Matt Connarton Unleashed: Quincy Lord

0:00 Speaker 1: Quincy Lord is here with us live in studio. Good morning, Hello, Hello,

0:02 Speaker 1: how are you good? Welcome back.

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

0:06 Speaker 2: just then.

0:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, well when I look over there, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:11 Speaker 1: it's uh until until it becomes afternoon. I don't recall

0:16 Speaker 1: what day of the month it is, but you know,

0:19 Speaker 1: 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

0:25 Speaker 1: had you? We haven't had you since you've been since

0:28 Speaker 1: we've been here.

0:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh, I think uh, we had put out

0:33 Speaker 2: with my band's Sunset Electric. We had put out an

0:35 Speaker 2: album last November, and it was just a little bit

0:38 Speaker 2: before that came out because we had a couple of

0:40 Speaker 2: 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

0:46 Speaker 2: 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

0:54 Speaker 2: coming up. I'm sure I'll glad about that as the

0:56 Speaker 2: day goes on. But we're having a good time. But

0:59 Speaker 2: I I've had all these songs collecting for a while

1:02 Speaker 2: on a side put out this solo record that I'm

1:04 Speaker 2: here to talk about. Obviously that was the title track,

1:08 Speaker 2: if we didn't say that A bright future.

1:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, I listened to the whole album. You sent us

1:14 Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I love it. I love the

1:16 Speaker 1: whole thing. Is just great. I appreciate that you said,

1:19 Speaker 1: So this is a collection of songs that you've been

1:21 Speaker 1: accumulating for a while now.

1:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I've been telling myself I was doing

1:26 Speaker 2: a solo acoustic record for a while, because yeah, I've

1:29 Speaker 2: written a lot, and there's a lot of songs that

1:31 Speaker 2: don't fit what the band does. So okay, But there's

1:35 Speaker 2: fifteen songs on this, which is obviously too many. About

1:38 Speaker 2: five too many, But basically there's a it's broken into

1:43 Speaker 2: three groups of five here, and there's a The last

1:46 Speaker 2: five songs, which are I just see as extra, are

1:50 Speaker 2: acoustic versions of songs we've already put out the band

1:53 Speaker 2: did on the last record or one. It's a single

1:56 Speaker 2: we've done since once, a song I did with my

1:59 Speaker 2: old band, and like twenty nineteen, but oh okay. And

2:03 Speaker 2: then there's five songs that are very old, some I

2:06 Speaker 2: wrote when I was a teenager, which is a lifetime ago.

2:09 Speaker 2: And so there's five very old songs, five new songs,

2:13 Speaker 2: and five songs that are re released acoustic versions. So

2:17 Speaker 2: I was like, let's just stick them all together and

2:18 Speaker 2: 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

2:25 Speaker 2: enjoy it. I like to have that they came to

2:27 Speaker 2: life and I can be like, Okay, I don't have

2:28 Speaker 2: you have this one, you know on the back of

2:30 Speaker 2: my mind, like I want to do something with that

2:32 Speaker 2: song someday, right right.

2:34 Speaker 1: In terms of recording these, who else is on these

2:37 Speaker 1: tracks with you? Or is it all you did? You

2:39 Speaker 1: do this all yourself?

2:40 Speaker 2: I did all the recording, but I had a bunch

2:42 Speaker 2: of friends join me on this. The Sunset electric tracks,

2:46 Speaker 2: the four of the tracks at the end, I had

2:49 Speaker 2: my bass player from the band, Dan Smiles or no

2:54 Speaker 2: on the bass guitar. My buddy Justin Fife helped with

2:57 Speaker 2: a bunch of these. Justin mckinnison also, they're both in

3:00 Speaker 2: the band with me. And then they had help from

3:04 Speaker 2: my friend Cassidy. That song we just played, she did

3:07 Speaker 2: some backup vocals on and she's on two other songs

3:10 Speaker 2: on the album. I met her in this past year,

3:13 Speaker 2: and yeah, just I heard her. We were at the

3:17 Speaker 2: same show and I heard her sing and I asked

3:19 Speaker 2: her to come feature on some songs, and she didn't.

3:22 Speaker 2: 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,

3:31 Speaker 2: it's very cool. I'm a little jealous. It sounds like

3:35 Speaker 2: 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

3:43 Speaker 2: tracks that will probably play later steam Town, played some

3:47 Speaker 2: harmonica for us. So anyways, I had a bunch of

3:49 Speaker 2: people on this and snow Cone, my partner, did the

3:53 Speaker 2: al maartwork.

3:54 Speaker 1: If.

3:54 Speaker 2: For those who didn't see the picture, it's a kind

3:57 Speaker 2: of a newspaper front with the title of bright Future

4:01 Speaker 2: and reflection of an eye with atomic explosion in the background.

4:05 Speaker 2: 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,

4:13 Speaker 1: that's that's really cool. How how is your approach different

4:16 Speaker 1: to recording these than than with the band.

4:20 Speaker 2: Well, I set out with the intent to just keep

4:24 Speaker 2: it so simple and just have my voice and the guitar,

4:27 Speaker 2: and I didn't let myself do that. And yeah, there's

4:30 Speaker 2: one track which ended up just being vocals and guitar

4:33 Speaker 2: and arrests had a lot more. But uh, you know,

4:36 Speaker 2: I mixed the band's record also, and we recorded that ourselves,

4:39 Speaker 2: and uh, I want to see how it would be

4:42 Speaker 2: to mix something without drums. So for me, the approach

4:46 Speaker 2: was thinking about the mix and that process of it,

4:49 Speaker 2: 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,

4:55 Speaker 2: and in the future I'll look back and there'll be

4:57 Speaker 2: someone'll be like, Okay, that really worked, and others will

4:59 Speaker 2: be like, I should never have done.

5:01 Speaker 1: That, right, Well, that's yeah, that's the inevitability of some

5:05 Speaker 1: of those. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, did you record

5:09 Speaker 1: these in a studio or did you do it at

5:11 Speaker 1: home or.

5:12 Speaker 2: The studio being my apartment? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, much

5:15 Speaker 2: to my neighbor's chagrin, I'm sure.

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

5:20 Speaker 1: set in there.

5:21 Speaker 2: No, there wasn't that, Just a lot of takes of

5:23 Speaker 2: me being very loud.

5:24 Speaker 1: Really Yeah, Oh that's funny. Uh you want to play

5:27 Speaker 1: I'm dying to hear you play live. Let me, uh

5:31 Speaker 1: pull that I'll pull that out. So, because we're already

5:34 Speaker 1: live on the air, we can't we can't do a

5:36 Speaker 1: proper soundtrack. But if you want to strum that guitar

5:40 Speaker 1: 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

5:51 Speaker 1: good in the headphones.

5:52 Speaker 2: Sounds great in my headphones. I'm not wearing any if

5:56 Speaker 2: you're not listening, not watching.

5:59 Speaker 1: Right, yes, the uh, well radio is theater of the mine,

6:04 Speaker 1: so you could have actually just pretended to add headphones.

6:08 Speaker 2: You want me to be full of deceit today? Is

6:10 Speaker 2: that what we're doing?

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

6:14 Speaker 1: in the afternoon.

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

6:17 Speaker 2: have some gravel here.

6:18 Speaker 1: Oh that that can be a good thing. That can

6:20 Speaker 1: be a good thing. What are you going to play

6:22 Speaker 1: for us?

6:24 Speaker 2: So this song is called Dive, and it's actually from

6:27 Speaker 2: this album and anything I've released, Probably the oldest song

6:30 Speaker 2: I have because I've wrote it as a very angsty teenager.

6:35 Speaker 2: I think it was probably sixteen or seventeen when I

6:37 Speaker 2: wrote this, But I always liked the song, and it's

6:41 Speaker 2: a kind of my experience with Catholicism and breaking away

6:49 Speaker 2: from that.

6:49 Speaker 1: Oh interesting. I was raised Catholic, and I think a

6:53 Speaker 1: lot of people can. I haven't even where'd you play

6:56 Speaker 1: it yet, but I think a lot of people can

6:57 Speaker 1: 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

7:05 Speaker 1: cough just lingers forever.

7:07 Speaker 2: Oh, they likes to do that. Yes, but this is

7:11 Speaker 2: the first song you wrote, not the first song I wrote. No, Oh, okay,

7:14 Speaker 2: that's just of the songs I've released. It's probably the

7:17 Speaker 2: oldest Oh I got you, including the songs I released

7:19 Speaker 2: back in like twenty seventeen. Oh okay, very very old.

7:23 Speaker 2: I have notebooks and notebooks full of songs, but this

7:26 Speaker 2: is the oldest one I probably recorded. So okay, okay, cool,

7:30 Speaker 2: you'll you'll hear the angst?

7:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right. I'll look forward to this. So

7:34 Speaker 1: if you're just joining us, Squizzy Lord is here with

7:35 Speaker 1: us live in studio, and he's gonna play what's what

7:38 Speaker 1: 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

7:59 Speaker 5: done while you're drowning in your light. You wim a

8:05 Speaker 5: failed to mask your spy.

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

8:14 Speaker 4: down my face.

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

8:21 Speaker 5: 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

8:33 Speaker 5: ground to sky, break my wings, holl earn to fly?

8:39 Speaker 5: Don't you half a one to lie? They built mountains?

8:44 Speaker 5: A who know flies? Just suita, Let the wind take cumen,

8:54 Speaker 5: 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

9:29 Speaker 4: 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

9:46 Speaker 7: 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.

9:59 Speaker 5: Sits still memorize your lines. No, I told you that

10:04 Speaker 5: 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

10:15 Speaker 5: on the earthly. Don't you have one too? Why they

10:22 Speaker 5: built mountains?

10:23 Speaker 4: Salhoun of this just to time time, let the water

10:31 Speaker 4: 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,

11:18 Speaker 1: Quincy Lauren dear slipped there is here with us live

11:22 Speaker 1: in studio. You know why that happened because I tagged

11:26 Speaker 1: you on Facebook with the picture I just shared out.

11:28 Speaker 1: But now, what a great song. I had a feeling

11:31 Speaker 1: 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

11:42 Speaker 1: you so you were raised I assume in a Catholic family,

11:45 Speaker 1: How do they does anyone in your family have they

11:47 Speaker 1: ever said anything about Have they heard that song and

11:50 Speaker 1: said anything about it?

11:50 Speaker 2: Or yeah? Well what I used to hear from because

11:53 Speaker 2: as an nansty teenager I did sing that up in

11:55 Speaker 2: my bedroom and my father would hear me going dive

12:01 Speaker 2: die have dive, and he'd be like, are you saying

12:03 Speaker 2: die die die? Like, oh, what is that song? You

12:05 Speaker 2: kept singing? Yeah? The comments I've had from my family

12:10 Speaker 2: since releasing it have mostly just been that ben that

12:13 Speaker 2: 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

12:21 Speaker 2: along with my family. We're on good terms, so, you know,

12:24 Speaker 2: gotta gotta poke the uh, gotta poke the bear little

12:28 Speaker 2: at holidays and such.

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

12:33 Speaker 1: 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

12:44 Speaker 2: was a lifetime ago. Also, yeah, you know, everyone's experience

12:47 Speaker 2: is different there. But I was like, someone might relate

12:50 Speaker 2: to this and hopefully it's a good song for someone

12:54 Speaker 2: who's still in that.

12:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's very very catchy. I like that

12:58 Speaker 1: a lot. I like that Quincy Lord is here with

13:01 Speaker 1: us and we're talking about the new album. Oh so

13:04 Speaker 1: where does the You talked about the artwork, But what

13:07 Speaker 1: about the title itself? A Bright Future?

13:10 Speaker 2: It's just the that's just I don't know where it

13:13 Speaker 2: came to me. I've just been working on lyrics for

13:15 Speaker 2: the song of Bright Future, which I don't believe ever

13:18 Speaker 2: says that, but at some point I was thinking about

13:21 Speaker 2: what the title should be and looking at the track

13:23 Speaker 2: list and the other names, like, all right, what would

13:25 Speaker 2: be a good title, And as that song was originally

13:29 Speaker 2: called Faster Faster, which is something I repeat a lot

13:32 Speaker 2: throughout the song, but it just had the right kind

13:35 Speaker 2: of cynicism to me. Once we found a picture, I

13:38 Speaker 2: had the idea for that, Yeah, that name to come

13:42 Speaker 2: out and that song itself, by the way, the title

13:45 Speaker 2: track bright Future. I wrote that because my partner's fate.

13:51 Speaker 2: One of her favorite genres of types of song is

13:54 Speaker 2: really upbeat songs about the world ending. Yeah, so like

13:58 Speaker 2: we will become silhouettes by the SS It's into the

14:01 Speaker 2: world as we know it by Rim obviously, songs like that.

14:04 Speaker 2: And she was getting ready for work one day and

14:08 Speaker 2: uh I it must have been a weekend because I

14:10 Speaker 2: was home and uh I was just following her around

14:13 Speaker 2: one and just you know, making up words I heard

14:23 Speaker 2: and You're like, I actually kind of like that. Let

14:25 Speaker 2: 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

14:32 Speaker 2: you know, world ending, the fallout.

14:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it. Yeah, I was trying

14:37 Speaker 1: to think of some more examples of Yeah, it seems

14:40 Speaker 1: like there are quite a few. Yeah, you mentioned the

14:43 Speaker 1: end of the world as we know at RM. What

14:45 Speaker 1: 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

14:49 Speaker 1: 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

14:55 Speaker 1: 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

15:02 Speaker 2: talked to him in a while.

15:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. Are there are there other themes? Or is there

15:08 Speaker 1: a theme? I probably not to the album because you

15:12 Speaker 1: 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

15:18 Speaker 2: no rhyme or reason throughout.

15:20 Speaker 1: But it is cohesive because, like I said, I listened

15:24 Speaker 1: to the whole thing and I and I listened to

15:26 Speaker 1: everything at once. I didn't, you know, it sound like

15:28 Speaker 1: I listened to some and then listen more later. So

15:30 Speaker 1: to me it seemed really cohesive.

15:31 Speaker 2: Well, despite when they were written, at the very least

15:33 Speaker 2: they were for the most part they were recorded or

15:36 Speaker 2: at least mixed at the same time. Yeah, a couple

15:39 Speaker 2: of songs that did start recording in like uh twenty eighteen,

15:42 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. It was just like, I'm not redoing this.

15:44 Speaker 2: I'm just going to keep those files and yeah, I

15:47 Speaker 2: sound the same. I'm sure it's going to be fine,

15:49 Speaker 2: right right, But uh, it was not really theme, I mean,

15:52 Speaker 2: with a Bright Future. It was just the reason that

15:56 Speaker 2: that was like the strongest feeling, is why I guess

15:58 Speaker 2: I kept that as the title for the album. Just

16:02 Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of anxieties. I think Monday

16:06 Speaker 2: is going to be an anxious day for a lot

16:07 Speaker 2: of people. If you have no idea what's going on

16:10 Speaker 2: in politics, you can figure it out. But yeah, which,

16:15 Speaker 2: well there is that, but uh, just a lot of

16:19 Speaker 2: terrible things happening in the world at all times and

16:23 Speaker 2: general consciousness of that is enough to weigh on someone,

16:27 Speaker 2: I think, and got to keep living life as in

16:31 Speaker 2: 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

16:47 Speaker 1: 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

16:51 Speaker 2: well out of.

16:52 Speaker 1: The wm n H version of the show. Now I

16:54 Speaker 1: 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

17:04 Speaker 1: uh sense of dread and doom I feel. But anyway, well,

17:11 Speaker 1: I do need a gulp of water.

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

17:15 Speaker 2: waiting music.

17:15 Speaker 1: Well, that's right. Oh I like that. That's nice to

17:23 Speaker 1: help spring my stress level down too. It's very peppy.

17:28 Speaker 1: You can make a song about the end of the

17:29 Speaker 1: world out of that, sure could, But you can just

17:32 Speaker 1: make it about Monday. Although it is Martin Luther King

17:36 Speaker 1: 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

17:41 Speaker 1: 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

17:54 Speaker 2: say about it.

17:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Now with the band, so with Sunset Elelecture,

18:00 Speaker 1: I know them, yes, yes, so are you? While you

18:06 Speaker 1: were recording this album. Did the band keep going or

18:10 Speaker 1: 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

18:14 Speaker 2: very slowly over this past year. There was like weeks

18:18 Speaker 2: of focus and weeks I didn't touch it at all,

18:20 Speaker 2: and that's some of it. That was just writing songs.

18:22 Speaker 2: But no, we've been we've been playing. We have a

18:27 Speaker 2: couple of shows coming up. We're gonna be at a

18:29 Speaker 2: Huskies pub and Wooster on the eighth and of February.

18:34 Speaker 2: And uh, we're around. But we have been working on

18:38 Speaker 2: a new album. Also, we're in writing stages, but we're

18:41 Speaker 2: 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

18:47 Speaker 2: for my solo thing and I was like, ah, nah,

18:49 Speaker 2: the band will like this one, and yeah, you know,

18:51 Speaker 2: just bringing songs into them and seeing what sticks and

18:54 Speaker 2: what they vibe would so yeah, but no, we've still

18:57 Speaker 2: been going. We have a great time playing and practicing,

19:00 Speaker 2: and yeah, it's a blast. I always look forward to

19:03 Speaker 2: playing with the band. I like playing the solo shows too, Obviously,

19:07 Speaker 2: it's a whole different experience. I can play soft stuff,

19:10 Speaker 2: I can get more lyrical, but The energy is great

19:13 Speaker 2: when the band's playing and people are clapping and singing

19:15 Speaker 2: along and we're full of antics and jumping around and

19:18 Speaker 2: messing with each other. It's it's always fun.

19:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now with the solo shows, do you do like

19:23 Speaker 1: really lying sets? You do like multi hour? Yeah?

19:27 Speaker 2: Usually? I mean I do a lot of breweries. I'm

19:28 Speaker 2: actually today I'm playing at a seven Saws brewing in

19:31 Speaker 2: a Holden, mass That's one of my favorite spots. But

19:35 Speaker 2: I'm playing there a very long time. Yeah, like how long,

19:38 Speaker 2: like before COVID, probably like twenty eighteen, I want to

19:42 Speaker 2: say I started, which might be around when they opened.

19:46 Speaker 2: I lived in Lemonster at the time, so it was

19:48 Speaker 2: a lot closer. Yeah, so it made sense that I

19:50 Speaker 2: found them and was going there. But yeah, I've been

19:53 Speaker 2: going there. I was there every Sunday for as a

19:57 Speaker 2: 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

20:01 Speaker 2: three hour set when I'm playing at a brewery, which

20:03 Speaker 2: you know, I like to play my originals do a

20:06 Speaker 2: 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

20:11 Speaker 2: people happy. Sure, the best thing is when you play

20:14 Speaker 2: a cover a song you know but that's not popular,

20:16 Speaker 2: and people come, I really like that's original of yours. Yeah,

20:19 Speaker 2: well you picked a one that wasn't mine, but I

20:22 Speaker 2: understand I love it too.

20:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's funny when that happens, because, yeah,

20:26 Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of guests over the

20:28 Speaker 1: years who you know, they'll they'll do covers, but they'll

20:31 Speaker 1: 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,

20:41 Speaker 1: long time ago. I was in a band called My

20:42 Speaker 1: Life Crisis, and we did a Kiss cover, but we

20:44 Speaker 1: did a song called Hate, which is from their most

20:47 Speaker 1: obscure album and only the most diehard Kiss fans even

20:50 Speaker 1: know about. And it sounded so much like everything else,

20:53 Speaker 1: 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,

21:03 Speaker 1: but I used to be. I was pretty active at

21:05 Speaker 1: one point. I was in three different bands at once

21:07 Speaker 1: and we were all doing a lot of shows. But

21:10 Speaker 1: I never started a family because obviously you can't do

21:13 Speaker 1: that if you have kids. So I avoided that. But yeah,

21:17 Speaker 1: now I'm just too busy with other things, so I haven't.

21:19 Speaker 1: I haven't played in a long time, but sometimes I

21:21 Speaker 1: miss it and then I remember all the work that

21:23 Speaker 1: goes into it and it's like, yeah, I don't miss

21:25 Speaker 1: 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

21:31 Speaker 1: about what you're doing when you do it solo acoustic,

21:33 Speaker 1: of course, that opens up a lot of different places

21:35 Speaker 1: you can play, and like, like, you have no shortage

21:38 Speaker 1: 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,

21:43 Speaker 2: exact web side. If you haven't a bad day for

21:46 Speaker 2: your voice or you're just all over to play, you

21:49 Speaker 2: have no one to blame, like, oh no, the drummer

21:50 Speaker 2: was the drummer was hammered that day, Like, you can't

21:53 Speaker 2: blame the drummer when it's just you, Like, no, that

21:55 Speaker 2: that was just me not being perfect. Sorry, guys, Yeah, yeah,

22:00 Speaker 2: it's been known to happen.

22:02 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, if you're just joining us. Casey, lord, Casey,

22:06 Speaker 1: what what am I doing? Quincy, Lord, Matt's having a day.

22:09 Speaker 1: 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.

22:16 Speaker 1: Nothing nothing too terrible, well at least not the first day.

22:18 Speaker 1: Nothing terrible will happen, I'm sure.

22:20 Speaker 2: Well the next day, I think there's some terrible plans.

22:22 Speaker 2: No week, we should probably the.

22:24 Speaker 1: Next day, Yeah, well we'll we'll enjoy the holiday. The

22:26 Speaker 1: next day we'll we'll be terrible. But uh, do you

22:29 Speaker 1: 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

22:37 Speaker 1: 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

22:47 Speaker 2: already with Sunset Electric, but I released as an acoustic

22:51 Speaker 2: version of this album because it's a lot of fun

22:52 Speaker 2: and uh, I don't think. I'm pretty sure I didn't

22:55 Speaker 2: play it last semess here it's called the Inn Okay, Well, no,

22:58 Speaker 2: we've we played the recording last time. That's it. Okay,

23:02 Speaker 2: but I want to play it, so we're going to

23:03 Speaker 2: awesome answer. I know it's a guess. It's about feeling lost,

23:07 Speaker 2: 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.

23:27 Speaker 10: Come sit behind up one's lights and you're in a

23:31 Speaker 10: dark place. We've all given to desire with the blind

23:36 Speaker 10: leading the blind, and you're preaching to the bar.

23:40 Speaker 5: I said, tell me where the car? Where I can

23:45 Speaker 5: lay my bow? Where can lay my bo? I said,

23:51 Speaker 5: bo shack, call to the bow?

23:55 Speaker 4: Where lemma? Where my bone? This is my own night loma.

24:13 Speaker 4: Oh mah see you're.

24:15 Speaker 5: Not ecusole through your ashes through the wind, losing low

24:21 Speaker 5: control this fick orang nights from a single out deacon.

24:28 Speaker 5: You can say to night, but you can't say bob

24:32 Speaker 5: yasin say nothing.

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

24:38 Speaker 4: 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

25:13 Speaker 4: 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

25:59 Speaker 4: 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?

26:16 Speaker 5: Whereckma problems that Puble Shock all through the ball Where

26:27 Speaker 5: 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

26:51 Speaker 1: sounded great. If you're just joining us, we have Quincy

26:54 Speaker 1: Layd here with us live in studio playing some tracks

26:57 Speaker 1: live and of course we're featuring songs from his new album,

27:00 Speaker 1: A Bright Future and Refresh my Memory. Is it out

27:05 Speaker 1: now or is it coming out?

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

27:08 Speaker 2: January first.

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

27:12 Speaker 1: the streaming platforms.

27:13 Speaker 2: It is on all the streaming platforms as far as

27:15 Speaker 2: I know. We had a little issue with Apple, but

27:18 Speaker 2: it's live there now too. So for those who were

27:20 Speaker 2: asking me about it.

27:21 Speaker 1: Oh, what was the problem with Apple? I'm always curious

27:25 Speaker 1: about this type of thing. I have no idea.

27:27 Speaker 2: It was just from the distributors, just like, oh, delivery

27:30 Speaker 2: to iTunes and Apple failed, it said, and I emailed

27:33 Speaker 2: them like six times and they got back to me

27:35 Speaker 2: 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.

27:42 Speaker 2: Busy Distro kid, is that who you used CD Baby

27:45 Speaker 2: in the case, I used to use distro Kid, but

27:47 Speaker 2: 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

27:55 Speaker 2: friends who just like you know, they'll have an idea

27:57 Speaker 2: and they'll just knock out some recording, especially it's like

28:00 Speaker 2: house music or whatever. Yeah, just something like that where

28:03 Speaker 2: they're or tecto or whatever and they'll just you know,

28:06 Speaker 2: upload a song at a time, and yeah, you know,

28:08 Speaker 2: having a subscription, which is how district it works, and

28:11 Speaker 2: you just upload all you want as opposed to per release,

28:14 Speaker 2: then it's worth it for those people. But yeah, the

28:16 Speaker 2: trouble is if you ever stop paying them to take

28:18 Speaker 2: your music down, or you have to give them fifty

28:20 Speaker 2: 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

28:30 Speaker 1: I am? I think I have some with me. Oh okay, cool. Yeah,

28:34 Speaker 1: that's it's interesting how that's changed over the years, because

28:38 Speaker 1: you know, when I first started interviewing bands, and you know,

28:41 Speaker 1: it was it was a long time ago. And just

28:43 Speaker 1: give you an idea of how long ago it was

28:45 Speaker 1: when I first started. This was before I was at

28:47 Speaker 1: WM andh like, guests wouldn't be even Oh I should

28:52 Speaker 1: have turned that mic down. There we go. So before

28:59 Speaker 1: I was at WM and h uh, instead of sending

29:03 Speaker 1: me emailing me files, before people were really comfortable with that,

29:07 Speaker 1: people would give me a CD. And the move was

29:10 Speaker 1: very often and this was typical. Uh, the CD wouldn't

29:14 Speaker 1: even be in a case. It would be on a

29:17 Speaker 1: CDR and they would write on it with sharpy what

29:19 Speaker 1: it was, and they would hand it to me on

29:21 Speaker 1: 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

29:29 Speaker 1: emailing tracks using Dropbox and services like that, Google Drive

29:33 Speaker 1: and whatnot. And then so that stopped. But also a

29:37 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of people just stopped, you know,

29:40 Speaker 1: because there was this thought, well, everything's online now and

29:44 Speaker 1: with Spotify and everything, there's no reason to make CDs.

29:46 Speaker 1: And then and so it seems like for a while,

29:49 Speaker 1: most of the guests I had, you know, I would

29:50 Speaker 1: ask them, while, are you going to do a physical CD?

29:52 Speaker 1: And they'd look at me like I was nuts. And

29:55 Speaker 1: then but now, over the past I don't know, five

29:57 Speaker 1: or six years, probably you know, everybody's doing CDs again.

30:00 Speaker 1: 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

30:09 Speaker 1: 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

30:17 Speaker 2: issue here is anyone buying a new car for the

30:19 Speaker 2: past five years, I'm guessing the vast majority don't have

30:24 Speaker 2: CD players in them. I bought a new car last year.

30:27 Speaker 2: I had to get it of my old one, and

30:29 Speaker 2: I went from having, you know, a six CD changer

30:31 Speaker 2: that I had all my favorites in and you know

30:34 Speaker 2: that one of those books that just has full of

30:37 Speaker 2: little CDs. Oh yeah, you know, have a couple hundred

30:40 Speaker 2: CDs in there. And you know, if you're driving out

30:43 Speaker 2: in the boondogs and don't have service, you know, didn't

30:46 Speaker 2: have to worry about having songs on my phone. I

30:48 Speaker 2: could just you know, yes, And I like listening to

30:51 Speaker 2: records start to bottom. A lot of people don't like

30:55 Speaker 2: doing that, don't have the attention for it. But I

30:58 Speaker 2: 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

31:04 Speaker 2: 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

31:09 Speaker 1: or it's fun to look at liner notes and the

31:11 Speaker 1: artwork and everything that whole experience. I mean, that's you know.

31:14 Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I always loved you know,

31:16 Speaker 1: if I was really into an artist, I would actually

31:18 Speaker 1: read everything that was in there, like like who their

31:22 Speaker 1: manager was, you know, just everything. If I was really

31:24 Speaker 1: into somebody, you know.

31:26 Speaker 2: Like, oh this guy played sex phone on that one song.

31:28 Speaker 2: That's very interesting.

31:29 Speaker 1: H yeah, because I could get obsessive if I still can.

31:32 Speaker 1: But but it's cool that it, you know that it

31:35 Speaker 1: never went away, even even cassettes. I think it was

31:40 Speaker 1: about five or six years ago. I was on band

31:42 Speaker 1: camp dot com and just looking for new artists in

31:46 Speaker 1: the area and I found somebody who was making cassettes.

31:50 Speaker 1: And the first one that I found, I thought it

31:52 Speaker 1: was a fluke and I was like, oh, they're doing

31:53 Speaker 1: this kind of retro thing, you know, is it like

31:55 Speaker 1: an indie pop band from pan State College or something.

31:58 Speaker 1: And then I found more and I'm like, oh my god,

32:03 Speaker 1: it's crazy.

32:05 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's definitely a retro hipster kind of thing.

32:09 Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the only people I really usually see

32:12 Speaker 2: selling cassettes are like folk punk slash crusspunk bands and

32:18 Speaker 2: you know, very di y and indie people. I don't

32:21 Speaker 2: see many eight tracks anymore. No, yeah, my one my bandmate,

32:26 Speaker 2: and I'm in another band called Pants to the band

32:29 Speaker 2: that's largely the same members but all had different roles

32:33 Speaker 2: as a sunset. But our keyboardist, just Mcinness, is the

32:37 Speaker 2: singer in Pants. It's all his songs since Old Vibe. Anyways,

32:41 Speaker 2: he has the means to record eight track really and

32:44 Speaker 2: he's he's dead set on, you know, our next recording,

32:47 Speaker 2: 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

32:55 Speaker 2: and they had just as a gag, released an eight

32:58 Speaker 2: track of their new record at the time, just that

33:02 Speaker 2: they could say they have the number one eight track

33:03 Speaker 2: in the world. Yeah, which, yeah, I guess so also

33:06 Speaker 2: the only But yeah, I was.

33:08 Speaker 1: In a band called The Jakes. This was like twenty

33:11 Speaker 1: years ago, and we had a running joke in the

33:12 Speaker 1: band that we were going to release like a single,

33:15 Speaker 1: and of course if we did, but if we did

33:17 Speaker 1: that today, you know it would kind of be almost normal.

33:20 Speaker 1: 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

33:27 Speaker 2: flip over part way through and oh yeah, sometimes in

33:29 Speaker 2: the middle of a song if they plan it poorly. Yeah,

33:32 Speaker 2: or the track list will be in a different order

33:34 Speaker 2: than like on a CD or vinyl, a different order

33:37 Speaker 2: than name intended, just so it fits, yeah, and like

33:40 Speaker 2: that's that's not okay.

33:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's interesting to see how the

33:45 Speaker 1: technologies change and how things Some things never go away.

33:49 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people have this impression that

33:51 Speaker 1: vinyl went away and then it came back, but it

33:54 Speaker 1: never actually went away.

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

33:58 Speaker 2: it got expensive again.

33:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly. But even at its lowest EBB, you know,

34:03 Speaker 1: all the major labels were still releasing by you know,

34:06 Speaker 1: limited edition vinyl or whatnot.

34:07 Speaker 2: But yeah, it was always like a cool thing that bands.

34:09 Speaker 2: 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

34:19 Speaker 1: prove this, but I'm sure that most people. Probably the

34:23 Speaker 1: vast majority of people who buy vinyl don't even have

34:26 Speaker 1: a record player, don't have anything to put it on.

34:28 Speaker 1: They just buy it because, you know, if you're really

34:30 Speaker 1: a fan. I'm talking about if you're buying like brand

34:32 Speaker 1: new vinyl, not if you're going to I mean, if

34:34 Speaker 1: you're going to a record store and flipping through and

34:36 Speaker 1: buying use, you know, old vinyl, obviously you have something

34:39 Speaker 1: to play it on, probably unless you're looking for something rare,

34:41 Speaker 1: just to have it. But I think most people who

34:43 Speaker 1: buy new vinyl, they probably don't have anything to play

34:45 Speaker 1: 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

34:49 Speaker 2: hang them on the walls. Yeah, exactly, they do a

34:52 Speaker 2: lot of I don't know what to call it, but

34:54 Speaker 2: you know, instead of just a plain black record, it's

34:56 Speaker 2: like it will be like a cool splattered thing or

34:58 Speaker 2: have all different colors in there and whatever process they

35:01 Speaker 2: go through, but you know, to make it pretty to

35:04 Speaker 2: look at.

35:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

35:06 Speaker 2: The only time I really buy a new one is

35:08 Speaker 2: some of the some of my favorite bands that are smaller, uh,

35:13 Speaker 2: you know, I go and see them live and I

35:14 Speaker 2: like to support them. And buy their merch So that's

35:16 Speaker 2: when I'll buy one, and I'll you know, i'll throw

35:18 Speaker 2: it on. But in reality, I'll play it once or twice,

35:20 Speaker 2: or at home on a rainy day or something once

35:23 Speaker 2: in a while. But yeah, it's you know, it's there's

35:26 Speaker 2: not much reason for me to put on vinyl. You know,

35:28 Speaker 2: I have an apartment. I don't have a great like

35:30 Speaker 2: stats sound set up for it. It's not like i'ea

35:32 Speaker 2: blasting it through my favorite speakers or anything. So it's

35:35 Speaker 2: like I see my worst speakers with the highest fidelity

35:40 Speaker 2: 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

35:47 Speaker 1: have a CD player at home. We have one here,

35:51 Speaker 1: but I think the only one who ever uses it

35:54 Speaker 1: to the best of my knowledge. I don't know if

35:55 Speaker 1: you know Rob as a veto. He also show here

35:57 Speaker 1: 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.

36:02 Speaker 2: I've had some friends go on his show before.

36:04 Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, and he also owns Pembroke City Limits, which

36:07 Speaker 1: everybody yeah, yeah, yeah, so Rob actually will bring in

36:10 Speaker 1: CDs and and he so I know this. I know

36:13 Speaker 1: it works, but I've never I've never used it. But

36:16 Speaker 1: but no, but people give us CDs and you know,

36:18 Speaker 1: and it's nice to have them and and whatnot. But yeah,

36:21 Speaker 1: but we have nothing at home to play the mine.

36:24 Speaker 1: But but it's but it's nice to have them. I

36:28 Speaker 1: was curious this occurred to me as you were playing

36:31 Speaker 1: that song that was called bones.

36:33 Speaker 2: The inn oh, the end with two ends, at least

36:36 Speaker 2: 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

36:43 Speaker 1: song at all?

36:44 Speaker 2: I say the in a couple of times, but once

36:47 Speaker 2: 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

36:57 Speaker 1: your decision when you when you write a song, whether

36:59 Speaker 1: it's something you should keep for yourself or something maybe

37:03 Speaker 1: to use for Sunset Electric like you kind of have

37:06 Speaker 1: some criteria in your mind or is it just a

37:08 Speaker 1: vibe thing?

37:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sometimes I largely that last bit. Sometimes

37:13 Speaker 2: I do go about writing a song, and I haven't

37:16 Speaker 2: with the band in mind, and I'll write it and

37:18 Speaker 2: you know, the thing about what they're probably going to

37:20 Speaker 2: come up with for their parts or how they'll react.

37:22 Speaker 2: But yeah, what I've been doing. I'll backtrack a little.

37:25 Speaker 2: So on the record we put out last year, Graffiti Hearts,

37:31 Speaker 2: the majority of those songs I had written ahead of times,

37:35 Speaker 2: some like years prior, so a lot of that was

37:38 Speaker 2: me bringing completed songs to the band and then you know,

37:41 Speaker 2: making some small adjustments. But sometimes its a bit of

37:43 Speaker 2: a jerk about this needs to stay like it is.

37:46 Speaker 2: And yeah, so since you know those that album was

37:50 Speaker 2: put out, everything I've done with the band, you know,

37:54 Speaker 2: I've tried to bring them the songs before they're you know, completed.

38:00 Speaker 2: You know, here's a verse and of course here's you

38:02 Speaker 2: know how far I got on day one of writing,

38:04 Speaker 2: like with a spark, and then I'll bring it into

38:07 Speaker 2: practice and be like, what do you guys think of this?

38:08 Speaker 2: See if it sticks, see if they vibe with it,

38:11 Speaker 2: and if it doesn't, you know, that's all I need

38:15 Speaker 2: to know. And other times it's like a softer, gentler

38:17 Speaker 2: song and it's clearly not going to be the right

38:20 Speaker 2: vibe for them. So yeah, some mix of the two.

38:23 Speaker 2: But it's usually apparent when I start writing it if

38:25 Speaker 2: it will be something they'll like or not.

38:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, now do you have I mean obviously so you

38:33 Speaker 1: went what was it fifteen tracks on this?

38:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, a few too many, fifteen five or rereleased, so

38:39 Speaker 2: I'll call it like I see it as like a

38:40 Speaker 2: grouping of ten like an album and then extras.

38:44 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have even more that you recorded that

38:46 Speaker 1: you decided to leave out or maybe use on a

38:48 Speaker 1: future release?

38:49 Speaker 2: I have many more that I have, you know, another

38:53 Speaker 2: twenty songs. I considered that that I were old songs

38:57 Speaker 2: that I considered putting on this, But we'll see. You

39:01 Speaker 2: know there there's another problems with Catholicism song that I

39:06 Speaker 2: was like, those would go well together. I'm like, maybe

39:08 Speaker 2: 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

39:17 Speaker 1: many songs? Was it hard to kind of pare it

39:19 Speaker 1: down and make those? Were those hard to stay?

39:21 Speaker 2: So the it was less sad and more I wanted

39:24 Speaker 2: this to be a quick thing. Yeah, not end up

39:26 Speaker 2: being a quick thing because I couldn't. I kept being like,

39:29 Speaker 2: oh well, this song, I half wrote, you know, maybe

39:31 Speaker 2: I could just finish that and put it on like,

39:33 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna the band. It doesn't fit the band.

39:35 Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just and then just you know, because I

39:39 Speaker 2: was doing it alone, there was no one to tell

39:40 Speaker 2: me no, yeah, or stop, or you have enough songs

39:44 Speaker 2: or you don't need to record the sixteen layers on

39:47 Speaker 2: that song, I'm like, yeah, but I want to play

39:50 Speaker 2: the banjo. 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

39:54 Speaker 2: 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,

39:59 Speaker 1: that's all.

39:59 Speaker 2: You know, as well well as I played all of

40:01 Speaker 2: that on the album. I mean each is only on

40:04 Speaker 2: one song. I do play those. I mean I think

40:10 Speaker 2: my cousin Josiah put it that there's a genre he'd

40:15 Speaker 2: call it of a guitar players who pick up a banjo. Yeah,

40:20 Speaker 2: and that's very much what I am. I'm not a

40:23 Speaker 2: I don't do the claw hammer the proper things. Mandolin.

40:26 Speaker 2: I'm probably closer to doing it properly because it's the

40:29 Speaker 2: same motions as far as the pick goes, different tuning

40:33 Speaker 2: and such. But I like to dabble. I'm definitely better

40:36 Speaker 2: at guitar than those, but I get to play guitar

40:39 Speaker 2: out and every now and then I'll get a get

40:42 Speaker 2: the notion to like, oh, if I practiced mandolin, maybe

40:44 Speaker 2: I'll bring it to my show today and do some

40:47 Speaker 2: songs on mandolin. But I'm always like, I'll wait, tell

40:50 Speaker 2: him doing a duo thing at some point and mess

40:53 Speaker 2: around with it then. But I liked the excuse to

40:55 Speaker 2: play with different instruments.

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

40:59 Speaker 1: 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

41:04 Speaker 1: and coffin I might. I don't know, I might not

41:07 Speaker 1: have the strength.

41:09 Speaker 9: Is it?

41:10 Speaker 1: Is it drastically different in terms of I mean, I

41:12 Speaker 1: assume if you're a guitar player, you're ahead of the game, right,

41:16 Speaker 1: But is it like how challenging is it to pick

41:19 Speaker 1: up a not to pick up a mandolin?

41:21 Speaker 2: But semantics, well, I think from going from guitar to mandolin,

41:27 Speaker 2: the easiest part is the fact that your strumming hand

41:31 Speaker 2: is yeah, very familiar. So yeah, it's getting used to

41:35 Speaker 2: tiny frets that you have to like it punt your

41:38 Speaker 2: fingers on, and also just retraining your brain because our

41:42 Speaker 2: guitar is tuned in force mostly and mandolin's violence whatever,

41:46 Speaker 2: they're all tuned in fists. Yeah, so you just had

41:50 Speaker 2: to be like, oh, yeah, the notes not where I'm

41:52 Speaker 2: not where I think it's going to be, and just

41:54 Speaker 2: 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

42:02 Speaker 1: a man.

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

42:06 Speaker 2: a twelve string guitar.

42:07 Speaker 1: Oh I got ya? Okay, okay. And what about the banjo?

42:10 Speaker 1: I've heard I've heard people say that banjo isn't as

42:15 Speaker 1: difficult to learn as one might think. But then again,

42:19 Speaker 1: all the people i've heard say that are really good

42:21 Speaker 1: at playing the banjo.

42:23 Speaker 2: So uh, not being a proficient banjo player, I'll put

42:28 Speaker 2: it here. You can coming as a guitar player especially,

42:31 Speaker 2: you can come and you can make decent sounds on

42:34 Speaker 2: a banjo, and you can play it and make noise.

42:36 Speaker 2: A lot of it's tuned. E sees me much like

42:39 Speaker 2: a guitar, except with a very high string on the

42:42 Speaker 2: wrong side, which you get used to. But if you're

42:44 Speaker 2: playing banjo, like a banjo player would like a blue

42:47 Speaker 2: grass player or traditional player would. I think that requires

42:51 Speaker 2: a high level skill. I think, you know, blue brass

42:53 Speaker 2: 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

42:59 Speaker 2: on it. There's no drums to guide you all just

43:02 Speaker 2: have to lock in together and you know, yeah, they

43:06 Speaker 2: go crazy. So I think that's a high level in

43:10 Speaker 2: my mind, is a high level of talent. I'm always

43:11 Speaker 2: impressed by good uh banjo players. My friend Ross plays

43:16 Speaker 2: 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

43:23 Speaker 2: just like wow, there's like.

43:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm always impressed by that. Yeah. Absolutely, Or

43:30 Speaker 1: even just being able to fingerpick just you know, just generally.

43:33 Speaker 1: I mean because I you know, I'm a bass player

43:36 Speaker 1: and I play with a pick most of the time.

43:39 Speaker 1: 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

43:49 Speaker 2: played bass in the bands before and on this record,

43:53 Speaker 2: I've played a lot of bass obviously, but uh, yeah,

43:56 Speaker 2: 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

44:00 Speaker 2: the and you know, use my fingers because it's I

44:04 Speaker 2: wanted it to be an upright bass, but I didn't

44:06 Speaker 2: have an upright bass. It was too impatient to ask

44:09 Speaker 2: someone else to play it or to go and borrow

44:12 Speaker 2: one and get used to it. I'm like, I'm just

44:14 Speaker 2: gonna roll my tone knobs back and use my fingers

44:18 Speaker 2: and it will be fine.

44:19 Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. That's something I've never

44:20 Speaker 1: 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

44:42 Speaker 1: 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,

44:50 Speaker 2: who's my dear bandmate he on the Sunset Electric song,

44:55 Speaker 2: to have him come in and like do acoustic versions

44:58 Speaker 2: 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

45:07 Speaker 2: my tower song and just recording all the little bits,

45:11 Speaker 2: and I could use a little thing here. I record

45:13 Speaker 2: a lot more tracks than I use And maybe maybe

45:16 Speaker 2: I did too much here. Maybe I need to calm

45:18 Speaker 2: down a little.

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

45:23 Speaker 1: only other one.

45:23 Speaker 2: Justin Fife also also sang on that. I think it's

45:30 Speaker 2: just the two of them. Oh no, Justin McInnis also

45:32 Speaker 2: did a few vocals. I had a lot on the

45:34 Speaker 2: back of the album and on band camp. It's very

45:36 Speaker 2: specific about who did what on what song. But a

45:40 Speaker 2: lot of songs are just me.

45:44 Speaker 1: All these songs on the album. Are these all songs

45:47 Speaker 1: that you play live actively or.

45:50 Speaker 2: Just about There's there's one song that I haven't done

45:55 Speaker 2: live yet, which is called so It Goes, and it's

45:59 Speaker 2: 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

46:06 Speaker 2: intending it to be for the band, because I just

46:07 Speaker 2: had this fun like it was like a bass or

46:10 Speaker 2: 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

46:24 Speaker 2: group we sing. I was like and I was like

46:26 Speaker 2: messing around on the drums and I was like, all right,

46:29 Speaker 2: this could be a cool thing. But uh, I just

46:31 Speaker 2: never had that next part that would make sense with

46:34 Speaker 2: the band. And I picked it up one day and

46:36 Speaker 2: you know, just start singing the next section and uh.

46:40 Speaker 2: But anyways, it's just I guess I just need to

46:43 Speaker 2: practice it. Like it's a little bit of a throwaway song,

46:46 Speaker 2: 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

46:58 Speaker 2: feel to it as it goes and you know, yeah,

47:00 Speaker 2: it's one of my many songs about you know, mental

47:03 Speaker 2: 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,

47:10 Speaker 2: which I could probably practice and get there, but I've

47:13 Speaker 2: just never had the like, this isn't the one I

47:16 Speaker 2: want to show off really necessarily.

47:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like I like it for me, but right, no,

47:23 Speaker 1: that is a I do like that riff. It's got

47:25 Speaker 1: a nice groof to it. Yeah. Well, the time goes quickly.

47:29 Speaker 1: We are already approaching the top of the hour, so

47:31 Speaker 1: I want to make sure we get one more studio

47:33 Speaker 1: track I'm sure. But before we do that, so what

47:36 Speaker 1: do people need to know about where to keep up

47:38 Speaker 1: 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

47:46 Speaker 2: Lord Music. Quincy Lord Music. Quincy Lord was my name,

47:50 Speaker 2: in case you missed that. Yeah, Sunset Electric Band is

47:55 Speaker 2: where you can find all the band stuff. I post

47:58 Speaker 2: most on Facebook because I resent social media in general

48:02 Speaker 2: and can't commit to too many of them, and that's

48:07 Speaker 2: the one that lets me make events. But you can

48:09 Speaker 2: follow us there. I'm going to be at you were

48:12 Speaker 2: talking to Eleanor earlier. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, So

48:16 Speaker 2: I'm going to be playing at Terminus on Tuesday for

48:18 Speaker 2: 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

48:25 Speaker 2: playing a lot of the album live and more awake

48:29 Speaker 2: than so that will be a good time. Next week

48:35 Speaker 2: is it now? In two weeks we're going to be

48:36 Speaker 2: 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

48:46 Speaker 2: nineteen or something, so it's been a good while and

48:48 Speaker 2: Joel just made us sound so good. We had these

48:50 Speaker 2: out of tune drums and he just he made it

48:52 Speaker 2: all sound great. Yeah, Tuesday at Terminus today at seven

48:55 Speaker 2: Saws and Holden and the band. Next band show is

48:59 Speaker 2: going to be February eighth at Husky's Pub, our favorite

49:02 Speaker 2: spot in Worcester.

49:03 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool, And we'll we'll end

49:08 Speaker 1: 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

49:12 Speaker 2: about it or oh yeah, go ahead, yeah, absolutely so,

49:14 Speaker 2: just I'll be quick a quick story with Steamtown. This

49:17 Speaker 2: is one of the old songs I wrote a long

49:18 Speaker 2: time ago. Once upon a time. It was me and

49:22 Speaker 2: I was driving up and down to each I kind

49:24 Speaker 2: of ran away and was driving up and down the

49:26 Speaker 2: East coast with a couple of friends, sleeping in my

49:28 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six Pontiac rand Am And anyways, it was

49:33 Speaker 2: written as a letter for me at the time to

49:35 Speaker 2: this girl I cared about because I was I kind

49:40 Speaker 2: 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,

49:47 Speaker 2: and like, you know, just knowing it was kind of

49:50 Speaker 2: saying like I miss you and I wish you were here,

49:51 Speaker 2: but also I'm going to go do what I want.

49:53 Speaker 2: So it's kind of me being a jerk with it.

49:54 Speaker 2: It seems a little sweet. And at the beginning the

49:57 Speaker 2: song says, dear Simba, because it's a it was written

50:00 Speaker 2: as a letter to her. Okay, okay, a very long

50:03 Speaker 2: time ago. Sima's a dear friend whom's Eleanor might have

50:06 Speaker 2: mentioned she helps out.

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

50:10 Speaker 1: such a small world.

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

50:13 Speaker 2: playing Tuesday.

50:15 Speaker 1: Gotcha? I gotcha? All right? Very cool, very cool. Well,

50:19 Speaker 1: 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

50:24 Speaker 1: from the new album A Bright Future.

50:50 Speaker 4: Undercent.

50:52 Speaker 6: We need to Galloway. I just can't stand that kind

50:57 Speaker 6: of lefty.

51:00 Speaker 5: Day they had to a the set.

51:03 Speaker 6: It wasn't meant to happen this way. No, we weren't

51:08 Speaker 6: going to leave.

51:09 Speaker 4: There's nothing you could say, and lace seemed tell me

51:16 Speaker 4: learn to catch a rag.

51:18 Speaker 9: But the first time we have snaggle sat faces in

51:22 Speaker 9: our times they let us fall asleep with the rank

51:28 Speaker 9: and broken jars to dream. The bout lady left.

51:33 Speaker 6: You go Brazanna con I'm not sorry that I left,

51:44 Speaker 6: but it.

51:45 Speaker 2: Was you couldn't come though you want one.

51:49 Speaker 5: Went below sup crowned around the sun when they're trying

51:54 Speaker 5: to take me anywhere on the side shop.

51:58 Speaker 9: A gun, you know, really do life on the run

52:06 Speaker 9: face same time we learn to catch riding away from

52:12 Speaker 9: moon on fasis, that is the places we despise.

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

52:27 Speaker 11: let asday.

53:00 Speaker 9: Same time we learned to catch run the first time

53:05 Speaker 9: we fell, smiles on our faces.

53:08 Speaker 6: And our lives.

53:10 Speaker 9: We by le ballancely with our lanterns lit by starts

53:16 Speaker 9: to dream about Alaga left, a girlfriends and a cause.

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

53:34 Speaker 2: Sis Calena.

53:37 Speaker 4: The song I could let If we ever meet again,

53:42 Speaker 4: go to walt you