Matt Connarton Unleashed: Dank Sinatra

M h. Life as a space could down so tough. Family of you

to my family so much, very long. Understand I understand. No no

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

no no no no. That's a space contain. It was so tough friend,

so much. Do you just stands I it was all my dream.

It was all dream. That is space cadet. That is brand new from

these two fine gentlemen on the couch, Dank Sinatra. Yeah, we got

freed of Fradlo. You know what I did? I do that sometimes I

created an amalgam in your mind of in my mind of your names. Oh

yeah, so I combined Frado and Excel and Fradel. There's there's a there's

a third member of our band who is uh in Massachusetts, just far away,

Nathan Nate Is. It's not like it's not like when the you know,

in Spanish, when they make the j the huh sounds. It's not

yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty sure. Okay, okay, is

it is it spelled pi E g A R. I think it's p A

j A R. The dude has a Facebook. He does a thing.

You know, he's got he's got a big Um. He's got like a

he's got his own um, he's got his own page where it's just bass

players. Oh really, it's called Heckle the Bassis. Okay, and it's

just like all these different bass players. No, no, no, no,

community Baslayer he is Heckle the base is. But he is community.

He is tyckled the basis because like that's what he does. But he's in

this uh it's called Basse Upfront, which is a base front bass community.

Uh that that you're talking about? That he him, Nathan goes by Heckel

heck of the Bassis has a whole story that he if he calls in,

he could actually explain which way could be him on the line, his whole

community probably, Um, it's called Basse up base Upfront. That was a

a nationwide if not international, uh thing. That is a as I said,

a big uh base community. Okay, so so this is the same

on the line. Hello, welcome to the show. Yep, can you

guys hear me? Yeah? What's up? Man? Is this Nathan?

Yeah, Hey you're on the air. Welcome. Oh yeah, I totally

forgot to listen. I can hear he's you're giving your kids a bath.

Is that what that was going on? Yeah, that's what's going on right

now, getting family man, Yeah, yeah, well very good, Yeah,

go ahead. No, I'm I'm super excited. I haven't heard what

you guys have been talking about. I just thought the last minute of it

or so you guys are talking about we were yeah, we were talking about

out your your bass group. How'd you come up with that name, dude?

Um, honestly, I'm trying to remember how I came up with it.

I can't remember it offhand really, but um, it was just kind

of like I started doing live videos on Facebook all the time and people would

just kind of like heckled me in the comments. So I think I kind

of just came up with the idea off of that, like heckle the basis

because player, it sounds like you got a child there heckling you in real

time. You know, good dad, I'm not crank because I'm aren't good

dad. They are all right, well, very good. Well yeah that

quality radio. Well it does sound like you've got your hands full, so

well listening, we're doing some good stuff. Yeah, don't forget to use

the baby powder at the end, you know what I mean? So what

what have have you guys played any songs on the air yet or yeah,

a couple? Oh boy, Yeah, well we played We just played Space

Cadet and we're gonna play some more later. Oh and I opened the show

today with uh live inside the Lie the instrumental bro bro Bro. They opened

up with that. Yeah, we're literally smoking to come up. He's playing

the song for right on, you know, us dropping this like right now

for people to hear this, and we're super excited to fully release it for

everybody, for sure. I'm always excited. I'm super excited to be a

part of it with these guys, and you know, it's it's really special

to me what we're creating, so we hope it's special for everybody else too.

Yeah. Absolutely, no, it's great stuff, man, great stuff.

Love it, and we're very happy to be able to do the world

radio premiere here on the show. We're gonna do it. Yeah, I

definitely am gonna hop on the hop on the stream right now and listen.

All right, very good here shout out to the fan. Man. All

right, well I got the I got the kiddos here, so I'll hop

on there and listen. But all right, Nathan. Thanks for having me

and thanks for having us of course, thank you man. All right,

thanks for the call. All right, bye bye. Did I say his

name right? He said it? Good? Oh okay, he would have

corrected you. It's fine. Oh what does he go by? Nate Yate?

No? Okay, Oh gotcha call him Nate Dog, Nate Dog.

I was thinking about you do not. I never call him. You never

call him. Look at my phone though, he is in my phone.

He is Nate Dog in my phone. He's legit. Literally, that's what

he saved as in my phone. Uh, deceased R and B singer Nate

Dog. Well is he dead? I didn't know that you had a stroke

a long time ago. This is so weird because for the first time in

literally decades, I was thinking about him the other day, you know why.

So I've got I've got satellite radio in my car, right, and

they've got this new channel that they run in the summer called yacht Rock.

Okay, and in the promos happen in there um. But in the in

the promo that they run, they've got Michael McDonald's song that one, Yes,

Yes, and they but they just play like the opening notes of it

and all you want to hear is Regulator. Yes, yes, So I

kept I kept hearing it, and then I and I keep thinking about Regulator

by Wary, and I hadn't I hadn't heard that in so long, but

I kept making me think about it. So finally I pulled it up and

listened to it, and then I remembered why. I never really liked it

that much. But it was just I don't think it's very good, but

it was I am you know O. No. I was into a lot

of actually, but I just that song I never really liked. I don't

think it works. It's like because Nate Dogg is just supposed to see he's

just there to sing the hook. But but in that song, he's doing

half the song. He's doing so much, and he's the one and Warren

g in the lyrics, you know, he ends up looking more like Warren

b because Nate Dogg is the one who because he doesn't do any regular Nate

dog is the one. Nate dog is the one who comes in and saves

the day, right right? Because is about is that East coast West coast

stuff they're about. They're about to take his rings and take his Rolex yes,

brother, what's next. Yeah, we're about to get you. And

then and then and then Nate Dog shows up, Yes, and saves the

day. Not only because he saved the day, but he then finds them

some quote unquote, hose to go to the East Side. Yeah, easy,

it's afternoon drive. This is quote unquote. They're called their cultural relevance.

I understand, I understand, but yes, I sustained. So anyway,

that's so I was singing about Nate Dog. And then that's the second

time he's come on. Never called him, don't I didn't know Nate Dog

was dead. So he's a big guy. He didn't pass away. Yeah,

I think twenty years ago, twenty at least twenty, I haven't heard

him. Let's play America's favorite game. Are they gone yet? How long

have they been gone? Because there was a time, there was a period

where he there's two gs in folks, he was on. He was March

fifteen eleven. Really look at that long. For a long time he was

singing the hook on like everything. Yeah, everything that was like I totally

think he died in the early two thousands, twenty eleven. He made it.

Yeah, So anyway, that's that was my Nate Dog thing. So

that's a funny coincidence. Yeah, you know, I just remember, um,

I just remember. He had such a smooth voice. Yeah. It

was like it was smooth man like velvety. Yeah. And it was like

he was a deep yeah. And he was a baritone, right, which

is cool because I'll say it gangster. It was gangster. You know,

what is it about being like a I I think if you're forty years old,

especially if you lived far away from any gangster life, if you're just

like a regular American kid growing up in Wherever, America, you probably love

gangster music if you are around forty years old. You know, if you're

around forty forty five years old, you could probably recite Snoop Dog, you

know, like off the top of your head, you know, like riding

a bike. Well, you know who's an older guy now And I don't

even know how old he is, but you know, Matt Drudge from the

Drudge Report not really not really relevant anymore, but but he apparently loves thanks

to rap for whatever reason. But people people be loving it. Yeah,

even even older. He's got to be in the sixties. Now. You

know what when people think gangster rap Debbie Gibson and Dank Sinatra. That's that's

those are the two. Yes, those are the two names that have come

up. You uh, and in doing that you brought everything full surface.

I think that's we call it a callback. Are you guys mad? You're

not opening for Deborah Gibson? You know, Alice, I'm just curious now

that you know, Debbie, if you're out there listening, because apparently there's

no satri Dank Sinatra wouldn't wouldn't mind playing it because there's no open according to

easy Play something eighties like some round and round by rat or something like that.

I don't know. According to easy g uh, there's no opener like

you just like I mean, first he's talking at first, he's talking about

Nate Dog. You're trying to get us, trying to said were we are?

We are? We are collaborators because you know, East Coast is awesome.

Like imagine if you had Stata live and he could do the mashup live

with Michael McDonald, that would have been amazing. Somehow, I don't think

Michael McDonald would have gone for that. He just strikes me as a dude.

Who and then they both go into what a full belief, you know,

and then they go into what a full BELIEFE like right away? I

don't know, doesn't Michael McDonald kind of strike you as someone who just would

say, now pass. I'm surprised he joined the Dubie Brothers. He didn't

look like he smoked a Dubie in his life. He um, you know,

Dan, you're a Tom Johnston guy, or you're a Michael mcgie.

He looks like an RV seller, according to he does RVs in Vermont.

I swear of seeing him his face at least twice. David Crosby before he

died. When he did the h I think it was his last big,

real, full length interview on The Howard Stern Show. David Cross said in

that interview that Michael McDonald and David Crosby's opinion is currently and this was,

you know, at the time of the interview, the best singer in the

United States. Wow, the best I heard that, you know what.

David Crosby also survived for forty years on cracking and baking soda. I don't

think in his later years there was any of that heroin. I don't know.

I think he because I don't think you would have lived as long as

he did at it continued but earlier. I think it's in the weekie.

You can check in the weekie. Really, I don't think Yeah, yeah,

I don't think he dined very old man, Now he did. I

think he did. I think he. I think he stuck around longer than

anyone. I think he made. I think he made it to eighty or

close to it, eighty one and a half probably. Okay, he was

born in he's a World War two baby. Yeah, forty one. We're

doing math now, I'm not good at math. I need I just just

give me the don't don't, I can't. That's probably. That's pretty good.

That's pretty for a guy who lived the way he did earlier in his

life. Yeah, I mean that's that's pretty good. Now. I think

he'd been cleaned for a long time. I think he kind of, yeah,

because I think it came because he had a major health crisis. Didn't

He didn't have a kidney transplant or something, and then it was kind of

like, hey man, you either clean up or you die. This is

it. And I think he I think he's one of those rock stars that

got like pushed up the list to get a new liver faster. It was

a liver. It was a liver, not a kid name him. I

think you're right. I think you're a bunch of guys in that generation.

I think Phil lash is around his age. You got you gotta livery Oh

did he? I didn't know that. That's why he does the fair is

fair. That's why at the end of every show, God bless Phil.

I love Phil so much. But he does the you know, he does

a whole speech about being an organ doner. Oh he does. Well,

yeah, because it's a rock star and rock stars get their livers first for

a while. That's right. Yeah, well that's good. Right. You

guys like that, right, I mean if you you you know you you

get if you if you need a liver, you know you can say,

hey, you know, there's a there's a system on my liver. It's

a good thing. I'm a rock star. Yes, it doesn't count.

It should get tax exempt. Look if it's if it's rock and Roll Hall

of Fame. But but you get, you get a liver. You need.

That's more important. You're more important sists. You need these two sists

to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rumors, rumors.

Yeah, I don't know what it takes to be in the Rock Roll Hall

of Fame because Sound Garden didn't get in this year. Yeah, and that

is I heard Missy Elliott did, I don't know it's straight. Yeah,

well she got in a while ago too. No, it was like this

is the year. It was like, have you seen this year? Look

at this It was crazy. It was like it was like it was like

this year was a sham. It was a sham. It was like Iron

Maiden was up, Iron Soundgardene in, Um, Cindy Lapper, um.

Who else was there? Gosh, man, people that I don't know that

shouldn't be in the Rock and Roll Hall. The Spinners, The Spinners were

there. I think the Spinners deserve to be there. Yeah. They had

a couple of songs you know, I'll be around. Oh yeah, no,

they had a bunch of hits. Oh yeah something. Um, I

don't I mean, do you guys get into the whole thing? See I

see Elliott was was definitely no, we really don't. But this this year's

Sound Garden, I think it's just funny. So it's not it's not they

should be Yeah, No, there's a lot of bands that should be in

and so artist but personally because people always complain though about oh, you know,

they shouldn't let hip hop artists in and whatnot, I always say there

should be a hip hop Hall of Fame. I always, well, see,

I've always just said though to me, it's just it's a misnomer.

It's not really a rock and roll fame. It's in music. It's a

music hall of fame. And you know in rock and roll hill. Oh

yeah, you know who wasn't speaking of which Okay, So to to segue

on this year's ballot was Willie Nelson for the rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

and oh yeah, and he's he's not a rock and roll guy.

I love Willie Nelson to death. And you know what. There's a country

Hall of Fame. It's it's in Nashville. Yeah, put him there.

But he's influenced a lot of rockers. Yeah, I get it. So

there's that. I want to say. Tribe called the Quest was also there.

Yeah it was. I got no problem with it. Let them all

in. I don't care, let them all in. I don't care.

I just I just think of it as it's not literally a rock and roll

Hall of Fame. It's a music hall of fame. But music hall of

fame doesn't sound as snappy as rock and roll Hall of Fame, you know

what I mean. It's a it's a popular music. I mean, there's

a thing that happens in New England called the New England Music Awards, and

they do exactly that. They separated from category, from different categories, to

different states, to different genres, and it is a very inclusive thing that

everybody can do locally, and that should be a blueprint for something like that.

And at least being like a rock and roll Hall of Fame, you're

narrow minding it to you know, just rock and roll. And so like

all these other categories get through thrown in because things have been you know,

morphed in the past few, you know, decades that now it kind of

needs a re mapping, at least when I when I first was, I

don't know, I guess that's my understanding of rock and roll was it came

around in the fifties and like this guy, you know, Chuck Berry and

uh little Richard and stuff like that, Yeah, came with rock and roll,

and like it was defined by this like beat dude, du you know

that was like, yeah, that was like the tradition what made right as

so you could like that's what makes the genre is like the beat because like

you could do any song in a different genre. A Happy Birthday is a

folk zone, right, but you could do Happy Birthday in a rock style,

or you could do it in like a reggae you do a reggae version.

But um, I don't know, man, but genres, it's all

sub genres really is what it is. Yeah, And on my way over

here, I was thinking so much about what what you would think about Dick

Sinatra, Like what would you call it? Would you say it's rock metal,

alternative rock? Well there's the Yeah, there's the alternative rock. Short

gay catch all. It's got a to me, it's it's got kind of

a garage a garage rock absolutely vibe. You know, it's kind of kind

of raw. The production is is raw, but you know in a good

way. It's it's I don't mean it's I don't mean it doesn't sound like

it's. Well it's also a good segue because black Heart sound here in Manchester.

Here in Manchester, Eric Sotter in his crew, I have done a

phenomenal job. I hear that name a lot. He seems like he's really

has done a lot. I think he produced Faith Ann's album, Oh Okay,

her first one. He produced hers. He produced the first two Dank

Sinatra EPs. This is the first LP I know. He's done stuff for

UM ten to one, ten to one with the granted Tiers. There's a

bunch of people, Yeah, strange language, strange lange. There's a bunch

of people dead Harrison, Dead Harrison. And that's your Solf to top of

my head. The guy works with so many people. After after Image Brandon

Criscio, Oh yeah, it was the after image. We had them on

the show. The engineer on this album Okay, Okay and Brandon collaboration black

Heart Sound You Hampshire is you know, it's run by Eric and he's got

you know, people working with him, and yeah, we're such a pleasure

to work with Brandon, to be producing, you know, to be engineering,

yeah, you know. And then I co produced it with uh with

with Eric and he's got such a nice space right there behind the music mill

and he's got everything state of the art, like the you know, soundproof

see through you know doors, super super cool stuff. Yeah, he's got

uh every toy you want to play with, man, old amps, old

cabs, big, you know, just huge, old, stuffy tons of

it. So we were experimenting and yeah, I think we uh man um

over like a three four day period. We recorded this with him that quick.

Huh yeah. Wow, Well we rehearsed with the songs. Took about

a year yeah to write that's just right. Yeah, and you and I

went in and reached the vocals and and and you know there's mixing and this

post stuff. You know this. I went in with a keyboard after we

were like adding some stuff. Yeah, you'll get to hear it. Yeah,

yeah, there's there's a lot of it's it's it's an adventurous thing.

We're calling it obscurity and dissonance, and it's it's uh it's a concept album.

It's an old school concept album where uh, it's about a guy lost

in space and uh as he's as his spaceship is running out of fuel and

he's going further out into the into the nowhere, into the outer you know,

the cosmos. Yeah, into the space. He's uh right, like

kind of searching, listening for any communication that he can make with anyone.

And that's kind of like the album you're hearing the stuff coming in through the

through the dial and as he's looking for for communication. Okay, uh,

you know it's it's it's kind of this like lost and Space type of thing.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, and that's I don't know, there's I

think there's a lot of people who are kind of tired of the same old

stuff and everybody's like super political or super introspective, or everything's a love song

or a breakup song, and that just gets cheesy and old, you know,

or you know, everyone's or like your message, that's it's it's so

hilarious when an artist has like a message for everyone. Really your message are

you gandhi? You're just a chick with a guitar. Man, you don't

have like a message for us. You're just you know, like what are

you gonna solve? You know, just just just just you know, has

makes someun cool man makes sound cool that we want to listen to again and

over again. Yeah. And I think that was like like the vibe when

I hear the stuff that was influencing me when I was listening to this stuff,

like a lot of failure, a lot of Melvin's David Bowie, um

where it's like, yeah, you know, there's some love songs and stuff,

but there's also just kind of cool songs about whatever, some some cool

concept man yeah, some literal imagination role. Yep. Everything doesn't have to

have a deep, you know message, although there is some on this album

you know here and there. Well, that's the thing about music is ultimately

it's it's the meaning of it is up to the listener. You know,

they can they can take you if either if you want to take ourselves too

seriously, No, I get it, you know what I mean, Like

I want to take ourselves our art seriously, but I also don't. Yeah,

you know, I like, I also just want to be open to

just like goofing off and that's cool too. Have either of you guys ever

had the I've never thought to ask anybody this before, and I don't so

I don't know if this is a common experience people have or not. But

have either of you ever had had this happen? Where a song means something

to you, the lyrics means something to you, and then you hear the

artist or whoever wrote the lyrics talking about it and they say something completely different

than what it means to you, and there's something kind of jarring about that,

Like, okay for me, For me, it's not jarring. I

kind of just expected I expected at this point a person that kind of like

broke that, you know, illusion, a collective person that we we that

we like, is a Maynard James Keenan, the lead person from Circle APC

that like. He He's the first person that broke that illusion of like,

I'm supposed to like it one certain way because I think that that's what they

meant, right, And time after time, more often than not, whatever

you're thinking is not going to land whatever they're thinking, right. Furthermore,

Furthermore, words words themselves are inert, right, Like if I say the

word love, okay, then you hear that word and you shake your head.

I'm like, okay, like the word love and you're like okay,

and I see you shake your head. But what really happened is I said

the word love and then you went in your mind to all of your experiences

or not experiences, of what that word means to you, and then you

shook your head like I'm supposed to know what you meant? You know what

I mean? So yeah, I think. I think it's the same thing

with art. You know, it's just it's just gonna mean different stuff,

you know, Cracklin Rose. You know, it might be just like a

whatever song, but to someone it may mean so much. Yeah, Like

you know, like Forever in Blue Jeans could be uh, you know about

how I killed a drifter and I left them in his blue jeans. But

you know that's what it means to me. Well, I'm sorry to hear

that in a way, but but again, you know, matter what awesome?

So what's yeah, look, yeah, let's do that. Let's do

what do you guys want to play the one? Do the Math? Absolutely?

Yeah, what do you you want to do? The Math song?

Yeah? You know, if you if you're a fan of Air Between Us,

you might, I am, you might like if there's any Dank Sinatra

fans in the comments or in the air right now, this would be a

little call back to the first album. Yeah, I was gonna say,

yeah, prior to prior to the new the new stuff they were hearing today

or between Us is my favorite? Uh pre uh what's the name of the

new album? Again? This is obscurity and dissonance. Obscurity and Dissonance.

Yeah, um yeah, prior to prior to this album, Air between Us

is my favorite. That was off Bulterior Motives Two Birds Stoned at Once Yeah,

is that really the name of Yes, absolutely, I didn't realize we

called it bulterial. I didn't realize that we called it. Well, the

idea was that we were gonna then have another album later on down the line

called Bulterior Motives with another sub title. Yeah, but the first subtitle was

two Birds Stoned at Once because the first album was just us two. Yeah,

you know, this album we added Nate Yam and the first the album

cover for the first album, the artwork is our Mudshots yeah, yeah,

uh, and it's just the two of us, So, you know,

adding Nate added so much depth to songwriting and playing in this band. Yeah

and um yeah, so we kind of, you know, went with the

concept album. But you know, if we bring back bolt Here Motives,

there'll be there would be another subtype, you know, and it would be

definitely just irreverent and zany because we don't care. Yeah, I know.

All right, cool, Well let's listen to this. So now this is

one of the ones I haven't heard yet, so this will be uh,

this will be fun. So uh, this is uh the Math and this

is Dank Sinatra here with us in studio today. Check this out. This

is brand new stuff, the World Radio premiere of the world of these songs.

Why why World World, You can your life, you can wild,

wild Wild, And we have with us on the couch the Gentleman to two

thirds Hana of Dank Sinatra in studio with us, and today we have been

featuring music from their brand new album, the World Radio Premiere. If you

will Obscurity and Dissonance. Yes, yes, so we have Fredo and Axel

here from the band and uh, the only one we're missing his Nate,

but he is in the chat room. Oh I did see him in there?

Yes, yes, very good, Melanie says. What is on the

checkered shoeman's shirt? Is that a horror movie? No? Oh no no?

What is what is that? It's Wired for Sound. Yeah, our

friends in another band that we have amazing, great, great band, Wired

for Sound. This is one of their albums. Oh okay, awesome,

awesome alternative rock band from New Hampshire and you can also find them in any

streaming platform. Yeah, excellent, really good stuff. Wired for Sound excellent.

We will we will check that out. Absolutely. It does kind of

look like a silent Hill shirt though. Yeah. Yeah, it's got some

like horror vibes. I like that. Yeah, no, it does.

It definitely does. Uh. Let's see. Crystal said, by the way,

during Easyg's entertainment report, this is the shortened down version. It ain't

easy that's right. Rondo Favero says, California is in the house. Help

me run. Let's say, what's a big state it is. It's like,

let's say, I want to say, forty nine and a half million

people? Is it? May ask him anything about CALLI thirty nine and a

half millions. Ask him anything. I forgot for a second that you used

to live there, California. Whatever. Name three songs bro Hey, Red

Hutchili Peppers, can those as He's like thirty nine point five million, thirty

nine point five Yeah, okay, I want to say. Jay Fat is

in the chat room. Hello. Hey, Uh, let's see, I

thought I saw Kyle Clayton from the morning show we mentioned is in there.

Hello Kyle, Kyle. Uh, let's see, I thought I saw Jef

Dudes. Dave, my friend Dave Wally is in the Facebook live chat.

Dave is a very talented musician. I went to high school with Dave,

and uh, he's got a podcast he's gonna be working on. I gotta

talk to him more about that. I think he wants some input from me.

But yeah, very it's funny Dave. David called the show recently and

we talked about it in high school because my favorite band is Kiss, and

in high school, Dave used to give me a hard time about it,

and uh so, after all, what could be a hard time guys were

in makeup and giant boots, I know, right, But but then he's

funny. He called the show one day and we talked about it, and

uh, he's he respects them now and even even went to an audition at

one point for a Kiss tribute band. So it was kind of funny.

But like, all these years later to talk about that, because I still

remember what he used to give me a hard time. It's funny. But

God, bless the Internet. You know, you can connect with people from

you know, decades ago. Yeah I won't say how many decades, but

decades ago, speaking of Kiss. I was at a music connection, you

know, or music connect you know, music music the record store yeah,

we have. It's like the best record store in Manchester. I mean,

you know they got that guy on Summerville. I haven't been in there in

a really long but but but the dude, yeah music connection with it was

like it was cheap. It was like ten bucks. They had Kiss Alive

the double album. Yeah, I had to get it man. Oh no

kidding. Yeah. On Vinyl, the original, Oh nice, Nice.

I'm a sucker for Vinyl. Yeah. Yeah, dude, I love it.

I love it. Somebody told me on the show. It was someone

who said this that in uh in twenty twenty two, it was the first

year that Vinyl outs CDs again. Yep, it's real. It's coming back.

Yeah. I think people enjoy it. Yeah, there's something cool about

it, you know what I mean. The other day I was hanging with

my girl. We put on Master of Reality. Yeah, and um,

you know it starts off with sweet Leaf and you know, like towards yan

a song, it was like the song ended, what is that? It's

what is that? What is that? Yeah? It's end. We gotta

side B. We gotta put side B on. Yeah, someone's got to

go. So it's cool. Yeah, it's cool. You have to hold

it in your hand and his artwork on it, and well, I think

too. Part of why vinyl sell so well now is a lot of people

just um, because I never actually stopped. And I think a lot of

people, if they're really a fan of an artist, you know, they'll

they'll buy the vinyl and and just never even open it, just keep to

collect it because I love the artist absolutely, you know, and they might

also buy the CD to listen to you or just I have have doubles.

I have a lot of I like, I have My Sergeant Pepper's Only Hardest

Club, and I have a double which I like, I have with the

one I listened to and the one I play. Yeah, you know there's

I have a few records like, yeah, there's there's a few records.

I have double Dark Side of the Moon. Um. By the way,

my Sergeant Peppers is an original Apple Records Sargeant Peppers, which is why I

don't I do not play it. Oh wow, it's definitely over one hundred

bucks worth. It's probably like if I try to sell it on ebad'd probably

get a couple hundred bucks or at least it's got the original pull out cut

cut cut your own Sergeant Peppers uniform. Really yeah, it was because like

inside the sleeve it had this thing where like you could you know, um,

you had like little stripes and a star and you make it. You

can make your own uniform. Yea. I have a sticky fingers with the

original. It's got a zipper. Yeah yeah, and like you know you

don't play that man, right, Yeah. I have an unopened Peter Frampton

comes Alive unopened. Yeah, it's never it's sealed, never been open.

Yeah yeah, and I can't I can't listen to it, right, that's

cool. But my record player has bluetooth on it because it's twenty twenty three.

Yeah. Yeah, have like something two things that should not exist together

and they do. Yeah. It's like it's like retro retro tech man.

That is that is kind of funny. Like if I want the pops and

hisses, then yeah, I'll put it. I'll put it on a vinyl.

But if I want to listen to like h Clue, yeah, I

don't understand it, Like I'd rather listen to retro stuff all day. But

then I was shocked. I don't know if I've I've talked about it on

the show. I can't remember if I've talked about it with you guys before

on the show, but was it maybe five or six years ago. I'm

on bandcamp dot com and I said, and I realized that, uh,

there's cassette tapes and now that, and now that's come back in a big

I mean, it's never gonna get The last cassette tape I bought was a

local band called Black Hatch. Yeah. Have you ever heard of Black Hash?

Their local Manchester hard rock? Yeah, garage rock, hard garage rock,

really good stuff rock. And dude, if you like Kiss, check

out Black Hash. But yeah, they were selling tapes and I was like,

are they selling tapes? They were like it was dude. They were

so cool. They had they had a box. It was like I think

it was outside of um, oh, what's that tattoo plays chess place right

there down there down there? Anyways. Yeah, yeah, they were playing

outside the back of that. No, no, no, the other one.

Oh anyways, Uh, they're playing behind the back of it. And

they had a box with all a bunch of tapes in it, and it

was like give us five bucks or just take a tape. Yeah, like

like take it, you know, like you don't have to pay for it,

but we will will accept your money. Yeah, it was cool,

and I definitely took put my five bucks in there. But yeah, yeah,

it's it's cool. I mean, tape tape is cool man, you

know. I mean if sometimes, you know, you play something a bunch

of times and then you start you start to hearing that that hiss, you

know, I remember that. I used to. I used to make my

mixes off the radio. I used to take this to like wad up a

piece of tissue paper and like shove it in the little slots in the bottom

part of the tape. Yea, And I could just tape, Oh you

make my own mix tapes all right, off the radio. I would.

I would go so far as to, like if the tape broke, if

I wore it out, I would actually try to and a couple of times

it actually worked. I would. Yeah, I'd try to tie them together.

I would literally I would tie them together. That doesn't work, Yes,

it does, that would work. You would skip you would skip a

certain part? Well, yeah, yeah, but you have to make sure

that both of the top that you have to make sure that that's thin enough.

The top and the bottoms are different and positive and negative. It's weird,

Like there were certain ones that did pop that I would just tie.

It goes to side B from side A. That was the risk you you

took. I didn't say it was perfect, but I say that you could

do it, so that would work. Huh, I mean for a while,

right, event kidding. It's like if you're listening to Floyd to go

from us and them into Breathe like whatever, people would never know. You'll

never get to hear the Great Break in the Sky remix mixix. Oh that's

wild, that's wild. We want to do it. We want to we

want to put out a vinyl Yeah, you know, like it's expensive.

It is what I hear. It is expensive. It's not just the expensive

thing. But believe it or not, there's a waiting list. Really,

even if you have money, good luck, there's a bad quarter. Interesting,

yeah, because there's probably not very many companies to do it. No,

there isn't. There isn't. And then you can go as you can

go as few as like I want to make ten for seventy five a pop,

or you can go from like I want to make a thousand for ten

bucks each. Oh wow, you know what I mean like it's it's it

gets it gets crazy. It is expensive, It's absolutely expensive. Yeah.

But you know the thing is if you so you're not gonna if you make

one or two or three, if you make a handful, You're not doing

it to make a profit. You're doing it to like, you know,

put it on the fridge and show everyone that you made a record. Right

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course of course. Um are you guys?

Uh so this isn't actually out yet, right the new album or is

We have not dropped it? Man? So this is absolutely so this is

a real world wide This is awesome. Yeah. I'm beyond stoked actually,

and I just couldn't thank you enough for having us. Yeah. Yeah,

no, I'm happy to happy to do it. Uh So when does the

do we have an ETA on when the album officially is released? We're looking

at mid July, Okay, we're looking at Midgely for the release. And

that's going to be you know, of course, you know all all all

services that you that you give your music from. Yeah, you know,

whether it's YouTube or Spotify or you know, Apple or Amazon or wherever you

get your music from. That'll we're we don't want to put a exact date

on yet because we're still still in post. Yeah, but looking at mid

July. Okay, yeah cool. Are you guys playing out a lot these

days or have you been focused on getting the album done? Let me ascribe,

h we are sube. We are definitely uh we have definitely um taking

a back seat to performing this year. Yeah, A good chunk of this

year went straight into writing material and recording, jamming, jam and these songs

out to polish and recording and tracking and getting getting everything up to up to

stuff with everything. So like we we've, as I said, taking a

back seat to it, but we are definitely trying to hit the road quote

unquote. Uh yeah. So this this month, we're playing at Area twenty

three in the seventeenth and Conquered. I don't know the dates were deets deats.

So it's gonna be Saturday, Saturday. Yeah, it's gonna be Saturday.

June seventeenth, starts at at Area twenty three and I think the music

is gonna start there at eight and uh then we're gonna be uh, We're

gonna be in Dover on August twenty fifth at the Strand Theater. Ah,

yes, great place. Yeah, every everything. I've never been there,

everything I hear about it. Yeah, and they put your name on the

marque and everything, which is really cool. I see. I see a

lot of cool pictures of fans in front of the marquis and it's awesome.

It's really good to see. That's something in my calendar for July twenty ninth

in Nashville. I think they got canceled. Yeah, I think there's a

discreptanity with um a particular venue in Nashvia. But um, over that,

we have one as I said, as I said the seventeenth of this month,

we're it's like next Friday. Yeah, well next Saturday. It's next

Saturday, that's what. And then August twenty fifth, so like we're we're

not we're trying to get back into it because we've been kind of like shelling

ourselves to make this as good as possible. Yeah yeah, um, and

you know it's a full album, which is ambitious in this era because there's

a listen, you know, not that many yeah that are really doing that.

I mean, you know, and of course we live in a time

when you've got so many different options anyway with the Internet, Like for example,

yesterday I had on. I don't know if you know Holly Brewer,

Um, I've heard the name. Yeah, yeah, she was on the

show yesterday. She called in and we actually did a world radio premiere for

her new single, Clothesline. But what she does is she she's on a

regimented schedule. Every month she releases a new single, cool everything, and

she's been doing that since twenty nineteen. But that's it. That like there's

no big album or anything. So every every month she releases one song and

it's yeah, yeah, consistent, Yeah it is. Yeah, yeah,

she sticks to it, but but it's, um, there's so many different

ways to do it. Was it important to you guys to do that,

to make a make a full album? Like did you decide from the beginning

with with this one it was gonna be a full album? Or yeah?

Yeah yeah. The first one was an EP with a couple of covers on

it. Yeah, you know we had that was back when I was on

base in the band Frank Uh you know, Frank was an amazing guitarist.

Yeah, but we had a couple of covers on that. And then the

second one it was like I think like thirty four minutes total. Yeah,

it just wasn't long enough to be an album, and it was just Jacquelin

I and so I think we really wanted a full album, and then we

started talking about a concept and it was like, all right, you're right

now, and I think about it. No one is doing stuff like that.

Yeah, no one's putting out a concept album with thirteen songs and it's

probably gonna be close to like an hour long. Yeah, like that's um,

but here we are and we're doing it. I think it was important

because we had, um, we had a lot of songs with a certain

vibe and we actually wrote we wrote a lot of songs that didn't make it

to this album really, you know, so we I think we ended up

we started with like twenty and then we like just carves them off and chop

them away, and then you cut as much fat off as you can and

you end up with kind of like the songs that you don't want to get

rid of. And that's what we ended up with these thirteen songs. Yeah.

Yeah, it's you know, talking about what we were talking about earlier,

where it's like some of these songs are serious and some are not.

And I think that's uh part of just kind of the concept of the you

know, the chaos of being lost in space, you know, like the

the existential thoughts you're going to have of like you know, uh, this

right, this thing in front of me matters, but also you know what

does any of this matter? You know? Sure? So it's like a

I think there's um so many different things that we had to say, and

it could it couldn't have been done with less songs. We cut away with

what we could, yeah, what we had to yeah, yeah, and

what we what we kept we just couldn't get rid of, right right,

Well, let's um, let's play another one because yeah, we're we're rapidly

running out of time, but I want to I'd like to get at least

one more and now, and then we'll do one more at the end of

the show. But let I'll let you defer to you guys what I should

play next. Uh you know, since you said you liked it. Um,

oh Bowser, yeah, yeah, I like everything on here, but

yeah Bowser, uh so far as my personal favorite. Um, that's Nate.

We're open to hear Big Sleep. Maybe we could do Big Sleep as

like the Autra I don't know, yeah, whatever, whatever you want to

do Yeah, we can do that. But all right, let's um,

yeah, this is a this is a quick one. Actually it was only

two and a half minutes. That's a short one. But let's we'll give

this a listen. We've got Danks and Altra here with us in studio Chip

just this time, just my n to my mind, to my watch.

Say that is Bowser Dank Sinatra. That is brand new coming off the new

album. And uh yeah, Nate said in the chat room, thanks for

playing that one. Yeah he wrote that. Yeah, very very cool.

Yeah, that's my personal favorite from the new album. And uh yeah bang,

great stuff, great stuff. Well guys, before we run out of

time and we are going to play one more song to Ambichelle, but we

are we are approaching the end of the program. So I want to make

sure that everybody knows where to find you online and so they can keep up

with everything that you're doing, and of course up an eye out for when

the album is released in July and all the good stuff and social media anything

you want us to uh make sure our listeners know about what you want to

check out Dank Sinatra the band. Uh you can like you can YouTube Dank

Sinatra the band. Uh. You can also look us up on Spotify or

band camp. Dank Sinatra. You can look up our album Boultier Motives and

soon Obscurity and Dissonance will be coming out, so you can look up Dank

Sinatra Obscurity and Dissonance. Um. There is more than one Dank Sinatra out

there, but we like to think that we're there. We're the cool ones.

I think the mom says we're cool. The other ones a hip hop

artist, I think, right, isn't there. There's there's many hippes.

There's rock rock and roll and rock and roll ones. There's heavy metal ones.

There's a few. Yeah, we've been we've been approached by a couple.

We got stone and thought of it on our own. We we we've

been approached by a couple like actual dank Sinatra pages really no season desists,

just like, hey, congratulations respect. You know, from one dank sin

to another really good. Okay, oh that's good. That's mine, dank

Sinata brother from another dank Sinatia mother nice. You know. I don't know

if that, but it's very pops, very positive. I think Mike Penns

will have a heart attack thinking about that. Sentence, Oh, yeah,

no, I think you guys are awesome. I love the music and uh

very happy that we were able to do this today and I'll get it cued

up. What was the song? Uh, you wanted to end with?

Oh, Big Sleep, Big Sleep, Big Sleep, which we would love

to if if Debbie Gibson, if you're out there all right, guys,

thank you so much, Fredo and Axel and of course Nate in the chat

room from Dank Sinatra. We're going to close with this Big Sleep. Check

this out tak Times m