Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Whole Loaf

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I assume this is the whole band. I mean, you know, usually if there's five five people, that's that's the whole. I don't think I've ever interviewed a band. We got some bread crumbs here and there, but we're the whole loaf. We try to have the whole loaf on, not just a few slices. You know, yes, one sandwich, don't cut it, you know, that's that's right. You gotta do what you gotta do. Well, let's let's start with you. I'd like to go around, have you each introduce yourselves and tell us, tell us who you are, what you do in the band.

And I'd like to start with you because, for one thing, I met you already. Yeah, so you haven't a Oh god, I didn't realize that. And you're the bass player, correct, I am the bass player. I'm also a bass player. We have to stick together. I don't feel that, uh, I don't feel that we get enough credit for what we do. Absolutely, and you deserve credit for those bass lines. Yeah, Bryan, I'm the bass player. You know, Charlie's my main guy. And you know, I take a lot of inspiration from Phil Lesh and Jack Cassidy and kind of bass players who aren't really bass players, so I try to be emblematic of that style.

Interesting. I want to come back to that afterward. But uh, and you, sir, Yes, oh, I can't hear you. I'm sorry, hang on, something's uh. Why can't I hear you? I think I know why I can't hear you. I'm still getting used to the new studio. Yeah, I can hear you. We go. Nice. Hey, everyone, This is Charlie Kenny and I bank stuff professionally and drums on the side for a loaf. Very good, Yeah, Charlie, al right, welcome Charlie. That's our guy. Congratulations on the banging and and uh and you. I'm Sean Crowley.

I like that jacket, by the way. I play organ and keyboards and I sing you gotta talk right into that. Yeah, sorry, that's uh. Yeah, there you go. I'm Sean Crowley and I play organ and keyboards and I sing thank you very good. Yes, that that it droops? I know it. And you, sir, I'm Jack. I am one of the two guitarists in this band. H I try to write more simple stuff as Kyle likes to take a more jazzy approach. But I think that that balance is something that you know, kind of sets us apart. I would say, so, okay, and you, sir, my name is Kyle.

I usually try to play the triangle whenever I can. That's my favorite instrument and it really blends together with our sound. Sometimes they'll bring out the bongo, but I guess recently I've been playing the guitar. Okay, well, very good. Now. Now is the band always been the five of you? Yep? For the most I think that's a bit of a gray area most of it. We kind of came in at different stages, but for the most part, yeah, Okay, how long has the whole of existed? So that's a showing question. Kyle and I started in January twenty twenty three, okay, and between then and beginning of May, we slowly picked up everybody.

Okay, so it was first me and Kyle, then we picked up Charlie actually in February, Jack sometime in early March, and then Ryan was beginning of May. Okay, we stole Ryan, we did, we did. We just kind of told him we got that strange brew Oh yeah, yeah, so it sounds like there's a story. Yeah, So essentially without the Strange crew being how it is. Without Mitch the owner, without Howard who runs the Sunday night open Mike Blues Jam, and without all of his crew, John madeiros Mark, Steve, everybody there, like, we wouldn't have met.

So without that place being there, this band wouldn't have really ever gotten off the ground and it wouldn't have really even existed. Yeah, So we definitely owe quite a bit to that place, which is why we love coming up to Manchester because it's like we kind of consider this place. It's like a home to us as like, yeah, like our first stomping ground. So we come and share for our story and be able to hang out. Where are y'all from? Different? So? I'm from Dunstable, Massachusetts, small cow town.

I don't even know where Dunstable is there twice a week. Yeah, it's just south of Nashua, New Hampshire, und the line, right right over the border. Okay, Okay, are you guys all from mass or Yeah? I live way out way out east. Okay, how about how about the rest of you guys? Are I'm the only New Hampshire in the you're the only one? Yeah? I was originally from Salem, but I just moved to Manchester a year ago. Oh okay, okay, very good, very good. It's interesting about the strange brew I've heard. I've heard that from other people too.

It's a that's a that's one of the places that's really good to kind of meet and network with other musicians. Yeah. Yeah, and you guys have a it's a relatively new project, it sounds like, but you've you've already got a whole bunch of well we'll we'll play more too as we go along, But you've already got a bunch of great sound in studio tracks on all home produced too. For it's really all the work, yeah, mixing, mastering, right that I have a little like home studio set up in my basement with like nice that's the benefits of having a dad who's also a musician play with all his fun toys.

Oh, very cool, very cool. Cracks are fresh out of the Kenny basement, no kidding, Yeah, Left Turn in Halifax Blues. We're both recording in a recording studio which we mixed and the rest of the and they were recorded in Charlie's baceman. It kind of oh okay, in practice, we record everything, okay, So where where We're Left Turn and Halifax Blues recorded. That was in Cambridge. I work at a studio called Blink Music. Oh okay, cool, So we just kind of got a time there and we recorded and we mixed it.

Took UBU think like a month to mix that. We pushed it out on Halloween. Oh no kidding, okay, okay, very cool. That's the only track we've released so far, but everything else has just been unreleased from the vaults. Yeah, okay, we're on the way though, too. Yeaheah. Definitely. All of the unreleased stuff is cataloged and available on our website. Oh what's the website. It's www dot the Whole Loaf dot net one more time dot net. Yeah okay, that's how you know. It's official dot net, not dot right right.

We're not at a dot org yet, but we hope to get there, maybe at dot gov if we're lucky dot there you go. Oh yeah, bass players, tell me why do you like? Who do you like? Again? And why do you like them? I want to go back to that. Oh okay, So I'm a massive, massive deadhead. Friend of mine got me into him almost ten years ago, and I really really just love their sound. I just think what they do is amazing, especially Phil Lesh. He's the bass player for the Dead, and if you listen to his stuff, he plays things very melodically, and he doesn't attack a certain song, and he doesn't attack how the song is structured.

He just kind of plays what he wants to and he plays and if you hone it in and you just listen to his bass playing, it's really not a bass part. Yet somehow, the way he layers in and the way he's able to dive in and out of the rhythm and the melody, it's absolute insanity and it somehow works with everything that's going on. Same with Jack Cassidy to a degree. He was the bass player for Jefferson Airplane and he does a very similar thing, especially if you listen to any of the live stuff that he played with Country Joe and the Fish or even Jefferson Airplane is kind of all over the place and stuff.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I saw. I can't. I don't know about Phil Lesh. I mean, I know who he is, obviously, but I never listened to much Dad, But I know what you mean about Jack Cassidy now that you bring it up. Yeah, yeah, I can. I can definitely hear that. Okay, Yeah, I was. I was curious as a bass player. My holy, my holy trinity of like bass players is Phil Lesh, Jack Cassidy, and John Paul Jones. Oh nice, John Paul Jones. Those are my three major inspirations. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Ryan as a bass player does bring He has more of like a melodic style, which, like from the rhythm perspective or like from the drummer, opens up like different opportunities to kind of like make the beat a little more interesting.

Yeah. So it's a cool dynamic. They're both in love with each other. They really love each other a lot. We have this like telepathic thing where I can just we're in the middle of a jam or a song and I can just look at him and he knows exactly what I'm thinking, Yeah, and he just brings it right there. And it's the thing of magic. It's the universal unspoken relationship between the bassis and the drummer. Yea where it comes about. Yeah, that's awesome, very good, very good. Now, what about in terms of songwriting, you guys all write together or how does that work?

It's a little funny. We kind of all write songs separately, so we end up with a pretty wide range of sounds. Like if you listen to the difference between Left Turn and Halifax Blues, it's it's very, very different. I think you two, Sean and Kyle wrote Halifax Blues together and then kind of brought it to the rest of us and we made our parts for it. And Left Turn I wrote just a rift four and sent it off to Kyle and Sean, and next thing we knew we had a song. So we don't really have a set process, I don't think.

Yeah, it's it's a very collaborative process. So kind of how it works is somebody comes up with a song idea, be it Jack or Kyle and Sean or just Sean, Kyle, whatever, Charlie, even myself, and we get together when we practice and we just say, hey, here's a song idea, here are the chords, and we just kind of build it up from there. Okay, That's one thing I really like, is I like having that collaborative process instead of somebody just writing a song and saying, hey, here's how it needs to be. I like the collaboration.

Yeah. Yeah, I have a hunch too that do these change live sometimes because it seems like the style of what you're doing, you know, you've got room to breathe. It's built around improv. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say that's another That's another facet to the songwriting is a lot of times we'll just have a rehearsal and do a warm up jam and I'll just kind of make something up. We do two of those twice a week. That's roughly four new songs a week. Wow. Yeah, So how many songs do you guys have currently?

We have four hundred and sixty. Each of them are different stage box, all them ideas. So like somebody gets an idea, even if it's like a five second little thing, you send it to Sean. He catalogs it, and then we go back and we retrace them and work on them together, bring them to the whole band, and then everyone kind of gets a chance to write on it. Yeah. Yeah. It's very best thing about having Sewn in the band for us is his uh yeah, it's his cataloging ability because he will note down every single little riff idea for its and it all gets neatly organized, uh in our dropbox.

So we could be able to even it's something like back four months ago and it was just like a random get together. He'll still have a little note for it. We can go back and revisit it all. It can it can be. It can be as simple as just a song title that doesn't have a lyric, or that doesn't have any lyrics, or doesn't even have any chords. Yeah, and it goes and the ideas folder. Yeah. Oh that's good. It's good. Good to have somebody who's super organized. We can that's the saving grace. Yeah. Yeah, it might be a freak of nature, as Ryan often says, but you know it keeps us organized.

Yeah. Yeah, no, that's good. That's important. We should all since we were talking about it, we should play this track Halifax Blues. So this is the other one that was recorded at the studio that you work at. Any any any story behind the song or is there. Kyle and I were just sitting in my bedroom one day and he goes, wow, you can really make a song with anything, and he starts playing this this weird uh, whatever theory you wanted to attached to. He started playing that, and then all of a sudden, I start playing a one to five under that and it's like, Wow, I guess you're right.

We can make a song out of anything. That was the first song we released. Yeah, but why Halifax Blues. What's the significance or is there any Yeah, I couldn't tell you that just yeah, that was one that just kind of spawned. We don't just transmit them. Yeah, they kind of sometimes get delivered to us straight into our brains like radio towers exactly. I like it. The song storms pro that one. I think the song Stork is a divine delivery, very title. There we go. That's another one. There you go. The idea is folder.

Put it on the folder. Ye, all right, and it down as we speak. Well, now we definitely have to listen to this. All right, let's check this out. This is Halifax Blues. The band is the whole loaf, lom the top, a cat who rolls around down cigaretts, don't drown me. How I got the windows down to let it all out and willing Bubasu's tuck up on the facts. Please run the top of dog mots too when I see him. When lead I can help myself. Don't you got me rolling round and chasing my tail and wing does like the Blues

that is Halifax Blues. The band is the Whole Loaf, and we have the Whole Loaf with us in studio, literally the entire band. Hey, where's the name come from? By the way, Sean Jean, There's got to be a story behind the name. Yeah, I just woke up one morning and it was in my head and I thought to myself, Wow, see when when when I was looking for all the musicians before I met these guys, I thought, well, I want to start a band that does everything. I want to have no restrictions. I want everybody to play what they want the way they want, and I want everyone to compromise rather than people say no, I don't want to do that, so we can't do that.

So I don't know, I just kind of woke up one morning and it was in my head. I'm like, wow, the Whole Loaf, the whole spectrum, spectrum of music. Yeah, and uh, you know, at first everybody hated it. They're like, no, no, what the hell is that? Then it slowly grew on everyone and they're like, yeah, okay. So I was saying like, yeah, just let it, let it sit for a little bit and if we come up with anything better, we'll take that, and we never did, so it stuck. Did did you did you think about consider some other name?

I love rejected band names so much. Did you have other names that you were thinking about or I don't. I don't really know that we had any that stuck. I know we had a side project with when I was one of the band. One of the cover bands I was in broke up. So I took some of these guys from the very beginning to you know, kind of fill in for one of the shows, and it was us three yeah, and the band name was called Zeke and the Zamboni's Oh that's cool. There was a oh sorry, No, I was just going to say, as for our rejected band names, I don't know that there are any that we remember.

On a personal note, like by the time I joined, the band name was already kind of there. Yeah, Like, as I forget who said it earlier, I want to say it was Kyle, Who's like they basically just stole me. They just picked me up and said yep, you're with us, And I said, all right, I guess. So we convince him to come to a practice and after a couple of songs, we're like, yeah, you're the guy. Well, well, you're the guy, time out, time out. How it actually happened was Kyle messaged me. We had played at the Brew a couple of times, and he said, you know, we're looking shopping around for a bass player.

Would you be interested in filling in if we have any shows coming up? And I said, yeah, sure, I don't mind filling in. I'm not really in any projects, like, let me know. And he's like he's like, all right, great, solid. Well, after a while, you know, they said, hey, we have a gig coming up. Do you want to fill in? And I said yeah, So I came through for a few practices to practice for the gig, and then eventually it was just like, yep, you're the guy we want. You're right. So it's nice when you know, when it's organic like that.

Yeah, then it's when it's easy to put a band together like that, then you know you've really got something. You know, well, and yeah, my

introduction story to these two over here or it's like, I'm not really a big fake guy. But the amount of pieces that had to go together in order to make this introduction happen was super random. It was at the time I was in another college band called Night Visions, and we had hosted a show in our college apartment basement at some point. And at the time one of was my brothers. I'd say, a friend from middle school his name was Brenner, happened to see that I was a drummer and like just turd through the grape vine for that I was able to play drums.

And then it was a random January day where it's I had never really interacted with him much, but he just like hit me up on Snapchat out of the blue. But just like, hey, I was looking to start up a new project, would you be interested to go play drums on it? And at the time, for I was I love playing with my college band, but also like I was open to experimenting with new styles. Yeah, and like my college band was more of a I wouldn't say like scripted, but more of that, Like it's kind of like a set party.

Were playing with these guys. It was like the first time I played with them at Dargan Hall. We just went off on a whole like twenty minute jam session for just making stuff up. We went on a journey. The first song we jammed out together was called lock me in the cupboard their first original jam. And it's kind of funny because that first session was January February twenty fourth of twenty twenty three. Do you know the time too, Probably around six o'clock and I was definitely wearing this jacket.

Wow, all right, Yeah, for context, this is Sean's outfit every day the time. At least change my shirt. It's a good look every once in a while. Excuse me, it's too bad that people can't see it. You look like you stepped out of the time the listeners where Sewan looks like he was just born in the wrong generation, travel straight out of the sixties, right right, Well, actually the shirt though, is not that unlike Ryan's shirt. There just no just so you guys can have matching jackets, then we could go full sixties, get the haircuts sewn and the crowleys.

Now do you guys play out a lot? Are you? Are you playing out every week or how often? We wish? Yeah? Well, actually in May we are playing every weekend for the most part. Yeah, it comes in bursts. Yeah, So we have three shows coming up in May. We have a show May fourth at Sammy's Patio down and Revere. Then The weekend after on May eleventh, we're playing at Strange Brew Tavern home Turf. And then the weekend after that, on May eighteenth, we're opening porch fests down in Malden, Okay. Now, what is that porch Fest?

Is that a big multi day thing. No, it's just a small one day festival. Starts at noon. We'll be playing noon to one. It's put on by the Porch Juke Joint Okay down in Malden Medford area, and they set it up outside and it's kind of a free event for the public. They actually partner with the City of Malden to put it on. Oh cool, cool, very cool. Do you guys ever, do you ever do anything acoustic or is it always electric? Because it seems like your music would you know you could? You could probably play in a lot of different configurations.

I'm the big acoustic guy over here. I mean, we love to play some hog blues. That's a that's a genre we created where we get some acoustic guitars and we just kind of have some fun. Well, it's less of a genre and more of our unique style. He knows all the all the cool chords and I kind of just pick out melodies by ear. Yeah, one plays me from the ear. He has no idea what music theory is, but it's actually incredible. Like he listens to so much music so he just picks it up by ear. And I'm the opposite.

I really like to study. I teach guitar too. It's great. I like to study all that. So it kind of works very well when we play together. Yeah, because I could do something that's decently cool and then he could tell me what it is that I did, and then I'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I can relate to Like I don't know any theory I can, so I can I can relate. I also I played by ear, yeah, and I can never understand. But I'm not good at math, and I think that's I think that's why because it is math, right, I mean basically it's like math.

And how long do you guys play when you when you do a set? Because I would imagine again with these songs, you know you can you can kind of open them up and let them breathe do you do you have you done like multi hour sets or so typically when we are the only band playing that night. So for example, it's strange brew the last gig we had at Strange Brew February fifteenth, we were the only band there. Same with the Gate coming up on May eleventh. We usually play about three hours. Wow, yeah, no kidding.

I play a full three hour set, two sets with like a fifteen to twenty minute break in between. Yeah. Yeah, oh that's really good. Is it all originals? Do you do any Do you throw some covers in there? Or there's plenty of covers? Yeah? Are there? We we like our covers. Yeah. Yeah. You know, some of these guys keep saying like, oh, well, we can't be a cover bands, you know, we got to do originals. And I always keep saying there's way too many good songs out there to not play well. It's kind of goes back to what Sean was saying about the idea behind the whole Loaf name for in, just like our inclusive vibe that we have, it's we still want to be able to mix in for those covers, right as well as the originals.

Yeah yeah, no, that makes sense. And is it challenging with five of you in the band? Is it? Is it challenging in terms of scheduling like getting together for rehearsals and booking shows and whatnot. Is that actually where it goes all We all chip in a little bit on getting show is doing all kind of all that kind of work. But we have set days where we practice. Yep. I wouldn't say it's too much of a struggle. We rehearsed twice a week consistently. If someone is out one of those days, typically the rest of the guys will do something whether it's recording or rehearsal with one less person and then ask for shows.

Those usually work out pretty good too, Yeah, yeah, good, And it goes back we acustic thing too, Like we're hosting an open jam in Nashua and it's just gonna be the two of us meet and Kyle at the Kaba Bar. Yep, oh very good. Well, when it comes to gigs where it's we don't, I would say we don't operate in Let's find a day convenient for us and then we'll figure out our schedule. It's more we get offered a day and we'll cancel everything else that's going off to go. Yeah, yeah, yes, that is accurate.

There you go, there you go. Oh and how did you how did you get we we ended up not Jenny and I weren't able to stay for your set that night. But you guys played at the Midnight I never got the name right, Midnight Creators Collective, Midnight Creators Collective. Thank you. Yeah, Eleanor is amazing, She's she's doing a great job with that. But how did you guys get involved with that, with with playing that? Uh that show? We didn't play that show. We didn't play that show. We were just there. We got invited.

Oh I thought you guys played that night. No, no, no, no, just visiting. We got offered. It was all because of Greg He. I honestly don't know his last name. I wish I did, but he is the proprietor of the Kava Bar down in Ashua. Rude Awakening Kava Bar. Check it out. It's a very interesting spot. We played there a couple of times, and we're we're doing a reoccurring open mic now month. Oh okay, it's the last Saturday of every month, So come down and either play with us or play by yourself. Pretty much, do whatever you want.

Yeah, yeah, you're not, you're not gonna We're not We're not sour dough. People were very friendly. Yeah yeah, but but yeah, Greg, he's the owner there, and he mentioned how Eleanor was the main investor trying to get something going in the Nashuay area. And then another friend of ours, who's actually he takes lessons from Kyle, Mike McDowell offered sent us like a Facebook thing inviting us to it, and I said, hey, we should go check it out. See if it's beneficial. See what's going on there. Yeah, it's Yeah, it's a cool.

It's a cool space. We should. We can play another song if you guys want to pick something. Uh, what's uh do you have? Do you have the list? Let's see we've got do I see the way I was thinking Pink Gypsy? Maybe? Oh yeah, good one? Did we did we send them New Canaan Blues. No, that's disappointing. Yeah, but I do have Pink Gypsy. Yeah, pink Gypsy. Yeah. And uh now this is one of the basement recordings. Yes, eat, yeah, okay cool? Kyle and I wrote this one right most part yeah, and this one. And I'll say too for saying like playing wise for the take that we got from that we sent in for this take, it wasn't perfect for like there there there are a few little mistakes here there, But like the mixing engineer has to has to say that, you don't don't tell them that, Charlie, you can say that, you could say that, just don't tell them the time.

Sam, I'm just saying this gives you a taste of our more like raw. Like this was just a one take, like we just hit record and went for it. All right, cool, This was the This was a standard Tuesday night for us, all right, So we'll get a sample of the whole loaf on a standard Tuesday night. Here it is. This is pig gypsy. Let's check it out. Dance up to dote your music. Say man, you pose me? Tell joy put on the side of the wall. Bensun said he was inside besides being maybe got a play a man downside, got a past, kill your weather, what about your money?

Down the dog head? His name is ware but you bet you and went up and see said it. That's the mo the gas. We can still a grass on the scremy down in the middle of the road. The baby a the mask in the way that's look at both plays to his name all down the Mexico your go with the son of Pico. Sid came in on the given say hey, by what mother saying? I want you gain the ad the head guy he loved men that ain't too coold? Hold no man was trying to bands plays most burning fine, Why don't you June man man man jesuit?

Won't you go with them? Got my stuff? I'm my girl. God b gets on a week and here on the road. Make it pretty far up. Then you don't believe in me. God gets up.

I can play game, don't you want? I still got that jazz met

at a time? All right? That is uh? I think gypsy very good. That is the whole loaf in studio with us. No, I like that a lot. And I was saying off air, you get a really good recording there in the in the basement there, So that's no, that's really good. Guys. We're we're The time goes quickly before we run out of time at the end of the hour, and we'll finish off with one more song. We won't be able to fit the whole thing, but well we'll play a little something at the end. But what should people know about?

Where to find you online? How to keep up with everything that you're doing? Website, social media, all of that, so we have our own website, beautifully crafted by yours truly, it's www dot thewhole loaf dot net. Don't forget the www because I might have screwed up some DNS settings by accident. Sean Crawley, Sean Crowley, everyone, I'm here all day. Actually I'm here for the next ten minutes. Are you Are you serious about the DNS settings? I'm a web designer, so I'm just curious. I'm yeah, the geek and me is like, what Google domains?

Just switch to Squarespace and our site doesn't come up if you don't put the WWW. Really, yeah, I still have to look into that. I just haven't had the time. Weird, Yeah, but we know. What's funny about it is because anybody who knows me knows, so I always cringe when I hear people say the www, like I hear it in radio ads still in the year twenty twenty four, and I'm like why, And I've been saying that for twenty years, So I was kind of thinking that when you were saying it, But now that you've explained why you have to do that, it makes sense.

But it's also like, wow, that's so weird. Yeah, I can. I have Google to think. Wow, well, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, I have a couple of minutes during the day. John's really broken up about it. Yeah I am. Yeah, he hasn't slept in days. Oh, it would frust it would frustrate me to no end. I'd be like, I wouldn't sleep ever again until I hadn't figured out. I'd be so I'd be so upset. It's a one who hasn't written a song about it yet, to be honest, Oh, I have don't start anyway. Our other socials besides the Whole Loaf dot net, you could find us on Instagram and TikTok at the dot Whole Loaf.

That's it. Facebook, I believe is the Whole Loaf. Ryan can probably confirm that for me that would be confirmed. Yes, YouTube as well as the Whole Loaf, and I don't know what else we have. We're on Spotify, we have Halifax Blues and Left Turnout, and we'll be releasing some more music shortly. Yeah, it's all the music are is on all major streaming services far as we use one of those distribution services for it. Make sure that all the songs get released everywhere. Excellent. More, I would say, if you'd have to pick one to go to for it's the Instagram and our bio.

We have a link tree that will redirect you to all of our other associated websites. So that's probably the easiest way to get to know the whole loaf. Yea more importantly too, if you go to our website and you go under I want to say it's media and you go on archive Media, archive sessions, it is. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it right now. If you to Media archives sessions, that's pretty much everything we've ever done, every practice, every practice, every gig, everything we record everything we've ever done.

Wow, So you can scroll through, pick a random thing and you can see everything that we play during that practice or what have you, gig whatever. Yeah, yeah, no, actually sorry, it's it's it's recordings, not sessions. So it's media. Yeah, radio and Sean. How many recordings did we are we at? Now? Oh, dear god. So as I said, we're at four hundred and sixty eight originals and the recordings themselves covers the originals. All the session stuff is well over a thousand. I lost track. Yeah, I'm looking at the page Yeah, it's got Each one has the date, rehearsal at Charlie's house, rehearsal at Kyle's house.

Yeah. Wow, I'm a this is cool. It's really cool to do that. And if you and then if you click into the date, it gives you the set list, and then if you click each song in the set list, it will bring you to a Google page to play it. Oh my god. Wow. So you can hear all of our music for free on our website. So not only can you see the evolution of how songs develop over time, but we also include what they're called like intermission snippets, but also just some of the fun like banter moments. Yeah, we have in practice, those are treats.

Oh that's awesome. No, good for you guys, Good for you for doing that. Thank you. I went to the the reason I pulled up the website on the browsers. I was like, I gotta test this, and sure, I typed in the whole loaf dot net. Nothing happened. It said not secure or something. I put in the WWW and it took me right to it. Yeah, I'm just I just have to go in and set up a redirect. But we don't even have a Squarespace account yet, so I'm gonna have to create that, yeah, to access the domain again and then make the edits do some surgery.

That's crazy that you have to do that. And I've been putting it off because I want to wait until I have time to actually sit down and go through all of the I'm essentially going to be exploring a completely new platform from scratch, so I want to make sure I do it thoroughly rather than yeah, I can relate to that, because I'm the same way with stuff like that. It's like I'll have something that I really want to do, like something like this would be driving me nuts, But at the same time, it's like, but I need to find time where I can just sit uninterrupted for what could potentially be several hours.

Ye and and so it's that battle that goes on in my mind. It's like, oh, I really got to get this done because this is killing me. But I got to wait for a time when I can really dig into it because I know it's going to be so I can I can relate and instead of just going to like a provider that could do it for us, or it's I think as we want to take the time to get the experience of like figuring out how all these pieces come together. And we also have an idea too, it's we're also interested in starting up a record label, too Bad Records.

Being able to have all these tools and disposal would be cool to have for we venture. Yeah, definitely. What's it gonna be called? Unslice? Mind? I think you said, well, the whole loaf can't be on sliced, right right? Gotcha, There's no point in putting it back together, I gotcha. We just have a couple. Well, here a little bit of U should we do black and white radio? Black and white? I don't know why I said black and white radio? Obviously it's just black and white? You want? You want to do our garage floors?

Yeah? Well this is going to be our next next single. I don't state yet, but this is it and the B side is going to be fullsome Prison Blues. Kidding one is garage floors, Jack codges very cool. I didn't write full Someome Prison right right right? Anybody's wondering I got to mention that one's a cover. You didn't tell me that. How long has this been going on? Well, guys, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. It's great to meet all of you and have you in and I've really enjoyed the discussion.

I'm a big fan of your music, and so thank you for coming in today. Thank you for having us, absolutely, thank you very much. You man. Before we get off the air, man, I wanted to give you our first official piece of band merch. Some stickers. Oh, very for you and two for Jen who unfortunately couldn't be here in the studio. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, of course, very nice, very nice. I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, she's got Fox and the Flamingos gave us a couple of stickers too, and I was saying, you know, Jenny, she likes to put stickers on her laptop.

Perfect, She's got stickers all over them, so she'll love those. Yeah, thank you very much, thank you, thank you for having us again. Absolutely, and we'll leave you with a little bit of garage floors from the whole loaf. Thanks again, guys, Thank you. Sas

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