Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Trichomes

Mister Kyle Clayton is here. I really do miss this desk, Yes, yes, so inviting. Yes, you like the desk, well, it's very prestigious, the news desk. Yeah, you get you gotta earn name, you know, that's right, that's right. And of course you might know Kyle from the morning show and he drops in here occasionally as well. So I missed you. Wonderful to see you, sir. Well, I've missed you as well. And we've got a great, great band and studio with us, and I'm going to let you because you know these guys, I'm just meeting them for the first time.

But I'm gonna let you introduce the band. Um. Yeah, there's honestly, think a bunch of homeless people outside. We just let him in there, okay. Honestly one of the most original bands you'll see in the New England area, the Trike Holmbs.

Not ten out of ten would recommend I don't know your names in him, just do the song we were never given names. Yeah, well, well, well we'll get we'll get to know we'll get to know your names of course, after the after the second when we well, we'll get to know you a little bit. We're going to talk. Yeah, we'll we'll deep die. Yes, Yes, can you hit those drums a little bit? I want to make sure I got you in the Oh yeah, that's sound. I'm doing man cool okay, and I know I'll be able to hear everybody else.

So um, it's gonna be oh yes, and uh that happens. No, this is the Blue Songs. This is the perfect intro, perfect perfect and just so you know, at some at some point, because it happens every single show, every day, at some point, there will be sirens. So one of your songs is likely to end up with sirens and work today. That too, very good, very good. Well, I'm dying to hear you guys play, so I'll let you get to it. So, ladies and gentlemen, the try combs. What you gonna do, what you're gonna do, what you wanna say, what you gonna say, what you gonna do, bring your way.

You have the right domain salace. Anything you say will be in God of blow. You look all of black, in the cord of bl in the corning love and the beam of the phone into your lapt just like a dear don't give you a feeling. You are feeling all right to the cap body down dollars that night, where you're gonna get dead cads, you're gonna have to steal, then said, where you're gonna get dead cakes, You're gonna have to steal? Then what you gonna We're gonna do what you won't say, what you gonna say, what you want to do?

Running your way now? Wish will a person maybe the mega under corner, maybe mama about you know you're not gonna turn it out about as they call in the cop. So you done? They gonna get the freak. How you're going? I tell you one more time, my son, what you want do, what you gonna do, what you say? What you not saying? What you want to do? Window, look your wing to do what you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna say, what you gonna say, what you gonna do and do coming you? You gotta sound amazing if you're just joining us the try Combs are here with us live in studio, and you gotta sound great.

Thank Yeah. Absolutely absolutely an old tune. We threw that one back. I don't know, Shane, I've been playing that song for like ten years. Man. Yes, but we've adapted it to this band to make it, you know, to its prime. So we reed to play it on acoustic Todayeah, very very you know what, man, I like it. I think I like it all right, guys, well I'd love to hear some more. Alright. Yeah song it's called McMansion.

You grow up, you're going a job buying the s car. I can get that living in him nick match neighborhood. When I Jason and the door is getting all. We got to break the ball. We gotta break the more. We gotta break them all. We gotta break them all. Yeah, you gotta break them all. I say, slow it down, no big un and not yell when no, no silly, let ring do your head it day. Oh put down on the standing thing that because he don din you. Yeah, got going the big getting the car. Well, I can tell that card living in your mansion neighborhood when I'm chasing and the boring getting all.

We got to break the more we gotta break, the more we gotta break, the more. You gotta break the more. Yeah,

we gotta break the more. M why fail and he won't told me what you see say? You can't trust nobody, but we all take a price for the states. I don't think you have the thing. Can't. You've been alive, you crying, your cheating, never sleeting, head alone down you we can, I'll see am. Yeah, you're ready to go

and you're lying, you're crying, you're cheating, never seating, every moment around you we get I'll see it. Yeah, you're ready to blue.

You're gonna get a dog get. I can't have to be lived in your big mansion neighborhood. But Jason and I'm going getting old. We got to break. The more we gotta break. The more we gotta break the more.

Yeah, we gotta break, the more we gotta break the more.

Hmm, good, good, good stuff. I love it. What's that called mcmansion's McMansion that's like our number one hit. Yeah. If you like big trucks, you'll love McMahon. If you're just joining us, the try comes are here with us alive in the studio and uh, all right, guys, I'm ready to hear some more. All right, yeah, right, like any water spit up, I'm like a plant. Oh there you go. He's got it's got the big water there. Yeah, baby gets drying here with the air conditioning running. That's for sure better than being out in the sun.

I can tell you the absolutely the humidity. The humidity is a killer. There's no place that'd rather be than right here at this desk. Nice. Well, it is the news desk, after all, it's very prestigious. It's not you guys. That's just I just want the desk. That's fair. That is a nice check. The same thing about this chair is like all right, yeah, yeah, the chairs okay, but the desks, the news desk is the best. The desk is the best. I would sleep on my desk for sure. Yeah, I'd sleep under that desk.

We'll see what happens after the desk where Kyle goes under the desk. What song we're playing right way? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, this is the song my brother wrote. Check out his band Sonny Rude. Uh for you bro, It's so black time. I'm gonna talk up the soume shine today we wait up black Blines, scream at the nast guy. I'm pulling on my mother way. You're going back home, the town, the moment with the home crowd kicking it like back in the day. He s just my mama, don't live in way back right now, gotta up one downtown to keep up to connected at bab Now we can do cock out, come up a composer out at anybody need to day.

But did you know me, I'm gonna like that because you love read. You're screaming means the blue in the face and I'm lead us all out just to hear my baby shout. Happen. I'm gonna happen. It's the purpose situation. I'm a woman who vacation to leave my mind, go water in the space.

It's the little aggravation and then that you want to give up the day. But I'm needing it all. Why don't needing it? O? No, no, no, so don a coat about through it all down change.

So we need the right time you soap got the sunshine today, I'm gonna do it away away away the lifelines. Hello, you're gonna scream at the night guy, you know what I'm being like, sky up your hair, all my problems away away away. Oh yeah, We're back to hometown, mommynut back in the day, just the right way. M m hmm. The try combs are here everybody, if you're just joining us. Dank Sinatra in the ed chat room. Of course, I helmed by our friend. Fredo says, we here at dank Sinatra fully approve of this try Coombs transmission.

Yes, yes, Uh, Nate Pajari says tell Ian. Nate says, what's up? All right? So these guys have everybody's playing differentness from it? Sound very cool. Well, I'm not everybody, not everybody, but to two people, very good. So you guys got what do you have? One more? Yeah? Alright, So these guys are gonna play one more and then we're gonna we're gonna talk for a bit. But uh guess, all right, whenever, whenever, you guys are ready cowboys struck not cowboys all right, just got into town, my horse, it's time to get down saloon door swinging as a brown and I don't hear the sound the chair of boxing.

You know why he gott and it's with him.

Tell me it's sin spend the way to win. I'm spending my mancause I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild wins and I'm dancing to be wearing pantsul a dress. I guess I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild biss. When I'm dancing, I could be wearing and so dress.

I'm a sharing thing. I stand over bookings, a dancing man, and I'm shared of those things I don't understands. Guess I'm a share rithing. I stand up bookings and dancing, and I'm far those things. I don't under dame sharing, free love or freezy. I don't go in a line, you know, wheel. I saw the seals muscreen stuff the time, but it doesn't take the deal. I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild West. When I'm dancing, I could be wearing and so dress because I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild Miss.

When I'm dancing, I could be wearings. I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild Wins. When I'm dancing, I do be wearing dance so dreams us. I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild wings. When I'm dancing, I could be wearing so dream Yeah, very nice, very nice. The try combs everybody, We're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna we're gonna talk with these guys so there is more to come. Don't go anywhere. And of course we have with us in studio the try Combs, who just did a killer set for us and really appreciate it.

Guys, you sound amazing, Thank you. That was fun. Absolutely absolutely. Now let's let's start with you, sir. Can you each tell us your names and what you do in the band. I'm Stefan. I'm the front man. I guess I'm that guy. But I played a guitar and sing and then Shane and I will switch and I'll play drums and I'll take Ian's bass sometimes just for a song. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do. You know, it's it's a good time. We like it, okay, all right, and you sir, I'm Ian. I played bass and synthesizer.

Okay. Stefan also like books all of our shows. He forgot to mention that he's great and records all of our songs. Well yeah, he does every cool. Cool, that's good, that's good. I do that. I didn't want to talk myself up too much. I understand, very humble. Nothing wrong with that. You show the desk, dude right to come here, come and take the death, you know, sure, sure, sure, I thought we were there, but all right, and you my name is Eric Sobzinski and I play guitar in the band. Is that it? Because everybody else does like a million different things.

You just played guitar. Oh and you singes sing I've been trying out on other instruments so slowly, Betroy, Yes, yeah, I don't have me on other things. At point we gotta can you can you pull that mic up closer? Yeah, just having a little trouble. Uh, I'm glad. Oh there we go. Yeah, and finally you, sir, I'm Shane. I'm predominantly drumming, but the rest of the time I'm singing playing guitar. Very good, very good. Yeah, that was a surprise to see you guys switch instruments. But that's uh, that's cool.

Um, how long have you guys been around? How long has uh the try Combs been a band? As a band has existed since twenty fourteen. Um, so we're almost in the ten year mark. But this crew of of homies has been about three is shears? Yeah? Yeah, we're missing one our keyboardist. He's uh he teaches piano. Oh okay, he had to teach piano, you know. Yeah, yea, his job, you know, other than being in the band, right, Yeah, he does come to the gigs. That's that's what matters. That's good. Yeah, that's the important thing.

Um, where does the name come from? The try combs? What does that mean? It's the hairs on plants. Oh okay, if you look up try coombs you'll see a bunch of weed. But you'll also see that in Latin it means hairs. So I was actually like touching a tomato plant. I was like, hmm, that smells good. Why is that? Technically it's slowing down transpirations, so when air is going over the plant, it is releasing less, losing less of its water to the air through its leaves and it helps it stay hydrated. Oh, it's all like science hydrated with tunes.

Just do with that. And I mean,

I mean, we grow CBD. So if anybody needs any check out New Hampshire hamp COO. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty cool. So you have an actual company, yeah, that company. Yeah, we're license to the state and everything CBD flower and tinctures. Yeah, we sell it out our gigs. Wow. Wow, are you guys all all of you do that together? Or Eric does his own thing with with the real stuff, but you know where it's legal, right yeah? Yeah? Is that? Um, how much of a hassle is it to set something like that up in the state?

Is it is a difficult It's not terribly difficult other than just doing like a background check and now you're supposed to say it's super difficult. Nobody else for one of the only Hampshire's definitely not many. There's there's thirteen licenses out or something, but oh wow, it's it's not profitable. I wouldn't I wouldn't tell you anybody should do it. Really, there you go. It's smart, but it's cool. No musician just plays music like they got some side hustles right right, gigs every day. It's like, yeah, man, I'll just be on the side of the street, be really hot right now.

When you guys, Um, when you play out, do the songs change because it seems like the way the way your music is, you know, it kind of lends itself to that you can kind of experiment and improvise. I would think is there a lot of that with the with your songs the structure stays mostly the same, but we definitely don't play the same like solos or jam sections. Yeah, and sometimes we'll add like different teases of different songs, different covers or something in there, funny little things. Sometimes we'll take a song and split it in half and then take two songs to them together.

Yeah, and then we'll play them at completely different parts. So then all sudden you're like, wait, is it that song again? You know, right right, It's like every show is not the same, because otherwise we'd be boring, you know, yeah, yeah, I get bored. Yeah, we have to play the song, so we have to continue to trying to make new music and add new parts of the performance every time. You know. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, So you guys must be able to like do do full nights, like do do like three hour shows at places.

There's some of that, but like a lot of the times festivals so we're just yeah, they'll be like, hey, come play this festival, and then the next weekend they're like, hey, we have another festival. And then eventually after the past like five years has gone by, we're like literally playing every festival that happens. Yeah, yeah, Northeast at least, you know, what, do we have like eight weeks in a row for the next couple. Yeah, we're not wow, weekend off for a while, but you know it could be worse.

Yeah, I could have to work at my real job. Right,

Yeah, there you go, there you go. Um, So when you're not obviously the summertime, there's a lot of festivals. What about the rest of the year. Do you guys stay pretty busy or do you ever have points in the year where you're not as busy. It's like the winners kind of like, let's record, so like you have a home studio, we have more time. We take time to record or right on tour, you know, so we'll tour for usually a month, try to get somewhere warm. Yeah. Booking is honestly hard in the winter in New England because it could snow at any point.

Yeah, all a sudden, you're about to play a gig and you really canceled. Yeah, or you have band practice is canceled, right, it's right. So yeah, we take the winner to be creative and go south. Yeah, and there's just less venues around here. You know, there are a handful of bars and stuff you can play, but it's you know, summer is just nice. You can play outdoors anywhere or you can play indoors anywhere. So yeah, is um, do you guys do any covers or or do you have reduced stick to originals? So we do like a handful of covers this because like sometimes you show up to a new city and nobody's seen you guys yet.

Yeah, to check it out. You like this song, you know, so now you like this song song? Predominantly originals for the most part. Yeah, yeah, and we definitely like change our covers up from what they were originally, yeah than like ours. Yeah, yeah, I definitely put our flavor into it. Do you do you ever do covers whereas somebody doesn't know it's a cover and then they come up to you and they're like, yeah I really like that song, and yeah a lot of them. We've definitely done some pretty obscure covers to like the theme song to the show Doug and stuff like ye things like that into turtles, Like, yeah, we do themes for every show, so we'll be oh, the theme for this is this, so we're like really, yeah, well we'll try to think of songs that have to do with that, you know, as a intro or something like that.

Yeah, Like we're supposed to play Cisco Brewery last summer, so we learned Cisco Kid Ben War. Yeah, we're like, oh right, Cisco Cisco brewals were like Disco Kid. You know. We're like, I'll bring us to that, pa, Like what the actual words are? Right? You know? We want to we like to make people laugh and dance. Yeah, that's usually our goal. Yeah. Um, how does the songwriting process work with you guys? You all write together or is there some spontaneity to it where he's just kind of jams. We're like, hey, man, it's your turn to write, Like you have a song, right, Like we all have what one on the back burner and I'm like, yeah, man, I got like eight riffs and twenty core regressions and then we just kind of take that and just cut out the fat and make it into something good.

It takes a while. Yeah, Usually one guy comes with an idea and then everyone else helps finish him and put his thoughts together type of deal, right, because we'll just one of us will be like, not that doesn't sound good, screw that, you know, yeah? Or that sounds great? Well? Usually yeah, like in a practice we can have a new song. So it just takes, you know, wow, the criticism of each other and also just thinking of like, how are we going to take the segue from this part to this part? Yeah, basically like, oh, that's a really cool riff.

If we did it slower and heavier, it'd be a really cool breakdown, right Yeah. Yeah, and we do. We have a buddy who will like he'll come over and like just drink some beers and whiskey and be like, oh yeah, man, I got some lyrics frere like the Cowboys song. We wrote all those like We've got We've Got drunk. That night we were like buying the lyrics, are like, no way, man, that's so funny, like just like going like such an authentic pure song. Because of that's like you can feel like how funny and great of a time it was.

Yeah, just remember that evening. Yeah, and Kyle, how do you know these guys? Um? I was my first band I was ever in was with Ian Um and I said I could play the bass, but I lied. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why I play bass. It's funny. I did my best, but yeah, he's obviously substantially better. Um. Also, how long have I known you? Twenty? I don't don't. I don't think. I don't know. We met in elementary school. I think, oh wow, I got grounded and so I wasn't allowed to hang out with my friends, but I could hang out with my sisters friends.

And Kyle was the coolest one of my sisters. Yeah, right that

that but yeah it's UM's but it's way too long. But yeah, in finding my first party, he introduced me to all the cool stuff. Yeah, shout outs Ian. He's not punk anymore, but I still love his Who was the last time he went? I got a job, bro, grow up? You know it's funny. We were talking about dreadlocks earlier. Remember I told you as they wait till the hair comes. Yeah, yeah, you go anywhere and they're just like, so you guys with the band, You're like, how did you know? Right? What was the band you guys were in together?

What was it called Battle Royal? Yeah? I think and externally was it external use Only? And then and fake Scotch tape before that? I think, no, that was you in Nate and oh that's right, it's right away. It doesn't matter. Externally use only. That's a cool man, Like, yeah, yeah, you should be sixteen and play at milies. They really love you there milies anymore? Never mind? Yeah, no, not anymore. They can go back there now. Yeah, some controversial children's songs written by children's it's fun, right right exactly?

Is any of that stuff online? I hope not. I don't think so. If not, no, I think I've asked you, you know, gonna find it? Yeah? Yeah, And if it's on my Space, it is still there because you can't. You can't get things removed from my Space. I have. I can't remember your password. No, no, but somehow I figured it out and and uh I did I have gotten in Yeah to my like within the last couple of years. I think I did remember it and then but I've had people have told me that you can't, like, if you want to remove your A profile from my Space, you can't.

No, it's uh MySpace dot com backslash bannit tree left because I misspelled bananas. So if you want to look me up two thousand and four Kyle Super sad and depressing. Really yeah, you can't get rid of it? Yeah yeah, still on there? Like you know how you you would have like the songs that you really like? Oh yeah, and I top top six ye, it was elite. I didn't know a top eight. I cut you very exclusive, well, because you knew that someday you would be at the news desk. I have that sixth right here.

It's perfect. That's right. I'm including myself. Without my Space, you wouldn't be here, would be nothing, that's right without Without Tom, you wouldn't be here where. How's that dude? Dude? You know Tom? Well? Yeah, I mean like I know that Elon Musk and the other guy are fighting, Like Facebook guy, he's gonna be the referee for their match. Yeah, I'll be like w w E and he just comes in with a chair. I would pay top dollars for that, honestly, if you're just joining us, the try combs are here with us in studio.

So what do you guys? What do you guys have coming up? Are you? Um? You have? You got to have a gig coming up? Okay, we're gonna have free hot dogs. It's July fifteenth at the Shaky This this Friday is this Friday fourteen fifty Oh my god, it is the fourteenth, fourteenth, fourteenth. We're playing with our buddies. It's a pre party for the Homie Collective camp Out Festival. It's like it's second public here, but it's been a festival for quite some time. Okay, it's gonna slap super hard. Yeah, that's gonna be a good time.

What what time do you guys go on? We're going on right, Yeah, play at nine Okay, then they got they got their set, and then we play at ten thirty. Um, yeah at the Shaskying and we're gonna do some raffles and stuff like that for ticket giveaways for the home Collective camp Out. So cool, cool, very good, very good. Um, where should people go online? Where? What should people uh know to find you guys online? And how to keep up with all your shows and everything. Tricombs Music dot com. Tricombs Music dot com remember that forever?

And then like we have a Facebook and an Instagram, We're on Spotify, Apple Music everywhere. Okay, Yeah, you guys are easy to find. But yeah, if you just do a Google search, you gotta search Tricomes band because otherwise there's gonna be a bunch of pictures, right Dick Coombs Music, Yeah, there's no The tri Combs was already stolen, so I had to do tri Combs Music. Oh I got you. Yeah, and then we have a new album coming out to Stay Tuned early fall September issue. Yeah, Okay, we'll be doing a little like some touring at that time too, so it'll be a good time to catch us do some more festivals or playing Wormtown trout Stock.

Trout Stock is actually yeah, August clo hard, next weeks hard as the next weekend after it's up in Harmony, Maine. Okay, July twenty first. That one's gonna be fun. It's like an EDM festival and we're the only bandits and Ian's playing with that band too. Oh wow. So like we're like, we're the we're the band people at the at the DJ festivals, so it should be pretty fun. Yeah. Yeah, people are like, whoa this is people playing instruments. Where do you guys record? By the way, because the studio stuff sounds really good, thanks man um.

So most of it we did, like Jazz Capastuaire was all at Mojo's studio. Other than Spooky Lady, I recorded out of my house. I recorded a lot of the new album, like Intermission to Another Dimension, Danny Danko, all that stuff has been recorded at our house. Yeah, I call it a SOS studio, so Snake Oil Studios because I recorded Snake Oil at our house too. Oh okay, yeah, but that's been the common theme now. It's like I just worked at Guitar Center for Wilem's bought everything. Yeah thanks Guitar Center.

Yeah, I quit after working one day a week for like a year. But if you think about it, I gave them way more money than I made, so they made out right right, And I'm not selling it. We just recorded our albums or an upcoming one with it, so yeah. Yeah. And Ian's girlfriend Brook did the fiance Rook did the art for it for the back half and it's looking awesome. Half did it. She's still working on it. She should be drawing right now. I hope she is engaged. Oh my, well, very good. By the way, you guys Worry from the Sea Coast YEP live in like the lead area, okay, lead over a lot of good bands that way.

Yeah, there's a lot of good bands up too. But isn't another band stopped Tito Collective Oh okay. And then we have like our friends like Harror Shamadillo. Those guys are really good yet Clandestine's awesome. They were having a sax player. Actually he's playing with we're having a sax player this Friday too. Oh no kidding, Yeah, he's just not here because we were hanging out with him at Galactic. But you know, he's probably playing sax right now, so he has to practice, is uh for first time? Is his first time playing with you?

Guys are probably like five four or five joins us for festivals, but like we're kind of like, yo, man, you're in the band. Yeah, so now we're like kind of just all the game to come every time. Yeah, yeah, he's gonna be working. We make sure every time feels like the first time. Yeah, that's good. Girls would definitely like you man, there's certain things he doesn't like to do. Though. If you're like, hey man, go go play like as the sexy sacks man the crowd, he won't have it. No, you'll be like you know, but yeah, if you as long as you play Super Smash Bros With him, like once a week, he'll stay with the band.

Like he let's call you up at like midnight, be like hey man, you want to like play some Super Smash Bros. Like all right, yeah, I guess nice, nice, very good, very good. Well, I'm really glad you guys came in today and you sound phenomenal time. Yeah, absolutely, thank you for coming in and Kyle Clayton, wonderful to see you. I wonderful to see all of you. I'm happy to do a double header today. Back for more and then are you working a night? No? No, I'm not even tired though. Wow, I mix it up. Go the Wild Rover Pub.

Yeah down, yeah, it's it's new, it just came out, So I buy me a drink please. I'm not musically inclined, but just right right, that's my that's my pitch. Well, you've I know you've been missed. I missed you, and thank you for letting me out again. Well, guys, thank you again. The try Combs wonderful to have you in.

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