Matt Connarton Unleashed: Dave Strong

0:00 Speaker 1: I love that. I absolutely love that. That is called

0:02 Speaker 1: being around and that is Dave Strong, who we have

0:06 Speaker 1: here with us live in studio. Let me get that

0:09 Speaker 1: that mic up there. How's it going, Dave?

0:11 Speaker 2: What's up? How you doing good?

0:13 Speaker 1: I can hear you. Mike's working. That's all the that's

0:16 Speaker 1: all the battle. Really nice. Dave Strong is with us

0:20 Speaker 1: live in studio. He brought his guitar. He's gonna gonna

0:22 Speaker 1: play for us. And uh, and you brought your friend, uh.

0:26 Speaker 2: Tyler, Yeah, that's my son, Tyler.

0:28 Speaker 1: Well, that's your son. Hello. You don't look old enough

0:31 Speaker 1: to have us really Wow, that's incredible. Are you also

0:34 Speaker 1: a musician, Tyler Goudon pull that micup?

0:37 Speaker 3: No, but I come from a musicianist family.

0:40 Speaker 1: Okay.

0:43 Speaker 2: Tyler actually has done some of the artwork, my digital

0:46 Speaker 2: releases and stuff. He I'll take he took a picture

0:50 Speaker 2: and he makes like, you know, the things that go

0:53 Speaker 2: on Spotify and Apple Music. Yeah, that's say what like

0:57 Speaker 2: what I am? Says Dave Strong? Like being around on?

1:00 Speaker 2: He does that stuff.

1:01 Speaker 1: Oh very cool. I can't do much of music, but

1:04 Speaker 1: I can do like the art. Well, that's that's important.

1:08 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a huge part of it, especially in

1:09 Speaker 1: the era in which we live, you know, yeah, the

1:11 Speaker 1: visual aspect of it. Also before we get rolling here

1:14 Speaker 1: for those watching online, let me try to get this

1:18 Speaker 1: on the camera here for those watching on online. So

1:21 Speaker 1: Dave brought so this is vinyl that we talk about

1:24 Speaker 1: vinyl a lot on the show. So this is your

1:27 Speaker 1: self titled album.

1:28 Speaker 4: Yep.

1:29 Speaker 1: When did this come out?

1:30 Speaker 2: I came out about a year and a half ago.

1:32 Speaker 1: Very cool.

1:33 Speaker 2: I'm working on releasing my second one soon.

1:35 Speaker 1: Okay.

1:36 Speaker 5: That one's going to get outed to the office.

1:38 Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

1:41 Speaker 2: I come bearing gifts.

1:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, no, that's very cool. Copyright now,

1:47 Speaker 1: Oh is one of these a uh oh? One of

1:51 Speaker 1: these is the Ramones cover and one is yes, so

1:54 Speaker 1: what so most of these are originals? Correct?

1:56 Speaker 2: Yeah? Eight of the ten are originals okay, yep, ones

2:00 Speaker 2: of our own song and one's Eddie Cochran.

2:03 Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool, So thank you. Yeah, that's that's excellent.

2:06 Speaker 1: And he brought you brought us pins too, yep. Probably

2:09 Speaker 1: can't see these as well on the camera, but no,

2:12 Speaker 1: that's great, thank you. Yeah, this is and this was

2:16 Speaker 1: released on Fameless Records.

2:19 Speaker 2: Yes, small little label out of Philly.

2:21 Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding, how'd you how'd you get connected with them?

2:25 Speaker 2: I've been playing music for a little bit now, and

2:28 Speaker 2: I have pitched a few ideas to Tim who runs

2:31 Speaker 2: the label in Philly, and you know, we just got

2:35 Speaker 2: talking through social media and like he liked what I

2:40 Speaker 2: was doing solo. Yeah, he goes, you know, now's a

2:43 Speaker 2: good time to put it out. So I said, all right,

2:45 Speaker 2: let's do it.

2:46 Speaker 1: Yeah that's awesome, And so I assume it's also available

2:50 Speaker 1: on CD and yeah, that'd be weird to just do

2:52 Speaker 1: a vinyl release.

2:53 Speaker 2: Streaming. Yeah, those ten songs are streaming, plus another ten

2:57 Speaker 2: songs on like Apple, Music, Spot, Amazon, Deezer, all those.

3:02 Speaker 1: Okay, is this your only full length album? Because I

3:07 Speaker 1: noticed just looking online it looks like you put out

3:09 Speaker 1: a lot of singles.

3:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. I do a lot of singles. So when I started,

3:14 Speaker 2: I was doing just band camp singles. And then like

3:21 Speaker 2: I said, my buddy was like, yo, we can maybe

3:24 Speaker 2: do a compilation like CD tape record maybe, And that's

3:29 Speaker 2: how that happened. And that's the first ten songs that

3:32 Speaker 2: I put out. And since I've just I've been trying

3:37 Speaker 2: to be consistent with my singles. But there is a

3:41 Speaker 2: plan probably in December. Loosely December is when the next

3:46 Speaker 2: ten songs will go off to press to be like

3:48 Speaker 2: the Dave Strong second album or whatever. I don't know

3:50 Speaker 2: the name of it. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be like a

3:52 Speaker 2: blue one or something. It'll be cool. And we almost

3:55 Speaker 2: sold out of those. I think we pressed three hundred

3:58 Speaker 2: and we're about to sell out of those, and we're

4:00 Speaker 2: going to repress that one too, which is really cool.

4:03 Speaker 1: No, that's amazing. Good for you, man, Good for you.

4:07 Speaker 1: How do you uh? Everyone always says this question, but

4:10 Speaker 1: how do you describe your music for someone who's never

4:11 Speaker 1: heard it? Because pretty eclectic stuff. Like I listened to

4:14 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of your music online in

4:16 Speaker 1: addition to the tracks that you sent me. It's really

4:18 Speaker 1: eclectic and hard to uh. I mean, I wouldn't know

4:22 Speaker 1: what to tell somebody. Like if somebody said to me

4:24 Speaker 1: describe Dave Strong, I'd be like, I don't know. I mean,

4:26 Speaker 1: there's definitely you know, there's a punk vibe there. But

4:29 Speaker 1: but a song like uh or be Around, it's like

4:34 Speaker 1: just I just love that so much. By the way,

4:36 Speaker 1: I love the lyrics, you know, but I mean, how

4:40 Speaker 1: do you clever?

4:40 Speaker 2: Yeah?

4:41 Speaker 1: What's that?

4:41 Speaker 2: It's a clever song?

4:42 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Like how do you How do you describe

4:44 Speaker 1: your music to people who've never heard it?

4:46 Speaker 2: Usually, so in general, I'll say it's like Green Day

4:52 Speaker 2: meets Weezer meets the Ramones or something like all all

4:56 Speaker 2: kind of stereotype three popular bands that someone might have heard,

5:02 Speaker 2: you know. But it depends on who I'm hanging out with.

5:05 Speaker 2: If if like a bunch of punk people are like,

5:08 Speaker 2: what do you sound like, I'll be like, I sound

5:10 Speaker 2: like I'm punk. I'm really punk, check me out. Or

5:13 Speaker 2: if like my mom or her friends are like, what

5:15 Speaker 2: what do you sound like? I'll be like, well, I

5:17 Speaker 2: sound like the Beatles, like a little faster, or like Eddie.

5:20 Speaker 2: I do an Eddie Cochran song, which is like from

5:22 Speaker 2: the fifties, you know, So like I'll be like, yeah,

5:25 Speaker 2: maybe I'm like Geene Vincent on speed or something like that,

5:28 Speaker 2: you know, because some of the songs have upright bass.

5:31 Speaker 2: So I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and

5:33 Speaker 2: Oldies and the Beatles. I love harmonies and stuff like that,

5:39 Speaker 2: you know, And then then I got into like Nirvana

5:42 Speaker 2: and Ramones, so I keep it rock and roll, but yeah,

5:47 Speaker 2: like catchy poppy rock, I guess. Yeah.

5:50 Speaker 1: And so now do you always or do you usually

5:53 Speaker 1: play with a band or do you do a lot

5:55 Speaker 1: of because I think you had mentioned too you had

5:57 Speaker 1: recently done a solo show or last night you had

5:59 Speaker 1: done a.

6:00 Speaker 2: Last night I did a full band show at O'Brien

6:03 Speaker 2: and that was awesome.

6:06 Speaker 1: That's a great room.

6:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great. There was a lot of people

6:08 Speaker 2: at it too. It was cool. Parking stunk well yeah yeah, yeah,

6:14 Speaker 2: but very supportive, great bands, really cool place. But I

6:20 Speaker 2: try to play live with a band as much as possible.

6:24 Speaker 2: If somebody asks me to play, I always ask my

6:26 Speaker 2: band first. Yeah, but you know, my drummer lives in

6:31 Speaker 2: Western mass my second guitarist lives in Connecticut, and my

6:35 Speaker 2: bass player lives in Barrington. So we're all like in

6:38 Speaker 2: different states.

6:39 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, it's not like gas is expensive or anything.

6:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we are. We are going to Germany too, Yeah,

6:47 Speaker 2: no kidding, I mean the big shows when it matters.

6:49 Speaker 2: I mean I think every show matters. But when when

6:53 Speaker 2: push comes to shove and like it's a Saturday night

6:57 Speaker 2: packed place, they're going to be there, yeah with me, Yeah,

7:00 Speaker 2: you know. But I'm playing next Saturday night in Portland,

7:04 Speaker 2: Okay by myself at spring Hill Tavern, Okay. And then

7:07 Speaker 2: I'm playing the week after the fourteenth at Gino's in

7:11 Speaker 2: Portland with a full band.

7:13 Speaker 1: Nice.

7:13 Speaker 2: So you never know, you never know what you're gonna get.

7:16 Speaker 2: I like to I don't like to say no to shows. Yeah,

7:19 Speaker 2: so like if a show is on a Wednesday night

7:21 Speaker 2: or something, it's gonna probably be just me right right,

7:24 Speaker 2: It's like a Saturday night, you know, it's gonna probably

7:27 Speaker 2: be the band.

7:29 Speaker 1: Portland's a great scene. Is that? Is that where you're

7:31 Speaker 1: because you're from Maine, right, yeah?

7:33 Speaker 2: I live pretty close to Portland, maybe like thirty minutes

7:36 Speaker 2: from Portland.

7:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah yeah, people who don't know, I mean it's

7:39 Speaker 1: it's kind of Portland's a lot like Boston, I feel,

7:41 Speaker 1: in terms of the scene and the diversity of it,

7:46 Speaker 1: a lot of different kinds of music there. Do you play?

7:51 Speaker 1: So are you playing? It sounds like you play a

7:53 Speaker 1: lot every weekend.

7:54 Speaker 2: Do you have shows? I've been trying Yeah, yeah, yep

7:57 Speaker 2: and good.

7:58 Speaker 1: And then when you go to Germany, is the full

8:00 Speaker 1: going with you?

8:01 Speaker 2: Yes? A variation of the band. My buddy Bernie, who

8:05 Speaker 2: plays bass for us, is gonna stay home, but Lee,

8:10 Speaker 2: who plays guitar. It's funny. Lee plays drums on a

8:13 Speaker 2: lot of this, a lot of the studio stuff. He's

8:17 Speaker 2: like my right hand man almost when it comes to

8:19 Speaker 2: this stuff. He doesn't play every show. Sometimes we play

8:21 Speaker 2: a three piece, but he always helps out in the studio,

8:25 Speaker 2: especially on this new album. He's gonna play bass in

8:28 Speaker 2: Germany and my drummer Jared is gonna is gonna come

8:32 Speaker 2: and play drums, so we'll do a three piece. Yeah,

8:34 Speaker 2: I'll have a full band in Germany.

8:35 Speaker 1: Okay. It's nice that you have that kind of flexibility

8:38 Speaker 1: where you can, you know, you can kind of just

8:39 Speaker 1: make it work, you know, and change the configuration as

8:43 Speaker 1: you go if you need to. So that's pretty cool.

8:45 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's stressful as well.

8:50 Speaker 1: How many how many dates are you doing there?

8:53 Speaker 2: We're gonna be there for six days and I think

8:56 Speaker 2: we're gonna play four of them.

8:58 Speaker 1: Okay, have you been to Europe before?

9:00 Speaker 2: I have been. I've played with my friend Jeff before

9:05 Speaker 2: over there. Yeah. We flew in to Spain, played two

9:10 Speaker 2: or three shows in like Madrid, Leon wow. And then

9:14 Speaker 2: we flew to Amsterdam and played Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Yeah so,

9:21 Speaker 2: and I think that was like in eight days. We

9:23 Speaker 2: probably played four or five shows and eight days. Wow,

9:25 Speaker 2: no kidding, that was about five years ago. That was

9:28 Speaker 2: really fun.

9:28 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, very cool, very cool. Oh right before the pandemic,

9:32 Speaker 1: right before yeah yeah, yeah, good thing. It wasn't four

9:35 Speaker 1: years ago. You would have would have been able to go.

9:37 Speaker 2: Yeah.

9:39 Speaker 1: Now, so okay, so I have to ask you this,

9:42 Speaker 1: So you've got to I've been dying to ask you

9:45 Speaker 1: this question. You've got a brand new single that just

9:48 Speaker 1: came out, which we're not going to play today. Now.

9:52 Speaker 1: We love to play new stuff on the show. The

9:54 Speaker 1: only reason we're not playing this is called I Hate

9:56 Speaker 1: Joe King's roommate. And the only reason we're not playing

9:59 Speaker 1: it the usual. I make a radio edit if a

10:02 Speaker 1: guest has something and I want to play it, you know,

10:04 Speaker 1: and if they don't have a radio edit, I'll make

10:06 Speaker 1: a radio edit. I just go in, I reverse where

10:08 Speaker 1: all the swears are. And I don't mind doing that.

10:11 Speaker 1: You know, it takes me five minutes. I'm pretty efficient

10:12 Speaker 1: at it. But I was listening to this track and

10:14 Speaker 1: by the way. I love the song. It's a great song,

10:16 Speaker 1: but I thought there's so much here there would have

10:20 Speaker 1: to be reversed and it would kind of wreck the song.

10:24 Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't just artistically, I don't

10:27 Speaker 1: think I should mess with this one. But here's what

10:30 Speaker 1: I'm dying to know. I want to know. There has

10:32 Speaker 1: to be a story behind.

10:33 Speaker 2: This, right, sure is?

10:35 Speaker 1: And who is Joe King? And why is his roommate

10:40 Speaker 1: upset you?

10:40 Speaker 6: So?

10:42 Speaker 1: Because I can't tell, Like, we learn a little bit

10:45 Speaker 1: about Joe King's roommate from the song. We learn that

10:49 Speaker 1: he's apparently a very upsetting person. But I don't know,

10:54 Speaker 1: I think, but I don't know exactly, And I don't

10:58 Speaker 1: know how about you can divulge, but I mean, I

11:01 Speaker 1: have to ask. I'm very curious. The song made me

11:03 Speaker 1: very curious.

11:04 Speaker 2: All right, I'll be as forthcoming as I envy. Okay,

11:08 Speaker 2: So I wrote that song with my friend Pete Curtis,

11:13 Speaker 2: probably in like nineteen ninety seven, Oh, okay, nineteen ninety eight.

11:17 Speaker 2: I was in high school and he We were in

11:21 Speaker 2: a band called the Illegitimates. The Portsmouth punk scene was

11:25 Speaker 2: kind of cool and going on. There was a place

11:27 Speaker 2: called the Elvis Room. I think there was one in

11:29 Speaker 2: Portland too, honestly, but it was it was thriving. There

11:33 Speaker 2: was great bands coming in and out of it. And

11:36 Speaker 2: you know, he was in a band. I was in

11:38 Speaker 2: a band, and we just ended up playing in a band,

11:40 Speaker 2: yeah for a bit, and we wrote that song I

11:42 Speaker 2: hate Joking's roommates. So Joe King is the singer of

11:47 Speaker 2: this band, the Queers. Okay, they're like a popular punk

11:50 Speaker 2: band from New Hampshire. Yep, they tore everywhere. They're pretty

11:54 Speaker 2: famous now.

11:55 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.

11:56 Speaker 2: I mean he's written songs with like Joey Ramone, and

11:59 Speaker 2: you know, he's played a lot. He plays a lot,

12:01 Speaker 2: he makes money off of music and he you know,

12:04 Speaker 2: I love the Queers. I was listening to him on

12:06 Speaker 2: the way home last night. You know. They were like

12:08 Speaker 2: one of the first punk bands I ever listened to.

12:11 Speaker 2: In my eyes, They're like the Ramones for me. Yeah.

12:14 Speaker 2: So I always looked up to Joe. A couple of

12:17 Speaker 2: my friends played in his bands and stuff. And Mitch,

12:22 Speaker 2: who is Joe King's roommate at the time, he was

12:27 Speaker 2: like this. I don't know if he was an army

12:29 Speaker 2: vet or if he was just like a hippie type dude,

12:33 Speaker 2: but he had he always had like a green long

12:37 Speaker 2: army coat and long orange chair. Scruffy dude. To be honest,

12:44 Speaker 2: really nice, Like usually he was very polite. He was like,

12:47 Speaker 2: hey man, how are you? That's all you would say,

12:51 Speaker 2: or like hy man, you know that's it. He wouldn't

12:54 Speaker 2: he wouldn't like try to get in conversations. He wasn't

12:57 Speaker 2: mean or anything. And we were just like always trying

13:01 Speaker 2: to hang out with Joe or try to talk to

13:03 Speaker 2: Joe and this guy was here and he'd be like,

13:05 Speaker 2: hey man, we hate Joking's roommate. Yeah, you know, he

13:11 Speaker 2: lived above Series Street in Portsmouth. Like we thought we

13:14 Speaker 2: were the coolest people hanging out with these guys. Yeah,

13:18 Speaker 2: but that's pretty much the story. Man in a nutshell.

13:21 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So did he hear the song?

13:26 Speaker 2: Or Joe has? Joe has heard the song? I sent

13:30 Speaker 2: him copy of it and we actually did a music

13:32 Speaker 2: video and everything. He's not in it, but I mean

13:36 Speaker 2: he says he likes it. I don't know, he hasn't

13:38 Speaker 2: reposted it or anything, but yeah, he knows about it.

13:42 Speaker 2: And I don't know how to hollow would even get

13:44 Speaker 2: a hold of Mitch or anything. But a couple of

13:46 Speaker 2: people have asked me about it because Joe has had

13:52 Speaker 2: tons of roommates.

13:54 Speaker 1: That's that gives you plausible deniability because if Mitch ever

13:58 Speaker 1: turns up and he's like, heymen, which I assume is

14:03 Speaker 1: how he would open the conversation, right, hey man, kind

14:07 Speaker 1: of hurt my feelings. You can just say Joe King's

14:10 Speaker 1: had tons of roommates, why do you think it's about you?

14:12 Speaker 2: Right as you talked about it on the air.

14:17 Speaker 1: But then you can say, well, yeah, but he's you know,

14:20 Speaker 1: Mitch is a common name. He probably had. It was

14:23 Speaker 1: probably somebody else named Mitch who was Joe King's roommate.

14:26 Speaker 1: Why do you think it's about you? Don't be a narcissist, Mitch.

14:29 Speaker 2: Why is everything about you? Mitch? I hate you that

14:33 Speaker 2: ye see?

14:34 Speaker 1: So it all comes full circle. Oh that's that's great. Okay, Okay, Yeah,

14:41 Speaker 1: I was hoping there was a story. I was I

14:42 Speaker 1: was actually afraid of asking you that it was going

14:45 Speaker 1: to turn out to be some you know, the fictional

14:47 Speaker 1: thing that you just made up to be funny. So

14:48 Speaker 1: I'm glad there's an actual story.

14:50 Speaker 2: Oh, it's real, real life. It happened a long time ago.

14:53 Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, you knows.

14:58 Speaker 1: Oh that's great. So here's what I think we should do.

15:02 Speaker 1: I'll play another studio track, and then while that's playing,

15:05 Speaker 1: if you want to grab your guitar, and then when

15:07 Speaker 1: we come back from that, I'm dying here, you play live?

15:10 Speaker 1: What should I? Uh, let's see, because you sent me

15:13 Speaker 1: a few things. We played Being Around, which again, I

15:17 Speaker 1: just I love that song so much. That is so fun.

15:19 Speaker 2: One Good Reason sort of like that one. It's a

15:22 Speaker 2: little kind of Coyle punky or like I don't know,

15:25 Speaker 2: I didn't want to say hic punk, but like a

15:27 Speaker 2: little more on the country punk side.

15:30 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, we'll play that one.

15:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, the twangy guitars. It's sort of like sort of

15:35 Speaker 2: like being Around the closest one to it at least.

15:37 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, cool, So we'll give this a spin.

15:40 Speaker 1: This is uh, this is Dave Strong. This is called

15:42 Speaker 1: One Good Reason, And then when we come back, Dave's

15:45 Speaker 1: gonna play live for us. So check this out.

16:10 Speaker 6: He said, she wants away with me all the way

16:12 Speaker 6: the kids by you go with the met of therapy.

16:16 Speaker 4: I don't know who I'm gonna make it to the night.

16:19 Speaker 4: I buck ain't kids in my school, and nothing ever

16:21 Speaker 4: turns out.

16:22 Speaker 1: Ri gave me a good mush.

16:32 Speaker 3: The house messed, dishes, schedules tall as.

16:35 Speaker 6: I as Diane and chosen to crying, holds down in

16:38 Speaker 6: every wall.

16:39 Speaker 4: Sometimes wonder if it's something.

16:40 Speaker 3: I get in ye me decides to trow.

16:45 Speaker 4: Ve me one give me so.

16:52 Speaker 3: I'll be working every day trying to make a leading

16:55 Speaker 3: me a very gay away.

16:56 Speaker 6: But when I get home and that something just get around,

17:23 Speaker 6: I think said she wants a way with me?

17:25 Speaker 4: All we ever two years fidy, you go win them

17:28 Speaker 4: to a demophy.

17:29 Speaker 7: I don't know.

17:29 Speaker 4: I'm gonna make it to.

17:30 Speaker 7: The nut, but nuts the back.

17:32 Speaker 3: Yet kids at my school, nothing never turns out right

17:36 Speaker 3: any wonder than raise.

17:40 Speaker 4: Any wonder ras give me wandered raison.

17:52 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Dave, your songs are short, that's right,

17:58 Speaker 1: that's right. If you're just joining us, we have Dave

18:00 Speaker 1: Strong with us live in studio. Dave's gonna play for us.

18:04 Speaker 1: I'm dying to hear you play. So I'm gonna. I'm

18:06 Speaker 1: gonna this is a new one that you're gonna do.

18:09 Speaker 2: Yep. This is my newest release. It's going to be

18:13 Speaker 2: on in a seven inch EP that should be out

18:16 Speaker 2: next month. Oh okay, there are free orders up for it,

18:19 Speaker 2: but like you know, they should be in hand by

18:23 Speaker 2: the beginning of October at the latest. Okay, it's called

18:26 Speaker 2: I Hate Joking's Roommate. The the EP is called I

18:28 Speaker 2: Hate Joking's Roommate. It will it'll have that song. It's funny.

18:32 Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story about that after. Because it

18:34 Speaker 2: was supposed to be a children's EP. Oh really yeah,

18:37 Speaker 2: because the third song is called puddle Hop, which isn't

18:39 Speaker 2: released yet, and I wrote it for my kids. Oh

18:43 Speaker 2: but the guy that put it out really like Joking's

18:45 Speaker 2: Roommate and that I mean, we're just talking about how

18:48 Speaker 2: many swears were in that. So yeah, yeah, through the

18:51 Speaker 2: children's story right out of the window.

18:54 Speaker 1: Oh, I can see where that would be a problem.

18:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's kind of a good me And there'll

19:00 Speaker 2: be three really awesome songs. This is probably one of

19:03 Speaker 2: my favorite ones I've ever written. And you know, all right,

19:07 Speaker 2: what a song about? I want to hear it? Yes,

19:08 Speaker 2: here it goes. The song is called I want to Know.

19:14 Speaker 3: If you could possibly leave a message and I we'll

19:19 Speaker 3: get back to you quickly.

19:21 Speaker 2: I want to know what's on your mind.

19:23 Speaker 3: You'll come out, Yes you did. When I saw you,

19:29 Speaker 3: I had to go by. There was something that catches

19:33 Speaker 3: my eye. Want to know what's on your mind?

19:36 Speaker 7: Go come out.

19:40 Speaker 3: I see you win the corner in the middle of

19:42 Speaker 3: the night. My heart catches up because you're so out

19:45 Speaker 3: of sight. I know in the morning it'll be all right.

19:50 Speaker 3: Do you wanna go over than that? I woke up,

19:54 Speaker 3: you wore over my shoulder and I I'm so glad

19:58 Speaker 3: that I bothered you.

20:00 Speaker 2: Stop on that.

20:00 Speaker 3: Corner the night you were there to come out, and

20:06 Speaker 3: I knew we'd be in the ever and nothing can

20:10 Speaker 3: keep us from each other.

20:12 Speaker 2: Smile on your face tells me things. Your coogar come

20:16 Speaker 2: out when I say you were in the corner in

20:20 Speaker 2: the middle of the night. My heart just because you're

20:24 Speaker 2: so out of sight, I know whur it? In the

20:26 Speaker 2: morning it'll be all right?

20:29 Speaker 4: Or for it?

20:29 Speaker 2: Do you wanna come over than that? All arrive? There

21:01 Speaker 2: you go.

21:02 Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's awesome. Thank you for playing that.

21:04 Speaker 7: Man.

21:05 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have Joe Strong with us.

21:07 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dave Dave Strong, Dave Strong I'm thinking of joke.

21:10 Speaker 1: I'm in my mind I've created an amalgam of Joe

21:14 Speaker 1: King and Dave Strong.

21:16 Speaker 2: I bet, I bet.

21:21 Speaker 1: But if you're just joining us, Dave Strong is here

21:23 Speaker 1: with us, alive in studio on the Saturday morning. We

21:26 Speaker 1: should talk about that track. One good reason because you

21:29 Speaker 1: were telling us a little bit about it off air,

21:32 Speaker 1: and those pretty interesting.

21:35 Speaker 2: You were.

21:35 Speaker 1: You were talking about how quickly it came together, and yeah, yeah.

21:42 Speaker 2: So most of the songs on that record right there

21:46 Speaker 2: are done by myself, my friend Uri, and my friend

21:53 Speaker 2: Terry who plays upright bass, And for this one, it's

22:00 Speaker 2: gonna either be the first or second number on the

22:03 Speaker 2: new record. And it was a whole It was almost

22:06 Speaker 2: a full different band. I had my buddy Luke was

22:10 Speaker 2: playing drums on it and Lenny Lashley was playing guitar.

22:17 Speaker 2: And Lenny Lashley is like a famous Boston musician. I mean, yeah,

22:22 Speaker 2: he's super cool. He plays in bands called Darkbuster and

22:26 Speaker 2: the Street Dogs, and you know, it was cool. I

22:31 Speaker 2: just recorded it up in New Hampshire and I sent

22:34 Speaker 2: him the track and by the next day he had

22:37 Speaker 2: all those awesome guitar riffs in there and stuff, and

22:41 Speaker 2: you know. I I thought it was really cool of

22:44 Speaker 2: him to do, you know, because he's a really cool

22:47 Speaker 2: established musician, a really cool human being, and you know,

22:51 Speaker 2: he didn't have to play on my stuff and it

22:52 Speaker 2: was really awesome for him to do it.

22:54 Speaker 1: Were you surprised at the turnaround time on that, like

22:57 Speaker 1: how quickly he got those back here?

23:00 Speaker 2: That was pretty amazing? Yeah, I mean he's a true

23:03 Speaker 2: professional for sure. Yeah.

23:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's fantastic. Are there other people you've worked

23:09 Speaker 1: with that you'd kind of put in that category where

23:11 Speaker 1: you're like, Wow, this is this is amazing. This is

23:13 Speaker 1: one of my heroes.

23:15 Speaker 2: Uh, so far, I've I've worked with a couple of people.

23:20 Speaker 2: Kurt Baker out of Spain. I mean he's actually from Portland, Maine.

23:25 Speaker 2: He lives in Spain. Now he's on Wicked Cool Records,

23:29 Speaker 2: which is like Little Steven from Bruce Springsteen's bands label.

23:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in Spain now, that's a big move.

23:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing really well. You know, he's put out

23:42 Speaker 2: a bunch of records and you know, he kills it

23:46 Speaker 2: every time. That When he was in a band called

23:48 Speaker 2: The Leftovers out of Portland, Maine and then he got

23:52 Speaker 2: signed to that guy from Bowling for Soup, Jarrett Reddit, okay,

23:57 Speaker 2: name the lead singer of Bowling for Soup and guitarists.

24:01 Speaker 2: You know, Kurt Baker I kind of look up to

24:04 Speaker 2: because he's from Maine. He's local dude, down to earth.

24:07 Speaker 2: He's a friend of mine now and he's just kind

24:10 Speaker 2: of like done it, you know, keeps doing it and

24:13 Speaker 2: doing it good. He writes awesome songs and he gets

24:17 Speaker 2: recognized for the awesome songs. Even though he's a friend,

24:20 Speaker 2: I still really look up to him, you know. It's like, ah, oh, shoot,

24:24 Speaker 2: moment every time.

24:26 Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. Where do you record?

24:29 Speaker 7: It?

24:30 Speaker 1: Sounds like you've recorded in a lot of different places.

24:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't. I haven't found a place where like

24:39 Speaker 2: I can say, is going to be my new spot,

24:42 Speaker 2: you know. But I recorded that whole album that I

24:45 Speaker 2: gave to you, the Dave Strong LP or whatever, the

24:48 Speaker 2: self titled one. I recorded all ten of those songs

24:53 Speaker 2: at the wood Shop in I don't even know. I

24:58 Speaker 2: don't even know, Like Ken'sington, New Hampshire is somewhere around there, Okay,

25:03 Speaker 2: it's called the Woodshops Studio up there.

25:05 Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard of Kensington yeah, is it north.

25:10 Speaker 2: So it's sort of near like Haveril.

25:14 Speaker 1: Oh okay, you know it's like on that it's like, oh,

25:16 Speaker 1: it's on the border, right.

25:17 Speaker 2: Get on four ninety five for a second. Yeah Atkinson. Okay,

25:21 Speaker 2: that's exactly studios in Atkinson.

25:23 Speaker 1: I know exactly where that is. Okay, yeah, okay.

25:26 Speaker 2: So I've recorded those ten songs from that one, and

25:29 Speaker 2: then I recorded two more like the one that we

25:33 Speaker 2: just listened to and I'm all these lips, which is

25:35 Speaker 2: are like Basolene's cover but Nirvana pretty much made it popular.

25:40 Speaker 1: Yeah.

25:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, those those two songs will probably be on my

25:44 Speaker 2: next record, Okay. And I and I thought I had

25:49 Speaker 2: a groove going there, but it seems like now that

25:52 Speaker 2: I think about it, it was more like perfect for

25:55 Speaker 2: that time and the band that I was playing with.

25:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like.

26:01 Speaker 2: So I just thought, maybe, you know, I'm doing a

26:02 Speaker 2: new record, I'll move to a different place and check

26:04 Speaker 2: it out like that. So we did four songs in Salem,

26:10 Speaker 2: mass which we recorded with Tom Hamilton, who recorded Hate

26:16 Speaker 2: Your Friends the Lemonheads first album. Yeah, and that's kind

26:21 Speaker 2: of why we listened to being around. We were like,

26:23 Speaker 2: we gotta do something with Tom like even though he

26:26 Speaker 2: didn't wasn't a part of engineering that song. Yeah, he

26:29 Speaker 2: was a part of engineering one of my favorite records ever. Oh,

26:32 Speaker 2: just Hate Your Friends by the Lemonheads. I love that.

26:34 Speaker 2: I love even Dando and I love the Lemonheads.

26:36 Speaker 1: Yea.

26:37 Speaker 2: So I was like, I gotta, I gotta somehow tie

26:39 Speaker 2: this Lemonheads connection in right, and I recorded I'm Late

26:45 Speaker 2: Where I should go that Lemonheads being around the song.

26:50 Speaker 2: I think that's it. Oh, and I Hate Mondays. I

26:53 Speaker 2: did a song called I Hate Mondays okay, you know,

26:55 Speaker 2: which is kind of like I Hate Joking's roommate every.

26:57 Speaker 1: Other words that Ford gotcha, gotcha.

27:00 Speaker 2: I'm not that angry really, Yeah, I just get it

27:03 Speaker 2: out artistically.

27:04 Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's I mean, that's the best way to

27:06 Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, that's the best way to do it.

27:08 Speaker 1: Create something absolutely. Do you have a favorite place that

27:10 Speaker 1: you've recorded so far?

27:13 Speaker 2: They just keep getting better. I mean, so the last

27:16 Speaker 2: three songs, I Hate Joking's Roommate, puddle Hop, which isn't

27:20 Speaker 2: out yet, which I wrote, you know, it's like a

27:23 Speaker 2: kids type song, and then I want to know the

27:26 Speaker 2: one I just sang. I recorded up in North Conway

27:30 Speaker 2: at my friend Ryan's house. It's like a makeshift studio.

27:35 Speaker 2: They call it Platypus Records, but yeah, it's just like

27:40 Speaker 2: it's it's on his land. It's a garage, you know

27:44 Speaker 2: that they've turned into a studio. It's like the size

27:46 Speaker 2: of this room really cool, you know, just a really

27:53 Speaker 2: chill type vibe, you know, and like, yeah, so far

27:56 Speaker 2: that's been my favorite place. I'm going back with another

27:59 Speaker 2: band next weekend to record up there again. Oh okay,

28:03 Speaker 2: So the plan is eventually I'll find my home base, right,

28:08 Speaker 2: you know, but until I'll keep trying these awesome places

28:11 Speaker 2: and they keep getting better and better.

28:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so

28:15 Speaker 1: many options to record now and so many places.

28:19 Speaker 2: You know.

28:19 Speaker 1: It's interesting too. There. It seems like there was a

28:23 Speaker 1: point where people, you know, as technology evolves and becomes

28:27 Speaker 1: more accessible to everybody, you know, people make all kinds

28:30 Speaker 1: of predictions about what technology is going to start to

28:32 Speaker 1: go away, or how things are going to change, or

28:34 Speaker 1: and what technology is going to stick around. And like,

28:37 Speaker 1: for example, vinyl records. You know, decades ago people said,

28:40 Speaker 1: you know, CDs would be the end of vinyl and

28:43 Speaker 1: vinyl you know, still thrives, but with recording studios. You know,

28:47 Speaker 1: I remember years ago people saying, now with all these

28:53 Speaker 1: capabilities to just record on your own, recorded at home

28:56 Speaker 1: and whatnot, you know, recording studios are going to go away.

28:59 Speaker 1: But it didn't happen, and if anything, there's probably more

29:02 Speaker 1: of them than there were ten years ago, because you know,

29:05 Speaker 1: people like having all kinds of different options in terms

29:08 Speaker 1: of how they create their music. You know, some some

29:11 Speaker 1: people only want to be able to just do it

29:13 Speaker 1: at home, plug everything in, use pro tools, use ant

29:17 Speaker 1: modelers and all that, and you know, not have to

29:19 Speaker 1: go to a studio. Some people thrive on being in

29:21 Speaker 1: a studio and love and I find too, And I'm

29:24 Speaker 1: curious if you're like this. A lot of the people

29:26 Speaker 1: who seem to really thrive on being in a studio

29:28 Speaker 1: as you appear to really like having that, you know,

29:33 Speaker 1: like having an engineer or recording engineer there who also

29:37 Speaker 1: very often, you know, it happens organically becomes sort of

29:41 Speaker 1: a de facto producer, you know, and even even though

29:44 Speaker 1: maybe that's not why you're there necessarily, but they have input,

29:48 Speaker 1: they have ideas, and of course they know how to

29:49 Speaker 1: get the best sound with their equipment, Like do you

29:52 Speaker 1: find that and does that factor into because you've recorded

29:55 Speaker 1: a lot of different places, does that factor into your

29:57 Speaker 1: decisions on where to go?

30:00 Speaker 2: You're exactly right with that. I mean I've recorded at

30:05 Speaker 2: this place in Waltham, mass called Willie Mammoth Studios. I've

30:09 Speaker 2: heard of that a few times with my buddy Jeff

30:12 Speaker 2: who I went overseas with and played the Spain shows

30:15 Speaker 2: and stuff, and the main producer in that, I mean

30:21 Speaker 2: the one we worked with. I don't know. There's probably

30:23 Speaker 2: a couple of people that run the board there, but

30:25 Speaker 2: I've worked with them a couple of times now, actually

30:28 Speaker 2: I think I did. I did this documentary called Stick

30:31 Speaker 2: It to the Man there where we did a live session. Yeah,

30:34 Speaker 2: I've worked on a couple of times. It's Dave Minihan

30:39 Speaker 2: is his name. He's from that band The Neighborhoods.

30:43 Speaker 1: That name has come up on the show a bunch

30:45 Speaker 1: of times.

30:46 Speaker 2: It's a rock star. Yeah, he's in the replacements now

30:49 Speaker 2: and isn't isn't he?

30:50 Speaker 1: Is he Kirk Minihan's brother.

30:52 Speaker 2: I don't know.

30:53 Speaker 1: Kirk Minihan the Kirk Manhane's a sports broadcaster from Boston.

30:58 Speaker 2: You know, you could be right. I never even put

30:59 Speaker 2: the connection together.

31:00 Speaker 1: But and even even if they're not brothers, they have

31:03 Speaker 1: to be related something. Minihan's not a naming here all

31:05 Speaker 1: the time. But I think I think that they're actually brothers.

31:07 Speaker 1: But but but yeah, Dave Minahan, that name's come up,

31:10 Speaker 1: have you America, I think mention them. I don't know

31:13 Speaker 1: if you know them, Boston band, They've been on the show.

31:15 Speaker 2: I think they.

31:16 Speaker 1: I think that's the first interview where I heard that

31:19 Speaker 1: name was from those guys. I think they recorded there.

31:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a heck of a place, man,

31:24 Speaker 2: It's He's so. I think. So Rhino Records does this

31:31 Speaker 2: like best of the New York scene, best of like

31:34 Speaker 2: you know, Boston a compilation with has the cars on it,

31:38 Speaker 2: the real kids on it, and the neighborhoods is like

31:41 Speaker 2: the first song on it, you know, yeah, mission a

31:44 Speaker 2: Burma like all those classic punk songs, you know. Yeah,

31:50 Speaker 2: So just that alone was like whoa. But but he

31:54 Speaker 2: also adds a really cool like vibe to the room,

31:58 Speaker 2: like he knows what what to what to look for.

32:01 Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, at first I was kind of nervous

32:04 Speaker 2: meeting him to tell you the truth human like us,

32:07 Speaker 2: and yeah, of course, and they he does a lot

32:09 Speaker 2: of real to real you know, really no kidding. Like

32:14 Speaker 2: there's another guy, there's Mike, Mike, Mike Kennedy from the

32:19 Speaker 2: All American Rejects. That's a huge band, huge famous band,

32:23 Speaker 2: and my buddy just went and recorded with him weekend.

32:27 Speaker 2: You know you kind of. I think a lot of

32:30 Speaker 2: people are doing that now, you know, on their part time,

32:33 Speaker 2: like you get you go there for the talent and

32:36 Speaker 2: the vibe and like, you know, it's cool, it's a

32:39 Speaker 2: cool feel.

32:40 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it also makes sense too, I think if

32:43 Speaker 1: you're you know, if you're in a big band like

32:45 Speaker 1: All American Rejects for example. You know a lot of

32:48 Speaker 1: bands aren't. They're not touring as much now because it's

32:51 Speaker 1: gotten so expensive to travel. So you know, to be

32:54 Speaker 1: able to do something like that, you know, work with

32:56 Speaker 1: other bands, whether it's whether it's at a recording studio,

32:59 Speaker 1: bill hoilding that or or or getting into some other

33:03 Speaker 1: aspect of the music business that helps you know, younger

33:06 Speaker 1: up and coming talent, you know it only, which probably

33:10 Speaker 1: also is very fulfilling for for a lot of these

33:12 Speaker 1: folks too. To be to be able to do that,

33:15 Speaker 1: you know, to help the next generations that are coming up.

33:17 Speaker 1: And uh, you know once you know, once they've already

33:20 Speaker 1: got their fame, you know, why not pass on that

33:22 Speaker 1: knowledge and experience and those resources. But also too, it

33:25 Speaker 1: gives them something to do because you know, like I said,

33:28 Speaker 1: I mean, who was it that there was a band,

33:30 Speaker 1: a pretty big band recently that actually canceled their tour

33:33 Speaker 1: because of low ticket sales and they just said, it's

33:36 Speaker 1: not what was it the Deftones, They just said it's

33:38 Speaker 1: not it's not worth it, whereas it's not gonna We're

33:41 Speaker 1: not even gonna bother, you know. So I mean, I

33:44 Speaker 1: don't know if those guys are doing anything to help

33:45 Speaker 1: help other bands, but but maybe they are. But but

33:49 Speaker 1: it's great to make those connections.

33:51 Speaker 2: And it goes both ways too. Sometimes. I mean, like

33:54 Speaker 2: as far as Dave Minihan was everything I expected and more.

33:57 Speaker 2: That guy's like a top top shelf. Yeah, you know,

34:00 Speaker 2: he knows his stuff and he's been in some of

34:02 Speaker 2: the coolest bands, you know, like Billy Joe Armstrong from

34:06 Speaker 2: Green Day did Coachella with the Replacements, he like hopped

34:11 Speaker 2: on their tour. They didn't like ask him to do it.

34:13 Speaker 2: He came up to them and was like can I play?

34:17 Speaker 7: Yeah, like.

34:20 Speaker 2: Imagine that, you know, like holy crap, the stories, you know.

34:25 Speaker 2: But then I was like so stoked to go work

34:27 Speaker 2: with Tom Hamilton because the Lemonheads connection and the guy

34:32 Speaker 2: was sort of a mess, you know, like really the

34:34 Speaker 2: songs came out great, they took like four or five

34:38 Speaker 2: months to finish, you know. And I'm not going to

34:42 Speaker 2: talk to her anything. I'm not going to talk trash

34:44 Speaker 2: or anything.

34:45 Speaker 1: Sorry, We're we're on. I caught it.

34:48 Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk that. But yeah, sorry, but

34:52 Speaker 2: he he wasn't what I expected, you know. So that's

34:56 Speaker 2: what I meant. It goes both ways. Sometimes you work

34:58 Speaker 2: with your idols and you love it. Sometimes you work

35:00 Speaker 2: with your idols and you learn a little bit, you know,

35:03 Speaker 2: of humility and like they're not exactly what you think

35:06 Speaker 2: they are. Yeah, And sometimes you just you work with

35:08 Speaker 2: your friends. Yeah, and for you know, you pay a

35:11 Speaker 2: lot of money to work with someone that you don't

35:13 Speaker 2: know and you don't get what you want, or you

35:16 Speaker 2: pay almost nothing to work with one of your best

35:17 Speaker 2: friends and you make something together.

35:20 Speaker 1: Yeah.

35:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then someone else here is and then like,

35:23 Speaker 2: where did you go? Oh, you didn't go to a

35:25 Speaker 2: five hundred dollar an hour studio. You went to a

35:28 Speaker 2: twenty buck an hour studio, Right, Can I go there? Sure?

35:32 Speaker 2: I'll call Ryan and see if he can do it,

35:33 Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, that's what it's about nowadays. For me,

35:36 Speaker 2: at least, I'm trying to get the next I'm trying

35:38 Speaker 2: to make memories and make music with like up and

35:42 Speaker 2: coming people, new people.

35:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense, That makes sense. We should

35:45 Speaker 1: clarify too, for anyone who's listening who's confused. Obviously not

35:48 Speaker 1: the same Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. No, in case anyone thinks,

35:52 Speaker 1: you know, there's probably a million.

35:53 Speaker 2: I thought it was him for the longest time, did you.

35:55 Speaker 1: Yeah?

35:56 Speaker 2: I did. I thought maybe when I walked into his

35:59 Speaker 2: house it would be the bass player of Varus Smith.

36:01 Speaker 4: Yeah.

36:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how.

36:03 Speaker 1: Much I know you're You're probably going there thinking, I

36:06 Speaker 1: wonder if I ask him, will he play the bassline

36:08 Speaker 1: the sweet Emotion? Yeah, Tom Hamilton's probably there's probably a

36:13 Speaker 1: million Tom Hamilton's out there. Those are both such common names,

36:15 Speaker 1: Tom and Hamilton. But yeah, well that's too bad that

36:18 Speaker 1: that he wasn't that great. But you know, yeah, they

36:21 Speaker 1: say don't meet your heroes, but then again, you know,

36:23 Speaker 1: some of your heroes turn out to be pretty awesome,

36:25 Speaker 1: so you know, that's that's the risk that you take.

36:28 Speaker 1: But but it sounds like you've had a lot of

36:30 Speaker 1: positive experiences and got to work with some great people.

36:33 Speaker 1: So that's awesome.

36:34 Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's awesome.

36:35 Speaker 1: I mean, have you have you had moments along the

36:37 Speaker 1: way where you just kind of go, I can't believe.

36:39 Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm getting to do this and and

36:41 Speaker 1: work with this person and have this opportunity. You ever

36:44 Speaker 1: kind of just pinch yourself and go Wow.

36:47 Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean there was a long time that I

36:52 Speaker 2: thought I deserved it more than I did. Really, it's

36:55 Speaker 2: been very humbling lately. You know, I've made a lot

36:58 Speaker 2: of changes, and I think I'm on the right path

37:03 Speaker 2: where I can acknowledge everything that's happening in a good way.

37:07 Speaker 2: I've learned, Yeah, which is you know, it's the light.

37:11 Speaker 1: Yeah. Was there was there anything specific that that kind

37:15 Speaker 1: of caused that? Or is that more just a gradual

37:19 Speaker 1: thing over time where you just kind of grow and evolve.

37:22 Speaker 2: And I mean, I I guess I drank a little

37:26 Speaker 2: too much when I was younger, and like, you know

37:30 Speaker 2: that that might have put a stint on it. You

37:32 Speaker 2: know I would I'll put it like this. You know,

37:36 Speaker 2: I thought I was entitled, you know, like, oh, I

37:40 Speaker 2: know how to play the song you have? You should

37:41 Speaker 2: really bring me. I'm on the record, you know I

37:44 Speaker 2: deserve this. No like blah blah blah, instead of you know,

37:48 Speaker 2: a hundred other people could be coming on this, right,

37:51 Speaker 2: you know, you brought me instead of one hundred different people.

37:54 Speaker 2: I'm grateful, like getting off the bus and being like

37:58 Speaker 2: where's the bar instead of like how can I help

38:01 Speaker 2: you carry something? Yeah, just little things like that that,

38:06 Speaker 2: you know, thinking back at it now, it's like, oh,

38:10 Speaker 2: just just do the next right thing now and you'll

38:13 Speaker 2: be good. There you go, There you go the past

38:15 Speaker 2: and the future is unknown.

38:17 Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly exactly. No, I like that. Let's play

38:21 Speaker 1: another track. Let's see we should play because we played

38:27 Speaker 1: we played Being Around, and we played reason. Oh what's

38:33 Speaker 1: this one?

38:34 Speaker 2: Oh?

38:35 Speaker 1: I would I really like this one?

38:36 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is a really cool pop song.

38:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's play this. If you are just joining us,

38:41 Speaker 1: we have Dave Strong with us here in studio and

38:45 Speaker 1: let's see. Yeah, this is a good one. This is

38:48 Speaker 1: a track called I would. We're going to give this

38:50 Speaker 1: a spin and then we're gonna come right back and

38:52 Speaker 1: talk with Dave a little bit more. But here we go,

38:56 Speaker 1: We're about to go. Here we go.

39:19 Speaker 7: Please tell me.

39:20 Speaker 4: It's God's true.

39:22 Speaker 6: There's something in this worse than I would ever do

39:26 Speaker 6: something a greenote girlser If I.

39:29 Speaker 7: Could go back and changed the bells for you, I would.

39:37 Speaker 4: If I couldn't for you, I.

39:43 Speaker 7: Would. If I could, then I would.

39:46 Speaker 4: Here everybody says now the same, maybe.

40:10 Speaker 3: You alone in the rain, but maybe I'm going to

40:14 Speaker 3: lam if I could go back and jag to that.

40:19 Speaker 7: For I would, if I could, I would, if I could,

40:32 Speaker 7: and I could, then if because then if because if

40:44 Speaker 7: I could, if I could for you, I for you?

41:34 Speaker 1: That is I would. That is Dave Strong, who is

41:37 Speaker 1: here with us alive in studio. Dave, So you were

41:40 Speaker 1: saying off air something really special about that track.

41:44 Speaker 7: Yeah.

41:45 Speaker 2: That was one of the first songs I ever recorded solo.

41:49 Speaker 2: I recorded all the parts myself on it, of the drums,

41:55 Speaker 2: the bass, the guitar. I went to the Atkinson studio

41:58 Speaker 2: well with my not my self, my daughter came with me,

42:02 Speaker 2: and she sang all the harmonies and sang all the backups.

42:06 Speaker 2: So that's a real special one. Little girl and I

42:09 Speaker 2: would are pretty much just me and my daughter.

42:12 Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool.

42:13 Speaker 2: That's really cool, Cara strong shout out.

42:16 Speaker 1: Does she does she have music of her own too

42:19 Speaker 1: that she's doing or what's her her kind of musical trajectory?

42:22 Speaker 2: Yeah? She she hasn't released anything yet. I know she will.

42:27 Speaker 2: She's got a beautiful voice and she plays guitar really

42:30 Speaker 2: well too.

42:31 Speaker 1: Okay, very good, Yeah, very good. We are the time

42:36 Speaker 1: goes so quick. We are we're running out of time, Dave.

42:38 Speaker 1: But before we run out of time and we I

42:40 Speaker 1: do want to get this one last track and two

42:42 Speaker 1: nights in jail to end the show today. But by

42:45 Speaker 1: the way, is that based on any kind of a

42:47 Speaker 1: true story?

42:50 Speaker 2: Not particularly, I plead the fifth.

42:52 Speaker 1: Okay, that's why, Well, I didn't know if maybe Joe

42:56 Speaker 1: King's roommate had done something to get you in trouble

42:58 Speaker 1: and then you and because that would be a reason

42:59 Speaker 1: to hey him.

43:00 Speaker 2: It's got it's got a teeny back story about a

43:04 Speaker 2: scorn lover type deale. But next time we'll talk about.

43:08 Speaker 1: It understood, understood. Do you have any shows? Are you

43:12 Speaker 1: playing it all? This weekend?

43:14 Speaker 2: September seventh, I'm playing at spring Point Tavern in South Portland, Maine. Okay,

43:21 Speaker 2: that's just me acoustic, but it will be really fun.

43:24 Speaker 2: It's a great place, free parking, good food. It's in

43:27 Speaker 2: a really it's right on the water. It's a beautiful spot.

43:29 Speaker 1: Okay.

43:30 Speaker 2: And then September fourteenth at Gino's in Portland, Maine.

43:35 Speaker 1: Full band excellent, excellent and h where should people go

43:39 Speaker 1: to keep up with everything that you're doing online? Where's

43:41 Speaker 1: the best place to go?

43:43 Speaker 2: I'm Butcherman Dave at Instagram dot com. That's me, okay,

43:48 Speaker 2: and then I'm Dave Strong Music and Dave Strong. Both

43:51 Speaker 2: of those are on Facebook right now. Okay, those are

43:54 Speaker 2: pretty much those have turned into my music sites, you know.

43:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent.

44:00 Speaker 2: And the Spotify, Apple Music all that stuff.

44:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're on all those streaming platforms.

44:05 Speaker 2: Yeah.

44:05 Speaker 4: And the.

44:08 Speaker 1: Is it an EP that the Joe King song is on?

44:12 Speaker 2: Yep? That's going to be a four song like forty

44:15 Speaker 2: five record?

44:16 Speaker 1: Gotcha?

44:16 Speaker 2: Oh?

44:17 Speaker 1: Really? Okay?

44:17 Speaker 2: Oh?

44:18 Speaker 1: Very cool? And when is that out?

44:19 Speaker 2: We pressed one hundred of them. We've sold probably like

44:22 Speaker 2: thirty of them so far, and it should be out

44:26 Speaker 2: probably the first day in October around Both pre sales

44:29 Speaker 2: up right now at Critical Mass Records, or you can

44:34 Speaker 2: hit me up on Facebook or Instagram and I can

44:36 Speaker 2: like get you one or something.

44:38 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, excellent.

44:39 Speaker 2: I'll be selling them at shows soon and you know, yeah,

44:43 Speaker 2: that'll be in hand hopefully by October.

44:45 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool, awesome. Well, in a moment,

44:49 Speaker 1: we'll play this track. But Dave, thank you so much

44:51 Speaker 1: for coming in today, Thanks for having me. This has

44:53 Speaker 1: been wonderful. Jenny, you want to plug your website.

44:55 Speaker 5: Absolutely, you can come check me out at Jencoffee dot com,

44:58 Speaker 5: j E N N F f u I dot com.

45:01 Speaker 5: And there's an actual in depth interview interview us up

45:06 Speaker 5: up right now. It's Felfe from the Midnight Creative Collective.

45:09 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, definitely definitely check that out absolutely, and we

45:13 Speaker 1: will leave you with this, Dave Strong, thank you again

45:15 Speaker 1: so much. And uh, this is called Nights in Jail.

45:19 Speaker 2: Thanks