Matt Connarton Unleashed: Fox and The Flamingos

The band asked me to play this one of their great studio tracks. This is called Bandit Fox and the Flamingos, and they are coming up next. They're going to perform for us live in studio. But this is a really great track. Check this out. Fox and the Flamingos will be live in studio. Click on my feet, I keep and I I'll take up and just at five speaking out the neighborhood. Me and my fool always up to nob This ain't no two advice and hit on your shong and I'll hit you with a laddle and tell that or anything you should know.

Block up my mother and go away tee. Everybody's stealing any feeling me. I don't know what you think, but I don't know. And the feeling for a fucking box and for the stealing shot. Everyhis is away out. I'm gonna stay all heart ever run. There's a Fox school needs luck for dangers. The watching meet, she said danger. Anything you say you can't they use against you, saving you overling this in the whole house. I'm here for your soul and I'll hit you with the middle do anything, get your God, love my heart and throw away to beef.

And anybody saying any seem as me. I don't know what you think. Don't know you can read one fucking father from me. Lord gonna steal show. I'm gonna stay on part everyone house my heart? Can you little round my heart? M m mmm

mmm mmm mmm. There is a song I want to tell, run way back deep like a well. There is a song I need to sing.

It seems it's somehow God away. I'm just killing time until time kills me.

A coin for the pyramid, a ring for the sea, Give light to darkness, give life unto your claim until time kills me. I'm killing time to day. There is a story from the distant pass before the first became the last. There is a story I need to share, came from no place and it's going now. I'm just killing time until time kills me.

A coin for the ferrymen, a ring for the sea, Give light darkness, give life unto your claim until time kills me. I'm killing I am today. There is a message that must be conveying from whatever place you have me. There was a message I needed to pass, but it's gone. It's gone, It's gone, gone, gone. No, I'm just killing time until time kills me. A coin for the ferryman, A ring for the sea, Give light to darkness, give life unto clay until time kills me up. Killing time today, I'm just killing time until time kills me.

A coin for the ferry man, A ring for the sea, give light to darkness, give life unto clay. Chill time kills me up? Killing time today, I'm chilling And let me bring up these mics. Here. We've got some musicians here in studio with us, this great band Fox and the Flamingos. And uh, let's see, that's Gary over there on the couch, which is, uh where I think you were the last time you were here, wasn't it? Yeah, pretty close to this. Uh yeah, me and Mark were squeezed on the seat. Oh that's right, that's right, very cool.

Uh what uh what we should do? Gary? Why don't you because not everyone has a mic, why don't you introduce everybody if you want? Everyone who's in the band. And sure, yeah, lead singer over here is Maizie Ray. Uh. She's a wonderful singer. She's the sprite in the young energy of the band. Because we're a bunch of old guys. Welcome Tyler Tyler on guitar, Tyler Moran. He's been playing guitar forever, very very creative. He does a very good uh a lot of our all of our digital harda ultimately, which is something I could never do.

So we're thankful for that. You met Ryan Pratt, our drummer down there on his pair down kit. Yes, me and hive been playing together for a long time, actually being Ryan BOSSI too, our piano player. We've been playing off and on for for a long time. Boss he's in a bunch of different bands. He gets all over the place too. Uh So, yeah, yeah that's it, And I'm Gary Smith. I've been uh yes, I've been. I've been playing this and that other band jam tomorrow that was here, and uh yeah it's a it's a fun, fun project for sure.

Yeah. We played bandit earlier and really good song, really good song. And I know we have some other studio tracks too. But I'm dying to hear you all live. Can I just uh just have each of you just play something quick so I can kind of do We gotta do this on the fly, a little sound check here, but uh okay, okay, and I'll adjust the levels as we go obviously sounds good, Okay, awesome and amazing. Test one two, Test one two, all right, sounds sounds great. Like I said, I'll ride the faders as we go to adjust.

I'm pretty you know, we're sort of limited as terms of what we can do here, obviously, but I'm pretty good at that, so I'm sure. I'm sure it'll sound good. I'm dying to hear you all play, So whenever, whenever you're ready, Yeah, gone, go sid I think it's today. The girl that's triving me my, she's got a ticket to right. She's got a ticket to right. She's got a ticket to right, and she don't care.

She said that little was bringing a tie. Yeah, but she would never be free when I was around. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care. I don't know why he's riding so high. She gotta thinks, might she gotta do ride by me? For she kids to say go bye? Shetta thinks right, she gotta do right by me. I don't know why she's riding so high. She had a thinks what she gonna do ride by me? She gets him saying bye, she had a things, what she gonna do?

Ride by me gone go beside. I think it's a day. The girl that's driving me made, he's going away. He's gotta ticket to right. She's gotta ticket to right. She's gotta ticket to right. And she don't care. Not Byby don't care. Not theyby don't care. Not theyby don't care. Not Byby don't care. Oh, she don't care. Very nice, very nice if you're if you're just joining us. We have Fox and the Flamingos, well live in studio with us, and uh, just breaking a clip line. Is this your own? That's cool as me, it's very rock star actually decided you have a dumpster downstairs?

Well, yeah, actually in the alley there is one, by the way. So Dylan Reynolds, very talented musician. In the chat room, he says, I'm getting a rockabilly, bluesy vibe from this. Very awesome. Thank you, very cool, Thanks for the compliment. And uh, we have a call. I think I think this is our friend. Charles Richardson probably has a question for y'all. Charles, is that you Yeah, yeah, I don't have a question. I just have a lot of praise. Holy bleep, be bleep. That was amazing. That honestly didn't sound that sounded clearer than a CD.

That's amazing, guys, damned it rocked it out. I love that song now I love it even more big thanks to that. First off, who's that young lady on vocals? Oh that's amazing, Ray she on her? Let me tell you, dang, that's saying Listen. I just I just had to call in and give my praise because standing on Facebook chat wouldn't give it any justice. You guys flipping rock?

Oh very nice, Thank you for the call. Charles, very good. Yeah, that's nice. That's very nice. How long has this band been together? How long have y'all? Will be two years in November? Okay, so we're a year and change. Okay, we're all we're all experienced musicians that have kind of come from diferent areas and uh, different genres, you know, different upbringings, different different influences in genres, et cetera. And that definitely adds to our our sound. Yeah if you will. But h so, you know, putting putting the band together itself was was pretty no brainer.

When we were putting the pieces together, uh, and the sound has just kind of evolved and it can continues to grow for sure. And is it always the same configuration when you play out because it seems like you you'd have some flexibility with a project like this if somebody can't be there or something. Does that ever? Does that ever change? You know? We are very much like a unit. Yeah, we don't like to do things without one or the other. We've never done a show without the five of us as a unit. Like I said, we do want eventually to add in some horns.

We've talked about a saxophone backup singers, you know, down the road eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're you know, Mazie plays keys, and you know we can can all, you know, start to experiment in different in areas like that with you know, we're starting the discussions of you know, what if what if Mazie played keys on this song and you know, I sing backup vocals, but I, you know, like Gary mentioned before, I play in another band and I sing you know, lead and sing things like that too, So you know, maybe and we do some some sort of duet kind of songs where where we both kind of take the lead in the middle of it.

Too, so we definitely have some some flexibility there. Yeah, your voices sound great together, thank you. Yeah, yeah, that really shot out on that track on that song Let's play so Gary. It also sent me. It's called without Love, Yeah, studio track. Yeah, well, we'll give this a listen anything anything we should know about this before we play it. This all three of our songs that you'll be hearing to night. They're all kind of songs that we kind of collectively wrote, started from a riff and kind of just blossomed that practice to go from there, and uh yeah, that's kind of how they've all been written.

This song is very unique from the other two, as a lot of our songs kind of this is a

a different vibe than than bandit for sure, we're band It's a little more up tempo, it's more a little laid back. BOSSI has a cool, little like rappy reggae part that's in there that that's really really unique. We we tend to like let our songs go for longer than the normal pop link. So I don't think we've ever made like a three minute song, but that's what happened. Yeah, all right, very cool. Let's let's give this a listen. So this is called without Love. This is studio track by Fox and the Flamingos.

And then we'll come back and they're gonna play for us some more. Oh, what would you do without love? I'm too a friend to love because love is what truly makes us well here and connected by soul. It's betting you, it's betting me, and I know you. Sky's a purple sees a blue heaven't known that I I do over? Why would you do without? Well? I'm afraid that this number over? Who would you even? Or too? Is the essence of laughing to

spit in you s with in me and I know you skies of purple season blue heaven, know that I had dome enough it's enough of But we all come just like a live love. It's between them, just the boyd in the pub of life. That you believe the love and you'll dropping pup and your weight to so the love and fun that you ever walk. Believe the numbers alto round everything. The lady move your dad that you this so you're so contersting, realize with your eyes with the skies all the prize of your wise, of the rival.

The reason this side. Tell you what you do win own love? I have never seen. Tell you what's gonna arn? What child to win out love? Could you in live down love? And did you love that? It feels your soul? We are nowhere. Well to go love yourself that you befool You did it already. It's gonna be all right. You're alive and your love. Oh, to be loved is to be alive. I tell you on time, be m that's nice without love. That is Fox and the Flamingos and they are here with us live in studio. Great track, great track, and amaze, you've got a great voice.

How did you are you? Did you have formal training or are you self taught? Or if you'd asked my mom, she'd tell you that I came out the womb singing. Yeah. I used to told me I used to sing myself to sleep when I was like three years old. Yeah, And I did take voice workshop. It's a class in high school. All throughout my high school. Shout out to missus R. Doote. She was an amazing teacher and definitely like gave me a lot of technique to work with, taught me all about the importance of warming up and taking care of your voice and yeah, stage presence, which you know, it's sometimes it's funny how you learn things in high school but then you have to relearn them again after you graduate.

So yeah, that's all. That's all though. My father is a musician, and so is my uncle. My uncle Andrew was in a band called c Note back in the nineties of boy band kid Lou Pearlman was their manager, no kidding. Yeah, he's an amazing singer. Andrew Rodgers. He went by Drew Rogers, so you know, I, I guess I got a lot of my natural ability from my dad's side of the family. Oh wow, I'd like to get him on the show. I could promise. He does live in Florida, so it'd have to be like a yeah, yeah, no problem though, No, that that sounds interesting.

Yeah, it always helps if you come, I think from a musical family, you know, and have that have that upbringing. Let's see, Dan Mooren joins us in the Facebook live chat, and I thought that might be that's that's a new name. So oh, very nice, speaking of supportive families. There you go. Yeah, he's also a musician, is amazing, excellent, excellent, and also Patrick cow tourier, cow tourier. Yeah, how do you say it? I was way off. I've always said Couturier, but he's well. Pat says, I'm really digging this track, guys, pretty tight with the great groove rock on

very nice. Tony Petrello, I don't know if you know Tony, he's also a musician. He says they are really good and he wrote really good in all caps of it. Thank you so much. Thanks for the love, y'all. Absolutely, and Dan Moran says, Hi, guys, h Jenny said. Jenny says, this is awesome. Jay Fed from Vermont says, I'm digging this. Yeah, so you're getting ah, you're getting a lot of love in there. Absolutely, I'm smiling so big. We'd love to play in Vermont. Yeah, tell some places about us? Yeah yeah?

Where where where do you play? Do you do? You play a lot of shows? Yeah, we've we've so here in Manchester, We've played at Murphy's tap Room. We've also played at the Shaft Skiing that was a really good time too. We play all over New England Angel City Music, Oh, I mean New England, New Hampshire. As we have a show coming up in Worcester, and that'll be our first out of state show. That's all exciting in Milford in a couple of weekends. Yeah, doing the headlining headlining stage next weekend. Uh, and then we play uh that night at the Posta Loft Events Center right across the across the double show back to back Saturday night at the Pumpkin Festival in Milford this year.

Excellent, excellent. Jay Fed says you can play at his house if you want to play in Vermont, all right, but he might he might try to talk you into getting new into an ice bath. I don't remember if that came up. The ice bath. Yeah, I just did my first on this past week. Oh yeah, yeah, oh thank you. The opposite good point hot, it's the opposite of gold. Wondered, that is true? Uh? J Fed Also he's wondering. Uh. And of course this doesn't apply to all of you, obviously, but he likes to ask everybody, have you ever considered increasing the length of your beards?

Mine was pretty good for a while. Yeah, Garis was down almost like to his to the middle of his chest. Really wow, Yeah, I can't, I can't I get to my neckt itchy and things like that so I got a little longer. Yeah, yeah, yeah today, So sorry, my dad's is down to his belly button, is it really? Yeah? I think he met like terminal length already. But it's always funny seeing pictures of your dad because I can tell how old he is by how long his beard is. Longer, longer, he's gotten old, like the things in a tree.

That's what I saw one the other day, and it was like as short as mine, and I was like, whoa, he was really well, would you like to play another song? I'd love to hear you're another one? Yeah, if you couldn't tell, we we'd like to take our own little spin on on popular covers. So this, yeah, another one of those excellent mm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmm. So downy child, so do the knob And if you was so smart, ion is still so big. Pleas the fire, the hurry about your bed, pulled it up before you burn it out.

He got so much to do and going so many hours in a day.

You know, when to this horse that you can get what you want on you can just get over. You're gonna kick off before you being it highway through? When will you realize being away for you slow down, you don't fride, You can't be everything you wanna be before your time Alo, it's so long, no kick on the thro the line tonight, tonight, Joe babe, and it's the life you leave you so himself that you forgot what you need or you can see you when wrong? You know you can't always see when your brides ride.

You got the passing, you got your pride. But don't you know that only pools and satisfy, dream on? Don'ta let you little home to will you hear eis be in a ways? Were you so down? Your crazy child? Take up one up the hook and disappear for a while. It's stop fight to get a part of the day or to when will you read lives? Get in a way? Make you

being a white spot being a ways when you go ju gook gor just goock your just your jack. You'll go. But you know the when the truth is told that you can get what your waiting. You can look. Get a kick off before you leaping it highway being away, kick off before you weaving, get halfway, be a lie and a weed. Boo awesome, awesome, great job, Thank you foughts and the Flamingos. This here live in studio with us. Jack Polner in the Facebook live chat says, these guys are awesome. And my wife and I buy cars from the basis somebody out there and uh, let's see.

Uh oh, Carol's a Warwitz says, great music. Wonder Swede says, this is so cool. We say from us, we say that you can come to Greensboro, North Carolina sometime. Fox and the Flamingos. Maybe you can do a version song of Ticket to Ride love it. That's how they love, That's how they talk in green right right yes? Uh and uh hello to Amerian Banish in the chat room. Where where does the name come from? By the way, it's actually it's it's funny. So U you know when we put the group together, uh it it started actually between Ryan uh Pratt and Gary and myself.

We were actually jamming up at Ryan's uncle's house in the in the basement. You know, he had a full drunk kid in the whole setup and whatnot, and and we we were talking, we were like, we would I'd love to put together a funk band with a female lead singer. And then somewhere along the line, I just got this notion of wanting to be like like Huey Lewis and the News, you know, like a blank you know, a front person. And then the back backing band is is you know, a fun name, right, And Huey Lewis and the News was already taken and unfortunately top on our list.

But you know, my backup was Hoody and the Blowfish. But but I got the notion of wanting to be the Flamingos. I just loved that like notion of you know, there's so much flavor if you will, in all things Flamingo and the what people, you know, what you think about when you think Flamingo, you think fun and party and you know, warm weather, l you know, lively, atmosphere, et cetera, et cetera, and all the possible combinations. And then we started the group and Mazie joined and we were, you know, really we're like, okay, we're a band.

And there was one night, it must have been ten thirty at night. I'm sitting on the couch watching TV and Maze and I are chatting and I just happened to ask her. I was like, hey, Mas, what's your spirit animal? And I mean it's one of those things where you see the three bubbles pop up as soon as you send it through. There was no thinking, and she was like Fox and I was like boom, Fox, and the Famingos just runs right off. And we were we had a whole list of names that we were chatting about, and you know, blanking the Famingos.

They knew that that that was going to be out there, and I was like, guys, this is god it happened. So yeah, like you threw that out there. Yeah, in the group chat, you threw that out there. And then we kept for weeks, we kept throwing out names and trying to come up. It was uping for that one. I really was pushing that one, and I think that's why we initially ended on that one for sure. Yeah, you know, and like as soon as he threw that out there, because I was designing stuff, I started designing logos right away with that name before we decided on it.

So I was like, that's the name. That's not going to be. There's no other names, especially with her, like with the Fox thing, like we just knew right away. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I did used to be a redhead blonde now of course, but it was fitting. I had my little moment over yeah, Arctic Fox. Now, yeah, we have a call. Our friend Mike Doyle is online him, Mike, Mike, hey man, how's everything going good? How are you very good? Very good? You got a full studio there? Hey, I just want to tell you I am a connoisseur.

Nothing against the band. They played great, but I'm a connoisseur of female voices and I'm putting this young lady in my top ten. There you go. She's phenomenal, phenomenal and just the tones and the and sliding in and out of different different different octaves or whatever you would call it. It's just phenomenal. And the band back and a rupt is uh. I'll give him, I'll give him a step behind, but they're really good. We'll take it. We'll take it. Yeah. But yeah, great job, great. I already looked up trying to buy an album and looking up all your stuff and what's out there I can find for you, and I already put you on my Shazam is on.

So yeah, just because I really want to believe me that again, don't don't get me wrong. The band is great, but she was She's phenomenal. Oh, very nice. All I wanted to say, very nice. All right, Mike, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Alculator all right, bye bye, all right, very nice. Well that's cool speech. Yeah. Yeah, this guy's definitely helped build me into the musician I am though. I mean, I've had the voice, but it's taken a lot to to get to where I am with stage presence and just confidence in general on stage, and it's still building in me and I'm still figuring out how to get to that sweet spot without drinking too much.

So she's got the natural talent and luckily we can we can bring it out of her. I'm glad everybody else is seeing that too. Yeah, yeah, it's reassures us. Yeah, absolutely. Uh. Stephanie Ree and the Facebook live chat says Hi, Fox and the Flamingos, you guys sound great tonight. Thank you, step than you, thank you very very nice. Did you did you want to do one more live one? I don't know how many? How many were you guys planning on doing? Oh, we have another one if you want to. Somebody somebody in the chat room requested superstitious that you guys do a great version of that.

But but but whatever whatever you want to play. Yeah, I would probably be a little tough. This is acoustic. Yeah, the first time touch of my acoustics since this band started. The biggest thing would be for Pratt or drummer, because he's on a cahoni right now. Ryan is no strangers to the cohone. He and I used to do a little acoustic duo group called Little Kings and oh yeah, and he has this hole what he calls the Frankin kit where he built it around the Cohoni. He's got all these gum bays and balis and chimes and whatnot.

So he's no stranger. But oh, by the way, I want to get this and Stephanie. Marie also said these guys have worked so hard to really hone in their skills and watch them grow not only as individuals but as a whole group has been amazing. So very nice. Thank you, Thanks, very nice, Thanks Ben, mom, mommy. Very cool. But yeah, play play whatever you want. We just want to prepare another one. So yeah, awesome, Yeah, will be thank you guys. Got it says if you're just joining usis is Fox and the Flamingos live in studio

and you love her takes to the sky like a bird and finding little being love. I al, you've never seen a woman taken by it and be

We'll just save. She promise you haven't well she is like a cat in the darken. She's darkness. She was alive, like a fine skylarkless sky, starlish. I al, I've never seen woman taken by and we'll just save. She promise you haven't you ever? Will you ever? Wee wee

chrems like a bill you love love ex to a sky like a bird and fliding will be. I have never seen woman taken lock and we this day. She promised, you have a well, I wind, you have ween,

we have we are, we are, we are minds stay in mind,

using mind does stay in mind? Taken by speaking. Oh my god, that was so good. You wow, thank you Wow. Fox and the Flamingos, ladies and gentlemen live in studio with us. That was that was great. Listen before we run out of time. So obviously we have one more song to play this new So this will be the first time this has been heard Gary when we yeah, besides us sending it around to our friends. Really, uh, it hasn't made it onto any of the streaming things. We're gonna do something a little more special for this than we did for the first two where we kind of just spat them out on all the platforms.

We're gonna, yeah, probably do something a little more special for this, so stay tuned for that. But so this will be a world premiere, world premiere. Yeah, just like this and all the Jam Tomorrow songs we recorded Board's House Productions and Brookline Pete as a great, great producer. Yes, shout out Pete Pelloquin. Yeah, he's a he's awesome, very nice, very nice. And uh, also, what should people know about where to find Fox and the Flamingos online. So we are on Facebook, We're on Instagram. We're constantly posting new show dates on We have a post on our Facebook it shows all of our upcoming dates.

We're on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, yep, anyway can Yeah, and our YouTube channels pretty vast. Yeah, we post all our live shows. Yeah. We we do recordings of our all of our live shows and post them there so if you miss it, you have a chance to see it. Excellent, excellent, Yeah, very very happy to have you all here. This has been amazing and like I said to you got a lot of love in the Facebook live chat. Everybody's uh, everybody's digging what you're doing. So thanks again everybody. Yeah, we appreciate that so much.

Absolutely absolutely. Dan Morn says, nicely done. I'm proud of you, guys. I love you. Thanks, Bob, very nice, very nice. All right,

this is the premiere. This is the world premiere of the brand new track from Fox and the Flamingos. This is called Don't Be a Stranger. And again, thanks everybody. This has been amazing, Thank you, Thanks again, Mack absolutely so you know me, but I have a feeling with God being come not befferends tell we may be strangers, boing. I'm so defferent and not so dear friends, never would a guess you won't. I be here tonight. Lune is inside and I'm high as a card. I don't worry on my mind. Are we say if we connect some favorite I die?

Tell me why connect to something? But take out they gonna lie and you feel aside. I'm enjoying life. It live on my own time,

on my own time, and I'm not so exactly but that's but that's all right in my emitting life? Are we really changers? It's went to lake to race life. Tell me why can they do something? I think they gonna lie it easier, Sie, I can't hurt my smile. This moment in time is the best I've head in a while. I can't hurt my smile, this moment in time, it is the in a while I can maybe stuff that is the man I don't get anyway? Are we stranger?

If we complate the pager? Tell me why can make this to something bigger than your die? Can you see changers all lead your life? Your

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