Matt Connarton Unleashed: Modern Fools

0:00 Speaker 1: The band is Modern Fools, and we got a couple

0:02 Speaker 1: of the guys from the band here with us. Welcome, gentlemen,

0:05 Speaker 1: if you could each introduce yourselves and tell us, tell

0:09 Speaker 1: us who you are and what you do in the band.

0:11 Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Josh Blair. I played guitar and sing and yeah.

0:16 Speaker 1: All right, very good. Welcome Josh, and you, sir.

0:18 Speaker 3: I'm John Brought. I also played guitar and sing, but

0:22 Speaker 3: not as much singing.

0:23 Speaker 1: Okay, ye, very good, very good. So and Josh, So

0:29 Speaker 1: I interviewed you. We were talking off air back in

0:32 Speaker 1: oh my god, twenty eleven.

0:33 Speaker 2: Is that right, twenty eleven?

0:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, you were in a band called the Ghost Dinner Band.

0:37 Speaker 3: That's right.

0:37 Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. Yeah, so and you you mentioned too, So

0:40 Speaker 1: you actually went back and listened to that. I did.

0:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, I found the archives I was. I was listening

0:43 Speaker 3: back as funny.

0:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember the Ghost Dinner Band

0:49 Speaker 1: and whatever ended up happening to that.

0:52 Speaker 2: I mean, we we had a good run of it,

0:54 Speaker 2: and things just kind of fizzled out. You know, we

0:56 Speaker 2: all we were like a high school sweetheart band. You know,

0:58 Speaker 2: we have been playing together high school. Yeah, just you know,

1:01 Speaker 2: we all just kind of win our separate ways, but

1:03 Speaker 2: everybody's still playing in different bands and yeah for the

1:06 Speaker 2: most part.

1:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. And that song that we just played,

1:09 Speaker 1: so is that the current single that that on my

1:12 Speaker 1: mind featuring Rachel Sumner?

1:14 Speaker 3: Yep, that's that's it.

1:15 Speaker 2: And Rachel Sumner is an incredible songwriter from Boston area.

1:19 Speaker 3: She's just amazing. Yeah. She had a giant TikTok moment

1:23 Speaker 3: last year really yeah with a song called Radium Girls,

1:28 Speaker 3: right yeah, yeah, yeah, they went really viral. It's a

1:33 Speaker 3: great song. You should check it out. Oh I will.

1:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought her name was familiar. Maybe that's why

1:37 Speaker 1: I know it. Yeah, how did you guys get connected

1:40 Speaker 1: with her to do this track?

1:41 Speaker 2: So we just we knew her, like, you know, acquaintances

1:44 Speaker 2: and friends in the scene, and when writing the song,

1:47 Speaker 2: we just knew that it needed a female voice, yeah,

1:49 Speaker 2: kind of do that duet classic thing. And yeah, she

1:53 Speaker 2: came to mind. So we reached out and she was

1:56 Speaker 2: into it, and yeah, she just nailed it. We sent

1:58 Speaker 2: her the tracks and she kind of sent like, hey,

2:00 Speaker 2: is this what you're looking for? And we were like absolutely,

2:04 Speaker 2: like just knocked it out of the park.

2:05 Speaker 3: Yeah.

2:06 Speaker 1: Well, very cool. Yeah. I like that song a lot.

2:08 Speaker 1: It's got got kind of a little bit of a balance,

2:10 Speaker 1: a little bit of a swing to it. But yeah,

2:13 Speaker 1: very cool. Now the album or album, I guess are

2:17 Speaker 1: you calling it an EP? It's seven tracks. It's kind

2:19 Speaker 1: of in that, right, It's it's seven.

2:21 Speaker 2: It's seven So yeah, it's an EP, but it's like,

2:23 Speaker 2: you know, it's somewhere between.

2:24 Speaker 1: It's in that weird gray zone between EP and album.

2:28 Speaker 1: And is that already out or is that coming out soon?

2:29 Speaker 2: It's coming out on the seventeenth, Oh, next week?

2:32 Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. So this is this is

2:34 Speaker 1: like a world premiere, world premiere. Excellent, excellent. Yeah, and

2:39 Speaker 1: it makes sense for that to be, you know, because

2:42 Speaker 1: of Rachel. It makes sense that that would be the

2:43 Speaker 1: first h the first single. But you guys have released

2:46 Speaker 1: other things before.

2:47 Speaker 3: This, right, yep.

2:49 Speaker 2: Yes, this is our third album and this is actually

2:51 Speaker 2: the third single from from the album. So we've we've

2:53 Speaker 2: dropped a few singles. We've been trickling them out a

2:55 Speaker 2: little bit.

2:56 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yeah, that's interesting. That's something that comes up

2:58 Speaker 1: a lot on the show, is you know, we living

3:00 Speaker 1: a time where you can use all these different strategies

3:03 Speaker 1: in terms of of how you release things. And I've

3:06 Speaker 1: noticed that, you know, because I'm old enough to remember that.

3:09 Speaker 1: You know, every band would release an album, the first

3:12 Speaker 1: single would go to radio maybe six eight weeks before

3:14 Speaker 1: the album, right, you know, and then the album comes out,

3:17 Speaker 1: and then the second single, and then the third single

3:19 Speaker 1: and so forth. But now, you know, because of the

3:21 Speaker 1: Internet and the way things have changed over the years,

3:23 Speaker 1: there's so many different things you can do. You can

3:25 Speaker 1: release an EP, you can release an album, you can

3:27 Speaker 1: release a series of singles that eventually become an album.

3:29 Speaker 1: You can you know, release you know, a few singles

3:33 Speaker 1: ahead of an EP. What what decisions? Why did you

3:37 Speaker 1: guys decide to use the strategy that you're using for

3:40 Speaker 1: this release or or did it just and there may

3:43 Speaker 1: may not be a reason, It may just feel organically

3:45 Speaker 1: right to do it this story, but.

3:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're guessing at what works. You know, we've seen

3:52 Speaker 3: a lot of like strategic how you do all this stuff,

3:57 Speaker 3: But also like albums in collections of songs aren't really

4:01 Speaker 3: something that that gets a lot of shine these days.

4:04 Speaker 3: You know, a lot of there's a lot of singles

4:06 Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and like there's a real reason

4:10 Speaker 3: to do that, but there's there's a level of we

4:12 Speaker 3: like to get together and work on six, seven to

4:15 Speaker 3: eight songs in the studio at a time.

4:17 Speaker 2: So right, well, yeah, it is sad because albums as

4:21 Speaker 2: a whole aren't being consumed as they used to be.

4:24 Speaker 2: Still people still do listen to them, and yeah, but

4:26 Speaker 2: you know it is a single culture for that matter.

4:30 Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean we follow the what is the

4:32 Speaker 2: the Waterfall releases what they call it, where you kind

4:35 Speaker 2: of tickling the algorithm before the album comes out.

4:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. By the way, we have received an

4:40 Speaker 1: instant message from deb Blair, says Josh's mom, listening live

4:47 Speaker 1: from Phoenix, Arizona. Well, hello, more we go so very nice.

4:50 Speaker 1: Nice Where did you guys record? Where do you record it?

4:52 Speaker 1: Because everything sounds fantastic.

4:54 Speaker 3: Thanks.

4:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a kind of a home studio, yeah,

4:58 Speaker 2: in peterbornh Hampshire, and yeah it's it's where we rehearse

5:02 Speaker 2: and it's kind of like our project studio and yeah,

5:05 Speaker 2: do everything there.

5:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's another thing that's kind of changed over the

5:08 Speaker 1: years is you know, we live in a time where

5:09 Speaker 1: you can there's so many different options for how to

5:12 Speaker 1: record and you can you know, obviously there's a lot

5:15 Speaker 1: of great studios around, but you can also do you know,

5:18 Speaker 1: do most of it at home or all of it

5:20 Speaker 1: at home, and you know, you can email tracks back

5:23 Speaker 1: and forth if you want to. There's so many ways

5:25 Speaker 1: to do it, and you can you can actually produce

5:27 Speaker 1: something that sounds like it was recorded in a million

5:29 Speaker 1: dollar studio totally.

5:31 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm always reminded that that first Billie Eilish

5:36 Speaker 3: album I think was recorded fully in her bedroom with

5:39 Speaker 3: your brother. Yeah, you know, like, I'm not a pop guy,

5:42 Speaker 3: but that's impressive that you can do that and then

5:45 Speaker 3: blow up like that.

5:46 Speaker 4: It is.

5:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How do you, guys, how do you

5:51 Speaker 1: just describe your sound? I was looking at the website

5:54 Speaker 1: and I saw some pretty interesting verbiage. But somebody who

6:00 Speaker 1: was it somebody recently, because you're the name Modern Fools

6:03 Speaker 1: has come up on the show more than once, so

6:05 Speaker 1: there's a lot of other artists in the area who

6:07 Speaker 1: are are big fans of you guys. And somebody described

6:09 Speaker 1: you as cosmic country.

6:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's kind of what we've been

6:14 Speaker 2: rolling with lately, and I know that gets a lot

6:16 Speaker 2: of ties to Daniel Donado, who's a younger artist now

6:21 Speaker 2: who has put it in his name, but it really

6:24 Speaker 2: goes back to like Grand Parsons is really the founder,

6:27 Speaker 2: I would say, the godfather of cosmic country, which is

6:30 Speaker 2: sort of just a blend of you know, country rock,

6:33 Speaker 2: which is he's responsible for that.

6:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it certainly doesn't sound like what you

6:39 Speaker 1: hear on the radio.

6:40 Speaker 2: Sure, yes, it's not bud Light country. We're more of

6:44 Speaker 2: a Miller high life.

6:46 Speaker 1: I had not heard that term to describe modern country.

6:49 Speaker 1: I've heard the term bro country.

6:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, that works.

6:52 Speaker 1: I've heard that a lot.

6:54 Speaker 2: We've been working on figuring out, like I think that

6:57 Speaker 2: beer is a just a good description for country and general.

7:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:01 Speaker 2: So there's lots of different varieties of country. Obviously Corona country, Yeah,

7:05 Speaker 2: Corona country. That that'd be more like the Jimmy Buffett

7:09 Speaker 2: era of country, you know.

7:10 Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, I still like Corona country sometimes. Yeah.

7:13 Speaker 2: Sure, so, I just you know, whatever you're whatever you're

7:16 Speaker 2: drinking is kind of, you know, defines you in the

7:19 Speaker 2: country real.

7:21 Speaker 1: Well, are so we live with u? Or he lives

7:24 Speaker 1: with us? Really?

7:25 Speaker 5: Uh?

7:25 Speaker 1: DJ Reckless, I don't know if he has no DJ reckless,

7:27 Speaker 1: but he's he works at ninety six five. Uh what

7:31 Speaker 1: it now? Live free country? Yeah, live flif free country.

7:34 Speaker 1: I keep wanting to still call it the mill, even

7:37 Speaker 1: though it hasn't been that in at least a year.

7:39 Speaker 1: But but uh, you know, I'll turn that station on

7:42 Speaker 1: and and some of what I hear it it doesn't

7:45 Speaker 1: even sound like like it's country. It's got just enough

7:50 Speaker 1: twang in it to be country, some of the modern stuff,

7:53 Speaker 1: but but some of it like just barely enough, you

7:55 Speaker 1: know what I mean.

7:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically just pop music, right, and then some

7:58 Speaker 2: of it, Yeah, got a banjo in the back, like

8:00 Speaker 2: a pedal steel and then.

8:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, well the Nashville thing is has really been homogenized

8:06 Speaker 3: at this point. And it's not it's not bad. Those

8:08 Speaker 3: guys are incredibly talented players. But you go to Nashville

8:11 Speaker 3: to make a certain type of music and and it

8:15 Speaker 3: comes out being in that vein and it it's not

8:20 Speaker 3: the same kind of classic country that that were turned onto.

8:22 Speaker 3: It's definitely a derivative of that thing. But yeah, you know,

8:29 Speaker 3: there's there's there's merit in in in anything you're making.

8:33 Speaker 3: For us, we when we think of country, we're thinking

8:36 Speaker 3: you know, Christofferson, cash Parton, you know, the Graham Parsons,

8:42 Speaker 3: the Flying Burrito Brothers. Yeah, I could probably name them

8:45 Speaker 3: for for longer than they should. And we go back

8:48 Speaker 3: to an era where it really feels like it was

8:52 Speaker 3: like it was an outsider art form.

8:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, interesting. What about are there any modern country

9:00 Speaker 1: artists who who you guys kind of relate to a bunch?

9:05 Speaker 2: I would say that right now is probably like the

9:07 Speaker 2: healthiest time for what I'm gonna coin is good country

9:13 Speaker 2: for lack of a better term. But yeah, I mean

9:15 Speaker 2: like there's there's a lot of just bands that are like,

9:17 Speaker 2: you know, like Charlie Crockett maybe being like one of

9:20 Speaker 2: the bigger artists right now. But yep, that's you know,

9:23 Speaker 2: like going back to that roots stuff and it's you know,

9:26 Speaker 2: it's very much not but like driven.

9:30 Speaker 1: I still love that. That's funny. The name that comes

9:33 Speaker 1: up really consistently on the show is Chris Stapleton. Like,

9:38 Speaker 1: especially with the not just with bands, but singer songwriters.

9:41 Speaker 1: This guy's coming in with just an acoustic guitar like

9:43 Speaker 1: Chris Stapleton's name. Chris Stapleton's name comes up all the time.

9:48 Speaker 2: Definitely he's he's doing he's doing it right for sure.

9:50 Speaker 3: I think he's one of those few guys that's still

9:52 Speaker 3: like like keeping that whole art form pure. It's cool

9:57 Speaker 3: to see a guy that's doing that still maintaining that

10:01 Speaker 3: level of popularity too. Right, Yeah, well.

10:03 Speaker 1: He's uh yeah, he's a hell of a songwriter. I think,

10:07 Speaker 1: great voice and and as far as Nashville goes too,

10:11 Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, I always say this from a

10:14 Speaker 1: just from a production standpoint, Nashville really has it down.

10:18 Speaker 1: Like I think that just sonically in terms of production,

10:22 Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm really picky about drums when I listen

10:25 Speaker 1: to a song, and I think, you know, the drum

10:27 Speaker 1: sounds coming out of those Nashville studios just are I

10:30 Speaker 1: think it sounds absolutely perfect. And I think a lot

10:34 Speaker 1: of things, you know, a lot of I listen to

10:38 Speaker 1: a lot of metal, but a lot of modern metal

10:42 Speaker 1: something went wrong, where like the guitars don't sound right

10:45 Speaker 1: to me. They sound small, if that makes sense, Whereas

10:48 Speaker 1: when I was growing up, metal sounded, you know, the

10:51 Speaker 1: guitars sounded nice and crunchy. So I have complaints about

10:55 Speaker 1: how modern metal is produced and how and I can

10:57 Speaker 1: you know, I have a little bit of an audio

10:59 Speaker 1: engineering background, so I can pick apart a lot of things.

11:01 Speaker 1: But when I listen to anything coming out of Nashville,

11:03 Speaker 1: it's like just from a production stamp. Whether I like

11:05 Speaker 1: the song or not, just from an audio production standpoint,

11:08 Speaker 1: it's like wow, like they've got it. You know.

11:10 Speaker 3: That's Have you ever been down Music Row in Nashville.

11:14 Speaker 6: I have not.

11:15 Speaker 1: I've never been to Nashville, So, I mean, given it was.

11:18 Speaker 3: It was probably three or four years ago now, but

11:20 Speaker 3: my wife and I were down there and we're walking

11:22 Speaker 3: through and we're seeing like big Machine and you know,

11:25 Speaker 3: all the all the giant labels, and I had that

11:28 Speaker 3: same thought. But that, I mean, like, I'm a music nerd, right,

11:31 Speaker 3: and how could you not be being you know, our

11:33 Speaker 3: age still releasing singles to But like, for for us,

11:38 Speaker 3: like that emanates from like the late sixties and the

11:41 Speaker 3: seventies when you had guys like Bob Dylan going in

11:45 Speaker 3: uh to record with a what was his name, Billy

11:50 Speaker 3: the Nashville producer. I'm not I'm not, I'm not gonna go,

11:53 Speaker 3: but you know who I'm talking about. So he went

11:54 Speaker 3: in there, and then Neil Young goes in there ten

11:56 Speaker 3: years later and the sound like it's the Nashville thing

12:00 Speaker 3: they went there to record and lay down those kind

12:03 Speaker 3: of tracks. It's really cool.

12:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely do you guys, everything that you've recorded,

12:09 Speaker 1: have you've done it the same way in terms of

12:11 Speaker 1: how you produce it.

12:12 Speaker 2: No, now we change it up. This record we did

12:16 Speaker 2: almost exclusively live. It's very live in this Oh cool.

12:20 Speaker 2: This record was kind of like a concept album to

12:23 Speaker 2: some regards anyway, with moving into the honky TNK realm.

12:27 Speaker 2: That's not really what we typically do. There's always kind

12:30 Speaker 2: of a tinge of country in there, but this is

12:32 Speaker 2: like full on country. And the whole thing actually stemmed

12:35 Speaker 2: from On the album cover, there's a sign that says

12:38 Speaker 2: clearly country, which I found at a yard sale and

12:42 Speaker 2: I had seen it in the daytime and I just

12:45 Speaker 2: couldn't stop thinking about it. I didn't buy it. Yeah,

12:47 Speaker 2: I don't know why. I just had to go. I

12:49 Speaker 2: had to go buy it. So I went back and

12:51 Speaker 2: bought it, and I didn't really know why at the time,

12:53 Speaker 2: but it sort of sparked this inspiration.

12:56 Speaker 3: It was like, that's an album cover, yep, honky tunk record.

12:59 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very cool. It's very cool. Has the

13:02 Speaker 1: lineup been the same over the course of the band

13:06 Speaker 1: or has that changed at all?

13:07 Speaker 2: So it's actually changed. So the band formed originally in

13:10 Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, okay, so, and I was the only original

13:15 Speaker 2: member from that lineup. We kind of fizzled out in

13:18 Speaker 2: probably twenty sixteen or seventeen. We never actually did a record.

13:21 Speaker 2: We did a bunch of local.

13:23 Speaker 3: Shows well, and by fizzled out. That was about when

13:26 Speaker 3: I joined the band and we became a different band

13:28 Speaker 3: entirely sure called the Flood. And I don't know if

13:32 Speaker 3: you know eight A m or Adam in the Flood,

13:35 Speaker 3: but we used to play in his band and did

13:38 Speaker 3: a little little move in with him, and then COVID happened.

13:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, the pandemic time is we just kind of like

13:45 Speaker 2: got it all together and started recording.

13:47 Speaker 3: And so he was traveling all throughout the US writing

13:51 Speaker 3: songs and sending us the demos back here. You know.

13:56 Speaker 3: Some of our favorite came from your time in Joshua

13:58 Speaker 3: Tree in California, and then Justin and I the drummer,

14:05 Speaker 3: would get these demos and we were kind of pouring

14:08 Speaker 3: over them. These are great.

14:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

14:10 Speaker 3: So our first album was largely recorded distance. Okay, now,

14:15 Speaker 3: not all while you were on the road, but because

14:18 Speaker 3: of COVID, like none of us knew what was going on,

14:21 Speaker 3: we weren't getting together. Yeah, So so we were sending

14:23 Speaker 3: tracks left and right in that first album see or

14:25 Speaker 3: we did probably about ninety percent separated from each other,

14:29 Speaker 3: for sure.

14:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, was it hard doing it that way? Or because

14:32 Speaker 1: one of the things, you know, the pandemic comes up

14:35 Speaker 1: a lot on the show because it's a very very

14:37 Speaker 1: common tale. You know, we were doing this, we were

14:40 Speaker 1: doing that. We had all these plans and then the plague.

14:44 Speaker 1: But and as awful as it was, you know, I

14:47 Speaker 1: always say we have to find these silver linings where

14:49 Speaker 1: we can, and I feel like one of the few

14:50 Speaker 1: silver linings of it was it kind of forced people

14:52 Speaker 1: to be creative in ways that maybe they hadn't previously

14:54 Speaker 1: considered and getting comfortable with things like sending tracks back

14:58 Speaker 1: and forth and doing all that.

15:00 Speaker 3: Sure, so I think for us we in various iterations. Right,

15:05 Speaker 3: New Hampshire is a small state, right, and we're a

15:07 Speaker 3: small music scene. Josh and I have known each other

15:11 Speaker 3: twenty some odd years now, you know, we started playing

15:15 Speaker 3: music together about ten years ago. In real capacity, but like,

15:19 Speaker 3: like you know, our stories are very intertwined, and so

15:23 Speaker 3: there was a level of we've played with these guys,

15:26 Speaker 3: all of them for a minimum of five six years

15:28 Speaker 3: at that point, or various like ins and outs. Yeah,

15:31 Speaker 3: how do we take that relationship and how do we

15:34 Speaker 3: do it in a different sort of way. So, like,

15:37 Speaker 3: it probably would have been a lot harder to try

15:40 Speaker 3: to get the whole thing going like like like fresh. Yeah,

15:43 Speaker 3: but you got a bunch of guys that are gonna

15:45 Speaker 3: eat nachos with each other any day anyway. You know

15:48 Speaker 3: what difference is it if you're sending texts in everything?

15:50 Speaker 1: That makes sense? Yeah, that makes sense. Definitely we should. Uh,

15:55 Speaker 1: let's play another track. What do you guys? I'll let

15:57 Speaker 1: you I'll let you all pick. I listened to the

16:00 Speaker 1: you know, obviously I listened to the ones you suggested,

16:02 Speaker 1: but I also listen to the rest of the album too,

16:04 Speaker 1: or EP. The whole thing is great. I love it,

16:06 Speaker 1: but whatever whatever you want to go with next.

16:10 Speaker 2: Let's do something that we haven't released yet. My side,

16:13 Speaker 2: my side. This will be like a world premiere right here. Yeah, world,

16:17 Speaker 2: we like the I don't know if you know this.

16:19 Speaker 2: We really like the World Radio premieres here.

16:21 Speaker 3: This one goes out to all the Steel Guitar fans

16:23 Speaker 3: out there.

16:24 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, into all the ex wives you guys ever

16:29 Speaker 2: played with You must know them regals? Yeah yeah, yeah,

16:32 Speaker 2: we we haven't played with them, but we've been chatting

16:34 Speaker 2: with them and talking about doing some shows.

16:36 Speaker 3: Yeah familiarly. We would love to. We would love to

16:39 Speaker 3: have them out to Keen and come out to Manchester

16:40 Speaker 3: do a show. Oh yeah, off with them.

16:42 Speaker 1: They're fantastic. Actually, I think they're one of the I

16:45 Speaker 1: think they mentioned you guys because I think they're one

16:46 Speaker 1: of the bands we had on that mentioned you because,

16:48 Speaker 1: like I said, the name Modern Fools has come up

16:50 Speaker 1: a few times, but you know when you mentioned Steel

16:53 Speaker 1: Guitar made me think of that love it. Yeah, those

16:55 Speaker 1: guys they came and played live to you know, just

16:58 Speaker 1: two of them and it was amazing. But let's give

17:00 Speaker 1: this a Spain. So this is yes, the World Radio premiere.

17:02 Speaker 1: This is my side and the band is Modern Fools.

17:15 Speaker 4: This how empty lies.

17:21 Speaker 6: Outside knowing inside your souls no food.

17:32 Speaker 4: And my flues nobody He's waiting by the door.

17:46 Speaker 7: Like cut you soft inside?

17:58 Speaker 4: Why I still step.

18:03 Speaker 5: My side of.

18:11 Speaker 4: This high thinking drinking mock mychoes.

18:27 Speaker 5: I'm getting when she said and watch dragon hard gravel

18:36 Speaker 5: and ask you or.

18:42 Speaker 4: My durtain.

18:46 Speaker 7: Country saw it still inside of her? Why am I

18:56 Speaker 7: still step.

18:59 Speaker 4: My side hard song?

19:33 Speaker 5: Woy hit like don't sup five skied baby Wolf?

19:46 Speaker 4: Since you when when probatry say forget why my side

20:10 Speaker 4: of my country?

20:21 Speaker 8: So stay inside of why my side of thing? Why

20:38 Speaker 8: you say my side of.

20:59 Speaker 1: That is my side? The band is Modern Fools, and

21:02 Speaker 1: we have two of the guys here. Do we have

21:05 Speaker 1: fifty per Is it a four piece or a five piece?

21:08 Speaker 2: It's a fluctuating five piece.

21:10 Speaker 1: Okay. We weren't sure because your bio says for us

21:13 Speaker 1: them on the website. But then there's a picture on

21:15 Speaker 1: Facebook with five people.

21:17 Speaker 3: We can do shows with four. We like to do

21:19 Speaker 3: him with as many people as possible.

21:21 Speaker 1: Got ya.

21:21 Speaker 2: We have a keyboard player that is he's there sometimes

21:24 Speaker 2: he's there.

21:25 Speaker 3: Not. Okay.

21:25 Speaker 1: I suspected it might be something like that because obviously

21:28 Speaker 1: the style of music that you do, the vibe and everything,

21:30 Speaker 1: you know, you've got that flexibility you can kind of,

21:33 Speaker 1: you know, kind of do that. I've I've always been

21:36 Speaker 1: I've always been a little envious of that. Actually, you know,

21:38 Speaker 1: I used to play. I don't play anymore. I used

21:40 Speaker 1: to play in a bunch of bands, but I was

21:41 Speaker 1: never in a project where we had that kind of

21:43 Speaker 1: thing where you know, you could you could, you could

21:46 Speaker 1: vary it and still make it work no matter what,

21:49 Speaker 1: you know, and bring guest musicians on stage.

21:52 Speaker 3: And yeah, that's really the thing we get. We get.

21:55 Speaker 3: I mean, you don't say the four core because Nicky

21:59 Speaker 3: is Nicky's five, but four of us can pull it off.

22:04 Speaker 3: We got steel players we can bring in. We have

22:06 Speaker 3: a great time, a couple auxiliary vocalists and yeah, this

22:09 Speaker 3: is yeah, fun thing to do.

22:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's cool to be able to do

22:13 Speaker 1: it that way. Are you guys planning out a lot?

22:15 Speaker 1: Are you doing a lot of shows?

22:16 Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, we're This is actually probably a good time

22:19 Speaker 2: to plug our next next week on the release date,

22:22 Speaker 2: the seventeenth, we're also doing a release show at the

22:25 Speaker 2: Bank of an h Stage conquered excellent.

22:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah that's with Slim Volume as you know.

22:30 Speaker 1: Oh yes, they were on with us last week and

22:32 Speaker 1: they were talking about that.

22:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're amazing, absolutely love those boys.

22:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we got Rachel Berlin from Conquered Area.

22:39 Speaker 2: She's opening the show. It's gonna be amazing.

22:42 Speaker 1: I interviewed her a long time ago.

22:44 Speaker 3: I think still at it. Yeah, she's great.

22:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, I interviewed I interviewed her on the same show

22:49 Speaker 1: I interviewed you on. Oh yeah yeah Center Band, but yeah,

22:53 Speaker 1: probably around that same time period. Actually wow, okay, well

22:56 Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, yeah, Oh very cool, very cool. Do

23:00 Speaker 1: you guys play everything from the from the EP? Do

23:03 Speaker 1: you do all the songs?

23:04 Speaker 4: Oh?

23:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, we will so, and we'll have the full band.

23:06 Speaker 2: We've got keys and pedal steel and uh, our friend

23:09 Speaker 2: Jocelyn is gonna be singing with us that night too,

23:11 Speaker 2: so where we've got the whole old lineup and it's

23:14 Speaker 2: uh yeah, it's gonna be a good night excellent.

23:16 Speaker 1: Is that an NH Music Collective show? It is, ah,

23:19 Speaker 1: very cool. Yeah. Yeah. We had John MacArthur on the

23:21 Speaker 1: show and uh boy, he that guy's busy. Huh yeah,

23:26 Speaker 1: keeping it moving absolutely absolutely. Do you guys do any

23:30 Speaker 1: covers when do you play out or a couple?

23:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll throw some covers in, especially like if

23:35 Speaker 2: it's a longer night, you know, we'll add some some

23:37 Speaker 2: covers and stuff.

23:38 Speaker 1: What do you guys do for covers?

23:39 Speaker 3: Well, Josh has H has the cover edict of if

23:42 Speaker 3: if you could hear my dad playing it with his band,

23:46 Speaker 3: we're not allowed to cover it, that's true. I don't know.

23:51 Speaker 3: I I feel like, uh no, we gotta We got

23:55 Speaker 3: Luxury Liner by the International Submarine Band, which is the

23:58 Speaker 3: cosmic country stuff. Okay, Graham Parsons, you know the band

24:02 Speaker 3: Big Star is that I know of them.

24:04 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever listened to it.

24:05 Speaker 3: So we do. Uh we do in the Street, which

24:08 Speaker 3: is also that seventies show. Uh opener. Oh okay, Cheap

24:12 Speaker 3: Trick does the opener. But Big Star wrote the song.

24:15 Speaker 3: Oh we got that one. We did a share song

24:17 Speaker 3: for a little bit.

24:18 Speaker 1: Yeah we really Yeah what what share song? I believe

24:22 Speaker 1: really interesting.

24:24 Speaker 3: Put Josh through an auto tune. Yeah yeah, I don't know.

24:30 Speaker 3: We mix it up. We tried to changes seasonally.

24:33 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I just realized you've got your your water bottle.

24:37 Speaker 1: It says clearly country on it. Do Yeah, that's the sticker.

24:40 Speaker 1: That's the sign. Oh okay, if you haven't seen the cover,

24:43 Speaker 1: that's the I did. I did see the cover. Yeah,

24:45 Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.

24:46 Speaker 3: Josh's mantra is always be selling. Yep, so you can.

24:50 Speaker 1: You can put that sticker on anything, really and uh

24:52 Speaker 1: and then you've got branded merch.

24:55 Speaker 3: I love that. Also, come get stickers and brand your

24:57 Speaker 3: own merch.

24:58 Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, Now are there hard copies available

25:01 Speaker 1: of the Are you doing CDs or is it strictly digital.

25:04 Speaker 3: Or yeah, we're doing CDs.

25:05 Speaker 2: I think we will do vinyl eventually, It's just that

25:08 Speaker 2: it takes a little while to get the vinyl in

25:10 Speaker 2: your hands these days. Yeah, but yeah, we got CDs

25:13 Speaker 2: and we're actually tomorrow we're actually going to be over

25:16 Speaker 2: at the Music Connection to Manchester. Okay, we're doing like

25:19 Speaker 2: a little in store performance thing, so it's it's worth

25:23 Speaker 2: mentioned if you're in the Manchester area two pm, two pm.

25:26 Speaker 2: Gonna play a few songs and we're giving away a

25:29 Speaker 2: pair of tickets to the show, and I think they're

25:32 Speaker 2: going to add in some other.

25:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been told it'll be a cool little event

25:35 Speaker 3: by John over there.

25:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, out standing, outstanding. Where is I haven't been in

25:40 Speaker 1: there and I feel like a very like I don't

25:42 Speaker 1: even remember where it is exactly, I've I've never been.

25:45 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, so we're not. We're not Manchester local, right,

25:48 Speaker 3: I think you're a Peterburger. I've been in Music Connection

25:50 Speaker 3: a couple of times. And he's also got a Turner's

25:52 Speaker 3: Fall store, which is cool. Oh, I'll look up the address.

25:57 Speaker 3: Why not, might as well put it put it out there. Yeah,

25:59 Speaker 3: let me do that so I.

26:00 Speaker 1: Know it's not on ELM. I'm just trying to think.

26:03 Speaker 1: I think I've been there. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I haven't.

26:06 Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a cool store. It's very much

26:10 Speaker 3: stuck in that like we are a record shop. Yeah,

26:12 Speaker 3: we love being a record shop mentality and I love that. Yeah. Yeah,

26:17 Speaker 3: it's super great. We'll be there.

26:19 Speaker 2: We'll have some hard copies of the CDs, which is

26:21 Speaker 2: kind of funny because I don't think people are going

26:23 Speaker 2: there to buy CDs.

26:24 Speaker 3: But right right that maybe seventeen eleven South Willow across

26:30 Speaker 3: from the mall, New Him or Oh okay, use the connection.

26:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have been in there. I remember going in

26:36 Speaker 1: there now. Yeah, because I can now you said the address,

26:39 Speaker 1: I can picture it right across from the mall. Yeah,

26:41 Speaker 1: that's very cool, and it's great that there's still places

26:45 Speaker 1: around that do that.

26:46 Speaker 3: You know, definitely.

26:47 Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people probably don't even

26:50 Speaker 1: realize that there's still places around that do that. So

26:52 Speaker 1: that's awesome, dude.

26:53 Speaker 3: I still pull up all those old Wilco in store

26:55 Speaker 3: performances to watch back. Those are some of the greatest

26:57 Speaker 3: ones really. Yeah, yeah, they're so neat.

27:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool? Are those on those You.

27:03 Speaker 3: Can find them on YouTube. Yeah, there's just hear in

27:05 Speaker 3: a band do a stripped down thing. Yeah, it's fun.

27:07 Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. You guys want to pick another one?

27:11 Speaker 1: We should play another one?

27:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, John, why do you pick one? I already told

27:15 Speaker 3: you what I want to pick. Well, it's your turn,

27:17 Speaker 3: all right. So I wanted to give a shine to

27:20 Speaker 3: the other two guys who couldn't be here today, Justin

27:24 Speaker 3: who's a great drummer, and hopefully we'd play Ballroom because

27:27 Speaker 3: that's an unbelievable drum drum track. But Ian did the

27:31 Speaker 3: lead off on this one, which is Don't let Your

27:33 Speaker 3: Love Run Cold, so Josh wrote it. But Ian, who

27:37 Speaker 3: is our bassist, is just an unbelievable vocal arranger. So

27:43 Speaker 3: this is a Yeah, this is a not a long song,

27:46 Speaker 3: but it's always fun to give shine to the guys

27:48 Speaker 3: that can do stuff that's incredible.

27:50 Speaker 2: It's this you didn't even say run Colu the first

27:55 Speaker 2: track there.

27:55 Speaker 3: It is. It's it's kind of a funny one to

27:57 Speaker 3: play on the radio. It's all vocal arrangement.

28:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's short, it's it's only a minute and a half.

28:01 Speaker 1: But uh yeah, and it opens the album opens the album. Yeah,

28:05 Speaker 1: very cool. All right, let's give this a listen. This

28:07 Speaker 1: is Ron Cold. The band is Modern Fools.

28:09 Speaker 9: Don't let your love run cold, keep your heart on

28:17 Speaker 9: go turning fire to cold. Don't let you run cold.

28:30 Speaker 4: If there's live, so.

28:35 Speaker 9: You hail in line, stay by your side.

28:45 Speaker 4: If it is live a live.

28:50 Speaker 9: If I be food, the hell are you.

29:01 Speaker 8: Lovely?

29:02 Speaker 4: Ah evoving?

29:11 Speaker 9: Don't let you run cold, keep your heart of cold,

29:21 Speaker 9: turning fire to cold, don't you run cold?

29:33 Speaker 1: That is run Cold. That is Modern Fools. And we've

29:35 Speaker 1: got Josh and John from the band Modern Fools with

29:38 Speaker 1: us here in studio. That's nice. I like the I

29:42 Speaker 1: do like the vocals. There's a little bit of although

29:44 Speaker 1: it's not all vocals, there's a little bit of guitar.

29:46 Speaker 3: Little guitar in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like in

29:48 Speaker 3: the back room sounding yeah yeah, that one we intentionally

29:52 Speaker 3: recorded huddled around an old microphone. Oh no, if it

29:55 Speaker 3: sounded like it, it does, I can. I can picture it.

29:59 Speaker 3: I can definitely fix No, that's cool. Have you guys

30:02 Speaker 3: done any Yeah, you could do some interesting visuals with that.

30:05 Speaker 3: Have you guys done any videos.

30:06 Speaker 1: For any of these or not? For these?

30:09 Speaker 2: We have done some some interesting music videos in the past.

30:11 Speaker 2: We've had some fun with that, but uh yeah. We

30:14 Speaker 2: recently did a like a live session. We took over

30:17 Speaker 2: the Hancock Depot, which is in Hancock, New Hampshire. Yeah,

30:20 Speaker 2: it's an old train depot and they have like a

30:22 Speaker 2: it's a really cool little cabaret style venue and they

30:25 Speaker 2: have a stage. But we took over like basically like

30:28 Speaker 2: the living room there, which is like this turn of

30:30 Speaker 2: the century looking.

30:32 Speaker 3: Railroad station.

30:33 Speaker 2: It's like all this old stuff in there, and we

30:35 Speaker 2: uh yeah, we brought in some friends and film crew

30:38 Speaker 2: and recorded the whole thing. So we're starting to release

30:41 Speaker 2: that and they'll be sort of a like a full

30:44 Speaker 2: band live video shoot that's we're gonna slowly start putting out.

30:47 Speaker 3: Oh okay, So the recap. We recorded the album live

30:51 Speaker 3: and then we re recorded the album live to release

30:56 Speaker 3: a video of it.

30:57 Speaker 1: No, that's cool though. How many songs did you record

31:00 Speaker 1: for the video?

31:01 Speaker 2: I think we did all we did eight because we

31:03 Speaker 2: added a cover and there did the full album and

31:06 Speaker 2: then we did an extra song.

31:08 Speaker 1: So are you going to release a full video at

31:09 Speaker 1: once or are you gonna split that up?

31:11 Speaker 2: We'll split it up to what we already released.

31:13 Speaker 3: One.

31:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a version of Ballroom Bender Blues, which

31:17 Speaker 2: is which is really cool. It's just that oh, very

31:19 Speaker 2: cool visual and it was just a fun experience. It was. Yeah,

31:22 Speaker 2: we have a little content to keep the content train

31:25 Speaker 2: rolling after the fact.

31:26 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, well that's important. Absolutely, It's very important

31:30 Speaker 1: to do that. You guys. I ask everybody this question.

31:33 Speaker 1: But I'm always curious. Are there any other bands in

31:36 Speaker 1: the area that you kind of you know, it often

31:38 Speaker 1: happens organically, but anybody you've kind of teamed up with

31:41 Speaker 1: that you happen to play a lot of shows with.

31:43 Speaker 2: Well, we started playing with our friends Coyote Smoke, who

31:47 Speaker 2: are a newer band from the Sea Coast.

31:49 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know them. Yeah, they're cool name.

31:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're brand new and they they're also like playing

31:55 Speaker 2: with the Regals as well, So like, yeah, we're all

31:58 Speaker 2: kind of tied in and that regard and sort of

32:01 Speaker 2: creating this this new scene hopefully, like this interesting kind

32:04 Speaker 2: of old country thing that's that's forming.

32:08 Speaker 3: There's Slim Volume, who we love those guys. There's the

32:11 Speaker 3: Rear Defrosters. They're out of Vermont, but they are I mean,

32:19 Speaker 3: they're kind of like the spiritual country grandfathers of the area.

32:24 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean like we're we're getting on the

32:28 Speaker 3: the old Uncle territory. But but these guys were doing

32:33 Speaker 3: this kind of stuff like you know, the early two

32:35 Speaker 3: thousands and now. Actually one of them owns one of

32:39 Speaker 3: the venues in Keene called Nova Arts. I don't know

32:42 Speaker 3: if you've been there. It's a great place.

32:43 Speaker 1: I've heard about it. I've not been there, but if

32:46 Speaker 1: you like that.

32:47 Speaker 3: And because New Hampshire is so small, once a month

32:50 Speaker 3: there's actually a honky tonk night by the Rear Defrosters

32:53 Speaker 3: over there. Worth a trip over for sure. Yeah.

32:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, Vermont.

32:58 Speaker 3: They are Brattleborough, NY. Okay, you know the Hill people. Yeah, no,

33:04 Speaker 3: that's cool.

33:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't heard of them either. I'll have to

33:06 Speaker 1: look them up. That's cool. You do you ever play

33:10 Speaker 1: shows with bands that you don't necessarily fit like.

33:13 Speaker 3: It's happened for sure.

33:15 Speaker 5: Yeah.

33:15 Speaker 2: You know, sometimes venues will just put together a show

33:18 Speaker 2: and yeah, but for the most part, people are pretty

33:21 Speaker 2: in tune with like trying to get us, you know,

33:24 Speaker 2: onto like like similar bills. We we did a thing

33:29 Speaker 2: with say Zu Zoo on Stone Church where those guys

33:32 Speaker 2: are great.

33:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.

33:34 Speaker 2: All country Legends in New Hampshire basically and yeah. Yeah,

33:38 Speaker 2: so hopefully we'll do some more stuff with them this

33:40 Speaker 2: summer and yeah, and John Nolan's side project band as well.

33:45 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think probably the weirdest ones that we've

33:49 Speaker 3: been paired up to or are those ones we're supporting

33:52 Speaker 3: like major national acts coming through, but you know those

33:56 Speaker 3: are just like we're happy to be on the same Yeah.

33:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, So like, what what are some some nationals you've

34:04 Speaker 1: you've gotten open for.

34:05 Speaker 3: Well, I mean this one's not weird, but Steve Earl

34:07 Speaker 3: was a fun one to that was very cool. Wow.

34:11 Speaker 3: Ryan Montlu Yeah, he's he's a Boston guy. We did

34:15 Speaker 3: last year Fogerty and thorough Good. Yeah, that's a meadow

34:22 Speaker 3: brook It was a meadow Brooks. So we were on

34:23 Speaker 3: the Hazy stage at that one, but that one was

34:25 Speaker 3: a lot of fun.

34:26 Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

34:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, we we left pretty bad to the bone.

34:29 Speaker 2: On that day, John and I did a duo set

34:32 Speaker 2: opening for Charlie Parr. Are you familiar with Charlie park.

34:35 Speaker 1: I don't think she's amazing.

34:37 Speaker 3: Oh man, resonator, guitar champion of the world. Oh yeah,

34:43 Speaker 3: what what?

34:43 Speaker 5: What was it?

34:45 Speaker 9: So?

34:46 Speaker 3: So there's there's only a few guys like this out there.

34:48 Speaker 3: But he's been a folk musician for so long, and

34:52 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell his story. I know I shouldn't, but whatever.

34:54 Speaker 3: He's not he's not coming on here in the next

34:56 Speaker 3: month or two, so we're safe. But we're so We're

34:57 Speaker 3: sitting in the green room in the back of a

34:59 Speaker 3: venue in Low with him, and he's like, you know,

35:01 Speaker 3: I did a two hundred and fifty dates last year,

35:05 Speaker 3: and I was like, that's a lot, man. He goes, yeah,

35:06 Speaker 3: I call it the divorce here because when I got home,

35:10 Speaker 3: my wife handed me the keys and said her boyfriend

35:13 Speaker 3: moved in.

35:13 Speaker 1: Oh my god.

35:15 Speaker 3: But like like the kind of like the kind of

35:17 Speaker 3: life that leads to those stories comes out in his

35:19 Speaker 3: music and and like there's a lot of fun guys,

35:22 Speaker 3: right you know here here in Bad to the Bone

35:24 Speaker 3: is fun. But when you hear a guy that's, you know,

35:26 Speaker 3: playing the two hundred and fifty people and has them

35:28 Speaker 3: captivated with a resonator guitar, like, there's something special about

35:33 Speaker 3: what Charlie's doing.

35:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll follow him up. Charlie Park, Charlie Park. Okay,

35:37 Speaker 1: all right, yeah, I'll follok him up. Very cool, Very

35:39 Speaker 1: cool if you're just joining us. We've got two of

35:42 Speaker 1: the guys from Modern Fools, Josh and John are here

35:44 Speaker 1: with us in studio, and we got time. Let's play

35:48 Speaker 1: another one? Should we? You mentioned ballroom Blender Blue? Should

35:52 Speaker 1: we play that? Yeah?

35:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.

35:54 Speaker 1: We'll do that one next. This one. I seem to

35:56 Speaker 1: recall this one standing out. And where should people go

36:00 Speaker 1: while I'm loading that up? Where's the best place for

36:02 Speaker 1: people to go online to keep up with everything you

36:04 Speaker 1: guys are doing?

36:05 Speaker 2: If you ask jeeves about us, well, I mean we're

36:10 Speaker 2: on Spotify, in Apple Music or you know all the

36:12 Speaker 2: places you can listen.

36:13 Speaker 3: But yeah, we're doing it like most bands. Instagram and

36:16 Speaker 3: Facebook if you want news about us, and Spotify and

36:18 Speaker 3: Apple if you want to listen to our stuff, band camp.

36:21 Speaker 3: If you actually want to send us money instead of

36:23 Speaker 3: sending it to Spotify.

36:24 Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, which is not a

36:26 Speaker 1: bad idea.

36:27 Speaker 3: We love it and merch too. That's always cool.

36:30 Speaker 1: All right, well, let's not give this a listen. This

36:32 Speaker 1: is called Ballroom Bender Blues and the band is Modern Fools.

36:53 Speaker 1: Some lock the.

36:54 Speaker 4: News at the end of the day.

37:00 Speaker 7: Some like booze take the pain away. Some books treat

37:08 Speaker 7: you ride last away. Trembling hands will start to ship,

37:20 Speaker 7: shaky hands, don't do no chues.

37:27 Speaker 4: Got me a friend that liquor store. Jack, be nimble, jack,

37:36 Speaker 4: be quare.

37:40 Speaker 3: Squid and be really.

37:43 Speaker 10: Strip show up, pull me the strongle go your dance shoe,

37:56 Speaker 10: do not bud to the dance ground.

38:00 Speaker 4: Shake it for the broom loading like my shop.

38:08 Speaker 8: Got those ball room.

38:11 Speaker 5: Mad have two spreezio glass. Pour it on the ground

38:39 Speaker 5: for your friends and bands round the rock strong man,

38:51 Speaker 5: brow come gun BULLI gam so.

38:58 Speaker 4: Molly, let us all.

39:02 Speaker 1: Your pagan shoes.

39:08 Speaker 4: Numbers. I'm shaking the booze.

39:17 Speaker 8: Loading like my shack down those ball room boots.

39:27 Speaker 5: Nonsk lock to steal my ladies and.

39:35 Speaker 4: Lost my game. Stop so fool.

40:00 Speaker 7: Man, no joy dancing shoes.

40:09 Speaker 8: Loading, lock my Shop gun, come Bob.

40:26 Speaker 4: Loading, lock my Shop gun. Got those bar.

40:35 Speaker 1: Band of Blue, I love it, Ballroom Bender Blues. The

40:49 Speaker 1: band is Modern Fools, and we've got Josh and John

40:53 Speaker 1: from the band here with us.

40:54 Speaker 5: Now.

40:54 Speaker 1: It's definitely got that live vibe. Well, especially at the

40:57 Speaker 1: end of course when you hear live people.

41:00 Speaker 3: But yeah, we wanted to be.

41:02 Speaker 2: Like those old like Hank Williams records where you got

41:04 Speaker 2: a hoot and holler and yeah, it's like all his

41:06 Speaker 2: buddies are in the room.

41:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's very cool. You definitely you definitely captured that. Hey,

41:11 Speaker 1: by the way, where does the name come from? Modern Fools?

41:13 Speaker 1: What's the meaning?

41:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not very deep. Really.

41:18 Speaker 2: The original logo that we had was the waffle house logo,

41:23 Speaker 2: you know, like the sign is just like the big

41:24 Speaker 2: sign with the letters, and I don't know. Initially it

41:27 Speaker 2: was just I knew I wanted that sign to be

41:31 Speaker 2: the logo, so I was figuring out different letters that

41:33 Speaker 2: fit within that sign.

41:35 Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's pretty much it. Oh okay, And then

41:38 Speaker 3: over the last few years we've really grown into the name.

41:41 Speaker 3: So really, yeah, absolutely for sure.

41:43 Speaker 1: There you go. There you go, are you guys already

41:46 Speaker 1: obviously you know this, this EP is just about to

41:49 Speaker 1: come out, but are you already working on new stuff?

41:52 Speaker 1: You strike me as guys you probably have a lot

41:53 Speaker 1: of ideas.

41:54 Speaker 2: Definitely, there's there's some stuff in the works. I think

41:56 Speaker 2: we're gonna start putting their nose at the grindstone very soon.

41:59 Speaker 3: And yep, the next thing we've got, we've got hopefully

42:05 Speaker 3: some covers that we're gonna be dropping over the over

42:07 Speaker 3: the next few months. Josh has had a tumultuous twenty

42:12 Speaker 3: twenty four that that led to some songs coming out,

42:15 Speaker 3: so uh so we're gonna be working on some demos

42:18 Speaker 3: to that too, hopefully hopefully some new music coming out

42:21 Speaker 3: in the fallish.

42:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing a Midwestern emo kind of thing for sure.

42:25 Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, just kidding, but we just do

42:30 Speaker 3: like full switch arounds every time you do an album.

42:33 Speaker 2: I don't mind that though. I like there's some bands

42:35 Speaker 2: out there that do that. There's just like one album

42:38 Speaker 2: is like a punk album for no reason, and the

42:40 Speaker 2: next one is a country album.

42:41 Speaker 3: You just oh yeah, like you're a long for the Red.

42:44 Speaker 3: Daniel Romano is one of those.

42:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, well even you know, last week we had Slim Volume,

42:50 Speaker 1: and you know, we're talking about the difference and the

42:52 Speaker 1: two EPs that they released, and you know, even they

42:55 Speaker 1: kind of went for a different not drastically different, you know,

42:59 Speaker 1: but vibes with each EP.

43:02 Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, it's still

43:03 Speaker 3: the same guys playing the same instruments, right, Like, so, yeah,

43:07 Speaker 3: you only get so much variation, right, Well, we.

43:12 Speaker 2: Thought we'd jump on the train with Post Malone and

43:14 Speaker 2: Beyonce doing country albums.

43:16 Speaker 3: So here you go, Blay can't wait.

43:18 Speaker 1: That's your real inspiration, right post Malone and beyond.

43:20 Speaker 3: That's it.

43:23 Speaker 1: We should remind people before we run out of time

43:26 Speaker 1: about the EP release officially, and of course the event

43:32 Speaker 1: coming up at Music Connection and all that.

43:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, so just to plug everything real quick. Tomorrow we're

43:37 Speaker 2: gonna be at the Music Connection in Manchester, across the

43:40 Speaker 2: street from the Mall, down by the Mall, down by

43:42 Speaker 2: the Mall, and yeah, we're gonna be given away, We're

43:45 Speaker 2: gonna be playing some songs. We're gonna give away some

43:47 Speaker 2: tickets to our January seventeenth release show, which is in Concord,

43:52 Speaker 2: Hampshire at the Bank of nh Stage with Slim Volume

43:55 Speaker 2: Rachel Berlin. It's gonna be a killer show and the

43:59 Speaker 2: actual cool physical album will be out everywhere and you

44:02 Speaker 2: can steal it wherever you steal music from.

44:05 Speaker 1: Oh excellent, very good, very good. And of course you

44:10 Speaker 1: guys are easy to find online and everything is on

44:12 Speaker 1: all the major streaming platforms and so forth.

44:15 Speaker 3: As long as you can spell modern fools, you're you're

44:17 Speaker 3: in for a tree.

44:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. Well, guys, I want to thank you

44:21 Speaker 1: so much for coming in, thanks for having us. This

44:24 Speaker 1: is absolutely we will do it again in the future.

44:26 Speaker 1: And what should we end the segment with. We've got

44:29 Speaker 1: a couple we haven't played yet. I love all these,

44:31 Speaker 1: Like I said, I listened to the Holy p It's great. Yeah.

44:34 Speaker 2: I guess maybe we close out with She's No Saint's Yeah,

44:38 Speaker 2: the final single on that. It's an interesting, uh maybe

44:41 Speaker 2: a spiteful song that I wrote about a conversation I

44:45 Speaker 2: had with my high school sweetheart who broke my heart

44:48 Speaker 2: and I told her mother that her daughter was the devil.

44:51 Speaker 1: Oh.

44:51 Speaker 3: Like I said, twenty twenty four has been hard for Josh. Yeah,

44:56 Speaker 3: a long time ago, but I still feel it.

44:57 Speaker 1: So all right, very good, so well, we'll end with

45:01 Speaker 1: that in a moment. And Jenny, you want to plug

45:03 Speaker 1: your website. You've got a You've got a lot going on,

45:06 Speaker 1: as our regular listeners know, Yes I do. You can

45:08 Speaker 1: check out more about me at gencoffee dot com.

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45:14 Speaker 1: And uh, last week at this time we were talking

45:17 Speaker 1: about your interview. What you've done now for Status coup? Yep,

45:20 Speaker 1: that's up and on YouTube. Yes, check it out. Jordan

45:23 Speaker 1: is an excellent, excellent host and I watch them regularly. Yeah, yeah,

45:27 Speaker 1: it's really good. So if you haven't seen it or

45:29 Speaker 1: listen to it, you should definitely definitely check it out.

45:32 Speaker 1: All right, modern fools guys, thank you again. It's called

45:35 Speaker 1: She's no saying bye, Modern fools.

45:51 Speaker 4: Oh love werehead you've been.

45:58 Speaker 11: Swim nights gloves and then call your name, but just

46:08 Speaker 11: came Who loved man?

46:14 Speaker 4: Where has of it? Look round?

46:21 Speaker 2: Checked in the door?

46:25 Speaker 4: The line still gone before my valantie that would say.

46:39 Speaker 5: It's gone away forever. Your daughter has a devil in

46:49 Speaker 5: the ride Wicked Hearts store apart my life?

47:00 Speaker 4: Excuse did me?

47:02 Speaker 5: The sweetest scale I know? Daughter is still pull down flow.

47:28 Speaker 4: Silver betweens. Linen can pregat.

47:37 Speaker 3: Man with.

47:42 Speaker 5: Soon remain from the hills. Your cheating hard lie next

47:51 Speaker 5: to daughter has devil in the ride shed her store.

48:05 Speaker 4: Are my life?

48:09 Speaker 8: You still mad?

48:11 Speaker 4: Sweetish Gale?

48:12 Speaker 9: I know.

48:16 Speaker 5: Daughter is double down. Don't call me in the mornings

48:26 Speaker 5: because I'm.

48:27 Speaker 4: Crying in my bed. Lived with thinal waters and I'd

48:35 Speaker 4: rather receieve red hair. Shootook, she never was my friends.

48:49 Speaker 4: Devils and details heal five devils in the details Hell five,

49:00 Speaker 4: I said,