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Speaker 1: It sounds so I didn't even want to talk over the end of it. It sounds so good. Twenty five we have here on Matt Connorton Unleashed. We've got October Suns here with us, live in studio, and it's wonderful to have them here. But it's also a little bit it's almost surreal because it's been so long since I've seen you guys, two of you I went to high school with, So that's uh, that's crazy. But uh, welcome guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having us for havings.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play live for us, so I'm gonna kind of adjust a sound a little bit as we go. But uh, Dave Wally, of course you've been on the show before.
Speaker 3: I have you helped to promote Satellite Union when we are.
Speaker 1: And uh, Satellite Union is playing tonight but also October son So Satellite Union is opening for October Suns tonight at Panucci's and Conquered is that correct?
Speaker 4: They joined us for the Big SHINDI.
Speaker 1: That is very cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's all right from Chicago, Yes, yes, awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh Chris, I can't hear you, but I think I know why and uh, uh address that here.
Speaker 5: So you guys all went to high school together? What was Christine the.
Speaker 6: Same as he was?
Speaker 5: Or is there something unique him in high school? Because I'm still taking advantage of you being here.
Speaker 3: You know, I will say, I will say this, Matt probably aged better than any of.
Speaker 1: Us, uh genetics. My dad has really good skin and clean living, no drugs, no alcohol, massive amounts of caffeine.
Speaker 5: But other than that, it's kind of cute if you get an alcoholic drink into him, because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 1: Very I get, I get, I get very silly, Chris. I still can't hear you, and I don't. I don't know why. Oh I think I know why.
Speaker 2: We can hear you.
Speaker 7: I saw that.
Speaker 1: There we go, There we go. Do you guys wanna want to play something? And then we'll we'll kind of talk a little bit and catch up and talk about tonight and uh talk about.
Speaker 4: Everything caffeinated were taking put me in.
Speaker 2: All right? Alright?
Speaker 1: Yeah, October suns live in studio, cool.
Speaker 7: Cool, comfortable, last sigurant.
Speaker 8: Books, Fiersie, help me forget all about have need hepsy indeed, lack of sleeps over read it feeling tona, Oh U dist well, I think myself are destiny, so all.
Speaker 6: About you.
Speaker 9: Morning in the morning, cursed in the light, eding the wedding because I missed you last night. It's all about captain ned thoxy d.
Speaker 10: Like a sneaks over burried in a tone of poe artistic, while I treat myself so distin.
Speaker 9: It's all about you, it's all about you, all about you.
Speaker 6: I've seen the sun set and Brian out of the.
Speaker 4: Corner of my high.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, I've seen something right.
Speaker 4: Woll of the coner of my Hi.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: You need thus indeed like a speaking or reading being in sort of poe.
Speaker 4: Artistic, while I treat.
Speaker 9: Myself say thisting, all about you, we son about you,
Speaker 9: son about.
Speaker 11: You, thump and riding wow u the conern high yeah yeah yeah yeah, I've seen the thumb and right.
Speaker 4: Wow of the coner of man Hi.
Speaker 12: Yeah yeah yeah, high yeah yeah yeah high yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: High yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, those harmonies yeha sound amazing. October Suns is there with us live in studio. Oh yeah, sound great, great, absolutely absolutely if you are just joining us Matt Conor to Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, and tonight it's October Suns and Satellite Union at Panuccies.
Speaker 6: Correct. Correct? What time does that start? Eight o'clock?
Speaker 1: Yeah, eight o'clock. Yeah, okay, very good, very good. So, uh so we have who was in the band originally because it wasn't it was was it all?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 1: It was all four of you originally.
Speaker 2: So Jason christ and I started and we were we always knew Day was going to be there, but he was off doing some acting stuff. Yeah, we just played as a trio until he got back. Yeah.
Speaker 13: And what's crazy We were just talking about this yesterday's I don't think we've played a show the four of Us since like two well not not a full real October Sun show the four of Us, it's two thousand and three.
Speaker 4: Had some shows, you know, Dave's jump jumped up with us, and we've had some other shows. Kurt wasn't there, you know, So this is the first time I think this is the four of us in a long time.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Wow, It is pretty wild that we can just like get together and it's like it's still still kind of there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so no, you gotta sound great, like I said, I mean, you know, the harmonies are tight, and uh so have you had a chance, like have the four of you rehearsed for tonight.
Speaker 4: Or Thursday night?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like a lot or or or does it all just kind of come back.
Speaker 4: We've all been kind of working on stuff. You know.
Speaker 13: So the show we're back in June is when when we kind of booked this and we're all right, we're doing this, so everyone kind of on their own, what's kind of brushing up on stuff, and then Jason and I got together a few times and then Jason, me, Jason, Kurt and then Dave kind of we were all ready kind of one with the four of us got together, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, back in the day we played these songs. We played them a lot. Yeah. I think we're well and great.
Speaker 4: They're in our DNA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like riding a bike. It's uh a little bit, yeah, because you yeah, I remember, like you guys.
Speaker 2: Played a lot of shows back again back and then we were so busy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so when was so when was the last time you guys played a show together prior to the one You're like what was the most recent show that you guys did together.
Speaker 4: Well, we did.
Speaker 13: We did something in twenty fifteen, you did it was like kind of a full Octobers and show, but Kurt wasn't around for that one, or I think you jumped up for a few songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that late.
Speaker 13: So it was the four of us really, but yeah, so and then we did when in twenty seventeen too, I think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did a couple of market days, a couple of market days.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other thing I would like to note too, which is awesome about this show is that after Dave left, we were doing probably more covers than original songs, and now that Dave is here, we're doing probably mostly almost all originals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's cool.
Speaker 13: We're playing pretty much everything we ever recorded, and yeah, it's gonna be most mostly all originals and any covers that we do play and stuff we just really want to play, or that anyone begs us to play.
Speaker 1: Right right? That track that we played twenty five when was that done originally?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Okay, yep, Paint the Town October is our second CD.
Speaker 4: There, and yeah, so is that one?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: That was two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Two thousand.
Speaker 1: Now, what what is everybody doing away from October Sun? So obviously, Dave, you have Satellite Union, which which I love. I don't know if you even heard it because you guys were setting up. But uh, at the end of the last segment, I put on like a War. I still love that song, and it's and it's mud and it's only increased in relevance, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: We've got another one we're playing tonight and putting on our next album, like, oh, okay, same theme, a little bit more come on people.
Speaker 1: Right right? Oh, very cool, very cool. So so Satellite Union, you're still doing a lot with that, right And then do you have anything else going musically in Chicago or no?
Speaker 4: Just kind of writing and performing with them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Chris, you do a lot of solo stuff, right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, primarily just solo stuff now. So I'm just you know, out playing restaurants and bars and all the millions of breweries that we have. Yeah, great and uh but yeah, and I feel like it's changed a little bit in terms of, like, you know, I could play a ton of originals at that at those kind of kind of gigs still and get away with it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so it's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you play any of the October Sun's songs?
Speaker 4: It's funny, not really, not really.
Speaker 13: And and then as we've been kind of getting back into it, I'm like I've kind of mixing them back in a little bit and kind of rediscovering them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: But yeah, it's kind of like a these songs were kind of like another era just kind of like put it down.
Speaker 4: And moved on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a couple that I think we always regularly play.
Speaker 2: Actually find ironic the song twenty five because you're talking about well, now.
Speaker 4: We're not right, it's a quarter life crisis. I wish we were still in a quarter life crisis.
Speaker 2: Songs that you wrote, you know, yeah, twenty five years ago, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, ten lifetimes ago.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now what about you, Kurt?
Speaker 2: What what do you have music? Like? A couple of couple of different bands.
Speaker 1: Of course you do. You're a drummer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: This is a consistent theme on the show. Every drummer we talked to is in like ten different bands.
Speaker 2: I'm getting, well, you're you're being humble.
Speaker 1: You're in You're in ten bands, aren't you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, No, It's like it's like two different ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, except for the secret ones.
Speaker 2: You're not you're a drummer, I will take I will take random, you know, like drummer. Hey, are you busy this night or whatever?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why what what are the bands that you're playing?
Speaker 2: One of them is buzz Blocks have been playing with oh yeah, yeah, with Joe Perrow. Yeah, I've been been. You know, we've filled each other since we're like sixteen, and so it's off and on and then.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: The other one is five piece cover band called Neilon Rodeo, So we do a lot of rock and country covers and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, Joe's been on the show a couple of times with his band, uh stand Upon You Santa Paudio. Yeah, Jenny and I went to see them and they were they were incredible.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I tell people, you know, when I uh, when I knew Joe when we were teenagers, he had gray hair.
Speaker 14: Like.
Speaker 2: In his twenties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was no, he had gray hair when we were in high school. Dude, even earlier it was wild.
Speaker 2: I remember it was black when I when it was sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but he was yeah, he's he's uh so fuzzbox. Tom Serabia wasn't fuzzy, he was he was.
Speaker 2: In for a bit and uh, and so he's actually been playing a little bit with his son doing a band.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't realize that. Oh that's cool, Oh very cool. Yeah yeah, and uh, Jason, what have you been doing?
Speaker 15: I turned to the dark side about five years ago, became mostly a bass player.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, well well from another dark side.
Speaker 15: Went from bass to being a frontman guitar player, from being a guitar player to being.
Speaker 4: A bass player.
Speaker 15: But I'm mostly working in a band called Miles to Memphis and and they'll actually be joining us tonight as well at Panucci Cool short set.
Speaker 1: That's a cool namehis so exposure.
Speaker 15: It's similar to like Neon Roadude, a lot of a lot of modern country and just good classic rock.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh very cool, very cool. Do you guys want to play another song I love?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have October Sons here with us live in studio. They're playing tonight at Panucci's and Conquered and of course uh with Satellite Union and Miles to Memphis and uh whatever the secret band is that Kurtz him that he's not telling us about Probably.
Speaker 2: I'm an October sun tonight. We cool, we cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whenever you guys are ready, we can sleep, all right. This was nobody can sleep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it sounds so weird.
Speaker 16: Piercing you can see puny under needs your skin.
Speaker 6: It's our bands.
Speaker 16: Of pasting with your founder your skin.
Speaker 6: And nobody can sleep. And I'm just reading out loud.
Speaker 4: I won't be reading about you long. Nobody can read on.
Speaker 12: Then I a stay close, and those getting one foot on the flow.
Speaker 6: M h we tie down up to the students still tower guy.
Speaker 16: B this step be have the sea and the two toes from Top's mountains sound.
Speaker 6: Beading, and nobody can sleep, and I'm just reading out loud.
Speaker 12: I won't be read about you along.
Speaker 6: And nobody can't dream or let our rise stay close.
Speaker 4: And I was keeping one foot on that flow.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 12: Nobody can't sleep, and I'm just reading out loud.
Speaker 4: And I want me read about you long.
Speaker 12: And nobody can't dream and won't let our eyes stay close. And I was keeping one foot out of her plow.
Speaker 12: Nobody can sleep, and I'm just reading out loud. I want me reading for you long, nobody can't dream, won't let our eye stay cloth. And I was keeping one foot out of her cloud.
Speaker 6: In it's house. I see you seen come down in a tall po stop in till by sol staying to fin.
Speaker 4: Away in the little the stone inside down own the street.
Speaker 6: You see how call on.
Speaker 17: Me install han see try some dogs master seven man.
Speaker 1: M hmm, amazing, amazing. October Sun's here with us alive in studio on this Saturday morning. I can't get over those harmonies? Is that the hardest thing to work out when you're rehearsing? Or does it? Does even that just kind of come?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 2: Muscle find rolls with it? So we're kind of go where we all sit?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Chris, I think Chris and Dave naturally sing harmony together, you know, very instinctively.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I need to like write apart and figure it out and played on the guitar and like memorize it because I don't have the air force really.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kurt tells me what the things?
Speaker 4: I think. Kurt usually tells me what the thing?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Do you guys have any plans to record anything new? I mean, obviously you know you're not all together geographically on a consistent basis. But we live in an era where you can, you know, it's easier than ever to kind of you know, send files back and forth.
Speaker 2: And I've actually been doing some home recording and Jason does some home recordings. Really we've been passing some stuff around. But yeah, everybody's just gonna line up the schedules.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, it's kind of no excuse. Probably not like it would.
Speaker 2: Be fun to do it. I mean it really doesn't. You know, the technology just look a thousand times different than it was when we did those things. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean even then, you know, the technology was different. But the guy that recorded as Markle of Role was using a two inch tape, which is kind of old school, which is was kind of fun. But at the same time, like we can easily pass files around it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's easier than ever. Not to put you on the spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, no, something we've been talking about for a long time. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 13: We were joking saying that, like we fell between like the period between like really difficult technology and really easy technology. Right, So tell everybody tonight, like pull out your phones and take some video, because there's no video that exists.
Speaker 4: We predate YouTube.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yeah, thats how people promote it and we almost know actually predate most social media.
Speaker 4: We had a Facebook page.
Speaker 1: Well, actually, if you had a MySpace page, you still do?
Speaker 2: You know that, right?
Speaker 1: Like you can't get MySpace page is like roaches. You can't. You can't kill it, like like people try to. I've even tried. Like if you go on MySpace and find like an old page of yours, there's no way to deactivate it. There literally is not. It will exist forever. Yeah, or like if you have anything embarrassing on MySpace from back in the day, it's still there. So but yeah, no, it'd be great here some new some new stuff from you guys. Is anyone recording the show tonight, like recording the audio of it or anything.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to work out a way to do it.
Speaker 15: I've get the technology, but I'm also bringing a lot of other equipment on the sound guy and the bass tech, the guitar.
Speaker 4: So the last thing I'm gonna be doing just plug in a computer.
Speaker 2: Right right, but as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Do you guys have anything You probably haven't written anything new, right because you haven't really been together.
Speaker 2: They they've sent me there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's one song that kind of fell out of my head. Has a lot to do with New Hampshire and I was a lot with these guys. So I will one day record it and hopefully with these guys.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, very cool, Yeah, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 2: Chris is always good, always good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a matter of focusing on it and you know.
Speaker 6: Right right right.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you could ever like probably just always. You never get rid of it. It doesn't go away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a good idea, you'll you'll remember it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it comes and goes Sometimes it feels like it goes away. Where are you today, I've got ten minutes?
Speaker 1: Well where does the name come from? By the way, October Suns. I think I remember, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's a good question. So I don't know.
Speaker 13: Like when the band was first coming together, I just you know, New Hampshire Fall, it was like, you know, most awesome time of year, and just wanted that kind of imagery in my That's why I wanted that.
Speaker 4: So I just had a first settle on October. Yeah, we need something with October in it. And then we couldn't come up with anything.
Speaker 13: And then it was actually my brother Chuck, my older brother, who I was like, man, we can't think of a name where we got all these names, you know, yeah, And one day he he called me.
Speaker 4: I was like, I got it. October Suns. It's like, no way. And I told these guys and we're like, yeah, that's that's the best of all the crop that we have.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we do have to you know, because we r Yeah, and then that thing you do, it's not the right right.
Speaker 4: Literally, everyone's like, well, you guys are all born in October. That's awesome. It's like, actually none of us are, none of us.
Speaker 1: We love Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I think that.
Speaker 1: I so I was wrong because I was thinking you were all born in October.
Speaker 4: Just tell everyone, that would be a good thing.
Speaker 1: You just said, just tell people, yeah, we're all born. It's like faith that we all met and formed a band.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, how long of a set are you play tonight?
Speaker 2: Are you are you doing like we have two sets?
Speaker 4: Probably two sets probably close to you know, a couple of hours, okay, you know, okay, and literally are playing every original we have and then you know, yeah, just select covers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and then how long is Satellite Union plan?
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna play by.
Speaker 4: Ear now we're starting the show. We might come back. Who knows?
Speaker 1: Is it the full band?
Speaker 4: Ah? Yeah, they're all coming out.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. That's awesome that that they were able to work that out and do that.
Speaker 4: I know, I think they like me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like, yeah, yeah, have they been to New Like, have you like a Satellite Union played New Hampshire?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 4: Never, the drummers from New Jersey, so he's the other East Coaster. And then oh, okay they're Midwesterners.
Speaker 1: So yeah, are you guys playing a lot Satellite Union?
Speaker 4: We've always been once a month. You know.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like, we don't want to overstay, are welcome. We want our crowds to come out, and now that our crowds are basically over fifty, it's hard to get them out. But yeah, so we do once a month, and we're really fine with that. We're going to focus on a new album and just keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Why now Panucci's I think Dave you had said in a Facebook post something about Panucci's a special toy. It sounds like it is.
Speaker 3: Because we when we were cutting our teeth and trying to figure out what our sound was, we were doing open mics down there every now and then, and then I think our first shows were down there, and my very last show was August.
Speaker 1: Okay, your last show before moving. Okay.
Speaker 3: So she lived across the street and I lived across the street, for got a lot of nights.
Speaker 1: So it really all started there for you, for you, for you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Actually my first ever playing gig ever as the drummer was thumbs thumbs.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of our it's our cavern club. Yeah, yeah, literally a great way.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we used to play the open mic eve before Dave came on board. We were playing the open mic there every Sunday.
Speaker 4: The Steve Nail, the famous Steve Naylor open mic. So yeah, we go way back.
Speaker 1: Who was Steve Naylor?
Speaker 15: I don't I don't recognize that he he hosted the open mic, played around for ye.
Speaker 4: Cool different bass player. He moved over to the Barley House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is is he still around Steve?
Speaker 6: Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I actually ran into him.
Speaker 15: He played on the market aage stage not this past summer, but before so, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was nice to catch up with him.
Speaker 4: Been a long time. He always wore good hats.
Speaker 2: I learned all my Beatles trivia.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I never even met this guy. We'll have to get him on. He sounds interesting, Steve Naylor, Do you guys wanna? Do you want to play one more before we?
Speaker 4: Uh we know anything else?
Speaker 2: I think we know?
Speaker 4: Do of yours? What should we do?
Speaker 10: Bro?
Speaker 2: I kind of put you on the spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's attention. When I do attention.
Speaker 1: If he was a jooning us, we have October Suns live in studio on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4: Capos. All right, that's what's called atention.
Speaker 14: Ready, It's when the day he starts rending me speechless, that's when that turned to you.
Speaker 6: And the side of the.
Speaker 17: Him ram book, you will road and the bill were touched the page. And it's not the way your words flow from there and grabs or them pageches to the pageches the pictures that sets you.
Speaker 6: It's the way you you hard mind down the hill away.
Speaker 4: You do things so well.
Speaker 14: And with each pay Jim turn unto the calm.
Speaker 6: Up, lifting words.
Speaker 14: Carping made through.
Speaker 18: And with each cul close novo and there's enother on the shelf. And it's not the way the stories that flow.
Speaker 6: Into the.
Speaker 14: Wo hown next o kim.
Speaker 6: Bass them down.
Speaker 16: It's no way you you hold myan t.
Speaker 6: You you do the things so well.
Speaker 16: It's no way you you hold myan tawn with.
Speaker 6: You you do think so well.
Speaker 14: And when this talk again, it pushes me into corners and pushes me around.
Speaker 4: Oh that's when answer.
Speaker 14: To allest things you tell me.
Speaker 6: About ride and room. Not way that I watch you from far. Oh, it's the way that the way that I still do.
Speaker 16: It's the way you hard by say si, way you you do things so well. It's the way you you hold by its side now way you you do things so well so well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, h m hmm.
Speaker 2: I'm always terrified of that rip at the end.
Speaker 4: I was in a base player.
Speaker 15: These days, my fingers don't have to work that fast right rightly. And I'm sitting here, you know, a fifty one year old guy trying to learn stuff that a really ambitious twenty six year old guitar player recorded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's funny.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: If you are just doing us. We have October suns here with us live and studio. These guys are playing tonight at Panucci's and Conquered with a satellite Union and miles to Memphis, and uh, that's you probably expecting a lot of people, right, it's home, kind of a hometown homecoming. Should be a lot.
Speaker 4: Of chatter, a lot of likes out there, so hopefully.
Speaker 1: It should be a good night. I would think you yeah, yeah, very good. Yeah, you guys sound you guys sound incredible.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't sound like a band that doesn't spend a lot of time together. You know, you sound like a band that's you know, tight, and but you know, like like you were saying, it's kind of a muscle memory thing with these songs, right.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: And it's rare that we have four singers harmonize it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true too. Yeah, and that that.
Speaker 5: Really adds such as I think that's so cool to listen to your harmonies.
Speaker 15: That's kind of what separated us from a lot of the other bands at the time. Well, actually the fact that we had four part harmonies. Three of us were songwriters, but also we weren't a jam band, and almost all the other bands were jam bands at the time.
Speaker 2: We were songwriters.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, conquered at that time, jam bands everywhere, and some really good ones friends with those cats, yes, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13: We were one of the only real rock bands, I think, And I think that's what might make tonight kind of unique, I think, because yeah, I think we're still only one of the only ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah, and and and a legit just rock band, not a metal band, not a hard rock band, but just here's rock and roll?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it because of that just being that?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: If any of you ever found it hard to describe your music to people, because it's almost like if you're if you're something more specialized, so to speak, instead of just a straight aed rock and roll band, it's it's kind of that creates a challenge trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always have a hard time with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you play?
Speaker 2: Rock?
Speaker 4: Yeah, alternative rock somebody of the early nineties all rock.
Speaker 2: Somebody told me once that reminded of like Totally White's Rocket or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we get, we get, what do we get? We get?
Speaker 1: You get r E M I bet right, and we get.
Speaker 15: But we're definitely all influenced by Yeah, yeah, say what's the band?
Speaker 4: Why can I think of it? I saw them with toad yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: We used to hear that of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Which when I hear Jim Blossoms, I don't get I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, I love I get the comparison. But I think what you guys do is more sophisticated than Jim Blossoms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, thank you.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have the harmonies, certainly.
Speaker 7: Know your vocals definitely make you unique.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful to hear.
Speaker 7: Where can people find you guys online?
Speaker 15: Well, we do have a Facebook I've been looking. Yeah, the Facebook page. We had a website years ago. But the Facebook page has links to actually Chris's website. Yeah, you can stream or download all of our recorded materials, three albums pages.
Speaker 4: It's just October SETNS.
Speaker 1: Looking that, but it's all on it's on your website.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So my website is just Chris Peters music dot com. And then there's an October SUNS page on there. All of our stuff up on there, and we do you know, it's another thing with dragging feet on.
Speaker 4: It's just getting it up on like the streaming platforms and whatnot. Yeah, but yeah, HiT's out there.
Speaker 1: Oh so you've got yeah, you've got Session. I'm looking at the website now. So you've got Sessions which has six tracks, and Face to the Town October which has eleven.
Speaker 7: You've got Chris Peters.
Speaker 1: Dot Chris Peters music dot com.
Speaker 2: The last CD has got you know, some greatest hits.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, you guys have more recorded studio tracks than I realized. That's great. There's a lot here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some live stuff too on the we have.
Speaker 13: We put like a compilation thing out in two thousand and nine, a big show at the Capital Center actually, and so we put out something then with.
Speaker 4: A couple of new songs on it.
Speaker 13: Actually we had Alison and Hard Feelings, Yeah, feeling right and uh yeah, and then we had a couple of live tracks. So we used to do stuff up at the Mojo Music Studio back in the day. So we had some live stuff from up there, and I think another live.
Speaker 2: Radio thing, live stuff from j j YY. That's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So there's a Christmas song picking around somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh is there Elvis?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, we didn't bring that one today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll put you on the spot when we when we wrap up the segment in a couple of minutes, I'll play one of these What should I play from the I'll play a song from the website, one of the October Sun songs? What should I play else?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Anybody anybody else?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody else? Do you want to play that one?
Speaker 1: I see one? Anybody else live at Mojo Music that one? Play that one? Yeah, okay, we'll play that when we when we wrap up the when we wrap up the show, use band Zoogle. Yeah, I recognize the template. I love band Zoogle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that came up in the first hour or two with when we had played data on because that's what he uses. Yeah, and he was singing their praises. But yeah, well we'll play that in a moment when we wrap up. So yeah, So go to Chris Peters music dot com. You can find all the October Sun's music there. What about people looking for Satellite Union.
Speaker 4: Dave Satellite Union music dot com.
Speaker 1: That's easy, yeah, yeah, and miles to Memphis. Where do people find that?
Speaker 15: We We got a Facebook page which tells where we're playing.
Speaker 4: We haven't done any recording yet.
Speaker 15: Okay, I know that we are coming up the night before Thanksgiving, I believe at Keys Piano Bar and Grill okay down the street, and then again the night after Christmas, the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: Those are good places to catch us.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's school. You're playing a Keys.
Speaker 2: That's a nice it's a fun room, yeah, a fun room.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and uh, Kurt Fuzzbox, is that.
Speaker 2: Your remaining I think Joe has a Facebook page for that, yeah, post a lot from his page. And then Neil Rodeo has a page.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, I'll have to check that out on Rodeo. Very cool, very cool. And Panucci's tonight. When does I start at a pm?
Speaker 4: Eight pm, a pm?
Speaker 1: And who's Who's satellite? Union on Union on first or yep?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I've told this a five dollars cover, okay, yeah, but if if you do want to come, we could, yeah, we can hook you.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, bu five bucks is cheap, he says.
Speaker 4: I think it was five bucks one years ago.
Speaker 2: I was gonna.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's no inflation there.
Speaker 1: Well, guys, thank you so much. It's it's wonderful to see all four of you and to have you know, the original line up here and uh you know, and I went to high school with two of you, so that's surreal.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks for having us awesome, super fun.
Speaker 1: Well wait, Jenny, I'm sorry I muted your mic when you got up a minute ago. Go ahead, he mutes.
Speaker 4: I do that, I do it.
Speaker 1: I do it all the time, all the time.
Speaker 7: And today happens to be your birthday.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I did that.
Speaker 5: Yes, I know you thought you were going to get through and I'll be saying it, but yeah, I much trouble.
Speaker 1: It is my birthday. Well I was, I was saying early because it did come up at the at the top of the show and I was saying, how you know, when you're a kid, birthdays are fun, but if you're a resident of New Hampshire and it's your birthday, it's like, oh, it's time to register and inspect the car. Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 6: That's money.
Speaker 1: Well, a great birthday.
Speaker 2: The only October sun is we're from the.
Speaker 1: True I'm the only legitimate October Son in the room apparently.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just what made it extra?
Speaker 7: Have you guys in today? When we booked you guys? Actually, Matt was really happy to have you guys in.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. The last time I actually booked you guys for something was that show at Strawberries the Pearl Jam release party, which which would have been nineteen ninety something. I don't even want to think about it long.
Speaker 4: It would have been ninety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it must have been.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we'll end with this.
Speaker 1: This is from anybody else, and this is from the uh Live UH Mojo Music Studio.
Speaker 4: Do they still do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the studio is still there.
Speaker 4: It's funny. We just got an email. They do they do Okay, they still do the same thing. The studio is still there. And Joe, who had started the studio is Joe and his son Anthony.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he still has a radio show and sent me a message day saying, hey, you guys want to come up with me on the show again.
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it's still happening.
Speaker 1: That's good. No, I'm glad they're still doing that. Yeah, that's excellent, excellent. All right, So we will wrap up the segment with this. If you're listening live on Saturday, we have Rebecca Turmel coming up next in the third hour. But thanks again guys, thank you, thank you,
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