Matt Connarton Unleashed: Jam Tomorrow

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are gonna change because I feel like this was called just real ray. As we move from hugs and handshakes, we must remember how our souls. As we move from confidant to confidet, we must remember how our souls pay re

But A feel like things are falling its leaves. Man, I feel like gets the end of the Red Queen's Rage, and I feel like the storms

are gonna change because I feel like this was all just rearing and people take too much pride in the way they pick their side, split up into them and us a sign seating on the bs on the bus. But I feel like fins are falling its place, and I feel like it's the end of the Red Queen's Raiders, and I feel like the stars, like the stars are gonna check because I feel like this was un just fearing. As our lives get more separating, well we wish they weren't so. As things get more complicated, well we wish we could just know, just know.

But I fee like things are falling it's place and I feel like it's the end of the Red Queen's Rage. Had a feel like the stars are gonna change because I feel like this was all just preer range, and a feel like things aren't falling its place, and I like it's the end of the Red Queen's Rage. Had a feel like the stars, like the stars are gonna change because I feel like this was all just freer range, I said, I feel like this was untle, just freer range. Hmmm. I love that that is falling into place.

The band is Jam Tomorrow. Well, actually, these guys have been with us on the show before, Mike, Mark and Gary, and Gary's struggling with that. Mike a little bit. There we go, just done. The trick is not to actually the trick is not to breathe on it. Actually, the best thing is to not even look directly at at it. Yeah, don't even look at it.

Yeah, pretend it's not there anyway. But uh yeah, So we have Jam Tomorrow here with us live in studio, So that was falling into place. One of the two uh studio tracks that we're going to play today. We have another one that will play at the end of the hour. And I love both of these guys. Great, great job, thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely, really really good, really good. Where did you record these? Those are records at Boardhouse Productions and Brookline. He does like Roots of Creation. He's bad Fish's sound guys.

Oh, he's recorded our Fox and Flamingo stuff too. He's a he's a great dude. Yeah. Yeah. It's an awesome setup too, because the whole front of his studio as he's what he's looking at his desk is all G five, it's all digital, giant screen. And then behind him he's got a rack of like twenty or twenty four old school analog rigs. Yeah. He just knows how to blend, you know, the solid state with the cutting edge, to to bring out all the nuances that really just make everything sound so good. Yeah, yeah, no, it sounds amazing.

Are you is there a long term plan to do? Are you gonna just keep releasing singles? Are you gonna do an EP or an album or what's or do you know yet? No? I think we we finally got in the studio last year, but we haven't been in the studio since like October I think of last year. Yeah, so we really haven't. It's been a while we need to get back on that. We have twenty originals to record, no kidding, So I don't know if we want to try to put out a EP or an LP or a double album or I guess that kind of depends on how things get paced in the next six months or so.

Yeah, yeah, you've got Wow, how long has this project been around? It hasn't been that long, right, jam tomorrow. So Mark and I started pretty much when COVID got nasty. So what was that was that? Four years ago? Twenty nineteen, five years ago? Twenty yeah? Four years Yeah, So we started just sitting six feet apart from each other, yeah, and just doing covers just to kind of not go crazy with all the madness that was happening in the world. Yeah, and then we somehow when people started booking gigs again, we booked a gig here and there and started writing some originals.

That song that you just played actually falling into place as our first original. It's kind of a COVID song, but I feel like it it's a that's the first one you guys wrote together. Yeah, Oh wow, No, kiddy, they started with the chorus instead of the verse. I didn't even know what I was doing, I noticed that listening to it. It's one of those songs where, yeah, where the chorus kind of sounds like it might be the verse, and the verse kind of sounds like the chorus. It reminded me of ooh child, all right.

That song is to me, that's like the classic example of that, where you know it's kind of inverted and it fools you a little bit when you're listening to it, which I love. I love that, and I was afraid it was going to kind of fall out once all the COVID madness sort of receded into the background, But I feel like it it's sort of just about hard times and changing time, so it's sort of apropos well now as much as it was then. Well, well, the good news in terms of the song and it's relevance is the madness has never received it.

Only only the COVID part as we're as we're a post pandemic, but the madness itself, Uh, I think that's us. Well, I think COVID's with us forever too, but but so is the madness. Yeah, I agree, it's a permanent passenger in our American life. Yeah, I believe, so believe so, guys, I'm dying to hear you play something live. I really enjoyed this the last time you were on with us, and uh, of course this is the first time. Well again, Gary, you were here last night, but but as jam tomorrow, this will be the first time in the new in the new studio here.

By the way, do you like the new you like the new digs? I do. It's very cool. Yeah. Yeah, everything's nice and new and clean and love it. I love it. This sound sounds good in here too. Yeah. Yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. Better parking better, much better parking. Yeah. If you guys want to play something for us, what do you what do you want to what do you want to play? To start, we got a song called playing the Blues, Living the Blues. Okay, we wrote this pretty recently. I'm not sure where it came from.

It's just thinking about this guy, probably a draft dodger Vietnam era, and the story just sort of came together. But he did something and then he decided to run and uh never stopped. So this one's called Living the Blues. Are a wonderful jam tomorrow live in studio. When I started back in nineteen sixty eight outside of Sioux Fall with a Queen Lake left Missoula blue lights were right behind, doing ninety five with freedom on MI. My South Dakota seemed far enough away, drove a thousand minds to the break of day.

Barty gets off stolen money in my shoes, Playing on the run and living in the blue, Live in the blue, laying on the run,

eyes wide opened, I have some fun eyes in front of me on the path. It you living on the runty the blue. They hang in the blue. Got a nine to five downtown Mexico, just standing alive, antiquing its bloody knuckles from turning a wrench better than bloody body in a sidegone trench, sliding light still let the rainbow bottle, drinking whiskey underneath the stock, under the raid, just paying my jue, Playing on the run and living the blue, living the blue, playing on the run. Eyes wide open, I have some fun eyes in front of me on the path that you

living on the run and play in the blue. Playing time is a game I don't play so well. Don't let it show these things I can't tell. Got nothing but time to lay his game. I just smiled, sing along on the scene, ain't fat the quit in the quit pro woke or if he just looks back because he just don't know. Oh man, I don't wan't see my name in the news. Playing on the run and Live in the Blue, Live in the blue, playing on the run, eyes wide open to have some fun, but eyes in front of me on the path like you, live in on the run and playing the blue, playing the blue, praying the blue, play in the blue.

H well done, guys. Wow, that was gorgeously. That was gorgeous. Was talking about early? No, that was that was excellent. If you're just joining us, we have jam tomorrow here with us live in studio. Are you guys playing out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows? Yeah, we're just this is gig well for as this arrangement. This is gig six out of seven in five or six weeks. So we're doing We're gonna be joining Gary at City Limits on Thursday night, jumping up for a couple of songs, and then I think we actually don't have anything in the books for a while.

We're we're looking to book some stuff. Talking to a couple of venues we played out before, but yeah, we came out of just doing We played at Wing It's on the fourth of July. We played at the Paki and hooks it. We played a four hour gig there the week before that. We had a the week before that show before that.

So it's been good. It's been been a lot of fun, and people seem to be really receptive to the new stuff because we've got songs that are just a couple of months old. Yeah, yeah, outstanding outstanding. Now are you so, Gary? Of course? Uh? You obviously you play solo sometimes, you were on rob Show last night. You also you have Fox and the Flamingos. Yep. Always amazing. I always I always say that song straight is it Don't Be a Stranger, Don't Be a Stranger? Yeah's you got a hit song there, dude.

That's finally on Spotify so you can hear outstanding outstanding and now usually it's the drummers that are in a million different bands. You're you're pretty busy, Yeah, the basis too. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Do you have any other projects or yeah? I mean I've been working with Cosmic Blossom Collective, which is a cool group. There. They went through some changes and I brought a drummer from a fusion band I kind of dabble with and we kind of joined them for a Strange Creek and we're playing with them at trout Stock and the town and stuff.

So I went down recorded with them a few weeks go down at the Cape, so put down some basslines for four songs. So they have some they have some stuff coming out too. Excellent, excellent. How about you? What else have you got going? Nothing? Really? I work almost sixty hours a week. Yeah, so you got yeah, you got your hands full? Yeah? Well and you play at church all the time? To you do? Yeah most Sundays? Yeah, Oh okay. Loud. I'm proud. I actually played more loud rock and stuff there than I do.

Yeah, what about you, Mike, No, this is it I am. I'm trying to not over commit myself. Yeah, that's sort of one of my faults. Yeah, and to over commit. So I'm actually stepping back from other stuff. But I just stepped off of I was on the board with a Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence. I just finished my term there and did not renew my term there. I'm writing very little for a new Ympshire magazine now, just a couple of articles a year at this point, so I'm actually trying to just be a little more low key and not always have something to do every day yet wow, oh yeah for right now, this is this is plenty.

Say you were being low key? Yes? Oh okay, well that's sorry? Is that is that a fourth subject? But I'm I would think being low key would be very time consuming. A lot that comes with that, trying to be a different place.

Well, you guys, actually we should say hello to everybody on the Facebook, lat chat and then I'd love to hear another one. Uh, let's see, we have Aid. I'm sorry, Aid, how do you say that? I don't know how to say that last name, so I'm not going to butcher it. Aid. Congratulations on this? Uh oh, this is spam. We've got a spammer in the chat room trying to sell it something. Yeah yeah, never never mind, you Aid with your spam now trying to Actually I'll go ahead and read it. Congratulations on this.

Do you know that podcast is not just recording but it's about building a strong fan base. And then there's a a helpful link which I'm not going to uh click, but thank you, Aid. Take some notes. Matt clearly this is your first rodeo. Yes, yeah, I know. It's been a while since I've seen a spammer in there like we have, you know, the the AI people from Greensboro, North Carolina, but an actual spammer. I haven't seen it there lately. Andre Dumont, of course from Dead Harris Andre is amazing, says, good morning you awesome and amazing people.

Thank you. Andre B. Pinard, big supporter of the show, says love this song. Yeah, me too. Absolutely. Eric uh In Palamini, Did I say it correctly? From Temple Mountain says says I could listen to them all day. Yes, thanks Eric. Melanie Liberty of course from the great state of Vermont says nice, nice beard, mister yellow shirt. Yeah yeah, she likes your beard. Melanie of course quite the aficionado of beards, so totally judging. Yeah yeah, not too many good ginger beards out there. Yeah, that's a good ginger beard.

Yes, with a good ginger right right, I would not put you in the darkened Stormy Jay Fed of course also in the Facebook live chat and says, good morning everyone. Let's see I just want to make sure we don't miss anybody in here. Oh, and Bruce from Legion of Solace. Bruce, I was wearing your shirt the other day, your Legion of Solid shirt, says good, good morning friends. Hope Paul as well. Is that what I'm wearing? Oh, yeah, you've got the shirt? Yes, there you go. Jenny's uh, Jenny's got it. No, Bruce was fine.

Yeah. When Bruce was on the show, he was kind enough to bring us shirt. Said, they don't sometimes people include me. That's right, that's right, they do. Legion of Solace is great. They do a lot for the music scene. When I when I first heard the name Legion of Solace, I assumed it was a band, but uh no, it's actually a really good, uh promotional organization. And Joey Painter, who was on the show, uh not too long ago, says, what up? You know it's you and then multiple piece. Yeah that was great too.

Loved having Joey Painter on with us. Bruce says, greatly appreciate the support. Well, we appreciate you, Bruce. All right, i'mdying to hear another song. What do you what are you guys gonna play next? We got another, a newish one. We actually we wrote this. Yeah, normally Normally we don't write songs together. Normally, i'll take music that one of these guys has come up with, or if we're rehearsing, I'll just put my phone on record when I go, you know, grab a beer or something, and some magical happen and then I kind of take that away to my lair and I put lyrics to it.

Because I'm my creative process, I'm usually pretty selfish with it. But this was actually one that Mark and I were sitting out on the porch in the rain and we wrote this together, smoking cigars and probably drinking some whisky. So this is actually called things in the Rain. All right, very good sings in the rain, and the band is jam tomorrow. They are here with us live in studio. These sings in the ring when he's all alone, never use should be so hard Stone just singing to the bird out on the streets rolling by with their silent feet.

He sings in the rings like everybody he's got pain bot. He sings nonetheless, that's the way to be free from stress. He sings in the rings like everybody he's got pain bots. He sings none the less, best way to be free from scratch yap, m hm. She sings in the rain from behind her window. Pain hasn't left this please since the world sped up its pace just singing to reflection. Nurse gives her tly injection life ros by no connection. She sings in the rain. Nobody else so why complained? But she sings anyway?

Best wait to pass the day? She sings in the rain. Nobody there, so bid and complain, but she sings anyway. Best way to pass the day? You do, dude.

She sneaks out up her bed room, set temporary escape from this hell.

He means her around side, remembering how they were used to be so wide.

They sing in the ring, She and he that's why they remained, didn't used to fine this kind of piece of my just singing to the dog.

Silly souls lost themselves in the park, they in their roles, happy dress, in the code they stole us. They sing in the much to the worlds just stain, but they sing all the same. Only way to please this game. They sing in the rain, much to the worlds distink, but they sing all the same. Only way to play this game, To play this game, to play this game, play this game. Well done, gentlemen, well done, Thank you. Jamsmorrow live in studio with us today of course we have Mike, Mark and Gary from the band a jam Tomorrow and another great song And if you're just joining us, by the way, at the top of the show, one of the tracks we played was the new single from These Guys, Falling into Place.

So if you miss it, of course you know it'll be up in the archive when the podcast is posted later. I recommend definitely checking it out. And we're going to be playing a second studio track from These Guys at the top of the hour at the end of the segment, which I'm really looking forward to sharing with everyone as well. So so really really good. And now you were saying earlier you've got like twenty originals in this band? Is that yeah, at least we have some that we've actually forgot we have and like, oh, we haven't played this one in a couple of years, no kidding, just this off and play it again.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. That's great. Do you do any covers when you play live or is it strictly originals or yeah, we probably got one hundred and twenty five undred and fifty covers in our cab loog. Oh my god. Really, we switch it up as often as we can do. We do a lot of original, so we usually do thirty thirty five percent of our total set list will be original peppered in. Yeah, usually play fifteen or twenty of them. Yeah. Yeah. And we like the fact that the venues that we play at don't tell us not to play, right, Yeah, we kind of avoid those gigs.

Well, I feel like, you know, with the way that you guys play, you know, it probably opens up a lot of opportunities as far as it seems like there's a lot of different types of venues where you can play with a project like this, especially like non drum friendly venues, right right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh. We did have a cohone player, Michael Freeman, sat in with us last weekend at the Packi's seventh anniversary, definitely, and that was awesome. I just sent him a set list and some rough recordings of roughs of all of our originals, you know, just done on an iPhone, just so we have something that we can kind of reference in case we forget how we did it a year later, right, and he killed it.

He familiarized himself and laid back until you know, into the first verse and the chorus kicked in. The kind of found out where you could fit in on the track, and I think we got a lot more engagement by virtue of that. So we'll probably have him back on some other sets in the future. Well that's cool too, to have something where you can have someone sit in or not sit in, and you know you have some flexibility there. Actually, now that I think of it, I've forgot about this, but we kind of did that with Chemical Distance totally.

Yeah, because we had a drummer toward the end. Yeah, Mark Brennan, Yeah, Yeah, he in touch with him. I see him on social media every once in a while. I think he still works at Stonyfield with these a Kinsel but I'm not sure. Yeah, I know he's in I see him posting that he's doing other musical stuff. But okay, I not had a chance to catch him yet. Yeah, great guy and super talented. I mean those few shows that he did play with us, I thought, oh yeah, and then well two of the cuts on the album are so For those of you that don't know, Matt and I were in a band about fifteen years ago.

Called Chemical Distance with the amazing Auto Kinseler and uh yeah he has five drums on a couple of those. You can you can actually find that on most platforms. Still the pain and the progress Chemical Distance. Every once in a while, I still play Sign of the Times on the show Nice. Yeah, yeah, we gotta we gotta turn that over so we can do that with this project. That would be a lot of fun. You should, you absolutely should. Twenty four bars a heat. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Well, you guys want to play you want to play one more live?

Sure? This is I think this is probably my favorite of our originals. I think probably in mark two, definitely in the top three. I I kind of channeled this song. I don't know who this person is. I can I can see them, I can see where they are. It's not me, but I very much came through me. I don't even feel like I wrote this song. I feel like the song has sort of flowed into me from the universe. I know this sounds kind of hokey, not too Edgar casey for anybody out there, but but I really can't. I don't feel like I can take responsibility for this song, even though it flowed through my hand.

Interesting, This one's called motor lodge. All right, jam tomorrow a live in studio. Sometimes I think you don't even hear me ahead. Sometimes I think I don't want you to hear me at. Sometimes I think I'm missing your time, But that's the hump time. I don't miss you so much. Sometimes as I find I wish for your smile. That's sometimes I stand in the rain waiting in a while as sometimes I want know where you went dance the hump times I questioned my hantent. It comes to questions every single time, never answers, never anything jeems sublime, And it comes to questions, what the us come you?

What do you belave? One of you? Going through go in through? Oftentimes I don't remember the moment and that past. Oftentimes I can't distinguish the first from the line. Often times I feel I've walked in these foods steps before, and often times I see my handprints on the hunt or ofttimes I find I reach for your hands, but ben on f times it disappears at again, and oft times I want to what have been to we? Oftentimes I question what mahade me? It trumps the questions every single time, never answers, never anything he bust of time.

It comes to questions, what do you ask of you? Who? What do you who believe? What are you thinking of his truth? Thinking of his true? Both times I fear I've lost myself in the past. Most times I fear I've let the wrong moment. Laugh. Both times it is it's beginning the meu right all And most times I can't predict my fall. Both times I don't know what we're wrong is. Most times I can't believe I'm singer. Thus times I don't know how this spelled. And most time side question once round the bend, round the bet.

It cost questions every single time, never answer, never anything more sublime cost questions. But did you ask of you? Until you believe one of you? Gone? You gone? You gone? You don't you don't you don't. Oh my god, this is so good. That was awesome. That is so good. I think did you guys play that the last time that you were here? We might have. I tried to pull up the set list from the last time we were here, but I'm not sure. Yeah, just because it seemed familiar, I seem to remember I seem to remember you playing it before, and well it is.

Yeah, and I seem to recall having the same reaction like, wow, what an incredible song. Thank you. That'll probably be the next the next time that we dropp We've got it recorded, we just got to get it mixed out. Yeah, and I can see why, you know, you might think you sort of channeled it or however you put it. You know, it's it's it's otherworldly. It's so good. I can see this guy sitting on a bed in a motor lodge making some really difficult decisions about his life. Interesting. That's why we call it motor lodge.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that is really good if you are just joining us, Jam Tomorrow is here with us. By the way, our friend Bruce from Legion of Solace was asking do you guys play all over New England or do you stick to New Hampshire. We're open a conversation about anything, Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You can. You can find me on you can tag us on the Facebook post and the Jam Tomorrow page, or I can drop a comment in afterwards and shoot you my email address. You can just reach me at MHP second Windwater dot com.

Yeah, he's someone who would be really good to connect to you, YEA, love to talk definitely, definitely. Where else should people go online to keep up with everything that you guys are doing? Garry, what's your website? My website is just d H g U r s dot com. It's my old like Instagram name from a mountain biker. Yeah, but sixth letter website was a good thing. That has all my different projects and there's Jam Tomorrow clips and stuff on there and all our information and you can contact me through there too if that's easier.

We also have a YouTube channel. We've got a couple of videos up there, but working on populating some more, and you can find us on Facebook at Jam Tomorrow Dash the band to be confused with Jam Tomorrow the Lunchbox or Jam Tomorrow the Sleeping Bag, Jam Tomorrow the Flamethrower. The kids love that one. Yes, yes, baby, Oh, tell us again too. We talked about it last time. But where the name comes from? So it's a Lewis Carroll reference from through the Looking Glass. It's sort of a weird word play on the Latin four I am.

But it became in political parlance in the late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds. It became sort of a mocking statement about unfulfilled political promises, but it also came down to the fact that when we first started the project, we had a hard time schedule and rehearsal, so it's like, oh, can we jam today? We can jam tomorrow. Though the reference from Through the Looking Glass is actually the Red Queen sitting with Alice, and Alice asked they're having tea, and Alice asked if they can if you got some jam, and the Queen says, jam tomorrow, Jam yesterday, but never jam today.

And we make a lot of Lewis Carroll references in our songs. Actually that feel like the end of The Red Queen's Race from falling into place, the Red Queen had to run as fast as you possibly could just stay in one place. Do you think you might actually remember a song about the same topic from back in distances? Yeah, Red Queen's Race. I tell everybody that was our hit. That was our hit. Yeah, so yeah, I definitely recycle that concept. It's a I think it's a potent metaphor for life. A lot of the time, just having to run as fast as you can to not get anywhere.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, there was a lot of when we were reverse getting together, like phone calls back with you and you want to jam tomorrow. So I think saying that enough sparked is like you know what, Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, guys, this has been wonderful. I really I love what you're doing. I love the project. Like I said, I love these new studio tracks, I love hearing you live. Just really great. Anything this weekend? Do you play anywhere this weekend or next weekend? Our listeners should know about city limits in Pembroke Thursday on Thursday nine, Yeah, six to nine, there'll be still be a bunch of different local New Hampshire musicians coming by playing a few songs, so it'll it's kind of I call it Gary's musical gathering.

So it's a bunch of different my friends from different bands and just music friends I have are gonna come by play a couple of songs. Outstanding, So yeah, it should be fun. Outstanding And say hi to Rob new Spot. Yeah yeah, congratulations sar rab az Avito on that. That's amazing. Thank you so much for having us. Oh yes, oh absolutely, thank you guys. This has been Wonderful's h so we'll finish off with this studio track, beautiful Loser. What should we know about this? So Mark and I went to see Chris tila Uh mandolinist for Nickel Creek.

Okay, Fulbright Scholar Award winner, just an amazing singer, songwriter, musician, performer, all around super impressive. Guy walked up. He had two mics, one for his instrument and one for him and that was the whole thing. He didn't change this from his whole set. Yeah, it was a great show. I'd never heard of him, but then I realized I knew him from Goat Rodeo and he plays with that crew Yo Yoma Edgar Meyer, and so I actually did know some of his material. But he did a couple of Leonard Cohen songs and a lot of bluegrass as well, and somehow that just turned into me deciding to do a tribute to Leonard Cohen in bluegrass style.

Okay, so that's the cut. Gary's actually playing a really cool seven foot tall double bass. Recorded this at the same Courthouse studios. Pete is amazing and he made us sound really good. So, yeah, it's a bluegrass song, which is sort of a departure for us. Yeah, yeah, all right, very good jam tomorrow. Thank you guys again so much. Here it is. This track is called Beautiful Loser, A big hold in the fabricop space in time like I needed a dollar and I had a dime a Bens and Bull fans of the missis Hippi from the Minnesota Highlands to the New Orleans Ocean.

She grips me, And I don't know what happened me. Dweam feeling live and living free, keep walking towards where I think I might be. God is alive and the magic is afoot. Some things just won't stay aware that, but reinvention tainted by previous intentions won't save us from those things. We just can't mention. And I don't know what happened to me? Dream feeling live and live and free, Keep walking towards where I think I might be. Yeah to the prayer, And I don't know what happened to me? Dream feeling alive, living free, keep walking towards where I think I might be.

Every time we pull back the curtain, we find another curtain. But my mind is lee read and my back is hurting. The only thing I've ever known for s hurcheon is behind every curtain, there's another curtain, and another curtain, And I don't know what happened to me. Dream feeling alive and living free, Keep walking to woods where I think I might be, And I don't know what happened to me. Dream feeling life and live and free, keep walking towards where I think I might be, And I don't know what happened to me.

Teen feeling live and live and free. Keep walking to hold where I think I might be, Where I think I might be,

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