Matt Connarton Unleashed: Neon Gypsy

0:00 Speaker 1: We do have some great guests today on the show,

0:02 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, and we're going to open with and

0:04 Speaker 1: I'm going to bring uh, bring her MIC's up there,

0:07 Speaker 1: so Je, let's see if I can do this. Jennifer

0:10 Speaker 1: Hausin Chuck good job, is that right?

0:13 Speaker 2: Yes?

0:13 Speaker 1: Okay, good yes? Also known as neon Gypsy. Correct or

0:17 Speaker 1: is neon Gypsy the name of the band? Or are

0:19 Speaker 1: you the neon Gypsy?

0:20 Speaker 3: It can be either or really because you know, we're

0:24 Speaker 3: trying to just bring the brand wherever we go, so

0:27 Speaker 3: whether whether it's me, you know, solo or sometimes it's

0:30 Speaker 3: different projects, so it always stays Neon Gypsy, just for

0:33 Speaker 3: a little bit of consistency.

0:34 Speaker 1: Sure. Sure, And we're going to be playing in a

0:38 Speaker 1: moment studio track that you recently. This was this just

0:41 Speaker 1: came out right, your rendition of Ron Rudolph front right.

0:45 Speaker 3: Well, we actually recorded it last year, but it was

0:47 Speaker 3: a really last minute thing and it didn't get any

0:49 Speaker 3: airtime because it was just it was too close to Christmas.

0:52 Speaker 3: So this is really the debut of it for sure.

0:54 Speaker 2: Oh very good. So that this has not been played

0:56 Speaker 2: on the.

0:56 Speaker 1: Radio before, no, not really, So this is the world

1:00 Speaker 1: radio premiere. It really is we like those here we

1:03 Speaker 1: like to do the world radio premiere is.

1:04 Speaker 3: Happening right here in Manchester.

1:06 Speaker 2: That that is fantastic. No, we appreciate that.

1:10 Speaker 1: By the way, I learned something so I mentioned this

1:13 Speaker 1: too yesterday or no, yesterday, yeah, yesterday, when I posted

1:18 Speaker 1: a quick preview video about today's show.

1:21 Speaker 2: All my life, I thought the name of the song

1:23 Speaker 2: was run Round Rudolph.

1:24 Speaker 3: Exactly, me too, yes, And it was a real tongue

1:26 Speaker 3: twister when I was trying to do the lyrics because

1:29 Speaker 3: all my life that's what I thought it was too,

1:31 Speaker 3: so I had to undo it many times.

1:34 Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I just.

1:36 Speaker 3: Learned that as well.

1:36 Speaker 2: Where did you record this?

1:38 Speaker 3: We recorded at Studio fifty one, which is our home studio.

1:42 Speaker 3: After COVID a lot of people started to go, you

1:44 Speaker 3: know and get in their own studios, so we're finally

1:47 Speaker 3: set up with all the equipment we need and we

1:49 Speaker 3: recorded it right in Portland, Maine.

1:51 Speaker 1: By the way, for those you brought stickers, I'm gonna

1:54 Speaker 1: puld these up in front of the camera here that's

1:57 Speaker 1: in front of me for people watching online, so we

1:59 Speaker 1: should too, and Jenny will be excited.

2:01 Speaker 2: She loves stickers.

2:03 Speaker 1: Here's the uh we get that right in front of

2:05 Speaker 1: the camera Studio fifty one sticker. So you were just

2:08 Speaker 1: talking about Studio fifty one and the school neon gypsy

2:11 Speaker 1: sticker too.

2:11 Speaker 2: I love the logo. Who designed the logo? Did you

2:14 Speaker 2: do that?

2:14 Speaker 5: Or yeah?

2:15 Speaker 3: I'm a graphic designers. That's one of the renditions. But

2:17 Speaker 3: really they're holographic and sparkly. We'll make sure to get

2:20 Speaker 3: you those.

2:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool though, I dig it.

2:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.

2:24 Speaker 1: So, So this track, so you recorded this at Studio

2:27 Speaker 1: fifty one, Yes, okay.

2:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

2:30 Speaker 2: Do you record other artists there too or is it

2:32 Speaker 2: just your material for that Now.

2:33 Speaker 3: We're opening it up to other artists as well, so,

2:36 Speaker 3: and we're thinking about doing some collaborations as well too,

2:40 Speaker 3: just for the fun of it, because sometimes the music

2:43 Speaker 3: industry gets a little stressful when you're just trying to

2:46 Speaker 3: get out there, whether you're getting out to just play

2:49 Speaker 3: and get paid or whether you're just you know, trying

2:51 Speaker 3: to get your stuff out there. Yeah, I really need

2:54 Speaker 3: to keep the fun in it and the collaboration. So

2:56 Speaker 3: we'll be having different artists from the area come in.

3:00 Speaker 3: We're just going to do different collaborations with originals outstanding

3:04 Speaker 3: and some covers to but yeah, very cool.

3:06 Speaker 1: Well, so for anyone who's interested in recording there, this

3:08 Speaker 1: will kind of give you an idea of what kind

3:11 Speaker 1: of a sound you can get. And let's give this

3:14 Speaker 1: a spin and then we'll come back and Jennifer is

3:16 Speaker 1: going to play for us today too. She brought her guitar,

3:18 Speaker 1: so really looking forward to that.

3:19 Speaker 2: But here it is.

3:20 Speaker 1: This is run Rudolph Run as I now know the

3:23 Speaker 1: correct the correct name of this classic song.

3:27 Speaker 2: Chuck Berry did this originally correct?

3:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was written in nineteen fifty eight, nineteen

3:31 Speaker 3: fifty eight, So that's that's why we have that title

3:34 Speaker 3: stuck in our head. Yes, if you weren't born, then

3:36 Speaker 3: you do it all your life?

3:38 Speaker 2: Has that exactly exactly all right?

3:41 Speaker 1: Here it is Run Rudolf Run Eon Gipsy.

4:05 Speaker 5: Run, Don Rude All Santa, do they get to town.

4:11 Speaker 6: Santa Magame, hurry down the can take the freeway, Run

4:17 Speaker 6: Don Rudolf being a lercal run Okay, yeah, saying Santa,

4:22 Speaker 6: do you don't at child?

4:23 Speaker 7: What have you been longing for?

4:27 Speaker 8: No?

4:27 Speaker 9: I'm for Christmas is a rocking ball lectric guitar n

4:32 Speaker 9: away when boodof w isn't that got shooting star?

4:38 Speaker 5: Run roun Boudoll Santa? Do I get to child.

4:43 Speaker 10: Santa?

4:44 Speaker 11: Take him hurry down.

4:45 Speaker 6: I'm he can take the freeway.

4:46 Speaker 9: Hour run down boodof Beleric Right, okay, run run.

4:55 Speaker 5: Rude all Santa, don't I get to child? Sign make ahead?

5:01 Speaker 12: Tell him he can take the freeway.

5:02 Speaker 9: Now, run don budda reel like America?

5:08 Speaker 7: Round Okay, saying saying that to you, my girl child,

5:28 Speaker 7: what would please you?

5:29 Speaker 5: Wants to get.

5:32 Speaker 9: A little baby doll that can grass, sleep, drink and whet.

5:38 Speaker 10: The way.

5:38 Speaker 7: Win brudof Wizar like a saber chet.

5:43 Speaker 5: Run don rudof Santa go, I'm man.

5:46 Speaker 6: Get your time, Shad, make a ryn im he can

5:51 Speaker 6: take the freeway down, run.

5:55 Speaker 5: Down bud off feeling like America? Right, okay, t.

6:46 Speaker 2: Run Rudolph run. That is Leon Gipsy.

6:48 Speaker 1: That is a brand new and uh yeah, Jennifer, we

6:52 Speaker 1: were talking kind of off air. You're gonna be recording

6:56 Speaker 1: more at the at Studio fifty one. You've got a

6:59 Speaker 1: bunch of originals you're going to.

7:00 Speaker 4: Be doing right right. Yeah.

7:02 Speaker 3: Some of the songs actually are thirty years old when

7:05 Speaker 3: I wrote them, I put them in a book, close

7:06 Speaker 3: a book, put it away forever, and then resurface them,

7:10 Speaker 3: and I actually still really liked them. We just upgraded

7:13 Speaker 3: the music, but we've got about five to seven that

7:16 Speaker 3: are literally waiting for me to get in the studio.

7:20 Speaker 3: Brian did all his parts, and it's all on me

7:23 Speaker 3: to get down there with vocals and recording the guitar,

7:26 Speaker 3: and it's going to be all rock. So there's when

7:29 Speaker 3: I play out, it's acoustic. But I really wanted to

7:32 Speaker 3: bring the rock portion into playing because I love that aspect.

7:37 Speaker 3: But more often than not, if I'm playing out, I

7:39 Speaker 3: play acoustic.

7:40 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, So do you do a lot of

7:43 Speaker 1: shows just you? Or does Brian join you for the

7:46 Speaker 1: acoustic shows.

7:47 Speaker 3: This is relatively new with taking a different approach to

7:52 Speaker 3: a band. I've been in a lot of renditions of

7:54 Speaker 3: bands before, and what I've ended up finding is that,

7:58 Speaker 3: of course, you know, bands are family. You know, sometimes

8:01 Speaker 3: it works, sometimes it doesn't. Dynamics are you know, always

8:05 Speaker 3: very tricky, and everyone that comes into a band brings

8:08 Speaker 3: their own style and or flavor, and you know, it

8:13 Speaker 3: worked on different variety of levels. But I really wanted

8:17 Speaker 3: to refocus and have it be Neon Gypsy brand of

8:21 Speaker 3: what we're bringing out there. So we're doing it a

8:23 Speaker 3: little different this time. And instead of saying, dude, I

8:26 Speaker 3: want to start a band and then you like Noah

8:28 Speaker 3: drummer and you pull people in that you just know,

8:31 Speaker 3: what we're doing is we're creating the brand, the sound,

8:36 Speaker 3: the music ourselves in studio and then we're putting the

8:41 Speaker 3: brand out there and hopefully what people do musicians as

8:44 Speaker 3: they say, wow, I love that sound, I love that feel,

8:48 Speaker 3: and when they come into the project, they're bringing that

8:50 Speaker 3: particular vibe so that we're not changing, you know, like

8:54 Speaker 3: coming in and you know, sounding like Greg Almonds because

8:57 Speaker 3: of some dude that comes in that likes Greg Almonds,

8:59 Speaker 3: you know, or you know what I mean. Yeah, So

9:02 Speaker 3: we're doing it a little bit differently and we're attracting

9:04 Speaker 3: the musicians that we feel fit the actual brand.

9:07 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, because yeah, you want to attract obviously,

9:11 Speaker 1: not not only musicians for the band, but for the

9:14 Speaker 1: for the studio too. You want people to come and record,

9:16 Speaker 1: I assume so right yeah, yeah, and uh yeah no

9:19 Speaker 1: uh run Rudolph runs. It sounds great, is it?

9:23 Speaker 13: Just now?

9:23 Speaker 12: Who?

9:24 Speaker 2: So do you have Is it just you and Brian

9:27 Speaker 2: on the track or are there other musicians who play

9:29 Speaker 2: on the track.

9:30 Speaker 3: On that particular one, we had Keoni Ben come in,

9:33 Speaker 3: a musician that is a bass player that we knew, Okay,

9:36 Speaker 3: so he did play bass on that And as far

9:40 Speaker 3: as that goes, Rick Ash is a drummer in the

9:43 Speaker 3: area who will come in and play with.

9:45 Speaker 4: Us as well.

9:46 Speaker 2: Okay.

9:47 Speaker 3: So yeah, we definitely, you know, we'll bring in people

9:50 Speaker 3: for bass and drums and the instruments that obviously we're

9:53 Speaker 3: not playing. Yeah, for some of the recorded originals that

9:56 Speaker 3: are coming out, we actually hired somebody in Africa who

9:59 Speaker 3: did all the percus because they can they can mike

10:02 Speaker 3: every single you know, you know, drum on their on

10:06 Speaker 3: their you know sound. Yeah, and you know, and then

10:10 Speaker 3: obviously when we're playing local we'll pull in local musicians.

10:13 Speaker 1: So it's amazing too. This is a subject that comes

10:16 Speaker 1: up on the show a lot. It's amazing to live

10:18 Speaker 1: in a time where you can do, like what you

10:21 Speaker 1: just said, like work with somebody in Africa, you know,

10:23 Speaker 1: and send tracks back and forth.

10:25 Speaker 2: And and I also think, you know, I you refer to.

10:29 Speaker 1: The pandemic earlier and how that, you know, kind of

10:31 Speaker 1: changes the dynamics of things. Obviously, it was a terrible experience,

10:36 Speaker 1: the pandemic, but you know, we have to find these

10:39 Speaker 1: silver linings where we can, and I think one of

10:40 Speaker 1: the few silver linings is it really kind of forced

10:43 Speaker 1: a lot of creative people to find new ways to create.

10:47 Speaker 1: And obviously the ability to you know, send tracks back

10:52 Speaker 1: and forth with people in other parts of the world,

10:54 Speaker 1: We've had that for a long time. But I think

10:57 Speaker 1: when the pandemic showed up, it kind of forced people

10:59 Speaker 1: who maybe were resistant to doing that to try it.

11:02 Speaker 1: And it opened up new ways to be creative that

11:05 Speaker 1: maybe people hadn't considered before, you know, and I think

11:08 Speaker 1: I think now musicians are much more open to that,

11:11 Speaker 1: and and being able to that was pretty cool, right,

11:13 Speaker 1: being able to collaborate with.

11:14 Speaker 2: Somebody on Africa.

11:16 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.

11:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, creativity should not be limited by money,

11:20 Speaker 3: and it was for me for for decades.

11:23 Speaker 14: You know.

11:23 Speaker 3: I started playing and singing in bands and getting creative,

11:27 Speaker 3: you know, in high school and back then it was

11:29 Speaker 3: four tracks and those are relatively you know, easy to

11:32 Speaker 3: get and just noodle around with the.

11:34 Speaker 2: Creative fuel task him. Yeah, I had one, you know,

11:39 Speaker 2: and we had.

11:40 Speaker 3: I've always had a home studio, and you know, just

11:43 Speaker 3: getting the creative idea out there and on back then tape,

11:47 Speaker 3: you know, kept the creative floak going and it made

11:50 Speaker 3: me feel like, well, this is why I want to

11:51 Speaker 3: do it, and kept the passion in it, you know,

11:54 Speaker 3: the moment that I couldn't access that anymore, or maybe

11:57 Speaker 3: it got beyond technology that I could even really want

12:00 Speaker 3: to deal with, Yeah, is you know it should it

12:04 Speaker 3: should be something that all musicians can access. And I

12:07 Speaker 3: think that home studios do that for people. And honestly,

12:10 Speaker 3: I think at this point people don't have to spend

12:14 Speaker 3: you know, thousands of dollars to get a great track,

12:17 Speaker 3: and you honestly, I mean, I'm okay with not having

12:21 Speaker 3: a big name on on our tracks, yeah, you know, yeah,

12:25 Speaker 3: and totally fine with, uh with doing it at home.

12:28 Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, do you want to do you want

12:31 Speaker 2: to play? So I'm dying to hear you play live? Yeah,

12:33 Speaker 2: yeah we did.

12:34 Speaker 1: Uh we did a little sound check before the When

12:37 Speaker 1: you're the first guest on the show in the morning,

12:38 Speaker 1: you actually get a sound check, and uh, you sound

12:42 Speaker 1: you sounded amazing. Just a little bit that I heard,

12:44 Speaker 1: so I'm really looking forward to this. If you are

12:46 Speaker 1: just joining us, neon gipsy here with us live in

12:50 Speaker 1: studio on this Saturday.

12:52 Speaker 2: Morning, this cold Saturday morning. So what are you going

12:55 Speaker 2: to play for us?

12:56 Speaker 13: Well?

12:56 Speaker 4: I got some originals for you.

12:58 Speaker 3: This is okay, this is let's start with come on Up.

13:01 Speaker 3: I guess le's see if I can get my fingers

13:03 Speaker 3: work in it's freezing outside.

13:04 Speaker 10: What is it like to like?

13:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it's a cold morning. Yeah.

13:10 Speaker 3: This one's called come on Up. We're recording this one

13:12 Speaker 3: in studio, full rock version.

13:15 Speaker 2: Okay.

13:15 Speaker 3: So anytime I play an acoustic I always picture a

13:18 Speaker 3: full rock band in the back in in in my mind.

13:21 Speaker 3: So I'm playing as a rock star on I call

13:23 Speaker 3: it my axe acoustic.

13:25 Speaker 2: Okay.

13:26 Speaker 3: So this is called come on Up?

13:29 Speaker 2: All right?

13:46 Speaker 12: Not on need drag noted small one, not need.

13:58 Speaker 10: Just need it agam in and.

14:00 Speaker 12: Look oum up either. He don't need much need you

14:12 Speaker 12: to come on.

14:21 Speaker 15: Now?

14:22 Speaker 12: Don't need a baby you.

14:25 Speaker 10: Turn the TV. Oh no, don't need to Gossie show.

14:33 Speaker 16: Don't need you again in the loove?

14:36 Speaker 10: Hom up.

14:39 Speaker 15: Yeah loo.

15:00 Speaker 12: Oh, come on, I don't need a diamond.

15:36 Speaker 10: No full length. First, No, don't need to go up ten.

15:43 Speaker 13: In and I don't need you, don't hold up many doors,

15:47 Speaker 13: come on up, don't.

15:56 Speaker 17: Need much, need you trying to come on, don't much.

16:01 Speaker 17: Jenna coma much, Jenna coma.

16:20 Speaker 5: Big rock finish baby.

16:24 Speaker 7: I love it.

16:25 Speaker 11: I love it.

16:25 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, Neon Gypsy is there

16:28 Speaker 1: with us alive in studio, and that's that's great.

16:33 Speaker 5: Yeah.

16:33 Speaker 2: Is everything kind of high.

16:34 Speaker 4: Energy that that you do or.

16:37 Speaker 10: A lot of it.

16:39 Speaker 3: Or and or as high energy as it is dynamic? Yes,

16:45 Speaker 3: dynamics or high energy.

16:46 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:49 Speaker 3: So I have a slower, slower song where you know,

16:53 Speaker 3: the bridge kind of just kicks up and when we

16:55 Speaker 3: get that recorded full band, it'll just be like a

16:58 Speaker 3: wall of sound. Yeah, the bridge, you know, and then

17:01 Speaker 3: comes back down. So yeah, dynamics.

17:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Now are you the primary songwriter? Do you

17:07 Speaker 2: write everything?

17:07 Speaker 3: Or actually, Brian my guitarist, my you are.

17:14 Speaker 1: Mine, the mysterious Brian right, he's over there, he's over

17:19 Speaker 1: there on the corner.

17:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian writes a lot of cool stuff on electric guitar,

17:26 Speaker 3: lead riffs and stuff, and then I'll write the lyrics.

17:29 Speaker 3: Usually I wrote this song music lyrics, and so you know,

17:35 Speaker 3: it's it's kind of a give or take really, yeah,

17:38 Speaker 3: or collaboration. But the songs I have here today I

17:41 Speaker 3: wrote and lyrics and the music.

17:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you have how many? How many

17:48 Speaker 2: songs have you written? Do you think?

17:50 Speaker 1: Like it's probably hard to put a number on it,

17:51 Speaker 1: But I mean you strike me as someone who probably

17:53 Speaker 1: has written a lot. You probably write a lot?

17:56 Speaker 2: Like ever yeah, like like like can you put a number,

18:00 Speaker 2: like a vaguely probably.

18:04 Speaker 3: I was one of those kids.

18:05 Speaker 13: I was.

18:05 Speaker 3: I was not cool. I'm still I'm still reaching for

18:08 Speaker 3: that goal. But I was one of those kids that's

18:11 Speaker 3: you know, in grade school high school, sat in my

18:14 Speaker 3: room with a notebook and I pined over my pen

18:16 Speaker 3: and paper, writing mostly lyrics what I thought was poetry,

18:22 Speaker 3: and the saddest day of my life was my absolute

18:26 Speaker 3: favorite high school poetry teacher looked at the stuff I

18:30 Speaker 3: was bringing in. He said, you know, you make a

18:32 Speaker 3: you make a really great lyric writer. And I was insulted. Really,

18:37 Speaker 3: I was insulted at the time because I had not

18:39 Speaker 3: started playing music and I wanted to be a poet,

18:44 Speaker 3: and so I went in with all my writings and toils,

18:47 Speaker 3: you know, on wielding my pen and came in I'll

18:51 Speaker 3: emo and he's like, you know, and I was really

18:54 Speaker 3: offended at that point. And then I started playing a guitar.

18:58 Speaker 3: So you know, I probably have hundreds of songs, but

19:01 Speaker 3: it's like a sketch. You know, not every sketch is

19:03 Speaker 3: going to be great, sure, but you know you can

19:06 Speaker 3: pull pieces of those here and there, smash things together,

19:10 Speaker 3: you know, scratch it whatever. But that song that I

19:13 Speaker 3: just sang, I wrote, put in a book, closed the book,

19:18 Speaker 3: and then packed the book away and then didn't open.

19:20 Speaker 2: It for twenty years, kidding.

19:22 Speaker 3: So that song's actually thirty years old, which is dating myself. Yeah,

19:29 Speaker 3: so that was resurrected.

19:31 Speaker 2: Do you remember the first song you ever wrote, actually, one.

19:35 Speaker 3: Of the first songs I ever did write I can

19:38 Speaker 3: play today called Fifth Dimension kidding, Yeah, And I wrote

19:42 Speaker 3: that in high school, you know, sitting on my bed,

19:45 Speaker 3: like I said, toiling and writing poet. It was poetry

19:47 Speaker 3: at the time, and that's also resurfaced. And the thing

19:52 Speaker 3: that's changed about that is the music the way I

19:55 Speaker 3: played it, not so much the chords, but the playing

19:59 Speaker 3: has changed.

20:00 Speaker 11: Yea.

20:01 Speaker 3: And that one is, yeah, that one just keeps I figure,

20:06 Speaker 3: if songs keep resurfacing, then they must be worth something,

20:10 Speaker 3: you know, to me at least, right, you know, So

20:13 Speaker 3: those those are the ones that resurface.

20:15 Speaker 2: But yeah, that's pretty cool. It's something that you wrote

20:18 Speaker 2: so early. You know that it survives, you know, right, Yeah.

20:23 Speaker 10: Well I wrote it.

20:24 Speaker 3: My aunt got me an old k guitar at a

20:28 Speaker 3: just a thrift shop somewhere for like twenty bucks, and

20:31 Speaker 3: you needed tetanna shots to you know, even play the strings.

20:35 Speaker 3: You know, the strings had never been changed. But I

20:37 Speaker 3: was around music all of my life. So my grandparents,

20:40 Speaker 3: you know, everyone in our family Germans, Pollockx Ukrainians, they

20:46 Speaker 3: all played music and it didn't matter what it was,

20:48 Speaker 3: whether it was the harmonica, the guitar, banjo, you know,

20:52 Speaker 3: whatever poke music. So we were surrounded by it, but

20:56 Speaker 3: we never really called ourselves musicians. It was just part

20:59 Speaker 3: of what we did to celebrate and have fun. So

21:02 Speaker 3: I've always seen my my grandfather playing guitar, but he

21:06 Speaker 3: didn't really know chords, you know. He would to just

21:10 Speaker 3: kind of tune the guitar to an open tuning and

21:12 Speaker 3: pluck away at it. And so I learned how to

21:15 Speaker 3: play without knowing what chords I was playing, and often

21:19 Speaker 3: just play by sound, you know, or he you know,

21:22 Speaker 3: hearing what I'm doing. So I wrote that particular song

21:26 Speaker 3: that we're talking about not knowing chords, OK, And I

21:31 Speaker 3: still don't. And that's why I always say I'm not

21:36 Speaker 3: really you know, I'm not really a quote musician.

21:39 Speaker 4: I don't read music.

21:41 Speaker 2: You know me either. I never learned to read music.

21:44 Speaker 3: I just simply did it for expression.

21:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, you want to you want to play

21:51 Speaker 2: another one? I'm doing here more. Yeah, I'm sound great.

21:53 Speaker 3: I'm still warming up my fingers, So I apologize, but yeah,

21:59 Speaker 3: this is the this is the song called Fifth Dimension.

22:01 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna tune up a little bit.

22:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this this song is actually about.

22:12 Speaker 3: Well fifth dimension basically, if you know, if you're if

22:18 Speaker 3: you're on a different plane, if somebody can they see you,

22:20 Speaker 3: can they hear you, can they understand you?

22:23 Speaker 8: You know?

22:24 Speaker 3: It was actually one of my poetic days where I

22:26 Speaker 3: was getting really deep in emo.

22:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, and this was recorded, uh, you know a few

22:34 Speaker 4: years ago, but it was.

22:36 Speaker 3: Right before pandemic and then the world closed down and

22:40 Speaker 3: I lost track of where the actual wave file went

22:44 Speaker 3: and all the stem files and so we're going to

22:46 Speaker 3: be re recording this one. Okay, yeah, this is called

22:49 Speaker 3: Fifth Dimension.

22:50 Speaker 2: Beyond Gypsy live in studio.

23:20 Speaker 10: Watch up, please there Linger.

23:27 Speaker 12: Hollad bown your.

23:29 Speaker 8: Mind maybe there and I can see honor your thoughts

23:42 Speaker 8: of long mind? Did not pay her send to the dementa.

23:53 Speaker 10: Watches star her.

23:55 Speaker 12: I didn't of me?

24:00 Speaker 8: Did my hairs into in dementia?

24:06 Speaker 12: Won't you see?

24:08 Speaker 16: I think of me?

24:13 Speaker 12: Won't you still believe?

24:15 Speaker 9: And No?

24:18 Speaker 10: No believe in me?

24:23 Speaker 17: Yeah, Magah believe in.

24:31 Speaker 7: No, no.

24:43 Speaker 2: Watch of thieves.

24:45 Speaker 16: Let me see.

24:50 Speaker 10: Home with your rides.

24:56 Speaker 18: Maybe they're I won't have them gool No the uta

25:04 Speaker 18: they shun night, did not fair.

25:11 Speaker 16: Hells into dim dementia?

25:16 Speaker 10: Want to steal her?

25:18 Speaker 16: I think of me?

25:23 Speaker 10: Did not fair hair hell.

25:25 Speaker 16: S into in dementia.

25:29 Speaker 7: Won't you steal her?

25:31 Speaker 12: I think of me.

25:36 Speaker 16: We'll just still believe in me.

25:40 Speaker 8: No, no.

25:44 Speaker 10: Believe in nagging.

25:47 Speaker 15: Maggy.

25:50 Speaker 5: Believe in me. No believe in Naggy.

26:08 Speaker 2: That was the first one you wrote. You were off

26:10 Speaker 2: to a great start. I really like that.

26:12 Speaker 3: It sounded a lot different. It definitely wasn't as upbeat

26:17 Speaker 3: as you said.

26:18 Speaker 4: I think you said it.

26:19 Speaker 3: Do you always played I don't know what you just said.

26:21 Speaker 3: But when I originally wrote it, it was pretty sing songy. Yeah,

26:26 Speaker 3: and I didn't really have a lot of confidence when

26:29 Speaker 3: I was playing and singing.

26:30 Speaker 4: I was singing secretly, you know, in my room.

26:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, never sang in front of anyone, and so everything

26:35 Speaker 3: was pretty mellow and kind of safe when I first wrote.

26:40 Speaker 3: So that that was you know again, put it away

26:42 Speaker 3: in a book for twenty years, come back to it

26:44 Speaker 3: with more confidence, with more attitude, and you know, yeah,

26:50 Speaker 3: and that's what that's what that brings to the table.

26:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, dynamics. No, that was great. Yeah, yeah, I really

26:55 Speaker 2: liked that a lot. Absolutely, thank you.

26:58 Speaker 1: Now, when you record the album, how many how many

27:00 Speaker 1: tracks you're gonna record? Have you settled on that when

27:03 Speaker 1: you do the because you're gonna do a full album, right,

27:05 Speaker 1: is that the plant?

27:06 Speaker 3: Well, we were thinking about singles just because you have

27:09 Speaker 3: a lot more to talk about more often.

27:10 Speaker 2: True, that's true.

27:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, And.

27:15 Speaker 3: I like that idea, you know, because you're always fresh.

27:18 Speaker 3: And what we're hoping to do is, you know, we

27:20 Speaker 3: have anywhere from five to nine songs between me and

27:25 Speaker 3: Brian writing, and some of those are just blow your

27:29 Speaker 3: head off rock, yeah, kind of a combination of a

27:35 Speaker 3: I wouldn't say classic rock, not really, I don't know rock,

27:39 Speaker 3: classic rock, contemporary mixed all together, yeah yeah, and then

27:43 Speaker 3: throwing throwing in a little eighties flair with with his

27:46 Speaker 3: lead solos and stuff.

27:47 Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's another thing too that comes up

27:51 Speaker 2: a lot on the show.

27:52 Speaker 1: As you know, we live in a time where you

27:54 Speaker 1: can really there's so many different ways you can release music,

27:56 Speaker 1: so many different strategies you can use. And you know,

28:00 Speaker 1: like when I was growing up, it was, you know,

28:02 Speaker 1: an artist would usually the first single would go to radio.

28:06 Speaker 1: It was always an album, and the first single would

28:08 Speaker 1: go to radio six eight weeks before the album comes out,

28:11 Speaker 1: and then the album comes out, and then there's a

28:14 Speaker 1: second single and so forth and from there. But now

28:17 Speaker 1: you can do it so many different ways, and you know,

28:19 Speaker 1: you can just do singles, you can do an EP,

28:21 Speaker 1: you can a lot of artists that we talk to now,

28:24 Speaker 1: will it kind of the inverse of how it originally worked,

28:28 Speaker 1: where instead of releasing an album and then a bunch

28:30 Speaker 1: of singles, they release a bunch of singles that eventually coalesced.

28:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's the direction we would go. Yeah, yeah,

28:40 Speaker 3: I mean. Interestingly enough, a lot of the songs are

28:43 Speaker 3: kind of very different, but for some reason they they

28:46 Speaker 3: all seem to work as a storyboard when you put

28:48 Speaker 3: them together as an album, And I guess that's the

28:50 Speaker 3: way albums work, right, They're telling a story even though

28:54 Speaker 3: each song isn't exactly maybe the same genre or.

28:58 Speaker 2: Style, right.

28:59 Speaker 3: I feel like we have a lot of different stuff

29:02 Speaker 3: going on, but the dynamics are what keep that cohesive

29:06 Speaker 3: as an album if you were to put them all together.

29:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. You want

29:12 Speaker 2: to you want to play another one? We have time

29:13 Speaker 2: and want to.

29:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me see what I got here? I got

29:18 Speaker 3: another original, which is you know we could do that, well,

29:22 Speaker 3: we could do a cover.

29:24 Speaker 4: I don't know.

29:25 Speaker 2: You want you want to play another original?

29:27 Speaker 4: Yeah?

29:27 Speaker 2: I really like your originals, So.

29:29 Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll do that, because that's why I'm here.

29:31 Speaker 3: I'm a I am a musician.

29:33 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, if you are just joining us, we have

29:35 Speaker 2: Neon Gypsy live in studio.

29:40 Speaker 3: This is a slower one so you can see it

29:42 Speaker 3: a little bit more mellow.

29:43 Speaker 10: All right, now I could see by me off down night.

30:19 Speaker 12: Wap for you're to talk to me?

30:22 Speaker 19: Tell me it's all right now. I can ask you

30:29 Speaker 19: on my hand, but I filly, don't expect.

30:36 Speaker 16: You to wander stay. Don't you know the time it

30:45 Speaker 16: has away?

30:47 Speaker 10: Were things.

30:50 Speaker 16: Like falling the rain coming into the streams.

30:55 Speaker 10: Don't you know the.

30:56 Speaker 15: Time it.

31:00 Speaker 10: Way? Wear?

31:01 Speaker 18: Things like pulling the brains down into into the.

31:10 Speaker 12: Street, into the street, No one boat.

31:24 Speaker 20: I cove been lonely sitting right by go side and

31:31 Speaker 20: now I could pull your clothes on your sow.

31:36 Speaker 10: Tide and now I could tell you pat me your

31:40 Speaker 10: won that I need.

31:44 Speaker 21: That's your known the stone siro, But they cannot be

31:52 Speaker 21: don't you know the time it has a way wealth?

31:58 Speaker 10: Things like falling the.

32:01 Speaker 8: Brain damn into the streets not normal time heads away?

32:11 Speaker 10: Were things.

32:14 Speaker 16: Like pulling the brain damn into into the street.

32:26 Speaker 12: It's two streets, no ball.

32:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, into streets.

32:35 Speaker 16: Now no a no.

32:40 Speaker 12: Street the bow.

33:09 Speaker 11: Now the.

33:32 Speaker 2: That's my favorite one so far. I really like that.

33:35 Speaker 2: I really like that.

33:36 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us neon Gypsy here with

33:38 Speaker 1: us live in studio on this Saturday morning, sounding fantastic.

33:45 Speaker 2: Now, are you what's your show schedule?

33:47 Speaker 8: Like?

33:47 Speaker 1: Are you playing out a lot or are you more

33:49 Speaker 1: focused on recording or what's going on? There.

33:53 Speaker 3: I was playing out quite a bit as a you know,

33:56 Speaker 3: a cover artist and then mixing in some of my originals.

33:58 Speaker 3: Sometimes it was you know, three four times a month,

34:00 Speaker 3: which was a little too much. I start started feeling

34:03 Speaker 3: a little more like a machine. It was a lot

34:06 Speaker 3: of fun, so I'm slowing down a little bit. I

34:09 Speaker 3: will be playing in January at a really cool place

34:13 Speaker 3: in Gorham. It's called Sidecar Line in Whiskey Bar, which

34:16 Speaker 3: is a really swanky place. You pull up a couch

34:18 Speaker 3: and get your you know, sniffer brandy and just kind

34:22 Speaker 3: of pontificate about all of the music coming out of

34:24 Speaker 3: my mouth.

34:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really cool place.

34:27 Speaker 3: And a few other places that you can find on

34:29 Speaker 3: Neon Gypsy on my Facebook page for the events. But

34:34 Speaker 3: right now for twenty twenty five, I do have some

34:37 Speaker 3: venues in New Hampshire as well, The Barnyard. I'll be

34:40 Speaker 3: playing there this summer. They haven't quite got their their

34:45 Speaker 3: schedule together yet. That's a really fun place to play.

34:48 Speaker 2: Where is that I'm not familiar with.

34:49 Speaker 3: That's in Candya Okay, Yeah, that's a really great venue.

34:52 Speaker 3: It's an outdoor venue and everybody there that you know,

34:56 Speaker 3: they're playing corn hole on the side, and you know,

34:59 Speaker 3: it's just it's such a great vibe, especially in the summer,

35:02 Speaker 3: and everybody there that just always they listen. You know,

35:05 Speaker 3: they're not just you know, they're enjoying themselves, but they

35:08 Speaker 3: really do listen and appreciate the music there. But we

35:11 Speaker 3: are I'm slowing down a little bit more on the

35:14 Speaker 3: idea of just play out, play out, play out, and

35:18 Speaker 3: got to focus on getting in the studio because some

35:20 Speaker 3: of these songs are so old, you know that now's

35:24 Speaker 3: the time, like we've got to get this done now

35:26 Speaker 3: that we got the upgrades in the studio.

35:28 Speaker 1: Rolling, So yeah, absolutely absolutely Now now the goal is

35:33 Speaker 1: to obviously have other musicians coming and record with you, right,

35:37 Speaker 1: but you're not there yet, I assume with the studio

35:39 Speaker 1: or you're or maybe you are.

35:40 Speaker 2: We are, yeah, we are, okay.

35:42 Speaker 3: You know, the only thing we don't have is a

35:44 Speaker 3: drum room and you know, acoustic drums we work. You know,

35:48 Speaker 3: I think, what what is nice about home studios or

35:51 Speaker 3: our studios.

35:52 Speaker 4: It's it's a small home studio, but.

35:54 Speaker 3: We're working with an e kit so we can just

35:56 Speaker 3: plug in and you know, keep it simple, make it

35:59 Speaker 3: a sfortable, you know, so that people can come in

36:02 Speaker 3: and get creative and you're getting clean sounds coming out

36:05 Speaker 3: of that without the complication of having a degree to

36:08 Speaker 3: make up every drum on a kit.

36:10 Speaker 2: Yeah.

36:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we do have musicians coming in right now.

36:14 Speaker 3: We have Rick Ash that just finished up a track.

36:17 Speaker 4: He came in.

36:18 Speaker 3: He's from the Mid Coast area in Maine and he

36:21 Speaker 3: just resurrected a song from the nineties, you know, with

36:25 Speaker 3: this old band Crazy Knave and Brian and I got

36:28 Speaker 3: to be a part of that and I got to play.

36:30 Speaker 3: It's called Blackout Brandy. I got to play Blackout Brandy.

36:34 Speaker 3: I have a little cameo in the bridge. I get

36:37 Speaker 3: to play a drunk girl.

36:39 Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, okay, so another word, So you're a

36:43 Speaker 2: Blackout Brandy.

36:44 Speaker 3: And I guess I would be.

36:46 Speaker 10: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 3: I get a few things that I, you know, say

36:50 Speaker 3: in there, and then I get to sing just a

36:52 Speaker 3: little bit and nail it. I'll send you the song

36:55 Speaker 3: if you look, if you would play it, it would

36:57 Speaker 3: be awesome. Absolutely, It's a great song that's out there

37:01 Speaker 3: and ready to go.

37:02 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Okay.

37:03 Speaker 15: Yeah.

37:04 Speaker 3: So yeah, artists are welcome to come and visit us.

37:06 Speaker 3: Like I said, it's just a small, small, but mighty studio,

37:09 Speaker 3: you know. Okay, but the difference is we just had

37:11 Speaker 3: a musician come in who actually has a home studio

37:14 Speaker 3: and he's like, you know, I really don't quite know

37:17 Speaker 3: what I'm doing to the level of that Brian does

37:19 Speaker 3: in studio producing and recording. Yeah, and he just wanted

37:22 Speaker 3: to come in and relax and play. He didn't want

37:24 Speaker 3: to push the buttons and okay.

37:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, very cool.

37:29 Speaker 1: Now, how do where should people go online to find

37:31 Speaker 1: out more about Studio fifty one.

37:33 Speaker 3: We have a Facebook page, okay, and it's you know,

37:35 Speaker 3: there's a lot of Studio fifty ones out there, but

37:38 Speaker 3: you know, we're out of Portland main and look for

37:40 Speaker 3: the spaceship with the half naked woman on the.

37:42 Speaker 4: Logo, okay and with the guitar and that's us.

37:45 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, very cool, very cool. Do you want

37:48 Speaker 2: to play one more? We have time if you want to.

37:50 Speaker 3: I can play a cover tune.

37:52 Speaker 2: Yeah sure, yeah, whatever you want. Yeah, all right.

37:54 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, Neon Gypsy is here with

37:56 Speaker 1: us live in studio. Coming up in the second hour,

37:59 Speaker 1: we have the Healer Mike McDowell will be here and

38:02 Speaker 1: then in the third hour the return of Cody Pope

38:05 Speaker 1: and Byron g And I love having those guys on

38:08 Speaker 1: the show.

38:08 Speaker 2: Always amazing.

38:09 Speaker 1: But uh, Neon Gypsy is sounding great here on this

38:14 Speaker 1: Chilli Saturday morning.

38:16 Speaker 3: But I'm getting warmed up a little bit.

38:18 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it's warming up in here too. I closed

38:20 Speaker 2: the door.

38:21 Speaker 4: That helps.

38:22 Speaker 3: My fingers are the last to get circulations. Yeah yeah,

38:27 Speaker 3: all right, I'll play play cover to room for you.

38:29 Speaker 2: I wonder if you'll know who this is?

38:30 Speaker 14: Okay, in those Sunshine one gee's gone, it's no longer

39:02 Speaker 14: when she he's waiting, you know, sun Show, and she's gone.

39:12 Speaker 16: She's going to.

39:14 Speaker 3: Know any times she goes away.

39:45 Speaker 12: One too, when this time she gone.

39:51 Speaker 19: Want to if she's gone on stay here, you know

39:59 Speaker 19: sun Show.

40:00 Speaker 10: When she's gone, she's going away to No.

40:09 Speaker 16: Anytimes she goes away.

40:15 Speaker 12: Now, no one no no no no no no no

40:19 Speaker 12: no no no no no.

40:24 Speaker 10: No no no no no, no, no, no, no, no no.

40:33 Speaker 7: One, no.

40:37 Speaker 22: Gonna let hersello gain no suncha when she go yeah,

40:51 Speaker 22: no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

41:03 Speaker 22: no no.

41:10 Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, fantastic Neon Gypsy here with us alive in

41:15 Speaker 1: studio and hey, but before we wrap up in a moment,

41:18 Speaker 1: we're gonna close out the segment with We're gonna play

41:20 Speaker 1: I'm gonna play Run Rudolph Run again, the new studio track.

41:23 Speaker 1: So we're very glad to feature that today as well.

41:27 Speaker 1: But where should people go online? What's the best place

41:30 Speaker 1: to go to keep up with everything that you're doing

41:32 Speaker 1: right now?

41:32 Speaker 3: It's Facebook. I am on Instagram as well, got to

41:34 Speaker 3: get a little better about that. But on Facebook you

41:37 Speaker 3: can find me on gypsy and there's there's actually two

41:40 Speaker 3: profiles out there. I just can't get that other one off.

41:43 Speaker 3: It's been hacked. So just look for the current one

41:45 Speaker 3: you'll find out of Portland. Yeah, and then Studio fifty

41:48 Speaker 3: one is just simply at Studio fifty one, look for

41:50 Speaker 3: the big ufo, yeah logo with the with the half

41:54 Speaker 3: naked lady playing a guitar.

41:56 Speaker 1: Well, you know what, for those watching online, put the

41:58 Speaker 1: camera on me. There you go, there's a for for

42:01 Speaker 1: those of you watching, there's the word show.

42:03 Speaker 2: There's the sticker. So very nice, very nice. Well, thank

42:06 Speaker 2: you so much, Jennifer. This has been this has been amazing.

42:09 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.

42:10 Speaker 4: I really appreciate it.

42:11 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

42:12 Speaker 1: We'll do it again in the future, especially where you've

42:13 Speaker 1: got more studio tracks coming up, so.

42:15 Speaker 3: That'd be awesome.

42:16 Speaker 2: Thank you, absolutely, absolutely, And if you are listening live

42:19 Speaker 2: on Saturday morning, stick around the Healer.

42:21 Speaker 1: Mike McDowell is coming up. I'm gonna have to go

42:25 Speaker 1: let him in when he's uh when he arrives. He's

42:27 Speaker 1: keeping me posted and it's a little chilly out there

42:30 Speaker 1: this morning.

42:31 Speaker 2: After all.

42:33 Speaker 1: We will close out the segment with once again, this

42:35 Speaker 1: is the studio track, Run Rudolph Run.

42:38 Speaker 2: This is Neon Gipsy's run.

43:02 Speaker 5: Don Rude all Santa? Do they get to town Santa

43:07 Speaker 5: Maga hor Town?

43:08 Speaker 6: They can take the freeway?

43:12 Speaker 9: Run Don Rudolf be a a memcal right, Okay, yeah,

43:17 Speaker 9: saying Santa don't a child?

43:19 Speaker 5: Why have you been a leg ball?

43:23 Speaker 10: No for Christmas?

43:24 Speaker 17: Is a rocking ball?

43:25 Speaker 5: Electric jar.

43:28 Speaker 10: Go away?

43:29 Speaker 5: When boodof w isn' I gotta shoot the store? Run

43:34 Speaker 5: Don rudof Santa? Do I get to child Santah?

43:40 Speaker 11: Tag him horn?

43:41 Speaker 5: He can take the freeway hour.

43:45 Speaker 13: Run down boot beating Americ round?

43:49 Speaker 5: Okay, Run run rudall Santa? Do I get to ChIL.

43:56 Speaker 7: Santa?

43:56 Speaker 5: Big ahead.

43:57 Speaker 7: Tell him he can take the freeway now.

44:01 Speaker 11: Run don bud be like America round.

44:23 Speaker 7: Saying saying that to you, my girl child, what would

44:25 Speaker 7: please you?

44:25 Speaker 5: Wants to get.

44:28 Speaker 7: A little baby doll.

44:30 Speaker 9: They can grass, sleep, drink and wht not away went brudo,

44:35 Speaker 9: whiz like a saber chet run un rudo Sanada may

44:42 Speaker 9: get to town.

44:45 Speaker 5: SAA make Americ twn.

44:46 Speaker 9: He can take the freeway down, run don buda, feeling

44:52 Speaker 9: like America.

44:53 Speaker 11: Right, Okay, no non goo gop run no gop run,

45:18 Speaker 11: non go run, no run non goomic roy, let me

45:28 Speaker 11: go down