Matt Connarton Unleashed: TRAWL

0:00 Speaker 1: World premiere.

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0:12 Speaker 2: that we all know you couldn't touch about pretty goods

0:17 Speaker 2: and the best expody shows. He thinks that he's the

0:22 Speaker 2: bomber everything that that he wants to be in his arm.

0:25 Speaker 3: Just take a little cat his mask.

0:27 Speaker 2: And you don't realize that's full loves Press Tompson. But

0:39 Speaker 2: he thinks he's said everybody's friend.

0:44 Speaker 4: Oh boy, he's so tool.

0:49 Speaker 2: But we all know that he's took a fool.

0:56 Speaker 5: A top ten issue.

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1:06 Speaker 2: I turned them seas from a time winning A man

1:12 Speaker 2: of surprising will break every one's time reader's dead rise

1:16 Speaker 2: like glass is he gons match.

1:18 Speaker 6: You want to turn around and shout it up.

1:20 Speaker 2: In Franchise's he's the work the boys back. The man's

1:25 Speaker 2: really upsurd these teams of the past. A high school

1:30 Speaker 2: captain still smoking.

1:31 Speaker 5: Team pass.

1:34 Speaker 3: Was here johns Sam.

1:40 Speaker 2: He thinks he's saying three bodies.

1:42 Speaker 5: Then, oh boy, he's so cool.

1:51 Speaker 3: Well we all know that he's just up fool. The

1:57 Speaker 3: jack is sick you.

2:02 Speaker 6: He's got praise like no.

2:08 Speaker 3: Turn dol Sea.

2:09 Speaker 5: Food Watch one.

2:16 Speaker 7: And we know the truck.

2:19 Speaker 3: When it's caused wone.

2:21 Speaker 1: There he goes poof.

2:46 Speaker 5: When he comes out.

2:52 Speaker 2: What he thinks he's a Fred Body's friend.

2:57 Speaker 6: Oh boy, he's so cool.

3:03 Speaker 2: Well we all know that he sut up.

3:14 Speaker 7: He's got pretty fi.

3:20 Speaker 5: A dirt bec like your sid.

3:42 Speaker 8: Oh that is so good. That is Braggadocio. And the

3:45 Speaker 8: band is Troll. And we've got Troll here with us,

3:49 Speaker 8: live in studio, and so happy to have you with us.

3:51 Speaker 8: That is the world radio premiere of that track, by

3:53 Speaker 8: the way, that has not been heard on the radio

3:56 Speaker 8: prior to today. So we do love the world radio premieres.

3:58 Speaker 8: And we've got the members of trall all four guys

4:01 Speaker 8: are here with us live in studio. Welcome, gentlemen, let's

4:05 Speaker 8: do this. Let's uh start with you, sir. We'll go

4:08 Speaker 8: around the room and tell us who you are and

4:10 Speaker 8: what you do in the band.

4:11 Speaker 1: I am Sean. I am the singer of Well. I

4:14 Speaker 1: make mouth noises. Let me get that right. I make

4:16 Speaker 1: mouth noises for Troll.

4:17 Speaker 8: All right, welcome shot.

4:18 Speaker 6: I'm Adam. I hit things.

4:20 Speaker 8: Adam, you hit things?

4:21 Speaker 9: Okay.

4:22 Speaker 1: I played guitar justin you play guitar.

4:25 Speaker 9: Very good, seth, I play the big guitar or also

4:28 Speaker 9: known as the Bass the bass.

4:29 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, well welcome. By the way, I did enjoy

4:33 Speaker 8: we were talking off here. I really like that that

4:35 Speaker 8: bass solo there and braggadocio. That's really good.

4:39 Speaker 9: Thank you so much.

4:39 Speaker 6: That every band has to have a bass solo song.

4:44 Speaker 8: Well actually a lot of bands would disagree with that,

4:46 Speaker 8: but I'm all for it.

4:48 Speaker 9: I can sneak one in there. I'm always psyched.

4:50 Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely man. And by the way, so I appreciate

4:54 Speaker 8: you guys traveling too. You know, we have a lot

4:57 Speaker 8: of artists on the show from various parts. We just

5:02 Speaker 8: talked to awaiting Abigail from Texas of course, and they

5:04 Speaker 8: skyped in or what we're using in place of Skype

5:06 Speaker 8: now because Skype has apparently gone away. But usually, you know,

5:09 Speaker 8: when people are joining us live in studio, they're usually

5:11 Speaker 8: you know, maybe within within an hour max. But you

5:13 Speaker 8: guys drove all the way down from Portland on a

5:16 Speaker 8: rainy Saturday morning. So I really appreciate that you're here. Yeah,

5:19 Speaker 8: absolutely pleasure. And of course our friend Nathan Hill, he's

5:23 Speaker 8: in the chat room. He was he drove a long

5:25 Speaker 8: way too to get here. He was on the show recently,

5:26 Speaker 8: and so I think he's the one who actually connected

5:29 Speaker 8: us with you guys, who connected Jenny. Yes, but we've

5:31 Speaker 8: been aware of you for a long time. I certainly have.

5:35 Speaker 8: In fact, Jay Bellow from Chasing the Devil he had

5:38 Speaker 8: said something about you guys in the chat room I

5:40 Speaker 8: think a couple of weeks ago, and he might be

5:41 Speaker 8: listening hyj and yeah, he said, because I think they

5:43 Speaker 8: did they play a show with you.

5:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, we basically them. That was the last summer show, yeah,

5:48 Speaker 1: non Poaching the Devil's last July.

5:52 Speaker 9: Yeah.

5:52 Speaker 8: Oh very cool.

5:53 Speaker 1: Great dudes love Chasing the Devil. Would love to get

5:55 Speaker 1: you know, hooked up at them again because they put

5:57 Speaker 1: on a hell of a show.

5:58 Speaker 8: So oh absolutely, Yeah, they're incredible. And I've known Jay forever,

6:02 Speaker 8: uh since back in his purge d I days. Yeah,

6:05 Speaker 8: long time, long time. But yeah, so I've been uh

6:10 Speaker 8: forgive me, my allergies have been out of control and

6:13 Speaker 8: then I hope the rain washes away to pollen, but

6:15 Speaker 8: it doesn't seem to.

6:15 Speaker 9: Work that way.

6:17 Speaker 8: So if I a couple of times, that's why I'm sorry.

6:19 Speaker 8: I'm not sick. I'm just uh, it's a it's a

6:22 Speaker 8: rough spring. But uh but yeah, so I've been aware

6:24 Speaker 8: of you guys for a while. I've seen you live.

6:27 Speaker 8: I can't remember where it was. It might have been

6:29 Speaker 8: a few years ago. Oh yeah, if you played a

6:33 Speaker 8: few years ago we played. We've played a couple of

6:35 Speaker 8: places in Manchester. We've played a Jewel right up the street.

6:37 Speaker 8: That's where I was.

6:38 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I remember Jewel.

6:40 Speaker 1: And then last time we were down here we played

6:41 Speaker 1: at the Goat. We played the Blackstone Cherry. It was

6:43 Speaker 1: a little mini run we did for we had our

6:47 Speaker 1: CD release, and then we played two shows back to

6:49 Speaker 1: back with Blackstone Cherry, once in the Goat down here,

6:52 Speaker 1: and then we went to Wally's in Hampton Beach to

6:55 Speaker 1: you know out so yeah, yeah, yeah.

6:58 Speaker 8: I remember seeing you guys a Jewel. That's that's the

7:00 Speaker 8: show I was at, and yeah, we were just very impressed.

7:03 Speaker 8: But you've been around for a while, right, Pral's been

7:05 Speaker 8: around for at least five or six years.

7:08 Speaker 9: Right, Yeah. We started in about I think June of

7:11 Speaker 9: twenty eighteen, so it's been next month will be seven

7:15 Speaker 9: years for trial, So.

7:16 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, same lineup or has that changed over the years.

7:20 Speaker 9: It just changed a little. Sean and I have been

7:23 Speaker 9: in the entire time. And we've known Adam and Justin

7:28 Speaker 9: for for a very long time and they've been friends

7:31 Speaker 9: and fellow musicians, and Adam and I were in a

7:33 Speaker 9: band together for a long time. But Justin on guitar

7:37 Speaker 9: came in almost five years ago, and then Adam came

7:42 Speaker 9: in three years ago. So we've been the same lineup

7:44 Speaker 9: for three years and I really feel like we've, in

7:48 Speaker 9: my opinion, kind of hit our stride with the line

7:50 Speaker 9: I feel like this is the lineup. Yeah. Yeah.

7:54 Speaker 8: In terms of your live shows, does any of the

7:56 Speaker 8: early material survive? Is that carried forth?

7:59 Speaker 5: Oh?

7:59 Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah.

8:00 Speaker 1: We play a lot of you know, everything that we've written.

8:03 Speaker 1: We pretty much play okay, kind of in a rotation

8:06 Speaker 1: depending on you know, where we are, who we're playing with.

8:08 Speaker 1: We try to cater to the set, you know, who's there.

8:12 Speaker 1: You know, if it's heavier, we might tend to push

8:15 Speaker 1: ourselves a little bit in the heavier direction. But we

8:18 Speaker 1: play pretty much everything. I think there's two songs that

8:20 Speaker 1: we just kind of retired based on and we wrote

8:24 Speaker 1: them and we like them, and then it's like, yeah,

8:27 Speaker 1: kind of outgrew it. It's just not it doesn't hit

8:30 Speaker 1: the way it hit when we wrote it.

8:31 Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm always curious because I've been in bands where

8:34 Speaker 8: sometimes if there's a change in members, you know, there's

8:37 Speaker 8: sometimes there might be somebody in the band who's like, ah,

8:39 Speaker 8: that's from before, we shouldn't do that, which which I

8:41 Speaker 8: would always fight against because I was always like, I

8:44 Speaker 8: was in a band called My Life Crisis, which went

8:45 Speaker 8: through a lot of different permutations through through the years,

8:48 Speaker 8: and I was always like, well, I know these songs

8:50 Speaker 8: are from an old lineup, but still, you know, these

8:52 Speaker 8: are songs that we made. I mean, we made this music.

8:54 Speaker 8: It's our music.

8:55 Speaker 6: A good song is a good song exactly worth it

8:57 Speaker 6: than play it exactly.

8:59 Speaker 8: And it's heartbreaking to have to retire something just because

9:02 Speaker 8: you know, like if you've got one guy in the

9:03 Speaker 8: band who's like, I don't want to play that anymore

9:05 Speaker 8: because you know that's tied to a previous lineup, and

9:08 Speaker 8: it's like, oh, come on, man, I've.

9:09 Speaker 6: Done that a few times. And it's like if the

9:11 Speaker 6: guy who left actually wrote the song like that was

9:13 Speaker 6: his baby, yeah kind of understand it, Yeah.

9:16 Speaker 8: I yeah, I can kind of understand although that that

9:19 Speaker 8: ended up in the band. I was talking about that

9:21 Speaker 8: I was in that that did become a big point

9:23 Speaker 8: of contention. It all worked out in the end, but yeah.

9:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, and we kind of like let the the people

9:29 Speaker 9: tell us what they want to hear too, because a

9:31 Speaker 9: lot of times we'll reach out and say, hey, what

9:32 Speaker 9: do you want to what do you want to see

9:33 Speaker 9: this weekend? And and some of our older songs people

9:37 Speaker 9: want want to see live. So we're you know, we

9:39 Speaker 9: actually close with car chard On and it's like it

9:44 Speaker 9: was one of the first songs we ever wrote, and

9:46 Speaker 9: it's literally been our closer for like our entire of

9:50 Speaker 9: the band.

9:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, really, yeah, yeah, it was the first song we

9:53 Speaker 1: recorded and put out, and honestly, like when we got

9:56 Speaker 1: it going, it was just a hey, we got to

9:58 Speaker 1: have something to show what we're do when like we

10:00 Speaker 1: are playing shows. But car Chardon was the first one

10:03 Speaker 1: we recorded, and Seth sold like a bunch of comic

10:06 Speaker 1: books to help pay for it and stuff like that. Yeah,

10:08 Speaker 1: Like it was funny because the conversation we had the

10:10 Speaker 1: songs about a shark from the point of view of

10:13 Speaker 1: a shark. Yeah, and Seth sold the Batman comic book

10:16 Speaker 1: that had shark on the cover, and we were.

10:19 Speaker 9: Saying about it was like Batman two fifty one. There

10:22 Speaker 9: it is Batman Fights a Shark. It's the one with

10:24 Speaker 9: Joker on the cover, with the with the actual playing card,

10:27 Speaker 9: really and it's an iconic cover and I ended up

10:32 Speaker 9: parting ways with it to get the money to to

10:35 Speaker 9: go record that song. Yeah, but I don't regret it.

10:38 Speaker 9: I don't regret it, and I'll buy it back some days.

10:40 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can always get it first.

10:42 Speaker 1: There we recorded and it's been our closer ever since,

10:45 Speaker 1: just because we feel like it's just a fun song. Yeah,

10:48 Speaker 1: it always is a good time and people when we

10:50 Speaker 1: first played it. I remember the faces. People were like, Okay,

10:53 Speaker 1: they were getting into all the stuff we'd done and

10:55 Speaker 1: this song came on and they weren't anticipating what would

10:57 Speaker 1: happen towards the end of it, and they were like,

11:00 Speaker 1: what just occurred was not in my purview of what

11:05 Speaker 1: was going on this entire set. And so it's just

11:07 Speaker 1: been one of those fun surprises. If you've never seen

11:09 Speaker 1: us and you come see this and you hear that song,

11:11 Speaker 1: you're like, what was that?

11:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Is it being a band

11:18 Speaker 8: from Portland?

11:19 Speaker 6: Is it? Uh?

11:19 Speaker 5: Is it?

11:21 Speaker 8: This might be a strange question.

11:22 Speaker 9: I don't know.

11:23 Speaker 8: Is it hard to stand out there when you're first

11:24 Speaker 8: starting to build a following, because people say this about Boston, like,

11:28 Speaker 8: if you're a Boston band, there's so many Boston bands,

11:30 Speaker 8: it's hard to stand out, and like up here it's

11:32 Speaker 8: a little easier. But but Portland, for as long as

11:35 Speaker 8: I can remember, has always had a pretty incredible music

11:37 Speaker 8: scene too. It seems like there's a lot of really

11:39 Speaker 8: good bands in Portland. I mean, is that is it competitive?

11:41 Speaker 8: Like what's the I haven't I used to do a

11:44 Speaker 8: lot in Portland. I used to promote shows and stuff

11:46 Speaker 8: when I was more into that part of the business.

11:48 Speaker 8: But but but I've been kind of disengaged from Portland

11:51 Speaker 8: as a city for a long time, so I don't

11:53 Speaker 8: really know, like what the vibe is there now.

11:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, i'd say it is it is tough to stand out.

11:58 Speaker 9: I think it's just about kind of finding your other peers,

12:01 Speaker 9: your other bands that like you fit well with, and

12:04 Speaker 9: kind of trying to create critical mass with like two

12:07 Speaker 9: or three bands that like everyone will come out and

12:09 Speaker 9: see and the and the audience makes sense, which has

12:12 Speaker 9: been a rotating cast over the years because a lot

12:14 Speaker 9: of bands, you know, fall off and break up, and

12:18 Speaker 9: new bands are always popping up. So we're always trying

12:22 Speaker 9: to find new bands to play with that that are

12:25 Speaker 9: exciting to us, that we like their sound. But Portland

12:28 Speaker 9: in general is is tough because you've got a lot

12:31 Speaker 9: of tourism and you kind of got this whole upper

12:35 Speaker 9: end rising up with the you know, luxury condos and whatnot,

12:39 Speaker 9: and so you've got you've got kind of two Portland's.

12:42 Speaker 9: You know, you got the the sort of the tourists

12:45 Speaker 9: and and sort of higher priced end, and then you've

12:48 Speaker 9: got your your bars and clubs and you know, sort

12:50 Speaker 9: of the local scene end. And and there's a lot

12:54 Speaker 9: of clubs that don't cater to rock and metal, and

12:57 Speaker 9: there's a there's a few that do, and those are

12:59 Speaker 9: always a movie target. And it's been tough through the

13:02 Speaker 9: pandemic like that. You know, some of them didn't survive,

13:06 Speaker 9: and so we're we're always trying to like take the

13:10 Speaker 9: pulse of like, okay, what's happening now, you know, where

13:13 Speaker 9: should we be playing now? What places should we be

13:17 Speaker 9: looking to play if we haven't yet, And so it's

13:19 Speaker 9: I think it's literally changes probably every six months to

13:24 Speaker 9: a year. Yeah, so it's yeah, it's hard like and

13:26 Speaker 9: I don't I don't think it used to move that quickly.

13:29 Speaker 9: Things seem to stay the same for every couple of years,

13:31 Speaker 9: but now things moved so quickly.

13:33 Speaker 8: But yeah, that's interesting.

13:35 Speaker 9: Yeah.

13:35 Speaker 6: I call it the snow globe effect. And I saw it.

13:37 Speaker 6: I used to. I grew up in mass and played

13:39 Speaker 6: in bands for Boston. Yeah, it's like every couple of years,

13:41 Speaker 6: you just kind of shake up the snow globe and

13:43 Speaker 6: put it back down. And this guy's moved over here,

13:45 Speaker 6: and this guy's moved over here. This guy retired and left,

13:48 Speaker 6: and but this dude came out of nowhere and now

13:50 Speaker 6: he took his spot. Yeah, so it's still the same

13:52 Speaker 6: core group of people. You've just kind of shaken it

13:55 Speaker 6: up a little bit.

13:55 Speaker 8: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Are there bands

13:58 Speaker 8: that you're you know, because it does happen organically, are

14:01 Speaker 8: there other bands in Portland that you play a lot

14:03 Speaker 8: of shows with that you've kind of sort of teamed

14:05 Speaker 8: up with. Maybe, just like I said, sometimes it just

14:08 Speaker 8: kind of happens, you know.

14:09 Speaker 6: I think it's cyclical, Yeah, kind of rotation, Like he's

14:13 Speaker 6: six months and you just kind of latch on.

14:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like like Seth was saying, a lot

14:18 Speaker 1: of bands, unfortunately, they just they retire. They they they're

14:22 Speaker 1: done playing, and that's kind of crappy. We like, you know,

14:26 Speaker 1: some of the bands we really like, they just decided

14:30 Speaker 1: it wasn't in them and theymore they didn't have the drive,

14:33 Speaker 1: so they kind of just laid it to rest. And

14:35 Speaker 1: it's like, well that stinks. I really like, we really

14:39 Speaker 1: liked playing with you guys, and they're like, yeah, well

14:42 Speaker 1: we got other projects coming out, and it's like, well,

14:44 Speaker 1: let us know, we'd love to connect with you and

14:46 Speaker 1: do it again. And yeah, it's it's always a matter

14:48 Speaker 1: of if those people are coming back into the scene

14:51 Speaker 1: or if they just they did lay it to rest

14:53 Speaker 1: and they're just they're moving on. So yeah, it's hard.

14:56 Speaker 1: It's it is very competitive up there, but a big

14:59 Speaker 1: thing for us, we just want to have fun. Yeah,

15:01 Speaker 1: and if you're having fun, you're doing it right.

15:03 Speaker 9: Yep.

15:04 Speaker 1: If you're not having fun, you screwed up somewhere and

15:07 Speaker 1: you need to fix that.

15:08 Speaker 5: Yeah.

15:08 Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, And we also play in New Hampshire quite

15:11 Speaker 9: a lot. Yeah, we've actually I'd say we probably play

15:14 Speaker 9: in New Hampshire half the time.

15:16 Speaker 1: Probably you're a little more than half the time.

15:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got often enough where we could like apply

15:20 Speaker 9: for residency and save some money on taxes or something.

15:22 Speaker 6: But right, right, next two shows are actually in New Hampshire,

15:26 Speaker 6: yeah are yeah, yeah.

15:27 Speaker 8: Yep, yeah, so we should mention those.

15:29 Speaker 1: Yeah.

15:30 Speaker 9: Yeah, let's see Friday, so less than two weeks away. Friday,

15:36 Speaker 9: May twenty third, we're at the Stone Church in Newmarket, excellent,

15:41 Speaker 9: and then our next show after that is Sunday, June

15:44 Speaker 9: twenty second, we're playing Seacoast Metalfest at the Garage at

15:49 Speaker 9: the Governor's in in Rochester. I'm sure. So those are

15:53 Speaker 9: our next two shows, okay, and then we're actually playing

15:55 Speaker 9: in Manchester way later this year. It's on the books,

15:58 Speaker 9: it's it's been floated out there, but not like it's

16:01 Speaker 9: it's public, but they're not pushing it yet.

16:03 Speaker 8: Yeah.

16:04 Speaker 9: It's Friday November seventh at the Shaskiene with with Polka

16:09 Speaker 9: Dot Cadaver. Oh no, it'll be a cool show. Yeah.

16:12 Speaker 8: I don't know Polka Dot Caver, but that's a cool name.

16:14 Speaker 8: I'm I'm very I'm very intrigued just from the name.

16:19 Speaker 9: They're a crazy band. They are from kind of in

16:22 Speaker 9: Baltimore slash Baltimore slash Maine. They've got members kind of

16:26 Speaker 9: in both places. Wow, but they're they're Florida or kind

16:30 Speaker 9: of derived from the members of Dog Fashion Disco, who

16:33 Speaker 9: were a band for for from.

16:35 Speaker 8: Late from Baltimore. I remember them. I saw I saw

16:39 Speaker 8: them in Boston.

16:41 Speaker 6: Wow.

16:41 Speaker 8: That yeah a long time ago.

16:43 Speaker 6: Oh my god.

16:43 Speaker 9: All the same guys in both bands. They actually play

16:46 Speaker 9: songs from both. So yeah, we're excited to do We're

16:48 Speaker 9: doing a two show run with them in November this year.

16:50 Speaker 1: So Jason are just absolutely amazing dudes to work with

16:54 Speaker 1: and we love, you know, hanging out with them and

16:56 Speaker 1: being able to do this. And last year we were

16:58 Speaker 1: gonna play down here, but somebody in the band caught

17:02 Speaker 1: the plague.

17:03 Speaker 10: Oh and we had to.

17:05 Speaker 1: Kill off two shows just because still seth I was

17:07 Speaker 1: sick and yeah, and it happens. And honestly, they were

17:11 Speaker 1: really nice and said, hey, let's do this again. You know,

17:14 Speaker 1: we don't care. You guys got sick, you know, And

17:16 Speaker 1: it was actually didn't you go down and cover? Yeah?

17:19 Speaker 6: Yeah, band played instead, Oh kick over for.

17:22 Speaker 1: One of our spots. But it was. It was really

17:25 Speaker 1: cool and they were super nice to be like, hey,

17:26 Speaker 1: let's do it again. We're really excited about playing with

17:29 Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, we were like absolutely, because Seth and

17:31 Speaker 1: I have been listening to the Dog Fashion Slash Polka

17:34 Speaker 1: Dot for for forever twenty five years now almost thirty years.

17:38 Speaker 1: What however long they've been a band.

17:39 Speaker 9: So talking about bands with longevity from Maine, though, Adam's

17:44 Speaker 9: band Loki has been around for twenty five years. Wow,

17:48 Speaker 9: in some former fashion.

17:49 Speaker 6: I've only been in it for like eighteen Yeah, oh

17:52 Speaker 6: is that all? And we were eighteen.

17:54 Speaker 9: We were in that band together for seven years.

17:56 Speaker 10: Oh.

17:57 Speaker 9: So that's where Adam and I know each other from.

17:58 Speaker 9: So we collectively have a decade of rhythm section jamming.

18:02 Speaker 1: So so it's funny that that the band Loki comes

18:05 Speaker 1: up because before either of these guys were involved, I

18:09 Speaker 1: was roommates with the drummer for a while and it

18:11 Speaker 1: was actually the Roady four Loki for a couple of years,

18:15 Speaker 1: and then like I moved out with my current wife

18:17 Speaker 1: and you know, stopped doing roady work for them. But

18:19 Speaker 1: then these guys came in. And it's funny because Justin

18:22 Speaker 1: and I about the same time that these guys started

18:25 Speaker 1: with Loki, him and I had a band together like

18:28 Speaker 1: forever ago, and it was interesting.

18:32 Speaker 9: And actually actually Adam and I met justin because Loki

18:36 Speaker 9: played with one of his former bands probably yeah twenty.

18:41 Speaker 6: I think eight eight or something like that.

18:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going to say eight.

18:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, what we're saying.

18:48 Speaker 9: I'm feeling it anyway.

18:51 Speaker 1: Last week, Yeah, you don't look a day under fifty.

18:55 Speaker 6: Bunch of weaps.

18:57 Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, wow wow, Okay, So where does the

19:00 Speaker 8: name come from? Troll? What does that mean?

19:03 Speaker 9: So trall is something that I just you know, I

19:06 Speaker 9: I searched for a long time for I love one

19:10 Speaker 9: word band names. Yeah, you know, Rush, Tool, Primus, Clutch, Clutch,

19:15 Speaker 9: bands like that, and it's so hard to find a

19:19 Speaker 9: one word band name that just hits. It has, you know,

19:22 Speaker 9: one syllable, and I liked troll. It also means, you know,

19:26 Speaker 9: like with a trolling net, you're you're you're dragging behind

19:29 Speaker 9: a boat. It's like, you know, like picking up the

19:32 Speaker 9: sea life and all that. But but it also means

19:34 Speaker 9: to search, to troll through something, to search through something. Yeah,

19:37 Speaker 9: and I thought it was cool because you know, you

19:39 Speaker 9: can kind of apply the meaning to search to anything,

19:41 Speaker 9: you know, whether you're looking for you know, just like uh,

19:45 Speaker 9: you know, friendship or or like, uh, you know, a

19:48 Speaker 9: good time, or like searching for meaning in something like

19:51 Speaker 9: you can kind of apply that to just about anything.

19:54 Speaker 9: So I thought it was a cool name and it suck.

19:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, totally, it's funny. So I didn't know what

19:58 Speaker 8: trill meant. But then when you expl but I don't know.

20:01 Speaker 8: Maybe in the back of my mind I did know,

20:03 Speaker 8: maybe subconsciously, because when when you said it had something

20:06 Speaker 8: to do.

20:06 Speaker 9: With voting, and you know, yeah, like a troller net. Yeah,

20:09 Speaker 9: for some.

20:09 Speaker 8: Reason that like, oh that makes sense. Yeah, no, very cool.

20:15 Speaker 8: And what about the logo was that you?

20:17 Speaker 9: That was me too? Yeah?

20:18 Speaker 6: Yeah.

20:20 Speaker 1: Our stuff, like art wise is Seth. Okay, this is

20:24 Speaker 1: a mad genius when it comes to the artwork and

20:28 Speaker 1: setting things up. So like the CD designs. He doesn't

20:31 Speaker 1: do the cover art. That's somebody. We have a couple

20:34 Speaker 1: of different people we've used for that. But okay, I

20:36 Speaker 1: mean any T shirt you see is Seth. The original

20:40 Speaker 1: logo of the shark with the triangle is Seth. I mean,

20:42 Speaker 1: Seth is a mad genius when it comes to art

20:44 Speaker 1: and that's kind of our blessing.

20:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, I appreciate that and the things that I know

20:50 Speaker 9: I can't do. I you know, I love to find

20:53 Speaker 9: other artists. I'm always out there on like Instagram looking

20:56 Speaker 9: for other artists. I like, there's something I'm trying to accomplish,

21:00 Speaker 9: I'll commission somebody else. A lot of the covers of

21:03 Speaker 9: our EPs were commissioned. Actually, the guy who did our

21:06 Speaker 9: previous one was a tool poster artist. He's done, he's done.

21:10 Speaker 9: The one for Cosmic Aquatic was actually done by a

21:13 Speaker 9: tool poster artist named George Malonas out of Greece. Oh wow,

21:18 Speaker 9: really cool. So, and we've had people from Oliver. Actually

21:21 Speaker 9: our our latest EP, Tempest, Uh, the cover was paint

21:25 Speaker 9: was painted. It's actually an oil painting that was done

21:29 Speaker 9: by a lady named Colleen Woodward right here in New Hampshire.

21:32 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

21:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, so it was actually hand painted and then I

21:36 Speaker 9: had it scanned and archived at a at a place

21:40 Speaker 9: so that we could make it into the album cover.

21:42 Speaker 1: But oh wow, we did buy the painting too to

21:45 Speaker 1: support local artists too.

21:47 Speaker 9: Yeah.

21:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's awesome.

21:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, great portrait and we love it.

21:51 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely is that challenging when you're when you're

21:55 Speaker 8: talking to somebody about art artwork, like, because you've got

21:59 Speaker 8: to be able to communicate to them. Yeah, what you

22:01 Speaker 8: have in mind? I mean, is there some trial and error?

22:05 Speaker 8: Like if you're working with someone you've never worked before,

22:07 Speaker 8: like an artist you've never worked before before, but you're

22:10 Speaker 8: interested in having them do something, is it challenging to

22:13 Speaker 8: get them to kind of come up with something that

22:16 Speaker 8: matches the vision that.

22:17 Speaker 9: You have Sometimes? But I try to like meticulously look

22:21 Speaker 9: for an artist that I just love their style. Yeah,

22:23 Speaker 9: and I know that whatever they do, and I've always

22:27 Speaker 9: found you know, if you let an artist do what

22:31 Speaker 9: they're best at, they're gonna it's gonna be awesome. So

22:34 Speaker 9: like sometimes if you give and I'm the same way

22:37 Speaker 9: when because I help other bands with graphic design and

22:40 Speaker 9: flyers and sometimes album art as well. And the more

22:45 Speaker 9: the more you try to give them, the more you're

22:47 Speaker 9: kind of pigeonholing them. Yeah, And I think the less

22:50 Speaker 9: sometimes you can give somebody it like it lets them

22:52 Speaker 9: do what they do best. So I try to just

22:55 Speaker 9: like pick the right artists and put the trust in

22:57 Speaker 9: them to do the right to do the thing that

22:59 Speaker 9: we asked and let them there. But so and it's

23:02 Speaker 9: so far it's worked out, you know, And there's been

23:04 Speaker 9: a few that like I tried to have an artist

23:07 Speaker 9: to do something and then we didn't really like the

23:09 Speaker 9: result and we just won't. We just won't use it.

23:11 Speaker 9: You know, Well, it'll be in the archives, or maybe

23:13 Speaker 9: we'll use it later for a flyer or something less,

23:16 Speaker 9: you know, dire it just you know, it's not going

23:18 Speaker 9: to be the album art, but it might be like

23:19 Speaker 9: a flyer later on or something. But yeah, yeah, are you.

23:22 Speaker 8: Ever surprised, like hopefully pleasantly, But do you ever got

23:26 Speaker 8: into a situation where they come up with something that's

23:28 Speaker 8: totally not what you had in mind, but it's so

23:30 Speaker 8: good that you're like, yeah, let's.

23:31 Speaker 1: Go with it.

23:32 Speaker 9: Yeah, totally. The actually our album cover for from the

23:36 Speaker 9: Murky Depths. It was our second EP. I actually commissioned

23:41 Speaker 9: a an NFT artist because at the time, like right

23:44 Speaker 9: during the pandemic, that NFT movement with art was just

23:48 Speaker 9: going crazy, and this guy really didn't want to do

23:51 Speaker 9: just regular commission work because they were making way more

23:54 Speaker 9: money putting it out on like Open Sea as an

23:56 Speaker 9: NFT and then selling it for like thousands of dollars. So,

24:00 Speaker 9: but I found this guy he uh he's from Washington State,

24:04 Speaker 9: and uh yeah. He he was just like, yeah, okay,

24:08 Speaker 9: I'll try this. And I gave him a bunch of

24:10 Speaker 9: ideas and he came up with this like monstrosity of

24:13 Speaker 9: like deep sea diver helmet with like all these various

24:16 Speaker 9: sea life like eels and fish and everything, and it's

24:19 Speaker 9: all like in this one, it's you go go out

24:23 Speaker 9: there and look at it. But it's uh, I could

24:25 Speaker 9: have never like given him that as a direction. He

24:28 Speaker 9: just was like, all right, here's here's your album cover.

24:30 Speaker 9: And I'm like, yeah, this is so cool. All right,

24:31 Speaker 9: we're running with it. Yeah. So yeah, sometimes yeah, it's

24:35 Speaker 9: it's awesome to be surprised y because yeah, yeah.

24:38 Speaker 8: Yeah excellent. And then do you guys all have to

24:41 Speaker 8: you all have to agree on it, right, like once

24:43 Speaker 8: you've got the art, like everyone, do you ever have

24:45 Speaker 8: a situation where maybe maybe one of you isn't quite

24:48 Speaker 8: feeling it, like I'm not sure.

24:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all pretty much on the same boat with

24:53 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. It's it's it's really just a

24:57 Speaker 1: matter of working together and when you do it well,

25:01 Speaker 1: like we've done for three straight years now. It's almost

25:05 Speaker 1: too easy. We we write new songs quickly. When Seth

25:10 Speaker 1: comes up with an idea for something like art wise,

25:13 Speaker 1: we're like, can you make a green All right? Cool? Perfect?

25:17 Speaker 1: There it is. I mean, lyrics are something we goof

25:20 Speaker 1: around with and it's it's just simple. We get together,

25:24 Speaker 1: we have fun. We write stuff that you know, fun,

25:27 Speaker 1: we want to write. Fun is key to getting the

25:31 Speaker 1: forward progression that we have had for the last three years.

25:34 Speaker 1: It's just we have fun. I mean, you'll see us

25:37 Speaker 1: on stage. We're goofing off, we're being stupid, we're having fun,

25:41 Speaker 1: and we're playing the music nothing but serious. It's straight faced,

25:47 Speaker 1: straight lace.

25:48 Speaker 9: You know, we're serious in terms of like practicing and

25:51 Speaker 9: making sure that like you know, we can we can

25:53 Speaker 9: play well, we can deliver well, we're on time. We're

25:56 Speaker 9: that band that's like, you know, we're like the considerate

25:58 Speaker 9: ninjas of like load in, load out, you know, like

26:02 Speaker 9: I want to make sure that like the night runs

26:04 Speaker 9: good and like we're we're professionals. But at the same time,

26:07 Speaker 9: when we're up there, we're gonna have a blast. We

26:09 Speaker 9: have fun.

26:09 Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, that's really cool. And when it's when

26:12 Speaker 8: it's easy like that where where you're all on the

26:14 Speaker 8: same page and it's no and nobody's arguing, nobody, you know.

26:17 Speaker 8: I mean, that's you know, hold on to that because

26:19 Speaker 8: that's great. Man's that's when you know you've really got something,

26:24 Speaker 8: when everyone's moving in the same direction and it's it's

26:26 Speaker 8: not hard, it's not contentious, it's just you know, no anxiety.

26:30 Speaker 8: That's that's fantastic. So yeah, no, you guys are definitely

26:34 Speaker 8: on the right track. Speaking of tracks, I think we

26:36 Speaker 8: should play another one. Yeah, what what should we play next?

26:39 Speaker 8: And then we'll we'll talk some more.

26:40 Speaker 1: By always pointing at me, No geez, Honestly, I think

26:46 Speaker 1: a really good one to play would be Majesty. It's

26:48 Speaker 1: one we've been really hitting off with live. It's a

26:52 Speaker 1: fun track. That's to kind of talk about Tempest real quick.

26:56 Speaker 1: This whole album was a really different direction for us

27:00 Speaker 1: as a band. Braggadocio was a very fun song that

27:02 Speaker 1: we we always write fun stuff, and this album happened

27:06 Speaker 1: to be a little bit darker, hence the name Tempest,

27:09 Speaker 1: and the artworks a little bit darker in color, and

27:11 Speaker 1: the lyrics are all a little bit darker in style,

27:14 Speaker 1: But Majesty's about friends who aren't really friends. They're kind

27:18 Speaker 1: of backstabbing jerks that come back into your life and

27:21 Speaker 1: they're like, hey, buddy, let's be friends again. It's like

27:23 Speaker 1: the last time you were around, I lost my cat,

27:27 Speaker 1: my car got stolen, and I somehow was negative three

27:30 Speaker 1: hundred dollars in my bank account. Okay, let's see how

27:33 Speaker 1: this burns me again. So it's talking about people that

27:36 Speaker 1: just kind of check yeah, no, no, no, well.

27:46 Speaker 8: Let's give this a spin. If you are just joining us,

27:48 Speaker 8: We've got the members of Trall here with us alive

27:51 Speaker 8: in studio, and this is called a majesty.

28:06 Speaker 2: Hello Bell, my your friend, it's going to see you

28:11 Speaker 2: last again. It's been a Brown said you broke behead

28:16 Speaker 2: with your a minute.

28:19 Speaker 8: Quite sure, that's awesome.

28:22 Speaker 2: Bacons kinda feel a bit as you played the pillow

28:28 Speaker 2: rash fell and so convincion my joy. The pieces start

29:03 Speaker 2: vollying from the infusion of the life.

29:07 Speaker 6: The one is just doesn't with.

29:10 Speaker 2: That, I can't finally find the ms in such is

29:16 Speaker 2: a born body trim and now it's time to problem

29:21 Speaker 2: with your face down.

29:23 Speaker 5: The back and now tation My goal.

29:43 Speaker 10: Prest your face in this place.

30:05 Speaker 3: Just relation too right Lake what I said? Yea, why

30:22 Speaker 3: I want to say, y'all right, I want to tell

30:29 Speaker 3: you out by.

30:33 Speaker 5: That side? So what to do?

30:43 Speaker 2: The time has come from this funny come to his feet.

30:49 Speaker 6: Broken minds sometimes don't a lot.

30:52 Speaker 2: The frist field of webstads sage the time stories down

30:57 Speaker 2: this tenderos.

30:58 Speaker 8: Shm me to this file, as I like to say.

31:38 Speaker 8: If that doesn't get you move and check your pulse,

31:40 Speaker 8: you might be dead. I love that. That is majesty.

31:43 Speaker 8: The band is Troll. We've got Troll here in the

31:45 Speaker 8: studio with us, and uh yeah, that's another great track.

31:48 Speaker 8: And uh, well done, guys, well done. Where do you record?

31:51 Speaker 8: By the way, everything sounds really great?

31:53 Speaker 9: Where do you?

31:55 Speaker 8: I'm always it's.

31:56 Speaker 1: All pre recorded.

31:57 Speaker 6: It's actually not even ai.

32:02 Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing what you can do now with Tempest.

32:05 Speaker 1: We actually kind of piecemealed this together. We uh, we're

32:09 Speaker 1: big supporters of things. That's you know, that helped things.

32:15 Speaker 1: That's that's the whole point of what we're doing is

32:17 Speaker 1: just try to be positive in this dark world. And

32:20 Speaker 1: Adam actually was able to win from seth one seth one,

32:24 Speaker 1: that's right, Adam used it, but we got some studio

32:27 Speaker 1: time at Halo Studios up in Maine. Yeah, because we

32:31 Speaker 1: uh the Marcathon Mark Curto up and c y Y

32:34 Speaker 1: for the benefits the Center for Grieving Children. So Seth

32:37 Speaker 1: won studio time for Halo bidding on that. So we

32:40 Speaker 1: went up and said, Adam, you have studio time, let's

32:43 Speaker 1: go do five songs. You've got you know, a day.

32:46 Speaker 1: And he did it and not even a day and

32:49 Speaker 1: crushed it. And with the guitars and bass, we actually

32:54 Speaker 1: do it in house because uncle Justy over here owns

32:57 Speaker 1: the Cold Northeast Studios, so we have our own little

33:01 Speaker 1: situation in there where we were able to you know,

33:04 Speaker 1: piecemeal together the guitars and make them sound you know

33:07 Speaker 1: like guitars and stuff. Yeah, kind of. Justin does a

33:11 Speaker 1: great job. He's gonna downplay himself, but he does a

33:13 Speaker 1: fantastic job when it comes to recording that stuff. Because

33:17 Speaker 1: you said you'd buy me a hot dog later, I'm nice.

33:22 Speaker 1: But then that was all in house with guitars and

33:24 Speaker 1: then vocals. We actually worked with John Wyman. I believe

33:29 Speaker 1: this sounds good. Yeah, he's an amazing, amazing person to

33:37 Speaker 1: work with.

33:37 Speaker 6: He's he's a little busy right now. He's working with

33:39 Speaker 6: the small band called the Pretty Reckless. Yeah.

33:41 Speaker 8: Oh, that him came up this morning on the show

33:44 Speaker 8: when I was talking to Wading Abigail.

33:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny. He was like, I've got a

33:48 Speaker 1: few weeks before I have to go to New York

33:50 Speaker 1: to record with the Pretty Reckless. And we're like, yeah, well,

33:53 Speaker 1: we'll come in to do vocals. So yeah, I did

33:56 Speaker 1: five sessions and worked with him, and it was just

33:59 Speaker 1: amazing because he was sitting there, He's like, how do

34:01 Speaker 1: you feel about that? And it didn't realize until after

34:03 Speaker 1: they'd talk about the Wyman effect with the vocals, and

34:06 Speaker 1: it's basically he's going to make you realize you wanted

34:09 Speaker 1: to do something. But it was his idea and it

34:11 Speaker 1: was perfect because everything he came up with that helped

34:15 Speaker 1: me push past where we'd been before. It was just

34:19 Speaker 1: it's what needed to be there.

34:20 Speaker 6: And then Seth and I have worked with him for years.

34:23 Speaker 6: We did all of any time that I was in Loki,

34:25 Speaker 6: all the LOGI records were done by it Oh, by Wyman,

34:27 Speaker 6: So we already knew like his style and he just

34:29 Speaker 6: he has a good producer has a way of just

34:32 Speaker 6: pulling that little extra out of you and he's just

34:35 Speaker 6: always been great with that. So we've gotten the chance

34:37 Speaker 6: to work with him before and we're like, Sean, we

34:39 Speaker 6: want to get we want to give you a little

34:41 Speaker 6: bit a little taste of that.

34:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, So having that opportunity was fantastic. I highly recommend

34:46 Speaker 1: if he has the time, people like, book him to

34:48 Speaker 1: do your vocal anything, Yeah, record anything. He's fantastic.

34:52 Speaker 6: It's funny because he has a psychology degree and one

34:54 Speaker 6: day I asked him, like, how does that actually play

34:57 Speaker 6: out in music? He goes more often than you think, Oh,

34:59 Speaker 6: I bet, and then after coming out of a session

35:02 Speaker 6: you're like, oh that's why.

35:04 Speaker 9: Yeah.

35:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was it was piecemeal together and then

35:07 Speaker 1: we had him mix it and then Pat Keene mastered

35:11 Speaker 1: it for us for this new album. So it's most

35:13 Speaker 1: a lot of it. Actually, I think almost all of

35:15 Speaker 1: it has been in house, except for the last couple

35:17 Speaker 1: we've gone a little bit outward.

35:19 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, but yeah that also, I mean, you know,

35:22 Speaker 8: the final product sounds great, really really good. Absolutely do

35:27 Speaker 8: you sell you You brought us a couple of physical copies,

35:29 Speaker 8: you sell those at shows and absolutely I'm the thing

35:32 Speaker 8: that's I was talking to. I forget who it was now.

35:34 Speaker 8: It's probably a conversation I've had with a lot of guests.

35:36 Speaker 8: But there seems to be I feel like in the

35:38 Speaker 8: last five or six years kind of a newfound, uh

35:41 Speaker 8: focus on physical media because I've been I've been interviewing

35:45 Speaker 8: bands on the radio for a very long time, and

35:47 Speaker 8: there was definitely a period where nobody was doing that,

35:54 Speaker 8: you know what I mean, where it was like everything

35:56 Speaker 8: was everything was digital, or there was even a period

36:00 Speaker 8: where and I'm glad this is passed, but there was

36:03 Speaker 8: a time when so everyone would release everything digitally, but

36:07 Speaker 8: they would show up This was before I was at

36:09 Speaker 8: W M and H. But they would show up with

36:12 Speaker 8: a CD. They'd do the classic not even in a case,

36:17 Speaker 8: just handy a CD with and they are not sometimes

36:20 Speaker 8: not even a slips like on a finger.

36:23 Speaker 3: You know.

36:23 Speaker 1: Here you go it's like, well that's sper not scratching that.

36:26 Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly exactly. Although we do actually so here we

36:30 Speaker 8: have a CD player. I think Rob as a Vedo

36:32 Speaker 8: who wants to show here called granted state of Mind

36:33 Speaker 8: on Friday nights. I think he's the only one who

36:35 Speaker 8: uses it, but we do have one and we even

36:37 Speaker 8: have a turntable here now. One of the guys who

36:40 Speaker 8: wants to show here brought it in and he said,

36:41 Speaker 8: you know, whoever wants to use it can, so so

36:44 Speaker 8: that's pretty cool. But and vinyl too, like there seems

36:48 Speaker 8: to be a new new focus on vinyl the really.

36:52 Speaker 1: And so getting a little circumvent there, like a big

36:55 Speaker 1: thing for us has always been physical first, then digital. Yeah,

36:59 Speaker 1: and some of ours that do a podcast actually noticed

37:03 Speaker 1: that data. Remember just recently did the exact same thing

37:06 Speaker 1: where they released all the physical stuff for their album

37:09 Speaker 1: and then said in a month, you can have the digital,

37:13 Speaker 1: and they were like, you guys kinda kind of did

37:16 Speaker 1: that first. And it's like, I mean we like physical stuff.

37:20 Speaker 1: Seth and I are huge in the vinyl and collect

37:23 Speaker 1: Like I had a huge CD collection up until recently,

37:25 Speaker 1: and I still have one. Yeah, he still has one.

37:28 Speaker 1: I mean you still use an iPod to hold your music,

37:31 Speaker 1: so wow. But the physical part's always been huge for

37:33 Speaker 1: us because I grew up going to CD in record stores,

37:38 Speaker 1: buying as much CDs as I could, and then like

37:41 Speaker 1: my parents being like, where are you going to keep

37:42 Speaker 1: all this crap? You have like hundred CDs in your

37:46 Speaker 1: bedroom and you have like two milk crates that are

37:48 Speaker 1: just overflowing. It's like, yeah, I don't care, I need CDs. Yeah,

37:52 Speaker 1: that was a big thing, was physical seth and I've

37:55 Speaker 1: always talked about we want to make sure we do

37:57 Speaker 1: it right by what we would want when we were kids,

38:01 Speaker 1: because I know as a kid growing up, if I

38:04 Speaker 1: got a new CD, that was my world. Yeah, like

38:07 Speaker 1: the month, Oh yeah, the greatest thing ever.

38:09 Speaker 6: Half of the enjoyment of the music was sitting there,

38:11 Speaker 6: like opening up the CDs. Oh yeah, reading the lyrics totally.

38:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so it's been an important part

38:18 Speaker 9: for us. And also got to shout out Bull Moose

38:21 Speaker 9: Music because Bull Moose has carried all of our EPs.

38:26 Speaker 9: I know that there's one down here, and then there's

38:28 Speaker 9: one in Portsmith. I think there's one in Keen, but

38:32 Speaker 9: yeah they there. You know, there's I think ten record

38:35 Speaker 9: stores and they've carried our stuff for the entire time,

38:37 Speaker 9: and it's it's been huge. We all grew up buying

38:39 Speaker 9: records there and and yeah we have you know, some

38:43 Speaker 9: of us have big vinyl collections as well.

38:45 Speaker 1: And okay, you have a big vinyl collection. I have

38:47 Speaker 1: like thirty or forty. You've got way more than me.

38:50 Speaker 9: So yeah, I have a living control. But yeah, so

38:54 Speaker 9: I'm a big I'm big into the vinyl. But but eventually,

38:59 Speaker 9: for us, it's a goal, it's a dream. I'd love

39:01 Speaker 9: to press something on vinyl. Yeah, even if it's kind

39:05 Speaker 9: of like a collected you know piece or or you know.

39:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've we've played around with the idea for a

39:13 Speaker 1: while now with you know, kind of not even like

39:16 Speaker 1: the greatest hits, just a we've done so far four EPs,

39:19 Speaker 1: and it's like we could take a couple of songs

39:21 Speaker 1: off each of them, and we've played around with like

39:23 Speaker 1: calling it like the chum Bucket and other things to

39:26 Speaker 1: just kind of make it like this is a vinyl

39:29 Speaker 1: because Set's pressed vinyl before with one of his previous vans,

39:33 Speaker 1: and I've never had that opportunity, and it's like, I

39:36 Speaker 1: wouldn't mind my own vinyl.

39:38 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of this ultimate right of passage,

39:42 Speaker 9: I think, because you know, I mean, for the for

39:44 Speaker 9: the longest period of recorded the recorded music industry, vinyl

39:50 Speaker 9: was king, and then you had your CD era in

39:53 Speaker 9: the nineties and early two thousands, but it's just a

39:56 Speaker 9: lot of music, you know, was that's the format that

40:00 Speaker 9: it was created to be on, and nothing, nothing sounds

40:03 Speaker 9: better kind of a write of passage to it.

40:06 Speaker 1: So yeah, we're hoping to get that soon. I say soon,

40:09 Speaker 1: but we're hoping to do that at some point in

40:11 Speaker 1: the near future, as long as Adele and Taylor Swift

40:14 Speaker 1: don't mess that up and buy all the vinyl in

40:16 Speaker 1: the world, you know.

40:19 Speaker 10: Years.

40:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's hard to get in the schedule.

40:22 Speaker 6: Just be Jack White sitting in a back room in Nashville. No, guys,

40:25 Speaker 6: it's still.

40:26 Speaker 8: Good, very cool. And then so what's what's kind of

40:32 Speaker 8: the uh, this has been out for a little while, right,

40:34 Speaker 8: or how long has this been out?

40:36 Speaker 6: Tempest?

40:36 Speaker 9: So we released that in October of last year, October

40:40 Speaker 9: twenty twenty four, Okay.

40:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not too too long. So do you have

40:44 Speaker 8: are you already planning for the next one or are

40:46 Speaker 8: you still we.

40:47 Speaker 1: Have already started right, yeah, yeah, we've got some fun stuff.

40:51 Speaker 1: It's it's we we always kind of find ourselves in

40:54 Speaker 1: these situations when we're writing that. You know, what, what

40:57 Speaker 1: are we listening to and what's kind of driving us

41:02 Speaker 1: into certain directions and then honestly, we got this new

41:05 Speaker 1: song called Autumn in a Car that I can't wait

41:08 Speaker 1: for people to hear it. Yeah, it's really fun. I

41:10 Speaker 1: love the way we've written it and you know, put

41:12 Speaker 1: it together. We have another one that we're working on

41:15 Speaker 1: that's interesting. Yeah, but we're working our way around building

41:20 Speaker 1: it properly. And we just had practice past Thursday night

41:24 Speaker 1: and we did we kind of pieced together two songs

41:27 Speaker 1: that are in the beginning stages that I think they'll

41:30 Speaker 1: definitely end up on the next EP year.

41:32 Speaker 6: I think writing for us never really stops. Yes, it's

41:34 Speaker 6: just a perpetual thing. And then at some point we're like,

41:36 Speaker 6: all right, we got enough, let's yeah, let's fine tune

41:39 Speaker 6: these five and stick them out. Yeah, we can be

41:42 Speaker 6: working on those and still end up coming up with

41:44 Speaker 6: more riffs and it's like, oh, we'll just save that

41:46 Speaker 6: for those that right, right.

41:47 Speaker 9: So the forty p's that we have have been every year,

41:53 Speaker 9: so OK, twenty one was Shark Pinata, twenty two was

41:57 Speaker 9: from the Murky Depths, twenty three was Cosmic Aquatic, and

42:00 Speaker 9: then twenty four was Tempest. So yeah, I don't know

42:03 Speaker 9: if we'll be able to do the fifth one in

42:06 Speaker 9: this physical year. We'll see, Okay, writing I would say,

42:10 Speaker 9: but yeah, it might be a Christmas, it might be

42:13 Speaker 9: a very Christmas. Who knows.

42:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very sharky Christmas, very sharky Christmas.

42:19 Speaker 8: Right right, Well we should uh, we should play another one.

42:26 Speaker 8: What do you guys want to play next? We'll hear

42:28 Speaker 8: another studio track here so here so so yeah, yeah, yeah,

42:32 Speaker 8: we were talking about this one earlier. What should we

42:35 Speaker 8: know about this before we hear it anything.

42:36 Speaker 6: I always thought it was going to be like the

42:37 Speaker 6: radio hit.

42:39 Speaker 1: Really yeah.

42:39 Speaker 6: I thought it was the closest we've come to like

42:41 Speaker 6: a standard format.

42:43 Speaker 1: It's pretty solidly there. It's it's yeah, a little bit

42:46 Speaker 1: less heavy, Yeah, it's a bit less heavy.

42:49 Speaker 3: It is.

42:49 Speaker 1: Again, like I said before, the music for this album

42:53 Speaker 1: and lyrical content was a lot darker. So this one

42:57 Speaker 1: is about a lot of people in the world, know this,

43:01 Speaker 1: somebody cheating on you with their cell phone and you know,

43:04 Speaker 1: you're laying in bed, you just got home from a

43:07 Speaker 1: fifteen hour shift and you lay down and you're like,

43:09 Speaker 1: why are they on their phone? It's three in the morning.

43:11 Speaker 1: What is going And that's you know, the whole thing.

43:14 Speaker 1: Is somebody using their cell phone to be a dirt bag,

43:18 Speaker 1: you know, to not be a good person, and yeah

43:22 Speaker 1: it stinks absolutely Well.

43:24 Speaker 8: Yeah this will be relatable for a lot of people,

43:26 Speaker 8: no doubt, no doubt. Well let's give this a spend.

43:28 Speaker 8: If you are just joining us, we have trall here

43:30 Speaker 8: with us in studio and this is called cell.

43:57 Speaker 3: Righting s no.

44:03 Speaker 4: Snow and so.

44:07 Speaker 10: So nice.

44:09 Speaker 5: I'm got to say something.

44:13 Speaker 7: I get some sounding too.

44:17 Speaker 3: It's a potamous.

44:22 Speaker 5: So that's not drama stick but I know this.

44:27 Speaker 2: I'm going there when we set time, I mean, miles,

44:39 Speaker 2: I'm joying.

44:42 Speaker 5: I got. It's telling me.

45:05 Speaker 2: Go live there.

45:08 Speaker 7: In a Saturn world.

45:11 Speaker 2: Whither's word and deal and snake?

45:15 Speaker 5: That's tad and what you did was lost.

45:20 Speaker 10: I'm gonna show yourself.

45:24 Speaker 5: I guess I'm solid.

45:28 Speaker 10: It's no w.

45:32 Speaker 3: Sus my life for you.

45:36 Speaker 8: Well, I know this time come up.

45:41 Speaker 2: O when we set time night, I'm miles of.

45:49 Speaker 5: I'm going mine. I got.

46:30 Speaker 7: I can say your son, but I guess it's.

46:35 Speaker 5: Soundly to liston what it is.

46:43 Speaker 2: Besides, well I know the stall daughter.

46:51 Speaker 3: Go wait.

46:57 Speaker 5: My son, are you doing? Going on?

47:15 Speaker 8: So the band is troll and that is really really good.

47:32 Speaker 8: I can see, I can see where you guys would think,

47:34 Speaker 8: you know, this might be a radio hit because that's yeah,

47:36 Speaker 8: it's catchy as hell, really good and relatable, you know,

47:40 Speaker 8: lyrics as we were talking about before, so all.

47:43 Speaker 6: That good nineties music we grew up listening to.

47:45 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

47:47 Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. So what's what's what's next for you guys? Like,

47:51 Speaker 8: what's kind of the short term or the long term?

47:54 Speaker 1: Much future?

47:56 Speaker 8: Right he owes you a hot dog?

47:58 Speaker 1: Yes, well, long longer term. I mean, we're just gonna

48:04 Speaker 1: keep grinding away at what we're doing. We're having fun

48:09 Speaker 1: writing music together. We're doing just what we want to do.

48:13 Speaker 1: And it's weird to say that as a band because

48:16 Speaker 1: we've all been in bands where it's like, okay, just

48:18 Speaker 1: just keep working, just work, and it's like, this isn't

48:21 Speaker 1: work anymore. It's it's fun. We go to practice, we

48:26 Speaker 1: hang out for a bit, you know, talk about crap,

48:29 Speaker 1: and then we write these great songs that we have

48:32 Speaker 1: fun writing and recording. And I think, I mean, we've

48:36 Speaker 1: got a really good slew of shows this year set up.

48:39 Speaker 9: It's definitely the year of the shows, definitely. Yeah, I

48:42 Speaker 9: think it's shaping up to be probably our busiest year

48:46 Speaker 9: ever nice in terms of shows. You know, we we

48:50 Speaker 9: were just getting going before the pandemic. You know, we

48:53 Speaker 9: had like one solid year to really play and then

48:56 Speaker 9: from then, you know, it was kind of a gradual

48:59 Speaker 9: slow climb back to normal, you know, playing shows. But

49:04 Speaker 9: this year is shaping up to you know, we're just

49:06 Speaker 9: we're taking on a good amount of shows, and and

49:09 Speaker 9: not necessarily because we've done we've had the honor of

49:13 Speaker 9: doing some bigger stuff. We've you know, open for some

49:15 Speaker 9: cool national acts and things. But this year it's really

49:19 Speaker 9: been a lot about our own shows, you know, building

49:22 Speaker 9: our own shows and figuring out kind of our way

49:26 Speaker 9: to be sustainable, no matter if we're playing at a

49:29 Speaker 9: big room or a small room with a killer PA

49:33 Speaker 9: sounds some more like barely any sound system, you know,

49:36 Speaker 9: just learning how to be you know, work together as

49:39 Speaker 9: a team and be super sustainable.

49:41 Speaker 1: And not only that, just just focus on having fun.

49:44 Speaker 1: That's the big thing. Every show we've played this year,

49:47 Speaker 1: it's just the main priority. Like, yes, there's four people here,

49:51 Speaker 1: just have fun. Yeah, just have fun, because guess what

49:54 Speaker 1: four people or four thousand people if you put on

49:56 Speaker 1: the same show and have fun. Everyone will know it

50:00 Speaker 1: and feel it. And we've had shows in recent memory

50:04 Speaker 1: that we're like, yeah, there is four people here, so

50:06 Speaker 1: this is a really fancy practice. But we're just gonna

50:09 Speaker 1: still have fun with it because if I'm not putting

50:12 Speaker 1: my all on the stage, I know people will notice it, right,

50:15 Speaker 1: And Adam will definitely feed off of my energy, and

50:18 Speaker 1: I feed off of his, and justin I mean we

50:20 Speaker 1: all feed off of each other. When the songs start

50:22 Speaker 1: going and our sample pad hits and we hear like

50:25 Speaker 1: the intros we use and all the sound effects, Yeah,

50:29 Speaker 1: we have into this groove and we can like look

50:32 Speaker 1: at each other and it's just like this almost like a.

50:37 Speaker 6: Like a.

50:39 Speaker 1: A crap eating grin where you're just like, we're gonna

50:42 Speaker 1: have fun. Yeah, and it's just you look at each

50:45 Speaker 1: other and then it's like there goes and again having fun.

50:50 Speaker 1: It relaxes you when you're on stage. I've been I

50:53 Speaker 1: know we've had shows where we've traveled like two hours

50:55 Speaker 1: to get there. Yeah, it's stressful. You're driving for two

50:58 Speaker 1: hours and you don't know if anything is going to show,

51:00 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you look out there

51:01 Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, there's a lot of people here.

51:03 Speaker 8: Yep.

51:04 Speaker 1: Oh, there's our sound effect. It's rolling. And I look

51:07 Speaker 1: back at Adham and he's just smiling, and then I

51:09 Speaker 1: look at Seth and he's got the same smile on.

51:11 Speaker 1: And Justin just looks at me like, don't fall on

51:14 Speaker 1: my stuff, like don't touch me. Yeah, and then we

51:18 Speaker 1: get going and it's it's fun. We have fun. That's it.

51:22 Speaker 8: Yeah, I can say, no, that's that's great. That's the key.

51:25 Speaker 8: That's the key, right, What should people know about where

51:28 Speaker 8: to find you guys online? And where's the best place

51:30 Speaker 8: to go? So best place to go trollband dot com.

51:34 Speaker 8: It's got everything, all of our links to all of

51:37 Speaker 8: our social media. It's a good website. By the way,

51:40 Speaker 8: I'm a web design nerd. I pay a lot of it.

51:43 Speaker 8: I'm like like like the guy from Rock, except I

51:45 Speaker 8: critique websites. But it's a good site because I say

51:51 Speaker 8: that because there's a lot of a lot of musicians,

51:52 Speaker 8: as I'm sure you guys know, have terrible websites and

51:55 Speaker 8: it's like, oh my god, what are you doing?

51:58 Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, that's the best hub to go. We're

52:00 Speaker 9: also on all the all the sites out there, you know,

52:03 Speaker 9: everything from like the Spotify and your Apple Music and

52:05 Speaker 9: your band camp and but and then you know, we're

52:08 Speaker 9: out there brick and mortar record stores as well, all

52:11 Speaker 9: those outlets.

52:12 Speaker 1: So yeah, come bind us on all the social medias.

52:14 Speaker 9: Yeah, find us.

52:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, we love hanging you know, we love talking with people.

52:18 Speaker 1: We make friends like Nate Dog. Shout out, shout out

52:22 Speaker 1: Nate Dog. But we love you know, we love interacting

52:26 Speaker 1: with people, and and just hit us up. We love

52:29 Speaker 1: talking to people. If you find our music and you

52:31 Speaker 1: dig it, let us know. We love to hear it

52:33 Speaker 1: because it makes us feel like we did right by going, hey,

52:37 Speaker 1: this was fun to write. And then yeah, somebody's like

52:39 Speaker 1: that song really cool. It's like, okay, we didn't we

52:42 Speaker 1: didn't miss this one, right.

52:43 Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Like, well, listen, I want

52:51 Speaker 8: to thank all four of you for coming in.

52:52 Speaker 9: This has been great.

52:53 Speaker 8: Sean Adam Seth justin.

52:55 Speaker 9: Thank you all, thank you for having me, thank you,

52:56 Speaker 9: thank you so much.

52:57 Speaker 8: Absolutely thank you for for coming all this way too.

52:59 Speaker 8: That's you know, it's a little bit of a haul

53:01 Speaker 8: in the rain. So I really appreciate you guys, and

53:03 Speaker 8: we will of course close out the segment with let's

53:05 Speaker 8: see what can we ow sos that's the one we

53:07 Speaker 8: have not played yet, And what should we know about

53:11 Speaker 8: this one anything, Here's the deep.

53:12 Speaker 1: One, here's the Here's well, this is the second deep one.

53:14 Speaker 1: I'd say on the album. The one track that I

53:17 Speaker 1: think you mentioned you might play later is called Nova.

53:19 Speaker 1: That one's for loss. If you've ever lost anyone, family, friend, pet,

53:24 Speaker 1: It's it's not meant to be happy. I We'll save

53:29 Speaker 1: that for the next time we come down here to

53:30 Speaker 1: talk with you, Matt. But SOS is it's written from

53:34 Speaker 1: a very dark place in my own and honestly, the

53:36 Speaker 1: one thing I will say about this song is if

53:39 Speaker 1: you need help, ask for help. Yes, whether it's mental, financial, religious,

53:47 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There are people in this world who

53:50 Speaker 1: will talk to you, who will listen to you, who

53:52 Speaker 1: will help you. And if you don't ask for help,

53:55 Speaker 1: what are you doing. You're messing yourself up. You're not

53:58 Speaker 1: getting the energy that you need in your life to

54:01 Speaker 1: be a good person, to go further and maybe change

54:05 Speaker 1: somebody else's life. Yes, I know from writing the lyrics

54:09 Speaker 1: to this song, I was in a very bad place,

54:14 Speaker 1: and honestly, it was I don't remember who it was

54:16 Speaker 1: in the band, but somebody sent me a message and

54:17 Speaker 1: it just changed. It flipped the switch and it was

54:21 Speaker 1: I was going to get you a hot there it is.

54:23 Speaker 1: It was a hot dog talk, but it changed perspective

54:27 Speaker 1: and gave me a new focus to keep my head

54:31 Speaker 1: above ground. And honestly, if it weren't for these guys,

54:34 Speaker 1: these are my best friends. If it weren't for these guys,

54:37 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here. And this song is my way

54:40 Speaker 1: of saying, if you need help, please please, For the

54:43 Speaker 1: love of whoever you pray to, it doesn't matter.

54:45 Speaker 10: Ask.

54:47 Speaker 1: There are priests, they are a psychologists. There's your best friend,

54:49 Speaker 1: there's your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your dog,

54:52 Speaker 1: your cat, your bartender, your bartender, your bearded dragon, or

54:55 Speaker 1: the urn that's on your mantle that is your great grandmother. Yeah,

54:59 Speaker 1: talk to somebody because getting that help can change your

55:04 Speaker 1: entire world, and you may end up doing something that

55:07 Speaker 1: changes somebody else's world that keeps them here. And that

55:10 Speaker 1: person who knows, they could cure cancer, they could be

55:13 Speaker 1: the next president, they could be who knows. But if

55:17 Speaker 1: you don't ask for help, you're just shooting yourself in

55:20 Speaker 1: the foot and it's not okay. So talking is huge

55:24 Speaker 1: and mental health is a big thing that is still

55:28 Speaker 1: stigmatized negatively. Absolutely, So if you have even here, I'll

55:33 Speaker 1: say it right now. If you want to talk to us,

55:35 Speaker 1: we'll listen. Get us up on all our social media's,

55:38 Speaker 1: send us an email, we'll talk with you. We have.

55:41 Speaker 9: We've done it a lot too. You know, people have

55:43 Speaker 9: reached out and it's something that like I'm proud of that, Like,

55:48 Speaker 9: you know, since this song has come out, said a

55:50 Speaker 9: lot of people kind of reach out to us.

55:52 Speaker 10: Wow.

55:52 Speaker 1: And some good friends of ours have reached out.

55:55 Speaker 8: Wow.

55:55 Speaker 9: I absolutely I love that aspect of it, Like, please

55:57 Speaker 9: reach out to us. We'd love to talk, you know,

55:59 Speaker 9: with you about anything. It doesn't have to be about

56:01 Speaker 9: deep stuff. It could just be like talk about our

56:03 Speaker 9: favorite music corners, had a.

56:05 Speaker 1: Terrible day, my car broke down, Like yeah, we'll talk

56:07 Speaker 1: about you. Yeah, come to a show and talk to us.

56:09 Speaker 1: Because that's even better because then if you need a

56:11 Speaker 1: hug because you're feeling depressed enough that you might try

56:15 Speaker 1: to do something, I'll hug the crap out of you.

56:18 Speaker 1: I'll stand there all night and drink PEPSI and hug you.

56:21 Speaker 6: I'm hugged bunny.

56:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, hug bunny right there. It's we want people to

56:25 Speaker 1: be here because not only are you here, but you

56:29 Speaker 1: can make a difference in this world, whether it's positive

56:32 Speaker 1: negative it you might change the whole perspective of somebody's life.

56:36 Speaker 9: Yeah.

56:36 Speaker 1: If you just take one second to send a text message,

56:39 Speaker 1: a phone call, an email, drive twenty minutes to your

56:43 Speaker 1: your grandmother's house and see how she's doing, sit down

56:46 Speaker 1: with her. Yeah, what are you doing. You're making somebody's

56:49 Speaker 1: day better and it could be your day. Yeah, so

56:51 Speaker 1: ask for help. That's what I'm saying.

56:53 Speaker 8: No, very very well said. I love it. I absolutely

56:56 Speaker 8: love it. Awesome. Well, now I'm especially excited to play this.

57:00 Speaker 8: So guys, thank you again.

57:01 Speaker 9: This is S O S.

57:03 Speaker 8: The band is Stroll and thank you so much.

57:05 Speaker 9: Guys, thank you, thank you.

57:58 Speaker 4: Try shoot umbo only set up shairs my friends, because.

58:16 Speaker 5: I think I.

58:31 Speaker 7: So how it Rob, I'm not selling, I'm.

58:45 Speaker 10: Getting stop.

58:51 Speaker 1: All these team bands inside.

58:57 Speaker 5: Boys just coming up.

59:06 Speaker 4: That's a rush of.

59:37 Speaker 7: Cow mead in Selma.

59:40 Speaker 10: You know, I'm media and Salmon.

59:44 Speaker 5: I'm mean in Salmon.

59:50 Speaker 4: All the patients in the world, they could have stopped

59:53 Speaker 4: the monsters to night. The blasting gets burning inside.

59:58 Speaker 7: Out, telling you cold help some wich. Why couldn't I

1:00:05 Speaker 7: ask for help?

1:00:06 Speaker 4: Why was I selfish?

1:00:09 Speaker 3: Why did I hurt them?

1:00:10 Speaker 7: Why didn't I show the pay? Why do I go

1:00:14 Speaker 7: from here? Why can't I be normal?

1:00:17 Speaker 5: Why do I hurt?

1:00:20 Speaker 1: Why don't we hurt.

1:00:23 Speaker 3: You?

1:00:23 Speaker 5: Why aren't we nor about?

1:00:27 Speaker 10: Bye?

1:00:27 Speaker 3: Why bye?

1:00:29 Speaker 5: Ate out.

1:00:31 Speaker 1: What I'm feeling, And I've feen so well.

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