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.

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