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

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.

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? 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? 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. 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.

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? 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. 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. 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? 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.

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. 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? 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

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

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. 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? 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. 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. He's got a lot of winds, got a lot of intelligence,

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? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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?

I got this power over you, you got this power over me.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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? 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

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. 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.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. This is Ivory studio

track from Marvel prone