Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Shawn Manch
Speaker 1: Maybe at the boardwalk over on Main Street. We can
Speaker 1: walk downtown. Let's see who we may sitting in.
Speaker 2: The summertime on a local brewer class some.
Speaker 1: High Not like a summer night and Maine, just another.
Speaker 2: Summer night and May.
Speaker 1: Just another summer night in May. Just another summer night
Speaker 1: in May. Yet another summer night. And may we sit
Speaker 1: back campfire that we made on the beach with a
Speaker 1: or not like this. Nothing's out of reach from the
Speaker 1: doors to the ocean and never seems the same. Nothing
Speaker 1: like summer night in May. Yeah, just another summer night
Speaker 1: in May. Just Ano, summer night in May. Just Ano
Speaker 1: summer night in May. This nothing like summer night in May.
Speaker 3: Of gay, summer night mad.
Speaker 4: Just to know summer that is cool.
Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. We are well in our number two
Speaker 5: New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
Speaker 5: live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point
Speaker 5: three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can
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Speaker 5: find out how you can stream and interact with the show,
Speaker 5: and of course, if you are in Manchester, New Hampshire,
Speaker 5: you can listen on your FM dial go to ninety
Speaker 5: five point three FM. Today is Saturday, February twenty two,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course, at the
Speaker 5: news table, present account of and let's see let me
Speaker 5: get those mics up here. We have joined us live
Speaker 5: in studio. The man who performed that song by the way,
Speaker 5: another summer night in Maine, which is very very new
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester is here with us. We'll test these mics out.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Sean, Yes, thank you for having me.
Speaker 5: I can barely hear you, which is why I need
Speaker 5: to turn this up.
Speaker 6: Check chow.
Speaker 4: Oh there we go.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I love by the way.
Speaker 5: So that song we played it during the first hour,
Speaker 5: Broke Man's Dream. Yeah, that was the first song of
Speaker 5: yours that I listened to and I just love it.
Speaker 4: That is that is so cool?
Speaker 5: And uh, let me put the camera on you for
Speaker 5: those watching online. Oh, actually, before we go any further,
Speaker 5: let me put the camera back on me for a second,
Speaker 5: because I want to show people for those watching live.
Speaker 5: If you're watching on YouTube or Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever.
Speaker 5: So Sean, you brought us. Now people will often bring
Speaker 5: us CDs and stuff like that. You brought us. So
Speaker 5: these little, these little bags. I'm gonna hold this up
Speaker 5: on camera.
Speaker 7: Yeah, little grab bag, little Sean Manch grab bag. My
Speaker 7: last name is Manchester. But yeah, you know, for stage purposes,
Speaker 7: it's easier for people to chant Sean Manch, Sewan Manchell.
Speaker 7: That makes Sean Manchell. Yeah, that makes sense. And in
Speaker 7: this so this is a cool concept. You've got a
Speaker 7: USB drive with your album, Yes, which is that song
Speaker 7: Another Summer Night in Maine.
Speaker 5: That's where that that's where we pulled that from. Yep,
Speaker 5: so thank you for bringing that. And you got a little.
Speaker 6: Little in the dark three D printed Sean Manch key
Speaker 6: chain exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 7: And that's actually a pick as well, saying very cool
Speaker 7: D printed, oh glow in the dark.
Speaker 4: Oh outstanding. Yep, got a pick in there.
Speaker 6: A little custom grab bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very cool, very cool and h and also a
Speaker 5: sticker which is nice. Jenny love stickers. So as you
Speaker 5: can see from the computer, definitely, so you brought one
Speaker 5: for each of us. So thank you very much, John,
Speaker 5: very welcome. That is that is very cool. And I
Speaker 5: love that song broke Man's Stream and uh you are
Speaker 5: I'm dying to hear you play live. Do you want
Speaker 5: to strum that guitar a little for me and we'll
Speaker 5: see yuh and see see.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that sounds nice. Perfect, that sounds nice.
Speaker 5: Pull that, Pull those other mics up a little bit,
Speaker 5: make sure we got the cahone.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Playing the drums with my feet while singing and playing
Speaker 7: makes a nice full arrangement.
Speaker 6: I like to have that a little bit of rhythm
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 5: You are a one man band, Yeah, that's that's for.
Speaker 5: Is it difficult to learn to do that? Or does
Speaker 5: that come naturally? Because most people tap their foot anyway
Speaker 5: when listening to music?
Speaker 7: So does that just kind of that definitely helps you
Speaker 7: know a lot of times if I'm just practicing without
Speaker 7: any drums or anything, just tapping my feet and I
Speaker 7: was I thought that was just a natural way to
Speaker 7: keep time. Might as well add some drums underneath the
Speaker 7: tappen and see how it goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 7: I'm left handed, although I play a right handed guitar,
Speaker 7: so yeah, the ambidexterousness.
Speaker 6: I'm sure helps with that independence.
Speaker 5: For instrument I have a theory that we're all ambidextrous.
Speaker 5: We just don't know it. Because you learn to play
Speaker 5: a musical instrument, you're using both your hands are exactly
Speaker 5: exactly yeah, sometimes your feet yeah exactly right, exactly yeah,
Speaker 5: especially like if you're a drummer, you're using all four
Speaker 5: of your limbs and doing some complex stuff, and that.
Speaker 6: That helps you.
Speaker 7: Because I play, you know, piano, drums, bass, the instrumentalists
Speaker 7: as well. That's what helps me record the full band
Speaker 7: sound with a lot of those songs.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, So on your studio tracks, is it all you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: All me playing all my writing and nice all self
Speaker 7: recorded and produced in my little shack and mane.
Speaker 4: Oh that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Uh, what are you gonna
Speaker 4: play for us?
Speaker 6: I'll start out with broke Man's stream Awesome.
Speaker 5: I love this song.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I love the song. If you're just joining us, Sean
Speaker 5: Manchester is here with us live in studio.
Speaker 1: A cat sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying
Speaker 1: to do right. He going my way money suit. What
Speaker 1: can't I say? I'm living on a brooke Man's dreams
Speaker 1: running on gas and no, won't blast a couple of counts.
Speaker 1: Get through the week, keep my head and high an
Speaker 1: atone noon while I win the fives running down on me.
Speaker 1: I got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday. They
Speaker 1: trying to do a right, ain't going my way? Money
Speaker 1: suit tight? What can't I say? I'm living on a
Speaker 1: broke man sixteen bucks and I'm making Friday trying to
Speaker 1: do a right. Ain't going my way? Money so tight?
Speaker 1: What can I say? I'm living on a broke man's dreams?
Speaker 1: Now I find the sea that it ain't just a dream,
Speaker 1: making it half en today? Now keep on now and okay,
Speaker 1: moving shaw till I can final, Liz say a half
Speaker 1: sixteen bucks and I made it to Friday. I finally
Speaker 1: do the right. It went my way. Money's out tight.
Speaker 1: What can I say? I'm living a broke man's dreams.
Speaker 2: I've lived everything in between.
Speaker 1: We got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying
Speaker 1: to do right, ain't doing my way? Money so tight?
Speaker 1: What can't I say? I'm living on a broad man.
Speaker 1: Sixteen bucks? Would have made it to Friday? I finally
Speaker 1: did a right, It went my way. Money's not tight.
Speaker 1: What can't I say? I'm living a broad man's dreams
Speaker 1: and now I've lived everything in between.
Speaker 4: Oh I do love that song.
Speaker 1: That was awful.
Speaker 4: I do love that song.
Speaker 5: You're what we do absolutely absolutely if you're just joining us.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on
Speaker 5: this this Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: And Sean, where are you from?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 6: Originally Massachusetts? Attleborough?
Speaker 7: Okay, you know a family that still lives down there,
Speaker 7: but I currently live up in Clinton, Maine.
Speaker 4: Is it must be cold there? Imagine?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, tongues of snow these past couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: But yeah, springs right around the corner.
Speaker 7: I mentioned to get into some of the springtime gardening
Speaker 7: and all that. I live off grid in a little
Speaker 7: tiny house, you know, all solar.
Speaker 5: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's on Main Street, which is convenient. I can
Speaker 7: walk to everything I need if I need to, no kidding,
Speaker 7: but enough in the woods that I have the privacy,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's a good balance of that.
Speaker 5: Oh that's really cool. Are you Are you a minimalist?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like, you know, to not keep it not very materialistic,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I admire that a lot. That's that's very cool.
Speaker 5: I mean life is simpler that way, right.
Speaker 7: Exactly, as long as I can go outside and enjoy
Speaker 7: the sun and a hammock and have a campfire, yeah, guitar,
Speaker 7: a couple of friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 6: Beauty of life right there.
Speaker 5: What's what's the scene like there as far as are
Speaker 5: there a lot of places where you live to play
Speaker 5: or yeah?
Speaker 7: It's uh, you know, I did the cover songs for
Speaker 7: a long time in the local bar kind of gigs,
Speaker 7: and there's a a lot of local breweries and yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, so if you're trying to find somewhere to play,
Speaker 7: you might have to travel a half an hour in
Speaker 7: pretty much any direction, but you know, you can normally
Speaker 7: find a decent amount of gigs. Yeah, I'm focusing a
Speaker 7: lot on the original songs now, and I'm gonna move
Speaker 7: more towards running my own shows. You know, rent a
Speaker 7: venue out and then do the promotion and that sort
Speaker 7: of thing more on my own.
Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent. Do you do some of that now
Speaker 4: or just starting out?
Speaker 7: I've done it in the past just as kind of
Speaker 7: trial and er, you know, half covers, half originals and
Speaker 7: see who shows up, and it turned out pretty decent
Speaker 7: and hoping you know, the grab bags, they'll sweeten the deals. Yeah,
Speaker 7: the first ten people that come, you know, get a
Speaker 7: gift bag or you know something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they'll be free shows. I'm just in it
Speaker 6: for the music, so.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So you do everything, So I have the studio tracks,
Speaker 5: you do everything yourself.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 7: When all the mixing, mastering, no conduction. I use a
Speaker 7: service online called Lander and that so I'm on Spotify.
Speaker 7: It pushes it out to all Spotify, Apple Music, Facebook,
Speaker 7: all that stuff.
Speaker 5: So okay, excellent. Some musicians hate having to do that part.
Speaker 5: But you know the but you sound like you embrace it. Well.
Speaker 7: I way back when I was younger, I was a programmer,
Speaker 7: you know, web developer, that kind of thing.
Speaker 6: So I have a decent tech background.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know the arts side, so I kind
Speaker 7: of just use what I've learned from that in business
Speaker 7: marketing and things, you know, and there you go, added
Speaker 7: it to the music to you know, enhance the hobby
Speaker 7: and just make it go a little bit further.
Speaker 6: It helps. Yeah, Oh, I mean, and I definitely enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it sounds like more than a hobby.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, it's definitely a passion. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: you're accomplishing a lot with it, so that's great.
Speaker 7: It keeps me busy too, you know, always always something
Speaker 7: to work on. And ye then when you finish a
Speaker 7: song or a video, it feels like you've gotten something done.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Broke Band's stream is that? Is that based on real
Speaker 5: life experience? Because it's very relatable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I'm sure everyone can relate, you know, trying
Speaker 7: to get to that Friday was sixteen bucks in the
Speaker 7: account and trying to make it there. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: starting out saving up for the land and had an
Speaker 7: old van down by the river, nice you know, nineteen
Speaker 7: eighty two Chevy G twenty conversion van, so I had everything,
Speaker 7: but yeah, my job paid for you know, a lot rent,
Speaker 7: so a lot rent. It was a parking spot the
Speaker 7: van there, and started out from there walking around to
Speaker 7: bars with my guitar and can I play a couple
Speaker 7: songs and put a tip jar out? And from there
Speaker 7: blossomed into all of this fun stuff going on now.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, have you how long have you been
Speaker 5: really focused on that part the music career?
Speaker 6: Probably about the last four four or five years. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I say about that.
Speaker 7: You know, I have kids, so yeah, spent a lot
Speaker 7: of time working on that. You know, kids when they
Speaker 7: were younger, you know, take a little bit more attention
Speaker 7: changing diapers now that they're a little bit more self sustaining,
Speaker 7: little bit of time for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is it like living in a tiny house? Is that
Speaker 5: a big adjustment or did that come naturally?
Speaker 7: I love it, you know, I have plenty of space, especially,
Speaker 7: I mean the one that I built now has plenty
Speaker 7: of space. The first couple of tiny houses, you know,
Speaker 7: not a builder.
Speaker 5: Oh so it's not your first one, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: This one actually turned out really nice, you know. Okay,
Speaker 7: it was a learning curve, the first couple of tiny houses,
Speaker 7: trying to figure out how to build. I'm a musician,
Speaker 7: not a carpenter. So yeah, but this one. Yeah, it's
Speaker 7: so you built these oh yeah yeah wow. And I
Speaker 7: prefer it, you know, the tiny living, less space to heat. Yeah,
Speaker 7: everything has a place.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 6: I enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Well yeah yeah, yeah. How do the kids feel about it?
Speaker 6: They love it?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I got a frog pond too, so as long
Speaker 7: as you can go outside and catch frogs in the
Speaker 7: spring and summer, they love it.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's really cool.
Speaker 5: That's really cool.
Speaker 4: Do you want to play another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm dying to hear more if you're just joining us.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester is with us live in studio and traveled
Speaker 5: quite far but of a hall.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was about two and a half hours. Just a
Speaker 7: nice drive though, watching the sun come up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Trees, yeah, cute little city here too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: Wandering around for a little bit, driving and seeing all
Speaker 6: the sights, nice.
Speaker 5: Architects, a lot of mill buildings.
Speaker 6: Yep. This next song, the wind between us, I'll play
Speaker 6: that one.
Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, very cool. We have Sean Manchester here
Speaker 5: with us, live in studio on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 7: You're on the program and a jew This one just acoustic, okay.
Speaker 1: I've seen the wind take it all the way, never
Speaker 1: had a chance of reason to stay this enviasible stay.
Speaker 1: I hear the whisper of the wind through the years distance,
Speaker 1: like Raleigh's fears, I wish we could stay toom left.
Speaker 1: The wind never come between us. We'll never be seen
Speaker 1: through your heart and tone for copy to writhe the
Speaker 1: winds of change and Dick, it's hard to man to
Speaker 1: watch you gotta find the key to a toil like
Speaker 1: shut through away the past. Come for a minute, come
Speaker 1: for it, but don't come long, don't go to stay.
Speaker 1: Can't you hear me say? Do have no wind ever
Speaker 1: come between us? We will never be same through your
Speaker 1: heart and don't forecat me. Don't ride though wins of change.
Speaker 2: I've seen the word you take it away. I've never
Speaker 2: had changed reason to say it.
Speaker 1: This isn't b stay. Don't let the wind ever come
Speaker 1: between us. Will never beat sing thing real hard and
Speaker 1: too for cavy too rathmins.
Speaker 5: Love change, m I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester here with us live in studio. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: love your voice. Did how did you learn to singer?
Speaker 5: You self taught or did you take lessons or.
Speaker 6: Just all self taught?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the earliest was when I was
Speaker 7: three years old, singing Run Joey Run and Billy don't
Speaker 7: be a Heroes. Oh really, my mom had you know
Speaker 7: some home tapes, you know, yeah, Marching Ben came down
Speaker 7: along Main Street. Yeah, early nineties or late eighties, okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: but then you know really took it on, you know,
Speaker 7: in high school when I was probably seventeen, started playing,
Speaker 7: and then a couple of Battle of the Bands and
Speaker 7: when those went to.
Speaker 6: Bed Fast Area High School Okay, yeah, up.
Speaker 7: In Maine, and yeah, so took off from there though.
Speaker 7: I once I got on stage for the first time
Speaker 7: doing that, it was all over from there.
Speaker 6: Couldn't stay away.
Speaker 4: Do you do you ever?
Speaker 5: Have you ever played with a band or has it
Speaker 5: always been a solo acoustic thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've done a lot, you know, jammed with different friends,
Speaker 7: had cover bands and stuff like that, and I do
Speaker 7: intend on getting a bassist and a drummer eventually, Okay,
Speaker 7: just probably sometime this summer kind of work on that. Oh.
Speaker 6: Ok, I've been doing the solo thing though a couple
Speaker 6: of years. Yeah, a little bit easier logistically.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you don't.
Speaker 5: Have to check with anybody about their schedule if you
Speaker 5: had live shows to play exactly, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you probably. You strike me as someone who's probably always writing.
Speaker 5: You have a lot of songs that you've.
Speaker 6: Written, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I have a lot of stuff that I've recorded, you know,
Speaker 7: I like to just get it out of my mind
Speaker 7: and get it all recorded, So I have at least
Speaker 7: some kind of demo and then I can come back
Speaker 7: to it, tear the song apart, and you know, figure
Speaker 7: out how I wrote it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm always writing, picking and choosing what I
Speaker 7: want to you know, publish, and what might need a
Speaker 7: little bit more time.
Speaker 5: Doing all the mixing and mastering and everything. If you've
Speaker 5: done it that way from the beginning, like all doing
Speaker 5: all of it yourself, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I enjoy it. And it's come a long way, that's
Speaker 7: for sure. I listened to some of the stuff even
Speaker 7: just five years ago, and I can tell it's come.
Speaker 1: Along with really.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Someday maybe I'll release it as like a gag track
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, you know it takes time to get there.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 7: M Actually, I so I had started. Must have been
Speaker 7: like sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, I don't play it because
Speaker 7: it's so this is again something.
Speaker 6: People haven't heard. Okay, I actually do remember it.
Speaker 4: So oh okay.
Speaker 1: In dreams, everything looks perfect. It seems everything word now
Speaker 1: I see on the pain im causin a dream of you,
Speaker 1: and my heart is pauson. I'm moving on weir about you.
Speaker 1: I'm moving on because you're run true. I'm moving on.
Speaker 2: Through this dark blue called you all.
Speaker 7: I like seventeen sixteen seventeen started playing the guitar.
Speaker 6: That's why it's just I'm GC and D.
Speaker 4: I like it though. That's good. That's not a bad way.
Speaker 6: To start write. Not a bad song for a first song, No,
Speaker 6: not bad at all. That's funny. I haven't thought about
Speaker 6: that song in a while.
Speaker 5: Oh really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 5: I dig it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Who are some of your inspirations as far as songwriters
Speaker 5: and performers.
Speaker 7: It's gotta be a lot of classic rock, yeah, I
Speaker 7: like classic rock a lot. And then on the other
Speaker 7: side of things, I listened to a lot of like
Speaker 7: the Jason Moraz, John Mayer, you know, early two thousands
Speaker 7: kind of yeah.
Speaker 6: Acoustic guys. Yeah, so a lot of that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, I'd say it's kind of a mix
Speaker 7: of that, the classic rock, you know.
Speaker 6: I like a lot of Led Zeppelin and yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Is there anyone who who inspires you in terms
Speaker 5: of because I love your voice, I mean, is there
Speaker 5: anyone you try to emulate vocally or or or who
Speaker 5: is uh influence?
Speaker 6: I'd say that, like, you know, Rob Thomas. That's another one.
Speaker 7: A lot of like Matchbox twenty, Yeah, you know those
Speaker 7: kind of songs. Yeah, A lot of influence from that
Speaker 7: kind of stuff too, like that soft rock.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but you've got there's a little bit of
Speaker 5: a rawness though that you have that a guy like
Speaker 5: Rob Thomas doesn't have. And I think that's what and
Speaker 5: I like that. I think that's why I like your
Speaker 5: voice so much. This, I don't know, there's a there's
Speaker 5: just a little bit of a there's a little bit
Speaker 5: of a rough edge to it that I that I
Speaker 5: really love.
Speaker 7: That kind of that kind of crunch, which yeah, took
Speaker 7: a little bit to be able to get.
Speaker 4: You know, really a lot.
Speaker 7: Of clean singing, so I you to do that, you know,
Speaker 7: very clean and crisp, but I like that kind of
Speaker 7: little rasp or crunch, you know, compression vocals.
Speaker 6: It comes from the like, you know, I want a
Speaker 6: rock you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 7: Kind of stuff when you actually push yeah you know,
Speaker 7: So I like a lot of that, like heavy vocals.
Speaker 5: So yeah, because for a song like broke Man's Dream,
Speaker 5: that that really works well, yeah, that that vocal song
Speaker 5: like that, Yeah, it gives it a little little bit
Speaker 5: of that grit.
Speaker 7: I'd say, honestly, a lot of it does come from
Speaker 7: like Dio and that kind of like Holy Diver, Yeah,
Speaker 7: with the last in line, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like that sort of.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, because if you can sing that stuff, you can
Speaker 5: sing anything right exactly.
Speaker 7: It makes it so I honestly have to like hold
Speaker 7: back from doing it too much when I play acoustic
Speaker 7: because I want to just go, you know, straight out
Speaker 7: with it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you don't want to blow your voice out
Speaker 4: of the process.
Speaker 5: Yeah that ever happened, like, especially with this has been
Speaker 5: such a brutal cold and flu season. You ever heard
Speaker 5: have that happened to where your voice goes during the
Speaker 5: show or starts.
Speaker 6: To Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 7: When I was doing the shows and playing you know,
Speaker 7: two or three shows a weekend. Yeah, by that ninth
Speaker 7: hour of singing, you know, in eighteen hours, it's like, huh,
Speaker 7: I need a throat laws and drinking honey straight from
Speaker 7: the jar just to soothe it all.
Speaker 4: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Is it challenging at all singing this early in the day.
Speaker 6: You know, I thought about that on the way down.
Speaker 6: I was like, I never really sing in the morning.
Speaker 7: I mean, as long as I have some coffee to
Speaker 7: warm my voice up. It's normally not too bad. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's for the listeners to decide.
Speaker 5: I get right.
Speaker 4: No, you sound great. You want to play another one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I'll do.
Speaker 1: Me.
Speaker 7: I'll do one called tell me. It's more of a
Speaker 7: softer song too.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, Sean Manchester is here with us
Speaker 5: live in studio.
Speaker 1: She said, tell me that you'll love me and I
Speaker 1: won't go if it's going down in flames, please love me. No,
Speaker 1: tell me it'll be too friend this time. Tell me
Speaker 1: it'll all turn out all right. And I said, dune't
Speaker 1: forget Wood. I've told you, dude, for Catwood. I've said
Speaker 1: through all of the years, in the years how we've dropped,
Speaker 1: I will be there to me. Tell me that your
Speaker 1: love will never fade. Tell me that you always feel
Speaker 1: the same. Tell me that I'm crazy when Maddy tell.
Speaker 3: Me that you'll be there from me. And I said,
Speaker 3: don't forget what I told you. To forget what I
Speaker 3: said through all.
Speaker 1: I be hear sound it's here, so we've jumped. Now
Speaker 1: we will be there till the air. Don't forget what
Speaker 1: I told you. Don't forget what I said. Do all
Speaker 1: of it heres and the tears out we've dropped. I
Speaker 1: will be there to.
Speaker 4: The I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on
Speaker 5: the Saturday. If you're just joining us sounding great. By
Speaker 5: the way, I'm envious of your your ability to whistle.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That's something I can't. I can't do, which I guess
Speaker 5: is unusual. Most people can't. I can't whistle well.
Speaker 6: And it's useful too, you know, because I want to
Speaker 6: play some lead. I want to just you know, yeah.
Speaker 7: Play a couple of solos over stuff. But if I'm
Speaker 7: playing rhythm, I can't really do that.
Speaker 4: So it kind of gives you an extra instrument.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I started to learn how to play harmonica and got
Speaker 7: some of that headgear. Oh, and it goes pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm adding that to the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 6: Just one more instrument.
Speaker 4: Do you do that? Live? The harmonica with the head
Speaker 4: Gary do that?
Speaker 5: That always impresses me too, because it's like you're because
Speaker 5: then you're a literally you're playing two instruments. And actually
Speaker 5: if you're if you have the cone too. Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: playing three instruments at once. You're really a one man
Speaker 5: band at that point.
Speaker 6: Gets you get out of breath sometimes, you know, but
Speaker 6: it's worth it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder about the harmonica if that does that
Speaker 5: kind of come naturally to some extent because you are
Speaker 5: it's kind of like singing right well sense and you're using.
Speaker 6: Your bractly and it's in key.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, harmonica, you can't really play a wrong
Speaker 7: note as long as you got the right harmonica for
Speaker 7: the song. Okay, okay, it's like you have to you
Speaker 7: have to carry around eight or you know, six or
Speaker 7: seven harmonicas.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, each one is a different key. I didn't see.
Speaker 4: I'm so ignorant about that. I never knew that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that makes sense though, now that I'm thinking
Speaker 5: about it logically, I'm surprised I didn't realize that, because
Speaker 5: that does make perfect.
Speaker 7: So they do have like one hundred hole harmonicas, but
Speaker 7: do they impossible?
Speaker 6: That's too much to think about all of it at once.
Speaker 5: But yeah, oh that makes sense though, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like to use a loop pedal a lot,
Speaker 7: where you know, just kind of.
Speaker 6: The EDG sheering sort of thing.
Speaker 7: Play play a rhythm and then play some drums over
Speaker 7: it with the guitar, and yeah, it turns out pretty good.
Speaker 7: I like that because that allows me to play the lead.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, so that way I can just pick up
Speaker 7: a harmonica and not have to have it on that
Speaker 7: on the head gear, or just play a solo.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is is that challenging when you're first starting with
Speaker 5: the loop pedal or does that come pretty easy?
Speaker 7: It's definitely helped just with the experience as far as
Speaker 7: recording and playing to a metronome as long as you
Speaker 7: can keep that time. Yeah, you know, so it came
Speaker 7: pretty naturally.
Speaker 5: And I guess if you're doing it live and you're
Speaker 5: playing original music, it kind of doesn't matter if like
Speaker 5: if you if something isn't if you're looking something that
Speaker 5: maybe isn't quite what you intended, maybe you made a
Speaker 5: little bit of a mistake, but it kind of doesn't
Speaker 5: really matter, right because it's well.
Speaker 6: And I prefer it that way. You know.
Speaker 7: I had recorded backing tracks of drums, bass and guitar
Speaker 7: so that I could sing and play lead over it
Speaker 7: and you know, hit play play through the song. It
Speaker 7: made it the same every time. Okay, so you know
Speaker 7: I was kind of against that. Rather I have it
Speaker 7: be dynamic, you know, and then if something cool happens,
Speaker 7: if I add some little like weird rosta part to
Speaker 7: one of my songs, right, you know, some kind.
Speaker 6: Of cool riff, you know, it just makes it unique.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 7: Something that, you know, maybe missing in some music. You know,
Speaker 7: Like I enjoy just how dynamic and the loop pedal
Speaker 7: and the acoustic can be. I've been in cover bands
Speaker 7: where if you mess up one note on Sweet Child
Speaker 7: of Mind, everyone gives you a glare. Yeah, I'd rather
Speaker 7: have it be dynamic where yeah still haven't just having fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's something about cover bands I've always thought it
Speaker 5: as interesting, is that some people really do get like
Speaker 5: they want to hear the songs exactly the way they were.
Speaker 7: And a lot of people play them well you know, yeah,
Speaker 7: but which is cool and everything.
Speaker 5: But I kind of like it when there's something a
Speaker 5: little different. You know, It's like I already know how
Speaker 5: the original sounds, I want to hear your interpretation of it,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 6: What I mean exactly.
Speaker 7: I like seeing those you know, acoustic bands, you know,
Speaker 7: you have a couple of guys of the kahone and
Speaker 7: acoustic and a base just doing covers like.
Speaker 6: Near the beach, that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the summertime and that it's a completely different feel
Speaker 7: when you have that kind of like acoustic band.
Speaker 4: Oh definitely, yeah, yeah, uh oh we have time.
Speaker 5: You want to play another one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me I'll do one called feed Let me
Speaker 6: just take us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, if you're just joining us. Sean Manchester is
Speaker 5: here with us, playing live, sounding amazing, really enjoying this
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, this one's not normally an acoustic, but well, okay
Speaker 7: send it.
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Speaker 5: That's called fade, Yes, yep, very cool fade by Sean
Speaker 5: Manchester who's here with us live in studio. That's guy
Speaker 5: got kind of a little bit of a little bit
Speaker 5: of a grunge.
Speaker 4: Job vibe there to that one.
Speaker 5: I like that. Yeah, yeah, it runs me a little bit,
Speaker 5: a little bit nineties nineties, a lot.
Speaker 7: Of the early stuff. Well, so that's something I should
Speaker 7: have mentioned too. Foo Fighters, you know, I like uh,
Speaker 7: Nirvana and Foo Fighters, mostly Dave Grohl being the multi instrumentalists.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I like a lot of that post grunge
Speaker 7: kind of. So that's one of the earlier songs that
Speaker 7: I wrote. So it definitely has those grungy vibes to them. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your songs too, So I noticed that there there
Speaker 5: are they all. Your songs are kind of shorter than
Speaker 5: a lot of singer songwriters. Some some some singer songwriters
Speaker 5: you know we've had on the the got like these
Speaker 5: six minute songs, but yours are yours are kind of.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I I normally you know, if I have the
Speaker 7: loop pedal, that helps to make it a little bit longer. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but I like to keep them kind of short and
Speaker 7: sweet to the point, so you know, stay along with
Speaker 7: the song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, live of it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's that expression, don't boris get to the chorus exactly?
Speaker 6: Exactly?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, so I do have a lot of
Speaker 7: it's it's very like pop, you know, radio music that's
Speaker 7: very similar structure to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And you know, having a band or the loop pedal
Speaker 7: makes it a lot easier to do those intricacies because
Speaker 7: I have I love.
Speaker 6: Doing the.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that riff and like I can layer it, and
Speaker 7: the loop pedal makes it so much fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, How did you learn to play guitar? I know
Speaker 5: you're vocally your self taught? What about what about guitar?
Speaker 6: Same just self taught. Looked up tabs too. What is
Speaker 6: the first thing I played? Chili peppers? That's another big influence.
Speaker 4: Oh, really, sitting in.
Speaker 7: My mom's basement when I was sixteen and got the
Speaker 7: guitar for my birthday or Christmas, one.
Speaker 6: Of those, Yeah, and just looked up the tabs started
Speaker 6: going to town and then the other one was shine down.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, so just learning the yeah, learning the
Speaker 7: tabs and went from there, just kept with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah nice. Was that your because you're a multi instrumentalist.
Speaker 5: Was that your first instrument guitar? Did you start on guitar?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean I played piano here and there
Speaker 7: just when I saw one messing around, you know, so
Speaker 7: I had like, that's what kind of got it going,
Speaker 7: just seeing how much fun it was, and oh I
Speaker 7: can create something out of nothing.
Speaker 5: That makes sense because I've heard so many music instructors
Speaker 5: and teachers say that ideally, Uh, if you start on
Speaker 5: a keyboard, that's the best way to start to learn,
Speaker 5: start to learn the fundamentals, and train your brain.
Speaker 7: It makes it a lot easier to apply the music theory,
Speaker 7: just because all the notes are in order. So then
Speaker 7: when you look at a guitar neck, if you see, oh,
Speaker 7: each fret is basically a key on the keyboard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, helps for the visualization of it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think that was the biggest thing really.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, I've heard a lot of instructors say
Speaker 5: that that that's that's ideal.
Speaker 6: I'm going to get a piano this spring or summer.
Speaker 7: Oh no, canna find one of those ones that people
Speaker 7: have that are free, that they you know.
Speaker 4: Like a full piano.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh kidding.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna have a little uh roof over my campfire
Speaker 7: pit so I can have you know, a piano by
Speaker 7: the fire. We keep it covered and do some like
Speaker 7: you know, outdoor saloon campfire jams with my friends. You know,
Speaker 7: have a couple of people on guitar or whatever whoever.
Speaker 6: Shows up with. Oh very cool and yeah whatever, make
Speaker 6: some fun jams.
Speaker 7: But I've always wanted an outdoor piano like that. I
Speaker 7: couldn't really beat that. You know, the sound of piano
Speaker 7: outside at night would be yeah awesome.
Speaker 5: What do you do about that in the winter? You've
Speaker 5: probably already researched it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean the piano is on its last leg.
Speaker 7: So what happens in winter? If it's restorable, if it's
Speaker 7: some attitude tune junkie one that they're just going to
Speaker 7: toss anyways, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 7: Maybe a bonfire for winter, Yeah, end up burning a
Speaker 7: million dollar piano.
Speaker 4: You wanna you want to seek in one more?
Speaker 5: We have we have time.
Speaker 4: If you want to do one.
Speaker 7: More than I'll do a fun one. Okay it's called
Speaker 7: a generic love song. Okay, now let me take these
Speaker 7: headphones off real quick false start, tell you know.
Speaker 2: It's live, Come on over and our sarenage you.
Speaker 6: What do you like?
Speaker 1: What do you want to hear? I'll singing loud, make
Speaker 1: your legs quiver. I'll lean in close and whisper in
Speaker 1: your ear. You just not a generic love song, just
Speaker 1: something that I can sing. You know we You'll be
Speaker 1: off my sat list and now we'll miss sing thing?
Speaker 2: What's your name again?
Speaker 1: Sorry? My bad? You just another girl that I know
Speaker 1: won't mass but let's single wrong enough fun tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: this will be done. You just another generic lap song,
Speaker 1: Just something that I can sing. In a week, you'll
Speaker 1: be off my setlist and now will miss a single thing.
Speaker 1: It's a single thing. It's a single thing. Won't miss thing.
Speaker 1: You just another married love song. Just something that I
Speaker 1: can sing. You know we quby off my set list?
Speaker 1: Now miss a single thing.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. What a great track. That's great generic love
Speaker 4: song by.
Speaker 7: It's a little bit of a tongue in cheek song,
Speaker 7: but right, yeah, it's the most love all my songs
Speaker 7: can't be heartbreaking, you know, Yeah, broken.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, that's that is fun.
Speaker 6: Have a little fun.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. Thanks Sean.
Speaker 5: What should people know about how to keep up with
Speaker 5: you online? Follow everything that you're doing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you search for Sean Manch you know, Manchester
Speaker 7: abbreviated just on Google, Facebook, Instagram, all those places I
Speaker 7: keep up, YouTube, Spotify, so pretty much if you look
Speaker 7: for me there, hopefully I'm there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you are very googleable.
Speaker 6: Which is good. Yeah, definitely, that's that.
Speaker 7: Uh be it a programmer back in the day, gems
Speaker 7: it handy, you know, search engine optimization, that sort of stuff,
Speaker 7: so exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and if anyone wants to look me up, I
Speaker 6: appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And do you have anything this weekend that you're playing?
Speaker 5: Got any shows your plan you want to plug?
Speaker 6: Not anything?
Speaker 7: Right now, I'm going to start doing the ones that
Speaker 7: I run, and you know, focus on quality over quantity,
Speaker 7: you know, so focus a lot on those. But if
Speaker 7: they follow my uh Facebook, that's where I definitely update
Speaker 7: the most, I'd say, And okay, make some Facebook events
Speaker 7: and yeah, yeah, I'm going to be booking hopefully fairs.
Speaker 7: That's what I want to get into a lot of
Speaker 7: oh really, fares and events like that kind of get
Speaker 7: out of the bar scene with the covers.
Speaker 6: And do more of the summer, bigger summer events.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, summer is probably your busiest time.
Speaker 6: Right well, and the fair Ground in Clinton is right
Speaker 6: up the road for me. Oh okay, started to become
Speaker 6: a part of the Lions Club.
Speaker 7: Hopefully that's a good play some of these songs. It
Speaker 7: would be a broke man's dream.
Speaker 4: There you go, There you go, there you go.
Speaker 5: I think we should end the segment with another track
Speaker 5: from your studio, your studio album. I'll let you tell me,
Speaker 5: I'll let you pick. That's a good h.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to think if there's one that I hadn't.
Speaker 5: Played, Yeah, did you.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's one called Survive that's a Survivor one. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's why that I hadn't played. I was trying to
Speaker 6: think of what was on there.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, self recorded, and that one's also only about
Speaker 7: a week old.
Speaker 5: Oh no, kidding.
Speaker 7: Been doing a lot of writing and recording, getting it
Speaker 7: out of my mind and getting it on the airways.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that is excellent.
Speaker 5: Okay, yep, I've got it here perfect. So we will
Speaker 5: close out the segment with this. If you are listening
Speaker 5: live on Saturday, stick around. At the top of the hour,
Speaker 5: We've got brand new the American radio premiere of Elijah
Speaker 5: Jenkins' new track State. And then immediately after that we're
Speaker 5: gonna be talking to the guys from Iron Jaw about
Speaker 5: their new album Cursed. They're going to be skyping in
Speaker 5: from Texas. But we will close out this segment with Survive.
Speaker 5: This is Sean Manchester and Sean thank you again.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, and have a good day at Manchester.
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