Matt Connarton Unleashed: Quincy Lord

0:00 Speaker 1: Quincy Lord is here with us live in studio. Good morning, Hello, Hello, how are you good? Welcome back.

0:04 Speaker 2: I saw you using a cheat sheet on the calendar just then.

0:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, well when I look over there, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh until until it becomes afternoon. I don't recall what day of the month it is, but you know, by the afternoon I've woken up.

0:21 Speaker 2: Same. We'll get there together.

0:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so welcome. When was the last time we had you? We haven't had you since you've been since we've been here.

0:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh, I think uh, we had put out with my band's Sunset Electric. We had put out an album last November, and it was just a little bit before that came out because we had a couple of singles for you to play.

0:41 Speaker 1: So yeah, it.

0:42 Speaker 2: Must have been early last November, maybe October. So over a year yeah, yeah, long enough.

0:48 Speaker 1: And the band is still going right.

0:50 Speaker 2: The band's still going. We have a couple of shows coming up. I'm sure I'll glad about that as the day goes on. But we're having a good time. But I I've had all these songs collecting for a while on a side put out this solo record that I'm here to talk about. Obviously that was the title track, if we didn't say that A bright future.

1:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, I listened to the whole album. You sent us the whole thing, and I love it. I love the whole thing. Is just great. I appreciate that you said, So this is a collection of songs that you've been accumulating for a while now.

1:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I've been telling myself I was doing a solo acoustic record for a while, because yeah, I've written a lot, and there's a lot of songs that don't fit what the band does. So okay, But there's fifteen songs on this, which is obviously too many. About five too many, But basically there's a it's broken into three groups of five here, and there's a The last five songs, which are I just see as extra, are acoustic versions of songs we've already put out the band did on the last record or one.

1:55 Speaker 2: It's a single we've done since once, a song I did with my old band, and like twenty nineteen, but oh okay. And then there's five songs that are very old, some I wrote when I was a teenager, which is a lifetime ago. And so there's five very old songs, five new songs, and five songs that are re released acoustic versions. So I was like, let's just stick them all together and put them out there.

2:19 Speaker 1: So Okay, it's not.

2:20 Speaker 2: The most cohesive unit, but I think it's a I enjoy it. I like to have that they came to life and I can be like, Okay, I don't have you have this one, you know on the back of my mind, like I want to do something with that song someday, right right.

2:34 Speaker 1: In terms of recording these, who else is on these tracks with you? Or is it all you did? You do this all yourself?

2:40 Speaker 2: I did all the recording, but I had a bunch of friends join me on this. The Sunset electric tracks, the four of the tracks at the end, I had my bass player from the band, Dan Smiles or no on the bass guitar. My buddy Justin Fife helped with a bunch of these. Justin mckinnison also, they're both in the band with me. And then they had help from my friend Cassidy. That song we just played, she did some backup vocals on and she's on two other songs on the album. I met her in this past year, and yeah, just I heard her.

3:15 Speaker 2: We were at the same show and I heard her sing and I asked her to come feature on some songs, and she didn't. I was very glad it ended up working out really well.

3:26 Speaker 1: Is she in a band or she isn't?

3:28 Speaker 2: She actually does music therapy, I believe. Oh yeah, yeah, it's very cool. I'm a little jealous. It sounds like a fun thing to be doing.

3:36 Speaker 1: But yeah.

3:38 Speaker 2: And then my friend will Hart on one of the tracks that will probably play later steam Town, played some harmonica for us. So anyways, I had a bunch of people on this and snow Cone, my partner, did the al maartwork.

3:54 Speaker 1: If.

3:54 Speaker 2: For those who didn't see the picture, it's a kind of a newspaper front with the title of bright Future and reflection of an eye with atomic explosion in the background. So yeah, if to set the cynical tone there.

4:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, I really liked the cover. I was curious about that. Yeah, uh, that's that's really cool. How how is your approach different to recording these than than with the band.

4:20 Speaker 2: Well, I set out with the intent to just keep it so simple and just have my voice and the guitar, and I didn't let myself do that. And yeah, there's one track which ended up just being vocals and guitar and arrests had a lot more. But uh, you know, I mixed the band's record also, and we recorded that ourselves, and uh, I want to see how it would be to mix something without drums. So for me, the approach was thinking about the mix and that process of it, the post production of how's this going to be different?

4:51 Speaker 2: And I tried a bunch of different things on different songs, and in the future I'll look back and there'll be someone'll be like, Okay, that really worked, and others will be like, I should never have done.

5:01 Speaker 1: That, right, Well, that's yeah, that's the inevitability of some of those. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, did you record these in a studio or did you do it at home or.

5:12 Speaker 2: The studio being my apartment? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, much to my neighbor's chagrin, I'm sure.

5:16 Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, but you didn't have like a full drum set in there.

5:21 Speaker 2: No, there wasn't that, Just a lot of takes of me being very loud.

5:24 Speaker 1: Really Yeah, Oh that's funny. Uh you want to play I'm dying to hear you play live. Let me, uh pull that I'll pull that out. So, because we're already live on the air, we can't we can't do a proper soundtrack. But if you want to strum that guitar a little bit, got some Okay.

5:43 Speaker 2: I know from history that people like hearing guitar be strums.

5:45 Speaker 1: So yeah, well that sounds nice. Yeah, that sounds really good in the headphones.

5:52 Speaker 2: Sounds great in my headphones. I'm not wearing any if you're not listening, not watching.

5:59 Speaker 1: Right, yes, the uh, well radio is theater of the mine, so you could have actually just pretended to add headphones.

6:08 Speaker 2: You want me to be full of deceit today? Is that what we're doing?

6:12 Speaker 1: Well, it's early, you know, we can be more honest in the afternoon.

6:15 Speaker 2: See that's the thing, it's true. Sub morning voice. We'll have some gravel here.

6:18 Speaker 1: Oh that that can be a good thing. That can be a good thing. What are you going to play for us?

6:24 Speaker 2: So this song is called Dive, and it's actually from this album and anything I've released, Probably the oldest song I have because I've wrote it as a very angsty teenager. I think it was probably sixteen or seventeen when I wrote this, But I always liked the song, and it's a kind of my experience with Catholicism and breaking away from that.

6:49 Speaker 1: Oh interesting. I was raised Catholic, and I think a lot of people can. I haven't even where'd you play it yet, but I think a lot of people can probably relate.

7:00 Speaker 2: You said a excuse me, you're gonna make it.

7:02 Speaker 1: I'm not sick, but I was sick and like this cough just lingers forever.

7:07 Speaker 2: Oh, they likes to do that. Yes, but this is the first song you wrote, not the first song I wrote. No, Oh, okay, that's just of the songs I've released. It's probably the oldest Oh I got you, including the songs I released back in like twenty seventeen. Oh okay, very very old. I have notebooks and notebooks full of songs, but this is the oldest one I probably recorded. So okay, okay, cool, you'll you'll hear the angst?

7:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right. I'll look forward to this. So if you're just joining us, Squizzy Lord is here with us live in studio, and he's gonna play what's what is the name of it?

7:39 Speaker 2: Dive dive?

7:41 Speaker 1: All right, whenever you're.

7:42 Speaker 3: Ready need me home, man the duck I will find.

7:49 Speaker 4: Do we stun.

7:52 Speaker 5: Forgive my simson, make me you one, refute everything and done while you're drowning in your light. You wim a failed to mask your spy.

8:07 Speaker 4: You say that I shouldn't know my place. Scarce runs down my face.

8:16 Speaker 5: How could you believe it's true that God send me to challenge you.

8:24 Speaker 4: Well, that's what you say.

8:26 Speaker 5: Higher, you say that high um build me up from ground to sky, break my wings, holl earn to fly? Don't you half a one to lie? They built mountains? A who know flies? Just suita, Let the wind take cumen, Oh dive tie die.

8:58 Speaker 4: Through the blessing said in a since time.

9:02 Speaker 3: The shadow in your minds call them friend, tell no,

9:13 Speaker 3: then you save, don't ask why?

9:23 Speaker 4: On your neck with kilts and pain. You then left and the rain.

9:31 Speaker 6: Pray for and.

9:33 Speaker 4: Holy One, not the one on that this gun.

9:40 Speaker 7: As children learn to walk, it's eats some hearts to talk all the words, not to say.

9:51 Speaker 4: The prayers.

9:52 Speaker 5: I'll never pray, save the bread and drink the wine. Sits still memorize your lines. No, I told you that I'm done.

10:06 Speaker 4: Never meant to hurt anyone.

10:10 Speaker 5: Build me up from crown to sky, break my wings on the earthly. Don't you have one too? Why they built mountains?

10:23 Speaker 4: Salhoun of this just to time time, let the water take he came in, Oh tive side, time for the.

10:37 Speaker 5: Blessing, send the sense, tell the shadow in your mind.

10:45 Speaker 2: You can't accept his.

10:48 Speaker 4: Hurt to you.

10:52 Speaker 8: Just time, time, time out, tide die.

11:15 Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, Quincy Raymond is, I'm sorry, Quincy Lauren dear slipped there is here with us live in studio. You know why that happened because I tagged you on Facebook with the picture I just shared out. But now, what a great song. I had a feeling I would find that relatable and enjoy that.

11:36 Speaker 4: Does uh?

11:38 Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity? Sure obviously. So with that song you so you were raised I assume in a Catholic family, How do they does anyone in your family have they ever said anything about Have they heard that song and said anything about it?

11:50 Speaker 2: Or yeah? Well what I used to hear from because as an nansty teenager I did sing that up in my bedroom and my father would hear me going dive die have dive, and he'd be like, are you saying die die die? Like, oh, what is that song? You kept singing? Yeah? The comments I've had from my family since releasing it have mostly just been that ben that it sounds angsty, and they aren't wrong.

12:16 Speaker 1: Okay.

12:17 Speaker 2: I haven't been confronted in any such way. I get along with my family. We're on good terms, so, you know, gotta gotta poke the uh, gotta poke the bear little at holidays and such.

12:29 Speaker 1: Right, Right, No one's threatened to have an official papal excommunication or anything.

12:35 Speaker 2: Not quite yet. I can't can't say I'm too concerned.

12:38 Speaker 1: About right, Yeah, yes, understood, But.

12:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, that one's uh, it was a lot, but it was a lifetime ago. Also, yeah, you know, everyone's experience is different there. But I was like, someone might relate to this and hopefully it's a good song for someone who's still in that.

12:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's very very catchy. I like that a lot. I like that Quincy Lord is here with us and we're talking about the new album. Oh so where does the You talked about the artwork, But what about the title itself? A Bright Future?

13:10 Speaker 2: It's just the that's just I don't know where it came to me. I've just been working on lyrics for the song of Bright Future, which I don't believe ever says that, but at some point I was thinking about what the title should be and looking at the track list and the other names, like, all right, what would be a good title, And as that song was originally called Faster Faster, which is something I repeat a lot throughout the song, but it just had the right kind of cynicism to me. Once we found a picture, I had the idea for that, Yeah, that name to come out and that song itself, by the way, the title track bright Future.

13:47 Speaker 2: I wrote that because my partner's fate. One of her favorite genres of types of song is really upbeat songs about the world ending. Yeah, so like we will become silhouettes by the SS It's into the world as we know it by Rim obviously, songs like that. And she was getting ready for work one day and uh I it must have been a weekend because I was home and uh I was just following her around one and just you know, making up words I heard and You're like, I actually kind of like that. Let me see if I can turn that into something.

14:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's cool.

14:30 Speaker 2: It's the goal was to write an upbeat song about you know, world ending, the fallout.

14:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it. Yeah, I was trying to think of some more examples of Yeah, it seems like there are quite a few. Yeah, you mentioned the end of the world as we know at RM. What else is?

14:45 Speaker 5: Oh?

14:46 Speaker 1: You know one that nobody ever thinks of?

14:47 Speaker 9: Is?

14:47 Speaker 6: Uh?

14:47 Speaker 1: Do you know the song Wake Me Up on Judgment Day by Steve Winwood?

14:51 Speaker 2: I don't.

14:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, no one remembers that one, but you did. That's except me.

14:55 Speaker 2: Steve Winwood would be very glad right now.

14:57 Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, he's still alive, right, Steve would.

15:00 Speaker 2: As far as I know. I think you still haven't talked to him in a while.

15:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. Are there are there other themes? Or is there a theme? I probably not to the album because you mentioned that, you know, they've they've kind of come from.

15:15 Speaker 2: Absolute, absolute chaos. Yeah, it's all over the place. It's no rhyme or reason throughout.

15:20 Speaker 1: But it is cohesive because, like I said, I listened to the whole thing and I and I listened to everything at once. I didn't, you know, it sound like I listened to some and then listen more later. So to me it seemed really cohesive.

15:31 Speaker 2: Well, despite when they were written, at the very least they were for the most part they were recorded or at least mixed at the same time. Yeah, a couple of songs that did start recording in like uh twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. It was just like, I'm not redoing this. I'm just going to keep those files and yeah, I sound the same. I'm sure it's going to be fine, right right, But uh, it was not really theme, I mean, with a Bright Future. It was just the reason that that was like the strongest feeling, is why I guess I kept that as the title for the album.

16:01 Speaker 2: Just you know, there's a lot of anxieties. I think Monday is going to be an anxious day for a lot of people. If you have no idea what's going on in politics, you can figure it out. But yeah, which, well there is that, but uh, just a lot of terrible things happening in the world at all times and general consciousness of that is enough to weigh on someone, I think, and got to keep living life as in the world we are and you.

16:32 Speaker 1: Know, yes, yes, hope for the best boy.

16:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I started your political wheel turning here.

16:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, yeah, what you know, we used to do politics on the show and then we we took that element.

16:49 Speaker 2: Out of the I didn't know you took it out well out of.

16:52 Speaker 1: The wm n H version of the show. Now I only do that online. But but but I am uh.

16:59 Speaker 2: You're gonna make it Matt. Matt needs a little drink.

17:02 Speaker 1: I think that's what's causing my my cough is the uh sense of dread and doom I feel. But anyway, well, I do need a gulp of water.

17:13 Speaker 2: That's right. We're gonna We're just gonna play a little waiting music.

17:15 Speaker 1: Well, that's right. Oh I like that. That's nice to help spring my stress level down too. It's very peppy. You can make a song about the end of the world out of that, sure could, But you can just make it about Monday. Although it is Martin Luther King day to Monday. So that's positive.

17:38 Speaker 2: There you go.

17:38 Speaker 1: There's a It's weird though, that these two things are converging on the same day.

17:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't seem to go together.

17:44 Speaker 1: No, they really do not. They certainly do not.

17:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, but uh, now that's that's the least we can say about it.

17:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Now with the band, so with Sunset Elelecture, I know them, yes, yes, so are you? While you were recording this album. Did the band keep going or did you guys take a break while you were doing this?

18:12 Speaker 2: I don't know the band kick guard. I did this very slowly over this past year. There was like weeks of focus and weeks I didn't touch it at all, and that's some of it. That was just writing songs. But no, we've been we've been playing. We have a couple of shows coming up. We're gonna be at a Huskies pub and Wooster on the eighth and of February. And uh, we're around. But we have been working on a new album. Also, we're in writing stages, but we're almost done writing the next record and excellent, which you know.

18:44 Speaker 2: Sometimes I would start a song intending it to be for my solo thing and I was like, ah, nah, the band will like this one, and yeah, you know, just bringing songs into them and seeing what sticks and what they vibe would so yeah, but no, we've still been going. We have a great time playing and practicing, and yeah, it's a blast. I always look forward to playing with the band. I like playing the solo shows too, Obviously, it's a whole different experience. I can play soft stuff, I can get more lyrical, but The energy is great when the band's playing and people are clapping and singing along and we're full of antics and jumping around and messing with each other.

19:20 Speaker 2: It's it's always fun.

19:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now with the solo shows, do you do like really lying sets? You do like multi hour? Yeah?

19:27 Speaker 2: Usually? I mean I do a lot of breweries. I'm actually today I'm playing at a seven Saws brewing in a Holden, mass That's one of my favorite spots. But I'm playing there a very long time. Yeah, like how long, like before COVID, probably like twenty eighteen, I want to say I started, which might be around when they opened. I lived in Lemonster at the time, so it was a lot closer. Yeah, so it made sense that I found them and was going there. But yeah, I've been going there. I was there every Sunday for as a duo with one of my bandmates for a good while.

19:59 Speaker 2: But anyways, I'll be there. But yeah, it's like a three hour set when I'm playing at a brewery, which you know, I like to play my originals do a lot and people are very receptive to that.

20:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

20:09 Speaker 2: Good, But I also you know, play covers and make people happy. Sure, the best thing is when you play a cover a song you know but that's not popular, and people come, I really like that's original of yours. Yeah, well you picked a one that wasn't mine, but I understand I love it too.

20:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's funny when that happens, because, yeah, you know, we've had a lot of guests over the years who you know, they'll they'll do covers, but they'll do something obscure and then people don't even know.

20:35 Speaker 2: It's just associated with them forever.

20:37 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was in a band where we years ago, long time ago. I was in a band called My Life Crisis, and we did a Kiss cover, but we did a song called Hate, which is from their most obscure album and only the most diehard Kiss fans even know about. And it sounded so much like everything else, like all our originals that yeah, nobody knew.

20:56 Speaker 2: What did you do in the band?

20:57 Speaker 1: I was a bass player?

20:59 Speaker 2: How'd you like it? Do you still play?

21:01 Speaker 1: I haven't picked up a bass in a long time, yeah, but I used to be. I was pretty active at one point. I was in three different bands at once and we were all doing a lot of shows. But I never started a family because obviously you can't do that if you have kids. So I avoided that. But yeah, now I'm just too busy with other things, so I haven't. I haven't played in a long time, but sometimes I miss it and then I remember all the work that goes into it and it's like, yeah, I don't miss it that much.

21:27 Speaker 2: Labor of love.

21:27 Speaker 1: I think they'd say, yeah, absolutely. But the nice thing about what you're doing when you do it solo acoustic, of course, that opens up a lot of different places you can play, and like, like, you have no shortage of opportunity. I'm sure as far as where you play.

21:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can one one person can fit in wherever, exact web side. If you haven't a bad day for your voice or you're just all over to play, you have no one to blame, like, oh no, the drummer was the drummer was hammered that day, Like, you can't blame the drummer when it's just you, Like, no, that that was just me not being perfect. Sorry, guys, Yeah, yeah, it's been known to happen.

22:02 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, if you're just joining us. Casey, lord, Casey, what what am I doing? Quincy, Lord, Matt's having a day. I am I'm thinking about Monday.

22:10 Speaker 2: I'm gonna write it down for you next time.

22:12 Speaker 1: Yes, I think I'm thinking about Monday and I'm distracted. Nothing nothing too terrible, well at least not the first day. Nothing terrible will happen, I'm sure.

22:20 Speaker 2: Well the next day, I think there's some terrible plans. No week, we should probably the.

22:24 Speaker 1: Next day, Yeah, well we'll we'll enjoy the holiday. The next day we'll we'll be terrible. But uh, do you want to you want to play another live one for us? Yeah?

22:31 Speaker 2: Why not?

22:32 Speaker 1: Dying to hear another one? Let me, uh get that other mic back up there. That guitar sounds nice.

22:43 Speaker 2: Sure, I'm gonna play you.

22:44 Speaker 8: Uh.

22:45 Speaker 2: This was one of the songs I actually had released already with Sunset Electric, but I released as an acoustic version of this album because it's a lot of fun and uh, I don't think. I'm pretty sure I didn't play it last semess here it's called the Inn Okay, Well, no, we've we played the recording last time. That's it. Okay, but I want to play it, so we're going to awesome answer. I know it's a guess. It's about feeling lost, it's a it's frun, oh my, oh.

23:21 Speaker 10: My, you're sat my sore eyes reach footprints from the dark. Come sit behind up one's lights and you're in a dark place. We've all given to desire with the blind leading the blind, and you're preaching to the bar.

23:40 Speaker 5: I said, tell me where the car? Where I can lay my bow? Where can lay my bo? I said, bo shack, call to the bow?

23:55 Speaker 4: Where lemma? Where my bone? This is my own night loma. Oh mah see you're.

24:15 Speaker 5: Not ecusole through your ashes through the wind, losing low control this fick orang nights from a single out deacon. You can say to night, but you can't say bob yasin say nothing.

24:33 Speaker 4: Oh tell me where to go? Where I can let him a bottle?

24:40 Speaker 8: Where can leam my bone?

24:43 Speaker 4: I said, shall go to the road?

24:48 Speaker 1: Where can I lena pounce?

24:51 Speaker 4: Where can name that boat? Man can's called half night?

25:02 Speaker 4: Has her her? You don't drop the part slice he's a ta be sure, But I'm not.

25:18 Speaker 2: To come up.

25:51 Speaker 1: I did not.

25:54 Speaker 4: I'm searching for home. It's pleased to come my own on my.

26:02 Speaker 2: Did meet to this road?

26:05 Speaker 5: Where can a lammabones wah, tell me where to go? Whereckma problems that Puble Shock all through the ball Where can a Lama?

26:29 Speaker 4: Where? Well?

26:38 Speaker 6: No, are I.

26:43 Speaker 4: Weak? Lemma?

26:48 Speaker 1: Oh that is cool. I really like that. Yeah, that sounded great. If you're just joining us, we have Quincy Layd here with us live in studio playing some tracks live and of course we're featuring songs from his new album, A Bright Future and Refresh my Memory. Is it out now or is it coming out?

27:06 Speaker 2: It is out now. I think it came out on January first.

27:08 Speaker 1: Felt appropriate, Yeah, excellent. So it's uh, it's on all the streaming platforms.

27:13 Speaker 2: It is on all the streaming platforms as far as I know. We had a little issue with Apple, but it's live there now too. So for those who were asking me about it.

27:21 Speaker 1: Oh, what was the problem with Apple? I'm always curious about this type of thing. I have no idea.

27:27 Speaker 2: It was just from the distributors, just like, oh, delivery to iTunes and Apple failed, it said, and I emailed them like six times and they got back to me last night being like oh it's fixed.

27:37 Speaker 1: Now, and like well thanks, oh okay, good good.

27:39 Speaker 2: Only took them a couple of weeks. It could be worse. Busy Distro kid, is that who you used CD Baby in the case, I used to use distro Kid, but it was a didn't end up being worth it.

27:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard that from from quite a few people.

27:53 Speaker 2: Well, it depends if you're someone that. Uh. I have friends who just like you know, they'll have an idea and they'll just knock out some recording, especially it's like house music or whatever. Yeah, just something like that where they're or tecto or whatever and they'll just you know, upload a song at a time, and yeah, you know, having a subscription, which is how district it works, and you just upload all you want as opposed to per release, then it's worth it for those people. But yeah, the trouble is if you ever stop paying them to take your music down, or you have to give them fifty bucks per release, which is a lot of money.

28:23 Speaker 6: Yeah.

28:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, are you doing physical CDs as well? Or I am? I think I have some with me. Oh okay, cool. Yeah, that's it's interesting how that's changed over the years, because you know, when I first started interviewing bands, and you know, it was it was a long time ago. And just give you an idea of how long ago it was when I first started. This was before I was at WM andh like, guests wouldn't be even Oh I should have turned that mic down. There we go. So before I was at WM and h uh, instead of sending me emailing me files, before people were really comfortable with that, people would give me a CD.

29:08 Speaker 1: And the move was very often and this was typical. Uh, the CD wouldn't even be in a case. It would be on a CDR and they would write on it with sharpy what it was, and they would hand it to me on their finger. It's no case, and.

29:26 Speaker 9: You know.

29:26 Speaker 1: And then of course, eventually people got comfortable with just emailing tracks using Dropbox and services like that, Google Drive and whatnot. And then so that stopped. But also a lot of a lot of people just stopped, you know, because there was this thought, well, everything's online now and with Spotify and everything, there's no reason to make CDs. And then and so it seems like for a while, most of the guests I had, you know, I would ask them, while, are you going to do a physical CD? And they'd look at me like I was nuts.

29:54 Speaker 1: And then but now, over the past I don't know, five or six years, probably you know, everybody's doing CDs again. And some are even doing vinyl, which apparently is very expensive.

30:03 Speaker 2: But there's definitely a vinyl resurgence for sure.

30:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I think I think it was twenty twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs.

30:14 Speaker 2: I did hear that? Yeah, well, you know, the biggest issue here is anyone buying a new car for the past five years, I'm guessing the vast majority don't have CD players in them. I bought a new car last year. I had to get it of my old one, and I went from having, you know, a six CD changer that I had all my favorites in and you know that one of those books that just has full of little CDs. Oh yeah, you know, have a couple hundred CDs in there. And you know, if you're driving out in the boondogs and don't have service, you know, didn't have to worry about having songs on my phone.

30:48 Speaker 2: I could just you know, yes, And I like listening to records start to bottom. A lot of people don't like doing that, don't have the attention for it. But I like to commit and see what's going on.

31:00 Speaker 1: Yep.

31:01 Speaker 2: But uh, you know, I've always liked doing CDs it's good to just have like a little a little something.

31:07 Speaker 1: Well that's the thing. You know, it's fun to listen or it's fun to look at liner notes and the artwork and everything that whole experience. I mean, that's you know. When I was a kid, I always loved you know, if I was really into an artist, I would actually read everything that was in there, like like who their manager was, you know, just everything. If I was really into somebody, you know.

31:26 Speaker 2: Like, oh this guy played sex phone on that one song. That's very interesting.

31:29 Speaker 1: H yeah, because I could get obsessive if I still can. But but it's cool that it, you know that it never went away, even even cassettes. I think it was about five or six years ago. I was on band camp dot com and just looking for new artists in the area and I found somebody who was making cassettes. And the first one that I found, I thought it was a fluke and I was like, oh, they're doing this kind of retro thing, you know, is it like an indie pop band from pan State College or something. And then I found more and I'm like, oh my god, it's crazy.

32:05 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's definitely a retro hipster kind of thing. I mean, yeah, the only people I really usually see selling cassettes are like folk punk slash crusspunk bands and you know, very di y and indie people. I don't see many eight tracks anymore. No, yeah, my one my bandmate, and I'm in another band called Pants to the band that's largely the same members but all had different roles as a sunset. But our keyboardist, just Mcinness, is the singer in Pants. It's all his songs since Old Vibe. Anyways, he has the means to record eight track really and he's he's dead set on, you know, our next recording, just releasing a couple like that just to say we could.

32:52 Speaker 1: That's fun.

32:52 Speaker 2: I do remember seeing Cheap Trick like ten years ago and they had just as a gag, released an eight track of their new record at the time, just that they could say they have the number one eight track in the world. Yeah, which, yeah, I guess so also the only But yeah, I was.

33:08 Speaker 1: In a band called The Jakes. This was like twenty years ago, and we had a running joke in the band that we were going to release like a single, and of course if we did, but if we did that today, you know it would kind of be almost normal. People would be like, oh, that's cool retrothegue.

33:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then be like, how do we use it?

33:24 Speaker 1: Right? Exactly.

33:25 Speaker 2: The tracks also have the dumb thing where they like flip over part way through and oh yeah, sometimes in the middle of a song if they plan it poorly. Yeah, or the track list will be in a different order than like on a CD or vinyl, a different order than name intended, just so it fits, yeah, and like that's that's not okay.

33:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's interesting to see how the technologies change and how things Some things never go away. You know, a lot of people have this impression that vinyl went away and then it came back, but it never actually went away.

33:56 Speaker 2: I mean, even it got cheap is what happened, and it got expensive again.

33:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly. But even at its lowest EBB, you know, all the major labels were still releasing by you know, limited edition vinyl or whatnot.

34:07 Speaker 2: But yeah, it was always like a cool thing that bands. It's just very expensive, so it's often inaccessible to smaller bands.

34:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm convinced, Uh, there's no statistical data to prove this, but I'm sure that most people. Probably the vast majority of people who buy vinyl don't even have a record player, don't have anything to put it on. They just buy it because, you know, if you're really a fan. I'm talking about if you're buying like brand new vinyl, not if you're going to I mean, if you're going to a record store and flipping through and buying use, you know, old vinyl, obviously you have something to play it on, probably unless you're looking for something rare, just to have it.

34:42 Speaker 1: But I think most people who buy new vinyl, they probably don't have anything to play it on. They just if they're a fan of an artist.

34:47 Speaker 2: Right, it's just cool to have it. Lot of people hang them on the walls. Yeah, exactly, they do a lot of I don't know what to call it, but you know, instead of just a plain black record, it's like it will be like a cool splattered thing or have all different colors in there and whatever process they go through, but you know, to make it pretty to look at.

35:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

35:06 Speaker 2: The only time I really buy a new one is some of the some of my favorite bands that are smaller, uh, you know, I go and see them live and I like to support them. And buy their merch So that's when I'll buy one, and I'll you know, i'll throw it on. But in reality, I'll play it once or twice, or at home on a rainy day or something once in a while. But yeah, it's you know, it's there's not much reason for me to put on vinyl. You know, I have an apartment. I don't have a great like stats sound set up for it.

35:32 Speaker 2: It's not like i'ea blasting it through my favorite speakers or anything. So it's like I see my worst speakers with the highest fidelity recording I could have, and him and see how that goes.

35:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't even have Jenny and I don't even have a CD player at home. We have one here, but I think the only one who ever uses it to the best of my knowledge. I don't know if you know Rob as a veto. He also show here called Grand Estate of Mind Fridays at six.

35:59 Speaker 2: I don't I haven't met him, but I've I've watched. I've had some friends go on his show before.

36:04 Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, and he also owns Pembroke City Limits, which everybody yeah, yeah, yeah, so Rob actually will bring in CDs and and he so I know this. I know it works, but I've never I've never used it. But but no, but people give us CDs and you know, and it's nice to have them and and whatnot. But yeah, but we have nothing at home to play the mine. But but it's but it's nice to have them. I was curious this occurred to me as you were playing that song that was called bones.

36:33 Speaker 2: The inn oh, the end with two ends, at least two ends. You can use more if you want.

36:37 Speaker 1: Where did I get bones?

36:38 Speaker 2: I do say bones a lot in a song.

36:40 Speaker 1: That's why. Okay, do you say the ends on the song at all?

36:44 Speaker 2: I say the in a couple of times, but once it's with one end. Once it's with two ends.

36:49 Speaker 1: So right, so it's different.

36:50 Speaker 2: There's a total three ends across the ends.

36:52 Speaker 1: But I got to I was curious what goes into your decision when you when you write a song, whether it's something you should keep for yourself or something maybe to use for Sunset Electric like you kind of have some criteria in your mind or is it just a vibe thing?

37:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sometimes I largely that last bit. Sometimes I do go about writing a song, and I haven't with the band in mind, and I'll write it and you know, the thing about what they're probably going to come up with for their parts or how they'll react. But yeah, what I've been doing. I'll backtrack a little. So on the record we put out last year, Graffiti Hearts, the majority of those songs I had written ahead of times, some like years prior, so a lot of that was me bringing completed songs to the band and then you know, making some small adjustments.

37:42 Speaker 2: But sometimes its a bit of a jerk about this needs to stay like it is. And yeah, so since you know those that album was put out, everything I've done with the band, you know, I've tried to bring them the songs before they're you know, completed. You know, here's a verse and of course here's you know how far I got on day one of writing, like with a spark, and then I'll bring it into practice and be like, what do you guys think of this? See if it sticks, see if they vibe with it, and if it doesn't, you know, that's all I need to know.

38:15 Speaker 2: And other times it's like a softer, gentler song and it's clearly not going to be the right vibe for them. So yeah, some mix of the two. But it's usually apparent when I start writing it if it will be something they'll like or not.

38:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, now do you have I mean obviously so you went what was it fifteen tracks on this?

38:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, a few too many, fifteen five or rereleased, so I'll call it like I see it as like a grouping of ten like an album and then extras.

38:44 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have even more that you recorded that you decided to leave out or maybe use on a future release?

38:49 Speaker 2: I have many more that I have, you know, another twenty songs. I considered that that I were old songs that I considered putting on this, But we'll see. You know there there's another problems with Catholicism song that I was like, those would go well together. I'm like, maybe I'll spread it out and just make sure that notion stays,

39:13 Speaker 2: you know something talk about it holidays.

39:15 Speaker 1: Was it hard to kind of because you have so many songs? Was it hard to kind of pare it down and make those? Were those hard to stay?

39:21 Speaker 2: So the it was less sad and more I wanted this to be a quick thing. Yeah, not end up being a quick thing because I couldn't. I kept being like, oh well, this song, I half wrote, you know, maybe I could just finish that and put it on like, I'm not gonna the band. It doesn't fit the band. Maybe I'll just and then just you know, because I was doing it alone, there was no one to tell me no, yeah, or stop, or you have enough songs or you don't need to record the sixteen layers on that song, I'm like, yeah, but I want to play the banjo.

39:50 Speaker 2: Who's going to stop me?

39:52 Speaker 6: Me?

39:52 Speaker 2: No, right, I want to play the banjo. I want to play the mandolin. I'm going to do them.

39:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you play both. There's both banjo and mandolin, that's all.

39:59 Speaker 2: You know, as well well as I played all of that on the album. I mean each is only on one song. I do play those. I mean I think my cousin Josiah put it that there's a genre he'd call it of a guitar players who pick up a banjo. Yeah, and that's very much what I am. I'm not a I don't do the claw hammer the proper things. Mandolin. I'm probably closer to doing it properly because it's the same motions as far as the pick goes, different tuning and such. But I like to dabble. I'm definitely better at guitar than those, but I get to play guitar out and every now and then I'll get a get the notion to like, oh, if I practiced mandolin, maybe I'll bring it to my show today and do some songs on mandolin.

40:48 Speaker 2: But I'm always like, I'll wait, tell him doing a duo thing at some point and mess around with it then. But I liked the excuse to play with different instruments.

40:56 Speaker 1: And just you know, I've never even picked up a man is it?

41:01 Speaker 2: They're not heavy? You could do it?

41:02 Speaker 1: I well, I hope, So I don't know the web and coffin I might. I don't know, I might not have the strength.

41:09 Speaker 9: Is it?

41:10 Speaker 1: Is it drastically different in terms of I mean, I assume if you're a guitar player, you're ahead of the game, right, But is it like how challenging is it to pick up a not to pick up a mandolin?

41:21 Speaker 2: But semantics, well, I think from going from guitar to mandolin, the easiest part is the fact that your strumming hand is yeah, very familiar. So yeah, it's getting used to tiny frets that you have to like it punt your fingers on, and also just retraining your brain because our guitar is tuned in force mostly and mandolin's violence whatever, they're all tuned in fists. Yeah, so you just had to be like, oh, yeah, the notes not where I'm not where I think it's going to be, and just you know, learn the shapes and patterns and your scales.

41:57 Speaker 1: And yeah, interesting, and you're fine. How many strings on a man.

42:02 Speaker 2: To win eight? Well it's four, but they're doubled like a twelve string guitar.

42:07 Speaker 1: Oh I got ya? Okay, okay. And what about the banjo? I've heard I've heard people say that banjo isn't as difficult to learn as one might think. But then again, all the people i've heard say that are really good at playing the banjo.

42:23 Speaker 2: So uh, not being a proficient banjo player, I'll put it here. You can coming as a guitar player especially, you can come and you can make decent sounds on a banjo, and you can play it and make noise. A lot of it's tuned. E sees me much like a guitar, except with a very high string on the wrong side, which you get used to. But if you're playing banjo, like a banjo player would like a blue grass player or traditional player would. I think that requires a high level skill. I think, you know, blue brass players are some of the most talented musicians there are.

42:57 Speaker 1: I agree.

42:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, you just have a focus and you just shred on it. There's no drums to guide you all just have to lock in together and you know, yeah, they go crazy. So I think that's a high level in my mind, is a high level of talent. I'm always impressed by good uh banjo players. My friend Ross plays the banjo very well.

43:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a y It's aw.

43:21 Speaker 2: It's always it's always fun to see someone playing. You're just like wow, there's like.

43:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm always impressed by that. Yeah. Absolutely, Or even just being able to fingerpick just you know, just generally. I mean because I you know, I'm a bass player and I play with a pick most of the time. Even when even playing bass, I.

43:40 Speaker 2: Don't have to tell anyone that it's okay, I use it.

43:44 Speaker 1: Everyone already knows. Paul McCartney does it.

43:47 Speaker 2: So I used to pick on the bass too. I've played bass in the bands before and on this record, I've played a lot of bass obviously, but uh, yeah, I use a pick it's easier.

43:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

43:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one track I actually I went to the and you know, use my fingers because it's I wanted it to be an upright bass, but I didn't have an upright bass. It was too impatient to ask someone else to play it or to go and borrow one and get used to it. I'm like, I'm just gonna roll my tone knobs back and use my fingers and it will be fine.

44:19 Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. That's something I've never done either. I've never played an upright bass.

44:24 Speaker 2: Bucket lists Matt bucket list.

44:25 Speaker 1: No know, it looks it just looks so awkward to me.

44:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, that one's a little harder to pick up.

44:30 Speaker 6: Yeah.

44:31 Speaker 1: Physically, yeah, it's heavy, it goes, it's big. Oh interesting,

44:39 Speaker 1: So you so all that? So you do all the guitar and the mandolin and the banjo on the album.

44:44 Speaker 2: And for the most part, I did have a Justin Feife, who's my dear bandmate he on the Sunset Electric song, to have him come in and like do acoustic versions of his parts. Just I was like, you already know this, Like, let's.

45:02 Speaker 1: Do the thing.

45:03 Speaker 2: Yea but yeah, I you know, I like being in my tower song and just recording all the little bits, and I could use a little thing here. I record a lot more tracks than I use And maybe maybe I did too much here. Maybe I need to calm down a little.

45:20 Speaker 1: And is the only other vocalist Cassidy Is she the only other one.

45:23 Speaker 2: Justin Fife also also sang on that. I think it's just the two of them. Oh no, Justin McInnis also did a few vocals. I had a lot on the back of the album and on band camp. It's very specific about who did what on what song. But a lot of songs are just me.

45:44 Speaker 1: All these songs on the album. Are these all songs that you play live actively or.

45:50 Speaker 2: Just about There's there's one song that I haven't done live yet, which is called so It Goes, and it's you know, I wrote this is this going on?

46:01 Speaker 1: Oh I can turn it back up? Yeah?

46:02 Speaker 2: Absolutely, just just because it's I wrote the song originally intending it to be for the band, because I just had this fun like it was like a bass or if I had like.

46:18 Speaker 6: Like that.

46:22 Speaker 2: Whatever, and I was like, oh, that's like a cool group we sing. I was like and I was like messing around on the drums and I was like, all right, this could be a cool thing. But uh, I just never had that next part that would make sense with the band. And I picked it up one day and you know, just start singing the next section and uh. But anyways, it's just I guess I just need to practice it. Like it's a little bit of a throwaway song, but I like listening to recording. It makes me happy.

46:48 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I try to keep moving.

46:56 Speaker 2: And like it has this whole like kind of melancholy feel to it as it goes and you know, yeah, it's one of my many songs about you know, mental health and you know, just being a mess in general.

47:06 Speaker 7: But uh.

47:08 Speaker 2: But that's the only one I haven't really done live, which I could probably practice and get there, but I've just never had the like, this isn't the one I want to show off really necessarily.

47:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like I like it for me, but right, no, that is a I do like that riff. It's got a nice groof to it. Yeah. Well, the time goes quickly. We are already approaching the top of the hour, so I want to make sure we get one more studio track I'm sure. But before we do that, so what do people need to know about where to keep up with everything that you're doing and the band too, Sunset Electric.

47:41 Speaker 2: Yeah sure, So all all my social media's under Quincy Lord Music. Quincy Lord Music. Quincy Lord was my name, in case you missed that. Yeah, Sunset Electric Band is where you can find all the band stuff. I post most on Facebook because I resent social media in general and can't commit to too many of them, and that's the one that lets me make events. But you can follow us there. I'm going to be at you were talking to Eleanor earlier. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, So I'm going to be playing at Terminus on Tuesday for their whole shin dig that's going on.

48:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, Jenny and I will be there for that.

48:23 Speaker 2: All awesome. Yeah, I look forward to So I'll be playing a lot of the album live and more awake than so that will be a good time. Next week is it now? In two weeks we're going to be on WMFO with Top Tufts Radio with the.

48:40 Speaker 1: Band on the Town with Mikey d Yeah. Yeah, excellent.

48:43 Speaker 2: Yeah we went on there in like twenty eighteen or nineteen or something, so it's been a good while and Joel just made us sound so good. We had these out of tune drums and he just he made it all sound great. Yeah, Tuesday at Terminus today at seven Saws and Holden and the band. Next band show is going to be February eighth at Husky's Pub, our favorite spot in Worcester.

49:03 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool, And we'll we'll end with steam Town. I guess that's who should we do?

49:10 Speaker 2: We have time for me to say a quick thing about it or oh yeah, go ahead, yeah, absolutely so, just I'll be quick a quick story with Steamtown. This is one of the old songs I wrote a long time ago. Once upon a time. It was me and I was driving up and down to each I kind of ran away and was driving up and down the East coast with a couple of friends, sleeping in my nineteen ninety six Pontiac rand Am And anyways, it was written as a letter for me at the time to this girl I cared about because I was I kind of ran away and I was like, hey, I miss you.

49:44 Speaker 2: I wish you wanted to come with us. She didn't, and like, you know, just knowing it was kind of saying like I miss you and I wish you were here, but also I'm going to go do what I want. So it's kind of me being a jerk with it. It seems a little sweet. And at the beginning the song says, dear Simba, because it's a it was written as a letter to her. Okay, okay, a very long time ago. Sima's a dear friend whom's Eleanor might have mentioned she helps out.

50:07 Speaker 1: I was gonna say that name came up earlier. Yeah, yeah, interesting, such a small world.

50:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, Simba is how they wrote me into going and playing Tuesday.

50:15 Speaker 1: Gotcha? I gotcha? All right? Very cool, very cool. Well, thank you so much, Quincy lord. This has been wonderful.

50:21 Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

50:22 Speaker 1: We will leave you with this. This is called Steamtown from the new album A Bright Future.

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51:09 Speaker 4: There's nothing you could say, and lace seemed tell me learn to catch a rag.

51:18 Speaker 9: But the first time we have snaggle sat faces in our times they let us fall asleep with the rank and broken jars to dream. The bout lady left.

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52:16 Speaker 6: The tracks were off creating we have history.

52:20 Speaker 11: At night we can only follow on, so we d let asday.

53:00 Speaker 9: Same time we learned to catch run the first time we fell, smiles on our faces.

53:08 Speaker 6: And our lives.

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53:26 Speaker 4: We learned to cash or eye.

53:34 Speaker 2: Sis Calena.

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