Matt Connarton Unleashed: Slim Volume (1/25)

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3:38 Speaker 6: Guys have such a nice sound. We have slim volume

3:41 Speaker 6: here in studio and we're gonna talk to these guys

3:43 Speaker 6: in just a moment. Welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton

3:46 Speaker 6: Unleashed and we are live and my voice is cracking

3:48 Speaker 6: and it's very upsetting, but we are live on this

3:51 Speaker 6: the first uh Saturday in twenty twenty five. Here from

3:54 Speaker 6: the studios of w m n H ninety five point

3:57 Speaker 6: three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, newhamsterre Do you hear that I

4:01 Speaker 6: just said I had an asthma incident recently? And I've

4:07 Speaker 6: apparently not fully recovered. But uh we are live, of course,

4:10 Speaker 6: and uh having a great time here on this Saturday

4:13 Speaker 6: of our first Saturday of the new year. And Jenny

4:16 Speaker 6: is here as well, of course, at the news table

4:20 Speaker 6: and joining us live in studio. This morning we have

4:23 Speaker 6: Slim Volume. The gentleman from from Slim Volume. Welcome guys,

4:27 Speaker 6: Good morning. Yeah, I was trying to remember you guys

4:31 Speaker 6: have been on the show. Has it been once or

4:32 Speaker 6: twice before? It has been twice, Okay, it it becomes

4:37 Speaker 6: a blur after a while, but uh, yeah, you guys

4:41 Speaker 6: have such a great I hadn't so I hadn't heard

4:43 Speaker 6: that song before, but you guys have such a great sound. Yeah,

4:47 Speaker 6: I just kind of listening. I'm just kind of getting

4:49 Speaker 6: lost in it, you know, like, thank you. It's just

4:51 Speaker 6: really really good. Let's let's do this. So for the uninitiated,

4:54 Speaker 6: let's start in the corner here. We'll go around well,

4:56 Speaker 6: you kind of know the drill. Anyway. You can each

4:58 Speaker 6: tell us who you are, what you do in the band.

5:00 Speaker 7: Yeah, my name is Mike. I played guitar in the band.

5:03 Speaker 8: Okay, Trent over here played acoustic guitar mostly all.

5:08 Speaker 6: Right, Johnny and I played drums.

5:11 Speaker 9: And I'm Jake. I played bass and I sing along

5:13 Speaker 9: with Trent.

5:14 Speaker 6: Oh, very good, very good. Now is this a new album?

5:18 Speaker 6: The song we just heard, Big Plans? Is that from?

5:21 Speaker 6: Is that new?

5:22 Speaker 9: That is from our newest EP, newest collection of four

5:26 Speaker 9: songs that we put out in was that November?

5:30 Speaker 6: Yeah?

5:30 Speaker 9: Okay, it's starting to blur like you said, yeah, yeah,

5:34 Speaker 9: And we released another new EP in we had two

5:36 Speaker 9: and twenty twenty four, so that one's from the second

5:39 Speaker 9: of those called Big Plans.

5:41 Speaker 6: Gotcha.

5:41 Speaker 9: That was the self titled track.

5:43 Speaker 6: Oh okay, okay. Now what goes into the decision? And

5:47 Speaker 6: this is a subject that we talked about a lot

5:48 Speaker 6: on the show, because you know, everybody approaches it differently,

5:51 Speaker 6: with so many different ways you can do it. I'm

5:55 Speaker 6: always asking, so, why did you decide to do an

5:57 Speaker 6: album or why did you decide to do an EP,

5:58 Speaker 6: or why did you decide to just use but in

6:00 Speaker 6: your case, so you release two EPs very close to

6:03 Speaker 6: each other. What's the strategy there or is there one?

6:07 Speaker 6: Or is it just or does it just feel right

6:09 Speaker 6: to do it that way?

6:10 Speaker 10: I feel like when we go about releasing the songs

6:14 Speaker 10: at least in the past. It's kind of been one

6:15 Speaker 10: of those things where we always have the question of, like,

6:18 Speaker 10: you know, you put a lot of like you know,

6:20 Speaker 10: effort into an album, and then if you drop it,

6:23 Speaker 10: it's kind of like, you know, you really want people

6:25 Speaker 10: to hear it. So sometimes we like take the approach

6:27 Speaker 10: of maybe if we do it in smaller chunks for people,

6:30 Speaker 10: you know, it's just kind of easier to kind of

6:32 Speaker 10: promote it, and just like you know, it's not like

6:34 Speaker 10: all your eggs in one basket that could kind of

6:35 Speaker 10: get left behind. Yeah, so doing like two EPs throughout

6:38 Speaker 10: the year was something that was like a little strategic

6:40 Speaker 10: in that sense. But I feel like as moving forward,

6:44 Speaker 10: you know, right now we're currently working on like a

6:46 Speaker 10: ten song album and stuff like that.

6:48 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:48 Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's definitely kind of trying to shift the

6:50 Speaker 10: approach a little bit and see where that takes us,

6:53 Speaker 10: and also keep it in mind that like I bring

6:56 Speaker 10: some songs to the table, and like Trent and Jake

6:59 Speaker 10: both right, and like, you know, so there's always like

7:01 Speaker 10: a massive influx of material that's.

7:02 Speaker 7: Kind of like really easy to get overwhelmed with.

7:05 Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt, Yeah, no doubt. Well, so doing a

7:10 Speaker 6: ten like, is your approach in terms of writing different

7:13 Speaker 6: with whereas you're working on a ten song album.

7:17 Speaker 8: Well, I think like with these two EPs, we kind

7:20 Speaker 8: of realized they both had like a very separate sound,

7:25 Speaker 8: where this one we just heard was more of like

7:27 Speaker 8: the folk rock influence and the other one was more

7:30 Speaker 8: of a straight indie rock influence. And we can listen

7:33 Speaker 8: to one of those tracks later, h yeah, but and

7:36 Speaker 8: you'll see the difference. And so the album is kind

7:38 Speaker 8: of like the combination of both of those sounds in

7:42 Speaker 8: a little more cohesive way. So splitting the EPs was

7:46 Speaker 8: also a decision of like, sonically.

7:48 Speaker 6: They were very separate. Okay, but yeah.

7:51 Speaker 8: I think we, like Mike was kind of alluding to,

7:53 Speaker 8: it's been a progression from doing singles now a couple

7:58 Speaker 8: of EPs and now just tims.

8:00 Speaker 6: Yeah, focused on a bigger project. Yeah, what about in

8:04 Speaker 6: terms of where you record like these EPs that you've done,

8:07 Speaker 6: have you recorded these all the same way?

8:09 Speaker 9: Or we work with Eric Sotter at black Heart Sound Yes, yeah,

8:13 Speaker 9: here in Manchester. He's awesome.

8:15 Speaker 6: His name is cop Well, we had him on the

8:17 Speaker 6: show too, But leading up to having him on the show,

8:19 Speaker 6: I remember telling him you got to come on because

8:21 Speaker 6: his name. Of anybody in the area who does recording,

8:24 Speaker 6: who has any kind of a studio, his name comes

8:26 Speaker 6: up by far the most often.

8:28 Speaker 9: He's prolific.

8:29 Speaker 6: Oh he's amazing. Yeah, yeah, so incredible. So so sorry,

8:32 Speaker 6: my voice keeps tracking. So the EPs were recorded with him. Yeah, excellent.

8:37 Speaker 9: Yeah. And also on that track, we had a guy

8:41 Speaker 9: named James Palco who plays under a named the Jimmy Montague.

8:46 Speaker 9: It's like a yacht rock kind of sounds really cool,

8:48 Speaker 9: but he worked in the studio before. He's moved since.

8:51 Speaker 9: But you heard the organ at the end of that

8:53 Speaker 9: song that was playing that on that track, So yeah,

8:55 Speaker 9: he's kind of a very talented multi instrumentalist producer guy.

8:58 Speaker 6: That's a cool way to that too, because because as

9:02 Speaker 6: I'm listening and I'm hearing it for the first time,

9:04 Speaker 6: and as I'm listening to it, it's at that part,

9:06 Speaker 6: you know, it's at the end of the song, I

9:07 Speaker 6: should probably fade it out and start talking, right, you know,

9:10 Speaker 6: as a DJ. But I'm like, I couldn't because I

9:12 Speaker 6: wanted to hear that play out, you know what I mean,

9:15 Speaker 6: because it just sounded so cool, because it's kind of

9:17 Speaker 6: a surprise. You don't expect to hear that at the

9:19 Speaker 6: end like that, but it just works so perfectly, you know.

9:22 Speaker 6: So it's like I didn't even want to talk over it.

9:24 Speaker 9: It's one of those things that just sort of happened to.

9:26 Speaker 9: He just was playing and he kind of just kept

9:29 Speaker 9: hanging on that last chord, and I think we probably

9:32 Speaker 9: thought maybe we'll fade it out too, but we ended

9:34 Speaker 9: up liking it, I think as just a kind of

9:36 Speaker 9: a weird ending that you usually wouldn't hear out of

9:39 Speaker 9: us because none of us.

9:40 Speaker 6: Are organist, right, so when you play that one live,

9:43 Speaker 6: that that's not there obviously no organ yet, no organ yet.

9:47 Speaker 8: Yeah, although there may be a surprise for our next

9:51 Speaker 8: show with regards to He's Oh okay, that's been a

9:56 Speaker 8: little little discussion in the band for a while. We've

9:58 Speaker 8: always thought, you know, another element would be helpful. Yeah,

10:03 Speaker 8: but yeah, I think we may have that in place

10:06 Speaker 8: for two weeks from yesterday.

10:08 Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah, okay, that's.

10:10 Speaker 8: Kind of like the other, you know, the other you know,

10:12 Speaker 8: promotional element of this radio appearance is in two weeks Banker,

10:18 Speaker 8: New Hampshire stage. We're playing for the Modern Fools album

10:23 Speaker 8: release show.

10:23 Speaker 1: Nice.

10:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know if you ever heard of the

10:25 Speaker 8: band Modern Fools. They're from Keen and they kind of

10:28 Speaker 8: have more like a truer alt country folk rock sound.

10:32 Speaker 8: So like the song we just heard very much similar

10:35 Speaker 8: to what Modern Fools. It's like, okay to speak in

10:39 Speaker 8: broad strokes.

10:40 Speaker 6: I almost think we had them on the show. That

10:44 Speaker 6: name is very familiar to me. Modern Fools. Did we

10:46 Speaker 6: have them on the show? Does sound familiar to me? Yeah,

10:49 Speaker 6: or we may have talked to them at some point

10:50 Speaker 6: about coming on. But yeah, no, that's that's very cool.

10:54 Speaker 6: So that's gonna be at what's the.

10:56 Speaker 4: Date on that?

10:57 Speaker 8: That's January seventeenth.

10:58 Speaker 6: Outstanding. That's yeah, outstanding? Are you guys? So all the

11:04 Speaker 6: I assume like from both EPs that you've released, do

11:07 Speaker 6: do you play all all eight of those live?

11:11 Speaker 1: Yeah?

11:11 Speaker 9: That sort of to varying degrees. Yeah, there's the set

11:15 Speaker 9: list always fluctuates kind of based on mood and all

11:19 Speaker 9: kinds of other factors. But there's some songs where, for

11:21 Speaker 9: any number of reasons, they kind of like find their

11:23 Speaker 9: way out of the set lists and then but yeah,

11:25 Speaker 9: for the most part, Yeah.

11:26 Speaker 7: There's one song on each of those EPs.

11:28 Speaker 10: Off of big plans, that one being if Only and

11:32 Speaker 10: off of back to You Kpos seven that like sometimes

11:35 Speaker 10: don't really like make it out to just plan for

11:37 Speaker 10: whatever reason, Like yeah, they're cool songs and I'm glad

11:40 Speaker 10: they made it on the EP and stuff like that.

11:41 Speaker 10: But sometimes, like as I mentioned before, like having this

11:44 Speaker 10: like big influx of material and stuff like that, like

11:46 Speaker 10: we always get real kind of pumped up to play

11:48 Speaker 10: new stuff live. So it's just like sometimes it's easy

11:50 Speaker 10: to be like, ah, I could hit this new stuff that,

11:52 Speaker 10: like you know, isn't even released yet, but like it's

11:54 Speaker 10: kind of a good way to like hone in and

11:56 Speaker 10: like figure out like what you want to do when

11:58 Speaker 10: you record, you know, kind of hearing things live and

12:00 Speaker 10: kind of like oh yeah, pasting the waters and stuff

12:02 Speaker 10: like that.

12:02 Speaker 6: See how people react to it.

12:04 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Man, so's cool.

12:07 Speaker 6: Are you guys playing out a lot uh currently? Or

12:10 Speaker 6: obviously you've got that show, that big one coming up

12:12 Speaker 6: on the seventeenth.

12:13 Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean I think the aside from maybe

12:17 Speaker 8: a busy September, the back half of twenty four was

12:20 Speaker 8: a little bit slower, yeah for us, and we've been

12:24 Speaker 8: we've been playing a lot in our first like two

12:27 Speaker 8: and a half years as a band. Yeah, but twenty

12:30 Speaker 8: twenty five is shaping up to be pretty busy. We

12:31 Speaker 8: already get maybe like I don't know, ten or twelve

12:34 Speaker 8: dates booked. Good, Yeah for the first couple, first two

12:37 Speaker 8: three months, the first quarter.

12:38 Speaker 6: Yeah, where do you guys, uh do you guys get

12:41 Speaker 6: out of New Hampshire or do you do you go

12:42 Speaker 6: around New England or where do you guys play?

12:46 Speaker 11: I mean, I think it's mostly New Hampshire, but we're

12:48 Speaker 11: trying to get out.

12:49 Speaker 5: Yeah.

12:50 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been you know this, it's a it's a

12:53 Speaker 8: mindset shift to be like all right, let's go, you know,

12:55 Speaker 8: book a long week or long weekend tour kind of thing.

12:59 Speaker 6: Like it's been.

13:01 Speaker 8: There's been enough stuff locally to build, you know, a

13:05 Speaker 8: little fan base too.

13:07 Speaker 6: We are fortunate to have a lot of good venues

13:09 Speaker 6: around here.

13:10 Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, there's a lot of good venues. And you know,

13:12 Speaker 8: Conquered's real busy. The Seacoast is busy. You know, we

13:16 Speaker 8: played Boston a couple of times, but you know, mostly

13:19 Speaker 8: we've been playing stuff that people ask us to play.

13:22 Speaker 8: We haven't done a ton of like going out and

13:25 Speaker 8: reaching out to venues to book, which again is just

13:29 Speaker 8: kind of like a mindset.

13:30 Speaker 6: It's just one approach.

13:32 Speaker 8: But uh, I mean, I think with this album and everything,

13:35 Speaker 8: like the plan for this year would be to get

13:37 Speaker 8: out a little bit, you know, expand the radius a

13:39 Speaker 8: little bit.

13:39 Speaker 6: Sure, and we've tried.

13:40 Speaker 8: It's it's just gonna be hard sometimes, you know, trying

13:42 Speaker 8: to get something in Burlington or something like that. Like

13:45 Speaker 8: if you don't know someone to throw you right on

13:48 Speaker 8: a show, it's pretty pretty tricky.

13:50 Speaker 6: Burlington has a great scene, but do But you're right

13:52 Speaker 6: if you're not, you know, if you don't have an inn, Yeah, yeah,

13:56 Speaker 6: you know, which which I'm sure we'll come. But as

13:59 Speaker 6: you alluded to to, you're you're in a good situation

14:01 Speaker 6: where you know, you're still getting a lot of shows

14:03 Speaker 6: anyway because people are coming to you. So that's a

14:05 Speaker 6: good thing. Yeah, oh yeah, you know that. So you're

14:07 Speaker 6: you're you're off to a you're off to a strong start.

14:10 Speaker 6: But I can also see where, you know, in terms

14:12 Speaker 6: of long term strategy, you know, because obviously you're taking

14:15 Speaker 6: the next step to going to you know, you're gonna

14:17 Speaker 6: have a full album, so it makes sense that you know,

14:20 Speaker 6: everything will continue to evolve in terms of radius and

14:23 Speaker 6: right building that audience right, And I had an additional

14:30 Speaker 6: thought on that that escapes me.

14:31 Speaker 10: Oh there's something there's something nice about like hit hitting

14:34 Speaker 10: like a fresh set of ears too, because you know,

14:36 Speaker 10: sometimes we get the opportunity, like in twenty twenty four,

14:39 Speaker 10: we have the opportunity to go up to Portland, Maine

14:41 Speaker 10: and play it a place called Blue I believe is

14:43 Speaker 10: what it was called, and it's just a it's a

14:45 Speaker 10: really cool venue and like you know, you just see

14:47 Speaker 10: faces that you hadn't seen previously, and like you know,

14:50 Speaker 10: you kind of get reinvigorated off the excitement of someone

14:53 Speaker 10: that hasn't heard your material. Yes, comes up to you

14:55 Speaker 10: after and they're just like stoked on it. You know,

14:57 Speaker 10: they're like, well, like where you guys from, like all

14:58 Speaker 10: that stuff kind of I really it means the energy

15:00 Speaker 10: to be like all right, like we really should like

15:02 Speaker 10: try and like you know, just reach out a little bit,

15:03 Speaker 10: whether it's like north Shore, Massachusetts or like you know,

15:06 Speaker 10: just even like further further going up to Portland and

15:08 Speaker 10: as you mentioned Burlington, Yeah, and then like you know,

15:11 Speaker 10: I think in the grand scheme, like branching out to

15:12 Speaker 10: places like Brooklyn or like Philly, or have like really

15:15 Speaker 10: hip scenes of like you know, just like indie rock

15:17 Speaker 10: scenes of people that are just kind of doing the thing.

15:19 Speaker 10: It's kind of like, you know, trying to work our

15:21 Speaker 10: way into and become a part of it.

15:22 Speaker 5: You know.

15:23 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think too, with your sound, you know,

15:25 Speaker 6: you can probably fit in a lot of different kinds

15:27 Speaker 6: of places, different kinds of scenarios. You know, you're not

15:29 Speaker 6: limited to you know, like if you play in a

15:32 Speaker 6: metal band, uh, you know, you can only play certain

15:35 Speaker 6: kinds of places, you know. And on the other end

15:37 Speaker 6: of the extremes, of course, if you're a singer songwriter

15:40 Speaker 6: just doing a solo acoustic thing, you can play literally

15:41 Speaker 6: almost anywhere. But but I think you guys are in

15:44 Speaker 6: a with your sound, You're in a really good You're

15:46 Speaker 6: in a really good position that way.

15:47 Speaker 8: So it's the thing I was going to say before too,

15:51 Speaker 8: is like, you know, with the way the way Spotify

15:54 Speaker 8: and the way social media work now is you can

15:56 Speaker 8: actually reach a very large audience without having a go

16:00 Speaker 8: are So you know that, and and that's a constantly

16:03 Speaker 8: evolving situation because the algorithms change, and and what the

16:07 Speaker 8: social media's favor changes.

16:09 Speaker 9: But you know that.

16:11 Speaker 8: And another thing too is, like I heard someone put

16:13 Speaker 8: it one time, win your hometown, because a lot of

16:17 Speaker 8: people think like, oh, I got this great band, I

16:18 Speaker 8: got to get to Nashville asap, and it's like, again,

16:21 Speaker 8: that's one approach, but I think winning the hometown, I

16:24 Speaker 8: mean I feel like that's something you know, we've we've

16:26 Speaker 8: gained some some solid followers. They may not make it

16:30 Speaker 8: out to every single show, but we know they're out there, right.

16:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, when you're hometown. Yeah, that's a good way

16:35 Speaker 6: of putting it. Yeah, it makes sense.

16:37 Speaker 10: It's funny sometimes like I have some like just someone

16:39 Speaker 10: like my closest friends, they're like, you know, sometimes you'd

16:43 Speaker 10: expect your friend, but oh, like it's great.

16:44 Speaker 7: But like I have some friends that come.

16:45 Speaker 10: Up to you and they're like they're like, dude, I've

16:47 Speaker 10: played back to you like one hundred and fifty times

16:50 Speaker 10: on my Spotify rap. Like they're like this, you know,

16:52 Speaker 10: they're like singing lyrics to me, and I'm just like,

16:54 Speaker 10: it's very funny. Just be like, you know, you're just

16:56 Speaker 10: like a really close friend to me. But to see

16:58 Speaker 10: like the genuine support of that, and then like the

17:00 Speaker 10: genuine love of a song. It's just like, you know,

17:02 Speaker 10: it's cool, like like you're saying, just kind of like

17:04 Speaker 10: kind of hometown court thing. Just feels like, you know,

17:06 Speaker 10: it's nice to feel like you got people behind you

17:08 Speaker 10: doing that stuff, like right right.

17:10 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly, Well we should. Uh so let's play

17:13 Speaker 6: another one. And one of you had said suggested we

17:17 Speaker 6: play something from back view from the previous Uh yeah.

17:23 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, let's do the song back to You that

17:26 Speaker 9: Mike just alluded to. Good timing.

17:28 Speaker 6: Oh, here we go. I found it, okay, And if

17:31 Speaker 6: you are just joining us, we have slim volume here

17:34 Speaker 6: with us live in studio, and uh, I'm trying to

17:38 Speaker 6: download this and it's uh not happening for me as

17:41 Speaker 6: quickly as i'd like.

17:42 Speaker 8: What you're here on this track is the uh, like

17:46 Speaker 8: I said before, the flip side of the folk rock thing,

17:49 Speaker 8: I have a more indie rock forward tune which was uh,

17:55 Speaker 8: you know, kind of based off a little progression and

17:57 Speaker 8: riff that Mike brought in that was worked into into

18:02 Speaker 8: a song. So yeah, just a good, good dynamic on

18:07 Speaker 8: this one.

18:08 Speaker 6: All right, let's give this a listen. This is back

18:10 Speaker 6: to You. The band is slim volume.

18:19 Speaker 2: I think we come too far to turn up back

18:23 Speaker 2: right now.

18:26 Speaker 4: I think the rook's too hard. I'm the best when

18:29 Speaker 4: you're not around.

18:33 Speaker 12: I spent the last fewnights just about an hour to sleep.

18:40 Speaker 3: Just wait, go you there.

18:48 Speaker 4: Said, when you tis up there, say I.

18:55 Speaker 3: Got a show in my face here.

19:00 Speaker 12: I spent the last fair nights just about an hour's race.

19:12 Speaker 12: May I been.

19:13 Speaker 2: Trying maybe for young.

19:19 Speaker 12: Man.

19:19 Speaker 2: I try, but I can't.

19:22 Speaker 3: Be trying away back to you, back to you, back.

19:32 Speaker 4: To me, come home feeling red. Time's come in soon, apock.

19:45 Speaker 12: The lift tip before a horseman a running full.

19:52 Speaker 4: I spent the last fever nights just.

19:54 Speaker 2: About trying to breathe.

19:58 Speaker 4: An baby, follow.

20:01 Speaker 12: You like God spoken, crying hot check finding a way back.

20:14 Speaker 2: Back to me? That the crying baby for you. May

20:49 Speaker 2: but hot chick fining away, volunting.

20:56 Speaker 6: That is back to you. That is slim volume. Everything

20:59 Speaker 6: you guys do is so catchy, like if you like,

21:02 Speaker 6: if you're if you listen to that and you're not

21:03 Speaker 6: tapping along, you're probably in a coma or something. That's

21:07 Speaker 6: like the and it's like the perfect pop indie song.

21:11 Speaker 6: It's it's just it's it's perfect.

21:14 Speaker 3: Thank you.

21:14 Speaker 6: Yeah, you're you're, You're welcome. It is it is well

21:17 Speaker 6: earned if you are just joining us a slim volume

21:20 Speaker 6: is here with us live in studio on this uh

21:23 Speaker 6: Saturday morning, and uh that one must go over well

21:26 Speaker 6: live too, I would imagine. I would imagine that gets

21:28 Speaker 6: a pretty pretty big response. Yeah, that one's been successful.

21:31 Speaker 8: I will say selfishly though that lyric that the the

21:35 Speaker 8: vocal at the end is stretching my capabilities.

21:38 Speaker 6: Yeah, And so it's a tricky one.

21:40 Speaker 8: It's kind of like a there's a famous story of

21:42 Speaker 8: the of the Eagles of Randy Meisner, who wrote a

21:45 Speaker 8: What's What's take it to the Limit and he hated

21:49 Speaker 8: singing it because it was so hard for him to

21:51 Speaker 8: sing and everyone expected him to deliver it night after night.

21:55 Speaker 8: So I know it's not quite Randy Meisner level, but

21:58 Speaker 8: it is similar that I wrote myself.

22:01 Speaker 6: Into a corner a little bit with that line. Well,

22:03 Speaker 6: do you know the story of when he got into

22:07 Speaker 6: Meiser got into a huge argument with Don Henley about

22:11 Speaker 6: they were backstage one night at a show and Meisner

22:13 Speaker 6: didn't want to sing that song, yeah, because he didn't

22:15 Speaker 6: feel up to it. He'd been partying too much or

22:17 Speaker 6: so right, and Henley was furious, and I think I

22:20 Speaker 6: think that there might have even been uh, they might

22:22 Speaker 6: have thrown hands or pushed and shoved or something.

22:25 Speaker 9: That's surprising knowing Don Henley. Usually he's so level headed.

22:29 Speaker 8: Yeah, it hasn't come to hands throwing yet, but it

22:31 Speaker 8: has been one that I will say that one. That

22:33 Speaker 8: one is one where if the audience doesn't seem like

22:37 Speaker 8: they're gonna appreciate it, then it's really tricky because if

22:40 Speaker 8: the audience is responding, I can sing it yeah, no problem. Yeah,

22:44 Speaker 8: And that's kind of the the blessing and the curse

22:46 Speaker 8: of being a singer, I guess, right.

22:48 Speaker 10: Right to pour pour your heart out in like a

22:50 Speaker 10: you know, like a half empty room of people, just

22:53 Speaker 10: like you know, like eating a cheeseburger.

22:54 Speaker 7: Try to push that out. It's just kind of like,

22:56 Speaker 7: you know, I could see that being difficult.

22:58 Speaker 6: Yeah, I can see that.

23:00 Speaker 9: Yeah.

23:00 Speaker 6: Yeah. Are there any other songs where you kind of

23:02 Speaker 6: push that?

23:03 Speaker 8: No, I mean, i'd say that's the trickiest one. I

23:06 Speaker 8: think Jake has a couple.

23:07 Speaker 9: Really, there's probably some. There's a lot of songs where

23:09 Speaker 9: we will sing in harmony and I'll sing a higher

23:13 Speaker 9: part and like sometimes I'll be like, guys, can we

23:16 Speaker 9: do that one a little later? Can we do that

23:19 Speaker 9: like third or fourth bit? Yeah, so I'm not quite

23:22 Speaker 9: as creaky. That makes sense, So yeah, it happens for sure,

23:25 Speaker 9: that makes sense.

23:26 Speaker 8: I think like with the new album though, like we're

23:29 Speaker 8: trying to kind of strike I feel like we struck

23:31 Speaker 8: a little bit more of a balance between that energy

23:34 Speaker 8: that we just heard and then the first song we

23:36 Speaker 8: heard and if you could imagine what those would sound

23:38 Speaker 8: like if they had a baby's kind of what a

23:41 Speaker 8: lot of that the new album is where it's got

23:43 Speaker 8: that pop indipop energy, but it's not so like in

23:47 Speaker 8: your face, which is a little outside of kind of

23:50 Speaker 8: like what our sound is to begin with. But I mean,

23:53 Speaker 8: we're not going to stop ourselves from writing something like that.

23:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Do you guys play songs out that

24:00 Speaker 6: you haven't recorded yet or yeah? Because of Matt you know,

24:03 Speaker 6: well yeah, I think we talked about that earlier. Actually,

24:05 Speaker 6: now that I recall you, because you some of the

24:07 Speaker 6: songs that are going to be on the album, you're

24:10 Speaker 6: playing out right, So yeah, is it a lot of them?

24:12 Speaker 12: Is it?

24:12 Speaker 6: Is it quite a few of them that you're playing.

24:15 Speaker 9: We're finally in the position when we're catching up a

24:17 Speaker 9: little bit, but there's a lot like we're always writing stuff,

24:20 Speaker 9: so it is tough. Like the moment we catch up

24:23 Speaker 9: is the moment there's a handful of new songs. Mike,

24:25 Speaker 9: looks like you had something.

24:26 Speaker 6: No.

24:27 Speaker 10: I was just gonna say, like with the new album,

24:28 Speaker 10: like I feel like we've played like, you know, probably

24:30 Speaker 10: a majority majority of it at least once or twice

24:32 Speaker 10: live in a live setting. You don't mean just like yeah,

24:35 Speaker 10: like I was saying, it's just a great way to

24:36 Speaker 10: kind of like flush things out.

24:37 Speaker 9: You know.

24:37 Speaker 10: It's one thing like you do it in a practice

24:39 Speaker 10: from all the time stuff like that, and then like

24:41 Speaker 10: sometimes just playing in a different setting for like a

24:43 Speaker 10: freshet of years, it's kind of like might give you

24:45 Speaker 10: a fresh idea, like a new like kind of a

24:47 Speaker 10: view on the song to kind of like take that

24:49 Speaker 10: into the studio and just be like I like, you know,

24:51 Speaker 10: playing this live, I heard that this could be kind

24:53 Speaker 10: of like a cool thing to add to it. Like,

24:55 Speaker 10: you know, sometimes you hear like what is missing when

24:57 Speaker 10: you're playing live that like you don't have the ability

24:59 Speaker 10: to to do with like four people, you know what

25:01 Speaker 10: I mean.

25:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, Well I would imagine too, like like happened

25:05 Speaker 6: with Big Plans, you know, with the the ending, which

25:08 Speaker 6: which turned out to be kind of a surprise. I mean,

25:10 Speaker 6: does that happen with other songs too, Like when you're

25:12 Speaker 6: recording with somebody at the caliber of Eric Sotter, I

25:14 Speaker 6: would imagine that that. Sometimes there are some some surprises

25:18 Speaker 6: where it's like, well, okay, this this is not what

25:21 Speaker 6: we thought it was going to be when we were

25:22 Speaker 6: playing it out at live shows. Now it's the song

25:25 Speaker 6: is like do you ever have something that's changed significantly?

25:28 Speaker 6: Or it's like, wow, this is really different.

25:30 Speaker 8: We've gotten We've just gotten better in the studio too,

25:33 Speaker 8: and being able to use our time more effectively, and yeah,

25:38 Speaker 8: just throw ideas around and not feel like if something

25:40 Speaker 8: gets put down, like it has to stay like maybe

25:43 Speaker 8: we'll use it somehow or Yeah, surprises abound.

25:47 Speaker 9: There's little things that pop up brand new in the

25:49 Speaker 9: studio all the time. Like on the first track you

25:51 Speaker 9: played Big Plans, there's a guitar solo thing at the

25:55 Speaker 9: end with those bent guitar notes and stuff that Mike played. Yeah,

25:59 Speaker 9: and I don't think we ad that going in to

26:01 Speaker 9: the studio at all or some version of it.

26:04 Speaker 10: No, not not even there was just kind of like

26:06 Speaker 10: like that intro and that ending of that song was

26:09 Speaker 10: something Trent had introduced because it was a tune that

26:11 Speaker 10: Jake had brought and kind of flushed out with like

26:13 Speaker 10: me and Johnny like just jamming at my house one day.

26:16 Speaker 10: So as Trent added these like this new intro in

26:19 Speaker 10: outro so to speak, you know, we brought it into

26:21 Speaker 10: the studio and then working with that guy James Palco

26:24 Speaker 10: that he mentioned earlier. He's just a great kind of

26:26 Speaker 10: producer mindset where like you know, multi instrumentalist kind of guy.

26:29 Speaker 10: So like I was like, you know, I had the

26:31 Speaker 10: ideas of something to do with Ben's but he really

26:33 Speaker 10: like sat with me and helped shape like this like

26:35 Speaker 10: the rhythmic aspect of that and like have it be

26:37 Speaker 10: like something that just like kind of fit well over

26:40 Speaker 10: you know, two dudes singing still to make it be

26:42 Speaker 10: like it's repetitive and it's like easy to kind of

26:45 Speaker 10: lock into, but it gives space for those like you know,

26:47 Speaker 10: Jake and Trent to sing and do their thing.

26:49 Speaker 6: Yeah. So yeah, oh excellent and then so guys probably

26:56 Speaker 6: don't have any kind of an eta yet right on

26:58 Speaker 6: when when you think you're gonna have that out or

27:00 Speaker 6: the new album.

27:01 Speaker 7: I think it'll be kind of like a slow drip

27:03 Speaker 7: of singles.

27:03 Speaker 10: Maybe do like two or three singles throughout the year,

27:06 Speaker 10: maybe like you know, like late winter and then like

27:08 Speaker 10: mid spring or something, and then maybe one closer to

27:10 Speaker 10: the fall, and then like you know, aim for like

27:12 Speaker 10: maybe like October November.

27:14 Speaker 7: Okay, seems it seems like a cozy time to drop.

27:16 Speaker 7: People are kind of hunkering back down, you know.

27:18 Speaker 6: Yeah exactly.

27:19 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of the target we're shooting at,

27:22 Speaker 8: is like fall time.

27:24 Speaker 6: Okay.

27:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, just like my said, a couple of singles

27:27 Speaker 8: throughout the year. Yeah, we have you know, it's in

27:30 Speaker 8: it's in progress right now. We have maybe like five

27:33 Speaker 8: or six days booked with Eric to finish it up,

27:36 Speaker 8: kind of spread out over the next couple of months.

27:38 Speaker 8: So okay, but you know, it basically comes down to

27:41 Speaker 8: one day equals one song, Okay, yeah, after you've already

27:46 Speaker 8: tracked drums. Yeah, so we may need a couple of

27:49 Speaker 8: additional days, but yeah, yeah, but you know it's worth

27:52 Speaker 8: it because I think, you know, with with recording more

27:54 Speaker 8: and and and and I've done this inother bands too.

27:57 Speaker 8: It's like I hate the feeling of recording something and

27:59 Speaker 8: then a year later going back and be like, damn, yeah,

28:01 Speaker 8: I wish we did this a little different. So, you know,

28:04 Speaker 8: I think everything is the stars have aligned nicely on this.

28:08 Speaker 8: I think we're all we're on the right mindset to

28:10 Speaker 8: make this like our best material.

28:13 Speaker 9: Yeah.

28:13 Speaker 6: Yeah.

28:14 Speaker 10: To tack on to what you were asking earlier about

28:17 Speaker 10: like you know, you know, in terms of the end

28:20 Speaker 10: of big plans, having like the organ and having elements

28:22 Speaker 10: that like you know, are things that like we don't

28:24 Speaker 10: we don't yet have the ability to bring live.

28:26 Speaker 7: And stuff like that.

28:27 Speaker 10: I think this, this new and up and up and

28:29 Speaker 10: coming album is like there's like a lot of that.

28:31 Speaker 10: Like there's a lot of like really cool elements that

28:33 Speaker 10: like we're you know, getting into or like dabbling with

28:36 Speaker 10: and like sounds and like textures and like you know,

28:39 Speaker 10: like synth sounds and things to really kind of like

28:41 Speaker 10: you know, just like elevate it. And as Trend was saying,

28:43 Speaker 10: like getting more comfortable in the studio and like kind

28:45 Speaker 10: of like understanding how we can utilize our time and

28:47 Speaker 10: really like before we even go in the studio, be

28:49 Speaker 10: like all right, like you know, sitting down and kind

28:51 Speaker 10: of using those drums that we got to like make

28:53 Speaker 10: demos out of, and be like all right, like let's

28:55 Speaker 10: mess around with some extra some textural things on guitar

28:58 Speaker 10: or even like add some keys over it and stuff

29:00 Speaker 10: like that, like things that really like, you know, being

29:02 Speaker 10: prepared for in the studio, Like, hey, it's gonna save

29:04 Speaker 10: you time and money, you know what I mean, Because

29:06 Speaker 10: like it's kind of like, you know, to go in

29:07 Speaker 10: the studio and just be like all right, look, let's

29:09 Speaker 10: noodle on a synthesizer for like the next hour, and

29:11 Speaker 10: like you know, you know what I mean. It's just

29:13 Speaker 10: kind of like, you know, it's kind of like can

29:14 Speaker 10: be kind of productive at a certain point.

29:16 Speaker 5: Yeah.

29:16 Speaker 10: So so kind of like you know, just being a

29:17 Speaker 10: little bit more like ready and like you know, like

29:19 Speaker 10: having ideas in mind and like exploring new sounds and

29:22 Speaker 10: stuff like that is definitely something that's coming up in

29:24 Speaker 10: the new album.

29:25 Speaker 6: Yeah No, but as you as you refer to though,

29:27 Speaker 6: being prepared it is so important and because you don't

29:30 Speaker 6: want to be uh, it's when you said, you know,

29:33 Speaker 6: noodleing on a on a keyboard for an hour. It

29:35 Speaker 6: reminded me of if you ever watch any documentaries of bands,

29:39 Speaker 6: you know, famous bands in the recording studio like the

29:41 Speaker 6: Eagles or whomever. It always looks like and if it's

29:44 Speaker 6: a band that's super famous, then they have millions and

29:46 Speaker 6: millions of dollars they can afford to do it this way.

29:49 Speaker 6: But sometimes in these documentaries it looks like the band

29:52 Speaker 6: it looks like they're just writing the album in the

29:54 Speaker 6: studio as they're recording it, you know, and you kind of,

29:58 Speaker 6: if you're the typical brooke musician, you're kind of sitting

30:00 Speaker 6: there watching, going how do they even how do they

30:02 Speaker 6: even do it this way? Yeah? You know, I said,

30:06 Speaker 6: you won't afford to just sit there and hey, I

30:09 Speaker 6: had an idea for a song today and they're already

30:11 Speaker 6: well into the album and it's like, so now they're

30:13 Speaker 6: just writing this new song.

30:15 Speaker 9: It's one of those things where we can do that,

30:16 Speaker 9: but it's within the constraints of we better figure the

30:19 Speaker 9: idea out in a twenty minutes. If we don't, it's

30:22 Speaker 9: time to move on. If we're going to abandon this

30:24 Speaker 9: marimba part now since we haven't figured it out, you know.

30:28 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly, well we should Uh, I'll let you

30:32 Speaker 6: guys pick we should play another one. I'm dying here

30:34 Speaker 6: another one. Like I said, I love your sound.

30:37 Speaker 9: Ye just think on it.

30:38 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, would you either jump back to like

30:40 Speaker 10: a like a big plans and do like a lay

30:42 Speaker 10: laying low or like you know, I know, last time

30:44 Speaker 10: we were here we did the running thing.

30:46 Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, that could be kind of a nice one.

30:48 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, laying laying low, lay low. We'll play that

30:51 Speaker 6: one next, all right. Uh, if you are just joining

30:55 Speaker 6: us Alive on Saturday morning, we have the band Slim

30:58 Speaker 6: Volume here with us Alive and Studio. This is their

31:01 Speaker 6: third appearance on the show. How By the way, while

31:03 Speaker 6: this is loading up, how long have you guys been around?

31:06 Speaker 6: You're kind of in the grand scheme of things. Still

31:08 Speaker 6: a fairly new band, right, oh yeah.

31:11 Speaker 9: And a half years, half years ish, going on, coming

31:14 Speaker 9: up to three soon? Yeah, twenty twenty two sometime is

31:17 Speaker 9: like I think formally when we started as a four

31:20 Speaker 9: piece band late twenty two? Does that sound correct to

31:24 Speaker 9: I'm looking to the other, to my historians.

31:26 Speaker 8: It's all a blur and the official biography on our website.

31:31 Speaker 8: Twenty twenty three was the mark of Oka of the start.

31:35 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, all right, Well let's give this a spin.

31:39 Speaker 6: This is Laying Low. The band is Slim Volume.

31:56 Speaker 3: Low.

31:58 Speaker 1: I'm looking over my shoulder.

32:03 Speaker 4: You're somewhere, need to.

32:05 Speaker 3: Be by wonderment?

32:09 Speaker 4: Where to go? Where nobody knows me?

32:17 Speaker 3: And I can't make memories in the songs that I say,

32:24 Speaker 3: who who?

32:51 Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm a ride, Sometimes I'm a round. Sometimes it

32:59 Speaker 5: takes some that just to get a long. Sometimes it's

33:06 Speaker 5: me and sometimes it's you. Sometimes it's too late.

33:13 Speaker 1: To call, but I want to.

33:18 Speaker 2: Pick up that.

33:19 Speaker 4: Phone, get on the ball.

33:24 Speaker 3: Somethings get old and some.

33:28 Speaker 4: Take some I used to.

33:34 Speaker 2: I know what it's true.

34:39 Speaker 6: I got so lost in that one. I didn't even

34:41 Speaker 6: notice we were at the end. That is Laying Low.

34:45 Speaker 6: That is Slim Volume. That was a good choice. Wow,

34:48 Speaker 6: that's really good. That song. It's just it's shimmers. I

34:51 Speaker 6: don't know how else to put it. It shimmers everything

34:54 Speaker 6: about it. It's just so good. And the way I

34:56 Speaker 6: love the harmonies and the way the guitar sounds, everything

34:59 Speaker 6: about that is really good. Uh, we have a Slim

35:01 Speaker 6: Volume live in studio with us if you're just shoining

35:03 Speaker 6: us on this uh this cold Saturday morning. But yeah,

35:07 Speaker 6: what a great track. Yeah, I'm curious, is that one

35:09 Speaker 6: of the more challenging ones that you've recorded. It sounds

35:12 Speaker 6: like just sonically there's a lot going on there and

35:15 Speaker 6: with the vocals, and is that one of the more

35:17 Speaker 6: challenging ones.

35:18 Speaker 9: Or now, I mean it's a really good question.

35:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean there's sort of a simplexity about it.

35:24 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's yeah. I feel like that one was one

35:26 Speaker 6: that we had been working on for a really long time.

35:28 Speaker 8: Yeah, but by the time it came to the studio,

35:30 Speaker 8: it felt pretty easy to get that one in.

35:32 Speaker 6: I feel like, at least for me.

35:34 Speaker 10: Yeah, really, yeah, that makes sense because like as I

35:37 Speaker 10: was listening to it, I was like, I was like,

35:39 Speaker 10: this song has been around for a long time. Okay,

35:41 Speaker 10: it's been it's been like, you know, kicking around and

35:43 Speaker 10: played a lot and played out live multiple times before

35:47 Speaker 10: it ever got recorded. So I kind of think it

35:49 Speaker 10: felt pretty organic for us going in the studio and

35:51 Speaker 10: kind of doing that, and then like that was like

35:53 Speaker 10: I feel like one of our first introductions into like

35:56 Speaker 10: adding like a lot of textual things to it, like

35:58 Speaker 10: because I don't know if you heard like this little

35:59 Speaker 10: key key's part in there and stuff, and there's some

36:02 Speaker 10: kind of like just nice little like guitar like little

36:04 Speaker 10: chimy things.

36:05 Speaker 6: That's what I mean. There's a lot going on in there.

36:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I think that was our first

36:09 Speaker 10: kind of real like attempt at trying to give it

36:11 Speaker 10: like a its own kind of specific sound versus just

36:14 Speaker 10: what we do live, which is like easy to record,

36:16 Speaker 10: you know what I mean, But that's just like what

36:18 Speaker 10: can we do to like elevate this?

36:19 Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, that's the thing.

36:21 Speaker 8: Sometimes you go record something in the studio the way

36:24 Speaker 8: that you perform it and rehearse it, and then you

36:27 Speaker 8: sit there listen back and you're like, wow, it sounds empty,

36:30 Speaker 8: you know, it's it's uh, it's just missing something.

36:33 Speaker 6: Yeah.

36:33 Speaker 8: So sometimes it's trying to figure out and that's probably

36:35 Speaker 8: the trickiest part on that one, just trying to figure out, like,

36:37 Speaker 8: all right, what's going to make this sound full and interesting?

36:39 Speaker 6: The whole time, I.

36:40 Speaker 10: Think we struggled, Sorry you say we struggled the most

36:43 Speaker 10: with what Trent just said. I think on Running Thin,

36:47 Speaker 10: Like Running Thin was one of those things. I think

36:48 Speaker 10: we literally re recorded, like, like, what's on that the

36:52 Speaker 10: third time?

36:52 Speaker 6: Yeah?

36:53 Speaker 9: Oh really. Yeah. It's funny because when you asked, was

36:56 Speaker 9: it hard to we're challenging to record that? My initial

37:00 Speaker 9: reaction was no, But then I was thinking back, and

37:02 Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure it's one of a few songs that

37:05 Speaker 9: we've recorded like two or three times. I think we

37:07 Speaker 9: did Laying Low before. Yeah, we did, and maybe felt

37:10 Speaker 9: like we got it at the time, and then listened back.

37:12 Speaker 9: Running Thin is another one where we heard what we

37:16 Speaker 9: kind of did and heard the finished product and just

37:18 Speaker 9: sort of felt like, I don't know, that doesn't feel

37:21 Speaker 9: done yet. Maybe yeah, And so yeah, it's one of

37:24 Speaker 9: those things We're fine. Like I think the shim shimmer

37:27 Speaker 9: is good. I'm glad that that comes across because I

37:29 Speaker 9: think that maybe was the missing ingredient in the sound of.

37:33 Speaker 6: That part of that though too.

37:34 Speaker 8: The shimmer is so these both these EPs, we sent

37:38 Speaker 8: them out to Wild Feather Studios, which is in Nashville,

37:43 Speaker 8: which is the guy that Mike got connected with in

37:46 Speaker 8: a blues band. He used the plant and this guy's

37:50 Speaker 8: a really good mixing engineer. So Running Laying Low what

37:55 Speaker 8: we just listened to that was I think the only

37:57 Speaker 8: song of the eight that he mixed that came back

38:01 Speaker 8: first try, like that was just the mix okay, And

38:04 Speaker 8: he added some of those shimmery elements. There's some like

38:07 Speaker 8: crystallization reverb in the vocals that really makes it blend. Yeah,

38:11 Speaker 8: he said it reminded him of Oasis. Yeah, and I

38:14 Speaker 8: think and I think that's where he pushed the mix

38:16 Speaker 8: a little bit, which I don't know if I can

38:18 Speaker 8: really attest.

38:19 Speaker 9: It's funny because I was thinking of that while we

38:22 Speaker 9: were listening to just Now, and I was like, this

38:23 Speaker 9: definitely sounds like Oasis this song. And that's what's funny

38:27 Speaker 9: about going into the studio or going through the whole

38:28 Speaker 9: mixing and mastering processes. I never thought that this song

38:33 Speaker 9: sounds like Oasis one time until it was to Zach

38:38 Speaker 9: who kind of turned it a little bit into an

38:40 Speaker 9: Oasis sign. Now I definitely hear it with the way

38:42 Speaker 9: the acoustic sounds and shimmers, to use your word again.

38:46 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, very cool. We have a slim

38:50 Speaker 6: volume here with us if you are just joining us

38:52 Speaker 6: talking with the guys, and do you have how many

38:55 Speaker 6: how many songs as a band do you have how

38:57 Speaker 6: many original songs at this point, I think.

39:00 Speaker 10: Released on Spotify there's like seventeen okay, something like that,

39:03 Speaker 10: and then the you know, but plus plus the ten

39:07 Speaker 10: of the album that are like you know, just being

39:08 Speaker 10: recorded are like you know, quote unquote done yeah, and

39:11 Speaker 10: then like beyond that, like we have this folded, it's

39:13 Speaker 10: probably got like another like fifteen you know, like yeah,

39:16 Speaker 10: things that are like you know, if not half done,

39:19 Speaker 10: pretty close to being done. And then like you know,

39:21 Speaker 10: it's like Jake was saying, it's like right when you

39:23 Speaker 10: feel like you're caught up, you're like all right, like no,

39:25 Speaker 10: we're not right right, yeah, time to keep going and stuff,

39:28 Speaker 10: which is it's like a great like like problem to have,

39:30 Speaker 10: you know, it's like not a problem. It's like it's

39:32 Speaker 10: a blessing to have so much ideas kicking around and

39:35 Speaker 10: stuff like that.

39:35 Speaker 7: But it can't get a little overwhelming if you don't

39:37 Speaker 7: keep up with it.

39:38 Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, but you have a lot of music for

39:40 Speaker 6: a band that's you know again really hasn't been around

39:42 Speaker 6: that long. You know, You've you've got a lot of

39:44 Speaker 6: You've got a lot of music. Do you guys do

39:46 Speaker 6: any covers when you play live do you. Oh, yeah,

39:48 Speaker 6: what we do.

39:49 Speaker 8: Yeah, some of the gigs we play just require, you know,

39:52 Speaker 8: having cover material, and that's a constant kind of struggle

39:56 Speaker 8: of feeling like all right, we got we got enough

39:58 Speaker 8: cover material now, and then it's like, wow, no we don't,

40:01 Speaker 8: cause like these five songs don't really feel is good

40:04 Speaker 8: anymore to play, and so it's always kind of like

40:06 Speaker 8: mixing new ones in. Yeah, but I mean, yeah, we

40:08 Speaker 8: cover everything from you know, the Beatles to we got

40:12 Speaker 8: a Kings of Leon cover strokes. I mean, we you know,

40:16 Speaker 8: some early two thousand stuff, like a lot of classic

40:20 Speaker 8: rock stuff. But it's selective too. It's it's not like

40:24 Speaker 8: I don't know, we don't really just go play anything.

40:27 Speaker 9: Yeah, we don't have much metal in the repertoire right juncture.

40:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, we like to feel like we pick things that

40:32 Speaker 10: kind of like like make sense sonically, they like kind

40:35 Speaker 10: of fit the vibe of what we do. Yeah, sometimes

40:38 Speaker 10: it's kind of nice to switch it up with different things,

40:40 Speaker 10: like he's saying, like just generationally speaking, from like the

40:43 Speaker 10: Beatles to like in Beach Boys to doing like you know,

40:45 Speaker 10: more of a modern sonic death cab for QUT.

40:48 Speaker 9: Cover or whatever.

40:49 Speaker 10: It is like you know, try and like you know,

40:51 Speaker 10: appeal to all ears out there in the crowd kind

40:53 Speaker 10: of thing.

40:53 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty much an impossible task to appeal to

40:58 Speaker 8: everybody every game, of course. Yeah, and it's just like

41:03 Speaker 8: you know, one gig to the next. Things we think

41:04 Speaker 8: are gonna work well don't, and things we don't aren't

41:07 Speaker 8: sure about like work great. Yeah, you know, It's it's

41:10 Speaker 8: really funny that way, like just just something that comes

41:12 Speaker 8: to minds like the Jackson Brown.

41:13 Speaker 6: Song Somebody's Baby, Somebody's Baby.

41:16 Speaker 8: I feel like that crushes like everywhere, no matter where,

41:20 Speaker 8: or it's a great song.

41:21 Speaker 6: It's a great song.

41:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's the platonic mean of a song. People like it.

41:26 Speaker 8: So it's just it's just trying to find about thirty

41:30 Speaker 8: songs like that that we can be tight on.

41:34 Speaker 7: We we've been doing like a Sister Golden Hair. Yeah,

41:37 Speaker 7: that's just an awesome tune.

41:38 Speaker 10: Like yeah, I think we also like to pick songs

41:40 Speaker 10: that like we genuinely like love to play, you know

41:42 Speaker 10: what I mean. Like it's just kind of makes it

41:43 Speaker 10: like more genuine as a player, Like you know, if

41:46 Speaker 10: you just kind of like you really get into it

41:47 Speaker 10: and you just kind of like you know, you really

41:49 Speaker 10: do do your diligence to learn all the parts correctly

41:51 Speaker 10: and stuff like that, and like you know, doing the

41:52 Speaker 10: slide over sister Golden Hair, it's just like, you know,

41:54 Speaker 10: like that must be that's great, you know what I mean,

41:57 Speaker 10: Like you see people get pumped up about it. It's

41:58 Speaker 10: just like, yeah, who doesn't love that song?

42:01 Speaker 6: I mean, right, yeah. Do you do any covers that

42:04 Speaker 6: are kind of obscure that not everyone in the audience

42:06 Speaker 6: necessarily realizes is the cover?

42:08 Speaker 9: Well, we do a cover of this song called Sin

42:11 Speaker 9: City by the Flying Burrito Brothers, who was Graham Parson's

42:15 Speaker 9: band from back in the sixties. And the reason I

42:18 Speaker 9: mentioned that song is like, it's not I don't feel

42:20 Speaker 9: like it's that well known or in the mainstream. Really.

42:22 Speaker 9: It's one of those old kind of country folky songs

42:24 Speaker 9: that like, once you hear it feels like you've heard

42:26 Speaker 9: it or a song like it many times. Okay, And

42:28 Speaker 9: we recently recorded a cover for that that's coming out

42:31 Speaker 9: on a like a country music compilation. Oh really soon.

42:36 Speaker 6: I have no idea when.

42:37 Speaker 9: We don't know exactly when, but it'll be out and

42:40 Speaker 9: so that maybe that's something we can listen to on

42:41 Speaker 9: here sometime too.

42:42 Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, Yeah, Now how did you how did

42:45 Speaker 6: you get the opportunity to do.

42:46 Speaker 8: That, to be a part of that context that was

42:48 Speaker 8: actually so modern?

42:49 Speaker 6: Fools?

42:49 Speaker 8: Who has the album released shown a couple of weeks

42:51 Speaker 8: that we're playing it was a member from that band

42:54 Speaker 8: I was putting it together and just reached out to us.

42:57 Speaker 8: Oh wow, Yeah, I'm I'm not sure really any more

43:00 Speaker 8: details than that, honestly.

43:02 Speaker 6: Did did did they let you pick the what cover

43:05 Speaker 6: you want to do?

43:06 Speaker 1: Or?

43:06 Speaker 9: Yeah? The idea was outlaw country? Also you know at

43:09 Speaker 9: Chris Christofferson, Willie Nelson, anything in that. Yeah.

43:14 Speaker 6: Really, have you guys ever been on Rob show? Granted

43:17 Speaker 6: state of mind?

43:18 Speaker 8: I have as an individual, like as a as myself.

43:21 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, as a political candidate.

43:25 Speaker 6: No, No, I was just curious because when you said

43:27 Speaker 6: out lack Country, my first thought was a Rob Rob

43:29 Speaker 6: has a lot of bands on his show. Does that

43:32 Speaker 6: you guys? You guys would be great on Rob show too? Yeah?

43:35 Speaker 8: I think it's not scheduled, but yeah, I got I

43:38 Speaker 8: met Rob just like a few months ago. Yeah, I

43:41 Speaker 8: went to his open mic, yeah, pork City, Yeah, and

43:44 Speaker 8: I had never come across him, and I was mind

43:47 Speaker 8: blown because we just know we both know like the

43:49 Speaker 8: same mutual people. Yeah, yeah, I couldn't believe it. We

43:51 Speaker 8: had never crossed paths. Yeah, but the band will definitely

43:54 Speaker 8: be on his show at some point.

43:55 Speaker 6: Yeah. And have you guys played at Pemworks City Limits.

43:58 Speaker 8: I played there for like a solo show. But yeah,

44:02 Speaker 8: he wants to have us.

44:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, good, Yeah, I can imagine that. Yeah, that's

44:05 Speaker 6: such a that's such a cool room to Rob is.

44:07 Speaker 6: Rob is doing amazing things. And of course a plug

44:10 Speaker 6: for a show he knows, Scranted State of Mind Fridays

44:12 Speaker 6: at six pm right here at w M and H.

44:14 Speaker 6: So yeah, he does a he does a lot for

44:16 Speaker 6: the scene.

44:17 Speaker 7: Now.

44:18 Speaker 6: That's cool though about the country compilation, but you don't

44:20 Speaker 6: know when it's gonna be out sometime sometime this year

44:23 Speaker 6: though it was supposed to like be out now.

44:25 Speaker 8: And I think with anything like that, when you have

44:27 Speaker 8: ten different bands all submitting, it gets a little delayed.

44:30 Speaker 9: Someone is in the precarious position of having to email

44:33 Speaker 9: and track down ten different musicians right or flighty on

44:37 Speaker 9: the best of So, no, I can I.

44:41 Speaker 6: Can see where that would where that would be the case. Now,

44:43 Speaker 6: what about uh so is the show of the seventeenth?

44:46 Speaker 6: Is that the next show you guys are playing? Yeah,

44:49 Speaker 6: and then after that do you have like what, what's

44:53 Speaker 6: what's winter like for in terms of live shows? Is

44:56 Speaker 6: the are you gonna be kind of active?

44:58 Speaker 8: Or yeah, we'll be at Two Share a couple of

45:01 Speaker 8: times we'll be at Do we have a strange brew book?

45:05 Speaker 7: No, I don't think there's any strange strange.

45:08 Speaker 9: Two Shares on Union Street in Manchester. For those who

45:10 Speaker 9: don't know, it's a brewery. Yeah, worth checking out with

45:12 Speaker 9: us or without because it's yeah, they make good local beer.

45:15 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean slim Volume band dot com.

45:18 Speaker 8: You know, it's got all the details for anyone who

45:20 Speaker 8: wants to track us down. But yeah, yeah, I mean

45:24 Speaker 8: it's funny, like, you know, we got ten or twelve

45:26 Speaker 8: gigs book. I can't recall them off the top of

45:28 Speaker 8: my head.

45:29 Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, No, it sounds like you're off to a

45:30 Speaker 6: strong start for the new year. I always ask too,

45:32 Speaker 6: because you know a lot of bands they kind of

45:33 Speaker 6: slow down in winter, or they've focused on writing and recording,

45:37 Speaker 6: and then you know, I see some I know bands

45:40 Speaker 6: who only want to really be active during the summer.

45:44 Speaker 9: But oh, another one that just comes to mind, Matt,

45:47 Speaker 9: now that you say it is we're playing Auspicious Brew

45:49 Speaker 9: in Dover in February believe that's on the fifteenth. Okay,

45:53 Speaker 9: that's with Kara Holbert Howe as a singer songwriter from

45:56 Speaker 9: the Sea Coast area. And then tin Fish is another

45:59 Speaker 9: band from out in the kind of Portsmouth Dover area.

46:02 Speaker 9: So that's gonna be a fun one.

46:03 Speaker 6: Oh, very good, very good. Yeah, And do you guys

46:06 Speaker 6: try to play a lot of shows on the Sea

46:07 Speaker 6: Coast because I would imagine what you know, with the

46:09 Speaker 6: U n H crowd and everything, you know, you guys

46:11 Speaker 6: would be very well received.

46:13 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's definitely a different kind of scene and vibe

46:18 Speaker 9: on the Sea coast. So yeah, I mean we try

46:20 Speaker 9: to get out there. We've played Dover and Portsmouth a

46:22 Speaker 9: number of times. Good the press room, you know that

46:25 Speaker 9: some of these ventues that they have great sound there,

46:27 Speaker 9: you know, so excellent.

46:28 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's very good, very good. Well, guys, we

46:31 Speaker 6: are approaching the top of the hour, so I'll again

46:35 Speaker 6: I'll let you pick what we will play to end

46:40 Speaker 6: the segment today. Whatever whatever you guys want.

46:43 Speaker 4: To go with.

46:43 Speaker 6: I've certainly enjoyed everything that you've chosen so far.

46:46 Speaker 7: You want to like KPOS cool just for kind of

46:49 Speaker 7: like you know S's and G's on that one.

46:53 Speaker 6: That sounds good, that's going to be on the back

46:55 Speaker 6: to you. You'll go back to that one.

46:58 Speaker 9: So this track will be different in that you will

47:00 Speaker 9: not hear my voice nor we hear Trent's voice.

47:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, your instrumental.

47:04 Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually had listened to this one on on

47:07 Speaker 6: band camp and yeah, it's fun. It's fun. Uh So,

47:11 Speaker 6: Slim Volume guys, thank you again so much. And slim

47:13 Speaker 6: Volume dot com is the web Slim Volume band. Oh,

47:16 Speaker 6: slim Volume Band dot com. Thank you very very good.

47:20 Speaker 6: And Jenny before we go to you want to plug

47:22 Speaker 6: your website.

47:23 Speaker 11: Of course you can check me out in my creativity

47:26 Speaker 11: projects at Gencoffee dot com.

47:28 Speaker 4: J E N N C O F F E I

47:31 Speaker 4: dot com.

47:31 Speaker 6: And by the way, uh also keep an eye on

47:34 Speaker 6: you know you've got your you've been doing a lot

47:36 Speaker 6: of media appearances and you're about to be on a

47:39 Speaker 6: pretty big podcast. Yeah, should we should we mention which

47:43 Speaker 6: one status coup you guys know Status cup?

47:46 Speaker 11: Well you will, baby, Yes, we're taping tomorrow and I

47:52 Speaker 11: don't know the exact date.

47:53 Speaker 6: This this one's a big deal. So very proud of

47:55 Speaker 6: very proud of you. Wall Street Journal was pretty big.

47:59 Speaker 6: But that was pretty that was that was huge.

48:02 Speaker 8: I was like shocked us going through the Facebook band

48:05 Speaker 8: feed and I saw you reshared. That was like, well

48:07 Speaker 8: no BBC oh.

48:09 Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yep, yep, causing a little trouble here on there.

48:13 Speaker 11: As always we need do you have me any other way?

48:15 Speaker 6: We need a good trouble. Thank you for everyone who

48:18 Speaker 6: joined us today. Of course doctor No and that was awesome. Yes,

48:22 Speaker 6: doctor No is wonderful and Scarecrow Hill and of course

48:24 Speaker 6: Slim Volume guys, thank you again, Thank you Matt absolutely

48:29 Speaker 6: and we will close with this u k PO seven.

48:31 Speaker 6: This is Slim Volume.

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51:49 Speaker 13: would be sound yeah, and make some memories to forget

51:52 Speaker 13: in the morning.

51:53 Speaker 4: And it feels like everything changes, but the people.

51:57 Speaker 3: Around you keep a smile on the faces.

52:00 Speaker 13: I'm selling you, yeah, I'm selling yeah, I'm selling real.

52:05 Speaker 3: So let's safety down and you can sell him.

52:12 Speaker 4: Sound to you.

52:16 Speaker 3: Something, say anything, spices, the.

52:19 Speaker 12: Big born places, the water house splices, a dream recreated.

52:24 Speaker 12: He and me waiting, let's go back in the bass faces,

52:31 Speaker 12: the brick born places, the water house spaces, the dream

52:35 Speaker 12: created here and men, let's go back.

52:41 Speaker 1: In the.

52:54 Speaker 13: Shine like so hundred miles so the rise where the

52:59 Speaker 13: sun shining down on me and you can't seem to

53:03 Speaker 13: hide that smiles if we tell you your stobby or.

53:06 Speaker 3: Suits and it feels like geverything changes.

53:10 Speaker 13: But we've had that before, sour put through the paces.

53:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm selling you, Yeah, I'm selling you. Yeah, I'm

53:17 Speaker 3: selling you eating. So it's the same now and you can.

53:24 Speaker 2: Sell is it?

53:25 Speaker 4: Listen? So wabble you up.

53:30 Speaker 3: From that?

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53:36 Speaker 12: trek recreget killing me, kayu place, guys is the prickeople,

53:46 Speaker 12: the places NICs drily repregety t killing me. Let's a bucket.

54:11 Speaker 3: I was singing your song that'll bring you lung sni.

54:17 Speaker 14: That wur caving little world timers catch do you evening

54:20 Speaker 14: ride because it's ten past five on a freezing winters night.

54:29 Speaker 1: But with a smile, lit of faces, we'll dance.

54:32 Speaker 14: And so the sun dies that's well dancing. So the

54:35 Speaker 14: sonar rides, that's go dancing. So the sonar rides, let's

54:40 Speaker 14: go dancing. So the sonar rides, let's go dancing.

54:44 Speaker 12: So the sun rise, let's go dances a.

54:47 Speaker 3: Sorri let's go dancing sounds sunrise.

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54:55 Speaker 11: the park and Stat nineteen and the last.

54:57 Speaker 4: Times closes the people.

54:59 Speaker 3: The prices laces true brigate to.

55:05 Speaker 12: Me thing, Let's go back chas cat. This is the

55:11 Speaker 12: set form of places, the one that's not the tregant

55:15 Speaker 12: to change doing planet thing, Let's go back change