Matt Connarton Unleashed: B.F. Raid (Boston's Final Raid)

0:00 Speaker 1: I love it. That is Angel. That is bf RAID

0:03 Speaker 1: Boston's Final Raid. That is from the album Rated Again.

0:07 Speaker 1: This is Matt connorton Unleashed. We have entered our third

0:09 Speaker 1: hour New Marrow Trace Jenny is here as well, of

0:12 Speaker 1: course at the news tableted for and joining us in

0:16 Speaker 1: studio we have Matt, Bruce and Bill from bf RAID.

0:21 Speaker 1: Welcome guys, Hey, thanks for going. I love that. I

0:25 Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, great, great track, got a lot of

0:29 Speaker 1: energy and it's fun and uh, great pick to open

0:33 Speaker 1: the show. We'll play more, of course later in the show.

0:35 Speaker 1: But can I actually well here, let's do this because

0:41 Speaker 1: I want to make sure all your mics are working.

0:43 Speaker 1: I feel like I couldn't hear somebody. Matt, let's start

0:46 Speaker 1: with you. What do you do in the band? I

0:48 Speaker 1: play the Beast guitar. Okay, that's working.

0:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm responsible for the low end of

0:56 Speaker 2: the spectrum.

0:57 Speaker 1: Okay, excellent. I'm also a bass player, so we share

0:59 Speaker 1: this same name and instrument. Yes, I guess I should

1:03 Speaker 1: start a show. I should start reading. Maybe you should.

1:06 Speaker 1: That might be your destiny.

1:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Bruce, I take care of the guitars, a

1:13 Speaker 3: bit of the keyboards and a bit of the writing, okay, okay,

1:18 Speaker 3: and Bill.

1:19 Speaker 4: I am the lead screecher, the lead singer, the hummer,

1:23 Speaker 4: and I do a lot of the percussions.

1:25 Speaker 5: Okay, all right, very drummer. Drummers not with us today?

1:29 Speaker 1: Okay, what what is he playing in? Is he busy

1:31 Speaker 1: with another band? Because well, because the reason I ask

1:35 Speaker 1: is so it's become a running theme on the show.

1:37 Speaker 1: Every drummer is in like ten different bands because uh,

1:41 Speaker 1: there just aren't enough. Aren't enough drummers to go around.

1:45 Speaker 5: I don't think he is. But these two are in.

1:46 Speaker 1: Another band together. Yeah, oh what is it? I'm curious now.

1:53 Speaker 6: It's called every Bitter Man.

1:54 Speaker 1: Okay, so to cover Okay, that's a cool name. Yeah yeah, yeah,

1:59 Speaker 1: I like that. Oh, before we go any further, so

2:02 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put the camera back on me for a minute,

2:03 Speaker 1: because you guys brought a whole bag of stuff here,

2:07 Speaker 1: so really good.

2:08 Speaker 7: Evag.

2:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, we love this.

2:10 Speaker 7: So for their bag is really neat because they're not

2:13 Speaker 7: even has a pocket on the side.

2:15 Speaker 1: That's like, that's amazing.

2:16 Speaker 7: Pocket is everything?

2:18 Speaker 1: This is pretty sweet? Yeah it is. So it's got

2:20 Speaker 1: the it's got the album cover on one side and

2:23 Speaker 1: got your logo there on the back, and I.

2:26 Speaker 7: Love your logo by the way. That's really cool.

2:28 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. Now the first thing I'm gonna pull out

2:32 Speaker 1: of here specifically because we need to make sure we

2:34 Speaker 1: mentioned this.

2:34 Speaker 7: Oh yes, I'm dying to see this. I haven't seen

2:36 Speaker 7: the print yet.

2:37 Speaker 1: So this is the uh. You guys are featured in

2:39 Speaker 1: the November December issue of our our good friends at

2:43 Speaker 1: paper Jam. In fact, I saw Sheila Russo in the

2:45 Speaker 1: chat room, so congratulations on that.

2:49 Speaker 8: It was a lot of fun. You are so great

2:51 Speaker 8: to work with, and Sheila and Tony and John the

2:55 Speaker 8: just awesome people. And I really feel like we made

2:59 Speaker 8: some friends for life.

3:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're awesome them.

3:03 Speaker 7: What they're doing for for independent music is just absolutely amazing.

3:06 Speaker 7: I absolutely love it. But this is great. I'm so

3:09 Speaker 7: happy you brought that because I wanted to see the

3:12 Speaker 7: coffee in my hands. I really wanted to flip through

3:14 Speaker 7: the pages, so I'm excited for that.

3:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, Paper Jam is amazing, by the way. So I'm

3:19 Speaker 1: gonna again for the benefit of those watching online, I

3:21 Speaker 1: am going to flip to your article. But first, when

3:23 Speaker 1: I open this up, the first thing I see on

3:26 Speaker 1: the very first page inside is that sexy Matt Condorton

3:29 Speaker 1: Unleashed logo. Very much. We're very proud. We're very proud

3:35 Speaker 1: to partner with them on this. Yeah. We we had

3:38 Speaker 1: them on the show a number of months ago and

3:40 Speaker 1: just a great conversation. And what they're doing for the

3:42 Speaker 1: scene is uh is just remarkable.

3:45 Speaker 7: But that's like I said, like I feel like we

3:47 Speaker 7: have the perfect symbiosis.

3:48 Speaker 1: Absolutely, and there we go. There's a Freido in there.

3:52 Speaker 5: Fred.

3:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very nice. Congratulations on this guys, thank you.

3:57 Speaker 1: That's that's fantastic. It's a big, oh big interview here too.

4:01 Speaker 1: That's great. That is fantastic.

4:04 Speaker 7: If you haven't checked out Paper Jam, you gotta.

4:06 Speaker 6: Check it out.

4:07 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And and they're doing you know, this is

4:10 Speaker 1: an actual print copy. That's what they do.

4:12 Speaker 7: You have an online version and they have a print

4:14 Speaker 7: copy version and you can get that.

4:17 Speaker 1: Oh my hat, very nice hats. I do. I love hats.

4:22 Speaker 1: I'll put this on when we do pictures at the

4:23 Speaker 1: end of the show. I will I will wear that

4:25 Speaker 1: in the picture. Absolutely. Oh you brought us shirts, two

4:29 Speaker 1: of them, one for each of us. Very nice. I

4:31 Speaker 1: love shirts, very nice, Yes, absolutely.

4:35 Speaker 7: Very nice, very nice.

4:37 Speaker 1: Wait, very cool. These aren't these These are nice shirts. Wow,

4:41 Speaker 1: I was gonna say these aren't cheap ones either. These

4:43 Speaker 1: are really no.

4:43 Speaker 7: They get the full logo on the back and the

4:45 Speaker 7: full album cover on the front. Quite lovely. Yeah, guys

4:49 Speaker 7: really went all out for us. My goodness, you did.

4:52 Speaker 1: You did a lot of our guests bring us goodies,

4:54 Speaker 1: but you guys really went for it.

4:56 Speaker 9: Oh.

4:59 Speaker 1: I love that a nice BF Rayed mug. Very cool

5:02 Speaker 1: for liquids in the studio. What's that? No liquids in

5:06 Speaker 1: the studio, No liquids in the suit.

5:07 Speaker 7: Well you can have it in a close closed water.

5:10 Speaker 1: We can have water, well, two mugs, So it's very nice.

5:14 Speaker 7: I know what I'm having my coffee in.

5:16 Speaker 1: And Jenny's favorite thing stickers, sickers.

5:19 Speaker 7: I love stickers. I've always had a thing for Stickerstely

5:22 Speaker 7: and I'm glad that they've come back into popularity because.

5:26 Speaker 6: There's some stuff in the mud.

5:27 Speaker 1: Oh there is Oh, oh.

5:29 Speaker 7: My god, Oh that you went way way over.

5:34 Speaker 1: Now, this is a great idea. Oh so there's a

5:35 Speaker 1: couple of a couple of guitar picks in there. Nice.

5:38 Speaker 1: I don't want to take them out of the back.

5:39 Speaker 7: Oh, I'm going to be making a nice frame out

5:41 Speaker 7: of that one.

5:42 Speaker 1: And you've got the uh now, the the QR code,

5:45 Speaker 1: which this is something that a lot of a lot

5:47 Speaker 1: of people are doing. Now the QR code does that

5:49 Speaker 1: bring you right to the website? Does bring you to

5:51 Speaker 1: the album?

5:52 Speaker 8: It goes to a promotional site code here now okay,

5:55 Speaker 8: and that has you can play the music there, but

5:58 Speaker 8: it has links to Amazon, Spotify, band Camp, our website, YouTube.

6:05 Speaker 6: Yeah things. That's awesome.

6:06 Speaker 1: It's like a little.

6:07 Speaker 6: Hub and for us coming back to music.

6:11 Speaker 8: You know, when I handed Billy the cards, he was like, Okay,

6:14 Speaker 8: this is strange because we'd have to run around and

6:17 Speaker 8: get people cassettes right right now, you just slip from

6:20 Speaker 8: a card and it's done.

6:22 Speaker 1: Things have changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, thank you guys

6:25 Speaker 1: for bringing that. That's a that's.

6:27 Speaker 7: Amazing, spoiling, very spoiling.

6:29 Speaker 1: So now, so you guys, you've been around a long time,

6:33 Speaker 1: but it sounds like you had a long break. And

6:35 Speaker 1: I mean, Matt, I suspect from looking at you probably

6:38 Speaker 1: haven't been around as long as younger than my kids.

6:41 Speaker 7: Yeah that hurts, doesn't it.

6:48 Speaker 8: It's actually really good because Matt adds a real different

6:52 Speaker 8: perspective to the band, the music and just off views

6:57 Speaker 8: of different things, and even the way we with the

7:00 Speaker 8: band talk about the band. You know, he's like, you know, hey,

7:03 Speaker 8: you know, oh guys, you got to get on TikTok

7:05 Speaker 8: or whatever.

7:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, us up to date on the new

7:09 Speaker 1: lingo and the right.

7:11 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's down a couple of things, like you

7:14 Speaker 2: can't say that people are gonna make fun of you

7:15 Speaker 2: on the internet.

7:16 Speaker 1: Right. It's good to have that. Yeah, it's good to

7:19 Speaker 1: have be able to have that perspective of the band. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

7:22 Speaker 1: When did you guys start? Well, when did uh?

7:26 Speaker 5: Because I mean Bruce, Bruce and I have known each

7:28 Speaker 5: other since two are three?

7:29 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, we grew up.

7:30 Speaker 4: Our moms took us to the same park when we

7:33 Speaker 4: were down in Malden, Massachusetts, Boston. Yeah, and you know,

7:37 Speaker 4: then we went to school and you know, kind of

7:39 Speaker 4: lived on opposite sides, but we got together in our

7:43 Speaker 4: teens and just started throwing things around and then we

7:46 Speaker 4: formally I joined his band with the drummer and and.

7:50 Speaker 1: A bass player back.

7:51 Speaker 8: In eighty one eighty one, okay, yeah, so and the

7:57 Speaker 8: bass player went pond. We were pretty much born across

8:02 Speaker 8: the street from each other. Yeah, so I've known Lens

8:05 Speaker 8: since I've known life, and yeah, we just came up

8:09 Speaker 8: with this idea. And I was in a couple of

8:12 Speaker 8: bands before, and Len's brother turned us on too, like

8:18 Speaker 8: Judas Priest and Deflipper And this is before def Leppert

8:22 Speaker 8: were really big around here. Yeah, he had come back

8:25 Speaker 8: from the army with all these eight tracks of like

8:27 Speaker 8: Leg's Diamond and a C d C. And ifn our

8:31 Speaker 8: friends are like, what's this a c DC thing? Yeah,

8:33 Speaker 8: and we just you know, loved it, and you know,

8:38 Speaker 8: we just decided we're gonna have We're gonna do a

8:41 Speaker 8: new band, and it's just gonna be the loudest, most

8:43 Speaker 8: obnoxious thing you've ever heard in your life.

8:47 Speaker 6: I think, you know, we hit that goal.

8:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, but the songs are you know, they're catchy, they're

8:53 Speaker 1: very accessible. I think you know what, uh so, so

8:58 Speaker 1: eighty three is that when you when you started, because

9:01 Speaker 1: you have that demo which is available on your website,

9:04 Speaker 1: the eighty three demo? Is that the first thing you

9:06 Speaker 1: guys recorded as a unit?

9:07 Speaker 4: Yes, it is, okay, the only the only Yeah, basically

9:12 Speaker 4: after that we kind of all.

9:14 Speaker 1: Went our own separate ways. Oh okay.

9:15 Speaker 5: I was in another heavy metal band for many years

9:17 Speaker 5: after that.

9:18 Speaker 1: Oh what what band? Erotica? Okay, yeah, okay, okay, okay.

9:23 Speaker 4: Like be Afraid we played all over Boston Revere, yeah,

9:28 Speaker 4: you know that whole area, and that was more of

9:29 Speaker 4: a hair band kind of as a lot like skid Row,

9:33 Speaker 4: that kind of funky air band metal, yeah, you know,

9:36 Speaker 4: extreme things like that. They all wanted to move to

9:38 Speaker 4: California and become stars, and I decided to get married

9:42 Speaker 4: for the safer.

9:43 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, no kidding.

9:45 Speaker 8: And then I formed another band called ill Wind, and

9:50 Speaker 8: that was with our current drummer.

9:52 Speaker 6: So the drummer we're working with.

9:53 Speaker 8: Now and be Afraid is my drummer from like eighty

9:57 Speaker 8: six eighty seven.

9:58 Speaker 1: Oh okay, wow, damn well, let's let's play another track

10:05 Speaker 1: and then I want to I want to come back

10:07 Speaker 1: and get to know you guys a little bit more

10:09 Speaker 1: and your history and everything. But what was the other one? Oh, Becky,

10:13 Speaker 1: we were talking about off air? Maybe playing that that's

10:16 Speaker 1: the newest one. Okay, Yeah, let's give this s spend.

10:18 Speaker 1: I love all these I listened to the whole album

10:20 Speaker 1: and I just I Honestly, I just think you guys

10:23 Speaker 1: are amazing. But these are the kind of songs they

10:26 Speaker 1: get stuck in your head, you know what I mean,

10:29 Speaker 1: Like like you don't you don't just listen and then

10:30 Speaker 1: you forget about them. They get stuck in your head.

10:32 Speaker 1: So let's give this a listen. This is Becky, and

10:34 Speaker 1: then we're gonna come back and talk to these guys

10:37 Speaker 1: some more. Bf Raid Boston's Final Raid. I have no

10:39 Speaker 1: idea what the name means. I'm very curious to ask

10:42 Speaker 1: you guys about that, but we'll we'll save that for

10:44 Speaker 1: after the track. Let's give this a listen. This is

10:46 Speaker 1: called Becky.

11:01 Speaker 10: Dad called her a trader at an instigator.

11:07 Speaker 9: She wrote in Boss not the asking tight dress, that

11:15 Speaker 9: is Tishue.

11:16 Speaker 11: Favor down on the frick was out.

11:26 Speaker 9: I knew there was no way she could ever protect me.

11:29 Speaker 9: On the poors of the.

11:30 Speaker 11: Brock were trying to red bake a chance day at home.

11:33 Speaker 9: But you one night with birthday, you can hot? Who

11:39 Speaker 9: was roady cool, staring hot? She with Bernie come.

11:50 Speaker 10: She had no mossa.

11:52 Speaker 1: She knew her role.

11:57 Speaker 9: No one can hold her down. Chuck, I know I

12:04 Speaker 9: know which she got him to check me and the boys.

12:06 Speaker 8: On the rock.

12:07 Speaker 9: Would child that make a chest all the chance? Worded

12:12 Speaker 9: with her day.

12:15 Speaker 11: On the corner of two streets, walk.

12:22 Speaker 9: To the wood, I claimed very she had no reservations,

12:30 Speaker 9: she had no ship.

12:33 Speaker 11: She was chasing the system, trying to chase the jade.

13:05 Speaker 9: There was no sho would ever check me and the

13:08 Speaker 9: boys on the rock?

13:10 Speaker 10: Child my chance? Stay all the.

13:13 Speaker 9: Child she's stuck at all and all the tables.

13:24 Speaker 1: Down with you?

13:30 Speaker 9: I go up blocking the waters. She's the one the

13:38 Speaker 9: die of the That's dude, there was no should never

13:45 Speaker 9: check me and the boys on the rock shot me

13:49 Speaker 9: a chance, stay all the child? Dying whatever.

14:06 Speaker 10: Had no shame?

14:11 Speaker 1: Again, I love it. It's got that big dramatic ending

14:28 Speaker 1: to that is Becky, Let's be f raid Boston's Final Raid.

14:32 Speaker 1: And we have the guys here with us alive in

14:34 Speaker 1: studio and uh, all right, so I need to know this.

14:37 Speaker 1: Where does it? What does the name mean?

14:39 Speaker 8: So keep in mind the name was the creation of

14:43 Speaker 8: sixteen and seven year eighteen year olds. Yeah, so we

14:47 Speaker 8: liked the name Raid. We loved it, and every time

14:50 Speaker 8: we came up with a band named someone had it.

14:52 Speaker 8: And then we thought ear Raid, like a I R

14:55 Speaker 8: air raid okay, and then we thought air raid e

14:58 Speaker 8: A R raid. We're like, no, we just like raid. Yeah,

15:02 Speaker 8: so it's kind of stupid for a metal band, but

15:05 Speaker 8: we said, hey, we'll just throw some random letters in

15:09 Speaker 8: front of it, like Ario Speedwagon, right yeah, so.

15:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, because the ari O and Ario Speedwagon doesn't actually

15:15 Speaker 1: mean anything, right, it's just right yeah yeah yeah.

15:18 Speaker 6: So out of the ear, we just picked b an

15:23 Speaker 6: F not even meaning for it to be like be afraid.

15:27 Speaker 1: Oh okay. So and but also if you say it fast,

15:30 Speaker 1: be afraid yeah yeah, okay, so that didn't even occur

15:34 Speaker 1: to me. Yeah yeah, all right.

15:35 Speaker 2: Everyone I've like told about it thinks that that, Like

15:39 Speaker 2: they see the website and like be afraid. They're like,

15:41 Speaker 2: oh that's a cool name. Yeah, and they're like that's

15:44 Speaker 2: that's it wasn't the point at all, that, right.

15:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's just what are we supposed to be afraid of?

15:48 Speaker 6: It's like no, so no of us.

15:51 Speaker 8: So originally the name was bloody F word with an

15:58 Speaker 8: I N G raid. Yeah, and then we started to

16:00 Speaker 8: get booked and we started to get we like, obviously

16:06 Speaker 8: we can't say that on radio, right.

16:07 Speaker 1: Right, right? That is correct? So we just leaned it up.

16:12 Speaker 6: We cleaned it up to Boston's final r oh.

16:15 Speaker 1: Okay, which still means nothing.

16:19 Speaker 6: Good.

16:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's a great name.

16:21 Speaker 6: It's just us and we've never had to compete with

16:25 Speaker 6: anyone for that.

16:26 Speaker 1: Name, right right, which is important and was especially important

16:30 Speaker 1: back then. You know today it's it's because of the Internet,

16:33 Speaker 1: it's very easy to figure out if somebody already has something.

16:36 Speaker 1: But back then, yeah, you could. You could run into

16:40 Speaker 1: all kinds. You know, there might be a band, you know,

16:43 Speaker 1: you could pick a name and there's another band and

16:44 Speaker 1: they're signed, maybe they just got signed to a label somewhere,

16:47 Speaker 1: and you have no idea because you know, until you know,

16:51 Speaker 1: until you start hearing their name, you just don't know.

16:53 Speaker 1: So it's smart to pick something that you know nobody

16:56 Speaker 1: else is likely to come up with, you know. Yeah,

17:00 Speaker 1: and uh so tell me, so, did you guys after

17:05 Speaker 1: the eighty three the eighty three demo? Did you guys?

17:08 Speaker 1: And you know you played out a lot and but

17:11 Speaker 1: has it really been this huge gap in time with

17:14 Speaker 1: the band or no?

17:15 Speaker 8: So, you know, Bill and I have been friends all

17:18 Speaker 8: the way through, so we would always see each other

17:20 Speaker 8: at weddings, or Bobbycue's at each other's houses and Bill

17:25 Speaker 8: we got a jam. I don't have the time. I

17:27 Speaker 8: don't have the time. Bill, we got a jam? Or

17:30 Speaker 8: we I go for Bill's I bust out a guitar.

17:33 Speaker 8: Bill would sing, get behind the drums or whatever, but

17:37 Speaker 8: I don't have the time. And Jamie, I credit Jamie.

17:42 Speaker 8: Jamie kind of was like you had you guys have

17:45 Speaker 8: to do the original demo Victim and Angel.

17:50 Speaker 1: Now who is Jamie?

17:52 Speaker 4: Jamie's the drummer, drummer, Okay, gotcha, And.

17:55 Speaker 8: We're like, He's like I always wanted to do those songs,

17:58 Speaker 8: go in the studio, would do him. And it was like, well,

18:01 Speaker 8: if we're going to do a Victim in Angel, you

18:04 Speaker 8: have to do crack the Egg.

18:05 Speaker 4: Well that's really not how that's really not how we

18:08 Speaker 4: got all it was. It was a little bit roped

18:11 Speaker 4: and doped me again. It was it was a little

18:14 Speaker 4: just jam you know nothing.

18:16 Speaker 5: Nothing, It's very casual, come on, we'll just do a

18:18 Speaker 5: couple of covers.

18:18 Speaker 1: Boom boom boom. And within two sessions it was like, okay,

18:22 Speaker 1: we got like seven songs ready to go. Oh wow.

18:26 Speaker 2: Like like Bruce mentioned, we're in a in a band

18:28 Speaker 2: that does covers, and we were in our rehearsal space.

18:30 Speaker 2: He's like a friend of mine's gonna come in and

18:31 Speaker 2: stay with us one time. So Bill showed up and

18:34 Speaker 2: did some stuff with us, and then Bruce was like,

18:37 Speaker 2: so what would you think about playing bass with us

18:40 Speaker 2: doing some of our original things.

18:41 Speaker 1: It was like, oh, this was a setup from didn't it. Yeah?

18:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean even after Erotica. That was probably around eighties, Yeah,

18:51 Speaker 4: then eight.

18:54 Speaker 1: I own my own business. I wear a lot of hats.

18:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, very busy guy, you know, you know, raising a family. Yeah,

19:00 Speaker 4: and I got into a Christian rock band. I used

19:07 Speaker 4: to sing and play drums at a Lutheran church in Popsfield, Okay.

19:12 Speaker 4: And I did that for almost three years, and actually

19:14 Speaker 4: I absolutely loved it. Yeah, absolutely love because I.

19:16 Speaker 1: Hadn't played in a long time.

19:18 Speaker 4: I was briefly in a cover band after e Rotica,

19:22 Speaker 4: call Fighters Gone Mad This on.

19:23 Speaker 1: My kids were really small, Yeah, and we played a

19:25 Speaker 1: lot of places as well, and I know Bruce was,

19:27 Speaker 1: you know, he was off doing his thing.

19:28 Speaker 4: We never really kind of cross paths other than, like

19:30 Speaker 4: he said, you know, at a barbecue or a wedding

19:32 Speaker 4: or something.

19:33 Speaker 1: Like that, and you know we're sixty now and to

19:36 Speaker 1: come back to this is very special. Yeah. Yeah, oh

19:40 Speaker 1: that's cool. That's cool. Well we should play another track

19:44 Speaker 1: from the album. How long has this been out? By

19:46 Speaker 1: the way, this is relatively new, right is a butter month?

19:49 Speaker 1: Oh wow? Very new? Very new? Is this did you

19:53 Speaker 1: guys uh do this with a label? Or is this

19:55 Speaker 1: all DIY or.

19:57 Speaker 6: This is all d YI.

19:58 Speaker 8: So we recorded at the Record Coat in Boston, which

20:04 Speaker 8: any musicians listening, they're great. It's a nonprofit yeah, so

20:09 Speaker 8: they subsidize the cost of the recording.

20:11 Speaker 1: Ok.

20:12 Speaker 6: They have every piece of.

20:14 Speaker 8: Equipment you would need to use, from amps to guitars

20:17 Speaker 8: to drums. Which is funny because when Bill got in there,

20:21 Speaker 8: he was like a kid in a candy store, I

20:23 Speaker 8: can imagine. Yeah, And he sees the percussion area and

20:26 Speaker 8: he's running up and down the aisles like I got this,

20:29 Speaker 8: I got He comes back with an African Gembe drum.

20:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're gonna use this and we're doing.

20:35 Speaker 8: Becky and I'm, you know, doing the hardcore punk part

20:38 Speaker 8: in the beginning, and he has the gembe drum and

20:41 Speaker 8: you know, it's our attitude. It's like allow it and

20:45 Speaker 8: he put the Gembie drum in Becky and it works.

20:49 Speaker 8: And that's been like an attitude. It's hey, just just

20:53 Speaker 8: try it. It takes us three minutes. Always play the song.

20:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

20:57 Speaker 6: Yeah, when you came down with the Xylo phone in

21:00 Speaker 6: your hand, I got a little worried.

21:04 Speaker 1: Understandable. Well, what should we play next? I'll let you

21:07 Speaker 1: guys pick from the from the album.

21:10 Speaker 6: Yes, Schmo would be good. Schmo.

21:11 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, you would. Uh you had mentioned that, Uh,

21:14 Speaker 1: you'd refer to that earlier, Joe Schmoe any kind of

21:17 Speaker 1: Now is Joe Shmo an actual person? Is there any

21:19 Speaker 1: kind of.

21:21 Speaker 4: So?

21:21 Speaker 1: When I was a teenager, it was this It was

21:23 Speaker 1: this guy, his cat.

21:26 Speaker 4: He was a cross of aliceon Cooper, Alice Cooper and

21:29 Speaker 4: Jesus Christ himself.

21:30 Speaker 1: That's what he looked like visually, very.

21:32 Speaker 4: Thin, bainy, long hair, no front teeth, funny, funny, funny,

21:37 Speaker 4: funny guy.

21:37 Speaker 1: But he had this dark side. Obviously, he had some

21:40 Speaker 1: kind of a pass. Yeah.

21:43 Speaker 4: I hung with him for a long time, just you know,

21:46 Speaker 4: here and there. Yeah, and he just did some bizarre things.

21:48 Speaker 4: So I wrote a song, all right, and it's.

21:51 Speaker 6: Kind of funny.

21:52 Speaker 8: I mean I knew Joe too, Billy, and he was

21:55 Speaker 8: a very spastic person. So when we visited this in

22:00 Speaker 8: the studio, I said, I have to play a spastic

22:04 Speaker 8: lead that is all over the place. So that lead

22:07 Speaker 8: is that's Joe. But then we also added Matt space. Yeah,

22:12 Speaker 8: it was never in the original song. And then that

22:15 Speaker 8: interlude afterwards is another piece of music that we're like, well,

22:20 Speaker 8: we never recorded this before, no one's heard it before.

22:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we.

22:26 Speaker 6: You know, we changed it dramatically.

22:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing like it. Oh okay, all right, well let's

22:33 Speaker 1: give this a listen. This is called Joe Schmoe. This

22:35 Speaker 1: is bfraid, Boston's Final Raid.

22:57 Speaker 9: What different?

22:58 Speaker 11: Indeed a Greek no, not mad.

23:02 Speaker 9: His name was Joel. You file the past, the mornings

23:06 Speaker 9: to the name man.

23:07 Speaker 11: He was as.

23:15 Speaker 9: One would think, Joe wan beble mind. He had ifer

23:19 Speaker 9: someone else nobody took as a sign.

23:22 Speaker 1: But I saw the real man.

23:24 Speaker 5: The numb mask isn't.

23:26 Speaker 7: The way you like com.

23:32 Speaker 9: Oh Joe, someone thinking all your dreams, the worst.

23:39 Speaker 11: Who Joe lay and every game child.

23:44 Speaker 9: You want to be away.

24:44 Speaker 2: So much?

24:46 Speaker 9: You really have to listen.

24:51 Speaker 11: Where you gotta go, jump, where you gotta go?

25:26 Speaker 10: Last nights, his blacks a lax thread lasting a bradtop to.

25:31 Speaker 9: The back top bundles.

25:33 Speaker 10: Because of two different towns. And he's saying, God write

25:36 Speaker 10: the song. And I said, Joe, someone was taking all

25:44 Speaker 10: your dreams a week.

25:49 Speaker 11: Whoa Joey plays an africado.

25:55 Speaker 10: On one day he was going at the days time

25:58 Speaker 10: he years sometimes on of the I get fatal measlaugh

26:03 Speaker 10: that I knew all too well, shot.

26:12 Speaker 9: So much ERNI has no place to call.

26:20 Speaker 2: You.

26:28 Speaker 1: I was so inspired by that I had to change

26:30 Speaker 1: my hat. Very very cool. That is called Joe Shmo.

26:35 Speaker 1: The band is bf Raid, Boston's Final Raid and they

26:38 Speaker 1: are joining us here this morning on Matt Connerton Unleashed

26:41 Speaker 1: as we are alive from the studios of w m

26:44 Speaker 1: n H ninety five point three FM, and we've been

26:47 Speaker 1: talking and playing some tracks from the new album Rated Again.

26:52 Speaker 1: And of course, uh, these guys are the one of

26:55 Speaker 1: the features in the current issue of paper Jam, or

26:57 Speaker 1: the November December issue, and which is very very cool.

27:02 Speaker 1: How did you guys get connected with paper Jam?

27:05 Speaker 8: It was Facebook mainly, you know, they kept popping up

27:09 Speaker 8: in my feed, popping up in my feed, and yeah,

27:13 Speaker 8: a friend of ours in another band was working with them,

27:16 Speaker 8: and I was like, wow, these people seem really cool. Yeah,

27:19 Speaker 8: and I reached out to Shila and it we just

27:24 Speaker 8: immediately hit it off with Sheila and Tony and from there.

27:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Did you go there for the for

27:32 Speaker 1: the print interview or no?

27:34 Speaker 8: We It was funny because I felt like, was the

27:36 Speaker 8: pandemic all over again? We're all on Microsoft team?

27:41 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, gotcha? Yeah yeah, yeah, whatever works very cool.

27:48 Speaker 1: Now are you guys playing out at all? Or the

27:50 Speaker 1: subject kind of came.

27:51 Speaker 8: Up off air, So once again, Bill will say never, right,

27:55 Speaker 8: like he was never going in the studio and he

27:57 Speaker 8: was never doing more than two songs maybe three songs.

28:00 Speaker 8: Oh Bill, it's five songs. Now, Hey Bill, it's seven songs.

28:04 Speaker 8: So and now we're going in to do a second album.

28:06 Speaker 1: Right so you are yeah, oh okay, cool?

28:10 Speaker 4: Yeah, But playing out, I mean, just be honest. I

28:12 Speaker 4: go to bed at nine thirty. I'm up at five thirty.

28:16 Speaker 1: I got a bed at nine thirty, right.

28:18 Speaker 4: Right, I think it's I'm looking for the right gig,

28:21 Speaker 4: yeah right, yeah, yeah, under the right circum.

28:23 Speaker 1: Something early in the evening.

28:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to open for the Early Bird buffet.

28:32 Speaker 1: The blue Hair. I mean, uh so, like Bill, do

28:38 Speaker 1: you kind of do you kind of have the itch?

28:40 Speaker 1: You just don't think it would be practical necessarily or

28:43 Speaker 1: I did it so much? Yeah, you know what I mean.

28:47 Speaker 1: I know it's involved, it's a lot of work, it's

28:49 Speaker 1: late nights, and I'm just I don't have the itch

28:54 Speaker 1: to do it. I would do it under the.

28:55 Speaker 4: Right circumstances, Like I told these guys, Yeah, I've just

28:58 Speaker 4: got uh you know, I've got a ton of stuff

29:01 Speaker 4: going on in my life, you know.

29:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I'm not even gonna bring it up. It's

29:04 Speaker 1: just I'm a busy, busy guy. Yeah. Yeah, and you

29:08 Speaker 1: know this is a release for me. Yeah, you know

29:10 Speaker 1: what I mean.

29:11 Speaker 4: I'm not looking for another job, right so if it's

29:14 Speaker 4: if it stays fun, I will play out.

29:16 Speaker 1: Yeah.

29:17 Speaker 4: But yeah, coming home at two in the morning, getting

29:19 Speaker 4: up at five, right to go to work. And not

29:21 Speaker 4: that I have never done it. I did it all

29:23 Speaker 4: through my twenties. Yeah, but at the stage of my life,

29:27 Speaker 4: like the creature.

29:29 Speaker 8: Right now, I hate rat or out. I'll probably take

29:33 Speaker 8: heat for this, But Bill sway. Joanna texted me and

29:38 Speaker 8: she was like, you got to get him on a stage.

29:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna steal her spandex pants.

29:48 Speaker 8: But as much as Bill's like, well, it was the

29:51 Speaker 8: right thing. I guarantee people, if you get go on

29:55 Speaker 8: a stage and you put a microphone in front of him,

29:58 Speaker 8: it's not like, okay, what whatever, It's well, me's wound

30:02 Speaker 8: up like the energizer Bunny.

30:04 Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's like all over the place, and it's

30:07 Speaker 6: fun for me.

30:08 Speaker 1: I get the karaoke crowd going, Yeah, it's.

30:11 Speaker 8: Fun for me as a guitar player to be on

30:13 Speaker 8: stage for Bill because we really feed off each other's

30:16 Speaker 8: energy and it's the live The live Bfree shows were

30:23 Speaker 8: pretty wild, to say the least.

30:25 Speaker 4: I imagine, yeah, just before the marsh pit scenes, you

30:28 Speaker 4: know what I mean, we kind of had our own

30:29 Speaker 4: little marshpit on stage.

30:30 Speaker 1: Him and I. Yeah, the rat scala and oh yeah,

30:34 Speaker 1: great time.

30:34 Speaker 8: I think the best pull from the rat was my

30:37 Speaker 8: dad and Dad, I have to clean this up for radio,

30:41 Speaker 8: and he's watching us. I'm doing backflips off the stage.

30:47 Speaker 8: We're climbing into each other. At one point during the gig,

30:52 Speaker 8: I looked at Bill. I'm like, Bill, am I bleeding?

30:55 Speaker 8: And he's looking at me. He goes, no, you look fine,

30:57 Speaker 8: and I saw a little blood on my guitar. Okay, song.

31:01 Speaker 6: Then I looked this more blood on my guitar. I'm like, no, Bill,

31:04 Speaker 6: I'm bleeding. And what happened?

31:06 Speaker 8: I knocked a tip off the switch of the guitar

31:09 Speaker 8: and they had sliced me right here. Oh but it

31:12 Speaker 8: was so clean, and my indrenaline was going. I did

31:15 Speaker 8: feel it, and you know this blood, we're doing flips,

31:19 Speaker 8: We're going all over the place. And afterwards, my dad,

31:21 Speaker 8: who's non Bill since he's a little and know the

31:24 Speaker 8: bass player and all of.

31:25 Speaker 6: Us since we're toddless, he's watching us and he's.

31:28 Speaker 8: Like, I don't know what I blank just for it.

31:32 Speaker 8: I don't know what I blank just saw. He said,

31:35 Speaker 8: But the audience enjoyed themselves, and you guys enjoyed yourselves,

31:41 Speaker 8: And he said, that's all that madness. You must have

31:44 Speaker 8: done a good job. That was the whole thing is

31:47 Speaker 8: we would take like this party on stage and literally

31:53 Speaker 8: bring it into the audience and it was like the

31:56 Speaker 8: whole thing was fun.

31:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, how metal is that too? You know, you're

32:01 Speaker 1: you're bleeding and you don't even notice it because because

32:04 Speaker 1: of the adrenaline.

32:07 Speaker 8: Jumping on people's tables, kicking pictures of beer across the club.

32:10 Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah. I hear these stories and I'm like,

32:15 Speaker 1: that's cool. We have to play it, yeah, except it's

32:19 Speaker 1: stuff you couldn't get away with today probably no. So

32:22 Speaker 1: I have to live vicariously through their memories a little bit. Yeah, yeah,

32:26 Speaker 1: no doubt.

32:27 Speaker 6: Even what we're telling you now is being cleaned up

32:29 Speaker 6: in Sana.

32:31 Speaker 4: Yeah.

32:32 Speaker 8: If let's put it this way, I founded an old

32:35 Speaker 8: rehearsal tape and someone left the tape player running. Yeah,

32:39 Speaker 8: and it's just conversations and an average day in the

32:44 Speaker 8: life of be Afraid.

32:45 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I called our.

32:47 Speaker 6: Base player Lane. I'm like, when I got this tape,

32:49 Speaker 6: He's like, burn it.

32:52 Speaker 8: And I can say if any of those conversations were heard,

32:55 Speaker 8: no one in the band could run for public office.

32:57 Speaker 4: Right.

33:01 Speaker 1: Did you guys ever get a I mean, it sounds

33:03 Speaker 1: like the show's got pretty wild. Did you ever get

33:05 Speaker 1: banned from anywhere? From playing anywhere?

33:07 Speaker 6: Or three times set the rat before we hit the stage?

33:11 Speaker 1: What are you three times you got?

33:12 Speaker 6: How does in that one day?

33:14 Speaker 1: Oh, in that one day?

33:15 Speaker 6: Yeah?

33:15 Speaker 1: What happened?

33:17 Speaker 8: Friend of the Bills, He's a friend of mine too,

33:19 Speaker 8: but more bills. He decided to moon the mass Pike

33:25 Speaker 8: behind the rat scala okay, and they were like, what

33:28 Speaker 8: are you guys doing. You're out of here, and it's like, no, no,

33:31 Speaker 8: he's not in the band. And we were behind the

33:34 Speaker 8: rat drinking beers. Yeah, he goes, get in the club.

33:37 Speaker 8: So we grabbed our beers and we came in the

33:39 Speaker 8: club and now we're in the dress room drinking out

33:43 Speaker 8: beers but they're our outside beers, okay. And another person

33:48 Speaker 8: walks in the dress room, what are you doing? You

33:50 Speaker 8: don't sell those. I'm like, they told us come inside.

33:53 Speaker 8: I mean we're totally innocent, right.

33:55 Speaker 6: It was like like this is wrong.

33:59 Speaker 8: So they took and they told us you're done. You're

34:01 Speaker 8: not playing tonight again. And then we were like, you know,

34:05 Speaker 8: please please please, we'll behave. We'll behave. So we're trying

34:09 Speaker 8: to behave. I grub a beer at the bar with

34:12 Speaker 8: my dad and then the manager walks over and I

34:15 Speaker 8: had like a baby baby baby face.

34:17 Speaker 6: He goes, what are you doing.

34:18 Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm having a beer. He took other beers.

34:21 Speaker 8: Where's your id Like an idiot? I left my idea

34:24 Speaker 8: at the studio.

34:24 Speaker 5: Oh no, drinking ag was only twenty back then.

34:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh really yeah, And I had just turned twenty,

34:29 Speaker 8: like a couple months earlier, and I'm like he's like,

34:33 Speaker 8: that's it.

34:34 Speaker 1: You guys are done.

34:36 Speaker 6: And it's like, no, I swear I'm twenty.

34:37 Speaker 8: I go this is my dad, dad, and my father's

34:41 Speaker 8: like he's actually old enough to drink, and it was

34:44 Speaker 8: the whole thing.

34:44 Speaker 6: Third time kicked out. Okay, you guys can play again.

34:47 Speaker 8: So we went up on stage and they like the

34:51 Speaker 8: buzz in the club was like, I'm going to blackball

34:54 Speaker 8: these guys from everywhere in Boston.

34:56 Speaker 6: They're never playing anyone anywhere again.

34:59 Speaker 8: So we're going to stage. We're like, we're gonna go

35:01 Speaker 8: for broke. So was the backflips, the blood, the you know.

35:06 Speaker 8: And we got done and the manager from the route

35:09 Speaker 8: was like, next time you play, no, I mean if

35:13 Speaker 8: you haven't played here again.

35:16 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

35:18 Speaker 4: We played Jackson, Cambridge and it burned down a week later.

35:21 Speaker 4: They were the last rock band actually played there.

35:23 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

35:24 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, and that was a nightmare. So what why

35:30 Speaker 6: did it?

35:30 Speaker 1: I never heard about this. Why did it burn down?

35:34 Speaker 6: It's burnt whatever? Yeah, who knows.

35:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, it was a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah,

35:43 Speaker 1: were you guys when you guys were really active, were

35:45 Speaker 1: you playing like every every week? Were you playing it

35:47 Speaker 1: all over Boston or yeah?

35:50 Speaker 8: So we play in Boston and then we were down

35:52 Speaker 8: played down the beach Revia Beach. Oh okay, and that

35:55 Speaker 8: was always cool because we play with no bands like

35:58 Speaker 8: Mats mm hmm.

36:00 Speaker 6: And I don't know if you know those guys, but

36:01 Speaker 6: they're awesome guys.

36:03 Speaker 1: Mass. I saw them once still around. I saw them

36:08 Speaker 1: at my first concert. So my first concert was Winger Okay,

36:11 Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, in Conquered and Mass opened for them.

36:16 Speaker 8: So no, Jean Joey, you know they're they're just like

36:22 Speaker 8: such Louis. They're just great guys. We played with them.

36:26 Speaker 8: Me and Billy played with them again in separate bands. Okay,

36:29 Speaker 8: so he was in Erotica, I was in the Wind.

36:34 Speaker 8: We played down there with them, and yeah, so yeah

36:37 Speaker 8: we would you know, we just played all over the beach.

36:40 Speaker 1: Yeah. Did did you guys play with anybody who went

36:43 Speaker 1: on to really be I mean, you know Mass people

36:45 Speaker 1: know them, but like, did you did you play with

36:47 Speaker 1: anyone who went on to Oh you played with.

36:50 Speaker 4: Before he was in the Dream Extreme he was the

36:54 Speaker 4: band I don't but yeah, and everybody, oh yeah, see

37:00 Speaker 4: he's amazing talent.

37:01 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's the city we come from, Malden. It's really

37:06 Speaker 8: strange musically. So the street I grew up on, I

37:11 Speaker 8: didn't live there when he lived there, but Norman Greenbaum

37:14 Speaker 8: lived on my street. Oh no kidding, Yeah, you know

37:16 Speaker 8: Spurred in the sky. If I walked around the corner

37:20 Speaker 8: and I knew him, I grew up with him. Bobino

37:23 Speaker 8: lived around the corner. He played with Charlie Farron, then Okay,

37:29 Speaker 8: who's also from Malden. Then Bill went on to play

37:31 Speaker 8: for Steve. I go across town. There's Scary Sharon and

37:35 Speaker 8: the guys from Extreme. And before they were Extreme, they

37:40 Speaker 8: were Adrenaline. Their first guitar player, Matt McKay was my

37:44 Speaker 8: guitar teacher. Oh okidding, So we knew all those guys.

37:47 Speaker 8: And then Matt's brother Mark formed the band called Slapshot

37:52 Speaker 8: you might have heard of, yes, And then Johnny A

37:55 Speaker 8: lived in town, and Dave Robinson the Cars lived in

37:57 Speaker 8: town and boys Life and it was just these.

38:02 Speaker 6: All out of this one city.

38:03 Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, yeah yea, and everyone was.

38:06 Speaker 8: I'm really cool, so like Gary's little older than me,

38:11 Speaker 8: Phil from you know for Bino, and those guys would

38:14 Speaker 8: always like help you out. It wasn't like this rival band.

38:18 Speaker 8: Yeah thing, yeah at the alunch gear or give you

38:21 Speaker 8: tips or like I said, Matt.

38:23 Speaker 6: Was my guitar teacher. So yeah, it was a really

38:27 Speaker 6: good environment to grow up in.

38:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean that's that's great because you know,

38:32 Speaker 1: if you had grown up somewhere if you know, if

38:34 Speaker 1: any of you guys had grown up somewhere else, who knows.

38:35 Speaker 1: You know, if you if you grew up somewhere where

38:37 Speaker 1: there was no musicians around, you might not be you

38:39 Speaker 1: might not be doing music today, you know, who knows.

38:42 Speaker 8: So, like you said, it's hard to find drummers. Yeah,

38:45 Speaker 8: you could just like walk to the cafeteria in high

38:47 Speaker 8: school and go, hey, I needed a drummer.

38:49 Speaker 1: Five guys would put your hand up. It's fantastic. Yeah

38:54 Speaker 1: oh did you yeah, yeah, did you do both for

38:56 Speaker 1: a while? They were good because you don't see you

38:58 Speaker 1: don't see a lot of that. You don't see a

38:59 Speaker 1: lot of singing rummers. The Eagles. Yeah, yeah, there's there's

39:03 Speaker 1: a few, but yeah, I mean my theory is, you know,

39:06 Speaker 1: because drums is the most physical instrument because you're using

39:08 Speaker 1: all four of your limbs, so to do that. Did

39:10 Speaker 1: you find it challenging to do that?

39:11 Speaker 5: In saying it depended on the genre.

39:13 Speaker 4: I mean, if it was you know, if it was

39:15 Speaker 4: a very fast heavy that you know, your you're breathing

39:18 Speaker 4: is different when you're playing drums.

39:19 Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta kind of it's like a sport.

39:22 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I mean.

39:23 Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, whereas you know, singing, it's it's more

39:28 Speaker 5: of a of a of a.

39:30 Speaker 4: Posture thing, yeah, you know, to use the proper muscles

39:33 Speaker 4: in your stomach and your throat.

39:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, so it could be it was challenging. I didn't

39:38 Speaker 5: do it for a long time.

39:39 Speaker 4: I gravitated towards singing because you know, obviously you couldn't

39:43 Speaker 4: find a lot of good singers.

39:44 Speaker 1: Right right, especially in the rock scene. Yeah, yeah, no,

39:48 Speaker 1: I love your voice on these tracks, and absolutely we should.

39:52 Speaker 1: We should play another one. It's getting late. Yeah, I

39:54 Speaker 1: want to I want to at least get get one

39:56 Speaker 1: more of these. In uh, where should we go next?

39:57 Speaker 4: I would probably say, Hollywood, Oh, what do you want

40:00 Speaker 4: to go? Within the wine, it's more of our well

40:06 Speaker 4: Holly Hollywood.

40:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll go with Hollywood, and then we'll get we'll

40:09 Speaker 1: get within with within the Wine, and at the end

40:12 Speaker 1: of the show we'll have time for both. We'll play this,

40:14 Speaker 1: we'll come back and just kind of remind everybody where

40:17 Speaker 1: to find you guys and the paper jam article and

40:19 Speaker 1: so forth, and then we'll uh yeah, and then we'll

40:21 Speaker 1: play the other one at the end. But yeah, this

40:23 Speaker 1: is called Hollywood with snakes and uh, this is b

40:27 Speaker 1: f raid Boston's final raid here with us live in studio,

40:32 Speaker 1: and it's not playing. Why is it not playing? Let

40:34 Speaker 1: me try that again.

40:35 Speaker 5: Here we go.

40:38 Speaker 1: Wait, it's doing something weird.

40:41 Speaker 5: Welcome me.

41:02 Speaker 10: Say your little speaks on the spree like to bottles, these.

41:05 Speaker 1: Classic skills adoles a dreams.

41:07 Speaker 9: Come to Night with the Stars, bass Green, night.

41:10 Speaker 10: Bus hounding at the credits roll, sollst sell you soul

41:15 Speaker 10: sins off wood basswood, but still don't go holdy.

41:19 Speaker 11: Wood bound ball had it?

41:25 Speaker 9: Would you find yourself from the castle house? Helps that

41:34 Speaker 9: you think so?

41:35 Speaker 11: Buse Finally you heard the starry w.

41:42 Speaker 9: It's a pity that it costs New.

41:45 Speaker 11: York soul and the Grandpa the area.

41:48 Speaker 9: Is sunning the house, cameras bashing palm of the don't one.

41:52 Speaker 10: Of you, and stelling is but this diamonds on your

41:55 Speaker 10: fingers and finally you have it all clean of the Knight.

41:59 Speaker 9: Show up the battles, not a creating all your beast.

42:03 Speaker 9: I'm mispan man, it's not when you had least find

42:15 Speaker 9: yourself on the chest of the house.

42:19 Speaker 1: It helps everything go.

42:20 Speaker 9: Someone in their house.

42:24 Speaker 10: Follow your the story.

42:28 Speaker 1: It's a pity that it.

42:29 Speaker 9: Costs you your soul.

43:18 Speaker 4: You're a Hollywood with lay every day.

43:21 Speaker 10: They read estates to the chap being away at the

43:25 Speaker 10: gully dream time.

43:32 Speaker 9: Hollywood. Once you read it's grip and you feel it's

43:35 Speaker 9: time to print the script. You should have known it

43:37 Speaker 9: would Electure County used to.

43:39 Speaker 10: Dream about the time I knowing the point you start

43:43 Speaker 10: to kill once again. You start to feel be enough

43:46 Speaker 10: be I'm not like.

43:47 Speaker 9: The good your finday sing a Hollywood.

43:53 Speaker 11: You don't by Honeywood.

44:00 Speaker 9: Show.

44:19 Speaker 1: What a great track Hollywood with snakes. The band is

44:22 Speaker 1: bf Raid Boston's Final Raid with us here live in

44:25 Speaker 1: studio and in a couple of moments we'll wrap up

44:28 Speaker 1: with those guys and we'll get one more track. And

44:31 Speaker 1: before we run out of time, though, Jenny, I want

44:32 Speaker 1: to make sure we remind everybody of what is going

44:35 Speaker 1: on tonight.

44:35 Speaker 7: Big event, the guest, very big event at the Mosaic

44:40 Speaker 7: Art Collective, the Small Wonders Miniature Art Show. The opening

44:44 Speaker 7: is tonight from four to eight pm. I hope you

44:46 Speaker 7: will join us there. I proudly have four pieces in

44:49 Speaker 7: this show, which is insane. I've never had so many

44:52 Speaker 7: pieces in the Jermy show. So thank you, thank you.

44:54 Speaker 1: We're very proud of her. You can go to the.

44:56 Speaker 7: Mosaic Art Collective, which is located at sixty six Hanover Street,

44:59 Speaker 7: Suite two one, right here in the Queen City and

45:01 Speaker 7: the Dayla Mayor Building. And if you are coming tonight,

45:04 Speaker 7: please please please consider bringing some art supplies. We are

45:07 Speaker 7: collecting art supplies to donate to local Manchester children and

45:11 Speaker 7: there will also be a raffle tonight with the proceeds

45:14 Speaker 7: going to New Hampshire Reproductive Fund.

45:17 Speaker 1: Very good. So that is uh, what's the what is it?

45:20 Speaker 7: Four to eight for eight pm tonight is the opening.

45:23 Speaker 7: The show is actually going to be up through December.

45:25 Speaker 7: And all of the pieces in this show are below

45:27 Speaker 7: twelve by twelve size, so that's why it's a miniature.

45:31 Speaker 1: Yes, very good. Yeah, so so come down join us

45:35 Speaker 1: tonight and guys, this has been wonderful. Thank you so

45:38 Speaker 1: much for coming in this morning. You a pleasure. Thank you,

45:41 Speaker 1: thank you for the hat and the mugs and and everything.

45:43 Speaker 1: Yeah boiled.

45:45 Speaker 7: I can't wait to use my new coffee mugs.

45:47 Speaker 1: And the stickers. As you can see if you can

45:48 Speaker 1: see the mac of Jenny's computer, I don't like sticks.

45:51 Speaker 7: She run out of places. I need a new thing

45:55 Speaker 7: with the stickers on.

45:58 Speaker 1: What should our what should our listeners know about? Where

46:00 Speaker 1: to keep up with everything you guys are doing.

46:03 Speaker 8: I would say the Facebook page would be a really

46:05 Speaker 8: good place. It gets updated quite often. But also be

46:10 Speaker 8: afraid dot com.

46:11 Speaker 1: Yeah so we were we're still on Facebook.

46:14 Speaker 6: We're old.

46:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, but we were lucky to grab that your yeah

46:21 Speaker 8: thirty years ago and it just sits around did nothing.

46:24 Speaker 6: It's like, wow, we have this.

46:27 Speaker 2: Yeah.

46:27 Speaker 1: Yeah.

46:28 Speaker 4: Honestly, Bruce is the media guru though he's the one

46:30 Speaker 4: that oh okay really does He does a great job

46:32 Speaker 4: getting our name out there.

46:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's responsible for all of you know

46:36 Speaker 5: this and paper jam.

46:37 Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, the swagger and all that the press release,

46:40 Speaker 1: which was awesome, and yeah, yeah, a lot of time

46:44 Speaker 1: doing Yeah. Absolutely. Do you do the website too, Did

46:47 Speaker 1: you build the site?

46:48 Speaker 6: Yeah.

46:48 Speaker 1: I'm a web designer, so I look at and I

46:51 Speaker 1: judge websites. But I like your site. No, it's very good,

46:55 Speaker 1: very good. Yeah. Yeah, it looks good and it's it's

46:58 Speaker 1: easy to find everything. Just you know, I see a

47:01 Speaker 1: lot of bad websites, so when I see a good one,

47:04 Speaker 1: I like to go out of my way to say, hey,

47:05 Speaker 1: that's a good, good site. I see a lot of

47:07 Speaker 1: bad ones. I'm very judgmental about about websites. And you

47:15 Speaker 1: guys are already are it sounds like you're already talking

47:17 Speaker 1: about another album. Is that correct?

47:19 Speaker 8: We're already writing it. It's five in the Q now excellent, okay,

47:24 Speaker 8: and it's going to be Afraid. But there's a couple

47:28 Speaker 8: of songs that are maybe a little departure. There's one

47:33 Speaker 8: that we love called what You Crave. Yeah, still has

47:37 Speaker 8: that deep almost like who Cracked the a kind of

47:43 Speaker 8: sabbathy feel.

47:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's written around like a Hindu toty.

47:50 Speaker 8: Okay, so it's written you wouldn't hear that, but it

47:54 Speaker 8: was written with like Indian music skills. Okay, so has

47:58 Speaker 8: a weird, dissident, kind of deep sound to it. It's

48:03 Speaker 8: kind of cool. And then we have a song about

48:05 Speaker 8: white up called Bullets from the Board and that just

48:10 Speaker 8: has time signatures all over the place. Yeah, it's like

48:14 Speaker 8: three four different time signatures in different parts of the song.

48:18 Speaker 8: So it's that's been the biggest challenge.

48:21 Speaker 1: I would say, So, yeah, well that sounds it. Yeah, yeah,

48:26 Speaker 1: well we will uh we will close out with one

48:28 Speaker 1: more track, this within the Wine. Anything we should know

48:31 Speaker 1: about this before.

48:32 Speaker 8: We very early Beerfraid song. This is something we did

48:37 Speaker 8: back in the day. We played this live with the

48:40 Speaker 8: exception of the intro. Okay, right, so the intro was

48:44 Speaker 8: added a year ago, and I always wanted to have

48:49 Speaker 8: an intro to this song, but we would just usually

48:52 Speaker 8: started off one, two, three, four, boom right into it.

48:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, And.

48:57 Speaker 8: I would say we kind of call it a poppy

48:59 Speaker 8: song up because it doesn't seem as heavy.

49:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, but more commercial than yeah. Yeah, very melodic, very accessible.

49:06 Speaker 8: Again, Bruce, it's about me being a spaz and not

49:10 Speaker 8: being able to approach women when I was much younger.

49:13 Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding.

49:13 Speaker 8: So I would pond down a couple of beers and

49:15 Speaker 8: then I could talk to anybody.

49:17 Speaker 5: Right, like Rash from The Big Bang Theory, Yeah, but

49:20 Speaker 5: a worse version of rod.

49:22 Speaker 4: Uh.

49:23 Speaker 1: Yeah.

49:23 Speaker 8: So yeah, I just had like a lot of you know,

49:27 Speaker 8: before be Afraid, I was just chubby kid that played

49:30 Speaker 8: in like like a kind of rock band, but you know,

49:32 Speaker 8: it wasn't really successful with the ladies. And then I

49:37 Speaker 8: dropped all this weight. I joined this metal band where

49:40 Speaker 8: I could take my shirt off and pictures. Yeah, but

49:42 Speaker 8: I'm still self conscious, so yeah, yeah, the alcohol would

49:45 Speaker 8: help that a little bit.

49:47 Speaker 1: Sure, understood, understood, Well, yeah we will we will close

49:51 Speaker 1: with this, uh but thank you guys, and thank you

49:54 Speaker 1: everyone who joined us today. Of course Jack and Cora

49:56 Speaker 1: in the first hour, and then we had Eleanor and

49:58 Speaker 1: Spellfeet during the second hour talking about spe Healthy Fest

50:00 Speaker 1: coming up November twenty fourth at Jewel right here in Manchester.

50:05 Speaker 1: But we will close with this. This is from Bfraid,

50:08 Speaker 1: Boston's final Raid and the album is called Rated Again.

50:12 Speaker 1: And gentlemen again, thank you so much. Thank you Bruce, Bill, Matt,

50:16 Speaker 1: all three of you. Wonderful to have you here.