Matt Connarton Unleashed: Marvel Prone (9/20/23)

0:00 Jenny is here at the news desk, President in account bar. Yes, and as promised, we have a wonderful musical guest here with us. We have two members of Marvel Prone. So we have Rayner, who has been on the show with us before. Hi, Matt, it's good to see you again. Wepe. Sorry you're so loud and headphones there, I'm kind of I'm adjusting. The Mike says, we go here and then uh and I will let you introduce the new person or not well, not so much new, but new to us. Yes, we have Emily Donophan over here.

0:32 Hey, thanks for having us. Hello Emily, welcome, Welcome you. And what's the story here? So you you were in the band before and you rejoined the band. Yeah, So Rayner and I went to high school together and my freshman year I wanted to start a band. So I think Rayner was sitting at the lunch table and I was like, Hey, do you want to be in a band with me? And he said yeah. And that was ten years ago. Oh wow, and yeah here we are today. Oh, very cool, very cool? And then uh so when so when Marvel Prone started?

1:01 So that was that was the beginning of Marvel prone. Yeah, and then Rayners kept it going all this time. I was away for college for a few years, but I moved back maybe three months ago. Okay, and yeah, Rayner had sent me a message and I responded and we were talking and then he said, do you want to come back to the band? And I was thrilled. Oh, very cool, very cool. All right, well, I'm looking forward to hearing you play. And Emily, can you strum that guitar a little for me? That's want to see if that?

1:33 Okay? That should be good? And Rainer can you strum a little there? There we go? All right, cool, I'm gonna have to adjust on the fly, which I'm used to doing so sweet. Yeah, yeah, So if you if you would both like to play something and then uh, and then we'll talk a bit. Sounds good. Matt awesome, Mark Marvel prone here in studio with us like you, if you ever feel like taking a chance, look at these hands up for reach out to me. I can feel as she hits me deep down, he kills me. I know she's staring me apart, but she doesn't like a wake up apart.

2:49 Seventeen sacar chewed up like Nickel Ruchick from my tongue Boppy, the family. She's always faking another's breakdown. It's in my insides out girl. There's nothing that's too hide, there's nothing that's talking about when you already river my mind. I can feel it in my feet here when we're dancing on the floor, and when I'm walking the street along, I don't feel anymore. Second and segar chewed up like nickel ruting from my tone Poppy, She's always another's breakdown. You think it's so punk rock, Well, you're lucky, girl, because that's just what I want.

4:20 If you ever feel like taking unchance, look at these hands up for reach up to me. I feel as she has me, kills me. I know, sister and me apart. She has it like a feeling in my feel women dancing on my phone and when I'm walking in the street along, I don't feel like anymore. Wow, very nice, very nice. Thank you. Well, I'm sorry, Jenny, I didn't have your my concent it again. That was awesome, thanks, Jenny, absolutely absolutely, yeah, you sound great. Now, So how often do you play with this configuration where it's just the two of you?

5:17 Or is this is this the first time doing it? This way. Yeah, that's like the first time, really kidding. Yeah, yeah, we've probably done it before, but I don't think so maybe, which is funny. Yeah yeah, just for the radio thing. Yeah yeah. So now so usually it's it's four of you for regular shows. Yeah yeah, okay. Our bassist Matthew bicker Staff plays with us a lot, although he's going to school right now, so his availability is kind of out the window now. Yeah, he might play with us again in the winter for some shows.

5:54 And then Madison Rousseau is still jamming with us, incredible drummer and yeah she yes, so she's still playing with us. Yeah, she was here last time. Yeah. None of our listeners is in a store dancing down the aisles. Oh oh thank you literally Ronda Ferverro from California. Yeah, yeah, excellent. So now when you don't have your bass player, what do you still play? Are you able to to kind of work around that or oh well we actually uh yeah yeah, I mean like we'll practice with whoever we can practice with, because I mean, everyone's availability.

6:34 I've always had this challenge with the band is just like you know, everyone's availability is different in everything, and so it's very rare that we actually get a full band practice. Ye, but I just I just you know, surrender to that and it's just we'll practice with anyone who who's available, and that works out nicely. Yeah. And you know, we don't and we don't just like rehearse, we also like try to you know, write songs together. Yeah, so excellent. How often are you playing out are you or are you more focusing on Can I plug a show?

7:05 Yeah, we're playing a show at the Stone Church on October nineteenth, excellent, the Thursday. I think we're open up for some jazz guitar jazz fusion guitarists from New York Kid. Yeah, so this should be a cool show. It's a Thursday night. Yeah. But I would say we've been playing like at least a couple of times a month for the summer. Things are slowing down now, but we'll be working on some other projects instead. Yeah. We've played at the Middle East in Cambridge.

7:38 We played at the press Room this summer. That was a first show of the press Room, which was great. King in the past, we've played at the Three Starts Space, another great venue in and in Portsmouth. Trying to think where where else. Yeah, those are the like notable locations, and we've played a couple of venues here in Manchester. We've played Angel City Music Hall excellent. And you know, I'd like to play a show. I've played with my other band at not the Shas Skiing but what is it called Strange Brew Tavern.

8:12 I've played there with them, and so I want to get Marvel Prone show there. Now, who's the other band? I played bass in a band called River Sang Wild. Oh, that's we were talking about. That's the business card that Christian found River Sang Wild. Yeah, yeah, business cards on our perfect We had a conversation about that today. Actually we have a call. Let's see who's on the line here. Uh, I thought you were on vacation. No, I am live on the air, sir. Do you have a Do you have a question for our band?

8:44 We've got a great guest here today, Marvel Prone is with us. Oh oh yeah, Well I want you guys sold the best of of luck in your musical career. And uh, Matt is a very You're very lucky to be on Matt Show. He's a very attentative person when it comes to the music scene, and uh he really gives bands a chance to

9:18 explode out there literally on the scene. That's that's that's very influential in New Hampshire. Yeah, we really appreciate the opportunity, Matt. It's really great. Happy to do it. Thank you, thank you, thank thank you. Aljoe, I appreciate your saying that wonderful words of Well, it's true. I mean I have listened to Matt on a few interviews with bands, and he just does a bang up job and gives these guys an opportunity to

9:46 share their art form in New Hampshire. And I've been hearing a lot of things about New Hampshire that it's a pretty interesting town as far as Manchester and the music scene and throughout New Hampshire. I didn't know this. Oh well, thank you very much just by listening. Thank you very much. I so enjoy booking all of these wonderful bands. I don't think I'll ever run out of talent. That's right, that's right, well, Joe, Yeah, Well, Matt's an expert because he was a bass player from what I understand, in a rocking band.

10:21 I believe I don't know much about it, but this is what the rumor that I heard. Hey, Jojoe, have you heard my new favorite band. Uh it was Jerry Robinson. Oh yeah, amazing. Ah, Jerry Robinson, the make believe guy, the guy that was created out of Adobe. Yeah that doesn't some incredible sounds. I don't know what you call make believe, but dang, there's some guitar playing in there. Yeah. No, the music is I have to I hate to admit it. I hate to admit it's not bad. What have you done with Jojo even though he's phony?

11:02 Oh now, Jerry's Israel as it gets. But this is uh, Joe, I feel like you've turned a corner. You're being very positive today. Well you know what it is, Matt. I. Uh, I hate to be positive on your show because we're supposed to go out after each other, supposed to have this rivalry, right, But in reality, you know, Matt, I do have respect for you because you're very You're smarter than most of the people in New Hampshire. Wow, okay, you know what I mean? Like you're intelligence suppeede the people of New Hampshire, you know, who are basically into you know, hugging trees and uh sucked it up.

11:46 Maple syrup. I love maple syrup. What do you have against maple syrup. But yeah, well I have maple syrup today at McDonald's. It wasn't bad. You're out there in New Hampshire, but it's the same mentality as Vermont, you know, I mean, you know, there's not much smartness there, you know, with the people a tree hugging and suck it up maple syrup for the tree. That's all I'm saying. Okay, all right, well fair enough, But well j Matt is my one of my starting to become one of my favorite broadcasters.

12:23 He's got a lot of winds, got a lot of intelligence,

12:28 even though I don't agree with his opinions political and I hope one day to call in and maybe talk a little bit about his leftist mentality and how we could correct it. Right right, Well, I'll try to keep an open mind in that vein. By the way, Matt, uh, I'm going to be announcing the uh the day that I make my uh uh you know, my great comeback, and uh, I'm going to take away some of your audience. I hope you don't mind. Oh yeah, you know you're gonna do your book, Joe, Joe, can we plan on your show?

13:07 What are you happening about this woman here on controllably Oh yeah, actually tickling about I think, well, I don't know something. Something has sickled or fancy clearly, but I think but I think Joe, I think a raider is asking about Marvel prone being on your show. Yeah, Joe, can we can? We can we show up to your show where you located out of Well, I'm on my website. Matt has all the information because he's been appearing on my show. And I want to also apologize to Matt four treat him like crap when he was calling into my show.

13:43 That's never gonna happen again. We're gonna welcome Matt with with wide open arms because he deserves it. Wow. Wow, you know this is I've been thinking about you, Matt. I don't know, I really like you. I don't know what it is. I know we're still different in every category, but I like you. You know, I've learned to, uh, you know, listen to your voice, and you know you're doing your job very well. M n h. And uh you know everybody like likes you and you're popular, so you know you really can't deny that.

14:18 I hope to achieve the same achievements on the Crazy Joe Show and put people in their place like they deserve to be. Well, very good, Well, Joe, I do appreciate the positivity and the and the support. I genuinely can match, you know, I mean, I'm not perfect, I genuinely do. Well, we're gonna hear Marvel prone is gonna play some more songs for us, Joe, so we'll let you go. Oh good, I was good. I want to listen to the style of music that these people have. Very good. But I appreciate the call positive, Joe.

14:48 I like it. Well, thank you for accepting it. Matt. It's always a pleasure talking to you, believe it or not. All right, Joe. Well, well that's handsome and intelligence. I may now wow, Okay, you're very sexy young man. Well yeah, he's a hot stud. Many hot yourself there, honey. Oh boy, we know he's had something something wrong. You need to call an ambulance. I don't know, honey. I'm very interested right now. Oh no, no, good, but we'll see. Maybe one day we'll hang out. Okay, guys, thank you so much for the opportunity to make a few statements.

15:25 And uh, by the way, Eric, uh I haven't had I haven't said anything big about Eric the last time I told to me, treat me with some proper respect.

15:35 As long people treat me with proper respect. I mean, I give it back. I understand it. I give it. I understand. That's a good policy, all right, Joe policy. I have a good day, all right, Joe, you too, Bye bye, Thanks, thanks man, all right, You're welcome by bye. Wow, very very positive. It's a whole new uh, Joe. It's a whole new Joe. It's a whole new Joe. Well, I would love to hear another song if you, if you were both uh to play something for us? Cool? Yeah, this is a song I wrote called New Psychology.

16:05 All right, very good. Marvel prone is live in studio. Take that look in the eyes, she tell you lost until you cry Hi five. It's going to take the die into Hi psycho. It's got a hole and it's taking everything everything I've got. Your psychology, it's got a hole and now I can see everything out. He She says, let's make them dispel that on.

17:48 Let you on me, watch you pray to make you go and say are you pay? It's all a game, your psychology it's got a fold on me and staking everything everything. I've got your psychology, it's got a fold on me, and now I can see everything. I'm not decide colloge you. It's got a fold and it's taken everything everything. I've got decide of Collogy. He's got a fold on me, and now I can see everything. I'm nice, very nice, very nice. Thank you. Sorry, Jenny, I forgot to put your I got lecock call ay technical.

20:07 Well you gotta understand the board. It's got all these buttons and sliders. Yeah, but you've been playing with those buttons and sliders, sliders and buttons on he is That's true. That was gorgeous. Thank you gorgeous. I loved that. If you're just joining us, we have a Rayner and Emily from Marvel Prone live in studio with us and they're playing some songs and uh, yeah, this is great. Yeah that's you said, that's a new song you just wrote. It's new for Marvel Prone. But I actually wrote that for different bandos in in college called Plane Jane.

20:44 We kind of, you know, simmered out when the pandemic started. But I've kept some of my songs and I'm revamping them to play with this group. It's been really fun. It's a good project. Yeah, excellent, excellent. Now, so tell me you guess. So when you went when Marvel Prone started, So you approached Ranner and and just like what what what made you like? Had you seen and heard him play or what what made Yeah, we were we were in the school rock band together and we went to a really small art school.

21:14 So we were playing in the school rock band together. And he was a drummer at the time. Yeah, but I was obsessed. I was starting to get obsessed with a guitar. Yeah, when I was sixteen, I read a Jimi Hendricks biography and then I would just carry my guitar to class because at this charter school, they didn't they didn't stop me from doing that. And yeah, I just started playing a lot of guitar and everything. But I'd mostly played drums at that point. So when we started the band, I was actually the drummer.

21:43 And we had these two other guys in the band, uh Riley on bass and Peter on keys. They went to Oyster River and they were my childhood friends. And so when Emily came, I think she told me like, hey, we should start a band with you, Riley and Peter. That'd be so cool. I'm like, oh, yeah, totally how you met. No, I didn't do them. I just said we should start a banding. We're like, oh, I know the perfect guys. I know the perfect Yeah. And I was like trying to start a band with those guys for some time, but we were just kind of talking about it.

22:15 Yeah. So that was like Emily gave us enough reason to like, all right, we got a singer. Yeah I was. I wasn't even saying I was just the drummer and everything. And then but then when I did start singing and I just started playing guitar, Emily left the She was like I'm done. Yeah. I left for maybe a year yeah really maybe, yeah, and then I came back yeah okay, and then I left for college, so I really left, Okay. So yeah, she just comes and goes as she pleases. Yeah, this time, I'm saying, okay, good, good, No, no, why did you leave?

22:49 So the first time you left, what happened? Rader? I Rader took over control. I think, yeah, I think, you know, it's kind of hard to collaborate sometimes, and we were really young, so we didn't know how to collaborate yet, but then, you know, as we both grew as musicians, I think we figured it out and now, like, my favorite part of being in a band is collaborating with Rayner and other band members because you know, everyone brings something different to the table, so it's really fun to create together and get like those different flavors you know.

23:21 Yeah, so your style. So you left for a year and then you were back. Yeah, and then you had to leave again to go to school. Yeah, so then I left for six years. Oh wow, yeah yeah, Okay, what did you go to school for music? Yeah? I studied, Yeah, I studied jazz, did a lot of jazz performance, but studied a lot of music theory and music history and all that kind of stuff. It was a great experience. Yeah, stuff you have yet to teach me. I want to learn because I took a music theory course. I was first a music major at U n H. I changed the computer science, but I took one year and I took one year of music theory.

23:58 It is like my favorite class of all time. But I always got like her graduates degree in music theory. Oh wow, stop keeping all that knowledge to yourself. Week lessons. All right, I'm at the other end of the knowledge spectrum. Like I tried to learn theory and I just gave up on it. So I just I mean, if I hadn't had to do it, I wouldn't have done it. But I don't know how I passed my theory class. Like, no clue. Oh did you study music as well in high school? Not in college? In college I did other things.

24:29 But yeah, no, I don't know how I made it out of that high school class. I stunk and I just completely stunk. I couldn't get it. DJ Mark l WI Radio, who is in the UK, says, love this music, guys, excellent for listening yep, and a lot of support from v Altrand in the chat room really likes it as well. Cool and uh, let's see. Yeah, we got a very busy chat room. Yep. Everyone's digging it. Everyone's digging it. Do you want to play another song? Yeah? Yeah, I'll do another one of Emily's songs. Excellent.

25:04 If you're just joining us, we have Rainer and Emily from Marvel Prone live in studio. Then we consume you are every work. I want to breathe the words you speak. It's all quite simple, now you see.

26:00 I wanna be the meeting you eat. No, please sparing me. I love to watch yours? Oh please spay? How could you be so cruel?

26:48 I got this power over you, you got this power over me.

26:59 Let's say things you say? I'm never true. The things I say last all meaning. Oh spay. I love to watch your lives? Oh please spay? How could you be so cruel? The snow grandpad weave me sparls into jealousy. I give you everything I have, and now there's a thing left for me. All please spare me. I love to watch your lives.

29:07 Oh please spay me. How could you be so cool? Oh please spay? I love to watch you live. Oh please spare me. How could you be so cruel? How could you be so cool? You play me like food? How could you be so cruel? How could you be so fool? You play me foo? You play me god? So cruel? You play all right? Wow? Very nice? Wow? Thank you? Wow? I could I could listen to you guys all night long? Seriously? Well you can you can find please do hockeyr wares man. I have been sharing your page. You just well up speaking a lot of ad in there.

30:38 There is a DJ in the chat room who's listening live from the UK. I am helping them hook up with you. He'd like to get you on his show. Oh that'd be sweet. Yeah, maybe we'll travel. Yeah. Tom Blanchard just joined us in the Tattoo and says so good, very talented. Absolutely, thanks to absolutely. Yes, what what do you have coming up for? Do you have shows coming up or yeah, that's right, you did mention something. Yeah, we have two shows coming up to We have the Stone Church on October nineteenth, and then we are playing at the Middle East in Cambridge on December nineteenth with Jean Paul, Jean Paul, Summer Cult and uh is it flows Stanley.

31:30 I don't know. I can't remember. I can't remember the fourth band exactly. But yeah, that's gonna be a huge show for us because those are our friends in Boston. We love them so much. They're really they're part of some incredible bands and so it's gonna be a really fun show and probably gonna pack the place. So yeah, very cool, excellent, excellent. By the way, I noticed her in that song and I wonder if if this is something that you do a lot with it's it's kind of like you're you're going back and forth on leads.

31:57 Yeah, and it's it's it's interesting. It it really kind of almost sounds pretentious to say it this way, but it sort of weaves a tapestry of the things of the you know, just sonically. Is that something that you do a lot or is that unique to that song or yeah, no, I think I think we do that a lot with their songs, isn't it. You know, neither of us is the set lead guitarists, yeah, or lead singer for that matter. Yeah, you know, so we all kind of just play different roles, you know, depending on the song.

32:28 Because it's interesting so watching watching the two of you play it almost I mean, I'm sure there's a lot that goes into writing these songs and learning them and putting it all together, but it looks effortless the way you just sort of shift back and forth with the leads and the and the rhythm guitar parts. It's it's interesting. I think it has a lot to do. It just kind of like letting go, yeah, and not not worrying about, you know, small little mistakes here and there. You can just kind of let go and yeah, keep it moving.

33:00 You can find the rhythm if it helps with transitions, right right, yeah, very good, Very good. Now, is is there any there's I assume there's no recorded material yet right with you Emily on Yeah, not yet with me, but we're hoping to write a bunch of new stuff and then yeah, and record it. Yeah, I'm probably in between these two shows we have will work and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, at least work on writing stuff. Yeah, we're right. We're gonna, you know, finish some songs we started working on and write a bunch of new songs and probably try to record ourselves and and then you know, I find that like in the recording process, you can really like iron out what you like and what you don't like about a song because you get to listen to it over and over again and and then so that we'll probably take what we like from that and go into a professional studio record some more music.

33:56 But that'll probably be like next year sometime, yeah, if we're if we're consistent, So yeah, it's definitely a long process. Yeah, I should mention we have we have three albums out yeah, on Spotify, So if anyone wants to, you know, check us out and Spotify. It's Marvel Prone and we've got three albums. The first one is moon Lightning, the second one is called She Hits Me, and the last one we just released last year. It's called eleven twenty two. Yep, yeah, you've got I'm looking at band camp now and you've got the albums plus oh yeah, and I should mention we also have one light Yeah.

34:33 We have like a mixtape that we did the RPM Challenge one one time. Oh you did? Yeah, so we tried. We recorded an entire wrote and recorded an entire album in a month. And this is actually when when I had different people were in the band at the times, Megan and Edward were in the band, and we all wrote and recorded an album together Entyler by ourselves, and that's on band camp. It's not on Spotify. So if you want to hear some deep cuts, that's out of our band camp. Which which album is I'm looking at band camp?

35:02 Yeah? Yeah. The RPM Challenge album is called Tray so Embrace, Oh okay, yeah, oh cool? Didn't Easy Top have an album called Tray Sambras. I think you're right. I didn't know if it was if there was a connection there if you are, if you're the coincidence, I guess for really, Yeah, because it was we were a trio of the time. Yeah, that's great. I love that. Jeez. Maybe we'll play one of those at the end of the show when we're when we're wrapping up. Sure, but oh yeah, it's it's getting late. Did you want to did you want to play one more live?

35:32 Yeah, let's just do one more Okay, excellent. We have Marvel prone is here with us live in studio. All right. This one's called shot me Down? All right, m fung is in my field. God, you off your meds. Don't text my phone. You are using me get your

36:19 I am not your friend or dirty beard. Afraid I'll be played by a girl has no name before lose my way. If you let me ride the swave shot me down that I've seen other people won't bring it because my life in a fair rong by my high non colortary bow. He ate a good ride, but I've had enough. You're online boy friends sucks a hopie bies stuff. I see you so nice. Unconscious drives infect my mind. You bathing rice with a love like mine. I'll leave you ice if you lead me on please the dunk, No kill the lights.

37:27 It's the little spark of regret for the things I said that I could have said, just to kiss. Afraid I'm to harm. It's the back seat of your mom's calm. Befoos my charm. You let me go to far. Shout me down, but I'll seeing other people. You won't make my life and I by my heart on calling as a repow good right, but I'm fad enough.

38:13 It's alb now and it's sick and then a beagle. Yeah, in about nine lives, she'll be down to love. Sell me right now? Will you treat me on equal He had the costumes three times. You're up.

38:31 I'm waiting on main Street with my gun. Ignore the reasons why, but the silver bull fight. Don't leave me hide and dry. Let's see my silver side show needs down little see other people, because it's my life in a heady row by my line now, I'm handibo, good riding, but I'm heading up. Take my life. You can sell it off a crypto. The alcast is good times really adding up mard of my life in the head of Chicago. They look into the airlines for change a lot. It's over. It's so bad, it's over. It's so online boy friends shocks HOPI bas your stuff Online boy friends shocks hope, pas stuff.

40:43 If one live boy friends shucks, I won't be use in so if al boy friends shucks A HOPI nice. I love the way your voice is sound together. Seriously, I was just gonna say something about that. I can't wait to hear recordings with you guys together. Yeah, I'm excited about it. Yeah, yeah, very nice, very nice. Marvel Prone here with us live in studio and we're almost out of time. But let's remind everybody where they should go online to keep up with everything that you're doing and the couple of shows that you mentioned coming up for our listeners, just joining us.

41:30 Want to make sure everyone knows. Yeah, absolutely, we'd appreciate it. If you followed us on Instagram, it's it's Marvel Prone. So that's Marvel as an Marvel comics, prone as an accident prone. It's just you know, all lowercase, no spaces, and you can find us on Spotify Marvel Prone. We got a website. Don't go on the website. I'm still working on. Okay, maybe maybe in a month. Check out the website. Okay, yeah, we're on all streaming services you can. You can find all our music on band camp plus a couple of extra things.

42:05 We're on SoundCloud. Basically anywhere you go to listen to music, we should you should be able to find us. Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, Thank you so much, and we're gonna actually, in a couple of minutes, we're gonna close out with another one of your studio tracks. I love this up Ivory, the first song from eleven twenty two. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that's very cool. So but Rayner and Emily thank you again so much for coming in today and for playing for us. This has been wonderful. Thank you, Matt, thank you, Jen appreciate it absolutely, thank you, and we're gonna leave you with this.

42:34 This is Ivory studio track from Marvel prone