Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Space Casino
Speaker 1: Got the guys from Space Casino here. Welcome guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. Hey, very well, very well. So looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking with you, getting to know you guys.
Speaker 1: But we're going to play a track first, and this
Speaker 1: is the uh. This is the first single from the
Speaker 1: album Be So Cold. This is the first one, first single,
Speaker 1: yep and uh. And the album is what's the title again,
Speaker 1: Elephants in the Room. Elephants in the Room. I look
Speaker 1: forward to asking you more about that too. I love
Speaker 1: the cover. I love the cover, by the way, the
Speaker 1: cover is really cool. Oh, thank you, thank you absolutely.
Speaker 1: But we're going to give this a spin and then
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk with these guys. And this
Speaker 1: is Be So Cold. This is the band Space Casino.
Speaker 2: Scout your Gold, your meta, go through her the same
Speaker 2: what I said.
Speaker 3: I don't want don't stop them from.
Speaker 4: Your moll don't you need to be alone? No word
Speaker 4: m say gotta.
Speaker 2: Stott, gotta say though us through with through and said
Speaker 2: come no wanna tol side to side, don't know.
Speaker 4: That's just sources.
Speaker 3: Run the walls when your love don't don't don't do.
Speaker 4: Why you go pa sweet? Why you go? Pass?
Speaker 5: Cool? O, go pay socay, I never money.
Speaker 4: You don't see you tell me for you.
Speaker 6: Da, I said, Daniell like you myself, way loos going
Speaker 6: lot to stol back before all the stras gone.
Speaker 4: My roll lot go roll o facy. That so expressive.
Speaker 4: What because being so cool cool a little so.
Speaker 1: That is catchy as hell. That is so good. Thank
Speaker 1: you you got it. Absolutely. That is called be so called.
Speaker 1: That is the band Space Casino. And we've got uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, we've got Jared, Seamus and Nick with hear
Speaker 1: us today on the program. And who are we You
Speaker 1: guys are a four piece? Right?
Speaker 7: We're missing one guy, Yeah, we're missing one. He was
Speaker 7: uh he was still on the coach when we left
Speaker 7: the v n B.
Speaker 1: Well at least you know where he is. Though he's
Speaker 1: not missing or abducted by aliens or something, because you
Speaker 1: just never know, You just never know. So, so, guys,
Speaker 1: let's so Jared, let's start with you.
Speaker 8: What do you?
Speaker 1: What do you do in the band?
Speaker 9: I play guitar. I play guitar, and I sing and
Speaker 9: occasionally I do bad stand up on stage.
Speaker 1: Dud okay, very good, very good. And you, Seamus, I
Speaker 1: play the drums. You play the drums. Excellent, and Nick
Speaker 1: a little bit of bass, little bit of vocals.
Speaker 9: Yeah, a little bit of this than.
Speaker 1: That, sure, sure, very good. And what is the guy
Speaker 1: on the couch? What does he do?
Speaker 7: He plays guitar and sings too. Okay, all three of
Speaker 7: them like they kind of switch off. Oh that's con
Speaker 7: on like lead vocals, Like the one who writes the
Speaker 7: song is kind of the one that sings it.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, songwriters, and we pretty split it up pretty evenly.
Speaker 1: I always think that's that's kind of a cool dynamic
Speaker 1: to have, you know. I'm and now that I think
Speaker 1: about it, I you know, I played in a bunch
Speaker 1: of bands, but I never played in something where more
Speaker 1: than one person would would take a turn at lead vocals.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it probably gives you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of add some texture to your overall sound, right,
Speaker 1: you know, different voices different naturally, bringing different personalities. And
Speaker 1: then you know the songs are each their own kind
Speaker 1: of become their own character that way.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, exactly, and it kind of gives like you're
Speaker 7: like it, each of them has kind of their own vibe,
Speaker 7: like so on the album, there's nine songs, yeah, and
Speaker 7: they each there's three each from like, three from Nick,
Speaker 7: three from Jared, three from Chris, So it kind of
Speaker 7: you know, they they each have their own vibe and
Speaker 7: we kind of split them up, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah. It adds texture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it a lot. Do you do you deliberately
Speaker 1: split it three ways when you're when you're approaching picking
Speaker 1: the songs or does it just kind of work out
Speaker 1: that way?
Speaker 9: Yeah? When we're recording an album, we're like, all right,
Speaker 9: everyone picked three songs of yours that you want to
Speaker 9: present that we work on those for a long time.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. That's very democratic that way, too, right?
Speaker 9: I try, yeah, because I've been in a lot of
Speaker 9: bands before as well, and like it's not always like that,
Speaker 9: and especially if you're a drummer or rhythm section, they
Speaker 9: don't get a lot of say naturally right. So I
Speaker 9: feel like with this project, it was really I was
Speaker 9: determined to make it as democratic and free.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, between everyone.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. So obvious question two I got to
Speaker 1: ask up front where does the name come from? Because
Speaker 1: Space Casino is a pretty cool name. Where does it
Speaker 1: come from?
Speaker 7: So we uh, well, I I really love like the
Speaker 7: aesthetic of like space, and I also love gambling.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm the opposite. I like the aesthetic of casinos.
Speaker 9: I don't like amblies much, but I love space.
Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, basically a culmination of our two favorite things,
Speaker 10: celestial objects.
Speaker 9: And yeah okay, okay, both are a cold wasteland.
Speaker 7: Yeah, fair, all right, you can just really get away
Speaker 7: with you know, it's casinos are like it's the most degenerate.
Speaker 11: It Like, it's the casinos.
Speaker 7: They're so funny because like it'll be like an old
Speaker 7: lady sitting at a slought machine, like putting a putting
Speaker 7: her retirement into a slot machine. And then there's like
Speaker 7: like a rich millionaire businessman like all in the same
Speaker 7: all in the same spot, yeah, wasting money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I've only been in a casino once
Speaker 1: in my life because I'm not a gambler. But years
Speaker 1: ago I had gone to see a show at Mohegan's
Speaker 1: Sun and my friend Dan and I we were just like,
Speaker 1: he wasn't a gambler either, but I was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, if I was wanted to just like walk
Speaker 1: through a casino just to see if it's like if
Speaker 1: it really is like what you see on TV and
Speaker 1: in movies, and it kind of was, yeah, we just
Speaker 1: walked through it, but it was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't have any interest in gambling, but it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: to walk through a casino, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a it's a it's an experience, like the lights,
Speaker 7: the sound. I mean, they do it all on purpose,
Speaker 7: but yeah, it's like just just walking through a casino,
Speaker 7: you get, it's like a vibe, you know, it's yeah,
Speaker 7: it's an experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, totally. And where does a What about the
Speaker 1: name of the album Elephants in the Room. I'm curious
Speaker 1: about that too.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that was well that's Nick Nick's song. That's
Speaker 9: a line in a song by Nick.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, yes, Nick's song Spaces, which is also you know,
Speaker 7: because we're's space is you know, but he says elephants
Speaker 7: in the room at one point in the song. Then
Speaker 7: I think it was actually Jared's idea, like what if
Speaker 7: we named the album Elephants in the Room.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's the final song on the album. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 9: I get that at the end and kind of like yeah,
Speaker 9: you're like, oh, I get it, but it's not the
Speaker 9: name of the song, which is also I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is cool. Yeah, and I like the
Speaker 1: cover art too. Who did the cover art is? Did
Speaker 1: you that the cover art? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I did that, But it's really a photograph just with
Speaker 9: the colors adjusted and played with. So it's a photograph
Speaker 9: of a ceramic mask that we found.
Speaker 7: It will Yeah, yeah, that that like that mask we
Speaker 7: found and we were like, we were actually looking for
Speaker 7: stuff for like, we were like filming something, so we
Speaker 7: went to a Savers just to find like cool, fun
Speaker 7: cheap props, and then I saw that and we were like, whoa,
Speaker 7: this thing is awesome. Yeah, and then Jared took the
Speaker 7: picture and kind of and.
Speaker 9: I put the mask on top of an old symbol
Speaker 9: which reflected light in a cool way, and then I
Speaker 9: put like a little disco ball I had on the mask,
Speaker 9: and I just took a couple of pictures and then yeah,
Speaker 9: it looks like that now it just looks like a
Speaker 9: weird alien head coming out of a portal or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it's cool, it's cool. I dig it. Is that
Speaker 1: your first full length release as a band or yes,
Speaker 1: so we have.
Speaker 7: We had one EP out with like four songs, but
Speaker 7: this is our first full album.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, how long have you guys been together. It
Speaker 1: has spiks you know, been around for a while or.
Speaker 9: We've been playing for We've been playing together for probably
Speaker 9: like eight years. I think the Space Casino Project is.
Speaker 1: Like forty five years old.
Speaker 7: Five years yeah, yeah, well because we started the first
Speaker 7: like Space Casino show was like January twenty twenty, ok,
Speaker 7: and we were like, this is gonna be our year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we didn't.
Speaker 11: We didn't play again until like a year and a
Speaker 11: half later.
Speaker 9: But that club closed yeah yeah, yeah, the club.
Speaker 7: That club closed because of COVID. Yeah, and then we
Speaker 7: couldn't practice or do anything. But then then when places
Speaker 7: started opening back up, like twenty twenty one. We we've
Speaker 7: been going pretty steady since.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, good good, during the during the pandemic, like
Speaker 1: well like in twenty twenty when you guys, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: well what a way to start, huh yeah yeah, but
Speaker 1: we we.
Speaker 7: All we were even jamming together before that. We all
Speaker 7: went to the same high school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh cool.
Speaker 9: Yeah, actually probably longer than eight years then probably like.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean jamming together.
Speaker 7: They they they went to Amherst and then me and
Speaker 7: my my friend Scott, who was also a musician, like
Speaker 7: would I would drive up and party with them and Amherst.
Speaker 9: Yeah okay, yeah, jamming, drink and jam yeah all night.
Speaker 7: I got the I got the fun parts of college
Speaker 7: without without having to to actually learn anything.
Speaker 1: Without without the enormous loan.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Has it always been the same four guys? Is
Speaker 1: it always space?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: We had we had like our friend Scott was in
Speaker 9: the band's kind it was kind of like a rotating chairs,
Speaker 9: but yeah, kind of us three kind of always remain.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and and for the last we added Chris, but
Speaker 7: the guy the coach like a few years ago. But
Speaker 7: like this, this lineup of Space Casino has probably been
Speaker 7: like the most consistent.
Speaker 10: Like the four piece, Yeah, has been you know if
Speaker 10: we kind of started the Space Casino projects.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. And then yeah, yeah, you guys playing a
Speaker 1: lot of shows these days. Obviously you know where you're from,
Speaker 1: because we should say too you're from I forgot now,
Speaker 1: but it's Boston area, yeah yeah, yeah, South South Shore.
Speaker 1: But we play a lot in like.
Speaker 7: In like Cambridge, Somerville, like you know, yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 7: love we love going out to Worcester. Have you ever
Speaker 7: been to Rolfs Rock Diner?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, legendary. Yeah, yeah, that place is so cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we love playing out real. I haven't been there
Speaker 1: in a very long time, but yeah I used to
Speaker 1: when I was still playing in bands. Yeah, we would
Speaker 1: play there. Yeah, that's a great well Worster. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they there. Used to be a place there
Speaker 1: called the Atrium. I don't think that's there anymore, though,
Speaker 1: is it you heard of the Atrium?
Speaker 9: Familiar?
Speaker 1: I ever been though, Yeah, it's probably gone. But that
Speaker 1: was a really cool place in Wistard. There was a
Speaker 1: bunch of cool places. But but yeah, so you guys
Speaker 1: are But I can see where where with your like,
Speaker 1: do you feel with your sound that you're directly influenced
Speaker 1: by the Boston music scene, because you you sound like
Speaker 1: you're of that area, you know what I mean? Like, yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't know.
Speaker 9: We have a lot of different tastes. I feel like
Speaker 9: there's a lot more hardcore punk and that kind of
Speaker 9: energy Boston, but there's also a lot of fusion stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, where a lot of times we're like the softest,
Speaker 7: We're not the softest, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 7: we're we're usually like the lightest band on the bill
Speaker 7: most of most like, uh, there's a lot of really
Speaker 7: heavy like hardcore, like hoop punk like that sort of scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but but I mean I would say we
Speaker 1: are still you know, we're still.
Speaker 10: Slightly we're kind of like heavier. So I guess that
Speaker 10: makes sense coming from It's in the It's in the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 9: A big fan of Aerosmith in my younger days, not
Speaker 9: really these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is, well you hear you hear the
Speaker 1: same six songs on the radio, Yeah exactly, Like yeah, now,
Speaker 1: because I can imagine like the college crowd really getting
Speaker 1: into you guys, you know in the Boston area and
Speaker 1: and you know, college radio and all that. So, now,
Speaker 1: do any of you also play in other projects? Because
Speaker 1: it seems like everybody we have on the show lately,
Speaker 1: everybody's got a million different different projects in addition to
Speaker 1: whatever they're on the show to talk about.
Speaker 9: That is I had we have Yeah, actually couch Chris
Speaker 9: is playing in a acoustic duo with this uh with
Speaker 9: our friend Katie Okay, and they're really good. They're called
Speaker 9: the Stops. I guess we'll give him a shout out.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 9: They do covers and Originals acoustic duo. H that's nice.
Speaker 9: So he does that. I also I have I've played
Speaker 9: another projects before. It doesn't always sometimes you don't have
Speaker 9: time for two projects, right right if you really want
Speaker 9: to get into something. But I know people are in
Speaker 9: like seven projects.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh there's some I don't.
Speaker 7: I know, I don't. I don't get how how people
Speaker 7: there's so many drummers, like that's like the joke is like, oh,
Speaker 7: like my drummer's only in four other bands.
Speaker 1: You know that's been Yeah, that that comes up a
Speaker 1: lot on this show. Yeah, where every drummer is in
Speaker 1: multiple bands and I.
Speaker 7: Don't, I don't understand. I can I barely have time
Speaker 7: yeah to be in this band. Yeah, So shout out
Speaker 7: to to those drummers working hard out there. But oh
Speaker 7: yeah yeah space casino.
Speaker 12: For me.
Speaker 1: Yeah we do.
Speaker 9: We do sometimes make like short films we were talking
Speaker 9: about earlier, So that's kind of like a side thing
Speaker 9: we do.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tell me more about that. I'm curious. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we well we did one.
Speaker 9: We did forty eight hour film fests.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: So you you get like a you get a couple
Speaker 9: of like you get a line of dialogue to use,
Speaker 9: you get a character name and occupation, and then you
Speaker 9: get everybody gets a different genre. So literally you get
Speaker 9: on Friday, seven o'clock, you get a you get all
Speaker 9: your criteria, you have to use the movie, and you
Speaker 9: have to turn it in two days later at seven o'clock.
Speaker 9: So take a weekend. It's fun. Yeah, I'm very cool.
Speaker 9: And then so we you know, we made like a
Speaker 9: little week Our genre was like crime, yeah genre, so
Speaker 9: we kind of did our own little like Tarantino movie
Speaker 9: where oh wow, yeah, there's no gun involved.
Speaker 10: It's supposed to be like two minutes long, and we
Speaker 10: never have we never leave enough time actually edit and
Speaker 10: you know, yeah we buy everything. We come out with
Speaker 10: like a fifteen minute movie. Yeah that doesn't count for anything, right, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: We have fun making it. Yeah yeah. Yeah. The one
Speaker 1: of our my favorite one we did was.
Speaker 7: Is called the Florist Job, because there was that was
Speaker 7: the the occupation they gave us was florists. Okay, so
Speaker 7: it's like it's a florist that gets his wife is six,
Speaker 7: so it's involved in in being like a getaway driver.
Speaker 7: It's really ridiculous, ridiculous, yeah yeah, but it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: So what what happens to these if you know, if
Speaker 1: if it's too long to enter into the festival or whatever,
Speaker 1: I can't win anything, I guess. But you've done. Put
Speaker 1: them on YouTube. Yeah, yeah, they're on They're on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Channel is.
Speaker 9: Channel is Big Monday Films. That's like film.
Speaker 10: Okay, company name. Oh, I got to check that out. Yeah,
Speaker 10: there's a link on our on our website and our
Speaker 10: link tree. Okay, yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 9: Anyone's interested. Yeah, it's it's all four band members playing
Speaker 9: and playing different characters. It's really funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes you guys unique. You're definitely the first
Speaker 1: band we've ever had on the Show's like, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, we also make short films and we're all
Speaker 1: in the film. That's really cool. Yeah, really cool.
Speaker 11: And we put our we put our our music into
Speaker 11: the like I put us on the radio.
Speaker 1: That was smart. Yeah, I mean why wouldn't you? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's great. That's really cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's fun. We have a lot of fun
Speaker 7: making them. We still have to make it's funny. We've
Speaker 7: made like two short films, but we still haven't done
Speaker 7: our own music video.
Speaker 1: I think we got to do that next. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 9: That's funny, and he wants to help with that.
Speaker 1: Well, we should play another track we want to play.
Speaker 1: We talked about Summer Breeze.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 11: Play one next, this is a this is Nick's song.
Speaker 1: Okay, Nick on lead vocals on this one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the master mind of the band.
Speaker 1: All right, very good. If you are just joining us.
Speaker 1: We have Space Casino here with us in studio, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear another track from Elephants in the room
Speaker 1: and this is called Summer Breeze.
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Speaker 8: you have to store, you.
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Speaker 5: Tracks in.
Speaker 4: My out train? You sill some citys twisting.
Speaker 1: I love it. That is so good. That is called
Speaker 1: Summer Breeze. The band is a Space Casino and we've
Speaker 1: got three quarters of Space Casino here with us in studio.
Speaker 1: Uh and I love that. Nick. I love your voice
Speaker 1: on that too.
Speaker 9: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And that's actually you're you're playing the guitar solo on that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So I wrote the bass track at first, and
Speaker 10: we kind of layered up everything. I love how the
Speaker 10: harmonies come together on that chorus. It's just like very
Speaker 10: very vast, like dense sound, which is really nice. And
Speaker 10: then on top I just laid a quick, beautiful guitar solo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything about that is really good. How about that?
Speaker 1: Is that a crowd favorite when you play that one last?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Where did you
Speaker 1: record the album? Sounds incredible? Where so?
Speaker 7: Actually huge shout out Ugly Robot Studios, which is in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Speaker 15: Kevin Grady. Yeah, we really did a really nice job,
Speaker 15: did a great job. Yeah, we recorded the whole thing there.
Speaker 15: It's also right down the street from my house, so
Speaker 15: that's nice. Nice, But we recorded the whole thing there.
Speaker 15: We met him through he's he's in a couple of bands.
Speaker 15: We met him through like, you know, doing shows, and
Speaker 15: then he mentioned that like he because we met him
Speaker 15: at a he was doing a house show in his
Speaker 15: studio and then he ye, but but he's he's done
Speaker 15: it up. You know, it's it's it's well done. And yeah,
Speaker 15: they do a lot of shows there, and so we
Speaker 15: met him through like playing music, and he mentioned that
Speaker 15: he he records bands. So then we decided to give
Speaker 15: it a try, and then we were like, oh definitely,
Speaker 15: you know, because at first we were like, well, let's
Speaker 15: go in and see see how it is. But then
Speaker 15: after a couple of sessions, we were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 15: we're definitely doing the whole album.
Speaker 9: Yeah he gets it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, good good sound engineer.
Speaker 7: And also you know, gives good gives good pointers, but
Speaker 7: isn't like, you know, he's not trying to tell you,
Speaker 7: he's not trying to produce it, but you know, he'll
Speaker 7: throw out a suggestion usually it's a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah, there's so many options
Speaker 1: as far as you know, especially in your area where
Speaker 1: you guys are from. There's a you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: too because there was a time when people kind of
Speaker 1: predicted that recording studios would be a thing of the
Speaker 1: past at some point, because you have so many options now,
Speaker 1: like you can you can record at home and come
Speaker 1: up with something that sounds like it was done in
Speaker 1: a million dollar studio, you know. Yeah, but but in reality,
Speaker 1: I mean, recording studios are still thriving, even though a
Speaker 1: lot of musicians are finding other ways to record too.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, well the thing is, and we did we
Speaker 7: you know, we self recorded things in the past, and like,
Speaker 7: I mean, you're yeah, I mean I've heard, you know,
Speaker 7: some people are really good at it. But I think
Speaker 7: for us, we just wanted to focus the thing about
Speaker 7: when you're doing it yourself, you're also like, you're you're
Speaker 7: not just focusing on the music, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
Speaker 11: It's nice to when you just have somebody else doing
Speaker 11: it for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't have to.
Speaker 7: Worry about your dog crashing or you know, your your lexicon,
Speaker 7: you know. Yeah, So I think for us we were like, well, no,
Speaker 7: let's let's go to a studio, have them do it.
Speaker 7: That way, we can just focus on, you know, giving
Speaker 7: it the best takes we can, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel like nowadays you just
Speaker 9: have so many jobs as an artist, so you have
Speaker 9: to like your marketer, that's true, your producer, everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, if you can afford it to take away
Speaker 9: one of those jobs, I feel like it's worth it
Speaker 9: helps you focus on the other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, you plan to record with
Speaker 1: him again? In the future. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we're working on like a new LPH.
Speaker 1: You are, ok, Yeah, if you already started.
Speaker 9: We start recording like nothing nothing advertised yet, but on
Speaker 9: the horizon it will be coming out probably next year.
Speaker 1: Oh very cool, very cool. Yeah yeah, full album.
Speaker 7: Yeah probably yea, yeah, yeah we might. I mean we
Speaker 7: might even just release a song, you know, the the
Speaker 7: first song. We might just release it, see what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 7: Eleven's in the Room we released in January, so it's
Speaker 7: still kind of pretty fresh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but there's no sense in.
Speaker 9: H yeah, you can only play the same songs for
Speaker 9: so long, right, Yeah, so we got to come up
Speaker 9: with new stuff right right now?
Speaker 1: That makes sense? Do you guys do you play anything?
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you play live that you haven't
Speaker 1: that hasn't released been released yet that you're kind of
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes bands will kind of workshop material, you know,
Speaker 1: in front of an audience and yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've done that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: We try and cycle in like a couple different tunes
Speaker 10: every show just to kind of keep it, you know, lively,
Speaker 10: keep it mixed up.
Speaker 9: So we have a couple, you know, in the works.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and then sometimes we'll bring back like really
Speaker 7: old stuff. Like one of the songs that, like one
Speaker 7: of Jared's songs that he just went back to start
Speaker 7: recording is a song from like before Eve in our
Speaker 7: first like LP really he but.
Speaker 1: Then he was.
Speaker 9: We'll also go we'll also play old songs like from
Speaker 9: the first EP and like we'll change a part or
Speaker 9: modify it in a way or add add something new
Speaker 9: to it just to keep it fresh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Uh
Speaker 1: do you guys want to play we should play another
Speaker 1: one from the album? Of course, I elephants in the room.
Speaker 1: What do you guys want to play next? Totally up
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 9: I guess you give Chris the song? Yeah, I think
Speaker 9: maybe past Men, Yeah, or we can do rain on too.
Speaker 9: Oh it's the other like single maybe Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 9: it's a single, which one. Let's try rain on raining Outside?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh that's true. Yeah, very very apropos Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it's supposed to rain all day from what I
Speaker 1: From what I understand, If you're just joining us on Saturday,
Speaker 1: we do have a space casino here with us alive
Speaker 1: in studio and we're going to play another track from
Speaker 1: this incredible album. Well, I'm waiting for that. Anything here
Speaker 1: comes that, well, anything, I'll ask anyway. Anything we should
Speaker 1: know about this track before we play it.
Speaker 9: That's written by Chris from the Couch. All right, yeah,
Speaker 9: I don't know. He's not here to talk about that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not here, alright.
Speaker 7: If features some nice cowbo work from me.
Speaker 10: Yeah, almost more of like an acoustic It was based
Speaker 10: around acoustic guitar at first, so it's maybe like a
Speaker 10: lighter sense of the album.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very cool, So we'll give this a spin.
Speaker 1: This is called rain On and the band is a
Speaker 1: Space Casino.
Speaker 4: I have come on, I cannot only see so if
Speaker 4: I do not need you gay, yeah, I do not
Speaker 4: need you that so wonder still free, do not need you? Man?
Speaker 4: Do not need you? Man? Dream in hard you dream?
Speaker 4: It s.
Speaker 12: Sh not to.
Speaker 4: Ny G suck soon soon the sky look at way
Speaker 4: lay s.
Speaker 1: Another great track that is called rain On. That is
Speaker 1: from the album Elephants in the Room and the band
Speaker 1: is a Space Casino. We have three of the guys
Speaker 1: from Space Casino here, and the gentleman who sings on
Speaker 1: that song and wrote it is He's So that's Chris
Speaker 1: from the Couch, right, yes, yes, but a great song though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: really really good. You know, we were kind of talking
Speaker 1: off air while I was playing. I said his vocal delivery,
Speaker 1: he kind of reminds me a little bit of Bono
Speaker 1: and it's really good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were making we were we heard a little
Speaker 9: bit of Irish rogue in his singing in the studio
Speaker 9: once and it was a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: but yeah, great, Yeah, I like his his guitar parts.
Speaker 9: He wrote most of them. There really nice.
Speaker 1: Are any of those songs on the album? Is there
Speaker 1: anything that is difficult or was difficult to play live
Speaker 1: because it's, you know, the materials pretty sophisticated in terms
Speaker 1: of the different parts.
Speaker 9: And actually that.
Speaker 10: Song, more than anything, I feel like Chris throws on
Speaker 10: like a cape o. He switches from acoustic one show,
Speaker 10: then he'll do electric at the other show.
Speaker 1: Yeh.
Speaker 9: And it's just kind of it's always.
Speaker 10: Been one where maybe we don't want to play it,
Speaker 10: you know, I don't want to put my capo on
Speaker 10: my guitar or whatever.
Speaker 9: Other songs are definitely like trickier than others, but we
Speaker 9: play them all live.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that one particular is a little that's probably one
Speaker 9: of the trickiest, but it's a lot of fun too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's definitely for for me on the drums. There
Speaker 7: were definitely a few songs. There's another song, another one
Speaker 7: of Chris's songs is called Pashmina Blues where I'm doing
Speaker 7: a pretty fast like high hat part and you know,
Speaker 7: in the studio you get multiple takes so you can
Speaker 7: just do it. But by the end when we play
Speaker 7: that song live, by the end of that song, my
Speaker 7: right arm is like burning, and then I'm like, why,
Speaker 7: why what was I doing in the studio?
Speaker 1: What was I on that day?
Speaker 11: Yeah, but but it's it sounds great.
Speaker 9: It keeps us awake, you know, all the all the
Speaker 9: changes and little uh syncrasies.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it important to you guys to be able
Speaker 1: to replicate that live exactly how you recorded it or Yeah.
Speaker 10: We we try to our utmost ability to Sometimes it
Speaker 10: doesn't come to fruition, but yeah, it's a it's a challenge.
Speaker 9: It's it's nice to be challenged by our songs. Still.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Sometimes life we'll even we we do do that, but
Speaker 9: sometimes we'll even try it. Well, like I said before,
Speaker 9: we would, uh we change a little bit of the
Speaker 9: song to do live. So sometimes we'll yeah, we'll mess
Speaker 9: with the song.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well we'll change it for us, We'll change things up.
Speaker 7: But we do try to not we try not to
Speaker 7: let it be we like, we try not to rely
Speaker 7: on the studio magic, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 7: if we like, we'll change it up, but not changing
Speaker 7: it in a way of like, oh, let's skip that
Speaker 7: part because it's too hard to replicate what you know
Speaker 7: what I mean? Yeah, because sometimes it is, you know,
Speaker 7: it would be easy to do that, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 7: we try to We try to challenge ourselves to do it.
Speaker 7: They were definitely, I mean for me, there were a
Speaker 7: lot of like like fills and weird little things I
Speaker 7: did in like I would practice. For the first few
Speaker 7: months after we released the album, I was practicing on there.
Speaker 7: I was listening to the album, practicing drums to my drums,
Speaker 7: like listening to my drums, trying to replicate what I
Speaker 7: did because I was like what what what?
Speaker 11: What did I do in the studio that day?
Speaker 1: Like what is this pill?
Speaker 7: But I eventually got most of it down. Sometimes I
Speaker 7: still struggle, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, personally, I feel like I don't even want it
Speaker 9: if I go to a band's a band's show, a concert.
Speaker 9: I don't even always want to hear record perfect version
Speaker 9: of the song. I want to hear like a new tale.
Speaker 9: I got a live, fresh on the spot take of it.
Speaker 1: That's how I tend to feel about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sometimes it sometimes it's upset, it's kind of it's
Speaker 7: kind of a letdown when it sounds exactly like the album. Yeah,
Speaker 7: especially if the I mean, if it sounds exactly like
Speaker 7: the album but your your stage presence is like stunning,
Speaker 7: then that's one thing. But yeah, there there have been
Speaker 7: times I've gone two shows where it's like it's just
Speaker 7: the band standing there and it sounds exactly like the album,
Speaker 7: and then they get off stage and it's like I
Speaker 7: basically just I spent fifty dollars to listen to the
Speaker 7: album in a room.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Right right?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I did see Like I had an experience I went
Speaker 9: to see in New Jersey. I went to see the
Speaker 9: Strokes opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Strokes
Speaker 9: are like my all time favorite bands. Yeah, Pili Peppers
Speaker 9: are in the top ten for sure, Yeah, but my
Speaker 9: favorite bands. They sounded exactly I was like, I was
Speaker 9: also very very far away from the stadium, but they
Speaker 9: sounded very album perfect really and it was great. I
Speaker 9: loved him. But then when the Chili Peppers came on,
Speaker 9: the Chili Peppers are jamming, They're throwing in little little
Speaker 9: jams in between songs, and the songs they're playing are
Speaker 9: have a life of their own. Yeah and uh yeah, so.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think I feel like they don't play
Speaker 7: anything the same way, at least not exactly.
Speaker 10: They're always yeah, shout out to Flee. He needs us
Speaker 10: to show Yeah, yeah, I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 10: Everyone knows Flee No, but he.
Speaker 1: Is an incredible bass player, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. I wish
Speaker 1: my fingers could move that fast. There's a guy who's
Speaker 1: been on the show. I don't know if you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron bid H. He's he's from up here, but he's
Speaker 1: he's been on the show and he's playing a bunch
Speaker 1: of bands, but he does a lot of solo work too,
Speaker 1: and and he comes in and you know, he sets
Speaker 1: up this whole he's got this whole thing that he
Speaker 1: plays along too, that he'll he'll come in here and
Speaker 1: he'll he'll play and I just spend the entire time,
Speaker 1: just watching his fingers because he can play like Flee.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just incredible bass lines. And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a bass player, so I'm just sitting there,
Speaker 1: you know, just just watching his fingers the entire time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, but yeah, Flee Flee is definitely one
Speaker 1: of the one of the greats. We should I want
Speaker 1: to make sure we have time to fit in one more,
Speaker 1: well technically two more, because we'll play one more now
Speaker 1: and then we'll play one more at the at the
Speaker 1: very end of the segment. But uh, the album is
Speaker 1: so good, I do want to make sure we have
Speaker 1: time to what what should we what should we go
Speaker 1: to next? M H Spaces Spaces. Oh yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good one to play, because we talked about that one earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, let me get let me load that one up.
Speaker 11: This is where where the the album name comes from.
Speaker 11: A lyric in this song.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, okay, oh very cool. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we'll give this a spin. And for those of you
Speaker 1: just joining us, we do have a Space Casino three
Speaker 1: quarters of the band Space Casino here with us in studio.
Speaker 1: This track this is of course, from the album elephants
Speaker 1: in the room. And this is on all the streaming platforms. Yep,
Speaker 1: yep everything. Yeah. What about the original EP that you
Speaker 1: guys did, is that available everywhere? That's on everything too.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you can follow us.
Speaker 7: We always post everything on like our Our instagram is
Speaker 7: our main like where we update give updates on shows
Speaker 7: and stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very cool. All right, let's give this a spin.
Speaker 1: This is called spaces and the band is a Space Casino.
Speaker 4: Its songs, its song, the it song, So welcome to the.
Speaker 3: Pass when a face.
Speaker 4: With your sting.
Speaker 3: With the elephant, the elephant.
Speaker 4: Happen.
Speaker 3: I made it, I made it, made it? What songs?
Speaker 3: What songs?
Speaker 6: In between the tak sat fi location with a talking pot,
Speaker 6: said talker.
Speaker 4: Plays and see let me look down that team Mistma
Speaker 4: sand by the ray tack cam. So welcome this.
Speaker 3: Say with this young can tangles my podcast said, with
Speaker 3: the elephants, elephants, the elephant.
Speaker 4: In your home. It's the game Ramming.
Speaker 12: Is the game.
Speaker 4: Ramming all your It's the game will.
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Speaker 4: Step.
Speaker 1: That is called Spaces. The band is Space Casino. It's
Speaker 1: another great track. I love that. I love the whole vibe.
Speaker 12: Of that.
Speaker 1: That is so cool. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, great job, guys.
Speaker 11: That's another there's another Nick song.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 10: I don't know what kind of demons are running around
Speaker 10: in my head, but it seems like a couple of
Speaker 10: my songs are all about anxiety, you know. Yeah, yeah, habits,
Speaker 10: elephants in the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well that but that's relatable things we all
Speaker 1: things we all deal with, right yeah, yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 1: What should we know about where people should go online
Speaker 1: to keep up with everything you guys are doing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean just follow us on Instagram and Facebook
Speaker 9: and Twitter, webk.
Speaker 10: All that jazz yeah, at Space Casino Band, right, yes,
Speaker 10: at Space Casino Bands and uh yeah. From there, there's
Speaker 10: all in the bile of there's links to our website
Speaker 10: and our link tree, and you know, we're on Spotify
Speaker 10: and iTunes and YouTube.
Speaker 1: You can sign up for list.
Speaker 9: We actually do have a We did just make a
Speaker 9: U We have an email list, yes yeah, uh well
Speaker 9: but we did just we made a promo video. You
Speaker 9: ever see hot Ones, uh the Internet show?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah where they eat the Yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so on.
Speaker 9: Our YouTube page if you go to s Based Casino
Speaker 9: Band on YouTube. We did like, we have this fifteen
Speaker 9: minute hot Ones challenge where we actually ate increasingly spicier
Speaker 9: wings just like the show, and even we used even
Speaker 9: hotter sauce than the show.
Speaker 1: Real.
Speaker 9: Yes, we used the bomb, which is featured on the show.
Speaker 9: That was one of the like five flavors we used. Okay,
Speaker 9: but it was very very hot.
Speaker 7: We also tossed the wings. We used the same container
Speaker 7: to toss all the wings.
Speaker 9: Yeah, accumulated basically all the all.
Speaker 7: The hot sauces were on like every wing.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, then the hook at the end of the video,
Speaker 9: the last spiciest wing we ate. We immediately jumped on
Speaker 9: instruments and tried to play a song and it was
Speaker 9: painful singing.
Speaker 7: We played, We played besto cold Oh well, will dying
Speaker 7: of hot wing heat stroke?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 7: And it's called hot Boys Boys Okay.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Shout out to my brother Riley for being the host
Speaker 10: and holding it down. Yeah, absolutely hilarious work.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was cracking us up the whole time. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta check that. So that's on YouTube YouTube, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta check that out. That's very cool, very cool, guys.
Speaker 1: This has been wonderful. I really appreciate the three of
Speaker 1: you coming in and we'll definitely do this again in
Speaker 1: the future as you're releasing new music and whatnot.
Speaker 11: I love your sound, Thank you, thank you. We'd love
Speaker 11: to come back.
Speaker 1: It's a good time, absolutely, absolutely, And what should we
Speaker 1: close out with?
Speaker 10: Maybe like gallons? Yeah yeah, maybe gallon gallons. I'd say
Speaker 10: gall it's a closer. Yeah, this this to the song
Speaker 10: came to be in a dream?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, gallons of ink? Yeah, yes, it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's about getting a lot of tattoos or something.
Speaker 10: It's just about killer whales, I guess at all. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 10: it's good self interpretive. Okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Cool gallons of ink, buy Space Casino. Thanks again, guys,
Speaker 1: Thank yous.
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