Matt Connarton Unleashed: Regals

0:00 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Here we go our number three New Marrow

0:02 Speaker 1: trace of Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from

0:06 Speaker 1: the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,

0:12 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Today is a Saturday, December seven, twenty twenty four,

0:17 Speaker 1: and I am very excited. I've been really looking forward

0:20 Speaker 1: to this. We've got two of the guys from the

0:23 Speaker 1: band Regals here in studio and let me bring those

0:28 Speaker 1: mics up because these guys are all they're all set up,

0:30 Speaker 1: they're going to play live for us. Really looking forward

0:33 Speaker 1: to that. So let's see here. Oh, I'm glad you're playing. Yeah,

0:38 Speaker 1: keep playing.

0:43 Speaker 2: What's up y'all?

0:46 Speaker 1: Oh that sounds good?

0:49 Speaker 2: Go ahead, knowing how we doing out there, Manchester, New

0:52 Speaker 2: Hampshire radio listeners.

0:54 Speaker 1: Go ahead and introduce yourself, sir.

0:56 Speaker 2: My name is Ryan. My name is Ryan from the

0:57 Speaker 2: band Regals.

0:59 Speaker 1: All right, very good, and then let me get that

1:01 Speaker 1: other mic up here and then over here, sir.

1:05 Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, how is everyone out there in radio land?

1:10 Speaker 2: Hello?

1:13 Speaker 3: My name is Lucas and I played the Steel for Regals.

1:19 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna let's see, I think I'm gonna

1:22 Speaker 1: pull down that mic and turn up this other mic,

1:27 Speaker 1: go and talk a little more, Lucas, Hello, Oh that

1:36 Speaker 1: sounds nice. That sounds really nice.

1:44 Speaker 3: I had a surreal moment on my way to the

1:46 Speaker 3: studio today as I heard regals over the airwaves, big shoutout.

1:53 Speaker 1: Absolutely happy to do it, happy to do it. I

1:55 Speaker 1: kind of want to get that other mic closer to you.

1:58 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about uh, hang on a second, yeah, keep

2:04 Speaker 1: keep keep strumming.

2:13 Speaker 4: I want to get this m.

2:19 Speaker 2: Hey, world, what are we thinking about today?

2:33 Speaker 1: Oh? That sounds really.

2:34 Speaker 2: Good live mixing on the radio, right.

2:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're I think we're good. If you

3:01 Speaker 1: guys wanna if you guys want to play something, and

3:03 Speaker 1: then we'll pull ch out for a bit.

3:05 Speaker 4: Yeah.

3:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, you want to do a little town, Let's

3:10 Speaker 2: do little town? Right?

3:14 Speaker 5: M hm.

3:35 Speaker 6: You're hanging around.

3:40 Speaker 7: Just like that in this little town, and everybody knows.

3:48 Speaker 2: What's knowing, no want to know. It's gonna go.

3:52 Speaker 7: And I'm feeling strange, stranger than iver I thought I.

4:01 Speaker 4: Was now much longer. Now I'm getting stuck down low

4:08 Speaker 4: and still down yet yet yet.

4:17 Speaker 8: I've been down, so down yet yet yet day.

4:25 Speaker 9: Here I've been down. I'm magging around.

4:41 Speaker 10: I guess it happen saying, and I'll shirt be free.

4:45 Speaker 4: God didn't coming.

4:52 Speaker 5: That's gonna up.

4:53 Speaker 4: Go when you're calling and alone.

4:58 Speaker 7: Below, don't full all out of trees a getting above

5:03 Speaker 7: and I'm on the hounds.

5:07 Speaker 4: You make decisions like a fish and water drown a house.

5:16 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been down so down he yeah, yeah,

5:26 Speaker 8: yeahhead him, I've been down in this little town.

6:09 Speaker 2: I know there's not enough love to go over around

6:13 Speaker 2: snow and dreamy days.

6:18 Speaker 7: They refragil like arms over this place.

6:22 Speaker 2: And you can get it all back, all that compassion you.

6:28 Speaker 7: Gave away to those who lie. Can we stop in grounds?

6:35 Speaker 7: I know we shave it, bud, who knows anymore any how?

6:41 Speaker 5: Home?

6:43 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah here, I've been down.

6:49 Speaker 7: So down.

6:52 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Oh I've been down. Yeah, I've been down.

7:07 Speaker 2: So down.

7:09 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah, I've been down.

7:34 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that sounds so good.

7:37 Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

7:38 Speaker 1: Absolutely, if you're just joining us out, we have Regals

7:40 Speaker 1: here with us alive in the studio.

7:43 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening out there.

7:44 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. Where does the name come from? Regals?

7:50 Speaker 7: Yeah?

7:51 Speaker 2: Interesting question, I guess so like it kind of I

7:56 Speaker 2: was like trying to create a character, I guess like

7:59 Speaker 2: a while ago for like this project, you know, and

8:07 Speaker 2: it kind of uh, you know, it's based off of

8:10 Speaker 2: my name in a way. Like my name is Ryan

8:13 Speaker 2: rock Egan. My middle name is rock. By the way,

8:16 Speaker 2: it's like some corny like Instagram handle thing or anything.

8:20 Speaker 6: You know.

8:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's come. It's a family thing. It's

8:24 Speaker 2: a great ancestor of ours was a priest and he

8:29 Speaker 2: had cancer and had a maggot treatment. Uh really yeah,

8:35 Speaker 2: like way way back in the day, like and uh

8:39 Speaker 2: bid out the cant they bid out the cancer and

8:41 Speaker 2: uh he lived for a long life after that and

8:43 Speaker 2: then considered it a miracle.

8:44 Speaker 1: Wow.

8:45 Speaker 2: And that became a namesake for my family. My dad

8:49 Speaker 2: has that middle name, and uh my brother also so yeah,

8:55 Speaker 2: so I'm my middle name is rock and U Ryan

8:59 Speaker 2: Egan eagal r e g A. It's close. But basically,

9:04 Speaker 2: like you know, like I was like gonna try to

9:08 Speaker 2: do like a character named like Rocky Regal like when

9:11 Speaker 2: I grew up. When I was growing up, everyone called

9:14 Speaker 2: me Rocky and uh. But then one day I was like,

9:18 Speaker 2: I want to be normal. I want to be Ryan.

9:20 Speaker 2: I don't know why I wanted to be normal because

9:23 Speaker 2: I'm not normal. So yeah, that's basically you know. And

9:29 Speaker 2: then regals. It's kind of like an irony thing, you know,

9:31 Speaker 2: like we call ourselves regals, but we're you know, we're

9:36 Speaker 2: paycheck to paycheck types of guys. Class were working warehouses,

9:41 Speaker 2: truck drivers. I recently trust funded, but you know that's

9:48 Speaker 2: another story.

9:49 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Lukas. So I'm gonna ask you can

9:52 Speaker 1: you pick up that other that other mic there that

9:54 Speaker 1: I put on on that table, And I'm gonna because

9:57 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you guys a little bit.

9:58 Speaker 1: But I want to have used that one because that

10:00 Speaker 1: it is just too far away. I can't make it work.

10:01 Speaker 1: But that one there we go. Hello, I want to

10:03 Speaker 1: make sure we can hear you. Got your voice is familiar,

10:05 Speaker 1: but happy to be here, happy, happy to be here. Yes,

10:09 Speaker 1: it's a little inside but if you know, you know,

10:12 Speaker 1: not that I told anybody, not that I told anybody.

10:14 Speaker 2: But.

10:16 Speaker 1: No, you guys sound amazing, Lucas, Can you tell us

10:18 Speaker 1: what you're playing for listeners who might be like, oh,

10:22 Speaker 1: what what is that? That doesn't sound like a normal guitar.

10:25 Speaker 3: Nope, it's a little bit of a different kind of guitar.

10:28 Speaker 3: I've got sixty four Fender eight hundred pedal steel guitar.

10:33 Speaker 3: It's my favorite instrument that I've ever purchased. I bought

10:37 Speaker 3: it about a year ago off a new friend I

10:40 Speaker 3: made on Craigslist. Okay, our friend Jason actually recorded all

10:45 Speaker 3: of our tracks that we're playing. Most of the tracks

10:48 Speaker 3: we're playing today, most of the songs Project Sound down

10:53 Speaker 3: in Clinton, Mass is my friend that I purchased. Yeah,

10:57 Speaker 3: i'd lose dinery yet, lad. So it's a ten string,

11:05 Speaker 3: six pedal guitar. It stands like a table and uh,

11:10 Speaker 3: you play it country Western styles?

11:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, people call it table guitar.

11:13 Speaker 3: Yeah's table top guitar.

11:15 Speaker 2: Really, I think it.

11:17 Speaker 3: Okay, call it that now, we call it that makes

11:21 Speaker 3: But I've played guitar normal six string guitar for a

11:24 Speaker 3: long time and tried to emulate a lot of the

11:26 Speaker 3: country Western stuff that I like. Yeah, And after simulating

11:31 Speaker 3: it for many, many years, I finally found a guitar

11:34 Speaker 3: that I could afford. Because boy, are these things expensive

11:37 Speaker 3: and to find in New England. Yeah, they're tough to

11:40 Speaker 3: find in New England. There's plenty of country music around

11:43 Speaker 3: here as far as ones that are affordable to me.

11:47 Speaker 3: This is the first one I found. Yeah, I've got

11:50 Speaker 3: friends down in Virginia and down in North Carolina, and

11:54 Speaker 3: pedal steels are all over the place, I can imagine. Yeah,

11:57 Speaker 3: but up here they're very expensive. Our friend from Slim Volume,

12:01 Speaker 3: which is selling one, you missed your chance.

12:04 Speaker 7: It's sorry.

12:05 Speaker 11: Sorry.

12:06 Speaker 1: So what's it like going from playing just a regular

12:09 Speaker 1: six string guitar to playing that? I mean, is it

12:11 Speaker 1: a big It must have been. Obviously, it's an adjustment.

12:15 Speaker 1: It's different, But like, how hard was it to learn

12:17 Speaker 1: to play that?

12:18 Speaker 3: I did tons of research beforehand? Yeah, YouTube is a

12:21 Speaker 3: good friend, plenty of research. The Steel Players Forum dot

12:28 Speaker 3: com is the place for steel nerds to go to

12:31 Speaker 3: go chat. It's it's an old forum site that's still

12:35 Speaker 3: very much active, and you can go directly to the

12:39 Speaker 3: manufacturer a lot of the times and they can answer

12:41 Speaker 3: any sort of technical questions. But as far as playing it, yeah,

12:44 Speaker 3: it had a little bit of a learning curve. Like

12:47 Speaker 3: I said, I was trying to emulate this sort of sound.

12:49 Speaker 3: So I found a guitar that bends singular string when

12:54 Speaker 3: you play it, an old b Bender Telecaster Pulley arm

12:58 Speaker 3: inside guitar, and I was trying to emulate this sort

13:02 Speaker 3: of style, but getting on there, sitting in front of

13:06 Speaker 3: it is very different than just researching. So it's played

13:11 Speaker 3: almost in an open tuning, kind of like a blues

13:14 Speaker 3: slide guitar, but they have ten strings, so you have

13:18 Speaker 3: intervals between the normal strings, where if you play it

13:21 Speaker 3: open it just doesn't sound great. So you have to

13:25 Speaker 3: find different groupings, and there's different strings that work together,

13:32 Speaker 3: so you do groups of three most of the time,

13:35 Speaker 3: and then you have your pedals down below. So a

13:38 Speaker 3: grouping of two, the two different strings are controlled by

13:41 Speaker 3: two different petals, so each one can raise it full

13:47 Speaker 3: step or half step. There's half step. But finding the

13:53 Speaker 3: different groupings and then learning to use your whole body

13:57 Speaker 3: is very different.

13:58 Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that when you said that

13:59 Speaker 1: it's almost like playing drums where you're using limbs.

14:02 Speaker 3: Very similar o the pus style. Yeah, every limb. But

14:05 Speaker 3: this is an old school pedal steel that doesn't have

14:09 Speaker 3: any knee levers.

14:10 Speaker 12: Yeah I have.

14:11 Speaker 3: I have one pedal here that can drop strings, but

14:16 Speaker 3: on a more contemporary style they have knee levers that

14:19 Speaker 3: can drop your string. Yeah, this one I'm still learning. Yeah,

14:24 Speaker 3: I've had it about a year and it's really fun. Yeah,

14:28 Speaker 3: it's really fun. Been very thankful playing shows with Ryan,

14:31 Speaker 3: some of his solo gigs. I've been able to sit

14:33 Speaker 3: in with a few other people. Yeah, so playing with

14:37 Speaker 3: other folks is a whole different experience too. I'm I'm

14:40 Speaker 3: getting used to playing with Ryan, we've been we've been

14:43 Speaker 3: buddies a long time. Yeah, but playing this thing with

14:46 Speaker 3: other people, uh, fake it till you make it right.

14:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, they sound great.

14:50 Speaker 3: Thank you.

14:51 Speaker 1: And like I said, you know, we when Jenny and

14:53 Speaker 1: I were at the shaft Skin that night to see

14:54 Speaker 1: her son.

14:55 Speaker 3: Jesse play, Jenny shout outs.

14:57 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you guys were playing and and sounded incredible.

15:00 Speaker 1: I was like, Jez, we gotta get him on the show.

15:02 Speaker 1: You had been played on the show before when we

15:04 Speaker 1: had Mosaic Art collect If you're and you guys had

15:06 Speaker 1: that show coming up at uh at Mosaic. But but yeah,

15:10 Speaker 1: it's it's great to have you in. Do you guys

15:13 Speaker 1: want to play another song? Sure, I'm dying here more

15:16 Speaker 1: and Lucas, yeah you can. You can just put that

15:18 Speaker 1: on the on the chair if you don't mind. Sorry

15:20 Speaker 1: about that. We do a lot of improvising here, but no,

15:26 Speaker 1: you guys sound great in the headphone, so that's for sure.

15:28 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, uh regals here with

15:31 Speaker 1: us a live in studio. You said, you still call

15:36 Speaker 1: it regals when it's just the two of you are Yeah.

15:39 Speaker 2: Okay, those are the songs are playing?

15:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, might as well.

15:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Lucas and Ryan show, there you go, there

15:47 Speaker 2: you go, Rocky and Luke. You cut me on.

16:03 Speaker 7: Each and every time. I guess I won't into much

16:16 Speaker 7: now catch me drowning every nine. I thought what we

16:23 Speaker 7: had was good, you even said it yourself and waish.

16:31 Speaker 7: But now I'm past sins or floating locked at bodies

16:38 Speaker 7: from the depths of this river bed. And now you're gone,

16:46 Speaker 7: and that's fine. I hope the way you choose away

16:52 Speaker 7: your time now it's worth it. Tend all the God

17:25 Speaker 7: love now is one picture. It helps me remember what

17:32 Speaker 7: you look like, because I'm forgetting most things these days.

17:40 Speaker 7: I'm blacking out and crossing down inch roadway.

17:45 Speaker 3: Yeah.

17:45 Speaker 7: Because after you heard me seeing I swear you fell

17:53 Speaker 7: in love, he said, I was gonna be famans.

18:00 Speaker 2: I said, I really care about that stuff.

18:08 Speaker 7: But leave me when I say I really hate the

18:14 Speaker 7: way you're talking about me? Why do you do this study?

18:23 Speaker 4: Dead't name.

18:29 Speaker 5: Door you to this.

18:31 Speaker 4: Stay, don't name.

18:38 Speaker 5: H dor?

18:40 Speaker 4: Do these stays dead name ah dor to this day?

18:53 Speaker 4: Doesn't nametsday dot to this day?

19:42 Speaker 2: Hm hmm.

19:43 Speaker 1: So good, Ryan and Lucas are here from Regals and

19:48 Speaker 1: these guys sound amazing. If you are just tuning in,

19:52 Speaker 1: what can you can? Can you tell us more about

19:54 Speaker 1: the new the new album coming out, Lucas, feel free

19:56 Speaker 1: to to grab that mic.

20:00 Speaker 2: So the new album, it's called a Love Sick Purgatory.

20:06 Speaker 2: It's kind of a just a collection of songs that

20:09 Speaker 2: are just about mostly heartbreak and just love and junk

20:17 Speaker 2: like that. I just kind of find it easier to

20:20 Speaker 2: write songs about stuff like that than yeah, you know,

20:23 Speaker 2: there's like a lot heavier things, but those way harder

20:27 Speaker 2: to write songs about. But you know, a love song,

20:29 Speaker 2: it's a theme. Yeah, so you know, yeah, you know,

20:33 Speaker 2: I'm okay, guys, all right, it's all water under the bridge.

20:38 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just a bunch of songs that, you know,

20:42 Speaker 2: definitely for people that are you know, feel in a

20:46 Speaker 2: certain type of way.

20:47 Speaker 1: Sure, But and that's that's coming out soon.

20:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be out around February, like late February.

20:55 Speaker 1: Excellent.

20:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna do a little run of shows at

20:59 Speaker 2: the end of the month than to March, and you know,

21:03 Speaker 2: like we're just kind of finishing up some loose ends

21:06 Speaker 2: and we'll be announcing the tour very soon and excellent.

21:10 Speaker 2: Gonna have a lot of fun and you know, just

21:12 Speaker 2: play some shows and do the thing. Yeah, yeah, and

21:16 Speaker 2: thing for a little bit.

21:17 Speaker 1: You know, it must be nice for you to have

21:19 Speaker 1: a configuration where you can you can approach it different,

21:21 Speaker 1: like if you know, if you're doing something like just

21:23 Speaker 1: the two of you like this, or like you did

21:25 Speaker 1: at the Shaft skiing, or if it's the full band

21:28 Speaker 1: or you know, to have that flexibility like I used

21:30 Speaker 1: to play it. I played in a bunch of bands,

21:31 Speaker 1: but I never played in anything where you know, you're

21:34 Speaker 1: really well I mean, I guess I did. Technically I

21:36 Speaker 1: played in a band where we could do an acoustic set,

21:39 Speaker 1: but nothing nothing like this where you know, you can

21:42 Speaker 1: sort of mix it up a little bit and it

21:43 Speaker 1: gives maybe maybe the songs have a different texture depending

21:46 Speaker 1: on what configuration of the band is playing them. And

21:49 Speaker 1: that must be kind of fun.

21:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's nice for the people that

21:53 Speaker 2: I really want to focus on, you know, my voice

21:56 Speaker 2: and kind of like you know, with the band it

21:59 Speaker 2: gets a little noise year but it's you know, I

22:01 Speaker 2: mean that our rhythm sections real tight. But yeah, you know,

22:05 Speaker 2: we keep we keep it real tight, I feel, but

22:09 Speaker 2: you know, still, you know, it's nice to bring it

22:12 Speaker 2: down a couple of notches and just you know, just

22:15 Speaker 2: feel the raw motion of the songs. Yeah, you know

22:17 Speaker 2: sometimes but yeah, you know, I love just playing with Lucas.

22:22 Speaker 2: It's nice and fun. Yeah, we have a good time.

22:24 Speaker 3: You have a good time.

22:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hit the road, play a couple of shows

22:27 Speaker 2: and little towns. We just played at Pembroke City Limit Limits.

22:31 Speaker 1: Excellent shot out.

22:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, cool guy.

22:36 Speaker 1: Yeah right, you guys have been on Rob Show, right

22:38 Speaker 1: Grand State of Mines. Yeah, a little plug for that

22:40 Speaker 1: Friday nights at six pm here on w m n H. Yeah,

22:44 Speaker 1: that's great what he's doing at Pembroke City Limits.

22:46 Speaker 3: Such a cool spot, absolutely little spot.

22:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely enjoyed that.

22:50 Speaker 1: A lot of great talent from the area that plays there.

22:53 Speaker 2: And then super attentive crowd yeah yeah, which was which

22:57 Speaker 2: is really nice.

22:58 Speaker 3: Yeah. When our friend shout outs to Trent again.

23:01 Speaker 2: Trent.

23:02 Speaker 3: I heard his interview with Rob and he was describing

23:05 Speaker 3: Pembroke City Limits as a listening room.

23:08 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:09 Speaker 3: I thought that was really cool. Yeah, I thought that

23:11 Speaker 3: was really neat because it's not exactly a noisy bar, right,

23:15 Speaker 3: like a dive bar whatever. People are there to appreciate

23:19 Speaker 3: the music, right, So that was really neat. We went

23:21 Speaker 3: there without without showing our drummer, so we had a

23:25 Speaker 3: very modified set. Yeah, and we missed him big time,

23:29 Speaker 3: but it sounded really cool.

23:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, good spot.

23:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's yeah because a lot of bars,

23:35 Speaker 1: you know, it's like people are there to drink and

23:37 Speaker 1: the music becomes sort of secondary. But so yeah, it

23:41 Speaker 1: is more of a listening room. You're right, and that's

23:42 Speaker 1: that's really cool. We need more places like that. There

23:45 Speaker 1: aren't any places like that around. And then when you

23:50 Speaker 1: so when you go on tour, where do you know

23:52 Speaker 1: yet where you're going? Like are you going? Are you

23:53 Speaker 1: getting out of New England?

23:54 Speaker 2: And we're playing while we're playing some shows in New England,

23:57 Speaker 2: we're going down Richmond, Ashville, Nashville excellent. Yeah, I'm gonna

24:05 Speaker 2: meet up with some friends down there and play some

24:07 Speaker 2: shows as well. And yeah, so I'm real stoked to

24:12 Speaker 2: kind of see what people think of our sound in

24:15 Speaker 2: that area because I feel like we're like a alt

24:21 Speaker 2: rock country hybrid type of group. So it's uh, you know, yeah,

24:26 Speaker 2: hopefully people like what we got to offer.

24:29 Speaker 5: You know.

24:30 Speaker 2: Yeah.

24:30 Speaker 1: And in terms of radio format too, I feel like

24:32 Speaker 1: you kind of fit into that Americana genre on radio,

24:36 Speaker 1: like I could imagine. I don't know if you've been

24:37 Speaker 1: played on the River in Boston at all.

24:40 Speaker 2: No, I don't think we've been on the radio, but

24:43 Speaker 2: I can imagine.

24:44 Speaker 1: You guys would fit into that playlist really well.

24:46 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know we have.

24:47 Speaker 3: We have been featured on Country one oh two point five.

24:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, excellent.

24:53 Speaker 3: We were the local catch back in September, right up

24:58 Speaker 3: from Carolyn Cruz.

24:59 Speaker 2: That was cool.

25:00 Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh that's very cool. Yeah, congratulations. Yeah, well

25:05 Speaker 1: do you guys, uh yeah, we gotta talk.

25:07 Speaker 2: About that song if you want to do that. Yeah,

25:10 Speaker 2: all right, you.

25:10 Speaker 1: Want to do that if you are just joining us

25:12 Speaker 1: reals here live in studio. We have Ryan and Lucas

25:15 Speaker 1: here sounding amazing, and yeah, they're gonna play another one

25:18 Speaker 1: for us.

25:49 Speaker 2: Don't morn to go out tonight.

25:53 Speaker 4: What about a fresh back?

25:55 Speaker 7: If I then want to enjoy the morning, get so heavily.

26:02 Speaker 7: I me by.

26:03 Speaker 4: Myself deep ben sorrow's fight, looking for familiar and pleased

26:08 Speaker 4: and ease my mind. He is my my mind, and

26:16 Speaker 4: I always keep the dream the same. So we find

26:20 Speaker 4: that we all know who to blame.

26:26 Speaker 5: Oh yeah too well.

26:28 Speaker 4: Lead in business to maintain the healthy life will be

26:34 Speaker 4: living for fear the man rowing.

26:37 Speaker 5: And see.

26:41 Speaker 7: And same, and.

26:44 Speaker 4: That I've been lone for healthy helbits. But my heart

26:48 Speaker 4: is eating badly.

26:51 Speaker 7: So if you want to drown with me, oh, accept

26:55 Speaker 7: that off regladly. But jambis saying, yes, it's my friend.

27:01 Speaker 4: I cannot deny them. A couple beers that we love

27:06 Speaker 4: two old ears, but we're not really every yem.

27:10 Speaker 7: I always keep the drink the same, so wef I die,

27:16 Speaker 7: we all know who is blame. Oh yeah, I'm really

27:23 Speaker 7: in the business to maintain Let hell the life have

27:28 Speaker 7: been living vote.

27:29 Speaker 4: A fear deep down, I'm growing and saying.

27:33 Speaker 11: Lord and say, and I'm not dream in mad unless

27:44 Speaker 11: somebody begs me too.

27:48 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, then if they do, I promise you it'll

27:54 Speaker 4: be enough to almost kill me. Please do, please do

28:04 Speaker 4: hold he hope.

28:19 Speaker 12: Oh Lie, I don't want to go out tonight.

28:23 Speaker 7: O the bar a fresh peck about mine? Sick to

28:32 Speaker 7: my stomach, sick in my mind. All it needs a

28:37 Speaker 7: fresh pack Hold me tie, hold me tight? Oh my high,

28:44 Speaker 7: because if find about tonight.

28:49 Speaker 4: Owen makes it my life.

28:57 Speaker 5: Oh lod, I.

28:58 Speaker 7: Don't want to go out tonight about a fresh packet mine?

29:05 Speaker 5: Yeah? Mine?

29:07 Speaker 4: Oh I'm my hind you think?

29:09 Speaker 3: I wait, My.

29:45 Speaker 1: God, what a great song. Welcome, well done guys. I

29:49 Speaker 1: love that. I love that. If you're just joining us

29:52 Speaker 1: Regals is here with us live in studio, Ryan, I'm

29:55 Speaker 1: curious about vocal influences.

30:00 Speaker 5: You've got to.

30:01 Speaker 1: You've got such a raw delivery, and I mean but

30:05 Speaker 1: I mean that in the best possible way, Like it's

30:07 Speaker 1: just awesome. It's you really emote when you sing, Like

30:11 Speaker 1: is is there anyone who really influenced you when you

30:13 Speaker 1: were learning to sing as far as as far as

30:16 Speaker 1: your style?

30:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean growing up my parents were really

30:21 Speaker 2: into Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac like really like emotional animated,

30:29 Speaker 2: you know, sixties seventies rock and roll. But yeah, you know,

30:34 Speaker 2: exploring music like early on, like I found some bands

30:38 Speaker 2: like Lucero and just kind of like, you know, mostly

30:44 Speaker 2: Lucero and Ben Nichols is a huge influence on me. Yeah,

30:48 Speaker 2: and uh yeah, I just I've been trying to find

30:51 Speaker 2: that voice for a long time, kind of like I've

30:53 Speaker 2: always been really into this kind of like all country

30:59 Speaker 2: like but kind of like gravelly, like nasty, but like

31:05 Speaker 2: it can still be kind of pretty kind of sound that. Yeah, Now,

31:11 Speaker 2: it took me a while to find this voice. I've

31:13 Speaker 2: bounced along on different lines of genres. I used to

31:17 Speaker 2: be in hardcore punk bands, experimental indie like pixies like

31:23 Speaker 2: rock bands, and yeah, so I mean I got away

31:29 Speaker 2: from music for a little while, and over COVID, I

31:34 Speaker 2: really like went back to like what got me into music,

31:38 Speaker 2: Like Credence is a huge one too, Like I've always

31:41 Speaker 2: loved John Fogerty's voice, and I just wanted to find

31:46 Speaker 2: that voice like through my own filter, you know. And

31:51 Speaker 2: during COVID, I had like time to really like just

31:56 Speaker 2: sit down, and you know, I played a bunch of

32:00 Speaker 2: created songs Kinks, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, and then from

32:08 Speaker 2: there I just kind of started writing songs again. Yeah,

32:10 Speaker 2: and that's kind of how it happened. And then now

32:13 Speaker 2: we're here, I got Lucas with me. I always had

32:16 Speaker 2: Merkle my counterpart, who I've been playing in bands with

32:21 Speaker 2: since like you know, like late early twenties or early

32:27 Speaker 2: late teens. Yeah, and yeah, it's been a really fun

32:32 Speaker 2: little ride kind of like getting back into like feeling

32:36 Speaker 2: what it's like to be in a band again.

32:37 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so excellent.

32:39 Speaker 2: It's been cool.

32:40 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, how about you, Lucas. In terms of influence,

32:43 Speaker 1: like like who who influence influences you as far as

32:46 Speaker 1: you're playing.

32:48 Speaker 3: Well, I've been into country western music. In my late teens,

32:54 Speaker 3: I got into more like folk music. Yeah, and some

32:59 Speaker 3: of the some of the stuff I was playing was

33:03 Speaker 3: kind of folk rock. Been in a few bands around

33:07 Speaker 3: Manchester and it was a little more folky oriented. I

33:11 Speaker 3: was playing banjo and accordion along with like a solo

33:16 Speaker 3: acoustic a little more folk punk sort of stuff, fast

33:20 Speaker 3: and loud, but acoustic. But I didn't really care for

33:26 Speaker 3: country music. I guess I wasn't very familiar. But I

33:31 Speaker 3: found a bunch of cassette tapes back in high school,

33:35 Speaker 3: and that was I only had the cassette in the truck,

33:40 Speaker 3: and that just sort of snowballed. I think once I

33:45 Speaker 3: started playing with other bands and then really sunk my

33:48 Speaker 3: teeth into country music is when I started trying to

33:51 Speaker 3: hone it in. And there's so many steel players and

33:54 Speaker 3: you can go down a huge list. But Lord helped me.

33:57 Speaker 3: If I can remember all the names, but George Jones,

34:01 Speaker 3: Hank Williams Senior, uh, everything from Buck Owens. Yeah, I

34:07 Speaker 3: like a lot of the classics. George and Hank are

34:11 Speaker 3: up there on top.

34:12 Speaker 12: For me.

34:13 Speaker 3: I'm really into bluegrass too. So it's still playing banjo

34:17 Speaker 3: and things like that.

34:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have we have lots of.

34:20 Speaker 3: Different stuff that I think regals could explore. Toot An

34:25 Speaker 3: a little bit like that. But our bass player, Mike

34:27 Speaker 3: is pretty good at banjo, so I think, yeah, surprising

34:31 Speaker 3: trying to Yeah, really good. He's got these he's got

34:35 Speaker 3: these hands that are just made for it.

34:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good. Really, I didn't know that about him. Yeah,

34:40 Speaker 2: he's really good. Also a fun fact is that no

34:45 Speaker 2: shame at all. Morgan Wallen is both Lucas and I

34:49 Speaker 2: is number one Spotify.

34:51 Speaker 3: Real, Yeah, you surprised both of us.

34:55 Speaker 2: A lot of passive listening. It's just I mean, it's

34:57 Speaker 2: a great.

34:58 Speaker 1: It surprises me. Actually, yeah, it's awesome.

35:01 Speaker 3: It's pretty good. As far as like contemporary country stuff,

35:04 Speaker 3: like mainstream country, it's awesome.

35:09 Speaker 1: I will say this so I'm not a big I'm

35:11 Speaker 1: not a big mainstream country guy, but I have to

35:14 Speaker 1: say in terms of audio production, Nashville has it down.

35:17 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know what I mean.

35:19 Speaker 1: Like nobody does drums better.

35:23 Speaker 2: Songs and the drugs is my opinion. Yeah they are. Yeah,

35:27 Speaker 2: they have an addictive quality to them.

35:29 Speaker 3: No, it's wild, it's really wild. And I love the

35:32 Speaker 3: history of Nashville. Yeah, and the recent optick in interest

35:39 Speaker 3: in country music is really cool. Yeah, but it's some

35:43 Speaker 3: of it's like stadium rock, really big, and the Morgan

35:47 Speaker 3: Wall and stuff is like that too, just sonically it

35:51 Speaker 3: sounds so huge, and that's what really drew me in,

35:55 Speaker 3: really really drew me in. My my Spotify wrapped is

35:59 Speaker 3: Morgan Wall and then like the All Stars of Bluegrass

36:04 Speaker 3: it's like Bill Monroe and Stanley Brothers. Yeah, pretty much it.

36:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, drive by Truckers was all Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.

36:11 Speaker 2: I listened to a lot of this guy Steven Wilson

36:13 Speaker 2: Junior this year, who I'm actually seeing tomorrow and in Brighton,

36:16 Speaker 2: mass And he's.

36:17 Speaker 1: Really Yeah, I'm not familiar with it.

36:19 Speaker 2: And then I also listened to a lot of Third

36:20 Speaker 2: Eye Blind this year. Yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, they

36:24 Speaker 2: were in the top five.

36:26 Speaker 1: Stephen Jenkins, I think is a great songwriter. I think

36:28 Speaker 1: he's really underrated. I think he's a very very good songwriter.

36:31 Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm actually seeing them at the end of

36:33 Speaker 2: a just se or two Third Eye Blind. Yeah, I

36:36 Speaker 2: don't know even Foxwood's Oh.

36:38 Speaker 1: Kid, I didn't know they were touring.

36:39 Speaker 6: Yeah.

36:39 Speaker 1: I thought they were all done for some reason.

36:42 Speaker 2: Maybe one last.

36:43 Speaker 1: One last yeah, one last ride.

36:47 Speaker 7: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 2: If any friends are listening, let's go to Third Eye

36:50 Speaker 2: Blind and have a have a fun little time. Yeah

36:52 Speaker 2: think so.

36:52 Speaker 1: Oh speaking of friends listening, By the way, I want

36:55 Speaker 1: to make sure I mentioned Derek Smith. Uh sent me

36:58 Speaker 1: an instant message, Yeah, says hey, homies, I'm tuning in. Well, well,

37:03 Speaker 1: I think, oh, tuneing in.

37:04 Speaker 3: I read that as lol, thanks buddy.

37:08 Speaker 1: I'm used to people sending me messages with loll and yeah.

37:11 Speaker 1: Derek Smith. Yeah, Derek and I have known each other

37:13 Speaker 1: for a very long time. We used to do a

37:15 Speaker 1: lot of we used to like promote a lot of

37:16 Speaker 1: concerts together, like I'm talking like twenty years ago. And

37:20 Speaker 1: then when I saw him that night at Mosaic, it

37:22 Speaker 1: was like the first time I'd see and he looks

37:23 Speaker 1: the same.

37:24 Speaker 3: Like he hasn't got timeless we call it, yeah, time.

37:27 Speaker 1: Dude hasn't changed. So yeah, I want to make sure

37:31 Speaker 1: our listeners know, especially for people just joining us. So

37:34 Speaker 1: the new album is February.

37:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's coming out around February. We'll make some more

37:39 Speaker 2: formal announcements online if you want to follow us at

37:42 Speaker 2: underscore regals, on Instagram, Facebook, wherever. But yeah, the album

37:47 Speaker 2: is called Love Sick Purgatory will be out late February,

37:51 Speaker 2: and we will be racing releasing a single for that

37:55 Speaker 2: on Summer twenty seventh called Hissing and the Wind. So okay,

37:58 Speaker 2: stay alert, very good attention, all right, yes, yes, appreciate it.

38:03 Speaker 1: And then, uh, and for shows you got, do you

38:06 Speaker 1: have anything this weekend?

38:07 Speaker 3: Not this weekend, this weekend, but working on the next

38:12 Speaker 3: show that's the next We'll be there you will too, right, Well,

38:20 Speaker 3: that would just be the two of you are.

38:23 Speaker 2: Playing with a cool band from the Seacoast called Coyote

38:27 Speaker 2: Smoke and some local friends of ours called Dead Time,

38:32 Speaker 2: and yeah, it'll be a nice eclectic bill with you know,

38:36 Speaker 2: some bluesy country rock, some experimental psychedelic ish type of

38:44 Speaker 2: rock and roll indie stuff. Yeah, the Dead Time they

38:46 Speaker 2: just played last night at Shasking with Chromas. Actually they cromags.

38:51 Speaker 1: Oh very cool.

38:52 Speaker 3: That's cool.

38:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're cool guys. Yeah, it'll be a nice little time.

38:56 Speaker 3: Definitely come hang and it's free. Yeah, it's also free

39:00 Speaker 3: all Shaskine.

39:02 Speaker 1: That's always a plus. That's that is that is always

39:05 Speaker 1: a plus. Do you guys want to We actually do

39:08 Speaker 1: have time. Do you want to play one more?

39:09 Speaker 2: I'd love to play another song?

39:10 Speaker 1: All right? Cool? Yeah, we we do have time. Yeah,

39:13 Speaker 1: that last one was short, so yeah we can. We

39:15 Speaker 1: can fit one more in and to take us to

39:18 Speaker 1: the end. But if you are just joining us, uh,

39:20 Speaker 1: we have Ryan and Lucas from Regals here with us

39:23 Speaker 1: live and study, and it's Regals not the Regals.

39:26 Speaker 2: A lot of people say the I was gonna say

39:28 Speaker 2: a lot.

39:28 Speaker 1: Of people get it wrong.

39:29 Speaker 3: I'm not.

39:32 Speaker 2: But if you do want to be close friends with me,

39:34 Speaker 2: then you should start saying, yeah, we're not a punk

39:40 Speaker 2: band from like the eies, Yeah.

39:43 Speaker 3: Or the vocal group from South Carolina. Oh okay, it's different.

39:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there are all caps. There's also an artist

39:53 Speaker 2: from New York City called Ryan Egan and oh no kidding, honestly,

39:57 Speaker 2: I'm cool with him. It's fine.

39:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes one of us.

40:02 Speaker 2: I definitely have a better mental name. But let me see.

40:06 Speaker 2: This is a little song cold Exile.

40:10 Speaker 5: Mmmm.

40:28 Speaker 7: Well, it's five m sigres, some saucing rounding me. The

40:36 Speaker 7: matter what I do, I can get you on my head.

40:43 Speaker 7: And even though I'm driving, there's this black spot on

40:48 Speaker 7: my horn.

40:50 Speaker 2: I can't tell if that's you, O, if I had

40:55 Speaker 2: that from the store.

40:58 Speaker 3: And I'm a sorry.

40:59 Speaker 7: Time lived a sweet wine on a mile summer and

41:04 Speaker 7: night his winter's gold and being a lone good soul

41:10 Speaker 7: that I said, wind sure by.

41:13 Speaker 2: So tell me one small think.

41:16 Speaker 4: My dear, do you think I how deserved this life?

41:21 Speaker 4: I'm old, the.

41:23 Speaker 2: Product of what took me on this wretched flight.

41:32 Speaker 7: It's being bigger and saw the two tonight, locked up

41:40 Speaker 7: in my room, smoking anything inside until I can forget

41:48 Speaker 7: the things that are making me lie.

41:52 Speaker 2: Send me off to someplace.

41:55 Speaker 7: Else in search of the tent of the Danes and digs.

42:12 Speaker 4: There's been big grieve.

42:16 Speaker 13: It's all to tonight, locked up in a mile from

42:23 Speaker 13: smoking anything, decided to listen till.

42:26 Speaker 4: Like alfter cab the things and making me a lie

42:32 Speaker 4: to save me up to some place elf Timmy Kelly.

42:37 Speaker 13: To life and exile, exile, eilie.

42:54 Speaker 4: No I could know to keep you out of my mind.

42:59 Speaker 4: I don't sign not thinking in these shils on their

43:04 Speaker 4: married shore right to a bar one night, you know,

43:09 Speaker 4: make me die t see you land another may know it.

43:16 Speaker 5: You just don't be alive that.

43:41 Speaker 4: Can to sill, can get things to make me? Who

43:54 Speaker 4: send me off to some please selves in search of

44:00 Speaker 4: shot in lines.

44:03 Speaker 1: Egg Another great one, another great one, regals, Ryan and Lucas,

44:17 Speaker 1: Thank you both so much. This has been wonderful to.

44:19 Speaker 7: Have you here.

44:20 Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt, and shout out to my lovely wife

44:23 Speaker 3: Adrian and the Troy bullfrogs out there, and uh, we're

44:29 Speaker 3: happy to be here.

44:30 Speaker 1: Thank you, yes, yes, and thank you guys. And of

44:34 Speaker 1: course if you missed any part of today's show, it

44:36 Speaker 1: will be up in just a little bit at w

44:38 Speaker 1: m n H radio dot org and at my website

44:41 Speaker 1: Matt Connorton dot com. And that's it for us for now.

44:44 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you a little bit later. Everybody love you.

44:47 Speaker 1: You got it.

45:00 Speaker 7: Want to be living on splanning stuff even on the second.

45:04 Speaker 14: Until wish I could get we of the light brain

45:10 Speaker 14: and maybe you can come up to the world has

45:15 Speaker 14: a mess, beer Andy and all the kids.

45:18 Speaker 4: Getting were sper.

45:23 Speaker 13: I want shed enough chill Bill by the quitting off.

45:27 Speaker 5: With the pens.

45:31 Speaker 4: I've been badly manical somewhere been. I've been summern as

45:57 Speaker 4: a child ever live now from my to min.

46:03 Speaker 5: And all of my problems.

46:05 Speaker 4: About a point that's coming back can't stop less, not

46:12 Speaker 4: aware that dress if it's God that such a sist,

46:24 Speaker 4: not spending.

46:45 Speaker 3: To do.

46:48 Speaker 10: All that's less to give us go. So that's something

46:54 Speaker 10: I can't do. Not where there is knowing you.

47:00 Speaker 4: You have been badly back Alley, soundwise, sound the d