Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Run Like Thieves
Run Like Thieves live in studio. How are you guys? Welcome? Good?
Hey man, Hey Abe, Let's start with you because I've known you
forever. Yeah, I just I'd love for each of you to introduce yourselves
and tell us what you do in the band. Hey, I'm Abe.
I play the bass and evidently i'm the technical guy. That's that's what we
hear by default. Yes, and on the couch. Hi, Greg Santini,
the drummer for Run Like Thieves. You can find me on social media
at running Drummer because I like to run a lot. So yeah, name
my channel, Running Drummer. That makes sense. Yeah, I wondered.
I didn't know if you had some sort of gimmick where you run and you
play the drum. Yeah, you're running, or I'd like to do that
seems like a very obvious idea. And the gentleman in the corner with the
giant cardboard Peter Whitehead for those watching online, And my name is Dan Fallon,
and I am the I am the media front of the band, and
you can find me on only dance dot com and pay for my subscription there.
Yeah. So I'm laughing extra hard because when Matt said that by the
look of your face. I know that you thought he was talking about your
head, but I'd like you to turn over your right shoulder. Oh goodness,
Now that's the giant Peter White head. It's very appropriately placed. He's
always watching. Oh yeah, No, I wasn't referring to your head.
No. I was like, how did they notice? I was checking to
see how my fly was down. He's got a huge head. Now now
technically, uh, technically, I am though allowed to make jokes about people
with large heads because I have a large head, So that makes it okay.
I realized that, No, that makes you self loathing. I realized,
I bet you cry yourself to sleep on your huge pillow. Well that's
right. Well, you know I'm Irish and Irish people we have. I
realized that years and years ago. I was watching Conan O'Brien in his monologue.
He made a joke about the size of his own head, and I
never thought about it. I was like, yeah, he does have a
big head, and he but the joke. It was something about Irish people
having large heads, and I was like, wait, I'm Irish. Do
I have a big head? And I ran to the bathroom mirror and I
was like, oh, yeah, wow, I do I look like a
South Park character. I get this giant Irish melon I'm walking around with,
but but I look at it this way. I needed to hold my enormous
sprain. That's right. So I think that it's an appropriately sized head for
your brain. Thank you, thank you. I am also Irish and I'm
very sensitive about the size of my head. Well it's uh is it too
small? You know, well anyway in the Marryland anyway, but it looks
bigger up close. It's it's uh, it's wonderful to have you guys here,
and Abe, it's great to see you. You've been in now when
when I first met you, you were in East is East back at the
old Guildford practice space. Yes, yes, now is that where where is
Revelry Studios? Is that where? That is? No revel what was here
in Manchester? The building just sold or something? So uh Matt uh uh.
Matt Blanchette is the guy that ran that, along with his other guys,
tyler Ayres and they're looking for a new space. Oh uh. They'll
still like go out and do things and I would highly recommend them. I
think we all would highly recommend. We were lucky to get in before they
closed. Been one of the last people recorded in our studio. Oh wow,
and they are amazing, incredible And how did the three of you come
to play together? How did this band form? Well, why don't you
tell this? Well, So I moved up from New York. I retired.
I was a fireman in New York City and I retired and came up
to New Hampshire and I've been playing drums for a really long time and I
wanted to start a band. So I met two other guys started playing and
then we played out. We didn't have a singer. We were just too
you know, a trio of just music. And they were really good.
And we're still friends with one of the bass players. He's awesome guy,
Carmen Serrano. Great, great guy. But anyway, met Dan at an
open mic and he was just the nicest guy. And I was like,
who is this guy? And he started singing. I was like, Oh,
this guy can sing. We need a singer bad. So he ended
up playing with us, and Dan and I just kind of really became really
good friends and continue to make music. And Dan is just Dan is the
kind of guy that just he'll do anything, like, he will just play
anywhere, play anytime. He's got no qualms, you know, doesn't care
about what anyone thinks, which is which is a really hard thing to find
in a in a musician, because a lot of musicians are very you know,
they're I guess they're sort of afraid to insecure. They don't they don't
want to play out or whatever. Dan is the opposite of that. Play
anywhere anytime, we want to all you want to play you know the song,
Nope, let's play it anyway. You know. Like that's so I
really admired that about Dan. And then we ended up doing a lot of
cover as a cover band thing, and then we met Abe. Abe was
our backup bass player for the cover band, and he came right in and
he was just insanely good. Yeah, and I was like wow, And
I really connected with Abe musically, and that's a huge thing for drummers.
In my opinion, your band is only as good as your bass player and
your drummer. And he was just right on, you know, right connected
right away, and it was fantastic, and we just started playing together and
we Dan had a bunch of music that we thought was great, and Abe
and I basically put our own thing on it and you know, help him
produce a lot of the stuff and make it even better than it is.
And it's just it's been great. It's been really great. Yeah, really
great. We've been on a really good run. Excellent, excellent. What
what brought you to New Hampshire? By the way, Uh, they don't
tax my pension. So also we love to hike and schime. I have
two kids, and and and my wife, and they just love the outdoors
and you know, they're they're really you know, I just love the the
everything about We love being close to the mountains, the ocean, the city
in Boston, only four hours from New York. So if we want to
go back home, it's not a big deal, you know. So it's
it's great. We love it. Yeah, actually excellent. Are you from
here down? I'm from Malden, Massachusetts originally Okay, okay in the streets,
yeah street and ay? Are you from here? Originally? Yeah?
I mean I'm from uh uh Sandwich, uh Sandwich, Tamworth originally kind of
been moving my way south ever since. Yeah, I won't go too much
farther. You're gonna end up in that tax category. That's right. Yeah,
that's right. That's right. So maybe I don't need to worry about
that income all income. Ye, that's right, Massachusetts taxes everything. Yeah,
you breathed, I got you. That's a quarter come back exactly.
Hello to our friends j Fed and Melanie from the great state of Vermont who
are in the chat room. Speaking of very loyal listeners. So, how
long is uh, how long has this been a band? It's been a
couple of years. Yeah. Well, Dan and I've been Dan and I've
been playing together for about a little over two years, and then Abe joined
us. I guess in the last a year ago. Yeah. So I
got the call from Brian back in March, right. Brian's our he's our
horn player for the cover band. Another awesome musician, great guy the Bulkheads.
Yeah yeah, he's a Bulkhead guy. Yeah. And then we started
writing tunes together. I don't know, we were going to practice one day
and do some covers for like a trio gig, the three of us,
and then just started to writing some songs. So it's pretty dope. I
was like, oh, let's try this, this will be and it sounded
awesome. Yeah, we get some bangers coming, I'm telling you, And
I was like, oh, wow, let's do this, let's do it.
Yeah, I've I've played a lot of bands and a lot of you
know, different musicians and some great musicians, and I've never been I've never
been prouder of what we just did recently recording wise too, and just musically,
the synergy and the connection that we have has been it's been so good.
There's just no no attitudes. You know, everyone is super nice and
you know, everyone works really well together. And we don't have any you
know, weird issues like a lot of bands do. Yeah, there's no
none of that, you know, So we we you know, we love
it. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah. When when it's easy like
that, then you know you've really got something. Yeah. It's very fair
balance. Everyone's very honest with each other about things, and it's really good.
Yeah. Yeah, that's uh, that's excellent. Well we should all
let's listen to one of these studio tracks and then and then uh, and
then we're gonna hear you guys live. But I love this, Mamma,
come and get me. This is this is a great, great song.
So we're gonna we'll we'll listen to this, and then we've got another studio
track that will play a little bit later, and then you guys are gonna
play uh tell her as a song you guys are gonna play live for us,
right, yeah, okay, but yeah, let's give this a listen.
First. This is really good. And where was this? This was
recorded at Revelry. It was recorded at Revelry and all live and we have
never aired it. Uh. This is the first very special day, so
thank you for having us here. And technically it was the first song that
we really kind of together as a band, really put together. Yeah.
Yeah, it was one of the first excellent Okay, so this is technically
a world radio premiere. All right, let's give this a listen. This
is a great song. Mama, come get me by run like thieves.
Will they give me your escra? Oh you hob me a stone? Please
to forgive a week your mind so you can stab you in the back and
kick me when I'm down? Will they give me that across the bay?
I will bet it all along. Everyone that ever loved the cave, y'all'll
need forgive this. When you never home, Dina, come get me roma
comb. Then I cry your home. Yeah, Mina clomb get it.
Mama come then to bring you home. And I hope you find your deliverance.
I hope you find your way home. I hope you father. Love
is irrelevant until that stake gone. Mina Columba get me, Mima clone went
to bring your home? Yeah, Mina come here by a clone want to
bring you home? I don't dokay that back can being gone? Step mana
come ageven Mama coma. It feels soap crim fear, silly fear. Smile.
Can you have a milliion dollars? Boy? You're not a body pen
of com Mama come came here, Mama com cave g a sa Mama con
came here, Nama comb cappen there. Oh that is so good. I
love that song. Cool, really good guys. Mama, come get me
by, run like thieves. Hey, where's the name come from? By
the way, this is a cool name. Yes, thank you. I
actually came up with a name actually technically not me, but I used to
play with another friend of mine in a band way back when in Tennessee,
and which is actually name of one of our songs too, but has nothing
to do with that. But anyway, I used to live in Knoxville,
Tennessee, my buddy Will and Will Day and we had a band that called
Nelly Bly and then we I left and came back and hadn't talked to him
in years, and then we ended up connecting again and I had a home
studio and we did some recording and he said, oh, we gotta call
it Run Like Thieves, and that's really cool, and then we just stopped
playing together. And then once we all got together, we were thinking of
band names and I was like, you know, I used to have a
band name called run Like. It really wasn't a band, it was just
like me and my buddy, like, you know, doing some stuff,
and we called it Run Like Thieves. So I called my buddy Will just
to make sure. I'm like, hey, is it cool that we use
this name. He's absolutely loves the stuff. So he's like, he's like,
absolutely, you know, please use it. It's great. And I
said, okay, cool. And we already had a Facebook page that was
up Run Like Thieves on Facebook that I had for probably three years and then
never did anything with it. And now we actually started posting everything on there,
and we all have our YouTube channel Run like Thieves and all that stuff.
So we're slowly but surely. And all these recordings that we that you're
hearing now were also recorded with on camera as well, and they came out
fantastic, like they did such a good job at revery. I can't even
say the word should your low revel. Yeah, you're right that. I'm
just so glad we came up with a band name quickly because yes, and
what's what's cool about the band name is that it's it's three words, which
represents the three of us. And then on the running drummer, so that's
the whole run was was also in there. I was like, that's kind
of perfect. Let's let's just do it. Call it that. So it's
got a cool like r l T, you know, so we can make
like cool stickers. Yeah. Yeah, and as the ls the like because
everybody likes Abe and he like listens really well run. And then Dan is
the thief. He's a banker. He's yeah, he's a good thief though.
That's that's the PC version of the thief. Gotcha. Well, let's
do this. I'm dying to hear you guys play live, so you are
all right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh so if you want to
play, yeah, you're you're gonna do uh Tennessee right, Oh no,
I'm sorry. I tell her, tell her good night, Tell her good
night. Tennessee is the other studio you're also out already? Yeah, on
all forms. It's on Spotify, Apple Music. Uh, you can even
ask your Alexa yeah the song and it'll give it to you. I couldn't
believe it. I think that's when I knew I made it musically, Yeah,
recognized me. That was like, all right, I did it.
That is pretty cool. But in this one, we have a video online
for so we get in a run like thieves YouTube, and it's picking up
some steam. Actually it's very very cool, yes, with very there's really
no marketing on it. It's just kind of organically doing its things. That's
good. Yeah like that. So if you're out there, please look it
up. It's pretty cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that
that is extremely cool. Yeah whatever. Whenever you guys are ready, I'll
have to kind of uh we're ready, I'll have to kind of you know,
I'll move the faders around as your play and then try to try to
get them both balance and uh me me what's up. That's amazing you really,
you're really on this. I'm on it today. I wasn't helping him
with his levels. Well, I was just thinking. You're probably not used
to say I used to singing this early right in the day. Or maybe
you are. I don't know. I just never stopped singing my mom all
the time. I sing at work. Would you like me to help you
with that all the time? Okay, that's the way to go. All
right. Well, you know I get yelled at by my woman. I'm
so sorry. She loves it, you know, Yeah, she can't stay
mad. Right, you should have gotten an A plus instead of an A
minus. What are you doing to your dad this thing all the time?
Just keep a going. No, that's good, that's probably very healthy.
It's very very good. All right, whatever you guys are ready by all
right. Lips taste like whiskey. I smell like beer, she says.
Look about the stars. Look how closed they be? You carol lehing like
your way back home. That's what you should do, because I know somewhere
there's a porch like on waiting for you. You gotta tell a good bye,
tell a good night, tell a good boys, don't always do right,
not time. It's gonna leave leave you in the morning. Well it's
cold, I steal the devil steal, mpping wrong that and how it feels,
not time thud. It's gonna leave you with no wanting come put the
slam on right now, or it's just gonna burn us both because in a
few minutes will be gone. So far we ain't going home, and I'd
like to leave with just a little bit left up my soul. Dear,
I have to do with me what you will the stag decides for to take
care, you gotta tell a good bye, tell a good I ain't tell
the good girls don't always do right, not time loud. It's gonna leave
you in the morning. Well it's cold like steal the devil steal, not
be around that. It has to feet, not time low. It's gonna
leave you with no won't even law. The miles away now in the moment's
long n the memory of your love still let yours done to hint out wonder
what you would do if I turn this car around, head it back to
your town. But I I just look up at the sunder keep on right
it all. You gotta tell a good thie, tell a good night,
sell the good. People don't always do right, not time. Now,
it's gonna leave you in the morning. Let's go next Steel the Devil.
Steel might be around that and how it is not down Now, it's gonna
leave you, It's gonna leave Yeah, no wonner, Oh my god.
Yeah, sound amazing. Thank you. Yes, guitar fantastic, fantastic,
Thank you. If you're just joining us, we've got Run Like Thieves at
a live in studio with us. We have Abe, Greg, Dan,
they are all here and yeah, you gotta sound amazing. That was That
was very very cool. Thank you. Are you playing out a lot?
Are you doing a lot of live shows or yes? Yeah, Dan plays
out all the time. This is actually sweat and I can just stick on
it and I don't have to. Dan plays a lot as far as the
band goes, Actually we play. We we haven't played a lot as Run
Like Thieves. We play a lot as as a cover band, Yeah,
quite a bit, but we haven't actually played a lot as Run Like Thieves.
So we're we're excited to get out there and play and start really playing
shows as and putting our original content out there because nobody wants to hear original
content a lot of times, so we get it. But I think,
I feel, and I think we can all agree that that our original content
is pretty universal, I think, and I think people can hear it and
kind of dig it. You know. It's not like weird and obscure.
I'm not trying to be mister Bungle yeah, which, by the way,
we've all done that, which is a huge influence of mine. By the
way, I actually huge misle love mister Bungle ye. But yes, we're
not like that. But so we're sort of universal, so I think we
can get away with even playing bars and places where you know, crowds are
hanging out and they would just be like, oh, that's just good music,
so right, But please check out our listings at run like these and
see where we're playing, and don't don't be too shy, and please come
see Dan Fallon saying and Abe sings with me and Craig sings with me,
and that's Dan Fallon music. And we will be at the well uh run
like Thieves. Songs will be played at the following venues. Yeah, in
the near future, Patti's and Drake It the Wild, Rover, Manchester,
Eric's Church and Wyndam, Maine Foster's Tavern, The Thirsty Pig Songwriter in the
Round with Katie Dobbins, The Birch Bar, Saddle Up Saloon in Kingston,
where I just came from a couple of minutes ago, The Birch Bar,
ax and Ale Deps landing up in Tamworth in that real local Hi, oh
forgive me high Octane Saloon, and Laconia. We got a gig there too,
and were back at Defiant Records. And that's all I can do right
now because I don't I don't want to. It's a lot, Yeah,
there's a lot. That's Some of those gigs aren't full band gigs, but
okay, but some of them will be. Yeah, And it's always it's
always a good time, excellent, we're always entertaining. Yes, Oh,
I don't want to forget to. You guys very generously brought us. We're
gonna we're gonna dig into those. Uh, we're gonna save my pre we're
gonna save those for later. But you guys brought us a box of donuts
and they look really good and where they're from. Goodies, good goodie good
donuts. Well, like you said, that Good Donuts located in Laconia at
two thirty five Union Avenue, and they look awesome. And you guys were
saying like they they open and they sell out, they sell out, I
mean by nine to thirty. A lot of times when they open their they
close they when they sell out, they close the store. Okay, they
open I think at five thirty or five or something like that. Yeah,
what a crazy thing. Yeah, it's amazing. Oh my god, you
don't look at me. They're so good that I am sorry, Okay,
we're gonna I'm sorry. That's how good that. That's what I'm trying to
tell you. I got you three dozen and I only wound up having six.
By the time they're flopping around the box, it would have been like,
here's two at there's not one with like a bite taken out of it.
They're all intact in that way. I've seen that. I've seen that
before. I'm looking at this business's pictures and they have like, oh god,
fruity pebbles. Their doughnuts covered in fruity pebbles. I remember fruity pebbles
from my youth. I'm sorry, but that's crazy. You've never seen that.
You know donuts go good with the season two? Oh yeah, oh
yeah, yes, yes, run like Thieves here live in studio with us.
We do have another studio track too that we're going to play at the
end of the segment. That's another great song, Tennessee. But now,
when you I wanted to circle back to this about recording to at Revelry,
it does it is easier to say it that way. Give me that donut.
Never never, Oh my goodness, I'm bringing more donuts. Did you
guys record these kind of sort of was it live basically instead of that's the
only way we do it too? Yeah? Yeah, I was just telling
telling these guys this morning that that I was watching a documentary on Tom Petty
doing Wildflowers when Rick Rubin took over as producer and they did it live?
They did they did? You know, they recorded it live as opposed to
doing it track by track, which is a lot of times what people do
usually. Yeah, and I do that. I do a lot of that,
just recording for other bands and stuff just in my studio. So if
you have drum tracks, but anyway, you you miss something when you do
that, in my opinion, and when we recorded there and of course they
did such a great job of mixing and putting it all together. So I've
never you know, I've never heard myself back like that, and I was
like, whoa, that's legit. Like these guys are really really good.
So but you know, they captured the moment and we just we we did
have a good session. We definitely played well, and I was like,
Okay, that was really good. We do each song took a couple of
takes, but but and way way less expensive, and and and you're like
you're not thinking. It's not in your head, you know, it's almost
like you don't have enough time to think about it, like it's just gonna
get done, and that that's that's a cool thing to be on the you
know, like you have to be right in the edge of disaster. I
could ride it, you know, and you're right on that, like,
Okay, this could be not good and and then hopefully just it goes well.
And when when you capture it, you capture something. And I think
for those this LP we captured something. We hope to do it again with
those guys eventually, wherever they land and wherever they open up, another studio
would go back there in the heartbeat. Yeah, it was that's what really.
They did capture the the US. They captured us, and if it's
good enough for Muddy Waters, it's good enough for but Abe did make Abe.
It was like, these guys, man, I'm going to get them
lined up. So he before the before U, before we recorded, we
he made sure we were really ironed out. Yeah. Uh, like every
meat, every beat. So I've gotten so used to doing the recording track
by track like that that I just assumed that we would want to do it
that way. So I made click tracks and everything. Yeah, and we
rehearsed with the we're with them. Yeah, but you know, we got
there with the cameras and everything rolling, and yeah, just become evident that
like, yeah, we're going to throw that out the window, and you
know, luckily we're good enough. It was good to rehearse that way and
then to show up and just relax a little bit and they have to worry
about that so much. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good point. You
can show up, relax and kind of really bring it. I just wanted
to say to Matt and Jen for all of your listeners who are shy and
haven't asked a question yet. The answer is yes. I don't mean the
answer is yes to your questions. Okay, all of the questions, yes,
Shirtless, just start yes. That's how I like to you know,
what the the what's great about Abe too? And just to give a more
accolades, but Abe really he comes in studied like he's he's the kind of
guy that does his homework as as a musician, and it's it's really awesome
to have someone like that who really it's down and dissects everything and then and
then you know, puts his own spin and production on it, and it's
he's been so good like that, and that that was another reason why we're
like, oh my god, he's the dude, like the guy and actually
there and not kidding there really is question. One of our favorite listeners Isaac.
He always wants to know what people's influences are, who influenced you musically
to be where you are. Well, we did mention mister Bungle. However,
there's a lot more. I'm a huge Rush fan. So my son
is actually here in studio with us, and he is eleven years old and
his name is Neil, after Neil Peartt. And if you ever see a
car driving around with the license plate YYZ Rush. That's me. So I'm
a huge Rush fan. So I'm into like, you know, progressive stuff
and whatever. But I also like, you know, everything from Tom Petty
to you know, so many, so many I can't even but i'd faith
no more. I'm a huge fan. Like, I just love so many
weird things, you know, jazz music, art, Blakey and Miles Davis
and you know, just all the great drummers that I'm a drummer like,
I love drummers. So yeah, there's like Steve Gadd like whatever band he's
in, I'm in, Like I love it, you know, whatever it
is. One of my good friends is an amazing fiddle player, Eileen Ivers.
She's a huge influence. So many people that I know personally that are
great too. So yeah, it's hard. Yeah, I'm a I come
from like definitely like a punk rock, alternative rock background. That's what I
did like for the last twenty years basically. But I mean, like my
favorite artists is Tom Waits are none. I've listened to him forever since I
was a kid, so that's going to be a big influence me. But
also I mean, like I don't get to do it here much. But
I mean like noise Rock, I love Death from Above nineteen seventy nine,
stuff like that. But I mean, yeah, also, I mean originally
this was going to be like they said, Americana country, yeah, which
like I haven't done that yet. Yeah, I should get I should dip
my toes and get that done. So that's a lot of the reason I
signed on, because I haven't been doing a whole lot recently, and what
I did do wasn't really working out for me. So I'm just gonna say
screw it and try something. So yeah, that's why I'm And that's what's
so cool about this this trio is that we come from some different places and
and you know, we all appreciate everything we've and we've been playing covers a
lot, and we you know, we played covers enough to we know what
covers work, and we know that we're also into hip hop, so like
you know, we know when we play live stuff, we do a lot
of hip hop, a lot of funk, you know, stuff that people
can dance to, and so we love that stuff. And then I think
we like all the darker stuff too, you know, anything with Minor Chords,
radio Head, you know, stuff like that we're totally into as well.
But you know, he comes from the Tom Waite stuff and I'm from
the like progressive stuff. And then damage this I don't even know. I'm
yeah, you know, you know one of my It's very interesting. I'd
like to tell you something. So I've been playing music for ever, and
like I said, since I came out the womb. I made some noises
then and been still doing them. I just made that noise this morning,
same exact noise, and it sounds like no So I love Woody Guthrie and
and I just I just thought he was amazing. I've been very I have
a large family, and they would blast music all the time, so you'd
hear Frank Sinatra, boys to men, new Kids on the block, Alison
Chane's sound guard, and everybody listened to different things, Bruce Springsteen and and
then when I started to kind of develop my own taste, I started listening
to what he got there. I love that old timey. I just love
everything about him. I just thought it was fascinating how he lived and how
he traveled the United States, and and just just sat with people in a
room and freaking wrote a song with them about their heritage Austrian immigrants in the
Great Depression didn't matter to have. He's like, we're gonna this is that's
how we developed. And so I really took that as kind of an I've
written over twelve hundred songs. Wow, never written a lie that is the
truth really has Yeah, it's insane. They're not all great, but that's
true too. Out of twelve hundred, it was about three decent ones and
you have them all here today, Matt. Okay, we saved them for
you. One thing. One thing about what I love about Dan is that
his ability to tell a story in the song, which I think is really
important for people to connect. Yeah, you have to tell a story that
people and understand the lyrics and it's not just marvels in your mouth type.
You know, I don't know what that guy said because people connect with that.
I mean, I I'm not I hardly. I listened to drums and
I listened to bass. Yeah, and now that I've you know, understand
the importance of the story behind the song, it really connects people to the
song. So like, I love that about Dan, Thank you do that.
So the thing is, there was something that happened with me about ten
years ago where I got I started writing songs for Songs of Love Foundation,
and it's for kids with cancer, leukemia, different illnesses. They get requests
through Make a Wish, Give Kids the World and directly through hospitals and hospice.
And and the first song that I I thought I was I was heard
on Reverb Nation on the World Music things. I was writing some really artistic
stuff that I thought was amazing. Yeah, and then and someone listened to
it and he thought I was funny, And I was like, you come
funny. I was like serious, But he was like, could you write
a song for a kid? And I was like sure, And he was
kind of testing me out, and he had me rewrite it about ten times
to get out of the way of the song. And he's like, you
know, the kid that's listening to this is eight, is going into dialysis
a couple of times a week, driving with their parents to the hospital.
They're going to listen to the song to and from you know, wow.
Yeah. Yeah, So I've done a few hundred for them. Yeah.
Once again, Dan is one of the nicest people I've ever met. Well,
but but it helped, It helped me in a big way because I
was like, I'm going to get out of the way of the song.
I'm going to get out of the way of the song. And then I
meet this gentleman who's like, why are you singing like that? Can't you
just be yourself? And I'm like, who's myself? Right right? I
don't And then here we are, Yeah, this is this is like one
of those things. I would sing hi, I would sing lo. I
would sing like a Disney guy, I would say, because you know,
I would do I don't even I don't know. It was almost like an
impression like I'm going home great. I would do a reggae voice baby tons
to what. I'm very bad at all of them. The only voice I'm
good at is the is Muddy Waters when I was a young man, you
know. But no, but that's so so my influence. I'm very I'm
really influenced by moments and by like the the whatever we're doing, and I
capture like a picture in my mind and then that's why I write the lyrics
or a poem or something like that. And then and then my vocal influence
has been from Greg my drummer, who doesn't let me go crazy. I
just don't let him get away with anything. Yeah, it's very very helpful.
And I've had great music teacher, Mark Baxter, he's my vocal coach.
Is amazing. He's actually these Greg and Mark Baxter would get along famous
Marks like why are you singing like that? Don't do that. I'm like,
I don't know if you shouldn't sing that song? And I take it.
My wife is really a great singer, and she is you know,
she'll listen to things and and her and I kind of agree on a lot
of it. So we we've listened to stuff that Dan has done and like,
oh, we just got to get him to go here, you know,
and then and then it's perfect. And luckily, well he's been so
good. I mean, he's just Dan. It's just awesome. I'm a
good boy. But he but he for this particular recording, he just hit
it right the nail on the head, like it was like perfect the whole
way through. And I was like, oh, man, you're that's your
that's your sweet spot, man, that's the money right there, that's the
money spot. Well, gentlemen, this has been uh, this has been
fantastic. I wish we had more time. I'd love to talk to you
some more, but we are we are approaching the top of the hour,
but we are going to finish out with this track Tennessee by by Run Like
Thieves, who are our guests in this hour, and it's been wonder having
you guys on and Abe. It's great to see you, my friend.
I've known you a long time. Yeah, good to see you too many.
Yeah, good to see you and wonderful to meet you guys. I'm
wonderful. Thank you so much for having us. Please, though, before
we before we hit this track Tennessee, remind our listeners where they should go
online to keep up with everything, so you can go to a run Like
Thieves dot com. You can find us on all streaming platforms, everything from
Spotify to Apple Music to YouTube. We also have a YouTube channel, Run
Like Thieves, which is connected to Dan and my own channel as well,
which we're currently building. Is brand new, so it's not like a crazy
amount of views and subscribers, but it's getting there for a couple of days
that it's been open. And Facebook, obviously, Instagram, pretty much any
social media, but we are the only run Like Thieves band that exists.
We did check that and so we're we're super happy that we actually trademark pendy.
We trademarked it and guitars and we got the website. So but yeah,
so that's basically I think everywhere that you can and find us where and
of course whatever Dan mentioned. As far as our live stuff, Run Like
Thieves Band is the Instagram handle and Facebook candle I believe Run Like Thieves bandy.
Yeah, and and but yes, please go to our YouTube Run Like
Thieves and subscribe. And yeah, we like YouTube. And this is such
a special day because we're releasing these songs with you. Thank you so much
for having us to do. This is amazing. And and if you subscribe
to our YouTube, you'll see our beautiful videos, yes, as they get
released for these unreleased songs that we played here today. Yep. Awesome,
awesome, Thank you guys. This has been This has been absolutely amazing.
But we're gonna close out this segment with another great studio track from these guys.
This is called Tennessee Run Like Thieves. Check it out. Six Sulcol
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