Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Rabbits For Sale
Speaker 1: Joining us right now in studio. Let me get the
Speaker 1: MIC's up for these guys. We have rabbits for sale.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, hello, what's up. Let's do this and we're
Speaker 1: gonna play some more of your music, of course in
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. But Jet, let's start with you
Speaker 1: in the corner, and if we can just go around
Speaker 1: and you can each tell me who you are, what
Speaker 1: you do in the band, and have any other pertinence
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, my name is Jet Harris Lack. I play guitar,
Speaker 2: the guitar.
Speaker 3: And I sing lead vocals, and I guess we'll patch
Speaker 3: the spencer all right, kind of lighting up spencer the
Speaker 3: keyboards for the band.
Speaker 2: I do some background vocals as well.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 4: And you I'm Vance Carpenter. I played bass in the band.
Speaker 4: And a fun fact about me, I like mac and cheese.
Speaker 1: You like mac and cheese, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: I like mac and cheese too, I can change.
Speaker 5: I'm Oliver Caine. I'm the drummer for the band.
Speaker 6: And uh, I also do a lot of the managing
Speaker 6: and I did the production on the EP.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Oh, very cool, very cool. Where did you?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Where did you record that?
Speaker 6: So we recorded that with a friend of ours, David Porter,
Speaker 6: up in his home studio in Foxborough.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it sounds great, Thank you, Thank you. So
Speaker 1: as home studio you said.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he he used to have a studio way back
Speaker 6: when in Boston called Mixed One studio, I believe. Okay,
Speaker 6: but you know, things happen. So now he has his
Speaker 6: own little studio that he has in his basement. He
Speaker 6: does his own stuff. He's done audio production stuff for
Speaker 6: a while.
Speaker 5: So, uh, love shout out to Dave Porter, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, he did a great job. Everything sounds
Speaker 1: really good. You know, I'm old enough to remember when
Speaker 1: you know, the home studio thing wasn't really a thing,
Speaker 1: you know, so now you know, we live in an
Speaker 1: era and you know, you guys are are fortunate. You know,
Speaker 1: you're young guys, you know, growing up in an era
Speaker 1: where you know, you have so many different options in
Speaker 1: terms of how you record, and it's right, you know,
Speaker 1: you can you can do something like that home studio
Speaker 1: quote unquote, and it sounds like it was done in
Speaker 1: a million dollar studio, you know.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just so much more accessible now, like
Speaker 3: oh yeah, making and produce music and you know, and
Speaker 3: get it out there for millions to hear.
Speaker 2: So it's really great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and there's still you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of great studios around. It's interesting how that that continues
Speaker 1: as well. It's like, even though you have all these
Speaker 1: different options for how you record, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of professional studios around that continue to thrive. It's I
Speaker 1: think it's because there's just more people making music than ever,
Speaker 1: you know, because of the Internet. Like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I when I was growing up, we didn't have the
Speaker 1: Internet yet, so you know, it was it was kind
Speaker 1: of ah, you didn't have a lot of opportunities to
Speaker 1: really get your music out there, you know, unless you
Speaker 1: got signed to a record label and all that. But
Speaker 1: but today there's so many different ways to to record
Speaker 1: and to distribute music. It's really wonderful. And uh, there's
Speaker 1: more music than than ever. Yeah. I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: ask you guys about it influences and and how you
Speaker 1: kind of define your sound because and I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: probably heard this a million times, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's unique. I couldn't think of anybody as I was
Speaker 1: listening to the songs you know, I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who you remind me of, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I mean I heard maybe a little bit of Vampire
Speaker 1: Weekend at least on one of the songs, But but
Speaker 1: I like you guys a lot better than I like
Speaker 1: Vampire Weekend. So I don't know if that even works.
Speaker 1: But uh, I mean, talk to me about that, Like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna guess that there's like a mix of
Speaker 1: terms of yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So like you know, we all, you know, I grew
Speaker 3: up listening to a whole bunch of stuff, a lot
Speaker 3: of like a lot of us grew up on little classics,
Speaker 3: you know, beatles, you know, and like you know, led
Speaker 3: Zeppelin and Late Queen and all these like classic rock
Speaker 3: influences that kind of like shaped or like are kind
Speaker 3: of our taste for music. And then we kind of
Speaker 3: broadened out and like, you know, like we listened to
Speaker 3: really obscure acts like will Wood and the Tape Worms
Speaker 3: is one that like we all really it's one that
Speaker 3: we really listen to a lot, and you know, it's
Speaker 3: very very small, small much smaller artists. You know that
Speaker 3: they have more of like a more of a cult
Speaker 3: following on the Internet, but like and that's sort of like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, that was really inspiring us. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: starting out and you know, releasing music also on the Internet,
Speaker 3: and like you know, it's just like it's a different
Speaker 3: way to reach an audience. So it was just and
Speaker 3: I'm sure Aliver you have influences you want to talk
Speaker 3: about as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, we all had different
Speaker 6: backgrounds and a lot of different music that we do
Speaker 6: listen to.
Speaker 5: Like I'm I'm a big Elliott Smith guy.
Speaker 6: That's my my go to guy for sure, and that
Speaker 6: comes through on some of my tracks and like some
Speaker 6: of the stuff I do, but it also mixes with
Speaker 6: like something Spencer Advanced would do at the same time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think we all have a lot of
Speaker 4: different influences, which makes writing music together very interesting and
Speaker 4: also challenging at times.
Speaker 1: Yeaheah.
Speaker 4: And also just like I think we're still trying to
Speaker 4: find our sound as well. But yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 4: can't really. I mean there's bands that we like to play,
Speaker 4: like we'll play like some covers, I know, like the
Speaker 4: Rare Occasions.
Speaker 8: Is kind of I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when I describe like what kind of
Speaker 4: music I play to people, I usually say like alternative.
Speaker 3: Really we also kind of dip into like the folk
Speaker 3: here acoustic stuff too, which is like but not as
Speaker 3: much as probably other indiacts, which is a you know,
Speaker 3: but yeah, like man said it, you know it is
Speaker 3: it is a challenge and like we're still finding our sound.
Speaker 3: You find on this EP we sort of do meander.
Speaker 3: It's a stew that's why we called it the Rabbit Stew. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be, you know, and because it's it's
Speaker 3: kind of like, you know, a meld of our influences
Speaker 3: and it's kind of meandering through all of those different
Speaker 3: flavors of music.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of what makes it
Speaker 1: so interesting to listen to. You know, As I'm listening
Speaker 1: to the four tracks, I mean, they are all they all
Speaker 1: kind of sound like the same band, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, they're very they're very different, different textures in
Speaker 1: the songs, and I forget which one I I emailed.
Speaker 1: I forget which one I said was my favorite.
Speaker 5: I'll be okay, I'll be okay.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that one, that one especially really that really
Speaker 1: gets me. But thank you, do you guys, are you
Speaker 1: playing out a lot? Do you play a lot of shows?
Speaker 8: Yes, we actually have a show today.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you've got something tonight. Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: definitely plug that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We're playing at the Tributary Brewing Company, kitter Remain. We're
Speaker 3: gonna playing from four to six, so if you're in
Speaker 3: the area, so we'll fick it out, get it, get
Speaker 3: get get some Bruce Ki's and listen to some great music.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good time. And then what else
Speaker 2: do we have coming up?
Speaker 8: We have our next one after that is.
Speaker 5: We're gonna play Newburyport Brewery. I forget the day on it,
Speaker 5: the tenth, That is the tenth that's gonna.
Speaker 8: Be a little later in the day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be a little later well like six or
Speaker 6: something like that. I forget the exact time on that one.
Speaker 6: But then we play Midway Cafe on the thirty first
Speaker 6: as well. That's another one right there.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. I would imagine with your sound, you guys
Speaker 1: can play a lot of different kinds of places, like right,
Speaker 1: because you're not you know, you're not a metal band,
Speaker 1: so you're not like super loud, but you're not you know,
Speaker 1: you're not just like like an acoustic act either, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like you're you know, you're kind
Speaker 1: of just doing coffee shops right like you can probably
Speaker 1: fit in almost anywhere, I would imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we really do try to like broad, keep it
Speaker 3: broad because you know, we you know, we have a
Speaker 3: lot of Yeah, we do have a huge dynamic range,
Speaker 3: you know, where we can really play something that's really
Speaker 3: like kind of forward, more punkin than kind of yeah,
Speaker 3: more soft, you know.
Speaker 4: It's just yeah, and I think we have some acoustic
Speaker 4: stuff too, so it depends. Sometimes we play like an
Speaker 4: electric set, but it's also nice to be able to
Speaker 4: play an acoustic set.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 6: When we need to, even like every now and then,
Speaker 6: we also bold to like some jazz because we all
Speaker 6: and we all also come from like a jazz background.
Speaker 5: We played in the jazz group for a.
Speaker 6: While altogether, and guess that's how we Yeah, that is
Speaker 6: kind of like when we all knew each other from
Speaker 6: goal in general. But we also played you know, in
Speaker 6: our high school, we were in the jazz combo together.
Speaker 6: So the award winning jazz combo.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Oh yeah, oh, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, we we all kind of met each
Speaker 6: other and started playing through that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys were all in school together. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: oh excellent, excellent and Jet Now your father was telling
Speaker 1: me you you play, or at least in the I
Speaker 1: think in the video. I watched the video of you
Speaker 1: guys were doing something for the auditioning for the NP. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: Tiny Desk concert. And I talked to your dad. I
Speaker 1: assume he told you about this. I'd stopped in at
Speaker 1: the store and he was telling me about the guitar
Speaker 1: that was his that did you play? Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: les Paul.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's gotta got some history, I guess.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: He he was a huge He was into all the
Speaker 3: crazy hair metal bands and stuff. So he's yeah, you
Speaker 3: know he he was. Randy Rose was a player that
Speaker 3: really that really inspired him. So he went and got
Speaker 3: a guitar that was just like his. Yea, like the
Speaker 3: Floyd Rose style bridge kind of and the in lays
Speaker 3: and stuff.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a really gorgeous guitar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of a family I now, and I
Speaker 3: kind of I kind of did he loan it to
Speaker 3: you or did he give it to you? That's cool
Speaker 3: and that must be so cool for him to to
Speaker 3: see you use you know, and not sitting just kind
Speaker 3: of collecting it's getting it deserves you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's excellent. Well we should play another
Speaker 1: track and if you don't mind. Now, normally I would
Speaker 1: I would say what should what should we play next?
Speaker 1: But I I might be selfish in play I'll be
Speaker 1: Okay because that is that is my personal favorite of these.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love that song. Thank you, so we will
Speaker 1: uh oh, we should mention too. Are these on an
Speaker 1: album or is this just a collection of singles?
Speaker 2: Are part of our EP called Rabbits?
Speaker 1: Do okay? Gotcha? How many tracks are on the EP?
Speaker 2: Six six tricks?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, very good. Well let's give this a listen
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna we're gonna come back and talk
Speaker 1: to these guys some more. We have Rabbits for sale
Speaker 1: with us a live in studio. But this is my favorite.
Speaker 9: This is called I'll be Okay.
Speaker 10: Hap be gethers time. Guys, there's nothing to do, nothing
Speaker 10: to spare when your life is having us? How come
Speaker 10: you to get us? The sound of Shadowing Glass as
Speaker 10: the empty Army Watson his song bad let's.
Speaker 7: Go for a walk through the top four of us.
Speaker 7: Look at all the trees that just refer.
Speaker 10: Us sit on Mama's grade.
Speaker 7: A tragic What about a young guy like he thought,
Speaker 7: getting what he thoughts? Get this man, he's done and
Speaker 7: nothing now.
Speaker 11: But I hate his Faye.
Speaker 7: You send away heat socks and she's caught in thro
Speaker 7: every joke on lies, don't buy able mills house.
Speaker 8: With right yellow wies.
Speaker 7: So I on my phone, my sacred just.
Speaker 10: See me dot on songs not.
Speaker 1: So don't find that's gonna done. So yes, I gets
Speaker 1: so quiet at the end, but but I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: I was reluctant to talk over it because it's so
Speaker 1: pretty with the piano.
Speaker 12: I really love that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is so good. That is so good. That
Speaker 1: is called I'll be okay. And if you're just joining us,
Speaker 1: the band is Rabbits for Sale and they're here with
Speaker 1: us live in studio on this Saturday morning. Hey, where
Speaker 1: does the name come from? Rabbits for Sale?
Speaker 13: So we uh and I used to play in an
Speaker 13: older just high school band, mostly just for fun, and
Speaker 13: on our on our way to practice one time we
Speaker 13: saw this sign on our way there and it said
Speaker 13: Rabbits for Sale. It was just like, you know, a
Speaker 13: guy selling rabbits and he just had a sign out,
Speaker 13: and we just thought we were like, yeah, that's cool,
Speaker 13: that's a cool band name.
Speaker 1: I'm almost surprised someone didn't. I'm almost surprised someone didn't
Speaker 1: have it already.
Speaker 5: I hope not.
Speaker 1: I was worried.
Speaker 8: I was worried we're going to brute force their way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can tell you. I'm sure you realize
Speaker 1: this if if you try to look you guys up
Speaker 1: on Facebook, you got to type in rabbits for sale
Speaker 1: band yea, yeah, because otherwise, because it turns out, and
Speaker 1: I had no idea how many people on Facebook we're
Speaker 1: selling rabbits.
Speaker 2: Turns out it's a lot, a lot of there's a
Speaker 2: lot of rabbit thoughs. I mean yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 2: a lot of them to go around. So I mean,
Speaker 2: what you do.
Speaker 5: We're trying to get a very niche audience of rabbit.
Speaker 3: So would helped if we had like a Facebook page
Speaker 3: we don't have. We need to get a proper we'll
Speaker 3: get one together.
Speaker 6: You don't have one, well, we have an Instagram. I
Speaker 6: don't know if that technically it goes over to Facebook
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because you need to get on the Facebook.
Speaker 2: On the face, get on the Facebook.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about the writing process. Do you guys all
Speaker 1: write together, do you get together and jam or how
Speaker 1: does that work?
Speaker 3: A bit of a little bit of everything, Like they
Speaker 3: don't know started as a gym and then we all
Speaker 3: kind of like pulled together and I'm like, hey, let's
Speaker 3: write something. But a good amount of the other ones
Speaker 3: were kind of individual, like you know, kind of us
Speaker 3: just kind of breaking off and kind of we're especially
Speaker 3: since we were kind of forming the band, it was
Speaker 3: kind of material we already had in our back pocket.
Speaker 1: They were okay bringing forward, So everybody kind of brought something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jet, do you always sing no?
Speaker 2: So on that last track, all of us sings that one?
Speaker 1: You sing that one on?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, okay, Yeah, we all kind of share a
Speaker 6: lot of like the lead vocals. I think Jet definitely
Speaker 6: does the most, but like vancings on the song, Spencer
Speaker 6: has his own songs as well that he sings, and
Speaker 6: then I sing my songs as well. Yeah, it kind
Speaker 6: of you know, changes little beatles es.
Speaker 1: I I was just thinking that it's it's cool that
Speaker 1: you're all able to sing lead and mix it up
Speaker 1: like that. Now, is it just you Oliver on that track?
Speaker 12: Is it is?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 1: Are the vocals doubled? Because that sounds I love the
Speaker 1: vocals on that. I love the sound of that.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we doubled them and did that lower one
Speaker 6: and then we had that higher sort of like Michael
Speaker 6: Jacksony weird sounding one as well on top of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it sounds really cool. I really creates a
Speaker 1: cool vibe. What do you when you play do you
Speaker 1: play that one live?
Speaker 5: We do play that one live. Yeah, when we play
Speaker 5: it live, I usually do the higher part and Jet
Speaker 5: we'll do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah that makes sense. That makes sense. Now you
Speaker 1: mentioned covers. What do you guys do for covers? Because
Speaker 1: I find you can kind of tell a lot about
Speaker 1: the band's influences from what they what they choose for
Speaker 1: cover songs.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean we were starting out doing kind of some
Speaker 4: obscure covers of bands that we like. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 4: trying to do I guess it's like more popular tunes.
Speaker 4: So like right now we're doing uh, recently, we've been
Speaker 4: doing moon Age, day Dream by Bowie. We're doing a
Speaker 4: talking Head song Psycho Killer.
Speaker 5: Oh nice, but we do it different, we do it cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we can do kind of like a punk.
Speaker 1: I've heard that's I've heard that song covered before, and
Speaker 1: it seems like everyone who covers it kind of puts
Speaker 1: a different spin on it, which is cool. And I
Speaker 1: love every version I've ever heard of it, including the original.
Speaker 1: Of course, my dad loves that song too, I remember
Speaker 1: growing up because we were both big talking D's fans.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a great choice. Yeah what what what else?
Speaker 1: Oh it's a really no. I was asking about covers.
Speaker 13: Covers, right, Yeah, and then we also got some Some
Speaker 13: of our early covers that we did were like from
Speaker 13: the more obscure bands, were like.
Speaker 2: Orange Dog Club. We did cover their song called untitled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't know them Orange.
Speaker 2: They're like Spells us.
Speaker 3: They actually have a bigger following than their Spotify than us,
Speaker 3: so they have a lot.
Speaker 8: I think they kind of uh grew from TikTok.
Speaker 2: They grew from TikTok, but they're still very small.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think they're upstate New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I found them one day and I was like,
Speaker 3: these guys are awesome, and like, you know, you know
Speaker 3: hopefully like one day I'm gonna shoot an email and
Speaker 3: be like, hey, let's do a collapse because they have
Speaker 3: a great sound and like I feel like I can
Speaker 3: imagine like a show bill with like the two of
Speaker 3: us on.
Speaker 2: It would just like be amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we do some Tally Hall.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Telly Hall's another act.
Speaker 5: It's like Banana Man did some Banana one of There's
Speaker 5: more Cold.
Speaker 1: Do you guys when when you do obscure covers, does
Speaker 1: anyone ever come up to you afterward and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I really love that song and they assume that it's
Speaker 1: yours because they don't they don't know it.
Speaker 5: That never happened.
Speaker 6: I think we've had to state multiple times that it
Speaker 6: is a cover. Like when we cover Tally Hall, we
Speaker 6: did the Bidding and then we also did Banana Man.
Speaker 5: Great songs.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard them listen to them, but I think
Speaker 6: there was like once or twice when we've played Banana
Speaker 6: Man where we've.
Speaker 5: Had to be like, this is a cover.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 6: I remember once at a show there was some guy
Speaker 6: that when we started playing it, his face like lit
Speaker 6: up and he was like, yeah a song.
Speaker 3: Yeahah, it was cool. Oh that's very good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: one of those weird ones. And that song intest is
Speaker 3: interesting because it's like it kind of like blew up
Speaker 3: on the internet in like a weird way in the
Speaker 3: early two thousands, so like some people know it, but
Speaker 3: it's like they don't really know what it's from. But
Speaker 3: like it's fun because it's so it's a goofy silly song, right,
Speaker 3: and it's always a crowd pleaser, so we always we
Speaker 3: kept it on the set like.
Speaker 2: Regarded like disregarding like the ability of the act.
Speaker 1: It just kind of yeah, Now, do you guys have
Speaker 1: anybody Are there any other bands on the scene that
Speaker 1: you kind of because I know from my own experience
Speaker 1: sometimes this happens organically where you just kind of end
Speaker 1: up teaming up with other bands and playing a lot
Speaker 1: of shows with with certain other bands. Is there anybody
Speaker 1: like that that that you guys have kind of teamed
Speaker 1: up with.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so we've the past, We've we booked a couple
Speaker 13: of gigs over the summer or from the spring that
Speaker 13: we played with a couple of people, So gem D
Speaker 13: we recently connected with and we've been trying to get
Speaker 13: some shows with them, and also Willie DeNardo and the corporates.
Speaker 13: We seem to really resonate with those artists and uh,
Speaker 13: we we also just really like their music and playing
Speaker 13: with them live. We just kind of formed a relationship
Speaker 13: and you know, we definitely keep in touch as much
Speaker 13: as we can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's that's good. You know,
Speaker 1: it's good to have others obviously. Networking is so important,
Speaker 1: you know when you're doing this and uh and being
Speaker 1: able to have other bands that you can kind of,
Speaker 1: like I said, it happens organically, but you know, kind
Speaker 1: of team up with and support each other in that way,
Speaker 1: and it's a great way to get a lot more shows.
Speaker 1: You know, the more the more people you meet, the
Speaker 1: more shows you get and so forth. So are you
Speaker 1: guys playing out all you mentioned you've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of shows coming up, But do you guys play out
Speaker 1: through the year or I know, a lot of bands
Speaker 1: kind of use on part of it I'm sure has
Speaker 1: to do with part of the country that we're in
Speaker 1: with you know, a colder winter. A lot of bands
Speaker 1: kind of take winter to not do so many shows
Speaker 1: but kind of focus on recording. Is that kind of it?
Speaker 2: Kind of coincidentally happened like that.
Speaker 3: I guess that we ended up doing all of our
Speaker 3: gigs in the summer, Yeah, just because we had spent
Speaker 3: all the time working on the EP in the winter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we were released it in November, and then we
Speaker 3: were like still sort of writing stuff. We recorded two
Speaker 3: singles this past.
Speaker 5: January or February March, one of those months.
Speaker 3: And they're in that they're still in the mixing and
Speaker 3: post production process, but we hope to have those out soon,
Speaker 3: at least one of them out by the end of
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I keep on the lookout for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And also for a while, Vance was in New York
Speaker 6: for a little bit going to school, so we were
Speaker 6: short of basis, so we didn't really have the opportunity
Speaker 6: to play too much. But Vance is back now, so
Speaker 6: now we're gonna try and play as much as we can.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Well we should uh yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: try to get them all in. Let's play another track.
Speaker 1: What should we go with next? I'll let you guys
Speaker 1: pick this time.
Speaker 2: What's on the list to be heavyto?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the two ps.
Speaker 6: Flip a coin, you guys want to choose, Spencer, you
Speaker 6: choose promenade, Promenademenade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was wondering. You know, it's funny. When I
Speaker 1: looked at it, I in my mind I said promenade,
Speaker 1: and and then I listened to it and I said,
Speaker 1: oh no, it's promenade. All right, we'll go with this
Speaker 1: one next. If you are just joining us, we have
Speaker 1: Rabbits for sale. No, we're not selling rabbits. It's the
Speaker 1: name of the band Live in Studio. Yes, we love rabbits,
Speaker 1: but no Rabbits for sale is here with this Live
Speaker 1: in Studio. We're playing some tracks from their EP. What's
Speaker 1: it called again, rabbit Stew rabbit Stew.
Speaker 2: It's streaming on all platforms, Spotify, Apple.
Speaker 1: Music, Outstanding, Outstanding. All right, give this a listen. This
Speaker 1: is called promenade.
Speaker 14: Myself to your dad, will you take a chance on me?
Speaker 14: When the music starts to slow, I'm like to load
Speaker 14: to see. Then I could say that I do anything
Speaker 14: to want about my No, but all of those things
Speaker 14: that I've thought to myself, I never do. If I
Speaker 14: ask to take your health, would you work your hands
Speaker 14: in February comes round?
Speaker 7: Would you be like fault to lie? And I could
Speaker 7: say that I'd do anything, no wronger problem all of
Speaker 7: those things that are not to myself I never do
Speaker 7: and I fun mo inspires.
Speaker 13: Would you walk along.
Speaker 7: With be my sweetheart? Four all times? Promise made.
Speaker 6: I've been busy.
Speaker 7: And I could say that I do everything I want.
Speaker 7: The problem us all those things that are back to
Speaker 7: myself I'll never get.
Speaker 1: I wish my fingers could do that on the guitar.
Speaker 1: That is uh, that is so pretty. That is Prominade
Speaker 1: and the band is Rabbits for Sale. They are here
Speaker 1: with us, alive in studio, and yeah, that is that
Speaker 1: is really nice. That's the kind of thing you can
Speaker 1: just kind of close your eyes and get lost in.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I just found them on Amazon Music to add them
Speaker 13: to my playlist. I need to paint to this.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Excellent. Yeah, Jenny's also looking, always looking for music to
Speaker 1: paint too.
Speaker 5: She's an artist and awesome. That's very cool.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I got a.
Speaker 5: Paint to that one.
Speaker 12: Boy.
Speaker 13: Actually, no, I really do enjoy you guys' music is
Speaker 13: really great and I do put a lot of independent
Speaker 13: artists in my playlist and I did just add you
Speaker 13: for real.
Speaker 2: We do really appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: You know, you're always looking for you know, fans to
Speaker 6: enjoy ourself, and we really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Is it I'm curious about recording a song like that.
Speaker 1: Is it challenging to really get that guitar sound exactly right?
Speaker 1: Because it's to me, it's such an art when when
Speaker 1: you hear that and you can you can hear everything
Speaker 1: so clearly to the point where you can you can
Speaker 1: hear the you know, the fingers moving on the fret board.
Speaker 1: You know, I love that. Is that challenging to get
Speaker 1: that right in the studio?
Speaker 3: I mean, fortunately for us, you know, Dave is a
Speaker 3: you know, extremely experienced engineer, and like, you know, you
Speaker 3: knew all the right stuff for Mike placement, how to
Speaker 3: get that Yeah, all of everything that was coming from
Speaker 3: here out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going from my guitar out to that.
Speaker 5: Do we do direct in and Mike? I think that's
Speaker 5: what we did, right.
Speaker 3: I think we did like a scratch with directing, But
Speaker 3: I don't think we ended up using it though. They
Speaker 3: just use a mic then because when we plugged it in.
Speaker 3: When plugging in an acoustic guitar, the electric with the
Speaker 3: pickup doesn't always sound good, you know, it's always better
Speaker 3: to get them wrong, you know.
Speaker 2: Recording with the mic, it's you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm always curious about that because I'm a bit
Speaker 1: of a recording nerd, and I just I love when
Speaker 1: I when I hear you know, because it doesn't you
Speaker 1: know a lot of that that that specifically is something
Speaker 1: that with the guitar that a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of times it's you have to be so precise about
Speaker 1: how you do it to really to really capture it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to really do it justice
Speaker 1: and uh and uh no, that that is that is
Speaker 1: really really good. What should you know? We kind of
Speaker 1: we kind of talked about it a little bit about uh,
Speaker 1: trying to find you guys on Facebook, but what should
Speaker 1: our audience know about how to find you guys online
Speaker 1: to keep up with everything that you're doing, find your music.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we have, you know, all, like the majority
Speaker 6: at least of like the Class six socials, we have
Speaker 6: an Instagram.
Speaker 5: It's Rapers Sale, Artificial.
Speaker 3: Right, Rabbits First Sale, Dot Official and Instagram. Instagram is
Speaker 3: definitely the best one to follow. Yeah, it's the It's
Speaker 3: definitely the best way to keep updated and everything. All
Speaker 3: of our events and what we're doing to talk as well, right,
Speaker 3: bik talk is good, you.
Speaker 5: Know, to talk you find some funny content.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well you know that's you know where the
Speaker 3: majority of our like just our wheels and our skits
Speaker 3: and like little things get posted and everything. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it's always good to you know, follow us on that
Speaker 3: too and help support so we can beat the algorithm
Speaker 3: and you know, yeah, go viral.
Speaker 1: You guys are really creative, you know, just beyond the band,
Speaker 1: you know, beyond the music. You guys are really creative.
Speaker 1: So you're able to think, you know, because content creation
Speaker 1: is so important.
Speaker 3: Super important, and you gotta you know, you got to
Speaker 3: like multi task pretty much when you're out industry.
Speaker 1: It's like absolutely, we.
Speaker 5: Did have one semi viral video from Spencer.
Speaker 13: Viral maybe isn't the right word, but like we got
Speaker 13: more a lot more views than the rest.
Speaker 2: Viral is probably like viral for like, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's probably twenty one k think is where it's right now,
Speaker 3: which is more than their other videos that kind of
Speaker 3: only get like five Yeah.
Speaker 1: What what was it about this one?
Speaker 7: What? What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 12: I so?
Speaker 13: I was I was having trouble falling sleep one night,
Speaker 13: and I just thought of an idea. I was like,
Speaker 13: what if I jumped on a piano and so, but
Speaker 13: then it kind of developed into like trying to grab
Speaker 13: people's attention, like, oh, look at this, this Beethoven technique
Speaker 13: that people do. And then I run over and I
Speaker 13: jump over a keyboard, but I cut it so it
Speaker 13: looks like I'm about to fall on it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I like play all the eighty keys of once.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this really is a really yeah video. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just got to watch it, you know, it's like.
Speaker 5: Five seconds or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very you know, but there's like the attention
Speaker 3: to detail on it, like you like you have like
Speaker 3: background music that's like I.
Speaker 13: Did like a slat based funk version of like Burle's
Speaker 13: in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 2: You're in for a laugh for sure.
Speaker 1: By the way, we should say a little everybody quickly
Speaker 1: on the Facebook live chat because you're getting some love
Speaker 1: in there. Our friend Bruce, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know Bruce from Legion of Solace. He's in Massachusetts and
Speaker 1: they do a lot of promotion. They work with a
Speaker 1: lot of different artists. Someone you should meet, uh, He's
Speaker 1: in the chat and he says, Uh, they would pair
Speaker 1: really well with the band Jam Tomorrow that you had
Speaker 1: on a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know those guys Jam Tomorrow, but yeah, you guys,
Speaker 1: yeah they would.
Speaker 5: We should definitely reach out to them, for sure. I
Speaker 5: haven't I haven't heard of them myself, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys went really well with them. Yeah. Our
Speaker 1: friend Eazy G is in the chat. This is off topic,
Speaker 1: but he says, Hi, Matt, are you ready for Summer Slam?
Speaker 1: I guess we're ready.
Speaker 5: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much to get ready for it.
Speaker 1: We just turn on Hulu. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Peacock.
Speaker 5: Popcorn.
Speaker 1: Our friend Charles Richardson is in the chat and says,
Speaker 1: good morning, Let's go seem punk Summer Slam tonight. Yes,
Speaker 1: we know, we know.
Speaker 8: They're making sure we don't forget apparently.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont uh is
Speaker 1: in the chat and says, ladies totally dig guys that
Speaker 1: say Bruski. I forget who said it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all going to say the Youngland.
Speaker 1: The ladies love Bruceki. That's right. Well, in a moment,
Speaker 1: we'll play we'll play one more track to to close
Speaker 1: out the segment. But it's great having you guys here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you for having me so much.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, but for those listening live on Saturday morning, we
Speaker 1: definitely need to plug the show you have today. It's
Speaker 1: uh this afternoon actually right, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Tributary Brewing and can it remain right over the border
Speaker 6: basically in Portsmouth honestly, but it's from four to six
Speaker 6: be there.
Speaker 5: You know, it's gonna be a good time. They have,
Speaker 5: they have great beer, good people. It will be a
Speaker 5: good time they have. They have great bruskies.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good. And by the way, too, the
Speaker 1: music that you're working on now, because you've got a
Speaker 1: couple of singles you had mentioned, Uh any kind of
Speaker 1: an eta on those or are you gonna or is
Speaker 1: it gonna be a while?
Speaker 8: We've been trying to figure that, I mean hopefully not
Speaker 8: a while.
Speaker 2: Hopefully not a while.
Speaker 8: I mean just said before at the end of the
Speaker 8: at least.
Speaker 2: One of them before the end of the year.
Speaker 4: I think I think we're hoping earlier. But like this
Speaker 4: summer we kind of dedicated to like gigging. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: so we're kind of I think once maybe like September hits.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Could say October for now and to see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super perfectionist about it.
Speaker 3: You know, we want the mixes to be perfect, so
Speaker 3: you know, it's about getting the best quality content out
Speaker 3: there for for our listeners.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely absolutely. And oh one more thing, because you
Speaker 1: guys were talking off air, is there a story?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, Well then since you're the culprit for I
Speaker 13: guess you should start caused this.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think you want me to tell the
Speaker 8: story because it might be biased coming from me.
Speaker 5: That's true, true, you want to start with first?
Speaker 8: Is the story for this happened while we were recording
Speaker 8: the vocals.
Speaker 6: It was a guitar acoustic guitar guitar. No, I thought no,
Speaker 6: because I remember I was I was playing guitar, and
Speaker 6: I was really, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah you.
Speaker 2: All right away.
Speaker 8: But we were recording I'll Be Okay.
Speaker 13: So we we were recording the guitar for I'll Be Okay,
Speaker 13: and Oliver is Uh was told, you know, just go
Speaker 13: in the room start recording the bands, comes down and
Speaker 13: announces that something's wrong to the toilet, it's broken or
Speaker 13: something and so in a rush, Jet and Dave go
Speaker 13: upstairs figure out the situation, and Oliver is just in
Speaker 13: there recording the rest of the guitar and there's he
Speaker 13: didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: So I walked out and I'm.
Speaker 8: Like, toilet, it was like quite that night.
Speaker 1: It was pretty. It was a lot of white.
Speaker 8: It started overflowing.
Speaker 1: It was quite.
Speaker 2: It was quite.
Speaker 5: The man I was in there recording the acoustic guitar part.
Speaker 6: I had no idea, So I'm just sitting in there
Speaker 6: and I finished, and I'm still sitting in there like
Speaker 6: what happened? And eventually Dave came down, like hit the
Speaker 6: button to talk into the room and was like.
Speaker 5: Hey, everything's fine. The toilet kind of broke. Just just
Speaker 5: do another pass, do another take. And I'm like all right.
Speaker 6: So both the guitar tracks, the acoustic guitar tracks were
Speaker 6: both done in one take and they are doubled.
Speaker 5: So I think that the toilet kind of motivated me
Speaker 5: to get it done quick.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it was clean, you know, not like the toilet,
Speaker 2: like the toilet clean.
Speaker 8: I want to say, I sure he did not go
Speaker 8: number two?
Speaker 5: You didn't?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just I didn't. I just want to
Speaker 8: clarify for okay, well.
Speaker 1: That does make a difference in a situation like that,
Speaker 1: It does, It does make a very big difference. Well, good,
Speaker 1: all right? Is the toilet been repaired since then? I
Speaker 1: assume everything's all right, Everything is okay.
Speaker 5: We took it out of there. You know, he kind
Speaker 5: of maybe charges for who knows, there's an extra charge
Speaker 5: on there.
Speaker 1: It's very rock and roll though it is. There's nothing
Speaker 1: more rock and roll than a broken toilet.
Speaker 3: Actually going to go down in the in the history
Speaker 3: books broken toilet, Marco Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: That's going to be that toilet.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, you got to get
Speaker 1: that story in there. That's awesome. That's awesome. All right,
Speaker 1: And before we play this, uh, a song with a
Speaker 1: title like potato Head, I feel like there might be
Speaker 1: a story behind it, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 8: Is there a story behind I mean there's kind of
Speaker 8: a story.
Speaker 1: Is it about an actual potato head?
Speaker 4: I mean no, but I guess in a sense, I
Speaker 4: mean it's kind of like when you have potato heads,
Speaker 4: just kind of like you get the eyes and the
Speaker 4: eyes that maybe they're loft sided, and then you get
Speaker 4: the mouth.
Speaker 5: From what you told me it's kind of about making
Speaker 5: a perfect person, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about making a perfect person. But oh okay,
Speaker 4: kind of not realistic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, parts that are inspired by like real people that
Speaker 6: we've met, you know, Like some lyrics, especially like the
Speaker 6: first lyric your eyes are you know what it is,
Speaker 6: But like some of them are inspired by people that
Speaker 6: we actually know. So it's just like a conglomerate of
Speaker 6: like trying to create like the ideal person and and
Speaker 6: kind of like the unrealistic aspects of that as well.
Speaker 8: Okay, I think conglomerate.
Speaker 5: That's a big word for me.
Speaker 1: Conglomerate.
Speaker 5: H It's a good work, solid word.
Speaker 1: So we will end with this, but Rabbits for Sale, guys,
Speaker 1: thank you again so much, Thank you so much, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having absolutely and we'll do this
Speaker 1: again when you've got the new music ready to ready
Speaker 1: to go. Definitely we'll have you back and we'll play
Speaker 1: those and uh and we will end our segment with
Speaker 1: this track. But here it is. This is Potato Head
Speaker 1: and the band is Rabbits for Sale.
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Speaker 7: Who comes out for coffee.
Speaker 14: Day.
Speaker 12: What do us say.
Speaker 7: To her?
Speaker 12: Your head.
Speaker 7: Is the coldest.
Speaker 12: I would see.
Speaker 11: And story bos resom me all in my memory and
Speaker 11: all plugs on it, every.
Speaker 5: Piece be the f.
Speaker 12: Do you will be personal at lie, tell me hell
Speaker 12: that she loves me.
Speaker 7: I'm your own.
Speaker 11: Your red is unmatched, so I'm smarter than I could
Speaker 11: have order to become.
Speaker 12: With you a un dumber.
Speaker 14: Your hands.
Speaker 11: Are perfect, turn them over and let.
Speaker 7: Me be your future.
Speaker 11: As bad as you pass an all plug on it,
Speaker 11: every pe.
Speaker 7: Make the figure.
Speaker 11: Oh you're be perfect, it's come to life. In turn
Speaker 11: me hell that she'd love.
Speaker 7: Your old man.
Speaker 15: You fall in a pole, slipping away out of mygress.
Speaker 7: You're dis rout and kay you're not my.
Speaker 11: You're not anyone, not anything.
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Speaker 8: Oh you'll be person cause.
Speaker 7: So life until me how that she loved me?
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