Matt Connarton Unleashed: Neon Gypsy

Speaker 1: We do have some great guests today on the show, as I mentioned, and we're going to open with and I'm going to bring uh, bring her MIC's up there, so Je, let's see if I can do this. Jennifer Hausin Chuck good job, is that right?

Speaker 2: Yes?

Speaker 1: Okay, good yes? Also known as neon Gypsy. Correct or is neon Gypsy the name of the band? Or are you the neon Gypsy?

Speaker 3: It can be either or really because you know, we're trying to just bring the brand wherever we go, so whether whether it's me, you know, solo or sometimes it's different projects, so it always stays Neon Gypsy, just for a little bit of consistency.

Speaker 1: Sure. Sure, And we're going to be playing in a moment studio track that you recently. This was this just came out right, your rendition of Ron Rudolph front right.

Speaker 3: Well, we actually recorded it last year, but it was a really last minute thing and it didn't get any airtime because it was just it was too close to Christmas. So this is really the debut of it for sure.

Speaker 2: Oh very good. So that this has not been played on the.

Speaker 1: Radio before, no, not really, So this is the world radio premiere. It really is we like those here we like to do the world radio premiere is.

Speaker 3: Happening right here in Manchester.

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

Speaker 1: By the way, I learned something so I mentioned this too yesterday or no, yesterday, yeah, yesterday, when I posted a quick preview video about today's show.

Speaker 2: All my life, I thought the name of the song was run Round Rudolph.

Speaker 3: Exactly, me too, yes, And it was a real tongue twister when I was trying to do the lyrics because all my life that's what I thought it was too, so I had to undo it many times.

Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I just.

Speaker 3: Learned that as well.

Speaker 2: Where did you record this?

Speaker 3: We recorded at Studio fifty one, which is our home studio. After COVID a lot of people started to go, you know and get in their own studios, so we're finally set up with all the equipment we need and we recorded it right in Portland, Maine.

Speaker 1: By the way, for those you brought stickers, I'm gonna puld these up in front of the camera here that's in front of me for people watching online, so we should too, and Jenny will be excited.

Speaker 2: She loves stickers.

Speaker 1: Here's the uh we get that right in front of the camera Studio fifty one sticker. So you were just talking about Studio fifty one and the school neon gypsy sticker too.

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

Speaker 5: Or yeah?

Speaker 3: I'm a graphic designers. That's one of the renditions. But really they're holographic and sparkly. We'll make sure to get you those.

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

Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1: So, So this track, so you recorded this at Studio fifty one, Yes, okay.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: Do you record other artists there too or is it just your material for that Now.

Speaker 3: We're opening it up to other artists as well, so, and we're thinking about doing some collaborations as well too, just for the fun of it, because sometimes the music industry gets a little stressful when you're just trying to get out there, whether you're getting out to just play and get paid or whether you're just you know, trying to get your stuff out there. Yeah, I really need to keep the fun in it and the collaboration. So we'll be having different artists from the area come in. We're just going to do different collaborations with originals outstanding and some covers to but yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1: Well, so for anyone who's interested in recording there, this will kind of give you an idea of what kind of a sound you can get. And let's give this a spin and then we'll come back and Jennifer is going to play for us today too. She brought her guitar, so really looking forward to that.

Speaker 2: But here it is.

Speaker 1: This is run Rudolph Run as I now know the correct the correct name of this classic song.

Speaker 2: Chuck Berry did this originally correct?

Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was written in nineteen fifty eight, nineteen fifty eight, So that's that's why we have that title stuck in our head. Yes, if you weren't born, then you do it all your life?

Speaker 2: Has that exactly exactly all right?

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

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

Speaker 6: Santa Magame, hurry down the can take the freeway, Run Don Rudolf being a lercal run Okay, yeah, saying Santa, do you don't at child?

Speaker 7: What have you been longing for?

Speaker 8: No?

Speaker 9: I'm for Christmas is a rocking ball lectric guitar n away when boodof w isn't that got shooting star?

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

Speaker 10: Santa?

Speaker 11: Take him hurry down.

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

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

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

Speaker 12: Tell him he can take the freeway.

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

Speaker 7: Round Okay, saying saying that to you, my girl child, what would please you?

Speaker 5: Wants to get.

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

Speaker 10: The way.

Speaker 7: Win brudof Wizar like a saber chet.

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

Speaker 6: Get your time, Shad, make a ryn im he can take the freeway down, run.

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

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

Speaker 1: That is a brand new and uh yeah, Jennifer, we were talking kind of off air. You're gonna be recording more at the at Studio fifty one. You've got a bunch of originals you're going to.

Speaker 4: Be doing right right. Yeah.

Speaker 3: Some of the songs actually are thirty years old when I wrote them, I put them in a book, close a book, put it away forever, and then resurface them, and I actually still really liked them. We just upgraded the music, but we've got about five to seven that are literally waiting for me to get in the studio. Brian did all his parts, and it's all on me to get down there with vocals and recording the guitar, and it's going to be all rock. So there's when I play out, it's acoustic. But I really wanted to bring the rock portion into playing because I love that aspect.

Speaker 3: But more often than not, if I'm playing out, I play acoustic.

Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, So do you do a lot of shows just you? Or does Brian join you for the acoustic shows.

Speaker 3: This is relatively new with taking a different approach to a band. I've been in a lot of renditions of bands before, and what I've ended up finding is that, of course, you know, bands are family. You know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Dynamics are you know, always very tricky, and everyone that comes into a band brings their own style and or flavor, and you know, it worked on different variety of levels. But I really wanted to refocus and have it be Neon Gypsy brand of what we're bringing out there.

Speaker 3: So we're doing it a little different this time. And instead of saying, dude, I want to start a band and then you like Noah drummer and you pull people in that you just know, what we're doing is we're creating the brand, the sound, the music ourselves in studio and then we're putting the brand out there and hopefully what people do musicians as they say, wow, I love that sound, I love that feel, and when they come into the project, they're bringing that particular vibe so that we're not changing, you know, like coming in and you know, sounding like Greg Almonds because of some dude that comes in that likes Greg Almonds, you know, or you know what I mean.

Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're doing it a little bit differently and we're attracting the musicians that we feel fit the actual brand.

Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, because yeah, you want to attract obviously, not not only musicians for the band, but for the for the studio too. You want people to come and record, I assume so right yeah, yeah, and uh yeah no uh run Rudolph runs. It sounds great, is it?

Speaker 13: Just now?

Speaker 12: Who?

Speaker 2: So do you have Is it just you and Brian on the track or are there other musicians who play on the track.

Speaker 3: On that particular one, we had Keoni Ben come in, a musician that is a bass player that we knew, Okay, so he did play bass on that And as far as that goes, Rick Ash is a drummer in the area who will come in and play with.

Speaker 4: Us as well.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 3: So yeah, we definitely, you know, we'll bring in people for bass and drums and the instruments that obviously we're not playing. Yeah, for some of the recorded originals that are coming out, we actually hired somebody in Africa who did all the percus because they can they can mike every single you know, you know, drum on their on their you know sound. Yeah, and you know, and then obviously when we're playing local we'll pull in local musicians.

Speaker 1: So it's amazing too. This is a subject that comes up on the show a lot. It's amazing to live in a time where you can do, like what you just said, like work with somebody in Africa, you know, and send tracks back and forth.

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

Speaker 1: The pandemic earlier and how that, you know, kind of changes the dynamics of things. Obviously, it was a terrible experience, the pandemic, but you know, we have to find these silver linings where we can, and I think one of the few silver linings is it really kind of forced a lot of creative people to find new ways to create. And obviously the ability to you know, send tracks back and forth with people in other parts of the world, We've had that for a long time. But I think when the pandemic showed up, it kind of forced people who maybe were resistant to doing that to try it.

Speaker 1: And it opened up new ways to be creative that maybe people hadn't considered before, you know, and I think I think now musicians are much more open to that, and and being able to that was pretty cool, right, being able to collaborate with.

Speaker 2: Somebody on Africa.

Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, creativity should not be limited by money, and it was for me for for decades.

Speaker 14: You know.

Speaker 3: I started playing and singing in bands and getting creative, you know, in high school and back then it was four tracks and those are relatively you know, easy to get and just noodle around with the.

Speaker 2: Creative fuel task him. Yeah, I had one, you know, and we had.

Speaker 3: I've always had a home studio, and you know, just getting the creative idea out there and on back then tape, you know, kept the creative floak going and it made me feel like, well, this is why I want to do it, and kept the passion in it, you know, the moment that I couldn't access that anymore, or maybe it got beyond technology that I could even really want to deal with, Yeah, is you know it should it should be something that all musicians can access. And I think that home studios do that for people.

Speaker 3: And honestly, I think at this point people don't have to spend you know, thousands of dollars to get a great track, and you honestly, I mean, I'm okay with not having a big name on on our tracks, yeah, you know, yeah, and totally fine with, uh with doing it at home.

Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, do you want to do you want to play? So I'm dying to hear you play live? Yeah, yeah we did.

Speaker 1: Uh we did a little sound check before the When you're the first guest on the show in the morning, you actually get a sound check, and uh, you sound you sounded amazing. Just a little bit that I heard, so I'm really looking forward to this. If you are just joining us, neon gipsy here with us live in studio on this Saturday.

Speaker 2: Morning, this cold Saturday morning. So what are you going to play for us?

Speaker 13: Well?

Speaker 4: I got some originals for you.

Speaker 3: This is okay, this is let's start with come on Up. I guess le's see if I can get my fingers work in it's freezing outside.

Speaker 10: What is it like to like?

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

Speaker 3: This one's called come on Up. We're recording this one in studio, full rock version.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 3: So anytime I play an acoustic I always picture a full rock band in the back in in in my mind. So I'm playing as a rock star on I call it my axe acoustic.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 3: So this is called come on Up?

Speaker 2: All right?

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

Speaker 10: Just need it agam in and.

Speaker 12: Look oum up either. He don't need much need you to come on.

Speaker 15: Now?

Speaker 12: Don't need a baby you.

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

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

Speaker 10: Hom up.

Speaker 15: Yeah loo.

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

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

Speaker 13: In and I don't need you, don't hold up many doors, come on up, don't.

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

Speaker 5: Big rock finish baby.

Speaker 7: I love it.

Speaker 11: I love it.

Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, Neon Gypsy is there with us alive in studio, and that's that's great.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 2: Is everything kind of high.

Speaker 4: Energy that that you do or.

Speaker 10: A lot of it.

Speaker 3: Or and or as high energy as it is dynamic? Yes, dynamics or high energy.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 3: So I have a slower, slower song where you know, the bridge kind of just kicks up and when we get that recorded full band, it'll just be like a wall of sound. Yeah, the bridge, you know, and then comes back down. So yeah, dynamics.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Now are you the primary songwriter? Do you write everything?

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

Speaker 1: Mine, the mysterious Brian right, he's over there, he's over there on the corner.

Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian writes a lot of cool stuff on electric guitar, lead riffs and stuff, and then I'll write the lyrics. Usually I wrote this song music lyrics, and so you know, it's it's kind of a give or take really, yeah, or collaboration. But the songs I have here today I wrote and lyrics and the music.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you have how many? How many songs have you written? Do you think?

Speaker 1: Like it's probably hard to put a number on it, But I mean you strike me as someone who probably has written a lot. You probably write a lot?

Speaker 2: Like ever yeah, like like like can you put a number, like a vaguely probably.

Speaker 3: I was one of those kids.

Speaker 13: I was.

Speaker 3: I was not cool. I'm still I'm still reaching for that goal. But I was one of those kids that's you know, in grade school high school, sat in my room with a notebook and I pined over my pen and paper, writing mostly lyrics what I thought was poetry, and the saddest day of my life was my absolute favorite high school poetry teacher looked at the stuff I was bringing in. He said, you know, you make a you make a really great lyric writer. And I was insulted. Really, I was insulted at the time because I had not started playing music and I wanted to be a poet, and so I went in with all my writings and toils, you know, on wielding my pen and came in I'll emo and he's like, you know, and I was really offended at that point.

Speaker 3: And then I started playing a guitar. So you know, I probably have hundreds of songs, but it's like a sketch. You know, not every sketch is going to be great, sure, but you know you can pull pieces of those here and there, smash things together, you know, scratch it whatever. But that song that I just sang, I wrote, put in a book, closed the book, and then packed the book away and then didn't open.

Speaker 2: It for twenty years, kidding.

Speaker 3: So that song's actually thirty years old, which is dating myself. Yeah, so that was resurrected.

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

Speaker 3: Of the first songs I ever did write I can play today called Fifth Dimension kidding, Yeah, And I wrote that in high school, you know, sitting on my bed, like I said, toiling and writing poet. It was poetry at the time, and that's also resurfaced. And the thing that's changed about that is the music the way I played it, not so much the chords, but the playing has changed.

Speaker 11: Yea.

Speaker 3: And that one is, yeah, that one just keeps I figure, if songs keep resurfacing, then they must be worth something, you know, to me at least, right, you know, So those those are the ones that resurface.

Speaker 2: But yeah, that's pretty cool. It's something that you wrote so early. You know that it survives, you know, right, Yeah.

Speaker 10: Well I wrote it.

Speaker 3: My aunt got me an old k guitar at a just a thrift shop somewhere for like twenty bucks, and you needed tetanna shots to you know, even play the strings. You know, the strings had never been changed. But I was around music all of my life. So my grandparents, you know, everyone in our family Germans, Pollockx Ukrainians, they all played music and it didn't matter what it was, whether it was the harmonica, the guitar, banjo, you know, whatever poke music. So we were surrounded by it, but we never really called ourselves musicians.

Speaker 3: It was just part of what we did to celebrate and have fun. So I've always seen my my grandfather playing guitar, but he didn't really know chords, you know. He would to just kind of tune the guitar to an open tuning and pluck away at it. And so I learned how to play without knowing what chords I was playing, and often just play by sound, you know, or he you know, hearing what I'm doing. So I wrote that particular song that we're talking about not knowing chords, OK, And I still don't. And that's why I always say I'm not really you know, I'm not really a quote musician.

Speaker 4: I don't read music.

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

Speaker 3: I just simply did it for expression.

Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, you want to you want to play another one? I'm doing here more. Yeah, I'm sound great.

Speaker 3: I'm still warming up my fingers, So I apologize, but yeah, this is the this is the song called Fifth Dimension. I'm just gonna tune up a little bit.

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

Speaker 3: Well fifth dimension basically, if you know, if you're if you're on a different plane, if somebody can they see you, can they hear you, can they understand you?

Speaker 8: You know?

Speaker 3: It was actually one of my poetic days where I was getting really deep in emo.

Speaker 4: Yeah, and this was recorded, uh, you know a few years ago, but it was.

Speaker 3: Right before pandemic and then the world closed down and I lost track of where the actual wave file went and all the stem files and so we're going to be re recording this one. Okay, yeah, this is called Fifth Dimension.

Speaker 2: Beyond Gypsy live in studio.

Speaker 10: Watch up, please there Linger.

Speaker 12: Hollad bown your.

Speaker 8: Mind maybe there and I can see honor your thoughts of long mind? Did not pay her send to the dementa.

Speaker 10: Watches star her.

Speaker 12: I didn't of me?

Speaker 8: Did my hairs into in dementia?

Speaker 12: Won't you see?

Speaker 16: I think of me?

Speaker 12: Won't you still believe?

Speaker 9: And No?

Speaker 10: No believe in me?

Speaker 17: Yeah, Magah believe in.

Speaker 7: No, no.

Speaker 2: Watch of thieves.

Speaker 16: Let me see.

Speaker 10: Home with your rides.

Speaker 18: Maybe they're I won't have them gool No the uta they shun night, did not fair.

Speaker 16: Hells into dim dementia?

Speaker 10: Want to steal her?

Speaker 16: I think of me?

Speaker 10: Did not fair hair hell.

Speaker 16: S into in dementia.

Speaker 7: Won't you steal her?

Speaker 12: I think of me.

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

Speaker 8: No, no.

Speaker 10: Believe in nagging.

Speaker 15: Maggy.

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

Speaker 2: That was the first one you wrote. You were off to a great start. I really like that.

Speaker 3: It sounded a lot different. It definitely wasn't as upbeat as you said.

Speaker 4: I think you said it.

Speaker 3: Do you always played I don't know what you just said. But when I originally wrote it, it was pretty sing songy. Yeah, and I didn't really have a lot of confidence when I was playing and singing.

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

Speaker 3: Yeah, never sang in front of anyone, and so everything was pretty mellow and kind of safe when I first wrote. So that that was you know again, put it away in a book for twenty years, come back to it with more confidence, with more attitude, and you know, yeah, and that's what that's what that brings to the table.

Speaker 2: Yeah, dynamics. No, that was great. Yeah, yeah, I really liked that a lot. Absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 1: Now, when you record the album, how many how many tracks you're gonna record? Have you settled on that when you do the because you're gonna do a full album, right, is that the plant?

Speaker 3: Well, we were thinking about singles just because you have a lot more to talk about more often.

Speaker 2: True, that's true.

Speaker 10: Yeah, And.

Speaker 3: I like that idea, you know, because you're always fresh. And what we're hoping to do is, you know, we have anywhere from five to nine songs between me and Brian writing, and some of those are just blow your head off rock, yeah, kind of a combination of a

Speaker 3: I wouldn't say classic rock, not really, I don't know rock, classic rock, contemporary mixed all together, yeah yeah, and then throwing throwing in a little eighties flair with with his lead solos and stuff.

Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's another thing too that comes up a lot on the show.

Speaker 1: As you know, we live in a time where you can really there's so many different ways you can release music, so many different strategies you can use. And you know, like when I was growing up, it was, you know, an artist would usually the first single would go to radio. It was always an album, and the first single would go to radio six eight weeks before the album comes out, and then the album comes out, and then there's a second single and so forth and from there. But now you can do it so many different ways, and you know, you can just do singles, you can do an EP, you can a lot of artists that we talk to now, will it kind of the inverse of how it originally worked, where instead of releasing an album and then a bunch of singles, they release a bunch of singles that eventually coalesced.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's the direction we would go. Yeah, yeah, I mean. Interestingly enough, a lot of the songs are kind of very different, but for some reason they they all seem to work as a storyboard when you put them together as an album, And I guess that's the way albums work, right, They're telling a story even though each song isn't exactly maybe the same genre or.

Speaker 2: Style, right.

Speaker 3: I feel like we have a lot of different stuff going on, but the dynamics are what keep that cohesive as an album if you were to put them all together.

Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. You want to you want to play another one? We have time and want to.

Speaker 3: Yeah, let me see what I got here? I got another original, which is you know we could do that, well, we could do a cover.

Speaker 4: I don't know.

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

Speaker 4: Yeah?

Speaker 2: I really like your originals, So.

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

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

Speaker 2: Yes, yes, if you are just joining us, we have Neon Gypsy live in studio.

Speaker 3: This is a slower one so you can see it a little bit more mellow.

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

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

Speaker 19: Tell me it's all right now. I can ask you on my hand, but I filly, don't expect.

Speaker 16: You to wander stay. Don't you know the time it has away?

Speaker 10: Were things.

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

Speaker 10: Don't you know the.

Speaker 15: Time it.

Speaker 10: Way? Wear?

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

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

Speaker 20: I cove been lonely sitting right by go side and now I could pull your clothes on your sow.

Speaker 10: Tide and now I could tell you pat me your won that I need.

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

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

Speaker 10: Things like falling the.

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

Speaker 10: Were things.

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

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

Speaker 5: Yeah, into streets.

Speaker 16: Now no a no.

Speaker 12: Street the bow.

Speaker 11: Now the.

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

Speaker 1: If you are just joining us neon Gypsy here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning, sounding fantastic.

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

Speaker 8: Like?

Speaker 1: Are you playing out a lot or are you more focused on recording or what's going on? There.

Speaker 3: I was playing out quite a bit as a you know, a cover artist and then mixing in some of my originals. Sometimes it was you know, three four times a month, which was a little too much. I start started feeling a little more like a machine. It was a lot of fun, so I'm slowing down a little bit. I will be playing in January at a really cool place in Gorham. It's called Sidecar Line in Whiskey Bar, which is a really swanky place. You pull up a couch and get your you know, sniffer brandy and just kind of pontificate about all of the music coming out of my mouth.

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

Speaker 3: And a few other places that you can find on Neon Gypsy on my Facebook page for the events. But right now for twenty twenty five, I do have some venues in New Hampshire as well, The Barnyard. I'll be playing there this summer. They haven't quite got their their schedule together yet. That's a really fun place to play.

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

Speaker 3: That's in Candya Okay, Yeah, that's a really great venue. It's an outdoor venue and everybody there that you know, they're playing corn hole on the side, and you know, it's just it's such a great vibe, especially in the summer, and everybody there that just always they listen. You know, they're not just you know, they're enjoying themselves, but they really do listen and appreciate the music there. But we are I'm slowing down a little bit more on the idea of just play out, play out, play out, and got to focus on getting in the studio because some of these songs are so old, you know that now's the time, like we've got to get this done now that we got the upgrades in the studio.

Speaker 1: Rolling, So yeah, absolutely absolutely Now now the goal is to obviously have other musicians coming and record with you, right, but you're not there yet, I assume with the studio or you're or maybe you are.

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

Speaker 3: You know, the only thing we don't have is a drum room and you know, acoustic drums we work. You know, I think, what what is nice about home studios or our studios.

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

Speaker 3: We're working with an e kit so we can just plug in and you know, keep it simple, make it a sfortable, you know, so that people can come in and get creative and you're getting clean sounds coming out of that without the complication of having a degree to make up every drum on a kit.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, So we do have musicians coming in right now. We have Rick Ash that just finished up a track.

Speaker 4: He came in.

Speaker 3: He's from the Mid Coast area in Maine and he just resurrected a song from the nineties, you know, with this old band Crazy Knave and Brian and I got to be a part of that and I got to play. It's called Blackout Brandy. I got to play Blackout Brandy. I have a little cameo in the bridge. I get to play a drunk girl.

Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, okay, so another word, So you're a Blackout Brandy.

Speaker 3: And I guess I would be.

Speaker 10: Yeah.

Speaker 3: I get a few things that I, you know, say in there, and then I get to sing just a little bit and nail it. I'll send you the song if you look, if you would play it, it would be awesome. Absolutely, It's a great song that's out there and ready to go.

Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Okay.

Speaker 15: Yeah.

Speaker 3: So yeah, artists are welcome to come and visit us. Like I said, it's just a small, small, but mighty studio, you know. Okay, but the difference is we just had a musician come in who actually has a home studio and he's like, you know, I really don't quite know what I'm doing to the level of that Brian does in studio producing and recording. Yeah, and he just wanted to come in and relax and play. He didn't want to push the buttons and okay.

Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1: Now, how do where should people go online to find out more about Studio fifty one.

Speaker 3: We have a Facebook page, okay, and it's you know, there's a lot of Studio fifty ones out there, but you know, we're out of Portland main and look for the spaceship with the half naked woman on the.

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

Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, very cool, very cool. Do you want to play one more? We have time if you want to.

Speaker 3: I can play a cover tune.

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

Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, Neon Gypsy is here with us live in studio. Coming up in the second hour, we have the Healer Mike McDowell will be here and then in the third hour the return of Cody Pope and Byron g And I love having those guys on the show.

Speaker 2: Always amazing.

Speaker 1: But uh, Neon Gypsy is sounding great here on this Chilli Saturday morning.

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

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

Speaker 4: That helps.

Speaker 3: My fingers are the last to get circulations. Yeah yeah, all right, I'll play play cover to room for you.

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

Speaker 14: Okay, in those Sunshine one gee's gone, it's no longer when she he's waiting, you know, sun Show, and she's gone.

Speaker 16: She's going to.

Speaker 3: Know any times she goes away.

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

Speaker 19: Want to if she's gone on stay here, you know sun Show.

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

Speaker 16: Anytimes she goes away.

Speaker 12: Now, no one no no no no no no no no no no no no.

Speaker 10: No no no no no, no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 7: One, no.

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

Speaker 22: no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, fantastic Neon Gypsy here with us alive in studio and hey, but before we wrap up in a moment, we're gonna close out the segment with We're gonna play I'm gonna play Run Rudolph Run again, the new studio track. So we're very glad to feature that today as well. But where should people go online? What's the best place to go to keep up with everything that you're doing right now?

Speaker 3: It's Facebook. I am on Instagram as well, got to get a little better about that. But on Facebook you can find me on gypsy and there's there's actually two profiles out there. I just can't get that other one off. It's been hacked. So just look for the current one you'll find out of Portland. Yeah, and then Studio fifty one is just simply at Studio fifty one, look for the big ufo, yeah logo with the with the half naked lady playing a guitar.

Speaker 1: Well, you know what, for those watching online, put the camera on me. There you go, there's a for for those of you watching, there's the word show.

Speaker 2: There's the sticker. So very nice, very nice. Well, thank you so much, Jennifer. This has been this has been amazing.

Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 4: I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2: Absolutely.

Speaker 1: We'll do it again in the future, especially where you've got more studio tracks coming up, so.

Speaker 3: That'd be awesome.

Speaker 2: Thank you, absolutely, absolutely, And if you are listening live on Saturday morning, stick around the Healer.

Speaker 1: Mike McDowell is coming up. I'm gonna have to go let him in when he's uh when he arrives. He's keeping me posted and it's a little chilly out there this morning.

Speaker 2: After all.

Speaker 1: We will close out the segment with once again, this is the studio track, Run Rudolph Run.

Speaker 2: This is Neon Gipsy's run.

Speaker 5: Don Rude all Santa? Do they get to town Santa Maga hor Town?

Speaker 6: They can take the freeway?

Speaker 9: Run Don Rudolf be a a memcal right, Okay, yeah, saying Santa don't a child?

Speaker 5: Why have you been a leg ball?

Speaker 10: No for Christmas?

Speaker 17: Is a rocking ball?

Speaker 5: Electric jar.

Speaker 10: Go away?

Speaker 5: When boodof w isn' I gotta shoot the store? Run Don rudof Santa? Do I get to child Santah?