Matt Connarton Unleashed: Shawn Manch

Speaker 1: Maybe at the boardwalk over on Main Street. We can 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 in May. Yet another summer night. And may we sit back campfire that we made on the beach with a or not like this. Nothing's out of reach from the doors to the ocean and never seems the same. Nothing like summer night in May. Yeah, just another summer night in May. Just Ano, summer night in May. Just Ano 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 New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can also stream the show online. For all your streaming options, just go to Matt connorton dot com slash live to find out how you can stream and interact with the show, and of course, if you are in Manchester, New Hampshire, you can listen on your FM dial go to ninety five point three FM.

Speaker 5: Today is Saturday, February twenty two, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course, at the news table, present account of and let's see let me get those mics up here. We have joined us live in studio. The man who performed that song by the way, another summer night in Maine, which is very very new Sean Manchester is here with us. We'll test these mics out. How you doing, Sean, Yes, thank you for having me. I can barely hear you, which is why I need 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, Broke Man's Dream. Yeah, that was the first song of 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 those watching online. Oh, actually, before we go any further, let me put the camera back on me for a second, because I want to show people for those watching live. If you're watching on YouTube or Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever. So Sean, you brought us. Now people will often bring us CDs and stuff like that. You brought us. So these little, these little bags. I'm gonna hold this up on camera.

Speaker 7: Yeah, little grab bag, little Sean Manch grab bag. My last name is Manchester. But yeah, you know, for stage purposes, it's easier for people to chant Sean Manch, Sewan Manchell. That makes Sean Manchell. Yeah, that makes sense. And in this so this is a cool concept. You've got a USB drive with your album, Yes, which is that song Another Summer Night in Maine.

Speaker 5: That's where that that's where we pulled that from. Yep, so thank you for bringing that. And you got a little.

Speaker 6: Little in the dark three D printed Sean Manch key chain exactly.

Speaker 4: Yeah, that is.

Speaker 7: And that's actually a pick as well, saying very cool 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 sticker which is nice. Jenny love stickers. So as you can see from the computer, definitely, so you brought one for each of us. So thank you very much, John, very welcome. That is that is very cool. And I love that song broke Man's Stream and uh you are I'm dying to hear you play live. Do you want to strum that guitar a little for me and we'll 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, make sure we got the cahone.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 7: Playing the drums with my feet while singing and playing makes a nice full arrangement.

Speaker 6: I like to have that a little bit of rhythm with it.

Speaker 5: You are a one man band, Yeah, that's that's for. Is it difficult to learn to do that? Or does that come naturally? Because most people tap their foot anyway when listening to music?

Speaker 7: So does that just kind of that definitely helps you know a lot of times if I'm just practicing without any drums or anything, just tapping my feet and I was I thought that was just a natural way to keep time. Might as well add some drums underneath the 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, 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. We just don't know it. Because you learn to play a musical instrument, you're using both your hands are exactly exactly yeah, sometimes your feet yeah exactly right, exactly yeah, especially like if you're a drummer, you're using all four 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 as well. That's what helps me record the full band 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 recorded and produced in my little shack and mane.

Speaker 4: Oh that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Uh, what are you gonna 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 Manchester is here with us live in studio.

Speaker 1: A cat sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying to do right. He going my way money suit. What 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. Get through the week, keep my head and high an atone noon while I win the fives running down on me. I got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday. They trying to do a right, ain't going my way? Money suit tight? What can't I say? I'm living on a broke man sixteen bucks and I'm making Friday trying to do a right. Ain't going my way? Money so tight? 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, making it half en today? Now keep on now and okay, moving shaw till I can final, Liz say a half sixteen bucks and I made it to Friday. I finally do the right. It went my way. Money's out tight. 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 to do right, ain't doing my way? Money so tight? What can't I say? I'm living on a broad man. Sixteen bucks? Would have made it to Friday? I finally did a right, It went my way. Money's not tight. 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. Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on 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, 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. But yeah, springs right around the corner.

Speaker 7: I mentioned to get into some of the springtime gardening and all that. I live off grid in a little tiny house, you know, all solar.

Speaker 5: Oh no kidding.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it's on Main Street, which is convenient. I can walk to everything I need if I need to, no kidding, but enough in the woods that I have the privacy, 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, you know.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I admire that a lot. That's that's very cool. I mean life is simpler that way, right.

Speaker 7: Exactly, as long as I can go outside and enjoy the sun and a hammock and have a campfire, yeah, guitar, 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 there a lot of places where you live to play or yeah?

Speaker 7: It's uh, you know, I did the cover songs for a long time in the local bar kind of gigs, and there's a a lot of local breweries and yeah, you know, so if you're trying to find somewhere to play, you might have to travel a half an hour in pretty much any direction, but you know, you can normally find a decent amount of gigs. Yeah, I'm focusing a lot on the original songs now, and I'm gonna move more towards running my own shows. You know, rent a venue out and then do the promotion and that sort of thing more on my own.

Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent. Do you do some of that now or just starting out?

Speaker 7: I've done it in the past just as kind of trial and er, you know, half covers, half originals and see who shows up, and it turned out pretty decent and hoping you know, the grab bags, they'll sweeten the deals. Yeah, the first ten people that come, you know, get a gift bag or you know something like that.

Speaker 6: Yeah, and they'll be free shows. I'm just in it for the music, so.

Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha?

Speaker 5: Yeah, So you do everything, So I have the studio tracks, you do everything yourself.

Speaker 6: Yep.

Speaker 7: When all the mixing, mastering, no conduction. I use a service online called Lander and that so I'm on Spotify. It pushes it out to all Spotify, Apple Music, Facebook, all that stuff.

Speaker 5: So okay, excellent. Some musicians hate having to do that part. 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, 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 of just use what I've learned from that in business marketing and things, you know, and there you go, added it to the music to you know, enhance the hobby 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. I mean, you know, it's definitely a passion. Yeah, and you're accomplishing a lot with it, so that's great.

Speaker 7: It keeps me busy too, you know, always always something to work on. And ye then when you finish a 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 life experience? Because it's very relatable.

Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I'm sure everyone can relate, you know, trying to get to that Friday was sixteen bucks in the account and trying to make it there. Yeah, you know, starting out saving up for the land and had an old van down by the river, nice you know, nineteen eighty two Chevy G twenty conversion van, so I had everything, but yeah, my job paid for you know, a lot rent, so a lot rent. It was a parking spot the van there, and started out from there walking around to bars with my guitar and can I play a couple songs and put a tip jar out?

Speaker 7: And from there blossomed into all of this fun stuff going on now.

Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, have you how long have you been really focused on that part the music career?

Speaker 6: Probably about the last four four or five years. Yeah, I say about that.

Speaker 7: You know, I have kids, so yeah, spent a lot of time working on that. You know, kids when they were younger, you know, take a little bit more attention changing diapers now that they're a little bit more self sustaining, little bit of time for me.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Is it like living in a tiny house? Is that a big adjustment or did that come naturally?

Speaker 7: I love it, you know, I have plenty of space, especially, I mean the one that I built now has plenty of space. The first couple of tiny houses, you know, 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, it was a learning curve, the first couple of tiny houses, trying to figure out how to build. I'm a musician, not a carpenter. So yeah, but this one. Yeah, it's so you built these oh yeah yeah wow. And I prefer it, you know, the tiny living, less space to heat. Yeah, 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 as you can go outside and catch frogs in the 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. Sean Manchester is with us live in studio and traveled quite far but of a hall.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 7: It was about two and a half hours. Just a 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 the sights, nice.

Speaker 5: Architects, a lot of mill buildings.

Speaker 6: Yep. This next song, the wind between us, I'll play that one.

Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, very cool. We have Sean Manchester here 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 had a chance of reason to stay this enviasible stay. I hear the whisper of the wind through the years distance, like Raleigh's fears, I wish we could stay toom left. The wind never come between us. We'll never be seen

Speaker 1: through your heart and tone for copy to writhe the winds of change and Dick, it's hard to man to watch you gotta find the key to a toil like shut through away the past. Come for a minute, come for it, but don't come long, don't go to stay. Can't you hear me say? Do have no wind ever come between us? We will never be same through your 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 had changed reason to say it.

Speaker 1: This isn't b stay. Don't let the wind ever come between us. Will never beat sing thing real hard and 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 love your voice. Did how did you learn to singer? 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 three years old, singing Run Joey Run and Billy don't be a Heroes. Oh really, my mom had you know some home tapes, you know, yeah, Marching Ben came down along Main Street. Yeah, early nineties or late eighties, okay, okay, yeah, but then you know really took it on, you know, in high school when I was probably seventeen, started playing, and then a couple of Battle of the Bands and 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. I once I got on stage for the first time 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 always been a solo acoustic thing.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I've done a lot, you know, jammed with different friends, had cover bands and stuff like that, and I do intend on getting a bassist and a drummer eventually, Okay, just probably sometime this summer kind of work on that. Oh.

Speaker 6: Ok, I've been doing the solo thing though a couple 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 had live shows to play exactly, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, you probably. You strike me as someone who's probably always writing. 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, I like to just get it out of my mind and get it all recorded, So I have at least some kind of demo and then I can come back to it, tear the song apart, and you know, figure out how I wrote it.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm always writing, picking and choosing what I want to you know, publish, and what might need a little bit more time.

Speaker 5: Doing all the mixing and mastering and everything. If you've done it that way from the beginning, like all doing 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 for sure. I listened to some of the stuff even 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 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 like sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, I don't play it because 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 I see on the pain im causin a dream of you, and my heart is pauson. I'm moving on weir about you. 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, not bad at all. That's funny. I haven't thought about 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 and performers.

Speaker 7: It's gotta be a lot of classic rock, yeah, I like classic rock a lot. And then on the other side of things, I listened to a lot of like the Jason Moraz, John Mayer, you know, early two thousands 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 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 of because I love your voice, I mean, is there anyone you try to emulate vocally or or or who 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 kind of songs. Yeah, A lot of influence from that kind of stuff too, like that soft rock.

Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but you've got there's a little bit of a rawness though that you have that a guy like Rob Thomas doesn't have. And I think that's what and I like that. I think that's why I like your voice so much. This, I don't know, there's a there's just a little bit of a there's a little bit of a rough edge to it that I that I really love.

Speaker 7: That kind of that kind of crunch, which yeah, took 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, very clean and crisp, but I like that kind of little rasp or crunch, you know, compression vocals.

Speaker 6: It comes from the like, you know, I want a rock you know, oh yeah.

Speaker 7: Kind of stuff when you actually push yeah you know, So I like a lot of that, like heavy vocals.

Speaker 5: So yeah, because for a song like broke Man's Dream, that that really works well, yeah, that that vocal song like that, Yeah, it gives it a little little bit of that grit.

Speaker 7: I'd say, honestly, a lot of it does come from like Dio and that kind of like Holy Diver, Yeah, 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 sing anything right exactly.

Speaker 7: It makes it so I honestly have to like hold back from doing it too much when I play acoustic because I want to just go, you know, straight out with it.

Speaker 4: But yeah, you don't want to blow your voice out of the process.

Speaker 5: Yeah that ever happened, like, especially with this has been such a brutal cold and flu season. You ever heard have that happened to where your voice goes during the show or starts.

Speaker 6: To Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 7: When I was doing the shows and playing you know, two or three shows a weekend. Yeah, by that ninth hour of singing, you know, in eighteen hours, it's like, huh, I need a throat laws and drinking honey straight from 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. I was like, I never really sing in the morning.

Speaker 7: I mean, as long as I have some coffee to warm my voice up. It's normally not too bad. Yeah, 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 softer song too.

Speaker 5: All right, all right, Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio.

Speaker 1: She said, tell me that you'll love me and I won't go if it's going down in flames, please love me. No, tell me it'll be too friend this time. Tell me it'll all turn out all right. And I said, dune't forget Wood. I've told you, dude, for Catwood. I've said through all of the years, in the years how we've dropped, I will be there to me. Tell me that your love will never fade. Tell me that you always feel the same. Tell me that I'm crazy when Maddy tell.

Speaker 3: Me that you'll be there from me. And I said, don't forget what I told you. To forget what I said through all.

Speaker 1: I be hear sound it's here, so we've jumped. Now we will be there till the air. Don't forget what I told you. Don't forget what I said. Do all of it heres and the tears out we've dropped. I 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 the Saturday. If you're just joining us sounding great. By 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 is unusual. Most people can't. I can't whistle well.

Speaker 6: And it's useful too, you know, because I want to play some lead. I want to just you know, yeah.

Speaker 7: Play a couple of solos over stuff. But if I'm 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 some of that headgear. Oh, and it goes pretty good. Yeah, 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 Gary do that?

Speaker 5: That always impresses me too, because it's like you're because then you're a literally you're playing two instruments. And actually if you're if you have the cone too. Yeah, you're playing three instruments at once. You're really a one man band at that point.

Speaker 6: Gets you get out of breath sometimes, you know, but it's worth it.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder about the harmonica if that does that kind of come naturally to some extent because you are 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 note as long as you got the right harmonica for the song. Okay, okay, it's like you have to you have to carry around eight or you know, six or 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 about it logically, I'm surprised I didn't realize that, because that does make perfect.

Speaker 7: So they do have like one hundred hole harmonicas, but 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, 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 it with the guitar, and yeah, it turns out pretty good. I like that because that allows me to play the lead. Oh okay, so that way I can just pick up a harmonica and not have to have it on that 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 the loop pedal or does that come pretty easy?

Speaker 7: It's definitely helped just with the experience as far as recording and playing to a metronome as long as you can keep that time. Yeah, you know, so it came pretty naturally.

Speaker 5: And I guess if you're doing it live and you're playing original music, it kind of doesn't matter if like if you if something isn't if you're looking something that maybe isn't quite what you intended, maybe you made a little bit of a mistake, but it kind of doesn't 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 so that I could sing and play lead over it and you know, hit play play through the song. It made it the same every time. Okay, so you know I was kind of against that. Rather I have it be dynamic, you know, and then if something cool happens, if I add some little like weird rosta part to 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, Like I enjoy just how dynamic and the loop pedal and the acoustic can be. I've been in cover bands where if you mess up one note on Sweet Child of Mind, everyone gives you a glare. Yeah, I'd rather 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 as interesting, is that some people really do get like they want to hear the songs exactly the way they were.

Speaker 7: And a lot of people play them well you know, yeah, but which is cool and everything.

Speaker 5: But I kind of like it when there's something a little different. You know, It's like I already know how the original sounds, I want to hear your interpretation of it, you know.

Speaker 6: What I mean exactly.

Speaker 7: I like seeing those you know, acoustic bands, you know, you have a couple of guys of the kahone and 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 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 just take us.

Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, if you're just joining us. Sean Manchester is here with us, playing live, sounding amazing, really enjoying this a lot.

Speaker 6: Thank you very much.

Speaker 7: Absolutely, this one's not normally an acoustic, but well, okay send it.

Speaker 1: Who's it bound to be play folded? Or was hiding from the lies? The thought defending all this and cutting our ties. Can't take it anymore. I won't handle in this time trying to breakthrough, no matter how hard to try. Everything that tossed so Hi, try too many times to tell you why I'm stove hardening tipad.

Speaker 3: We thout of bad, I'm stodarding till bad.

Speaker 1: Away. Jem it's coming in. I'm onto you taking in too, cutting straight on though. My brain is passing with the time,

Speaker 1: and then this world will crumble down. Rooming through this hopeless Tamerson without a chance.

Speaker 3: For rhyme, stodhartening Jim bade We down of bad stodarting, Jim bade Way.

Speaker 4: Nice. Nice.

Speaker 5: That's called fade, Yes, yep, very cool fade by Sean Manchester who's here with us live in studio. That's guy got kind of a little bit of a little bit of a grunge.

Speaker 4: Job vibe there to that one.

Speaker 5: I like that. Yeah, yeah, it runs me a little bit, a little bit nineties nineties, a lot.

Speaker 7: Of the early stuff. Well, so that's something I should have mentioned too. Foo Fighters, you know, I like uh, Nirvana and Foo Fighters, mostly Dave Grohl being the multi instrumentalists. Oh yeah, I like a lot of that post grunge kind of. So that's one of the earlier songs that I wrote. So it definitely has those grungy vibes to them. Yeah.

Speaker 5: Yeah, your songs too, So I noticed that there there are they all. Your songs are kind of shorter than a lot of singer songwriters. Some some some singer songwriters you know we've had on the the got like these six minute songs, but yours are yours are kind of.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I I normally you know, if I have the loop pedal, that helps to make it a little bit longer. Yeah, but I like to keep them kind of short and sweet to the point, so you know, stay along with 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 it's it's very like pop, you know, radio music that's very similar structure to that.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 7: And you know, having a band or the loop pedal makes it a lot easier to do those intricacies because I have I love.

Speaker 6: Doing the.

Speaker 7: Yeah, that riff and like I can layer it, and the loop pedal makes it so much fun.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Yeah, How did you learn to play guitar? I know you're vocally your self taught? What about what about guitar?

Speaker 6: Same just self taught. Looked up tabs too. What is 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 guitar for my birthday or Christmas, one.

Speaker 6: Of those, Yeah, and just looked up the tabs started going to town and then the other one was shine down.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, so just learning the yeah, learning the tabs and went from there, just kept with it.

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah nice. Was that your because you're a multi instrumentalist. Was that your first instrument guitar? Did you start on guitar?

Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean I played piano here and there just when I saw one messing around, you know, so I had like, that's what kind of got it going, just seeing how much fun it was, and oh I can create something out of nothing.

Speaker 5: That makes sense because I've heard so many music instructors and teachers say that ideally, Uh, if you start on a keyboard, that's the best way to start to learn, start to learn the fundamentals, and train your brain.

Speaker 7: It makes it a lot easier to apply the music theory, just because all the notes are in order. So then when you look at a guitar neck, if you see, oh, each fret is basically a key on the keyboard.

Speaker 6: Yeah, helps for the visualization of it a lot. Yeah, I think that was the biggest thing really.

Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, I've heard a lot of instructors say 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 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 pit so I can have you know, a piano by the fire. We keep it covered and do some like you know, outdoor saloon campfire jams with my friends. You know, have a couple of people on guitar or whatever whoever.

Speaker 6: Shows up with. Oh very cool and yeah whatever, make some fun jams.

Speaker 7: But I've always wanted an outdoor piano like that. I couldn't really beat that. You know, the sound of piano outside at night would be yeah awesome.

Speaker 5: What do you do about that in the winter? You've probably already researched it.

Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean the piano is on its last leg. So what happens in winter? If it's restorable, if it's some attitude tune junkie one that they're just going to 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 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 a generic love song. Okay, now let me take these 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 your legs quiver. I'll lean in close and whisper in your ear. You just not a generic love song, just something that I can sing. You know we You'll be 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 won't mass but let's single wrong enough fun tomorrow morning, this will be done. You just another generic lap song, Just something that I can sing. In a week, you'll 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 can sing. You know we quby off my set list? Now miss a single thing.

Speaker 4: That's awesome. What a great track. That's great generic love song by.

Speaker 7: It's a little bit of a tongue in cheek song, but right, yeah, it's the most love all my songs 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 you online? Follow everything that you're doing?

Speaker 7: Yeah, if you search for Sean Manch you know, Manchester abbreviated just on Google, Facebook, Instagram, all those places I keep up, YouTube, Spotify, so pretty much if you look 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 it handy, you know, search engine optimization, that sort of stuff, so exactly.

Speaker 6: Yeah, and if anyone wants to look me up, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5: Yeah. And do you have anything this weekend that you're playing? 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 I run, and you know, focus on quality over quantity, you know, so focus a lot on those. But if they follow my uh Facebook, that's where I definitely update the most, I'd say, And okay, make some Facebook events and yeah, yeah, I'm going to be booking hopefully fairs. That's what I want to get into a lot of oh really, fares and events like that kind of get 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 up the road for me. Oh okay, started to become a part of the Lions Club.

Speaker 7: Hopefully that's a good play some of these songs. It 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 from your studio, your studio album. I'll let you tell me, 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, that's why that I hadn't played. I was trying to think of what was on there.

Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, self recorded, and that one's also only about a week old.

Speaker 5: Oh no, kidding.

Speaker 7: Been doing a lot of writing and recording, getting it 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 close out the segment with this. If you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. At the top of the hour, We've got brand new the American radio premiere of Elijah Jenkins' new track State. And then immediately after that we're gonna be talking to the guys from Iron Jaw about their new album Cursed. They're going to be skyping in from Texas. But we will close out this segment with Survive. This is Sean Manchester and Sean thank you again.