think you wanted to say something. He was looking for a bus ticket or a bone. Yes, Now in the building that we used to be in, Polly see, we do a show of Friday Night it's called the Retrospectrum Radio and Paully c would see this guy in the building and he called him the Marlborough Man.

But he was the only one who would see him, like I never saw I never saw the guy, and neither did anybody else as far as I know. But Paul used to see this apparition or whatever really in the Yeah, yeah, it's pretty weird. Kind might have just been a homeless person who got into the building. But sure, but I but I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. And here we have dogs. Yes, yes, I have a new friend. Apparently. We sure it's a real dog and not a ghost. It could be it could be a ghost dog. I did pet it.

It felt furry. Yes, he just wants everybody to be his friend. This dog is adorable. We have a very loving, loving puppy in the studio. That's distracting me because it's very lovely and we're all we're all animals. He lost his owner, his own his owners back, his owners out, his owners adoring him conveniently so he can try and go from human the human for extr right, Yes, exactly. They got to make new friends. Probably,

that's that's all right, that's all right. The dog's adorable, loggy paw

or she, We don't know. Yeah, if it was a male or female, I didn't know. Yeah, sure what to call right? Right? That was adorable, very cool. What's the current situation as far as releasing new music? Do you guys have anything new you've been working on or well, we've been talking about it a little bit. We're kind of putting our twenty twenty four recording plan together right now. But we have we have an album and a half of material that's in the kitty and almost ready to go, a number of older tunes that some of them are sort of partially recorded, we just haven't finished them yet.

Yeah, we got to get in to get those done. And then I've got a bunch of newer ish stuff that's that's ready to go, So we got to get that polished up and get into the studio. So we're trying to figure out how and where to do that and see if we can get out as soon as we can. It's going to be a busy summer. Yeah, yeah, good. When you do record, you're going to be recording Where did you record the material that we have for it on the show? Where where did you record that? So most of it has been recorded at Woolly Mammoth Sound down in Walltham with Dave Minihan.

Oh, right, right, right, I remember we talked about that, yeah, and this so the most recent album was recorded at Willy Mammoth with Dave and then he did some pre engineering and it came up here to Matt Blanchette, who's a Manchester guy. Yes, I've interviewed Matt. Yeah yeah, and he's got Revelry Studio and he's got his own little thing going on and he's a he's a great guy. So yeah, he did kind of the final editing and production with us and on the last batch of tunes. But the make Believe Celebrity that you heard was all Dave.

That was you know, ten plus years ago, and that was all Dave wille Mammoth. Okay, so yeah, we'll see. I mean, technology is changing, which has allowed us to change the way we record, and uh, you know, it's interesting because it's you'd think you'd think that it would allow people to do more home recording, and it has, right. So a lot of these albums that here, a lot of the stuff is being done in home studios, fixed somewhere else. But Dave down at Woolley seems to be getting busier, right, So we're just trying to figure out what's the most efficient way for us to do it right.

Right. It's often a mix of things. Yeah, no doubt, Well, we should play another track? What should we play? Next. I don't know if you remember what you sent me, but oh you know what, I actually how about that's the way she likes it? Sure, because I remember we played that one last time you were here, and everybody was like really liking that one a lot. I think this was this might have been new the last time you guys were hearing it. Okay, okay, yeah, And then I think I think I I remember now it's coming back to me.

I said something to you guys about that's you've got to that's a hit song just waiting to happen. You. I think we did. We have a few edits to make really well in listening to it. I don't know. We'll listen to it now, let's do we think? All right, yeah, we'll comment on the fly. Well, we'll hear it again now. And it's sure too. It's only like it's only three minutes and twenty one seconds, which is perfect for a single. Sure, it's exactly yeah, yeah, all right, So this is that's the way she likes it.

The band is best not broken. Check this out. It's quartered ten and we torn up the bed. It's Saturday morning with Friday champagne turning farm off, talking them movies. She wants to see Dirty Dance and again everyone knows she Shine. Goes silly on my imagine, she said, think she don't even know. They just sees me walk blushes first. Tomorrow is just the same. It's a party somewhere down on tim Luke Deck, dancing in the wind. She calls me amazing. Chus mer, I'm thinking OF's coling. But dreams are musians and our moms father really knows She's Shine.

Likes shown a host of fast and shine fast away. She s she don't even know the name. She sees me blushes. It's her tomorrow. It is just the same, the same voice say, but they'll be don't there single word I says? She fel notts again things Maybe she doesn't last is the blush and maybe I'm rushing the song. She's perfectly placed in the imagination. Ma's where she been up. That's a way sho singing sold side perfect very that's the way she likes it. She don't even know the name She's.

It's just that is really good. That's the way. Yeah, that's the way she likes it. Thank you. The band is Best not Broken. We have two members of Best not broken here with us live in studio. I'm sure we talked about all this before, but for people who didn't hear your previous appearance, what's the process like in terms of songwriting in the band? Do you guys all write together or how does that work? Uh? You know, I think it's sort of song by song. There are many that uh, well, Low starts every song really yeah with the drums, right, I start with the drums, and then I delete the bridge and then and then we've got to hit this is sounding familiar?

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, so uh but seriously, so you know, uh, I kind of started as sort of a singer songwriter, kind of you know, the acoustic guitar, and that's how a lot of my tunes start. So uh and Mark who does some writing as well, same kind of deal. So we'll we'll come up with sort of the core of the tune and then at some point we bring it into the band and everyone sort of does their thing, and sometimes it's really early and the whole thing is more of a combined effort, and sometimes it just so happens that it's almost done when we get it in, it's like, let's just fill in the pieces but that that song had been around for a really long long time.

That's the way she likes it, and I always kind of wanted to do it. Yeah, you know, the band, the sound of the band has evolved a bit over the years, and it sort of felt like now is the It was sort of a now or never in terms of getting it in. And also, you know, I think the sound of the band has evolved a little bit. You know, when we started off, it was, uh, it was in the days of like you know, where Green Day was still having hits like well their later albums, Yeah, and so like you know, it was a little rockier and we've become more diverse, I think, and so it felt like a good time to bring that tune in.

But uh yeah, so that's they often start that way and then then we get together as a band and we sort of polish him up. And truth be told, Carlo always cuts something and you know, insists on something in the beginning of the end and cuts the bridge down or writes the bridge. Well. You know, there's a lot of ideas in a song though, you know, when you when you first start out creating a piece of music, there's a lot of things that get thrown at you sure, and not being you know, if Eric's coming up with the with the vibe of what the song is like, you know, he's got a lot of things in his head about how he feels it should sound.

And then it's kind of nice sometimes to get a fresh look at it, because you know, you're just seeing so many things. But to be able to take out a few pieces, you know, the whole lesson is more. Yeah. Times, sometimes not all, but sometimes can make a difference in the tune, and so it becomes very collaborative, you know, at that point, and then you put a little frost thing on it. Next thing, you know, you get a song. Yeah. I mean that song in particular, as I recall, for a while had a very different groove to it actually really yeah, And I don't know exactly when it happened, but at some point in time we tried a different a different feeling toward it.

And that's what you that's what you just heard on the record. Yeah. Actually, I think I think in the studio we played it two ways. I think Dave had us play it two ways. That sounds familiar, and we think it was the new way that I don't know if we'd actually ever done it that way before, except but it's now obviously sounds like the way it should be done, right, that's what I was done in the studio. But yeah, yeah, but it evolved for sure. Okay, okay, very cool? Uh should we Yeah, we have time? Why don't we want to play another one?

Well? Sure, let's see what should we play? I had the last one. I said you guys could pick, and then I ended up picking it because I was like, wait a minute, now we have to hear that one again. What should we Uh? We got low Lights, We've got I don't belong what you do? Low Lights. That's a little different, little diddy. That one's a little a little darker, isn't it? If I remember, yeah, I guess you could look at it that way, I mean, you know, yeah, yeah, that's a contrast. Mark sings that one has a little bit of a different vibe, a little more of a Spanish southern feel to it.

It's kind of a unique little snippet our set. So right right, all right, check this out. This is low Lights and the band is best not broken. You drink a little more, you sit your child. What a lot of people saying that you dropped the team been. I won't aunt you, but I'm saying that you do it. Who knows the true in the night time, and the man was like, letting get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the low in the main time rains no stallion. Man kind of think it's a bat check in the load and does a belt another one lass gets fun boom and then it empties out.

If you want another not A lot of people don't have the same attention. Then I like you the same shots not who can tell you? Okay, come, let's get gone in the nighttime. If it feels night let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the low light. Conference in the main time, nostaia man, I don't think it's a batch in the low light. That's a feel in the nighttime. If it feels right, let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the low light, in the mentu feeling. Now, that is catchy as hell.

That is low lights. The band is Best Not Broken, and we have two thirds of Best Not Broken here with us live in studio. That is such a great song. Yeah, I remember that one from last time. Yeah, fun we like it, Yeah, yeah, really really good. Hey, I want to say hi to some people in the Facebook live chat, starting with Jay Bellow of course from the band Chasing the Devil. And Jay's been on the show with the band, and by the way, they've they're working on they've got something new come in. Hint, hint, But I won't say any more than that until we know exactly when you know.

I did mention earlier though we liked the world radio premieres around here, so I'm hinting. But Jay says in the chat, I have to say it again, thank you guys for giving local music a platform to be heard. Awesome tunes. Guys. All right, so you've got a fan in Jay. Thank you Jay absolutely. Jay fed joins us from the great state of Vermont and says, good morning everyone. Michael Albert says good morning, Mariam Vanish says good morning, and uh they are going to be performing live April fifth at Blue Ocean in Salisbury, mass and Jenny and I are going to be there as well.

And of course you guys are opening for Barry Goodrow's engine room and uh, looking forward to really looking forward to that. That's gonna be a that's gonna be a cool night. Who else have you guys played with? Who's uh? Like, is there anyone who really stands out bands that you've shared the stage with? Yeah? Sure, Carl, what do you think? Well, you know what just came Actually at this same venue we did a show with what are you thinking? Uh? The one with the uh Jefferson Starship start No, the other one, the recent one.

Who oh? The guests who yeah? Who oh? You guys played with them? Yeah? Yeah, And you know what was interesting was I mean they're a little be kind, they're a little older than us, but but there you forget how much music they have. Yeah, their music is iconic. Oh yeah, like it defined an entire generation. And it was really wild to see them play that live. I mean it was yeah, that was that To me, that was a you know, I don't want to say it was like hearing the Beatles, but you know it was damn close.

I mean it was. They've got some really big, big songs that really lasted. Well that was the sixties, right, yeah, sixties, early seventies. Well, I know what you mean though, because they're a band that they've got some some big hits that you probably most people probably don't realize who it is really, you know, they hear that, they hear the songs, and they know the songs. But if you were to ask them, you know, if you were to say, you know, guess who that artist is and they be like, you know, you could make a whole uh sort of who's on first?

Uh. That was a fun show we we actually did. We did that one a little differently too. We didn't do like a half acoustic kind of thing. Yeah, quasi acoustic, which was cool. So I had a different, different feel to it. So it was kind of it was kind of fun, but well, you know, speaking of Blue Ocean. The other one, we did a Blue Oshan which was recently just one and we might have mentioned this when we were here, but we played with Kevin Bacon and the Bacon Brothers, and that was like a full acoustic show because Kevin's more he's got a he's a pretty It's kind of an eclectic mix of like, you know, country, jazz, folks, blue grass, like the whole you know, a little bit of rock, but just like all over the map and they so we were sort of trying to be kind of in the in the same genre.

So we were mostly acoustic. Yeah, and some of the Unfortunately some of our tunes translate pretty well acoustic. But that was a fun one too. And and the thing that stood out to me though was the security. It's amazing. You know. You think you go to a rock and roll show or a music show and security is usually pretty tight. But you get a movie star right and rights like you can't like, you know, they're tight here with the coffee. I mean, it couldn't go like five feet down the hallway and they're giving us a hard time.

Oh no, kidding. Yeah, we did give him a bottle of wine, which he was very appreciative, but we couldn't hand it to him personally. Oh that's funny. It went through the people, right through the people. But he gave us a nice shout out. And that was a fun show too. That's an interesting dynamic when you've got a band like that. That's you know, they're not like the Bacon Brothers as an entity, is not like, uh, you know, an arena act, you know what I mean. But on the other hand, one of the guys happens to be an A list celebrity, so that's interesting.

Yeah, how does his brother feel, I know, well, you know, his brother knows that they're getting gigs, right exactly. Yeah, his brother is probably just fine with it, you know what I mean. I mean, it's amazing to it because I think they sold out. It's amazing they sold out. It was they actually put on a good show that they had a list musicians. I mean, the cats that were playing with them were top notch and they did a great job too. And of course you know what you're waiting for when you're seeing the Bacon brothers, and sure enough, you know, for the encore.

I mean that was that was the tune that they did Footloose, So which was I gotta say, you know, having seen the movie, right, pretty iconic to see Kevin Bacon singing Footloose on stage. Did he dance a little bit? Maybe? I think he did a little bit a little someone up there. Because he's going to go back to the high school that was filmed in I can go to their last proms, for their last prom I think it's awesome, so cool, right, Yeah, he seems like a really good guy. Yeah, he seems human. He does exactly, and he stays pretty active on social media too.

He's I think he's doing regular, regular posts and sort of like a glimpse of hit into the real life of Kevin Bacon. His wife's a movie star too, Yeah, they both. I can't remember who's he married to. Oh okay, yeah, okay, yeah, I forgot about that. Wow. Well, yeah, I've heard that they're that the Bacon Brothers are really good live. Who else, if any anybody else you guys have played with the really stands out well, I always you know, our first big show was with Pat Benattar. We did a couple of shows with her, I think.

Yeah. We did a string of shows with the Gin Blossoms, which was cool. Yeah. Vertical Horizon Yeah yeah, yeah, that's really good. That that massive from the movie what does that song? You're a God? Yeah? Oh no, no, that was That was their follow up, which wasn't as big, a really big one. Yeah, in my head, I can't remember the name. Oh He's Everything you want? Well yeah, yeah, yeah that was. Yeah. I couldn't get away from this. I didn't know that really. Yeah. Yeah, England has a nice amount of musicians.

Oh yeah, we have a lot of great stuff that comes out of New England. Absolutely, I'm a little biased. Yeah we all are. Yeah, we are know that the scene is incredible. Absolutely, Well, let's let's speaking one more. I'd like to get in one more song. Sure, Uh what? I I think there's probably one left that we haven't played. Yep. I think it's I don't belong. I don't belong. I can't wait till next week to go see you guys live. This is gonna be so much fun. It's gonna be it's gonna be a really good night.

All right, let's give this a listen. This is I don't belong and the band is best not broken. I'm walking in a home room member about a boom boom Sima kicking sombers or headstern. I've got my jeans, tag mullet, done with haspray. We've been walking New Way Copasana press ship you wanna be a rock star? We've been in my new car hot he's in the back. Yeah, man, I got nothing so far? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? As you go? Don't trying to get a job. Interview with each star or ask me what I want to say.

I don't want to keep my hair along from me in a high rise with you, with some rich guys burned with a beep swap. Now I'm making French fries, so I'm not a quick learn Maybe it's the signer. It's like now if you want to know about at least I made some heads turns. Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? I do everybody? I don't stay as you go out so much. I don't know why. And you below sounds like that you just can't when you ask but much? You just got nine hair thing?

Then I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up?

I don't know? No, I don't belong by Best Not Broken. Geez, everything you guys do is so catchy. We thank you, thank you. We try. I'm over here tapping along with my pen. I'm not even a drummer. I play bass, but I'm tapping. I can't help it. That's how catchy it is. That's good. We got to back up when Carlos out, oh there, we got to know here you go. So we've got two thirds of Best Not Broken here with us live in studio, and we've been talking about, oh we should talk about the video. You guys were saying, there's a great video for that song.

It's a video I don't know about great, but it's let's just say it's entertaining. Yeah, what your mom think of it? My mom was embarrassed, I think to be my mom. Oh no, Well, the good news is you couldn't actually tell that it was you, right, that's that is true. Without giving too much away, that is mostly true. I'm sure your mom knew and perhaps other Yeah, well, being fallically challenged, the outfit in this particular video was supportive, so I guess without giving away we so we actually speaking of high schools, we shot it at a local high school.

Cool and we there was a story written for this video which kind of followed the song, and we came up with a plan to shoot this video in a day. We just missed it. We had to do one slice of it live in a different, different venue, but most of it was shot in a day in a high school with a cast, and it was It was a lot of fun shooting it, and we got pretty close to what we wanted. It turned out to be very entertaining. Nobody got hurt. No one got hurt. That's what counts. That's that's the important thing.

Very very good. Well we've been talking about of course, these guys are going to be live on Friday, April five at Blue Ocean Is it Blue Ocean Music Hall? Is Yes, that's the one, gotcha, gotcha. I want to make sure I get the full name and got to respect the venue in Salisbury, Mass And these guys are opening for Barry Goudreau's engine room. And if the name Berry gudrou is familiar, but you're not quite sure, of course from the band Boston. Uh, and it's gonna be a great night. Really looking forward to that.

So that is of course. Uh this what time? What time you guys hitting the stage? Eight o'clock? I think eight, it's usually eight. So that's going to be this coming Friday, coming right up. Yeah, looking forward to that. Look for that. Oh yes, you can get some new clothes, okay, all right, I'm a guy, so I don't beat you tire wear whatever. I don't know about next week. Yeah, it'll melt by Friday. It comes Wednesday, it'll melt by oh yeah, well ye, yeah, that's that's true. They just make for bigger waves down there.

Yeah, so that'll actually be an April storm. Wow, the only time, Well, I remember when I was a kid. I wonder if we're thinking about the same storm. If we are, it was actually April second, but people remember it as April first because it's easy to remember it as April. But I remember it was actually April second. If we're thinking about the same storm, maybe there was a because when I remember when I was a kid, there was a massive blizzard on April second. No, No, it wasn't when you were a kid, because I was a grown adult, older than I'm thinking of when I was when I was a kid.

I just remember growing up. There was one year where we had a massive they had It was April second, and we had this like massive blizzard. It was like the biggest storm of the winter on April second. It was weird. No, I was working in a nursing home and I was excited because I could actually get home because I had a Oh god, what was I can't think of Subaru. It was a Subaru. It was the ugliest Subaru ever. It had fake wood paneling. Those are the best kind. Boy. That baby got me home. All right, that's good, that's good.

Yeah, Oh okay, yeah, all right, all right, there must have been two storms. Yeah, in April, two April storms. Prince has a song called Sometimes it Snows in April, which probably most people what is that on Haisley Park I think maybe I don't know, I don't know that. I remember that. I'm gonna check it out. Yeah it's it's I mean, obviously it was never a hit single, but yeah, sometimes it Snows in April. Yeah, but uh no, so we're really looking forward to that. So uh yeah this coming Friday. Wow, I can't believe it's uh already the end of March, right, so, uh, guys, thank you so much.

This has been amazing. Thank you for having us. Thanks. We love coming here and this new venue is so cool. Now we want to come back again, Yeah, definitely, definitely we will. Uh we will absolutely have you back, and we will we will see you Friday night.

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