Matt Connarton Unleashed: Questing Beast

1:26 Speaker 1: Quoting mid Nights my eliptical.

1:30 Speaker 2: So you have no idea the teps.

1:33 Speaker 3: To which we'll go and what we'll face.

1:37 Speaker 4: A guden scored a people of us, but a gatherin

1:42 Speaker 4: bild You go spend life notes just seeing that trees come,

1:48 Speaker 4: lad said to herself to save a lad well the

1:53 Speaker 4: sash final, so see your home in John, recluding the

2:07 Speaker 4: when the read.

2:12 Speaker 1: How so you marry your dad?

2:26 Speaker 4: You talk to talk corruption too hot and hot the

2:32 Speaker 4: wider finally correct.

2:34 Speaker 1: At school.

2:41 Speaker 4: Ray now father slace.

2:47 Speaker 3: Where it's glass carries out to chase.

3:06 Speaker 4: How Jo.

3:10 Speaker 5: You're going to.

3:14 Speaker 1: John h That is the Comets Tale. The band is

4:05 Speaker 1: Questing Beast and we have Jane and Shane with us

4:08 Speaker 1: from Questing Beast. By the way, so I love that track.

4:12 Speaker 1: The Comet's Tail definitely gets the blood pumping. And as

4:16 Speaker 1: I like to say, if that didn't get your blood

4:19 Speaker 1: pumping on a Saturday morning, check your pulsey, you might

4:21 Speaker 1: be dead. But good stuff, good stuff.

4:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a fun, fun intro song.

4:28 Speaker 5: Gets our blood pumping pretty much every time we play.

4:30 Speaker 1: Yeah do you play that to open the show?

4:32 Speaker 3: Or yeah? Generally speak you do?

4:33 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, very good. Now, when we had you

4:36 Speaker 1: on the last time, so how long ago it becomes

4:39 Speaker 1: a blur to me.

4:40 Speaker 3: Yeah it was.

4:40 Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't a year ago, right, or.

4:42 Speaker 3: No, it would have been right before the Halloween show, right,

4:46 Speaker 3: so October ish?

4:48 Speaker 1: Not that long. Yeah, yeah, not crazy.

4:50 Speaker 3: Long ago, but long enough that it feels relatively significant.

4:53 Speaker 5: Yeah.

4:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's been going on since the last time

4:56 Speaker 1: we had John? I know, I know you've got a

4:58 Speaker 1: big show coming up tomorrow for those listening live of

5:03 Speaker 1: course at Terminus Underground.

5:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely sure. So yeah, yeah, so we're getting back

5:08 Speaker 3: into playing, playing out again. You know, last time we

5:12 Speaker 3: were here, we're talking about how we kind of went

5:14 Speaker 3: into hibernation for the winter. We totally did that. It

5:17 Speaker 3: was great and we're out better than ever, ready to

5:22 Speaker 3: start playing more gigs again.

5:23 Speaker 1: Excellent And what what what so what were you doing

5:27 Speaker 1: during that hibernation period? I mean, were you did you

5:30 Speaker 1: take a break from the band, or were you writing

5:31 Speaker 1: and recording or what was what was going on?

5:33 Speaker 3: We're doing a lot of writing and also we're planning

5:37 Speaker 3: for our upcoming first ever tour that one April twenty fifth.

5:44 Speaker 3: We're basically going on a quick week long run down

5:47 Speaker 3: to Baltimore and back up.

5:50 Speaker 1: Congratulations on that.

5:51 Speaker 5: That's awesome, thanks, Yeah, very cool, exciting.

5:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been great.

5:56 Speaker 5: Uh.

5:56 Speaker 3: Our buddy who's playing bass for us now at dan

5:59 Speaker 3: se Lance. He helped us book all out of these

6:03 Speaker 3: gigs and he's also stepping into the live role of

6:06 Speaker 3: playing bass for us, which is awesome and because those

6:09 Speaker 3: are some pretty big shoes to fill, you know, the

6:12 Speaker 3: guy that we had record for us, Chase Brian's absolute monster.

6:15 Speaker 3: So for Dan to come in and be able to

6:17 Speaker 3: pick it up has been really great.

6:19 Speaker 1: Yeah. Is uh the track that we just heard which

6:24 Speaker 1: is from what's the name of the album again, because

6:26 Speaker 1: you guys have a whole u birth that's right, That's right?

6:31 Speaker 1: Is that so that's what the previous Spass player right

6:34 Speaker 1: or or is it?

6:34 Speaker 3: Yes?

6:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, all the recordings were done with Chase Bryant.

6:40 Speaker 1: Okay, yea Bryant okay, and then he so he so

6:44 Speaker 1: he recorded with you, but was not in a position

6:46 Speaker 1: to like, was he ever was he ever officially in

6:49 Speaker 1: the band?

6:49 Speaker 3: Or was he just is basically a hired gun? Yeah,

6:52 Speaker 3: I mean he lives, he lives in la He plays

6:55 Speaker 3: in a war war Bringer I've.

6:58 Speaker 5: Heard of Warring Yeah, yeah, he's a he's a busy guy.

7:02 Speaker 5: He's not just in that he's playing with a few

7:06 Speaker 5: other bands. I don't know. I we follow him on

7:09 Speaker 5: social media, like he's on tour with Warbringer right now.

7:12 Speaker 3: I think everybody's got like eight other projects out there. Yeah,

7:17 Speaker 3: my favorite of which being Father Daddy Blues Band.

7:21 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding?

7:22 Speaker 3: Yeah?

7:22 Speaker 5: Cool?

7:23 Speaker 1: Cool? How did you How did you come to work

7:25 Speaker 1: with him him being as busy as he is. How

7:28 Speaker 1: did that come about?

7:29 Speaker 3: We were essentially just kind of racking our brains, like

7:32 Speaker 3: trying to find somebody local, and we got sick of

7:35 Speaker 3: doing it, and we're like, I bet we could find

7:37 Speaker 3: somebody else for money. And I was like, this guy

7:40 Speaker 3: is a perfect example of what I want the bass

7:42 Speaker 3: playing to sound like. And so I just hit him

7:44 Speaker 3: up on Instagram and we started talking. Yeah, and he

7:47 Speaker 3: had me send him the demos and he was a

7:49 Speaker 3: fan of the demos, and uh yeah, we were able

7:51 Speaker 3: to work something out.

7:53 Speaker 1: When when you first contacted him, was I kind of like, uh, well,

7:56 Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't know if he's

7:58 Speaker 1: if he's gonna have time or being tested, but I'm

8:00 Speaker 1: going to give it a shot and then it works.

8:03 Speaker 3: Out or oh yeah, absolutely total shot in the dark.

8:05 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean I don't expect anything of to

8:08 Speaker 3: come from anything, especially like you know, just messaging people

8:11 Speaker 3: on Instagram, you know what I mean. It's like, yeah,

8:14 Speaker 3: you just throwing stuff out into the ether and hoping

8:17 Speaker 3: you get something back.

8:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. Yeah.

8:19 Speaker 3: And so for it to come back around, it's nice.

8:21 Speaker 3: You know, every once in a while it does.

8:23 Speaker 1: You never know. It's it's always worth a try because

8:25 Speaker 1: you never know. And it worked out phenomenally well.

8:27 Speaker 3: So yeah, basic playing came out awesome. He reported his

8:31 Speaker 3: parts in like two days, no kidding, Oh yeah, incredible.

8:34 Speaker 1: So awesome.

8:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, kids, you never know.

8:36 Speaker 1: You throw it out there, you don't know what's going

8:38 Speaker 1: to happen. Yeah, exactly, absolutely, So, So what was that

8:43 Speaker 1: a matter of just kind of sending the tracks back

8:46 Speaker 1: and forth.

8:46 Speaker 3: And essentially yeah, I mean, dudes were pro so, I

8:49 Speaker 3: mean he pretty much had everything under his fingers by

8:51 Speaker 3: the time he came out here, which is convenient because

8:54 Speaker 3: we only had like, you know, eighteen hours between when

8:57 Speaker 3: he came out here and played with us for the

8:58 Speaker 3: first time and when he needed to get the studio.

9:00 Speaker 5: Okay, wow, yeah it was it was a good time.

9:03 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's fantastic. That's fantastic. So the so

9:08 Speaker 1: the new what's his name again, the new new bass.

9:11 Speaker 3: Player or the current bass player, Dan Selan. He plays

9:14 Speaker 3: in Ice Giant, he plays in a Nihilist Monday, he

9:17 Speaker 3: plays in Perennial Quest. Yeah, he plays in other bands too.

9:22 Speaker 3: There's a bunch of them.

9:23 Speaker 1: I've heard of Ice Giant.

9:25 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:27 Speaker 1: So he's so well, so he's also a busy guy.

9:29 Speaker 1: But yeah, but geographically he's available.

9:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

9:33 Speaker 5: And the nice thing is he seems to be I

9:37 Speaker 5: don't know if this is just like a point of pride,

9:40 Speaker 5: but he seems to be really enjoying conquering the music

9:44 Speaker 5: and learning the parts, you know what I mean. He's

9:46 Speaker 5: like posting himself working through some of it on his

9:50 Speaker 5: Instagram story and stuff like that, And it made me

9:53 Speaker 5: feel pretty pretty awesome. Yeah, just because you know, we

9:58 Speaker 5: play the music all the time. For somebody else to

9:59 Speaker 5: try it out and get fulfillment out of trying to

10:02 Speaker 5: learn it made me like I was like, yeah.

10:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that yeah, I mean, that's that's tremendous validation, right,

10:08 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Obviously, you get the validation if

10:11 Speaker 1: you play it for other people, if you play it

10:12 Speaker 1: live and people react positively to it, you know, that's

10:15 Speaker 1: that's fantastic, right. But to also get that validation of

10:19 Speaker 1: somebody wants to learn the songs and really commits, you know,

10:23 Speaker 1: commits to learning them. I mean, that's that's fantastic. That's

10:26 Speaker 1: that's great. How long has he been in the band?

10:30 Speaker 3: Now?

10:31 Speaker 1: The band?

10:31 Speaker 3: He just played his first gig with us on Saturday,

10:34 Speaker 3: So I think we've done We've done like three practices

10:37 Speaker 3: with him or something.

10:37 Speaker 1: Oh, so he's very new.

10:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's a pretty new development as far as

10:43 Speaker 3: our live show goes and everything.

10:45 Speaker 1: Yeah.

10:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, but we were talking to him for a while

10:47 Speaker 3: because of the whole tour situation and everything, but so

10:50 Speaker 3: like it was going to happen eventually. But yeah, I

10:54 Speaker 3: don't know, he's he's really been doing a great job,

10:56 Speaker 3: I think.

10:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Now for the tour, are you is

11:00 Speaker 1: there another band or other bands that you've teamed up

11:03 Speaker 1: with for the tour or you know, because there's different

11:05 Speaker 1: ways to approach it, right you know.

11:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, so our main tour mates are a band called

11:10 Speaker 3: Moon Tomb from Rhode Island moved to Moon Tom.

11:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a cool name.

11:14 Speaker 4: I like that.

11:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're cool guys. We picked them because they're such

11:18 Speaker 3: pals that, you know, we couldn't we couldn't have thought

11:21 Speaker 3: of like a better three dudes to go out on

11:22 Speaker 3: the road with nice and so we hit them up

11:25 Speaker 3: and they were super open to it and everything. And

11:28 Speaker 3: there's I think a total of like twenty something different

11:31 Speaker 3: local bands. Because one of the shows is a is

11:34 Speaker 3: a festival. Oh really, Yeah, the New York show is

11:38 Speaker 3: a it's the Long Island Doom Festival, Okay at mister Berry's,

11:44 Speaker 3: which so that kind of ups those numbers of a bunch.

11:47 Speaker 3: But so we're super excited to go out and beat

11:49 Speaker 3: a bunch of these bands. And yeah, some of these

11:51 Speaker 3: cool shows are going to be in some really cool

11:53 Speaker 3: places too, so yeah, it would be a good time.

11:56 Speaker 1: How many dates are you playing?

11:57 Speaker 3: Seven dates in eight days?

12:00 Speaker 1: Okay?

12:00 Speaker 3: Okay, So we get a nice day off in the middle.

12:02 Speaker 3: We might go to Hershey Park, hit some roller coasters.

12:05 Speaker 1: Who nice. You should, Yes, you definitely should.

12:08 Speaker 3: We've been talking about it.

12:09 Speaker 5: I'm feeling up to it. I don't know, I haven't

12:11 Speaker 5: been to a theme parking a long time.

12:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't either.

12:14 Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we went to Hershey Park

12:16 Speaker 3: for like the eighth grade d C trip and the

12:19 Speaker 3: park itself was closed down, but I always wanted to

12:21 Speaker 3: go and hit those roller coasters. But I did get

12:23 Speaker 3: a five pound chocolate bar while I was there.

12:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, five pound chocolate bar. Oo. That sounds like a

12:29 Speaker 1: lot of it was a lot of work. It's a

12:30 Speaker 1: lot of chocolate. But the roller coasters. I love roller coasters.

12:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's my favorite type of ride. Yeah, like the

12:36 Speaker 3: stuff those ones that are like just like the big

12:39 Speaker 3: post where you sit on you know what I mean,

12:40 Speaker 3: and it goes like all the way up. I'm not

12:42 Speaker 3: a fan of that type of stuff, but I get

12:44 Speaker 3: any roller coaster.

12:45 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, me too, Me too. When I was a kid,

12:47 Speaker 1: I remember being terrified of going on one that went

12:51 Speaker 1: upside down until I did it, and it happened so

12:54 Speaker 1: quick that you know, you don't even know you're upside

12:55 Speaker 1: after you what I mean? But yeah, yeah, no, I

12:57 Speaker 1: love I love roller coasters. Yeah, so you should definitely

13:00 Speaker 1: do that. And are you are you playing the same

13:04 Speaker 1: set every night as far as you know or your

13:07 Speaker 1: time is going to kind of vary where you have

13:08 Speaker 1: to kind of work with it.

13:11 Speaker 3: Some of the shows are four band bills and some

13:14 Speaker 3: of them are five band bills, so we'll be able

13:16 Speaker 3: to get an extra song or two on the shorter bills. Yeah,

13:20 Speaker 3: but I mean we've only got the one record. Yeah,

13:23 Speaker 3: we're not unveiling any of that new material until the

13:25 Speaker 3: time is right. Pretty much will be songs from the

13:29 Speaker 3: first record in various orders.

13:32 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, well you have so you do have

13:34 Speaker 1: new material you're working on.

13:36 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yeah, we pretty much. We

13:39 Speaker 3: took so between when we finished writing the first record

13:41 Speaker 3: and when we finished recording it, which was about I

13:45 Speaker 3: don't know, maybe nine month period, we were just working

13:49 Speaker 3: on really hammering those songs down, and so we didn't

13:51 Speaker 3: write anything during that time. Yeah, so it was kind

13:54 Speaker 3: of like this big there's like a big rush of

13:56 Speaker 3: like creativity when we you know, played the final note

14:00 Speaker 3: in the studio and we went home and we're like,

14:03 Speaker 3: what do we do now? Yeah, we've been working pretty

14:07 Speaker 3: hard and I'm really excited about the new stuff.

14:09 Speaker 1: Excellent. Is it in the same vein?

14:11 Speaker 4: Is it?

14:13 Speaker 3: Yeah?

14:14 Speaker 5: It's definitely similar style for sure, But I think we

14:20 Speaker 5: delved even farther into each kind of individual element that

14:25 Speaker 5: we're bringing to it, So it's kind of, you know,

14:30 Speaker 5: even more thematic, even more, we spend even more time

14:36 Speaker 5: paying attention to the different you know, flares and genres

14:40 Speaker 5: and influences, you know what I mean. So there's a

14:44 Speaker 5: lot of variety, Like there's a lot of variety in

14:48 Speaker 5: the first record, but what we're working on is kind

14:52 Speaker 5: of expanding upon each little bit of that variety, I think,

14:55 Speaker 5: and so each song kind of feels pretty unique, but

14:58 Speaker 5: also there's a pretty substantial common thread between all of it,

15:02 Speaker 5: which is something on the first record too. So yeah,

15:06 Speaker 5: it's been pretty cool. Uh, we're not we're kind of

15:11 Speaker 5: throwing caution to the wind for a few things, and

15:14 Speaker 5: we're just kind of trying whatever we want to do.

15:17 Speaker 5: There's some pretty funny ideas that we've just totally ran with.

15:21 Speaker 5: So yeah, it's like it's like our sound two point zero.

15:26 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, cool.

15:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's basically it's a huge expansion on the first record.

15:31 Speaker 3: I think it's it's basically everything we did, but we

15:34 Speaker 3: went in every direction a little bit further. Yeah, and uh, yeah,

15:39 Speaker 3: it's I don't know, it's exciting.

15:42 Speaker 1: Is it thematically similar in terms of lyrics or.

15:45 Speaker 3: We're not done the lyrics yet, so it's.

15:47 Speaker 1: Okay, So the music comes first, right yeah.

15:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean we kind of have like a

15:51 Speaker 3: storyline and then we build the music off of the storyline, okay,

15:56 Speaker 3: and then the lyrics are kind of like the very

15:58 Speaker 3: final thread.

16:00 Speaker 1: Okay, I think.

16:00 Speaker 3: So it's like that's like really the last eyes to

16:04 Speaker 3: dot in the tease to cross or you know, Okay, lyrics.

16:07 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, cool, cool. Obviously we talked about it the

16:12 Speaker 1: last time you were here. But does birth have a

16:14 Speaker 1: is there a story to it?

16:16 Speaker 3: Yeah?

16:17 Speaker 1: Or a particular theme? Well, I know there's a theme,

16:20 Speaker 1: but I couldn't remember how how defined the actual story

16:23 Speaker 1: was or if it was kind of more just a

16:25 Speaker 1: loose concept.

16:27 Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of both actually, right, So it's

16:30 Speaker 3: very defined to us, like we know the storyline as

16:33 Speaker 3: like this very defined thing, but we purposefully at this

16:37 Speaker 3: point like like the lyrics are kind of esoteric, right,

16:39 Speaker 3: because like you can go really far in the direction

16:43 Speaker 3: of like wanting to write a good story, but after

16:47 Speaker 3: a certain point you're taking away from like the quality

16:50 Speaker 3: of the song, right, Like we don't need a billion

16:53 Speaker 3: details about like a guy's armor as he's coming up

16:56 Speaker 3: over the crest of the hill, you know what I mean.

16:58 Speaker 3: Like you just filled up half of your verse describing

17:01 Speaker 3: this and so like, and what I wanted to do,

17:04 Speaker 3: or what we wanted to do, is kind of have

17:06 Speaker 3: it be a more like personalized thing, right where anybody

17:11 Speaker 3: can go in and like read the lyrics and try

17:14 Speaker 3: and derive like what the legitimate story is. But it's

17:17 Speaker 3: more important, I think, from my perspective, for people to

17:20 Speaker 3: be able to derive their own meaning from it, Okay, Right, So,

17:23 Speaker 3: like I would really like to, at one point or

17:26 Speaker 3: another figure out how to do a comic book to

17:28 Speaker 3: like tell the legitimate story like straight up, you know.

17:31 Speaker 1: What I mean.

17:33 Speaker 3: But yeah, I also don't want to like go to

17:38 Speaker 3: people who have maybe derived their own meaning from the

17:40 Speaker 3: songs and be like, you're wrong. This is what it means,

17:43 Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Because it's like that's kind

17:45 Speaker 3: of a slap in the face, and like I wouldn't.

17:48 Speaker 3: I feel like, you're whatever your meaning is is totally legitimate, which.

17:52 Speaker 1: Is how it's supposed to be, right with music or

17:54 Speaker 1: with any kind of art. Really, it's what you We

17:57 Speaker 1: might have talked I've talked about this with a few

17:59 Speaker 1: peop belond the show. We might have talked about this before,

18:02 Speaker 1: but I know that I've experienced that where it's kind

18:05 Speaker 1: of like, you know, a song means something to you,

18:07 Speaker 1: and then you read an interview with the person who

18:11 Speaker 1: wrote the lyrics and they talk about what it means

18:14 Speaker 1: and you kind of go, oh, that's different than what

18:18 Speaker 1: it meant to me, And then there's that weirdness of oh,

18:21 Speaker 1: now I kind of feel differently about it, you know

18:23 Speaker 1: what I mean?

18:24 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I think for our music specifically, Yeah,

18:30 Speaker 5: I think that would be a pretty funny instance because

18:34 Speaker 5: it's so specific. So you know, there's so much left

18:38 Speaker 5: to interpretation in the lyrics that if and when, you know,

18:43 Speaker 5: inevitably we do have a concrete representation of what the

18:47 Speaker 5: whole story is. You know, We've said it before. This

18:53 Speaker 5: was part one of a concept of a few albums

18:58 Speaker 5: that we're planning on releasing.

19:00 Speaker 3: Essentially want to make a trilogy.

19:01 Speaker 5: Yeah, we want to make a trilogy, and so you

19:03 Speaker 5: know we're working on installment two of that. So it's

19:06 Speaker 5: expanding upon this storytelling universe, you know what I mean?

19:10 Speaker 5: So it would be pretty funny for us to just

19:13 Speaker 5: drop all that information and have people, you know, kind

19:17 Speaker 5: of learn what it is. I think I'm gonna speak

19:23 Speaker 5: a little bit on lyrically. For the first album, there's

19:30 Speaker 5: some very literal world building. So the song we just

19:33 Speaker 5: listened to, there's some very literal you know, pre you know,

19:40 Speaker 5: description of what's going on, some exposition, Yeah, exposition exactly,

19:45 Speaker 5: and it's not really up for interpretation when you sit

19:50 Speaker 5: down and read it, you know what I mean. It

19:52 Speaker 5: basically tells you you know, what's going to happen, yeah,

19:54 Speaker 5: and then you know all the other things beyond that,

19:57 Speaker 5: when we're singing about emotions and you know, things happening,

20:00 Speaker 5: it's it's all pretty up for interpretation. And I think

20:04 Speaker 5: we want to make music that is true to what

20:08 Speaker 5: we're trying to do story wise, and then also is

20:12 Speaker 5: up for interpretation and receivable to someone who knows nothing

20:15 Speaker 5: about the story as much as possible. And I think

20:18 Speaker 5: we've tried to dive into that even more so. Okay,

20:23 Speaker 5: on our current writing lyrically anyway.

20:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's very cool. I look forward to, uh,

20:31 Speaker 1: you know when eventually, I mean, you probably at this

20:33 Speaker 1: point do you have any kind of an eta on

20:35 Speaker 1: when when you might start recording the next.

20:37 Speaker 3: One, or yeah, I don't know, like a year or

20:41 Speaker 3: I don't know, one hundred years somewhere between those two.

20:45 Speaker 1: Somewhere somewhere between one and a hundred.

20:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I wish I could have that crystal ball.

20:52 Speaker 3: But you never know what's going to happen, you know.

20:53 Speaker 3: I mean, we it took forever to get the first one,

20:56 Speaker 3: and I think we've got a more streamlined process at

20:58 Speaker 3: this point, but you know, anything could happen.

21:01 Speaker 1: So so, but you both talked about a trilogy. Does

21:04 Speaker 1: that mean that you've already got the you've got the

21:08 Speaker 1: whole story mapped out already, or.

21:10 Speaker 3: Like big story points that we want to hit mapped out. Yeah,

21:13 Speaker 3: But I mean it's it's cool to leave like certain

21:16 Speaker 3: things open, right because like, for example, on the first record,

21:20 Speaker 3: we had finished the record, I just did air quotes

21:24 Speaker 3: for anybody listening, yea, and we had like six songs,

21:28 Speaker 3: and I was like, nah, it doesn't feel right, you know,

21:31 Speaker 3: And so I was like, we got to write two

21:34 Speaker 3: more songs, and we ended up doing Beneath Red Leaves

21:38 Speaker 3: and Titans Grip, which have ended up being two of

21:41 Speaker 3: the most popular questioning beat songs at this point, and

21:47 Speaker 3: nobody else wanted to write them. But I was like, look,

21:49 Speaker 3: the story, we can add some more details into the story,

21:52 Speaker 3: and these riffs rule. I don't see why anybody could

21:55 Speaker 3: be opposed to it. And then everybody was mad when

21:57 Speaker 3: we were recording them, and so it came out awesome.

22:01 Speaker 5: Mostly me, I was mostly angry in doing it. I

22:05 Speaker 5: don't know why. I was just like, all right, well

22:09 Speaker 5: you want some more guitar, you're gonna get it. Yeah,

22:14 Speaker 5: And it came out wicked good.

22:15 Speaker 1: So you were able to channel that anger. Yeah, Yeah,

22:19 Speaker 1: it feels.

22:19 Speaker 5: It feels really epic. Titan Script is actually our current

22:22 Speaker 5: most stream song on Spotify. We passed like four thousand

22:27 Speaker 5: streams today, I think, which is cool.

22:28 Speaker 1: Congratulations.

22:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great, interesting metric, but.

22:33 Speaker 1: But not it matters though. Those metrics do matter. No,

22:37 Speaker 1: that's very cool, very cool. Do you have anything that

22:40 Speaker 1: you play currently that's not on this first album when

22:43 Speaker 1: you play live or no.

22:45 Speaker 3: No, we've talked about doing some covers and stuff, which

22:49 Speaker 3: is now a lot more of possibility that we've got

22:52 Speaker 3: Dan in the live setup because we were just playing

22:54 Speaker 3: to like recorded bass tracks before, you know, from the record,

22:58 Speaker 3: and so comunities for that are kind of more available now,

23:02 Speaker 3: So I mean I'd be down to explore that kind

23:04 Speaker 3: of stuff for sure, But for the most part, were

23:06 Speaker 3: just playing stuff from the record and trying to promote

23:08 Speaker 3: that we've got a ton of vinyl that we need

23:09 Speaker 3: to get rid of. So what do you mean, oh,

23:14 Speaker 3: just like vinyl records.

23:15 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to play the songs that are on

23:18 Speaker 3: the on the record for people to try and entice

23:21 Speaker 3: them into buying it.

23:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you.

23:24 Speaker 5: I got many copies that we have.

23:28 Speaker 2: You could be.

23:31 Speaker 5: So we have less of them.

23:36 Speaker 1: Was that hard playing with bass tracks live? Was that challenging?

23:41 Speaker 3: I mean the process of like setting up the Ableton

23:44 Speaker 3: session and everything was and that's why I had Bane

23:47 Speaker 3: do it. And uh but uh yeah, I mean once

23:53 Speaker 3: it's all been set up, it's not that bad. You know,

23:54 Speaker 3: our drummer is kind of a machine, okay, so having

23:58 Speaker 3: him played to a metronome, it's pretty easy. As far

24:01 Speaker 3: as getting everybody else locked in.

24:03 Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't weird for him, or maybe or

24:06 Speaker 1: maybe it was, but he adapted them.

24:07 Speaker 3: He adapted pretty well, I don't think that there was

24:09 Speaker 3: like a huge problem for him. You know, each each

24:12 Speaker 3: song has kind of its own counting and everything. I

24:14 Speaker 3: think that was the only like learning curve.

24:16 Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, he's he kind of takes most things in stride,

24:21 Speaker 5: if I'm going to be honest. We threw a lot

24:24 Speaker 5: at him.

24:24 Speaker 1: Really.

24:25 Speaker 5: Yeah, We're like, hey, you gotta do this, this and this.

24:27 Speaker 3: And he's got a hard job.

24:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got one of the hardest jobs in the

24:31 Speaker 5: house for sure. Yeah.

24:33 Speaker 3: He's back there singing too, Oh he is. Okay, yeah,

24:37 Speaker 3: backup vocals there.

24:39 Speaker 1: That always impresses me. You know, drummers who can sing

24:42 Speaker 1: while they play, you know, because drums is the most

24:44 Speaker 1: you know, you're using all four of your loombs. It's

24:45 Speaker 1: the most physical. Yeah.

24:47 Speaker 3: And he's doing like harmonies, like the chorus harmonies on

24:49 Speaker 3: like Pip and stuff. Oh yeah, dude, he's He's crazy.

24:53 Speaker 5: Watching him do it too. I Mean there's a there's

24:58 Speaker 5: one part I think it's in the second course at

25:00 Speaker 5: Titans Grip where I'm looking at him when we're in practice,

25:03 Speaker 5: I'll just be looking at him. He's leaned over, you know,

25:06 Speaker 5: to the mic to try to sing and the arms

25:08 Speaker 5: are going, and he's playing so much complex stuff on

25:10 Speaker 5: the drums and he's just keeping his head here yeah,

25:13 Speaker 5: and nailing the note too, and then he just finishes

25:16 Speaker 5: and looks at the rest of us, like pretty much

25:18 Speaker 5: every time. Then he knows, well, we'll look at him

25:20 Speaker 5: and just give him an affirming nod of yeah, that

25:23 Speaker 5: was on. And he just always goes, you know, some

25:26 Speaker 5: iteration of like, you know, lips out like you know, heck, yeah.

25:33 Speaker 1: Very cool.

25:33 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the man.

25:35 Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, you're getting some love in the

25:36 Speaker 1: chat room here, Bradley Hurley says, can't say enough great

25:39 Speaker 1: things about this band. I'm a huge fan of this band.

25:42 Speaker 5: And Jane Oh shouts out Bradley, what's up.

25:47 Speaker 1: Very nice, thank you for chiming in there, Bradley, excellent,

25:49 Speaker 1: thank you.

25:49 Speaker 5: Bradley.

25:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh, we were talking. We had an interesting

25:53 Speaker 1: conversation off air two about lyrics, circling back to lyrics

25:56 Speaker 1: for a moment because you know, I was commenting how

25:58 Speaker 1: it's it's nice when I you know, I don't mind

26:00 Speaker 1: making radio edits for our guests, but it's nice when

26:05 Speaker 1: I don't have to and I never have to make

26:06 Speaker 1: any radio edits for requesting Beast, which is nice.

26:09 Speaker 3: Because we don't hit the swearing. Yeah, what's interesting about this.

26:12 Speaker 3: I think that's a very like conscious decision on our

26:15 Speaker 3: part because it's like, I don't know, you can throw

26:18 Speaker 3: a ton of swears into a song if you want to. Yeah,

26:21 Speaker 3: Like I don't know. Personally, it's like a very weak

26:23 Speaker 3: creative decision. I mean there's so many words, you know that, like,

26:28 Speaker 3: I don't know, choosing to swear for like edginess sake

26:32 Speaker 3: is like kind of weak to me. And what's funny

26:35 Speaker 3: is that I that idea kind of came from with

26:41 Speaker 3: Corey uh, what's his name, Slipknot Corey Taylor, Yeah, because

26:47 Speaker 3: he made that switch. And when I was like super

26:49 Speaker 3: young and angsty, I remember being.

26:51 Speaker 1: Like that's lamp, You're not gonna swear anymore.

26:53 Speaker 3: And then I got older and I started like kind

26:55 Speaker 3: of like, you know, listening to the slip Knot sort

26:59 Speaker 3: of evolution, like the maturity and like the lyric writing

27:01 Speaker 3: and stuff, and you know, I mean you go back

27:04 Speaker 3: and listen to that first record and some of it's

27:05 Speaker 3: like headbanger stuff, but yeah, a lot of it, like

27:08 Speaker 3: I don't know, spit it out, Like I really want

27:10 Speaker 3: to go and listen to that right now. Yeah, I don't.

27:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, good song, great song, pretty intense, Like I don't know.

27:19 Speaker 1: Sometimes one catches me off guard is when it's like,

27:22 Speaker 1: you know, it's one thing if it's if it's metal,

27:24 Speaker 1: certain kinds of metal or hip hop, but if you

27:27 Speaker 1: hear you know, just a singer songwriter and they've got

27:29 Speaker 1: like the S word just in there, it's like, you know,

27:32 Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, you're a singer songwriter, but ooh

27:35 Speaker 1: you're edgy.

27:36 Speaker 4: Right, you know.

27:39 Speaker 5: Variety is the spice.

27:41 Speaker 3: And that's not to say that I think as like

27:43 Speaker 3: a blanket rule like swearing in songs bad or lazy,

27:47 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But I do think it's

27:48 Speaker 3: a tool that like should be used at certain points.

27:54 Speaker 3: Like like my buddy Joe plays in this band called

27:57 Speaker 3: Dirt Byre and he's got this song called Fentanyl, and uh,

28:04 Speaker 3: there's this really powerful part when he first comes in

28:07 Speaker 3: to this one line he says, you keep fing around,

28:10 Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's super powerful because of what he's

28:13 Speaker 3: talking about, you know what I mean. Sure, But like

28:15 Speaker 3: I don't know, a lot of times I'm like, it

28:18 Speaker 3: doesn't have that same effect.

28:19 Speaker 1: Right right by the way, Jane, looks like you're getting

28:23 Speaker 1: some familial love in the chat room. Mommy loves you, Jane. Yeh, Shelley,

28:30 Speaker 1: that's your your mom. That's very nice, very nice.

28:32 Speaker 5: Thank you, mother.

28:34 Speaker 3: We love Shelley.

28:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, I love you too.

28:37 Speaker 1: No, that's great. Actually the subject came up to with

28:40 Speaker 1: our first guest today, uh, waiting for Ze. We're on

28:43 Speaker 1: and we're talking about it's a nice one when you

28:45 Speaker 1: have supportive family members. Also, oh, I missed this comment earlier.

28:49 Speaker 1: Kyle Gatto is in the chat room and says more

28:51 Speaker 1: than Matt, what's good brother, Welcome Kyle. Yeah, I mean

28:56 Speaker 1: it's it's Uh. I also think though too, it would

28:59 Speaker 1: be weird because of the style and the genre of

29:02 Speaker 1: the music that you do. Sure it would Actually it

29:04 Speaker 1: would be strange word in there, you know.

29:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean nobody's thinking of like I don't know,

29:11 Speaker 3: mid century or like medieval times, and like you know,

29:16 Speaker 3: everybody's running around with like swearing a whole bunch. I

29:19 Speaker 3: don't know. It feels like it should be more like

29:21 Speaker 3: regal and like hoity toity and you know, almost have

29:26 Speaker 3: a bit of a curtsy just embedded in the lyrics.

29:29 Speaker 4: You know what.

29:30 Speaker 3: I feel like there's like a certain level of like,

29:34 Speaker 3: I don't know, fanciful that it like needs.

29:39 Speaker 1: No, I know, I know what you mean. Although if

29:40 Speaker 1: you watch like some some of the Monty Python movies

29:43 Speaker 1: that are period pieces, it seems like there was a

29:45 Speaker 1: lot of swearing back then. But absolutely, yeah, no, I

29:50 Speaker 1: know what you mean.

29:50 Speaker 5: Though.

29:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think profanity would be very awkward

29:54 Speaker 1: in your music. It would, you know, it would almost

29:55 Speaker 1: be like, I don't know, there's I think that genre

29:59 Speaker 1: it just it doesn't fit. But no, so I and

30:03 Speaker 1: I think it's great that you're you're so conscientious about

30:06 Speaker 1: the lyrics that you will you know, use you know,

30:09 Speaker 1: there's so many words. Sure, you know the English language,

30:12 Speaker 1: we have so many words, you know, So why not

30:14 Speaker 1: be creative?

30:14 Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. I mean we spend so much time arguing

30:17 Speaker 3: about like the sourus related opinions. Oh yeah, when we're

30:23 Speaker 3: writing lyrics. So when we write lyrics, generally it's me,

30:27 Speaker 3: our drummer and our vocalists all working together. Sometimes Jane's

30:31 Speaker 3: into Jane generally helps more with like the melodic elements

30:34 Speaker 3: of like the vocals and like the rhythmic elements of everything,

30:38 Speaker 3: but as far as like the lyrics goes, it's like

30:41 Speaker 3: the three of us generally kind of going back and

30:43 Speaker 3: forth about what the best way to say, like what

30:44 Speaker 3: we're trying to convey is yeah, and so it prevents

30:48 Speaker 3: it from like being kind of like overbearing in like

30:52 Speaker 3: one person's style, you know, and we get this kind

30:54 Speaker 3: of cool average I think that works out really well

30:58 Speaker 3: and represents the band as a whole. Yeah, pretty beautifully.

31:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's really cool.

31:04 Speaker 1: I think we should play another track from the from

31:07 Speaker 1: the album, and you did send me another one that

31:09 Speaker 1: you wanted to highlight.

31:11 Speaker 3: I think Beneath Red Leaves, right, yes, Beneath Red Leaves fantastic.

31:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, we can. We can give that a spin, and

31:17 Speaker 1: then at the end of the show we'll probably play

31:19 Speaker 1: another one from the album. I have your I do

31:21 Speaker 1: have because I do have the album pulled up and

31:23 Speaker 1: I love love your music. I think it's really good. Absolutely,

31:27 Speaker 1: So I check this out. This is called Beneath Red

31:29 Speaker 1: Leaves and the band is questing beast.

32:33 Speaker 4: A Hound it back, it through is gone, I still

32:37 Speaker 4: it attack, I see a pis a piece of bad

32:44 Speaker 4: PA seek through back now.

32:48 Speaker 6: You seek to clime. If that said please about the hate,

32:58 Speaker 6: it's pass called me a stall. We got crock work.

33:02 Speaker 4: Still stop with snort kill got.

33:05 Speaker 1: By so we got struck right the coming sail.

33:11 Speaker 6: We got thrunt sing fill the sky is things well,

33:15 Speaker 6: can't my hide?

33:17 Speaker 5: We got broadwise.

33:30 Speaker 6: A fine let's all little seal snot get away, spike

33:34 Speaker 6: swim heels, God brass corse his shield and my fall.

33:38 Speaker 3: We s can't big on me the yack.

33:49 Speaker 4: M I woted time stumping it through the star.

33:54 Speaker 1: No, not that back, I.

33:58 Speaker 4: See me overs it a man sending me for us.

34:06 Speaker 6: Scars to you time you know, but that time saying

34:11 Speaker 6: nothing he thanks gone dejai okaya, but I'm stand with

34:21 Speaker 6: sures killed, don't but soul okay, comic si do not

34:29 Speaker 6: forday final course commit our life.

34:33 Speaker 4: You bet to die? That okay?

35:30 Speaker 5: Right us? Okay?

36:00 Speaker 1: That is beneath Red Leaves. The band is Questing Bees

36:04 Speaker 1: and that is from their album Birth That is so good.

36:07 Speaker 1: And they're going to be playing if you are listening

36:09 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, they're gonna be tomorrow night. They're going

36:11 Speaker 1: to be Sunday night at Terminus Underground. What time does

36:15 Speaker 1: that show start.

36:16 Speaker 3: So doors are at six o'clock. I believe we are

36:18 Speaker 3: on at seven. We're opening up that show.

36:21 Speaker 1: Well, who else is on the show with you?

36:22 Speaker 4: Do?

36:22 Speaker 3: You know? Off Dog eight Dog and Sunset Electric?

36:26 Speaker 5: Oh?

36:26 Speaker 1: Nice, Yeah, we've had We've had both bands on the show.

36:29 Speaker 3: Oh cool.

36:29 Speaker 1: Dog eight Dog was with us a couple of weeks ago. Actually, yeah, nice,

36:32 Speaker 1: really really cool. Oh yeah, they're they're amazing.

36:35 Speaker 3: Now.

36:36 Speaker 1: So a song like that, I mean, does that take

36:39 Speaker 1: a while for that to come together?

36:41 Speaker 3: I mean in terms of just honestly, that was probably

36:43 Speaker 3: one of the faster ones, was it. Yeah, So that

36:46 Speaker 3: was one of the last two that we wrote, right,

36:48 Speaker 3: the ones that we had mentioned before we started playing,

36:51 Speaker 3: And I had had that rift, the main rift that

36:55 Speaker 3: a button't it yeah, for a little bit. And Jane,

36:59 Speaker 3: I think, had had that intro kind of written out

37:02 Speaker 3: from something that we had messed around with during practice,

37:06 Speaker 3: and so we essentially just like fused those two things together,

37:10 Speaker 3: came up with the solo section, and I had a

37:12 Speaker 3: little alternate version that became the outroka and yeah, we

37:17 Speaker 3: knocked that thing out I think in.

37:19 Speaker 1: A day, no kidding.

37:20 Speaker 5: Yeah, solo section chords.

37:23 Speaker 3: The solo took forever to write.

37:24 Speaker 5: Yeah, for a long time. I would say the solo

37:27 Speaker 5: section chords and the fast like thrashy part probably one

37:32 Speaker 5: of my proudest moments. Also, so having an awesome guitar

37:36 Speaker 5: solo on top of it too, And that was like

37:38 Speaker 5: the cherry on top. That was like the last thing

37:40 Speaker 5: for the song. That song, that song is super hard

37:45 Speaker 5: to play live.

37:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably the hardest one on the record.

37:48 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so fun.

37:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm fascinated by that because I you know,

37:53 Speaker 1: I'm a musician. I used to play in some bands,

37:56 Speaker 1: but I never played in anything that did anything that,

38:00 Speaker 1: you know, with time changes and you know, demanding. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So,

38:05 Speaker 1: so I'm very impressed. Yeah, that's uh, that's that's really good. Oh.

38:09 Speaker 1: By the way, in the chat room, so Bradley Hurley

38:12 Speaker 1: uh said to your mom. Uh, oh, you should know

38:16 Speaker 1: your daughter has helped my recovery and life so much

38:19 Speaker 1: for the better.

38:20 Speaker 5: Oh.

38:20 Speaker 1: So very nice. You're getting a lot of love in there.

38:24 Speaker 1: That is awesome. That is awesome. And then so when

38:28 Speaker 1: does the now? When does the tour start again? Uh?

38:31 Speaker 3: April twenty fifth is the first day of tor playing

38:34 Speaker 3: Ralph's okay in rock, Yeah, that one is going to

38:38 Speaker 3: be with uh so Moontomb obviously, Horror, Perennial Quest and

38:46 Speaker 3: mercury Burns First.

38:48 Speaker 1: Oh okay, great, yeah, yeah, yeah we had mercury Burns

38:50 Speaker 1: First on a couple of months ago, and we've had

38:52 Speaker 1: Horror on too. So yeah, that's a that's that's really strong.

38:56 Speaker 1: That's great. Now with the with the tour, will this

38:58 Speaker 1: be your your first time traveling out of New England

39:01 Speaker 1: with the band? Yeah?

39:02 Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. Well the furthest we've gone up to

39:04 Speaker 3: this point is that we played out in Connecticut at

39:08 Speaker 3: some point last year. Okay, but yeah, this will be

39:11 Speaker 3: the furthest out we've gone in Maryland, I think in Baltimore.

39:15 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we're in Baltimore. What's what venue? Do you

39:18 Speaker 1: do you remember?

39:19 Speaker 3: Yeah? We're playing the Depot okay in Baltimore.

39:21 Speaker 1: Okay, nice? Nice? And then do you have so who's

39:32 Speaker 1: is it just the four of you now live now

39:33 Speaker 1: that you have a live bass player, is it five

39:36 Speaker 1: of us? There's five of you?

39:38 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we've got lead singer, two guitars, bass player, drummer.

39:43 Speaker 1: Okay, and then so so before you would play with

39:47 Speaker 1: bass tracks. Did you always have a live drummer? Yeah, yeah,

39:49 Speaker 1: you did always have a live drummer. Okay, all right,

39:52 Speaker 1: that makes sense, So it was just a bass player

39:54 Speaker 1: that you didn't have before.

39:55 Speaker 3: Officially, okay, it's a lot easier to get away with

39:59 Speaker 3: not having a live bass this then a live drummer, same.

40:02 Speaker 1: A bass player. So that makes me sad. But but no,

40:06 Speaker 1: I understand though, because bass players are hard to find.

40:09 Speaker 3: Something they really are. They're in such high demand, you

40:12 Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, I don't know if I

40:14 Speaker 3: if I wanted to be a career musician, I definitely

40:16 Speaker 3: would pick up, like, you know, like a higher gun

40:19 Speaker 3: type guy. Bass or drums is like what you want

40:21 Speaker 3: to do.

40:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah. My theory about yeah, because drummers

40:24 Speaker 1: are hard to find too, and in fact, we've seen

40:27 Speaker 1: you know, Jenny knows this. We've had so many bands

40:29 Speaker 1: on the show where the drummer specifically is in like

40:32 Speaker 1: ten different projects. And uh, my theory about that is,

40:35 Speaker 1: you know, when you're growing up and you first you

40:37 Speaker 1: become interested interested in playing an instrument, and you have

40:40 Speaker 1: the conversation with the parents, you know, I want to

40:42 Speaker 1: play drums. They're going to try to talk you out

40:45 Speaker 1: of that, oh for sure, because nobody wants live drums

40:47 Speaker 1: and their you know, in their attic or whatever.

40:49 Speaker 3: No, especially if it's being played by somebody who doesn't

40:51 Speaker 3: know how to do it right exactly.

40:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the worst. Yeah, drums or the tuba or

40:55 Speaker 1: probably the two that your parents are going to try

40:57 Speaker 1: to actively talk you out of, like, well, do you

40:59 Speaker 1: really want to play that?

41:00 Speaker 3: Are you sure you want the violin?

41:02 Speaker 5: Right?

41:03 Speaker 6: Oh?

41:03 Speaker 1: Violin? Yeah, that one could be a problem too, but

41:07 Speaker 1: uh yeah, so yeah, drums and uh, drums and and

41:11 Speaker 1: drummers and bass players are usually the hardest to find.

41:13 Speaker 5: So you're bringing up some some childhood memories of me

41:18 Speaker 5: setting up a secondhand drum set in my parents' basement.

41:21 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and since my mom is probably still watching,

41:25 Speaker 5: I wonder if she remembers opening the door to the

41:28 Speaker 5: basement and yelling down to me to please stop.

41:31 Speaker 1: Oh really?

41:34 Speaker 3: Yeah?

41:36 Speaker 1: Oh man, did you did you continue to play drums

41:39 Speaker 1: or my?

41:42 Speaker 3: Not?

41:42 Speaker 5: I I never really played drum set, so it's funny. Actually,

41:46 Speaker 5: my trajectory is a musician. I started on piano and

41:49 Speaker 5: then I started playing percussion in like middle school, middle

41:53 Speaker 5: school band and stuff like that, and then I started

41:56 Speaker 5: playing marching percussion in high school, so I played I

42:01 Speaker 5: played like xylophone and stuff like that, like pit percussion

42:06 Speaker 5: for marching band. And then also during concert season I

42:08 Speaker 5: would play pit percussion, but during marching band season, I

42:11 Speaker 5: would play snare drum. But I think I was when

42:13 Speaker 5: I was a senior, I was marching snare, but I

42:15 Speaker 5: marched some other things in parades too. But I picked

42:18 Speaker 5: up guitar in high school at the same time. The

42:22 Speaker 5: drumming didn't really come with me in any sense of

42:25 Speaker 5: the word. After I graduated high school.

42:28 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Oh, by the way, your mom says in

42:30 Speaker 1: the chat room, that's a lie. She's an eyes yelling

42:34 Speaker 1: at you. I guess to stop.

42:36 Speaker 5: All right, Well, maybe you know, all right, maybe some

42:42 Speaker 5: selective memory on one or both parties.

42:46 Speaker 3: I do.

42:47 Speaker 5: I do firmly, and I will have a firm stance

42:50 Speaker 5: on the fact that it was not the preferred situation.

42:54 Speaker 1: Okay, understood, understood. Yeah, but that is an unusual trajectory though.

42:59 Speaker 1: I think you're right in terms of because I feel

43:01 Speaker 1: like I forget who we were talking about this with.

43:03 Speaker 1: But I feel like most most people who play drums

43:05 Speaker 1: who play other instruments as well, drum. They usually get

43:07 Speaker 1: to drums at the end, you know, like they like

43:10 Speaker 1: they start on guitar, bass or piano or whatever, and

43:12 Speaker 1: then eventually they get to drums. But it sounds like you, well,

43:16 Speaker 1: you started on piano, right, but then Yeah, but drums

43:18 Speaker 1: was early.

43:19 Speaker 5: Yeah, drum drums were early. I think I started on

43:23 Speaker 5: I think I started on piano when I was like seven. Yeah,

43:26 Speaker 5: and I still play piano. I still, I still play

43:31 Speaker 5: piano pretty regularly. But yeah, I think it's interesting. I

43:36 Speaker 5: think I started picking up percussion in fifth grade. Maybe

43:40 Speaker 5: I think I was eleven or twelve when I started

43:42 Speaker 5: picking it up, so, you know, only another five years later,

43:48 Speaker 5: and I kind of did things in stages. I left

43:53 Speaker 5: a lot of piano behind as far as my main

43:56 Speaker 5: focus once I kind of got into high school. My

44:01 Speaker 5: mom will also agree with this. I stopped actually really

44:04 Speaker 5: practicing for my lessons, so I would learn stuff that

44:08 Speaker 5: I was playing. You know, I was in the school

44:10 Speaker 5: jazz band and stuff like that, so I would practice

44:12 Speaker 5: that stuff kind of. But I stopped taking formal piano

44:17 Speaker 5: lessons when I was maybe fourteen. I don't blame her whatsoever.

44:22 Speaker 5: She didn't want to support me doing it if I

44:25 Speaker 5: wasn't actually going to practice any of the material, and

44:28 Speaker 5: I had. Yeah, I was like, I don't want to

44:31 Speaker 5: learn classical music, like I want to play cool stuff, right,

44:36 Speaker 5: I want to play guitar now, you know.

44:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, not rebel, yeah, real rebel.

44:43 Speaker 5: It really only served to hold me back really, uh,

44:47 Speaker 5: in the future. I'm fortunate enough that I was able

44:50 Speaker 5: to like get back into everything kind of universally, you

44:53 Speaker 5: know what I mean. I ended up playing drums. No,

44:56 Speaker 5: it's not true. I did play drums in a band

44:58 Speaker 5: when I was in college. We were not good really, yeah,

45:02 Speaker 5: a little punk band, you know. But yeah, it served

45:06 Speaker 5: me well as far as all the other things that

45:08 Speaker 5: I did, yeah, you know, musically, but yeah, very interesting.

45:12 Speaker 5: I'm back into piano pretty regularly now, you know. I

45:14 Speaker 5: play guitar every week, okay, but no drumming.

45:17 Speaker 4: Yeah.

45:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, they hate it when I get them a drum set,

45:19 Speaker 5: that's true.

45:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it's bad.

45:25 Speaker 1: But actually starting on piano though, that's good because I've

45:27 Speaker 1: heard a lot of Uh. I've heard so many music

45:30 Speaker 1: teachers and instructors and even Berkeley professors say that ideally,

45:36 Speaker 1: when when you're young and you're starting out getting into music.

45:39 Speaker 1: That's the ideal place. Keyboard, any kind of keyboard is

45:43 Speaker 1: the ideal place to start in terms of building blocks

45:46 Speaker 1: for learning how to play music. Like that's like the

45:49 Speaker 1: single best place to start is learning how to play

45:52 Speaker 1: a keyboard.

45:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean yeah, because

45:56 Speaker 3: it's just up and it's just up and down. There's

45:57 Speaker 3: none of this like dumb sideways stuff where like you're

46:00 Speaker 3: repeating the same exact note like on guitar. You know, there's, however,

46:04 Speaker 3: many different places to play each note that's like in

46:07 Speaker 3: the same exact octave. You know that. It's like, I

46:10 Speaker 3: don't know, there's it's a lot more open to interpretation

46:14 Speaker 3: than I think that playing like piano or something like

46:17 Speaker 3: that is. And so it's really easy to see the

46:21 Speaker 3: more linear nature of music in that way than trying

46:25 Speaker 3: to like figure out a guitar fret board and be.

46:27 Speaker 1: Like exactly only and what's that right, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

46:32 Speaker 1: And I guess there's research to these shows that are

46:34 Speaker 1: really it's the fastest way to train your brain to

46:37 Speaker 1: understand music and understand music theory and everything is just

46:40 Speaker 1: learning on the keyboard. But which I didn't do, unfortunately,

46:42 Speaker 1: I wish I had.

46:43 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it would even give you like

46:45 Speaker 3: a really good rhythmic foundation if you wanted to switch

46:48 Speaker 3: over to like drums or something like that. A lot

46:50 Speaker 3: of people consider it to be a pretty percussive instrument itself.

46:53 Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, exactly. Well that might explain your trajectory

46:56 Speaker 1: there in the beginning.

46:57 Speaker 5: With it definitely does. It's everything. It was an easy

47:01 Speaker 5: you know bridge, it's everything. It's it's melody, harmony, uh,

47:07 Speaker 5: you know, bassline me, you know what I mean. I

47:11 Speaker 5: definitely because of that, I'd say my biggest strength in

47:15 Speaker 5: this band would be composition, you know. It's it's interesting

47:20 Speaker 5: my technique and my proficiency on the instrument on guitar

47:25 Speaker 5: has had to develop. I mean, I've become an infinitely

47:28 Speaker 5: better guitar player than I was when we first started

47:31 Speaker 5: writing music in like twenty nineteen. My my actual playing

47:37 Speaker 5: was just so behind every step of the way when

47:41 Speaker 5: I was learning guitar. But my main skill is being

47:44 Speaker 5: able to take I call it piano brain, you know,

47:46 Speaker 5: whenever we're doing anything. I just I got the visual

47:49 Speaker 5: piano in the sky okay, okay, And I kind of

47:53 Speaker 5: have to translate from guitar to piano in my mind

47:57 Speaker 5: and then back to guitar. It mixed communicating with him

48:00 Speaker 5: them not great sometimes and and everybody else too. This

48:04 Speaker 5: stuff going on in my brain is sometimes hard to explain.

48:07 Speaker 5: But given the opportunity to put it down and then

48:10 Speaker 5: explain it in terms of everyone's individual instrument and understanding,

48:15 Speaker 5: I've been told I do a good job and it's

48:17 Speaker 5: probably my biggest I would say it's probably my biggest

48:20 Speaker 5: attribute and contribution other than like the technical side of things, okay,

48:25 Speaker 5: as far as like tech actual technology, yeah, and setting

48:29 Speaker 5: that stuff up. So yeah, you know, let me just

48:32 Speaker 5: talk about myself for a bit.

48:35 Speaker 1: Now. That's uh no, that that's very interesting. And yeah,

48:38 Speaker 1: I think everything you says you said, they're really bolsters

48:41 Speaker 1: that idea that you know, learning on the keyboard is

48:44 Speaker 1: the best way to start.

48:45 Speaker 5: Well, what about you?

48:46 Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're just joining us, we're

48:48 Speaker 1: joined by a questing beast. Here in studio. We have

48:51 Speaker 1: Jane and Shane here, and so I'm curious about your

48:53 Speaker 1: trajectory now, Shane.

48:55 Speaker 3: So I had almost none of that. I always wanted

48:57 Speaker 3: to play guitar when I was seven I got appetite

48:59 Speaker 3: for this struction, and I would be listening to that

49:02 Speaker 3: and be like, how are they making these sounds happen?

49:05 Speaker 3: It was the first time I remember hearing like stereo

49:10 Speaker 3: guitar parts and noticing that, like each guitar was doing

49:13 Speaker 3: totally different things. And so that s more than like

49:17 Speaker 3: even like you know, slashes soloing being you know, great

49:21 Speaker 3: or whatever. It was the interaction between the guitars, like

49:25 Speaker 3: the riffs, and the way that the playing the two

49:28 Speaker 3: different things culminated in this one new thing that's ultimately

49:32 Speaker 3: way better than the individual things on its own, always

49:34 Speaker 3: really spoke to me. And so when I inevitably started

49:37 Speaker 3: picking up guitar at like twelve years old, that I

49:42 Speaker 3: started going towards rock and roll like immediately, and Jane

49:46 Speaker 3: and I started writing music together when we were like fifteen. Yeah,

49:50 Speaker 3: And it was funny because I had taken I had

49:53 Speaker 3: a guitar teacher at the time who had kind of

49:56 Speaker 3: like burnt me out on it because it was like

49:58 Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I was really learning a lot

49:59 Speaker 3: of stuff, and I felt like, you know, very stagnant.

50:02 Speaker 3: So I stopped playing for a while, and then one

50:04 Speaker 3: day I was like trying to figure out something that

50:07 Speaker 3: I was hearing in my head. I was like, oh,

50:08 Speaker 3: I wonder how you play that? And I didn't play

50:11 Speaker 3: it right at all. I played a totally new thing,

50:14 Speaker 3: and I was like, that's not the thing I was

50:17 Speaker 3: looking for. But it's pretty cool on its own. And

50:20 Speaker 3: I ended up talking to Jane at that point and

50:24 Speaker 3: being like, hey, I came up with this thing, like

50:26 Speaker 3: do you want to write the rest of it with me?

50:29 Speaker 3: And yeah?

50:31 Speaker 1: And that was so that was really the beginning of sure, yeah,

50:34 Speaker 1: of all this right.

50:35 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, yeah a long time ago.

50:37 Speaker 5: Yeah, fifteen years later. Wow, it sounds a lot different

50:41 Speaker 5: than it did when we were hanging out, just playing

50:44 Speaker 5: through a couple tiny little combo am in his bedroom.

50:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can imagine, Yeah, I can imagine. Well

50:53 Speaker 1: before we run out of time, so I want to

50:54 Speaker 1: make sure we remind everybody about you know two things.

50:57 Speaker 1: Of course, you know that you got the big show

50:59 Speaker 1: tomorrow and at Terminus Underground in Nashua and then and

51:03 Speaker 1: the tour. And also to where people can go online

51:06 Speaker 1: to keep up with everything that you're doing.

51:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, if you're on Instagram, you can find us

51:10 Speaker 3: at Questing beasts. There's no punctuation or anything. We really

51:13 Speaker 3: lucked out on that screen name there. We're also on Facebook.

51:17 Speaker 3: Those are like the two primary social places that we're at.

51:21 Speaker 3: We stream our music everywhere, and we've got the link

51:24 Speaker 3: tree on the Instagram page and on the Facebook page,

51:27 Speaker 3: so it's very easily accessible. We can find our music anywhere.

51:32 Speaker 1: And yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, so be a terminus tomorrow night.

51:35 Speaker 1: And then the tour started. What was a start date

51:38 Speaker 1: April fifth?

51:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, at Ralphs Rock Diner.

51:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, congratulations on that. That's amazing.

51:46 Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, I know we're stoked for that.

51:47 Speaker 1: That's amazing. Jane and Shane, thank you both so much

51:51 Speaker 1: for joining us.

51:52 Speaker 3: Thank you.

51:52 Speaker 1: This has been wonderful. And what should we I'll let

51:54 Speaker 1: you pick. Well, we'll play one more track from Birth

51:57 Speaker 1: to close out the show. What should we? What should

51:59 Speaker 1: we play?

52:00 Speaker 5: Uh?

52:00 Speaker 3: You want to do corruption? It's one of the heavier ones.

52:03 Speaker 3: I'm trying to push it out there. It's the it's

52:05 Speaker 3: like the only song that hasn't hit like a thousand

52:07 Speaker 3: on Spotify yet.

52:08 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

52:09 Speaker 3: And also I'm trying to I want to do a

52:11 Speaker 3: side project where I do death metal vocals. So if

52:13 Speaker 3: you don't an death metal band and you need a vocalist,

52:16 Speaker 3: you call me up.

52:17 Speaker 1: All right, all right, and let's see if we can

52:20 Speaker 1: push some streams on. This track absolutely sounds great. This

52:23 Speaker 1: is from the album is Birth and the band is

52:25 Speaker 1: Question Beast.

52:27 Speaker 2: Thanks again, brought the stuff shot in my mind longest

52:54 Speaker 2: myns Guy's boy Die.

52:58 Speaker 4: Train no vocal on I'm sorry, I say by Mentorian,

53:07 Speaker 4: I have alread hurried now I'm selling.

53:13 Speaker 3: My start was taken.

53:15 Speaker 4: St shot.

53:20 Speaker 6: Around sound shut up, It's.

53:29 Speaker 5: I don't where.

53:32 Speaker 4: Good Boat Shad, Stone Don't Wait, Take.

53:39 Speaker 3: Back the Car Roads.

53:41 Speaker 1: First Boat Flash and Stone God Don't Wait.

53:47 Speaker 4: Take it Back Far Roads Rise